skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If Facebook didn't have a monopoly on social media, would competitive pressure make it stop what you consider misinformation? Of course not. You can find a stream of misinformation in more marginal press outlets. Only larger outlets that have a relative monopoly (NYtimes say), can afford to be relatively free of crude misinformation (but even here they have their very definite spin as does everything).

The only reason people are talking about forcing Facebook to impose some restrictions on communication is because Facebook has somewhat of a monopoly on some communication.

Which is to say that talk of Facebook and regulation winds up being "Facebook is big and powerful and we want the state to have that power instead, damn it". Without liking Facebook's approach all that much, I'm less of a fan of this.
If you have a hundred direct dependencies and they all break the API on a weekly basis then: you are either at a scale where you can handle that, or you are using wrong dependencies, or you are doing something wrong.

I can understand max 10 dependencies iterating so quick. But only when they are your own internal dependencies and these should definitely not break the API weekly.

* corrected spelling
EA shareholders say no to proposed raises for executives
Market rates being unstable don't make them stop being market rates.
To be honest, I don't trust either. However, I think I trust government less, if only slightly.

I also don't use Google.
I was wondering about that too. OCaml has a really good track record and the whole Bucklescript ecosystem also proven to be good for reliable frontend development.
Why is it not considered a privilege to occupy space in a flight in state-controlled airspace? At what point does it become a de facto travel ban, e.g. one can of course travel, so long as they are walking, and of course not on private or government-owned land.
Your dependency that you could code "in an afternoon" may handle far more corner cases than you suspect. (That may be what you meant by "fiddly".) Sure, you don't care about covering all those corner cases... but you might care about some, even some that you haven't thought about yet. And you might care about some more next month. That can make that "afternoon" take a lot longer than you expect.
Joe Biden selects Kamala Harris as his running mate
Thanks, that's correct. I often make the mistake of interchanging node for browser js on accident...
This goes both ways. When was the last time someone properly scoped the maintenance effort of an external library? This goes double for external systems, like kafka or mysql. I've never seen anyone so far even get within two orders of magnitude of the real cost of operating kafka, much less an organization that accurately compared that to the cost of DIY.
I find myself completely unable to understand that. I suspect we use very different methods. Notation doesn't stay with me once my eyes move past it. The notation is merely there to inform me of what is happening, and as long as I understand the meaning it doesn't matter if it was one symbol or a whole paragraph.
so is the "error tracking" feature equivalent to Sentry?
What exactly does this mean? Will I be forced to find a new browser in the near future? Not that I was completely content with what happens for many years now, of course, it's just that I don't know anything better (or even not worse).
I feel like "tech lead" also varies so much from company to company. Where I work, people are technically bestowed the title of "tech lead," and this just means they have to take ownership of far more work for essentially no more pay.

Most "tech leads" where I work are senior engineers, but not all senior engineers are "tech leads." Here, it seems more like a purgatory positions where you don't want or have the skillset required for engineering management, but are far more senior than other senior engineers.
The new FF version for android is a toy. All advanced features have been removed. Virtually no addons are available. No more about:config. The home screen is a joke ("collections" instead of my previously opened tab? What's that about?). Opening a new tab does not place the focus in the address bar, and the "new tab" button and the address bar are on opposite ends of the screen, resulting in very awkward finger movements. I got so angry in the first hour of using it that I uninstalled it. It's the worst browsing experience I've had since before IE4.

It's so bad that maybe it's deliberate in an attempt to sell the missing features as addons or a pro version or something? At least I hope that's what it is, otherwise I don't understand the move at all.
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Isn’t then the court statement illogical? The judge admitted he lied, yet the appellate court states that they uphold the original verdict because Dozinger bribed the judge?
Just looked at transfer.sh, and it seems like a much WORSE alternative. The best thing about Firefox Send was the simple end-to-end encryption where I could upload the file, then just send someone the (secure) 1-time only download URL. Looks like transfer.sh doesn't support any encryption on its own, you have to do all your encryption/decryption on your own.
I wasn't confused till I read this comment after reading the ReScript docs:

> ReScript looks like JavaScript, works like JavaScript, works with JavaScript, and outputs to the highest quality of clean, readable and performant JavaScript. The big difference is that ReScript comes with a bulletproof type system, a solid build system, and a couple of extra features that'd make JavaScript users envious.

https://rescript-lang.org/docs/manual/latest/introduction

So you're saying their ecosystem supports other languages too?
Thanks for taking the title of the other article. The press releases' title was very much-press-very-press and as a result buried the headline.
interesting that one of the uses of NN here is to shrink the amount of storage required per product in the product recognition DB -- compression is a neat application of NN that generally follows from recognition / synthesis tricks, and will matter a lot on mobile.

