skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firefox planning to offer a premium service
This question you're posing assumes that all patents and products are created equal. There is a difference between a living thing and a non-living thing. Living things replicate through entirely natural processes. It is one of the most basic truths of life.

Trying to impose a patent which prevents a farmer from replanting seeds, or attempts to interrupt basic function of living things (making plants that do not replicate) is morally wrong. In the name of profit, companies like Monsanto will deliberately make their products "infertile" and unable to replicate. They do this so they can sell you new seeds every year.

Bit different from a patent on a phone screen. You can water it, leave it in the Sun, and a phone screen will never replicate itself in a million years.
The lessons in this piece could be applied as an approach to project communications in general.
In dutch there is the expression "glazen boterham" ("glass sandwich") which today at least refers to a glass of beer, I wonder if the dutch expression is somehow connected to this story... I always assumed this merely referenced the caloric content of the alcoholic beverage...
Facebook’s role in Brexit, and the threat to democracy
From now on you'll have to pay 10eur a month to access a small selection of old papers (i.e. not today's) and some magazines. Too much for too little, I feel.
I think Google will find people switch browsers more easily than they think.

There was a time when Chrome was not ubiquitous. Even non-technical users can be convinced to click on a different icon to access the Internet if it results in a better experience. That's how we ended up with Chrome after all.
Products to Dropship
Except cattle are herded and comercially farmed while whales aren't. I'd much rather eat beef, thank you. Your solution for whale meat demand offset is brilliant otherwise.
> I don't see this phrase in the article

It was in another article, which is directly linked in this one.

> But, regardless, it seems quite apt in this context

No it's not. He's just being a conservative asshole.

> Use of a single, seemingly accurate, phrase seems like an odd reason to distrust a source

It's not just the single phrase, but what you can extrapolate from it. Calling someone a hate channel is a pretty serious deal these days, and just throwing such an accusation around like that shows that at the very least whoever wrote that article doesn't in the slightest bit intend to show the complete picture. And no, I won't trust a source that I caught once telling only half the story on things where I wouldn't even know.
The media would have a field day and say that he hacked his school database. It's crazy how so many institutions are doing the digital equivalent of leaving an unlocked car in a bad neighbourhood and no one holds them accountable. Most people understand the concept of an unlocked car, not many understand that he didn't do anything special to hack his school db. He just strolled right in.
I couldn't find anything in the paper how or if the channels are filtered. Microorganisms in the water would be subjected to pretty abnormal conditions while being pumped through the acidic and basic channels, so I hope they do filter the water well?
I've been using Firefox for 6+months now as my primary browser. Once used to the slightly different UI I've not noticed any difference in day to day browsing.

Only complaint - and this is my fault for enabling it and not a Firefox issue - is that if I used a container for Google, reCAPTCHAs are a huge huge huge pain in the arse now and take many attempts to pass. This is (I guess) because the Google cookie cannot track your general web usage (since your google cookie is in a container that only works on google domains, rather than general web properties) so it is harder to distinguish you from a bot. Also the dev tools are not as nice, but that is a niggle.
> Critically, they also say workers were 20% more productive.

So, there wouldn't even be an actual loss in productivity. Still I predict this recommendation will fall on deaf ears. The problem is not economic or rational, it's cultural and religious. “Society” still adheres to the notion that a person's worth is largely determined by the extent of their economic activities (independent of productivity, obviously). Working less is perceived as a dangerous moral failure (“Idle hands are the devil's workshop”, in christian cultures).
> the concept of advertising is essential to all of us having jobs

Citation needed.
I didn't want to look like I was hawking something so I didn't include a link but these are my apps: https://itunes.apple.com/us/developer/uri-bram/id1222415460

That's interesting, about the pre-Apple days, I didn't know that. Do you know how/why Google manages at $0 per year though (with a $25 one-off fee), while Apple charges $99 per year? It's really hard for me to believe that Apple's price would survive in any kind of competitive market, but I'm willing to be convinced.
Yeah, but that is work towards a tangible goal with a fixed time to finish. It is easy to make a big push in those types of situations. In your vanilla work life, this stuff is no longer there anymore. You can't work like that forever with no payoff, delayed gratification only stetches so far.
It's troubling that they could add a feature to make Nyan Cat play continuously on the touchscreen and at high volume, and there's not a thing a Tesla owner could do to stop them. It's a relationship where they have all the leverage, and the person who paid for the car must rely on the manufacturer's continued benevolence.

(Most customers of consumer electronics products have the same relationship with the makers thereof, and that's a big part of why practically everything with a screen is on some level regarded as disposable garbage.)

