skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going to take a guess (and if I'm wrong, I apologize), that you also own a car, which would have a tax on the gas it consumes. Thus, you may in fact be contributing to the gas tax, while also riding a bike and having people think you're a freeloader (while also getting to work, paying Federal taxes that contribute to the loans that subsidize the actual construction of the road ways ,etc).

I don't own a car, but as the article I linked points out, more than 50% of commuters would need to ride a bike for their commute, before car drivers subsidize the cost of roads for cyclists.

It would be then that I would be interested in talks about cyclists contributing extra to the costs of infrastructure through some sort of... tax - that infrastructure would also look amazingly different. One can dream :)
... that's a system with entirely different properties.
Don't buy Monero though.
I dunno but a running joke is the largest monero mining pool is the NSA probably.
Yes, if you want to run unsigned addons, you need Dev or Nightly. That makes sense. Not letting "normal" users accidentally install malware extensions is really good.

"is unstable" isn't a good reason to avoid it. I've been using Nightly as my daily (heh) driver for a long time. It's been awesome.

BTW, approval is really fast now: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2017/09/21/review-wait-times...
Interesting; I have never heard of this editor before now.
Forbid it.
Even the US has precedent on banning speech that will "incite imminent lawless action". And compared to countries like the UK or Germany they are a bastion of free speech.

I agree free speech laws in pretty much every country are unethical because they are arrayed in a way to ban speech that might risk the dissolution of the nation, but every single country has those laws because its governments trying to protect themselves.
I just use a VPN application that host-blocks that stuff.
Password managers are kind of a funny niche; the Venn diagram of people who use them, and power users, are probably more overlapping than most. I would venture that those (power) users want full cross-platform compatibility (Win, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android).

Additionally, it's probably not helping that their historical pricing model makes no sense for users who interact with many platforms on a daily basis. I didn't even know it had changed until I re-checked it after reading your comment.

Just my 2¢ as someone who previously considered 1Password once upon a time, and dismissed them. They may deserve a fresh look these days, but now they're competing against much more robust competitors than they were back in 2010(?).
I wish Opera got another chance. It was so fast. Faster than Chrome. But it didn't render some pages properly, so Chrome it was.
There are two types of links in ipfs. Static content that works by hash of the content. Dynamic content that is signed by the owner of the bucket.... I think I haven't looked at it for months
What is happening currently shows that the right to free speech is not respected by the Spanish government.

AFAIK, Spain doesn't have any law that guarantees the citizens are free to speak there mind without fear of censorship from the government. It does however have laws restricting speech (glorification of crimes).

The US on the other hand, included it in the first amendment of its constitution.

Much of the rest of the world does not have the guarantees on free speech that the US does (it is hard to get much freer). Germany for example restricts criticism of the state, denial of the holocaust, etc.

The US is fairly unique in preserving the freedom of speech to the degree that it does. There are others such as Poland or Norway that also make strong guarantees, but Spain is not among them.
Exactly. Project zero consists of some of the best security experts in the world. They also strictly practice responsible disclosure. I can't imagine why anybody would be mad to get such a great review and test for free, from such a great team.
Most of those benchmarks are (directly or indirectly) benchmarks of the JavaScript engine. The few that aren't are instead benchmarking the <canvas> implementation or the compositor. The main speedups in Firefox 57 are in styling and the DOM which are more of a "feels faster" thing than something you can easily benchmark in real-world scenarios other than "how long does this page take to load?"
C.f. Kindred.ai
I'm sincerely trying not to be a dick here but I thought this was obvious...

Lots of problems (most?) in many neighborhoods (and organizations in general) and families are not a simple function of "not enough money." They are deep rooted problems with self-sustaining feedback loops of vice.

There's true poverty unhappiness, which is simply not enough money to pay normal bills. But science has basically settled at this point in that "after being enough to pay the bills and have a little in savings, happiness no longer increases with more income." And happiness is a pretty good qualifier of general well-being.

You can't dump money into Afghanistan and have them all run around with American flags and Mustangs.

You can't dump money into a neighborhood and expect everyone to become great workers who love each other.

Likewise, you can't "love people" more and expect it either. You don't stop a drug abusing family member with only hugs. You send them to therapy. _Love is not enough_.

The best summary is in this quote from the article:

>“You cannot force a project onto a community at all costs,” said Mr. Huizar,

Even if politicans and "well meaning" people are hell bent on pushing something through, doesn't mean it's going to actually help people. ("The road to hell is paved with good intentions.")

People are not simple. Adults have decades of experiences that got them where they are. And simply giving them something won't undo those experiences. They need counselling. They need structure and jobs that rewards positive character traits. And guess what? Plenty of people still aren't going to get better. Why? Because you can't improve people who don't want to get better. You can't "fix people" like solving a math problem. Both parties have to commit and genuinely desire change.

