skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There were many differences between the Soviet Union and the US. Nominal socialism vs. nominal capitalism was only one, and many would argue not the biggest. Personally, I'm amazed that so many people who suffered under deeply authoritarian regimes seem to support the authoritarian party in current US politics. Members of exclusive clubs colluding with each other outside of the market or public view tends to work out similarly regardless of whether it's the back rooms of Wall Street or Washington DC (and usually it's both).
Agree with your points, but piggybacking to post Mozilla's donation page. We can be preemptive and give to them in order to help the cause.

https://donate.mozilla.org/en-US/
https://gro-intelligence.com/
An Interview with Alberto Brandolini on Domain-Driven Design and EventStorming
Saw that you tweeted an example of error log improvements, which is exactly what I meant with the 20+ lines of error messages with only the last one being relevant.

Now I just need to wait until Typescript 3.7 trickles down to all my dependencies so I can get that goodness. Sigh.

Sigh.
what would be interesting is running with state of the art ad blocking in safari (which IIRC they recently changed) and firefox with ublock origin on multiple domains so as to better approximate advertisement load across the web

i posit that ad blocking is actually a net resource saver, probably not at the level of using safari over firefox but certainly over unprotected firefox

(i am on gnu/linux or else i'd do this myself)
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Well, they do, but only in aggregate and pretty indirectly: surveys, focus groups, requests for feedback, etc.
"Le singe est dans l'arbre"

Eddie Izzard, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1sQkEfAdfY&gl=GB

I took latin too, for seven years. I finally passed with a 7 - one better than an "F" (for "fail").
To borrow a term from Microsoft, "Intelligent Edge." With the shift to the cloud, we are finding there are still many scenarios that should start local for latency, bandwidth, or legal considerations. Organizations still want those scenarios to be easy to manage though.

An example might be in store retail analytics- a set up with a bunch of cameras that can detect what people are touching or otherwise interested in. It makes little sense to ship the video streams all the way back to a cloud provider, but orgs want the capability all the same.
There's many reasons the owner(s) should get paid last. That's the moral reason. From the financial perspective, I've always viewed it as a risk/reward scenario. The people who are guaranteed paychecks aren't really taking much of a risk, except the general bet that their employer will continue to exist and need them. The owner(s), however, are taking a large risk in many different ways and if they are able to make a profit, then they should get a larger portion of it.

I've always thought of it in this investment sense with the risk to reward payoff.
Seems like Firefox's built-in protection is mostly about 3rd-party trackers? Even the description for "Tracking content" (the not-obviously-3rd-party category) talks about "external ads, videos, and other content with tracking code from other companies. For example, a website may embed a video from a video platform". And this category is not blocked by default, only in strict mode.
I've hit this recently and have been trying to delete enough stuff to make space - the google drive website is awful for doing this. So bad that I wonder whether it's deliberate. I've got 14.8GB of data on there and can't work out where it is.

On my computer, the sync'd Google Drive files come to less than one GB, so it's not that.
https://trennd.co is a service that specialises in uncovering new trends. Maybe you'll find something there.
>The Communists made the Tsarist regime look like rank amateurs in terror, they weren’t even trying in comparison

There is a certain danger in this sort of thinking which seeks to compare levels of terror quantitatively with disregard to their qualitative effects and purposes. The Bolsheviks are guilty of many evils, but not for the same reasons or purposes as the Tsar. Remember that Tsarist Russia didn't only operate on cases of immediate violence, it used structural ones too. Structural violence is well understood today.
Yeah, almost every long-time member of Stack Exchange is sick of all the drama that Sara has caused. It's a huge mess.
In theory, yes, via the XPRESENT extension and similar mechanisms on Wayland. I don't know how well the drivers and window server optimize it though. (I plan to investigate this at some point.)
You might be interested in IronOx: http://ironox.com/

