skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This school of thought that Dijkstra decried is the one that eventually triumphed in our industry ... The whole "languages are first for programmers to read, and second for computers to run" shtick.

If that was the case, I think we'd just end up using literate programming systems, which get both the "human-focused" and "computer" parts right.

BTW, running executable code is only one small part of what computers do with programming languages; what about things like performing static analysis to detect errors within the code, and providing language-specific support for IDE's and/or CASE systems? These things just seem to be a lot more important in programming language design than either the "communicate to humans" or the "run executable code" part.
Human moderation and ad-hoc heuristics seems to make the difference at Reddit too, rather than the CAPTCHA at registration.
There are at least charging stations for buses.

For example:
https://www.oppcharge.org/
https://www.heliox.nl/

What I would really like to see are small self-driving battery powered trams. (Seems like large "bi-mode" human operated ones already exists).
They are already offline from overwhelming server with hits[1] and 6 hours later they closed for good [2]

[1] https://twitter.com/deepnudeapp/status/1144201382905466882

[2] https://twitter.com/deepnudeapp/status/1144307316231200768
What other reasons do you think the original post was implying for Google to collect all this data?
Thanks. The 'Double tapping dots menu' trick is neat indeed, sometimes we don't figure these things on our own :).
uBlock origin is turning into uMatrix, even on mobile (fenec) Firefox. Sneakily ;)
Sadly unable to understand half of what they were saying so I gave up after 3 minutes and found this version which seems to be at least a tiny bit better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVN13ad3UUk
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Yes, the court can make such claims as they do in Powell, and Congress can ignore them. It is pure power politics, but the reputation of the court has been so diminished that Congress could easily get away with refusing to seat a member or two and there is really nothing that anyone could do to stop them.
Did you actually try it on a website with lots of ads? I've been using focus for the last 6 months or so and the tracker blocking also blocks many ads for me. Also there is blockada which blocks ads system wide.
If there is one thing I miss from current mobile Firefox, it's text reflow. Opera mobile did it perfectly.

I want to be able to zoom in or out and have text reflowed to the screen width. This makes the web magnitudes nicer to use on a small screen. No cut off lines, no 10 lines per screen. Just convenient freedom over the primary tool we interact on the web: Text.
Fair enough; I shouldn't be broadly generalizing and indeed most people with schizophrenia are far from this. I don't really know of a term to describe the deranged violent lunacy that manifests in those sites though.
Somehow I doubt most Tor users are really just in it for privacy for general browsing, especially since it's so slow and limited. You can get a VPN for that. Unless you're a total privacy purist, there's not much incentive to use Tor unless you're buying drugs/something else illegal or just curious to look around the dark web.
Is it possible to inject code that will provide that kind of reCAPCHA fake but looking as legit data and bypass its check that way?
At a communication skills training class the instructor asked us, "Are you listening, or just waiting to talk?"
My bad in linking it wrongly, that's the correct link: https://youtu.be/BrUvQ3W3nV4

I'm sorry my submission is not in line with hn guidelines.
These are among the costs they're happy to pay in pursuit of the vision they prioritize, which seems to usually involve small/light/thin, pretty, and convenient (for certain values of convenient).

Which can be a great experience if/when you fit their priority profile. If you don't, they're permanently frustrating.
thanks! Great work btw!
How can I complain? Where to go? How can we organize? I want to do something about this!

This is complete and utter bullying. Bullying on user privacy, bullying on Firefox.

Somebody please tell me where to go?
uBlock Origin and uMatrix in particular are fantastic addons, but I think the UX is still too much for the average casual non-technical user.

I wish they'd focus more on getting the UX of containers up to snuff. They are almost there, but still far enough away to make addons like Multi-Account Containers (MAC) something I cannot recommend to my parents.

Here is what I mean: Suppose I want to keep my use of example.com separate in it's own Example container. How do I do that?

1) Click the MAC icon in the toolbar, then click the "+" button.

2) Enter 'Example', pick an icon or color, then click okay.

3) Open a new Example container.

4) Navigate to example.com in the Example container

5) Click the MAC icon in the toolbar, then check "Always open in Example"

6) Close the tab.

7) Open a new tab, and browse to example.com

8) Click "Remember my decision"

9) Click "Open in Example container"

This is nuts. I can't recommend this workflow to anybody.
For example:
- bots sign up with email addresses that are owned by other people that don't appreciate your welcome/activation/etc. mails.
- all that automatically generated data can start to hurt performance. Especially on a smaller site, having millions of useless users in your database can slow things down significantly.
Taking it 100% serious- why would you dismiss that they are literally expressing to you a problem they are experiencing? It's useful to know they have a problem, are willing to pay for someone to make the problem go away, and are wealthy and thus can pay a lot!
In the unrelated later article about the "Chicken Libor" later in the document, he says:

> Anyway it totally worked? “Georgia agriculture officials suspended the index late that year after some poultry companies declined to provide documents attesting to the accuracy of the data they submitted.” One possible reading is that companies were willing to lie about chicken prices, but they weren’t willing to lie about whether they were lying about chicken prices. 4 I suppose you could try that with real Libor too.

