skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These Firefox statements are severely outdated. As it stands right now:

- Stock Firefox for Android allows a limited set of extensions including the most popular extension uBlock Origin.

- Firefox Nightly allows the installation of any extensions though this is not enabled by default and requires jumping through some hoops.

- F-Droid Fennec allows the same extension loading functionality as found in Firefox Nightly without having to leave stable.

That said there are still extensions that won't work once installed as not every API is covered. Far more work (orders of magnitude more) than the short list in stock stable Firefox though.
That article is incredibly damning.

The "TikTok-ification" of medicine is pretty frightening as well.

> One ADHD content creator, Reece Palamar, has posted about a half-dozen Cerebral-related videos to his almost 600,000 TikTok followers. (https://www.tiktok.com/@reeceisrandom?lang=en)

> In [another ad] a woman is asked: “Yo, bro, who got you smiling like that?” She then begins dancing with a box of prescription pills. (https://www.tiktok.com/@samanthaswanson1?lang=en)

Do either of these creators look like they're qualified to provide medical advice? They're getting millions of views to dance around and convince people that they have ADHD and need amphetamines. Why? Because they have trouble keeping their lives organized in an age of smartphones and constant media bombardment. But doesn't everyone?

> Some ads suggest that symptoms as common as difficulty with multitasking, focusing, and stress, as well as poor planning, procrastination, and disorganization can all be symptoms of ADHD. (They can also, as one former Cerebral nurse says, “simply be attributed to being an adult in 2022.”)

While this article is particular to Cerebral, they are not the only offenders. There is a whole cottage industry around convincing people with mild organizational problems that they have ADHD, even in "traditional" psychiatry. It's happened to family members and friends of mine.

I was diagnosed with ADHD and went through an Adderall -> Vyvanse -> Ritalin pipeline. I eventually settled on using half of the smallest available dose of Ritalin (5mg/2 = 2.5mg) and that is plenty for me. It's scary how many people I know who are dependent on regular doses of 30+mg of amphetamines.
Definitely a good threat I hadn't considered. I imagine from someone who is less educated about technology in general, having a list of "example threats" that those items might protect against would be beneficial to help offer some more incentive to follow this list other than just "Good Security".
It does my heart a least a little bit of good to know that somebody has at least enough of a background to do this and is still on the floor of the house.

(I don’t know if he is R or D… I don’t care either)
> It's both reasonable and good to hold him to a higher standard.

Even if your "standard" was something reasonable, the appropriate venue for gathering a mob is Twitter, not HN.
The non-EEG devices are getting pretty good at that data, your phone next to your bed, not so much...

EEG is probably overkill for most people, but it is the only way to detect SWO, and other parts of sleep we want to manipulate via sound. Plus, having a band on your head with bone conduction gives us an easy way to get sound stim to you.

We'll have something in the future which is more generalized to a larger audience, but we're focused on a few groups that need what we're doing atm.
The github repo for the applet is archived - does it all still work OK?
here's some reddit gold
I didn't say that.

Twitter's actions are self-interested, but not morally driven. They're not necessarily even rational in any long term way.
>Few people are high value enough to merit the effort required to capture a face from CCTV, generate a mask from the image, get physical access to their device, and use the mask to unlock. So for almost everyone, faceid is fine.

I feel like this point misses the first point you made, about things being a lot more circumstantial and nuanced. It all depends on what you have to hide and on what device. Someone may need to go to the level of effort you mentioned to access someone's iPhone, while someone else may need to just print out a mugshot and hold it in front of a laptop webcam to unlock their computer.

