skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is a chicken and egg problem here - if you make it harder to develop, build and ship non trivial extensions to end users then only a tiny fraction of users will use them.

This is a really good point.

> what is an acceptable grace period for coming up with an equivalent replacement when you take an API away?

I really don't know.

I am frustrated with the current state of extensions in Firefox, even as I acknowledge that the situation in Firefox is still way better than it is in browsers like Chrome or Safari, and even as I remain hopeful that the Firefox extension ecosystem could be really good. I am sympathetic to the argument that it's an engineering resources problem. But, that also makes me really nervous about the Mozilla cuts that happened recently, because now how long are we going to wait for Servo to be in a usable state, if it even ever gets to a usable state?

Like you mention above, when you're forging a new trail in an underdeveloped area and making a case that users would benefit from these features if the ecosystem supported them enough and trained users to use them, you need some freedom to be flexible and experimental and to waste some resources forging that trail. And if resources are as scarce as Mozilla is claiming, then what are the features that are going to be cut first? The experimental, trailblazing ones, the weird ideas like, "shouldn't there be a section in the Firefox options where users can just live-edit the CSS to the browser?".
Lol it was literally just a list of 51 books but sure you know me.
The HVAC folks didn't seem to think that would be possible/practical. I don't know exactly why. It'd have to run along the top of the roof because I don't have an attic.
The mindscape podcast recently had a pretty good episode on BS - ep 108 | Carl Bergstrom on Information, Disinformation, and Bullshit

https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2020/08/03/108-...
It's fixed now btw
> 27% of people have antibodies, thus 2.4 million were infected. 23k deaths, thus a 1% mortality rate.

1% would be to high given the data elsewhere.

Did the population this study looks at have a death toll of 23k and what was the population exactly?

I'd think a top priority in the world would be to tie this number down properly. And this study seems solid.

The fact children are a higher infection rate in the study is not good, because it implies the mortality rate is higher again than 1%.
Current generation. New game consoles with a huge increase in power are coming out in a few months and Nvidia is launching the 30 series at the same time.
Ubuntu is ever worse with their redundant two word names. So annoying.
It has a browser, eww (https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/eww.html), and I think others.

eww doesn't work very well yet. Try it for fun only. And it's slow. Pretty certain it does cookies but not js.

I think there's an emacs web browser which delegates the actual mechanics to something external, and only acts as a front end for display/interaction. Never tried it.
That is true for some apps, but not others. Lightroom is not available monthly at all.
She even sells cosmetics today!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sephora
This sounds like the sort of thing to forward to a journalist.
So everything is up for grabs? A person can decide that he should be able to drink and drive.
I'm sure the power and prestige of the position also has something to do with it (especially on reading about the shady process of his selection). Very few people on the planet can claim to control trillions of dollars in funds and sway the economy of a first world country and many of the largest companies in the world on a whim.

It's like saying "why would a multi-billionaire want to earn $400K becoming president of the USA?" (talking about Bloomberg, of course)
Huh, this is my university
Then the “fix” would be to make the shuttle drivers employees right?
> Walking is free but driving isn't.

Living in safe neighborhood to walk in isn't cheap, nor is a gym membership, nor is having time to drive to a nice neighborhood or trailhead to hike.

> Being unemployed provides more time to do healthy things than having a busy job.

People who are chronically unemployed but physically able often have a serious mental health issue that prevents them from holding down a job.

> I'd say the reason poor people are unhealthy is the same as the reason they're poor - unwillingness to work.

The working poor usually have little time in their day to exercise for health, especially when they are working multiple low wage jobs to make ends meet. Many of them work physically demanding jobs that are bad for their health, and are exhausted by the end of their work day - and not a "good" kind of exhaustion at that.
"except they dictate every aspect of the transaction" - I think they do it out of necessity, here in India at least.

Ferrying passengers is a very risky business. So protect the passengers, Uber/Lyft have no other option but to kind of police every aspect of the driver - passenger transaction. Despite all that, there were multiple rapes of women in Uber/Ola cars in India, drivers were ghosting Uber/Ola, they have tried to outsmart the routing algorithms by crowding in hot zones, tried to take cash from passengers without running the trip and what not.

While I espouse for drivers being treated fairly, whether as employees or contractors it's not that simple to bring in protections for the drivers without monitoring/scrutiny.

