skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I understand idea, this sounds like what physicists might call a 'collective phenomena' effect introducing some type of screening. It's possible -- if true it could independently be tested. I know there are models for this type of stuff in denser matter (and in more extreme conditions), but not sure whats known in situations like the experiment. I assume there is a reason that isnt mentioned, but would love to know from an expert why.

Collective phenomena do show up in high energy/particle physics, albeit rarely, ex: when you collide large enough nuclei together at high enough speeds, you create a highly energy-dense nuclear plasma which effective 'screens' jets of particles that would travel through the center of the collision. If you go to smaller nuclei or lower energy, you can start to see these jets of particles pass through the collision area.
I am not, that's why I said employees not devs.
The suggestion to switch to Chrome is pretty rich. Firefox is more privacy conscious Chrome even with this enabled.
I pay for Orion through Kagi. I would gladly contribute to the salaries of developers to maintain the Firefox project.
Ah indeed. I thought both games mentioned where Japanese; only the latter example (Fate/Grand Order) is.
What's the patent you mention on the site? Are any other web-based terminal, shell, or Node emulators at risk of violating it? Is it for a specific implementation technique? It's kind of scary to see in the docs, to be honest.
You do have a choice, just keep using the OS version you have. Just like using the an older Firefox version.

Adding security updates and new features costs time and money.
Effectively it’s no different than any other acquisition. There is nothing inherently nefarious about buying business assets for the brand and not the actual business itself.

As an example when RadioShack was in bankruptcy a PE group acquired the brand/IP for $26M. A couple years later that PE group resold the IP to a group in South America that relaunched RadioShack retail stores, but they could have used the brand in connection with a business unrelated to electronics retail stores.
I was able to build some relationships going to Lindy Hop dancing however the pandemic struck and it was difficult mantaining them
Not all ads are for physical goods.
If you're worried about performance then much of your CPU time is probably spent in a C extension (e.g. numpy, scipy, opencv, etc.). Those all release the GIL so already allow parallelisation in multiple threads. That even includes many functions in the standard library (e.g. sqlite3, zip/unzip). I've used multiple threads in Python for many years and never needed to break into multiprocessing.

But, for sure, nogil will be good for those workloads written in pure Python (though I've personally never been affected by that).
> if you look at what accessibility software achieves by simply looking at the screen/hooking into the OS

Unfortunately that's kind of a pipe dream... in the real world, the first organization to flagrantly violate the OS vendor's human interface guidelines is the OS vendor itself, who ships some application with custom-schmustom, owner-drawn widgets that cannot be queried according to the standard OS APIs for querying them for content. So the accessibility software literally has to OCR the screen to determine what's written in the text fields and buttons.

Source: Knew a guy who worked on Dragon NaturallySpeaking, he had some war stories.

> now imagine any and all software could be connected like that.

As other commenters mentioned, there's COM, but that's a hairball to code for and a hairball to configure. The nicest systems that worked that way historically were the Lisp machine and Smalltalk environments, but the closest day-to-day software is probably Emacs. Everything in Emacs really can be connected together through the power of text buffers and Lisp. Objective-C is Smalltalk semantics retrofitted onto C, and originally NEXTSTEP, later macOS, really was a promising environment for this sort of integration... but in recent years Apple has been so focused on "apps" that it's doubtful they can keep supporting that vision.
Lua is in the running for most-used language, second only to, possibly, JavaScript.

Few people write just Lua (although professionally speaking, that was me for several years) but many people write some Lua. It adds up.
1) if you set BATCH_SIZE > 14 sums_acc may overflow

2) chunks with too many small numbers cannot be processed with just 2 shuffle-adds

3) (not mentioned in the post) HighLoad limits the size of the source code you can submit, so you can't put all possible values in the look-up table
Underground electric distribution is considerably more reliable than overhead lines. Animals digging up the wire is much more rare than an outage created by an animal crawling up a pole and grabbing the line/transformer.

Underground electric is quite widely used in the Midwest and is cost effective vs. overhead lines even in sparsely populated rural areas.
such houses are great in mild climates, but the us is generally not mild.

thin wood as an engineer has many advantages over stone. Stone seens stronger but often it isn't where strength matters while being stronger where it doesn't-
I read it as satire. Even chrome is better than firefox.

"Now to be clear, the disclosure Chrome provides to users is not adequate. Their wording of the "Ad Privacy" feature popup is highly disingenuous and the process to disable once notification is given is too complex and must be performed on a per-profile basis. But at least they do it"
After all these "I would pay for Firefox if I could" comments, it would be fun for Mozilla to start a Gofundme like page, where if it hits $300M (or whatever amount they're getting from Google per year) they'll make it an option, otherwise they'll go back to trying to find another revenue source.

