skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The near complete absence of cell phone videos of AGTM attacks from that war is a massive tip-off it clear that they don't have a nation state sugar daddy paying the bill (in contrast with groups in Syria).

I don't get it, are cell phone videos hard to get a hold of without "a nation state sugar daddy paying the bill"? The other explanation is that Syria has a much higher GDP per capita ($6,373) than Afghanistan ($2,474), so the populace is more likely to have cell phones which means more footage of AGTM strikes.
Apple’s email privacy update will change what’s in your inbox
In their defense, it turned out to be the right thing to do.
Analysis of 6 years of mutation testing at Google
Part of the reason so many jobs require a college degree is employers' belief that a high school diploma means little. Removing graduation requirements exacerbates this.
Delta Straussians Know How to Live with Covid
Predators easily sense weakness. Why wouldnt he? There were no repercussions. Assertive person would walk back in and report to Police receiving a death threat - this immediately elevates potential theft misdemeanor to a straight up felony charges.
WhatsApps 'pin' method is a good one to prevent users forgetting passwords.

It periodically asks you for your password. If you get it right, it will wait longer before re-asking. If you get it wrong first time, it'll ask again more frequently (and let you pick a new one IIRC). Works pretty well against forgetful humans.
I think that there is a clear relation to risk preference. Most people prefer gambles where you have 100% chance of winning $5 than a 50% chance of $0 and 50% chance of $10, even thought he expected value of each of those gambles is the same. Would you rather a world where you are born guaranteed 5 wealth units, or one where you might be born with nothing or with 10 wealth units with equal chance.

But most people tolerate some risk. So I'd expect that behind the veil of ignorance, a lot of people would tolerate some inequality for the chance of the better life. So, for example, instead of 100% chance of $5, they'd take 50% chance of $4 and 50% of $6.

People behave this way even in one-shot choices.

I know that there are arguments about what a purely rational agent would do (though I am suspicious that the concept of purely rational is ultimately incoherent), but I am not sure how relevant a theory of justice is that relies on what such a purely rational agent would do and what no actual agent would ever do.
In theory yes, in practice I've observed many seasoned software engineers operate without being paranoid enough about the fact that APIs they publish can be hit by clients other than the one they designed.
Rust in Production: Qovery
Because whoever is imposing the salary reduction is not the person who will suffer the consequences of the company not having good engineers. They're likely high fiving due to meeting their KPI.
This resonates with me. I also learnt the hard way to simply close all the tabs and then re-assess history if I really want to access the tab. On that note: sometimes I also just use OneTab [0] if my tabs are important but are hogging the system's performance.

[0] - https://www.one-tab.com/
Having inside pockets in a jacket was the best thing I discovered in my adolescence. Never turning back. Not having inside jacket pockets are a deal breaker for a jacket.
...but high school diploma not necesary. :)
Haha. Yeah the early chapters really set a brilliant tone. I thought the smart bit was implied. I would think if we were going to send someone to another star system to research how to stop our species from dying out - we'd send someone of the intellectual elite at the very least, "kicking and screaming"

What a brilliant book.
The people in society who appoint themselves as police also appoint themselves someone who is allowed superiority over those who do not.

They expect to have rights that you don't have. They expect to violate your rights in ways the inverse would be a crime.

There are always those who feel themselves above the common person, and appoint themselves decisionmaker unilaterally.

This eventually happens in every country. There have been attempts to limit the scope and scale of spying, but so far nobody has ever been able to contain it. The US intelligence agencies now have utter control over the legislature and judiciary thanks to mass surveillance. There is no way to roll it back now. It's even illegal to talk about it in public, as Wyden and Snowden (and Clapper) have so fully illustrated.
Do you actually get 9m though? I always have FF open (I try hard not to install electron apps, so I have slack web open all the time). My Thinkpad running Linux with four to six different profiles open, all with active windows and multiple tabs/windows, runs for 4h or so on battery. (Estimate based on time in the car.) 9m feels like your system might have other trouble.
FF supports containers used by that extension natively; I think the extension basically adds some UI around it.
We're not taught mathematics because we're not meant to think, criticize, understand epistemology, etc. We're taught to compute to make us useful and compliant, even if the computations themselves are useless.
That sounds like the commute is really mostly work time then, right? Do you get to clock in/out 45 minutes late/early?
Essentially proving that all a high school diploma means, is that you are at least a certain age. Which, I guess we all knew already.
Pinboard.in seems okay though
> feed it to livestock

So, it's edible?
Obviously biased but I definitely think you can get good value out of a tool like Kintaba at your scale (if you're only using it within engineering it would actually have no cost since we're free for 5 or fewer users!).

