skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> so what information is it even conveying?

I feel like I'm going in circles.

They're two different web pages. Possibly with entirely different information. Possibly run by entirely different people. Possibly with entirely different trust levels and threats. It conveys which of the two web pages I'm looking at. How is that not useful information?
Opera already does this and I hate it for that.
I actually like this feature. If I want to read a downvoted comment, I just highlight its text with a mouse.
Pen drawing for UIs. The ideal case is to update a small portion of the screen at about 240hz, to provide a good simulation of pen/pencil feedback. Really, your latency envelope should be on the order of the propagation of sound through the barrel of the marking device, but screens don’t update that fast.
Anecdotal, but my cousin did exactly this. I will note, he is probably the most exceptional person I known of, beyond those classic geniuses everyone knows.
The other day I heard Firefox described as Google's antitrust lawsuit insurance...
The bigger problem is that these people are often very two-faced in what they believe. I've seen Europeans who are all for BLM yet say the most disgusting things about the Roma in their own backyard. Or those who preach about womens rights but turn a blind eye to the rampant sexism present in their own religion. Both laudible causes in their own right; but if you're going to make a stand for them you must be willing to eat your own cooking.
Don’t bother with mock APIs tbh. I assume you’re trying to unit test the front end?

If anytime, write integration tests using something like selenium or whatever the latest hotness is.
> Testing and tracing works only if you're not already overwhelmed with infected people.

Which is basically the normal mode of operation for institutions like the CDC or similar organizations in other countries like the RKI in Germany. In the past this was a very successful approach to keep really nasty diseases in check. I have read that both RKI and CDC had a difficult time to switch from contact tracing singular clusters into pandemic mode.

> This time around, the US lost to Mother Nature, and our only hope is herd immunity at this point.

I wouldn't phrase it so negatively, there is a major pandemic every 100 years. Everybody is still doing far better than at any previous similar event. Even if things seem to devolve into chaos, that's nothing in comparison. Already the fact of omnipresent real-time news probably makes a huge difference. Even without optimal government interventions, people come up with their own precautions.
I spent an extra 10-15 minutes trying to debug an issue with Shibboleth last week with two other devs that had never set it up on a server before.

Why? Because we weren't forcing https yet in IIS and while I thought I had told it to go to the https site I was either wrong or it had changed. The address bar notification no longer jumps out at me.

I second a persistent dev mode / not continuing to remove address data from the address bar by default.
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I currently run firefox developer edition - gives me access to custom extensions.
Marc Andreessen interview
System Security for Cyborgs [pdf]
Yeah, I don't like the current trend to redirect www to root. You can easily doing simple dns-based load balancing by having multiple ip addresses on the www subdomain. You can't do that on root domain, you'll have to use a dedicated load balancer even if all you want is just simple load balancing among a small set of servers. It only benefit cloud vendors and hurt hobbyist/small website operators if this trend continues to the point that visitors expect all websites to be served from root insetad of www.
I'm not actually American, just pandering examples to the audience. A pound shop is what we call them in Ireland. Americans wouldn't know what that is.
And for those using Safari, you could simply restart your browser and most of the tabs will not be loaded until you click on it.
The problem wasn’t nomenclature or technology, it was economics: Part of the premise of “Software-ICs” was that, like physical ICs, a market would develop in software components that could rival the existing “shrink-wrapped” software industry in size. That never came close to happening, for reasons that it would be fun to speculate about.

Perhaps one could make the case that it’s finally happening except as “cloud services ICs”.
It benefits Google in a number of ways - amp pages being the biggest one. It benefits nobody else as best I can tell, as it further obfuscates technology from the user
Microsoft's latest Windows 10 updates come with nasty printer bugs
This has nothing to do with so-called SJWs. Please think twice before using politically toxic language in a thread that isn't even about politics. I guess it pleases you to tell a story about how this trivial UI design decision is actually the result of the machinations of your political enemies. But there is absolutely zero evidence for that. Do you really find it so hard to imagine that the decision was made with good intentions?
Oh, this looks interesting. Thank you for the pointer.

I think we can use both:
https://docs.mitmproxy.org/stable/addons-scripting/

For mocking, and dump/replay for debugging for some of our projects.

https://docs.mitmproxy.org/stable/tute-clientreplay/
Actually everything is political, some things just more than others, and pulling in the SJW discussion is indeed not relevant here.
An off-the-shelf GPU can encode / decode thousands of channels of video and audio in real-time.

There are some cloud providers that offer this as a service, allowing you to have the end-points of, e.g., video calls to use different audio and video codecs.

This is quite useful, e.g., when some people join the call only using audio via a cell phone in a different country using a different audio standard (or a land line, etc.). Or when somebody joins the video call from laptop tethering from a phone on a train. Or for switching video codecs depending on whether somebody is sharing their desktop or using a webcam to record their face.

