skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a misrepresentation of our argument.

The very next sentences are:

"I am happy to be corrected on this. If you have any specific explanations you would like me to provide to our users, I would be happy to pass them on."

We also supported Mozilla's choice to move away from the XUL API.

I and most of the other core contributors are in favour of of capabilities-based security with explicit permission granting, not just in Firefox, but in general.

We believe that it should also be possible for users to have their software do what they want it to do. Part of that is letting people make their own decisions about what level of risk they are willing to accept.

We are reasonable people. We have been told in non-specific terms that something is unsafe that we think is useful and reasonably safe. So we have asked Mozilla (several times) to explain how it is unsafe so that we can update our beliefs if necessary.

We are asking because we know from experience that Mozilla employees generally have a lower tolerance for risk than us (the developers of tridactyl) or many of our users. Fundamentally, that is OK, but here Mozilla is asking us to do a bunch of work and change our code in ways we don't really want to do so that it more closely matches their risk tolerance than ours.

They can choose to manage their ecosystem how they like, but we in the ecosystem rightly also get a small say.

So we are asking them to say why and trying to negotiate a compromise that will be acceptable to all of us.
marjiuana curious how it compares to other drugs.
To be fair, I don't believe anywhere in the author's memo does he accuse anyone of being racist. The only time the term racism appears is in reference to his parents struggles during the civil rights movement. The only time the term racist appears is in reference to the President, in a section where he is suggesting Google it's efforts to provide better mental health support for their employees.

The way it came across to me was a individual sharing their anecdotal experience being a minority in a large and very well known company. It was a reflection on how he felt about their experiences.

Personally though, in response to your comment. I believe the abortion issue is a bit more nuanced than the police killing an man and facing no repercussions.

But I'm not here to change your mind sir, it's cool to have no empathy for your fellow humans.
>>But who gets to decide who gets a platform? What happens when those deciders abuse their power?

The owners of the platform. As things have always been. Like magazine editors or tv producers. Everyone having a platform is a mixed bag. I don't feel it's needed. If the socialists get McCarthy'd off twitter, they'll survive. If the Alt-right pisses off their web hosts, there's always some lovely libertarian ISP out there who feels that loud anarchy is the best way to support the first amendment.

>>What happens if the pendulum swings the other way and the ones you consider to be on the "right side" of history start getting deplatformed?

They'll find new platforms? Like they always have? I mean, maybe not the best example but as unpopular as Nazis and the KKK are, they still somehow find a way to exist and keep coming back. If your cause is sticky enough, you'll attract people. Also, maybe some ideas should just be allowed to quietly die in private. We don't need "both sides" on every issue.
The real problem with this technique is, of course, normalizing and labeling data.

I have worked on a project which has harmonized and labelled all public RNA samples: https://www.refine.bio
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We can never eliminate sync stuff, because async requires a runtime. Async is great when you need it, but you don't always need it, and you shouldn't have to pay the cost if you don't plan on using it.
You can, to an extent. There’s a limit to what one person can buy or contribute to an economy. It’s easier to sell 2 TVs to two people than it is 2 TVs to one person.
I enjoyed this counterpoint to “don’t call yourself a programmer”, which TFA links to in a footnote. http://yosefk.com/blog/do-call-yourself-a-programmer-and-oth...
let's not pretend we believe in BBC, CNN. Mr Trump said it clear and loud "Fake news".
I think you're drastically misunderstanding the issue here. Everyone knows how Messages works in regards to the switchoff between iMessage and SMS. It's not like it's some secret that the Messages app is capable of also sending SMS. The problem is that it's also not a secret that SMS is objectively a worse experience than iMessage, especially for group chats.

Why do you think the kids don't like it when a thread is green? Do you think that the kids just don't like the color green? That's not it. They don't like it because the thread being green is an indicator that nearly everything about the group chat experience is going to be worse. Messages will be drastically slower, they will have a higher failure rate, pics/videos sent over that chat will be lower quality, there will be no typing indicators or read receipts, there is no ability to label the chat, likes and other message indicators are more cluttering, etc.

