skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That person doesn't work at Mozilla or on free software at all anymore. It was a bad tweet, but it's past the time to reasonably hold that against Mozilla.

Mozilla has a lot of problems, and it would be better to blame them for the problems that are still around rather than a bad tweet from months ago by someone not employed at Mozilla any longer.
pauses to sip brawndo
This is what baffles me in the cloud story: you think you get a servant, but you get a master.
The ship has sailed. While we endure incessant 'we want you to bend backwards and agree to our new TOS' in WhatsApp, Telegram keeps being friggin' awesome and getting better every fortnight or so.
Chrome is also adding bizarre ux choices on mobile. The tipping point for me was nested tabs (tab groups) with no way to disable them. I've been a happy Android Firefox user since then.
You can remove the DRM, no need to do any OCR shenanigans. But yes, it's of course illegal but I've paid for the book so I don't really care.
Smells of NSA.
Anecdotally, I have had the exact opposite reaction. Many people I know are fine with something that can reasonably substitute the taste with the same or lower cost, and comparable nutrition.

I'm not sure subsidies will catch on, but it's less radical to suggest eating artificial meat than to suggest veganism.
HQ9 Four Operation Esoteric Language (2001)
Made me chuckle. I know a guy who finds Netflix a total PITA and the streaming experience (sorely) lacking. So he pays for Netflix streaming and dvds, and then downloads what he wants to watch via torrents for the convenience.
They seem to be banning accounts that are clearly not terrorists.

Also, I get there are some black and white cases here. But there's plenty of grey also. I imagine a lot of terrorist videos aren't posted by terrorists, but rather by some disenfranchised/angry person who hasn't done anything illegal.
Some other similar projects are Pythran, Transonic, and mypyc.
in my experience no, and you will require it more.
I might try setting a mounted hook on the element with something like

this.el.addEventListener('onkeydown', function (event) {
this.el.dispatchEvent(new Event('change', { 'bubbles': true }))
}, true);
Further down the article, when talking about the project history, it notes that the company that inspired An0m, Phantom Secure, ostensibly started selling heavily-locked-down BlackBerry phones for this audience.

They quickly found their primary market was, well... crime.
I finally switched from firefox to safari on iOS. The latest redesign was the last straw for me. Very frustrating how the look of the app keeps changing without any useful updates. "telemetry says..."
>Without scale and centralization, cultured meat will be no different from any other food production method: expensive.

Honestly, one of my takeaways was to consider investing in this Future Meat company.

The above quote conflates two kinds of scaling: scaling the reactor (which Future Meat said they can't do) versus scaling the process. You don't need to build a bigger reactor if you can just build a really big machine that makes small reactors. And the great thing about this approach is that a huge bioreactor-building machine (poetically bioreactor-reactor) is invulnerable to contamination, heretofore the biggest problem in lab-grown meat.

The natural comparison is to a car: building a single car will never be economically viable and never has been. But building 10 million cars is absolutely viable.
Aha that is cool. It didn't work earlier because I did not click on the location names with the highlighted map marker.

Don't know why I didn't think to do that, I'll try to convince a friend or two to give it a test.
As a meat lover who cares little for the welfare of animals, you're completely right. It's the only rational solution, especially in the medium term. But nobody wants to hear that sustainable solutions will actually make for worse quality of life (this applies to a lesser extent to renewables as well, where people assume that we can maintain the same uptime standards we enjoy with fossil fuels at a similar cost level.
But at least in that case we're talking maybe 1.5-2x the cost, rather than dozens or hundreds as with lab-grown meat!).
I agree. But I'm not sure what the solution is. A lot of people will say "Hey, it's a private company", and as a libertarian minded person I tend to agree. But increasingly these private companies have more power of my life than my own government does, and it's accelerating further it seems.
> When we split the poll results out by income, participants in households earning over $75,000 per year were nearly twice as likely to say they’d purchase cultured meat (47 percent), compared to those in households earning less than $25,000 per year (26 percent).

That’s not as fringe as you’re claiming, and seems to be more a price concern.

It’s also mostly abstract for now. Get it on the shelves and some positive reviews and I’d expect opinion to shift.
The advertising you're talking about is already happening at the grassroots level. You're part of it. I hope it works.

Personally I eat as much rice and beans as polite company will tolerate. Alas, I hit the wall pretty fast.
Tor would work too
I have a wrapper script for pass (passwordstore.org) named pass-open that selects a password file using fzf, copies the included password and opens the included URL (if there is one). Also, my password files may include web browser names and profile names because I log into sites using different web browsers and profiles.

So in addition to being my password manager, pass and my wrapper script are my cross-browser bookmark manager, which is convenient because I'm usually in a terminal emulator.