The client can picks the codecs that are the best fit for the current situation (content, bandwidth, latency, etc.) and a could server transcodes the video from everyone else in the meeting to their clients format.
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The Linux Kernel and syscall interface is the same.
They even use the same userspace libraries.
So KDE have a distro which they don't call a distro.

Essentially it's ubuntu 18.04 but KDE packages are from the KDE team.

https://neon.kde.org/
Yeah, but TBH this is true about most of these conference talks: they are just mediocre attempts into stand-up comedy.
It was the actual Shkreli, back in the days when he was still streaming. Also, he wasn't a very 'early' moderator of WSB, it had been around and popular for a while by the time he showed up.
>Pretty ironic for a company that wouldn't exist except for the ability to crawl and index URLs.

It's called "kicking the ladder after climbing the wall".
What you described is more like highlighting the function signature in one color and the entire body in another. Syntax highlighting for the URL would be more like domain/subdomain in one color, emphasising query fields in one color and params in another, with colors potentially varying potentially based on their type/significance.

That might help make the URL more readable but again doesn't really help if the relevant parts of the path/query string for trust isn't immediately apparent.
Thanks for this! Turned it off. I guess I haven't noticed because my focus was always attracted to the padlock with a red line through it in front of the URL.
I assume the goal is to make sure that people never remember the URL and always use Google to get anywhere. Most people probably already do, but maybe increasing their number from 80% to 90% is still worth it.

If this is indeed the real motivation, the next obvious target would be bookmarks. What can be done about them? Replace the bookmarked URLs by Google queries? It would be an interesting functionality if Google could look at a page and give you the smallest query that would have returned exactly this page as a first result. Then bookmark the query instead of the URL. And if the search results change in the future... I suppose, it would be possible to spin this as a feature. ("Self-improving bookmarks" perhaps? You don't have to worry about link rot; with latest Google self-improving bookmarks, your bookmark will always point to the best existing page on given topic!)
"It now takes something like 4 taps to get to the point where I can correct or otherwise edit the URL in my mobile browser (Safari)"

Just FYI, you can touch once in the URL bar to set focus to it (the whole URL will be selected), then touch and hold down on the keyboard (which will then act like a desktop touchpad) to move the cursor around to edit the URL.

I find this handy, though it took me a while to get used to it.
This is a total biased politicization of the work being done under a right-wing lens, and it makes me sad to see such toxic right-wing politics be used to create a narrative of software development full of "SJW" and "virtue signalling".

It makes me very happy to know I work somewhere where if someone went on a political "SJW" "virtue signalling" toxic tirade, they wouldn't be around for much longer.

>"So whenever you see anything about "protecting users", be skeptical. Look for the SJWs pulling on the strings.

I'm skeptical when I see obviously extremely biased far-right culture warriors perfectly mimicking the language of radical terrorists ("SJW" "virtue signalling" this toxic narrative features in a number of mass shooter and far-right terrorist manifestos recently) to opine that something they dislike is "pulling the strings" (a notoriously conspiratorial and usually bigoted reference).

This kind of naked radical politicking has no place in software development.
Wow. Impressive.

> 25% increase every year

Is there anything like Moore's law for optical cable bandwidth?
I don't think you're wrong, but I have 2 tangential points that might challenge you...

The first point is Why do you care? 6m of not producing anything but still getting paid is a problem for the company not you. If there were a way of getting 6m production from you for no salary, they'd do it. They're undervaluing usefulness, but you're over valuing it!

The second point is that too few people move. Why does that matter? Because it explains the companies actions. Imagine If you have 10 employees who could get jobs elsewhere, and you have to pay them all 5k to prevent that happening. But you know 9 of them are not even going to look. So if you do nothing, you'll save 50k but lose 1 employee. Rehiring will mean 6m of lost usefulness of 1 person. So unless the average salary is 100k, you're better off losing 6m worth of work and saving 50k...

If more people moved more often, companies would do more to encourage people to stay. The fact that such a big chunk of the workforce are basically lifers is why companies don't have to value long service...
> "SJW" is a pejorative at this point because the key part isn't about the ideas being expressed but the motivations behind advocating those views.

Is SJW really seen as pejorative? In my mind it's a term used only by the alt-right, and usually if alt-right is trying to smear someone it's a good indicator the target is advocating a good cause. So I usually take SJW as a positive description.
Ditto. At first the biggest thing I struggled with was less-obvious profile support in FF, but container tabs and a bookmark on the toolbar to “about:profiles” nearly completely solved that. Now I greatly prefer my FF config and am glad to be free of Chrome decisions like this.
I mostly leave telemetry on in products I care about specifically so that my advanced use cases get logged.
That's the filter-bubble you're seeing. It's showing you things it thinks you'll engage with, and hiding things it thinks you won't, and the algorithm is too stupid to do that properly but they use it anyway.
Yes, and I still think it still is great concept. :-)

I also don't think it's really how we do everything, the original concept caught on only very partially, and appears to be more and more forgotten.

