skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If advertisers haven't realized that yet, they aren't going to wake up now.
A Modern and More Featured “Echo”
Yeah, unfortunately "parenthesis" is a hard word for most of the Speech-To-Text engines I tried, at least with my accent. ("parent thesis") And it is somewhat of a long word to be using all the time.
There are people who click on random ads professionally, and Google has been fighting them for a long time. Whatever equilibrium has been reached is probably stable. The best thing to do is block ads and to do our best to stay off the grid - the only thing that no statistician can work with is the absence of data.
Buddha is not his name, his name is Siddhārtha Gautama.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddha_(title)
bait + switch.

I've been going back to Firefox for 6 month now, both on desktop and mobile. I'm a developer so I still need to use Chrome for testing, but I'm never going back to it as my main browser, for obvious reasons. There is an obvious conflict of interest going on here, and I'm not going to give Google any more money.

Firefox works fine now, didn't get any issue whatsoever. It used to be slower than Chrome, yes, but it's not true anymore and it uses way less memory than Google's browser.

That's why I don't trust Google with anything, Golang, Goggle PAAS, whatever, they'll go full Oracle in a few years, mark my words.
The AdNauseam extension [1] does exactly that, and Google really didn't like it (banned it from the Chrome extension store [2]).

1. https://adnauseam.io/
2. https://adnauseam.io/free-adnauseam.html
Schools use gsuite to force web filtering chrome extensions on their managed Chromebooks. Thats what they mean by enterprise customers.
Oh, I thought they meant restoring a whole session, but yes, I see that it will restore a tab if you just closed it.
Which features were removed in 74?

The only particular thing I can find is that hyperlink auditing can no longer be disabled. I doubt this is what you meant when you said features you "depend on".
I am not surprised. If you look at the direction in which browsers have been "evolving" (or perhaps devolving...) especially over the last decade, especially after Google first introduced Chrome, the message has been pretty clear: gradually hide and remove functionality that helps users take control of how they consume content, and silence opposition by explaining that it's "for your security".

Chrome isn't the only guilty one here; it just happens to be the most user-hostile, maybe because it started the trend (good example being https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7329855), but all the other ones have made similar decisions. Firefox made extension signing mandatory (many people think Mozilla is benevolent, but that doesn't mean their views will continue to align with yours), and more recently IE, which could be said to have been the last reasonably popular browser with a per-zone configuration and site whitelisting/blacklisting feature by default, was deprecated for the far more dumbed-down (and now becoming even more Chrome-like) Edge.

But as long as you can still install a custom CA and set a proxy server, you're still in complete control over the content your machine receives; there have been many changes to frustrate that (first HTTPS, now DoH --- to protect, not just from attackers, but you), but it is still possible to MITM and control your experience. There's been a strong opposition to them ostensibly for "security" reasons, however, the way things are going, you will give up your freedom and security.

(I'm a long-time Proxomitron user. It's far more fine-grained than DNS-level blocking, although I also use a HOSTS file, and I can do more than just block. The best part is, it works for all browsers, even the ones embedded in other apps.)
I haven't been on BART in a few years, but I remember many stations having a wheelchair entrance that anyone could go through if security wasn't watching.
Maybe Wikimedia will lambaste the Israeli Ministry of Foreign and Strategic Affairs for also "defacing" Wikipedia? That is, "unethically manipulating" (Wikimedia's words) the site to provide a Zionist friendly narrative of the conflict with the Palestinians. https://israelpalestinenews.org/israel-partisans-work-censor...

Of course this wont happen since the site's founder Jimmy Wales recently won a $1 million Israeli prize and is not a neutral voice himself. https://mondoweiss.net/2018/08/wikipedia-suggests-antisemite...

