skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://www.dxsummit.fi/#/?dx_countries=Belarus

Plenty of contacts on the spotter. I don't imagine they're about politics, though.
Small Details Have Big Consequences in Aerodynamics
In the same way as offering products below costs would be to drive out competition and become a monopolist.

I'm not sure I think this is bad but I believe this is the argument.
That's highly speculative and glosses over a lot of the details. The idea that it can be done with today's tech for "reasonable amounts of money" is laughable. The launch costs alone for putting 500,000 tons into orbit already kill that idea.

For a point of reference, SpaceX currently charges about $2,720/kg for LEO. So to get this project off of the ground (literally) you're talking about $1,360,000,000,000. And that's just launch costs. It doesn't include the invention of spacecraft that can survive in deep space indefinitely without resupply, the materials science advances needed to survive 300,000 nuclear explosions (the paper suggests 1mm of stainless steel coated with a thin layer of oil), or the fact that this is only talking about getting to a place we probably don't even want to go.

And this is kind of the point. Once you've invented all of the necessary pre-reqs there's really no point in hitting it with 300,000 nuclear explosions, you already have a self sustaining space colony. You can continue to build those pretty much forever and never ever come close to running out of room. There's no need to travel to some other star system at that point. The sense of adventure has to be weighed against the risk factor of detonating 300,000 nuclear bombs without incident and all of the yet unknown hazards of interstellar travel. Oh, and thanks to the tyranny of the rocket equation it is a one way trip unless you're packing a nuclear bomb factory and enough mining equipment to get the raw materials you need from whatever you happen to find at your destination.
I think the alarming thing is that it doesn't have a digital signature, meaning that scanning the barcode isn't a useful check if an ID is fake.
IIRC, all tickets are marked. If you are good-to-go you get some sort of identifying mark for the person who checked your ID.
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Those job requirements are a meme come to life, good lord.
Well, Rust is higher level than C, but not nearly as heavy as the others you mentioned.
Which is pretty rich, because in the post where that quote originally appeared, the author recommended as an alternative to Signal a tool that wasn't even end-to-end encrypted by default.
During COVID I have thrown myself head first into reading and learning about cognitive biases, heuristics and all different types of human behavioral economics topics.

Thanks for creating this - if you need an additional writer, shoot me a PM. I have been posting similar stuff on my personal blog recently.
Bell Labs was not created to be a stand alone company. It was created with the express purpose of being a laboratory, hence the name. Its main product was patents, and some copyrightable code.

The fact that it led to useful products is the reason it was established in the first place: a very long term plan from a company that could easily afford it.

And since it strengthened the company that decided to commit the resources it definitely can be considered a success.

There are a few more examples of such institutions, some more successful, others less so but overall doing basic research in a time when tech is in a state of flux looks like it is a winning strategy.
Theoretically. In practice, for the past century, there has been only one direction, provided you are patient.
I don't mean to generalize that Big Tech has awful work life balance or other problems (I am sure it is mostly the opposite!), but rather there are lot of things smaller companies can and should offer to be more appealing.
Milliseconds absolutely matter. Every React render cycle (the entire relevant subtree from top to bottom because again, it's all synchronous) that takes more than 16 milliseconds presents to the user as a dropped frame. In fact that 16ms also has to include any DOM updates and the resulting browser reflow, which you have much less control over and are usually more expensive than your JS, so really the window is smaller than that.

Also, many of the optimizations I listed above can make code less readable in small ways. Many of them are things you should not do eagerly (premature optimization is the root of all evil), and should only go back and do once you've identified a specific problem. If an across-the-board speed increase prevents them from ever becoming problems, that's a win.

If you're thinking I'm a JS-hater, you're wrong. I think JS is a good language and I love using it where it's appropriate. But there are some usecases that benefit from a faster technology, and it's absolutely bonkers to try and argue that that technology shouldn't exist because "you can still make something slow with it if you really try".
GNU Taler is electronic money, not a currency. Neutral, every one can make its own currency. Transaction is secure (trust in the e-money) because of GNUnet; it even addressed the Sybil attacks concerns.

Trust on the currency comes from real life trust. A bank for the Euro. A human for a novel human-made currency.

Then, Exchanges that trust 2 different currencies can buy/sell those currencies.
LordKano's reaction doesn't seem unreasonable to me, either.
Oh come on. It's just succinct and communicates what's happening effectively. There's no grand conspiracy to create some underhanded psychological shift in the workforce at large... God, it's so ridiculous. Business slang like this comes from managers bored out of their minds trying to be concise and make corporate interaction marginally interesting.

