skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People can change world-views multiple times in their lifetime, maybe this plasticity is just another thing we'll need to preserve as part of improvements designed for staying younger longer.

Arguably, for example in science, advancing it "one funeral at a time" is too slow even at current life expectancy. So one way of speeding it up is killing any prominent scientists over 30. Lots of benefits, right? We would have moon bases in early hundreds BC if humanity adopted that approach!

Advancing societal progress one generation worth of funerals at a time doesn't sound like a good strategy either. I propose reeducations camps instead. Similarly to how slavery during the time of its invention was a great humanitarian advance (alternative was literally death), imperative to keep up with times would be a good alternative to death as well.

Seriously though, changing society to value rationality, (in lesswrong kind of sense, with obligatory Crisis Of Faith exercises, etc) might be not much harder than extending life expectancy to 1k years.

Re: cancer -- society is not an organism, there is no inherent worth of society separate from what benefits it conveys to individual members. In other words, maybe that's my individual organismic bias showing, but individual cells live for the benefit of the host organism, while society exists for the benefit of individual members. Cancer cells are freedom loving cells!
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Ironically, it triggers on blog.mozilla.org :/
> If the truth was self-evident fake news would not exist...

Note I saw saying "if there are two narratives". The "fake news" situation is often just one narrative. (US cable news has no narrative. Or brain.)

The government shouldn't assume it's correct. But if there is a wide variety of narratives it should be less difficult for the populace.
> But it sounds like this has been replaced with a system that doesn't require any sort of human input.

They should rename it "Our Insane Algorithm's Choice."
Where I live, in a suburb well within the metro area around the city of Seattle (WA), I am LUCKY to have even one provider that offers at least 25Mbit (per second, down). They thankfully offer 1 Gigabit down packages (very recently, YEARS behind when Seattle got this 'city wide').

HOWEVER, there is ZERO competition so:

* data-caps
* horrendous over-charges
* UPLOAD (on a 1000Mbit line) ~= 30 Mbit

Yes, that's right, the upload is about ONE THIRTIETH, a very small fraction, of the download. Even the BUSINESS plans don't go much higher (while costing tons more, and really only having a support that will say sorry and give a small credit with no actual rush on support; in past experience).

So very much no. The wired-line sector is a natural monopoly that should be like roads to the airport. I should pay a very small bit in taxes for good connections to the global hub, and at said global hub I should have my choice of services from many providers.
The only distinction is that with law, you can actually hold people responsible for their actions in a way that matters.
How so? Most goods can trivially be substituted for another of the same category. A dishwasher can be substituted for another dishwasher etc.
This resonates with me. Secret gardens are everywhere if you look. For me, in Cleveland, in the 90s it was the `Temple of Lost Love` beneath the Eagle St. Bridge in the Flats. It attracted art of all types, delinquents, prep students, you name it. A place to go for privacy or camaraderie. The saddest day was in the early 00's when it was painted over, fenced off, and patrolled.

EDIT: P.S. Hannu Rajaniemi is an amazing author. `Quantum Thief` is one of my favorite books.
These iPhone price graphs would be better if they accounted for inflation - which still shows a large increase in price, especially if you look at the flagship phones.

https://kyso.io/eoin/iphone-prices
And/or the difference between working for another 20 years while paying the mortgage, or stacking your extra cash and retiring in 10.
Too bad the coolest Ethereum projects never get featured on HN. Let me list some.

Loans - Compound Finance, Dharma

Derivatives - Augur, Veil, Synthetix

Exchange - 0x, Kyber

AMM model "exchange" (always liquid markets) - Bancor and UniSwap.

And at the center of all of this is Maker and it's Dai stablecoin which is backed by Ethereum.
US army cannot be deployed on US soil.
I have a special connection to this topic. When my then-girlfriend was in college (early 1980s) she mentioned this essay to me. Crucially, I didn’t see the word. Just heard it from her. She took the whole thing seriously, even though she mentioned it sounded just like modern folk.

So she wrote an earnest essay taking the anthropological parallels seriously, and got a C because she hadn’t got the joke. She was a tensely serious student and correctly talked the prof into a higher grade because there was no reason she should have got it.

Thing is, I was constantly reading words backwards all the time just to hear them pronounced. It must have been annoying as hell. In my head when I heard the word, never having seen it, I spelled it “Nassirema” which isn’t interesting backwards. So for once in the many years we went out I didn’t bother to blurt out the word in reverse. She was the kindest person I have ever known, but she was a little annoyed.

Sorry, Elizabeth Green, wherever you are! I’m still ashamed of myself for that one.
No it doesn't.

But being poor DOES mean lowered efficiency with respect to an astonishing number of steps involved to achieve the desired outcome.

And when you have enough of these lowered efficiencies at one time and they begin to compound like interest...

