skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if you might expand on your assertion that Ginkgo doesn't value its employees -- I have a friend that joined Ginkgo not too long ago, and I hope things work out for them.
What you describe is not democracy, but a benevolent dictatorship.
Fox probably has very little choice. YouTube TV's sponsorship agreement is with MLB. I can't imagine MLB's World Series broadcast contract with Fox gives them much if any say in the matter.
Random just means without reproducible information about inputs. There is nothing additionally equitable in deciding an outcome (more representation by favoured minority groups) and then calling the selection process “random.” Are airport screening selections random, or just opaque?

What the author is in effect advocating is an opaque process whose outcome reflects some desirable criteria. Presumably if one disagrees, it is because of some modern heresy, and articles like these are really about identifying reactionaries and other counter-revolutionary types who will not sustain cognitive dissonance for the cause. What can I say, I am provoked.
No. What I describe is a Representative Democracy.
Ask HN: Could ISPs Stop Bitcoin?
So I love Bitcoin and what it stands for; unfortunately, I don't believe it will be humanities savior as some of us hope. I was having a discussion with a buddy of mine about Bitcoin of why it could or could not succeed. One his major arguing points was that governments couldn't do anything about it since its a decentralized service. In my opinion governments could still shut it down if they truly wanted to. Couldn't governments just fingerprint all the Bitcoin nodes and just go to ISPs and tell them to block any traffic coming from such IPs. So even though they can't tell Bitcoin itself to stop they could stop underlying technologies Bitcoin uses. I just want to fact check my self to see if that is something that could actually happen and I'm not just spilling none-sense.
I love the capability for encrypted SNI with Cloudfare’s DNS service.
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The spec is almost certainly for the machining after it's been forged.
I can see in the use case of building up scaffolding between many different Unices to a common reference point sufficient to serve as an abstraction layer for a packaged software product to code against a generic Unix model, a Bash package manager might be useful. Some of those Bash-based abstraction layers can get relatively sprawling, and a packaging system would serve a useful role as a configuration dispatcher.

Instead of a bewildering array of case/if statements for each architecture/distro in every script, the package manager stores and deploys the platform-specific scripts, and make reading/maintaining them more streamlined. Then your case/if selection of the platform-specific environment is centralized into a single centralized location where the package manager call for installation is made.

I agree however that in an in-house setting, if I had the choice to use a package manager, then I'd be choosing a language other than Bash.
>Also, coming from a company who fired his CEO for a private donation made 10 years earlier, claiming it’s a privacy-respecting company is rich.

I have to admit this does make me not want to support the Mozilla foundation.
This is my new tab page: https://imgur.com/TpSzOCZ

Note that the search bar can also be removed. So yes, as distraction free as you want to make it.
Its pretty refreshing not needing to scroll past a full page logo. I'd argue that this spartan design speaks volumes to their potential clients. Fully pragmatic engineering with no frills.
USA has been a dictator around the world for a century. So many unethical wars involved. So many radical movements are cultivated by US propaganda. Now these fear fed propaganda are dividing itself and destroying the future. People who are blind to all these are the ones full of fake Democracy ideology.
I remember this 'scene' was very exciting. Pre-Internet you had to be in the in-crowd (of nerds) on bulletin boards, or at a meet up to ever find out. It felt like a free upgrade to your processor! here's another that's quite good: http://z80.info/zip/z80-documented.pdf
I'll switch back to Firefox the day that happens. I don't think it's a compelling reason until that day though.
I like this idea, but I think that the biggest risk would be in the legal assistants needed to navigate the sea of bureaucracy that legislative work usually needs.

The lottery-selected citizens would come and go, but the assistant would probably remain in office for several “elections”. The selected citizens would probably be oblivious to what’s currently going on and the assistants would have incentives to influence those overwhelmed citizens to the assistant’s own agenda.
Is source code available?
One of the complaints was that the officials were white, then in the next paragraph cites ancient Athens.

Rather than give up and spin the wheel, what if we simply let the races vote for their own interests and enforce them?

Whites vote for white interests, blacks vote for black interests, etc. After all, who better to know how to handle their problems than their own?

No more Rube Goldberg mental gymnastics and denials from the plethora of problems that arise from desegregated communities either.
A benevolent dictatorship is a representative democracy with a very small leadership team.
It only crashes for me after it automatically updates. The devs set it to intentionally crash when you open a new tab. I don't know if that makes it better or worse really.

