skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just hypothetically, is there any word, if it were originally chosen as the default, and now people wanted to change it, that would make you change your mind?

What if the default branch was called "slut" or "faggot" for whatever reason?
Guitars are special in that even expensive ones could often use a setup.

Whatever you buy, spend an extra $50-90 for a good set-up. I'd rather play a $300 guitar with a great setup than a $7000 one with a bad one.
"Slack Overflow"
> My take is that nothing gets done because Congress is incapable of doing things. At all.

I mean yes but also... Plenty of us just got and unprecedented $1200-2400 from Congress just a month or two ago... they clearly can act when motivated.
I agree DeepL is often as good or better. (I will sometimes try both and compare. Usually I prefer about half from each, but both are fine on their own.) But DeepL doesn't support nearly as as many languages. Google Translate supports, to pick a few, Basque, Gujarati, Kazakh, Igbo and Thai. Some of those don't have a huge number of speakers, but they also have Arabic, Bengali, Hindi, Indonesian and Swahili, all in the top 20 by number of speakers.

Yes, I know some of these are done through a intermediary (often English, but not always). So if you translate Ukrainian → Catalan it probably really does Ukrainian → Russian → Spanish → Catalan. But it can still be helpful to have the options.
The original title is slightly better in this regard:
“Firefox 79: The safe return of shared memory, new tooling, and platform updates”
Adding to the above, the general goal is to create a physical "heat map" similar to what is used in web eCommerce sites. Fact of the matter, retail is split between a dual role of providing physical locations as well as web locations where they sell their products and services. Because it is easier to base decisions on similar evaluations, the convenience of eCommerce "heat maps" is driving companies to try to create the same for their physical locations. Then all the methods used for surveillance capitalism used online can be applied to their physical retail operations.
Bill Gates: Lies spread faster than facts on social media
Many people do this.

Yes but average is lower. First Google hit:

Value for the US (Minutes): 26.6:

https://www.indexmundi.com/facts/united-states/quick-facts/a...
> why aren't police officers speaking out more against each other?

Well, as a programmer, I know from experience that there's a lot about programming computers that isn't obvious unless you actually spend time doing it - and that when you have a group of people (i.e. project managers) who seem bound and determined to portray programmers as lazy, time-wasting, obstinate, overpaid, wastes of space who should be offshored anyway, it's very easy for them to play armchair quarterback and insist that every programming problem was trivial in hindsight and confirm their hypothesis.

Now, apply that to police work. Police are routinely put into situations where their lives and the lives of other police officers are in danger, and they have to make split-second decisions or an innocent person can end up dying. I don't know anything about police work, but I'm willing to gamble that getting that right is even harder than getting programming right, and if somebody's bound and determined to make you look bad, they can do so more easily than project managers routinely do to programmers. If even 90% of the police have good intentions (and I believe that number is much, much higher), it stands to reason that they'd usually be willing to give other officers the benefit of the doubt: this or that may look bad if you put effort into making it look bad, but at least give the officer a chance to defend himself rather than jump to conclusions.
Oxygen is an extremely nasty, extremely corrosive, extremely toxic gas. It's just that life has evolved to use it, and engineering has evolved to deal with it. Think of how dangerous forest fire is. You have billion dollar companies who's main product (paint) is to prevent the damage from oxygen (PPG, Sherwin-Williams). Walk into any workshop, and the most thing is going to be the oxygen cylinder.
speaking of fallacies, surely there's a middle ground where our "rulers" are not all geniuses (plutocracy vs meritocracy), but that on average companies pursue things that work over things that don't (survivorship bias).

and groups of people can be smart crowds or dumb (slime) mobs, depending on the systemic conditions.
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> I do not control, perhaps do not even know what a roommate owns and vice versa.

Households with "roommates" are a small minority of all households. About 40 million of 250 million adults live in a household with other people that they're not related to or romantically involved with. The vast majority of households that aren't individuals living alone are are families or unmarried couples. In those contexts, it would be typical for one member of the household to own the firearms as a legal matter, but others might use it or rely on it. For example, Breonna Taylor was living with her boyfriend, who was licensed to own a firearm. If the couple bought a gun for self-defense, it seems fair to attribute the gun to the whole household, not just the individual who purchased it. Or in another example, a parent might purchase a firearm that other adult family members in the household use for hunting or target practice.

You're also forgetting about voting. Gun owners are much more likely to be older, married, and live outside the city. (Many people who don't own a gun when they're young and living in the city purchase one when they move out to the 'burbs and start af family!) The same groups of people are also more likely to vote.
No, he's angry at the USPS for not charging Jeff Bezos more.

He has tweets ranting about them.
Back in the day I did work at a group of one of the largest adult websites.

Tech was PhP, MySQL, memcache and similar vanilla stuff running on many Linux servers - pretty simple stuff.

