skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, they could fuck it up. Lots of people fuck obvious things up, and Mozilla hasn't been lucky in several of their recent investments.

But if serious money came in through donations, and everyone put "for firefox, keep it simple and good" in their donation box, they'd have to be particularly braindead to put that money elsewhere.

That being said, now that I do some math, it'd take 3.7mm people each donating $10/mo to match their 2018 revenue of $450mm/yr. Which does sound difficult to achieve...
That entire page and no mention of the Adam Sandler/Drew Barrymore film 50 First Dates, which came out a year before and covers a woman who wakes up every morning thinking it's the same day?

At the time of release it seemed to be a medical condition that wasn't real, however there have been a couple of instances diagnosed since then.
To me, the most disturbing part of this story came at the very end, where it says that he has just relearned, for the thousandth time, that his children are now in their late teens and early 20s -- whereas his last memory of them was as little kids.

If that were me, and I were just informed that my own little children had essentially disappeared, I would likely go catatonic. I mean, in a sense, even though they're still present as young adults, it's as if your children have died. I don't know how a person could cope with being told that even once, much less a thousand times.
Oh no.

While I am absolutely pissed ( to say the least ) that Nokia was sold to Microsoft and Yahoo couldn't turn its ship around. I dont think both CEO were doing in their own interest or another companies interest.

Nokia refused to use Android. ( Which was what really killed Nokia ) That was only two possible outcome, either go full force with Symbian or partner with Microsoft. I mean there are so many wrong with Nokia even before Elop joined nothing much could have been done. It turns out the penalty for completely dismissing iPhone and Smartphone was death for their phone division. ( Currently the Nokia Smartphone are manufactured by a JV formed by former Nokia employees and Foxconn, with the name licensed from Nokia )

Elop did however completely neglect the importance of Carrier / Network Infrastructure segment, although arguably Ericsson wasn't competing much and Huawei didn't show up on their radar. ( Yet )

Marissa was trying very hard to recreate Google within Yahoo. She was absolutely executing it. But it is one of those example where I put the argument against execution eats strategy for breakfast.

It is not one OR the other. You need both. The equation times both together. When you have a strategy which trends towards zero or even negative, it doesn't matter how well you execute it.

In the end she failed. The strategy was wrong from the start. I actually thought the other CEO candidate's vision of turning Yahoo in to an Online Media Companies suits Yahoo better. But Marissa got the job, and the rest is history.
I'd say those are some scultping tools..
Like those [1]

[1]: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1827273916.html
Yeah, turns out it was the throughput that was exhausted. I've had to add autoscaling to deal with HN
Ask HN: Why is Discord the choice for virtual conferences?
Because it worked for me in the earlier stages of the pandemic (at home with kids during the day, call in to meetings when possible, try to catch up at night) - I've posed this suggestion to the teachers in my family who are freaking out about the new school year:

"Have you considered just doing a bad job?"
(2015)?! cmon

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9833717
point is that apple wanted the 'simple' solution from the begining but google gave us the 'native app' store and folks were happy.

imo pwa's on webkit are only crippled in regards to the google extensions that make no sense for most usecases but ad-tracking.
"Ah sweet, what else do we have? Are all cars electric? Did we make a manned flight to Mars? Have we cured cancer?"

"Oh, that's about it. We have iPhones now. And to be honest, they are kind of a problem."
Safe – Scaled Agile Framework
One of the best and hardest things to do for anything with a board of directors is to establish that EVERY BOARD MEETING starts with a vote on one simple question: "Shall the CEO/Executive Director be retained?" Every company, not for profit or even tiny club that makes this the big question performs it's mission well. Those that don't, well, you get a lot more politics.
Gotcha, just turned that on. I wish I'd done that this morning. I didn't think this post would make it to the front page of HN.
It would be interesting to see how elite private schools would be effected if all public universities were free.
The tool on camera left is a dental pick, the tool on camera right is a mirror (held backwards).
I got the same error on zsh, but not on bash
Has anyone actually found these directories to be useful? I suspect the only people browsing these sites are our founders and not potential clients. Do they really offer any SEO improvements?
Counterpoints.They look like laser safety glasses to me and I don't presume to know all the dental instruments.

