skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, that surmises why I left facebook back in 2014. When all of my older aunts started joining the site, I thought to myself "man... this is just not what it used to be, this isn't cool anymore."

Looking back when I left in 2014, facebook has turned into 4chan but worse because its connected to real life identities. It's an utter garbage fire and I laugh at the users of it.
SRV record support in browsers for a more decentralized “Neutral” internet
I just learned about SRV Records, and in reading about them, I was struck by how they could revolutionize the web if they were implemented by browsers.

This apparently has been known for years as this Bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14328

and Stack Overflow post note:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9063378/why-do-browsers-not-use-srv-records

but beyond these older conversations, it seems that SRV records hold great potential in the context of Net Neutrality and decentralization that is presently taking place.

For just a simple example, if SRV records were implemented in browsers, it would allow domains to specify specific ip/port parameters, which would once again allow a 13-year old kid with a family computer and no money for external web servers to start hosting his own web service (by circumventing modern ISP port restrictions). Although such at-home web hosting experimentation was a relatively common thing in the 90s in the age before ISPs started to block web ports, modern ISPs actively block many ports to inhibit such behavior (and subsequently the learning that comes with it!) Children are then raised with a web where people get accustomed to blocked ports and centralized services being "what the web is," rather than thinking about "what the web could be."

If Firefox or Brave implemented SRV records, a whole "dark web" would develop overnight, that only people with Firefox could access. Over time, other browsers would be forced to adopt SRV records, or lose users.

From what I can gather, the reason this hasn't happened yet is that there seems to be certain special interest groups that don't want SRV records to be implemented in browsers because they view it as a Pandora's box for their particular service/business model. Personally, I don't see that as a very compelling reason to restrict this technology from being used by the rest of the world.
Absolutely! You spend the majority of your awake time at work. Some people optimize for money, others optimize for status, happiness or any other objective humans can have.

I think the thing that really upsets people is that the company changed course. People who go to work at a HFT firm are probably all motivated by compensation - and would expect that, because it’s baked into the company culture and business model.

People choose to work somewhere based the reward it offers. If that changes, without their consent, it breaks an unwritten contract.
Someone embed this into a VR/AR concept, would be awesome.
Does that make fruits and honey also bad because they have fructose? Even cane sugar is 50% fructose.
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Because we share society with people who have various interaction difficulties and the larger community has for a long time accepted that we shouldn't deny access to daily goods and services for those people. It's like a mandate that a shop needs disabled access, it's totsllu reasonable
USA has this strange notion where they group people by skin color and call that race and assume same skin color has same culture.
Blue boxes were around long before Woz made his. Also red boxes, pink boxes, black boxes, yellow boxes, and a few others. Each had its purpose.

/Former phreaker and cypherpunk
Seems like they don't actually say opt-in. In any case:

Settings -> Privacy and Security -> Address Bar -- Firefox Suggest -> Contextual Suggestions -> Include Occasional Sponsored Suggestions

For me it's selected, so I deselected it. Still a good browser.

Edit: They do say opt-in, but the opt-in was in version 92.
Nobody has ever cared at checkouts, but my state requires that you use a stylus pad to enter your signature for your driver's license (it gets printed right on the card). In early 2020 I used my driver's license renewal as an opportunity to update my voting registration (I had just moved), and apparently that stylus pad signature ended up being my "check" signature for my vote-by-mail for the 2020 election. Of course, I had my ballot bounce and had to provide further identification, because there's no way I'm getting my signature from a stylus pad to match one on paper.
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Actually I don't even bother using Safari at all because of crap like this. Should have been obvious that if i am looking for a privacy first alternative to Apple Safari, it is because I don't trust Apple.
You, the consumer, pay the corporate tax.
> I work in a tech hub in Europe that has 80 nationalities, people from all walks of life. Any ethnicity, sex, gender, sexuality, religion and political conviction you can think of and we all get along just fine with zero tensions.

I’m sure this statement is not true, (racism and sexism don’t exist in Europe now?) but even supposing it is, there are very few companies in the U.S. that are this diverse. And the state of our labor rights in comparison to the EU is atrocious. In the first place, at-will employment, a right wing policy, is to be blamed for how easy it is to fire people for political reasons.

It’s easy to strawman an anonymous group of “aggressive identity-based political activists”, much more difficult to reckon with the real differences in the political economy of the EU vs the U.S.
I can’t help but point out the irony of this post that building an idol of a politician is considered an act of defiance against authority.
If this is a desktop, just get a cheap & basic PCI-e card with DVI output to use for your host and pass through your actual GPU to the guest.
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(Opinions are my own)

Chubby is a lot like etcd except without the hindsight. Distributed locking is pretty complicated and if I remember correctly there was a great podcast from Google's Kube podcast about distributed locking that goes into a lot of this. [0]

If you are going to do any distributed locking I strongly recommend listening to it. Has a lot of pain points discussed.