Not always a pretty picture.
No. The problem with healthcare is they can't compete against each other: Imagine you just got into a car accident. There's no way you can shop around for the best deal on a hospital while your head is bleeding out. Due to the fact that competition is impossible, we need to strictly regulate the healthcare market to prevent the predatory healthcare that's given. Right now, they can make up any number they want and charge you for it.

I don't like it because it's not how market economies are supposed to work, but we absolutely need strict controls on pricing. For example: instead of allowing them to charge 4000$ for an ambulance ride, set the limit to something more reasonable, say 100-300$ depending on the COL in that area.

Also, expanding the labor supply of doctors and nurses would also help. Right now, there are strict limits on the # of doctors that can be made.
> But that's not what we are talking about.

No, that's exactly what we are talking about. The threat of big cloud players swallowing up the SaaS model that powered opensource to the current highs, is very real. Until Amazon and friends were mostly interested in powering the low-level bits, it wasn't a big deal; but now they are moving up the stack and pulverizing the small businesses that drive the OSS ecosystem. That is a problem.

The AGPL was supposed to protect against this sort of play and it really isn't, for various reasons. Personally, I welcome the attempts at innovating in this area particularly when they are clearly well-intentioned like this one.

> I'd hate to see a project I contributed to change it's license to something that limits how the applications can be used

Unless you've waived your rights, you can exert your copyright and block any such move.
I have two main computers. One has for continuity reasons the old version of Firefox, the other the new one.

The old version is so much more usable that I find myself using that computer much more frequently. It is rock solid with 100's of tabs open, all my extensions work and without silly restrictions on what they can and can not do and it uses a lot less memory. It's measurably faster too. I'm all for progress and improvements in software but after a long stretch of being a very ardent FF supporter I really do wonder if they have a future. If a competitor had a dream about what they could do to ruin Firefox they could not have done a better job.

Enhanced tracking protection is great but it doesn't matter if you push away your users.
The general idea reminds me of the Asimov story "It's a Beautiful Day", from 1955 [1]. (The details are all different, so I'm not suggesting anything nefarious. Just listing another take on one of the same themes).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_Such_a_Beautiful_Day
MS changed UAC for windows 7 so much in an effort to stop annoying window's users that people complained that defeated the point

https://www.networkworld.com/article/2253987/microsoft--neut...
I'm ashamed to say I horrifiedly read that entire thing without getting it, although that did grant me the opportunity to read it again from a whole new perspective. Funny stuff. That was awesome.
But not an established profitable company. This is a money-losing startup looking for another funding round.
Nah, since they would make money anyway, they have plausible deniability.
It's explained in the article.

> For existing users, we’ll be rolling out Enhanced Tracking Protection by default in the coming months without you having to change a thing. If you can’t wait, you can turn this feature on by clicking on the menu icon marked by three horizontal lines at the top right of your browser, then under Content Blocking. Go to your privacy preferences and click on the Custom gear on the right side. Mark the Cookies checkbox and make sure that “Third-party trackers” is selected. To learn more about our privacy and security settings and get more detail on what each section – Standard, Strict, and Custom – includes, visit here [1].

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/content-blocking
we should leave nature alone.
The New Philanthropy
> could I fork cockroachDB, rebrand it, add considerable improvements of my own, and then offer that as a service?

If you were to do that, even with current licenses, you probably couldn't call it CockroachDB anyway.
It sounds like this is similar to what Apple added to Safari two years ago (https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/05/apple-adds-a-tracker-block...), though I don't know the details.

I will be excited for the day when Privacy Badger is an unnecessary extension.
And some people meet their best friends through their heroin dealer.
Does Inequality Matter?
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Looking for guidelines to self-publish in various journals/conferences(especially related to computer science). Most of the wisdom related to processes in this space is passed on in a streamlined way to incoming grad students and researchers in an academic setting. But let's say I am a clerk sitting in a patent office and I have few experiments that I worked on with thorough proofs and results. How do I get this officially published(not about formats but about the processes)? In general, these are my questions(TIA):

1. How to choose journals/conferences to publish?
2. Do top publications prefer submissions from universities only? (What's the ground reality here?)
3. Any blogs/articles explaining in detail about this?
4. Would Arxiv let me publish without associating myself with a university?
Thank you for bringing up "information symmetry." I feel like this is always missing in discussions of free markets and capitalism. To me, information asymmetry is what most regulations are trying to address (package labeling, testing, process standards). In areas where consumer/producer already have the same information regulations aren't needed and cause unnecessary problems.
Also stale inventory they want to move.
You need 2fa to use sign in with apple. That requires an apple device. Dunno how apple will handle it if someone sells their only apple device and no longe4 has 2fa.

