skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And while I'm on the topic of offline pages, let me add another rant: As far as I know all Android browsers, including Firefox, keep commiting the cardinal sin of computer applications. They lose user data.

I cannot count how often I returned to the browser only to find a previously loaded page reloading. Good luck with that if you're temporarily in a dead spot.

Of course most of the time you aren't, but the browsers still lose your data, namely the scroll position. This makes these programs that are, to a first approximation, document display tools eminently useless for displaying documents longer than 140 characters.

Even when Firefox had an offline reader mode - built to read longer documents and with complete control over js and rendering - the scroll position was never persisted. I resorted to copy pasting a sentence to a notepad and using Find in page to resume reading. Ridiculous.

And that's not even mentioning form content and other more application-y state.

Of course I know it's an Android thing; apps don't get to hold on to stuff. So store everything to disk. I'll reload it when I'm good and ready. My podcast app doesn't restart the episode from scratch if I leave it stopped in the background for 5 minutes. I'm sure there are a thousand edge cases, but there's very little evidence of fixing even the simple path.

Imagine a desktop browser pulling shit like that. Again, not just a Firefox issue, from what I can tell none of the vendors think this is important.
I dont know how heavily involved he is. The man is a signature on a check. He has no medical credentials. All his fortune is built on stolen ip. He just writes checks.
Yes, especially you currently can't run .wasm based apps without a server on either Chrome or Firefox, but WebBundles will make this possible (I hope).
The Saudis used to destroy a lot of archaeological stuff out of specific religious drive, in Medina and Mecca. I don't know if that extends to prehistory.
Stealing local files using Safari Web Share API (no fix until Spring 2021)
It's probably just me, but I've never found Google Photo's search functionality to be very useful, and can usually find a particular photo in less than ten seconds manually. This is because I have a really good sense of when something happened, so I can usually scroll to the year and month and it's right there.

Also, I ruthlessly prune my photo collection, because once I clear out all the cruft that I don't care about (photos that are blurry, near duplicate, no longer relevant, etc), I have half as many photos to look through. I only keep 500-1000 photos per year, one folder per year, as well as a synced Camera Roll folder with not-yet-processed photos.

Not only does this make browsing through my photo collection a much more enjoyable experience, it doesn't take up much space. I have my entire photo collection (11000 photos from the last 12 years) stored locally on my phone in full resolution, as well as backed up in various other locations.
The sixteen digits are shared globally. Japan would only get a fraction, the size I'm not sure.
this is a problem with Mozilla in general

they gradually remove features essential 1-2% of the userbase and now they're getting to the point they have no users at all

the main reason to use Firefox over Chrome on mobile is the extension support, and now that's gone too
Coronavirus – Waec Candidate Tested Positive in Akwa Ibom Nigeria
Asana's is better:

- 86% gross margins (122,725 / 142,606)

- 86% YoY rev growth (76,770 to 142,606)

- 75k paying customers (easy come, easy go)

- one-off sale pitches vs one-off lines of code

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1477720/000119312520...
>> How sustainable this model is long term is somewhat questionable.

I wouldn't worry much.

What's the worst that could happen ? Amazon would need to invest ~$50B in their network ?

They already did so since 2014. They'll manage.
Thanks for clarifying. Any major differences between the two forms?
>Amazon retail operates at basically 0 margin.

This may have been true in the past but it's not an accurate any more. Especially the way you're phrasing it like how they don't make any money. Profit is low because they're using the cash flow to make further investment. Not because each item sold is not making any money.
Amazon's data is pretty precise I'm guessing. I live in a
suburban area right next to a major city.

We get a lot of stuff from Amazon, and in a single day I have seen the UPS guy, FedEx gal, our regular USPS postman, and the packages only USPS guy, all bringing Amazon boxes in one day.
I'm still using greasemonkey scripts to redirect any link that'd go to a paywalled newspaper to instead go to my own web-cache which has a crawler circumventing the paywalls and which serves the article without paywall, or ads, or any other undesired content (disclaimer: I have a paid subscription to the paper version of the newspaper, but the paywall is so broken it's simpler to just circumvent it than to actually log in for every single article)

I built this in 2 hours, and obviously I never intended it for anyone else to be used, so it's just a tiny greasemonkey script, a golang webserver and a nodejs crawler running along nicely. No official addon or anything.

Greasemonkey is super useful for this kind of personalized stuff.
Creandum backs youngest founder yet for Berlin-based productivity app
Kitsch and the Modern Predicament
Online Teaching Platforms for Everyone – Best Software Examples
What do you think drives the unnecessary growth?
If one is selling it yes indeed. For merely publishing the source? I'm not sure.
This is the most Hacker News post I have ever seen.
There is something called Hacker News
You're free to ask for it.

But what's your leverage to get it?

