skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you’re into Tailwind/utility-first CSS, this gives you what amounts to a UI builder for the paltry sum of 1 hour of developer salary.
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/abuse-threat... is the link. Is this a good or bad development?
what is the definition of a public sphere?

To me twitter is just another service from a private corporation that I can choose to use or not. Is it "public sphere" because they make everything searchable and readable from the public internet?

What makes an account real on this platform? do you mean that the text is written by a human and not a bot?
Be calm, I'm all better.
As an interesting linguistic side note in the German translation the Elves are called Elben. I believe this term is only used for Tolkien-Elves. The term Elf/Elfen exists in German as well and is commonly used in fantasy/RPGs to describe the standard pointy eared folks. Always thought that's a pretty curios thing.
It's certainly tricky to think about, when I start reading all the docs. (Someone just recently explained what "Pin projection" is to me, and I realized I hadn't really understood Pin before that.) But at the same time, it seems to mostly accomplish its goal of "you don't have to think about this in safe code." Is there a better way we could've solved the same problems?

I kind of feel the same way about Send and Sync. Like, why are there two thread safety traits? What could it possibly mean to be Sync but not Send? But at the end of the day, that's what's necessary to model the problem, and I've gotten used to it.
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/abuse-threat... is the correct link, sorry about that.
True, but it's safe with memory in ways that non-GC'd languages usually aren't (buffer overflows, use after free, etc.) so it's worth mentioning the GC bit.
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I’m a hard determinist and I’m finding this philosophy similar to religion. It’s my first time reading about it but my impression is perennial philosophy is for people trying to force meaning by clinging to a constructed belief without the foundation of anything other than hopefulness. I understand the logic of all knowledge builds from collective thought. But the idea there is meaning just reflects wishful thinking.
As I recall Estonia has free public transportation for its residents. They started with the capital several years ago and expanded to whole country. I guess it worked out well for them.
I am glued to this. Seems to update in realtime.
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In the final program `mmuniq` I did a couple of, I think, interesting hacks.

https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-blog/blob/master/20...

First, I used a hash function using aesni (aesenc) instruction set. See this:

https://gist.github.com/majek/96dd615ed6c8aa64f60aac14e3f6ab...

While I have little proof it's a good hash, it seems enough, and is _slightly_ (5-10%?) faster than siphash24 in this context.

Then I mixed counting hash with finding new lines \n. This allows me to do only one user-data load into XMM registers.

Most importantly, to offset the RAM latency cost, I'm doing 64 prefetches as I parse the input, and only after this I actually touch the hash table. The memory latency is still the biggest time sync, but at least this seem to speed up the program 2x or more. Hash table without this batching+prefetch is 6-8 seconds. With batching goes down below 3s.

I suspect linear probing / open addressing of the hash table may have some penalty. While it plays nicely with the cache prefetch, it generally leads to longer chains. This means we need to keep the hash table sparse, not loaded above 0.6-0.75. See this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hash_table_average_insert...

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_table
Even though I agree with another commenter that it's surprising that the author used a bloom filter instead of the hash map as a baseline, this article still is an excellent small walkthrough of quick ad-hoc low-level performance profiling.
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It also protects against data races which is fairly novel. A lot of functional languages offer this by avoiding mutable data, but that's high cost and not really equal with what rust does.

I find rust quite elegant but also quite complex. There's a scale for computer languages between a compiler that doesn't do enough checking (JavaScript, Python), and ones that do too much where you spend a lot of energy trying to satisfy the compiler. I think rust falls a bit too far to this latter side for my taste. I like the language but I feel more productive with Go even although Go isn't as elegant in my mind and has some flaws (nil, no generics).

I think rust is nicer for where you would previously use C or C++ but I don't work in that domain.
Maybe the reason they're not struggling now is because they already have a history of doing things like this.
> Perhaps intercepting Ctrl+F and displaying a custom search that will do the correct filtering on the back-end and update/retarget the view?

Stripe does this in their docs and I find it absolutely infuriating.
As mentioned above, there are some sites that page out the content that is no longer in the viewport after you've gone suitably far from it.

I still remember my consternation when I first noticed this, and it was because I tried exactly what you had suggested, but a previous match further up the page disappeared upon subsequent CTRL+F-ing.
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We were building a new feature for our FAQ-bot[1], that would allow us to perform search as a fallback, when the bot doesn't have an answer.

We then realized that this is really useful on its own, so we made it into supersimplesearch. For now we're using Bing as a search engine, but if there is enough interest, we'll look into building our own search engine around this, with additional comfort features like question answering or scroll-to-result. We'd love to hear what you think!

[1] https://dialogbar.com/
I bought a lot of canned and long lived foods (ones I'd buy anyways), toilet paper, tissues and medicines. Can't get hand sanitiser in any supermarkets since last Friday.
It is a bit relative to the person I would imagine. Some people might be passionate about working at Canva, some people might be passionate about working at Instagram, etc...

