skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But how will we pay the NYT to try to drag the US into wars while David Brooks lectures debt-loaded millennials about work ethic and family values unless we let them continue to exploit a bug in web browsers?

Monopolist news orgs are losing readership/revenue because they're terrible and refuse to change, not because of Chrome. Meanwhile other, better forms of journalism are thriving.
Ask HN: What's Your Default Browser?
Currently I am using Firefox (for HN, Stackoverflow, freenode and Gmail, and programming stuff), Chromium for Banking, shopping sites, and for everything else.

I want to get rid of ads, malicious scripts.

What's your default browser?
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Thanks! I think you're right. I edited my comment.
What is the evidence for this claim?
This is really cool. I'm the adoptive father of an Ethiopian daughter, and we've come to love the country. It's a physically beautiful place, really excited to see them continue to move forward in the climate change front.
https://www.schofieldandsims.co.uk/moredetails/508-c.pdf

An imaginary friend took the blame, in her real friend's mind, for stealing dried fruit.
H-1B Chaos Means Tech Firms Looking to Canada for Offices, Workers
ah i thought it was preventing people from a method of tracking you despite having incognito on. my bad
> Seriously, think about it. How can someone who isn't qualified to do your job, actually manage you?

When put in a leadership position, above all "resist the urge to manage".

I don't want a manager, I want someone who serves the team, insulates them from unnecessary distractions, removes obstacles, etc. Someone that supports a culture of humility, respect and trust while helping to care and feed for each individual's autonomy, mastery and purpose.

I've worked on some great teams and less than 1/2 of the time these leaders could not do my job yet it did not matter (of course it was a bit "easier" when they did) because they understood the above.
I made this recently just because I wanted to prove to myself that it was possible to have a modern frontend application without all the overhead of build tooling and I have to say I'm pretty happy with it. You can use some of the most important things in browsers today like CSS variables, and ES module imports.

https://gitlab.com/WA9ACE/frontend-starter
it is trying match one object to another, like how lodash find allows using an object.
So, what coffeescript features are we still missing after this round?
Looking for the monoliths? Jokes aside, probably not much. Biological classifications don't imply sameness. You don't get anatomically modern humans until 30,000-50,000 years ago. Even that doesn't tell you much about cognitive ability. Think about something like the Flynn Effect [1]. In the past century real IQ scores rose by more than a standard deviation throughout most of the world. That means a person of perfectly mean intelligence today would be more intelligent, so far as IQ can measure, than 84% of people from a century ago. And over thousands of years? Of course now the Flynn Effect seems to have reversed in most developed nations with us becoming literally less intelligent, again so far as IQ can measure.

The point is that even in a time frame of a single century you're looking at very radical changes in intellectual ability between populations that would appear, on the surface, to be practically 100% identical. When you start talking about tens of thousands of years ago, it's impossible to do even begin to intelligently speculate based on anything other than achievement. And what did we achieve? As you mention, not much. And so the only justifiable explanation is that we probably didn't have that much going on upstairs until relatively recently.

I think the most interesting question is a direct spin off of yours. What triggered the intellectual spike? Was it in any way related to whatever caused the more contemporary spikes in intelligence? Why are IQs now decreasing and can global intellect fade away as rapidly as it emerged? Probably the most depressing possible solution to the Fermi paradox!

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect
> We tried to breach the paywalls of the publishers listed using Chrome’s current browser (v. 75), in Incognito Mode. Without fail, the websites detected the intrusion attempt and prevented access to the content.

Intrusion attempt? Excuse me?
This helps a lot, thank you!
Lessons for college coders from a non-coder
>frequently used for convenience by nondisabled people

How does their use interfere with the disabled person's use?
I have heard about these options, but the problem for me is identifying any of them and figuring out how to use them. My web server probably has to be IIS or Kestrel. I've been trying to figure this out for a few weeks now. And I've spent about a day trying to figure out how to do anything with the Shibboleth SP. I think I got it installed, but I can't really tell if it's doing anything or how to use it. And even then, there doesn't seem to be any information on how to actually use it for authentication in my application.

From my perspective as an application developer, writing an application that authenticates via SAML 2.0 is a nightmare, despite the ubiquitous claims of how simple it is.
flatMap is always so unituitive (not a word) for me for some reason. I messed with it a bunch in C#'s LINQ and RxJS and I already forgot the purpose. Not sure what it is that makes it so unnatural for me.
Hack Breaks Your Visa Card’s Contactless Limit for Big Frauds
I'm down if you require a let/var/const in front of it:

if (foo = bar()) { // syntax error!
}

if (let foo = bar()) { // works fine
}

if (const foo = bar()) { // also works fine
}

if (var foo = bar()) { // also also works fine
}
All you wanted to know here:

https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1900489/in-re-3dfx-int...