Edit: I'll also second schoen's point about someone forcefully holding your own face up to the device.
My highly sophisticated game from the 1970s used 'A' for armies, 'B' for battleships, etc.
Are the sounds similar to www.brain.fm?
I feel like people stopped giving credibility to celebrity endorsement in the traditional form because they know celebrities are just getting paid to read a script, so companies had to come up with something that signals a deeper relationship with the brand, and that something is this phony C-level position. The celebrities also benefit from being able to add "entrepreneur" to their Instagram bios. I believe this trend started with Intel and it's "Chief Innovation Officer" (or something like that) Will.i.am a couple of years ago
I was wondering what happened to the liveua map - There was a massive Russian arm stretching to within kilometres of Kyiv that just disappeared seemingly overnight.
Does this mean the war is over soon if Russia achieves their goals for Donbass? I don't remember expansion of Crimea being a part of their goals but I also don't have good memory.
Turing completeness is not a requirement for any computational task that is guaranteed to complete, either. You only need it to add infinite loop bugs.

Just to be clear - the things you actually care about expressing in a program don't require Turing completeness about 99.99999% of the time. The main exceptions are things like unbounded searches where the code will only terminate if it finds a solution to something, and there's no a priori size bound on the solution space.

We use Turing complete languages as a compromise. Proving your algorithm terminates to the satisfaction of a proof checker is often more work than it's worth. We've decided allowing bugs that a termination checker would prevent is less work to deal with than satisfying a termination checker. But for my daily work, Turing completeness is a practical compromise, not a necessity for expressing the algorithms I need to.
If you care about making more money put your head down and grind those leetcode problems. The investment is just a few months and the return is quite impressive. Others are either happy where they are or read about how interviews suck. As Bjarne Stroustroup said "There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses".
I love deep diving on public info to determine the internals (even, not only SOPs, policies, but also *governing culture* can be easily gleaned from reading what is placed in public view.

For example, The Salvation Army is one of the biggest jokes in all of charitable history.

I wont go into details here, but I would NEVER give a dime to the Salvation "army" (of free slave labor under the guise of "salvation" (its a tax and money fraud to its core (I went through a SHIT ton of financial documents to see what their true operatin is disguised as. AVOID)

TL;DR: TSA uses its place as a church-like service to get special tax incentives, even the buildings in SF were donated to them. They run a for-profit-grey-market of boutiques they supply with "donations" they have running trades with China-Town in SF. They take subsidies, donations and other benefits. They require all that they "help" sign up for state benefits, sign the benefits over to their org, take the benefits, then feed donated & expired processed fod to their labor force.

They only take in able bodied. Force them to go to church each sunday. and make them use external addiction help, such as AA and make it clear they are not a treatment organiztion.

They maintain a very small amount of actual employees, and play on the egos of those in their "program" using military style rankings to appease the egos of the ignorant...

They then profit like mad, corruption is rampant and they feed all their "good" donatins to their side hustle of boutiques and other grey market.

Its a fn racket.

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The point being that if you DD a company/org, you can often find out a lot from financial public info, comments from even just a few employees etc..
If they give her a nominal position, seems like they probably aren’t lying here?
With respect to password managers, it doesn't mention Apple's iCloud Keychain. Any reason why?
54 _bytes_? Thats astounding. I just checked a sample haiku in utf-8 and it was 72 bytes.

Gorgeous and adorable website! Even the markup is admirable.
Fantastically Wrong: The Disturbing Reality That Spawned the Mythical Jackalope
A way to give a C-suite job to someone who was "homeschooled", has a degree from an online school she is a "brand ambassador" for, and zero professional experience.
"As we say in Germany, if there’s a Nazi at the table and 10 other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with 11 Nazis."

There are a few red lines that don't require subtlety or shades of gray or anything. It's the paradox of tolerance.
> first, their whole business model is about being a pill farm for controlled substances

Before COVID, you couldn’t get a prescription for controlled substances without first meeting a provider in person.

This law was enacted years ago because pill mills were popping up everywhere and dispensing controlled substances to people in exchange for $200+ phone calls. They’d do a minimal 5 minute call with anyone who signed up, speedrun through a prepared script, and then send the patient their controlled substance prescription of choice. You then made a follow-up appointment the next month for your refill, which was an even shorter phone call.

