skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's very hard to see how you reached this conclusion, which seems to show more knee-jerk bias on your part.

The article is (in the main) about our relationship to news. The ever increasing saturation of 'news' into our everyday lives with constant demands for our attention and the impact on individuals and society.

It actually advocates rising above news and connecting on a human level with each other rather than political in order to push the news cycle out of our lives.

Here are some quotes from the article:

"The belief that we’re morally obliged to stay plugged in – that this level of time commitment and emotional investment is the only way to stay informed about the state of the world – begins to look more and more like an alibi for our addiction to our devices."

"At Thanksgiving with your Trumpist uncle, the point is not to seek agreement or compromise, but to grasp that we are not fully defined by our political allegiances – and that, as Talisse puts it, “in order to treat each other as political equals, we must see each other as something more than citizens”. "

And the last paragraph:

"But it may be the only practical way for us to begin to foster a change. If the colonisation of everyday life by the news is damaging both to ourselves and to democratic politics, we ought not to collaborate unthinkingly with that process. Far from it being our moral duty to care so much about the news, it may in fact be our duty to start caring somewhat less."
In my opinion you're correct, it doesn't solve the problem of querying large sets of timeseries data over a long time span.

It doesn't pre-aggregate your data so if you're trying to get aggregates for a large data set, it's not fast.
Very few people use Signal or Psiphon in China just FYI
It is sort of old school common knowledge from where I am that nursing mother's meal choices impacts digestion of baby. Interesting to note what is obvious in one culture/place could be totally novel thing in another.
I thought about the same thing when I read that part. The formula "exception proves the rule" is generally misused (people not knowing that it's based on the archaic usage of prove which was "to test") in daily usage but this author, who is listed as a contributing editor for The Englewood Review of Books, making this mistake seems less likely.

Interestingly, Wikipedia has an in-depth article on the usage of this phrase: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception_that_proves_the_rule. It's stated that this phrase is derived from a legal principle of republican Rome: exceptio probat regulam in casibus non exceptis ("the exception confirms the rule in cases not excepted").

So, in this sense, the fact that books with old protagonists are rarely bestsellers proves the "rule" that the author stated.
Apologies. Indeed, not all generated clang eBPF is loadable eBPF. So we can sum up:

- Clang can compile C

- eBPF backend can generate the eBPF bytecode for subset of IR (AFAIU not all IR, not all "C" is okay for eBPF)

- verifier can accept or reject the generated eBPF.

The goal is to write C in such a way that will be generally sensible C but that will consistently yield loadable eBPF programs. This is not easy! Just recently I was debugging code where clang optmizer decided to merge two loads of 2 bytes into one load of 4 bytes. This made the verifier unhappy - the specific loads are rewritten to helper calls by verifier. The verifier knows what to do on 2-byte load at offset X, and 2-byte load at offset X+2. But it has no idea what to do with 4-byte load at offset X!

Writing C programs that will compile to valid, loadable eBPF requires a fair amount of voodoo.
That's fair. I suppose I treat learning a language as more utilitarian. I need the external motivating factor to stick with it.

Languages often have neat features, but that isn't enough for me to prioritize learning one above other things.
Why doesnt xpinstall.signatures.required=false do anything?
> Social justice shouldn’t be enforced by the law

Social Justice nonsense thinking is being put into law in quite a few places in Europe, Canada and the UK where I live. It is causing all sorts of problems. The hate speech laws are probably the worst are causing people to be arrested and put in Jail over rap lyrics.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/02/27/chelsea-russell-and...

> it should be a personal, moral imperative rather than a legally enforced one. That doesn’t mean there are no social consequences for being a selfish jerk, but anyone calling for the “pronoun police” is in a very small minority.

Even when they aren't. The social justice crew form a mob and just won't leave someone alone. So why is it then if you don't agree with the pronoun police that people will harass you? Toby Young in the UK was hounded out of more than one job because he had the "wrong" politics. He is only one of hundreds of instances where this happened.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDDr4EG3SIc

So there is no technically no legal consequences but Social Justice gives people a free pass to harass those who disagree with them. To the point where people can't get jobs and can't live there life for the crime of disagreeing with the mob.

Social Justice === Mob Justice as far as I am concerned.
grep -iR normandy

I expect code related to normandy to be ~1k LOC in size and probably written in JS. I haven't checked though, because I don't really care today.
> Am I mistaken about any of this?

You can't revoke a GPL license unless the licensee violated the GPL. Additionally, the GPL has this nifty "Automatic Licensing of Downstream Recipients" clause. In other words, if you put some code out there under the GPL, there is no way for you to un-GPL that particular code. Even if you bring out a new version of it that isn't GPL any more, the old version still is. (This is quite important to make copyleft work)
Politico says that this website is part of a Russian government institution.⁰ Perhaps that’s bunkum, but both sides fund propaganda about the other; most of the time, they will fund propaganda about things that are true—I remember Xinhua writing something entirely true about police brutality in the US for example—because true things are more credible.

