skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can and should be protectionist when the situation calls for it. eg: national security. You shouldn't be protectionist because a politician's brother owns a steel mill.
I run a similar service https://lettergram.net

I like this layout - in terms of it being straight forward and easy to scroll.

I am curious why some of the stories are trending (for instance (5 sources) at the bottom:

> 1,000 wild horses to be rounded up in Northern California (seattlepi.com)

It appears this is just following / aggregating standard news outlets (I'm guessing ~50 or so). Then clustering the stories based on some sort of fuzzy matching.

Pretty cool IMO, but care to elaborate on the machine learning portion?
AV1 is enabled for video in the next release of Chrome, and the current release of Firefox has it behind a flag IIRC. The spec has been finalized since early this year, and the results are stunning: You can produce recognizable, sometimes perfectly passable, images at around one tenth of a bit per pixel.

Try the "clovisfest" test image here[0], with the most recent AV1 snapshot on the right, and MOZJPEG (the most advanced JPEG encoder on the market, AFAIK) on the left, with both set to the "Tiny" target bitrate (0.1bpp). Smooth, continuous grades look hideous on JPEG up to pretty high bitrates, and JPEG never quite reproduces hard edges or sharp specks properly; AV1 excels at both of these.

[0]: Image formats comparison <https://wyohknott.github.io/image-formats-comparison/#clovis...
Interesting fact, the sine is a mistranslation of the original Arabic abbreviation jb, which itself is a transliteration of the Sanskrit word for half the chord, jya-ardha. Basically the original translator they thought that the word was jaib ("bosom"), which was then translated to sinus which means much the same word.

So our most famous and important trig term is basically an error.
Yes, my experience is probably out of date.
... as mentioned in the title of this submission.
I get what the sentiment was, but it could be applied to literally anything.

I don't think it matters for many items, such as clothing and shoes, because they are cheap to make and readily available from several countries. So even if China randomly decided that they wouldn't ship any clothes to the US anymore (which would hurt them just as much, so is unlikely), you can just as easily obtain them from Bangladesh or Vietnam, or indeed make them yourself.
Your first comment is a bit misleading; Brave blocks third-party ads and trackers by default. You don't have to give BAT to anybody for this functionality—it's our baseline.

We block third-party ads and trackers because they have been leverage to spread malware, inject crypto-mining scripts into pages, push malicious extension onto unsuspecting users, and more. Not to mention, the entire model of unannounced tracking is in stark contrast to GDPR and relevant legislation.

The user ought to be sovereign over their machine, their experience, and their data. That is what Brave believes.

We understand that blocking ads and trackers will result in some impact to many websites. It is for this reason we created the User Growth Pool during our token sale, setting aside 300M Basic Attention Tokens.

For several months we have been channeling the UGP funds into the wallets of content creators. We do this via regular, monthly grants to users (which wind up going to their top sites), referral links which pay $5 in BAT for every user you bring to the Brave platform, contests (such as our 100K BAT giveaway), and more.

We understand that has helpful as the UGP is, it won't be there forever. As such, the web needs to be sustained by some other means. This is why we're developing Brave Ads.

Brave Ads is a completely-opt-in digital advertising model which doesn't leak private data, doesn't reward fraudsters and scammers, and doesn't put Brave in any position to abuse your trust as a user.

With Brave Ads, consenting users will benefit from local (on your device) machine-learning, which uses it's knowledge of the user to select the best ads to display. The ML operates off of local data, meaning nothing is sent out to third parties, and Brave isn't collecting personal information about you.

If the user consents to seeing ads, they will also collect up to 70% of the ad revenue. Users will finally get paid for their attention; they've had their attention stolen from them for far too long.

As I stated earlier though, all of this is optional. If you choose not to participate in Brave Ads, you still get a solid ad-and-tracker blocker in Brave. And you still get the option to directly support your favorite content creators out of your own pocket.
I don't want to die. When I hear statements like yours, what it sounds like to me is that you want me to die. I find that morally reprehensible. No one should have to die until they want to; that's the ultimate justice. If you don't want to live after 100, or 75, or 35, call it what it is. There is no moral high ground in telling other people to commit suicide.
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How would that work in practice? Granted, the US might be able to manufacture critical components itself. What abou Italy? Honduras? Liechtenstein? Nigeria? Should they all produce their own hardware for national security concerns? And why stop there? Wouldn’t your suggestion in essence lead to countries fully self-supplying everything from food to cars to communication equipment to power stations and so on and so on. And not just manufacture every single component, but also source every base materials, crops, fertilizer and more. Arguably food safety or energy supply safety might even be more critical than semiconductor safety. Even when you reach at level of self-supply capability, you still need a chain of trust to ensure that you’re not compromised by your own government and intelligence agencies.

