skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the Tories' defense, they tried walking it back from the second it became clear that people would actually vote Leave. The UK tried to remain in the EEA, which would give them access to the single market (and presumably maintain some of the EU regulatory rules) but that was roundly rejected by the EU because well, beggars can't be choosers.
> especially at the top end where you need experts to show that some rich person is hiding income

Well - until you do that you don't know if there's a substantial deficit between what's collected and what's due.
I think implied here is also that putting yourself in that dangerous situation on purpose negates whatever goodwill claim you have to self-preservation. Or, at least, introduces more reckless endangerment/driving for which you are culpable.
>I really wish Mozilla would stay out of politics

Mozilla's entire purpose is political.
I'm thinking mainly about about SPA frameworks (metaframeworks?) like NextJS, SvelteKit, Remix, and I think NuxtJS as well though I'm less familiar.

They're all adding features where code is marshalled back to the server either through useServer() hooks, pragmas, or magic $ signs and imports.

They all create RPC calls as part of the build and bundle step. Depending on the specific implementation, that usually means taking code that otherwise looks like client code, moving it to the server bundle with a unique API signature, and swapping the RPC API call into the client code.
> the people who hold these views, do they begrudingly use firefox

I do, despite the useless manager parasites who are intent to bleed Firefox dry to fatten themselves up.

If I didn't use Firefox then I'd have no motivation to care that Firefox is grossly mismanaged. It would be not my problem.
I've had team buildings that were gaming (light stuff, like Among Us), and used Discord for audio chat, so yeah.
They're going to take me to court for returning a TV?
Machine psychology
Both things are true: Caesar was a narcissistic genocidal man who destroyed what was left of the Roman republic (characterizing the Roman state as "one of the oldest democracies" is correct in a sense, but it was really so corrupt and oligarchic that it rings hollow). Also, his actions and the words written about those actions would shape history in a grand way for millennia to come.
1. Read this great "Surviving A Layoff" essay [1] and build a plan for yourself.

2. Take the time to level up on one or two foundational skills whose barriers to entry are combinations of tenacity and intelligence, or tech stacks that are very close to a foundational skill. Something like "Fart App Framework" is not a foundational skill because it becomes obsolete in a very short amount of time. Things like mathematics, statistics, hard sciences, cryptography, security, etc. will carry you through the rest of your career and create a moat.

3. Network, network, network.

4. Remind yourself that nothing lasts forever, that you're not in control of everything, that feelings of safety/security are merely feelings, and that the root of all suffering is attachment. If something's making you feel anxious or vulnerable, ask yourself why until you get to the bottom of it.

5. If you're consistently having negative thoughts, frame this experience in terms of gaining something (resilience, experience, wisdom) rather than losing something.

Good luck, and hang in there.

[1] https://oursoc.io/f/surviving-a-layoff
Hard to say.

The natural lifecycle of online communication services is that they burn out and get replaced rather rapidly. It seems as soon as one gets enough users to reach critical mass it is very hard to peel people away but inevitably when that happens the service stops investing in reliability, never mind new features, so maybe 5-10 years or so later people are saying: “I know you’re skeptical about trying new apps but this one really works, it is like Skype was 10 years ago…”

To look at Twitter in particular there are a lot of people who can’t seem to quit using it even when they know better.
The description is glorious:

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A Brainfuck interpreter written in PostScript

This program aims at being accurate, readable and minimal.
On the other hand you could buy about 1200 gallons of olive oil which is less than $50,000 or 750 sheep which is might be about $300,000.

