skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
bookmark tags are probably going to be the next to go when Firefox decides "too few people are using it".
I realize now I meant some kind of error correcting code, combination. Like this:

1

1 can be followed by either odd numbers or even numbers. If followed by an even number, the next number must be odd.

127

Now if you truncate that to 12, crucially 12 has the same meaning as 11. 1 and 2 to have the same symbol meaning, but are using "sign" to hint at the next number.

This will greatly reduce the chance that a random number will pass for a position. This can be made more elaborate, with more or less advanced encodings. The problem is of course that you waste bits on redundancy and so addresses everything else being equal, will have more characters in them.
Could I get some citations?

What I've seen coming out of Mozilla over tthe past few years, from DeepSpeech to Rust and Servo appears to be foundational technology written by Mozilla engineers. This tech has the potential to do a lot of good, having it be a public resource is important IMO.

Mozilla's intentions and fears seem to be very reasonable, driving what they do from AV1 to fighting DRM, though they have hit dead ends with Firefox OS (now Kai OS) and other side projects, the organization is still doing work that is in the best interest of the common person, unlike what the tech giants have been doing.
Talking Databases with Hadoop Creator Doug Cutting
I am using Sophos
I like that Firefox Test Pilots often produce interesting, visible experiments.

I'm a fan of Firefox Color: https://color.firefox.com - which allows you to express the UI color scheme in a shareable/saveable URL.

There's also Side View: https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/side-view - which allows a persistent column to the side regardless of which tab you're in. Useful on widescreens.
The fact this was broken by stealing a developer's SDK is disappointing. Real hackers would have disassembled the machine to reverse engineer it, rather than using black market/social engineering tricks.
> Would you dispute my characterization of those expired certs as "negligence"?

I would. Does the report indicate that the cert was expired due to budget issues? Does it show that cybersecurity was low priority? Again, the report shows the opposite: they had solid policies and procedures in place, but the failures seem to be in execution and training.

> Monetary penalties for undesirable behavior is insane.

No, that's just fine. And Equifax took a huge stock hit, had to make a potentially cash generating service free for everyone, has to earn back its reputation, etc.

> Let's repeal all tort laws and cancel criminal fines, and make no attempt to levy proportional damages for anything. Let the C-suite keep their options!

Show the criminal activity that resulted in the breach (by Equifax, not the attackers). Show the damages that have resulted from the breach.

> If all else fails, a yellow vest might help. I'm hoping it doesn't come to that here.

If it does, it won't be over the Equifax breach (or even the other 4 larger breaches: https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/marriotts-data-breach-larg...).
Rules for Dating my daughters
Truly lame question, is there any possibility for Amazon or other cloud providers to monitor the executed instructions and their distribution? Could this allow more optimized architectures for specific loads, or would this not bring any actual benefit?
Did the breaking of the copy protection on the Dreamcast really play a big part in Sega's downfall?

If so, it would be one of the only cases I know of where IP piracy led to financial ruin of the content creator.
Surely not, I see cookie banners at the very first chance they can throw them at me, way before I would need them for anything.
It is not tied to Git nor GitHub.
If you speak of for instance Stockholm, they are rare. In some other cities (I don't want to out myself) they are everywhere.
The OED is not the english language.
Red Hat, Google, IBM, and SAP Go Knative for Serverless
here is the constraint: if i ask for help watching the kids because i need to work, relatives come running. if my wife asks the same, no-one volunteers.
Google says Google+ bug affected 52.5M people
I’ve been using Firefox since about 0.93, with about a year in the middle when I used Chrome as my primary browser, because it ran from a USB disk much better than Firefox did at the time, and that was what I needed at the time. (I am glad that Chrome came along, because by showing how bad Firefox was in some areas it spurred Mozilla on to improve it, so that it’s no longer bad like that.)

