skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That sounds great. But as someone who works on the Firefox GC team, I gotta say: what?

Or more specifically, I'm wondering what change you could be referring to. We've had incremental GC for many years now, which does exactly what you describe. It's true that we keep splitting up more of the uninterruptible pieces into smaller chunks, but I don't recall any major change there recently. (I'm not very good at marketing, am I?)

And according to telemetry, the incremental slices have been working quite well for most people, at least within the last dozen releases or so. We have a budget, and it's rare that we go over it. Not that I fully trust telemetry; if you have counterexamples please file a bug. (I'd love to have a nice set of scenarios that are problematic for the GC. Our telemetry errs strongly on the side of privacy, as it should, so I can't get URLs automatically.)
> That's why when consensus exists about something, you should respect it. There is quite a large consensus about this one.

Respecting a consensus is reasonable. That having been said, I would be interested to hear what the virologists to whom you refer think about Ralph Baric's work. Ralph Baric is a very well-known virologist specializing in corona virology. His group synthesized quite a few SARS-CoV variants, a number of years before SARS-CoV-2 made its appearance. While there's no proof that SARS-CoV-2 was created in a lab, there are quite a few studies describing the synthesis of different SARS-CoV variants, some quite dangerous.

From one of many papers on which he was a co-author (https://www.pnas.org/content/113/11/3048.full):

"Using the SARS-CoV infectious clone as a template (7), we designed and synthesized a full-length infectious clone of WIV1-CoV consisting of six plasmids that could be enzymatically cut, ligated together, and electroporated into cells to rescue replication competent progeny virions (Fig. S1A). In addition to the full-length clone, we also produced WIV1-CoV chimeric virus that replaced the SARS spike with the WIV1 spike within the mouse-adapted backbone (WIV1-MA15, Fig. S1B)"

EDIT: jeduehr, given your background in virology, I would be interested in any technical critique you may have regarding the Yuri Deigin article referenced in my post below.
> but please don't sound so hard done by because people are thinking about how other people feel.

They aren't though. This isn't about the poor (theoretical) coq-sayer, this is about the righteousness of the name decriers. If you can't point to a real victim we're better off assuming there isn't one and that you're just trying to look hip.

> any other name, idiom, or figure of speech that offends, embarrasses or diminishes others?

Sure, if it did actually diminish people someone would take you seriously. If the product was named after a slur, actually referencing it, and rudely. Like "TheMick, a project to track alcoholism".

But who is hurt by the concept that words in one language sound like different words in another? And is the speaker of the first language to blame or the speaker of the second who hears a dirty word? Allocate blame here, that we may smite the wicked.

> I guess you don't find it embarrassing so you don't see the problem

Even if I did I'd be hard pressed to tell some French people that they have to change because of my sexual puritanism. Is the left into forcing America's sexual mores on people again this week?
This is such a great article. It's the same reason I wrote an assembler, from scratch, by hand, and now I'm writing a fast interpreter in it. Nobody thinks this is a particularly fun thing. :)
> But in a world in which modest and reasonable requests to wear masks result in angry outbursts to murderous rage ...

On the other hand, that rage (but not murderous) is justified if the request isn’t based in any reasonable understanding of disease spread and is just an expression of power over that individual. Such as outside in the woods.
I would like to criticise your content but you haven't posted any. You have simply claimed the posters claims #1 and #3 were false "because you said so".

Anyways I applaud and respect you for working your way up to the PhD and I am sure you are trying your best to spread the truth, but it would be more effective if you rehashed the main parts of that essay for all the readers here to see if you want to clear up whatever errors the poster has put out into the world.
I've been on Firefox since I switched away from Opera year and years ago and I don't know any technical reason I would use any other browser - not even mentioning the other spyware reasons.

What technically do you find missing in FF?
Why didn't they do the same for the SARS-CoV-1 leaks that happened in Beijing over a decade ago, then?
It's because there was some overlap in their functionality.

