skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can fit a few semi trucks in the gap between France’s political norms and China’s. Comparing the two is just silly.

Furthermore, if you’re positing that France is wrong in some absolute sense to do this, all you’re doing is just imposing your own conceptions of political norms into some other culture, which has historically worked out very poorly.
No, that's the post that _promised_ a post-mortem:

> We’ll be running a formal post-mortem next week and will publish the list of changes we intend to make
It's banned from their store, and as of April, at least, it can only be loaded as a temporary add-on and must be manually reactivated each time Firefox is started.
Firefox's sign-in uses client-side crypto to ensure that your data is only accessible to you, not Mozilla.
It's too bad there are so many duplicates. I think it would be more interesting if it was based on birthplace, since big cities that attract lots of businesspeople/celebrities just get tagged with someone really famous who doesn't have any particular connection with the city (e.g. Elon Musk on Los Angeles, Steve Jobs on basically everywhere in the Bay Area).

The Wikidata "place of birth" field would probably be a reasonably reliable source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P19
I don't think that Google's My Activity Page is evil therefore your argument is irrelevant.
People have this idea that Chrome is the fastest browser... is this even true anymore?
I switched to Brave browser last year and I never regretted my decision.
Wikipedia disagrees with you.

However, agriculture became increasingly mechanized with widespread use of the tractor, other heavy equipment, and superior techniques disseminated through County Agents, who were employed by state agricultural colleges and funded by the Federal government. The early 1920s saw a rapid expansion in the American agricultural economy largely due to new technologies and especially mechanization. Competition from Europe and Russia had disappeared due to the war and American agricultural goods were being shipped around the world.[47]

The new technologies, such as the combine harvester, meant that the most efficient farms were larger in size and, gradually, the small family farm that had long been the model were replaced by larger and more business-oriented firms. Despite this increase in farm size and capital intensity, the great majority of agricultural production continued to be undertaken by family-owned enterprises.

World War I had created an atmosphere of high prices for agricultural products as European nations demand for exports surged. Farmers had enjoyed a period of prosperity as U.S. farm production expanded rapidly to fill the gap left as European belligerents found themselves unable to produce enough food. When the war ended, supply increased rapidly as Europe's agricultural market rebounded. Overproduction led to plummeting prices which led to stagnant market conditions and living standards for farmers in the 1920s. Worse, hundreds of thousands of farmers had taken out mortgages and loans to buy out their neighbors' property, and now are unable to meet the financial burden. The cause was the collapse of land prices after the wartime bubble when farmers used high prices to buy up neighboring farms at high prices, saddling them with heavy debts. Farmers, however, blamed the decline of foreign markets, and the effects of the protective tariff.[48]

Farmers demanded relief as the agricultural depression grew steadily worse in the middle 1920s, while the rest of the economy flourished. Farmers had a powerful voice in Congress, and demanded federal subsidies, most notably the McNary–Haugen Farm Relief Bill. It was passed but vetoed by President Coolidge.[49] Coolidge instead supported the alternative program of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover and Agriculture Secretary William M. Jardine to modernize farming, by bringing in more electricity, more efficient equipment, better seeds and breeds, more rural education, and better business practices.

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

The rapid mechanization of farm equipment, especially small gasoline tractors, and widespread use of the combine harvester contributed to farmers' decisions to convert arid grassland (much of which received no more than 10 inches (~250 mm) of precipitation per year) to cultivated cropland.[4]

During the drought of the 1930s, the unanchored soil turned to dust, which the prevailing winds blew away in huge clouds that sometimes blackened the sky.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl
It does make a difference. If you disable it, the data doesn't get stored in the first place, so there's nothing to share.
I thought GeckoView is Android-only? Which means Microsoft couldn't exactly use it for Edge…
This is hardly my area of expertise, but my understanding was that banner ads generate less than a penny per view. I'm sure video ads are worth much more, but I'm finding it quite hard to believe that could add up to $10 per month for even a heavy single user.

