skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't really see this as a Web competitor; all you need is for someone to throw together a dreamup.js and then it should work in every modern browser. No need for a proprietary application.

Secondly, the Achilles' heel of instructions.txt is that a lot of things in web dev are just impossible for describe. Bootstrap and friends go a long way towards given us some sort of standardized terminology to describe common components, but not every site uses them. A lot of sites build their own. At that point the usefulness drops, because instead of saying things like "give them a little space" you have to say things like "give it a margin of 2px on the top, -5px on the left, a solid #f5f5f5 border on the left, a border radius of 20%...."

That being said, this is a good idea. The vast, vast majority of websites do not need to wade outside of what is "normal." Everyone would benefit from having a more accessible alternative to HTML & CSS, given that the current alternatives look like Twitter and Facebook.
Fun fact: we still can’t genetically transform human mitochondria, and we’ve tried for decades
"Once the Yosys gHDL integration stabilize, CXXRTL will be the only open source simulator with mixed Verilog/VHDL language support!"

Folks, this is huge! There isn't a single commercial ASIC/SoC project that doesn't have a mix of Verilog and VHDL.
> You just can't be in charge of everything.

Unless by "everything" you mean the government of the United State of America (the country where Mozilla has its headquarters), in which case, it's OK again (Obama opposed same sex marriage at the time when Eich made his donation). You can dress it up like Eich's views were some big sin that demands banishment from society, but of America's 45 presidents, 44 of them agreed with Eich, and the one who disagreed initially agreed with Eich before disagreeing with him. So, I'm pretty sure you can be in charge of everything with those views.
There were massive layoffs today apparently with discussion of finding better ways to make money. Some are taking it as a sign of Firefox potentially deciding to monetize data (and, thus, deincentivize privacy focus internally). That might be what OP is talking about.
I'd say it's more "how can we ship the simplest version of Sentry possible".

Important to know we do much, much more than what they're offering, for far more than just JavaScript. It's more of a checkbox than a real alternative. Probably useful for companies who just want to buy one tool and not worry about if it's actually what their developers want or need.
Starlink requires a proprietary receiver, right? I suspect these authoritarian regimes won't be allowing starlink installations on the ground unless they get to have a kill switch.
> One thing that always frustrates me a bit whenever Mozilla comes up on HN or elsewhere is that we are a always held to impossibly high standards.

Yes, that is the name of the game. Isn't it? You are not a obscure project in GitHub. If you don't think so please move on. When you are a top Hollywood star you play the game of the stars. The same applies for sports or other high competitive activities. Chrome is here, show you deserve the place you are.
I developed this to get a quick look at all the Issues and PRs open across my various repositories. It helps me keep track of everything directly from the command line. Hopefully it can help you!

https://github.com/joecummings/gitmine

It's open-sourced so if it doesn't exactly fit your needs, just open an issue and we'll look into adding to it (or you can submit a PR yourself).
Russia followed a known recipe that several other vaccine makes are following.
So far it has passed the first creation of antibody tests and the creation of the second level done on volunteers and medical people. These are the phase 1 and 2 parts.
Phase 3 is the expanded test of thousands of people, with half getting the real vaccine and half gettinga fake or placebo. Then you watch them for 6 months and count the sick and dead and look up what they got = confirm or deny the vaccine effectiveness and safety.
Russia has taken a chance that they were right and is vaccinating many people with no placebo arm to verify.
Time will tell. In 3 months the numbers will be in and Russia will fail or succeed on those numbers. If they succeed = huge gains for Russia. The rest of the world will be 4-5 months behind.
If they fail......
Does China sell/license/supply their GFW tech to anyone? Sandvine seems to sell to anyone that tear gas fabricators will sell to (Oh, you'll use this against your own citizens and that's legal because you wrote the law? Great, just check this box!).
Hey Chris, thanks for the great talks on math and ML with Julia. I highly recommend them to anyone interested in learning how to spell mathematical model in julia or, in general, in any language.
Irrelevant. I object to the intent to be insulting, not to the specific insult chosen. Insultingly calling them “paperclip giraffes^” with the same derogatory intent would have earned the same comment.

