skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not “national issue.” Aid and housing are local issues. San Francisco and California in general have much worse homelessness problems than many other places in the country. (For example, Mississippi has one of the lowest homelessness rates in the country.)
Firefox Preview is great but I don't understand why it doesn't have night mode and neither one of Firefoxes. Today night mode is standard for almost all of the applications and that's the only reason why I simply can not switch to Firefox completely. Btw, don't say that addons are good for since they only switch text in dark not UI. Even Chrome now allows UI to change to dark not just text.
The one very important thing that often get destroyed by compiler using associativity is the TwoSum Error free transform which is a vital composant of several algorithms that deal with numerical error (most notably the Kahan Summation).

The problem is mentionned in the Wikipedia page of the Kahan summation (and I have been able to reproduce it with gcc) :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahan_summation_algorithm#Poss...

This is actually my area of research, I could contribute if you point me to an RFC.
Your suggestion is greatly appreciated! I will repost it there.

The hack your are referring to is indeed something that a lot of people use. It already enhances the flexibility a lot.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
Well, you are asking about “cool” in the sense of “socially/morally acceptable,” as opposed to “intellectually stimulating.”

That is an interesting distinction, because historically, the hacker ethos has been about the pursuit of the latter at the expense of the former.

For example, phone phreaking. Or the Morris Worm.

Stealing scooters and reselling them is just theft. Hacking a scooter for the pleasure of finding out how they tick, or for fun, is still stealing, but it’s also hacking in the original sense.

That doesn’t justify it, but given that we are arguing this point on a forum named after hackers and which celebrated the hacker ethos in its early days...

I suggest we at least understand and appreciate the second definition of “cool,” even if we aren’t going to let go of recognizing that it doesn’t meet the first definition.
Meanwhile Mozilla is attempting to prevent users with administrative access from installing private extensions in the release version of Firefox, extensions for which the source code has not been handed over to Mozilla for signing.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1514451
Vimium is available for Firefox [1]. There are actually quite a few others too: Saka-key, Surfingkeys, Vim-Vixen (as a sibling has mentioned), VVimpulation and, last-but-most-janky, Tridactyl [2]. It'd be remiss of me not to mention Qutebrowser which is a standalone affair.

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/vimium-ff/

[2]: I can slag Tridactyl off as I wrote a lot of it. It's still my favourite one.
What a ridiculous comment. The CBC is reporting on this article published in Nature:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-019-0592-8
> As I understand, from a friend at TFL, they could have replaced the whole fleet of buses with electric ones for the same price as this vanity disaster.

This is interesting. Any published analysis, articles. It would be an interesting read for sure
You can hold your breath, I want to explore ways of preventing runaway warming from melting permafrost.
B.F. Skinner trained pigeons to pilot bombs during World War II: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon
Wellll, you jest but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon

"During World War II, Project Pigeon (later Project Orcon, for "organic control") was American behaviorist B.F. Skinner's attempt to develop a pigeon-controlled guided bomb."
On the Impact of Programming Languages on Code Quality [pdf]
They deal with it by labeling them as "nazis" it seems to me.
As the other comment points out, some of the major GHG's CO2 and CH4 are comprised of carbon. It is often used as a catch-all.

For example, the news earlier this year about treeplanting, spoke about removing Carbon from the atmosphere. Typically, the GHG's will be rolled up into either CO2e (CO2-equivalent) or just C. In the latter case, you often just have to do some molar math to get the CO2e from C.
Can you park a bicycle on the sidewalk? Could you leave a stroller there?
Ask HN: What does Quantum supremacy mean for the current state of encryption?
Google recently claimed they achieved Quantum supremacy and ran computations in 200s what the world's fastest supercomputer would take 10,000 years (even though IBM challenged the claims).

