skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As search engines have gotten better over the years, I find my use of bookmarks is usually write-once read-never.

Part of that is due to the fact that iOS is now my primary consumption platform, and finding bookmarks in a complex structure is much more awkward than it should be.

Part of it is just laziness: trying to manage a complex bookmark folder is more work than I care to do when search engines give me 99% of what I need.
Problem is, all those are preference settings that change with each user's preferences, and at the end of the day they need to default to something, so it only makes sense that they default on what might be most useful for most users.

Just as a quick counterexample, in my case:

> about:preferences#general > Startup > restore previous session

Same.

> about:preferences#general > Tabs > uncheck Ctrl+Tab cycle

Never have used Ctrl+Tab so no point in disabling it. Never going to push those keys, so the default doesn't bother me at all.

> about:preferences#general > Downloads > always ask where to save

I do _not_ want having to indicate where to save. That's why I have a Downloads folder; everything downloaded must go to the Downloads folder, no questions asked. I'll delete or organize later.

> about:preferences#home > Firefox Home Content > disable all except Top Sites

Same for me.

> about:preferences#privacy > Permission > Notification Settings > Block new requests

Same for me.

> about:preferences#privacy > Firefox Data Collection and Use > disable

I don't really mind. Depending on the mood, it will be disabled or left enabled upon a new installation. If it helps them develop Firefox, I'm willing to let Mozilla snoop a bit.

> Set in about:config extensions.pocket.enabled to false

Never used Pocket. Could disable it, but I just hide the icon. Lately I've been thinking that maybe I'm missing on some nice feature that the browser is offering me and I'm ignoring...

> Install the addons: uBlock Origin, Gesturefy, Firefox Multi-Account Containers

Those are your choice of extensions. Although I coincide with uBlock and the Multi-Account ones. The later, though, is just in a very preliminary development state; it needs much more work IMHO to be even a candidate for integration into the default installation. Right now, it is too minimal (missing convenience features such as exporting the settings and sync with the official Mozilla service)

> I remove the home button

I want my Home button. I have to explicitly enable it in Chrome, so I could complain about the same thing you do.

> I remove the sidebar button

I want my sidebar easily accessible, frequently swapping between "Tabs" and "Bookmark Search Plus 2". My sidebar is 99% time open.

> I reject every Firefox pop-up that wants me to enable Sync or whatever

I want my Mozilla account set up for synchronization of everything it allows (except history). It's a fundamental part of my workflow and it's the first thing I enable after a clean installation.

In summary, your preferences are just as valid as mine and any other person's, so I'd understand that they will never find a perfect set of defaults that would satisfy everybody.

EDIT: Added separation between paragraphs
Containers Without a Container Manager, with Systemd
> Those webpages without an RSS feed

I'm with you there. If I'm only stopping by a website for a one-off thing, I don't care if it has an RSS feed or not. However, sites that don't are sites that I won't be checking in with on the regular.
Your family and friends can listen to a recording on youtube. So much faster than studying the piano.
I think the right 'process' for each person is more important than the 'tools' etc.

The tools that will suit your needs , you will learn/make/find over time of use.. The process though is the foundation imo.

I have a few habbits that I absolutely know could be improved on, optimised etc, but they make me comfortable, they are my solid automonomous actions, meaning I never need to worry about them.

Autopilot mode kicks in.

That takes time and just noticing what you don't like and removing / changing those things.

Good luck.

PS: Beer helps! o7
Ranking Crypto Assets by Auditability
In recent years at Google a rule was adopted that TODO should be followed by a bug number or not be put in at all.
Online videos don't work for the humanities either. You really need interaction with your peers to explore new aspects of your subject and move the arts forward.
This isn't forbidden knowledge, it's just not correct. People learn and grow with experience. Some projects can't afford to support many, or any, people in that growth stage. But lots of projects can afford it, and the investment in their growth makes sense. I think it is probably also true that some people never become competent enough for many projects, but in my experience that is diminishingly rare, whereas junior developers who are still developing their skills are extremely common (unsurprisingly, since more and more people enter the field constantly).
I just realized after so many years that the reason I always failed to keep using any other RSS reader is that I miss the per-article popularity scores from Google Reader.

I used to flood myself with headlines there and read the ones with interesting titles or high popularity (I don't even remember what that was based on; number of stars by other Reader users?) Then I'd just mark all as read.

