skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just can't imagine Firefox will ever be performant as Safari. One is written for a single platform developed at the same company that develops the hardware and OS (I'm not trying to belittle the Safari team--it's kind of amazing what they do). The other is developed separately, must equally support at least 2 other OSes and has an expectation for supporting older setups.

My problem is that Safari won't work for me as a daily driver so it's not an option. It seems too aggressive in memory management and in reloading.

So I'm very happy to see Firefox improve performance over Firefox-v1.
Ireland uses this appraoch. We call it STV.

STV Explained -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8XOZJkozfI

It just a better democracy because it's more representative.

It's solves the "wasted vote" problem people have with democracy and why many democracies result in a two party system. This way it ensures your vote is counted and multiple parties exist.
You mean geo-engineering specifically, or just a transition to a renewable economy?

Olivine weathering and ocean cloud seeding both seem like reasonably likely solutions that each cost on the order of 10's of billions. Major doubts that addressing carbon will be a big money maker.

But obviously the carbon economy is huge, so the renewable economy will at least that big.
> BTW, I would never advise anyone to get a Chase bank account; they're pretty well-known to be horrible. You can get far better service and interest rates from a good online bank like Ally, Schwab, Discover, etc.

Again, it was a placeholder name. But I'll be honest for the sake of those curious and just say "the credit card that's offered through Costco" :)
Interesting. I always think of it as the Universal Time Coordinate. Probably because I've done a lot of work in inertial coordinate systems (where the earth rotates in the coordinate system versus the coordinate systems rotating with the earth). Inertial coordinate systems have four dimensions, time and three spatial coordinates.
You're describing the effects of QE (not in its original sense, but the way it has been implemented) and I couldn't agree more. But this is very different from a central bank taking over bad assets after a catastrophic collapse of the private banking sector.
Thanks for the recommendation! I downloaded it on iOS and have been really enjoying it.

The controls took a few minutes to get used to, but the included documentation was superb.
Safari is a high bar to reach but they are getting closer to Chrome.
I like the idea of using it for safety. Is that something currently being done, or still in the experimental stages?
In the latter case you also kind of own the bank.
Yeah but you can't do anything about that unless you also enforce complexity. If the goal is to prevent defaults (ex. to prevent drive-bys), the above does that; "good" passwords is a separate requirement.
WeWork is worth zero dollars.
man, I wish Canada had this yesterday
What were SWE interviews and interview prep like back in late 90s/early 00s?
As one example, imagine that someone invents a process to manufacture gasoline using carbon extracted from the air, at a price that's cost competitive with gasoline extracted from the ground.

Any car running on that as fuel would immediately become carbon-neutral, and it could be produced anywhere on the planet. Almost overnight you could make the entire automotive industry carbon neutral (burning this gasoline would merely return the carbon into the air that was sequestered when the gas was produced) without needing to replace all the cars on the road.

Who would pay for it? Everyone. Individuals would buy manufactured gasoline to power their cars. Governments all over the world would subsidize its production both for environmental reasons (to meet Paris targets), and for energy security to reduce their dependence on oil imports.

That would be a license to print money and could probably produce a trillionaire.
You either pay to fix the problem, or you pay treat the symptoms with insurance premiums.

You pay no matter what.
I'm confused as to why this is so terrible.

He created a very valuable company, worth billions of dollars. It makes sense that he should capture some large fraction of that wealth.

Yes, some people will lose their jobs. But it's worth noting that those jobs wouldn't have existed in the first place if he hadn't started the company.

His mismanagement has cost him and Softbank billions, which is appropriate as well.

I say this completely aware of what a shitshow WeWork is.

edit: For context this was a response to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21325431 but the mods detached it for... some reason?
> that money comes from your paycheck first and foremost

Fantastic! I would love to help prevent a global catastrophe.

> if you're going to advocate for a market based solution (and you are, if you're talking about putting money somewhere)

I am not. I'm pointing out that this kind of problem is fundamentally impossible for the market to solve unless enormous, non-profit-seeking organizations (i.e., governments) artificially bridge it into the market via coordinated incentives. That's not the only way to solve it, but it's the only way businesses would have anything to do with a solution.
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21323511
Still white elephants after decades. Every few years someone tries to stream games, it doesn't work.

The closest example right this moment is Microsoft's flight sim that'll download world data from bing maps as you fly around. Simply because they are using synthesized petabytes of map data. Guildwars and other mmo's download world data as you are playing to fill out areas you will visit in the future. It still uses a traditional game client and business model. There's a slew of games that run on nearly every bit of hardware. I don't see the advantage cloud gaming brings.

You could stream every mobile game that's existed as low latency is rarely a requirement for those games. Those games are still downloaded to memory and rendered on the client and use a conventional business model.

