skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bet that spidermonkey cost more than Servo and yet manage to be a net negative utility to firefox the product.
Servo has improved the state of the art of layout / css / rendering performance for gecko, even outperforming blink on some cases.
Spidermonkey is consistently inferior to v8 and slow down ecmascript adoption.

Therefore it would be much wiser for mozilla to switch to v8 like everybody else and to reallocate the money either towards resurrecting servo OR towards improving V8 and making it faster, which here would bring actual value to humans.
Sorry, yes, you're quite right.
What makes this happen is that the mulch rots which is an exothermic process and it insulates very good as well. So the core temperature of pile will slowly creep up until you reach the ignition point.

Absolutely true. But while I wouldn't even be able to begin quantifying the degree to which the radiant heat from the sun is a factor, I strongly suspect that it is a factor, if for no other reason that the observation that we only went to those fires in summer months. But, to be fair, there could be a million other confounding factors.

Whether or not a given system ignites on a given day depends on many things: ambient temperature, wind, humidity, presence of accelerants, yadda, yadda, yadda.

I suspect this is one reason why it's so hard to get people to take fire safety seriously: that pile of oily rags in the corner? It's not going to catch fire. This time. Or next time. Or next time. And so on... until it does. So people get complacent because "hey, the oily rags never caught fire before, why would I expect them to today?" Disconnect the sprinkler system? Sure, why not - the building isn't going to catch fire. This time...
No, I would not say we are in a democracy.
How? There's a warning on literally every product containing linseed oil even in the EU.
When I was in high school, I was at school camping event and we were playing tag in the woods. I ran down a slope and tripped, and fell chest first onto a log, right on my sternum. I was uninjured, but since then I've always thought, "what if there were a broken tree branch right there, it would have punctured my heart and I would have died very quickly." I'm almost 50 now, so we're talking over 30 years I've been thinking about that tree log and the branch stub that could have killed me.
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked

Seems like the ideal candidate to me.
I drove past this BlockBuster last year while visiting Bend for a concert. I didn't go in because we were late for the show, but it tripped me out and had to double-take. Bend is a humble little town that's a bit touristy, but of all places to have a BlockBuster, this would be the place.
Arrgh. I can't believe I missed that.

To be fair though: it's quite clear that all the discussion in that post is commenting on the headline and not the content. Bland self-improvement "life hacks" are one of the metaphorical crack pipes of this site. We all have way too much to say on the subject of our own productivity.

So I think it's less likely that HN was fooled by GPT-3 but that GPT-3 was good enough at filling a plausible article out around a tempting headline.
Possible != commercially available. I talked to the guy doing DSL installs in my area, he says 5 Mbps max if you get lucky.

Starlink is leapfrogging the cable/telco industries by not needing the same infrastructure.
Dotfiles are wizard AF. Been using them on my departmental deployments for a while now and will never go back.
> Government probably didn't know what to do with it

Wikipedia: "[ammonium nitrate] is predominantly used in agriculture as a high-nitrogen fertilizer".

Doh?
It’s not the Israeli military that claims that, it’s an Israeli seismologist that works for an oil company.
That doesn't apply to ML-370 unfortunately
Maybe they are referring to the ‘Sign with Apple’ mandatory feature.
The conservative answer is always cheating and subversion which is why liberals are forced to violence. Otherwise, the conservatives will happily own slaves, disenfranchise women, kill/convert homosexuals, outlaw abortion and in general, take us back to the 17th century.
As a former Mozilla distinguished engineer, this is absolutely correct.
Their gamer customers are mostly on Windows. Their Linux customers use their cards for ML and CUDA.
I'd give it a try.
A marginally related question for the experts here: I love extremely cold water, juices and drinks, so I often keep them in the freezer in plastic bottles. Now, if I take out a bottle of something that is just about to freeze, as soon as I open the bottle, it almost immediately freezes although I am certainly not removing heat from it but actually doing the opposite by keeping it with my hands, not to mention the warmer environment in which it is now.
I couldn't explain it in any other way than with the different pressure, that is, the water expands when it freezes, so the almost freezing liquid is already under higher internal pressure compared to the moment it was closed, but as soon as I open it the pressure drops abruptly, which would be enough to compensate for the higher temperature, de facto freezing the water.

