skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
^ this. so very much this.

for getting started guides, it's great, although even there i'd exercise a lot of caution. there's a lot of info from people who are not experience that people just replicate in their code/setup which isn't really a good idea.

for complex issues you never drown in information. and usually when you find something it probably doesn't apply to your setup. that doesn't mean you can't, at least, get some idea or a pointer to the right solution.

however, just googling or stackoverflowing, i'd be wary of implementing any solution without any thought just because someone else solved it before me.
Fortnite accidentally became a hit.
>If anyone from the Firefox team is reading this: containers are a great idea (I love them), it’s just that currently they’re too much work.

Also it's hard to export them... it's my understanding they don't travel with sync, you have to manually set them up on each machine.

I have a pretty complex setup, so that frustrates me.
Maybe this has been done already and has been ineffective for some reason, but I guess the alternative is an organisation - maybe a different quasi-public institution - whose charter explicitly includes and emphasizes looking after the interests of institutions other than profit-making corporations?

That is a thing that happens, and it has a real effect. Those organisational charters inevitably reflect some underlying ethical system, and I think the role of those ethics in influencing organisations and their members is still under-appreciated in some contexts (I'm certainly not saying that free market economics or libertarianism - for example - don't have any ethical system, by the way - more the contrary). For example, over here, picking maybe the most visible examples, the NHS, Channel 4, and the BBC - and many of the people who work for them are heavily influenced by the ethical ideas behind them.
It's okay. Google will kill AMP in a year or two, just like they kill everything else.
I wasn’t endorsing the essay or advocating for these hyper growth vc fuelled businesses, just pointing out that this checklist doesn’t apply to the kinds of businesses you were talking about if you accept this (common?) distinction between ‘startups’ and other kinds of new businesses.
I’m actually working on a waterless toilet startup. It’s like a cat’s litter box but for people (app-connected and Bluetooth enabled, obviously). I really think it will change the way people live in the climate change era.
I should mention the uMatrix add-on - it will speed up firefox more than anything while blocking third-party nonsense.

I change the default rules to allow only first-party by default, then the first time I load a page turn stuff on and save:

* * * block
* * frame block
* 1st-party * allow
* 1st-party frame allow
If you have a symmetric grid, you can quickly rotate, flip, and otherwise transform the program. Since all the outputs are independent, you can have computation in a cell that has results flowing into the chip, and back out to the edge at the same time. Delays are simply a matter of counting how many cells a result passes, and thus a good signal to feed to an optimizing algorithm.
I really don't understand how you can blame the downfall of the Chicago suburbs on the city of Chicago.

The suburbs were growing and thriving while Chicago rotted away in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. However, since then the economy, culture, and tastes have changed and there's been a sustained period of urban renewal. As businesses seek to relocate to cities to attract millennial talent, suburban office parks and shopping centers have struggled, forcing them push more of their tax burden on residential property taxes. The younger, college-educated workforce prefers urban amenities like shorter commutes, public transit, cycling and walkable living. This is all exacerbated by the financial circumstances of millennials and zoomers.

It's no surprise that suburbs that provide those things continue to do well. For example, my hometown of Elmhurst, a Chicago suburb, has radically gentrified since I was a child. The home my parents purchased in 1980 for $68,000 is now worth more than ten times that. Why? Because it's walkable, has a legitimate downtown and you can commute to Chicago in 30 minutes during rush hour with Metra.
I have a high opinion of GNU APL though I've never used it, from the discussion of GNU APL 1.7's release: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13904688
That has been fixed quite a while ago, in Go 1.10
Tell that to my dad. He just picks up the phone and asks me why the printer is not working. On an OS I don't even know how to use, for that matter.

Also remember, I can find a vastly greater breath of information cause I can search in English. He can't. Now that I think of it, this may even be a counterpoint to "just Google it".
They sell satellite messengers.

GPS should work without any data connection.
Debugging mobile apps with an HTTPS proxy
Me too. I used to use Linux before and anytime I'd move to a new computer I'd decide whether I should swap the hardware or do

df to list devices, then:
dd if=/dev/a of=/dev/b

if I decided to migrate to the new storage device.

Either way, I could do it in about 3min and go do something else. When I was back, everything would be ready.

And back in the FileVault 1 days, I discovered [almost the hard way] that my machine wasn't backing up properly because I was not logging out my user account (and you had to). Since this experience, I'm always suspicious of Apple's approach to backing up data (and data resilience - admittedly due to some other factors involving weird interactions between iPhoto and Flickr).
How do you reconcile arguments with the watchers between different countries? When the US and Chinese fire walled agencies conflict, what happens?

