skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course I did. I even tried to follow some things to the extreme. E.G: one letter advice to have "poverty days" so that you never get afraid of being poor. So I went to sleep in the street from time to time.

But most of the content is not that straight forward. Take for example:

"Therefore, Lucilius, do as you write me that you are doing: hold every hour in your grasp. Lay hold of to-day's task, and you will not need to depend so much upon to-morrow'"

Yeah. How do you do that ?

It's nice to say "carpe diem" or "focus on what's important". "Do the hard things first" and all that.

You can also tell a fat guy to eat less calories. Great. Now what ?

That's why I prefer philosophy when it comes with a method.

Meditation. Wim Hof method. Intermittent fasting. Psilocybin retreat. Whatever. But something to actually help you apply a thereory that otherwise get completely uncorrelated from one's life.
> As America gets closer to full employment, workers are suddenly finding themself with the most power they’ve had in decades.

This... does not comport with the available evidence. Workers in the US right now do not have a lot of power relative to the height of US unions. And saying the US is near "full employment" is a parlor trick of how you define who is and who isn't in the labor force, which is why we can have stagnant wages while being near "full employment" for some time now.
London 2019 Green Roof Report
Last year or two? Read about Google censorship in China. This article is from 2006: http://www.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3749767
This can protect you from simple DoS attack by some script kiddie, not real DDoS attack. Just use CloudFlare or a provider that have active protections against DDoS attacks. Iptables will NOT help you with any real DDoS attack.
Here’s a tip for saving battery on MacOS:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18048844
Don't trust anyone's cloud - encrypt locally first then upload. Rclone makes that easy.
> Declaring one of these as correct and all others to be incorrect is an oversimplification, and a logical fallacy.

I think the root of this black-and-white thinking (the is a right answer to “what pattern should I us?”) & the social disparaging of making a mistake/being wrong both stem from logocentrism in Western critical thought.

The attitude of “being right trumps any objections” is reinforced by CS grads trained by examinations where there are correct answers and doesn’t set them up for the wide world where clients don’t want the technically correct solution when it comes at the cost of delivery speed, brittleness, inflexibility, etc. This is one place where Software Engineering is superior, since it trains students in various techniques and the associated trade-offs. Imagine civil engineers & architects taking the position that, since A Pattern Language says that four square walls and a peaked roof exemplifies the timeless way of building, they insist that is the only way to construct a house.

The real value-add of patterns is giving a standard vocabulary/shorthand for discussing designs without getting bogged down in the boring technical details of the implementation. Uncritically cleaving to them as some sort of defence of quality is pure cargo culting.
Feeling the Heat in Winter
This is a crazy story on so many levels, so much so that feels like fiction, Glanville is basically Nikola Tesla of biotech.
> they will have the difficult task to prove consumer harm

Reduced choice and human nature tend to result in harm. The novelty, with Facebook and Google, will require measuring harm without explicit prices.

Such an antitrust argument around privacy was recently made against Facebook:

“This sort of thing happened regularly for years. Facebook would try something sneaky, users would object and Facebook would back off.

But then Facebook’s competition began to disappear. Facebook acquired Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014. Later in 2014, Google announced that it would fold its social network Orkut. Emboldened by the decline of market threats, Facebook revoked its users’ ability to vote on changes to its privacy policies and then (almost simultaneously with Google’s exit from the social media market) changed its privacy pact with users.

