skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wealth would cause happiness, just at the beginning, the anticipation of all the stuff you can do, but as time goes on, it becomes normal and for some can lead to reverse as the disease of more infects them. That’s amongst many other factors that can mess a person up
The "Mitigation" section here gives a friendly explanation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row_hammer#Mitigation

Summarizing:

The DRAM is refreshed every 64ms, which isn't always frequent enough to prevent bit errors. This could be solved by an 8ms refresh interval, but performance would suffer.

Several clever techniques (hacks) have been thought up to provide as-needed refreshing of specific memory rows that are at risk. These have minimal performance impacts, vs a faster refresh rate overall.
Disable Shield Studies in Firefox
As a regular user, it was worth it. Firefox was honestly pretty shit on (at least on Windows) pre-e10s. Before, I had to kill firefox every few days because CPU usage would climb for no reason. Since then, the only restarts I do are for updates.

As a browser, it works much better, and as an extension developer as well, I'm glad I can write one extension that works in most browsers now.

Yeah, it sucks they removed the level of customization they used to have, but overall that changes are welcome.

That said, this whole thing is a huge weakness to me: having some organization decide what I can put onto my own computer is a frustrating tradeoff, but now it's gone from a nuisance to a real fucking problem.

I'm not an imbecile. I can manage my own browser plugins. Give me a switch to install XPIs without having some authority sign them, or at least verify once on install and piss off after that. I don't like my devices phoning home every 30s to make sure I'm "safe."
Against Cheerfulness
Thanks for the feedback.

How is TimescaleDB doing with compression by the way? Meaning if you compare your raw data and the disk usage, what's the ratio?
Security UK taxman falls foul of GDPR, agrees to wipe 5M voice recording
Don't think so, from what I understand, the problem was the intermediate certificate expired, it would have expired regardless if there were no automatic updates.
The blog post linked by this HN post is the official URL for the patch. Any installation method not described there is unofficial DIY, no matter how Mozilla-signed any given version of the XPI is.
> As the philosopher John Rawls speculated....

The reason for my seemingly useless pedantic correction is because it seems to me that using language like "pointed out", as if "a society of happiness-seekers would have no reason not to borrow heavily and leave the debt to future generations" is a matter of fact (he has no way of knowing such things, obviously) results in valuable ideas and perspectives being rejected by those who have a more rationalist approach to ideas.
I spent 4 years as a professional python developer.

We certainly shipped (using django) and it was certainly slow, and remains a painfully slow very successful enterprise app.

I’m not arguing that the slowness is deal breaking, but it is slow, and it does, routinely, break the SLAs its supposed to meet.

So... unusably slow? no.

...but slow? yes, it really is.

imo. your milage may vary. /shrug
That is accurate :)
I think you're confused about what absolutism means. Just because I want 100% coverage when achievable does not mean I am being absolutist.
Has the UK begun adopting electric buses? They seem to be getting tested or rolled out gradually everywhere these days.
Hey, that sounds interesting. Could you elaborate?
As a native Japanese speaker, I’d like to hear your theory.
Thanks for sharing this.

From product perspective I don’t understand why would I prefer textual representation of the bot to Amazon’s imagery? One selling point could be human like AI to better understand what to look for, but this is really hard.
It’s not an SSL certificate. It’s a certificate that’s used by the browser to validate the signature of an installed extension. It’s baked into the release.
At this point, I have to figure Mozilla has been infiltrated by saboteurs. It’s maliciousness masquerading as incompetance. The inverse of Hanlon’s Razor, to be sure.
Firefox/Shield
Thankfully the guys over at Sourcegraph feel differently about how searchable projects should be.
Another alternative that I use as a daily browser is qutebrowser. Basically the same idea, but with Python instead. Also comes with nice vim-bindings for navigation: https://qutebrowser.org/
I think that's both duolingo and more her effort to find ways to apply the language to her interests. I didn't have literature in my language classes and generally wasn't taught about the opportunity to "live" in my target language until I got to college IIRC.