I've never understood why people at HN use graphical password managers that are integrated into web browsers and autofill, etc. (but I've never understood why people at HN use most of the graphical software they use).
Past time? She left in February.
I am the same. I have been itching to buy one but no thanks. I don't need yet another subscription service.
WhatsApp on iOS does backup all history, allowing you to transfer it to a new iOS device.

Transferring history between iOS and Android is a work in progress, it works now from iPhone to Samsung devices (for reasons I don’t really understand), general support is supposed to be rolled out the coming months.
Amazon in fact patented an artificial bee.
Show HN: A pattern generator with 1300 shapes and 300 dpi
Hi!

It took me three hours to make a free pattern generator using 1,300 shapes.

You can download in large resolution.
Flying is a stretch here. Falling slowly is a better description. Interesting idea though!
In its famous "Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists", the SPLC chose to include such figures as Maajid Nawaz and Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

These and similar examples illustrate what kind of organization they are.
10x is often used to suggest that one only seeds a single 10x developer. This makes as much sense as the army being okay with squad made up of one 10x solider.

Yes there are 10x solders but their impact is measured by their impact on the unit. IMO this is the only sensible meaning of 10x in large scale software development.
Agreed. Skimming Humbird's analysis, he mentions concentrations of catabolites as a significant limit on cell density, and points out that their removal is usually the job of the kidneys. To me that immediately raised the question of how to design an artificial kidney-like structure that can also live in solution. Similarly, the cleanroom conditions are very difficult to sustain, but what if we could engineer a replacement for the immune system to police the reactors?

Both of those are of course complete science fiction currently, but they're not "thermodynamically impossible" like he seems to suggest. They're 'just' conditioned on a significantly deeper understanding of biochemistry and genetic engineering than we currently have.

Given the current state of the technology and the implications of meat for global warming, I suspect that meat might just become more expensive until it stops being eaten entirely. And when the technology exists to produce it artificially, there won't be a market for it anymore. Speaking as someone who eats meat regularly, it's mostly a matter of conditioning. I don't think I would have independently invented the idea of killing and consuming an animal if other's hadn't taught it to me.
Tesla big battery in SA welched on vital services: AER
...as a dewormer.
> I should write a "I'm perfectly happy with Firefox, happier than I would be with any other browser" blog post and see if it gets any attention.

And here I was thinking the post missed a lot of issues maybe I should create another blog post.

Stop defending something that really has issues. This fanboy behaviour ends up hurting the very thing we love.
They aren't keeping the rest of the internet from being used, though. If you like forums, you can use them regardless of whether reddit exists or not. Same applies for blogs and facebook, IRC and messaging apps, etc.

If forums are better than reddit/discord, why are so many communities there? If blogs are better than twitter, why did the majority choose twitter?
Except that the only reason that these large platforms can sustainably exist, is government granted immunity from the content posted to them as a common carrier. Currently they're trying to have it both ways, where they can both be immune from any liability from bad content that gets uploaded, while selectively censoring whatever content they don't like.

It's not like the government doesn't play a role. These platforms can only exist because of government protections, and those protections should come with protections to the public against censorship.
Some corners of the internet got annoyed a women was working as a programmer for Mozilla and took things a bit too far. Turns out it gets dug up by the same haters under every post about Firefox.
Hmm, by saying that the accusations are "baseless", you seem to be saying that she's not actually a conspiracy theorist. But it's not just repetitions of a flat accusation; for example, NPR quoted her as saying, "There's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take this global cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles out, and I think we have the president to do it." (Evidently she's also claimed that the Clintons had John F. Kennedy Jr. killed, that Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin performed a human sacrifice in order to drink a child's blood, that the damage to the Pentagon 20 years ago was due to a missile rather than an airplane impact, and that the UN is committing genocide against white people.) Are you saying that NPR was lying in attributing that quote to her, or that she did say that but somehow is nevertheless not a conspiracy theorist? Or am I misinterpreting your claim of "baseless mudslinging"?

It seems to me that describing Marjorie Taylor Greene as a "far-right conspiracy theorist" is just as encyclopedic and verifiable as describing Charles Manson as "an American criminal who led the Manson Family" or Jeffrey Dahmer as "an American serial killer and sex offender who committed the murder and dismemberment of 17 men and boys". Why do you disagree?
Zig is great, but &[_][]const u8 a really painful type signature to type repeatedly every time you want to handle strings.

I know it's a small thing but strings are common enough that the little ergonomic costs add up.
They still have censorship power over the App Store. You can't even have reader apps that show titties, as Tumblr learned, or show UGC expressing wrongthink, as Gab and Parler learned, or offer VPNs in China, or protest apps in Hong Kong.

