skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember the story about some guy saying he had to piss in a bottle at the amazon warehouse...I believe that story, but I also believe if you take any random sample of half a million people, at least 1 person in that group will be peeing in a bottle that year. And then there’s the whistleblower who was trying to gather support when he was getting paid to be at home for 2 weeks...
Yes, they are. But this is outside the point.

Which is, vendor locking did not show itself, because the economy was good.
It's because Bezos is political active, and pretty conservative (though he hates Trump). ...so the political forces are fanning the flames of discontent online.

I don't believe any of these anti-Amazon posts are organically appearing on the front pages of Reddit/HN/Twitter/etc...

It's all just bots.
> For me, loving restaurants is about all the stuff that surrounds the thing on your plate. It’s the buzz and hum of a busy dining room. It’s the friendly banter with bartenders and servers. It’s celebrating milestones with friends and family.

I feel this. It's honestly what I miss the most about normal life. Going and getting some tacos and a margarita after a stressful day at work. That kind of thing. It's weird, the small but all-encompassing emotional toll it takes to not have that outlet available to unwind. It's like I just can't quite exhale all the way.

All this is to say: simply opening places back up right now won't restore the thing that moves me to go out to them. The inability to fully relax still permeates every corner of life, even if the risk has decreased a bit.
Was about to complain you can't google them, but I tried it and it worked. Huh. I guess you can google symbols now, even traditionally escapey-ones. News to me.

mentalModel.update().

The query `python @` fails pretty hard though.
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Children Are Falling Ill with a Baffling Ailment Related to Covid-19
It's funny. Web2 got so many things right, but early Web3 often tried so hard to abandon it all that it made for a lot of unnecessary pains. We've tried to take a more balanced approach. Decentralized where it makes sense (user data ownership, interoperable data models, data storage) and hosted/curated nodes where it makes sense (app resources, trustless services/gateways, relay services). We think we've come up with something compelling and pretty simple.

A couple of details:

- ThreadsDB is a database and protocol. A lot of our work on Threads (particularly Follower or Service keys was aimed at the problems you bring up exactly). https://blog.textile.io/introducing-textiles-threads-protoco...

- We love the 3box team and product and its probably come a long way since if you haven't poked around recently. We are also working with them to make sure our things are interoperable with theirs. So look out for more updates in this area soon.
Confused, I have been running NoScript in Firefox on Android for months now. What has changed?
All the more reason to be impressed that less people starve today then in 2000 and that the trajectory continues to move downward. Also, the world does not have an overpopulation problem. It has a (in most ways highly political) access to adequate resources that are actually available problem for marginalized populations. The overpopulation and population control narrative is not only based on bad assumptions, it's also implicitly racist in favor of western, prosperous societies because, guess which parts of the world have the higher child birth rates for the time being? (and those dropping too by the way).
Makes sense that he could reach the ignition. I'm impressed he could get his foot on the break!
How about the government provides health insurance and other social service benefits (like employment), then it wouldn't be part of the cost those businesses try to get away from paying?

There are also thousands of people every year who do gig jobs and then get significantly hurt financially when they fall through a job benefit crack (health insurance etc) when they lose a job.
Yes, same here.

iOS devices are just not suitable for browsing the internet as we know it I'm afraid.

I will get another device for internet browsing on the go just because this is so annoying. Not even on iPad where you kind of have the real desktop browser experience you can use add-ons.
Sure, but at least it's not like Stack Overflow where you can just sit around and accumulate karma interest forever. I think that counts for something :)
And when some of these people went back to tropical regions (e.g., across the Bering Strait and down to Central America) they re-developed darker skins. So, not getting too much sunlight was apparently equally important.
Wait, what am I buying?
It was originally ported for and is still used in iTunes.
"Among other differences, for example, a German President is personally liable for the financial obligations of their company. If the company goes bankrupt, so does he."

Not really. Directors are not generally held liable for debts incurred by their companies in Germany. However, they can be held liable if they are found to be in breach of their duties as directors. Also, the onus of proof is reversed in some cases (e.g. the director needs to prove he wasn't in breach of his duty).
Oh dang! Yes, hey! Nice to hear from you—I'll send you an email :)
Oh, the QR code points to toe.codes :(
But this is already more than 3 months even with 1 month of tenure?
Nothing specifically malicious. Since Chrome is default browser at Google, it’s used as default development and profiling browser, and then it’s ported to and tested on other browsers, obviously not as much.
Circle is honestly a breath of fresh air and much more palatable in terms of usability/speed than the existing constexpr facilities or proposed reflection IMO.
This is referring to the rewritten Firefox for Android, codenamed “Fenix.”
When I say “matter” I’m not being normative, I’m saying that this particular tool’s value add has nothing to do with its discoverability on the World Wide Web. Sourcehut’s website is a signpost not an advertisement. The set of users who are put off by the design but would have otherwise used the tool is negligible. Comparing sourcehut’s design to Stripe is like comparing a Camry to a dune buggy.
Being able to run it yourself is a big thing. You can also run one cluster across multiple cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), so there is no vendor lock in apart from obviously the database choice, and you aren’t tied to the availability of any one platform.
I think you're thinking of khidr(?)
That's right, though of course NoScript etc ran on the previous FFA, so it's presumably not relevant to the comparison.
Non paywall link - https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/05/cockroach-labs-scores-86-6...
> saying he didn't inspire people to vote for him in the primary is not evident, IMO.

