skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That ship has sailed. They have abandoned any pretext of caring about Rust with that last big round of layoffs.

Their poor decision making, including Pocket integration, started after they forced Brendan Eich out.
Python doesn't use arbitrary precision for floating point values, it just has arbitrarily long integers.
If you advertise a browser as being all about privacy, you absolutely should not be a/b testing users without their explicit consent. It is amazing to me that this needs to be said.
Ted Lasso.
I'm not sure about all of them, but here's a good summary. Take it for what you will; as always, real life is a lot more nuanced than a summary paper.

https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/teaching-res...
whoever is in charge of Mozilla needs to go. They are no longer "fighting for the user" but virtue signal while doing the same things so-called "BigTech" does.
Pocket is a weird thing. It integrates with my Kobo, and that makes it useful for reading long-form articles on my e-reader.

But it should have been opt-in.
The very first reference is deliberately misleading. If you actually look at the original table (https://www.nejm.org/doi/suppl/10.1056/NEJMoa2113017/suppl_f... p68), in a form not cropped and blurred to obscure the details, you will see that that particular group had 4 deaths from Covid, three of which occurred among the placebo group. The other deaths were from other causes, including one suicide (in the placebo group).

Flagged.
Consider that the alternative also included conscripting men to fight and die for the cause, and that runaway soldiers could be shot
Nice. Why OCaml though? I think using a more conventional language to construct queries could yield more adoption. It also seems that ORMs kinda of exist to tackle a similar issue, at least in part.
meanwhile I'm still stuck trying to make prolog work xD
No one promised that NATO will not expand, and it is not documented. It was discussed, but that’s it. It is Russia-propagated myth.
Yeah, I agree with you on that, I've just heard the "it's not my job to educate you" point (you're right, it's not) before, and I've noticed it only tends to make the conversation worse.

I think that's because without the explanation it's more or less name-calling, since the accused doesn't know what they did wrong.
what about the pay?
In my progressive state EVs get taxed more than gas vehicles and plug in hybrids get hit with both.
It looks like this requires a physical display adapter (with a dummy plug in it to spoof EDID) to create the display "instance" which Deskreen then copies to the remote device. So no, you don't have 25 video ports to stuff dummy plugs into.

Depending on your host OS, there _may_ be a way to create more displays that don't require physical video ports, but that doesn't seem to be documented or supported here.

Edit: OH! It's discussed here: https://github.com/pavlobu/deskreen/discussions/86
> You are supposed to periodically seal it.

Yeah, few people seem to realize how porous marble is. A really bad choice for counters. And floors. And shower stalls.

It's almost as if using marble in spite of it's disadvantages was a conspicuous consumption signal.

Oh, wait.
CNC machining would save your back a lot of pain right?

I just watch youtube videos about it so idk how bad it gets. Manual machining seems cool as a hobby but CNC is what im interested in.
>> It's not OK to stop your analysis where the original comment did, before you consider scenarios like that.

> Nope. If you are a slave, you owe your owner nothing except escape attempts.

> If the law says that you can't change employer, you owe every other citizen your best attempt to show up and find a comfy place to sit until they fire you. Bring a book.

This is exactly the kind of premature analysis stoppage I was talking about (i.e. thinking like the only thing that matters is your relationship to your employer, and everything else can be ignored). It's not a recipe for doing the right thing, it's a recipe for being a self-righteous asshole who could do a lot of harm.
except for that one time they silently pushed an extension marketing a TV show, which is probably how anyone who's heard of Firefox studies found out about them.

https://www.theregister.com/2017/12/18/mozilla_mr_robot_fire...
Python does not have arbitrary precision for floating point
There's more to it than multiplying the current price by the number of coins in existence: you need to consider the questions of liquidity and what an attempt to sell a non-trivial amount would do to those exchange rates as people start questioning whether they want to put more hard currency in. Cryptocurrencies are the weakest form of fiat currency and that means that there's a very real chance you simply cannot find enough buyers at the price you want to pay.

This can technically happen with other currencies, of course, but they're so much larger and more stable that it's orders of magnitude less likely. You need a world-shaking catastrophe not to find someone willing to take USD because so many contracts are written in USD, and there's plenty of need to pay taxes or interact with government contracts and employees.
> What’s the common thread here?

Your consumption of only hard-right 'news' sources.
Rich Countries Lure Health Workers from Low-Income Nations to Fight Shortages
> 5-12 minutes

I've run a lot of Linux machines on a lot of hardware for a lot of years and have no idea what could have been going on that would cause a 5+ minute boot, that was also unnecessary enough that a different BIOS could get it down to 30s. Back in the bad old days of circa ~2000 when I ran Linux on a variety of garage-sale potatoes, I don't think any took 5 minutes to boot.
Google’s original crème de la crème is PageRank: the idea that links to your page have more weight than keyword spam. They don’t seem to want to abandon that idea.
The Tomb and the Telephone Box: Soane's Mausoleum
Yeah, but when you become internet famous in certain circles then the income stream appears. Within hours of this hitting various sub-reddits a gufundme was in place (https://www.gofundme.com/f/thedacare-exemployee-support-fund...) and has pulled in almost 60K to cover these workers for the period in which they will not be working for their former employer, just in case the order is not overturned in the next 24 hours.
In that case, the cloud is already simple.

