skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point was there's an additional anti-pattern at play. As the reader progresses through a sentence, they shouldn't have to mentally cross out previously made categorical claims. This isn't quite the same thing as the stack overflow problem.

I'm afraid I don't see your rephrasing as an improvement. It doesn't substantially restructure the sentence, and to someone familiar with the mathematical writing style, it reads less naturally.
I've done this. Mine has been in aeroplane mode since the day I got it. I seem to remember having to allow it to connect to Amazon once when I first took it out of the box, but since then, no network connectivity at all, and zero problems as a result. It's been great.

I download the ebooks themselves using the Kindle application on my computer (if I'm using Amazon to get them, which I don't always), and then use Calibre to manage/import/convert/strip DRM from them. I don't need the sync functionality, or to be able to look things up on the internet (not being able to do that is a feature as far as I'm concerned!). I just want text on a page. I like the "e-reader" experience, and I have no desire to read books on a phone or tablet. I have one Kindle, and it comes with me if I think I'm going to have the opportunity to read when I'm out of the house.

Of course, if you're using Amazon to get your books they'll still build a profile of your reading habits, but there's something about tracking the exact parts of a book I'm reading, the bits I might linger on or reread, which feels extra intrusive to me, and which I categorically don't want.
I'd imagine they may already be. I've been having a -lot- of issues with captchas lately. It's not my eyes getting worse, they seem to be getting both more esoteric, and the letters all crammed together. Is that cl, cI, ol, oI, or d? It often takes me multiple attempts.
On my kindle Oasis:

- Go to the homescreen

- Open the hamburger menu

- Tap settings

- Device Options

- Advanced Options

- Privacy

- Disable
Sikuli has the benefit of being fairly cross-platform, so scripts written for X will also work in Windows and in theory other more esoteric window manager environments.

It also has the ability to identify visual cues, which this doesn't seem to do.
It's frustrating, but utilizing old.reddit.com / Reddit Enhancement Suite (https://redditenhancementsuite.com/) goes a long way in making it a more enjoyable experience.
Try and select "Print" from the menu instead of Ctrl+P. Instead of bringing up the system print dialog, this brings up an interface where you can tweak the print layout. No idea why it isn't the default view when pressing ctrl+p. At least there I feel it's basically the same as Chrome when printing.
I would say Elon Musk via his development of Tesla (first modern viable electric car) and of SpaceX (first almost fully reusable low cost space solution). They are different "type" than the ones you quote, but the sheer magnitude and long term impact of both those companies will likely reverberate for decades to come.
Totally right. Huge blind spot here.
I’m curious, what problems does EE have?
That seems pretty relevant to the extremely contrived, non-representative, bizarre scenario the world finds itself in today.
It was an engineering position, not an internship.
Mozilla is fixing a lot of Firefox printing issues for Firefox 81 (September 22 release date).

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/Layout/Printing_and_fragme...
Quite a few of our senses are logarithmic and I think keeping that in mind serves us more than most realize when analyzing some sensory phenomena.
This seems like good news. Is hydroxychloroquine currently being prescribed widely?
What kind of position was that for? Must not have been a generalist software engineer if there was only one slot available.
* https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/8885

This seems to be more of a udev and 'device' discovery problem than something inherit to ZFS/ZoL.
> Every single person in the US would be considered privileged by people in nations with extreme poverty (living on less than $1 per day).

I agree. I therefore propose we limit this discussion to the US (and possibly western/central Europe).

> NYT is political biased to an extreme degree to authoritarian and collectivist ideologies

That's interesting. What make you think that? According to Media Bias/Fact Check[0] the NYT is considered center-left, hardly the of domain authoritarian ideologues. What do you think?

> you seem to simply want to ignore these things to push your political cause

You makes me curious! What do you think my political cause to be?

> The "costs" your study talks about has been mitigated in any number of ways I have outlined in at least 4 comments now.

If there is no need for voter ids, every cost related to them is an unnecessary barrier for the populate to fulfill its obligation to vote an thus to participate in democracy. Yes; the costs are mitigated to a degree, but as you agree yourself; why bother at all, especially if they risk to weight especially on poorer people that might otherwise be discouraged to vote?

> The need for ID happens in all facets of life and fail to see a compelling reason that voting should be excluded from this.

That's a strange formulation. But anyway; I fail to see why an ID should be necessary for most facets of life, as you put it. Why should it?

> You believe Voter ID laws disenfranchise poor people, I think poor people not having access to an ID is far far far more likely to disenfranchise them [...]

So why erect further barriers rather than removing the need for an ID in all these cases? Especially a government-issued ID?

Thanks for this interesting exchange so far!