I'm curious how well current encryption algorithms can fare against a quantum computer, given the governments has the means to build or get their hands on one.
Probably because in js if i="1" then i+=1 results in i="11" but i-=-1 results in i=2
https://www.gwern.net/Cat-Sense suggests that cats wouldn't really be the right pilot. Dogs would be much easier to train.
The distance or timesink which is the full route from

1. db model

2. orm/client mapping

3. some sort of ui that can crud the above
Automation to replace every job under the sun, eventually
Isn't the problem that they are sourcing materials and parts from abroad, and thus affected negatively by the decline?
Why not be open access always if it can be done for a week?
Firefox Preview supports dark mode for UI. You can switch between light, dark or follow the device theme.
>A better control would be rats doing nothing vs rats driving and seeing if the rats doing nothing were more stressed than the driving rats, meaning the driving rats were actually lowering their baseline stress.

What if it's the opposite? What if rats that do nothing are under a higher stress and driving simply allows them to get back to their baseline stress?
Rats trained to drive tiny cars find it relaxing, scientists report
Fascinating thank you for sharing . Never heard of this
This is a great project.

I ran Ubuntu Touch a few years ago, when Canonical supported it, and eventually gave up because I didn't think it was polished enough.

I came back to Ubuntu Touch a month or two ago out of frustration with Android, and it is much less buggy than it used to be, I'm very pleased with it.

My only issue is that the best phone (AFAIK) to run it on is a OnePlus One, which is quite old and slow compared to more modern phones.

But it's such a breath of fresh air to be using a mobile OS that isn't nagging you to sign in to Google, sign up for a Samsung account, install the latest OneDrive app, accept location sharing, agree to the terms and conditions, etc. And it's all open source and hackable, the Terminal app is a first-class citizen. It's great.
That's akin to a cry out for a Powerwall plus solar panel setup!
Decreased economic opportunity is self-inflicted? It seems to me that many people are far more comfortable attributing blame to people that could very well be victims to a certain degree--and not the main perpetrators, in fact--than to make an unbiased and braver observation of the facts.
I think there is a problem with the current thinking on MVPs where you quickly hack together a product, launch it, and drop it if it doesn't gain traction immediately.

This approach is probably especially damaging if the product is a social platform that you are starting from scratch.
Those are ages 15 - 24 and the numbers are a little better now. Cost of living is so low where unemployment is highest that it's not the end of the world. Still free health care and education.
Yes, and that doesn't surprise me.

In my experience -Ofast/-ffast-math yields very impressive results for FP code.

If you can tolerate platform-specific variation in the trailing parts of floating point numbers, it's wonderful.
I wonder if we'll end up with individual home storage, eg Tesla Powerwall or similar. Then you fill it up when there's grid, you use it when there isn't, and you just have to manage the charge level.
Here is the original: https://borgestodoelanio.blogspot.com/2015/10/borges-profeso...
This should probably be exposed as separate floating point types. With relatively cheap conversions. (Mostly done error checks.)
I'm curious what happens then if you ever have to plan a funeral. Which, yea I'm being morbid... but it would be pretty messed up to continue getting funeral related ads over time.
How then did for example Bill Gates cause anyone to become poor by becoming a billionaire?
Do you think there are more people like that than there are people who use their phone as their only device, not to mention the difference between a computer which often turned off or not physically present versus a device which is almost always on and near its owner?
Well done, keep it going!
>But going dark is broader than encryption; it involves the decreasing ability of the government to conduct effective lawful surveillance

That wasn't an ability of government in 1900 or 1800, so why should we worry that this new-fangled ability has been decreasing lately?

Who said it should be an ability for government, and much more, an eternal one, and not a temporary accidental capability due to a few technical developments that allowed it for a short span of time?
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FMA isn't a safe optimization as it can give different results.

C++ compilers have flags to enable it globally. gcc and clang include the optimization in -Ofast.

Rust allows you to choose at a code level (but usually people don't know about it). Perhaps it should also have a global fast-math flag that would automatically optimize it. Pros and cons to that.
> From an ethical point of view, it follows the license of the project so there is no issue.

