skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Quebec City they are loudly proud of how many Anglos they have driven away. They pretty much purged the city of anything non-French in the two last decades and are displaying it as a success story.

For me, displacing large communities based on their mother tongue is nothing to be proud of. Be it either way.
I've probably seen 'subordinate' used in the same contexts. 'managee' is awful but is at least analogous to 'employer/employee'.
> I can't stand it.

You cannot stand when people ask you "why study so many things" question?

Your "cannot stand" attitude hints that you resist evaluation of your potential mistakes.
> they knew their parents would get them into the union

Ironic that union membership would become just another form of heritable wealth.
Looks very similar to the equipment Lucky Palmer’s new company is selling to the US gov for virtual border fencing.
So B students are learning fastest, and A students are just idling.

OTOH, I graded for a Physics prof where 50/100 on his test was about average.
If you think it’s inferior to Chrome – give Safari a shot. I use it all the time now because it’s so incredibly energy efficient. It also feels faster on the butt dyno in many ways than Chrome.
What was the referendum result though? 49.4% for statu quo vs. 50.6% for independence? That's not really what I'd call a plebiscite for being part of Canada.
UK person here - while I can't speak for the whole of Europe, robocalls and fraudulent calls are a big problem here.

At least for the fraudulent calls, they seem to exclusively come from India, so I presume they mainly target English speaking countries. Typically they claim to be from BT, Microsoft or "your ISP", and try to convince you to install dodgy software on the basis that "your computer has been sending out viruses". This software then messes up your PC or at least makes it look like it, so you shell out some cash for the fraudsters to "fix it". My understanding is that if you fall for this kind of thing, your number also gets passed on or sold to more serious fraudsters.

Robocalls here for the past 5 years or so seem to mainly be from scummy ambulance-chasing solicitors ("we've been notified you were in an accident, contact us now about your claim", that kind of thing).
If they put some emphasis on embeddability, some of us might build these alternative interfaces for them.
I don't support the original decision either, but the blame does not belong on the immigration officer for following an unreasonably strictly worded rule requiring studies to be "entirely" in French.

Yes, most officers don't read this particular rule literally, but immigration rules in general do and should apply literally instead of assuming that officers will always violate what the rule says in favor of contradictory judgment calls.

The fix should include replacing "entirely" with whatever they actually mean in the rules for the program. Most similar eligibility criteria in other contexts use phrases like "main language of instruction", some variation of which would work fine.
This whole idea is called autopoiesis, it's in the book The Tree of Knowledge by Maturana and Varela. Those guys "scientifically proved it", to whatever extent science can prove something like that.
Yeah there's a lot of lonely people everywhere... and not just the elderly. I'm sure they problem gets worse as lonely folks get older.
Here is the post from an extension developer invited in the latest Mozilla workshop with info on the plans for Mozilla for manifest v3

https://gist.github.com/Lusito/dd6b76b93f83267903619103745cc...
Anecdotally, I'd say I fail most things 95% or more of the attempts. That's why we rewrite, debug, practice, drill, google, avoiding failure takes a lot of human effort.
That's too complicated. Use profiles for same result without having to use another user.

firefox -new-instance -P
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Quebec language rules and the minions that enforce them can be quite pathetic. Just a couple of months ago, the debate be was about the right of shop-keepers being able to greet their customers in both English and French, or only in French. Totally ridiculous.

I am also a native French speaker from Europe, and left Montreal because of the backward mentality. I totally respect Quebec’s need to protect their heritage, but you can’t force it down people’s throats. It is counter-productive. It wouldn’t be so funny, if Quebec French wasn’t so hilarious to listen to... they took perfectly good French and turned it into something that is often unrecognizable.
Shouldn’t maximum information gain be found at maximal uncertainty: 50% ??

How is this different from information theory?
> Then things got to the point where developers started doing the "IE thing" and only testing with Chrome. Developers were complicit in this because they repeated the same mistakes of the past.

Not all developers. In fact I remember quite a few meetings where I couldn’t convince product that Safari and Firefox should be supported and ended up leaving the meeting yelling “Fine I’ll support them myself”. To this day I still test in all 3 hoping one day I can stop testing in Chrome.
The only useless "wall of text" is the gray box discussing their open sourcing. The rest of the homepage is tight and punchy
I strongly believe the language we use influences how we think about things and situations. I use the word “people” all the time, even if it means a longer sentence. Being slightly more efficient in expressing my relationship to a person that works for me is not worth the effect of being called a report/resource/direct.
> Multiple clients will connect to the load balancer and when each of them requests a next peer to pass the traffic on race conditions could occur.