I use it to spin a Windows server, then connect to Steam, download a game server, download some mods from S3 and start the service.

The rules are in security groups. I add one Steam security group, and then another group for each game, and the machine has both of them at the same time.

When the machine is running, everything is one PowerShell script.

Using a Linux dev instance can only be even more simple.
I mean you have to make the decision as to whether the issue is serious enough to be worth losing your job over, and potentially being blackballed. That's a pretty tough call for most IC engineers who have bills to pay and maybe a family to provide for.

Edit: I see the title indicates the person was a "senior" employee but I don't know what that means, since I can't read the article. Perhaps he/she was more than an IC.
Applied to two. Interviewed at one. Phone screen followed by a coding exercise in a language I haven't used for years (other than to brush up the couple days before). I was not selected, but learned things in the interview that made me not want the job anyways.
Especially when you are required to click through after money has already changed hands. They also provide the ability for the vendor to unilaterally change the "agreement" at any time subsequently, which calls into question the extent to which any of it is actually an agreement at all.
What you describe seems way more automated than what we have today in Russia. Still…

> Literally nothing about buying a car involves actual people reviewing anything. It's all automated, it's all online.

Who gives dealer access and rights to update government database? I would not be surprised if the dealer does not have access but update their own system and then submit documents to an agency which checks them and modifies the database. DVLA API is documented online and unless they have another undocumented endpoints I don’t see any way to register a vehicle with it.

Car registration process is documented here - https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-registration/new-registrations

This source suggests registration forms have to be sent by mail! https://dvlacheck.uk/online-forms/

> Although you can download some forms online, you will still need to return them via post. This is because the forms may ask for sensitive information or require that a passport photo be affixed to the application.

Summing up - it seems what you experienced at the dealer is a sugarcoating for the same old paper based registration process that requires countless clerks.
I think that's basically fair. If we were dealing with the reals I'd assume that there was some uncountable number of pathological examples that just happen to exclude all the numbers we really care about (since God ran out of good numbers and had to scrape the bottom of the barrel to fill in the gaps), but the integers seem safe.
China's area is about 92,000 square miles less than the area of the US. The difference becomes more dramatic if you don't include Alaska.
If you bought it before, you should see your premium lifetime subscription on login: https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/19/20873611/pocket-casts-plu...

And again... if it works, but you don't want it, let me know :)
> 2. How does it handle the pattern where you create two moderately complex CTEs or subqueries (maybe aggregated to different levels of granularity) and then join them to each other? I always found that pattern awkward to deal with in dplyr - you have to either assign one of the "subquery" results to a separate dataframe or parenthesize that logic in the middle of a bigger pipeline. Maybe table-returning functions would be a clean way to handle this?

I don't have an example on the Readme, but I was thinking of something like (toy example):

table newest_employees = (
from employees
sort tenure
take 50
)

from newest_employees
join salary [id]
select [name, salary]

Or were you thinking something more sophisticated? I'm keen to get difficult examples!

Edit: formatting
Management is made of leaky abstractions. I think of course that humans should still be the accountable party, but AI can guide baser decisions so that more time can be spent on the hard problems.

Imagine how many thousands of hours managers have wasted at this point discussing WFH. They should have been figuring out their supply chain and labor strategy.
Not worth it. I value my mental health too much.
Can somebody say something about responsiveness? Where are they on the scale of VNC to Stadia/Steamlink or other cloud gaming services?

Reminds me that i am really hoping to see some usable network transparency soon. Last time i looked at something like waypipe it seemed to be still clunky. But cloud gaming showed we should be there
Brazil freed its slaves with no compensation at all (in either direction).
Belarusian group claims hack on railway system after Russian troop moves
Most worrying is that even an expert like Troy Hunt was UNABLE to figure out the cause of the issue by himself. He "reached out to a friend at Cloudflare" who investigated and found the cause.
A program can never be held accountable, but the person (or the whole company, or both) who decided that it should make management decisions can.
It needs to be said because some folks are blinded by their belief in the virtuousness of themselves or their in-group.

I may agree with the goals, but that doesn't mean I should blindly trust them to execute them, right?
Have you seen https://openzfsonosx.org/wiki/ZFS_on_Boot ?
Rust seems to be the only positive thing out of Mozilla these days. I don't know how much of that was a coincidence.