The article, moreover, contains something of a non sequitur. The terrorist attacks it cites are from before the terror attacks. So at the very least the approach the CCP used between that time and the concentration camps was sufficient, and the recent escalation insufficient.

It is also worth asking why the Uyghurs became violent in the first place. China was one of the powers that opposed the Soviets in Afghanistan; this, of course, involved the creation of a violent Islam to oppose their rule. The Strike Hard campaign was not obviously born of necessity; the 90s were not a time of substantial strife. Terrorism is something of a weasel word; the use of violence is fairly common and oughtn’t to render an entire people pariahs. Moreover the CCP response is grossly disproportionate—the detention of millions in response to terrorist attacks on the scale of, at most, thousands, is entirely unjustified.

As for the use of “separatism” as code for “a priori bad”, this usage is entirely unjustified.

It is quite plausible that the Americans are not acting benevolently. That is not an excuse to ignore the plight of the Uyghurs, documented by others.¹

0. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/06/12/how-russi...

1. https://jamestown.org/program/xinjiangs-re-education-and-sec... — on the nature of the campaign; https://www.hrw.org/report/2019/05/01/chinas-algorithms-repr... — on mass surveillance.
Wordlist, rules and masks from Kaonashi project
It only takes ~5 minutes per day. My girlfriend has well over 1000 days. I got ill at some point, forgot my streak freeze, and had to give up at around 500 or so. Then I lost interest... I did miss the whole update where they started with advertisements to pay for the application (which are akin to spam because apparently 'no' does not mean 'no'). I'd have quit over that regardless. Though perhaps a webbrowser or PWA would do the trick (I use the Android version).

That being said, I did learn quite some Spanish and I'm happy I did but I am not sure Duolingo (or Memrise for that matter which I also tried) works better than high school spaced repetition, Anki, or Pimsleur.
Working on a social network for neighbors. It's basically Reddit + craigslist, where subreddits are cities.

Need someone to help me solve the chicken/egg problem.
InfluxDB is losing a lot of leads as their website is down!
Hey, if you just click on that storage.googleapis.com link it installs the hotfix directly without having to enable normandy ;)
If your threat model includes the hijacking of Mozilla's infrastructure, I assume you read and verify the entirety of the Firefox source with every new version before using it, right?
These techniques are so, so effective. The video is probably the best single gift anyone can give to a new parent.

We’re currently renting the SNOO, which is a bassinet that automates some of this stuff for pre-crawling babies. It’s been very effective in helping our youngest sleep through the night at a much earlier age than her older sister. It’s basically a robot night nanny.
I think it is great for vocabulary. But vocabulary is only a part of knowing a language. Apps mostly aim at vocabulary, and while approach is similar I think it is much better to stare at a paper notebook then your smartphone screen.
No.

Example: If a person made to ingest something that leads to immediate cardiac or respiratory failure we call it "poisoned to death".

Same for "being stabbed" rather than "cardiac failure due to blood loss"
Except that ADA has undue hardship clause ( 29 C.F.R. § 1630.2(p) ) that (among other things) requires you to take into account the “net cost of the accommodation”.

Operating at reduced profit is one thing, but operating a loss I think would be interesting to see how the courts decide that — especially since the law appears to have scopes net cost to the accommodation, not overall expenses of the company.
Apache Druid.

The killer for us is that we allow essentially ad-hoc querying over long time intervals, but require the results to be returned quickly. And the dataset, while not Google proportions, isn't small.
That doesn't answer the question: does Normandy get disabled by the UI option or not?

One can guess based on the wiki page that the answer is "no", but that's just a guess.
> So, I built a ClojureScript app that did just that. Sitting down and churning through hundreds of those allowed me to build an intuition for grammar rules that I knew on paper but would mess up when attempting to use them.

If you did not use an existing rules engine, would you please consider open sourcing what you have done to help others who are considering building something similar? Or describe more in depth how you did it?

The current tools I see out there like LanguageTool are quite horrid when it comes to expressing the rules.

https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool
It's not their job to prevent that.
Show HN: A small state management library (using React Hooks)
>Which would be made publicly known by Coinbase within hours.

Why would they? They're not required to and I don't know of any business that has a policy to publicly reveal why an account was closed. Considering Milo's history there's a more than likely chance it has something to do with his financial and legal issues if he was even banned to being with. Again he just posted a screenshot without reference.

> The issue here is not about a single individual.

If you mean Alex Jones, Laura Loomer and Louisa Farrakhan then I think I found the problem.
I haven’t used the columnstore in production and can’t vouch for it either. It makes sense that k-ordered write performance on column-oriented data would suffer, do you know of a good benchmark measuring this?

