skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes it's musical chairs; through monetary policy, reserve banks keep pulling out chairs and thus inflating the value of remaining chairs... Then they'll claim that this is all to prevent global warming.

All this is actually starting to make me doubt global warming. The banks certainly never gave a damn about global warming before. Do I think that people in power suddenly became more altruistic over the past few years? No, from my experience, they became much more selfish! The whole timing with Greta Thunberg media hype followed by COVID19 then multi-trillion dollar bailouts followed by talks of 'green new deals' and the great reset (which is actually just a continuation of existing policies; not a reset by any definition of the word) is starting to all look a bit too convenient.

I've seen first hand how money can corrupt everything. So I'm wondering if it is the science which is attracting the money or the money which is attracting the 'science'. All the climate models are oversimplified and phony; it's pseudoscience... They have tens of thousands of different models and each year they cherry-pick the ones which guessed correctly... Then they keep switching to newer models which keeps proving them right claiming that they did so to keep up with technology (of course not because they were running out of correct old models to cherry pick from)... It's a joke.
Exactly, and truly getting serious about it would basically destroy the global economy in the short term. That's why rich people (and capitalism) don't like it, so they don't do anything about it. There's a big difference between a ~1-2 year disruption and a 5-10 year disruption, which is what I think it would take to make any serious difference vis a vis air pollution.
Another aspect is that selling used stuff doesn’t bring much money in, especially clothing. I don’t even know whether it’s sellable.

Apart from my car, if I sell all my belongings, I might get one month worth of rent. Hardly seems worth it, unless there is a way to use that money to earn more money.
Yes thank you I corrected.
> I think I have gained skills and experience that can be very valuable to the astronomical community, but I know that that is simply not what candidates for academic positions are selected on.

t seems pretty damning to suggest that a community selects its members based on something other than having "skills and experience that can be very valuable" to that same community. Is that really true? Hopefully we're putting the best people in place for these academic jobs, and not simply the well-connected people who happened to go to the fanciest schools.
Yes and no. Without FB Oculus would already be dead. With FB it keeps being a niche.
Skepticism is good, but not outright dismissal
I spent the entire weekend updating MaraDNS’s Docker testing container to run Ubuntu 20.04 instead of CentOS 8, and am in the process of replacing all of my CentOS 8 machines with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS machines.

RedHat flat out made a pinky promise that CentOS 8 would be supported with security updates until 2029: https://archive.is/7Qmtw I installed CentOS 8 on my home network (a non-trivial task) with the understanding things would still be secure in 2029. RedHat broke their pinky promise: CentOS 8 will no longer be supported after 2021. That in mind, while I have been using RedHat since the dot-com days, I am now a Ubuntu user.

Breaking a promise like this is non-trivial, and I have stopped using RedHat as a result. If RedHat had said “We’re not going to release CentOS 8” or if they had said from the beginning “CentOS 8 will only be supported until the end of 2021”, I would be singing a very different tune right now.
RIGHT! Facebook has made it OUR problem that THEIR business model is based on selling ads. But it shouldn't be our problem.
I think that Mozilla partnership with Google has made these goals difficult to achieve. Mozilla gets its money from Google, so it is implicitly part of the monopolist game played by them. What this means is that they're happy to be second in the browser development game, and are richly rewarded for doing so.
What you said is true for some services, but TFA is talking about something applicable to all services: consider all the limited "resources" being asked from customers. Money, attention, a monthly trip to the movies, a meal, etc.

Facebook competes for your time and attention. The ringtone company was competing for a share of a kid's allowance. A local outdoor skating rink competes with building snowmen, even though the latter isn't a company-provided service.

Nearly all products and services compete for a user's time, even if it's only the time spent deciding to buy it. Facebook wants more of our time, but that's because it's an advertising platform. Most services try to cut down user time.
I think you might be replying to the wrong comment, as this doesn't really relate to my point at all.

I don't disagree with the sentiment that RHEL also controlling the free alternative doesn't make sense. I do disagree with repeated assertions that people can just use RHEL for free - for the most part, they can't.
So this is testing for an active infection right?

Are there tests for antibodies and what company makes them? I know there is uncertainty about reinfection but if I knew I had antibodies it would give me some peace of mind (even if that's a bit misleading, and of course I would still wear a mask).
Because youth soccer coaches are well known for their contributions to cancer research?

Contrast that to the treatment given over the past 10 months to any non-expert who dared voice an opinion on COVID-19.
This reads like a textbook example of "correlation is not causation". You think there'd be ...some? people talking about how they decided not to have a child because she/he wouldn't fit in the car if it's going to have a measurable effect on birth rates but at least personally I have never, ever heard this one.
> Your money will go to the Moz foundation, and end up in all sorts of endeavors except the ones you care about: Moz spends money on discontinued mobile operating systems and new languages and language runtimes (Rust, WASM) nobody needs (sorry Rustees). Above all, your money likely goes to salaries and pension plans for CEOs and upper management.

