skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought that’s Putin’s playbook. Since you can’t control the situation anyway, just push out a lot of disinformation so nobody believes anything anymore. You could argue that the current US president plays the same game by shouting “fake news” all the time.
The R community started out calling these "joy plots" (after the Joy Division album) but then people found out about the association of "joy division" with the Holocaust (https://serialmentor.com/blog/2017/9/15/goodbye-joyplots) and so now they're called ridgeline plots.
Because they taste worse. It isn't rocket science. People aren't putting meat in their dishes because its healthier than putting vegetables. They are putting them in there because they are delicious in a way that vegetables, heretofore, have not been able to replace.
I’m a Firefox ddg user, and I would recommend Chrome for devtools still. As of last month, Firefox devtools didnt even recognize meta viewport tags which caused UI discrepancies between testing and production. Chrome devtools does have it.

That being said, I still switched back to Firefox and ddg after I close devtools.
Most of the luck is geographic and what country gives you citizenship. Then it's how well off your parents are because that affects your resources and access to knowledge growing up.

If those things are good from the start, you don't have to spend years correcting them.
Picture in picture was a feature I didn't know I wanted all along.

I often had a window open only playing a youtube video, having it be native to the browser and always on top is such a great feature.
When dark energy was first accepted, it seemed to me, as an outsider, that it happened very quickly, without, apparently, any time as a possibly-contentious, 'could this be so?' hypothesis in the way that, for example, dark matter did (and, to some extent, still is.) That surprised me because, up to that point, there seemed to be a problem with the cosmological distance ladder, with different methods getting different results, and with there being stars that seemed older than the universe supposedly was.

In comparison, when superluminal neutrinos were tentatively announced a few years ago, there was a lot of justified skepticism about there being experimental error (admittedly, overthrowing special relativity is an even more extraordinary claim than dark energy.)
How would it be gone? You can't rebase onto a dirty working directory so you can't blow away uncommitted changes accidentally and any state prior to and during the rebase is always recoverable via the reflog.

It takes trying to do anything that's not easily recoverable as long as you commit before you start messing around and don't rm -rf .git.
Magit is the only example of this
I think you are underestimating the promotional value of media coverage. It may not be about them at all. They may simply be leveraging their reach to get the word out about something they invested in.
> I think his current argument is that he doesn't have to give access (maintain easement) because his property is part of an 1851 sale of Mexican property which has a treaty that supercedes Californian state law.

That seems like a pretty radical interpretation. Wouldn't that totally undermine all state law, exempting him from stuff like building codes, state environmental laws, etc.?
Sorry in advance, this is a bit of a rant...

The problem is not defined benefit vs defined contribution really, it's that companies are not really required to fund defined benefit.

There are 1001 third party companies (normally insurers) who will happily underwrite a defined benefit scheme (so if the employer goes under the pensions are fine). But that would mean employers actually making pensions contributions that would actually fund the actual cost. Firms prefer to under pay the schemes. Depending on the scheme/firm/local-laws, that might be by just underpaying it, or by more cunning means like using the funds to buy company stock (so it looks like its funded on paper but you're just as screwed when the employer fails, Ironically this is what the federal government is doing with social security too) or by making optimistic assumptions (if I assume all workers die a week after retirement age and a 9% interest rate, final salary pensions need only cost me 5cents a head today! Can you prove I'm wrong?)

Unions (where they exist and have influence) also don't want to push this. Admitting the employer is unlikely to pay is a serious accusation that won't be proven for 20+ years. If you press hard and the employer DOES up their (real) contributions then that means you'll lose out somewhere else in the compensation package (so less health coverage or lower raises). Plus, If you get someone 1000 dollars more in 20 years, but 10 dollars less now, they won't thank you,they'll demand to know where there 10 dollars is!

This is also the reason politicians won't regulate harder: it would push firms to declare bankruptcy sooner (and the electorate punishes that, better let the problem worsen and hope its the next guys issue) and it would mean many firms withdrawing or cutting back their schemes. And again, people would rather have the promise of a good pension (that will likely never happen) than the certainty of a mediocre pension.

The key issue here is a mix of costs and people being strongly incentivised to lie about a cost now as the problem won't happen for decades.

The only advantage defined contribution has is that it is harder to cheat. But actually, defined benefit schemes are less risky and far more appropriate for the average dummy than defined contribution schemes.
IME this sort of 'concern' is exclusively something that miserable people waffle about out of some sort of jealousy for anyone who has a semi-decent life.

Obviously it's not a problem for a charity worker to buy a suit or send their children to school. They're not "taking" from the charity any more than I'm "taking" from my employer by being paid some percentage of what I earn for them.