Why is this so concerning to you? Do you feel deceived? Most stock photos use actors and this shouldn't be surprising.
There isn't anything in there about "employees publicly speak out". Some board members (not employees) stepped down but IIRC they did not actually speak out and call for Brendan to resign.
How do you choose which websites to submit to?
what directories do you submit to? I wasn't able to find a list on your site.
Potentially dumb question, but I keep reading that the average surface temperature of Venus is 450C and so completely hostile to life, but didn't we discover recently that the poles are much colder? [1] Aren't there thus regions on the surface with similar temperatures to earth?

[1] https://astronomy.com/news/2016/04/esa-finds-a-frigid-surpri...
Maybe they don’t realize that e-commerce wouldn’t exist without trustworthy encryption. They’re taking about sabotaging trillions of dollars of economic transactions in lieu of just doing real police work to find the criminals.
I think he's just bypassing the need to specify one way or another. It's a person holding the CEO office - the gender of the person is not relevant to the point being made or the discussion.
America's latest Medal of Honor recipient
You should check out Clayton Christensen's work on disruptive innovation. It's what pushed pinboard to success, and it's what will eventually be its downfall.
Okay, I suppose that’s plausible. I just had a few questionable situations and it seemed fishy.
Wait, even the TREES sting in Australia????

Reminds of the Red Death Daccas and Irritable Palms from the hyper-futuristic Roguelike Caves of Qud.
But then it's evolution of memes, not genes, which is a different evolution.

Wait. Is this thread becoming a weak paraphrase of The Selfish Gene?
basically, much of western civ idolizes greek culture and embeds its concepts in a very subtle way. acme means "the best".
They could put some unique features in it, I haven't actually tried Edge on Windows. It probably be the same as the macOS and Windows versions. I don't know if those are just Chromium wrapped in a Microsoft skin or if they actually got something worthwhile.
A special syntax construct at the parser level I think. In fact currently the `-> !` syntax for functions is it's own special syntax distinct (although v. similar in meaning) from the `!` type.

It's not a macro (macro invocations just use the same character), and you can't have a '!' in your own type names.
No amount of invoking the DPA would change this reality today, but if it had been invoked six months ago it would have us in a much better place now.

The entire point of the DPA is to encourage and finance manufacturing of items that are strategically important but not massively profitable, partially by funding the investments required to make the initial machinery.
Well, no, that wasn't on my mind. But thanks I guess.
How the Pandemic Can Create a 4 Day Work Week
Amnesia is now open source
RP Flip: Ship Turned Research Platform Which Sinks for a Cause
50 First dates is the more romantic story about a guy who meets a girl who has ~~ante-rograde amnesia~~.

e: I forgot, in the movie she has a fictitious disease that's sort of like ante-retrograde amnesia, but wipes her memory when she sleeps.
Personally, I think it's healthy that America drops this exceptionalism attitude. We can't keep living off of the WW2 laurels forever. And other nations are clearly approaching our "world's best" status in various sectors: China builds a shitload of stuff, Canada has pandemic payment support and healthcare. We're very clearly not united against something like fascism and we're more fragmented, so yeah, we kinda can't do the WW2 things any more.
The headline doesn’t seem to be backed by the content of the note they’re quoting.

