skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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What?! Servo and the tech coming out of it is the only reason I’ve begun using Firefox as my daily driver again. The Quantum stuff has made Firefox usable again. How are these CEO’s chosen? Really seems like Mozilla should be turned into a CO-OP or something.
This has to be satire right? Right?
Touch typing isn't only about speed. It's also about health and RSI, especially if you use an ergonomic layout like a Dvorak.

For me it made a difference, and I went from feeling pain after an hour of typing, to being able to type all day without the slightest issue.
Sorry, it’s a Southpark episode reference, not dissing Apple
> should be (in general) illegal

But.. it's not illegal?

> somewhat, per things like the Americans with Disabilities Act

This is just not right at all. There is nothing in the Americans with Disabilities Act that make blocking scrapers illegal.

I think you mean you don't like the power imbalance of the large company taking away from smaller companies while using technological means to stop the same thing happening to them.

I don't like it either, but that doesn't magically make it is illegal. I'm not even sure it should be.
That’s kind of interesting approach. Assuming that there is only one place where information is stored it’s easy/easier to control access to it.

Later down the road it will be also much easier to enforce control since as all the data exists in this marketing store _any_ offsite store would be a violation.

Downside would be that this data vault would most likely be the highest value target.
My understanding is that Prometheus is designed for you to deploy multiple instances within your company, rather than deploying a limited number of instances for the company or division. So I would reasonably run a Prometheus instance by myself or with my neighboring teams rather than depending on a centralized instance run by $OPS.
I'm surprised that people who use the computer every day can't touch type, is this a post-iphone/touch generational thing? Back in my day one lucky classmate was rewarded with a session of Mavis Beacon teaches typing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mavis_Beacon_Teaches_Typing) if we behaved extra well in class.
Argue as you want, the title is wrong. This is a 1+1=2 forum.
Time to go back to Chrome :(
Honestly, it’s incredibly impressive how far you can push them as is. We send a lot of data into these systems.
>I am a Linux guy and I hate it when co-workers are too stupid for utf8 encoding.

You sound like a jerk. Team-mates not understand something is not an excuse to call them stupid. If you truly love something then usually you'd want to share that love with the uninitiated.
Interestingly this will create a much more cohesive and valuable set of data about an individual, linking silos from different companies. It will be interesting to see if online data will also be linkable to real world data (credit score, address etc)
I enjoy Genius too.

Genius with it's annotations is much more interesting than just the lyrics in plain text.

Also Google makes you click the big down arrow before showing the complete lyrics, which makes me irrationally annoyed.
A colleague of mine was the "victim" of this a couple of times. After that he had some sort of script that would lock the laptop if you type "croissant".
Be prepared to pay an arm and leg once you start putting custom metrics into your app.
Primate larynx is larger and evolving faster than other species
Did that in 2008. Heard the brrr machines then. Gold crashed. I was only now, 12 years later, able to sell and break even.
The difference is that you have to watch that you don't make the errors, not other people.
If it helps anybody, this is what I learned from my time at G.

Suppose you are given an objective. Now you drive a project to achieve said objective. For starters:

0. Identify project requirements and scope.

1. Identify stakeholders. These are people/team who are directly/indirectly affected by your project/decisions. They are also people who may have nothing to do with your project, but could stand to gain something from working with you.

2. Talk to said stakeholders. Find out what they are good at, what they want and need. The underlying driving motivation for everyone is almost always career progression (promotion/bonus/etc), but this translates to different interests and goals. E.g our team just built this new tool and we want it to be adopted more widely in the company for greater impact to show that we're worthy of promotion to the next level.

3. Now that you have identified people's roles and interests, it's time to figure out how to align your interests with theirs. For example, you're migrating off a deprecated framework/tool, and another team is peddling their new framework/tool. Maybe you use their framework/tool. Maybe they customize it for you. Maximize this alignment. Business people would call this synergy.

4. Consulting with people shows that you are not a lone wolf, that you can work with others, plus no single person holds the entire picture along with the details. One added benefit is people feel good when they're consulted with. Makes them feel important. It also gives you visibility amongst upper leadership. This step is to build support for and awareness of your project. When everyone has a hand in it (no matter how small), they'll care more that it succeeds.

5. You get back to the drawing board and start designing the system/solution. You hold regular meetings with stakeholders to keep them in the loop, and to incorporate their suggestions. Any time there's a blocker or consensus can't be achieved, you go to their manager directly, or you have your manager talk to their manager. This is the diplomacy/politics part, and where great soft skill is needed (you can leave it to your manager as well). Ideally, if you did a good job with step 3 and 4, you won't have to get into this quagmire.

6. You partition work and dole them out to junior engineers, preferably pieces that can help them in their career as well. This is mentorship + delegation. It's what allows you to be productive and effective - you leverage other peoples' skills.