Indoor produce grown "by robots with love"
Does that article (and publication) strike you as trustworthy? Does it appear that the author and publication aspire to present a balanced perspective? Would you be persuaded if I linked to a Fox News (or similar) article on the issue?
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Even if he owned the majority vote and posts the minor share holders or lenders can demand "proper" business conduct. But getting thorough a court case can be quite an effort and be risky.
Can You Draw a Perfect Circle? (There Goes Your Day.)
Declaration: A Moratorium on Facial Recognition Technology for Mass Surveillance
I don't see any mention of this. I made some about:config changes before and got pinch zoom working on Firefox 68, but it only zooms 10% for each discrete pinch gesture I make. Did they update it to be better than this?
Well, presumable some people actually finish their old haskell projects and then start new ones, so it's not necessary that the total number of users is growing. The old users are also starting new projects that could fail.
No, using Hotmail or Gmail prevents dns hijacking.

The answer he gave you was correct. The interpretation wasn't
by way of logging in/out, yes
A Quick Guide to Linked Lists in JavaScript
minor correction, they have delayed the laser interlink for version 1.0, which should be the next launch. the first launch is considered by spacex to be version 0.9 satellites
Another Luc here that lives in Germany since a bit (yes, I know you said "for a bit") and recommends Deepl to everyone over Google :D
My understanding of the donations is that they don't go towards supporting firefox development because of how the company/non-profit is structured... is this wrong?
You're right, sorry.
Ubuntu 19.10: A look into Ubuntu's enterprise future
GP's specific situation was paying utility bills, so the stuff they give to those websites is... Actual money?
> They said it was all ok because that the actual fingerprints aren't stored on the system, only information derived from the fingerprints

I hate this blatantly flawed reasoning. The data collection is the problem, and it doesn't matter if you store pictures of fingers/faces/irises/ids or just their post-process signatures, it's still data collection.
Test: open 10 tabs of techmeme.com, on OSX Catalina (10.15 Beta), on a 2015 retina 13" macbook pro.

Firefox: Threads 71, %CPU 2.5. Energy: 0.4. Opening the tabs all at once took up ~68% CPU. Energy went up to 75.

Safari: threads: 8, %CPU: 0.7-2. When opening the tabs: %CPU: 28%. Energy usage: 2.4.

Firefox grew sluggish when opening that many tabs at once. Safari handled it like a champ.

Pretty bleak for firefox.
In the US, what is a left policy and what is a right policy seems to depend entirely on which party thought of it first, not on any sound ideology. Party politics all the way down.
Ehhh, fleecing the Saudis is arguably productive. But yes, there are certainly wealthy people who are not more productive than an S&P 500 index fund. (this might still be more productive than the US government, of course) But how do you propose to tax them and not the Bezos' and Musks of the world?
Me too -- This is a real quality of life improvement for developers that work with picky designers :)
Some background:

https://techcrunch.com/2014/11/19/mozilla-partners-with-yaho...

https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/14/mozilla-terminates-its-dea...

https://www.cnet.com/news/google-firefox-search-deal-gives-m...
So I strongly disagreed with that finding, but two possible lines of reasoning:

1) Say you have a machine learning algorithm, where there could be two ways to improve the outcomes: get more data, or pick a better model. Google's massive dataset is a benefit/competitive moat of sorts to its search algorithm, but _in theory_ you could build a better algorithm or model. You can see some evidence of this in vertical specific searches (i.e. travel, shopping, etc.) and in DuckDuckGo's success.

2) The other refrain I hear a lot is that this additional data is not "zero-sum" - i.e. multiple apps can collect my location data or email or [insert data point here,] and I can onboard or offboard that data pretty easily. Therefore this data isn't a limited resource that can be hoarded like a true competitive moat.
Nice rant considering he works for Google and is posting it on Twitter. Twitter and YouTube refused to pull the same ads as he's complaining about with FB: https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/13/ban-facebook-campaign-ads/
Recursion Explained with Example
Well. If they had released their research and not thrown container loads of money at denialist lobby groups and think tanks, I think it could have been different. Perhaps all those US Republican politicians who used to accept climate change before George HW Bush was elected would still be convinced. Exxon brag about the billions in Arctic drilling rights they secure from Russia after they bloody melted it enough. Maybe they should have released research with a plan to pivot to mostly not oil.

