skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair point but do we have any actual data around the correlation between years of experience and value to a company? Admittedly its probably a hard thing to measure..

Because I can also tell you another anecdotal example of some developers who each had 20+ years experience each and we're quite high ranking they company they worked at:

- They would re-invent the wheel constantly: the framework provided lots of functionality which had been developed and battle tested by thousands of other developers but they couldn't be bothered to learn what was available to them so wrote a lot of functionality from scratch which was usually far more buggy than the open source code available.

- classes which had literally 10,000+ lines of code in them.

- of course the idea of following SOLID principles was never ever going to happen

- a general view that they were the experienced ones who "just made it work and got on with the job" while the younger programmers or those who followed more modern practices were seen by them as being "airy-fairy" and worried about things that didn't matter. that argument might have held weight if the application they built wasn't so awfully riddled with bugs and so poorly architected that mainting it and building new features took ages.

- They had all been working at the same company for at least 15 years, so they were able to ignore the advances made in software development in that time and carry on with their old ways. Of course they could still code new features and fix bugs but they didn't realise that what they were doing could be done in a much much better way.

I'm not saying all old developers are like this. But if somebody is able to tell me that older developers are better because X, then they should be able to accept somebody else disagreeing and saying that older developers are worse because Y. You can't have it both ways.
Really depends on the life stage of who you are asking. As someone with a wife and two young children, being able to have consistent, reasonable, hours and good work/life separation makes working for a large company very appealing.
On macosx that means your OS or at least the process is unresponsive. The mouse cursor then becomes a 'beach ball': https://cdn.macpaw.com/uploads/images/spinning-wheel.png
Re: recipes, you might be interested in this browser extension, which skips to the actual recipe text:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/recipe-filter/ahlc...
> Otherwise it's just a money grab.

It would make some difference in use, in the medium to long term. It would make sure nobody moves from other carbon emission sources to gasoline to save money. And most importantly, you could use 50 cents a gallon to capture a lot of carbon.

> eventually oxidize to CO2

Let me rephrase then. Those particles, treated purely as a carbon source, are pretty negligible. Any restrictions that matter would be based on non-CO2 effects.
If you like Low Tech Magazine, check out Build It Solar: https://builditsolar.com/
Coding is the one place I think you are correct.

Most information is extremely niche, but Coding is all over the internet.

I have not been able to google some of my (Industry Level) Chemistry questions.
I switched about a year ago and I was also pleasantly surprised, UNITL I've realized that it's eating up several GIGABYTES!!! of memory, even when I just have a handful of tabs open. What's worst, it doesn't releases all the memory when I just close the tabs! When I restart FF and cycle thru the tabs to make sure they are loaded, it uses a lot less but still in the GB range.

I compared the same set of tabs in Chrome and it consumes about half or 2/3rd of the memory. (Tested under macOS only)
While I work on machines with 16GB & 32GB, I find it unreasonable to waste so much memory usage on the browser windows. I'm looking into alternatives. I think most pages would be better viewed by just extracting the text content and the links, like Reader View mode...

I've checked out pretty much all active projects on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_lightweight_web_... and https://qutebrowser.org/ seems to be the most usable one which consumes even less memory than Chrome, while still supporting JavaScript and video playback. Or maybe I shall switch back to Opera/Brave/Chromium? I've tried so many...

I'm already used to keep closing tabs manually which I don't need, like web.whatsapp or gmail and the like. I even came across the Tab Wrangler extension, which automatically cleans my tabs up. I can highly recommend it to conserve memory!

So other than the memory usage issue, I'm satisfied with the current FF. It's web developer console is almost as good as Chrome's. It supports Ctrl-Tab jumping to the MRU (Most Recently Used) tab. Has built-in reader view. The Multi-touch Zoom add-on even brings "zooming by 2 finger pinching" capability to FF, which is almost as good as the auto-zoom by 2 finger tap.
Mary Lacy: The History of the Female Shipwright by Lucy Inglis
>IMHO making such a distinction is harmful because it places an artificial barrier to understanding how things actually work. I've had a coworker think that it was impossible to automate retrieving information from a (company internal) site "because it doesn't have an API". It usually takes asking them "then how did you get that information?" and a bit more discussion before they finally realise.

Yes! Similar pet peeve about e.g. "You can't use encryption in Gmail." No, nothing stops you from encrypting the message outside of Gmail and pasting the ciphertext in your message's body. It's that e.g. there might not be native support in the web client.
Why I'm Switching (Back) to Firefox (2013)
Not a MIRV blanket though.
Polymer 0.5 - circa 2014
Polymer 1 - 2015
Polymer 2 - 2017
Polymer 3 - 2018
LitElement - 2019

(I'm aware that Polymer insists it isn't a 'framework'. But it is. If their breaking changes cause incompatibilities between components using different Polymer versions, that's what I call a 'framework'.)
I have the solution!