What I did was disable the overlapping functionality in uBlock Origin, and let uMatrix handle the rest.
I've used Costco's site plenty of times on Firefox. I just double-checked Windows right now, and I'm pretty sure I've used it on OSX/Firefox in the past.
I agree, ublock origin was my single most important reason to finally switch from chrome mobile to firefox mobile.

There are some quirks though, minor annoyances that every so often get introduced in updates. For example, when closing the last private browsing tab it doesn't automatically show the regular tabs any more, but instead requires three more taps. But I'm happy to ignore those for the sole reason of having fully functional ad-blocking.
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Had a strange experience in my last entry into the US myself. I have a Canadian passport, but have a US green card.

Officer (in a rather rude tone): "what were you doing in Canada?"

Me (sleepy and a bit disoriented): "sorry?"

Officer (suddenly seems to realize that he has my green card in front of him): "Never mind, you're good to go"

My best guess is that he was just too conditioned to grasp at straws for reasons to give people a hard time, until realizing he couldn't deny entry to a green card holder.
The only website I regularly use that doesn't work with Firefox is Google voice.
I had to remove multi-account containers due to issues with syncing, namely on a windows 8.1 install, and it causing a TON of browser bloat and CPU usage on MacOS and Linux and my windows 10 desktop in a fairly recent past.

It’s unfortunate. Plan to try it again but it was borderline burdensome that x containers or place settings wouldn’t sync or that the Mac mini or linux box would start sounding like a jet engine.
Interesting. Then perhaps its higher ups in Spotify who might be afraid of getting accused of hosting content that isn't in favor with the MSM and ruling regime in the US?
Ah, thanks for the clarification, it definitely cleared up what you mean.

As I understood the suggestion re. file actions it is meant as some sort of interactive completion. So if I type the name of an image file and press tap, I am given the suggestions or options about resizing, format conversion etc. Several shells already have interactive completion of file names.

And I think that pattern makes sense from an exploration perspective. If you learn that file name + tab gives suggestions, then a lot of the learning about what the command line can do can be done directly in the command line.

And maybe it could be a command rather than a tab-press. Then it, given a file, prints typical actions/commands/tasks to stdout and then subsequent CLI tools can be used to process that output.

I really don’t see how this is incompatible with existing workflows :-)
Why do you prefer the company choosing insurance and paying x% over them paying 0%? Didn't you get the money they didn't pay? I mean what does it matter. Any tax reasons?
Any implementor always has permission to do their own thing, that's the point of making a second implementation. Putting something in a spec somewhere doesn't make it mandatory or guarantee it will be implemented. They could have put the weston screenshoot protocol that was created in 2008 in the spec, but they didn't do it, probably because the other implementors said it wasn't good enough and they didn't want to implement it. So what more could they have done? The mailing lists around that time had a lot of suggestions that went nowhere. Trying to put pressure on open source developers to implement something they don't want to do doesn't work, unless you are their boss paying them a salary.

I'm being serious here, I legitimately don't understand what you're pointing out. Yeah I too wish everything I was planning on 13 years ago turned out perfectly, things don't work like that though. And if you ask me, the thing that's most comparable to IE5 is the Xorg server.
Oh, my bad, sorry.
But luck is a major factor in this. If in ten years, Amazon tanks, history will say Bezos was a bad CEO. There is never a real demonstration that skill is involved. Some companies win and some companies lose.
You can use the launcher too. If you set the launcher to open a new tab, it'll bring the keyboard up too. This means you're one tap from searching your query in the browser.

If you have a good keyboard, you can even use DDG !bang syntax. I find this very helpful for finding what I want fast.
My friend has an amazing collection of vector arcade games. It got me obsessed with them. I really wish XY displays were still widely manufactured, the experience is completely lost on other displays.
A condom is the perfect example.

A condom is typically used once and has pores small enough to block designated particles.

