skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Economist has historically been a big supporter of the EU and globalization. Something has shifted in their perspective. They were also pretty downbeat about the EU's prospects while discussing the Aachen Treaty between France and Germany that was signed yesterday.
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/01/17/france-and-germ...
It has full fog of war and has to use the camera like any human does. As of November at Blizzcon, apparently it wasn't doing enough exploring: http://starcraft.blizzplanet.com/blog/comments/blizzcon-2018... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzUA8n_fczU&t=1360

More detailed discussions at https://www.reddit.com/r/reinforcementlearning/comments/aioc... & https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/aip7vu/d_d...
Ha, gravity exists with or without the need for math.
There is a ProfStef object that you can send a message to (can't remember the message, maybe "go") which runs through a decent tutorial. After that I'd download one of the books and start going through that. I'm only a novice (have read maybe 1/2 of a book and played around in the IDE a bit). Pharo is really cool, but my programming needs are scientific in nature where I need something closer to Julia where there is a lot of builtin support for numerical work. Someone did write a numerical methods book in Pharo which was neat, but it is still lacking the libraries I need.
Serious question. Why do so many companies choose to rewrite in Go? I tried to like it, but it just felt so painful to use.
Beware the hidden intentions of all sides.

Google (and the Silicon Valley behemoths): Currently know a lot of personal information about the citizenry

The US Government: Wants to know this information

Neither are necessarily deserving of or entitled to this information, so we shouldn't be cheering for either side.

Antitrust is less the issue than personal information / privacy / data tracking regulation. Antitrust enforcement is treating the symptoms, not the cause.
The ad industry has had decades to get its collective shit together and stop taking the piss out of users. I have no more sympathy or patience, I'm just blocking the lot.
The biggest problem with this is getting the images. Projects like the LRO do this already I believe, but most changes are otherwise uninteresting.
Ask HN: What do you use for documentation?
Curious to hear from the non-tech readership - what tools do you use to document knowledge & processes at your company? Especially interested in legal, consulting, accounting (professional services) if anyone knows?

In my world (software) we use Confluence + Quip and the biggest problem is search and file structure - things get lost almost as soon as they are created.
> harmful to the public.

How do you measure this? Does the public include content creators who rely on ads for their livelihood?
Chrome is notoriously power inefficient, though, relative to Safari at least. One would think developers would notice.
My guess is there are too many options, and ways, to the casual person it’s a lot to learn/compare then choose, for people that don’t care to compare well there is always a bootstrap starter app
Another reason why it was an enormous mistake for Microsoft to adopt Chromium as the engine.

Now Microsoft has a choice for Edge:

A. Fork here and pay the maintenance price and extension compat issues, with potentially unlimited downside of technical debt in reconciling the two.

B. Adopt these changes and kill ad blocking in Edge, preventing them from differentiating themselves from Chrome and reinforcing Google's position as an advertising giant.

Both are bad. What would have been less bad is if Microsoft switched Edge to say, Gecko, or maintained EdgeHTML and continued to support a multi-platform, multi-implementation web.
It also has to do with LJ being taken over people who don't understand the users, don't care about the users (beyond a couple of high-value ad-churning ones) and didn't value the communities existing there while they existed, seeing LJ solely as a traffic monetization platform. So people moved on. And of course the move to Russia - with all content being now rules by Russian law, with its internationally famous regard to human rights and freedom of speech - hasn't helped much for international users either. But I think the main decline started when the platform moved from people for whom it was a beloved child to people to whom it was just a milking cow for producing ad dollars. All we see now is just the final stages of that decline.
What do you mean? 0 'zero' and O 'oh' are not the same character, either historically (the characters have distinct origins - with the Roman letter O 'oh' coming from Greek omicron, itself coming from Phoenician ʿayin; and the numeric character 0 'zero' coming originally from a dot notation in India (so dotted-zeros, which you mention using and I also prefer, are nicely appropriate) which eventually 'widened' to a hollow shape, adopted by Arabs and transmitted by them to Europe.), nor in terms of their encoding. But this isn't at all an ASCII innovation: the symbols were historically distinct and in fact have completely different origins.

