skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
taking a big step back I don't know if democracy is a more stable system than others. Or even better in terms of long-term results

I wonder what sort of education you've had? I can easily and quickly think of dictatorships that killed or enslaved millions of their own citizens - it's practically a requirement to be a really good dictatorship, it seems. It's a struggle to think of any democracies which do that. Perhaps the Israel/Palestine conflict has shades of that, perhaps internment of Japanese in America during WW2 counts a bit, but it ended pretty fast and was due to a war.

I'm gonna take a wild guess that your current lack of faith in democracy is caused by Brexit. Am I right?
> The browser is not fully open source like open in open source. It is a common myth and misconception about Kiwi Browser.

https://github.com/kiwibrowser/android/issues/30

There's NewPipe at F-Droid for youtube music in the background and so much more.
Most people didn't see any danger to something as simple as sugar 30 years ago. We added it everywhere, and now have an obese US population with sky high diabetes levels.

Sugar is not complicated.

The millions of DNA pairs of the millions of species of living things, all interacting, is complicated. Also, we eat those.

So we understand probably 4 percent of it, and we tweak the settings. I don't see any scenario where this is not a serious risk.

If you play with something on a huge scale that you don't fully understand, safety first.

But the worst part for me is that we have to defend the point of view of asking for being careful. Look at this thread. All I'm suggesting is a non compromising auditing system, and it's a debate !

This is insane. It should be the opposite. If you want to opt out of the safety net of humanity, you better make your case.
They’re not attacking anything - I don’t think ad blockers block search ads, which are embedded into search results - and Firefox royalties have always been for search.
Exercise. Avoid sugar. Lean towards nutrient dense foods (i.e., not too many simple carbs). Low / no alcohol. Etc.
The difference is we have a well-established process for making more cows. We don't have a similar process for whales so if we fuck up their population, we won't be able to make more whales.
The best mobile Firefox feature never marketed by Mozilla at all.
Most cathedrals took generations to build and diverged from the initial plans during their construction. It is not uncommon that even architectonic styles changed, and the final result was a mixture of romanic and gothic, for example.

Sagrada Familia may be an unhappy travesty, but every cathedral is, and few have such a consistent style. Even our cities are unhappy travesties, and I do not think that leaving the unfinished works of deceased architects unfinished would change that.

You have all the right to dislike how it is being done, and it may be not exactly what Gaudí thought, but trying to finish it was, in my opinion, the right decision. When you are in the middle of a task that will take generations, it makes sense trying to continue even if some accident happens, like your main architect getting killed by a tram or documents getting lost.
If plumbers don't want to hear about your damn app, leave them alone instead of spamming them.

You are not entitled to customers. The only valid reason for a business to exist, including yours, is to produce things people want. If no one wants your product, your business should not grow. Useless businesses not growing is a good thing.

> Anyone who works in start-up growth will tell you the same things I am.

I know that advertising is useful to companies that do it. But I don't care. What matters are not the individual interests of your company but the collective interests of society as a whole.
This is just untrue. You can have a quality product but just starting out without customers. You could be a niche market in a local area (I'm in this bucket) where paid advertising (usually search) is the only way to get the word out.

I don't believe I'm "emotionally hacking people" by paying Google to put our phone number and a few snippets of text in front of potential customers.
The Guardian is an online news site (with all the sensationalism that entails), not a serious scientific publication.
If it is the same as with the Existing Find My Phone

1. Resell - you turn off 'Find My' on your phone and sign out of iCloud then wipe the device

2. Loss - Go into iCloud and mark the device as lost. Not sure what this means for finding other devices

3. New companion device - sign it into iCloud.
From Zero Customers to a $1B Business by Learning One Simple Lesson
Sound quality is perfectly fine. When it's not, it's always because the other party has a crappy microphone or a crappy connection.
From the first user manual I found with Google:

"It is also possible to override the speed limiter by
fully depressing the accelerator pedal beyond the
resistance point."

https://www.qashqaiforums.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=4256
In Search of Life’s Smoking Gun (2014)
This seems to be a remarkably common talking point on HN in this thread, but nobody ever cares to substantiate it with evidence.

