skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Tender interactions very much could work on the web.

it's not about what "could work", a 15fps game "could work".

it's "what is successful". And for a mobile audience, UI/UX engineers have spend decades determining that after a certain amount of lag, that experience is lost.be it for technical or political reasons, Safari and by extension, much of HTML 5 cannot meet this UX criteria. So an application has an massive advantage.

>but if someone could write a performant JS/web assembly transcoder that could run on the web

Sounds like a Progressive Web App: https://web.dev/what-are-pwas/

They've come far but are far from perfect. It's also moot in this case, since certain optimizations would need to rely on understanding Safari's infrastructure. Which is closed source. They can optimize it for webkit, but any web dev can tell you that interplatform quirks are the 2nd 90% of the battle.
You may not realize it yet, but they've already become our new overlords. Do you think they bothered with getting a certified driving license for that puppet they put in the car they launched a few years back? They don't care about our earther laws. Yet there he is, drifting in space.
Thats the first thought I always have when terraforming is discussed, we can't even fix earth, how would we fix another planet.
The fact this was paid off, and paid off so rapidly means that targeting major infrastructure for massive payoffs is going to become more and more prominent. The next time though, it'll be $50M. I work with people in the oil fields and I know the numbers they are playing with and the fact that a single well being down can easily be $100,000 lost per hour. So obviously they want these systems back up fast.

$5M for shutting down that major of a pipeline seems like too little, unless, of course, they weren't expecting the company to even pay. Now that these actors know that the oil (and quite likely other utilities) are more than willing to pay big bucks to get back online, they will be targeted far more.

There are so many reasons this is very very bad.
KKR and Mumbai Indians Poster
Yes and that next thing will be tax cuts, thanks to the libertarians. #yesWeCan?
I’ll go to prison for some time for being their new CFO. If some cash goes to myself or a close family member after I pay the ransomware as CCO.

Obviously this would be too transparent if done in the span of a week.
Playing devil's advocate:

But the employee's time is a replenishable resource (1 second per second).

The Total risk is not losing your job. It's losing your job + struggling strongly to find another one (considering loss income while searching, stress, ...). Or workplace injury / death.

An investor, while facing low to none risk of workplace injury / death, can permanently lose the investment and won't recover it ever (hopefully the investor hedges it with other investments)
yeah, chrome/chromium on linux not tested at all, mostly because nobody on the team is using linux. We tested it on MacOS Big Sur and a bit of Windows.
Full table of what was tested here: https://github.com/fingerprintjs/external-protocol-flooding#... dathinab
Did way better on Hard mode than Easy. I think people get bored of doing this before we can see real indicative results.

Scores under 5 on what amounts to a coin flip doesn't strike me as so remarkable, especially when coupled with an incentivised reporting-bias as we see here. ("I got a high score! Proud to share!" Vs. "I got a low score, or an even score and look at all the people reporting high scores, think I might keep it to myself")

Being as it is, at this juncture, I think the AI may still have a chance to be strong with this one.

Also, were the AI to do well consistently, I'd think it might say more about the external unfamiliarity with, and the internal prevalence of, field-specific scientific jargon, than any AI's or human's innate intelligence.
I also made a special branch for Chromium (Chrome, Brave, Edge, etc.) that works much slower, but should be more accurate.

It still may not work for your browser with a custom configuration. Also, it is better not to make any gestures during the process.

https://github.com/fingerprintjs/external-protocol-flooding/...

https://609d9f4d79c4f6000700782c--boring-visvesvaraya-dbefd4...
It is not clear at all how much dirty energy cryptomining uses, so...
You don't drop stuff from the orbit - it doesn't fall down
it is often stated that locks are not for honest people, but to keep dishonest people out.

can be applied to US constitution as additional laws needed not for those who WANT to uphold the US constitution but those who want to violate it.