What other word would you recommend? Lured? Hired? They're not as precise.
Didn't AirBnB just take out a huge loan on less-than-stellar terms?

https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/15/airbnb-ups-its-debt-by-1bn...

Not to mention how the company is getting hammered by the coronavirus, in addition to having to face the reality of having used shady tactics to prop up positive reviews over the years.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43k7z3/nationwide-fake-ho...

This sounds like they're trying to cash out while they still can with the expectation of it going further south over time.
I recently switched back from ffx to chrome as well. there are so many nice features in ffx, but none of them matter if the core product begins lagging.
If all windows applications used the APIs like they were supposed to, then there would be no need to emulate the Windows syscalls. The point of this emulation is that some applications (games, apparently) were not using these APIs, and instead performing syscalls directly.

In order for this to be feasable on Windows, there needs to be some stability in the syscalls; even if that stability involves angry MS engineers complaining that major applications are doing something that they were explicitly told not to do.
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Mozilla tries this every few years and gets (rightfully) huge blowback. Mozilla makes enough money (through partnerships), the problem is they just spend too much.
I remember reading an economic history book and they mentioned that the Spanish bringing gold to Europe from the Americas stimulated the European economy, and it struck me all at once that basically none of the economic activity in Europe required gold (they weren't making intricate electronics, after all). Growing food, making clothes, tools, shelter, it all could have been done without the gold. What they needed was "money" that everyone believed was valuable in order to convince people to do work. It's the work that causes prosperity, not the gold.

I think local currency can function similarly. A lot of people in small towns struggle to turn their skills into dollars, partly because the modern economy values a lot of stuff rather weirdly. Just because their skills aren't easily translatable into dollars globally doesn't mean that they can't still make their local community a much better place, provided there's a way for someone in the local community to communicate that they value the service (which they can't do using dollars, because they also don't have any).
> If they decided to basically seize Google, they would be telling investors that long term investment doesn’t work

That's a confused deduction. "long term investment is a bad bet" (or whatever you were trying to say by "doesn't work") is not a sensible deduction. Long term investment has already worked and continues to work across the world.

The takeaway would be assess a risk factor to the US companies under discussion of regulation, at worst.
I'm sorry you're getting downvoted. Though I disagree with some of your stances on OWS and Mozilla, your articles are always thoughtful and there is never a doubt you're earnestly fighting for a better world w.r.t software.
"Hit by a bus" means hired away. That's the meaning of the phrase.
I'm not so confident we're in the top 20%. Our galaxy is middle-aged. Our star is only 4.6 billion years old in a galaxy that is 13.51 billion years.

There were several stars that blew up before we got the sun which means several systems and planets right in our neighborhood and that's just 1 star in the entire milky way.

Even at 1% the speed of light, it would take 2 million years to travel across the milky way which, relative to the age of the galaxy, is nothing.
I sure hope so. I have not agreed with this administration on hardly anything else, but I agree with this. The United States has its own dark history of censorship and oppression, but authoritarianism poses an even bigger threat.

At the moment, China is a huge market for technology and entertainment, and companies who refuse to do business with them, accept investments from them, etc. on moral grounds clearly cannot compete with companies who are willing to bend over backwards for the chance to dip their hands in the infinite money bucket.

We cannot let an authoritarian government exert so much control over our technology, movies, television, games, and social media. If we do, democracy is already lost.
Web is all mobile now. To get new users, Firefox needs mobile users.

To differentiate, one idea is that Firefox create optional browser extensions to support local mesh networking over wifi or bluetooth and a container or VM for hosting servers as a safer and more portable alternative to native appstores. This would represent a step back from the FirefoxOS notion, but a step forward from the browser, and could drive interesting proximity applications as well as gaming, which could lead to new users and properly challenge the status quo.

Rationale: Mobile device vendors are too heavily wed to the cellular carriers and related regulatory inertia to do anything here. In particular, carriers are also major distribution channels for a lot of mobile devices, creating a resistance to anything but carrier-enabled mobile-data as a frontline topology.
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I think one challenge is a lot of Mozilla's users see Mozilla as a browser company, whereas Mozilla sees itself as an Internet company. The users may be right. Your Apple analogy is a tough one - if Apple had just stayed focused on PCs, and not the higher level mission of the company around comput-ing-, they would have not invented new kinds of computers. Focus makes sense, once you've locked in on something. The trick of what to focus on is hard though, and the scope of things to consider as possible to focus on is informed by the mission of the company and its fundamental thesis for existing. When the iPod came out it was often chastised as being off-mission for Apple, and many Mac enthusiasts yelled that it would detract away from having them fix whatever the problem of the day was bothering them about their Mac. This kind of complaint is obviously very familiar in the Mozilla case - things other than Firefox are often considered 'distractions' much like the iPod (which led to the iPhone) was by similar people who were heavily invested in the company's existing product line. Time will tell if Mozilla survives if it turns out they should, unlike Apple, listen to them and accept they can't do more than one thing.

