skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of the major browsers which are non-US based? Hint: not the majority. The point the op was making had nothing to do with your response claiming the US is the "only ruler of the internet".

Does the US do a poor job of regulation of monopolies in tech? You don't have to look hard to find supporters of that statement. But we're at a point in time where things are finally starting to bubble up and garner traction. Will it be perfect in the short term? Definitely not. But I'm hopeful the US can and will bring their portion of the blame back into check which is advantageous to a sum
that's greater than simply the US.
That is Stephen Jay Gould and I just reread the Mismeasure of Man, an excellent inoculation against essentialist beliefs about the incarnation of intelligence.
Everything you're stating is driven by wild assumptions that seem to be based on nothing except for trying to paint a pessimistic picture as possible. Everything would be contingent on a huge variety of variables - the algorithm, the usage, whether we think of a unified crypto or software specific coins, and much more. The idea is not to go for another VC hype bubble aiming for 80 billion percent growth or bust, but simply to create a stable source of revenue that companies can use to sustain themselves without resorting to the increasingly broken 'ecosystem' we have in digital rent seeking/advertising today.

This is really quite a perfect application for cryptoes where everybody could win, but there are a number of not yet solved problems that need to be overcome. One issue with this idea, and as with all good decentralized ideas, is that the person who does ultimately create it would likely receive little reward for it. It's not about making money, but about improving the state of software as a whole. There are only so many Tim Berners-Lees.
Where can I find a list of these pockets so I can begin to plan to relocate myself so I’m ready to have children in a few years? Or even communities dedicated to sharing this knowledge would be a good lead.
That would be an interesting advancement.
Ultimately, though, they're periodically asking you for money; if you decide to stop giving them money, then things need to work out such they don't get any more of your money.

Agreed, that is the important thing (though it implicitly assumes that you don't have some contractual obligation to continue making payments for whatever reason).

I'm not in any way advocating making legitimate cancellation artificially difficult here. I dislike shady businesses that do that as much as anyone else. I'm just also seeing it from the other side, as someone who has run subscription-based services, because sometimes customers will give ambiguous or conflicting signals and then assume you magically know how to interpret them correctly.

A particularly common one in my experience is a subscriber sending an email to ask how to cancel, receiving a prompt reply from you answering their question, but then not actually doing it. Contractually speaking, there seems to be no doubt at that point that their subscription continues and further charges are legitimate. However, if they just forgot to act on the response, and then they come back six months later claiming that they're still being charged after "they asked to cancel", that's always an awkward situation. It gets more awkward if they really haven't been using your product/service since that time, or if they haven't actively been using it but they do have some sort of data stored in it that would be deleted if their subscription ended. It can get much more awkward if they really did literally ask to cancel, but in an insecure/unverifiable way such as an ad-hoc email, and if you did reply advising them of that and explaining the correct procedure, which they didn't then follow.

Within reason, we tend to refund as a good will gesture in this sort of situation as long as we believe it was an honest mistake by a customer, but I don't think either the law or whatever payment service was used should be imposing any sort of obligation in that case. Insisting on a clearly defined cancellation process does have the advantage of being unambiguous and therefore reducing the risk of that sort of confusion.
2017 was the safest year ever with zero fatalities in jets and less than a hundred fatalities total.

2018 saw a couple hundred deaths in jet crashes.

Where does one get the idea that airline safety is regressing? Well....
Thanks for this useful additional detail. Debugging medical issues like this is extremely complicated, in no small part because a lack of organized anecdotal stories.

It's unfortunate that we have this widespread mentality of believing something is only true if it is measured and published by "authorities in the field". This belief rests on the axiom that that everything that can be known, is. Axioms like this are not just false but dangerous, and thousands to millions of them are present in humanities' "understanding" of reality, both at the high level "expert" level, as well as at the every day person level.
That's going to depend a lot on what the offense is. If you pass a law against suicide, the impact that has on the suicide rate is likely to be negligible, because most people don't have any interest in suicide to begin with and the people who do are not likely to be deterred by the prospect of criminal penalties.

But you can certainly find a lot of instances of things that a lot of people did before there was a law against it (e.g. polluting rivers) which now far fewer people do precisely because there is now a law against it.
I think GP is making a reasonable argument about capabilities, and that's something that we should be pushing harder for both on the web and on native. I also think that's something we are actively looking at on the web, we're just looking at it from a feature/platform perspective instead of at a language level.

On the other hand, I don't think the Open Source argument holds at all. This is pushing for something that just isn't going to happen. Now we need to not only get rid of Javascript, we also need to convince Facebook to Open Source its native app?

