skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find one-line quips as top comments confirming one's preconceived notions to be incredibly harmful, because they make one overly confident in their own certainty. "See, I was right! Everyone else feels the same way! Everyone else on the other side is wrong and stupid!".

Whenever I feel overly confident in some viewpoint, often the first thing I do is look for the contrarian view, because that's where you're more likely to actually gain knowledge and be forced to defend your viewpoint. Unfortunately, Reddit makes it too easy to end up in your bubble.
Who doesn't want their own Personal Doctor Feelgood, who prescribes as much Adderall as you can Snort, lets you Dictate Glowing Health Letters, refers you to a Bone Spur Specialist who gets you out of Being Drafted, shoots you up with Penicillin whenever it Hurts When You Pee, then awards you a Purple Heart for getting wounded by Vagina Landmines in your Own Personal Viet Nam?

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/05/01/politics/harold-bornstein...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/26/us/politics/trump-vietnam...

https://people.com/politics/trump-boasted-of-avoiding-stds-w...
Have you tried Librewolf?
Millions of activities is approximately zero activities. That's an inconsequential amount of data.

Even if it is a couple orders of magnitude larger than I think geographic partitioning can keep the volume small enough to easily fit in RAM.
Although they said it was a "paid volunteer" (which I don't think is what a volunteer is) so maybe it was really good - time and a half at least I'd hope.
Let me repeat Firefox vision: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/VisionStatement#Product_vis...

> Discover, experience and connect with apps, websites and people on your own terms, everywhere.

Why do you not give people choice on their own terms, everywhere?
Email sent. Thank you, stranger :)
Russia is only 4% of China's trade. Couple of sanctions from west can easily make very very bad deal for China.
"Surgical" doesn't necessarily mean invasive. It's most likely a procedure similar to rhinestone implants[0].

As for why they use a 1-way device: this method of cheating has been around for decades; you get someone to take the test, they leave early and radio answers in. I don't know the specifics for this particular exam, but India is certainly not the only place in the world w/ extremely competitive admission exams. Back in my days back home some twenty years ago, cram schools would be on stand-by outside school doors, they'd smuggle the question sheet out somehow and flash-solve them / publish answers on the spot for publicity. You could get a full answer sheet online from a cram school website before the exam was over (these exams are hours long) and test takers would frequently do so after finishing their exams to see how they did.

[0] https://www.bodycandy.com/blogs/news/microdermal-implants-bo...
I think what makes those work is being part of a small team. It's not so much that if Bob releases bad code you can go over and punch Bob, as that no-one wants to be responsible for waking their teammates up in the night to start with.

Another case of: can be done properly is a good work environment, and can be literal death when done badly.
Literally took me 15 minutes. Now to begin the process of changing the email on a few dozen accounts...

me@nslick.com
I remember Mozilla were pretty pissed off at Chrome’s inaccurate versioning that induced a feeling of “chrome is 60 but ff is still on 3.5 so chrome has to be better “.
You can grep the web for Dik's original version. The 3-line homage version I linked contains both his full name and the name of the algorithm used: "spigot" (as in spew, faucet), which itself contains the letters PI. In addition, this version outputs exactly 31416 digits of pi. So it's triple self-referential. Happy 2022.03.14 pi day to all.
It is published from UK. Probably a fake news story.
Why don’t you guys have a Quest 2 app instead of just a mobile one?
That is an utter trite, passive aggressive, judgemental and potentially emotionally hurtful response to an eloquently stated position by the parent.
You do if you build it yourself! Hack the planet!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8McUViPbh6M

P.S. just look at the new Koenigsegg electric motor. So much potential.
If an organisation can be in financial trouble with an annual income of half a billion then it's poorly run. That's ample resources even for something as complex as a browser.
Not gonna lie, if I had been offered this, I would've done it. It sounds pretty great to me. Regular childbirth is pretty horrible and I wish I didn't remember it.

It sucks that as a result of women being forced to do twilight sleep even if they didn't want to, now we've taken that choice away completely and you can't do it even if you do want to.
Really surprising to see Strava actively avoiding the central switchboard role that would be such a powerful retention feature. I wouldn't be surprised to see it come back very soon, with some low level UX polisher receiving that talk about power and responsibility.
Yeah, no, not buying it. I mean, not buying that's the only way it could be done.
Yeah, it's less than ideal, but this is the future that the lazy carriers have brought us to. Hopefully, someone trying to reach me in an emergency would have the brains to send a text.
Thinking about it some, I agree. I'd have (and have in the past) disagreed about it being the best language for self-learning as a new programmer - it's decent, on par with most other languages, but not the best language for that purpose. The error messages can be inscrutable (for now), the types can get complex and messy (though they're are getting better, easier-to-read signatures over time), it might not have the library for what you have the impulse to build (which is an important motivator for new programmers - though this is again a "for now" problem).