There are a lot of spectacularly successful autocracies and a lot of dismally awful democracies

Where are these "successful autocracies"? I hope you're not imagining that mere economic growth is sufficient for success, because examples like Taiwan, Japan and Korea show that rapid 20th century economic growth in Asia is the norm not the exception. To the extent China has grown fast in recent decades it's only been by abandoning many of the bad policies the dictatorship previously imposed, in favour of policies used by democratic countries. Meanwhile other countries managed to become 1st world countries with clean air, and without throwing millions of citizens into concentration camps. China's performance is thus significantly sub-par compared to its neighbours.

The most common outcome after the overthrow of a dictatorship is chaos and economic collapse, followed by a much worse dictatorship

Maybe? I'd have to see stats on that.

Dictatorships that were overthrown or collapsed and which were replaced by peace and (relative) prosperity in the 20th century:

1. Nazi Germany

2. USSR

3. Japanese emperor system

4. DDR/East Germany

5. Franco in Spain

6. Various other petty dictators in places like Greece

7. Arguably, Turkey, albeit it seems a rather weak democracy
Odd? Odd because we've been taught what are amounting to myths[1] about cholesterol. Afaik, humans - especially the human brain - need a healthy supply of cholesterol. You literally can't think straight without it. And how many people are being pumped with statins?

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/well/eat/how-the-sugar-in...
That makes no sense. If civilization does end, I’ll be more in need of my remaining (physical) assets, not less.

Would you be willing to enter a 3-decade wager on, say, whether we still have international commercial air travel and telephone service?
Climate change is not only a threat to the nature around us, it’s a threat to us humans.
It’s an international security issue.
In the Uk there's the Heritage Seed Library.

https://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/hsl
ASCII Fluid Dynamics
You can use Blokada who block with DNS system without rooting.
I switched because CPU usage on Mac OS was so much higher under Firefox than Chrome. I tried so many different things, following suggestions in Bugzilla, HN comments and just about every site I could find through DDG and Google. Nothing worked, and usually when I bring it up people dismiss the complaint with "it's better than it used to be", "it's not that bad" or "it's just you". But I'm not the only person complaining (or being dismissed outright).

To be clear, it's not pegging any core at 100% or anything so extreme. But it causes my laptop to heat up and my fans to kick in very frequently - something that almost never happens with Chromium/Webkit/Blink based browsers. If I primarily used a desktop, I wouldn't even have noticed, but a warm lap and constant fan noise makes it unusable for me.

Safari was out because I needed to run multiple browser profiles concurrently (something Firefox and Chrome support readily).

I've recently switched from Mac OS to Windows but my experience (as recently as a month ago) with Firefox leaves me feeling that it's the less mature implementation with an over zealous fan base ("it's not us, it's you!").
The problem with pay-per-article model is that every article you want to read is a separate purchase decision ("do I want to pay for this thing or not?".
In order to make 10EUR from one user, they need to decide to buy 40 separate articles and that means deciding 40 times whether to pay for content.
Maybe a subscription model based on credits would be better? For 10EUR/m you get 40 credits that you spend on articles, for 20EUR/m you get 100 credits etc. Similar to Audible, maybe that would work?
AI to Interpret the Meaning of Babies’ Cries
> Interesting. Then shouldn't we (and PR people involved in QC) stop focusing on the cryptographical capabilities of QC, and start focusing on its other potential applications, like protein folding? Until now in the media, it seems like QC is synonymous with crypto ...

Relevant:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gell-Mann_amnesia...
Writing a stupid bug in a critical system that causes people to get injured or killed.
I agree. It is not common at all in most of Japan.

