skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Autocomplete is a good example of how big tech "algorithms" can be used to subtly yet significantly manipulate human behavior at scale. An autocomplete keyboard is literally suggesting to you what you should say, literally telling you and your contacts what to say and think with every word you type. Most people perceive this as helpful, but I don't doubt that it is used for political, if not downright sinister ends.

It doesn't take much to imagine an autocomplete that completes, "Let's have lunch at..." with a restaurant that has paid to be suggested. Or, a little more creepy, "I think Joe Biden is..." with either "sleepy" or "woke" depending on who has paid off Google, or who is internally pulling strings. But in reality, it's probably more subtle than that. We all have experience with words that were once unnotable which are now not "PC" or new words that we're "supposed" to use instead. Autocomplete can "helpfully" suggest that we use ideologically approved language and we don't even have to think about it. The correct way to speak and think can be automatically and instantly inserted into our lives at a global scale. It's one of the most subtle Orwellian technologies I can imagine.

The language to discuss opposing ideas is being removed from our vocabulary.

I'm creeped out by this and by other "algorithms" that give Google the ability to suggest to me which things to say, thoughts to think, products to buy, routes to take, people to contact, etc. Many of us are effectively controlled by the network without even realizing it.

I've completely degoogled my life, including not using a Google keyboard. I use AnySoftKeyboard. The autocomplete suggestions aren't that "good", but they come 100% from my own usage frequency. My speech, and my thoughts, are my own, and I will only use software that respects that.
I’ll bite. Say you have a singleton service class that needs to be accessed throughout your SPA; where would you instantiate and keep this?
Surely there's a way of scripting this...

Something like this: https://github.com/shawnanastasio/firefox-privacy-restorer
I actually think Angular is fine, and competition between frameworks benefits everyone.

React was just a better fit for this particular project. I feel Angular is too much overhead when you don't use the more advanced features.
> The plan is to attract customers who sell from their own platforms and need help fulfilling orders

They're only tackling the fulfillment side, not the customer experience side.
This is only a correlation. My interpretation would be that those children are suffering from neglect and eat more junk food.

- "Go watch TV" (don't bother me)

- "There is pizza in the freezer"

My guess would be, that their parents experienced the same lack of love in their childhood.
What is the probability a horse finishes last?
What is the probability a horse finishes last, or 7th, or 5th?

If you think you have a good approach, there's probably a paper in this.
Yeah, that's why parent poster said "in practice". It's stupid that this is allowed.
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Seems like you are embracing the outrage narrative rather than thoughtfully examining the tradeoffs.

1 in 20 UC students are homeless and SB has an acute housing crisis [1]. They are building a dorm for 5,000 students and also need to deal with cost, zoning, etc.

Personally I would have been glad to give up a window to not share a room when I lived in the dorms. I also lived in an effectively windowless (against a brick wall) apartment in NYC, you just spend less time in your room.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-02/what-crit...
It's just a custom build of the latest Firefox version with some patches applied.
Everything is very well documented and you can build it by yourself, there is no need to trust "some new devs who may have good intentions"
Relatedly, an outside window isn't going to be very useful for egress when you're in a high-rise. No, this particular dorm isn't quite a high-rise, but the point is that exceptions are entirely necessary and legitimate. This aspect of building codes probably wasn't mentioned because it's not relevant.
> USD75k/EUR65K/GBP55K in Europe can afford to buy an apartment in any of the major cities,

That doesn't seem likely. I live in Dublin, and the median household income for a first time buyer is approximately 90k in euros.

I'm surprised that this is possible in London.
I’ve tried all the Firefox forks I could find, including LibreWolf. It’s not your no-brainer “Non-Mozilla Firefox” you can just switch to.

Basic browsing may work, but nothing remotely close to “web-app” will, because they disabled all modern APIs due to privacy concerns.
Being nitpicky it should be vim or emacs right?

If you go for both, there's no question!
I believe so - which is what makes this so sublime! Especially coming from a fanboy site like 9to5mac.
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this is the approach I'm familiar with, but back when I did it in Perl (yes Win32 perl with COM bindings) and Java (we wrote native Java plugins to do COM to Excel). all the important stuff is Excel VBA code that they spent years developing and can never replace, so any front end type of thing had to somehow get back to the Excel models.

We eventually did rewrite the Excel models in Java, released something, and then the whole project probably got cancelled or something, 9/11 happened a few years later and the whole building in which all this code was written had to be demolished.
MEGOLM seems to be encrypted group chat. OMEMO already provides that.

Cross signing OMEMO keys would be nice indeed.

Not sure what a session is or why it needs sync.

XMPP is decentralized, maybe even more than Matrix, since almost everyone uses the official server matrix.org.

