skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What if sentiment is blue-pilled and holding dollars is actually the gamble? You would be holding the wrong side of the stick.

I would agree that dollars have little downside but the purchasing power degradation of dollars feels like a irremediable tax on savings. And hard money like gold, silver, Bitcoin or Ethereum a quite decent hedge.
Russia to start mass use of its Covid-19 vaccine in coming weeks
Seeing Mozilla burn fills my heart with joy. Maybe they will be forced to be an actual software dev company instead of a political activist group. But even in this post they had to shove in 'racism' in the headline.
Reading this makes me sooo ANGRYYYY..
> At the same time, how can a single person decide the fate of a company in a different country?

The single person was explicitly elected to speak and act on America’s behalf. The same single person is the commander in chief for America’s military, giving them quite a bit of power when interacting with foreign countries.

And they’re impacting a foreign company’s operations in the US, something which seems to fall within the powers granted to them.

In general, I don’t like what he’s doing, but the why and how in this case appear to be by the book.
I never understood how anyone can find it remotely fair for the Fed to introduce new money into the economy by any means other than equal division between all citizens.
In many ways, because Woz is still here and Jobs isn't, Woz "won."
>http://www.unioncabpdx.com/

Are you responding to the actual constraints in this discussion of _employees_ with _benefits_?

As far as I can tell, Union Cab PDX does not provide employee benefits such as:

- minimum hourly wage

- paid time off (e.g. funding 2 weeks vacation)

- unemployment payments if laid off

I don't know if it's related but Unioncabpdx recently left the CWA Local 7901 union as they weren't paying membership dues:
https://nwlaborpress.org/2018/12/union-cab-quietly-goes-non-...
Andy Grove?
People have tried for decades. Go nuts.
All ideology exists to, ultimately, justify the growth and success of its promulgators; ideologies that don't rapidly stagnate or die off. Basic meme theory.

China's specific ideology is irrelevant; "Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics" or balls out Marxism won't change the fact that the CCP needs to feed and manage a billion people. They will eventually engage in aggressive, even ruthless, behavior because they have to; 'tis the nature of Realpolitik. National pride and ideology have nothing to do with it, hegemonic competition is inevitable.
That's not the Dunning-Kruger phenomenon.
Independent testing confirms the Lucid Air has a range of 517 miles
Also, please make a monthly donation to Mozilla if you can. You will contribute to saving the world.

https://donate.mozilla.org/
This chart brings up the question of HOW exactly each element is created...

A long time ago, in Alchemy, there was the idea that certain elements could be transformed into other elements by alchemical processes. This idea, back then, was called "Transmutation".

Now, scientists of today know transmutation as possible, but only with select heavy elements, and only in atom smashers/cyclotrons/large hadron colliders -- call them by whatever name you will.

Also, there exist radioactive elements which, over (usually!) very long periods of time, decay or transmute, into lighter elements.

The common theme, in all of the above, is radiation.

In other words, radiation is somehow linked to the transformation of elements.

Now, with that in mind, if I may posit an impromptu hypothesis, and that is, not all radiation is created equal...

In other words, you have alpha rays, beta rays, x-rays, gamma rays, etc. Or call them particles instead of rays if you prefer.

Anyway, Each of these particles/rays has different penetrating power. An alpha ray/particle (if I recall correctly) is blocked by a piece of paper, but it takes yards and yards of cement or metal to block a gamma ray -- and that's even if you can do it.

But, here's the thing.

Usually we see heat in the role of transforming things, not so much from element to element, but from compound to elements (i.e., refining iron from iron ore).

So, with that in mind, here's the hypothesis:

Perhaps heat -- is actually radiation, but at a lower scale/magnitude/area of effect/penetration-of-space/ability to traverse a distance, power.

In other words -- heat is localized radiation.

Or, phrased another way, radiation is heat -- but sent outward to a non-local distance.

So why is radiation "cold" at a distance to us humans?

Well, remember that that's a scale effect (the underlying energy should have the same pattern regardless of scale, that is, scale could be much smaller), and the Inverse Square Law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse-square_law) still applies.

So, heat as localized radiation, and radiation as larger-in-scale-with-respect-to-distance heat.

A crackpot theory?

Perhaps!

You be the judge!
When banning spammer accounts, do you think it's better to return an error (i.e. 404) or shadow ban them so it looks like the call succeeded?
I think the example of a shopping cart is just that: an example. It's similar to how getting a whole dev environment set up to print "hello world" to the terminal is quite pointless when you can just type "hello world" and skip all that set up. If getting those eleven characters on the screen is really the limit of what you want to do, installing clang is quite foolish and unnecessary. But normally examples are just a gateway to understanding how to do something bigger.
Zoom sued by consumer group for misrepresenting its encryption protections
Try the performance monitor, often you can quickly spot some useless task like ‘memory compression/testing’ kicking in. You can disable these in the task scheduler.
Show HN: NewsLetter about Productivity and DeepWork
"Focusing Firefox On Users In order to refocus the Firefox organization on core browser growth through differentiated user experiences, we are reducing investment in some areas such as developer tools, internal tooling, and platform feature development, and transitioning adjacent security/privacy products to our New Products and Operations team."