Is this correct?
Time to move the HQ then.
You're not from the US based on your domain name but you're generally free to defend yourself in the US even within SF.

> The defendant is not guilty of [whatever forceful act was used in self defense] if he/she used force against the other person in lawful self defense or in defense of another. The defendant acted in lawful self defense or defense of another if:

> The defendant reasonably believed that (he/she or someone else) was in imminent danger of suffering bodily injury (or was in imminent danger of being touched unlawfully);

> The defendant reasonably believed that the immediate use of force was necessary to defend against that danger; AND

> The defendant used no more force than was reasonably necessary to defend against that danger

In your case with the very real risk of a lifelong perhaps terminal disease from the needle and with that being a biological weapon I DO NOT RECOMMEND but by law you could likely use a deadly weapon in response like a bat/knife/pole/brick in an attempt to prevent you or someone else from being stabbed. I am not a lawyer.

On the Street Crisis team front, I imagine they are all able to restrain the guy and that they will be equipped with personal defense such as tasers and mace which will be audited HEAVILY if used.
25 days ago?
It's not a realistic solution, but you could always use a secondary router as a client bridge (basically acts like a client, connecting to the hotspot, and then routes ethernet traffic through said connection). It won't be as fast as 5G, or even the wifi hotspot, but I doubt it'd be worse than what you're getting now.
Not for the standalone headsets
DawDreamer – Digital Audio Workstation Without a GUI
I fail to see how this is even remotely the case. Or do you consider copyleft licenses to be "against the spirit of free software"?

Actively making it harder for people to modify software for their own use is definitely against the spirit of free software! Copyleft has nothing to do with that, and is only about distribution of your modifications.

The point of the patch is, literally, to help enforce the GPL.

Once again, the GPL places restrictions on public distribution, not private use/modification/etc.

It seems there is this insanity where some people want to split the world in half between "free" and "non-free", and such things are entirely ridiculous in reality. If they had their way I'm sure we wouldn't even be allowed to talk to them if we had ever used proprietary software at all. IMHO such antagonism is really bad for free software too. It reminds me of what Stallman did with GCC... and look how well that turned out (Clang etc.)

From TFA: "With this patch applied, any module that imports symbols from a proprietary module is itself marked as being proprietary, denying it access to GPL-only symbols. If the shim module has already accessed GPL-only symbols by the time it gets around to importing symbols from the proprietary module, that import will not be allowed."

Your code is running in kernel mode, which already means you can jump, call, and modify whatever you damn well want to! This is why I view such silly exercises as needless bureaucracy (and complexity). If official Linux wants to keep proprietary code out of the kernel, that's their right, but don't go out of your way to fight everyone else.

It's my computer, I get to run whatever code I want to. Isn't that what free software is about...?
There's been no action on improving Internet service for the median American because American governance is responsive to the whims of business interests (in this case, ISPs with monopolies) and indifferent to the interests of the public. This pattern is reflected across the entire spectrum of public policy and is not just limited to the market for Internet services.

Put bluntly, American democracy is nowhere near as effective at protecting the interests of the American public as the American public has been made to believe. [0]

Internet access is merely a symptom of a deeper American problem and cannot be fixed without fixing the deeper problems with American governance.

[0] https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/c...
It's a surprisingly popular tourist spot with not a lot of residents/availability; at least that's what I gathered while I was touring the place. Try camping, it's Oregon!
School shooters rejoice!
You're not wrong. I was more trying to point out the conspiracy-like tone of the title. And coming from Israel ...
What's interesting is to look at the population distribution and not simply density. [0]

It's an extreme outlier in terms of habitable land vs land area. 5% of it's land is arable, as compared to close to 17% for the United-States. I wouldn't be surprised if 90% of the land was simply not inhabited.

