skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if we could try something new and have all discussion related to Mozilla or Firefox as a whole, including comparisons to other browsers, privacy, and how much battery it uses on macOS in just one thread so people can collapse it.
Yeah, that last part is what really concerns me here. A lot of people seem to have overindexed on the US's failures to decide that their region has in comparison beaten the virus. Therefore things are safe now and there won't be a resurgence and the current state of free intra-European tourism will continue. This is, to put it delicately, not what any health official in the continent believes.
> "An EU passport would vastly outrank the US passport in terms of economic opportunity"

EU GDP: $18.29 Trillion

US GDP: $20.54 Trillion

And that's before factoring in per capita differences, which tip the scales even farther to the US.

Moving around the EU is now as easy as moving around the US, so congrats I guess?
Bit concerning they haven't been able to build a sustainable business off a website that has become more or less a canonical resource for software engineers by now.
Who's getting arrested for being a tourist?
You can use the famous Carl Sagan book The Demon Haunting World instead. Voja's book was inspired by it and covers the same topics in similar manner.
Thanks for the info! Could you give me an idea of the yearly cost to maintain a mid-range bike?
And we should not underestimate the amount of trouble US citizens have due to FATCA, etc.

In Europe, many banks and insurers will turn them down as customers.
Vietnam and Turkey has tons of tourism.
I just flew from JFK -> LHR via Dublin last week. Quarantine for two weeks, and I could enter Germany as per the UK GOV:

"In line with the European Commission recommendation, from 2 July Germany is gradually lifting restrictions on entry from third states where the COVID-19 epidemiological situation is improving. The rules concern travellers’ place of immediate prior stay, not their nationality."

https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/germany/entry-requi...

(I'm not going to leave the UK or even the flat I'm in for the matter). Travel in COVID Era is stressful, but once you are out of the US "illness free" for two weeks, it seems like a US citizen wouldn't be barred.
Oh, we're late to deliver this thing? Schedule daily 1-hour meetings to discuss our lateness and make everyone write detailed reports of what they've done each day. Because nothing helps accelerating devs more than occupying their time with meetings and reports!

The people who make technical decisions (which we refer to as Architects) stop doing real technical work once they become Architects. So over time they drift away from the reality of the things they're working on, so we keep having these decisions that don't make sense at all. And these people almost never quit since they make so much money, so it's rare that we promote someone who will then go on to have sane decisions for about 1-2 years until they drift away from reality like the others.

We promoted a CFO to CEO, so now every employee, including R&D is just a cog with a cost and can totally be replaced by another random person in a 12h timezone difference.
I understand this with google and accept it. They can extract whatever information they want in exchange for decent results when I search whether it comes from them or not.
I get gmail, a phone os, a browser, an os, remote desktop and more for free from them. I pay for youtube premium.

I don't want to cheapen the horror of spousal abuse, but your statements sound exactly like the kind of excuses that a victim of domestic violence makes.

"He only does that when he's drinking." "Google only tracks me when I'm breathing."

I don't think you even realize how you've been trained into a mindset like some kind of circus animal.
If we're trying to get people to move away from VCs, why are there such few startups accepted. It's almost as if we're bragging about leaving startup founders with the craziness that is venture capital. Other than that, I work at a YC and Wefunder company who doesn't like giving idea of liquidating investors to spend on marketing/investory. I'd love if XX takes off.
> When you make jam, you change the taste and texture of the fruit...

I mean, that's kind of just cooking in general, right? When you cook something, you do it to transform its taste and texture. Sometimes "fresh" is what you want, but if that's all you want, then pretty much every meal becomes a salad.
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The idea sounds cool, but I want to have more transparency on how you chose those startups. Do they show a huge potential for future growth? How do their finances look like? Investing in startups is risky in general, but COVID-19 made it even more harsh. + some of those startups have many competitors in the industry and I would like to see more what competitive edge your startup selection has.
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> Almost everyone, deep into trad Republican groups

A large portion of the right were happy to spread justifications for Floyd's murder and defamation of Floyd's character all over social media.

If you'd like evidence, search r/The_Donald archives, r/Conservative or the thousands of conservative groups on Facebook.
Einstein read, studied and ate the Bhagavad-gita everyday. That's why his work is sound. Because the knowledge was revealed.
It is interesting how the word tax is used to invoke negative feelings in the discussion about Apple's App Store commission fee.

In many governmental organisations, the financial administration is transparent so people can verify that their tax is used in the way that their government states.

In the case of Apple, the flow of App Store commissions fee finances is (at least for me) far from transparent. Apple say they use it for hosting and reviewing, but don't share breakdowns publicly, as far as I know.

