skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am a developer and spend half my work time in Firefox Nightly. This is not usable for me despite being exactly the target for this preview.
oh, sorry about that, it's conveniently grayed out in the corner :)
It takes so little Apple to make it possible for iPads to be usable for development work, but they do not. Maybe because it will cannibalize mac sales.
They might prevent fishing expeditions though.

I would encourage readers to see Moxie Marlinspike's essay on this subject. The thesis is that the ability to capriciously and selective prosecute anyone is stiffing to dissent, and prevents political change. Students of recent US history understand that this is far from purely theoretical.

"if everyone’s every action were being monitored, and everyone technically violates some obscure law at some time, then punishment becomes purely selective. Those in power will essentially have what they need to punish anyone they’d like, whenever they choose, as if there were no rules at all.

Even ignoring this obvious potential for new abuse, it’s also substantially closer to that dystopian reality of a world where law enforcement is 100% effective, eliminating the possibility to [directly] experience alternative ideas that might better suit us."

https://moxie.org/blog/we-should-all-have-something-to-hide/

Edit: To be clear, I think you make good point that privacy laws won't save you from a subpoena. However, they are probably useful for other reasons; this was why warrants and other notions of due process were created to begin with, including the requirement that a warrant or subpoena be limited in scope to that material which is relevant to a particular charge or investigation. I think one big problem today is that people are ordered to surrender "everything on your phone and cloud", etc. This is at least equivalent to search warrant for "your filing cabinet", if not "everything you have ever written or said."
Why the special treatment for politicians? I could imagine Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos saying something edgy and of similar significance.
Please don't take threads further into flamewar, or make gotcha comments about obvious errors. That's not curiosity either.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
In Canada, the federal government has released their own weather app (WeatherCAN), including alerts for significant weather in your area. It's basically replaced the commercial weather apps on my phones.

I would pay for DarkSky if it was available here though; I quite appreciate their approach to location privacy: https://blog.darksky.net/location-privacy/
I think the important point is: You can't turn over a document that does not exist.
Andrej Karpathy – Multi-Task Learning in the Wilderness
I have visited a small soccer message board (roughly 5k users) every day since 2012. They sell their own ads, and every ad is a static banner image, hosted on that board's domain. I'm happy to keep adblock off on that site. It's about as old school as it gets.

I can't imagine they make much money at all, but for me, the user, it's nice to go someplace with a smallish online community where I don't feel like I'm being tracked or have to put up with the zero-QA dumpster fire that is programmatic advertising.
Android is the standard, more or less, for touch interfaces. They have significantly more devices than ios, and no other touch device is more than a blip compared to those two.
This comic routinely used as a "Gotcha". However it so over simplifies the position that we are in.

Youtube now totally owns online video, there isn't any competitors that are even close. Facebook has almost half the world signed up to its platform. This isn't someone's online forum or a news site. These companies completely own their respective parts of the industry.

The major social media sites like Youtube, Twitter, Facebook are so large they are considered to be a "public private space" (I forget the exact legal term).

These platforms agree to DMCA safe harbour where they are considered to be a "platform" and not a "publisher". That means they shouldn't be censoring anyone on their political opinions and must be politically neutral (otherwise they are taking on the role of a publisher as they are acting as an editor), now IANAL but there is certainly an argument that can be made. Whether a judge would rule it so, who knows.

This is worth watching:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZCBRHOg3PQ

Tim Pool in this video manages to point out quite clearly how Twitter terms of service are political and they don't even realise it.
People don't look for the founding intent because they think the founders were supermen. They do it because, at one point, the nation collectively agreed to be bound by the document the founders wrote. (I.e. I don't trust you and think your ideas are stupid, and I'm only willing to go along with them if I'm bound to and have no choice.)
Pure speculation, I wonder if their contract with Google forbids them from having ad blocking as part of the browser. At least if I was a company paying another company millions of dollars I wouldn't let them block my income stream in their product.
> We do have it good. Would you rather be middle class today or a king in 18th century?

>

> We have it amazingly good. The fact that we can't see this ("we" as in society) tells me that our appetites are impossible to satisfy.

I completely agree with your first point.

I think your second point may be wrong; rather, people have very little knowledge of how things used to be, so every stubbed toe feels cosmic. (Remember your history class that mentioned the Hundred Years War? WTF does the name of that war tell you???)
If you hate nvidia so much, why do you want open source drivers for their crap products? You might be an OSS purist, but most people are trying to solve problems, and cuda is apparently more useful than opencl.

