skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"This book is a description of what is, so far as the Author is aware, a new kind of hobby, but one which seems on the face of it to be as reasonable, as interesting, and as instructive, as any other sort of collection fad. This is the collection of street-car transfers and allied forms. The Author himself has already collected over sixteen hundred such forms, there being no duplicates included among that number; and he has found the process of collection, and the things observed during the process, both interesting and entertaining. He believes that others could get the same interest in such collection, even though it were made on a more limited scale." The media industry, believing that this was his only book, proclaimed it evidence that Sidis had "burned out."
Yeah... I think we need to teach these people the error of their ways. Maybe we should have forcible re-education therapy- to help them get better.
With the way government contracts work, you'll almost never get really high-quality software that way. The contractor simply does not have any incentive to do so, as it isn't in the contract. Instead, the contract usually gives them the incentive to drag things out as long as possible and make sure development costs are as high as they can get away with; "cost plus" contracts are notorious for this.
>so people who care about free speech are racists?

Aw. No, racists are racists. Nice try, though.

Keep it up and someday you'll grow up to be a real troll.

>and theyre going to come for you too and youll be shedding a lot of tears then when its too late. its how it goes

Why would people opposed to racists come for me? I'm not a racist.
Actually, people are now seriously starting to mine these things. It's a big environmental disaster in the making.
This is fine for power users who care enough to do it. But for the general public, as well as companies which would need to do this if they wanted to support DRM in their own kind of browser, it is not going to fly with Google and probably isn't legal.
KFC is looking into plant-based chicken alternatives
Thats one way to look at it. I would answer that what the tax payer pays is much higher than what the consumer gets, and both groups are large enough to not easily prioritize one over the other.

Bitcoin was born on dissent on how governments bailed banks with tax-payer money.
Babies: Unwanted seeds sown in African women by fleeting Chinese workers
Having switched from Vivaldi back to Firefox about a year ago, the Vivaldi speed dial is similar to the pinned lists of favorites, but it's much more user friendly. You can customize how many sites you see, how many are in each column, number of columns, etc. You can also change the icon to be anything you like. It certainly wasn't a dealbreaker for me personally, and as you said, pinned favorites serve the same purpose, but it does feel more restrictive on FF.
Yes, it's an arms race. Surely this is obviously the case?

"What if the government can't determine if a 100 dollar bill is fake?"

Answer to both questions: those who have a vested interest in detecting fakes spend more money on fake-detection mechanisms.
It's not 'a CYA warning'. The in-process JS extension API is going away.
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What do you think of the approach of using Firefox for your personal life and Chrome for your work life?
Firefox experience on Linux is lackluster. No hardware acceleration, neither on opensource video drivers, nor on proprietary(Nvidia and AMD). On the same hardware on Win10 Firefox experience is definitely better.
> That's why you don't let widgets hold program state, they should just propagate deltas and display current state. It's a different way of thinking about how UI can work, but imho it has a lot of benefits aside from just speed and safety.

My (limited) understanding is that you're describing an immediate mode GUI (as opposed to a retained GUI) and that one isn't strictly better than the other, but rather there are tradeoffs. In either case, I would be a little perturbed if implementing/using a retained mode GUI in Rust was prohibitively difficult even if immediate mode were strictly superior (the language probably shouldn't force such choices). Of course, I'm opining beyond my expertise, so I'm happy to be corrected.
With newer versions of firefox you can only temporarily load unpacked extensions. You need to re-add them if you relaunch firefox.

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2018/02/22/removing-support-...
Snapchat filters vs. art museum: hilarious results
Fwiw I always upvote comments like this and hope everyone considers occasionally writing one for an article.

Good nutshell summaries are just a starting point and there's no substitute for reading source material.

Still, they just help in so many ways like hinting at intersections of interests, so thanks.
This could occupy a useful space, but it is by no means a Metamask replacement (which they explain why).
Microsoft announces major PC gaming changes
Too late to edit, but "Microgenerators" should have been "microturbines"
The whole point of my post was to look for the root of the disagreement. What you call luck (as you suppose human beings are naturally inclined to do evil), I call that normal as I suppose human beings are naturally inclined to do good, and are looking for ways to continuously improve that.
Not just. It's the best one!
New blood delivery drones launched in South Africa
"Worldwide, Larry Page is certainly more of a public figure than Magic Johnson."

Is what I responded to.

Don't misconstrue how much people do not care about business people, and how much they do care about sports figures.

Nobody in my family knows who Larry Page is.
This is already happening. Web version of Skype refuses to work in Firefox, but if you change user-agent to Edge, it works.
I'm a bit disappointing that Mr Hands, the guy that died from getting penetrated by a horse, isn't the most Wikipedia'ed resident of Enumclaw

Story for anyone interested https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enumclaw_horse_sex_case
Yep, Debian. Other map sites work fine for me (caltopo.com, ridewithgps.com).
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> I don't understand why Mac users use Chrome.