This is how Facebook usurped our privacy: with the help of its market dominance. The price of using Facebook has stayed the same over the years (it’s free to join and use), but the cost of using it, calculated in terms of the amount of data that users now must provide, is an order of magnitude above what it was when Facebook faced real competition.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/28/opinion/privacy-antitrust...
Agreed, but this is because of lax moderation and because there was a campaign by the racists to take over the entire site and it drove many people out. You could have good discussions on the smaller boards there before 2015-ish. I'm trying to say how 4chan style discussion boards differ from HN/reddit style sites. The latter forces you to post in a way that garners votes. There is always a voice in your head when posting to vote-based forums that asks you if what you're posting fits the hivemind thinking or if it is good enough that the hivemind will like it. You can post without worrying about things like this in 4chan-style boards. There is no voting, so you can have a genuine discussion with a group of people without being monitored, judged, and interfered with by non-participants.
I'm more pessimistic. People will come up with something to use up all easily available fossil fuels no matter what population size.
E.g. via space tourism, the moon being the new Mount Everest. This can easily be seen by how much more CO2 each US-Amercian emits compared to every other person on earth. So your Thanos solution wouldn't even work short term.

The effect also doesn't wear off until you take the CO2 out of the atomsphere and bury/solidify it, which doesn't happen organically within reasonable (for humans) time frames.
> At some point, you just accept that it's more important to get a new warm body than to continue pursuing some idealized programming perfection.

I think that is why Kotlin and Typescript are doing so well generally, they build on top of already established bases offering good new things without throwing out everything else.

The trade off is they are constrained from how far they can diverge from their roots but on the flip side that is a strength as well.

I like both, they feel productive without feeling totally alien.
The only way employee #1 gets hired under such a system is if they can increase the value of the company by more than 20% in 3 months.

That's unlikely to be the case (barring a company that is on the brink of failing).
What I learnt from printing custom swags
700 Years of Persian Manuscripts Now Digitized and Available Online
Indeed, and I would note that it appears to be written in plain HTML which means it will probably be both searchable (in an archive somewhere) and readable on a browser 100 years from now.
Where Will Nasa Take Us in the Next 20 Years?
I think its a copy paste from the linked wikipedia page, with links from there too.
>Pocket

I don't follow. How does a built in extension to save pages to a cloud account equate with the systematic and pervasive abuses of privacy that are Google's business model?

>Gab

I was not aware of this platform. Here are some lovely snippets from Wikipedia:

>Gab stated that conservative, libertarian, nationalist and populist internet users were its target markets.

What a lovely "free speech" platform. Can't imagine why it was "censored", where by censored we actually mean: we will not distribute this on our website, though you are still free to install it on your machine if you want. Come on... Porn is also legal, and also not available on the Firefox website, and also freely available for you to get elsewhere.
How to Tell a Girl You Love Her -And You’re Not Sure She Loves You Back, In 2019
When you love a girl, it is sometimes better to tell her, even if you are not sure that the feeling is mutual. Earn the courage ...........
Choose the right time and the right.........
Open This Page To “Continue Reading ” ◢
https://bit.ly/2Wcn8N3
hooot
They both share the underlying JVM library ecosystem, and as Java increasingly applies functional programming to its mainstream frameworks, clojure is a good illustration of how a near-pure functional style can work within the JVM environment
I think this is a good question, and I’d like to know too, in specifics, not just “well, there’s personal data involved.” I’ve seen a lot of misunderstanding about GDPR and I’ve read parts of the legal code myself, and while it is clear why this software was a bad idea and how awful it might be for the actors, it’s not immediately clear exactly how this violates that law.

One thought perhaps is that the porn movies, even if it’s public information with consent, often do not identify the actors. The problem may be in connecting “anonymous” public information from one source with personally identifying public information from another source. But, this seems doubly problematic since all the information may be public with consent and since someone’s face might reasonably be considered identifying information. Does GDPR make it illegal to connect any personal data even when from public sources that all have consent?
Noblesse Oblige
Safari generally implements standards as they mature.

Chrome generally implements everything new and shiny, no matter how underspecified it is, and with blatant disregard to whether or not it breaks the web.
> this evidence has been around for ages

Evidence of what? This is not a study of software development at all, but of prototyping using a program with no more than a few hundred lines. I'm talking about effects on software development. The issue of prototyping/tiny programs is a completely separate one.