They didn’t accept insurance because no sane insurance company would deal with them. Their target audience only wanted to pay their way to prescriptions and didn’t mind.

And this is exactly what Cerebral is doing all over again. The COVID exceptions for in-person prescribing will theoretically expire at some point, but until they do there are several companies like Cerebral trying to cash in as much as possible with Instagram and TikTok ad campaigns to convince as many people as possible to sign up for literal Adderall pay-for-prescription subscriptions.

Before anyone rushes off to sign up, keep in mind that these controlled substance prescriptions will be logged in your state’s prescribing database and doctors everywhere are catching on to these pill mills. If you show up to a real doctor later asking for a prescription, they might check your prescribing history and think twice after seeing that you were getting prescriptions from known pill mills nowhere near you.

Pharmacies are also getting fed up with the sudden influx of prescriptions from remote doctors for scheduled substances.

I really hope this business model gets crushed ASAP, because if it’s allowed to continue then we’re going to see a crackdown on ADHD diagnoses and prescribing in the same way that pain management has become exceedingly difficult to come by (for true pain patients) in the wake of the opioid pill mill epidemic.
Audi owner finds basic HVAC function paywalled after pressing button
Sort of a “Iterated Diplomats dilemma” problem?
You are citing words from my comment, but you are debating against imaginary comments which you invented. I already clarified in my previous comment that what you are debating against is unrelated to my comments, and I have no further clarifications I can add to help.
Zeo headbands always slipped off for me, it was hard to keep them on. Doing it tighter just leads to discomfort and was counterproductive.
SoftBank is a huge Uber investor and also threw $300 million into their latest round.
The parity part is especially confusing to me, since they go on to test locally. So staging isn't close enough to production, but local is...?
I agree. On the odd occasion something interesting pops up as a Twitter thread I use an unroller. Much better UX.
The Supreme Court Has Never Been Apolitical
Sure. Tuvalu made good income from .tv, There's a vibrant market in ideas out there. It's just a bit odd that it existed as a grandfathered in thing, And then the grandfathering remained after the raison d'etre ended.
It's a strange take that 2D == vector graphics and 3D == resterization and then write a blog post that's really about vector vs raster under the auspices of 2D vs 3D.
> software or teaching?

Any profession.

> it wouldnt motivate me

You're a unicorn, then. Pay for results is a big reason why the free market works so well. Socialism relies on altruistic self-sacrifice, and we both know how well that works.
Windows 11 was the straw that broke the camel's back for me, and I no longer have any Windows PCs at home. I also had a friend ask me recently if he should upgrade his Windows 10 PC to Windows 11 and I told him to stay on Windows 10 as long as possible.

Microsoft only have themselves to blame for a whole raft of boneheaded decisions. Starting from when they changed course from: "Windows 10 will be the last version of Windows ever...", to then releasing a buggy and incomplete Windows 11. And since then a constant stream of hostile decisions relating to default browsers, more invasive adverts, and the unescapable MSN gossip articles that seem to pop up all over the place (e.g. you can't get rid of the MSN "news" articles from the widget sidebar thing they added to Windows 11).
It’s an honest post. You can take it that way but it might be the kick others’ need to move into higher paying jobs.
What would lead us to be inclined to believe that this is a 'very good guess'?
> It's scary how many people I know who are dependent on regular doses of 30+mg of amphetamines.

I’m actually very worried about where this is heading. We had a cohort of mentees come through a mentorship program I help with who ended up recommending Cerebral to each other and getting prescriptions together. I didn’t catch on until later when they started talking about regrets, but I was stunned at how easily they were prescribed excessive doses in exchange for cash payments.

