skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Starting with v63, Firefox will offer in-browser Content Blocking
Are there any risks at all worth insuring for Google? What’s the point of insurance if you have $100B in the bank?
Would love to read more about this, any pointers?
People generally use those independently now. The meaning of the english word is changing.
That is awesome that you have <For>! That's one of my biggest pet peeves with Vue.js, where it has to be an attribute on an element, and it's not intuitive whether it goes on the parent or the child. (I think Vue makes it go on the parent but I think it makes more sense for it to go on the child.)
They’re extreme because extremists vote.

Who you vote for is secret. The fact that you voted is public. Any politician looking at voter records is going to notice that they’ll get a lot more traction going after old people. Young people stay home, then complain that they aren’t represented. It’s absurd.

If you don’t like your choices in the general election, you need to vote in the primaries too. And even if the choices suck, you still need to show up and either choose the lesser evil or at the very least vote for a third party or write in some nonsense or spoil your ballot, so you’re still on record as having voted.
No peak JS in sight.

But, on a historical note, 2018 will probably go down as the year of “peak WordPress”.

All “patch” releases, nothing else: https://wordpress.org/news/category/releases/
interesting point
git commit -ammend
Neat. It would be awesome if they would open source some of the files for download. I did not see a place in the article suggesting that.
Somewhat similar: https://github.com/feross/thanks
OsmAnd has something that's similar: https://snag.gy/z5l4WZ.jpg

Steps to reproduce:

1. Calculate a route

2. Click the blue navigation icon at the bottom (it should show the from, to, car/cycling/walking, distance, settings button, etc.)

3. Press on the distance or time.

Optionally, see the "Analyse on map" button.
Did you try the TLD's administrative contact and did you make sure you are using tools that report to Spamhaus or other blackholes?

.bid seems to be 35% bad which is not all that bad if they have been offering $1 domains for long. So maybe they take some actions through the registrars to stay bellow being presumed spam by default or maybe not enough of these unique domains are getting reported..
Scroll Free September: One Month Without Social Media
This comment doesn’t fit with the pacifism at all costs mentality of many, however, it’s by far the most erudite point I’ve read in these parts in a long time. Peace is achieved only through strength. ISIS for example doesn’t care about our lofty ideals of peace. This is/was a group that burned prisoners alive and gang raped kidnapped women. They don’t respect treaties or pontification on civility. If we as a free society are to have peace, we must be prepared for war.
Ryu: convert floating point numbers to decimal strings
Reminds of Viktor Frank’s Man’s Search for Meaning. Don’t make things unnecessarily complex. Instead of trying find a problems from the past in your unconscious mind and fix, find yourself something to live for. Look forward, not backwards.
> It‘s interesting to see how negative the comments are here, compared to the civil disobedience of SciHub — in fact it‘s much of the same thing.

Those things are worlds apart, in my view. Pharmaceutical companies add serious value to the world. They expend enormous amounts of money researching and testing drugs, and then shepherding them through the obscenely expensive FDA approval process.

Journal publishers like Elsevier do not fund research. They don't pay the authors of the articles they publish. They add literally zero value to the ecosystem. It's honestly a modern marvel that they still exist. They provide absolutely nothing of value to the world.
Tesla rival Porsche is starting to realize it's not easy to produce the Taycan
«Using Gmail as a smart host defeats the point as mentioned in the root comment of this thread: Google can read your email.»

Many things wrong with this sentence:

• Don't like Google? Then use any of the hundreds of other smart host relays: Sendgrid, OutboundSMTP, etc

• The smart host can't read your incoming mail (typically more sensitive than outgoing.)

• Google, being a mail provider, can usually read your email anyway, because all your conversations with Gmail users end up in Google's hands.