This is how medical masks in a medical establishment is used.

Cloth masks at a community level are basically wearing the same condom everyday and the condom is full of holes.

Its a 'rain dance', and just makes people feel better, which does have it's benefits, like religion or nationalism.

That's why Fauci is saying to double or triple up on cloth masks, because cloth masks reused daily are minimally effective, which is what the vast majority of the population does.

Here's a real actual scientific article about it.

https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/4/e006577
I started using Brave in addition to Firefox recently and I was curious if it supports this. Seems like it does (https://brave.com/privacy-updates-6/) and uBlock origin was the inspiration for that feature.

I never used uBlock, but I did use uMatrix (discontinued, but still working) which allows you very fine grained control over scripts and other resources based on the domain. Unfortunately it was a pain to get some things to work with that, especially online payments which use many subdomains and redirects. Paying for anything online was a game of enabling 10 domains on average, reloading the website, re-inputting payment info, etc. Some websites (like twitter) simply didn't work even if one enabled all the domains which appeared in the matrix.

Brave is pretty decent at blocking JS. Not as fine grained as uMatrix, and it apparently doesn't remember that you enabled things (at least in private browsing). I think it doesn't perform what uBlock calls HTML filtering, because it still makes requests to websites which were completely neutered by uMatrix.
All in all it's more pleasant to surf using Brave than Firefox, because fewer websites are broken by the blocking.

I wasn't pleased with Safari's native tracking protection + a simple Safari blocking extension which only looks at URLs. Websites work the best, but it's making requests to many unwanted domains still. Maybe it's blocking cookies and scripts, no idea, but I'm not happy even with the simple requests for resources going through.
They might be the easiest way to refer to variants but it does seem to incentivise countries/regions not disclosing/testing for new variants in the first place.
Data Dependencies and Funding Prospects: A 1930s Cautionary Tale
"Some...". Well, a few right wing idiots. Even the BBC calls it UK variant: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-55659820

> it really doesn't feel good to be a person from one of those locations.

I am from one of these locations and could not care less.
Luckily we only need one person with the right skill set to identify the antenna or other offending component to be removed and document it online, with pictures and instructions :-)
The first chart in the article explains the difference. It's not so much about being able to tell the difference, but how much it is protecting you in the background.
> it is distressing that open conversation continues to shrink in our world

Are you sure about that? When has talk about Bigfoot, moon landing conspiracies, the government turning frogs gay, and other such nonsense been welcome in "open conversation"?
Materials absorb some quantity of IR radiation. This will heat them up. What you're talking about is essentially a variation of recycling heat. It's imperfect so there'll be some IR signature.
Sounds like they took a page from Ulbricht (Walter, not Ross!): "Nobody has any intention of building a wall", then shortly after starting construction of a wall to imprison the citizens of East Germany, and calling it "the antifascist bulwark". The GDR soldiers that shot fleeing citizens in the back were praised as heroes that defended the glorious Soviet Republic against traitors.
It's definitely interesting, but I don't get how this kind of thing doesn't make other people feel a kind of intense sadness.

It's like the intersection of the insignifigance and smallness of my own individual existence + the immense scale of time to underscore that fact + the fact that even all the things that are spectacular and powerful also meet the same kinda end as me.

Something about the 58 billion trillion trillion trillion trillion years last black hole thing just bums me out.
one of my favourite vector games on my Atari 800XL was Mercenary. It was this open world type game, felt amazing at the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9nDCg63wNc it wasn't that graphics was the best (compared to something like rescuse on fractalus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbZ-chrOgGg ), it was just a big vector world with quite a lot of places to explore.
Keep in mind I'm not claiming B. I'm saying that the authorities lying gives people a reason to be skeptical about future claims.