I run mostly Open Source native apps, but the only way I can do that is because web-apps take the place of many native apps I would otherwise need to install on my phone or computer.

> For one thing, unlike a Javascripted one, it wouldn't update behind your back.

Most people's phone apps are set to auto-update, and most PC apps have the ability to download and execute additional code on the fly. I like to think I run a pretty tight Linux system, but all of my programs have write permissions to their own personal install directories.

It sounds to me like your problem isn't so much Javascript as it is 3rd-party requests/assets and mutable web-pages. These are also interesting problems to talk about, but they're largely unrelated to Javascript. It would maybe be helpful to see the web move more towards a DAT/IPFS model where webpages could be versioned.

On the Javascript side of things, all of this boils down to the security idea the users should only run code that they trust. Users have broadly rejected that idea -- both on the web and on native platforms like phones. They want the ability to safely run untrusted and semi-trusted code.

We can argue over whether that's a reasonable thing for them to ask, but that's the position we're in. The web is trying to figure out how to let you run untrusted code.
You mean, aside from the fact that we invented the internet?

You are welcome.
At least two problems with the java code. Concatenation of strings using the plus operator creates a new string and copies the content of the old, that pushes the complexity of the code from o(n) to o(n2) where n is the number of lines. Secondly order is not guaranteed with the for each operation on streams.

The correct way to do it is using collect(Collectors.joining(“\n”)) or straight forward imperative style (without streams).

I don’t think the general statement holds (that java or buffered reader is cpu bound in particular).
If another sets the standard for the internet it's google.

What ever they do, running the most viewed sites is quickly taken up by everyone else
Teaching does increase kindness and intelligence, however. Just as practise of difficult skills can increase ones abilities. Or have none of your experiences left you smarter than before?
I think the US is relevant here because it's where most of the big ad serving companies are based.
For CO2 removal the article says they "can remove carbon dioxide and produce breathable oxygen at a rate equivalent to a hundred trees from the surface area of just a single tree".

Trees sequester ~48 lbs of CO2 per year.[1][2] So 48*100 = ~4800lbs CO2 removed per year for this project. As others have said I'm interested to see if they can do it cost effectively.

[1] https://projects.ncsu.edu/project/treesofstrength/treefact.h...
[2] http://urbanforestrynetwork.org/benefits/air%20quality.htm
There are cases where copy elision doesn't work (don't know how important is that in practice).

One representative example would be something like this (I think this can't use copy-elision, but I am not an expert in C++, please correct me if I am wrong!)

void f(std::vector<Foo>& xs) {
xs.emplace_back(arg1, arg2);
}

Here, the semantics is that xs is resized first and then the constructor for Foo(arg1, arg2) is called. So, if resizing xs throws, no Foo is constructed at all. If we replace emplacement with push_back and a factory function, then the semantics becomes 1) construct Foo 2) extend the vector 3) copy/move Foo into the vector.
Because logic errors are no longer simple "restart and try again" incidents, instead leading to derailments or head-on collisions.
I identify strongly as an advocate for democracy.

We have a second amendment that talks about well-regulated militia broadly interpreted to mean all sorts of things, some I agree with, some I do not.

Likewise, we have multiple, progressive amendments to the constitution with a clear goal of enabling voting to the broadest possible scope.

I live in a state that requires that you be a citizen, age 18, and not be in prison or on parole. I think that’s a fair compromise over disqualification of felons, as you create 2nd tier of citizen by denying that right.
I set this up in about 4 hours. I hate the thought of buying toys that have a learning ceiling, so I was very happy to get Dash the robot working from an API. Its a great platform for building stuff as its child proof, robust and a fully packaged thing. 4DOF robot for $150, bargain!
That's a really good question. I can't immediately find an answer.

What I can find is data that says Jews have won 22% of Nobel Prizes globally while being only 0.2% of the global population, but that starts getting into "how to lie with statistics" territory because I imagine few such prizes go to people in developing countries. So I think the American figures are a more good faith attempt to quantify the known fact that Jews are seriously overrepresented.

https://www.algemeiner.com/2013/10/29/richard-dawkins-perple...
It's useful for bypassing a system administrator or devops when adding new dependencies.
>I totally agree. It makes me irrationally mad that some cities like London and Los Angeles enact policies meant to prevent small apartments on a pretense of lofty words, completely ignorant to the fact that commute distance is one of the largest factors in one's happiness and well-being.

Meanwhile all of northern England suffers from underemployment. The obvious solution is to not concentrate jobs in one place. It makes me irrationally angry that people can't see the obvious solution when it's staring them in the face.
If this keeps being an issue, maybe browser vendors will eventually limit website CPU usage by default.