«Google also rewrites the "From:"»

Google has multiple smart hosts offerings, but the one I linked to does NOT rewrite the From:.
Isn't it better to see it from the perspective of 'people in power can be sinful', rather than 'because there were some female leaders early on in a (highly propagandistic) movement then they most be on the side of women? Even still, there are many women who harbor men with bad behavior for personal gain.
Maybe that commenter is using the same logic that distributing guns to anybody is fine, misusing guns is a personal failing.
Looks to be the Wing css framework, by the same author:

https://kbrsh.github.io/wing/
Compulsory Licensing of Backroom IT?
They'll underbid, overpromise and still lose to AWS. Oracle is amateur league in cloud computing.
The topic of s-expressions, indentation-based alternatives, etc. comes up so often that I wrote up my thoughts at http://chriswarbo.net/blog/2017-08-29-s_expressions.html

tl;dr the killer feature of s-expressions is that they're trivial to parse and generate, which makes it easy to read/write some other "front end" instead (i-expressions, sweet expressions, wisp, etc.).
Abstaining from voting is never a reasonable choice unless you want elected officials who don’t give a damn about you. Vote for Mickey Mouse if you can’t stand an actual human, but you need to get on the record as having shown up if you want any sort of voice.
One reason that we should consider discounting Gatty's conclusion is that we now know stuff that Gatty did not know. Gallagher reports that the sextant box had two different numbers on it and he reports what those numbers were:

3500 and 1542

We do not have documentation for those specific numbers. On the other hand, if you take a look at the second link I posted (https://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Research/Bullet...), you'll see they have an actual picture of a Brandis sextant box with the numbers 3987 and 1542 on it. They have a couple of tables with other sextants that they have identified with similar numbers, including:

Brandis 3511 N.O. 1585
Brandis 3527 N.O. 1599
Brandis 3987 N.O. 1584

That doesn't conclusively identify 3500:1542 as a Brandis sextant with Naval Observatory number 1584, but it does look mighty suspicious.

If that is indeed the case, then the sextant box the islanders discovered definitely dates to 1919 or later, as does the skeleton that was found near it.

Even if we accept this conclusion, it does not constitute certain proof that Earhart landed on the island. It would seem to provide some solid support for the idea though.

If we combine this with other independent lines of evidence (radio reception reports, interviews with people who were on the island in the early 1940s, etc.) you can make a stronger argument.
The US started mass employment of women in the late 1800s. It took until the 2010s for MeToo to be taken seriously. (And by seriously, I mean that there are consequences for such actions.)

Given that China actively destroyed its culture during '49-'79, and then saw the fastest growth spurt of industrialization and services ever seen in human history, it's not surprising that they're playing massive catchup.

The interesting thing would be to compare womens' working conditions in the PRC vs. the ROC, HK, and Singapore, Sinosphere countries of which none of which suffered similar political turmoil and had much less compressed development.
Apple's New iPad Pros to Trade Home Button for Tiny Bezels and Face ID
I think the excitement around using JavaScript as a server runtime has peaked. If you search for node/express on Google Trends, you'll notice the interest leveled off about a year ago. This matches up with my own personal experience - engineers seem more willing to weigh the tradeoffs associated with using JavaScript on the server vs. using other frameworks like Flask, Ruby on Rails, Django, or SAAS offerings like Firebase and Google App Engine. There's a lot more maturity there than there was a few years ago.

I doubt that JavaScript on the web client is going anywhere. While wasm is interesting, it's still not really ready for prime time. These days if you're a frontend web engineer, you're forced to use JavaScript or a transpiles-to-JavaScript language.

The interest in JavaScript as a mobile runtime is still exploding. Searches for React Native have only been increasing over the years and shows no signs of slowing down. Compare this to iOS swift, which is trending down in popularity.

If you're wondering whether the JavaScript ecosystem is still a useful one to learn, I wholeheartedly believe it's not going anywhere for the foreseeable future.
I'm sure the crowd control mechanism (social credit system) can be utilized in some way here no?
At least people are trying to solve it in the US, and those people also include a sizable amount of men.
Kerbal Space Program [0] (available on Steam) is a good simulator for lots of space things, but by default does not support multi-body physics (which are necessary for simulation of Lagrange points).

