skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope it's not.

The assumption that whatever is being served on :443 is HTTPS with the same content as what is being served on :80 HTTP is wrong. It might practically be true >99% of the time, but some websites will still break for no good reason.
I've only lived in Amsterdam the last decade, the 3 decades before that in the 'rural' parts of .nl

I would say this idealized environment is not really present in Amsterdam, but it surely is in the rest of .nl
All the banks I use (in brazil), either only have mobile app to access the bank, or they require the bank's app to use the site (the app generates a 2FA token, you can't use a third-party 2fa manager like authy).
Do you have traffic that you are okay with people watching? Because I personally have exactly zero traffic that I want my ISP to know about (and then resell that info to ad companies, ex. https://www.infoworld.com/article/2608352/internet-privacy-a...).
How do you know it is a database of bad photos?
The only thing that makes sense is a view through geography.

Author neglects to think what might happen with climate change. Let's assume that the rising sea levels don't necessarily push back the coast, but it could start salinating the land and cause a lot of issues with food supply.
San Diego Street Videos from 1970
This is mainly discussing WFH, so in this case people actually are living in the office.
It's a weird policy though. If I'm remote, why does my location matter to Google?
>The majority of people do need a car even in Europe.

>In France, unless you live in central Paris you do. In the UK, unless you live in central London yo do. Now, if you live around Paris or London you may be able to commute to work by public transport, and many people do, indeed, but many also commute by car, and the vast majority do outside of these areas. I'm sure the same applies to many other countries.

Actually in France it's much more than Paris, living in Bordeaux, Lyon, Toulouse, Besancon to name just some cities I'm familiar with, you can live without a car. Similarly in a lot of German cities even down to population levels of 50,000 people you can often live perfectly fine without a car.

>> you live in an individual house

>On the other hand, living in an individual house with a garden is much nicer than living in a flat and many people (including in Europe) either do that or aspire to that.

And a lot of people at the same time want those houses to be right in the city centre as well, and can't afford it. Also I think the flat vs house trade-off is a huge function of type and quality of flats and the city planning.

>I'm usually getting a lot of flack here for saying this, but if preserving the environment means severe constraints on people's lives (housing, diet, transport, etc) then perhaps the way forward is to reduce the global population to a point where that everyone can enjoy life while still preserving the environment.

Sounds like a great idea. It's funny how people regard reducing carbon emissions by changing behaviour (e.g. moving to flats, using less cars ...) unrealistic, but then put suggestions like this forward. How would you reduce earths population by a factor 2 in the next 100 years? Even if you could somehow do this, there would be huge economic implications (much bigger than going to a zero carbon economy in the same time).

> My vision of an ideal future is everyone able to live in nature, in a house with a large garden, rather than in tower blocks, in pods, only eating what's allowed.

What are you willing to give up for that future, because the reduction in population that would make this possible doesn't come for free.
Humanity, the frog, continues to enjoy its warm-spa ... refusing to recognise that it is actually a cooking pot set to gas mark 8.
> Unbeknownst to us, the CDN Admin service was having a real bad time. It wasn’t prepared to handle the explosive level of traffic we were sending to them, and we were teetering on the edge of their own complete outage. [...]

> Without any end in sight, that team in charge of the Admin service did what they thought was their best option: they revoked our API token.

> It didn’t take long before the user complaints came filing in and the status page was updated alerting users to the situation. When the team realized what our situation had spiraled into, we immediately jumped into disaster recovery mode.

This sounds like a total communication failure to me! They are two teams of the same company, but they behave like complete strangers!

The API team started flooding CDN Admin endpoint, but didn't let them know -- couldn't they pop in into team's channel and let them know? And it sounds like the CDN Admin did not even try to communicate to API team before revoking their token? And even once the token was revoked, they did not let API team know ... instead API team had to look at user complains (why? wasn't there monitoring?)

This is pretty sad story which shows an importance of internal communications in a company.
I've never heard a good thing about brave... What makes you prefer it over Firefox?
TommyBox is similar to Electron and NW.js
Tangent: Windows single sign-on is kind of broken. So if I hit a site that supports it, it will automatically try to log me in via my machine without asking causing my 2FA to fire and won't show me a login screen until that 2FA check succeeds/fails. If I want to sign in via any other Microsoft Account, I first need to 2FA my machine's Microsoft Account just to get the ability to login via a completely different account.

Turning it on/off isn't a solution, because then you'll lose the ability to use Windows sign-on when you do want it. The login flow itself is just poorly designed.

Although my bigger pet peeve by far right now is that every time I login to Microsoft Teams, it gives me a prompt ("Allow my organization to manage my device") that would essentially allow my employer to take over control of my personal machine (default: On, also a dark-pattern "Yes" box).
> Less snarkily, I'd like to see more parenting credentials for those purporting to advise me on how to raise mine, as these Really Smart People don't seem to have society on an optimal course.