[0] https://geopoliticalfutures.com/population-density-of-canada...
Is it related to this viral story?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiLjTMVMkrg
Or recycle it. Don’t pollute the rivers!
No, you shouldn't declare x as volatile. Also note that the article never even talked about volatile in C++; volatile in C++ is entirely different from volatile in Java.

Instead when you use a mutex, your mutex internally uses atomics. In fact the simplest kind of mutex can be built with atomics alone (spinlock), though a production-quality mutex will have to use other techniques such as a Linux futex.
So, you’re experimenting on users without their knowledge? There’s a thing called ethics. You might want to look into that.
Nope, black holes have entropy proportional to the surface area of their event horizon. So the more stuff they engulf, the more their entropy increases, and thus they satisfy the 2nd law of thermodynamics just like everything else.

It's a very interesting and active area of physics actually: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_thermodynamics
> it would be illegal for me to use force myself (in modern countries, the state usually has the monopoly on use of force).

No, it's not "illegal" to defend yourself in the USA.

But get the name of a witness or you could end up in court for years. Many laws allow a defense, but you're responsible for meeting the burden of proof and legal fees.

(The castle doctrine in some states was enacted to give property owners a stronger legal position for self-defense than just the legal defense option. Of course, that ended up being abused by overly-entitled home owners.)

> i wanted someone to come and use force to keep me safe

It's a common misunderstanding that the police have an obligation to keep you safe. They don't.

The police can enforce a law, but at the end of the day, they don't have to keep you safe in any way. An example is that the police can engage in high-speed pursuits, and if you get run over and die, that's not their problem.

I can't tell if you're outside the USA, or if you missed civics class.
Rethinkdb is a kind of perfect piece of program but never been in production. Meanwhile, I know some companies who still stuck with a single giant Mongo db that couldn't scale anymore. And of course a push for Mongo Atlas, smh.
The spec already documents what ought to happen, what you need is documentation about what actually happens (say, on IE11).
That makes recruiting a very fun game.

I wouldn't believe the stories on candidates failing FizzBuzz until I saw it with my own eyes, several times!
The only relationship between "Godzilla" and "Mozilla" is that portmanteau.

I think the OP's sentiment was that the name "Godzilla," is awesome and it would elate him to donate for the name alone.
Here we see Mozilla's dilemma: half the Internet calling for Mozilla to focus on Firefox, the other half calling for Mozilla to diversity away from Firefox (which is implicitly what people are calling for when they call for Mozilla to diversify revenue).
In one way, this is essentially the "wedge". You start with a very specific long tail keyword, but you also cover related searches and topics, and the nice part is that your website analytics will then feed you more long tail keywords that are related but not exactly this page: those are ideas for other pages.

This is one reason why you'll see a page with one topic as a title often branch off to cover many related but sort of unexpected topics throughout the page - it's to cover the main keyword but also grab coverage on the related ones that might be easier to rank for (by simply mentioning it in a page vs. dedicating a page to it). As the owner of that site, you might see that one of these pages could be getting traffic from hundreds of keywords, and 10 of them are on a distinct enough topic that warrants another page. So you build a page for that, etc.
Damn, I should have paid attention to that niggling doubt about whether it was wise to cite Wikipedia, but I saw that there were footnotes and I assumed they were still accurate. Thank you for updating the article!
I'm very sorry if I'm misinterpreting your first paragraph, but, to be clear- would you agree with the following statement?

"I don't care if you aren't able to marry your partner, as long as it means there's maybe a better web browser."

Because maybe I'm reading too much into it, but that seems to be what's implied. And - if that's the choice you make, well, fine. But it'd be nice to confirm that.
It's a good idea for higher density.

I could probably reach two of my neighbors (two shared walls), but not more without better equipment. Actually, because of how our construction is, I could probably do a 3-way mesh router setup and put one node in each place.