If this is all terribly off-base, let me know.
Yes, Firefox Sync
That's why I think MapR missed the mark. They had a software only solution one could deploy on a top of generic hardware in a data center to solve hundreds of TB to small number of PB storage problem that was real for enterprises and since those nodes would also be able to do compute jobs that was the way to get enterprises to adapt that technology. Going to object store was possible but it required dev time and in the game of build or buy the buy of the non-core tech is nearly always preferable. And, in case of MapR, it could be done immediately not after a massive refactoring to move to object store.

But the MapR sales people were impossible to deal with. They wanted to talk about Big Data. And all the wonderful things that we could do with it.

Me: I have lots of files. Think billions. Lets talk about what and how your stuff works to solve this problem because I'm hearing some people successfully used it on a million files scale.

Them: That's great. Let me tell you about big data that you can do using it.

Me: That's ok. I really want to solve my files problem.

Them: Big data is the future! You can change your application to do big data.

Needless to say it went nowhere fast.
I'm curious if anyone knows of a means of transferring over saved Session Buddy sessions from Chrome to something comparable in Firefox.
Just a quick note - if like me you deleted your location history then disabled it, all you'll see is a prompt to delete your (non-existent) location history, which confused me for a bit.

After disabling all Google history - location, web, search etc - I don't notice much of a difference in the usefulness of Google services, but the one thing that still hangs around is purchase and booking history because my company uses GSuite. When I want to delete that history it tells me to delete that email - I think I should be able to turn that off somehow, but don't know how.

Edit: To do justice to Google, they do seem to be respecting my wishes not to store any of that history, at least in any explicit form.
Preventing casual insurance fraud and guarding against deep fakes are very different problems, with a very stark contrast in terms of the effort and technical aptitude available.

Occasionally a security minded computer savy person might pull one over on the insurance company - but most clients aren't going to have the expertise or dedication to correctness. To contrast that - the pool of people who would try and produce a deep fake, especially in the political realm, have already decided to invest a good amount of investigation and effort and are likely rather technically minded.

So this would stop the script-kiddie equivalent actor in the deep fake realm, but I am more concerned about dedicated nefarious actors.
That isn’t true. Straight Facebook defense is pretty rare on HN. Most non-FB attacks are people like me amused that people are so upset over FB. That’s not really a defense of FB. More a statement on HN culture. But by and large there is little FB defense on HN. Rare enough to not matter much. Definitely not plenty of people. Look at any front page FB story comments.

Like the OP responded, even if 100% of people aren’t the same, you can discern clear trends, behaviors, and feelings of the general commenting populace. Like we can for HN being abnormally anti-FB.
I wonder if that might backfire. I've been using Chromium for a while now, but whenever I need to see video, I copy paste the url over to Firefox. At some point, I'm going to be bothered enough to just switch permanently to Firefox.
My dad always questioned me downloading music off Napster during high school, but fast forward to the past couple years, and he's coming home from work with 1Tb external drives filled with pirated movies given to him by a coworker. That was as surprising answer when I was at my parents' house and asked about the random hard drive on their computer desk.

He's not a tech guy, so I'd say this is probably at least not uncommon.
The safari dev tools used to be the exact same as chrome.

Then they were redesigned and everything was moved to different places.

I’m sure they still work fine, it’s just a learning curve to understand where everything was moved. It’s a matter of opinion but IMO the Firefox and chrome tools both have a more intuitive UI as well.

Edit: just to be clear this is what I liked https://webkit.org/blog-files/inspector-elements-panel.png
I'm probably more favorably inclined to cryptocurrency & bitcoin than 98% of commenters here but this is becoming a rather stale boast.

Quoting @jgreco on Twitter:

"Why are crypto people so impressed by this? 1) Do they think wires cost more as the dollar amount increases? 2) Do they not understand that wires are free for corporations and HNW individuals?"
Even $124.60 seems high for moving a number from one place to another!