Vr is getting a valve style game soon that might well be a killer app for it, but the problem of movement remains.
Although Kubernetes is for containers, so you'd also need to re-implement Linux in Rust.
> Are your taxes funding browsers? If no, then are you s uggesting that only the privileged should have access to a good, modern browser?

Jesus Christ reddit, stop.
I've been impressed by some of the computer vision work Aerobotics are doing. EG counting and sizing citrus from drones, pest detection etc. Super solid data science team, from the chats I've had.
I'd think it could definitely be substantially cheaper than Inmarsat. In a totally crushing way. So much more bandwidth capacity and lower latency.

Note: SpaceX is building out the Starlink coverage in a gradual way - they won't have satellites around the poles early on. Until the have truly global coverage Inmarsat will obviously stilll have an edge.

It will be interesting to see how the pricing plays out for the high latency satellite broadband offerings compared to the low latency Starlink offering.
A sane CDN doesn't cache error responses. There is no legitimate reason to cache a non 2xx/3xx response, unless you / your CDN is really pinching pennies.

Caching a 5xx kinda makes sense I guess, but a 4xx client error? That's nuts.
Since we're complaining about Google Translate, I'd like to mention how ridiculous their "verified translation" system is. It works by throwing automatic translations at people who, in their majority, have never studied English, and expecting them to tell whether it's right or wrong, but what happens is that most just confirm whatever they get as being correct. As a result, at least for Portuguese, many of them, if not most, are just plain wrong.

Considering Translate is such an important product, I can't fathom why they just don't hire a single linguist (or just anyone who isn't completely clueless, really) per language to register decent translations, or at least import them from a real dictionary...
There is also an argument that back in the day Firefox saved Google rather than the other way around.

Why? Because when Microsoft had 90% browser share, gained through tying IE directly into Windows, there was a very real chance that they could have adapted IE so that it was harder to use Google than a default MS Bing search engine.

Having a better, cross-platform alternative to IE allowed Google to stay in the game and make use of FF's cutting edge features.

Remember the old Microsoft was quite happy to cripple Windows to kill it's competitors. For example "Windows ain't done until WordPerfect won't run" and the weird "errors" you saw if you tried running Windows on top of DR DOS.
No, it doesn't.

It amounts to saying that different rules and dynamics govern higher-order systems. It's not that the ir-/rationality of individual participants isn't a factor--but multiple interacting systems and feedback loops are creating the weather that those actors have to make decisions within.
3D printing for manufacturing has now been rebranded “additive manufacturing” (kinda a less descriptive term if you ask me — sounds like making glue — but it is what it is)
Most of us have very little direct oil interests. THe main way most of us have those interests is via it's energy uses which can all be replaced with other fuels (edit:or sources). Non-fuel uses aren't great but have much smaller environmental impacts.
If only a complete Firefox was made available for desktop Android...
This will bring me back as well
> though make no mistake, many of the big players (your John Deeres and such) have very sophisticated R&D and engineering initiatives pursuing market opportunities in a variety of ag tech realms

Seconding this. It's easy to think that because SV engineers aren't aware of or don't work on an industry that not much happens in it, but there's a lot of technology in agriculture already. For example, modern tractors can drive themselves, and plant seeds and apply fertilizer exactly where needed using GPS localization. This isn't even that new either. And that's just one highly visible example. There's tons of other R&D in seed companies and other parts of agriculture.
I recommend Hegel with Neuralink: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ppGlEiQXrRI

Unless the computer is itself capable of anticipating and satisfying your desires — which, I grant, is possible, but, I would argue, incredibly, incredibly dystopian — you will need to consciously articulate your thoughts in such a way that the computer serves your will. That conscious articulation is the bottleneck. Not the keyboard, not the mouse, and certainly not the typing speed.

This is, of course, assuming that the computer remains the servant rather than becoming the master.
The only reason I replied and used the word bigot was because of the use in the original comment. Perhaps they should have "taken the high road" by not implying those who oppose Hobby Lobby's owners are bigots.
This is right. You probably can skip learning jquery these days and just work on React. Other than that, exactly right.
I know it's basically "go away quietly" money, but the idea of wanting him consulting on anything is kinda hilarious.
No third party signed their certificates. Just a contracted employee who worked for Tesonet typed in his company name instead of ProtonVPN. That's just the Android keystore, nothing else. Google supports keystore rotation only starting with Android 9.
started by the same dude, share common ownership
Interestingly, the thick vertical strokes and skinny horizontal strokes you see in the Chinese characters in some of those fonts are the result of one individual's[0] personal style being adopted as the standard for non-cursive calligraphy;

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_Zhenqing
Certainly a small step in the right direction. But what's really needed to give voters their voice is Proportional Representation. That's were the legislative houses are made up of parties given the percentage of seats based on the percentage of votes they received.

