skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The same thing happened with Openmoko. Neither company focused on a single UI stack, and (last I checked with purism) instead shipped 3+ semi-working UI demos (gtk, qt and enlightenment).

If they focused on one stack, they’d be much more likely to ship solid product, which would lead to revenue. That would give them runway to build support for a bigger ecosystem.
So to resolve issues of Asian poverty, should the poorer Asians appeal to their richer peers? Is this the path forward for racial progress in the US? What should poor white or black people do?
To be fair, used to also be easily achievable with older iPhone models, like the 6S
Except that having a "failure" of an admissions test is desirable.

Colleges would be far worse off in their current and next round of admissions scandals/lawsuits if the test were as clear as something like the ASVAB (where you score is literally the % of people you've beaten).
Hey HN,

We've spent the summer building an end-to-end encrypted file storage solution for the cloud. It is called FileKit and you can find a tutorial here:

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I am on Linux on Firefox and I can zoom... Ctrl + scrollwheel. Or am I missing something?
Good start, but not good enough.

The executives should be facing execution [0]. In exchange for dropping the death penalty they should get no better then life time in prison.

[0] if can execute a black kid for being a driver in a botched robbery, why can’t we RICO these assholes to the gurney? Purdue Pharma can supply the execution drugs
I will second this recommendation. It has some great stories about people such as Van Gogh and inspired some new thoughts on machine learning.
This is a must read story.

The exact same code was copied by Arthur Conan Doyle in his Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of the Dancing men". He just substituted the symbols in the code with different ones.

Arthur Conan Doyle himself acknowledged Edgar Allan Poe's influence in his creation of Sherlock Holmes. So fans of detective fiction should absolutely read the three stories featuring Poe's hero Auguste Dupin;

1) The Murders in The Rue Morgue.

2) The Mystery of Marie Roget (supposedly based on a true story).

3) The Purloined letter.

(1) and (2) in particular have fantastic chains of reasoning which is just delightful.
> no dependencies and prioritised performance above anything

Edge was in a weird position where it somehow looked fast but felt sluggish. A real shame it didn't work out though.
Just don’t go there if you don’t like it. The net is huge. If there is no demand for something it will disappear eventually. There is no need to demand “stop making” ... just because someone feels “tired”.
Also, Linux signal was missing video chat support the last time I tried it.
'climate change' is quite a nebulous entity. I actually think software is unlikely to help anyway - the greatest changes are to be had in getting people to change their lifestyle. For example, reducing debt-fuelled consumption, reducing energy needs, using the car less or, unimaginable to many, getting rid of the car altogether. To be honest, the biggest impact you can have is always to change your own behaviour first...
I believe the general advice for people who don't want to care about their money all the time is to invest it in a diversified portfolio and then slowly turn that portfolio into things with low volatility as the time where you want to start selling approaches.
I'm going to disagree with most of the commenters here.

Start with Haskell.

"Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming."
-Rob Pike

Sicp is great. But sicp won't elucidate the above fact to you which is central to modern programming. Modern programming is about managing things that are complex beyond the ability for a human to comprehend completely.

Too many programmers are concerned with the details. What's even more alarming is that most programmers say they test for how detailed a person is in a time limited programming interview.

Your ability to be detailed will never be able to scale with the complexity of programs so greater ability to be detailed doesn't lead to any benefites in the long run.

To build robust applications you must be able to ignore details.

Learning Haskell will teach you how to ignore details by eliminating detail as a rule. Counterintuitively, Haskell is much less detailed then scheme, python or almost every other popular language out there. I am not referring to syntax here, I am referring to the amount of ways to go from A to B. Haskell makes this dichotomy more evident and the algorithm that takes you from A to B less relevant. Haskell is more restrictive and less expressive, and restriction is power.

