skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"when push came to shove, if it threatened the centres of corporate power, these experiments in industrial democracy were basically unplugged and defunded"

This sounds like when he got to having to tackle actual issues, he didn't have the political tools necessary to effect real change. Of course if the establishment was all on board to guarantee worker happiness, you wouldn't even need mindfulness in the first place, but the problem right now is that you can't replace the establishment and the establishment doesn't care about you. He might want to look into working with unions and how to structure their demands and policies in a way that will reduce people's stress. You don't enact democracy by telling the current tyrant how cool it would be if all his serfs revolted and took his head off.
Hard to make this a consistent coherent argument though. The microkernel will be secure because it has Spectre mitigations. The microkernel will be fast because it doesn't use Spectre mitigations. ?
What's going on? I just see a block of text next to a static image.

"Replay is an early experiment. We'll let you know on @FirefoxDevTools when it's ready for input."
For a great explanation of why you would want to use mutation testing, see https://pitest.org/ (a similar tool but for Java). In short - it is to gauge the quality of your test suite, because ideally any mutation of your app should cause a test failure.
I agree that in general name calling and personal attacks are no good. BUT, the word used in this thread aren't that harsh, come on. We're not made of glass. If you make a really idiotic choise don't cry when someone calls you an idiot.
Got 144FPS on my 1060 6GB (Firefox).
Lecture Notes: Metaheuristic Optimization
So, because you found one, rather extreme case, where blindly consuming disparate pieces of information is maybe harmful you're arguing the entire premise is flawed?

The statement is not "at the sacrifice of all else, memorize everything possible."

If you take any advice to a logical extreme it will likely become bad advice. Maybe you should try to consider things from different angles before you capriciously write them off.
Here's a service that gives you the first page of a random book. From there you can choose to reveal which book it is:

https://www.recommendmeabook.com/

I think it's brilliant for getting the ball rolling, no matter how small, on a book I would otherwise probably never read if I were just picking among titles.
I think they saw that it got a lot of attention on HN and weren't in a stage with the product where they were ready for the corresponding feedback.

For anyone who missed what it was, it allows you to derterministically record and replay your browsing for debugging purposes, and you can export these recordings to others.
Facebook doesn't run vanilla PHP. It runs on Hack, a language developed from PHP that runs on HHVM, a JIT VM it developed:

https://engineering.fb.com/developer-tools/hack-a-new-progra...
>> It's nearly impossible to craft a roof rack for this design

I think it is too early to make this call, especially given the fact that they haven’t event gotten around to side mirrors and windscreen wipers (legally required in some jurisdictions)!
I think it’s one solution on the table, and not even one that has the full support of a single party. The others so far seem to be pretty close to a no-op. Be nice to see some other folks try to modulate it and offer a better proposal.
Cryptocurrency Will Not Die
Hey, author here!
That's exciting, you basically mirror my thoughts here :)

I agree with what you're saying about siloes, that's especially sad considering that having all this stuff unified and interacting is not some sort of mad science fiction, it's totally possible with technology that we have. It's just tedious for various reasons (one of which is that demand from users isn't high in the first place).

I'm working on a browser extension that unifies annotations and highlights from different sources like pocket, instapaper, hypothesis, or even plaintext notes: https://github.com/karlicoss/promnesia . I've been using it for more than a year, hope to release it soon (few things are specific to my setup, so I need to make them simpler/clearer for other people to use).
I just looked it up on the internet archive and saw the old website. I think they should have kept the old one, since the new website has almost no information at all.

https://web.archive.org/web/20191128111509/https://firefox-r...
You can't post like this here. It breaks not only the site guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) but also the Show HN rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.

You've been posting comments that break the site guidelines at an alarming rate. We've asked you several times to stop. Since you keep doing it. I've banned this account. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.
I'm trying to understand this so I don't know a lot of what's going on here, but why is the fundamental half the bit rate instead of the bit rate?
Unfortunately gaslighting evil intentioned people take advantage of sentiments like these.
I fully admit I’m no expert on this topic, but it seems to me tiny houses are an awful use of space in a city for low-income housing. Why not just have apartments?
Right, this is the same idea.

The current article seems to believe that this behaviour is in some sense irrational, presumably on the theory that "rationally" you should never prefer to remove a potentially useful option (which after all you could just choose not to use).

But I think that isn't the best way to look at it. What Cortés really needed was for his men to _believe_ that there was no option to retreat. As the only way for him to achieve that was to actually burn the ships, that was the price he chose to pay. But if he'd had another way to achieve that goal I expect he would have taken it.

The same goes for the chicken game: removing your control of the car is the price you may have to pay for causing your opponent to believe that you have no control of your car.

