skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is my 2 cents on the Mozilla situation:

Mozilla need to stop sucking at google's teet. I know this is much easier said than done. At some point, the value proposition to google is not going to be that great since they already own the browser market. Not sure about you all, but I use Firefox. I use computers daily and immediately change my search engine to DDG once I have a fresh install.

They need to go after corporate IT departments and say something like the following: buy into our product. Our code is open, we are a charity, and we are here to make the web a secure place and free to everyone. We are here to make sure you are not bullied. They need something like the Linux foundation's model. They need the Exxons, they need the Fords. They need to show how scary it will be if Google wins the browser war again and what it will do to them, just like it would be scary if one single entity started owning the Linux kernel.

I think consumer markets are fickle. I bet if someone uses FF at work they are much more likely to use it at home.
Which modern scholars think the Germans didn't sack Rome? Are you actually suggesting this is a mainstream consensus?

I am pretty sure that a citizen historian who was brutalized by the invading tribes* has a much stronger incentive to exaggerate and lie than a modern scholar. Not to mention, modern scholars have their work reviewed by peers, and are able to sample multiple sources much more easily because of things like the development of field-of-study rigor and other things like the printing press.

Look at how news stories develop. The first stories are generally not correct. It takes time, perspective, and lots of hard work to piece together enough of the puzzle to try and provide an accurate story.

* German is a bit of a misnomer, given the time period we are discussing.
I think the only times I use it is to go to random articles, which can be quite fun if you're in the mood to discover new things. However,I couldn't tell you a single other function they have on that side bar even with a gun to my head. Just went to check it and apparently they let you print pages out as PDF, news to me. Wikipedia really doesn't advertise its features much.
A government's environmental policy has an objective impact on every measure of mental and physical health.

Urban design, whether you're stuck two hours in traffic to get to work, whether you work 35 or 60 hours, whether you can take a walk in your neighborhood at night in peace...
We have to use energy from another source to create hydrogen -- so its only use is as an energy store, not as a source. Hydrogen is competition with batteries, not with other energy sources.
Quite a few things just died:

https://downdetector.com/

https://downdetector.com/status/rocket-league/
Replacing std:move and std:forward
I'm wonder if a line of "smart IoT" devices where the assumption is that cloud-down is the primary use case (and cloud-connected is a secondary "nice to have" mode even if that's how it's used 90%+ of the time) would succeed?
Working with Haskell requires no Category Theory.

It's a fun language, and if you play with it and its ecosystem, it might give you ideas to import in your own environment.

Pick up a good book, and learn it, because it's fun. And no, you're not too dumb to learn it. Java and its ecosystem can be more complicated IMO, you don't realize it because you've put years in learning it.
You may as well be saying that there are better options for producing readable text than HTML, because that's what Reader Mode is for. Yes, but entirely irrelevant. Reader Mode is for the reader to use, not for the writer to use. Liquid Mode is for the reader to use, not for the writer to use. See the parallel?

What the writer wants to present is structured layout based on design. Sometimes that's what the reader wants to see, other times not. That's why websites aren't all flat text and browsers have reader modes, not the other way around.
Reducing maximum column width would also be my #1 suggestion.

Maybe that can be taken care of through themeing/browser plugins? If anyone has good ones to recommend, suggestions appreciated.
I visited the page on nootropics (http://www.ludism.org/mentat/SmartDrug), and it seems pretty weak (for example, the basically empty table on mechanisms and effects of the major racetam drugs or the 'key resources' being populated by websites that are completely blocked by my adblocker).

Is there a good resource that collates the research on nootropics in one place? I haven't looked in a long time, but the last time I looked everything seemed quite bullshitty. You can find articles like eg https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2854355/ or https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2690149/ or https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20166767/ but ideally I would like to have a resource that has done a literature review and describes the evidence (with any caveats like "this only has been demonstrated in rats that were adrenalectomized + have chemically-induced dementia" or "this has never been reproduced") in a way that doesn't seem like it is an advertisement for some shitty piracetam company. This hypothetical resource probably doesn't exist, but I figured I'd ask anyway.
Nicely summarized.
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I think in a lot of cases this is sort of like asking "how can I use an abstract factory to improve my COBOL code?"

Like, if your code isn't already written in terms of classes, you probably can't just jump in and use OOP design patterns to do anything.