For web apps that need it, it could be an explicit permission, like webcam or location access.
> Why would they sell it to you later?

For the same reason they sell mobile phones. Because the marginal cost is much lower than what they sell it for.

The "rich" aren't a single person. If Jeff Bezos refuses to sell you something, Tim Cook will see an opportunity to take the market from under him. Competition is why they'll sell it to you.

If you don't believe this, can you give examples of cases where "the rich" have successfully withheld a beneficial technology from everyone for more than a few decades?

> Even more so, why would they even need most people (say 80% or so)?

This is going into highly speculative territory. All I can say is if you think this is the future then you should be hoping and praying that genetic research advances faster than AI does.

If AI can eliminate 80% of the workforce, it's only a matter of time before it eliminates 100%, at which point "rich" doesn't matter anymore as that's a human distinction only. In an AI dominated future isn't genetic research even more critical because it's one of the few outs for human beings to remain economically relevant?
Patents also commit the invention to public record.
The dangers are clear, we haven’t discovered all the correlations between various genes and how they express themselves. Biggest risk is a neurodegenerative condition that takes thirty years to show.
#1 culture hack that is amiss in today’s startups
You understand that the difference in intelligence between humans and chimps could well be 100% genetic and the difference in intelligence between a poor town and a rich town could be 100% environmental, yeah?
Some progress on CO2 sequestration technologies
And check out this short video he made to promote a talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUfRmvICnPA
I actually want to block ads. If you want to put a small text or image blurb anywhere on the page... I don't want to see it. I'd rather people stop whoring me out and start standing up for what they believe in.

And now I have the tools to do so.
There is no wilderness in Brittany that I am aware of. Very little anywhere in Europe actually. My point being, man have altered the landscape in that part of the world on a continual basis for thousands of years. Heck, people have been building windmills, the very object you object to, on this land for that long. It seems a bit rich to suddenly stand on principle and proclaim No! This should be banned! What is there left to despoil? Virgin Amazon or Boreal forest? Sure. Brittany? C’mon.
Like the 2003-ish tax refund checks under GWB it feels like a bribe to accept something that should be unacceptable.
I just wish docker wasnt slow as shit on mac's (then again I guess relative to vagrant it's not that bad)
Why are these called "contracts"? It's just another generic type mechanism. "Contracts" are generally associated with entry and exit conditions for functions, and are not confined to single variables. A real contract looks like:

func foo(a integer, b integer)
{ entry(a>b);
...
}
Microsoft is not untouchable by any means, but, probably more than any company in the world right now, they have the power to gain clarity on these sanctions (and possibly also the EAR issue).

Microsoft has obviously turned a corner recently into dramatic support for open source collaboration. They're pushing VSCode. They bought github. They support linux. None of us will be surprised to hear that they're seeking to buy StackExchange or Discord soon.

I'm saying: if these are their true colors, then they mount a full-throated resistance to this nonsense. They have the legal team, the technical talent, and the political connections to do so.

Start by refusing to take down Github Pages of nationals of sanctioned countries and refusing to disappear repositories maintained by the same, absent a specific court order. Then, challenge it in court.

Will the US Government have the gall to go to Seattle and cuff somebody over this? If they do, it will be a major international incident and rallying cry, and that person (and Microsoft) will look internationally heroic.
It's very poor English.

I find it hard to believe that a state actor couldn't put together a spoof email written in good idiomatic English if it really wanted to.

But from my limited experience of Russian troll farms they seem to be staffed by younger people who don't respect Westerners and think any action is a bit of a joke, so attention to detail may not be their main interest.

They're effectively a kind of weaponised Russian version of 4chan, not a professional intelligence department or PR machine.
Corporations are not entitled to privacy as a right.
In most other countries we call these homes.
lol so backwards. i can put a fish in a fish tank in my living room it doesn't make it a mammal.

>It would indeed be interesting to see a coherent description of ML in a DG framework.

there is no need for such a thing - you don't need the machinery of connections, bundles, christoffel symbols, whatever else in order to take derivatives. you use those tools to be able to take derivatives in places where you can't do freshman calculus, not the other way around (bring those tools to places where you do do freshman calculus). it makes no sense.

it's like reasoning that because wiles used algebraic geometry to resolve fermat's last theorem that solving quadratic equations is really about algebraic geometry.
The notion of an enterprise as a fictitious person is a well established idea that has existed since at least the Roman Empire.

Many government entities are fictitious persons. All public authorities are, and many agencies. I’m unsure of how a sovereign state compares to a corporation legally.