If we actually want change--and not to just send money to feel better about ourselves (see: Live Aid, which gave almost nothing to actual victims and may have actually helped kill over 100,000 [1])--we can't simply "Give money." We need actual scientists doing research (they already exist) and we need to find and listen to them even if their recommendations don't align with our political ideologies.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/jun/24/g8.debtrelief
I tried it again on my notebook having seen the Project Quantum dev edition announcement here. Initially impressed by its speed, I've been using it since (3 days I think?). I've found after a few hours it slows down in two very irritating respects -- scrolling gets very janky and reluctant, and switching tabs takes nearly a second. I suppose this may be due to an extension, but given I only use my notebook for work, I don't think I'm going to go through a process of elimination to find which one right now. Back to Chrome for the time being, but I like the current FF incarnation enough to give it another go.
You can run the "cloud" side on your own hardware, a docker image is provided.
Telemetry doesn't collect any private data. It's all performance measurements. I run Nightly with all the additional opt-in telemetry flags because I want to help Firefox development.
Feedback for anything anywhere anytime
I am certainly stating the callous obvious but...she sounds terrible and you are lucky to have gotten out.

And I know the lingering stomach-churning attachment you describe. All too well : (

My hope is that when that (chemical?) fixation subsides you'll have a huge example of why she isn't a good partner that your rational, non-animal mind to latch onto.
very useful list!
Here's the regulations they usually go by:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DO-178B

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DO-178C

There's an ecosystem of products developed this way, products such as static analyzers to help develop them, and even companies assisting in any part of the lifecycle. Market shifted toward reusable components for things such as RTOS's and middleware. Examples include INTEGRITY-178B, LynxOS-178B, Alt's OpenGL + driver for Radeon, partitioning Ethernet/networking/filesystems, Esterel SCADE, SPARK Ada, and so on. Lots of good stuff came from this.

On a tangent note, it's why I'm for software regulation where the useful subset of assurance methods that make those great become part of the requirements for commercial software. Defects will go down and predictability up across the board. Things will get more expensive with development slowing down a bit. That will probably be a good thing given Worse is Better effect market has been doing.

I went into more detail on regulation prior results and some predicted ones here:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/11/regulation_of...
There's still a blizzard of paper being printed.
You should get those notifications by regular mail, they must notify the neighborhood. At least I keep receiving all those mails.
The amount of work, the extent for how long they've been doing so, all relative to the funding they got.. it's even painful to think about. Chrome shadowed them overnight, had Google infinite wallet and started from scratch. Mozilla became the old slug..

Since then they got Rust off ground, servo yielding good fruits, firefox cool n quiet.

Once again kudos.
Integrity, principles and more domain expertise than the general public
I now use Firefox Focus as default html viewer for links. Very good.
Yes, the entirety of my comment refers to the United States.

So, where you say "The law is the law", in the United States there is also a higher law which is the constitution, and which protects free speech. It's "stronger than" the law. Everybody in America knows this.

So my point, which, respectfully, you have just confirmed, is that this idea has not made it back to Europe. You confirm this in your comment stating "the law is the law" and that people support it, and you state that this should be enough. (In the United States this is not enough, and what you describe cannot occur due to the philosophy and legal structure: if Congress passed a law making political discussion of something like the independence of a state illegal, then even if people supported that law, the supreme court would rule the law itself unconstitutional and it would be struck down. Because in the United States freedom of speech is higher than the law, and protected by the supreme court in the manner I described; it's a separate branch of government.)
Apple is really bad at design
You are leaving out CockroachDB from that group as well. But it's not really a new generation of consensus algorithms. There is still Paxos, 2PC, etc., just more granularity. The trade offs article discusses still apply though, you still trade something in each case for consistency, including latency.

It's a shame these "NewSQL" databases attack AP databases, claiming that most projects don't need them. While in reality latency is super important and consistency is something of an afterthought, even for hardcore RDBMS users.
Profits pay your salary, commie.
That's terrible, and I'm sorry you had to go through all that. My recommendation is that you take your life back, and refuse to allow what she did to you to harm you any more. There's life after this, and come hell or high water, you will get it.
Get involved. Go to meetings. Talk to people. This isn't a technology problem so much as an involvement problem. RSS feeds of some of these things already exist too. But first and foremost, talk to people.
This is incorrect. The Quantum Flow work affects mobile Firefox.