(Unclear how this works now, it’s an issue with apple 2fa even without signin with apple)
I remember life before the iOS App Store. Mechanisms for delivering software on MacOS usually took a much larger cut than 30%. Heck, when Apple announced 30%, Amazon had to scramble and switch from keeping 70% to matching Apple's 30%. Amazon still keeps 70% if you price your ebook under $3, in fact, while Apple does not.

Your comment implies price-fixing, but history demonstrates competition, and Apple lowered the costs for everyone.
I don't fully agree with the linked thesis, but it was a convenient link to show the average picture and his affect on consumers. Rockefeller absolutely participated in predatory pricing within local markets. Of course if you only look at national average data you won't see this.

Rockefeller would likely have still won even in a fair fight just because of his economy of scale. But that wasn't enough for him, and he resorted to underhanded tactics like having his own subsidiaries engage in fake price wars between each other. The full ownership of those subsidiaries was intentionally obscured. In this day national average data may be sufficient to build a picture, but at that time national companies were very rare and competition was heavily regional. Note that this was only a net negative for his competitors, consumers benefited from the low prices and the predicted gouging never came after.

There is a common line of thought that because consumers weren't immediately harmed that Rockefeller should never have been tried. I don't agree with that logic - the end does not justify the means.
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Reproducible in Firefox 67 on macOS as well. "DOWNLOAD" is only in one line for very wide windows, and for my default half-screen-wide window size (960 px), the main body title renders as

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> But the "Sign in with Facebook" button didn't appear by magic on the Android app, did it? Someone had to add support to their app for it.

It would be nice if you could add an identity provider to your OS and the app could ask the OS to identify you using your provider of choice for that application.
Don't forget to take into account that fuel economy standards get more and more lax as GVW increases in a step-wise fashion (at least in the US). If you look at historical data, cars and trucks have been increasing in size and GVW at a rapid pace.

Car companies are quite literally incentivized to make larger vehicles (and pass that materials cost onto us) while lowering R&D costs for their powertrains, and as a result, killing the environment even faster.
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How to Not Suck at Color
MIPS is a product of Wave Designs in California. We're years away from a non-western influenced CPU being commercially available.
If you don’t notice it, it’s not particularly effective is it?
The fact that they don't have anywhere near a numerical majority of devices always makes me pause on this stuff.

The weird thing with Apple using its market position to get their way is that they don't have all the customers, not by a long shot. It's that they have the customers you want.

I'd hazard to guess Apple looks more dominant by some customer money-weighted metric.

When Apple directly competes against companies on its own platform it does seem a bit shaky a la Spotify.

But in the general case, the idea still bites at me that you don't need Apple to access a sufficient customer base, but you want them because you want to access Apple's customers.
The former. Second question, not really, and you never own an IP, you just have permission from Arin, ripe, apnic, etc to use it.
> Using a spinlock / mutex would improve performance if we're only talking about 2 threads.

... but that wouldn't be lock-free would it?
how about providing a security service [APP] that inspects the web scrape made by the client browser, to provide awareness of the sites security/threat properties ?
Its semantic but scraping to protect users should be different from scraping just to snoop a site.
IANAL so the line between hacking, and threat model identification should be investigated somehow.

And of course, the development of such a system is a time and cost concern.
They aren't hard on the spine with proper form.
I’d love to see a competing version with benchmarks.

I’m not saying you’re wrong. But your making a lot of strong arguments without any evidence. Is 3 atomics on the same cache line a legit problem? I don’t know! But you’re gonna have to prove negative behavior for me to integrate that knowledge into my workflow.
Can you explain how you know that Firefox collects the data versus just asking people in a survey?
Are there Chrome-only webapps you use that don't just work with a User-Agent switcher?
Only the installation is. Homebrew uses its own Ruby now.
(Disclaimer: I work at Uber, my views are my own, etc)

I joined a few months before Dara took over as CEO, sort of right in the middle of the storm; long story...

Anyways, to be honest, I think the company has done a lot to get itself back on track since Dara took over. There was extensive investigation about employee misconduct after the Fowler incident (culminating in some 200 cases being reviewed by an independent firm, with substantiated cases resulting in termination) and training policies were implemented; the 2016 data breach cover-up incident resulted in the head of security being fired; espionage programs were shut-down; and the company is in full cooperation w/ investigations about the Tempe SDV killing incident.

With all that said, I don't want to sound like I'm defending Uber, just giving my two cents as an insider, given that media tends to focus on the shocking negatives but not necessarily on the follow ups.

I think more than considering how media portrays a company, it might be more fruitful to consider its size, since smaller companies have different dynamics than larger ones, and might be more suitable to one's preferences/experience than the alternative.
i picked shopify because i know they have an apple pay switch.

i don’t care who processes the payment, i just like being able to buy physical goods without making a new account, and ideally without any more friction than faceID while impulse-buying nonsense while i’m on the toilet :)
Here is the response we got :

--- START ---

Hello XXX team,

We are writing to let you know the results of your appeal for your app, XXX.

