skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, these are not the same and oughtn't be conflated. I'm perfectly happy seeing ads that aren't targeted to me personally based on my browsing history.

Ads on, say, Stack Overflow or HN or whatever, that target nerds ("great hosting!", "3d printing tech!", "legos!") would be perfectly doable without tracking each of us personally.
I need proof first. Seen too many apps call home that say they don’t.
This should be upvoted.
Ah that did it, thanks. So 4.7” is about 40% instead of 47% in mixpanel’s dataset.
This is very interesting, I'm glad the idea of online local shopping is gaining traction in the collective mind. I've been working on similar things although with a completely different stack (JAM & PWA instead of a native app), and with a slightly different intention in mind (my idea is for the local app to finance local NGOs), and I want to start with the vegan market, financing local vegan activism.
Is it this? https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A0%CF%8D%CE%BB%CE%B7:%CE%9...

or another language?
I’m not sure but I think I heard this phrase from Michael Seibel—Edit I think PG used this in an essay actually.

edit: It is in this lecture: https://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec03/

It is described as "...because while imitating all the outward forms of starting a startup, they have neglected the one thing that is actually essential, which is to make something people want."
> Automation is being introduced to reduce costs and so increase profits.

You're ignoring the possibility of increasing profits by increasing volume. If you have $9 in costs on a $10 item and automation reduces your costs to $6, you can make a $4 margin on your existing volume, but that isn't as profitable as making a $2 margin on 5X your existing volume by undercutting all of your competitors and taking their customers. So you do, and prices fall from $10 to $8. Until your competitors realize they can get back all their lost business and then some by automating too and then charging $7.

The only way this doesn't happen is a lack of effective competition.

> Even with competition, businesses are loathed to lower prices and instead will offer a better product or service for the same price.

You may want to familiarize yourself with Walmart's business model.
Reality Mining
> a world leader saying they will "obliterate Iran"

It's also worth noting that saying they would "obliterate Iran" under a specific set of circumstances is completely different from saying they will "obliterate Iran".

One is an (admittedly blunt) form of diplomatic and political threat, the other is a statement deliberately taken out of context to make someone look worse than they already do.
Now if they could just fix Firefox Mobile's abysmal tab management. Chrome Mobile's tab screen is a stack of pages in the Z-axis with the one closest to the user being the most recent tab and so on. Firefox Mobile's is a grid with the number of rows and columns being variable depending on screen dimensions. Figuring out which ones you opened in what order is not immediately apparent. It also suffers from the frankly amateur Android programming mistake of varying the swipe limits directly with the width of the screen, so going from portrait to landscape on a 19.5:9 phone screen means dismissing a tab suddenly requires you to swipe over twice as far as it does in portrait mode.

More than once I've found myself saying "oh my god, go away!" after trying and failing three times to swipe an unwanted tab away before remembering I have to drag the damn thing halfway to Timbuktu to dismiss it.
I have been using Firefox on Android since 2013. It's been constantly improving. I am so glad that it exists so that I am not forced to use a browser (Chrome) that doesn't respect me or my privacy and has every incentive to fuck me over.
This sounds pretty good, but you still have to pass a captcha in order to get a pass, and sometimes that is impossible (or at least I just give up because I lost interest after 20 puzzles).

If it was developed in conjunction with Tor, how come it doesn't come bundled with the Tor browser or Tails?
>At Firefox

You mean, at Mozilla.

This whole branding campaign to shove everything under the "Firefox" umbrella is silly.
Having worked a lot with RPM, other package managers, containers and proprietary build systems... I would choose debs every time.
Would you be able to say how your company accomplishes that?
termux (https://termux.com/) is a great way to develop on Android devices.

It works great and brings familiar and powerful tools to your Android devices for development and IT needs.
Can you run your benchmarks against ripgrep and report back?
These tools are often created to augment current and future technologies. It can serve to confirm an actor when other technologies are inconclusive (e.g. Face mask), it can serve to increase the likelihood of identification via multiple confirmations (e.g. visual, audio, heart) among other things.
Western intelligence hacked 'Russia's Google' Yandex to spy on accounts
Memory management on Android is awful. My music player routinely gets killed; I've tried all options available to me to prevent this.. It's just too difficult for Android to work out "you're listening to music, even though there's no visible ui, so I won't kill it". I understand that there is a whitelist of music apps which don't get killed - so intractable is this problem - but the one I use (Rocket Player) isn't on it.
"this was a school project from 2012" as one of the authors here already commented before your comment.

The first commit to ag - README.md - was in Nov. 2011; https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/commit/0121e6b... . The earliest versioned commit tag was 0.3 in March 2012 - https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/tree/0.3 . I think that lack of comparison is okay.

The first commit to ripgrip was in 2016. https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/commit/9d1e619ff359b6e...
Monads were used in APL language long before Haskell came to be.