Mozilla's thesis is about unlocking the potential of the Internet and ensuring it remains a public resource. Its purpose for existing is not about tree style tabs or ad blockers. But this makes for a tough process of determining how to foster innovative products since the mission is so broad.
I think it shows up internally I completed the training. They say at the end of the course, that you should be ready to take the official test. I think you get a discount on the test, but you do have to pay for it.
"taken advantage of" Uh, no. There's no such thing as perfect information in the marketplace. And besides, money is only one vector for a job. There's many other factors that go into deciding who to work for and where to work. Work-life balance, perks, location, team or mission, family responsibilities, etc. You actually can have win-win relationships. They exist.
>someone might offer them $600K just to prevent competitors from having access to them.

Those are still market forces. They aren't paying the worker value, but the damage they will cause to competitors. Welcome to capitalism.
The OP answers this question in excruciating detail.
I have a Revolut debit card/account but I've never used it. Why? I can not fund it via PayPal, Stripe , etc.. making it useless in my case. They should learn from Transferwise.
Equating the two creates a perception that employees shouldn't be paid as much as they're worth. An employee being paid $500k/year is probably producing even more value to their employer than that, and if anything, the goal should be to close the gap between value and compensation, not widen it.
> I'd be interested to know how many creators YouTube "employs" or how many retail workers Ebay has and what their percentages are. This is where this whole thing confuses me: If Uber drivers are employees (and maybe they are?) then basically every major tech company has millions on employees they have been misclassifying. Paying them all minimum wage with benefits and taxes deducted etc will be a massive massive change for these companies.

YouTubers are not contractors of YouTube. eBay sellers are not contractors of eBay. Uber drivers are contractors of Uber.

This is why Uber will be affected and not YouTube, nor eBay. Uber would also be free to have a system where drivers are not contractors nor employees of Uber (but it would not fit their business model).
> The reality is that the employee was being taken advantage of by the employer and received an offer more closely aligned with their actual value.

It is also possible that the "poacher" has such a ridiculous amount of money at their disposal that they're able to suck a talent pool dry with "so-much-money-you-can't-refuse" offers. I think, however, that enough employees are getting wise to the fact that a FAANG offer isn't an automatic "yes".

People do turn down offers even if the money is crazy high, especially older folks who have gained some control over their career path, have job-satisfaction, and don't want to stage-dive into a competitive hellscape of Type-A 20-somethings.
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It's recipe for making a loved product, but necessarily a recipe for making a profitable business.
The rest of you waste more money hiring 5-10x more mediocre engineers to try to mitigate the bus factor or whatever. And it's still not as good a product as it will be built by a handful of good, over paid and over worked engineers who really know what they're doing.
Wasn't the type of power I expected:

Abstract

Replication is an important contemporary issue in psychological research, and there is great interest in ways of assessing replicability, in particular, retrospectively via prior studies. The average power of a set of prior studies is a quantity that has attracted considerable attention for this purpose, and techniques to estimate this quantity via a meta-analytic approach have recently been proposed.
Precisely. All they would have to do is to allow you to earmark your funds 'Just for FireFox' and to pinky swear they would not commingle that with their general pot for pet projects.

But it is set up exactly in the contrary manner, without much in terms of any guarantees about what the budgetary division will be leaving FireFox as the collector but not the recipient of the bulk of those funds. Imagine where FireFox would be if not for all those non-starter projects and products that drain resources make it to launch and then get axed quietly 3 months later.
Okay, well then you can just open up HEL LOOKS (Helsinki looks) and get a glimpse of the huge amount of different styles, designer clothing and use of vintage garments that is going on in the streets of Helsinki right now.
-->https://www.hel-looks.com/20200603_10/

Like I said, there is a lot of objective evidence to point to the contrary of what you are purporting. But hey, up to you if you want to beleive it or not.
It's 2020 and I still see this "churn in frontend web frameworks" mentioned. I don't see how this is true anymore. The churn was very real in the early 2010s, but these days almost all web development is done in React [1]. If not React, it's either Vue, Angular, and Ember. I'm sure there are a lot of niche frameworks out there that are in use, but that's not what churn means. As a web developer you can learn React once and never have to pick up another framework again pretty easily.

Not to mention that at this point the complexity of web development isn't exclusively held within your framework choice. Thinking about global state, eventing, and architecting your project are where the real hard problems are.