So what is the impact on things like Servo/Rust, and the core browser?

I guess they are setting up for a post-Google-pays-to-keep-us-going world, but not sure that Pocket or Hubs or VPN are going to set the world on fire.
What's wrong with being "a political activist group"?
Bentley Is Developing High-Performance Electric Motors That Use No Rare-Earths
Addressing the twin challenges of the opioid crisis and COVID19 pandemic
Life Tracking with Nomie 5.3 – Free, Private and Open
>I assume these folks have actual intel to take this big decision.

Short of a crystal ball I don’t see how
But if there's special kind of inflation that doesn't hurt people's ability to buy goods and services, does that really matter?
Also look at art prices. The money was going to certain places without ending up in the hands of the every day people.
Maybe, but who really cares about the environment when they stand to make some easy money?
Quite. I'm surprised to see intelligent HNers pushing the advice of George Castanza, Esq: "It's not a lie if you believe it."
250 people, roughly 25% of the company, were laid off today.

This is on top of the 70 laid off in January (discussion of that at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22057737)
mozilla has double face, i will never trust them
>. If the USA achieved global dominance, there would be no China.

And that day they would be no US West and East coast... populated. You know what I mean.

Also, China owns the US economy by buying its debt. Try to crash down China, and look how the Dow Jones gets more sunk than the Marianas.
CPI includes housing. Most Americans have seen minimal inflation over the last decade.
San Quentin coronavirus disaster exposes a dangerous road to 'herd immunity'
Hilariously weak? I think they lay out a reasonable argument considering the amount of debt around the world and the fragility of the economy. The big question is: will we have deflation or inflation? I am not sure, but I doubt the USG will let itself go bankrupt.
Self-Management in Teal: Creating an Independent Team
In a world with more quality entertainment than one could consume in their lifetime, no. I never even started on tiktok, since it offered so little in comparison to everything else out there.

But, as with everything, that’s just my opinion.
Captchas are the absolute spawn of the devil. Every time I see one on a website, I want to punch the face of the person who invented them, until my fists hurt. Unless I really NEED to use that site, I just go elsewhere, once I get a Captcha shoved in my face.
Quite right, PDF is mostly a 'flattened' subset of the PostScript format containing tokenised and interpreted data generated from the PostScript code, plus the subset of assets such as fonts that are actually used, in a bundle structure.

It also has some optimisations for it's specific use case, such as that individual pages are completely described independently, whereas in PostScript the code generating any page can affect the content of any succeeding page. This is why in PDF files you can easily re-order pages or efficiently jump directly to and render any page.
Interesting, thanks for sharing. I'll be launching a service that allows users to upload content and I've been thinking about how to handle anti-spam. I really appreciate you sharing your experience.
Skews incentives.
Fighting racism and fighting for human rights is something that happens to be important when your focus is not only making profit
+1, they betrayed us many times

forced/uninstallable addons

they sold us to google

they sold us to pocket

they sold us to promote their political views

mozilla should stick to open and free software and stick to their non-profit promise

why "flagged", is there some sort of AI that automatically detect when someone says something negative about mozilla?
That would depend on the lifetime revenue per user gained spamming your system. There definitely is some sufficiently high signup fee, but it’s different for every spammer. (And for the child pornographers, there may be no fee you could charge to stop them.)
How interesting, my experience is completely different - I'm a UX Designer working in a squad and I/we find JIRA super easy to use, allows you to customise ticket types pretty much to our heart's content (including removing stuff you don't need), ditto customising the board and other features, allows us to track changes, comment on tickets, and works reliably. Almost nothing else allows us to do the same. Admittedly Jira has been overhauled recently and is much better than it was, plus some new features have been added. Oh, and there's an app which allows me to do most of what I need to do on my phone super quickly, partially thanks to the notifications.
Medium Programming Page Scrapper
Do they decay to some stable middle region or are they decaying right back down to hydrogen? I’m guessing this is about entropy to an extent.
We chat banning US trying to high ball China, it’s extra chips in negotiation.
I could see this coming a mile away and have written about it several times on HN, last 6 months ago [1].

Due to Mozillas woke-ness, focus has shifted from the product which actually is great to worthless endeavors like pushing woke politics.

