skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The verses are so vivid, so poignant. They talk of great deeds, vows (e.g sons of Feanor),the powers people had, the nobility they showed when faced with terrible evil.

It makes one really sad for a lost world.
Reasons to Develop a Custom Ruby on Rails CRM
2 year lifespan, seriously? My phone's standard mini-USB cable is at least 5 years old by now, and shows zero signs of wear. What the hell is Apple doing to make such awful cables?

Edit: Correction - it's a micro-USB cable.
> What you describe includes English

Yes, but to a much, much lesser degree

If someone says to you their name is "John" you know how to write it. Foreign names might be weird sometimes (hi Ireland) but usually they're simple.

In Japan you have to ask everyone how to write their name because there's no standard way of spelling. And every character has (completely) different pronunciations depending on context https://www.thejapanesepage.com/tag/kanji-pronunciation/
Looks like your code predates the Web Crypto API, so switching over to that should get rid of more than half the code. Right?
Ours were thematically grouped, usually by phoneme. For example, I remember that one week in elementary was /hw/ ("what","when","whichever").

I never had to study for spelling, probably because reading was my favorite thing to do. Well, until I had one teacher who tested that we'd memorized the list of words...

Explicitly studying spelling ended after 5th grade (rural elementary school in Texas, late 80s/early 90s)

Spellcheck is a wonderful tool, but relying on it can lead to embarrassing results. I would not want the kids in my life using it until they have their own grasp of spelling.
The article sounds like an ad, and 2 out of 3 games listed doesn't sound like anything new.

That being said, I think what is being said is that these 3 mechanics in the games are particulary suited to improve your brain activities.

The 3rd game is reimplementation of one of the games that is proved to improve your cognitive abilities - and I'm sorry, I cannot remember the name - which was about forcing your brain to work on disonnanced tasks.
It's probably worth converting that book into a blog series, at least when starting off. That way you'll get a bit of an idea about whether people like the idea/content and have the opportunity to build up an audience/fanbase over time, which can then be used to market the actual book at a later stage.

Starting out with a book seems like it'd just make things more complicated, since nobody knows who you are and you'd be stuck trying to sell people on a paid product they have no incentive to buy.
21st to Be an Indian Century, Says Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos
Mostly they don't want to mingle with the hoi polloi.

Atherton (not Belmont – all those shitty little peninsula towns blend together in my mind) sued because they didn't want trees removed to make way for overhead wires (the claim was that "cleaner" diesel would be better than electric)[0]. Then they sued because the poles were going to be 10 ft higher than promised[1]. Another Atherton resident[2] sued because he wanted Union Pacific to explicitly approve everything beforehand. More dreck[3].

Caltrain's getting sued left and right over the electrification, starved for money by BART, and generally ignored by politicians. If you're ever curious about why Bay Area transit is as bad as it is, Caltrain is a great case study.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrification_of_Caltrain#La...

1: https://www.almanacnews.com/news/2017/12/21/atherton-battlin...

2: http://www.cahsrblog.com/2009/08/another-peninsula-nimby-law...

3: https://caltrain-hsr.blogspot.com/2009/08/atherton-et-al-law...
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>> if you're biking, you can get some exercise too

Moscow is now full of delivery guys on bikes, sometimes electric, at ~0°C. I wonder if delivery services advertise it as work benefits.
I believe if that were the case, in any significant sized city, you would simply always get the "someone is recording you" signal.

Which would normalize it even further, as it becomes unavoidable.
"Requires Android 5.0 and up" according to the Play Store listing. Android 4.x is from 2013 and had its last update in 2014. It hasn't received security patches since October 2017. Why should Mozilla continue to support such an ancient version?
No ublock origin? Good luck with that, mozilla.
Cloudflare terminates ssl at the edge, no? Then it has the private key and has no need to care about the site certificate. It just sends a certificate with all hosts in alt names.
Unsolicited advice: maybe put the pricing next to or before the quick checkout section, or at least link to the pricing section before the quick checkout form? I’m not going to give you my address before I decide to enter a business relationship with you (which requires pricing info), and it was not at all clear to me pricing info is available before I go through the checkout process until I scrolled all the way to the bottom of the page just in case.
Is this for police too or civilian tech only ?
Right, but those forces and effects drop off with distance. The alignments we're observing are many, many, many orders of magnitude too far dispersed to be explainable by known forces.

