skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless you're using Google Chrome, Google does not and can not control "the way [your] browser handles results served from their service". That's completely up to your browser to decide (and by extension, you, by means of which browser you decide to use).

If you're using Firefox, for example, this change to the URL bar will only happen if Mozilla decides to implement the web package standard, after evaluating it and deciding its reasonable to display the URL of the original page for pages loaded using that standard.

> DuckDuckGo wouldn't get the same benefit from adopting AMP because they don't have loads of internet infrastructure to play with.

That may be true in the sense that DuckDuckGo can't deploy a global CDN as easily, since Google has more resources than them, but you could make the same case against almost any new web technology.

For example, you could argue DuckDuckGo wouldn't make as effective use of HTTP/2 as Google, since Google can afford to rewrite their applications to take full advantage of HTTP/2 server push much more quickly than DDG can. That's not a very good argument against HTTP/2 though IMO.
I am amazed at the backlash on Peter for a rather considerate response to a crippling attack.

He could have skipped the Twitter jokes but otherwise he did more than most businesses would do by providing a solution to these unexpected customers.

These users were (ab)using the free tier of Browserling beyond its intended use.

PS
I highly recommend reading back issues of catonmat to see how much value to web and programming community Peter has provided over the years.
$165 is your breakeven point where your profits after "tax" are equal to the annual fee, at which point you are in the black and making a profit on incremental sales.

Oh wait that was dumb, the 30% tax means the breakeven point is $141.43.

Also it seems possible now that the GP was speaking from Apple's perspective, not the developer's.

Oh wait, you're the GP. Sorry, I was confused about the point of the discussion.
Is any software developer here surprised?

Documentation is never accurate. Sweeping changes in the sotware always lead to unexpected problems.
If it's so pervasive, then why are the top of mind stories fake?

Because it's not pervasive, it's a false panic.

Trafficking is a problem that impacts runaways and immigrants. If you want to help, help them, don't get hysterical over imagined babysnatching.
Face filters are also pretty fun and Snapchat was the first to do that.
>Signing treaties didn't stop us from waterboarding torture.

Isn't that because the US called waterboarding "enhanced interrogation" instead of torture, and therefore could claim that they were following the letter of the law?

In any case, the "legally speaking" was intended to mean "it can still happen, but there's probably going to be a lot of fallout if someone finds out".

>The big benefit would be that a target can be wiped off the map without a giant "LOOK WE DID IT" flag immediately beforehand.

That's an interesting point. Only way I can think of to figure out whose nuke it is is to extrapolate the reentry vehicles' trajectory backwards and see what satellites are in possible source orbits. That's not going to be very accurate, I think. Wonder if there is a better defense against that.

>Space debris follows a predictable track once spotted and isn't deliberately constructed to be hard to find with visual/radar observation. This is a bit like saying stealth bombers are impossible because we can easily spot airliners.

Good point. I had considered the possibility of stealth tech, but I guess I didn't really think that hard about what it meant until I read that analogy.
Please don't post shallow dismissals here. That's not at all an accurate summary of the article.
There is a balance of zinc-magnesium that needs to be maintained in the body. In a mineral-poor diet, supplementing magnesium without zinc can cause side effects like this.

Calcium has a similar problem, but it's even more complicated. It needs corresponding levels of magnesium, vitamin D, boron, and K2 for proper utilization.

Supplementation should not be done in a shotgun fashion. This is why, as much as I appreciate the nutritional research which identifies common deficiencies, I hate the nutrient fads which result from them. People hear "You need magnesium" so they rush out and take magnesium with no understanding of its function in the body, nor the nutrient balance that the body needs.
There is a huge amount of work to do in this area still. Most of these kids with incredible abilities are not receiving the help and support they need in order to ever be in a position where they can join society and use them for good.

A loss for society too; we need these people at least as much as they need us. I wish that we, as a society were genuinely committed to mental/developmental health the way we’re obsessed with longevity. It’s not just people with autism, but a whole range of issues such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder who have as much or more to contribute as the rest of us.

How many “Rain Men” or “Beautiful Mind(s)” have languished and suffered because they didn’t get anything like support?
If you are interested in the history of communications, you may also be interested in this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semaphore_line
And yet everyone loves watching Alderaan blow up.
Great talk! Wanted to add a few thoughts that came to mind as I read it:

1. The radio history lesson is great, and I'd agree is appropriate for our current situation. It reminds me a lot of early US history and the use of newspapers in the colonies. James Callender is one of many interesting people from that time. [1] He was Thomas Jefferson's to go muckraker.

