skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Potential users" will draw all kinds of lines and demand plenty of features that your eventual paying customers won't care less about.

Ensuring product/market fit is critical for turning a profit, OP needs to get paying clients use their tools and have their usage pattern and implicit needs drive further development.
Using Git Hooks to improve your development workflow
Aldous Huxley’s Dianetic Utopia (2017)
I still wish FirefoxOS had pivoted on to Netbooks. As much as I appreciate the tech behind a Chromebook I rather buy a Macbook air than be another Chrome browser footprint.

I would love a Quantumbook (or whatever) to be a thing. It would make for a nice change especially if they build a Linux Distro that is very secure much like ChromeOS is (rogue Chrome plugins aside).
The author clearly started with the point they wanted to prove and then went searching for the evidence.

Sitting each step of the browsing process into things like "They open it. Whoa! That’s a lot of stuff in my face." and then giving a much thriftier summary of the Chrome process doesn't automatically show that Chrome is simpler to get started with
> What privacy has the average Joe user gained by switching to Firefox? None. They’re still using Google Search and (most likely) other Google products.

I don't agree with this part. Though the bigger point is that not using Google as a default engine is very user hostile - as everyone is using Google. Of course this isn't ideal from a privacy perspective. But setting it to something else will only frustrate most common users. When I think Microsoft Edge I think Bing - and I don't like Bing.
That's up to your preference, personally, I work with the Firefox one and I only test on Chrome after for compatibility since I don't like their devtools.
I'm wondering if there is any protection to changing the google account and/or resetting the phone by the child. My daughter got as far as reinstalling MacOS to get around parental controls, at which point I gave up trying to use software to limit her screen time.
"A free market exists when force is barred. The U.S. came close to a free market at the time of its founding and has become progressively more unfree since"

A large part of the population was forced to enage in hard labor for nothing under a terroristic regime - creating an enormous amount of value (by 1860, the "mortgage" value of US slaves was greater than the value of the entire industrial plant). Women had no property rights. There was an ongoing genocide of native americans and wholesale siezure of their property.
>it’s not me, it’s them.
>don’t be afraid to quit.

And they don’t know why they’re avoided. Sad.
It’s the non-technical users, who are convinced by their technical relatives to install it, who need to be convinced.

Ironically, whenever I've complained about those irritating first-run experiences (not necessarily for Firefox, but for other software), the response has always been "that's for the non-technical users". Remember that these users are accustomed to/desensitised to being bombarded with adverts and such, so perhaps it's not as irritating to them as it is for us. Ideally, I think the first-run experience for a browser should be to open a blank page with the address bar focused and ready for you to type a URL into; but maybe average users are so used to that bombardment of attention and mollycoddling that it would look "broken" to them.

I'm not sure if those users care much about privacy either, which seems to leave the only other reasons to use Firefox being more control/customisation (which is itself slowly disappearing...) and "not controlled by an advertising company", the latter a not-so-compelling argument for the non-technical user.

Firefox is in an unfortunate position, especially as it tries to become more Chrome-like; I don't think that's going to make it gain more users at all, and on the other hand only serves to anger its already-small userbase and threaten to drive them away.

My ideal browser is one that doesn't require any installation, is a single tiny executable that starts instantly (to a blank page, as mentioned above), and is both fast and low on memory usage. I wonder if that "instantness" or ease of using it for the first time might appeal to non-technical users.
i write very differently when i consider that others might read this or not. at the moment the only one i'd consider reading my journal some day is my wife and my children, maybe my brothers or parents. people that i am very close to. but even that is a factor that effectively prevents me from moving to level 2 as the author put it.

one of my friends shares his journal with a few close friends. i don't know if that is his only journal. he might have another one. he does write semi-regularely, but shares some of his most deepest thoughts and troubles, to the point that when he would write for a few months i'd start wondering if he was ok.

another friend for a while seemed to live out their private life on twitter, and i had to cringe how much intimate and private stuff they were revealing there.
Have you tried Firefox Android? The only complaint I have is when it hits 100 tabs, the tab count becomes ∞ which is slightly humorous.
> You could even expense it or write it off.

If you only use it for your employer's code, sure. Otherwise it's a license violation. Personally, I think it's better to buy an individual license, which you can use for your day job as well as long as you are not compensated for it.
Designer here. I went all in on the Golden Ratio for a season. It was good for some things, bad for others—kind of like everything else. I never thought about it with regards to type sizing so I may try that. That said, it will utterly ruin some things.
can you back what you are saying? i personally think we don't. most continuous integration pipelines need static configuration files, not languages. to be honest, i have no idea where this language fits in a software development process...
The shift toward open source conversational AI
I've never seen a Chromebook, not from my friends not in a shop when I'm trying to buy something. I guess they're not in the market here - lots of things aren't since it's a physically very large, medium sized country a long way from the major markets.