Haskell does have issues though, that being the nature of side effects. The abstractions to deal with such things are so mind bending that it might not be good to dive too deep into the world of categories. It depends. But the main point you want get from learning Haskell has to do with the Rob Pike quote above. Once you understand that you'll be better then 99 percent of other programmers on the things that are relevant to modern programming. Then if you're interested you can continue further into Haskell or jump to Sicp as you got the main point.

The study of Haskell eventually leads to category theory which almost looks like a formal theory of abstraction of systems and modules which alludes to the possibility of 'deriving' programs rather then using our gut to 'design' them. It's mind opening to go further but not critical.

Ironically Rob Pike is part of the golang team which is a language that hinders your ability to express all forms of data structures. Json cannot be properly described by the type system of that language so while his quotation is correct I don't agree with many of his decisions.
I use this - https://mybrowseraddon.com/custom-useragent-string.html - to fake Chrome UA and it works. You only need it faking your UA to open the web version of Skype then you can change it back.
Nah, even if you know someone controls the coins you can't confiscate them. You can put the person in jail, you can torture them - sure. But until they spit out the key you can't take the coins you know they have.
No, i'm using the developer edition and got the update only this morning.
But I don't know if something have changed...
Yes, and my point is that the "fear of becoming the next Venezuela" is purely paranoid and has no basis in reality.

> t seems to me that mainstream media was constantly attacking Bolsonaro during the election, so may I ask what is your evidence for claiming media wanted a far-right government?

It wanted a right-wing, not far-right.

You would just need to read what the media published at the time. There was non-stop attacks on the PT government and talking about the "crisis" which wasn't nowhere as bad as they painted. This distorted people's view of the economic situation, which fueled the anti-PT sentiment: https://www.redebrasilatual.com.br/economia/2015/06/pesquisa...

See also how the media kept talking about the crisis even when talking about stuff going well:
https://www.pragmatismopolitico.com.br/2015/07/apesar-da-cri...

Also, you only need to study a bit of Brazil history to understand that Brazilian media has always been right-wing.

The fact that the media attacked Bolsonaro does not contradict this fact. When you have someone who does so many stupid things you can't help reporting them.
Amazon encouraging fake positive reviews on their own private label products
Solimo is a private label owned by Amazon India.
There has been growing instances of fake 5 star reviews on the Solimo branded products. List of a few reviews on some products in cases & screen guards category are as below, all of the reviews are non verified purchase:

https://www.amazon.in/gp/customer-reviews/R3STQ57FE0YXO6
https://www.amazon.in/gp/customer-reviews/R2YR50CL2OAVJS
https://www.amazon.in/gp/customer-reviews/R29N33NUE1J32J
https://www.amazon.in/gp/customer-reviews/R1ZHBF39ABZ5YQ
https://www.amazon.in/gp/customer-reviews/R1RRG47Q7R8XHI
https://www.amazon.in/gp/customer-reviews/R13ZM7HJ9RVSZ8
https://www.amazon.in/gp/customer-reviews/R13Q0MHAOWJLZN
https://www.amazon.in/gp/customer-reviews/RHIVQI4ALGS5A
https://www.amazon.in/gp/customer-reviews/R1P8RHSXDST6IY (here even the picture in the review shows it's not the final product yet as the camera cutouts are pending, and of course non verified purchase)
Wikipedia Asking PAN Number for Donation Process (India)
As you may have seen/noticed, Wikipedia is asking for a donations. I've seen the similar messages on Wiki pages before, not highlighted in such manner (red box with large font)

I was proceeding with the donation but stopped when it asked for PAN number. Any idea why they are asking for PAN number?
Yeah- Google Doc's main advantage was sharability- especially for people who couldn't figure out how to deal with attachments or network servers.
This needs GrapheneOS support - does it provide the hardware security features that GrapheneOS requires?
If you hold property that's not inhabited you pay council tax on it. It's a less than ideal tax but it does tax property hoarding.
Originally I was against the idea of affirmative action but I've came around to it, but I still don't understand the need to solve for racial distribution rather than socioeconomic distribution.