Ranked choice voting still results in a "first past the post" system, where significant portions of the voters (up to 49.999...%) get no voice at all.
Personally, I enjoy watching the Saudi Vision Fund money go up in flames. SoftBank is deeply associated with the murderous Mohammad Bin Salman and gets the benefit of his brand.
Cooperatives. The economy needs to shift away from giant companies with pay ratios of a thousand to one between CEOs and average employees and employees need control over their workplace to move to the next stage of capitalism. Make it easier for collectives to start up businesses that aren't purely focused on profit and instead focused on employees taking ownership of their work.

It may not be the biggest profit possible, but I think that if you enable 22 small worker-owned cooperatives to exist more easily somehow that's a huge karmic return on investment.

Maybe said cooperatives are software companies that work together to do contract work. I think that there are a number of places that try to match up contractors with clients, and places like Gusto work great for employees but I don't think they can handle member distributions (the IRS's term for payments a company makes to an owner versus an employee).

I'm not sure what to do to help the most exactly, but I think this kind of company is going to be increasingly important in the future. Maybe even just like an online forum for people trying to start cooperatives to discuss their common issues.
Lyft to Be Profitable by 2021
does anyone have a script to keep triggering captchas and then providing[flood] the most wrong, and disruptive answer possible until ?
Scotland also uses STV (Single Transferable Vote), though also participates in FPTP (First Past the Post) for UK wide elections.
Temporary tab containers are a great alternative to a dedicated browser or incognito mode.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con...
It's been my job since 2005 to evaluate deployments of applications like these and I'm not sure I can call to mind any application I've ever seen that would have been insecure but for a perimeter filter on methods. URL-space, yes; I've seen things where "/admin" was perimeter-filtered. Methods, no: I've never seen an application where "PUT" was allowed on the internal network but perimeter-filtered so it wasn't allowed on the public network.

It's clearly happened, though; you can search for vulnerabilities tied to it. I just don't think it's all that common. Someone got a bounty from Google for a cloud.google.com service that used an internal proxy where XMO got them control over a PUT.
It's probably unlikely since Salesforce bought ExactTarget a few years ago
Is there a theme for Firefox that makes it look more like Chrome?
> They're a hate-filled group

That's quite a claim - by the definition of "hate", you're saying that the individuals who run Hobby Lobby "feel intense or passionate dislike for (someone)".

You may not like certain specifics of their employee healthcare policy, but having such a policy does not imply hate on their part -- such a conclusion doesn't follow logically. Or is there another fact that would imply hatred on their part?
All money is fake money, the notion of a currency is a value fiction shared among a group of people.

Most governments are very young, and do not last very long historically. Central banking is a handful of decades old, cryptocurrency is one decade old.

Neither the maximalists nor deniers are right at this point. It remains to be seen when/whether cryptocurrency will replace fiat currency.
Surely if your package manager installs firefox into /usr or whatever, it's not gonna be able to update itself either way, right?
I'd also highly recommend "Tweak the Vote" from Radiolab, which discusses Ireland's election process: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/tweak...
One of the big wildcards for widespread consumer use is the social aspect. We can envision what AR might look like in everyday life. What's far less clear to me is the degree to which people will accept AR glasses that are constantly using video and audio to deliver information to the wearer will be accepted. If I know that person I just met has inconspicuously scanned me and looked up all kinds of information that are now being displayed, am I OK with that?
We learned when VW's diesel cheating scandal came to light that your friend's Passat probably wasn't as clean as the company claimed. It was fun to drive because VW made it run dirty when not on the test stand. This doesn't seem like a good argument for diesel vehicles.
Opinion coming from someone who studied Agribusiness but works in high technology.

Farmwise.io is doing some really excellent work. We have a big problem these days with getting low cost labor in California that our Ag producers have traditionally relied on. I also find the team at planet.com to be doing incredibly valuable work that has some really profound and broad applications for agriculture.
The big ones I don't see are:

Plenty - Indoor agriculture (raised over $200m)

[https://www.plenty.ag]

Pivot Bio - Nitrogen fixation with engineered microbes

[https://www.pivotbio.com/]
Yes that is true about Soviet Union. (Disclaimer: I lived 20+ years in USSR and more than that in the West).
And in theory you are right: democracy vs authoritarianism should not be the same as socialism vs capitalism.
Now, what I see as the problem, is to implement a socialism without creating authoritarianism. Apart from the fact that there are no working examples in history, I think it is extremely hard if not impossible at all. If you think of the steps you would do to achieve it? First, you would need to either expropriate/nationalize whatever belongs to the rich. That is how you reduce inequality, right? But creative and resourceful people would still recreate their wealth and you are back in square one with that. Ok, we can tax them heavily. That will probably work at some degree. You will take away their incentive and they will stop being productive or leave the country to prosper elsewhere. The economy will sink, and you will need to either admit your failure or turn to oppressive methods to keep your plan moving forward because there will be too many people who will disagree with you at this point.
Surely, there probably are other scenarios, but if they are, where are they?
Hence why I like Brave. Their model is very solid and seems a lot more sustainable than depending on Google as their overlord. Ads are voluntary, displayed as a system notification and vetted by Brave. Watch ads, you get tokens which pay publishers. If you don't want ads, you can buy tokens. If you don't want to buy tokens, you still won't see ads. And except for the first offer there is no nag screen either.

