skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems unlikely. You still have most of the same issues you mentioned existing in China. I am curious if you have something particular in mind about this though.
That's a very useful tip. I use Firefox + NoScript + JS disabled by default as well, and have made my peace with lots of sites being unreadable if I don't temporarily disable NoScript for that site, but the No Style trick is a game changer.
That's already happening.
> IMO nuclear could become safer with more investment into it. But why invest in a technology that is less safe than alternatives like solar.

It isn't. [1,2] In terms of deaths per terawatt-hour, nuclear is much lower than solar and wind.

> People (especially software engineers) who have low Vitamin D get sick more often. Leading to increased risk of death. A growing belief is that this occurs due to lack of sun exposure.

I agree, people should spend more time in the sun.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-d...

[2] https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-ener...
It might just be the nature of computers. A similar thing happened to me on Chrome during a recent update. I was using it as a backup browser and lost everything there when Chrome stopped working. I deleted it from my laptop and haven't missed it at all. I now use multiple Firefox profiles to work as alternate browsers.

If you go into your profiles directory is the old profile still there? It might have just created a new profile for you.
I don't speak C, but as a long-time web developer, it smells to me to see "Center" capitalized in the flexbox snippet. Why is it different than CSS? How is a developer supposed to understand the capitalization rules?

https://www.boden.io/reference/ui/yoga/layout/
Apparently, there are several tests that can be used but no single test is sufficient.

Source: CDC - https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/diagnosis/animals-humans.html
> As of Firefox 67, it is actually very fast

(You probably meant 57, when quantum was introduced (alongside breaking the entire add-on ecosystem).)

I noticed no speed difference whatsoever when I upgraded from Firefox 55 to 66 a few weeks ago. The difference between 55 and 66 is that a bunch of useful add-ons are gone, some of them are no longer possible due to missing APIs, and I had to find alternatives for most that were rewritten (and spend time reconfiguring everything). In the end, the design didn't really change after I removed the tab bar on top, and speed is also about the same. Which is fine for me, I never understood the slowness complaints, but I guess I typically work on relatively high end laptops (well, this particular one was only 700 euros and is now 1 year old, it's not terribly high end, but I think I got good value on this one and it's probably more than what most people spend... though maybe not HN people... yeah, I don't know where the slowness complaints come from).
This is awesome! Looks so much more streamlined and easier to use. Excited to see it used widely.
Reminds me of talking to a Polish colleague who was horrified by the lack of automation in banks, shops and especially healthcare in the UK. Like in nature, if you burn the old the new is stronger\better\faster. Question posed above rephrased - 'is stronger\better\faster' a better option? Burn it I say, rather short term pain than long term misery.
invdio.us at least proxies. Youtube-dl mps-youtube, and mpv allow direct downloading and streaming (and not just from YT).

I'm working through 12 or so hours of a podcast from a textfile plalist of mp3 links, in Termux, on Android. For my workflow that beats any podcast app.

(Though a good CLI podcast manager would be handy.)
When will uBlock Origin stop working on Chrome? Is there an estimate date? I'd appreciate if someone could tell me.
Again, actually serious here: With who? I cannot discuss politics in the workplace, and my peer group is focused on interests where the general culture is against discussing the gov't's current affairs or about other current events due to "bringing politics into it" concerns. I am also highly introverted and do not desire to take on more social circles, as this isn't an actual intense interest of mine. I'd just like to be kept abreast of events when they occur, within the context of their occurence.

Actually, edit: How is this different from 'mob' news?
As the intro page demonstrates, modern C++ isn't really all that messy. I think there's a solid argument that it's a more dependable option than Dart, which isn't really used by anyone other than Google.
I get your point. However, the flipside is how sensical it would be to share a link on a forum like this if most of the users can't see the content of it
Yes. We will.

Because the future us will be conditioned to do so by our cryptographically integrated devices. There'll be so much fake video out there that we'll get accustomed to seeing it on our devices with the big huge "fake" sign flashing on it.

(Or, again, even worse, it will not have the "real" sign flashing on it that the video from validated publishers and cameras will have.)

We can be conditioned to do this extremely quickly. Again, ActiveX is what made all the plugin security warnings start popping up everywhere. But after a while, plugins like flash and unity even fell to the reality of us having been conditioned to click "Do Not Run Plugin" whenever we saw that warning. Are we better off without flash and unity? Probably, but that's beside the point. The point is that masses can be conditioned to implement their own control when you set up a system where only data meeting a certain standard is accepted. And it's a hardware standard. Consider very carefully the position over us that such a system would put hardware makers and those with power over hardware makers in.

Now again, I'm not arguing that fakes are not a problem. They are indeed a problem. Just saying we should go about solving the problem with extreme care and caution.
It shows that in your google activity? Instagram is a facebook product is it not?
> It is naive to think that companies wouldn't want to show ads to paid members.