It would be like finding a few dozen planets floating in interstellar space hundreds of lightyears away, much further away than the nearest stars, but on analysis finding that they all happen to be rotating around our sun even though our sun's gravity is utterly overwhelmed by the gravity of other objects much closer to them.
Definitely. I don't understand how Mozilla doesn't understand that extensions, particularly content blocking (and specifically Ublock Origin) are definitional of what Firefox is and should be.
Or in the increasing number of public spaces that are privately owned. If advanced facial recognition is being used, does it really matter who owns the cameras? Especially once that data is put up for sale...
A few screenshots would be nice… Really, it's a "new browsing experience", and what we have is just a wall of shitty corporate text saying how great it is. Fuck that.
You wouldn't need a new charger with every phone then. Why not just let users buy that separately?
On Breaking the Hedonic Treadmill
The airport car park that earns £141M each year
I have Firefox Preview installed on my phone and it is set as my default browser, but I still keep the original Firefox for Android, because:

- Preview is missing support for Add-ons. This was a huge advantage of Firefox for Android (for me this means, that I cannot use uBlock.. the built-in ad blocker is good, but uBlock is better)

- There are limited settings available in Preview. (e.g. what I am missing a "download images only over wifi" option.)
This model simply isn't sustainable and only cash from gullible investors, perpetual scammy behaviour, and a never ending cycle of people trying to work for them for a while, especially while ignoring costs such as wear and tear on their car, and the fact they can skip all of those other things like health insurance, training etc. - keeps it afloat.

It's time for these experiments to crash under the weight of the free market and basic regulation.

This is not the American Dream, quite the opposite.
In the U.S., much of the land where ski areas could exist is owned by the government, typically National Forest or BLM. Some ski areas actually lease the land from the government, which puts constraints on operating hours and overall length of the allowed ski season.

The prospect of the government ever selling the protected wilderness to private companies is often met with public outcry.

Personally, I think the Ikon Pass is a fantastic deal and skiing is more accessible and affordable than it has ever been in my ~25 years of hitting the slopes.
I thought it was already normalized across London, at least for the MET ? Agreed, private case is different.

https://www.met.police.uk/live-facial-recognition-trial/
Browser is not the only program that uses internet. For example, openssl doesn't send SNI by default.
If Firefox pushes this before implementing support for extensions (namely uBlock or other ad-blocking / privacy extensions) then Firefox is well and truly toast on Android.

Correct me if I am wrong but the only reason non-tech people use Firefox on Android is to block ads.

Perhaps this is a push from Mozilla to try and get some search revenue flowing again?
Well, the future as a mystery, something to be discovered, not known in advance, depends on randomness. I would argue if life weren't random and we could see past, present, and future with perfect clarity, it would be a little pointless. Every action you took, you'd know the outcome before taking the action. It's boring.

There is no purpose of life, in my opinion. But with randomness it's a lot more intresting.
One thought I have on your model is make your entry price some sort of bundle. Your product is designed for workflows and you can't really have a workflow with 1 user so already you are at 2 users to start.

I am sure you can play around with this but it feels like this product would benefit from getting into as many users hands as possible when you are establishing yourself in a client business. Atlassian is an example of this where all of their products (or almost all of them) are $10/10 users and once you hit 11 users, it goes up quite a bit. That might seem like quite a jump but imagine what you are paying in salaries at 11 people vs. what your JIRA subscription now costs?
Finding a way to avoid red tape seems like a massive cost and time saving.