Nothing is stopping you from enhancing opencl as a language, building useful libraries, writing documentation, holding conferences to build an ecosystem around opencl, and evangelizing the technology, just like nvidia did for cuda.
This is at least partially covered by tracking protection, which is on by default.
> Consistency of government operations sometimes requires that certain private companies be preferred vendors

In which case those private companies should now be deemed an extension of the government and fall under all rules a government organization has to abide by. If they do not like it they can forbid the government from using their software/products and can sue if the government does not abide.
Thanks. I'm looking at doxygen right now. Looks like it has support for generating dependency graphs.
Loved this comment on the article:

> My then manager once closed a team meeting with the words, (literally): "Thank you, and whatever other motivational stuff l'm supposed to say".
Racial gerrymandering has long been held to be illegal.

Partisan gerrymandering has not.
Is there a source with the explicit ban rather than a link to the wikipedia page?
I've been using Preview as my main mobile browser (switched from Firefox Focus as my main when Mozilla announced they've abandoned Focus).

The things I miss:

* Firefox Focus had a very quick way to send a page to a different browser "Open in " and I'm pretty sure it actually just listed the browsers there in the menu. None of the hassling with the share menu that takes forever to load and forever to search through. I really hate using the share menu on android. Somehow it's gotten even worse and side scrolls now. I don't want to sign in to my Google account in Firefox on android, but if you set firefox as your default all the login redirects go there. I think on Focus you could just tap "Open page in Chrome" and it would just punt it along and everything worked when needed.

* Lastpass app annoyances. Lastpass just matches the Firefox app itself rather than the site I'm viewing. Which is annoying but not a huge deal. I'm not sure whether lastpass worked in Focus though. Focus was like a staging area before going to a full browser.

Overall I'm pretty happy with Preview. I really liked using Focus though where it worked like a "firewall" where I could decide whether I actually wanted links opened by other apps to go into my browsing history or not.

I really liked the way I learned to use Focus and I'm sad it's been abandoned. It was like "Open all links in Private mode first and then decide if you actually give enough of a shit to go further". Focus was small and easy to learn to trust.
>We're not going to delete it but we're going to algorithmically prevent discovery

Tech monoliths like facebook, google, and twitter are starting to show very obvious political biases.

If we push them to be equitable to differing opinions, they basically get to continue enforcing their own political biases because we can only ever do blackbox testing. God knows what the backend is doing.

If we push them to own their biases try to get more platforms representing differing political opinions, we create admitted echo chambers and further polarize a political climate (in the USA) where we're already arguing whether communists or nazis are trying to destroy the country.

This is a complex problem without an easy solution but it's not unreasonable to bet twitter is going to abuse this new feature to either allow people they like to blatantly violate the rules (without actually algorithmically demoting the tweets, people will ignore the notice) or effectively shadowban people they don't like without explaining why a tweet doesn't follow the ToS until the subject matter is out of the news cycle.
What’s that shape? Instability in interpolation
I doubt it would. With the increase in subscription services, I've started for the first time in my life buying digital tv shows from iTunes rather than the alternative of subscribing to 5 different streaming services to eternally rent 5 different shows (most of which I'd only want to watch occasionally or when a new season releases). I'm pretty sure I could have a several box sets of different shows for the monthly fees I had spent watching reruns of The Office. Streaming has turned spending $70 for a cable TV package to Spending $15 per month per "channel". Hardly a different or better world.
I do think the impact of this will be overstated, in the big picture. The vast majority of Americans (and people) don't use Twitter. An editorial tag from twitter isn't really going to change the impact of a tweet in my opinion, other than limiting its exposure on Twitter itself.

But it would be hilarious if news orgs use this as a cue to give trigger warnings when they quote a tagged tweet. "Warning: the tweet we are about to show you violates Twitter's trust and safety rules; hide your children before we reveal what [prominent public figure] tweeted!"
The target of a preview is not people expecting it to be feature complete, so no, you're not the target.
Sorry. My bad.

I guess..I meant..a bird in the water is vulnerable and ‘grounded’ to one that can swoop down and fly away and attack as a mob.
Lightning Memory-Mapped Database
Dunno if it's changed recently or if I just didn't refresh enough before, but I'm now seeing basically random numbers as well.

If anyone wants a fun weekend project, I would love for there to be a few public sites I can reliably check my production score on.

I'm not sure it matters though, since I'm just ignoring most sites that use reCaptcha now. For sites I can't ignore, I've taken to emailing them with my requests instead -- recently I tried to use Spotify's internal data export tool and it wouldn't let me past. If you're not going to let me use a website to manage my existing account, then your support team can do it for me.
https://github.com/jsonresume/resume-cli/pull/294
I've never wanted that. I really don't think this is the one think holding back firefox popularity on mobile. But luckily, firefox on android does support extensions:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firefox-pull-...
You don't need Kubernetes on your laptop
Model-Based Annotation of Coreference
I'm all for non-compete clauses, so long as they apply both ways. The company shouldn't be able to hire an employee to replace me. /s
The Density Divide: Urbanization, Polarization, and Populist Backlash
> Leaving out 7 years of data that are the core of the entire argument.

