skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, a hundred times yes.

And it's not just young people. In the past I worked at a University where most teachers were unable (or refused to) to use the 30-year-old COBOL system. Those were people from late-twenties to late-sixty year olds, and they all hated it.

We needed extra staff just to type grades in the computer, since it was a long and onerous process, and that extra staff was very hard to retain.

The solution was redoing it in web and after that every teacher happily started doing it by themselves.
When this kind of topic comes up, people are starting to talk about X things then at the end they say:

1. That's why I'm using/stopping using Firefox a while ago

2. I hope Firefox can be hanging in there, but I don't want to touch it

3. Oh look that's cool new project is awesomen, but I'm sticking with Chrome

It's just interesting to see
> Compared to the United States, countries like Japan, Germany, and others in Europe have been much more successful at containing the pandemic, even with their extensive public transport systems

UK here. We contained it by mostly stopping using public transport. The efficiency case for public transport (in its current form) is inversely correlated with social distancing.
Was he punished for it?
The Portable Web?
I'm not sure this has anything to do with Ruby, they're talking about user experience: what's perceptible to humans and what causes frustrations.
Also - in most apps db and frontend take way more time than the Rails stack.
How do you remove it?
> (the reason was not always disclosed, but some recruiters did explicitly tell her that it was because of her Hijab). Which is different from the UK and other European countries from what I have been told.

That's because the French culture does not work on the same basis as the UK and northern european countries. The french society strongly goes towards integration and not multiculturalism.

It has a lot of deep consequences in the society, starting that people expect you to identify and behave as French, regardless of your background, skin color or anything else.

This means you will really be treated as a local from day one and just a small racist minority will really care about your background. But it also means as a double edged sword that if people perceive that you reject this identity, they will think that you are rejecting the society and will react negatively.
> Americans do need better public transpiration options

No-one has mentioned transpiration until now. This is a lie by changing the subject completely.
Any time I buy property I check how far above sea level it is, so I can estimate when I'll be able to sell it as beachfront property...
Didn't knew that Sasafras leaves were edible. Atlas Obscura hitting again. What is its taste?
I have the same thing with some issues. Like for abortion - there's really two questions at the heart of the issue but almost nobody discusses them, so I can't make firm decision. The two questions are what defines a human life and when is it acceptable to take one.

I also have frustration when I pick a middle ground or outside the box idea. For example, with the prevalence of prenups and the variety of living situations/arrangements, I see the solution to the debate over non-traditional marriage to be making marriage documents a private contract to remove the government from trampling anyone's rights. Even the LGBTQ community is not fighting for everyone's right to marry - what about incestuous (with sterilization or longterm contraception to protect genetics) marriage or polygamy.

I haven't laid out all the details as this is an example but I can see the downvotes rolling in already...
Apple announced that you can run their own software on their own hardware that only they manufacture

Microsoft Windows 10 can run on any compatible hardware I want, including virtual hardware (Mac OS cannot be legally virtualized on non Apple HW)

Microsoft doesn't make Android and doesn't even manufacturers smartphones anymore, they'll embraced it as a compatible platform, as they did with Linux.

From a developer standpoint that's a big step forward, from the user standpoint it reduces the friction between mobile and non mobile platforms, now they can run their apps on the most popular OS that they can run on practically any x86 HW they own. It's a pretty radical change.

Apple running Apple doesn't change much

Can you see the difference?
Independent contractors can’t set their own rates or decline jobs.

FedEx uses independent contractors with established rates and requirements to carry.

There are many independent contractors who can’t set rates or choose not to do parts of the job.

Even my local barber shop co-op makes independent contractors have price ranges and doesn’t let them refuse walk ins if they are on duty.

When I was an independent contractor I paid into unemployment insurance so all these Uber drivers should have unemployment insurance that they pay themselves.
I worked in a non-tech office where people used Firefox. At one point firefox was taking 30 seconds to load. I’d experienced this too and it seemed to be a bug in the profile manager. Nonetheless my colleagues were unimpressed.

This was before Chrome was released. And when Chrome was released it was frankly better for most users, even without extensions at the start. Yes it was heavily advertised, but it also felt faster and gave a better experience.

Now Firefox after the quantum reactor, and getting rid of XUL, upsetting plugin users, has caught up with Chrome—but they did this from what was once a leading position, and getting back those users lost seems less likely.
Sure, and as I mentioned elsewhere: before they had Chrome, they aggressively marketed Firefox, paying referral commissions for every Firefox install that included their toolbar. That was in 2005/2006 and ran for years, and was a large part why Firefox became successful: websites got paid to recommend it to their users.