I remember seeing something similar with The Boring Company. Avoiding red tape by getting the city to agree the depth was great enough to not need look into environmental impact.
Because millions of people are using it and can't change easily? It's not that I don't get your point, but the amount of Android 4.x that I encounter is really big, maybe it's my humble environment, but still.
Is PC-AT style "get the keyboard controller to reset the CPU, then have special BIOS code detect situation and jump to your code?" still available in modern systems? Real mode is sortof a supervisor mode.

Of course you would have to make the KBC low level accessible to user mode which may cause issue processing legacy input devices. Plus having to reinitialise protected mode every system call might cause some efficiency issues.
Link doesn't work, which makes a purely link based reply useless.
NMN is a B-vitamin derivative.
Last time I looked at MIT 6.004 the lecture slides seemed like they were useless without the speaker but there were no videos so I moved on.

Looks like there's been an update since so will take another look...
Whether one likes it or not, for a lot of people this will mean a good investment opportunity.

I would also hesitate to label it a decision made out of moral reasoning. Neither BlackRock nor (the majority of) their clients want to reduce coal exposure because of that. They rather want to reduce their exposure because they expect more regulatory hurting to come for those companies.
Running a Hubot in the Kubernetes cluster – part 1
Are those games FOSS?
The Boring Company's FAQ is actually pretty helpful in understanding why their approach is innovative.

In short: Small autonomous vehicles instead of big subway cars means you can change the model from one of big stations with big heavy trains that must speed up and slow down constantly to let people in and out, to one with smaller pods that go directly from a specific origin to a destination, travels mostly entirely at their top speed, never have to slow down for stops or other vehicles, etc.

Also, the tunnels for this can be smaller and therefore exponentially cheaper to dig.

https://www.boringcompany.com/faq
Inkit and Iterable and TowerData for Customer Data Enrichment
https://www.themarysue.com/ibm-black-team/amp/
AI: Is the Hype over or Is It Just the Solow Paradox?
Elon does not like to spend much on marketing/ads.
It's been claimed by some that NR is less stable in the bloodstream and doesn't boost NAD+ levels as much as NMN.
>Historically this wasn't a reason for the introduction of compulsive schooling, though

Well, socialisation (which what you describe is part of) was a reason for the introduction of compulsive schooling...
Cool, great to see people getting their data back from the cloud!

Some related links:

- https://github.com/fabianonline/telegram_backup : tool for incremental Telegram exports into sqlite database, I've been using it for several years with no issues. From a quick glance, code in chatistics isn't incremental and going to require redownloading everything? Perhaps it makes sense to adapt telegram_backup output database to chatistics and benefit from existing tools.

- https://github.com/karlicoss/fbmessengerexport : my own script for incremental FB Messenger exports, also outputs in an sqlite database
Pepsi’s epic Philippines marketing fail campaign which costed it 10- million USD
So... Should I keep using Firefox Preview or from now on Nightly is considered more stable? I really don't get this.
Exactly. Seems all of a sudden every app is releasing their dark mode that they claim “everyone has been long waiting for”.
>Secondly, you have the option of giving a nice tip.

DoorDash is litterally taking the tips left for the staff though ...
This is absolute nonsense, as evidenced by countries where this is not the case (e.g. all of Europe AFAIK). Furthermore, if you have a point to make this comment does not do it. It's just some vague handwaving with fancy words.
In my experience, there are people that like building their development from the bottom up and others like going from top down.

It's perfectly fine to get a full featured IDE. If you miss the vi stuff, most IDEs nowadays have pretty good vim emulations (and thanks to to neovim, many have even perfect vim emulations).

Nevertheless, for an intro into vim plugin management, a good book is "Modern Vim by Drew Neil".
BahnMining: Data mining the German rail system
I also have Firefox Preview installed on my phone. It's set as default but I basically don't use it, because:

* Preview lacks support for ad blocking.

