skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This exactly. I recently resurrected my MacBook Air by replacing a dead SSD (was it coincidence that it died right after the Catalina upgrade? Can SW brick an SSD?). I’m now running UbuntuStudio on there and spending great chunks of my lockdown time re-learning Linux (after a 17 year hiatus) and trying to iron out weird kinks in my config (Bluetooth detects my Logitech K670 keyboard but just won’t pair with the damn thing).

I’ve already determined that when I pick up my next contract, I’ll be buying a Lemur Pro from System76.

Apple, you had me 17 years ago. Now you’re losing me.
It's suboptimal to have to change the number of the next release during a release cycle. That would mean, for example, that Firefox Nightly 2020.11 might correspond to a Firefox release 2020.12.
Son, now that you're in high school, it's time you start getting an allowance. However, remember that incident with the car ten years ago? It's time to start paying it off.
Plenty of social media posts in my uni network (23-25 years old right now) on all the cheap deals they are getting.
> As a purely end-user of Wikipedia I just want to chip in only to say that I have not seen any observable decline in Wikipedia over the last 15 years. I am generally very happy with the results I get when I use it.

What you are missing is the 'seen and the unseen'. Wikipedia has stagnated badly, and it captures an ever more vanishingly small slice of the world. The world keeps getting bigger, things keep happening, and even the core topics were never actually covered in the detail they could and should be covered.

You simply cannot keep up with everything with a core of, what is it now, less than 30k regular editors? That's basically enough to fight off vandals, do basic maintenance, and cover the occasional hot topic like coronavirus or Donald Trump to a reasonably adequate degree. It's not enough to cover even the Anglosphere, much less seriously improve the back catalogue, or realize a fraction of WP's original aims.

Whenever I look at WP articles on any topic I know, like deep learning/deep reinforcement learning/behavioral genetics/decision theory/darknet markets etc, I find that they tend to be hilariously out of date, short, incomplete, or not covered at all. They're usually not outright wrong, but what is not there is much more important than what is usually there. (Let's take a moment to consider how WP's AlphaGo article, which is one of its best articles on DL/DRL because AG is globally famous, does not even mention MuZero or the term 'expert iteration'...) Typically, most of that would be 'notable', assuming an editor tenacious enough to fight for it - but such editors are precisely what have been lost.

And yet, WP is more important than ever! Isn't it ironic that when WP was at its healthiest, when it was most keeping up with Notable topics, it was hardly used, and now that it's been severely ailing for a decade, search engines and social media networks depend abjectly on it for their knowledge graphs and factcheckers and disinformation fighting efforts? (Well, not ironic. Just bad. For everyone.)
Firefox only does manual reviews on "Recommended Extensions"
Would cyberpunk count as 90s retrofuturism? Or have we decided it hits too close to home for present times?
> You own a factory. Your employees don't. There's a power imbalance in the employment relationship.

You make it sound like employers are all fat rich people smoking cigars while everyone else is in a sweatshop. The reality is that 99% of businesses are very small in size (as in, one owner and very few employees) and it's often much more a partnership than the power imbalance you are talking about. Yet the same laws apply whether you deal with a 10 persons company of a 100000 persons one.

https://www.oberlo.com/blog/small-business-statistics
Phoenix Framework: peace-of-mind from prototype to production
Singapore biotech firm RWDC bags $133m in Series B money
They can flood the market for as long as they have foreign reserves. Over the last several years, Russia has steadily reduced its budget's dependence on oil revenues, and bolstered foreign reserves/gold. They probably do have enough foreign reserves/gold to outpump the Saudis and drive the price so low that the Saudis start burning through their own reserves.

And I believe Putin has a stronger grip over his own people than MBS, so in a race to the bottom I think Russia could definitely come out "on top".

I really dislike the article's mention of "balanced budget" oil prices, it distracts from more salient arguments when presented alone. For proper analysis, the author should have provided more numerical data, like foreign/gold reserves, budget comparisons (historically, and across countries), etc.

>> Demand will come back after the pandemic is over.

Man, I go back and forth with myself/other people over this all the time. I think there's a significant risk that energy consumption will be lower in the temporary short- and mid-term futures, and slight risk that energy consumption will also be lower in long-term future.

Take a look at US consumption: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_the_United_States#Pr...
https://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/monthly/pdf/sec1_7.pdf
We still haven't reached 07/08 levels of energy consumption, of which 67% is nat gas/oil. I also read a while back that US households have steadily decreased their individual usage of energy post-2008, despite economic gains. I forget where, I think it was in an article about nuclear power plants.