I quite don't understand what this means? What race conditions? Can anybody explain? Thanks.
From the complaints of the trucker they interviewed, it sounds like Maersk has a management problem. Crane operators have long breaks because the work is taxing. But having an operator on break shouldn’t mean the crane stops. Two hour breaks are basically split shifts. So five operators for four cranes should cover you. If the don’t all work identical split shifts.

Robots are a pretty passive aggressive way to get rid of bad management.
Problem with containers is that they don't work in anonymous mode (at least last time I tried them they didn't).
Can you define "over-comment"? Without a clear definition, it's just subjective opinion.
I’m maybe missing your point, but this is reflected in the overall death rate now. Similarly in the future the overall death rate will include deaths of the occupants of self-driving cars and also the cars/people that they hit.

The perception will be different however, since in the public eye the drunk driver “had it coming” and the only real loss is the other driver/passengers/pedestrians. If a self-driving car kills its own occupants and the occupants of another car then there are more “innocents” than in the drunk-drive scenario.
I too have virtually no experience with any modern browsers crashing in the ways often reported here. And I'm at least a "power user," using browsers for consumption and web development throughout the day. Dozens or hundreds of tabs—no problem. Developer tools open all the time. No modern browser even breaks a sweat.

I just happen to favor Firefox because I like its speed, look & feel, user interface quirks (versus the quirks of the other browsers), and options for customization.

Notably, I use proper workstations both at home and in the office. I suppose it's possible the popularity of using laptops as developer "workstations" may be underlying much of the grievance we often see here.
> I imagine they will be using 8.8.8.8 [...] now you are sending all your personal data to Google

You shouldn't guess/imagine something and then build your opinion on it. IIRC, Chrome will continue to use your configured nameservers and only use DoH if it's in a whitelist of known implementers.
“Large corporations pit worker against worker,” said Joe Gasperov, president of ILWU Local 63, which represents the clerks. “I feel sorry for the truckers. They’re exploited. They’re paid by the load, not the hour, so they assume all the risk of terminal delays. And some companies care more about saving a buck than servicing the trucks.”

Let's not pay by what you produce (number of loads), but by how much time you take, and drivers will not care about the delays, and the ILWU will not care about delays, and you will have a more efficient, egalitarian system? Yeah, right. Then you will get ILWU types driving trucks and taking their time is all you will have in the end.
Ask HN: Which is the oldest known land dispute, settled in a modern court?
Yesterday, 9 November 2019, a ~500 year old land dispute is settled in the Supreme Court of India [1]. The dispute was between three small groups of people claiming the ownership of the 2.77 acres land. It was not a territorial dispute between countries.

I wanted to know if there is any other such case which is older than this.

[1] https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/ayodhya-case-supreme-court-is-about-to-settle-a-500-year-old-dispute-119110900067_1.html
Please read the book, I found it to be a deep lesson of the history of black female scientists.
I made this for a ML & Arts course I'm taking. I finetuned OpenAI's GPT-2 (774M) with TechCrunch articles and actual startup pitches. The frontend is borrowed from https://tiffzhang.com/startup/.

More info: https://github.com/ucsd-ml-arts/generative-text-winson
Can we stop rating things in terms of what the stupidest user does? That thinking is a cancer upon the entire software community
Great tool here: https://github.com/superfly/wormhole
Saying anglophones built Quebec alongside the francophones sounds a bit like French people saying they built Algeria or Vietnam as a justification for not granting it independence.

The reality is that the anglophones built Quebec because they were colonizing it, and without them the francophones would have "built Quebec" just as well.
Use c_store fdw to store your data in columns and marvel at the 10x performance improvement without indexes.
It sure is a recurring pattern! Has been for decades.
Something like that... and since the referendums happened when Quebec was most inclined to separate (in recent memory) that's really a good sign that > 50% of Quebec would prefer not to.
>>Quebecers are actually very tolerant of Anglophones

I can vouch for that - if you make any attempt at all to speak the most basic French they love you for making the attempt.
Interviews either by an automated system or by someone who doesn't understand the company is "how it should be"?
I wonder if anyone had a similar experience with English proficiency test
B and A is just a proxy for effectiveness in scoring.

