skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From an economics and intelligence standpoint it's basically inevitable due to globalization and automation.

The US has shifted to high skill tertiary economy. This leaves less opportunities for lower skilled individuals. These lower skilled individuals don't have nearly the same earning power and thus have fewer choices (location, housing, schools, etc) and will naturally end up as a higher percentage in the lower cost choices. In some ways it's also how the work has moved vs the people. Entire regions like Appalachia have seen industries die and have left almost nothing to properly replace them.
The Master Forgers Who Saved Lives During World War II
I bet it's more accurate than if Caesar wrote it. Caesar's account of the Gallic Wars is considered "prone to exaggeration" at best.
'Impossible' orange auroras spotted in UK after solar storm slams into Earth
Looks like it. I wrote one years ago that does [1] (a BF compiler actually) and this looks similar.

(Some other fun PS ditties at that link.)

[1] https://chris.pacejo.net/stuff/postscript/index
Extracting the last dollars available before Firefox becomes legacy like Netscape.
I assume it was intentional, but the irony of this comment is fantastic.
I consistently found the opposite - I did alter some past titles, but moving from a management role to a lead/senior IC role opened up opportunities (I ended up not taking them). It also potentially eases transitions between industries.

It will definitely raise a question, so if you go that route, it’s useful to figure out what your explanation is. But if you’re staring at depleted savings, it’s a potential path.
People bent on doing evil things are going to do evil things, but perhaps it's a good idea to not build systems that will let their evil be faster and more efficient.
Riyadh is dangerous and has a clear gradient between the poor and the rich?
Are you thinking of ATPL (ATP in America I believe)?
Sequential modeling enables scalable learning for  large vision models
I'd simply been thinking about Large Vision Models in an annotation sense. QandA, Captioning...That sort of thing.

Even though it makes so much sense, I never thought about it like this. Inpainting, Object Detection, Rotation, Lighting, Segmentation, Edge Detection, Pose Estimation, Surface Normal, Colorization and much more achieved by a single model.

I believe this and Codi-2(https://codi-2.github.io/) offer a glimpse of the future of Large Multimodal Models.
CPU/GPU/, Memory, multi-cloud, model degradation
At its core, dumplink provides a work editor interface to manage the flexibility required to figure out how to make the main elements of a shaped solution form into some solved version of a shippable feature while in the context of construction.
What we want to do next is to help teams shape the key interactions of what’s technically possible in the time willing to be spent and what’s needed to achieve a stated desired customer outcome through a nested flex-template design system to aid in conceptual direction-setting without boxing in the wrong amount of details too early or leaving out concreteness where it’s needed.

In addition to these integrated creator tools for software makers, we want to provide company-wide alignment systems without distracting the makers. It will auto-build from the project data structure files all your in-flight work in one place, so you can see who is working on what, what the current risk profile for each feature in progress looks like, and how the work is segmented by product line. The suite of tools will also be a place to post, review, chat, and bet on what to discover, shape, and build next with our intuitive Choice Board interface. This streamlines your ability to create dedicated capacity for commitments as scheduled work in a pipeline about what to deliberately allocate time, talent, and attention to next, not later.
The October Revolution didn’t involve the majority of the population (workers). The Bolsheviks had strong support from railroad workers and the army specifically, and with key infrastructure captured they were able to eventually win the day, albeit after a famous civil war with working-class people fighting on both sides. Many successful revolutions throughout history were won by minority groups.

The October Revolution also wasn’t Russia’s first revolution that year. The tsar had already been ousted in the February Revolution, and considering that Russia had already begun to industrialize significantly in the final years of tsarist rule, it is certainly likely that Russia would have enjoyed rising prosperity even if Lenin had not returned from exile and made his coup.
> democratic

Calling it a 'democracy' is a somewhat of a stretch though (both according to modern and ancient definitions). It was a weird (from a modern perspective) form of a flawed direct democracy (the people's assembly had absolute power in theory but passing any laws was very difficult due to a dozen or so public officials being able to effectively/directly veto any legislation). Mixed with an unambiguously oligarchical executive branch (all the top public official who controlled the army and the treasury were elected by a tiny proportion of the population).

