skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think everyone is fooled by these types of maneuvers. Ye olde cable bundle model isn't going to fool a truly pragmatic person, even if it manifests itself in the grocery store. The drop in quality thing is something to explicitly watch for and expect, especially when the bait and switch you describe happens routinely on sites like Amazon these days.

Once you are aware of the many different ways an ad can manifest, they become uncanny. It becomes a game to spot them, and to think about why this ad was bought to run at this particular time and place. I see that ad for california walnuts playing out in public, and it feels absolutely dystopian. I think they say "heart-heatlhy, california walnuts" about a half dozen times in the clip, like a mantra. The spell is broken if you ever read about the nut industry's water use, and connect the dots with the ever present threat of drought in california, and climate change worsening it all.
How do you long rewnewables in a post fossil fuel world? Are there computers with records of ownership? If there are, do people care?
I know I do, and part of the problem is that everyone deals with temperature every day, so it is an uphill battle trying to get across just how dramatic a 1 degree change is. It's one degree (Celsius or 1.8°F) but my house's temperature differs by more than that from room to room, and I don't normally notice that difference. Nor does a 1 degree difference in the weather materially change how hot/cold I feel. I feel freezing cold at -1, 0, or 1°C, even though pure water won't technically freeze until it hits 0°.

Another difficulty because it's an average over time, is there's nothing I can look at to see where we are right now - the average temperature of the world right this second isn't particularly meaningful compared against the 1 degree line that we're measuring against.

When the question of why 1 degree is so significant comes up, we can sidebar to explain just how catastrophic one degree is, but the layperson isn't always up for rigorous scientific discourse. Hell, we renamed "global warming" to be "global climate change" because of the 'joke' that global warming can't be real because it's still cold in winter (and it's still not gone away). I am unconvinced that having to explain why 1 degree is catastrophic is doing us any favors, especially considering that the average temperature rise is usually presented with one or two significant figures.

What then? Short of changing human nature, which we've been trying to do for years, one possibility is to pick a different measurement, or to give additional numbers for effect. In this case, the reason the one degree change is due to how much has to be heated for that single degree change. The entire atmosphere, the water, and surface all have to warm by one degree. How much is that, actually?

Is there a standard "Earth" surface area to get the right order of magnitude for just how much extra energy 1 degree is? How much energy would it take to heat this entire Earth 1 degree? We're talking on the order of zettajoules, at least. In imperial units we're talking gigatons of TNT, or petaBTUs.
I strongly despise people like that. If you add up lost time for all other passengers and compare that to won time for her and her family (less time waiting at the baggage claim) this ends up massively weighted against her behavior. non the less her behavior is actually rational and optimal from a standpoint of game theory. At least under current conditions (bag size not checked and enforced up front). This is in my books a classic example of 'tragedy of the commons'.

As long as egoistic behavior is the optimal strategy we will not see a significant change in behavior.

It can only be changed by changing the surrounding rules and conditions.
Technically you need a little more than 2 because people die without having children occasionally.
Imagine a disturbing box on a startpage which asks you for consent to some data processing, e.g. to show you the best matching advertisements. That box has a big ok button at the center and a small cross to exit at the top. That's a situation where most people will press ok and give clear affirmative consent.

Since most people press ok, it doesn't matter to also offer the service to those who cancel. Actually those people still leave a signal and you can show special ads to anybody who isn't part of the ok-clicker database.

I don't see how this would violate the GDPR:

- unambigous and clear affirmative action. People press ok and not the closing cross.

- no pre-ticket opt-in box

- distinct consent to advertisement processing

- separation from other terms

- not a precondition of signing up

- remaining right to withdraw consent

- ability to also tell people about their right to withdraw in that box

- possible to offer an easy way to withdraw

Actually withdrawal has to be as easy as consent. The law states:

>It shall be as easy to withdraw as to give consent.

That's the point where everybody is violating the law because the opt-out button is not constantly shown like the ok-button for opt-in.
Both; array languages are really easy to learn when you have someone teaching you, so you can train newbies in a couple of weeks. I think 'RodgerTheGreat has a few anecdotes you can find using HN search on that.

But it definitely helps to know it beforehand. APL/J/K job postings are pretty common, although less common than C or Rust postings. Just keep an eye out and you'll see one eventually (and if you do your stuff in public, you'll probably get an offer from one of the usual suspects).
Honestly, I generally prefer to find my lost item exactly where I left it.
I would think the Peter Principle would be better represented if there was someone who was a star on the technical side, but messed up as the CEO in a role they couldn't handle. i.e. if Brendan Eich was CEO and this happened it would be a Peter Principle moment.

All these senior leadership people seem to be straight from the management track. Doesn't seem like they showed their excellence in another discipline and were then misplaced as CEO.
Most Australian airlines just let people randomly board, apart from letting priority passengers (disabled, business class, gold and platinum frequent flyers) board first.