Who has them? are they somehow useful?
> While I understand that they have to make money somehow

Put a paid Firefox app in Mac, iOS and Windows app stores. Make it clean from integrations and pre-configured for privacy, like no 3rd party cookies, uBlock Origin installed and so on. I'd buy.
>Can I change the driver? If my wife uses my account is that allowed? Can I subcontract to my team? If not I'm an employee.

That’s not how that works. There is a reason they are called contractors. All kinds of stipulations about who will do the work can be loaded into a contract.
https://play.rust-lang.org/?gist=c3db81ec94bf231b721ef483f58...
> What's with the lengthy discussion of lattices, and related terminology?

It's how the author thinks about the values. All the operations move a value up (|) or down (&) the lattice and those operations are associative, commutative, etc. Moving down past the concrete values gets you bottom, the error value, so 1 & 2 is _|_. It fits into things like default values where (using # for * because HN formatting doesn't do escape sequences) a: int | #1 and a: int | #1 unify to 1 because #1 & #1 = #1 but a: int | #2 added would result in a: int because #1 & #2 = _|_ so there is no default anymore.

I don't think the extended discussion on lattices is particularly useful. A much better intro is the tutorial [1] plus the concepts page [2]

[1] https://github.com/cuelang/cue/tree/master/doc/tutorial
[2] https://cuelang.org/docs/concepts/logic/

The motivation is clearly to build a tool for configuring kubernetes but I see the combination of data, validation, and order independence as being valuable outside that use. I've definitely had projects where it'd fit. The main reason I'd think twice is because it does add a LOT of concepts for something that can be pretty simple on most projects.
I agree on most points, except for the part of changing the default search engine from Google. I do support not using Google, but I think that would definitely be too much change for a non-technical user to take in one go.

If the user thinks and feels "This is just like Chrome" on the surface, that's actually good, people hate changing habits (especially if they wouldn't understand why).

Most of the time, we're asking our non-technical relatives and friends to make the change for us technical users, to simply reduce the market share Chrome has, so that Google can't forcefully (and silently) change the web to their suiting.
male or female? do you have different strategies for different sexes?
The author doesn't examine that question. They comment that one can run a large number of trials to estimate the 18.9 given the 5+5, and my post is how to get that answer analytically for any sequence of probabilities.

For the reverse case, there are arbitrarily many such sequences that would average out to any given value. In practice someone using this technique for gamedev wouldn't necessarily only want X+X%.
It's very barebones, but throwing jrnl (https://jrnl.sh) into a dropbox/[insert synced directory] works well and is very minimal. Encryption is supported. It's also easy to maintain multiple journals, like one for work, one for your personal life, one per project, etc.
I used to be the same and to a certain degree, information on the internet is better. There is simply more information and it updates regularly. A book will be out of date soon. And information on the internet is often free of charge.

The value that comes with a book is its structure and its limited size. You don't get all information, you'll get the important information. And it is structured in a way that helps you learning.
PowerShell.
To be clear, I'm not suggesting that anyone reading this actually has the same problem as I did. Odds are, it is something else. The point is to ask a doctor who can help diagnose exactly which RSI you may have. That being said...

De Quervain's tenosynovitis was my RSI. But not all cases of that are the same anomaly as I had - this RSI is a case where the tendon sheath through which 2 tendons slide becomes inflamed. My specific root cause of it is that my sheath was bisected, making two sheaths, so there was less room for the tendons, and once inflamed, it just wouldn't heal. So the fix was to cut it open to make room. Sounds mildly barbaric, but it worked. Almost literally overnight.

No doctor will tell you to go for surgery for this, or any other RSI, immediately. Surgery is always the last answer. I ended up at a surgeon who specializes in wrists, but started with my family doc, then a physical therapist. If your family doc is not helping... which it sounds like they are not, seek out a wrist specialist.

Try what they suggest. Let them know if it doesn't work. But go sooner rather than later - these things can be fixed easier if you get help before it gets bad.
i use the journal as a memory bank. i write stuff down, and when i search for some specific information that i might have noted, i go back to look for it. i write down what i feel is important that day, things i want to remember, and i use it as a way to reflect on the day and observe whether anything noteworthy happened.
Drivers can set their rates. They just don’t sell their services when the market is currently saturated. It’s exactly the same thing a contractor does in a crowded market.
No. That's not what it says.