Kintaba is built to be simple out of the box and allow more depth and complexity as you grow, so initially you might use it the same way you manually use slack today (announce incidents, create a specific incident channel) where your primary initial value is that it makes those motions easier and helps you be more consistent with how you approach incidents and improve recordkeeping, but as you grow you can start to add oncall rotations for your incident roles, automated actions for different incident types, and other things like tagging for better reporting.

Feel free to reach out to us at hello@kintaba.com with questions, or even if you'd just like to chat about how to get up and running!
"We've added a new locale: SCO"

That could be quite cool. So, Scots Gaelic, yes? Preserving a rich cultural history?

From https://www.mozilla.org/sco/

"We mak the internet saufer, soonder, and faster fur guid"

What the actual arsing F, Mozilla?

edit: well, maybe, I must admit I didn't know of a canonical written form of modern Scots. It still looks an awful lot like sco.wikipedia.org, which is a grotesque parody written from the US. You'll forgive some suspicion.
Id like to note that Android Firefox has explicitly disabled support for installing custom add-ons [1], while they try to force developers into registering on AMO.

1. https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/20647
No. A study https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22998852/ in England found that

"Happiness is significantly associated with IQ. Those in the lowest IQ range (70-99) reported the lowest levels of happiness compared with the highest IQ group (120-129). Mediation analysis using the continuous IQ variable found dependency in activities of daily living, income, health and neurotic symptoms were strong mediators of the relationship, as they reduced the association between happiness and IQ by 50%."
Yes it's modern day slavery. What's stopping you from taking some time and allocating it to building something for yourself?
Multi-Account Containers[1] is a Firefox add-on that lets you separate your work, shopping, or personal browsing without having to clear your history, log in and out, or use multiple browsers. It's an improved version of the Containers feature built into Firefox Nightly and available to advanced users by setting certain preferences (see below).

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers
> they poop less

I worked at Google for about 10 years. Never having to hunt for an open bathroom stall while under a certain degree of physiological distress has perhaps been the greatest benefit to WFH for me.
Alphabet made the calculation a long time ago that paying for you to poop in the building is a rounding error compared to the extra productivity doing so allows them to squeeze out of you. That hasn't changed and it's unclear to me why the pandemic would change it.
Who pays the most?
Also traditionally NoScript though I believe there are equivalents now for Chrome too?
Nobody lives forever.

The other day I was comparing the movie "Forrest Gump" to the TV show "Quantum Leap".

Both recapitulate the time period 1950-1985.

Forrest Gump is an idiot who stumbles through situations without understanding their significance; somehow he comes out on top of a life put together from the covers of Time magazine. His childhood friend is a victim of drugs, AIDS and the counterculture.

Sam Beckett, the hero of Quantum Leap, "leaps" into a crisis in someone's life at the beginning of each episode; his mission to set right what once went wrong.

Sam is an expert physicist, pianist, martial artist, and actor. Sam agonizes over the problems of the people he leaps into. But you know he is satisfied, that he finds this mission to be meaningful -- even if he never gets home he's found a purpose for his intellect.

When I first saw "Forrest Gump" and the spell it cast over my older family I had the feeling, for the first time in my life, that I could kill someone (Robert Zemeckis, the director) because of the danger of their ideology.

I don't feel that way today, actually I like many Zemeckis films, but I was offended at the idea that you could let it all wash over you without experiencing a moment of critical distance.

Sam to me is like Faust from the 2nd part of Goethe's play, who escapes Mephistopheles clutches by finding, in the service of other people, a moment that he wishes time would stop.
Reminds me of stories I used to see about Japanese families sending their kids to "Indian" schools:

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/02/business/worldbusiness/02...
> If one moves towards net zero emissions as my country is doing it doesn't matter how much energy you consume.

No citations or justification?

Looks like you're from the UK.

https://www.ted.com/talks/david_mackay_a_reality_check_on_re... is a talk by the UK's (ex) chief science advisor on climate change discussing that demand for energy will have to drop a lot, based on the energy sources that the UK can use.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/15/food-str... was a recent UK gov report suggesting dropping meat consumption, or self flagellation as you might call it.

Climate change is being solved, but requires effort across various disciplines.
Well, this morning I got my Pixel 5 delivered. Installed CalyxOS in 5 minutes. Locked bootloader.

The experience is not that bad. In-app purchases aren't working, GPay doesn't work either. And the camera is, well, bad. Apart of that everything seems to be smooth and fine.

Try it and donate the iPhone price difference to Calyx Institution.

You don't even have to give up on your old iPhone and update its OS.
If you were a strategic adversary of America (eg. China), undermining the education system of the country would be a huge win.

Combine that with hiring policies based on racial background and mass immigration, soon we'll have planes that fall out of the sky, and sailors that can't operate their own navigation equipment.