IMHO, such an concept would lead to a perfect protectionist regime while not giving any real enhanced security at all.
iOS 12.1 Beta 2: Fixes ChargerGate, Introduces 70 New Emojis
"Capitalism is dead" t-shirts are on sale now
Mac version coming? I use AdGuard now, on Mac. But I'd like this on Mac as well. Safari I won't touch.
> E.g., can't browsers prevent tracking cookies (without breaking other cookie uses, like sessions)?

No, because tracking cookies don't necessarily advertise themselves as such. Browser extensions that block tracking cookies are blocking cookies that have been identified by humans to be tracking cookies. It's more reactive than proactive.
I had one too and as I recall, the highest OS one could run on it was WM 6.5, which was a completely different beast than W7+. I remember that the best improvement I made to this HD2 was install an early version of Android on it a few years later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_HD2
Excel is programming a computer. So was Hypercard. Any UX that reduces user "savvy" rather than enhacing it can hardly be said to be improved. A large part of the developer community has a very static idea of what a computer can be or what programming can be. What does it mean to author in the medium and why have we stopped trying to figure it out?
I have one like that, a Miele with a temperature probe that commumicates with the oven. It does a lot of other things automatically too, holds temperature very accurately, great oven. They exist.
It does not, that's why a blockchain on it's own does not solve the problem but in conjunction with other technologies it could. E.g. food - you have to make sure your sensors (Temperature etc) are tamper proof, but you also have to find a way to make it hard to seperate the sensor from the goods. Only then it would make sense to use it as an oracle. Also if you make it hard enough to cheat the sensor at some point it's just easier to cool the goods and transport them accordingly.
GPUs have enormously more computational capacity than CPUs, and are very weird. They can be programmed in C or C++, but it is not not a natural fit. Near-future chips will have FPGAs on board. Programming FPGAs is much stranger. You can shoehorn them into doing familiar things, but it's wasteful.
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> I know Brave has their own arguably evil agenda…

Why do you think this? What have we done to give you this impression? Our primary focus is to protect the user's rights online, and to create a sustainable experience for content creators.
What types of problems does one use constraint programming for? Large optimization problems require something like CPLEX usually.
I would say he misses a big point on the hard bugs though. Saying something is proprietary does not mean it makes enough money to hire such high caliber professionals, on the contrary.

I have worked with a lot of extremely competent developers on open source, but my experience with proprietary software was quite the opposite: professionals are untrained (to the point where they can't even use versioning properly) and would be incapable of finding such bugs anyway.

Now assuming that a proprietary cryptocurrency has the resources to hire a respectable audit firm... it is more far fetched than assuming that such star developers will just work on an open source one for fun.
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My take was that he was fed by a Dutch source. Retribution for MH17.

But does it matter? The point of the story is humor, i.e. the collective stupidity of the entire unit! Appearantly none of these cyber-geniuses realized that if their personal car was registered to the base, then maybe everyone else’s was too, and that might not be a good idea.

I’m not sure how the fact that this wasn’t some random youtube “citizen journalism” makes it any less funny.
Thank you for the additional context.
Darpa launches AI chemistry program to develop new molecules for military use
He died in 1986. It's an earlier talk.
Firefox and Firefox Focus are awesome on mobile. Can even block web fonts. I don’t see the point in supporting brave.
Agree, whinging about Unicode just seems like atavism for the days when computer users who did no speak English were ignored.
> At one point, one of the company's customers did an investigation to see how much it would cost to replace the software, and it was close to 9 figures, and so they decided it was more cost effective just to continue paying the multi-million dollar yearly licenses.

A bank I've worked at had a project to replace lots of bank's legacy (Mainframes and Cobol) with Java on Linux. The project's budget was over 1 billion dollars and it was estimated to take 5 years.
It was in the news more several years ago. They shakedown companies using Linux claiming they own various patents covering Linux technology. Microsoft made an example of TomTom who refused a licensing deal and was sued and lost over an obscure FAT filesystem patent.
A good language is not necessarily one that is easy to learn. The difficulty may be due, for example, to a fine-grained vocabulary, the power to concisely express nuances, or the rich cultural background. Classical Greek, for example, is not the easiest language to learn from scratch, but it is no doubt one of the most subtle and expressive languages known to the mankind.
Just downloaded this on High Sierra (10.13.6) and having no problems so far. Did you see their downloads page [1]?

[1]: https://brave.com/download/
Final assembly of computers are a reasonable place. Destructively test critical parts to validate then, randomize usage to prevent targeted attacks.

It's not even terribly hard. AFAIK you can buy all the tooling quite easily, and it's a well understood problem.
If you notice on the page, there are references to remarks made by actual people. The NER feature uses machine learning. Also the continuous clustering employs K-means and not just fuzzy matching as you stated. It is hard to imagine getting anywhere close to the level of accuracy with just fuzzy matching.
Have pulled open every microwave I've owned and cut the speaker. Dozens of buttons, not a single mute switch.