The fact he didn't win is evidence of that, surely?
Still want to know the answer to the original question "Is the Textile toolkit able to operate directly 'on chain' via a standard web browser?"
Depends on the 10 year old, I think. I'm not advocating for a lower driving age, but it seems like many of them would be better drivers than 16-18 year olds.
The fight over Donkey Kong’s former world record is going to court
So why do countries like Canada, the U.S.A or Norway have persistent long-term prosperity? Furthermore why do many other middle-income countries have natural resources but still manage to incrementally see their overall quality of life improve?
I recently found out that Google Sheets uses Canvas for its spreadsheets. That's probably a part of why it's so performant.
Diverging from the majority here, but I prefer a hybrid solution, maybe about 50-50 where I can determine when or ad-hoc type wfh where I can do it whenever I feel like it. I've been wfh full time in the past and now during COVID-19, and I'm not a fan.
I'm pretty confused as to what I'm running, then. I always had Firefox Beta installed, and a month or so ago it got updated to what I think is Preview -- different UI, URL bar on the bottom, only uBlock Origin supported. Just checked right now, and the last update was April 21, but in my Addons list, it's still showing Privacy Badger and HTTPS Everywhere in the Unsupported list.
(not the parent)

I would think that since innovation and growth (caused by innovative use of resources or increase in efficiency or novel products and services) in general should be relative to the population and its state to begin with, nominal GDP growth per annum would be a reasonable metric as a proxy for the wildly non-measurable "innovation in terms of GDP"; for reference, here's the data for 2018:

USA: 2.9%
Canada: 1.9%

Sweden: 2.2%
Norway: 1.3%
Finland: 1.7%
Denmark: 2.4%

Germany: 1.5%
France: 1.7%

Ireland: 8.2% (not a typo, likely explained by expansion of business services from NA into EU)
UK: 1.4%

Portugal: 2.4%
Italy: 0.8%
Greece: 1.9%
Spain: 2.4%
Yeah, not even only farm kids driving tractors. I was riding a motorcycle in first grade and not long after came the era of go-karts (my dad and friends build the local go-kart track). When dad broke his right arm, I learned to shift left-handed from the passenger seat. There was always a bunch of stuff like going to get the car out of the garage and up to the front door that you just let the kids do.
I agree. Also I don't see the point for AWS to steal/clone a project unless it's some kind of AWS orchestration tool or similar.
If there was one perfect way to do third-party auth, we wouldn't need a standard, because all the big companies would be doing it, and the smaller companies would do it.

The problem is, there's a bunch of decisions with auth, which have to be made, but aren't really important. What should the name of the auth token header be? What should be the format of the responses? These decisions are like deciding what side of the road to drive on: it doesn't matter which side of the road you drive on, as long as everyone drives on the same side of the road. The function of a standard is to decide what side of the road everyone drives on.

OAuth isn't a standard. It's just a description of all the various homegrown third-party auth systems that anyone has implemented over HTTP, with only the absolute worst patterns weeded out. None of the shareholders wanted to re-implement their third-party auth, so they just made sure their flavor of auth made it into the standard. It's like if the Europeans and the Americans got together to standardize the side of the road that everyone drives on, and the standard they came up with is "You have two options for which side of the road to drive on, the right or the left."

Until a group of visionaries with enough clout to make the world fall in line creates an actual standard, OAuth is going to continue to be crap. And there's strong disincentive to do that: if you agree to conform to a standard that isn't exactly what you've already implemented, then that means you have to reimplement. A few years' pain conforming everyone to a standard would significantly drive humanity forward--an incomprehensible amount of developer hours have been spent writing custom OAuth integrations, and an actual standard would allow us to write libraries around it that everyone could use. But corporations don't care about pushing humanity forward when it's contrary to their bottom line.
I commented many times on this, I don't care how much faster it is relative to before, right now I cannot use only firefox for daily work because it literally can't handle it. It chokes and takes down my whole system (32GB ram! Windows) with it.