I'm not sure if all of this is reason enough to switch to an non-standard protocol, fragmenting the small space of open IM protocols even further. It would be better to implement those features using existing Internet Standards.
This has nothing to do with OP code.
In both cases genetics only has a partial say in phenomics.
> should decide

Everyone with their own money. The university with its own, the donors with their own.
Investment buyers and owner-occupants both provide the cash to the homebuilders to allow them to go build the next home. You can't sell a home without a buyer.

I don't think requiring anyone who wants housing to be financially able to buy an entire home is sensible, meaning that some entity needs to be in the business of paying for more housing than they personally need to allow people to have housing who can't or don't want to buy an entire dwelling unit.

Maybe you want the government to have a monopoly on that activity, but someone needs to provide it or you end up with far less access to housing and far more people living on the street than currently.
This just gives Nvidia an excuse to ship cryptographically signed firmware that checks serial numbers burnt into the card and disables the card remotely.

Make no mistake; they have the capability to ensure that those cards are paperweights. Just look at the nouveau project and how post-Maxwell cards are effectively locked into proprietary drivers via cryptograpgic signature verification of the firmware blob gating access to the power management and reclocking API's.
I don't see the allure of Telegram over anything; can you elaborate?
I feel like they are just throwing out lots of old information they read without checking if its still true, since its up to room version 9 now :P and like you said they are working on native video calls in matrix
What are the chances of someone with around 15 years of experience as an individual contributor & currently in a foreign country getting a job in software in India? My impression is that most of the Indian companies expect people above 10 years experience to be a manager, especially in Infosys and the likes. Is this true?

Also, if you have any tips on applying for a job in India while still working in a foreign country, please share.
You keep running whatever ‘instructions’ appear in the data after your last program instruction, so you could most likely have a segmentation fault, or worse run some random data as instructions and so crash, or worse still run some random data that happens to also be real instructions that does something harmful.
> Instead, they are choosing to aggressively silence the author. That raises eyebrows.

Somewhere along the road, we've gone and conflated "someone sends you a scary letter" with "I'm being silenced." The author is clearly anonymous and apparently (correctly) scoffs at the letter, so it feels like a distortion to call this "aggressive silenc[ing]."
In what way, besides speed? I'm genuinely curious. When I tried it the developer experience was mind-bogglingly terrible - 12GB and upwards of 20 minutes required to build "Hello, World" on an i7.
I think the general idea of mass housing with big communal spaces is good but cutting out windows is way too extreme.

Housing many people while providing windows and decent living conditions is a solved problem. Just look at ex Soviet-block housing. Everyone got their own modern flat while still being pretty space efficient. Sure they wont win you an architecture price and some consider them "ugly" but they are still the best option to provide decent housing for a lot of people in a very short time.
Yes, I think the article stumbled on this topic by describing a limitation of the term philia when in fact there were other terms for other concepts.
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It doesn’t matter if the interviewers are sensible.

We don’t use Angular but we interview Ng devs anyway. If you’re smart enough to write maintainable apps in it you can learn e.g React or Vue quite quickly.
I think 2002 or 3. I worked there from 2001 to about 2010 and it was pretty early in my time there.
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I don’t mind telemetry that much. I mind Pocket, ads and whatever bullshit they’ll push next week.
I don't think poster is claiming it's neglect.

What they seem to say is while one as an infant rarely can consciously recall neglect, it does not mean that neglect has no long term effect and that a similar thing _could_ happen here. We just don't have studies one way or another, though anecdotally there does not seem to be any long term negative effects with cradling.
and it would be fine if it was opt-in. syncthings telemetry is very transparent, so I started enabling it on my nodes. but I hate when programmers who should absolutely know the difference conflate opt-in and opt-out.
Tell me your a covid vaccine denier without telling me your a covid vaccine denier.
The sentiment that humans are the ultimate resource is commonly believed, but you have to look at it like a business. If you have a factory, then the production line is your ultimate resource. You need to invest in it to increase production later. But you come to a point where you want to retire, so you skip investing and elect to take a dividend instead. That's where the U.S. is now. The capitalist/owner class is taking profits at the expense of the future.
You can just turn off combat in Factorio.
Also consider Application Support. I know it's not sexy rockstar dev stuff, but if you can get into App Support on the Quartz (or Athena I suppose) environments you get a dev account and access to all the tools. You can view all the code, config and running systems. If you have a good relationship with your dev team you can submit patches e.g. to improve logging. The live log files of all your applications are just a URL away.

If you're up for it, you'll spend a significant amount of time in the Quartz IDE. There are teams within App Support that develop monitoring and compliance reporting tools in Qz and do about 50% development. I know because I ran one. One of my team transferred into our dev team.
I'm sorry, did you just say you implemented prefix trees in Excel?