Looking at things this way, the behaviour is no more irrational than it's irrational for me to prefer a situation in which I end up with less money to a situation in which I end up with more, if I've bought something of value with that money.
Well, I'm on a laptop (Carbon X1) with IntelHD Graphics 620 and Firefox 70 on Ubuntu and getting 30 FPS with some 35-ish peaks, so probably something is wrong on your end.
100% on the test is 150% beyond what would be expected from the absolute worst case real life scenarios. It would require extraordinary circumstances beyond what has been seen or modeled in reality to push an actual flight to these limits.
Deep Learning Accelerates Detection and Classification of Underwater Species
It might be that you are simply "used" to the chrome tools. I actually found FF doing better with typescript source maps ins some circumstances (e.g. resolving "this"), but to be fair sourcemaps are often problematic on both browsers.
The two compare differently depending on the benchmark that is used.
Cutting loose from your supply lines is a time-honored way to win big in war. The best example in the US is Grant's Vicksburg campaign. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicksburg_campaign
The article links to another article that offers this quote from Gorbachev's recent book:

> “When Vladimir Putin became president, he inherited chaos. ... I can’t imagine how one could act under the ‘textbook of democracy’ in these conditions to find a way out of an almost catastrophic situation. ... The president of the country had no other choice but to take decisive actions. Some of his actions were interpreted as authoritarian and part of society was critical toward them. … If the aim of authority is to create conditions for developing a strong modern democracy, then I’m ready to support the president even if I disagree with some of his individual actions and decisions.”

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/10/29/the-biggest-takeaw...

Has there been a single example in which a strongman government peacefully gave way to "strong modern democracy?"

If anything it seems that strongman governments beget strongman governments. Eventually, something slips and all hell breaks loose. At that point the only way out is to find a leader willing to take decisive actions. And so on.

One of the biggest problems with the peaceful transition idea seems to be corruption. The strongman necessarily breeds corruption because his form of government is incompatible with rule of law. So even if the top-level institutions undergo a superficial makeover, the underlying rot of corruption persists, forever standing in the way. Frustration with the whole reform experiment builds until some event causes popular frustration to boil over, ushering in the return of the strongman.
"We have talked about this strategy before, and actually reading the article mostly assuaged my concerns about SoftBank’s bookkeeping. In fact, SoftBank says that it doesn’t aggressively mark up its unicorn portfolio (and take accounting profits) every time it pumps in more money on its own. When it invests in later rounds alongside other investors, providing some external validation for the new valuation, it will mark up its stakes (but “only after taking into account future cash flows and public market proxies, as well as private market funding prices”). But, for instance, SoftBank and its associated Vision Fund “never took profits from WeWork by marking it all the way up to $47 billion,” since it was the only investor in at those levels; instead it marked WeWork at levels that other investors also paid." from Matt Levine newsletter

Journalists exaggerate as always - it is hard to get real info from mainstream press.
I have run into neo-stalinists.. who are not russian - its mildly disturbing.
Empathy, taking with people, iterating often with the clients inputs.

Realizing that technology and architecture ultimately doesn't matter that much for 99% of the use cases and sticking to proven technology to deliver value (postgres, rabbitmq, ansible, redis and django)
> But as it turns out, separation does exist!

The article you linked to says: "There can be an IOMMU with very tight restrictions providing proper isolation or a setup where the IOMMU is effectively not doing anything and permits access to all of the memory. Determining that requires real research."

So it sounds more like separation might or might not exist and you're not likely to find out if it does on your particular device.
Critical Perspectives on Provable Security
Because it's experimental and you have to start somewhere.
Only way to beat is go long, super long, longer the better. Machines doesn’t go long
Cloture: Clojure in Common Lisp
It's just like with FDR for conservatives - for most, his greatness as a wartime leader generally overpowers whatever bad he may or may not have done elsewhere. I'd argue that Stalin ought to be looked at in a similar (but perhaps less idealized) light.
There are a ton of stuff to write about this but so little time so I'll try to just give one thing that helped a lot (small effort, large payoff)

Be explicit with what phase of your "thinking" you're in. When faced with a problem, focus on giving lateral/divergent ideas and come up with a multitude of different solutions. Don't spend time thinking why/why not a solution is good, just note the solution itself and move on to finding another one.

Once this is done, start the next phase which is the convergent thinking. Sit down with all the different solutions and start compare the tradeofs between them. Eventually you'll reach either some middle ground of some solutions, or just one solution.