In my mind affirmative action's goal should be to break the cycle of poverty, where smart kids have poor/uneducated parents which holds them back and they grow up to be poor/uneducated themselves and so on.

It's my understanding that this problem disproportionately affects minorities (in particular black people), so solving for socioeconomic would "self select" (I don't know the proper term) for black people and avoid the issue of "Asian kid with poor/uneducated parents passed over for black kid with richer/educated parents" right?

Or is that just not a real issue? The article seems to mention pluses and minuses (e.g. "two college-educated parents (minus) from a major American city (minus) with aspirations to study either computer science (minus)") so it could be that the above hypothetical would never happen.

I don't know, I'm just struggling to understand why colleges would care more about solving racial distribution rather than socioeconomic distribution.
I think there are two things at play here:

1. The US is much larger than the UK, with a lot of nothing/low population density.

2. Mentality might be different: I imported my current car used from the Netherlands; the country is tiny, but the Dutch seem really like driving a lot. I saw many cars with 30k miles per year on them.
Cljdoc: building and hosting documentation for Clojure/Script libraries
What a terrible argument. I really don’t understand how people don’t see the negative effects of browser monoculture. I feel like I’d just be rehashing the same old points :(
Sorry I don't feel bad for you since I have no retirement and very little savings.

My understanding is that generally you do not want to touch your 401k. If you do then usually it's because you screwed up.

You are (obviously I thought) supposed to be saving and investing in addition to the 401k. 401k is supposed to be low risk. The backup to that is something entirely different.
This is why so many white-centric right wing groups very much want affirmative action abolished, because it is a massive advantage to the politically powerful and connected, who are mostly white in America.

Lets just say its hardly like they are out for justice for all races...
The Development of Queueing Theory
The lastest version has a bigger battery and doesn't offer the range extender IIRC.
> makes it one of the most significant slices of the pie

Which significant slice of the pie is it on this graph [0]? It’s a tiny slither of the transport one. Most of that graph is just electricity generation split into different categories.

[0] https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...
Don’t touch it.

There’s nothing wrong with playing with a portion (up to you 20%) of your nest egg but only if you enjoy it. If your reptilian brain is steering the ship and you’re reacting based off of fear or greed you find yourself on the wrong side of trades.
I'm a phony. Are you? (2011)
All Rings Considered (2019)
A "subjective" theory of value grounded on concepts such as "utility" is still a theory of value, just as a theory of subjective morality is still a theory of morality.

> Now some of the people who made this argument were right-wingers, so if you think that only "ought" questions matter, the fact that people with the wrong notion of "ought" made a contribution proves that the whole thing is morally bankrupt.

I don't think that's the case; there is a distinct break in value theory after Marx, which totally pulls him out of the classical tradition, because he has a "truly social" (as Patrick Murray puts it) theory of value - it is the recognition of its historical specificity. And while it's true that not only neoclassicals objected to the labour theory of value, the current status quo was create through ideological objections veiled as a "revolution". Nevertheless, it is a mistake to view Marx and post-Marx value theory (and here I must emphasize not only value theory but the theory of the value-form) as merely a way to explain prices rather than to explain social dynamics. The subjective theory of value stops before that point, and by limiting its scope to analysis of capital's shadow forms it relies either on ahistorical thought experiments (Robinson Crusoe?) or atomistic views of society. By limiting its scope the theory becomes almost tautological and contentless. The Sraffian objection to the labour theory of value, which is that values are redundant, not only fetishises its claimed ability to explain price, but misses the whole point of the theory. As such, some philosophers who hold to the theory even go as far as to say that it does not hold on the level of the individual commodity, but only on aliquots representative of the lot. It is as if these commentators stopped reading Capital on section 2 of chapter 1.