> Substantiate that

I don't know how I can substantiate the lack of evidence, but here's a recent failed attempt to find evidence: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.10220.pdf

> Lack of knowledge by an HN poster is not evidence of lack of evidence.

True. While I have been following the subject for at least the past 20 years (and I have read your PDF several times already, including shortly after it was published), it is certainly possible I have missed something. If there's any evidence of a large effect you believe you've found, let me know.

> Evidence please?

Sure. Here's code review, for example (I don't have time to discuss each paper -- as they're quite different -- but they all paint a similar picture). BTW, while programming language studies are debating effects in the 0-15% range, these report effects in the 30-80%:

* What We Have Learned About Fighting Defects, 2002
-- https://www.cs.umd.edu/~mvz/pub/eworkshop02.pdf

* The Impact of Design and Code Reviews
on Software Quality: An Empirical Study Based on PSP Data, 2009 -- https://www.pitt.edu/~ckemerer/PSP_Data.pdf

* Large-Scale Analysis of Modern Code Review Practices and
Software Security in Open Source Software, 2017 -- https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2017/EECS-2017-...

* What Types of Defects Are Really Discovered in Code Reviews?, 2003 -- https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4604671

* Modern Code Reviews in Open-Source Projects: Which Problems Do They Fix?, 2014 -- https://www.testroots.org/assets/papers/2014_beller_bacchell...

* The impact of code review coverage and code review participation on software quality: a case study of the qt, VTK, and ITK projects, 2014 -- https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2597076

* Best Kept Secrets of Peer Code Review, 2013 -- https://smartbear.com/SmartBear/media/pdfs/Best-Kept-Secrets...

* Modern Code Review: A Case Study at Google, 2018 -- https://storage.googleapis.com/pub-tools-public-publication-...

If we summarize our current state of knowledge (not myth) it is this: process matters a lot; language matters little, if at all (with all the caveats I mentioned in other comments, such as diminishing returns etc.).
It’s caused a divide because the number of current economic refugees is relatively small. Thus many people thought it was possible to have them stay in the first world. Hence the divide in public opinion. But I believe that if the estimates are right, the number of climate refugees will be so high that people will more or less agree that it’s better to close the border in that situation.
"As it turned out, I never talked to Murray about science again. The last time I saw Murray was in 2012 at a peculiar event in New York City for promising high-school students. I said hello. Murray looked blank. I said my name, and held up my name tag. “Do I know you?”, he said. I repeated my name. Still blank. I couldn’t tell if it was a problem of age—or a repeat of the story of the beta function. But, with regret, I walked away."

That is incredibly sad.
Because of the dominance of the US millitary coincided with the development of the microchip.
Construct tales and share it with world
Maybe you can't split ads from search, but you could totally split Google Cloud | Search + Ads | Youtube | Maps -- and who knows what else google makes profit with.
Something tells me they'll take the change.

https://twitter.com/ericlaw/status/1134573349043081217
https://twitter.com/ericlaw/status/1134909845042335744
Perhaps give me a hand researching text input, I'm starting to gather a rather large source of ideas to be implemented. Fun work really allows you to think outside of the box. Spans all the way from UI-design down to system calls into the os ia C. So there area lot of areas to cover. Let me know by commenting if you are interested.
Planet Money recently had a piece on this.

Consumer harm seemed to be predicted based on if prices would increase if the business in question was made to change. The profit margin was never a consideration.

It's easy to say that online search might not be as good if Google were broken up, or that mobile phones might not be as good if Apple were broken up. Or that their "products" might cost more money. But in a competitive market, if their margins are one of the highest in the world, the mkre likely outcome seems like a simple reduction in their margins.
> Not sure how this relates to GDPR

GDPR states that the lawful basis for processing of data depends, among other things, on:

* the individual's explicit consent to the processing of his or her personal data.