Depends a bit on what you enjoy doing and how you want to fill your day I guess.
Public transportation is a public good you receive benefits from even if you don't directly use it; cleaner air, less congestion reducing transit times, and a happier populace.
I don't have evidence to back this up, but anecdotally it does seem to me that younger people (Millenials) tend to use google to compare/look for reviews when it comes to purchases that fall outside of the impulse buy category.
When I wanted to quickly add some analytics to my website to see if anyone's reading it and from where, I had a hard time with Google Analytics because neither Firefox nor Safari allowed me to check if it works. Had to open Chrome to ensure it does log viewers.
Wow, didn't know normal SID chips went for about $40,- nowadays.
Killing Google+ was the worst reputation loss in my eyes. I understand that some people didn't like it, but I personally liked it for pictures and tech stuff (I think even Linus used it). Not to mention, it almost brought proper comments to YouTube, one could discuss properly. So close.

It was the only true competitor to FB, it would've needed to steal more features from Facebook but with G+'s touch, but nothing happened for years, they lost the vision to topple FB.
Having also spent lots of time on IRC, most IRC channels are very different from voice chats with a circle of close friends. Even an IRC channel with close friends is very different,because it's a much more async communication with bursts of more live interaction Vs. the continued direct interaction of a voice chat during shared gaming.

Personally what he's doing would be hopelessly exhausting to me - I'm quite introvert and the level of social interaction he's engaging in is way above my tolerance level in terms of intensity.
There is an actual privacy community with Tor at the center of it, with plenty of research and serious ideas. And there is "privacy" propaganda that Mozilla and other corporations are putting out, it doesn't do anything good for privacy whatsoever, it's all bullshit. So calling it "fake sense of security" is somewhat appropriate here.
> If they default disabled web fonts, geolocation etc., they'd lose whatever little market share they have as those have become important web tech already.

I doubt people would even notice the font side of things.
I can tell you with absolute certainty that the CDC often does know about outbreaks and events before it's generally known to the public. Usually these instances are only of interest to the local communities they are operating in. This is of a different magnitude, and while they haven't slept on the job there's been both external factors and misjudgments in the response that have left them playing catch-up.
Does anyone else find it quite funny that the article about the Renaissance IPO Index is literally headlined:

>2019 IPO Market: Better Than the Headlines

and literally says:

> beyond these headline-grabbing disappointments, the IPO market had a mostly good year.

If you're going to write a boring cherry-picked article making the case the sky is falling, here's a tip: Don't literally cite research that says "The data says the sky isn't falling even though people are writing articles about it"

Shouldn't we be talking about the opposite of this article. If IPOs are not making great returns, shouldn't that indicate VCs are dying, not IPOs? Of course it doesn't matter because IPOs are fine and so are VCs.
I don’t find it interesting. One is a movie, the other is real life. It’s very difficult to collect accurate data, suss out errors, publish it, revise it, etc. I think the CDC and other agencies do as good a job as can be expected given the current tools and political climate.
That seems correct. When swine flu was in the UK (around 2010), I had really bad flu. I went to the doctor for blood tests etc. I recovered in around a week without intervention but was weak for quite a while afterwards. In the end I seem to remember them saying that I probably had swine flu but there was not point testing now, so I wouldn't have been included in the statistics.
Here you go:

marek:~$ time (cat logs-popcount-org.txt | awk '!a[$0] {a[$0]=1; print }'|wc -l)
39057531

real 0m41.236s
user 0m38.179s
sys 0m5.447s

So: sort: 2m, awk 41 seconds. Also, awk used 6.1G of RAM at peak.
I learned that when I lived 6 months in an Ashram, they called it Karma Yoga. What it usually meant in practice was easy task, wrong tools. Like clearing the entire area around the building from solid ice using a shovel, or cleaning a thousand small potatoes with a tiny brush. The kind of tasks it's very difficult to feel anything like passion for. But it's still perfectly possible to enjoy doing a good job, even without expecting anything in return.
Water does help kidneys remove the waste from your body.
That is harder to justify. Tracking is an invasion of privacy, so blocking of trackers can be seen as a defense.

But blocking non-tracking ads, just because users don't like them and Mozilla could make a buck, would be seen an attack on publishers' revenue, even when publishers tried to do the right thing.
Perfect is the enemy of good. Firefox is pushing the Overton window in the right direction, which is good enough for me. Some of your complaints are legitimate but that doesn't mean Firefox isn't the best option for most people right now.
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> An important part of CDC’s role during a public health emergency is to develop a test for the pathogen and equip state and local public health labs with testing capacity.

Testing for COVID-19 has been an unmitigated failure in the US.