I'm kidding of course, but we do live in a world where transaction costs bolster some of our biggest businesses. Not sure if that's a good thing.
Designing a RISC-V CPU in VHDL 17: DDR3 Memory Controller, Clock Domain Crossing
What makes you think it isn't getting any use?
Are any of your tabs gmail? I think that's the main culprit, but I'm not sure it's the only one. Slack as well.
> 5x performance boost

Ok, I got my answer from the article.
A lot of responses I see on any Firefox HN post talk about bugs/issues which have [mostly] been addressed by Mozilla. This includes separate processes per tab which came out just a few versions ago. The problem is that these issues have been resolved more recently vs a year or more ago. It seems many people tried switching to FF long time ago when those outstanding issues were still there so many didn't left up switching because the bugs put a bad taste in their mouth. At this point in 2019, from my perspective, FF and Chrome are functionally the same at this point so there's really no reason to continue using Chrome.
Now I really want to see someone use this to make ML generated comics.
I see this as a factor of quality over quantity. Stranger Things is worth a lot more to me than a how-to video or product review, and rightly so, given the budgets involved in making each.

I want to note, though, that this also goes for much more than Youtube. I read a lot of Vox Media websites, and I'd gladly pay for an ad-free subscription—but not for more than $10 per year (and less if it was just the individual sites, rather than a package). Unless I'm quite mistaken, that should more than make up for their lost ad revenue.

I don't want to be stingy, but I also read a wide variety of different sources, and all these subscription costs ad up. I also just don't think freedom from ads should cost so much more than the ads are apparently worth.
On the other hand Firefox actually lets you move your profile folder from one computer to another without throwing up a panic flag and resetting everything.
about:config > browser.tabs.tabMinWidth

Change to something smaller.
Ha, I know exactly what you mean, Reddit is scary, esp. when you show them something you build very dear to your heart. If you are lucky, they just ignore you... :-)
Not sure if this counts, but I have a couple Vanguard funds, the monthly interest and dividends is about $1000/month on average. I also don't own a car, but do own a parking spot in downtown Minneapolis that I lease out for $150-$175/month (it came with my condo).

Seems like it's about the closest to true passive income as you can get as I don't do or even really think about either.
Where did you hear about the translucency hint?

https://xkcd.com/979/

Not trying to turn HN into a bug hunting board, but I found this:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404042

Might be useful to someone.
Performance has gotten a lot better since the initial quantum release. All of your DRM'd streaming services will be fine although some of the more archaic ones may still require you to install flash, but Firefox uses the same DRM video decoder as Chrome.
So we should delay life-saving and world-changing technology as long as possible until we can get some sort unrealistic international consensus (good luck with that, look at climate change) on the technology to make sure that the hand-wringing leftist collectivists and moralizing rightist collectivists are happy and nobody gets left behind?

I think it's hilarious that all the anti-CRISPR/anti-gene-editing people bring up dystopias when it's pretty obvious they want to live in a very Harrison Bergeron world.
And usually with good tdd acceptance in your team people automatically write more testable code, because they're too lazy to write tightly coupled code that needs many mocks.
Not wishing to be sarky, but surely "if they ever do" fail you it's too late.
I don't backup my computer anymore because everything I have is in the cloud anyways. I have a git repository with all of my scripts, a command I run to set up my system from scratch, and all of my files in Google Drive/Github. Any Steam games I play either automatically store my information online, or aren't important enough for me to worry about. The only think I would loose if my computer broke was my downloads folder, pretty much.
Another great reason why Low-Code platforms are worth exploring and adopting
You have lots of police and regulation in the bank transfer. Lawyers galore, and the promise of the state to back it.