It used to be, back in the olden days of pay-TV, that you'd get HBO, etc in order to not have commercials shown to you. I haven't seen HBO in like forever, but last I recall, they ended up showing tons of "commercials" for stuff they were playing, were going to show, up-and-coming things, "sister station" things, etc.

Basically, yeah - you didn't get to hear about the latest and greatest form of Tide or Folgers - but instead you would get anything and everything about HBO and other channels.

Great.

Today - I don't know what you see. I know for Hulu and other streaming services, it was peddled the same way (pay to get no ads). Now you pay - and you still get ads. Thanks.

So I've personally done what they don't want you to do, but they can't stop me: I've stopped watching everything. I don't even go to the movies if I can't help it. The magazines I purchase are super-niche so I don't see any mainstream adverts that way (Nuts and Volts, Servo, 2600). I don't listen to the radio. UB-Origin on my browsers (and with all this being discussed, I'm going to look into switching back to FF as well, and setting up a pi-hole).

They still manage to sneak some crap in - and I can't help to see those billboard ads and other things as I drive down the road or whatnot. Amazon also has some ads, and some things I subscribe to require you to see the ads to see the content, but that stuff is usually off to the side and just "filters out" into background noise at best (and most of the time it's for products I either don't want or can't afford; for some reason, I get a bunch of ads for Rolex watches and BMW cars - you'd think they'd run one commercial for a Unimog, but nooooo).

Ultimately, I've more or less opted out of consumer popular culture. This crap being discussed, and numerous other issues I see and experience, is just pushing me further off the road.

For instance, I intend my next "smart phone" will be one that I build and code myself. It won't look very pretty, and I'll still be tied to a service provider and all that entails, but even if all I have are SMS and voice calling, that'll be enough for me.

I'm also in the "slow process" of rebuilding/refurbishing an old Toughbook for general usage, but that is also competing with a couple of other projects, a refurbished TRS-80 Model 100, and a custom built "cyberdeck" I've been contemplating and buying the parts for.

Maybe go back to using BBS's too, or some other "dark web" niche of the internet - I dream of a place of freedom, the network I knew back when I started in the 1980s. Not this walled-off mess we're walking...no running...towards.
This. It's quite clear that the fertility rates we've seen historically will not hold into the future. We are on a timer to figure out why we're structuring society in a way that so many people find repulsive enough to not wish to reproduce.

This is not a Western or first world problem, because we see it spreading as countries become more developed. In many ways, I would argue that this is an exponentially bigger problem than climate change, although I am sure there is some overlap since there mere psychological pessimism from how the media/pre-university education handles climate change is enough to get people to not want to reproduce.
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Do the alternatives sell nearly as well? I couldn't name a single one, but pretty much everyone knows the Salesforce name.
https://github.com/joshuarli/dotfiles/blob/master/misc/firef...

Also have a bunch of umatrix rules, but not inclined on sharing those. Regarding gmail, keep a pinned tab open on about:memory and periodically click on GC and minimize memory, that might be a better solution than reloading.
Good points, but I'm curious if getting multiple TSs is only true in "the very best of circumstances".

For instance - is 30 VC outreaches a stretch? Sounds like a day or two of focused efforts - cold outreach, working your network, etc. Heck, a BDR at any startup company is doing more than that outreaches PER DAY to clients - so is it unrealistic to expect CEOs to do that for something that's existentially important?

But even then, if 30 gets you 1 TS, why not optimize your effort to get to 60 or 90 instead? Surely it's not perfectly linear... but at least you know the order of magnitude of effort, right? And that still doesn't seem totally crazy to me.

BTW - I'm prepared to accept that "it's impossible"; perhaps I'm overly optimistic based on my own experience. Our Series A fundraise resulted in 4 TSs at the same time, not because we were "hot" like Facebook or because I was an amazing CEO/founder, but because I had experienced CEO/founder mentors guiding me in how to execute the process to achieve that exact outcome.

So net is I'm just not sure this isn't a "thing is hard and few people do it, therefore it's impossible" versus a "thing is hard, so you need to work backwards and do XYZ very well". And XYZ is just not widely known or even understood by those who do it, and is likely hard too.

Net of all of this is that this is why the YC Series A program is a great idea. It can provide best-practices and guidance to achieve "impossible" outcomes, and it is essentially systematizing a process that perhaps is more art than science.

That all said, to counter my own points - while there is probably some operational lift by running a perfect process, that effect is likely dwarfed by how compelling the startup is at that time. Is it growing 300%+ YoY with a huge vision? etc.
AFAIK, AWS's EMR and Glue leverage Hadoop under the covers. Does that count towards that market? and/or at least keeping Hadoop development active?
MapR has been reduced.

