skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One random breakthrough in political science I happen to know about is Experimental(ist) governance.

The common way of thinking about a legislature is that it enacts laws that are just. That which is in the eyes of the population "bad" is outlawed and what is "good" is kept legal. That's a model that has been with us since antiquity. Of course, in the old days the law came from the God(s) but the point was the same -- differentiate between right and wrong.

Experimental governance brings in a completely new way of thinking (+). The legislature is instead seen as an experimenter and laws are seen as tools to use to regulate the behavior of the populace. Maybe the government identifies X as a problem, so a temporary law A to combat the problem is drafted. The law is enacted but with a provision so that it expires after say an evaluation period of 18 months. Then the government studies what effects the law had. If the negatives outweighs the positives, maybe try law B instead and the process repeats itself.

The advantages to experimental governance is that laws can be enacted quickly and in response to changing circumstances. And that "beta testing" makes it easier to write tighter laws free of loop-holes and other problems. Disadvantages include: 1) Regimes can abuse the system by extending quickly drafted temporary laws indefinitely (e.g Patriot Act). 2) If there are no checks and balances built into the system, arbitrary or contradictory laws can be enacted. 3) If the population isn't following the political debate, it might not be aware of what the law is. Thus, EG works best in stable democracies with educated populations, like the EU countries where it is used extensively.

+ Of course no idea is 100 % new, but I know of no similar historical precedent. Temporary laws and decrees have been used in the past, but afaik they have always been considered aberrations and not "natural parts of the system."
We spend mostly on hardware.
Switches. Servers. Desktops. Gpus. Hard disks. Laptops.
As I have already said in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21026626 :

Firefox really should take care of it's native interface, it feels like a cross-platform app, and while it does have some worthy features to consider, for me it's too non-mac (and in that aspect, it really doesn't look like an Window/Linux app either) for someone using Safari to migrate.
I mean you wouldn't have this reaction if you moved to France.

Quebec's official language is French - regardless of its status within the rest of Canada. Why would you move it immigrate to Quebec if you are not willing to learn French?

If you like Canada but not French, go to Vancouver or Toronto
I am as happy as I could get with Firefox except for the native tab-switching Among opened tabs.

Tab search is done by typing % in the address bar followed by a keyword to search among opened tabs.

- Ctr+L to get in the address bar

- Shift+6 to type %

- space,

- type your keywords.

My fingers, especially the pinky just cannot do this, particularly switching between Ctrl and Shift. Also, you have to release Shift otherwise the space doesn’t get typed.

Please, please come up with an easier finger gymnastics to use this native feature.
> other stuff like open image in new window

Well you can open an image in a new tab by holding down control as you click the 'view image' button. Right click on any image and hold control.
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lidars are used to generate humongous amounts of labeled training data for depth perception networks so that you don’t have to use them during inference
"I hope the employee who made this call will get in trouble"

Government employees could get in trouble for many reasons. F..ing up living person's lives with moronic decisions is not the one though. Look for example at "Windrush scandal" in UK. The action of the government in my eyes are pure human rights crimes. Good luck finding any
person from a government held responsible (never mind put in jail where they belong).
Funny you asked, build2[1] can be (and is[2]) used to package bash. It even has build system support for modularization of bash scrips[3].

[1] https://build2.org

[2] https://cppget.org/?packages=bash

[3] https://build2.org/build2/doc/build2-build-system-manual.xht...
My wife is a Montreal native and we go there once a year to visit her mother. I love it there but it has it's downside like every other place. The roads are horrible and the traffic to get on and off the island is insane. Hopefully the new bridge will help. I think having a French speaking partner along with you makes the experience much better.
SELinux's sandbox[1] tool works pretty well for isolating GUI applications (with -X).
[1] https://linux.die.net/man/8/sandbox
I'm going to share this on FB just to see what happens.

I see so much bullshit on my feed that I mostly ignore it nowadays, as opposed to pointing it out to whomever posted it because doing that hasn't seemed to stop anyone from posting more.

I'll add that while I think the point of the article is worthy, the tons of ads on that page lead me to believe it was created more for it's clickbait potential than to make that point.
It's impressive how you've taken a simple two word response to your start of discussion that aimed to succinctly demonstrate problems with your general directional statement with so much worthless blather. Do you always fail so magnificently to just accept the point when challenged in some pathetic need to 'win' the conversation?
The attitude you display in this post suggests that it's a good thing for everyone that you moved. Quebecers are actually very tolerant of Anglophones and while it is difficult to adapt to using a new language it is not impossible and is actually fun in many ways.

