skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...and this:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=570366#c1

"This option isn't supported, last I checked"

What a reason. They decided to remove it because it "isn't supported"? So much for "open source" being better at "do what users want"... if you personally don't need that option, fine, don't use it. But don't go taking away things that a lot of others want.

I get extremely angry whenever I see discussions like that. You can read and even participate in them, but your opinion is ultimately useless because you're not part of some privileged group who makes all the decisions about what to do with Firefox. It's no better than proprietary software where your bug reports are similarly ignored, besides being possibly a little bit easier to patch.
Unrelated question. There's a "Made by Lanes" badge. What was made by lanes.io though? The web page?
Apple doesn’t make it easy to report a bug. Most apps don’t. I don’t know why the industry hasn’t settled on a standard icon for “send feedback”.
Instead of asking for each site, just allow first-party cookies and delete them by default when the last tab of that domain is closed. The user should be able to favorite cookies to keep indefinitely, with the rest being cleared on a user-defined schedule (onTabClose, 1 hour, 24 hours, 1 week, etc). There was a free Safari extension called Safari Cookies that handled the favoriting but it stopped working several years ago.
https://sweetpproductions.com/safaricookies/index.htm

I'm surprised this isn't a standard feature built into browsers. Seems like it would be obvious to have a level of granularity between accept all first-party cookies and accept none.

Edit: to clarify, I don't think setting cookies is the issue (and not worth the UX hassle to ask everytime); the issue is storing the cookies for longer than the interaction persists. To me, it's analogous to someone remembering who you are during a conversation vs adding you to their rolodex and storing that info indefinitely.
I would be curious to see to what extent it supports error recovery. Perhaps I missed it, but I didn't see anything that specifically addressed that.

This seems like it would be very compelling, especially for small scale stuff. Being able to wire something as small as an ATiny85 into a computer and communicate over a relatively high-level protocol would be very useful for interfacing with sensors and other peripherals.

I wonder how difficult it would be to adapt something like USBtiny[0] build an adapter. For potentially a few $ worth of parts, you could connect to all kinds of nifty embedded peripherals, albeit at relatively slow speeds. One obvious use case that comes to mind would be controlling lights / sensors / fans etc. in custom computer builds.

0 - https://dicks.home.xs4all.nl/avr/usbtiny/
If I'd come across those sentences while browsing, I'd have assumed that it was some low-grade SEO blogospam written by a Mechanical Turk participant. That some Markov-chain-with-extra-steps generated it instead is of mild interest.

But! I am also 100% certain that a lot of people, particularly non-technical ones, wouldn't even think that it could have been machine-written, even as kludgy as it is. I think there is very real reason to be concerned by this, although I am at a loss as to what to do about it.
I thought this was worth re-examining given the Paltrow family connection to WeWork
one of the benefits of my current job is they waved the test, so they saved me three+ hours out of my life even before hiring me. They are also paying me quite a bit of money for the market I'm in. I have explicitly said to recruiters that I won't consider moving for less than 16% increase in wage (I mean I named an amount that represents a 16% increase)

A company is moving on me with that increase and I'm starting to think screw it, I don't want to go through the irritating test they will give me. Of course that's because I have a job but still if one is comfortable, why go through the hassle.
Upcoming ePrivacy law should fix this nonsense with cookie banners. Although, having cookies permissions settings, like notifications and location in browser UI would be great.
You can ask here: https://opendata.stackexchange.com/
It means that you can produce the same design (IP or intellectual property) on both processes. The denser process should then result in a better frequency or power performance without a redesign. Many processes do require a redesign because of different latency or more redundancy/error checking required and so on.
We have customers in industrial processes that care. Internet is questionable and they are not working overtime for bloated software.
Partly because we recapitulated the development from 8 or 16-bit instruction sets three times: 1) mainframe (discrete transistors/tubes and magnetic memory), 2) minicomputer (TTL ICs and solid state memory), and 3) personal computers (microprocessor chips). And then there were dial-up and hard-wired cluster controller networks, various LAN networks, and then internet protocol networks to go along with timesharing, client server, and cloud. Plus ça change....
Then why weren't the 1990s peak America? Post Cold War left us the only remaining superpower, with military bases all over the world, and unparalleled economic influence over other countries. There was the relief that nuclear Armageddon was no more, the optimism that the internet boom would lead to social improvement, the prosperity of the stock market boom (remember 'Dow 36,000'?), the promise of VR and nanotech just around the corner, and much more.