My own anecdotal experience, but for reference, I believe horse meat is orders of magnitude easier to find and consume in EU countries than whale in Japan. And yet I'd argue most Europeans wouldn't consider horse meat common at all.
1) would benefit from some kind of keyboard help so that it’s not capitalizing every first character.

2) getting errors when trying to use single or double quotes which makes things difficult:

>SyntaxError: Invalid character '\u201c

Otherwise, nice work.
25 things Apple announced for iOS 13 that we want on Android
The first linked tweeter thread is from July 2018, the second is from November 2018. I don't classify that as "too old". And your article is dated October 25, 1028, so it's approximately the same period of time.

Also, your article is extremely similar to https://medium.com/@fs0c131y/how-i-found-the-database-of-the... (Oct 16, 2018)
Is It Too Late to Stop a New Cold War with China?
One of the pan-dems doubts it’s more than the aftermath of 6/4 which was ~a million, but the opening of all the roads etc. suggests more than the art. 23 protests, yes.
So it sounds like because they've been held liable for presumably setting up their power lines in an unsafe manner, they're turning off the lines rather than, yanno, fixing the problem.

Hopefully have delivered some chunky UPSes and decent support SLAs to those with medical equipment.

Could see this backfiring if eg people start using lots of generators instead...
No notch required might have been a great value prop when the iPhone X was introduced. But today? I have the feeling the notch has become a status symbol, that other phone manufacturers copy.

EDIT: I don’t really the downvotes. Look at the “top 2019 android phones”, I counted 7 out of 15 having a notch... compare that with the ridicule and outrage when the X was introduced.

https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-android-phones/
That's the time I found the bug by the inspiration of "Elliot Alderson"
That's a map of ROC (Taiwan) claims, not China.
My most stressful times as a developer always were related to database and manipulating production data.

Subtle corruption that silently degrade your whole company's data, hearing customers come back with complaints days after you've released your code because stats don't seem to make sense anymore... And understanding after you found the issue that you'll have to run batches to manually fix the bad data and restore anything that was affected.

That's definitely an experience i'll never ever forget.
All patents are supposed to be exhausted after first sale. Are you not familiar with this or are you saying it's not applicable here or that it's not interpreted correctly?
"The exhaustion doctrine, also referred to as the first sale doctrine, is a U.S. common law patent doctrine that limits the extent to which patent holders can control an individual article of a patented product after a so-called authorized sale." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhaustion_doctrine_under_U....
There is still some XUL components/code floating around, it's being replaced and reduced with each release.
> I don’t think ad blockers block search ads

Of course they do.
In Botswana, a backlash against elephants amid lost harvests
I have that problem even worse in that I have to work with a developer who will actively develop like that. Every time he has to add a feature, instead of adding it into the relevant module, he'll add it into 2 or 3 different module which have the knock-on effect of doing what he wants.

It took me months to take his spaghetti code, modularise it, and yet still every time he commits is a constant argument of things being in the wrong place in code.
Organic, ripe, in season fruits and veggies. Raw as much as possible. No animals foods of any kind.
Firefox on Android supports extensions, including uBlockO, and it works perfectly. It can be set as the default browser and voilà, no more ads ever.
The problem at this point isn't whether chrome will disable it... It can be added back, probably fairly easily as google intents to keep it around for "enterprise" anyway, so it's probably just gonna end up changing/removing one if-statement. If not, then the code already exists and has to be merged back in.

The problem is distribution of the actual extensions, as Vivaldi kinda pointed out, as the other browsers mostly rely on the Chrome Extension store. If Google really decides to pull the plug here they could start rejecting extensions using the old, removed-from-Chrome APIs. And then what? Each browser such as Vivaldi, Brave, Opera has to implement their own app store just to host the old-API ad-blockers. And implementing such a store is a major feat. And the walled garden strikes again.

