skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right, it absolutely is. The corollary to this is that no one has to hire him/work with him; they're allowed to fire him for his legally-protected speech. I don't agree with how it was handled either, but we must protect their freedom to act as they choose as much as Mr. Eich's freedom to speak as he chooses.
Unless they really were redundant, firing QA/Security/Release engineers strikes me as an act of desperation. Cutting back on those disciplines will really jack up the interest rate on your tech debt.
Support for Windows 7 has ended
As a Next.js user, this is a big release! I'm constantly impressed with how many new features and improvements get rolled out.

The only thing that's (slightly) concerning to me is the rate of change. It's a double-edged sword. There are features/patterns in Next.js that made sense 6 months / a year ago but are now not preferred. An example would be API routes and dynamic routing improvements.

These are definitely welcome (and good!) changes, but it makes a lot of old examples become out of date fast and it feel like "churn" - even when the features are helpful.

Maybe that's just the cost of doing JavaScript in 2020.
Because most companies are willing to give out their signing keys willy nilly...

Would you expect the same from the console makers?
From his wikipedia entry: On June 13, 2014, [Sethuraman Panchanathan] was nominated by President Barack Obama as a member of the National Science Board of National Science Foundation.
I feel so seen.
The gap has closed but afaik yarn is sill a bit faster
I thought the same but the more I use TypeScript the less I care about it's typechecker. I use it mostly for the amazingly powerful IDE integration and so I don't have to remember if a `User` has an `id` or a `userId`.
i submit a bug report to the ff bugzilla and their reply to me was, "can you fix it"? i thought, uh oh..
How much do they have in assets in 2020?
And I know companies still using XP...
The same problem exists in VR, except in VR you're blind to the outside world. The chaperone boundary partially solves this, but every VR forum is full of pictures of smashed TVs.

In spite of this, the tech is gaining momentum. (Not to mention, it has been life changing for me personally in so many ways.) I don't think this alone is a valid criticism of full body tracking systems.
In Japan and many other parts of East Asia, it rains most during the hottest months of summer. You don't wear jackets when it's 30+ °C and humid outside.

But after living in the region for many years, I agree people also tend to be a bit irrationally afraid of the rain.
> Anti-pattern 4: Building an ‘on-prem’ solution in the cloud

It didn't use this as an example, but good heavens how it is that I still have to understand VPC and NAT to use half of the cloud?

10./192. was never a security measure; it was a IPv4 rationing scheme is that IPv6 made obsolete.

AWS made a big deal of the fact that Lambda functions can now be launched in a VPC in less than 15s.

Why are people doing that at all????

Because of bearded network admins that setup their on-prem network in the cloud.

Now networking in the cloud is so complicated, people are turning to FaaS because has a better chance of skipping the morass.

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P.S. Don't get security groups confused with NAT. AWS had security groups long before its VPC service was even a thing.
It's pretty much the opposite of what attracted a lot of current programmers to the field in the first place. Even if it were objectively better (which I doubt), I don't think it would be popular.
Thanks for this link, I was unaware of Firefox Color - for anyone looking for a Chrome-dark-mode-like equivalent, here's a quick attempt:

https://color.firefox.com/?theme=XQAAAAITAQAAAAAAAABBKYhm849...
I don't think most people associate the consider the shape of the landscape and pollutant counts in air and water to be "climate". Climate usually refers to trends in temperatures, rainfall, cloud cover, humidity, pressure, etc.

From wikipedia,

> Climate is the long-term average of weather
This is a difficult problem. Donations wouldn't be reliable/stable enough to fund the company, and selling a different product (SaaS, consulting, etc.) would realign Mozilla's incentives to have its best people working on its revenue generator instead of the browser.

I know this'll be an unpopular suggestion (and it's not something I necessarily want), but the elephant in the room is _selling_ Firefox: I would be happy to pay for their browser provided it was more polished than the competition. I would even pay a yearly fee. (Again, not ideal, but I'm just brainstorming.)

