skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have a look yourself:

https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/worl...

Firefox seems to be at 7% desktop market share. Chrome on desktop has almost 10 times more market share. So I guess that's the browser of choice.

OSX, an operating system with a market share of only 15%, delivers desktop Safari, which still has a larger market share than Firefox across ALL desktops.

So also on desktops Firefox is losing, and keeps losing:
https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/worl...

The trend is down, and down only.
No. You actually get better tax treatment for opex as you can record the full amount of the expense immediately as a deduction against your income. Capex spreads the deductibility of the expense over years.

As I mention above, opex vs capex is usually a compensation issue.
Probably the same way Facebook and Twitter censor private messages.

It’s just unencrypted data.
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There are hundreds of countries on this planet. Are you sure U.S. and JP are at the bottom?
More importantly is having a variety of moderate exercise mixed in throughout the day.

Your lymph system relies on the movements of your skeletal muscles to push anything not water soluble through your body. This includes fats, various local inflammation signaling molecules, etc.
Forget the word 'goldfish'. Call them for what they are: Carp.
I wouldn't recommend long polling for this reason. There are also some security products that have trouble with what appears to be a long file download.

Websockets or server sent events at least signal to intermediaries that a longer term connection will be open.
I agree (and of course I know of the Mozilla things).

I remember years ago when things began to really go off the rails. I saw a Nike commercial which for the first time did not say "nike.com", but: "facebook.com/Nike". Man I was bummed.

If companies like that have to resort to this, it's over.

Pity we couldn't (again, myself included) protect the free internet.
Binance: Fiat off-ramps closing, frozen funds, what happened to Catherine Coley?
> “it is not souless, it guides the entire company…”

once, as a pre-mba product manager at a mid-sized company, i presented a detailed financial projection (using monte carlo on the assumptions/inputs) for a project i was championing that went over the head of the controller (and acting cfo at the time). boy was i disillusioned after that.

finance should never be thought of as guiding a company. that’s giving them too much credit and (misguided) influence. rather, it should provide analyses to the executive team to use to make executive decisions, much like the congressional budget office does for congress. it’s one of many inputs needed to make executive decisions.
It's got some pretty weird quirks.

Like you can only send certain character sets. I had a very angry customer, and in the end it was some character (0x07?) that couldn't be sent via SQS.

I had to either be certain that contents would never contain an SQS-unallowed character, or base64-encode all my contents.
Thanks, appreciate the suggestion.
Politics aside this isn't going to be technically possible apart from plain SMS. iMessage and WhatsApp are encrypted so it won't be possible to intercept and fact check them.
"Small startup"s are the last place I'd look for the kind of work-life balance required to actually enjoy the fruits of one's labor. You're trading a stable work week for perks at that point--differently bad work environments, in this context.
Why You’re So Anxious About Going Back to the Office
Lightography
its really weird, but apparently by design. Left click to select the food, then use WASD to move it
Sorry, I said "source" when I should have specified "medical study". Your link reads more like marketing towards vaccination fence sitters than actual science. That isn't your fault though, there just isn't science to share. Why? Because we don't have future traveling time machines.

There is something quite amazing about your link however. The piece (about long term side effects from vaccines) notes the polio vaccine from the 1950s. It somehow omits mentioning Simian Virus 40, the cancer causing virus that was found in the polio vaccine. This vaccine was given to 100 million children and its estimated that 10% to 30% of those doses were contaminated.

I'm sure the doctors assured their parents back then that there were no side effects and certainly laughed off any mention of long term side effects. The price to be paid for trust in these vaccines? Their children growing up to develop brain cancer in their 50s and 60s, decades after they were assured how safe they were.
If sleep is primarily a cognitive repair period, why would you expect it to affect heart disease and cancer?
Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's a digital synth.
With electric cars an inevitability, and natural gas outperforming oil; seems MBS is squeezing every cent out of Aramco while it is still worth something.
I apologize that my well-sourced comment, the only comment in this thread with any sourcing at all, did not sufficiently meet your quality standards.

I note with amusement that you did not post this same comment in response to every other reply which included no sources at all.

I suppose one only thinks critically when they disagree.
Wait until end-to-end encryption is illegal.
Too bad for all the people that helped him escape who are being jailed now.
For what it is worth, it is refreshing to see a raw comment like this one on here. So many times have I seen inflammatory stories, or distressing news posted, only to be met with a collective emphasis on neutral reasoning ("assume good faith").

Everything has its time and place, and this certainly fits the sentiment for many.
SQS and MQ are pull and 1:1.

SNS and EventBridge is push and 1:many.

