skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are also 3) people like yourself and myself who are neither calling anyone a Nazi, nor purporting to be Nazi's, but who are nonetheless provoked by the usage of the word.

I'd argue this category actually represents the majority demographic. Heck, I'm pretty sure this is the first time I've typed the word "Nazi" on the internet.
Microsoft Word is getting politically correct
but hasnt spacex done more? i feel like blue origin is actually behind.
No. I have been very close to pure carnivore for over 2 years. I hate that I have to eat some spinach and broccoli but it's way easier than liver and brain regularly.
>(Possibly) not lose their shit (any definition)

This is the funniest thing I've read all day.
Not sure why you got downvoted
I can’t think of a workplace more suited for small doses of escapism than a medical one.
how to opsec: upload your sensitive documents to a cloud service that totally won't get hacked
Open Images V5 and the ICCV 2019 Open Images Challenge
No fruit. Barely any vegetables. Doctors have checked my blood quarterly for years and I'm healthier than ever before. :shrug: I'm not saying it works for everyone, please don't take this as a reason for you to do the same. If you're not T2 diabetic or extremely morbidly obese, there's no reason to cut out sugar.
What was so significant about those years?
I am not talking about conservatives.
Open Images Dataset V5
As a long-time Win32 (and Win16) developer, I am very pleased. Win32 is basically "Microsoft's POSIX" --- it might not have all the new-fangled trendy object-oriented best-practices fluff of the newer APIs, but being a simple C API means that it's not tied to any newer and "faster-moving" (i.e. faster-deprecating) technologies and also makes it more portable. Some of you may remember Windows CE, which is basically a subset of the Win32 API.

I don't know if the newer MSVC compilers can be configured to do it, but it's definitely possible to create a single self-contained binary for a GUI app that will run on everything Win95 and newer, and which uses a fraction of the resources of newer UI frameworks. A lot of developers these days are used to even simple apps taking over 1MB of disk, and when shown a native Win32 one will be astonished at how small and fast it is; what they often don't realise is that all apps used to be like that.

Win32 is the past, the present, and the future.
> For example, instead of a callee adding the return value to an autorelease pool then having the caller immediately retain the returned value, the autorelease+retain pair can be elided entirely.

Are you just referring to standard RVO? If you return a std::shared_ptr in C++ today you won't get the equivalent of retain+release, either, RVO avoids that.
Considering the amount of money Bezos has, Blue Origin is far far behind. They only achieved suborbital flights with low-speed reentry landings.
I've been writing julia a bunch lately. It's a joy to use.
Based on Bezos' psychology I'd guess that Blue Origin are under tremendous pressure to meet timelines, especially at the cost of trying anything fancy. Bezos is going to be solid in this game if he's able to apply his basic tool set. Plus I'll bet he's feeling fairly triggered by SpaceX. They will attempt to scale faster based on spreadsheet thinking. If SpaceX tries to compete with that, they will fail. They will need to refocus on innovation as soon as it becomes a numbers game.
Actually your source says "A lack of construction workers is a legacy of the 2008 recession, when many people left the industry as development froze." I.e. a meltdown of the unregulated market was a major factor in the shortage -- again, your source.

Additionally the Chronicle article I posted concerns approved projects still facing delays due to labor and tightening capital markets. That undercuts the "it's just due to NIMBYs & regulations holding up approvals" narrative.
I never said FastBoot takes 90% away. But it is the example of how simpler things can help firmware be faster and more efficient. I have quite an experience with legacy BIOS modification and RE, UEFI modification and RE, and coreboot development. So I know what I am talking about. One more example of such overengineered thing is the ACPI standard. Especially, since 6.0 version it is tied up to UEFI. EUFI was not designed to be open anyway since it effectively hides the hardware initialization (PI stage) in binary blobs.