^ Thanks, password generator!
Pumas-AI co-founder here. Indeed, Pharma is conservative due to the impact it can have on patient lives (good or bad). If something is working, it stays, and something failed them, it gets axed, both people and tools. Having said that, let's give them some credit, as along with the regulators at the FDA, pharma has come a long way from the days of SAS. Even the regulators at the FDA have started gravitating away from SAS into more R-based workflows. While it was a good switch away from SAS, scientists started realizing the bottlenecks with R and the requirement to learn multiple tools to get things working, especially when one has to scale up for the new age analytics. While it is good to have a swiss army knife of tools, there is more overhead in making them work together. I think that is why SAS had shined for the longest time. But as you rightly said, it is cost prohibitive and in the hands of very few.

Pumas and the Julia ecosystem are about integrated modeling speak across multiple sectors that are composable and the best part is that one does not have to develop in one environment and switch to another for production. Your point about Salesforce may be right for trial operations, but someone has to do the anlaytics that connect back to the first principles of physiology and pharmacology. Pumas provides this connection to first principles from the core, and lets you build on it for both internal decision making or to serve the stakeholders with fancy UI's.

A subtle but important point here is that compared to a 30-40 years ago since when SAS became a mainstay, I would argue that more of the younger generation are not averse to coding. In fact programming at the basic level is a fundamental expected skill set, and I personally see more and more life-science majors be efficient coders, thanks to the democratization of tools and education. Combined with this new workforce, and tools like Pumas and Julia, we are not far away from disrupting this sector.
The XR part is usually the particles inside the capsule. To make them faster acting you also have to pulverize those.
Thanks for sharing. I just finished watching this. It was very helpful!
Yeah, but following your argument, no one can ever build a better car...
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Victoriametrics[0] is API-compatible with Prometheus but also a horizontally scalable, distributed and persisting timeseries database (cf influxdb). Together with vmagent it essentially becomes a HA drop-in replacement (almost) for Prometheus.

[0]: https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics
I hope they have Emacs in heaven
$900 is a small price to pay for a lifetime of better earnings, assuming that’s the problem.
A Smiley face should be called a “Fahlman”:-)
We have renamed many concepts after their authors.
For example, "cycles per second" is now called "Hertz".

I propose we refer to the smiley face :-) as a "Fahlman" because (from Wikpedia):

Fahlman is credited with originating the first smiley emoticon,[7][8][9] which he thought would help people on a message board at Carnegie Mellon to distinguish serious posts from jokes. He proposed the use of :-) and :-( for this purpose, and the symbols caught on. The original message from which these symbols originated was posted on 19 September 1982. The message was recovered by Jeff Baird on 10 September 2002 and read:[10]

19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman :-)
From: Scott E Fahlman <Fahlman at Cmu-20c>

I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers:

:-)

Read it sideways. Actually, it is probably more economical to mark things that are NOT jokes, given current trends. For this, use

:-(
Thank you for the correction, I'll make an edit.

Edit: it appears I cannot make an edit. I do think the correction is immaterial to the larger point. Eich was not able to function as CEO given his donation. The wide publicity of this event, the other event I mentioned in my post, and even the FAQ you shared and the blog post that is OP are symptoms of an organization that is more interested in being seen positively from outside than in treating its people well. Given the wide publicity of these events, Mozilla struggles to extract experienced and high quality talent from the industry.
I'd be curious to hear if anyone has done serious evaluation of high-cardinality use-cases of Victoriametrics.
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I have a photo of my friend, his ex-wife and a few others standing together on a camping trip. I wanted to share that photo with the group since it was the tenth anniversary of that trip, but didn't want to remind my friend of his divorce, so I used seam carving to elide his ex-wife. (The tool I used allows you to paint areas of low or high energy.) The result was almost seamless (pun intended) and you wouldn't notice anything amiss if you weren't looking for it.
You are right, a portion of pharma is conservative. There are two different needs in Pharma - one is more like assembly line (pure operations) and other other is "innovation". One has to decide what excites scientists - operations (eg calculating group means over and over where the answer has to be exact) OR innovation (get the questions right, designs right, analysis right, answers approximately accurate). I think there is a place for "operations", but they constitute "sustaining innovations". Meaning can I find the most economical solution for this problem? Operations is a separate discussion.