There is a mod called Principia [1] that adds this functionality, though I've not used it personally.

Probably not exactly the type of simulator you were looking for, but could be something!

[0] https://www.kerbalspaceprogram.com/en/

[1] https://github.com/mockingbirdnest/Principia
Here are some docs on how to try it in nightly.

https://gist.github.com/jasonLaster/1e220992c294a571dd9b59ab...
Neanderthal vs. ND4J – Vol 4 – Fast Vector Broadcasting in Java, CPU and CUDA
The government is actively censoring such posts, so no.
Of course it's better, but how often does human behavior act in better or more logical ways? Humans are not the rational, well-informed beings of economics.
Very similar, but a product like this has to remove absolutely every point of friction it can, and make it as close to 1-click as possible. This is a command line utility that gives you links, which is a great start. We can make it even simpler!
> Not when using one translation unit per MCU and letting the Makefile pick the right one.

Could you please link any examples of that I could examine myself?

Also, makefiles aren't really an option with platforms like Arduino, the IDE does not really support them.
It might be useful to divide the wold in neat venn diagrams of "target audiences" when you are running a business, but it is not good to start taking this stuff too seriously. There's more to life than that.

We are humans beings and we like to create. The digital computer is a meta-tool, in the sense that it is possible to invent entire new mediums of expression within it. This appears to be a particularly interesting one. I think you underestimate kids. I know I would be very excited to have access to this tool back in the day, and would be delighted to be able to use randomness to manipulate sound. Being called a "superhuman musician" for pressing a button would make me want to puke.

Take your PM hat off sometimes and smell the roses.
Some, yes, but it's very capital-M Modernist and not exactly universal.
I think the distinction that he's drawing is that in the US, the cultural consensus is that this behavior is not ok, even though it still goes on. There's this in-between space that we get to about things like this where we all (mostly) decide its not ok, but lots of people still do it and/or protect those that do. China seems to still be in the first stage though, of not having culturally come to agreement that this sort of thing isn't just normal and acceptable.
All-Optical Computing Gets Another Arrow in Its Quiver
D-Wave CEO on Future of Quantum Simulations
Forgot the /s
Chances are that it will rather be utilized against the women...
What you are saying isn't normally a problem, the problem is the fact that google is by far the largest digital advertiser, where their core product is information retrieval. If you are able to manipulate information retrieval in your favor that's an unfair advantage.
Being afraid there is as reasonable as being afraid in every American skyscraper because of 9/11. The latter might actually be, purely from a casualty statistics perspective, more reasonable.

Also not all countries in Europe are the same. E.g. France, UK and Belgium have more issues in general with islamists and thus more terrorism than e.g. Germany, Italy, Poland, ...

For example, in Germany the only significant islamic terrorist attack remains the Breitscheidplatz attack with 12 dead.
It's a loaded term, over-policing. Stop and frisk is one thing, but local politicians use it to mean other things, too. When the police deployed during the K2 overdoses in Bed Stuy (the first news incident), politicians said on record that we needed to be careful not to over-police the neighborhood. What they meant by this was presence - don't put police everywhere, people dislike it.

There's more. They reclassified numerous crimes that were deemed quality of life crimes that deserve at most a desk ticket. They also stopped cracking down on turnstile jumpers, they became more lax with the homeless by policy (you can read DeBlasio's quotes on that too).

There's a general Zeitgeist against policing in general. Is it good, moral social justice policy? I don't know, but I strongly suspect we care more about equality of outcome (and statistics) than true justice.

Back to the cameras. There's a terrible irony here: the police union was instrumental in pressuring to not renew them. Fear of being automated out of a job? That's a strong HN topic if I ever saw one.
Are you still claiming to be 14 years old?
Silicon Valley funds our helpless future
Previous (2017, 192 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15105726
Mozilla Is Working on a Chrome-Like “Site Isolation” Feature for Firefox
It's starting to look like a lot of technological advancements are purely internal to specific corporations, rather than quickly spreading to entire industries like they would in the past.