This is simply incorrect. The Mozilla Foundation is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, which have strict laws delineating how they are allowed to spend money. "Education" is one endeavor where charities can spend money, which IIRC is where most of the foundation money goes: to educating people about the web and web development. Notably, "software development" is not an endeavor for which such a charity can spend its funds. Donations don't go to Rust, or even Firefox, because they legally can't.

> As to TFA's point about "sitting on the table to decide about web standards", that also hasn't worked out. It hasn't helped to keep "web standards" in check, nor did Mozilla's own contributions become part of them.

This is also simply incorrect. Enormous swaths of the web spec have been authored by Mozilla representatives, and we can point to plenty of instances where Mozilla has torpedoed proposals from other organizations (e.g. WebSQL, PNaCL).
The unspoken assertion is that we want a high birth rate. Why do we want a high birth rate?
Yes. And then it’s not just one kid. It’s the entire class plus teacher. It would be a fire drill per day. And then they would need to take the tests every day until they are cleared. It’s not feasible.
Covid did wonders for the environment in the societies that choose to encourage remote working.

Yet, doing short trips by feet or bike is equally sustainable - and healthier than sitting all day.
Also can’t sell or trade your car to downgrade if you need a car, as if you need financing to get the next car, you’re not going to qualify for the loan if you’re without employment. Your car is a trailing indicator of your financial situation, not necessarily present state.
No, they just buy Canonical.
Again, being an asset does not mean something is a useful currency.

You keep listing characteristics of assets, like existing in an ETF or having a market cap or having commercial investors.

Those are not characteristics of currencies, which are widely accepted, engaged with, and in use by people and organizations in commerce.
The screenshot proves nothing. Anyone could grab the same images and set the same name and bio
> it'll probably be corrected in the next day or two with more tests.

Can take 3 tests at the same time to eliminate error, or does the waiting time between repeat tests matter?
And MFA was not enabled?
We’re talking about widespread adoption of consumer technology. Everything you just mentioned is a niche workaround, and to be blunt, not very good ones. Sure, there are always going to be people who love VR, and it’s really cool! But there’s no way it becomes as popular as TVs or smartphones.
It was state governors who shut their states down. Not the federal government.
Well, how about “dropbox is aimed at the general population of computer users, and not just computer savvy developers”?
Slightly related - I’d like to hear from someone who left academia for industry for a ‘research scientist’ role. How does that compare to academia?
While overtly this fell on the state and local governments, I think it's probably safe to assume the party line came from the top of the party. Most of the governors and local officials are all just along for the ride themselves in the hopes of appeasing the party and maybe becoming president one day.
My point is that the governors and mayors always had to weigh the economic damage they were doing to people whenever they made a shutdown decision, which resulted in erratic, complicated, and somewhat nonsensical shutdown orders. If the federal government had backstopped the economy properly and compensated any business or person directly affected by a shutdown, then the governors / mayors would have been able to take more coordinated, effective action. You can't maintain aggressive shutdowns if every day of your shutdown is destroying peoples' bank accounts.
Awesome, thanks a ton. Sounds like your lib would be perfect for me. Also, kudos to somehow typing that on your phone.

Looks like I need to incorporate encoders/decoders into my scheme. I might just steal that code outright.

Thanks for the Zapatos rec, that looks perfect.

fyi, my current generic method sigs looks like:

export const makeRequest = <Name extends keyof Endpoints>(
_name: Name,
method: Endpoints[Name]['method'],
path: Endpoints[Name]['path'],
props: {
data: Endpoints[Name]['clientSends'];
onSuccess: (json: Endpoints[Name]['serverResponds']) => void;
onError: (json: any) => void;
}
) => { // ...

Dropping all of these typing shenanigans and going back to Elixir/Phoenix is always half-tempting, but I will soldier on for now...
> You are not wrong because you took a leap in life and it didn't work out perfectly, its a valuable learning experience.

The author obviously understands this is a learning experience--that's why they wrote the essay in the first place. The challenge is that, on a practical level, starting over will likely take too many years, with too great a risk of not getting a job in academia. This is hardly "pouting and trying to let yourself down easy." It's the disheartening wisdom that sometimes you learn things too late in life to benefit from them.
Exclusions Blaster: Block Apple from Bypassing Application Firewalls
On some level, Firefox has to 'beat' Chrome in order to get/keep a significant level of marketshare. It needs people to see it as better in some way if they're to choose to use it, especially on mobile where Chrome is the default.