UEFI is a beast from the worst times of Microsoft and Intel - this is why it uses PE (Portable Executable) as a format, didn't even bother for optimization, that caused some of the vendors to invent TE format (Terse Executable), which is leaner a bit. And the code, the EDK1/EDK2 code is a perfect example of poorly-written code. Compare it to coreboot or Linux kernel codebase.
Not OP, but Seattle is almost as big as SF [0] (825,000 people in SF compared to 775,000 people in Seattle), Seattle has 2.5x the number of cranes up compared to SF [1] (65 cranes in Seattle compared to 26 in SF), Seattle rents have actually gone down recently because of so much new supply [2], and Seattle's average rent is only 57% of SF [3]. I'm not going to say it's just NIMBYism, but whatever they are doing, they are a prime example of what not to do.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...

[1]: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/real-estate/seattle-to...

[2]: https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2019/01/apartment-rents-...

[3]: https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/personal-finance/hi...
Agree completely, although I'd frame it differently. I'm not sure how much sympathy anyone has for the Uber folks specifically, but this would certainly be food for thought for anyone thinking of starting a company in SF, or contemplating shifting their headquarters.

Congress actually did something similar in 1980 when they passed a Windfall Profit Tax on oil to capture "unfair" profits in the wake of the OPEC oil embargo. It was wrong then, and it's wrong now.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windfall_profits_tax
I know Mozilla is not your typical for-profit organization, but it is so nice to see "We failed and we are sorry." It felt good. This post-mortem read like a genuine story of what happened and how they solved the problem. No lawyer language. No bullshit.

I love Mozilla.
F12 > Console, then run:

document.onmousedown = null
document.body.onselectstart = null
document.ondragstart = null
document.onselectstart = null
document.oncontextmenu = null
Just echoing the above—watch The Good Wife! I think it's my favorite TV show, and I'm really picky. Don't be put off by the title—this is absolutely not "the real housewives" or the like.

One addendum, however: I would greatly encourage skipping the last two seasons of The Good Wife (6 and 7), which constitute a massive and sudden drop in quality. There are a few good episodes, but not enough. You'll hear tidbits about what happened when you watch The Good Fight, and it's better that way.
It's a nice system, and definitely cheaper, but it isn't a reasonable price comparison as it isn't even remotely in the same performance ballpark as POWER9.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=arm-24co...
Yes, you'd better...

In case it wasn't clear (Poe's law, and all), I am speaking about myself and people like me, who get along just fine but find themselves quite at odds with the modern world and it's mythologies, and also deeply uninterested in what these radical groups and "activists" have on offer.
And it just sits there in the hopes of never being used? That's one expensive ass insurance policy
Yeah, their argument that an "implied right" to copyrighted materials arises just because it's widely infringed and the copyright holder hasn't sued anybody, seems fishy. I think they are confused with trademarks. Any citations of actual legal cases would be welcome.

This is only an aside to their actual reverse engineering work, but still.
I see. Some follow up questions:

> Manually installing the hotfix XPI makes cleanup a bit harder now that we have a proper fix. E.g., without coming from Studies, there's no study to ever end.

The language around enabling Studies for the hotfix also claimed that once the hotfix installed, one can feel free to turn off Studies. Could similar language not have been included for the XPI approach (e.g. "once the fix is applied, you can uninstall this add-on")? Or is this a case where the extension does have to be installed (at least until the user upgrades to a point release with a fixed certificate)?

Alternately, do extensions have the ability to uninstall themselves? If so, then perhaps the extension could install the new certificate and immediately uninstall itself (or, in the "extension has to be installed for the fix to exist" scenario above, uninstall itself if it detects itself running on an updated Firefox and/or flag itself as incompatible with Firefoxen newer than the latest affected version)?

Alternately, is there no way for Firefox itself (e.g. in a point release) to explicitly blacklist an extension?

Alternately, is it possible to revoke the certificate/signature for that extension such that Firefox deems it invalid and disables it (using, presumably, the same mechanism and rationale as what caused this particular bug)?