Similarly, you may need to start from a reasonably functional codebase to apply most functional programming concepts.
There are some movies I've never seen. Now that Ghibli can be found in streaming, which movies are in "you can't miss" category?
Even with my phone in Airplane mode (WiFi / Cellular disabled), and only Bluetooth on, I'm still able to get into my Model 3. Internet connection is not required by the car, or the phone, to be able to unlock the car, drive, or operate the frunk / trunk.
> assets fully open source compliant

It's hard to interpret that phrase but it certainly seems to apply to their art assets. You could ship a GPL reimplementation or total conversion mod of their game tomorrow and use the game assets, as long as the user already owns the game. Just like all the very popular Quake and Doom stuff, for starters.

You just won't get the free game that you want.
Gotcha. The parent comment should have said that it "might have" changed the outcome.
I feel like there's another angle here. Perhaps the attempts diversification that the author so decries were an attempt to keep Mozilla relevant even if its flagship sinks.

Also, I don't totally understand why you can expect to get and retain talent while paying way below market rate.

And... suppose the CEO were paid 1M instead of 2M. That's, what, 5 engineers? You could pay the CEO $0 and it would make only a small dent in the recent layoffs.
Isn’t there also a touch-less entry key fob?
People at the top are beholden to other people at the top. It's a cycle. If a CEO does not appease shareholders, board members, and executives, there will be a new CEO. That's structures.

And people at the top rarely understand implications of their actions. Organizational systems are HARD.
This is blogspam over this Financial Times article: https://www.ft.com/content/c5336824-140c-49ee-85a4-c8197f829...

My understanding is that this is merely a proposal. In any democracy, there's proposals all the time. This headline is needlessly provocative.

"The EU" does not have a singular opinion on stuff like this until proposals actually get turned into laws.
I'd like to see an example of that claim
That is the official schedule, but you still can run the "update" option and get changes between official updates.
Absolutely, we are actually finishing the documentation and will publish the link in README.md in the next couple of days.
Fingers crossed it won't be as awful as WTSocial. That place looks outdated by about 10 or 15 years and it was literally made last year. I actually much prefer Wikipedia's current design over that, if I had to compare the two.
Naval bases (and airfields) are pretty obvious on a map.
> A few times I've been burned, having stuff for the which documentation seems to have been lost to time.

My best advice would be Yandex. It has saved me on numerous occasions. It has the edge of getting much less(or not responding to) copyright claims and unique Russian language forums for sharing documentation. Of course it be nice if you actually could read it to get around easily.

Another place might be the various Chinese forums for that stuff, but my guess is they mostly have documents on the stuff that is made in Asia - e.g. iphone sheets, layouts.

Generally stay away from Google if it's not something overly mainstream.
Part of the reason people fly away to "greener pastures" is that they think that the new country will be more accepting of who they are. Yes, they can. No, they didn't think it would be an issue, and now it is kinda late.
Traffics are peaky. On sites that I manage, the traffic peaks at around afternoon, about 4x higher than the traffic at around midnight. Also, pageviews doesn't includes static assets, which can be as large as 100 static files per pageview on an unoptimized website. 31% capacity during peak is believable to me.
> I almost never use the left hand side bar (and I have a feel almost no one does)

Editors do. The sidebar contains tools useful for maintenance works. Just to name a few, I use "What links here" to check links and redirections, "Wikidata item" to update metadata - these two are the most used features by editors: after contributing a new article, you need to add/fix some inbound links, and to link it to editions in different languages. Also, there's "Page information" to see statistics, and checking "recent changes" for spams and vandalism is a hobby for some people who need to kill time.

The current website works for me, I hope Wikipedia will keep it as an option.
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I believe you mean Jay Wilson? Dustin Browder's involvement with Diablo 3 was only from a Strike Team perspective. Browder is more known for his work on Starcraft 2.
A while ago I learned the term "souveillance", or "citizen undersight", as a strategy for the public to "watch the watchers". The public must surveille and report on those who wield power over them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance

Apparently there's also a term "metaveillance", the "veillance of veillance".

Surveillance (oversight), Sousveillance (undersight), and Metaveillance (seeing sight itself) - http://wearcam.org/kineveillance.pdf

This paper is worth a look just for the cool images of the "Sequential Wave Imprinting Machine" that visualizes waves as a means of "sensing sensors".
We are team of ~20 software engineers working with 9-years old codebase. About 6 years ago we came to practice of writing decisions and details into git commit messages. This way they are always there, accessible via git blame, and code remains clean of distracting comments.
Store it in solid-state form via Aluminum Hydride (Alane). Better stability & even less weight. Some fundamental scaling issues yet to be solved, but very much within reach.
I am sorry to hear this. A child of mine is severely dyslexic, and I think about these things all the time on their behalf.
It's a big deal for material scientists studying superconductivity but irrelevant otherwise, at least for now. Theoretical research on superconductivity practically hit a wall decades ago and there's been little to no progress despite significant amounts of effort and countless world changing applications like MRIs, NMRs, particle colliders, etc. A third type of superconductor might provide the missing data we needed to make real progress and unify the different types of superconductors under one theory.
At some point, the buyer has to be responsible for their own due diligence. It's not like an airfield is small or hard to notice on a map.