Doing this when collaborating with other engineers is also super helpful, as people won't feel like their ideas are being shut down as soon as they utter them, so more people can part of the whole process (if needed)
It occurs to me that I should probably extend all the .org domains I control (for a non-profit) to 10 years, now.
literally all life is based on survivor bias
I do not know if anyone has lost a trademark over this, but in a practical sense you still need to be proactive--there is no trademark police force that will ensure nobody uses the domain inappropriately. Consider a donation-solicitation business that takes over abandoned .org domains to collect donations in your organization's name and then keep a percentage. You probably don't want that to happen, you certainly could make a reasonable trademark infringement case, but unless you take steps like sending them a C&D there's nothing stopping them. Even if all they did was put a CNAME for your old .org in that redirects to their own domain they could have a meaningful impact on your operations.
My First Dapps
As someone who grew up in Russia, I can say that (in my humble opinion) Russians, even older generations, didn't idealize Stalin. They just knew that the country always needed someone who put fear into people to stop stealing, bribing and corruption at every level of society, which has historically been a problem in Russia dating back to the Czars. Back in my teenager years I remember reading somewhere in Russian literature about an incident when Peter The Great was told that one of the governors (gubernators) of a Gubernia was caught stealing from treasury. Peter responded by saying something along the lines of "There are so many of them stealing I can't even execute them anymore because I won't have anyone left." So instead he implemented a law to excuse theft of certain amounts by local government officials. Wish I could find a source for this, but it was so striking that it stuck in my memory.
There are some computers that are both tablets and laptops. E.g. Lenovo Helix series. So if it were possible to have interface that suits both these cases or somehow switch between them (but it shouldn't be drastically different), it would be great. This is what Windows is trying to do, I believe.
Depends whether anybody writes it for them, or whether Google has to make it on their own.
They're expensive for what they are, but I want one anyway. The only reason I haven't so far is because they only have US keyboards. If I'm going to spend that much on a laptop, I want my £ key!
Also, if you default to `() => ...` for anonymous functions, then you can reserve anonymous `function() { ... }` for the rare times you actually want peculiar `this`. Same reason it's nice to default to `const` so that `let` becomes a signal for the bonus feature of reassignment.
Outsourcing “being the bad guy” is fairly common in the business world.
> Has there been a single example in which a strongman government peacefully gave way to "strong modern democracy?"

Spain - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_transition_to_democr...

Czechoslovakia - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velvet_Revolution

There are others.
The source and the datasets are here: https://github.com/cinedantan/webapp
Yeah. Event at runtime, it seems possible when the owner thread gives up the ownership (by setting owner_tid = 0) can use an extra flag to let other threads to compete for the ownership. As long as the flag is on the 2nd half-word, (it seems) there is no atomic requirement for the 1st half-word.
My impression is that most people promoting mindfulness are often keen to avoid the association to Buddhism or at least downplay it, not exploit it, to avoid a resistance to picking up a religious practice.

Gil Fronsdal in his "Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation" jokingly talk about how organizations holding courses in "Mindfulness based stress deduction" carefully avoid the "B-word", and then go on to give a pratical introduction that barely mentions Buddhism.

Quite a bit of mindfulness meditation material has been published by Buddhist monks and teachers that have taken care to stress their utility as methods separated from the Buddhist tradition. Fronsdal's courses is one example. Bhante Henepola Gunaratana's Mindfulness in Plain English is another popular example that takes great care to explain its position in Buddhist practice and then promptly point out that his book is a practical guide to the meditation practice, not a guide to the spiritual aspects, and mostly ignores Buddhism from then on.

When talking about mindfulness in a secularised form, we are usually talking specifically about mindfulness based meditation, not the other aspects, or at least to a lesser extent other aspects. To me that was what made it palatable, as I'd had a casual interest for a long time, but found spiritually focused descriptions very off-putting.
This is all covered in the last third of the essay, including nested structures, depressurization and the proposed structure has much, much higher volume than a dome.
> In early 2018, the founders of Chinese artificial intelligence startup SenseTime Group Ltd. flew to Tokyo to see billionaire investor Masayoshi Son. As they entered the offices, Chief Executive Officer Xu Li was hoping to persuade the head of SoftBank Group to invest $200 million in his three-year-old startup.

> A third of the way into the presentation, Son interrupted to say he wanted to put in $1 billion. A few minutes later, Son suggested $2 billion. Turning to the roomful of SoftBank managers, Son said this was the kind of AI company he’d been looking for. “Why are you only telling me about them now?” he asked, according to one person in the room.

This sounds more like an episode of Dragon's Den than a firm responsible for billions of dollars of investors' money. Doesn't quite inspire confidence...
That's what I see in firefox with hardware acceleration disabled.
TLDR: author projects their anxiety and angst onto an electric truck.
The article is in no way about classical music (as in Mozart, Haydn, Bach, etc.), but about classical (as in Greek and Roman) literature.
I'm deeply concerned about the direction that the tech world is going. I had hoped that early successes like eBay and PayPal would lead to democratization and egalitarianism, but sadly that's not the case. Where I had hoped to see something like a gig economy where anyone could jump in and out of work when they needed money, and multiple sources of ~$100,000 funding for startups, today I see a doubling down on race-to-the-bottom competition and austerity.

