skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on where in Europe. You can certainly find rock sugar/lump sugar in supermarkets in, say, Germany (where it's called "Kandiszucker"), whereas in the UK you're likely to have more success in small ethnic shops.
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> I expect his social media site might actually have better moderation than his Twitter followers had; for PR reasons...

I expect that any and all voices that don't lavish heaps on praise upon The Former Guy to be removed without any further justification.

If that's what you mean by "moderation".
My company takes part in https://stripe.com/climate That's where soon billions USD can be spent (some projects are still in research stage).

"Stripe is kick-starting market for carbon removal" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29007726
The median home price in Q3 2021 is $404,000.

That is shockingly high, but definitely not close to the 1 million figure.
You're right, but the difference these days is the Fed putting the pedal to the metal even when fiscal spending and economic data at all time records.

We haven't seen this phenomena since the 70s when inflation was running hot and the Fed did nothing for many years. Back then, prices continued to rise nominally for many years.

I suspect the Fed will tighten somewhat (taper should be announced tomorrow), but they keep stating that inflation is transitory.

So clearly their intention is to kick the can as far down the road as possible. If inflation does start to inflect downward, they have the perfect excuse to do nothing until it levels off at an elevated level many months later. Rents alone will drive elevated inflation for years to come. However, used car prices will certainly tank at some point which will mask the effect.

By moving so slowly, they seem to be facilitating the development of a new epic bubble, except it's a bubble in most asset classes. Stocks generally aren't too over valued, but hypergrowth is for sure. E.g. NET at 100x sales.

Compare to Cisco in the dotcom bubble, which peaked at something like 200 PE and much smaller sales multiple. The PEs back then are now the PSs. Kind of insane, even accounting for the greater legitimacy of the businesses today.

In the past the Fed used to preempt excesses and inflation. Anytime they haven't, has been a disaster in the long run, historically.

Unfortunately I think a lot of their action is motivated by Powell trying to retain his seat. They really need to either renominate him or put somebody else up for vote so he stops optimizing for the job. His term ends in Feb 22.
You know you can host your own servers, right? Its actually a lot easier than using AWS, too.
Yep, I am gravitating towards that.
If you ever read "The Cathedral and the Bazaar"... Debian feels very far from this original vision, endless drama and politics. Similar to Gnome and Mozilla.

I am very happy with OpenSuse.
I gave up on brew and other package systems like it a long time ago. I found it far, far easier to install Ubuntu 20.04 and use that as a utility machine.

Even on a system like that, many times when I interact with package managers like conda, it ends up compiling some huge package from scratch. I consider that a failure.
The data linked in your comment does not indicate any relevant exponential relationships so its unclear what you mean by that word.
This isn't surprising to me.

Early on in our home search we found a house that we loved, but was extremely overpriced—even in a hot market. The house was not owned by Zillow, but a similar company. When we asked for disclosures we did not receive them for almost a week.

My agent warned me that there were going to be things wrong with the house and that they probably would not be disclosed. I found a thread on reddit about making purchases from this company, and one user who was an agent said that they always asks for the previous seller's disclosures—that's how they know where to look with the inspectors. Apparently the company frequently hired handymen to do specialized work. They did the bare minimum to make sure the house passed inspection.

Anyways, we made what I thought was a reasonable offer, even though it was for about 10% less than the list price. It was rejected.

Three months later it sold for almost the same price as our offer. We probably dodged a bullet though.
> Are you experienced looking just for someone to work with a little?

I would describe myself as middle-weight developer. Not an expert, but can work with C++ without having nightmares.

> Or are you looking to work with someone with more experience to mentor you through a project or what's the goal?

To work on something where we can proudly say that we built it. And along the way make friend(s) for life. If there is mentorship on the sidelines from others then I wouldn't mind being corrected.

> You looking for something more server based, desktop or embedded or ?

Shouldn't matter. C++ developers do pickup any domain quickly and with ease. If one does not know certain part of the domain then s/he, being experienced, should be able to quickly ramp-up.

> Understanding some framing of expectations/ideas might help you find the right type of people.

I don't have any specific idea(and expectation, apart from working on something tangible and making friend(s)), so open to discussing and bouncing ideas across.

> I might be interested depending on the situation and expectations.

Then let us connect and find out. As mentioned earlier, the only aim is to produce something tangible and make friend(s). There is no other expectation.
Because not everyone read HN
To be competitive with Chrome and Safari, Firefox needs the following table stakes:

- Excellent performance and reliability. Quantum delivered a lot of performance wins, and work continues at a rapid rate on reliability. Unfortunately, to be competitive on performance and reliability given Mozilla's funding required dropping XUL :(

- A simplified, modern UI. It's fair to argue about specifics here like "tabs as buttons", but not about simplification overall. This may frustrate power users, but power users are the vast minority.

