skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> riends said that Engstrom didn’t have any organization, process, or discipline as a manager. He would promise products and schedules, without checking with his team first. He would simply inspire them to hit the targets, and that was his view of leadership through the “haze of barely controlled chaos.” He didn’t write things down. He was not the most “warm and fuzzy guy unless you were truly in his circle.”

Nightmare :)
> Wouldn't that be a great outcome? Cheap cars or cheap cola?

Bingo. And that's why normal people don't care about ads if they get Facebook and Google for free.
Shiterator requires your system is able to consume fibers, though, or it'll dump all your kernels, which is not a pretty sight.
Firefox usage was slowly but steadily increasing pre-chrome though.
Twitter taps AWS for its latest foray into the public cloud
Emacs has a Qt version? Are you thinking of gtk, lucid/athena, or motif?
MDN is MDN, and the branding will stay the same.

Yari is a codename for the effort to move MDN closer to a static site architecture.
Good call, let's perpetually starve our evolutionary meat brains with quinoa and soy.

You'll own nothing and you'll be happy.
> as well as the fact that the inventor of TLA+, Leslie Lamport, is very well-known for his work in distributed systems, led to TLA+

But didn't lead him to come up with decent distributed algorithms. PAXOS is a negative example here for example, where Leslie said that formalization naturally derives such algorithms, but in reality many years and many iterations on the idea from many different researchers and engineers is what led to something actually useful in practice, as PAXOS wasn't, and formalization was by far the least important thing ever.
I've used that kind of information throughout my life as a marker to help me determine when it's time for me to move on to the next "stage" of development of my skill. It is similar in spirit to the quote (paraphrasing), "If you're the smartest person in the room, find another room", except substitute "smartest" with "highest skilled" perhaps.

Essentially, I see it as a meta-indicator, a way of making decisions in situations where I don't have all of the information.

Another way to look at it would be through the lens of game theory. Game theory is absolutely a field of some consequence, and it's all about relative positioning of agents in a system and their likely intentions after factoring in the likely intentions of their peers.

In a word, you might describe this type of analysis as simply, "wisdom." I find it to be of particular value in entrepreneurship.
>Traditionally this stuff has meant race to the bottom in terms of taxes and regulations. That is terrible.

But there is no race since Texas hasn't made any changes to accommodate these companies
> People with children older than 18 or with no kids have no use for public schools.

It is unbelievable to see this actually written down, and in an argument asserting that people from generations ago built an ecosystem for what is currently an exploding knowledge based economy, no less.
What's the best way to support the browser directly with money? Pay for the VPN?
IT Outsourcing – Unfashionable Necessity to Strategic Must
Spoke against the world's number one favorite food? And lost? Imagine that.
Ask HN: Using Firebase as database for small eGrocery delivery service?
Hazards are (1) user accidentally removing data they want when doing "clear browsing data", (2) Mobile Safari deleting data if you don't visit the site frequently enough and (3) unanticipated future changes to browsers that make more problems like (2).

Other than that, IME it works well.
This seems like a tiny problem. Not being able to view photos without a photo app and not accessing contacts not on your phone isn't "killing Android Phones".
Also here: https://archive.is/TSVAv
AWS CloudShell
> Paying fines for shady practices will no longer simply be the cost of doing business, but there's a real risk of being locked out of a major market.

Yes! And that's how it should be.

A fine is just a permission slip for rich people.

Since e.g. Apple holds something like $200b in cash, fines are anti-competitive in this field. A small player can't afford to risk a fine; Apple can pay any level of fine, if it ultimately needs to.
They likely do i18n like other companies, and just outsource it to someone for cheap, and never fix translation errors.
As a user I would like zero tracking because I don't care about ad fraud that much. I also think advertisers and contemporaries collecting my info is a security problem or even a breach.
I mean, you already have that via the Facebook EULA for example. You give them a license to use your data however they want and in return you get access to Facebook. You can not accept their terms and in return they can not allow you to use Facebook.
Absentee owners. It is run by management consultants.

https://www.forbes.com/profile/david-thomson/?sh=7d653665628...
Yes, in KDE we also moved most of our websites to static website generators to Jekyll or Hugo. From the more than 20 websites only a few are still using Drupal 7 or a custom php framework. The last one and biggest website to be migrated https://kde.org was a big challenge because it is an 20 years old websites with thousands of pages and translations.