I do wish papers would reserve “war” for actual wars; while I would be appalled if this goes all the way through, a note saying “we want to have a chat and this is why” is slightly further from even a metaphorical war on encryption than Farage is from an actual war on Brussels.
Mozilla, the ship, does not need to sink. That is the heart of the problem. It appears the ship is being scuttled.
I missed that article. Do you have a link? I’d like to read the comments.
EU is composed of multiple people with multiple, differing goals. It's also to note that things like GDPR only affect peons like corporations or people, not the governments.
The article should have explained this in little more detail. Does he have a 2005 phone, probably Nokia Symbian? Or does he actually remember something and can use android or iphone. In the first case, a written note in his own handwriting would make more sense I guess.
When I was younger I lived with my grandparents and young uncle. My uncle and I pulled an all-nighter playing video games. I had work the next evening at 5 a bar/restaurant. I went to bed exhausted about when the sun came up.

The next thing I knew, my uncle was waking me up frantically, telling me I’d be late for work. It felt like I’d barely slept. I looked at the clock and it said 4:30. I jumped out of bed, grabbed my uniform, brushed my teeth and glanced at a different clock, kind of in disbelief and wondering how I was going to make it though this shift so tired. It was 4:40. I ran towards the kitchen ready to go and looked for my keys, glancing again at yet another clock to make sure I was leaving in time. 4:45. I was going to just make it.

That’s when I noticed The Price is Right playing on the television. I don’t know what time it’s on now, but then it had been running from 10-11 am as long as I had been alive. My uncle had changed every clock in the house in preparation for this prank. I wanted to kill him but instead just collapsed in bed, uniform and all.
Palladium can store incredible amounts of hydrogen within its crystal lattice - was Tony Stark right all along?
Bandcamp has struck me as seeming to be healthy in this regard. They only raised one round of funding a decade ago so they don’t seem beholden to investors and they contribute to a number of charitable causes (including regularly waiving their fee to support artists during the pandemic).
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E-commerce would go on just fine even if the government gets a backdoor into the communication.
Chess Patch Notes
So in the broadest sense, all ethnicities have good genes, and all people probably have rich and vibrant cultures that are a credit to humanity.

However, if someone in the US started an all white club to blandly talk about how great Caucasian genetics and culture is, then I would be very suspicious of them. They wouldn't even need white robes and pointy traditionalist wizard hats (symbolizing their respect for pre-chrisitian religions I am sure)...
Some of the ads are almost lifesized books. It's incredibly hard to discern what is ad and what is content.
Actually it only needs to be a disjunctive (or rich) number which is a weaker condition.

We don't know whether pi is that either for any integer base.
The tool in his right hand is a standard dental probe explorer, used for measuring gum depth, and the one in his left is a dental mirror. Pretty standard stuff. Safety glasses look legit too. (source: am retired dvm)
Someone with a deep passion for building an amazing browser could reasonably be assumed to also be head-hunted by the Chrome team (and Edge, and Brave, etc...) as well as probably other, non-browser companies that just want their competence. They may also have a passion for supporting the open web, being nice to humans, etc, but they'll still have to justify to their spouse/family why they're turning down the other offers of much more money.

The perfect person could exist here but it's starting to look like very steep odds.
What if the law are unjust but no one else in society cares you're locked up?
Quite the opposite. My language of choice is Scala, which probably explains my frustration at Microsoft's consistent inability to do the right thing.
No Man's Sky Update 3.0 Drops Today, Updates Entire Universe
So how this is HN material?
As Dilbert says: "Our boss can't judge the quality of our work, but he knows when it's late".
> But these approaches would probably get you divorced or fired.

Those both sound like great startup ideas to me, honestly. A glue-logic compiler? Sounds like Zapier to me.
There is UNLIMITED money available to the government to fight this pandemic. The Fed simply prints the money, as they have, in the trillions of dollars since it began. Money is not the issue. The government has not made masks a priority. Biden won't do much better - I suspect he's pretty inept.

Production isn't the issue either - if you wave enough money in front of the private sector, they will do anything.

