skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> always-negative/outrage attitude

That's a meaningful insight. I think Web is in a place now where anyone with technical insight is frustrated. Yes, frustration is the right word. And confused. And it's this mix of confusion and frustration that has people going around bad mouthing all browsers, or at least I think so. Mozilla Firefox is the only significant browser that has the economic incentives to take care of privacy (there's no debate about that right? well there could be Safari, but it's closed source). I'm pretty close to chanting "the end is nigh". If you compare the resources available to the privacy-invading businesses, and the privacy-preserving businesses, how does it look? Or maybe regulative action will be taken? 100x more restrictive and better thought through than GDPR should be enough. Somehow I don't see that happening. Someone with a lighter outlook, chime in.
You appear to be arguing from within an esoteric anti-capitalism framework that's redefined a number of common words as terms of art within that framework. You're not going to have a lot of luck convincing people to ban technology by using this framework and those terms.
The Supreme Court didn't rule on the merits of the case. The actual antitrust case is extremely weak against Apple. You'd need a nonsensical market definition to say Apple has monopoly power, and it wouldn't hold up in court.
You should consider advocacy groups. They publish good stuff.

There is always bias, and I have spoken to that.

But where you have specifics, sign up for the newsletter.

Set some email filters and go.
Cities can cross county boundaries in some states, though -- NYC, for example, contains five counties within its city borders.
> So the official city you live in is not the city that USPS considers you to live in?

Postal addresses have to do with mail delivery and are only loosely associated with political geography.

> If a federal form asks you what city you live in, what do you put down (without committing perjury if there is such a risk)?

The city you live in. See above regarding postal addresses and political geography.

> And how does one figure out what city they officially live in then?

The high latency method is “register to vote, then find out what city’s elections you get ballot material for”. Election authorities can reliably translate postal addresses to electoral districts. (The mappings are publicly available and you can use them directly, but it takes more research to locate them.)
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>How's this polluting their telemetry? Also, how is some random UA NOT polluting their telemetry? It's a horrible excuse, that's all it is. It was fine and then suddenly it became "an issue". It's singling out them, SPECIFICALLY. Nice try.

Read the reply too. ;)
> large magazines

already illegal

> video game feel

Have you shot a gun in real life or in a game? There's no similarity.

> Something about popehat

Way to shoot the messenger and ignore the message...
I’d think if CF were interested in branching out (no pun intended) into auxiliary areas, they would be looking into perhaps offering some Netlify-like services to complete the circle (or even acquiring Netlify, which I believe would be a perfect fit for CF).
Practical Guide for Medical Management of Chemical Warfare Casualties: 2019 [pdf]
Sure, but my point is that those factors would not increase if we started selecting for IQ-related alleles, and so "ability to rule" probably wouldn't move much either.
I believe in the brave new world of serverless
Sure, autopilot does better than the average car on the road.
But there are parameters to control for. For example, the average car on the road is 10 years old, it's probably not very well maintained, and on average costs <$20k.

You should compare the safety of a Tesla to the safety of a similarly aged, similarly priced, and similarly equipped car, for example one with active safety mechanisms.

Plus, IMO the false confidence that Autopilot gives enables dangerous negligent behaviour from the drivers.

Want to see the safest car? NHTSA publishes an annual driver fatality report, and there are car models that have never had a fatal crash. See the 2009-2014 XC90 for example.
There exists and org like that, it's called Framasoft:

https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/
You can draw with different fonts and background colors, then grab the raw pixel values and hash them. The hash will be different depending on the versions of fonts installed, the OS, the GPU, the browser's text rendering algorithms, and the subpixel order/orientation of the display.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canvas_fingerprinting for more info.
This seems like a post he should have published to his private diary. It comes off very self-important and navel gazing.

Everyone wrote dumb stuff years ago. Move on with your life.
Manganese nodules contain many metals, not just manganese. In fact they are often called polymetallic nodules.

