skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I kinda wish the Amazon region companies would band together to block the domain nationally, but I guess that won't happen.
The only reason to work in a startup is for money, and the only reason to start one is for fast money. If a startup isn’t getting you money, well, then there’s not much else it’s giving you.

People might say otherwise, but that’s because they’ve been largely conditioned to react that way.

Startup is a word reserved specifically for exponential growth businesses usually juiced up with VC cash.

If that’s not what you want to do, then just call yourself a plain ol’ business. Or if you are on some world changing mission and don’t care about money then be a non-profit. And if you have no real business and just want to work on your own stuff and maybe make money later then that’s just a side project.

Of course, that’s not as sexy as calling yourself a startup and not as likely to get you on the cover of entrepreneur magazines with your arms crossed and a smirk on your face.
Every time a Windows hater slams Microsoft, I like to remind them of this exploit. It will be years before a Windows vulnerability rivals the damage from the Equifax hack.
Not to defend that, but it reminds me of a project for the raspberry pi that would let it output teletext signals over its composite port. The original version was a bit buggy and would crash the onboard computer in CRT TV's.
Has the city caught up on its debt? Have taxes been raised to adequately fund the city? Chicago is a “nice city” if you are inside the ring. Outside the ring are heavily secured rich enclaves, smoldering ghettoes, and the shrinkinh middle class communities who sit inbetween.

Demographics may change, debt obligations do not.
I switched to Chrome from Firefox years ago because Chrome has a better UX (faster, snappier, cleaner UI). A couple years ago I tried to switch back to Firefox (right after the Quantum project landed, and Firefox was meant to be a lot faster), but found FF to still be bloated, slow, and painful to use.

A couple weeks ago I made another try to switch back to FF, and I have found the experience to be very pleasant this time; desktop FF on both Windows and MacOS are, for me, better than Chrome. I recommend others give Firefox a try.

(There are a few reasons why you might want to: Privacy, fighting mono-culture, recent decisions by Google to neuter ad blocking addons, a general aversion to the power of the largest tech companies, just chasing the latest and fastest browser, a fondness for novelty or contrarianism. Some of those reasons may resonate; others may not, but if any of them do, give it a shot!)
Check what assumptions you make when you kill the idea. Additionally, a lot of good ideas are a few tweaks away from bad ideas.
Completely disagree. Google shared mobile search ad revenue with carriers and device makers using Android OS. Microsoft couldn't (as a matter of practicality) offer that advantage.
India needs tougher water recycling laws like Portugal or Israel. It also needs to illegalize bore wells, whilst also needing a better way to preserve its rivers and harvesting the rain water.

Madras isn't the only city on the brink, every major metro in India is at risk but like the proverbial frog in boiling water, the law makers are asleep at the wheel. Or, may be, they are simply disconnected from reality as they can personally afford solutions to problems (owing to their vast resources) that most of the population can't.
The part I don’t get is the “in retaliation for shooting down a drone”.

If the drone was operating over Iranian territory, Iran is well within their rights to shoot it down. What would the US do with an Iranian drone operating over US territory? Over sensitive military sites?
They iron out their macOS and Android story.
I switched to Firefox after the adblock debacle. My biggest problem is with cookie management on desktop. Chrome allows me to block certain cookies or keep them just for sessions. In Firefox cookie management is hard. If I want to list up all the cookies I can't do it.
Three Technical Benefits of Service Meshes and Their Operational Limitations
A long time is not forever
JAMstack: Client-Side JavaScript, Reusable APIs, and Prebuilt Markup
I don't think "US knows it" is how border safety works. Either way I fail to see your point how that would be different with China.

As to motives, who knows. Iran could be trying to move confrontation from economic to military, where it has a shot on regional parity. With all talk about Bolton, Iraq, Vietnam and on this admin is very docile. Iran came out on top from this confrontation, bolstering its regional influence, so why not.
The programming model is not quite the same. You can get away with some things if you know only one thread is running at a time. You have to mutex a lot less for one.
The article states that the rules changed in 2011 that allowed Amazon to purchase the domain. Which they attempted to do in 2012. At what point in time would the Amazon region have been able to purchase it? Having a hard time looking up what the rules might have been, but I would think they could have gotten it issued before then, under old rules could they not have? Seems like there wasn't interest in the domain until someone else proposed it, or were they also working on it too?
. . and if you tell them that you found the answer just by googling it, you're the a-hole.
A GitHub-to-EC2 CI/CD Template Using CodeBuild and CodeDeploy
>Why doesn't it start in an initialized state

That's sort of how Windows quick startup works. It saves the kernel state after startup, and on next startup, it restores it (kind of like hibernating the system). Iirc emacs does something similar with its lisp runtime as well.
Yeah, I also grew up in post-communist Bulgaria.
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I use Firefox at home and Chrome at work daily and I barely notice a difference apart from UI. It's rare I have to complain about something with either. I also use Firefox on my phone (iOS) and it works ok but I don't recommend it as quickly.

