skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is deepmind going to do once they solve all video games? It seems like they are leveraging the massive economic demand for entertaining simulations of the world. But once they hit the limit of that they will have to make their own simulations.
I mean in a general life sense I completely agree but not when were talking about grading others. Setting the bar for perfection at "exceeds my personal ever-changing expectations by an arbitrary unspecified degree" would actually cause me distress to have to carry out. I could never judge another human being in such a way and I would feel, and have felt, degraded being judged that way.

Like why even set expectations in the first place if your bar for perfect is "impress me"? Why is "I did everything you asked" less than perfect?
Transactions and Batch Operations with Firebase
The author is an economist. They coarsely distinguish between command economies on one side, market economies on the other. Socialism and communism may mean different things to different people, but the terms are generally considered to oppose markets and the closely related concept of private property.
Are we the baddies?
I wish that person the best of luck and hope they stay as far away from my team as possible.
From metro connections to a Git graph
https://www.adl.org/blog/how-the-ok-symbol-became-a-popular-...
I've been using firefox as my daily driver on a 2015 macbook air for the last year. It's been fantastic, not at all slow.

I haven't tried to use applescript/automator with it so i can't comment on whether or not that works, but that doesn't seem like the biggest issue for most users, or even most developers.
imho - this is better summary:

BMJ Editorials: https://www.bmj.com/content/365/bmj.l2289 "Ultra-processed food and adverse health outcomes" (Published 29 May 2019)
Personal data of thousands of Australians sold for just $US60
Good reputations are hard to gain and easily lost, we shouldn't forget how we got to the sorry current state of the web and Mozillas mistakes are a large part of how that happened. Had mozilla not pissed away market share while they rewrote things in rust, broke extensions, built a horrible UI, etc, then they would have had enough weight to do things look push back against DRM.

Obviously having a spyware company like google control the web is a bad thing, but that doesn't make mozilla good, they've been poor stewards for a long time and we should be looking toward others, the pale moon fork to name one example.
It's scary to think about all the games we're going to lose because so many games are implemented as SAAS nowadays. As someone interested in gaming history and the preservation of games it's actually quite saddening.
The Union of Socialist Soviet Republics was communist. So was Albania, Yugoslavia, Romania, etc. even though officially they all had “socialist” in their official names while they were under soviet influence, so it’s no surprise people find the terms interchangeable.
Firefox UI is absolute shit. Takes ages to figure out what the fucking buttons do because who needs labels?!
Chromes is no better, just speaks to the current situation and lack of UX professionals on the dev teams.
Love your username!!
OT: there must be a ton of science that gets lost, delayed, or duplicated purely due to language barriers.
A History of Cats from 1858 to 1922
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> The honest response from Mozilla to negative comments would be to acknowledge they do not exist primarily for all users. They exist primarily for the developers who work there, as part of a project to be "competitive" with commercially-driven browsers.

I don’t understand- how is trying to offer a competitive, viable product not “for all users”? Are you suggesting that if they focus on a non-competitive product that’s better for “all users”?
> Google operated in China several years ago, but it withdrew from the market because of the censorship requirements from the government

Google hesitated to enter China because of the censorship requirements (1) but eventually entered anyway, led by a researcher they hired away from Microsoft, Kai-Fu Lee (1, 2). They exited because they caught the Chinese associates stealing source code, and only after their first "war room" effort to nail down exactly what was going on (1, 3).

(1) https://www.amazon.com/Plex-Google-Thinks-Works-Shapes/dp/14...

(2) https://www.cio.com/article/2425034/head-of-google-china-lea...

(3) https://techcrunch.com/2010/01/12/google-china-attacks/
Indeed, especially since by all accounts a lot of the firewall is built out of Western tech (e.g. Cisco).
Very interesting I had not seen this.

Note there are five ftc commissioners. Christine Wilson is one of three republicans. She is unfortunately the one who seems the most trumpian. She misleadingly quotes a filing her own agency made in this op-ed. Because of that, and a few other turns of phrase in here that appear frequently in Qualcomm PR (such as the factually incorrect statement that this case was filed during the Obama administration--it was actually filed under Trump) I'm willing to bet a lot of money Qualcomm wrote this and gave it to her and she signed off on it.
> since Apple uses its monopoly position to take a % of all app revenue

Wait. What are you talking about? They own a platform, others want to use that platform to make money, so Apple is charging fees to use their platform. Where is the monopoly part? Developers have other avenues to sell their software on (Android)

iOS and Android can be classified as a Duopoly though.
Ask HN: A browser that clicks on every ad as a protest against Google?
Like the subject line... only instead of ad block you click every add and load it in a hidden tab.