[1] https://2019.stateofjs.com/front-end-frameworks/#front_end_f...
I don't think there's that much innovation in those fields (esp. on individual contributor level), so there's considerably less to write about. The old professions are standardized to a large degree and they're unlike tech where new approaches to literally everything are invented (or, should I say, unleashed upon the world) regularly.
I find this sad, Mozilla is really an advocate for the open web and web standards. Since web browsers are free, they can't make much. They might be able to sell something like Thunderbird; if they improve it and make it more into a service, like Hey! for example. They could also try the sponsorship model that a lot of open source projects are doing. They already have sponsors, but maybe sponsors for their open source frameworks might be better than asking for donations at a company level.
It seems to have worked well. I doubt you're using Internet Explorer to respond to me.

The antitrust case was about bundling Internet Explorer with Windows. It was called the Browser Wars and related to preventing Netscape from competing. The result is pretty obvious. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....
I would have expected them to postpone for sure, given COVID. Does anyone have any ideas on why they didn't postpone? Could it just be them expecting that it'll get much worse?
This is why I’m excited about Starlink.
Yeah, I think the whole situation is such a travesty. I have been following news of that region for a long time now and it is just sad what has happened there over the decades with atrocities committed from both sides.

I firmly believe restricting internet access is just not humane at this point. There is too much dependence on internet and I consider it as a basic right.

I think this heavy-handedness is going to backfire. To treat an infection, you can't just cut off the whole limnb.
Great idea!

Edit: Why does shadow banning feel like such an elegant solution? Everything has tradeoffs and I feel like shadow banning has tons of upside and very little downside. What am I missing?
There was a firefox phone that looked cool but didn't work well.
16ms with 60fps targets, but there are higher frequency displays hitting the markets so that target might shift to 8ms or lower in the future.
I am using all SSD in my laptop and still experience the symptoms described by OP.

The most-reliable relief I have found is not ideal -- I turn off Windows Defenders's REAL TIME protection. Builds for example take 40%-60% longer when this is enabled.

But this setting will get turned back on automatically by Windows at least once a day.
Please stop portraying your political opinions as fact. Independent and government research has been done[1][2][3], and courts[1] have found that voting fraud is nearly non-existent in the US.

If you want to take issue with the methodologies used to determine that, you're free too, but right now what your post amounts to is denial of scientific evidence.

[1] Here are dozens of independent and government studies, and court rulings on voter fraud: https://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/analysis/B...

[2] https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2020/06/02/low-rates-o...

[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/minuscule-number-of-...
It turns out that APC intentionally overcharges the batteries to maximize runtime during the 2-year target battery lifetime, at the cost of killing the batteries relatively young. And the overcharged voltage drifts upwards over time.

I found this forum posting while searching for how to maximize the runtime on my APC UPS:
https://forums.overclockers.com.au/threads/hacking-the-newer...
Waiting for the follow up article, "The day I accidentally built an open source developmennt platform."

"I made a great fast, free porn hosting site. But then these nerds showed up and started uploading their Git repos onto it."
> Sometimes the B2B contracts restrict the organizations from hiring each other's employees.

https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-google-offer-415-million-to-...
> import a second backend into your main backend

This is not typically how the term "backend" is used in this context. Most mature apps will use a variety of tools and services built in a variety of languages, but this is not referred to as "importing a second backend." In fact, your comment is apparently the first use of the phrase "import a second backend" on the entire internet: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22import+a+second+backend%2...
The article already says it’s opt-in not opt-out
I've sometimes wondered how unique the United States is in its regular, official release of formerly secret documents on these sorts of subjects.

I don't expect the former Soviet Republics to have a Freedom of Information Act, nor to willingly release formerly secret documents to the public.

So, while I'm sure there are a mountain of equally fascinating Cold Ware era places, equipment, and projects in the former Soviet Union, I suspect not nearly as many of them are known by the general public as are those of the United States.

It's also fascinated me that for so many formerly secret things in the US, foreign intelligence agencies can simply look in the public record instead of having to do their own leg work and ferret them out on their own. Some nagging doubt remains in me that some of this sensitive information might still be useful to an American adversary, despite formal declassification review. Many other countries probably take no such chances.
Just to clarify, 476kb of WebAssembly != 476kb of JavaScript. Still, your point stands in that wasm-based sites will likely never beat their pure JavaScript counterparts in terms of data transfer; you'll need to make up the increased cost of wasm somewhere else. One place that browsers attempt to make up the difference is in the use of streaming compilers, where the browser can start compiling wasm as it's coming in from the network, whereas with JavaScript browsers have to wait until the entire resource is delivered before the parsing stage can begin.