skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My standards for Mozilla are:

1) Make a good browser. Get market share. Use it to push the envelope for what can be done on the web.

2) Respect user privacy.

3) Don't spam me with push notifications, in-browser advertising, or any other marketing communications unless it helps goals 1 or 2.

4) Don't spend most of your money on projects that aren't your browser.

Mozilla keeps getting into partnerships that send data to third parties, advocating for things that have nothing to do with browsers or the internet, investing money into every new trend[0][1], and not focusing on their core selling point: a browser that's fast, safe, privacy-focused, extensible, standards-compliant, and stops Google from acquiring a total monopoly over browsers so they can remove adblockers.

This press release hints that they're going to continue tilting at windmills: their new direction is "diverse, representative, focused on people outside of our walls, solving problems, building new products, engaging with users and doing the magic of mixing tech with our values." They're "a technical powerhouse of the internet activist movement", and rather than donors who support their browser, there are "hundreds of thousands of people who donate to and participate in Mozilla Foundation’s advocacy work". I read this as "we're going to spend time and money on things that are not Firefox".

I haven't donated to them for years, because I'm sick of seeing their money go to projects that don't integrate with Firefox and won't ever reach a significant number of consumers while they bleed market share, or to American-centric policy advocacy that also doesn't relate to the internet. I don't think this is an unrealistic expectation, because there's no way in hell I'd donate to Google or any of their competitors in the first place. Hopefully their lay-offs are an opportunity to focus their efforts on providing a browser across all platforms and adding features to that browser.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mozilla_products#Aband...
[1] everything involving VR on https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/products
I think that there are a lot of use cases of Pis for which online cloud providers might be a better option.

Where does it become a better idea to just rent a few instances in Azure/EC2/Google Cloud?
Disagree strongly. Downvotes add a level of toxicity that should be avoided as much as possible. Ignoring an undesirable link is better than having a negative reaction to it. The lack of a downvote button also forces any critics to leave a comment explaining their criticism, rather than just mindlessly pressing the down arrow.
Yeah, odd post that talks a lot about Grafana and visualizations then uses absolutely none.
Distributed computing for data science not only benefits when we go big, but also when we need go small with independent nodes.

e.g. Cluster of scalable ARM SBC nodes or even multi-architectural nodes could be highly efficient.

I've been exploring this kind of setup for a while now, frameworks like Dask, Ray[1], Modin can do this with Python to some extent. But they are still finicky and Dask seemed more stable than other frameworks for this setup.

I wanted to try out language level distributed computing setup, but Julia required same setup (OS/Arch/Path) replicated on all their nodes last time I visited it.

I feel, distributed computing as such hasn't got much love as it deserves in the consumer market, especially since many have several computing units in their houses now(PC, tablet, smartphone, Watch, TV, Game console). If interoperable distributed computing layer was fundamentally baked in with all modern operating systems minimising the latency with Network, Storage, Memory; Then we could leverage huge compute power on demand, which not possible without investing lot money in single compute unit nowadays.

Then again, Compute power is a major strategic advantage for the manufacturers. Why would Apple share its A13X for compute with a Snapdragon or Intel?

[1]https://gist.github.com/heavyinfo/aa0bf2feb02aedb3b38eef203b...
In economics it's "Isn't that endogenous?"
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As always, the problem in VLSI isn't technology--it's tools.

Places like X-Fab can run a mask set for you at around $50K. Tools will run you $150K+.

Side note: X-Fab, fix your !@#$ing site already. You got hacked on July 5th. Still being unable to log in a month later doesn't bespeak competence.
Nothing, because then you are on google sites all the time and google gets all the ad dollars.

For some reasons, google wants to become AOoL, introducing the A with their AMP service (or with Applied Semantics).

This rises the question: Will content owners create their own content network? If Google steals your content on the internet, why put your content on the internet? Why not have an app that delivers content to paying customers? Now each content provider tries this on his own with his own app. why not combine the efforts and just offer a browser for their closed network or embrace the Brave browser? If all content producers pull this off together, the audience will be there.

Facebook could offer a Facebook content network on their own because they already have the audience, and Genius and all those Recipe sites could publish their content in a secure way. Maybe Instagram with its text pictures is already the predecessor.

It seems like Google was taken over by Applied Semantics in the same way that Boeing was taken over by McDonnell Douglas because in the long run, nobody offers up his content for search if it is ripped off.
> So I can have the rug pulled out from me in six months?

This reasoning is silly and bizarre. What, exactly, is the massive risk you're taking when you use a VPN that could go away at some point? Not only is a VPN a commodity that many other service providers can easily fill if the worst was to happen, Mozilla's VPN is just a rebrand of Mullvad which would be a cinch to switch to.

