skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What goods and services, exactly?

Good schools.

Many HN readers don't have kids so they don't realize what a profoundly important factor this is when choosing where to live for many people. Once you have kids, their well-being and opportunity in life typically becomes the dominant attribute you're trying to maximize.

Parents would live in an active lava field where it rained urine every afternoon if the schools in the area were top notch.

Schooling is generally expensive. Nothing compares to one-on-one attention from a skilled, experience teacher and that doesn't scale, so to have a better school, you really need to simply have more money to put into hiring more and better teachers. In the US, a lot of school funding comes from local taxes, which means the amount of money schools have varies widely [0].

You could argue that this shouldn't be the case and that schools should be funded more equally out of larger pools. But if you are a parent with some money, it is your logical incentive to want to use that to improve your own child's schooling, so money naturally tends to flow towards schools that have more wealth children.

Many of those local taxes are local property taxes, so often the places that are affordable to live are by the very same process places that don't have great schools.

There's a nasty feedback loop here. You want your kids to go to good schools. The best schools have lots of rich parents. Those parents can afford expensive housing. Thus, most of the places with good schools have expensive housing.

Good government can and does push against this instinct, but it is a difficult, uphill battle.

[0]: https://www.npr.org/2016/04/18/474256366/why-americas-school...
I have all tracking disabled, have multiple gmail accounts with which I have made purchases, and there is nothing showing up on this page for me
Can’t you restore all the settings from a TimeMachine backup or similar? They’re just stored in files in the profile directory.
Self-sufficiency has a cost, to be sure. But it also has value. Same as with foreign dependence -- we are re-learning that foreign dependency has downsides.

The rebuilding of America's industry is the inverse of the pain experienced during the tearing down of these industries during the American industrial bloodletting of the 1970s, when production was sent "overseas" (primarily China).

For GenX and younger, it's almost difficult to appreciate that America built almost everything it needed (including electronic components), and was the best in the world, 50 short years ago. One could open up a television or an automobile, and every component was made here. Now it is quite impossible because we have surrendered certain industries.
Not immediate, but they have been tipped off by the employee who made the call, as you noted, so they can review the most recent video from just a few minutes ago for the specific corridor where that employee was tailgated.
Here is the view on germline gene editing from the discoverer of CRISPR, the one who brought it into human cells, the director of the Broad Institute, and other scientists who actually work with gene editing technology:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00726-5

Title: "Adopt a moratorium on heritable genome editing"
You could always use Chrome for dev and Firefox for the rest. The lack of ad-blocking is presumably not a problem for your sites in development, and you'll be supporting Firefox just the same!
Distributing new versions is an issue though, as there is no way to tell anyone who is currently seeding the old torrent. But it's not a terrible idea if it turns out there is really a lot of bandwidth (I don't expect that), then I could use my server for seeding at least.
Salesforce bans clients from selling certain rifles, ammunition
No umatrix provides finer control and is definitely useful along with your adblocker.
Excited to see what people build with this
Exposed files saw 50 percent uptick in last year
So you claim that there are many people who have been hurt by Google's data collection, but Google has censored their cases away?

Can't you find them with Bing?

Give an example!

It's a problem if Google bans your account, and you built everything on your services. But that is not the same thing, and any other company banning you from doing business with them would also hurt.
Regulation is to blame. Look at cities like San Francisco and tell me it's not regulation..
I have a solokey (solokeys.com) that supports FIDO2/U2F.

I can get Dropbox and https://webauthn.me/ to work with the key in Safari without any trouble.

I cannot get Google or Github to work with the key. I tried changing user-agent string and using Firefox, no luck.
The same people who were motivated enough to get it into Firefox?
They use it for some Azure things, IIRC.
Show HN: Remod, like chmod but for human beings
The world truly is fortunate to have NorCal as its shining city on the hill!
Loon: An Interactive Statistical Visualization Toolkit for Tcl/Tk and R
Absurd but also predicted, no? I am sure I recall people joking here on HN about how de-"biased" dating sites would surely arrive at some point soon, and here we are.

