skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correct. You don't want to reward the people who are exceptionally good liars, like Madoff: the ones who can con those who normally can't be conned.

There are actually people who believe a message that their Social Security number has been compromised, and they have to pay money to avoid going to prison. The stupid deserve fraud protection, too.
Continuing an open source project that used to be sponsored (paid developers) as a non-sponsored project is always very hard. The code base, project structure, automated tests, etc. is all sized for a certain number of developers. When 90% of them are gone it'll be hard to keep up.

Feels somewhat similar to the faith of RethinkDB, which was an awesome database in many regards, but it was difficult to keep the steam up after the sponsoring company shut down.

https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/graphs/contributors

One thing that may work, is if Servo tries to carve out a very narrow niche, much smaller than just "general browser", where they are unique and useful.

Take embedding as an example. If Servo became a great choice for embedding (similar to WebViews, Electron or maybe as an "engine" to Electron), where there is usually a single set of CSS and Javascript that it's expected to run (basically a bundled app), the downsides of Servo not supporting all Web APIs, or not handling all edge cases, is reduced. Basically, if it runs your code, that's enough.

So it'll become "useful" (regardless of where you put the bar for useful) earlier in an embedding context, compared to it becoming useful as a general browser.

Should it catch on as a tool for embedding, that would drive more usage and more contributions, which would be a beneficial circle.

But this niche could also be something entirely different, of course, I'm not sure embedding is the one.
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Yes, it's backwards. The most common way this is quantified is using Fraction of Attributable Risk (FAR) [0]. Even if the mean of the temperature distribution is just shifted slightly upward with no change in shape, the higher the threshold, the larger the fraction of risk that is attributable to the change in mean. This holds for all but pathological distributions, and doesn't even require increased variability or anything like that.

[0] Figure 1.1f here: https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/sites/3/2019/11/05_S...
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I don't think the defamation laws are the only approach to concealing corruption -- just one way thats popular in the UK & Ireland.
Lots of companies overhire for empire building purposes and for tasks that offer marginal or zero value to the company.

I'm sure plenty of people here can attest to the cascade of overhiring that happens to startups all the time.
I've been doing it alone for years. It's just fine because everyone needs quiet work time where there's no random interruption. Do that for 3 days and go to meetings and interact directly 2 other days. I've done the full 4-5 days as well, and it's still fine. During the pandemic, when everyone was stuck together, it's actually much harder if you have younger children. It depends on what you want.

Do you truly want work life separation, is your work place your social venue, or do you want a mix of both? No wrong answers. Just pros and cons with personal preferences. I just feel that it would be nice to have that choice.
Always seems a shock to HN when the jobs that everyone wants that don’t require a very technical education tend to be on the low end. Well at least for the campaigner role.
Typical speeds for "current G + 1" is always high and mysteriously gets significantly lower when "current G + 2" gets introduced. Rinse and repeat.

I'm not sure how come everyone is so highly interested in this churn of networking equipment, it's especially bizarre that telecoms are interested in it (it's a major expense for them), but there you go.

To me 5G is a bit like IPv6. Technically it's better, technically we need it, but in practice we're good enough already. And this is why still a lot of Internet is on IPv4. But thanks to this constant marketing, 5G doesn't have this issue. I'm neutral about it, but I can't care less if my next phone has 5G or not.
I love Netflix's principles. I used them as inspiration for our own.
Slavery. White supremacy. Privilege.
> So she wasn't forced to work there...she voluntarily accepted less pay when she started. It's not like they duped her on what her pay would be right?

Isn't that true of every person working somewhere who then votes to unionize?
Throw a breakpoint in the unit test.
With that reasoning a sorted list would need more memory than an unsorted list.
It's generally pretty easy to spot the fakes if you have a basic understanding of the field and are just researching for specific details. Frankly, for the stuff I typically look for, there are surprisingly few fakes to be found. This may change with YT deprecating the down-vote arrow.
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Hi Patrick

My # one needs isn't related to Atlas per se (but I can see how all Atlas users need this), I love you're acquisition of TaxJar and release of Stripe Tax. But it only solves 1/2 the problem. I need an easy way to make tax payments to the appropriate regulator (e.g. Merchant of Record service). Hope that is in the works.
That's the thing, you have to fight these things even when they're not happening because over time they will happen. Everyone was surprised when Google and Apple came back hard against remote working but that's just what big businesses do.

As software is increasingly commoditized over the next 5 decades we'll see a huge degradation in employee compensation even as profits for these companies continue to grow.
This happens all the time at non-FAANG companies.
Interesting concept, but seems like it only works for fairly small arrays, right?