French survives in a sea of anglophone hegemony only because of such language laws.
that statement is the politically correct version of "poached an employee"
Manager READMEs start out with good intentions, but every example I've seen is flawed for multiple reasons:

1) It's manager-centric. Why would you give employees a guide to their manager when you could give them an "Employee README" that is focused on the new employee? When I join a company, I want to know what's expected of me so I can succeed. If the company delivers this in a form of a manager README then I'll still be missing the big picture goals of the company. Managers - Focus on your employees, not yourself.

2) Manager READMEs become an aspirational target. Describing yourself in text is challenging for the ego. I've seen too many manager READMEs that read like a picture-perfect version of what the manager aspires to be, rather than a description of how the person actually operates.

3) The self-promotion aspect. When managers post their README all over internal company chat, public Twitter, their LinkedIn profiles, Medium think pieces, and the company blog (like this article), the document becomes a brand-building exercise. This puts even more pressure on managers to only write down their most perfect, idealized vision for what they want to be. Or they spin their flaws as some sort of superpower with creative wording. I once read a public manager README that was nothing like that person's actual management style, but it read as if that person was a textbook-perfect manager.

My recommendation: Skip the manager README fad and focus on your employees. Write an "Employee README" onboarding guide for each of your employees, that you customize with individual expectations and information for each employee before they join the company. Keep it in a shared document that you can update over time to include an up-to-date job description, list of responsibilities, and key expectations for that employee. Don't try to make management all about the manager's personal brand.
I'm sorry to hear you've been driven out by the politics (god knows after 26 years I'm quite exhausted as well). I don't know your story, and you might have been on a sharper end of the stick policy-wise than myself, but I do feel the need to make provincial politics the last thing to consider when contemplating a move if I am able to. I fear that having anglophones flee the province because of these policies are just add fuel to the injustice. I rather be a vocal and present reminder to my neighbors and coworkers that Quebec is made-up of more than the ruling class.
This post actually made me switch to Firefox. The set up process was very smooth. Importing all my settings from Chrome just worked. I feel safer already.

Is it just me or does the scrolling feel a bit different in Firefox? I am running Firefox on a Macbook from 2019 using the touch pad.

Thanks OP!
Hiring as It Should Be
This started out well.
I don’t honk that’s possible as someone will always have to do the bureaucratic bits of people management - in my experience most engineers don’t want to do this bit at all and only focus on the tech
I've never had this happen personally. What OS is this? I use Firefox on OSX installed through Homebrew, so I have to manually update it with brew. Firefox has never asked me to update.
Exactly. Ce n'est pas facile à apprendre mais c'est possible.
> Why would you give employees a guide to their manager when you could give them an "Employee README" that is focused on the new employee?

Why not do both? "Hey folks, here's my README, I'd encourage you to write something similar and share it with everybody."
Based on what I've heard from others (I don't smoke), the black market in Canada still exists because of poor quality relative to cost, and low supply. Supposedly.

Also, the black market is probably running off inertia due to existing supply, and how easy it is to grow plants as an individual. I don't think anyone expected the black market to disappear overnight. It's only been a year.
It is worse in that Hangouts does not make false claims about its security, so people who use it know that they are using it for features provided by the kind of security it provides (only between the user and Google), like searching chat history across devices.

iMessage can also only guarantee security between the user and Apple due to Apple distributing the public keys (but to a lesser extent because it uses worse crypto), but it does not provide the usability features like searching full chat history across devices that Hangouts does.
About Youtube or my example with a big image grid, do you think you can fit all those JS frameworks and tracking in memory but you can't fit the title and thumbnail url of 200 videos ? you have an array with this 200 objects if titlke,video url, thumbnail url , the network request you will do lazily for the thumbnails and you can load the next row of thumbnail in the background while I am scrolling down. I am not talking about loading all at once, you load only what you need and a bit more so when you scroll down the stuff is already p reloaded , let me know if this is not clear and I can explain (I profiled my app and it was spending 2 seconds in the native browser layouting code)

About the scrollbars, I am not taling about a document side scrollbar, think at an example of a dropdown with all the font families, those have a scrollbar, I don't want to reimplement the scroll. I want to use the native widgets but the designers decided we will use a dark professional looking theme and the native scroller can't be styled with css, I know the discussions we ahd here on HN about the main page scrollbar and I agree we should use the native widget but we should be able to color it to match the webpage colors , what you will notice in application not webpages is that everyone is using custom component, nobody uses the native dropdowns,scrollbars,calendar, numeric inputs, the reason most of the time is that you are forced into using custom widgets because teh native ones are limited, are not customizable enough.