The dangers of crying wolf.
This is an excellent point. You need to understand why your customers are buying your product, and make sure that's actually why you're actually trying to provide.
- “whom” is for all objects, no direct/indirect distinction

- I’ve never heard “acquiesce” used with a direct object and dictionaries don’t seem to have either

- but they said “aquisice” anyway so who knows

So yeah, it’s needlessly flowery and incorrect (name a more iconic duo), but the “whom” isn’t this time (although “who” would also be good).
I worked for a tech company until recently that had allowed a relatively small group of activist employees to trigger HR policies that have been extremely detrimental to the morale and bottom line of the company.

Cowardly HR departments who don't recognize that, by and large, the activist employees are mediocre at best, rather than remotely productive employees, has made things worse. Also, companies like Spotify seem to spawn an odd lack of self-awareness amongst many employees about how utterly replaceable they actually are. Spotify is a video and audio streaming service. There isn't anything novel about that anymore, as proved by how rapidly HBO and Disney were able to roll out platforms which do the same thing.

Even worse, the HR don't recognize this either.

I can personally attest to the fact that the new CEO who was my last straw at my last gig care far more about his personal reputation at his Marin County country club than the bottom line for the shareholders. He acted accordingly, and the board of directors also care far more about their reputations.
Vitamin D Resistance as a Possible Cause of Autoimmune Diseases
The opening lines of this article are a great example of how to write alarmist copy:

> Just last week, Digital Music News first reported that 40 different Joe Rogan Experience podcast episodes were found missing from Spotify, now the exclusive platform for the show. Now, that number has quickly grown to 42

It quickly grew by 2!
We live in a time in which we've thrown everything we knew about health and immunology out the window and have built a society in which all scientific (or philosophical) dissent to the COVID-19 fear-narrative is censored by large tech companies and scientific papers contrary to the consensus are prevented from being published (I'm thinking of https://twitter.com/mgmgomes1/status/1291162358962937857 / https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7239079/)
Buddy, that's not a vaccine.
Yeah, but sexual words in particular lead to harassment of women by strangers. I'd love to fix society so that this becomes false, but it's not how society currently works.

I'll keep that in mind though if I work with folks in the UK at some point.
OpenBSD has no equivalent to FreeBSD's support tiers, but arm64/aarch64 is supported with binary packages and syspatches today.

https://www.openbsd.org/arm64.html

Amusing seeing people reacting here on HN to the Apple M1 SoC Linux kernel upstreaming, meanwhile in OpenBSD.. FreeBSD hasn't made any public progress yet on M1 support.

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-arm&m=161386122115249&w=2

https://github.com/openbsd/src/search?q=m1&type=commits
OK, so what. What can we do to make China stop doing this research if they want to? Are we going to go to war over this? No. Are we going to have an embargo with China? No?

So effectively this becomes a situation of "oh yeah they should've not had that accident, oh well." In the USA we've had the same problem ourselves (lab accidents with pathogens), and we banned gain of function research and ended up removing the ban a few years later.

The entire exercise is meaningless. Note - I'm not even saying we shouldn't research the origins of COVID, what I'm saying is, the result doesn't really matter.
Tangential: some say that Wayland has inherently higher latency due to its design (because vsync is always on?)

Is that true?
I think Amazon fulfillment centers are a special case. Most people working there either move packages around or drive a truck. At least that is my understanding, somebody with better/first hand knowledge would be welcome to share.

Normally having a huge employer would be a boon to the city, but most of these people are going to be working for close to minimum wage and Amazon most likely negotiated with the city so they don't have to pay a dime.
It's _always_ us-east-1
I'm playing around with just that.

Regular Lambda (not edge) are just container images up to 10 GB in size.

There's also the layers thing. A function can use up to five layers at a time. The total unzipped size of the function and all layers can't exceed the unzipped deployment package size limit of 250 MB. Can update separately from the container, almost as fast as a regular fs.

