skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate the comment, forgive my late response.

I agree that "kill one another off" was a bit hyperbolic, but it was past the edit window before I noticed that it was being genuinely misunderstood. All I meant was what would seem to be happening: People exposing one another to a communicable disease with a death rate of X. I was arguably using the wrong terminology for the magnitude of X.

Whether a death rate of X is acceptable or not may depend on social acceptance of the cause, the visibility of the cause (plane crashes always make the news, suicides don't) social class, etc. This is evident in the use of analogies within this sub thread, as a way of trying to make sense of the issue.
So many people are receiving this article very positively but am I the only one here who’s struggling to understand it? Why do the comments here make it seem as if it is impossible to be right but come off as merely being “self-righteous” because one is being engaged by someone else who is wrong and proud? Where do we draw the definition of when someone is being self-righteous? Is it possible to be self-righteous when you’re actually right or can it only happen when you’re wrong but you insist that you are right?
I forgot pumped storage which is apparently 8 TWh

https://www.hydropower.org/country-profiles/germany
Well, it's not like Google speakers make any sense even with this behavior. I keep mine generally ungrouped because I have one speaker per room.

When I broadcast "Okay Google, broadcast: Hey, son, what do you want on your burger?" it's not exactly a stellar experience...

It usually goes

<long pause>

1st speaker: Hey, Son wh

2nd speaker: Hey, Son, what do you wan

3,4,5 in overlap: Hey, son, what do you want on your burger

while my son is trying to answer the first one.

I mean, you're all on the same wifi network this isn't really excusable behavior.

So, Google: even with stolen technology you still kinda stink at this.
One-click buy was a patent so…
Using the industry standard TSI PORTACOUNT® RESPIRATOR FIT TESTER 8048

It measures the air outside the mask verses inside the mask.

https://tsi.com/products/respirator-fit-testers/portacount-r...
To provide an actual data point: I successfully built one of the largest messaging APIs using PHP. We had a horizontally (and dynamically) scalable architecture, ran hundreds of worker nodes in Kubernetes, that processed thousands of messages per second.
The nice things about PHP were:

* Interoperability with the rest of our ecosystem, including the web platform: We could share code and install modules in all projects

* Availability of packages: For lots of common use cases, there are high-quality libraries available, such as process forking, socket communication, or message queues

* Easy to go from PoC to production: Start out with no-brainer arrays, then move to typed data structures easily

I find all the syntax critique on PHP to be completely irrelevant. It's a high-performance, dynamically typed scripting language. I can build the same things in it as with Go, Python or TypeScript, but the ecosystem is stable, tweaking it for production is easy, and it goes from "shoddy hackathon script" to "fully typed, production-grade application" smoothly. There's a single, pretty great package manager; type checking, although limited, works at runtime; code doesn't need to be compiled prior to running.
All this makes it a good choice even for big projects to me.
Given Google Photos is broken on Firefox I wonder how much the conflict of interest plays into this. More fuel to the breakup argument.
The revised letter is a good instruction manual on how to maintain standing in both societies, they just should have thought of it initially. Thanks for taking the L, InteL.
> It goes hand in hand with wars for religious conversion, which also weren't a thing before Christ.

This isn’t close to true. Look at the timeline: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_war

> The moment memes switched over from religion to politics as primary content seems to have been the French Revolution, I can't think of a time before that when people killed each other over political ideals.

Uh. What?
There really are no adults in charge of anything anywhere, are there?
I worked as an apprentice cheesemaker, making mostly curds, cheddars, jacks. Ask me anything! ("What's Juustoleipa?" might be a fun place to start)
Uhm. Some "fiction" for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_Germany

There is also post-glacial rebound in northern Germany with several fault lines, one of them roughly between Kiel and Lübeck. Where parts of Denmark, Sweden and Norway still slowly rise, while the outer parts bordering Northern Germany slowly sink, 'scratching' against it.

Also several large salt domes, producing sink holes which can be seen as lakes today. Interestingly, some of these are being explored today as energy storage solution, what could possibly go wrong?

edit: Besides that, flooding. Again and again

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_von_Sturmfluten_an_der_N...

Pick your 'fiction or fantasy' ;->
We have updated the mobile view please LMK what you think.
I've been saying this since 2016! So what can be done about it? There are certainly better search engine alternatives out there. But the market doesn't seem to want it? The average Joe and Jane still go right to Google for search and Chrome for browser. And the truth is that as soon as a solid alternative comes out, the entrenched incumbents will squash it like a bug through acquisition or other means.
If you would of made this comment in the 70's or 80's you would have been called a commie bastard. You manage in just two sentences to conflate 3 different notions into one single "bad thing ™": science, capitalism and democracy.

