skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry to take the topic a little off rails, but - I meet so many contractors who do "blockchain stuff", and I've never asked until now - what kind of blockchain stuff are people paying you to do?
> If it weren't that big a deal, Google, Bing, Baidu, etc. wouldn't go through the hassle of setting up the infrastructure to make instant loading with AMP possible.

Sure they would. Google wants it because it increases Google's control of the web. Google's competitors want it because they don't want Google's control of the web to be increased.
True, and I would like any of those better than the idiocy that is the 5-star system. But the "no choice" statement was directed at where they set the cutoff in their existing system. With their lie of a rating system, they have to set the cutoff at that point, or they would either not even ban the worst offenders or end up with no drivers at all.
And this is how it began the AI takeover.
to your credit, I can't think of another field where there is so much uncertainty over how much something will cost when they already know exactly what they are going to do, what materials they will need to do it, and how long it will take.
Clearly this is the line for me: let's sue them for abuse of their dominant position, and get them toward antitrust lawsuit/procedure.

It's maybe not gonna fly in the US but definitely workable in Europe.
Probably student debt.
I'm trying to think of how to avoid something like this ever happening to me, and I think the lesson I can learn from this is to use a debit card instead of a credit card? That way, the account can go to 0. That debit card would only be for services with automated billing like this, and would have limited funds.

I mean, I imagine the main problem here is that you can't close your credit card because the bank now says you owe them that money, right? If it were a debit card, that would never be a problem.

EDIT:

> I've even requested a new credit card from the bank, however the bank continues to forward AWS charges to me.

They forwarded from one card to another? AWS charged a closed card and the bank forwarded it? Sounds like you need to close the client account (your whole client relationship with the bank), not the card.

EDIT 3: Or do you mean that you requested a new card without closing the old one? If they're both open, it's not that charges are being forwarded, but rather that the old card is still valid and both are linked to the same credit account. Maybe you can ask them to close it?

EDIT 2:

> Nor will Amazon simply remove the credit card number that I can provide them.

By the way, if you can't authenticate with Amazon as the rightful owner of that account, it sounds unreasonable for them to comply to a stranger asking them to simply remove a credit card number of some account.
It's not "as good." I've tried every release of Firefox for the past decade. On Linux and Mac the video performance is noticeably worse than Chrome with significant frame drops, lag, and tearing. Yes, I've tried enabling/disabling hardware acceleration, flash, and all sorts of other flags and options, but the two are still incomparable. Furthermore, even with the quantum update Firefox is still slower for general web browsing and usage than Chrome. I've measured both dropped frames and load times to confirm this.
Also from space? Asteroid mining I would think. The trick is to only send things down. Sending things up would negate energy savings I am sure.
> But, contra the fears of many scientists circa 1960, the limits to growth showed up on the demand side before the supply side. We ended up with a world where widespread obesity is a problem and predicted gigadeaths from starvation did not actually happen.

And I think some people were... "disappointed", for lack of a better word, that this happened. That their fantasies of global collapse Soylent Green-style didn't pan out, that the lackadaisical masses who had the temerity to not give up all modern advances weren't punished by the Dread God Malthus. Call it Puritanical Luddism, call it Apocalyptic Deep Green, call it a dogmatic insistence that any system not under totalitarian control must collapse.
Ok you got me there, I have literally no experience with such systems.
I want to be able to take a picture of the cute bartender and have an app show me all the adult videos with performers that look most like her.
the AF flight that was lost over the Atlantic years back (10 years now maybe?) did just that, when the pilots believed that the plane's automation was in a state that would not allow them to do anything that would result in unrecoverable flight... so they stalled it all the way into the ocean.

The problem here is nearly identical to the problems with self driving cars. The automation is capable of handling 95% of situations, but the 5% it's not capable of is not clear to either the operators or the software itself.

I firmly believe that both car and air travel need to be either 100% completely automated, or 100% under the control of the operators with well defined areas where the automation systems will ASSIST but always yield to the well trained (pilots) or poorly trained (car drivers) when requested. A human operator is able to think outside the box, and is not limited to what code has been conceived and written.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace%2C_extend%2C_and_extin...

If you are not using/contributing to firefox, you sold yourself short.
How about Brave or Dissenter?

Edit: I've just been informed this will effect all Chromium browsers. My goodness.
> don’t dismiss the 5% useful for the 95% useless (and no, i’m not going to enumerate the useful cases because it’s been done to death)

It sounds like you can't point to any, like everyone else who insists there's a 'there' there. Nobody has been able to point to a single, legal, use case where crypto is better than a fiat based technology. Zip. None. But they're all sure it's there.