I can't remember the last time any modern browser felt 'slow'. I don't even know what that means any more with regards to browsers, on a fast internet speed they all seem pretty fast.
Came here to say this. I've worked on embedded Linux projects with a boot time requirement of 2 seconds and easily made it.

I guess part of the difference is that you explicitly enumerate all hardware and drivers in a device tree on embedded rather than figuring it out on the fly like on a desktop/server machine.
The water woes can be solved easily if people with sense start rain water harvesting. Every year Chennai drowns in rains, if one can store all the excess water there should be no water scarcity in the summer, it's just people not giving a fuck. Too worried about stupid shit like language, cows and dick head politicians to care about drinking water.
Is there an ordered list of what produces most pollution? What's at the top? Is there an easy way to answer the question "I just did environmentally bad thing X, now what can I do to offset that?"
In my experience, people don't even think that's an option. It's like you either know how to do things or you ask an actual person.

To be fair, in some cases it's just laziness.
>I'm sure I forgot a few. All attempts failed quite completely.

You forgot BlackBerry, who failed themselves spectacularly by becoming a patent troll.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190228/17170141697/black...
ESET officialise son partenariat avec Chronicle – Moopost
What’s wrong with .com/.net/.org?
> For passwords the browser's built in management is inferior to password managers.

This is a good thing. Browsers should be good at browsing. Password managers should be good at managing passwords. The two should have API’s as necessary to interact so that the user can choose what’s best for them.
Serverless Is a Doctrine, Not a Technology
I agree they need a bit more polish. But to be fair, they are also more powerful than in Chrome. You can e.g. request that every subdomain opens in a new temporary container. That's really good isolation.
According to Census ACS from 2017, the city went from 35% Black in 2010 to 30.5% in 2017. That is a pretty rapid shift in under s decade. Hard numbers fell from 930k to 830k.

Most of the population loss is concentrated in the poorest neighborhoods. There are also plenty of South Side neighborhoods that are doing quite well (Hyde Park, Beverly, Mt Greenwood, Kenwood, Woodlawn, McKinley Park, Chinatown, Pilsen, Bridgeport, Garfield Ridge, and a few more). Those places don’t get the news coverage so everyone lumps an entire 1/3 of the city into “dump”.

==https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/...
Ye, you can't be a rogue either. It's a very thin line to balance.

In general I am clear that I will follow consensus so the "other side" doesn't feel that they need to convince me for me to do it with my best effort.
Nitpick: in system dynamics, a self-reinforcing loop is called "positive feedback", whether it is desirable or not. A "negative feedback" is a stabilizing mechanism.
> The market inpounds any new, publicly available information into the price, not merely business information.

Yes, and the “price” is not the expected net value of future cash flows, it’s an estimate of what people are going to pay for it. The price and the value are two distinct concepts.

> If you have a reason to think for example that “dumping money into index funds” is somehow inefficient, please share! If the resulting price of companies in the index is a mispricing opportunity, let us know!

I know that you’re taking a positive “well show me” kind of stance to imply that I don’t know the market better than the people actively involved in it. But I’m not claiming to know where prices should be. I’m claiming prices are driven by a variety of things, one of which is value, but much of which is just various unsubstantiated assumptions. Many of those assumptions could be entirely incorrect. That does not mean the market will realize this soon, or ever, so assuming that any particular world view of what’s incorrect will materialize in a price change isn’t the wisest decision.

For capital gains oriented growth tech stocks especially, significant money has been invested because of a simple lack of alternatives, which has inflated prices. Should those prices fall? Irrelevant question, because value is not the sole driver of price. Irrationality is a part of the system.
> Some people go into jobs because they actually want to make the world a better place.

...by enforcing the rules upon others? That's not how you make a world a better place. Remaining in status quo is not how society progresses.

Pushing those laws, challenging them, and adapting them quickly to the needs of the society today is how society progresses. Police officers are necessary evils. In most of the situations, they do good by enforcing rules that make sense. In some of the situations, they do bad because they're enforcing the rules that prohibit us from progress. How do you change those rules? You challenge them.

Doing nothing about climate change does us no good. I know that, you know that, we all know that. Following existing rules isn't gonna change that quickly enough. We need to progress further, and to prove to our lawmakers that there's enough of people interested in making a difference, some of which are willing to sacrifice their own good for the good of the society. At first, you do radical things in order to draw attention to the problem. Once the consensus is reached, the government can prolong it for only so long before people stop obeying its rules.

