skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I take a slightly different approach. I also have two profiles, but I almost never use the "just make it work" profile, because I can basically do everything I want to do with my main profile. The main profile has two extensions, uBlock Origin default settings except javascript off by default, and multi-account containers. Privacy/security settings are generally dialed to the max (sanitize on close, RFP on, HTTPS everywhere).

If I have to use javascript, it's a simple toggle in uBlock. If you have concerns about cross-site cookies/browsing multiple sites, you can use multi-account containers for extra protection and/or have first-party isolation on in about:config.

> (I implement this second stock Firefox environment not with a profile but by changing the $HOME environment variable before I run this Firefox. Firefox on Unix helpfully respects $HOME and having the two environments be completely separate avoids various potential problems.)

Curious what problems the author is referring to here.
goto about:profiles. select one as default
Offering free services, especially while burning through VC cash, as a tactic to gain market share, and then discontinuing the free service when you’re ready to make money, should be considered an antitrust violation. It warps the market, keeps competition low, and sucks for consumers.

That said, I try to avoid free services now. Kagi unlimited at $10/mo replaced Google for me, I pay for Google Workspace (though only out of a desire not to take the time and energy to migrate), Dropbox, etc. If a service is a hobby for a company and not its core product, I try to avoid that, too.
Violent uprisings are historically common, including in the Roman Republic and later Roman Empire. They were crushed judiciously early by Rome's farmer-warriors (who had a very martial culture) and hundreds of years later by Rome's professional army. This is the primary way that states de facto have power.

You're right that you can't have a Pharaoh without a huge society built around one, but you don't get that society without a professional force policing the farming of the Nile, and you don't get successful farming of the Nile without a police force strong enough to oppose resistance / enforce retribution on "cheaters" with regard to water redistribution.

Regarding revolutions: sometimes the govt realizes it has a cancer and takes steps to cut it out or irradiate it. Sometimes the cancer wins and the entire body dies. Out of the ashes typically rises...autocracy. You only get something else when the power brokers actively strive to make such a thing, and even then you still frequently end up with autocracy.

History. Go read it.
I want to see what someone is tweeting -> go to a site that isn't Twitter is not really the response that sparks joy. They're really risking the network effect with this round of mad strategy. If people can't read tweets there is a massive gap for competitors to move in to.

Although I do enjoy the sublime wonder of how between Twitter and the Twitter clones everyone in this space has concluded that to display a 280 character text message they require somewhere between a full Javascript web app or that and an account. It is a pity that HTML is not up to the challenge of these hard times.
Many people have the experience of what could be called a soul, even if what they are experiencing is not some hidden spiritual plane of the universe. Perhaps "soul" could be better defined as something inherent to one's experience, rather than some outside entity that grants life to a vessel.
Or a day doing devops stuff at work
A Nasty Tropical Skin Disease Is Now Endemic in the U.S.
It's not just that. Search for "shortcuts" for example. Or something with networking. You can't click half of the items, some items are inaccessible from normal navigation. The whole thing is a mess and has no structure, it's basically a tag cloud of random items.

vpn -> The menu makes NO difference in all options in the search results.

performance -> on an M1, it takes about a second to switch each pane.

Looking for a way to change the background image on your desktop? Better remember to type wallpaper.
Yeah, we're working on that and use a similar model like pnpm in pixi / rattler already.

In fact, for a long time conda & mamba have created "hard-links" to a central package cache for the mentioned space savings.
Just like this radio ad in GTA vice city

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxdC87tLJ-QeYg-Qiue8PJpGdiiUFxOR1...
Causal Factor Investing [pdf]
Coincidentally, I wrote a post this week on how to make a "Amazon Music Player "app" for Linux using a custom Firefox profile: https://www.mulle-kybernetik.com/weblog/2023/amzn_music_play.... Wrapping more websites into their own profiles is sorta tempting :)
I think I messed up my comment mixing locking of browser space on iOS and added that to macOS as well but yes that’s not the case. But then what could be the reason Firefox feels very slow and not as performnat compared to Safari - I think Appel may not be to blame?

