skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The funny thing about this comment is that if Firefox had the market share of Chrome, then it makes perfect sense. And as other comments have noted, there are several forks of Firefox, which is great.

But the reality of 2020 is that Firefox might not exist in the near future because so few people actually use it. Splitting the user base further into a Mozilla-free version accomplishes almost nothing except helping ensure that that Chrome-only future comes to pass.

If having Pocket and VPN features bundled with Firefox helps keep Firefox around for the long term, that's a concession I wish we were all willing to make.
Don’t the impossible/beyond meats still have a higher environmental impact than poultry?
Firefox should just stop tiptoeing and absorbing useful addons regularly. Starting with uBlockOrigin and youtube enhancer.

Make adblock be a first class feature that you enabled/whitelist in the main browser option screen.
I don't understand the painted rock thing. It's a new trend in my neighborhood and hiking trails around here. People paint "motivational" rocks and leave them for people to find. Things like "JOY" and "INSPIRE" etc, as well as "SMILE" etc etc etc.

I briefly considered painting "demotivational rocks" and leaving those around as a counter-prank but ruled it out after realizing I'd have to actually collect and paint the rocks, though it was an amusing thought for a few minutes!
Apple prevents people who paid $10000s for their top-of-the-line computer, from using an equally top-of-the-line GPU from Nvidia, because ~10 years ago some Nvidia laptop GPUs had problems and Apple is obsessive about punishing them.

Apple does act like a petty child, and a rather obnoxious one at that. They are the worst kind of company, one that considers it is doing you a favour by allowing you to be their customer.

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This seems like a long winded mess of anecdotal opinions and assumptions, that still somehow ignores the real reason for subscriptions. The list of acceptable uses for subscriptions is silly, subscriptions are always acceptable if your customers accept them. And the authors refusal to try subscriptions out of a fear that short term revenues will decline is an abandonment of long term thinking.

And I am not a subscription apologist either. I just wrote a long post on the need for Apple to build tools for selling upgrades as good as the ones for selling subscriptions.

The real driving force for subscriptions is the need for recurring revenue to support a software business, especially bug fixes and enhancements. The one time sales model never worked in software, it was a path to oblivion that was quickly abandoned or never used by the vast majority of PC developers.

That’s why the PC software market became dominated by maintenance plans and paid upgrades. If you had a good product, and offered valuable new features in an upgrade, your users would be more than happy to buy the upgrade. That matched revenues better to costs, allowing software companies to keep more employees on staff to actually improve the product.

When Apple came out with the iOS App Store, they broke the upgrade model. Existing users get every update for free. Releasing a large update as a separate product means it can’t access the existing user data because of sandboxing, and it can’t be priced at a discount for existing users.

There are workarounds to all these problems using in-app purchase and data export/import schemes but they are costly in developer time and offer a poorer user experience than traditional upgrades did.

I’m convinced if Apple had an upgrade purchasing system as easy to implement as subscriptions, developers would abandon most of their subscriptions and replace them with upgrades.
I've never heard of it before, but having just had a look, it seems like an imitation of the worst kinds of 'cheese'.

I don't doubt it can beat squares of plasticy crap and bags of shredded rubber, but do you think it's superior to actual cheese, that isn't artificially coloured or machined into a weird shape and texture?
As much as I like Apple's products, I do have to agree with you that they need to get off their high horse. It's insane how much power they have and they use it to rip off companies that even challenge them one bit.
> We need to create systems that make politics attractive to people who do it out of ideology.

Is your implication that right now most politicians are not politicians out of ideology first and foremost, but rather for their own financial gain?

I would take the contrarian view. I would guess the majority of politicians are politicians because of ideology. Although they may not believe everything (or perhaps even most of what) they say they do and what they do believe may change while in office, I would be surprised if they don't have some core ideology that powers them.

It's otherwise unclear to me why politicians seek re-election so frequently. In most Western democracies, a person with the opportunity to become a career politician has far more lucrative job opportunities outside of politics than within, especially once you've become a high-level politician. If people were doing it for money, I'd imagine they'd do a single term and then immediately try to parlay that into another job rather than trying to slug it out term after term.

The other mildly persuasive explanation to me is enjoying the power of the office, but the feeling of power is very hard to separate from fervent ideology.
Had you never had a beef whopper, do you think you’d feel like you were missing out? As our kids get older, I wonder if I can give them better defaults than we had growing up.
Of course! It’s still a cool view into the past and I’d not seen it before, so thank you for posting it.
Wait aren't these opposites?

> 2 terms in most positions ought to remove all the oldies implementing policies of 70s on today's people.