That's when the defense forces start facing a difficult decision. They could either fight to stop the progress, or step the fuck down and let the people do what needs to be done for the things to change. Once they change, they go back to the start and enforce new rules. Those new rules will never be made perfect, so there will always be people that are going to push those boundaries further.
Agree. At the risk of sounding like a nihilist, such articles that ask more questions than they answer rarely raise any questions of insight, and this has the effect of making people forget the value of the whole article, given that the articles often end with the "open questions" section.

IMHO. YMMV.
Making Containers More Isolated: An Overview of Sandboxed Container Technologies
Teenager, 17, suspended from school for insisting there are ‘only two genders’
i ended up using fold.
theres also has to be a way to read the ORME.flag by modifying the file permissions but i haven't figured that one out yet.
But it could just look at all of the input sources at the same time. And anyway, these are solid state electronics, not hamsters and flywheels. Taking seconds to send "give me electrons" and for the other side to say "here are some electrons" is bonkers.
Might be that, also the computer itself might be another reason. But who cares? Why doesn't the monitor just re-establish the last known good connection quickly?
If you get too extreme with your smoke in the atmosphere, you'll impact the flora. It always grows back after the smoke clears and the ice age ends, of course, but this time it would wipe out most of the fauna that depend on it, including that pesky primate infestation that caused all this. Maybe that's what we need anyway, a hard reboot.
I miss being able to zoom in (coming from Safari). Ctrl + wheel causes a layout reflow and while it makes the text bigger, images often get even smaller.

Oh right, it's annoying when it auto updates in the background and shows some generic error message that looks like a network error and it takes me a few minutes to realize I need to restart it.
Airbus and Microsoft team up to sell HoloLens in airlines, defense and aerospace
Before the age of the internet, when someone didn’t know something they would first ask their family or friends for the meaning and if nobody would know or weren’t really sure, they then would open the encyclopedia, or move on to the next thing. It feels more naturels to ask someone first than googling for it, maybe it’s the social aspect of humans, but it could also be laziness, but googling things is definitely a skill that can be improved upon
Why I Am a Bad Correspondent (2015)
Don’t Be Surprised by Your Serverless Bill
> People might say otherwise, but that’s because they’ve been largely conditioned to react that way.

Perhaps you are the one that's been conditioned?
> If the purpose of competitions is to find the absolute limit

Not everyone shares that assumption. If you think there should be races where the only goal is to get from point A to point B in the minimum time with whatever aids are available, go ahead and organize one. See who comes. I suspect that the vast majority of people would prefer races where competitors stay on the course and eschew most forms of mechanical aids. Opinions on chemical aids are more mixed, but that's not at all the kind of cheating at issue here.

> Unless the students are being graded on a curve, I don’t think academic cheating is a big deal.

Again, you're ignoring some effects of cheating. Students are often competing for admissions to graduate school (including e.g. medical or law school) so even if the grades themselves aren't on a curve the students are still being compared to each other. Those who don't cheat therefore are harmed. Also professors are graded too, so there's harm there. The purpose of the exercise is learning, which often means doing exercises as laid out. You don't learn calculus by letting a calculator or program do it for you. You don't learn programming by installing prepackaged software. When students take shortcuts, those paying for their education - usually not the students themselves - are not receiving the service they paid for. There's harm all around, and no amount of rationalization by those who can only keep up by cheating will change that.
One reason for the rock-solid requirement was that over time instead of just power the grid became a distributed time-base. After discouraging that kind of practice the grid operators found they had more freedom. Examples of such use: record players and various clocks running on grid power would use the frequency stability to drive synchronous motors.
Two years of postmarketOS
In some cases they may feel it's whether they are asking the right question - but I agree that people searching for themselves is often a better practice
Kubernetes Issues and Solutions
Are you saying only young people are "smart, fast learning, motivated, compliant, enthusiastic, loyal, and a good team fit"?
Wanted to post exactly this. Ageism is far less of an issue in other Engineering disciplines, and my hope is that as ours matures, it becomes less of an issue too. We’re already starting to see maturation in recent years with things like less language, framework and tooling churn, and consolidation around a few SDLC best practices
If you send them a lmgtfy.com link, you might be, though I've done that several times to close friends.
Use a honeypot field.
Produces more CO2.
Yes. Fossil fuels for power generation, followed by transportation and industry [1]

> Is there an easy way to answer the question "I just did environmentally bad thing X, now what can I do to offset that?"

Little bit but to seriously make an impact you might have to look for alternative sources of powering your life. But nevertheless every single bit helps. This climate change conundrum cannot be fixed without the entire planet committing to it.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-other-greenhouse-gas-emis...
> Does anyone even work with assembly anymore?

As a little bit of a different fun one:

I have a MicroPython project I'm building, a limited run toy, which live-assembles some assembler that it deploys to a co-processor which handles low power mode.

A real mix of very high level and very low level code.
Why do synchronous daily stand-ups still exist?
I've lived in Chicago my entire life - the city is in a death spiral. When my youngest kid graduates high school I'm out of here.