State actors and corporations have been infiltrating Wikipedia for ages. That Wikimedia pretends it doesn't happen and that this The North Face incident was unheard of is just dumbfounding. Paid editing is everywhere on Wikipedia, believing otherwise is very naive.

https://wikipedia.fivefilters.org/agenda.html
> He lives in a small town where land is cheap.
People want free YouTube, maps, email etc.

Maybe you will pay, but the market as a whole has been very clear here. Free wins. Personally I dont mind either. I'd prefer to see ads relevant to me rather within some limitations of privacy.

I feel government needs to set the limits here rather than expect business to self regulate. Nor will the market self regulate as this is more technical than most people are interested to understand, and back to free wins.
If the knowledge survives, maybe clear-cutting forests will be enough of a boost to jump forward straight to renewables.
Low prices keep Huawei in the 5G game despite US concerns
Google has not shared any actual evidence that there's a performance gain to be had. Non-google benchmarks of uBO show it not being a performance problem in the first place, so there simply isn't much room to be faster than it.
They do mean it that way, though. They mention the possibility of extinct life on Mars in the last paragraph highlight.
UK parking space data offered up to app developers
Premium Accounts Brazzers/Realitykings / Mofos / Babes and More Free
From my experience, it seems that those who used the Internet in it's earlier years before and around Firefox 2 dominating the scene, have a much, much easier time going back to using Firefox again. Whereas those that first jumped online with Chrome was dominated, simply will never switch.
I think it's a condensed version of saying:

If we have finite energy at a fixed price (of say 1% of GDP in total cost), then either the rest of the GDP (which is not energy) does not grow, and so the demand for that energy (and so its price) remains the same, or it tries to grow (and cannot "is stuck") because growth will increase demand for the energy and therefore drive up prices, but since it is energy and fundamental to everything, all prices will go up, so we will have inflation, but inflation is not growth.
It's a fucking Uber ride.

I just want to be taken from point A to point B with no problems. Not have my dick sucked along the way.

For what passes as acceptable customer service these days, having something go smoothly without an issue is a damn miracle.
From files stored in an Amazon S3 bucket, it’s able to suss out the contents of fields and tables and the context in which this information is presented, like names and social security numbers in tax forms or totals from photographed receipts.
What’s stackpath
How is the FireFox experience on OSX these days compared to Safari? This is 100% a nail in the Chrome coffin for me.
"Developing new features versus refactoring existing code"

I like to do minor refactoring as part of any given new feature (even if unrelated). It helps take bites out of the larger pieces over time.

"Tolerating a bad employee versus firing and rehiring"

Inversely this also gets into something I often see where companies sit and wait for the best possible candidate (everyone claims to hire the best...) and so rather than hire and try people out they take a long time and hire someone and hiring being a non exact science.... doesn't work out. Maybe people need to try folks out, even maybe the person who doesn't have every bit of alphabet soup on their resume?
Yeah I'm fine with that
The problem is that the replacement is crippled and Google is clearly more interested in stripping features from the extension API. I'm still waiting for a way to hide the tab bar which is a privileged UI feature now.
> Especially consider the bitterness of such parents whose taxes pay into the school system but those same taxes aren't utilized for homeschooling families: so it's literally the government taking money to pay for a service for all citizens -- except you, you're not getting what you paid for.

That's also, of course, true of those who send their kids to private school. I think that there's an excellent argument for vouchers which enable parents to allocate the funds that would have gone to a public school to a private school. There are some dangers (because once something is private, it can be advertised and the system can be gamed), but overall I think this is far better than our current 51%-of-parents-decide model.

I don't feel that it'd be a good idea to give homeschooling parents a similar voucher, but only because it's too ripe for abuse: an abusive parent could take the voucher and spend it, and not bother to educate his kids. I don't know how likely it is, but it's worrisome nonetheless.
Water seems more interesting than energy as a bound. If energy gets as cheap as breathable air is now due to some sort of long running series of changes and improvements cornering the market would be like trying to bag the whole atmosphere and then charge people for it. The cheapest things are the most impossible to corner. Not that I have any idea whether some sort of ability to do more with less can bound energy use below some arbitrary output threshold.
> There is another well known corollary -- if we consume the bulk of fossil fuels this time around, it's unlikely that recovery after a major civilisation collapse would be possible.