I look at the sessions of people that use Chrome, and I wonder how they ever manage to get anything done: tab management is uniformly hopeless. Firefox, on the other hand, copes with hundreds of tabs with perfect equanimity. (I currently have 165 tabs spread across three windows—one for personal stuff, one for work stuff, and one for a particular work project; this is a fairly typical number; I might have less than twenty once a year or so, and I’ve had as many as 450 before.)

I use the Tree Style Tab extension for a vertical tab bar with hierarchy. I’ve suggested it to family members once or twice each, and my dad and two of my sisters use vertical tabs (two via Tree Style Tab, one via some other extension) and wouldn’t be without ’em. Most of the rest of the family uses Firefox too, and I believe Firefox is the leading browser used by my coworkers at FastMail by quite a margin.

Firefox’s awesome bar is aptly named. It’s way more useful than Chrome’s.

I am an idealist and not fond of Google, and while that’s a factor, it’s not the primary reason I use Firefox. I use Firefox because I find it simply better. (Same deal with using DuckDuckGo over Google. It’s more usable with keyboard shortcuts and bangs, and finds results every bit as good as Google’s.)

I also use Firefox on my phone; there, it’s more of a mixed bag: it’s markedly slower than Chrome in general, but I can install regular extensions like uBlock Origin and Stylus. There, my dislike of Google is more of a factor.
I like idea to list what Firefox does better.

My addition to the list: Firefox has better kerning support while Chromium team ignores the problem (e.g. https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=888374... and https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=912052).

For the context: I'm software developer working in printing.
Well the hack had a really low entry barrier. As in; no hardware modifications needed. You could just download an ISO from the net and you were good to go with your unmodified Dreamcast.

In contrast the other consoles in that era Xbox, PlayStation, etc. all needed hardware modifications in order to run copied content.
John Romero Is Releasing a New Chapter of 'Doom'
I try to adhere to https://github.com/golang-standards/project-layout, but I find that most repositories just have their own way of doing things. I really wish Go provided a standard structure for organizing projects, as I find it increasingly difficult to understand dozens of different structures.
How to set up a terminal in Windows if you've been using *nix for 20 years
What if people were paid based on how many users your charged scooters had? That would incentivize you to also place the scooter in a prime location each day, optimizing for events, day of week, and competition
While you are correct in stating that the point is only used to resolve the area, you conclusion is off by kilometers (he he he).

When using a point to resolve a 4-digit code (1x1 degree, approx 100x100km), it is true that anywhere within the same 4-digit-equivalent area will result in the same location.

However, while this improves the average case compared to point referencing, it makes the worst case absolutely horrendous: You'll end up referring to a wrong long/lat degree, meaning an error of over 100km!

The closer you are to the edge of a lat/long degree, the more vulnerable you are. If your location is, say, 10 meters from the edge, then 10 meters geocoding imprecision is all it takes to cause a >100km error.

Which is exactly why the plus-code readme says the following, as I have quoted before:

> If the reference location is derived from a town or city name, it is dependent on the accuracy of the geocoding service. Although one service may place "Zurich" close to the Google office, another may move it by a hundred meters or more, and this could be enough to prevent the original code being recovered. Rather than a large city size feature to generate the reference location, it is better to use smaller, neighbourhood features, that will not have as much variation in their geocode results.

In order for the reference system to work, references must either be close to the center of a lat/long degree (which allows great error margins on geocoding), or use points which have consistently high precision.

Neither case result in memorable reference codes like "XYZ Honolulu", so just using the extra 4 digits is the only sensible choice.
Measure, Manifold, Learning, and Optimization: A Theory of Neural Networks
You Can Now Buy RAM That Does Nothing but Look Cool
Show HN: Data-mocks – easy API mocking for web applications
> It could be they are lying. It could be they are not. It could be they are particularly stupid.

At the point where one can prove that one part is too (trollish || stupid) I think it is reasonable to limit how much we care about their opinions.
What if:

> Genetics regulations, while I absolutely realize their necessity, have made it difficult for me to expand my side business into the EU. This would just be another road block for innovation.

