skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The original prediction was that most people and most businesses would stop using landlines but he concedes his son might still use a landline in an office some day and yet still considers the original prediction to be correct.

For what it's worth I'm 15 years older than his son, and haven't used a landline in over a decade. I'm typing this from my office desk that has a landline phone on it, that as far as I'm aware has never rung.

It's not an unreasonable conclusion to mark that prediction as correct.

EDIT: actually upon closer inspection it appears that the phone on my desk might be VoIP, so I've not only not used a landline phone in a decade, I haven't even seen one.
It's unfortunate that Mozilla's slow collapse under the weight of being hooked on Google ad money is being used as proof for people who are perpetually mad about diversity and accountability.

The fault is with management that's afraid to disrupt the cash firehose. Not a mishandled CEO hire 7 years ago or the move from the increasingly untenable XUL.
Hopefully he won't be assassinated when Senegal works to keep the value of their currency (West African CFA franc). Intelligence agencies don't mind murdering people as a means, to any end/goal they think is important. Those are the values of intelligence agencies.
I'm not sure what country you're from, but do you feel that there are less tax loopholes there?
I bootcamped Windows 10 onto my 2017 i5 iMac the other day so I could play some games.

Windows boots faster, feels faster, and benchmarked GPU and CPU considerably faster than macOS on the exact same hardware.

Not ground breaking news, but I do wish Apple had worked on optimising macOS for older hardware more. They claim they do or did, but I never noticed this in the later mountain named versions.

All a moot point now with Apple Silicon being the furture! :)
I know the news guidelines [1] say "Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills", but I do feel like the quality of the Hacker News comment section has fallen quite a lot in recent months.

I'm not sure why the comment quality seems to be dropping.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This article mentions the Waves NX system, but I think it's important for those interested to know that the Waves NX system is rather half-baked. It is not extensible, nor open source in any respect. It's proprietary and generally unavailable in any useful contexts.

I was also surprised to see no mention of the Web Audio API implementations of HRTF and multi-channel ambisonic decoding down to binaural in the browser. This may well be today's most sophisticated approach to spatial headphone-driven audio.
This looks very similar to

https://github.com/IBM/AutoMLPipeline.jl
> I’ve concluded that the best advice is to learn not to worry about things

If you can do something about it, go do it. No need to worry, act.

If you can’t ... well it’s out of your hands anyway, why worry about it.
On the flipside, at least as recently as last year they were using faxes to apply for unemployment in New York: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/04/nyregion/coronavirus-ny-u...
I'm more worried my grandchildren will still be learning/using QWERTY than they have to learn C's weird quirks :). My opinion is that it's easier to get a group of tech people together and gradually replace C (like Android Rust development) than getting people to replace QWERTY or getting the US to move to Metrics system.
There is a long line of countries that found black gold (oil) in the 70's, such as Venezuela , that are since economic basket cases.

Or take some African countries with Diamonds.

My point is that because you have a revenue source / competent niche, that does not guarantee a competent government. Usually the only thing you can guarantee is that unplanned riches or resources will lead to waste and corruption. Its not an accident that the norwegian sovereign fund is an rarity, not a rule.

I am curious if there is a genesis to the level of crime and abandonment so pervasive in DE.... from the success DE enjoyed early on, via corp registration riches.
NASA’s Mars Helicopter to Make First Flight Attempt Wednesday
Don't think about MONKEYS.

Did that help?

You start to think about MONKEYS, even though told not to.

So you have to do the opposite:

Embrace thoughts and feelings, then let them go, or be (Let It Be).

With meditation you can focus on breathing and not thinking. With physical exercise you bring refreshment to your system.

Watch your inputs and outputs! You'll have no time left for anxiety.
Not OP, but it is not clear that people should have the right to risk infection. The problem isn't that the person could get sick (which is something an adult should be able to make an informed decision on), but that having an infectious disease gives you the ability to spread said disease to nonconsenting people. If you think weapons should be regulated, you should think that a bad enough disease should also be regulated.
Not sure, though perhaps I should rephrase to "obvious method" to disable. I tried one config setting and gave up and just used Safari.
I really hate how people just read the title of this post, got offended, and just constantly link it to say "See guys? Mozilla wants to censor you!" when that's not what the actual post is saying. It is almost guaranteed that whenever someone posts anything Mozilla-related, people bring this up, possibly with an invitation to switch to Brave or something.

The article is specifically trying to criticize social media without sounding like Mozilla is siding with the Capitol rioters. If you want to argue that it's a bad headline, sure - people's continued misreading of it definitely is evidence of that. If you want to argue that it's Mozilla "showing their true colors" and calling for Facebook and Twitter to take over the government or whatever, then I will disagree with you all damned day.
Not sure why this is responding to my comment, but I was basically making that same point.
Did we read different articles? She's explicitly not in favor of deplatforming in there and offers a different course of action.
There’s a reason we don’t use sunlight to sterilize surgical instruments.