The study was published in 2014, and it's not uncommon to have no finalized data for the year prior on all sources you want to aggregate. There is no grand conspiracy.

> The Pew data, which is what Tim Pool was working from, and which comes from an extremely reputable source, stands strong and it reinforces what I've said.

Again, no it doesn't. And how could it if it was published in 2014, going by your assertion?

Poole used congress voting records, and racism isn't the only (do I even need to state this?) conservative metric.

Regarding your link I don't know what you think it means. That terms and concepts that come into the discourse are discussed more? I'm not shocked.
Use constexpr for faster, smaller, and safer code
> DeepNude also dispenses with the idea that this technology can be used for anything other than claiming ownership over women’s bodies.

That's not true! We can also use it for undermining democracy, making everything look like a Van Gough painting, and...

> This algorithm is similar to [...] what self-driving cars use to "imagine" road scenarios.

I understand the fear here, but I don't appreciate rage-bait sub-headlines that contradict the rest of the story. Obviously GANs can be used for many things.

Also, I'm sure there are a few bad actors who will use this for things like revenge porn (which is Not Good), but I suspect the driving demand behind this application is horny teenagers who think Daenerys from GoT is hot, rather than malicious people who want to "oppress women." Although to be fair, this is the effect the technology has, whether intended or not.
Elon already has the SEC getting on him for his tweets, I imagine they would go after Bezos too. Both would face shareholder lawsuits for anything sufficiently controversial, so it probably doesn't need to be as much of a priority for Twitter.
Your argument about the magnification of power is interesting. I agree that gerrymandering tends in this direction. I’m not convinced this is (1) a healthy thing overall, (2) compatible with reasonable definitions of representation, nor (3) a particularly efficient way to give party or ideological continuity given the huge risks of corruption that come with gerrymandering.
Project Veritas is nonsense. Nothing they have ever reported has been factual. Good on them for removing it.
Fahrenheit 451 basically called it with the whole "people in their living rooms never alone with their neighbors seeing inside through screens" part.
The supreme court interprets the constitution, it doesn't have carte blanche to rewrite it.
We have adversarial networks, what about for governmental scams?
Howabout a new government department that is tasked with scamming other government entities, like a pen test department?
How to Build a Feature-Rich Mobile Travel App?
Just wait for the self-driving cars...
Wow! I didn't know this ad existed, but it pretty much nails it: "A dazzling display of common sense."

And thumbs haven't changed since then!
There are quite a few lines one has to cross before subpoenas and similar that don't exist with a cloud provider, employer, ex-wife, contractor, hacker, etc.
A lot of the things that people think are insider trading are legal only because those doing them have paid for enough lobbyists to make it legal.
Is the code available? The links are dead.
Thanks a lot! Time to fire up VirtualBox and learn some things.
https://www.facebook.com/eldoradonf/posts/morman-emigrant-tr...
How would eliminating employer insurance provide pricing transparency? Insurance companies don't typically disclose the prices they negotiate. They might disclose the prices a consumer pays but don't confuse this with the cost of healthcare. For an example say two options for a medical service have different cost. One charges $5000 and the other charges $8000. Say the insurance covers all but $500 no matter which choice is made. A consumer typically would only see the cost to them which is $500 and not the $3000 difference between the cost of the same service depending on provider.
All the data here is actually stored in indexedDb and localStorage. I guess I'll implement import/export next time.
I have not been able to inspect the code (dead links), but from the description of their approach, they do not depend on anything particularly fancy from CUDA. An OpenCL implementation seems just as feasible.
Project Veritas is not news. Everything they have ever "reported" on is trash.
3. Or maybe many of the people I know are in fact this unhappy, but they never tell anyone except their psychiatrist all of the pieces necessary to put their life story together.

When I moved back home during my divorce and lived with relatives, I got to see all kinds of stuff going on that I had no knowledge of when I used to visit, keep in touch by phone, etc. I moved out, to an apartment a mile or two away, and went back to getting the whitewashed view of their lives.

I don't think they were even trying to particularly hide things from me. It just didn't come up. It just wasn't possible to convey every bit of minutiae about their lives to me all the time when I wasn't there seeing it firsthand.

You typically have far more limited information about the lives of people around you than you imagine. You don't really know what your neighbors are doing. You don't really know what your coworkers and boss do all day. Etc.

Think of the endless news stories where the neighbors are simply shocked that their next door neighbor was a drug dealer for the Mafia, a serial killer, etc. We often know people a lot less well than we imagine we do.
1941 State Law: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...

2008 CA Supreme Court Case: https://law.justia.com/cases/california/supreme-court/2008/s...
Wow..that’s messed up.

That’s the kind of classic behaviour clue in kids that would indicate that they’d likely be psychopaths or sadists when they grow up. And these were grown up and were marines as well..
Psyche Solar System Exploration
Are you debating this with me or with Dijkstra?