This made their product offerings hurt and now they have to cut jobs. I use Brave as my main browser today and Firefox is just not that relevant anymore due to bad user numbers. It's barely even worth it to test your sites in Firefox anymore.

I hope they will stop with the woke bullshit and start getting actual value to users out there instead. I believe it's that or they will cease to exist in time. No one will use your product just because you are woke.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22298296
==And hard money like gold, silver, Bitcoin or Ethereum a quite decent hedge.==

Two of these things are not like the others.
Are we now stuck with this vacuous corporate virtue signalling forever, or just until the globalist/leftist/whatever-ists finally achieve the absolute tyranny they seem to be seeking?
Yes you're right. Geologic and biologic processes unevenly distribute the elements
How will the visualization work? Any open source tools/queries available to view the daily metrics?
Do you like relational algebra, SQL the language, or both?

To me relational algebra is the beauty queen, and SQL is the "beauty mark" that prevents it from reaching perfection.
How airplanes counteract St. Elmo's Fire during thunderstorms
As we can see some racists will use Chrome instead of Firefox.
"The idea grew especially popular during the Great Depression, when market failures dried up the supply of cash in circulation."

I mean, if you define an executive order seizing money as a "market failure", sure.

Or conversely, FDR didn't know what he was doing and Gresham's law always applies.
Is that really "innovation"? I thought that was pretty darn standard "business".
Inherited endocrine disease may have fueled Hatfield-McCoy feud (2007)
It is so refreshing to see an ethical company like mozilla when faced with financial struggle say "We at the top level have slashed our salaries to ensure we can keep paying as many contributors as possible as it is they who make our products great"
I remember someone here created a service, it may have been paid, that simply emailed you "What did you work on today, what did you complete, encounter any problems?" at a pre-defined time every weekday and then would forward your response back to your manager. Fantastic idea IMO.
We need to have sanctions for company and individuals that run the companies.
The thing is that just "approving" a vaccine doesn't actually avoid anything, especially not economic slowdowns.

Actually having a vaccine widely available at scale and having it injected into a significant proportion of the population is what allows you to avoid all the direct negative effects of COVID-19 (with the economic angle being in large parts actually an indirect effect, since any country is dependent on the world economy and not just whether its own citizens are susceptible to COVID-19 or not). That's why I asked whether there's any tangible information regarding production timetable and availability schedules of this particular vaccine, which are in my opinion much more important to its impact than whether Putin - or anyone else really - signs off on it or not.
Leaked Documents Reveal What TikTok Shares with Authorities – IN the U.S.
God forbid they might think about concentrating solely on making the best browser eh? Where would that end!
That seems a little extreme. You'd prefer Google/Chromium to be a complete monopoly because you don't like the political views of the company that develops Firefox?
This announcement is very strong in corporate speak. Main takeaway is that they’re out of money and need to are going to focus on making money?
This has wayyy too much corporate doublespeak in it. I try not to be negative on companies with a good mission, but this fluff-filled announcement tells my spidey senses that they're about to do something that people won't like.
The Fed introduces new money into the economy through two major mechanisms: setting a target interest rate on overnight loans, and buying assets at market rates. It's not clear how either of those would be extended to an equal division between all citizens, the vast majority of whom don't want overnight loans and don't have financial assets they want to sell.
Ecto.Query in the Elixir universe seems like it was inspired by linq
What kills me is when people say they use Chrome cause they don't trust Mozilla cause they embedded Pocket, but like Chrome is literally shoved with a million Google bits, even Chromium (the open source variant of Google Chrome which is the proprietary variant almost everyone installs) has Google crapware at a much larger scale. Mozilla's Firefox still feels like the lesser of the two evils.

Edit: Added clarification about Chromium in case someone doesn't know the difference between Chromium (open source) vs Google Chrome (proprietary).
The moment your goal shifts from VC-backed acquisition or public offering bid to "I'd like to support myself and some employees comfortably" the things you can do profitably become almost endless.

Want to run a little webhosting business focused on small businesses? Tried and true. Want to offer custom software development for some little vertical? Easy enough. Want to just make a really nice and clean note app? That works too.

When your goal of success shifts from "mind boggingly rich" to "sufficient for the lifestyle I want", it's much easier to be successful.
Check out Klaviyo, they have an SMS product made for eCommerce marketers.
gonna make it faster?
Did VOLD-Emort Just Kill My App?
"New focus on economics": It was bad enough seeing terrible clickbait in the "Recommended by Pocket" section displayed on every new tab. Now I have to go into settings to opt-out of Sponsored Stories so I don't have to see ads for Honey.

All to fund the so-called "internet activist movement"?

I just want a web browser, not an ideology.
Caches hit on the CDN are not trigerring an invocation.