It does perplex me when I travel to other countries and experience complicated systems with boarding groups etc. that never seem any better than the random method!
I found that for me it depends a lot on the tilt of the seats: when I flew Southwest, the seat was ramrod-straight, and I am not able to relax. On Asian carriers, seats are more comfortable, and I was even able to fall asleep. It didn't really depend on the seat pitch, so much as the seat angle.
operative word: might
"officeoftheceo@mozilla.com", aka Mitchell, has a number grammar issues with their email. It's surprising that someone in such a high leadership position, who communicates for a living doesn't have an intuitive sense of basic grammar—especially for such an important announcement…
Only if you assume that the US reduces their emissions by going back to a rural lifestyle. Instead the US could replace fossil fuels with renewables and keep their wealth.
I don't mind installing an app and I don't really understand why people object to it. Apps uninstall even easier than they install, at least on an iPhone.

That said...

- You don't need to know the name of my college to serve me some job listings.

- I double majored in STEM and humanities, but your app will only let me specify one or the other area of concentration.

- You also don't need to know what year I graduated college. In fact it may not be legal to ask as it can be used as a proxy for age, which is protected under equal employment regs.
An algorithm that learns through rewards may show how our brain does too
That sucks, man! Hope you find a better place soon.
Exception that proves the rule. "No such thing as a free lunch" is an idiom for a reason.
ML from Archives Gauquelin. A p-value-free paper on a highly controversial topic
Yes, you can also put the kid in a carseat when they are under 2 if you don't want to keep them on your lap.
Mad men is great, too; it's positioned right at the bellwether moment of market research and psychology taking over whimsy narratives in advertisement in the 1960s.
Yeah.. I'd be wary of cooking up these cliched stories like the BBC. I remember being losing my cheap umbrella at the store. A woman who was happened to be coming out, upon seeing my predicament and on the rain pouring down, handed me some random umbrella from the bucket (or whatever that thing is called). I refused. So she proceeded to give me hers and then she took one from the bucket.

Umbrella's are really communal possessions in Japan. May be its a good thing, may be bad. However, this kind of silly reporting and patronizing 'cultural deconstruction' is really annoying to those of us in Asia who've subject to this for centuries on end.
That wasn't the point I was making, please don't strawman me. The GP asked for an argument against vaccination that didn't rely on misinformation.
Not just banking! Despite not being seen as "Computer Science," the technical areas of finance are also highly diverse. If you can make money, someone will be willing to give you $250,000 a year to fuck off and play with implementing trading algorithms, regardless of who you are. It's pretty sweet.

I don't know who or what your online persona is, either: I'm still talking to you, and it's still an interesting conversation. There are still places to play anonymously or pseudonymously, and they usually have more people than they did during the 1990s. People generally tend to forego that, though.

As for your point actions and views, I respectfully disagree. You only seem to separate them, because you dislike his views, the resulting words and would like them not to be translated into action. I can understand that, but it sounds .. convenient? You are free to talk about stuff, but the moment you get politically active you get shunned? It seems very backwards to me.

Think of it in terms of separation of church and state, right? I can call you a sinner who's going to hell all I'd like, but it's unconstitutional and wrong on many levels to try and take away something from you that I have no plans to stop partaking in. (I think Eich is an atheist so this is just for the matter of example; I don't know why he didn't support it, he doesn't seem open about his reasoning and as such I'm not going to try and conjure up some reasoning for him.)

I'm not passionate about what Eich did or did not support, because frankly I have no idea why he funded what he funded, but if you look at it in terms of taxes, he's a very well off guy trying to increase the tax burden of a bunch of people (his coworkers/later-employees, no less) solely because he disagrees either morally or pragmatically that they should be able to get married. (Tax benefits to marriage are controversial in the first place, but definitely something incredibly beneficial.)

This country was founded on violent response to moralistic taxes; it's in its blood to care about increasing taxes arbitrarily, and the Prop 8 ads his cash helped fund were absolutely aimed at blurring the separation between church and state, even if that wasn't his intention (though he never denied it was, so we'll never know).
"I was at Mozilla for a while and it was a two-class system. The execs flew first class, stayed in fancy hotels, and had very expensive dinners and retreats - sometimes in the high five-figures."

Mozilla was captured by career executives and people with an ageneda - and money for years was not spend on engineering but squandered. I've been using FF since Mosaic days on and off (lately on again as Brave doesn't block more and more ads) and I'm said there is no alternative (FF hangs Twitch for me for which I need to use Chrome, WHY?)

Now they lay of senior engineers.
Do you think DDSP could be used for feature engineering/discovery?
My setting is a time series that I want to do regression on. But it's not clear a priory what features of the series have good predictive power. I imagine making the DDSP the first layer of a FNN and the gradients helping me identify the right filters to use to extract important features from my data.
I think the definition of 'work' here is work that must be done for day-to-day survival. It is not meant to include all possible enjoyable pursuits, like trading your time for goods and services. I don't think Wilde or the author or others wish for the elimination of all human creativity.

