skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is mostly an American problem. The top 1% has much less influence in Europe. You should probably work at fixing your democracy first since it is the real issue here.
I used to be a die-hard hater but converted to a die-hard fa n when I started actually learning the language. Once you know the quirks it's quite nice.

Of course since it's dynamically typed it's hard to use for larger programs, but TypeScript solves that.
I.e. shadow banning semantically cannot work with a site that is geared toward publishing content, because the content is supposed to be visible to visitors who are not authenticated. If it isn't visible, that is painfully obvious.

Shadow banning only works when only authenticated users can see any content at all; then we arrange for only the offender to see content they have created. This works as long as the offender doesn't create multiple accounts.

(You need something slightly more clever, like allowing the content to be viewed from the same IP address as the last known address for that offender, plus some surrounding range (e.g. IPv4 class C subnet)).
1) My recollection was that _Computer World_ was around $400 for two insertions, and _Asian Computer Monthly_ was slightly less for 6. They were small ads.

2) Yes, I did make the acquaintance of a local (!) company, which I ended up having a 10 year relationship with. I also had a few of entertaining inquiries, none of which got me in trouble with the law, but also didn't make me any money. (Know when to say "no".)
No disagreement from me there! Though I personally like SQL more :)
They were going to rename LibreOffice to "LibreOffice Personal Edition" and introduce paid enterprise version called LibreOffice.
It’s...not as useful as it first appears. It’s actually very computationally expensive to solve the mapping, and it can add quite of bit of space to the image to pre-compute the seam order (which is the proposal made by the original paper).

Each pixel can be tagged with a rank according to its seam number along each axis. If you have 4,000x4,000 pixels then each pixel needs a 12-bit integer value for each axis; and if you want the optimal map it’s another 1 bit per pixel. So something on the order of an extra 25-bits per pixel for a naive encoding, which almost doubles the size of an 8-bit per channel image.

It also has no explicit scene awareness. The energy function essentially defines an implicit heuristic of scene importance, which is surprisingly reasonable until you’re removing >25% of pixels along either axis.

I believe it shipped with Photoshop for a couple years (maybe still?) but in my experience it’s a bit more of an artistic effect than an automatic and scalable solution—and it would be really hard to make it run in real time at game frame rates. (I think the artifacts alone would make it not worth it for games.)
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> A single person can entirely overtake democracy when he has billions. He can own press, politicians, etc.

Only if the country is corrupt, a well functioning democracy can't be bought.
On a console every 1mb of binary is one less mb for assets.

We ran LTCG on every game I shipped.
So, this is Phase 3 trials which are due to start on 12th as per the site. The "Clinical Trials" [0] page has some more info. As far as I can see, no published articles in any peer reviewed journals on the efficacy they saw in Phases 1&2.

"Phase 3 clinical trial involving more than 2,000 people in Russia, a number of Middle Eastern (UAE and Saudi Arabia), and Latin American countries (Brazil and Mexico) will start on August 12.....Mass production of the vaccine is expected to start in September 2020"

[0]https://sputnikvaccine.com/about-vaccine/clinical-trials/
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The Chinese are also rather good at shutting down the internet as well. why not blame all possible parties?
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> www.techradar.com is a URL.

The result URL is much longer than www.techradar.com. Here’s more information on the syntax: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Identifier#Ge...

> No it doesn't, unless you try to copy the link to an advertisement, in which case it uses a link tracker

Yes, it does. The only difference, URLs from ads start with google.com/aclk as opposed to google.com/url for fair search results.

> unlike DDG, those are the first things you see

That just 2 letters, not even uppercase. And these 2 letters are the only thing to distinguish ads from fair search.

I understand their business is more profitable this way, but as a user I don’t like their design and I’d like them to fix that, despite they gonna lose money doing so. Essentially, they only implemented absolute minimum to comply with the regulations: https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/nat... Nothing inherently bad with the approach, most businesses all over the world do that all the time. The right way to fix that is not public shaming, but adjusting the regulations. Classifying them as a public utility might be a big step in the right direction.
Firefox was a mess for a long time. It's not the speed that mattered but the stability. Chrome isolated everything into separated threads and processes. One tab couldn't kill the whole browser. Firefox didn't and initially even the UI was in the same thread as the webpage javascript. Doing the switch required having all extensions rewritten so they lost market share in the process (but had no choice by then).
Mozilla is probably one of the most customizable, with defaults that are relatively pro-privacy and therefore privacy focused player in the browser market.