Wait... Unless the sterilizer is solar powered, or used coal power, since coal is just compressed plant matter, which basically exists because of sunlight...
Install a full node and perform a full sync: https://docs.binance.org/smart-chain/developer/fullnode.html

Then use the RPC API (looks like BSC is a clone of Ethereum so it uses the same API): https://eth.wiki/json-rpc/API
In any innovative field if a manager is a full time manager (not a tlm) then after rather short amount of time they really have no idea beyond some universal process/common sense things. This is not the same thing as “clueless” provided he/shes realizes this and goes to sr engineers for council.
There's a script linked in the post that downloads the installer directly from apple.com. Of course then you have to go through the install process yourself.

https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM
I'll absolutely condone it for sports. It's the only way to consistently have access to the games you want to watch from anywhere in the world thanks to the byzantine licensing contracts, and you don't actually escape the advertisements that pay for just about everything.
One solution is to make it so you don’t need to worry about things. Keeping a maintained calendar, to-do list, or simply dumping responsibility for some things (e.g. selling a car) can help.
The word has simply acquired two meanings: "meme" as in the informational analogue of genes, "meme" as in an internet meme.

The two meanings are unrelated, they just happen to share the same word, probably since memes propagate in a similar way to memes. The "concept of meme" as informational analogue of genes is a thing independently of any other meanings the same word may acquire.
> So why do you use any websites that have ads/tracking?

Because it's extremely easy to disable the ads.

> Surely you could avoid them and stick to your high quality paid options?

I don't want to avoid the websites, I want to avoid the ads. If that at some point necessitates avoiding the website then sure, but fortunately it doesn't at the moment.
I've seen that a lot in the past 10 years, and I don't find it particularly problematic.

Often the fucked up native query end up in a different type of DAO for performance / concurency reasons anyway.

Don't get me wrong, I dislike JPA and Hibernate really much, but that particular aspect has often been one of the less painful to deal with.
> You think the likelihood of all these things are comparable?

Epstein contributed funding to MIT Media Labs which run the Digital Currency Group which provided funding to Bitcoin developers. Boom. Conspiracy confirmed.

Conspiracy theories are just like playing a game of six degrees of Kevin Bacon. The reason why you need to introduce large players like MasterCard or AXA or whatever is because the larger they are the more likely you are able to draw a connection to anything in the world.

Unless you can produce a falsifiable prediction based on your conspiracy theory they are no more than an entertaining drinking game.
The piecemeal church is fascinating. To me it suggests that people should be less concerned with rebuilding Notre Dame exactly as it was; every layer is a piece of history, and one day (one hopes) our period will be considered history as well.
Yeah there are definitely some subtleties, and they would be interesting to tease out.

Older people obviously will die sooner, but having survived does give you some information. For example, your life expectancy at age 1 is 75 years, but at age 40 it's closer to 79 years.

e.g. https://www.annuityadvantage.com/resources/life-expectancy-t...
Can't we just get together and build an opensource browser? Considering how we are building very complex things without these executives, middle managers and all the corporate bs. It could be our gift to the next generation of engineers like we inherited Linux and give them a fighting chance.
You will notice you have lots to learn and experience that gives you something. No teacher is forever, except life itself perhaps.

It has more to do with the "student".
I think it would nice to have headphones that can detect orientation accurately and do positional audio. Probably a gimmick but maybe some of the VR headset technology will trickle down.
I think the point is that smart contracts allow a handful of things to happen automatically, while real-world contracts are literally just words on paper that have no functional capability of effecting anything in reality. People interpret those words with the understanding that they can invoke a court of law to borrow the state’s monopoly on force and compel behavior in accordance with the contract, but it’s still humans reading the words and then actually doing the actions of their own will.

In any case, it’s not hard to imagine an evolution in our legal regime where tokens can gain the force of legal contracts. And then tokens will do everything that paper contracts will do, which is to say nothing except declare the terms of some mutual agreement between some meatspace entities. (obviously this only makes sense for fungible contracts)
Could you elaborate? This is interesting.
Tangentially related: after they canned Brendan Eich he started Brave.
There's nothing wrong with what you, by the way. You are forging your own path and you will find some obscure niche that no-one cares about which turns out to be lucrative enough to keep you occupied. It will all work out in the end.

Yours is the sort of background where getting an MBA (or equivalent) might be helpful, and would be a nice combination with tech skills + understanding of business in general. If nothing else. you would quickly find yourself above the "thermocline of effort" where you get paid a lot for not doing all that much work, which might fit your goals. A gentle first step to see if this might work for you would be reading "The Personal MBA" by Josh Kaufman.
So which browser do you prefer?
Simply breathing through a straw may not do it. My therapist had me run up and down a flight of stairs for about 30 seconds and then breathe through a straw cut down to about 3 inches while holding my nostrils closed.

