skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of people are talking along the lines of "oh AMD is nice but... Nvidia".

No, in 2019 all AMD GPUs this decade support OpenGL through 4.5, support Vulkan, and still really don't have a great OpenCL situation (rocm is out of tree on every distro and only supprts parts of 2.0 still).

For gaming though, theres no reason not to get an AMD GPU. They are at near performance parity with Nvidia relative to their Windows performance, they work with the inbuilt drivers on every distro out of the box, and the only footgun to watch out for is that new hardware generally takes a feature release Mesa cycle to get stable after launch. You even get hardware accelerated h264 encoding and decoding (and vpx on some chips) via vaapi. All on top of the fundamental that they are much more freedom respecting than Nvidia.

Stop giving Nvidia your money to screw you over with. CUDA, their RTX crap, Gsync, Physx, Nvidia "Gameworks", and much more are all anti-competitive monopolist exploitative user-hostile evil meant to screw over competition and customers alike. Nvidia is one of the most reprehensible companies out there among peers like Oracle. AMD isn't a selfless helpless angel of a company, but when their products are competitive, and in many ways better (such as supporting Wayland) stop giving such a hostile business your money.
I'm all for getting out the pitchforks when Google does something anticompetitive, but this seems to me to be very similar to WebKit's content blocking API. How does this differ from that, and are extensions that run JavaScript no longer allowed?
"President Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. attorney general, William Barr, told lawmakers on Tuesday that he would focus attention on the “huge behemoths” in Silicon Valley at the center of a debate over antitrust enforcement. "
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-barr-antitrust/...

We can only hope.
There is also Objectified, about industrial and product design, which I believe is his best. It has a small segment with Rams in it.
If you're tired of the butt jokes or if this planet is just too mainstream for you, might I recommend another mysterious, ringed celestial body in the same general region i.e. a bajillion kilometers from nowhere?

Why not Chariklo! You almost never hear about this baby. I'd love to see a mission fly close enough to properly photograph it in my lifetime, but it's super rare to send something out that far and it would probably have to pass up on much more important science objectives in order to swing by such a tiny backwater dwarf planet. Supposedly the rings have been confirmed by stellar occultation, which is cool because it's super small for such clear rings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10199_Chariklo

I want to stand on the surface and look up for a while. See also Chiron and Haumea.
A headline in search of an article.

Very little context provided, would have probably been served even better with just a graph of the euro zone growth from 1999 quarter by quarter versus other economies like Japan, US, China for context.

Journalism feels lazier and lazier as it constantly searches for more clicks and ad impressions.
Just for example, the following domains are all available:

workingoogle.com
labsgoogle.com
labsatgoogle.com
learngoogle.org
learnatgoogle.com
youatgoogle.com
bygoogle.co
securitywithgoogle.com
mailatgoogle.com
realgoogle.com

etc.
I really want to like Firefox, but it has basic bugs that make it unusable for me. E.g. waking up macOS from sleep, or switching between two active users in macOS stalls Firefox regularly and requires restarting it.
Show HN: Make feature releases low-risk events with feature flags
>> But if Google does this, that’ll be almost worse.

Yes, google never shows you ads.
there are dns rule-based adblockers for ios
Silly me, did I just say "me"? That'll be me and my customers (probably not enough to make much of a dent in the stats but rather more than a few users)
"Alternative Math"
> we will strive to limit the blocking version of webRequest, potentially removing blocking options from most events

Is there any rationale why?
Fortunately, the answer is no, but the author suggests a hybrid approach of adding Rust components to existing systems.

BTW: Kudos for having a full transcript.
Not versed in the technical details but 1Blocker X for iOS Safari has prevented practically 99.9% of all ads I used to see in an unmodded Android Chrome before. I've only seen 2 websites have some form of ads in the last 14 months.
It fast. That most important thing.
Apple is required by law in Japan to make iPhones make a sound when taking a photo, and they complied.

