skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On 2, I actually think that the right sideproject does have the ability to market Firefox and grows its userbase better than making incremental gains in the browser. For example, Firefox Send was a clever way of putting the brand in front of many people who might never have seen it.

On 3, I too would love to see that happen, but, from the outside at least, the project has seen so much upheaval [1]. I don't really understand the significance of the latest change, at the start of the year [2], but hopefully it's a good sign.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Thunderbird#History
[2] https://blog.thunderbird.net/2020/01/thunderbirds-new-home/
It does support static site generation, which I was using it for, but for example next/image requires the backend API server. The case I was referring to was such that defining the exact same function in a component file behaved differently than in a page file, I think. In one case the build failed if I remember correctly, because it was trying to build client-side code but the code referred Node.js stuff.

No need to be aggressive. I don't have anything against Next, I just felt much more comfortable with Gatsby.
The original use case was that one (virtual) FTP server could be set up per customer, e.g. at ftp://customer01.contoso.com/stock/.

This was easy for the customer to upload their .csv onto (at their own convenience, and their own schedule).

How would you set up this push-based flow?
Generally speaking, the folks at Facebook have options to work other places in the industry.
The EU's focus is more "consumer protection" than security or privacy as such, in my view.
If you don't use the computer in a while, like my office workstation when needing to stay home, `pacman -Syyu` packet upgrade might be painful after six months.

Otherwise it's the distro I'm having the least amount of problems. Specifically don't miss the PPA's from Ubuntu. With dist upgrades they are quite painful.
Could you share some places to find those?
You may be right... But I would hope a court would rule that "I was experimenting with this other guys computer code and it ate my money" wouldn't lead to liability for the author of the code unless the loss can proved to be either deliberate or limited to the gain of the author (rather than the loss of the victim).
Glad I'm not the ASC for that product
Only in an artificial situation.

Usually, the value of all bitcoins combined shouldn't be able to exceed the value of all assets of all economies. What could you buy with those coins if not those assets?

You can achieve an arbitrary value though if somebody needs to buy an arbitrary small fraction of a bitcoin for some value. But that would only happen if e.g. someone's life depends on acquiring that small fraction.
Facebook

- Provides groups for people with common interests.

- Allows people to share positive ideas and articles, not just negatives

- Brings far-flung family members together in a way not easily replicated

- Allows people who care for each other to easily stay in touch despite distance and years apart.

It can be easy to point to other applications that could do this, but there's nothing I know of that's good enough, and certainly nothing with the same number of users.

> there are many other companies that could pay as good

Not really, it's pretty much limited to the FAANGs
and we were so proud of using all that recycled material too.
"When I'm on a Windows machine I spend so much time alt tabbing and dragging and resizing"

There's at least one tiling WM for Windows (don't recall the name off-hand, but someone here probably knows).

It's also possible to run i3 itself in Windows, under Cygwin, though of course it will only manage X applications.
> Most people do not have the luxury of being able to pick and choose their employer based on whether they are individually comfortable with every aspect of the organisation’s impact on the world.

This is true of most people. This is not true of most facebook developers.
but the "socialness" is a spectrum no? i am not introverted, or shy, or a weirdo (actually good looking and women are constantly hitting on me) yet a loner. it took me a long time to accept this. there is too much cultural/social pressure to not be a loner.

i am not interested in company, or sex. i really really really prefer to be alone, and mostly am. i live in a place i can hike 3-4 hours a day, i don't have close neighbors, i work from home.

so, honestly and without sarcasm you would say i'm delusional? i personally have never met anyone as happy as me. maybe i am delusional. :)
Safari is definitely in the technological pessimism camp as that's Apple's party line on the open web.

Safari has continuously caused "headache" to businesses that rely on tracking user behavior for years now, as Apple is very bent on protecting your privacy from every other company outside or inside their walled garden.
This is really neat! It's really nice to see a desktop environment with i3 ready out-of-the-box on a distro. I also really like the theme - the name, the moon wallpapers, the UI style, etc. This will probably become my go-to for a Ubuntu-based desktop distro.
I just switched a bit on mobile from Firefox to Chrome. I was annoyed by the fact that the address bar is at top in there and I think it's unfair to say at all points that the UX is better on Chrome.
Fees discourage the sending of test amounts.
It's good to mistrust corporations doing green things for PR, but if your objections ultimately trace back to talking points from climate change denying or minimizing media, then you've probably been conned by the very corporations you're trying to be vigilant about.
Aren't tiling window managers the traditional ones?

The ability for one window to float over another was a later innovation and is of course more difficult to implement. The earliest versions of Windows were also tiling only, which is thus the traditional way.
I asked an astronaut what it smells like in space. He said, “Ever been camping?”
Tether is issued on multiple blockchains. Omni is Bitcoin based, and recently most of it moved from Omni to Ethereum ($12.6 bil). Others include Tron ($6.4 bil), EOS ($90 mil), Liquid ($16.5 mil), and so on.