7. When you finally launch, thank and credit everyone involved (including leadership). Everybody gets to look good.
I didn't get much of a typing education despite being slightly pre-iphone. And my father, who learned to code with punch cards, and wrote code for decades, typed with only two fingers...

It was only after relearning to type, but with a new keyboard layout (colemak), did I find myself able to touch type.
I am not following your line of reasoning correctly.

The watermarking is done using characters that look different from each other. Printing the book will not change those characters, and therefore it is still possible to extract the original information. Harder, but not impossible.

For this information to be lost, Evince would have to print the book in a crappy font that uses a single symbol for both. Which is possible, but I think it's not what you were going for.
Does a data trust require you to prevent "entities other than the trust" from storing data?

Is there a way to do that ?
Essentially, it'll take you an afternoon to write and then weeks of work properly fixing the bugs and handling the edge cases. Potentially and probably, while you're trying to do something else.
true, false and null
You probably want to avoid The Seven Lady Godivas then.
Reminds me of a police case from my hometown where a car thief stole some kind of sports car, can't remember whether it was a Corvette or similar, but then got promptly caught because he couldn't drive a stick shift and kept stalling.
Learning colemak took me maybe a month for proficiency. I'd recommend it as more ergonomic and easier to learn compared to Dvorak; minimizing changes from qwerty was an explicit part of its design process.
No neverending scrolling page, no call girls advertising, no products placement for stuff which is working against the user (adblocking blockers) ...
I learned to touch-type at a young age and can comfortably type 90-110 WPM.

Personally I agree that people, especially people who are expected to use a computer for their job, probably should know how to type, and as a result it should be part of primary education.

I think having blank keycaps though is kind of silly, personally. Especially given the keyboard the author has gone with. If you sat me in front of that keyboard I wouldn't know where to begin due to its size and layout.

It's a fun novelty and if it works for them more power to them, but I only see more frustration than anything. I don't need to look at the keyboard to know what I'm typing, especially on my normal keyboard, but it's nice to have the option.

(I'm the odd-man out when it comes to keyboards though. I don't have a preference for mechanical keyboards and I truly don't understand the love/passion for ~60% keyboards. I really don't get why anyone would want less keys.)
Also reminds me of this talk by Dan Luu: https://www.deconstructconf.com/2019/dan-luu-files
When I graduated high school my English teacher sat the 35 or so of us in my small class. He sat us down like kindergarteners and read us this book. It’s one of my fondest memories.
I use my own fork of surf daily, but am having to fallback to mainstream browsers quite often these days as sites stop working on it or it's unusably slow. Slack no longer works, GitHub breaks occasionally, etc.

Is there a well-maintained fork that fixes these issues? The main repo[1] hasn't seen updates in over a year now. I read that development slowed down after the main maintainer left suckless, but I'm hoping the community will pick it up. It's an excellent minimal browser.

[1]: https://git.suckless.org/surf/
How/where can one purchase Airbnb shares? Is there a minimum amount needed to be purchased?
Every scientist should be skeptical. Doesn't mean he should join some skeptics movement.
I really like that I can add boarding passes to Apple Wallet and they're available totally offline. There's not a lot Wallet is good for (adoption is too low) but it's great at Boarding Passes.
Mozilla shuts down servo team
They had a thriving business model before it, and there won’t be fewer WFH people after Covid
agree. I could not find any third party tool that does that. Can you please tell me more about setting priorities, locks?
Problem is you’ll probably be on a tourist rather than work visa.
Similar experience. In the dorms (single room assignment, bathroom shared with a suitemate), I was one in maybe a handful who threw down for private broadband service with legit throughput and was willing to share. Friends would bother me all the time to hop on for stupid shit. When the OG Das Keyboard launched, I picked one up (still have it today and still works, although caps lock light won't illuminate unless pressure is applied to the top-right corner where the light is positioned). The random visits stopped shortly thereafter, except for one girl who grew up on the same island as I did and was determined enough to bring her own keyboard for the privilege...and other fringe benefits.
Yeah but those properties are exactly what you would expect from imitation learned fuzzy neuronal classifiers. As such, they have no deeper meaning than saying "does the fact that the deep learning model thinks this traffic cone is a penguin reveal to us a deep truth about traffic cones and penguins?" No.. It just used some shortcut feature that's not universally applicable. Just like us.

The heap classifier works to tell that obvious heaps are heaps. It works to tell that single items are not heaps. In between, there is no meaning but noise.
Why are sites handling transactions even offer http in the first place?
Increases in Fox News Viewership Reduced Compliance with Social Distancing
Don't learn new layouts unless you realize all the consequences – you'll become unable to use anything but your very own customized setup effectively. I'm dead serious. I once had to do a password reset to a user who could not type the password on a QWERTY layout login screen after they set it on a Dvorak layout before rebooting.
Hey Microsoft, (or some other less of activism, more of technology firm,) can you hire these geniuses?

