skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) Regarding WebRender: Maybe I'm a bit out of the loop, but aren't they working on Servo? It seems, WebRender is a Gecko thing. I'm confused.

2) I'm also confused about the state of Gecko Embedding. As far as I know many are jumping to Chromium instead of Gecko. What's the plan there? Is Chromium better/easier to embed? Will I be able to embed Servo at some point?
I am including down stream effects. Mines eventually drain into rivers, but that water does not then flow back up tributaries or after the land downstream all that much. On top of that major rivers have so much water flowing that it tends to drastically reduce the impacts from mines.
At that level of a company like IBM, everyone is purely political. The CEO can’t necessarily force specific changes, and has to work with other senior executives who have clauses in their contracts that allow them to exit with huge payoffs if certain job responsibilities are taken away from them. Those senior executives (esp at IBM) have immense power; and will easily be able to kill RedHat by a thousand cuts or just parcel out the talent at the company.

Just poach a few key folks internally from RedHat to lead “strategic initiatives” and backfill their roles with IBM lifers. The culture will degrade accordingly.
> Most developers prefer

You're free to voice your own opinion, but I take some issue with people asserting theirs as if they speak for "most developers". Especially if it comes from a new account with a name like "Gustafnot". That doesn't exactly scream "unbiased" to me.
I think there's a giant qualitative difference in the ethics of price discrimination around medical necessities vs luxury goods.
I agree with the other two points. The first one is not just something that you can change in router configuration. I am talking about CG-NAT. It's implemented by ISP and is not something that you can bypass.
Apple/NeXT

Exception that confirms the rule though.
Early SwiftUI Impressions and Wish List from a React Developer
My skin got dry just reading your comment.
userChrome.css support will be disabled by default in Firefox 69.[1][2] The user must toggle the "toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheet" preference to enable that.

Based on the name of that preference, as well as this developer page[3] saying "Support for the userChrome.css file and any of its elements described below are not guaranteed in future versions of Firefox", it seems likely userChrome.css will be dropped in the future.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1541233

[2] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/69.0beta/releasenotes/

[3] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Tech/XUL/Tu...
That’s a reasonable position to hold but it’s certainly much more likely that reasonable people would disagree than it is that they’d disagree that selling data indiscriminately is wrong.

So criticizing Facebook for the latter (which it doesn’t actually do) is intellectually dishonest.

This is sort of similar to how content owners have muddied the waters of debate by calling copyright infringement stealing. One can certainly argue that both are unethical, but they’re still different things!
I'm sure some animals have behaviours similar to our altruism. I just don't buy that particular example as a proof of :

> The instinct to want to help seems normal, natural; and examples such as this even seem to serve as a tool for reflection for the face of the modern state of humanity.
>If IBM interferes with Red Hat they will likely squander the value of what we've built.

That's an argument why IBM shouldn't interfere, not an argument why IBM won't interfere...
http://mslinux.org/

Quite literally!
Good point, I changed my wording.
I've been running Firefox full time on all my computers for a few months now. It's been really good. I've tried to switch away from Chrome in the past, but I've always had to come back due to performance issues or incompatibility with something. But it's basically 95% on par with Chrome now (missing a few things like syncing search engines, etc)
For what it's worth, I'm still able to open and use Doxygen HTML docs without running a web server. Looks like it loads both CSS and JS. So I'm not sure what the changenote actually means.
i wrote some offline webapps for my mom with html, css and js. she just opens a local html file on her android tablet. will they stop working?
IBM had a huge push about 20 years ago to spend their resources on Linux, I believe this played a part in Linux beating everything from SCO, Solaris and even AIX and BSD out of the market.
> UK: "Reading-g." (Really. Every BBC presenter does the double-G ing on everything-g.)

I've listened for this, and can't hear it. Are you saying that after the final ŋ, you hear a g sound? Or that you think the ŋ sound is lengthened?

Every text on English phonetics gives ri:dɪŋ as the RP pronunciation. Here's a transcript containing words ending in "ing": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Received_Pronunciation#Spoken_...
The Toxic-Gas Catastrophe Hiding Beneath Your Home
Do you have a source for that? Here's an example of the notification Steam gives you when a key is revoked due to fraud:

https://content.invisioncic.com/r273030/monthly_2017_05/Unti...
Also 'x' is a little weird. Depending on the dialect and the word, it's pronounced roughly like English 'x', 's', 'sh', and a guttural 'h'.
Then we can look at the Japanese occupation of China and the killing of 10-25 Million civilians.. The west does not learn much about that part of WW2.
The bigger issue this discussion is pointing to is how too much power/status/etc is concentrated among physicians in healthcare. It's too hierarchical. Not saying physicians are poor at their jobs, but there's very little evidence, when any evidence has been collected, that when another type of provider, with a different educational and training history, has moved into roles previously occupied by physicians, that outcomes are any different.