BP and Exxon annoy me particularly. They paint themselves so damn eco-friendly in ads, but chuck blank cheques at those working against eco-sustainability and carbon reduction.

Hopefully the next generation find a way to prosecute when they get into positions of influence and power.

Greenpeace, but the timeline is right:

[1] https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/global-warming/exxon-and-the-...
https://twist.com
> Without Google's ad business Firefox wouldn't exist

Really? My recollection of events 15 years ago is a little hazy, but wasnt FF a browser-only release of Mozilla, itself Netscape which has been around as long as time itself (~25 years?)

What are we talking about here? There was very definitely a push around 2003 to get FF adopted en masse, and I guess Google probably were a big factor in this ...

Bit of a stretch to say FF wouldn’t have existed otherwise though. There was very definitely some dissatisfaction across the board with IE dominance and its not hard to imagine something like FF being inevitable.
The government has been running "on the blockchain" for a while, with projects like the X-road, which are also used by other countries (the other two Balitc countries and Finland).

It is a blockchain in the only way that makes sense: a cryptographically secure ledger run by a central authority (government).
Sure, we owe Clarke a great deal of gratitude for that (the concept of the geostationary satellite 35k km from earth, from way back in 1945!), but this is something else and new.
Just a word or advice: if you're only sending to 200 people you might not need mailgun.

You can use gsuite programmatically for easy inbox management with the Gmail API.
It seems like the product was originally an internet filter for pornography etc. but now the companies are competing on features. The main one is the profanity filter but they've started using AI to detect other things like self-harm threats etc.

The monitoring seems mostly limited to school laptops and cloud services, so presumably students who don't like it can use their phones if they have them. The companies all have more invasive home products but those report to the parents rather than the school.
It's better because of the use of cutting edge blockchain, game-changing ai, huge big data and disruptive UX to just name a few random things.
Rust requires types, pointer types, lifetime bounds, trait classes, etc. for struct and function declarations. They're also used to disambiguate in other places when type inference isn't possible, such as during method chaining.
What I want is an https://arewesafariyet.com that tracks Firefox's macOS energy usage against Safari's so that I can figure out when to switch. As far as I can tell, they still have a long way to go to match Safari in battery life and it would be nice if they had an explicit tracker set up as a way of prioritizing fixing that.
>writers eventually admit

Excuse me sir, do you have a moment to talk about or lord and saviour, Death of the Author?
The author is the president of the country! Who would you expect her to interview?
I am the CTO of Grownetics and we are about to open source our stack. https://grownetics.co/
The Curious Case of HelloFresh's Retention Data
I think what this shows is in the end is who was in the position of greater leverage here (hint: it wasn’t SoftBank).

I bet Neumann was all “ok cool guys I’ll walk away with my $700m and you can write down We to $0 and enjoy that.”

Turns out, SoftBank needs We to be not-dead-yet about $1.7B more than Neumann does.
Take a look at the comments in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20910845 (36 points, 44 days ago, 19 comments) , perhaps the farmers use more technology than you think.
This is an article that everyone should take the time to read about, and the tone about it makes it really fun to read.
A high end GPU today (like GTX 10 series) can absolutely stun! Check this out,

http://www.realtimerendering.com/raytracinggems/unofficial_R... [33MB PDF]

It sheds light on some ray tracing techniques with the focus on the new RTX API with DirectX12

Real time rendering portal page generally my goto for checking out new stuff in graphics and now they have a Raytracing section https://www.realtimerendering.com/raytracing.html

I am on phone right now, and will try to put more material as soon as I get back to my workstation!