However, if you had code that expected to receive a `hobby` field in V1, that tries to parse it and you removed it in V3, then yes, obviously, it breaks existing code. That is basic API design
This gives a nice, quick summary of different techniques!
So your proposal is to drive these corporations out of existence and push the people back into poverty?
It's the best mobile browser bar none thanks to the uBlock / uMatrix. It makes the web usable again.
> Safari might be my next stop for a daily driver browser. I hear Apple’s doing an incredible job with power management and security.

I switched to it last year. Best decision I made when it comes to browsers. It's super-fast, light and doesn't drain the battery.
Michael Schumacher was said to be one 1 second faster than any other driver. To beat him, you would need a new engine designed and built (about $500 million.)

Danica Patrick won a single race (Japan) in her career of 116 IndyCar races and was eventually "retired" because she couldn't win often enough.
Out of curiosity, is it this page in particular that was hard on the eyes, or dark-theme pages in general?

The interesting part is that the body text appears to have a 5.71 contrast ratio, which meets the WCAG 2.1 Level AA criterion [1] but not Level AAA. I wonder if folks pursuing dark themes are making sure to give enough consideration to contrast.

Oddly enough, this is actually one of the reasons I prefer Chrome Dev Tools. They've been adding a lot of accessibility-focused features [2][3], and as it relates to my question, it seems much easier get some of these essential details from Chrome Dev Tools than Firefox.

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/#contrast-minimum

[2] https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/acce...

[3] https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2019/01/devtools#i...
Oh man, where do I begin?

- workspaces. This allows updating live code (JS, CSS, and languages that compile to them) without refreshing. Also allows editing and saving source files in place from DevTools, including CSS changes in the element inspector. It effectively turns DevTools into its own IDE. You can open, edit, and save any file from the workspace, regardless of whether it’s been requested/loaded by the web app.

- breakpoints on much more than just a particular line of JS. Set JS breakpoints on particular DOM and page events (including pre-navigation), XHR/fetch requests with a matching URL, and other exotic things. Find out where in the code a particular action is originating.

- hover info during debugging: lots of extended info available, like which JS file this function is defined in, or direct access to variables in the lexical scope(s) of a function

- stack traces that span async invocation boundaries, even fetch/XHR call to response

I’m sure there are others, but those are the big ones for me.
I just discover your submission and - if you can read french - I wonder what you could think of this paper : http://marty.alain.free.fr/confs_2019/?view=grain where I try to use the imperial system [foot,inch]] inside the metric system.
huggingface offers a whole family of pretrained transformers.

https://github.com/huggingface/pytorch-transformers
I’m half-expecting any sterilization guide dealing with prions to be an empty page with huge “Dispose of and ensure it’s never ever used again”.

The article by Consolidated Sterilizer Systems does reference an Oxford Journal’s opinion that there is no method of prion decontamination or sterilization that has proven 100% effective.

Interesting fact: Consolidated Sterilizer Systems is in the business of selling autoclaves, and at the end of the article there’s their lead collection form.

It’d be very unfortunate if future shows that financial interests of conventional sterilization equipment makers played a part in delaying the establishment of effective prion contamination management practices (which may or may not involve disposable instruments—being not an expert myself, I can only speculate).
1 to 3 books a week depending on their size. Last year went through about 80 of them.

Because of the vast amount of info after reading I create a summary diary so as to absorb the info a bit better.
Dating app with deep NN face generation to get the topology of what someone is attracted to. Get enough samples to generate a model for them so you can auto-rate photos.
Your customer who struggled in order to have your product work tolerably will think twice before trying to switch to a competitor, as he doesn't want to once more live through hassles. You spare money on service/support, and the customer is less prone to abandon you. Yay.

A competitor offering a better service may seem dangerous because his customers will recommend him. However he as to sell for a higher price, therefore most customers will not consider his product. Moreover most of his customers will be picky (easily by the shitty support provided by you and your pairs) or dumb/lazy (totally unable/unwilling to think/act usefully by themselves), and their demands will only grow, leading him tto somewhat reduce his margins (and you will buy him, because he as less customers and less profit per customer) or raise his prices (and enter some high-end/luxury (<=> small) niche).
In addition to the other suggestion, I'd expect it to be something like this [0] or [1], a mix of data on what people skip in the first 10 minutes and the superstar of modern machine learning: human annotations. I've seen several shows where all episodes where consistently off by a few seconds, that might be either algorithmical bias or due to some annotators personal preference.

[0] https://outline.com/BjsXnF

[1] https://medium.com/an-attempt-at-writing/netflixs-skip-intro...

Edit: looks like these sequence fingerprinting patents might be relevant: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20190028525A1/en
https://patents.google.com/patent/US9418296B1/en
Away to what? Where can an upset long time Firefox user go? hardly to Chrome or Edge.

There's nowhere better; Firefox may not be optimum, but if you don't want rebranded Google crap, you have basically no choice.