Or maybe find a way to sell an "enterprise" Firefox to nontechnical companies who are privacy-oriented? I'm not sure how realistic this is.

The only other way they're going to be able to do this is to find something as creative as reCAPTCHA's business model [0]. With so many users, maybe there's an idea there.

[0] https://digital.hbs.edu/platform-digit/submission/recaptcha-...
> This EU born coworker was confused what changed in that 5 year period.

Could be this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bae_Yong-joon

Or more seriously, a series of Korean dramas that somehow gained immense popularity in Japan. Bae, nicknamed Yon-sama, became so popular that Japanese prime minister (Junichiro Koizumi) joked that he wanted to be like Yon-sama.
Clearly, it's a lasting side effect of the Meiji Restoration, because it's one of the few things I remember about Japanese history.

While that was a joke, that does seem to be how people pick these explanations. Everything about Japan seems to be explainable by social homogeneity, WW2, or philosophy/religion, which is just the set of facts foreigners tend to know about Japan.

I can't explain my own culture, and I've actually studied its history. I'm not even confident I can identify the differences it has with other cultures. We're often more similar than we think.
I'm torn. I don't feel comfortable pair programming, but I think looking at an individual's speed is too narrow. Consider, you probably don't criticize this person's use of an IDE. Why is that different?

Effectively, in places we are comfortable adding AI style assistance, odd that we shun just the I.

To that end, we agree teams are typically needed. Shame we don't focus our measurements on the team. Feels a great way to kill a team is to measure it's individuals. :(
The soundness of the type system is not a valid criticism given that it's aiming at improving a language that had almost no type system at all. If you need more from your types then perhaps TS or JS is not the right choice here.
IE6 was closed source and only ran on Windows... Chromium/Blink run cross platform, open source and already 2 forks in. There's some stark contrast, even if it's more of a mono-culture, it's nothing like the IE6 days, even if google does have more power/control than other stakeholders.
> When you have 10 minutes with a patient, have no long-term relationship, ship them off to a specialist that has even less context of their overall health[...]

If you see the same primary care physician and the same specialists (or is it just a random specialist in the US?), wouldn't that establish a long-term relationship with each? Plus your medical file should give any of them more context on your preconditions, history and general health.

(That's the case here in Israel and -- after googling -- the US too, but feel free to correct me)
The Green Climate Fund's purpose is to coordinate action and mitigation on climate change. It's not supposed to be a solution in itself, and you know that darn well.
> TS tooling blows Flow out of the water, though

This is the dealbreaker. Building Flow in OCaml was a mistake, full stop.

I'm not convinced the level of soundness we're talking about is important except for the people who like to wax philosophical about PL theory. TypeScript has never been "unsound" in a way I actually care about and I would argue if you get caught up in a soundness issue you're already doing something completely crazy.
Very detailed analysis of what went into raising Parabol's seed round. Knew deals were less but were higher $s but this really shows how that impacts effort into fundraising by founders.
Ask HN: Can my co-founder be a non-US citizen?
Does anyone have any experience starting a company with a co-founder that isn't from the US? For context, I am from the US, but I'm curious how it might work if my co-founder was from outside of the states and not currently here on a visa.
Gumroad Open Board Meeting #2 – January 2020 [video]
Rugged screens that can be built right into pavement are coming I'm sure.
That's a good point. I'm not too familiar with npm code but it seems that they are indeed using git from the CLI instead using it via a library: https://github.com/npm/cli/blob/ba7f1466436cc22e27f8a14dede3...
More likely is that the addressable market is too small for them. There are still lots of profitable niches you can build a business in.
I think you need to install a new or different dictionary. It’s dumb, but that’s how it works - spellcheck dictionaries are provided on the Mozilla extension store. You could try a new one.
> Why is him exercising his protected right to political speech in donation form subject to your judgement

Because it has an impact on whether I can marry my partner.
Because browsers are hard. See my comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22059393 for some comparative numbers.
>The Navy previously confirmed it was treating these objects as UFOs — which means they are being treated as unexplained but not necessarily extraterrestrial.