So much for trusting Mozilla and caring about privacy and security. Evidently, the potential risk of losing a cheap & convenient VPN app is a far bigger issue! /s
I always recommend clients to get familiar with the task. A lot of the stress comes from facing the unknown (unknown codebase, report, process).

Your "study hat" is just that - you get familiar with the complex underlying mechanism and then much of the resistance disappears.

Get familiar, get started.
Hmm I just had a quick look st the 0th link and a lot of these yellow items seem to be done or in alpha stage. E.g. mining, unrestricted view distance and a lot more. Outdated data? Bias? Or am I getting something wrong?
This is probably also a very interesting technique for data augmentation for computer vision ML. (That is, seam carving. Not much to do with the parallel version...)

Unlike other typical data augmentation operations, spatial relationships are altered in nonlinear but still realistic ways.
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Looking forward to buying in at a reasonable price. If it wasn't for COVID, they would likely have hit 100Bn market cap pretty quick which doesn't leave as much room for growth.
Also a good description of most art.
>Well, if a business is allowing their employees to work from home due to COVID, they don't want them traveling off abroad and being classified as tax residents of various countries.

You would need to stay somewhere 6+ months in a year to be classified as a tax resident so I don't see that being relevant to Airbnb.

1-3 month work from different places would be what I would be doing right now if my wife wasn't pregnant, but as someone who did it when the lockdown started (moved from inland to island for 2 weeks) the cut they take on that duration makes it worth searching local advertising sites. The bigger issue is that most rentals suck for work compared to a decent home office set-up
Can someone explain to me the benefit here? Is it making it less likely for the google scrape to get a search hit?
I’ve owned a blank WASD board for years. Im no expert typist but i’ve had a similar experience to the author.

Anecdotally it serves as a layer of computer security i didn’t expect. Friends of mine (IT pros, graduate students, programmers, etc) who make their livelihoods on computers throw tantrums completing simple tasks with it, such as typing “youtube” into an address bar. Entering their passwords is particularly impossible exercise in my experience.
India, E-Commerce and Electric Vehicles Raise Supergiant Funding in July
Yes, thanks for digging it up!
Wasn’t sure if you were having a seizure there, so for anyone else who was wondering:

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hiybbprqag

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hiybbprqag-how-google-tripped-u...
Yes, it's quite ironic. Hopefully, the authors will eventually improve the post, because core content is valuable.
I was curious what the process was ~4 years ago for this so I “misplaced” my ID flying from SF to LA and the first agent at the beginning of the line looked me up on LinkedIn then they did a bag inspection and they let me through (I had a pass on my phone).

It was very ... lenient.
There's no "benefit", they were just looking for a nice unique way of watermarking textual content, to prove that what shows up on a Google search is indeed sources from them and not some other transcription of the lyrics.
The equivalent would be to copy an existing map, not to create a map based on your observations of the world.
Intel's latest Comet Lake supports per-core HT enable/disable, and supports per-core frequency long before. But I don't know how it works well by cooperating to OS
No, in the US you cannot copyright facts, only expression. So you have control over word-for-word copies of your article about a bird; but you have no control over dissemination of the facts you discovered about the bird. SCOTUS decided this in 1991, Feist v. Rural: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications,_Inc.,_v._R....

You might be thinking of sui generis database rights, which DOES cover collections of facts. The EU, Russia, and Brazil recognize this right, but the US doesn't: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_right#United_States
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No, you can’t. Another competing standard against SQL will die trying to be SQL.
Fascinating, pardon my ignorance but I’m new to this home brew clustering thing. How is the coordination between the nodes handled for a use case like serving a wordpress blog? Or are we talking about n-1 nodes behind a load balancing master node?
Clumpiness of randomness is always surprising.
>> I find it very distressing that this massive transfer of wealth from small businesses to megacorps isn't being discussed more.

It's not discussed because people don't care. They are optimizing for one thing and one thing only currently: COVID case counts. Anything to get the number under what they think is a good number, all externalities be damned.

In six months when they can't get their fair trade coffee from their local place, they'll wonder why it is and be sad. But they're as complicit as anyone else in having a zero-tolerance risk threshold with no accounting for externalities.
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I think this has to with the unknowns of modern work.

In knowledge work, we need to:

1. Define the work

2. Do the work

Can't do what's not defined.

In general, the simple advice I give our clients is to take a piece of paper and a pen, and put all the ideas about the task out there. Take 5-15 minutes and try to define it.

Basecamp's Shape Up book is a lot about managing the unknowns.
Try LogDNA - it's been the cheapest, fastest and more reliable logging service I've used.

https://logdna.com/
Exactly. This should definitely be grounds for allowing copying google maps data as long as you render it in your own style. The usual trick here is trap data where map makers insert fake data to catch copies but thats exactly what happened here with the ' in the lyrics.
I don't care about the ads (I block them) or personalization (I don't go through their click-counting-script).