Marketing is a large part of everything, I agree. But the argument I replied to was that it was the monopoly & bundling that made it successful. That's obviously completely false and pure propaganda, trying to absolve Firefox of anything and everything, essentially saying "none of those things matter, it was only Google's evil behavior".

> I'm sure word of mouth had an effect, but it was only a small part of why it succeeded.

I'm not so sure. Internet Explorer as "the perfect tool to download Chrome" wasn't a meme because people watched ads, but because Chrome (on Windows) was easy to download & install and fast & stable. Firefox wasn't any of that in comparison, that's why lots of people I know switched to Chrome back then.

And once you've gotten used to something, you really need a reason to switch back - something that Firefox never provided. Privacy might become that, but Chrome with plugins isn't terrible either, and Firefox sent data to Google for analytics "out of the box" as well (and probably still does?).

I understand that it's nice to have a boogeyman that can be blamed, but I don't think that's accurate. Firefox lost because of Mozilla, not because of Google.
The Royal Navy apparently considered an underground base for its missile subs to be located in the Loch Glendhu area in the North West Highlands. However, the US Navy wanted its submarines to be based closer to an airport and the Royal Navy wanted to be close to the US Navy...

I'm rather glad Loch Glendhu is left unspoiled but it does mean the current infrastructure for UK nuclear submarines is rather close to Glasgow and the largest population centre in Scotland.

Source: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Silent-Deep-Royal-Submarine-Service...

NB That book is worth it just for the description of the infamous Perisher course, let alone the stories about Rickover...
So his employer didn't pay him enough on short trips, so he's mad at the customer. Nice.
>It's about enforcing a social bubble through what is essentially house arrest

It's also premised on the idea that the interior of the campus perimeter represents a safe "sterile zone". This is obviously false. A student could show up on day one infected but with a negative test result. Professors and other staff members are free to leave the campus. Presumably vendors (food, cleaning, maintenance, supplies) will come and go. Solely restricting the movement of students is not going to prevent an outbreak.
My bad, you're right.
Isn't it the same for most countries though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_external_...
> A paper on the subject would almost be considered uninteresting, and a high ranking journal would ignore it (which is why it's considered "unpublishable").

There is a range of journals from high ranking to solid mid-level to lower tiers to somewhat suspicious to downright obviously pay-to-publish. You can always find a level that will publish your article.
Fair enough, but I wrote if I remember correctly which obsiously I didn't and confused when we got hit by it with the actual implementation
The government never has a right to track my whereabouts at all times, nor do I have an obligation to inform them of such.
your hackeone link:

"Page not found

The page you are looking for does not exist.
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I had never heard about this, but from the nicely written manual it looks like a neat OS.

Since the source code is available I could not resist porting "lc" (List files in categories and columns): https://github.com/gdm85/lc

If you have nostalgia of that command you can now enjoy it on your modern Linux!
DNSSEC allows a recursive DNS server to absorb these Google Chrome junk queries: the resolver can use a secure proof of nonexistence to answer the junk query from cache. Much more efficient, and works to absorb junk traffic in any domain signed with NSEC, not just the root.
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8198
https://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2019-04/root.html
You're basically saying that preservation is easy if the original developers took preservation into account. The article is making the point that developers and ecosystems increasingly don't consider preservation ahead of time.

> One, you can preserve the binary and run it with emulation. For webapps, this means preserving a deployable image. Your faddish/brittle dependencies are 100% irrelevant, because your image includes them already, right?

And what if the software's build artifacts aren't binaries or deployable images? Many projects (most, I suspect) don't output either.

> Or two, you can preserve the source code. Which for any project is going to involve a mess of complicated tooling that dates to when the project used to be compiled.

Well sure, but some projects have more mess than others. That's kind of the point of the OP.

> But if you're intending to preserve something for the long term, you should preserve the dependencies too -- e.g. node modules or whatever.

And if you made the decision to preserve the software long after it was initially developed, what then? Most people explicitly don't put their node_modules folder in version control.

> I don't really see what's all that different.

What's arguably different is that many of the currently popular ecosystems don't really value long-term maintainability, stability, or preservation to the same extent as the popular ecosystems of yesteryear did. Projects in these ecosystems can end up broken on a much shorter timeline than in other ecosystems. Project breakage also has a way of causing cascading problems.

I'm not sure why you're confused, you seem to have a good grasp on the solutions to these problems. Perhaps you're unaware that it's common practice not to implement those solutions ahead of time, and that is exactly what the OP is complaining about?
> "updates are recommended", followed by "updates are strongly recommended", and more recently, "updates are mandatory".