They are very different finance operations.
Bitwarden?
Probably because his residence is listed as "Bel Air, Los Angeles, California" on his Wikipedia page.
I agree with you on most points, but I do hope the timeline isn't so fast. I was hoping to be dead before this happened.
is this verifiable?
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2019 Releasing October 25 on PC, PS4 and Xbox One
You have no idea who I am so refrain from making up accusations and personal attacks founded on your personal baseless assertions. If you have nothing of value to add to the discussion, simply don't add noise or drama to the discussion.
I was claiming that a 50% from 2009-2019 is a modest, explainable increase (and probably from a more reasonable base), that is probably not the result of regulation.

For contrast, Seattle's median home price was already expensive at ~$400K in 2009, dropped to ~$350K in 2012, and has doubled to ~$700K since then. In the short term, it's more due to the crazy hiring growth by tech companies here. But even though Seattle is building much more than San Francisco, the majority of the land is zoned for single family homes, so there's no way for building to catch up.

The rural home in SC sounds much more healthy and like what people want - steady increases in price, a few points above inflation.
If it's a truly free app, why not release your source code?
"Most internet videos" probably is overstatement. I'm watching youtube, pornhub and twitch and I don't think that it requires any DRM. The only service with DRM I'm aware of is Netflix and it's terrible anyway.
Yeah this is exactly it. And like I stated in sibling comment. People like me who don’t attack FB don’t defend it either. We are more interested in what we perceive as over the top hatred of FB that doesn’t make sense. Like you said, other companies get passes, but FB doesn’t.

There was a recent thread with more than one person comparing cigarettes with FB. Possibly even FB being worse than cigarettes. Something that has killed millions of people. But even in that no one defended FB. They just said FB isn’t as bad as people are making it seem.
What’s even worse is that today, worldwide ONE THIRD OF ARABLE LAND has been spoiled by farmers in a race to the bottom, it is a huge negative externality. Natural ecosystem can’t sustain the Red Queen spirals of capitalism.

https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2015/dec/02/arable-l...
I think this is sort of where we realize that Oscar Wilde was actually the democratic candidate in the 2016 election - falsely attributed quotes have gotten out of hand and even relatively reputable sources have made this mistake... I suspect the same will be true of videos soon, your trust in the accuracy of the information will be solely tied to your trust in the organization - if you don't trust NYT you won't trust videos you see there and declare them "fake news", ditto for Fox and everyone else.

This is leading society to a very dangerous place where the truth is becoming a matter of opinion.
Damascus Steel
Like many other comments, I like this and find it useful. Recently I took a Lyft ride late from SFO to home and it was late and I was tired and I didnt concentrate on the route taken by the driver but I was certain we took the 101. Later when I saw the charge, I was surprised to see the ride map showing me taking a roundabout way, heading on 280 and essentially doing a 70mile ride. I complained to Lyft and they refunded the money but I still wanted to know how I got home. Checked back on this and found that it was in fact a regular 101 ride home and I had proof just in case Lyft wanted it.

As others have mentioned, it is nice to look back at the trips I took and also share with others who might be visiting places where I have been in the past.
Depends on the type of education, really. I know intelligent people (one who won 1st place at ISEF) who believe the Earth is 6000 years old thanks to their religious education. Or take me for example. I was raised to believe that Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492 and discovered America. End of story. Education gave me that bias. Then I went on to learn that the Civil War was fought over "state's rights". Education gave me that bias. So it seems to me some (most?) education is a bias inducing tool.
Apparently someone has, because I was using Chromium on Linux to watch Netflix several years ago without any trouble (this was before Firefox got it working).
Firefox was lost to me when they removed the dissenter plugin from their plugins site. Using the dissenter browser now. It’s fast and it works great.
>And while you can use or adapt Chromium to your heart's content, your new browser won't work with most internet video

And genuinely, most people are choosing between privacy and convenience.
Safari is the only modern browser I run into that renders differently.
A Silicon Valley Map of Companies – 1986
) There’s no stunningly obvious conflict of interest leading to the conclusion that Apple is undermining ad blockers in order to protect their ad sales business.

2) Safari’s API is less restrictive than Chrome’s proposal. Rules can be updated dynamically instead of requiring resubmitting the extension for approval, for instance.