I'd happily pay 10€/m for better results though.
Not all people like Fred will act as you describe. When I was at Google, Michael Chastain (I think he is/was a GDB maintainer) did lots of massive refactorings across the whole Google codebase, and was one of the hand full of people with ownership rights at the root of the source tree. He really was a major force multiplier.
Everyone knows to get rid of hippies, break out the Slayer!
Given that TSA continues to absorb increasing amounts of boondoggle in return for actually making me LESS safe (giant lines outside the security perimeter are a wonderful target) I'll take the trade, thanks.

And airline personnel have to abide by the law since they can be taken to court. That's a VAST improvement over the unaccountable TSA.

And, oddly, the airlines actually didn't cut corners. What "needs to get caught" is well-defined, and all holy hell breaks over the heads of people if it doesn't get caught.

Now, that means that airlines train their security to recognize the test firearm rather than actual general firearms, but that's a failure to define the problem correctly rather than cutting corners.
For 3, you can also middle click the back button to reopen the search engine tab again.
Also might be of interest that this can be run in a framebuffer. Sometimes I work in a virtual console to avoid distractions but when Emacs’ built in web browser doesn’t serve a purpose, I’ll open NetSurf in another console, and it’s fine for almost all “search for errors or docs” workflows.
Very little if the level of contextual loading is high enough. Vast amounts if it is low. Not all bits are equal.
I understand this sentiment, but the more people think this way, the longer it takes to safely get to herd immunity, so there is a massive tradeoff happening here.
"But we know we also need to go beyond the browser to give people new products and technologies that both excite them and represent their interests"

I was a loyal Firefox user and can't even remember why I switched to Chrome. Sometimes shit happens. Kohler can be all ecited about making the next great toilet bowl. Just don't expect me to get excited every morning to go take a poop on that bowl. It's an impossibly high standard!
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My anaconda don't want none of your poor semantics.
I don't care about their risk, but they don't have a right to put everyone else at risk.

Analogy: If you play with fire and get burned, that is up to you. If you play with fire and burn your neighbor's house down...
This guy theorized that autism is caused by a problem with ATP and mitochondria. He did a trial of an old, obscure drug that blocks ATP receptors (for signaling, not metabolism) on young ASD patients and there was noticeable improvement in their symptoms. More studies are underway.

http://naviauxlab.ucsd.edu/science-item/autism-research/
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I agree with you that the internet version of torches and pitchforks is probably more counterproductive than righteous, but I think in Eich's case the backlash and ultimate result were probably fair. In his own words, he could not be an effective leader under the circumstances. That was exactly right. In 2014, LGBTQ rights were still very much an active fight, and placing someone who was publicly fighting against those civil rights into a position to be the public face of the organization and the leader to everyone working for and with it was untenable. Public protests in that very specific scenario were warranted, and their success should be held as an example of when and how the influence of public opinion was wielded appropriately and effectively.
> adds a tons of complexity over just using JS.

What "tons complexity" are you talking about? Clojure is a much simpler language (in the decomplected sense) than JS. Less syntax, better build tools, uniform stdlib, no webpack/babel nonsense. This sentence makes no sense.

> interacting with the JS ecosystem is painful cause of its reliance on the closure compiler.

Again, what? With tools like shadow-cljs, requiring JS libs and using them in you project is trivial (just require and import like you would any cljs library).

> In Clojure, is almost the same, most Java libs are over-engineered and horrible to use but you need to reach for them because Clojure lacks an ecosystem.

I've been writing Clojure for 10 years and rarely have I had to reach for Java. This is absolute rubbish.

You seem to hold strong opinions about a language you barely understand.

Edit: reading you comment history, you seem to have an axe to grind with Clojure.
The fundamental assumption here seems to be that we'll have no innovation in the technology (say, qubits) used to manage and create this information. I think that's flawed from the get-go.
10 seconds is terrible, a WordPress page should render in under 2 seconds.
The "buried" lede here is that they think Ben Cross is a giant asshat blowhard.
Edit the principal genes of the mitochondria (for example, increase the membrane's oxygen and CO₂ permeability) to make it extract more energy per unit time.
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I used a Das Keyboard Ultimate when I was younger. The best thing about it was that when people were over. They would always end up giving me control over the selection of music. Because very few people can actually type without seeing the letters.
Can I add my own ?"BlinkFind"[0]

Yes it's exactly as the name implies ! It will BLINK the text you are trying to find on a page via "Ctrl+F" or "Cmd+F".
I honestly can't believe I'm the only user of this extension. I can not for the live of me find half the text I'm looking for on a webpage without it blinking.