They've become some sort of an ethics firm that they front with their dying browser. A little like AOL being reduced to a web portal long after their Netscape days.

It's unfortunate because they really can't afford to compete with Google and continue with Servo or anything innovative.

They lost the race in browser performance and usershare. The only way I could imagine Firefox regaining the latter would be a political event of the popularity and significance of Net Neutrality "scaring straight" non-technical users into FOSS.
The cryocooler is needed only for one instrument. Hopefully it lasts a long time but after that they can still continue use other instruments.
And drive down wages. Shortages are mostly a mismatch between wages and working conditions. Same way we drive wages for farm workers down into the dirt
yeah all my friends who are patent lawyers would be horrified if anyone thought that they had previously been engineers
Well, I do think that that is exactly things that are important.
You'd want uncensorable, to give transparency to the patient. E.g. a hospital can't add a record without you knowing, that you might not want an insurance company to have access to later.

Immutable, as a patient you would want to know exactly what your data looks like at any given time. Again insurance is a good example.

If the blockchain is private, could it not be part of the implementation that does the access checking? Can't part of the ledger be unencrypted while other parts are not?

It might be wishful thinking. It's just an idea I have floating in my head, as an actually useful real world implementation for a blockchain.

I shared the link in another comment, but you might find it interesting as well:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14604582198663...
This is why I use fixed price offerings for personal projects.

A large bill is probably chump change for someone like Troy, for others it's a year or two of savings. The risk is not worth it.
Dear Mozilla,

We want you to make a browser that is so good, that it can function independenty of Google and Chrome financially and technologically. This is not an end in itself. Google is just not a very trustworthy steward of the marketshare that they have on the browser market.

You are in a unique position to make this possible. Please double down on it instead of throwing away your hundreds of millions of monies that you have on unfocused, irrelevant bullshit that noone will remember in two years.

You made a whole browser engine that actually improved on current engines in Rust and then you basically threw it away. What on earth was that about ?

Mozilla we want you to make Firefox without any tracking, and without and advertizing shit in it , and we want it fast and secure, and we love your extensions. Some of us here are even willing to pay you subscription fees to support the browser! But keep in mind that you have millions of dollars already.

We loved you all the way from when your product was still called phoenix, Mozilla suite even, and everyone was so excited to have this excellent browser. We pooled money to take out full page ads in a paper newspaper for Firefox. Because we believed in your product so much. I still have the page here. Do you remember ?

Please. Stop with this stupid bullshit.

Focus, Mozilla, Focus!

From the depth of our hearts,

PS: and if you find some time, go fix that bug that makes the active tab so difficult to differentiate if lighting conditions or eyesight aren't perfect.
> Second, this kind of reversed SQL (filter-first, select-last) is much easier to reason about than the original

Given that SQL clauses tend to be unambiguously terminated by the start of the next clause or the end of the statement, it surprises me that no engine has gone to accepting otherwise standard(-ish, as much as real DB vendor dialects are) SQL but without a mandated order of clauses.

And then combine that with dev tools that allow easy rearrangement of clauses, perhaps based on configured preferences so that you don’t even see the original if its not your preferred order, so that “Bob likes old-school SELECT FROM WHERE GROUP BY and Alice likes FROM WHERE GROUP BY SELECT” isn’t a problem.
Why should the company get bent? Because some executive caught wind of a critical zero day and decided to have their company mitigate damage the same as any other company.

Do you really think the security department in this specific company would not find this email dumb? In many cases, when things are reacted to hastily and in parallel its easy to take one action and generalize it to the whole company and not realize this is one of many actions the company took. No need to get bent out of shape over this and say this entire fortune 500 company is equally incompetent. If you think that you are not living in reality.
I live in an apartment complex that has cars parked along all of the roads because there's not enough parking spots. That's pretty common for apartments. Maybe, on paper, there's at least one spot per building, but not next to your building in particular and most apartments will have multiple car owners. And none of those spots have outlets. Even with a law making every spot have outlets, I frequently get off work and arrive to no open spots and parking on the streets. I cannot afford to gamble around on whether I'll be able to charge my car tonight or not. I really don't see how electric cars could work in that scenario.
Yes, but does the other company pay for the retrospective? Or is the retro when we start to spend all the money that was billed?
They had to fire him to relieve PR.
The very first citation refutes the article. The table was deliberately cropped and blurred to make the details unclear, but if you look at the original it's obvious the table doesn't say what the author says it does (that Covid deaths were the same in vaccinated and unvaccinated groups). This is not just an oversight or innocent misinterpretation, this is a deliberate attempt to deceive. Flagged.
I guess if that's the conspiracy theory driven world you want to live in, that's your right but thank you for perfectly illustrating how the "split" is largely in the imagination of rural voters.
Yeah, no hate in terminology like hicks, hillbillies, flyover country, deplorables, etc. etc.
Bitcoin proponents have been semi-continuously yammering about all of those for over a decade. If anyone seriously disagreed, there'd be a disclaimer on bitcoin.org.
The lawyer profile faces instantly give the site a fake vibe as they look like those generated by GANS AI.
There is an argument that the larger the company, the less human - the more admin and beholdenness to anonymous shareholders after short term profits and therefore it correlates to the type of anti-social behaviour you reference even if it will vary from company to company.
Not sure I follow. A person will not know the difference between before and after unless the circumcision happened as an adult. And if after is pleasurable, what is missing? Is anything missing? I can certainly take you at face value that your experience is more pleasurable than mine. I won't know otherwise. But I'm quite happy with my experience, so I don't really miss it. If anything, I might be trading off pleasure for endurance, which could be a net positive if that enhances the overall pleasure for both parties.