But with someone to guide you, it absolutely can be the best first language, because of the breadth of programming concepts it introduces you to. Python is a good first language if, say, you're in college and just want to get started with doing things in programming - where the focus is on programming as a tool to get the results you want, and less so on the shape of the tool itself and how it shapes your mind. At younger ages, when there's time to lay a firm foundation and explore the tool itself, Julia makes for a much better foundation, being a better jumping-off point for many more diverse paths in the programming landscape.
dang, still no SIMD for WebAssembly. Chrome and Firefox are meanwhile hitting 45gflops (85% of peak) on my M1 Air. Safari only gets to 12.5gflops
> the claims suggest the aragascope can actually be smaller.

This may be because of the shape of the PSF is different from the normal airy disk one.

Here is a random google result showing the spot of arago, https://www.lighttrans.com/use-cases/application/observation... -- which looks to me like it would have poor contrast but good resolution. Though I'm out of my depth so it could be nonsense. :P

Edit: Ah, yeah the graph at figure 9 in the report linked on the linked page shows something like that.
Agreed. That was beautifully, logically stated.
This is actually an area where automation has some significant potential. Taking orders with a menu on a webpage or an app is a classic at this point. I remember seeing not just vending machines, but a vending wall at Amsterdam Central train station where a chef would fill transparent boxes with freshly fried snacks, to be sold automatically.

Cooking is an enormous working-class employer and it is getting automated — will it lower demand for work? Most people still cook their own food, so there‘s a lot more cooking service that could be sold, but at this point, the economies of scale point at fewer people manning the frier, and just one person monitoring several robots.
As time has gone by I've seen Google be less responsive to spam and phishing attempts. I've been getting substantially more attacks since 2016 and they go into overdrive around election time. I'm not sure what is going on because they are fairly obvious attempts. Examples include: a pdf on Google Drive shared with hundreds of people and text that is in Russian (I've translated a few and they want me to contact the embassy); very obvious spam emails like "Hey, do you still live in Illinois?" (I never have, but have had several password change attempts from this location (same IP even) and Google says "enable 2-factor", which I already have); emails that go to myname@gmail.com instead of my.name@gmail.com; phone calls (I have Fi) from obviously voided numbers (numbers almost identical to my own); and many more. Last election cycle I almost abandoned gmail all together.

I know there's Googlers here. So why isn't Google taking this seriously anymore? The attempts are so bad a naive bayesian classifier could catch these! Worst of all, Google provides no help. Google should be preventing OP's problem in the first place (they seem to not be caring) and doing something to fix it when it does happen. As a user it just feels that Google is just becoming complacent in this activity.
Strava is extremely frustrating. I've been a paid user for 10+ years. They do add features from time to time, but it's amazing how slowly it happens. There's a forum on their web site for user feedback and suggestions, but it seems like they pay little attention to the users. So many of their users that I know feel like a run or bike ride didn't happen if they don't record it on Strava. It's a super addictive and sticky product, yet Strava seems to squander this loyalty by ignoring their customers.

Route building and personal heatmaps are some of my favorite features, but there's so much that could be added (like a simple search). To some degree their customers are spread out over so many market segments beyond the original biking and running that they started with. Each segment has their own needs and wants. Then there's all the hardware (watches, power meters, trainers, etc..) that needs to be integrated and supported.
Sure there is. There has to be a Googler here with the necessary access and can just mediate with their support department, run a few "select * from mails" queries on their DB and use good judgement when asking the user to give info about the emails they know they have or have received. Heck, there should be some sort of PM/PO/Manager from Google here that should use this as a catalyst to have some sort of feature be built to solve this problem in some sort of risk-based approach.
>I would expect a cheater like this might not perform well enough to ever make it into an operating room.

Implying that material they are testing is relevant in a practical setting ? I actually wonder if they ever do something like random tests for people that are 5+ years into their career - just unannounced testing to check retention and relevance.

If it's anything like CS I wouldn't be surprised if they would fail >90% people. People here complain about having to invert binary trees in an interview...
I don't do this anymore. Very draining to be an SRE. I remember one Christmas I worked until 2am because of SRE pages on software that, in retrospect, didn't need to even be up at the time. Google used to give us SRE bomber jackets, and while those were super cool in a nerdy way (I never got one because I wasn't an SRE there), it was clear the org had to really go out there with incentives to get people to sign up for SRE. I love the practice of reliability and building fault tolerant systems, but it's just so draining / energizing at the time, then you realize all your efforts (or at least mine and colleagues' at the large companies for which we worked) went into keeping stupid, unimpactful things from falling over briefly. Unless you're SRE for a real, not startup-tongue-in-cheek "mission critical" system it is absolutely not worth it. In my very cynical opinion, I'd need to be an SRE keeping a NASA rocket working, or keeping the ISS up, or working on some SDV system, before I would consider a system to be really mission critical.
I know that. The whole thing started for me today when I advised a user on some web forum this exact way of bringing it back. Then, out of interest, I dug into the code and the bug tracker, only to find that absolutely nothing was stated about the changes, even though they have been cooking for a month¹. My first real browser was steel-gray Mozilla Suite, back then I opened as many forum topics in tabs as it was possible during a free promotional 5 minute modem connection.

