skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps they should find someone skilled who is willing to take that 80% discount from market.

Baker has clearly not been worth her increased salary; I don't even think she's worth the original 20%-of-market salary, given how Firefox's market share has dropped precipitously, and Mozilla has been forced to lay off staff.

Sure, you're probably not going to get a 100%-of-market-rate CEO for a 20%-of-market-rate salary, for CEOs who only care about compensation. But I think that's ok, especially given that some CEOs aren't even worth 20%. And you're much more likely to get someone who actually cares about the mission.
It’s not just illegal content, it includes “facilitation” of any illegal activity. The logs are only required when law enforcement notifies you of the activity. But if they think you know about the activity and are consciously promoting it, they don’t even need to notify you. My guess is they will probably revise this part.
slave market with apps to browse the merchandise https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50228549
That may be true, and maybe the professor was right to discourage that track. A key difference I'd point out, however, is that one is more universally accepted among researchers as pseudoscience than the other.

For instance, the first sentence of the wikipedia entry for homeopathy: "Homeopathy or homoeopathy is a pseudoscientific system of alternative medicine."

First sentence for cold fusion: "Cold fusion is a hypothesized type of nuclear reaction that would occur at, or near, room temperature."

The failures of Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann, or the fallout of that case, do not in my mind constitute pseudoscience. Skepticism notwithstanding, it is an actual area of research still funded by universities around the world - from wikipedia, as recently as 2015 "the Indian multidisciplinary journal Current Science published a special section devoted entirely to cold fusion related papers. https://web.archive.org/web/20170805185756/http://www.curren..."

I personally think it's more interesting than homeopathy or linking vaccines to autism. I think the research has yielded more tangible real world benefits, such as improvements to the sophistication of calorimeters. Furthermore, I think lack of reproducibility is not the same as proof of its impossibility or that it is pseudoscience.

Maybe it's my personal longing for a future with cold fusion speaking - and I don't think it's a good career move to focus on it - but I don't like seeing it dismissed in the same pile of detritus as homeopathy.
The DWP is a very corrupt agency, I believe mostly due to it's union. They are currently under investigation by the FBI for corruption. I remember reading that there is some sort of large fund paid from the budget that goes to the union without any sort of oversight on how it's spent.
I've taught OS three times using xv6 and like it a lot.

It's very small, which is great. You can print out the entire source code (and there's a makefile target that will produce a printable PDF) and read through it and actually understand the whole system.

At the same time, it has most of the features of an OS that you might want to cover in an intro course:

1. A basic round robin scheduler that you can replace with something more interesting like priorities.

2. A simple FS that still has some advanced features like transactions / crash recovery.

3. Support for SMP, so you can teach issues like locking / deadlocks.

4. UNIX-like system call API, that's again easy to extend to show how a new system call might be implemented.

Off the top of my head, some things it lacks compared to something like Linux:

1. Driver support. Basically only the vga and old-school IDE disks are supported. I've assigned a mouse driver as a final project before and it went pretty well: https://panda.moyix.net/~moyix/cs3224/fall16/bonus_hw/bonus_...

2. Related to (1), this means you aren't going to get anything related to networking.

3. No dynamic linking; every program is static.

4. Anything graphical (although I've seen people do this as a final project)
I meant passive in that they didn't need a battery
Oddly, I could see that maybe working if Totoro goes second: "The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet."
Fox News and Breitbart are both publishers, and do not claim to be platforms to shield themselves from liability. Totally different.
It could also have the reverse effect, because the prospect of unlimited court cases represents a very high financial bar for small newcomers to deal with. The oligopoly already has the funds to deal with it. And/or they comply, creating an ossified, state-controlled set of social networks. Yay.
It's called lifestyle creep.

You go from a $1 million dollar home, to a $10 million dollar home.

Instead of one $50k car, you now own 2-3 $150k cars.

Tens of thousands of dollars will go towards your kids education, every single year.

You hire people to do work for you (tutors, nannies, maids, whatever), these cost tens of thousands of dollars.

Maybe you buy some vacation property - that's more money to spend.

And, in the end, you're not some kind of high-rolling baller that jet sets around the world in a private jet or yacht, spending fortunes on vanity.

You're really "just" living the very upper-middle class life.
I strongly suggest reading about "Love Languages".

Simplistic summary: Just because you are "throwing" love doesn't mean someone is "catching" the love that you are throwing.

It explains a lot where someone may wash their partners car (Act of Service) but the partner complains about never receiving flowers (Gift Giving).

This concept was incredibly foreign to me until it was named, and then it became incredibly obvious, and not limited to relationships.
It's probably time to reevaluate that opinion. Apollo Lake/Gemini Lake are extremely competent little chips. The latest uarch puts them around a Core2Quad performance, perfectly acceptable for light desktop usage scenario.