Edit: Courtesy Onion2k
It'll be nice to simplify underline links tremendously once that becomes implemented in IE/Edge & Safari. The existing methods for avoiding underlines overlapping text descenders like Tufte-CSS's method (https://github.com/edwardtufte/tufte-css) are kinda crazy looking, and also cause the occasional bug with text highlighting.
Leftists are very against this sort of exploitative and unethical behavior. In fact, socialists push for employee ownership (and thus decision-making power) of corporations, precisely so that some schmo at the top can't strip the company and leave (and so people are paid in proportion to the value of their labor).
Well spotted! If you read the introductory text on that one, it is meant as a teaser for the upcoming one. The difference is that 'Electric Sheep' is made of sound sources taken from other myNoise generators, while the upcoming one will come with its own original sources.
Not usable on mobile, but one extension you might be interested in is Trash Panda: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/trash-bear/

Whenever I see a link to a website I suspect of siphoning off all my data (usually news websites), I right-click it and select "Open in new Trash Container". Do my thing, then close the tab, and all cookies and such for that site are cleared. It's almost like a Firefox Focus tab, the main difference being that it's not discernable from a regular tab.
For CSS, Firefox devtools are far, far ahead of everything else. JS debugging was a bit behind Chrome, but it should be on par now, except maybe in performance tracing.
In a perverted sense, this is an opportunity to teach the children a very important lesson: if you're using a machine or network owned and operated by your employer (or, by extension, your school), then you should be scrupulous about only using it for work (or school) business.
You don't hold anyone accountable, even though we all are. You fix the damn problem. Pointing fingers and assigning blame is pretty much useless in solving any type of problem.
Can't find the source, but I remember reading an author from the 60s who predicted the internet, but also predicted you'd treat it like a catalog and still have to call in and read off the product numbers you wanted to order and communicate them to a human operator -- even for someone who could predict the internet, it still seemed like a leap to suggest that even the order itself could be processed over that same network!
Ask HN: How to Get Better at Writing?
> $2000 an hour consultants

… who graduated college three years ago and get 50 of those dollars per hour themselves.
Faces of Open Source is ran by a photographer named Peter Adams. Peter coordinates with the subject of his photos (for example Linus Torvalds) and asks if they want to be a part of his photo project. Since Linus Torvalds doesn't mind the term Open Source he is happy to participate in this project. Since Richard Stallman does not like the term Open Source he would or has more than likely declined to be a part of this project.
The addon I use is: https://github.com/erkserkserks/h264ify
It probably wasn’t chose at _random_ even if there wasn’t a lot of thought that went into it. It was still an artistic decision.

When I used to DJ a lot, I would go to the record store and listen to dozens of records over the course of an hour or two and buy a handful of them. If you asked me in the store why I bought them, I might just say, because I liked it. Sometimes I had only listened to 30 seconds of it and that was enough.

But ‘I liked it’ hides a lot of inputs. I might have liked it because it reminded me of another song I liked, or because it had a key change that felt emotional or it had a beat that fit in with another record I liked, and if you asked me to dig into my reasoning for any of them at length, I could have probably come up with a few aspects that fed into why I bought it. In most cases they’re just post hoc rationalizations because when you’re digging through all the new releases you don’t have time to think of that stuff, but that doesn’t mean they’re not legitimate explanations.
You need to look north:

https://www.farmersedge.ca/ ; precision farming, exited by Kleiner Perkins via sale to Prem Watsa of Fairfax Financial

https://seedotrun.com/ ; autonomous farming

https://www.seedmaster.ca ; precision farming

These companies actually have customers and / or are well on their way to commercialization
From wikipedia: "Rodney William Stark is an American sociologist of religion".

Whoever this guy is, he doesn't matter enough to get to redefine capitalism. Being in the general field of economics would be a start.
I think it is, Trump is leaving a lot of proof of personal wealth gain behind.

I'm very curious what will happen when he's president no longer.