The contractors/employees of McDonalds are in a very different setting, and their customers are almost at no risk and there is little to no scope for embezzling cash, short of robbing the joint. So the comparison doesn't really hold true.
Becoming an employee doesn’t necessarily mean you have to work a rigid schedule. There are plenty of employees, like flight attendants, who bid on shifts on a periodic basis, and who have the opportunity to trade or add shifts freely.
You can get a refurb Android phone for literally $5 from Tracfone right now, for example.
I wonder about this too.it feels like the availability of cheap meat has a significant social.impact that I don't see discussed anywhere. If factory farmed meat was unavailable a significant section of society would only rarely be able to afford meat. Put another way, the availability of cheap meat disguises the true extent of poverty in this country
In California, if they cared about that, they could move that needle with housing policy, and nationally, with an immigration program that focuses on high end talent (such as H1B’s), letting low end wages lift up. That’s a real bouyancy that would make Uber drivers better off.

“Employment protections” are not important at all for workers’ prosperity. Just imagine if they were absent. The most marginal workers would be better off.
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Context for people considering whether it's worth reading this whole article: Roblox is a wildly successful online game popular with kids where they can create and share their own content, including video games they created themselves. Some Roblox game content (created by kids or adults) has 100k+ concurrent players. The origins of this title are pretty interesting and it's especially interesting given that you generally don't see people talking about Roblox inside or outside of the video games-focused press.
Yeah right.

Why do a significant percentage of rich folks leave their grueling day-to-day life to take up a $0 annual salary job called EFFIN "EARLY RETIREMENT"?
it's a transliteration from a language that's not written in latin alphabet. so all of the combinations you mentioned probably mean that historical region (and his name too, like you suspected)
> other than when the drivers choose to work.
That's not true. What about who else they can work for? That's not enforced either.

Which other businesses commonly allow people to work when they want, work for whatever competition they want, take any amount of 'vacation' in between?

You're fitting something new into an existing category by handwaving away lot of important nuance, when it is exactly this nuance that makes a ton of difference and why the new type of work may not fit into an existing category.
Double blind reviews are the standard in at least some corners of CS. Not only conferences, also for some journals.

Though you will also encounter single blind reviewing. I haven't encountered a truly open review process yet.
Citizen's Climate Lobby (CCL) does non-partisan lobbying for carbon fee and dividend in the USA, Canada and the EU. They lobby on the local and federal level, getting endorsements, tabling, getting bills introduced and writing articles and letters to newspapers. A list of CCL accomplishments is here: https://citizensclimatelobby.org/about-ccl/accomplishments/
For the same reason why people are against high level government officials anywhere getting pay raises. The public perceives it as a waste of money and believe that public servants should be solely motivated by the work and not the money. People forget that paying people who have significantly disproportionate power well makes them less likely to be tempted by outside influences.

The second is because that looks very weird and improper. It's a government job and the person who works gets compensated. Not taking a salary would make his tenure and situation even more abnormal. It also sets a bad precedent for potential future holders of the job.

The better option would be to accept the salary and donate it alongside the fortune he has vowed to give away.
Yeah, that's the TED Talk effect, as some people put it

You cannot make a TED Talk about something that people already know
Except the peace of mind and running arbitrary code part
Have you got a source for that? I would be very surprised if they dug up roots and stumps but I guess its possible when producing wood chip
AI slays top F-16 pilot in DARPA dogfight simulation
Pigs on alps keep themselves much cleaner than pigs in a sty[1].

Cattle use automatic brushes[2] when they're made available.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ww5nuVZnmc

also pigs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD5fviQ_i3c

[1] Or at least the sort of stys which haven't been legal here for a long time. Ferkeln in austrian music videos are even cleaner, but on the other hand the farmer depicted is obviously also not in her daily outfit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw-g6X8qob0&t=128

0:35 damn, that's a sweet New Holland...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23474129
In the absence of peer reviewed data, which takes at the very least 3 months, rendering it obsolete for a pandemic, the Tech is much better than say the NYT or the Atlantic. It largely does not misconstrue or report bad science. Here is a link to a talk by the scientist quoted in the Tech at UCSF's medical grand rounds. It starts at minute 38. It supports with more detailed evidence what I have been saying and in the timeframe we need it, a talk in front of a knowledgeable audience from respected scientists is about as good as we have. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew2MEF4XX8w.
I heard a good podcast about pony recently: https://corecursive.com/055-unproven-with-sean-allen-1/ - it’s about how Wallaroo Labs came to use it. They talk about using it to deal with some really interesting engineering challenges. One of the things that I found interesting is their comparison to Rust was that at least at the time Rust didn’t have a comparable runtime to Pony’s high performance actor based one.
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The entire point of switching to WebExtensions was that things could be stabilized permanently.
Most popular programming language folks. You give it 3 numbers and it treats them as 3 strings of characters...
It's hard to "get to know an industry, see a need, design a solution, bounce your ideas off people in the industry" if the industry doesn't exist yet.
You got it entirely backwards: a cons cell is a tree node which, as a corner case, can represent branches of a binary tree where the left child node (car) points to a child node value and the right child node (cdr) points to another branch (cons cell or nill).
Even if you don't need the money, from personal experience, volunteering is a bad road to go down. For better or worse, money is equivalent to respect, and without an income, you garner no respect.