This is 5 years old, today we are doing:

Updates happen in background automatically without user knowing and sometimes when autoupdated software is being used at the time, it crashes when new action is performed and all not saved user data is lost.

Move fast, break things!
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Not OP, but my grandfather who died from Parkinson's had two risk factors. Growing up on a farm with pesticides and serving in WW2. Also didn't drink coffee. So you wonder how theses factor are related to diet. Perhaps all associated with "constipation" diets. i.e low in fiber.
Solid idea, worth thinking more about. A FIFO queue of tasks that anyone can grab from at any time.

Main drawback is that each task would have to have a proper description, context and definition of done, otherwise it's bound to fail. Once you have those, any tool would do. But usually those three things are the hard part, not the tool/technology.
> That could change in the course of tens or hundreds of millions of years with stellar drift.

Not worth worrying that much about it then - in a mere billion years (IIRC) the sun's output is predicted to have increased enough that it's unlikely liquid water could exist on the surface of the earth, effectively ending most life. Though it's possible that the level of CO2 in the atmosphere will have dropped enough to make photosynthesis impossible for most plants in around half that time.
"Truly uncorrelated" is a problematic concept. Most of the time, any two things within each other's light cones, have at least tiny direct or indirect effects on each other. These effects are usually not that tiny in experimental settings because of imperfect experimental tools and procedures.
While you are correct that the Google's marketing power is a leading factor in the decline of market share by firefox

The other items on your list, when you proclaim not to be a factor, were and are a factor as well. A significant facto in my opinion.

While google has a marketing and monetary edge, FireFox can not stop shooting itself in the foot either.
What I never understand about these kinds of things is that it is bad enough to plan to do that, but why go around telling people what you plan to do?
Yeah, the real issue is that the open-cycle ones pump the hot air out of the room, sucking in more hot air. They're fine if they're blowing directly on you but other than that, not very effective. (I used one for a summer while working out of a spare room before I moved into an office with a proper split system. They're also super loud when they're right behind your head.)
I hope you do realise that life is so easy because we are always complaining and not in spite of it. Worker rights and social safety nets did not magically appear out of thin air.
It is unusual, but it does happen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_engagements_of_the_Gulf_Wa...

There have been attempts to make fighters (F-4) without guns as that was considered obsolete by military middle management (pentagon), but then they had to add them later because actual combat showed it not to be the case.

In fairly recent engagements between F-15s and Mig-25s/29s - dogfights with guns have occurred and were decisive.

You don't always get to detect threats beyond visual range and shoot missiles.

For a more in-depth account to get an idea of how ROE (rules of engagement), and actual conditions play into these scenarios:

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/35765/confessions-of-a...
This study used the DITL “day in the life” DNS data collection exercise https://www.dns-oarc.net/oarc/data/ditl which is formally organized regular research activity.
Zero G: Some German mobile users still waiting for a signal
I'm not sure what you mean about tab tree. There are tab tree WebExtensions.
I use Affinity Photo as my primary art tool and recommend it highly as well. Its speed is amazing (I use the Mac version with Metal).
"The concept is based on the assumption that if you build something that is useful and works well, the users will eventually come to you as result."

Sounds a lot like "Build it and they will come", which has been the death of quite a number of startups.
Certainly it's important to build something amazing, but I think you ignore marketing and sales at your own peril. You need someone looking at how a product is perceived in the market, not just how amazing it is.
As someone who has done this: it's not solved in every reader, and the standards do not work.

Atom is interoperable and extensible and great care was taken during design and implementation testing to achieve these goals.

RSS, OTOH, is garbage on fire ruined by one man's ego.

https://web.archive.org/web/2004/http://diveintomark.org/arc...
> Mozilla's mission is to "free the web". Something like that can't be done with slightly sleeker UI on top of monopolistic rendering engine. You need to have an influence on all levels.

That depends on behaviour.

> I've read it this week in some interview with the FF developers that ever since MS gave up on homegrown Edge engine and adopted Chromium/Blink their voice on the standards committee is weak and lacks clout.

As if they had much to say before...
But that's the point, your influence depends on what you do and who is backing you. Chrome-Edge is just too small and Microsoft is not doing much to build their influence at the moment.

> Well yeah. But it just sounds a bit simplistic to say "just earn that $500 million profits somewhere so you can sponsor your side project Firefox".

