skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mastering ambiguity and comm skills. As you move up job levels your role changes from problem solving to problem formulation. You need to be able to tell other engineers what problems need to be solved.

Not valuing technical contributions seems odd. There should always be a base level of strong technical competence that you build atop.

But technical chops alone won’t get you promoted. Also producing a large volume of work won’t get you promoted; that will get you a reputation as a code monkey.
I can't do anything about any of these issues, corporate interests decide these issues not average people.
Spark is NOT hadoop. You don't even need hadoop for spark anymore. Spark is more or less completely independent from the hadoop ecosystem.

Just because they're compatible doesn't mean they're synonymous. You can use spark with mesos or kubernetes instead of YARN.
You'd probably want to read a treatment of the history of infrmation. Elizabeth Eisenstein's The Printing Press as an Agent of Change is a good (if long) start.

https://www.worldcat.org/title/printing-press-as-an-agent-of...

But church, or rather, Church, as power centre is very well established. The Roman Catholic Church thrugh the 15th century controlled knowledge, literacy, education, much of banking, and much of politics.

Not that the lay population mattered for much, but weekly mass was among the few channels by which common messages could be disseminated. Markets, town criers, and private messengers (royalty, nobles, commerce, finance) existed as well. Information might take months to cross Europe (especislly in winter), and longer from abroad. There was virtually no travel from November through May.

Literacy rates were on. the order of 5-10% through the start of the 17th-18th century (varying by region). It was both the explosion in printing capabilities (iron, steam, rotary, electric, web presses, from ~100 impressions/hr to 1 million+) and literacy (to 90-95%+) which accounted for much of the political turmoil of the 19th century -- moreso if you consder "the Long 19th Century" of 1789 - 1914.
Pure capitalism is an engine without a steering wheel. It's very efficient and powerful, but without guidance it will just drive you off a cliff. Socialism is a steering wheel without an engine. They both have important aspects; it's only when they're treated as absolutes that they fail catastrophically.
These forces are nothing I can do anything about though. Corporate interests control the outcome of these things, not anything having to do with democracy.
The strangle hold is extremely bad for security, too. All of those Qualcomm chips are designed as black boxes. Nobody knows what kind of horrible flaws are inside them because trying to get at the code is like trying to rob the federal reserve.

We need open source 3/4/5G chips, but the R & D cost would be astronomical. If you ever think that TCP/IP is complicated check out the mobile system specs some time! They span 1000s of pages... It's amazing to me how much complexity is there. Those phone engineers deserve way more money, IMO.
I want to highlight that the symptoms section was subtitled “All in your head”.
The fact that USSR was happy to spend enormous resources on anything weapon related in a hungry country doesn't speak about communism being better for space. The main reason USSR had its "firsts" was that by shear luck Korolev didn't die in gulag (though was very close to) and that we were more willing to risk human lives. Perhaps one of the reasons soviet moon program has failed was that in 1966 Korolev have died just 59 years old because of his time at gulag. The other reason was that until mid fifties cybernetics was considered anti-communist science and USSR never managed to recover from that and develop good computers. (This is typical with communism where utility of things is determined not by people freely choosing where to invest their money, but by government). So i can't agree that USSR being first makes space a bad example.

That being said i was bringing SpaceX not as a comparison with USSR, but with the mild socialism of current day Europe which despite having more people doesn't produce the kind of innovation US does.
And - of course - Randall has us covered here too:

https://xkcd.com/1133/

A 1000 word vocabulary is quite understandable, though a little awkward.

A random word might be as few at 10 bits of entropy. If a person is picking them out of their head, I'd bet it's unlikely to be as many as 12 or 13 bits. Most of the words we "know" aren't ones that come to mind when we're "randomly choosing words"...
Google's reCAPTCHA is cancer upon the web. Everyone should enable fingerprint block to shut this invasive and abusive garbage.

