skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Recovering the working-class classicists of the past can also function as a rallying cry to modern Britain to support the case for the universal availability in schools of classical civilisation and ancient history

This is somewhat begging the question of why those heroic people loved reading and debating the classics. One could argue that working class libraries and the tiny pockets of diverse private education were destroyed by government subsidy and the system of state education. This system now picks the tunes and imposes them universally. To influence a compulsory national curriculum one then has to compete with all the various propagandists anxious themselves to grasp the levers.
Sure, and AFAIK Google does neither of those, so it would be wrong to say "Google does similar things".
Keybase.md
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We still have cable-modems in some parts of the world.
This is an interesting project, but there are very good reasons for having API's.

Its just about is it the right tool for the job.

I don't like their comment : 'They are just a necessary evil so the frontend can communicate with the backend'
Speaking of which, I'm a little shocked to see a Mozilla thread that doesn't yet mention Pocket or the rebranding or DoH. That must mean we are in a good mood?
Yes! And I've been experimenting with the EyeQue. It's a great tool that turns your smart phone into an eye exam. All the better to take an exam regularly.
Smart TVs like Samsung, LG and Roku are tracking everything
I'm assuming the check happens at compile time (and therefore cached in the opcache, which you should be using in production anyway)
Or as internet memes put it:

"There was a point where we needed to stop, and we have clearly passed it.

So let's keep going and see what happens."
To prevent ambiguity at parser level. To prevent collision with array definition.
Performance is a myth too, performance of shared memory monoliths became uncompetitive long ago when they had to adopt to multi core systems, where locality, batching and asynchrony play very significant role. High performance research in networking and distributed system basically converged on asynchronously communicating isolated processes.
Thoughts on DNS-over-HTTPS
Russian Duma confirmed 7 millions of victims at 02.04.2008, then Russian FSB destroyed archives of 1926 census in 2010, to hide real number of victims.
Of course, it's not like either logic or economics are new to the notion of precommitment[1] ...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precommitment
I disagree. In as much as any of those distract you from raising good children, they hurt more than they help, and voting and political activity in general is pointless (at best) in most countries. The elites are going to get what they want until there is bloodshed, and probably even beyond that as well.

Irish Democracy[1] is more effective and more moral than any sort of political activism.

[1] "Quiet, anonymous, and often complicitous, lawbreaking and disobedience may well be the historically preferred mode of political action for peasant and subaltern classes, for whom open defiance is too dangerous….One need not have an actual conspiracy to achieve the practical effects of a conspiracy. More regimes have been brought, piecemeal, to their knees by what was once called “Irish Democracy”—the silent, dogged resistance, withdrawal, and truculence of millions of ordinary people—than by revolutionary vanguards or rioting mobs." James Scott - Two Cheers for Anarchism
Thanksgiving: America's National Festival
The VA will give me eye exams and glasses but it's the only service I don't use because the lines are so long and the waiting area is so crowded. My wife and I go to Costco for the exam and glasses. If I remember right the last pair came to about 110 dollars, exam included. Only drawback is it takes about a week to get them.
USB protocols are often times handled in SW, some in Linux kernel, some in userspace. So if someone discovers RCE over USB in Linux USB stack, modem will have direct memory access, or even RCE on the main CPU with kernel privileges.

I have no experience with PCIe so maybe it's harder with USB to abuse the host system, than with PCIe these days.

You can think of USB as being similar to using a TCP/IP protocol between multiple machines capable of executing code, and having to execute code to handle higher level protocols, like HTTP or whatnot. If there's a code execution bug anywhere, the USB capable device will be able to exploit it.

And by default, there's a code-execution bug on all normally configured Linux machines. If you'll not create a USB "firewall", modem can just create a virtual keyboard and kernel will happily accept all input from it, for example. So modem can just type whatever it wants to your shell. It will be obvious, but, it's still device->host RCE.
AlphaGo doesn't know chess at all....
My anecdotal experience: I applied to a SRE position, and I have 10 years of experience in system engineering and 5 years in dev ops. I didn’t even get an interview. I’m not saying I would have or should have gotten the job, but they at least should have interviewed me.
Indeed, mitigations slow down boundary crossings of protection domains (kerne/user, user/user), which slows down context switches, which are the very thing that are performance critical for microkernels.
The Absolute Best Way to Make Thanksgiving Stuffing, According to So Many Tests
What happens is that schools will have a harder time avoiding discrimination against white children because they have the misfortune of having law abiding parents and white neighbors.
What's happens to the title?
In the UK: To get the free trial contact lenses, the optician (who wore a white coat!) did my eye test and kept increasing the power until my prescription qualified as legally blind, despite me saying I have astigmatism. I never came back to collect the contact lenses obviously.

Went to my usual optometrist when I was back home in Malaysia 6 months later and surprise, surprise my prescription has not changed for the past 2 years!
Why only a subscription based payment model ?

