skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone remember when companies were straightforward about layoffs and firings? You know, text like "Sales are slow, so we need to lay some people off", not "We’ll meet people where they are" (whatever that phrase-du-jour even means).

If that letter is a guide to leadership at mozilla, there's not much hope for the future of the organization. It might be a good idea to ask the remaining technical people what they would like to build, and let them go from there.

It's time to excite people with products. They got the browser to be nearly as good as the alternatives (I try every new release of FF, only to switch back to Safari when I see the terrible effect FF has on power consumption).

How about a better alternative for remote meetings? Start with the basics: respond to reduced bandwidth by focussing on audio, not video. I want to hear what someone is saying, not to see the titles on their bookshelves. In my experience, zoom is pretty bad at this, and so (to a lesser extent) is microsoft/teams. Watching TV news, I've learned that webex and skype are also poor. Given the poor alternatives, and the high demand, I am surprised Mozilla has not already produced a kick-ass product, and I was disappointed not to read of this (or any other technical idea) in this management-speak firing letter.
People wanting to torture themselves with k8s at home ... I still dont understand why.
The cheap way to do this is to take one of those $5 keyboards that pile up in every desktop-owning household and a can of car spraypaint. Or at least that's what a friend of mine did in the 90s. To match the spraypainted tower case.

(Do a test on the underside first; some paint solvents are bad for some plastics)
Cases where data augmentation works always pose a fun challenge: clearly if there's some way to manipulate the data which shouldn't alter the algorithm output, there's also some way to make the ML invariant to that manipulation. If you can create an invariant algorithm then the augmentation should be unnecessary.

There is some interesting work on making ML invariant to rotations and such, but I'd be curious if there's an algorithm which is invariant to this. I could imagine that convolutions and pooling might be relatively invariant to this technique, for example, as long as the algorithm isn't doing a lot with the large scale structure of the image.
I like the way you think. This is what I told my son when he asked me why I have blank keycaps.
Better than your concentration.
Laws are very much subjective. They're results of their time and the people in charge of voting them. That's why the US still has people in jail for life for non violent weed related crimes while you can now legally buy and consume weed in half of the country.

Laws are constantly changing for a reason, "fairness" isn't set in stone nor objective.

Are you American by any chance ? I've seen a lot of American talking like that about "law" as if they were god given, immutable, objective and fair.
Joan is mentioned frequently, she is a deep source of comfort, inspiration, and a voice of reason.

> _One time I came home from college for a vacation, and my sister was sort of
unhappy, almost crying: her Girl Scouts were having a father­daughter banquet, but our
father was out on the road, selling uniforms. So I said I would take her, being the brother
(I'm nine years older, so it wasn't so crazy)._

> _During the conference I was staying with my sister in Syracuse. I brought the
paper home and said to her, "I can't understand these things that Lee and Yang are saying.
It's all so complicated." "No," she' said, "what you mean is not that you can't understand it, but that you
didn't invent it. You didn't figure it out your own way, from hearing the clue. What you
should do is imagine you're a student again, and take this paper upstairs, read every line
of it, and check the equations. Then you'll understand it very easily."
I took her advice, and checked through the whole thing, and found it to be very
obvious and simple._

> _I called up my sister in New York to thank her for getting me to sit down and
work through that paper by Lee and Yang at the Rochester Conference. After feeling
uncomfortable and behind, now I was in;_

> _Just then my sister calls from New York: "How about the 9 percent ­­ what's
happened?"
"I've just discovered that there's new data: 7 percent. . ." "Which way?"
"I'm trying to find out. I'll call you back."
I was so excited that I couldn't think. It's like when you're rushing for an airplane,
and you don't know whether you're late or not, and you just can't make it, when
somebody says, "It's daylight saving time!" Yes, but which way? You can't think in the
excitement._
Is he?
https://www.humanityinaction.org/knowledge_detail/black-pete...