If everyone would block it the website owners would have no choice other than to move to a different captcha system.
The drunken bishop: An analysis of the OpenSSH fingerprint algorithm
That is _not_ antitrust.

It would be anti-competitive in your hypothetical if your bank refused to make transactions to your auto insurance company because it was not the bank's insurance company.

Pop-ups in your bank portal are uncomfortable but are not anti-competitive.
This isn’t a new app - the database is several years old, and is used by many millions. Not sure how you’d get enough numbers and junk entries in there to accomplish what you’re suggesting.
I regularly get calls on my iphone now that say (maybe: Jane Doe) under the name, and they are usually correct. Often they are recruiters, or lawyers, or people that I imagine have their phone number publicized on the web. But I'm not sure I've read where apple is getting this info (or perhaps it is a carrier thing?)
The trade war was obviously begun by Trump. There are people who are already trying to rewrite history on this.
I'm tired of the daily spam from Mozilla on the front page.
This article is written by Ars Technica's Beth Mole. Her writing style is well-known by now. ( And much appreciated. )
The nice thing about this specific resource is that it is under water, negating many of the problems you mention.
99% of what telemetry tracks has nothing to do with user actions. It's mostly stuff like this:

https://metrics.mozilla.com/webrender/dashboard_nvidia.html
I'm sure this is wildly naive, but I'm a little surprised we haven't figured out how to synthesize these minerals. Maybe it's just not economically worthwhile.
Remember that reCAPTCHA v1 used to be noble: reading books and converting them to text.

Now you're just training many Google machine learning algorithms by classifying data. In which they get more useful for the consumer, thus more powerful.
That's how it know what contacts are using it and auto add to what's app if you it add a number that's using it.

It's just convenience. People don't want add users names they just want it to work.

I believe signal are/were working on a way to work out this information without actually sending to the server
My Pixel does this, too. I assumed it was cross referencing businesses' phone numbers, the ones you can find if you search the company name on Google.
Rubber hose.
Which?

This is what a Vanilla ice cream tub looks like in Australia:

Water, Sugar, Milk Solids, Cream and/or Butter, Glucose Syrup (from Wheat), Maltodextrin, Vegetable Emulsifier (471), Stabilisers (410, 412, 415), Natural Vanilla Flavour, Natural Colour (160a), Reduced Fat Ice Cream contains minimum 4% Milk Fat

https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/74273/esse...
> You lose your timezone and ALL dates appear in UTC.

Seems like an easy fix would be to have client based converter, even more simple than what fingerprint blocker does with screen resolution.
That's a badly thought out feature, it should be blocked unless you own the number wish to add it yourself.
It gets the information from other (Apple-only?) apps. From Apple Support[1]:

> iPhone automatically suggests new contacts from messages you receive in Mail and invitations in Calendar, and from other apps. To turn this feature off, go to Settings > Contacts > Siri & Search, then turn off Find Contacts in Other Apps.

[1] https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/add-and-use-contact-i...
shift+double click zooms out for me.
True, but for edgecases with no alternative means of contact, there could be other simple solutions. In the articles instance, Chloe could in the future register that sim, and then immediately tag it as Chloe Sullivan on TrueCaller(or whatever app they use in the country in question). Problem solved. Ta-da.

There are solutions other than proposing regulations or limitations on apps that benefit waay more people than it might inconvenience.
Indeed. Rare earths are specific elements in the periodic table. The only way we could "synthesize" these elements is atomically -- by bombarding other elements with nucleons and hope they stick or split. "Not economically worthwhile" is a massive understatement. :)

A similar process is required to turn lead into gold!
I let my password manager pick words for me, and I keep hitting refresh until I get one that I think I'm likely to get the spelling correct when needed.