2. Reed's Law [2] also came to mind. Radio and Newspapers are mass mediums, which the internet is not (only). Reed's law isn't perfect, but it's a good filter when trying to apply pre-internet lessons to the internet.

4. Just a theological aside: Ecclesiastes is traditionally ascribed to King Solomon, which the Bible also calls the wisest man who ever lived. It was likely not actually pre-exilic, but it's interesting/helpful to read it as if it was given by the wisest man who ever lived who happened to have absolute power.

[1] https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/jam...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed%27s_law
I worked on AWACS back in the early 2000s and we had an adversarial dynamic with our QA team. We would see them as 'just getting in the way', but I can now say, after working as a software developer, that without a strong QA (backed up by military laws), our planes would be flying with a lot of 'solutions' that would lead to unnecessary deaths.
> This is one of the reasons I started commuting by bike. I was hit by a car as a child and I thought I'd like to reduce the chance of that happening again.

I commute by bicycle in the Netherlands (good infrastructure). I've been hit (all different occasions) by two cars, one scooter, one moped as well as another bicycle. In every single case I had right of way and didn't notice the other one doing something strange and unexpected. Unexpected as in: car making a right turn while I'm going straight (=right of way) without the car using their indicators or slowing down to make the turn.

It's been quite a while since the last accident, hope it stays that way. It also sometimes happens I make a mistake without this resulting in an accident. It's good that a mistake doesn't always result in an accident.
Nice. This handles the mangled example I discussed at:

http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/unicode_utils/
E-Skin smart shirt
I wonder if people's weird reactions of sugar is really due to these sugar alternatives being in everything.

We really need more research of the microbiome.
There's a fine line between terrorism and activism. Civil disobedience actions like labor strikes toes it without stepping over.
Whoa there. Calm down buddy. Before you bust out the pitchforks, he just asked them to post tweets. The cost to them is zero in money, and virtually zero in time.

Couple that with the fact that he was providing them with a free service and I only see a morally net positive contribution from him.
This sounds like an immensely better experience than anything in the U.S.A. that doesn't just work. I'm still jealous that you can just switch to another ISP.
Yet so far I still see almost nothing on the block chain (beyond its core currency use case) that is useful outside the domain of block chain stuff.

The only exception is things like Sia, and that's not cost or convenience competitive with Amazon S3 or Backblaze.

Where is the value here? When I visited this I was expecting to see at least something about building something useful for... something... Building what for the blockchain?

Oh kitties. Yeah.

I am absolutely aware of the fact that early stage tech often looks like a toy, but here's the thing. PCs were a toy but it didn't take long at all (VisiCalc, etc.) before they had actual uses. BBSes were a toy but they were immediately useful to their users for trading data and messaging.

We are now about eight years into block chain and beyond its one core use cases there is almost nothing. Whatever value has been delivered seems extremely minor compared to the vast sums of money being spent, making this perhaps the worst ROI I've ever seen.

Can someone provide a counter example? What are people doing in the real world with this stuff?
"If you accept that all people are not equal you are presented with a curious metaphysical problem..."

If you accept that all people are not equal, then you are presented with a number of curious metaphysical problems. The big one is, how do you limit the damage caused by the lessers?
I don't believe this story, unless this child has some sort of medical frailty.

Your post complains that helicopter parenting causes broken bones, meanwhile other anti-helicoptering activists argue that breaking bones is a necessary part of healthy development, that helicoptering prevents.
"a mind for strategy and tactics you have not" -- wise master myaso

Thou shall not make me chill.
I saw a few times posited the idea that Snapchat is some kind of dividing line between older milennials and younger ones/younger generations in that if you've never installed it or can't understand how/why to use it you're in the former group.
>When has this ever not been true?

In the past before child abuse became seen as a big deal. Granted, if you hurt the child of some wealthy/powerful individual it was considered bad, but children of the poor, and especially children of single mothers were offered no where near the status they are given today.

Just look at societies where infanticide was common place to see that harming a defenseless child wasn't considered that bad an action (especially in cases where the child was showing signs of having developmental issues, I've read about there even being mythology that developmentally delayed children were treated as if the real child had been replaced by some demonic like figure who was being left to die/killed).

Or consider societies where children were effectively property of their parents (namely their father) and he could do as he liked to them?

Look at cultures where children were forced into marriages, something that would not be accepted today. Yes, people vastly overestimate how often such marriages happened (especially when at least one was young), but it was still far more tolerated when it did compared to today. Even in the last few years we have a few countries who still have laws on the book that reduced/removed punishment for a rapist if they married the victim. This historically applied even when the victim was a child (the Bible even has two passages that require such a punishment, one for when the child hasn't hit puberty (where the father can void the marriage) and one where the child has (where the father cannot void the marriage).