Hadoop was the floppy disk of big data. Ubiquitous, but always beat by other solutions.
For what it's worth, the performance improved quite a bit with subsequent firmware updates. It was quite a remarkable device that impressed anyone I let try it, but finding a mass-market use-case proved impossible. They tried to pivot to VR, but it was very late. I think going after the consumer market (with an app store to be filled with games) was a mistake. Easy to say in hindsight, of course.
complex phenotypes like intelligence are dominated by small effects caused by large numbers of variants. it's not simple "causal variant" like you see in mendelian disease.

We also don't know what the long term effects of making changes like this are.
Just pay for office 365 or iCloud, either of them offer all the services you listed. And for much cheaper than $50/month.

I pay for G Suite personally, I have nothing against google except that I knew their free gmail account doesn’t have support and I wanted to be able to contact someone if I ever had a problem with my mail.

Edit: or if you really just want to avoid big companies, https://puri.sm/posts/purisms-librem-one-suite-of-privacy-pr...
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Curious. Why are they almost all men?

And, what's with all the wrestlers!?!
Although, I'd love to see more cross-posting for video content that I follow. I happen to appreciate Tim Pool, Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson... and given the push to the left (away from Liberal views even), and towards more censorship, I don't like where things are now.

The best way to combat bad ideas is with more information and facts, not to silence the conversation and push it out.
Are people getting more capable? Does it look like the machines will stop getting more capable? If neither of those are true, we will probably keep worrying about automation outperforming humans until it happens. A line heading up is going to intersect a flat line eventually.
You're going to have to explain that better. First of all, I don't think you can buy the actual index (SPX) but you could buy a future on it. Do you mean SPY? VOO? Second, I haven't heard of decay of unleveraged ETFs. And even for leveraged ETFs it's at least controversial to say it's a real phenomenon. Third, in what way does borrowing to short the index help you, given that you have to pay for the privilege anyway?
What a joke. What's more likely

1. The world has gone mad - a claim made by people of every political group, essentially constantly, and about every single kind of political issue.
2. You are too willing to buy into satire if it makes you feel good.
Interesting. Maybe we're running different versions, or maybe it's somehow dependent on screen resolution or something. Weird. For me, Firefox has always displayed at least the first few characters of the title.

https://pasteboard.co/Ih7GvRO.png
I suspect what they actual got was post-exposure prophylaxis.
>Also, these tips that are done with BAT that came with the promotion of Brave is sent back to Brave if they remained unclaimed for a set amount of time. Seeing as Brave has complete control of the tips they can change the rules and take the BAT back at any time.

That's true for unclaimed tips. I don't believe they have any control if someone is verified, but I could be wrong.

>This is kind of a pain point, isn't it? Many content creators have established ways to donate (Patreon, Twitch built in methods, Paypal, etc). Why should they opt-in to an altcoin created by Brave? There's no incentive for content creators to "increase the value of the network."

I'd imagine the incentive to grow the network would be more tips through Brave. I don't donate through patreon or paypal since I find that to be a personal pain point. But I will be using Brave. I'd imagine there are others like me.
So it sounds like either someone is logged into your account, or one of your devices is infected
What is increasing, though, is the retiree-to-worker ratio. This is intractably linked to the housing price-to-income ratio, too.

Retirees pay for goods and services in one of two ways - they either receive tax receipts through government programs, or sell off assets they have accumulated in their working career. Every asset seller has a matching buyer, so this implies that workers provide for retirees through a combination of taxes and buying assets with their savings.

Housing and mortgage debt is an absolutely enormous pool of assets, and one that large numbers of retirees naturally accumulate over their working career.
I keep seeing people make the push to have people invest; but what I never see is any clarification in in what or how; which leads me to assume the pusher is really saying, put your cash in money manager's hands and let them make those decisions for you, and enjoy the interest.

Here's the thing though: I'm not really sure that even with a fiduciary responsibility that the mere incentive of "getting a percent of interest earned on the behalf of clients" really does the market any good.

A 10000 dollar investment in the right place at the right time can make the difference for a small business, which won't even appear on the radar for an investment fund.

These types of money management schemes basically bias the system in favor of a smaller population of larger beneficiaries.

I don't know about anyone else, but I think if people held onto their cash, and managed it to improve what they can locally, I think that we'd see more bang for the capital buck expenditure.

I have seen much more get done with a bit of money in the right place at the right time rather than just throwing absurdly large amounts around and just banking on getting a couple percent back.

My layman's point-of-view at least.
Abusive newsrooms with no recourse aren't exactly innocent parties. There are still thousands of people desperate to be reporters. The newsrooms certainly aren't being damaged by this sort of site.
Sounds about right, either public offering or up for sale to a big tech co or Softbank. If IBM starts to muck about with Red Hat the value of SUSE could go up as well for an IPO.
Their Series A raised $10.8M back in 2015: https://keybase.io/blog/2015-07-15/keybase-raises-series-a
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What benefit does Microsoft have by using Mozilla instead? Earnest question.