I wouldn't buy a house without looking at the surrounding area in detail, just like I wouldn't buy a house without having an inspector check it out.
I'm sure you're onto something. But I can't really decipher whats bad here and which of the two scenarios you mention apply to go interpreted plugins.
That's quite a lot, though!
For Contrast Detection autofocus (CDAF), this is dynamically solved. This requires sampling at various focusing points, and mathematically guessing where to try to get a sharper image; it's why cameras that use it hunt. Panasonic is doing interesting things here with their DFD technology.

For Phase Detection autofocus (PDAF) this is an instant detection with no hunting using the polarization of the light to indicate distance; more expensive cameras have calibrations per lens available, as do some lenses themselves (Sigma and their USB dock specifically). As another comment notes, if it's a Digital Single Lens Reflex (DSLR) that implies the PDAF sensor is fed by the mirror in front of the sensor, and has multiple points of tolerance/failure. For Mirrorless, or Compact System Cameras (CSCs), if they use PDAF then it's embedded in the sensor. This allows for significant improvements in accuracy, at the cost of reducing the amount of data captured by the sensor for the image (some of that data space is now being used for focus data) and in some cases artifacting due to the pattern of those sites (Olympus E-M1 vs E-M5 for astrophotography, etc.).

Something that's often misunderstood about all of this is that focus isn't an ON/OFF thing; you can think of it as a curve. There is a point of maximum focus, then it drops off in space both in front of and behind that point. How fast it drops off is defined by both Focal Length and Aperture; this means that with something like a phone it's not very hard to take a picture that's "In Focus" because the Depth of Field (DoF) that LOOKS in focus is very deep. This is why PDAF/CDAF work as well/quickly as they do, even with all these stacking tolerances; it's not trying to hit an ideal spot, just close enough to look good. Spend more, and you can hit it more accurately and narrow that band, giving you a different (generally interpreted as more professional) look.
Intel used to have the Quark chip to compete with these embedded ARM cores.
I don't care about the feelings of districts. Districts don't have feelings, or wants or interests. I care about people. People have feelings, wants, and interests.

A district, like a religious orientation, is not a hive mind, where a minority of people who vote for the most popular candidate should be able to co-opt the voting power of the rest.

Under a popular vote, counties besides King and Snohomish would have representation, instead of being ammunition used by those two.
Enjoy your blackouts then!
Sadly no one really publishes books as HTML.
> I almost never use the left hand side bar (and I have a feel almost no one does)

If you speak different languages, the left hand bar is very useful to switch between different language versions of an article.
> what insight does "perform io operation" provide beyond what f.write() already gives?

Often maybe it won't give any insight, in which case it gets left out.

Basically, the general idea is that I am denoting and grouping chunks of code together sort of like section headers to form an outline of what is happening.

A random example from a file I was working on recently:

#{ Attempt to handle the case where Redis loses our access token
# for some reason
...
#}
Thanks for creating this.

I used to do this thing on my HP48 where I would switch between two GROBs rapidly and the slow screen would give me white, gray, and black. Any of the chip8 emulators support that?

https://github.com/JohnEarnest/Octo/blob/gh-pages/docs/XO-Ch...
The app does talk directly to the car, when you're in range of Bluetooth. That's how the phone key functions, all handoff and communications are done via bluetooth, not the internet when the devices are in range. Even with my phone in airplane mode (WiFi/Cellular disabled), and only Bluetooth on, I'm still able to unlock/lock the car, drive, and open the frunk/trunk.
The Mentats (nootropic drugs) in the Fallout universe (https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Mentats) are a reference to the Mentats (human computers that take a cognitive enhancement drug) of the Dune universe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizations_of_the_Dune_univ...).
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Yes, blindsend also stores encrypted files. There are currently two storage options: PostgreSQL and Google Cloud Storage.
Sure! And I think the degree to which you have the "room" to do that in your job depends on the company. I'm not here to spend my novelty budget on a routing framework that can't handle optional parameters.
Great insights. Thanks for sharing.
Just because it's not complete doesn't make it a game 'engine' (though there's likely an engine in the code somewhere). It's more than a game engine, it's a game—it's just has no art assets. So, no, you can't make a full release from this repo, but you can build the executable.

