skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read through the comments expecting the typical HN takedown of the whole bogus idea that energy must become cheaper as a fraction of the economy in order for it to keep growing. But surprisingly, nobody more economically literate than me has done so, so I guess it falls on me.

We already have experience with an economic input which is required for practically all production becoming less important to the economy as efficiency increases, it's called labor. And as efficiency of labor usage increases, the price of labor goes up, not down, see Baumol's Cost Disease. So no, the fact that the price of energy will go up with gdp does not mean the growth is "illusory", and the fact that an "extremely prestigious" econ professor did not point this out is a bit fishy.
Agree, those are my regulars and I solidly use Firefox for daily browsing and have never had those issues on those sites.
ah yeah makes sense. Honestly "I have never encountered someone that doesn't use Go because of this, or a Go programmer that's mad about it" is probably a more complete sentiment.
A Data Driven Live Wallpaper Using Awareness API
that's the definition of free software, not open source. Open source just means you can view the code.
I am an iOS developer myself and would argue that the 135 (Canadian) they charge is good to prevent every random joe from uploading and submitting their apps. It keeps only the most serious ones from submitting. You can still develop and test apps on your own device without the fee, they just expire after 7 days and need to be rebuilt to work.
I read part of Rationality Now, but couldn't finish.

The problem with writing a book about rationality is that there isn't much to say about it. But you can fill any number of books with the problems of irrationality. It could be interesting to delve into why some irrational beliefs are so persistent, but Pinker mostly just dismisses them.

Dawkins has the same problem: what can you really say about atheism? So he mostly talks about the problems of theism.

The LessWrong community seems to try harder to dig into where wrong ideas come from, how they take root in our psyches, and how to counteract their subconscious influence.
So what did you report to get a new card?
While a related but more advanced topic, I still can't quite intuit quaternions. But of course we're all fortunate to not need to understand them completely to use them.
Multi-threaded SQLite without the OperationalErrors (2017)
“battle short”
The App That Reminds You You’re Going to Die
Manifesto for Maintenance Art 1969 [pdf]
You've conflated TOPS-10 and TOPS-20. TENEX was developed externally by BBN, took advantage of BBN-built add-on paging hardware, and was quite different in both look and feel and its internals from TOPS-10, which had originated on the PDP-6 and was simply called "Monitor" at first. The name TEN-EX referred to its ability to run TOPS-10 executables in compatibility mode, as BSD variants could once run Linux executables. When TENEX was brought in-house by DEC, it was renamed "TOPS-20", since the Monitor had already been renamed "TOPS-10". The only difference between the PDP-10 (or DECsystem-10) and the DECsystem-20 computers was the color scheme and the OS supplied with it.
Wouldn't getting able to restore a recently closed tab even in private mode be somewhat similar to having your browsing history being kept, even if for that particular browsing session?

I prefer this behaviour of limiting the browsing history per tab per session instead of the way Chrome implements it
I actually use this feature regularly... I consider a private browsing session gone when its window is gone, typically. Either way, nothing is saved to disk
You should try the Tree Style Tabs add-on for Firefox. You may need to tweak some of the settings a bit, but once you experience the power of this extension I guarantee you really won’t ever go back to Chrome.
You're ignoring that a very very small probability multiplied by a very very very large number (of galaxies, hence stars and hence planets) can be a very large number.
Yeah, so... trying to keep the snark under control long enough to ask a genuine question.

Can you give a quick exposition for why the giant paragraph is actually, y'know, better than "that seems cool"? I mean, I buy that psychologists will spend lots of time thinking about a fundamentally intractable problem in their field, in the same way that the programmers are going to obsess over irrelevant design issues (and they do!).

But it's bad when psychologists do it for the same reason it's bad when programmers do it. Just pick something and move on, unless you've got a clear and persuasive argument to the contrary.
We can black box test bureaucracies just as poorly as we can software. For both, all we can do is measure inputs, and outcomes.

Since we've not made much traction on blackbox testing bureaucracies, I'm going to go ahead and say that blackbox testing algorithms will be even worse. (For some dumb reason, people are inclined to trust algorithms.)
See also:

Website:

https://www.arnolfini.org.uk/blog/manifesto-for-maintenance-...

Intterview retrospective:

https://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-features/interview...
i've been using firefox on macos for a little over a year now, it's been fantastic. good battery life, good performance, etc.
My kids are school-schooled, except for having learned to read at home. But they were in a music program that was popular among homeschool families, so we met a lot of those kids and their parents.

Based on that limited observation, I think that the socialism of homeschool kids depends on the kids and their parents in the same way as any other aspect of homeschooling: If the parents are reasonably social, they will find ways to get their kids involved in social things, and their kids will be social too.