This article has one suggested solution. Alternative to what it suggests -- as noted in the addendum, there are issues with generalizing internal tools -- I'd speculate that much stronger anti-noncompete rules might help more.
@pjmlp thanks for clarifying. I had no idea there was such a thing.

@darpa_escapee - thanks for guiding me into that rabbit hole. Csound looked the most promising to me. Pure Data needs more screenshot and samples, the site was very hard for me to dive through and Overtone Clojure it's cool. Wanted to learn that at one point, but I'm sticking first with learning Haskell.
Ha! I love how I’m being downvoted for thinking different.

I love indented languages. Python, make, coffeescript etc indentation communicates hierarchy. It’s a very simple idea.

All I’m saying is Lisp is amazing but parens aren’t for everyone.

Lisp is essentially list of lists. There are other ways of representing that
There's a widely-available "San Francisco Bike Map and Walking Guide"

http://www.rufusguides.com/sanfran.html

and SFBC has a (large!) vector PDF version on their site

https://www.sfbike.org/download/map.pdf

This map uses shading to indicate how steep the gradient of each individual city block is, but interestingly the shading doesn't show the direction of that gradient, so you don't immediately know whether it will be uphill or downhill. But the map also includes contour lines, so if you look closely, you can figure it out from the contours even if you're unfamiliar with the neighborhood.

On the other hand, if you're generally familiar with the neighborhood, the shading might be helpful by itself because you might have an intuition about when you're going to be going uphill and when you're going to be going downhill.

I agree that replicating the cool visualization method from the linked article might be tricky in San Francisco for the exact reasons you mention.
Not sure how this relates to my comment..
Are you sure it isn't because key Google and Amazon employees have threatened to quit their jobs if either of these companies helps their own government? I mean, if I were USG, I would be running away from Google.
A new report claims that the next iPad Pros might shrink, lose headphone jacks
I speculated that if we make substantial progress in the field of explainability research, we will be able to learn something new about human consciousness.
AMD Posts Highest Net Income in Seven Years, Fights Off Crypto Decline
The security implications and what you do and don’t get out of it from a security perspective are discussed. Like you can drop a launchdaemon on it and that’s not evaluated as part of the system’s integrity. Only the boot process (for now).
Boyan Josic Joins the Securix.io Advisory Board
I am going to give you a down vote because the conspiracy theory is completely at odds with the absurd bureaucratic complexity that is the federal contract bid process. Congress, since we are ultimately talking about money, has far more say in this than does the president regardless of the agency.

> There’s not a single tech company more aligned with the US government than Oracle.

I am going to have completely disagree with that too. If you have ever worked IT for the federal government, especially the military, the most absolutely clear answer there is Microsoft.

Also, as somebody else pointed out, thousands of Google employees recently wrote a protest letter to their CEO threatening a massive boycott over an existing tiny DOD contract if Google didn't pull the plug. That being said why would I consider them for another DOD contract that is thousands of times larger?
Here’s an unpopular opinion: We’re lucky Mark Zuckerberg is in charge
Explaining YouTube’s New Aspect Ratio Changes
> I find it very strange that … Millennials and Gen-Z have more faith in business leaders than in politicians. Maybe if they collectively went out to vote instead of staying at home … they could actually make a difference instead of continuously complaining

The strangeness is because your model doesn’t fit reality, not because reality is wrong.

In the USA, I suspect that negative campaigning is a big part of the problem — if a person hears about “pizzagste”, “russiagate”, “her emails”, “his sexual misconduct”, “half the world will go to war with you if she wins”, “he’ll cause a nuclear apocalypse if he wins”, and believes half of it, would you expect them to care which disaster gets in?