This seems like the opposite of the usual ethical/legal distinction. It’s definitely legal to fork the project and the community, but not necessarily ethical.

I don’t think you can blame authors for not using a license that describes exactly what they are happy with. What constitutes an “ethical” fork is subjective, based on how necessary the fork is, and I don’t think a license could describe that.

Also, consider this analogy. The MIT license doesn’t contain a patent grant. So if some MIT-licensed software uses a patented technique, the software author and patent holder is within their legal rights to sue all forks of their for patent infringement. But this would be unethical, as the MIT license implies that the licensed software is given freely, not that you will sue all users of your software. Would you blame the sued parties for choosing to use MIT-licensed software, the way you are saying you would blame software authors for choosing a license that doesn’t forbid certain forks?
You joke, but do have a look at https://www.idiosyncraticwhisk.com/2019/10/california-wants-... and https://www.idiosyncraticwhisk.com/2019/05/uber-and-wages-in...

Summary: Uber couldn't pay more, even if they wanted to.
i know a good fix for your anxiety, just grow some balls. k thx bye
If this was the case, there would be no push in government sectors to diminish cryptography and provide backdoors.

Or perhaps they are double-bluffing us? ;-)
>Backdoors have been revealed a few times in US products, but US companies have learned their lesson and appear to be pushing back.

Yeah, that's not exactly the case...
OMG at the bottom of the page is a link to a bat-bomb

"Bat bombs were an experimental World War II weapon developed by the United States. The bomb consisted of a bomb-shaped casing with over a thousand compartments, each containing a hibernating Mexican free-tailed bat with a small, timed incendiary bomb attached. Dropped from a bomber at dawn, the casings would deploy a parachute in mid-flight and open to release the bats, which would then disperse and roost in eaves and attics in a 20–40-mile radius (32–64 km). The incendiaries, which were set on timers, would then ignite and start fires in inaccessible places in the largely wood and paper constructions of the Japanese cities that were the weapon's intended target."

That's ingenious, and even more horrific.
I guess pigeons are aerial rats, so it checks out...
This kind of laughable “gotcha” politics actually has no impact on his support. I’m from a poor white family in Michigan, Bernie is tremendously popular here, as he was in 2016 when he won the primary.

Working class people understand completely that Bernie and what he advocates for, things like Medicare for All, are what are in their interests. And likewise that Yang’s plans to dismantle the welfare state and replace it with a check that will get eaten up by all the landlords and insurance companies that have always preyed them will accomplish nothing. It’s why Bernie has the largest donor base of any candidate and especially among donations from working class people.
Not in Paris, no.

We have a metro, that would allow you to cross the capital from west to east in 40 minutes. A network of overused suburban trains that electric scooters can't and won't try to fix.

It's just a fad. An opportunity that was made available when the city council decided to switch the public bike provider. It required to change all existing bike stations, and severely crippled the existing service. So, they tried to seize that opportunity. First, free floating bikes [0], and now electric scooters. The overall disrespect for non-users is so present that it will make worse any problem they're trying to fix.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-paris-bicycles/bik...
It's not that simple.

All of perception comes from noticing patterns. Labeling a thing, eg an apple, initially happens because you've seen multiple apples, or you've had it explained to you, which is using previous patterns (turned into words) you've already learned to manufacture a new pattern. Without pattern matching we wouldn't be able to identify or perceive things.

The mind pattern matches things. It's how we learn. We build abstractions, even when we don't know we're doing it.

The sense of self is an abstraction. Without abstractions we wouldn't be able to perceive anything.

(If you're talking about the sense of self as a negative, I'm going to assume here you're coming from a Theravada Buddhist perspective, but if not, I can adjust teaching/explanation style and terminology accordingly. Just let me know.)