It certainly wasn't democratic in the same sense as Athens and some other Greek cities were (and afterall Greek authors considered it to be a mixed system).
Can it be caused by the virtual classes during the pandemic? As a teacher, we made a big effort for the virtual classes in 2020, but everyone know that they were not as useful as the real clases.
This is the SAME situation here in PHX. Google made Cox / Centurylink get off their collective arses.
Ahh, I didn't know that product IDs are the same on all Amazon sites, thanks!

OK, so the delivery is supposed to happen on Friday :)
Does it say they are shutting up shop with immediate effect? I'm not sure because somebody stuck a "display: none" attribute on the <body>. Now if that doesn't accurately reflect mozilla these I don't know what does. "nothing to see here"
Alternative reinforcement is an area of ongoing research. There are issues with cost and stiffness of the more exotic types. Research is probably slower because of the need to at all times be confident our structures are safe. We cannot freely experiment with exotic reinforcement in the built environment. It needs to be proven, first analytically then in the laboratory, then in pilot projects, and then in the legal and political forum before adoption in life safety critical applications like bridges and buildings.
Imagine writing code that outputs to HTML for your company. They require support for emphasizing some words, so you use the i and b tags.

Your company then decides that Japanese text should be supported. Now your code needs to output italics / underlines for English, or emphasis dots / enlarged text / font change in Japanese. You dutifully add the style sheet shenanigans and special case HTML generator code to do this.

Next, your company wants to support Hindi. So now your code needs to support three different ways to render the text depending on intent and language - with all the maintenance headache this entails.

... and so on.

Soon enough you start to think "This is crazy! I'll just make some style classes for things that need emphasizing, and then put the presentation stuff in the style sheets. That way I can greatly simplify things!"

And now you've invented em and strong.

The whole reason why style sheets were invented was to separate intent from presentation. The i and b tags in HTML are a classic example of engineering failure due to the assumption that they knew enough about a subject outside of their wheelhouse, and as a result failed to consult the experts (in this case, typesetters). Once the experts weighed in, the i and b tags were (rightly) deprecated.
sounds like you've never done coke or benzos
Rockstar Games Announces Grand Theft Auto VI, Coming 2025
The federal gov is way too big, spends way too much money, and delivers very little for its enormous budget.

I’m not saying we shouldn’t do some of the programs, I’m saying the federal government is the wrong/worst place to do it.

I say smash that tax code.
I do have a PCL (you can find Allen Bradley or Seimens PLCs on eBay for cheap if you are patient, if anyone else is looking). I have learned to program and use it enough to know that I enjoy working with them, which is what set me on this path. Still good advice!

The trick is now rounding out that skill with a proper education on it and being able to show "yes, I did the work."
Welcome to the weird and wonderful hand-build world of Harold Halibut
As usual, you see a lot of hate against Mozilla's management team on HN. It makes me wonder, the people who hold these views, do they begrudingly use firefox? Do they use a different browser?
According to Brave’s stats, they get ~63M MAU. Firefox is now sitting under 200M. That’s a loss of >50M users in two years.

Looks like Eich might have been Mozilla’s hidden force keeping the project on the rails.
Carmakers Plan to Make Basic Features Subscription, Despite Widespread Backlash
Many bizarre graphics, but none visualizing market share.
> Why don't more people self host / host everything themselves these days in the age of privacy?

Because it's a pain in the ass and people don't care enough to. People don't want the fediverse, they want an app. They don't want to know about cloud and infra primitives, they want their photos in their phone and for them to be safe and shareable. They want their iMessages and WhatsApp to JustWork(TM).