Let us talk about "disruptive innovations". What if I told you I was part of the team that approved a treatment for H1N1 flu pandemic in children without ANY trial based on unapproved data in adults? What if I told you the development pathway for pulmonary arterial hypertension in pediatrics was driven by analysis performed by Pumas-like software to establish a reasonable endpoint? These are patients who cannot perform most daily functions we take for granted. There would have been no drugs approved otherwise. How can you, me and others contribute to the disruptive innovation which will transform how drugs are developed and patients are treated. Pumas is designed to disrupt drug development and precision medicine. There are plenty of opportunities for disruption in healthcare. these opportunities are the motivation for Pumas..Joga Gobburu (Co-Founder, Pumas-AI)
This could have accessibility applications too. I have a hard time reading labels for some products or finding certain ingredients. Having a camera that I could wave around when looking for something and just follow the vibrations when the camera detects a matching product would be huge for me.
One thing you can do is configure compressions, so essentially less recent data has lower time resolution and/or less cardinality. So some dimensions are dropped and you only have e.g. 1h resolution for data older than some threshold.
Although it’s not quite as good as uBlock Origin, moving to a network based setup, like PiHole or AdGuard Home, can make great strides across all your devices with minimal headache or worrying as much about Google making it harder to control your web content. It makes it very apparent when I’m browsing on my phone or iPad and they switch over to LTE because all the sudden there are ads everywhere.

At some point I’m sure they’ll start trying to bypass local DNS by forcing DNS over HTTPS to only their approved servers, at which point someone will build a MITM HTTPS proxy for home users that you can seamlessly install onto a Raspberry Pi until we see the next escalation in the never ending battle for our eyeballs.
Can you please explain what you did there, and how it compares with the official state of the art?
I highly recommend the story of IronShore .. it really speaks about the importance of having the right analysis stack along with the technology that can save share holders millions of dollars.. these are things Pumas and the team at Pumas-AI does on a day to day basis
The only Datadog feature announcement I look forward to is "we've solved our stability issues!".

I am sick of playing the "is our infrastructure or Datadog's on fire?" game at 3 AM whenever I'm on call.
I can only imagine the firefighting their engineering teams are dealing with, but for what you pay, I expect better.
I think it’s disingenuous to split hairs like this. Eich didn’t exhibit any plans t resign until the episode and pressure that resulted in his resignation. I think that’s the same thing and I would also use this term any time a CEO “resigns to spend more time with her family” instead of being fired.
Reddit Admins Takeover My Novelty Account and Handed It to Comcast
The collision is messy and it splatters a huge amount of neutronium into space. This dissociates into a very hot mist of heavy elements, which eventually mixes into the surrounding nebula. The proto-solar disk was formed from this mixture.
I believe in California, that unspecified future date is Oct 01, 2021 (for boarding planes).

https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/driver-licenses-identification...
Windows progressively enforcing wasteful add-ons, software and events that are out of user control and are impossible to disable.

Windows is designed for below average joe with too many extra protection layers against fool.

I still think $millions are to be made with proper cleanup/decrapify tools that are actively staying on top of the latest MSFT malices to keep user hands off the low level configurations.

I still remember my beloved Windows NT times where i can make a "race car" out of it.
Hmm I'm hosting this on github pages, so maybe its related to how they're issuing certs for my domain. I'll look into it. Thanks for the report!
For the record, my 10 year old self actually made green eggs.