The problem is not inclusion by default, the problem is unwarranted unconditional removal, whether it is default or not, and whether it is needed or not. Mozilla has decided the pretend it happened “by itself”, but it was their decision, and they had an option to switch people to non-sponsored Yandex search.

¹) http://web.archive.org/web/*/https://support.mozilla.org/en-...
I've been wondering: if this robot is only flipping fries, could it be made by putting the basket on a simple track, and adding an actuator to move the basket along a track? Why need an arm?

My speculation: a robotic arm makes for a great press release. Actuator + track feels like a factory.
Appreciate these thoughts! I'm not looking just to optimize these processing fees. I'm also trying to figure out what an appropriate discount is, and also (indirectly) whether my monthly or annual pricing is out of line. That is, perhaps the solution is not to lower the price of my annual subscription, but rather to increase the price of my monthly subscription.
Natural News is an extremely accurate source. Just take anything written on the website, take the exact opposite position, and you will be correct more often than night.
Garmin couldn't directly disable this, once Strava has your data they can do with it whatever they want, licensing permitting. Which is a segue into - while I have no specific knowledge of this case, I do think it's somewhat tricky to take data from a third party and then hand it on to another third party. Presumably all of this was mediated by the user, and user's desires should be paramount here, but it's an example of why I believe OAuth is fairly broken and what we should all be giving permission to is capabilities, not access.
Just like Bush was behind 9/11?
Probably, but Edge also has a lot of other features that I really like. It's all Chromium under the hood haha.
I think in Monaco you can right click -> Format Document or something like that.
Omnibox Prerendering coming in Chromium 100
There's a real quality difference between a burger that's been reheated with bun next to meat and one without. The bun sucks a ton of moisture from the meat and makes it chewy, while becoming soggy itself. The burger is a lot colder in the center, while the outer edge of the bun becomes dry. You really do get a better experience heating them individually, even if just reheating the burger.
Feminists also fought for non-paid public bathrooms, which is certainly a net gain in my view.
Don't tell Xiaomi or other vendors that ship a device with OS
So if there are Russians who don't agree with the war (there are) and if Russia eventually makes a course correction (it will) then they're off the hook, right?
This is where we were looking to go with our "metaverse for sports" app https://ayvri.com - Blending of 3D world geometries with video and photos captured from ground view, built into 3D models. I believe this is the future of video, I was calling it "spatial media" at the time.

We still operate Ayvri, but have mostly moved on to other projects.
That's a very negative view of why people want to share on Strava. It's not all about ego. Sometimes it's about motivation, in two ways. I try to track my own times on various segments to see how well my training is going, and sometimes challenge myself to beat those times, because that helps me increase route variety and that helps me keep going. (I don't actually like running so much as I like having run BTW.) Garmin Connect's equivalent of segments is a barely populated wasteland by comparison (though I do like the pace-color-coded display more than Strava's so I usually look at both).

Even more importantly, Strava is a platform where friends can encourage each other, and celebrate each other's accomplishments. I greatly appreciate the "kudos" I get from others, and that was especially true after I had a setback some years ago. I have a friend right now who had an even more serious setback, and I'm glad I have a way to support him as he logs his rehab activities. It's the only forum where we're connected (he's not very online the way I am) and it enriches both of our lives.

I know a lot of people think Strava is just about getting KoMs to satisfy ego. I submit that it's often projection or bitterness from people who don't get what they want out of it. Seems like a miserable way to be.
I think there are a lot of moral compromises, contradictions, and hypocrisy as you outline.

However, the alternative to throwing everything non-violent at Russia, is actual military intervention. Essentially, very high risk of real WW3.

The Iraq invasion was a huge mistake. Russia's invading Ukraine is a huge mistake. Generally, war is a huge mistake.

If there is anything non-violent left to try, I can't blame anybody for trying that. This is one tiny, tiny small thing.
New light on the building of Stonehenge
Is Jason still making content for One Hour One Life? The game is amazing, but he seemed to have lost interest.

All of his games are open source though, and there are forks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PopSockets
> The problem is that the downsides so far make it not worth it, usually.

How so?

Could you please elaborate? We already know that Bitcoin and Ethereum are not the only cryptocurrencies that exist for payments and there are better ones that are used for payments.
Uhhh what? Do you think either

* basic auth only exists at the proxy layer to protect apps with no auth.

