skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> increasing political polarization is due to people making political choices based on more sophisticated ideological alliances and deeper held beliefs

The irony here (ha) is while people are more polarized, actual ideology has almost completely gone away, replaced with vague slogans (MAGA) that don't actually mean anything and are designed to weaponize nostalgia in a way that is useful for particularly amoral politicians. Keep in mind, the GOP literally had no formal platform for 2020, just "we're with Trump" (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/party-no-c...)
The flu vaccine (and other vaccines) only stimulate an IgG reaction (the immune cells that protect most of your body excluding your upper respiratory tract).

Getting the flu or any other disease your vaccinated against in your upper respiratory tract has always been a risk, but IgA cells usually knock this out of your upper respiratory tract in 1 to 3 days for viral infections, and you avoid getting an infection in the lungs which could cause pneumonia.
As a counterpoint, I used to work on an automated testing tool for websites and mobile apps, which was built entirely using Rails (with Resque for background jobs).

We had customers setting up tests which could cover thousands of pages and run for hours (or even days).

Sure, Rails probably wasn't the ideal tool for the job, but it worked fine.
Building a long-term human settlement in space (i.e. moon, mars).

I love the human experience and I believe that we need to get many more people and many more resources to extend the life-span of humanity.
And currently the biggest blocker to that is that all long-term human settlements are on Earth.

I'm currently kind of working on it by working at a startup to collect capital (money/network) towards this.

To actually start getting traction on this I need to collect a lot of money, get investor trust and actually figure out how to make it profitable (i.e. what technology is needed, etc).
> they have to pay their employees somehow

What are their employees doing though? If they're churning out BS like this, are they even necessary?

Most Firefox features that gave it marketshare long ago have been left to rot if not outright deprecated. What remains is a terrible Chrome knockoff.

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Edit: this comment is rage/venting so I'll elaborate: my problem with Mozilla's recent (~5 years?) evolution is that Firefox's power-user features that not only gave it its original marketshare but are the last line of defense in an increasingly user-hostile web are being left to rot if not outright killed off while being replaced by useless garbage like this and while their marketshare continues to dwindle (no surprise there considering any differentiating features are on the back-burner), their CEO increased their compensation to ridiculous levels.

Firefox is the most user-hostile FOSS software I know of - on-par if not worse than a lot of paid, proprietary software. Upon first run it'll load several tabs with Google Analytics spyware, has Pocket, ads/sponsored links and telemetry enabled by default (the latter is in breach of the GDPR) and makes bold claims about privacy while it doesn't even come with a built-in adblocker (even its strongest tracking protection is inferior to uBlock Origin and not even enabled by default). Every update will interrupt your flow with a useless "what's new" tab (and I think the recent "Colorways" update had its own tab/modal in addition to the usual update). I'm worried this new development will also have its own annoying notification next time I start the browser.
GOG sells a handful of DRM free movies, mostly gaming related.
Interesting side note. There is a new reactor coming online in the next year or two close to Savannah, GA (Plant Vogtle)...which has resulted in the air quality of Carroll County, GA getting much cleaner. Yates and Wansley have burned through coal stockpiles, one is now moth balled, the other is on nat gas and will be fully decommissioned when Vogtle 3? comes on line.
Vogtle 3-4
https://www.georgiapower.com/company/plant-vogtle.html
> professional endurance sports athletes / ultra distance athletes are also high performing PhD candidates

There are three ways to slice this fact, depends on who you ask. And I've asked a lot of people, because India treated "sports" as the refuge of those who cannot cut it in academics & I had two decades of people telling me to "quit running around, sit and study" which I had to unlearn in my 30s.

First is that thinking is not just limited by the "hardware" / displacement of your brain engine, but the consumable for doing it - that when I go for a walk and kick up my heart to 130 bpm, my brain is getting the equivalent of a turbo boost (literally, more oxygen to burn). The same applies to the glucose out of the liver, where a runner trains to feel the second wind coming even when the thing burning through glucose is their brain. And I've found that I can burn through a lot playing chess - heart-rates up by +30, extremities go cold and hunger stops when I'm thinking hard (or losing). Lower your heart-rate sitting still, the more boost you can push when needed.

But there's also a problem with selection bias.

Second is that running or endurance sports is not entirely physical. Nobody is chasing you to run, you are running on pure internal motivation & that selects for people who are good at staying on a chase. The mindset needed to keep running 10+ miles is basically why we tell people "this is marathon, not a sprint" when it comes to putting in time into something new. Because the mindset is about pacing, not absolute pace (the swimming scene in Gattaca comes to mind). I think this is selected for but like muscles it grows with use; you can evolve your mindset closer to being a persistence predator of ideas, beyond boredom.

