skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bush era South Carolina passed a law, and thus created a related form, that required terrorists to register themselves as such at the DMV.

I used to have it on file somewhere, now it's buried in an old hard drive. Would love to have one again. Would love even more to do a FOIA request to see if they ever actually got any filled out.
Do you use their browser? If not, why not?

FTR I do and never stopped.
Hey, I tried exporting my .OPML from feedly and importing and got a 500 :/
“Almost never” is still more frequent than “never,” so it’s still positive.
I love this, thank you
Worth noting that starting out with a new profile (and empty history database) will speed up any browser, which could help account for both of your experiences.
How small can you make a QR code until it can't be scanned by a phone?
Funny how these things turn out; convicted arms trafficer Oliver North ended up running the NRA for a while, before he was pushed out by the current head, Wayne LaPierre, who is currently under investigation by the NY AG for stealing organisational funds.
Coronavirus recession, not robots, set to take jobs from future workforce
That is an ideology and a rather twisted one. We were over this when people were opposing anaglesia and anaesthesia. Wanting people to suffer needlessly is a bad thing.
Thanks, your tip for restoring access to Reuters worked for me. I'm very appreciative.

I wish there was some way to convince Reuters to restore it.

I'd even be willing to pay a couple bucks to avoid keeping google informed of my news habits and still have access to one of the few relatively unbiased news sources left.
This is where these guys lose me. There is no way you get Netflix or Hulu or Disney in Firefox without EME or something similar. Ultimately the question is do you want to be a mainstream browser or not? Obviously Mozilla does and most people want it to be and don't care about it. If you don't like copy protection then don't buy stuff with it or torrent instead. This is such a tired argument to be having in 2020 and boring complaint about Mozilla.
Cassandre crypto trading bot framework 2.0 released
I find this sad news. I highly recommend mozilla to others due to its focus on user privacy and open nature of organization. I know it is not an option for a complete browser with its own js engine, rendering tool kit and kind of whole app eco-system is not possible to survive on donations and small income channels.

But, I would have highly recommended mozilla do it in a way to release a community and enterprises services. where Enterprise will lead the future path of browser with its own industrial/enterprise offering to customer sets like governments, Developers and big companies, parallel maintaining the community version of browser as its now, may be two feature cycle behind with some less but fully open features.

If I had an option to buy a paid version of mozilla service which gave me better functionality for application support and development I would have gladly paid for it.
I wish, It is the path they chose.
A quick google would help educate you:

https://hub.jhu.edu/2019/07/18/hunger-and-obesity-jessica-fa...

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-07-17/how-hu...

Long story short is that a better concept isn't starvation, it's food insecurity. More than 10% of Americans are food insecure.
I think it's a combination of:

a) These companies are much bigger than they were, which increases the impact a programmer can have. This means the amount of money a programmer can bring in for one of these companies is much higher than previously, and so they're willing to pay more.

b) Previously, programmers were capturing a much smaller share of the value they were creating for their employers. Either through explicit collusion to keep employee salaries down (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...) or because the threat of startup founding (which is both easier and more normal relative to 10y ago) has pushed salaries up.
> Apparently this is a pretty common story for people with ADHD who weren't diagnosed as children, so a specialist won't be particularly surprised by it.

This is very true. And it's not even just due to lack of access to mental health care as a child: everyone over a certain age will have grown up before "ADHD" was a recognized disorder, and thus couldn't have been diagnosed with it no matter what their symptoms were.
X1 carbon seems nice, but it tops out on 16GB of ram and quad-core cpu. That doesn't look very good when you compare it to macbook pro
"You want to be on the ground floor of this IPO because I'm telling you it's going to just be exploding gold (and other elements)."
Google seems to
to have a (not very) long term strategy to get rid of adblockers.

That is hard as long as there is both

- an independent browser engine on the market

- and politicians and judges that haven't succumbed to the pressure from Big Media
>when they released the iPhone.

You mean ipod and itunes, perhaps?
We actually support both! You can route everything that is captured by GA or Segment (analytics.js) through your EventNative backend in intercept mode. Or you can configure EventNative to capture all these events in direct tracking mode.
Can this replace Segment if I just want events to go to a postgres DB?
This actually came up after the 2015 attacks in France. Most crowded locations became heavily protected, bags were all checked, etc. The result: a massive crowd in front of theaters, concert and sport venues, etc. Israeli consultants basically summed it up by saying that these procedures were creating massively vulnerable areas with potentially 100+ victims if a guy detonated a bomb in front of the venue.

