skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's accurate. Mozilla's intention was that Firefox couldn't be exploited by malware installing dodgy extensions, thus they want most people's installs of Firefox to reject unsigned extensions. But people who know what they're doing are free to download unsigned unbranded builds.
> with a large animal like a grizzly or a wolf it could just as easily escalate the situation.

Perhaps, but this is unclear. I've seen tests that corroborate and contradict the statement that "a .22LR can't penetrate a big bear's skull".

I've read more stories about .22LR's killing bears than the wielders perishing. It could be argued that people eaten by animals don't do much writing. Truth be told, I can't find data to pin to the bushy mustachioed alaskan guides who suggest "don't go in bear country without something that shoots ammo with a "4" in it.

Since I love being obstinate, I'm definitely comfortable arming myself for the Alaskan wilds with my 7.62x51mm rifle, and 10mm side arm. If I ever made it in the paper, maybe the "4" police would get curious enough to learn more about metric.

If you're going into country inhabited by natures best predators, it's a risk analysis problem that should be evaluated individually. If the idea of getting devoured by gnashing teeth and claw is more unsettling than the rarity of such events is comforting, might I suggest defense in depth?

Air horn, bear spray, and yes -- maybe a high velocity long range paper hole punch. I wouldn't recommend the last one lightly. Carrying a gun with which you aren't intimately familiar and well practiced is stupid and dangerous.

The data shows that way more than caliber, shot placement determines "stopping power". That's why practice is more important than your gear. Being able to bring a gun up to eye level, sights aligned, from muscle memory, has to be learned through practice. There's also flinch control, malfunction clearing, gear proofing, accurate and prompt follow up shots.. It's a lot of things you have to learn if you want to carry right. (Start with the 4 rules..)

Whose the better guide into Alaska. Pat, who hits up the local range regularly, IDPA sometimes, and carries a self assembled custom .223, or Robin who saw happy feat, bought a .50cal and decided to take the fight to the bears?

Robin pays 16$ a round and only carries match grade armor piercing incendiary. Robin's gun should be able to bore a kevlar bear stem to stern, from 2 miles away, through a cinder block wall.

The answer is Pat.
Are you sure you meant vim, not vi? 'Cause...

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Sure, but that is about half of Disney’s market cap.
> People who are volunteering (jury) are to assume that things that happen in a non-commercial setting happen for money.

What? Jurors aren't volunteers. Jury duty is mandatory; if you get called, you have to show up or provide justification for why you can't be a juror. If you get selected, you can't just say "no sorry, this case actually sounds boring and I'd rather not". Also, jurors get paid. They are volunteers in no sense of the word.

Court is generally considered to be a professional setting; I agree that it's non-commercial but I disagree that there are only two options where one is "commercial" and the other is "if you're getting paid you have to disclose it". Who would you think is paying an expert witness for their time, if not the person who wanted them to testify?

I legitimately do not understand why you feel like this is a conflict of interest.
That's part of it. More like, just play the game within the written rules instead of the unwritten rules.
I own most of the commonly available SDRs, and I’m also not aware of any that can do that wide of a range at $100 price point. Like you, I’d be happy to be proven wrong (albeit my wallet won’t be).
Not at all.

It's been government regulations promoting renewables around the world which have helped drive demand. This in turn has led to Chinese factories ramping up and the overall cost dropping.

Same thing with electric cars. The current explosion in new models is being driven by EU regulations not consumer demand.
Customs Computer System Shutdown Causes Mass Delays at Airports Nationwide
The problem is that you have a complex interconnected system and you just flipped a switch that changed the entire protocol by which data was being transmitted.

OrderedJSON and JSON might seem compatible on the surface but are you sure you caught every little code path that might have been assuming OrderedJSON?

This isn't an issue of spec compliance or not because the data format wasn't JSON in the first place. OrderedJSON is not a subset of JSON even though it has the property that all OrderedJSON documents are syntactically valid JSON -- they represent different abstract values and JSON is the lossy interpretation.
The fact that third-party addons can even touch sensitive settings in the user.js prefs is a massive security flaw in Mozilla's implementation of the WebExtensions API. Addons should be sandboxed/containerized or require privilege escalation before touching files on the disk.
Isn't it pollution regulations that make coal uneconomical? Coal is still a cheap option in China, for example. Have we simply used up our supply of cheap coal?
I saw a heartbreaking YouTube mini-documentary on Facebook moderators.[1] The American workers seem to get the "lighter" flags like animal abuse, which is more than enough to cause trauma with daily exposure. I shudder to think what the offshore moderators go through when dealing with human/child abuse flags.