I've been using one all summer for web browsing/citrix/etc so I don't have to run my big gaming rig in the summer heat, and it's been great. There's a seller on Amazon who has been clearing out the NUC7PJYH (J5005 based) off and on for the last year or so for $125 and I've picked up a couple. Despite the official spec they do support 16GB of memory and they also have the new media block with HDMI 2.0b support and HEVC 10-bit decode, they are super great for the price.
This is essentially putting penalties in place if social media companies use dark patterns in their algorithms behind the scenes. Long term, this is good for everyone.
I found the themes in A Machine for Pigs to be more believable and thus scary than A Dark Descent, but neither hold a candle to SOMA thematically and most people regard A Machine for Pigs to be less good than it's predecessor.
I'm always surprised at how people can vary so much in opinions. I didn't play an hour of Soma before I felt bored and infuriated at the gameplay mechanics, quit and never played it again.
>If this is a common enough problem

It isn't a common enough problem. Over my 1 year of ownership with almost daily driving, I only had to use the card twice. Once when setting up the car for the first time, the second time when I was dealing with valet parking (for obvious reasons).

It is basically a kind of a failsafe solution, just in case your phone dies or something like that.

And mind you, i don't live somewhere where my car gets constant network connection. In fact, the underground garage of my apt building where I park the car has zero network or cell coverage. It all works just fine.

You don't need to have active internet connection to unlock the car with your phone, it just needs bluetooth and an unexpired certificate from Tesla servers, which syncs occasionally in the background. But until that cert expires, it works perfectly fine with no internet. Never had such a situation happen to me before, despite me opening the Tesla mobile app only once in forever.
The keycard is NFC[1] and should absolutely work without any connectivity.

[1] https://gist.github.com/darconeous/2cd2de11148e3a75685940158...
I’m not sure if this release contains assets either, it looks like it is the engine only.
California to stop sales of new gas-powered cars by 2035
> My compensation is primarily in ownership and stock

This would be impossible for Mozilla's structure
Yes, who would dare use something like a VPN in a totalitarian country like China?
> the supercharger network

This is so incredibly underappreciated.

Are their other charging networks? Yes, certainly. But they're either too slow for road tripping, they're spread thin, and/or they're expensive. I can drive my Model 3 from my home in Portland, OR to any anywhere in the USA and never spend more than 30 minutes charging, with most stops being 10-20 minutes every 100-200 miles.

I don't know what a typical supercharger costs as they vary on location, I just know that the one I've used is 29 cents per kWh. So to charge my Model 3's 75 kWh battery to full would cost $21.75, which would give me about 250 miles (It's rated at 299 miles, but you'll never get that unless you're going 55 mph with climate controls off), which is 8.7 cents per mile. If you assume gas is $3.50/gallon, then in terms of price per mile, it's the equivalent to a 40 mpg car.

Other charging networks are usually 40 cents/kWh or more, while charging slower. Some have a ridiculous charge per minute rather than charging per kWh.
Great news for torturers across the globe! /s
If the UPS was already opening the mail of everyone to add its own pamphlets when you discuss x or y, yes they should be responsible for facilitating crime that they know of then.
Seriously. The only reason they can say that is because they're in charge of the company and get to make decisions. How fair have Mozilla's layoffs been on the families of the laid-off workers? I bet not all that fair.
With kids and a family, I wouldn't be happy. I was just illustrating the point that "minimally good" is subjective, as a response to OP attempting to objectively define "What is needed minimally?"
Yeah, I don't think 900+px is ideal for reading on a desktop computer. Better than nothing, though!
And improved batteries

And more efficient solar cells

And enamel reconstruction

...
Phrases like "has an objectively
reasonable belief" give me chills and is RIPE for abuse.

Also, modifying the language of Civil Liability to include good faith efforts for language that could be deemed "unlawful" is .... sneaky, and again, ripe for abuse.
I don't get it.

On desktop, collapsing the left bar does nothing. It doesn't provide space, it doesn't enhance the viewability of the main content. It is purely aesthetic. In that sense, it doesn't harm me, but I wonder what kind of person needs it.

The second thing I notice is that it removes borders, further eliminating visual cues on header/sidebar/main content. It's a blob of white with paragraphs. It feels less structured.

Finally, I think limiting line width feels wrong on things like the main page, or on wikis that have wide tables for reference. It would be good to see more examples of how it affects tabular data.
This is such an understatement it feels like the equivalent to «buy low, sell high»
I'm pretty confident I don't want this. I'd like to be proven wrong, but there was maybe a couple of cases among hundreds when perfectly working UI was actually improved instead of fucking broken by "getting a new look".

What I actually would like to be improved is how the data is represented internally. Let's face it, it has been a long time since Wikipedia has become the largest and most accessible knowledge base in the world. It was made simple, which is a part of why it is successful. MediaWiki is pretty much a blogging engine, article content and structure is restricted by the guidelines only, not by the engine. This is good, and at the early stages it was the only possible solution, since there is so much that can be useful in an encyclopedia article.