Kinesis and MSK is pull and 1:many.
I still do for ideological reasons, but I used to recommend it -- now I can't really since their rewrite of it last year -- every single time I tab out or briefly switch apps it reloads the page:
https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/19291

I've lost days of my life waiting for these reloads. It's ashame because it used to reliably out-perform chrome on my phone.
>so developers won't consider it

I think it depends on the developer. There's developers hammering out boring business logic as fast as possible and there's developers with a deep understanding of machine internals, protocols, and infrastructure. For the former, SMTP is black magic they'd probably never think of and involves engaging the one infra person that's always busy

It also means standing up and managing "infrastructure"
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The original Politico article says the DNC plans to "work with SMS carriers to dispel misinformation" and has no further information about what that entails.

The Politico White House Correspondent has clarified in a tweet[1] that "Outside groups are attempting to flag to SMS carriers false information campaigns that are driving misinformation on vaccines."

So it appears the goal is to specifically identify the misinformation campaigns. Since it's non-governmental, "outside groups", doing the identification I think that'd mean the information they're using to do this is, if not outright publicly available, at least acquirable/purchasable by arbitrary companies already.

So at this point my conclusion is that no text messages sent by private individuals will be read as part of this that weren't already available to the highest bidder (e.g. for advertising/tracking purposes). Further, there's no indication that any private text messages at all will be modified, corrected, or made to include fact-check warnings or anything like that based on their content.

And as described it could be even be as benign as asking people if they've gotten text message spam with that misinformation and trying to look for a pattern.

[1] https://twitter.com/natashakorecki/status/141471637838542438...
I don’t think there’s any subscription lock-in, so I don’t think you’d ever find it cheaper than the cost of a 1-month subscription to Apple TV+
Yeah, astronauts are definitely the ideal control group.
You have made a distinction between programming and chess and go. There was a period when people thought chess could be solved by AI, but go couldn't, because go was too highly dimensional. That distinction has been proven not to be meaningful.
Regulation, unfortunately, probably can’t solve this.

Imagine that we had the most thoroughly crafted law imaginable to prevent private messages from being blocked or modified.

You still have to take those companies to court, which cost a ton of money, fight them over years, and even if you win, then what?

The only workable strategies I see at this point are to fight to preserve individual choice, and the ability to connect point-to-point.
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Dennis also created TIO: https://tio.run/#
From the article at least - the pre-agreed dividend (a thing I had no idea existed) is so onerous on the company that it can't keep up with payments. So the company is being forced to sell off long term investments and assets for a quick buck just to cover the dividend it's agreed to pay.

It's like saying: "Hey, I've got an ice cream stand that I make 50$ of a week and has capital assets worth 200$. I wonder if I contractually agreed to donate 75$ worth of value every week - would that work well for me?"
Firefoxes share peaked at around 30% in 2010.

It's now closer to 3%.

The big 3 are now Chrome, Edge, and Safari. Firefox is no longer a major browser, and hasn't been for some time.
Long-polling is usually configured to reset at the both sides after a timeout preferred by the client-side (/events?t=30), long before any network effects kick in, e.g. 10-30 seconds. A client then simply spams requests in a loop, backing off only at http errors. If you have some crazy firewall in between, just set “t” appropriately.
> Depends on your definition of winning.

At the risk of being Schopenhauered, I would say that any argument has a target and an audience, and that the goal of any argument is to convince the audience, rather than the target (though these can be the same person).

As others have identified - arguments are rarely, if ever, won on rationality. Rationality is a tool in arguing, like any other argumentative tool, but it rarely convinces those who do not hold it as a virtue in life.
If the argument is "we shouldn't use vaccines because of escape variants" then I don't see why we should fear escape variants more than we do any other kind of variants.

If the argument is "we should build up a big inventory of vaccines and infrastructure to deploy them to the population in a very short timespan" then I see some logic to that but it's not at all obvious that the math works out.
They are, as are salaries. Let me propose it this way, how much do you think the company should spend on responsible waste disposal? 10 dollars? 10 thousand dollars? 10 million dollars? 10 billion dollars? Why do you pick the number you did? What is the benefit to the company of making the investment? Those answers should be the start of the conversation on whether to make the investment.
There's no possibility of a core here though, which makes it inductive coupling, not a transformer, and reduces the coupling efficiency.
Straight from the most trusted source of news & opinion in the investment world – oilprice.com.

Aramco's dividend basically entirely goes to the Saudi government, which owns 98.5% of the company. It is still comfortably the largest oil company in the world, and is investing hundreds of billions in operations over the next few years. Here's a much more objective status report on the company – https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-07/saudi-ara....
Not so sound when we Brits have to pay a license fee by law for owning a TV that can tune in to any public channel just to fund the BBC!
That's not how this works. This discussion is about preventing a something like a server from being exploited. How many stack smashes have you seen against a server written in a memory-safe language?
Both Apple and Facebook support this type of censorship.

As do many of their employees.

