skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's pretty much it, my customers are people who have websites and want to be the first to know when there's an issue on it so they can fix it, in which case a SaaS solution is usually better than some internal tools because it eliminates setup/maintenance, keeps working when all your infrastructure is down and monitors everything (including internet link). Some other clients monitor website they do not own when they depend on it, for example as a vendor I could monitor Amazon if I sell products on it to be aware of any issue, or if I'm a digital customer engagement platform (what my full-time job does) I can monitor services I interact with like facebook API, twitter API, etc.
Every time I publish a post I’m offered a check box, checked by default, that means, “People who haven’t paid Medium may not be able to see this.” Since my goal is to make my writing as widely available as possible, I always uncheck this box.

Hmmmm, didn't realise that was the author's choice (default tbf). I'd assumed some sort of algorithm. Interesting. Kudos for keeping it free, anyway.
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I get that you back Yang but it’s weird to say he’s the only one talking about a trend which Obama, Clinton, Sanders, Warren, Harris, etc. have all talked about, often starting before Yang got into politics. It’d be more useful to talk about actual policy differences or why you think his plan would be more successful — especially in the context of an entire political movement having been funded into existence to oppose the previous attempt.
There is an analysis here:

Highly-Secure Backdoors: Internet of Traitorous Things (IoTT)

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3425957
>The answer lies in understanding the Utility of the Novelty Seeker to a Group.

You've made an interesting comment about "novelty seeking" but I just want to try and clarify what the author's article is talking about. Some representative sentences from the article:

>When I’m surfing the web I want to be drawn in by articles on Europe’s political history or the nature of quasars, but I end up reading trivia like a menu from Alcatraz prison. Why am I not curious about the things I want to be curious about? [...] You just need to frequent better foraging grounds. [...] The challenge is changing its focus from the momentary to something more enduring.

As a meta comment about Daniel T. Willingham's categories of curiosity which he really isn't making explicit... to him, there's "worthy" curiosity and "worthless" curiosity.

To be inclusive and charitable about humanity, we can acknowledge that just about everyone is curious about something. However, if a person is mainly curious about Jennifer Aniston's new boyfriend or other celebrity gossip (low brow non-academic) instead of being curious about quasars or capital-forming effects of military mobilization (high brow academic), that person is labeled "not curious". (I.e. We think of the prototypical scientist/mathematician as "curious" but the teen who reads People Magazine or Vogue to see the latest fashions as "not curious".)

The author is writing specifically for the audience who's already in his mental category of "worthy curiosity". However, that person who's actually interested in quasars is currently surfing CNN website reading click-bait stories and Mr. Willingham is offering his ideas why they were led astray.

He's targeting people already like him who are predisposed to seeking new information on worthy academic subjects but got temporarily sidetracked with news trivia (e.g. the Alcatraz menu).

For the others that get their dopamine fix of celebrity gossip to satisfy their particular form of curiosity seeking, Mr. Willingham isn't talking to them or even trying to explain them to the high-brow curiosity seekers.
At least London continues being a city. New York has long since given up on that. It's just a collection of car parks and business locations now (including the overpriced apartments).
Malware will have an unlimited number of methods to continue patching Firefox, this change only makes it harder for regular users to configure Firefox manually for installing extensions that have not been blessed by Mozilla.
Speaking of something unrelated, I wish the walled gardens (Apple and Google) required developers to hand over source code and machine readable build instructions so the apps get built on their servers.
At its root we can go back to Bill Clinton and MFN and fast tracking into WTO —with no plan to address displacement in the workforce and no milestones by which to measure China’s adherence, which did happen yearly before the fast tracked admission into WTO. People blame reaganomics, but it was Clinton’s globalism that plunged the dagger into the blue collar worker of America and he gets very little Fl.a.k. for it.

Damnit. Mr Perot was right. We’d have been better off with him than the guy who sold us off.
But it doesn't have ability to make text dark so again there is no dark mode.
That could just be your bias and/or the fact that Mac users are the most numerous UNIX users (10x those that use e.g. Linux on any kind of desktop/laptop).

Tons of Linux users use Vim -- and Vim/vi of course has been popular for decades before Macbooks existed...
Why the Speed of Gravity Must Equal the Speed of Light
Have been using this as a daily driver for nearly a year now - if you're on Putty it's time to upgrade (Windows comes with OpenSSH now).

It's pretty solid, fast as you'd expect. Main thing for me in this release is better contrast between active/passive tabs.
Seems they are preparing for selling to Google!
Did you also install the add-on to skip AMP sites?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/amp2html
So install the developer edition? Yes it’s a little more annoying for people who want private extensions but you’re forgetting that we’re in a small minority and this change is a massive win for security and privacy overall.