Bear in mind this comes from the same school of thought that brought us "air conditioning is sexist":

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/air-conditioning-offi...

If anything I find myself agreeing with that author in a strict logical sense: if there are two temps that are comfortable and it's set to the colder one for men, you can argue that's sexist by the dictionary definition, albeit also practical. But it's still kind of absurd.

Researchers also got unhappy that an AI trained on bulk text learned doctors are usually men and nurses are usually women. Their solution wasn't to try and encourage more men into nursing and vice-versa, but rather, to edit the AI so it believed in equal outcomes.
Thats the thing, people say: "tell the truth, tell everything you know about us". And then freak out.

The truth is, people want conforting lies.
That sounds like you're doing everything right.

Next up, we get to wonder if you have a virus on your machine which is playing videos for you in the background.

If the videos play at a regular interval, you could try turning one machine off during that time, and see if the events disappear from the log.
My 0.000002 BTC: I've tried several side projects over the years, a productivity SaaS app, a dating site, monetizing an open source project. I eventually gave up on those and wrote a sci-fi novel that generated a sizable income stream for a while.

I will say that it's a crowded space and eventually your income will peter out unless you spend big on advertising. But if you say, crank out one novel per year, you could potentially achieve economies of scale and generate a sizable (salary-replacing) income stream.
This is NOT Christianity.
This is not Jesus Christ's will.

I hate the fact that all these mega-church millionaire preachers claim to be followers of Christ in any way, shape or form.
Hackers actively exploit WordPress plugin flaw to send visitors to bad sites
They were also worried about Sony holding all the cards in video manufacturing with Blu-Ray. DVD was primarily "owned" by Toshiba with a variety of patents spread around a consortium of manufacturers. Sony had all the tech and patents and DRM control in Blu-Ray and were at risk of a dominating monopoly. HD-DVD did at least push Sony to spread more of the patent rights and DRM controls around to other manufacturers and create a (slightly) more open consortium than if there hadn't been a fight at all.
If we can edit cognitive things like IQ then will we be able to modify other cognitive things like sexuality and gender identity?
> Making a movie or web series is non-trivial.

Yes, I am aware of that. Hence an appeal for broader participation. The things I did not mention in my original post due to space constraints was that students from TV and Film institutes across the world can participate in this project and can also adapt the script and other contents as they see fit for their local audience.

I am just hoping for more participation in any form in this project.
There is already an experimental macOSX port in boden. More desktop support is a future goal. The library is designed to support all types of operating systems.
I don't know what to tell you then. I'm typing this comment right now using Firefox, with a tab-bar full of tabs, and every visible tab has the favicon and a portion of the title visible. The rest can be found in the drop-down, with nearly the entire title displayed.

Maybe there's some setting that controls this behavior, but my Firefox is pretty much completely stock. shrug
It would be awesome to create somekind of quide on how to switch from the Google ecosystem to something different. Mail, browser, agenda, drive, photos etc. I would seriously pay 50 bucks per month to have something different without bullshit companies like Google behind it.
I really hate these types of sites. It is a platform that has plenty of room for fake news and significant of damage for innocent. Unless the rating can be verified and be trusting, please don't do this.
Mining the computational universe: A talk by Stephen Wolfram
Robust and frequent conversation.
Are there any chants or rituals I'm supposed to know about, because I can't get my solokey to work with Google or Github?

It did work with Dropbox, so that's nice.
What I find surprising is that Google is exposing themselves voluntarily to subpoenas [1]. The more info Google collects, the more courts will try to use Google records as evidence. Therefore, isn't it in Google's interest to collect and store only the exact info they need, expiring records ASAP so there's as little as possible for courts to collect?

Perhaps Google has factored that risk into their calculations and they have decided that in the current legal environment, the money they earn by storing everything outweighs the money they lose by complying with subpoenas.