[0] - https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/123-leader-election/
I get zero suggestions for that within Google Chrome.

https://i.imgur.com/2uREs6u.png

I think it may be your own history popping up there.
Oh yeah, find someone that wants to be a target of a major US corporation in Afghanistan/third world.

You forget we have Guantanamo where people were "renditioned" with little or no legal basis either in the US or otherwise, and I believe there are people in Guantanamo that have no publicly provided evidence to be there?

All it takes is waiting for some politically opportune reason to enact a little dragnet and getting someone on some CIA list with little evidence, and BAM, You're in something like Guantanamo or even worse (client torture security services, assassination, etc).

Yes we withdrew forces, but we've been there a decade and likely have a large network of CIA contacts that would kill or injure a random Afghan civilian.

The US Government is a very very very very dangerous entity to anyone in the third world should you get on their radar. They are dangerous to US citizens with the Padilla case, antiterrorism law overreach, no fly lists, and a variety of other harassment techniques.

The state department and CIA are power extensions of the corporate elite in the United States. We have toppled regimes for oil... minerals... even bananas.

Russia would be far better.
I've heard that the post office doesn't receive taxpayer funds directly, but tbh even after googling around I don't understand how that works. For example https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/08/26/how-is-th... says the post office lost $70b between 2008 and 2018. If it lost that much money but is still around, who covered that $70b? (Honest question. I'd guess taxpayers are where the buck eventually stops?)
if you click 'learn more' next to it, their description calls it opt in. Firefox is still way better than Chrome but this is definitely a scummy move
uBlock Origin blocks ads on Firefox that it can't block on Chrome descendants.
What you just wrote is a lot of verbal diarrhea without any examples or backing at all.
I find techno too engaging most of the time. Progressive and trance are my usual white noise for work
> Because liberal arts higher education has been completely usurped by Postmodernism and Marxism

Having actually gone through an undergraduate philosophy program in the United States: Marx is a blip. He's barely taught in analytical programs, which are (overwhelmingly) the dominant discipline in American colleges. Postmodernism isn't even mentioned. I spent more time reading Nozick and other politically right-of-center philosophers than I did reading anything resembling left philosophy.
And they've been trying to since 2016 at least. Every attempt was met with scorn and/or pitchforks. It's hard to be Mozilla.
I literally waited years for this. This year I opted to change a backend date input from datetime-local to date and time input input fields, after waiting too long for browser support. The datetime-local field got added 2014, "browsers will support it soon"...
I doubt Google would fight it and would just take it down no questions asked
> > If you enjoy writing convoluted unmaintainable useless code then who is to stop you?

> Does anyone actually do this? I think it's the opposite.

Code style, structure, and design are more of an art than a science, so different people will have wildly different opinions (extreme examples notwithstanding).
I don't really understand the political breakdown going on here in the survey. It honestly seems really biased towards whatever "Progressive" is, since it's not clear what ideologies make up the term.

https://imgur.com/a/s59QKtO

I also understand it's an impossible task to properly categorize a population on their political beliefs in a small chart. It just seemed heavy handed. Plenty of people in the Non-Progressive camp would support LGBT rights, for example, so the pride flag seemed like an odd icon to use.
If I implement something in AWS, it takes me almost as long to replicate it in
GCP. I don't swing Hashicorp's way, just as I don't swing React-Flutter for
mobile (prefer native Obj-C and Java). So no, I'd say the skillsets are quite distinct.
You are still free to speak up about anything relating to work responsibilities. However, if your goal was to do activism to institutionalize and enforce critical social justice (CSJ) dogma into the company you are correct that is not allowed.

Coinbase certainly made itself more viewpoint inclusive by making it impossible to act within the company as a CSJ procelyte is required to do. An CSJ procelyte is expected to try to institutionalize the faith by enforcing the Diversity (hiring activists of all identities - a black conservative is not diverse), inclusion (censorship of people resisting CSJ DEI initiatives), and Equity (redistribution of outcomes based upon identities and adherence to CSJ) agenda.

