skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's way more complicated than this sort of snark makes it out to be.

Apple allows content blocking in Mobile Safari. There are some limits to the APIs they've provided, and one can quibble about how complete they are, but Apple has literally made an ad-blocking API.

AdGuard Pro's "local VPN" trick was basically a way to be able to block not only ads in Safari, but ads everywhere, including applications that are connecting to ad networks. And I'm pretty sure this is what Apple is ultimately trying to stop here.

You can argue that ads are just absolute evil everywhere and that the distinction between in-app ads and web ads is arbitrary. And, I guess, maybe? Maybe we should have the absolute right, as the device owner, to say to app developers, "Hey, if you were stupid enough to make this app free and try to get money from it by showing me ads, tough cookies for you."

But, as the device owner, you also have the absolute right to, well, choose what apps you run, in a way that really isn't true for web sites. I mean, yes, you have the choice of which web sites you visit, but in practice it's way harder to say "if you don't like web sites with horrible, intrusive ads, just don't visit them" than it is to say "if you don't like ad-supported apps, don't download them." And while this is absolutely a subjective perception that may apply only to me and no one else, it would feel just a little bit sleazy to me to use an ad-supported app for free while blocking the ads. If I like the app, I'll pay to make the ads go away if that's an option; if the ads can't be turned off and they're too intrusive, I'll simply stop using the app.
Why does rain smell so good?
Yeah, totally agreed. And the forced comparison to model, view, and controller components doesn't really hold up that well.
"profound", not "profane, surely?
Things People Don't Get About the Homemade Gun Making Story
> Once in a while, a request gets slowed down enough to matter. My colleague Ivan Babrou ran some I/O benchmarks and saw read spikes of up to 1 second. Moreover, some of our SSDs have more performance outliers than others.

If you're running Intel DC 3x10 SSDs, check for a firmware update that improves 'maximum latency' in some cases, the update was released some years ago, but people might not have noticed it.
> “You’re not getting anything,” he said. “You understand?
> Nothing. You’re getting nothing.” Did he mean about the
> car, something else, bigger? I didn’t know. His voice
> hurt—sharp, in my chest.

Yep, a wise father imparting a valuable life lesson to his beloved daughter.
My understanding is that most of Rust's standard library translates to the same blocking calls on Linux, so it would be plagued with the same issues as C would be. (And the solution reached in the article would similarly work in Rust.)

There are certainly async I/O libraries for Rust (e.g., Tokio), but those are going to be limited by the primitives the OS gives them. (AFAIK, Tokio's core libraries don't directly do async disk I/O; there is tokio-fs, and it does it by shunting the work to a threadpool.) The fact that disk I/O is so uniquely special on Linux effects any language, as it is an aspect of the kernel itself.

I love Rust, and while there are a ton of compelling reasons to use it, I don't think it's fair to say it would have prevented this from happening, in this particular case.
The idea behind this looks awesome - if I understand correctly, this is to encourage people to program more to interfaces provided by plugins so that implementations can be swapped more easily. This does not require a type system either to use, which lowers the barrier.

The one thing I think should change though is decoupling from requiring Node from the runtime. I think the broader JS ecosystem could benefit from some of the ideas this library seems to promote.
As a teenager I thought I was bad at math and even went to get a film studies/communications bachelors (I've defended this week my masters thesis in computational mathematical physical; this after an undegraduare degree in econ with lots of math of course).

The thing is, I couldn't write the damn matrices well lined up and made mistakes when doing calculations. This was really a (de)formative experience. In college Linear Algebra for econ was 40% gaussian elimination, 40% eigenvalues and 20% linear programming. I mean, I still can't do gausian elimination by hand right.

I started crawling out of it when I started seeing (in self-study) a book on linear algebra that takes the linear transform/vector space-first approach.
Have you driven a fourth-gen Prius (2016+)? Reviewers seem to agree it has a much nicer feel than previous iterations.

(I own a 2018 and am very happy with it, but I've never driven an older one, so I can't personally address any complaints about driving dynamics.)
> That's too much. As a socialist, I would find it clearly exploitative that a non worker is making more than an active worker. That's completely unjustifiable under socialism.

I don't understand where this is coming from. Personally, I am a socialist and I think it's too little.