Very important point here that I think laymen gloss over as the term UFO has come to be (incorrectly) synonymous with extraterrestrial (due in large part to sensationalist media including, shamefully, outlets like the once educational history channel).

Probably just some cutting edge tech that we don't want other states knowing exist.
@PaulHoule i've seen in the conclusion of your research that you are pointing to classifying to the content of those webpages behind the links, so I guess you are working on it. I think there will be a great improvement on how the classifier works if you have more content to analyse.
You need to get an Oculus Quest! True wireless freedom to do room scale VR anywhere, without needing tracking stations or a computer!

There are all sorts of games that give you a full body aerobic workout like Beat Saber, Dance Central, and various boxing games.

Honestly, just playing VR games of any sort that involve standing is a workout, I've found. Even zombie shooter games!
Well I dunno.,. maybe it was good.. ever since Windows 8 came out (which was a pile of fucking shit) I would say things have gotten worse.. Windows is complete garbage as far as actual desktop improvements.

From Win98>Win2000>WinXP>Win7 it has been a slow but steady improvement in stability and features.. sure could have been better, but compared to Linux desktop distro's which none of them can barely even fucking match WinXp in terms desktop features and stability.. nvm the power shell extensions and eco system which don't exist. Because that only comes from good API's documentation and community that isn't completely stupid ... I would say that MS had a fairly good team of people up until the release of Win7, after that they seemed to have got a retarded shit for brains CEO Satyan noob tard, and replaced all the skilled people with fellow idiots.

And now Win10 is a stinking pile of broken and bug infested noob trash... it's built on the work that proceeded it, but they sure have done as much as possible to ruin that while doing fuck useful as an improvement in the underlying system let alone the UX/UI which hasn't improved at all its at best worse, they've just tacked on crap everywhere.
It sounds like you and I are very similar.

I was part of a company that went down the road of XP...it was very difficult for the first 6 months but it changed my life.

I am much different now than when I started (I am actually in a role where communication is a big part of my role)...I forced myself to stick it out. Not going to lie there were a lot of tough moments on long train-rides home but I not only learned a ton from those around me, but it changed how I connect and interacted with folks.

Granted it is not for everyone, I would especially say those who want to punch-in, browse reddit, and punch-out...but it is the one thing that I've found which brought up the water-line of a team I was working on.
> A lot of it involved mastering how to tell people they needed to up their game in communication before I was gonna do work they asked me to do.
Any pointers?
"There are a bunch of methods to do that quickly and securely - for example use the result of encrypting a counter with a key only the kernel knows."

That isn't a guarantee, technically though, is it? And if you consider it guaranteed, then why wouldn't a (P)RNG be just as trustworthy? Is there a mathematical argument why it's better?
The fuck is your problem?
Appeal to legality isn't proof of moral superiority. Racial segregation was also legal via Jim Crow laws, and people still hold the political opinion it should still be despite society changing and moving forward.

It is also not censorship nor is it illegal to terminate employment with someone based on their political actions.
I'm one of the 70. There were no signs that this was imminent, although Mozilla has been struggling financially for many years. I expected that it would happen eventually; I'm relatively well-prepared for it; and it's not too shocking. I did however expect that there would be some warning signs in the lead-up, but that was not the case.

I was working on Cranelift, the WebAssembly compiler that is also a plausible future backend for Rust debug mode. Before that, I worked on the SpiderMonkey JITs for 9 years. If anyone has need for a senior compiler engineer with 10 years of experience writing fast, parallel code, please do let me know.
My former startup Zigfu (YC S11) made the installer for the OpenNI libraries as well as the APIs for Unity3D and a browser plugin to support Javascript Kinect applications. A significant number of Kinects were never used with an Xbox, but rather were used by Kinect hackers to make other applications.