He missed the point. These guys were willing cause the company to lie. But, as the certifications presumably came from the individuals making them, were unwilling to be personally liable for the statements' accuracy. It's the same principle that underpins executive liability under SarBox.

[Edit: Huge fan nonetheless. Incredible volume of high level content comes from this guy.]
Your CPU is missing AVX2 & AVX512 (and numerous other CPU extensions), the amount of optimiztion that can happen for your CPU is limited.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Vector_Extensions
That's a pretty strong absolute, which probably means it is not true. It is possible to oversimplify things from multiple angles.

Recent work[1] has argued that microbal and fungal diversity did not play a significant role in the development of coal deposits, but rather it was a combination of environmental effects that generated swamps where anaerobic conditions prevented plant decay. These conditions still exist today, we are just actively removing them.

[1] https://www.pnas.org/content/113/9/2442
But privacy laws can prevent things from being stored, and thus reducing their ability to be gathered by subpoenas etc, particularly some n years later.
It comes down to energy density.

That setup (charging where the buses go at the end of the day) requires the buses have enough battery to go their entire day on one charge. But then, that restricts the ability to take a just-now-ending-service bus that's out on the road, and redeploy it to fill in for a bus that is running late, or a bus that has broken down.

(I have seen this happen: I have seen a VTA "Rapid" 522 bus, just about to go in-service at the start of its route, switch to "Not in Service" and leave without picking anyone up. When I called in to report the weirdness, the agent on the other end checked and told me that an Express bus nearby had broken down. That was the right call: The Raid bus was closer, and the Rapid schedule frequent enough to absorb the loss.)

So ideally, you would want charging points to be available where buses sit during the day. That is at least at one end of the route. It can be done, it just takes more infrastructure.

> I assume it's already got a diesel pump of some sort to feed the buses since you don't exactly see city buses at normal gas stations.

While I was an undergrad at Ohio State, I drove 35- and 40-foot buses for CABS (the campus bus service). We did indeed have a diesel tank and pump on-site. But occasionally it would break down. When that happened, we would indeed use a normal gas station! All of the nearby gas stations with diesel pumps were evaluated for bus access.
It should probably be noted that this Firefox Preview they are announcing doesn't yet have Add-On support.

But I agree, uBlock Origin makes the mobile web far less painful. Also, I'll point out that you want to be using uBlock Origin, not uBlock. As I recall, Raymond Hill (the creator of uBlock) decided to hand over uBlock Firefox to one of the contributors to offload some of the maintenance burden but then the new owner immediately started trying to monetize it which prompted him to create uBlock Origin.
This is catastrophic

A company sending a "reassuring" message about how they now won't run out of funding — for the next SIX MONTHS — because they "funding secured" is just another way of saying "this company is almost inevitably going under"
The fact that somewhere other people have it worse has never been a valid or meaningful response to suffering. It is so facile it works on almost any level of horror.

You could fallaciously say I'm sorry you had your legs eaten by bears but did you hear about joe, joe was eaten alive by ants!

Your anecdote regarding your would be boot camp is probably off topic but allowing people to abrogate basic human rights so you can have a camping trip seems like an atrocious idea.

It would be the worst idea I'd heard this week but I just conversed with a guy planning to deliberately make chlorine gas to go to war with the weeds in his garden.
Came for the click bait title of the original article, stayed for the awesome comments :)
Could you elaborate on why you think they do not have to follow GDPR? Do you think they can continue to track all their visitors as before, including the odd EU citizen?
I'm a huge fan of the navigation bar on the bottom. I've missed it since I had to give up Windows Phone. It's hard to believe that neither Apple or Google ever added the option. I can't think of a single reason it would be better on top, It's simply harder to reach and less usable.

This also goes for all other apps...
Sorry, are you drawing a parallel between a rail gun and gas chambers?
>I don't get it! My hands are probably bigger than 95% of all humans, and I don't think a phone needs to be much bigger than the SE.

I can use the XS single handed with no issues. I think most of the difference comes from the way you hold the phone.

I rest it on my little finger, and type with the thumb. I can reach the left top (I’m right handed) by just sliding the phone
(minimum viable product)

Isn't it strange that the big flash announcement comes before MVP?
I assume you should read about determinism but you likely won't because you don't understand the underlining problem "how you're unable to have a will that's truly our own" and your writing appears to me that you're stubborn; and or unwilling to ever discover you don't have control that's truly your own by actually understanding determinism.

Even if a thought (an external force) occurred that truly wasn't deterministic. You still would be shaped by it and from all the preceding forces exerted upon you playing a part as well.

