skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A year or so back I wrote a little ffmpeg concatenation helper to make a friend's life easier. It was an OK shell script but it needed a config file to list all of the files that needed concatenation, and I wanted to just make a GUI that would let her add and reorder files to a list, then generate a temp file with the list (ffmpeg required the list to live in a file for some reason) and fire off the ffmpeg command to concatenate them both with and without sound.

This is apparently like a DEFCON 0 type operation to perform on a Mac requiring two guys in white lab coats to turn keys at the same time at opposite ends of the room, because there was no way to even ask for the permission to run the command if I remember right. It ended up being a case where I would be spending a ton of time to get more functionality than the command line script, so I quit. Plus it was one of those one plane ride projects.
For someone who want firefox to success, I still am not happy with the performance of firefox preview.

Currently there is kiwi browser on Android not sure if they have for ios as well, which is chromium based and support extensions.

Recently the developer also make it open source. Shout out to the devs.
https://github.com/kiwibrowser/android
Decades later and that street still looks bleak.
I think most salespeople have significantly decreased sales right now.

There are obviously other factors contributing to that other than the lack of travel, but this is not proving that sales will be fine without travel.
Firefox is my browser of choice on desktop and the new mobile version is brilliant but I badly need an extension that will reverse light background websites to be dark. This is the only thing blocking me adopting it as mobile browser of choice.
Sure, healthcare separated from employment would be a fantastic development. Doesn't change my point that people should be able to make their own choices.
Yep, anything that makes it a server process that listens for connections definitely takes you into the same category. Likewise, running puppet or salt in the local-only mode removes the issue from them.
Seconded. It's great - old Firefox for Android was clunky and slow. The new one I am using as my primary browser with full sync enabled and with uBlock Origin and NoScript and apart from the occasional crash (they seem to fix it quick) it's great.
But did you use the older Firefox for Android cause after that you will believe this KIA is a Lamborghini.
This is really great, especially the change tracking. I've been doing something similar with some public city real estate data. Maybe I'll set it up in a similar way. Thanks for posting this!
On windows they had a drop shadow effect outside the address bar which is less pronounced now.
I've been involved in designing optical instrumentation. There's a challenge with miniaturizing optics, which is that light obeys an "optical invariant," which limits the area and solid angle subtending a light beam. In practice it means that as optics get smaller, it gets harder to maintain signal-to-noise and spectral resolution, which affect the ability to distinguish chemicals with similar spectra, chemicals at low concentration, and dirty samples.

Not everything is so constrained. Lasers can get smaller. Certainly electronics. As those things get more efficient, the batteries can get smaller.

Now, it all depends on what you're trying to measure. And there are cases where the chemicals themselves cooperate with you in some way. For this reason, single purpose instruments can often be quite small. An example is the finger cuff for blood oxygen.

If you search for mini- or micro-spectrometer, you'll find that these things are all over the place. Many of them demonstrate one interesting application with great fanfare, that is perpetually almost sensitive enough for practical use.
Agassiz fell and rose multiple times over thousands of years as the ice sheet retreated and regrew. During that time it found many paths to escape its confinement, and left behind several beach-lines.

One of the most clearly-written and illustrated professional Agassiz stories is Wright's lightly-technical 1990 geology paper, available in PDF [0]. A lot more has been learned in the past 30 years, but by that time its effects in Minnesota were quite well known.

[0] https://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/57272
Wright, H.E. Jr (Minnesota Geological Survey, 1990)
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I second that source hut looks like a boring, bland website. Sure, it's spartan, the menus work, and it explains exactly what it's doing but it really doesn't scratch that itch of a beautiful website. It's functional, but not beautiful.

Sourcehut looks like an engineer made it. Same with building design.
I absolutely wondered the same thing when doing the update as the world isn't 2003 anymore. But I have found it useful even when doing modern web development as a quick playground to try snippets. "Live as you type" speed can change your iteration flow vs. an often slower rebuild+auto reload cycle.

This was more of a passion/craft project than one I expect will make a gigantic impact. A side motive was to help move out some code of our Hype app to an "app shell" where I can more quickly make other applications with the same trial/licensing/windowing/etc. components.
That sounds like you're inciting violence which is an easy way to get banned. I know it's not your intention but it's clear why Twitter decided to ban if that's accurate
This has been pretty much my experience as well.

The killer features are definitely the HA and the region-based sharding, but the backup situation and bugs are a real bummer. Not a total dealbreaker, but teetering right on the edge.

We are looking closely at moving to FoundationDB at some point.
Have you tried dark reader?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/darkreader/
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> This was to avoid having the car take off immediately after starting the engine.