But my efforts are finally paying off and we saw an increase of 33% in the visitor count of the website and the current codebase made it so much easier to work with and add new content. And this time, I blogged about it: https://carlschwan.eu/2020/10/30/kde-org-hugo.html
Entrepreneur Raised $70M to Create Enjoyable Healthcare Experiences
Loads fast and looks great. Works for me!
The problem is the sugar is addictive, abused by 99% of its users and it provides no benefit. In what cases is soda a valuable fuel that couldn't be replaced by something more natural and healthy?
There is absolutely no limit to this. Putting on a suit for a financial job interview exploits the cognitive biases of interviewers. Tattoos exploit the cognitive biases of hipsters. Putting hockey-stick growth projections in pitch decks exploits the cognitive biases of VCs. Equity grants (pretty much always) exploit the cognitive biases of startup employees. Driving a fancy car exploits the cognitive biases of (a very large portion of) the dating market.

Human beings are not computers. No aspect of human behavior is perfectly logical or rational. You simply cannot ban emotional appeals in principle, because all appeals have an emotional component. This way lies a dystopia far more terrible than "grandpa shared some nonsense on facebook".
Schizophrenia in Contemporary Mathematics [pdf]
Thing is, when I play the same video with VLC which uses HW decoding, it doesn't even break a sweat. So I think there might be something wrong on the browser part...
I mean, whatever works for you, obviously - there's no true way - but this sounds fragile - and perhaps more importantly - like working against the grain of shell/Unix.

I would generally say that state belongs in environment variables (and arguments) - and/or files/input streams. Not partially hard-coded in partial scripts.

I suppose I could see a "framework" like:

./projX/setup
./projX/job1
./projX/job2
./projX/cleanup

But I'd still prefer setup and friends to accept a path (not PATH) as first argument or whatever. Rather than assuming a relative path.

Maybe even factor most of this into something that could live under /opt/bin or whatever.

Especially for cron I'd rather see:

/opt/projX/scripts/mangle /opt/projX

Rather than just the first part with an implicit argument of "parent of containing folder".
> They still need to pay for roads and schools, right?

And we do, with far less taxes. $57.38 billion in revenue for TX at 29M population, $100 billion in revenue for CA at 39.5 million population.

It's $1979 per person in TX, and $2531 in CA. Or about 75%.
Can't relate (on 82.1.3).
I was expecting fraud here to refer to that which might impact the user in some way (i.e. credit card / bank, identity, fraud etc) - was genuinely surprised that other people read 'ad fraud' from this...
Ask HN: Is there any extensions to emulate a fake footprint?
Curious if there is any technology that can fake a browser, screen dimensions, and device.

I've also heard there are some networking settings that can be footprinted, but I'm not sure what they are.
weighted or not is not that important. What IS important is sound quality. You can't get it from cheap instruments.
> In the brain, the glymphatic system flushes fluids from the tissues while you sleep. This is a primary function of sleep and flushing these fluids out is how the body "takes out the trash," which is likely why sleep deprivation is increasingly shown as associated with both the build-up of certain proteins in the brain and, ultimately, certain brain disorders.

As someone who's severely sleep-deprived, can you please share more / share a source? Thanks in advance
The YouTube app also has horrendous lip-sync issues on LG WebOS. They don't care.
If these products genuinely can't survive as their own viable products, we all agree that something like each individual product is necessary, and the entire suite can be reliably used to crush any competition, I'd say you're looking at a good case for state ownership.

That's not to say I agree that all these predicates are met in Google's case, but if you really do find yourself in a situation where a company can't be broken up because the constituent products are necessary to society but can't function without one another, then that company probably can't be effectively regulated by any government.
I strongly agree with Banksy's view on advertisement:

People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.

You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.

Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.

– Banksy

While I think there are some forms of advertisement that are acceptable or even desirable, what we see on the internet is not that, mostly due to the tracking and targeting, which almost every advertisement company is doing, but also because adverts are inherently trying to trick, pressure or encourage you to spend money on something even if you don't really want or need it.

> Maybe try some introspection.

I have. I've come to the conclusion that I judge people who work in industries I find morally questionable.
I would suggest you take a look at the definition of genocide, and reconsider whether sterilising nations of people (the fact you pay them to do it is immaterial) is in any way a sane thing to recommend. I'm honestly shocked someone would publicly suggest it.

You might find this article relevant to your interests[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecofascism
I don't see a big comeback for Firefox unless there's a big backlash against the reduced effectiveness of adblocking due to manifest v3 in chrome. It's not like the days where "tabs and ad blocking" were only available in one browser (well two, but Opera was still (a) charging money or (b) including ads depending on the timeframe) and provided a huge incentive to switch from IE. Sync is the closest any browser feature has come to that level in a decade, but all browsers had that pretty quickly.