The finances of the city will inevitably end in some combination of bankruptcy and ruin thanks to toxic pensions, the abuse of them, and the city's refusal to prudently manage around them (though in fairness the pensions have been so toxic that no prudence could keep up with them). It's just algebra. The city (and state) is already insolvent and just resorts to various can-kicking tactics.

Violent crime is tolerated and ignored by most. No one dare point out the elephant in the room that it's committed wildly disproportionately by minorities. A white kid trolls the Cubs with that bogus "okay" symbol and the city goes berserk; 25 black kids shot over the weekend and it's a collective shrug. Things tend to settle at the level of expectations, and a liberal ethos has set expectations for the black community to be all but nonexistent.

The suburbs are dying, and this is reflected in real estate values. Follow the Chicago Tribune's architecture columnist, Dennis Rodkin, on Twitter. Every day this guy features a new home sale in the suburbs where it's sold for less than what it sold for 20, even 30 years ago. It's depressing to see how Illinois' failed policies have a massive tax against families' greatest asset.

The city is dying, as population loss continues at a rapid pace. Chicago has lost more millionaires than any other city in the world over the last decade. The stats are all readily available with a quick search. The real estate values will inevitably follow the path of the suburbs.

The new governor - a bored billionaire heir who's never accomplished anything on his own merit in his life - is about to effectively double the state income tax. The death spiral accelerates. When you tax something you get less of it.

The corruption of the city politicians is tolerated and even joked about as The Chicago Way. Corruption has been normalized, just like it has for places like Russia. These sorts of cultural rot are difficult to reverse.

Death spiral.
If I understand your argument correctly, you are saying that complaining is not justified when FPGAs have made crazy progress. Can you explain why making crazy progress means that we could continue using the same abstractions or that the abstractions ar right?

GPU's made crazy progress but they changed because there was better way to make even crazier progress.
If it weren't for google, I would be a great janitor.
Did you miss the part where the party of Lincoln managed to rebuild the Southern economy and society from the ground up? Of course, it wasn't the first "Reconstruction" that they attempted in the South, either - but hey, second time's the charm!

And no, even waving the Confederate flag isn't exactly a contradiction with celebrating that either, or at least it wouldn't be until quite recently indeed (yes, it's a fact that race relations are going sour once again, unfortunately). But explaining why that was the case would be taking us quite far from the original topic, so I'm not sure that it's worth even trying to address this point.
I wonder if the irritated look isn't from "damn, the thing I know from experience works well won't work for this patient" rather than "damn, now I have to crack open a book".
Stateroom (Surveillance program)
History of Wearable and Ubiquitous Computing
Thanks for the answer, it makes the problem clear.
Slice N Dice
I suppose it will become an issue when Amazon likely tries to block any effort to register .amazonia
They seem to vote with there own money on decisions. The winning side get the losing sides money.

This will be terrible for raising concerns, right? People will vote for the side they think will win, not what they believe in.
One good thing the US and Canada does is to not use cement for houses ! It is somewhat negated by the terrible insulation in most homes in the US (and the fact that homes tend to last less long I guess). Does anyone have any data on how much gets emitted for house construction depending on the material ?
It makes me wonder whether they want a solution to the problem at all. Europe is north enough that in some countries you can probably get rather long streaks of time where solar just won't work. If you only have 6-7 hours of daylight and they are likely to include lots of clouds and snowfall then I don't see how solar is going to be a replacement for anything. Wind might be, but wind requires an extraordinary amount of area to cover an entire country reliably.
I can see most of your points as anecdotal (of course someone will come around with a contrasting anecdote, but neither means anything), except for

> no add on support (even for those add-ons who had an an FF product)

Assuming we’re talking about Android here, what do you mean by this? Mobile Chrome has no extensions, whereas Firefox supports the full suite of desktop addons. I can use uMatrix and even developer extensions on my phone with Firefox.

Also, I think the point of the “videos creating notifications” thing is so that you can continue listening to the audio after turning off your phone, like on iOS and iPadOS. Apple got the battery thing better in general. Maybe Firefox should stop playing videos in the background after a certain period without user intervention?

Some of the other things can be chalked up to bugs (it would be nice of you to submit something to their Bugzilla!), while some I have never seen myself (especially the videos thing... for me they’ve always played in window, with the bottom UI, correctly; it could be a problem with your favorite video site?)
One of the best lists is https://www.drawdown.org/solutions-summary-by-rank

It's ranked in terms of low-hanging fruit ('these are the highest-impact changes we could make') rather than absolute harm, but the spirit is the same as the question you're asking.

Realistically, the only thing you can do as an individual is campaign for political change:

https://www.sunrisemovement.org/

http://climatehawksvote.com/

https://rebellion.earth/
It's a bit disappointing, but this is a blog post, not a research paper, so maybe the problem is with our expectations?