Fly by nights like brave have come in and then realized its hard to do in a sustainable way.

Chrome is certainly not privacy focused. Ie and edge arent either.

There is a reason tor browser is basically firefox code under the hood.
I took the time to learn some modern JavaScript and I love it...

But give me a statically typed compiled language any day!

The browser is so important that we shouldn't be locked into using a single language, so I fully support being able to choose between Rust or a JavaScript!
I have to admire someone who spends their first paycheck on a pi cluster:

> The total damage my wallet sustained from Kraken was S$626.63 or in $449.73 USD, which was virtually all I had left for the month after subtracting expenses and education loan repayments.
"I started noticing the performance bottlenecks started when I tried to run Wordpress on it, where a single page load of a newly installed Wordpress blog takes about 10 seconds!"

10 seconds is probably not bad for an uncached wordpress page.
"Endurance" microSD cards, normally sold for use in dashcams, are much more reliable in the Pi.

However I switched to netbooting my Pis, no local storage on the Pi at all.

This does require you to have a netboot server already, of course.
Avoiding 1 is actually one of the selling points for Svelte.
That's dependent on the zoom factor and focus distance of your lens and therefore really hard to say in general.

In theory, you could even make a micrometer-sized QR code and scan it using a phone-microscope-attachment - so if you're really trying to push it, probably smaller than you can reasonably print/manufacture.

For a more practical usage, when we worked with QR-Codes, about 3cm by 3cm (or 1.2 inch) seemed to be the smallest unit not causing trouble; smaller than that and problems with focus started appearing for some clients and scan times increased. Of course, that's only anecdotal evidence.
Agreed! Fear and despair are strong motivators for me. The trick is that fear sits in only when time becomes scarce. "How to start noticing something should be done before it's too late" is a good thing to have.
So I remember a big use case for SCO UNIX was small governments (like at the town level). Do you still see such users of iBCS?

Anyway, this seems like a very good idea. It provides a very general light-weight VM mechanism.
Hey Tegan, are you looking for "pulse" that's more dev focused or ops focused?

There a few tools like Pluralsight Flow and Code Climate that focus on git specific metrics (e.g., time to merge, developer velocity, etc.)

On the ops side of things, if it's a bunch of repos feeding into a larger service, you may want to look at a service catalog offering. This kind of tooling shows what's running in production, who owns it, and how healthy it is. Open source offerings are Backstage (by Spotify) and Clutch (by Lyft). There are also SaaS options available like OpsLevel.

(Disclosure / Shameless Plug: I'm CTO/co-founder @ OpsLevel).
I got here a touch late, but this seems inspired by or at least a descendant of the Cincinatti Time Store[0], which at the time (1827) was the most popular mercantile endeavor in Cincinatti.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati_Time_Store
Does it really take people "a few hours" to integrate a dependency? For personal projects it's more like 15 minutes, and even for stuff at work it doesn't generally take longer than an hour.

Broadly I find that FOSS libraries are great when you stick with their happy path. If you have unique/specific requirements, it may make sense to build it yourself. But there's no reason you can't spend an hour trying to use something for free before re-writing from scratch.
Could you write a one sentence summary on why I should care?
I think as a photo editing tool. The neatest nontrivial use i know is to “delete” objects. You can use segmentation algo to highlight an object and set its energy to 0 then seam carve out “naturally”.
If you drag a window's corner, the adjoining edges resize. If you hold down Option while you do this, all four sizes resize about the center. Even better, you can press and release Option during a single drag to turn this behavior on and off incrementally, which means you can arbitrarily adjust a window with one drag (if you're persistent enough).
Except that the Windows applications that do use syscalls directly (i.e. anti-cheat software) are intended to break when something changes. It's part of their way of defending against tampering. It's also part of why they need to be continually updated and why some old games won't work at all on newer OSes until a patch is applied to hack out the anti-cheat engine.