Democracy does not equal/result in/require/corelate with/mean the same as/etc. capitalism. Before Marx, the very vast majority of non-democratic regimes have been capitalist.

There is no such thing as "the science" to people engaged in doing science. "The science" is only a concept for people who stay away from scientific pursuit. There is a thing called scientific consensus that means the collection of knowledge scientists widely agree best describes reality at a given moment in time.

The scientific consensus is not controlled by commercial interests for many reasons. Among those reasons here are just two: plenty of science is publicly funded and the scientific consensus is global therefore being beyond the capabilities of any single entity to direct. Individual scientists may be biased, but that bias is not coherent in the population of scientists.

In the case of Covid vaccines, even if "the science" was controlled by commercial interests, that would still not result in a conspiracy. There are 20+ vaccines and each manufacturers commercial interest would be to discredit competitors and sell more of their own.

The scientific consensus is pro-vaccine because vaccines have been prooven repeatedly in the past 100+ years to result in higher quality and longer duration of life. There is no consensus on which vaccine is better (for various definitions of better). But there is consensus that covid vaccines are the best tools humanity has for the foreseeable future to fight against the pandemic. And there is consensus that they are orders of magnitude safer than the disease.

Also, there is no blind single mindedness. The very reason you know about all of the side effects that have surfaced so far is because science was done. If "the science" was controlled, the featured article would not exist. We have known about the existence of side effects of vaccines since the start. Side effects were predicted and expected since before the vaccines existed, because all medication has side effects. They have been measured, and continue to be measured. This study is just one step on our quest to ever more precisely measure those side effects. So, yes, the impact of the side effects has been sufficiently determined to conclude that at the very least vaccination against covid is orders of magnitude safer than the risk of covid itself.

The the confusion you display by corelating such different notions in your comment, shows you have bought a narrative peddled by some grifters, hook, line and sinker. The same as all the people deceived to believe that the MMR vaccine causes autism.

Be sincere with yourself and admit that, at this point in time, the only studies you will consider unbiased are those that will confirm your own bias, namely that you consider the side effects of covid vaccines to be too risky.
Firefox's anti-fingerprinting features are being pulled up directly from Tor, if you seriously want to resist fingerprinting in your normal browsing, you use Firefox. Additionally, Firefox has the best extension support of any browser. Ublock Origin works better in Firefox than it does in Chrome, today. Firefox containers also don't really have a good equivalent in other browsers; they are an incredibly useful tool for easy separation of site data -- and containers are exposed as an API that extensions can take advantage of. That kind of easy access to privacy controls matters because privacy controls have to be simple enough to use that people can actually use them day-to-day and not just once and a while when they're doing something sensitive.

On the developer side of things, Firefox also outperforms Chrome in its CSS developer tools; I use Chrome for debugging Javascript, I usually prefer to debug CSS and prototype layout in Firefox. There are other advantages, Firefox and Chrome kind of go in different directions in what they prioritize for developers.

But the extension support is the big one. Properly configured, Firefox will be more private than any other browser, including stuff like DeGoogled Chromium, because DeGoogled Chromium is still based on Chrome and is still missing the extension APIs that Ublock Origin uses in Firefox, it's still missing the anti-fingerprinting features from Tor.

People can debate a lot of stuff (I like Firefox's resource usage but performance is subjective and user-dependent), and people get mad about Firefox defaults and decisions the company makes (sometimes legitimately, Firefox often makes bad decisions), but just as a private browser, Firefox is objectively more capable today than any other full-featured browser I've ever seen. I don't think that's just my opinion, Firefox objectively has more privacy features and better privacy APIs for extensions.
Yes, but it was St Paul, not Jesus, who created Christianity as we know it.
The "rounded corners" narrative needs to die.

It wasn't just rounded corners. It was a combination of design features for a specific device that, among other things, included rounded corners.
Lloyd, I very much appreciate all your work and efforts put into this testing! I stocked up on the Powecom masks very early after seeing all their thorough testing and backing and I'm glad that I did. I also went overboard and bought nice high end gas masks and CBRN filters and P3 particle gas mask filters in February 2020 but I've not used/wasted any of those. :)
If you flip this around a bit... why would people think to smile for photographs? They're not looking dour, they're just sitting for a photo with their natural faces. Their main points of reference were drawn or painted portraits that people also didn't smile for (partially due to the amount of time you'd need to pose).

Smiling for photographs is a social behavior that took time to catch on.
Sounds like you need some structured concurrency. Check out Trio or AnyIO.

https://trio.readthedocs.io/

It's too bad we got asyncio as the standard library module, though some SC concepts are going to make it into the library in future Python versions.
Developer sabotages his own apps, claims Aaron Swartz was murdered
I think it boils down to if its important to you, list them. If its not, leave them off. I’ll never list mine because I cannot think of a time in my life when some one has gotten my pronouns wrong, and even if they did, it would not offend me in the slightest. If anything I would just assume the person misspoke, or if it continued, that they are an idiot or intentionally being an ass.
Okay we updated the site to work on mobile. Thanks for this... seems obvious now but total miss on our part.