So 0 'zero' and O 'oh' are not the same symbol. A is really the same symbol, whether in alphabetic use or hexadecimal, but 'means' different things in different contexts. (Even the alphabetic 'meanings' of A/a are not very consistent in English, in terms of representing sounds, and are influenced by context, so that a in cat and a in father don't 'mean' the same thing, in terms of representing sounds.)

To be fair, OP probably isn't actually using the Scandinavian Ø in contexts where it would be confused with ∅ (slashed zero), though in theory I suppose some language might support it as part of variable names etc.

But certainly I get irritated with fonts in which I (capital 'i') and l (lowercase 'L') look identical, as they occur in similar contexts and so increase cognitive load.

[Postscript edit: I was thinking that there is no visually similar character to a dotted zero, but then I remembered what upper-case theta (θ) is Θ, which does look awfully like a dotted zero.]
Given Google's core business, I don't think it's irrational to assume that this might target ad blockers.
My understanding of the changes is that they make sense for most extensions, but gorhill's addons are being negatively impacted by them because of the way they were implemented. You'll note it's still possible to implement content blocking in the new system.
I wonder why they went with something like this rather than a cluster like Percona's XtraDB Cluster that uses Galera replication? You could hang some read-only replicas off of the masters and achieve a similar system?
More interesting would be humanoid robots that could win at these sports. The state of the art today is a long ways away from being able to compete in any of the listed sports. Baseball is probably closest because with sufficiently good pitching and hitting you could win, which would avoid the much more dynamic problems of fielding, running bases, etc.
At a high level, that makes some sense - these tools might not be the most practical way to get from point A -> point B today for a typical web or mobile app.

In my head, I'm wondering if they are just way too early? Going from design -> code -> UI is, in theory, less efficient than just going from design -> UI, in a programmable, customizable, scalable way.
I have a hypothesis and I’m curious to hear responses. The ability of Ai to work as a team with other AI has shown to be relatively weak. They can do individual tasks well but are relatively agnostic to others (thinking the Dota AI from a while ago).

Might this be improved by forcing the AIs to send messages to each other at a constant interval? I feel like this would lead to the development of simple language built around intentions and help the Ai to consider its allies.
For a different perspective, 17 miles is only 5 minutes for a 747 at comfortable landing speed. At normal approach speed, this is much less.
Quit the opposite: almost everyone has a 'legacy' and it's in the eyes of those who knew them for whatever reason.

What makes us human is our ability to transfer knowledge, wisdom, ideas (i.e. the 'light' referred to as 'lucis' in the mottos so many of our Universities) from generation to generation.

Obviously sometimes there's too much egoism wrapped up in legacy, and we sometimes embellish the legacy of the wrong folks, but that doesn't make it irrelevant.

The understanding that one's legacy does matter, in whatever one does, however larger or small, compels us to be better than we would otherwise.

Each one of us has probably countless historical figures who've inspired us at least a little bit, without them we would not know who we are.

We can't all be Newton's but we still matter.
Teaching is not the expensive part of University education.

Housing (which you have to procure from the University for at least two years), amenities, and administration, is.

You can provide a world-class education by having professors use a whiteboard to lecture to students in cargo containers, or prefabs, for a fraction of the price of a modern education. But then you don't get the 'college experience' of paying tens of thousands of dollars a year for living in a hotel, surrounded by underage boose, drugs, and parties.
Install Tree Style Tab on Firefox. Moves tabs to a tree on the left. You can see a lot more, and better organized too. In the era of landscape screens, I think it's a must.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...
It should work fine, with one item to note:

I believe SqlAlchemy defaults to READ-COMMITTED, whereas TiDB defaults to (and recommends) MySQL's default of REPEATABLE-READ.
I see the same and not malicious software in Android.
Ad hominem attacks are an extremely poor choice for comments and have no place on this site.
Moloch 1.7.0 – Notifications, Field History, and More
A woman says her family experienced terror after their Nest camera was hacked
Pi-hole covers you regardless of browser.
180 APM, specifically: pg6 https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.04782
Icky, gross and violated.
The Gates foundation does do tremendous good. However, certainly Bill Gates pays for a good deal of luxury premium in his life that ultimately is a dollar that could have gone to the gates foundation instead of, say, luxury airfare (unless Gates does indeed fly economy). Maybe that’s also a dollar that could have gone to employees at the bottom of his payroll who struggle to exist in Seattle.
What's particularly strange to me is that devices such as Google WiFi come preconfigured to point at Google's DNS, so a layman in Australia will be bypassing these blocks without deliberately doing so.
Yes, ICQ was popular just before the internet went full on mainstream, MSN and Yahoo messenger followed it up, followed by a brief Google chat and Skype stint and then a void filled up by the social networks and eventually the mobile messengers like WhatsApp.

MSN being killed is still so weird to me, I get that The Netherlands is a small country, but they had full 100% market dominance, after MSN got killed I bet some researcher could have seen people in The Netherlands just had a communication dip for a year or two.
Some light that reaches us was sent out when earth wasn't even formed...
And some light will never reach us, the universe is expanding at a higher rate, future astronomers will find the sky empty.
That's crazy as well.
I find the touchscreen support to be pretty good with Fedora's patches running on Wayland. I think these patches are slated for upstreaming, so get excited!

Disclaimer: I contribute to Firefox and enjoy it quite a bit.
There is some anecdotal evidence that the ED drugs are being used less because of the canabis affect on the stage fright type of ED - relaxing. [1]

[1] http://vqrn.com/Erectile-Augmentation-Dysfunction.html
If you're that paranoid about OpenSSL, then just sandbox it. Throw the entire `apt-transport-https` subprocess in an unprivileged context. Done.
Won't someone think of the buggy-whip makers!
What sites?
There may not be any papers. They only announced a YouTube livestream of a 'demonstration'.
I think Telegram is very unfortunate platform for blogging. Discovery is mostly nonexistent, and access from the web to it is impossible, you need a separate client to consume it. Then again, people manage to blog on Twitter, so Telegram certainly would be an upgrade. But I wish real blogging platforms - like yes, Dreamwidth - would get more love and popularity.
Indeed it is! We have a wonderful mechanism that handles this situation: a free market.

We've already seen far greater market share from a browser. That browser lost it's market share when it stopped serving consumers. It lost it so thoroughly that decades and billions later it still can't recoup it.

Why would you want the government to hurt Firefox and the other competitors who would be happy to compete with Google on this front?
It’s Not Enough to Fine Facebook. The Feds Should Fine Mark Zuckerberg
This matches what the people I know said. It will of course depend on the company. Facebook has a significant presence there now, I've only met one person there but they were a local and said it's very atypical of the Singapore experience (the office was nearly empty at 5pm).
Aries-Taurus Cusp – Cusp of Power (April 16 – April 22) – Astroligion.com
Thanks, once more, for the nice reply :)

Interesting about the new European region, for sure at least from the point of view of "locality" (I assume that from the point of view of "data ownership" the US will still consider itself "owner" of the data as the holding/legal entity (don't know what kind of company it is, but your website mentions San Mateo US) has its headquarters in the US.
> ask yourself if you’d be ok with [your browsing history, email, location and search queries] ever being exposed publicly.

I already did, and the answer was "Yes, I'd be okay" (although the likelihood of that happening is extremely rare).

> Ever googled something embarrassing?

Use incognito mode.

> Perhaps a medical condition or symptom?

I have only one medical condition, which I'm not embarassed to talk about publicly (I already do it).

> Sent a very personal email?

I rarely send "very personal"/ intimate information over email in lieu of just talking over phone.

> Visited a less than savory location,

Never in my life.