[0] https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/new-york-times/
In general I agree, genetic and even epigenetic testing tends to identify problems at a point where gene therapy is no longer an option, so why bother? But if you can take tissue samples, we're getting to the point were we can detect cancers from SVs and fusions fairly easily. It'd be a easy sale to sell blood tests for leukemia, for example. That alone won't justify the cost, but we're making progress.
Thanks, and thank you too, svachalek.

And yeah it's weird that the non-image search is fine, results about the food and about the player, but the image results really stand out.

I have to say I didn't know who Steph Curry was before, but I'm impressed that in the US at least he's bigger than the food.
This is only peripherally related to this great news, and I apologize if this makes me a wet blanket to ask, but I figure someone here will know the answer:

I went back to read some ZFS roadmap documentation from the Before (Oracle) Times this winter, and was reminded why my outlook for ZFS was initially rosier.

I was super excited about ZFS because if and when it got the ability to add new hard drives to an existing volume, then we had something I've always wanted: a straightforward way to grow a filesystem without having to tear it down and rebuild it from scratch.

That was still listed in future enhancements, shortly before Sun started to fall apart. Does anyone know where we are on that? Did that functionality get painted into a corner by other design concerns?

It's in that category of things that I might not use that much, but family and customers could use the hell out of and it would simplify my life just knowing it exists. I feel we are all lesser for that never making it off of the drawing board.
A few other places do this too.
I suppose it's easier for a browser vendor to build this into their existing program than to create an entirely new one. Your sentiment is understandable to me, (my) PDF viewing is disconnected enough from web browsing to warrant being split off into a separate program. But PDF is probably an expected feature from a browser for many people.
Agreed! As luck would have it I was in the Carolinas for the 2017 eclipse so I drove to be in the path of totality. What an incredible experience, I am so glad I had the opportunity and made the effort, it's so worth it. And yes, absolutely, there's a massive difference between 98% and full eclipse -- if you're that close, make the trip!!!

The next eclipse in North America is on April 8th 2024 [0] I'll absolutely be making the trip even if I have to hitch-hike or walk!

[0] https://www.space.com/great-american-solar-eclipse-2024-four...
So you should turn those features on. It doesn't mean I should have to tolerate it by default.
Building relationships with our allies in the area (TPP), State Department diplomacy, etc. to pressure China effectively. I think TPP was dead regardless of who won, but that State is impaired right now.
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Yeah, PDFs frequently don't work at all in FF for me, I'd be suprised if anyone set it as the default.
Rhetoric is typically effective, eloquent reasoning and speech.
Google collects profiles from user devices fleet-wide on both Android and ChromeOS. That's why code like this exists:

https://github.com/google/perf_data_converter/tree/master/sr...
What development practices do they have that is unique to them?
I grew up in a place where people would talk about "that one storm in '62" (year made up) or even further back, either from direct experience or retelling an older generation's story. Given the bay area's high flux of people in and out, how many people have lived there long enough for generational knowledge of the weather 50 or 100 years ago to exist?
OK well that's something. An opt-in would be preferred but that's much better than nothing.

Is it confirmed though that these network requests definitely stop after that is switched?
It is hard to see what the US should do, but I think the west has a moral obligation to do something (even though it is technically an Anglo-sino agreement).

The UK is trying to welcome people from Hong Kong to the UK (passports left over from before the handover) which could hurt them where it actually matters if lucky.
It'll be interesting to see how this evolves over time.

Nationalism in its modern (post-1865) form is a product of technology + economics. The U.S. before 1865 was a relatively lose confederation of states: this is enshrined in the 10th amendment (now largely forgotten, but which reserved all powers not explicitly delegated to the federal government or people "to the states"), and indeed in the word "state". Same thing in other nations like Germany and Italy: before 1871 these were independent states like Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony, Hanover, Brandenburg, Westfalen, Bohemia, Sardinia, Tuscany, Venetia, Florence, etc.

The driver for national unification was largely industrialization. New technologies like the railroad, telegraph, steel-making, mass production, etc. gave large advantages (particularly on the battlefield) to larger political unions that could draw on the labor of many regions and specialize. Political bodies that didn't adopt these technologies got rolled. The North likes to view the American Civil War in terms of slavery, and the South likes to view it in terms of states rights, but fundamentally it was a clash between the industrial system in the North vs. the plantation system in the South. And just like Brexit and Trump are doing now, the South fought viciously to preserve their self-determination and way of life, but the industrial system was just more efficient.