However, now we know a lot of patterns of how data represented in different articles is similar. But wikitext is still basically just a human language with a bit of markup elements. Sure, there are templates, which are slowly improving over the time, but still, it's petty much a collection of free-form blogposts. There is almost no way to separate data from the representation (i.e. to have a table contents as a csv, with a template assigned). There were some attempts to make it possible, but querying (or modifying) data automatically is still very much a pain. A lot of it requires parsing, and (perhaps even more annoyingly) — pretty simple parsing. But you have to do that work for every single problem you have. Instead of, you know, to just query data I know there is. In fact, when you start parsing templates it becomes very clear very quickly, that they are vastly underused. Absolutely the same data, like years of life in bio-articles is still represented differently even in very elaborate and well-maintained articles.

Very little has been done in this regard over the last 10 years, I feel. And improvement does require a lot of work: looking for possible templates, promoting generic data representation among contributors, modifying wikitext to allow for it, improving the API. It they are looking how to spend money, I'd rather want it to be this, because making a lot of data machine-accessible would be literally as huge, as making wikipedia human-accessible was about 20-15 years ago. Sometimes I need to open 500 articles to read a single sentence in each of them, and some python script could've done it for me in a second (a couple of seconds maybe, depending on how wikipedia stores and represents the data).
I can second the manga version of Nausicaa being superior to the film, the film is a convoluted mess compared to the manga.
This is not actually true. Do you seriously believe Go would have ANY popularity now if it wasn't released and massively marketed by a BigCo?
The First Amendment does protect that though. As long as the speech isn't intended to incite imminent lawless action, calling for murders is absolutely protected.

E.g. "We should go harm X" is arguably illegal, since it's an immediate call to action.

However, "It'd be great if X died" or "All Y should die" are certainly protected.

In the same vein, this is why "Punch a Nazi" is totally legal: assault is illegal, but you're not immediately inciting a lawless action. "Let's go punch that Nazi", less so.
Isn't a problem in the sense that a company hypes itself up and markets itself by all these market differentiators, but then when these fail, the company and others just shrug it off and they suddenly become just conveniences?

What's the point of having these features in the app if you need to carry a key around all the time due to the app features being unreliable and poorly implemented?

How does the card work if the electronic mechanism to read it fails? Do you then need to also carry around an actual key fob?

My car, like most modern cars, has a keyless entry fob, but if that fails or the battery in the car completely dies, there is still mechanical entry points to get into the car and start the car.
GitHub Enterprise Server 2.22 is here
A few months ago, I was poking around ptrace details for an incomplete (unstarted, really) side project, and I came across a mailing list message suggesting that debuggers should be using perf events instead of debug registers for doing hardware tracepoints.

A few days later (maybe literally the next day, I don't quite remember anymore), a coworker was having an issue where we needed tracepoints to catch who was overwriting bad memory, but the debugger was causing the thread race to not happen properly. So I looked up how to use perf to set hardware watchpoints, and we caught the issue almost immediately after that. I would not have thought to try that had I not been poking around with my side project.

Some of my key skills as a developer are my ability to debug issues quickly and my ability to spelunk through large code bases. These skills were developed largely through poking around code bases for incomplete side projects. Sure, the details of how CVS works is probably never going to come up, but when you stumble across time synchronization issues for code, or the different filesystem semantics of NFS--those details tend to be more relevant, and you might not think to look them up before embarking on the "useless" side projects.
Given that everything takes longer than expected, there’s not a chance that most vehicles will be electric by 2025.

In fact, we’ll be lucky if 25% are by 2030.

We squandered 2 decades by not using more nuclear energy because optimistically we thought renewable energy would be used a lot more by now.
I remember seeing this article a while ago here: https://tonsky.me/blog/monitors/
Well lets see.

(update 3:10 EST - app connectivity restore)

So I noticed the app would not connect earlier when I went to lunch so I just hopped in an drove to and from the store. I did use the app to open the frunk but I did not bother to see if it would sync up to the car.

However in the name of science I swiped the app off the phone so I had to restart it. Still could use my car. Now if the app is not loaded I cannot use the car. So I start the app and instantly I can use my car.

Now let me make it clear, at no time has the app forgotten which car I own. I am not sure how that falls off the app if it cannot connect? I am using an iPhone if that matters.

My Mac App, ValetforTesla of course cannot find the car as it needs to get back to the mothership.

On a side note, I had similar issues with my Volt's app when OnStar went on the blink but that car relies on the fob to unlock the car and drive off, all I lost was stats and ability to remote start.
> Tesla cars are the worst-built, worst-furnished cars you can buy at their price points. If you care about comfort, ride quality, etc., go with anything but a Tesla.

