skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People with lots of money don't buy on credit

Interesting, but lots of wealthy people do finance their purchases, especially if they are active investors.

Someone elsewhere in the thread mentioned that the Affirm rate is de-facto 0% if you factor in the subscription for the full-term. Taking that as fact (apparently it's changed now, so can't 100% confirm), you'd have to be pretty anti-debt (or lacking in cashflow) to pay in full on that rather than earn interest on the balance for 3 years if you intended to book the subscription anyway.
That's weird. YouTube always makes awesome recommendations for me.

Just kidding. YT's a dumpster fire, but it serves to point at when somebody starts telling you that Skynet is just around the corner. We may have nailed the A but but we're a looong way off the I.
>Finally, you should know that there just as you are here asking for help arguing with your Chinese friends, so are Chinese people asking on Zhihu for help arguing with their Western friends.

Well the more the merrier. So long as the discussion is in the basis of sound arguments and not who can spam/upvote more, adding more people will only increase the quality.

In fact I wouldn't even call what I am doing arguing, as I haven't actually offered any position of my own on the protest and therefore have nothing to defend (yet). I guess you could call what I'm doing "hypothesis testing the Chinese state media narratives" (aka "calling bullshit").

Thanks for the links and ideas.
Ouch. No way I'm going back to "i will prevent your system from sleeping for arbitrary reasons" Chrome.

Maybe Firefox then...
Wow, so they'll "learn" to fly through the air magically to get to work in the vast majority of L.A. that isn't connected by public transportation?

Love it when developer shills propose to screw citizens and then pretend that people will "learn" to delete all the problems visited upon them by corrupt local politicians.
All those people who work in IT / development etc and advocate FOSS, do you really think that they couldn't pay for commercial software if they wanted? I certainly could.
It's possible. Last I heard was that the unbranded builds were too eager to update [1] so it could well have been disabled totally. The Mozilla wiki doesn't mention anything about updating being disabled which to me implies it is not. If you find out for certain, please let me know!

I don't personally use the builds as Mozilla has not yet blocked signing of our extensions and `web-ext run` serves me well for development. Automated signing is not brilliantly documented but works well enough [2-3] to ensure that our builds are tested by real users before we release a stable version.

[1]: https://www.ghacks.net/?p=123637

[2]: https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl/blob/f45c990eac074df8...

[3]: https://github.com/tridactyl/buildbot/blob/master/autobuild....
Already under proposal for the existing "ring of steel": https://www.professionalsecurity.co.uk/news/interviews/new-r...

And selectively deployed at "public order" events: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/facial-recognition-tec...
It is better to give than to receive! Let me know if you want more, I can riff on this topic for...hmm... at least 250 words.
Hi Nate. I've recently launched a service for managing coding challenges for recruitment through git (https://candidatecode.com).

I'm keen to start offering some lightweight integrations for a few ATS - is there anyone you can point me to in Lever that might be able to kick off that discussion?
Uber And Lyft take more from drivers than they say: survey
Yeah, be careful with these people. I'm a virtual nobody and I've had some very weird experiences with Chinese state actors.
> around $40B

There are 90000 metric tons of nuclear waste in need of disposal in the US [1]. That’s half a million per ton, available right there. A pretty intriguing startup idea ...

[1]https://www.gao.gov/mobile/key_issues/disposal_of_highlevel_...
Also not supported in Safari. That's fine, I wasn't going to use Skype anyway.
After Postman lost all my saved queries after an upgrade I switched to Insomnia - https://insomnia.rest/ and am quite happy with it.
I agree, I've actually found some really interesting channels through recommendations. Perhaps the targeting is so accurate due to the years of data they have on my 2 accounts.

That said, I recently created a brand new account for my company and the default recommendations seem to be absolute mindless garbage. But perhaps my interests just don't align with what the vast majority of the YouTube-using public are watching.
You can spoof your UA and it'll work, at least for audio, and maybe video, IIRC. Not really an answer though I know.
I agree that not becoming dependent on nascent Google projects is a good call for for consumers. But their cloud offering seems to be pretty stable and reliable. It feels almost as if their consumer and cloud arms are different companies.
>You have to understand that Chinese prefer security over freedom.

Pretty much everyone prefers security over freedom in particular in the abscene of security, but also just in general. Take a look at countries that have freedom written on their flags and then count the CCTV cameras in London or the number of three letter agencies in the US.

The only difference is the fact that in China the role of the state in exercising this surveillance is out in the open and endorsed as a means of organising society and everywhere else it happens through the backdoor.
On mobile, tapping the picture opens it in isolation, allowing you to zoom in on it.
Street cars will totally work for getting from Long Beach to Pasadena.

OH WAIT
In 13 years of PT government, Brazil became nowhere near "becoming the next Venezuela".