1Password just gave me this: land convolve witchery bequest

Having said that, since I use 1Password, these are rare and almost exclusively used for things where I need very-short-term memorable passphrases for things that won't let me copy/paste from 1Password (like my Apple ID or the passwords my bank ask me for over the phone...) Everything else just gets 25 random chars (or the maximum number of chars the input will allow).
This has apparently been in their policy since July 20, 2018: http://web.archive.org/web/20180721081756/http://www.century...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_China
Instagram star reportedly couldn't sell 36 t-shirts to 2.6M followers
> but then, I guess I don't think this checklist does, either.

Why do you say that? Do you think the items on the list are not useful/well prioritized? Or that most companies are not positioned/incentivized to follow most of this advice?
My understanding is that the challenge is in the refining & processing, not the existence of mineral deposits.
There's much more continuity of the idea of China than you're suggesting. The existence of a relatively stable writing system, such that people today can still read ancient texts with some practice, of unifying ideas like the Mandate of Heaven, of Legalist governmental practices and Confucian values have created a much greater level of contiguity than in Europe. Even the foreign rulers were Sinicized to a great extent (similarly to how Rome, conquering Greece, was conquered culturally by the latter).
economics, law, financial planning, accounting, cooking, how to repair things, business writing, estimation

That's all. No, we mostly don't teach this stuff anymore.

For those going the college route, obviously the STEM prerequisites must be satisfied. This means AP Biology, AP Chemistry, AP Physics C (both halves), and AP Calculus BC.
This data is based on causes of death defined purely physically. It's a shame that in a world as complex as ours, we still don't attach psychological explanations and categorize them as causes too. Why not: he died of loneliness? He died of a broken heart? Or economic ones: He died because he couldn't afford the healthcare he needed? He died because he couldn't pay the heating bill and they turned it off?

Perhaps then we could get a different handle on the issues that face us, especially that face the elderly, and be more responsive.
The main value of the minerals is in the rare-earth elements they contain. If you already had access to those elements in a different form, synthesizing the minerals is of little value. (And of course nuclear synthesis of the rare-earth elements, to the extent it's possible, is very very far from being economically viable.)
That's exactly what a lot of airline websites do. If you're an active user of one try firing up a clean instance of different browser and it's very likely you'll see a different price.

For products that can benefit from information asymmetry[1] fingerprints are an amazing tool.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_asymmetry
[suggest that] They send a SMS to any non-user whose number is entered to warn them someone is attempting to enter their number and ask them for consent. This would also be an opportunity to inform them about the unlisting option.

Yea, good luck with that.
Very cool. Reminds me of one of my favorite Julia packages:

https://github.com/Evizero/UnicodePlots.jl

It uses Braille characters as well as others to render all kinds of plots in a text terminal. So handy sometimes, and so reliable.
The sim to real gap is very large and it honestly seems to me like maybe most of the work is not in the RL part of it but rather instrumenting the robot properly, setting up the right simulation, figuring out how to scale up the real world learning. Haven't seen much robotics stuff come out of Deepmind yet, maybe for these reasons.
There is a similar bug in Bugzilla for redditp.com, open since 2015:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1235978

My general impression is that tracking protection is low-priority for Mozilla and anyone who actually cares is using uBlock Origin / uMatrix or similar extensions since those use filter lists that are actually updated.
The problem is that they don't even give you the option to add the names yourself. You can use it, very crippled, without giving them your entire contact list, but it's almost unusable.
> Yeah, regarding the merger I’d rather have T-Mobile as a larger and stronger competitor against AT&T and Verizon.

Counterargument: T-Mobile has been bleeding users hard off AT&T (the only US carrier to be declining in all sectors). Churn is low and postpaid adds are the highest in the industry. They have proven they do not require a merger to be successful.
You don't have to give the app access to your contacts... at least on iOS.

That's what I do. It would be impossible to communicate with friends and family otherwise. I just have to put a little more effort into figuring out who's texting or calling me. The app also still shows me people's (self assigned) nicknames in group-chats.