I also hope Mozilla learns the lesson that using activism for PR ends up in situations like this.
RIP Rust
IR does have more abuse potential. You can't snort XR.
> Really seems like Mozilla should be turned into a CO-OP or something.

I wonder if the people being fired would be sufficiently equipped to do that themselves. Though losing access to the branding may not be workable.
Key paragraph:

"However, as explained above, the effects during March and April coincide with the period during which President Trump supported social distancing and lockdown measures. Moreover, if we split the ZIP codes into terciles based on the voter share for the Republican party during the 2016 elections, we find large and significant Fox News effects within the most Democrat-leaning areas."

Link to paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3600088
I've been several places where this was the unofficial policy and saw it happen a few times. Once while the CISO was abusing someone else's computer, he forgot to lock his own.

Credit due to him - he kept his word - and since he was CISO, he paid for donuts TWO weeks running.

The policy worked most of the time though.
Not a great sign: There are five new focuses each of which is sweepingly vague.

Sorry to those who just lost their jobs.
Chat-like reference checks and skills testing to find the best candidates
2-factor approach to identify and hire top talent: skills tests + conversational feedback on candidates.
I can type at maybe 70 wpm. It's useful for chatting more than for developing. I learned keyboarding technique in grade school (PAWS) and mostly ignored proper technique, but took a keyboarding class in high school for fun, and was on IRC at the time, so lots of typing. At the beginning of class, my speed was faster with whatever I was doing, but at the end, proper technique won out, although I was faster and more accurate with both methods than at the beginning.

I went through a Dvorak phase in college, it was fun, but switching layouts is weird, and qwerty is everywhere, so I stuck with the standard.

I think most people could train up to about 60 wpm if they wanted to, but like 30-40 wpm is enough that you wouldn't normally be hindered by slow typing. You won't do great in Typer Shark or Typing of the Dead, but you should do alright.

Edit to add: no labels is fine on letters, pretty brutal for all the keys.
I absolutely never do this. Maybe because I'm paranoid, and especially if I'm flying internationally, I never, ever, feel comfortable handing my mobile device to security or Immigration. I still get a paper one every time.
This is amazing. Seriously: I had a look at nearly every game engine/GUI solution in Rust and this is by far the most thought out, ergonomic and complete thing I found.

Color me stoked!
Plus for every developer to come, one call to an external library usually also means 30 pages of documentation to trawl through if they ever want to change anything, 29.9 of which is completely irrelevant to whatever your narrow use case is.

That's the real cost. The size of the code means absolutely nothing.
It's the AppleScript problem...
Gorgeous, thank you. To me this is generative art for people who don’t like generative art. Most generative art doesn’t strike me as beautiful, but many of these creations do. It’s also a good way to learn CSS graphics painlessly.
Wow this looks really interesting.. however it seems kinda risky to start developing a commercial app when the whole documentation is in chinese.. :)
Do we have a source on this ?
I learned Dvorak when I was at university years ago. I can't quite remember how long it took me to get comfortable with the keyboard again after starting to learn it.
The keyboard I was using for Dvorak broke, so I reverted to using QWERTY.

When I tried using Dvorak again recently, it took me a couple of days to get used to it again. I'm comfortable enough switching between a keyboard with Dvorak and a keyboard with QWERTY now, though.
Is there any scientific consensus/studies showing hydroxycloriquine as effective?

As far as I know, the biggest impact right now seem to be: anti-clotting medication, steroids, turning the patient on his belly and avoiding intubation for as long as possible.
Why Do 90 Percent (%) Of Startup Fail and How to Beat the Odds? – 5 Golden Tips
So this is the only game I've ever backed (and I refuse to even pre-order games) so I guess it shows how much I wanted to believe. I only paid ~£30 so I'm not too bothered, but it is sad.

Honestly, if you try the game, for the first hour or so it's beautiful. Going down to a planet and flying around is pretty magical but it quickly wears out and you won't play again until the next big release.

It does have real potential, but they need to cut 99% and focus on the basics.
Yes I think less comprehensive solution could cover major services (EC2, lambda etc)

> The biggest question is "where are you going to get your data about current spend?. AFAIK the budget data lags behind usage

interesting, I was thinking I could poll billing metrics (total charges etc) to figure out account level charges.