* commonly deployed auth systems are secure without TLS?

because both are false. Check out the Rails Devise support for HTTP basic auth which is perfectly secure. And check that basically zero auth systems in the wild use PAKE and so are entirely dependent on TLS to secure the password transmission in flight.
I’m curious, would you have called for the assasination of Bush during the invasion of Iraq or Afghanistan?

Or the American presidents during the massacres in Vietnam?
The ‘root-brain’ hypothesis of Charles and Francis Darwin (2009)
Ironically that video is behind a tracking-for-ads 'cookie wall'. (I assume most people don't make google not track them and thus don't notice this wall at all anymore.)
We don't need Linux monoculture.
Is there a reason this got flagged?
We should indeed. But we shouldn't use that to justify, excuse or dismiss any wrongs done that isn't at the scale of other wrongs.
I am pleased to see that it works in my browser (in a VM on Qubes) that has no access to WebGL or WebGPU.

But, "written in Rust" is a distraction anywhere except for a library meant to be called from Rust programs, or where you should be surprised it could be achieved at all in the language. We all know that Rust can work for this sort of thing.
If this would could be used for Cross Laminated Timber construction, that would be great. It can be used in mid to high rise buildings.
when I was trying to speak to a person about the badly tuned google ad words, I could only get to a message that because of Covid, no one could talk to me. The monopolistic power turned this company into a dysfunctional bureaucracy
In general, it sounds like you're suggesting that if everyone can't be punished for doing something bad, no one should be. I'm not sure that logic would really fly with other situations. Ex. A murderer was able to flee to a country without an extradition treaty, so punishing Jeffrey Dahmer would be hypocritical.

The US being less likely to do things like, you know, lie about biological weapons as a pretense for an invasion of a country that murders tens to hundreds of thousands of innocents and destabilizes an already not-so-stable part of the world would be a good thing. That the rest of the world wasn't able to rally together at the time to say "Yo, not cool" doesn't mean that they wouldn't have been right to. That it didn't happen then doesn't mean it shouldn't happen next time. Or now, in the case of Russia re: Ukraine.
I moved to brave when they made that blog post [1]. I’m very happy although I agree it’s better to have competition in the browser space.

I’ve also moved to brave search recently after DuckDuckGo announced they were downgrading Russian sites. I might try Yandex too as I don’t like the brave search layout.

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/we-need-more-than-deplat...
Man, that's an interesting point

If you fail the Google entrance exam, you can retake it and/or work at any of a dozen of other great careers
I honestly have no idea what you're talking about, but your anecdote about a single person at the French Laundry in one of the most expensive places in the world is not a rebuttal for anything I said.

I don't think you're wrong that rich people are rigging society in their favor, but they're not doing it through gas taxes.
I'm skeptical that Miso Robotics can actually deliver a useful product that outperforms or matches human labor at the same price point. They don't show clear videos of what exactly the robot is capable of, and keep buying Instagram ads to invest in their company.
ScrabWordle – Wordle with a Scrabble Twist
The easiest way is to have a SIP gateway that uses a too long number to display. Usually it's around 12-13 digits for the subscriber number depending on the country code, so all digits before that (after in SIP) will be cut out on most phones.

I think the relevant spec for that is E.164 which enforces 15 digits overall (1-3 for country code and 12 for subscriber number).

There are also lots of SIP gateways that have an ISP license or a phone provider license. They're the same types that allow to fake the numbers for their customers, and usually you can transfer some still in use mobile numbers to them as well. Because apparently law enforcement doesnt do anything against them.

And yes, never use 2FA via SMS. Never.
> the painful experience (in the most literal sense) of childrearing

That is one amusing typo ...
The world isn't that simple.
The failure mode (for example: decapitation; https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-tesla-florida-acciden...) is pretty significant when used in a Tesla. Less so in this tech demo.
Fake antivirus updates used to deploy Cobalt Strike in Ukraine
two free gpios left, clearly
How is Mozilla choosing which search engines to show in their browser oppressing of free speech?

"Freedom of speech is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or legal sanction" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech

Are they blocking users from going to those sites? No.
Are they preventing those sites from loading in the browser? No.
Are they stopping anyone from creating a website and saying whatever they want? No.

Just because you don't agree with Mozilla on this action doesn't make it oppression of free speech. This is simply one organization deciding not to have a relationship with another organization. Not everything is an attack on free speech or expression.
I mean I can totally see this as a great way to make money while also making the world worse, but only a little worse. And maybe somebody would like to know that there is a McDonalds on the other side of the street they're going to cross right now? I mean maybe I would actually be providing a useful service for some people, and only be making the world a little worse for most while I was getting rich, rich, rich!