skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it valid literary criticism to point out pointless uses of cat on page 25?
Google has been perfecting this language over the past few years, with press releases/blog posts of fame such as: "We're evolving Google Fiber" (read: We're killing it) or "We're releasing the End-to-End email encryption extension to the community" (read: We're abandoning developing and supporting it for Gmail), etc
That is very striking. Something straight out of a Tintin book. Thank you for sharing your fathers work.
“Hello, fellow developers! I myself am a developer, just like you! How’s everyone developing today? By the way <insert marketing spiel here>”

It’s so transparent, I boggle at how anyone falls for it, or that companies still think it is a viable strategy.
I assume it will be like what happened with polio, smallpox, etc. Victory means the vast majority of people give it no thought.

But this is a gene therapy not a vaccine. It will cost $100k+ so accessibility will be a problem.
Threadripper has a lot more surface area to exchange heat, the Ryzen interface is about half the size of a threadripper, so you'd need to get some serious cooling going with that.
TLS makes that tricky as you need a MITM proxy.
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As an American, I agree with your observations. Average food quality was higher when I lived in Europe, even in parts of the former Yugoslavia. Instant hot water was also more common; American homes typically use tank-style water heaters which take a minute to warm up once you open the faucet.
Then you need to manage custom certificates and embedded browsers and updaters may not handle proxied connections well. (And what about your tv where you can't provide custom CA certs?) This way of handling things never ends well. Both in enterprise solutions and consumer ones.
I'm an individual and I value some things above others. I will help my friends and family members before I help strangers. I would take the proverbial bullet for them, but for you? I'd probably not.

Equally if I came across a trapped cat I'd try to rescue, if I come across a trapped housefly I don't take notice.

People who aren't vegan still value animals, just with hierarchies of concern rather than one rule to fit all. That answers the good faith portion of the comment, the virtue signalling isn't something I can provide an answer for.
Moved back to Firefox this weekend. It feels so much snappier than Chrome. So far I only miss SuperSorter (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/supersorter/hjebfg...).
Google captcha makes some sites almost unusable on firefox if you dare to resist fingerprinting for full traceability.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20147015
>Cognitive dissonance must be hard to bear

Words are just another means to an end for these people. Americans were very good at believing that Orwell’s work about language and politics was specific to the circumstances of the Soviet Union, when in fact it’s broadly applicable to every form of authoritarianism, including corporations and their functionaries. I’ve never had the misfortune of living in a Stalinist state, but I certainly have worked for companies and managers that seemed to aspire to.
Firefox is already here.
Both. Maybe the latter is caused by the former.
The seats are comfy enough, the steering wheel is beefy, the only point of failure I've had is the battery. Otherwise, it's exactly what it's supposed to be.

CR give my other car, a Jaguar F-Pace low marks for "loud engine and cabin, stiff choppy ride and bad infotainment."

Which to me sounds like a lot of soccer mom's thought they were getting "luxury" utility vehicle but accidentally purchase a 350hp supercharged v6 "sport" utility vehicle.

Cars are for driving, not "infotainment".
That is correct, but some just tend to religiously adopt Python. Those who understand that the best tool for the task at hand is the best tool for the task at hand are fine.
This was the nail in the coffin for me, as of last night. Writing this on Firefox :)
Cash, Trolls, and a Cult Leader: How Russia Meddles Abroad for Profit
us-east1. Our cluster in europe-west1 seems unaffected.
For what it's worth, I had upvoted you. The shallowness of the discussion wasn't something you started, and I'm not sure you really had a responsibility to end it. I just wanted to see us do better as a community.
Really? I thought recent dns improvements would prevent this sort of thing.
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This change is a firmware update that was likely automatically installed on unaware customers equipment. Very shady.

They claim this is to "gather crashes and other critical events strictly for the purpose of improving our products", but to be honest; how often does that happen in routers? They are very barebone anyway, and were there to be any issues, they would be notified by the customer.

Having it forced with no way to opt-out is also an indication of hostility. They claim they will release a firmware update without telemetry, but no dates have been set.
Contract-Driven Development in Python
I guess it's a regional thing, the single "US" faucet is something I guess no one in Slovakia or Czech Republic has seen. I remember when we were on a first US business trip and it was hilarious to find out that I was not the only one of the group who tried to find Youtube videos how to control that thing and also to switch between the shower head and the tap. The second thing was that after having a shower I wanted to switch on the bed lamp - the switch was a small knob which I tried to push but nothing worked, then I found out I had to turn it in any direction to cycle between on and off.
How do you feel about animals that eat other animals?
Did you link to the right thing? That isn't a deflection, they're asking permission to sideline the issue on uBlock's issue tracker into a discussion about Chrome/Chromium's extension policies, which incidentally they didn't get a clear answer to.