So, for example, I doubt that if NPs were specifically trained in specialty area X, you'd see any real differences. If we're going to do anecdotes, my personal experiences have been that the care provided by NPs (or PAs) has not been any different from physicians, even in relatively specialty areas I've dealt with. In fact, in some ways the care was better because we weren't trying to pressured into expensive procedures with absolutely zero scientific evidence of improved outcomes (having a hammer makes everything a nail).

What seems to be going under the radar is that the vast majority of MD programs are moving to 1.5 years or even less of academic training, with the rest being a variety of clinical experiences and quick rotations. This is fine, but what it means is that if you have a need for a provider in specialty area X, there's little difference between an MD + 4 years of specialty training, and something like a PA or NP + 6 years of training. We could get into discussions about academic preparedness, but at that point you're making a lot of assumptions averaging over individual variability, and ignoring things like nurses often having a ton of very technical training in actual physical technique.

I would love nothing more than for competition to open up dramatically in healthcare in terms of access, training, provider, and administrator models. This is happening to some extent now but it needs to be dramatically expanded. I see very little empirical or logical reason to assume that 4 years of general MD/DO training to something more specialized, is better than alternate training trajectories. Many of the professions in healthcare, such as nurses, PAs, pharmacists, psychologists, dentists, optometrists, etc. could be dramatically increased in scope of care, and new roles created that don't even exist currently, if there wasn't such territoriality and hierarchy in healthcare. Costs are spiraling currently in part because of rent-seeking problems. We've built our current system on a very dated set of stereotypes and outmoded assumptions, and are paying for it.
How much experience do you have watching primary school classrooms, library read-alouds, etc.?

I’m talking about e.g. 5–8 year-old students, listening to books that even the best prepared in the class would struggle to read on their own, but even the least prepared have little trouble listening to someone else read.

I feel like we must be talking about different activities here. Children are very engaged listening to a good reader reading a good story. Listening to stories does not cause any substantial proportion of them to “fall further behind” or to “give up”.

> Unfortunately most teachers teach at the level of the more advanced students

This was almost never my own experience as a student in ~17 years of formal education. YMMV.
"Cryptomining and fingerprinting protections are added to strict content blocking settings in Privacy & Security preferences."

my first reaction is it's really sad to see this. looks like something Google blackmailed them into adding. maybe Im missing some aspect to this.. but why is mining crypto bad but showing ads is not?

I rather mine coins/ether/whatever for the website owners than see more ads

moving away from the web being funded by advertisement to a web funded by distributed computing is what a lot of people have been looking forward to, no?
It's certainly possible, since earth doesn't need much external input other from sunlight to sustain life.

The question is, how scaled-down a self-sustaining ecosystem can we create and manage, which is capable of sustaining human life?
This is not even remotely true. We use at everyday at my workplace (Education) - thousands and thousands of employees as well as students . All of our contemporary peer institutions do the same.
Not defending Samsung, but it doesn't seem like they're redistributing your code under the Apache license, rather the rest of the project under that license. In the COPYING file they have your license in there, under the files that appear to be yours, as an exception of being under the Apache license. https://github.com/Samsung/uJVM/blob/master/COPYING

So this means that in the example you shared, you could just link them to the /COPYING and say that you'd still have to get those files re-licensed under your terms, as it's still not free.
Feynman also worked on the Manhattan Project and was so horrified at the outcome he refused to work for the government again, up until the challenger investigation.

Lots of these guys thought they were doing it just to beat the Germans at it; they didn't expect it to actually be used. They thought they were the good guys!
>Healthcare should be relatively cheap. Entertainment should be relatively expensive.

That's not going to work, people are more willing to spend for a higher standard of healthcare than they are a higher standard of entertainment. In fact the dollar value of one additional year of life is virtually unlimited, if not to the state, to the person whose life it is.
FDA Should Act Fast Amid Youth Vaping ‘Epidemic’
> Not just privacy. Democracy in general.

So yeah, China...
Our best hope against cashless remains seniors and immigrants:
https://www.npr.org/2019/02/11/691334123/swedens-cashless-ex...

Otherwise we end up with cash that only outlaws use:

"His total assets were quickly converted to New Yen, a fat sheaf of the old paper currency
that circulated endlessly through the closed circuit of the world's black markets like the
seashells of the Trobriand islanders. It was difficult to transact legitimate business with
cash in the Sprawl; in Japan, it was already illegal."
Why is private browsing mode not emptying the cache then? Seems to be contrary to the very purpose of the mode...
Devil's advocate: is this not a legitimate concern? e.g. can viruses potentially be transmitted via bar soap?