These new voyuer laws in Australia are obviously much more severe, but there is precedent for a company to customise phones by jurisdiction.
Have there been recent issues? I've been using Firefox consistently for years and lately it seems better than usual.
Yes, macOS and companion iOS are the real problem here. Together with the hardware they form an "ecosystem", which is conducive to getting things done, especially for people who need to juggle many responsibilities at once (think entrepreneurs/bootstrappers) and who really do not have time to deal with OS issues.

And please believe me that I did my homework before saying "no viable competitors". I regularly use Linux, Mac OS and Windows. It's not even close. I mean, seriously, Linux doesn't even have a sane concept of a system-wide clipboard. So in the end, hardware itself doesn't matter much, unless you mostly stare at it. If you want to use it to get work done, what matters is the entire package: hardware, OS, application software, companion devices.
* Honest Government Ad | Anti Encryption Law - YouTube || https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW-OMR-iWOE

This law is a bad law.
No sane person should give Google the benefit of the doubt, triply so when it comes to ads and ad-blocking.
I switched to protonmail a few months back, and have been very happy with the service. They focus on privacy and security as a core value. They have a limited free account (limited in terms of storage space and message volume), so not a direct replacement for gmail. I use the paid service for more storage and a custom domain.
Ahh thank you! I knew I was missing something... I'd get the alert message, then the Steam app would seemingly close and re-launch. I wonder why it is architected like that.
It would be fun to see the AI players spamming the ingame chat to communicate with each other in its own language :)
Sure, but the plague of dark patterns and intrusive ads far far outweigh the few legitimately non intrusive ad supported websites. I agree there needs to be some way for sites to make money, but there is just too much stuff out there that should be blocked.
I would probably do the same, if I lived in the US, because that's how the entire country is optimized to operate.

At the same time, I am glad that the EU provides a more conservative alternative and style of living.

I think the US is more about getting rich, and the EU is more about not becoming poor.

And for a money-savvy person the US might provide much more opportunities than the EU can.

Yet, the majority of people are not money-savvy, and the "high risks, high rewards" game inevitably produces more losers than winners.
I build amdvlk periodically to test. They didn't yet release VK_EXT_transform_feedback. radv (AMD Vulkan driver by Mesa project) already has it.

It's an important feature for projects like dxvk.

See http://jason-blog.jlekstrand.net/2018/10/transform-feedback-...
I agree that ads aren't a great solution, but the entire reason Mozilla is doing things like that is to avoid having all their revenue (and thus their existence) dependent on Google. How else do you think they should make money?

It's also worth pointing out that the included ads are targeted locally on your computer, and none of your browsing data gets sent to Mozilla (https://help.getpocket.com/article/1142-firefox-new-tab-reco...).

And it's also really easy to turn them off (preferences > home > "sponsored stories").
> If you want a collection of ideas that resonate with your own experience, you’ll just have to create your own free-association diagram. I highly recommend it: You may discover something you didn’t know you knew.

Tried it out on paper. It wasn't as branched as his. My tree was a straight line for 9 levels, went back up to level 7, and then straight back down to level 16, before backtracking all the way back to level 9. Thinking of one thing would make me think of something else quickly, without backtracking.
So will someone more in the know than myself tell me if using apt-transport-https is a reasonable solution to this problem, or, at least mitigates the problem?

As someone who uses Linux as their personal O.S. and administers some at work, but doesn't think in bash, I'd really like an answer :-)
Netflix Joins MPAA, Leaves the Internet Association
> Firefox is really the only thing preventing a complete web browser monoculture

WebKit?
Same for me. There is no real reason that I use Chrome rather than any other browser. I switched to it like 10 years ago for whatever reason and I had no reason to switch away from it since then.
I use Firefox on mobile, despite all the issues I encounter with it, because its the only browser that allows me to use uBlock origin. I will no doubt switch for that reason to Firefox on Desktop too.
That is one of the reasons to do this.
If they are explicitly making these changes to support ads, that's not a good thing. Google is the Internet's largest advertiser. If that business is driving decisions in Chromium, then the project (and the Internet) is in big trouble.
Brave is a great alternative. I just wish they could somehow integrate the whole chrome extension ecosystem in there.
The only problem with Firefox is the UI when they redesign a great slick Ui like chrome this browser game will change
> No, in 2019 all AMD GPUs this decade support OpenGL through 4.5, support Vulkan, and still really don't have a great OpenCL situation (rocm is out of tree on every distro and only supprts parts of 2.0 still).