Microwaves are loud enough as it is, you can hear them running from the next room. Strangely enough never seen a toaster with an buzzer though.
The GP's example shows it affecting bytes, not nibbles.
I think given what the advertising industry has been for years, it’s arguable that attempts to sustain them are fairly evil. Being able to opt-in to it is still far less laudable than promoting ad-blocking (but of course that doesn’t allow for you to go ICO and rake it in). It’s not as bad as opt-out, but it’s still wretched, and no amount of “for the content creators” hand-wringing or tokenizing changes that. I do see how blending an ICO with this has the potential to make the people behind Brave richer regardless of long-term success or adherence to current ethics.
I find it fascinating that many Asian cultures do not distinguish between Blue and Green, including their traffic signals [0]. And color symbology varies between cultures [1].

There are also interesting parallels between the color wheel and the musical circle of fifths. Or as Boards of Canada would have it, Music Is Math [2].

[0] https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/02/25/language/the-ja...

[1] https://jenndavid.com/colors-that-influence-food-sales-infog...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7bKe_Zgk4o
This advice is very dangerous, both shift JIS and utf-16 (some of the most common non UTF-8 encodings) can both have things that are are 0-127 ASCII codepoints and things that look like 0-127 ASCII but are in the second part of a multi-byte sequence, and do not represent ASCII equivalent characters at all.
Can someone explain why a semiconductor production facility would be “punishingly” expensive to operate in the US?

Maybe the cost of electricity, but it seems like the labor cost wouldn’t make a huge difference since most of the production work (I presume) is automated.
Do you have a list of publisher partners anywhere?
Don’t local builds get the expiry date of the development certificate?
Reloading is a contemplative and exacting pursuit. And single missed powder measure could cause a bullet to lodge in the barrel and the round following could cause an injurious catastrophic failure. My father reloaded on a single stage press (one operation on one round at a time) due to economics. As a boy I was always given the "privilege" of shagging brass (no cracks from the Brits please) at the range. Each usable casing was worth a few cents and it added up.

Today, reloading is the stock and trade of top shooters in competitions such as the Precision Rifle Series and the King of Two Miles, where shooters attempt targets at ultra long range. Each case is sized trimmed and annealed by hand and measured with micrometers. Powder is measured down to the individual particle using scales costing over 1,000 dollars. Primer pockets are treated as well. Consistency wins these matches and these hand loads are more consistent than even match grade factory ammo.

Shooters use doppler chronograph to create their own data on how these loads perform in their rifles.

Last comment. This article puts a lot of emphasis on cast bullets. Lead only bullets aren't used nearly as much as the used to be. Pistols, as opposed to revolvers can be finicky with lead and the vast majority of rifle rounds are jacketed.
So... "synergy"?
Because? We know why we think EA is a bad company for the industry. Why should we think otherwise? You're just saying, "I don't like what people are saying." Offer some evidence or make an argument and maybe you'll change a mind or two.
And it was Turing that raised the price of Daraprim, which earned Shkreli the attention and reputation still being echoed in this thread.
The beta builds support all chrome extensions.
China does still have communist political organs, and a history of communist thought.

So while it may trend autocratic, it seems inaccurate to simply call it an autocracy.

Just because communist power struggles happen out of sight doesn't mean they don't happen.
Unfortunately, it turns out that if cars are significantly restricted or banned as you suggest, what actually happens is that drivers simply go to other places. Businesses in places where it's difficult to get to work find it harder to recruit staff. Shops and commercial premises that are difficult for customers to reach lose revenue. Communities that are hostile towards visitors become less popular.

I do agree with you that it would require a radical change in the funding model for public transport to successfully replace cars with a much larger-scale version of existing public transport infrastructure, but as I noted before, that would probably be prohibitively difficult politically in most places today. I think there are much more realistic alternatives, as discussed in some of my other comments here, that we could work towards over perhaps a 10-20 year time frame instead of more like 50-100.
> Apprente makes interactive machines powered by a proprietary, neuroscience-based AI technology.

They say mobile ordering is bad, so the solution is AI ordering, and a touch screen.
Having your key components produced somewhere where you have a measure of oversight and inspection abilities isn't the worst idea if you're concerned about this kind of attack.

I would think countries would take a cost and risk-based approach. Countries that have the means, and who face major risks from a compromised supply chain compared to other standing risks, might want to think about moving things in-house.

Honduras and Nigeria might have other, more pressing concerns. Liechtenstein in particular is a financial center with an extensive manufacturing base and attendant expertise, so it might be worth considering for them.
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That's easy to check—simply click on the domain name next to the title: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=dailymail.co.uk

Some good articles show up occasionally: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=story....