Seems like this is a problem with multiple potential solutions besides "just do it as a Study". Even if it really is/was unsolvable, I feel like power users would be perfectly happy with getting the quick fix in exchange for subsequent cleanup being on them; ain't ideal, but it's better than waiting for multiple hours for Studies to work its magic.

> Direct installation also makes it harder to quickly respond to any bugs we might discover in the initial revision of the hotfix.

I'm sure there are some people out there who would be happy to test the XPI while having Telemetry enabled so y'all can get all that juicy fresh debugging data :)
> I read in the SF Chronicle that there’s permitted and approved projects that developers are not moving forward with, like around the new hospital off of Van Ness, due to the “tightening of capital markets” and “soaring construction costs.”[1] Not NIMBYs or government regulations.

No doubt that construction costs exacerbate the problem. But there absolutely are people deliberately blocking housing construction. There was a proposition to outright block private housing construction in the Mission that got ~40% yes votes. For further examples, see the infamous case of the developer that wanted to replace a laundromat with an apartment building:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExgxwKnH8y4

> And then I dig a little deeper into the “it’s just supply and demand, dummy” narrative and find articles that document how luxury housing development actually is associated with a rise in rents for the working class.[2] Who would have thought macroeconomics is complicated?

This is a fundamentally dishonest objection. New housing is "luxury" housing because the housing market is so expensive that even 1 bedroom apartments rent for $3-4K. Blocking "luxury housing" is blocking all housing, because the market is so expensive that even the smallest units are expensive enough to be considered luxury. Seriously, even 300 sq foot studios rent for 2.5K: https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/apa/d/san-francisco-immacul...

Of course "luxury housing" is correlated with rising rents. When rents rise, newly constructed units get more expensive too and get pushed into the "luxury" price bracket. This is essentially a tautology, and it is not at all indicative that building more housing increases rents.
But is it really just "aggregation"?

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#MereAggregation
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AggregateContainer...

I do not know, but I can see arguments on both sides. This is why I would love to hear the opinion of the FSF on this.
A Dying Teenager’s Recovery Started in the Dirt
The post seems to imply that it was a simple overlook (which is frequent when every such thing is not formally tracked). I agree that it is hard.

> We’ll be running a formal post-mortem next week and will publish the list of changes we intend to make, but in the meantime here are my initial thoughts about what we need to do. First, we should have a much better way of tracking the status of everything in Firefox that is a potential time bomb and making sure that we don’t find ourselves in a situation where one goes off unexpectedly. We’re still working out the details here, but at minimum we need to inventory everything of this nature.
What the hell is wrong with Microsoft? Everyone is excited about WSL, but Microsoft is failing miserably at their core competencies. They killed off Win32 OneNote to create UWP OneNote (which offers a fraction of the features), and then kills UWP? Every new Microsoft app somehow does less than the version you were using when Win2k came out.
China's SenseTime to Lead a Project to Construct $1B AI Park in Malaysia
I don't expect them to maintain it, but I do expect them not to break it for no reason.

Also they could have mentioned in their post that their fix did not do anything for older versions, instead of specifically telling everyone to just keep waiting.

xpinstall.signatures.required = false didn't fix it.

I'll be very happy to update when there's a version that has a good tab manager. I'm on the latest version at home and it regularly loses whole windows full of tabs, even though it is set to restore my session on startup. And there's no way to manually save sessions. It's hopeless.
Circus around birther movement, "shithole countries", parent separation, "very fine people", retweeting white supremacists, cracking down on immigration, hiring Stephen miller, mocking black lives matter..should I keep going ?
Leaker who gave The Intercept info on killings of innocents is arrested
Considering they plan to fire the engine this summer, they seem to be building something.
can't they just use sed to replace Red Hat with CentOS ;) :D
Because it's a particularly clear and egregious form of bias. We can keep making our demographics more and more specific to explain away confounding factors, but it won't result in this club being an overall good thing.
Why does it matter if the homes in the report are owned by wealthy individuals, wealthy banks, or wealthy developers? They are clearly not owned by the "poor(er)" people!
I've done pretty much this a few times, and it's amazing if you're working in the context of enterprise data systems that need to provide extensive capabilities to a "small" userbase (i.e. concurrent in the thousands). You just need a small shim layer for security, to transform results sets, and handle browser -> database connectivity.