Prez simply makes a statement - every person will have N95 masks available to them - and we're going to do whatever we need to do to make that happen. It's better politically to guarantee everyone a $1200 check. This pandemic reveals the weaknesses in our systems.
PWA's do work, but they are hard to install (not available in the appstore, the user has to go through a non-obvious sequence of steps they won't discover unless they Google it). They are slow (because safari refuses to implement caching of compiled JavaScript or webassembly). They can't store persistent data, so the user experience is terrible (yay - who wants a notekeeping app that deletes all your notes every 30 days?). The data doesn't sync to iCloud. It doesn't integrate with the rest of the OS (no way to share a picture to a PWA for example). The Safari browser engine they must run in is ~3 years behind desktop and Android browsers with supporting web standards. There is no way to do background stuff like playing music, using the GPS for directions, etc.
This may be an unpopular opinion, but I consider SAFE to be a complete joke. To me, things like SAFE are a big part of why people have so many negative things to say about "Agile". SAFE is too complicated, too big, too prescriptive, and basically anti-Agile as far as I can tell. If you work for a company that uses SAFE, or is talking about adopting it, I'd suggest running for the door as fast as you can.
>though our government hardly has the best record on data privacy.

especially since founding The 5-Eyes program in 1941
The benefit isn't just applying it directly to the mask maker, it's also applying it recursively to everyone that does things the mask producer needs.

The mask producer needs a second production line, but the land they need isn't for sale? Boom, now it is.

The mask producer can't meet parking minimums for their new line, or haven't completed an environmental impact assessment? Start building, we'll take care of it.

The mask producer needs a load of elastic, but their elastic supplier is busy making sunglasses holders for a car maker? No problem, go ahead and jump the queue.

Mask factory workers can't get to work, because the busses aren't running, because it's not economic to run them? They are now.

Needless to say, with modern international supply chains this might be less useful than it has been in the past - no way to jump a queue using the DPA if your supplier isn't under its jurisdiction.
In this case, his dentist used local anaesthetic. Penrose was referring to general anaesthetics and their effect on consciousness.
I just looked through the Simple Haskell web site. I had not seen that before. I liked the Graham Hutton quote on having a secret plan to just use Haskell 98. For years, I enjoyed using Hugs via the iOS app Raskell. I still use Raskell but sadly it is no longer stable after an iOS update a year ago. Hugs, being an interpreter, is so fast for happy hacking activities.
My memory took an absolute nosedive, not quite this severe but I have tremendous trouble, after being knocked out for a colonoscopy. I've lived in "brain fog" ever since, and my memory is a shadow of what it once was.

I've gotten extremely rigorous at writing notes for myself, doing sketches which I never used to need, and otherwise compensating. I hold it together on a professional note, but personal relationships have suffered badly. I guess I need to take better notes about them, which I don't currently do.

As horrific as this story is, I guess it's good to know that I'm not alone?
Firefox' reader mode helps a lot in such cases. Beloved and often used feature.
I'm the reverse... I haven't seen memento.

I think the main difference sounds like... is 50 first dates involves someone else writing things down and using a VCR for when the Amnesia victim wakes up. Friends, family do the "heavy lifting".

Sounds like Memento is self descriptions? Doesn't sound like there's anyone else to write things down for him.

Memento was 2000. 50 first dates was 2004. So they are more comparable than someone with a smartphone - obviously.

But it sounds like the smart phone plot item is more of a twist on doing stuff for yourself - IE Memento.
React tidy is a collection of atomic, typed, tested and documented hooks
How should we interpret Dave Cutler's criticism of Unix?
FWIW, I metaphorically went though that myself, by being overly focused on grad school and professional development while they were young. I would give almost anything to undo that mistake.

If you don't mind a suggestion, take lots of video and get lots of audio recording of them. Their little-kid voices don't last forever. And once they're past the obnoxious teenage years, you may find you can't even remember their earlier voices.

(AFK to dry my eyes and go give my kids a hug.)
The concept of a multi-national bureaucracy that has a massive budget and little accountability has very little appeal to me.