Comparing modern/ancient prices get tricky.. To be fair though a worker earning 2 drachma per day would be closer to a modern person minimum wage worker (anyone back then who didn't own land, wasn't a merchant or at least a skilled craftsmen was dirt poor anyway). So if 1 drachma = $30 to $60 a talent would be closer to around $180-360k
Gave up looking for a clear definition of what a "toxic comment" is. All I found is a statement that they use some score from some tool and link to the tool developer's site so I'm required to sift through the developer's site to understand what the core part of the paper is, or I've missed some other part of the paper because they include so many dense paragraphs of nothing useful informations (as well as a nice promotion for the tool developers).
But hey those blue passports and fishing waters and "are" sovereignty are under "are" control again!
>> If taxes were done on a cash basis, I would then be able to defer taxes on investments for years until I liquidate the investment

You can defer taxes on investments for years until you liquidate the investment. Buy stock in a company or fund that does not pay dividends. You do not owe taxes until you sell the stock.

The US government's interests are constrained by the US Constitution, which limits the type of taxes the government can impose.
Fidel's sister Juanita Castro dies in Miami, aged 90
> There's regular users and then there's "Extended confirmed users" (...)

The accusation isn't directed at users with specific role-oriented permissions. The accusation is directed at editors. Everyone in wikipedia is an editor. Even users who haven't logged in, or have an account at all. It's a nonsense claim, particularly when we take into account that the whole concept of a wiki is that everyone in the world is an editor.
For dang - this should probably be marked as being from 2022 (source: I wrote it). I still need to change the blog template to put dates on everything.
Would love to see a proper Firefox fork without the drama of Pale Moon. Something supported by a small focused org. There should be donations enough out there, if it could keep out of opinionated technical and social decisions.
That is your company moving you to another role internally. I am talking about job applications.
His point wasn't that an MTG bot should be easy to run, his point was that it shouldn't be any easier/cheaper to run server-side than client-side.

But to address your point, while that is true, Sparky itself plays with very basic decks, and plays even those very poorly. The goal of Sparky is to introduce players to the rules, not to be a competitive MtG agent; playing badly is intended. I wouldn't be surprised if Sparky's code is actually just a bunch of very simple heuristics (maximize your mana utilization this turn, attack with any creature that can trade evenly or better, etc).
Good to see Ruby isn't dead yet.

Still looks like a niche language.
Does a linked in premium membership if some kind help with that?
>There have always been great, notable and successful games been developed by solo developers and bedroom studios, at any time.

Rollercoaster Tycoon
It really says something when your average Acer laptop's bloatware is less obtrusive than the actual OS vendor's.
>they

Are you talking about Semaphor or about the original article's authors?
Viable Alternatives to LaunchDarkly
I do not fault the r/selfhosted masochists, no kink shaming here, but recognize outliers vs the mean. Go talk to average folks for 15-60 minutes on the street about what social (video, communities, threads/twitter/x/whatever, etc) means to them, this will help calibrate perspective. This is just product and user research. Find out what people want and build it, don't build what you think they want. Product market fit is not just for startups.
I like the positive energy, but this is not a practical solution.

For more context, I work a lot of over-time at my current (US) job. Outside of work, I have a home and family to take care of.

Time is an expensive commodity in my world. Don't get me wrong, I am self-taught in a lot if areas, but there are some areas where structured learning is better, especially when it comes to being endorsed (certs, diplomas, etc).

Money is also an issue. About 80% of my wife's and mine combined income goes to debt (credit cards, loans, kid's schooling, etc) and the rest goes into our gas tanks or bellies. The US economy is not friendly to people who started off lower-income, and sadly, positive vibes don't help change that.

We're realistic, not looking to get rich. But do I have the brains to do better? I believe so. Convincing a potential employer of that is impossible without backing, and if you're at the bottom, getting that backing is MASSIVELY difficult.

Another comment mentioned that networking in the industry is key, and I do need to do more of that. I suppose it is time to reactivate my LinkdIn, something that seamed like another superfluous Facebook back when I first made the account.