Or just look at a society that sacrificed children.
> It's astounding to me that you find "creeps, weirdos, nerds and morons without friends" to be a worse fate than "On a bad day he just sits and pretends he is a transit driver, going through the routes in his mind, for 10 or 12 hours at a time".

On a bad day I spend 10 or 12 hours at a time watching gaming streams on Twitch, I'm not sure it's so fundamentally different. (I'm high functioning enough to succeed in my career and fake it in social situations, but not enough to attract a mate.)
It's been speculated that advanced spy satellites carry thrusters and fuel to conduct frequent orbit changes. I think it's pretty telling that the DoD just did a SBIR competition for software to detect evasive behavior in space junk: https://www.sbir.gov/sbirsearch/detail/1319195
There are lots of places where I live that are like this. It's fairly common in rural areas. I'm assuming it's designed to make mail delivery easier on the drivers.
Have you ever discussed the public domain with an average person? I don’t think the general public cares.
With respect to your comment about time spent with your child, I was in a similar boat a couple of years ago:
I was weighing the implications of taking a new job that came with a significant salary increase, but aslo had the massive downside of having to be in the office and away from my family most days / evenings (60hrs per 5-day workweek).
I vividly recall a conversation I had with my father who said something to the effect of, “You know, you’ll never hear somebody on their deathbed saying, ‘I wish I’d spent more time in the office.’ You do, however, hear many people lament that they didn’t spend enough time with their family.”
That resonated with me deeply, and I ultimately turned that opportunity away. I’m still not making what I would’ve made there, but the mornings and evenings I’ve spent with my children have been priceless.
In the US they're more often treated like minimums
No idea about the downvote. This is a specific likely skewed sample. The study has to be reproduced on general population.
This was the GitHub repo mentioned in the meltdown.pdf that was 404'ing until now. We have native Spectre replication code too. What still seems to be elusive is the JS-based Spectre impl (probably waiting at least for Chrome 64, though I confirmed via https://jsfiddle.net/5n6poqjd/ that Chrome seems to have disabled SharedArrayBuffer even before they said they would which wasn't the case a few days ago).
The Project Zero bug report (with PoCs/timeline) was also made public a few minutes ago https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=12...
Yes sir. It's happened all over. Even at Github: https://imgur.com/7YaVYUx
Behind the scenes at Intel's CES keynote
I take casual snaps of people in daylight with fill flash a lot. I used to have an interchangeable lens camera (which is limited to roughly 1/200 sync speed) but I sold them all to switch to Fuji's X100 camera line because of its leaf shutter. The X100's leaf shuter allows you to sync at 1/1000s at f2. That's a 2- to 3-stop advantage over a focal plane shutter in the typical interchangeable lens camera so you can have a much smaller and portable flash and still have the same illuminating power.
There is quite a distance between:

"We cannot rule out biological causes" and "We should base our HR policy on this speculative research".
I dunno, sounds to me like your brother is the kind of person whose need for money a d resulting intermittent attachment to the labor forces drives down efficiency and wages and, as such, is an argument for UBI rather than against it.
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> OTOH, this can get quickly confounded with the second-order impact of cars - e.g. that medical facilities would be closer to people were it not for the possibility to deliver them there by car.

we've already got to use helicopters to flight-for-life folks from one hospital to another because it is impractical to build & staff enough of the specialized emergency medical care you might happen to need when something terrible happens.

(not to mention all the certificate-of-need crap that keeps hospital availability artificially limited.)
Breaking windows is not bricking a machine, can we please stop abusing this term. Brick means irrevocably render an electronic device inoperative (making it as useful as a brick), short of something like JTAG or soldering.

This is especially important surrounding hardware bug concerns like this, because its at least conceivable that interactions with hardware bugs really could brick machines.

EDIT: for posterity post title is "Windows AMD Spectre patches brick some machines" atm.
It's actually worse than that. He completed the prearranged sale of 28,000 shares that he had declared for 2017 in October. Then he sold an additional ~845k shares in November!
Quick explanation of the groundwork for this piece:

Typical DSLR shutters are focal-plane shutters, which mean they open and close directly above the image sensor. They are mechanically primed, and when triggered, the "first curtain" opens across the sensor, followed by the second curtain after a brief delay corresponding to the relevant exposure time.

In the case of very fast shutter speeds (depending on the camera, typically 1/250s or faster), the second curtain begins its traversal of the sensor before the first curtain is fully open. This means that every portion of the sensor is exposed for the appropriate amount of time, but that not every portion of the sensor is exposed at the exact same time. This is due to mechanical limitations, and is hard to get around.