The trick was performance. Simple stupid mistakes that would not be detected in sites that have low traffic become enormous problems in a high traffic server.

Pretty much nothing was dynamic and we wrote scripts to create static pages for almost everything except search and authentication.

Things like logging just could not be done. It was easier to load a bunch of data in memory on a request and process it instead of running a slightly slower SQL query, since a ton of those could kill the database.

And yes, there were no placeholder images or videos. After some time you just get used to it and code. But I have to say you get pretty desensitized to it and when I resigned from that job my life in that area improved quite a lot.

Highlights were p*rn stars and random celebs visiting the office - but after some time that got kind of meh.

The job itself was just a programming gig and very professional except for the images on the screen which we learned to ignore.

On the whole, the guys who ran the thing were a pretty solid and great bunch of people and it was one of the best dev experiences in my long career.
A lot of investors have ingrained that "bundling/unbundling" phases happen across every industry and see Google Search as the ultimate unbundling opportunity in all likelihood. Therefore, I'm not surprised micro/niche search engines continue to see outsized funding relative to their business model potential.
Even for employed people that have been relieved of the grind of commute and unnecessary hours the office, everyone I know is creating more - art (paintings, photography, writing, music) or exercising more, or focusing on their own programming projects or whatever
Jeffrey Pfeffer: Why the Leadership Industry Has Failed
Your logic is faulty. You weren't going to go to a competitor from the search page anyway.
Which is by their own merit, their empires were built from scratch, which I do respect. I find it less respectable if this wealth was immediately inherited and yet they contribute nothing.

Wealth that is 'won' or 'inherited' seems to get spent quicker than if it was 'earned'. Question is, however, is for the former: are they smart enough to make it recurring income.
In America, too many benefits are tied to full time employment. The biggest one is health insurance. This creates a huge imbalance of power between employer and employee. The absolute worst time to lose (affordable) health insurance is when you become unemployed. It makes no sense! This doesn't even go into people or families with chronic illness.

In this way, in order to maintain these benefits, Americans must do what they feel whatever it takes to keep their jobs. That's the number 1 incentive.

This is not the product of an institution that has taken on a life of its own. Universal healthcare as a majority of support among Americans (as long as you don't attach Obama's name to it, anyway), but neither party (especially not Republicans) have shown an interest in delivering this to its constituents.
Firefox, current, is really slow on video rendering.
Youtube on 1080p kinda freezes at times. Same video works perfectly in Chrome

Im on Win10, this happenened on win8.1 aswell.
Mastering Sed: Part 1
The treatment is continuing to prove effective when administered in the correct dosages at the appropriate times and in conjunction with Zinc and Azithromycin.

Unfortunately a lot of people were biased against it precisely because Trump supported it. The studies showing it didn't work or was dangerous were poorly designed but people happily accepted their results because they made Trump look like a fool.

It's time we put politics aside and reverse course on HCQ.
I definitely disagree about that. Look at how much time a Congressperson spends raising funds. They clearly don't have the funds necessary to influence their own behavior. They seek out donors and act in those donors' interest in legislative matters. (I'm not saying they work exclusively in donors' interest, but it's clear that donors' interests are taken into account.)
How difficult it would be to build a decentralised SO?

I know it's the valuable knowledge base and contributing users that will be missing in our new service but we gotta start somewhere.

I guess it would be easier to onboard Software developers on a decentralised service than general public.

Some ideas for this service:

1. Users can choose to keep knowledge base locally for topic of their interests

2. A terminal based interface for quick answers
Mexico's New Copyright Law Crushes Free Expression
After four sections devoted to demonstrating the premise of increasing change and describing its dimensions and (with highly variable accuracy) suggesting future trends, section 5 looks at limits of adaptability (physical and psychological impacts on the individual), and section 6 on survival strategies (personal and social coping mechanisms, education, and backlash). The psychological and sociological aspects have impressed me most.

The book as a whole is somewhat uneven, though it was ambitious and parts seem highly relevant still.
As I have commented here
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23257887

Overcoming masks is a feasible challenge and will be solved with, I assume, modest efforts.

Side note: I tried my Android phone face recognition while using a mask. Interestingly, as long as the nose structure can be perceived, it managed to recognize me.
Show HN: Nova – Monitor Helm for New Kubernetes Releases
Airtable API apparently is throttled, the don't recommend using it as a backend.
This looks great, but more importantly good luck! There seems to be market need for this and it looks a solid implementation at first glance. You're off to a good start. I hope you and your team are successful!
For those of us who grew up around guns, your abject horror at an object is as puzzling as someone being terrified of knives or slingshots. Would be nice if cops were all good and could teleport to your location in time of need. Drive an hour outside your city of choice and that ain't gonna happen. Just sharing my own experience, cheers.
That's true.