The first fetter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetter_(Buddhism)#Lists_of_fet... ie identity view / non-self / anatta, is being able to fully identify all of the details that build the abstraction of self, which can only be done during high levels of mindfulness from deep meditation. You'll find many of the things people attribute to self, are things they have, not things they are. eg, the skills you've learned isn't you. It's the skills you have. Though, can an abstraction really -have- things? (It's a failing of English, as this doesn't translate into English properly.)

So, you go through first path and identify all the things you think you are: body, mind, psychology, cultural beliefs, and so on, examining each thing, recursively breaking those things down, and identifying how they are not you, but how the idea of self is built off of it. Eventually you get to see how your identity isn't you, and the freedom of not identifying with things, as well as the suffering that is caused from identifying with things.

Anyways, you'll not see an arhat or zen master wondering around unable to interpret things. They just have fully mapped out what self is and isn't, as well as the other causes of suffering. They're not brain dead.

So is the sense of self a psychological disorder? Self is a delusion, not an illusion, so no. Sense of self (identity view, that is) just causes unnecessary stress.
What you said about how life expectancy is calculated is correct but...

The elderly on death's door in a nursing home are not moving to some retirement community in Florida where they can DUI a golf cart all day.

The young who are depressed or have substance abuse problems are not the people who have the spare willpower to relocate so they can run the rat race in a major metro.

So your calculations for any given year are going to favor places like NYC and Florida because their cohort includes all those "less likely to die this year" people who moved there last year. So a state or region could be doing everything wrong yet still have good life expectancy because it's where people with good life expectancy wind up.
Just watching the talk live at OOPSLA, and it's very good!

Lots of flaws in the original study, which I think was heavily discussed here at the time. Most of the original conclusions not reproducible/supported.

What remains extremely weak.
Trump was elected because of Clinton. If the Democrats could field a candidate that wasn’t hell bent on gun banning, they’d probably win. As it stands, Trump will win again. The “hell yes, were are coming for your guns” probably cost them the election.
Time Warping on AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Doctor Who and Red Dwarf Are Part of the Same Universe. Proof
How Startups Measure Success Before They Generate Revenue
Often when you get people taking pictures of seemingly mundane things by tourists it’s because they’ve watched a “drama” that has a protagonist go places and then that place becomes an item. Somewhat akin to random people photographing mansions of Hollywood stars. It means nothing to locals but to fans it has some sort of meaning —and there are lots of these dramas where one of the key tropes is they go abroad for whatever reason.
Well, China issues aside, that should be the case in every country -- such services should be local, governed by local laws, and not giving a free-pass to foreign countries/governments (foreign as to the users of the service) to enforce their laws/surveillance.

E.g. I would like the EU iCloud to be hosted in EU.
I don't use Firefox Preview fully because of lack of login/password sync.

After looking at github, I understood that Fenix won't support Firefox Sync for syncing login and passwords, but will rely on Firefox Lockwise, and is the way forward. It this correct ?

edit : added a precision regarding firefox sync for passwords
Very good point, let's not talk about "privilege" when in fact it is wealth and income inequality.

And about the web is spot on: we should develop for the masses and stop using the last js technology for some silly and useless animation.
Liver disease is likely linked to the continuously rising obesity levels:

> "adult obesity rates now exceed 35% in nine states, 30% in 31 states and 25% in 48 states."

https://stateofchildhoodobesity.org/adult-obesity/

More people are now dying earlier from liver disease, instead of dying later of for example diabetes or heart disease. In more cases, the liver is failing first due to lifetime obesity problems.
Agreed. Better to keep them corralled.

Now that I think about it we did hike for 25min out to the plane crash. When we arrived it was full of instagram models taking selfies and wearing Supreme gear.. not really the kind of wilderness I was looking for.