> How can we make more people self host their data rather than giving it to corporations?

You cannot. Make non profits to manage this infra. Wikipedia, Lets Encrypt, etc. Hacker News is a benevolent dictatorship funded by a VC fund and run by someone passionate about the work. Incorporate a 501c3, spin up a deposit account, and start sourcing donations and funding to pay for infra and people.

This is not a doomer comment. Enable the power admins and passionate folks to deliver a great experience to normies with as little effort as possible. Literally how Wikipedia functions: datacenter, paid admins, passionate volunteers curating bytes.

(Would be cool if Cloudflare supported one click deploy of Fediverse tools into their edge cloud; scale when you need, get your data out of R2 and databases on demand so you're not locked in; having to pay for infra is inevitable, that is to be solved for)
My go-to is "what if literal nazis come to power and use this information to kick-start their eugenics program", but I guess rampant capitalism is also on the threat list.
That might be the point. Disguise that they are mainly lining their own pockets and wasting money on pointless projects while completely neglecting their actual core product that has been losing market share for years.
> I think the more interesting question is what is the impact of these volunteers leaving.

Then you might be interested in reading the publication you are commenting on, especially under the heading ”Results”.
> as long as humanity moves from desktops to mobiles where changing the built in browser is very uncommon.

That might change soon. Seems the EU is planning to mandate allowing the browser to be changed on iOS.
Nothing much changed in terms of % here YoY: still almost 50% of salaries going to management, ~25% of total company expenditure. I wonder if Mitchell has given herself another enormous raise on top of last year's 5 million.

A few folk commenting on Mozilla's dependence on Google for revenue; it would certainly be easier to reason about reducing that dependence if their expenditure was a little more transparent: killing various projects as cost cutting measures seems odd in the context of their published management salary figures.
This is not another task manager. Project primitives today are about assigning, estimations, scheduling, and using management-ware tools (a la Jira) to link up to all kinds of systems. Projects are less about charts and graphs, tracking tasks, tying every to-do to a commit, and having people assign tasks to others and more about figuring things out, unpacking, spiking, capturing, conceptualizing the parts, the links between them, the things that are "in" and the things that are "out" that make it all work and how tasks come together into a single whole to achieve a stated desired outcome, and communicating with people in ways that don’t lead to connectivity at the expense of productivity. Those primitives are where the real risks, unknowns, and skills are employed. And, since the management-ware world has no place for them, real work is delayed and the state of projects isn’t always clear and visible.
Team discovers rules for breaking into Pseudomonas
The goal of what we are doing is not simply to offer tooling as a way to instrument a process but tooling to enable talent and improve their interactions with others and subsequently improve the products they ship with simple, delightful, and effective lightweight software tools for making software. We want to power product feature work.
To do this, we are unbundling specific functional aspects from the following toolchain categories while ignoring a whole bunch in exchange for a much more practical creation environment:
Collaborative design software like Figma.
Project management like Jira.
Online whiteboards like Miro.
Group chat like Slack.
Long-form word processors like Google Docs (or, e.g., Notion’s pages).
Reimagined functions from slices of these types of tools are carefully integrated into specific parts of Kraftkit, rendering the use of these popular products either null or reached for a lot less often.
As much as it might sound like it, we are NOT building an all-in-one workplace product. Those solutions tend to be a jack of all trades and master of none. Although getting everyone across functions and disciplines into one tool to do a majority of their work sounds like a boon for the organization, it is, however, not possible or ideal. You’ll end up with either a bloated and complex interface, infrastructure, and company or a product that addresses only a few functions well, leaving most others in a less-than-ideal state, bumming people out who have to use it or pushing them to buy more tools than needed that are less than ideal.
Agreed. Nothing could exemplify the distance between Mozilla and Firefox users more than this page.
Or maybe it could be screen size or Android version, since turning off privacy badger didn't change anything. I have an LG V60.
There's regular users and then there's "Extended confirmed users" who have more permissions and can do things such as edit protected pages

>User is automatically added to the group when the account has existed for at least 30 days and has made at least 500 edits. This user access right allows editors to edit and create pages that are under extended confirmed protection.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:User_access_levels
Rate limiting definitely helps against credential stuffing in the form of trying a bunch of common passwords against random accounts.