If the parents are reclusive, or inclined to isolate themselves from mainstream society for whatever reason, this will also be reflected in their kids. What may seem like a negative outcome of homeschooling could just be a matter of kids resembling their parents. And it wouldn't shock me if genetics plays a role.
I'm not sure what Google has to do with this, but Mozilla have been adding features to the extention API since Quantum first came out.
Firefox runs great on linux in my recent experience.
> I really think it is a bad practice to force adoption of a new API that can't fulfill the same functions as the previous one.

I agree, which incidentally is the reason I switched from Firefox to Chromium a couple years back as Mozilla dropped XUL extensions for their own development convenience, toward an ideal of cross-browser extension compatibility, and in hoping to win over Chrome users by making Firefox more alike in both looks and performance.

How many of those motivations have changed, and do we know that Mozilla aren't actually going to follow suit with a similar restructuring of APIs some time after such changes have settled into and been normalized in Chrome?
The issue I ran into was in acquiring the necessary licenses that you mentioned. Verified Media Path (VMP) can be used to verify the authenticity of the browser platform. I believe it uses public key cryptography for identification by Widevine's license servers.

It seems like it would be trivial for Widevine to revoke access if there were ever abuse.

I have more details in a blog post I wrote last month.
https://blog.samuelmaddock.com/posts/google-widevine-blocked...
Visa is NOT instant. VISA transactions take up to 48 hours to clear. And in some cases the credit card processor can and will hold funds for even longer than that.
Firefox has several experience-breaking bugs for me.

One where on websites that don't explicitly set their form background to white, which is the default on most browsers, Firefox paints them the color of the user's desktop theme, even when the theme is dark. Black text on black background. This bug had been known about for almost 20 years and is marked "won't fix" because the devs still assert that universal user theming of websites is just around the corner. The bug manifests on mozilla.com

Another is that hard refresh sometimes flat out doesn't work. I'm a developer who occasionally makes changes to frontend code, and sometimes Firefox just decided that it's just going to cache everything and ignore what I tell it to do. Ctrl-refresh, shift-refresh, clear cache, all do nothing, I have to killall firefox and restart the browser to get my updated web page to show.
Given the project is so small, I wouldn't trust their future response to be rapid even if they have been in the past.

Right now most security fixes come in the form of merging upstream security fixes from Mozilla. As their code base becomes increasingly divergent to the Firefox head, merging in upstream security fixes will become increasingly difficult and increasingly cumbersome.
A collection of developers' personal sites
Well, that depends on how much you can charge for your service. You can be super inefficient if your product is unique and has a big enough market, and that's precisely what these models are good for.

Once you've proven the idea, perhaps it's time to hire a team to optimize, but until then, you can focus on the rest of the business.
Minor note (mostly since a lot of people don't know this): Musk did not start Tesla. He led investment in their Series A, became chairman of the board, and became actively involved with the company's operations, which allowed him to gain the title of "co-founder," but he was not involved with the company before then.
"Organic chemistry" is a very common usage of organic in that "contains carbon" sense.
I'll just keep trying to plug it in 3 times and it will be fine
It is absolutely unreasonable to get fired by putting your life in danger to stop trailgaters.
There are essentially three types of tailgaters, people who belong there, tourists, and nefarious across.
People who belong there are just getting lazy, but it is OK. Tourists you can stop (these are people who might be guests, or are just curious) but these people aren't bad people, and most lonely wing do any harm. Then there are the nefarioys types, the criminals... The ones who are there for a bad reason, and I'm supposed to stop them?
You know it would be completely transparent right? Just gets transpiled into .__add__(obj)
What motivated you to learn scala? Scala doesn't seem to get much attention nowadays.
Making a throwaway because I too work in politics and have worked with your firm before. Also I might disagree with lots of your points but if you actually want to build something better than what currently exists there are tons of resources, Higher Ground Labs is probably a good place to start [0]

ActBlue is better at security... than NGP

By what metric? They're vastly different products serving completely different end users. That's like saying that Uber is better at security than Oracle.

I don't want to speak too publicly about NGP VAN but I think this area is very ripe for disruption

Your comments show that you have some understanding of the ecosystem but I'm not sure what you're getting at here. First, NGP VAN serves two different purposes - NGP does FEC compliance while VAN handles voter files and direct volunteer contact.

Automated compliance is really hard, a lot of companies do this but none are as good at NGP. More than 40 companies are register with the FEC to provide this service [1] with some of the larger ones being Aristotle, Blue Utopia, and Trail Blazer (this does not include R only companies like CMDI).

Managing voter data is also really hard [2] ots of other companies do that too though. Off the top of my head I can think of NationBuilder, PDI, L2, Crowdskout, and VoterHub. There's also a whole group of start ups working on new voter files, including one backed by Reid Hoffman [3] and one with Howard Dean [4]. Note for non political folks: VAN does not provide data, it's the software platform used to slice and dice data that the DNC + others collect. I'm getting off track but while VAN is far from perfect (and could be better!) it's a pretty great solution when all is said and done [5].