* protecting the vital interests of a data subject or another individual

This violates both criteria, thus is indirect violation of the GDPR.
Me first what? I don't get what you are saying / you don't make any sense to me.
I'm glad I have apparently made my point clear. But what is yours??

And please don't pull that bogus racist card again. Race has got nothing to do with any of my comments.
> Wouldn't it make more sense to break up broadband ISP monopolies first?

No. The ISPs’ argument for breaking neutrality is the tech giants’ capturing of the majority of the profit pie. With competition, those margins should decrease. That, in turn, makes fighting net neutrality less lucrative.

Add on the fact that ISPs are more regulated, federally and at the state level (California can regulate Comcast in a way it can’t Google) and the more-imminent threat is revealed.
The Camp of the Saints has nothing to do with climate change

It's story about brown and black skinned others destroying western civilization with immigration. The motive is racist. The tone of the book is very passionate and overly emotional.

Here is short preface Jean Raspail wrote to his book:

> I HAD WANTED TO WRITE a lengthy preface to explain my position and show that this is no wild-eyed dream; that even if the specific action, symbolic as it is, may seem farfetched, the fact remains that we are inevitably heading for something of the sort. We need only glance at the awesome population figures predicted for the year 2000, i.e., twenty-eight years from now: seven billion people,
only nine hundred million of whom will be white. But what good would it do?
I should at least point out, though, that many of the texts I have put into my characters’ mouths or pens—editorials, speeches, pastoral letters, laws, news stories, statements of every description—are, in fact, authentic. Perhaps the reader will spot them as they go
by. In terms of the fictional situation I have presented, they become all the more revealing.
XULrunner was a great idea, so the executives of the Mozilla Corporation had to sack it.
Glad to see people caring.

99% of people don't even know that adblockers exist. Those same people are generally scared of computers.

Trust me, this isn't gonna matter. I saw these same arguments during the IE/Firefox war. Didn't matter that much.
The print media catastrophe comes for broadcast
in general, houses appreciate in value over time, but that doesn't mean your house will. leverage multiplies your exposure to the upside and the downside of an investment, and a single house is a much more volatile asset than SPY. imagine how much it would suck to be upside down on that $100k mortgage after five years.
For people that don’t know, Death Valley’s name is no exaggeration, even in modern times.

Going outside there even for short periods of time is extremely dangerous for some fraction of each year.

They shut the park down when this happens.

A few years ago, some tourists that didn’t heed the warning ended up dead after rental van overheated.

I don’t see how the populated areas already hitting comparable temperatures will be habitable at all in ten years.
This is exactly my point. The great job and wealth creator's (a la Warren Buffet, Gates, etc.) just aren't interested in things like this. The latter in your comments above are the folks buying things like this. There is no real meaningful difference between this and say a Range Rover. We can't, and shouldn't presume to tell other people how to spend their money, but we can talk together as a society to discuss our common priorities and values. That's my point, our priorities as a society seem to be shifting.
> are these scanners safe – i.e., do they have any kind of active radio wave source?

These two things are unrelated unless you are transmitting kilowatts of power and things become heated. Yes, there is a regulatory body (FCC) that limits emissions such that the volts per meter gradient is below some given threshold for a frequency range. And the higher the frequency the higher the power is needed to achieve the same v/m.

The 'war on terror' has very little to do with terrorism itself or preventing it. It's all about means to monitor and control the citizens of a nation.

As for large scale public 'scanners' well, they have been deployed in the USA around events like the superbowl. I recall they used to call them 'viper' squads or something. And in those I recall they were using backscatter x-ray vans, something which is not intrinsically safe due to using ionizing radiation (unlike radio).
I guess you have proofs of that.

Claiming that there's brigading just because people upvote what you don't find upvote-worthy is not very constructive.