What astonishes me is that anyone would want run this fund for a long period of time who isn't already very wealthy. When your boss of a two pizza team is earning more than the head of a 1tn fund, you know things are fucked up.

Compensation should be in the tens of millions, at the very least. Unless of course some egalitarian image is more important than the money that the entire country depends on.
Can anyone describe a use-case for "first class messages"?
In Miami-Dade County in Florida, it's not only bars that are closed but all indoor dining is not allowed. Restaurants had opened for dining for a short while but that was banned again in July. And masks are required in public everywhere, even outdoors. And a strict countywide curfew has been in place since July.
> Because embedding a mature, well written dependency

What? Are there no mature well written parsers?

Don't be ridiculous.
I'm curious to know how much data the root namespace servers put out in terms of gbps, but this doesn't seem to be public information.
I mean that's basically how the old XPCOM extensions worked for developers.
Can I ask, why did you launch this product without all the major IDEs being supported? I use webstorm, but the thought that it won't be supported for a few days means I may just forget about the product unless I am reminded again..
You get that with "snaps" on Ubuntu (and I imagine flatpak too).
Even that isn't necessarily true if big stars are destroyed to make smaller stars.
Your links betray how long ago this has happened. You are using excuses from 2006 to justify why a group of people doesn't deserve democracy.
What if you have timestamped file metadata l, but not tge data, or checksumed IDS records? Would that qualify as sufficient evidence?
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Never encountered paying for non-open access publication.
I have only encountered "article processing fees" in relation to open access publishing.

If you're okay with having your paper paywalled, you do not need to pay for journal publication.

So I'm curious in which domain/subdomain you have encountered this.
Your second question answers your first. And a reasonable answer to your second question is: it's not that much money in the grand scheme of things, and there's a certain value in doing things exactly by the book and with no ad hoc special handling.

If the guy really wants to work for free, he can just donate his salary back to the government or some charity.

Eg in the US you can use https://www.fiscal.treasury.gov/public/gifts-to-government.h...

In Germany https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staatsverschuldung_Deutschland... tells you how to contribute.

I imagine Norway has a similar mechanism, but I don't speak enough Norwegian to figure that out quickly.
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Agreed, that's what I meant about count vs density. It could have been:

"The universe has about as much star as it will ever have."

That's just confusing, haha.
> or when things like adobe do sketchy stuff

If a company does something sketchy and you cancel or reverse the charges, you generally lose everything on the account - not just the thing you're disputing.

Adobe is similar to Steam in that a single account is likely to have a variety of different products associated with it. If you somehow end up in a dispute involving Steam and reverse a charge, Valve will (IIRC) close out your entire account.
Does anybody know a good photo management software that's not Lightroom? I don't actually need to do edits to my photos - I need to manage my photo library. Lightroom is not great at it but is passable - is there anything else? What I'm looking for is software that:

- Is fast

- Is capable of leaving photos where they are ("import-in-place").

- imports photos from card to NAS, organized by time ( year/month/day)

- allows me to make selections & export e.g. to Google Photos (exporting to a different local folder is good enough, I can setup google photos to sync, it's only slightly inconvenient).

- Ideally has good features for finding image duplicates, and maybe for searching.

- Keeps my photos locally/ doesn't insist on a cloud location.
Were that to ever become the case, I assume a PiHole would become a much more popular gift
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We got hit by this issue in March when our remotr users increased 5+ times and the DNS traffic going through our VPNs was causing a headache to our DNS servers. We pinpointed this to tis Chrome functionality, which includes also other chromium based browers like new Edge, and we had to deploy a relevant GPO to disable this functionality.
Some background, I'm talking about ~200+k remote users. Also while in the office the load is distributed in tenths of DNS servers, when on VPN only a fraction of those are used. Furthermore if I remember correctly this "feature" in chrome was enabled in a version which was distributed to our clients maybe a month before the lockdowns so there was little time to see the effect while clients were still in the office
Nyxt is a browser that supports that. It wraps WebKit though, which is both good and bad I guess. Give it a try, it's nice.
> For the same reason why people are against high level government officials anywhere getting pay raises. The public perceives it as a waste of money and believe that public servants should be solely motivated by the work and not the money. People forget that paying people who have significantly disproportionate power well makes them less likely to be tempted by outside influences.