My point about history is this: economics, in claiming to be scientific, should therefore be held to the same standards as any other science, to explain not only the what but also the why, and for its explanation to be full and complete regardless of time. Its object is intrinsically historical in nature, but either by the "limiting of scope" I talked about before or even projecting the laws of specific social formations on all of history, the task is relegated to economic historians.
It's a moral metric, of course. But this case is so egregious I don't even know how to answer your question.

> Should we reasonably expect all persons to notice when justice isn't served due to corruption, and then ruin their career as a result?

For a well-documented monster? YES!

Don't worry there are thousands of scientists ready to take the place of people like Pinker and the other "fallen heroes".
Motorcycle BHP per tonne, and tyre contact patch explain most of a back tyre's life. The contact patch and lean alone for the front. Counter steering has to be rougher on tyre life.

Buy a 400BHP+ Ferrari or 911 and you can get car tyre life right down to similar levels. They'll now be $300-$500+ a corner for being super wide, super low profile, sticky things. $2,000 in tyres every service... A sporty V8 of a couple of decades ago could easily give 6k miles front, 3k back. With higher powers now, who knows.

If you could get really cheap clunker type rubber for those cars, you'd probably be just a few miles from wrapping it round a lamp post. First time you press the loud pedal with enthusiasm most likely. :)
Dear Tech Workers, U.S. Service Members Need Your Help
Not an expert, but my opinion: Your money is probably safer where it is. Economic turmoil comes and goes, and as long as you don't need the cash right now, you're somewhat able to absorb that risk over a long period of time.
I think Microsoft can afford it. I heard at some point they were Apple's largest corporate client for Macintoshes.
As above, I was on the Skype for Web launch team.

While chat will probably work, as it doesn't have anything browser-specific, I am not sure video/audio calls will be reliable. Even if they work now, that flow is no longer tested or fixed if it breaks on Firefox. The downloadable video/audio plugin on Windows and Mac, supporting Firefox is the expensive part that the team likely stopped supporting.
They have a version without Google services called Fairphone Open - https://code.fairphone.com/projects/fp-osos/
That and for some reason it seems like Edge likes to try very hard to keep itself the default PDF reader. Very annoying.
And it does include the actual 'NextStep' trademark with the OP's product name 'NextStep' which is the exact same style:

> The absence of a product or service name or logo from this list does not constitute a waiver of NeXT’s trademark or other intellectual property rights concerning that name or logo.

If I were the OP, I would think of another name than to pay Apple for usage of the trademark and have to place 'NextStep is a trademark of Apple Inc.' like how Apple is paying for iOS with Cisco owning the IOS trademark.
Not completely. Pasting in chat crashes the site. The new twitter UI has the same problem, so it's probably something in React or whatever common DOM library they use.
Educate yourself. You don't need to know the intricacies of how markets operate, but a little financial understanding is, I believe, a must for everyone.

Also, be aware that even when you do educate yourself and you do everything you think is in your power to 'safe guard' your nest egg, that there are are still a billion and one ways that it can all be wiped out tomorrow.

Micro managing you're finances if you don't know what you're doing is a fantastic way to wipe it out. As the good old saying goes, “The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.”
Articles like this are just peddling cortisol. The best strategy is to avoid reading stories like this.
Jitsi Meet supports Firefox.

https://jitsi.org/jitsi-meet/
While sitting on cash isn't necessarily a bad idea -- when the market crashes you then buy a bunch of index funds, having a 401k is a very safe investment. Think of it this way, the only way you're losing that money is if the market crashes, permanently, and if it crashes permanently, then that money isn't worth shit anyway.
> allows you to install extensions on your own machine without seeking approval from Mozilla

Unless it changed quite recently, you can do this with normal Firefox builds too AFAIK
Maybe somebody should tell Warren Buffet his BFF Bill Gates took 80% of his money by convincing him

"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently."

Warren is advocating to anybody willing to listen that they too should fork over all there monies like someone severely traumatized by Stockholm syndrome.