> or lied to an employer about your whereabouts?

I never had to do it (why would I?).

> I’d be willing to bet most people have some data that could be weaponized for blackmail.

If--note "if"--I were to engage in an activity that could potentially be used to blackmail or harm me in any way, I would of course be doing it in as private manner as possible. However it would be silly to spend the rest of my normal life cowering and being phobic to technological advances.

> Surely many people (especially the ignorant) will find Google’s products and services “worth using” but privacy concerns are anything but overblown.

You confuse being naive (in its original sense of the word) with being ignorant. But I guess that's what fear does to one.
How is it possible to be backdoored in secret? You would instantly know from a prosecution evidence in court, unless every time they make a parallel construction.
.. and Chrome doesn't have container tabs, which for me are a killer feature.
I hope so, but my current laptop has a desktop-class Ryzen 7 1700 in it and their mobile offerings usually come with half as many cores, but I guess we'll see what Ryzen 3 has to offer.
I’m more concerned that the http/3 Connection Migration ID, proposed by Google via the QUIC spec and operating at a lower level, will create a persistent tracking mechanism, regardless of the application in use.
Yep. I was on Nvidia+Intel exclusively for a long time, but I bit the bullet and went with AMD graphics for my most recent laptop purchase, and was blown away by it being reasonably performant out-of-the-box. My most recent desktop build was consequently AMD-only (Threadripper+Radeon); worked like a charm. Can't say I'm all that tempted to go back.
> Oh, and Ruby and multithreading don’t mix, who knew?

Modern Ruby has great support for threading. Rails has been threadsafe since 2008 and Ruby has a huge advantage over Python in JRuby: no GIL, JIT, parallel GC etc.
To defend Google a bit, it looks like the change is being put in place so that users would have more privacy – by stopping extensions accessing all active URLs.

In essence they are copying what Apple did with Safari and their content blocking APIs. In this model, content blockers provide the browser with a set of blocking rules and the browser executes them against pages during render & load. Ad blocking can occur and privacy of what the user is viewing is retained.

Sure it's more restrictive and yes will likely break existing adblockers, but it's probably a better model for the future.

There will be arguments that you "can't do what is necessary" to create effective adblockers. That's incorrect.... I've created such an adblocker [1] using the Safari methods and its efficient, effective and high performance – including loading some sites 2x faster.

[1] https://www.magiclasso.co/
main reason why I use firefox on my mobile these days instead of chrome, I can install uBlock Origin in Firefox.
Why should Google, an ad company, not interfere with an ad blocker? No one has to use Chrome and Google doesn't have to allow ad blockers.
Lack of HTTPS most likely, meaning an infected ISP or alike doing a MITM attack.

Interestingly the wayback-machine snapshot is not affected: https://web.archive.org/web/20190123000016/http://www.shirky...

After digging a little it seems like the redirection is happening server side (302, 0 bytes e.g. not JS) and its controlled from a malicious site called google-static(.)com, if anybody wanna investigate this further it's this one:

http://google-static.com/search/?niche=unknown&page=http%3A%2F%2Fshirky.com%2Fwritings%2Fontology_overrated.html&h=shirky.com&p=%2Fwritings%2Fontology_overrated.html&ref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.co.uk%2F
I didn't mean to imply it wasn't sometimes worth it anyway; I apologise if it read that way.

I just meant that you shouldn't be surprised when irregular/unpredictable access to something makes people eager to take every opportunity, and that it's a factor to consider in your strategy.

I think a big difference with the AA is that usually the people going there have decided they (on some level) want to stop drinking, rather than that being an externally imposed restriction.
Firefox exists, it works well, and it doesn't fuck its users to help advertisers. If Google manages to push it out of the market we'll be stuck with a garbage browser built by an ads company.
Yes, but also less so every day. Google has already figured out that they should serve Youtube ads and content from the same servers to limit the ability of DNS based ad filtering.