With that said, I think global outlook (for oil consumption) over the next 5 years is not good for developing economies. Their economies will suffer until developed economies recover and stimulate their under-developed economies. However, long-term population growth in SE Asia and Africa will demand greater energy consumption and I believe economic growth in these regions will be the primary drivers of greater oil consumption. That's because renewable energies will be much, much more expensive than non-renewables (until we tax the hell out of them) and developing economies must pursue the most cost-effective alternative.

Sorry, for the long response, I just love this shit.
What's at covid.com? “Your Connection Company”
I never want to go back to an office. At home, I set my hours. No commute. I can create my own setup, and not be forced either into open offices, nor "office furniture". I can work from my back yard, my recliner, or even my trampoline. I get work/life balance by simply living my life around my work... or working around my life, however you want to look at it.
I was about to suggest the exact same. It is literally what we do at my company. Of course you now have to them deal with searching and indexing. To mitigate this issue, we use UUIDs to reference users throughout our systems. Any fields that would link that UUID back to a real person or contain personal info is then kept encrypted. That way, we can still gather all the information from our various components but if we needed to, we can essentially make the user data unreabable.
I remember meeting farm kids who were offspring of one of my mom's college classmates who routinely drove around the farm back in the 70s.
Wow! 14 weeks of pay is freaking amazing. Add the other stuff on and...takes the sting out quite a bit. Bravo Airbnb.
I'm not sure about other compilers, but I use gcc. Mild errors in templates can produce reams of errors, the first of which might have a good hint, and if not, the actual error is tucked away in, perhaps, the third attempted template substitution. This is a very valid concern. Good error messages are hard to produce, and gcc doesn't even try to figure out which brackets are mismatched.

Mix that in with a supercharged comptime constructions, and I'm quite terrified. I don't have these issues with macros anymore, thanks to templates, but I nearly prefer them.
Hearing good things about firefox performance vs. chrome in this thread, I thought I would have a look at firefox use of rust - I found this informative page which provides a lot of rationale for where rust has been used:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Oxidation

Here is a cut of what was introduced in Firefox 76 (copy&paste)

Integrate fluent-rs, a localization system: bug 1560038 (shipped in Firefox 76)

Why Rust? Performance and memory wins are substantial over previous JS implementation. It brings zero-copy parsing, and memory savvy resolving of localization strings. It also paves the way for migrating the rest of the Fluent APIs away from JS which is required for Fission.
a) iCloud doesn’t upload location data, b) it’s completely optional, and c) I was answering a question, not giving a dissertation on Apple’s privacy practices (which I fairly well actually qualified to do).
Indeed.

There is no right way to decide what is a major release. Whatever you do, some users will think a major release should have been classed as minor, and vice versa. It's ultimately easier for everyone if you don't make the distinction.
Nothing I can find about William McElligott says whether he worked south of his home. He drove throughout the workday, and the explanation seems to be that his left side was exposed to the window. But surely the commuting direction would have been a factor too, even if it wasn't the main reason.
I thought error messages related to C++ templates were unfathomable. Then I started using Docker.
How does this differ from code generation?
I was raised in the darkness, so things don’t often look as bad as they are to me. Regardless, the clear distinction between PHP and JavaScript seems to be that I can choose whether or not I’d like to use one but not the other (and no, wasm doesn’t count because it still requires JS).

For me, I just don’t why I’d choose to use it for a green field project. Sure, it’s better now, but people have warned me to stay away from the boogeyman lurking within. Maybe it’s there, maybe it’s not. But why should I take the risk if it’s pretty much the same as other modern languages that might have cool stuff.
Of course, Lamborghini is also the sort of brand that wouldn't stoop to such advertising.
> This gives me nightmares about having to retrofit GDPR requirements into a complicated system with many data stores and applications.

This is true when the domain is not well defined, that is the case for many legacy systems. Usually this systems have also problems with de-normalized data where there is several copies of the same entity across the system. Copies get out of sync.

I do not think that nowadays is as common as it used to be. When I was a kid, I saw many systems where you had "customer" data that was replicated in the two or three applications that were using it. Then, maybe at night, some task will "make sure" that all the data was on sync or in real-time with triggers in the database. Applications that were not part of this synchronization will pop up, some fields will be in one application but not in another one, etc. Bad-defined domain objects and identifiers will make sometimes fields too small to fit the original data, being in the wrong format (text vs numeric) or miss unique keys and duplicate rows.