The ad is still hidden too... just that we click on more ads than a usual user.

Sure.. you waste a bit of bandwidth but it's asymmetric and you waste a lot more money on their end.
Horizontal acquisition extends around the definition of monopoly. I'm not against Amazon. I don't think they should be stopped from expanding... yet.

If the other conglomerates copy amazon then the possibility of a corporate dystopian future looks brighter!
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Since we're doing quotes:

"First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."

Hate speech should not be allowed a safe haven. Gab is a business and, as such, is not required to adhere to the first amendment.
It's maybe not a monopoly, but it's definitely tying, which is still covered under anti-trust law.
A School of Fish, Captured in a Fossil
In addition to the many privacy problems, advertising is rarely about passing timely information on things you need. Ads are mostly used to fabricate desires for things you don't need. While being good at critical media literacy helps, none of us are immune to this kind of manipulation and even less so when the ads are carefully targeted.
This is kind of the same problem as people who have no FB account, keep all of their personal life off FB, then they go to a work or social group gathering and some blithely ignorant/clueless person tags their photo.\

One of the biggest sources of spam I have is non-technically-oriented persons who I know either professionally or personally, that have my name and email address in their address book, who click "yes" to everything on their ios and android devices. Some of these particularly less sophisticated individuals have probably had two dozen unique apps from random developers copy the entire contents of their address book.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20049830
> I would flip the question. Why would I want to keep track of current affairs? The vast majority of the things happening in the world have no impact on my life whatsoever. Even really big things like the Mueller report really don't have any impact on my day-to-day life (NB: I am a US citizen).

Then consider yourself privileged. For the rest of us, there are forces out there trying to legislate our bodies, prevent us from loving who we want, oppress who we want to be, take away our rights, and make our mere existence as close to illegal as possible. Keeping track of who is trying to take away our liberties and how those efforts are progressing is very important to us.
That's not a privacy violation. Her data wasn't collected, a series of numbers was tagged. The person tagging the number could be entering the tag as anything they want.
Well I've been employed by certain high tech multinationals whose obsession with certain MBA flavors of the decade metrics have reduced them to shadows of their former selves.

They were fulfilling the plan just as much as Soviet whalers.
That's liking playing aggressive russian roulette with your machine. Do you like malware? Because that's how you get malware.
I haven't had an issue, but I avoid "major websites" like the plague, as they are the modern equivalent (though measles is making a comeback). If a site breaks with good privacy settings, it's a decent indicator you're better off not visiting. If a breaking site shows up on my radar too much, I add the domain to an add-on I made to hide links to it on any page. My HN/reddit/search results/etc views usually have a few blank lines, they're links to domains I have determined I never want to visit ever again. My RSS reader gets a variation of the filter, so they don't show up there either. It feels really good to have the power to remove an entire site from my personal internet.
The gaming console space up to a couple of generations ago, prior to digital distribution, is pretty well covered (and I've contributed ~75 titles and variations of console-based prototypes myself to the public), but most modern gaming is going to have a much more pronounced preservation issue.

Consider also the download-only releases of console games, usually by indies but not always, nowadays on the big 3 platforms; other than avenues like Limited Run Games that provide for production of limited physical runs of previously download-only titles, they're lost to the aether eventually.
Semiaccurate has a rather interesting take here. TL;DR is that modems are very hard to make. Intel's modems were much slower and used much more power for last generation. They ran into issues and don't seem to even have a shippable 5g chip.

https://www.semiaccurate.com/2019/04/16/qualcomm-just-beat-a...

https://www.semiaccurate.com/2019/04/18/why-did-intel-kill-o...
With 1Password you can add a "One-Time Password" field that allows you to import the image with the QR code and give you the authentication codes.

Another option could be https://authy.com/
> Why do rich people lie, cheat and steal more than those on low incomes?

Because a financial fine with no serious criminal penalties behind it is barely noticed by the highly wealthy. A $550 traffic/moving violation and the associated increased car insurance premiums associated with it means two very different things if your annual income is $55,000 or $600,000.
I don’t get why they call externalities a “lesser” problem or put it in parentheses except out of ideology. Sure you can point to horrific environmental crimes in communism, but what would you say the primary economic engine is that has led to widespread environmental destruction and the climate crisis?
Pray tell, which YouTube support department do I complain to as a viewer?
cunning move
I use fzf for bash history. Fuzzy history search and much better TUI.

https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
Same. I watch Twitch and YouTube videos, too.
This is why they should be taxed more :)
I think you fundamentally misunderstand my message.

The point I was trying to get across is this:

Companies do bad things, sometimes intentionally, sometimes by accident, and sometimes because they were misguided. Companies also do good things, sometimes intentionally, sometimes by accident. How are we, as users, able to communicate our thoughts with the company in question in these cases?