I 100% agree with you about pixel perfect and styling but I am just a developer, I implemented this weak the numeric input using the native input, I presented it to my boss and they asked me to respect the design, so tomorrow I will have to hunt for a JS library that implements this, look trough it's bug tracking for it's issues etc. I hate I have to do this but6 is not my decision and my initial point is that this is a reason why Web apps are bad as performance or UX , this custom components can run code on your mouse move events, on your clicks, on your scroll events , a native component would be faster and have less bugs and more features.
> Smoking (or other forms of nicotine administration) is self-medication for a significant portion of the population

It is believed to be, but it isn't.

We could make the same argument for alcohol or even heroin, that stop a cough and relieves from physical pain.

> I think it's particularly harmful and sad to say there's no possible conversation

As a smoker, there is no possible conversation on the fact that smoking kills, cigarettes are killers, no matter the benefits one can take out of them, they are "responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year in the United States, including more than 41,000 deaths resulting from secondhand smoke exposure. This is about one in five deaths annually, or 1,300 deaths every day. On average, smokers die 10 years earlier than nonsmokers"

This is a fact that can only be acknowledged as true, even though personally many people decide to ignore this fact and smoke anyway (including myself).

But we smokers are simply wrong.
Firefox is agonizingly slow for me on an otherwise idle system, on my old, slow (2 core, 1.5 GHz) laptop, with only 8 tabs open.

It takes about 30 seconds to load a web page, and I'm using an ad blocker (uBlock Origin) and also block unnecessary Javascript (via uMatrix). I have some other blockers too: Decentraleyes and CanvasBlocker, along with some other extensions like Stylus, Tree Style Tab, and Multi Account Containers which might slow things down as well.
I’m in one right now. We manage each other I guess. It works well. We recently decided to add a lightweight annual career goal type check in. We have a sort of informal lead that is recognized politically as the person you’d go to if you needed to resolve a dispute or air a grievance. I came from a gig where I was managed being managed very directly and I don’t miss it at all. If people want more structure we can accommodate them, but I think most of us feel like it’s just process we don’t need because our culture highly values trust in one another.
FF also has multiple profiles feature. But nothing matches Containers. Containers are different. Containers keep only the identity data (sesssion, cookies etc.) separate. All other data is shared. Profiles are painful. History, Password Manager, Bookmarks all are accessible and shared across FF containers. This makes it really useful.
Anglophones built Quebec alongside Francophones.

We've as much right to this province as francophones.

Also, here's a hot-tip: telling people they don't belong somewhere and that they should go live elsewhere is usually a really great heuristic of when you're extremely wrong.
English is the language of science at the international level, own it Quebec, or be dismissed to the dark ages . . . .
The Book of Five Rings, Miso Robotics, and Men in Tights
I'm going to 'recycle' an older comment of mine, pertaining to the comments about the book. The original comment can be found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20583363
I was annoyed that someone called Ed Snowden a 'Traitor'. Hopefully it gets a bit more recognition in this thread

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For me he made the Great Game of Privacy a lot fairer. You should read the excellent entry on Wikipedia about the aftermath of the leaks[0]. If the leaks meant that privacy-loving folk went 'dark' in light of the leaks, then this is a net plus. Snowden's actions possibly hindered NSA in catching undesirables, but it's a small price to pay for a bolstered Internet and privacy-respecting comms. And who's to say that the apparatus even worked that well in foiling the efforts of plotters? Bill Binney[1] consistently drives his message home that the NSA's surveillance apparatus is very inefficient at foiling plots, and I agree with him.

Even if it stopped one plot in all the time of its existence, it's still an enormous effort and an enormous amount of money spent just to foil one plot. Old fashioned police work is better at foiling plots because it doesn't have to rely on big data algorithms sifting through the noise of Internet traffic (most of which is innocuous). Old fashioned methods work because they employ simple detective work - it doesn't need the NSA at every choke point and decrypting countless crypto.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowden_Effect

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Binney_%28U.S._intelli...
That is one of several reasons that innovation in the U.S. is mortally wounded.
> got us the ribbon in Microsoft Office for example, an incredibly unintuitive interface.

On the contrary. The ribbon is a really excellent piece of UX work, much more discoverable and usable than the masses of menus that preceded it. It just isn't what people were used to. My favorite story is a friend of mine ranting about how he couldn't find anything with the ribbon in Word, and adding, "but at least they added styles to Word." I had to point out that styles had been in Word for a long, long time and the ribbon had just done its job very nicely.
The specific provision at issue in Citizens United was part of the campaign finance laws for the same reason the Patriot Act is called what it is. But it had nothing to do with financing of campaigns. It involved speech prohibitions on corporations and labor unions unrelated to campaigns.
I think it's perfectly normal for people in a small enclave nestled in the heart of the giant Anglo-saxon hegemon to feel insecure about the long-term survival of their unique language and culture and want to take extra steps to preserve it. I'm completely sympathetic with them refusing to provide services in a foreign language when that language is a serious threat to their existence as a cultural group.

