skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like I said, support for that movement is way less than half now, the first result I found from a quick search [0] suggests 18% as of 2015.

[0] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-angus-reid-ca...

I think a majority vote choosing to stay is a hell of a lot better than "forced to stay by the military"... which is what you'd get from the post I originally replied to. And it's not "against eachother" so much as "politely thinking that we'd be better of splitting the country in two" for most of them.
Nit: This article recommends StartPage as a search engine "without all that tracking and profiling", but quite recently StartPage was acquired by System1, an advertising company[0]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21371577
Five Moments That Define Sesame Street
I have never seen such a dialogue. Is this a corporate machine? Perhaps they have implemented some policy to keep the browser up-to-date.
This was my bible for many years. We called it POOP (Principles Of OPeration. I loved assembler on the 360 and the 370. I learned Assembly Language by cross listing my COBOL programs and using POOP to find out what the op codes meant.
BeeDNN 1.00 (alpha) – deep learning library and a compagnion GUI application
Similarly in my domain of computer networking, the best advice I received was 'be the packet' - i.e. visualize the steps/hops the packet would take through the network and where are the decisions about forwarding would happen and what evaluations would be made to make that determination.

Troubleshooting became much easier as I took that advise.
Crossing the 1 tb/s throughput threshold for object storage with NVMe drives
Were you on a fresh Firefox profile without any about:config changes? If not, try that: you may have options set that are overriding defaults, where the defaults don’t crash but your custom choices do.

Did you try Release or Nightly/Developer?
> So you would prefer an Utopia where nobody pays for other people's work but they still make it available for free and work on it forever?

That's not what GP said, and I'm not sure how you got there from them pointing out this was likely the end of development. From the community guidelines:

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
That's a really good idea. To achieve similar result, I am currently using multiple Firefox profiles which have different proxies configured. I also have separate profiles for social media. It wouldn't be bad if they made profiles work in the same way or with similar functionality like containers work (profile per tab, each tab uses different proxy etc.).

Ideally, I'd love to have Firefox handle the whole proxying or even networking part. Like have each Firefox profile use different network gateway (useful when you want to route all network traffic trough VPN for example).
Montenegro's scenic coast spoiled by greed
There are people who swear by Chrome’s profiles, then there are people who swear by Firefox’s containers. I’m in the former category. I’ve learned through various debates that as always, you’re not gonna convince anyone on the other side.
Sure, but a README doesn't magically fix shitty management, if anything it just a justification for it.

Not to mention people are just horrifying bad at seeing themselves as others see them. I think of the scene in A Christmas Story when the kid expects to get a glowing review of his paper but instead got a D grade. It actually reminded me of a family member of mine who got called into his boss's office. He was bragging that he was going to get a bonus or promotion and instead he got a demotion due to poor performance and bad work ethic.

I've had five software jobs and five unskilled jobs.
Try a bunch of different art practices, and see which one sticks.

Painting, working with clay, and sculpture (wood, metal, found materials, etc) are what I enjoy.

You'll know you find what you enjoy when you hit the "flow state", which is very similar to hitting a stride programming.
I really like the streams and resources you put up, Luke. Thanks for clarifying. Studio is so cool, I've been looking at maybe hacking it to work with my spreadsheet compiler, using Lua (or maybe LJ bytecode) as IR, and source maps.

Your live streams are a massive resource.

They are so dazzling to others that they'll sit through an explanation of phi nodes, while I assure you they would not otherwise. If you ever want a change of pace, we'd probably be interested in bringing you on board in 2020.
Cheers, and I hope the fellas are doing well. :- )
Looking up the history of Bloody Thursday, I can’t find a clear cut academic account of what actually happened. Do you have any sources?
Stepwise shifts in evolutionary trends in complexity of mammalian spinal column
We are a bilingual country. The rest of Canada bends over backwards to offer services in French which are seldom utilized. I would not ask for English in Spain or China because it isn't an official language there.

We have a national law that all students--anywhere in the country--can receive instruction in either English or French--but this has been consistently undermined in Quebec. They have made it so arduous to qualify for English school* that nearly all English speakers will not qualify.

That is just one example of the double standard. If you want the country to be bilingual, then it has to work both ways.

* The rule is something like "Both of your parents must be native Quebec and both must have attended English school in Quebec for their entire childhood. Any deviation from this and you cannot qualify to English school". So anyone who immigrates from the rest of Canada, or has one French/one English parent is disqualified.
I'm also an Angular developer.

And no doubt you can do amazing things with it.

But just because I and you can make good pages with it doesn't mean that everyone should do it.

Also, in my experience I guess it will typically

- more than doubles the cost (and I guess this is a conservative number)

- can easily introduce unnecessary problems that prevents cross-browser compatibility

- can often introduce security issues that many developers are unaware of

etc.