To be fair, only Intel has good OpenCL 2.0+ support. NVidia isn't really pushing OpenCL and AMD's ROCm OpenCL driver is still a bit unstable.

AMD's OpenCL 2.0 support has always been poor. The Windows OpenCL 2.0 stuff didn't have a debugger for example, it really wasn't a good development environment at all. Only OpenCL1.2 had a decent debugger, profilers, or analysis tools.

Frankly, it seems like OpenCL2.0 as a whole is a failure. All the code I've personally seen is OpenCL 1.2. Intel is pushing ICC / autovectorization, NVidia is pushing CUDA, and AMD was pushing HSA, and maybe now HCC / HIP / ROCm. No company wants to champion OpenCL 2.0.

Video Games are written in Vulkan Shaders, DirectX shaders, or GLSL. They exist independently of the dedicated compute (CUDA / OpenCL) world.

CUDA, OpenMP 4.5 device offload, and ROC / HIP / HCC are the compute solutions that seem to have the best chances in the future... since OpenCL 2.0 is just kinda blah. AMD's ROCm stack still needs more development, but it does seem to be improving steadily.

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I know everyone wants to just hold hands, sing Kumbaya and load SYCL -> OpenCL -> SPIR-V neutral code on everyone's GPUs, but that's just not how the world works right now. And I have my doubts that it will ever be a valid path forward.

The hidden message is that CUDA -> CLang -> NVidia is a partially shared stack with HCC -> CLang -> AMD. So LLVM seems to be the common denominator.
A quick introduction to BrainJS
Security of googles profits.
They haven't considered the negative repercussions, like any oppressive government asking for the same tool and using to quell any dissidence. Fuck those people, amiright!? /s
The problem is with the limit on the number of filters. On desktop Firefox I have ~120,000 network filters active on uBlock. Safari on iOS limits the number of filters an adblocker can have active to 50,000 and Google are proposing limiting it to 30,000 on Chrome.
I know. Apple, too. Can't get more closed and locked-in (outside of Oracle).
If it hasn't occurred to you and are straining your eyes to read them, you can just select the text to see it in white over blue background. That's what I do. Simple triple-click to select by paragraph.
"The law says the Australian authorities cannot ask a company to build universal decryption capabilities or introduce systemwide weaknesses."

I've seen this proposed as an enormous loophole, since every backdoor is a "systemwide weakness", and the lawmakers just don't understand that fact.
Are you talking about print publications?

As far as I know Consumer Reports is the only one that does this still. Consumer Reports is a nonprofit, and they're run like a media company. Their staff research and write the content, pretty well!

I don't think this would work for user-generated content -- who would pay to be able to write an anonymous review?

I do think user-generated content is necessary for job reviews; you can't buy the experience of being an employee off the shelf and subject it to objective tests, like with technology products.
Yup - there are several studies [1][2] that have looked into this, and regular weighing (e.g. daily) looks like it has a small but significant effect that helps with weight loss.

[1] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa061883

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3788086/
Cancerous Growth
Why would Microsoft be driving this change? Google is the company with the huge advertising business.
Then Chromium's Manifest v3 is for you. Most of the other people commenting here want something more powerful.
I've been a double user of Chrome and Firefox for the last several months. Firefox irks me in some ways still but I've gradually grown accustomed to it. It's also much more customizable.

Indeed, if Chrome breaks uBlock Origin and uMatrix, I am just ditching it and will only use it for testing.
The current title ("Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin") is more reflective of linked comment.

The essential quote from the linked comment is this: "If this ...[change to chromium is implemented]... [it] essentially means that two content blockers I have maintained for years, uBlock Origin ("uBO") and uMatrix, can no longer exist."