I'm wondering if 'on device' is an exaggeration. The post is saying 64 bytes per product, and a DB of millions of products, but the video is showing product details, prices, and a box image. I wonder if once it identifies the product it then loads metadata from ze cloud?
This is correct. Concerta is interesting because it's a laser-drilled time release. Vyvanse is interesting because it's a prodrug of amphetamine that releases chemically over time.
As long as most of Firefox's users interact with Google web properties, Mozilla are screwed. Google properties work better in Chrome, and will even directly advertise Chrome.

I'm pretty sure this was their direct reason for buying Pocket. It gives something for Firefox users to interact with that isn't actively and passively trying to get them to switch off.
I've always wondered, does the presence of heavy elements on earth (ones which are likely to have formed via neutron star mergers) indicate that a pair of neutron stars merged relatively nearby our sun when it formed? Or is there just a diffuse amount of these elements in typical protostellar clouds all over the galaxy?

Perhaps a simpler way of asking: are the heavy elements we find on earth typical for an average planet? Or does a planetary system have to be "lucky" enough to have formed near a neutron star merger, for it to have elements like gold in measurable quantities?
1) please don't include me on that. Just say that YOU are bad at estimating. I estimated whole projects just fine, except management doesn't want to hear the truth or they are selling dreams to upper management. That's different.
I think they both follow similar thinking.

You should spend time implementing your core business implies that you shouldn’t spend time implementing things that aren’t in your core business, otherwise the first statement is pretty useless.
>> Rust is a special case here, light weight, and loved by JS devs.

Is there any data on that?
The right to bicycle in general is not licensed in the US. However, some roads allow bikes and some do not. This seems to mostly be done in a way to not overly restrict freedom of travel. For example, in densely populated places like the Northeastern US, it's not allowed to bike on Interstates, but that's deemed okay because there's usually a parallel smaller highway that allows bikes. While in sparsely populated parts of the Western US, it's sometimes allowed to bike on the shoulder of Interstates, because it's the only road. However, governments aren't perfect, so there are gaps in the logic, like some bridges that don't allow bikes even though they're the only way to cross a large body of water for miles and miles. I'd like to believe that a legal challenge to allow bikes on such bridges, or to require the government to ferry bicyclists over such bridges, would succeed.
(I've been staying out of all of these threads, but to be clear, the number of people employed to work on Rust by Mozilla is more like 3 or 4, not 12. It's been shrinking for quite a while.)
Absolutely not true. And if it was, and screw any "techie" feeding the Google maw so some tech-illiterate family member can get more performance they won't appreciate.
Your guys don't know about 1.4b Chinese. If they are as well knowledge and informed as your guys, it's hard to unify. But if they only have one information source, one chat tool, one history book, they will be one brain-cell dummy. USSR don't have wisdom to simplify information，history and even Internet. Unified is what Chinese love to have. That's why things happen in HK. You are over estimated Chinese people. China is not USSR. People don't have gun. Government won't give up their power. Tear down China great firewall is only thing your guys can help keep freedom existing, not just for Chinese or HKer, but also for your future. Fear might over come freedom someday unexpected.
I would love something like this paired with augmented reality to show/hide/highlight only the products that meet my search criteria. Try going to a big supermarket to look for whole-milk yogurt, for example. It's a pain trying to filter them out of the rest of the 100 varieties.

Another thing I would like to do is compare products by price/quanity. Maybe I'm trying to get the most protein/$, or oz/$, etc. You could also hook it into some database to only show you ethically caught fish, organic projects, fair trade products, local products, etc.

I've thought about this kind of technology a lot. Cool to see that it's actually becoming possible.
> And now, because Mozilla didn't choose a hill to die on, they are going to die on no hill at all.

The part you get wrong is that they were always going to die, hill or no hill. It has been a slow grind downward as Firefox has practically vanished as a product among mainstream Internet users. It's merely slowly going to the same grave as Opera and IE. Chrome won, on both the desktop and mobile. The only major holdout is the Apple ecosystem with Safari, because Apple can do what it likes.

What else is Mozilla other than Firefox? Not much in terms of revenue sources.

I've been using Firefox daily for 15 or so years, and I've watched as everyone I know stopped using it one after another. Chrome is a good browser for most purposes, the average user - which is what Firefox requires for Mozilla to stay alive financially - doesn't care about the things you apparently think they do.
New Jersey Supreme Court rules defendants can be compelled to provide passcode
That's exactly what my point is: This is way too complex to boil down to a simple rule of thumb to apply to all cases. There are arguments and counter arguments (and real-life examples and counter examples) ad-nauseum.