There's a big difference between 1) learning sciences or arts or anything at all for the purpose of improving your life (being able to trade your now-valuable time for other things, or simply for the enjoyment of the tasks themselves) and 2) working menial, drudgery tasks simply for the ability to purchase food and ensure a roof over your head one month at a time.

Many people I've met think that #2 is a required part of humanity; that if you do not spend most of your waking hours contributing something to society that you don't deserve to keep living. I think we need a societal shift in thinking to allow for a world that is coming, where basic needs for all ought to be met and our unique human experiences can be better spent - either with family, or exploring the cosmos, or building new inventions.

It hasn't really been possible before that we are so close to building a society where few human jobs will be required to sustain our populations' needs.
> your seeming preference of doing things less efficiently

It's not a preference, it's a realization that this is a human problem and you're never going to get full compliance from a large group of people who all move at different speeds, have varying amounts of luggage, varyings levels of selfishness, and various other factors that affect deplaning speed.

This whole comment thread seems to be full of single tech bros that are mad they can't get off the plane faster, and are trying to design "solutions" and "algorithms" to make it faster, all while assuming every other passenger is also a single person who can deplane as fast as them.

> By your logic, why not add an additional mandatory thirty minute waiting period to deplane? After all, it's amazing that we can fly.

Because that's contrived and fucking stupid, whereas humans being slow and selfish in a cramped environment is a natural cause of delay.
Also Tokyo, Japan. It's ranked first in the world on subway usage and has 882 railway stations. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_subway
We have many job openings at SpaceX for senior software engineers, please do apply!
https://www.spacex.com/careers/list?field_job_category_tid%5...
Ha ha. I love Brendan. Saying it like it is. No-frills.
Sperm Banks
It's not unlike some very big companies that are continually out of date when it comes to patches. The reason in their case is not a lack of diligence -- they are testing those patches before they ever install them on a critical server.

It is worth noting that a huge number of atm bank machines are running NT well beyond the days Microsoft was trying to get people to stop using it. For those who worked with NT and with what was replacing it, the decision was a no-brainer. Even at Y2K. Where is the cost going to be, and how much should we expect?

How many failed patches have you ever installed? That's exactly what they are avoiding. Risk has a weight. Denial of service is a risk, and in many businesses, the potential DoS is a more expensive risk than what the patch fixes. It's also the same reason employed COBOL programmers still exist.
Why Facebooks New Low Latency Speech Recognition Framework Can Be a Game Changer
That memoriam seems completely out of place. If you are a professional colleague, common sense would dictate that you write a professional piece that reflects on the person's services rendered to Mozilla. The repeated references to the deceased's religious beliefs seem very out of place and distateful, especially in a memoriam. No excuses there.
> what are the security benefits?

Not everyone gets hit with every attack. Biological systems work this way too.
Billing POS Software for Retail and Restaurants
Because, if you glance at a pepsi logo on a billboard in the morning, you are more likely to grab a pepsi than a coke out of the cooler at the store in the afternoon. Suddenly, your eyeballs become an arms race, and here we are today.
7fa3b767c460b54a2be4d49030b349c7
Yeah it's amazing how incredible Calibre is at organising books but terrible it is at displaying them.

As a matter of fact though, I think I have found a very good epub reader which I don't see mentioned very much called Cover.

It is ridiculously smooth at displaying epubs, maybe even more so than edge. I was reading an epub with tons of images and I could swipe left and right between pages multiple times without waiting a second for reflow, almost felt like swiping a pdf. Whereas on all those other apps the book was blurred and did not scale how I would expect it to, to fill the screen. On cover everything is displayed how I think it should be displayed without changing anything. So yeah, cover A+

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/cover-comic-reader/9wzdncr...
> Why do those who do have/chose to have children always expect everyone else to bear their externalized burdens?

Well, the simple answer on a societal level is "your peaceful retirement depends on people having more kids".
If your condition is responding well to standard treatment and you don't just hate the side effects so much that you would literally rather sleep in the bushes than endure the side effects, you may not be at as much risk of homelessness as you imagine.

It's not uncommon for people on the street with mental health issues to be homeless precisely because they don't want to take the prescription medication they are supposed to be on. They then self medicate with street drugs because they prefer that to the side effects of the drugs they are supposed to be on.

I knew a guy for a time who was on the street for that exact reason. He preferred marijuana and drugs of that ilk to the drugs he was supposed to be on for his mental health condition. But this meant he was unemployable.

Some people with mental health issues never find the right cocktail to make their lives work. If the meds you are on are keeping your condition under control such that you can function, hold a job, etc., you may not be at high risk of homelessness.