"can no longer exist" is much closer to "disable" than "break".
Waiting for the cops to have these .. launch from car and record and stream for tactical view of incidents. Multiple units could work together using mesh net or net from router in vehicle.
That's not the correct quip (Embrace, Extend, Extinguish); and even if it were, it doesn't make any more sense in this context than your version does.

Even in the most skeptical reading of the situation, Google never "embraced" adblockers, they allowed them. You'll note there's no extensions on Chrome for Android for example.
Yes. That's the reason the formal methodists started building verified or checkable tools with the checkers being tiny. Doing an solver might involve making it produce a log of each step it made with a simpler system checking them. The checking is also easy to parallelize with linear scaling. My current recommendation is checkable solvers done in a parallel language like Chapel with tiny, verified checkers. Run it logless first to see if it even passes at all. Once passes, run it in logging mode to get evidence to feed to checker. Use multiple, sequential processes to check that as concurrency in checker reduces confidence.
That was one of the first phrases I learnt in Spanish: Mi aerodeslizador esta lleno de anguilas

p.s. Is there any truth to the story that many decades ago, an early machine translator, going from English to Chinese and back again, rendered "Out of sight, out of mind" as "Invisible idiot"?
Are you using GMail, or have you found another email host too?
It's very slightly annoying to me that people stopped properly abbreviating "mathematics" as "math's".
Normally, you just step off the road when a car comes. I suppose this doesn't work for high heels, but those can't handle storm drains either. You can even walk off the road.

Sidewalks, signals, and crosswalks all give the illusion of safety. Either the cars are behaving well and you can just step aside, or they are misbehaving and you'll need a concrete barrier to stop them. The signals and crosswalks mean that cars are revving their engines near me, making the air I breathe worse, so I'd rather do without.
Just wanted to thank you. I'm playing through my favorite AAA windows-only game (Dark Souls 3) right now on a pretty middling machine, and it's running great all thanks to Proton.
Drones Flying Near Newark Liberty Airport Temporarily Halt Flights
Which one? If you gain control of a server, you'd still have to overcome signing... and you only control that single server, not all replicas (for a bug like in TFA).

Could you describe a way to have double the attack surface that would effect the majority of peer servers?
Firefox on Windows is no slower as far as I can tell, and renders fonts better.

Firefox on Mac is noticeably slower.
Ah I see, I live in an area where man made snow does is not a thing I didn’t consider that stuff, cheers.
No, it is so they can load stuff early enough in the data stream so that their ads load before the ad blocker can do its job.
AFAIK, most of AWS is built on top of the JVM, including massive services like S3 or DynamoDB.

Seems to be working well enough for them.
I'm sympathetic to this argument, but browsing on my mobile device (where I don't have a good ad blocker) is regularly interrupted by redirects to malicious sites ("you're a winner!") that are clearly injected by ads.

I'll happily whitelist any ads from a network that bans scripting in the ads they accept.
The repackaging and selling of debt isn't an issue in and of itself. During the housing crisis didn't start because the debt was being resold, that's actually a positive thing. It allows firms looking to invest to buy large blocks of an asset with a return from interest and a rating for risk.

The problem with the housing crisis was that the ratings agencies were committing fraud and so where the banks.

The ratings agencies were simply labeling too much risky debt as non risky.

While, the banks were committing their own fraud by taking less than triple AAA debt, packaging it together, and then saying that if you buy pools of B debts, because they are separate pools you are de-risking, so different B-rated debt pools should be rated as AAA because they are "de-risked".

So in this case as long as the ratings aren't fraudulent, the risk is properly stated and understood, then repackaging and selling is fine.

The second piece, which was really where the problem became "too big to fail" was that each one of these debt packages were doing resold through insurances 10 to 100x, so the total outstanding liability was not the original debt, but something like 100x the actual debt.