I remember seeing a documentary showing how in Israeli airport one of the main goals was to always avoid long lines and big groups of people.
Anything other than experiments and crypto kitties?
you are angry about 2.5mb video, its 2020 pal get a broadband connection
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Please don't upvote.
> This is a beautiful implementation of a tactic to shift a conversation.

Or it is merely contextualizing the debate around what should and should not be considered a public utility by contrasting the case of Google with others. This in turn helps creating consistency and improves our understanding of the matter.

This forum is not the platform where the fate of Google is decided, so "taking attention away" can't really have malicious consequences, if it helps us coming to a principled understanding.
Not Invented Here Syndrome[1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here
Joe Biden picks Kamala Harris as his running mate
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I wish this website spent its banner space on "what it is" rather than "star us on GitHub!". I doubly wish this because it's pretty confusing what JuliaDB is! From the name, I expect it to be a database, but the website immediately compares it to Pandas. I think of Pandas as a library for in-memory manipulation and analysis of tabular data, not a database / persistence engine. So is JuliaDB not a database at all, but in fact an alternative to Pandas / DataFrames.jl?

In fact, I've been using Julia for work and following the ecosystem since version 0.4 (we're at 1.5 now), and I'm still not sure what JuliaDB is. No doubt this is mostly due to me not having reason to look very deeply (and/or not being very perceptive), but certainly doesn't feel like the marketing copy is giving me any help...
Thanks for this perspective. I believe it takes developers at all levels to maintain a piece of software. A developer of 10 years experience may not get professional fulfillment out of form validation changes, but a bootcamp grad shouldn't run the SOC2 audit.
I agree with the author in that you should think twice about adding a dependency. I’d be willing to invest way more than an afternoon, depending on the circumstances. Adding a dependency is also work. How much depends on your work environment, so you should think for yourself.
I'm pretty sure that's the intended message and the thread is simply hijacking the thesis to talk about developer compensation as usual.
You seemed to not understand the relationship between income, spending, and wealth, so I gave a simple explanation. Of course the world is more complicated, and for example Henry Ford realised (at least according to the myth) that he had to pay his workers enough so they could buy his products, otherwise he wouldn't have enough market. But that doesn't change the fundamental relationships between income an wealth.
MicroStrategy Makes $250M Bet on Bitcoin
Sounds like you've never worked at a startup where the CEO walks in one day and says "we're changing direction" everyone stops what they're doing and desperately tries to turn the boat around, only to have that happen again two week later...

Like it or not, that is what power is.

Building respect and trust is great, but you can have all of these things and not have any real power. I've seen trusted respected people let go in a heartbeat when times are tough. The people that can decide to 'let people go' are the ones with power.

In my experience tech leads and middle managers often have to do the difficult task of balancing the whims of power with sound technical decisions. This is a hard task because it's frankly much easier to just bow to the whims of leadership and wait for the day when they decide a "shakeup" is needed and layoff most of middle management.
That's a good point, about half the results go away when you add "processor" to the query. Interestingly, the same happens for the AMD query so the ratio is still similar.
The article provided a WHO list of "barriers to adherence with hand-washing guidelines", but that isn't the same thing as explaining the behaviour.

What does explain the behaviour? Nobody knows for sure yet, hence the article exists. If we investigate the profession of medicine in the same way as we might approach a diagnostic examination of any other profession or occupation, we uncover a whole category of possibility that the article doesn't explore.

Before I put forward this conjecture, which may shock and repel some of you at first, let me point out that it doesn't necessarily have to be occurring in a conscious mode. With that said, consider the business model of doctors.

Doctors are trained to diagnose and treat disease. They aren't trained in nursing. For that, they rely on nurses, who are their reliable, ever present subordinates. In terms of hours spent at the wheel, doctors are scarcely trained in disease prevention and hygiene at all, which account for only a tiny % of the curriculum in medical schools.

Do you want to know how to eat right, live healthily, and ward off a whole host of diseases? Consult a nutritionist. Doctors aren't trained in nutrition.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5...

Doctors aren't trained in preventative medicine or public health, unless they choose those as electives or specialties.

Doctors are just primarily trained in anatomy, physiology, disease diagnosis and treatment.

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
― Upton Sinclair
Defeating Secure Boot with Symlink Attacks
Their VPN is a bit pointless at the moment though. They're basically reselling Mullvad. You can get the same servers & more connectivity options (e.g. bypassing their client) for the same price by just going direct.
Is the story included in /updates if a comment is added?
Obviously. That's why I said "I have to draw the line somewhere".

I trust my browser and OS more than extensions.

Your security posture is probably different than mine.
> Of course you do and release(d) them as open source (public domain).