Full stats https://wallet.tether.to/transparency
Well yes, "don't pay for things" is one way to save money.
How to ensure data center physical security
Its interesting to see some European nations stepping up their game in cyber warfare and disinformation. Usually you hear about the USA, Russia, China, sometimes the UK, but rarely any of the other European nations.
I've been using i3 since 2012 and I love it. I've tried several different tiling window managers over the years, but I keep coming back to i3. I love the way it works, the configuration file makes sense and it's so much better than having overlapping windows.
Sorry, I also must detract from the point of the post, but I feel there is merit in a small rant.

I made a crate, reminds me of the I made a gem days. I can't quite put my finger on it but it feels pretentious. And I even know what crates and gems are. I can't imagine how someone who doesn't know the lingo looks at it. It's a library! I wrote a library that does blah blah. No one ever says I made a jar or I laid an egg...
It's funny seeing the perspective of charity being shown in various comments in this thread.
Apparently it's a competition to see how much 'sacrifice' you're making. Apparently it doesn't count if the giver also gets some benefit (PR?) from it. Never mind the the supposed goal, which is to help others.
> email is really tolerant of downtime. You can be down for hours without losing mail. The sending servers will retry for a while.

I’m aware senders will retry for days if your server doesn’t reply, but it still requires monitoring and is not just a “fire and forget” solution.

Also, if your server starts bouncing emails, chances are you’ll be missing mails. Again, needs monitoring.
The solution which I've seen implemented at a couple of stores in the US is to not offer a bag at all. You can either BUY a cloth bag or bring your own. The cloth bags seem to be sturdy enough to last for decades unless you're being ridiculous and filling them with 50lbs of canned goods.
Been at FB two years, joined after my wife had been there 1.5 years. There are tons of people who join bc of significant others or friends, it’s a good place to work.

* $$$ - There are only a few companies at that level of total comp. FB stock has climbed a lot in the last two years.

* Benefits - if you’re starting a family, FB gives the most leave of any big tech. I’m a dad and currently taking my 4 month fully paid paternity leave, after already taking 10 weeks paid COVID leave this year to take care of my two year old. We’ll be getting 10 more weeks of COVID leave for H1 2021 also.

* Culture - say what you will about the FAANG interview culture, but top tier companies have really good people and high standards. I’ve gotten pushed more in the last two years than any job before that. If you’re a high performer, the ceiling is insanely high, both in comp and responsibility.

* FB has tons of projects that have nothing to do with the things HN hates about FB. There is a massive chunk of the company working on awesome products that get used by billions of people.

* (flame war incoming) Not everyone agrees with the HN stance that selling ads based on user data is fundamentally evil.

* FB has done sketchy things in the past, but there’s so much government regulation and increased scrutiny, none of that would fly in 2020.
“We’re properly resourced and not growing too quickly.”

All of this after saying things are suboptimally distributed.

Austen, you constantly snake your way out of accountability and admitting bad things come from your school. Why don’t you just man up and fix the problems and take a hit to your profit margin? Don’t get into education if it’s a money grab, you dumb schmuck.
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It will end up like "BPA-free" beverage cans. Manufacturers just slightly change the chemical structure or use another plastic with not yet known adverse effects.
When I see these articles, I tend to wonder if anyone has actually filed any bug reports about this.
Firefox is already the best browser and has been for a long time. The problem is that most laypeople don't even know it exists. Combined with dark patterns used by microsoft and google to steer users toward their own browsers, it's an uphill battle. I'll stick firefox and appropriate extensions on a friends computer so they can watch youtube etc completely ad free, which is a major tangible QOL improvement, but then find them watching ads in ms edge a few days later without having realized.
Since when is Klarna considered reliable? Last I checked they couldn't even produce a working checkout UI.
Looks like all of the eBooks and videos are at slashed price. I went on looking for the new title: Machine Learning for Algo trading - https://www.packtpub.com/product/machine-learning-for-algori... and it's part of the sale.
I Regret Quitting Astrophysics
or, like me you are a true loner, and the world has convinced you that is bad.
top talent. It is an absolute joy to work with dedicated people who care about their craft, and FB is filled with them. Maybe you want to do a startup someday. You are going to need cofounders and go work at Facebook for 2 years and you'll probably build a working relationship with 100-200 highly talented people (while getting paid a lot!). Alternatively you could code by yourself for 2 years, without getting paid, and scrounge around on forums looking to build more working relationships. the former is MUCH more efficient.

products. For VR it's top notch (Oculus); for AI too; for VC (portal); for open source web tech (React); for data center tech. if you are interested in those domains (and I'm sure many more) its a top place to work.

information. they have brought billions people to the table to share online. while personally I would prefer if people were sharing more on open platforms and protocols, I think theres nothing wrong with competition and Facebook's "it just works" is great competition for Webtech and I still believe someday the web will get its act together and improve its core tech.

i worked at various big techs as an employee and contractor, and while never worked at FB, I can tell you the people building products mostly are building to build a better world, while at the same time the strategy of the company is to maximize the legal environment first to ensure profits, and put products second. So FB is no different in that regard.
I agree with points 1 and 2. I also think it's a reasonable idea for Mozilla to focus on Thunderbird the email client since there aren't a lot of great alternatives.