You don’t even need to make encryption illegal. You just need to backdoor it. Trivial for one or two well-placed developers.
Quickwit 0.1
There are also a bunch of OpenStack Public Cloud providers in Europe and around the world: https://www.openstack.org/marketplace/public-clouds/ Some are not listed there so you may have to do some research (I know there's one in Chicago)

These "Cloud" systems provide a number of advantages over VPS providers. They have a standard programmable interface and command-line tools, they provide many services you may or may not get with a given VPS provider (programmable networks, load balancers, object and block storage, secrets management, configurable user/role access controls, etc). They also of course allow you to scale your resources programmatically and may provide pay-as-you-go pricing. And if it's something you're into, you can typically find a Terraform provider that works with it.

Slightly more expensive than a simple VPS, but the automation, failure recovery, and security gains can be significant.
You just need to find something that works for you - there are certainly lots of physical activities that are pretty low injury (hiking, swimming, yoga, etc).
The way modern subscriptions services work, you absolutely can just subscribe for a show, watch it, and then drop it. There’s no lock-in, it’s how lots of people do it.
all the same on my end and for my wife. My wife was training for crossfit regional games a couple years ago, and I wasn't a slouch myself. We also have sleeping issues, heart rate all over, numbness, brain fog. Exercise is such a struggle. We both tested negative for covid antibodies. :shrug:
But how do you move the wet waste from London to Mediterranean and Sahara. Also soil is one part of equation. Water is another. Poor soil results in poor vegetation that leads to poor rainfall and water sources. So soil also needs to be coupled with water increase. I think preservation is probably more feasible than rejuvenation. India for example is losing top soil at unprecedented rates that can have devastating consequences.
Bush v. Gore 2000 down in Florida comes to mind.

Would 9/11 have happened with Gore at the helm? And if yes, what he'd have done differently?

Maybe Al Gore would have been impeached for incompetence and treason had he refused to get carried by the moment and declare war.

If he declared war solely against Al Quaeda, then what would have happened to Saddam?

We could have an Iraq with Saddam still at the helm? Or maybe he'd have gone down in the Arab Spring?

Would we be enjoying fracking had we not lost so many lives in the Middle East in an era of shifting societal values in the early 2000s?
This awesome, I’m pretty excited for the new interactive blog posts and tutorials that will come from this
I'm curious if the house of Saud could survive Aramco collapsing though. For everything terrible you feel about them - they are constantly shoveling a whole boatload of value into a decent chunk of their population. If Aramco falls I think Saudi Arabia might find a lot of people that were happy to look the other way while they were being paid suddenly asking a lot of questions about national policies.
What would stop Saudi Aramco from stopping all dividends and unilaterally write off its own debt?
Japan's conviction rate is above 99%. If you're arrested you can be held for up to 23 days without access to a lawyer. Japan's justice system is far from perfect.
"Aramco’s debt to equity increased from minus 5 percent in early 2020 to plus 23 percent in March this year, where company’s own cap was 15 percent."

And it went IPO in Dec 2019.
Remember to factor in that capturing the methane and burning it is in itself a substantial good in the greenhouse gas equation. Methane is an extremely potent greenhouse gas if allowed to release in its raw form, far more so than CO2 and water vapor - the products of its combustion.

https://www.factcheck.org/2018/09/how-potent-is-methane/
I owned a dam. Worst deal of my life, as it was regulated by the town, state, and feds.

Touching anything on it required permits from multiple agencies at each of the above.

Be careful doing ANYTHING with water, as that is regulated by feds, states, and ofen localities. Wetland regulations are extremely restrictive. And wetlands are often not wet! (Depending on where you live, state and local often try to "out green" each other by layering on even more restrictive regulations.)
Biogas is by definition a product of excess biomass production. The net potential can be estimate by the net agricultural (and perhaps forestry) primary production within a country.

To a rough first approximation based on food intake, biomass is the residual of undigested food caloric energy in the waste stream, which I believe runs at about 25% of the input calories.

You can estimate this for a population by taking roughly 2,000 kilocalories/day * population * 0.25. Ignoring any collection or processing losses, for the US this translates to about 700,000 GJ, 110,000 barreloil, or 200 GWh electricity (assuming no generation or transmission losses, in actuality about 1/3 this amount).

Actual US energy consumption is closer to 45 million barreloil day (equivalent, only 18.3 million barrels of actual oil), or roughly 400 times the maximum amount of energy available in food waste.

There may be other biomass wastestreams available (say: the input feedstock for livestock, pork, dairy, and poultry), though this won't add up to the 400-fold increase necessary as typically the trophic loss is about 10x in a given foodchain level. Even were all US food consumption in the form of animal products, the wastestream would be 40x short of present energy consumption levels.

It's not clear if the artist here is aware of what they're demonstrating, but the process of methane harvesting employed is not dissimilar to how fossil fuels formed in the first place, with biomass settling to the bottoms of shallow seas and, over the course of hundreds of millions of years, being transformed to petroleum and natural gas.