As in a spreadsheet-based prefix tree?

Can I see it?
It looks like companies have finally figured out that Amazon's retail success is strongly tied to the distribution network it created to enable 2 day shipping everywhere. This is pretty much the same thing Walmart did to become massively successful (hyperfocus on distribution).
>preventing accidents from drowning and bicycling is 100% under your control (just don't swim or ride a bike)

With a risk profiles like this I'm starting to see why emergency covid measures never end.
Never heard about 10cm thick mylar or nylon fabric envelope.
Both have to be online to transmit messages. As there is no server.
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> pushing for a broken state resolution algorithm (decentralized consensus) without a formal analysis, which means it's now reached its 5th or 6th version and Matrix clients are all incompatible with one another (because only Element implements them all) and once they have been upgraded rooms cannot be downgraded so in many places only Element can chat

This is false. Clients don't do state res, servers do. Clients don't care.
You pay for the service, the device is "free".
Schools should NOT have applications, what a mistake
Congrats on your launch. Great to see more innovation in this space. Segment deserves some serious competition.

-RudderStack team.
EEE is about making standards and protocols incompatible with competitors. This literally cannot apply to Skype as it was never compatible with anything. I don't know what part of that is so hard to grasp. You seem intent on using your own definition of "every bad decision Microsoft ever made" or some such.
Donating with stipulations is a very normal thing to do for entities with the money to do so. You give money to the organisation because they are best placed to do x in terms of other resources. You know that the organisation also does y and z, which are less important to you, so you ask them to use it for x. No different to hiring people really: just because you trust they can do a good job doesn't mean you let them work on whatever they want.

Donating money with floorplan layout stipulations is weird though, especially when it's the recipient saying "no, that layout of the building that'll bear your name is so mean it'll reflect badly on us"
> probably just using it to push ads

Telemetry isn't about "pushing ads".

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/telemetry-clientid
> Curtis wanted to investigate why the critics of Donald Trump and Brexit were unable to offer an alternative vision for the future,

What?! "Don't throw society into chaos for no reason" is a good alternative vision.
It's sort of viable, but you'd have to spend 2-3 years living in overpriced temporary sublets while trying to save up to that deposit, and still it just supports the original comment which was that you could only afford 2 bedrooms and even that is a push.

To get one of those 600k apartments you'd have to flip your first apartment for the bigger downpayment, and that's gonna take another 2 years.
If you really need more than one line this will probably work:

L |> map$(def (x) -> (
y = 1/x;
y*(1 - y)
))

You can also make multiline python lambdas by using brackets. That is if you can fit your code into an expression.
Vim is different enough that when its fans say it's superior, at least some people think it's plausible enough that it's worth learning. And even if they don't become appreciably more productive by it, at that point it's sunk cost and they might as well keep using it.

The last time I had any reason to consider getting into emacs, was when I came across a proof assistant many years ago that basically required it - it used emacs to provide an interactive interface. Not unlike how everyone uses electron/chrome these days to quickly provide a familiar interactive interface. It was like an exotic artefact from a parallel universe where emacs' conventions became dominant instead of IBM and Microsoft's.
There is more research if one is willing to look.

There is [1] - a study where MRI was used to measure the myelination in young children's brains, comparing high screen time and low screen time kids. It was a small study and relied on self-reporting by parents, but there's a physically measurable affect.

[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/11/04/132071/screen-ti...
No, since a fork is still fundamentally Firefox.
so many people read these things and forget to check when it was written, its honestly infuriating since so much could easily change related to the article
> Motorised traffic, and cars in particular, are prioritised over non-motorised traffic […]

For a history of how this happened in the US see Fighting traffic: the dawn of the motor age in the American city by Peter Norton.

> Before the advent of the automobile, users of city streets were diverse and included children at play and pedestrians at large. By 1930, most streets were primarily a motor thoroughfares where children did not belong and where pedestrians were condemned as "jaywalkers." In Fighting Traffic, Peter Norton argues that to accommodate automobiles, the American city required not only a physical change but also a social one: before the city could be reconstructed for the sake of motorists, its streets had to be socially reconstructed as places where motorists belonged. It was not an evolution, he writes, but a bloody and sometimes violent revolution. Norton describes how street users struggled to define and redefine what streets were for. He examines developments in the crucial transitional years from the 1910s to the 1930s, uncovering a broad anti-automobile campaign that reviled motorists as "road hogs" or "speed demons" and cars as "juggernauts" or "death cars." He considers the perspectives of all users--pedestrians, police (who had to become "traffic cops"), street railways, downtown businesses, traffic engineers (who often saw cars as the problem, not the solution), and automobile promoters. He finds that pedestrians and parents campaigned in moral terms, fighting for "justice." Cities and downtown businesses tried to regulate traffic in the name of "efficiency." Automotive interest groups, meanwhile, legitimized their claim to the streets by invoking "freedom"--a rhetorical stance of particular power in the United States. Fighting Traffic offers a new look at both the origins of the automotive city in America and how social groups shape technological change.

* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2924825-fighting-traffic
It takes quite a bit longer than 20 hours to really understand Zones, DI, rxjs, decorators, parenthesised routes etc.
Docs prob in young OSS projs: quality/pipeline; in mature OSS: review pedantry
> Why can’t we try different combinations of that and let people self-optimize?

In an ideal free market, this would work fine.

This is not an ideal free market. Many of the students coming to UCSB will be relatively poor—as in, can't realistically afford to pay any extra for a better living situation. So rather than being able to choose whether they value a better living situation or a cheaper one more highly, they will simply be forced into the worst—ie, cheapest—living situation available to them short of a cardboard box.

Stop trying to apply idealized free-market logic to real-world problems with much, much stricter constraints on the real, living people involved.
NH and MA have a similar dichotomy. NH residents commute into MA for work, where they pay MA income tax, and so the NH property taxes are usually higher than a comparable home in MA.

However, and no offense to NJ, I think living in NH has a ton of appeal. You're so close to amazing backpacking, skiing, lakes, etc. It's a really beautiful state. People staying in full time WFH are going to have an amazing balance of occasional office trips in MA and access to adventure.
"So any characterization of USA vs Europe positing Europe as some sort of walkable-heaven is really just idealized bullshit."

This is actually bullshit.

Europe is fundamentally more walkable, it's not even an argument.
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>Curtis wanted to investigate why the critics of Donald Trump and Brexit were unable to offer an alternative vision for the future
We did, but no one wants to listen to us "commies," "tree-huggers," and "minorities."

>a decline of mass democracy in the West leading to politicians favoring big business.

Startling parallels to the decline of much of the World Wide Web (and Google's utility in searching it - ironically, I can't find the blog post describing the pivot to "brands" in the wake of a deluge of SEO trash, and its negative effects on search efficacy).

I'm cautiously interested in watching it. It seems like it will have both interesting insights and interesting blindspots.
Yes, RudderStack is not YC funded. Though I have learnt a lot from YC (and PG) through the years and attribute our entrepreneurship to them.

Founder of RudderStack here.
Is this fork going to actively develop Firefox if Mozilla's lunch is eaten? Are they going to continue implementing the ever moving standards? That's the down side.
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Ahh coffee. Dark, latte, cappuccino, iced, trim with an attempt of vanilla - these are just a couple of versions of coffee that we all know and love. A replacement version of coffee is taking the health world by storm, and while you'll not find it on a restaurant menu, you'll find it throughout natural health blogs and research papers. We’re talking about green coffee beans.
Funny that they were so concerned about GDPR violations given that in Sweden everyone's address/job/phone/salary is public and easily accessible. I like it that every time a foreigner joins my company (I live in Sweden) it's a matter of time before they post a message in our Stockholm channel saying "guys... what the hell is this website and why am I in it?". Then the swedes mention that they see nothing wrong with it while the foreigners playfully call them crazy. Every single time.
Well, in theory increased supply will lower the rents in the surrounding area.

No one will be forced to live there, but that location is a much better alternative than homeless or not.
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> the unlimited resources that Apple, Microsoft, and Google are able to pour into their unprofitable ecosystem moats

No sane company pours money into unprofitable anything. They pour money into those moats precisely because it pays dividends.
My boss pointed out and I concur, this looks a lot like the the Coffeescript of Python. That might be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on where you stand.
> Is it normal

Normal? He was the 7th most powerful person in the CCP, in a country of 1.4 Billion. He was then a 65 year old having a "relationship" with a then 25 year-old...
Maybe some classical board game such as Axis & Allies?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_%26_Allies
>But it's absolutely comparable to a fork of Firefox.

It's still not comparable for a fairly simple reason: the list of companies in the world that are as big as Microsoft consists of Google, and Apple, both of whom already have their own browsers.

As for why Microsoft chose Chromium, it's probably a combination of marketshare, the fact that it is a bit more cleanly architected as a result of having a decade less history than Gecko does, and the fact that they have ambitions of making a stripped down version of Electron part of the standard Windows userspace.
> Everyone is just looking for an opportunity to take whatever you have

This seems like an indefensibly broad assertion. How do you determine this? Is there an objective measure or does it rely on your interpretation or estimates of others’ mental states?
Depends which way you're facing, really.