The thing that is not on mobile Firefox is Stylo.
Dan, it might be worth throwing in links to CodeSandbox/StackBlitz/WebpackBin somewhere obvious in addition to CodePen, since each of those are online IDEs oriented towards working with React.
It's a very very nice design. A tiny tiny amount of the brutalism trend but with a comfy spirit. Surprising.
Why? (feel free to link me an informative discourse on the matter)
> Why shouldn't it be allowed to ask people's preferences?

Doesn't that happen all the time in polls and in local, regional, and general elections?
I hope they keep doing well.

And maybe someday, one of these networks will earn the right to make a miniseries out of Daniel Suarez's "Daemon."
Wasn’t this the succession war between Habsburg and Borbon dynasties?

I’ve seen some depictions in paintings [1] where you can see soldiers from the Habsburg (wearing the Catalan berretinas) porting a Spanish flag... I believe it was more a war for two different models for Spain, not for independence or anything like that. Sounds like revisionism to me.

[1] http://www.msde.es/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/2-Embarque-de-...
What? This definitely feels like a fail for privacy, walking around essentially with a beacon.

Though perhaps with MAC Address Randomization it’s a non-issue?

But can’t it still be triangulated?

This seems like a major loss.
Are you implying that Congress isn't part of the Spanish government?
IPFS is immutable and hash addressed, so 'modifying' something yields a new address. Existing documents that point to the modified thing will still point to the old version, unless their links change as well. Effectively, sharing a hash address to the main page is sharing a snapshot of the site.
So... A pink screen on my 6th generation iPod touch is the confirmation that ARkit doesnt work on this device (even with iOS11)
I had not heard this, what is the basis for that belief?

Also he worked for the CIA prior to the NSA:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden
The Quantum project includes more than Stylo and WebRender. There are lots of small performance fixes ("Quantum Flow") in core Gecko code that should improve performance on Android. Stylo for Android is currently targeting Firefox 59. I don't know if WebRender will support Android.
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I don't agree with any part of your statement. But even if I did,

> They've proven useful for buying drugs, but beyond that they've not created many new business opportunities.

that's a pretty huge market. I don't think that you can both acknowledge that something is useful for one of the most fundamental human activities (acquiring psychoactive plants and compounds) and at the same time that it is entirely uninteresting.
Buying a home in NYC is expensive and not really worth it considering the alternative return you would get for the money in an index fund. Renting is actually not that bad though, especially these days in the segment of the market that a software engineer would be looking in. There's been a glut of luxury/luxury-ish new construction that has been driving prices down. And there's many more rentals coming on the market in 2018 [1], so I anticipate rents dropping even more. Like I said though, buying is still expensive for what you get because you're competing with professional investors and other folks who blindly think NYC housing is a good investment no matter what.

[1] https://ny.curbed.com/2017/8/2/16082774/nyc-vacancy-brooklyn...
I’d just add proper diet... nothing extreme, just enough/not too many calories, and the micronutrients needed. Avoiding caffeine and loads of sugar can help with mood and especially anxiety as well, but nothing matters as much as not starving because you don’t feel hungry.
I see IPFS as the single most promising & important software projects in the world today.
That may be the situation in the U.S. – definitely not comparable in most of the EU.

Also worth bearing in mind that not all the money that goes to road infra for motor vehicles can be attributed to the costs of enabling the use of passenger cars, as at least part of that is needed for other aspects of a functioning society (transport, etc.)
This is a fantastic read, I highly recommend it if you like kernel performance stuff.

I did much the same sort of work in SunOS ~25 years ago. Very similar, I fixed the file system so we could run at platter speed and then the VM system couldn't keep up. I wrote over a dozen experimental pageout daemons before I came to the conclusion the stock one was as good as anything I could come up with.

I ended up "solving" the problem in the read ahead logic, when memory was starting to get tight I "freed behind" so this file wouldn't swamp memory. It was a crappy answer but it worked well enough. I suspect there is still an LMXXX in ufs_getpage() about it.

One thing that I did, that never shipped, was to keep track of how many clean/dirty pages were associated with a particular vnode. I wrote a "topvn" that worked like top but looked at vnodes instead of processes. Shannon nixxed, actually took it out of the kernel, because I added a vp->basename that was "a" basename
of the vnode. He didn't like that hardlinks created confusion so he shit canned the whole thing. If anyone has the SCCS history I'm pretty sure it's in there, thought might be 4.x (SunOS) instead of Solaris. I think the full set of things I added was

vp->basename;
vp->pages_clean;
vp->pages_dirty;
vp->last_fault; // timestamp of the last time we mapped/faulted/whatever this page

The advantage of that info is you can very very quickly find pages to be released. If a vnode is all dirty pages you skip that one, if it was all clean pages and last_fault is old, dump 'em all. It's way the heck faster than scanning each page.
> studing a very biased History full of lies like that Catalunuya was a reign in the past.