Vivaldi already indicated they might create a "limited" store, meaning not a real store open to the public, but one where they list hand-picked old-API extensions such as ublock origin. Of course, innovation is still stiffed as you in such a "chrome-store + limited vendor store" scenario cannot just develop new extensions using the old-API because you'd have no chance of getting listed in the chrome store, and essentially no chance in the hand-picked limited vendor ones.
It‘s interesting that this video can’t be found in full on YouTube. Why do you think that is?
Yep, but it's not only Kiwi. There is zero full open-source Chromium browsers for now (with reproducible builds, that's why no Chromium on F-Droid)
I'd say our conception of art, and architecture in particular, has changed substantially since the heyday of the Gothic cathedral. We now don't think of buildings as a communal, multigenerational effort.

> every cathedral is

Actually, contemporary cathedrals (of which more than a few have been built in the XXth and XXIst centuries) are typically completed in a reasonable timeframe. 5 years for Moneo's Our Lady of the Angels; 3 years for Hartman's Cathedral of Christ the Light, and so on.

By the way, the Sagrada Família is not a cathedral, but a basilica, but that is neither here nor there :)
AFAIK, currently probably not, but this would be a bad basis for extrapolation about future capabilities. Conventional supercomputers are insanely fast and current quantum computers do not yet have many qubits yet. But - very loosely speaking - if you add one qubit, the processing power can double. See the first answer here: [1]

If the history of technology and cryptography teaches us anything, then quantum computers will break current encryption sooner than expected. If you're very paranoid, you may switch, in certain areas, to "quantum safe" symmetric encryption (higher key size, higher round numbers) with reasonably secure channel for key exchange instead of public key cryptography.

[1] https://www.quora.com/Why-does-the-computing-power-of-a-quan...
You're still plagiarizing today:

https://gitlab.com/yo/hackathon-countdown/blob/master/js/ind...

is the same as

https://gist.github.com/iamkdev/6bcb79670f72ff346590#file-sc...

but you did not include his license.

The same is true for many other projects on your GitLab profile. Many of them are just snippets from Stackoverflow which you decided to turn into a repository with copyright in your name, for some reason.
Growing anything is not "highly efficient". I doubt the efficiency of sunlight => chemical energy of methanol using seaweed would be higher than 1%.

This is the terrible downside of biomass energy: the enormous areas that are needed because the efficiency is so low.
In all fairness on that last point, if you're referring to his "Gitote" project, the author has stated here [0] that it was a fork of Gogs, and seems to have retained the proper copyright notices in the source files:

"// Copyright 2015 - Present, The Gogs Authors. All rights reserved.
// Copyright 2018 - Present, Gitote. All rights reserved." [1]

I agree it should probably have been given more prominent mention, but given the number of commits doesn't seem (at quick glance) to be a hasty "fork and rename".

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20137624
[1] https://gitlab.com/gitote/gitote/blob/master/gitote.go
Tortoise-killing ravens are so smart, scientists must use drones to stop them
The study methods don't seem to indicate whether they adjusted for statins!

If they failed to account for statin use, then they will get the wrong answer due to confounding by indication.

https://twitter.com/skathire/status/1110909549811322880

Edit: Found it - they are not accounting for statin use! None of their conclusions seem warranted.
On iOS, you can use DNSCloak[1] which has recently been open-sourced[2]. You can either setup a DNS server (DoH or dnscrypt) somewhere that include these filters, or you can use in-app Blacklist functionality to block domain (although it needs domains only-type of block file, instead of host file, but converting them is quiet trivial).

[1]: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dnscloak-secure-dns-client/i...

[2]: https://github.com/s-s/dnscloak
>But it's pretty common for most of the parts needed for an optional feature to be included.

No, this isn't "pretty common". I've worked on a variety of automotive assembly lines and have never seen it. Why would you waste the money? It's trivial to not include parts you don't need, because the lines are designed that way.
One could actually learn to read these five pixel characters. Amazing
Good point.

Indeed, if you don't use some kind of authority towards students, you won't be able to teach them things that they can't see the point in at all.