Interestingly, that's part of the reasoning why Singapore pays ministers millions per year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_of_Singapore
Yeah or a bit like saying why would a billionaire like Steve Jobs work for a has been company for $1 salary
I would love to know about this mythical browser, the web is one of the last things i don't have in emacs. I would dearly love to fix this.
This feels analogous to videogame modding. You either let/don't prevent the modders from messing with the very core of the game, which brings total overhaulability but also total vulnerability and jankiness; or you give them a nice modding API that, depending on how much effort you put into it might be rather powerful, safe and and convenient but IMO is fundamentally crippled in comparison to the former approach, it's as if you have to imagine all the ways people might want to mod your game beforehand.

Also, I have this bad taste in my mouth from Mozilla getting all that Google money just hours after sacking their developers, like it was a condition.
Just thinking for a few seconds, I can think of a number of ways to not repeatedly spam DNS servers while still accomplishing the objective. If you were to send 3 random queries to Google every time you opened your browser, you would quickly get hellbanned behind a recaptcha.

Not saying that we should embark on some quest for retribution against Google. It's just sad.
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This short email style is done to encourage conversations with users to find better market fit.

With colleagues I guess a style that helps to cut down on questions like the one you described is inferior.
> then I find papers and people saying what we did would never work.

Seriously? What kind of scientific paper makes such claims?
This is exactly it. Normal users don't think "Huh firefox is crashing, I'm going to disable addons one by one to work out if one of them is the cause" They just think "Wow, firefox is super buggy, I'm using chrome now" And then every time they see firefox mentioned online they leave their comment about how its super buggy and crashes all the time.
If you assume that interestingness of headlines is somewhat randomly distributed, and that for each article there are more misleading headlines than accurate headlines, your relation is bound to be true, even if being misleading by itself doesn't help.
> Cattle use automatic brushes when they're made available.

Damn, that's actually a very nice idea. We didn't have those back then.
I love when people suddenly realize people make decisions that are economically irrational and cant figure it out. Its like dividing by 0 for 90% of the population.
Azure, How can I delete a resource with ARM template?
> that the collective mentality of a people, first of all, is a real thing

I don't think that's true, or at least well-defined?
In my honest opinion retrospectives like these are generally useful, even when the audience may have an opposite and/or charged recollection
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Prediction: Covid will force Walmart to buy a cashierless Startup like Grabango
On android, you can easily spoof gps data with apps, no root needed. You don't even need to get another phone or leave it behind.
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What if I told you this is being enthusiastically developed and is supported by NLNet

https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/

https://github.com/atlas-engineer/nyxt/issues/887

https://nlnet.nl/project/NyxtBrowser/
This is the law cited in the article:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/4
Disposable, not fake. $5 would be ample for any authorization-based validation scheme I've ever implemented, dealt with, or heard about.
Read the fifth sentence of my comment, where I proposed exactly that.

I was responding to someone who proposed leaving campus without a phone.
The real benefit seems to be its in-built CI/CD, and horizontal scaling, much like GCP Cloud Run:

"App Platform allows you to hook up your source code repo and deploy using a cloud-hosted build system that automatically detects the needed environment to run your app."
Now it makes sense.

I used to be a wizard in a MUD. I enjoyed coding there, as I can interact in realtime with others on the server while they play around with my code.

Now I just released my first Roblox game. I enjoyed coding there, as I can interact in realtime with others on the server while they play around with my code.
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I agree. I was responding to someone suggesting students leave campus without a phone. It makes much more sense to have a decoy device than to leave your phone at home.
Afaict, all the best modding APIs are made by dogfooding them internally as much as possible, such as for scripting.
I don't know about software, but pirated games are generally more secure, stable and performant with less spyware than the official games with all the DRM.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that the logic in the merge node is where the magic happens. So you have parallel branches, A and B. A orders boxes while B orders shapes. Somewhere in A and B we created Box and Shape instances and those are outputs of A and B, respectively. The merge node, C, waits until A and B are completed and takes their outputs as input. The merge node needs to know how to match up the Box and Shape instances to say shape 2 can fix in box 1.
The first question I asked to myself: Is there a way to disable it? Networks i'm attached to, don't do any hijacking.

And yes, luckily there is a policy to disable it: https://cloud.google.com/docs/chrome-enterprise/policies/?po...

Registry key: Software\Policies\Google\Chrome\DNSInterceptionChecksEnabled

PowerShell: Set-ItemProperty HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome -Name DNSInterceptionChecksEnabled -Value 0 -Type DWord

If you are managing Chrome via GPO, you should do it via GPO. Templates can be downloaded here: https://chromeenterprise.google/browser/download/