Reduced sensitivity is not necessarily bad is what I'm trying to get at. Complete lack of sensitivity is a real problem, a botched circumcision will do that. But a botched circumcision is just like any other botched surgery: a cock-up. Surgeons make mistakes and cut nerves they weren't supposed to in other kinds of surgeries too. To put more stringent labels on an accident, such as a crime on humanity, feels a little extreme.
Heard it go bang, 2600km away, echoing through the hills around our place at the top of the South Island of New Zealand. That's pretty staggering to think about it. Then to see other peoples Home Assistants around the world pick up the change in pressure on opposite sides of the planet. Mental, just mental...
As long as there is a game, the players will find a way to gain advantage.
They laid off most of the people that work on Rust and Servo.
Monorepo.tools
Computerphile did a great YouTube video on ZKP:
https://youtu.be/HUs1bH85X9I
Tonga's Internet connectivity was knocked out by the blast and it won't be back for a while, thus making it hard to upload pictures.

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/tonga-likely-spen...
Every online course that requires you to use a public cloud to deploy something should first have you set up a billing alert that notifies you when costs start to creep past something reasonable, like $20 or $50 (depending on the course and work involved).
They didn't fire Eich. He resigned.
The YouTube thing is false as of a few years ago. If you have noticed, they've crammed it full of ads.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/27/22596592/google-q2-2021-r...

I think it's projected to earn 20 billion this year.
I would like a web browser to be a web browser, not a platform of activism.
Ask HN: How to get a Foundation NFT marketplace invite?
I've been trying to get a foundation (NFT Marketplace) for a while now as I'm planning to sell my art work.

Seems like getting an invite requires you to pay someone or be active on some Discord community, that I'm not a fan off!

Any other legit ways to grab one?
I joined the Telegram group, Monday 24 Jan 20:10.
Netherlands UTC + 1 from the top of my head.
Southern states were British colonies also. There's very little likelihood they would have aligned with their enemy during such a war.
I also left engineering for law. Money was a factor when I applied, but also I did not like being pigeon holed in my engineering career. I do patent litigation, so I get to see discovery on the whole system as opposed to portions of it for a variety of technologies (i.e., network security, semiconductors, mechanical devices). I only had about 2 years of engineering experience (working in defense industry), but found the career boring and the pay low (~60k starting vs $160k starting in big law (which is now $205k starting)). Granted, I do think if I went to silicon valley when I graduated, I may have found a better position at a start-up environment. After 10 years of patent litigation, I do find it boring, but at least I am paid well comparatively to my SV engineering friends.
Coinbase and Basecamp have bucked this trend and are focusing on work. Any other options?
I got the original two shots, but I have not and will not get the booster.

One factor in this decision is the fact that people who have legitimate questions are answered with "You're dumb and anti-science! If you don't take it, you'll lose your job, and never be able to get on an airplane ever again!"

How should a reasonable person respond when honest, good-faith questions are answered by suppressing the questioner with name-calling and government-sanctioned force?

I personally choose to: Ignore the names. Resist the force. Assume the people encouraging the name-calling and mandates have bad motives. If they had good motives, they'd lay all the cards on the table, give me honest, good-faith answers (which might be "We don't know" or "Yes, there are some safety issues"), and then let me freely choose whether I accept a medical treatment into my own body.
Isn't Guix just nix with guile?
I don't think we need to kill copyright, but we sure as hell need to control how it's used. To start with, we need to spay and neuter the out of control copyright enforcers, and especially every form of copyfraud.

My previous take on the subject: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22488496
I've made great money working at small to mid-size corps (and some big ones) where 100% of the nonsense one must live with in FAGMAN Companies just doesn't exist. You come in do your work, have fun, and then fuck off home.
I've been in tech too long.. my first thought is that you meant they would be finding .iso files.
Too bad it's tied to a single editor.
This is why I use <local-area-code>-867-5309 for every "loyalty" chain. I'd rather get the discount but also mix my data with as many other people as possible to make it worthless.