I think any government agency has too many inherent biases to ever be trustworthy. I’d believe 100 self-asserting bloggers before I believe Pravda.
she also did it in Pycon 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3PtB5z9MyE

and she has an upcoming oreilly book on TS analysis. Preorder now! (no AF, just a fan of her)
https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Time-Analysis-Prediction-St...
It would be nice if they added a way to import Keepass DBs.
It also saves more lives, and make modern civilization possible. You always have to look at both the pros and the cons.
One alternative to traditional concrete is autoclaved aerated concrete[1], a 70 year old material that's more eco friendly. Some of the advantages are mentioned in this video[2]. I'm guessing higher upfront cost means it's not competitive with traditional concrete.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoclaved_aerated_concrete

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS3BTDBMt7I
Global Warming, Carbon Dioxide and the Solar Minimum
Maybe referring to Physicists and Mathematicians googling is a bit glib but almost certainly they do a whole lot of "Googling" by way of being familiar with what others have done...it is the only way to be effective.

Knowing how to quickly find what you need is not in conflict with mastery...besides, we are talking about web apps here, most dev teams wont have much patient with a developer spending a ton of time reinventing wheels when there are ready-made solutions.
Please learn some basic facts.

The idea that carbon sequestation is an alternative to reducing emissions needs to die as quickly as possible. It's rooted in fantasy, not in facts.

All climate scenarios from the IPCC that don't end up in a huge catastrophy rely on rapid emission reductions. Most also rely on carbon sequestation for negative emissions in the future (which many think is too optimistic, because it needs yet to be shown that the technology can be scaled up enough). There is no scenario of averting catastrophic heating with carbon sequestation alone.
I tried Firefox here just now to see if it's gotten any better since I last tried.

I open the preferences window. Well, not quite. Instead of a preferences window like every other application I've ever used, it's some sort of webpage which opens in a new tab in the same window as the webpage I'm browsing. The controls are all completely custom, and the layout looks nothing like any preferences window I've seen since Netscape.

Also, the Firefox UI doesn't use the same language as the rest of the OS (which is English), or even the webpage content displayed by Firefox (also English). It's all displayed in the language I tried to learn last year, for some reason.

In the search box at top, typing "language" finds nothing, and typing the word for language in the language I'm seeing shows a fancy control with "English (United States)" at the top. There's nothing I see which would indicate why the UI is not English. I google for "how to change firefox ui language", and all the pages I find say to set it here, and restart.

Thus ends another adventure in attempting to use Firefox, and it ends the same way all my adventures do: nothing is standard, everything is custom, and so it doesn't work right. This time, I didn't even get far enough along to complain that all the keyboard shortcuts are broken.

Dear Mozilla: for Firefox to win me back, it has to be a good web browser. Stop trying to be an operating system. I already have one of those. "Look/act like every other application" is the correct answer in every case.
Many times I've asked google a specific question and only got results in the form of "Top 10 vaguely related unhelpful bullshit" clickbait. So yeah, actually, it is a lot like a really big version of my own nigh-useless human memory.
I've heard this too and I'm glad they didn't fund his project. Garmin is a much better company than Honeywell!
Last Week on My Mac: Making Notarization as Hard as Possible
Now I am wondering, how much CO2 is too much for plants? And now when more CO2 is available, why don't see new forests appearing in places where there never were any forest.
This is what I’m talking about with this argument being a proxy against learning vs a legitimate difference. I just replaced a big chunk of a 20 year old C system this year. There was nothing even researchable in there because the vast majority was homegrown, or libraries were pulled in and source-modified after going stagnant on the 20 year journey. Same exact symptoms I’ve seen in every other ecosystem.
Privacy in an individual context is irrelevant and only leads to folks glibly claiming they don't care about their privacy. Its like saying I personally doesn't care about the environment. That context and framing is wrong and misleading.

Privacy has a value on a one to one basis. That's why no one is going to give you their phone, yet they will make dissonant statements online. And privacy has a far higher value on a societal basis for a democratic society.

Surveillance capitalism is anti-democratic, hugely abusive and solely for the profit of a few. These are bad actors. That's why societal rule of law needs to kick in but as we know money and greed creates its own logic so that may take time. And till then there will be no shortage of apologists with a vested interest in surveillance trying to 'normalize' it.
I don't disagree, once you have crossed the rubicon. When Julius Caesar _actually_ crossed the Rubicon, the risk was immense and there was no guarantee of a successful outcome. That's what I mean, going all in on a risky adventure is not for everyone and if you analyse and think too much about it, few will want to take the jump. However, once you have crossed and are in the "battle" then of course you will use all the tactical advantages you can and try "shifting odds of success".
Why do you say nginx is not free? If anything, nginx is more free than HAProxy (that has a viral license).
Or could it possibly be that the “War on Drugs” disproportionately targets minorities, as well as arrests and sentencing? Drug use and selling is just as real in the burbs but when little Bobby gets caught it’s swept under the rug, because the judge thinks it’s just youthful indiscretion and “that could be my kid”. When little Jerome gets arrested let’s throw the book at him to keep another “thug” off the street.