It isn't just high school kids, either. I've seen people at work intentionally exclude android users on group chats because we needed fast responses from people and the 2-3 second delay each way on MMS (and that's best case. sometimes it can take minutes for a single message to go through, if it goes through at all) is intolerable when you're trying to have a fast paced conversation with many people. I've had my friend group (people in their 20s, 30s, and 40s) intentionally exclude android users because they were tired of always worrying if one of their MMSes wasn't actually received by everyone in the group (in groups with android users, MMS failures happened enough to have multiple ruined plans because some people in the group never got all the messages being sent).

This is not just a human problem. These people aren't excluding Android users just because they think blue is a cool color and they want to bully green people. They're doing it because there is a very clear technical issue with SMS where it is very lacking in features compared to iMessage. The colors just happen to be a very easy way to signal whether or not you will be using the superior iMessage or the inferior SMS/MMS.
Not quite so dramatic but the shake machine at Jack in the Box was back in service after weeks of being out post-complaint via their service.

Someone on reddit explained the machines are a pita to clean so people just refuse to load it in the first place and then tell everyone it's out.
They should be outlawed completely.
I work in agtech and I'm not surprised by this at all.

The major corn and soy producers have faced downward pressure for the last 4 years. It now costs more to plant the crop than to pick and sell it.

And yet, the government pushes and incentivizes farmers to just grow more.

Read This Blessed Earth or Omnivore's Dilemma if you want a primer on how messed up this system has become.

What farmers need are a way to restore profits in a sustainable fashion. Simply growing more corn/soybeans/rice/wheat isn't going to cut it anymore.
My Model 3 is perfect and it was ordered when it should have been made in a tent
I think there's also a good "death bed" test.

If your actions lead to you dying alone and everyone who you knew remember you as "that guy not worth remembering" - then you did bad for yourself.

You could say it's a more democratic version of the Russian "methods".
Here in Australia, our current Prime Minister proudly brought in a lump of coal into the Parliament to show how not scary it is.

https://www.theguardian.com/global/video/2017/feb/09/scott-m...
They don't test the predictive power of their models?
Jack is actually really useful for music production, far superior to pulse audio, so yeah, people do use those programs.
There are more and more these strange cases when people for some reason think that if everybody around are not cheering them and don't have exectly the same personal opinions as to life, politics, or religion they are opressed in one or another way. While in reality they just participate in a discussion where people have different points of view. That reminds very much a victim mentality and inability to cope with own emotions to have reasonable arguments. People atribute regular behaviour of others that do not align with their own to agression and suprisingly to some sort of discrimination.
Has anyone tried a simple approach - trying to predict which of the S&P 500 will have the lowest 10% returns, and build an (S&P 500 - 10%) index? It seems obvious that the S&P is stacked with some great companies and some old dogs. Does that method not work?
That's the difference between a hashtable you might want to use in practice and a toy example to have someone write some code while quizzing some CS theory.
Wow, some people-not-even-worth-of-insults have downvoted your perfectly fine and informative comment. 8 lbs is not even the load of typical long-distance hiker. It's only very small minority who have those minuscule loads, and their rationale is most often than not just lifestyle choice. I have done hundreds of continuous miles with about 60 lbs many times over the years and experienced no joint problems (this is very personal thing). My feet tend to suffer most in the long run even with good boots so I typically limit the distance covered in a day to 20 miles.

In the army we made 40 miles with about 80 lbs load with basically no rest and that was tough but doable (and not even tough compared to what some other people must go through in the army). Heck, the basic assault rifle we were issued weighted that 8 lbs. That is just ridiculous load for hiking.