I am a fan of FF and I am glad so many of HNers like it too. But I am literally running 3 browsers right now. IE for corporate b.s. sites, Firefox for light browsing such as checking email,googling things,privacy sensitive stuff and a webkit based browser for everything else. I only use firefox because I like it, it offers me near 0 value in a work setting where there is 0 expectation of privacy, matter of fact considering Google's security practices and history using Firefox provides negative value.

This isn't to put down FF, but I fear all this circlejerk will prevent resource allocation to these things because Mozilla folk are HN types and fairly certain outside of FF telemetry they rely on threads like this one for feedback.

Here is my feedback: "Great work,keep at it but you are very far from where you need to be to compete".

Even Microsoft has succumbed to webkit! The internet needs a competing alternative, not a novelty product.
No, it's different with windows. Linux doesn't have constant forced patches from the mothership that kill your system. It can happen but it's much rarer. Windows used to be better of course (back when i worked there, even though I didn't work on that part ;-)). It's staggering how bad windows maintenance is now.
I think what we'll see in 5 years will be browsers using even more hardware acceleration/GPU acceleration for its rendering -- so it'll be entirely abstracted away from us. Obviously, direct canvas rendering will still be more performant.
Firefox preview.
I'm going to disagree here. It reminds me of the "Python Ninja"-type job titles that became popular ~2012. It's so preoccupied with standing out and breaking the formality of its medium that it actually says nothing.

The repo description literally says two things: Circle is a C++ automation language, and Circle trained with the League of Shadows. The rest requires clicks.

That's a terrible way to drive adoption for something that obviously was difficult to build. Sometimes being earnest and straightforward is the best way to break down skepticism, not by using meaningless hipster taglines.
I really like the phrasing ‘quirky-insight porn’, I think it captures this sort of thing exceptionally well. I have, at times wanted less of said QIP, however, because of my personal interests I would like to never see a JavaScript, webdev, Rust, etc article posted either. However, I still browse, still read the comments, and even sometime read TFA and don’t consider it a waste of time, so all in all I’m pretty okay with the state of things.
Renditions of things described by Jules Verne could be considered both "the future as seen from the past" and "Steampunk"
Because SQL is not decentralized.
What's wrong with region + stage?
I was also thinking about this, but I'm wondering if it's irresponsible. Thoughts?
Have you tried installing Firefox focus and either using it as your mobile browser or setting it as the content blocker for Safari?

You can also try an ad blocking app like AdGuard.

Or set up something like PiHole at home (or VPS) and use a VPN to connect to your home network (or VPS).
Three mobile browser innovations – thoughts welcome
I think this would be great training wheels if I (not an artist) needed to crank out some drawings.
In my mind it's not really a technical article at all. Usually when we cover current events they have some connection to either science or technology and have some sort of intellectual quality to them. This story strikes me as an amusing news article that I'm sure is going viral on every social media outlet, so it feels like it's going to get plenty of exposure through those sources. That's the main thing, for me.

IF he was using Tesla autopilot to drive the car, then I'd find it HN worthy. ;-D
Are you a manager robot? Who slips "valuable team member" into a conversation?
In human communication, speech is generally categorized into either conveyance of information or conveyance of emotion. My comment was the latter. I wasn't trying to write a dissertation on exactly how much faster or slower Firefox Preview is. I installed an app, perceived it as faster, and conveyed my emotional response, as indicated with my choice of language such as "holy cow" and "I wish I had tried it earlier."

Perception is all that matters with software anyway. Even if it isn't technically faster, it can still be better if it feels faster, which it does to me.
RNA viruses like this coronavirus mutate an alarming rates. I would be shocked if these mutations have not already occurred in people. There must be a reason why these mutations were not selected. They must be detrimental in other ways
https://gizmodo.com/what-to-know-about-that-new-paper-claimi...
There is no chain. It uses a set of protocols that have no consensus. They run in the browser. Here is a relevant merged feature in the ThreadsDB library today, https://github.com/textileio/js-threads/pull/136
Which features a more Rust-heavy rewrites included in GeckoView via their Project Quantum work on desktop.

https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/08/geckoview-firefox-preview...

https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/ep3tbx/eli5_what_h...
HN is definitely not just for technical articles. You're on stronger ground with a "they'd cover it on TV news" argument (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). Then again, note that word probably (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4922426). In this case, the story is just so...uncorrelated that it manages to wrest on-topicness back from TV news. That's how I see it anyway, and of course many people disagree.