Anyway, positivity is important, but it is not a solution. I do my best on that front, but it gets harder as I get older and less marketable.
Even subjectively, on what basis would they generate uncertainties that at least keeps some grounding in reality? Any human generation would be ad hoc and likely very wrong, humans are notoriously awful at estimating risk and I'd argue by extension uncertainties with any consistency. And that's not even considering how one would assign an uncertainty to some huge model with 350 wacko features trained on 40 million examples. Lastly, models don't necessarily attend to the same details a human does so even if a human is able to slap an uncertainty on a prediction based on their own analysis that doesn't mean it's representing the uncertainty of what the model based its decision on.

I do think having people in the loop is a very important aspect, however, and can provide an important subjective complement to the more mathematically formulated idea of uncertainty. I don't care if the model I'm using provides the most iron clad and rigorous uncertainties ever, I'm still going to spot check it and play with it before I consider it reliable.
The thing with VC-backed companies is that many, and maybe most of them, are burning money and depend on raising fresh VC capital to stay afloat. If the VC spigot is turned off, all these companies will cut spending and/or fail at the same time. In a drought of fresh capital, the faster a VC-backed startup can reduce its dependence on other VC-backed startups, the greater its chances of survival.
It's silver though, so only about $26k (of course that's the least accurate way to compare modern and ancient prices).

Gold wasn't that commonly used in the west back then.
I think the commenter is referring to the generic "rainbow coalition" language about helping disabled marginalized pregnant women in Africa. I don't think anyone would consider those things as bad, but I can see someone considering them a needless deviation from what (they perceive) Mozilla should be: a FOSS company. It strikes me personally as exceptionally cooperate, which is fine as long as it's not distracting from the core tenants of FOSS. Not everyone can be the FSF.
> Juanita [Castro] ... supported the Revolution against Fulgencio Batista, but soon parted with [her brother] Fidel over the political persecution of opposing the communist regime. // Juanita Castro left for Mexico in 1964 and later went into exile in the United States, where she became a citizen in 1984. In southern Florida, she developed a life as a businesswoman and for years was an activist against the Castro regime
Three of the four new board members mention AI when asked why they joined Mozilla. I can't think of anything AI related that Mozilla has done, and nothing indicates that they will be relevant in the field in the future either. It's a stated goal by Mozilla to "include more expertise about AI", but I don't see the point.

https://stateof.mozilla.org/#diversity
You download the official ISO and then run a simple one-line script via PSExec (part or SysInternals suite) to disable WLMS. No malware involved.
your kind of preaching to the choir in a forum full of people who have had to deal with the tax mess from Stock Options at statups..
I agree Mozilla should be involved politics to do with software freedom, but it should not be involved in politics to do with our government, etc.
Agree. Alternatively: how much do you earn? Do you mind if I read your physical mail? Can I have a key to your home?

I think it is difficult for some people to think about abstract ideas. When you bring it to the physical world everyone understands it is vexing.
Nairobi

Pros: Excellent weather (not as hot as coastal towns, not as cold as places in higher latitudes. Cost of living is not too bad if you can get a job paying international pay scales. Several game parks within couple of hours drive of the city.

Cons: difficult to get said nicer jobs. There is not as much to do as in much larger cities. Imports (electronic devices, cars, etc) are quite expensive due to high taxation and deteriorating exchange rate. Inflation is high, but hey, that's happening everywhere.
Police Departments Nationwide Are Struggling to Solve Crimes
Maelstrom is a frontend to Jepsen, a Clojure library for testing concurrent systems--mostly databases. Jepsen is also written in Clojure and Java--both run on the JVM.

Because it tests concurrent systems, the language itself needs good support for concurrency. Clojure's persistent data structures make it easier to write correct concurrent programs, and the language and runtime have excellent concurrency support. I also considered languages (like Haskell) with more rigorous control over side effects, but decided that Clojure's less-dogmatic approach was preferable.

Because Jepsen tests databases, it needs broad client support. Almost every database has a JVM client, and Clojure has decent Java interop.

Because testing is experimental work, I needed a language which was concise, adaptable, and well-suited to prototyping. Clojure's concision and syntactic flexibility work well for that.