Don't you think with all the interest in the space, if someone had come up with one, it'd be enormous? EOS raised over four BILLION dollars a few years ago and still doesn't have a working blockchain. [1] You can fire up a blockchain in minutes. If there was a company that actually created something of value, it'd be worth more than the mewn y'all are trying to reach.

We've been waiting for a decade now, I'm sure OP will deliver /s.

[1] https://toshitimes.com/eos-is-not-a-blockchain/
Yes, it's an issue and there's nothing a pi-hole can do to solve the issue. YouTube is the most notable server of ads from content servers, but one can imagine more content providers following suit eventually.

However, you can have your pi-hole up and running in a few minutes and enjoy excellent network wide ad blocking for virtually every service that isn't YouTube.
>The reason PayPal is ignored by most people is two reasons.

You forgot the most important one.

3) PayPal is a huge PR nightmare, a pseudo-bank that sits between legal boundaries whenever it needs to in order to maximize profit, screwing over thousands of folks -- many of them with small businesses that foolishly relied on them as a service. A successful service that everyone uses, and most people hate -- the customers are swept in by me-tooisms and forced participation.

If I were Musk, or I was a Musk evangelist , i'd stay far away from that 'accomplishment', as well.

He's not responsible for the entirety of the beast, but afaik he IS responsible for the viral aspects of their customer recruitment -- a method I feel is unethical from a monopolistic standpoint for a banking entity to participate in.
Well said.

The Firefox/Thunderbird example is absolutely ridiculous - it's not up to these application developers to decide what icon or colour the user sees. It's up to them to provide defaults. As you say, it's clearly still Firefox - but even if it weren't, there are several good reasons I can think of that a distribution might want to change it.

What bugs me is the attitude that the solution is to reduce the usage of themes, as opposed to improve the theme engines and app dev toolkits. Why shouldn't the OS be able to impose a global stylesheet for colours, images used for semantic icons, sizes of common elements? If I, as a user, want to starting fiddling with my system theme, is it not likely that I might want all the apps on the system to play ball? Sounds pretty jarring to me to have one or two apps with their stubborn hardcoded "branding". (Oh wait, that's what we already have with Electron apps that don't respect the OS theme or conventions, and they suck!).

Oh, apps can't be restyled without manual work they say. "Until this perception changes..." they say. NO!

In an ideal world, applications could be built easily in such a way that allowed them to be themed without causing major UI bugs. The fact that this is such a large issue with GTK apps is surely further evidence that GTK has a bit of a problem - especially considering that other UI platforms are able to do a better job.

Perhaps - and I'm really pushing it here (/s) - solving the root causes of issues arising from custom themes relating to sizing and spacing might actually have other benefits as well. Like better support for UI scaling. Maybe the scope of themes needs to be reduced a little so it's easier for application developers to support?
I always thought he was putting way more emphasis on the "visual acuity" part than it deserved, maybe he was grasping for something from the material science world to be able to include.

> that the drug improves visual acuity and can sexually arouse, but there's no evidence for it.

If you're referring to formal, peer reviewed studies, of course not. But the sexual arousal and community bonding aspects I'd say there's plenty of anecdotal information consistent with the possibility. This of course in no way proves that his theory has any validity to it on a historic basis, but it at least doesn't rule it out as being impossible.

The whole theory is best taken with a healthy quantity of salt (and it's best to listen to audio of it), but it is a really interesting theory/prediction. One's opinion of the plausibility is likely proportional to their experience with psychedelics, those with a lack of experience would likely have some difficulty with the "how" part.
I don’t think Prime Music is DRM Free anymore.
In what way is it useful? You say that like it's obvious, but it's not. It's on the challenger to explain why it's better than the status quo, not the other way around.
I ditched Chrome and came back to Firefox, next step is to donate to Mozilla.
Pi-hole will also catch all kinds of tracking and analytics requests that are sent via your mobile devices, non-browser apps, etc. There's a whole lot more of your data leaking out into the world than just the stuff that comes and goes via ad networks.
> Why didn't they? I do not know, and none of the accounts I've read addressed this.

I can give you a good hunch as to why.

Because the absolute last thing a pilot wants to do with a plane load of people is experiment. That's what a simulator is for.

I stumbled across the "suppress MCAS by trim switch spamming" within the first few seconds after I read a complete description of the system's functionality.

It took a complete description of the problem, and a background in programming/systems design, engineering, and an enthusiast+ level of aviation familiarity to come to that course of action in that amount of time, under ideal information processing conditions, with the initial information uptake immediately prior to the advent of reasoning.

Airline pilots had how to fly, and no information initially that there were dragons there, and even once they knew, they had no way to try to build new situational reflexes due to the lack of availability of accurate MAX simulators, because Boeing fought tooth and nail to get the regulator to agree that they weren't necessary.

They had to manually fault inject on an NG simulator to even get an understanding of the conditions involved.

