skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, here's a thing to work on... This is what I did:

I went to the landing page and though: sounds good. But version 56? When was this last updated? Firefox is long beyond 56. Went to the "releases" page and found nothing about when 56.2.10 was released. Had to go to their Twitter account to find out it's dated 2019-05-20.

I would also recommend renaming the "releases" page to "download" if you wish to reach beyond the geek pool.

EDIT: release dates are also in the blog...
Fred "Mythical Man-month" Brooks wrote:

"Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables [i.e. data structures], and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won’t usually need your flowcharts; they’ll be obvious."
Just a quick supportive comment on this - it's a really nice piece of writing, introducing a topic which tends to cause people to glaze over, and doing it in a very approachable and easy to pick up way - and that takes some skill and effort!
It would be more just to incarcerate the company by making it suspend trading for its entire sentence. then when it makes any kind of pitch or advertisement, it has to disclose that it is a convicted felon
I like the behavioral signs pointed out in this article - of both people and organizations. The signs of a bubble are becoming much more pronounced than 3 or 4 years ago. Add to that the temporary yield curve inversion a few months ago, and again this week. Along with negative 10-year yields in Germany today...

I took a large hedge against a recession in my portfolio today because I think this one can be severe given the amount of QE.
Thanks for your opinion. I am working on a platform which will allow developers to do the same. It will be a place where people will be able to explain their open source projects/code.
I wonder if Chrome is using Sqlite under the hood, I know Electron apps will lose their data entirely if any bit of the database is corrupt (Sqlite doesn't handle inconsistent states well :c).

On a slightly different tangent, you likely have a failing disk or RAM.
An obvious improvement would be to show the actual text of the book on the web pages, instead of showing gobbledygook and then (eventually) triggering a pointless animation that converts the mess into the real words.

It's user-hostile, why did you think this was a good idea?
The long hangover from 2008 has put the cycle out of whack, but I always remember a quote from - I thought it was someone like Soros - saying that the number cranes on the skyline was an indicator of an impending crash. Apparently there is something called the Skyscraper Index which makes largely the same point.

There are a lot of cranes in Manchester and London at the moment.
Did those companies have to suspend trading for a number of years or just a fine?
a fine basically just means its legal for rich people
This is still flagged and my new post on the same subject from another source was flagged and closed down.

That's OK, then? This community has no other way to deal with controversy, than to sweep it under the carpet?
Hell, I'm against advertising.
There was a Cold Fusion article the other day where someone posted the opposite. Has Abobe's cold fusion been around that long?
If you adjust for inflation it's been true for about 50 years in every part of the software industry (especially games, fintech, insurtech, automation, web..) among the top companies. Everywhere you look people have made a ton of money whenever the state of the art gets to a point where you can apply software tech to something that's not been done with software before. It's a sort of ongoing 'goldrush' where developers move from one field to another as tech gets to the point where computers are fast enough and clever enough for an existing industry to realise there's enough value in optimization to make it worth paying for.

The only thing that's changed recently is that now startups aren't waiting for lumbering old incumbents of whatever industry it is to invite them in. Now software companies are pushing the incumbents out because the data that old industries use as a moat is open enough to not be a barrier any more.
Cool stuff! I use a similar thing in my own servers to generate short-lived or one-time access to individual requests. Nice to be able to share an url or `curl` command with somebody to see what I am seeing or for ad-hoc permission grants.
I feel you've made a huge blanket statement here. Militaries are one organisation where the rules have really sharp teeth and it works well enough. In fact, military organisations have had strong selection pressure applied to them over the past few thousand years and heavy-handed punishments are the norm.
I’ve used STP for years and never had to import bookmarks or anything like that.
consumers kind of expect software issues and reputational damage is par for the course, especially with hugely expensive government systems where the development is 100% offshored
Despite all the rumours about a glut of capital, the stats indeed show that raising VC is not easy.

But to put things in perspective, it is common, even for great people, to go through job searches that are tougher than this. (despite all the rumours about a tech talent shortage)
Edge is looking more appealing now. Although PiHole is still the bomb because it also blocks in app adds.
I'm aware of three indicators of bubbles:

1. Pricing anomalies where the price of two assets that have fundamental relation to each other violate that relation. For example, in the 1999 bubble, 3Com was a majority owner of Palm, but their market caps were inverted for almost two months.

2. Huge upward movements in price without any corresponding changes in fundamentals. NASDAQ doubled in 2000 without commensurate good news in the prospect of telecom and internet companies. Similar was Bitcoin's tenfolding, or whatever, in 2018.