Surely all those are different monads though.
Tell No One [video]
Not denied access, they just keep serving up challenges to you until you give up, WAY worse than saying "You appear to be a bot, sorry".
Just my opinion, the fact that they had to make a commercial for this at all signifies their need to convince us to buy in on that sort of thing.

They were absolutely nervous about losing sales to larger phones that customers liked. Turns out reaching everything with one thumb isn't really as important as having a big screen to view content on.

We know the rest of the story, the next year the next iPhone became larger...
It sounds like you should not do it. Bootstrapping startups take commitment to use your free time. Raising money requires you show effort that would take up your free time. Worrying about having your idea stolen shows you haven’t spent much time learning about how this stuff works. Either dive in or go do something else.
Unfortunately Google Maps cycling directions don't reliably differentiate between flat paved bike paths versus steep dirt single tracks that only a pro mountain biker could handle. It would be nice if there was an option to limit routing on that basis.
Other than the occasional reCAPTCHA gaslighting (which does occasionally block some service if it gates logins behind it) that we're all familiar with, I have completely excised Chrome from my life and am able to go to most any website without issue. That's with uBO and Privacy Badger running
While this sounds profound, I'm unable to figure out what it actually means. Can you explain more?
There's open-source graphics drivers that use NVIDIA like 'nouveau', which in my experience are much better than the proprietary nvidia graphics drivers on linux. Otherwise, I believe CUDA exists and remains proprietary because ISAs change by GPU generation, and because NVIDIA has a habit of patching graphics bugs outside its API for gaming customers, both of which lead to tight coupling between client libraries and the underlying hardware.
Mechner's bio page claims it:

https://www.jordanmechner.com/bio/
That's good to hear. Can you point to where Mozilla says they will support addons and ad blocking in Fenix?
Your first two examples are questionable, because you don't define what "as understood by liberals" means.

* 50% believe abortion should be legal in any circumstances, plus 29% believe it should be legal in some. That's 79%, which is a supermajority.

* 30% believe immigration should be increased, plus 37% believe it should stay the same (though "same as what" is not clear). That's 67%, which is a supermajority.

Your third and fourth examples simply don't support your claim at all. 61% believe gun sales should be more limited, which by some definitions is already a supermajority. 66% believe marijuana should be legal, likewise.

You're just not representing the facts accurately. Even if you play around a bit with which answers represent a liberal view and what definition of supermajority should apply, you could just drop "super" and three out of four would be clear slam-dunks for your interlocutor. In context, the original claim about gerrymandering thwarting the will of the majority is clearly true according to your own data.
But the thing is I like the idea and should like to see it executed (by me ideally)
From what I've seen (and most of it's anecdotal) things do appear to be changing. There are already people who won't go anywhere near Facebook now for personal ethical reasons, and even concerns that it might hurt future career prospects.
Why are you assuming that addons will be added in the GA release, and not some version prior to the GA release?
Were Carnegie Steel or Bell fun places to work? Probably, they had cash spilling out their ears.

Monopolies need to be broken up because they threaten the free market and consequently our way of life - not because employees revolt.
It's not implemented yet. Coming soon.
I am really glad they moved the URL bar to the bottom. As a former BlackBerry10 user I find it more UX friendly for touch-based devices.
Exactly.

Anyone remember when Firefox extensions broke recently? I thought it was a rather horrible experience.

If the new Firefox Preview can natively block advertisements, whitelist sites, disable third party cookies, prevent and hide social trackers, block anti-ad-blockers, etc. etc. then I agree that extensions are kind of useless, and I understand Mozilla's point.

However, I see the lack of extension support detrimental to my freedoms as a user, since it means I no longer can control what the software hides for me, nor what it broadcasts about me to the abyss of waste that is the advertising industry; I will have to trust the browser, and the lack of extension support is a rather untrustworthy property to begin with.
Feedback : When you are making a new Firefox for Android, please fix this small problem but personally a big annoyance : I should not need to open a whole new page before trying to open a new tab. Just add a plus button next to the address bar, that's it. Currently the workflow just disturbs me in all Firefox browsers for mobile - you have to click the tabs button, then the 'Plus' button (or click the settings menu and then the new tab - both require two taps with some delay, for something that should be just one quick tap).
I thought the article was going to be a more scientific take on this fun talk by George Hotz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESXOAJRdcwQ
I'm pretty sure the main reason is that all websites with block them and tell you to install Chrome if they ever did.

Outside of that I'm sure turning ad blocking on by default would break several sites.

Also publicly, they've said that ads are an integral part of the web.
This is a great thing to hear!
I'm curious at how you find rpms more painful to build than debs ?