And finally it has access to EFS which is faster than S3.
In larger regions, single AZs span multiple buildings. He'd have had to basically raze 100 square miles of northern Virginia...
> You can't resize, drag the video around, or watch from other tabs or with chrome unfocused/minimized

Umm...you can do all of those things. You might have to right click the video twice to get the picture-in-picture option (to get around the contextual menu of many video players including YouTube) or you can use the official extension that you click to popout whatever video is on the webpage.
Reflections on a North Korean Propaganda Film
When the deal first happened he came out and insisted that they had no power over him whatsoever.
Firefox is older than Chrome. Did you use IE before that or are you just that young?
YouTube pulls Florida governor's video, says his panel spread misinformation
That's a terrible counterargument full of logical holes coming from someone who's supposedly a "PhD in virology". But you're also a green account that's so rabidly and suspiciously coming to China's defense throughout these comments that I literally assign no credence whatsoever to anything you've said. Several other scientists here have already eviscerated the arguments in your r/science post as well.

I don't know who you are, but "unbiased virologist commenter" is definitely not it.
Some art is supposed to offend. If you want your antivaxxer theories, bigfoot stories, and moon landing conspiracies on Spotify, sing a song.
Ask HN: Is it possible to become fluent in Mandarin
I've always struggled with languages, but Chinese is rather captivating. Has anyone started late, say 30s and become fluent. I actually find it much easier than Korean or Japanese ( mainly owing to Chinese having an easier grammar).
I used them on FreeBSD boxes and never had issues beyond standard ISA resource sharing headaches. I didn't even know they had a bad reputation. I used to prefer the ones with jumpers to set the resources because I never trusted Plug-n-Pray on ISA.
It may sound dumb, but the only reason I don’t use FF is because of its UI. Somehow I think Chrome (and Safari) “look better” and make browsing more enjoyable. And this comes from a “techie” that knows exactly why, objectively, FF is probably better than Chrome in terms of privacy.

Can’t Mozilla “just copy” the look and feel of Chrome or Safari while keeping FF’s internals untouched?
Trivium - Throes of Perdition
Comments like the one you replied to honestly seem kind of silly. The "problem" you're describing is as old as time, it's not some new phenomenon the west bumped into.
Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog
So you buy out Apple's number 1 podcast...and then Apple has another number 1 podcast. And you're sitting with a lame duck, as is evidenced by TFA.

Is Spotify going to blow another 100 mil on that one and hope for the best?

They messed up by betting large on a celebrity and ignoring the fact that Joe Rogan wasn't a cultural fit.
You can also achieve the fix using the arguably more natural

template<typename T>
T const& clamp(T const& v, T const& lo, T const& hi) {
T const& a = v < lo ? lo : v;
T const& b = a > hi ? hi : a;
return b;
}

Either way, the commitee's idea of returning references for the C++ max/min/clamp functions was terrible, and it's a constant source of problems with temporaries and such. Like this: https://godbolt.org/z/j593Mebd6
Removing random episodes offering no reasoning is tyrannical. It being "their platform" is a non-statement as that's the only place they can be tyrants.
What's the "bullying" here exactly? Removing Alex Jones episodes?
The fact that they ask on one hand not to buy PPE because there is a shortage for medical workers while on the other hand saying they're actually counter productive against covid19 is at least circumstantial evidence for the claim.

It would be difficult to prove they definitely lied without an admission of guilt or leaked internal communications.
"LLVM is so cool because it can be used to solve problems it also caused" is a weird vibe. GCC w/ libstdc++ doesn't have the issue.
"ZSH inline options summary"?

TIA if you could explain; is it native zsh or a plugin?
If I were the only one complaining, I'd agree (with this being unnecessary---I don't quite see how the cost here is very large). But many women in the community both in the US and in France echo my experiences and concerns, as do many men. I also view it as part of my job as incoming faculty to discuss things that students may feel too vulnerable to discuss themselves.

Also, many on the core Coq development teams at Inria just feel this is bad branding for them at this point, as it inhibits adoption of the tool internationally.