How ironic though. Of course it did work a few times, but if the advice is to not use dependencies, then the better advice would be to not use dependencies that were written in an afternoon to avoid using some other dependency :)
At Google, engineers start committing code in their first week too.

That doesn't mean they're fully on-boarded until 6 months in.
My bad, that was a pure guess, because even 12 is not much for a major language like Rust, but 3-4 is absolutely tiny.
Bicycle registration (for a fee) is mandatory in some states. Bikes can be seized and impounded if they are not registered.
That's too simplistic and not realistic.

I'd rather go for an heuristic that's the dependency management equivalent of "Ask for forgiveness, not permission":

1.Find the best library that is good enough to solve your current needs, double-check to understand its capabilities and shortcomings (to internalize any known future needs), and code against it.

2. Invest the time to build your own stuff only when you start to see limitations in future iterations. By this time you'd also have a battle-tested understanding of both the dependency's shortcomings and your own requirements
I could say all of the same things about the in house tools that the “architect” wrote three jobs ago - including the bespoke ORM, object mapper, and logging framework.

Or two jobs ago where two developers who had worked at the company for 10 and 15 years respectively were maintaining a bespoke 15 year old EHR written in PowerBuilder and depended on SQL Server 2003 - in 2016.

Every company thinks they are their own special snowflake where cross cutting concerns can’t be handled by a third party.
FF (Phoenix, Firebird) gained market share because a bunch of geeks & power users installed it on any computer they could get ahold of, because it was an obvious safety, performance, and usability win over default browsers, and especially IE.

Maybe others are still doing that, but the situation's a lot murkier now. Firefox's UI is more confusing than it used to be (every time you open an application and it does something it doesn't normally, that's confusing to non-nerds—looking at you, update-announcement tabs and "hey come look at Pocket!" messages), other browsers have gotten better, and FF requires extensions to deliver an obviously-better browsing experience than other browsers (it may provide more privacy than Chrome or Edge out-of-the-box, sure, but my mom can't tell that, unlike automatic pop-up blocking, which was obviously a improvement over IE when FF was getting started). It's also not so lightweight that it draws comments from normies when you launch it, because it comes up so fast (this was an actual thing back when it first came out, vs. IE)
It's the problem with the object model.
Yes, I think ORMs are an anti-pattern, ActiveRecord-style especially.
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> I would not be surprised if it was the same for other users.

Yep, you can count me in this group as well. The Firefox team goes out of it's way to make so many changes that just seem useless or annoying; it's baffling to me. It really feels like a team with too many devs and designers sitting around needing to create work. I very much doubt that's actually the case, but that just means it's a widespread management issue.

That said, it doesn't make me want to stop using Firefox because the only other option is Chrome which has bigger issues.
Many people never look at email addresses (just like they don't look at full URLs - the programs have made it harder to see them by default).

Many - most - native English speaking people don't really know 'bad' English. People I've known my entire life who've grown up in the US and went to university still have trouble writing more than a few coherent sentences. Folks are bad at writing, and I think tend to not look critically at bad writing.
Yes! We rolled out Postgres as a destination yesterday. And unlike Segment we're free and hosted on your infrastructure.
Was about the net positive, if you trow out all the developers and just hold the highly paid management, firefox will loose even more % and not even google will care if the default search engine google is.
Yosys, Yosys Open SYnthesis Suite, is a Free Verilog Synthesis Suite.
There are many countries. Go live in a +70 in economic freedom and you’ll gain a lot of perspective on the freedoms the USA has.
Awful in 2005
Too bad that's a flawed benchmarking methodolgy. JITs are notoriously hard to correctly profile and the benchmark lib isn't even sort of doing the right thing.

For example, it's missing warmup. The results aren't being consumed in a way that wouldn't optimize them away. The framework itself imposes a pretty large amount of overhead (moreso than I'd expect from leftpad).

It is somewhat likely that what they are measuring isn't leftpad performance, but rather how fast the JIT ends up optimizing the benchmark code.

I'd suggest watching this video
https://vimeo.com/78900556

It's about microprofiling the JVM, but the principles are the same for other JIT based languages (such as javascript).
Tor don't work well in China. So is VPN. Chinese don't even know it exist. It's hard for none tech people. Even all Smart tech people in China know how to use these tools, it's still less than 0.00001.
Make some virus-like dummy tools. As far as mobile or PC infected. They will connect global internet not China LAN. It must infect nearby devices as well. That's the only way to help.
Thank you, this is great feedback.
Congrats to the Alchemy team for the launch!! The team has been working on this for years and it's amazing to see how much progress they've made.
The important part is that whatever bad happens to mains power, the backup systems detect it and properly take over. Bad frequency or power out are both bad situations that the backups need to handle. You need to have confidence that your systems will handle both. If you only pull power and never test bad frequency, one phase missing, brown outs, over voltage, (list not complete because I don't know everything) then you have not done your job. If engineering determines that your test also covers another bad scenario then I'm fine with not testing it.
Developers should try to build things before they reach out and grab a package. Usually it doesn't take too long to figure out if you are making a giant hairball. By trying to implement it yourself, you get a better understanding of the problem regardless.
Is the story included in /updates if a reply to a comment is added?

