skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> that human translators may be an endangered species. In this scenario, human translators would become, within a few years, mere quality controllers and glitch fixers, rather than producers of fresh new text.

Huh? As someone who's worked in translation briefly before, that's already the case and has been for at least a decade -- at least for written material that's not "art" (literature, poetry).

It's far faster for professional translators to run something through Google Translate or similar and then clean it up, than type it out from scratch. And identical quality in the end.

There's little "soul-shattering" about this at all. Someone who needs to churn out translations of UN meeting notes day after day isn't doing it for their soul -- they're doing it because it's their job and people of different nationalities can find out what happened in the meeting to do their job.
Not every island either, just most.
So many abbreviations I had a hard time following you.

What's FT?
> According to the first statistics I found, Firefox is only about half as popular on the Mac as it in on Windows

Wich is not much of a surprise. If you educate your customer base to use one browser, many won't switch. See the lawsuits against Microsoft because of IE.
I've had to help clean up after any number of data losses or near losses that has never been made public; ranging from someone mkfs'ing the wrong device on a production server, to truncating the wrong table. In some cases afterwards having people writing awful scripts to munge log files (that were never intended for that purpose) to reconstruct data that were too recent for the last backup.

Of course there are people that avoid this, but I've seen very few places where their processes are sufficient to fully protect against it - a lot of people get by more on luck that proper planning. Often these incidents are down to cold hard risk calculations and people know they're taking risks with customer data and have deemed them acceptable.
Germans fall out of love with wind power
Its not a specification though, its a "living standard" a.k.a. we document the stuff we build as we go.
i have way too many tabs open at all times, and chrome makes it way way easier to see what I have open and get to the tab I want quickly.(it just shows more tabs than Firefox, this is my main complaint) The top bar uses less vertical real estate and is just much cleaner overall. I can see more if not all of the url. Chromes next tab left, next tab right, and close tab, automatically map to the keyboard shortcut I set in macOS, and I still haven’t even found the menu option for next and previous tab in Firefox. (I’m sure it’s there and I just haven’t found it yet, but if it’s not there, that’s a deal breaker for me)

I very badly want to use Firefox as my main browser, and I have it installed and give it a go every now and then, but it’s just not all the way there yet for me.
That's exactly what the article does...
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Good point - though in order for any kind of research to be valuable, statisticians have probably controlled for such stuff.

(They already had to control for population demography - sex, race, education - why not for time of year?)
Not sure what the justification is for saying Y functions 'psychologically' as a primary color. It would be a secondary color (R + G) in terms of the light spectrum, and (as you noted) our cones are directly most sensitive to RGB.

To answer the question, as qualia cannot be compared from person to person, there is in principle no way to show that they differ (or are the same) objectively. A sort of relative comparison of qualia within an individual (as you propose) will also not get you there, as it may be that the individual is simply more sensitive to changes along the gradient, not that they are experiencing a new color, and that's assuming we are able to use an objective comparison scale which we aren't.
That site has the most GDPR compliant, transparent, easy to configure cookie settings I've ever seen.

I've got my eyes on that dev kit for sure. Having an offline voice assistant is something I've wanted for a while, privacy is much more important to me than the hardware support that echo and Google home have. Thanks for dropping that link!
Firefox for Mac has been more or less unusable up until the most recent release where they actually started using the Core Animation libraries in macOS. Now it won’t drain all the battery in no time, and it’s actually quite snappy. I’ve tried to run Firefox so many times in the past, but eventually always go back to Safari because it’s more native, fast and unobtrusive.
I don't want to discuss this forever but I have a couple of comments:

Your points about efficiency are a separate topic entirely from the original claim that manually writing out an imperative solution makes it easier to see the algorithmic complexity. That was a surprising claim to me because, in my experience, if I understand what some HOF is doing, reading the code is even easier because there is less of it to wade through (and mental exhaustion doesn't make one easier to read vs the other).

> In every mainstream language I can think of `map foo myCollection` creates an intermediary map

You need to build up the final result, sure. Not an intermediary map but whatever structure (or functor) you're mapping over. That is the whole point of immutable data structures. Also when you're using persistent data structures, which all modern FP languages do, the cost of constructing the result can be far less than what you expect, especially if the result is lazy and you need only some of the results. There is a cost to immutability and if it's unbearable in some situation, fall back to in-place mutation but the semantics of these two approaches are definitely not the same.

> But I've also seen `sum map foo myCollection` so many times

Yeah... that should be a fold (reduce, whatever). :)
Actually, Apple is giving privacy the product treatment: https://www.apple.com/privacy/
This is one of the many reasons I love bike commuting. I solve many work-related problems while I'm riding.
Alternative Headline: "News Corp Interferes with Its Journalists and Changes Your Context"
> Growing opposition and lack of land spark collapse in construction of new turbines

> “For the fight against climate change, this is a catastrophe,” said Patrick Graichen, the director of Agora Energiewende, a think-tank in Berlin. “If we want to reach the 65 per cent renewables target we need at least 4GW of new onshore wind capacity every year. This year we will probably not even manage 1GW.”