I get that it enabled mobility for EU citizens and the potential for combating large scale problems like climate change, but with human nature being what it is corruption and overreach is unavoidable
There is not a monad trait because we do not have higher kinded types, which is a requirement.

Beyond that, it's not clear that a monad trait would work, even if we did. It may, but it also may not. We'll see (or not) I guess.
no money in anything but parasitism.

IMO We desperately need socialism and an end to rent-collection in totality.
IANAD but as I understand it - if everyone is wearing cloth masks correctly, you're very well protected as cloth masks prevent droplets containing the virus from entering the air. But if someone without a mask coughs, breaths, sings etc and has the virus, those virus-laden microscopic droplets enter the air and your normal cloth mask won't do much of anything to help keep you protected from them.

An N95 will filter out some/most of those microscopic droplets before you inhale them.

TL;DR - your cloth mask mostly helps protect other people, while an N95 mask helps protect you.
Company-Wide Retrospectives
> In World War II, we retooled our entire economy to embark on years-long total war against fascism.

Its a big gap in my experience of economics/politics/management about how things were done back then to do this. Was it people doing the "right thing", or were companies paid to do it, or was it government controlled factories.

Its a bit like the British empire - ie we need to invade Malaysia to get rubber, or Arabia for oil. How were things done in the old days? In today's globalized commercial world I (or most other managers) dont really know.
oh god, please teach these people about encryption: what they're trying to do - it does not work like they think it works (as it seems to be).

> Locking the door of your house (with near impossible to break locks) prevents us to find out what you're doing/keeping in your house, so we can't know whether you're doing/keeping something illegal in your house. So we are going to ban the making and using of unbreakable (or infeasable to break open) locks for locking the door of your house.

< The law-enforcement people as well as the criminals will be able to break into my house. What about that?

Do you like this analogy?
I absolutely found Mandarin more difficult than Japanese - mostly due to pronunciation and tones.

The consistency in phonems in mandarin probably makes it a bit less demanding than Japanese, but I find that difference marginal on the whole.

(Studied Japanese 1y+, Mandarin 6 months)
>What would it take for you to be convinced after you wake up this morning that you had this condition and the year was actually 2035 right now?

Looking in the mirror? Even getting out of bed? I mean seriously, it seems straight forward, albeit with a minor complication. On the simple side, well 15 years quite a while right? A mirror and the feeling of moving around and my own body alone would drive home it wasn't 2020 quite directly. My significant other/kids/family will be changed (this may also be immensely painful, beloved pets will certainly be gone and maybe some family too). Friends, jobs, companies, all will be different. Not just the news but the environment in general will probably be pretty different in many places. And of course as this is HN, by 2035 there will be fairly massive technology changes one way or another too. Wearable displays, far more ubiquitous connected stuff, etc., or if not only because of devastating societal changes which themselves would be fairly obvious.

I guess one minor complication though is that an inability to form long term memories would mean that new things and tech couldn't be persistently learned either, and in turn there'd be direct reason to keep much of your home frozen in time to keep things more comfortable, which might slightly disrupt belief for a short period (before aging made it impossible to ignore). Anything that couldn't be relearned in a matter of minutes would probably be disfavored. Even in theoretical future shock type scenarios where somebody wakes up after being frozen or something, there is the inherent fact usually that they can at least start learning about what they missed and begin building a new life. Not being able to do that would be particularly painful, so much incredible cool stuff but not being able to hack on it. Future shock every single day. Somebody talked about checking their phone, but in 2005 we didn't have smartphones at all, and in 2035 we may not either (because they'll all have been obsoleted by advanced WDs or implants or who knows).

Far better AI assistants though could probably be a big differentiator. Full human quality natural language interaction, a full daily rundown and routine, explanations and handling advanced tech, it'd be a clear change that could be experienced and probed conversationally.

But my real hope would be that by 2035 neuroscience has advanced enough to be able to deal with it!
Not really I am pointing out that both ignored Public Health officials from the beginning.