But there's also "stuffing" with known breached username+password combinations – in which case it still helps, but I don't think as much? In the latter the attack is much more likely to succeed and there's a much smaller number of values being attempted, so the threshold of detection + blocking would have to be much lower...
It’s smooth, but it suffers from motion blur.
Of course he doubled down on being on the wrong side of everything https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/business/brave-brendan-ei...
This website wastes gobs of space to communicate very little content and a mission that seems very confused.
Skimming the article, the article isn't using that definition. The article's definition seems to be "anyone with an account" or "anyone with an account who is active".

> In this paper, we analyze all 57 million comments made on user talk pages of 8.5 million editors across the six most active language editions of Wikipedia
Or the pandemic caused a lot of stress and anxiety for children, teachers, families, basically everyone on the planet and many are still suffering with it.. let's add in depression there as well.

Also moving to a completely new system without any real planning, infrastructure, or training is completely untenable.

--- EDIT ---

Not to diminish the general advantage that in-person communication throughput can bring.
Do you mean the default crates.io registry Cargo uses? Cargo is the package manager, it supports alternative registry definitions and local packages all set in the dependency file. You can run your own private or public registry, or use someone else's, and publish anything you want.
1. Revenue isn’t profit.

2. “Fair” is whatever you can negotiate. You’re not entitled to any more than you can make them pay you.
Using Dark Reader on Firefox Mobile is worth the price of admission. Most people don't know about plugins though, other than maybe adblock.
> I hoped for better ui scaling, turned out it only has 1x and 2x(4x) as “clean” options. On a 1440p display everything looked either too small or too big

Mint ships with DEs that aren't great at supporting modern features like fractional scaling. KDE is my preferred choice of DE these days. In fact, I am skeptical on recommending Mint with very new hardware (if this hardware is new).

For me I have a generally opposite experience with my machines, but as you said, it's probably cause of my hardware. I avoid NVIDIA nowadays since I don't trust them with Linux, and generally don't buy unusual or fancy hardware for that same reason.

> No proprietary OC/monitor/fan control tools

As for fan control, at least on AMD GPUs while I was still still running Mint, I needed a script to get fan control to work. https://github.com/dasunsrule32/radeon-scripts. Bright side is that it isn't proprietary, while dark side is it isn't as intuitive as something like MSI Afterburner unfortunately.

As of now my desktop (which ran Mint) now only runs Windows because I uninstalled Mint thinking it had problems when it was actually RAM. But I also recently got back into Linux with Fedora running KDE Wayland on my ThinkPad since I needed to get a macOS VM working (on the Windows side apparently only Windows 11 can do this properly but I dislike Windows 11), and I am generally pleased with the experience apart from my fingerprint reader not working. Though I don't know if I will stumble into another roadblock again that has nothing to do with the distro itself.
Honestly - surprised how much activist/inclusive/political content there is here.

"....leading the charge towards realizing a more safe, kind internet..." - really?
It's hard to draw these lines, because you will certainly filter out a lot of bad (i.e. useless, low contribution to any field) papers, but you might also filter out some really important papers. Research being basic or something anyone could've done doesn't count againt its potential importance, just the expected value of importance I guess.

I'd rather we had a few too many bad papers than a few too few great papers.
I think you are missing something. In a old system, which probably has at most 1 gig of memory (maybe 2 if you are lucky), I can run Wayland KDE or GNOME ? Seems to me 1487 is > 1000 :)

So, Wayland will kill off using GUIs under Linux on old systems. Even with 2G memory, if running Wayland, you will hit swap a lot unless you are just staring at an empty screen.