Oh wait...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-03-11/how-big-t...

https://www.industryweek.com/supply-chain/article/22027840/b...

https://theconversation.com/us-navy-collisions-point-to-the-...
You can (one-time) set up domains to always load in certain containers, that works well for me.
Maybe the solution is not having the AC running the whole time? I mean why do you need your house cooled to 19 degC?
Show HN: Solar Storm – audio reactive music video with React Three Fiber
Yes, I usually leave at 9:15 arrive around 10 and leave around 5 or 6. As a software engineer my deadlines etc don’t lend themselves to a strict 9-5 approach.
At first I was thinking "that's not safe while you're driving", then I realized you're probably not driving.
How would Google know your bookmarks?
I never miss an opportunity to plug my favorite Andy Weir short story - The Egg. It's very short and very good.

http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html
> There is even a surprising one that's fun.

Which one do you mean? I didn't like Artemis that much.
I'm always glad when I see Firefox churning along a new version.

My overwhelming feeling is one of gratitude to the devs and people working on Firefox. It's the last bastion of Browser independence with super-high customizability.

I also tend to use Edge over Chrome now. MS has done a pretty good job of making that a nice experience, BUT they are also pushing some less palatable ones.
For instance, t used to be simple in any browser to just open a blank tab. You could set _about:blank_ as the default page. Snappy load, no crap.

Try that on Edge now. It's basically impossible from the settings.

So Firefox will always be my main driver. To me one of its killer features -apart from the great extensions- is the ability to send tabs to other instances on other devices, or fetch the tabs or history from another device (if logged under a Firefox account).
Bad public transportation is also linked to depression. Nothing's safe lol
> Do we still believe this is true?

No, hence the rest of the sentence:

> which is a political way of saying the software industry is underpaid already

To be clear, it's FAANG who are saying there is a shortage of qualified engineers in their campaign to procure more foreign labor, but really this means they don't want to have to pay domestic engineers what they're worth (they want more H1-B visas to increase the supply and thus decrease the unit cost of engineers--with the nice bonus that H1-B holders are more easily abused because the employer has the power to effectively have these holders deported).

> is thinking about applying a measure that will scare away their most talented engineers? It doesn't hold.

A couple of possibilities:

1. Google is fallible

2. Google may be exceptional in the software industry (e.g., they may be okay with some attrition because they're playing a longer game than others in the industry, or perhaps because they already pay top-tier salaries and don't believe attrition will affect them)
I was born in the USSR but was in New York for Jr Highschool and Highschool. Whenever my dad saw the math curriculum he assumed I was in some sort of "slow program" - he could not believe that the mainstream program is that un-challenging.

I bet there's a lot of factors to why curriculum gets watered down but I do think recent focus on how kids feel about school, self-esteem, safe spaces, etc goes against hard-core curricula.

When you learn for real (and this extends to adults as well) you are confronted with things you don't know how to do, and you have to bang against them for a while to solve them and learn. That feeling of "wait, maybe I can't do this / I don't get it" is a negative one. And it does create a situation where some percentage of kids can't hack it, so they are excluded/left behind.

I think as a culture we've been making the choice to teach/do easy things that everyone can participate in, rather than do challenging things that will force some people to grow more while leaving some behind. It's not a choice I agree with but I guess I can follow the zeitgeist and logic of it for a certain extent. It's the same as NYC, SF and other cities getting rid of the specialized schools with entrance exams. Since some people can't hack it, it's an exclusionary approach and therefore getting rid of the exams on one hand equalizes access on the other hand waters down the standards.

I do think there will be unintended but obvious consequences as we're seeing in this story: parents who know better, who want the best for their kids will invest in tutors, private schools, etc that challenge their kids when the mainstream schools do not. The effect will be that within the school system, everyone is doing easy things that everyone can do, but in outcome space there will be a larger gap between kids of parents who care/can afford something beyond public school and those who cannot. In the long run, this will cause greater inequality because there will be come percentage of kids whose parents can't give them a leg up that would have risen to the challenge in a tougher curriculum but now will not have a chance to do so.

In my eye this is unfortunate both because we're creating a less educated populace and a less confident one. The idea of being brave and confident means you take on a challenge knowing you have a good shot of eventually overcoming it. This holds at school and it holds in the work place. I am not sure how many people who never had their ass kicked (for a while) by school work and then had the experience of "getting it" will then come into a work situation and be able to "stretch" by taking on work they don't quite know how to do yet. Not the path I am chasing for my kid.
Haha, I never understood why the point-free (aka "pointless") form in Haskell actually is the form that requires lots of "."!
VLC unable to play music from Samba share (Your input cant be opened)
"There are only two kinds of browsers: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses" -- Paraphrase Bjarne Stroustrup

Plus for Firefox to grow in popularity/stay relevant you need people to care, and you need the browser to improve. Complaining is better than silence in that context.
How? Does Apple have a private army? Does Apple have nukes? Will Apple fight to death until last man standing? I'm serious. Because in order to deny the request of government, you'll need these.
Even if the photon is coming from the side, just slightly ahead of you, you are ramming into it at near lightspeed. You can't add up speeds in newtonian way so energy goes (for you) into blueshift.
Do you have a source for this? I believe you, but there are multiple ways of parsing that sentence, and a source would clarify things.