If the domain contains a shopping cart then filter it out.

What do you think?
I don't know how it was in Europe, but I remember by the 1990s in the US there were media portrayals of "skinheads" as a totally American and totally white power thing, with absolutely no recognition or memory of a non-racist UK subculture from a few decades earlier. It was before the internet made it easy to look up that it existed in another context, some TV show talking about "skinheads" could define the term for millions.
>thereby proving more water throughout the year

Sorry, I meant "providing", not "proving".
> posting a site to something like HN or Slashdot and effectively getting it DDoS'd

I imagine there's some reading of the CFAA that could theoretically land you in hot water for this, but this is silly.

Intent is very important. Can one sue or prosecute a popular food critic for writing something about a restaurant, causing lines so long that long-time regulars can't get a seat anymore?

On the other hand, you have things like booter services (essentially, DDoS as a service). Continuing the analogy, I imagine if you hired 100 people to physically block the entrance of a restaurant for some reason, you would be on the hook for damages in civil court and something along the lines of "disturbing the peace" in criminal court.
Would you please edit the snarky bits and personal swipes out of your posts to HN? You've packed a surprising number of those into your posts in this thread. They're not necessary, they degrade discussion, they weaken your argument, they invite worse from others, and they break the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
> This one is provoked by your mindset and it is going to make life unsustainable for everyone you know.

And you fell for that nonsense? They said the same in 1985, we'd all be dead before the millennium. Unsustainable... hardly. People will thrive and will be absolutely fine.

>It is called science bitch.

Name calling is so charming.

I know people with PhDs who believe in homeopathy. That doesn't make it any less of a scam. I know medical doctors who refused to vaccinate their children in the rich west. She's a GP, not an expert in immune systems.

You know where the world will be in 20 years? Right here, just fine. We'll have about 3 billion more people on it.

And in 100 years from now it'll also be here. Probably around 20 billion people in total by then.

I'm a big fan of science and I think climate change is going to cost lives and make it hard to live in some areas, impossible in others, but people will be fine.

People are overreacting immensely and spending resources on all the wrong things. It's pathetic how herd-like we behave in panicky situations...
I missed it at the time, so I am glad it was posted again. Sayin'.
The question obviously came up during their teaching, so it's become part of the course, whether they want it or not. OP also says that their peers think there are ethical questions in regard to scraping.

I don't see where you see politics in how they handle such questions. I'm not advocating they go on an extended lecture about their personal views on the political system that made the laws and what not.

I'm saying that there's a difference between handling these kind of questions with "if you're not sure, maybe you should kindly ask the publisher of the data if they would be ok with you scraping/using it that way" and "if your lawyer says you're in the clear, fuck them and scrape away."
HN 2019: can't scroll down for a single page without seeing "hackers" begging for more lawsuits and government regulation.
Hey just registered, really neat. You don't support 'popular times' results for local places. This may not even exist in your area so you may not be aware of it.

I've always really wanted to make a terminal app to keep track of how busy my local places are. Not saying I'd become a customer who would keep the lights on or anything like that, but at the very least it would make a cool demo.
> Instead, VB became famous for a legendary feature called edit-and-continue, which allowed developers to run their programs, find problems, fix them, and then keep going with the new code. This was a sharp difference from almost every other programming environment known to humanity, which force developers to recompile their work and start over after every change.

Umm, cough Lisp environments from the 1960s, Lispms, Smalltalk etc...
Ask yourself what do I need to do right now. If you can foresee the future start trading instead.
Ah I never made that connection. That would be good news if USB-C headphones could plug into both.
This is a service for spammers complaining about SEO LOL
Would you please not post unsubstantive comments to HN? You used to do this a lot, and then your contributions got somewhat better. Please don't backslide.
If intercepted during navigation
This is the most stable option for sure. The more popular Tree Style Tab is still rather buggy, even after its complete rewrite.
Google does not control that.
Probably the same reason that Iran thinks it is OK when they do it, but an act of aggression when someone does it to them.
Canada's national security landscape will get a major overhaul this summer
P2P can be done on mobile but you're fighting against limited resources (storage, bandwidth, CPU). The reason P2P got good on PC is because storage got cheaper, bandwidth was increasing and CPUs kept getting faster.
2/3 of bottled water is contaminated in one form or another. No joke the best option is usually straight from your tap with a good filtration system, preferably RO.
This is perfect. Perma-ban, so sweet. Thanks GraemeL!