I think modern cars have taken all the ‘fun’ out of learning to drive. Bunny hopping a stick shift along a parking lot used to be a rite of passage, and provided a chuckle for onlookers.
If the short-term rental market suddenly evaporates, and you have a chunk of the housing stock full-time serving that much more lucrative market (and not catering to locals), this is the first thing that is going to put downward pressure on rents. Support mechanisms are in place for most "normal" classes of renters and owners.
From what I've seen 12 months pay in Germany is probably equivalent to 3.5 months pay in the US.
Agreed. The background is too white I think. It's blinding and I even have flux on. haha
>It always fascinates me when a comment says "I find this interesting but it doesn't belong here". Finding this interesting is the definition of it belonging here (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). Of course there are different kinds of interesting and HN is for some and not for others.

That's not what the guidelines say. They say:

>>Anything that good hackers would find interesting.

There are all kinds of things I find interesting but which would not be interesting to "good hackers" generally. I would think you'd expect posters to make the distinction and separate "what I personally like" from "what I personally like due to hacker-related reasons".

As an example of the difference, I'd be really interested in an article on how to do better on doubles mode on Dance Dance Revolution, but that's such narrow interest that it doesn't really belong here; me finding it interesting isn't enough.
According to a viroligist (UC Berkley) you are correct.

The polymerase it uses to duplicate contains a profreading function. Its a big virus too:

A way detailed presentation on the Virus: (I think about 40 minutes in it talks about the duplication). Its kind of an interesting talk:

https://hhmi.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id...
I believe jailbreak or those other "developer" methods (certificates/enterprise?) are still available.
I'm given to understand that it's not even a technical issue; you can build an iOS app that uses a real browser engine of your choice, it's always just been that Apple by policy won't let you publish it. (This is all second-hand, though, so take with a grain of salt.)
Yes, I think this is a totally valid point. Where I have come out on this (just a personal opinion) is that if the animal will have a "good" life (I know super subjective, I'll leave it to some ethicists and philosophers far smarter than me to figure out what that means) then it's logical to eat meat to create the demand so more of those animals are bred and can live "good" lives. All human lives result in death today too, I don't think we would consider parents monsters for having children because they will die someday, but we might if the children would be born into hellish conditions and the parents did it for selfish reasons and not for the child.
I do see a therapist and it's helped a lot. I think I'm just struggling now because I haven't been able to be seen during quarantine.
That's worked in the non-preview (old) version of Firefox on Android for ages. (Speaking as a happy user)
yes I use and I totally agree that the preview version is much faster compare to the old firefox.
Is there an extension for desktop that does it? Install it on the mobile version. New (chrome) style extension just work, from what I know (there are a few APIs that don't, but those that use them are likely the extensions that don't make sense on mobile). An extension I made for work just worked without problem.

Edit: Sorry, I was referring to Firefox mobile, and this is regarding Firefox preview, which I don't have any actual experience with. I'm not sure how much applies.
Significantly less risk taking and thus fewer globally competitive companies.
What country relies on exporting meat to other countries?
Dark reader is available on the Firefox Nightly app on Android.
Totally fair point, but I assumed this would break the constraint of remaining anonymous, and a meeting with the wrong person could start some unwanted chatter or even a report up the chain.

Plus, in person organizing is a lot trickier during a pandemic!
Now I am even more confused
There are many caveats to your first statement. For example food aid (SNAP) may be time limited. The federal govt is concerned that you may be deterred for getting a job.
Friendly reminder: I suggest you to proofread your web site. Maybe it's just me but I can't buy anything if there is a typo on the web page.

You might also try to explain on your web site why your product is better than free alternatives, such as waveapps.com.
Opps 2nd-hand Tesla gear has user data
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That sounds like a bug worth filing!
Probably not going well
Non-nano zinc oxide, the traditional kind that is white, like OP is talking about, is fine as far as I know(https://www.vogue.com/article/reef-safe-sunscreens-oxybenzon...).

The nano mineral sunscreens are bad, but they can be coated, which sounds like it makes them less harmful.
Oh, I didn’t know you could stack factories on top of each other!
Not defending Wells Fargo at all, but they were also limited due to restrictions placed on them for some of their criminal activity and therefore had a limited pool to lend with for PPP.
What’s the advantage behind a more complex scheme? It doesn’t seem to add anything. The current system just notes the specific release in a series of releases.
Yeah. Likely a small amount of analytics jobs taking up most memory/CPU footprint, while critical prod OLTP jobs take very little resource comparably.
I've been usjng keycloak as an UMA authorization server, and while it's better than nothing it has a few bugs that make it not exactly compliant with the spec. Additionally the UI is incredibly confusing and the documentation isn't that helpful in some cases. Anything you want to do you have to spend too much time searching the UI and some things are not even available: Want to assign ownership of a resource to a user? Need to run a curl request.
Though I haven't tried other implementations, so maybe this one's the best
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Apps did start doing this before, definitely. I always felt they were arrogant in assuming they deserved a spot in my Applications folder. I should be able to put the app wherever I'd like. At the same time dmgs seem backwards-looking since disks were "old" technology so why use an image format for them? So I was personally against distributing my software this way, but Apple forced my hand with the Gatekeeper app translocation change.