* For some reason, every time I open a link in Firefox Preview, it goes into "Private" mode and there's no option to stop that from happening. I think it used to ask me, and one time I said "Private" and ever since then it's been in private mode - it asked me every time till I said "Private" and thereafter it's never asked me again. This means I can only use Preview for the links that transiently get opened, because I can't even find the normal tabs without closing Private browsing.
I've played with the thought of doing something like this to create a tool for assisting (and perhaps evaluating) drivers of buses:

* make a device that logs acceleration in various directions and performs suitable statistical analysis in real time.
* combine it with passenger evaluations of ride behavior (tell users to press a button when the ride is uncomfortable) to train a neural net to evaluate ride smoothness
* install devices in all buses, with a display placed in front of the driver that shows current ride comfort and warns if things get too problematic
As others have noted, this was in large part due to the European Commission’s common external power supply initiative back in 2009, and similar standards in Asia.
For me personally, uBlock (and other extensions) is the only reason I am using Firefox on Android. If this feature is removed, I will either go back to Samsung Browser or check something else.
So who is this "researcher danah boyd" ?
Zawinski's Law of Software Envelopment
I'm pretty sure a reasonable exception could be made for use limited facial recognition on subjects with a warrant.

> Exceptions to the ban could be made for security projects as well as research and development, the paper said.

That is very different from allowing homeowners to automatically identify all people in public places outside their homes.
Wow, I am pretty surprised by this decision. I've been using Firefox Preview for a while, and while I do enjoy the new approach, I still regularly encounter bugs, including those that make me lose open tabs or other regressions for which I need to keep Firefox ("regular"?) installed.

Not to mention the lack of addons (ad-blockers) and the fact that this announcement is completely useless and void of information. ("Brand new experience", whoa.)

What is happening, Mozilla?
You're suggesting that shop owners use a Howitzer to shoot flies.

Using such technology for this purpose is a massive overkill and prone to abuse.

I already resent some of the tracking techniques used by shops today (i.e abusing my cell phone for their tracking). I hope that some enterprising citizens (I see organizations like the CCC) publish lists of shops employing such technology.

Because I, for one, wil make damn sure that they don't get my business. Not! one! penny!
This is a fairly simple problem to manage though. The computer shouldn't say "no", it should say "This trip isn't fair on our drivers because the standard fee doesn't cover the costs. Would you like to pay the extended distance fee or cancel this job?" It'd still put some people off, but fewer than you'd think. A lot of people want to be ethical when they're buying things.
> but the physical config was accidentally overwritten

Overwritten, not deleted. Open file handles can't really help you there.
Governments aren't exempt from all privacy laws; in fact, just last month the Data Protection Commission in my EU country blocked the police from installing cameras in public places.

That said, I can see some countries vetoing such an EU-wide ban if it applied to all law enforcement.
> Is it practical to have giant nuclear powered facilities that either pump cooled air or artificially cool surface ocean water?

That would be like opening your refrigerator to cool your room - more heat is emitted from the radiator on the back of the refrigerator than is removed and so the room as a whole gets hotter. (Because movement of the heat from the interior to the back cancels out, but the energy used to move it creates additional heat resulting in a nett increase.)
I thank you for the effort, but I'm not sure that makes me feel better :)
Interesting. Do you have resources/keywords I can use to know more about such research?
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It's very hard to addict anyone to nicotine. Basically, doesn't really happen all that much.

Cigarettes on the other hand are highly addictive. There's lots more in their smoke than just nicotine.

See https://www.gwern.net/Nicotine for more than you ever wanted to know.
The website looks wrong on mobile
Same here, including the Defy+ itself. I have a slew of them doing duty as work phone, trailer camera, media player and such.
Can we not use the word 'passion'. In a world where subway job applicants need to have a passion for sandwiches the word has long since passed its sell by date.
All of the 4.x versions together make up just over 10% of Androids used, according to Google.
Pretty much every single 5.x version has a bigger share.

It's reasonable to give that up if it makes development easier / the end result more secure, imo.

Edited to ask: why is switching not easy? Even cheap phones come with far newer versions these days...
The signal could give you an identification for who/what it is that's recording.

I'd rather normalize knowing who's tracking me than normalize the tracking without me even having a chance to know.