However, you do want to be a "B" student when learning, just not in scoring.
> The interesting thing with this example in particular is that the audio output from the radio is already very well-gated thanks to an RF squelch

Author here. Luckily for my purposes I can rely on the radio already having a squelch, so I could get away with using the naive solution.

If it was the raw audio I'd probably need to implement something more sophisticated such as splitting the audio by frequency and giving each band a noise threshold (as atoav mentioned).
Who is ignoring it? Also keep in mind most of these security benefits only helped Windows. There’s a lot of non-windows users here who had app level sandboxing before Chrome sandboxed Flash. Regardless of what they did they’re too “Googlfied” these days and Chrome is a massive window into your personal data. People that have done good things can go on to doing bad things.
Sure, but with the above, there's 1 mutex to read the channel,
not 1 per backend. And a single thread reading the channel.

Plus you know that if the backend is on the channel, you know it's ready to accept, and you don't need the alive flag with synchronized access.
No way man. Comac is decades away from an aircraft that will be competitive outside of China.
I've used Firefox as my main browser on my Mac for quite a while. I use Chrome when working on my company's web stuff, because I like its developer tools better and its handling of multiple profiles is a lot better [1].

There is one thing that threatens now and then to move me to Chrome.

Here is a sample of that thing: prosecutable subtractive tunable epicycle inductor subparagraphs transactional micropayments blacksmithing inductor solvability verifier ethicist tradable tradeable auditable splitter surveil responder commenter.

Firefox tells me that all of those words are spelled wrong. Chrome, Safari, and on Windows Edge all know that most or all of them are spelled right.

It just gets tiring to regularly be commenting somewhere and get distracted by Firefox falsely claiming some word is misspelled, disrupting my train of thought as I have to go look it up to verify that I am in fact spelling it right.

Everything else I type text into manages to spell check orders of magnitude better than Firefox.

[1] Yes, I know about Firefox's multi-account containers. Great if all you are trying to do is keep yourself logged in to a couple different accounts at the same site. If you want to have separate bookmarks, extensions, and history too, you need to use profiles. Firefox has them, but Chrome does them better.
Surprisingly, there is no mention in the article of how the truckers feel about the threat of automation to their own jobs.
Honestly, I wouldn't work for him again, but I did appreciate after the fact he meant well, at least that's how I've chosen to take it.
Citation needed? I'll concede that I haven't lived there so I could be wrong, but I've been to Quebec city twice, including once with people who spoke no French at all, and never felt any hostility. Again, I'm not disputing that it could be different for the local Anglo minority, but I'd need to see some sources before I believe that you're not exaggerating.
It's interesting to see that one group (truckers) are welcoming automation since it will boost their take home pay and the another group (longshoremen) are resistant because automation reduces their job security. I wonder if the truckers know that in the foreseeable future the activity of hauling containers in and out of port will be automated as well.
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With the Vimium extension you can type "t" to search open tabs. (And you can follow links with "f".)
Quebecers never chose to become part of Canada or any English-speaking society; they were conquered by military force.

You could say the same thing for the indigenous people of Quebec. Why is there no protection for their languages? For example, the Malecite–Passamaquoddy language may have as few as 600 native speakers remaining [1]. This is a much more urgent situation than French, which has 76.8 million native speakers worldwide.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malecite-Passamaquoddy_languag...
I do this so frequently that I wrapped FF (and chrome) with a PyGTK starter, each profile with an icon. Less clicks to launch a new session of my preferred flavor
Complexity is combinatorial. If you compose your code of overly complex components the end result will have much more emergent behavior.

If everything at the bottom is straightforward, then people will spot more overarching concerns, instead of bogging down in minor details.

I’d really love to see some cognitive science applied directly to UX and code quality concepts. Surely some of the things we espouse but don’t enforce are spot on, and others are cargo culting. Refining that list might make it harder to ignore.
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At a first glance, they don't seem to be problems in which ML learning can have a huge impact. Netflix in the US has a catalogue of about 4000 movies plus a few hundred tv series. It's tiny- compare with 153707 items on a niche recommendation website (criticker.com).

Characteristics that make content successful.. here again, it's mostly decent quality content plus marketing. I doubt the scripts are reviewed by NNs.

I have no idea about the network and delivery stuff, but I guess a well designed network can take care of most of it.