On the flip side, we did see the Northern lights at a camp site up North. There were only a handful of people since it was still in the Winter months. It felt very pure and intimate. Like it was our secret no one else knew about. One of the greatest experiences of my life. I think that’s what all tourists are searching for.
If you want to lough your balls off, read this story. Iceland involved: https://www.rooshv.com/i-was-detained-by-icelandic-police-af...
It is quite cheap indeed, I try to keep a fair pricing :)
OP is talking about false allegation, you're explaining how to avoid real allegation.
>until the root cause is addressed: income inequality

As far as I can tell, income inequality mainly stems from inequality of opportunity. I think a country is as free as its ability to give all its citizens the same opportunities.
Next up the op will be predicting youtube ids: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6L__oR1O9A
Yes whenever Mozilla announces something exciting that could get some positive feedback, be sure to use the opportunity to complain about something unrelated.
My advice to people who want history-tracking but don't know how to use a version-control system is: use Dropbox or OneDrive (I think Google Drive has something similar).

You get 30 days of history for every file in Dropbox (120 days for Business users). Earlier you could pay a bit extra to get a full year of history -- but that feature, called Extended Version History, is no longer available.

OneDrive unfortunately offers only 30 days, I believe Google Drive is similar.
Android Developers Blog, All About Updates: More Treble
UnHustled 6-Figure Freedom Review Should We Get It
That's a good idea, if you want to build a social network, it probably makes sense to build an audience first.
Locking down Firefox to not allow installing private extensions is not unrelated to extension support.
On that purchase, nothing. On future buses (when you expand your fleet), or on spare parts for routine maintenance: unknown tariff. Business don't like unknowns.
> I want as much as anybody else to block the effects of these menaces. But the way to do it is to block the pathway from propaganda to sentiment to action (to use a pharmacological analogy), not to suppress the sentiment.

I'm not trying to twist your words, but does this not entail vote suppression (for example)?

> As Justice Louis Brandeis famously noted, the answer to bad speech is more speech, not less.

While sounding good in theory, the problem with more speech is that what's true doesn't gain as many clicks and eyeballs as what's "engaging". Put that on top of the fact that producing researched quality reporting takes factor X more effort than producing something false that _sounds_ interesting/engaging, and with complete disregard to whether it's true or not.

It then follows that there will always be more low quality news (or in reality non-news aka "crap") to drown out real news, given the basically free transfer costs of the internet.

I wish I was optimistic enough to think that people in aggregate wanted to be educated, but I think our current timeline indicates that is not so. And as long as that's the case, stemming the tides of crap is the only viable option I see, however hard that is to do right.

Book burning was bad because it was suppressive of legitimate ideas. I'm not sure what would have been the association if we only burned books suggesting that eating Tide pods was a good idea.
Because “user with administrative access” also describes software installers “helpfully” installing their add-on into the browser.

This continues the long trend of browsers not trusting the underlying OS to actually protect users from soft-malware.
When they say 'life savings' (conjuring the image of money saved slowly, over a lifetime), what they really mean is 'gambling profits'.
http://archive.is/Dbjxv
The Waste in the U.S. Health System
Seconding you're point on SSRIs. I'm currently reading Ed Bullmore's Inflamed Mind, and he makes the point forcefully that there's no way of measuring SSRI levels in regular clinical practice, they way blood pressue, cholosterol or white/red blood cell levels are tested.
> an early version of the new browser for Android that is built on top of Firefox’s own mobile browser engine, GeckoView.

Isn't the existing Android browser built on top of Firefox's own mobile browser engine? Or am I reading this wrong?
BBC News heads to the dark web with new Tor mirror
And you should've found him a convenient and well paid job.
Since publicly shaming the company online, besides being ineffective, is a good way to get fired.
Didn't mean any offence by this! I was merely indicating my appreciation for the humor of the original poster with his great command of the language: "have been reliably informed since..".
I agree that the US economic system doesn’t give enough opportunities. After being highlighted by the GR, the economy really doesn’t produce enough work for everyone who needs work. Precisely the sort of thing government is meant to address: problems no other actor has incentive or ability to address.