So it's not covering 1M+ invocations per month on the free tier.
If it hurts their ability to invest in assets, then yes. Assets tend to appreciate over time and represent an excellent store of value. Taking that option away from people matters very much.
It worked out for Shkrelli's investors. He still went to jail.
Thought it would be another political activism post, turns out to be a dressed-up corporate layoff announcement:

> Sadly, the changes also include a significant reduction in our workforce — approximately 250 people of exceptional professional and personal caliber who have made outstanding contributions to who we are today.
Just to be clear, that's not my product – I just looked at
stevoski's profile.
BTC is fully accountable while it's issuance is not in the hands of any certain group. Therefore it has a permanently predictable rate of inflation that is much lower than fiat currencies at the moment.

Nobody has to trust anyone, that's the whole point of bitcoin.
> In order to exist as functional part of modern society you pretty much have to be on at least a couple apps that exfiltrate all your data and metadata.

I think you vastly overestimate 1) how much a functional human in modern society actually needs any of this garbage and 2) how much of that data and metadata is meaningful in regards to someone's privacy.
I've done gig work on top of my regular job to have a little extra in savings. Really helped during the virus when the stock market went on sale. Luckily I'm in a free state and don't have to worry too much about this regulation spreading
This is the famous Krugman article: https://slate.com/business/1998/08/baby-sitting-the-economy....
how can they fight for racism if their company is composed only of white people? in a country full of diversity

(without counting interns)
In a bad way? Honestly I wish we had more activists pursuing something else than money.
This is explained in the article. It describes the pressure wave as moving slower than the speed of sound. It was not a shockwave which would be generated by high-explosives which would travel at the speed of sound and be much more deadly.
I wonder if it would work for companies/services to offer perks to their users in exchange for donation to Mozilla? It's a weak example but if, for a $50 donation, you could get an icon on your HN profile -- and that shows up with your comments -- that you're a financial supporter of Mozilla that might drive donations. Granted, HN is a pretty small community but if, say, Facebook offered a perk level for supporting Mozilla it might get the network effect going perhaps.
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Strongly agree with 2 and 3. If you can phrase it in total compensation, then you can throw them off the single salary number because now there are multiple variables in play and you can more easily provide reasoning behind your positions on salary, vacation days, etc.
I wish instead of

SELECT to_json('{"hello": "world"}');

it would be

SELECT {"hello": "world"};
Professional Union Busters Talk About ‘Woke’ Tech Organizers
Blue Security Application Govt-Agencies.Face Recognition and Gait Identification
>Symptoms could easily indicate a disk problem, rather than a Windows problem

Exactly what i was thinking, a HDD could be still really fast but heavy fragmentation, background scanning (antivirus or Automatic Maintenance(the task)) or a defect HDD could slow thing really down.
I'm not sure I see how an increase in the value of assets hurts people's ability to invest in them.
There is a lot of regulation and paperwork/fees to start your own business. Makes it hard to justify if you only want to tutor a few hours a week
Link to read easily: https://archive.is/kxZhp
For all it's flaws, and with the exception of a brief 18 month stint, I've been a dedicated Firefox user since 2004. I sincerely hope that this project finds its new groove and continues to provide a viable alternative to Chromium. The world truly needs it.
Well i think Mozilla made very clear in the past that they did all they can to avoid Pocket to be evasive, and they made it to respect your privacy, in case you choose to use it. Of course you can always turn it off on your Firefox and never come across it again.
132-column lineprinter nudes were in circulation well before the web. (and "typewriter art" predates even the IBM 1403)

related, SFW: https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/0... and https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII-Art#/media/Datei:Schreib...

At one point there was a movie shot at SAIL with rather open minded approaches to computer-human interaction. In the early 1970's (as in the twenties?), "hangups" were for inhibited squares. (If they'd been running unix instead of waits, they'd probably have invoked nohup(1) for the shoot.)

Going back yet another century prior, we find the Victorian equivalent to OnlyFans: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23791112
Why Mozilla has almost 1,000 employees blows my mind. Isn't this an project for an open source web browser?
People have incentives. Google employees likely are there to have the experience on their resume and monetize later. Mozilla people work for a non profit, hence they are probably motivated by social activism rather than money or fame.
> Sadly, the changes also include a significant reduction in our workforce — approximately 250 people of exceptional professional and personal caliber who have made outstanding contributions to who we are today. To each of them, I extend my heartfelt thanks and deepest regrets that we have come to this point. This is a humbling recognition of the realities we face, and what is needed to overcome them.

What a load of bull! How many people did she save from firing by taking a pay cut? I agree that it would have been an insignificant number of the 250 people fired, but it would have made a difference in the life of the employees not fired and it would have given meaning to her words.

Words are extremely cheap (including the ones I'm writing right now). Statements only become principles when they imply a personal cost, otherwise they are just ideas.