In my opinion the main failure of Kinect was Microsoft not providing a market for the Kinect hackers --- had they embraced that incredibly motivated group, they would have had a number of casual-games making $1-20 apps for Kinect on Xbox. They seemed extraordinarily reticent to open up the Xbox ecosystem to a broad set of developers. PrimeSense was the company that put out a free (libre) skeleton tracking API in the months after the Kinect launch and it took Microsoft quite a while to have an official Kinect for Windows SDK. No one ever properly funded and developed a user-interface library for Kinect to provide high level menu/list components for developers. Of all the games made, only Dance Central had a usable gesture-controlled menu.
When Apple created HFS+ they did a similar hack that would show the disk with a TeachText read me file named “where did all my files go?” if you tried to mount it as HFS.

That means, Macs with older versions of the OS would deal gracefully with a format they were never intended to run.

I remember thinking it was the coolest thing ever.
Also, by making them available on the WWW, you will get SEO traffic, and the reduced friction will get more people applying for jobs.
I actually attended a talk by Dr. Loubani this past weekend at MIT and one thing he emphasized was that everything they do has to be reliably replicated in Gaza. So yeah, one could conceivably purchase the Littmann replica from AliExpress but getting it into Gaza? Another story...
Doesn't Chrome have similar memory bloat?
Can I, in Elm, bring over my couple dozen NPM modules I use in my projects? At least what TypeScript has going for it, if not a more robust type system, is interoperability with all the other tools I need to build web applications.
Yes but the early backlash and signaling from Microsoft probably scared off a lot of developers. A lot of mistakes were made. The costs were also a big factor. Perhaps the flaws with the tech were insurmountable.

I can't help but believe with the same opportunity, using a different approach to market and promote the technology, it would have become a stable accessory with a very big customerbase.

I've had many discussions with parents who are absolutely OK with their kids playing games 'controllerless' but against the idea of their young kids using gaming consoles (couch zombie with controller/other input device). Kinect has physical movement and allows for young children to have fun before they can develop any competent skill or understanding using a controller - this disrupts a common bias parents have against their young kids playing a videogame. Missed opportunity.
I got it the other day after finishing 5B! I got curious about skipping the keys in 5B, which involved a lot of spike jump tricks (ended up not doing them), and then polished off 1A dashless the same day. I definitely followed along with a video, and I had to restart after a few of the hard rooms after I instinctively dashed to save myself.

I don't think I thought it would be hard, I just wasn't interested in learning precise spike tricks when I started going for golden berries. It was more interesting to see how the easy levels play out when you have to memorize and execute the whole thing at once.
>No. Informed people realize that there is no possibility that climate change will lead to human extinction

Avoiding human extinction from climate change is very easy but with this attitude you're not doing a good job at avoiding that fate. Right now I don't have much faith that humanity won't try to burn every single last drop of oil or chunk of coal. Although it should be very difficult to reach insane targets like 9°C warming it is definitively possible with enough ignorance and dedication and as humanity has shown we have an unlimited supply of these two qualities.
I'm not saying their development isn't fine, but they're laying off the people that support development... which will make it worse, when they're spending far in excess of that cost in marketing and imho not even getting the best value out of that space.
Assuming you can even split the family up. Plenty of people travel with younger kids (5 and under) and there's no way in hell that can be done safely without having the parents with them.
This opinion seems to buck the trend here but I really like this a lot. I've just now dropped it in as a replacement font to what I was using before for sharing code snippets on my personal blog (was just using monospace before) and for me it's a huge improvement in both readability and just overall looks. The only thing I've noticed is that parentheses look a little weird with this font. They are a little too squared off, particularly noticeable in cases where they are used immediately together like this ().
I found a UX quirk that bothered me.