> Enter the modern day Sinterklaas and Zwarte Piet. Leading up to W.W.II, Black Pete’s job was to investigate which children had been “bad,” and to take them away in his sack and/or whip them for discipline. Today, the dominating image of Black Pete is more one of entertainment for others’ enjoyment: He helps Sinterklaas deliver the presents and no longer acts as the one who brings punishment to the bad children. But the old task of Black Pete is still referred to in a funny matter. Many parents joke and say “I will tell Black Pete to take you with him to Spain!”. Sinterklaas will ask Black Pete to see ‘The Book’, which lists all the right and wrong things a child did. Over time, Zwarte Piet’s character morphed into a group of Black Petes; all considered a Zwarte Piet, but each with different characteristics.

> In the celebrations, Sinterklaas, who is white, is played by a white person. Black Pete is played in full blackface, usually by a white person as well, or by a black person also in blackface. The actors paint their faces black with huge red lips, wear a curly wig and Moorish dress. “They are portrayed as young, and agile, and do much running and jumping around and acting like acrobats,” says Leyla Hamidi of the National Bureau Against Racial Discrimination. Sinterklaas is portrayed as old, wise, mature, calm, and in control. In celebrations and the media, Black Pete is overwhelmingly viewed by children and adults as unintelligent and clownish. These and other characteristics were found to be typical characteristics of Black Pete as well as black characters in general in Dutch children’s books. Berend’s research found them portrayed as dumb, childish, idle, foolish, and strict (for the old version of Black Pete). Berends further showed similar results for the main physical depictions of black people in children’s books and Black Pete imagery – including enlarged red lips, enlarged white teeth, and enlarged and bulging eyes.
Sir Mix-a-lot is an American rapper so the measurements in the song are presumably in US customary system units and not imperial units.
Regarding compilations of facts, the general doctrine is that copyright would protect the semi-arbitary choices of what to include in that compilation (e.g. judgement of relevance - which words to put in dictionary, what detail to include/exclude in a map) and disallows copying that compilation; but it explicitly does not protect "work and sweat" required to gather that data, and allows people to copy particular facts out of that compilation, for example, if they are making their own selection with different criteria, as the underlying facts are not protected no matter how much effort it took to obtain them.

In this regard, copying lyrics of some particular song does not violate the rights of Genius - they don't have copyright to that particular song and the compilation-of-facts rights don't apply for that particular single item.
How would they be able to leverage demand? I can't see our politicians wanting to get involved in this fight, especially not on Amazon's side. Why would they want to support Amazon against both unions and againast Swedish companies? I think they will just remove themselves from the conflict and let it play out. I can't see a scenario where Amazon does not have to agree to collective bargaining.
Emotional appeals shouldn’t* hold any weight when considering the law. You’ll end up creating highly biased or illogical laws that cater to the culture of the times and need to be changed again shortly. Kneeling may cause the death of some but save the lives of countless others. “The law isn’t always right” isn’t an objective statement because “right” is relative to the observer.
That’s only the case if it was delivered by Deutsche Post (instead of DHL) and does not fit into your mailbox, or, in the case of DHL, when you told them to do it via their website.
If you can dial up, Dutch ISP XS4all has setup a free gateway: https://twitter.com/xs4all/status/1293153863030243328
TL;DR: Someone added a large number of exit relays that act as SSL stripping MITM servers. They rewrite any bitcoin addresses in intercepted communications so that people will send money to them instead of to the intended recipient.
Yes, that's right. To be honest, I spent some time already to inspect and analyze its code, because I found it as a nice example to learn Rust by rewriting this project.

rxi/lite have tens of functions in C to provide operation of file-system, implement fuzzy-finder or simple rendering calls for rectangles. Rest of code is written in Lua that shares a lot of signature-compatible functions with Sublime Text API. There is only Lua, STB (stb_truetype) and SDL2. Also compilation script is basic shell script [0].

It is also worth noting there is interesting contribution to provide sub-pixel rendering [1] (now, a fork [2]) which includes usage of libagg [3].

[0]: https://github.com/rxi/lite/blob/master/build.sh

[1]: https://github.com/rxi/lite/issues/145#issuecomment-64155409...