Obviously he had enough leverage to get it.
Ah yes Alberta where even roads don't work thanks to freeze thaw cycles. What a perfect start.
Sauté the banana slices in caramel, serve inside Cinnamon and sugar coated, lightly toasted and buttered brioche, with Sugary peanut butter like jiffy/skippy

Dip in honey. Enjoy with a glass of milk or cup of coffee
What does any of that have to do with surveillance?
If that'd be true then the homebrew scene wouldn't be a thing, but it very much is a thing particularly on Nintendo products.

It's dangerous to haphazardly disregard that as meaningless, by extension it's such movements that fight for very valid consumer rights, like actually owning the hardware that people pay money for.

When I buy a piece of hardware I expect to own it, to run on it whatever I want, to be able to repair it, not to be a "tolerated guest" with only limited access and everything thrown my way to make self-repair as difficult as possible by design.
exactly!
Another way to see it: engineering is the easy/cheap part. Testing, supporting, maintaining and marketing are way more expensive, and those are long-term expenses. The enthusiast usually thinks about the engineering bits, and when he's done with it he's done with it. Enterprise software is not like that - or shouldn't be :)
I still can't figure out for the life of me why anyone uses Venmo. I tried it once and had an awful experience. For those that use it, what is the appeal over simply using PayPal? That also lets you send money to friends for free. As far as I can tell, all the differences are very much in PayPal's favor:

1. Must use mobile app to send payments. You cannot send through the website. WTF?

2. When I tried to send $250, from my Venmo balance no less, I got an opaque error about please try again later. Only through trial and error did I figure out that it would let me send up to $100, but no more.

3. Everything about the social feed aspect. Among the Venmo users I know, no one actually uses it. Everyone talks about how easy it is to turn it off. But isn't this its only differentiator? If you're going to turn it off, why not just stick with PayPal which doesn't have this annoying anti-feature in the first place?

4. I could be wrong, but I think that even if you turn the feed off, you can't hide your list of "friends" from the public.
I really like the site. At the same time I think you could optimize comment display. I don’t understand who is replying to whom. How are Threads sorted? Super confusing. Just copy HN, done. And: I don’t get how the front page items are sorted. By activity?!
I don't think the point is "vectors adhering to a grid", quite the contrary it looks to me that the author is exposing the raw materials of a font which are, essentially, bezier curves expressed as ones and zeroes. I think the image that better conveys that idea is this: https://d14810e2jnirzn.cloudfront.net/media/documents/Signif...

The non-signifier fonts have some extra points in their bezier curves, which are bits in disk, traveling on the network, stored in memory and processed by the rendering engine that are going to be completely wasted when rendered at 16pts.

That's quite profound for me.

And I'm not an authority in Brutalism, but looks like the author was faithful to what he thinks brutalism is concerned with (from the article):

> Brutalism is not concerned with the material as such but rather the quality of the material, that is with the question: what can it do?
Hockey has already adopted revolutionary technology many times. Consider composite skate blade holders replacing steel blade holders, synthetic materials in protective equipment replacing leather, deer hair, and felt, aluminum and various sorts of composite and carbon fiber sticks replacing wooden hockey stick shafts, and so on.

I am a retired college hockey player who transitioned to officiating at the NCAA level.
I pretty much outfitted my entire house with antiques other people were giving away. As a history buff it's cool to know that 30-100+yr ago someone did exactly what I'm doing but pretty much everything I have bears wear from it's age and if I had to be worried about treating it right that would suck all the fun out.
Palantir CEO rips Silicon Valley in letter to investors
https://www.nubico.es/ is what came with my bq Cervantes, but I can't vouch about whether the DRM is cross compatible -- though I'm sure with Calibre it can probably be stripped.
> DHL [in Germany] charges Amazon ~2 euros, while the end user price is between 5 and 6 euros.

Up to a certain point [1], that's actually reasonable. Amazon drops off entire truckloads at a time, whereas end users hand packages over individually at shops that have to pay staff and rent. So the cost of just accepting parcel is going to be higher for packages sent by end users.

Side note: If I were DHL, I'd be giving Amazon a discount for packages that are addressed to a Packstation, since that cuts down on the other big cost center, the cost of delivering parcel on the last mile.

[1] I'm not arguing that this is the difference between 2 and 5-6 euros, but it's certainly a large part of it.
I agree, there’s a diversity of possible outcomes. I think case reports of flu recovery after a treatment are of limited value absent a quantitative analysis showing the treatment had some effect.
I don't think it would take much to get funding and political support with exactly that pitch.
The right to bear arms. The right to free speech. States rights. Hundreds of years of common law precedence. The 4th amendment. The fact that if a piece of evidence is acquired against you in an unlawful way it cannot be used against you in court as a US citizen. The right to a jury trial, etc etc.
>I suppose there must be a reason why we don't.