It's better to say: "Hey experienced people: How would you decide whether to introduce an external dependency or roll your own if the immediate requirement at hand seems small enough to write on your own in half a day?". Then we can get into a fun conversation that will boil down to "It depends."
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Google dodges lawsuit over Genius lyric scraping
Maybe not equivalents but definitely two arguments for his core point.
There definitely is some opacity to the process, though.

I've heard anecdotally of people showing up and saying "I chose not to bring ID", and... that can fail. I wouldn't be surprised if those are most of the ones who were actually denied no-ID travel.
Notes on a smaller Rust
They claim that requiring a REAL-ID to fly is illegal, and link to this PDF (https://papersplease.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/IDP-f...) which appears to be a sort of letter from The Identity Project attempting to explain that what the TSA is doing is illegal. So, I don't know if I buy that it matters. If I show up on Oct 2, 2021, without a REAL-ID (i.e., a pre-realID california driver's license, which is what I have because DMV lines are fucked and appointments are fucked too), I think I won't be able to fly, no matter how much I wave a PDF in the face of TSA officials.
Joe Biden picks Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate
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>> no good alternative to Rust enums

So you are missing a basic feature that a bazillion other languages can give you. I am still amazed how people think that the ML features in Rust somehow new inventions.
as mentioned in "12 Principles for a Diverging Desktop Future" ( https://www.divergent-desktop.org/blog/2020/08/10/principles... ) about the Arcan Project
Thanks! :-) We plan to do this.
1. I want to be ambitious while also being realistic. AAA studios won't even consider using Bevy until it has more features and has stood the test of time. So in the short term our market is essentially "indies and enthusiasts". I want Bevy to cater to those people, but with an eye toward larger projects. We don't want to design ourselves into a "locally optimal" corner that prevents us from appealing to large studio. That being said, even in the short term I am extremely interested in advanced rendering techniques and will be investing a good portion of my time on adding things like GI and PBR.

2. Small binaries is absolutely something I care about. Last time I checked we could produce a "hello world" game with windowing + rendering thats just a little bit over 1 MB. I think we could probably make that smaller with some effort.

edit for some additional clarity: this involved running a post-processing "strip" process on the binary.
Maybe if you read the article and follow the provided links, it would be revealed to you ;)
Where did that assumption come from? Just because people disagree doesn't mean they are bought off. Citation definitetly needed to even remotely approach a pattern like "bought off" let alone a proof.
Alternately, I found Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg to be more actionable and was able to stick a number of new habits using the recommendations from the book.
Indeed, it seems pretty clear that the position of the article is that Guerra lied in US court in order to bolster Chevron's case.
OP here: A lot of people are objecting, "What if you estimate wrong, and it takes more than an afternoon?" This objection is very bad.

It is not possible to add a new dependency in less than afternoon because you need to evaluate alternatives, test it, learn how it works, make sure it's not accidentally GPL, etc. So there are not two methods, the less-than-an-afternoon method and the more-than-an-afternoon method. There are two methods that both take at least one afternoon. If you estimate wrong and you can't write the code in an afternoon… Then stop working on your handwritten version and find a dependency? But now you know what the dependency is really supposed to do and why it's non-trivial, so you're in an even better position to evaluate which ones are good.
They benchmarked it. Their implementation was faster than ch.repeat: https://github.com/left-pad/left-pad/pull/11#issuecomment-20...

Nowadays there's a native padStart function and the left-pad package is deprecated as a result.
How does JuliaDB compare to DataFrame.jl? I know JuliaDB has row indices, which is a very nice feature that DataFrame lacks. Is there any reason I shouldn't use JuliaDB even if I don't need persistence.

I wish the Julia ecosystem was a little more integrated: there are a lot of different competing libraries that ostensibly do the same thing. Python has the advantage that it's obvious what you should use: numpy, Pandas, scipy, statsmodels, matplotlib, etc.

With Julia, it's less clear. Though I think part of the reason is that actually releasing a new scientific computing Python library is incredibly difficult and requires a lot of expertise.

Julia makes it pretty trivial for anyone to contribute a model that has excellent performance. This fragmentation is a common problem among expressive languages.
Sure, if the problems you are solving are well suited for languages like APL, J or kdb+/q...
And that's the crux of our disagreement. I don't think you have any right to be the first result for any query. If you want Bing when you search for "bing" then go directly to bing.com. You are using a third party's service so you accept the terms of use (and therefore monetization).

If I search "apple", should I get apple.com, a Wikipedia article on apples, or recipes using apples on allrecipe.com, or something else? You see how that doesn't work? What about "caviar"? At what point is Google obligated to show you Caviar the delivery service as the first result? I say never.

Note here that I'm talking about first being first whether it's an ad or organic result.
F# turned out to be a great option for us, we combine it with Elm and they work very well together.
Some ISPs do provide dialup. For example: https://twitter.com/xs4all/status/274631880429670400

It does take an "activist" ISP to set up a general access dial-up line though. There's not that many around.