It's very hard to believe that an average user would ever pay for a browser, when alternatives like Chrome and Safari exist. It's the same as paid email services, in my opinion. Like sure, there will be some segment of users who'll do it, and they'll probably get $10-20M/year if it offers some features free email services don't. But hitting that $100M through donations on a yearly basis would be hard when there are free equivalent alternatives.
Such optimizations may be forbidden by the fact that floating point addition is not associative unless you tell the compiler not to worry about that (I believe)
> You can sort of get around it, but your life will suck.

I can elaborate on that part. If you want to ride public transportation you can’t buy a ticket without an app. On some stations they have ticket machines which accept credit cards, but the one at my station hasn’t worked for half a year. If you know in advance that you want to use it you can of course buy a ticket and print it.

If you want physical mail you have to get permission for it, or go through a tedious process of becoming a “non-digital-citizen”. Which is going to also give your our national digital ID in a different form, which you will have to renew after X uses by physically going to the city hall and waiting in a 2-3 hour line. Note that you’ll need this ID for every online purchase you make. My bank doesn’t accept the non-app version, but as far as public services it does work.

I can’t use my doctor without the national health app because things like digital visits have to be done through what is considered a secure channel and my doctor doesn’t want to pay extra for an external system. I think there may be a single doctors house in my city which has a web solution but they are solely for people above 70.

The place where I have my children’s investments, which is sort of the only “easy” option requires an app to log into their website. You could go through a bank, but none of the banks which allow you to buy stock on behalf of your children work without the digital ID app.

Note, I’m not actually angry about it. Having every family members social security barcode in a single app is amazing. In fact most of these apps are great. They do require a smartphone though. Now if the app providers (or their contracts) didn’t suck, many of these apps would be available outside the Apple and Google stores.
€60k pre-tax is roughly in the top 10% of incomes in the country based on a quick google. Not opulent, but definitely comfortable.
We all know...
As usual when people criticize Mozilla, this thread is way over the top.

I agree it's not good that this is on by default. But saying that Chrome is better because it at least asks is disingenuous. Chrome simply presents you with the "Enhanced Ad Privacy" window and a button "Got it" or "Settings". That's clearly a dark pattern and technically not "asking" at all. The Topics API which you enable by clicking "Got it" is, at least from what I read, clearly worse than what Mozilla has implemented. Calling "differential privacy" a fake is simply untrue. It is not easy to implement, but if done properly, it's absolutely not fake.

I agree though that Mozilla has, as usual, dropped the ball here in how they have introduced this technology. They are obviously desperate, and they know if they would ask, probably the vast majority of people would not agree. Also as usual, they will probably roll back this setting once the outcry is large enough, and they have once again lost trust and gained absolutely nothing. It's also clear that with the tiny market share Firefox has nowadays, thinking they could introduce a new ad technology is simply hubris.
I’m in my middle fourties and I don’t have this issue.
Show HN: Unity-like coroutines in plain old C
Probably right, but also you don't miss what you've never had. Not having air conditioning was just normal.
Seems like this was a problem with last mile delivery, which isn't a uniquely Texas problem. Oregon and California have had plenty of major outages due to wind and cold snaps in the last few years as well.
I don't think Mozilla is going to pull a Google and deliberately choose to become evil. Mozilla simply doesn't have (or want?) the resources to hire competent product people (if such a thing even exists) to manage features and marketing. This is the problem with running software as a company instead of an open project where the product is the end rather than a means to profit.
> I'm not affiliated with Mozilla, but I do understand how wikis work. ;-)

You don't seem to understand why this is problematic though, so I'll explain it to you: enabling tracking when you know that one of your selling points to your users is respect for privacy is a huge breach of trust.
How I lost 1000€ betting on CS:GO
I wrote two blog posts based on my experience betting on CS:GO in 2019.

The first post covers the following topics:

* What is your edge?

* Financial decision-making with ML

* One bet: Expected profits and decision rule

* Multiple bets: The Kelly criterion

* Probability calibration

* Winner’s curse

Link: https://tabacof.github.io/posts/csgo_betting_with_ml_part_1/csgo_betting_with_ml_part_1.html

The second post covers the following topics:

* CS:GO basics

* Data scraping

* Feature engineering

* TrueSkill

* Dataset

* Modelling

* Evaluation

* Backtesting

* Why I lost 1000 euros

Link: https://tabacof.github.io/posts/csgo_betting_with_ml_part_2/csgo_betting_with_ml_part_2.html

I hope they can be useful. All the code and datasets are freely available on Github. Let me know if you have any feedback!
It is important not to automatically make assumption that all non-profits are impoverished and run by volunteers.

One of the most famous examples is Wikipedia.

Technically yes, they are a non-profit. Impoverished ? Certainly not !