Whatever advantage may have accrued from closing travel routes has been fritted away by preventing local authorities from testing. Without testing, there's no way to say anything about the safety of the American people.

CDC needs to explain the American public how this was allowed to happen, especially since other governments seem to have had no problems despite being called into action much sooner.

Without a clear explanation, the public will have no confidence in what the CDC says as the disease spreads.

The self-congratulation on the presidential podium during the last two pressers has been disgusting and disgraceful. There's nothing to celebrate or congratulate here. The entire group dropped the ball.
Thanks for the correction, I see that now. I had the same thought, especially for Orlando. Here's hoping we handle it well. An outbreak here would likely be far deadlier than most other states, if not all.
My old boss, before he retired a year ago, was heavily invested in G.E. stock throughout his career at the recommendation of his Edward Jones financial advisor. I am pretty sad about his financial situation.
Google Drive does this within Google Chrome, fwiw. I don't disagree with the spirit of your comment though.
Oh yeah, I can trust my assesment that real life contacts (lets call it a network) would have been more useful in the long run. I "wasted" about 10 years of my life spending time in front of a computer, as a sort of escape from the fact that I am an outsider by trade. I would have benefited a lot more if I tried to break that habit much much earlier.
Cost correlates with current value.
I'm not referring to any sort of future prediction, those people can switch to GPU encoding of video right now and enjoy better performance.

https://developer.nvidia.com/video-encode-decode-gpu-support...
You can also configure firefox to never leave private mode—I can’t endorse this enough.
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First tested and confirmed case in NYC. There have been numerous reports from NYC residents who returned from areas with community spread, got sick, tested negative for the flu, and the CDC wouldn’t test them.

I think in a few weeks we’ll find out that Coronavirus has actually been spreading in NYC for 3+ weeks.

The CDC is incompetent.
This is way more serious than the flu in multiple ways. First of all, estimates show that the case fatality ratio (CFR) is around 2%, which is 20x higher than the flu. This number is likely to rise when ICUs are becoming over-constrained and cannot take new patients. This is already happening in the north of Italy as we speak.

Second, the transmissibility of the SARS-nCov-2019 (the virus causing COVID-19) is much higher than the seasonal flu. This means the period within which a demand will be made on healthcare services will be much shorter and much more intense.

Third, there are reports showing lasting damage to kidney and lung tissue (sponge-like structures). Even when surviving COVID-19, previously healthy people might become chronically ill.

Fourth, in order to prevent at least part of what I am describing, very stringent measures are required. These already have a historic impact on our worldwide economy and will hit developed countries the most (since they require a worldwide infrastructure). It is very likely that the impact will become unprecedented as various continents are considering and implementing large-scale quarantine measures.

Concluding, comparing COVID-19 with the regular flu is both simplistic and dangerous. Prepare yourself and your loved ones for a bumpy ride.
Have to used a local VPN from AdGuard to circumvent it and sometimes it glitches.
The server is free to do anything with UA, but it doesn't, because google analyticts already takes care of that.
As someone that mega dose vitamin C in summer because it helps with my allergies, I'd be wary to mega dose vitamin D (more than 3k UI a day).
> Linking to things in the middle of a page was solved in the 90s with the hash part of the URL.

And then promptly broken again in the mid-00s more or less till now, by way of sub-par client side routing, giving rise to SPAs and breaking back buttons, history management and deep linking all over the place. Things are getting slightly better since the history api came about, but you still see loads of sites with non-existent or broken deep linking, and crappy history management, such as reddit. This is of course because the browser behavior of fragment links, history etc. on static content is well defined, but for dynamic content in most cases have to be considered and implemented in the application logic, and it’s never a priority.

Hands up everyone who’s been in planning sessions for your project and right from the start you’ve considered deep linking and history management! Anyone..? No, ok.

Truth is, in my near 15 years of web dev experience, I’ve never once seen this be part of the requirements, because you kind of just expect it to work. Yet it’s incredibly easy to break, unintentionally even, and three weeks before release it’s usually incredibly difficult to fix because of all the corners we’ve painted ourselves into. So then it becomes a thing you fix after the fact, and spend tons of time tryin to figure out how to wrangle your router or framework or what have you to work it out, but turns out you’ll probably have to rewrite it all. But of course you won’t, because it’s silly, so it just becomes one of those things you paper over where possible and quietly ignore otherwise... sigh

Sorry for the rant.
They'd notice. Maybe they wouldn't notice that they notice, but they'd get a general feel that things look worse.
Can't wait until every site ever looks exactly the same, just like the Bootstrap 3 era.

With that said, probably still going to buy it.
I still remember Firefox around its version 1.5, where you literally couldn't use it without extensions, even some basic things like Tab Recovery was only available through them.
May I mention the following research on NCBI:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28768407

I will simply quote from the abstract:

> This could lead to a recommendation of 1000 IU for children <1 year on enriched formula and 1500 IU for breastfed children older than 6 months, 3000 IU for children >1 year of age, and around 8000 IU for young adults and thereafter. Actions are urgently needed to protect the global population from vitamin D deficiency.