Right now, we're seeing protectionist lip-service. My iPhone is still made all over the world, my employer still makes a majority of its money in foreign countries, I still have to compete with foreign buyers when buying a home (though it's better now than it was in 2015-2018). It'll be interesting to see what happens if there's a serious threat to that. We had a previous era of globalization in 1900-1914 that ended with WW1 - but arguably that was because the world wasn't ready for it, and globalization was entwined in the lives of the rich but not the common people. Now there's a significant number of people who are largely unaware of how dependent their lifestyles are on globalization, and I'm curious what'll happen if it's actually threatened.
> The onus for proving that a visitor is not a bot should be on the server side,

Unfortunately that's exactly what is happening with ReCaptcha checking for Google cookies.
Would the Optane in this case be used as an L2ARC to handle part or all of the dedupe table? I'm trying to brush up on my ZFS terminology at the moment...
Would you possibly have a link to a sufficiently complex PDF document? I've not encountered one in a while.
I think we might have a slightly different understanding of validation. For me, really understanding the problem, and how your product solves that, is validation.

You say nail and hammer, and I say key and lock... ;-)
It's such a pity how politicised hydroxychloroquine has become.

It's stupid to believe in miracle cures. But it's also stupid to discard out of hand things for which evidence is unclear just because your opponent is irrationally keen on it.
My company has a partner relationship with Shopify so I can't go into too much detail but. My rules of thumb:

1) The value of the app to merchants in the app store is taken into account. They look at whether the app fits into the ecosystem and adds value for merchants.

2) Your monetization strategy should involve revenue share with Shopify from the get-go, in a way that scales with the success of your app.

3) The user should not leave Shopify for account registration or authentication.

4) As much functionality should be embedded in Shopify as possible.

5) Do not ever attempt to build something that side steps Shopify's checkout or order data in any way. Shopify payments and transaction fees is how they make money.
I was able to witness the 2017 eclipse under the path of totality and can confirm that animals really did act strange.

Minutes before totality started, a black bear walked casually within 10 feet of me. I remember thinking that my viewing experience was going to be ruined because some bear was going to attack me. It ended up just looking at me and strolling casually along. Very strange indeed.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-edtx/pr/texas-pilot-sentenced-w...
Reddit is just a link aggregator and 9gag is just an entertainment site.
The overwhelming reason why bureaucrats (either those in government or in corporate middle management) love the passive voice is "to avoid taking the blame" (or to avoid appearing to blame someone powerful).
Reminds me of this excellent sentence of Hofstadter's, on the concept of treating language as a stack composed of clauses and popped by verbs:

"The proverbial German phenomenon of the 'verb-at-the-end', about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture, and then finish up by rattling off a string of verbs by which their audience, for whom the stack had long since lost its coherence, would be totally nunplussed, are told, is an excellent example of linguistic pushing and popping."
I think the author is quick to blame right-to-repair and throw-away culture when my experience is that modern generations just have less interest in owning items just for the sake of "cherishing" them.

I've been through a few iterations of "clean out Grandma's house" by now and the grandkids, by and large, have the attitude of "Do I have an immediate use for X? No - throw it in the appraise/donate pile"

Blame Marie Kondo if you like.

> “It seems illogical to buy mass-produced modern furniture when the 200-year-old skilfully(sp) hand carved antique pieces now compare so well in price,”

Not if you care about comfort more than appearance.
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I completely disagree.

A vast majority of commercial products don't do anything in the way of recommending additional goods and services to their users. The sale of the original good or service would be the only profit-seeking component.
Thanks for the thoughtful response, was HN always this nasty?

I think tooling around this idea makes sense and I hope you succeed.

I wrote a little allegorical story about this which you might like: https://zalberico.com/essay/2020/07/14/the-serfs-of-facebook...

I think it's a hard problem and it's exciting to see multiple projects trying to make this better: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24269016
I wonder if I might explore that a little. Do recognizing and mitigating cognitive biases -- as goals -- necessarily lead to better organizations?

On the face of it, it might seem the answer is yes. Fewer cognitive biases means better decisions that correspond more closely to reality. The thrust is that the more rational we are, the more effective our actions are.

However, in my observation, the type of rationality that "works" isn't always the same as the type that is "logically correct" (they can be identical in some instances, but not in all). Successful organizations, it seems to me, tend to prize "instrumental rationality" over "value rationality" / "epistemic rationality" [1].

Just wondering what folks' thoughts are on that?

Folks like Gerd Gigerenzer advocate the use of heuristics, which while are often biased, actually lead to good outcomes on average -- especially in incomplete information scenarios (which is most scenarios in real life). [2, 3]

It has even been shown that heuristics or crude (or even slightly wrong) simple models can outperform complex rigorous models in complex environments – because they are usually more robust to assumption violations under changing conditions [4,5]. In real life, assumptions are violated to various degrees almost all the time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_and_value_rationa...

[2] https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-a-heuristic-2795235

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuristics_in_judgment_and_dec...

[4] https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2012/09/17/robustness-of-simp...