As long as they are effective for their cause and care then there's no reason why they shouldn't earn as much as a private sector employee.

It used to be fairly common for people to moan about parliamentary salaries in the UK. An MP earns on the order of 100K with expenses accounted for, which is like, enough to buy a small-ish flat in London. Good money, nothing stratospheric to someone who isn't stuck in a poverty mindset.
You should not be checking in binary files into git. That defeats the entire purpose and bloats the repo size enormously.

Git LFS should be used instead. Or storing a Sha256sum and putting the file elsewhere.
Wouldn't this make a literal tinfoil hat effective ad-blocker or at least an actual privacy enhancement?
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"Good Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Oportunity".

And I would add to that "...oportunity, and you act upon it". Internal locus of control fella.
My kid once had "toddler's diarrhea", aka we don't know why she's going a lot, but she is.
> "I developed this for manipulating public opinion,” Peng told the Reporter, an investigative news site in Taipei, which partnered with BuzzFeed News for this article. He added that automation and artificial intelligence “can quickly generate traffic and publicity much faster than people.”

It's funny that Buzzfeed is reporting this because this is exactly the model that they created and helped disseminate all over the internet. It's a semi-automated system for creating clickbait to manipulate public opinion. I would love to see outlets like Buzzfeed, Huffpo... examine their own role in creating the world of clickbait, ragebait and misinformation that they so often complain about. That will never happen though.
Anytime we're discussing geopolitical issues, "Good" and "bad" are right out the window. As the old saying goes, "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter".

Iran views us as a foreign power meddling in their backyard and neighborhood, and would like us to stop so they can continue their plan of instituting their customs and government structure on their neighbors through unconventional means (what we call terrorism).

We view Iran as a constant threat whose goal is to wage proxy wars on our allies, control their immediate neighbors and generally attack Democracy and replace it with religious rule which isn't super pro-human rights.

That doesn't mean every conflict the US has waged is "good". Yes, the 1953 coup was generally best described as naked self interest amongst the UK and the US. Likewise, the US targeting cultural sites would be abhorrent behavior. However given the choice between the US sometimes doing stupid things and Iran being unchecked, I'll take the occasional stupidity.
Picture in picture window.

It can create, for example, a pop-out video overlay, which can be moved around and resized. It then sits over top of the other content on the page (and remains over other tabs) and will remain fixed as you scroll down the page and similar. On a site like YouTube, you could pop the video out and proceed to scroll down and interact with comments while the video plays to the side or above.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/about-picture-picture-f...
I heard FF recently added WebSocket support to their dev tools (being able to see payloads). Been meaning to give it another try.
My favorite browser since 2017. I don't miss Chrome for anything.
"/dev/random assumes that reading 64 bits from it will decrease the entropy in its pool by 64 bits, which is nonsense."

To amplify Hendrikto's point, /dev/random is implemented to "believe" that if it has 128 bits of randomness, and you get 128 bits from it, it now has 0 bits of randomness in it. 0 bits of randomness means that you ought to now be able to tell me exactly what the internal state of /dev/random is. I don't mean it vaguely implies that in the English sense, I mean, that's what it mathematically means. To have zero bits of randomness is to be fully determined. Yet this is clearly false. There is no known and likely no feasible process to read all the "bits" out of /dev/random and tell me the resulting internal state. Even if there was some process to be demonstrated, it would still not necessarily result in a crack of any particular key, and it would be on the order of a high-priority security bug, but nothing more. It's not an "end of the world" scenario.
I recall seeing a presentation of c2rust by Andrei at a conference a while back. It's great to hear that it's making good progress. I'm curious at how good c2rust is at producing idiomatic rust code. It seems like that would be difficult and yet very valuable.

> we'd love to hear what you want to see translated next.

qemu [1] is all in C (probably C89 or "gnu89") and would make an interesting project, IMO.

[1] https://github.com/qemu/qemu
SCOTUSblog has its case page for Oracle v Google here: https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/google-llc-v-ora...

At a minimum, it will cover the briefs of both sides, and maybe some amici briefs, in an argument preview; then a summary of the oral argument in an argument analysis; and then a final summary of the ruling in an opinion analysis.
Is "a Shambles" British or something? I've always heard it as "in Shambles"
It will only use the SIMD intrinsically that work on the platform requested, in that case.
You can, though I suspect the OP's focus on speed means you'd want to turn off Fossil's autosync feature, which makes it operate more like Git: checkins go only the local repository initially, and then you must later explicitly push them to the repo you cloned from.