I had an acquaintance who wanted to start a company flashing a custom OpenWRT image onto Linksys routers, he added a little captive portal with billing through Stripe so he could collect the neighbor's portion.

Your comment reminded me to go check and see if he ever decided to go through with it.

I recall looking into this a long time ago, certainly could do it, but recall some terms and conditions that prohibited it maybe.

The other thing is even with all that bandwidth, there is the 1.25TB monthly bandwidth cap, which is one way I think they limit scenarios like this.

Good idea though thanks for suggesting it.
You can distribute the patch that undoes all this silliness too, which will also be GPL.
The Tesla website lists the S at £78k and £93k, including tax and all applicable fees, but really you should then minus the 5k EV grant.

Anything selling to consumers is listed with VAT included.
It is basically an automated check to flag modules that obviously violate GPL.
I think the moral of the story is to focus less on making the business work and more on finding suckers to solicit investments from. Just like WeWork.
I didn't see the article at the time but from skimming it I'm sure I would have been fooled.

GPT-3 fits snugly into the pattern of "AI does intelligent thing -> we decide/realize thing doesn't reflect meaningful intelligence". Maybe in this case the devaluing of blog "crack" is a positive thing.
I'm sure Facebook has enough resources to maintain its own custom kernel with what it wants --- if it's not already doing so. Google might be doing the same too.
Exactly - also if you do any penetration testing of your staff side - the key to get something through is have the name of the company it seems anywhere in the URL. Literally - lkjljkdfskjfsd.com/bankofamerica/securelogin.do etc.

Part of the issue I've noticed is some sites actually do outsource things to other sites (microsoft has a lot of redirects on logins so you used to end up on passport.com I think to login, and then to something with azure, then office... etc). Combine this with subdomains and trailing urls and internationalization efforts and you are in trouble.

This must be just because of how we scan / read things? Ie, a quick cross check. A lot of people maybe don't parse all the elements properly (,.:?& etc).

The other issue - let's say just 2-5% of chrome users are confused. That still is a HUGE number that are confused.
I think you’re possibly misreading - they said ‘Gozilla’ not ‘Godzilla’.

Gozilla is proprietary networking software, nothing to do with Mozilla. So Mozilla can’t fork Gozilla.

Godzilla is a monster character and where Mozilla gets its name.
Another reason the lower orbit wasn't possible before is that atmospheric drag actually causes the satellites orbit to decay much faster. So they must be constantly replaced.
ArchWiki is a good counterexample (so is Wikipedia I guess), but the W3C and ECMA specs are not: they document what ought to happen and are geared towards implementation, not what actually happens in practice or how to build a mental model about what happens.
You enter your PIN, or touch/Face ID.

Also 1) only works up to a daily limit which you can configure 2) it’s a SEPA transfer, goes straight to another local, very traceable account and not a random bitcoin wallet in case you try to pull that off :)
Rural area where I spend some weekends have 65% of coverage (97% for 25 degrees).

Considering that there was 0% coverage for 2G/3G/4G, I wish that Starlink begins as soon as possible to provide internet here.

It's much better than I expected!
This is actually a great idea.

I've noticed a trend recently in a subreddit I frequent that obviously wrong statements are suddenly getting upvoted. I'm not talking about things that conflict with my opinions - I'm talking about statements that are demonstrably and objectively incorrect.

I think the issue is a critical mass of people very new to the topic at hand who upvote things that sound reasonable without having the knowledge to be able to engage with the statements even slightly critically. This forms a feedback loop as upvoted comments are assumed to be reasonable. It means you can say something blatantly wrong, but stated in a manner such that it assumes the form of a sensible insight, and be upvoted for it.

Something like the system you propose would do well to promote genuine insight above platitudes, and platitudes above superficially plausible misinformation.
The bicycle building business is more of light manufacturing and motorcycle building business is more heavy manufacturing. The difference is at the component level economics. Bicycle manufacturers buy the same Shimano groupsets as the local bike shop. Motorcycle components are mostly bespoke and manufactured to a specific motorcycle manufacturer's specific specification.