> The problem was two-fold, he said: “The federal states have not made available enough areas for new wind turbines, and those that are available are fought tooth and nail by local campaigners.”
I agree that both problems are worth analysing, even if they're both absurd. Same goes for the Hangman's Paradox, a personal favourite. [0]

I gather that Pascal had never intended Pascal's Wager to be a watertight argument, it was intended more as a plaything for showing how unlikely it was anyone could make a watertight case for the existence of God.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangman%27s_Paradox
agreeing with that one. May I ask how do you address this currently?
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Birth rate declines maybe but land use stays the same. When you look at Europe for example they don't allow much room for wildlife.
Personal anecdote: If the e-mails I get every few months are to be believed, yes. I was lucky enough to be around on the Internet when domains were free so I have two .org domains (because to have a .com back then was a sign that you were one of those "dirty businesses" who wanted to "sully the InterNet"[0]) that are old enough to buy their own drinks in the States. Both have been used for e-mail and internal naming schemes for as long as I've had them; only one has a web site.

Every few months, I get e-mails asking if I'll sell one or the other for a small sum or donate the domain to the group that's asking. I used to reply and politely decline but the vitriol about my "pointlessly" keeping a domain that I'm "obviously not using" that inevitably comes back now has me shift-Delete e-mails like that. The times, they have changed.

0 - And getting a .net meant showing you were an actual Network Operator. Anybody else remember FTPing the template down from internic.net and sending it to hostmaster and waiting two months for the zone delegation?
T-Series Beat PewDiePie to Be World’s Biggest YouTube Channel
> our cones are directly most sensitive to RGB.

The L cone is actually most sensitive to the yellow wavelengths.
Black: Opinionated code formatting for Python
I think certainly, yes. I wonder if that's been researched?

That wouldn't prove, but it would strongly suggest, that they're seeing the same qualia as the rest of us in the end, just mapped differently. Particularly if we could find "symmetries" -- i.e. for each area of new distinction they see, there's a corresponding area of distinction that collapses.
It’s unfortunate, and I don’t fully agree with the policy. Regardless, building an iOS app in any of the “vice” trades has to be recognized as high risk at this point. Right or wrongly, Apple has been consistent about this since the earliest days of the App Store.
I'm not really informed enough about this to fully understand it, but if I own a .org domain, can anyone explain to me what repercussion can this have?
Setting Up a Fedora 31 Workstation for Go Cloud Native Application Development
>a small 5-6 year old elephant is about $15K.

What's the correlation with elephant age and price? Are younger elephants more expensive because they're easier to train, or are older elephants more expensive because they can get to work quickly?
Yes, You Can Catch Insanity
The recommended approach for managing groups of multiple containers with podman seems to be using pods (hence the name), which can be managed by Makefiles as you describe.
Violent criminals don't break for tea time while everyone waits for the "armed response" people to show up. Cops and security guards are armed because they encounter situations where they have to defend themselves against someone who wants to kill them. If a criminal is pulling a gun out of his waistband, suggesting that the cop or security guard should have to be a defenseless sitting duck while screaming into the radio for "armed response" is an utterly silly proposition.
Yeah, the difference between Stoicism-as-philosophy and Stoicism-as-self-help-book is that the former finds it necessary to justify the accuracy or reasonableness of its advice, starting from fundamentals like what physical reality consists of. Most people interested in Stoicism don't really care about that part now.
See the link I included on the opponent process. It explains how we have neurons that respond specifically to red/green and yellow/blue. That's why Y is psychologically as primary as the other 3.

Here's another way of looking at it: psychologically, we don't perceive yellow as a mixture of red and green, the way we perceive purple as a mixture of red and blue. Yellow isn't "perceived" as a mixture of anything in our minds -- it's perceived as primary. If you say "it's kind of a reddish-green", nobody is going to think, "oh you mean yellow!" While orange is perceived as a mixture of red and yellow, for example.

Remember, I'm not talking about what's happening physically with wavelengths -- I'm talking about psychological perception of colors.
The profit motive is helpful when it comes to providing incentives to innovate. There's no room for innovation here - it's purely a cash grab.
> "lkmpg pdf"

I wonder how someone from the outside is supposed to know that's the magic string to google.
A living standard is a form of specification. You can use it to implement a tool consuming HTML the same way the browsers do from scratch, and the browsers use the process to align their independent implementations.
Out of curiosity, what problem are you solving with this? Who’s the target audience, and why is this useful for them?
>Perhaps Firefox for Mac is a weaker product, and loses to Safari 'fair and square' on quality grounds?