Postgrest works very well as this shim layer, though I've moved on to writing sql directly in the client and communicating through a web socket shim. In terms of reducing code complexity and improving performance this is absolutely unbeatable, you just need to parse incoming sql to sanitize it and make sure there is no role escalation. Because of postgres's foreign data wrappers this method can provide a consistent surface for basically all your enterprise data. The only gotcha with FDWs is that some of them don't "push down" many query clauses, so you end up doing much slower queries on the remote system and filtering locally, which is terrible for obvious reasons. That being said, the FDWs are pretty much all open source, so you can just implement push down support for those missing clauses yourself.
Keras Bert 4 Medical Q&A with TF2. Google Colab Version Instantly Runnable
RIP.

Allen doesn't seem to have been going for the moon (yet), but I wish the billionaires would not spend their hoards on private rocket companies. It's a bit gross that the article you linked calls them "philanthropists" for doing it. Andrew Carnegie was a real bastard, but he funded many wonderful small-town libraries, which remain valuable community centers over 100 years later. Bill Gates took his shot at world domination, but is now using his money to solve real-world problem like malaria.

It's their money, so they can do what they want with it, but rocket companies are pure vanity. Real, cost-effective philanthropy would mean improving the perfectly acceptable planet we live on, not trying to terraform Mars.
Darknet Diaries!
The only way the US can win is by moving past the culture wars and returning to an accelerating society. Other Western countries have already given up (Germany, Italy, and Portugal have sided with China by signing up for the Belt and Road and using Huawei equipment. Probably more countries to come)

I really hope the chaos we're going through is a cathartic release from the period of economic stagnation that we've been in for the past 40 - 50 years. I disagree with AOC on almost everything but her Green New Deal had one aspect worth praising. There was a bit harking for a return to American Greatness (Apollo program, etc.) Not too far from Trump's "Make America Great Again". The US is still united in its underlying goals but people are divided on how we get there.

"Americans will always do the right thing." - Winston Churchill.

The US is returning to space again, this time built on the ambitions of two of the world's most successful living entrepreneurs (Bezos and Musk). Perhaps this will be the inspiring force driving Americans back to a focus on technological innovation. Anything is possible, but this is my bet.
Bolt is tiny. I hate how it looks. It doesn't have Autopilot, nor does it have a Supercharging infrastructure. It certainly doesn't have the hundreds of bells and whistle that comes with Tesla.
yeah, they are really just opening all of that stuff up so that existing apps can use it more easily. WinUI is one of those things that I just never thought would happen...but there it is. They are open sourcing the entire UI stack. It's crazy.
Does Content Length Now Trump Backlinks for SEO?
The Empty Promise of Data Moats
Not sure I follow that logic. More automation might mean you won't have to use your training as much, but how does it mean less training? In the event all the automation fails you still have to know everything an astronaut would need to know were there no automation.
Low code is designed for some specific purposes. If all you need is what it is designed for, that’s totally fine.

The biggest problem is their price and their nature. Many of them are really expensive. And many of them is closed source, which is pretty ironic because everyone is open source nowadays. Except it can be dominate in that area, I don’t think it is valued for a professional developer,

The customisation is poor if you want to do something that is is not designed for, and maintaining is also a nightmare if it is written by a non-disciplined developer.

For quick prototype and you can’t hire skilled developer, yes. But don’t expect you can do too much with that tool and with that person. The biggest bottleneck in software developer is the people not the tech.
> But is it ever OK for city to say "We like the size we are

Sure, and cities "say" what their preferences through their elected representatives, at the local and state level.

> I don't think the end game of every city has to be to become Tokyo.