Here in the US, we go hard on repeated rote memorization and mastery of minute things that don't matter as much.
Why not? BBC has an operating budget of about 6 billion dollars a year. It has over 20,000 employees - it's enormous and that money isn't borrowed, it's simply given to them by legal fiat.

The BBC is thus in a stronger financial position than Netflix, which ultimately must yield RoI and has been around far less time, so has had less cumulative spend on content. Whilst Netflix has a larger content budget for now, it's only approx 2x the BBC's spend.

In reality the BBC is outcompeted because it's not a global operation, because it spends a lot of money on non-internet streaming things like radio and news, because its not really exposed to competitive pressure except in the most indirect ways, and because they'd rather sell shows to foreign firms than keep the rights, buy more rights and stream internationally.
It's installed as a study addon, only Mozilla could install these.
Meanwhile, the US military is planning how to deal with so-called "terrorists," many of whom were peasants sold to warlords to collect bounties, to die of old-age in Gitmo. Also, ripping children from their parents in migrant and asylum-seekers concentration camps. Pot, meet kettle.
The README links to this dead link:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/komiser/aws/policy.json

Also, wasn't AWS deprecating links like this?
Firefox/Shield/Shield Studies
Path style can be used in hostnames?
What fraction of the policy changes of your lifetime did you have a part in or even support? Irrespective of the answer, you can expect to be blamed for them via memes 40 years from now. ;)
And a hundred times so for any public repos. There are bots feeding on the GitHub firehose, scavenging for accidentally committed credentials.

A few years back (2015 or so) the average time from push-to-repo to AWS account compromise was 6 minutes. Surely that time has only gone down, and the number of different credentials identified has gone up.
Anyone else feel like language learning is overrated? (Yes I’m an uncultured provincial American and I’m sorry). Unless you frequently travel somewhere where another language is spoken, have family that speaks another language, or want to travel places like that, it’s hard for me to see why learning more about your own language, math or something, socializing, learning about how your government and society work, or something else wouldn’t be more rewarding in the long run. And, actually be able to give you some reward over a reasonable period of time (1 year) versus learning a language where I think you’ll reasonably at it for at least half a decade to achieve proficiency unless you’re really dedicated or move there.
China should finally get reprimanded
I'm sure your parent comment was being sarcastic. The quotes were missing.
The sad reality is Mozilla has been losing mindshare to Chrome for a long time and this will rapidly accelerate it. People don't expect things to break. They expect things to work, and when things break they get angry.

I love Firefox. It's my daily driver. It will continue to be. But this is a huge fuck-up and they're probably going to pay big in usership because of it.
What causes that need? Your job requires it? Or your social group will ostracize if you don't keep up?
It is an interactive environment (not much use for a debugger).
> what does balanced mean to people who comment on the lack of balance in the news?

If this is an honest question, does that mean you don't actually know?

It's not that hard. Just find out and present the facts even handedly. Make an attempt at see things from the different perspectives.

Well, it shouldn't be hard for a normal grownup, but it sure seems like it is for a lot of people.

Or perhaps the real issue is not how hard it is, but that there is no demand for that type of journalism, so the market doesn't produce it.
I have a bunch of privacy-enhancing addons installed, which have now all been disabled. If I hadn't read HN this morning, I wouldn't even have known why. Until now, I had no idea that it was even possible to remotely disable my addons.

And now Mozilla are saying that the "fix" is to allow them to install & run "studies" on my machine? What are they smoking? I'm having a hard time trusting a company that randomly & remotely disabled all my addons, regardless of the cause.
(almost) All the nouns ending with "a" are feminine - la silla, la mesa, la casa, la luna, la montaña. (Notable exception: el agua). Also feminine all that end in "ción" such as: la nación, la configuración, la confirmación.

Almost all the other nouns are masculine - el carro, el niño, el oso, el barrio, el avión, el camión, el árbol.