In my view, Facebook clearly wants this to be a temporary evil, so they can use the data from human moderators as a training set for automated ML-based moderation. But I wonder how long people will have to endure this for those models to reach an acceptable efficacy.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDnjiNCtFk4
All for profit companies have that agenda- it is very much NOT hidden.
You're still not getting it. Confidence intervals are not what you want to look at. Neither are error bars. They would be relevant if you wanted to know the mean performance, and wondered how accurately you had estimated this mean. But as far as I can tell, that's what you want to know.
It is read-your-writes semantics, and the metadata is stored in the session.
I could totally see that. I live in an area with lots of very steep hills which would be murder to bike up, so I just don't bike. I never even considered that I could just get an E-bike to deal with them and then start biking everywhere.
Please read papers thoroughly before citing! You are drawing a conclusion from these two studies that the authors themselves did not draw.

Note that during an overwhelming majority of the encounters in the bear spray study, the bears were classified as "not aggressive." Contrast this with the firearms study, which specifically looks at bear attacks in which the human defended him/herself with a firearm.

One should not be surprised that the study of bear attacks yields more injuries to humans! Most of the bears in the bear spray study were doing things like rummaging for food, not attacking people.

The best takeaway, in my opinion, is in the conclusion of the firearms study:

>Firearms should not be a substitute for avoiding unwanted encounters in bear habitat. Although the shooter may be able to kill an aggressive bear, injuries to the shooter and others also sometimes occur. The need for split-second deployment and deadly accuracy make using firearms difficult, even for experts. Consequently, we advise people to carefully consider their ability to be accurate under duress before carrying a firearm for protection from bears. No one should enter bear country without a deterrent and these results show that firearms are not a clear choice. We encourage all persons, with or without a firearm, to consider carrying a non-lethal deterrent such as bear spray because its success rate under a variety of situations has been greater (i.e., 90% successful for all 3 North American species of bear; Smith et al. 2008) than those we observed for firearms.

Carry the deterrent or deterrents of your choice, try to avoid encounters in the first place, and practice using whatever it is that you carry, because neither firearm nor spray works if you miss.
The Tesla panel gap spec on the front hood is 4.5mm +/- 1.5mm. One side could be 3mm, and the other 6mm, and that would be considered within spec. I just took my Model 3 in for panel gap issues yesterday (new as of 5 weeks ago), and their fix, although an improvement, wasn’t nearly the quality I’d expect on a car in the same class as a BMW, but it was “in spec”. I forced the tech to show me the spec document. After confirming with a panel gap gauge that the gap on the front was 6mm and within spec, I told the tech that it still didn’t look right. His advice was to leave it as it is, because other cars with similar gaps haven’t really been adjusted properly... when one panel is properly gap’d, the others are then wrong. Whatever method they’re using in the field to fix the gap problem isn’t able to reliably get consistent gaps.
Bukowski was writing for people in the USA, correct?
Not at AWS's scale. You can only have 4094 VLANs.
Project member here.

It exports stdlib types (like io::Error) where appropriate so that libraries working with these can stay compatible, so `no_std` is not really an option.

The underlying library (async-task) is essentially core + liballoc, just no one made the effort to spell that out, yet.
No, Tesla bought and installed that glass.
A lot of anime have hyper-realistic buildings and backgrounds; I would expect that these would be built with the same CAD tools as real buildings.
Ask HN: How do you monitor financial markets?
Hi HN,

How do you monitor financial markets?

I used to have a Bloomberg Terminal license at my previous job. Now that is gone, I lack a good tool to monitor markets (like WEI<Go>/WB<Go>/GMM<Go>). Or something similar to the launchpad?

Which app/website do you guys use?

Thank you,

Maxime.
I read the article and felt it was kinda thin and conclusory.

I take a bit of issue at his swipe 'if you can afford them'. Since the price is falling fast enough that electric cars should be actually cheaper than gasoline ones within a few years. Which means we might end up with more electric cars than we would gasoline ones. So yeah some of the negative externalies are fixed, CO2 emissions and air pollution. But others are not, traffic fatalities and injuries, traffic congestion, industrial pollution, resource depletion. And low prices may mean more of the latter not less.
Not the main one I use!
eating fewer cows also reduces collective cows' methane emissions
I couldn't find the right words to describe it, the other person who commented was a bit closer. At a certain point I would assume the Boeing 787 design would have interchangeable configurations that would not be dependent on the airframe and avionics. I wasn't sure if cabin, interior, model, or something else would best describe what I meant and chassis and body for a car was the best I could come up with that could describe these two changeable parts unlike the unibody chassis. It looks like configurations is the most appropriate word.

I was hoping that the person I commented to could point us at some fun manuals to describe how these configurations worked at a technical level.
> Of course it doesn't make sense to conserve land that is having its water cut off

This is very short sighted.