Most of the anti-PT sentiment was fueled by the media, which wanted a right-wing government back. It spectacularly backfired since Bolsonaro is anti-media.
The worst is that just changing the user agent makes everything work.
You're right, that works. Either that landed recently, or I'm confusing with another filtering feature that Chrome is missing.
The functions of DaPy are easy to use. DaPy makes the operation in data become flexible for users in Python，especially for novices.
Interesting dynamic, this is the same as offshoring. Make a decision that is beneficial in the short term, get that bonus or promotion out of it, run away before the much greater long term downside catches up with you. But it can only work in an environment that encourages job hopping... which we have.

Hey companies, if you want people to make good decisions then you need to invest in retention above all else.
So you're going to go back in time and create parking where none was built?
I think the GP's point holds in that water has a higher latent heat of fusion than most other everyday substances, probably due to its polarity.
That's hilarious. You're not supposed to go the other direction libc!
Yeah, I've been doing the same thing. Although I only use it for text chatting in the browser. I don't know if video or audio calls work with it.
I wonder whether this device will be on the mainline kernel. The obsolescence for Fairphone 2 wasn't hardware, it was software. This seems to be the major issue keeping smartphones running for a long time today, the only equivalent hardware issue on timescale and importance is replacement of the battery. Being able to repair the rest of the hardware is a good next step, but is futile if your security and software updates rely on the chip manufacturer, and get abandoned within 2 years.
French 'cybercops' dismantle pirate computer network
How does truncating a positive number ever round up?
And the examples I gave went to court and, if I'm not mistaken, in both the companies were not allowed to continue to use their reverse engineered tech in their products.
Depends on context. If you are a female developer and get constantly referred to as "guy" or to be part of "guys", it's at best annoying.

Just as "guys" don't like to get called "girls".
I use Firefox developer edition as my main browser, and there does seem to be some issue with Angular sites. admin.google.com is particularly bad – but so bad it makes me wonder if they only test in Chrome.
What exactly is there to "understand"?
I propose an idea, maybe: every video you watch, the original author of that video can set up a list of recommended videos to watch after you are done with the one you originally came for. This way, the original video author has a say in where you head in your Youtube rabbit-hole experience.

This is just off the top of my head early in the morning so probably not the best idea, but honestly it seems better than what they are doing now. Personally, I subscribe to a certain set of people and rarely watch videos outside of those content creators.

Edit: Just to add to my first point, I would be much more happy to follow the recommendation of the content creator I follow than some algorithm designed to get me to watch/click more.
There are apps that photograph an area and stitch the photos for you.
Would be interested to know how successful they are at switching people to Edge (not just with this, but in general).
I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned Insomnia.

https://insomnia.rest/

It's an excellent tool that allows defining workspaces and even sharing sets of routes with members of your team. It's one of my favourite tools.
For small planes like the Eviation, a lot of the market is private and charter, which probably don't need really fast turnaround anyway.

But yeah, to make a big carbon impact, electric planes would definitely need fast turnaround.
Better pick an example that doesn't involve phase change. ;)

Maybe it is more like water spilling over the top of an earthen dam. It only takes incrementally more water to happen, but is very bad for the structure of the dam and things downstream.
For a much more detailed fictional but based on true events take, there is Francis Spufford's novel Red Plenty. It details how certain factions in the Soviet Union had considered the optimisation problem (including Kantorovich, the inventor of "linear programming"), and were effectively proposing pseudo-market systems. So long as these could be made politically acceptable by not having anything labelled "price".
Why make this when CORS blocks your path? The app is completely useless.
Rested firefox extension is quite nice too.
HK is already "packed"... Gov want to dilute/infiltrate to increase political effectiveness. Tibet is less packed. Different story.
Same, Firefox on linux can't zoom the image. Right-click 'View Image' does provide a standard zoomable image, but why make me work to see if your product is of use/benefit to me?
Very good point! Thank you, I haven't thought about it this way.
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I think your point was very well made, but to satisfy the people who comment on the energies required for phase change etc., you could just change it to very small temperature delta/difference, and be perfectly fine.
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Apple lays off hundreds of workers hired to listen to Siri
They can already add suggested videos in end screens and in the info card drawer (although the info card drawer is not used nearly as often as it could be, and YouTube doesn't necessarily do a good job of drawing attention to it).
Definitely a few developer friendly plugins like one that parses and renders JSON responses in a new tab instead of showing unformatted plain-text.
What makes you think that our ability to save (disease venerable children) is itself not an evolutionary advantage?