I honestly thought that people drilling their toothbrush handles did not actually exist. I have heard numerous times someone joking that "choosing low weight equipment or no some equipment at all can be beneficial but once you start drilling your toothbrush handles it's time to stop" implying that no-one actually drills them. I have always hiked without toothbrush (I used to forget it, nowadays I just don't bother, still having perfect tooth though).
Yeah, OK. It's just that the outrage of TFA relies on the assumption that customers' loyalty implies companies' loyalty to them. It's arguably a foolish assumption. Especially about insurance companies, whose profitability relies on denying claims.
It seems odd that GANs would learn to generate images with precise yet lifelike shape and texture based purely on statistical correlation.
Yeah that does not sound terribly convenient. Trying to solve a problem that does not really seem to exist, probably because they feel like they need to keep up with Tesla in some way.

I love new technology, but as someone who has to carry around a couple keys anyway, having a small fob on my keyring is not much of a burden, and the door unlocks when I touch it (provided the fob is on my person). Push button to start, never touch the fob, so using the phone the way BMW has it set up would be a step backwards in functionality.

And of course they want $100. This is the same company that charges for Apple CarPlay. Sigh. I want to like BMW, but their recent history has been disappointing in many ways.
Add alcohol, gaming addiction, lack off a social support group, and underlying undiagnosed mental health disorders to the list of things that hold you hostage from entering balanced adulthood.

Wish I was more self aware or had family to help support me in my younger years in seeking help. It's hard not to beat yourself up in hindsight when things seem so crystal clear now when you have traded all your vices for positive routines. In my case it took falling in love with the right person who had their shit together personally and professionally to pull me from the grips of substance abuse hell and my self destructive risk taking and addictive personality.

Mediation and mindfulness was key in my recovery as a dependable tool to shut my brain impulsivity down and regain control over the negative neural pathways I've reinforced for years abusing substances. Don't knock it until you try it and see it through until you can start to think clearly without craving your vices and giving into them. Push back hard and you'll be rewarded with clarity and control over your life to set up positive routines. Good luck.
To be fair, the interview question a few posts up mentioned a working hash table, saying nothing about efficiency or thread safety. (though such a question could be gamed with a linked list as a "well akshuolly" a single-bucket hash table...)
Yes LGBT people should dispassionately discuss with homophobic and transphobic folks by rationally engaging them in the marketplace of ideas.

"You know, you think my sexuality is an abomination that should not exist and I will go to hell, but have you ever considered that - hear me out - this could not be the case? Do you have any data to back this up? Aren't you falling into an ad hominem fallacy?"

"Ah right, you have correctly pointed out a gaping hole in my otherwise excellent deductive reasoning. I hereby bow to your argument and am not homophobic anymore."

And once again, the power of rational debate shines through and through.
Only there's no such protocol. It's some adhoc implementation within a single system (or a single IBM ecosystem).
Thanks to the Rails team for a great release! I'm enjoying the stimulus js framework to handle client side UI behavior.
SMS doesn't support pictures at all. MMS is layered on top, where a hidden sms is received telling the phone to fetch the media via http. That is why you can receive text messages without data, but not pictures.

I don't know the details of the MMS spec, but I know the mms picture quality improved when I switched carriers several years ago.
Every time I take someone for their first ride in the Model 3, it’s the AC controls which wow them the most. Living with it is different, but it’s a great selling feature of what you’re selling is “Why hasn’t anyone else done it that way? - this is the future”
Clearly the album was written while watching the movie. Music was carefully timed to sync with a 32 year old movie.
The movie ran on network television in the US only once per year back then.
Maybe in Great Britain it was aired more often? Otherwise they wouldn’t be able to practice very often.
I suppose you're right. The example is both single-threaded at the OS level and single-threaded at the program level.
It's not C++'s goal either, AFAIK, but major new features keep getting added to the language anyway.
> So you put it in your wallet, which means it's a 2-hand process to retrieve the card to unlock your car. You also have to remember to tap it to the car to lock as you walk away.