Apple themselves ships some software, like the non-Mac App Store versions of Xcode, as xips (signed zips), but for some reason decided 3rd party developers cannot use these.

Apples recommendations are in the "Shipping your Signed Code" section of this tech note:

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/technotes/tn2206...
+1 for firefox focus, it is the browsing app I use for iOS unless I want to come back to something later then I'll open it in safari, from focus
When I read the first sentence I thought this was sarcasm. Then I realized it's not.

I can't help but think C++ will be one of these things digital archeologists will look back in disbelief.

And I mean both amazed as well as flabbergasted disbelief.
You're getting some things mixed up.

We must be careful when comparing tangible goods (like food) to intangible goods (like a browser app).

Food has an element of genuine scarcity. This scarcity is what causes food to have economic character. If there is more demand than supply, this state of things triggers investment into the production of more food to satisfy the demand some time in the future, ultimately affecting prices. Prices will rise in the short-run, but decrease in the long-run (if the demand can be met, and then some). If food was not scarce, it would not be an economic good, and it would not be subject to supply and demand.

Software, on the other hand, is intangible. It can be duplicated and distributed, essentially for free, and more or less forever. Even if you have a paid plan this does not create scarcity. We shouldn't think of software the same as we think of food in terms of economics.

What is the theoretical limit to how many paying customers would be so many, that it impacts the ability of new customers to install, pay for, and use your app? Practically, this question is insignificant, that's one of the reasons software is interesting.

The simplest answer to why 40 - 50 people discover your software per day, is that whatever marketing channels you have utilized (or not) up to this point in your apps's lifetime expose you to 40 - 50 users per day who have a direct need that they think your product may solve.

The second element to this is that there are a lot of people in the world. As others have pointed out, they don't all have the same information. You are capturing a fraction of the total number of people out there looking for a solution to this specific problem, who are influenced by, or aware of, at least one of the marketing channels that influence your app.

If the problem your app solves became a non-issue overnight (for everyone), then you would see that number start to decline over time or go away instantly.

What's more likely to change the situation (temporarily or permanently) is that something changes (positive or negative) with those marketing channels, either influenced by you, or by whatever entities or forces control those channels.

Hope this helps.
I've been working with OAuth 2 for 7 years and I still don't really understand all the dark corners of the spec. Good to see Resource Owner grant type get called out for a "Do not use", although I dont think using it in a private, server side context is off the cards...
...unless you're using Windows.
> and have the central government plan around all the hard problems in society..."

this is nonsense, consider Walmart, the US military, and nuclear power. Walmart is proof that centralized planning can have extremely successful results. The US military has no publicly known catastrophes in nuclear power. Nuclear power plants are too expensive (both upfront costs and insurance) for private enterprise and even small municipalities.

Consider the Hoover Dam. Panama Canal. Both "capitalist" US and "communist" USSR planned their way through the space race.

Planning is _good_. Everyone who is smart does it. It's how big things happen.

What's important is to keep democracy on top of the plan. Walmart is heavily authoritarian.

Marxist-Leninists believe in extending democracy to include the workplace and the economy.

If you think that's "clearly destructive", I'd have you take a peek at climate change, deforestation, sweatshops, migrant toddler concentration camps, Flint Michigan, Tulsa Massacre, etc.. The USSR might not have been a utopia, or even good, but don't strut around like you're better than them and hand-wave away a rising-in-the-US ideology so frivolously.
That's what I mean. I recognize it can be an issue later on, and then you deal with it...I've yet to see the case where it was worth worrying about up front, even in hindsight.

I also haven't seen the reverse, the multi-cloud people who later on drop a cloud provider because of some reason, going "omg, thank goodness we didn't let ourselves be locked in to one, this saved so much time/money/effort".
I think that's always up for debate. I notice the cultural differences even in the technology field. On HN, I feel like people generally publish their work openly in early stages; make a Github, upload code, tell people about it when they think it's good enough. Over on Reddit, people do the opposite. People will write about something they're doing, but then when asked "can we see the code?" or "is the STL available on Thingiverse?" they hem and haw about it not being good enough and as a result nobody can ever build on the work. (I have never ever seen someone that said on Reddit that they'll publish it later publish it later. The fun is over for them, and they're on to the next thing. So a lot of interesting ideas / code / 3d models are completely lost to history and just have to be reinvented.)

