skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this depends on the actual formulation of the drug, right?

For example two of the titrations of Concerta (XR methylphenidate) which I have experienced first-hand are a hard candy-like tablet, and the pharmacokinetic result is that you receive 25% of the dose within a couple of hours, and then over the course of the rest of the day the remaining 75% hits your bloodstream.

But I now take an XR lisdexamfetamine which looks like it would be possible to split into smaller doses, but it's a prodrug so it's a totally different experience.

I know it's a luxury some folks can't afford, but there really are a great range of optimised formulations of the treatments for ADHD out there, and rather than guessing yourself, it'll be better to have an honest conversation with your doctor about the ability to mix XR/IR in a way that works for you.
> Over the past decade, Mozilla has capitulated over and over again on critical issues. They failed their users and the ecosystem

So what do you suggest one use as a browser then? Don't you dare say Chrome or Brave.

Firefox is the best of the worst. Yeah, it would be good if they were better, but I am not going to be moving to Chrome or Brave anytime soon.
Ah, so you're on board with the jackboot holding necks down. Understood.
I'm pretty confused by the article's handling of the case against Donzinger. As they note in the middle, there's been a ruling upheld on appeal that he's a fraudster, and that he faked evidence and paid bribes in his earlier case against Chevron. If that ruling is accurate - and the article doesn't really attempt to argue that it isn't - why does the author put any stock in what he has to say?
Would this be a replacement for something like Divolte? If yes, any specific reason why one should choose EventNative over Divolte, except for the "made in go" argument?
...except that this guy was convicted of corruption, in US court. And while this article tries to insinuate that judge Kaplan was corrupt...the conviction was upheld on appeal:

> In 2014, after a full trial before Judge Kaplan, Donziger and the other defendants were found guilty of engaging in conspiracy and criminal conduct.

> “Donziger and the Ecuadorian lawyers he led corrupted the Lago Agrio case. They submitted fraudulent evidence. They... falsely presented [a damages assessment] as the work of the court-appointed and supposedly impartial expert, and told half-truths or worse to U.S. courts in attempts to prevent exposure of that and other wrongdoing. [They] wrote the Lago Agrio court’s Judgment themselves and promised $500,000 to the Ecuadorian judge to rule in their favor and sign their judgment,” Judge Kaplan found. “If ever there were a case warranting equitable relief with respect to a judgment procured by fraud, this is it.”

> The ruling was affirmed by a decision issued by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in August 2016, with the appellate court finding “no basis for dismissal or reversal” of the district court’s judgment, noting that “the record in the [case] reveals a parade of corrupt actions… including coercion, fraud and bribery, culminating in the promise to Judge Zambrano of $500,000 from a judgment in favor of the [plaintiffs].”

So...it seems like he probably did engage in corruption to secure the original verdict.
> Probably good advice, but when was the last time a programmer accurately scoped a problem when they said it will take “an afternoon” to build?

This is why you time box things. Spend XX hours trying to get a thing working and if you aren't close, you grab a library and move on.
Exactly. Somebody should organize a fund for that, add an easy subscription solution, like Patreon, make it widely known, and sort out all the legal and tax issues.

(Unfortunately, I don't see myself doing that. At least not yet.)
https://dev.to/solidi/what-is-a-tech-lead-anyway-483p

Well said.
Someone said this that I really like: "Firefox is Google's antitrust insurance for Chrome."
And it makes no sense looking at OP's message which never mentions abandoning Mozilla. This is the entirety of it:

> If you think that Mozilla not using "corporate doublespeak" is an impossible standard, I am left speechless.
This was the main inspiration! Also, the fact that I couldn't find anyone going through EVERY step of QR code generation manually (even if CPU-assisted) and in detail.
I don't think it's unreasonable to include more things under "basic necessities" nowadays. Things like security, education, healthcare, internet access are all common candidates.
The crucial distinguishing factor is that JS was made to animate a bit of text... on every device in existence, past present or future. That's the biggest difference between the web and native.
Yeah that's interesting. I thought nearly all of Mozilla's revenue came from Google to default to their search engine. I wonder if COVID is just an excuse to do this now.

Edit: Another comment seems to have some details https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24123945
I have this problem at work with our node apps.

With things like reduce, map, the like their is less need to rely on lodash or underscore for them.
"new focus", "new mindset", "organizing ourselves differently", "new structure", "thinka bout a different world". These are all euphemisms for death.

Why don't corporations simply be straightforward and say "We are facing imminent death and we need your financial assistance if you don't want a Google-monopolized world"?

This "changing world" fluff is a huge turnoff for people actually wanting to help Mozilla's mission.
> "Oh, Parkinson, Parkinson!" I cried, patting him affectionately on the head with a mallet, "how far you really are from the pure love of the sport—you who can play. It is only we who play badly who love the Game itself. You love glory; you love applause; you love the earthquake voice of victory; you do not love croquet. You do not love croquet until you love being beaten at croquet. It is we the bunglers who adore the occupation in the abstract. It is we to whom it is art for art's sake.