This seems, I don't know, abnormally bad? I drive an nine year-old cheapo econobox and I've never needed to take my fob out of my pocket. I walk up to my car, and push the button on the handle to unlock as I pull on the handle. Start is push-button. When I leave the car I push the button on the handle as I'm leaving to lock.
Cops will regularly escalate a volatile situation because they have no incentives not to. Come on, about 1000 people are shot dead by police every year, that's an outlier in the civilized world. Firearms are rarer outside the US, but anyone can pick up a kitchen knife, which is just as deadly. Strangely enough, outside the US, deadly shootings involving the cops are actually news.
Yeah makes the decision of whether to take out insurance remarkably easy.
Three Letters from Switzerland
In Python I use async instead of threads for reasons unrelated to performance. https://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2014/02/unyielding.html
Call them?
Fwiw, Waking Up gets better marks by those metrics than the other popular meditation apps mentioned in these comments: Headspace and Calm.

(Lower is better)

- Waking Up (3+11=14)

- Headspace (11+16=27)

- Calm (9+15=24)
> Is this just the internal Nvidia jargon or something?

Stock symbols
> in one control is just given up and regained unpredictably

Which one? It’s “cooperative” ie not unpredictable. The points where one can block are predictable and documented explicitly, otherwise how would the programmer know they won’t block forever. The same should hopefully be the case for async/awaitable apis.

In fact where async/await will actually give up control are harder to tease out.

The differences are really not as big as they would seem.
I escaped the south 16 years ago and I never want to fucking go back.

Further the bay area is home to many unique cultures that are sadly seriously distressed thanks to the housing situation, yet tenaciously persist as best they can.
Why only 1000 threads? Why not 10k or 100k?

With 8k stack for each, you can easy have 10k-100k threads in a low-end system
What is the lightest weight, best practice / pattern for using rails, not django/flask, to call python-based programs (e.g. python machine learning inference such as tensorflow/pytorch, or other scientific computing like scikit or numpy) on a lean server (keeping costs down)?
And if you’re building your own silicon, you don’t know business. Which explains the pathetic market share of GCloud, and the source of your statement.
I used to be a Vimperator user, then Pentadactyl user, and after that, Vimium user. In all three cases I eventually gave up on 'em because they kept breaking and like you said, they got in the way as much as they helped.

But on the Vim-emulation for IDEs front I would like to send a shout-out to JetBrains for the IdeaVim plugin. IdeaVim combined with the CLion IDE, also by JetBrains, and language specific plugins, help me so massively much when I work on any project that spans more than a handful of files.

In several cases there are projects that I work on with ease in CLion that I could not imagine trying to do with plain old Vim, and there is no other IDE that I have enjoyed using as much as CLion, not even by a long shot.

I have nothing but good things to say about CLion and of JetBrains. Unless they do something drastically weird to CLion they likely have a customer for life in me.

IdeaVim is not a complete emulation of Vim, but it is a complete emulation of the parts of Vim that I use and expect, so I am very satisfied with it.
Can replacing these crops with hemp, now that it’s legal, help with this problem?
Give a listen to “Dub Side of the Moon” by Easy Star All-Stars. Brilliant!
I had been reading articles (like this one) that raves about the benefits of meditation and so I decided to try it for 30 days every day.

I did not see any improvements in any areas. Could I be doing something wrong? I really don't get meditation and I feel like I'm the only person who feels this way.

All the benefits that this article specifically talks about is my default state. I'm never stressed and I don't feel anxiety unless I drink alot.

Is it be possible that meditation simply have no effect for some people?
Ask HN: (2019) What are state of the art tools for front end Web developers?
I saw someone put this question out a few years ago so I thought it
might be interesting to get a 2019 take.