Pretty sure with those 2 simple rules you will catch 90% of genders right.
There are at least three:

1. Anaconda sells support that many companies will value, https://www.anaconda.com/support/

2. Anaconda checks the installed versions of packages in the distribution are compatible.

3. Conda has an “environments” feature so a developer/scientist can switch between many, project-specific development environments, https://docs.anaconda.com/ae-notebooks/user-guide/adv-tasks/...

Edit: Also, there is a distribution for Windows that’s handy when your employer has you using Windows. And, depending on your software approval process, it can be convenient to get one package approved (Anaconda) instead of every package Anaconda includes.
this is an example of where experience matters. kids these days don’t get to experience deep bugs like this. and they are the worse for it.
GP said

» It would mean they can't roll out things like hardware acceleration or Stylo or Webrender as quickly despite their numerous manifest benefits.

You said:

» Eventually Nightly would be completely different from stable, especially with the switch to Rust. So then Mozilla would have to maintain 2 completely different versions of FF - that's a lot more work!

As unofficially mandated by the new owners of the Internet - the Google Chrome team - the time between two "major" versions of Firefox is six (to eight) weeks. Yes, we can wait six to eight weeks for new features or twelve to eighteen weeks from trunk to stable (x2 of six to eight).

What we should do is enourage a wider swath of the population to adopt Firefox developer edition and Firefox nightly.

» A better middle-ground is to let things get tested by those who opt-in to it (using Nightly and Beta versions), and slowly trickle changes down. That way none of the published versions are so different that Mozilla needs more staff to handle the different versions.

Thank you. This is exactly what I want. I am not saying things should never change. I'm just saying don't experiment in stable. We are already hemorrhaging market share as is and this nonsense doesn't help.
So instead of tying your horse to one dead end platform - .Net Framework - you’re okay with tying your horse to two? It was clear that C++/CLI was a dead end a decade ago.

When Microsoft mentions thier “strategies” for various .Net languages, you notice which one is missing?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/the-net-language-strat...

I’m very much a .Net fan but it makes about as much since as a developer to tie your fate to .Net framework or Windows only development in general in 2019 as it did for all of the companies not to move from VB6 after .Net was the future.

Even Azure host more Linux VMs than Windows.
Oracle fights with the open source community and loses, again. They just keep repeating the same mistakes over and over. What always happens is the Open Source people say "screw Oracle" and fork the project and the community comes along with them.

The Hudson/Jenkins and OpenOffice/LibreOffice fails were two of the quickest and most obvious. Java EE seems like the same sort of thing, but much bigger and in slow motion.
xpinstall.signatures.required in about:config is the switch you are asking for. Though, it does not allow one time checks at install, but a choice of regular checks, or no checks at all.
I mean, _fine_, but Boomers did ruin everything.
Thank you for the inspiration regarding your acquaintance. I am trying this now with my wife who knows Spanish. We are doing Sabado por la mañana español. Lots of fun already!
In the manifest it has a special "experiment_apis":

"experiment_apis": {
"skeleton": {
"schema": "experiments/skeleton/schema.json",
"parent": {
"scopes": [
"addon_parent"
],
"script": "experiments/skeleton/api.js",
"paths": [
[
"experiments",
"skeleton"
]
]
}
}
}

Only Mozilla can use these on release versions of Firefox. If you want some more details then try here: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/toolkit/components/e...
> It's installed as a study addon, only Mozilla could install these.

And that gives it access to use `Cc`/Components.classes?
>Then you're arguing against your original point because they don't support free markets, they just think they do.

That doesn't contradict my original point.

>says he's for free markets, limited government, and against monopolies.