Anyway that’s what I meant and I was wrong. My bad.
I too am not seeing the gotcha here. The paper seems to be:

1. We ran a bunch of DDR4 outside spec directly with an FPGA, and the ram failed to nobody's surprise, and we characterized it.

2. We found a way to bamboozle the CPU's ram controller to achieve a similar effect.

I've written SDR, DDR1/2 ram controllers in verilog, I'm very familiar with autorefresh timing. You need to refresh each row every 64ms, and if you have, say , 1024 rows, then you must issue an autorefresh at least every 62uS. In newer rams there are some allowances to optimize for PVT, but this is a fundamental requirement of DRAM spanning almost 40 years.

In ye olden days of EDO and FPM drams, before synchronous, you had to manually select each row to refresh. Nowadays you just send autorefresh command with no argument. The chip itself maintains a row counter and auto increments it for round robin refresh.

I see 2 potential snags. The first is, JEDEC says that you're sometimes allowed to defer refresh 9 periods. But you do have to refresh more later to make up for it.

The second is if Intel cut corners in their controller.
The controller should enforce a hard cutoff after the row stays open too long. The paper mentions this as a potential mitigation (but isn't this simply a hard design rule anyway?)
The paper mentions such mitigations would not work because "the row would've been open for too long before refresh anyway". This bafflingly circular logic I cannot follow.

What am I missing?
> StealthTransit's solution relies on three components: A simple device that makes LED lights flicker at a very high frequency that is imperceptible to the human eye, a GPS receiver, and a specially designed shutter on the telescope's camera that can blink in sync with the LED lights. The GPS technology guides the telescope's shutter to open only during the fleeting moments when the LED lights are switched off.
Yeah, rye uses a Python build from indiegreg while we use the Python builds from conda-forge (which is a community project with many maintainers).

Conda-forge also produces packages for much more (nodejs, Qt, HDF5, C/C++ compilers, LLVM ...).

So we have access to a pretty big repository and a large community already :)
What value do you get from your $1000 iPhone that I don’t get from the one that I stole for free?

Okay, you wouldn’t download a car, I know you’re not “stealing,” but Google has the right to block you just like you have the right to block ads.

If you want an actual answer, here are the ones I use regularly:

- Download offline videos to the phone app

- Picture-in-picture on mobile

- enhanced bitrate 1080p

- background playback on mobile

- “continue watching”

- music streaming

Plus, I don’t have to install and update any bullshit or hacked apps to keep all of it working.

Full list: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6308116?hl=en
I distinctly remember a mud-slinging campaign aimed at OS/2 Warp because it had "one-button internet access", and this was deemed as deeply unsafe by various PR machines.

I remember hearing that for weeks on local radio.
>The situation is a little weird as the first two seasons of the panel show certainly did not shy away from serious topics

>a little weird

I kinda want to shitpost "how are you a professional writer and not understand the media?" and be done with it.

There are topics branded as "serious" or "hot button" that are a safe place for media to go make some money. Sure they are a little spicy in that there will be disagreement, which is why bland mass-appeal programming avoids them like the plague. But they're perfectly safe topics.

And then there are actual hot button issues. Topics that may even appear blander by comparison, but only because nobody is fucking touching them.

Apple remembers what China did to the NBA.
If demand for ownership is such that prices make |cost paying mortgage| + |cost maintenance, insurance, etc| < |income renting| then there's a clear profit from buying and renting as much property as possible. This will continue, increasing demand, until an equilibrium is met.

It works the other way as well to dampen demand for investment properties.
They were aware of Swift, and decided to make the upcoming OpenGL replacement framework in Objective-C instead of Swift, and only provide Swift bindings instead of doing it the other way around, implemented in Swift with Objective-C bindings for compatibility with "legacy" code.
How does this stand against Slurm & Kubernetes? Or is trying to solve something else ?
We'll build some features sooner or later on the repository side that are going to be interesting for enterprise customers.