Restoring topsoil at scale is beyond current technology.

For example, the Sahara desert was fertile before it was over farmed, then abandoned.

https://www.livescience.com/4180-sahara-desert-lush-populate...

Future generations may find better uses for this land than solar farming, but probably not if we ruin it now.

Even before then, ruining the land with reckless solar installations could lead to further desertification in neighboring areas. Again, this is still happening with the Sahara (though not because of solar):

https://www.quora.com/How-is-the-Sahara-Desert-continuously-...

To be clear, we need to build solar as fast as possible, but not at the cost of needlessly wrecking the planet even more.
That's a tricky question. My understanding is that while it's (in theory, modulo compiler bugs and features) a 0-cost abstraction over different underlying system APIs, those different underlying system APIs aren't necessarily the same cost. For example, if I'm trying to read from a socket in the synchronous world, I just issue the `read` system call. But in the async world I'm going to do quite a bit more:

- Create an epoll descriptor.

- Add my socket to that descriptor.

- Poll the descriptor for a readiness notification.

- Read the descriptor.

Those first three system calls weren't required in the synchronous version, and unless the read is large enough to overshadow them, they represent some additional cost. But that cost is required by the OS itself, not by Rust's abstractions.

Someone with more experience writing Mio code might want to jump in and correct me here though.
US fire codes require smoke alarms to be replaced every 7 years.
Thats fine - just realize your competitors will eventually do it.
That's our goal also. We just ported a site over to WordPress with a Rails admin backend. We're hoping to move off of ColdFusion completely by next year.
> rails will die out

That'll suck. Hope your company doesn't use Github.
They're public domain now; a few years ago I made a list of links for reading them on Project Gutenberg and Open Library - https://www.metafilter.com/125680/I-dont-think-were-in-Kansa...
The Friends Who All Cosplay the Same Character
AWS NVMe to Block Mapping
> We do it all the time. Whatever it is that you want your program to do, and any interesting functional property of it, is a non-compositional property. I know that because if it were compositional, you wouldn't need to write the program.

I don't think I understand what you're saying here?

Say I want to write a program that tells me the duplicated members of a list. My program might call helper routines like, "stable sort the list," and then "collect adjacent duplicates."

I might want to prove my program is "correct", e.g., a statement like, "the output is a list that contains exactly those elements of the input list whose duplicity exceeds 1"). To do this, I can first reason about the helper functions in isolation, then compose these results about the helper functions to establish that my desired property.

Why is this not an interesting property, or a program that I don't need to write?
Embarrassment may be universal, but the internalization of guilt and shame varies dependent on the culture both in degree and manner. See, e.g.:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/276464615_A_Cultura...
> We want to empower web developers to create complex UIs

> We very much want the web to win, or at least to stay relevant.

> We believe in open web, and this is why we work on React.

Who is “we” in these sentences, Facebook or the React team? If it’s the React team, then what is Facebook’s motivation? If it’s Facebook, then why on earth would anyone trust it?

The discussion here is motivated by distrust for Facebook, and suspicion about their (your) motives. The specific accusations in the thread above are perhaps a bit out there, but I don’t think it’s addressed well by focusing on the history of React but ignoring the history of Facebook.
There is some prior for this in that they actually already have a "God mode" permission [1] that they grant to some of their own extensions such as the screenshot tool (which might not be an extension any more). I don't think they'd let us have it, though. It would be really nice to work on PDFs again!

[1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1456485
They are closing because alternatives are cheaper, which has multiple reasons, some of which are policy (subsidies/penalties, publicly funded research in alternatives, stricter mining regulation driving resource prices up, stricter emissions regulations requiring expensive plant upgrades or more expensive new construction etc.)
I like how you make the effort to go back and update your previous comments made in haste.
Spawning a new thread for an operation is not async in the sense people typically mean. For an async IO library, you would expect it to be using async IO primitives like epoll, not just wrapping blocking operations in a thread.
No, that is not a swipe. That is me being very nice and polite in telling people to make sure they know what they're saying before saying it, followed by an awkward attempt at humour to avoid any misunderstanding of my tone.

Edit: Sorry, I see you are the OP in the thread. Note that I did not aim that specifically at you and I included myself in "us". I understand you may have felt frustrated that I challenged your knowledge of AI but I sincerely think that you could have researched the subject a bit better before stating what you think it is.