One reading (87% of gross income) is obviously problematic, and another (87% of profit) is exactly what you'd expect to get if you add almost any subsidy to a previously low-margin activity.
> We’d like to extend a special thank you to the 210 volunteers who helped resolve more than 1,200 bugs in the Firefox 91 release

1200 bugs!
SF author Fritz Leiber wrote an alternative history short story called "Catch That Zeppelin!", which won the 1975 Nebula Award for Best Short Story and the 1976 Hugo Award for Best Short Story.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch_That_Zeppelin!

>When Fritz Leiber sees a Zeppelin moored at the Empire State Building one afternoon in 1973, he realizes that he has shifted into another timeline — one where a more decisive defeat of Germany at the end of the First World War led to greater international prosperity and a deeper, more acceptable peace, with the result that America was willing to sell Germany helium for use in airships, thereby preventing the Hindenburg disaster. Also, the year has changed from 1973 to 1937, and Leiber has become a patriotic-but-peaceful German airship engineer named Adolf Hitler.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40626645-catch-that-zepp...
We studied the T&Cs thoroughly prior to building this. Here: https://aws.amazon.com/awscredits/
The only point of potential concern is #3: "You may not sell, license, rent, or otherwise transfer Promotional Credit. Promotional Credit may be applied only to your own AWS account."
In case of using CreditHero there's no sale (host startup are not getting paid) and there's no transfer (it is still their AWS account).
Does a version of this with more data exist for US cities? Fascinating.
Yes! I always open the HN comments for Firefox release notes, knowing I'll read a long list of negativity (and much is fair)... but somehow I'm still a happy, thankful user since (almost) day #1.

Thank you FF team!
There may be propaganda here, but it also does happen. In California, every solar power station has been sued by the Sierra Club at some point. Usually over some endangered toad, but the real force (and funding) behind the suits is the labor unions, who want the projects to pay them more. It’s a big shakedown.
> We also have an "Exceptional and Temporary Contribution" (CET), recently renamed to "Technical Equilibrium Contribution" (still CET. Smart one, that one).

This is amazing
I read that you can use the official Pixel camera and block access to the internet, only for that specific app.
I think they're related to this blog post: https://blog.mozilla.org/performance/2021/07/13/bringing-you...

See also this bugzilla entry: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1675614
I used to know online a Romanian who had moved to Canada sometime during high school, she made similar points about the slowness of the North American curriculum. I told her about my 11th grade AP Physics C material (which uses calculus) in America and she indicated that in Romania they forced her to learn all that stuff years ago. However she wasn't exactly helpful when I later asked if she could help me with something, she'd forgotten too much and anyway didn't have an interest to keep up or go further. I'm still left unconvinced in the superiority of other countries teaching their kids so much more so much earlier when it seems to be forgotten not long after, and of course there are the long-standing "where are the results?" counter-arguments. It's hard not to be skeptical of prolonged compulsory education of any quality.
Why, adding an accumulator, can't the "output" be the number of steps before reaching 1?
How exactly is this provably secure? Is it secure against dishonest AWS? (eg. Their Nitro enclaves don't perform as specified). How about dishonest Evervault?
Indeed, framing the question can have a big influence on the answer.

An online survey found that 65% of American workers who said their jobs could be done entirely remotely were willing to take a pay cut of 5% — which could represent several years of annual raises — to stay at home. [1]

There's no question that there's a reasonable bargain to be struck, the question is the terms.

When the work is just as productive, both employer and employee can gain time. The employer can reduce their office space expense, which benefits should be shard by the employer, at least to the extent of helping outfit the home offices (e.g., they'd have to buy workstations & chairs anyway). OTOH, the employee gets huge benefits of time avoiding commuting, and reduced automobile expenses...

It'll be interesting to see how the new bargain shakes out.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-03/return-to...
I noticed similarly, with a game that only takes about 10 minutes - "snacking" is a great way to put it. If I remove the game, I notice that I do have a ton of extra free time, but unfortunately it doesn't seem to really motivate me towards other tasks.
I think I'd rather take a pay cut and live in a place I actually like.

I have been working remotely for more than 2 years and I can't imagine going back to an office every day. The open-plan layout, the noise, the struggle to find a room to have a call, the slow internet connection(Australian internet is already slow, but at least at home it's just me using it).

I also heard that some people absolutely detest WFH, but they have kids or rent a studio apartment. A hybrid model seems to be the best solution going forward.
Royalty will always fascinate humanity until the last breath of the last of our species.