Also I don’t like the phrase “true real time applications” at all. It is less useful than even Microsoft’s OLAP-Cube-ETL-OLTP word salad, and embedded developers in particular are going to be cringing if they read that.
It seems to have worked. My extensions reappeared.
> There is no such thing as 'destructive aircraft testing'

Actually, there is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai2HmvAXcU0 "This Boeing 777 wing was tested to destruction, finally breaking at one fifty four percent of the designed limit load."
Not related to the core point of the article but why does Requests need async support? Why can't it just be good at what it is and if you want to do asyncio you use aiohttp or something else?

Or put differently, why does the author think that "everyone knows it's silly" to have different libraries doing the same thing in different ways?
There's no cyber sovereignty, it's a fake concept.

An analysis should start from the concept of property and then it would be very easy to see that the State does not own its citizens' data, and therefore doesn't have the right to assert any of those made up rights and create sovereignty rules.

Furthermore, in most if not all cases no state property is even involved in any of those issues. Communications links and devices involved are privately owned by telcos, service providers and end users.

The concept of cyber sovereignty is fake and should be challenged at that basic level. I don't care how they attempt to justify it - it doesn't exist.

Why do so many people here always argue in favor of end users' data sovereignty when the other side is a corporation, but don't even mention it when the same rights are violated by the State? Is it because corporations give something in return (free service) and make a profit, while the State violates rights for free?
Sri Lanka: Explosives found buried in mosque backyard
The "Global Association of Risk Professionals" got hit. That should be a fun meeting. https://github.com/GARPDev
For Mandarin Chinese, I found the Chinese-specific apps HelloChinese and ChineseSkill to be much better than Duolingo. Duolingo seems to follow a one-size-fits-all approach, and it suffers when faced with a language with tones, a complex character system, a romanization system commonly used for learning (pinyin), etc. Those other two apps have been called Duolingo clones, but they were designed with Chinese specifically in mind and it shows, they're leaps and bounds better.

I also have found The Chairman's Bao (news, curated and graded by HSK level, together with pinyin, vocabulary, grammar points and questions associated with each piece of news) and various Coursera courses helpful.

There is also plenty of crappy apps and resources around, and probably much better resources than the current ones will be made, but if one chooses well, it's amazing how easier it is to learn a language now than ten years ago. Getting to any nontrivial level of Mandarin Chinese was all but impossible without classes, now it's doable.
Isn’t most/all of Boeing’s development done overseas now? I wonder if that divide makes it easier to assume this is okay.
The contention was that other languages had a “lot to catch up” with Java because it’s been around for 25 years. So how haven’t other statically typed languages “caught up”?

In fact, Java is so far behind C# with true Generics, LINQ - not the syntax the entire linq expressions -> expression trees -> runtime providers that can parse the trees and translate it to a destination syntax, etc. it’s laughable. Can anyone say honestly that Oracle has been a good steward over Java or that it has improved as fast as any modern popular language?

And the “tooling” around Java is the main reason that when I had a choice between C# and Java in the mid 2000s, I chose C#. Heck, the Visual Studio 97 was better than most Java tooling is today.

Yeah I played around with the early VB like Java IDEs like JBuildsr. Java’s IDE’s have never been strong points. Neither have the XML is king mindset.
DMT is a psychedelics drug.
Good advice.

Although calming myself and slowing my heartbeat is difficult and impractical if I just drank coffee.
Red Hat has changed its logo for the first time in 20 years
> Would this make any difference?

If you have no issues with 1) latency 2) packet losses and 3) clocks difference, that would be no difference, at least until Roc could offer some new encodings.

(If you're using PA, it handles the clocks difference for you. Its RTP transport sometimes worked strange for me, but its "native" tunnels handled it well.)

> Does it currently support online plug-unplug the way RTP works without restarting pulseaudio?

Roc sinks and sink inputs may be loaded and unloaded at any time without restarting PA. But there is no service discovery yet, which means that 1) when a remote sink input appears, sink is not automatically added 2) when a remote sink input disappears, sink is not automatically removed. (We will add this in upcoming releases). Currently the remote sink input can appear and disappear at any time and the local sink will just continue streaming packets to the specified address.
that would be valid if subtitles were everywhere or nowhere
I have spent ~10 years using Firefox daily, tweaking the config and getting the addons set up the way I want. I was a professional web developer for most of those years.

This is the first I have heard of Firefox changing my config settings invisibly in the background. This is obscene. Who on earth thought this was a good idea? The security ramifications are limitless.

I understand all too well that most companies have decided to start A/B testing things on subsets of users, but that doesn't mean you should force that mode of thinking into everything. What a horrible decision. I don't recall ever seeing any news or notifications or checkboxes about studies or "Normandy" at any point.