This site is full of threads talking about how friends, family, and coworkers’ browsers are riddled with badware that was installed behind their backs.
You can grow past having a sense of self and still be depressed.

A closer overly simplified cause for many kinds of long term depression is pessimism and doubt. eg, "It will not work [so no need to consider trying]." It will not work is pessimism and not considering trying is doubt. Another terminology to describe this is learned helplessness.

But depression is far more complicated than just that. There is memory compartmentalization in a handful of types of depression, mostly episodic depression.

Sometimes it can be as subtle as not learning to note when you're having a good time. Someone who is depressed may, for example, have fun at an event, but the next time the same event pops up they may be hesitant to go again, because they didn't record when they were happy.
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Immigration officials have been boarding purely domestic bus routes in New Hampshire/Maine and demanding document checks: https://bangordailynews.com/2019/07/23/news/portland/concord...

These are just indiscriminate sweeps being justified by the 100 mile border exception.
>Precisely the sort of thing government is meant to address: problems no other actor has incentive or ability to address.

I wholeheartedly agree. You've wonderfully articulated what an ideal government would be like.
I lived in Iceland during part of the explosive growth of the tourism industry and witnessed some of its negative-for-the-locals effects firsthand.

There were once two or three decent mid-sized concert venues in downtown Reykjavik (capacity ~500 - ~1000) now, as far as I know there are none, as they were closed to make way for more hotels.

My partner is Icelandic and she saw the pattern from the original collapse repeating: when the number of tourists slows those new hotels will lie empty and the local culture, well the music scene at least, will be the worse off for it.
The authors ends by noting that FMA would probably have improved the performances for the Rust code.

It is interesting to note that, whereas most ffast-math optimization will trade precision for reduced computing time, adding an FMA can only improve the precision of the output (and thus it is a safe optimization).
Down for me.

I'm always puzzled when sites that provide static content go down.

Is there a reason not to use a CDN these days?

Is it for privacy reasons, so the CDN providers do not get the info who accessed that page?
I noticed that too, as well as how darn well read Borges is. A true delight of an essay.
Binary patching a software that has its exe signed by mozilla is very impossible without it triggering smartscreen or alerting users
Rents are cheap in Singapore. Way cheaper than they are in London. When I worked in Singapore few years back I paid at the time an equivalent of 1 thousand pounds for a brand new condo in a nice gated community with swimming pools and stuff. It was only 3 MRT stops from downtown.

In London to get something of comparable quality I would have to pay at least 3000 pounds if not more.
I hate the usage of the word 'inevitable' like this. Nothing is inevitable. There are some events that are going to be hard to prevent, like say the Earth being swallowed by the Sun (unless we could move the Earth out of harm's way?), but automation is not one of those. That's an easy one to prevent. We can just decide not to.
GeckoView is different from Gecko, which is already used by Firefox Android. I heard GeckoView is closer to Android's WebView API and designed for easy embedding into apps.
Grafana Labs raises $24M
Bollier seems alright. Have a feeling she'll be the nominee. She's already gotten one person to drop out. And I don't mind her. I'm personally to her left but, then again, I'm to the left of almost every politician in this state. I accept that as one the prices I pay for living in Kansas and not California. :)

She is courageous to a certain degree. But, her move might be accepted more here than in other red states. Kansas is one of the last red states where truly moderate Republicans can still be found in the wild. The moderates have been willing to endorse Democrats from time to time. Laura Kelly was the beneficiary of such in 2018. Many of them will probably endorse Bollier next year.

2020 should be an interesting election year. Kansas waffles between Trump being above or below water in approval. Kansas is also one of the leading states hit by farmer bankruptcies thanks to the tariffs. On top of that, Kelley has decent approval ratings and has been doing a good job. All this combined might make more people than usual willing to "hold their nose" and vote for a Democrat. Trump is almost certain to win, but the state races could be wild.
Well, the last paragraph says it all. For me it's crazy that people fight for jobs which could be done by robots just so an enslaved human can get his fair share of food.

Let's shift focus to how we can provide this in a world where not everybody has to work. (And we can start with the current situation where not everyone has work or can't work).
Every single time. Give it a rest already.
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>A perfect storm of prescription opioids, government prohibition, and cheap/plentiful Chinese and Mexican fentanyl.

I think it's actually the fact that the war on opioids has translated into a war on prescription pain drugs, in general.

So, when you're a chronic pain sufferer and have gone without and you get ahold of something - anything - to remediate the pain, you're far more likely to take a little extra just to get the pain to STFU for a while so you can do things like sleep through the night for the first time in seemingly forever.

I've heard tales of American veterans (through the VA) being referred to things like yoga to manage their chronic pain, when it's entirely due to neurological damage and things like yoga will do fuck-all to help with that.

Is it any wonder then that people might be more liable to OD when they obtain something to try to manage the pain that otherwise never ceases?