One method is by calling out the negatives and applying pressure so that, hopefully, the company feels some obligation to act or risk user exodus. This is an example of what you are doing - and it is a valid way of communicating displeasure with a company when they have made a decision the users don't agree with. Negative reinforcement absolutely has its place.

However, an often forgotten method of communication is positive reinforcement. This is how we can tell a company "Hey, good job on this specific thing. It's in a direction we would like to see you keep moving in.". This signals to the company that they are on the right track and, hopefully, encourages them to continue developing that way.

In the specific context of Mozilla, this means that I try to encourage them when they do positive things (blocking fingerprinting) while still expressing my displeasure over the certificate fiasco and other issues.

However, my original post was not meant to be read only in the context of Mozilla, nor was it meant to be read in a way that makes you think that you cannot also raise your concerns. There is a time and place for both positive reinforcement and negative reinforcement. It just seems like people forget about the positive one.
Show HN: Dedicated IP private VPN, perfect for businesses to secure networks
Wow... how do you achieve petabytes of NVMe? like, what is the biggest drive that you can get today?

And then you just plug a ton of them into what kind of "motherboard" to interconnect them? I guess Infiniband based bus? or I am totally off-base here?

Any more details are appreciated, if only to satisfy my curiosity :)
Something I've done in the past is treated Make like a well-known API. Even if the logic is in separate scripts, I still implement a simple Makefile with common targets like "build", "clean" and sometimes "install". This allows people picking up your project to build it and work with it right away, without having to understand the details of the scripts.
You appear to have misunderstood the comment you are replying to.
Its not just AMZN, other media giants are also interested in buying assets from the merged company to start another provider. If thats the case I would be OK with merger going ahead.
Good, Succinct and to-the-point article. Validates much of what many have observed.

The key takeaway: Money => Increased independence from others => Prioritising self-interest over everything else.
I wonder whether the AI was as good as it looked in his video.
Perhaps many people think that socialism and communism are such toxic ideologies that any defense of them deserves to be downvoted into oblivion. I did not downvote, but being from a former communist country i agree with the sentiment as this ideologies are the ones responsible for the largest amount of deaths and misery in the last century.

Any form of government that involves central planning and large redistribution of income is going to create worse outcomes for society. This is partly the reason why things like SpaceX Amazon etc are created in US and not in Europe.

Of course some social programs as free education and free healthcare are necessary, since it is essentially a form of vc funding where it pays off to invest in many people as some of them would make enough money later in life to cover all the investment. But even here it is important to not take too large a chunk of societies resources and to keep the service itself capitalist with many competing actors.
This reminds me of FDR burning fields of grain and killing herds of cattle to drive prices up even while people were starving. The high level goals are to 'improve' things but some serious bugs got introduced into the process that resulted in practically the opposite of intentions.
reading regular news like these. Guess FB is using Algorithms to ban than using human effort..

Facebook is a perfect example of how a monopoly will treat people
I hate this entire situation and the article. The feds literally give Qualcomm an IP monopoly and then act all surprised when they exercise those powers.
Then the fed expands its own powers to 'deal with it', and the cycle continues. Ugh.
FORMER Mozilla employee, FWIW.

Mozilla doesn't exist for its developers. Most of its developers could make a lot more money working elsewhere.

The reality is that if Firefox isn't competitive in performance, security, and Web compatibility, very few people will use it, in which case why even bother?

There's more at stake here than just privacy, too. An open platform that isn't controlled by a single vendor, that doesn't have gatekeepers, that has lots of content AND lots of clients is really important. The standards-based Web is the only candidate at this point. Mozilla cares a lot about that, and they need a competitive browser with significant marketshare or they have no leverage.
Braille characters are fun in the terminal. I wrote a toy tool to convert images to Braille years ago[1].

Here's an example of converting a world map[2] to Braille[3].

[1]: https://github.com/beefsack/go-dot

[2]: https://i.imgur.com/ZoIYe2N.png

[3]: https://i.imgur.com/5VR35bS.png
exactly. Ask the guys at Nortel.
This paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00213-019-05253...

indicates IL6 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interleukin_6) is down regulated in ex vivo tests (outside animal, cell cultures)

and specifically 10(Z)-hexadecenoic acid may be related with PARa signaling in mice

so this is pretty cool. I hope they get some similar results with humans.
Perceptron (Artificial Neuron): Fundamental Unit of a Neural Network
According to your logic, If I create a website that maps Hacker News usernames to metadata, and because I know you in real life, I enter your information (name, occupation) on your behalf, and now the connection between your username and that other information is public, your privacy has not been violated, because this is not information about you, it is simply a series of letters connected to another series of letters.