When I look at GDPR I see a safeguard against mass surveillance and dystopian add ruled societies.
They were also really good. He certainly doesn't seem to have lost his touch.
GNU Emacs' software stack doesn't look similar to the Lisp Machine in any way. Similarity: Emacs Lisp is a small language based on Maclisp. The MIT Lisp Machine was developed in Zetalisp and later in Common Lisp. as such both are written in a dialect of Lisp (GNU Emacs has also some C code). But both dialects are very different.

As such basically ALL software of the MIT Lisp Machine is heavily object-oriented - unlike GNU Emacs. It uses an extensive graphical/textual GUI layer and abstractions like applications, command loops, servers, clients, ... On the Lisp Machine an editor is an application, but not the main abstraction (unlike GNU Emacs) - even the Listener on Lisp Machine is not in any way related to Emacs (minus some keyboard commands).

Thus the closest software stack to the Lisp Machine are by far Common Lisp + McCLIM + McCLIM-applications (like the McCLIM listener and others) and Common Lisp + CLIM + CLIM-environment.
Official link: https://www.romerogames.ie/sigil/

Romero did a (really good) Doom level a few years ago too.

It's E1M8, here's the link:

https://twitter.com/romero/status/688054778790834176
It's all fun and games until we realize our web designers put a four megabyte jpeg on the index page.
It was also believed that Facebook and Google were GDPR ready and only them could be. That's not what happened.
Forth... so alluring, yet so scary. I am afraid doing it will make me do great things no one else can understand and maintain. :)
No, that’s bookmark keywords, which are not widely used and difficult to discover, and for which there’s a rough alternative in search engines. I believe it’s on the chopping block, or at least it looked to be a few months ago, as I discovered when looking through Bugzilla to see about exposing bookmark keywords to WebExtensions so that I could make an extension that would implement DuckDuckGo’s !bangs in the browser.

Tags, on the other hand, are actually shown in the regular UI without needing to open the full bookmark manager. Much more discoverable, at least.
What I saw in China with Liubike is that middle age people make business "renting" out fully charged Liubikes
I think part of the issue here is that a plain English reading of the GDPR implies such appalling totalitarian overreach that most people find it hard to believe that it can really be what's meant.

I mean, you've just agreed with my reading that the GDPR gives me the power to reach into your personal inbox and censor your records of communications with me. That sort of power for bad actors to carry out historical revisionism on what until now we'd've thought of as someone else's data is unprecedented and - at least to me - a pretty frightening threat to freedom of information and a culture of truth. And meanwhile we've got people running around Hacker News saying "GDPR is all wonderful, it's just common-sense privacy protections, and if your business isn't spying on users without their consent and selling their data you'll be fine".

You're clearly confident that the (to me, somewhat dystopian) interpretations we discussed just above will hold up in court. I'm not, even though they worry me and seem to me to be the most straightforward plain English reading of the bill. That doubt - and associated anger at the failure of the EU to bring greater clarity to these sorts of points before now - seem to me to be reasonable, and not a worthy target for condescension.
> Maybe Chrome can compete with itself by swapping out the rendering and Javascript vms.

Not that I have any insider information but from the complaints I've read about how the committees that handle promotion requests at Google, I'd be surprised if there aren't Google engineers already trying their hand at this.

What I'd like to know is how much does Chrome cost Google? I've read that Mozilla spends just under half a billion dollars a year so I'd expect Google likely spends at least a billion a year on Google Chrome (and associated tasks). Not sure how we'd come up with a number though because I wouldn't know how to put a price tag on things like webp, webm, depot tools, or the Google infrastructure that Google Chrome team gets to use (presumably for free).
The Writer Who Destroyed an Empire
Maybe some people wouldn't consider it strictly sci-fi but I really enjoyed "Upstream Color" and reading what Carruth was planning to create with "A Topiary" I really hope someone gives him the funding and creative control to complete a project on the scale of that.
JIRA is in desperate need of refinement
Absolutely stupid... I don't want my poduction pipeline to be injecting evergreenshittery I haven't revised/tested.
> I currently have 165 tabs spread across three windows

How do you manage this setup? I'm specifically interested in how you can assign tabs to different windows and have this information persist across restarts.
His faith background plays out more explicitly in his doctoral thesis; several ideas therein were precursors to his later-popularized notions:

https://www.amazon.com/Classical-Trivium-Place-Thomas-Learni...