Most of you probably already saw a Michigan-congress rep submit a bill to violate the US constitution by trying to force twitter posters to register with Michigan to post facts because he wanted to prevent others from outing him in the form of fact checking.
Imagine making it illegal to hand over your wallet to a mugger holding a gun to you.

All you are doing is incentivizing companies to not report these attacks.
Nassim Taleb, Absorbing Barriers and House Money
Notion doesn't even need to offer these guarantees in their SaaS service. They can just ship to my Kubernetes cluster, and let me manage the ingress and storage, and that would be enough to make it mission critical software.

In the meantime, we end up using tools with a little bit less good UX, but we just can't share that data publicly. UX can't win over security, and I hate having to choose.
Geological processes aren't sentient.
Supposing that the average person has half a tank of gas, is there enough supply for everyone to fill up on the same day? It doesn't seem unreasonable for the situation to be a combination of reduced supply and increased demand.
> If people in the US really want to grab back power to the citizens of this country it can be done

This can go either way, of course. We're sort of in between a rock and hard place. American oligarchs are guiding the country toward a 21st century brand of serfdom. The tyranny of the mob doesn't seem like a better alternative. You might expect the so-called Benedict Option to succeed, much like it did in the so-called Dark Ages.

> The issue is that the consensus is more difficult to reach due to the scale of the US voter population combined with tactics like gerrymandering and overall difficulty of orchestrating movements to support ideals most people seem to support (which isn't oppressing a minority unless we classify power and wealth hungry individuals as a protected minority which we currently seem to do).

These same oligarchs also employ psychological warfare to divide and occupy the populace. For example, all the recent race conflict? A total fabrication because the establishment is feeling the heat and the pressure of rising awareness. Racial conflict is a dependable tactic that has worked before. Sexual liberation is another form of political control. Get people addicted to porn and masturbation, unleash sex from the confines of marriage, divorce it from its procreative end, and you have a mass of people staring at their genitals and obsessing over orgasms as if it were the rapture (hilariously and tragically enough, rates of sexual intercourse are dropping and rates of ED in men are rising). Similar things can be said of the other cardinal vices. Whip up envy and people are kept busy envying each other. All this makes them easier to control. A man has as many masters as he has vices. That's why "sexual liberation" is such an oxymoron. "Sexual enslavement" is more fitting. The legalization of drugs is likely another weapon in the oligarchic arsenal. Get people doing drugs instead of facing their problems, growing in reason and virtue (and therefore freedom), and repairing the ills of the culture beginning with themselves. Get them to escape into myriad diversions, entertainment, and bullshit causes. Whip up emotions and sensationalize. Have then at each other's throats in the throes of wrath. Where two are fighting, a third profits.

> Reaching consensus amongst citizens is far far more difficult these days,

And why is that? Because the cultural and civilizational underpinnings of the West are disintegrating. So many things that to so many seemed so minor have been the thin ends of a wedge. Over time, they weakened the principles and the tradition that marked their continuity. The withering of classical education means that tradition, in practice, became reduced to mere convention, leaving people vulnerable to revolution and moral corruption. It means you have no defense against the unfolding of the consequences of liberal philosophy and modernism which now puts you in the defensive position.

> It doesn't help that those in power actively try and divide the general voter population and set us against one another making it even more difficult to reach a consensus.

And there it is. Libido dominandi, the lust for power.
Their goal isn't a more inclusive or competitive market clearly, it is regulatory entrenchment.
It incentivizes more crime and should be illegal.

Businesses don't have a right to do whatever they want just because it is profitable.
I just tried it with the latest version of Brave and it found: Skype, Zoom, VSCode, Adobe, and iTunes.

This only checks 24 apps, and it got all the ones I have installed out of those 24.
Well, given how nobody was prosecuted, taking it to court seems unnecessary, which was my point.
> We have law enforcement so everyone can be free to focus on their own value-add in life without having to learn 1000 skills to cover their own ass.