I think you're wrong about the article not being technical though. In a deeper sense it is.
Anonymously gift him the book The Asshole Survival Guide.
This thread from another virologist casts some doubt about the claims of selective advantage proposed in this preprint:
https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1257825352660877313?s=19

Science in action, folks. It's sometimes messy, but usually converges on the truth
Before NeXT was acquired by Apple, they had OpenSTEP running on top of Windows. Back in the day, you could run a NeXTSTEP app on NeXT hardware, Sun hardware as well as x86: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStep#OPENSTEP_Enterprisee
UC Berkeley: Coronavirus Has Mutated, Appears More Contagious New Study Finds
Ha! How stupid of me :)
Can you be certain that nobody has retained a copy of this key?
Indeed, and it redirects me to a Russian social media website...
We haven't tried cockroach yet because we are still on RethinkDB and are scarred by the experience of them going out of business.

I hope someday I'll be comfortable enough to experiment and use something other than postgres.
Does your 1 million employee number include those in roles that have the ability to work from home or otherwise in an environment outside of the delivery/warehouse sphere?

Additionally, it is likely better to look at rates of infection or number of cases among Amazon warehouse employees. The “protective measures” implemented by Amazon are intended to prevent the spread and contraction of COVID. We can sidestep the difficulties of controlling for age and other factors with respect to mortality as you mentioned and instead evaluate the efficacy of Amazon’s protective measures by examining infection rates.
I think I was pretty clear up above:

> Browsers can't use the OS control implementations, because the demands of DOM/CSS simply can't be handled by those native implementations. But Firefox is trying to emulate the look and feel of the OS controls, using native theme drawing APIs when possible.

Then Wowfunhappy wrote: "I wonder if that applies even to Safari on Mac and iOS". It absolutely does, Firefox and Safari work the same way here. But you appeared to think you were contradicting us when you wrote "Some of them are native, if you don't style them."

I guess it boils down to what you mean by "Safari on macOS uses native controls." Drawing with NSButtonCell and the other theme APIs does not, in my view, warrant such a blanket statement. All of the interactive behaviour of buttons and other widgets is (re)implemented by Webkit/Gecko. Accessibility is reimplemented. Layout is reimplemented. It's only painting that uses NSButtonCell, and not all painting either (borders and background but not the text).

I would certainly never claim "Firefox on MacOS uses native controls" even though it works pretty much the same way as Safari.
The guy was a 10x engineer. He was looking into medical tourism to have a feeding tube put in so he could fuel w/ Soylent.

Management would consider a $1k set of wheels a bargain to keep him happy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_to_the_power_of_zero

>Zero to the power of zero, denoted by 0^0, is a mathematical expression with no agreed-upon value. The most common possibilities are 1 or leaving the expression undefined, with justifications existing for each, depending on context. In algebra and combinatorics, the generally agreed upon value is 0^0 = 1, whereas in mathematical analysis, the expression is sometimes left undefined. Computer programs also have differing ways of handling this expression.
Companies have been “locked-in” to vendors since IBM in the 50s. There are still plenty of successful companies that have been dependent on IBM for decades and weathered plenty of recessions. That’s not to mention all of the companies in the modern era that are completely “locked in” to the Microsoft ecosystem and spend literally millions on Windows, Sql Server, Active Directory, Office 365, etc. and have also weathered recessions.

Any large company depends on literally dozens of vendors that they have tied their business process into where it would be a major pain to switch.

I know in the health care industry, a lot of health systems are so tightly tied into their EMR/EHR, leaving a something like AWS would be a breeze.
It's fulfilling the same role, definitely.

In our case, the payout is defined as 4-12 weeks of salary (plus 1-4 weeks notice), based on length of tenure. Since this scales with what people earn, there's little need for tech companies (or other well-paid fields) to offer anything extra.

On a related note, Australians are also entitled to 4 weeks paid leave per yer, which accrues if not taken. Employers are also required to pay out any leave balance (even if the employee leave voluntarily), which means most workers will have at least a couple of additional weeks paid out on top of the severance.

It's the same here, in that you get the full amount regardless of how long you're unemployed after they let you go.
In this case the mountain is web-hosted git repos? This particular mountain already has at least 3 ski lifts you might have heard of called GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket.
As someone who had the bug and recovered.... these people that say this is no big deal are nuts. Even if you don’t end up on a ventilator it is horrifying. Getting your significant other sick is something I wouldn’t wish on anyone. Our world has changed, we can adjust quick or slow. The techy “libertarians” that wanna shake hands and go to a hackathons are nihilists and it sucks that those decisions are going to kill someone I know.
I recently switched to Firefox after being a Chrome user for the most part of my life. In the past I couldn't switch to Firefox due to a lack of alternatives for the extensions I use on Chrome (particularly Google Dictionary) but I recently use Firefox again and decided that the performance difference is worth the change. I still miss the extension options I had sometimes but I have to admit that my overall browsing experience is markedly improved on Firefox. Glad to see that my anecdotal browsing experience is backed by benchmark.