If syscalls were stable, they'd just try to use some other means to obfuscate their OS calls and ensure it's sufficiently fragile as to break easily if something changes.

tl;dr the lack of stability is a feature not a bug for this use case.
"Doesn’t it seem powerful, to have a person on your team completely dedicated to helping other developers be as productive as they can be? "

Fred may be helping, he may be helping in an inefficient way, he may be doing 'make work', he may be screwing things up.

It depends more on the materiality of the outcome, not the motivation of the effort.
No person has 30000000 times what they could ever want or need. You need about a million dollars to retire early with a family, 30000000 times that would be 30 trillion dollars. Nobody is even close to that.
I think the biggest value of refactoring is reducing code size, which is directly correlated with bug count / severity (there are tons of studies here). Ultimately you're providing a huge value to your clients. If your code stinks on the inside, it's gonna take a huge effort to make it smell nice on the outside.

If you stop repeating yourself, you may make less mistakes because there are simply less chances of it. Good abstractions help.

They also speed up your development speed, accelerating you towards your goal instead of coasting.
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Yeah but pharma in my personal experience is VERY conservative. A lot of them still use SAS as their bread and butter for analysis. And guess what? All their older trials that they have to maintain are all written in SAS. It's basically how banking got stuck in a lot of legacy COBOL code, pharma got stuck in SAS. Want to do healthcare economic modeling? Buy a license for TreeAge (and it ain't cheap!). And it's not like you cannot do complex analysis in it, it just doesn't have a sleek interface. The "biggest" technology disputer in pharma I would argue would be Salesforce! They support creating all tons of custom input interfaces for patient consenting and record keeping. Enterprise ain't supposed to be sexy!

I just sorta worry if there is correct culture fit in pharmaceuticals when there is a prevailing mentality of "no one ever got fired for buying Microsoft".
"Falkon" is the current KDE web browser. It used to be called QupZilla.
Excessive property drilling and manual event bubbling is problematic but only really commonplace in small projects. It’s recommended to use a pattern like you’ve described leveraging Angular’s dependency injection to utilize services for managing your application state.

Judging from your other comment about Blazor I don’t see anything you can’t do in Angular.
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I reckon 90% of downvotes I made were accidental. The buttons are really tiny on a mobile phone!
Gnome Web (for Gnome), Falkon (for KDE), and Safari (for macOS) are really underrated browsers. It's true that they all use the WebKit engine, so it doesn't exactly promote a variety of engines, but at least none of them have any "monetization" features built in.
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I used seam carving in a side-project Chrome extension I developed [1]. The extension pull the top landscape photo from r/EarthPorn and resizes it to 1920x1080 using the seam carving library caire [2]. Then it uploads the resized image to Imgur where it can be used as the user's new tab wallpaper.

Perhaps using seam carving was a little bit overboard but I thought it would be interesting and it works really well for most Earth landscape photos. I only rarely see artifacts and minor distortions in the resized images it produces. Also since I only needed to resize one photo per day, the computational overhead was not a very big deal.

[1] https://github.com/micahcantor/dailypapers

[2] https://github.com/esimov/caire
Yeah, just look at kdb+/q performance compared to Spark. The former is orders of magnitude more efficient and you realize that a cluster is only necessary because the performance and memory usage of the JVM is very poor on numerical workloads. Same goes for Hadoop.

The amount of money and engineering resources thrown at a problem that actually has a pretty simple solution (integrate your db and language, make your program and language runtime fit in L1 i-cache, optimize the hell out of your language) is a little disheartening. But hey, it keeps people employed managing and debugging an unholy mess of DBs, K8 clusters, load balancers, KV stores, and message brokers..
Some spies are overt though, and they might form a network:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1982/11/03/sold...
I don't know about this person, but my name is pretty unique

Enter it into Google and my (former) home number is a click away. And it's only former because I don't have a home phone anymore

There are services that round up all this information and link it that I'm sure sales people would use as well
You clearly know more about this since it affects you personally. But airbnb shares aren’t that illiquid. I purchased some myself in a secondary market. You might lose 5% to commission, which I guess is enough to want an ipo if you have a lot of money tied up there.
There's a push gateway: https://github.com/prometheus/pushgateway
Note that both of those comments are [dead]. Wanting Mozilla to fail is a very fringe opinion.
If you fail to see it personally I take it you haven't had many of these rights denied. To be fair I haven't either, but Marriage is not "just" an empty acknowledgment:

its the right of inheriting when your spouse dies

its the right to be covered by your spouse's insurance

its the right to share joint custody of children

its the right of spousal privilege in court

its that you can file taxes jointly

its the rights to benefits as a spouse of a veteran

and dozens more of trivial and important legal rights most couples take for granted. These are trivially denied in many social interactions and used to make others feel like second class citizens, and deny them their pursuit of happiness. This was all debated and settled by the Supreme Court in 2015.