I was trying to make scrambled eggs. I put some Cayenne pepper in. I dumped a bunch. I realized it was hot. I had heard that mint would make food taste less hot. So I dumped in more and more and more and more.

Eventually it turned green. But didn't stop being waaay too hot to my 10 year old self. (I'm sure that my 50 year old self would find it mild.)
The Pinterest Paradox: Cupcakes and Toxicity
I agree with this statement also. By writing code to do JSON parsing, JSON parsing is now part of your business.
That... that was mind-blowing.

This discovery is 13 years old. Although it has clear limitations when it comes to humans, I'm surprised I don't see this kind of resize feature available in more software. Does Photoshop have this hidden in a drawer somewhere? Does imagemagick support this?
For me, the main cause of procrastination was lack of clarity on what needs to be done.

I've found that following a rigorous brain-dump process makes a big difference.

For my brain-dumps, I start by jotting down a list of everything I can think of that's related to my task. I let ideas flow freely.

Then I scan through what I've written and check if there's anything that's not specific and actionable. If so, I zoom in and do another brain-dump on that task. I repeat until I have only very specific items

https://www.indiehackers.com/post/the-root-cause-of-procrast...
Google has been trying to build their own little silo (and used all sorts of dirty tricks in past also) for things with AMP and ads and stuff for a while. So this just sounds a bit bizarre.
Donations to Mozilla (the non profit) do not go towards Firefox, and there's no way currently to directly donate to Firefox.
Not to be confused with midi-chlorians that power the force :)
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Not to my knowledge. I don't see any reason for it to be blocked, even in theory. It's not like you get access to a more permissive API surface or anything. If someone is going to feed you malicious code to execute, all WASM will do is make it harder to inspect.
This is a great article and the content very interesting about the books.
Yup! High level and low level networking is definitely on our radar, but it also isn't our immediate priority.
Glad they spent time replacing the facist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, white supremacist verbiage "master" instead of ensuring their white and Asian employees had jobs.
This being a hacker forum, would such security measures as you believe in and propose be acceptable in any computing application? In finance? Medicine? Anything really?
Physicists accelerate the hunt for revolutionary artificial atomic materials
Completely left-field comment:

> Carmen Sandi recalls the skepticism she faced at first. A behavioral neuroscientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, she had followed a hunch

I feel like people use “radical ideas” like this to justify whatever their bullshit of the day is, and generally ignore the fact that they almost always come from experts in their respective fields.
Any corporate entity making claims of supporting diversity without creating efforts to improve actual diversity which requires much earlier interaction long before hiring, is likely not really concerned about diversity but virtue signaling.

This is just my own opinion. There's also the consideration that merit and talent should exceed diversity as a goal. For developers, I find that those that I would hire are roughly 10-15% of those I've interviewed. I've always paid more attention to content and character, and that has shaken itself out to include quite a bit of diversity in the end without being a goal.

Maybe it's a side effect of coming from a generation online before cameras and even gui interfaces were really much of a thing. I never really cared much about someone's sexual or racial identities, only what their ideas and statements were. I almost wish we could return to those things. When I see a pull request on github, I don't go looking into the person, only the code.
I believe they call this person a “catfish” developer
>Determination of interatomic coupling between two-dimensional crystals using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17412-0
What would it mean to “genetically transform” a human mitochondria, and why are have we been trying to for decades?
> Mitigate harms?

Probably related to BLM.
Try scala-js [1], there is a nice side-by-side [2] comparison with JavaScript, but with a powerful compiler behind.

[1]: https://www.scala-js.org

[2]: https://www.scala-js.org/doc/sjs-for-js/
It's quite common to see "I thought article was going to be about <x>" on HN. Less common for the disappointed punter to dive right in and write the article they expected. Nice one!
What's a good alternative to Prometheus when pulling stats is impractical? Say I want to monitor a personal laptop like I would a server. It will change networks and IP addresses, so pulling would be impractical to configure, whereas the laptop could easily(?) push its stats to a remote server.
Datadog pricing is ridiculously complex. Prepare to not really know how much you're paying and how much you owe and why. It's the AWS of metrics.