I think their API is proof they know the weakness or are afraid of easily better tools built on top (no important data in and out).

Well that's just false. VAN has both import [6] and export [7] functionality via API. The older NGPs don't have all these feature but the newest version does too.

Campaigns are incredibly cheap

Yes lol so much yes.

I'm still worried about some actor uploading a google-verification.txt, or updating DNS to send better phishing emails.

I also agree that this is a risk. If I were you I'd start by updating DMARC, DNS, and SMTP records on your firms website minimize the chance of your clients being phished.

Though this isn't perfect we have been sending one time links with no authentication info in email plaintext. If anyone has a better solution?

Use Signal. Everyone involved with a campaign should have Signal on their phone.

[0] https://www.highergroundlabs.com/
[1] https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/filing-re...
[2] https://medium.com/@heywillconway/why-the-ngp-van-model-is-h...
[3] https://www.wsj.com/articles/fight-over-voter-data-roils-dem...
[4] https://www.apnews.com/9a47a0def9234e338bc72053e86f221f
[5] https://medium.com/@danancona/why-the-ngp-van-model-has-been...
[6] https://developers.ngpvan.com/van-api#file-loading-jobs
[7] https://developers.ngpvan.com/van-api#export-jobs
It was built on the crudest app tech stack vis a vis HTML, CSS and (not even sure JS was a thing yet in 1995) JS. Not many could predict the cloud becoming a multi trillion dollar industry in 1995.
If you don't want tailgaters then hire bouncer security types to stop people. It isn't my job to put my life on the line.
Found your blog through Google News but came looking for a place to leave comments and found you here!

Thanks for this! I've been using ripgrep in vim for awhile but `quickfix-reflector` is awesome! Thanks for introducing me to it!
If it doesn't work in Firefox I don't use it. I've been using Firefox for as long as I can remember, probably shortly after it was made and Netscape died. And would never use Chrome. Chrome users are now going to be betrayed and just didn't see it coming. I look forward to Firefox' upcoming rebound which I have every faith this news will spur on.
Another problem I have with Apple’s stance on what’s allowed when it comes to adult content. For example, I am working on a Reddit content and I am not even allowed to have a setting in app to switch on NSFW content which is ludicrous imo. Same with pornographic and adult content, neither of which are allowed. This puts a pretty major block in the way for certain legal companies from using their platform. I think Apple should allow adult content apps and simply filter it out based on the iCloud account which is using the App Store based on their age. Apple plays the parent but it’s pretty useless considering kids can simply use a browser to access it. To access Reddit’s adult content, you just need to hit the “I am over 18” button. So Apple playing the parent is useless.
Then you simply lose users. How do they know Chrome is the reason your site is slow when others’ aren’t?
When you’re trying to replace twitter you can’t afford to make mistakes like this.
>> Just remember to unblock sites you wish to support financially.

The way ad networks function, is unblocking a site you want to support any different at all from unblocking everything?
It might really depend on hardware and OS... we would have to know a lot more about both of your setups to determine why you guys are getting such different experiences.
Is is a paywall? It looked as though one could opt not to pay a thing.

I'll come back when I'm ready to pay.
UX pattern-driven tipping pressure is gradually normalizing a "voluntary" (but not really since you are extorted via ratings) layer of non-progressive consumption taxes.

There are now apps and other point-of-sale interfaces which default to 20% for "tips". Nice way to lower labor costs by outsourcing a voluntary fee to your customers, but this mostly destroys the signal/feedback value of the tip and rating.

Do the nudge crowd know they are engaging in semantic pollution, e.g. diluting the value of the data they are spending millions to collect, process and analyze.
GPU DSP – When You Can’t Have Enough Cores
Hi there. What would you suggest to a person who loves these kind of stuff (data structures and algorithms) but finds it hard to develop the underlying intuitions for coming up with these data-structure and algorithm? I personally just hammer down on deliberate practice to recognise patterns and underlying concepts to solve as many problems as I can on my own. I was wondering apart from general DS and Algo what topics in Mathematics might supplement this process?
It is unbelievable how many people here complain about needing reboots on Windows AND who go on to complain about a rumor that maybe reboots won't be needed in the future on some unknown OS made by Microsoft.