Q: "Can you send a mail (stamp-based-mail) to everybody that works the Christmas shift?"
A: "No. That data is in the scheduling system. We can only send mails from the Human Resources system as is the only one that stores the address".

I hope new generations of developers do not find themselves in this situations, but they will need to maintain the many legacy systems that still live way beyond what anyone expected.
As a non-programer, what is the best way to find someone to re-draw my simple property management site using these principles?
In Canada? Work at a fintech, FANG, or as a quant.
First mover advantage. It's like asking why no one has created another Reddit, or another HN. When the original exists, a derivative doesn't gain traction unless something goes seriously wrong.

The sole time that Reddit was in danger was when their front page was blacked out over the moderator rebellion. Luckily for them, Voat's servers completely died under the load. Then Reddit came back online, and the rest was history.

I would imagine your questions have straightforward answers along those lines. No one switches because inertia, not quality.

In general, a new thing has to be fundamentally different in some way. It's rare that an internet product is out-competed by someone else doing literally the same thing. Even Reddit was fundamentally different from digg. They were both link aggregators, but that's about where the similarities stopped.
CoVid, ironically, would have been a great name for a video conferencing service.

There's a landing page at VidCo.com
Seriously, who's stopping you? It's ironic to say that on HN when YC has helped launch thousands of companies and several self-made billionaires.

The ability to hire and fire fast is undeniably helpful for companies, and being able to quit and move to new jobs is just as useful for personal career development. It might not be for everyone, but it's not any less valid.
TIL. I thought this was just so that all apps are in one place for ease of access. When I first tried OS X in the form of hackintosh around 2009, most apps were already distributed in dmgs with "drag to install" so I just thought it's a very neat, Apple-ish way (ugh Windows install wizards) and assumed it's always been like that. Older PPC Macs were basically never really a thing where I'm from.

Now I remember seeing these weird long paths pointing to weird places with the word translocation in them — never really dug into the why. I've also seen apps ask to move themselves to /Applications when launched from ~/Downloads.

Anyway, with all these Gatekeeper changes, it's almost as if Apple doesn't want non-app-store apps at all.
Cassette Futurism for the '80s. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CassetteFuturism
https://www.mondaq.com/germany/CorporateCommercial-Law/64529...

"If the company is in crisis special obligations arise for a managing director the breach of which may lead to a personal liability of the managing director."
Coronavirus made telework necessary. Now Santa Clara wants to explore ways
I bet zero if the car is a gearshift with a carburetor.
London isn’t more expensive than SF. And I have colleagues who make £450k+
My mobile web usage on iPhone is limited to HN strictly because of ads. I simply refuse to adopt patterns that cover my screen with them. When i do switch to Android, which i will, ad block will be the primary factor in my decision.
So a junior staffer writes up an ill-researched piece and it gets called a New York Federal Reserve paper? Not exactly a foundation of expertise.
Really good list, thanks for sharing.
One thing I really noticed when 98.css did the rounds the other day: Old UIs were _discoverable_ in a way that modern UIs are not. It's clear what's clickable, what's grouped together, where you can grab and drag.
Messing around with some other IPFS-based tooling previously (I think 3Box), I found that the user had to install and be running IPFS in order to view a truly decentralised client application (or there had to be an intermediate webhost that did this for you). This, for me, removed some of the benefits of the decentralised model.

Is the Textile toolkit able to operate directly 'on chain' via a standard web browser? Or do visitors still need to install and run executables locally in order for it to work?

Sorry if I've inaccurately slandered 3Box here - I am still learning about this space, and I am very excited by the possibilities!
Smaller websites have this problem, it's just that the holy wars waged within the Pokemon fandom rarely make it to the HN front page. If anything, the politics get even more personal and vicious in smaller communities.

The business of Wikia may be successful, but as a user, it's complete rubbish.
It's portable and doesn't add any new build dependencies. No need to model extra phases in your build system either.
That is fine as long as you can make money fast. Same applies to if you decide to go with azure, gcp, ibm cloud etc. when you grow from 1000 to 1m subscribers, what matters is if you can scale in hours or months.
You could try hiring a front end designer from Freelancer or Upwork.
It really is unsettling how much control the media exerts. None of the lockdowns make any sense whatsoever.
I have a terms of service, for one, which governs some of this. I am also not above "firing the customer" if appropriate, but of course I wouldn't presume to do this so urgently and without warning as to leave anyone who depended on the platform out in the cold. I don't think my target audience is especially likely to fall afoul of my convictions on what kinds of activities I feel morally at peace with supporting on my platform.
Often fraudulent offers include a large number of typos or red flags specifically to drive away high information buyers; sealing the deal usually requires some labor, and they want to exclude anyone who might figure it and not buy in the end. Better to exclude a few marks in order to guarantee that everyone who clicks is credulous enough to sell to without significant effort.
> it's obviously a stark improvement

I really wish people would say what they mean when they make comments like this. It's extremely vague and some of the obvious meanings are either subjective or can be easily shot down:

* It has more / better features? No, it seems to have fewer features, at least if add-on support is a good indication.