Yes, free market advocates are against monopolies, but believe that they're caused by government regulation. Moreover, when libertarians and free market advocates support limited government, they typically mean a government which only provides a few very basic services, such as military, police, etc. It has nothing to do with regulation.
I have assumed that something like Alexa would be the next obvious quantum leap for language learning - is anything like that out there?
I believe they've started the taxation in some sense. I can no longer drive my old diesel car in London without paying £18 per day for the privilege. That's enough to make me never want to drive it in central London.
Even on completely isolated distributions like Tor Browser or enterprise ESR installs. The only way you avoided this is if you were running Nightly or Developer or the normal one on Linux, and you disabled signature checks.
Having been to Bhutan the GNH thing was made up a bit on the fly by one of their politicians and the populace are a little cynical about it along the lines of voters having doubts about Cameron's big society and making America great again. That said I wish them luck and think it's a noble objective.

The 2019 world happiness report had Bhutan at number 95 out of 156 countries which looks kinda mediocre though I think they are happier than most countries at their GNP/capita level (about $3k/yr, more at PPP). The top countries in that report are the nordic ones, Finland, Denmark, Norway and Iceland at the top.
Can anybody confirm thst Mozilla is scrubbing replies on the linked page that mention about:config and toggling "xpinstall.signatures.required" ? I find it suspicious that no replies there mention it.
Learning a language teaches you deeply about that culture and gives you perspectives on your own culture from the standpoint of another.
Quantum Computers Break Encryption – Shor's Algorithm Explained
Org-mode + jupyter-python https://github.com/dzop/emacs-jupyter#org-mode-source-blocks
"Those extensions are making it harder to correlate your interactions with different companies"

No, this is not a reason.
The study pushed, but all my installed plugins are listed as "unsupported" and says "<plugin> could not be verified for use in Firefox and has been disabled."
I'm also interested in why existing adds-ons are failing to run due to this problem. (There was a similar question in another thread about the issue here at HN.)

I understand why an add-on update or new installation would be prevented from succeeding by a certificate expiration. But why would a certificate expiration prevent an already-installed from running? Any already-installed add-ons were previously validated at installation time and should (IMO) run as-is. It seems unnecessary to continuously check the status of an add-on's certificate if it has not been changed. Am I missing something?
China: How Mass Surveillance Works in Xinjiang
Cost of serving billions of images per month
Reminds me of that octo-human hybrid imprisoned in a robot that looks like a giant walking smartphone from "Twenty-First Century in Twenty-One Words or Less":

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hqhjRSSvrKk/WgulKWrSrpI/AAAAAAAAW...
Is that site legit? Why don't they even have a HTTPS redirect?
Can this also play to multiple devices (at the same time), while keeping the audio synchronized ?
Upvoted because I want to see replies to this question.

My intuition is that language learning has other positive effects than just the practical one of allowing you to converse with other people in that language. For instance you say that math would be more rewarding in the long run. But why? Most people really don't have a practical need for math past arithmetic. But your intuition is that it is nonetheless rewarding. I strongly agree! But I think the same is true of language learning, for very similar reasons.

But I don't really know if my intuition is right. Maybe someone else here has a better answer.
theres some discussion regarding a hotfix that uses this developers tool for deployment.
typically it can be disabled, and this is where you would want to look first to see what your setting at, if you even have one, [some dont!?] then set it accordingly.

Why is this important? some intermediary certificate expired and mozilla FF apps are ^disabled^ so they are pushing cert updates over this mechanism.
That's a good question. I'm not sure if there is a better way but I would just delete it from <profile>/extensions. You can find <profile> by going to about:support and looking for "Profile Directory" (6th from the top for me).
Maybe, but if that’s the sole purpose I would prefer to follow the traditional route of Latin/Greek classics
I'm willing/trying to pull the fix manually, but that doesn't work either.
I used this code and it worked. However, I just received Mozilla fix. Do I need to now delete this code from the browser console?
Duolingo also has a website, which is what I used studying German 6 years ago. Not only did it not have ads (don't know if that's still true), input with he keyboard was much easier and I felt gave me a little more memory than swiping a keyboard.