Let’s not even get into the difference between how drug abuse is a “disease that needs to be treated” now that it impacts “rural America” instead of the “inner city”.
Ask HN: Career death to take a year Sabbatical in your early 40s?
I'm 41. Currently working in a director role leading a team of about 15 reporting / business intelligence developers at a large insurance company.

My company has turned into a sweat shop of late. I've been working 60-70 hours / week, no vacations for more than a year. No support from my leadership team to staff appropriately or address the problems leading to the long hours.

I'm completely burned out and miserable. I get the urge to steer the car into a tree every morning on my way into the office. I need to make a change.

Thanks to a gambling windfall, I have an unexpected chunk of change in savings (more than a year worth of current salary) and am considering using it to take sabbatical (or year off, I guess, since I'd be quitting, not coming back).

My plan for the time off is to re-charge, regain my health through regular sleep and exercise, and refresh my skills. I got accepted to the GA Tech OMS Computer Science program, so would spend the entire time working through this degree.

Goal on the back-end would be to get a more intellectually stimulating job with less of a sweatshop environment.

Big worries:

I'm getting old for the IT space. 41 now, would be 42 or 43 by the time I'm hunting for jobs again.

Would the story of the reason for the time off play well to recruiters? As a hiring manager, I would have no problem with it if I saw it on a resume, especially if the degree were actually completed during the time off, but I acknowledge my bias on that.

Curious to get thoughts from HN on this. Bad idea? Good idea? Any advice for making it work well?
> The same was said for meat-fed cows and trans fats.

Meat fed cows and trans fats were products of the same relatively (compared to both the inherent nature and existing regulatory framework requiring proof of safety of novel food element of and faced by GMOs on the former case, and the latter of those in the latter case) uncontrolled evolution of food supply that characterizes the long history of “safe” food against which GMOs are contrasted.
> Why do websites slow themselves down with trackers, etc.? It pays to do so.

Unpopular opinion coming from a Director in a media agency who has these “come to Jesus” conversations daily with stakeholders trying to gum up the works with tag managers full of mystery meat, purposely render-blocking monolithic trackers, and A/B testing scripts:

They simply don’t have technologists in the room explaining the trade offs between gathering mass amounts of data for analysis and actual site performance. (Consider also much of the data is for data’s sake, and is often inconsistent, contradictory, and/or redundant due to being JavaScript-based and complications such as ITP, Tracking Protection, ad-blocking, etc.) You have mounds of studies from Internet pillars such as Amazon, Akamai, and Nielsen Norman Group laying out how crucially performance equates to revenue by meeting visitor expectations of _less_ friction, but marketers get sold a completely different narrative by vendors and influencers in their own segment of industry in order to deliver “numbers”.

Classic mismatch of concerns and nobody to bridge them.

So they package up whatever giant bundle of crap they've been sold as "necessary" into a tag manager, and instantly (and negatively) impact the site with it. Whether that's on the initial render being delayed, or the phalanx of async scripts all firing when the poor visitor's just trying to scroll on their phone, it all flies in the face of conventional wisdom.

Coincidentally, this is also related to how marketers are sold into AMP. The sales pitch from GOOG is usually less concerned with addressing the actual problem, instead suggesting the marketer bypass it by using AMP as a solution.

A year ago I started synthetic and (responsible) real-user performance monitoring on our sites, which breaks down third-party impacts, to bring data to the table. That has helped substantially with these conversations.
Removing material from the atmosphere is a constant process that requires vast amounts of energy. Would there be any benefit from altering the albedo of the land instead of the upper atmosphere? By laying down white reflective material solar radiation can reflected away but this constant reflection of sunlight requires no energy besides making sure the surfaces stay clear of dirt or debris deposited by the wind. Wouldn't this be an ideal solution in places like Australia that have vast deserts and suffer from extremely high temperatures?
This is true, but hardly important. Multiple representations hurt because they waste space, not because they're transiently evil.

If you're scared of normalizing before comparisons, or somesuch, nothing stops you normalizing around operations instead, like standard binary floats. Only you'd probably be shooting yourself in the foot, since you'd probably end up normalizing more and making the ‘integers are fast’ claim fail.
Huge difference in power level, your link is to an RF jammer which would not work with drones using inertial or optical navigation, which is very practical for the short distance a drone needs to travel in sight of the target.

The original article shows what looks like a much more powerful system, that would induce high enough voltages/currents in the drone electronics to cause permanent damage, the same as if you put one in a microwave oven, they are really not comparable.