If I only want to 'convert' one sketch is there an option ?

Or do I have to process my 1 sketch in lets say your turnaround time is 1 week, then cancel my subscription ?
Yeah, we have crap power where I work and have cut down a lot of weird, random issues by buying a decent UPS for each worker machine. Even the people with laptops.
But does it have to be =>? How about ~>?

$a=[$x ~> $x*2, $x ~> $x*$x];
$a[1](5); // 25

Looks cool to me.
Aren't Elixir and Ruby primarily community driven too?
Is there a replaying debugger for reverse-engineering dotNet programs?
Mixing named parameters with unnamed ones is ripe for confusion. The syntax is also going to get rather ugly now that parameters can be typed, too. If I need to pass around more than 3-4 parameters and their names/types matter a lot, I think I'll just define a class with clearly named properties and pass around an instance of it.

I'd love to have a shorter object syntax, too. For the time being, I'll make do with

$city = (object)['name' => 'Berlin', 'population' => 3748000];

which is a little verbose but gets the job done.
I have a Nobel prize and a billion dollars of VC money right here in my back pocket. All you've got to do is demonstrate your design for a self replicating general purpose constructor robot. Actually anybody's demonstrable design will do, and I'll give you a sweet cut of the VC money.
Even if it is planes or terrorism.
You're very nice, because "naive" is a very generous interpretation.
You can replicate this behavior with four solar panels mounted on a motorized platform. The panels should be at a slight angle, with a peak in the middle... then a voltage differential top-to-bottom activates the vertical motor, likewise the horizontal motor.

I'm not sure how to make such a simple system for mirrors pointing at targets, but I suspect "AI" and "cameras" are overkill.
Gbedu – Music Discovery and Streaming Re-Imagined
https://gbedu.live/

Good music has a new home! Gbedu is not just another music player; Gbedu is a music discovery and streaming service built to dispense the rich sound of Africa. We have built an experience that gives young, upcoming (up and coming) artists the chance to get discovered and earn per stream of their music content.

Gbedu will power Africa’s first open music ecosystem - connecting Africans to the largest catalog of free localized content, leveraging the power of playlisting, offline and radio-integration to create new interactions and vast unique music experience per user locale.

Music has never been so free and rich at the same time; Gbedu is free to all users and pays every content owner.
Ask HN: What Are Negotiation Tactics?
Because there are several contexts where $x => $x is already valid PHP to mean something entirely different (array, foreach, ...).
Yes but not for free.
The State of Modern Functional Reactive Programming
System Image Backup (SIB) Solution

We recommend that users use full-disk backup solutions from other vendors.

This is the only major bummer for me. I'm one of the (likely few) people who use this, and I also use it across the network to create system images for Windows 10 UEFI machines.
In general, people don't typically distinguish between MDs/optometrists/podiatrists (in some contexts)/etc. in the US in casual conversation. (A dentist they'll call a dentist.)
The more I hear about this the more it looks like this entire scheme has turned into a pyramid scheme. Pouring more money into investments to try and boost the valuation. Using previous investments to invest and boost the value of new investments, guaranteeing massive loans in order to get others to invest at huge valuations. It just looks more and more like laundering money through all sorts of different mechanisms to create paper gains that don't reflect reality.

The interesting point though is that this is basically all being done using money that private investors have given, so really there's no public accountability or outrage. The question is whether the investors in the vision fund start asking to open the books and check the valuations themselves. If they don't then this will just continue until Masayoshi finds a way of getting his hands on and even bigger pile of money in order to continue to cover up the dodgy valuations - because that's what you'd have to do right? You'd have to do another massive fund to have enough cash to continue driving up these valuations? You would want another massive fund raised quickly before the existing investments start fallling apart.

I wonder what Masayoshi is doing these days.
Ukraine Republic was failed because of invasion. It's meaningless to talk with aggressor.

BTW: can you explain meaning of "scratch Russish and you will find Tatar/поскреби русского и найдёш татарина"? WTF is "russificated peoples/обрусевшие народы"?
Beijing Debuts Facial Recognition System in Subways
If the price were 20% less it would demand some more eyeballs.

When I saw the price I assumed they were trying to position a premium product. I think this is a little bit of a mistake given that in the market of handsets, Apple owns the "premium" devices, and maybe samsung counts as #2? Nobody is crossing that Rubicon.

$700 isn't really bad but I don't like the look of it. Maybe if they can make this thing for 6 or 7 years. People who are worried about this have been aware of Essential phones which aren't the same, but end users aren't shopping these Freedom characteristics.