You could imagine extending the mechanism to where users can emit a "don't record me" beacon.
Does this work?

I say this because I think exposure to people with different viewpoints is far more beneficial. Viewpoints can be entrenched and discussion might even exacerbate the problem. “See I told you they don’t understand my viewpoint X”

Living amongst those who are different has a greater effect.
What legitimate scenario would manifest that situation?

That is a by far and away a tiny, minuscule, edge case
Is it me or this article is really vague? What's the new experience, exactly?

Also, I started using Firefox on my Android phone because of 2 reasons: block ads and Google seems to be more and more for-profit and not for-users. And I love Firefox with one exception: when I press a link on another app Firefox doesn't open but gives me a small notification on the bottom the screen saying the tab opened in Firefox. I find this really annoying as I wouldn't press a link if I didn't want to browse it right away.
Where are the verifiable sources for her claims that people who posted the Hilary meme were duped by propaganda ? (this article was linked in the parent article as the only reference to danah boyd)

https://points.datasociety.net/you-think-you-want-media-lite...
Can you please elaborate on what was good in this one ?

Seems to me like anything else I've read from verge.
I came here to comment that I think the problem is poorly posed and algorithm chosen to implement it is "backwards".

But I also see that StehpenCannon has spoken :-); there is going to be very little chance he is wrong when it comes to arguing about floating point! He also notes the following, but not quite so explicitly...

The problem is poorly posed because the question is, which mantissas, exponents and sign bits fit into a long.

The algorithm is backwards because simple comparisons in integer space cannot compute this; but I think the algorithm should be,

int fits_long(double value) {
unsigned int trailingZeros = countOfTrailingZeros(mantissaOf(value));
bool fits = (bitsInAMantissa + 2 - trailingZeros + exponentOf(value) < bitsInALong);
return fits;
}

[Notes:

if double is always > 0 and going to an unsigned long, the 2 above would be 1. The 2 represents the sign bit in the double. Given that sizeof(double) == sizeof(long) all bits in the two representations are accounted for, so there is no information loss.

checking:

mantissa = 0 (with a hidden msb of 1) means, trailingZeros = bitsInAMantissa -> fits will be true when the exponent value can be 0..62. So this represents each of the +/- 2^exponent values

mantissa = 1 x bitsInAMantissa means, trailingZeros = 0 -> fits will be true when the exponent value can be 0..(bitsInALong-BitsInAMantissa-2). So, +/- (all ones) * 2^exponent value.

The representation for going from double to long is not "smooth".

]

countOfTrailingZeros() is a favorite of bit twiddlers. "Hackers Delight" or "bithacks" https://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html

[edited to improve readability]
Reading the faults, particularly the second one, it seems that uBO will be supported, but the issues they're having is with how to sync settings between desktop and mobile if you don't use sync...
No, it did not go beyond 4.4. 5.0 has been booted on it but never got any further, mostly due to the fact that nobody got a 3.x kernel running satisfactorily on the device. I do use one with a 3.1 kernel (running MPD) but all the others are still at 2.6.
Firefox: "Consider ways to reduce your digital carbon footprint"

Also Firefox: "Throw out your perfectly fine phone and buy a new one! Do not think about the slave labor and environmental/climate costs that will go into producing it."

(I feel critical of Firefox in this thread, but I wouldn't dream of using Chrome. Mozilla are at least half decent and aim towards ethical behavior. But it would be nice if they let us do the things they recommend.)
Not to be snarky, but Firefox itself is probably below 10% market share globally, so according to that logic, developers should not bother testing compatibility or performance with Firefox (but I agree with your overall point or sentiment !)
>Shop owners may want to use it for marketing

Please no. I find it annoying enough that I can't click on random youtube links for fear of being bombarded with viral trash for the next few weeks.
I really don't want to be bombarded by ads just because I looked into a window display for a bit too long.
This is the ensure influence on the technology that they indeed plan to use. That might be good if you trust in your influence on the work of the commission. I am skeptical here, so I don't really feel too euphoric about this.