This sounds exactly like a problem of ideology, not financial gain.
As a compliment for those following the Wikipedia rabbit hole, the repeated function application To represent the natural numbers is referred to as https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_encoding#Church_numer.... One of those calculi is lambda calculus (often extended with some syntactic niceties in PL research)
Interesting. When you say "save and restore state", do you mean actually serializing it and loading it later? In what situation would you want to do this? Not doubting that there is one but i haven't heard of this before.
The problem is the algorithms are designed to put people in a group and then the groups are treated differently. That's the mechanism underpinning racism. And other disparities. You take the current garbage and the algorithm spits it back out.

Current garbage looks like this. I know three people that got popped for drugs. One served time and has a felony record. One had it reduced to a misdemeanor and did 10 hours of community service. And the third has no record at all.

You can probably guess the socioeconomic status each of those three and you'd guess correctly. And I'm sure the algorithm will also guess correctly.
I have been eating similarly to the parent poster recently (trying to avoid meat and dairy as much as possible). The three major sources of protein I use now are black beans, kidney beans, peanut butter, and tofu. I also sometimes eat tempeh which can be good in the right contexts.

It takes some effort, but it's fairly straightforward if you can find ways to substitute it into your daily meals. I like taking an existing meal and just replacing the animal products from it. One example I like is a chicken curry wrap. It's just chicken mixed with mayo, curry powder, celery and onions, all stuffed into a wrap. I've substituted a lightly fried tofu in place of the chicken and a vegan mayo instead.
They eliminated their Ombudsman position in 2013. Not to pick on them, as most publications, NYT included have as well. I'll read occasionally, but definitely don't trust any of these any more without checking sources.

Just being the owner taints their coverage even with no direct influence (again, we can't just pick on Wapo here either). "So Joe, want to spend our time on researching this piece critical of Amazon or one the other hundred stories?"
Do you think this would be useful for initial investigations for emergency suitations a car crash or trauma situations for example?

I did get bumped from my slot on a 3T MRI due to an emergency I a uk hospital recently due to some patients needing it more than me.
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That sounds much worse. That's still global state, just encapsulated global state. Any time you say glBindWhatever(), you're assigning global state. And the state obj should be an opaque handle so you don't end up with stale pointers. Should be glEnable(state, GL_BLEND); glDepthTest(state, GL_LEQUAL);.
Talking about the 12Z 19 Sep sounding (you might have click back to a previous one if you read this later):

The data is a little noisy because it really is just a weather balloon getting knocked around. There's a huge inversion from 300-500m. Then the temperature is roughly constant between 1500-2500m (the T line is skewed), and we finally get a big decrease in temperature below that. The 14000m one is normal, this is called the tropopause. Normally it's a bit lower than that, but heck, even the 500mb level is at 588dm heights. It's hot out there.

So really, nothing is going to sink below that 500m point. Now, lots of Mount Diablo is above 300m -- it's going to be hot and smokey up there. But if you tried to push a parcel of air down from 500m, it would be so much less dense than the cool moist air below that it would bounce back up. The whole troposphere is very stable, but extremely so at that level.

Most people who look at skew-Ts are interested in thunderstorms -- the area of the blue line to the right of the red line tells you how much energy you can release from condensation of water, with some air from the surface rising. Like, look at Brownsville, Texas: https://climate.cod.edu/products/analysis/raob/index.php?typ...
I think it was always obvious that if you rely on a 3rd party to function a big and real risk is that 3rd party to cut-off your access. Same risk is with cloud services especially proprietary such Google Cloud Datastore etc
The last part of the GP comment still stands:

> which of course led to hundreds of fake and infected apps on the net, harming users.

> If you just want to play Fortnite on your iPhone and don't care about the App Store then the latter option is a better.

Not unless you get a Fortnite that has an ad at the bottom of the screen and ships as much PII as it can to some third-party company, or offers 2x v-bucks and steals CC info.
I don't want politicians who rule based on ideology. That's how we get disasters like the USSR. Instead I want pragmatists who change their minds in response to new information.
Congrats on launching! My old football team used to do escape room as a team building exercise. Might call them up to see if they want to relive the fun!
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C'mon man. I have firsthand knowledge of an editor asking a contributor to remove mentioning Amazon in a story because it cast the company in a negative light.
> Ask HN: Do you have a personal website?

Sure do. It's a basic blog and my contact details.

> Second, does it matter to recruiters/hiring managers? (Speaking mostly for junior SWE and college students like me.)