Edit: Here's the related bugzilla report

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1463960
They can not, it is encrypted.
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Interestingly, the legacy debian-installer is based on a package manager called anna (Anna's not nearly Apt), where most of the installation steps are implemented as postinst bash scripts of various udeb packages: https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/anna#README

However, there's little documentation for any of this, and it's clearly not intended to be used for anything outside of the installer context— I couldn't even figure out how to do the equivalent of a debootstrap for an anna environment. For my own custom installer needs it turned out to be easier to use a conventional deb/apt environment and implement most of the logic in Python.
Looks like the team presented at HotStorage 2019[1] from July with slides from their talk[2].

[1] https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotstorage19/workshop-prog...

[2] https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/conference/protec...
I wonder what was measuring to that precision with such accuracy! It’s when I think about tolerances on the equipment that’s checking tolerances that I start getting dizzy and retreat to software for a bit.
You don't need to know everything
I recently ditched both Chrome and Firefox. Now super happy with Safari.
Oh come on. If we start distorting commonly understood words and concepts, how can we possibly have a rational conversation? A benevolent dictatorship is not the same as a representative democracy.
Each bias skews the same direction for each person, but not every bias is in the same direction for individual people. (Some people are biased in favor of Harvard/Ivy League graduates. Other people are biased against those exact same candidates. Bias is not by definition unidirectional for all people.)

The YC partners are trying to be similarly biased against entrepreneurs who (they believe) will not be successful in the program.

They are much less likely to be similarly biased against irrelevant factors like accents, mannerisms, backgrounds, etc.
You are right that this class of problems has the advantage of cheaply getting a lot of training data.

Another type of model with the advantage of cheap training data is BERT like models for natural language processing where input training data is just natural language text with random words replaced by ‘holes’ and target output is the original text with no missing words.
Defaults matter. And currently, Firefox fills their new tab page with spam and self-promotion by default.
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I've been happy with everything about Firefox (on Xubuntu) from many years now. But when they released Quantum, the thing that bothered me a bit was not any feature or performance, but them removing curvy tabs for rectangular ones. Rather shallow of me, but we all have our UI quirks :). Luckily, Firefox UI is very customizable and somebody had already put in the effort [1] to provide curvy tabs. Just had to download it, change the RGB() values therein, and got back my preferred green curvy tabs. Just a silly thing, but might give somebody one more reason to switch to Firefox.

[1]: https://github.com/wilfredwee/photon-australis
In this century, cloud apps as a managed service are sufficient for some 90 pct of office workers.

Is there data on this?

So, so, so, so many companies have random internal desktop apps, or are dependent on external ones, that I think chucking a Chromebook at 90% of office workers is a pipe dream.

But absent data, this is all pure speculation.
Anecdote: I use it everyday at work on a 2015 MBP Retina, now on Catalina. No problems!

What feels off for you?
Your last argument is a bit of a strawman.
I gave desktop Firefox multiple chances over the course of 15 years, until that day in May when every extension stopped working.[1]

That said, the mobile version seems really robust.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/03/a-glitch-is-breaking-all-f...
> I see you are downvoted and I think that is wrong.

I downvoted the comment. I'm just not sure it adds anything useful to the conversation when it's not representative of the vast, vast majority of experiences that users have. It sounds like an anecdotal, isolated issue. I didn't post a top-level comment to say I've been using Firefox for over a decade without it crashing because it's just not remarkable or interesting.

I'd be more interested if some crash reports or BugZilla issues had been linked to substantiate the comment.

For what it's worth, I'd have downvoted a comment made in the same vein regarding Chrome too.
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If we had a more granular democratic say that was counted above and beyond a token X in a limited choice of option every 4-5 years with those options promises being no guarantee that what was on the tin is what you will get. Then maybe we would have more harmony and progress.

Imagine if you will that every voter had the ability to submit their idea's for other voters to support/debate and the top ones go onto being voted into policy. For some they could just vote upon the policey, if they choose, be their choise.

But that would take technology that was trusted. But then voting democratically is something that happens in so many countries, be great if there was an open/auditable standard of such a system that the people could get behind. Facebook and other social media is not that solution.

Today we have a token say periodically with those representatives being driven by media, that is in part driven equally by events and social media reaction to those events. It is messy, informal, rabble driven mess and that is what plays out in politics. Yes that needs to change, but it needs to change slowly to allow people to adjust or you will create just as much friction as you are trying to solve.

But for letting goverment being decided as a lottery, well - look at jury duty, that is how that works. You can find good examples of this as you can bad examples. So on average you could say that you would be no worse off. But the extreme's could potentially be larger. Let's face it, what are the odds of a lottery picking all KKK members as a government - they are not zero. That's all that needs to be said upon that idea.
Do you mean as the backing or bulk material?

AFAIK photovoltaic cells with the electricity producing junction made of pure silicon do not exist. Don't know how much of non-silicon is there, but arsenic from GaAs cells is not something you want in your soil either.