Furthermore, (non related) Quantum physics may just be local hidden variables and or another deterministic universe intertwined with our deterministic universe and making the results we're unable to measure appear random. Many people fear determinism and so they put so much faith into quantum physics without understanding how it doesn't change your outcome to be truly your own.

We very well may be in a universe that's different than another and that has you & I never conversing because a deterministic system (outside our universe) is making "random occurrences" (that aren't really random) just not measurable in our lifetimes; thus making one universe verge off from another in the deterministic outcomes. That doesn't give us a will that's our own.

Similar if we prayed to God for an event in our life to occur or not to happen. All the forces exerted upon us, up until us praying is what made the event occur and not even a God could have a will that's his/her own because any being is shaped by the events experienced. Simply, you cannot make a decision that wasn't effected by all the events (forces exerted upon you) that occurred against you in life. You're the product of what encompasses you and all the forces chain-back to the very beginning of life.
I want to know more about the broken toilets!
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Set up a very short timeframe and goal - let´s say, I´m going to make a prototype (or code feature X) this weekend.

Then show it here :) .

The risk of it "getting stolen" exists, of course.. but if you don´t do it it´s exactly the same. If you aren´t convinced, you think someone else will have the time and commitment to do it? Unless they were already planning on it.

My recommendation: go ahead and do it. Maybe you need some structured help, join a hackathon?
One of my favorite scenes on TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOW_kPzY_JY

The title of the video really ruins it, but it was amazingly funny when I saw it the first time not knowing what to expect :D
I had the opportunity to try out a bunch of them, including Altium in the late aughts and I was struck by how much worse the user interface got the more expensive the EDA software was. Eagle, free for student use, was the only one where when you used the mouse wheel to zoom it zoomed with respect to the mouse pointer location instead of the center of the screen. If they supported mouse wheel zooming at all.
If I may add a substantive counterpoint, this newsletter's use of ValleySpeak to talk about occasionally complex technical topics (as well as moving to SoCal, and also reading other more focused things like: https://web.stanford.edu/~zwicky/aave-is-not-se-with-mistake...) taught me that my youthful naive (and possibly unknowingly racially-tinged) ideas about language and communication were far off -- specifically that anything apart from the Correct English (TM) mode of communicating was inferior and a sign of poor education or intellect. This is important, because if we unjustly filter people by their dialect then we may be making significant Type-I errors.
yeah, all you have to do is elect people that will change this law, hmm...
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Actually it seems iPhone XR sales did pick up, but Apple had to further reduce the prices to drive sales.

https://m.economictimes.com/tech/hardware/apple-gets-the-mes...

Not sure if that means people can be bought or wether people really were just price sensitive.
A journey along the written word
Yes, that's exactly what he's saying.

It's mostly all collected because it's easier for them to collect it than not to collect it, and nobody is stopping them from collecting it.
Aren’t those less efficient and less reliable as well? I don't see going back to props. What's the mean time before overhaul on both? Also lower ceiling.
I have read somewhere that this software will work in perfect harmony with Aakash tablet: another state of the art government project.

Our beloved PM sending messages via 'Raamdoot' messenger on Aakash tablet will set the tone for entire bureaucracy.
I'm sure it will. And I'm sure that the damage is less than the damage behind his policies. At this point, I don't think people should care about inflaming the alt-right anymore.
Seattle actually does this. You have some hybrid routes as well where buses will operate off of diesel for part of their route, then hook up to the overhead wires before going through tunnels downtown. Some routes outside the underground downtown core also run wires.

OTOH, a few charging spots might be cheaper/more flexible if you've got a wide variety of routes.
The killing isn't actually the fault of Android itself, but the smartphone vendors that try to push the battery time metrics to the max. Battery management from Android isn't that bad actually, but the vendors will always find a way to fuck it up. I really liked this insight from "Zombies, Run!" developer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18901006#18902273
I counted to 15 awk calls in our latest pipeline processing drug compounds to build predictive machine learning models of them: https://github.com/pharmbio/ptp-project/blob/master/exp/2018...

One of the most eye-opening aspects of awk (goes for other pipeable commandline tools too), was how they support iterative development of pipelines regardless of data size.

We tried SQLite at some point for some of the stages because of pretty complicated selections sometimes, but it often won't give back a single result in minutes. Switching to AWK, I could immediately get some output, so I could quickly validate and iterate on the awk code until I got what I expected. The actual execution was likeways always very fast.
Thanks for the better link!
Reminds me of Matt Bors' Mister Gotcha: https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha
I do agree in principle but there will be nations like china who dont care and just adopt it. After some years the benefits will be obvious and the rest will follow.
WebRender doesn't work for me, "Unsupported Vendor" :(

Moto G4, Qualcomm Adreno 405, OpenGL ES 3.2

about:config doesn't work either
Somehow, I hadn't known of the existence of the `join` utility until this moment. I really should devote some time to play around with it and paste, sort, awk, etc.
I've given this a serious try a few times, on both phones and tablets, because I am keen for an ultra-portable dev setup. Unfortunately Android falls pretty short, even though Termux is amazing. I've never been able to stick with it long term.