The App Review Board evaluated your app and determined that the original rejection feedback is valid. Your app does not comply with:

Guideline 3.1.1 - Business - Payments - In-App Purchase

We continue to find that your app offers a subscription with a mechanism other than the in-app purchase API.

While we understand that the app reads data, it does not fall into any of the categories listed in guideline 3.1.3 for reader apps:

3.1.3(a) “Reader” Apps: Apps may allow a user to access previously purchased content or content subscriptions (specifically: magazines, newspapers, books, audio, music, video, access to professional databases, VoIP, cloud storage, and approved services such as classroom management apps), provided that you agree not to directly or indirectly target iOS users to use a purchasing method other than in-app purchase, and your general communications about other purchasing methods are not designed to discourage use of in-app purchase

We hope you will consider making the necessary changes to be in compliance with the App Store Review Guidelines and will resubmit your revised binary.

Best regards,
XXX
App Review Board

--- END ---

So unless you are in one of those listed categories, it does not work. Don't know why we can't be considered to be a professional database tho.
Yes. And there’s no way to offset carbon emissions at any significant scale that I’m aware of.
Olive oil, like any unsaturated oil, may go rancid on exposure to air. But in a sealed watch there will not be enough air.

("Organic", outside of agriculture, means "composed of carbon compounds". In practice, that usually means compounded by something alive, because life has been at the carbon for a long, long time.)
I don’t know of any numbers, but it is certainly a lockin factor. I once thought about android, now I never would as long as apple has this privacy stance. I have talked to others who feel the same.

Again, no hard numbers, but it’s at least common enough that others I speak to routinely agree its important to them.
Fried (-man) is a common East-European Jewish surname, from the German "peace". A moment of useless Genealogy...
Chez compiles a 80Kloc project of mine in less than a second, and apparently that is still 2x slower than before they switched to a nanopass compiler.

There is no reason compiling things should not compile at similar speeds to chez unless you are telling your compiler to ootimise everything.

C++/ruae are just exceptionally slow and it became the new bottom line somehow. I know rust does a lot of housekeeping, but after using chez and sbcl, 45s for a 1.5kloc project is killing me inside.
Most software I use daily is (luckily) not SaaS and as for AGPL being the default, for SaaS free software that's already pretty much the case today.
Maybe it was a Deep fake video?
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The EU assumes you have a market-dominant position at a market share of 40%. You don't even need a majority of the market to be treated as a "monopolist".
Why does it look less aerodynamic than a normal plane? Isn't a rocket or missile like shape the most aerodynamic one? Planes are pretty close to rockets with thin wings for maneuverability. Fling V has so much surface area being pushed against the air, I am honestly surprised at their claim of being 20% more fuel efficient.
I guess you can be upset at the price, but people have been asking Apple for a mini-tower for decades and they're obviously not interested in offering one. I'm not sure why anyone would think the Mac Pro redesign would be it.
There was no disclosure that they were hemorrhaging money nor that their product was significantly unprofitable though. I imagine interest would've been a lot less had that fact been public at the time. They were literally selling it as "invest now and we all make a lot of money later"

I think the SEC is interested in the conditions around their ICO, the misleading tactics, and the aftermath of it, more than the fact that they did an ICO
> I stopped using them when they released Follower-Reads as an enterprise feature.

I read Cockroach Labs’ strategy to be good on single nodes, great on single-datacentre cluster, phenomenal worldwide.

They offer single-DC features open-source, and worldwide enterprise-only.

Apart from SQL features, their open-source cluster offer seems superior to PostgreSQL. Sure, they do not have follower-reads, but neither does PG (which does not even have AS OF SYSTEM TIME, a prerequisite), and it is only beneficial with multi-DC.

Reads are still distributed by range, so there is no particular negative compared to Postgres.

Why was Follower-Reads a dealbreaker?
I also agree, in that I don't expect a font designer to be a web dev. But I do expect a font designer to care about design, and this seems like a pretty egregious error for someone who cares about design.
There are better articles about this news than this over-editorialized axe-grinding blog post. For instance, this one about the official's reappearance: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/02/world/asia/north-korean-p... (and the original NY Times report was pretty careful with its words about his disappearance: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/30/world/asia/north-korea-en...).
> ... but that wouldn't be lock-free would it?

Why do people do lock free?

1. Lockfree is sometimes easier to understand -- This case it is not. They've added a "watermark" variable to the queue, so its more difficult to reason about now.

2. Lockfree can be faster -- This is the case most people hope for. But it is far more difficult to do in practice. Spinlocks are surprisingly fast.

There's kind of an "implicit" assumption that you're going lock-free because of benefits of #1 (easier) or #2 (faster). But in this case... they built a lock-free data structure that is HARDER to understand and very clearly slower.