If I look at it from a capitalist's perspective, I ... also think it's too little.
I used "gloss over" because I wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt. I can see an argument that 99.9% of the users are going to just care about what user information was stolen.

However, the fact that private messages were stolen is... I mean, it is just mind boggling to me. There has to be so much shit in there.
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Except that's not what they said, there's plenty of context in both their statement and this entire thread you're willfully ignoring to make that leap.
Well I believe Google is in the right to fire him. But what I found most embarrassing is most people who I'd imagine to mostly liberal and reasonable behaved like he said something so vile that he must be censored across all news media.
From wikipedia:
>Total global cumulative sales for the first generation Insight were 17,020 units

Thats for '00-'06 sales. idk what the first year sales were but the Pirus was on the scene very soon after the Insight.

The other obvious thing, the Insight looked like a car for weirdos. Something that tesla and later model prius / leaf's have tried to avoid.
Thanks! Those were some interesting reads.
Probably has to look buggy to keep it compact with sufficient headroom. I’m 6’5” and still have 2” headroom in my Leaf, which is awesome considering it is a compact car. I can also put the seat all the way back and fit an adult behind me. Can’t do that in a Prius or Volt due to their sleekness. I have not been in a Tesla, but I’m guessing the 3 has poor headroom compared to the Leaf.
Thank God please bring it back. Some Google is better than no Google at all. Freedom of speech sounds and looks aloft but in reality Google’s absence does far more harm to Chinese customers and citizens than a censored version.
I was pretty impressed that my entirely gasoline-powered BMW 3-series apparently will use the braking energy to recharge the battery and disconnect the alternator, saving some small amount of MPG. So the technology is trickling into gasoline-powered cars as well, to save small amounts of fuel.

I've driven a stick-shift for a while in the past and always wondered if there was a way to capture the engine power when you downshift for engine braking coming up to a red light. Not sure how it would work though.
>> How'd that work out for them?

Just fine. Bailouts.
Was the notification to Reddit users about the incident, sent from noreply@redditnewsletters.com ?
https://quiltdata.com/ ticks a lot of boxes in this space for me.
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No but true hatchbacks like Honda’s tend to be fairly small and the general image they’re going for is young, active people.
(I saw the technical limitation below)

It could be worse. It could have been a slide show.
I have heard this was the same reason behind the vast dominance of Russian programmers in the early days of HFT (cf. Michael Lewis' Flash Boys): CS classrooms in late-80's USSR had maybe one computer between them, so you spent a lot of time getting your programs right on paper before it was your turn to use the machine.
Apple provides an ad blocking framework. It was s big feature 2 years ago.

How is that ‘enforcing the delivery of ads?’

Because you can’t block ads in apps, only the web?

Any DNS based blocker could trivially track much of what you do both browsing and in apps. And that’s the kind of privacy risk Apple tends to try to fix.
Url changed from https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2..., which points to this.

Please don't post urls that redirect; it's important that HN show the real domain.
People overwhelmingly use defaults. The default shouldn't be problematic. Since we already ship an us english version among many others THAT version should have this feature disabled or show the actual punycode in the url bar.

I'm honestly unsure how you can possibly make a browser that allows look alike characters secure against phishing but at least its a different sort of trade off when you are talking about populations of users that might actually encounter non phishing sites using these domains.
That, but also the aim to serve the mass market rather than the 1%, and therefore the need to produce a car that is profitable when sold for 25k rather than 65k.
My favorite thing about the Prius (other than the economy) is the simply MASSIVE space inside -- particularly rear seat legroom and the flat floor, but the trunk is huge as well.

My least favorite thing is the near-deafening road noise, particularly in the back seat. It's got a tin can door closure sound that reminds me of a Renault 5 or something. It's a HUGE step down from most economy cars in those regards.

This was through the 2nd and 3rd gen, at least. I've not been in a 4th gen.
I've always found this especially amusing - there are so many different ways you can interpret this.
Depends on how highly paid. A 401(k) with employer match, subsidized group-rate health insurance, and (in New York) pre-tax transit benefits, is a big increase in effective income.

And again, this only applies to the highly-paid. Now consider the less-highly paid.
I think that criticism is essential. Obviously many folks on the internet lack tact for delivering criticism in a constructive way...but developing resiliency to criticism is a necessary component of life and in particular, startup life.
You don't need to know the carrier, just the number. Talk to a carrier in the country and ask to port "your" number to a new plan. Most salespeople would have no problem ignoring security for a sale.
Maybe so (and maybe most of us are too), but please don't post unsubstantive comments here.
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I drive a 2004 Prius and my friend recently bought a 2000 Insight.