3) Market share is materially relevant to level of concern. What the mouse does is less concerning than what the 800 lb Gorilla does.
From other comments, it seems like that history is sourced directly from your emails; you'd need to delete the (archived?) emails to remove it from the list.
Get a job with a retirement. I did. I love the true passive income stream I get each last day of the month.
Show HN: Podcast Guesting Tool
If I were going to do this, and I thought it would cause such a storm, I'd take a raspi wardriving and find an open router somewhere, and then upload it via TOR to liveleak or imgur or something like that using an old netbook sourced from Craigslist. Then wipe the devices used and sell 'em back on Craigslist, or drop 'em off at Goodwill or some recycling company. Plausibly deniable and all that.
Did you even read the article? "new APIs" != "maintenance mode"
The fact that you have to turn it off is a clear signal of a piece of software which works in its interests, not yours. Can you justify using AdBlock Plus over an extension which doens't even need the switch in the first place?
I wonder if future studio cameras will need water cooling lines to dissipate the crypto heat
Amazon Prime, Hulu, and YouTube's paid content use Widevine DRM.
This sounds like a fun summer projects. I'll take a look
Anecdote not data: We've have had 4/5 times in the last 3 years of our operation where we features that we launched in less than a week that were very important to launch.
We're seeing a lot of regret around sprawling Hadoop deployments, so this doesn't surprise me. Other Hadoop vendors (vendor?) pivoting to machine learning is a bandaid as the compute capabilities scale beyond HDFS's performance limitations. Look towards new-gen startups around NVME/NVMEOF (WekaIO, Excelero, E8, etc etc) to fill the void.

The question is going to be: will anyone provide an intelligent way to maintain compatibility with applications that expect to interface with HDFS rather than POSIX? It's a bit of a gap right now from what we see.
While I disagree about ad-blocking and webdev options, Safari's reader mode and overall OS performance is a reason enough to never touch another browser. I have no use-case for multi-user containerization so no opinion there.
someone tried a basic version of this https://www.engadget.com/2018/03/09/qarnot-qc1-cryptocurrenc...
Dashlane maybe?
Yes, perhaps I wasn't clear - I did say it tells me to delete the emails, but given that it's a paid service I think there should be a separate setting where I can tell GSuite not to scan my emails.
>This is, of course, assuming that we can freely increase intelligence with no repercussions -- are these high IQ individuals at risk of [schizophrenia](http://www.schizophrenia.com/sznews/archives/000607.html), or other mental disease?

The whole "IQ is a curse" thing is mostly cherry picking. IQ basicly improves everything about a person: https://www.gwern.net/iq

It is not associated with any illnesses, save for poor eyesight.
The Don’t Quit Your Day Job site linked above, also has that info.

https://dqydj.com/household-income-percentile-calculator/
I get that but what I’m saying is, why limit yourself to a “real” backup once a week? What benefit does it have to just leaving the drive plugged in?
Very little your cell phone is doing is truly verifiable. If you don't trust Google/Apple to not bald-face lie, and privacy is super important to you, toss your phone.
I'm impressed by how responsive the zooming is.
> you can easily switch your Google ID for your existing Google account to your new email address, so you can continue to use any Google services as you wish without having them in control of your email/online identity.

This is really interesting.

You mean I could change your `google account` email to a non-google domain just like other internet services? Was not sure about what you meant by "Google ID"

If that is true, I probably want to take advantage of this before they remove it.
I'll add that touch handling is severely lacking. The modal can't be closed, scrolling inside the dropdown is hit and miss.
Thanks! I've tried that, but then got switched around with what was pointing where. DNS is definitely a part of the stack that still confuses me, despite on the surface seeming somewhat simple!
Unikernels from the Edge to the Cloud
You Can't Build a New Machine Learning Product with Old DevOps
These ones are pretty good too:

https://github.com/cantino/mcfly

https://github.com/dvorka/hstr
> "hate speech"

nice rebrand of a view you disagree with and want to censor