Again, if that isn't the case here, then any debt holders will just have to deal with whatever defaults occur, but if hey are PE and hedge fund firms that own half of that debt, this won't be felt across the broader economy.
After watching the video, I feel like there should be software that gets regular updates of planetary surfaces and highlights drastic changes.

Probably exists somewhere, but would be neat to see historical changes
If they go through with this, they would lose a fair portion of their users, even non-fossy ones. I've seen memes on popular reddit subreddits like /r/me_irl and /r/teenagers about adblockers (e.g. "you can't stop me" "I know, but he can") and I would hope that this would maybe be a breaking point for those people - they'd google "adblock not working chrome", find an article that prescribes switching browsers (probably or hopefully firefox or some non-chromium browser), and chrome would lose around 5-10% of its share. Hopefully it will at least wake people up to the monopoly google has by exclusively controlling the most popular browser.
Their captcha is deliberately vindictive against users who don't have google accounts, use firefox and use uBO. For instance, the tile "fade in" lasting several seconds that plays absolutely no role in making the captcha difficult for ML to solve, existing only to punish real humans who don't comply with Google's surveillance system.

So in light of that, I see no reason to not assume malice in this case too.
It’s a pity they’ve shut down, though hopefully it can live on somehow as open source.

There’s a lot of activity in the Sketch/Figma/whatever to React space at the moment, including Hadron [0], Alva [1] and Lona [2].

There’s a real gap in the workflow between design - basically a drawing - and working code. Handoff tools like Zeplin help, but it seems redundant to build everything twice, first in a design and prototyping tool, then again in working code.

However I’m not sure where these tools fit in, as a team that uses React in production would have the skills - and would probably prefer - to dive in with code, rather than use the output of a code generator.

It’s meant to make things easier, but the tech is so complicated it’s way out of reach of those who might actually benefit from it.

[0] https://hadron.app

[1] https://meetalva.io

[2] https://github.com/airbnb/Lona
And what about if you are an Australian? What defenses do you have if you're stuck here?

There are plenty of businesses and invividuals in Australia that this law adversely affects. What are they suppose to do?
Nvidia Optimus is a horror story on laptops if you are using Linux.
Most places in the US are just very spread out. It's too much area and too low density for trains and buses to cover. Simple as that.

When I lived in New York I could walk to the ferry and then walk to my designated skyscraper a short distance away. But in southern California or Fort Worth, the only place with significant density is downtown. The houses and malls are spread over large distances. Sure there are sidewalks and it is possible to walk to the closest mall or Walmart, but that may easily take 20 or 30 minutes, that is the only place you can walk to and you generally feel like you are taking your life in your hands crossing traffic.

You can theoretically live in a downtown area but for most places in the US it's too expensive for the average person to buy a home or even for most people to rent. And again there is a massive area around the downtown that you would not be able to go to without a car.

It just comes down to this: there is just so much land that people wanted to use all of it. So it is designed to sprawl out. Then people get used to having single family houses with big yards and the skyscrapers are far away and everyone needs a car.
It sounds like it was simply observed by multiple separate casual observations. I doubt anyone would “go out of their way to observe one during a lunar eclipse”
Possible, but I highly doubt the differences are significant enough to make up the deficit. The other side has one or two more workers, which is just an insurmountable material advantage. If you back off to recharge your shields, I return to mining and get the resources for another worker or two (plus, my guys can recharge, regen, or repair too).
Fantastic !

At this point, there is very little reason for federal, state and local government to be saddled with millions in license costs
The only thing that surprises me about this announcement is that it took them that long.

Oh well, they'll just give me a reason to accelerate my full migration to Safari and Firefox and to only touch Chrome when testing a website.
I would defer to someone more knowledgeable, but here's my take:

1. Google is proposing to limit the API uBlock Origin uses, and replace it with a less capable one.

2. Google also plans to put artificial limits on the new API (30,000 rules or something), which will make it even more difficult to make an effective ad blocker. That's not even enough to implement current blocklists.

3. The new API is inflexible, so it will be difficult to impossible to create innovative ad blockers in the future.