Because you're asking your portfolio manager to make you a custom index fund. The whole point of an index fund is to spread risk among lots of companies and sell fragments of that risk to lots of people. You can make your own custom index fund, it's called buying a share of every stock other than the ones you don't want.
Finalizers dont do much for safety. They are simply there to ensure controller (in this case ACK) won’t miss the deletion event and leave the resource dangling. To actually prevent object from being deleted you need a validation webhook
Probably putting some PR spin on the company's move from Palo Alto to Denver:

https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/20/palantir-denver-hq-ipo-dir...
Typical drivers can do the trip in ~2.5hrs. Mind you that is door to door w/ your actual destination.

Depending on regulations (similar to preflight security), this could be a 1 hour trip. If you need to also take a taxi to and from the hyperloop, you're not looking at much time savings. IMO the real value of these options is that you can do something else in the mean time. You can read, you can make calls, you can sleep.

Also: Obligatory monorail comment for hyper loop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDOI0cq6GZM
Also if you don't like it, it's extremely easy to turn off.
AMD: CVML means a computer vision and machine learning accelerator?
And they had the marketing machine ready the second they sued, just to remove any doubt they were acting in good faith.
Coronavirus: What can we learn from schools that have reopened?
It's significantly faster and ublock origin works.

Seems like getting parity would take a year+

So I guess they decided it's worth dumping the current code base to focus on the rewrite.
> It is generally impossible for a parliament to pass a law that forbids a future parliament from repealing it.

Not giving powers to governments in the first place would be something at a higher level than parliamentary. In the US, it would be something like a Constitutional amendment.

I agree that no such action, at any level, can ever be completely irreversible, in the sense that future citizens would never have to worry about the issue again. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
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So indeed there is no other way to open a new site than by opening a new tab first. Don't you find that annoying? Or do you navigate back constantly?
And Locke had a proviso: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockean_proviso

In any case — it's a huge stretch to suggest that allowing other property owners to dictate what you can and can't build on your own property constitutes "property rights".
Title should specify that the person is “an American teenager who can’t speak Scots”.
Can anyone explain how the voting structure works?

There's a "class F" of shares which are held only by Alex Karp, Stephen Cohen, and Peter Thiel, with each owning 1/3. Class F has "voting power representing up to approximately 49.999999%".

Does that mean that basically Karp, Cohen, and Thiel have full voting control?
The timing of this article and the complete lack of any original analysis makes it seem unlikely this isn't a submarine.

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
No, I don't think its just due to telemetry, I think its a combination of multiple factors as you suggested.
People dislike him for a number of reasons. I despised his actions through most of his tenure at M$. He destroyed some things I cared about and tried hard to destroy others, and I was nowhere near them and didn't use their products.

I'm not really big on the idea of 'redemption' - my actions today do not erase what I've done in the past. But he has lived a pretty decent life since then, and tried to do good things. So good on him.

Others hold grudges longer.
One way or another all of us are going to fund Palantir, most probably through our Police department budgets.
I recall better roads in Alberta than San Francisco + hwy 101 in bay area.
Chrome 87 vs Safari 14 on macOS Big Sur benchmark:

https://imgur.com/a/gUX2CIF

Safari/Webkit still the "fastest browser possible" on macOS.
List of my "other" extensions

Fit to width, for text reflow.

Bypass paywalls.

Au-revoir-utm

No coin

Redirect amp to html.

Disable webrtc.
Prime has a thing called Amazon day, where all your orders arrive on the same day, unless specified.

Can’t use it because I’m in Canada, but would love this service. I’d batch it all to arrive before recycling day, and save my parcel receiving/unpacking efforts.
Your arguments are so full of holes I don't even know where to start. Pocket is fully documented and very easy to turn off. That's all I'm going to reply to you on this. Good grief.
Cortex 0.19: Build, deploy, and manage prediction APIs
Fair point. Pleasure is the goal
> I dont know

Well good thing you started with that since you are clearly not familiar with him at all. He is very very well read and highly involved with the charity.
“Alexander the Grate” on living in the “interstices of the infrastructure”
Ask HN: What are the biggest ethical questions on your mind?
This can be regarding tech, life, work, money, climate, covid, anything. I'm just here to learn, this community has a lot of interesting folks.
The main value of Venmo to me is that it feels a lot less awkward than other alternatives. I think the main reason it's less awkward is because you can safely assume a friend will have it set up already (unlike with PayPal or even similar services like Facebook Pay), and because it's easy to find people.
That's a real possibility, and part of the greater tradeoff that happens with most technolgies: as they grow more powerful society applies more controls to them to prevent their ill use. Drunken horse riding is less regulated than drunken driving is less regulated than drunken nuclear submarine driving.