Too bad search engines aren't using this to improve search results.
The author is annoyed that the game is who can produce the most garbage, not that they think they could personally win at it (or not).
A Texas Building Where the Government Is Holding Immigrant Children
If you use a Mac, DevonThink and its associated products are great examples of paid user agents that seek out and organize information for you. Their free trials are fairly generous.
His customers in big corporate IT (not the users) think that way so he was being a good sales guy and thinking like the customer.
I will never use Chrome, because I don't want to strengthen Google's monopoly, it is as simple as that, even if Chrome is better. It is a matter of common sense.
By most accounts, PG's definition is the accepted definition within SV, so it's important to understand that most (99%?) VCs are looking at companies growing at breakneck speed.

Lifestyle businesses, or companies not looking to grow very fast don't need VC money, so I really don't understand everyone's obsession with making "VC sustainable".

If you want to start a business and require initial capital then take out a bank loan. It's relatively simple. But...that's not a startup, again, by most accounts. If you want to use some random definition found on the internet go for it, but that's not status quo.
Except that html email is used because it works a lot better (i.e. people DO want it)

Try sending your marketing campaign as plain text and then try sending it as carefully crafted HTML mail. Unless your target is a specific small segment of users who love text/plain, HTML will do better and make you more money.
Thanks for the link. I get that this would help with emails, but pushing markdown into text/plain wouldn't be helpful for web content on browsers.

The web already has Content Negotiation to let older clients prefer html or plain text content.
Jeez, that's surprisingly (and kind of tragically) effective!
I think VB dead just because RAD is dead just like the article states:
Careless newbies, bored company workers, and summer students trampled in, solving challenges that would have been much more difficult on any other platform, and spraying spaghetti code everywhere.
In other words, because VB was easy enough to use even if you weren’t a trained coder, it was used by plenty of people who weren’t trained coders. And VB did nothing to encourage them to correct their bad habits.
Huh. Maybe we need two distinct search modes: library vs. bookstore.

And not just the "shopping" tab but a fundamentally different set of algorithms for page ranking.
Here you go:

Cheap FPGA boards for educational purposes: https://store.digilentinc.com/fpga-for-beginners/

The software is free: https://www.xilinx.com/products/design-tools/ise-design-suit...

The hard part is several semesters worth of textbooks to go through that cover digital logic (try Mano's "Digital Design: With an Introduction to the Verilog HDL" to start with) through computer architecture in order to know what to do with the board.
That's a fun concept, watched the demo.

Have you built anything relatively complex with it?
So the IPCC underestimated the amount of heat that ocean would absorb. They unfortunately also underestimated how quickly the permafrost is melting and how quickly we lose glaciers.

The models we have are wrong. There is no doubt about it. But there is very little evidence that they're wrong in the direction where we can just do business as usual and still live a comfortable live in fifty years.
I visited a top floor of Goldman Sachs in the early 90s. They were using J, a dialect of APL. They still had those dumb little Bloomberg cube terminals on their desks, with the angry-fruit-salad colors scheme.

Nowadays it's in a window, but it looks the same. I don't know if they still use J, or K, but anyway not in real-time. That happens on FPGAs in a rack where traders once roamed.

But while APL cannot be said to be very popular, the most popular "time-series database" used in finance is published by APL fananics.
The exhaust on MBPs is positioned such that it blows out the bottom of the screen’s hinge when closed.

I have two 27” monitors in my office, and using the MBP’s screen just does not feel useful to me... and yes, I have tried using it on more than one occasion.
It's important enough, and currently wastes enough of my time (read: SEO crap, Medium and Reddit are top results for... everything) that I'd happily pay for a good search engine!
The Internet needs a good non-profit search engine that has no conflicts of interest. It could be funded by a foundation like Wikipedia or by the government like PBS, but the world sorely needs this resource.
Recipes are really bad on Google. There are also some odd aggregator sites I guess? Or just seem to copy from other places. Idk what their story is but they have tons of low effort recipes
Firefox is great now, especially on mobile. Having all my desktop extensions on mobile is worth it alone. I've also done some rough measurements that Firefox uses about 1/3 the battery life of chrome at idle with my normal "work" tabs open. This is on both Android and MacOs.

On some sites FF is slower, but these tend to be Google properties or giant Enterprise shitshow behemoths (jira)
Yeah, this is the official docs, covering their official RTOSbsnd rnv. Probably still technically not legal to look at, but old enough that the relevant parties don't care anymore.
Google used to have a filter to only show discussions which I used constantly until they removed it. It's the only way to find actual reviews of some products without a million pages of blogspam
HN seriously overestimates the technical capabilities of the average person.

Facebook now has enough reach that it includes many people who don't know how to use technology properly. Finding an answer through Google takes a little bit of skill to frame the question and pick the result that will give you the answer.