[2]: https://github.com/franko/lite-xl

[3]: http://antigrain.com/
Odd, I fondly remember him mentioning her, and how important she was as a voice of reason to him.

Update: I went looking for sources in the PDF, I've add them to the parent post. She was mentioned frequently.

I actually even recall this story about the Auroras, but I cannot remember where I've heard it.
> fundementaly different services

Like what?I went through tinders sales page for their tiers and can't see anything that would offer a different experience based on any demographic: https://www.help.tinder.com/hc/en-us/articles/115004487406-T...

I get the feeling you may respond telling me that people over 30 are looking for a different type of relationship, to which I say that no type of relationship has a feasible monetary induction price, and even if it did, it is impossible to know which users are looking to have a fling and which are looking for an SO.
But now we have wasm. Perhaps it could change the situation?
RGB CMYK Color Converter for iPhone: Featured App of the Month in June 2020
I never used Tinder myself but based on what I’ve come across on Reddit, if your profile is “premium” you can just hide your age? I guess that could mess up your target matches but you can presumably still set your own age range filter.
I think these users just want a physical product that looks and feels like an actual next generation ZX Spectrum. Part of a fulfilling a feeling of “what if”.
Very cool work! I wonder the same, for a 'cluster' I'm expecting performance and large memory for example for scientific computing. Other than that I couldn't think of any other use cases. If anyone could enlighten me? Cheers
Google uses blink, not webkit. Blink has diverged from webkit by a lot.
"For her fourteenth birthday, Richard gave Feynman a copy of Astronomy by Robert Horace Baker, a college-level physics text, that both taught her about physics and what was possible: Feynman credited a figure attributed to Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin for proving to her that women could indeed have a career doing science."

Fun fact: the new HS2 tunnel boring machine in the UK is named after Cecilia.
Internet traffic hasn't dropped. See the Google IPv6 statistics for example. Mozilla's current trajectory has nothing to do with COVID. If anything it should have helped them as people working from home probably have more control over what software they can install vs workstations in the office.

The fact that Baker seriously brings up COVID shows why Mozilla has problems.
I've went through some of the comments on a german IT news site regarding this and it's been nothing but dissapointing.

People openly post that they'll switch to Chrome or Chrome-derivatives, as if that fixes things, because Mozilla allegedly is throwing away money by not 100% focusing on the browser.

Mozilla is the last company other than Apple maintaining an independent browser engine. Microsoft has given up as well.

If Mozilla and by Proxy the Firefox Project dies, the internet will become a darker place. The only hope would be that Microsoft ruins the Chrome browser via EEE (and in thise case, one of the instances where I hope they do) before Mozilla has to shutter.

People give Google an excuse for the billionth time they are caught exporting your medical history from chrome but if Mozilla makes a mistake, they're chastized for it.

It's disgusting how people treat Mozilla.
I'm in New Zealand and queer is used by the gay community as a positive/less specific term here.
Came here to say _exactly_ this.

Racism is awful, but going around with US-shaped visors and using that as the sole/primary criterion of it is not good.

For another example: there is no association between Blackface and racism in Poland. Sure, there is plenty of racism on other grounds, but e.g. a white person putting on black make-up isn't part of it.
Anders explains it better than me,

"Anders Hejlsberg on Modern Compiler Construction"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSdV1M7n4gQ

Basically ability to see the language AST at all time, do time checking with broken code, incremental compilation, REPL and IDE editing experience is fused together.

Here is another short examples,

"7 minutes of Pharo Smalltalk for Rubyists"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOuZyOKa91o

"MountainWest RubyConf 2014 - But Really, You Should Learn Smalltalk"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGaKZBr0ga4
Awesome woman, and a fascinating family!

I'm no expert, so excuse my ignorance: Wasn't the "origin" of auroras know long before her time? I recall reading about Kristian Birkeland's terrella experiment where he demonstrated how the earths magnetic field would "focus" particles from the sun around the poles.