Look at the financials, as others have already pointed out. Especially if you are in the habit of donating to non-profits, the financials can make for interesting reading.
Apologies for the rude tone. I was mis-reading your comment as saying it's possible to fully avoid negative emotions around this type of situation, but going back I see that wasn't what you said.

Yes, I agree with everything you've written here.

The only nuance I'd add is that feeling guilt (or sadness, or helplessness) is not necessarily bad—emotions are valuable signals that can be mined for insight. I think the problem comes when we start to dwell on negative emotions and then internalize them as somehow representative of the state of the universe. Don't try to suppress or change the emotion, feel it, acknowledge it, then take a breath and decide on a course of action that you think will lead to the best outcome.
It’s built to withstand a nuclear blast. There’s buildings like this all over the country (though not in skyscraper format).
It would be interesting if any ex-customers, living in the eu are affected - they may be covered by gdpr (though unlikely).
Who said anything about amendments?
Python's reactor pattern, or event loop as you call it, started with the "Twisted" framework or library. And that was first published in 2003. That's a full 6 years before Node.js was released which I assume was the first time anything event-loopy started happening in the JS world.

I forgot to mention that it came into prominence in the Python world through the Tornado http server library that did the same thing. Slowly over time, more and more language features were added to give native or first-class-citizen support to what a lot of people were doing behind the scenes (in sometimes very contrived abuses of generator functions).
I stopped using or caring about Excel back when I found a multiplication error in a very simple expression in Office 97.
Houston city government is largely comprised on Democrats and has been for some time.

Also, California has dealt with issues related to electric reliability and is by no means a conservative state.
No, to keep track of consumers of social work for social workers. Think EHR system for social work, for shared provider access for each person in need of care and services, and central tracking for each person of service, care, and resources available and provided.

I’m currently tracking with spreadsheets, which is less than ideal.
> I had a worker do some good work for low pay, because they believed in the idea.
Amusing that he griped about Tennessee fried chicken when the original restaurant was in Utah
For such cases (refer to @icloud.com), no idea if we should take it so seriously…

For now, our goal is to detect disposable mails from online free providers.
You've answered your own question. The incentives of capitalism "unencumbered by regulation" and the necessities of investing in and maintaining infrastructure are often at odds.
Mathematical Sculpture
Uscsb- Designed to Fail: Chemical Release at LyondellBasell
'unsafe language' sounds like something out of '1984' or 'Animal Farm'; a totalitarian political euphemism, attempting to demonize all 'others'.

The reality is that no language is actually 'safe', and 'safety' itself is a complex trade-off between enforced restrictions, flexibility, and other factors, just like in life.
Would they destroy only the hacked stuff? All the good info is still with the company..they can be hacked again.
Looks like rented stuff to me you can't just add drives ...

And while 500k is a lot maybe they can do so much with it because they do not just throw $1500 in drives at every problem.
To each their own, but the book would never have sold any copies if Bill's name wasn't attached to it. I purchased a copy on Amazon and thought I was hoodwinked. It felt like a pure cash grab.
To be fair, I don't think that has been an active Mozilla mission for close to a decade now.

They mostly exist as a Google owned shell now...
For comparison, the Houston metro area (which is basically just the original city limits + what used to be its suburbs but have really just all grown together) is the size of the entire country of Belgium.
It's likely a combination of multiple factors. Texas, being a red state, most certainly has a stronger climate denial sentiment, which is going to affect policies and regulations. Texas may be unprepared because major hurricanes were uncommon in the past. Global warming means hotter temperatures which makes long power outages more unbearable. And probably other reasons I can't think of.

I expect things will improve, but it may take some years. As these events become more common and people have to suffer every year, voters are going to get fed up, and Republicans would be foolish to keep up their climate denial stance.
Python is more so in the same boat as Rust. Python asyncio was relatively recent.
I set a limit for ninja/cmake to only run 4 or so cores when I was getting hang ups when doing a large compile.

Rename ninja to oninja, make an executable shell script in the ninja directory ninja.

#!/bin/sh
oninja $@ -j4
I had no idea that was the case, that's incredibly impressive!
Yeah does Firefox support it yet in stable, or are they still a solid year behind Chrome as usual?
On Leaving your computer on 24H a day and mounting your machine sideways (1990)
Safer roundabouts are replacing traffic signals (2023)
So am I, but that makes total sense in your case, providing cloud compute. Doing that without contracts and warranties sounds like a nightmare (I haven’t downvoted you at all, I’ve seen your comments in a few threads and an really interested in what you’re doing). Best of luck, especially on the AMD side. I see a lot of people being skeptical about that, but I think we are very close to them being competitive with Nvidia in this space. I’m pretty much entirely Nvidia at the moment, but I’d love to hack on some MI300X whenever I can get access.
Let's rephrase that. "Centerpoint Energy comes out on the bottom".