But we have a strong and true commitment to open source. A non-open-source package manager would definitely not work for our community!
We should create an internal tool that relies on a framework which needs quarterly code changing updates for a yearly(?) administrative process with less than 24 candidates?

IMO the arguments people make in frontend are similar to the infinite scaling requirements in back end that require 10X overpriced machine rental.

Whether or not the current site could ever be appropriate for all 10 billion users, a developer wants the universal skills tuned to the top end.

A university HR employee OTOH probably realizes they won't code themselves if they end up at the largest employer on Earth.
Magisk: The Magic Mask for Android
Is youtube really profitable?
No plans but we would be happy to explore this further if the poetry-devs want to. Maybe they'll join us at PackagingCon next week: https://packaging-con.org/
See pineapple on pizza. It's fun to discuss precisely because of how trivial it is, not despite it.
Hot Ones reveal video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUYtDA7j19c

Best moment:

(after eating a whole pepper) "Did you invent this pepper?"

(pepper inventor) "..yes"

(man in excruciating pain) "..why?"
rip isn't really planned as a tool that you would install on your computer. It's a low-level library.
It’s a really bad sandstorm for spaceships.
An unspecified survey in Sweden claimed that more people were using Twitter? Oh, well, my apologies, showing incidents from the last four years in a random order must be a sensible way to run a status page, then.

Like, seriously, what on earth are you talking about?
UpCodes (YC S17) is hiring remote engineers to help architects with compliance
Often I can do what I need in a few minutes in excel where à programmer would take hours and not give me what I actually asked for. And in excel I can modify and update my work. Where a programme solution is static and needs tons more hours for every change needed.

Often we see people claiming that "This new thing is the spreadsheet killer, like ai at the moment. People have been saying this forever but spreadsheets are still here. And there's a good reason for it.
Anomaly Detection for Time Series Data: An Introduction
>Its the only OS licensed kernel that'll read a STEP file.

BRL-CAD does that too.
There is also the Record Runner: https://recordrunner.jp/
History of Tcl
It Spins: What the first evidence of a spinning supermassive black hole means
Open multiple profiles of Chrome on MS Windows and each profile/browser instance is separate on the taskbar and not grouped - BUT if you quit one Chrome window you quit all chrome windows regardless of profile.

Open multiple profiles of Firefox on MS Windows and they all get grouped together but you can quit each profile independently of other firefox profiles already open.

These differences get annoying very quickly for me.

On mac Firefox loads separate instances that each get their own launched app icon in the Dock. For chrome all profiles are windows of one chrome instance, quit one you quit them all.

These inverse/different behaviors annoys me since I use Firefox and chrome. I also dont like the whole "about:profiles" just make it a compact menu somehow. And no i dont want to tweak css.
> Subtyping, in the broadest sense, is just a non-trivial type relation.

Does parametric polymorphism count as an example of subtyping? After all, it allows you to subsume e.g. Int -> Int into ∀X. X -> X.
So, GDPR crap for my company, but no delete requests for state surveillance?

Great.

Europe turning into China at rapid pace.
As in religion, it's the minor differences that lead to major wars.

Major differences let you say "well that's just what THOSE people do". It's not a threat to your sense of self.

Minor differences challenge your own sense of self, and thus must be destroyed.
Seems utterly trivial, MS making changes for the sake of it. (note to pvs-studio: please show text as text when JS is disabled)
Same, I typically use archive.is but I am stuck in Captcha hell.
> I think what's really needed is a competitor to RHEL in the scientific computing/HPC space.

No idea how it looks nowadays, however I can tell how it started, back in 2004 when research institutes like CERN, were moving away from Solaris and alongside Fermilab created Scientific Linux based on Red-Hat.