One word: iCloud. I don't feel like being encapsulated in Apple's ecosystem because their support on non-Apple products is limited, buggy, and/or non-existent.
Chinese Dominance of Rare-Earth Metals Threatens to Disrupt U.S. Manufacturing
I like Pi-hole but it ended up causing more trouble than it was worth for me.

First, certain streaming websites would fail and it was too much trouble to try to find the URL to whitelist.

Then after I had disabled it from the Pi-hole interface everything was fine but it wasn't actually active. No problem...until I forgot my router was using it as a DNS server and I moved and didn't set my Pi up yet. Then it took me a couple weeks going back and forth with Comcast to find out that my router was still pointing to a DNS server that wasn't running.

Somehow my FireTV bypassed the bad DNS server at one point (still no idea how this happened cause my router was routing all traffic through the IP for pi-hole) and that made me realize that I can get data from Comcast somehow so maybe it really was my router.
Yes. I'd rather see ads for things I might actually buy than things I would never buy. If I could have an ad for a website I like instead of an ad for a website I would never go to that sounds like a good things to me.
Speech there is free-er than on twitter.
https://bossanova.uk/jtools/ seems to be the main page for this project.
Do you a citation for that? That government had access to the modem and being able to locate switched off phones?
Researchers hope a blood test can reveal early signs of cancer
It's another "I'm scared of google tracking this thing but can't give a reason why" episode. It's bad if law enforcement has your location data because...? Are you a criminal?
> ciadotgov4sjw...

cia.gov for Social Justice Warriors. Pretty sure he was just making a joke and only the first 9 characters were actually being tried for.
Once again, switching to a fork of Chrome doesn't really help anything, unless you believe that the Brave devs have the will and manpower to actually maintain a hard form of Chromium that would re-enable and maintain features disabled upstream in the long term.

It's like ditching Facebook for Instagram.
This is really cool! Something that would be nice would be an option to toggle "born in/native" vs. "any association." My hometown, La Quinta, California, has Phil Knight simply because he has a home there. No one I know associates him with La Quinta.
Passwords didn't work for me in mac, but you should switch now while you have the choice.
Show HN: A Lightweight Android Client for ElasticSearch
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It would be cool to see the same map for people worldwide, not just in the US.
1) How's the trackpad? I think that's one of the hardest things to match in a non-Apple laptop. I hear they've gotten much better, but they used to be really really bad so I'm not sure how they compare now.

2) It's unclear to me exactly how WSL would affect workflow. Are you able to basically pretend that Windows has native bash, or are there caveats like there are in Cygwin?
Does the amount of electricity used by the Bitcoin network scale with the quantity of transactions?
I know what you wrote, that's why I pointed out that it's incorrect. And now I have a feeling that you're confusing architecture with design, because neither C++ nor Java pushes people to create convoluted "architectures".

While programming languages can nudge architects in certain directions, this is only true for rather special languages, such as Erlang. Both Java and C++ support standard programming paradigms, can and are used to create many types of architectures.
File, Make a Copy. Or File, Download to get in excel and other formats...
3rd party browsers are not able to make use of the Content Blocking supported by iOS, which is a major sacrifice to use Chrome.
There have been places in recent history where your sexual preference could have been "criminal". Or your level of intelligence.
Perhaps I could trivially have my device store this data. But I couldn't trivially have an always-on web interface to the information with search, timeframes, maps, etc. Let's not act like Google isn't doing anything besides data collection here.
So self driving systems are based on machine learning, and thus does not have regular (deterministic) unit tests. They will mainly be tested on past data, but the end results are always probabilistic. I.e. no one (not even musk himself) know how the car would behave when it see something that it was not trained on.
I moved from a MacBook Pro to a high-end PixelBook (Google's Chromebook), and I love it. ChromeOS now has Crostini, which is a Debian container running inside (and well-integrated with) ChromeOS. I run lots of IntelliJ tools (Webstorm, PyCharm, Datagrip), Node.js servers, python servers, Postgres, MySQL, docker, etc. from the Linux instance and it works great. Lots of info and conversation is available on the Crostini subreddit.
Sharing more context about why we built it here: https://medium.appbase.io/appbase-droid-a-lightweight-androi...
Ugh. I tried. Somehow when I first configured it, I configured something incorrectly - and it literally stopped all connections to or from the router entirely. I had to physically connect to it and uninstall the pkg to get it to work again.

I wanted to try it again and NOT do what I had done previously, but I think a conf file is still floating around because the second I install pfBlockerNG(maybe -dev too? I actually can't remember now), my entire network instantly goes down and won't come back until I remove the pkg again.