[1] https://support.google.com/faqs/answer/6151275?hl=en
Zdog, a Clever and Easy to Use Renderer for Browsers, Is a Joy to Behold
Core is awesome! It allows me to write complex on-demand analytical queries using a proper AST model instead of gluing together strings - basically the equivalent of my own Tableau or Looker. Most SQL libraries are the equivalent of building a parse tree by gluing together linear strings.
Well, this is what I'm seeing on a pretty much stock Firefox.

https://0x0.st/zB86.png
There was nothing "closed door" about it. Congress held a contemporaneous hearing on the issue: https://news.feinberg.northwestern.edu/2015/06/mcnally-testi.... It was included in house bundle of amendments: https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/2029.... That set of amendments then had to be reconciled between the house and senate versions before it was ultimately voted on. It made sense to include it in a budget bill, because the ban only precludes using federal funding to do such experiments.
Yes. Nestle has tried to patent a plant before.
U.S. Wants T-Mobile to Create New Rival Before Clearing Megadeal
The woman Sistrunk had come to interview was immobile, and could only intervene by shouting at the cat: “Pickles, now, we don’t bite!” Sistrunk got the interview, then got tested for rabies.

Can you test a living person for rabies?
Even that makes this a complete nonstarter for almost every one of my clients.
I will double check that. Thank you ;)
Try !sp if you want to see Google results, no need to use !g directly even if you did prefer the results. Google Maps and Youtube are very difficult to replace, if you live in a big city using varied modes of transit (walking, bus/train, driving), Google Maps is really tough to beat. I reduced my Google-coverage, but I don't intend to eliminate it altogether.

What did you move to for email? Fastmail with a custom domain? I've long considered ProtonMail but unlikely to go that route.

I'm between paying for iCloud storage and using that, or Outlook.com The additional phone backup space with iCloud would be very nice anyway, so as a monthly payment, it's a one-stop shop. At this point it's extremely unlikely I'll ever go back to Android so that works for me.
Or, just moving to Outlook.com. I'm leaning towards Outlook simply because of the better calendar system. Both Gmail and Outlook support email reminders for calendar items. I could get used to iOS-only notifications, but I really prefer notifications to come through email since I often include explicit instructions.
I switched to DDG a few weeks ago, and it's surprisingly better than I remember. Though for technical searches I have to add a second context parameter "go programming FOO" instead of "golang FOO" etc. But that isn't so bad. I've only fallen back to google a couple times, easy enough with ddg `!g search`.

May switch my browser to Brave, Opera or Edge too... though there are aspects of each of them I'm not fond of. The new Edge is decent.
I'd buy such a book.
I upvoted you (because your suggestion is a good solution) but let’s be real, most people don’t have backups, even developers.

In my experience as a developer companies don’t even issue me a USB backup drive to run time machine on my work issued MacBook Pro unless I specifically request it.
Does this include Fastmail use in other countries?
Gut bacteria influence autism-like behaviors in mice
Um, Firefox does the same sorts of thing.

A) Want to use unsigned addons to play around, or tweak your existing ones[1]? Nope, even if you allow them in about:config, you can't; you have to use a special development version and update it separately.

B) Want to customize your keyboard shortcuts? Sorry, that's not safe, you have to use a crippled API that won't take effect until a given page loads.

C) Want to control your setup? Sorry, their "studies" feature is owned by the marketing team and can make arbitrary changes to the app on the fly, all the way up to its cryptographic infrastructure! (As we learned in the recent add-on mishap [2].)

I use Firefox, but they're not obviously better on these matters.

[1] Like, I don't know, if you made a big deal about underprivileged groups getting into coding, and actually wanted to take the concept seriously rather than just get some photogenic token to write hello-world for a photo op.

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19826827
I switched back to firefox little before the quantum release because I was around when we had Internet Explorer 6 (and the many years of fallout from it). What's your excuse for using chrome?
Are you sure UTF8-C8[1] doesn't cover this use case?