I believe that's a statement Houstonians can get behind enthusiastically.

(Although PG&E is also doing well in this race to the bottom".
Maybe it hasn't been an active Mozilla mission for a decade in practice, but they did paid it lip service many times in the past decade, so still counts as breach of trust.
> Anyone who's halfway serious about software development on Windows surely has make there too

Not even remotely. I know it might be hard to imagine if you only program on Linux/Mac but there's a whole world out there that isn't built on janky shell scripts and Makefiles. If you use C# or Java or Visual C++ or Qt on Windows it's pretty unlikely that you'd have Make. It's kind of a pain to install and you don't need it.
1ms latency is about what can be achieved with USB.
Once again, I have to stick my ore in here and chill for LibreWolf :D I think it might really be worth checking out for people like me that prefer the user interface and functionality of Firefox over chromium and don't want to contribute to the blink engine monopoly, but also often doesn't approve of what Mozilla is doing upstream and wants someone to shield them from it. It's my daily drive for browser for basically everything, and 99% of the time, even on stuff that you would think wouldn't work, it works just fine. I keep chromium in my back pocket just in case, but I've only had to pull chromium out like twice in the past year, once for something that required the USB-HID protocol and once for iCloud.

And yes, for those of you on distributions, you might say that your distribution maintainers will just patch out or customize out, and the nefarious changes that Mozilla makes upstream. But the thing you have to remember is that distribution maintainers are handling, by a whole lot of other things, tens of thousands of other packages, and an entire operating system, and its upkeep, go through them. So they will often just not patch out or patch things out inconsistently or not really pay attention. I think it's much better to rely on a project whose whole purpose and explicit mission is making Mozilla more privacy-friendly and secure and who have a dedicated community of a few developers consistently working on it. Especially since distribution maintainers don't really make any specific mission statement promises with regards to specific packages, but something like LW does. It does a lot more than just this one thing. It's essentially equivalent to having a arkenfox config maintained for you and always applied to your browser and updated in lockstep with your browser, as well as a set of patches that they maintain to remove things like Pocket.
I thought, that was an unfortunate choice of acronym. Then I checked the domain: Austria, home of the village formerly known as Fucking. So it tracks.
I thought it just meant the multiplier was unlocked.
It might have been normal but people are people and would still seek out more comfortable climates. And if you stretch the definition of air conditioning a bit, we've had that for about as long as we've been living in semi enclosed spaces. Running a fire at night to keep the cave warm is air conditioning. Building your home to have water flowing under the floors so that you can cool or heat the floors passively (I believe the Romans were doing this) is air conditioning. Hanging a wet towel to allow the water to evaporate and cool the room a little is air conditioning.
During the first month of the covid-19 outbreak, there were no cases within a 15 mile radius of the WIV lab south of the river. Zero. All the people infected had been within 200 meters of the wet market north of the river.

We know that farm-raised animals in China pick up coronavirus infections from wild animals such as rodents. The 2002 SARS epidemic started from natural animal-to-human transmission, in an animal-handling complex, with a naturally occurring coronavirus. If there had been a second outbreak of the same SARS virus in Wuhan in 2019, at the Wuhan wet market, would you decide that the sars-cov-1 came from natural transmission from animals?

When a milkmaid picks up a cowpox infection, do we run around screaming that there's no proof the cows had cowpox? When a person who works with animals develops rabies, do we assume that he was not bitten?
I wouldn't see that as a way to plan work, but rather to keep track of what you did or where you were.

In general, I like the idea of ruthlessly tracking what I've done like this. But I think that it is still missing the context of the environment... meaning, if you are editing a file, it would be nice to not only know that you edited file A, but also that you changed line N to X.

I've spent a decent amount of time thinking about this over the years and haven't fully figured out a good solution. I was a wet lab scientist for a long time and we have the tradition/requirement of keeping a lab notebook. This is something that is incredibly helpful where you keep track of what you've done and what you're planning to do. I've missed this when I switched over to mainly computational work. In the past, I've thought about maybe having a loopback FUSE-ish mounted directory to track changes to files would work. But I think something akin to working in a git tracked repository (with these intermittent commits per command) might make this work better!
Why? So long as you know the probabilities and they are tolerable, why?
You posted this two days ago already.
I never understood this argument. You agree to see ads when you use a service someone provides you for free. You are within your right to block ads but they also have every right to show them.
Unfortunately about config no longer exists for mobile devices
Modern "stick built" homes in the US are well insulated and actually quite efficient. Stone walls would be a poor choice in most areas in the US due to extreme conditions.

As you mention, once a stone house heats up in the summer, that is an incredible amount of thermal mass to cool. Your AC would run non-stop. Similar issue in the winter, super high heating costs in cold regions.
Er....exactly.