On the other hand, if you drive around in an old Honda like I do, the worst thing Honda can do to me is stop manufacturing replacement parts, most of which probably have third-party alternatives anyways.
If Huawei, and then more generally Chinese manufacturers, move away from Android then by the numbers Android will become SamsungOS, and then die when Samsung starts replacing Android for the Chinese market.
> Even non-technical users can be convinced to click on a different icon to access the Internet

Google put a lot of effort in convincing those users, by plastering Chrome icons in their products and saying it was the supposed way to access the internet "safely".

It's not as easy for others to do the same.
"concerns over misidentification are valid"

What else needs said then? This could literally erroneously grant a cop to shoot/tase/arrest you. What more do you need?
the rest of the world cannot blindly trust any Chinese company

The world cannot blindly trust any company. Companies are not persons. Companies try to make a profit, so at a whim they might change their business practises. With some luck you can trust a sitting CEO, but not even that is a given.
Wow, that's really impressive. The following excerpt was generated by feeding the own domain itself to the generator:

(generated)

>> grover.allenai.org/detect

>> Grover - A State-of-the-Art Defense against Neural Fake News
>> June 9, 2019 - Hannah Rashkin, Yonatan Bisk

>> According to the Digital Infrastructure Security Task Force, two out of three trusted news sources are now bots and influencers. The only way to decrease that is to identify which ones are normal and which ones are not. What does this mean for you? Well, it means a greater sense of control over your news.

>> News analysis site Playground Exposé has built an Artificial Intelligence-based tool for helping to detect fake news on Facebook.

>> It combines insights gleaned from product design, neural networks, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. The new artificial intelligence-based tool works by sifting through large-scale collective data to detect problematic information.

(/generated)

Somewhere along these lines, you can recognize that something doesn't add up. But its far from obvious and I can't point out a single phrase that screams: "Fake News"

The fact that entities like: "Digital Infrastructure Security Task Force" and "Playground Exposé" don't exist is fascinating enough to me. I took it for granted that the model learned these examples from a huge corpus of text and transferred them to a new article (someone somewhere has written about them). But as far as I can tell -- this is completely generated by itself.

The "Task Force" name/designation is as stupid as a human naming scheme for such an organisation can be. Somewhere deep inside the model, something must resonate with the way people pick names for action groups and political bodies.

And this is only one small aspect of the domain -- and its not even the most important one.

Fun-Bit: I played around a bit and fed it the text I just wrote -- everything after (/generated) up to "Fun-Bit" -- and it was classified as Fake News. This might be an artifact of the names I referred to: "Digital Infrastructure Security Task Force", "Playground Exposé" and the fact that my comment is not a news artilce.

But can you be sure that I am not a bot? I think I can convince you by referring to my first sentence, and stating that there is no single phrase, word or sentence that triggers a simple "Fake/True" response. Referring to the context of a text in another part if it is a skill not quite mastered by GANs, but I am not sure if this will always be the case...

EDIT: typo, wording
I don't think it's that simple anymore, as there are other forces at play. The political influence of large, established industries can make sure that things stay as they are and the consumer demands will be met by them, not by new technologies. People don't demand fuel cars, they demand affordable, reliable long range cars.

Same holds for electricity, people don't demand electricity from a specific source. But currently some sources meet the demands more than others. Legislation could lead to alternative sources becoming better at meeting people's demands i.e. becoming cheaper, reliable etc.

Generally, large industries have momentum which keeps them going, and therefore the way the meet demand is not necessarily the optimal way for consumers/the environment.
I was surprised, when I tried Blendle, that there wasn’t an easy way to jump from a free article on a newspaper’s website to the paid version on Blendle.

Instead, if I followed a free or paywalled link on HN, I had to copy the title and search on blendle’s website. Not the most frictionless way to make authors get paid.
Buy a house, or rent for 10-15 years of the rest of their lives?
"Today was my first day on the job as a Junior Software Developer..."

And he has permissions to delete the production database? Heads much higher up the tree need to roll.
International anti-whaling treaties were signed precisely because whales were being hunted to extinction.
IPFS, Again
Boneworks on Valve Index
I used to play around with similar projects for macos, wrote an app which displays current song info in the menubar (https://github.com/danthelion/pyet) and a python wrapper for the applescript “api” https://github.com/danthelion/wasp

Applescript is actually a lot of fun if you decide to look into it
Also note that the Minke whales that are being whaled, are not threatened with extinction. In fact, they are classified as "least concern".
I heard a similar scenario as a plan to kill mosquitoes. I’m not sure how it’s supposed to work but a lot of smart people seem to believe it’s possible.
I take it as a European "that's all I need for lunch" quip
I've been using the location tracking permission setting from day one. But still, making it more obvious and visible is a win for users who are less aware.
This plus TSA demanding passwords to corporate laptop. Mountains of confidential client data compromised...or in custody. hmm...which to pick
> I would love to be able to fuzz my location within a certain (randomized?) radius of my home for certain apps

I'm not sure about the details of the implementation but with location you still want something reasonably accurate. So the random radius can't vary too wildly. After you collect enough data points couldn't you infer the real location from that circle?
These are still results from the simulation phase. It's best to wait for actual results from a functional optical chip
can i be honest with you? an end of the world retirement plan is better than no retirement plan. :)
> I was surprised, when I tried Blendle, that there wasn’t an easy way to jump from a free article on a newspaper’s website to the paid version on Blendle.