No, that's why we have division of labor. Law enforcement is just another brick in the wall. If a company is already making massive profits from the public by running critical services, why should tax payers fund their lack of diligence? Should we just fund their entire payroll while we're at it?
>If they could sell digital goods using their own payment system within the app like Amazon can with Amazon Video, what would they gain from this?

the ability to potential lauch EGS on IOS. Success or not, they want that opportunity to try.
>FWIW, I think this almost always bad advice.

Is it though, or is it merely a century of the professional publishing industry justifying its necessity?

Neither Plato, nor Nietzsche had an editor. Now those are just two historical examples two and a half millenia apart, but this group also includes any author in between these two.
"A bird in hand is worth two in a bush."

This seems to make long-term ccompensation even more volatile. Who says the company will grant me a similar options package all 4-years. Business needs change, and it might do any of a million other things.

Sure, the stock-price may go up, or may fall, but that is somewhat out of the day-to-day control of the company. Or it is much more out of the company's control than next year's personnel budget, where you just have to convince the CFO of what the right grant value will be.
Let me be blunt, costing charities time and money that they could use for their actual mission of helping people to find a life-saving match with a donor is a real shitty move. This is freeloading at its finest.
How Snowflake is preparing its headquarters for employees to come back
Maybe your security team could implement an authentication server with 2FA to cover those softwares that don't support it natively?

For example, https://www.authelia.com/ is open-source.
I think you just described my brain. Are there resources around spatial thinking you find insightful?
I'm using Notion as a CMS for a static site I've built for a grant-funded academic project. My collaborators edit the project page, which includes nested pages, tables, and even uploaded videos and images.

After they've updated it, they click a special link that triggers a Vercel build, which converts Notion into JSON for the site to build into static pages. I'm using this as my backbone: https://github.com/benborgers/potion and it's a lot more powerful than the Notion API... this reads tables and lets you show image attachments and more
This is mostly true, but a number of tokens actually do generate an income in the form of fees, inflation rewards, or a combination of the 2. For example, ETH can earn staking rewards, and post ETH2 merge, will also earn transaction fee revenue. A number of the dexes generate trading fees that get distributed to token holders (giving P/E ratios that are high, but not absolute insanity given they are "growth" stocks).
You seem to be implying that the PI has additional powers. It's quite the opposite. Any search that a PI can legally do can also be done by legally by the police. Police have access to government sources of data that PIs do not, can collaborate with other departments, and can detain people (under the right circumstances).

The chief might get in trouble, but usually that has to do with policies against using external resources or for budget constraints.
Nukem from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.
Not really, the high-speed line was supposed to connect to Spain and Toulouse and the beaches of courses (it's not named LGV SEA for nothing).

Fresno is a county seat and there's Cal State. That's it.

Same in France, every local baron wanted his dedicated HS line, so now we got plenty but only one is profitable.
Those intra-bank transactions that are still done via FTP, take 2-3 days to settle, and require owning a bank in order to participate?

Yes, I suppose there's no room for improvement there.
Before reading the article, I was terribly confused about how Neanderthals would have ended up in Africa.
How big is the fly eng team at this point? You all seem to be doing a ton, I’m always kind of surprised these posts don’t end with the usual “we’re hiring” blurb that’s become the norm on these sorts of tech posts.
Interesting, I was able to convert a couple of thousand notes spread across about 10 notebooks from Evernote to Notion and there didn't seem to be too many issues, apart from needing to reformat quite a few that had suffered from Evernote's formatting weirdnesses.
I feel like GDPR-ing a bone marrow registry to obtain one's data is rude. I got my HLA data from the registry by asking politely.
Dumb question: why can’t crypto currencies and exchanges place the ransom tokens on some kind of blocklist, thereby forever tainting those coins? As I understand, the rise of “privacy wallets” has greatly increased the anonymity of such transactions. But, at the end of the day, don’t we always have a ledger of the coin ids? I’m curious how the coins actually get laundered back into cash.
> Now, it's completely anecdotal and recalled from memory, but the reactions of Windows-based developers to "doesn't compile on Linux" was generally "OK, I'll try to take a look",

This is just my prejudice, I haven't actually checked, but I think most projects that have support for both Linux (or Unix-y OSes) and Windows generally start with Linux/Unix and then have Windows support added. I think the opposite is rare.