And then we can follow from there, if we stop saving them we do not develop our evolutionary advantage further.
'pirate' is the wrong term here. it was a botnet.
That’s a larger problem since Safari has a larger userbase. Mozilla is generally at 5% Safari has been at 7-8%. Collectively, Microsoft is fine with losing potentially 12%
How to define garbage?
That 2% figure is dubious, most reputable sources put it at 4%. On top of that the IPCC has estimated that the climate impact of aircraft is two to four times greater than the effect of their carbon dioxide emissions alone.
addendum: with respect to 1a I haven't seen it suggested that the protestors are being paid. I've seen it suggested that a few key organizers are being bribed and the rest are mindless followers. For instance the insinuation that Nathan Law got into Yale as "payment" for "helping to split China". How could I ever disprove that the CIA arranged someone to be admitted to Yale? Its an unfalsifible yet plausible claim. That's what makes trying to disarm it fun!
Those “domain experts” were censoring men’s rights, for example. Only since Youtube are we discovering that male victims of home violence are 28% cases; If you listen to the “domain experts” they’ll pretend it is so small it’s not measurable, or pretend it’s not a problem.

That’s just an example for the area I’m expert in, but the current western political blowback is massively due to information flowing with fewer censorship, hence discovering that “domain experts” have led us to believe false or inaccurate things in the past.

“Domain experts” is also “TV-channel chosen domain experts” or “journalist-chosen domain experts” which has proven to provide erroneous results.
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They're using base 10 which is much slower to use here than power of 2 bases would be. Plus then also the memory management for the string.
And that are all examples of despicable behavior that has no place in society and are all deserving of jail time.

What's wrong isn't social media enabling that (there are countless of other sources anyway), it is the act of actually doing it.
Strongly disagree. I'm Canadian-Hong Kong, grew up in Hong Kong, and have family in China. Chinese citizens (by which I mean only mainland China, and excluding Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan) need exit visas to leave the country and they're not necessarily easy to acquire; anecdotally, those in my extended family who work for the Chinese government are able to get it quite easily (having shown loyalty, willingness to serve, etc.) but those who don't won't get a visa so easily. Consequently we've had vacations where half the family had to cancel at the last minute: even though everyone had the same itinerary and tickets, and were clearly related to each other, some weren't authorised to leave.

I believe it's not a matter of "voting with your feet" so much as "if you don't have a good standing with the government, you aren't getting out in the first place". Anyway, even if you got out and couldn't get back in, the government would probably send people to "escort you back home".

In [the link that GuiA gives below](http://www.slate.fr/grand-format/touristes-chinois-europe-je...), the last slide tells of how the tourists have to surrender their passports; I wonder if the high number of tourists is because going through a tourist agency (all of which are state approved) is the easiest way to get an exit visa. I wouldn't be surprised if the agencies were held accountable for any bad behaviour or runaway attempts.

> À leur arrivée en Europe, les touristes donnent leurs passeports au guide, on leur dit que c'est plus sûr. Ils les récupèrent au moment de partir mais doivent les rendre au guide une fois en Chine pour dix jours à deux semaines afin de vérifier qu'ils sont bien rentrés. Il y a même un code de bonne conduite et les touristes sont encouragés à dénoncer les autres touristes qui se sont mal comportés en Europe.

My translation:

> On their arrival in Europe, the tourists give their passports to the tour guide — they're told it's safer that way. They get them back the moment they leave, but must give them to the guide again for 10–14 days once landed in China so it can be verified that they did indeed return from their trip. There's even a code of good conduct and the tourists are encouraged to denounce other tourists who behaved badly in Europe.

It's also worth noting that China doesn't recognise dual citizenship, and that Hong Kong citizens (not sure about Macau and Taiwan, but I wouldn't be surprised if this applied to them too) are considered mainland citizens once in the mainland. So I, for example, wouldn't be able to appeal to the Canadian embassy if anything happened.

Given that, even if someone stayed abroad long enough to gain a second citizenship, they'd have to give up their Chinese citizenship in order to avoid risking being "escorted home".
If its having performance issues on Firefox.... Leaving Firefox and making it work on Chrome is part of the problem with the browser wars... I also would consider that a bug in either that framework or your code or both. I rather websites worked the same in all browsers otherwise why bother with JS frameworks that are to be compiled for all browsers.
Everything they do besides _search_ is meant to distract you from the fact that they have an unchallenged monopoly far surpassing Standard Oil in the 1800s.
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Seems very much a beta for developers. Some cool dev features promised, but didn't always work as demoed. Font parameter manipulation for example. UI's there and pretty...it just doesn't affect the look/styling of fonts rendered on a real site like it does their demo site. Also, a number of UI controls slow to respond (e.g. cursors for dragging, clicking, etc.) β β β so very β
You can expect to see more and more of this as most of the world converges on the Chromium browser base. There is very little incentive for these companies to test for Firefox. Device users have spoken. They do not bother to change the defaults that come with their devices (Chrome, Edge, Safari) and do not really care about the deeper aspects of privacy or control or FOSS. At most they care about blocking ads, which is not a compelling reason to switch.
I remember reading about this in the early 00's when msn.com and some other MS websites did the same. Changing the UA made the site work just fine.