[0]https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/blink-find-finding...?
utm_source=chrome-ntp-icon
Then explain to them why it's important. That we don't want the code to turn into an unmaintainable mess. That maintainance costs dwarf initial development costs. That this is not some sort of hobby project, but a professional, production-quality project where you can't afford to let code quality drop.
It's not quite the same. The main difference is that the data-binding is only one way, so it make the whole thing a lot easier to reason about.
600$ buys you a considerable amount of time in a cloud vendor. For example you can have a 1vCPU instance in Hetzner for 3€/month, which means 600$ can buy you about a year's worth of 20 instances running 24/7.

If you don't need 99.9999 availability of your cluster and are only interested in firing up the cluster from time to time then those same 600$ can buy you a few years of cluster time
The one with the article linked in the original post.
I've noticed that when I type QWERTY-layout, my fingers don't necessarily maintain that suggested discipline with the columns.
With words like 'really', my left hand will move over so that my index finger can type the 'y'.

If you've got the time to spare, though, I'd suggest learning the Dvorak layout for a more comfortable typing experience.
I've floated around skipping a promotion cycle to work 4 days/week for same pay. No manager has ever taken me up on it either.
I don't know, but that's not the goal. REMS stands for Rigorous Engineering of Mainstream Systems. Mill is not a mainstream system.
Didn’t Amazon do this with the Fire Phone and FireFly in 2015? What I need is to comparison shop this item at 5 other grocery stores and FreshDirect and Amazon Fresh and have it tell me if I’m getting a good deal.
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It was hyperbole. Take off a few zeros when reading it if you want.
My keycaps are mostly blank (varies with frequency of key use) due to the shear amount of typing I've done on my KB, which has lasted me a surprisingly long time (10-15 yrs).

I would say I reached "expert" status long before that happened though. I attribute this to doing so much typing for the past few decades.

I think the reason so many people have trouble with keyboards is that they have no formal training (e.g. a typing class in school), and do not regularly use them because their phone/tablet is the primary computing device.
Just add some small, inconsequential error to all positional data.
Your take is dripping with bias. Everyone who had any sense wanted a lockdown with business stimulus, there is no reason these externalities needed to be bad in any capacity. Sacrificing lives because the Republican party is okay with it isn't on the common person.
Maybe the solution then is to train more people to use kdb, not to build new languages/frameworks.
Is this is a real paper? https://xkcd.com/605/
Last time i checked ipxe was still not supported on pi boards that I think have a very convoluted boot process. Maybe someone with more time and passion than me can eventually figure it out =)
Wow! this is good! I didn't even know such a thing existed.

Are you the person who wrote this? if so would like to contribute in some way.
This this just different parlance to describe type constructors or am I missing something?
I work in semiconductor manufacturing which is basically a giant inverse problem (technically IMHO everything is). I personally work on optimization software which finds the best setting for 7 out of a few hundred settings (collection of settings is called a recipe). We used to use a semi brute force approach and then moved to GA. Currently research is ongoing about mixed integer surrogate models.

The Apps market for this industry is huge. The Apps department of one of the biggest equipment manufacturers itself, if counted separately, is in top 10 biggest companies in semiconductor equipment companies.
With any job, there's a part of work that we enjoy and a part that we don't. This article and others on our site are meant to help people with the latter.

In the long term, we always advice people to look for work that is naturally engaging for them.

But in the meantime, a couple behavioral adjustments can turn "I hate doing this, I don't want to do this" into "Okay, let's do this one small bit".
Man you must think the field of astronomy is full of only quacks then, it's got climate as a subsystem!
We may be talking about the same thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/i63xxv/datadog_shad... but my take away wasn't from the original poster's story, it was from the numerous replies with their own story about the product being fine but the interactions with the business being suboptimal. I also came into that thread having just heard a similar story last week from an non-reddit source. "..., twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action," as the tale goes.

Even surfing around the new comments _here_ seems to reinforce that same theme, so whatever the next phase is beyond enemy action, I'm pretty sure we've crossed that threshold
> What's exactly Anaconda made wrong?

As I mentioned earlier:

"It didn't give a choice to map some partitions to just a mount point without formatting and some others were simply not visible."

> Distro-tossing isn't a way how you can polish your Linux skills.

I agree with you. Though my primary purpose behind using Linux is not to polish my Linux skills (I've been using Linux for close to 20 years now) but is driven by my belief in open source, Linux's flexibility and the great ecosystem of software. However, one has only a finite amount of time and since Anaconda didn't provide me with an option to work with my current setup (I explored various options like advanced mode etc without much success), I had to move on to something that worked which turned out to be the Ubiquity installer used by Pop!_OS. I probably should have tried to document the probelms and raise an issue in the Anaconda forum/github - will do that next time I try Fedora.
This article is really too lightweight. It's not as much a review of current research as it is something that would fill whitespace in an industry mag.