That's the entire problem with this topic - it's easy to pick stats which let you conclude that the 1950s was "peak America". But at least as easy to pick other stats which conclude it wasn't.

Your definition of "peak" can only be applied to the most powerful countries. For example, when was peak Iceland or Finland? That suggests it's a pretty weak definition.

I can't help but think that your phrase "good time for white people" omits out the white women who had to deal with the widespread sexism and misogyny of the era. What fraction of those women had to deal with “the problem with no name”, as Friedan called it - "the widespread unhappiness of women in the 1950s and early 1960s" quoting Wikipedia?

Your phrase "a good time for the vast majority" doesn't ring true.

If 100% of the 10% black population, and 60% of the 45% white female population, and 4% of the 45% gay white male population faced discrimination, then that's 39% of the population.

That's a majority, yes, but not a vast majority. And that's just back-of-the-envelope numbers. What about a white men who wanted to marry a black woman but couldn't because of anti-miscegenation laws? A white man in a position like Loving, in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_v._Virginia , was certainly not having a good time in the 1950s.

If 1% of the population is in abject slavery, in order to make the other 99% very happy, is that truly just? I would prefer to think I would be one of the ones who walks away from Le Guin's Omelas.
...we should get these bots to start generating ad copy for the high-end audio world, they'd fit right in!
From your job Senior Backend Engineer job description it sounds like remote is US-only. Can you confirm this?
Not sure about the GP but they might not be in the US. There are many parts of the world where bandwidth is scarce and expensive (w.r.t. average income). There’s a reason why both Android and Apple have “low data modes”
That's an old converted plane. It was a passenger plane, then a cargo plane, then sat on a lot for a couple of years.. so they got it cheap.

A new CL-415 is $35m:
https://www.rand.org/blog/2013/12/investing-in-firefighting....
And that's not a particularly large plane.

It does look like a lot of water bombers are old converted planes.. so you're probably closer to the correct number than the number I posted.

I don't think this changes my point though.. they're still expensive planes.
so they studied the top 1M websites and found 19% is using wordpress? man, that's a good chunk if you ask me.
Google Translate link for the article at the end of the repo:

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...
Microsoft Reveals New Logo for Microsoft Edge
> the overall rate if you look at a week or two [later] is no different

I don't see any statement to that effect in the linked paper. Quite the contrary: they interpret the evidence as suggesting that the increase in "social jet lag" has deleterious effects during the entire duration of DST. Can you produce a quotation supporting your interpretation?
As a bike commuter in Portland, OR, year round DST will probably discourage me in the winter. Of course, winter already does a good job of that!
I mean, on desktop it spins up my laptop fans and doesn't even scroll smoothly, so they're clearly somewhat failing at UX. If I pretend-throttle in dev tools it gets better.

Then of course I'll probably never buy their product, so my experience isn't that important.
There are definitely more diverse funding sources available for deep tech but mostly if you limit "deep tech" to more traditional physical domains like hardware, biotech, medtech, etc. For domains like computer science, the non-traditional deep tech funding sources tend to be few outside US intelligence agencies.

That said, having raised capital for software deep tech, I think the best path forward today is to position it as a SaaS startup. The execution strategy is quite different than a traditional SaaS startup and requires significantly more front-loaded personal investment on the part of the founders, but I think it is a lower hurdle to clear in terms of effectively raising investment than positioning as deep tech.