The topic of this discussion is cloud-based censorship.
> Laws only count if they are enforced

The thing is, the drug kingpin statute has a long statute ot limitations, and there is no federal policy making current violations relating to marijuana not criminal, only a law prohibiting the executive branch from spending money prosecuting marinuana-related offenses related to medical use consistent with state law which the executive branch has also mostly treated as applying to other use permitted by state law. But the boundaries of the legal policy are somewhat fuzzy, and were it to be repealed tomorrow, there would be no bar to the Feds rounding up people who had been openly engaging in the marijuana trade and charging them under drug laws, including the drug kingpin law, subject to the applicable statutes of limitations. And/or filing forfeiture actions (civil and/or criminal; though the latter requires criminal charges against the individual) against property used in or derived from the business.

The risk does affect the who enters the industry, who supplies the industry, and how people in and around the industry conduct business.

> the federal government would have to deploy the military on American soil to police states that have legalized marijuana

AFAIK, the DEA, FBI, and other federal law, and the people who have openly been conducting marijuana business don't take that much effort to identify and round up. The military would not be required to do policing, though DOJ’s Criminal Division might want to get some military JAG lawyers assigned on temporary duty to handle the caseload surge.
Your user ID is your phone number. If Facebook has that there really is no need for nebulous ‘device IDs’.
Mozilla would instantly recover a ton of goodwill by allowing users to install any WebExtension on Firefox for Android without having to go through a strange activation ritual that only works on the Nightly channel.* Considering how stable the extensions have been for me, I'm baffled at how Mozilla is not even letting the Beta channel test them.

* https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/09/29/expanded-extensio...
numba is pretty great, and i saw pretty extreme speedups (i can't remember exactly now, but they were orders of magnitude faster) when i used it in a project. however, to make full use of it, you pretty much have to isolate the numerical code that you want it to compile and be careful to ensure that it is easily translatable. (that is, avoid using libraries or python objects). essentially, for full effect, you need to turn on "nopython" mode which then severely limits what you can do in the accelerated code.

ultimately, i'd probably look at julia or maybe rust if i was building something from scratch these days though. i'll also note that adding numba to a project is a pretty heavyweight proposition (you are, afterall, adding llvm to your project).
You've confused science with politics. There is no scientific consensus on whether ivermectin is an effective treatment for covid. The people claiming this are engaging in politics. There is a consensus that people should not use ivermectin (or any medicine) except as directed by a doctor and not until there is extremely good clinical evidence for its efficacy. But that doesn't imply that ivermectin isn't effective, just that we don't know.

Comparing ivermectin's supposed anti-viral properties to the the standard model or vaccines is absurd.
We haven't done it yet, but even if we had it's not a comparable analogy. We have a plan to get a few people to Mars that (while not exactly cheap) could conceivably happen. Similarly we already have lab-grown meat at very small scales, at a fairly high markup.

What would be a comparable analogy would be maintaining a stable, economically sustainable colony on Mars with similar population growth to what we might experience on Earth. Nobody has any remotely realistic proposal for how we are going to get there, just as no one has a remotely viable proposal for how to scale up current lab grown meat production to even an appreciable fraction of current meat consumption.
> BTW, if you like that sort of thing

Thank you for sharing that. It was a fun read.
Same thing here, been using it for maybe 2 years now and I adore it.
Calling ff a mess is worse, as someone that absolutely hates ads it's a godsend.
Is "Visual Studio Code notebooks" fully open source, like JupyterLab is?
It's actually smarter than the slavery statement. Slavery wasn't just cruel and sick; it was also economic insanity, the biggest waste of potential in at least America's history. People, educated, free and motivated to innovate, are our greatest asset.

(Innovations do break through, of course, even from people denied those things. But even the richest elites would be better of if nobody had to overcome those barriers.)
I share some of the author's viewpoints and am similarly disheartened by some of the decisions Apple has made over the last several years.

That said, there's a trope displayed in this post that's getting especially old to me on HN, and that's the: "POs/PMs ruin everything (or are useless), and all they care about is getting a raise or promotion.. not the technology (or the users, or the product)."

I find the tribalism baked into this oft-repeated viewpoint super annoying. And I believe the author, and others parroting these ideas.. are projecting a viewpoint all over the place without much substance.

And I think it's actually harmful to organizations and teams working effectively together. So maybe we should look a little deeper and leave the engineers-are-better-than-everyone-else bigotry out of it.
This is for an internally developed printhead test tool (at hp) so money is not as much of an issue. We place the paper on a very flat vacuum platen and then print various test patterns with our (industrial) printheads. So the printing part is easier than what you're doing, printing more or less the same way you'd do in a flat-bed plotter.

We did play around with various ways of picking paper and it's generally a tricky problem, even now we have to adjust the flow for different paper weights. We also came up with a simple way of dropping off extra sheets by forcing a little bow to the paper and shaking a few times for the extras to fall off.
It can't print. It doesn't support printing. If I need to print (to paper or PDF) something like an order receipt for an insurance claim or a shipping label to return something, I need to use another browser.