At that time each grammar lesson also had a page summarising the rules you were about to learn with examples and explainations.
Not initiated by user != remotely initiated. And agreed no the fix side, they should have posted how to do it yourself as well.
The priority field just plays no practical role here since the bug was immediately escalated.
Make sure to get out of your chair and walk a little every hour or so. And don't slouch in your chair, make sure you have a chair with good lumber support, or at least something to help elevate. More importantly, look into exercises that strengthen your posture, yoga, pilates, core strength workouts. We really weren't made to be sitting at a desk 8-10 hours a day. Not trying to sound hippy dippy, but it's the truth.
Similar stuff can happen with NAND flash but the NAND flash controller can have algorithms to intervene.
The South Circular Road (where this girl lived) is due to be the boundary of the ULEZ[1] in 2021 when it is expanded.

At the moment it only covers a very small area of the central congestion zone (smaller than Zone 1).

If anything the pollution there is likely to become worse as it forms the official diversion.

We already see this; Marylebone Road, the current northern boundary of the ULEZ and Congestion Charge zone, is one of the most polluted roads in the capital.

I work around there. Me and my team actively avoid walking along the main road for that reason.

[1] Ultra Low Emission Zone https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/driving/ultra-low-emission-zone
> And profit isn't a real consideration for major news companies.

You names WaPo and NYT but those are tiny in reach and revenue compared to CNN or Fox News, which are both extremely profitable. Bezos WaPo for $250 million which is barely more than a third of CNN's profit in 2018 [1] and Fox's profitability is even bigger [2] with a giant warchest after the sale of its other media assets. The television news channels that most Americans get their news from are very profit motivated and some like Fox have found idealogical niches that are consistent across media empires like News Corp but they all just push outrage for profit.

[1] https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/cf4270

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-28/fox-ne...
Cause of death lists the root cause, so while she may have died from respiratory failure, she had respiratory failure due to air pollution.
No one remotely disabled anything. There's a certificate deployed with Firefox. The certificate Firefox used to check addons was only valid till yesterday. So, when the browser started next time it couldn't validate the addons and disabled them. That all happened locally.
Much appreciated. I have been learning Mandarin on Duolingo. It was mostly just for fun, but at some point it starts getting a bit frustrating (lack of notes, topics, reading longer texts).
Your addons have not been remotely disabled. They were marked as trustworthy by a certificate that expired and thus are no longer considered trustworthy. The effect is similar, the mechanism is different. You could also enable loading of unsigned extensions, that would “fix” the issue, too.
Interesting; I'm not sure if it counts as "in HTML5" but I see they are referenced in the spec.

It's still not something you can rely upon.
no. Humans, like all animals have free will.
And the only person who is saying that is so (with a lot of people disagreeing) is someone who “work[s] at Oracle on VM research”
China: let's lock up these people because of their race or beliefs

US: we need to lock these people up because (gitmo) they're terrorists, or (border) they committed a felony.

Yep - they're completely equivalent!
They have not remotely disabled addons. The certificate expired and the addons did the correct thing when connection couldn’t be established. Nobody triggered a switch to disable addons.
This is not entirely accurate. Nothing was done remotely to disable the add-ons. It happened locally. A certificate that's on your machine as part of the Firefox install expired. When that happened, add-ons that were signed via a cert chain that included the expired one started appearing to be invalidly signed. And that's why it requires an update to completely fix. That part is remote, because they need to push a new valid certificate to you to replace the old one.

I do think that the UX should ideally be a bit more graceful; one of my add-ons is Multi-account Containers and its being disabled suddenly caused the window I was actively browsing in to just close, among other side effects.

But that kind of UX polish for what should be an exceptional case is obviously not going to be super-high priority, unfortunately.
Its a story needing coverage, regardless of relative severity.
France broke the EU deficit rules for over a decade. Everybody talked about it, but nobody acted.

If a EU state refuses to do a thing, that's basically it.

https://piie.com/blogs/realtime-economic-issues-watch/france...