skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you do for groceries / food? Are there any restaurants near by? Any problems with online deliveries?
Why exclude FF? It’s good.
> Anyway, at this point, "sustainability" means environmental decency in the general sense. Like the term "literally," it has evolved with usage.

The problem with this is, that now there is no way to talk about the original meaning of "sustainable". Since that is an important concept, much is lost when it can no longer be talked about.
The pizzagate shooting can be viewed as an early qanon consequence. Aspects of qanon are basically riffs on pizzagate, and the two factions have essentially merged.
> I don't like browsers that do this, its the first thing I turn off in Safari, but how does Apple manage to get away hiding the full path under positive intent, but when Google does it its because they're evil?

I don’t like it either, but I assume the difference arises from the fact that Google would benefit from deemphasizing the URL and has done work already in faking it, while Apple probably does it because it looks clean and it thinks its users will be tricked by apple.com.help-virus-14682825821&824826.
I wonder to what degree Google becoming increasingly a Walled Garden provides an opportunity for a new type of search engine. Instead of having to grapple with the breadth of services on the Internet, it grapples with the depth of each Walled Garden - Apple, Google, WeChat, etc.

I simply can't imagine that any one platform, however large, can truly grapple with the full range of use cases for the consumer internet.
Mozilla’s Uncertain Future
It looks marginally cleaner.
I would love to, but it's far from being mature enough.
Deletion is very much a technical/organizational challenge.

Imagine some engineer writing some feature you've never heard of and they decide they need data in a different format. They write a job to do this.

Now imagine that job somehow has a bug which prevents the deletion system from understanding that copy exists. That bug could be non-obvious to find.
Only technology can save us from global warming and only private enterprises like Tesla and others can develop and - more importantly - cheaply scale that technology. There are billions of Chinese and Indians who will become the equivalent of American middle class in the coming decade and no amount of conservation or carbon tax is going to prevent the acceleration of global temperatures that would cause.
That would be a fitting end to the year 2020.
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I've never been able to get a refund on a purchase on iOS app or ever had a customer email to the App Store get responded. I think you might just be commenting on the UI? In that case - yes absolutely, it is visually pretty and easy to buy stuff.
It's important to note that QAnon first appeared on 4chan, not a religious forum. I don't think religiosity is a good explanation for QAnon belief. Religiosity like church attendance is declining in America for instance.

Instead, think of the stereotypical 4chan user. Lonely, asocial, engaged in a meme subculture separate from the mainstream. It's this psychological social distance and lack of identification with the mainstream that is key. This personality type exists throughout American society. My claim is that these people take pure nonsense to heart because they have no firm foundation in reality. They are too plugged in.
Do you have a link to the channel? I'm having trouble finding it.
> For an example, look at the top of this page. The only semantic meaning in the URL for this post is `news.ycombinator.com`. The rest, `item?id=24156986`, is meaningless to a human.

I agree, but I'm going to say the unpopular thing: HN has problems and is an archaic design from the past, and this issue is due to the proliferation of changing the titles of posts (thereby breaking a vanity URL) or changing the URL that the story points at to some other website. Using a vanity URL doesn't work for how the owners run this website and its my belief that it's in the minority along with forum (phpBB e.g.) websites and does not represent the larger percentage of the internet using vanity URLs with human readable text strings in them.
AKA ISO 8601
Some companies will base your new salary on "the market" for software developers in that area -- they are making a point of not including CoL in this calculation. So this is a good strategy if you're moving to another large software hub, less so if you're moving to a suburb right outside one.
I wouldn't characterize it as a belief that the police are secretly racist. More that they are openly and demonstrably racist.
Well, if you start to think that there is something seriously wrong with State and the CIA, and they hate Snowden then you might want to consider that maybe you should look at the whole thing differently. Plus, he has some Republicans telling him to pardon Snowden.
I've come to the conclusion that this is what most parents and students are looking for...a [relatively] safe place to finish growing up. The degree is only part of the equation.
New Zealand banned Huawei so probably not them although, as recently as Nov 2019, the second-largest NZ operator Spark was intending to use a mix of Nokia, Samsung, Cisco, Ericsson and Huawei equipment.

https://www.mobileworldlive.com/asia/asia-news/new-zealands-...
Did the EFF, Bernie, or Clinton criticize Trump for withdrawing, and was the criticism only for the withdrawal, or for how it was handled? (Honest questions - I'm not familiar).
Food, material goods, and services are cheaper and more plentiful than they have ever been in human history. Add to that: jobs are easier to discover, self-teach, and contact than they have ever been in human history. For the poor as well as the rich.