Once the initial euphoria of a medically unnecessary or otherwise excessive amphetamine prescription wears off (and it will), some people end up in a rather unhealthy place. There is no free lunch.
I like the version of this idea where they have a 200 MHz microcontroller on a little circuit board running a 65816 emulator much faster than a real 65816 can run, and using the microcontroller's GPIO pins to work the lines attached to the 65816 socket pins.

It evokes the image of the wasp plugged into a cockroach's nervous system, driving it helplessly to the wasp's nest. But in a good way.
Guess we can't really blame them.
Think Oracle, with business logic on top. (JDEdwards, Oracle, SAP) were the OGs of BI.

(and bloat, and McKinsey infiltration into many a large F100+)

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They are old school, entrenched, but yu would jump off a cliff supporting any of this legacy stuff. It will persist as the inertia on huge systems is heavy.

But yeah - I wonder if they are signing any NEW business... aside from military bunker grade stuff (which will cost as much as the bunker to implement) I dont see a reason to implement (not because I am bashing, but because I dont know the modern business case reqs that would call for SAP)
Much more accurate optical lattice clocks definitely are affected by gravity - scientists have determined hight by measuring the difference between clocks at different elevations, linked by optical fibre [1], and that article also makes reference to atomic clocks that have been transported by plane having been observed to have recorded slightly different amounts of elapsed time than ones that stayed on the ground (as is expected).

I assume it is affected to some extent by the gravitational force of the moon and the sun, but I expect that would be harder to measure.

1. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/10/131002103036.h...
It passes state backwards, so that changes are visible to previous reads. If this sounds like it has problems with causality - it can. You can end up in an infinite loop when a calculation ends up depending on its own result. But sometimes it solves a problem very neatly. Being able to express it is one of the advantages of making evaluation order independent of declaration order.
Theion sulphur crystal batteries promise breakthrough in energy density
Oh wow, this and Commodore 64 in the classroom. 'Dungeons and Dragons'. And QNX!
FYI: Controlled substance prescriptions will be registered in your state’s controlled substance database. Any future provider will be able to see that you’ve gotten pills from a pill mill doctor if they care to look, at least until the records fall off.

This is basically the opioid epidemic being repeated with amphetamine.

If you believe you actually have ADHD, get a real appointment with a real doctor and build a real relationship that doesn’t involve a cash-only subscription to a pill mill. Using a pill mill will jeopardize your future doctor relationships and the pill mills will be shut down as soon as the COVID controlled prescribing exceptions expire.
I worked at a large ecommerce company on their Android app. I was tasked with using the Sonar tool to analyze the source code of their app. A bad cyclomatic complexity is 30, at which point it is difficult for an experienced engineer to follow the code paths.

There was a file in that source that had over 900 cyclomatic complexity.

The reason was that at that point Android had a limit on their method count. Called the dex limit. You could only have 64k methods, before multidex was introduced.

The engineers couldn't add more methods, so they had to jam code into existing methods. No DRY. No refactoring.

It was fucking impossible to understand at the code level. You had to just use the app for years to understand it.

That analysis got a bunch of us targeted by the senior developers because it made them look bad. They fired multiple people, including me, who pointed this out. We said it made it impossible for new engineers on the project to succeed, and the incumbents didn't want that to be known, less they lose their bonuses.
Tech debt can definitely accrue that makes it difficult. For instance recently I had an odd difference between prod and staging, and when I looked into it I realized there was a legacy behavior for old customers, and our testing users in different environments were on different sides of the cutoff.