Thank you!!
> The letter now reads that the company prohibits "any human trafficked or involuntary labour such as forced, debt bonded, prison, indentured, or slave labour throughout your extended supply chains."

Designed by Intel in California™
I would like to see a real world social system which did not end with "owners exploiting workers" in some fashion. As I said, MOST "*isms" did end with some class of people being exploited, typically by those wealthier people. It looks like exploiting people to generate wealth for yourself is default state of social systems and capitalism is not a solution for that.
The Distributed SQL Database: a database evolution？
"The US is becoming more and more a technology based economy which is less reliant on physical factors.
"

I don't think that's really true. There is a lot of physical stuff going on but it's being pushed out of sight and done by cheap labor. A lot of the shiniest companies wouldn't look that great if they didn't have this supply of cheap invisible labor.
Oh, wow. Thank you, that worked for me.
I loved what Opera was. It used to be my main browser, before Firefox. These days though, Firefox wins for various reasons and not being a blink rebrand.
"However this was the first time a bridge had displayed this type of pedestrian excited lateral motion."

The first time?
It seems we are doomed to repeat the same mistakes in every generation.

Army officers have ordered troops to stop marching in step when going over bridges for a long time. :)

https://www.livescience.com/34608-break-stride-frequency-of-...
> I can't think of a time before that when people killed each other over political ideals.

This has been a thing since at least the Roman empire? Pretty sure that the Athens-Sparta wars were also at least in part over ideological differences. Probably much earlier too, but I'm not a historian and can't recall any from the top of my head.

Btw, to say that the French revolution was primarily over political ideals and not (say) a power struggle between competing elites or a public revolt over economic circumstances seems like a huge oversimplification of a conflict that took over a decade.
> The sockets would very silently crash until I added asyncio.sleep(0) between the more expensive CPU tasks.

That is exactly the problem with asyncio, the minute you want to do something a little more cpu heavy it blocks. Although admittedly, you would probably see the same problem with gevent, and have to use the same sleep(0) trick.

Point is for good scalability you need both traditional threads and either coroutines/asyncio to work together.
> we can easily live on plants alone.

This has only been true for about the past 50 years, when vitamin B12 was synthesized. There's no plant source for the vitamin. And I'm not even sure the vegans call a vegan diet "easy".
Where silicon valley ?which is obviously not equal to the humans of entire planet or you must be dreaming. I don’t even see EVs around me, rarely I spot them, Im from a developing country. AND People in the past have spoken the same about ICEs yet here we are. Just because its barely on a hype now doesn’t mean its clean and is the future, LOL. The batteries are just as dirty to build and inefficient in long term, they don’t even have half the density of ICEs fuels. Show me a heavy duty truck or machinery thats battery based that can match the ICEs.

Edit: Just to be clear Im not even supporting ICEs, Im against the duct tape measures for a problem thats already causing lot of problems. It would rather be awesome if EVs are actually built on something clean from production to daily usage. In some countries the EVs even outweigh the benefits they provide since the power grid is old school. Also mining the current battery minerals is not clean in one bit.
>I should be able to change the thing's behavior (if I have the skills)

Sure, but you can't change it to do something that violates someone's patent without licensing it.
The improvements seem to be in which thread WebRTC does work: moving more work to workers and off the main thread.

The release notes for alpha builds (e.g. [1]) link to this bug [2] "[meta] Update libwebrtc to new stable branch 2H2020", which as a number of comments about WebRTC using the main thread as its worker thread.

[1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/96.0a1/releasenotes/
[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1654112
as the saying goes, the lunatics are running the asylum.

In reality it's all systemic pressures everywhere and nobody, not even institutional administrators, likely have much in the way of free choice over anything that matters.
Counterpoint: the human beings that run Intel are not "supposed to" do everything possible to make their shareholder more money, regardless of the cost. I accept that they're going to do that, but there's nothing forcing them to, there's just a general cultural acceptance of greed.
For one thing, it makes the distinction between language keywords and variables clear - no problems in using `$switch` or `$var`, and even more important, the core devs don't have to take as much care when developing new language features.
Not that I usually use variable names like these, but it quickly becomes automatic to use a dollar sign.
I actually want this in my search engine. I want it to exclude low quality news sources and sites with cloned content. But I want to control the exclusion list myself, like I used to be able to do.
I think it's largely monotheistic religion. It's almost by definition intolerant. Judaism is the odd one out with its odd "bug" to actively keep people from converting to it. The passing down the maternal line thing really makes it a bad meme.
That seems to be the common complaint about image bases systems like Smalltalk and (some versions of) Common Lisp. The difficulty of collaborating, auditing, deploying, continuous integration and rolling back to specific versions of the code.