Roughly 70% of adult Americans use Facebook [1]. This study [2] is from 2015, but it says that only a third of America adults are capable of medium-difficulty technical tasks, such as tasks where you need to '[evaluate] the relevance of a set of items to discard distractors'.

Remember, 20% of American adults have below basic or no literacy skills [3], which means they are not capable of tasks such as:

- "using a television guide to find out what programs are on at a specific time"

- "comparing the ticket prices for two events" [4]

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/05/16/facts-about...

[2] https://www.nngroup.com/articles/computer-skill-levels/

[3] http://www.ala.org/aboutala/offices/literacy-all-adult-liter...

[4] https://nces.ed.gov/naal/perf_levels.asp
Socialism’s Endless Refrain: This Time, Things Will Be Different
Generally, your municipal water supply is doing a decent job at that.
Accessible and Scalable Secure Multi-Party Computation
They are not. They are served by the web-server specified in the url at the application level.

Routers, switches and repeaters in the middle are serving nothing, they are relaying IP packets at the transport layer.

If you can’t tell the difference, you may want to read up on basic network layers.
> the very term A/B testing refers to the "A" and "B" sides of a newspaper print roller being able to print two versions of an advertisement.

Really? That's interesting. But how could they tell which version converted better? Maybe distributing each version in a different area?
A German Circus Is Using Holograms Instead of Animals
Off the top of my head on a Sunday, a few laws that might help remedy the SEO situation:

* Make all posted internet content public domain (no limits on scraping).

* Make any scraped public data used for profit be available to the public via a license similar to the GPL (similarly to how medical research of public data should be shared with the public rather than hidden behind a paywall).

* Legally separate search from industries such as advertising and shipping (apply some antitrust legislation for once).

* Require some sort of tech support for redress of grievances (if a human can't be reached within say 10 business days, allow escalation to a government agency that can apply injunctions or other red tape to encourage monopolistic companies to play nicely).

* Implement steep fines for market manipulation, similar to insider trading laws. If a search engine pulls the listing that another business's livelihood depends upon, and it can be proven that (for example) a competitor or business partner initiated the pull, then it should open the search engine up to collusion charges. Frivolous pulls not remedied after say 10 business days would be treated as malicious and open the search engine to an audit of its relationships with its clients in that space.

Please if anyone has more ideas, let's hear them. I'd vote to look at the merits of any new laws rather than their likelihood of being implemented, which I realize is likely quite low!
Does this potentially open the door for a domestically made machine?
For starters:

What says that we have more right to liver here, take the air, water and other resources than any of the other clearly sentient & intelligent beings among whom we live?

I have a hard time finding any good answers to that question that do not boil down to <might makes right>, i.e., we're more intelligent, capable, etc., so screw all the other animals and plants (upon which, BTW, our continued existence depends).

So, from an ethical POV, mere consideration of the other beings makes it hge right thing to do.

Even if we want to save it for only ourselves, we need to wise up damn fast. Look at the list starting with AGW shifting the climate faster than any time since the asteroid 65MM yrs ago (& now showing serious signs of runaway feed-forward effects), plastic debris and microplastics choking the food chain on sea and land, neonicotinid pesticides destroying the insect population & especially pollinators at well into double digit levels, monoculture industrial agriculture, massive habitat destruction... the list goes on and on. The result is that we are likely getting dangerously close to breaking the food web. When that happens (even without war) there will only be a few survivors, if any, and they likely not consider themselves lucky.

So, even if only for selfish motives, merely acting like it is right to preserve the earth's biosphere, is the right thing to do.
The moment Silicon Valley lost its soul
There are some ways to reduce air travel imho (and probably other ways to do so).

* Video conferencing

* Car/train/bus transportation if the hours used is acceptable. A good way to do this is a "night train" with a sleeping compartment.

* The big one: electric planes.

However it is a though one. Sometimes you just have to travel far to meet someone face to face and unfortunately the only way to achieve this in a reasonable way today is by hydrocarbon burning air travel.
There's a pretty significant difference between a bullshit book that someone chooses to buy and a government sponsored TV broadcasts.
Do you have actual memory usage issues? Is a lack of memory causing problems for other applications?

I am asking because RAM is meant to be used, high allocations to Firefox on a (mostly) idle system isn't too interesting as a metric on its own and should automatically decrease if others need it.
A timely reminder that the "new and improved, cool, friendly, loves open source, a different company" Microsoft is - beyond the slick rebranding PR - still quite happy to throw it's massive weight around, abusing the law, intent on rewriting the fundamentals of the open internet and access to information to everyone's disadvantage but their own.