Your dog is entirely different. It is a chattel, or your personal property. Your dog has no agency, ownership of anything, etc.
I get a distinct impression from this article that the target user is a trained typist. It would be interesting to find out if an ergonomist would think differently about a keyboard to be used by users who do not touch type, that is, the vast majority of users.
I think pollution is a bit of a strange case, since it isn't typically directed at individuals, but rather firms, and in cases where such laws are not enforced they're typically universally ignored. Firms are funny because they're both highly invested in society, generally very rational (in a narrow sense), and generally not particularly interested in ethics. I think that's pretty much the opposite profile to your typical criminal.

I'm not in any case saying that such causal relationships don't exist: just that they only exist in a subset of crimes, and probably aren't major drivers in the really interesting ones (theft, violent crime, organized crime, etc).
It’s also possible that these smart Jews have biased towards investigating and inventing more disorders surrounding their own population than other ones.
Consumer: I block ads for reason X.

Publisher: Don't block ads or I will go out of business.

Consumer: Then please allow me to contribute in some other way (subscription, Patreon, microtransactions).

Publisher: Hm, I dunno, that sounds like work.
For anyone interested, the Clickspring YouTube channel is recreating the Antikythera Mechanism.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCworsKCR-Sx6R6-BnIjS2MA
These are all interesting questions for advertisers but it's not obvious the burden of addressing advertisers' problems should be dumped on users with next to no informed consent, as is the case now.
This guy on youtube is crowdsourcing a series where he is recreating the mechanism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML4tw_UzqZE&list=PLZioPDnFPN...
And there are no cultural or familiar practisces that differ between Ashkenazi families and more typical US families? Go read five biographies of these Nobel prize winners and read about the family influences.
Meet the beetles: The insect drawings of Joris Hoefnagel
I am afraid Paul Krugman's take on Gould is pretty accurate:

"Now it is not very hard to find out, if you spend a little while reading in evolution, that Gould is the John Kenneth Galbraith of his subject. That is, he is a wonderful writer who is bevolved by literary intellectuals and lionized by the media because he does not use algebra or difficult jargon. Unfortunately, it appears that he avoids these sins not because he has transcended his colleagues but because he does does not seem to understand what they have to say; and his own descriptions of what the field is about - not just the answers, but even the questions - are consistently misleading."

He certainly misrepresented data in Mismeasure of Man:https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou...

I do find it amusing how people who claim intelligence is 100% environment are also terrified of letting others select for intelligence. It is almost like they know, deep down, that it will work. That intelligence, like almost every other trait we have measured, has a very large heritable component: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ
There is a company called Blendle that offers a curated source of news/op-ed/etc to read, where you pay some fraction of a dollar per read, usually in the 10-25¢ range. If you feel the article wasn't worth it, you can click a link to get an immediate refund, no questions asked.

I like the idea, and I do use their service. They have plenty of room to improve- the articles they pick tend to almost always have a certain political slant, and I find more puff than meat more often than I think a curated service should offer.

But. It's a real attempt at a new model, and they're trying. I do get enough value out of it to keep using them to the few-dollars-a-month level, and I hope they improve their system over time.
> tech giants controlling what people see.

This has been going on since the beginning of time. If it's not tech, it's a newspaper or magazine, spinning words around in print to elicit a response, a very specific one.

Matt Druge, drudgereport, did this today and it's exactly the problem: Headline read BCP agents helped across the border, with hands out, 5 illegals.

That's not how it went down and he left out a lot of important details. It did not stop the barrage of the right-wing internet news article commenters.
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> data collection for trend analysis

Of course that's going to be met with the same hostility. It's 99.9% the same thing.

> crypto mining in the browser

Of course that's going to be met with similar hostility. Climate change is even more present in the public consciousness.
"Get interested in programming, and do some because it is fun. Make sure that it keeps being enough fun so that you will be willing to put in your ten years/10,000 hours."

This is a great definition of talent.
> they cannot give customers more rights

They do not give more rights. Because it is easier to do the minimum.
I've been blocking ads ever since I learned that I could stop seeing DoubleClick ads by blocking their domain in /etc/hosts.

I won't ever apologize for doing so. As far as I'm concerned, any advertisement that depends on JavaScript is malware, and I think that my right to protect myself online outweighs the need of publishers to turn a profit.

IMO, profits are like respect. They must be earned, and if the only way you can turn a profit is by spying on people then maybe you shouldn't be in business in the first place. If the only way you can get me to use your product is by giving it away and selling my data, then maybe your product shouldn't exist?

As far as I'm concerned, the data I generate by using a search engine should be treated with the same care as my medical records. It should not be mined or traded. It should not be kept longer than 30 days.

And if that breaks the internet, so be it. You brought this on yourselves.
Hong Kong Protesters Angry over Mob Beatings Clash with Police