I don't know enough about BSD's package manager or where pfsense puts package conf files to try to track this down and stop clean it out. I'm sure I COULD figure it out, but I have other projects that are higher priority :)

Edit: I should also note when I was trying to figure this out I had a very angry spouse standing behind me burning holes into the back of my head because the network was down, so I didn't make a priority of really looking through logs and trying to properly diagnose things. I just wanted things to be up so that I wasn't slain.
"We're already at a point where the birth rate worldwide is just at replacement level" - that's just false.
I do something similar, but instead of current directory I have a notion of context that is carried by an environment variable set in a GNU screen process (and therefore inherited by its children) which drives logic in my .bashrc.

https://github.com/dlthomas/config-files
I'm glad that Swift has first-class support for grapheme clusters. It's just very irritating that they made it the default way to interact with strings.
Except that it's really "person whose Wikipedia page references Lansing searched the most," which is how you end up with Phil Knight (an Oregon native who started a company famously headquartered in Oregon, and continues to donate huge amounts of money to an Oregon university) for La Quinta, CA, a suburb of Palm Springs in which he happens to have a house.
Do you know how straightforward it is to totally strip all Google software from the thing and run Linux directly? The PixelBook looks like a nice piece of hardware, but I don't trust Google.
I wonder which side is going to splinter first.
> Truth is constant, lies are variable.

Is truth really constant though? The answer would probably depend on the domain being considered. Many things change over time and truth can change with them.
So perhaps the core problem is that multiple contradictory “truths” can exist depending on ones point of view and ones point in time.

This would be separate from intentional misinformation which does tie into the debate. It seems likely that the modern problem of multiple clocks could just be a representation of different points of view.
I agree, I love profiling JS in Chrome. I'd switch to FF or Safari in an instant if they compared. Last time I checked, they were both nowhere near as easy or productive to use.

The other day I had to shut down a chrome tab that was utilizing 1.5 gigs of ram though. That's crazy. There's definitely no perfect browser.
I feel like this is a pretty sensationalist article. In particular, it seems to assume that people on keto aren't doing quantitative checks to see if they're in ketosis.

I know that back when I did keto, I was checking my urine ketone levels twice daily for weeks before I was able to 'feel' if I was in ketosis. Maintaining ketosis was difficult and I had to closely monitor my food but I honestly found it to not be that bad a diet once I got used to it. Your milage may vary.

I guess I should just acknowledge that the article isn't actually addressing me personally, but I can't help but feel there are many people out there doing keto who are actually measuring their ketones and know whether or not they're in ketosis.

That's also the standard advice you'll get from almost anyone who gives advice on doing keto.
All the more reason to stop using those "prime" properties...
worked for me on palemoon
>And if you type in the address bar FF will match against open tab names and urls, and let you switch to them.

Something that Chrome also has.
Skilled carpenters use hammers. That doesn't mean a hammer can't cause a lot of damage if used incorrectly.
Muhammad Ali was born in Louisville, KY and not Paradise Valley (CA?). Wikipedia says this. Noticed this right off the bat.
Shouldn't it be 'Data are plural' then?
This happens sometimes with conferences. I was at one recently where it changed everyone's auto set time zone to Mountain time, because the conference set up came from Utah
Absolutely right, I did not find any way to edit the post.
One of the best policies I ever witnessed: There was a second guest network with internet and nothing else for guests/consultants and facebook/twitter/porn (the company just paid for internet twice). Employees had a second crappy machine connected to the isolated guest network for this purpose.
So you're saying that the important thing is how they look, right? That they can have a big impact simply based on their appearance and that it signals a certain intent even though their appearance may have no direct bearing on their effectiveness?
How do you know we aren't already... Good vs Evil, stories in holy books, generator and discriminator... We might be some funny project of some "grad student" somewhere, like what deepfakes is for us.
> You're not thinking this through.

Would you please edit swipes like that (and "you must live in a parallel universe, to put it politely") out of your comments here? They break the guidelines, lower the signal/noise ratio, and invite more of the same from others. Your comments would be just fine without those bits.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Wasn't it the other way around? Wasn't Storm killed by Spark?
At least once Spark was out and gained traction, nobody in my bubble talked about Storm anymore. But I guess it depends on the bubble you're in.
mouse wheel.
Does this person have some reputation that others of us could recognise, that would lead us to expect him not to be interested in bus routes? I found the site mystifying, but clicking around suggested someone more on the Timecube than the eminent-public-figure side.
Firefox banned Dissenter[1], a plug-in that did nothing nefarious - only enables browser users of the plug-in to chat / comment with each other about webpages.

They did this for political reasons. Regardless of what kind of trash talk takes place on Dissenter, the point is that nobody is forced to use it.