Perhaps if Apple's "taxpayers" (developers) can (1) get more detailed breakdowns of what happens with the commission fee so they can hold Apple accountable and (2) get more leverage in the App Store's guidelines through some sort of democratic voting system, it would actually resemble governmental taxation a bit more.
thats what they said about BTC.
I'd also add lack of due diligence to this. Some people are promoted due to visibility and group-think that the person is good, without it being based on real examples or results. I've seen people skyrocket through the ranks just because people know their name, even if there are others who are contributing as much or more to the project.
I’m not a fan of these sort of things. It’s clearly opinion based and it cites other blogs, but where is the actual evidence?

We did actual research on our 7000 employees during the three month lock down, and all our evidence show that every age group thrived with remote work. Both in term of employee satisfaction, feeling of belonging and productivity.

The only group of people who found remote work more challenging were middle managers.

Even with our research though, you can’t say anything as general as this article is trying to do.
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I am a child of the 70s, and growing up American I felt this way about traveling abroad.
- Some places (UK, Western Europe, and maybe say Japan) you can have a reasonable expectation of safety and as long as you stay in tourist and or business districts you have little reason to worry for your safety.
- A larger swath of the world you could be perceived as a target for kidnapping or other petty crime.
- Some places probably arent a great place to visit (USSR, some current eastern bloc countries, most of the middle east) if your intent is to go party and raise hell.

Most of all- while there are folks who have a sense of entitlement about being 'murican and feel like they have license to be an asshole abroad. Personally, (and trying to say this in a way that doesnt sound like virtue signaling) I try to be on my best behavior and behave as though Im an ambassador for the US. I think anyone who travels abroad should at least try to come from a place of humility and see it as a chance to learn about other places/cultures. I think that if most people approached foreign travel from that perspective we would all have a better worldview. It seems like common sense to me but there are enough contrary examples that I suppose it is not.
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I suspect that approximately no one reads that "What's new" section, and they know it. Even Google just leaves it with whatever happened to be in the field in summer of 2018 when they stopped updating it.
I feel you are missing the point of my comments. I wasn't arguing anything about the disease itself, only about how to approach understanding and talking about it.

Additionally... the article submitted that we're all commenting in response to specifically makes the case that this virus is affecting more than the respiratory system.

I don't disagree with anything in your comment, but I also don't see how any of your comment disagrees with anything I said or with the original article.
Don't you mean the other way around
The Lead Investor represents the custodian that holds all the investors.
There were two Iraq wars - the Gulf war in 1990 and the Iraq war in 2003.
If you want to live with the same standard of living as in the 1970s, it doesn't require two people to work.
Prove it. I call bullshit.
> We actually don’t use placeholders when we are developing the sites! In the end, what matters is the code and functionality, the interface is something we are very used to at this point.

Interesting... 5 years ago I was contacted by a recruiter for a job offer in a (sic) "non-standard industry". Back then, "fullstack development" was the job trend for "people who deal with computers".

During the first call, she told me her client was the biggest adult website in my EU country of origin. She insisted that the working environment was (sic) "clean".

I raised that topic during my interview with their CTO. He told me the opposite of this post: devs were running the website locally with place-holders and innocent cartoons videos. He was straight-forward about it and mentioned "of course, once in a while you have check an issue on the live website, the way we handle this is by joking about the live content between us."

For those interested, they had a pretty standard stack for such a high volume website. Postgres, Django, Redis and RabbitMQ with an HAProxy frontend.
I had to use a reCAPTCHA on a government web site last week, and Google's stupid AI refused to accept that a picture of a wheelchair is not a bicycle. They both have spokes, so I must be a bot.

Note to self: Never get in a vehicle steered by Google AI.
There's confirmation bias at work here, but I've definitely noticed a slight uptick on ARM-related work to various dev tools (think LLVM and whatnot) in 2019-2020 leading up to the announcement. That and $5 gets you a decent cup of coffee, but hey.

OCaml is known for having a small-ish implementation with good performance IIRC (not sure where multicore is these days). Will have to take a look at this.
Thank you, that was a good explanation. However…

> How do we prove that fib(n) halts while loop(n) does not?

Unless your number system involves saturating subtraction (which I admit is a possibility, though this wasn't stated) your definition of fib(n) will never halt. No matter what natural number you start with it will always descend into negative numbers eventually since the fib(n-2) term skips over the fib(0) base case when n == 1:

fib(2)
fib(1) + fib(0)
(fib(0) + fib(-1) ) + 1
( 1 + (fib(-2) + fib(-3))) + 1
Two things: breathing, and progressive muscle relaxation (PMR).

Breathing:

Breathe in deeply for about a 4 count, out for about twice as long. Focus your mind on your breathing: "I'm just focusing on my breath".