Then, to out-compete the other browsers, Firefox needs exceed the other browsers in those areas, or use marketing tactics on non-technical axes to grow the userbase.

Chrome has tons of first-party themes (see https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/themes), so it makes sense for Firefox to try to drive some engagement here too
Contact and Dune 2021, mostly. For tv, the Expanse books are adapted very well.
Investors invest in things that make money. If trademark trolling is profitable, they will invest in it. What's surprising?
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Does Firefox now allow users to whitelist/blacklist extensions on per domain basis?
For me it’s the only sane way to manage multiple small projects. A few lines in a docker compose file and I’m done, no matter the Postgres/Python/Ruby/Lib or framework version, everything is isolated and reproductible. Downside is gigabytes of RAM wasted.
At the risk of beating a dead horse, the issue is that AP engaged/disengaged isn't a random test, it's a user choice. Presumably people leave AP on when the outside conditions are inherently safer per mile (including, for example, on a highway). If Tesla randomly made AP unavailable some days to some drivers and ran a controlled test, that would be compelling.
Is there no one with a clue at Mozilla? How much worse can they make this browser?

If I wanted an auto-updating key-logging tool on my systems, I'd have sold my soul to Chrome already.

I had upgraded before seeing this ... In preferences, you have the following options:

> Allow Firefox to:

> --------------------------------------------------------

> [x] Automatically install updates (recommended)

> [ ] Check for updates but let you choose to install them

> This setting will apply to all Windows accounts and Firefox profiles using this installation of Firefox.

> --------------------------------------------------------

> [x] Use a background service to install updates

How about "don't ping home"?

For some double-speak, read the Manifesto: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/

In a sense, they are very open about their goals, if you have read the classics by Kafka, Orwell, and Bradbury.
"reducing oil dependence" is hardly a singular task. "Reduce Meat consumption" would rank lower than "make electricity production less dependent on coal, natural gas and oil" but higher than "find a viable alternative fuel for ships".

Luckily we have enough people and resources that we can work on multiple problems at once
thats news to me.... you sure some extension you installed isn't adding them?
No. There is no protection from a lack of due diligence.
Inspiring interview, as the interviewer says there's a zen about Joey where he's dedicated himself to producing great open source software (git-annex, debhelper, ikiwiki) instead of trying to make millions.

Surely he can look back over the last few decades and feel proud of his work and the benefit it has brought to so many users. The tech treadmill can cause us to lose focus on the things that really matter or that really inspired us to begin with, so this is a refreshing perspective.
Security: Is it the case? (legitimate question)
Usability: It works really well for me, even on old computers. Could be better, but in comparison with the other browsers, it does well.
Performance: This I don't get, it's snappy, and light for me, feels more solid and less resource hungry than chrome based browsers

Defaults settings are far from being great, but there's no competition in term of privacy, firefox + ublock origin is still the best option.
What you're talking about has nothing to do with what GP said.

Apple cheerily breaks functionality for end users when they decide to remove or replace APIs on every major release of macOS. This tends to hit power users especially hard, as they often use tools that extend Apple's narrow facilities for things like handling keyboard input, managing windows, or controlling applications' audio volume through third-party tools that rely on internals of macOS that are not supposed to be public-facing, and those get broken more often. If your favorite tool relies on an API that gets pulled and doesn't (or can't) get rewritten when the new macOS release is in beta, you're SOL.

Homebrew breaking on macOS upgrade is also due to one thing that's fundamental to Homebrew's design, which is that it tries to rely as much as possible on that same external base system which Apple provides but destructively revises whenever it sees fit. (This design choice is apparently the author of Homebrew made because relative independence from the base system meant too much recompiling for him on Homebrew's competitors at the time.)

Package managers are used to install a hell of a lot more than bash. The idea that they wouldn't be necessary on macOS if only no popular tools were licensed under the GPLv3 is laughable.
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What makes you say that? All I see is:

> When you first create your Coinbase Pro account, the withdrawal limit is $50,000/day. See your Limits page for your current withdrawal limit and to request an increase to your limit.

That implies that the limit for new accounts (mine is not) is $50k and that the limit may be raised by making a request. It does not imply that making a request is the only way of raising the limit..
Neat tool!

After my startup failed and I found myself with a bunch of admin panel code I thought of building something like this but the number of competitors (both paid like retool, forest or OSS rails-admin, keybase) always deterred me.

Building your own is not what makes or break a startup: small startup would love this but they would not want to spend the money and just deal with things manually, building only what they need; bigger companies already have their system in place, built slowly over the years.