As for WEEE, I hope most of the cells are returned and recycled or somehow properly disposed of, but not all will be collected, and there will be breakage, maybe even leakage of acid-rain digested cells. Also, even now, the collected e-waste is not really processed in a environmentally friendly way.
This system relies heavily on a well informed populace, which is a bit shaky in our current democracy today.
About once a week Firefox bans me from opening new tabs until I reboot it for an update. It promises to return my existing tabs but it never has.

For this reason I don't trust it when I'm doing meaningful work.
It’s not reason enough to support Google instead.
It's that, in your opinion, worse than what Google does, collecting and monetizing information about you?
How does that help? Genuine question.
The 2016 presidential election was well within sampling error, so we kind of did.
One I don't see often in these is where one didn't refer to a given person by their name at all.

It doesn't matter if they're in the system as "Elizabeth Windsor", if you don't send them their account statement addressed to "Their Royal Highness" they'll switch to a company which does...
This might just come down to why I'm not sure I'm interpreting you right.

It's one thing to have the platform equivalent of a spam folder for new top-level posts that smell like junk. But these platforms have more significant design challenges: to cleanly handle replies, retweets + commentary, mentions, comments, threads, and anything else that is sort of inherently contextual (including the possibility that there are legitimate non-spam posts that interact with a spam post to quote, comment, reply, warn others, and so on).

I'm a little skeptical about how well anyone can meet that design in a way that makes it easy to see what was flagged as spam and isn't also sensitive to the ratio of spam to legitimate posts...

Its possible you're imagining that spam posts don't show up at all in a thread unless you hit a single toggle that re-renders the thread with any pruned replies and branches in place. Interfaces like this don't spiral out if the ratio changes, but I also don't think they make it easy to spot the flagged posts.

An interface that marks the posts in-thread can make it easier, but they're sensitive to that ratio. Very sensitive if they shows the full post, and a little sensitive if they replace the post with a clickable indicator that there's suspected spam there.
Of course, there's no middle ground between "using a whole browser engine" and "coding your UI in raw OpenGL".

Have you heard of, say, Qt?
This is just not true:

> Each time one opens a tab

you can customize to look exactly how you want it.

This is my new tab page: https://imgur.com/TpSzOCZ

> Every week in my mailbox

Don't subscribe to newsletters you don't enjoy.

> When opening any other website and their popup is here to tell me « You’re protected! »

You get this the first time only or after an update with new features.

> When one opens a website and FF asks « Do you want to install this privacy extension? », pointing at the Facebook jail or the container feature.

I don't like the recommended extensions thingy but it can be disabled https://imgur.com/xjTG4N2

> When suggesting to use Pocket or any new idea

Any new idea? really? we should just stop innovation.
Instead of building an NMA with a limited market, Boeing needs to build a 737 replacement.
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> Also, coming from a company who fired his CEO for a private donation made 10 years earlier, claiming it’s a privacy-respecting company is rich.

Two corrections. Brendan Eich made a public donation in support of Proposition 8 banning same-sex marriage in California. He also was not fired; he voluntarily stepped down.
I have begrudgingly been pulled into SPAs as a developer, and at first I was very skeptical.

Now that I see what things like Angular can do, with lazy-loaded components, and only downloading JSON data and letting the client render the DOM, my pages are actually much faster and the UX is vastly better.

Yes, you need to download the Angular libs, but so many pages use them now they are likely cached, and are negligible in size for a fast connection.

After that, it's client-side routing and downloading mostly just downloading JSON from a REST API. You don't need to server to push a 5,000 row table with all the mark-up, you just grab that data and have the browser construct your table.

And yes, you can still copy/paste the URL. And save the page as HTML. And everything else you can do with a "non-SPA" page.

YMMV.
The 737 and 757 have identically sized fuselages. In fact, they are both basically the same fuselage as the original 707.
That day is already here my friend.
If we do this, we'd be lead by whatever accidental majority gets in. And they have no incentive to do what the people want.

The only saving grace would be that people have more of a sense of duty, and thus are less likely to abuse their power. But beyond that any unlucky draw could really screw over a country.
It might be a startup in the colloquial sense of the word, to friends, family, etc., but I and many others here would argue that it's a small business rather than a startup.
Your experience is consistent with most (all?) people. The way taste and smell work are significantly impacted by temperature due to how the sensory channels work, and how the sensed particles behave while warm or cold.