> I also don't want to hijack this without the project's permission. @gorhill & contributors, do you mind having this discussion here or would you prefer if we moved it elsewhere?

I haven't really been following this issue, but I did read the linked reply, so I may be missing some bigger context.
>A lot of the issues may come down to whether management prioritize financial engineering / making huge bonuses / pleasing wall street vs making good vehicles. The same with Boeing..

It's a funny thing to me that no one ever points this out in advance. Where were the articles about Boeing's move from an engineering culture to a financial one? Instead, we wait for the natural cycle of a business to arrive, then make up some answer, like "financialization" to explain it.

How come a hacker site doesn't acknowledge how difficult it is to "stay on top" as a business?

>You see the effect a bit with Tesla where I'm sure Musk would love to focus on quality but has to rush things out to make decent quarterly numbers or risk going bust by not getting ongoing financing

Again, more post hoc reasoning.

Elon Musk negotiated the biggest corporate pay package in history, but he didn't tie it to product quality, did he? Maybe that's why he focuses so much on share price and market cap and quarterly numbers? Nah, couldn't be...
sorry, but where are we seeing that ? Has Porsche already delivered any electric cars to customers ? Or are you talking about the fact that the e.g German media finally has a darling to talk about, even if it is really really pricey and slower with less range ?

I have no issues with E Porsche. Good for them and their fans. I hope they sell as many as you can even if they take all Tesla customers that overlap. But Porsche only sold 256,255 cars last year after decades of existence since they target a certain clientele. Tesla will surpass that this year in volume.
In my experience, yes. The overtime is "real" in the sense that it's actually needed and worked. Of course there's people who will game the system like in any arrangement and put off work so that they can instead do it while getting paid an overtime rate, but that seemed to be the exception. What makes you question whether or not it is "real" overtime?
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The New Deal is one of these exemples : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal. May be a lot of us need to starve again before those who seems to believe regulation (taxes ?) is the source of all evil start to change their mind.
About software, it is not typical to defense companies and it does not need to be deliberate: most consultancy and subcontracting companies have no incentive to exceed a crappy average level:

Indeed, as you explain, being fast and excellent makes you poorer when you have a day rate and when your next contract depends on the maintenance of the software you create (since you are the only expert).
It might well be that it's easy to the point it's unremarkable.
Brave has built in ad blocking.
80% of that $2M home was for the land, no money left for build quality.
Can you surpass it by faking user-agent and pretend to be Chrome?
Counter-point: living in an ugly home isn't going to kill anyone.
+ the limit there is per-extension, not global
I am not trying to convince anyone, I am trying to have a factual and principal discussion about insurance.

Again the three disasters we've had the one in the west that was the fault of the powerplant was paid by the power plant.

Of course you can't calculate the risk of being run by an opressive regime like the soviet union or ignorance/incompetence by those who granted Fukushima rights to build.

However they don't change the fact that nucelear reactors do in fact get insured and as far as I can see sufficiently. The other two other cases where either the state as the owner and thus insured properly, and the state allowing something to be built where it shouldnt.

Neither is an argument against nuclear and it's an unrealistic standard to set from my perspective and it's not a problem in the west.

I do however appreciate that we can disagree about this in a civilized manner.
The quality can be measured by cost of maintenance or more likely by the costs associated with warranty repairs (and product returns) incurred by the company.
You're not paying anything to that middleman if usage is minimal. I don't see how server-based infrastructure is better in that regard.
This wasn’t a rep underground facility either. It was a concrete hole in the ground with a vent tube.
That another player turn evil? I don't think so.

Firefox fans want it to become a great browser. No shits given to Chrome either way.
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I mean, this blog post is poor communication, so...
To be fair, it’s often difficult to find good bread in many countries. In asia it seems to be down to whether there are still french influences in the city you’re in.

Good chocolate is even rarer. I’m from belgium and chocolate abroad is almost always disappointing. Most of the time if you look at the composition it wouldn’t actually be allowed to even call it chocolate when selling it in belgium.
This is a great video demonstration by Matt Parker of Parker Square fame: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9c-_neaxeU
> 8. Sprinkling printf statements is an efficient debugging technique.

Ouch. This is my bread and butter.
> Nobody goes to LIDL to buy food, unless has some real money problem.

Then I guess most of Poland has "real money problems", as LIDL and equivalents is where we shop. However, I think it's just that we don't like to overpay for stuff.
App Engine Flex, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, Networking seem okay in Europe (west-1).