(Learned this from Night of Error by Desmond Bagley; not his best novel, published posthumously in 1984).
Ask HN: If I accept only Google login for my site, how many users will I lose?
The benefit is it will be easier to stop spamming, since Google requires a valid phone number for every new registration. But I'm not sure what percent of people do not even have a Google account and not willing to create one.
Not everyone is understanding what you're saying, as evident by the downvotes you're getting

Well also I'd like the address bar to be a fucking address bar and not an address-but-sometimes-search bar.
I understand the claim but I'm disputing it
Thanks. I'd read the Wikipedia page, I'm just not clear why this process is allowed (or more importantly, why it can't be removed).

Is there a legitimate use case for being able to read back pixels?
> if we took no measures to prevent any of them then chances are most of them would increase by very small amounts; maybe doubling for the most dramatic cases.

If by behavior we can reduce heart disease and cancer by half, that extends far more lives than eliminating terrorism, homicide and suicide entirely. Even the tail risk of terrorism is on the order of 10^4/year, while heart disease plus cancer is 10^6. So adjusting for tail risk, the focus of coverage on violence remains disproportionate.

There's a more substantial tail risk in global warming, nuclear war, infectious disease or SMOD. If the coverage of those was proportional to their tail risk they would crowd out most other news.
Microsoft had a 90%+ market share in computer operating systems, aka a monopoly. So there's that.
Wow, I see. Thanks!
Even if you knew the pattern, four random lowercase dictionary words (assuming a dictionary size of 50,000 words) would take longer to crack than a randomly generated 10 digit password with letters, numbers, and special characters.

50,000^4 > (26+26+10+10)^10
It's not federated, but since gitlab is open source and you can run your own instance, you could call it distributed
Gab is not a free speech social network. Gab is a white supremacy social network. Gab has actively courted white supramcists[0], white supremacists make up the vast majority of their userbase[1].

I understand and respect your deep support of free speech. But please, take a step back here and think about what you are saying you are glad about.

Are you really glad a group of people decided to roll up their sleeves and build a platform for white supremacists? Is that really an admirable use of someone's time, energy, and expertise?

[0] https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/30/tech/gab-anti-semitic-speech-...

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/10/31/silicon...
This is a great list! You writing number 9 is super!

Many of us experienced that as friends came out in more difficult times.

We learned what affects them, does also affect us.

Impacted friends are not as much fun as happy, healthy ones are.
A Deep Dive into How WSL Allows Windows to Access Linux Files
Quoting:

When processing requests to establish and change memorized secrets, verifiers SHALL compare the prospective secrets against a list that contains values known to be commonly-used, expected, or compromised. For example, the list MAY include, but is not limited to:

- Passwords obtained from previous breach corpuses.

- Dictionary words.

- Repetitive or sequential characters (e.g. ‘aaaaaa’, ‘1234abcd’).

- Context-specific words, such as the name of the service, the username, and derivatives thereof.

[1] https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/sp800-63b.html
If we smash them together we'd get Gitgit, which is probably the best option.
It kinda reminds me of TwistLock (which just got bought for a boatload of money).
I've been using a Surface Go after failing to get use from an iPad Pro. I find I use the Surface more than any of my other machines. Nearly perfect. Makes me plan on getting the next gen Surface Pro instead of a MacBook where the only hard requirement was for Xcode which can be relegated to any other old machine.
No, the case of Apple is more like McDonald's being able to prevent its customers from ever eating food not signed-off on by McDonald's.
Ah ok had to skim through the slides a bit, I think you meant to use the phrase "generational indexes" which is why googling didn't help me. This project was more helpful for my understanding:

https://github.com/fitzgen/generational-arena

I'm not sure what your ultimate point was though? You don't have to use anything like that in normal Rust code
You have the option of not making stupid comments defending the indefensible.
Yup, that's basically the story of my 7-ish years with Ruby (well, who am I kidding — it was 90% of Rails).