Reddit and HN have replaced this for me somewhat, the only issue is that I don't get to curate the source blogs anymore.
People do the right thing if it's worth their while. You don't need people to fear the state showing up and inflicting physical violence or rotting in hell for eternity in order to get people to act "right". You just need "right" to be more worth their while than "wrong". Now, fear of the state and/or fear of god are often used by society to weight people's choices but there's no reason thing have to be all stick and no carrot.
You can recover SNI if you sniff from the very beginning, but not thereafter. It’s only sent once as part of the initial TLS handshake.
How did you form this opinion? Family wealth has almost nothing to do with an individual's financial ability to do a PhD. You don't pay tuition and you receive nominal wages to support yourself. It's not a tech salary, and there's a major opportunity cost for delaying your entry to industry (if you eventually go that route), but that doesn't mean you need a rich benefactor to sponsor you for five or six years.

A PhD is financially viable for anyone who could make ends meet while working at Best Buy. Most people working on a PhD have no family or mortgage.
You’re talking about scientific academia, not science. Much of science occurs outside of academia. Military and industrial scientific R&D, corporations’ basic-research labs, independents, etc. It’s only in scientific academia that these “strictly adhere to the popular scientific paradigm in order to get published” worries exist.
I have written browser extension.
I've had a very good experience with gReader on Android devices.
Chrome, Safari and Edge have supported it since late 2017; Firefox since May 2018. So it should be quite safe to use by now.
We are profoundly unprepared to delve into such research, in a manner akin to, say, a preschooler attempting to study the structure and process behind the creation of a photorealistic 3DCG scene. They can recognize colors and how they delineate objects, fine. Can they speak to the technical details of the rendering pipeline? How light works, in the abstract? Do they have an understanding of perspective? Of the underlying math involved?

In so-called "group differences in intelligence," can we define intelligence satisfactorily? Can we define the "groups"? We understand what a gene is and broadly how it contributes to an organism's physiology, but in complex phenomena such as intelligence, can we yet track how each gene contributes? Can we even break down intelligence into its phenotypical building blocks? Do we even know if it's an additive system, in the manner implied? Or is it perhaps more convoluted, with "helpful" genes in one context "hurting" in others?

I'd argue that we're simply not technically equipped to come to any meaningful conclusions, or even to inquire forthrightly, in regard to intelligence, except in the broadest and most surface-level terms, in that the unseen mechanisms driving our models are far more complex than we can see from our current perspective.

And god forbid anyone involved in either effort is "colorblind."
You don't know that
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> when looking for employment, when relevant, I explicitly mentioned this experience and what came with it, and what I was then looking for in a new company/position/team, so that I was the first to pitch what did happen and how I reacted to it.

It's always said not to mention negative situations with past employers. I've been through some shit along these lines in the past, but at times wish to be honest about what I seek in a place of employment to give comparing perspectives. How did you go about explaining this?
I believe they meant all humans older than infants - adult onset lactose intolerance, otherwise it implies human lactation is a recent evolutionary trait that was reacquired or mothers made milk but their babies could not drink it.
>which accounts for the distribution used

what does this mean? are you trying to say the code uses the empirical distribution as a proxy for the true distribution?
It doesn't appear to support CSS files (or other flavors like SCSS), so calling it a "webpack killer" seems extra. Also, a lot of people need polyfills for node modules written for NodeJS that are used in browser; for example, Buffer. Webpack takes care of all of those nuances for you. I wouldn't call this a killer for my workflows, where I need Webpack features such as aliasing, etc.

That being said, I support the effort to make a simpler, superior bundler. My disagreement is more so with the marketing in the title. Though, those sort of claims are what drive clicks today.
based on your name, im guessing you have a `password.txt` also ?
Indeed. Note that you wrote "either keeping it or reselling it would be better for the environment than recycling the device". My point is that recycling means exactly "keeping it or reselling it", while you keep on using this word the way Sonos started to use it. Sonos misused this word on purpose to make it sound as if its policy of giving discounts for deactivating its devices was a good thing for the environment, when in reality it isn't. At its core, this is a marketing lie (stunt), aka greenwashing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwashing
I've got a business that my wife and I are launching, as well as a couple of other ventures queued up for 2020. All of them will rely on effective digital marketing. I'd love to visit with your wife, see if there is a fit. My email is chrisrikli at gmail.
Making esters (smelly/fruity things) or doing colorful stuff (organic dyes, a bz reaction, etc etc) seems fun and not really dangerous?
> This is exactly how conspiracies and cabals work. They are emergent behaviour.

No, conspiracies and cabal are by their very nature intentional. Groupthink https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink is a much better term for describing an emergent dysfunctional decision process brought on through social dynamics.
Oh, ha. The joke went completely over my head. Now that I get it, I’m having a good laugh.

Sorry.
My "data loss" happened when Firefox updated itself automatically, said add-on was not compatible with latest Firefox and was disabled. After some time it became compatible again and was reenabled. All cookies in "containers" were lost.