I use bar soap in my own shower, but I still prefer not to use someone else's bar soap and I use equivalent liquid/foam soap for washing my hands and face.
Ah I didn't know this, that makes more sense, I guess they wanted to isolate such a release by GPU to resolve immediate issues per release.
of course, after you locate the binary in your fs
So IBM buys Red Hat for $34B, of which $20B are borrowed monies.
The debt is priced at 1.05 percentage points above Treasury yield rate [1] which would be somewhere around 3.5%
which puts interest on bond debt at ~$700m every year.

Now consider that Red Hat had a net income of $433m. Even if they reach $500 this year, Big Blue will still be $200m short, every year.

At the moment, IBM is trading down at -0.5% on an otherwise slight green Nasdaq.

Just from these numbers we can conclude that IBM is seeing some pretty significant synergies in the purchase that the market isn't.

[1] https://www.barrons.com/articles/ibm-bond-sale-red-hat-51557...
The Bro-Iness of Joe Biden
Youtube/Google?
Americans are far more obese than people in comparable countries. We also drive a lot more than our counterparts. (Driving is likely the riskiest activity you do every day)

That group represents about a million people but I don't have detailed enough information to claim that it is not skewed.

https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/two-maps-and-one-graph-com...
The future of short-form video is silent
The problem with any M&A is no different than what happens in marriages - do the two blend together, does one dominate the other's culture, etc? The truth is that IBM's history (and to be fair, almost all 10-figure+ market cap tech companies) even with multi-billion dollar acquisitions (that's almost all they do with the exception of Google and Apple I can think off the top of my head) is that the current company's inertia dominates whoever they acquire and the internal sales-driven culture in developed markets supersedes anything resembling engineering related from a company they acquire. Sometimes IBM gets ripped off too but wishful-thinking top-down thinking instead of a more critical, measured engineering oriented focus is typically not consulted even for absolutely essential company initiatives internally.

Disclaimer: former IBM employee with short tenure with a failed acquisition by every definition of it
What words do New Englanders add and remove Rs in?
FYI: I was able to reproduce the issue with the Linux client as well.
> I can't actually find one for this

I found one for you [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20353752
The agency I work at was bought up by the monolithic AKQA, which in turn was bought by the epic proportioned WPP.

At first, that meant our one to four person operation in SF (most are in London) moved from hanging around Google offices to getting a terrible fishbowl in AKQA. Then, right when I joined, they got approved for their own space in the financial district of SF. Since then, they've been expanding rapidly, with basically no input or oversight from AKQA or WPP.

So at least in this case it seems there was no issue.

The company is Potato, by the way.
Will it also eventually roll out for those with Intel Integrated Graphics?
A honest question, is it (and was it then) legal to destroy an entire city full of civilians?

Or only the ones that lose the war are accused of war crimes?

A different question, what happened with the guys that droned(or was an helicopter I do not remember) those civilians. I am referring at the incident where the video tape was leaked, was anybody found guilty?
Will dispute resolution be Libra’s Achilles’ heel?
No, it actually doesn’t make sense to store it in any kind of profile.

You are right that some fly by data might end up in a server log somewhere but those aren’t kept around for long...if they are kept at all at Facebook scales

Storing and computing data is very expensive and risky at FB scale so they will only keep around what they actually need for as long as they need it. Meaning that data gets send to the server, gets aggregated and then deleted.

An exception of course is content generated by users such as a newsfeed post, as is the nature of the product that content stays around until users delete it
I can't see some of the other comments so maybe someone else has put this out there, but economics Is definitely one of those topics that are interesting and worth thinking about. It's not (just) about money, its about the distribution of resources and the structures that facilitate that distribution. Economic theory certainly can have applications beyond informing world economic policy, not to mention that informing policy is also a good idea.

With respect to this solution, I bet it will be great for astronomy, especially superpowered space telescopes that need to squeeze every bit of accuracy out of their projected lifetime. They might also improve optical telescopes but I'm not sure how much there is to improve before running into physical limits. I can't think of any other big impacts off the top of my head, but I bet there are others.

Not sure how much of an economic impact this result will ultimately have, and I agree that that's missing the point here, but in general I think asking about the potential economic impact of scientific/technological advances is a prudent line of questioning.
if it's the same as chrome the document would be able to load resources trough link and script, only xhr would not work, in case of a simple page statically loaded it should keep working but stuff like phaser.js would not be able to load assets
Every company in the world is told they can keep their corporate culture after an acquisition. This never actually happens, or at least I've never seen it. Optimism that they shouldn't screw up Red Hat is just not how large corporatiols operate.
My brother in law lives in a fairly recently constructed house, and I commented that one of his receptacles was "upside down". He explained that the electrician did that for the switched outlets so you can tell by looking at them. He then asked if there was anything wrong with it? "Nope, it's actually code in most hospitals to do that, but residential doesn't. Just wondered." It's an interesting way of indicating switched.
I am confused and the docs site seems to be dead. Who runs the nodes? Where is the data stored? Is the data encrypted? What are the legal ramifications of running a node, like am I expected to moderate content people put on my node? What if someone uploads child porn?
Huh, interesting. That must be a relatively recent addition. I've had keys revoked (that I got through a trader), and did not get any notification.
> stalk you around the internet on other services and spam you there

That's not a good reason for (e.g., Whatsapp) to not put in some frankly minimal effort to prevent this on their platform.
Take with a grain of salt. This is pseudoscience at best.