In your experience, do you care more about EC2 costs or that was just an example?
Yeah, this seems to be the biggest complaint in all of this thread. We will do something to make it easier to get an impression of the reader for sure. I don't like screenshots, because, at least for me, the value is in the speed of navigating and the lack of surprises that a single page app will often give you (back button not working properly is the classic).
This could be very handy for running integration tests of cluster-management software!
To change coronavirus behaviours, think like a marketer
Time to fork it
Yeah, we (by me I mean not me but someone else at my company) ran a pretty extensive process getting offers from the various vendors. SumoLogic may have cut us a nice deal since we were already giving them lots of money and they didn't want to lose us.
I stayed in an AirBnB in Houston in the summer with broken AC. I left before the first night and was not refunded a cent.

My review is buried on the page. It wasn't on top when I wrote it, and the stars weren't displayed, just the text.

I deleted my AirBnB account.
Servo? The future of Firefox if it wants to have a future?

How about the management resigns for 10 years of terrible decisions?
DIY Satellite Ground Station to Receive NOAA Images
This is clearly not an exclusive license though, right?
I was wondering if the meme was too old for most people to recognize.
Was reading the whole thread, but got distracted by “post-IPO enterprise SaaS phase”. You won buzzword/corporate bingo ;-)
It is also the reason why GNU/Linux desktop will never go beyond 2%.

Android and ChromeOS pack a Linux kernel on their bottom layers, but nothing of it gets exposed to userspace neither for users nor for devs.

Android NDK explicitly doesn't have anything Linux related as part of the official stable APIs contract, and on ChromeOS Linux support is exposed via a container, WSL2 style.
I’m not sure why you’re getting downvoted for such a succinct appraisal of this paper...
> I think this opening was well-written and clearly communicated Mozilla's purpose.

I didn’t think it was well written at all. The sheer number of words is a red flag. There are five focus areas that are all extremely vague. Good writing is clear and concise.
We could also make a simple "create test account for me", that will give you a few feeds, a dummy email and and dummy password. You can then just change everything later, if you feel like keeping the account. :)
Confirmation from a person on the Mozilla's (former) threat management team:

>They killed entire threat management team. Mozilla is now without detection and incident response.
>Tristan, Alicia, Lucius, even our new director are gone

https://nitter.net/MichalPurzynski/status/129322057088506265...

I wonder how Tor will handle this...
Would Query.jl[1] be an alternative to consider?

Their README says:

The package currently provides working implementations for in-memory data sources, but will eventually be able to translate queries into e.g. SQL. There is a prototype implementation of such a "query provider" for SQLite in the package, but it is experimental at this point and only works for a very small subset of queries.

Still early days, but sounds like they're working on the same problem.

[1] https://github.com/queryverse/Query.jl
I think it's more about mind melding with the problem you are solving. Having absolutely nothing else cognitively distracting you from what you are doing gives you that additional working memory space to tackle complex problems. It's not sufficient, there are a bunch of other factors, but to my mind, if you have to think at all about typing, you can't achieve that top echelon of concentration.
That's, basically, how I was taught to touch type. The teacher would put little blank white stickers over the letters on the typewriter (yes, I learned to type on a typewriter) so we couldn't cheat and look at the letters.

Too many years of not really typing "properly" mean I am no longer a great touch typist, but the muscle memory is still mostly there.

I learned to type over 30 years ago.
This model doesn't seem to have ever been tested empirically. (I would be happy to be corrected on this point.)

Given that, I think it's appropriate to raise doubts about its clinical effectiveness.
I've heard a war story about someone being able to consistently enter their password when standing up but never while sitting down. In the end, it turned out to be a QWERTY vs. QWERTZ thing: standing up, they'd look at the keycaps, but sitting down they'd touch type.

(if Rocky Balboa had been rated on WPM instead of KOs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugcwp1g9Bao )
> How true. To paraphrase Henry Ford, if HTML5 developers asked instead what casual users wanted, we would now have a faster Flash.

Like this?

https://www.leaningtech.com/pages/cheerpx.html
Shuts down Servo? Isn't Servo the core of Firefox? Are they going to use Webkit now or what?
I'm not sure under which rock you are living, but we are hitting limits fast. Soil degradation, climate change, acidification of the seas or phosphate ressources. Probably you'll die before these limits hit us hard(est). But eventually they will hit us and these are very conceivable situations...
Oh don't get me started. Facebook is absolutely harming people and it should be regulated, if not broken up.
This is so sad…those two teams represented a major part of Mozilla’s initiative to make their browser secure. Maybe they won’t be immediately missed, but I’m sure they’ll be feeling the effects in the future.
ZX Spectrum Next – Issue 2
An interesting new take on this is that there are a bunch of productivity apps emerging which give you awesome giant monitors and workspaces in VR - but the catch is, your keyboard now is not visible any more. So you really have to learn to touch type to use these effectively. I am a pretty good typist but being forced to type in VR and reach every single key without even having the option to look is really taking it to a new level. It's especially noticeable that even though I don't look at my fingers, what I do observe in my peripheral vision outside VR is quite important to my accuracy. So there is still a lot of learning to do.