The Insight is pretty much strictly a commuter car: it's laughably tiny, like a roadster without any power. But it's really fun, and gets outrageously good fuel economy despite how crude the hybrid system is relative to Toyota's.

The Prius on the other hand is an everyday vehicle that's spacious inside and small on the outside. Far better suited to be the only car someone owns.
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Out of curiosity, how many of you bought and sold TSLA over the last few hours since the report?
It's funny, so people want to upvote it. There's only one upvote button for an Amazon review.
It’s eady to “convince shareholders” when a negligible part of your revenue comes from China.

So far this is just a rumor....

https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/1/17638480/google-china-sear...
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Statistically speaking, he didn't. What he paid was way lower than the expected vsñue of what he'll get. That's the entire idea of a pyramid pension scheme.
For me Paul Graham is a very rare breed of people that manages the delicated symbiosis between academic Vs entrepreneur - theory Vs real life - gut feeling Vs mathematical analysis.

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All: please refrain from posting yet more comic-book-villain denunciations or superhero exultations. It's not interesting, and it's always the same.

Instead: find something curious and share it. (Hint: something that contains actual information and that hasn't been repeated a ton. On HN we're interested in the diffs.) Alternatively, you can always not post anything.
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I think that hits the nail on the head. Android is the natural extension of Palm and Windows Mobile into the 21st century, a modern take on the classical smartphones. iOS is actually working backwards, starting from a "no you can't" and slowly working into a "okay I guess if you want to" as they add file management and styluses and official external keyboards.
I got the email about an hour ago. My first reaction was embarrassingly hipster.
Book URL as it's at the bottom of that page as a ref:

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They’re more affordable because they cost less to make.
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CLOS (as well as a lot of other things in Common Lisp, like the error system) depends on CLOS being present. This is why writing a competent CLOS compiler that can bootstrap itself is very difficult. But it's so worth it.
And we could stop using the word “toxic” to describe poor people.
I think you're right about the feedback effect. Imagine the tooling needed to make all the parts, and then spreading that tooling cost across either 10x vehicles or 30x vehicles. Lower-volume vehicles are more expensive, all things equal.
> Earth = eggs in one basket. A super volcano like Yellowstone could easily kill 90%+ of our species in the first year after an eruption and most of the other animal (and plant) life. Big rocks have smashed into Earth before and will again. A pandemic could easily spread across the planet in months decimating population and launching us back into the stone age.

And none of those things would affect an antarctic colony.
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It's probably also why people that do not (want to) make that distinction are rather polarized about their device of choice.
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Though it was published a month ago.
The MVP you're looking for are shorter content formats like tweetstorms. Assuming you have enough followers to accurately gauge the response, you could develop an editorial calendar and then track the likes/retweets/replies.
You can just not provide updates to drivers ensuring that people are stuck buying new devices to use a newer OS.

That has nothing to do with being “proprietary”

Apple is releasing OS 12 later this year for the iPhone 5S released in 2012. How many Android phones from 2015 let alone 2012 are still supported by the manufacturer?

To go even further back with proprietary operating systems, my 2009 era Dell laptop is currently running Windows 10.
Why do we bother celebrating any of them? Mortals are mortal, they deserve to be evaluated based on what they do. I'm not sure what purpose, other than propagandistic, is served by looking at them through rose tinted glasses.

In any case, it's not entirely clear that other than the (wonderful) Bill of Rights, the American Revolution was anything other than the elites over here wanting more control. 3/5 compromise, male property owning voters, indirect election of senators, it really sounds like the new aristocracy, with an Enlightenment tinged bent, was taking control. After all, the UK was being run mainly by Parliament, not by the King.

Only popular struggle has made the US more democratic, direct election of senators, freeing the slaves, universal suffrage, but we see even that is being rolled back in the modern era with voter suppression, dark money, and the dark legacy of US foreign policy.
> It was the equivalent of US$1 in reais.

I think it was R$1,99, that was not exactly US$1 (even considering the stronger Real in the period), however it was not exactly equivalent to US$1 either.