Essentially, the recommended intake that pharmacists and labels tell you is outdated and founded in a statistical error. Adults are recommended to take >8,000IU every day and not ~1,000IU as still believed by many professionals who last updated their brainbase decades ago.
If your body isn't already "flushing out toxins", you are suffering from liver or kidney problems, and you should see a doctor immediately.
More and more I feel like we should be simulating a human by macroing an actual typical web browser, including macroing the browser's dev tools.

(When scraping is fragile and you may have to periodically maintain scripts anyway, this is my conclusion after trying to automate a React website using recently-mentioned lib taiko, and finding it to be hit & miss, although it probably speaks more to my inexperience in general.)
But useful. Now I have an entire list of things associated with "flush with toxins" believers
The custom UI is also IMO terrible. It's completely different than the browser Ctrl-F UI. It does not simply highlight and move to the matches. Instead it shows a "preview", so you have to navigate to each match separately and back to the search UI. And it just navigates to the matching comment, but for very long comments I still have no idea where in the comment the match is. Thankfully you can press Ctrl-F twice to get the browser UI.
Infinite scroll is one of those things that needs to die.
People should really, really read manufacturing consent.
Every democracy needs a state funded but independent news organization. Just as it needs a state funded but independent judiciary and statistics organization. It's not the NYT's fault that the US does not have such an news organization.
how would that work? so every recipient would receive different email content with different pixel?
Why does one's use of google services allow you to assume that they trust google but one's use of an ISP services doesn't assume they trust the ISP ?
I personally prefer the interface of "i.reddit.com", but they semi-frequently let the cert expire for that one.
Good link. Declining from 880M in Mach 2017 to 805M in December 2019. Declining indeed, but not very fast.
I have a function that I've aliased `ssh` to that does a similar thing, so my default is to have tmux running on the remote.

It checks if the remote has tmux first though:

function ssht() {
/usr/bin/ssh -t "$@" "which tmux 2>&1 > /dev/null && tmux -u -CC new -A -s default"
}
alias ssh=ssht
Well there is a whole journal dedicated to the study of the works of Tolkien [0]. So getting things correct can be very important :)

[0]: https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/299
And Chrome tracks individual users by Chrome installation ID. It's sent to certain Google domains like Doubleclick [1]. All browsers are tracking us. It has to do with when, where, and what they do with it.

We're not dealing with a perfect world. Some of this has to do with intents and privacy protections outside of technology (i.e., policy). At least that's Mozilla's stance. For example, the analytics Mozilla collects on Firefox cannot be legally used by the analytics service for other things.

We need to be careful to not let perfect be the enemy of good in the way we praise the the _direction_ we want to go.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22236106

Note, IANAL.
> Unfortunately, re-creating a SID chip is almost impossible given that we don't have 1970s era NMOS semiconductor manufacturing facilities available.

Do you have any idea how hard that would be to recreate? Would it be in the realm of possibilty for an ambitious amateur to fabricate a chip? (Maybe even if not something as relatively new as a SID, possibly something simpler?)
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I'm not against tor, I also support it but, the high cost of running exit nodes combined with suspected state-run nodes were also casting a shadow over tor when I last checked it.

Mozilla's privacy run is not total stealth which, tor claims and strives to provide. On the other hand, Mozilla is providing practical cross-site tracking prevention which can be used by non tech-savvy people.

IMHO, the tracking protection provided by Mozilla is beneficial for normal users. We, the more technical ones, can always setup or use something more advanced and elaborate as tor.

As the cherry on top, some countries effectively block tor. Which leaves a bad taste in the mouth tbh.
> it's as if my immune system started functioning normally

Nothing constructive to add, but I wanted to say I am glad you are feeling much better. This is great to hear!
Well poop is toxic and a glass or two in the morning can help get that process going...
I love stories that subvert the elvish tropes. Maybe because so many have used the elves basically unmodified, it's great to see someone do it differently. In the Second Apocalypse, there is a race called the Nonmen who are clearly inspired by the elves. They are beautiful, immortal, strong, and talented in sorcery, like Tolkien's elves. But the trope is subverted in a variety of ways. They were not originally immortal, they were granted this "gift" by the main antagonists of the series. The same agent that gave them immortality also killed off all the females of their species. Moreover, while it made them ageless, it did not give them minds capable of coping with that agelessness, so many of them have gone insane. It's an interesting take on a darker version of elfdom.
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Blatantly blocking Facebook and Google trackers would wreak half of the web. All embedded comments, tweets, posts – all of those things would just disappear. I use Facebook container and see how it happens but that was my conscious choice and most people want Facebook and Google in their life.