The "easy over simple" is something I was trying to nail, but couldn't; maybe because haven't given it enough thought.

Re: Ruby without Rails: fuck it, I'm too stupid for it and the whole dynamic typing mess; just gave it up in favor of Haskell.
> And before anyone says this guy has always been a crank: he was actively being courted by Repulicans like Jack Kemp in the 1980s back when his anti-communist views were deemed politically useful.

Maybe such a claim is useful to you but it really doesn't hold up to scrutiny. I grew up in the 80s, in a conservative household, and in New York City - Jack Kemp's home turf.

His political career was effectively over by 1982, taking 6 years to really die and I don't think I heard his name mentioned a single time in the 15 years I grew up having to listen to conservative talk radio all day every day.

What I did have to hear though, starting from the beginning of Bob Grant's era through Sliwa's morning and Limbaugh's afternoon shows, was what a threat to American society Louis Farrakhan was. He literally was enemy number one in the crosshairs of right-wing talk radio hosts for nearly 20 years.
So... git? It's already designed to be decentralized.

Hosting a public read-only repo would be as easy as standing up NGINX and pointing it at your repo folder, afaik.

At my previous job, we all had individual dev machines that we each had accounts on. So, we each had a copy of our repos that we could push to/work from. I wrote a little git alias that would add remotes for each others' machines so we could pull directly from each other (though we couldn't push).

Hell, even a "private" git repo wouldn't be too hard as long as you don't care about per-project permissions. Just make a user (e.g. 'git') that has read/write access to the folder and add some SSH keys to authorized_keys. Shazam, you have a private, self-hosted git repo at ssh://git@yoursite.com:path/to/repo.git.
Twitter is eroding your intelligence. Now there’s data to prove it
This is really dependent on the size of the dictionary.
As TVM continuously demonstrates improvements to the efficiency of deep learning execution, it has become clear that PyTorch stands to benefit from directly leveraging the compiler stack. A major tenet of PyTorch is providing seamless and robust integrations that don’t get in the user’s way. To that end, PyTorch now has an official TVM-based backend, torch_tvm.
Show me the contemporary (1970s) references stating cobalt, not manganese, was the primary goal.

Keep in mind: this was a cover story. It needn't be rational, merely plausible.
But Microsoft did have a monopoly in the browser market at that time. Apple doesn’t have a monopoly in the browser market or the phone market or the app market. You can’t abuse a monopoly you don’t have.
WAHA, brain behind a major Mastodon app, has claimed they're blocking Gab in his client and that users can't unblock Gab.

As a free software guy, this troubles me.

This is on par with firefox deciding which websites they should block.

(In fact the Oculus Browser blocks 4chan / 8ch / other sites)
I found Everything Under the Heavens to be rather enlightening.

https://www.amazon.com/Everything-Under-Heavens-Chinas-Globa...
A substantial portion of people do not live in any incorporated city, town, village, etc. This is part of why the concept of census-designated place exists. It's not just a farmer thing -- a lot of what you would consider to be small towns are unincorporated.

Example: Black Canyon City, a small town (arguably becoming a very outer suburb of Phoenix). Population ~5,000 in 2010. Totally unincorporated with no city hall, mayor, or anything like that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Canyon_City,_Arizona

So I would be surprised if there is any federal form that requires you to put the "city" you live in, outside the context of a USPS address.
I switched Firefox today, after so many years on Chrome. One of the reasons I found valid to use Chrome it was having the browsing history on my phone, but now i felt i really don't care that much. I value more to be controlling all privacy and not eating that many cookies, scripts.
You accept that it describes what people think it describes, so the concept exists. You also give an example of the concept being applied, so it is not only a concept, but it exists in reality as well.