> Instead, if I followed a free or paywalled link on HN, I had to copy the title and search on blendle’s website. Not the most frictionless way to make authors get paid.

Would have made a great browser extension.
It's pretty slimy to accept an order, make the user wait, cancel it, and then upsell.
Out of curiosity, to whom do this comment of yours applies to?

I am on mobile and I see it below (indent-wise) the comment about Russia abiding to its own laws.

Right above your comment there is a flagged one (same indent as yours). I belive that your comment is for that one, right?

I've seen this a few times before and wonder whether it is a display problem or me not understanding the comments content vs rules.
> What does domestication or farming have to do with anything.

Pretty much everything? You can't really dismiss the parent with: "Naw. I'd rather argue against something you didn't claim". I also hold the impression that the bigger concern with Whales is a question of hunting them to extinction, not a matter of relative intelligence.

Fortunately, you do actually end up addressing it anyway; I have no idea if 30,000 is a lot, but if it can really be sustainable fine, eat em.

But that just reenforces the idea that a domesticated, farmed population would remove most non-vegan people's concerns.
It's exciting to watch swift continue to evolve. Looks like property wrappers are used extensively throughout SwiftUI for @State and @Binding. This talk on "Data Flow Through SwiftUI"[0] is a really great one as well and they touch more on property wrappers.

[0] https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2019/226/
Oh hai, you rang?

Sandstorm.io doesn't use protobuf, it uses Cap'n Proto, which was designed to replace protobuf.

Fun fact: The Zanzibar project was started in ~2011 specifically to replace my main project at the time, which was trying to solve the same problems. Apparently, some senior engineers felt letting me work on core infrastructure was too dangerous. They succeeded in turning my project into a lame duck and making me quit, which is when I then started working on Cap'n Proto and Sandstorm.io. In retrospect I'm glad it happened.

Yeah... Google is not always the most fun place to work on big infrastructure projects.
I feel like things would be easier if Firefox could be embeded in another browser just like chromium can.

Let Google cripple their browser for themselves, and Mozilla provide the good and strong de facto browser engine.
Also, I don't want to sound hokey but... $99 might be low enough for your definition of a "serious developer" but it's not affordable for a hobbyist, a student or someone starting out in a low-income country, for example. I can make, host and distribute a website for $0 because nobody owns that ecosystem, and big companies like Github and Heroku think it's worth their while to offer free hosting and distribution to small developers -- I think Apple would do the same if they were in a competitive market, but they charge monopoly pricing because they're (currently) able to.
I assume, you have no Facebook or Google account?

Just to name some companies whose business principle is built on aquiring as much data about you as possible. With Facebook we even have documented and publicly admitted cases where they shared the data with third parties.
This is true. But it does offer a "brown bag" level of protection. I.E. the story from The Wire about how public drinking is illegal, but if you at least conceal what you're drinking in a brown bag, the cops won't hassle you because they don't really want to enforce the law.

I live in DC and the only weed dealers I hear of getting arrested are the ones who are extremely flagrant, like the one guy who operated out of a van with a giant pot leaf painted on it.
Working as a programmer for Amazon (at least that was my experience)
Many locals (and at any rate this local) see the Sagrada Família as it currently is as a rather unhappy travesty. There are no construction plans by Gaudí, just a few sketches, and what architects are doing is mostly theme-park architecture: making concrete look like stone, for example. It would have been much preferable to leave it as it was in 1926.
I am not sure if it's the same technology, The Weather Channel App (Android) has an option for mesh network based alerts.

https://weather.com/apps/ibm/meshnetworkalerts
Not sure, but I guess you can revoke an OAuth token and nothing changes for other apps (and you) on the Gmail/Google account side. On the other hand, if you have to change password...
Why not just say no to updates... if that's what you want?
Exactly, it's like leaving your customers' cars unlocked in a bad neighborhood
Well, I work 30 hours a week, so it's five hours less than that! Plus I don't even need to travel on Fridays for a half day. :)

I was working 25 hours a week, 5 5-hour days, which was good fun too. But I kept bumping heads with people at work. I'd work 10-3, with no lunch, and people would schedule meetings for 3, or 4, forgetting I wouldn't be there. Jira also didn't make things easy for the accounting people, so I am told...