Regardless of what one thinks of Brexit, I think Nigel Farage very accurately described technocratic class as people who've never had a "proper job". This could be expanded to "people with no real life experience".

Like the parent commenter, I'm increasingly skeptical of advice given by people who have more schooling than meaningful life experience -- especially when they lack experience in the exact area they're an "expert". I'll gladly take parenting advice from a plumber with four kids over that given by a childless Ivy Leaguer with a PhD, loft apartment, and a French bulldog.
This was one of the best war movies I've ever read, almost ever other one I read felt bland in comparison.
> there is a "shortage of qualified engineers"

Do we still believe this is true? I mean, if that were true, then why Google (probably the IT company in need of the most talented engineers out there) is thinking about applying a measure that will scare away their most talented engineers? It doesn't hold.

If there were a "shortage of qualified engineers", Google would have already said "all of our engineers can work from home if they want to. The ones who want to work from our offices can do so as well". I mean, that's the best strategy to keep and attract the best of the best, isn't it?
Microsoft’s new Chromium based Edge has a vertical tabs option.
Curious about Total Cookie Protection. Unfortunately, the link is broken. Hopefully we’re getting a simple whitelisting interface built into the browser.
dataflow things like Flink (or even better differential datatflow [0]) are far more flexible and subsume map-reduce. This article feels like hyping up the durability of the Model T.

[0] https://github.com/TimelyDataflow/differential-dataflow
Right. You're definitely better off with a good union job at Bethlehem Steel.
So much negativity.
Just here to report that I am a happy Firefox user, no complaints here.

Thank you Mozilla for making a browser that respects me.
I have not read the counter to this - the cost reduction of office overhead that Google does not have to pay for the employee. No building, no heat/cooling, no building maintenance, no office furniture, no electricity, no networking, no parking, no janitorial service, no security guards, and so on.
or, get a bike. healthy, no emissions, and on top of that, cheap.
> It's not a trade. The worker just loses.

How so? Money (pay decrease) for time (no commuting = 10 hours of your life back every week) seems like a pretty classic trade.
"Russian Math" seems to just be "More Math".

The basic education concepts at ploy here are well known, just not widely deployed.

Why? IMO it's because of what I think is the sole problem with american education - parents themselves not caring if their kids actually know anything. It's actually common, extremely common, for american parents to think that the point of education is to get a piece of paper (degree) or to get a job. And a large number of the parents that think the point is actually knowing things also put no pressure on the school systems to actually provide that.
Well, if you get 6 hours of browsing in safari on a charge, then by this math (40x difference) you would get about 9 minutes in Firefox and you would probably burn yourself from the heat given off
It can: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0ddExZbKD8

Usually it needs to be done by predicting ahead, e.g. so you put on more busses when there is a football game, or when it's School or University term time.
Didn't they just ban for-profit tutoring like this? Do you think that will have beneficial outcomes?
Firefox 91 introduces enhanced cookie clearing
There may be some enterprising startups that could take advantage of this situation where people have experienced the states of working at home (and the lockdown) that has broken employees away from the prevailing rat race system that had them ensnared in making money to squander money and showboat money.

The window of opportunity is very small and those high value employees who the big corporates can ensnare with high salaries are surely willing to value or prioritize other criteria for the time being. That window will surely close soon if the choked out economy is throttled back up again and the neo-slaves go back to their bread and circus to keep them distracted.

You do point out one main driver, manager anxiety about justifying their existence (I am not saying they should not exist, only that it is a high anxiety position), but there is also a bigger factor that is corporate finance and accounting driven. Massive investments in capital assets in the form of real estate and their overhead costs that are also collateral and backs all kinds of other derivative things like valuations. For example, institutional value investors look to book assets for investment cues. If the justification for office space breaks and is sold or even leases are cancelled, it will skew the numbers and institutional investors (private and public) that divine those numbers who rely on or are even legally compelled by past patterns, are not necessarily adapted to these new or future patterns and changing realities.

The system, any system is inherently driven to revert to the mean. This community, over most other communities, should realize that.
Some individuals have routines built into the commute that aren’t necessarily swapped when working from home.

I read my email/catch-up on slack/read the newspaper during my 45 minute commute in the morning. While wfh I spend the time doing something pretty similar.
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Anything by James Clavells.
Firefox 91 is also the new ESR version, supported for at least a year: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Release_Management/Calendar
I'm happy you've found a decent browser for you.

I'm a little curious about the motivation though - I've heard several people complain, but I don't really understand what's bothering them.