My own view is that as an industry we are currently quite poor at fostering the formation of software deep tech startups (which is an opportunity). This is both because they are difficult, unusual startups from an investor perspective and there are very few entrepreneurs with experience successfully executing this type of startup. Thousands of articles exist on executing and investing in SaaS or consumer tech companies, and approximately none for software deep tech.
My intent isn't to engage in argument with you, but I'm curious, by that line of reasoning do you feel the same about K9 dogs used to take down criminals who may be armed?
XYZ Cargo Bikes – Fully Modular and Open Source
Gotta love one-star reviews like "it doesnt work". I actually have a solution to this problem. But it probably do not suit all businesses. When signing up have a checkbox that say "I will report all bugs". Then have an easy way to report them, where other users can help with workarounds. Then follow up and answer all bug reports.
I think managing bug reports is a social problem. You need to have empathy more then technical skills.
Ask HN: Is the future of software in the browser?
As more and more apps are being delivered via the web, do you think this trend will continue or is it going to plateau soon?
Gwyneth Paltrow should be in prison. She found the perfect victims in women who are too wealthy to garner public sympathy. She found the perfect crime in one that is so obvious that one would be embarrassed to admit to having been a victim.
And with time, they changed that factor... they made a business decision to largely cut the 20% time projects previously allowed. Owners and Management made a decision to change things, as they often do.

The same applies to Deadspin.
That literally almost no one knows how to use and clicks ok anyway.
Ask HN: How to Become a Technical Cofounder
I've got some startup experience + a few years of big co engineering, and am interested in exploring early stage startups. I'm craving the startup experience again, and would be interested in something early stage, but am skeptical that the economic side is worth it to join an early stage company as an employee.

What are things you'd recommend doing to develop skills to be a good cofounder? How would you go about finding opportunities?
Even with tracking you merely need a privacy policy in a place users can find. It's considered implied consent to continue using a site if the site makes a reasonable effort to make you aware that such a policy exists.

However, what counts as reasonable hasn't been explicitly defined. The UK government considers it fine to use a header that automatically disappears after awhile (i.e. no need to click "ok"). But other governments may view it differently so I can understand some large organisations being cautious.
I'm saying that MAYBE senior management and ownership has a plan, and shouldn't have to explain themselves on their decision making to have one of their brands bring in a more narrow focus.
This is not correct. The details of gun ownership rights depends on the individual European state, but it's absolutely possible for a civilian to own guns. In fact, some do. It's just not engrained in the general culture or connected to the protection of rights, and subject to stricter regulation.
The second part of that headline is completely unnecessary. Shameful that this type of reporting (i.e. fact + opinion) has become the norm.
This is why cancel culture isn't actually real.

https://youtu.be/szybEhqUmVI
In physics, we call the spatial analogue of temporal frequency the "wavenumber", or if you're thinking quantum mechanically the "momentum". Neither seems to have caught on elsewhere though.
The Scattered State of the Reference Genome
Yes, I really liked this, because it was well structured and has the style I understand best.

What was interesting to me, was the irritating effect the high frequency image has to my eyes. It's like I need to move my eyes very fast when I look at that picture.
> Maybe the problem is the artificial bandwidth scarcity being created by US cell providers.

This. When I (in France) can €15.99 a month for unlimited calls and texts to phones in France, the US, Canada, China (plus unlimited calls to fixed lines in 100 other countries, too) and a 100GB 4G data plan included, too, it seems crazy that US carriers charge so much. Sure, there are infrastrcuture differences in serving a country of more than 300 million spread out over a landmass so big rather than a small, more densely populated country like France, but it still seems out of control.
Smart kids eventually grow up (2018)
Until AI has desire, imagination and a sense of purpose, I don't think programmers will be losing too many jobs right away.
I did it once in the last 3 years and it was worth ~$1m to my company.
Airbnb will start banning “party houses”
Question is if it's a bad thing or not. I mean, people with questionable morals or worldview have been hanging out for all of human history. We could complain that ostracizing people who became members of the Klan makes the Klan happen, but at least then they're over there being racist at Klan rallies and not in the middle of the public square.
CA confirmed the best
A theorem of software engineering: the shortest possible schedule
Microsoft Edge Beta has this. In Settings -> Site Permissions, you can disable "Allow sites to save cookies", but then add individual websites to the Allow list. There is also a Clear On Exit list you can add sites to.

I'm pretty sure Firefox & Chrome have similar functionality.
An extreme cynic could say: If you don't have a fast connection with dataplan for that, you're not rich enough to be the target market.