Edit: What if the comment is edited?
So that's what those thin units are in Hong Kong pics. I just figured they were regular AC.
You should write some words about why your tool is better than org if you mention it here.

Org gained new features too in the last ten years. E.g. for crosslinking there is org roam: https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam
Thanks for letting us know :) I think we found it in the logs, so we'll look into the error right away.
Looking back, apparently I wrote about this at the time: https://www.jefftk.com/p/the-value-of-an-hour

Which reminds me of the excellent 1977 Sweeney and Sweeney econ paper about the Capital Hill Babysitting Coop: http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/cs286r/courses/fall09/papers/coo...
For those interested in the creation of the QR code.
Japanese TV Station NHK World have a 15 minute documentary charting it's creation -
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand/video/2072031/

It also features interesting details such as how they figured out the ratio of the marker squares should be.
I'm no browser architect--I don't know how the rendering engines compare, and of course it depends on the site and the extensions used. I did just time some popular websites, and confirmed my impressions. For example, nytimes.com gives

0.5s on Safari with Adguard

1.6s on Chrome with uBlock Origin

2.5s on Firefox with uBlock Origin

which is pretty representative.
I think as an employer you need to know when you have such an engineer, though, or be prepared to lose them.

I’d personally disagree with the cost effectiveness argument though. Unless your engineering work really cannot benefit from more skill (and as often as I’ve heard management think their work is relatively simple, in practice I’ve rarely seen it) then you’d have to replace a highly skilled engineer with a small team that would likely cost more than $500k. Packing your engineering firepower into as few bodies as possible is a highly cost efficient strategy, as most of the successful techs know.

On the other hand, a small team is less vulnerable to getting hit by a bus or hired out.
Americans are also hurt using this app when their activity inadvertently supports the Chinese police state.

https://citizenlab.ca/2020/05/we-chat-they-watch/
Singapour usually ranks top 5 in these lists and it’s forbidden to buy chewing gum there. What baseline are you comparing against?
Profiler looks pretty dope. Does anyone know why neither DataDog nor Google Cloud Profiler support C++? Technically Google supports anything if you implement the agent yourself, but none of these tools ship a C++ profiler out of the box.
"The fact that they've chosen to focus on revenue instead says everything you need to know about how far Mozilla has fallen. "

Maybe you have not noticed that money actually matters? Mozilla maintains a global infrastructure for serving Firefox updates and new installs; they have to pay developers to keep up with bugs, vulnerabilities, and new web standards; they have to pay lawyers to deal with the various legal issues that come up when a project has millions of users across multiple jurisdictions; etc. Donations have never been sufficient for Mozilla to do the core development work on Firefox, which is why they signed those search deals.
- so seems like the tmsearch.uspto.gov links expires... Hopefully these keeps working:

1. https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=87357393&caseType=SERIAL_...

2. https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=87981042&caseType=SERIAL_...

3. https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=87877280&caseType=SERIAL_...
Unless you are doing front end code, why does the size of the code matter?
I think it is actually a database, so it seems they haven't committed the cardinal sin of putting "DB" in the name of something that's not a database.

> JuliaDB is a pure Julia analytical database. It makes loading large datasets and playing with them easy and fast. JuliaDB needs to support a number of features: releational database operations, quickly parsing text files, parallel computing, data storage and compression.

Got this from https://juliadb.org/talk/juliacon2018shashi/ which appears to go into more details

> This talk is a bottom-up look at the construction of JuliaDB. We will talk about the scope and implementation of underlying building block packages, namely IndexedTables, TextParse, Dagger, OnlineStats and PooledArrays.
But you can add a dependency in less than an afternoon?

The exact same objection applies in both cases.
Does it block ads?

Asking because: DNS-level adblocking is stupid.
Yeah it's all good. It was that big at one point, making it even easier to think of that way.
There's a better description on the front page of the docs: https://juliadata.github.io/JuliaDB.jl/latest/
> employee equity that are set to start expiring in November 2020 and in mid-2021; those shares will become worthless if the company is not trading publicly by then

I'd say you nailed it on the head. Because aside from this, it's pretty terrible timing for an industry that's been killed by the virus and won't rebound until it's long over.