I think Firefox is awesome and it is really bad if we continue the Chrome/blink hegemony, but I can't stand for their decision to not block all ads instead of just trackers, especially on phones. The modern web without a 'real' adblocker is borderline unusable and Firefox prioritizing publishers over users doesn't sit well with me.
That looks a bit unusual even from a FP perspective. Functions get passed to functions all the time, just not defined inline very often. Unless it's the only one parameter or a very simple closure, then it could still look clean and readable.
When you reach a critical mass of people with nothing to lose the wealth will balance again, usually through violence.
In calling these people entrepreneurs you are really contorting the language. The entrepreneurs in this system are the creators and owners of the system. The other people are something else entirely.
Mozilla has made 100s of millions from Google without which it would have had to make due with volunteers instead of hundreds of paid employees.
Obviously you'll still need some staff. But suddenly you don't need staff that knows how to handle physical server rooms and data centers, you limit it to AWS which covers a whole range of needs which would need to be addressed by different staff with different skillsets.
I showed up at the scene of a (small) plane crash yesterday hoping to go for a hike. Wasn't sure what the fuss was about, so pulled my phone out to check local news. Within seconds, a reporter for a local news channel was tapping on my window. I rolled it down, he told me there was a plane crash, and asked if I'd like to share my thoughts on camera.

Um, no? How could I _possibly_ have anything intelligent to say about this?

And then it hit me... this is why local news is so crazy. Because the people who end up interviewed on TV are the types of people who _don't_ realize they have nothing intelligent to say, or who are self-absorbed enough to want to get on TV however they can.

Needless to say, I didn't do the interview.
Well, French is commonly spoken every day by a lot more 76M people, it's more in the area of 200 to 300M people. If you go in Marocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Ivory Coast, Cameroon and other former colonies in Africa, you can reasonably expect people to be fluent, at least in cities.
I bet that he regrets doing business with Softbank, yes.

An anecdote I heard (unsure if true) was that Softbank had strongly encouraged Adam to focus on growth at the expense of profitability to a much higher degree, shooting for the stars much more than he otherwise would have done.

If I was Icharus and someone else had given me wings and told me fly much higher, I'd have myself to blame but I'd still be upset and filled with regret.
And you and everyone else benefited from the cheap energy that oil provided.
Actually, that's a form of Proportional Representation. What's being adopted by NY still results in one winner, not a percentage of seats awarded based on the percentage of votes a party got.
Did he though? The IPO revealed it to be essentially a scam that failed to fool the public.
In French, most adjectives follow the noun they describe (while adjectives precede nouns in English), so the primary compromise is not naming per se, but specifically abbreviating.

It’s a good compromise and a compromise good.
The Holy Grail of Energy Is Finally Within Reach
Except 250 times bigger.

(Pets.com max market cap was $400 million. Softbank's Vision Fund is 100 billion.)
Generally, I like to keep the temporaries. Mostly it is a consequence of getting burned and trained by the Visual Studio debugger; trying to put anything too complicated into the watch window or even evaluating it in the immediate window tends to be an exercise in frustration. It's also easier to step into the sub-expression/function call if need be when I do this, which is not always the case if it is a parameter to another function.
To add to my comment, I know this is walking a fine line and I understand if the mods delete it.

My point was that the Hobby Lobby owners have their own bias against non-Christians and implying that those who oppose them are bigots is wrong.
It appears that Beta 2 will be coming shortly. I would imagine that a 1.0 would follow in a year or so. Also I think it has been closer to 20 years now :)
There's a linguistic ambiguity in the part of the op here. What is "mining"?

Is spam filtering mining? Is indexing for search (in Gmail) mining? Is sticking flights on your calendar (and nothing else) mining?

Mining sounds nefarious. Are analysis of emails for the consumer still mining? If they are, and any scanning of emails is bad, why use Gmail? To me at least, it's value is the stuff it does for me.
This is for the Mayor and other citywide offices where there can only be one winner in the election.
- Get your own bedroom.
- 30 minute commute.
- Not everyone you meet will be in tech.
- You'll be rich compared to everyone else in town.
- Partner with local academic institutions to offer recognized research projects and training. 20% time or 3 month project stints etc. Adjunct professor ships for people with an existing research record.
- Throw in X free flights to east/west coast, home town etc.