Your body thinks you're not getting enough oxygen. You're getting plenty, it's just that it all coming through that tiny hole tricks your body and that triggers panic sensations. Doing that several times exposes you to those sensations and you eventually get used to it and allows you to manage more intense sensations.
that's viewed with skepticism because it presumes, or at least implies, that socialism inherently and structurally solves the transparency problem, but it still requires similar policy to augment the underlying ideology appropriately. there's no free lunch when it comes to some (usually small) proportion of people trying to leverage a system.
Man, you and I see eye to eye here.

I'm a firm believer in leaky abstractions [1]. I often found with JPA that I would be fighting the framework to get it to produce the SQL that I wanted. I encountered (then) ibatis and it was a breath of fresh air. It took care of much of the tedious column-to-Java mapping and didn't introduce another DSL.

As soon as anyone tells you "you don't need to learn X with our framework Y that sits on top of it", all that means is you have to learn X, Y and the X->Y and Y->X translations and all but the first is proprietary.

This was my core issue with GWT (Google Web Toolkit) too. Too many engineers who weren't interested in learning Javascript saw it as a way of avoiding learning Javascript.

It's been many years at this point since I've used it so this may have changed but I recall that query verification was a runtime error issue and there wasn't a good way to essentially check that all your queries were valid. I mean you could write this yourself but it seems like some CI/automation could've done a lot of the heavy-lifting.

IIRC the same went for integration testing and stub databases for reading and writing via ibatis/mybatis.

[1]: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-a...
That's interesting because I feel it's the opposite. Chrome ends up being the one that I have the most trouble with when it comes to usage nannying without providing overrides and removing features without thought. I don't think I've heard of a feature that was in core Firefox that was removed since quantum. Do you have a good example?
Huh I didn't know this existed, I will enable this now. :D
IMO the title of this blog post was way to strong to even misleading.

They're not asking for deplatforming, they're asking for more transparency:

Reveal who is paying for advertisements, how much they are paying and who is being targeted.

Commit to meaningful transparency of platform algorithms so we know how and what content is being amplified, to whom, and the associated impact.

Turn on by default the tools to amplify factual voices over disinformation.

Work with independent researchers to facilitate in-depth studies of the platforms’ impact on people and our societies, and what we can do to improve things.
On paper it’s good I agree, there’s potential, but there’s not a critical mass of tech jobs. Austin has a 30+ year head start on marketing
Since moving to Japan I am so grateful that every convenience store has a coin operated fax machine!
I have a close friend with an autism diagnosis who has a very unusual relationship between their brain and the rest of their body. One of the consequences of this is that they become very anxious and get trapped in a nasty anxiety vicious cycle that can last several days.
33 years, if you go by the patent. Lots more fun facts in Tim Hunkin's excellent Secret Life of Machines:

https://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/SLOM/0301-The_FAX_Machine...
The Edmonton to Calgary route is straight, flat, and has a mostly sparsely populated path. I'd hope that high speed rail under those conditions could do significantly better.

I also looked up Amtrak's speeds and found a report from 2016 saying that over half of their trains had a top speed of 160 km/h or greater.
The Iraq War can be reasonably argued to be the worst “destabilization” in the region in the new century. Anything Iran has done _in its own region_ pales in comparison, and Iraq is indeed a “friendly” nation to Iran in the sense of being an ally. Two days after the assassination, the Iraqi parliament voted for a resolution that urges the government to work on expelling US troops from Iraq. That’s not massively concrete but AFAIK is representative of the Iraqi govt’s feelings on who is a greater offender in “destabilizing the region”.
> That being said, VoIP landline phones are still a part of many peoples’ lives. Cable and fiber optic providers continue to offer these services and many people, including my mom, still have them.

I work from home and I still use a land line phone. I bought the best quality speakphone I could find and I don't regret it a minute. Cell phones just don't have the same voice quality, especially for speakerphone, as a land line. And I avoid doing voice over the computer because my computer is busy and I don't want to sound like a robot because it can't handle the workload.
Too much sugar affects learning and memory
Another way of looking at it, assuming the numbers are correct:

If a mad villain gets hold of Japan and force every Japanese citizen to drink an equal part of C14 distilled from Fukushima's waste water, every one will ingest about 503 Bq worth of C14.

That sounds like a lot, until you realize your body naturally contains about 4,300 Bq of naturally radioactive potassium. From Wikipedia:

> A 70 kg human body contains about 140 grams of potassium, hence about 0.000117 × 140 = 0.0164 grams of 40K; whose decay produces about 4,300 disintegrations per second (becquerel) continuously throughout the life of the body.

