skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article itself however is much more compassionate towards Nowak and shows the extreme pressures she was under.
Is it so hard to believe that they are manually tagged?

They only have several thousand videos. Each one has some sort of process that it goes through to be included in their service. Someone decides which screenshots will be shown, edits the intro video, writes the synopsis, etc.
I assume battery based grid power stations like the Tesla one in Australia are amongst the best in class to help in this kind of crisis situation? Compared to the gaz turbine the system it is simpler (no mehanical/heat/fluid parts) and depending on design will likely never be completely off since made of dozens or hundreds of independant equipement (batteries and inverters).

Thanks for the article and comment!
Yeah, when FF and TB are perfect they can move on to other stuff!

>they’ve becomes champions of privacy and internet safety //

Two years or so ago I'd have agreed.
Regarding knoppix abandoning it... Meh.

Knoppix is a live system, so all of the things systemd was designed for don't apply. I guess it can make sense for their knoppix's use case.
I'm still on iPhone 6. 4.5 years old. I want to upgrade for bling factor, but it just doesn't die. I'll probably try DIY battery replacement once next iPhone is out. Either I get to brag about my battery replacement skills or I have a reason to upgrade.. Win-win!
Calling Conventions, Part 1
You protest a bit too much at this point, methinks.

I am commenting that the scale of the disruption resulting from (only) a 5% drop does not seem reasonable and that some of the issues should have been better handled or avoided altogether.

> But I and I'm sure many others would not be focusing upon that, though I can appreciate that mentality due to the way media/tabloids cover such and all issues in life

That's a personal attack quite out of order.
> The problem with this is that the web is competing with native apps.

Only in the minds of web “devs”.
You can also write journal entries via email, somewordsfor.me sends you an email every day and you only have to reply to add an entry.
Mozilla doesn't build only a browser either and as a Rust user, am glad they don't.
I've been sending myself a letter to future for a few years now via https://www.futureme.org

This has been quite extraordinary, and doesn't take too long. Sadly I'm not motivated enough to write regularly but having at least one day a year when I think about things, is wonderful.
Can the link be changed to the home page of the docs instead of the CLI params one? https://pyscenedetect.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
> If there isn’t a tension, a resistant, a sorrow, you didn’t make a break through.

For some people maybe this works. For others like me this is a sure fire formula to make me drop the habit sooner than later, no matter how motivated I go into it.

If there is resistance, over time my mind will consider if what I'm doing is actually necessary, what are the consequences of fuck this, etc. That's its natural automatic process, which I believe is the healthy state (for myself). I know how to push through, just make it come up with more reasons to continue than to stop, but experience has taught me that when I do that I'm actually slowly hurting myself. I know I can over-exert myself, badly. Because it does not, in fact, get easier (for myself), and my life is not about setting up myself for failure :)

On the other hand, if I formulate the questions as a positive thing, I find I can keep it up for stretches of weeks or months. Even just a simple single thing like "write down 3 things you are grateful about". And I found it has great positive consequences. Evidenced by the fact that I started having to dig my mind to come up with 3 (I try to write genuine non-obvious things--I'm grateful having my limbs but I'm not writing that down each day), and after a while had to stop myself from not writing down 8+ every day. So achievement: more positive thoughts, unlocked :)
Also is started to be used by Julia.
> I wouldn't mind if Mozilla did the same thing.

Then there would literally be no point to Firefox existing as a counterbalance to Google deciding the web's future.
Makes sense, and works well with my experience that users don't really care or know what they are using. If the extent of customization is your bookmarks, being converted to a happy chrome user isn't hard. If it's more than that, a coerced install is probably not going to make you switch.

But for most people, they won't really notice a difference between Chrome and Firefox in their daily usage.
It's also one of the plants capable of restarting the grid from a complete blackout.
As far as I understand it, you can think of spacetime as having a shape. All objects travelling through spacetime must conform to its shape. Einstein's insight was that objects with mass affect this shape of spacetime, and thus there is an apparent force because spacetime itself bends and thus any path through spacetime in that region also changes. It's very weird, but also kind of neat. The effect is very weak though which is why it's only really noticeable around very massive objects.

If it helps, draw a line on paper and bend the paper in various ways and observe how the line changes. You should also be able to find demonstrations on YouTube using a stretched canvas.

As for the size of matter, atoms aren't actually the smallest thing we know of, so there's (relatively speaking) a lot of empty space even inside an atom that you can squeeze out.

As for what happens inside black holes under mind-boggling pressures, while there's reason to suspect that there is such a thing as "the smallest possible space" (a quantum of space) that would act as a limit, but it's not been possible to confirm yet, so it's only speculative, and as such the only intellectually honest answer is "I don't know".