You could fit 40 base-3 values into a 64 bit integer, but in order to read/write index 39, you have to perform 39 multiplications/divisions. So no efficient random access. And is there any way to encode more than 40 base-3 values if your largest integer is 64 bits? If you need 45 elements, I guess you could use an array of 5 8-bit integers where each 8-bit element represents 5 base-3 elements. Of course, now you're limited to increasing the size of your array to increments of 5 (or more generally, smallest efficient integer size / log base 2 of the number of representable values)
> We're extremely well compensated and are dictating changes like forever WFH. We have generous vacation, perks, 401k contribution, ...

Doctors, psychiatrists, and lawyers have professional associations. Professional athletes and Hollywood actors (as well as other film industry workers) are also unionized.
This still seems like a server issue regardless? Using URLSearchParams doesn't mean your server wont see a request with `&sendPasswordTo=hacker`. Sure its nicer on the client side but it doesn't solve the security issue
Most unions in Europe are for blue collar work. In the UK (anecdotally) I've seen a lot more developers form cooperatives than unions, and even the cooperatives are fairly rare.
If you are thinking about it, you are most likely not mediocre or at least you have the potential to be much more. Real mediocrity is when you don't even know or realize and most likely don't give a shit. But then again, perhaps that's what a lot of people are ok with and then it is fine.
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Please do. Your career sounds like quite the adventure!
That’s the beauty of the industry though. If you don’t like your work or don’t think you are compensated enough, you are free to apply and work at any number of other tech companies around the world.
Aren't parts of servo still part of Firefox, and hence those parts will continue to be maintained within the context of Firefox?
Not really unless it is gainful employment. Toll booth worker is employment, but it isn't gainful employment. It's mindless soul crushing work.
you cannot be the BEST employer if you force your workers to build one page where customers can see all their resources /s
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[abuse children and drugs, or be racist.]
It's a common question for sure.

I wouldn't necessarily pull out "armchair experts" type comments for someone expressing curiosity / wondering what they're all up to.
> That would make usize a 32-bit integer, regardless of the data width.

Doh, long day at work, misinterpreted "data width".
Looks like we don't even care about our own future, we're sadly a long way from what you're suggesting
They have this shady practice where you can donate to causes (like GoFundMe) and they take a cut. Well I guess it is the petition organizers who are shady, they are not always involved in the cause or obligated to do anything. Change.org just let's them do it.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/10/21286385/change-org-georg...

In a Medium post on Tuesday, more than 90 former Change.org employees called on the company to donate any related funds to Floyd’s family and organizers rather than using the funds to promote the campaign itself.
Mozilla seems to be having their plate full just keeping Firefox in running with Chromium and Safari, at least as a distant, but still alive, third. And slowly falling further behind. I'm coming across more than a few sites which are subtly broken in Firefox, something that virtually never happened all these years.

It is sad that they have not managed to become the Linux of web browsers, though Linux on the desktop sort of is similar to Firefox, getting less relevant by the year.

There was a window of several years during which you could almost believe free/open source software would really dominate the world, but instead it has been co-opted into providing the infrastructure layer while consumer facing software and devices have become more locked down, black boxes than ever before.
That's probably just a convenient, cheap, and robust connector to source instead of something more obscure. Grill probes are more likely to be a thermocouple rather than a thermistor as they can usually handle higher temp ranges.
Not the case, it takes significantly longer... if it happens at all.

Much longer. It took until 2019 for checkra1n to become a thing to unlock Apple A7 to A11 devices. Apple A11 is a 2017 SoC.

A12, A13, A14 remain uncracked today.

In Android lands, bootloaders starting from quite some years ago are quite solid too, with no bypasses except when the device maker provides you the possibility to unlock it.
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So what's your alternative? I'm all ears.
Pretty much all SWEs in Silicon Valley have had to work in open offices, which is a common grievance.
Everything is branded for what it is not.

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There is only one claim, and the whole claim is a bit more specific that that. This prompts a couple of questions for those who know more about these things than I do:

1) When a claim consists of a conjunction of clauses, must an allegedly infringing device match all the clauses in order for it to be infringing that claim, or can each clause be infringed independently of whether the others are? At first sight, the latter seems unworkable, as an effective way to specify something is to say "it is a sort of X, except that..."

2) One of those clauses specifies "A plurality of media processing units, each media processing unit having an input/output coupled to at least one of the addressable memory input/outputs and comprising:..." (four short paragraphs follow, each describing, in general terms, some aspect of these units.) For the purposes of determining infringement of this patent, would any component matching these four paragraphs be considered a media processing unit?
> Unions are nothing more than a way to negotiate with capital as a single entity

Depends on the union and how long it's been in operation and their goals. Some unions demand and get ridiculous perks. You may have heard of the "rubber room" - a.k.a. paying employees not to work. That happened.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB114118143005186163
the lack of admin uis makes stuff like this even more annoying. having to write/scrounge a bunch of scripts to manage users on years old software
I think they mean that she voluntarily took a pay cut relative to her former place of employment.

