skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a pretty bad-faith "what-about-ism" response. The energy consumption downsides of proof-of-work systems are pretty well known. And those particular downsides don't apply to the systems you listed. Sure, running those systems still takes energy, and there's probably an interesting comment about what a ratio between the two might look like. But your comment as written is not that.
It's not that SF/US based employees will look to be paid more it's that people in India who have comparable skills will look for compensation closer to what one gets in SF/US. Why would they accept prevailing outsourcing shop wages now that they can work directly for western companies? This change is already occurring in the circle I'm in contact with.
The thing that bugs me about Twitter is how locked down the API is. You can't do much with it before you have to start paying them (a lot).

In the early days of the Facebook API, I made a cool little MacOS screen saver / visualizer with its data (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZnB14BVjlE). I'd love to build some similar tech experiments with Twitter, but their API "Sandbox" allows only 250 API requests per month before you have to start paying them hundreds to thousands of dollars for just a few hundred more. https://developer.twitter.com/en/pricing/search-30day

I feel this seriously limits what developers can do with Twitter. It's such a rich source of data that could be explored in so many interesting ways, but it's all locked away. It's not worth even building a cool little thing to share on Twitter as just showing it on the Internet anywhere will use up all the API requests immediately. Hurts potential innovations built off the platform.
Y'know, the CEO doesn't personally make all the decisions at a company. Specifically:

> "Windows Phone"

You can lay that at Terry Myerson's feet. The several breaks in backward compatibility was a big factor in ensuring WP had no apps.

> "Xbox One (which halved its marketshare vs the 360)"

That was crappy decision making by Don Mattrick. He also had a hand in killing Flight Simulator IIRC.
Your name is dissident science, I'm guessing you're skeptical about the mainstream of science? So, tell us, what are your "different value systems" that support Trump's denial of climate science?

I don't think it's a stretch to call the current Commander in Chief a "Denier in Chief". When asked about climate during the two debates, he obfuscates and talks about forest floor litter or OPEC-negotiation for low gas prices. When asked about global warming, he claimed "It'll get colder". He can't come out and say fossil fuel combustion leads to atmospheric change that warms the planet. To say that would be to go against his party, which is pro-fossil fuel and takes big money from big energy companies (but the GOP is also pro-renewable, might I add, look at Iowa, TX, and many red states doing well on renewables).

Hackernews is supposed to be about technology, which is governed at its core by the objective reality of 0/1 binary transistors and the complex scientific/logical systems we've built to interact with that science. It's not a stretch to support science on this forum. If you're going against the grain of science, I'd say SUPPORT your position, don't just state your position and ask for moderator take-down of an opposing view.
I'm recently (as in last night) starting to question the likelihood of life forming at all.

I'm wondering how well we've nailed-down just what life is and how well we grok it's origination process. Cursory reading suggests we're still working from educated theory.
"THE BERING SEA, near the chain of the Aleutian Islands, is one of the most intense patches of ocean on Earth. Strong winds, freezing temperatures, and icy water are normal conditions. The combination makes for some of the most ferocious waves on the planet, where the water can rise and fall 30 feet on a normal day."

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/proof/2017/03...

Definitely not the place for these.
> Digital spying and Denying something you know is true

This is very interesting, and the linked page too[1]. As a long-time Firefox user I find this kind of shocking. I trusted no traffic (or no such traffic) was generated from Firefox. I need now to open a session with Wireshark and check it for myself.

I wonder how the TOR browser handles all these requests.

[1] https://spyware.neocities.org/guides/firefox.html
Not really possible cause we don't know how much carbon PoW generates. You could naively just assume they generates the average amount (which is what some analysts have done), but I doubt that would be accurate.
It's not possible because PHP has a LALR(1) parser but this would require arbitrary lookahead.
You have put your finger on exactly the reason why they failed commercially in the real world.

The problem is that just one monster wave is disaster. The bigger you make the device, the bigger the wave it can take. But to justify a bigger machine, you need to have it transporting a higher volume of people. Which means that you only hit the break-even point for ground effect vehicles where lots of people want to quickly get from point A to point B over relatively calm seas. And ideally a relatively short distance so you can pick up lots of fares for your time spent over the water.

However wherever you have those conditions, you have the perfect economic conditions to build a bridge or a tunnel. That may be more expensive, but solve the problem better.

They do have limited military use. There you only want to use it once, the people you are transporting can accept higher risk than civilians would, and being able to ignore mines is a huge win. But again, only some military theaters benefit, and getting the machine where it needs to be can be a challenge.
There are unfortunately many small business people who greatly underestimate the skill that goes into anything they don't personally do. Those are the foolish people who shop by price and think they are getting a good deal.