Tests involve representing, transforming, and inspecting complex, nested data structures. Clojure's data structures and standard library functions are possibly the best I've ever seen. I also print a lot of structures to the console and files: Clojure's data syntax (EDN) is fantastic for this.

Because tests involve manipulating a decent, but not huge, chunk of data, I needed a language with "good enough" performance. Clojure's certainly not the fastest language out there, but idiomatic Clojure is usually within an order of magnitude or two of Java, and I can shave off the difference where critical. The JVM has excellent profiling tools, and these work well with Clojure.

Jepsen's (gosh) about a decade old now: I wanted a language with a mature core and emphasis on stability. Clojure is remarkably stable, both in terms of JVM target and the language itself. Libraries don't "rot" anywhere near as quickly as in Scala or Ruby.

Clojure does have significant drawbacks. It has a small engineering community and no (broadly-accepted, successful) static typing system. Both of these would constrain a large team, but Jepsen's maintained and used by only 1-3 people at a time. Working with JVM primitives can be frustrating without dropping to Java; I do this on occasion. Some aspects of the polymorphism system are lacking, but these can be worked around with libraries. The error messages are terrible. I have no apologetics for this. ;-)

I prototyped Jepsen in a few different languages before settling on Clojure. A decade in, I think it was a pretty good tradeoff.
The wheel has turned - now we are keeping 20-year olds in school who should instead be earning money and are saddling them with impossible student loans.

And half of the building contractors are Mexicans with even less rights than your worker with US passport.
If anything then this personal attack is an example of poor quality. I'm far being upset. Maybe you are?

My comments try to explain why Ukrainians believe that Russians have stolen the "Rus" identity (from them) only for themselves.

While your comment is not entirely wrong, it is not precise enough to explain the whole story.
I'm interested in stories that span for several years, because if someone installs and maintains something for 1-2 months, then this is not really an indicator of anything. Part of the difficulty comes with system updates, application updates, migration of configuration files, hostile environment like DDoSes of angry people, hacking attempts, deprecated docker containers, incompatible library versions, changed policy of python scripts on some Linux distro, than span over multiple year periods. I would be interested in hearing what people have to say, but including the later subjects as well.

I like your music by the way (Hoggatah)!
Maybe I spoke too soon, cyclical imports problem seems pretty big.
All taxes are eventually income taxes because you need to pay them somehow. Removing the middleman makes it more clear.

Even the history of property tax is more of an income tax because property was income generating- think back hundreds of years where taxes were things like “1/10the the produce of your fields”.

Having taxes being directly against income means that when your income falters or is stopped, the expense reduces or is eliminated also.
I find this happens with a lot of forums. The most critically minded users eventually get exasperated and become toxic after repeated bans to “kamikaze” accounts.
Why we are not all using email encryption and digital signatures is beyond me.
> However, it's tolerance, not full acceptance. Don't force your views on others

I mean that sounds perfect. What more would anyone want. Trying to force personal views on others is wrong and unnecessary aggressive passive-violent behaviour.

Also tolerance only exists in the state of disagreement, so if you force everyone to agree with your view then there is nothing to tolerate, because you are in agreement. The pinnacle of harmonious living is accepting people for believing and having different views and letting them express those whilst everyone is still tolerant of each other. Anything less is discriminatory and anything more is dictatorial.
I suspect they use some cleverly constructed patterns in sprite tiles and then change the sprite attributes after each scanline during horizontal blanking.

edit: nope, the video from the sibling comment says they just used one of the background layers. BTW I tried running some of the games form that video on the GameBoy emulator I made and it didn't end well. It turns out all PPU timings are important, who would've thought :P
"Companies look for talented software developers"

While that may be true, and it's what they all say, ultimately they just filter on keywords.

Of course, if you have a network then that's less of a problem. You are talking to a real person who can evaluate you.