Then again maybe I should just let the SPA projects keep on coming: I am a consultant.
I thought the same thing on azure but I recently stood up an environment there and found there are a lot of cool tools available that are greyed out with a message saying “not available on Linux hosts”. Maybe it’s just temporary until they add those features and Linux stuff deploys just fine, but I did feel like Linux was a second class citizen. It doesn’t help that most of the selection boxes I ran into had Windows as the default option.
The idea that all of the web is designed by an open committee is laughable. How much of the web is simply controlled now by Google doing whatever is wants in Chrome?
The problem is that their friends are broadcasting their whereabouts and activities to their other friends, which causes tension.

Photos taken by strangers on the bus or at the bank are not broadcast to their friends, so they do not cause tension.

Also, wearing a mask to the club causes further issues, since your friends will still tag you in their photos, and people who see the photos will now be wondering why you are wearing a mask. When you answer that you were trying to maintain your privacy so that your friends didn't broadcast your whereabouts to your other friends, they will likely point out that your friends still know who you are, and that wearing a mask does not prevent them tagging you.
Yet these days facebook will be using IP tracking anyway, it won’t matter whether you’re logged in or not, in the other containers, if you’re just logged in once, they will know what sites you’re visiting, your browser fingerprint easily identify as you, even if you’re not logged into Facebook in those containers.
I believe that's when all west coast ports first unionized. Some believe unions can stifle innovation and progress. I believe that there's some truth to that.
Getting Past Locke: On Property, Use, and the Assumption of Common Ownership
It isn't entirely false, though. Google has been known to break other browsers. Of course, we can't know that it's deliberate, but… remember https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18697824?

> For example, they recently added a hidden empty div over YouTube videos that causes our [EdgeHTML's] hardware acceleration fast-path to bail (should now be fixed in Win10 Oct update). Prior to that, our fairly state-of-the-art video acceleration put us well ahead of Chrome on video playback time on battery, but almost the instant they broke things on YouTube, they started advertising Chrome's dominance over Edge on video-watching battery life.
It doesn't work for me in emacs-w3m, which does not understand Javascript. I just get redirected to the the washingtonpost.com front page.

Update: Actually, I just changed my user-agent from one that advertises my browser as emacs-w3m to one that advertises itself as a common Mozilla/Chrome/Safari browser and I no longer get redirected and can read the original article just fine.
Hospitals are a weak spot in U.S. cybersecurity
Note that each third-party content blocker you listed slows down page load speed by a fraction of a second on fancy multi-core desktops. That slowdown may be more significant in your case.
Autonomous Systems and Multinational Interoperability
Discussion of the project, 175 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21431071
Ubuntu bionic. Latest default Firefox without any special enterprise stuff or whatnot.
Things were different in the early days. In the 1970's I worked at a company that had an IBM S/370 and a clone, an Itel AS/5.

IBM supplied hardware schematics and microcode listings for their S/370 hardware. They were in the machine room and freely available for perusal by us.

In a bit of irony, they also supplied schematics and microcode for the Itel clone. That's because the Itel was a true clone. It was designed by copying IBM's circuitry, but implemented in Motorola 10K series ECL instead of IBM's proprietary technology.

You read that right. In order to debug a problem with the Itel, the Itel field service engineers used IBM's schematics.

I think a lot of this free availability was because IBM was facing antitrust pressure from the US government. I don't know all the details.

Here's more history about the clone: http://www.silogic.com/NAS/NAS.html
That's a great point that I will definitely try to get across to everyone.

Getting just the relevant information is as simple as copying and pasting a few urls and the contents of a terminal or two. It doesn't have to be perfect prose or take hours to write!
If your employee’s tasks are more typically clerical ones like data entry, working with MS Word documents, etc., then why do you want computing power capable of “AR, VR, image processing, video editing”? That sounds like something that the employee would be applying towards rich social media experiences instead, which is probably something you don’t want them doing on company time.
It seems you imply there are imperfect managers but there can only ever be perfect developers. I would be the happiest person on this planet if that would be the case. Excellent communication skills don't help if the listener is sub-par.
(This is probably subjective, and I don't consider myself and expert.)

I think Firefox feels best on Gnome-based Linux desktops: Fedora, Ubuntu, etc.

Windows 10 is also a fine target for Firefox; I never encounter any problems there. I hear some features are missing on touchscreen laptops: gestures, etc. I could be wrong.

Firefox has always had a little bit of funkiness on the Mac. Little UI things, battery killing performance issues, and so on. YMMV. But I still used Firefox on the Mac as my default for many years, and it was fine.
It has in Hollywood especially things like key grip jobs are passed down generation to generation. Having none of this in LA I spent half my working life homeless with a master's degree in Socal the economy is all about what you inherit not what you do the system has treated me Lowe than a dog my entire life despite my skills and education I'm simply someone you hit with cars and leave for dead
Could electric vehicles really help prevent forest fires?
Do you mean that it would be exposed by the referrer? I guess so. It’s not clear whether the referrer is preserved anyway when you refresh the external page in a different container. In theory could the external page have a Facebook widget that would be able to see your Facebook account anyway? I’m not really sure, I don’t know enough about how cookies work across domains.