If I could afford to go down to 3 days a week, I would. I'm not quite there yet with my annual salary. I think 3 days a week is the sweet spot. Though I feel my firm would be a tad peeved at 3 days a week. I'm not sure if they'd go for it. But it's a conversation I'm keen to have.

Some things aren't geared for pro-rata either. Things like the NHS top up, share schemes, cycle to work, you might lose them when you drop below 25 hours, rather then them scaling down like salary and holiday allowances.
This might be sustainable for a couple of months but Google will keep on developing chromium with the assumption that those APIs aren't available and maintaining and back porting patches will not be sustainable in the long run. And we've seen Opera and Edge shying away from too much work with their own webengines, why would it be different this time?
I'm starting to think it is getting kind of absurd how it is always mentioned that Huawei is way ahead on 5G. This is a message Huawei is of course also pushing very hard to put out there. I'm working in the industry and I haven't seen anything that supports that claim. It is hard to say who is in the lead but I don't think the difference between the top companies is that big.
Have a look at JSFuck: http://www.jsfuck.com
This is how some pirate radio stations worked 2-3 years ago.
If you have a subpoena to sniff data to Apple from device X then you can use that to some extent track the location of X by spreading your Tags T_1,...,T_n in interesting places. If X reports T_i you know the location of X, this could be more precise than the usual cell phone tracking because X reports its position with GPS precision.
Not cryptography by itself, it's more the sprawling reliance on SaaS. Compare to the .doc-case. It's just a static file format where the shrinkwrap software reading it would only be updated once every 3 years. It's possible to reverse engineer the format and catch up long before they have a chance to release a new format, and even when they do they can't drop support for the old format because millions of users have files stored on disk that way.

When everything is in the cloud all you need to do is block API access, or make your API crippled to begin with, and it's instant game over.
> what irritates me is that granting access to my location allows the app to continually track me while it's running in the background

There's an app called Bouncer [1] that can auto-remove permissions as soon as an app is closed.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.samruston....
No car manufacturer does. It's much like going to a fast food place and ordering just a hamburger. The profit on the burger is very low, but the profit on french fries and soda is sky high. So the fast food places push the meal bundles.

Because of the profit on options is sky high (often a few $$$ of materials can cost $1000s), it's getting increasingly common that a cars options can substantially increase the cost of a car.

Luxury cars have been feeding this cycle and it's actually refreshing that Tesla has so few options. BMW drove me crazy with an incredible and quite complicated system with numerous incompatibilities designed to upsell you. Things like the tires/wheels being linked to the steering wheel upgrade, which is linked to the performance seats, etc. What was maddening that features on lower end cars (like power lift gate, bluetooth, and decent headlights) are many $1,000s in a luxury vehicle. NHTSA recently blasted various luxury car makers for lousy headlights unless you upgraded to the $$$ version. Amusingly the top stock headlight they tested was from a Toyota Prius! Quite a few luxury cars were rated poor for headlights.

Similarly to other car markers, the Tesla model 3 base model has very low profit. But if you buy the higher models a large part of the price difference is profit. So the $35k Tesla only made sense if most buyers actually got the $40k model (or higher). So many picked the $40k model, that tesla decided to not make the $35k model and just software restricted the $35k model.
In any given generation, Intel only makes 3-4 different consumer processor chips, and from those they derive dozens of models by selectively disabling features and limiting clock speeds. Sometimes the disabled capabilities are defective, but a lot of it is purely due to market segmentation. Intel even once sold software upgrade codes to unlock extra cache memory on some low-end processors, showing that all of those models had passed QA with the full cache, but shipped with a third or a quarter of it disabled.
‘No to China extradition’ – Hong Kong protest against controversial new law
Low iq MBA manager with insecurities charged with delivery. Usually vindictive and on a power trip, and has social leverage on some senior exec.
Somebody had foreseen this:

"The door refused to open. It said, “Five cents, please.”
He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. “I’ll pay you tomorrow,” he told the door. Again he tried the knob. Again it remained locked tight. “What I pay you,” he informed it, “is in the nature of a gratuity; I don’t have to pay you.”
“I think otherwise,” the door said. “Look in the purchase contract you signed when you bought this conapt.”
In his desk drawer he found the contract; since signing it he had found it necessary to refer to the document many times. Sure enough; payment to his door for opening and shutting constituted a mandatory fee. Not a tip.
“You discover I’m right,” the door said. It sounded smug.
From the drawer beside the sink Joe Chip got a stainless steel knife; with it he began systematically to unscrew the bolt assembly of his apt’s money-gulping door.
“I’ll sue you,” the door said as the first screw fell out.
Joe Chip said, “I’ve never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it."

Philip K. Dick, Ubik