skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you look at the entire history of how Mozilla handled the Firefox for Android "Daylight" (version 79) refresh, these excuses were not good reasons.

Versions of Firefox for Android before 79 had the same access to extensions as desktop Firefox. The entire addons.mozilla.org site was available on stable and persistently sideloading could have been enabled on beta via about:config.

Since version 79, Mozilla has reduced the thousands of available extensions to less than 20. While uBlock Origin was one of these extensions, removing the majority of Firefox for Android's tens of thousands of extensions stripped away Firefox's best competitive advantage on Android and infuriated many users. This has been the case for the last 2.5 years, and is a regression in the browser.

Mozilla introduced the onerous add-on collections workaround on only the nightly channel in version 83. However, the nightly channel is not stable enough for regular use, occasionally crashing (with no extensions installed). Forks of Firefox for Android (such as Mull) introduced the feature into stable versions with no ill effect. While extensions on Android were not able to access desktop-only features (such as containers), the user feedback showed that the extensions on addons.mozilla.org were as stable and secure on Android as they were on desktop. Mozilla provided no legitimate reason for why the stable channel of Firefox was locked down in light of this user feedback.

Mozilla ignored or rejected user-initiated requests to approve additional extensions for Android, and the total count of approved Android extensions is currently at 16, with persistent sideloading of extensions not allowed. In contrast, desktop Firefox has 108 "Recommended Extensions", 30,255 total extensions, and access to persistently sideloaded extensions (via a setting). The restrictions on Firefox for Android turned users who wanted access to non-approved extensions away to other forks and browsers that supported them, at no benefit to users who did not use these extensions. At a minimum, adding a setting to enable access to all of addons.mozilla.org would have taken little effort to satisfy users who wanted to access non-approved extensions without affecting users who did not need them.
You'd be wrong. A hydrogen infrastructure would have the same footprint as gasoline/diesel. The stations are already there, they just need to be converted. Hydrogen distribution will mostly reuse natural gas infrastructure. On the other hand, a charging network will means a drastic expansion of power infrastructure and many new charging stations on new land.

The efficiency of electricity is also more hype than reality. If it is coming from fossil fuel power plants, it is not notably more efficient nor green. If it is from renewable energy, then you need to solve the problem of energy storage, which ironically is most easily solved via hydrogen. Nevermind the fact that you have to deal with the upfront energy needed for battery production, undermining the argument in a big way.

And of course, nothing is more efficient than not driving at all. Mass transit and walkable neighborhoods should be the main goal of green transportation. Cars are mostly a distraction and should not be emphasized. We only tolerate them because not every transportation problem can be solved in that way. They are the fallback solution.

As a fallback solution, hydrogen cars make a lot of sense, especially for those who can't justify an EV. Certainly more sensible than demanding only EVs for all cars.
Dreams have this tendency to disappear from memory even as one is thinking about them in the morning. Keywords written quickly in a dream journal at night can amazingly trigger entire scenes back into memory.
You're telling lies:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Software_Foundation,_Inc....

> Free Software Foundation, Inc. v. Cisco Systems, Inc. was a lawsuit initiated by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) against Cisco Systems on December 11, 2008 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.[1] The FSF claimed that various products sold by Cisco under the Linksys brand had violated the licensing terms of many programs on which FSF held copyright, including GCC, GNU Binutils, and the GNU C Library. Most of these programs were licensed under the GNU General Public License, and a few under the GNU Lesser General Public License.

[snip]

> On May 20, 2009 the parties announced a settlement that included Cisco appointing a director to ensure Linksys products comply with free-software licenses, and Cisco making an undisclosed financial contribution to the FSF.[9][10]

Cisco wouldn't settle if it could win.

Even more:

https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/11452/have-th...
Escaping mortality won’t be so easy. Glioblastoma multiforme is a nasty cancer of the brain. Neuro vascular, degenerative diseases will kill you also. Then there are viruses that give you encephalitis. A hammer and a bullet can be hard to repair also. Even if you move your brain to a computer, hard drives fail, bits get corrupted, computer viruses, denial of service attacks. Mortality is key to survival of the fittest. It’s basically a tautology because the fittest will kill the unfit. There is no immortality against a more powerful being who wants you dead.
My guess is that there's an x86-ISA JIT or emulator or threaded-code VM, that itself reuses these flag bits (when it can guarantee a stretch of non-ALU code) to smuggle information between HLL ops. So Apple is in effect transparently transporting the smuggled data.
Every time I hear about treasure troves of spices, I wonder, are they really that good and valuable? I mean we have the same spices today, we don't particularly use a lot of them and even when we do, the taste is better, but not extremely so. Perhaps if you just had salt to season your food, anything that'd make it taste better would be valuable.
I think envy is a tool we have as a result of evolution. If you don’t buy the next best car or that shiny thing (house, jewelry etc), the sexual partner may choose the one who does instead of you. I think envy is the arms race we developed so that we try hard to find a partner so that your gene pool continues to exist. I am not sure we can do what the author says about “knowing oneself” as there are very so many ways to interpret it. I think we are way more complicated to be able to know oneself since we have 3.5 billion years of evolutionary history. Our unhappiness may act as a counterweight so that we may choose to tame our envy.
> Are you really asking which countries are at war in Europe at the moment?