These are also the people who keep Walmart alive. They have limited reasoning ability, and even if they might suspect it's too cheap to be any good, they want it to be good enough and are willing to pretend that it is. These happen to also be the people who easily accept absurd and obviously false statements made by certain political leaders.

I know quite a few of these people, and I have tried countless times to advise them on reasonable choices, but it is like talking to a wall (if a wall could nod and pretend to agree).
Fine, but if we couldn't, does she have a point about the priorities, and if not, why not?

(And, BTW, the fact that some investment has a good ROI doesn't mean you should pick it over another with a higher ROI)
Making it free for a year on new computers with automatic renewal is an easy way to inflate the subscription numbers. How many people are silently paying for something they don't use and aren't concerned about because it's "only" $10 a month?
I'd go so far as to say "I like it." Might be disliked by some, fine, but plenty have been shouting against it as if it had been designed by Satan himself.

It's just a textbox that expands when focused. Is it really so irritating to want to switch browsers?
That “Firefox is Spyware” article which this one uses as evidence is total BS. Firefox is spyware because it makes a single GET request to an empty page on Mozilla’s site to detect public WiFi login portals? How else do they envision that working? Even if you’re technically adept, getting that login page to show up in the age of HTTPS is a hassle.
The funny thing about that is if the protest voters who voted for Jill Stein had voted for Gary Johnson instead, the Libertarian party would have reached the 5% threshold necessary to become fully funded across the entire next election cycle.

That’s the step necessary to truly validate another party.
> I must be a lunatic, because I think Pocket is useful.

There is another lunatic like me?

Yeah, I like Pocket, it can't be trained like Google news. I wish I could use Pocket recommendations on desktop.
The level is set by Firefox's own marketing. If they don't want to be held to their own claims, they should stop making them.
As a thought experiment, I think the best course of action for these freelance pen testers - assuming they incur no actual liabilities for being wrong - is to simply declare everything they test "secure" without putting any actual effort into it at all.

If they can manage to do this at any scale whatsoever, there is basically no downside, because there's a huge disconnect between the impact of a false negative (site breached, data stolen, etc.) and the impact to them (a 1-star review - even in your nightmare scenario as a customer, you still give them a score of 20%!)

1) A large number of the people who come to them will have actually produced secure code, so broken clock theory prevails, and there's no downside.

2) Another large subset will never generate enough interest among hackers to exploit their insecure code; a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it.

3) Another subset still will never know they've been breached and have cause to action.

4) If a company does learn they've been breached, they still must connect the dots to the failure of the pen tester.

5) And even then ... 1 star and some bad PR!

And of course if there were actual liabilities, they wouldn't be charging $35 on a freelance site.
If PoW provides the same security level as PoS then the marginal value of PoW is indeed zero (or negative due to the energy waste).
In the western European country I live in, everyone was pushing for more and more outsourcing. Initially India but they started using eastern EU countries as well which was cheaper but didn't have e.g. timezone issues. They're mostly pulling back to in-country. There could be a lot of reasons for this, but if the issue is about work quality then I don't see why that changes now.

Anyway, fearing getting replaced by outsourcing is like fearing to get replaced by robots. Maybe it will happen in the end but if so, we never could have stopped it anyway. If it's the right direction and we should pursue it.
Actually, if you take a look at the graph, you will notice that paths that direct to red leaves are almost all almost entirely red whereas there is a lot of paths to blue leaves that are mostly or even almost entirely red.

Or think another way. The largest number of states that can be blue and red still wins is 4. There isn't any combination of any combinations where 5 of selected states are blue and red can still win.

To calculate actual probability don't look at just the number of read leaves to number of blue leaves. You need to take into account probability of each of the state being blue or red. I am too lazy to calculate it but at first sight red outcome seems extremely unlikely.
This.

This [1] wired interview provides an insight into the structured thinking at Microsoft/Gates even back in 1996.

I'm sure this kind of thinking permeates any successful company, to have a video of this depth, and now available for public viewing, is really unique.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFFlO7yBIBM
Indeed, but marginal production will still tend to lower prices.

The thing is that Bay Area real estate price pressure is supported by the arrival of people from abroad, and this process has come to an abrupt halt. Prices will go down. This does not provide evidence of an accelerating process of people moving to Moab, Utah.
Really weak criticisms here, if you ask me.

- Mozilla moved my cheese one time and I’m still upset about it

- Mozilla also has a marketing department

- Mozilla also collects usage data in the same way that every other application with crash reporting does

Using Firefox even with the defaults unchanged is still way less of a piece of spyware than Chrome with the defaults unchanged. By default Chrome integrates with your Google login tying together a stupidly huge amount of data collection across a vast network of sites including two monopolies (YouTube and Google Search).