Naturally that's a nasty tech debt and we should find a way to clean it up, but it was a pragmatic solution to a business problem that occurred before any of my team mates started working there, and it meant we could continue to serve our customers as we made a transition. These things happen.
Did they carry the sheep or did they just lay behind?
Can you actually do that with GPIO pins, or would that be too high latency/jitter? Even if so, it seems like a job that would be done much more efficiently by an FPGA, though I'd guess the reason why nobody does is because there's probably other stuff tied to the clock that can't run that fast. Or does this already exist? The concept sounds cool.
Opinion: Is Putin banking on an endless war?
Your conclusion (if it can be called one?) is very odd. You mean to say, playing a silly game to job hop and make money is awesome, so you should all git gud? I mean, if that's the be all end all for you, I can't disagree...but I think the issue people have is that this process is a circus that relates far less to the work it purports to be filtering for than it presents to be.
You can use an alternate SMS app that doesn't try to load YouTube videos.
Ayyy can't win em all.
California has multiple Aldis. Maybe they just aren't in your area of California.
Random question: Do you force Netflix clients onto the ciphers which are most efficient for the Netflix servers, or are there cases (I'm thinking mobile devices particularly) where it makes sense to use the ciphers which are most efficient for the clients?
How about a gymnastics coach? The ones who get results from their students get paid a lot more than the ones who don't.

Isn't that how it should be?
Well, I certainly applaud anyone wanting to raytrace doom, but take it from this old code monkey, I've spent my entire adult life in dm-1, and a program like this one can do more harm than good.

If you only develop one part of your renderer (and that's all a single exercise like raytracing is going to do for you), you're setting yourself up for artefacts down the road. I've seen it a hundred times.

It's like putting a powerful engine in a stock Toyota Tercel. What will you accomplish? You'll blow out the drive train, the clutch, the transmission, etc., because those factory parts aren't designed to handle the power of an engine much more powerful than the factory installed engine.

Raytracing basically only renders the shadows and to some extent, transparency. What you really want to do is redevelop your entire graphical pipeline, all the major visual assets (models, textures, uv maps, particles, rigging and animation) at the same time, over the course of a release. And don't forget your level design!

I'm proud of you guys wanting to do this. Three cheers! Falling in love with raytracing, rendering, etc., is one of the greatest things you can do for yourself. And you WILL fall in love with it if you can just force yourself to stick with it a year or two and experience the amazing progress you'll make.

But do it right, okay?

My advice, find a good project, with qualified developers who will assign issues to you (especially in the beginning, until you get the hang of it yourself) and guide you in your quest for sick graphics. Thirty to 45 hours a week, eleven months a year, is all you'll ever need to do (I refuse to believe anyone is so busy that he or she cannot make time for that, especially considering how important it is).

And don't worry about being embarrassed or not having dependencies installed the first time you clone the repo. You have to start somewhere and almost every one of us were there ourselves at one time. So no one will say anything to you and very, very slowly after lots of trial and error you will finally just look it up on youtube.

Now get out there and do it!
They did it before the whole thing was automated. Surely they can do it again.
Worked at one softbank backed company for a short time and the amount of money and heads they dumped at any problem was incredible. Literally they tried to grow and scale at all costs.

That doesn't work for mental health though. Money can't buy more therapists to meet patient demand.

Edit: more importantly I would never trust my mental health with a company that takes money from Khashoggi's murderers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Investment_Fund

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Jamal_Khash...
Imagine you get in your car, and suddenly the buttons to roll your windows down are moved to another place. Then they go back.

Nobody would think this is alright.

Besides, I'm advocating for _non explicit_ A/B testing. Let the people know you are fucking with them at least.
Both the 2D and 3D here are vectors -- both the 2D lines and the 3D triangles are represented as a sequence of mathematical points which have to be "rasterized". But, put simply, triangle rasterization is just a much easier problem than curve rasterization.
Not disagreeing with you. Just saying that this is what it is. Either we learn to play the game or we don’t. These endless articles about the state of interviews in our industry might provide some solace temporarily but don’t change the fact.
We run a lot of workflows in our systems, we keep a rolling window of 3 months for the farm data, the rest goes to a warehouse system. For the asset we keep for a show duration and we have many shows being worked from many studios. We don’t have binary data in them
You probably know about Slug, but just in case: https://sluglibrary.com

I don't know much about the font space, but enough to know it's a really hard problem, and the slug team seems to do a really good job.