Donating profits to a non-profit organisation that he indirectly owns won't change the impeachment.

Pandora's box will explode, all of his loyalist will have the choice: long jailtime or shorter with a confession.

The first already has fallen and Trump is loyal to no one. So will his followers be.

I'm still waiting for proof of ( again) stock manipulation to come up. An old Fox doesn't loses his tricks.
This sounds more cynical than constructive to me.
I think your mind is in the right place.

My spouse and I both have histories hauntingly similar to Jayden's, and taking this approach, albeit learning many caveats to it along the way (eg. artwork on commission is best handled immediately, and with thick oven mitts), we've done decently for ourselves.

If he doesn't struggle with focus for autism-related reasons like we did (or has -guidance- in that struggle), and his family continues to support his artwork without the background hum of 'when is he going to make real money off that' that I've heard all too often in families with a developmentally disabled child, he'll go far.
I used that use case because I usually have multiple windows with multiple tabs in the background.

I measured it with active windows now.

Screenshots:

- Both in background

- Safari Actie

- Firefox Active

https://imgur.com/a/4L64ShP

Conclusion: it gets even worse for Firefox.

Edit: At the time of test Safari had 7 more windows open with probably 70+ tabs from my previous session that I didn't close.
But why does it "look cool"?
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* was inspired by

* generations of prior businesspeople doing

Let's not forget that Enron, Theranos and WeWork propagated a form of corporate fraud that is not foreign to the modern corporate investment system. There are always opportunities to bolt on corporate structures that juice the plausible metrics and existence of an "investable" moat, but at least in more public markets oriented world of yesteryear, SEC regulations could be put in place to plausibly protect main street investors. In the current engorged state of private capital, many private investors will have to learn due diligence the hard way, or they will lose their shirts to exceedingly savvy hucksters and grifters masquerading as trailblazing mavericks.
A junior programmer isn't going to encounter this unless they're trying really hard.

Someone with the knowledge of how to write code like this is already familiar with the problem domain and the vocabulary. They'll know enough to be able to find out how to get this performance out of Rust.

New programmers aren't going to look for this or need it right off the bat. They'll still be able to leverage a modern, safe language with lots of features and an extremely compelling package manager.
Cloudflare embroiled in child abuse row
I believe Mozilla made a ton of money just by making Google the default search engine.
Something like this happens on my Linux laptop: Firefox eats battery 2-3 times faster than Chrome & cooler activity is much more higher.

Seems like Firefox cares only about Windows.
Ahh yes, the random-tweet-that-proves-my-point tactic... You can find a tweet that "proves" your point for literally ANY issue. And, if you can't... just create a fake twitter account and tweet it yourself. Readers aren't even parsing the twitter account name so you don't even need to create a new account for each new tweet you want to cite.

There are a lot of reasons to be mad at google, having to pay for storage is not one of them.
Here's how Mozilla's 2017 annual report (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2017/) describes it:

> Today, the majority of Mozilla Corporation revenue is generated from global browser search partnerships, including the deal negotiated with Google in 2017 following Mozilla’s termination of its search agreement with Yahoo/Oath which required ongoing payments to Mozilla that remain the subject of litigation.

> In CY 2017 Mozilla Corporation generated $542 Million from royalties, subscriptions and advertising revenue compared to $506 Million in CY 2016.

Financial statement (2016 & 2017): https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2017/mozilla-fdn-201...

Announcement (2017): https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/11/14/firefox-features-go...
Bezos and Musk reinvested all of their wealth into their own endeavors. Craft policy to support such efforts. You still tax productive activities, just not as much as unproductive activities (such as mega-yachts or sailing teams, which are luxury goods).
Yes, in some situations it will take effort to not allow network access to untrusted software and/or users. For those situations, EC2 is not a good fit.
What would you call creating a new alt-coin and implying it will some day have value?

That entire industry is a dumpster fire of greed, fraud, and misrepresentation.