Of course, this does not change the fact that she was a great scientist, and did important discoveries about aroras and astronomy in general.
> but the only place I ever need to use a Qwerty keyboard these days is the touch keyboard on my phone.

Can't you just set your keyboard on your phone to Dvorak? If yours can't, I do know of a few third-party ones that can, at least on Android.
I am not a native English speaker, but queer is repurposed by the LGBT community to include everyone, under a single name [1]. It can even include heterosexuality [2]. I definitely do not read it in any derogatory way, and would identify myself as queer.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queer

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queer_heterosexuality

Edit: formatting
How do you feel you can trust Amazon reviews? In the UK they've become really bad, obvious fakes, loads of low quality products dropshipped from Alibaba/China with tons of 5 stars.

The only reviews you can vaguely trust are the non-5 star ones.
That's interesting that they expected you to not glance at the paper. I actually think looking at the paper (or nowadays a screen) to see the result of what you're typing is good for learning. You get immediate feedback on whether or not you're correct.

Also yeah, those plastic covers are good. I'm not sure if this is common nowadays but my elementary school had a typing class that probably met once a week. We too used a plastic cover over a keyboard. I couldn't type before that, and it set me on the path to being a good typer.
Well, she did start the layoff message with something about systemic racism.

But you're right in general. To anyone who thinks Mozilla might build politically neutral products, case for the prosecution:

https://i.imgur.com/FN2L5ed.png

It's obviously very problematic for the CEO of a browser company to have such overt politics. Who can take Mozilla seriously when they claim to be defending openness and freedom on the internet? Their CEO writes op-eds about the problem of online misinformation whilst blaming her own layoffs on COVID. Actions don't match stated principles.
I don't think anyone who uses Clojure in anger would put it on the same level as JavaScript when it comes to letting through a ton of runtime errors. The integrated tooling around editors, clojure.spec and the REPL is very good at curtailing the downsides of dynamic typing.
A React.js Particle Component Template
It might have had some neat technical designs, but it is not a good idea to try and launch an OS into a maturing market, which the smartphone market clearly was by 2013.

It never works.
Because you are allowed to (I presume) copy the raw data (gps coordinates of roads, buildings, etc.) But you don’t have access to it, instead you only see their map design.
Maybe take the time to verify the assumption that his sister is not mentioned before jumping to a conclusion.
Sorry, but where have you been for the last decade? This is how every free WiFi I've used all around the world has ever worked. It's not specific to airports.
By politics do you mean things irrelevant to browsing experience or things you disagree with?
Charging people different prices based on factors they can't control, and in secret to boot, is just wrong. Whether it's age or race or eye color, it's wrong. Why are people so greedy that they need to push against such simple principles so hard?
I guess the whole point is that while many of security conscious developers would like to replace C and C++ with managed solutions, there are millions of lines of code that will never be rewritten specially those from POSIX environments, so hardware mitigations like these seem to be the only good solution going forward.
I feel like to stock co-mingling issue is far less pronounced in Europe compared to what the American crowd here on HN says. I live in Europe, and never got a fake product from Amazon.
Regarding the two licences, one for the library itself, one for the connectors - what does it mean for users, in practice? Thanks.
I'm using an Oculus Quest. I can't say I would recommend it if you have that concern yet. It's usable but I only do so in specific contexts especially where either I really want to focus, or having an unnaturally giant screen is useful. So I wouldn't really do more than an hour or two at a time myself. But with another generation of improvements in the display tech I think it'll cross an important threshold. There are people who use them all day but I personally wouldn't.
Yes, thankyou for mentioning the differential diagnosis stuff, it's definitely a good idea to rule other things out. :)

I was wondering if I had ADHD; in all the online tests I score in the ADHD or borderline range. But it's just symptoms of my anxiety which is particularly bad at the moment. If I'd done the tests a year ago, the result would have been completely different.
> So Google would have the Edge team and Mozilla against them.

<INSERT J Jonah Jameson laughing>

That's like Goliath fighting two baby kittens.