My only gripe is that I still have to give the app access to my photos. I wish there was a way I could give it sandboxed access to only the photos that it adds to the collection.
Similiar deposits have been found for decades. All these "news" pop up because the China trade war
Well rare earth elements are heavy metals, and so it's about their atoms that is important. It's not something you can make via chemical processes, you'd need some kind of nuclear process, like how new atoms are made (kind of like how scientists make synthetic elements with more than 92 protons). Either that or split a heavier larger atom into the metals you want, although this means it would in either case be unstable.

The amount of energy to do these is so incomparably huge to just digging them out of the ground.
This article makes it sound like Apple and Intel and poor victims of Qualcomm's bullying. That is hardly the case. Both are much bigger than Qualcomm, and have been bullies in their own way. Funny to see them cry wolf
If you use macOS, there’s this: http://github.com/sqreen/twofa

It’s a CLI tool that generates TOTP codes (and puts them directly in the pasteboard). You can “scan” the QR code by taking a screenshot of it, and when generating codes, it’ll ask you for your password (or fingerprint, if you have a mac with TouchID)

(disclaimer: I’m the author of this)
Yes, support direct torrent video streaming. Screw the fat cats. Long live Stallman, death to late stage capitalism computing!
Is it okay for Firefox to maintain a manually curated list of sites it deems to be trackers [1]? Why is reddit on this list and not, say, Gab?

This breaks a site I built called reVddit [2], and after discussing with Mozilla devs [3], I'm unable to come up with a solution that doesn't significantly alter user experience and maintenance costs.

I find it ironic because the intent of reVddit is to increase transparency, one of Firefox's key principles. I'd love to hear ideas if anyone has any insight into any of this.

[1] https://github.com/disconnectme/disconnect-tracking-protecti...

[2] https://revddit.com

[3] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.privacy/XO84Ezrw...
Best Practices to Move SQL Server to Amazon RDS
You may not have noticed, but that $0.99 is a hell of a lot more to the "masses" than it is to you l. Some people need every dollar
Do they handicap the AI to have sub-perfect aiming?

3D shooters and Quake in particular are aiming games above. If you aim perfectly, you will always win against humans.

Adding randomness to aiming is the way to provide fair comparison to give any conclusion regarding true AI features.
So what ? It gives me optimum performance Desktop and Mobile.

On my Mac its upto 2 times faster and in my android phone it's upto 4 times faster.
I always loved using the ' key to open a find box that only searched links. great for mouseless browsing. (Although I switched off from firefox a long time ago due to their political ideology.)
What about them selling their data on the darkweb?

They claimed that there was no breach, but yet all of their database is being sold on the darkweb.

Is it so easy to gather their database and publish it?
A large part of the dispute is due to China not enforcing and codifying its own laws. All US wants is for the laws to be on the books and fairly applied.
They have a monthly subscription for donations[0]. You can't expect them to switch over until they meet a certain threshold.

[0] https://donate.mozilla.org/en-US/?utm_source=foundation.mozi...
I'm not convinced a single fake entery defeats the system here.

The app claims to stop unwanted robo callers...I'm sure those robo callers already have tried your method to look like something else.
Elon Musk has LA? hahahaha
Would be nice if mobile OSs had a permission that let apps save photos but to read photos it has to make an api request which opens the system photo picker and when you select a photo the app gets given access to only the photo you selected.
Are you sure it wasn't using Chrome's implementation?
True, in the current situation, we can only "limit" fingerprinting. This is the result of the characteristics of the sandbox we use for the Web. Remove Javascript, and most of these problems go away.

This is why I stay attached to making simple HTTP apps that don't require JS, but this is clearly not the direction the web is going at this time.
Who is them? Whose database?
They did the same thing with the bloated, behind schedule Central Subway in SF. Huge lavish stations deep under ground. I'd much rather they do cut and cover subways with stations that look like manholes with escalators/elevators.
Blackberry android phones have a feature where it notifies you when any app accessed some resource that requires OS level permissions, such as contacts, gps, etc.