I've never really seen data on that detail. What I know is "anecdotal." But I'm skeptical that simply having a mental health issue is really a huge risk factor for homelessness.
Someone upthread had the very sensible suggestion that if you need to leave with other people in your row, you should wait until everyone else has left the plane.
I think multi-rotor is a great safety feature, especially if they're partitioned into separate power systems. It would almost require intention to design something like the Volocopter without the ability to soft land in the case of an emergency.

The link you provided mentions this in an odd way:

> With a single engine helicopter you don’t have this redundancy. However, on engine failure, the single massive disk of the helicopter is an asset. ... Close to the ground, this stored kinetic energy can be traded, through pulling up the cyclic, to allow a safe landing. This is called autorotation, and is practiced by all helicopter pilots.

The air taxi that succeeds, at any sort of scale, will not be meant or designed for skilled helicopter pilots pulling levers, at the right moment, as they speed towards the ground. They will be dumb, cheap to service, unskilled to fly, and have more than one point of failure.
Has she brought 2.5m of growth to the company in the last year?
The Costliest Bottleneck of All
On the other hand, I spend a lot of my time working to pay rent and feed myself. I'm not even alive, mostly dead inside. What more do I want when there's no time to do anything with more stuff?
Considering he designed it in about 10 days, it could have been much worse… and now it’s one of the most popular and important programming languages in the world; go figure: https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/the-top-program...

In 2001, Apple could have picked Gecko but forked KHTML instead to create WebKit/Safari because it was smaller and seemed easier to work with.

It doesn’t change the fact that back in the day, high profile companies picked WebKit—Google, Blackberry, Nokia—for their browsers.

In 2013, Google forked WebKit to make Blink and nowadays, Microsoft, Opera, Brave and others have picked Blink/Chromium for their new browsers.

Even as Mozilla is making great strides with updating its engine (was Gecko; now Quantum), nobody else is going on that trip with them.
Genes involved in aging: looking for intersections
Wouldn't it be optimal, assuming you don't want to sit next to someone, to pick a window/aisle toward the back of the aircraft?
Bottom line: making an unprovoked publication indicating that the deceased's efforts caused damage to the organization as a whole is not a decent thing to do.

And what if the deceased's actions DID cause damage (e.g. Brendan Eich and Gervase Markham)? Wouldn't that count as provocation?

Just because you happen to agree with their views on morality doesn't mean that their contempt for their fellow coworkers should be whitewashed.
Build ships and throw them into the ocean. The wood just has to decay slower than new trees grow.

Also: carbon nano tubes and carbon fiber. We will build skyscrapers from carbon. There won't be enough carbon available for all the stuff we want to build.
Interview with Canadian Underground DJ and Music Producer Joe Mesmar
Sometimes your just need a buffer for a syscall. Newing a buffer is canonical and unique_ptr isn’t free enough to use in the most performance sensitive contexts.
I started using chrome originally 10ish years ago because the company tech person said it was good and fast (I was not in tech at the time). I think you’re right.

(I use Firefox now)
Student loans prevent that.
Why wouldn't they respond by raising prices until they always have free spots available?
The question could also be asked for the contrary. It's more of a philosophical question, mostly diving into discussions for/against natalism in the end.
> using `new` and assigning to a raw pointer is a sign that the C++ developer is managing memory manually and is likely to hit a lot of problems including memory leaks

There is no need to badmouth all c++ developers. Plenty of us can keep our memory straight just fine. just because you don't like pointers, does not mean the rest of us can't use them perfectly safely.
If you think C++ changes too much, you're going to love today's Java/Typescript flavor-of-the-month web UI toolkit.
Let's not equate a fancy degree with a fancy car. A college education is only partially about the line you append to your resume. Working with people at the front of an intellectual field is a life changing experience that you can leverage to open far more doors than a degree ever could.
There are other solutions, like network pdus. It’s different but does the same job.
A significant factor in the 74-75 fires was extra plant growth from unusually heavy rainfall in the two years prior providing extra fuel[1].
Very different circumstances to the current situation.

[1] https://www.abs.gov.au/Ausstats/abs@.nsf/0/6C98BB75496A5AD1C...
Most Americans don’t know anything about banking in other countries.
Silicon Valley Abandons the Culture That Made It the Envy of the World
I use the browser created by the founder of Mozilla that they chose to purge for political reasons. Works well.
100% agree. Also, carry-ons are a major safety hazard in the event you have to evacuate the aircraft - a bunch of people will try to get their bags.
mmap is an operating system interface, or at the very least a part of POSIX. it isn't part of the C++ standard, and so you cannot rely on it being present on systems that don't claim extensive POSIX compatibility. As for MAP_POPULATE and MAP_HUGETLB, try using that on a POSIX-ish OS that isn't Linux and see how far you get.