Look what happened to French in Louisiana, or Irish in Ireland, or Native American languages across the continent. Quebecers don't want that to happen to them, and I can't blame them.

By the way, always remember that Quebecers never chose to become part of Canada or any English-speaking society; they were conquered by military force.
I've been using Firefox since the beginning... even when it used to be a lot slower then Chrome. I didn't like the updating service that Google installed on my computer that was always running in the background... do they still do that?
Used to be a major advocate of Firefox as power user for almost 10years after switching from Maxthon/MyIE2 as the previous best browser.

Now I just use https://Vivaldi.com ... far more customisation and features than Firefox. Even includes some of the power addons Firefox used to have as good addons... before it became the complete noob dog shit like it is now.

Seriously Mozilla can go fuck themselves (I mean they already are, they lobotomised there browser into a crappy chrome clone in all but engine backend) maybe I should make a website like majrko.fyi competently trashing every aspect of Firefox. I can't even stand it (it pales in comparison to what it could be with the previous addon system) and it's new stupid slide menu system is just a big fucking waste of time designed by idiots who haven't a clue about good workflow. And the complete lack of customisation and features compared to Vivaldi is joke (or even what Firefox used to be capable of..so sad)

At this point vanilla Chrome is just basic google garbage, but I wouldn't goto Firefox because of it's so called privacy aspects.. I'd goto Vivaldi instead for the features.. Privacy is dead.
This is the silliest, most ridiculous, and self absorbed thing I've read in a while. So much so that I suspect it's actually satire. If it's not then silicon valley sounds like another planet, in my 2+ decades of employment I've never had any sort of issues with management. If I have any questions, I ask, if I have any feedback, I give it. That clears up any ambiguity.
Pinch to zoom is in beta for some time now. From a Firefox developer on /r/firefox¹:

> You can turn it on by setting 'apz.allow_zooming' to true. It sort of works but has bugs. You can track the progress and report problems that you see here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1461360.*

¹ https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/bcebze/its_2019_wh...
Europe’s Galileo satellites going dark
If we know that corruption varies a lot between states (as in countries) and, worldwide, has reduced over time, why would we think it's inevitable?

I see a lot of estimating-as-inevitable in many problem areas - for example: the environment, race and sex relations, security / "privacy". I'm not sure whether it has increased, or I'm just more aware of it these days.

When we think that a problem is inevitable, we may conclude that various reponses that otherwise have little to recommend them might be a good thing: populisms, zero-sum thinking, authoritarianism, radical transparency. This idea of inevitability is in conflict with optimism in David Deutsch's sense: optimism as the principle that all problems are caused by lack of knowledge (and therefore that all problems are either solvable, or truly inevitable because of some law of physics - no examples of the latter being known).
I love containers as well. Does anyone know when/if they'll be coming to Firefox for Android and iOS?

Also, I really wish you would be able to specify which container you want in the Home button when using multiple urls for your default tabs.

So this:

https://gmail.com/|https://gmail.com/

Would become something like this:

{container:personal}https://gmail.com/|{container:work}https://gmail.com/
if you are an attentive driver you can get killed anytime by these other drivers
It’s hard to root for the ILWU. I grew up in San Pedro, where many of the long shoremen live (near the port of L.A.). Once you’ve known these people for a while, you start to understand that the problem is not only a strong union but also a stubborn and incompetent people.

The workers there are known for working doubles while on meth/speed. There are horror stories of crane operators high while operating machinery. Every so often a worker is flattened by a container.

Outside of work, the longies act like royalty in San Pedro. I grew up with their self entitled kids who would refuse to study in high school because they knew their parents would get them into the union. They drive around in jumbo SUVs like maniacs around town.

The longshoremen are still living off the karma of bloody Thursday, but one day that karma will wear off and the port will be modernized.
I have 1Blocker for ads and Enpass for passwords. That’s all I need.
The developer console is very good, I rarely need anything else.
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In mice.

Well, you get the idea.
The paper is interesting because they calculate the theoretically optimal difficulty for a specific class of learning algorithms: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12552-4 (I think the method might be applicable for scheduling flashcards better than the rule-of-thumb spacing of Anki et al.)

The Independent article is unfounded speculation about this applying to the way humans learn, without any discussion of whether the model is actually applicable. (Most things humans are trying to learn aren't binary classification tasks.)
Yeah, scrolling is still pretty bad, and high cpu usage in youtube/twitch.
>Hopefully something similar will emerge

Nothing similar will ever emerge, because the only reason Gorhill isn't supporting development on Chrome is due to the API changes that means that uBlock literally cannot function anymore. There will never be a new uBlock, or anything similar, on Chrome without some kind of exploit or Chrome backtracking on the manifest changes.