I'd say it is a fundamental issue in American society (the war on opioids translating into no pain management medications whatsoever) with callous indifference - rather than anything else.
How does it have a survival / performative advantage?

You can, eg, protect the body from harm, without having a sense of self, which ties into survival.
Websites are complex, you cannot make a script that edits every page to make it both dark and readable when things like the background could be light colored images and fonts that are permanently dark exist
You mean how a hostile foreign power filled the American media with propaganda to elect Trump? Or how about the various methods used to tweak the votes in critical districts. The entire poll was rigged, he still lost by 3 million votes, but won the electoral college. I could go on.

But I do agree that inequality and lack of work need to be directly addressed by the D in the race.
If you make a deal to buy a bus (or 1000) today, what tariff would you be incurring as a result of Brexit?

None. There would be no tariff at the moment. Yay!

But... if you buy 1000 buses you don't pay for them right now unless you're a crazy person. You pay for them in the future, and there might be a tariff then.

And if we're post Brexit, what tariff is the UK going to impose on a UK manufacturer that kills it's business?

If the UK leaves without a deal then the WTO tariffs are applied instead of the zero-rated EU trade zone agreements that are in place right now. For 'light commercial vehicles' that tariff varies from 10-22%. In other words, a UK bus manufacturer will never sell a bus in the EU ever again as long as the WTO rules are in place.

The good thing is that the withdrawal agreement or No Deal brexit is only the first step on the long and arduous journey that is Brexit. We would work to negotiate a new trade deal either with the EU or with each individual member. So, hopefully, that tariff wouldn't apply for ever. Eventually we'd be able to sell buses in the EU again, assuming the manufacturers manage to survive that long. It's probably that they'd move their businesses to the EU before that though, and employ EU citizens instead and pay tax to the new country the business resides in. It's not good for the UK.
And highly unsuccessful.

At one point some bats escaped, roosted under a fuel tank, set fire to the testing facility and burned down a hangar as well as the overseeing General's car.

The bats needed to be put into hibernation to get them into the bombs, but sometimes they weren't awake enough before being dropped, so the bats would plough into the ground still frozen.

The project was cancelled just after the invention of the atom bomb, on the grounds that it might do a bit more damage than a few bats. Dr Adams, the dentist who came up with the bat idea, still thought his was better. Don't disagree.
By default, uMatrix blocks Google Analytics, whereas uBlock Origin stubs it. If both are installed (in my case), uMatrix often wins out. If Google Analytics is blocked, many sites will spend 2 seconds on a white screen waiting for Google Analytics to load.
They haven't closed it. My friend works for them in the City.

These banks aren't going anywhere.
IKEA is a good place for utensils..
Again, this change prevents regular users from configuring Firefox the way they want. We should not need to install the developer edition, which is based on Firefox Beta, or an unbranded build that does not auto-update to be able to run local extensions in our browsers.

Not even Google is this heavy-handed, they allow installing local extensions in Chrome after users enable an option, although a warning is shown on browser restarts about the presence of external extensions, which can be dismissed.

Why not have sensible defaults, then educate and warn users about certain actions, instead of treating them like cattle?
> I have one at work

This seems really easy to steal.

> one at home

Most people I know have been burgled too.
Fellow Lebanese(-American) here. This is awesome. Thanks for creating and sharing it.
Having spent the last year living is Switzerland, the major increase of drug overdoses in the US seems so preventable.

The Swiss have both decriminalized drug use (kills the black market, prevents people from getting an unknown dose of something) and highly restricted prescribing them.

I dislocated a shoulder and was never offered anything for pain, just physical therapy. This may sound harsh, but isn't setting someone up with an addiction that could lead to death pretty bad?
It has that persistent toolbar at the bottom with no way to hide it. I wish I could have those pixels back.
They all talked, and did then nothing to adress the issue. You need a new deal for that- something nobody opposes.
> For instance, it is possible to look at a person, see someone else, and be kind of aware of the discrepancy, but not to experience as a visual disturbance but more of a disturbance in the part of the mind that identifies people.

Yes. I've had a psychotic break and saw my hands as animal paws. At the same time, some part of my brain was vaguely away something was very wrong and as a result, I successfully hid these symptoms for 4 months until they cleared up. For that time, I was an animal pretending to be human.

The memories from my animal self are as real as anything I've experienced as a human. None of it feels abnormal to me.

This isn't just an experience I've had. I've talked to other people in my support group who are bipolar or schizoaffective (bipolar type). They have similar experiences.

My theory is, there's some part of the brain where reality and imagination cross. In me, they merged for a time. So far, antipsychotics have kept this from repeating.
> ...until the root cause is addressed: income inequality.

Agree. But I'd like to add:

- MLK was assassinated when he shift from civil rights to addressing poverty and income inequality.