There were some reports of earthquake lights[1][2][3] and earthquake clouds[4][5][6] recently.

There's some online communities dedicated to those, e.g. https://quakewatch.net/predictioncenter/

___

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_light

[2] https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/men-film-glowing-sn...

[3] https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/789760/Colorado-...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_cloud

[5] https://weather.com/vertical/video/strange-clouds-seen-in-co...

[6] https://www.denverpost.com/2019/06/20/boulder-rare-helix-clo...

Edit: I mean accurate forecasting and prediction using this data is pseudoscience.
Wish you luck, but strongly suggest you remain realistic about how this dance goes, simply for your own sake.

Thing is, IBM has been around for a long time and has a long history of acquisitions. They've done it enough that there's a process. My suggestion would be to go through this list and decide which one looks most like the situation in which you find yourself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...

If you were feeling like a little research, you could probably even find the names of some folks in a job role like yours who were there at the time and see what happened to them post-acquisition.
Crypto-mining scripts are mostly silent; if your computer doesn’t have a loud fan to spin up, you’re hardly able to even tell one is running other than on its eventual impact on battery life.

As such, they’re a favoured tool of script-kiddies who deface websites. They take over a site, and then drop a crypto-miner onto the site to make themselves money, otherwise leaving everything intact. Sometimes even the site owner doesn’t notice anything has changed for quite a while. Meanwhile, an unaffiliated third party is now making money off of their website on the backs of their users.
were loyalists invited to the continental congress? Sometimes there's simply no merit in allowing certain people into certain spaces.
> The problem is that a touchpad is still fundamentally an indirect pointing device, rather than a direct pointing device like a touchscreen.

Based on what? I don't think there's any logical advantage to each of these options although I prefer the Mac-way now. You just get used to it.
Mostly true. At the end of a word it's pronounced as though it were followed by an 'e' or an 'i'.

I used to work with a guy named Gerardo Ochoa. His username was gochoa, but when addressing him in person we'd sometimes call him "jochoa." (Not his real name or username, but what I'm describing is true in its essence.)
I can imagine something along the lines of checking whether user interaction was the root cause of getting access to the clipboard as a middle ground... e.g. on web, popup blockers work this way. If a user interacts with a button, and that javascript series of functions opens a popup, it is allowed. If a non user interaction function in javascript, say a running ad, tries to open a popup, it is blocked. Could try the same approach, where only if the user initiated the current running series of functions, would it be allowed to access the clipboard. Or even ask for elevated user interaction functions, so that security teams would have an explicit list of elevated functions that are allowed to access sensitive data, allowing for easier manual checks. Anything else would have the annoying confirmation.
Ask them what they think is their impact on the journalism and the news. We see destruction of local news, specialty journalism, etc, and lots of it is thought to be attributed to privacy violations by FB and Google. Who needs a local newspaper if a local business can target people on FB or on Candy Crush Saga? That's the bottom line.
> You can try to reduce the amount, but you won't be able to eliminate it.

That's fine. Just because you can't completely solve a problem doesn't mean you shouldn't take steps to mitigate it. Perfect is the enemy of good, etc.
Aside: Interesting use of the pronoun 'she' in this comment. FB's behaviour is totally due to Zuck, as he owns 53.3% of the voting shares of the company. FB is Zuck, for all intents and purposes.
Are we sure they're not just using fleetsmith to install it and trolling all of us with the zoom news going on?
Yes, and old games sell for less than new games, allowing poor to afford more. What is your point?
> Taken to the extreme a middleman exchange with infinite resells and instant transfers of ownership could limit total sales to peak concurrent users. I mean why should an American and a European each buy a license? They could just share a license and instantly transfer it back and forth when they want to play!

This can be mitigated by limiting transfer licenses by some days, i.e. after transferring you need to wait one month to transfer ownership again.

However, this wouldn't even be necessary. Just a process that is boring enough to do would avoid most non-malicious abuse. For example, to transfer the user that current has ownership of the key must went to a process of disowning the key first.

There is already better ways if you want to share your library with some trusted people: i.e. Steam's family share.
The vast majority of javascript crypto mining is not there to displace advertisements. It is added to the website by hackers or rogue sysadmins for unscrupulous reasons.