If you have a budget of some hundred million dollars and a very big and enthuastic community, then it's very easy to make money. Even having enough money at all can make you money, though this might be ruled out for Mozilla because of their legal status.
Those may be correlated with a lack of family and, thus, more free time for personal projects. Not that one outgrows an appreciation of anime once married, but that the tendency toward cute girl avatars probably decreases.
but journals and peer-review enforce this. That's a good thing (though I agree that letting journals do this is stupid – arxiv is out there, why can't they sign up unis to make people review the things there.)
Major news organizations join the fight against Apple’s App Store fees
That's another reason to use an internal DNS server which queries an upstream DOH server.
I don't think anybody is discounting senescence being a factor, but rather theorising the likely pathology of the disease which may be a combination of different factors, including pathogens together with senescence.
Reducing taxes is not a subsidy...
Inject pilot, win fight, catch pilot midair :)
Seems the article isn’t as black and white as the headline. Is the marginal dollar better spent on engineering or sales and marketing? The answer varies over the course of a product’s lifetime. The higher dollar value the purchase, the more important sales becomes over time.
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> The internet is really good at keeping us in our bubbles, making a lot of assumptions on geolocated IPs.

PocketCast, and I assume a lot of other podcast apps, let you change your country in the settings when you are browsing for new podcasts to listen.
Regarding closing the case with glue, I have an iPod Classic 5Gen and there are a lot of mod's but I don't see one that change the case to be easily open. Remarkable don't apply to this because they are extremely thin but it should be a good feature to have in other devices.
I just use the link you have provided, if you fill the last field (net salary after tax, what is really paid to the bank account of the employee) to 30k/year, the total cost for employer is 57,950€. And not 41k like you mentioned
I once had the idea for a global event queue, to enable new types of application interaction. Then twitter came out and I thought "oh well, that basically does what I was thinking of". Didn't quite turn out that way when they messed up the APIs, and then IFTTT did a better version of that concept...
> [^1] in fact, if you put it in the shade then it would warm up because it could no longer radiate to space.

If I understand correctly, this isn't quite right. If it's in the shade, then whatever is shading it is radiating more heat onto it (because the shading object is hotter than space) and possibly reflecting its own radiated heat back. If it's under a clear sky then it's receiving less heat, so what it loses by radiating has more effect. Does that sound right?
Would have been fine if they hadn't fixed it with crap software that was incompatible with the pilots existing runaway trim checklist.
Statistics Are Bloodless Things
> Developers wanting the last shinny programming
> language instead of mastering one.

Well, how about "developer wanting it all to be Java(Type)Script"?
Same in Germany, unless you hire full time lawyers and accountants you’ll end up burning a lot of money on these services, mistakes they make and all sorts of authorities.
> Yet hundreds of companies die, too.

Like everywhere in the world.

I do not mind argumented criticism. But you are making broad subjectives statements that we ear ALL the time. If France was such an hostile place to business, it would not be the 7th largest economy in the world (2019).

>> If France is so bad, move out.
> The chauvinism is strong in this one.

I could answer in bad faith that cultural imperial is also strong and that one need to learn the culture of the country one lives in as they will not find "silicon valley" culutre everywhere.

But really it was not my point. My point is I'm fed up with people painting such a dark picture of France. Most of the critism are way too often resumed to, I want the cake and eat it too, the quality of life but not the bureaucracy and taxes. It gets old fast.

> > You'll learn a thing or two in the process.
> I'm sure I would. I mean, I've done it.

And it looks like you even pick up the French national sport I'm no stranger to: whining.
(tone: light hearted joke, not personal attack to be clear)
It's not an all or nothing situation. GP is likely not opposed to each and every regulation and would like to see them all, 100%, go.

They pay taxes in France, it's only natural to want to have a say in how this money is spent. Complaining against the way things are doesn't mean that they would want each and every regulation repealed and switch completely to the way things are "over the pond". It could, it probably doesn't. They probably would have gone over the pond if it were the case.
Isn't it unfair to the human pilot, as the AI can pull G-Force maneuvers that'll otherwise kill the human pilot?
Students don’t lease dorm rooms in the traditional sense of a lease
It's an interesting idea but doesn't that go directly against the TOS of most phone providers?
Will credit cards become a thing of the past?
This is insidious. What kind of college dean or president would think that this is OK?

With such a low level of regard towards young people and with only potential for gross abuse, if the staff's leadership refuse to apologise and withdraw the app's obligatoriness then they should be sacked without delay.

I know this is a strong opinion but I'm really on board with that petition.
Here is my recipe. I don’t use any oil in the roux. Stock is from the shrimp heads, with file’ at the end.

https://youtu.be/hzzZJwKz5W0
It's like beating humans at chess, then Go. We don't desperately need AI to be able to do that specific thing. It's useful as a test - one of many surely to come - to see how far along we are in the process of replacement. You have to start somewhere.
After the initial UV/X/Gamma hit, we'd have a good couple thousands of years to build a parasol to protect us from the slower particles.