Sounds to me that you think it is a thing, but you do not enjoy the fact that it is a thing.
Is this predicting or threatening violence? If so I don't see how that's constructive.
It seems like you're assuming that complying with a subpoena is a huge burden to Google. I would assume that a company with teams of lawyers and procedures already in place, this would be a very minor cost.
The humility seems fabricated for PR imho. I might be wrong but from what I’ve been reading both US and China have double standards, are cunning and perverted. Neither is willingly going to change their ways just because. It’ll take more than that..
Starting to feel like this is one of those things that people just blindly parrot all over the Internet without understanding the full context of the NIST guidelines, and as a result are actually causing many security problems.

You can’t take one recommendation that you like out of a whole body of work and start running around telling everyone to do this one thing. If you’re going to follow NIST, you need to do all of it. MFA is a big part of why complexity is reduced in the NIST guide, and you MUST have it if you’re going to remove complexity requirements. If you can’t have MFA for some reason (and yes, there are legitimate reasons for this), then you still need to use complexity, expiration, etc.
Bigger/better game to buy an island
How do you get it to tear off and show the whole window while you are moving it? I would love that, then I'd literally switch in no time flat.
I also feel that this is all so much hand-wringing in the end.

We're just at the start of understanding how the genome and proteome interact, let alone the development from one cell to one trillion. Likely, barring some very extreme and barbaric live-human tests, we'll never really know how this all works.

Gene editing will be mostly used in beneficial ways, not in these extreme ways. Diseases will be bred out of our species, cancers will be sequenced and then better chemo will be used against them (already happening), CRISPR CAS-9 will be used for sensory restoration techniques like elminating color-blindness and hearling loss. Sure, a few million eyes will be blue instead of brown, and sure, there will be a lot of taller people.

But, due to the complexity of development, the genome, and the (correct) adversion to human experimentation, things as complex as 'smartness' or 'tenacity' or 'beauty' will not be modified in such extreme ways.
I posted this sentiment in another thread and got a huge amount of down votes. The counter point, at least to nuclear, is that we did have a severe nuclear incident @ Chernobyl and Fukushima and neither amounted to millions of deaths.

Paging @nntaleb.
a seebeck generator can exploit airflow above or depth below oceans to convert heat into electricity. what uniform heat? all human heat effects augment the existing temperature cycles which have baked in gradients. thermoelectric processes simply reverse this, it would cause a lot of rain and raise ocean levels as the excess atmospheric water vapor is returned to a liquid state- due to the transformation of heat into electricity which would be stored or used to move the little sea robots around.

is the sun uniform heat? how do ectothermic animals and plants using photosynthesis work? I'm not sure why you think you can magically break thermodynamic symmetry...
There are likely some blacklists for known fingerprinting libraries. But, there's nothing that can tell you for sure, because it is also possible to fingerprint entirely server-side using the information your browser voluntarily transmits or contextual information about your connection.
Well that's good news! Thanks!
Implementing Stockfish's evaluation function on a GPU is almost certainly possible, but stupid. Stockfish is able to evaluate several million nodes per second. By the time it identified a position to evaluate and copied it to the GPU, it could have already finished evaluating it on the CPU.

But a GPU can evaluate many positions in parallel... great... not helpful here because you don't know which positions you need to evaluate.

This is a case of apples and oranges. CPUs are good at running conventional chess engines and GPUs aren't, that's just a fact and there's no way around it. GPUs are good at running some stuff like neural networks, so, great.

If you need to run a neural network engine (LC0) then run it on a GPU, if you need to run a conventional engine, then run it on a CPU. Which is what people are doing now. Trying to change this is nonsensical, and trying to argue about which has more compute power makes as much sense as arguing about whether a car can drive on water better than a boat can drive on land.
Wow, thanks, that "Velvet Glove" 3-parts comment is one of the best I've ever seen, all commenting sections combined !!
https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/all/2019/05/24/github...
Generally, yes. A little less so if you have spare but still important.