There will still be coal. Coal reserves are unbelievable.

Even if we consume that too, we should be fine so as long as there is wood. You can power cars and tanks with wood.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_gas

If we have no trees left... there are probably other, more pressing, concerns. For humans, that is.

The good thing about Earth is that there is life, not just humans. Other species may take our place if we fail, in time. Emphasis on may, since evolution doesn't guarantee this. But it seems that at least on this planet intelligence has been consistently rewarded (primates, birds, dolphins, octopuses).

If there is life, there will be an energy source. No matter what it is, that energy source can be harvested by machines too. It may take longer for a civilization to do so, depending on the difficulty of the power source. But in the end, it doesn't really matter. We are dealing with cosmological time scales after all.

Even dolphins would be able to develop an industrialized civilization. No coal needed, they can just exploit temperature gradients. Metalworking would be more difficult, but that's their problem to solve. Right after they solve fine object manipulation.
Oh that sounds like a liability nightmare if someone refuses entry to a crazy crackhead and gets stabbed for it
And for that reason, if I was using speech-to-code, I would probably use the alternative forms of 'round bracket', 'square bracket', and 'curly bracket' when I need to specify the type.
There are two hard problems in computer science...
Your mind will eventually tune out the noise of a track. Our house was near a freight rail track that had a run all night. Never woke up after the first couple of days.
Depends on whether you consider the ISS to be a destination in space.
More like 40. I usually try to run < 10, but sometimes it gets out of hand...I tend to have multiple "tasks" of research going on at the same time. Like if I start researching at home at night I'll sometimes leave it open through a whole workday until I can return to it at night. Then multiple things at work, etc. So yeah...probably my browsing habits that may need to change.
This is a collossal mis-step. IEEE need to withdraw and reframe on this.
Wow. "Sign up to read more. You will have immediate access ...", followed by an enter-your-email box. Do that and you immediately hit a paywall. No "immediate access" for you.

That's ouright fraudulent, and I'm flagging this submission for it.
But I don't think that will work for corporate building security, where a single attacker could cause a large amount of damage, not just losing a ticket fare.
> analytics show pretty much zero IE traffic...

Is anyone begging for it? Your users problems are the problems to focus on. If it's not a problem for them, then it's not a problem for you
Because I think we need to change the system so that unelected rich folks don’t have that much power. The more we legitimize their work the harder that will be. I’m all for them continuing their work in the meantime though. I’m doing a poor job explaining it. Defining check out the book I recommended. “Winners take all”
Why? My instinct is the opposite: if 6 billion people die, we drop two orders of magnitude in biodiversity, most biomes die more or less completely (save a couple pioneer species) then we have 100 million people still living in nooks and crannies. Worst case in air conditioned spaces near nuclear plants. And those people re-engineer society in a more stable way.

That’s not a worst case or best case scenario, it’s a middle way. Worst case scenarios though could still include human survival through genetic modification (planet run by teenagers with bioengineered lungs) or underground air conditioned tunnels.

I just find total human extinction almost entirely implausible. Can you describe a scenario where that is the likely outcome?

It seems like 1000 PPM of CO2 is guaranteed, 5000 is theoretically possible but the lethal concentration for total human extinction is 10,000... is that even possible?

Or are we worried about temperature? Or cropland death?
Same with Muni and Caltrain in the San Francisco area.
This has got to be some bullshit shilling. I use all those sites all day every damn day with no problem in Firefox whatsoever.
> But what does it signify? We have an interest in the success of our children that is far greater than any interest a government has.

I don't think the question of 'whether oversight is a good idea' is usefully explored by piecemeal examples where everything went fine and the motivation of parents is genuine "interest in the success of our children".