Short review summarizing the work: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Phil_Rose/publication/3...
Pointing out hypocrisy in the Chinese government's policies (competition, human rights, etc.) is not 'bashing'. Just as pointing out those things in other governments is not X bashing.

The reason it seems to occur more often with China is because China is the rising power, and probably the power of the 21st century - its actions will be scrutinised because its actions have major consequences for the rest of the world.

I will happily 'bash' my (UK) government over a whole range of things. Censorship in creative industries is not one of them. China has a long history of creative suppression and censorship.

I would assume that games sympathetic to the causes of Afghans, Iranians, Iraqis, Syrians, and others are not 'banned' or creatively stifled, just that there is no commercial interest or reward in such games. This is not censorship by a government. There's nothing stopping anybody making games on such subjects.

That's the difference between China (and other similar governments) and, for lack of a better category, western governments. China's government will intervene in creative processes, western governments will not.
No true Scotsman in full play here.
CFCs wasnt a wicked problem. There were alternatives for the market and it had no cost to the consumer or society.
Stuff like this gives me a really nice, warm pride in the human race. As if this is what we were born for: to get out there and do something incredibly hard and life-threatening and on a monumental scale. I'm reminded of reading the transcripts of Operation Epsilon [0]; the foremost scientists in the world didn't think we could make an atomic bomb, but by concentrating incredible amounts of incredible people we got there in a few short years. Impossible things are frequently possible when a committed group of people set out to do them.

In particular, as the article notes, prion research is damned hard, and they had zero prior experience, and it's not the kind of thing you can put together yourself in your backyard with eBay supplies. But love and pure force of will pushed them forward and I don't think words could ever express how beautiful that is.

[0] Operation Epsilon, in a nutshell, was when we took a bunch of German nuclear scientists and put them in a bugged room and told them about Hiroshima and listened to their reaction, in order to figure out how close the Germans were to the bomb. I highly recommend reading the transcripts, they're fascinating.
Facebook’s role in the French protests has polarized observers
Not really. I think it was policy back when it was for colleges, when they exploded they basically renounced it because it was a hassle to check. Most people simply kept doing it, because if your friends use their name why should you hide?
> Letting the local market compete is "bullshit" now?

It was bullshit before too. This is nothing but another form of candlemaker's petition.[1] Why is welfare of corporations more important than free choice of consumers? Why not let consumers voluntarily decide where they want to take their business?

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/08/candle-makers-pe...
Why its okay to do less and talk more
Benchmark from NVidia Shows MXNet Outperforming Pytorch and Tensorflow
Amazon is not the only game in town. They are competing not on cost but on feature set. However, for them running their own chips is mainly a way to optimize cost. Open source hardware is going to be a key enabler for them. Right now both Apple and Amazon are still using arm based processors, which are not open sourced but very common. The whole point of that is that it allows them to leverage open source compiler tool chains, open source kernels, etc. Replicating that stuff internally as a proprietary me-too style implementation is stupendously expensive. Neither Amazon nor Apple do that.

Instead they roll their own chips optimized for their own use case. As open source chipsets based on e.g. risc-v become more popular, tool support for that will become more popular and it will become a natural choice for building custom hardware. Breaking apart the near monopoly that Intel has had on this since the nineteen seventies is a good thing IMHO. Having a not so benevolent dictator (Intel) that has arguably been asleep at the wheel for a while now is slowing everybody down. This is what is driving people to do their own chips: they think they can do better.