Ride quality? The Tesla is by far the nicest, smoothest, and most fun ride I've ever experienced.

The in-car tech is pretty awesome too.
If you like castle in the sky and live in or visit Seattle, then you may want to check out https://castleintheskyrobot.tumblr.com/post/183937582881/spr... which a friend of mine made and has in his front yard.

People make offerings
A lot of users struggle with this. Mozilla needs to diversify it's revenue stream, but the options available to them are only tangentially related to Firefox. Basically, (1) the VPN service they are spinning up and (2) Pocket. I opted to pay monthly fees for the full version of Pocket. But what I really want is to pay a monthly fee to support development of Firefox core + extensions.
The memory palace is arguably the best technique for card memorization. Several years ago, I spent a week trying to memorize cards traditionally (rote memorization). However, this was a major failure. However, I then tried the memory palace technique, and within my first try, I memorized almost all the cards! With a couple more practice runs, I was successfully able to memorize the whole deck without any error. Give the memory palace technique a try!
I personally had no idea this existed, even though I would (and now will) use it avidly. So that's probably an indication that the UX needs to change to improve discoverability!
My First React Native Application
> The how & why doesn't matter if you can't effectively lead people.

On the contrary, how could any CEO lead an organisation that is dysfunctionally structured in the first place?

I'm not commenting on Lila, of whom I know nothing. Rather, I'm looking at the structure of WMF and the Wikipedia product and seeing disconnects and ambiguities.

Wikipedia's value comes from its content, which is provided by contributors who are not paid.

Wikipedia's budget goes to WMF staff, and capex approved by... I don't know whom. But who directs the effort of staff? This is where the org's structure appears to have resulted in years of frustration and dysfunction for all concerned.

How is WMF's strategic direction determined?

What is the role of the founder and public face, Jimmy Wales?

What is the role of the WMF CEO?

What is the role of the Funds Dissemination Committee?

What is the role and influence of large doners?

How are conflicts resolved between these levels of stakeholders?

Those are the key questions that I would want to understand before considering whether I would donate to WMF.

I've just started by reading the below articles. If anyone can add to this list, including with personal observations by insiders, I'd be grateful.

Wikipedia Foundation exec: Yes, we've been wasting your money

https://www.theregister.com/2013/10/08/wikipedia_foundation_...

Wikimedia timeline of events, 2014–2016

https://www.mollywhite.net/wikimedia-timeline/

Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2016-02-10/Special report

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2...
I wonder if the mobile look is changing. It already has a collapsible sidebar.
It does not work. Just like print to PDF, trying prostscript tells you:

> Saving a PDF file when printing is not supported. Instead, > choose File > Save.

Because Adobe went out of their way to prevent this to work.
god you people are depressed.
That's how it should be at least, but not always! - Probably the best department for german literature is in Princeton, and my favorite scholar on german existentialism, Walter Kaufmann, also an American at Princeton.
Well, the physical engineering world already has an alternative to unionization: contracting firms.

The best mechanical, electrical, and chemical engineers in the world work for big engineering firms (and make mega bucks).

We have a few relatively small contracting firms in software right now, but there is no reason why we could not have large Software Engineering firms that can handle entire design and engineering for any game studio far better and more efficiently than the studios could ever do themselves.

For example, if the top 1000 game designers and developers started their own firm, then I imagine every studio would be forced to use them at whatever price for competitive reasons.

Are you a VC? Invest in that. Insta-monopoly. Top talent
(especially in bulk) is very much the most difficult thing to replicate in any market.
It sounds like we agree on the problem. If you require backdoors on devices/software, that can circumvent encryption in bulk, without the relatively expensive and time-consuming steps of physically planting bugs or similar on specific targets, it will inevitably be used for dragnet surveillance. At least that's what happened almost every time so far.
It probably would've ended up in the same place as Limbo and Alef. Interesting, useful, but of limited use and exposure to the world.
Visually at least, I think Akira is one of the most visually impressive animated films ever, especially for something made in the 80's when quality standards were much lower
Could we extract hydrogen from the outer planets and just shoot it at Venus? I.e. no tanks and transport ships, just a well-aimed jet of gas.
> Functionality that has been carefully designed so you won't find it

The button is labeled 文A, which is quite common for translation service, and is just under an article title so it’s literally the most visible UI element. It’s difficult to make it more accessible than that...
Lenovo goes all in with the Linux desktop with two dozen+ Ubuntu powered PCs
Given that she is barely even worth the lower, 80%-discounted salary, I don't find that a compelling argument.

I would much rather a lower-salary, less-experienced CEO who actually cares about the mission enough to accept that salary, than someone who has presided over an erosion of Firefox's market share and significant layoffs, while still increasing her own salary. Clearly the system is not working by paying their CEO a market rate.