Edit II: At the very least you could have tried to talk a bit more about why you think that "AI today is just capable of curve fitting". Making such a strong statement without any attempt to back it up with some kind of explanation (I'm not saying you should reference sources and bring "evidence" or anything, just explain it) comes across as a bit, well, ill-informed. With respect.
Really interesting project IMO. It would be great to have this linked with an app that actually computes how much CO2 you consume while travelling and proposes to offset whatever you are consuming.
Under 30 Asia VCS Advise Entrepreneurs on How to Pitch for Investment
I've never met another American that uses it.

I use Facebook Messenger for talking to real-life friends and a couple of online friends, Discord for talking to people I only know online, Slack for work, and SMS for talking to my parents.
- The call that claims "diversity" should include movements towards less diversity?

Of course it should. It's the diversity of opinions. Otherwise you're calling for an exterior diversity (I'm black, you're Asian, she's transgender) but a complete uniformity of opinions and worldviews.
> packet counters will prevent you from using the same packet in the wrong slot.

Source to back up that claim? I am not an expert, but have enough experience on the topic to feel justified in feeling that’s wrong.
Every time I hear something that sounds like an emergency vehicle on the radio I think of this. Thankfully on my work commute I mostly listen to podcasts so rarely run into this on my roughest drive, but it's still a terrible idea.
Or perhaps a working partner and a willingness to get by on one income. Know a couple who did this in NYC for a couple of years on non-dev salaries and the trade-off definitely opened doors for them.
Recently listened to a hunting guide on a podcast talk about a run in with a group of wolves:

They were somewhere in the Rockies and were being stalked by a pack. The alpha held their attention fixed, while several other wolves flanked them on both sides.

They ended up having to take a shot at the alpha and that broke off their attack.

Good luck using pepper spray in that scenario.
Lead arsenate was sprayed all over apples. Up until the 70s in some places.

We're really smart apes, we are.
In fact, the US is broken up into 50 pieces, and some pieces fare much better than others in terms of violence/suicide per capita depending on the region.

> Nope. US problems are due to culture, not size.

Probably a combination of both. Culture isn't a thing that can be easily changed, though.
There is no incentive to block an infringing video. The presence of the sound is accidental anyways and does not damage the claimants revenue (it is not a replacement good). So the claimant wont directly (video revenue) or indirectly earn money from these claims.
Starting your own thing in your garage is one thing, but we have a much bigger problem, in that service industry workers simply can't afford to live within a reasonable distance of this area, so there's a shortage of that form of labor, despite paying well over minimum wage.

Local stores, bakeries and restaurants, are closing down at a fast rate. I've been living here for a long time, and I'm sad to see small businesses being displaced by upscale chains. Downtowns areas which used to be a mix of small businesses and restaurants, are turning into chains of upscale restaurants and shops that are out of my price range (mid range tech worker)

We're going to find out what an industry town looks like when all industries but one or two are priced out, and the initial indications aren't very nice.
No, it's that alternatives (mostly natural gas) have become much less expensive than they were, to the point where they're cheaper than coal to operate. Fracking completely changed the game, giving us access to a great deal of previously unrecoverable natural gas. (Oh, and speaking of government investment and subsidy...)

The really interesting thing is that solar/wind are becoming cheaper than coal, and will soon be cheaper than natural gas.
Sorry I can’t answer your question, but I did enjoy the doco “Particle Fever” about CERN, life at CERN and the Higgs boson. You might enjoy it.
When the gain is smaller than the cost of hiring people to do the claim.
Google's abandonment of Hangouts was phenomenally stupid, and it should itself really have just been an evolution of Google Talk. It's a symptom of something very wrong in the incentive structure and product portfolio management there where you have to roll out a new application to add a feature, and the various applications cannot interoperate. Perhaps the underlying issue is that none of these made money directly. For what it's worth, I still use Hangouts.
The drop was due to other factors, price of oil fell, again.
I don't know much about Houston, but it's worth noting that Houston has 14x the land area.
They are very similar. In cooperative multitasking, programs yield the thread to the OS, while async programs yield to the event loop. In both cases, yielding is voluntary. Are there other differences? It's probably quite easy to turn a program written one way into the other.

Edit: I just remembered that in cooperative multitasking, it's probably possible for the OS to safely save the program stack pointer, meaning the program doesn't have to unwind its stack when yielding, unlike async programs. Never mind, that makes the two models quite different. However, in practice, programs written for cooperative multitasking really should be structured just like async programs in order to be responsive (so users can, for example, interact with the GUI while downloading files in the background.)
Could people create a synthetic simulated EAS tone that contains no data and couldn't be decoded by any EAS equipment, but that would still remind a human viewer of the EAS tone? Would that be OK with the FCC, or are they also concerned with human listeners recognizing the sound and believing that an alert is imminent?

I worked on the engineering team for my high school radio station, but we didn't learn much about how EAS worked, other than that it was mandatory and was replacing EBS. :-)