* The GUI is better? Subjective at best, I find it worse.

* Web pages load faster / JS execution is faster? This is also subjective unless objective measurements are used, but this is what people most often mean.

I've attempted to measure the objective speed of the browser myself. I've consistently found: Javascript performance is not significantly improved by the new browser. As measured by Speedometer [1], the new Firefox is less than 10% faster than the old one, and both are barely half as fast as Chrome on the same device. The performance of the GUI is also lacking: it takes so much more time to open menus and use GUI features that the difference is actually clearly visible to the eye. [2]

Basically, I think it's very easy to be deceived by placebo effects when what we're talking about is the apparent performance of a browser. The objective metrics I've been able to capture often show the new FFA to be as slow or slower than the previous version, and when it's faster, it's not by much, at least (in my opinion) not close enough to catching up to Chrome to justify a complete browser rewrite, with everything that has entailed.

[1] https://browserbench.org/Speedometer2.0/

[2] See: multiple open issues for animation jank. I found these with a quick search. https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/10065 https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/7797 https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/8863 https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/9746
Unfortunately, now that we have a “smart” printer, we need the printers consent before we can print the informed consent papers
Our kid, who is 5, gets an allowance. It's nominal, but it teaches her to save/spend/share money and it's a good way to teach numbers and basic math.

So far, she's managed to set aside enough to get a dinosaur lego set she really, really wanted and also gone on some carousel rides and bought candy once or twice. It's been a benefit for everyone, I think.
This is still routine today. Most of the farm kids I know were driving early, some before 10.
at 5 the biggest problem is to be able to even actually operate the car since it's pretty much made for adult sizes.
Tried Search by Image extension and it is great!

My major complaint is the tab management and the New Tab page. To be honest it is the worst I've ever seen. I hope that Mozilla invest much more on UI/UX.
How do they disentangle that from losing the great war, and the crippling treaty + reparations that destroyed their economy and led to massive inflation, unemployment and starvation?
I find that there is a lot of noise out there. You know the content with a lot of words but no message. Somebody has to create the "signal". You can create content with signal by working with people doing real work and stepping into the shoes of your customer. This is the job of so-called customer success people but they often don't have the opportunity to be in the shoes of the customer. I was a customer of B2B products (software and hardware) and I rarely found content that was meaningful. But there was a lot of problem solving in our internal daily meetings that could be used as content. But that material was not exposed to the sales/marketing people of the vendors. Some of that material was also something many companies would be unwilling to disclose. For example, companies are unwilling to admit that their product is not a good fit for so and so application. They continue their "messaging" as a product good for everything. The average sales and marketing person doesn't have enough context, knowledge or insight to understand that sales pitch doesn't work. I would find an occasional sales person who really understood the issues and would quickly develop a rapport with us and be successful in getting our business.
Back in the Google Reader days I subscribed to a few Retofuture blogs. Was really into this stuff back in the late 90s and early 00s. Love the scientific optimism. Not surprising that I am a huge fan of EPCOT, it had a huge impact on me as kid going there in the 80s.

This was one of the blogs I enjoyed, have not kept up with it:
https://paleofuture.com/
The only place C++ is pulling away towards is oblivion.
It's generous, but I also wish it was normal.
because the parents left the kid with a babysitter
Lol. On first glance I read "Fallout 76".
The Complete Coding Practitioners Handbook
Then the situation is maybe not so different? It's an amount you're entitled to when laid off, set by the government, which your employer has to fund proactively (payroll taxes).

Because it's set by the government, it caps out at well below a typical tech worker's burn rate, so it's little more than a brake on the depletion of our savings. When a tech company offers severance it's typically much, much more than what the government guarantees.

You also get the full amount regardless of how long you're unemployed, so e.g. if you get laid off with 7 weeks severance and find another job in 3 weeks, that's a free month of salary.
>Why is there no increased demand-driven supply on these things?

Most American states prohibit price hikes during a disaster, which prevents companies from producing more during high demand.