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For those reading this still in need of dialup access but blocked from visiting Twitter, the details from the tweet are:
Phone number: +31205350535
User: xs4all
Password: xs4all
> never, ever, ever market to power users; casual users are more numerous and less demanding.

Truth.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
I'm highly skeptical of a Darwinian argument for galactic conquest. Intelligent societies would, by definition, be determined by non-genetic learning transmitted via culture. Humans are not naturally aggressive anymore than they're naturally peaceful. They have dispositions capable of moving in both directions, the relative strength of which depend cultural socialisation, which is historically variable.

I'm not at all sure that, even assuming your estimate, ETI would be 'fairly obvious'. Take some speculative figures. The total area of the milky way is about 30 trillion light years. Let's speculate that intelligent life occurs in one in a million planets. There are something like 100 billion planets in the milky way, so that would be 100,00 planets bearing ETI. If one in a thousand intelligent civilizations are super-expansionary, that comes down to just 100. If we divide the area of the milky way - 30 trillion - by a hundred, we get one super-expansionary civilization per three hundred billion square light years. Would that be obvious? Even if we assume that ETI occurs on average on one in 10,000 planets, that would still be one super-expansionary civilization per three billion square light years.
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I get easily lost jumping through layers of code written by corporate developers in an afternoon. I generally don't have problems jumping through layers of popular, well documented and single-purpose third-party libraries.
Haha, no, he wasn't. He was talking ... well, this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk9MK5smzVE&t=3m44s
Both studies[1][2] mention doctor's sex as a factor. "Effect of education and performance feedback on handwashing: the benefit of administrative support in Argentinean hospitals", for example, has these figures (calculated as Number of handwashings/Number of opportunities [to wash their hands?]):

> Male vs female: 46% (1989/4350) vs 53% (5895/11,181)

[1]: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/f3c8/bb1914d5226c719df53dd8...

[2]: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/8887/835e725b4347a5392e095a...
Not the parent poster, but I'll provide https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2018/mozilla-2018-fo... (page 52) as accompanying evidence specifically for the $2.5M claim. Mitchell Baker's compensation totalled $2.48M in 2018, with the second-highest-paid executive, Mark Surman, making only $322k.

That page does note that Baker was "paid only by related for-profit" - but at best that introduces a conflict of interest.

As I've never been at Mozilla, I can't confirm any of the other details. And I'll say that any large-scale technology company needs to strike a balance between product focus and the degree to which it controls the conversation around its space, and Mozilla's investment in things like Rust will have a lasting positive impact on the software engineering discipline. But it's also clear that the environment was toxic enough to make at least one person (the parent poster) feel this way, and that itself is a yellow flag.
Funniest thing is that LibreOffice itself will soon also need a fork.
The browser is a succesful product in the sense that it has found product market fit: there is a group of users that value the key benefits of firefox (not large company controlled, opensource, focussed on security and privacy). It may not be a large group of users, and it may not be a growing group of users, but it has a group of appreciative users that would rather use firefox over other browsers.

So it's a niche product targetted at a niche user group.

Where firefox the company is failing is to have a financial sound way of delivering that niche product. To keep the product relevant it needs to invest, and it needs some revenue to pay for these investments. This could be through other products, sponsering, subsidies, etc.

As a long time firefox user i care about having an alternative browser. I don't care about the company mozilla, nor any of its other products. But i understand the money to keep firefox relevant needs to come from somewhere.
If you lose the key, keep backup codes somewhere safe.

Most likely if you lose the key, no one will know what it is for or who's it is.

You can also register multiple keys (in GSuite, GitHub, etc.)
firefox.exe /uninstall
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Probably worth reading the actual appellate court decision:

https://theamazonpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/CA2-Opi...

Notably, their appeal didn't even challenge the factual findings of the lower court with regards to their own corruption. So, there isn't even any real dispute about that. They did obtain the verdict corruptly, what they attempted to challenge was the legal authority of the lower court to overturn the Ecuadorian decision, and the appellate court rejected that.
The whole discussion is anchored on retention. If you're not talking about that what is the point of your example?
AVR support merged into Rust nightly
I don't want to use Chrome though
That is not even an if. He like most humans would do anything to secure his profits. He has been mum on anything related to HK but wouldn't hesitate to drop statements like this.[1]

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/31/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-china-ro...
My theory is that long distance running and being a CEO are similar pursuits. They both involve using a great deal of willpower over a very long period of time to achieve results. I’ve found that a CEO isn’t the smartest person at a company, but they are the person willing to eat the most shit in order to earn money and respect. Once you get into the rhythm of being a CEO, most of the difficulty is existential. Out of any sport, long distance running most closely matches that mindset.