skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it just me or has the web's compatibility with Firefox taken a nosedive recently? It used to just be my employer's HR software that was chrome-only, but in the last year my power utility website, apartment complex website, and even major websites like https://www.deviantart.com/ (which I was trying to visit just 10 minutes ago) have broken in Firefox but not chrome. Badly, too. These aren't "the layout is different in FF and nobody noticed" bugs, they're "site infinitely redirects" bugs or "login button doesn't submit" bugs.

Debug steps: turn off bitwarden, my only extension. Never helps. Ctrl+Shift+Del cookies. Never helps. Sigh, open chrome. Works first time.

Is it just me or did the web up and dump firefox just when it started to get good?

:(
Well reach out and help out if you can ? I know I can't even do the 1/1000th of that so I'm gmad he did. Better than nothing.
Some of us are stubborn enough that this is the answer. Curse the universe that afflicted me with this, and if I must suffer it, let others know, viscerally, how debilitating it is. Maybe I can be the horrible warning that sparks change.

I may be miserable, but it's misery with purpose.
jedberg was one of the good ones. There's no need to belittle him like that.
There is some weird thinking about bullying, where the victim has to take care of it by themselves, the bullies are allowed to do whatever they want, and everyone who isn't a victim or a bully is just not involved.

I was lucky, I hardly got bullied, but it always bothered me seeing other kids get it, and I used to be friendly with them as much as I could. This might sound like a pretty weak thing to say, I didn't manage to confront the bullies in some dramatic fashion (although the opportunities to do this were very few in my school at least). But I think it made a difference to show a bit of solidarity with kids that were getting bullied, some of them told me this much later.
> With the old reddit code, however, you could go to [...] and see a comment view of the entire subreddit.

Depending on the newsreader, you could essentially get the same thing by having the thread with the most recent comment move to the to of the thread list. Then, expanding the thread would show new comments in bold font to distinguish then from ones you've already read or previously downloaded.

Being able to see new posts is something that's lacking in reddit and HN (though reddit does provide this feature on subs you moderate or have reddit gold).
Omg, I still can't believe that was in any doubt.

If you are required to be at work, then you should be paid for that time. Just because you aren't "working" does change that the business is requiring you to be there.

If nothing else this should push them to make leaving work not take 20-45 minutes.

WTF. How does anyone think it's acceptable to [funcitonally] detain people.
Downtown’s Broadway poised to be first LA street to ban cars
You haven't opted in. For the modern web, using it without JavaScript and the requisite accounts isn't a supported option.
Try with every community, Reddit must really dislike mobile users. I do wonder if this scheme was introduced to monetize users, either way it sucks.
Actually, using timestamps for all dates is a bit like using floats for currency. For many cases it doesn't matter, but you lose information.
That the government is a poor spender and over pays is a joke of privatization? please elaborate because it seems to me that it is the joke of government purchasing: gov spends more than it takes in by people who are never in office long enough for the bill to come due.
The U.S. doesn't need more agencies, it needs to prevent china from stealing valuable intellectual and copyrighted property like the F-35 stealth fighter data china stole to build its j-20.
Yeah - especially if there are products with a small form factor and high resale[1] value.

Is not paying employees for time they're required to be present also common? Yes. More or less every store I am aware of.

[1. edit, typo, I meant resale here, not retail]
Seriously?!? When I worked at Apple Retail it took all of 10 seconds for the security search. This was at one of the busiest stores in the nation and during the booming period of the iPhone 3/4.

EDIT: Y'all are completely smokin me with these downvotes. I am not against this decision, I am just surprised that the issue grew to be this severe.
It doesn't work for logged-out users. If I can just look at e.g. the Internet Archive's copy of reddit and see if my accounts are in there, it defeats the purpose.

Neither reddit nor HN make any attempts to make it hard for sophisticated users to figure out they're shadowbanned.
Quantum computers will be slower and/or further away than originally thought.
Note this is in California. At the US, level, 5 years ago, the Supreme Court ruled that Amazon did not have to pay its workers for the time spent waiting for screening.

Excerpt from the NY Times article about that decision:

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled unanimously that a temp agency was not required to pay workers at Amazon warehouses for the time they spent waiting to go through a security screening at the end of the day. The workers say the process, meant to prevent theft, can take as long as 25 minutes.

NY Times article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/10/business/supreme-court-ru...

Non-paywalled version of above article
http://archive.is/Az21a

EDIT: Added excerpt from the article about the US Supreme Court decision.
Before Slack, my company used HipChat. I would routinely not receive notifications or messages on mobile, or receive duplicate notifications or messages on multiple devices.

Slack got that right. It’s not perfect, but it was a major upgrade.
You don't call the police for things that are not wrong. The police are there for when things go wrong.