Military pilot training, from my understamding, bypasses the simulator, and dumps you into the seat of some of the most disagreeable aircraft ever designed, with an instructor who sabotages you regularly, leaving you in a spin, and you have 30 seconds to recover please. Begin.

In that case, it's you, and the a-hole who just put you in a flat spin. Experiment away. Not 100+ innocent civilians depending on your ability to reason through what this damn plane is doing.

Point being, information about the airframe was withheld due to an absolutely crushing need by Boeing for the aircraft to not require even the smallest degree of retraining.

The pilots were absolutely not at fault for not being able or willing to experiment at the drop of a hat with a system they suddenly realized they had no way to understand.

Putting them in that position in the first place is undeniably Boeing's fault.
Yeah, because Google would totally shut it down overnight without any warning
> This is why it’s so unfortunate and frustrating that people are depending so much on Chromium/Blink

Chromium is generally fine, until Google packages it as Chrome. The issues are not inherent to Chromium, they're failures of principle at Google.

I know people like the idea, in concept, of engine diversity on the web, but the alternatives are terrible.

Anyone who says that Firefox runs anywhere near as well as Chromium on Linux is either incredibly lucky, extremely knowledgeable about custom building Firefox, or just lying. On Windows, the story is a bit better, but it's still just not comparable. On top of this, in my experience, I've found the Firefox UI extremely frustrating.

My take is that when Mozilla ousted Brendan Eich, something changed culturally at the place; it's no longer a culture of competence, but one of paranoia, reluctance, excuse-making, distraction, and (sometimes) bullying.

Regardless of the causes, we are in a situation now where the only competent browser which handles basic webpages the way normal people expect, without much fiddling with configuration, is Chromium. Everything else relies on excuses and wishful thinking.

Brave is looking good, it has all of the extremely popular and well-thought-out UI of Chrome, total compatibility, and a backbone. In the worst case, it can survive on its own.

Chromium is really great, and whoever packages a principled, non-user-betraying browser based on Chromium (and convinces people to use it), will be on the most pragmatic path to preserving the open web.
So, in the new Edge, they could still support this?

Would be a good point of difference for them.
Is the 75% and 4deg pitch for cruise, or for initial climb out from a high altitude airport in mountainous terrain?
Yes. For that particular CPU, in one core (and its sibling thread (as in hyperthread)), AVX instruction is broken. It doesn't do what it is supposed to do.

Recently, again at Facebook, we found a few machines with CPUs where ADCX instruction is broken on at least one core. This is especially fatal because OpenSSL and Fizz (our TLS 1.3 impl) use these instructions for AMD64 architecture in RSA implementation.
I just switched back to Firefox after using Chrome since pretty the day it came out. I switched after updating to 74 and noticing how many features I depended on were removed. I originally intended to just revert some of the changes (using Chromium on Linux) but I decided that amount of work was silly. Switched back to Firefox. After this news, glad I did.
It's not at all odd. It's very likely the same behavior as YouTube ads (which often load instantly) vs videos which need to buffer.

They're both likely special cases for content < 1 minute long that you expect 20 or 30% of visitors to see.
As a new parent I've recently been thinking on the issues surrounding private schools. Can you expand on some of your concerns?
I have used a pi-hole based blocker for a while, and I have noticed increasingly ads showing up because they are using same domains, both in-app(iOS) and normal desktop. I've settled for a mix of network wide ad-block via pi-hole and adguard(uses mitm for https blocking) to remove almost all ads. In my experience uBlock Origin has made my aging laptop battery drain a lot quicker.

PS: I'm not sure if I would recommend Adguard, but works fine, but somehow the root certificate keeps me left a little bit dreary about possible future Adguard intentions.
Investing in the Podcasting Ecosystem in 2019: Slide Deck
> There is no other programming language that has union types as powerful as TypeScript

Ada's record [0] type stands out. From what I can see, TS' unions are not nearly as powerful.

[0] https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Types/record
> Dev tools are inferior

You must not have used any recent version of Firefox. It has vastly better and more useful Dev Tools compared to Chrome, especially in regards to the frontend. Firefox Quantum is also significantly more performant.
SF Bay Segregation Map
We do have some virtual field trips, like this one:
https://outschool.com/classes/lets-go-to-france-Lsi6B9gk#usv...
Configuration: A Webpack Story
If they have to have multiple platforms at each station anyways, it might make sense to essentially have three lines - A<->B, B<->C and A<->C, instead of A<->B<->C - and only run direct. At least in that situation everyone would be getting off at each stop, which could simplify some things - and it naturally splits passengers into two platforms.