This is also how the Doom 1, 2, and 3 sources were released. You get the code but you need to buy the game to legally get the other assets.
If they covered up this, what else would they cover up? The coverup itself is cause for concern because it proves they're dishonest.
> The ID 4 will also be VW’s first affordable crossover SUV to reach America, with a suggested retail price of just under $40,000.

Good Lord, in what world do these people live? They're really trying to convince us that forty thousand dollars is an affordable price for a car?
Twitter apologizes for 'racist' image-cropping algorithm
Law enforcement does not have the right to be in my private meetings. Even with a warrant or if they spy, there are risks and limits. Yes, they can spy, but they are limited by reality. Encryption imposes almost the same limitations on digital life as secrecy does in real life. Why should my rights be different online?
This sounds like a vision for Adobe Reader, not PDF.

Where are the changes to the PDF format that will help other viewers understand hierarchy and relayout pages without Adobe's ML engine?
I use the left hand side bar, I like to read the articles in different languages.
The Python Software Foundation reopens its grants program
Tagged pdfs are still a thing for accessibility, to make pdfs work better with assistive technology. In practice, this is underutilized, because of the additional effort to use it properly.
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Indeed, 'Medicalexpress' appears to be nothing more than reprints of press-releases about medical research. The PR teams of Bristol & Oracle probably coordinated on the authorship. This is nearly pure promotion, with a thin veneer of reporting-like language.
I took a major financial hit to be a CEO, and as a CEO I feel personally responsible for the company's success. My compensation is primarily in ownership and stock - I would never take a massive pay raise if my company were failing, let alone repeated massive raises over years of company downturn.

And then to wipe out a massive portion of your employee base? I find it abhorrent, personally.
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> The Mozilla execs could all make more money at FAANG companies just down the road from Mozilla HQ.

So let them.

> The same is true for most of the engineers at Mozilla. They could go to FAANGs and increase their compensation quite a bit.

So let them.

To both your assertions, I highly doubt it. Maybe 1 or 2, but for the vast majority, no.
I disagree. Until I read the post I wasn't aware that Wikipedia are about to embark on changing their desktop UI. As someone who uses Wikipedia as much for reading pleasure as for looking up stuff, and who has just been through the discomfort of having to deal with Facebook's - unannounced! - desktop redesign, I appreciate being told in advance that things are gonna change, especially when the post comes with a link an (animated!) outline roadmap of the changes they'll be introducing over the next couple of years.
Like drag and drop isn't complicated enough, they have to add a Druggable event?

Oracle's cloud API really is expanding.
We have an issue in our house about one week a year they close the M25 overnight (the main ring road around London) and the diversion brings large trucks along the residential roads though our town.

It's not a problem as such but definitely something I wouldn't have possibly known about before moving in.
Have you checked examine.com? You can search for specific compounds and I think they have a (paid) supplement on nootropics
Hacker News comments from the source story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24548876
We are also developing a Java library for blindsend https://github.com/blindnet-io/blindsend-java-lib
This discovery is definitively cool, but not close to the phosphine-on-Venus cool. The present paper is similar to the former finding in the sense that what looked like a natural explanation (a p-wave order parameter) seems to have been ruled out (just like chemical origin of phosphine seems to have been ruled out). Hence, more exotic findings might lurk in this material.
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This is feature brought back from the past. Back a decade ago, I had reflow mode on my Pocket PC and I used it to read PDF during my commute.
> For device-dependent rendering, we have HTML.

It does not sound like the goal is device-dependent rendering, though. This is exactly parallel to Reader Mode, which is a temporary user toggle. The goal of PDF is still to produce documents that mirror print-ready layouts, something that HTML has never really accomplished. Whether you want to consume the documents that way will now be up to you.
STV is IRV (well slight variant: Single Winner STV). Fair Vote has muddled the name by calling it Ranked Choice Voting. This is dumb because there is a class of voting methods where you rank people (ordinal).

Ireland is doing better than Australia in terms of party control.

> IMO, this is a great way to do it and the proportional representation part is more important than the details of voting method.

And I 100% agree with this. The math does too. That's why I advocate so hard for a better voting system. In America we don't have that advantage (I want that too!). But everyone thinks that if we get IRV in Bernie could win. That's not how it works out.
I mean, it does talk to the car with Bluetooth. You can unlock it without internet connectivity, just locally via Bluetooth.
I work in renewables, the latest big buzz word is Power-to-X, meaning using renewable to generate hydrogen based fuels for things like jet engines and ships. I think it is 10-20 years away from becoming commercialised. Danish companies seem to be leading the way.
Zipcar could have implemented a quick/easy solution to this problem: allow the card to unlock the car offline until it has been returned. Or force the renters to lock it using the keys during the duration of the rental. This just seem to be too common an issue not to have been addressed somehow.