The flip side is that companies building their own custom chipsets need to maintain interoperability. If they diverge too much from what the rest of the world is doing, they risk isolating themselves at great cost because it makes integrating upstream changes harder and it requires modifying standard tool chains and maintaining those modifications. Creating your own chip is one thing. Forking, e.g. llvm or the linux kernel is another thing. You need some damn good reasons to do that and opt out of all the work others are doing continually on that. Some people do of course (e.g. Google forked the linux kernel a few years back) but it buys them a lot of hassle mostly and not a whole lot of differentiation. They seem to be gradually trying to get back to running main line kernels now.

If Amazon, Apple, MS, Google, Nvidia, etc. each start doing their own chip designs, they'll either create a lot of work for themselves reinventing a lot of wheels or they get smart about collaborating on designs, code, and standardized tool chains. My guess is the latter is already happening and is exactly what enables this to begin with. Standard tool chains, open chip designs, an open market of chip manufacturers, etc. are what is enabling this. Embedded development was locked up in completely proprietary tool and hardware stacks for decades. That is now changing. You are describing the past few decades not the future.
I use Firefox not because I am scared of Chrome or Chromium. I mainly use it because it has Tree Style Tab extension and it's mobile version allows installing Ublock Origin adblocker. And then to get sync and all the nice things across the board, I use it on all my devices.
I don't see the bad power consumption on my MacBook as some have mentioned and it doesn't feel slower than Chrome.
No, WiFi.
I consider Amazon as a big box retailer, and commingling means buying from Amazon was identical to buying third party.

Though, I guess that changed over time and I now consider Amazon more a shady market stall.
Renewables arent going to solve our increasing demand for energy and thus not really more important than to make oil cleaner and nuclear more popular. Renewables er themselves not as clean and certainly not as scaleable as nuclear.
I haven't got time to read all this dissertation on an interesting topic at the moment, but I was surprised to find that the relevant work of the other great "Donald" (Knuth) is not mentioned. He called it 'literate programming'. Here's a reference: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/lp.html
To a third world country without subsidies? Hardly.
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I followed a similar path as you, I didn’t learn 3D modelling though, but I went down the hex editor path modifying the doom exe to make rockets move faster. It took me aaaaages to learn this (probably 2-3 months total time over a period of years)

Echoing you too, Thank you Mr Romero!

I can’t wait to play this for the pure hit of nostalgia
We certainly don't know the full story, so I am not giving an absolute judgement. It was just a guess. I have to say that the mother is using her daughter for her articles is already a huge red flag to me. Especially since according to article, the mother is perfect and it is all the weirdness of her daughter that is to blame.

On the other hand, of course, people have to be able to discuss their parenting issues, and it is important that there are also articles about that. I don't know a good solution for that problem.
As much as I would have liked them to, it doesn’t fix the problem of people not testing in Edge, which is why they’ve gone for Chromium in the first place.
I feel like "gatekeeping" is a more appropriate term, but yeah.
1. Send tab to device

2. Reader mode

3. Addons on mobile (pretty much just for blocking unwanted requests to make things way faster on slow connection and to protect my privacy)

4. Facebook container (same for Google would be nice)

5. Taking screenshots

6. Always enable zoom on mobile

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/send-tab-firefox-ios-yo...

[2] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-reader-view-clu...

[4] https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/facebook-container-extensio...

[5] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-screenshots
Discussion on a free PVS-Studio license for projects posted on GitHub
Sad story. Steal. And bring down the shop.
Your aging brain: Is it 'use it or lose it'?
but their plan C (revive the pentium III architecture) worked perfectly.

We will have to see if they have plan C now(plan B being yet another iteration of the lake architecture with little changes).
why? that article provides a summary and is more interesting to read. not everyone wants to read an 80 page paper. i'd understand if the article didn't add any value at all, but i don't think that's the case here.