Maybe things changed? I think most Windows developers say 10 or 15 years ago might not even know what Linux is, or have heard the word as some obscure technology used by few. In other words, I would have expected a Windows developer to respond to "doesn't compile on Linux" the same as they would for e.g. "doesn't compile on Plan 9", or whatever is still very obscure relative to Windows nowadays.
"You may be aware of bone marrow, or stem cell transplants. These are life-saving for the people who need them, especially after a blood cancer. You can sign up for free at charities such as Anthony Nolan or DKMS in the UK."

"And it was a win-win scenario - they get to call upon me if someone needs my stem cells (a painless procedure that's no more complicated than donating blood)!"

Maybe I'm confused but this person doesn't seem to know what is involved with donating bone marrow. It is a serious surgical procedure done under anesthesia.

https://bethematch.org/support-the-cause/donate-bone-marrow/...
edit: how do you add newlines?

Two presses of the Enter key. If you just do one press,
like this (I swear I pressed it), it will annoying stay on the same line. But

two

presses gives that sweet, sweet paragraph separation you seek.
I wonder if charities couldn't offer it as an incentive to attract more potential donors? Agree to participate, and we'll give you your sequence upfront, no data-release-requests needed? Obviously some people are trying hard not to be sequenced for any reason (because of privacy concerns apparently) but plenty of other people are interested in heredity, or health implications.
Finding loopholes seems like it's perfectly aligned with the hacker ethos. We cheer when we read about the guy who figured out how to always win at Press Your Luck, the guy who gamed the lotto system to greatly increase his odds, the guy who bought large quantities of pudding and got enough free air miles to last the rest of his life. I wouldn't be surprised if the first lawyers who figured out these loopholes got the same hacker high from finding the cracks in the system. Of course, for the first 3 examples, the loopholes were closed after those people exploited it. Now if the governments don't close these well-known loopholes, isn't it equivalent to implicitly condoning them?
It's the entire problem. I also used to say things like that. But at a certain point, the population is what it is. It will refuse to exercise (otherwise it would already be doing so).

Sure if it was widely distributed that it prevents it 100% there would probably be a 5-10% spike in gym memberships or peloton ordering, but no. But even that spike would probably die off in 1 or 2 months. It will go back to it's "settled" behavior.
I would like to put in a plug for Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari. My intro to this author wasn't good. I listened to him try to be big brain about the pandemic and wasn't impressed, but then I picked up Sapiens. Now I know why people like Bill Gates and Barack Obama recommend him.
Right now, teams in Ditto use it as a translation/l10n solution if they already localize their mockups. However, we are hoping to support this more fully in the very near feature (likely this upcoming week!) with the ability to create variants of text in mockups in Ditto (including languages, user groups, states, etc.).
OnionShare: Open-source tool that lets you securely and anonymously share files
Tesla still has 90% of the Bitcoin they bought.

If his proclamation knocks, say, half the value off Bitcoin, and it stays there, that wasn't a very clever pump and dump, because they kinda skipped the 'dump' part.
It's not that he's dumb, he's just not as transparent or even ethical as people paint him out as.
> in FF, unless im mistaken this assumes the user clicks anything except cancel on the popup. bug for reference and comment.

I'm on Firefox and didn't have to click anything. It correctly detected I have Steam installed.

The flashing popup window was quite obvious though.
The aim of the ADA is to give teeth and grounds for legal action to encourage accessibility. One of these methods is damages and penalties.