Excerpted from “The Perfect Game”, by G.K. Chesterton
I did not blame the engineers, nor did I absolve management. In the case of Mozilla, it's clearly management who are to blame.
JIT is the magic sauce and this a pretty regular optimization.

Step 1, inline repeat.
Step 2, remove the intermediate array allocation
Step 3, allocated a string array sized for the pad + str
Step 4, Use one of the many CPU instructions to repeatably copy the padding character and then the `str` into the same array of characters.

None of these optimization would be out of the question for the Jit (and I'd expect them). You don't need the cache at all, it's just a waste. The only thing it saves it creating the intermediate string which is HIGHLY likely to be optimized away with the simple code.
My experience in daily use of Firefox post-Servo is that all page loads have essentially been instantaneous. This is of course subjective based in part on hardware, so I'm not disputing your assessment.

As far as I'm aware, Servo is at the bleeding edge of performance under the hood. Its hybrid glyph rendering system for example is state-of-the-art.
Which only makes sense if you ignore all of the details. In 2020 we still don't have any proof of concepts for a self-sustaining biosphere that includes people, much less a spacecraft that can survive for hundreds of years without major maintenance. We don't even have a good solution for absorbing all of those hard gammas from detonating 300,000 fusion bombs in close proximity to the people.
UPDATE: It was quite hard to find reference information about all this. I vaguely remember reading it in one of the Peter Norton books at the time, but I can't really find them. The most relevant thing I can still find on todays internet is this:

https://www.pcjs.org/documents/books/mspl13/msdos/advdos/ chapter 3:

... the operating system simply makes the worst-case assumption and gives .COM programs everything that is available. If a .COM program wants to use the EXEC function to invoke another process, it must first shrink down its memory allocation ...
Same, at least these days. I have an old chromebook running linux that's at least halfway through it's last leg. I recently tried Firefox on it because an update managed to bork Chrome a bit. I found many of the performance issues I'd been increasingly suffering from cleared up. Amusingly, I was using Chrome in the first place because the exact same situation happened a few years ago, but with the browsers switched.
How do you dial into them if your line upto them would be stopped?

I think radio based communication like amateur broadcasting, walkie talkie like things for short distances can be an effective tool to prepare for situations like this.
> In this scintillating book, Nadine Akkerman demonstrates that women were unlikely to be suspected as intelligencers and, if unmasked, were usually treated more leniently than men.

This reminds me a passage from "Homage to Catalonia" from George Orwell:

"My wife was lying in bed all the while; obviously there might have been half a dozen sub-machine-guns under the mattress, not to mention a library of Trotskyist documents under the pillow. Yet the detectives made no move to touch the bed, never even looked underneath it. I cannot believe that this is a regular feature of the Ogpu routine. One must remember that the police were almost entirely under Communist control, and these men were probably Communist Party members themselves. But they were also Spaniards, and to turn a woman out of bed was a little too much for them. This part of the job was silently dropped, making the whole search meaningless."
I share the distress. Covid has accelerated the inequality that was already at record levels. For many in tech and other white colar work Covid is either a non-event or a net benefit, while for many others its life ruining. We better start preparing for a future where many, maybe most, people have no economic value.
You're making a lot of assumptions here, and you seem to have taken my comment as some kind of personal attack.

To give you more context - in my specific personal case, running would damage my knees more than it would give me any kind of pleasure or added fitness.
Sure, and you are very welcome to do so. That's not what the original post said, nor what you said in response, though.
Pretty confused over here as well, and I already had a decent idea of the differences and why's between Bucklescript, Reason, and OCaml.
Comcast Says It Will Fix ‘Technical’ Glitch That Halted Laura Loomer Emails
For what it’s worth I just signed up for the VPN service today. Hopefully that helps a bit.
I've passed through security without valid ID once or twice, and it amounted to the same level of checking that you get when your bag gets pulled out of the x-ray for something that looks off. Full pat-down, explosive-residue swab, and they took a look at the contents of my wallet (assorted credit, library cards and corporate ID). It wasn't a serious delay.

Your milage may vary though, if things are already busy then you might be left waiting for a while. Best to err on the side of earlier.

I wouldn't recommend it at all to people who are regularly profiled and hassled by TSA even with ID, of course...
Launching the Hardest Startup in Bay Area Part 3 – Market Signals
This is the same argument that has been around for decades - the debate over whether Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation were an agent for good or an agent for helping Bill Gates sleep at night was a huge thing when I was in graduate school.

I think it's unfortunate that this part of the debate gets the focus.