The question is whether we (as teachers / as society) choose to use tests and authority to motivate them by fear; or to try to entice their interest in the subjects; or if something is genuinely not interesting then perhaps just not force that it upon students at that particular time.

My favourite teachers have had an radiant enthusiasm for what they were teaching, and could make almost anything interesting. On the other hand, some teachers manage to make even the most exciting subjects dull.
I agree there's a long way between the USA and China for the reasons you mention.

Still, something nags at me. The USA has all those things in some less government-oriented sense, not organised by a totalitarian party but by a vaguely defined group of powerful people who all live in the same few cities, who all share the same worldview, who all work extraordinarily hard to keep people they disagree with away from the levers of power and who share this same basic mindset:

1. The press is incredibly uniform in America; all papers take explicit political positions despite their role supposedly being to neutrally inform their readers, and they all supported Clinton in the last election. As a foreigner I frequently encounter astonishing falsehoods about my country in supposedly respectable and internationalist papers like the New York Times.

2. Facebook doesn't need government agents to team up with the press in support of an agenda - activists in its employee and management base will ensure it does that anyway.

3. There's no formal department of cultural well-being, but there is nonetheless an exceptionally strong set of beliefs amongst a tiny group of people (the elites/the establishment/the swamp/whatever you want to call them) which do relentlessly impose on news, art, media, etc. Witness how every superhero movie now contains explicitly woke and feminist storylines.

4. "Distributing harmful rumours" and "disrupting the cultural wellbeing" exists in the west too, we just call it hate speech / trolling. Different terms for the same thing and our social networks have WeChat like policies towards them.

Whilst the driving force for this doesn't come from government, and there's no formal party per se, the end results are surprisingly similar on a less extreme scale. And if Clinton had won the policy alignment between the government, Hollywood, Big Tech and newspaper owners would be nearly total: you don't need a totalitarian state when those who have power over information or culture all agree with each other on what must be done anyway.
What is the HK government getting out of this? Some lawmakers must feel the threat of being disappeared out of HK, or they have family in China?
I wonder if the marketers who invented “full screen coverage” as a selling point are measuring the ROI of their invention
For me, this is fantasy hockey. I don't even like to watch hockey anymore, but I enjoy the daily interaction with my friends who are no longer in the same city and busy with their own lives.
XUL is not supported for extensions now, but has Firefox's UI really been fully rewritten in HTML yet?
>for all we know Tesla want to make on demand style manufacturing of vehicles possible.

How do you think modern JIT auto manufacturing works? And what if I told you that Tesla is, in fact, doing the opposite most of the time, by building in batches of cars and holding inventory? Why do we continue to attribute to Elon "inventions" that already exist?
Leonardo da Vinci's forgotten musical invention
Read upthread. This change was always promised to the buyers of the cheap model 3 on purchase, as the software to restrict these features was not complete then. It is now, and is being applied.
Now that is an interesting thought. They could incriminate party members and government officials to sow distrust in the ranks.

Having seen though how certain groups of the population have been dealt with in China does make me wonder if they would not just round everyone up and send them for “re-education”.
That is certainly one way of looking at it. The other is to make sure the debt is working for you. NYC, LA, or SF is the same for housing you’re either extremely rich or your taking out multidecade loan for a home. If you’re working in one of those cities you’re in debt or paying off someone else’s debt.
Nice although I prefer a crank motor.
With Apologies to Orwell, We’ve Gone Way Past 1984
You can install extensions manually. You have to be able to because otherwise you wouldn't be able to develop new ones.
> would have never be allowed by natural selection to have such things as the terminator gene

Many eusocial insect species (ants, bees, termites) have sterile worker and soldier castes. In some cases, the soldiers have such enlarged jaws that they are even unable to eat on their own, the workers need to feed them. A sterile soldier unable to eat, that's real natural selection for you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eusociality#Paradox
Too bad, I liked the service. I have some credit for reading articles and I wonder how they will handle that.
That uses a VPN internally though, which comes with a decent amount of overhead.