I don't have much experience with them but I was under the impression than just writing a specfile and calling rpmbuild was a step up compared to debian, which seems a mess to me with the makefiles and other stuff all over the place and all those dpkg commands which are wrappers for each other.
Having said what I did above, though, can anything compare to SUSE's command to update? "zypper -up"

Best command ever...
Stupid question: why do companies care so much about bots to the point of degrading the customer experience significantly? I can understand for things like public forums. But like why would an ecommerce website ever put a captcha between you and your order (or a news website)?
Evidently the down voters are upset you can die taking a wrong turn in the western states ?

In Phoenix area healthy hydrated people die hiking common trails in parks around the city because they arent acclimated. Weather is harsh.
I don’t think they do that here. Someone already linked to previous discussion.
My opinion is largely in line with "bilbo0s". What I would emphasis is that I don't object to your solution as such. It is that if you are having mental problems your mind is by definition already compromised. That you can't self-correct is essentially the problem.

To try and fix that by understanding your mind might not be a bad idea, but it remains a theoretical solution until you can presume some success rate. Going to therapy might give you that if you have the means, social stability and trust to do so. Which might then result in you leaving the pool of people having problems.

But if you don't have the conditions to go to therapy successfully, or don't end up succeeding anyway, that solution also remains theoretical. The further down this rabbit hole we go the harder it gets the solve the problem and the less pragmatic understanding your own mind becomes. Instead pragmatism would be to get people in a position where they can realistically work on implementing that, or another, solution successfully.

In that sense I could agree that your position could be considered idealistic rather than romantic. As my objection isn't that it isn't pragmatic because it couldn't work, but that it isn't pragmatic because it wouldn't work in many situations that would also required other things.
Why are pedestrian deaths increasing in the US?
AI and Health Care
I think I understand where you're coming from but I think a lot of your concerns are overblown. But to each their own, let's just see where they take things.
The amount of HAM/radio-related topics on HN has definitely gotten me interested. Time for a new hobby? :)
The Right Stuff for a Mission to Mars Is Humor
If not political advocacy groups, who would be a better consultant choice? Isn't the entire purpose of advocacy groups to encourage the safety of certain groups?
Well, to be fair, that romantic image plays pretty strongly on a desire to see my work as something of a legacy--something that outlives my own mortality. I might be unique in that romantic desire, but somehow I doubt it.

Your engineering manager is on to something. I feel like that romantic desire, ironically, gets in the way of making real progress 99% of the time; even the code I'm really proud of, given enough time, will probably end up irrelevant, if only because I'll have learned so much more in all that time. It's easy to think of the act of writing as the hardest part of "writing code." But, really, it's all the learning in all the years prior that's most difficult. So, really, "throwing away" code and starting over isn't actually all that costly. Throwing away engineers, their experience, or skills is what gets expensive.

With that said, one of these days I'll start writing my "The Art of Computer Programming" ...
MongoDB Field Level Encryption
It's not just Apple though, it's the entire industry of a dozen Android OEMs as well. Apple was really the last OEM to stop making 4.0" phones.
Simple, wait until addons are supported.
It's literally supposed to be the new Firefox for Android. So the 'Firefox' umbrella seems reasonable?
man, this is really untrue. I As someone who has owned and been part of sites that get hit with bad ads / malware, trust me we do care and we do what we can but the end publishers get all the blame and have the least resources available to prevent it. People should really be upset with the networks that allow those ads to go through and don't try and stop them until we complain, they take that spam money and are the ones who are most likely to be able to detect it.

The problem is that we actually don't have much control from networks and they usually at first will deny it's happening. The only thing we can do is pull the networks until they pull the bad ads. But also know it's how we pay most of the bills so we do what we can.

Thank goodness for new companies like Confiant that are building wrappers that look at each ad call first and reject suspicious demand. It's been a life saver. It costs money but it was worth it, I sleep better at night.
Maybe, maybe not. In this case time will tell and considering the effect of their action seems relatively trivial, is this really worse than inaction?
Don't want to detract---I am a subscriber to the newsletter and find it very interesting and entertaining---but one of the cornerstones of his productivity seems to be that he is quite repetitive. He usually singles out events of a particular type (mostly crypto shenanigans, securities fraud complexities, regulatory corner cases, insider trading, disputes about advanced financial instruments and a couple other areas) and then writes about them repeatedly.
Why haven’t we defeated sexual harassment?
That's the annoying part of it. They try to collect everything about me, down to my favorite color and the brand of tea I am drinking, and they can't even deliver a semi-relevant ad. Best they can do is to bombard me with shoe and riding classes ads for 6 month after I search for "weight of a horseshoe" and stuff like that. They kill the privacy, they make 99% of the sites unusable without an ad blocker, and at the end it doesn't even amount to them making relevant ads...
Keep your Ballmer peak on point.

Have fun!
> What do they have to hide?