3. Huge downward movements in price without fundamental news. Again, NASDAQ decreased by 3/4 of its value in a year and a half even though there was only a short recession, rates were low, and economic fundamentals like productivity were growing fast. Part of the reason I listed downwards movements as separate from upwards is that volatility in valuation is an important feature in and of itself.

I'm curious if anyone has indicators to add to the list or is able to apply these indicators to current events.

And as always, even if you have identified a bubble, trading profitably on this is subject to the efficient market hypothesis.
Talk is cheap. How much is he putting his own money on the line to support this bearish position?
Weeell, there goes Virginia's craft beer industry. Having to filter this out of their water is not gonna help flavor at all.
Firefox has its own service to do that and it works well. I don't know if you can migrate your passwords easily though.
That's the great thing about thermodynamics, you can determine bounds for a few magnitudes in a physical system ignoring all the details about its evolution.

For instance you can't disrupt the 2nd law, so at some point it's actually true that it is impossible to mitigate overheating and you won't be able to improve Stefan-Boltzmann law (except for increasing our emissivity, at night I'd guess). You can try to play with mass transfer but more thermal escape is not a good idea and a heat exchanger with extraterrestrial masses won't work.

I know it's hard to take and that physicists sound arrogant when they do this, but that's how it is.
The point is that you're giving data to a known phishing site by visiting the link in a phishing email. It's true that ESPN might also be a phishing site but it's less likely.
people are used to crappy software though and in enterprise world software regularly gets scrapped as it becomes unmaintainable.
internal quality is not important at all as it can't be put on a spreadsheet whereas cost can
I don't work at Facebook but my understanding is passwords were not stored in a database in plaintext, but there was verbose logging of web requests that were not sanitized. Sanitizing logs is definitely common sense and a basic security practice, but it can be difficult to be sure you are doing it adequately without good tooling to monitor it.
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What high quality software?

I work in the public sector in Denmark, we operate 300-500 systems from private suppliers and none of them work, none of them are particularly cheap either.

Our medical software on life supporting machinery is about the only software that actually always does what it’s supposed to, but it goes decades without changes. Everything else is a broken mess, regardless of what principles of development the companies adhere to.

I think the only software that we operate, which is both high quality, stable, secure and capable of adding/removing features when we ask is our dental software, and that’s actually some of the cheapest software that we buy. It’s not made by a tech/development-house though, it’s made by a couple of former dentists who do it as a side product on their main business which is selling dentist equipment.

So maybe the real issue lies with the development houses? But our experiences are obviously anecdotal so it’s hard to say.
I'm going to spraypaint my corporate logo on the local community center. The volunteers that work there will remove it. The outrage here seems silly!
It's such a shame Microsoft thought it will benefit more from piggybacking on the Chromium monopoly over building its next browser on top of Firefox.

If Microsoft would have donated only 50% of the Edge browser development budget to Firefox, Firefox would be in a much better position in the future to compete against Chrome.

Now, I fully expect Google to end its search contract with Firefox, or pay them much less, too, since it won't feel like it needs to fund its competitor anymore.
Author isn't saying anything new or insightful

Until he can say when and how the debt collection chain will break down and spiral out of control, what types of non performing loans will spark a recession, and how he's going to hedge and make money off that recession, not interested

Just product placement for his new book
Apple and WhatsApp condemn GCHQ plans to eavesdrop on encrypted chats
Throwaway, wanted to weight in a bit: we sell a complex software package to medical institutions. After the initial sales, customers become extremely interested in the topic, yet they ghost us for 3-4 months before coming back.

This took some doing, but suspected cause is Epic. Customer, once aware that a high-pain problem exist, asks Epic what/whether they have a solution to this already (almost all large hospitals are on Epic in the US). Epic runs a strategy where they answer "yes" to every single one of these questions. Customer waits patiently for 3-4 months for a solution to materialize, which fails to do so. Only after this do they turn back to us to actually deliver.

Looking at your product, it is not inconcievable, that during procurement, one of the stakeholders bring up "why don't we just use X?", and this turns the conversation from purchasing your specific stuff to "how can we solve Y problem?". If this is so, you might want to have a larger picture during your sales pitch, which shows benefit matrix across competitors in the space, clearly marking you as a winner & sent to the stakeholders so as for this not to derail purchasing process.
It is absurd to suggest that anyone needs more than a few dozen tabs. Once you get to the point where you're leaving tabs open for more than a couple of days, you should recognise that you're misusing tabs as a brittle form of bookmarking.

(In my opinion, Firefox and others could solve this by blurring the lines between bookmarks and tabs with some clever UI.)
Anyone used this, got practical feedback?
I remember for Maths, Further Maths and Computing A-Levels typing in mini programs for everything into my TI-85, from stats to bubble sort or curvature. It took so long typing that on a numerical keypad I could remember everything and no longer needed it. Still, a good exercise in basic programming and not unlike remembering from a flashcard deck.