The main thing people get unhappy about is wealth disparity ie., how much MORE the rich have than the poor. That even today's poor have a rectangle that's effectively a magic portal to the entire world's knowledge and population is not satisfying to you when you read headlines about Bezos' mansions, right? Allow me to humbly suggest to you that if the dominant emotion of your worldview is envy, you would not have been any happier in decades past.
How Nikiya Simpson brought meaning to her work
I find it kind of weird that programmers seem to like this game. I tried playing it for a bit and all I could think of was how much more efficient things would be if I could just write code instead of running around on a map to achieve the same thing.

The whole game seemed like a forced distillation of programming into a form that can be consumed by the masses.
Rather sad the two proposals here are either "giant browser vendors should pay for it" or "independent web developers should pay for it." It's one thing for developers to pay for things that will develop their independent careers, but MDN is a reference as much as it is a learning resource; it's something developers constantly use at their jobs. Their employers, big or small, should be the ones paying for it.

Of course, we all know that asking startups to actually fund open source (whether code, documentation, or learning resources) is like pulling teeth. I'd say maybe the collapse of some larger open source project(s) could convince companies to start actually giving a shit about whether or not the maintainers of the technology their entire businesses rely on have enough money to continue developing said technology, but it's more likely the companies would just say "well, let's put 10 engineers on this problem for a month to replace this dead open source technology with something new and shiny" and not recognize how much more they've had to spend. Or, y'know, they'll go with paid support of a Microsoft product or something.
Seeing this comment makes me think that I should consider talking to a doctor about ADHD. I can't even focus on playing a video game for more than 30 minutes most of the time.
The problem with Jira is that a lot of useful features are only available as plugins. But your company won't pay for any of these plugins, or they simply don't want to maintain and install them for security reasons.

So you are stuck with the basic Jira version you company pays for and will never see any of the nice extensions that are available for it.
You clearly don't have a believer in your family.
That's really clever.

Using the 4 example images at the top, the first (color) and last (B&W) work flawlessly on my iPhone.

But the two animated ones in the middle will work for a second, and then the phone loses it. Animated seems like "too much" for a phone to lock on to -- perhaps just stick to static? That's cool enough.
Trump is about to catch a lot of heat for messing with the USPS. This is him trying to put out something controversial so that the lame media will bite on that instead.

Also, Trump projects. Like, a lot. So I wonder if this might be telling in that respect as well.

Edit: I'm going to double down. Trump is setting things up so that he can say the election is corrupt due to China and our spy agencies are not to be believed when they say "nope", thus tying up the election in courts as long as possible. I think he believes that come Jan 20, if no President is officially declared, that he'll just stay President. Or at least he and Barr believe they can challenge that.
are anecdotes data, now? does fortnite run on feature phones? how many cases have you tried in federal court?
Yes, if the product picks up they can build it in-house anytime they want .

They have only spent effort on a reseller partnership till now, so if it fails to pickup not much Engg effort has been wasted either
I think you're missing the point. If your migration renames a table or column, then the migration can be rolled back, by simply reversing the rename. If you delete the thing, then there is no way of rolling back other than restoring from backup.

I can see it being useful to rename these things, as long as there is some process in place to delete the renamed items after a period of time has passed.

Would be good if you could schedule a future migration that will happen only after a certain date has passed, which deletes the renamed tables/columns.
Sadly, carbon fiber brake pads are not healthy, either.
I'm finally off my phone, so I had a look. There's a Wikipedia on it here [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._cities_with_large...
A question for the author: is genetic data a thing? If it is what are your thoughts?
Maybe the parent poster is talking about double-double arithmetic:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadruple-precision_floating-p...

Paper:

http://web.mit.edu/tabbott/Public/quaddouble-debian/qd-2.3.4...
I've seen studies that show quite low levels of Vitamin D in even healthy rural south Indian farm workers. The average was ~ 20 ng/mL. The study authors speculate that the high levels of phytates in the typical Indian diet might be to blame.
Yes, and I definitely got that from your write up. It's a huge opportunity.

I'm not sure how easily you can add the things I'm excited about into a demo video, namely the idea that you can post process video in a browser. The things you describe, synchronization, etc are really time sinks even when you know what you are doing and have the right tools. If you capture 10% of the functionality and make it automated and simple, you'll have a winner. Maybe you already have this, I haven't played with it, sorry if I'm ignorant about the true offering!
See now I don’t think I’d consider grocery bagging a trade because there isn’t really any skill involved. You could pick just about any person off the street and they’d be able to bag groceries.
More or less this is true. I encountered even web devs who thought it was unimaginable to change browser. Because extensions, because differences in css and so on.
IE8 PTSD.
For common user largest tragedy is lost of opened tabs. I seen this over and over again. So many people think there's no such thing like bookmarks and they keep their tabs open until OS crush or something.
Is this an online version of Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple, in which a charismatic (though here anonymous) leader knows how to push the psychological buttons of a lot of disaffected people?
Tab switching on Firefox Nightly is much better as of a week or so ago. You can now swipe left and right on the address bar to go between tabs, just like in Chrome. It's particularly nice when the address bar is on the bottom.
Ah, my favorite conspiracy theory. The master conspiracy theory:

All totally crazy conspiracy theories are created by "them" to discredit the real conspiracies.
I think this concept could lend to a pretty interesting and unique game. The engine would be a city simulation, the more realistic and complex the better. However rather than build directly, the player would enact policies (laws + regulations) for the city and see how things evolve.
That's a great recommendation but isn't it a bit late? The team were laid off. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24128865
I don't think this article is saying that COVID is changing anything. I think it's saying that COVID lays bare how dysfunctional the US has become. It's a crisis that tests the ability of societies to come together, and the US is doing pretty badly.
I agree, but as mentioned here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24159257 QAnon has morphed into a master conspiracy to unite all of these crazy groups.

The same people that push Qanon are also pushing anti mask, anti vaccine and etc conspiracies.
I think Snowden is a hero.

Sadly, this feels more like Trump’s perverse “everything Obama did was bad so I’ll do the opposite” logic, instead of acknowledging that Edward Snowden made a difficult choice to protect our republic.
I would love to see more todo lists take the weekly approach that lets you slot todos in against meetings, for two reasons.

1. When you do things on your list, they take up time. Putting them into a calendar view makes a lot of sense because you have to balance those tasks against the other time-based commitments you have (meetings, etc). When you have a separate todo list and calendar, it's difficult to get an effective view of how you're planning to spend your day.

2. I like the weekly time horizon. A day is sometimes too short to make meaningful progress, and a month is too long a time horizon to effectively plan. A week feels right - you can plan it out and make a dent in your project. But I've yet to see a todo list that lets you plan on this time horizon.

Potential ways to improve:

1. Sync with google cal to pull in my appointments

2. Show me time slots so I can plan my todos around my meetings
A VPS (which is usually a virtual machine) will be running on top of a hypervisor, and each VM on the host will have their own kernel. Containers on the other hand are different because the kernel is shared among every container running on the host. The separation/isolation of resources is done via kernel features rather than by a hypervisor like a VM. Adding SSH and a stateful filesystem to your container to make it long lived doesn't make it any less of a container. To me that seems like saying "my car is no longer a car because I live in it. Now it's a house (that happens to have all the same features as a car, but I don't use it that way so it's no longer a car)"

If you're defining "container" not by the technology but rather by "how it needs to be managed by ops" then we're working with completely different definitions from the start. We would first need to agree on how we define "container" before we can discuss whether you can treat one like a pet rather than cattle.
I never really believed the scale at which foreign (or domestic) actors could affect people politically. I thought the idea that ads or social media posts had any significant effect was laughable.

One time, however, I was browsing Twitter, particularly a political thread. It was relatively level-headed (at least as far as social media politics goes) until I saw one reply. Everything about this account was a perfect caricature of what I despised. From the profile pic, to what they retweeted. It was stuff that was genuinely disgusting and most people would be appaled by it.

Their profile said they were a writer at "some website" and I decided to check it out. The site itself was rather boring with multiple articles that really didn't make sense and seemed more like SEO blogspam content, so out of curiosity I did a whois on the domain. The site was originally registered a month prior. The Twitter account was the same age. I realized that this probably wasn't a real person and that I had been successfully baited into being pissed off. Can't say who or what is projecting it, but looking back a lot of accounts I've seen in the replies of Twitter threads are probably the same story.

I had an idea to collect a database of similar accounts, since they seem pretty easy go find, just so I could play around with the data, but ended up not doing anything.
I unlearned skiing. It had been about 18 years since I last skied, but I have been an avid snowboarder during the intermediate. I simply did not have the muscle memory needed to manipulate the skis, I knew what I wanted to do in my mind, but could not figure how to tell my body how to do it.
there is always patreon, you could contribute to external developers who contribute to mainline , if they make enough money on patreon they could do it full time.
Fascinating. Thanks for posting, rbanffy.

I am not an evolutionary biologist, or an organic chemist, or even someone who studied chemistry beyond high school. I just have some exposure to hardware circuit design, including microprocessor internals, through my vocation as a software engineer, and an interest in science, including evolutionary biology.

For dilettantes like me, this visualisation that shows the electron transfer processes along Photosystem II and Photosystem I, helps contextualise your discussion.

Photosystem 2 and Photosystem 1 by CNUBiochemistry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hUxKPSNTl0

Just seeing the two systems in series is exciting! It might not have been, as recently as last week, but then I stumbled across this backgrounder from Lynn Margulis which has changed my view of evolution more than I could ever have imagined possible.