As for the temperature of a black hole, I don't know. I think Hawking radiation implies they have one, but you'll need to find out yourself.
Chances are it is in training because they have to demonstrate they have 'done something', so the problem is 'taken care off'
So I can look forward to a "Next scene" shortcut in my video player of choice soon? (Without needing embedded "DVD" chapters) While also getting nice thumbnails for them?

Pornhub et al often show scene markers, but I have assumed they're manual or extracted in the same way as DVD chapters.
systemd is a perfectly fine init system.

The problem is that it comes bundled with a whole bunch of other tools for handling networks, cron, ntp, etc which really ought to be separate projects. By bundling them with the successful init system they're not exposed to the usual Darwinian selection processes that shake out the best free software.
Triggering demand disconnection randomly is saying "we should provide consumers a service including deliberate random blackouts". That's OK in contexts like Netflix where the downstream systems are supposed to be able to be resilient to faults and failures are comparatively low-stakes anyway. But almost all grid consumers aren't resilient to power loss (would your house continue to be fully functional without noticeable ill effects if power to it went out? Mine wouldn't...) and even for industrial scale consumers who do have generators the costs of finding out in a deliberate blackout that their generator was faulty could be anything from expensive to life-threatening.
Batteries are great for this kind of stability support. I actually work for an Australian company that aggregates residential batteries together into MW-scale units and provides coordinated responses from 1,000 of kW-scale batteries that just as capable as a MW-scale plant (at a much lower cost of capital).

Here's one of our plants in Canberra which is past 3MW now, and is the first of its kind to be approved to bid into our fast frequency stability markets (where you have less than a couple of seconds to respond).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36UJMuC9-k0
Hotspots? That's a new one for me
I concur with your characterisation of systemd as “doing one thing, and doing it well”. Those who seem to malign it most are those who are, for historical reasons, profoundly conversant with the myriad daemons, configurations, and init systems (generally) of “old UNIX/Linux”. They have a point and a genuine axe to grind, I’ll concede, but systemd is an enormous simplifier for those who are recent to the scene: learn systemd, and you’ve learnt how to manage (most) of your system at a very low level.
> "dev"

Drop those apostrophes - a web developer is a completely valid, skilled profession.

Web apps unequivocally compete with native apps, that is a fact. I prefer the Slack web client to the native version. I use Google Docs instead of Microsoft Word. I use Google Drive, iCloud, Google Photos etc. instead of my own harddrive.

To think that web apps don't compete with native apps is simply untrue.
I really think the Xanadu interface is a ideal way to browse information. It's not full 3d but allows simultaneous viewing of related documents and how's their relations. Not as clumsy as a million tabs buit with a tiling approach it can be decent. [1] I'm working on a version made with Markdown, GitFS and Go, but it's barely functional [2]

That being said there were some full 3d prototypes early on that were atrocious.

[1] http://tetramor.ph/wormwood/view.cgi?url=static/doc/doc.xan....

[2] https://github.com/germ/xanadown
Boris Johnson’s suspension of parliament is an affront to democracy
It seems to be somewhat of a trend to prepend or somehow integrate the language used in naming schemes to ensure you have a somewhat unique name, something like "rvector" would at least make this a lot more searchable, because I suspect most people would search for something like "vector rust" with some additions anyway when looking for this.
>They were building a free subscription service to check HIBP for your info. (https://monitor.firefox.com/) //

Wasn't HIBP a single person.

So presumably a checking system could have been churned out by, being generous, a team of 6 on a mean-average $100,000 wage. Lets say $1.2M per year (doubled to account for facilities, etc.) as a top end. Realistically surely that's a couple of months work for such a team?

Looking at the Send github (https://github.com/mozilla/send/graphs/contributors) it's essentially 2 people, about 1.5 person years in the commits.

The first and fourth items you list sound like absolute white elephants that management should have allowed only as "we'll give you a full time dev wage for it and spare facilities, show us what you can do and we might take it on".

So, what have we got left $240M?
Knoppix is very installable and usable as a main operating system.

Knoppix claim to fame is automatic configuration. If your Xorg or sound was giving you grief after a fresh install, you'd live boot Knoppix and copy the configuration files back to your installation.

From this p.o.v. it makes sense for Knoppix' use case, because, as stated by Klaus Knopper: "This bypasses systemd's interference with many system components and reduces the complexity of the overall system."
Most of the authors examples involve buying a generation or two older and buying used. I would certainly expect previously owned gadgets to cost substantially less. While there is a lot less early adopter risk in this, most of the savings are realized from buying second hand.
Doesn't LFDD just mean cutting off large areas from the grid to improve the frequency elsewhere? I doubt it would be accepted by home users and businesses. Hospitals should be running their own local tests.
The Force is strong in your daughter.
Quantum X-ray machine takes razor sharp pictures with less radiation
RSS-wise, is there any "accumulating" / persistent / offlining RSS client?