It's not critical, but you should get your full name if possible (BobbyRaySmith.com). I track direct hits when I'm job hunting and it's pretty common to get hits from specific cities after an application.
So, just like the Apple AppStore?
Just added instructions for using DDNS:

https://github.com/IAmStoxe/wirehole#configuring-for-dynamic...
Using 2.4GHz-5.5GHz means minimal (if any) weather related interference. Rain wont have any effect...unless its heavy enough to bring down the antennas. but thats going to be an issue for any outdoors structure such as pylons or communication towers.
Oops, my bad, I misread your comment. I still agree with your point that it’s too early to draw complete cross comparisons. While also that it appears that Sweden has hit a saturation point. Other countries in Europe will take a while before things stabilize. Even then, there could be more outbreaks in either Sweden or other Western European countries so it’ll be a while yet before it’s really time to draw final conclusions. It’ll be years before we get truly thorough conclusions.

Also good to know the average numbers. I think even at about a hundred thousand yearly my point holds. It’s high enough that many wouldn’t agree too.
Idk, I still don't know why anyone would want to watch videos on their phone, and I have a 4G phone capable of showing videos... (watching videos on other devices is way better).

I mean, since the invention of semi trucks, you could technically can send me ~40 tons of postcards to me all in one shipment, which would be impossible in the days where postcards were sent via a guy with a satchel on horseback, but then why aren't you sending me 40 tons of postcards right now? Why would you even want to?

Don't get me wrong, semi trucks certainly have it's uses and has enabled many things, so would 5G provided it does something better than 4G, but I can see why some people would go "Why would you want more of that?" Not everyone has the same wants and needs.

These days, latency seems more problematic to me than bandwidth. Unfortunately though, short of optimizing networks, and reducing the distance between server and client, there's not much that can be done for latency...
Sweden is not middle of the pack. They are in line with the worst death rates in Europe when their comparable neighbors have the best rates. And they achieved that while still doing quite a few lockdown measures, just less.

In numbers of cases we've already gone from high to low and back to high again in direct correlation to the lockdown measures that were taken. We've done that in multiple places and at different times. I don't see any way to argue that lockdowns are not more effective than chance. Not even Sweden argues that, they just think they can manage the extra cases and achieve herd immunity soon.
I always worry when a beloved app seems underpriced, and wonder how long they will be able to stay in business.
I never understood that part (compare to neighbours).

There are so many different variables between countries, even neighbour ones, that it makes no sense.

Sweden old people homes are (from what I read) basically glorified death waiting rooms. People don't stay in them long (months vs years in other places). Also people movements during the high 'season' of covid spread is different (Students do different things in spring break between countries). etc etc etc etc.

Not saying Norway or whatnot is not doing better, just we don't really know. (Same as saying Portugal is doing great because look at it's neighbour spain kind of deal)
Impossible meat production doesn’t use carbon?
It can, but half the point of the service is that your personal email address is kept private. The service sees an obfuscated email address for the format <unique-alphanumeric-string>@privaterelay.appleid.com. Eg dpdcnf87nu@privaterelay.appleid.com.
Our language tenses weren't really designed for distant space phenomena. Should we say Betelgeuse is a red supergiant or was a red supergiant? When we look at the sky it exists "now" for us and there's no way to know if it's exploded since the light that we're seeing now left its surface. And even if we talk about the light that's leaving it in our "now" that's kind of vague since there's no real universal common clock.
There's more nuance to it, but IMO this is a good thing for consumers. We've been collectively pretty horrible w/ the security of user data even when we're not sharing it w/ third-parties intentionally.

Storing user data should be difficult, otherwise there's no incentive to really think about how you store it and how securely.
Have you tried fastapi? It uses starlette as its base. Such a lovely experience working with it.
Compared to this, extremely small, but compared to the overall economics, quite significant.

Here is a chart of transmission losses from the source to the end user across US states: http://insideenergy.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/State_Los...
Power density of direct heat exchange engines exceeds anything chemical rockets have to offer us at this stage. Beaming about 80MW would help get rid of the first stage of a rocket which represents about 80% of carried weight. I imagine this would cut space payloads cost significantly :)
I think generally all competing against all is the logical conclusion to this mess. Biological males competing against females isn't fair, nor are biological females on male hormones. Making a trans category could be seen as insulting/outing, I think, and probably wouldn't have many competitors.

So outside of examining and testing every single person, seems easier to just have them all compete together. Have weight classes where it makes sense to.
I'm not sure what explains Skane being so low, but the highest per capita case county was also the county with the first case. So random seed case event timings seem to have been more important there: "On 31 January, the first Swedish case was confirmed in a woman in Jönköping who had travelled to Sweden from Wuhan, China, on 24 January directly from Wuhan. "
The "Hacksmith" recently spent time learning to pilot one of these, definitely interesting and worth the watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3xtVxPWf6M
Note that the parent was heavily edited after I posted this.
That is exactly right. Comcast's TOS allows them to discriminate on internet traffic. Maybe Comcast can even make a twisted argument that its in the user's best interest. I'm sure nobody here wants them to do that. We already fight against things that we find unethical, or against our principles. This is no different.