On HN we care about article quality more than site quality. There are many low-quality sites that occasionally cough up a good story. (Not saying this submission was one of those.)
> Maintaining our mass transit is (stupidly) a state responsibility, to be fair.

I guess that this is circumstantial. That is USA's political system that is not working.

Because the headline is about a local government taking responsible actions to improve peoples lives while empowering public transportation as an efficient way of transport.

How different is "Metropolitan Transportation Authority" to "Consorcio Regional de Transportes de Madrid" [0]?

[0] https://www.crtm.es/conocenos.aspx?lang=en
Opting-in by default is refreshing to see, and offering to share some portion of the spoils more equitably is too. Still, I fundamentally dislike advertising and find that content supported by it is often grossly inferior to other content. I’m not convinced that the middle path here is the right one, rather than evangelizing ad-blocking and forcing the internet to adopt alternative revenue streams. Slapping an ICO on the problem is certainly a good way to get people invested in defending Brave, but I’m not convinced that it has any lasting value.

Cutting advertisers off at the knees does, and as a stance it isn’t subject to being degraded through its relationship to advertisers and their money.
Hi Kyle, Peter Sherman here. (I posted this HN article). You and I had an email dialogue around 2012, and of course I remember you from your Delphi days (BDE Alternatives Guide, etc.) and the old Joel On Software forum. Anyway, the other day I was reading about CoQ and it's use for formal verification, which turns out to solve problems in various different diverse domains, and I said to myself, "Hey, this sounds a whole heck of a lot like Prolog, plus a type system", and so I was attempting to compare and contrast the two systems when I thought back to your great video detailing the customer problem you had and how you used Prolog to solve it. So, that's why the link appears on HN now, that's why the lag time -- to answer your other question. Hey, if you've got a spare minute or two, you should shoot me an email, peter.d.sherman AT gmail DOT com. I might have an interesting business proposition for you...
Thanks! I really like the idea of drawing curves, will do it!
Ooo... Interesting! Are these significantly different from Java's checked exceptions (the reader and writer ones look interesting, but unfortunately are not yet implemented)?
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I know from the car industrie, from each car, they know from each part the whole production history. A factory, for example, is certified to produce part "A". The factory has two machines (machine "B" and "C") who could produce part "A". The factory has to produce samples with machine "B". The samples have to pass several test and get approved by all the companys, who produce bigger and bigger parts with part "A" until you get the full car. So maybe a handfull of companys have to say ok to part "A". This can take like a half year or more.

So now is machine "B" certified to produce "A" but not machine "C".

This takes all pretty long and I don't think it's done this way in the electronics world, because there are almost no callbacks. So why bother so much with the supply chain.

And not to forget, the test is just if the part does pass the tolerances in the factory. It does not test, if a guy in the factory does cheat.

Even if the factory checked "everyting" and all the details. Then comes somebody like the NSA and they just grab the package on the transport from the factory to the customer (Cisco).
Also not using non-ASCII typography, emoji, etc. I’m glad that emoji have become popular in the US since that’s dramatically decreased the time before a text processing system gets non-ASCII input from English-native users. Doubly useful, they’re outside the BMP and flush out partial Unicode support, too, like old MySQL installs using utf8mb3.
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In that Zombie scenario I'd rather work for the ground crew doing the twice-daily refueling....
Whether you’ve enjoyed working at some place is not relevant. The point is that if you base a decision on aspects of a job you can’t enforce, then what you enjoy about it can change on the whim of some other people, no matter what they verbally promise or reassure you about. It is much harder to do the same thing with stated compensation or certain other benefits.

I’ve had jobs I really enjoyed, then a manager quit unexpectedly and the replacement made the job horrible. I’ve enjoyed perks like working from home, then the CTO changed and disallowed all remote work. I’ve enjoyed a quiet and private office, then HR decided to rebrand us as a hip cargo-cult startup and suddenly I had to do my job embedded in a never ending stream of audio disruptions that headphones can’t mitigate.

If you’ve only had generally pleasant job experiences, then from everyone else’s point of view, your approach is so clouded by insane selection bias due to the absurd rarity of that experience that effectively your perspective has to be ignored for practical decision making.

I also strongly dispute the idea that any part of what I wrote is negativity, not at all. It’s not cynical, not hyperbolic, not an over-generalization. It is a perfectly neutral perspective that accounts for the necessary degree of caution and skepticism you have to have when dealing with an entity (a corporation) that is essentially a legalized sociopath.
I agree completely. Knobs are very intuitive and self-indicating. The very first microwaves used that UI:

https://www.radarange.com/
That will be usefull. Nice work.
There's a billboard when you get off the 101 at Octavia for Brex. It says something like "Just Brex-it. The card, not the political fiasco." Maybe they've tested it and I'm in the minority, but I thought it was pretty odd.