Third is that the resources needed to be an amazing endurance runner and a PhD candidate are correlated - you need to focus away from paying the bills and work on doing something which has a slow burn with a very delayed reward. You need a healthy childhood, you need time to go running and you need a culture which values physical fitness as either a military tool (the himalayan hikes I went to were full of israelis in their 20s) or social status symbol (a somewhat post-scarcity economy).

I can't run as fast or in competitive fashion, a half marathon is my distance of choice, but I running for the first two reasons and can keep doing it for the third.
Thanks, then "nothing" (or next to nothing) would prevent it from being delivered just once (talking of a hypothetical licensed/paid version), saved and then run when needed even with no internet connection or when (if) photopea.com is inaccessible for whatever reasons.

Personally I don't have any need for it professionally, but generally speaking the "online" approach has been and is a (psychological) show-stopper for other "online" programs (but mind you I am old and not necessarily right or representing any number of businesses ).
>A vaccine doesn’t necessarily need to prevent infection to be called a vaccine, prophylactic vaccines are a thing.

Perhaps we need to discuss new terminology. Let's not discuss the point of view where immunocompromised people mean a vaccine doesn't work.

>The whole “they revised the definition” thing is itself revisionist history

I will concede this. I never said this in the post you replied to, but it is something I have said previously. I will admit I was misinformed or brainbroken.

I think the point stands however. IF there's a class of vaccines which prevent infection. These are different from a vaccine which basically does nothing more than tylenol.

So what should we do? Leave vaccine as a pretty weak word that includes prophylactic vaccines or do we redefine prophylactic vaccines to be something else?
"I am not the only one who believes that in the long term the atomic bombs saved millions of Japanese lives."

You are absolutely wrong about that. A cursory examination would reveal that Japan was ready to surrender before the bombs were dropped. There was only one condition that they get to keep their emperor, but the allies ended up following that condition even after the unconditional surrender, so that just wasn't relevant.

And the logic that the atomic bombs were not that bad because there were even worse bombings is just wrong.
I'm not a nuclear reactor engineer etc, though it was my understanding that control rods in nuclear reactor have always been used to moderate the reaction to control power output, as well as being a critical safety component.

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_rod
I wonder if I can run Office 2000 on my current machine. Would require so much less RAM and CPU.
Marketing people can be free if their work generates enough revenue for the company that it exceeds their salary. They can literally be profit generators. Same goes for any employee, really.
Okay (Y Combinator startup) is mentioned for engineer productivity monitoring
uBlock origin is incompatible with the upcoming Manifestv3.
Yeah, but then again it's a chicken and egg problem.
California bill to require platforms to disclose how their algorithms work
Largely I agree with you, except that particularly in software, ideas are a dime a dozen and good executions of ideas are much harder to come by.

However, the market is full of popular, poorly implemented ideas. So I guess you're right.
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Phew, it's just a sponsored Firefox theme. I was so worried when I saw the headline that they were doing something like Proprietary Disney+ HDR...
Showing true colors? No thanks, I prefer people wear their masks of polite discourse in public.
Study: Effectiveness of Apple's app tracking transparency
I heard that argument a lot, but I still don't quite get it. If you have (stock) Android, then Google has root on your phone. They don't need to hide loopholes for themselves inside the permission system, because they are not bound by it anyway. Or did I miss something?

I think you are still right that the permissions are way too coarse-grained or have weird associations. But it seems to me, they at least partially improved the situation by switching to an ask-on-first-use model.

Of course it might still be that Google is keeping the permissions deliberately coarse to secretly help third parties with data mining. That would be sort of the same spirit as the whole "privacy sandbox" stuff.
I don't blame the language for what the community does though. I mean, I've suffered through VBScript. I know how bad a utility/glue language can really be. Netscape did have it running on the server way back in the 90s too. Should we create services with it? I dunno. For some things, I really don't care. Should we be tossing it CPU intensive, multiple db query traffic? No. No it doesn't do well at all in those scenarios. I've done enough PHP (really bad PHP) to realize that any time we lower the bar of entry, we're going to get a lot of folks with no programming background. That's actually pretty cool! What's not cool is getting folks who have no background, and refuse to listen to anyone who does.
That's a bummer; will that effect all chrome-based browsers?
This seems like another ominous sign for META
This doesn't sound very plausible to me, but who ever let that get in the way of writing angry clickbait articles.
I worked with Randal L. Schwartz for several years in the Los Angeles area. I was already doing Perl but getting an opportunity to see his code and ask him questions was something that changed my career for the better. Thanks Merlyn!
This is factually wrong. Vim is emphatically not just a text editor - it is a full-fledged IDE, weighing in at over a million lines of code, with syntax-highlighting, HTML rendering, a completion system, complex multi-window and multi-buffer support, a multi-language plugin API, regular expression engine, complex key rebinding system, jump-to-definition functionality (tags system), and its own scripting language and interpreter for such.