Are there some other good open source alternatives to Firefox? I remember hearing about Brave but also that it was tied into some cryptocoin nonsense, so I'm not sure what else to look at.
Uh... So uh... I just this moment saw this (and NOT that) over on reddit, posted 23 hours ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/bk9pp9/til_t...

"TIL the larger a bee hive grows, the more efficient it becomes. A hive containing 30,000 bees produces 150% more honey than two hives of 15,000."

However, removed as "inaccurate".

Edit:

Points back to this article here, dated April 18, 2013:
http://www.groworganic.com/organic-gardening/articles/meet-t...

Edit 2:
Reddit comments seem worth reading; but to me it would seem advisable to sort the comments by "New".
Hospital superbugs are evolving to survive hand sanitizers (2018)
So are Pepsi or hamburgers listed as a cause of death when someone dies of a heart attack due to obesity? Calling air pollution a cause of death is a stretch.
Pilates class at my local gym. Friendly, low stress and only once or twice a week for 45 minutes. Sorted out my core strength, messed up shoulders and back.
https://www.dhs.gov/real-id-public-faqs

It doesn't explicitly say "no exceptions" but the plain text is certainly that you will need appropriate ID (Real ID/passport/etc.) to go through TSA when Real ID requirement fully kicks in.
St. Paul's words come from a deeper natural distinction between man and woman, and have to do with the fall of Adam and Eve, where Eve was the one who was deceived by the serpent, and also that Eve was created from Adam, and thus woman from man. Man was created first, because man is the default gender of humanity, and from man came woman. "But now man is born of woman," St. Paul also says, "and all things are from God." We are equal in dignity but not in our roles. Some women cannot bare children, but all men cannot bare children. Some men cannot be priests, for example if castrated, yet all women cannot be priests, because man is the gender God assigned to fatherhood and leadership, to represent his fatherhood and paternal leadership. Yet we are not to lead as the world leads, by "lording it over" others; we are to lead as Jesus led, meekly, humbly, with gentleness, by example, and doing everything in our power to help those whom God has put in our charge to accomplish their duties, unlike the Pharisees who "lay heavy burdens" on their charges "but will not lift one finger to help them carry it." Everyone has the heavy burden of going through a wearisome life, and our jobs as fathers are to show them how to make that burden lighter, first and foremost by bringing them to Jesus, who says "Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."

St. John Paul II talked a lot about this subject about 45 years ago, here's a PDF with a clickable table of contents: https://d2wldr9tsuuj1b.cloudfront.net/2232/documents/2016/9/...
When would someone use jupyterhub? I've been running my own notebook server for years, but it's single-user, single machine. Is hub for like providing separate jupyterlab instances for a bunch of different users/different machines?
It would be helpful if you say that your focus is markup, scripting and styling languages and not programming languages in general or even natural languages.

This is far from a "universal language parser".
This should be sticky comment somewhere on the top of the comments. It bought all the addons back for me.
Good to know. Yes, Opus will be is one of the highest priorities for us after we'll make the very first (0.1) release.
"Explained" is perhaps too generous a word. I'm a software engineer and I found that page to be confusing. It seems to be written for internal Mozilla employees, not for the general public.
They don't. They take offence with subtitles under English speech by a foreigner but no subtitles under English speech by English native speaker. The pattern is the issue, not the existence of subtitles.
Henry Crew Will Be the Youngest Person to Circle the World by Motorcycle
I've had normandy disabled in my user.js for a while, but this was only after thoroughly perusing documentation and some firefox "hardening" projects. Point being, no end user should have to do what I did. Sane defaults, and transparency about things that should be opt-in, are sorely needed. Regardless, I still stand by Firefox, and am thankful there are chromium alternatives. The web is what it is, though I dream of a simpler one.
Ask HN: Computational Thinking Outside Computer Science?
I would like to hear more examples, case studies or readings to learn about how computational thinking applies to fields outside computer science and how it becomes a competitive advantage. Could anyone share some resources to exploring this topic further?
"Pref Rollout is a feature that allows Mozilla to change the default value of a preference for a targeted set of users, without deploying an update to Firefox."

Maybe if we put this in terms of user stories...

As a user, I don't want to be "targeted".

As the person deploying updates, I don't want the deployment updating without an update having been deployed.
Except as we have learned "preference rollout" is also "installing extensions". So this is much the same as studies, but studies was disgraced, so now this is studies 2.0, no option to disable this time around.

And if you look at the big normandy JSON, hey, it's all the same Pocket and heartbeat shit we've seen from studies.
The correct would be attachment/craving/desire, not expectation.
That's copyright. A totally different thing.
are you in Nigeria?
It's a bit strange to think that the one who is powerful enough to not only create the universe but sustain its existence with just as much power every nanosecond would be unable to stop things from happening within creation if it were against his will, or unable to make something happen within creation if it were in his will.