I noticed tabs look a little different now, is that jarring? Or is there something I'm missing?
Why is it a “red flag” if someone’s favorite book is The Catcher in the Rye?
My favorite thing about Firefox is the "Multi-Account Containers" extension.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

It's really handy when having a private Microsoft account as well as an enterprise account. If I don't use this, my MS sessions get all mixed up.
It's quoted ("sane"). I meant: most successful companies maximize for profit, they usually don't care about employees. So the context here is "sane: from an economic point of view".

> Sounds short sighted at best.

I would say so, but history says otherwise (e.g., Amazon)
Fedora do seem [1] to make the same versions available. So there doesn't seem to be any' holding back' of unstable versions unless they decide to backport fixes from higher versions?

Fedora do work on six-month releases so there will be some version jumps between versions of Fedora but IIRC they will update little and often just like Arch whilst on a given release.

https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=24...
Not relevant example as Apple is only required to stop redistribution of existing material. They are not forced to look for new material.
I enjoy non fiction books about explorers or insane expeditions from the past. I feel like it gets at some of the “exploring the unknown” aspects of SciFi. And there’s usually interesting characters.

For example “River of Doubt” details an insane last minute choice during a Teddy Roosevelt South American goodwill tour to explore an unexplored river in the Amazon.
It's not just London. I live in a city on the UK's south coast, I can drive but I don't, and I have never owned a car. Many people I know here also don't own cars, some of them can't drive. I've worked for outfits in London, in Nottingham (visiting about once a fortnight, train, hotel, train back) and here in Southampton, not a problem.

London is better because the Tories weren't able to abolish its public transport network and sell it off piecemeal - because the government's own workforce lives there and can't get anything done without that transport system, but even in a city with a dysfunctional semi-privatised mess of a transport system it's still just better than trying to turn everything into highways stacked upon highways forever so everybody can use private cars. There's actually a 70s-80s division of my city that was built with that approach, over the river, and it's awful there. But it's nice here and further into the city.

> perhaps the way forward is to reduce the global population to a point where that everyone can enjoy life

I definitely think people who believe this should agree which of you will die so that the others can "enjoy life". Are you volunteering? Because if not you don't have an actual proposal here, just ordinary selfishness.
Haha! That's like wishing for more wishes. Definitely not allowed.
Agree on Chasm City. The rest of RS has a lot of good and bad. I think the Prefect is his worst.

Outside of RS, I also liked House of Sun a lot.
I also tried to find more and can't seem to find anything.

I have to assume it's some kind of batching? like an requestAnimationFrame style system. Or some kind of "debounce" to enable less paints?

I'd too like to learn more!
much less true for European cities with good public transportation.

I live in a "European city with good public transportation" and looking out my living room window I can see the main motorway into town, and it is bumper to bumper to traffic every single morning and evening. So obviously someone here is using their cars to get to and from work.
What tech does China want? Communist Party’s masterplan for its tech industry
There's a pretty cool comic book based on Forever War
Ahaha. I should try harder.
Well, it's only ironic because this is a bit of a simplification. Their ideology always recognized inequality of ability and comparative advantages of various individuals. The issue, at least on a theoretic level, receiving more value and power because you happened to own something (capital) instead of because you produced more or produced things that few people could produce. Which is why compensation was always unequal and often based on production.
It is an amazing book indeed
> Does this mean "HTTPS Everywhere" is no longer needed?

Probably not quite - I can't easily find an exact reference, so take with a grain of salt, but my recollection is that HTTPS Everywhere includes some slightly more sophisticated transforms (ex. for annoying sites that serve http://www.site.tld but HTTPS on https://secure.site.tld).
If it's not, it will the first Firefox version I wont upgrade to, before changing to Chrome, probably.

I've been a user since the Netscape Communicator days.

Well OK, I'll probably try some userChrome stuff before really switching. But the new tabs are really unusable on my computer.
What sites are refusing to work with Firefox? I've seen it with some apple.com stuff.
Came here looking for this. Back in my G days, before they were the high paying behemoth they are now, there were regular complaints about compensation. The first corporate response was absolutely tone-deaf. They created a tool for you to see your total compensation that included all-in values like on-site amenities. The natural response was one of unhappiness and people requesting to opt out of eating at work and promising to never use the laundry facilities or the gym or many of the other bits of bait they use to lure new grads. The next response came much later and it was a broad leveling of pay. Obviously the second pass was better.

Alphabet will save a lot of money by not having so many warm bodies in the office. They eat less, they poop less, they generate less heat and make the AC work better, they require fewer support staff to be in the buildings, etc. Reducing pay because you're using fewer company paid resources is just as tone-deaf as that first try.
Sounds like the common understanding about location of work is about to change / already changed and is no longer a common understanding. The benefits of getting stuff in writing.
You get the best of both worlds. Google made like $200,000 in profit per FTE in 2021.
What would be the alternative?