I work at a company that has heavily institutionalized CSJ, and CSJ procelytization is quite distracting from our core mission and is actively creating a non-inclusive culture to other viewpoints&faiths. Almost every day I get emails about this faith, there are almost daily meetings (services) about it, almost every company-wide meeting spends time preaching about it, every facet of the buerocracy enforce CSJ dogma, and we are demoralizing the workforce by hiring as well as promoting based upon DEI principles instead of trying to achieve meritocracy.
Yes they do. Practically all revenue is from Google being a middle-man for selling ads in Firefox. Getting some of those adsales away from the middleman is a big deal for they financial independence.
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I can't help but feel like you've made your mind up and aren't interested in listening to any other perspective. Your reply addresses absolutely nothing in the post it's replying to. Perhaps we just leave the conversation here, I don't see it going anywhere fruitful. I wish you all the best.
Given Mozilla management is a bit misguided, is it realistic to try a hard fork and fund it without selling ads / user data?
Talk about a clickbait title. Two hyper-technical features and support for an obscure image format.

To be honest, as a faithful Firefox user, I'm very hesitant to update my browser. A few months ago FF rolled out an abysmal UI update out of the blue, and I had to rely on third-party "fix" [0] to this problem. I really don't want to lose the "fix" due to update, the low contrast of default theme makes Firefox just unusable to me.

I wish there was a no-bullshit fork of Firefox with no Pocket, no Suggestions and Photon UI.

[0] https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix
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Found this analysis of the wealth gap between east and west germans: https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/121292/1/837461987.p...

TL;DR: at the 50th percentile, net worth of west germans was ~40k in 2012 vs ~14k for east germans (in euros).
Sounds similar to what happened when Blizzard sued a company for selling World of Warcraft hacks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glider_(bot)
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That's so spot on. Your Q&A session is your chance to learn something real and convey what you care about. A good question might me like "what's the hardest thing you had to do this year" or "how did you make decisions in cases of disagreement?" or something like that. It shows you're thinking about the job and whether you're a right fit.

High quality questions say something about you. Low quality questions do too. Would you ever hire someone whose question is like "so, do a lot of hotties work here?" Probably not, because ... what kind of person is this? Similarly, if the person who doesn't have an offer and doesn't know much about the role is hyper-focused on their time-off, something is off too. PTO is important, it's just a thing you need to be thinking about once you have an offer and think the job is otherwise a match, not as like the #1 question.
If you got stock for free because you work for coinbase, does it matter much it went down? I mean it's still around $250 each, that quickly adds up.

> their offers aren't particularly better than <anywhere else>

citation needed, I mean 'anywhere' is a big space. I'm seeing north of $100K on a quick google, that's a lot more than most places pay. Or are you speaking from a privileged, SF-blinkered position?
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The best method I know is "have a fight with your spouse".

If you have a good imagination you can amplify your emotions and reach a "fever pitch" even if you don't have anything real to fight it.

This raises both of our body temperatures for about 48 hours, I lose about 5 kg over the next two weeks (the weight loss continues after the fever is not noticeable) and kept it off.

If I were trying to make it repeatable I'd assemble an encounter group and either have the group gang up on an individual or create a moral injury situation, maybe both at the same time. (e.g. the latter is the most repeatable way to produce harmful stress but the damage is also enduring, if somebody who was in the crowd felt guilty about participating or being complicit in the bullying that's the worst kind of stress you could give someone.)

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0...

Tibetans claim to have a way to do it.

I have gotten uncomfortably hot when I visualized a phoenix and merged it with my avatar in the physical world but I tested it and it doesn't raise my core temperature.

It is very easy to use biofeedback to control your peripheral temperature (that's what a "mood ring" is good for) but core temperature is harder. I measure core temperature with a thermometer that goes under my tongue but maybe I could get one of those in-ear thermometers to be wearable in a meditation session.
Here you go:

http://archive.today/EMPL2

Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
Your numbers are way off. I encourage everyone to get vaccinated if they can. But the reduction in risk of transmission is far more limited and temporary than you claim.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02689-y
I haven’t read the article, but the title irrefutably contradicts a very interesting understanding of multitasking shared by Dr. Andrew Huberman on the Huberman Lab podcast.

Maybe by being provocative and choosing an absolute position on the matter, the author was hoping to attract readers.

For those interested in the explanation given by Huberman, skip to the section titled “Multi-Tasking Is Real” found in the description of the video [0].

[0] https://youtu.be/H-XfCl-HpRM
Funny you should mention. I only know this cuz I used to sell cheats for games.
> USA has this strange notion where they group people by skin color and call that race

No, we don’t. (There's two races where one of the common, not-generally-offensive names for each refers to a color, but people identified and identifying with each of those races have a wide range of skin colors, overlapping with those of most other races in both cases.)

> and assume same skin color has same culture.

No, we generally don’t.
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> Beginning in Firefox version 92, you will also receive new, relevant suggestions from our trusted partners based on what you’re searching for.