My point: neither Google nor Mozilla should be trusted and both seek to be your totalitarian Internet overlord.

1. https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/36490/firefox-and-chrome-ban...
I have no words. The idiocy knows no bounds.
That's not what he's saying. You're allowed to censor people on your platform.
FOMO Unleashed: Did we just miss the Bitcoin bottom?
> I'm sorry, but you're not thinking this through.

Please don't respond to swipes with more swipes. Your comment would be just fine without that bit.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
DeepMind Can Now Beat Us at Multiplayer Games, Too
I finally made the switch a few months ago. I have no regrets. I used to use Firefox back in the windows XP days before chrome even existed, but since Chrome came out I've been sort of stuck in it largely because the gsuite integration and the fact that I am part of 7 different google organizations that I have to juggle.

What killed chrome for me is the gradually failing linux support. Had a persistent bug on all my linux machines with chrome (and chromium) would only update the view if the mouse is moving. I actually put up with that for a few months before I switched to FF.
Ask HN: Any feedback on interview bootcamp www.interviewkickstart.com
For those who don't know, www.interviewkickstart.com is a interview bootcamp. I am considering using them for preparing for interviews. I am good at CS fundamentals but suck at interview coding. With life being busy, I am not getting enough time to prepare. And companies have become crazy today. Even if the work is to make a CRUD app, they want you to design a OS in the interviews.

Has anyone here used them for their interview preparation? Any feedback on the structure and its utility will be appreciated.
From what I recall, Wil created two accounts on two different instances without vetting either of them. The first account was on an instance run by a member of the same blocklist "friend group" that caused the Gamergate problems, so it wasn't just an old grudge, but an old wound reopened.

The second instance was a non-US-based instance that looked like mastodon.social but was not (IIRC, the instance was Japanese run and moderated?), and the instance moderators had moderation trouble exacerbated by English not being their first language and moderation not being their full time jobs.

I feel like Wil could have been successful on Mastodon had he found (or founded) an instance better aligned with his interests and moderation needs in mind (maybe even mastodon.social). Part of the problem of the whole debacle was that learning that any way but the hard way was likely next to impossible for someone like Wil, because Federation is complicated and hard enough to explain to technical people, much less someone with so many complicated moderation/community needs by nature of being a "celebrity" to begin with.

(I still sometimes hope that someone like Wil would make the right technical connections to learn everything they need to know in order to thrive in the Fediverse and have joked that I would be happy to be such a guide if I were asked.)
Scott Pilgrim vs The World
I also support high intensity exercise. I’ve really enjoyed taking up powerlifting and it gives me a way to focus on my strength instead of appearance. It’s still treated the latter well while keeping my focus on something that isn’t so cosmetic.
To play with cljs online you want this one: http://app.klipse.tech/

Which is made by the author of book. The link was under https://clojurescript.org/community/resources.
Ok, I see.

Just for fun:

- In Silicon Valley... Magic Johnson has more google searches than Larry Page.

- In India... Larry Page has more google searches than Magic Johnson.

- https://imgur.com/a/KwQ5wJt

Just checking Google Trends, as you suggested...
Sure blood is much more accurate than urine, but it's my understanding that the urine strips will at least tell you reliably if you're in ketosis or not. The ketone concentrations just might not have a simple mapping onto your blood ketone concentrations.
> As of December 2018, FastMail and all other Australian companies are subject to the Assistance and Access Bill, which compels them to assist law enforcement in accessing encrypted communications if warranted during an investigation. FastMail stated that while their services were not "materially affected" since they already complied with warrants per the Telecommunications Act, concerns have been shown by customers over the bill's effects, which has led to losses of business.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FastMail
Five years ago I believed this same thing, exactly as you described. I went all-in on Google services and left all the options to send them data on, trusting them to be the benevolent system you described. And believing that the benefit I was getting in terms of cool UX would be worth it.

Now with how horrible ad-tracking has gotten, and the decline in Google's products (Inbox especially, for me) the shine is wearing off quickly. I'm strongly considering abandoning the Google platform as completely as possible whenever my Pixel 2 bites the dust.
Safari user here—I personally have never used extensions much (probably my own loss), and on Safari I just have 1Password and uBlock°.

Besides Safari's lack of extensions I find it to be more or less on par with Firefox, assuming you're in the Apple ecosystem. The dev tools feel extremely polished and feature complete. The only thing Safari's dev tools lack IMO is no fancy CSS support for things like grid or animations.

I occasional open up Firefox Dev Edition when I get a weird bug on a webpage and that sort of thing but besides that Safari has served all my needs perfectly.
For Linux, you can use a QR code scanner program to extract the text, then use a command line solution like: https://www.sendthemtomir.com/blog/cli-2-factor-authenticati...
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