What I think is problematic in the Gates approach and those like it, is that they view the world through so many institutional and market filters that they don't notice various problems bubbling up that can't be measured in these terms.

The most obvious thing is Gates' line "the world is getting better" which hinges on the fact the more people are moving from outside the money economy to inside the money economy (less people "living on pennies a day"). The problem is Gates can't see that people insider the money economy are in desperate circumstances.

The recent interview with Gates was distinctly sad. In one area where he sort-of has things right, he doesn't understand that the flood of irrational here is very pushed by other monied interests which have become used to fending off all spending on longer-term social interests since these serve as threats to their short term profits. See this article describing the similarity of climate denialist and covid denialists: https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2020/04/coronavirus-d...
How to forecast SaaS revenue better than the analysts
> Your counterpoint is a little confusing to me. Apple reversed their sinking fortunes when they released the iPhone. That seems to make the exact opposite of your point.

Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1996 and one of the things he stopped was the heavy bleeding from having too many (confusing) SKUs.

His first new product was the iPod, released in 2001 while development of the iPhone started around 2005.

The release of the iPhone would happen ~11 years after his return.
> Is it a "right" if it can be taken away?

Of course. Every person that was ever murdered had a right to live, even when it was taken away. Would you say that they didn't?

Rights exists regardless of whether they are respected, that's what makes them rights.
I've always called this the "guy in the basement" effect.

In the beginning, the guy in the basement would have an awesome idea for a library. He would spend 27 hours a designing it, coding it, testing it, and making it awesome.

The "guy in the basement" moves out because his partner wants to spend time with him. They start to live lives outside of the world of maintaining open source libraries. The partner asks, "Are you getting paid for all of this?" and the guy says, "No. It's open source. It's a good thing." but in saying it out loud to his partner, his priorities shift.

Over the next year, the library deteriorates. It gets forked, other people ask to maintain it, he relents, but no single person has the vision. The library becomes a mish mash of priorities and no longer has the awesome cohesion it once had.

Everyone using the library is very sad. Some are angry. An awesome replacement appears from another guy in the basement.

The cycle repeats.
Of course ISPs can stop modems from working. But nothing to stop a directed, tracking satellite system like Starlink (except somewhat triangulate senders).
Yes, I meant the quackery of those you listed. Isaac Newton had a very distinguished mind, but was a proponent of young earth creationism; being right about one thing does not make you right about all things, and so it goes with Franklin, Smith, Ricardo et al.

As far as LTV is concerned, we know it to be a flawed theory today because we understand the time value of money. LTV will hold in the long run with constant returns to scale. Without constant returns to scale, only the marginal consumer matters. In simpler terms, demand will affect price, not just supply. Now, if we make the errant assumption that the supply curve is completely flat in the long run, then LTV does in fact hold. That is, the LTV is not a terrible description of economic reality, as long as you note that a) an isomorphic argument can be made for “the land theory of value” or “capital theory of value”, so labor is in no way special, and b) LTV can only apply for goods with flat long-run supply curves. In any case, there’s a reason the early great economists used it! Smith, Ricardo, and others were not all idiots. However, today, we know better and it flies in the face of modern science and understanding to promote its use.
Why couldn't they have shifted those employees to new projects?
Essentially, you, me, the author of this piece is saying the same thing. The populace needs to take back control over their governance, and the way the author is proposing to do that is by getting involved in by "joining organizations, membership lists and movements that work toward building cross-racial, cross-class coalitions of people — with a goal to create a future that benefits most people."
Because it's a list/posting written by someone who spent their entire lives in finance or consulting, and that's what they know.

It's simply a transfer of culture from white-collar prestige, to tech.
Congress does, and Congress delegated the power to the President some time ago.

International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA)

the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.)

section 301 of title 3, United States Code
> 'll give that a 'maybe'. I don't see much difference in speed of development, if any I see a much slower pace of development @ Mozilla, bugs are open for a very long time and are typically closed not because they got fixed but because they've been 'inactive for too long'.

This has little to do with Rust and has been a thing for a long time and honestly it's a thing for every major piece of software, you just don't see the bug trackers usually.

Just look at how many issues VS Code or IntelliJ has logged in for example.

The fact is, Firefox only got usable at v57 for many, including me, which was thanks to Rust.

> 12 people is not 'tiny', thats two full teams.

And how many marketing, outreach and happiness heroes, ambassadors etc. does Mozilla employ? My bet would be 5x the size of the Rust team at least.
Do you have any court precedents to back that up?
It's self-defense. It does no good to focus on the tech if the people writing the code are being murdered or deported.
I'd argue it was precisely the "democratic" part that allowed the United States to remove those practices.
A car requires a license because it's a particularly dangerous machine, obviously not all machines require licenses. A car passenger could cause a car accident (have you seen the video of a woman attacking a bus driver, causing the bus to fall off a bridge, killing 15 people?) Yet we only require the operators of such machines to be licensed.
I have a friend who's a Fido customer so I used their plan for signup.