Mozilla also don't have the brand power to push their browser to people who don't actually care but just want the notification on google.com or youtube to go away, or had it bundled with flash player or their windows install or their AV program like a lot of Chrome's rise.

My hope is it bottoms out and finds a new stable equilibrium at brave/vivaldi levels. The question is if that's a large enough position to actually maintain a browser engine.
This. As an example, my mother (who is over 90) got locked out of her icloud account a couple years ago, from getting unexpected password prompts on her ipad and not understanding which password was required, she entered the wrong one too many times. We had recorded our answers to the “security questions” when setting up the account, but they were not accepted either. In the end, we managed to restore access via a rather cumbersome process. No complaints about that, of course; the important part is that she did get her access back in the end.
I hope they fixed the one thing that has been preventing me from switching to FF as my daily driver. The one thing that I can find a few "fixes" for, but none seem to work for me. Starting up to a frozen window, and then having to open new frozen windows, until eventually a non-frozen window opens. Then having to go clear a bunch of zombie processes out of Task Manager. Happens almost daily, and drives me crazy. /rant
Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine: The story of the jab
There are a lot of articles about YouTube's recommendation algorithms and how it spread fake news, conspiracies and similar problematic things.

For example, this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25359003
I believe you, it was only a hunch. Not backed up by evidence! I've been way off about my intuition of frequencies, especially with non-harmonic sounds like key presses :)
To be clear, these are dying companies. Good riddance! More room for the green shoots.
watching Werner's talk now; is AWS CloudShell the same thing as GCP's browser terminal? seems like it is...anyone have any early indications?
Cheap cars that break down fast aren't good for anyone.
I'm not sure, air quality was extremely poor in 18th century Europe. The term smog was coined in 1905 (after more than 100 years of deadly smog) in London. https://www.theguardian.com/science/the-h-word/2016/dec/09/p...
> The M1 chip, which seems designed to run reference counted software written in Swift or Objective-C.

You'll have to explain why a dedicated hardware company wouldn't be able to come up with such a chip given sufficient competition. If many people use language X, then it makes sense for an IC design company to optimize for that language (unless there is a near-monopoly situation and they don't care about what the market wants).

> But there are plenty of other examples (ever wonder why no one seems to be able to replicate Apple's great trackpads?).

I'm afraid you'll have to provide some more context, because the connection between your argument and both hardware and software seems missing.
For people like me looking at the linked tweet via a desktop browser: the picture in the tweet isn't shown in full - you need to click on it to see the issue.

And... it's horrifying.
While I am wary of the messages coming out of corporations, I do believe it’s possible for them to be nice, at least in some cases. In my view the intention behind the gesture is an important consideration. Did the person or group responsible for adding the message on the cup intend to increase sales? Or was kindness the motivation? Maybe it was both, and I think that already counts for something.
How to Manage Remote Teams: Firsthand Advice from PMs
Have you ever heard of the term "eco-fascism"?
> What drove you to continue the development of the software?

The same things that drive security researchers to explore different security exploits. I don't condone anyone using this for malicious purposes.
But income taxes are lower. A $200k income has an effective state tax rate of 7.67% in California and 4.95% in Illinois (IL has a flat tax rate).

And considering real estate is much cheaper in Chicago, a home that's half as much would offer the same standard of living, when compared to SF.

So you could pay the same amount in property taxes, and less income tax.
It's impossible to download free apps on iOS (via the App Store) without giving Apple an email address, phone number, and street address.

Additionally, opening the App Store app on iOS sends your IP (coarse location) and device serial number to Apple. Logging in to download associates that serial with your email, street address, and phone number.

Every iOS device, and now every mac, connects to the Apple push server with a certificate tied to its serial number, and of course sends the client IP (and thus coarse device location).

Apple has your travel history, and the travel history of every iOS device by serial number. As of Big Sur, they have it for each and every mac, too.

On the mac, you can't install a VPN app without providing your identification to Apple, because the NetworkExtension app entitlements to do that are only given out for App Store apps. This is why windows users can download wireguard from the wireguard website, but mac users cannot. App Store only!