Nobody said that has to be the endgame for every city. San Francisco's politicians and residents aren't debating the aspirations of your Midwestern city, they are debating the aspirations of their own city and region. If the balance of political power turns toward pro housing policies in San Francisco, maybe it becomes more Tokyo like. If not, maybe it moves in the other direction.

But dynamic cities by their nature don't stay still, so you can be assured things will move in some direction.
Quickbooks too!
Facebook Research. A Universal Music Translation Network (GitHub)
This is why Europe is dying slowly. This RFP probably is promoted by some politicians with no skin in the game looking to make merits for their superiors. Money never arrive to real projects who make a different, is diluted between middlemen, agencies, politicians and other “civic” agents who lives on our taxes.
Do you mean "lack of public services"? Try New York, for instance - you don't see people camping in tents because they spent billions of dollars building shelters, to meet the constitutional requirement for shelter. Massachusetts has the same right in their constitution.
Microsoft figured out that the only way to scale mobile apps up across platforms is to dumb the apps down.

That’s an artifact of dealing with the real estate challenges on the phone and the side effect of this era where apps need to hustle users for marginal dollars first and do something useful second. That said, they failed on mobile, and the tablets are more like laptops than iPads. And the market likes that!

I think the younger developers are doing to flip to Chromebooks and Windows, as the Unix tool sets are there, and both vendors take their vision of PC seriously.
You are thinking only about the Abrahamic religions. In fact, only about one of them.

I can imagine a very scientific Buddhist society.
Why not update long-duration keys every 90 days? That way you're never close to expiration, ever, best of both worlds.
Imagine you have an old expired key... you take your new malicious extension, and sign it with the expired key and a time stamp that says it was signed at a time the key was still valid.

Without some other verification mechanism, you can't tell the difference between this and an actual signature signed when the key WAS valid
You make it sound like a dichotomy when there is none. Not believing the truth does not mean inventing lies. It does not even go that far as to be able to use the words "truth" and "belief". Research into such topics should be actively discouraged, suppressed and censured. There was a lot of research into eugenics in the early 20th century. With good reason no one talks about it. I repeat - science does not exist in a vacuum.
why invest in a network if you can just buy computers.

what an idiotic article.
Travis Kalanick Should Ring the Uber IPO Bell
I feel like a minority on this issue.

I'm an adult who grew up with a computer as a kid, and now believe porn has had horrible, even traumatic, consequences on my life.

I also think while it is a public health crisis, not all problems are improved by bureaucrats and politicians. At most, education and research are as far as they should go.

There's a legitimate role for culture and family in helping to shape our lives.
Hate on Google / Chrome / Proprietary / Lock-In / Whatever buzzword (tm) you want, but this would _never_ happen in Chrome. And it's the reason why Firefox will die to Chrome. BRING ON THE IN-DENIAL DOWNVOTES.
Brian Reid wrote about page independence, comparing Interpress' and PostScript's different approaches. Adobe's later voluntary Document Structuring Conventions actually used PostScript comments to make declarations and delimit different parts of the file -- it wasn't actually a part of the PostScript language, while Interpress defined pages as independent so they couldn't possibly affect each other:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/fa.laser-lovers/H3us...

>By now you can probably see the fundamental philosophical difference
between PostScript and Interpress. Interpress takes the stance that the
language system must guarantee certain useful properties, while
PostScript takes the stance that the language system must provide the
user with the means to achieve those properties if he wants them. With
very few exceptions, both languages provide the same facilities, but in
Interpress the protection mechanisms are mandatory and in PostScript
they are optional. Debates over the relative merits of mandatory and
optional protection systems have raged for years not only in the
programming language community but also among owners of motorcycle
helmets. While the Interpress language mandates a particular
organization, the PostScript language provides the tools (structuring
conventions and SAVE/RESTORE) to duplicate that organization exactly,
with all of the attendant benefits. However, the PostScript user need
not employ those tools.
The game Charlie and Frank play at night?