Perhaps it was a worldwide question, not only Europe.

Also war has become too formal and require a lot of paperwork, so countries have been using weird names while bombing other countries. I guess the GP didn't care about the exact name.
Been following this blog since it was first posted to HN a few months back. It's from an IT contractor working in Antarctica for the first time. Today's post has some fascinating photos of unheated storage sheds at the South Pole station, and the frost they accumulate on all surfaces after decades of humans breathing there while working in the sheds.
> if you keep more than one hard reference to an object around, it'll prevent collection

Which is the behavior the parent comment asks for.
AMD Radeon Pro SSG had 4 nvme slots on the card itself but that was 2017 but with direct storage API that might be able to have some gains for large models.
>You're not using it, only services on top of it, so you're not entitled to it.

So when i sit in a car (service) i don't use the Street (below the service)?

But you are right, and that's exactly why the GPL is NOT preventing Closed-source software per se.
>Half a litre of beer a day is considered "light"?

It's very light - in many (most not zero-tolerance) country is legal to drive. One beer is around 0.04-0.05% for a grown up man, around 2h after consumption it should be below 0.02%.
Crazy how much energy that sand wall was able to dissipate.
But can either convince the other one to let them out of the AI box?
I mean the default asyncio event loop can be replaced/extended where you won't have to know/remember on each create_task. But yes, it is an unintuitive default.
> They were also used as a way to mask unpleasant tastes and odors of food, and later, to keep food fresh [1]

Perhaps food wasn't always so fresh back then.

[1] https://www.mccormickscienceinstitute.com/resources/history-...
Even if you're trying to get them to talk about you specifically, and you provide full consent, they will still not say anything that could be seen as harassment in any context. It's so annoying.
As if that is so unlike what is happening in the electro-chemical computer that is our brain.
Medium is the Pinterest of text.
I am highly in favor of {,A,L}GPL licenses, but my new library will be Apache2.

I would not release on MIT or BSD. Apache2 is not that different, but at least has a patent clause. With MIT/BSD you are in "let's just hope" territory.

Letting others change your license is saying you don't care about your work, but that's just my feeling.

Each project has its own target, and should chose the licenses accordingly, but I don't see reason for bsd/mit over apache.

My rule of the thumb is:

* apache for software that needs to be linked to proprietary

* LGPL for other library

* AGPL/GPL depending on your stance on network connectivity, and if you don't care about scaring companies that don't read licenses. (funny how EULA are ok for those companies though)

I would also like to see git hosting software (github, gitlab, gitea...) provide a checkbox to only accept contributions from people who agree on a CLA, and developers would only need a checkbox to agree to it.

Otherwise you are going to be stuck with GPL2 like linux, and you can't fix things that might make sense in your environment, both as being more restrictive, and being less restrictive. People can always fork if you do bad things anyway.
you're holding their identity hostage like that? I would just not talk to you
Present the alternative then. Why do you think we should be impressed by this?
This an opportunistic editorial choice, given the very solid conservative credentials of the journal staff: https://compactmag.com/about/

Certainly, the left is no way immune from cult dynamics. A recent example is Black Hammer, an organization devoted to the idea of a new black militancy that would rekindle the flame once tended by groups such as the Black Panthers in the 1960s. Their purity spiral was so tightly would that they were able to recruit rapidly but quickly developed an adversarial relationship with other radical left groups, before the organization imploded and the core membership ended up getting arrested. Wikipedia's summary of the organization's rise and fall is basically accurate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hammer_Party

Cult dynamics are a fixture of radical politics, there's an endless supply of new recruits burning with idealistic fervor that are ripe targets for recruitment into political-capital ponzi schemes (several of which launder the political capital back into financial capital). On the left you have the ReEvolutionary Communist Party (which operates a small network of bookstores) and the Party for Socialism and Liberation (which reliably turns out crowds at protests about The Current Thing and can be recognized by their distinctive signage and their practice of designating hot young girls as chant leaders. Those organizations finance 'revolutionary theorists' Bob Avakian and Gloria La Riva respectively, both of whom are holdovers from 1970s radicalism and maintain a relatively low public profile while providing members with wraparound ideological and activist infrastructure to keep them busy. There are numerous smaller ones, as well as large groups that are primarily ideological but significantly less centralized or cultish, like the Democratic Socialists of America, arguably the left's equivalent of the Libertarian party.