I read a fair amount of serials these days, and while most notify updates over RSS (though not necessarily with a full-text feed), neither generic RSS clients nor offline readers (e.g. pocket, instapaper, …) are really built for multi-updates works, the ability to browse across chapters, re-read a work, …

I guess an option would be to collect updates into ebooks, but there it's not quite clear how various epub readers handle updates (e.g. can I point the reader towards a URL and it'll check for updates on its own, do I have to update manually, do updates only work through proprietary storefronts?)
Show HN: iOS Metal Camera with GPU Shaders
If I right-click on my launcher icon I get the option to open Firefox in Private Mode (KDE desktop).

If you want to always default to Private Mode, then set that in the Options.

https://www.howtogeek.com/137466/how-to-always-start-any-bro...
With people looking forward to upgrade their mobile and hand-held devices for multiple reasons (including the "bling factor") I can't help but think about the current e-waste management policies and mechanisms in place. Especially in third world countries where new electronic devices are pouring in as gifts or imports (thanks to the migrant workers and inflow of remittance) and older devices are just being dumped as normal trash. The environmental impacts of the improperly discarded batteries just pile up becoming severely unmanageable day by day.
It costed a lot but I have seen adverts for such hidden radio in magician's magazines from the time.

There has always been a very lucrativ market for an engineer+magician that could provide hidden communication devices at the fringe of technology.
One of the best and oldest device I found used a telegraph (!) hidden in a turban and shoes with copper sole on a copper threaded carpet.
Do it support fever api?
Well this was a chaosmonkey (the lightning) injecting a random fault ;)
Any suggestions for a Linux RSS reader that supports Feever?
The Rust community prides itself on being independent from Mozilla, when their relationship is pointed out, but now Rust is suddenly a major beneficiary of those 500 million?

They do build only a browser.
I did a small ask around the room in the office, no one heard about Knoppix. Good for them, I guess.
Safer for families? How about not advertising to children whose decision making process is very much compromised, in not being formed yet? Any attempt to claim they are making things "safer" is simply lip service to a cause that they, by design, are not in favour of. My children will not be watching commercial TV nor having access to "smart" devices unless things radically change (and hopefully I can stick to it).
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if natural selection were to use back-propagation, then killing or allowing procreation would be measurable not only in the genome right after birth of an IVF organism, but even be measurable in the half genomes of the sperm and egg cells before they met (assuming we reach some non-destructe genome sequencing technology). That would simply make actual natural selection useless. Moreover, if all cells had this capacity, and our neurons are cells too, why don't I have this skill inately?

I stand by my opinion that natural selection does not employ timetravel, and hence also does not employ backpropagation

EDIT: adding, one does not need timetravel for backpropagation in the brain or in a computer, just enough memory or delay bandwidth to store the intermediate values for backpropagation. i.e. the feedback is nearly instantaneous, or low bandwidth from example to scoring, but scoring in natural selection depends on how much offspring one makes before one dies, how can this inform the choice mutations??
Systemd is Red Hat’s version of the old “embrace, extend, extinguish” playbook.
Some web projects validate inputs in JavaScript, then in a possibly different backend language, then (unusually) in the database with CHECK statements. Even when it's all JavaScript the validations are different because the frontend and backend frameworks are different.

And some projects have multiple backend services written in multiple languages.
Show HN: Speciface – Who is that stranger?
Okay, this is one very simple thing, and the only one I can personally speak of having at least a qualitative and even sort-of quantitative positive effect.

Someone once gave me a little hand-made note book that said "Each day I write down 3 things I am grateful for'. So I started doing that.

I didn't want to write down obvious things like being grateful for having limbs, eyesight or such, mainly because you can write down the same every day. So at first I found it kind of hard to come up with three genuine novel things to be grateful about. But after a while (3 weeks or so?) I found that I had to stop myself from writing down more than eight things :-) (that is eight new things each day)

I mean, it's not a full journal, and the effect is relatively small (or is it?). But it's also something very easy to pick up, and you can actually evaluate its effectiveness somewhat by paying attention to the effect I described above. Which is what you asked about :) All in all, I suppose refutable claim is that if you do this simple exercise you will find it becomes easier to have positive thoughts and be more grateful about life.
i think so. thanks for the explainer!
No, the whole point of Mozilla is to "ensure the Internet is a global public resource, open and accessible to all."

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mission/

Firefox, Thunderbird, and other projects are a means to that end.
Survey request (2min): your experience as a remote worker/distributed team
Configuration languages succeed and work just fine most of the time, despite their inadequacies and quirks, but no one ever complains about them when they work.

Go ahead and write your configuration as a fully Turing complete sub-application in whatever language you like. It will do everything you could possibly want, and in a few years it'll grow so complex and hairy that it will need its own fully Turing complete sub-application to configure it, lather, rinse, repeat. If you're really clever, every configuration layer will be written in a separate language with its own dependency tree, test framework, and toolchain.