Literally, a thin person who drinks 503 Bq of C14 solution will still have less radioactivity going on inside their own body than a fat person who didn't drink it, just by virtue of weighing less (and having less potassium in their body).
If there are no inspections Israel can make up whatever story it wants and act accordingly, as there won't be any neutral party to contradict it and Israel figures it has more diplomatic allies than Iran.

I have no idea if this is what's happening; it's just a possible strategic rationale.
Quit.

Or rather, find a new job (could be internal, but often easier to make the move by finding a new employer).

I've been pulled away from coding activities before (into management). If you've done it for a few years and you don't like it, you should bail. You've leveled up your skills in terms of seeing the bigger picture, now find the right place to apply them. With your experience right now you'll be a valuable IC (see https://charity.wtf/2019/01/04/engineering-management-the-pe... for more; I think sibling comments have referenced this post too.)

I wrote a blog post about all the jobs ancillary to coding that a good software dev can move into: https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/2020/10/05/how-to-make-a-...

If you want to talk about devrel, technical training or startup CTO, happy to chat (contact info in profile).
I agree with Syonyk here. And since you bring up quality of vision, I'll note that I do have 20/20 vision because I'm wearing prescription glasses.

> You are like a color blind person exclaiming there is no difference between green and red! There is.

You're arguing against a complete strawman here. The key point that Syonyk was making is this:

> I won't argue that if you pick your content carefully, and know exactly what to look for, you can tell the difference.

If you're watching a nature documentary or anything else that puts an emphasis on the visuals, people are going to notice the difference by themselves. But most of the stuff we watch doesn't focus on visuals, it focuses on narrative. If I'm watching a legal drama, I don't really care if I can count the hairs in the lawyer's nostril or not. Again, I'll probably be able to tell apart the 4K version from the 1080p version from the 720p version of the lawyer's face's closeup, but even if I watch just the 720p version, it won't significantly impact my enjoyment of the narrative.
It’s got a good bottom-up culture focused on empowering engineers to build stuff like React and ship changes to the social media platform on their own initiative (especially when those changes prove effective in improving key metrics in A/B testing).

This same bottom-up culture leads to a lack of oversight on potentially questionable changes, and also means there is sometimes a lack of ownership and investment in fixing issues that haven’t gotten media attention (because no team decides to work in the fix). In recent times there has been quite a bit of investment in improving privacy but it feels a lot like trying to patch over a broken foundation.
Sometimes it's nice to just admire the technologies we already have.
The TikTokization of Work
The problem is that the status-quo benefits those that are in control. There's no incentive for them to change it - quite the contrary.

Getting into politics itself is based on who you know as opposed to actual skill or knowledge (unlike in tech, where skill alone will usually get you in a decent position).

Once you're inside, your tenure depends on keeping everyone satisfied, and "everyone" includes people with vested interests as well as simple idiots (who can be exploited by other people with an agenda), both within the government and the general population.

Any attempt at disruption is unlikely to pass and will often just signify the end of your political career. Finally, if you've actually made it thus far, you might very well get complacent and happy with the benefits of the job (including "donations") and decide to keep quiet and not make too much noise.
The Academic Job Crisis Is Fake
>I spent a few weeks recently persuading two relatively large groups of non-technical people

And that's why tech evangelism with deep personal interest is a flawed premise. People need to find their own thing. If these people got by with their lives so far, they will figure shit out. Your investment is only setting things up for friction and disappointment. Not to mention, you will become the tech support guy in all such endeavours.
Depends on the someone doesn't it?
And if you dilute that it will get more potent.
Your body and mind are one.

It is scientifically inaccurate to believe otherwise.

This isn’t a pedantic point: the mind/body distinction is pseudoscience that used to be believed widely in scientific circles. This readjustment hasn’t really reached common practice yet.
I know absolutely nothing about this (not an expert in any of this), but this is a fun question, so here are some ideas I got.

topics: maybe some more awards for deep learning (Goodfellow?, DeepMind team for AlphaGo/Zero: Hassabis, David Silver, etc? If the current trend of transformers being hot continues, maybe some authors of "Attention is all you need"? Whoever makes the breakthrough that enables the singularity in the next decade?), a quantum computing cohort could win one year (Shor? Aaronson? idk anything about this field... Umesh Vazirani??).

edit: In an alternate universe where blockchain was used only for actually practical purposes instead of the current universe in which its invocation evokes images of cryptocurrency tiktokers, get rich quick schemers, and buzzword-spouters, in an alternate universe where the set of people interested in blockchain was very nearly the same set of people interested in, say, RSA encryption or zero-knowledge proofs, and if pseudonymous people could win (perhaps posthumously?? ok, this is a lot of conditionals...), satoshi would have to win one year, right? Maybe along with their precursors? Dunno if that usually happens with Turing awards.