The radical right is also awash in cults, but supported by orders of magnitude more money and integration with institutions like churches and larger political organizations. This topic is abundantly covered in media nowadays due to the ascent of Trumpism, though often in a shallow and superficial way. Just as the worst aspects of the political left model the toxicity of authoritarian communism, many right wing radical groups peddle one variant or another of Christian nationalism, a transnational movement whose aggregate popularity encompasses about 1/3 of the US: https://www.prri.org/research/a-christian-nation-understandi...

This ideological split long predates social media and is (arguably) rooted in dichotomies and interregional antagonisms that precede the founding of the US. While legislative action is only a proxy for these competing social tendencies, it's a somewhat useful one and the long-term nature of teh conflict is startlingly well-visualized here: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
Yeah it's the fact that it's not required that makes me insert the *.
a) First Spanish railways were built more wide by design than french ones. This allows more speed and stability but has the plus to disconnecting the Iberian Peninsula from Europe on purpose [1]. Therefore replacing the old trains is not so simple as just choosing a new model in a maker's catalogue.

b) Neither is to fix the railway. The North of Spain has a lot of mountains so to fix the thousands of extant tunnels would be just too expensive. The delay to connect the North with Madrid by fast train can be measured in decades and a main obstacle is snow melting and falling through tiny crevices to flood the tunnels in construction. We have very good engineers but unexpected events just happen.

All of this said, none of this facts should be a secret for the maker, and after hearing about the other cases, I wouldn't bet that this is not an old maker's trick to increase the bills. Not without more context. As politician Revilla is an opportunist survivor, so acting outraged is expected [2].

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[1] Therefore blocking other countries to use their trains to move troops and tanks and invading Spain in a lightning operation.
When your neighbor could be Napoleon or Hitler is better to be safe than sorry. This sword cuts both ways and was a problem later in peace times to export our products to Europe.

[2] He just will say anything that his current audience wants to hear, as has been doing for decades. He knows probably that acting angry and blaming other will deflect any responsibilities far from himself.
I oscillate between making bread by hand and by machine. Both are incredibly time, money, and energy efficient and the end results are better than anything you can buy in a supermarket, and in many cases, bakeries. I cannot recommend them enough for anyone looking to eat, uh, holistically while being frugal.

I recently started baking large miches (e.g. 4kg 90% whole wheat/10% whole rye sourdough boules) because I'd rather bake once a week instead of heating a somewhat large oven daily and I prefer heartier bread during the winter. The actual time investment for preparing the dough is minimal, especially with a few tricks up your sleeve (namely, cold bulk fermentation and letting time build your gluten with periodic folds).
I could never get a solid answer wether that was presented as memory to the GPU or just as a PCIE switch with NVME drives hanging off one side and the GPU on another.
Much like the Ancients from Stargate.
Yes. Someone told of a story where he took very low doses and he got childhood memories every night.
> This sort of reasoning would fall apart if ingredient labels at a molecular level were put on "whole" foods

We don’t make or label food on the molecular level, so the reasoning doesn’t fall apart.
I don’t get what’s interesting here if I’m interpreting this correctly. Paraphrasing, I’m reading the Silurian Hypothesis to be: Geological activity would wipe out most evidence of prior industrial civilization, but we could find larger scale things such as geothermal taps or nuclear evidence.
The Endangered Species Act Turns 50: Assessing Successes and Failures
> heroin over the counter, there was nobody gatekeeping

I wasn't there, though I have learned that generally the local pharmacy would do the gate-keeping. Now the local pharmacy does what the computer says to do based on whatever regulations were input by the back office.
Any framework that "just works" tends to not work when some small change is needed or a new model with new data/compute roofline comes out.
Crop dessication is the biggest issue with conventionally sourced flour--namely pesticide residues.
The PDF was a map of infrastructure that was likely produced with ArcGIS.

By the time I got it, it was just a vector image.

The infrastructure in question was pipelines, represented in the PDF by lines, so georeferencing them was enough to get spatial data adequate for the application.
Weird take. I don't see software startups and Mr. Beast as being in competition at all.
No 'm' either:

(def phrase "Fjord zoologists quip jovially, waxing lyrical about xanthic lutrines")
(require '[clojure.string :as str])
(-> phrase str/lower-case distinct sort)
;; => (\space \, \a \b \c \d \e \f \g \h \i \j \l \n \o \p \q \r \s \t \u \v \w \x \y \z)

(edit: OP originally just mentioned 'k' but then ninja-edited in the 'm')
Yeah, I use 1TBS and cuddled elses in Scala/Java/C++, but adding a semicolon to do it with a keyword feels like arguing with the grammar.
In addition, I wonder if random_page_cost is not set to be 1. I've noticed on machines with SSD only pools that makes the query planner much more deterministic and utilizes indexes over sequential scans almost unused.
A munition with a fuse is nothing terrorists etc would want. There's no way to know when it would explode, nor any way to control it.
No expectation of support?
This comment section really needs a spoiler tag!
Fun stuff. Why aren't unfinished tasks gc roots?
The Mozilla Public License Version 2.0: A good middle ground? (2012)
Wow, bing quite confidently throwing around the invented word 'idiocrat'.