That sort of routing is also significantly improved by having smaller, independent vehicles (well, once the number of stops goes up) - sort of like the Personal Rapid Transit setup at WVU. [0]

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgantown_Personal_Rapid_Tran...
Some alternative clients:

Fedilab, Mast, Tusky. I use Tusky myself.
Is she polite about it? Could be the Ben Franklin effect.
My friend John Cowan (also known by his hacker name "John Cowan") explains:

Most basic PDP-8 software was written on '10s using a cross assembler, including the various compilers and interpreters meant for PDP-8 users (Basic, Focal, Fortran II and IV), and OS/8 was made to look much like TOPS-10 externally, though they had nothing in common internally. A line can be traced from TOPS-10 to OS/8 to RT-11 to CP/M to DOS to Windows command lines.

There were some nice features I still miss in OS/8, like the COMPILE command, which would accept a number of source files, figure out from their extensions what language they were, and run the appropriate toolchain (it was normal for each language to have its own assembler and loader).

So basically I was full of shit and TOPS-10 really is the origin. Thanks for the correction, John!
I don't know if this is the issue Russ is having or not, but I thought I would post here (I've also emailed Russ). I experienced similar drop-off this week with an app of mine which has been in the App Store for several years. I wouldn't have noticed except I checked after reading Russ's post.

My app has space-separated keywords in the Appstore Connect portal. They've always been space-separated and I can't remember the last time I updated them. But the App Store guidance says to comma-separate keywords. Indeed, the newer apps I work on for my day job have comma-separated keywords. Could Apple have changed how keywords are parsed, and broken older keyword sets that used to be valid but now are not?

I'll be updating my app tonight and the keywords along with it; time will tell if this is the culprit.
I imagine there are a lot of university foundations watching the Purdue experiment while planning their own version of ISAs. Taking loan interest away from banks and injecting it back into university endowments has to be a very appealing idea.
You probably know it, but in case not, and for others who might not know: Ruby was influenced by Perl, and Perl was influenced by awk. (Both Ruby and Perl were influenced by other languages too.) And (relevant to this thread) Perl was influenced by C, sed, and Unix shell too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_(programming_language)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl

See "Influenced by" sections at both above pages.
>If not, can the absence of such confirmation readily explain the lack of interest in the claim?

Not really, no. But DMSA-Notices can.
Good point. My brother was radiated into his condo building in D.C. one night. They robbed the office after he went up to his condo. He didn't feel safe refusing then entry, and knew this was a risk of letting them in.

After the incident, he was contacted by the building management, who asked him what happened and warned him not to do it again.

This seems like a reasonable policy since many people would not have thought in advance what to do if a potentially threatening person tries to tailgate.
Sorry to hear that. I can't speak about Arcteryx but I've been a long time customer of Patagonia and have only the absolute best things to say about them. Their products are expensive but they back them with lifetime guarantees. I had a $400 Gore-tex jacket that after two years of use, started letting water in at the seams. I took it to a Patagonia store and told the clerk, who gave me a free bottle of a liquid wash that helps restore water repellency. When that didn't work, I returned to the store and the clerk apologized, took the jacket and told me to grab a new one off the shelf.

I've had other friends get replacement gear years down the road, and have also had down jackets get repaired by them for free after regular wear and tear. It's those little things, along with their support for environmental causes, that have made me a lifelong customer.
There will always be people in power. But maybe it is better if those people are elected, and operate in view of the public
FIFA 19 Update Version 1.15 Full Patch Notes Released for PC, PS4, Xbox One
Love Before Work
Why wouldn't they just patch that part of the code? I'm seriously surprised though Microsoft didn't build an adblock in IE much earlier, that would have stopped google in the tracks.
We... most certainly DO have space travel now.
Suggested approach with silly metrics of commits or code changed is stupid. It is easy to game and does not measure the value of the individual.

You want to have a happy dev team

- pay fairly and keep work-life balance
- provide opportunities to learn new things
- allow choosing a tech stack and tools
- allow choosing OS, the hardware of dev machine
- treat the same as other stakeholders

If you want to measure your team perfomance you just need to talk to them (shoking).
FYI, there is a difference between all-weather and all-season tires.

https://info.kaltire.com/all-weather-vs-all-season-vs-winter...
Humans are really bad at maintaining big projects for any length of time, let alone thousands of years. This couldn't be a small project either. You'd better be slinging hundreds of tons at Venus every day if you want it to be done in just a thousand years.
This YouTube video explains a bit more, and also 'how we know all this': https://youtu.be/muWrmfXpivY

It is in French (sorry) but it is subtitled and his channel has many very clear explanations about a diverse range of STEM subjects.
If you have a low rating, Uber offers tips to improve it such as not slamming doors, being ready for pickup, etc. I think it’s also easily found in the Help section of the app.
So this is a Mastedon instance?

huh....honestly seems comfy, and feels like how I wish twitter was. I might actually join this thing.