See Software-ICs, Binary Compatibility, and Objective-Swift

https://blog.metaobject.com/2019/03/software-ics-binary-comp...
This is how I learned them too (though about:… in IE5).
The Linux Kernel holds backwards compatibility to a very high regards.
It's userspace that throws all this out of the window.
Mockito exists as an option
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21703345
There is no money in Desktop Linux.

However there is money in running Linux for infrastructure.

Because of this Server linux is great.

The exception is Android but it does a lot of things on its own.

Unless that changes it's not going to be good on the desktop.
I remember this being the magical thing together with less wasted vertical space that made me switch to Chrome back in the day, it was (and still is) so simple! Always had the search field taking up precious space in Firefox but never really using it because it was a different mental route, like this is smart but why am I not using it?

I think it is down to having to consciously decide to search before starting to type instead of just start typing, if you couldn't remember the URL just misspell it and search and it works, a more specific page throw in another word and you get the correct page as a search result essentially every time.
This is not a common usage of the term SJW. The term SJW was already used to dismiss issues of race or gender; this feels like a drive-by version, dismissing those concerns when they're not even relevant to the topic.
Anyone knows how to get into the field?
I mean, I wouldn't trust most bariatas to make a good coffee, let alone myself with an advent calendar. May if you go to norway you might change your mind.
Sounds like the decision between democrats and republicans ;)
If anything, there's, from my experience, a good overlap between the SJW types, and the people who push for accessibility/ a11y as the cool kids call it, as it sorta falls under the inclusion initiatives.

EDIT: I was clearly disagreeing with the parent badmouthing SJWs wrt accessibility...
The point the parent poster was trying to make was that the GPU cores themselves are not a great match for video codec work.

However most consumer/server GPUs include hardware IP blocks specifically for doing codec work.
It's been a lot more than one journalist.
(I)

Context: I lived in Germany for somewhere around a year and a half, and have lived in Japan for the better part of a decade.

Gun ownership is effectively banned in Japan, and the Japanese have an amazingly competent, well-trained, and effective police force. Seriously -- they do policing right in so many ways. Germany, too.

I share this so you really understand where I am coming from when I say that I think every citizen that so desires should be armed. Moreover, I find the attitude of "nobody needs a gun" to be hopelessly privileged and naïve.

To give you some sense of why:

(II)

A friend of mine had an issue with an ex-boyfriend, here in Japan. He kept banging on her front door in the middle of the night, threatening her, the whole bit. He was an amateur athlete, and although I can handle myself in a fight, he would probably beat me into a pulp. She wouldn't stand a chance.

The cops put out a restraining order, and kept bringing him into the police station every time he violated it, but legally, they could do nothing until he actually hurt her. Moreover, he was Japanese, and she was not, which meant that the police were... less incentivized to help her.

This kind of thing happens everywhere. That's life as a minority for you.

She had no other option than to flee the country. No joke.

(III)

One day, I woke up to a massive banging sound. It was a bad neighborhood, and it sounded like people trying to kick their way through the outer mesh security door. My apartment was on the ground floor, in the back of my building

I called the police, but nobody would be able to show up for about half an hour. That's reality in a lot of the US. So I grabbed my Remington, walked to the door, and chambered a round -- the sound of a pump-action is very distinctive.

All of the sudden, the kicking stopped, and I saw through the side window what looked like about five people sprinting away from my porch. I was pretty shaken, honestly, and the cops never showed up.

The apartment owner had to replace the security mesh. Maybe another five minutes and they would have gotten through.

Don't know what they wanted, but I do know that they'd get whatever it was, because no way I could take on three people, let alone five.

I upgraded to a semi-auto after that.

(IV)

A gun is like a fire extinguisher. You don't buy one hoping you have to use it.

But if you need it, you need it, and nothing else will do.
Honestly at this point I honestly have no idea why a wast majority of people are still choosing to support google's browser.

Google is an ad-company and will do everything in its power to change the web to fit their business. You the user don't matter anymore.
And that point is wrong, since there are some cloud providers using normal GPU cores for exactly this.

The codecs that NVEnc supports are just a few bunch, there is no real-time audio, no nothing.

All of this is implemented in CUDA, using normal CUDA implementations of audio and video codecs, and running on normal GPUs using normal GPU cores. In real time. Supporting thousands of audio and video channels concurrently.