I mean, I've been a Mozilla volunteer for a couple of years, some years ago (on MDN, FWIW), but I think it doesn't mean I'm some sort of fanboy just because of that. Ask Mozilla volunteers who's seen me drunk how harsh I can be towards Mozilla.
Can we not turn HN into even more of a political soapbox than it already is? It's fm fine that you have a cause to fight for but this is seriously getting tiring.
Correct. The public at large is both Google user and Google product. The advertisers are not the product, except when they're also a Google user.
Why? Isn’t this the kind post hacker news is all about ? Is there something about this post that’s misleading or false? I don’t see any explanation of facts to make me believe your comment ?
The economics being the legislation behind the case law is anachronistic, and the economics profession has done a poor job of updating its theories.

"Digital Monopolies" are barely similar to the heavy industry or commodity monopolies if days past. If you're trying to gauge the impact of google's market share via and prices...

A big part of the space they monopolize is free. No prices. If your fundamentals are based on prices and proxies for prices.. it's not going to work.

Both the reasons for a business to seek monopoly and the rationale for preventing it are estranged from the law, at this point.
Yes, but that shoudln't prevent society to also make those particular use of tech very costly. It should be consider like holding a concealed weapon: you need a permit, or you get jail time.

Permit should not be hard to get, as long as you can justify professional or research need.

But letting this go is creating a society I don't want to live it. I already hate, living my anonymous life, when some stranger take my photo without asking. It happens more and more.

On the other end, people filming the police get in more and more trouble.

We got things reversed.
Probably, but both Firefox and Safari are continuously making improvements to their devtools. Specifically, Firefox has pretty good tools for debugging layout (incl. CSS Grid) and accessibility (an entire panel in devtools that shows the accessibility tree).
This sounds shocking to a lot of people, but it's not new or unexpected, and it's not even that uncomfortable if you have shade and water. I don't mean to downplay the risk to those who don't have shade or water, or who have to work exposed, but it's not as scary as you might think.

I lived in Tempe, AZ for years, and summer temperatures would regularly be over 45C/113F. I walked or biked four miles to work in that. There were a few days when it hit 50C/122F, and while you didn't want to be exposed to the sun for long, it was tolerable. Low humidity makes a huge difference in what you can put up with.
I don’t know what this supposed insight is, because I literally cannot understand the article.
Says here the Cisco codec allows you to use H.264 in WebRTC with gstreamer and Firefox. It does not enable generic H.264 playback, only WebRTC.

https://github.com/cisco/openh264/issues/2835
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OpenH264
It’s not mainstream media. It’s a contributor site. You can pay some money and get one of your own. You can post whatever you want on there. They offer to do a little bit of editing and proofreading to make it look professional before it goes online. There is no fact checking. These contributor sites are essentially blogs that carry the credibility of Forbes even though they don’t deserve it.

I see contributor sites being linked all over the place - social media, news aggregators, even Apple news. I wish there was more awareness that these articles are written by some regular person with no qualifications as a journalist and that there is no standard for accuracy.

I’ve been asked to be a contributor before. I don’t know what the criteria is. I got a cold call about it one day. I’ve been a panelist at a couple local events, got a mention in a niche news outlet and was nominated for an award once. My guess is that’s why I was targeted as a lead. The pitch was mostly about having a bigger platform for my personal brand if I remember correctly.
Even to this day, XUL is far more capable than HTML. It has built-in widgets for many common desktop GUI elements that still need to be created from scratch in HTML+Javascript, and notably uses the native chrome of whatever OS it is running on to render them.
I think it would be a good idea for Mozilla to move to a Chromium base. That way they could have a built in ad-blocker and turn it on by default.

If they did that with Gecko then websites would simply detect and block Gecko even if they changed the user agent. Because it's only in the single digits on desktop and non-existent on mobile.

However I know Mozilla isn't interested in that since that would still likely break websites. Also, they officially believe ads are good for the web.

However, I want them to continue to work on Servo since I think it's important to be able to parallelize reading/parsing and rendering the web.
So you think Tokyo is less than 1% foreign born?