I don't think you'll ever make someone who sees the world one way see it the other way. All you can do is decide for yourself what to do, and do that. Some people will follow you. Those set in their ways will continue to do it their way.
> You "ask to understand" their perspective & motivations because the alternative is for you to assume you know their perspective which is always worse.

An interesting counterpoint I've heard from respected management trainers: it _is_ impossible to correctly infer intent and motivation, but fortunately intent doesn't matter here. You don't need to know it, and it focuses on the wrong thing. You don't want to know _why_, and your intervention can easily assume positive intent. What you want is to change future behavior. So assume positive intent, and focus on what to do next time.

In your example scenario, where an employee has broken corporate policy you would just say something to the effect "I'm sure you meant well here, but our policy on this is X. What can you do differently next time?" That is the conversation you should be having, rather than the blame distribution game that 'why did you do that bad thing?' invites.
Right, sometimes you just want a web page, and not a web app.
So they are hand-picking extensions now? Is this trend going to continue (i.e. they continue to add more but still with a manual process) or they're aiming to be on par with the old Firefox (supports most of extensions automatically)?
Need Stylus to make ‘collapse comment’ buttons on HN adequately sized and quit sniping them.
I am not suggesting we are facing an issue with right wing extremism because of the pandemic. I am merely suggesting that we are facing an issue with right wing extremism.

From https://www.csis.org/ground-combatting-rise-right-wing-terro... :

> Right-wing terrorism is on the rise in the United States and across Europe. In the United States, right-wing extremists were responsible for nearly 50 killings in 2018, a 26 percent increase over the previous year.i,ii According to the Anti-Defamation League’s latest report, 2018 was the fourth-deadliest year for domestic extremist-related killings since 1970 and of those attacks, right-wing extremists were responsible for almost 78 percent.iii

From https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/security/reports/201...

> The murder of 11 Jewish worshippers at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh more than four months ago was the most deadly U.S. domestic extremist attack since the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, but it was far from an isolated incident. The University of Maryland’s Global Terrorism Database showed that, from 2010 to 2016, right-wing inspired terrorist acts in the United States have grown from 6 percent of total domestic terror attacks to 35 percent. The Anti-Defamation League’s report, “A Dark and Constant Rage,” catalogued 150 right-wing attacks from 1993 to 2017, noting that “right-wing extremists have been one of the largest and most consistent sources of domestic terror incidents in the United States for many years.”4 The Center for Strategic and International Studies also reported that, between 2016 and 2017 alone, right-wing inspired violence had quadrupled in the United States.5

Do I need to quote anything more from the first page of a google search for "right wing extremism in the united states" or is that enough?
I asked because a conversation about whether I “realize that complexity” is exactly the kind of conversation I want to avoid. I’m not here to litigate how good a developer I am.

The sense I’m getting—to be honest—is that you want to ask me questions until I “submit”. Maybe I’m off the mark! There are a lot of interesting directions that a conversation about parser correctness can go. You can discuss different goals, the idea of parsing to a spec versus matching the behavior of a reference implementation, fuzzing, attacks, stack overflow, and ergonomics like the quality of error messages. It’s an interesting subject.
I completely agree, it'd probably be easier for the US if done on a state by state basis (similar to the rapid legalization of marijuana).

However, with the way tax revenues are collected in the US (with anywhere from 80-100% going to the federal government, not states), a vast majority of states would not be able to pay for such a big program.

It seems Americans have the worst of both systems. A strong, wealthy, do-nothing federal government; and motivated, weak, underfunded state governments.
You literally can. Are you being facetious? What's going on with this discussion?
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Actually I had done this:

wget -O ~/Downloads/books.csv 'https://link.springer.com/search/csv?facet-content-type=%22Book%22&package=mat-covid19_textbooks&fbclid=IwAR14_P6ZT4OoaHCYpxQCu_NtGLENhKOhfVD-b648OmS3TFM39gDZEhkDBS0&facet-language=%22En%22&sortOrder=newestFirst&showAll=true' && awk 'BEGIN { FS = "," }; { gsub("book","content/pdf",$9) ; if ($9 ~ /^"http/) { print "wget --content-disposition -P ~/Downloads/springer " $9; } }' < ~/Downloads/books.csv | bash
this remembering of the past and what they thought about us can mostly only mean one thing: we ourselves can't and haven't been able to think of the future.
> Nowadays any phone that can't display 20k bunnies at 20FPS likely has

Given my aging Samsung Galaxy S6 averages about 30FPS for 20k bunnies in Firefox mobile, your criteria might actually be too lax...

Edit: And in Chrome on the same phone I'm in the mid 30's FPS for 50k bunnies.