Also, even for NVEnc and NVDec themselves, in some of the GPUs they do not use any specialized hardware and use normal GPU cores instead (e.g. see the older GM20x GPUs).
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ffs

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/allusion
Germany is not densily populated. Neighbor speaking up here.
I didn't remove it I replaced it with needing calories. It's not reductionist to point out that some things are better than others, even when you're used to the worse option.
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First prison guard unions try and protect guards even in situations where they arguably shouldn’t. But, that’s also arguably their job and not trying to increase number of people in prison.

Anyway, I don’t want to bring up the same point, but over a 26 year period that quote covers nearly 1% of total spending which is clearly not a major focus.

> The last 10 years have been stagnant with little growth.

Yes, and like many industries that’s changed their focus. EX: https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/profiting-enforcemen...

In 2015, the private prison industry operated 62 percent of immigration detention beds and ran nine of the ten largest detention centers housing ICE detainees. Although the model of prison privatization varies, a private prison typically charges a daily rate per person incarcerated to cover investment and operating costs, and to turn a profit. In FY 2017, DHS spent approximately $126 per day for each detained noncitizen. As immigration detention costs steadily increased to around $2 billion annually, industry profits soared. Between 2007 and 2014, CoreCivic’s overall annual profits grew from about $133 million to $195 million, and GEO Group’s profits grew from about $42 million to $144 million yearly.

When your talking 62% of a specific market that’s worth lobbing for. As shown by very healthy profit growth in a ‘stagnant’ industry.
I was once afraid of uploading my Linux box, coming from Windows and fearing that any update would break my system. So I had a pretty old Linux system that at some point couldn't work properly (e.g. Firefox was so old that it didn't work on a lot of websites).

But then for some reason I started to keep in sync with my distro. The update is painless, reasonably quick, and safe. Usually I only have to fix the outdated python version of my virtualenvs, and to this day I never had to rollback. I have a laptop from 2009 that runs the latests distros without problems. But it cannot run W10 properly, let alone do any work.

My point is that Linux is beyond Windows in terms of "upgradeability". Giving the limited resources, why go after Microsoft level of backward compatibility, when any machine can run on the latest distro and libraries? On the other hand, why would anyone keep a XP system around if, acording to the video, a W10 would run their programs so easily? Something doesn't add up.
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Because it's far more likely she'll run into some kind of problem with hardware or software incompatibility. And why does her computer make such a noise when she's watching Youtube and Netflix? And why did her touchpad suddenly stop behaving like it used to after a system upgrade?

There are problems with Windows and Mac for casual users too, but it'd be sugarcoating things to say that Linux isn't far more likely to spuriously act up.
Why did this sort of thing happen in the US? As far as I can tell nothing like it has happened in Europe. We also have all sorts of subsidies and controls on agriculture.

Our supply chains here (Scandinavia specifically, but as far as I know in most of Europe as well) have been functioning almost as before except for a few minor hiccups in the first couple of weeks of the restrictions due to COVID-19 (flour and yeast were in short supply for a couple of weeks).

Is it because Europe has stronger animal welfare provisions? Or something else?
This talk of “SJWs” in connection with hiding the URL is nonsense. You’re arguing with yourself, not with progressives.

Social justice work definitely includes accessibility. If hiding the URL was about making the web more accessible to the visibly impaired or whatever, you’d have a point worth discussion. A tradeoff between making the web available to everyone and reducing friction for those who don’t need accessibility is a worthy topic to debate.

But this isn’t the case. Nobody is demanding that URLs be hidden for the benefit of inclusion.

Likewise, social justice work involves removing exclusionary and stereotyped language. But hiding the URL bar isn’t about that, either. Nobody is arguing that “http” has racist, classist, or sexist implications.

And if you’re trying to argue that “SJWs” is a blanket term for anyone you dislike, then you are falling into a terrible hole when it comes to both reasoning and constructive debate. Hanging baggage on other people for actions and objectives they do not pursue is deeply broken thinking.

Now to the good point in your comment:

What you speak to about “thought leadership” and “making a name for themselves” is something you find in every organization, and if I had to conjecture, I’d say that progressive people in tech are no more likely to be ambitious than conservatives, libertarians, or just plain people-trying-to-make-a-living.

Your argument, at its core, is about people who do things for their own personal gain at the expense of the product, the company, and the customers/users.

It’s a worthy point to explore, and I suggest that disentangling it from your feelings about progressive voices would improve your argument immensely.
Reading URLs is actually really hard - even for experts. This video covers the problems well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-wB1VY3Nrc

This is bad for web security, since the registerable domain is the part you have to trust, but it's surprisingly difficult to figure out that part.

However I feel a bit uneasy about this since URLs are important and tell you where you are on a website. I prefer Firefox's approach which emphasises the registerable domain in the URL bar and fades out the rest of it, making it easier to spot the important bit. However it's still quite subtle - it could do with being a clearer distinction.