Our app is still up.
Also - there is almost no cold water if I switch on the shower. That's because (at least in new houses) there is a closed circle for warm water and the heating system cycles the warm water (2 pipes of warm water + 1 pipe of cold water for each water outlet) in the pipes to keep it ready for use. You have instant warm water.
It's that hard to walk to a car we need to reinvent the wheel? It's getting ridiculous
The City That Cycles with the Young, the Old, the Busy and the Dead
You also have the option of, you know, returning the book in time so you aren't fined at all.
Something nobody else seems to have said here, is that Valve's work on Linux, Proton, streaming from one device to another (even phones), etc, puts them in an excellent position for cloud gaming, as pointed out by [1]. Namespaces support seems like an obvious next step here.

Valve is already in the best position for this, since they're the dominant market player and gamers already have their game libraries in Steam. Buying a game from Valve makes more sense than buying a game from Google Steam users get to keep a playable product even if the streaming product is a flop.

[1] https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/looks-like-valve-coul...
Here's a really lightweight game I made, written in vanilla javascript, no frameworks, no graphics (just Emoji).

For 10 years I've been meaning to make this. (It was even mentioned on Hacker News back when I first wrote about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=967641)

A week or two ago, prompted by an email from a friend, I made this version, very quickly. A few days ago I switched to using TypeScript (but still no frameworks) and found that TypeScript is amazing.

To play the game, you "find a new project" (for $100 of in-game currency), then assign it to your only employee ("the Founder"). Once you've worked on a few projects you can hire staff. A store becomes available where you can buy further skills and items.

It shows you some basic aspects of software development in a bespoke devshop. Interplay between different roles, how self-managing teams operate etc. I've had a blast writing it!
It's like expecting a pure mathematician to know if 57 is prime. https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Grothendieck
Mandatory mention of this: http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

Maybe someday the web will return to its humble roots.
Would be nice if any hn-reader mediates between the two sides.
The human side might help. The point where the actual network of connected hardware actually started to affect human society. All of the key ingredients for what is around today, but not necessarily the same hardware and software - because that has changed dramatically but not the scope of the problem space.
Before FB, there were niche, interesting, though a bit more local - language barriers - communities around interesting topics. Most of them dried or died out specifically because of Facebook - I can point at quite a lot of Hungarian forums and community sites that went silent around 2009-2010.

UX wise Facebook groups are abysmal compared to old style forums: they are very hard to search, to follow threads, everything is thrown in at one pile of things where something "magical" decides priority, and most comments are hidden behind "more...".

It also has fairly strict policy on acceptable topics.

Apart from all those problems, I also have the issue with FB is all-on-one. I firmly believe that most Europeans have work (colleagues and/or professional life), outside of work (family, generic friends), and private personas (very close friends, spouse, etc) - I don't know about the rest of the world. FB wants to merge these. I have no desire to accidentally mix my private persona with my professional one in case I forgot to set a post on a niche community private, or because FB suddenly changed something and reset the setting. This also applies for the visuals: everything looks the same. I want my communities/niches to look different. Cyberpunk doesn't go well with black text on white background.

I think you're on the right track with the mall parallel, but it may go even further: social media is high street stores. And it's killing specialist business.
thanks for the answer, that's interesting.

We do have this to a certain extent now, though - file scope is a thing in some languages.

I'll give up my plan to write a neovim plugin for scope management, though ;)
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They are being very stupid. Switching primary browser isn't trivial, but it's easier than wading through an ad-laden web. Goodbye Chrome, hello Firefox.
Might encourage more users back over to Firefox, which would make this good news on balance.
Even if you don't share their opinion, you have to accept that some people honestly believe that advertising is necessary for funding the open Web and keep it open for people who either can't afford tons of subscriptions or hate them for privacy reasons.

Realistically, Mr Vincent is not in charge of being an advocate for anything other than Google's corporate interests. But he is not in charge of destroying extensions either. He may well be in charge of destroying ad blockers though.
Back in the IE 6 days I was in charge of fixing my families computers, and my family's friends computers. I was dealing with a few things a week, some requiring a full re-install. This was back in the early 2000's. Eventually I snapped and started charging hourly unless people switched to Gmail and Firefox. I started getting a lot less calls since Gmail was pretty good about filtering out malicious attachments and IE was, IE. I probably got around 40 households to switch to Firefox. The people that refused to switch financed a lot of my undergrad, I charged 100 a hour. I don't like fixing computers and the goal was to make things as painful as possible for them so they would stop using IE.

Using a ad-blocker in Firefox was the #1 thing I suggested for safe computing. And don't open unexpected email attachments. This killed 95% of peoples computer woes.