This is why Subversion was "slow": your local working speed was gated by the speed of the central repo, which could be slow if it was under-powered or overloaded, as was common with the free Subversion hosts of the day. At least with Git, you can batch your local changes and push them all at some more convenient time, such as when you were going off for a break anyway.
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You should look into the GM/UAW worker bailouts. It's total corruption, top to bottom. Basically, the UAW 'invested' in GM unsecured debt. GM files for bankruptcy, those bonds become worthless. With no authority whatsoever to do so, the US government gave those bonds seniority in the bankruptcy, nationalized GM, and left senior creditors holding the bag. All of this was completely unprecedented and way outside of what the law allows. There wasn't a lot of mainstream coverage of all this, you had to dig for smaller journalists to find what was actually happening.

But anyway, that's the name of the game. Take on a lot of debt, stuff that debt into your pension, go bankrupt, company is restructured without pension debt. There is also the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation, so this corporate debt is shift to the tax payer.

It's corruption that knows no bounds in the USA. Both major political parties are guilty, we have to dismantle the federal monster, it's the only way forward.
Interesting then that this release enables meta viewport support in responsive design mode - from the link: "Firefox now supports simulation of meta viewport in Responsive Design Mode."
From the 72.0 changelog:

> Firefox now supports simulation of meta viewport in Responsive Design Mode.
Sadly, the performance inspector is still pretty useless compared to what Chromium is offering.
> The United States of America is a poorly designed political science experiment.

No, it's not. It's not a well-designed one either. It is simply not a political science experiment.

> It provides no means to peacefully revoke consent to be governed

Nor could it without being replaced as a government with one that did not.
Can't wait to find out if this release fixes a bug (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1557160) that was preventing correct rendering of extension popup windows/context menus when the APZ zooming was enabled (which allows pinch-to-zoom gestures, e.g. on the MS Surface).

Update: Just got to try it out, seems like it indeed works now. Yay Firefox 72!
Pathogens reduction yes. Animal biological matter, no. Harvesting entails inclusion of many small animals and insects which get processed.

That said, it may not be a bad thing to be exposed to those byproducts of farming. Too sterile an environment (and food) can result in other problems. Obviously we don’t want to overwhelm our immune systems with pathogens but they need to be exposed to them to be ready and also to not attack our own system.
Anyone who's played the more recent Fallout (non MMO) games is familiar with a few commands, interestingly.
Yeah. In my reading, it almost characterized SNIa as fact.
Right. It’s like some companies tell you they can’t pay you but it will be great “exposure” or whatever. At some point you need to convert whatever that is into something you can actually use.
Quoting the abstract:

>> Therefore, the same attacks that have been practical on MD5 since 2009 are now practical on SHA-1. In particular, chosen-prefix collisions can break signature schemes and handshake security in secure channel protocols (TLS, SSH). We strongly advise to remove SHA-1 from those type of applications as soon as possible. <<
> I don't get your argument. Block size is limited so fees can go up to pay the miners so they have incentive to mine.

Probably because that point has nothing to do with anything, as basically every single blockchain in existence has fees that go to miners. BTC isn't the slightest bit unique in that.

> Aim of bitcoin is not to be the fastest cryptocurrency but the most mined one (thus safest?).

Which once again has nothing to do with the artificial useless block limit. The cryptocurrency that is most mined is the one in which mining is most profitable, the US federal reserve could launch a competitor tomorrow with a goal directly opposed to every other cryptocurrency in existence and if they paid more per SHA256 hash rate unit they would become the most mined cryptocurrency.
You get used to it - UI is slightly different in some areas, but it lacks for no major features and performance is good, like firefox in general.

I've found it's extremely valuable to be developing sites in Firefox using the dev tools simply to help catch issues that the rest of the team ignores as they're all stuck on Chrome. Fights monocultures by default!
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That's like making banks illegal because you discovered bank robbery exists.

The obvious solution is simply to get rid of the laws that allow and encourage corporations and courts to collude in stealing employee pensions.
Trump tests Twitter policies with Iran threats
At least for wide screen ratios, there’s 1366x768 and 1440x900
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As far as CPU instructions go, multiplication is _significantly_ faster (i.e. an order of magnitude) than exponentiation.

That said, I can't speak to whether the Rust compiler wouldn't just optimize that away -- it seems like unrolling exponentiation into multiplication for small constant powers would be a very safe and easy thing to do.
In the US, the company would go through bankruptcy court. It's a court and it might be worth talking to an attorney. But if there's no money, then nobody gets paid and even if there is money, the best likely outcome is some people get a little. Who gets paid first and what is determined by bankruptcy law and there's a priority list that probably starts with the taxman and then secured loans (e.g. the IP pledged as collateral). It's also worth keeping in mind that the people who didn't pay you also had time to engage in other financial engineering...like pledging the IP as collateral for a loan from themselves to the failing company.