A lot of iOS and macOS software and websites are designed with assumption of having good infrastructure only affluent western world has.
Thanks! I've never heard of Pigovian tax before, it's nice to have the background of the idea.
We Shouldn’t Be Scared by ‘Superintelligent A.I.’
In the dial-up days I remember turning on ask to set cookies. It was fairly common to need to deny 10-20 cookie requests even back then. Now there are extensions to manage website trackers that deal with more than just cookies. Extensions are a ton better than having the user agree to each cookie that is sent.
I have not tested it, but I believe the site does not load 65.4Mb when on a phone (might consider bandwidth too)
I don't think a person needs to be self-absorbed or arrogant to flash their drone. It reminds me of jailbreaking when iPhones first came out. We were warned it would void our warranty and possible we could go to jail for hacking our own device. But we did it anyways because I like to have full control over my devices. I would want the same with my drone. Why? Because though I would respect a no fly zone in a fire situation I may not do the same if my government was arbitrarily placing them up during protests or to prevent people from recording human rights issues.
I'll Take Pkg over Internal
And expensive plastic and oil is good for the environment. Conversely cheaper things with positive externalities, like vaccinations would also be beneficial.
Linus Torvald just won the Impostor Syndrome championship.

He would never admit though ...
If you read the tread that follows on the original tweet: It seems that the Apple website respects this and returns a low data version on low bandwidth connections.
> "there's no objective winner here"

To a large degree I agree with what you're saying (you know what they say about opinions), but the last couple years I've put a lot more effort into improving my sleep habits after reading Matthew Walker's book "Why We Sleep". Tons of science and data-driven conclusions.

But what I found incredible, there are studies to back this up, is that in spring, when we "lose" an hour of sleep, the next day after changing the clocks, heart attacks increase by about 24%.[0] Of course on the flip side, apparently there is a ~21% reduction in heart attacks when we set the clocks back in the fall, so maybe it's a wash.

Suicide rates also jump in spring on the day immediately after the clocks have been pushed forward.

[0] https://www.sciencealert.com/daylight-savings-time-change-ki...
You don’t want the browser to ask because the large number of cookies is so normal.
New Relic Acquires Technology and Team Members from IOpipe
It'd be interesting to do all that you said (and more) and then determine what's the combined amount, as well as what % of sites do some sort of obfuscation... and why?
What was the ethical reason for the taxi medallion system? All it did was create an artificial shortage and a few people got rich buying medallions and the actual taxi drivers were just as shortchanged by the owners of the medallion as they are by Uber and it was a worse customer experience.
Ask HN: How do you organize all your photos?
There's a drastic change in the number of pictures we take of every memory. What tools/flow do you use to organize and build a db of photos? Maybe even backups too.

There are ways to organize movies, shows, music that I've come across but nothing solid for photos.
Except sleeping in a car (or a bus, train, airplane) is really really uncomfortable. But cars more than the rest, since you are much more restrained due to seat belts.
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Data as a Service: How It Works, Technical Problems
Lets not forget "the world's fastest personal computer" https://www.businessinsider.com/the-20-most-sexy-violent-and...

'The ASA has banned two separate Apple commercials from airing in the UK. In 2004 the Power Mac G5 made unsubstantiated claims of being "the world's fastest personal computer" and in 2008, an iPhone commercial was banned for saying that it could access "all of the internet" even though it couldn't support Flash.'
This is seriously your argument? Alright, hold my red bull, it's math time.

Let's assume they're using a Boeing Vertol 234, a civilian model of the Chinook commonly used for firefighting. They're double rotor, and as such the rotors are slower than most single rotor helicopters, at around 225 RPM [1] at full throttle.

The rotors on a chinook are 60ft in diameter [2]. This means that the edge of the blade is traveling about 188.5 ft per revolution. At 225 RPM, that's 706.8 feet per second, or ~481 miles per hour, on par with a commercial aircraft at cruising speed.

So yeah, smacking a drone into a relatively thin and lightweight rotor blade at over 400 miles an hour may cause a wee bit of damage.

[1] http://www.chinook-helicopter.com/standards/areas/blade.html
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_CH-47_Chinook#Specifica...
What‘s your alternative to using reCAPTCHA? Have you tried building a page with login function without it?
It's not possible to make an informed decision about whether to accept a particular cookie without first becoming informed. No UI can change that. But it can at least provide the option for the people who take the time.
maybe around 10. I was sent to a programming club learning logo, then another club to learn qbasic. I hated programming very much.

A few years later, I got interested in game and graphics programming, I started to like it since then.