Whats being asked isn't some massive change to their software. Its freedom for the developer and user to have a choice in payment platforms. As much as Apple tries to obfuscate it, the AppStore is not the kernel, its not the graphics layer, its not the file system, its not something that is needed to run software. The other OS components are already being abstracted away to some extent by cross-platform tooling, and the AppStore is way way easier than those.

On one hand, Apple will never take legal responsibility to audit software on their App Store and certify it free from malware, because doing so will be cost prohibitive and/or impossible. But at the same time, they want to claim its this 'utopia' that will get destroyed if users are allowed the freedom to pick a different store. How about you let us decide that?
Currently working on: https://emile-paffard-wray.profiled.app/. Made with my very own https://profiled.app
I thought this was more practical-- the positive parts do already tend to be taken care of by the crowd.
Only in America can hurting the president politically be higher priority than saving 200k citizen's lives.
You don't choose to be born man or woman the same way you do not choose to be born with 10% shorter constitution, or with just an average one. Why do, say, basketball leagues not differentiate between short/average people (those who cannot reach the hoop, as originally intended) and tall giants, who can touch it by holding out their hand, and why isn't a hoop moved out of reach for the latter ones?

I mean, it is not a question about basketball, it is about why gender is so important, when there are tens of parameters that may matter for a particular game. Sports is (should be at least) valued for an effort, skill and hard work first, builtin params last. This entire system is broken at the core, and gender is among the last of problems here.
That's exactly what I have such a hard time wrapping my head around: The concept that there is not even a Void outside of the borders of our own universe, that existence itself doesn't, well, exist. The fact that "space" (as we define it) is finite just feels so wrong, so impossible.
Currently in San Francisco the sky is: #D3B18D

Closest known color: Tan

Good ol' wildfires...
Yeah, there aren't enough details here to prove the claims. Not to mention, how much power do the "transmitting relays" use. Those sound like they need to be active devices that require a power source. Yes you can siphon off power from the beam, but with all the losses involved it doesn't seem to make sense.
It also doesn’t help when the incumbent owns the poles and either delay letting you put your stuff, or outright refuse until you sue them.
This just isn't true for a lot of use cases. If your requirement is to get low latency response on large data sets you need to cluster data carefully and compress it to reduce I/O. That's why data warehouses use column storage and strong typing.

Compressed storage size for uniform datatypes can be phenomenally efficient. I've seen 10,000x size reduction in ideal cases like monotonically varying integers stored using double delta codec + ZSTD compression.
I think this is less about what websites are legally allowed to do and more about what websites actually do. I think a lot of these websites are not compliant with GDPR, but DPAs have been pretty timid so far in enforcing it.
They can be trademarked, which is why you can't use "Harry Potter" without permission.
This reference from 2007 wherr a lab at MIT demonstrated wireless power transfer, may be relevant for explaining inductive coupling and the idea that this is not radiative (far field) power transfer - correct me if this technology is fundamentally different:

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/317/5834/83
those things are completely disconnected
Highly recommended reading is Sacred Cow book. It’s the most well researched, fact based, science based book thus far that is pro meat.

https://www.sacredcow.info/

Impossible ingredients are pretty bad and aren’t that good for the environment either. Soy production is extremely destructive.

Here’s the list: Water, Soy Protein Concentrate, Coconut Oil, Sunflower Oil, Natural Flavors, 2% Or Less Of: Potato Protein, Methylcellulose, Yeast Extract, Cultured Dextrose, Food Starch Modified, Soy Leghemoglobin, Salt, Mixed Tocopherols (Antioxidant), Soy Protein Isolate, Vitamins and Minerals (Zinc Gluconate, Thiamine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B1), Niacin, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B6), Riboflavin (Vitamin B2), Vitamin B12).
True. Possibly observation bias too - I only observed an issue, but I could be the only one out of a hundred or thousand with a problem.
The data for this does exist, it is the fact that Epic does want to offer its game outside the app store, as evidenced by their statements and also by having attempted it for Android.
You don’t deal with PostScript directly. PostScript is akin to assembly.
If you read one person about dotnet, this is the person. If you read two, include David Fowler.
Gallium's 0.4 performance on my card is atrocious.
I am using MESA 13.0.6 on libDRM 24.68, and yet even Flare is damn slow. On current, it's much better, but Google's Street View is still slow, albeit gaming on PPSSPP is fast and good.. AMD/ATi RS 690 with MESA 20, I tried it, but I went back. Go figure. Even Quake ports are barely accelerated under the old MESA/KMS combo...

And no, I am not using LLVMPIPE.