I feel like this is the point. It’s not really clear how to best use containers to protect your privacy; it feels like you have to understand a lot about how the web works and how Firefox works.
Comment the why, not the what.
But modern tracking methods go far beyond whether not you’re actually logged into some site, I’m not sure how this is much of an improvement, your IP remains the same, your browser fingerprint is probably similar enough, if not identical, for them to track you regardless of whether you’re logged in. You only have to be logged in once on the machine from one container for all the other sites you visit in other containers to track you on any site that has a presence or tracking code associated with the one that you’ve logged into somewhere else.
But getting separate session between different private browsing windows has been requested for a very long time with no dice [1].

[1]:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117222
Also the current recommendation is to consult the doctor if the child is under 12 years old, but doctors still continue to prescribe thickeners based on xanthan gum or any other gums.
I'd rather live in his world, than yours.

Besides, I've met few moms/brothers who weren't curious what their kids/siblings were up to. Perhaps Christian helped him to become closer to his family in the end.
Firefox just gained the ability to use Mac’s hardware media keys to control media playback in the latest beta/developer edition (71 right now): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1575995
System 370 assembler was the first language I worked in professionally. We called it the POPS manual. As I recall it was a paragon of technical writing. I learned how to read technical documentation on this manual.
That's the easy one. z/Arch is way more intricate. As noted in my moniker, you can do fun stuff with BXLE,as described in the "Difficult Code" section on FINCH (aka program fetching) in an OS/360 PLM (Program Logic Manual).
Sadly not having any means to add programs to Windows sandbox makes it unusable for me. Every time I reopen it to do something it’s in a bare install state with a bad version of Edge that slams me with just incredible amounts of advertising and pop ups.
It was apparently a deadly altercation between police and workers. Contemporaneous newspaper accounts show disagreement about who started it. Police say that the parade of striking workers broke the line and headed as a mob toward the piers, and started pulling inspectors out of cars, tried to tip over police cars, etc. The union replied that the police just started firing shot guns into the crowd.
If you are good at bullshitting but not at tech stuff or at managing, then you want to expand the amount of bullshit in the company because this makes it much easier for you to survive.

When almost everyone bullshits, there is no danger for the bullshitter.

So quite a number of people have a big interest in keeping the talents out of the game, and to have as many layers of bureaucracy as possible as this makes it more difficult it is to point the finger at any one person.

The same happends in school classrooms. If you are quite a lot better than the other pupils in class, then you better keep your head down. Don't think you know better how to tackle the work ahead.

I think schools educate us into accepting only bad management.
That Venetian scheme is interesting, but ultimately it reminds me of a non-cryptographer trying to roll their own secure random number generator. Thirty chosen by lot, then by lot reduced to nine? Eh? Just choose nine to start with.

Moreover (on the assumption that all the people chosen at each step are on the Council, which isn't clear) this looks like a system that will be absolutely rife with horsetrading and intrigue: "I'll vote for you on the eleven, as long as you (vote for P to the forty-one|support my housing bill|etc)". It may not be corruption from outside, but the intricate machinations of an in-group don't lend themselves to representative democracy either.
Old Nook is un-resetable
There's a very wide range of sleazy but not illegal behavior as well as hard to prove illegal acts which also might affect the equation.

For a conference organizer, the primary question is how to make it a positive experience for as many visitors as possible, and that's the criteria they will use when determining who gets to visit.

If allowing a particular person to visit means several others will refrain from visiting, is it then a good idea to permit that? That's a value judgement for the organizers to make.

And if you think they made the wrong decision, feel free to tell them so or even to boycott it yourself, giving them a reason to consider other potential solutions.
Can you reproduce these issues with a fresh profile with no Addons installed or about:config changes?
pro tip: clear out under the sink and TAKE A PHOTOGRAPH OF THE PIPE WORK before taking it apart.

It is a fun and interesting puzzle project putting it back together blind. It's not impossible. But it is tedious.
Without (competent) engineering leadership.

- Whos going to push back and sales and marketing for harassing you directly or taking direct blame for failures?

- Who will represent the engineering team in leadship meetings to make sure policies/decisions are made with their needs in mind?

- Who's going to fight for your raises and promotions?

- Who's going to make sure that there is budget for what engineering needs to do and keeps a proper record to keep finance happy?

Please thing about it... any company that grows to 30-50 people (even startups) need to have management and processes that eventually lead to (even unintentional) politics. The other departments will have leaders/managers defending/supporting them... its foolish to not understand or respect competent leaders.
Quantum computing holds promise for banks, executives say
Spam filters work OK. They just take a lot of work to develop and aren't perfect.