Number 1 convinced number 2 he was way better in controlling the goods. This is a trick we did before we could talk. Biggest heist ever.
I don't believe this domain was "hijacked" and that there is no way to get it back.

They didn't pay the domain on time, and didn't pay the extra insurance for disallowing domain transfers, and so someone happily paid it for them. This is fully legal, and entirely the hospital's fault.
Academic study of trolling, round two: now with new vocabulary!

When people we don't like are safely removed from the internet, will we waffle about the possibility of them traveling to meet and talk in person? Shouldn't we be considering ways to prevent that?
Although I'm generally very satisfied with my FP2 (especially being able to run Fairphone Open, i.e. plain AOSP with their support, is surprisingly neat), I agree that it has some hardware issues.

Those mostly seem to be the result of the "gimmicky" way modularity was implemented for it though, i.e. without screws. I'm very hopeful that FP3 will be much better in this regard. See also https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/27/can-fairphone-3-scale-ethi...

Specs are not impressive indeed, but have been perfectly fine for me. Better battery life and a finger print scanner seem like marked improvements, but otherwise given that FP2 has suited my needs just fine, I figure I'd hardly even notice the other improvements with an FP3.

But then, I'm not buying it - with the FP2 still working, that would pretty much be against the concept.
The site does mess up inertial scrolling on iOS Safari though.
Is that no longer a thing? I've only repaired up to 6. My wife now has an 8, does she need a case this time?
Since the console errors were about cookies, I checked under Cookie and Site Data. There are no disabled domains. LinkedIn domains show a few KBs of storage, which I assume means LinkedIn cookies are not being blocked.
Fake-branded bars slip dirty gold into world markets
Beyond JavaScript
It’s important to remember that the stock market != the economy. You know who would be the first to say that? Warren Buffet.

Warren Buffet is actually a big believer in not making macro economic predictions. It just so happens that if you pick stocks like he does (based on fundamentals and a certain proprietary “discount”) you’ll probably avoid having your investments tagged in a recession.

Stocks in the Great Recession took a nose dive because of a market downturn, not the other way around. It is very possible (and much more common) for stocks to dip significantly and for the broader market economy to shrug its shoulders and say, “meh”.

We have familiarity bias though, so we think that the next one will look like the last one. Pro tip: it won’t.
You never have no way of knowing anything. Cogito ergo sum and maybe we’re just a brain in a vat. But in the mean time we can make pretty good estimations, and saying “I expect a significantly better life with P above some threshold and error margin within some bounds” is a meaningful statement. Even in the face of nothing ever being certain.

You allude to it here:

> It's based on the premise that you know with some certainty what would have happened had you taken the opposite choice. That premise is false, you have no idea what would have happened if you had done things differently.

It isn’t false, note the “some”. You can have some certainty about hypotheticals. Experience and pattern matching are powerful tools.

But don’t let that get in the way of the exalted and commendable goal of accepting the past for what it is :)
"Politically powerful" are obviously mostly white because the population of the US is mostly white.

There is about 10% of black reps in the House which is well in line with the overall population.

And we also just have had a black president.
Likely finicky, they're explicitly not supporting it, and posts here seem nervous about it: https://forum.fairphone.com/t/general-fairphone-3-discussion...
That’s only true if you pretend growth isn’t occurring. Every Mwh of renewable energy consumed is one less Mwh oh fossile fuels that would have been burned, and the market is producing more and more of those every year.

This anti-capitalism stuff seems completely irrelevant too. Every economy is based on consumption, even socialist ones. The only reason the USSR didn’t have as many car owners as the USA is because their economy was in a permanent state of crisis. Market forces don’t go away when you implement socialism.
> methane is 20 times amore potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide

The 100-year GWP of methane is ~30, but only because it has such a short atmospheric lifetime (~12 years).

Over shorter terms its way worse, the 20-years GWP is >80.