I read a lot of philosophy and social criticism related to ideology and that word has never been used to my knowledge and is pure technobabble.
In what way could that be true?
Still, Noah‘s ark being a collective memory of the journey from another star to earth sounds like a great science fiction story!
> You're telling lies:

Yikes.

> Cisco wouldn't settle if it could win.

Of course you're right. No company would ever settle a suit it could win, after spending hundreds of thousands on attorneys fees, and going through discovery. /s

Note: I think Cisco was clearly in the wrong here. I think the GPL was enforceable in this instance. I just think don't the more loony claims (a dynamically linked module automatically creates a derivative work) at the fringes make much sense re: copyright law.
You missing the entire context of the conversation and replying to a specific part of my response to another person is not a miscommunication, but OK.

I didn't 'introduce' anything. The grandparent post is about 'vaccines' in general. the mRNA vaccine is one of them.
"C.Q." is an abbreviation that could mean different things depending on the context. It is not a widely recognized or commonly used abbreviation, and its meaning is not immediately clear. Can you provide some more information or context about it?
A word of warning: a few years ago, the related page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-of-place_artifact took me down one of the worst Wikipedia procrastination rabbit holes I've ever lost myself in.
> not meant to be taken literally

I'm not really sure how to judge this sort of claim anymore. It doesn't really seem like a reasonable expectation that everyone will agree on whether something is "clearly" meant as an exaggeration. Moreover, I don't see how someone can in good faith claim the burden of deciding how to interpret a statement rests entirely with the reader but then reject those responses based on the interpretation being invalid; if someone doesn't want their statement to be interpreted in a certain way, they shouldn't purposely state it in a way that doesn't convey their real meaning. We're at a point where a lawsuit can get rejected on the basis that a program that describes itself as "the show that is the sworn enemy of lying" on a network with "news" in the name and claiming to be "fair and balanced" isn't actually meant to be taken as "stating actual facts"[1]; if we aren't willing to enforce even a minimal standard on what should be intended as a factual statement, we might as well just declare linguistic bankruptcy and just admit that the idea that the words in a sentence are related to the meaning is just a fantasy.

[1]: https://www.npr.org/2020/09/29/917747123/you-literally-cant-...
Our family was basically middle class growing up but we traveled to Europe (from Australia) twice within a few years, both times in the 80s. But sure, you don't have to go a full 100 years back for that sort of luxury to be a rare thing even in wealthy countries - still, there were quite a few that made one-time journeys across half the globe at least, and many of us today have parents and even multiple grandparents that did just that of course.
Calories are cheap.

> A 500g bag of budget pasta is, as we established, 29p. That’s 5 meals there of 100g of plain pasta, with no butter, no salt, no sauce, and no nutrition, and a whole 147 calories per gruesome meal.

https://cookingonabootstrap.com/2022/04/12/its-not-about-the...

(By the way, that website has a lot of information about cheap, nutritious food. Jack's currently running it at cost, in addition to all her other work.)
During my time in college I managed to sit in on a group of archaeology students making Oldowan stone tools in the university quadrangle. I had no idea how much knowledge and skill it takes to make these seemingly simple tools. It is not just banging rocks together, it requires finesse.

I felt a sense of awe when I realized just how much trial and error must have went into learning how to make such tools. With how many cuts and bruises we inflicted on ourselves, I came to view the technology as something invaluable and precious. We had the benefit of washing our hands, who knows just how many of our pioneering ancestors had gotten an infection and died while trying to make a better cutting tool - or lost an eye from a rock chip? And these folks may well have been “the crazy ones” or the more intelligent members of the tribe.

I could easily see how countless generations would wind up making the same tools with the same process. If you asked me how to make more ‘advanced’ hand axes I’d struggle to come up with something better.
Political polarization of Covid-19 treatments among US physicians and laypeople
They just found stone tools from 3M years ago in Kenya, so I assume they can also find fosilized artifacts from that long ago. But the Wikipedia article says that's not likely. The claim that it is unlikely seems to be inconsistent with the evidence.
> broken something, they don't have to do anything for you

Usually, yes. I also have a friend who lost range of in a finger, a limitation which became apparent only a year after the fracture, due to a small mis-set. (It had to be surgically re-fractured.)

> the US healthcare system is indefensibly bad for many Americans

100% agree.
100% I try to generate images for my blog and technical things come out like madness
I'm trying to find a good project to work on to start learning QGIS, and what you described sounds interesting. Would you happen to have a write-up of this?