I used to have a stack of pizza box Sun workstations pilled up on my research room.
Newest news are from 2018. Roadmap says 'as of 2021'. Any news since then?
Can golden retrievers live longer?
Was it ex?
EA's Next Soccer Game Is Turn-Based and Looks Like an RPG
The real problem is you are testing the class behaves like the class,
but not the business-driven requirements.
Therefore refactoring becomes fearful since detecting bugs is no longer the job of tests.
I had the same thing, they told me my account details changed on the day they changed. My business works with enterprises and yeah NET 30 to NET 90 days for payment terms, so this is a painful one to correct.

I actually reached out to Wise support and complained about this practice, as this is borderline illegal, a bank is not allowed to behave like this. They said they are doing an internal investigation on what happened and will get back to me within 30 days.

I'm also looking at filing a complaint to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) or similar.
> Working is overrated and may be part of the problem of having depression in the first place.

Not just overrated, but most likely the core of the problem. It displaces so much and returns so little.
See? Accessibility improves everything, even LLM's. Captions/Alt-text are great, even for this. :)
After years, the FDA is moving to ban menthol cigarettes
Google News cuts dozens of jobs
Fun fact: you can assign each separate Firefox instance a different X window class with the --class flag. Then your window manager may be configured to raise windows with that class to the top.

E.g. I have something like this in my StumpWM config:

(defcommand javascript-firefox ()
(run-or-raise "firefox -P Javascript --class Firefox-javascript" '(:class "Firefox-javascript")))

(define-key *top-map* (kbd "H-F") "javascript-firefox")

Then all I need to do is type hyper-shift-f and the Javascript Firefox is either raised to the top or if there is none, one is run. Meanwhile, hyper-f raises my normal Firefox.

Highly recommended; I hope that I will be able to continue using it in the future. Does Wayland support window classes and the hyper key?
They had 24 applicants and they ran the process seemingly fully on excel and technocratic HR and email. If these decisions were only involving human subject matter experts this would not have happened. Imagine you need someone, define criteria, get two dozens CVs and then HR tells you nope: they are all no-go. Most would say WTF or go ballistic. But if HR is in the driving seat alone and makes final decisions alone without human contact - anything goes.

Thankfully it will be all getting better when we delegate that to A.I..
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are you commenting from a corporate system that censors the word "blame"?
Go actually has something akin to Sum types for errors, called wrapping. For example:

var innerErr = errors.New("inner error")

func innerFunc() error {
return innerErr
}

func outerFunc() error {
err := innerFunc()
return fmt.Errorf("outer err: %w", err)
}

func main() {
err := outerFunc()
fmt.Println(errors.Is(err, innerErr)) // true
}

I don't think the Go community disagrees that it would be nice to make error handling a bit easier, because that was the top issue raised in the recent developer survey. The problem is that every proposal made so far either did not actually make error handling that much better, by looking at the feedback they received.
This Simple Fix Could Help Anxious Kids
I wonder precisely what these students said/did? Some of the protests I've seen are things I'd rather not hear from anyone involved in the legal system. The people in our legal system should IMO never express enthusiasm about any extrajudicial killing whatsoever, and never blame a victim, not even when one might be tempted to indulge in a little victim blaming.

Some have been like that IMO, not all.
> I struggle to focus working from home

I'm curious how long is it going to take before employers get the clue and start charging those who come to the office for providing them a workplace so they don't have to manage with the same amount of work at home where they may even lack a separate room and be constantly bugged by whoever they live with (which is especially relevant in Europe where whole families use to live in single bedroom+livingroom apartments rather than dedicated houses).
Java's "Foreign Function and Memory" API (Panama) Goes Final
It's always local lords and barons who make the rules. There are top-down rules, more like guidelines really, which are used to remove local government officials under whatever pretext when things go really south.
tome text editor: progress update
tome is a new text editor for use at the terminal prompt. tome is built on Node.js, which makes it easy to contribute, but does not have the overhead of an Electron app. tome is especially focused on editing JavaScript.