If the government would stop meddling in all the other legal affairs then I would see the reason for your confusion why they are meddling in marriage.
A non-practical application is for funny memes. Someone figured out Photoshop's Content Aware Scaling feature can hilariously distort faces [1], and people have been using it memes since.

My current favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRB_ASog9QU

[1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/content-aware-scaling
I don’t see how it would be awful. It would give the same information but also show how much matter is from each source. Vector graphics eliminate resolution concerns. Just zoom past hydrogen if it’s taking up 98% of the screen.

Edit: to be clear: the reason it would “be cool to see” is because it’s visualizing data. It’s what graphs are for. I don’t care about the pies of the pie charts. I care about being able to see the relative quantity of the colors and to also see the distribution of discrete element quantities in one image. There are many ways to do this. If you have a better suggestion, suggest it.
So what I'm taking away from this is that for maximum productivity, you just have to:

1. Not evaluate any alternatives

2. Not read the docs

3. Not check the code

4. Not check the license

;)

(Thanks for a great blog post that articulates something I've felt for a long time.)
IIRC, the stated purpose of the formation of the foundation and corporation was to primarily fund the development of the/a browser product. Over the last 10 years, the corporation has taken in several billion dollars which should have been enough to fund a sizeable fraction of annual cash needs in perpetuity (i.e. don't spend it as you get it, invest it as various endowments/trusts do so that you have an annual revenue stream to fund the project on an ongoing basis) anticipating that the large cash payments from search engines weren't going to last forever.

Unfortunately, rather than doing that, it appears most of the money has been spent on various misadventures and expanding staff to consume the funds taken in which now apparently has to be scaled back. So now we get to read this blog post which reads like any number of VC-backed startups needing to pivot to find a business model. Mozilla has one, if it would just stop spending money going off on all these tangents and focus on what I suspect the vast majority of us want from it: the best possible browser. If we get to a point where browsers are no longer relevant, then frankly neither is Mozilla. It's shown minimal aptitude for things other than browsers, and supporting tech, which it unfortunately doesn't seem terribly interested in focusing on.
I think a good first measure is weather you allowed to fly out of your country into other countries, preferably without a quarantine.

Second goal post will be if there been a large party/festival like gathering in the region without increased spread

As the lateral marker, what technologies have been tested and released for public use (and deployed at scale). Antiviral surface coatings, vaccines, treatment strategies, testing technologies

as a new normal, quality of life concerns will eventually lose out and I will probably start alternating 2-month long high and low risk lifestyles with a quarantine session in between. A compromise might be to just double down on outdoor activities
What do you mean by storing? JuliaDB tables can be stored in memory or disk (mmap-able).
I signed up for LastPass a couple of weeks ago, and they started sending me spammy emails every single day. I went into account settings and disabled the emails, and they kept coming. I opened a support thread on their forum, linking many other similar threads going back several years, and saying that they have to fix this under GDPR... Silence.

I deleted my account and switched to BitDefender. Still getting the LastPass emails though, whenever I check my spam folder.

Also, LastPass slowed my Android phone a lot. BitDefender doesn't seem to do that.

In short, my recommendation is: stay the hell away from LastPass. They can't even handle an email system, I don't trust them at all to handle my passwords.
Blog post: https://lptk.github.io/programming/2020/03/26/demystifying-m...

Preprint article: https://lptk.github.io/simple-sub-paper
This reminds me amazingly of writing HTML and binding JavaScript to layout to handle events.
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Relevant bit from Brad's 2016 talk on this topic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Dr8FXs9aJM&t=169

I can't help but laugh each time I see it.