Four years later in banking, I discovered the entire industry does the same, but in Excel. Enjoy your studies!
It's time for standards to stop setting fixed 'speeds'.

Instead, on powerup, devices should communicate at some base speed, then every millisecond go 10% faster. As soon as communication fails, step the speed back 2 steps and use that speed.

That way we wouldn't need a new standard every time someone invents something slightly faster.
Bad title for an interesting article. Most of the world lives rent free for the same reason: they own it.
Yep, certainly possible. I think Firefox avoids this by keeping a few complete profile backups to fall back on.
Can we please have a moratorium on Medium articles? They are now a paywalled site and even content providers are invited to pay to view their bloated blog pages. The site itself offers nothing in addition to the content we freely provided them.
A website idea that I've had for a while now but haven't gotten around to implementing is a website to track predictions by people and whether they ever come to pass. Fear mongering is very profitable and it is very damaging to society. We should track every doom sayer's prediction so that when they inevitably make another we can see their track record.

>Mediocrity + two years of tech experience = six figures. Kids who can code and are two years out of school, who are mediocre, are making $100,000-plus in the market. What’s worse is that they believe they’re worth it. If you can code, yay for you. But you have no real hard skills or management ability. Not recognizing that you’re overpaid means you won’t have the funds to avoid your parents’ basement when shit gets real.

Frankly, this person doesn't seem to know what he is talking about. The most profitable companies in the world are software businesses. Why? Because software is a nearly infinite margin product. The marginal cost of software is so inexpensive that the most profitable companies in the world give it away for free.

Given that selling software is so profitable and is a skilled trade (limiting the supply of developers) it is logical that the compensation of software engineers is so high and it will remain high as long as logic and a technical understanding of computers is required to develop software. Software's penetration into the economy is only just starting.
The mention of "It only takes a busy month outside of 'the grid' to become inactive" isn't entirely true. The setup allows you to decide not only the length of time from 1 month to 18 months, at intervals. What data you share can be spread across contacts which you select by email and verify by phone. There isn't a default to send all data to an address, you have to select it. The individual selection of data that can be filtered has also grown since my first usage in 2014.

As for "I'd rather have the option to trust a handful of users which have all report that I'm dead before taking any actions" is a fair point regarding that Facebook requires a death certificate. Though, this is not the same as the Inactivity manager, which is what Google is offering. The purpose is to be a way to allow people to access content on your accounts after a period of time. It allows a set number of contacts to access your account in a provisioned way, through a very refined selection set that even breaks down separate google play stores (books, music, play, and movies.) I also saw selections for Mail, Photos, and 42 other different data points that can be sent to separate users.

It is a preemptive step by the account owner to verify their information will be easily retrieved by a family member or friend.

I would suggest taking a look at the Inactivity manager. It has a more robust set of features than most inactivity systems, and doesn't just apply to death. Even in death, it allows a family to collect photos, contact lists, and other mementos of a persons life.
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At the end of the day, it's their browser, their rules.

The only way this could be changed is through (EU?) law, but i'm not sure what would be the basis of such law. It would be like forcing every car manufacturers to implement free HEPA air filters in their cars.
The problem is not identifying bubbles, but knowing when they are going to burst. We have a massive real estate bubble here in Australia, yet I have not the slightest idea when it might burst.
From pathogen to native vim package loading via yadm
"Wavelength- and subwavelength-scale particles,[1] metamaterials,[2] and other nanostructures are not subject to ray-optical limits and may be designed to exceed the Stefan–Boltzmann law."
I'm wondering, since the explosion of Javascript frameworks, is there any staistics about how many backend devs move away from their stack into the JS stack ?

What and why they move then ? What they value ?

Beauty vs pragmatism ?

Pure static typing vs gradual typing ?

Pure backend vs universal stack ?
Google already blocks some of its features from working in Firefox. We discussed this in April:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19669586
Looking at the Mac OS X source code https://opensource.apple.com/source/awk/awk-24/src/ its version of awk is the “one true awk” maintained by Brian Kernighan. For some reason Apple have deleted the README but you can find a copy at https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/contrib/one-true-awk/
I had to parse that part a few times to get it myself, when I saw you didn't get it too I could relate.

Then I had to think a few times about what you gave in response! It seems this part of the topic is quite involved. I think I get some of it now.

If you drop the assumption that grow takes energy, then no extra demand on energy from growth, then no price increase on energy, then no inflation, and so it's just growth, not inflation. Agreed.

But when you and me are examining it like this...the whole situation described by that sentence starts to seem a little contrived to me. Seems there's a lot of error bars on each of the assumed connections in that causal chain, that could lead that path to branch at each of them into many other possible paths, rather than just the one path that condensed sentence proposes.