However, when it comes to a hosted email service, there are plenty of good options already out there (e.g. Fastmail and Protonmail). The same goes for VPNs.

I would much prefer Mozilla spend that money making Firefox better, or putting that money in some sort of mutual fund, the proceeds of which would fund browser development if Google ever stopped paying Mozilla.

The reason is, VPN services are not hard to build. Email services are not hard to build. Browsers are hard to build, and if Firefox development ever stalled it would probably go away forever.
It feels a hell of a lot like the multimillion dollar pen vs the pencil myth - it costs them maybe $20K to send six months worth of clothes to the ISS per astronaut on a Dragon 2. The ISS-rated dry cleaning machine would cost at the very least a million dollars to develop, would still require sending ten grand of fresh solvent every so often (maybe once a year?) and would add new fire/explosion safety concerns, which they can and do put a price tag on. It would probably take longer than the life of the station for the ISS dry cleaning machine to pay itself off.

It's just too easy to not bother. For a moon colony or a Mars base, the economics change, but for near earth orbit it just doesn't make sense.
I was responding to this part of your comment:

> If I'm burning my hand on a hot stove, I don't want pain killers to mask the pain.

If someone else's hand is on a metaphorical hot stove, while I agree that it's acceptable to offer a third-party opinion, I also don't think it's acceptable to deny the person painkillers just because we think it's better to just get their hand off the stove. Sometimes you don't have the option of freeing your hand right away, and at least in the meantime (however long that lasts) some painkillers may be a lifesafer.

* I take your example metaphorically because active, serious self-harm is an exception to usual norms. One would likely jump to remove someone's hand from a hot stove without thinking, but even taking away an addict's cigarette or drink would generally be a faux pas. Having an AI that allows you to fall in love doesn't fall in the active self-destruction category, in my opinion.
I enjoyed the open air sections of Far Cry 2, but definitely found the later games to be repetitive and formulaic to the extent that I never finished 3 or 4, and just never bothered buying 5. It being made by Ubisoft made that decision a bit easier though.
We do not care about global warming, because...

...it does not exist.

...okay, it exists, but is a natural cycle, not caused by humans.

...okay, it is caused by humans, but there is plenty of time, so we don't need to worry about it now.

...well, it is already too late anyway, so stop bothering me, okay?
Bitcoin new All Time High (3 years after previous one)
It provides a curses-based TUI, while generally git just provides a CLI.
Earning more usually involves working harder, longer, and/or taking more risk. Taxes reduces the reward for doing these things, so people are less likely to do them. Everyone would love to earn more if the extra money just drops from the sky, but that is not how the world works.
If you are an engineer at FB you have choices, including the luxury of being able to pick and choose your employer based on their moral and ethical impact on the world. There are no salaried employees at FB who are facing the prospect of taking the job at FB or living on the streets.
That doesn't ring true for me. Germany has Haribo and paprika-flavoured stuff. Everything else is a side show.

Central Asia has pretty much only Mars products.
Reminds me of "The Ride" from the Sopranos, where Tony is mad at Paulie for being cheap with carnie rides, and that they're competing for peoples' attention and that they can't afford to fuck things up.
There's such a disconnect between FB's reputation online vs. what most people see. My feed is almost entirely < checks > pictures of kids and pets, and ads for geeky t-shirts. It's hard to take all the negative press seriously when most ( US ) users don't see anything like it.
definitely No. I disagree and argue a lot about it. But since its is large corp, my effort of changing things is all wasted in gutter.
whereas i would feel i'm stuck in groundhog day.
Tig provides a GUI that is text-based, i.e. runs right in your terminal. It's essentially a shell friendly version of sourcetree/tortoisegit etc. A great tool on its own, but particularly useful for headless servers/remote machines.
It seems like this is an issue of tooling, no? If crypto by definition is to be without governance, and contracts are immutable, then you better use some damn good tools/services to make sure transfers and contracts are setup and executed correctly. Any type of silly mistake like this should be made practically impossible, since it's inherently irreversible by design.