So good job Google, you did it, from here on out whenever I see Chrome on families computers I will strong-arm them into switching to Firefox. I did it in 2005 and was wildly successful. I can do it again. And I think my Christmas gifts this year will be domain names and three year subscriptions to Fastmail for my immediate family.
Great read. To follow up also read a comment on that piece titled "A better lesson" by Rodney Brooks:

https://rodneybrooks.com/a-better-lesson/
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The counter for coins is mai or ko. Ikko is thus correct. Only wo is missing for perfect grammar, but in informal spoken japanese, it's often omitted. So overall the sentence is correct... except for the conjugation. Because ireru doesn't really invite to insert a coin.
Like so many others on this thread, this is my push to go entirely back onto Firefox. I'll keep Chrome for the diminishing number of sites that don't like Firefox.
That's the correct link, and it is deflection. When developers tell you that the extension review process is so unfair that it feels like bullying [1], and ask you what changes do you plan to introduce to prevent this, the least you can do as a developer advocate is to briefly answer the question, then open a thread on Google Groups and invite people there to continue the discussion.

What they did was to introduce a break in the discussion. Most people subscribing to that GitHub issue, which was trending on HN [2], will not start monitoring Google Groups for any new discussion that may take place, which reduces the likelihood that there will be enough people pressuring them to give clear answers.

[1] https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/745#iss...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21233041
This is correct. In Japanese it's so easy to rhyme things that rhymes just aren't interesting or unusual.
Since Firefox is already dependent on Google for a great deal of their funding, I’d say the next phase in Google’s strategy will be scaling that back.
I'm interested in knowing what the consequences were for the source nest from the sudden influx of a million escaped worker ants, positive or negative.
How does one become "no longer commercially viable" for youtube?
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I think the Ford F-150 is the best-selling vehicle made by US companies.

There's a reason that Musk is building a Tesla truck.
You probably needed to stroke her, his, or it’s ego again.

I had a math professor do that to me in undergrad. Fear of his type led me to leave the field entirely after that degree. Just way too much power over me with little to nothing I could do.
I looked up wikipedia which says there's no conclusive definition.
Adblockers.
I has open graph metadata, works with cURL and is WordPress based. Why wouldn't it be indexed?
I didn't know we had HFCS in the UK. What products contain it?
That does fit my personal experience, which has been that when comparing old-school open-source communities where people know how to do proper quoting on mailing lists vs. internal e-mail communication at an Outlook-centric company that does a lot of remote work by virtue of being geographically spread over the world, the quality of technical discussion is much higher in the open-source communities. A large part of that is indeed that sub-points and/or nuance of earlier e-mails is simply dropped on the floor in the Outlook culture.

I suspect that it's not just about taking time to inline quotes, but also simply about seeing what you're replying to directly next to your answer, as opposed to having it be separated by at least a large message header and likely by much more.

Another sad fact is that people re-invent inline quoting in Outlook culture all the time, badly: they manually copy relevant parts into their top-posted response, or they use some sort of color coding to write their own response inline.
Is this a recent change? I'm not sure if it's just another 'firing your customers' clause or something more sinister.
It has proven effectively impossible to sustainably project an incorrect image of a company. It’s not that they can’t do PR, their entire culture looks like that
You're welcome! I found it very helpful for me and than I shared it.
> The USA isn't racist per se - it's just that race is a major factor in everything.

Doesn't that make it racist per se? I mean if the only way you're going to hear your accent and see faces like yours on tv is to listen to separately maintained tv channels, then you have apartheid, defacto or otherwise. If you have congressional divisions deliberately drawn to ensure that a person of a certain race has a viable chance of getting elected, you have a dejure apartheid. The moment you have "separate but equal", you have racism. If Americans were interested in fair equal representation for all American citizens, they could do it. But they refuse. Because racism is a big factor in everything.
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No, "carnist" is ideological rather than concerning diet, one who supports the ideology that it is morally acceptable to eat animals for food. One could be a vegetarian carnist (who does not like the taste) for example.

It's kind of insulting, you think you know my ideology?
I successfully build a React renderer that displays text and pixels on a 0.96-inch OLED screen. The renderer is built on top of a C driver for I2C protocol, which is used as a C module for the embeddable QuickJS engine. The whole codebase, including JS engine, C modules and React Reconciler, are compiled into binary within 780KB on a Raspberry Pi. This encourages me to try out React for developing Linux GUI in the future, hope you like it!
Really wonder what it's like being in Google teams when this happens. Must be pretty intense

Also - karma gods reward Google for manifests 3 :p