This is not to say there is anything particularly wrong with homeschooling per se, I wouldn't accept that examining piecemeal cases where everything went fine would be a good way of inferring "whether oversight is a good idea" in the case of a church or business or academic institution either.
Firefox - Waterfox

Chrome - Matte
The Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event is theorized to be a massive asteroid strike which "release[d] the equivalent energy of several million nuclear weapons detonating simultaneously" and killed off 75% of extant species.

Sure, the preppers will be gleefully LARPing Fallout from their bunkers, and a small percentage of humans would probably pull through. Maybe.

If we have a seed colony on Mars, it significantly de-risks human extinction from an asteroid strike. Elon is the ultimate prepper.
I think the paper stated that the organic matter was similar to those found in some Archaean fossils in the area and other parts of the world, so it seems to be an interesting find

Of course it’s all too easy for a layman such as myself to read too deeply into things and draw unfounded conclusions about the origins of life. And if I recall, the rock is newer than the oldest known fossils, so I’ll keep a little distance on that conclusion for now

But it was pleasant to read about the earliest known fossils, so that’ll be my current takeaway on this
It is a major change. Manifest V3 works more like Safari's content blocking.
The picture of Tokyo you posted elsewhere in this thread is a good example of concrete done well.
I sometimes have hundreds of tabs open (Firefox on Windows), and a feature that I'll leverage if things start chugging is that, upon starting, Firefox will only load the contents of a tab if you put focus on the tab. So if I open a ludicrous number of tabs, I can quickly restart Firefox (just timed it; took six seconds) and all the tabs but the one that last had focus will be unloaded. I believe they're working on making this more automatic by actively unloading tabs if certain criteria have been met, but no convenient heuristic here is ever going to be as outright effective as this. As a tab addict, I can live with it. :P
How timely are updates? Would be my main concern here.
I am wondering what could be a solution to this... maybe something like "a united nation for academics" for advancing the knowledge of humanity together without blatant political interferences from single/few countries? ...by an international treaty and a special international tax system to support the existence of that kind of academic entity?
We need version numbers for game-theoretic universes, e.g. the effects of companies which launch into a market whose assumptions and practices will soon be overturned by said company.

The second-order feedback loops are adversarial (kids, competitors, city-states, policy) and subject to data analysis, but the public is more likely to receive marketing narratives than peer-reviewed scholarship.
Sounds like he’s an influencer.
Looks like its a sponsor of their CDN. The link doesn't embed any tracking that I can see. Its simply a referral link so that stackpath can determine how many people clicked from waterfox.
I thought there was some kind of time limit after which closed private tabs are no longer restorable? I'd prefer that to immediately losing the closed tab, if the time limit is reasonable (say, 30 seconds).
The only response that’s reliable across doors, sites, and institutions is the door actually unlocking, which you may or may not be able to discern when already opened. Do you know the beep and light pattern by heart for valid credential vs. recognized but unauthorized credential vs. bus pass at every door you use? Each one in my office is a bit different, my apartment is something else entirely, in college they were uniform within buildings but different across buildings.

Electric mortise locks and strikes will click, though sometimes they are held in unlocked state for a few seconds so you won’t hear a second click, or the second click might be reverting to locked state. Depends on hardware and configuration, and maybe a what the person in front is doing with the handle, and when/whether the exit sensor trips. Different things on the door can make clicking sounds, they’re a bit different from each other, but pretty close. Magnetic locks, forget it. Sliding doors, forget it.