I documented it, proposed a solution with my own justifications for why it would be better, and submitted a bug report.

Feedback from Moz, the work done on it, the patches created, and the release plan for it were all done in the open and I could track it.

The change I suggested was implemented and is now out.

Be the change you want to see... only Firefox/Mozilla would do this in such an open way.
Personally, I don't think the Firefox version looks any worse than the Safari version, they're just different. It comes down to preference. Just like you saying it's the ugliest tab bar which I very much disagree with.
The great thing about being assertive is that you get to sit in the seat you paid for.
I've always considered it the "rich man's freeway". No semis allowed, no billboards, lots of either open-space preserves or mansions in the scenery.
Mozilla is already in the history books for Firefox, any way you slice it. Firefox has been the only serious refuge from proprietary browsers and their vendors for nearly two decades, and has made history in many ways. It would only be omitted if the book was written by a competitor's PR department.

Quality and popularity are rarely correlated, but such metrics are even further confounded when you have monopolistic factions like Google and MS pumping huge money into user acquisition for their competing platforms. It's ridiculous to imply that Firefox is being rejected by users just because Google has been dumping millions into getting people switched to Chrome (and doing so not only with marketing dollars, but increasingly with bully tactics).
Everything should have an identifier that can't collide with anything including objects of different types. I think typical GUIDs are 128-bits, so best go with that.

https://xkcd.com/865/
> Defaulting to unusual event->climate change [is] evidence that the academic institution is increasingly broken and driven by dogma.

That quote was from "Peter Giger, chief risk officer for the Zurich Insurance Group", not part of the "academic institution" in any way I can see.

It's also pretty cherry picked, as there is a ton of other evidence presented in that short article that you're choosing to ignore while you pick on bees.

So... tell me, what is your threshold for action? If bees, wild fires, worsening storms/floods/droughts, CO2 charts, temperature measurements, sea ice levels, etc.. don't meet your criteria for proof because they aren't certain enough, what possibly could be?

Broadly: how certain are you that your opinions are really well considered and not driven by "dogma"?
Not sure what more needs to be said.... just look back at this post when you shut down your attempt in the future. You can then assist others who might be steering themselves into the same rocks by warning them as I have done here.

What questions do you have? Others might be interested in the answers.

If your question is “maybe our twist is new/different/better?” Answer is no.
From my experience with setting up payment processing for white, grey, and very grey (legal) projects, processing fees are a given. They're actually very reasonable for anything white, and downright -- pun intended -- criminal if you want anything more discrete.

You will have fees no matter the payment processor, but crypto has the lowest if you don't need speed. Cutting out the processor achieves this first aim, even though fees are still necessary to run Patreon. Whether or not they're too high after this is another matter.

Adult content is primarily high risk because of credit card charge backs -- it's very rampant. Being illegal operations is another matter that concerns wire fraud and may cause uneccesary burden on the payment processor were it invovled in a criminal investigation.

The chargebacks, higher risk, and threat of investigation are all priced into more "lax" payment processor's fees. Crypto doesn't need to price this in because: it's practically non-reversible and there is no centralized body fronting the risk, i.e decentralized operations.

The blockchain network fronts the risk for wire fraud, so that no other entity, f.e Patreon or PayPal, need to.

I have no stance or argument, these are just some musings I wrote from my observations in the "industry."

Crypto is the preferred payment processor of high risk businesses. Everything else that caters to it is downright garbage in comparison.
Which is partly why Mozilla is in a better position than most, being mainly tech and open-source at their heart. They are making enough off of search that they could create a product then sell/saas it themselves.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22051823.

The race IQ war is never going to go anyplace good for this site, and it attracts hard-core ideologues who proceed to do hard-core ideological battle, which is off topic here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think this might have more to do with you not being one of the locals.

A good 'hack' to this might be to pick a set of 2-3 local looking people and loudly point out the item in question so that someone else can deal with it.