Which, in my opinion is an interesting take. Many people take pay cuts to work at start ups and it would be irresponsible to think that a 10 or even 200 person company could pay like FAANG. Salaries aren’t static across the industry.
> Exactly-- a lot of things that I found boring became much more interesting once I had some more context to understand what is happening in a a given work of art.

In fact, I'd say this is the norm. An accessible version that I'd expect many people have experienced is hearing a genre of music as "noise" or boring or simply not especially pleasant, but then listening to more of it and learning more about it by paying attention to artists and, yes, critics and even (gasp) academics, and coming to really enjoy and appreciate it, and even beginning to be able to articulate why a given piece is especially good. The same holds for painting, for sculpture, for film, for books, for poetry—practically everything. Breezing through an art museum, say, without some pretty serious context for and experience with the sort of art you're looking at, is a great way to have, at best, a small fraction of the optimal experience—maybe still worthwhile, to be clear, but just because a great piece doesn't grab you as all that special your first time through doesn't mean it's wrong.

It's unusual for great art not to greatly reward education on the part of the person experiencing it, even if it's not entirely lost on those lacking it. A lot of excellent art may be downright off-putting without that education, even. Look at all the people who complain that most books regarded as "literature" are boring, worthless crap, or that what are regarded as some of the best jazz albums are ugly, random noise, or that a variety of fine art is ho-hum or stupid (maybe some of it is! But people expressing these attitudes tend to apply their opinion far too broadly)
Watch Virgin Orbit launch a rocket from a 747 [video]
Yeah, you're right. Wikipedia lists the most popular channels, and they're pretty much just entertainment and music. Then again, as near as I can tell, that's exactly what they are. Even the one listed as education is just music/entertainment for children.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-subscribed_YouTub...
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This n=1 personal anecdatum does not fit well in this thread about longitudinal studies.

Alcohol’s potential role in someone’s preferences about how to enjoy life doesn’t have anything to do with the discussion of whether it has a biologically protective effect.

I know a few problem drinkers who are linearly killing themselves and they all grasp for this “scientists have proven alcohol is good for you” misinformation as a part of their excusing narrative.
> Applications of Zero One Many. If the requirements go from saying “we need to be able to store an address for each user”, to “we need to be able to store two addresses for each user”, 9 times out of 10 you should go straight to “we can store many addresses for each user”, with a soft limit of two for the user interface only, because there is a very high chance you will need more than two. You will almost certainly win significantly by making that assumption, and even if you lose it won’t be by much.

I agree in general, but for the address example in particular I can't remember how many times I have to provide a shipping address and a billing address, or residential address and mailing address, etc. I also can't remember any time interacting with a system that asks for 3 or more addresses.
no. it means that you disagree with the decision but after the commit that’s what everyone is going to do (you included)
According to wikipedia: The majority of the company's revenue is advertising - individuals and organisations who start or sign petitions then chip in to promote those petitions to other site visitors.
TPM is used for measured boot, to not release a secret/operate on a key if measurements do not match.

It doesn't block you from running anything.
> For one remove anonymity from social media. That in itself should clean up half this mess with existing laws.

And it should also enable going after people with unpopular opinions even more.

And preventing people from spreading disinformation doesn't mean that the disinformation will magically go away. It's just that the only people allowed to spread disinformation will be the government and the capitalists. And you will be punished if you call them out on it.
There has always been a war on information, it's just more in the open now. Clandestine organizations have kept heavily guarded secrets for millenia and the democratization of communication via the internet is now being clamped down through censorship in the form of shadow-banning, as well as both broad and targeted espionage AKA intellligence.
If it’s expensive, I imagine lawyers on both sides try to encourage going to court!
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There is always the option of downloading a data dump from https://archive.org/details/stackexchange indexing it and querying it.

You can even make your tool offline and private :)

Add a few transformers on top, and you can have it generate dubious code.

Though if you want to be competitive you'll probably need a few phd and M$ of computing resources or use some free tpu like https://colab.research.google.com/ and hope to not get rate limited :)
Yeah, I have. The problem is that I really do love electronics. I am a decent C programmer, for embedded applications at least. I have never written an actual PC program though besides tutorial stuff.

A friend of my did a crash course boot camp for js, and did eventually get a good job out of it. Maybe I should think about doing the same.
REPL will not work well with multitheading/futures in Clojure.
Because 5G is intentionally marketed as having this functionality. It helps by allowing more efficient low-speed connections, and simpler radio design for very simple implementation. It also has 'slicing' which would make it much easier to provide a wide 5G network to e.g. all LG devices without LG building towers.
> The sporozoites must be harvested from mosquito salivary glands and then stored at extremely low temperatures, complicating their distribution in resource-poor areas. No vaccine has ever been mass-produced using mosquitoes before. Alonso remembers someone asking him about the possibility years ago: “It is a crazy idea,” he replied at the time.

Crazy indeed, it’s amazing the things people think up.