And yet somehow this non-profit organization that doesn’t own a search engine or social media service is a bad alternative.
The app remembers your previous orders. If you order the same thing each time, you just press the previous order to order it again. Done in like 5 seconds.
it's so ironic that people would have fallen prey to a disease that is so easily mitigated. Vitamin-C is one of the most abundant vitamins out there. Lemons and oranges get all the credit for vitamin C but actually, there's countless examples of plant based foods that have Vitamin-C: just check the vitamin C radio box: https://kale.world/c

Here's a short list:
red/green peppers
spinach
watercress
pok choi
kale
brussel sprouts
chard
cabbage
peas

Just about any leafy green vegetable.

Heck, they could have ate the weeds growing in someone's garden: Purslane, fireweed, oxalys, and they would've had more than enough vitamin C.

i think it's the nature of being out at sea only eating processed reserves that made them so vulnerable to the disease.
Ah yes, seems I was misremembering. Thanks for the info.
Are you threatening a terrorist attack if Trump wins or is there something clear and obvious that makes you say that 4 more years of Trump is a credible likely cause of total annihilation?
Microsoft stock was flat under Ballmer because of hangover from the massive dotcom bust in 2000 and the DOJ consent decree which didn't expire until 2011. It would've been hard for anyone else to do better.
The visualization presents Florida as the first decision point, but that is a choice of the visualization - you could make it the last choice and the visualization wouldn't look like this.

That said Florida does have a large number of electoral college votes and can swing, so it makes sense as a a choice of the designer.
I’m labelling you a violent extremist, because you said you don’t care if innocent people die as a result of your cause. I’m not sure why you think I’m labeling anyone else.

Can you find one other comment where I have labeled anyone anything? It should be very easy if I end every one of my comments like that.

Nobody else here has said they don’t care about innocent people dying. That is only you.
I feel like there's a conflict between the epistemology of science and the sociology of science that trips up both scientists and philosophers of science.

"Reductivists" believe that there is some end state where there isn't a difference: we know enough to have a rational way to proceed to discover the rest. Which may or may not be true, but either way, it's certain that we're not there yet.

That creates a conflict of language. Reductivists speak as though they're on the path to that, and often omit that they're not there yet. When the various anti-reducitivsts point that out, it feels like they're just repeating what we already know.

It's worth studying how scientists actually proceed, and the remarkable flip they do at the end where they re-frame their work in terms of how it would fit into the overall edifice of knowledge at the end of the reductivist program. They cover up the process in the belief that it's irrelevant. At best, it's too much to wade through: it's hard enough keeping up with discoveries as it is, without the full story of the various dead ends and random guesses they made along the way.

That's a human problem. We're trying to do something with inefficient human mental machinery enclosed in multiple units that communicate poorly.

You can call the current process "ideology", in that they're trying to do something on incomplete information, so they proceed with what has worked best so far in their subjective experience. But it feels like carping to do so. It seems unnecessarily negative. They'd jump to the end of the process if they could, but they simply can't, and coming from philosophers on the sidelines rather than the people doing the work I can't tell who it's trying to aid.
I've used tunemymusic.com for a few different migrations (Spotify to Apple Music, Apple Music to the trial of Youtube Music). It pretty good although you need to do some manual verification because it messes up around 1% of the time, especially with the more obscure stuff. Sometimes it'll transfer the song as a live version or even someone else's cover so a bit of manual verification is helpful.
You and I must be using very different react applications.
Correct. On Election Day 2016, they had him at 28.6%.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/
Feature Store for MLOps? Feature Reuse Means Join
We could add a senator. Give it to DC.
I don't know why this is being downvoted. Ryan Dahl, the original developer of Node, moved on to build Deno.
>>potentially better medicine

Jobs refused conventional treatment to treat his cancer until it was too late. He placed heavy emphasis on oriental mysticism.
538 gave Clinton an 86% chance for a brief period of time after the Access Hollywood tapes but before Comey's press conference. I wouldn't call that a lock, but maybe some would.
"delaying the inevitable"
Why not? I simplified it.
It’s worth pointing out that Ethereum (unlike bitcoin) has a plan to migrate to proof of stake.
> These takes remind me of the people who voted for Jill Stein in 2016. Like, cool, I can agree it would be great if there was a viable third option—but there's not, and your choice of protest is effectively taking what power you do have and throwing it away.

In a non-swing state, how is voting third party "throwing your vote away"? In California or Massachusetts, it doesn't matter who you vote for, the Democrat will win and the Republican will lose, so why not vote third party, if you like the third party better? Likewise, in Wyoming or West Virginia, it doesn't matter who you vote for, the Republican will win and the Democrat will lose, so again, why not third party if that's what you want?