> I hope (and still belieive) there are still enough circles remaining which aren't that much associated with Google Services to sustain a user base for alternative products. Rainbows and unicorns again...

At this point, I think the only hope I have is that EU, basically does a successful anti-trust lawsuit, or if someone invents something else that destroys Google, in the same way mobile destroyed Microsoft's grip on computing market.
Same with CSV. It looks easy, but it isn't. I've never seen anyone who writes their own CSV parser actually implement features necessary to conform to the standard like quoting and escape sequences. The end result is software that breaks when delimiters or quotes appear in user input. Honestly, I prefer xlsx spreadsheets because of that. Nobody fools themselves into implementing the parser or serializer for the format themselves. The only tiny pitfall with them is when people create spreadsheets manually in excel and write numbers as text, but parsing strings to numbers is absolutely trivial. You have to do that with CSV anyway.
It's the "Q" in LGBTQ... so it's definitely a word that is being "reclaimed".

Pretty much any word can cause offence these days, but ABC have presumably been advised on a house style that is acceptable.
Not sure about other BSDs, but FreeBSD does have both stable syscall interface, and stable libc interfaces, which keep ABI both across major, and minor versions. Situation for non-C languages is pretty similar to what you'd expect in Linux, there's nothing second class there.
The way I became a touch-typist was with a time limit. Specifically, the time limit on dial-in BBSes. When given 20 minutes before being forced off the line, I quickly learned how to type faster.
The SF Anthology Problem – Solved
Buying an HHKB and typing 70-90 WPM does not make one an "Expert Typist"
I'm in the UK and I don't get the sense that it's derogatory (though I'm a straight male myself, so maybe I'm not the best judge)

Isn't "queer" the Q in LGBTQ, an acronym that most will happily identify with? Perhaps it _used_ to be derogatory, but it appears has been redefined into something positive.
yes, exactly right, but a pretty exciting one. Combustible fuel can be stored for hours, days, weeks, months, and even years... unlike most forms of storing electricity.

A alcohol burning car could be carbon neutral, have great range, and be relatively cheap.
pgnttrp!
If it doesn't look like progress, it probably isn't. Since the demographic change of the net, content is actually regressing back to a mean. There are some people that see racism everywhere because they have been told that they are victims. This is no road to anything that can be called progress.
The Q in lgbtq is queer, a term reappropriated a long time ago by the non-cis communities. I don't know of anywhere that thinks of it as a slur, unless you use it like one. Similarly, you can make any descriptor a negative with the right intonation.

"I wouldn't hire that woman."

"I wouldn't hire that woman"
The license is meant to prevent service-wrapping by cloud providers, other than that it doesn't have any implications for standard usage. The core library / server is Apache 2 and the rest of the connectors are community license. You can use and embed both the core module and the connectors for free.

The license itself is similar to the licenses from Confluent, Elastic among many others. You can read more about it here: https://hazelcast.org/blog/announcing-the-hazelcast-communit...
The process is explained in the prologue (which I think would be a better link):

https://thefirstaibook.com/

I simply provided a few-sentence prompt on each of these subjects, had GPT-3 generate approximately 2,000 words of text each, and later (in most cases) removed the supplied prompt to keep the result as human-free as possible.

It should be noted that, at times, I had to include ‘pivot’ phrases (e.g ‘therefore’, ‘in summary’, ‘perhaps’, and so on) before a new paragraph. Current networks appear to get off-track after ~1000 words, so this is necessary to improve consistency in predicting longer sequences of text. The final result was also copy-edited for spelling mistakes and punctuation (yes, AI makes mistakes!)

Everything else that you will read – the logic, the reasoning, and the conclusions – was generated entirely by GPT-3.
You see, there is a big emotional difference in unplugging a network cable of a node, and see your cluster keep going and re-routing traffic compared to clicking on a "shut down VM" button.

These small emotional things end up making you more interested, and keeps you going in projects. It's the little things! After all this is just for playing around, if you wanted any performance, a single machine would give you more.
hey nice one will