Closed platforms can also be spammed. Twitch, HN comments, etc.
I always tell people with cooking, it's not always knowing what to do, but knowing what not to do, and when things go wrong.

If you don't fuck it up, people will think your food is at least 'good'. Making it 'great' is the hard part.
You can do it in SQL, but it's not simple.

Something like:
WITH stuff AS (
SELECT
bday,
carcolor,
ROW_NUMBER() OVER (
PARTITION BY bday,carcolor
ORDER BY bday,carcolor ) rownum
FROM
friends
)
SELECT
*
FROM
stuff
WHERE
rownum > 1;
Distributed Log-Processing Design Workshop (Srecon Americas 18 Slides) [pdf]
I just wish mobile Firefox had more flexibility.

I never stopped using desktop but mobile has been languishing on my tablet until the last iOS update totally broke safari (click and hold loading the anchor, and some dns glitch that means hacker news and two other sites are the only thing that works for hours at a time)
I think failure is defined by expectations.

If you failed to succeed in the expected amount of time/effort, it's a failure. Maybe you add some tolerance of going past the estimate before classifying as a failure, but it's still rooted in the expectation.

For example, if it took you ten years to pass kindergarten, you've failed.
I recall seeing a number of previous devices over the years with a curved screen that would strap to the wrist. mostly FRS radio/GPS combos, or personal audio recorder devices, not of US manufacture thats the part im sure of.

i wonder how a flexible screen would fare against any patent. could a flat flexible be legal until its worn and, the resulting curvature becomes infringing?
Zach's story is moving and I appreciate him sharing. I hope it brought some cathartic closure, Z, and BTW you're an excellent writer. I'm sorry for your loss. I've walked in those moccasins but failed to come away with anything positive from being there during the active process of dying. I learned much more from the living moments, first about her younger self, then about myself, during 6 years caring for demented mom in her sometimes sweet state where our knowledge of each other was a mystery to both of us and every hour was a surprise, sometimes (usually) heartbreaking, occasionally (rarely) joyous and with laughter.
I wonder if you guys all went on a field trip to watch The Wind Rises haha
Understanding your (website) visitors, making easy for them to take action
I don’t speak English well enough but phrase “to ban” sounds like YouTube is actually going to ban, while in fact YouTube only reserves the right to ban. But the latter is not clickbaity enough.
Farmers in crisis turn to high-interest loans as banks pull back
Trying to fix people problems with technology is pervasive unfortunately.
Oh, certainly. I think a README could've been helpful from good managers, but it could just as easily make bad managers worse.
Ethereum is now unforkable, thanks to decentralized finance projects
I'm not making either of those up; you can find them at the top of the chain-extensions draft, which is a collaboration between Mozilla and DNSSEC people. Both are also in Adam Langley's "Why Not DANE In Browsers" post. I'm pretty confident these are real issues, and not really a productive live debate for HN.
I think Atari 2600 programming is super fun. It's 6502 assembly, which is pretty simple and fun on it's own, but mixed with unique, very limited hardware makes it even more interesting. You can do it online [1], but using DASM [2] and Stella and it's debugger [3] is even better. And if you ever want to run it on real harware, it's pretty cheap to make it happen.

[1] https://8bitworkshop.com/v3.4.2/?platform=vcs&file=examples%...

[2] https://dasm-assembler.github.io/

[3] https://stella-emu.github.io/
Insofar as “advertising” is used as a kind of slur against pieces of journalism, it implies a kind of mens rea where the journalist was either paid off, or otherwise intended the piece to serve as PR for the company.

Sometimes, as a journalist, you set out to report interesting and important facts; an the facts are such that just a bare reporting of them leaves readers with a positive impression of a company, no matter how you editorialize. A company is just ...doing something good, and good in a novel way. And that’s news! Just as much as if a company were doing something bad in a novel way.

Presuming the piece was written genuinely, instead of being submarine PR, the journalist’s goal isn’t usually to get people to interact with the company (just like their goal with reporting of negative novel behaviour isn’t usually to cause a boycott—that’d be the job of an editorial.) Instead, the goal of such pieces is to make readers say “well—this changes things.” To make them think about how the world is going to be different for the presence of this new activity in it. Basically, to accomplish what speculative fiction sets out to accomplish, but with fewer tools in the toolbox.

I can understand calling that “advertising” in some literal technical sense. But if you are intending to morally color the article by calling it advertising, while receding back to the claim that it is “literally, technically” advertising, then readers should be wary: that’s a classic motte-and-bailey argument† (despite the motte and the bailey both being “it’s advertising”—‘advertising’ is used in a different sense in each claim.)

† https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/03/all-in-all-another-bri...