Except in police states.
We literally don’t know the oldest word(s) for “bear”
as a result of this sort of practice.

bear means “the brown one”. The common explanation is that bears were either objects of cultic veneration or seen as kinda human or some combination thereof, so their true name was hidden — as a measure of respect or fear or honor. or some combination of the three.

Allusive and indirect names then got applied to “bear” too — a common scholarly opinion is that “Beowulf” is “Bee-hunter”, a bear. (Though opinions differ there).

https://www.etymonline.com/word/bear
I suspect it simpler to just not learn them and learn functional components and hooks.

The official react docs and tutorial don't help here since it introduces class components first.
This is horrible. They weren’t working. They were just being effectively imprisoned with the threat of losing their jobs.

They shouldn’t be paid for that.

/s
The high bid is now at $200,000, 8 hours after your comment was made and 12 hours after the link was posted to HN (when the highest bid was ~$30,000).

This is expected by many to be the highest valued item ever sold at auction in the game collecting community.
That is a particularly deceptive way to describe the situation, but at least you are not hiding your bias. The reality is that the public demands more and more from public service employees but then throws a complete hissy-fit when it comes time to raise taxes to keep government salaries even vaguely competitive with private salaries so that they can fill those jobs with more than the bottom of the barrel. The way the government hides the ongoing pay increases is by offering those employees more generous pensions. Now this cycle of holding down above the line payroll costs by padding pensions is starting to break down and so people are starting to notice.
A more stylistic pattern for this is to give the binding a type so that the coercion of the if/else expression works automatically instead of using `as`.

Also, there's work being done so that this won't be needed by deferring evaluation of expressions until the whole body has already been evaluated so that inference with the naïve code will work at some unspecified time in the future.
Why? Didn't Satoshi go quiet when Paul was arrested?
If it takes enough tweaking then how do you know it was by AI?

If you don’t see the model or any of the source code or any other process then aren’t you just cherry picking input ?
I tried a small C++ program and it does not exhibit this behavior. Why is it not showing there?

program:
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main(int argc, char argv) {
float s = 165 * 1.40;
cout << s << endl;
}

output:
./floats
231
Designing a RISC-V CPU in VHDL, Part 19: Adding Trace Dump Functionality
Good, no, but there is a working one. The Carbon backend is still the best "native" option, though thanks to Catalina that isn't really an option anymore. The Cocoa backend has issues, but nowadays gets all the effort so things will improve faster than previously (but you most likely want to check the development versions).

The most stable and featureful backend is most likely Qt though, largely because it is also used by people on Linux. There aren't that many Mac developers after all (and Apple doesn't make it exactly easy for them).

In any case, macOS will always be a sort of "third wheel" for Lazarus since it is the most "alien" to the way it works. After all the API was designed (by the Delphi developers) for Windows and it feels most comfortable in Windows-like environments.

Of course IMO even that is much better than a web-based environment which doesn't feel comfortable anywhere :-P
Apple, one of the richest companies in the world:

- thinks they're above the law

- is cheapskate that doesn't want to pay it's lowest level workers equitably

*while constantly virtue-signaling about equality and the environment.
> Not using Chrome?

A truly deplorable act...

I also added about 30 seconds of latency to every page I visit, but for completely different reasons as op. Switching to Brave and blocking all cookies and JS by default made me have to manually enable it for nearly every site that I actually wanted to use.

About a week later, Chrome was reinstalled. Maybe I'll try it again once I level up my willpower.
It’s fine when it’s obvious none of the comment is actually related to the article.
ugh, one more reason to add to the pile of reasons to not give my money to Amazon.
I wouldn't even mind using the app if it didn't chew data like it does.

When I had it installed (up to last week) it was using more than 10x anything else on my iphone. I was definitely not using reddit enough to justify that.
Global electricity data with a focus on low-carbon power sources
No, you see the Kali dragon on the desktop often.
If you use a pay-as-you-go network like Google Fi, and it saves you more than 1 GB, then it saves you money.
"A federal district court judge ruled in favor of Apple, deciding that workers had to prove they not only were restrained from leaving but that there was no way to avoid having personal items searched."

So workers that would not have a personal bag would avoid a search? You can take away stuff from the store by hiding it in your clothes, I guess unless you're working naked. How would anyone be able to avoid the search?

Am I missing something?
One thing I noticed since installing smart bulbs all around my house is how little light I actually need most of the time. In the evenings I usually run them at 5% brightness. Don't know how that scales consumption-wise though.
I wish I had known that when I last visited DC. I'll make sure to get a registration card on my next visit.
If 99% of your customers do things the wrong way and 1% wants to do it the "correct" way that you don't support, there's an easy business call: you do it the way the 99% want and tell the 1% "Sorry, we don't support that. Hopefully you'll find a provider who does." Massive portions of the economy are built upon that principle, from IE6 to UNIX to C to VHS to QWERTY to 120V electricity to U.S. custom measurements to MM/DD/YYYY date formats to the use of decimal (as opposed to binary) subdivisions in the first place.