I'd be curious to know how you're planning to sell this.
I guess they cannot collect user data as they like.
What I mean is the very same type is going to work only once since you cannot convert it to twice the type you need. So in a work environment where you use these, you might end up with say two of these to load two of such rechargeable batteries at the same time. Whereas 'normal' chargers for things like AA and AAA have multiple spots for the same battery. Like the other comment, I also currently use IKEA's charger (my wife bought it), and it can charge a lot of batteries at the same time.
I'd agree that they needed a lot of reworking to make a TV series out of it, but some of it feels slightly gratuitous; the clone emperor thing feels like a pointless overcomplication, and I'm pretty sure they're going for some sort of Dune-esque guild navigator thing with the imperial starships.

I'm mostly quite enjoying it, but I think they could have been a _bit_ more restrained with their rewriting and lost nothing.

> everyone is smoking all the time, the hyper focus on nuclear power, the relative role of women

Also, newspapers! The original novels had paper newspapers, transmitted across the stars. At a certain age, science fiction tends to become accidentally a bit steampunk.
Agreed; I also teach virtually, across a number of platforms, and Zoom is the one that just works easily and intuitively for everyone. Screen sharing and breakout rooms are a pain in all the other tools I've tried.

It's not my favourite piece of software, but for virtual teaching, it is head-and-shoulders above the competition.
Could you expand on that side note? Seems interesting and I'm not familiar with the GH API.
> If the author of some software has a general good-faith position (...)

The "good-faith position" weasel words only serve to try to fabricate and cast doubt on the morality of a decision on how your work can and should be used, and only because you find it inconvenient. For some reason, your argument completely eliminates the author from the decision process. Do you find that to be fair or in good faith?

Meanwhile, I never saw anyone attack musicians based on "morality" for refusing to authorize the use of their work by specific politicians or specific election campaigns, even when authors only claim personal preferences or even prefering other candidates.
> This server appears to have been closed source, and I assume the source is lost.

The author is @Java4First on Twitter. Give it a shot.
Or are they just hiding it because social norms require that they do?

As we have pretty strong social expectations for how people behave at meals.
For one thing, incognito windows aren't saved.
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I agree. It's an outstanding achievement that Firefox remains competitive with Chrome
- and even exceeds it - given the disparity of resources between Mozilla and Google. The Firefox community also tends to be more responsive on their bugtracker than the Chrome/Chromium team. (seriously, great work y'all)

(also, they've even caught up to Chrome in version numbers! joke)
Working on training a reinforcement learning agent to use Metasploit to interact with computer networks to do autonomous pentesting. I was a pentester for a few years at the same time I was reading Neuromancer, which has made me decidedly obsessed with working on an agent that could do network pentesting. I presented my current results at StrangeLoop[1]. Check it out if you're into infosec or RL.

Planning to clean up the code I've been experimenting with it and release it before the end of the year[2] and show it off at Defcon. Goal is to get more people interested in working on the project. I'll need to be able to generate tons of realistic looking networks with realistically vulnerable machines to capture a large enough distribution for a robust agent.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiI69BdWKPs

[2] - https://github.com/phreakAI/MetasploitGym
The 1N4148 is __supposed__ to be less than a penny each.

That part you listed is an "acceptable substitute" at ~3.5-cents @quantity 3000, or roughly 350% higher price than the 1N4148 "Jellybean" is supposed to be at.

Aka: the "I don't really care about the specs and just want a diode" diode.

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1N4148 diodes are available from many other manufacturers: but from a 400%ish markup.
OT: what's the meaning of using ~ before a word, as in ~deciders?
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"To ensure optimal security in your computing experience, make sure to keep checking social media often enough that it not only becomes a productivity hindering distraction, but also a borderline addiction."
It’s just a random keypair. You can’t use my ID because you would only see my public key.

https://specs.status.im/spec/2#initial-key-generation
Recreated and flown -

https://ne-np.facebook.com/peaceworld313/videos/tipu-sultan-...
Indeed, money is the ultimate goal/priority at Facebook, and if that means they become an instrument of the government suppressing citizens, so what ? - - in their minds
From memory, it was that Keith Packard felt that the bits of the original server that run on the CPU (mfb, cfb) were optimized for CPUs without caches, they unroll the various bit operations and generate C functions for each one which increases code size.

One of the first targets for KDrive was the Compaq iPaq with a StrongARM CPU and no GPU.

I think the ideas behind KDrive have now been folded into the main X.Org server.
While everything else you say may be true, I take issue with efficiency being a function of age. Fundamentally you have no idea how many years you will get. Be efficient at all ages, and live like it might (and might not!) be your last year, regardless. Personally I’ve had close brushes with death a couple times in my life, and the dice roll could easily have gone the other way. I’m sure I’m far from alone in this.
Though info isn't POSIX compliant.