I'm not sure what do you mean but Catalonia was in fact a reign in the past (please correct me if I am wrong):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Catalonia
As a Spaniard, I don't think there's any risk of civil war at all. The most that can happen out of this all is a vote of no-confidence in Congress against the government if they overstep.
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Fermi Estimates on Postgres Performance
I think the problem is that the binding referendum is not about the independence of the Catalans, but it is more related to the politic corruption and fights among politics. Otherwise there would have been an open debate in the whole country, but a lot of politics stopped it to happen (in both sides).
Their point is that Chrome isn't sending all the data and their privacy policy for CHROME points this out.

This isn't difficult to test: sandbox default chrome in a VM and see what happens.

But they don't need to because of your point. uMatrix makes it plenty clear all your bits are belong to Google.
Why? The company has reported declining revenues for 21 quarters -- more than five years -- is shedding tens of thousands of staff, doesn't generally pay high wages, has no market-leading products, and has a less sexy image than Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and practically every other significant IT company.

(I did say American developers, not Indian developers....)
There are also many many people and windows without flags ;) Once they become an independent country, it will be one where ~50% of the people doesn't want to belong to it. Let's see what kind of "democracia" will they apply there.
I guess he meant kingdom?
I've put my full focus on trying to develope different skills after being used by someone. I'm much better off spending my time on me rather than anyone who doesn't appreciate it. The way I figure, if someone appreciates me enough to be around me, its their choice to do that. In the meantime, there's absolutely nothing wrong with being alone. I've learned to enjoy the solitude while I have it.
I have no skin in the game, but I think that in a democracy if you forbid the people from at least expressing a yes/no on whether they should continue to be governed by the group currently governing them, you are breeding discontent.

If a democracy is nominally a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, then the legitimacy of the government is driven by the continued support of the citizens. If a portion (or region) of your populous wants to no longer be collectively governed by the current group and would instead rather form their own government more attuned to their needs, why not at least let them find out if the other people in their group agree?

I personally think any democratic government should allow for succession.

So, to your point, perhaps the judge is just 100% about following the law, even if they disagree. They could just as well be a 'stay' voter imposing their will on others. In either case, the underlying laws that are forbidding the vote, binding or not, are what I find objectionable. But again, I have no skin in that particular game and am just a bystander.
What you describe here happens not only in Catalonia, but in every other region of the world.

Every government has its media, they control education in a way or another, etc.

However, things get bad when your central government is perceived as acting against yourself in every single move they do.

I agree with you about the risk of this confrontation getting worse. That's why I think a referendum should be made so people can express themselves. People's Party is against, of course. They feel pretty comfortable talking about nothing but Catalonia.
You leave tens of thousands of people to run around trashing public spaces and consuming ~100k each year in emergency healthcare and maintenance costs to repair the damage they do, and that number keeps going up as the property bubble keeps going up.
Yeah sure, people believe what they want to believe. Or we could just accept that until 2013 he was just another wheel in the giant machinery that is the NSA and that his morals changed - for whatever reason. But he was with the bad guys.
.. or how well, if placed in a certain places and subjected to certain patterns of radiation and sound energy, there would result a cascade of events such that a human body ends up on the moon.

Objectively, we went to the moon. That's measurable, and that's us. We are entirely physical beings.
As long as the part that wants to split is also willing to take a fair share of the national debt, I don't see anything amoral with it.
For their own reasons.

If you like it, offer it.
Commercial aircraft have mechanical fallbacks for all controls, and emergency protocols for if some controls don't work (for example, using spoilers to turn if ailerons are inoperative). Many military jets have pure software control, as they are aerodynamically unstable and are unable to be flown safely by hand if the fly-by-wire system goes down; however, the procedure for a system failure in a military jet is usually "eject!", which is not feasible for passenger aircraft.
This is very bad, people should be able to install any app that they want as long as the app manufacturer / owner is ok with it. and they should be able to keep it on their own device for as long as they wish. Google or a government shouldn't have any say in this
I suspect that those who want to separate Catalonia from the rest of the country wouldn’t agree with the human right of the people in the Barcelona metropolitan are to choose by themselves their own future...
It's just that their comment was very surprising to me. Spain is obviously completely modern in every way and a full-size EU participant: therefore, their comment (and followup, "the law is the law") reveals that this structural protection for the idea of free speech, that there is something higher than the law, isn't baked into the structure of modern European democracies via a separated judicial branch or analogous institute of checks and balances. Instead, European democracies are apparently governed by law.

If I'm mistaken, then which European country did you have in mind, which couldn't decide to do the same thing, because their respective institutions would strike down the law as unconstitutional (even if it had majority support)?