If you need an APM I recommend appsignal. Predictable pricing, and easy to use/find the right info you need.
A subtlety we've discovered through success and growth of Julia is that even if your language has some solution to the expression problem, if it's has non-zero cost and isn't the default then people won't actually use it, which undermines much of the benefit. Systems like CLOS, Clojure and even R, which have multimethods but where they're opt-in and use slow hash-based implementations, don't in practice see most of the benefits that we've seen in Julia from multiple dispatch in terms of code reuse and composability. Another way to say this is that if multiple dispatch is just a feature that you reach for when you need to do something fancy, then it looks like just another feature; when it's ubiquitous it becomes transformative.
Technicality. Eich was a victim of cancel culture and he was effectively fired. Anything else is revisionist bs.
Mars map with water: terraforming image shows Elon Musk’s dream
I seriously cannot decide if your post is satire. Directly from the wikipedia article:

http://www.photoshopsupport.com/photoshop-cs4/what-is-new-in...

http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/resize/#liquid-rescale
If your team is 5 people, and each one makes the company 4% better every year, then after a year the company is 3.3x better, and after 5 it's 403x better. If you team is 5 people, but one of them makes other engineers 4% better each year, and the rest focus on the company, then after a year the company is 3.2x larger and after 5 it's 392x better. Wasn't worth it. At six engineers the balance slightly shifts.

Group 1 year 5 years Gain
5 product 3.3 403.4
1 tools, 4 product 3.2 392.8 -2.6%
6 product 3.5 492.7
1 tools, 5 product 3.3 501.0 +1.7%

Now, obviously the team probably won't stay 5 engineers for 5 years, but my point is: like everything else, this is a cost-benefit analysis. For small teams, it turns out it's not worth it to have happy Fred on your team, and you should let him go work on internal tools for a few dozen engineers where he can have massive impact there.
I wanted to keep the title the same as what the Reddit OP's done. Just wanted to share this since I think the Reddit admins have done a pretty egregious thing here:

- Take over a user's account without discussing it with him beforehand (OP's claim)

- Handing it straight over to another party for promotion (can be seen in /u/xfinity's profile).
Mozilla, with revenue of $27M last year, is mainly responsible for Firefox and a few related applications [0].

Apache meanwhile, has revenue of less than $1M, and has over 350 projects with huge adoption like Cassandra and Kafka and Lucene and Maven and that eponymous HTTP server [1].

In 2017 Mozilla paid their CEO $2.3M and their treasurer (who only worked 6 months) $1.2M [2].

Mozilla is a foundation which owns a for-profit corporation. That corporation had revenues of $450M in 2018 [3]. I double checked this shocking amount.

Most of that revenue comes from their search partner, which was switched back to Google recently [4].

How is all of this possible given the relative contributions of these software non-profits?

[0] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/products
[1] https://projects.apache.org/projects.html
[2] https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2017/mozilla-2017-fo...
[3] https://www.ghacks.net/2019/11/26/mozilla-revenue-dropped-in...
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation#Google
Why did you make it 3x more expensive than SquareSpace?
The browser API requires it.
Enthought

You also may enjoy Amiga Learning, although it's not quite the same
I was hoping to see one of these. Thank you!
That lesson can backfire. When my father decided to treat me to "green eggs and ham" on my birthday thinking I'd be thrilled. But in order to mix in the food coloring he needed to chop the ham into pieces and scramble the eggs. Because it didn't match the image of whole ham and unbroken yolks, I hated it and threw a tantrum. I was quite the problem child.

Semi-related, my favorite cheese is Swiss because it has holes in it, and that's how cheese is portrayed in comics.