A "text editor" in the Unix tradition edits text, nothing more - something like nano or pico, composed with other utilities for things like regexp matching (using grep externally) and shelling out to tmux or the X window manager for multi-window and tabs/split support. It certainly does not contain its own embedded scripting language.

Firefox is also definitely not a "does that one thing and does it well" tool - it's incredibly complex, at over 21 million lines of code, and contains its own cryptography, web rendering engine, PDF reader, developer console with its own IDE, remote development tools, tab system, UI toolkit, JS runtime, JS API implementation, and plugin API. It used to even be able to interact with FTP servers - and all this in a single, monolithic tool.

Firefox is exactly the opposite of the Unix philosophy is almost every way imaginable. Saying that it "does one thing and does it well" is about as true as saying that the Boost C++ libraries or the Windows OS "do one thing and do it well" - it's only true if you define that "one thing" to encapsulate all of the stuff that the tool happens to do, which is not the way that the Unix philosophy uses it.
Your math seems off, 1 ton is 1000kg, but your point still stands at $200 million plus the overhead of containment and transport to starship. This is far more economical that I expected.

But also this is the price to orbit. As the escape velocity is 1.5x higher we can probably assume the same or a greater increase in cost. Maybe you could just justify a really high orbit? It would take a long time for it to build up.
Does MS Teams actually work in Safari? I was under the impression that it was Chrome/Edge only.
Well, I'm a programmer and will openly admit it! I have zero training in nuclear power!
This is exactly my thought too. When I’m at the point where a chargeback is my only recourse, it’s a “burn the bridge” moment. The company has made it clear it’s intention to fuck me. I am totally fine with no longer doing business with that company. You can’t fire me because I quit!
Carbolytics, an analysis of the carbon costs of online tracking
For basically every big factory it is not easy to stop and startup again. For example for a large metal melt factory it would take a year to shutoff and another year to startup. For large oil production facilities it takes at least one year to halt operations. That's why they have these huge silos. Thosr factories are build with constant production in mind.
Same thing for container ship logistics. A complex system that can take years to startup. Currently visible everywhere.
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Would you please follow the site guidelines? You broke them with both of your comments in this thread.

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A substantial portion is almost certainly bone mass, from quite tall bones.
I guess we are still at the bottom of things. There is a lot to be researched by the intelligent human. I believe humans are essentially machines that can be predicted (to certain precision) given enough research and computing power.
>would be the basis for variable power output.

This has been done literally forever. Why do you think nuclear plants run at 100% capacity 24/7?
Haha awesome thanks for your response this seems like a super useful service.

Congrats on the launch and good luck! :)
For my book, I did a ton of historical research, mainly the LA Times (via newspapers.com). You can get a free trial of that without paying, but the subscription price is pretty nominal. You can probably get a paper from where you grew up, too.

Anyway, it's pretty eye-opening to see how much of the paper in the late 70s was ads. Like, 3/4 of most pages in the front section, after the first three. The Sunday paper was 300+ pages. They were raking it in. They could afford to subsidize some foreign bureaus.

Why was that? There was no other good way to reach the Southern California audience. I got my job at Xerox by answering an ad in the Sunday Times.

So they had a monopoly, and now it's gone.
So FAANG is now MAANG. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mange
> In celebration of “Turning Red,” streaming on Disney+ on March 11th, we are creating new Firefox desktop colorways and mobile wallpapers based on the movie as an optional way to show your personality through your browser. We’ve also created a destination for all things 2002 nostalgia and will be having conversations with people about their journeys to embrace their true colors online.

Making a couple themes and an ad site couldn't have been a big project, presumably this is the sort of thing a couple marketing interns can throw together in a couple months, right? If this got Mozilla a nice check from The Mouse which they can use to fund browser development, I don't see any downsides here.
If you are interested in graph classes, there is another (more mature?) resource: https://www.graphclasses.org/
Personal attacks are not ok here, regardless of how you feel about how someone feels about HN. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
What evidence is there to prove the biological trumps psychological? People can literally starve to death because of a psychological disorder. The desire to see more of one's self and a continuation of one's story is what I am talking about. The point of life is not reproduce, reproduction is a means by which lineage is continued. In order for life to have a point you have to talk about intent behind life, if you believe life is unintended then there is no point to it aside from what sentient beings self-assign it.
We do sanctioned integrations with brokerages wherever OAuth integrations are available such that we don't have to collect credentials, but for the ones without public APIs we do need to collect credentials (though we never store them). Unfortunately, the industry is in a mode where brokerages will develop anti-screen-scraping technology and data aggregators will develop new and creative solutions to evade detection - the demand for access to retail accounts is too great for screen scrapers to stop what they're doing, and the regulatory and technical risks are too great for brokerages to lean back and allow screen scrapers to do what they do.