Personally, I prefer not having to recompile just to change some variables and settings. I'm fine with INI or JSON (although I prefer Lua tables) when they're appropriate. The problem is not that configuration languages are a bad idea, the problem is interminable Turing creep and developers wanting every aspect of their applications to be as flexible and powerful as possible.

The premise of having a separate config language is fine - somewhere, somehow, inevitably, you're going to need a read-only data store for globals and references to system settings. You can hardcode all of those variables in your application or put them elsewhere.
Pay $8.50 an hour, expect work worth $8.50 an hour.

Management should have no reason to expect high standards at those prices.
> What privacy has the average Joe user gained by switching to Firefox? None. They’re still using Google Search and (most likely) other Google products. They’re being subjected to misleading ads on their new tab page. From their perspective, installing Firefox was a pointless hassle.

I use DuckDuckGo instead Google in Firefox. I'm a happy user. I will switch to Safari as soon as I get a new iPhone and ditch my Xiaomi phone to gain more level of privacy.
I think Apple knows this perfectly. I'm not even sure whether the "I'll wait for the S upgrade" people (myself included) outsmart Apple or it's Apple who created the market for those who want to feel smarter than the rest.

At the end of the day, the economics of major upgrades vs. incrementals is very straightforward: major upgrades do bring significant new convenience features (e.g. once you are used to Face ID you don't want to go back) and if you want to own them today, you pay more. There's nothing smart about not benefiting from the new features today for the sake of saving a few hundred dollars.
Presumably there's a supervisor layer that looks for negative interactions? Like if you're optimising for picking rate and the facilities 2PT is optimising for energy saving then their change in facility temperature could be impacting your picking rate leading to overall poorer outcomes.

I've just started with AI/ML but the use of "fitness function" suggests the model here was a company as an AI.

Presumably they also have multiple 2PT with the same fitness functions so they can do "genetic" selection?
i cant really agree with this, unless youre a decision maker in the company and you disagree with how they do business just leave, its that simple.

do we really want to live in a world where retailers will asses your moral stance before selling you things? "no problem sir, we just need to check your social media accounts to make sure you fit our moral/ethical code and that sofa is all yours"

lets just totally give up and go with that chinese social credit thing eh?
Nothing would happen. Everything is already available in open source implementations. People are just too lazy to go checkout and use and maintain it.
Google's practices pushing web non-standards haphazardly are so heinous that even Electron can't usually handle general web apps, like WhatsApp (especially) because it depends on Chrome-specific, not even Chromium, features. Many others are the same way.
tcp keepalive interval defaults to 2 hours on most systems, that's not sufficient to keep NAT mappings open. So besides enabling keepalive you also need to adjust the interval.
Nothing will change wrt usage of Google products unless/until Google starts deplatforming users from Gmail-type services on the basis of their Google searches or email content.

This is not currently happening, but a) it wouldn't be super out-of-character for what Google has become b) it's likely a necessary condition for non-technical users to start caring about Google's threats to privacy.
Why Code Rewriting Is Essential for Keeping Software Alive
Compilation of useful Telegram channels for Python devs
Just sharing a list of telegram channels that I personally use. Feel free to add on

@PythonHub (News & links about Python programming)

@pythonetc (Regular tips about Python and programming in general)

@pythondaily (Daily Python News, Question, Tips and Tricks, Best Practices on Python Programming Language)

@devchampions (The most relevant links, books, and educational materials for software developers)

@ProgrammingTip (Fun & Useful Programming)

@theprogrammingart (A channel with programming news and tips and tricks, nice for beginners but also for experienced programmers)

@iamluminousmen (blog related articles and messages about Python, Big Data and ML)

@pythonl (Python/django posts, articles, tricks, and news)
I think you are missing the point: Something like systemd has a good reason to exist. But the devil is in the creating team. We've seen pulseaudio, a good system in theory, but an untrustworthy unstable system in practice. And if it wont work, it is so complicated and non-transparent that you need a specialist. Taking a step backward from Alsa is hard, and they managed to do it.

Now that same team is messing with system critical stuff. We know from the kernel command line debug debacle they rather see the world burn down than admit they did something wrong. They are again creating a super-complicated incomprehensible half- documented mess, that puts it tentacles everywhere. But the stakes are a lot higher.

I am not saying they are incompetent. At a low level, the code works. But at a high level, something is very wrong. Bugs can be fixed, but arrogant architecture astronauts not listening to their users, messing with core infrastructure, that's where systemd keeps failing.
Point me to the open source implementation of Windows 10, then, would you?
Logan's Run? :)
Xkcd forums breached, password hashes leaked
Our mental states overlap with and diverge from those of other species
It's okay to flaunt your ignorance if you can claim that your peers are ignorant as well, I guess. Knoppix was one of the first, if not the first, popular live CD distributions.