Maybe if the third party is massively popular, then it might change the outcome, even in one of those states, but that didn't happen in 2016, and I'm pretty sure it isn't happening this year either.
That will surely help closing the skill gap in the country [0]. Seriously isn't that market beyond saturation? [1]

[0] https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/ites/95-engineers-...

[1] https://restofworld.org/2020/india-engineering-degree/
Diving into the wild world of custom, ergonomic, mechanical keyboards
Sure, financial primitives that are mainly useful for speculation, very sketchy tokens, and various scams. $14B of FOMO can rapidly turn into $1B or $100M or $1M if/when the bottom falls out.
Agreed. I think it is kind of fractal. Even in low cost locations in Asia and all work is moving down further lower cost cities in same time zones.

I can see happening in India where 90's and 00's an IT job was sure shot way to earn upper middle class life. Now a large number of them who entered 10-15 years back are looking at mid career layoffs and next job will be most likely downgrade. Another large chunk of employees are going to be pushed toward contract jobs instead of full time as companies target for 100% utilization of staff.
Enterprise sales dwarf consumer sells and the number of new PC sales have been going down each year.

https://www.skyhighnetworks.com/cloud-security-blog/7-charts...
Yes and no. 538 published an article after the election explaining that there were in fact systemic errors in the models; the result wasn't just random probability within models that were otherwise correct: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-polls-missed-trump-...

> While the errors were nationwide, they were spread unevenly. The more whites without college degrees were in a state, the more Trump outperformed his FiveThirtyEight polls-only adjusted polling average,1 suggesting the polls underestimated his support with that group. And the bigger the lead we forecast for Trump, the more he outperformed his polls.2 In the average state won by Trump, the polls missed by an average of 7.4 percentage points (in either direction); in Clinton states, they missed by an average of 3.7 points. It’s typical for polls to miss in states that aren’t close, though. The most important concentration of polling errors was regional: Polls understated Trump’s margin by 4 points or more in a group of Midwestern states that he was expected to mostly lose but mostly won: Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota.

If the errors had been random rather than systematic, it would have been statistically quite unlikely for Trump to have swept all of those midwestern states.
I'm flattered! Wanna make sure everyone's aware I'm a cis-man. I've just gotten started honestly, so the only tutorial video on there is walking through a point-free JS solution on Codewars using Ramda. If I put up some more FP content then I will actually link it, promise!
> “If you stop using Firefox,”, Mozilla advocates will tell you, “Chrome will become the only real web browser”.

> Yes, but isn’t it a bit too late to worry about that? And what change do individual choices make here?

I don't think it's too late. Firefox exists because the same situation was happening in the late 90s/early 2000s - replace Chrome with Internet Explorer and I could believe this was written in 2002.

It's a different landscape today[1], but I maintain it wasn't too late then and it isn't now - the fact that we're talking about FF almost 20 years after its first release is a testament to that.

I'm not a daily FF user, but I am part of the install base. I think that diversity in the browser ecosystem is extremely important and I'm not a "Mozilla advocate".

[1] I'm guessing part of the early success of FF was its support for OSX/Linux where IE had no reach and it gained them a lot of early traction/users so it isn't an apples to apples comparison with Chrome today. But, I remember the times, and many (even non-techie) people would adamantly install and switch to FF as the first action when they got a new PC/fresh Windows install - those individual choices added up to a very large user base.
Apple has been aggressively ditching “legacy” ports since the first iMacs in 1998. How is Apple going USB-C only now different than the original iMac going USB only?
I worked for MS under ballmer and turner. And they are in my opinion definitly, with Gates in the background, the ones that are the reason why the shared have rocketed.

Satya did not invent the "platform wins" strategy. That was long before him. And that's what the company is still capitalizing on.

That's what Microsoft is still the best at. Platform. And tools.

No one comes even close to having the developer experience MS offers. And that plays directly into the platform strategy.

Ballmer was a genius. Straight fact.
> A successful entrepreneur is probably the highest status role possible in modern society (think Zuckerberg, Bezos, Gates) maybe even rivaling POTUS.

Not even close. Regardless of the high esteem we may hold them in, the average person just sees them that you list as rich dorks. Compare and contrast with say Brad Pitt or Leonardo DiCaprio who, to use a stock phrase, men want to be and women want to be with.
It should, since they'll be able to claim (rightfully) that some of it was manufactured in India.

Depending on the costs of manufacturing, the price of might not go down by much however, or Apple might keep the difference.
In the example of the credit card system, the misplaced trust I am talking about would be misplaced trust in the payment processing networks themselves (e.g. Visa, Mastercard).

This could be fraud (unlikely I think) or pathological behavior such as banning people or organizations from their networks for political reasons (this already happens).
A better argument is that you shouldn't vote third-party because first-past-the-post voting severely penalizes it: http://zesty.ca/voting/sim/