History repeating itself.
You have to take into account that Japan was the ISIS of Asia. Bayoneting babies, sex slave, medical experiments on humans. In South Korea still dislike of Japan is greater than North Korea. And Japan is got off mostly free after ww2 unlike the German trials
It's quite easy to solve actually.

We can have an app where if you consent to have sex with someone then your sexual health status is automatically shared with whoever you consented to before the act.

You only have sex once you get green light, otherwise you are on your own!

Does it breach their right? IDK, I'll let someone HNer educate me on that.

And if it's a solution then why isn't it being implemented, how can we leave it upto people to be truthful about their status?
The list of modules (https://wtfutil.com/modules/) looks really quite impressive. I can imagine getting some good use out of this
I always thought having a UA header in the HTTP spec was a bad idea, because it just encourages things like this.

Unfortunately, I've tried browsing with no UA header, and a surprisingly large number of sites --- even ones without any sort of "app functionality" --- will return strange errors.
Yeah but to support safari, you need a way to test your web application with it.

The only way to do that is to buy a Mac. That's why a lot of sites don't support it.
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And there goes Mardi Gras/Halloween
> what should the central planners give as metrics? Is there anything that works?

According to Goodhart's Law, no. As he originally explained it: "Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes."

Metrics of GDP, inflation, and employment are commonly used in macroeconomics to approximate quality of life, but they're subject to the same problem. For instance, you may be able to increase GDP and employment by increasing violent criminality, expanding the markets for private security, insurance, weapons and prisons, but harming general quality of life.
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Should the title have a (2017) at the end, since Quantum initially came out then[0,1]? (I understand it points to a current-version but it seems like, from the comments, it's being mistaken for having recently been released.)

[0] - https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/09/26/firefox-quantum-bet...

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_version_history#Firefo...
Coal based power causes 800,000 premature deaths every year, can we shut them down for their incompetence?
The majority of my YouTube recommendations are videos I’ve already watched, despite there being innumerable videos in the back catalogues of my subscriptions I have not seen. My wife has the exact same problem.

Surely I haven’t seen all of YouTube. I would love if it recommended me things I would be remotely interested in watching, even if they were “garbage” over this. At this point I would almost prefer sketchy conspiracy theory video recommendations.
On desktops, it is ~9,5% for Firefox and ~5% for Safari (4,5% for Edge). On mobile, I would rather use native app than web one. On desktop, the "native" app is Electron anyway.
Yeah - felt similar when I visited. Inexplicably the only command from spectrum days I could still remember was POKE 23609,100 which switched on the keyboard beep!

Also really feels like they need a purpose built building - it's housed in an old car showroom at the moment.
Video calls do work.

There is an extension, that will change the UA only for Skype: https://addons.mozilla.org/pl/firefox/addon/firefox-web-skyp...
LinkedIn too behaves strangely on Firefox/Ubuntu. Endless login loop, even if all add-ons are disabled. I'm surprised that such popular websites treat Firefox so poorly.
The retail edition of Firefox already includes dev tools.
So a set of laws creating a separate body to review and punish these abuses wouldn't change anything?
They didn't average the length of everyone's nose.

They averaged everyone's estimate of the emperor's nose.
I've found over the years as I get to be more and more of an irascible old man, that my viewpoints don't align with much as far as popularity goes. And that's okay. Frankly the power in YouTube for me was to look back at seminal events that resonated and transformed my life. It is wonderful for that. However, it's very poor at complex recommendations. If I watch a video about the polar ice caps melting, that doesn't mean I want to watch a climate change denier. I realize this is not an easy thing to solve and that's why it shouldn't be solved solely with algorithms. The same way that copyright claims should have a human touch and not just automatically remove revenue for people on the platform.
This is what we are promised will make trucks drive themselves and usher in the 4th industrial revolution.
One of the main criticisms of classical political economy (including Quesnay...) and indeed of modern neoclassical economics is that they pretend not to have any normative content despite, for instance in the case of modern economists, a theory of value whose historical evolution was a direct response to the normative power of labour theories. It is a specific set of ideas in response to a social formation, and it's one reason so many economists are allergic to talking about medieval or ancient economies.
I really wish posts like this, and posts that are just random Wikipedia articles, would have a paragraph (or at least a sentence) from the submitter.

Why is this interesting? For Wikipedia articles about people this is doubly important because the title is inevitably just the person's name - unless you already know who that person is there's no hint as to why they are significant.
By design, the search function does not return an exhaustive list of content matching your search terms. It returns content that YouTube wants you to watch.