Discover Interview: Lynn Margulis
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/discover-inter...

Thanks again, rbanffy. The work you highlighted has my complete attention.
It seems like an easy solution to this is to have a 'trade academy' or a coalition of trade schools that allow / require you to do a rotation in each of the related trade specialties, i.e., if building / construction related, you spend a week / month / quarter learning about plumbing, electrical, framing, mechanical, landscape, etc. This would both promote understanding of related fields and give people an exposure to a variety of potential interests.

This is not unlike the required courses that predominate pre-major studies at a traditional university (in the U.S., at least)
> So you're actually losing something with too much technology in cooking, so I think anyway.

Somewhat OT:

You're talking about cooking, but the same is true for many other activities and systems. Our technology level permits us to ignore many details and so we fail to learn the underlying mechanisms, processes, etc. In cooking: learning details of the cooking process, why you can make it with a hand or stand mixer versus by hand and what settings are appropriate in those cases. In driving: automatic transmissions hide the details of the different gears, so people driving in mountains and certain other conditions for the first time don't understand why they'd use a lower gear, whereas someone driving a manual transmission all the time would understand more easily.

Examples can be found from any field, but they all demonstrate a common theme: Sometimes you have to do things by hand to understand what's happening before you can apply the higher technology tooling effectively.
In my head the question is: can a wikipedia-style MDN exist? If the answer is yes than I think op opinion is only on one type of model of organizing and funding a documentation site.

Will a wikipedia-style MDN be successful if there are (in addition of volunteers) paid writers who cover the majority of the work need? Maybe not. Maybe that's what the existing MDN proves.
> retaining the central belief that a cabal of powerful elites control the world, using their power to covertly abuse children

They're going to need to be more precise about the Pizzagate conspiracy, because the above wording very closely describes the Jeffrey Epstein case, which has been proven to be true.
All of a sudden, I’m cheering for Microsoft’s decision to make Edgium available for Linux.
No, I was messing with you. I don't post a lot. But I'm a sucker for conversations about the consequences of our institutions being full of shit.
Remember that great old flash thingy where you mutate a boxcar until it drives well, just found out there's a html version: https://rednuht.org/genetic_cars_2/
This has nothing to do with amp, and everything to do with users thinking http://printer001.cpalawyer.bz/mircosoftoneline.acutallogind... is a legit office 365 login page.

Not that they're going to notice that the url bar says something random anyways.
Throughline podcast had an episode on how the country was founded on conspiracy theories and believing in theories is seemingly fundamental to American life
I wouldn't say 'largely'. There are definitely single-threaded parts and if you have 64 really slow cores then you won't get 64 times as many FPS (or UPS, really) as with 1 core running at 64x speed, but that's with all software.

If you have a somewhat reasonable per-core speed, multiple cores should all be loaded with work. Personally I can't say that I've noticed it helped, but that's anecdotal and I've seen the improvements as they came in incrementally rather than in one big jump from some old single-threaded version to 1.0.

> including parallelism-lite

What does that mean? When I look it up I get results for some other game with a similar name.
Thunderbird is funded by users. There is currently no way to donate directly to Firefox separately of Mozilla general fund.

Can initial steps be taken to financially firewall Firefox development from the rest of Mozilla, as Thunderbird has done successfully? Start by moving the web standards advocacy brain trust to the separate org. Ask users to donate/subscribe. Begin the transition now, don't wait for the next negotiation with Alphabet/Google.

As donations grow, more Firefox teams can move to the independent legal org.
I think that covid has pretty well killed the idea that the constitution is relevant in any situation the government feels strongly about.
they will use k-a for admin traffic and k-u for user data, same as one of the 5G types, which I believe is non-regulated.

So, i guess it is as legal as the interference themselves will cause on your 5g phone reception.
Time to ponder J... wonder if what could benefit from some array-focused libraries.
I think this reasoning is not straightforward for Mozilla as it would be for a traditional company.

Normally, the shareholders own the company. They appoint the CEO, or a board of directors or whatever management structure, and they decide how much to pay them. It's the shareholders' company, it's the shareholders' right to decide whether to keep the C-suite and how much to pay them. Things can get a bit muddled with large public companies with many shareholders, or when there are dual class shares, which can partially insulate the management from the owners control, but it more or less works this way.

In the case of Mozilla Foundation, AFAICS, this does not hold. The board of directors is completely self managing; they coopt board members and appoint the CEO of Mozilla Corporation.

I might be very wrong about this, but since Baker is both the chairman of the foundation and the CEO of the corporation, it looks to me like she doesn't basically answer to anyone. It's a bit like she owns the company, except she didn't have to buy it. That's a pretty sweet deal.