This is the kind of dangerous statement that has done more damage to privacy and security conversation than anything else. Please stop.
I get the exact same score no matter what browser I use, despite uBlock Origin & Privacy Badger & Decentraleyes, even in private mode and with a VPN connection from a country I normally don't use. Hmmmmm...
Although you can be pro break-up-Google while using one, or even many, of their services.

So I don't really see the amusement.
Yes.

My two adult sons are the only people who have gotten it through their heads that if they value what I bring to the table, they need to be good to me and give me reason to stick around.

Everyone else seems to have some broken social concept of pecking order where being nice to them means you're their bitch and they are important, you are nothing and you are required to keep catering to them, no matter how badly they treat you. Like how when humans feed certain kinds of animals and now those animals think you owe them tribute forevermore.

Actually, this might explain a whole lot about ugly human history.

Meanwhile, in my life, my sons are the only people still close to me. Everyone else keeps being given their walking papers because, no, I'm not your bitch.
It was just an illustrative example which in particular can be severed from the rest without changing the point one bit.
In practice 009 to 010 is a single move, because your thumb can cover and turn two or more wheels at once.
In my case I usually have actually nothing else running and my phone has 4GB of RAM so I am at a loss. I just tried Firefox Preview on Andriod with google news, and it loaded in about 2 seconds. So far so good!
> Trying to decide what level of formality and/or honorifics is appropriate in a specific case seems insane.

I once worked at an Australian bank that had a massive SQL function, prob 500+ lines long, for getting the salutation right in mailshots. As well as the usual Mr/Mrs/Dr/etc options, it had decades worth of special cases, largely derived from complaints from VIPs.

e.g. Retired navy officers, professors emeritus, former Members of Parliament, archbishops and rabbis, a rather pompous husband of a female Lord Mayor,...
Not necessarily, since we now live in a world where your every movement, action, relationship, and communication is intercepted and analyzed. Your thoughts are next. We don't need microchips because our phones are our microchips, but we may get them anyway, for "security" (that's security of government against its people of course). Things change when we have autonomous drone swarms flitting across our cityscapes and nanobots picking away at our insides. Do you believe it is possible to control a person's will? These are different times, and the life that "keeps ticking along" is not necessarily for any of "us".
AR and VR Headsets Market Share
> which part did you intend to support your HEVC winning claim?

I suggest you see the whole video.
That Big Rig You're Passing Might Be Full of Bees
I'm not a web dev so I feel like I'm not in on the joke.
We've had spam originate from google in the past, honestly they're by far the best source of good quality demand and even they occasionally have spam get through.

Better control of third party scripts is a good point, minimize the number of networks and focusing on quality is important but it's not a guarantee spammers won't get through.
I'm not sure I agree. I think everything users want is achievable. The current Firefox allows addons and ad blocking via addons. The Fenix update improves speed and adds some new features. Both the current and the new undermine Blink dominance and serve to support a more diverse, collaborative open Internet. All of these things are attainable in one browser, and I think that would satisfy most users.
Cool. Interesting. Then it must have diverged somewhat in that respect from Sanskrit, because both are descended from Proto-Indo-European languages, I've read. Sanskrit does have genders, IIRC - masculine, feminine and neuter. Sanskrit is also supposed to be a very regular language. I studied it for 3 or 4 years in high school. After you know the basics of some vocabulary and some grammar and some rules for joining words (called sandhi), you can easily understand compound words and even make up your own, like in German. Also, Sanskrit poetry can sometimes have good wordplay because many words have many different meanings (each).
The correct link is https://github.com/bkase/CUDA-grep I think he's working on fixing the broken link.
can't tell if this comment is in earnest or if it's another dig at the infamous top comment[1] for dropbox's HN launch announcement.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
Track This – A New Kind of Incognito
Because banks are insured by the government per FDIC, companies aren't. That's just one example I know of off the top of my head and probably hundreds more I don't know.

Facebook is not just any company either. It holds world wide dominance in marketing, advertising, and communication. It is also accessible through a wide age range. If Libra becomes the only way to interact with Facebook, what do we do about children on Facebook who are often, in the eyes of the law, not able to handle financial responsibility? Due to the current problem with loot boxes and in game gambling in video games, I can see this becoming a problem.

Libra apparently isn't pegged to a specific currency but fluctuating assets that are claimed stable. So if you put 10 fiat currency into Libra, you're not guaranteed to receive or get 10 out (even if we account for a transaction fee) which would normally happen when interacting with a bank and its services. One poor investment by some random company, and your Libra tanks.
Honestly, statistics from about 2010 (ie before the age of neural network hype) and limited human observation.
Wait, I am probably wrong about this; the Constitution explicitly delegates this power to the legislature.
Only Don't Tell Anyone
How did I know this was going to be a useless/joke JS package? IMO, if you’re going to make a joke package, at least make it interesting like onelinerizer[0].

[0]: https://github.com/csvoss/onelinerizer