- Bobby Kennedy was also making noise about the issue.

- Currently, the mainstream media narrative is a relentless Red v Blue. There is no narrative for Haves v Have-nots.

The System does work; quite well actually. And those who it works well for are not going to give up those benefits without a fight. But The People are too busy chasing symptoms and fighting each other. Change anytime soon feels unlikely.
This article was written a year ago. I know the opioid epidemic peaked in 2017/2018 but I don't know if it's as bad for 2019. A lot has changed, from lawsuits to China
The most recent round of proposals involved filling in customs forms for moving goods within the UK (to Northern Ireland). Not only is it a cost, but it's an uncertain one that's impossible to properly prepare for. Especially when the government keeps threatening "no deal".
> And if we're post Brexit, what tariff is the UK going to impose on a UK manufacturer that kills it's business?

The UK wouldn't impose the tariff, the EU would do based on reacting to a UK imposition on their businesses.

And I think everyone in Europe rightly believes the UK government couldn't find it's own actual self interest with both hands, so there's no reason to assume they will act rationally.
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The link is probably as follows: Bank notes -> Hollerith card (80 x 12) -> Datapoint 2200 terminal (80 x 12, facilitated by 1K Intel linear shift register for display memory) -> 2K display buffer & 4:3 display dimensions of silent film (as opposed to the later academy format) as generally used for television as the major source of demand for readymade raster cathode ray tubes => two punch cards + 1 extra status line.

The Datapoint 2200, evolving from an original idea about some data editing device to replace the IBM 029 keypunch, is missing in this account, though. Announced in 1970 (and shipping in 1971), it predates any of the terminals mentioned in the article. (BTW, the Datapoint 2200, which was also the ancestor of the Intel 8008 MPU and by this the ancestor of the modern PC, was an enormously influential device and is generally underrated for historical aspects.)

The link between columns on a punch card and typewriters is probably found in the need for some correspondence between typed tables and information punched on cards. The aspect ratio of silent film is probably more for esthetic reasons, since the technical aspect of the width of a frame could have been addressed by any kind of gearing. However, there's a link between the speed of the film moving through the camera, the number of exposures per second, the width of the image, the optical quality of the lens, the shutter construction and the sensitivity of the film, putting some constrains on the aspect ratio of choice. (Obviously, if the film is moving too fast and exposure becomes too short for the chosen material, the resulting image will be dim. The choice of film sensisitivity, on the other hand, is related to image contrast.)
> although the two sets of stairs and three doors makes boarding slightly better - yet encourages fare-dodging. A classic vanity project.

I don't get it. Many other cities have bus systems where you can enter in any door and don't have to present any ticket to anyone. Why doesn't this work in London or Dublin? Is this even a real problem, or is it just scaremongering?

From my experience in the Dunlin, the choke point of having everyone either validate (or talk to the driver) when entering a bus was _insane_.
Seems to be a meme that rural whites are the strong voting block for republicans in 2016. Any stats to suggest it wasn't the suburbs? That's what I've seen but seems like people who at least represent themselves as liberal only want to blame the white rural folks.
Legal liability getting in the way of doing good things will be part of the USA's downfall. A million tiny cuts...
Firefox Preview actually ships with a built-in adblocker. I'll still install uBlock Origin once it becomes available (e.g. I like zapping annoying elements), but browsing with Firefox Preview is already quite pleasant.
If there was a competitor I'd switch immediately. But (as far as I know) no one else offers a comparable feature set with a free Basic plan. I'm a paying Cloudflare customer but only for those projects that are worth it.

And I wouldn't even need any of the newer features (even though I love Access). WAF, CDN and DDOS protection on a free plan for hobby projects would already be enough.
Not to mention that one would assume if someone can make a GPS-guided missile, they can sure as hell alter/find a workable GPS for their purpose...

It's not Joe Average will try to make a missile with a GPS from his Garmin watch...
I call my blog posts articles.

They take multiple months of research.

What should I call them?
Thank you. I wish that was made clear in the article
Does this really need to be on the front page
The server is another victim of HN traffic
before you look at speed, did you verify you get the exact same math results in Rust and C++ (and for each compiler and platform) ? For C++ code, I have seen the results of calculations vary across compilers (and flags)
The target for this has never really been outright malware but it does make it far more annoying for them. The target is badware or bundleware
where a few missed checkboxes means users with 15 different spyware add-ons “search fixers” or ad-injectors. These grey-market apps aren’t suddenly going to jump the ship into actual malware and binary patch Firefox.

I feel like the people we consider ”regular users” to be really different.

Like we’re talking about a subset of the population that want’s to install their own private extensions or sideload someone else’s but doesn’t understand how to uninstall the release version and install the developer edition when prompoted.