I found a copy of the original German (unfortunately in scanned, DJVU form), but it was somewhat tricky to find. This comment inspired me to upload it to the Internet Archive so that others can access it more easily (https://archive.org/details/methoden-der-mathematischen-erst...).
Scientists pull living microbes, possibly 100M years old, from beneath the sea
Are you factoring in sleep?
I went further, setup a landing page and sent out some customer validation emails...most responded that they didn't have the problem.

Ultimately I didn't pursue it mainly because I had no real passion for the idea itself; it was a problem only when I was traveling and staying at busy hotels with many other business travelers wanting to use the gym at the same time.
That's why you always shop at Walmart with a roll of pennies in a shoe.
Wow when this came out (I think this was the ‘original’) it felt quite ground breaking. Perhaps early 2000s it was?

Then google started doing that or something similar at scale and effectively eliminated spam in my mailbox ever since. (With the curious recent exception of some highly similar bitcoins spams)
I can't speak to what the parent commenter thinks, but I think it's less the idea that these specific police were racist (maybe they were, maybe they weren't) than it is systemic, institutional racism. Black people are statistically way more likely to be killed by police, and police appear to be largely immune from consequences when they misbehave even egregiously as in this case, the Breonna Taylor case, or many many others. While these killings were obviously tragic and unnecessary, nonchalant acceptance of police brutality and abuse of power remains at the core of the problem that needs to be solved.
There's no way they're self-made. They may not have inherited it all, but you get rich, truly rich rich, only by having a bunch of other people do work for which you are paid.
Since there are political groups who promote the opposing ideas that the actual ratio of self made wealth is nearly 100%, or close to 0%, it’s good to have actual data for the discussion.
Suppose we know the system's state and rules exactly. This can't be true in the real universe, but we can construct classical, deterministic systems in pure math that we can say that about, and even those systems will exhibit this characteristic we're talking about.

You can look at it from the point of view of, if we watch the system evolve, can we tell whether the rules were violated at some point, by some arbitrarily small amount? As the chaotic systems evolve, it becomes harder and harder to tell if that is the case. There isn't a discrete transition from knowing to not knowing; our level of knowing goes down over time.

In information theory, we can see that as a loss of bits of precision on the system, requiring more and more bits initially to make up for it. Since we can't compute with real numbers, but only approximations given increasingly more bits over time, even in the pure mathematical case where everything is perfect and specified, we still lose this knowledge as the simulation progresses. It's that much worse in the real world, where we don't even start with all that many bits of precision.

It's not quite the question you asked, but... it's like the shadow of the question you asked, and it's a bit easier to explain. (And reasonably mathematically valid. You can characterize chaotic systems by how many bits they lose per time unit.)
That's a bit of an apples-to-oranges comparison though. Things are more expensive at the bodega partially for convenience after all, they aren't directly competing with Safeway.

In a lot of cases there is an in between. I live near an independent full service grocery store (they have 2 locations) which isn't the cheapest in town and isn't the most expensive. They have a good selection. If they are 10% more expensive, I'm happy to support them.
The part about memes and the self-reinforcing cycle of anger reminds me of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc "CGP Grey: This Video Will Make You Angry"
I think an analogy is for buying any tool T, buy your first T at Harbor Freight, then for your replacement T maybe look for a Makita/Milwaukee/&c or even Snap-On/MAC. For many kinds of tools, this seems sensible to me.

Exception to the rule being safety equipment.
At first I wasn't going to reply because you are clearly not discussing in good faith (you neglected to address my evidence to the contrary or the flaw in your reasoning but instead focused on my random afterthought.) But others might read this so I decided to elaborate a bit.

I was once misinformed with the belief that business' primary goal is to make money. But when you have the experience of explaining data to a CEO that clearly shows that their customer surveillance has a negative ROI and that the conclusions they are drawing from the data are not warranted. (For example, if you want to claim that your initiative increased sales, you need to compare an equivalent data point before and after the initiative, not just afterward.) If you say this and then look into the cold, dead eyes of a sociopath you'll know how foolish you were to ever assume the point of tracking customer data is to make money.

I felt dumb ever believing that business leaders care directly about money. I knew that to be false in high school when they made me read 1984. The lesson that O'Brien teaches Winston is one that we clearly have not learned.

> The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.

We can add to that list "The object of unrelenting invasive surveillance is unrelenting invasive surveillance."
>Housing prices are in a bubble for sure! They are artificially being kept steady.