Whatsapp and other facebook apps, access my contact list every 3 minutes.
They have on their donations a monthly donation. That's hassle free. You can also donate to them through Amazon smile.
In the context, most users do not change the default
Not sure what scripts you intended your comment about, but this is not true in general. If I type anything like किमपि (“kimapi”) and hit backspace, it turns into किमप (“kimapa”). That is, the following sequence of codepoints:

‎0915 DEVANAGARI LETTER KA
‎093F DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN I
‎092E DEVANAGARI LETTER MA
‎092A DEVANAGARI LETTER PA
‎093F DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN I

made of three grapheme clusters (containing 2, 1, and 2 codepoints respectively), turns after a single backspace into the following sequence:

‎0915 DEVANAGARI LETTER KA
‎093F DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN I
‎092E DEVANAGARI LETTER MA
‎092A DEVANAGARI LETTER PA

This is what I expect/find intuitive, too, as a user. Similarly अन्यच्च is made of 3 grapheme clusters but you hit backspace 7 times to delete it (though there I'd slightly have preferred अन्यच्च→अन्यच्→अन्य→अन्→अ instead of अन्यच्च→अन्यच्→अन्यच→अन्य→अन्→अन→अ that's seen, but one can live with this).
Much different. East Valley suburbs have more to offer.
The results in this paper are quite astounding. Specifically the improvement in efficiency and accuracy of their EfficientNet architecture over state-of-the-art feature extraction backbones is simply amazing (see Fig 1. from the paper - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tensorflow/tpu/master/mode...). AFAICT, this is a huge leap in improvement, and what's fascinating is how fundamentally simple the entire premise of this paper and the type of experiments performed was.

Pretty much everyone will want to switch their feature extractors to some flavor of a pre-trained EfficientNet for any image classification / object detection type application going forward. I'm also excited to see the improvements in speed and accuracy that this can enable for mobile/embedded systems.
Household radar can sense a person’s breathing and heart rate, even emotions
This article focuses on the problems that truecaller poses for 'non-users". As a non-user of truecaller in India myself, I find myself in the minority. It seems I get none of the benefits (improved spam filtering, the chance to see who is calling me), and in the 'prisoners dilemma' sense, it appears I would loose nothing by installing it, because they already have my contact information.

However, this is only half the picture.

If you install truecaller on Android, you're handing over ALL your personal information to them. The list of permissions they ask for is ridiculous. They ask for access to your sms messages, call log, contacts, file system, location, microphone, camera, everything. They also show you advertisements wherever possible.
I applaud this move by Mozilla towards privacy and security, and I have hope that they'll be increasing their focus on this.

The criticisms like "why isn't this the default", "why didn't you do this when you had patches years ago", "why did you play along with standardization of these mechanisms in the first place", and "what about all these other things you're doing" might reflect a knowledge of technology and history. And frustration, since, now, with Firefox's diminished market share, and having already given up privacy&security ground, Mozilla probably has to tiptoe.

A possible alternative to tiptoeing... With Google handing Mozilla a huge freebie right now, with the anti-adblocking move, there might be a new opening for Mozilla to "go rogue", from the perspective of many dotcom abusers, reclaim some lost ground, and start actually making the abusers angry. For that to work, Mozilla needs users who, when an abusing site says "Firefox broke this; switch to Chrome", will yell at the abusing site, and leave the site. They'll also need to live up to the expectations of those dedicated users, not do data-grabbing/leaking dotcom behavior themselves, which will require some internal rethinking. If they piss off some funding sources, they'll need to find some minimal level of funding, to pay for the jobs that simply can't be done by volunteers, and for expenses for things actually essential to the core mission. (And to get all their hardware&connectivity infrastructure donated by companies that would like the goodwill, and who will sign legal commitments to not use incidental data, with severe penalty clauses.)
I’d add ketamine to that list. First start with small doses. A larger dose where you fully dissassociate is quite an experience.
I think subway stations in US are rather spartan by international standards. Whatever the reasons for the high cost, opulence is not one of them.
Almost nobody will enable this, though.