We're presently consuming that bounty at roughly 5 million times its rate of formation. The fact that it takes 8 hours to produce fuel sufficient for 20km of travel is actually millions of times more efficient than the net energy cost of fossil fuels.

Jeffrey S. Dukes, "Burning Buried Sunshine" (2003) details this with exquisite clarity.

https://www-legacy.dge.carnegiescience.edu/DGE/Dukes/Dukes_C...
Burning Buried Sunshine (2003) [pdf]
The DNC Wants Phone Companies to Police Text Messages for Vaccine Misinformation
Electric cars or not, the Saudi wells are likely running lower than advertised. They have been pumping sea water into well to force oil out of others for decades. This is what you do to extend the life of an oilfield. SA has a long history of keeping exact reserve sizes muddled to appear more powerful. Also Russian gas has only accelerated in recent years, their prime competitor.
> Funded by Elon Musk and the Musk Foundation, this $100M competition is the largest incentive prize in history, an extraordinary milestone.‎

Yuge
Musk's face on the first page, but also he probably has produced more CO2 with his crypto BS than Tesla has saved over its live span...

[Happy to be wrong, but I'd be surprised]
I think generally the looting is done at the top and then drip fed down: a Prince loots 100m and keeps 20 and passed 80 down to lessor and lessor people. That maintains their loyalty to that Prince. In roughly the same people get a dividend direct from SA, they don't have to keep coming and asking their particular prince or supporting his other efforts etc.

This seems like it cuts out a lot of the middle men and just leaves MBS and the recipient...

Also, as in understand it, a lot of people were basically forced to buy shares whether they wanted to or not (or lose favour). A big dividend semi reverses that. It's like forcing someone to pay a big fine then, majestically giving half back to show you're a beneficent and merciful king.
This article seems to conflate "Time it takes for 50% of the CO2 increase to be removed from the atmosphere" with "time it takes a specific molecule that was released to the atmosphere to be removed".

The former is more relevant to the discussion, and is stated as ~30 years.
Heh, serendipity. Three days ago I began to read EC Comics compilation on Science Fiction.
It is a joke my friend. If you started taking materials off the moon maybe you would only need 300 billion atomic bombs.
This is a funny read, though I’m not sure it’s meant to be.
When I have seen this done, it is because the CEO does not want to get into the details of IT. At that point IT needs to report to someone. There may or may not be a COO. Sometimes see it reporting to a Chief Administrative Officer (CAO), but as landryraccoon points out above, this is not the case when technology is the core product of the company.
> The best argument against the billionaire space race is how little impact it will have on the lives of most of Earth’s inhabitants. It will inaugurate a new era of ultra-expensive stunt tourism, perhaps, but it will do nothing for the common good, especially when companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin are competing to crowd low-earth orbit with thousands of small satellites. Vast and unearned fortunes have been spent on what are essentially private entertainments: Bezos has said that he sells $1 billion in Amazon stock each year to fund Blue Origin. ...

There's a lot going on here.

Hate on billionaires, that makes sense. Envy is a terrible thing. "Unearned" fortunes and all of that.

But the bigger problem is a gross misinterpretation of history and the human condition. Do people take big leaps into the unknown out of desire for understanding? Some primal thirst for knowledge? Some do. Most don't.

If you really want to create a stampede into the unknown, the thing to do is plant rumors of fortunes to be made. Even better, broadcast reports about ordinary Joe's striking it rich. Nothing in the world is more motivating than the realization that your neighbor has become rich.

Unfortunately, the author isn't alone in misreading history and human motivation, but I'll bet they get the envy part.
Is bankruptcy an option that this autocratic regime would take for their company or would it be too detrimental to the image of mbs?

What happens if they just decide to stop paying international debt/bond holders? Is that even an option?
It’s but a matter of positioning, IIRC BP has this slogan “beyond petroleum” and my guess is that MBS is not the most sensitive human, but rather one of those “impose your will at any cost” golden children who think they actually earned their status, etc, so I’m gonna chalk this up to incompetence meets ostentatious for 100 points, Alex
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We are so used to currency being only useful in certain countries that we get hung up on the which particular country issued it.

But .... once upon a time, the issuing country was the least important thing about money. The most important thing was WHAT the money was made of: gold or silver. And HOW MUCH of it there was.

Most denominations of money that we are familiar with today concern the WEIGHT of that coinage (as in the British Pound Sterling was originally a pound weight of sterling silver, the old French Livres (pound) and Italian Lira (again pound) are similar amounts of money.

You notice that I'm not mentioning paper, that's because paper currency is not actual money but simply a promise of money just like an IOU or a cheque. And like an IOU or a cheque, the paper currency is only as good as the promise of the person who is saying it.
I will pay the legal costs to everyone who needs in this case