I think what you mean to say is that it is not the app that committed the betrayal, it was the source who was enabled by an app that otherwise had a non-nefarious purpose. Which, fair point, but I don't think the article would disagree.
Melting glaciers are threatening drought buffer, report says
"The period of collection was from July, 2015–May, 2019" and it seems unlikely that a one week bump due to Gell-Mann's recent death would be enough to change the balance.

I don't know how to get page view statistics from the Wikipedia API to double-check this.
I told my AWS account manager today that this is what I wanted to see on Aurora Serverless:

- mysql 5.7 compatibility

- acting as replication master or slave

- faster upscaling, more likes 5s instead of 30s

- publicly accessible over internet (the rest of RDS has this)

- aurora parallel query built in

- aurora multi master built in

Basically, I asked for one product to merge all their interesting features. That sounds nice and like a one-size-fits all database. I would very much like to use it in production. It would require very little maintenance.
Unfortunately it's the greedy and powerful who will create the AI.

I don't necessarily mean the scientists and engineers behind it. But people who will own the AI will be the greedy powerful.
The real meat of the article is why they did that, though.
There's some things:

- Start with educating your drivers properly. As a German the US process of acquiring a driver's license looks like thinly-disguised rubber stamping.

- Rethink your roads, signals, and what surrounds them. Use modern techniques that make pedestrians and drivers safer.

The above two should get you from about 7.3 road deaths per billion vehicle kilometers to somewhere in the ballpark of Germany (4.2). Maybe even better than that since some of the planning and signals here still suck...

Finally you're just driving way too much. This becomes obvious when comparing road deaths per 100k inhabitants: just 4.1 in Germany vs 12.4 in the US. Yup, that's a 200% difference. Public transport anyone?

Canada is also doing better on those statistics, but I don't know much about how to acquire Canadian driver's licenses or what their road planning looks like.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...
Hey Roneil, I'm really new to crypto development and I'm having a hard time finding crypto communities for developers (the one who builds stuff). I've checked out eth's forum but it's not really developer focused, it's too general.

Where do you usually hang out? I would like to learn more about building crypto stuff and would like to participate in a community. Can you point me in the right direction?

Thank you!

PS: I have completely no idea what Audius is about, but it sounds cool. Good luck!
“China has 5,000 years of civilization and a good foundation — we must come up with policies to embrace the world.“

These types of statements are always strange to me coming out of China. The current leadership actively destroys history to suit their new narratives including razing of ancient history to help the young forget.

In this sense, China is a very young country in terms of how long their leadership has been around. If you use similar reasoning that they do, every country is arbitrarily old in their connection to Africa...
New marine era unfolds amid hopes, doubts
> Do you have a video that compares modern digital 1080p with its best "Kinescoped" version?

As an informal comparison, check out a downloaded "cam version" of any recent movie compared with a DVD rip. If you ignore the occasional noise or interference from the crowd, the quality can be quite good.
It is. They made ARM chips for years and still hold a license.
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Singapore eyes lab shrimp, sky farms food revolution
If you use that method, don't they uninstall themselves if you relaunch firefox?
>In the US things like third-party doctrine have not aged well in the information age as just communicating with people can expose you in ways you can't ever control.

agreed. it's by design and i don't think anyone will be allowed to escape it
Ant Design 4.0 is in progress
You can use an echo as a BT speaker. Just don't connect it to the internet
between January 2013 and October 2018

72% of that timespan was during the prior administration
Some of the current issues I face with Firefox. They are mostly UI/UX-choices that are personal to me.

* No global zoom by default which also remembers per-page zoom changes.
* Bookmarking is overly cluttered with with other other, toolbar, menu, etc.
* Skype Web doesn't work on Firefox.
* User profiles which are as easily accessible as in Chrome.
Assuming all users do not want what the commenters giving feedback on HN want, then it would not be better for "all users".
This is a great point. I wonder if one day either it will force them apart again, or present problems of collusion...
>As a rule, the people who became commissars were the ones who couldn’t find another job. They were not very smart but were very conceited, self important individuals, especially after they had been given a taste of power, and especially over other people. Those who were thinking about a career in the party system, who could speak loudly and authoritatively from a podium, and who curried favor with the boss, these people could climb the party ladder quickly, and high up.

This describes a pervasive problem with large bureaucracies, including universities and large corporations. The only difference is that corporations have a bigger incentive to try to prevent this because those corporations that are able to get better middle management will outperform those that are unable to.
Google can’t make you or your family disappear
Spam it by labeling phone numbers with shit data and make it useless.
My son asked Alexa for 900M^{56}