Now I do not know what sway uses, but my guess is it must be at best a bit less than 1G.

Under Linux, the only option is X on old systems. But as I mentioned, NetBSD along with OpenBSD will work quite well on these old systems.

So it is my belief, Wayland will push retro computing people off of Linux to one of the BSDs.
I hear this often from some OSS startup folks. They consider this place toxic and are scared about commenters ruining their product’s reputation
> What's more, various other tax regimes that have been enacted to prevent tax dodges by the rich, and those too could be at risk, according to Callas.

Good. The US has the most draconian and ridiculous laws for expats in the world. The 10 million Americans living abroad could use some relief. The minute you leave the country you're treated as a "rich tax dodger" (as this clearly naive author suggests) when this is not the case for 99.999% of expats.

In the past 15 years its become impossible to open a bank account abroad, invest money abroad, or even conduct business activity from abroad due to these laws. The US is the only country in the world that taxes its citizens and green card holders for life after they leave (there's one other tiny country in Africa that tries but doesn't have the power). Its time to finally get with the rest of the world on this.
Hey, I'm in Singapore. I visited KL some years back and I quite enjoyed the city and what it had to offer.

Malaysia is so much more relaxed. The moment you cross the border into Johor Bahru, you can almost feel the release valve.
what is the purpose of a teacher survey?
Yeah I've used those methods and am a fan, though they are far from perfect. For one thing they're somewhat invasive methods to implement and they still require you to formulate a likelihood function to varying degrees; a task which is not always possible up front. I've also had issues with getting them to converge during training when using them. They also sometimes don't estimate uncertainty correctly, particularly if you make a mistake modeling the likelihood.

I guess my point is, there is no silver bullet. Adding defensible uncertainty is complicated and problem specific, and comes with downsides (often steep).
Apologies for that! The only other version of the rider I could find was in a Google Groups thread. That felt even worse somehow
Pros: Skiing. "The greatest snow on earth" is not just a marketing slogan.

Cons: Air pollution. It's a valley, and all the pollution gets trapped in the valley and can stay there for days.

Cons: It's less Mormon than the rest of Utah, but still Mormon enough that, if you're not Mormon, you can find it kind of stifling. (But pro to the con, or credit where due - it's part of why it's such a safe city for it's size.)
> You can select a static snapshot that presumably does not change, if you use the API

Sorry, I won't blindly believe a company who are cynical enough to call themselves "OpenAI", then publish a commercial closed source/weights model for profit.

Evidence that they do not change without notice or it didn't happen. Better even, provide the source and weights for research purposes. These models could be pulled at every instant if the company sees fit or ceases to exist.
It's a great abstraction that is _still_ a huge leap to make for companies who aren't bought in yet.
Sure, but do you really think that's the intent of the article, or are we arguing semantics?

Your second point is a great one.
My understanding was that it is not that clear the Kerr solutions are stable, particularly inside the inner event horizon.

Personally I think all classical black hole interiors are bogus and under quantum gravity something different happens.
Hey I have a better title:

"Toxic" comments easy to track and quantify for researchers.
Convenience. Setting it up, maintaining it, cost, audience reach. Lots of reasons.
You can get professionally printed proxies [1]. I've been told there's often a "don't ask, don't tell" policy around many unofficial mtg tournaments regarding proxies. It obviously upsets some people, but others see it as requirement for new players to enter legacy format (and keep it alive).

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/bootlegmtg/wiki/index
One of the really neat things about mojo is, as a superset of python, things like static typing, and ownership/moving can be gradually adopted. It encourages value semantics, and is borrow-by-default. So you can literally just write pythonic looking `def` functions, but then gradually opt in to the more performant features, e.g. with `fn` functions.

In my mind this is kinda similar to what TypeScript does as a super-set of JavaScript- except that was not about performance, it was about purely about typing.