Maybe that's why it isn't highlighted for new things for version 93.
It seems like it is opt-in. Just that the opt-in happens with the pop-up described in the link you mentioned [0]. I recall both seeing the pop-up and opt-ing in now that I see the pop-up.

[0] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/navigate-web-faster-fir...
Cartels are entirely legal on the international stage. See OPEC as a clear example.
>> I struggle with work-life-balance and working on it. If I can overcome that and learn how to take breaks timely I might be more productive.".
.. HR didn't like it because it was not one of the canned responses she was expecting ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Just curious, how do you know that (a) you failed in HR (b) that it was this question and (c) for this reason?

I ask because it's unlikely that this was literally the feedback given you. Also, "I work too hard" does sound a bit canned.

>> The technical interviews, 6 of them in a row!, felt more like they were wanting to see me fail spectacularly rather than focus on my approach of solving whiteboard problems.

I do think this is more "in your head" that real. Nobody shows up to an interview wanting the other person to fail, but "how they solve whiteboard problems" isn't the goal either. It's more about - how does the person, think, collaborate, make tradeoffs and drives to an outcome - the goal being specifically to translate that outside the whiteboard space.
Browser extensions don't kill FB accounts. People kill FB accounts.
I've never seen a bank or credit card company put in any effort regarding cuban cigars. A few of the best shops are clearly illegal just because of the name alone. But they all accept visa and Mastercard

You don't even need to bother with h dark web and cryptocurrency. It will just flat out show up on your bill without issue.
This is why large roomfuls of people spend their days curating a set of social media profiles. It’s a jobs-creation policy for the lower rungs of cyber-scamming and mischief, while maybe discouraging it from getting out of control.
Eg [https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/02/click-far...], was looking for other references too.
I don't understand the comment you replied to either. To my naive mind it sounds like a lot of words put together to make it look like something deep, but that doesn't actually mean something. It'd be happy to be showed wrong here with historical events to describe "the wrong" turns and such to be able to tell if it's not just a abstraction or feelings that went a bit to far.

Could it be a lot of words to describe an interpretation of globalization as a perceived single point of failure across every subsection of civilization/humanity?
What is “globohomo wokeness”?
We really need a new standard. Unlimited PTO Min 20 days/year. If you don’t put a number then it’s assumed to be 0
I think I quibble with that definition still. Something like the US sailing up to Japan and forcing them to trade at gunpoint would still be extortion but refusing to let you into their borders unless you comply with certain criteria is not.

I noticed this sort of illogical argument that preventing access to a market was aggression with the GDPR drama as well. Americans(I say as one) seem to be completely incapable of handling when other countries use access to their markets in negotiations despite the US using that lever constantly.
Well, I live in Germany, and I'm not going to subscribe to a major national US newspaper just for the few articles that get linked here. If they had a micropayment alternative for single articles I would consider it however...
broke all my banking websites and probably half the rest of the web when i tried it out unfortunately. the world is reliant on javascript for better or worse.
Because I was communicating with someone I believe is a critical social justice (CSJ) adherent I was trying to use the language from that faith. However, I changed it as it may overall be confusing.

What I meant was classical liberal culture, which by CSJ adherents is termed as white culture by perpetrating whiteness. Whiteness is not about color, although its assumed all white people by default are this, but is about you adhering to liberal western culture instead of CSJ dogma.
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I am allowed to bring tablets (or phones) into the hospital, but not dogs. I meant "In the hospital".
I'm not claiming to be a 10x developer or anything like that, but I have a related story to share:

Once I had to tweak a 7000 line signal generator (ie spits out wav files) written in Java. It had a mind boggling structure, and I'm sure whoever wrote it was a mad genius of some kind.

I rewrote it in less than 100 lines of Python, where each signal primitive was basically a few lines of code max, which you can functionally combine.

Since this new program was not even 100 lines long, we were able to do a LOT more with it, and in a super flexible manner.

It's one of my happiest accomplishments.
Vote with the down arrow. Why is it the first comment in this thread eden is complete nonsense?
Good point. I missed that and made a mistake. It should have been:

[x * x for x in [1, 2, 3, 4] if x * x < 10]

There is a subtle shift in semantics. The functional form defines a sequence of function applications whereas the list comp notation is more of a declaration.
It's IntelliJ for Java.

I will swear by the following Jetbrains products: IntelliJ, PyCharm, and Webstorm. I am not a fan of DataGrip and never really got into CLion (I wind up using the Arduino tools or Microchip Studio)
> only apply the new 15 per cent rate to companies with turnovers of more than €750 million

So what stops a big corp from splitting itself into subsidiaries with turnover below that magic number?