I guess some folks just want to complain.
Is it possible this is a hardware-related issue?
As I understand it, the research aims to show how the network effects of neurons compares between subjects that consumed a placebo vs those that consumed psilocybin from psychedelic fungi.
Other real monopolies that actually technically meet the definition of monopolies have needed attention for years and she decides to go after a web search engine.
Being compatible with the Extension API doesn't require Mozilla to follow Google on every decision. As long as the deviations are well documented and developers perform feature detection, Mozilla won't ever have to make changes that serve the interests of Google ahead of their users.
I have no problem with "utm" parameters. They're static and not personal to you. You can see them.
Beyond Nudging: Debiasing consumers through mixed framing
Netflix switched to a thumbs up / thumbs down rating system in 2017:

https://www.businessinsider.com/why-netflix-replaced-its-5-s...
This pregnancy my wife ate enormous quantities of celery seaweed. As in, we got two heads of celery a week and she ate them all, and would cram an entire sheet of nori into her mouth at once. Neither of these things was a significant part of her diet before.
Standards often shift be a substantial reconsolidation, in which numerous side features are discarded.

HTML itself emerged from such a consolidation (from SGML) and went through this process a few times. There are numerous other examples of technical recapitulation.
You seem obsessed with this. :)
>The ones who are there for a bad reason, and I'm supposed to stop them?

You can contact security, presumably a company with such a policy has 24/7 on site security.
Lawyer here. But not your lawyer.

Anytime you have potential liability, you should form a separate legal entity and bank account. Look up "piercing the corporate veil." Also, depending on your income, a C Corp in Trump Era might save you about 40% on your taxes. Personal rate vs Corporate. So why not do that?
Oh wow, this looks great. Thanks! Seems to fit my workflow pretty perfectly.
You don't see any hazard to showing a giant warning to people when they install something that almost everyone should use? If people see a big warning when they install a legitimate ad blocker, people will start ignoring the warnings.
The Rust Programming Language Book
I was under a lot of pressure to increase sales. To boost the next month’s sales, I pushed the button on a big marketing campaign in which we reached out to a hundred potential clients with a time-limited promotion. The results were disappointing. [..] I realised that sales are about relationships

3) Tolerating a bad employee versus firing and rehiring. There is always a short-term reason not to fire someone who’s underperforming

Soooo you encouraged the board to fire you and hire someone who understands sales already, yes? And/or you understand that underperforming can lead to learning which can improve performing which you tolerate in yourself, so you tolerate in your employees, yes?
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From a physics standpoint, what is your argument that a giant car with transfers to a number of smaller cars is more efficient than just using all smaller cars?

Public transit seems really wasteful to me: empty busses running up and down the same main streets, people going out of their way to get to a train station, subway cars stopping in the track and blocking the passage of all other vehicles, all movement stopping at a certain time due to low demand... it’s a mess.

Again, from a physics standpoint the optimal solution to me would seem to be a variety of different size autonomous cars, with 100% occupancy, which can draft each other, and tunnels that allow you to go direct(ish) to your destination with an IP-like routing plan.

What am I missing?

Is there a city that you think is close to optimal so I can study it?
Then why bother? If most of the time, asking is enough, then why bother at all? Because occasionally a bad actor wants in, I don't want to have to confront a bad actor.
Curious what about his description appealed to you?
Fault-Tolerant Query Execution over Distributed Bitmap Indices [pdf]
There's a stigma that offering a candidate a 3-month temporary offer (or any such short time length) will make them not want to accept. However, I've had success is using temporary employment as a great way to figure out if the candidates would work out or not.
I am glad Mozilla made the much needed change and don't have long-term problems with Mozilla other than perhaps lack of trust. I did not like how Mozilla made the swift change with little announcement for long-term add-ons though, particularly making the change right after allowing for multi-processing.
They can absolutely work with the absence of data, because you are still doing other things around the web that generates data. They will see you doing other interactions but not ad requests, and they can figure things out from that.
I've always used the -ProfileManager command line option in the past and shortcuts to "-P <profilename>" when wanting to launch/send actions to sessions. (didn't know of about:profiles UI, neat)

I haven't played with MAC (Multi-account Containers) yet but I understand they're a lightweight version of Profiles that can co-exist in a single browser session and have a bunch of neat features (like auto-binding certain sites to certain containers when visited). Would recommend trying out if you've been dissatisfied with the previous approach.
Edward Jones alias YouTuber aussie50 had taken his own life at age 33
I used PHP and social engineering to get unbanned from a gay club
> support modern video

There's nothing particularly modern about DRM.
I’ve read the book you’re referring to. We absolutely should not try to prevent people from amassing enough individual power to do what Elon et al are doing. Bureaucrats are generally good at some things (eg reliably running services that are well known quantities and should be provided to everyone regardless of profitability), and generally awful at others (eg efficient innovation in new fields). You need a mix of both types to both run the world and keep it moving forward. I for one am very happy that sufficiently motivated and skilled people are sometimes able to amass enough resources to try crazy things like competing with each other to start orbital launch companies and deploy a world-wide network of thousands of communications satellites to break the government granted chokeholds a few telecom companies have on internet access.

For me, the main takeaway of the book was that we should stop revering consultants/MBAs and their process.