My strong impression is that, similar to other well known cases (Uber, WeWork) Netflix is a mostly traditional company (a media company) that very strongly wants to be seen as a tech company.
How exactly is the file going to get tampered with if you're using curl-to-sh? Everyone uses HTTPS nowadays. Validating the hash is not really doing anything significant.

As for ensuring that the package is well-behaved, could you elaborate on that? I'm not aware of Homebrew doing something like chrooting to /usr/local before running the install script. And the install script can do anything as your local user, same as curl-to-sh. Perhaps the Homebrew maintainers would catch something nefarious in the formula itself, but given that most formulas download code from the Internet and run it, that's not much help.
It depends what "failure" even means. If you mis-place a semicolon and have to go back and fix it, have you "failed"? I'd say no. I'd say a project has only failed if it never gets to a working state.
"Sweden is in a similar position re:Russia rather than China"

What do you mean?

Russia and Sweden have no territorial disputes, no wars for the last 200 years and Sweden stays more or less neutral by not joining NATO.
The problem of Brave is that at heart it's still from an advertising company, no matter how nice they come across.

Advertising is inherently at odds with productivity (ads waste your time) and potentially privacy (for better ad targeting), so I wouldn't recommend it.

Under the hood it's just a reskinned Chromium so the battery life & performance concerns remain.
"The best form of exercise is the one you will actually do."

Which form of art do you most enjoy or appreciate? Which form of art has output that will motivate you to keep practicing?
> What happens when a new substance hits town?

I don't mean to detract from the point you were trying to make, but a lot of the novel psychoactive substances that have appeared in recent times (e.g. synthetic cannabinoids such as spice) only ever came to be because of current drug regulations - they were created because in many countries individual drugs are outlawed, so if you create a new one, it will be legal to sell it for a time.

The "traditional" drugs are more than enough for most psychonauts - why risk some novel substance with an unknown safety profile if you could legally and safely obtain high-quality cannabis, MDMA, cocaine etc?
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So using a Google product on a non Google browser while they’re trying to gain marketshare for said browser didn’t work well (and presumably would push you towards using said browser)? Color me surprised.
> they took perfectly good French and turned it into something that is often unrecognizable.

As I understand it, you’ve got that switched. International French, the French of metropolitan France, is the one that had changed dramatically.
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Yes you could say the same thing about them, and I would be completely sympathetic to indigenous people in Quebec promoting the use of their own languages in their own territories, and discouraging the use of French. Unfortunately some of the groups have so few members (like the 600 you point out) that it would be difficult for them to be viable as a modern civilization using only their native language, but if they are somehow able to do so, that's great and I hope they succeed.

I explicitly mentioned in my comment that the destruction of indigenous cultures throughout the Americas was a regrettable thing, which is why Quebecers would like to avoid it happening to themselves.

I'm not blindly arguing here that French is the greatest language ever and nationalist Quebecers are correct on all political matters. I think French people were colonialists and their treatment of Native Americans in Quebec was terrible. But that doesn't change that now, however unsavory the circumstances of its birth, the Quebec culture doesn't deserve to be wiped out.
This is a fantastic idea, but applying it anywhere would require a lot of buy-in from opposing parties to get started — and we’re back to dealing with people problems. I suppose it’s no different than any other law though.

While not a “law”, the Roman republic innovated by allowing the Senate to elect a dictator to address a specific problem for 6 months or until successful, and was expected to resign thereafter.
OK, Firefox experts: which desktop OS does Firefox run best on?

And which desktop OS has the largest usage share among the developers of Firefox?

(I want to know because I am undecided on which OS I will be using in the future. By "run best" I mean the fewest bugs and the fewest instances of behavior that would surprise an ordinary user.)
I really hate to do this but I tracked down some of the people connected to this story and it looks legit, feel free to verify yourself if you have the necessary resources:

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I like this webpage. There are no ads, no popups, did not ask for my email, did not try to send me notifications, did not ask me to register, did not autoplay a video, did not hijack my scroll behavior, on parallax BS, no images of an open office in the background. In short NO NON-SENSE. It loaded in under 1s (for me), has all the important stuff right there at the top.

I do not want any product page to do anything more than this. Please.
I’ve been using Firefox primarily for about a year now and don’t plan on switching back any time soon.

The web feels faster and their Devtools browser has a lot of baked in features

Try it!
> You have a right to live in Québec. But for the moment, not a right to demand that businesses or government agencies communicate with you in English.

Just wow how utterly pissant.