Myself, I’m not in the USA. I’m from the UK, which has very different political rules. But, even here I feel disenfranchised by the political system — to the extent that I will move out as soon as family obligations allow, because that’s more likely to get me a result I’m satisfied with than any plausible amount of political activity.
any place you have to parameterize signatures or behaviors or types, calling it something meaningful and define it in a platform/compiler/os specific header.

sure, in the end its the the same thing, but i find it to be easier to manage over time. and when you need to port to a new platform/compiler/os, you have a list of the important dependencies at hand...maybe you have to define a new one
It's been rewritten completely and hit 1.0 beta a week ago :)
Another Three Documentaries for Engineers
https://youtu.be/IAiB_T2kqbc

This album celebrates Gaudi, and is a real treat both in the music and top notch production.

Turn this up real loud. Then enjoy the feel of dynamic tange tastefully exploited. Your ears will tickle with happiness.
With a good IDE that suggests these as you type, it shouldn't matter. I recommend VS Code, it does this out of the box. I like how it even suggests the right thing if I get the letters a little mixed up, like typing "speclh" suggests spellCheck={...} for me. It's great!
I get the impression you live or spend most of your time in vibrant, perhaps wealthy neighborhoods like Williamsburg or just Manhattan. Your green cab story doesn't pan out in most of North Brooklyn outside of Williamsburg, they are invisible because the market dictates that it's too poor for them to bother to look for rides. Then there are the wealthier areas like Cobble Hill and Park Slope and so on - I wouldn't expect to see green cabs in Flatbush or something.
Ability to identify genuine laughter transcends culture
In Buddhism there is a notion that the human conscious experience is a largely automatic state of "waking sleep" where the individual navigates life reactively, subject to the karmic law of "cause and effect". (Determinism)

The metaphor of "waking up" is about practicing a present state of mind, such that one recognizes how they are living life with about the same amount of awareness as a dream, with the aim to cultivate the same agency of a lucid dream in waking life. (Free Will)

A Gnostic reading of the New Testament reveals a similar allegorical prescription to awakening in Jesus' teachings, whereby adherents strive to attain "Christ Consciousness" and achieve liberation.

Many contemplative traditions hold that human suffering is caused by our baseline instinctual unconscious tendencies (a feedback loop from hell), and that it takes sustained practice to become present enough to "take the car off autopilot" permanently.

A cursory survey of the brutishness of human history is a testament to how rare this mental state is, and explains the high regard by those who attempt to emulate the characters (historical or fictional) claimed to have mastered it.
Thanks for the link!
The part I found the most value in is where you discuss customizing one's pitch to really emphasize what the company probably needs.
That feels like banning the good because it's not perfect.

Are you comfortable with telling a heroin user using dirty needles that "We can't allow you access to HIV retardants because we can't guarantee your safety"?

Concern for the public is valid, but it's a slippery slope that freedom often gets pushed down.
"What happens is not what happens. What happens is the story that we tell ourselves about what happens."

A contrived example:

Adult is home with parents. One of the parents asks her to clean up her dishes. She reacts quickly with a knee-jerk "I was going to do it! Ugh!".

What happened was that the parents wanted to clean up the table.

However, since the adult has this shifting narrative in her head about 'my parents don't treat me with respect', she immediately interpreted the simple request as proof or evidence that 'they are not treating me with respect' and emotionally reacted. Kind of like a vicious circle.

It's kind of like when we have a bad day, we can interpret it as everything is conspiring against us. The thing is that we are interpreting what happens to us all the time. It doesn't have to be a single origin story/root cause like the author of the book in the article states.

The way to look forward is to actually start taking proactive actions towards the story that you want. Since we don't exist without other people, you cannot simply spit affirmations into a mirror or make a vision board. You must put it out there with the people who are entangled in your reality. For the adult in this example, it would be something like being honest with her parents (something like non-violent communication) and telling them how she feels they are treating her without respect and working with them to "co-create" a new reality.

Note: This is not my thought. It comes from a personal development organization that starts with 'L' and ends with the letter before 'l'. The extent of my involvement was going to a weekend seminar on invitation from a friend.