Not specializing at all would make your code awful slow (as you would need some quite complicated and costly treatment of generics at runtime).

"Specializing by hand" is not realistically doable besides toy programs.

And not having generics in the language at all will result in "solutions" like in Go…

I see no way around (semi-)automatic specialization done by the compiler.
What does “the greatest place on earth” Disney teach us about transit?
What sort of additional prompting would you need to do to get it to understand that cats aren't clumsy, but do enjoy knocking things over?
trust the internet to have already calculated the answer to this question (you can have 10.8 hours per month = 30 minutes a day - not bad!)

https://www.reddit.com/r/startrek/comments/3aajfy/how_much_h...
Duplicate (same story different link): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28113852
We're all going to "individually" beg our bosses to let us work from home after the pandemic lol.
There are two statements here that you are getting mixed up.

Ethanol absorbs moisture. You cannot store gas that contains ethanol for as long as you can non ethanol gas. If you are putting your car in storage, it is prudent to flush out the ethanol. This can be as simple as running the tank down and filling up with regular gas, and then driving more so the lines don't have ethanol gas anymore.

Ethanol attacks rubber compounds in a different method than gasoline. You need to have special lines to run E85 gas. I presume he switched it out himself. Not sure what else is involved in the conversion.
That article is overflowing with problems big enough to drive an apocalypse through.

It's a Gish-gallop of codswallop.

It's laughable, and I scorn the author with all my heart. He's a stooge.

Since it's rude to say things like that without examples - and I resent you for making me spend more time on that article - he says things like:

> While Sánchez-Bayo was claiming that “almost half of the [world’s insect] species are rapidly declining,” the data documented declines for about 2,900 species, a tiny fraction (less than one-10th of one percent) of the insect species on Earth.

Jeeze, he only documented a decline in _2,900_ of the insect species on Earth. How could he not document all 3 billion +, what a lazy guy [/s].

Seriously?!

In the next paragraphs, you can see how differently he treats research that supports his view, praising it's author's for "welcoming criticism", even though their paper was criticised for the very same issues and more.

At times he criticizes researchers for not using more data, at times he admits that more data is needed, and then he says that there's "no evidence" of decline based on one study that he admits was widely criticised - for the same issues, and more, as he berated Sánchez-Bayo for.

I had a quick look at this guy's Twitter and he's abusing Greenpeace and organic farming, while defending the use of pesticides and in particular glyphosate.

SO I LOOKED INTO THAT, AND GUESS WHAT:

"Jon Entine is the founder and executive director of the Genetic Literacy Project, a key partner in Monsanto's public relations efforts to ..."

The guy is a fucking stooge. A straight up Monsanto stooge: https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/blog/2019/september/jon-entin...
Smart TV displays health information based on viewers’ facial features
I'd say that learning vanilla Emacs and all the internals is probably not worth it.

But if you'd like to try out Emacs, have a look at Doom Emacs or Spacemacs - then you can still use vim keybindings for most stuff.

And just activating some of the included modules will give you enough to easily try out some of the best emacs packages out there.

I wouldn't bother setting up emacs for programming, but org-mode is amazing.
You need to be up on them to the level of a grade school student. That isn't a high level.
I mean you can get insurance and take at least tires and other parts of your stolen former car :-) what are the thieves going to do, call police on you stealing from stolen car?
In reality, such continuous mapreduce jobs lead to unchangeable code and versioning nightmares.

Imagine you want to change part of your pipelines logic. Now either all data needs to be reprocessed (expensive, depends on you having retained past data, will your low latency continuous pipeline keep running while the backlog is cleared, is the code really idempotent or will a rerun lead to half the records failing to be reprocessed?). Or you need to not reprocess old data (now there is inconsistency in historical records, what do you do if you make a bad release which just outputs zeros?).

In any real organisation, you'll need both approaches. And it'll end up a mess with versions of code and versions of data. Now some customer comes along and demands a GDPR deletion of their session records and you have no way to even find all the versions of all the copies of the records let alone delete them and make everything else consistent...
This is where that link was supposed to lead: https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/08/10/firefox-91-intr...
The scale factor was really overblown and without caveats. If you have Google-scale computations where it is not unlikely that at least 1 / 10k machines serving that request will bite the dust during the query, then of course MapReduce makes sense.

However, in most other cases there are now far better alternatives (although tbh I'm not sure how many were around when MapReduce was introduced).

The main limitation around mapreduce is the barries imposed by the shuffle stage and after the end of the reduce if chaining together multiple mapreduce operations. Dataflow frameworks remove these barriers to various degrees, which often lowers latency and can improve resource utilization.