I predict another few years of nobody batting an eye to these devices. Great shame.
This list is similar: https://github.com/dimpurr/awesome-acg-machine-learning

It has a bit more focus on manga datasets like http://www.manga109.org/en/index.html
Might you be confusing state-enforced controlled speech with simply not being well received by the people you're speaking to?
From what I hear, it was actually RMS who originally convinced the BSD people to release their software, i.e. to create the BSD licence. I can’t remember where I read this, though, and I can’t find it now.
This is the correct answer. Having the option of implicit by-value scope binding is nice. However, I do agree that having the two does add to the overall cognitive cost, albeit not significantly.
"While it's true that running .org provided a relatively steady income stream, it effectively staked most of our revenue on a single business, and required a certain amount of our resources to be spent managing that business, distracting from the broader mission."

So, now they don't have any significant income stream anymore? Great! So once they run out of money from the sell, they're closing down? That is, unless they find some other way to generate a profit to burn on non-profitable-but-good things (like they're doing now). For which .org was the perfect fit?

I mean, if THEY would have increased prices by 10% per-year for the next few years, well, I think people would have been mad, too. But not as much as now, since at least the money would have flown to some "good use"(tm). But now? Cash flows to private investors, who expect (surprise!) to EARN money on that deal.
Big Data vs. Data Warehouse: Key Points
From the linked page:

> An updated browser menu has replaced the Quick Action bar

So the drawer is gone when this is released.

IIRC, the toolbar did auto-hide at first, but they were still running into some bugs so they've disabled it for now. It was also pretty weird with the bottom bar, given that it disappeared if you scrolled down.

Extensions are on the roadmap.
Q&A: Ian Warhurst on Rescuing Bloodhound
Some schools already consider geographically correlated socio-economic background into evaluation criteria. It's not really up to college board to decide this, though I'm sure they have sizable empirical data.

I'm afraid it will just be one more way for unscrupulous people to game the system.
This is nothing but the author attempting to justify his unethical decision to himself. I hope he lives long enough to recognise, and potentially correct, his mistake.
On the other hand, insects are also kind of like NN powered robots, and they don't (necessarily?) have individuality. Especially not ones that form colonies, like ants or bees.
Your comment implies white neighbors are somehow better and that non-whites don’t have law abiding parents.

At least you’re pretty transparent in projecting white victimhood and racism all at the same time.
Turns out bookmarks are still there.

Add a bookmark via overflow (three dots) then star at the bottom.

Access your bookmarks via overflow (three dots) -> Your Library.

I'm not really clear why it has both bookmarks and collections.

Edit: how to add a bookmark changed from the bottom shelf to the overflow menu with today's update
Is adversity always bad? Many times adversity creates more motivated people. That's why so many successful companies are created by smart immigrants, and many times spoiled rich kids do drugs and end up losing all the money they inherit.

Regardless, when we stop looking at merit to judge people's work, we get into a very dangerous territory.

Identity politics is cancer.
Here's a video that shows old Google homepages, the ad seemed to first appear sometime around 2013: https://youtu.be/LZ46uE267Nc?t=93

Disclaimer: I am the creator of the video
They literally said they referenced it on other sites.
The omnibus package makes it real easy to install, especially with Ansible.

FYI if you are uploading to AWS or other cloud providers, you don’t even need a backup script. You can configure it in the gitlab.rb file:

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/raketasks/backup_restore.html#upl...
> There are few more things that would sell it for me as my only browser.

It is a preview, so the important question is what does Mozilla have to do to encourage people to test it? In my books, two major things need to be done:

- Give it a more meaningful name. People need to know about it and remember to follow it's development until they feel it is ready for them to test.

- Focus upon the distinguishing features that compel people to use Firefox instead of another browser.

For example: I am waiting until Firefox Preview has add-on support prior to testing it. I would much prefer to put up with an incomplete rendering engine or incomplete add-on support than live without add-ons altogether. Add-ons would allow me to use Firefox Preview normally, switch to the release version of Firefox when needed, then submit meaningful feedback. Without add-ons, I would simply reach for the release version of Firefox by default and Firefox Preview would soon be forgotten soon after installing it.

Now everyone is going to have a different must have feature. That's fine. This is a development preview, so different people are going to come on line at different times based upon what it offers. Which leads me to ...

... the name bit. I originally heard about Firefox Preview several months back, never bothered to test it for the reason stated above, then promptly forgot about it since the name did not scream, "hey, major Firefox improvements are coming down the pipe, remember me for when you're ready!" Not only is the name non-memorable, but I likely saw dozens of headlines for it in the since then and did not even realize it. Something as simple as "Firefox for Android Preview" or "Firefox for Android Technology Preview" would have alerted me that it is something that I am interested in tracking. (While I use the desktop version of Firefox, I have no interest in following articles on its updates.) Since the name didn't distinguish the product, it has been effectively out-of-sight and out-of-mind.
Apparently these are draft release notes; v3 hasn't been released yet: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/6852#issuecom...
The benefit of earlier detection really depends on the bottom-line number (and nature) of improved outcomes vs the harm caused by false positives and overdiagnosis[1][2].