An interesting question would be how fast the original dish can turn, a slow traversal would very much limit its effectiveness.
Yes, was talking to one on a bus a year ago, call came thru to the bus driver that children were throwing stones at a bus stop which was 2 stops out. Policeman was like, sorry I can't attend as I have a meeting to go to, which did not go down well with the driver or indeed anybody within earshot. More so, turns out that meeting was a community meeting if anybody wanted to report...any antisocial behaviour.

WHich kinda summed up the police in my area - they want to be seen to be doing the job, over actually doing the job.

I could list many personal experiences with the police being inept, incompetent, negligent that after over 50 years, I personally lost respect for the police and that still saddens me to this day.

What I see happen is you get a new recruit, lots of drive, keen and they get exposed to apathy thru paperwork, over PC mentality and what can only be described as liberal bias. I say that as when you see drug dealers get away with doing their thing and the neibours who suffer them being ignored and dismissed by the police who class these dealers as victims time and time again, the local people loose faith in the police. Even to the stage that people do not pass information to the police as they either ignore that information or worse, pass it onto the criminals with the information of who passed it onto them (yes that has happened a few times as well around my part of London).

In short, sure there are many good police, many fine people, but the number of bad eggs really has ruined more than the sum of the parts.
Firefox is absolute garbage on any OS that isn't Windows. I think that's probably the biggest thing for the power user crowd...but as a someone that finds dual booting too inconvenient, so I virtualize instead, and will never touch an Apple product..works great for me and most family members and friends I set up with it are pretty satisfied.

The new built-in tracking protection is pretty great, and the only extension most people really need is uBlock Origin.
> According to well-informed sources, Iran rejected a proposal by US intelligence – made via a third party – that Trump be allowed to bomb one, two or three clear objectives, to be chosen by Iran, so that both countries could appear to come out as winners and Trump could save face. Iran categorically rejected the offer and sent its reply: even an attack against an empty sandy beach in Iran would trigger a missile launch against US objectives in the Gulf.

> Iran is not inclined to help Trump come down from the tree he has climbed and would rather keep him confused and cornered. Furthermore, Iran would love to see Trump fail to win a second term, and will do everything to help oust him from the White House at the end of his mandate in 2020.

> Moreover, Iran has established a joint operations room to inform all its allies in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Afghanistan of every step it is adopting in confronting the US in case of all-out war in the Middle East. Iran’s allies have increased their level of readiness and alert to the highest level; they will participate in the war from the moment it begins if necessary. According to sources, Iran’s allies will not hesitate to open fire against an already agreed on bank of objectives in a perfectly organised, orchestrated, synchronised and graduated response, anticipating a war that may last many months.

[...]

> Sources confirmed that, in case of war, Iran aims to stop the flow of oil from the Middle East completely, not by targeting tankers but by hitting the sources of oil in every single Middle Eastern country, whether these countries are considered allies or enemies. The objective will be to cease all oil exports from the Middle East to the rest of the world.

https://ejmagnier.com/2019/06/21/iran-and-trump-on-the-edge-...
Even with all the personalized knowledge Google has, often they still serve worse results than DDG. At this point, I think Google is relying far too much on their historical knowledge about me, since i almost always see results related to previous searches, which clutter the relevant results for my specific search string.
Just because something "has been done before" doesn't mean it's not useful now, the context has changed. Electric cars were once the default, and then internal combustion took over... and now they are back... but the were definitely "done before".

Bulk computation is what we need. The maximum use of all of the transistors in a chip, at the minimum necessary clock speed and voltage to get the job done. Delays don't matter at all if you get a result each clock cycle.
DIY Amps: A Roadmap for Beginners (2017)
Article is dated 22 Oct 2018.
Various reasons. They have families and might thus not be willing to work crazy hours, are more confident and won't put up with all the bullshit, etc
Feeling like <person of a certain demographic> will have <unwanted quality> is the exact definition of <demographic>-ism.
Wouldn't including as many people as possible increase the cost of the meeting since you're buying more people's time?
Given that Germany's other fossil fuels come largely from Russia, I can not trust that this protest is entirely grass roots.
Chicago’s problem is compounded by the fact that Illinois is extremely indebted, to the tune of tens of billions more compared to other states, and since Chicago is where all the money in Illinois is, that is where it will have to come from.
He wasn’t wrong though. Linux has flourished because many different entities have invested a lot of money in its development, not just because of “nice cooperative thoughts”.
Keep using Chrome on your mac, then (though be aware that there are 0-day exploits found for Chrome on a somewhat regular basis too), or even better: Use Safari. At least it's not Chrome. Fight the monoculture.

The vast majority of computer users are still not using MacOS and those people can also do some good by using Firefox even if you can't.

When it comes to "slow" and "resource hungry" the Firefox devteam is very responsive to bugs. I've had approaching a dozen performance issues I personally reported get fixed.