DNS filtering is a cat-and-mouse game that DNS filtering tools will eventually lose. Don't get me wrong, I love Pihole and have used it for a while, but I know that I'm on the losing side of this battle.
What kind of dialect is it if i may ask?
Hearing him for the first time(a year ago or so),
i thought he is from England.
Really curious as his speech is quite unusual and also pleasant in a way.
I don't know if that would be enough in real life for me. I know some organisations use two different domains (e.g. they did a transition but they don't want to turn off .org just in case something still uses it, the IT team forgot that Sam has two Outlook profiles, one is on .org).

And while pdfs can be attack vectors, they're not an especially strong one - it's not like running an exe with administrator privileges.

Comparatively giving a third party access to your emails should definitely raise flags.
Or pull a 180 and start running their own build of firefox that they contribute to.
Same as people using goo.gl URLs
A major problem is also that google websites run like crap in firefox. Gmail takes 20 seconds to load and don't get me started on youtube studio. Even the "feedback" button is broken in firefox so I can't even report the bugs I find.

I'm at the point of installing chromium just to be able to manage my videos, but I refuse to give in.
Did he violate any specific rules?
But uBlock Origin works flawlessly on Firefox for Android.
'Great Wave' has mystified art lovers for generations
How does this feel compared to programming in Emacs? (It's an honest question, from someone who'd love to try out Pharo)
I really don't understand why people prefer Chrome to Firefox, it's a better browser all around in my experience.
Any abuse of a monopoly is harmful to the public.

Correct me if I'm misrepresenting your position, but I vaguely recall a discussion some time ago in which you compared adblocking to theft. If I'm remembering that correctly, you and I have no common ground upon which to have a civil discussion.
I've reviewed the design doc and and the spec for the new API. I agree that there doesn't seem to be an intent to "[get] rid of adblockers". Nonetheless, the proposed changes will disable core functionality in uBlock and uMatrix, which is what the title states.
> I just want a "hello world" example to get an idea what I am actually dealing with.

iirc something like —

FileStream stdout nextPutAll: 'Hello, world'; cr.
Distinction should be made among the religious figures clearly.

Moses probably was not a real historical person, or at least there is a lot of doubt.

Jesus probably was a historical person, but even the rational faithful obviously don't consider the Bible necessarily to be a clear historical narrative.

We know quite a lot about the various Emperors of Rome, and quite a lot about the development of Roman history.

If you actually dig into the history of Rome, it's remarkable how so many of the issues we face today already existed back then, and how much they were able to achieve without Enlightenment principles.

Given how much we depend on the past, how we really are just extensions of it, I find it hard to agree with the premise of the article. Though it's always good to read contrarian ideas, and I do think there is a hint of Eastern wisdom in it as well, to be considered.
setting up a dedicated linux box to run pi-hole is a lot harder than installing a browser extension (but I agree it's awesome)
Fighting Remote Work Distractions
In this specific case, I hope that's the outcome. But in the general case, I hope we don't end up in a world where global megacorps have that much sway over governments (maybe we're in that world already...)
For interactive use, I would like to point out that even better than this use of cat is less. If you pipe less into something then it forgets it’s interactive behaviour and works like cat on a single file. So:

$ less foo | bar

Is similar too:

$ bar < foo

Except that less is typically more clever than that and might be more like:

$ zcat foo | bar

Depending on the file type of foo.
Is that what the website home page shows?
I've reddit[1] as programmer and it's terrifying to think somebody can bang out code at that speed for 20+ min beside you.

[1] pun intended
A decade ago one major local government agency did in fact move away from Windows in the hope of avoiding those costly license fees.

They found out it can also be quite costly to run Linux as an alternative:

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/ditching-windows-for-li...
I assumed that I passed the test by not filling out the form
Safety is a big concern, and a place to safely store your bike (at home and at work) is another big one. I'd imagine lots of the walkers live in condos or apartments where storing a bike can be really tough.
I find Google websites run like shit in Chrome too, just slightly less shit than in FF.