[1] https://docs.perl6.org/language/unicode#UTF8-C8
Betteridge's law wins: No.
So, that would mean the hadoop distro market would be down to just cloudera? A single vendor market is not a market, it's a legacy product.
That is great and all. Why do I have to type of the full keyword? tab completion on chrome is killer for this.
If they could add stick figure characters like xkcd it would be useful.
> but modified human embryos is a whole can-of-worms and is such a game changer I feel the need to worry about it.

Playing random lottery and hoping not to draw the gene-defect ticket while only evolve on a scale of 1,000s of generations is better? We might not even have 1,000 generations left on this planet.
What does that accomplish?

As opposed to Tor use, specifically?
Turla turns PowerShell into a weapon in attacks against EU diplomats
There's some serious congnitive dissonance you're broadcasting.

You say dozens of friends figure it out, but one idiot pushes it forward.

Sounds like most people think rationally. The idiots are a small minority, however loud.

When it comes time to tally up, the votes won't favor the one idiot. The court of public opinion won't swing in favor of lone wolves. It never has.

The lowest common denominator is precisely that. Common. It's not the crackpot opinion.

The megaphone of a crackpot doesn't sway opinion. Public opinion dilutes to neutral apathy. It rarely charges up to high polarity, and only when there are solid, verifiable facts in play.

If a large base is charged up, they have a core set of real values. It's not a base founded on fiction. They haven't been swindled. It's dismissive to believe that.
FWIW this is configurable. Edit `browser.tabs.tabMinWidth` in about:config
You should sell your RSUs on rest and diversify. If you don't diversify and something happens to your employer, your could lose your job, the value of your home could go down, and your investment could lose a substantial amount of value, all at the same time.
I’m no Microsoft fan, but that isn’t really a thing anymore is it? Of the tech giants, MS seems the least noxious now.
I'm struggling a bit to understand the outrage directed specifically at Google over this.

When Apple made a nearly identical change in Safari, some people even praised it for protecting user privacy by preventing malicious ad blockers from intercepting every URL you visited. Most people didn't seem to care, and those who did generally seemed happy about it. But when Google does it, people assume the worst intentions.
If you're willing to pay, that really helps. There are countless mail services that are way better than gmail while also not spying on you.
This is what I see:

https://ibb.co/T4z2YfZ
Here we go again... You would think we learned the first time with the Nazis... but nope... The seduction of the ubermensch is too strong.

I would like to point out that there is no higher, just fit for purpose. If you give these technologies to businesses and to governments they will use it instrumentally to create stronger soldiers that can take more abuse or build better workers that don't feel any negative emotions and can work longer hours. In the current environment this is stupid.

Just look at what we have done to dogs, you want to see human equivalent to pugs or chiwawas.... or rottweilers?... or hell chickens.
To me, nothing but a favicon is exactly "an indistinguishable blog" since it does nothing to help me distinguish between the 10 arxiv.org tabs, or 7 or 8 Youtube tabs that I have open. shrug
Safari seems lacking in the browser extensions department.
Consistently working nights and weekends is imho a warning sign from both an employee viewpoint as well as for enlightened employers.
Trade War Starts Changing Manufacturers in Hard-to-Reverse Ways
The most creepy, though useful thing I've experience with google, was the android notification "You should leave for the airport now" for something I never set, based on my airline receipt.
Forget Boden and forget messy C++... use Google backed Flutter framework with Dart.

https://flutter.dev
Checkout youtube for presentations.