I found out about the deal on a Redflagdeals post where some have successfully got the plan without being a Fido customer

https://forums.redflagdeals.com/fido-4gb-tablet-plan-cpo-tab...
"Hired" does not communicate that the other employer was the instigator.

"Did the employee reach out, or was he poached?"

I just do not think it's worth getting anal about the terminology. Who gives a shit if your old employer says "poached" when you just got a $50k pay rise?
There are enough power users in the world to keep Firefox relevant.
I wonder if it would build to MSDOS
The Windows binary doesn't crash anymore, I have it installed and use it occasionally. I also use it on my very low end Linux laptop and it works wonderfully for anything that doesn't require JavaScript.

Edit: just a warning, the Windows version has problems with the <select> element, it won't display the options when you click it.
As a non Emacs user, I thought this site was going to be a crash course on the best practices of building business software that caters to org clients (enterprise essentially). Gotta say, I got really excited for a moment!
Outliners are great and underrated tools. But after a detailed analysis of Org Mode (and some other tools) I implemented https://github.com/rochus-keller/CrossLine which I'm using every day since ten years.
I'm sure I could write a basic HTTP client implementation for the current needs of my project in an afternoon. That doesn't mean that I shouldn't be using libcurl or whatever instead, though.

It's perfectly reasonable to conclude "my need is a subset of a larger but well-defined task for which there's a bunch of mature, proven and widely available libraries – I should leverage them".
I would guess that having infected blood on you, and potentially smeared in your car and other places, is quite a lot worse than drenching it in alcohol even if not fully cleaned. Why not both?
I used to play around with m80's and m100's as a kid, those put the fear of death in me cause the wick literally lasted 3 seconds before ignition. I think they were some unregulated hand made fireworks my neighborhood friend got from Mexico. The sound was louder than a gun shot.

Also dry ice in bottles was fun and spud cannon got me interested in physics. Good times.
weaker and stronger relative to where they were before.

A point here, a point there. That's real strategy.
I use RSS a lot myself and welcome all new RSS readers.

For posters wanting a trail account, this service does not require email verification.
You can use mine: uname: a@b.c pw: asd

I'll use the opportunity to recommend TT-RSS for those wanting a fast RSS reader that can be self hosted but with more options than this one.
What will happen if I lose the physical key (or someone pretends that they are me who lost the physical key)?
RFE/RL returns broadcasting on medium waves in Belarusian language
Is this true? Amazon shares have had a sharp rise in the time since he raised many of their wages by 50% to $15 an hour.

There seems to be little correlation, much less causation, between the amount he pays his employees and the value of the firm in which he holds interest.
To this day they do provide a toggle in settings to turn EME off, so its not as if it is compelled on the user.
Isn't this like saying it won't be difficult once we develop a FTL engine? Or a reactionless drive?

The very lack of contact with aliens might be interpreted as strong evidence that FTL travel is either outright impossible or so impractical that it is effectively impossible.

The answer to the Fermi paradox might be the tyranny of the rocket equation.
Mesh Twitter for Election Week
It's been a long time since I read it as well and I knew the hardware/microcode people in the book better than the OS folks--and I think the book probably focused on them more. Maybe it's not really SWE lessons per se as so much as just a really good account of a computer systems project. (I worked at Data General for many years though I joined a few years after the events of the book.)

Showstopper (about the development of Windows NT) is more focused on software obviously.
Yeah, you can tell from the requirements that this is someone with a background from finance or management consulting, cargo culting/copy pasting job requirements from their previous careers.
A huge benefit of using dependencies in your codebase is that other members of your team (including future members) have a good chance of already knowing how the dependency works, and how to use it.

If I rewrite package Foob because it only takes me 3 hours to write (let's call it Boof), and my colleague Mary on another team also does so, then the chances that our needs, specific implementations & usage patterns are the same, is pretty low. When I transfer to her team six months from now, I have "my" code that I know how it works, and I also have "her" code that I don't yet understand. I've got to relearn the new interface.

Or, if we see this as opportunity to unify our needs across codebases/teams, one of our libraries get the features of the other bolted on. In this way, we're just spending our combined time building a less-good Foob, instead of actually doing something useful.

But instead, if Mary says that Foob is high-quality because she looked at the code, checked the community, etc, then I can just trust her judgment. Foob already has most the features that I thought I ain't gonna need. I can re-use Foob in multiple projects, and the documentation for Foob is certainly better than what I would have written in an afternoon, so future team-members will also pick up Foob faster than my Boofy custom implementation.
Some libraries are clearly better than others, what we need is a better rating system to differentiate the good ones from the bad.