If you don't it doesn't matter how good you think you are, you are at the mercy of the filters. It's not about your ability to change stacks, or your ability in general, it's about how companies select people.
Van is further north than Toronto (seriously, look it up) but gets the same Pacific weather fronts that also keep Seattle relatively warm.

Like, it'll get cold and there will occasionally be real snow, but is mild compared to other Western Canadian cites.

There is a lot of Dark and Bleak, though. Also like Seattle, once summer is over it turns gray and stays that way until April.
Cause in the case of cheating mother, it is clear she is the mother. And to confirm fatherhood of husband or partner, no external registry is needed or helpful.
Personally I would trust something from the pirate community far more than I would something from a giant corp.
Singularity came out in 2010, it was made by Raven software /s
I just can't trust anyone who mentions "maths".
Yes, the Web has turned into ChromeOS, with the help of many folks that used to bash IE.
The curious case of the aggregation query
Network one or two levels above where you want to be
I've been told by my elders that when a vim user encounters an emacs supremacist, they must fight back. You can't just call it "the next best text editor".

Jokes aside, As a vim user of 6 years, I did learn just enough emacs for magit (TM) and have also been making quick bucks on the side teaching it to my friends , so I guess I can't help with the "fight back" part :-)
Nah, this is just an early example of many "this is too easy it doesn't count" defensive human arguments against AI.

Parallel to the "you use copilot so your code quality is terrible and you don't really even understand it so it's not maintainable" human coping we are familiar with.

If there is any shred of truth to these defenses, it is temporary and will be shown false by future, more powerful AI models.

Consider the theoretical prompt that allows one of these models to rapidly improve itself into an AGI. Surely you'd want to read that paper right?
Reading the post explains the post.
I'm sorry, but that's entirely ridiculous. You're mangling up a concept of burden of proof here.

You can easily see this because it can be flipped around easily - you made a claim that they are being changed, even every few weeks! Should it really be on me to show that your very specific claim is false?

Aside - but even if the model weights did change, that wouldn't stop research being possible. Otherwise no drug trial could be replicated because you couldn't get the exact same participants at the exact same age.
I want Firefox to not be on the brink. I have had no problems with it on Linux over the last few years since I switched from Chrome. I do not wish to touch Chrome with a ten-foot pole.
"Once talking" is the problem. You have to get your resume picked out of the pile so you get to talk to a real person.
AlphaFold predictions are valuable but do not replace experimental determination
It's all just a matter of expectations. Today's Wikipedia has a quite difficult learning curve for making proper and lasting contributions.

The "Visual Editor" should be confined to the Talk: pages, so that the difficulty of editing can be higher, to match the difficulty of dealing with Wikipedia's internal bureaucracy.
And no SJW bullshit or "code of conduct" in the whole SerenityOS project either. So it's free of this bullshit politics. And such politics tends to attract parasites which take over the organization to promote their personal agendas - which is precisely what has happened to Mozilla.
Silicon Valley's AI boom collides with skeptical Sacramento
>Firefox peaked at 31.82% in November, 2009 — and then began its long slide in almost direct proportion to the rise of Chrome.

It will be a sad day when Firefox is truly dead. But what did Mozilla expect? They spent so much time and energy on activist bullshit that doesn't really matter for THE BROWSER.
This might be useful but the moment someone asks you to build an admin UI for your API only service you end up wondering why you didn't go with Rails in the first place. And the idea that frontends should be JS only is preposterous.
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There’s still safari at 34% usage.
:badpokerface:
This "what if" is not realistic, because you have the retainer of "there will be no social/legal consequences that matter".

A felony prevents you from getting a job. Obviously being hyperbolic but you know that the conviction is as much a punishment as the incarceration.
> I am personally unaware of any serious reason to believe that Firefox’s numbers will improve soon.

Hopefully the DMA can help? I’m not using Firefox on iOS mainly due to a lack of extension support.