Electron, the software framework VSCode uses, runs on Chromium. Github maintained and developed the framework and they are currently owned by Microsoft. If Microsoft contributes to Chromium and improves performance they benefit in a lot of places: their new browser is improved(Edge Chromium), their own framework(Electron), and their own product (VSCode).
Agreed. On macOS, Safari is fastest, hands down. All while preserving battery life better than Chrome, and even Firefox. PiP, swipe to peak navigation, pinch to zoom, better 1Password integration, Apple Pay, etc. are all more than just nice to have features.

However, my biggest gripe about Safari has to be the developer tools. They're noticeably slower, clunkier, and the network tab is unpredictable at times. I think it's getting better, but I defer to Firefox to do development.
I've found that most of these insanely complex analytic type queries are easy to model in Core if you treat Core as a DSL and use good programming practice (composition, separation of concerns, etc). The final queries end up being beasts, but if the Core-based pieces are modeled well they are basically equivalent to one I would have written by hand, but with the extraordinary benefit that they can be much more easily parameterized (imagine a financial report where you roll up Year-to-Date, Month-to-Date, Week-to-Date metrics, so using lots of window functions - with the proper structure it's trivial to add a further breakdown allowing you to group by any other metric). I've basically used it to create my own version of Looker.
Well notice I said conservatively. I do think gene-editing for very specific diseases should be permissible, given societal approval and control. Allowing enhancements for things in more ethically gray areas (height, intelligence, good-looks, etc.) will in the short run quickly make you and me obsolete. In the long run edits like those will make the current wealth stratification of society look cute in comparison.
For Christ's sake, it's not like Microsoft-written code is just irreversibly cursed.

It's corporations in a monopolistic position that let EEE happen - you know, like what Google is doing with Chrome right now.

If Internet Explorer's engine released under GPL or MIT can break Google's monopoly without simply handing it over to Microsoft, then all the power to it.
I’ve quit chrome for a while now but... I’m pretty sure they have your real name as long as you signed in once from the same hw and browser footprint. Is real name that important for them? I think everyone’s digital signature is already out there
I agree with all of this, but think it applies equally to trying to start a SaaS business. So, given little direction or ideas on a SaaS project vs. a game idea they have some interest in, I'd still vote for the game idea.
Is it a "negotiating tactic"?

Or is it a policy decision to intentionally disengage from the Chinese economy, to weaken it? Meaning it won't stop regardless of negotiations?

Does the Trump administration even know?

I think it's probably neither a negotiating tactic nor an intentional long-term policy decision, it's just Trump's whims, and Trump doesn't have any particular reason for doing it except "it will look good on Fox News", barely even consciously verbalized to himself.

Apparently the era of global free trade is over, for better or worse... all those agreements such as WTO were not truly enforcable against the US, they were only to be used as cudgels against other countries so long as the US wanted them.
Access to diverse groceries for eating and cooking. Availability of many types of high-quality clothing. Availability of many types of high-end durable goods. Proximity to an airport. Adequate Internet connectivity, though a handful of semi-rural regions have competing residential fiber options as an accident of history (wish I could get that in downtown Seattle). Availability of social activities outside of a very narrow range that reflect the one-dimensional background of the population. Now, there are also some goods and services available in these towns that you would be hard-pressed to find in an urban city but these are usually on the margin of lifestyle and not a reason to move to these places.

I lived a significant percentage of my life in rural towns across the US. While I really enjoy spending time in rural American towns because it is very comfortable and familiar for me, I am under no delusions about what actually living there entails. The lack of access to goods and services even for those that fit within the economic class of the town (which I did last time I lived in one) is inadequate enough that it is considered normal to drive 50-100 miles each way once or twice per week to get to a "real" city for various errands. You spend a lot of time in vehicles; instead of spending hours each day stuck in traffic, you spend hours covering distance at speed.

By the way, a 250k population city (i.e. larger than e.g. Geneva, Switzerland) is a very different animal than your average rural town, which is more commonly thousands to tens of thousands of population. I find cities in this range (also lived in these) to be the worst of both worlds, being neither as rural or intimate as a small town while also having few of the benefits of a real urban city. Of course, this is a personal preference.
I use Safari for non-work browsing (the dev tools make it unusable for work, in my opinion). I was a Chrome user, but Chrome nuked the battery on my mbp in record time. Safari has its kinks and oddities, but it sips the battery even with a ton of tabs open, and it's good enough that I've been using it for about a year with pretty much no thoughts of switching. I also like not feeling like I have the big G looking over my shoulder all the time.