Artificially only in the sense that most people who would have been selling their house right now are cancelling their plans due to the pandemic, not some sort of organized conspiracy.
This is just a matter of time. Almost all countries actually want US citizens to come there, for tourism purposes, due to their high spend potential (relative to other countries).
I think Cygwin and msys are essentially deprecated at this point. WSL is easier to setup and more compatible. I was big Cygwin fan for a long time, but I've definitely run into edge cases that it couldn't handle. WSL works pretty flawlessly for me so far and I can just use apt for package management instead of the Cygwin setup tool.
in other words, they've successfully segmented you and created a loyal customer, with a bonus of inventory management reliability.

there's nothing wrong with that--i do it with my local grocery/big box stores too.
It's not just ARM; the same has been happening to x86. 32-bit in general is going out of fashion for general-purpose platforms.
“I would switch sites easily if there was a compelling alternative, but I haven't heard of one.”

That’s because it’s difficult to unseat an incumbent in a market where there are strong network effects, which is also the same reason that investors are willing to invest. The fact that they have lost brand trust without losing traffic is a positive, not a negative.
Why SPACs Are the New IPO
What do you look for in a trailler ? Could you describe the process in few words?
GitHub Public Roadmap
I worked at the second largest adult content network about 10 years ago. They used the same stack mentioned in the article. The design philosophy was about simplicity and continuity above all. They didn't want to use newer technology because it's hard to find people to support it. They didn't even like you to use regular expressions when case statements could be used. Regex is too conceptually complicated.

If you can host and serve porn on a LAMP stack from a traditional bare metal server data center, the guy on the other end doesn't care as long as it's reliable.

I work at a large tech company now and it amazes me how terribly executed and unnecessarily complex most development efforts are. There was a very strong results-oriented culture at the adult media company.
Because a lot of management just seems to be looking for evidence of work happening and presence is seen as evidence.
Isn't that fraud?
Han van Meegeren
I have used and enjoyed Upsource (JetBrains code review tool) particularly for trunk development where you often need to be able to cherry-pick randomly-ordered commits into a review.

I honestly don't know how much our org paid for it though.
How many rental units does a typical "small time" landlord have?
Can't even get into some neighboring states! So much for the 'union'
IDX: Giving Decentralized Identities a Standard for Indexing Resources
It’s a valid point, but also feels like Stockholm Syndrome in a way.

Why not accept our abuser, if they protect us from everyone else also trying to abuse us ?
"The next generation of digital applications" buzzbingo!
The hardware is yours?
Magit performance alone is enough to make me never want to run Emacs on Windows natively. I encounter various other issues as well, for example inferior modes missing prompts.
This is a great idea, we will have a look! It is good to see that the ecosystem is moving towards a normalized / "standard" benchmarking tool.
I don't really believe that anyone disliked it for principled reasons, but I am a bit skeptical of relations with Saudi Arabia as a strategy for keeping Navy ships fueled in a hot war. Could we really expect uninterrupted trade from a country that's quite literally on the other side of the world?
> Myth 6. App Store’s 30% commission is in line with what other platforms are charging.

A point not raised regarding this, but should have been: This isn't a justification at all. It just shows the problem of middlemen extorting money from the market is widespread. It makes doing something about it more urgent, not less.
> and it looks completely awful and utterly fake

To people who know good Bokeh. Your average user is pretty used to the fake one.
"Hacking your customers" may not be a feasible path to growth if the customers don't like, especially they already lack any kind of loyalty to the business. I used to pop in there now and again because there's a location next to my house, but I won't be going back.
Did you try VictoriaMetrics for storing time series data? This is specialized high-performance time series database, which is based on ClickHouse ideas [1].

[1] https://medium.com/@valyala/how-victoriametrics-makes-instan...
Well that's certainly one take. Charles had a bit of a complex sure but you have to understand the context of the time in that Cromwells foreign co-conspirators were demanding nothing less than his head.

The precondition of the English civil war in my opinion was more the funds that facilitated it promised by financiers from Amsterdam who ultimately went on to be granted charter to found the BoE.

As you know the result of this civil war was to wreck the fine castles, history and heritage of the English. Destroy many a dynasty and teach the Irish to hate the Brits for all eternity.

Issac D'Israeli produced a worthwhile read on Charles [1] if you'd like to know more on his character and quarry.

[1] https://archive.org/details/commentariesonli03disruoft/page/...
This might not change in the way it sounds like you're expecting..
Obesity of politicians and corruption in post‐Soviet countries
> Americans used to have one of the most prized passports in the world, considered a golden ticket to wealth, travel and opportunity.

What? This is not at all true. Maybe that's a belief that many Americans have, but the US passport is not one of the most prized passports in the world, there are about 30 other country's passport I'd rather have before having a US one, if you're talking about getting access to other countries with/without requiring a visa. A quick check of any of the "passport indexes" (Henley Passport Index, Arton Capital Passport Index) will show you that the US passport is fairly low ranked compared to the top ones.

Hard to take the rest of the article serious when it starts out with a serious flaw in the reasoning.
Yup, totally get it. Big mental shift. Thank you.