There is less money available now for independent work than there was in the 80s and 90s because we have to work so hard at consulting just to survive. There have been few raises in any industry (the starting wage for an engineer in 2000 was $60,000 per year) but housing and medical costs are many times higher than they were. Millions (yes millions) of the brightest minds of a generation are underemployed in sweatshops, call centers and IT. Even working full time, it can take several years to even save $10,000. Much less reach a level of spirituality that allows one to rise above the waste of life that is the working world today, and build inventions that could substantially raise the quality of life for everyone. Work is now the opposite of progress, not its source.

Meanwhile banks give millions or even billions of dollars to corporations making nebulous claims about how to turn the most promising technologies into profitable returns. When a couple of people in a garage somewhere could do the same thing for 1/1,000 or 1/1,000,000 of the money. Imagining what tens of thousands of those teams with $100,000 could do in medicine, alternative energy, sustainability.. the list goes on and on.

Concerns like this are beginning to dominate my psyche to the point where I'm not sure I want to be in tech anymore. I have serious doubts about where all of this is going. Where are the examples of cooperation? Of steadily increasing personal wealth with simultaneous reduction in work (also known as real technology)? Where are the examples of tech billionaires making it and working to make that possible for all the rest who failed?

My greatest concern today is that speaking the truth is now viewed as being negative.

So just be mindful in these times and don't dwell too much on the truth. I think it's more useful to imagine a new truth that transcends the boundaries placed in front of us. That's how technology began.

Have a Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
I ask lots of questions and even stupid ones.

I do the job with person, to workout what needs changing rather than them telling me. This saves hours of back and forth and people rarely do it.
The Race to Exascale at Supercomputer 2019
SQL/JSON path expressions look very powerful for making queries easier to understand, they’re a part of the SQL spec I hadn’t seen yet.

I’m a little sad though to see yet another JSON location mini-language appear. We’ve got JSONPointer (IETF standard for the web, used by jsonschema), JSONPath, the more expressive but cross language JMESPath, the CLI favorite jq, and presumably a billion more. It’s wearing me out.
Working on real world problems without seeking help from Google/StackOverflow, even if it means reinventing the wheel to make it fit for your particular problem, or even going through pages of documentation/code to find the purpose of a single function. It may sound like a waste of useful time, but it slowly makes you self-sufficient to deal with any kind of issues later on.
> not having a fallback position leads to higher commitment

That's what the article claims, but that doesn't necessarily make that statement accurate.

There's no proof Cortez et. al.'s troops actually felt higher commitment as a consequence of having their ships burned - we are expected to conclude that's what happened, but we have only Cortez's word to tell us this and an article demonstrating selection bias.
Burned-Out Flash Trips Up Older Teslas
"simple made easy"
Thanks, will sleep less stupid.
This is normal accounting practice.

Not only is it legal, it's essentially legally required for companies to track the changes in the value of their assets.

It matters more in the downward direction, a company has to know when they are insolvent (owe more money than assets they hold) because they are required to file for bankruptcy. Value of an asset goes down, they need to update the books and make sure they don't have too much debt.

The only real issue, are the valuations accurate? If they're not, then it might be accounting fraud.
I've noticed there is a "schedule tweet" option maybe you could schedule some tweets to keep your account active. A Happy New year here, a St. Patrick's Day there, maybe a few others. I know you don't want to tweet but at least this keeps you in the active category.
If you don't have to mess around with PHP extensions, then it all works like magic. Depending on your environment and which extensions you need though, they can be a pain in the ass and then it's more or less the same as managing external libraries.
Unless your only experience is 1999 style FTP with shared hosting and you've never used anything else, I don't know how you can claim that `node server.js` or running your Cargo-built server.exe is somehow harder or more complicated.

For example, PHP is complicated enough that people use WAMP/MAMP.exe just for local development.
Assuming my family is grown (and thus my direct life responsibilities fully attended), I'd sign up.

Recall the older generation that cleaned up at Fukushima.[0] These are folks that knew their activities would be uncomfortable, may cause their death, but ultimately was absolutely vital to the benefit of all mankind.

This view on life is not constrained to a single culture or background. Self-sacrifice in such a way is often considered the highest pinnacle of morality -- even under the auspices of selfish genes since the act does not directly benefit descendants. Planting trees in your later years that the fruit may be enjoyed generations after.

You may ask if I have any special skills. I do, but suppose I don't. In such a place you will need grunts. And I'd be happy to join in to build humanity's insurance policy to be a bit broader.

[0] http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/05/31/japan.nuclear.su...