The current version of Firefox on macOS is a vast improvement over what Mozilla was shipping 6-12 months ago.

However, it still requires more RAM, doesn’t render as quickly and consumes more power than Safari, so there’s that. Also, Safari implemented anti-tracking features before Firefox did.
Having a crazy thought here...

So we have things like Tor, which makes a PKI based .onion TLD. What's stopping Us (the people) from making our own TLDs?

It really just is a massive amount of groupthink, inertia, and acceptance of who dns is... right?

And with IP6 seems like it'd be a wild west on all sorts of TLDs.. But we have these monolithic orgs holding us all back. Hell, I know it's orthogonal to TLDs, but we even had the ANPR ip space sold partially to Amazon ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20475855 ). Bluntly stated, these orgs that manage underlying infra aren't trustworthy. And that goes without stating ICANN and all those woes.
Same here. Throughout the years, I realized that a warm shower is priceless for making better plans, generating new ideas and solving difficult problems
For more information on how you can use this and other techniques to solve hard problems and get more (deep) work done. See Cal Newport's book Deep Work https://www.calnewport.com/books/deep-work/
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Except - Android 8.
We are already on Android 10.

I'd see an issue if these potential vulnerabilities hadn't apparently already been fixed, but since it looks like they have. Meh, clickbait.
> So for instance if you're Scandinavian you're expected to say you're happy.

I can't remember where I read it, but I read something that explained Scandinavian happiness through low expectations. At the beginning of the year, people were asked how they think they feel and be doing in a year, and the answer was marginally better. In a year, the researchers checked in, and people were generally doing marginally better. So it's probably closer to satisfaction than happiness.
As irritating as clippy was, I actually miss the little guy. Always so enthusiastic about formatting my essays into letters!
> What do you suggest Mozilla do instead?

Mozilla should sell two products:

1) Storage a la iCloud

2) Payment processing a la Paypal

And for marketing purposes they should get into discovery of free/open web services, a la old school Yahoo.

As a web site builder, I don't want to have to manage credit cards. As a user, I don't want to have to trust random web sites with my credit card info. I also don't want to be redirected to Paypal, I just want a secure wallet that can be used on web sites with a drop in <paymentframe recipient="foo@bar.com" usd="8999" description="BonsaiThing Pro 1 year subscription" /> or similar.

As a web user, I want to be able to store my photos, downloads, music, documents, etc conveniently in a little cloud-synced folder. I want to be able to quickly give fine-grained access to different web apps to different parts of that space. Photo app wants to access my photos? Great. Github wants to access my repos? Fine. Photo app wants to access my repos? No.

And the discovery thing... There's a ton of free software out there. Mozilla basically has shut the door behind it. "Thanks for the install. Good luck finding other Free tools to use with it." They should be building a directory of other free software that can be used with Firefox. I should be able to use my Mozilla account to post reviews, to discuss new apps that are voted up, etc. That will allow enthusiasts to start engaging socially with the brand in a way that Mozilla (not Twitter or Apple or Facebook) can control the identities.

From there maybe there is some social identity service, but if it's just a way to engage the community—great. Like Hacker News is to YCombinator, Mozilla should provide a place for us to discuss and share web services.

If they want to get into search, that's great. Write a new shitty open source search engine that any web site can federate with. Use Google for now, but use that money to dig us out of the hole Google put us in.
Am I missing something or is this now using the term “full stack” to describe... a particular stack?
I coincidentally just finished writing some userspace libusb code for the first time today!

Nothing as impressive or interesting as TFA, just enough to let the thing boot on Linux to the point where proprietary half-working drivers can take over. It'd be a stretch to call my epson scanner abandoned hardware, but considering the quality of official drivers, only a small one.
SoftBank's second Vision Fund starting life a lot smaller than the first
> Json in go cannot be represented as a type and also is not type safe.

Not a Go programmer, but why don't you simply use an explicit type tag and a number of getters? They can assert that they're not called in invalid situations.
Namecoin is a lot more popular and better known than ENS, fwiw.
To add to your point 1 - no particular mental focus also requires no audio input. It's so easy to fall into the habit of constantly having a podcast or an audiobook on.
Podman supports pods, hence the name. It follows the k8s approach, and it’s nowhere close to a drop-in replacement for docker-compose, but managing multiple related containers is supported as a core feature.

To your point about the docker socket: I tried to set up Gitlab using podman, mainly for CI/CD, but it ended up being too much effort for a spontaneous hobby project. This aspect is severely lacking, I agree.

Edit to provide a relevant link:
https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2019/01/15/podman-managin...
Just started reading the book and so far it is quite interesting and informative and it looks like the problem they were trying to solve were that of the massively complicated operating systems which seem to get in the way rather than help. Funny how that resonates just as much today as then.