For me, a much better small and cheap dev setup is the Raspberry Pi, particularly the new Raspberry Pi 4. Pair it with a bluetooth keyboard, a portable Monitor, and a battery pack, and it's nearly as good as a laptop, but much more hackable. And you get an actual GNU/Linux development environment.
Sorry, are you implying that a rail gun is that much more humane?
"This conference is being live streamed, except for this session..."

Why's that?
Seattle has not had those buses for over a decade.

The new trolley buses have the ability to run off-wire for 3 miles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses_in_Seattle#Recomm...
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AV1 is not jut Google's child, but rather Amazon, Cisco, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla and Netflix's collaboration to create a standard that isn't beholden to MPEG-LA: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1
At least in my country, drivers feel entitled, this is all the explanation I need.
I work for Ubisoft and I can confirm this fact.
Try rebuilding your Tor circuit when this happens.

https://tb-manual.torproject.org/managing-identities/
It's actually on by default now as of this month.
Some of it you can only understand from inside the universe. It would be difficult at best to guess at the Born rule from a simulation.
I used it in 2013 and found it constantly degrading with each update. They removed a major feature to reflow text to fit your screen nicely, worsened the UI, and other things I don't remember anymore. After using an old version for a while, I tried another browser, and holy crap that was 10 times faster as well as being customizable the way I was used to from Firefox desktop. Not open source, not as featureful (no add-ons), but that was so much better. Since then I switched to Lightning: even fewer features, but open source, very lightweight, and great UX.

Whenever I raised issues with Mozilla about things that degraded, it was always either talking to a brick wall or a wontfix. They made the decision based on one person complaining about it being the old way, implemented the change, and no matter that other people liked the old way, it wouldn't be changed back or made configurable.

I then tried to compile Firefox for Android myself and cherry pick only security updates, but that was enough of a pain in the ass that I gave up on it.
Like most thing, its an "it depends" situation. The tech exists, but isn't in wide usage. There's a higher upfront infra cost to pay back, and while short distance reroutes can be accommodated, you do set the general routing in stone. This works fine for larger, denser areas with routes that are more or less fixed.

King County metro (includes Seattle) is one of the agencies that's made major investments in trolley buses.

2011 study: https://metro.kingcounty.gov/up/projects/trolleyevaluation.h... (recommended trolleys with batteries for off-wire capability)

2015 press release on arrival of new trolley wire/battery backup buses: https://kingcounty.gov/elected/executive/constantine/news/re...

Battery only bus tech is also growing. I don't think it's viable for large scale usage yet, but KC Metro has been working on and piloting it seriously for a few years. It's possible that by the time more places would look into trolley buses during fleet replacement, battery ones will be ready.
Ideally she would tell the son he can go to rehab or get turned in to the authorities.
Pipeline mgmt tool with a GUI, or tool for cli tools with a GUI? ;)

One very widely used option is Galaxy https://galaxyproject.org

You might also want to check out:

- Arvados https://arvados.org

- Chipster https://chipster.csc.fi

- Knime https://www.knime.com

They each have their strenghts and weaknesses.

I'd probably be going with Galaxy as the default option, unless you find specific reasons to go with some of the others.
One issue that the article highlighted was that if you do that you might need a significant grid upgrade to handle a large number of buses charging simultaneously. If the charging stations are spread out over the city the grid probably doesn't need to be upgraded.
that interview is really great. i have watched it a few times. i think it makes it clear why simons has been so successful. he doesn't seem to really second guess, just does things, delegates well, and despite being obviously brilliant, he seems to have a very practical and humble mindset.

the TED interview (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5kIdtMJGc8) is also good, despite the host's frequent vapid questions. in that interview, simons elaborates on his funding of origins of life studies and efforts.
I disagree. One of the primary aspects of many threats is defining the specific criteria that would lead to violence. The point of a threat is usually not to actually inflict the violence but instead to use that possibility of violence as a motivation for changing behavior. It is roughly equivalent to preemptive terrorism. I therefore don't see how putting qualifications on the threat of violence should be enough to circumvent the rules. I would still expect to get in trouble for saying "I will kill you if you ever state that political opinion again" even though the threatened party could easily avoid any fear of violence by simply refraining from stating that opinion.
Fair points. I like the 'short timeframe/small goal' idea... might try that.

Thanks for the tips!
“The books will stop working.”
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Probably because Snowden is a VIP who has people looking for him (US government, for example). A live stream would be a liability, kind of a breadcrumb trail, potentially exposing his current location.