Andrew Weil advocates a 4-7-8 pattern: inhale deeply into your belly (not chest) for 4, hold the breath for 7, then exhale for 8. He demonstrates it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz4G31LGyog

PMR:

Here's an explanation of how to do it: https://www.uofmhealth.org/health-library/uz2225

Both of these engage the parasympathetic nervous system--the 'rest and digest' system. Learning about this and how to 'hack' it has changed my life. Nothing else has worked for me for sleep and general anxiety.
I agree that building a community is very hard, but at least there are success stories to look at. I can't name any successful, Google-accessible decentralized system.
I can tell why the pandemic has accelerated its adoption this year (since IPO roadshows are more difficult/impossible?) but why have SPACs been on the rise more recently in general?

As in, what's been driving private companies to go public this way? Is it the cost related to an IPO going up? Have companies like Spotify proved to all that maybe you don't always need to do a roadshow?
I read it as him asking if Courant was part of a discriminated class at that time, not as him passing judgement on whether the class should be discriminated against.
I live in Los Angeles and I used to feel that way until this pandemic hit - I'm not saying you'll change your mind living in NYC, just sharing my change in perspective. I bugged out mid-March to a family farm to wait out the pandemic and since then its been a nonstop string of events reinforcing why - at least outside of cities - guns are absolutely necessary. Now, mind you, one member of the household works at a research institute in San Diego with a 40 minute commute so this isn't even really rural, just exurban, but we've got septic, well, propane tank, and depend on 4G internet.

The nearest police station is 15 minutes away if I drive 100mph but writing this post is the first time I've thought about that fact. The bigger problem is animals: we've never once been able to reach our area's animal control or get a call back from them, no matter when we call. Most situations we can handle ourselves like dealing with rattlesnakes but last year a mountain lion ate our neighbor's goat and the only way to get rid of it was to shoot at it (or over it, as I found most people here won't kill rare animals unless absolutely forced to).

We've got several pets and feral cat decided to make herself home in our shed, giving birth to a full litter right before a large group of giant raccoons migrated to our area. If the raccoons in NYC are anything like the ones here, they're huge with the mammalian equivalent of alligator hide. Scaring them doesn't really work without a gun and nothing but a proper firearm will do more than piss it off and wound it, which will just make it more dangerous. The options are a) put your pets at risk every time you let them out at night, b) weapons that will only cause inhumane damage to the animal, or c) a real gun. If you're the kind of individual that values life as an inherent good but prioritizes the safety of family and pets, guns become the only realistic humane option.

Now, the ironic part is that most people I know here should absolutely not be allowed to own a gun if they lived in the city. Some of them have really warped views of human civilization that led them to live further out (rapists and murderers around every corner) and seem to relish the idea of "defending themselves" with a gun. However, the very idea of them getting enough warning to get to their gun fast enough to actually manage to load it and shoot an assailant is just laughable. Most people here use their guns so infrequently outside of LARPing at a shooting range that when it comes time to use the workhorse gun instead of their assault rifle props, they spend 15 minutes trying to figure out how to use it while the animal just stands there, confused.

As far as I know, most countries with strict gun control still leave a loophole for rural residents big enough to drive a train through. However, most of those countries have sane gun cultures where they treat them as dangerous tools and not as religious idols. Now having experienced the damage guns do in inner cities and their necessity further out from civilization, I'm torn on the issue and I don't see a way out.
>But well most developers aren't actually using Linux.

What??
Would you really expect a smut peddler to behave ethically? They have already been aware of their problems and have tried to keep them quiet.
Took the words right out of my head. Personally, I'd like to see some initial signs of traction/growth before I make any investments in a startup so unless XX is able to provide me with that kind of assurance (which can be done through a very thorough and transparent DD process), I'm not sure if I'll have the confidence to make an investment, at least not for now.
If you're looking for agile power-ups to GitHub Issues, there's a few great options in the ecosystem. Check out ZenHub if you're looking for things like issue dependencies, epics, multi-repo boards, etc. and want to stay in GitHub. GitKraken Boards are also a great option and integrate with their Git GUI.
Yeah this probably seems like a bigger deal to folks who cross international borders (or multiple) regularly.

Most Americans do not do that, I wonder what % ever cross an international border... ?
I've stopped contributing to SO.

SO is simply going the same route as Experts Exchange (if you're old enough to remember it). It has amassed a significant amount of knowledge (for free!) that they'll some day hide behind a paywall and sell to desperate seekers of that information.
At this point it is pretty clear Pinterest have connections in Google which are pretty high up, allowing them to keep that behavior.
Not sure you can compare standard adtech companies with Pornhub.

Nothing wrong with consuming content that increases sexual excitement, but there are more ethical options out there [0].

If we as consumers care about this then at least we can vote with our wallet or attention.

[0] https://mashable.com/article/pornhub-alternatives-free-porn-...
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This take doesn't deserve the upvotes it's getting. I would be surprised if you can provide sources for any of these outlandish factual claims.