I still use it, but this annoys me ~weekly.
How's the view up there from your high horse?
Evaluate your interviewer

Are they trying to show off their algorithm superiority and just want to see you fail or are they genuinely trying to help you succeed?

In my experience, the best workplaces have been from interviews where the interviewers were rooting me to succeed
Michigan Gov. Whitmer announces in-road wireless EV charging project
Then they should charge less for soldered ram - more in line with wholesale prices.
Why say market share? Exploit payouts per exploit are highest for Android in mobile space:
https://zerodium.com/program.html
See discussion of free lunch elsewhere.

https://jitsi.org/meet-jit-si-terms-of-service/
Honestly, I've been making Impossible burgers at home on brioche buns, butter lettuce, and nice tomato and they're better than pretty much any burger I've ever had (Beyond is 2nd runner up for sure and still super good). I don't want Lab-grown meat and I think it's pretty gross, and I'm a massive carnivore.
That's when you start using steganography...
"If your reasoning suggests you shouldn't play the lottery, but playing the lottery actually results in you winning, what use is your math?"

Well, what matters is expectation. The fact that some people win the lottery doesn't prove that playing the lotto is profitable. In fact it isn't money-profitable. The fact that people sometimes win doesn't change the nature of reality, that even for them, the win is unexpected and playing was negative expectation for them.

You seem to be confusing expected value with results.

Do you revise your decision process every time you get unlucky? On a meta level, sure, paying attention to unexpected failures is important to look for systematic errors. But randomly getting unlucky on 99% certainties does not automatically disprove your decision method.
Could also be a rural vs urban concern.
With no encryption so the network, the servers and basically anyone who cares to look can see your private messages. If you don’t care about that, indeed it’s easy to implement things.
The typing in the url bar and not getting website lists from history or bookmarks kills me every time. It's infuriating to have to scroll below the word Android, to get to Androidpolice.com etc.
That's really odd. People eat all kinds of gross stuff that are industrially processed just fine.

And people eat sausages!
She left near the beginning of the year and we're nearing the end of the year.
How’s Synology NAS? Safe local storage or can they back door in and fuck with your data?
That new Android version when it was released was so bad that it made me switch to Vivaldi on both mobile and desktop, and I've no plan to go back to Firefox. With the constant breaking and removal of features I don't trust Mozilla much anymore.
Who are their competitors for search, email, video, and cell phone?

I'll get comfortable.
If you don't know how citations and data work and are incapable of following them, even in an "opinion" piece, that's your problem.

>Safe and effective...
Every day that becomes more untrue in highly vaccinated populations like the UK and Israel, whose hospitals and morgues are full of vaccinated people.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/investigation-of-...

https://www.gov.il/en/departments/guides/information-corona

There is substantial risk when it comes to mass vaccination in the middle of a pandemic as well, especially with highly infectious and rapidly mutating viruses, coupled with vaccines that are extremely ineffective at preventing spread.

https://www.geertvandenbossche.org/

Calling it "conspiracy claims" doesn't suddenly invalidate the overwhelming amount of empirical evidence.
And "science" wasn't prepared to display "science" to the public in real time. Instead of we have paywalls, twitter arguments, and media trying to report on scientific studies they don't understand.
I’ll tack on here there is also a difference between muscle meat and organ meat.

Organ meat has been a staple of traditional diets in every culture, but for some reason(s) its reviled in the modern western diet.

Muscle meat is much higher in saturated fat (red beef in particular). That’s really what ends up giving people cardiovascular disease on top of excess sugar consumption and a sedentary lifestyle.
Then you focus on finding what you want to do.

Honestly, pretty much any idle activity is more productive for the human mind than doomscrolling social media feeds. Sitting in the void. Going for a walk. Watching the grass blow in the wind. Putting together a puzzle, doing a crossword.

There is a unique unhealthiness to chronic overuse of social media, in my opinion, and the point is that it is addictive and takes work to break free - but once you do, you feel freer.
I can run most games on the Android Studio emulator without much of an issue, though it takes a higher mid-tier system to do it.
This resonated surprisingly well for a secular guy like myself. Have I unknowingly been influenced by Jewish culture (likely enough)? Or has engineering school culture perhaps found a similar style of casual argumentation by convergent evolution?
I agree. But fairness and political feasibility are both worth measuring.

What is the unsubsidized cost of meat? What would it be incorporating its externalities?
You might like Vivaldi. Basically Chrome w/ adblock without Brave's business model. Built by the team that left after Opera's purchase.
Right, so every site is going to show a pop-up requesting this right? That would never fly so if this ‘feature’ is to gain any traction it’ll default to ‘allow everyone’, or it’s dead on arrival.
Most banking apps will require Google Play Services in order to work right. Currently, Waydroid does not offer that.