Libraries, Frameworks, Testing tools, Continuous Integration tools, Automation tools, Compilers, Debuggers, Profilers, Collaboration tools...

previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9587149
There is a difference between what something is used as and what something was created as. Bradbury wrote F451 because of book burning and later used it as commentary about mass media. That doesn't change its original intention any more than Top Gear using "Jessica" as its theme song makes it any less a tribute to Dickey Betts' infant daughter Jessica. The difference is that the original intention is immutable and exists independent of the context of the consumer's experience. Anything you choose to add onto it is your personal headcanon.
Because alcohol has been around for a long time in the public’s consciousness, they equate marijuana with alcohol in terms of impairment and driving. They are not comparable. Test impairment, not the presence of an arbitrary chemical in one’s breath.
Netflix stocks are totally insane, as you're not really getting stock but instead a complex leveraged financial instrument in the form of an call option, that you have to pay for based on a Netflix estimate of the option premium.
Nixery: Transparently build and serve containers using Nix
People are happily running Rust servers in production using thousands of concurrent threads per second.
More info (changelog) on Github repo https://github.com/Floppie209/Amiga2000-remake/blob/master/R...

Project info
https://acillclassics.wordpress.com/2019/08/02/amiga-2000-re...

I didn't know this was a thing.

Now that I think of it I wonder if we ever get to the point where the computer is in the keyboard. Just like A500.
>What farmers need are a way to restore profits in a sustainable fashion. Simply growing more corn/soybeans/rice/wheat isn't going to cut it anymore.

The way this is done in other industries, except for farming, is that half of the producers go bankrupt, production is reduced, and the survivors are able to be self-sustaining and profitable. We really do not need this much soy/corn. The market is screaming "stop making it" and perhaps it is time we listen.
Surely if someone sexually assaults you and the justice system confirms it beyond a reasonable doubt, they should either be locked up or under house arrest or something like that, and so the issue of whether they're driving again is irrelevant?

After their punishment is served and they're re-integrated into society I think they should be able to take up their previous employment?

I mean, imagine a situation in which Uber didn't exist, say there's some magic decentralized app, and individuals were actually _real_ free contractors.

It's a policing issue no? I can see that Uber can be more or less helpful, but ultimately a crime is a crime regardless of whether an employee does it, a contractor does it, whatever?
I can’t wait for the Amazon Prime Steakhouse.
It's quite simple. I gather that he'd been a customer for many years. So "loyal customer". And I gather that he owned an expensively customized vehicle.

So something bad happened, and he filed a claim. And the insurance company's systems presumably flagged the claim. Probably because it was much larger than expected, based on the type and age of vehicle. So they paid police to investigate for fraud. And I gather that they eventually did file a crime report. And at trial, their expert presumably testified that the vehicle wasn't worth as much as claimed.
I lived in Hong Kong for 30 years. What was happened in these 3 months did not come out of nowhere.

1997 - now: HK gov allows 150 people from China to immigrate to Hong Kong every day, even there are strong opinion to suspend immigration due to lack of housing and crazy population density problem. Even worse, HK gov does not pose ANY restrictions of the immigrant about their education, language, or criminal background. There was one case that one pro-Beijing arsonist killed 2 immigration Officers but still obtained residency in HK.

2012: HK gov tried to introduce a compulsory brain-washing subject to high school. 500 thousands (out of 7 millions) people protested.

2013: HK gov used crappy reason to turn down a well-known HK businessman to obtain free public broadcast license. So that HK has effectively only one company to run free TV channel. And the news of that channel is highly biased.

2019: HK gov tried to pass extradition law to China. Even after 1 million people protested, HK gov still continues legislation. After 2 millions people protested, the CEO of HK gov only said "the bill is dead" in TV but did not formally withdraw the bill in legislation council.

This is only a tiny list of what gov did in the past 22 years. What gov is going to do is to pass a construction that cost trillions of HK dollars (app. 120 billion USD). That will basically empty the treasury of HK, and the future of every HK people. That's why people are so frustrated and protest in that extend.