This is very noticeable with fatty foods in my own experience.
Credit cards forms handle this perfectly. There is just a name field. It seems odd that this is perfectly acceptable for financial companies that in essence loan billions a year but its not ok for anyone else.
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My big gripe with that is that ms hyperv breaks vmware, which I need, so no sandbox for me.
It has been a while since I study DSP, so I'm not sure if FFT can mathematically recover all the original sine waves (FT can). But I don't think it is possible practically, at least.
A broader sequel to the Dice Man ?
For the average teenager downloading Windows warez, totally.
Practically not. ISPs would have banned BitTorrent if they could but the best they can do is usage based billing.
What's opaque about anything in the article?
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This has been known for quite some time by us experts.
could it be much worse?? I'm willing to give it a try.
If Druid is going to build its own widget system from scratch anyway, what makes it more native than something like Electron? For me, the primary reason I'm interested in finding alternatives to Electron is to avoid shipping an entire UI framework + rendering engine with my code.

At least at first glance it seems to me like if I'm avoiding native OS toolkits, I might as well just target the browser anyway -- or is there something I'm missing?
Lack of media key control and pinch to zoom are the 2 that stop me from using Firefox (I use Brave instead)
Ask HN: What is the simplest and most flexible way to build a CRUD app in 2019?
I like the Rails model of ActiveRecord and Spring Data too. Any other models, tools, frameworks that make building CRUD apps easy and also provide flexibility?
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I've been a Firefox user since Phoenix/Firebird, but I did switch to Chrome when it first came out, then back to Firefox when Google started being the opposite of "not evil".

One quip on this website, why is the text limited to such a small column? I thought it had gutters that my adblock was blocking but it doesn't. The image is literally twice the width of the text. The first row of text only fits "We're living in the Google Chrome" ... and that's it.
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I can confirm the macos version has had its performance issues fixed. Runs perfectly fine on my 2015 mbp, with several real time tabs and dozens of other tabs.

It's also nice to use tree style tabs to manage them all, plus you can reclaim the space for the tabs at the top with some css. I couldn't find anything matching this in chrome in terms of stability and ease of use.
I used to use safari on Mac when on battery. It used seems more battery saving. I also use it at work when plugged in as my “personal browser” (email/banks etc). work web browsing is Firefox and chrome (for testing)

The new firefox is better at power management but since I’m on a Linux laptop it’s now Firefox (no safari on Linux).
Very true, Google can be much worse. I still use Firefox. But whenever Mozilla asks for donations, this is still in the back of my mind.
ISP's could easily stop Bitcoin, I don't really think anyone claims they can't? Bitcoin isn't mean to be an impossible to kill hydra of economic power, but a decentralized, peer-to-peer, trustworthy ledger of transactions.

ISP's could block the common ports Bitcoin uses (but that would likely break a lot of other applications), they could potentially blacklist certain IP's, but because of the decentralized nature of Bitcoin this would likely only affect discovery in a minimal manner. ISP's could also inspect packets to determine if the traffic is Bitcoin related, but potentially something like TOR could prevent that inspection, if enough ISP's inspect & block Bitcoin TOR would likely not be of help (as it simply protects the transit of data, not the entry/exit).

BGP is also a pretty serious vector for a bad actor ISP to utilize, check out the following article: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/11/evil_isps_could_dis...

Definitely a lot of ways BTC could be affected. Governments could also outright ban it and that would destroy the network as it would lose a huge amount of value as a serious asset.
The forged parts are likely machined (for better finish and tolerance).
>I have no idea if Checkly is "in" yet — I'll find out within a week or so

Is this delay only for interviews outside the Bay Area?
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What greater incentive do current voters have for picking the correct policy/representative? Either way, people with power are balancing their personal interest with justice / the public interest.
I have gopher for that, much better.
You really had me there. I thought HN had transmogrified into Facebook. Gaaah!
Some anecdotal data in the other direction, I made a comment about my experience on linux 5 months ago [1], and my opinion is still roughly the same (Except the blank tab problem has gone away after a Firefox update at some point, which WAS the biggest annoyance I had, so my mood has improved considerably since I made that post), and I have since taken to using Arch on an XPS, stock Ubuntu on another (more modestly specced) machine, and have had similar experiences there too.

That said I still use and prefer Firefox, but I also have to open up Chrome probably once every few weeks for various reasons, and it has occasional abhorrent behavior that I don't experience with any other program on the same machine.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20049553
I always had given Firefox another choice, but throws me out of websites, unoptimized websites and font issues etc. stopping me from using it. I really wish Firefox tighten up their game.
>There is something to be said about policies put forward by sophisticated and educated elites.

Sounds more like a meritocracy, but then politics has taught us that many labels can fit depending upon your initial position and posture in much the same way that idea's in the middle can from the left appear right-wing and equally upon the right, appear left-wing. Hence labeling and focusing upon those labels whilst ignoring the content - solves nothing.
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