So motorcycle components don't have all the overhead costs of bicycle components. There's a lot of marketing costs in the price of a Shimano groupset whether it arrives at Trek's loading dock or via Fedex at a neighborhood bike shop. The chain and gears on a Honda CB650 didn't have a marketing budget to build brand awareness.
The first GPT-3 academic paper will be accepted before the end of the year.
Hi! Fellow ADHDer here. Inattentive subtype.

I'd need to know your specific brain better. What I really _should_ do is listen to you and really dive deep into the habit patterns you get into. (As I'm trying to get my brain to shut up about, thats what real engineering is.) But it is hard to do that over an internet forum and I lack the time. So instead I'm just going to barf solutions at you.

0. Top priority is to fix the sleep and exercise schedule. Everything else flows from that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snAhsXyO3Ck

1. See if you can get a standing desk and a stationary bike. I took the handlebars off mine so it could fit underneath the desk. It lets me cycle while programming which makes it easier to be tired at night.

If your brain hates shopping, then just go with these links:

https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/skarsta-desk-sit-stand-white-s5...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ultrasport-Trainer-Sensors-Backrest...

2. Double down on automated testing. Write scaffolding tests even if the company wouldn't need them and you delete them before pushing. You are worth it.

3. Buy the actual book on the Pomodoro technique and take notes on it.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pomodoro-Technique-Acclaimed-Time-M...

4. Get some dotted paper and nice mechanical pencils to take notes:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B005IAZXUO/ref=ppx_yo_dt...

5. ADHDers need external words. Find a podcast you can use to replace the narrative that plays in your head. (Hell, if you find yourself getting into thought spirals of being really hard on yourself and unable to forgive yourself for distraction, you may want to go full Matthew 4:4)

6. Create a calendar event called "silent coding" at work and invite people to join. Humans need camaraderie.

7. Read this: https://medium.com/@josebrowne/on-coding-ego-and-attention-3...
>why can't you remember the future the way you can remember the past

this is getting a bit meta, maybe even off-topic. But I think this is fairly simple to explain: you can't remember states you haven't been in. Generalized memory implies some record of a state that has occured - states that have not occured cannot be remembered. The problem is that memory of types that we are familiar with (human, written, computer) all involve macrostates, not microstates. And increasing entropy (aka "more probable things are more likely to happen") mean that there is asymmetry at the macrostate level, and thus in memory.

A memory system that only recorded microstates would, I suggest, have no concept of time, and a much reduced notion of causality. There may be some statistical patterns that could be observed and could perhaps be "strong" enough to infer that "after state N we frequently end up in state P", but the sheer number of states would likely interfere with this.

There's also the timescale problem. A memory system that operates on the timescales of typical human experience will notice relatively constant change in much of the world, as macrostates come and go. But a memory system that operates at, say, geological timescales won't record many macrostate changes at all, and will tend to indicate that almost nothing happens in the world. All those macrostates ("tables", "chairs", "houses", "books") that came and went without being noticed form no part of this system's memory of the world. Of course, there are processes still taking place (new macrostates made up of even more vast microstates), but these going to be even more directional/asymmetric.

The one part of this view that leaves me a little confused is that at very short timescales, the unchanging nature of many macrostates is echoed in relatively unchanging microstates for most solids. The piece of metal that makes your <whatever> isn't changing macrostates at any appreciable pace (which is why its eventual wearing out forms an asymmetric experience of time for us), but it also isn't changing microstates in any notable way either. I find this confusing.
I had 5mbps at work. Then finally 5 years later they are able to get me 12mbps. A block down can get 200mbps from same company. My friend a mile away can get 2gbps fiber. And i have joyous 0.2mbps uploads WTFFFFF
I wonder what Linus would say. "nVidia, fuck you!"? Maybe not this time.