So was this guy just playing around with manual setups? Or is that perhaps the only way to do things?
"Raise"

How am I going to educate my child on the value of /value/, when this is a term with serious meaning?
I get 'do one thing, and do it well', but there's absolutely nothing stopping the i3 folks from putting sensible defaults in the config for controlling brightness, sound, etc. It's simply a lack of care for the user experience.

I have tried regolith, but I found it to have weird conflicts between i3 and gnome. It may be worth another look though.
Some family/friends published a few children’s books about snowflakes and snowflake photography:

https://www.amazon.com/Michael-Photographs-Snowflake-America...

https://www.amazon.com/Snowflake-Science-Activity-Michael-Pe...
This behaviour by the media seems to result in (approximately) good incentives for billionares.

I'm sure many billionares are only doing it for the PR - but if they want to give away $4B for good PR then isn't that a still a benefit to society?
Why would you reimplement piping? Just use the shell:

output = check_output(“dmesg | grep hda”, shell=True)

Or regular Python string methods could be used instead of piping to grep.
There are emergencies, and there are EMERGENCIES. The former can often wait 24 hours; the latter cannot wait at all. Medicare data does not capture that at all - it only captures the categorical, "surgery type."

e.g., someone has a run of the mill cholecystitis that needs to come out. It can go when there's an opening in the surgical schedule, or tomorrow morning. That's an "emergency" - it came in through the ED, wasn't elective.

Then there's the person w/ chole that looks septic and you're afraid they're going to perf or already have. That person is going to the OR now.

Under Medicare coding, both of those are lap choles, CPT 47562. This doesn't control for that at all, except in the broadest of ways.

Also, a 65yo surgical candidate and a 99yo surgical candidate are wildly different. 99yo isn't going under the knife for anything other than immediate threat of death or unendurable pain. In the lap chole example above, I'm going with a trial of abx in the 99yo unless he's absolutely about to perf; 65yo, sure, let's take the gallbladder out - once he's progressed to sx chole, odds are really good it'll have to come out within the next two years. I think most surgeons would rather do it at 65 than 67.

Looking at the 2x2 of 65, 99, emergency, and EMERGENCY, you capture an incredibly large variety of severity and risk.
Second lazygit. My personal favorite at https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit
I kind of feel like he got what he deserved? Like, it’s not fun to lose your life’s savings, but...
Do DVDs in the last (~10?) few years still have non-skippable adverts at the start? That could be one potential benefit.

But otherwise, I don't see any real plus. Unless you have such a large collection that the search/recommend features are useful. You still have to take the DVD out, put it in the computer, run some program, etc.
Was referring to the destkop version but yeah, Firefox(with uBlock) has been working great for me on android and prefer it much over chrome there.
"Vercel is the best place to deploy any frontend app."

One of the first sentences on the home once you read past the heading.
Congratulations you just described every commodities market.

This is a limited supply asset that inherits some properties of all other asset classes, some better now, some better after software updates.

Cyclical volatility is not controversial amongst commodities traders. Bitcoin happens to attract a lot of stock market traders though, who gain confidence by listening to other stock market traders, which is weird.
Wow, this is great copypasta. The only other place I can find this is here: https://groups.google.com/g/alt.linux/c/g0DSYFSUXAA?pli=1
Or disable builtin DHCP for that matter...
Yes that might be a better general term. However the perspective is the same: no optimism, no enablement, no vision. Instead control and contain the negative aspects. I'm not saying that in itself is bad, its just not sufficient to build a prosperous civilisation.
> If you're an i3 user here are a couple cool things to check out:

> - scratchpad [1]: Little known i3 feature. Let's you put individual windows in a scratch workspace and then pull them up quickly over your regular workspaces. Really useful docs and things like that, I keep my time tracker in a scratch workspace.

Ah, this is nice. I used to use a similar feature with ion before I switched to i3 but I didn't realize that i3 had the same functionality built in.
What Happens When the 1% Go Remote
I remember wanting to learn lisp. I got stuck and reached out to the community for help.

And found them to be very hostile.

I decided I had better things to do with my time.
So I'm not an expert either, but financial books are some of my favorite. I think the easy take away is that the bid ask spread is the transaction cost. If you can buy and sell a stock for the same price (minus price movements), it's very efficient to move your money in and out of different assets.

With the bid-ask spread being wider, that adds a transaction cost to every trade, as you can't sell for the price you just bought. This means that trades are more expensive and riskier. HFT provides liquidity that reduces those risks.

HFT seems to me to be one of those words that means two different things and people select the version of HFT that fits their arguments. "Evil" HFT is a rent seeker that just can get in front of the trades you make without adding value, you're just paying an extra penny or something for transaction. "Good" HFT is a market maker with tons of info who just gets there first every time because they're FAST.

You can see how the amount of info HFT turns it "good" or "bad", and that's a tightly held trade secret for most of the trading firms, so it's a grey area.