Happily, there's already a thriving ecosystem of alternate linux-based platforms that allow the sort of freedom that we both want and enjoy.
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Tbh entire S-1 file should be a json document with some defined schema (or XML if you are into retro computing)
Something like M1 Finance 'pies' could work, but still looks a lot like 'managing a whole bunch of individual stocks'
Most people living in the countryside rely on the same food distribution networks that serve city dwellers, so that equation doesn't check out.
> I'm just being realistic and pragmatic.

Being realistic and pragmatic doesn't need to mean being defeatist.

> the inconvenience and the cost of keeping thing private will go up and up

Only if citizens let governments continue to increase their surveillance activities with no oversight and no pushback.
That's unfortunately the one we've already tried. For whatever reasons we can't seem to actually download the books that were purchased.
> You can't get 125 million folks into this address space?

I think some people are now using a new card number per transaction, with these disposable card numbers, aren't they?
If there’s no valid cert for the domain, you can’t 301/302 redirect over https connection. SNI just lets the middleman peak at the host name, it doesn’t allow you to redirect. DNS interception allows the attackers to change IP but https still needs a valid cert for the host.
> Are you saying that viruses, malware, ransomware, keyloggers, multiple toolbars have not been a problem in general over two decades?

Not for me.

> You remember when “reputable” sites like SourceForge were bundling adware?

Sure. What's your point?

I think I know: You would gladly trade the freedom of the general population for security.

If so - I'm sorry to hear that. If not, maybe you should think about what you're saying because you're on the wrong side of the debate.
Not a lawyer but was an investment banker and took a few companies public. There's a lot that is standardized to start with (at least within a firm), but gets heavily modified as necessary for the company.

A draft is created, and then the company's executives, their legal, the accountants, investment bankers, and investment banker's legal all get in a room and go page by page through the document for several days. The legal team stays up late making the edits each night. Then it gets submitted to the SEC for review, and you get comments from them that have to be addressed. You submit the revised document with responses to their comments and keep doing that until the SEC has no comments.
Thanks, will give that a try.
> it feels like words put next to each other.

Yes, that's what an analytic language is: words put next to each other.

English is also a creole language, synthesized from an Anglo base stratum with French imposed by the ruling class. This has a simplifying effect on a language: as you point out, English is simple to pick up, and devilish to master.

I will say this: Hungarians offer this complaint about English more often than can be explained by chance. Russians and Germans as well, two heavily inflected languages. I gather that Hungarians are justly proud of their language, and wish I had a spare decade to see what all the fuss is about!

One aspect of this analytic ambiguity which I treasure, is the facility with which humor can be expressed in English. Even the silly Groucho Marx kind, like "One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know."
Thanks, we will give that a try.
Yeah we work with ICE and the military, and sure we help police departments infringe your fourth amendment rights, but have you ever got an ad for zappos after searching for shoes?
Guy's arguing that there are still benefits to applying security boundaries within execution envs which are vulnerable to spectre memory reads since it would limit the ability to exfiltrate. (There was a variant which could write to memory as well [1].) There was some discussion on twitter about this which I found interesting [2].

1 https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.03757v1

2 https://twitter.com/domenic/status/1298045068633407490
And just like that, we'll reinvent OLE eventually, but with HTML5 and JavaScript.
Where I live, "most consumers" are stuck with Comcast which features a 2MByte upload speed (at very best -- currently I'm getting <1MB), and a 1TB monthly transfer limit.

Cloud storage is a non-option.
How much of these cities' carbon emissions are caused by the manufacturing of products for people living in the countryside? Big factories tend to be in or near big cities where there is a workforce to support them.

As an example here in Germany, the city of Wolfsburg has the original Volkswagen plant. It's so big, it's literally called "car city" ("Autostadt"). They certainly don't make cars just for Wolfsburg, or just for city dwellers.
Sounds like Brave is sore someone might keep them from skimming ad revenue off legitimate creators.
How do we start having respectful, constructive, and nuanced conversations about the topics you mention and the questions in other comments here?

How do we deal with the legacy and social media situation?
> Well, we gave them the chance to create their own utopia in the CHAZ area and that became another stunning failure.

I heard that during its existence, the six blocks of CHAZ were by capita the most dangerous place in the world, exceeding anywhere in South America or the Middle East.
My father solved this problem before I was born in 1969. Peel the top of the banana as if you are going to eat it. Put peanut butter on the knife and wipe it on the top of the banana. Take a bite. Continue until the banana is gone. Ignore the bread. It more keto that way anyway.

If you really want to use the bread, mash the banana and spread it on one slice, spread the peanut butter on the other and put them together.
He is the public face of the foundation, giving ted talks and tweeting about it etc.
As much dang money as Amazon makes off kindle, why are they also spying? I guess "because they can" will always be a useful refrain, but I really wish there was plain english version of what information they collect at any given company/web app/mobile app/OS kind of like the attorney general's warning. Not something that is 20 miles long with legalese that any non-attorney can decypher
Don't be a conduit for misinformation.