I still have a hard time imagining a growth that doesn't use more energy (except the one defined in that article as "development", which seems to be a more sophisticated/involved use of existing resources, rather than extracting/creating more new (primary) resources.)

If you could elaborate some more on your images of growth that don't consume more energy, I'd find it helpful to understand this whole thing better.
It is possible to grow economically within a constrained energy budget, as the lever metaphor suggests. With efficiency, it is even possible to double the population…
But I find it very hard to believe in a continued economic growth simultaneously with a declining energy budget, especially when the economic aspect is facing a cliff of massive debt.
The only way out is good ole industrialism on a massive scale in such a scientific way to keep cooking dinner and not spoil the garden.
> It does not allow blocking Google\any tracking and Google ads

As per the article, you can still use a rule set to block. Whilst undoubtably less powerful, I would expect that could still be used to block Google stuff.
Will Windows users ever have backup as easy as Apple's Time Machine?
Needs a discussion of the methodology of calculation.

The distances I'm getting from the downloaded "bus-sequences.csv" (from TfL's API site) differ substantially; e.g my 53 has averages of 317m and 357m vs his 201m and 219m.

Additionally, my numbers match up with those of 'superqwert from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20029476 for the 389 and 631 routes.

(I measured a bunch of stops of the 78 route with GPS earlier this week. My calculations correlated closely with the real* distances when the looseness of GPS from downstairs on a bus is taken into account.)
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Yeah, I do think it's very difficult to build a profile of a user that automatically clear cookies when closing a tab and often change IP. I'm not saying it's impossible, but certainly difficult. And it would become even more difficult if we encouraged everybody to take steps to protect their privacy rather than dismiss efforts as useless.

This extension doesn't change my IP nor does it auto clear cookies, but are we not allowed to combine multiple tools? I use VPNs (both my own and from work), I often change location (home, office, hotels, cafes, etc.), have several phones/laptops that use different operating systems/browsers. At the office everybody use the same computer model, are you going to blacklist 50+ peoples potential ad clicks from that IP because I use AdNauseam?

I don't think the data scientists at Facebook/Google/others are bad at their job because of their likely inability to invalidate all AdNauseam clicks, nor do I think the addon, with its current userbase, has the slightest impact on their money printing machine.
Oh well, if you come up with magic materials you can do anything, of course.
Nope. Gmail explicitly disallows reuse of emails.

Of course this is google specific.
LOL, that's great idea!

Adnausium can just connect us through an anonymizing server so that we can sell our well chosen (by them) clicks to those organized crime and sophisticated actors. Heck, those bad guys would probably be willing to pay me or Adnausium a fractional CPM for the service.
Hmm I think the whole point of using cryptocurrency is to not use actual dollars to incentivize work between parts of the company. Maybe you could use it to negotiate a promotion within a company, etc.
What are your tweaks?

2Gb seems to totally reasonable for my habits, but I can't keep to it, there are just always leaks. Eg; Slack or Gmail just need reloading every few hours to reclaim RAM.
This sort of prediction: "Things are going really well therefore they must be about to turn really bad." Has a certain emotional appeal but they are not a reliable indication of when a recession is about to occur.
This is probably the weakest "why you should listen to me for timing the market" post that I've seen in a while.

Markets crash based on fundamentals. The specific examples - Meyer, Holmes - are not indicative of market crashes let a lone direct signals or full on causes of them even when a few are grouped together.

Remember the time when people said Trump would kill the market? Dow 22k? I'm not saying it won't eventually happen with the next correction, but if I listened to those guys then, I would've missed ~10%. We don 't know if that correction will be 5, 10, 50%.

Dave Ramsey - Don't time the market. Buy Indicies.
This thing about Google preventing Firefox from using some features (Edge as well I believe) - I'm assuming this is all done using the user agent header? or are they detecting Chrome through another means. I guess I'm wondering how effective spoofing the user agent header would be in resolving that.
I think death is becoming increasingly costly for human civilization - as all the processes and big data becomes discontinued due to a trivial natural reason, just because DNA-based organic life on planet earth evolved so. Rejuvenation and abolition of death seems to be the only way for cloud providers to have a sane future.

YC request for startups: Life 2.0
>This is basically how almost every desktop app with a search bar works.

not windows 10
stealing private keys is the same thing as forging an identity in that case. someone can always forge documents to make a transfer of the asset
It is bursting gradually. House prices are dropping. Unemployment up, highest personal debt in world, high utility prices, etc.

Unlike USA, Australians can't suddenly drop their debt for properties. Maybe under Labor you would get your burst bubble.