For some of us, it still 'beats' Chrome on some kind of principle - I'm not giving Google yet more control. But are there enough people like me to actually keep a modern browser going?
The title of the OP (namely, "Microsoft Will Adopt Google Chrome's Controversial Manifest V3 in Edge") omits the crux of the issue. In particular, just because Microsoft plans to add V3 does not automatically imply that it plans to remove the API that makes Ublock Origin better than any adblocker available on, e.g., Safari. The crux of the issue is that Microsoft does in fact plan to remove the API that makes Ublock Origin better:

"We're replacing Web Request API with Declarative Net Request API, but will continue to keep Web Request API's observational capabilities" [0] -- which clearly implies that they plan to remove Web Request API's blocking capabilities.

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/extensions-c...
When I was there, we speculated Google was using Mozilla as antitrust lawyer repellant, but it's a weak argument. Google pushed Chrome onto Firefox users repeatedly, by accident or on purpose doesn't matter.

Now that Google is in antitrust court, I think the Mozilla deal is mainly for PR, both positive while it lasts, and negative sense (to avoid being the Firefox killer by not renewing the deal this year -- Google preannounced renewal after Mozilla's August layoffs, and let others repeat the too-high-by-now $400M/year number).
We need UBI
I think what trips people up is that the opportunities to return are not necessarily the same as the ones that you would look for if you were still on the direct path.

To start with, if you're tied to an area, you have to start your search with the area and get creative finding the right job title instead of the other way around.
> It's kinda sad that the pricing or market capitalization is the only thing that is being talked about in the "cryptocurrency community"
Clearly price is a big topic of conversation. Nothing wrong with that.

But you are very incorrect if you believe that is the only topic of conversation. Perhaps using /r/Bitcoin is not a valid sample size.

In my day job, I'm neck deep in blockchain and cryptocurrency use cases - and there are conferences, webinars, real-world enterprise adoption, etc.
I imagine it’d be no different from whatever it does at present—this is just about replacing the script element insertion technique, it doesn’t control when this script is actually executed.
> It's valued by cultures that have no relationship with one another and no common past, totally independent.

Actually, not really. In historical terms, the gold standard is historically limited to cultures that existed in (direct or indirect) trading relationships with the Mediterranean culture. Notably, China (and correspondingly East and Southeast Asia) instead used a silver standard, while the New World cultures eschewed gold or silver for monetary standards.
Violence and rules don't matter when you're the government

I hope we'll get some good movies out of it, at least.
I would love to see this race the Hoonicorn.
I can see this as being correlated, but I don't see this as being causative. And that's from someone who thinks some of the child/society safety laws are a bit absurd.

I think maybe it could go something like this: child safety laws are more prevalent/stringent in advanced society, living in an advanced society carries a higher cost of living, as the cost of living goes up (without matching income raises, like the US for the past 30+yrs) the people who feel they can't afford children rises. I think there are other underlying causes and the overall effect is a combination.
Paris authorities fined for hiring too many women
Spy companies using Channel Islands to track phones around the world
Charities barely even want used clothes donations any more. Only a few top designer labels have any significant resale value.
I wonder if you would be interested in the discussion in this recent HN thread regarding intubation (or it might all be old hat to you):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25395314
as much as I dislike the 'the grass is always greener...' cliche, it's fundamentally true. :)
Too little, too late, at least for OECD countries. We're already starting to manufacture and distribute vaccines; ramping up new testing & tracing infrastructure is likely to have very little impact now[0], and would not be worth committing any public resources to. This might be helpful for countries that are going to be on the end of the vaccination list, but even for developing nations this will be much more expensive than vaccines (at least one company has promised to sell to poor nations at cost, which IIRC is $3-4 per shot).

0 - Test & trace is both more valuable early in the pandemic because you can save more lives, but also because these techniques have an upper limit on how many cases the system can handle. Once sizeable chunks of the population have the disease, no test & trace system cat possibly keep up. If we'd had this months ago, we possibly could have stopped this pandemic in its tracks.
Besides this rather serious bug, which does not allow you to accept Exchange meeting invites from within Thunderbird [1], everything else works perfectly with this extension.

[1] https://github.com/jobisoft/TbSync/issues/54
I'm curious if that's actually true though. A lot of recent huge hits in TV at least were made up of casts of either relative unknowns or people that didn't have huge star power anymore. "Stranger Things", as one example. Mad Men and Breaking Bad created a lot of stars, but they weren't famous to start with. The Walking Dead was the most popular show on TV for a long time and I can't really recall an A-lister.

Even a lot of much older shows didn't need star power. Think about something like Star Trek TNG. The most famous person on that cast when it started was Will Wheaton. Obviously Patrick Stewart became huge but he was a total unknown prior.
I disagree with that sentiment. I do not consider the consumer to be the one responsible of researching the safety of a product, the responsible party is clearly the one that produced and marketed the product.
If you've already had COVID then why would you need a vaccine?
> Creating a deb is really easy

That's why I qualified it "according to packaging guidelines".