Build once for iOS, Android, ChromeOS, Web, All desktops.
What, are we going to ban links that are blocked by the Great Firewall of China because the 1.3 billion mainland Chinese can't view it (a group about 2x the population of Europe)? Region-blocked content due to legal reasons is extremely common and it long predates GDPR. Plenty of YouTube videos are region blocked due to copyright differences.
Dunno if it's just me but one thing preventing me from switching is my preference for the chrome dev tools. To me they are just head and shoulders easier to use than the firefox or safari versions.
How strange, this is the first I've heard of this. I've never had to touch source maps config in my webpack and it's always shown fine in Firefox. Is it just specific circumstances/specific code patterns that have source map problems in Firefox? Or is it when it's transpiling from TypeScript or JSX or something?
It sounds like you tried to write rust like it's OOP. You're gonna have a bad time if you do that.

>Handling callbacks without piles of Rc<RefCell<>> to access widget data

That's why you don't let widgets hold program state, they should just propagate deltas and display current state. It's a different way of thinking about how UI can work, but imho it has a lot of benefits aside from just speed and safety.

>having vectors simulating graphs,

You mean adjacency lists? They're a canonical realization of a graph, and a fast one at that.

>having to deal with use-after-free indexes.

What do you mean by this?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20033412 and marked it off-topic.
> Where is the long-term focus on what to do about automation?

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/05/30/rick-wart...

> A study by University of Chicago economist Yale Brozen would find that while 13 million jobs had been destroyed during the 1950s, the adoption of new technology was among the ingredients that led to the creation of more than 20 million other positions. “Instead of being alarmed about growing automation, we ought to be cheering it on,” he wrote. “The catastrophe that doom criers constantly threaten us with has retreated into such a dim future that we simply cannot take their pronouncements seriously.”

> Economists started to explore the issue in the early 1800s, during the Industrial Revolution. Most classical theorists of the time—including J. B. Say, David Ricardo and John Ramsey McCulloch—held that introducing new machines would, save perhaps for a brief period of adjustment, produce more jobs than they’d destroy. By the end of the century, concern had faded nearly altogether. “Because the general upward trends in investment, production, employment and living standards were supported by evidence that could not be denied,” the economic historian Gregory Woirol has written, “technological change ceased to be seen as a relevant problem.”

We go through this "fear" pretty regularly and it's unfounded.

Also from the article:

> General Motors, for example, added more than 287,000 people to its payroll between 1940 and the mid-1950s. “There is widespread fear that technological progress … is a Grim Reaper of jobs,” GM vice president Louis Seaton told lawmakers. “Our experience and record completely refutes this view.”
What's your response to the article's point that a platform, any platform, already changes your behaviour?

This is the focus of the discussion - do people know what they want? If, as the authors write, desire emerges from interaction with a platform, then there's no sense in talking about "what people want". There's no sense in even trying to criticize manipulating what people want.

Particularly on browsing platforms, like social media or online shopping, what the user wants to be presented with is not a single, well-defined goal; even when restricted to just one user. Platforms always editorialize, even if it is unintentional. Platforms are already a moral authority, even if just by reinforcing norms.

Technologists who say "I'm neutral, I just listen to the data/user/profits/shareholder/specification" fail to recognize that software acts on people, and being willfully blind to what influence you have is not absolving you of influence.
SciHive: A collaborative tool for reading AI and ML papers
Firefox Beta is at 68 now and still not way to set the default zoom...
Safari redesigned their dev tools at some point a long time ago and made the interface (IMO) terrible. Until they did that I used to use it a lot more.

Safari is a great browser if you don’t need the most cutting edge features or extensibility though, and I believe it’s also the best optimized for battery life.
While I love C++, I can’t help but see this as the n-th iteration of the noble but impossible pursuit of a cross-platform GUI framework.

Cross-platform GUIs never work. They almost work to the point where managers latch onto the idea because they think it will let them fire half of the engineers, but the end result is always well in the uncanny valley.

Open Gimp on macOS and see what I’m talking about. Or Slack. Or Eclipse. Etc.
50 bucks? yeah that's about doable.
run your own cloud with owncloud/seafile. (owncloud added bonus is calendar )
get email service in a privacy tight country (switzerland).
Congrats!

When I read about the switch to Simulacra I was super excited. How much of a performance improvement can we expect compared to v3?