Context matters too: both of these examples are financial modeling as opposed to transactions, where (as riskneutral's sibling comment points out) floating point error is swamped by the errors in your models in the first place, and some concepts can't be modeled at all with integers. Also regulators explicitly don't care about this area: if your models give incorrect results and you trade on them that's your problem.
Well, fwiw, I had the same reaction. You made me laugh and at the end I thought, that was a damn well-written HN comment.
I am enjoying having my time and my headspace back from worries about anything transpiring therein, with a side helping of solace knowing that any data once ago provided is aging unto irrelevance.
Also used in the excellent TV series Mythic Quest :)
I was replying to the specific use case of creating a tax to grant value to a freshly invented currency by giving it to occupying soldiers as payment while requiring merchants to pay taxes using it. It was intended to speed up adoption because the merchants needed to get the coin for taxes so had to accept it as payment.
Right. For example, potential insurance losses are only known approximately, so floating point is what should be used in their modeling.
>Employees are supposed to find a manager or security officer to do the searches after they clock out. Employees estimate that waiting for and undergoing the searches can take five to 20 minutes, or, on busiest days, up to 45 minutes.
I’ve built two different payment platforms in the past, I’m curious why floating point is the correct and only choice for financial modeling.
Since all of his music is R&Bish auto-tuned, not that hard for a computer to generate that sound. (I have to admit, I've hit the "get off my lawn" phase, missing the "good ole days" of "real music" ie 90's hip hop)
I find archive.org fairly useful for a lot of older books. If they are past the copyright date, then many books can be found and downloaded as PDFs. I've found lots of old Language & Literature books from 80-140 years ago. :-)
Incidentally, I was wondering how a "smart" home could centralize power distribution to use less energy.

Yes, the hub would be always on, but you get to kill every sleeping device, such as the TV, "smart" lightbulbs by making the hub control them directly, phone chargers and various transformers plugged in the outlet, idling computers, etc.

Just ask the hub to turn on your computer, for instance.
Well then they can pay for 10 seconds of work. If Apple is that efficient then this will cost them nothing and it’s a wonder why they fought it in court in the first place. At that efficiency a 100,000 workers would cost them 250 hrs a day. So Apple went to court to avoid paying $5000/day? They went to court to avoid paying people 5c more per day. Right.

Clearly in many cases the Apple stores aren’t that efficient which is why this has come up in the first place.
> Employees are supposed to find a manager or security officer to do the searches after they clock out. Employees estimate that waiting for and undergoing the searches can take five to 20 minutes, or, on busiest days, up to 45 minutes.

This also seems to be their process for picking up orders at the store. It's pure chaos, and I find it at least somewhat amusing that at least Apple treats their employees and customers identically.
> p2p in browsers is comically crippled

Is that because of speed or some other reason?
Apple argues that it's not required because you aren't required to be searched, it's only if an employee freely chooses to use the ~~~privilege~~~ of taking your personal items to work that they are searched. You can always come to work with nothing and not be searched.

I think this argument is BS and it looks like so did the California Supreme Court. Apple argues that this choice is of benefit only to the employees but without it I think they'd have a much harder time keeping employees.
If HA's bidder vetting system is anything like ebay's... I imagine that massive bid will go unpaid like they usually do on ebay.

It's not easy to prove to a website that you have $250,000 USD in your bank account... and will continue to have that much 20 days from now.

>This is expected by many to be the highest valued item ever sold at auction in the game collecting community.

Source?
The argument goes that Huawei would not be able to "create better equipment" had they been unable to wrongfully copy others' work in the first place. If the allegations are true, Huawei enjoys a position that resulted from unlawful and immoral behavior, and their ill-gotten gains should be confiscated from them.

Who knows what would have happened had Huawei done all their own R&D in the first place. Maybe they'd be in the same place as they are today; maybe not. But when you start from a position of copying someone else's work, the presumption is that everything you added since is tainted, and any profits should be someone else's, not yours.
This shit is why Russia and China have so many hackers attacking Western companies while the West is stuck in the stone ages.
For lovers of anime and hard sci-fi, Planetes is a very good series exploring the issue: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816398/
Want Unlimited Clean Energy? Just Drill the World's Hottest Well
Some tech demo sites are Chrome only but I’ve yet to encounter a broken site on Firefox. The only issues I have are mostly due to adblock or my Pi Hole. I haven’t used Chrome in years.
It's nice, where do you get your jobs from?
I guess there's an argument that the creative process is automated but the production is not.
lol, I guess apple shouldn't care too much about paying them for the 10 seconds then.
more context

>…The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, where the case is now pending, asked the California Supreme Court to clarify whether state law requires compensation.