Many of the major brokerages are realizing that this isn't ideal and are starting to build out public APIs. We're working to develop relationships with the holdouts and convince them that exposing a public API is the only sustainable long-term solution to their screen scraping problem.
For that fusion budget you could develop very viable commercial molten salt (or molten salt cooled) nuclear reactors.

Fusion has no practice reason to exist compare to advanced fission. The improvements in energy density are not really relevant factor at that scale, meaning the difference from oil to fission, and oil to fusion doesn't really gain you much.

Fusion fuel cost over the long term is likely more expensive then a fission fast breeder (not to mention a potential of thorium thermal breeder).

Is a fusion reactor going to be cheaper to build then a advanced fission reactor? Not from anything know so far. Advanced fission concept are viable with pretty normal tubes pretty industrial steels or at most advanced aerospace materials. Any fission reactors actually consider would have waste more complex and expensive parts.

The nuclear waste argument is sometimes made in favor of fusion but with the right kind of fission reactor this problem and issue that has very viable practical solutions and storage for a few hundred years is viable.

Sometimes nuclear proliferation is held up as a reason why fusion is good, but that argument doesn't really work either once you think threw it. Access neutrons of fusion can certainty be used for all kind of things.

Are fusion reactors inherently safer? That's questionable. To come up with a scenario where a modern molten salt breeder (or even molten salt reactor) leads to massive safety hazards for anything outside the exclusion zone is very hard to imagine.

The scenarios you have to come up with for both fusion or advanced fission to be massive safety concerns are both possible and incredibly unlikely.

My approach would be to do something like NASA did for Commercial and Crew, have competitive fixed price competition between a group of providers and offer the 2-3 winners of them at least 2 deployments.
hacker news is so frustrating with firefox, if it's love, it's toxic love :)

whatever mozilla do or don't, it's not good.
Clojure 1.11 Rc1
Sure, ev certs might not be all that great, but I do find Troys long-running crusade against them weird. I mean, it feels pretty disproportionate, like does anyone care that some corpos end up paying few hundred bucks extra for their certs or whatever? Isn't there almost endless amount of more important issues in the security landscape?
Couple recent discussions I bookmarked, 2 months and 3 months ago respectively:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29609388 - 151 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29014279 - 102 comments
> What are their employees doing though?

This really isn't hard to find: https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/
I've been a huge fan of 1Password for almost ten years now, recommending it to friends and family, but like some of the comments mentioned it feels like the product is trying to move upmarket while dropping support for core features.

I've bought their license a couple times as the versions are updated, but they no longer support licenses and only monthly subscriptions. Fine.. I'm happy to pay that to get a great product, but as I was installing it on my new laptop they prompted me to move from my self-managed cloud sync to their hosted password management saying the cloud-sync will no longer be supported. I simply don't want to use the hosted solution, I'm not comfortable with the trust implied.

I imagine they're trying to cut down on the features that allowed someone to use it without paying a membership, but then why not just include cloud-sync in your paid features? Why remove a such a core feature that allows users to use your security product much more trustlessly?
> successful musicians usually work under a set of rules and techniques so simple from the theoretical standpoint that the whole field gets invalidated.

If anything, it's just the opposite. The 'rules' (again, this should be understood as patterns, or perhaps rules of thumb) practitioners implicitly rely on are far more complex than most theorists are implicitly comfortable with. This is why bookish music theory was mired for centuries in pointless discussions about acoustics and ratios, or some incredibly weird formalisms for representing meter, whilst practitioners got on simply focusing on what sounded good.
How much of that economic cost is tied up in regulations and NIMBYism?

>Well, what about the impact of mining and refining uranium?

I'd be willing to wager significant money that on a MW for MW basis, the environmental impact is higher for solar just due to the energy density alone.
I'm able to watch programs on PBS.org and the BBC iPlayer without Encrypted Media Extensions. Also The Late Show with Steven Colbert on CBS.com and Seth Myers on NBC. There are probably lots of others, I don't watch very much television.
Really cool to hear that!

And the names are definitely awesome.
All the credit for that goes to: https://github.com/meodai/color-names
Ha, nice! I used to work at TradeIt, and was about to reach out to some of my former co-workers and tell them about you. It's no small undertaking, congrats on the launch.
Grumps: Why is FF losing market share!?

Mozilla: Does stuff to gain market share.

Grumps: Pissed off Mozilla does stuff to gain market share.

It's a freaking browser. Browsers peaked like 30 years ago. They're ALL on maintenance at this point.