[1] https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/a-skeptical-look-at-screeni...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incidental_imaging_finding
I just decided to start writing. I just wrone one last night. I sucked. English is also not my first language. So now currently watching writing tips videos. Can you recommend any tips for ultra beginner writer?
That's a great question. Why not a 'per usage' model? We went for subscription because we learned, from our Beta, that our customers convert an average of 3 artboards per month. It's a valid point though and we are open to reiterate on feedback.
Surprise. Can this support Mbp 15 2019 vega?
You know what I always thought had inadvertently had this market cornered? The Sims. The build tools in those games get more and more sophisticated every time to the point where people can make some very crazy-detailed, beautiful homes in The Sims 4. Check out “Sims 4 home building” on Youtube. If I was going to design a home that’d be my first stop. I wonder if anyone else has done this.
Version 3 (which this page is about) hasn't been released yet, apparently, and the option was added there. Might be that you're still on the previous version.
Compiled List of Black Friday Deals for iOS and macOS Apps
A Close Look at Thomas Nast’s Cartoon “Uncle Sam’s Thanksgiving Dinner”
>>> the Registry Agreement for .org requires a 6-month notice period during which domain owners can lock in a 10-year registration at pre-increase rates. This should seriously discourage Ethos from doing this

Or the could announce a massive increase to get all the .org owners to register for 10 years to give them a massive influx of capital right away, then divest that capital in to some other venture, then sell PIR to someone else. I am sure Verisign would love to buy it, or Donuts

the Internet Society can not stop them from off loading it in a couple of years after they extract their money from the .org space.
I hope that this isn't hinting at boosting SAT scores based on such a measure, because the obvious problem here is that you can't possibly objectively measure how much adversity a child was exposed to. Some schools are poorer than others, that's for sure, but some of the kids from rich schools are queer, getting bullied, or getting chronically abused by alcoholic or mentally ill parents at home. There's a lot of suffering out there that is not visible, not spoken about, and not identified by race, place of birth or skin color.

IMO, the best way to avoid issues like this would be to ban private schools, and make sure all schools have the same amount of funding per student. In other words, target the poverty problem directly, don't try to adjust SAT scores based on some guestimate of how oppressed you think a person might have been.
Why did you specify white? Are they superior in the metrics you deem as best?
This is so incredibly naive, and he made at least one decision based on flawed understanding of the 10yr price lock in: only _registrar’s_ need to be notified. It’s up to them to notify registrants. If they were looking at a significant price increase for .org or to lock in existing customers for 10 years, would they notify their registrants? I would think no!

It’s extra sad because they had a commercial vehicle with which to further their mission, which could have been a huge asset to the ecosystem, and instead of finding a way to have it be a source of sustainability, they threw it away for a one time cash infusion.

The rest of the post is just this guy trying to make himself feel better for an awful decision.
> I suspect that only tech enthusiasts are aware of these issues. In the meantime, non-technical people only give you weird disbelieving looks when you mention this to them, and then continue ignoring it.

I didn't realize how true this was until just last week. My partner was having a conversation with her friends (non-techies) about phones. One person mentioned that they are skeptical about whether Android is secure because it is open source. And that's why they stuck with their iPhone.
Active measures will not work either. Again, Conservation of Energy. It takes more energy and resources to change something than what went into creating the problem in the first place. Once again, the data shows this clearly; without humanity around it took twice as long for a 100 ppm drop than the same increase.

This is common sense, requiring only basic physics principles.

Simple analogy: Burn a cubic meter of wood inside a warehouse large enough that the flames will not burn it down. How much energy is required to clean the warehouse from all the particulate matter on every surface, shelf, box, counter, light, crevice, etc?

The answer is: Far more than the energy that went into creating the mess in the first place.

This is not meant to be a perfect analogy, of course. All it is meant to illustrate is that we cannot “clean” the atmosphere with less energy than what created the problem. In fact, we need more energy, lots more. Given that we are talking about an unimaginably large amount if energy and resources it is easy to conclude this is nowhere near possible.

My concern is that we are going to cause more damage than good.

BTW, this does not mean we should not clean-up our act across the board. It simply means we need to stop using climate change as a political battering ram to push these things through.
“ So if we take Ethos at their word, they should be just as good a steward for .org as the Internet Society has been, with robust ties to the community and an explicit public-benefit orientation.”

This man is a fool.
Late 40s, no job offers. Could a PhD help?
My skills are current. I’ve been a practicing full stack developer / data engineer for many years. I’ll admit I’m not as fast as I used to be (I blame it on being more risk adverse and taking more time to think things through). After 8 failed interviews, I’m starting to think my career may be over. So, would getting a PhD help at all?