The main reason is, as you said, cache. The more unused RAM you have, the longer caches will be kept. It includes disk cache, browser cache, etc... But it can also make the CPU cache more efficient. L2 cache is about 10 times faster than RAM, and the less RAM you are using, the more cache will be used. L1 cache is even faster but here, access patterns matters as much as raw size, if not more.
One thing I don't see talked about much is the Uncanny Valley. No other technology has made it past it and looking at these they definitely have not either. Is there any reason to think that "deepfakes" will leapfrog it somehow?
I guess the relevant end-state here is civil war. For which the historical upper bounds are pretty high indeed, like 50%. (Unless you've defined terrorism so narrowly that it only counts if it's directly ordered from a different continent, or something.)
Could you explain you statement with facts ?
No need to attack your comment, only in Hacker News, the jerkers of the failed Mozilla Corporation, you'd read a comment as stupid as yours at the top. And all because they hate Google.

"Yeah it's true the Mozilla Corporation is terribly mismanaged and has a story of stabbing you at the back. But just trust them again! They won't do it again. For sure."
The monopoly was in the OS market. Microsoft got in trouble for trying to use that monopoly to create a new one in the nascent browser market.
I don't blame you for not using Make (It's nice and easy only in cases that are too basic for real-world projects. Once you start supporting out-of-tree builds, configurable components, portability, etc. it grows into something tricky and fragile).

However, I'd suggest using another existing build system rather than inventing a millionth-first one. It's easy to make 95% sufficient build system, but the effort to reach 100% is asymptotic.

In one project I refused to touch autotools, and hand-crafted my own ./configure script. It seemed simple at first, and ended up being a time sink. I've been getting bizarre bug reports about broken platforms where /dev/null doesn't exist, grep doesn't understand basic flags, /tmp/ is read-only (why do you hurt yourself like that!?). If you make your own build system, all of it it becomes your problem that you'll reinvent it like everyone before you.

The only problem is that no matter which build system you choose, you'll find both people who think it's the only right choice, and people who insist it's total garbage and they will never touch it.
Commencement speeches suck but not this
The monopoly is that no other software distributor can be used on iOS other than Apple.
Chredge worked for many weeks, then it didn't for a day or so, then it worked again.

Turning the block on was intentional, and turning it off was intentional.

We can only guess at their motivation, and I can guarantee you it was not benevolent given what Mozilla said recently about their interactions with Google.
Can also switch to https://brave.com/, based on Chromium, with native ad blocking at the lowest level, fast.
We do have a product called SSL for SaaS which handles most of the components of that flow like DNS and TLS certificates. The actual domain registration will take a bit longer to integrate, but I'm guessing you could make it work using our API.
Single-file public-domain/open source libraries with minimal dependencies
Open Source Software Isn’t Free, but It’s the Future of Business
Most non-US users. Many tech savvy US users. (Biased answer from tech savvy us citizen.)

Even with an account, I would absolutely not use it for 3rd party auth. The perception of Google with normal people is still good, but it has sharply shifted with techies. It is only a matter of time before it becomes a liability.

Sample size of one, and all opinion. Take with a nicely proportioned grain of salt. As you should any and all responses.
What are you working on ?
> In general, the ways individual states decide to divide up their local administration are just not something the federal government cares about. Arizona could decide tomorrow to abolish all its cities and counties and just administer everything centrally, and they'd be perfectly allowed to do that under federal law.

This isn't the impression I've gotten though? Just looking at tax forms, 1040 literally asks for "home address" on one line, and "city, town or post office, state, and ZIP code" on the next line. They certainly seem to care about the city? Now the problem is my common sense would dictate that the city should be the one used for the mailing address rather than what you officially live in, but that's not what it literally says -- it just says "city, town or post office". And given you're signing under penalty of perjury it seems kind of awful that there should be this kind of ambiguity?
A lot actually, for example you can do easy image resizing (like taking a selected image and resizing before uploading to the server.)
How lucrative is security work? It’s a direction I’ve been considering moving towards but the salary info I’ve seen is not great. Am I looking up the wrong terms/titles?