In general, this isn't an issue. However, flashes and studio strobes are of a very short duration - often 1/10000th of a second or less. In the case of a focal plane shutter, this can mean that not the entire sensor will be exposed to the flash's light, causing a stripe in the final image.

There have been various ways to compensate for this - for example, high-speed flash synchronization that fires the flash at lower power levels several times during the exposure such that each portion of the image sensor is properly exposed.

In earlier DSLRs (Nikon D50 and D70 models with the 6MP Sony CCD), a "digital shutter" was used, which allowed for native flash syncing at high speeds - the mechanical shutter only operated up to its "sync limit" of 1/250, and the digital shutter took over at speeds higher than that.

In comparison, leaf shutters always open fully, which means that there's a period where, if a flash is fired, the entirety of the sensor will be exposed evenly to that flash. Because of the very short duration of the flash, shutter speed does not affect how much of the flash's light falls on the sensor, and can be used to control for background light instead, as compared to aperture and ISO controls that would affect both background light and the impact of the flash's light in the overall image.
The public, through their lobbying arm, the EFF among others. Americans like to outsource their vigilance.
A tale of two decompilers
>We set it down next to the rest of our haul from District Attorney Mike Schrunk's trash--the remains of Thanksgiving turkey, the mounting stack of his granddaughter's diapers

If they really wanted to make his skin crawl they should have donated them to "Pamperchu" and his friends.
Glancing at the spec, these packages could have multiple pages or the entire sites' worth of pages for a static site, so it should still protect most of that metadata for packaged static sites. Someone might be able to collect that you downloaded the full package, but not have any idea of which pages within that bundle you visit.

The spec also encourages/opens up the possibility of exchanging those bundles over peer-to-peer networks instead of HTTP, which further mitigates the threat of over-the-shoulder metadata collection.
Perhaps there isn't just a good way to weave advertising into an app originally designed to send ephemeral pictures to friends? It seems like that's the real reason Snaps fate was preordained, and has nothing to do with Google/FBs ad empire.
> It is impossible for men to have written the bible.

That's quite the claim, since historical evidence sure seems to show every known biblical text was scribed by human hands.

> yet it's unified in the story

That's certainly open to interpretation, to say the least. Many of the story elements and arcs can be found in cultures that pre-date Christ.

> much of which was has already come to pass about nations or events

Over thousands of years one can find examples for any broad prophecy.

Once again we're left with nothing authoritative on the matter except the word of Man, that we're apparently expected to take on faith alone.
What "blame shifting" do you see in this case?
Mid-rise subsidized-affordable housing (what will realistically make it through the community's discretion, if anything at all) isn't that efficient.
"Unfortunately, we decided to take our spy satellite on a hunting expedition, and it was permanently lost when our canoe tipped over. We looked for hours, but could not find it in that lake"
A CDN can inject content, it's often touted as a feature. I'm suspicious because they don't explicitly say the bar is going away.
This is a good possible explanation, presuming something akin to Flynn effect is in operation on Openness to Experience value?
>> This has been true throughout human history. The second that technologists realize that it serves the human race for us to be power hungry (at the grandest scale -- not the ego-driven "I launched Instagram" scale) ... society will undergo rapid transformation.

One of the many problems with this idea is that to do science you have to do science and to do politics you have to do politics. Both take an insane amount of work to keep practicing, let alone to be successful at, so it's really hard to combine the two and be equally successful in both.

So the power hungry science becomes a power hungry politican, after a while. What did we gain? We have power hungy politicians right now.
Yeah. Erlang seems to show that there is a path from here to there, but the Erlang-ish world is tiny relative to the whole industry.
> The cost to them is zero in money, and virtually zero in time.

Ah yes, just like spam.

> Couple that with the fact that he was providing them with a free service

He wasn't. He was just giving them an error message after they Tweeted what he wanted.
> Google has a vested interest in keeping JS everywhere

I believe AMP pages have no JavaScript.
I was just referring to going to Chez as the backend...happy it is moving along.
Oh, so you can run it in BlueStack as well?
Don't underestimate hygiene and fashionable dressing. Don't call a person a "mate."
Not really. Young people are naturally adventurous, and old people are naturally cautious. It's a balance of life stages that works really well for society in aggregate.
When you get into rural areas, you often times see houses that are built on roads that are 45-55 mph speed limits. They're main through ways but people build on them, often times either farms or former farms that were lotted off.
I have two toddlers and that's visceral.

I'm sorry. That's awful. That's beyond awful. There are no words.

I travel a ton for work and take the earliest flight out in the morning so I can tuck them in the night before. Then I get back late so I'm there when they wake up the next morning. Physically painful but worth it.