I first announced tome here recently and received a kind and encouraging response. Here's a progress update since then:

* Quite a bit of JS syntax highlighting. Check out the screenshot. Template strings were fun.

* Indentation is much more syntax-aware, taking into account {, [ and (.

* Indentation is not confused by comments or strings.

* Support for other languages can now be contributed, following the pattern set by languages/javascript.js.

I need to test it more, but it seems one thing I don't need to worry about so much is Unicode support, because I happened to make a good choice early on. tome represents the file as a two-dimensional array of (deep breath) grapheme clusters, as the UTF-8 experts call them. This means emojis and such "just work," as long as I don't forget and call `split` on a string somewhere.

I've updated the Plan section of README.md to cover where I'll be taking things next. I want to tackle parsing more fully, but I'm going to focus on day to day usability stuff for a while, as tome is fast becoming my daily driver.

I'm thinking about support for language servers. In principle it's the right move, in practice they seem like kind of a lot.

Contributions are of course welcome.

What would you like to see in tome?
It's such a brief amount of time, it's impractical for it to do something useful during that time, like sync a file.
I don't know, if Dart is a good example. Dart constructors are really limited.
To add to the sibling comments. My first hint at getting COVID was that my local takeaway curry didn't taste of anything, but the usual fiery heat was still there. I almost phoned up the shop to have a moan about them sending out this tasteless dish but realised that I might have gotten the plague. I took a rapid test and lo and behold I was positive for COVID. It took me weeks to get my sense of taste back again.
The Light Phone – designed to be used as little as possible
I'm replying to his claim about "the death of Twitter". Unfortunately I can't edit my original comment to add the source but now when I'm on my computer I can provide it here. It's a yearly survey from the organisation in charge of the top domain .SE

https://svenskarnaochinternet.se/rapporter/svenskarna-och-in...
Travel Karma (2021)
This isn’t what we were discussing right? Do you have any information related to our discussion of the hospital? Or are we just moving on now that it was clearly caused by a Hamas rocket?
An important caveat of private mode in firefox is that you can't use service workers, so any app depending on those would break.

> Disabling JavaScript is like the computer version of fasting.

And enabling it is like deep frying all your food ;^).
The mention of RSS and Atom is kind of ironic and telling about the state of the web, yeah who knew decentralizing technologies like that were a good idea? Just everyone 24 years ago.
The vision of Swift as a truly cross platform, modern language Apple laid out in the initial announcement was genuinely exciting.

Unfortunately it seems like they didn't really mean it.
Asking as a hledger user: why do you still use Gnucash, is it only so that you can have a UI?
Which is why I asked, what does Julian Assange unfair arrest have to do with Russia, as this was and still is the topic of this thread, not a general discussion about unfair arrests.

And further more, there's nothing stopping you or anyone else from opening a thread here and now where we can discuss the topic of unfair arrests.

>This "whataboutism" was invented as a way to avoid uncomfortable comparisons

If I invented the term "whatboutism" I would've been proud how certain people over-dramatize it's invention.

Whataboutism is just a more proper word for the logical fallacy "Tu quoque" or appeal to hypocrisy, which is used to divert attention away from the original specific topic and instead try and force the topic to either be as broad and inconsequential as possible or to make us focus on this 'hypocrite' to avert attention away from the original specific topic.

>you can find a lot of stories in the west where if you replace Countryname with Russia and the story would sound plausible

The assertion that replacing one country's name with another creates a "plausible" story is just overly reductive.

It says nothing about the context nor the specific situations at hand, you're effectively flipping the concern at hand.

Where the origin of the story is more important than the actual evidence at hand.
Hardcore free software always has a bad UI (at least from my experience). I can tell it from the name "GNU" cash.
git blam
American Employees Reinvent the Sick Day