Seems like it makes operational tasks, and really anything that involves distributing the code to anyone who is not the developer, is more difficult than with non-image based languages.
Yes the reasons for failing are in our testing notes being transcribed now. Over 250 hours of actual testing just to get to this part and with Omicron we wanted to get the raw data up ASAP.

Notes should be live in about 275 of them hopefully today.
I use it on ios, macos, and windows with zero issues. I can't remember the last time it crashed on me.
This excellent article reminds me of the time in the early 80's when I got to visit the Dounreay nuclear reactor complex[0]. Now we didn't quite get to see all the guts of the power station as Charlie did, but nonetheless even as a young teenager I was impressed by the scale and complexity of the engineering. The thing that really made the hairs on the back of my neck activate was standing right above the reactor itself. We also got a tour of the labs where radioactive components and other "hot" things were manipulated by remote control arms and grippers behind very thick glass. We even got to have a go, though obviously not with anything too dangerous :)

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dounreay
Have you tried the Profile Switcher for Firefox add-on? It works just like the profile switcher on Chrome.

- Add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/profile-switc...

- Connector (required for add-on): https://github.com/null-dev/firefox-profile-switcher-connect...

- Source: https://github.com/null-dev/firefox-profile-switcher
Thanks for the link. I don't think it's a solution, though: Stuff from amazon.com tend to get shipped from the outside of the EU, and as a minimum it will incur added VAT (+25%) and flat fee (around $25).

It would work if Rasa were available from, say, amazon.de, amazon.nl, etc., but, alas, it isn't — I already checked before I wrote my original comment.

Thansk for the suggestion, though. Perhaps it will be useful for other international customers.
Version 93 back in October added sponsored search suggestions on by default, [1] without even explicitly mentioning it in the release notes. [2] Is there going to be a similar surprise this time?

I still use Firefox as the lesser evil, and I believe there are lots of great people working on it (to whom I am thankful) but to see how the project has been run by the Mozilla Corpo-Foundation in the recent years is really disillusioning. I would love to see a change that would put a stop to the incessant stream of anti-features, while instead focusing on staying true to the original goals of the project.

1. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-suggest

2. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/93.0/releasenotes
The developer section (or whatever its called, F12) is the best
Agreed. I wish they created a dedicated fund for Firefox the way it was done for Thunderbird.

Let's not forget the ridiculous pay for the executives which has been shown to not correlate with revenue (or anything else):

https://calpaterson.com/mozilla.html

I give to the Thunderbird fund every year but have not given to Mozilla for a long time!
Firefox is my main and only GUI browser on Debian. I use to daily and it's up/on constantly. Even with nightly builds, I haven't had Firefox crash let alone crash the entire computer. I don't view very many resource intensive sites or SPAs trying be desktop apps. The worst performance I get is usually Slack in a tab. Hasn't crashed though.
Not being run by google is already a _very_ good thing. That said in my experience Firefox is much faster than chrome both on Linux and Android, on top of that I find the extensions available for Firefox much better as well.
Preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.24.474095v1
> Interestingly, the results of this optimization are well-described by Hoare's Dictum, often mistakenly attributed to Donald Knuth, which states

More interestingly, it is not clear at all that it's Hoares. [0] has a nice overview, and they conclude that it is indeed Knuths.

[0]: https://shreevatsa.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/premature-optimi...
there's also the dig shortcut to see the authorative ns in a oneliner
`dig -t soa` - usually I pair this with a quiet .digrc with +noall +answer to have a more terse experience
> Uh. What?

I'm not sure if it's true, but I see what they mean. A distinction between killing over power, and killing over ideas. I can see the attraction of the idea that killing over ideas is a modern phenomenon, although it's probably not entirely true (in either direction -- most wars over ideas are perhaps really about power anyway... but is couching it as a war over ideas a modern phenomenon? Probably still not entirely, but there might be something to it...)
My family had a friend who was eating a restaurant with his wife at lunchtime. In broad daylight someone swiped their catalytic converter while they were eating.

The suburbs are not nearly as safe as they were. My county has reported an explosion in carjackings and is considering boosting the police budget, and has referred to it as crime spillover.
Kinda crappy but i'm sure google has tons of patents on things we would find trivial as well, as far as i'm concerned, let shitty mega corps duke it out.
Could you imagine being at war with Europe and having free speech about the war limited?
> They could have paid royalties to Sonos for implementing the feature

That's an assumption. You don't know how much Sonos was asking. In addition, companies can choose to not license a patent to their competitors.