…

>A federal district court judge ruled in favor of Apple, deciding that workers had to prove they not only were restrained from leaving but that there was no way to avoid having personal items searched.

>Apple said it could prohibit employees from bringing any bags or personal Apple devices into its stores altogether but gave them that benefit. The California Supreme Court said a ban on any personal items would be “draconian.”
Money is real.
In Russian it's 'medved', i.e. the one who knows about the honey ('mead-wit' would be the exact English cognate).
I thought for a moment this article would be about a terrible misunderstanding of the famous Navy Seals Copypasta
This industry, more than most others, makes a great deal of information about it available for free on the internet.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.
If we take created by AI to mean: machine learning generates a crazy amount of some things and then humans pick and release the most interesting one, then AI can create some pretty amazing stuff.
Thanks. I didn't really think I wasn't doing well enough, but affirmation is always welcome.

As for producing value, yeah, I absolutely crush it in terms of value. I'm spitting out value left and right. If you could measure the amount of value I produce, it's an ever growing number, way way way in the black, guys on the stock market floor screaming 'buy buy buy'. Value practically oozes from my pores. If value were electricity, I could power a small city.

Not sure what that means, though.
I'm very happy you found the library to be simple and friendly
Nobody said it was an Apple exclusive.

But to be fair, after trying to do payments in various other ways, Google eventually built their Android payments platform to be an almost perfect 1:1 recreation of Apple Pay.

(And this is a recurring theme with Android. I'm not saying Google aren't within their rights to build things however they wish, but it is remarkable how often Google make loud smug noises about how they've done things differently to Apple—only for those points of differentiation to quietly disappear a few years later. Say what you will about Apple, a company that makes plenty of horrible mistakes, but it's remarkable how often they do get things exactly right the first time.)
I did a test of this. uBlock Origin blocked all the calls before it made it to the firewall. IMO why would you use anything else.
For what it's worth you should be proud of yourself for standing up to them. They on the other hand are absolute cowards.
Back when I was a child, it would have been about headphones with alligator clips ;)
> Pretty common stuff.

Exactly. It's laughable to imagine cats are better off because they can claw at well-fed dogs. SMH
Wow, that's horrifying. It's also missing an update saying he actually received all his stuff back, so chances are he never did.
I'm not clear what you mean. How does auto-tune make it easier for the computer to generate?
What's with those bids? People are bidding $525 for N64's Golden Eye? It's going for $10 at Ebay. Is having it in a sealed box in pristine condition really that valuable?
> even the negative feeling of heartbreak of crushes unrequited, games lost

Look, if you had heartbreaks that means you were in the girls game and you were 10 miles above the people we’re talking about here. You don’t seem to feel what it is to be excluded from the group, it’s an entirely different feeling from being rejected by a few girls and having enough support and love from your family around that it’s not a problem. I’d say 60% of the class don’t belong to the core group, and 20% are extremely solitary. Extremely solitary people also have double problems because they are not supported at home. And surprisingly, lack of love at home creates both the bullies and the victims.

Those people really need help. I know I did. It’s not a condescending tone, I’m just saying that some people are invisible and we need to learn to « see ». I’m 37 and I still have murderous thoughts. I have literally enlightened the lives of a few hundreds people around me by talking about men’s issues and describing them so people can articulate them and eventually get people who support them, and I keep fan mail on a wall at home because they help me see I’m useful to this world. But I never myself received the help I needed.

People need to learn to see. Sometimes you can’t believe how someone sitting next to you can be alone.
I don't have a question but your throwaway username is fantastic.
not saying its okay, but this has been standard practice at every retail store job I ever worked (mostly 20+ years ago). You clocked out in the back, and then had to wait to be searched and released in the front of the store. This isn't Apple being weird, this is amazingly common.
>How does anyone think it's acceptable to [funcitonally] detain people

From the business perspective, provided they can get a way with it, it is just another business decision, namely reducing cost and increasing profit. I would do the same.
As does NetGuard, both on the Play store and F-Droid: https://www.netguard.me/

A paid upgrade to the Play store version lets you filter traffic like adblock, or just use the releases from Github (they allow filtering, but not most pro features)
is it “knows” or “eats” or “finds”? i’ve heard all three
US theft of UK IP back in the day (early 19th century textiles especially) was a big deal.
I doubt it will be affordable to collect space debris. Space is huge and orbital maneuvers need a lot of fuel.
I'm certain that as the famous musicians die off or retire from performing, there will be a huge business of recreating their sound and generating new material.