I didn't make up that aphorism myself. There is very much a design contradiction between "this language should make things easier for the computer (or compiler, or whatnot)" and "this language should be easy to read for humans, even if this makes it worse for the computer". This is widely acknowledged and not the point of contention; whether the former or the latter is more important is.
In the past few years, Big Tech has gone full Orwellian. I fear for our future.
No, but I would go back to a Thinkpad with a 15" 1600x1200 4:3 in a heartbeat, or a 4:3 1920x1440. For free, or marked premium over other machines.
If a world leader with 100k+ followers tweets out child porn and Twitter just tags it with a warning instead of removing it I agree that would be extremely controversial!
Any other HN users also Dribble users?
Here's mine:

https://dribbble.com/davidmcooper
Your comment adds a lot to the conversation, so I don’t want to be more contrary than necessary.

It’s nonetheless a shame that it’s so universally misunderstood how ad-supported megacorps make their money that even highly sophisticated users of the web still talk about the value of personal data (source: I ran Facebook’s ads backend for years).

Much like the highest information-gain feature for the future price of a security is it’s most recent price: ad historical CTR and user historical CTR (called “clickiness” in the business) are basically the whole show when predicting user cross ad CTR. The big shops like to ham up their data advantage with one hand (to advertisers) while washing the other hand of it (to regulators).

As with so many things Hanlon’s Razor cuts deeply here: if your browsing history can juice CTR prediction then I’ve never seen it. I have seen careers premised on that idea, but I’ve never seen it work.
We really need some sort of sane checks and balances in regards to tech that involve actual experts and not random thoughts and ideas technologically ignorant humans come up with.
I think Oxford still calls it Computation, which makes the most sense to me - it's the computation that we're interested in, and the computer is incidental.
Settings -> Display & Brightness -> "DISPLAY ZOOM" -> View

Set this to "Zoomed"

in accessibility I also set "reduce motion" and "on/off labels" and disable the feature you are using "Reachability" because I double-click to manage my open apps.
> This relational framework captured Smolin’s imagination, as did Leibniz’s enigmatic text The Monadology, in which Leibniz suggests that the world’s fundamental ingredient is the “monad,”

If this is not evidence that Haskell is the language of the Gods, I don't know what is...
I once worked at a large IT company. Several years ago, a high-ranking manager was off to Europe for some sport thing. The company had the biggest outage in its history, spanning several hours/days, and most of his team was working non-stop to handle customers and trying to fix issues. He decided to stay on vacation - his sport thing was too important to be canceled. Wait, the best part is yet to come.

Months later we were having one of these kick-offs. He stood up on stage, started his slideshow, and offered a few pictures of sunny places where he was having fun playing that sport. Most people in the room knew what they were doing while he was having fun. One of the worst examples of leadership I've witnessed.

That person was let go several months later.
$29 to spam the web to my heart's content? I'll take infinity of them!
In the few parts of the parent comment that were coherent, the poster made erroneous factual claims. I was simply trying to clear those up.
I'm a happy user of both Firefox Focus and Firefox mobile, I don't know what could they improve but I'll give it a look.

About Firefox focus, I love to have it as default browser when opening links, it gives me a lot of confidence to know that the session will be completely destroyed afterward. I'd miss it if it were to be discontinued.
He's hilarious. I don't know how he puts out such high quality content so often, nearly every weekday. There's always something weird or interesting to talk about, and he does a great job of breaking down the complexities in a way that's fun to read.
When a party can use their gerrymandered position to block eligible voters from getting to the polls, then "Vote either way" is especially useful advice.

In North Carolina, the GOP used their ability to draw the districts in ways that allowed them to get a veto-proof super-majority in the state General Assembly. Then, they passed law after law restricting people's ability to get out and vote. Closing polling stations, requiring ID that many disadvantaged people don't have easy access to, restricting early voting. They even tried to make the state Election Board a completely partisan office by making it appointed solely by the General Assembly (which they controlled) rather than the Governor's office (who is a Democrat.)

All of that stopped once they lost their veto-proof majority, and they only lost it because the courts determined they had illegally drawn the districts. It wasn't people finally deciding to get out and vote. It was that people who had always been eligible to vote had their districts redrawn in a way that allowed their vote to actually count (albeit, barely.)
> For these reasons, I would like to see the refresh button remain, even if pull-to-refresh is implemented.

I'm not aware of any browsers that implement pull to refresh and have also removed the refresh button.
I would bet that corporate customers are a huge purchaser of the iPhone SE.

I am aware of several huge companies exclusively purchase that device.
I already work on open source a lot, just in other areas.
If that's the case then we should protect prisoners better, not withhold their money.