Not sure anything else was lost though.

Anyway, password manager is still on a global (not per container/account), so it's easy to make mistakes and log in with "credentials A" in "container B". Or am I missing something?
It will be interesting to see if the babies grow up with any side affects from the editing. DNA is hugely complex and changing some elements of it could easily effect other parts (I imagine).
Lets look at the 40s, instead of the 60s.

1940 - 4.6% had a bachelor university degree

today - 33% percent have a bachelor, but only 2% have a doctorate

> For the first time in history, 90 percent of Americans over 25 years of age have finished high school. In addition, more than one-third of Americans over the age of 25 have a college degree or higher.

> That is a big change from 1940. At that time, a Census Bureau study found that less than 25 percent of the U.S. population had completed at least four years of high school. It also found that just 4.6 percent had earned a four-year bachelor’s degree or taken additional classes after completing a study program at a college or university.

https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/us-census-bureau-ameri...
Funnily enough it does: https://www.kostenlose-urteile.de/LG-Nuernberg-Fuerth_13-S-8...
Taken for a ride: can New York's decrepit subway system be saved?
An app [AI powered] to receive incoming orders and fulfill them based on its own decision making, should be possible with Tensor.
Whoa, lite.cnn.io is back?

(context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21804160)
"We upvote with very strong accounts; if you don’t make it on the main page after 10 upvotes, more won’t help"
Aspera is the standard in broadcast video for transferring video files. Typically you wouldn't want just a small piece, you would want the entire hour-long, 3 terabyte video.

Also, you would still need to get the data into the cloud in the first place.
"These are newbie bugs, but VLC is a free software and was likely designed by students or non-audio engineers hobby people, like system administrators."

A very off-putting argument. Give the authors the benefit of doubt they know what they're doing. Firefox has 15 year old issues open. So what. It's build by volunteers in their free time. They owe you nothing. Find a software that better fits your needs if VLC doesn't work for your use case.
What percentage are funded through NIH training grants? Also I could definitely be wrong, but from a quick Google search it looks like NIH training grants limit tuition to $16k per year.
> That's a very specific figure, I'm curious where it comes from

I think it might have been from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQObnw9A6A8&list=PLHr17i6CU5... but either way, it comes from the number of prophesies and then some statistical math.

> I think that it can be virtuous to trust when one is in the direst situation to the providence of God (or maybe the providence of those God inspires?) but once one has their daily needs I don't think God intends for us to dispense with basic economies and - for example - not pay in to a pension, or save for the future.

God wants people to give back to him according to their faith.

"The point is this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each one must do as he has made up his mind, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to provide you with every blessing in abundance, so that you may always have enough of everything and may provide in abundance for every good work." (2 Corinthians 9 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Corinthians+9...)

To those who want to go beyond regular virtue, Jesus says: "If you would be perfect, go and sell all that you have, give to the poor, and come, follow me." (Luke 18:18-22 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+18%3A18-22...)

It all depends on a person's faith. The more trust they have in God, the more God is pleased, and God refuses to let anyone down who trusts in him, so he provides everything they need in life. People like St. Francis of Assisi and St. Benedict gave up all material possessions and trusted solely in God's Divine Providence, and God not only provided for their daily needs, but also testified to their love for him by granting many miracles to them (which were never selfishly asked, but always for the sake of helping neighbor).

Here's a story about God's Divine Providence to St. Benedict: https://archive.org/details/DialoguesGregoryTheGreatPopeSt.5...

Similarly, St. Anthony of Egypt (one of my favorite saints ever), who gave away everything taking Jesus's words literally, it's an amazing story and relatively short: http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/2811.htm

For me, God would not be pleased for me to abandon my way of life and sell all that I have and give to the poor, because I'm the sole provider for a wife and 6 children. But these were single men who were not responsible for anyone, so they made themselves responsible for everyone, praying and doing penance for the sake of all those who won't pray and do penance for themselves. They sold all their worldly goods and purchased spiritual goods, they bought the spiritual field for the sake of the spiritual pearl buried in the midst of it.
Bitter Winter documents religious persecution in China
I don't use (or want to use) chat apps like Discord and such, though. It would also be a real challenge convincing the people I interact with routinely to start using such apps.
That's exactly how it worked.
This looks like fun! I've been meaning to experiment with some WASM, but none of my ideas warrant investing time setting things up just yet, so I haven't. This will come in handy. @lastmjs: does it support defining the script MIME? I'm thinking something like:

<script id="myGeeks" type="text/tsx">
// ... script here
</script>

This really would be a great addition if not, and help drive the narrative that this brings simplicity back to that of "the old days" of web development (:
Did you actually run the numbers? The 737 MAX statistics are abysmal [1]. It stands at 3.08 crashes per million flights, compared to 0.06 for the 737 NG. It's two orders of magnitude worse. Are cars really two orders of magnitude more dangerous than planes?