I’m an engineer interested in security, I pay close attention to these systems, I’ve run their cabling and installed their admin panels, and I doubt I could tell even if I were actively paying attention.
Australian Helicopters Targeted by Lasers in South China Sea
If I know this, I wouldn't make https://github.com/beenotung/uniqcp
Response to false statements on surveillance made by Martin Steiger
"Personal rapid transit is just a waste. You can transport A LOT of people by rail ... orders of magnitudes of people more than cars"

You're answering a question no one is asking. Cars and taxis (and imagined self-driving cars) get people from where they are to where they want to go. Roads are capable of serving any trip, and with a reasonable travel time. If transit could serve most trips then transit could be successful. Start from there, and see if you can work backwards to traditional rail mass transit. I don't see it happening, but maybe I'm missing something.
By default, google disables hardware acceleration for chrome on a large percentage of linux. As well, Ive never had it work well with open source graphics drivers or new products like wayland. And the desktop integration comes nowhere near firefox
SVT-AV1 now offers higher quality than x264, x265 and VP9
From a quick search, it's a CDN.
Was hoping there are more research attempt at the Log Structured FS. For example,

- Borrow some ideas from generational garbage collection. Young generation in SSD (or mirrored in RAM) with copying GC to get rid of old versions of fast changing data blocks.

- Utilize some deduplication techniques with content based signature.
> I wrote an SVG renderer

So, clearly you do understand the issues here.

Which is why I’m a bit puzzled by your push-back here. When I said “baked” I was talking about ray-marching spitting out pixels at a certain resolution. Once you render, you can’t change the resolution without re-rendering, so the resolution is “baked” into the raster output. If I save it to a file, my only choice is to save an image file at the resolution that I rendered at. If I want to display that file at a different resolution later, and I don’t have the renderer, my only choice is to resample the image.

> It’s a real time effect

I don’t know what you mean here. Ray marching is a rendering technique, you can choose to do it in real time, or you can choose to take hours. This has no bearing on whether it renders to pixels or vector art. Zdog can also be real-time, or offline batch.

> If you resize it the resolution changes and you re-render

Yes, exactly. You have to re-render a ray-marched image if you change the resolution. That is unlike SVG, which you can re-rasterize without re-rendering.

> The shapes that are used as a source for the rendering are all mathematical objects that can be combined an used at any scale, just like paths and curves in an SVG

I feel like we’re regressing a bit here, we already covered this. Yes, the input SDF & scene certainly are resolution independent. You have to compare that to the input of Zdog, which is not SVG, it’s the 3d shape description.

The output of ray marching is a raster. Zdog’s SVG output is, well, resolution independent SVG.

> If you lose the interactive 3d component, Z-Dog doesn’t really give you anything over just drawing it in a vector art program.

Your straw man hypothetical eliminated all of Zdog’s functionality there. You can use Zdog with 3d but without interactive, right? That’s one specific use case I’m interested in. What Zdog buys is a conversion from a 3d scene description to a 2d scene description, that’s the value for me, and the very thing that ray marching does not do.
Between pihole, firefox and addons, I see no ads. The way the ad industry is going, they will at some point prevent people from blinking.

A big thank you to the developers at pihole, mozilla and the plugin devs.
Huawei Has Trademarked Possible Android Replacement 'Ark OS' in Europe
A high-ranking Indian chief was recently on NPR talking about how Warren had wronged native Americans with her DNA test and public comments. No chance in hell that Warren publicly slights America's most disenfranchised minority to cover up a foolish lie and then proceeds to win any debate.
The idea is, culture teaches those people how to be conscious, and mushrooms bootstrapped the culture.

Not saying it’s correct, but that’s the hypothesis.
Jailers shut off water to Terrill Thomas' cell, and he died of dehydration
> 1) Operator overloading

Please, please, please, no.
What a jerk move. I hope enough users are outraged by this to force them to rethink it.
Time to invent the bell curve..
Two things can be true at once. In this case, it's true that people wanted to expand access to education. It's also true that, rather than just subsidizing education properly, this was seen as a more market-oriented approach.

I also don't think it's true that "giving students loans is cheaper than paying tuition directly". Governments are in a unique position to capture broad societal gains through taxation. So I think the cheaper option is just to fund education, especially the sorts we think increase economic productivity, and then tax the resulting income.