Maybe there's Safari, Epiphany, Konqueror: but only one of these is serious and it requires you to be willing to buy a Mac - which is clearly an easier choice than Google for an anti-Googling estranged Firefox user - but still not a likely choice if the reason you're leaving Firefox is they took away your options.

Epiphany took away all its options years ago, and now it's main purpose is to be replaced with Firefox.

I've barely used Konqi, but it doesn't seem like it's any more viable than Epiphany. It looks like it fell out of a 1990s office suite.

(Web browsers can be as light on memory as they want, but since they're not programs but rather runtimes for a specific programming language, they're always going to put a huge demand on your memory. Unless you change the JS programming model, they will be your biggest app.)
I bought one for my parents two years ago, zero 'tech support' calls since.
Periodic Wall of Elements [pdf]
The Tf-Hub stuff is pretty close I guess https://tfhub.dev/google/bert_uncased_L-12_H-768_A-12/1
The icons aren't quite as explanatory as text, and the amount of white(gray?)space at the top is unusually high, but at least there's no confusion of what is a clickable button.
> It’s helped me realize just how few of the things I worry about turn into the worst-case scenarios (so much wasted brainpower) but on the flipside just how easy it is to forget the essence of the very experiences that make me, me. Most importantly, it’s helped me keep an eye on the important things in life - my goals, aspirations, and the people I love in my life - and I hope it helps you too.

This hit it home for me.
Sounds like Google is the one not following a certain policy called federal law....costing it $200M.

It's a bit like Face#### getting preachy about user privacy.
Yes, me too. It's funny, but once I can't measure my progress it's all over. I wish they would put into the number so I can at least tell if it's going up or down and hopefully get it lower. I don't want funny features, I want features that give me control.
that won't help. people can be self-aware through a number of ways. and unless you can measure the self-awareness of any one person and find people with a similar level of self-awareness then how will you measure the effect the journal has?

you need to compare your own self-awareness before and after the experiment. only that matters. you can do a study where you let a number of people start a journal and then measure if they report increased self-awareness. but depending on how self-aware they were before, the change may vary from a lot to no change at all without proving or refuting anything.
Yes, web-rings specifically!
As SSDs get denser, moving to QLC/PLC, the number af writes to the same place on media gets to the low hundreds.

By using zones, the total amount of available host writes increases by 4-5x (when considering non-optimized file-systems). Technically the device write amplification is reduced from 4-5x to ~1x.
But, there is nothing to stop your values from containing these characters. So, you still have to escape your input. And once you've done that, you might as well just use csv / tsv.
To Solve Hospital Overcrowding, Think Like a Mathematician
Kids in college are also lonely; I go to a school with a relatively large undergraduate populations. The result is that many people have trouble finding friends given that interactions are less frequent. Dorms and free time do help, but in the first week there were a lot of posts asking others on how they made their friends.
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I can't easily read dark theme apps. Basically if I start one, I have to closely study the app till I find its options and choose the light theme. (This was awful when I had to make a new install of the Gimp recently - it used to be much more user friendly. I was about a minute away from searching the internet for how to change the config file manually or - shock - asking a friend.)
Housing costs - it's expensive finding that big a location and weirdly there is a sort of flip point (in London) where more people stopped reducing the delta cost per person if that makes sense

moving from "just house mates" to "we need some rules as a community" starts all sorts of "oh I don't know if I really want to think of it this way" - and the sort of people who really want to be in a commune with rules turn out to be the sort of people you would not want to have ... earnest and unemployed (see housing cost)

I think "house mates" is a good level to live at - probably for most life stages to be honest.

And we could easily redefine a village (cluster of cave dwellings / Skara Brae / babylonian houses) to be the same house - it was for many ages for many parts of the world one thing we could call a structure
Does it sport working on binary data, it would be a cool thing to have in some applications, to validate conditions on binary data.
Damnedest thing, really.
Would really love to see some before/after cost calculations for some cloud migrations. Techies, and especially the more senior ones at CTO level, can easily be scared into thinking that they need to use cloud, partly because they are so far removed from the tech, and partly because they just follow the trend and everyone else is doing it (similar to "no one got fired for buying IBM") Cloud is great for many use cases but a lot of companies just go all in even where it doesn't make sense. But perhaps everyone is getting 90% discounts at having the last laugh...
I noticed that a lot of days/weeks/months started to blur together as I got older (and I’m not that old).

I started keeping a very factual journal each day.

Every hour or so, I write down where I was and what I did—subjective impressions are optional.

It’s been really helpful in jogging my memory and seeing where my mind was at a few months prior.

I just do it in a note program on my phone, so I can fill it in while walking, in the bathroom, etc.
Side Hussle – what it took to start making $400 per month