[1] http://airsafe.com/events/models/rate_mod.htm
Yet for whatever reason Canadians are far less likely to take risks than Americans.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/c...
That's almost word-for-word what I like.

I'm actually pretty certain this approach, with the TODO file in VC, would work fine at least up until 4-6 developers, as long as everyone hits a basic level of competence -- but in practice, someone always suggests a more structured tool well before that point.
What have you been doing that React doesn't handle?

I'm one of those people who is very, very suspicious of imports, and barely ever uses anything outside Vanilla JS, but even with that mentality I have to admit that some libraries have their place. These days I usually use Preact (basically a stripped-down React) and I've not really come across much that it can't handle.

The key for me has been to just write isolated components, and avoid the "full page application" anti-pattern that is so common in web applications today. React doesn't force the anti-pattern on you like other frameworks, so I've had pretty good luck with this. It results in fairly clean, reusable code, and users see positive benefits because it allows me to create consistent, predictable interfaces.
> Most people aren't afforded that luxury and need to worry about the practical applications of a PhD.

Most qualified people at reputable institutions get paid to do a PhD. I bought a house and had a baby while doing a PhD. It needn't hold you back.
Thanks for sharing that.

Because of things that don't apply here, I am privileged to constantly be around many folks that have overcome great challenges.

I am at the point in life, where personal happiness is much much more important than money, property or prestige.
I guess I never noticed because I don't use Windows and wasn't weaned on Adobe products.

Have you tried starting a bounty, or better, a Linux VM?
Wow, does that even work - I just assumed that HN was too small a community for misbehaviour to be lost in the noise.

Would love to hear moderators opinions on this?
Perhaps that's the case. I'm assuming small-scale/personal sites, where there's no team and one person does all the work.
We got our first 10 beta customers at Talkative
Well, if LPG from the U.S. is such a good thing, why don't they buy it then, and be done with all that russian pipeline dependance? It's a FREE MARKET in a free world, isn't it?
By the law of large numbers, the sample mean approaches the population mean as the sample size gets larger. The law of large numbers goes hand-in-hand with the central limit theorem.
Plate tectonics. Literally ridiculed and dismissed as pseudoscience. Now we consider it manifestly obvious.
Not percentages, but actual numbers of reports and suspicious account challenges: https://transparency.twitter.com/en/platform-manipulation.ht...
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I do feel this follows the same genre as what was going under Xi's hounding campaigns.

Not content with simple fraud charge, those guys always go for complete demonisation of the persona accused and self-denunciation.
I'll take this moment to plug the tool 'origin', which plows through aliases and symlinks to find the executable behind a command: https://github.com/atorstling/origin
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While I don't use FB, this sort of thing is why I no longer give any weight at all to "likes", "upvotes", or product ratings.
We built a lot, but here are two :)

Talkative (meettalkative.com) - The easier way to interview your users

Referlist (referlist.co) - Increase sign-ups via Robinhood-style referrals
I moved over to Fastmail from ProtonMail a few weeks ago. I think if you value the encryption and privacy and don’t mind the lack of basic stuff like threading in the mobile app or IMAP integration, ProtonMail is fully worth it. That said, for me I just want a well featured email/calendar service that can replace gmail once Gewgle fucked us over with Inbox. Fastmail does that for me and provides a lot less friction whilst doing so.

ProtonMail feels like a one-trick pony to me. They’re cruising on the allure of privacy features but they have a ways to go on other basics.
What’s the secret to get past the Typeform and actually try this? Or should I seek out an invite link from a peer
What connection does 'origin' have to 'what'?
Yes, instead of 2019, it is now forecast to be 2020, as in the year that starts two days from now. It only ran a $1 billion surplus in 2019.
'Remarkable' high as Scottish temperature record is broken
The trouble with organic chemistry is that it's a lot harder than inorganic chemistry precisely because of the near-infinite complexities of organic molecules. If you want to teach people the basics, such as how to identify a sample or how to perform analytic chemistry (for example, work out how much of a compound you have got in a volume of solvent), you really have to start with inorganic chemistry.
[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Gasprom+Gerd
K-12 in the US was heavily influenced by Prussian ideology, to turn schools into factories of subordinate, authority-fearing citizens. It’s why schools are filled with abusive, inept tyrants that bore kids to tears and often scar them so much that they’ll never take interest in things like math or literature.
Reading literature and discussing it over video chat or through online forums seems like a great substitute.
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