Not to mention that most distributions completely ignore it and don't populate it with a program's info documentation -- even when such exists.
Wow, very surprising answer.

Will genuinely take you up on this, and try to condense things into an easy-to-read list =)
I think that for sure something line the Plan9 shell woukd be something cooler to have
I recently switched from Chrome back to Firefox after the news about Google forcing people to stay logged-in to Chrome for tracking purposes. I’ve switched in the past but always ended up switching back for one reason or another. This time I’ve actually been very happy with it and don’t think I’ll switch back soon.

Better in Firefox:

* Ctrl+Tab cycles through tabs in recently-used order. Just like Cmd+Tab. This feature is wonderful and is easier to access than Chrome’s Shift+Cmd+A.

* In Firefox the two-finger swipe forward/back works much better. Three-finger swipe works well in both.

* Built-in reader mode that’s instantaneous and works well. In Chrome you need an add-on.

Better in Chrome:

* Has tab groups. There doesn’t seem to be a tab group add-on for Firefox that works like Chrome’s tab groups.

* Google Docs dictation works. But I never use that.

* Printing lets you scale up past the page size (useful for printing my AYSO team’s lineup).
Oof, so those companies were donating to OSS solely to adhere to a weird metric that only investors use? That explains everything…
Economics - I took some calculus classes at the local community college to sort of spool up and get back into it. I was the weird old guy asking questions that nobody cared about but it’s been a great experience all around. And honestly the concepts are far more important than than the mental math, we all use calculators now :)
The two are often intrinsically linked, especially in the case of housing. It's not that one sees house prices rising and says 'inflation!', but more where it would naturally lead.

Or another way...a rise in house prices means a rise in rents which means rise in renter wages which means rise in prices. Over the course of some time, naturally.
There are ads in the address bar?
> Moreover, the source code files, test data and /etc/passwd entries had the full names of the people on the project that I could easily Google. Many of their LinkedIn profiles or academic biographies listed their detailed work on the project during their tenure at Nortel. This information was key to me constructing what the project was and where it went.

Looks like Nortel wasn't very careful with their company data... it may be ancient today, but I guess when that laptop was first taken out of service, it was still a bit "fresher" and more valuable?
> Things very quite significantly from country to country, but generally speaking in most EU you can do your PhD while working.

In physics? I don't think so. I did my PHD in Germany but we work in large international collaborations, so I meet s lot of phd students from other countries as well.

Doing a phd in physics is everywhere I know at least a full time job. Often, depending on topic, group, supervisor and yourself even more than a 40 hour week.

The complexity, depth and specialization required don't really allow for anything else.
"it’ll likely take a four-person crew a week to overhaul each of his 67 towers"

Am I being too cynical? This seems high. Searching around about how long it takes once work begins, it appears that upgrade time is roughly half of that. Which leads me to believe that network operators will be perfectly happy to take the money while padding their expenses significantly.
Agreed! A browser engine is a horrifically complicated piece of tech, and unfortunately nobody wants to pay a cent for their browser software. The fact that we have an “independent” browser at all is amazing! Sure, everybody has their pet peeves, but overall I think the Firefox project is great. I switched off chrome a few years back, and have been a happy user ever since.
While I was an economics student, I somehow landed a job to build out an elevator monitoring system at my college. Figured out that terminal emulators could connect to the elevator controller and that the output spec was called Wyse-60. My first "professional" program was written in Python using ncurses to parse the serial output [0].

The program is very cringe but it was my best attempt at the time as I couldn't find any literature on terminal emulators (what actually happened was that I didn't know what to search for)

Anyways, I've successfully pivoted my career away from economics and into software development which was the goal when I took the job in college.

[0]: https://github.com/lee-pham/Pyse-60
I suspect the commenter is using “tap to click” which would cause the drag operation to be terminated once they lift up off of the trackpad.
A USB-C charger ? Thank you Elon.
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Zillow is doing it at scale, but I also see smaller companies also advertising "Web buy your house!" online.

I wonder if we're at a tipping point.
Do you also use CMD+W to close tabs/modal windows? Because I do, and it's very easy to accidentally press Q instead of W.

Losing dozens of tabs because of that is so damn infuriating that it ruins my entire day when it happens.
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But when is the right time? If you bought nov 2008 you would have 6 more months of declines in a lot of names. This idea is even harder than holding on to your winners. Automate a transfer into a dated retirement account for 90% of your investments.
If that were the case, then people would complain about how stupid it was that the browser updated and needed to be restarted every time you opened it.
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Not every patch-level security update makes it to the front page of HN, for one thing
I agree. Also, those who claim it's more reliable than alternatives seem to have no qualms installing a native app. Like-for-like comparison with browser-based alternatives doesn't perform favorably.
Genocide the unvaccinated. You will save lives and reduce the emissions all at once.