[5] https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/why-forecasts-fail-what-...
20 years and not a 1.0 release yet? Makes me wonder what release numbers mean to people. In this case, I guess 0.x does not mean that it is not considered ready/mature for production use; and does not mean that it is unstable and could change in wildly backwards incompat ways from release to release?
So firestorms aren't natural?
I think there's also a difference between the way I (an English person) would place the emphasis in a sentence compared to the way I hear Americans speak. One thing that frequently makes it more difficult for me to understand is an adjective/noun phrase with the emphasis at the start, so the important part (the noun) is nearly swallowed.
I was hoping for something a bit more innovative or comprehensive, this seems to be just an oneil cylinder with no windows.
One of the ways that the USFS will negotiate with the loggers is essentially to require them to do forest management in the areas that they are logging.
Was the "avoid nominalization" section intended to be tongue-in-cheek? "Nominalization" is itself a nominalization. If the section followed its own advice it would read "don't nominalize [verbs]"
I’m a little wary of disclosing in case they read this but it’s probably rare enough that they would know from the description anyways. I will say it’s a software position and it remains on their careers page as open.
I don't know about in modern times but historically military leaders had a lot of interest in person agnostic processes. Caesar's book is all about what he does to avoid relying on anyone having special talents.

Startups, and riskier technology ventures generally, seem to be the opposite. There you aren't Caesar, you're the Gauls. You're hoping that your team has just what it takes to overcome the odds.
Doubled? No. From Wikipedia:

> Global annual mean CO2 concentration has increased by more than 45% since the start of the Industrial Revolution, from 280 ppm during the 10,000 years up to the mid-18th century[2] to 415 ppm as of May 2019.

I know, it's Wikipedia. If you've got a better source, cite it. Until you do, "doubled" is hyperbole.

If you want to persuade people that anthropogenic climate change is real, easily-disproved overexaggeration isn't the way to do it.
We have no idea how lucky we are and we're destroying our planet and the life within. There are probably so many things about our situation which we take for granted, many things with infinitesimally small chances of occurring even within just systems harboring sentient life.

The number of systems which reach our intellectual capacity must all have certain aspects which make them completely unique, a rare feat in such a large and repetitive universe.
This is hilarious, people are having a javascript alert conversation on this site.
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I'd actually consider browser pdf viewers safer than a standalone native app. Firefox uses pdfjs, a pure javascript pdf implementation running inside a battle-tested browser javascript sandbox. No unsafe native pdf code with countless holes.
This fascinating article was posted on HN a few days ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24251718

It talks about the history of the HCQ debacle and in the process taught me quite a lot about medical study methodology/epistemology.
TSMC is known to be very selective with cadres. People who are given "keys to the kingdom" are selected among all things upon loyalty. Take a look on their number of GMs, and VPs with 10+ years of work at TSMC. At the highest levels, TSMC kind of stops being a company, and starts looking like a fraternity.
> "We should socialize the learnings from this discussion."

I feel like we worked for the same company. Last time I heard this exact phrase I was participating in a meeting where one of the agenda points was feedback from a meeting about meetings.

Result: we scheduled another meeting.

Important question: did we deliver value?
Putting aside the arguments about that is/is-not monopolistic behavior and assuming the market setup remains as set-up, how might this market evolve?

I'm an Android user and don't really think Apple is doing anything wrong. I'm not sure why anyone should care about how much Apple charges to play in its walled garden (no one seems to care about XBox/Playstation/Nintendo?). If anyone cares, they can use Android, no? If they do care and they don't want to use Android, then they've wandered into fanboy territory. (Here I expect downvotes but I'm not sure why anyone views Apple differently than unethical diamond purveyors: when the seller operates outside your ethics expectations/wants, then you don't buy from them...)
1. Not a low dose (400mg/week should be enough from what I've read)

2. No mention of zinc supplements, which seems to be the key to make the Hydroxychloroquine effective
How about design or other backgrounds such as hci?
What is in the level on apple silicon?
It is not uncommon for tropical moisture to reach the coast of CA in late summer/early fall. It has happened a few times since I've lived here. The lightning is more uncommon but also not unheard of.
From what I understand this wasn't so much about bundling everything into the web browser. It was more about the handling of links to PDF files that are served with `content-disposition:attachment` to get the browser to open the "choose an app to open this file" system dialog. Without Firefox being registered with the system as an app that could open PDF files, users wouldn't be given the option to open it with Firefox (often they'd be prompted to open it using Edge). That was annoying people.

Regarding your security concern, Firefox's PDF viewer is PDF.js. Parsing PDF files in a JS sandbox and rendering it to an HTML <canvas> in a sandboxed process should be more secure than rendering it using an unsandboxed app that parses/renders using system APIs.
I'm unfortunately completely unprepared to read a study like this and criticize it, but I do think that there's reason to believe the effect is close to zero. Why? Because more than one randomized controlled trial have produced zero effects compared to placebo.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/07/16/hydroxychlo...
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