I am not really that convinced that Apple cares that much about protecting consumer privacy.
Retentioneering: Python framework for processing and analyzing clickstreams
Your comment made me think of the adage: "Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live"
Basic fear is that it becomes yet another chromium spawn some ~5 years down the line. Recent dramas surrounding FF on Android and unasked-for UI changes in desktop surely didn't win FF any new users...But...I'm still clinging to it.
You can issue a bug report on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/home
Sometimes bugs are fixed really fast, sometimes never. Just give it a try.
You mean like the right to repair? Or do you mean the user rights on your iOS device, not allowing you to install stuff from outside the app store?
It's strictly not semantic, it's happening at an instinctive level. These backdoor hacks into the legacy code of our brains are the problem.
Advertisers would put stupid banners on my page because they cannot do anything else but still want to advertise. Maybe they spend less because they get less return. I actually think it would increase quality of content.
For comparison, here's what a Texas echo chamber not too far from Austin looked like when Apple tried to spread their gay cooties there 25 years ago: https://www.nwitimes.com/uncategorized/texas-town-snubs-appl...
>> Sure HP and Oracle are not "sexy" but they do employee massive numbers of tech folks.

It's a much different type of employee than you'd have at somewhere like Netflix or Google, though.
Nope! Never said it did. EDIT: Literally just picked a random (that I thought would fit in the space I had--didn't want to go over-long) passage from the Freedman's interviews section of the book.
I recall an article from maybe 5 years ago where a guy decided to teach himself piano by learning his favorite song. It went well, and I always meant to try that.

Seems like an article that wouldn't be too hard to track down, but I'm not finding it. I think it was a mainstream magazine like the New Yorker or Atlantic. I'll keep looking.

Not this, but it was pretty good: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/05/20/magazine/quar...
Major browsers can't ditch Flash until Adobe EOLs it. Too many legacy enterprise apps still rely on it, even though they are likely being frantically reimplemented this month. I'm in that boat.
Hey, I've added MIT license for all my gists (https://gist.github.com/m-radzikowski/d925ac457478db14c2146d...), so feel free to use it.
The damage to CA's economy won't come from the has-beens leaving, but the never-will-be's that never happen.

It's hard to have a ramen startup when your garage costs a million dollars.

SF has been operating on the "Get Big Quick" financial injection model for a while now, so it probably won't stop those types of companies. But we shouldn't pretend that there's been a good environment for the idyllic startup in at least 20 years in the Bay Area.
A Trusted Companion of 2020 – Books
I'm in the same boat and have the same worries. I give them a monthly donation to support the company, in hopes of showing that there are paying customers they may be able to fall back on in the future. I can't think of anything else I can do to turn back the tide of the advertiser-developed browser. (Yes, I already know the money doesn't go directly to Firefox development today, thanks.)
The ratio of signal to noise on my facebook feed is much worse than my twitter feed. Maybe I'm the right target segment for twitter (young professional in tech) but I see 100x more interesting content from tech/comedians/VCs on twitter as compared to FB, which even my elder family members don't use anymore (they all use whatsapp groups for sharing photos).
> I must have really different experiences than all of these people that write these articles (it seems like there has been something like this, every week on HN, for the last 10 years)

Me too!

It's almost as if the recommendation algorithm and ad model end up showing and reinforcing different types of content and behavior for different sets of users.

We really need a good word for this process how different people on Facebook see different things-- how it's kind of "sifted," so to speak, in such a way that even if the user tries to venture out to find different content, they can easily end up back where they started. Like walking inside a sphere without knowing it.

For example, maybe I read articles like this one for a full decade and tried at least one time to find fake news and rabid content on Facebook. So I started looking, but lo and behold, the recommendation engine never hooked me up with the ICE Facebook group, or a proudboys group, or one of the zillion other nasty echo chambers these articles keep mentioning.

Did any of the articles you read for the last 10 years give a name to this phenomenon of keeping a user in a cordoned off area with their custom-sifted content? I'll be honest, I've never actively searched to see if such a term exists. But you'd think after all this time an article that uses such a term would have eventually been posted to my wall.
Walmart has contributed to the decline of small businesses in rural areas[0] and they compensate their employees so little that they officially encourage their employees to take advantage of the social safety net[1] despite ever increasing annual net income[2] captured largely by the non-productive latter-generation Waltons.

[0]https://money.com/walmart-stores-closing-small-towns

[1]https://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2014/04/15/report-...

[2]https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/WMT/walmart/net-in...
You don't have to use the Vim editor itself, but to not take advantage of Vim key bindings is a huge miss if you're doing programing work. Most modern editors have plugins that enable them. Personally I've been using Intellij with the Vim plugin.

I'm not sure what the best way to learn is, but try `vimtutor` on your shell and keep open a Vim cheat sheet like the one here: http://michael.peopleofhonoronly.com/vim/