And I don't want to comply with packaging guidelines because I want to get it into the upstream repo; no, I want it compliant so it is not broken at upgrade time and I don't want to have to solve several problems at once at the most inconvenient time.

With rpm it is both easy and piecemeal - you don't have to have the entire knowledge in your head upright, you can improve it continuosly. You start with spec file and rpmbuild, then find out about rpmlint, then you will find out about mock (so you can build package for Fedora-any version and CentOS-anyversion from any distribution, including Ubuntu or Debian, inside chroot or container) to koji (full blown distro-scale build system).
Could someone who knows about doing this in a large tech firm speak to the difficultly of converting standard flash --> js/html? For something as common as stock charts, it doesnt seem like a big investment, is there some complexity that comes with scale?
How did you hack Firefox that way? Been trying to figure that out for a while, no luck.
We are Marcuse's one dimensional man.
I remember seeing this car on car tv shows all time years back. I can't imagine he'll get close to his asking price, but it's still a really amazing piece of engineering and the juxtaposition of a jet sticking out the back of an otherwise stock Beetle will always be fun.

I wonder what it would fetch on BaT since that's kind of more the platform for these weird/unique cars
I think mobile phones will become the standard VR devices most people will opt to use with a headset that you insert the phone into, esp as phones become increasingly advanced, due to it being the cheapest option for most people.
What in your view would've been more effective action? Do you not think enough businesses are closed or enough masks are being worn?
But how do you know that the thing that is uploaded is legitimate? You can move information into the blockchain but the actual use of that information still happens in the real world so I don't see blockchain changing things that much.
And I'd love to work assisting cutting-edge research, but I also am not willing to cut my salary that severely. I wonder if there is a way to do this that doesn't presume near-grad-student rates.
The developers that I hear from have different opinions than what you're expressing here. Many want direct relationships with their customers, for a start, and if you want that, the App Store is right out. And I can't think of a single developer who would say they "would have much more control over updates" if they delivered them through the App Store. (They'd say "oh, honey, no," after they finally caught their breath after the laughing fit.)

As for "Apple doesn't really care about the high end hardware Mac platforms," well. It's possible that they rolled out the Mac Pro just last year as an elaborate ruse to distract us from how much they don't care about the Mac Pro, but it strikes me as relatively unlikely. (And if you think the "graphic designer/video editor" crowd, either users or developers, is on board with moving everything to the App Store, oh, honey, no.)
I don't think you can make a blanket statement like this. My experience has been almost the opposite, Chrome always uses significantly more CPU for me.

I think it really depends on hardware, drivers etc.
Well start with what we know. We have a problem in the Puget Sound area. I'm not hearing anything about trout in Kentucky.

A lot of environmnental regulation got its start with regulation in California that spread from there. It's easier to get something passed locally than to get national support from day one.
Yeh in some cases. In others what is poverty.

Moving back in with your parents so not having an income but also not having to pay rent. Alot of people I know in NYC have just chosen not to pay rent and are not being evicted so they are living in poverty but in fancy areas of brooklyn and not having to work.

Poverty to me is being homeless despite working and your income doesn't or barely covers the bills.

In the covid case many have lost their income but they have also lost their responsibility to pay the bills.

I don't say this to be mean nor do I include restaurant owners who have to pay commercial rent while the doors are closed.

I say this about kids who moved into their parents second vacation homes but lost income on paper.

I feel bad for people who have lost their jobs and have to pay rent. Not so much for people who have lost their jobs and their requirement to pay bills.
"Constructive Separation" is completely voluntary with both parties. Of course he had an option: the board ASKED HIM TO STAY! Not anything like being fired or asked to leave -- just the opposite.

The irony is that Brendan wanted to "Destructively Separate" his victims who were legally joined together in same sex marriages, so it's especially hurtful that Brendan would throw that term around about his voluntary separation with Mozilla, after he maliciously wanted to DESTRUCTIVELY SEPARATE many other human beings in marriage from their loved ones, against their will.

Brendan and the Mozilla board both explicitly denied that he was fired or asked to leave. And the Mozilla Board actually tried to get Brendan to stay. According to your theory, they are both liars in collusion.

Is that what you really believe or just magically "feel"? Do you have any evidence for your feelings? What more proof of fact do you need than their own widely published words? A long form birth certificate?

Are Brendan and the Mozilla board conspiring to both publish a false narrative in lockstep that he was not fired or asked to leave? Then why is he still cooperating with the conspiracy if he was fired or asked to resign? Do you theorize that Mozilla gave him millions of dollars of Google ad blood money that should have gone to open source software development, just to keep his mouth shut?

That was the GamerGate conspiracy narrative. Do you believe it too, in spite of all the hard proof to the contrary?
Facebook ordering a newspaper ad is rich irony, privacy matters aside.