What is more interesting is that AccessiBe is the target of such suits and not the site owners using AccessbiBe.
I guess I don't understand, you seem to be explaining why the non-stop aspect is a genuine benefit for trains.
To me, if mars had life in its past and no longer does then we could consider it one huge grave. Lost in the terraforming debate I read is that any atmosphere we managed to kick up would be temporary. It might take a long time to leak off, but they’re not discussing any means to reverse the trend. As I understand, Mars doesn’t have an active core and thus magnetic field holding its atmosphere in place. There’s no way we’re going to fire up a core…

Turning choice, large asteroids into liveable habitats seems an infinitely more productive task.
Credit agencies can’t tell my sister and me apart
For those interested https://artofmemory.com/ is a forum where lots of memory athletes share strategies and tactics. Additionally it also has some software you can practice to improve your skills.
Just because a type of privilege exists doesn’t mean it’s universally applied or doesn’t coexist with other disadvantages that might dampen it.

I’ve experienced biased treatment in my favor as a white person who presents male, and against me because I’m neurodivergent. I’ve also experienced fair treatment, and learned correction toward such, by leadership who value inclusion and listen.

The author isn’t suggesting that all white cis men always get promoted based on potential without having to demonstrate the relevant qualifications consistently, but that it’s more likely.

If you don’t think that’s true, there are a zillion studies that validate it. I say this because I’m a month and a half of weekends into writing what I thought would be a weekend blog post about addressing comp disparities, and so far all I have is a draft explaining why I chose the source I did. I’d be happy to link it, if you’re interested in learning more!
> Planes fly in more or less straight lines from source to destination, and adding a new route is just some paperwork and renting the terminal space. No multi-billion dollar investment to connect a new nearby or distant city.

One of the justifications for California HSR was that existing airport slots are almost saturated. Studies showed that airport expansion was going to cost at least as much as HSR. Runway and terminal expansions actually do cost billions of dollars.

And while HSR costs have ballooned, so too would airport expansion costs. Perhaps even more so because much of the HSR cost increases are related to intransigent farm owners in rural areas, whereas the majority of airport capacity expansion work (at least on a cost basis) involves much more developed areas, where NIMBYs tend to be at least as ornery.

The studies also projected greater cost burdens with highway expansion alternatives. Nobody disputes that building additional lanes on I-5 in the Central Valley is cheaper than building HSR in those areas. But that's beside the point because the dilemma isn't about increasing throughway capacity in the Central Valley, but expanding capacity into and out of the SF and LA metro regions, where highway expansions are insanely expensive. Trains (and planes) let you offload people at various points within the metro region, so there's less of a highway bottleneck[2].

Maybe those studies were biased. Certainly many critics believed so. But the relative costs are much closer than people tend to believe.

[2] Especially considering the geography.
Thanks. Now that I looked into it again, the issue I have is not just the Duplicate Tab feature, but that opening a link in a new tab or window clears the history of that new tab/window instead of cloning the history of the source tab. that means that you can't quickly open a couple of links into new tabs/windows, with each of them preserving the current history. I don't think there's a fix for that.
Weird bit: Hyenas are genetically felines, but behave more like dogs than the cats we're used to.
To be fair, that was Iranian money in the first place that had been frozen.
Regarding the search highlight color, Firefox has the (mis)feature that if the highlight background color is too close to the text background color (which is the case for yellow vs. white background), then it inverts the search highlight text and background color, i.e. you get yellow text on black background for the highlight, instead of black text on yellow background. The rationale is accessiblity, i.e. requiring a minimum contrast for the highlight background against the normal background. But for me that behavior is anti-accessibility, and it can't be turned off. The issue has been raised since the behavior was introduced in 2009, but the maintainers don't want to change it. The corlor inversion implementation also seems to be pretty deep in the stack, and tied to the HTML <mark> tag.

Regarding font rendering, there have been multiple issue reports over the years, although most users complain that Firefox doesn't render text like Chrome, which I tend to find even worse than Firefox. ;)