I have the digilent board from my FPGA experiments and Oberon looks like pascal so should be pretty easy to pick up so I might give the examples a go.

Unfortunately VGA graphics and PS2 keyboards and mice seriously dont cut it these days
The article is comparing podman to Docker, and discussion of benefits is largely centred around the part I already know - there is no daemon.

I was wondering if those that have actually worked with podman had more insights.
Great statistics, thanks for sharing. I think that happiness is definitely something we should care about more, personally and also in statistics and political decision making.

Let me share this (free) book written by a psychologist that deals with happiness.

It's not the kind of hooray-optimist positive psychology, it's actually backed by research, with the results detailed in each chapter.

Tom Stevens: You Can Choose To Be Happy
https://csulb.edu/~tstevens/
RC was an amazing experience, and there are definitely a few Recursers lurking. Happy to share my experience!
I imagine that there is human judgement applied to the decision to make missing-person photos and information public.

Police departments see the impacts of abuse more than almost anyone except those being abused -- they're going to, in general, be very sensitive to enabling an abuser.
I can tell you from experience that everyday users don‘t care that much about seeing ads. Some even like them. They care even less about the possibility of manipulated results. It’s also a really big topic to explain.

Besides the question of the funding of this hypothetical search engine. It being „fair and objective“ or even completely transparent about its ranking, would mean it‘d be SEO‘d into oblivion by everything from click/content farms to trolls to more nefarious actors. As long as many on the internet want to make money or manipulate people somehow it‘s not really doable in my opinion.
> The company has raised roughly $2 billion for the second Vision Fund so it can start backing startups, according to two people familiar with the matter. This stage of the fundraising process is known as a first close, and SoftBank will continue gathering commitments.

> Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala Investment Co., which contributed $45 billion and $15 billion, respectively, to the first fund, are reconsidering how much they will put into the new fund, Bloomberg News previously reported.

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I would say it's more alien than alienating. Good brutalist structures always look uncomfortably orgianic which I quite like.
> That implies that not only they are not that happy but they are systemically lying for some reason. I find this scenario hard to believe.

I don't at all. Everytime my boss or coworkers have asked how I'm doing I've always said great unless I had an amusing anecdote. Even if I'm having a fight with my wife, I'm experiencing anxiety, or I'm feeling depressed. I could totally imagine this social rule being broader and stronger in other countries.
Wow. That's around 1% of some of my clients take home simply to have a web site for their small business. This drives everybody to "Facebook pages" instead of their own website hosted on Wix, Wordpress or Squarespace.

Speaking of parasitic activity ...
Color codes on resistors. The worst part is brown, red and orange. I am good at distinguishing colors (was tested no issue) and sometimes it was quite difficult.
I'm a little surprised to learn that GT is used to translate UN meeting notes, because the right kind of mistake in that context can literally lead to a costly, possibly catastrophic, international incident.
(Behind a paywall, gurrr...)
The article makes the point that Google's general indexing algorithm is augmented to handle special cases Google (or others) have identified. The author
seems argues without proof that this is bad.
I would be VERY shocked to see 100% yield... theres only so much you can do on chip though this strongly depends on what your definition of a working chip is :-P
I wonder if commonly available color changing smart bulbs, such as Philips Hue bulbs, have fine enough color control to be able to produce color changes that only a tetrachromat can see?

If so, that would be an interesting way for a tetrachomatic magician with a mentalism act to have their assistant pass them information. In particular, it would almost certainly work to fool Penn & Teller on their show "Fool Us" [1], where it often comes down to whether or not the mentalist can find a way to pass information that Penn & Teller can't spot.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn_%26_Teller:_Fool_Us
The vertical space you can easily fix by opening the hamburguer menu > customize > density (bottom left) > compact. It then uses less space than chrome. You can also add/remove items from the top bar there, making your address bar larger if you want to.

The default hotkeys for next/prev tab are cmd+option+left/right arrow. I don't know how to change those...
Being able to replace "staring at the wall and thinking" with "putting the dishes away and thinking" or "chopping veggies and thinking" or similar is one of the biggest benefits of working from home, IMO.
There is no original title.

Which part of my proposed title is not objectively true?
Lessons from APL, a “Lost” Language
there's more than one query for most pages. that one also turns up for "linux kernel programming" which strikes me an utterly non-magical query.
There wasn't just testing, but a whole bunch of other nuclear and chemical research these scientists were exposed to.
I believe you might be in the minority at least in the u.s. Here most blue and white color workers don't feel comfortable sharing negative events in their personal life except under certain exceptions.(especially close work friends, in an informal setting)
Why allow competition when they can simply claim to productize.
Author mistakes order for purity. The end of excessive purity is the same storyline as aquaman. The dichotomy of chaos and order is still helpful.