Singapore arrested and caned the child of a US Ambassador in 1994. We didn't threaten to invade them. The US didn't use imprisoning or detaining travelers as a pretext for any war in the 20th century that I'm aware of.

The US did not lose respect in the world because we aren't winning enough wars, or somehow because of something Obama did (really?).
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"systems and institutions that have taken on lives of their own and serve no one’s interests".

This is closer to the Marx view of capitalism than some sort of vulgar theory about a conspiracy of the ruling class against the workers. In fact, Marx was very much influenced by Feuerbach analysis of religion/god. An entity is created by humanity (god/capital) but then takes life on his own and controls the actions of his human creator, who forgot is the creator (is alienated). The ruling class is also shaped by this very "vampire" as Marx called it.
I’ve tried Firefox about once a year for the past five years and always immediately go back to chromium. Scrolling is always broken out of the box on all platforms I’ve tried (Linux and macOS).

Edit: trying again, the macOS track pad seems ok but scroll wheel behavior is different. Firefox requires 2-3 times the scrolling distance and transitions slowly to the final scroll destination. Chrome does not.

Edit 2: I’m almost positive it’s smooth scrolling. Some people hate it and some like it. This reddit thread sums up: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/5zoa1t/do_you_use_...
Out of 200 odd passports you could have, top 10% is definitely a reasonable definition of most prized. Particularly when the difference is so insignificant.

The vehemence of your disagreement in the original post vastly exceeds what one would expect if you were merely stating that you don't think that one of the most prized should only mean top 10.

The US has 15 countries head of it. Most by 1 or 2 countries. Unless you specifically want to visit one of those 1 or 2 countries the difference is irrelevant. Compared to Sweden the US misses out on Vietnam and Turkey, but gains access to Mongolia.

These numbers could change at any time. So basing your passport decision on such a minute and frequently changing number is ridiculous.

By the way the US is actively working to develop a better relationship with Vietnam--my brother went there on a diplomatic/military relations visit a few years ago, and 90% of Vietnamese have a positive view of the US. It's very likely that sometime in the next year we gain Visa free access.
Genuine question, because I'm interested in the applicability of a tool like this -- do professional ML scientists/developers have a need for visualizing their model during development, or would use such a tool? Do their models have parameters and need tuning such that visualization is a key problem?

Or is this kind of a nice to see thing for beginners, but more advanced/this-is-my-job ML professionals rarely are interacting with the data and model in this way? They're dumping tables, using numerical stats, not looking for visual patterns?

Perhaps a similar kind of question as "who uses drag-and-drop SAS analysis, rather than Python"? Or, "there are no casual DNN builders" -- anyone who is doing this kind of work will be doing it at the level that they're not needing visualization?

Clearly, SAS has enough visual-based casual users who can't program, so there's a market for it.

I am legit interested to know, thanks!
Haven't used it in a while, but when I did it was always easy to switch the behavior (for a power user, and I think the omnibar is much more appealing to non power users as it's visually simpler, big, and easier to click — unifying the search and address bar is what you're talking about, right?).
I was thinking more of a long infinite scroll on a website :-)
In case you are interested in Dark Mode, it's not on this roadmap.
Another former developer here [1][2]; the memcached cluster is what keeps the entire thing afloat.

We used to have dedicated 50 Gbps fiber connections straight between the web and memcached nodes, but now the caching is done locally on the web servers with a lot more of them. I would say there's probably something like 100+ servers, 128/256GB RAM each.

All the pages are server-side rendered. Every DB query, every DAO object instantiated, every partial/full page HTML render, even some functions at times, gets put into cache. We weren't really afraid of high traffic, that scaled almost on its own... instead we were afraid of infrastructure maintenance or bad manipulations, because too much of the cache could disappear at once.

The most incredible part to me was the storage and delivery of the video content. Try to picture 7000 petabytes [3] :)

[1] https://www.pornhub.com/humans.txt
[2] https://github.com/nitrix
[3] https://www.pornhub.com/insights/2019-year-in-review
Bought one in silver. As a massive product play, making this and other retro era watches into a fido authenticator would be the use case functionality that would make it huge.

I was going to do an Atari 2600 case based wifi router a while ago, and this idea of taking design classics and adapting them to minimalist modern use cases would be a company.
Every time in the last couple of years that DDG hasn't had a decent result, and I've used '!g' to see what else might come up, I've been very disappointed... usually a grab bag of crap sites with barely any relevance to my original search direction. We probably have very different searches.
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All countries with the same number of visa-free access get the same rank group in Henley index, so actual position is irrelevant.

If you check the webpage it shows South Korea above Germany, if you download the pdf on the webpage it shows Germany above South Korea. But in reality doesn't matter since it's a tie with both being in the same rank group.