Good luck.
I've had this happen. You'll get a lot of empty promises. Ultimately, you'll get pennies on the dollar, if anything at all.
"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do"

Bob Dylan
Maybe not by itself, but maybe useful in conjunction with eye tracking?
I have definitely fallen into this. I am not religious, and I have always wanted to know the truth, I hate BS. I know most of the reason I am where I am is is due to luck.

As I get older I have come to realize this may have held me back, I see BS everywhere, it seems to drive society, you might call it belief, but I would call it delusion. The thing is if you can get enough people to believe you can get a lot done, its all about motivation.

I would prefer a society where we embrace truth above all and accept that luck is mostly what the universe is about (Quantum uncertainty, ie the universe is trying to kill you) and that the purpose of society is to reduce the influence of luck in a successful life.

The belief in a higher power would certainly help stay motivated.
> Firefox replaces annoying notification request pop-ups with a more delightful experience, by default for all users. The pop-ups no longer interrupt your browsing, in its place, a speech bubble will appear in the address bar when you interact with the site.

This is fantastic! I had finally figured out I could turn this off in settings a while ago, glad it's now a default. I get so annoyed by this, annoying indeed!
The demographics of HN are well known. The average biases of said demographics are well known. It is telling but not exactly surprising that every single comment that claims to have first hand experience with poverty is disagreeing* with the GP and also grey and at the bottom.

*GP seems to be placing arguing that psychological factors are key to what makes poverty suck and most of the people disagreeing seem to think psychological factors are a non-issue or take a distant second place to more immediate material concerns (though they don't necessarily agree beyond that).
Interesting. I see they unrolled their switch statement to include a cycle count.

I just called a "tick" function at the end of each cycle, which is definitely slower: https://github.com/zellyn/go6502/blob/master/cpu/opcodeinstr...

I didn't get to the point of caring about interrupt correctness, but I did port the gate-level 6502 emulation to Go, and run Klauss Dormann's fairly comprehensive test suite on both in parallel, checking that all memory reads and writes matched.
Really, my argument was that people who reach the wrong conclusion for the wrong reasons, and stick to them, are suspect. We're all guilty of that at times, of course, but it's rare to have it quite so prominently and comprehensively refuted. And it makes it hard for me to believe that anything I say will make a difference on a topic that isn't obvious.

I hope you're right about animals. It's a case where I know I'm being inconsistent. But at least I'm aware of it and trying to do better, rather than twist the rationale why my existing behavior (and misbehavior) must be correct.

I don't need people to do the right things for the right reasons. But I need them to be open to reasons.
After making the actual code change, the biggest problem is breaking compatibility with decades of tools in the ecosystem that rely on historically consistent SHA-1 hashes.

Git is moving to a flexible hash though. [1]

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28159071/why-doesnt-git-...
Unfortunately, being an adult means sometimes doing the right thing, whether or not it's "fair."

Throw the card in the trash, like a decent human being.
What do people use for “Profiles”. I need ability to switch easily between profiles (different identities) without going to command line. I also don’t want to install a third party extension for that if possible
what have you done to move progress along? i'd bet dollars to donuts you have been too busy earning money doing useless shit like advertising, finance, or entertainment, a net negative for everyone, and jerking off to mainstream media on your own time. no offense. i did it too for about 15 years.
If you're interested in learning more about media manipulation, I highly recommend reading the book Trust Me, I'm Lying [1]. It's shocking how easy it is to sway public opinion or plant fake stories that could have a national impact.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust_Me,_I%27m_Lying
Good for you. I prefer to use a browser not based on Chromium.
It's definitely not gone. Just `git checkout ORIG_HEAD` and you'll be back to whatever the tree was before you rebased.
You're completely correct, diminishing returns of income on happiness is well established, and I would be surprised if people here were not aware.

This community skews very hard towards high earners though, so people here probably view that as something that goes without saying, but that isn't within the purview of this particular discussion about the rat race in tech.

Among this community, it's probably true that a significant raise wouldn't significantly change their day to day lives, although obviously that is less and less true as their baseline income goes down.
On a side note, didn't know about the whole Siraj Raval "controversy". I always found him shallow and more form over function, just stopped following him and didn't speak about it because everyone was raving over him. Looks like there was something after all...
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PGP keys, software security, and much more threatened by new SHA1 exploit
Are people really trying to re-ignite the blocksize debate in the HN comments section? This battle was waged, every conceivable argument on both sides was made. Small blocks with lightning to scale won, and the big blockers forked into arguably less successful coins like Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin SV. Time for everyone to move on.
I use that feature regularly, and it works very well.