What I like about bankruptcy in the west is how public everything has to become.
Did they plant native tree species? Did they plant them in places that should naturally be forested? Most of Ethiopia's naturally occurring landscapes are deserts, savannas, and shrublands.

I worry they're destroying native landscapes by replacing them with non-native tree plantations.
Looks like a publisher association news or something like that.

So they look at this information from the publisher side.
Craig Packer (former director of the Serengeti Lion Project) has been a big advocate of fencing in the national parks in Africa to prevent this sort of human-wildlife conflict.

Here's his original paper: https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12091

And here is an interview with a more high-level explanation: https://www.minnpost.com/earth-journal/2013/04/minnesota-res...

It's very controversial, but similar principles would apply in India to minimize human-tiger conflict. At least some of the tiger reserves are already fenced in, but I don't believe all of them are.
How did the turtle get its shell?
Compromise implies both sides have something to give. One side doesn't have anything the other side wants, so there can be no compromise.

Let's take freedom of speech. One side believes it's unlimited, and the other doesn't. How do you compromise on that? You can't. How do you solve that problem? You don't, it's not the government's job to solve all of society's problems. That's the point most people don't understand: quit trying to control the behavior of others.
Actually, I believe (at least in the movie) it came from eating a type of poisonous berry that he naively mistook for a very similar-looking nonpoisonous berry.
Since the article doesn't bother explaining the loophole being patched:

https://9to5google.com/2019/02/15/google-chrome-detect-incog...
Oh man, that just shot over a few heads..
From what I've read, that was an fairly accurate (but dramatized) portrayal of him. He had a crazy life.
Who says it’s unacceptable? The incredibly tiny minority of readers coming from HN?
Count every vote and count them all by hand
Not true at all; With Node.js I don't have to wait for a browser to update, and V8 is often up-to-date with the latest stuff. And as a full-time JS dev, I have not gotten the feeling that the transpiler authors get to determine what's in the language. Honestly if they add anything that isn't destined to be part of the spec, I wouldn't use it because then you're tied into that transpiler for good.
> The shortest and simplest argument is that the South barely had the funds to prosecute the war while the North not only could fully fund their war efforts, they had access to extensive lines of credit from other nations. The South had to rely upon the largesse of European countries using it as a pawn.

Interesting argument. And what was the wealth of the North built on?
If you say something weighs on the Indian psyche, it does seem that you are making a statement that holds true for a large majority of Indian people, not just a handful of individuals.

Also, why would anyone who was not directly or indirectly involved in hunting tigers feel guilty, of all things? Sad, certainly, but guilty is a stretch.
> Should I also have no recourse when my house is burglarized if I fail to install cameras that send a feed to the police?

That comparison is wrong on multiple levels:

1) you may be automatically at fault already when not doing what the government is requiring you to do for public safety reasons (for example, your car has a rusty brake pipe, you do not do the yearly mandatory checkup, pipe explodes, car crashes into something)

2) contrary to a feed to the police, showing your federal ID card at a bank or car dealership when applying for a loan does not cause the government to know you were at the bank or the car dealership. Therefore it is not surveillance.
Super interesting. Is there anywhere I can find a list of the allowed erotic genres vs the banned genres?

Thanks.
The title is confusing click bait and the article content is garbage... "intrusion attempt"? "master key"?
In the immediate aftermath of the 2011 incident at Fukushima Daiichi, a hobbyist network formed around Tokyo monitoring radiation levels and publishing it online. While the act itself was heartwarming, I can very much attest that I never wish a situation where you occasionally refresh an online radiation heat map upon anyone.
This is not the big deal that they are making it out to be, and I don't expect it to have a huge impact on publishers.

The simple truth is that the people who will circumvent paywalls are usually the kind of people who would never subscribe anyhow.

If you are a publisher relying on detecting private mode to compel people to subscribe then you have a content problem - or a lack of marketing talent.

I say this as someone who has worked in 15+ years in publishing (web/digital) and also with publishers and digital subscriptions (NYTimes and The New Yorker).
I just close my browser (i have it set to delete all cookies on close) and reopen it. No need for incognito mode.

If there was a way to pay once for all sites i frequent to support them and at the same time block the tracking, I'd be interested.
Not that. Break into it as a job.

The talent pool is woefully underfilled.
Curious, why Worcestershire sauce and not any of the fishsouces you can buy in a chinese/Thai/Vietnamese grocery?
If your entire industry is only barely viable through the use of user-hostile tracking, I find it hard to feel bad when the ad tech loopholes are closed.
Just curious... does anyone know what the main workaround sites were using to detect incognito?

And if there are other likely ones the sites will be able to fall back to?
Oddly enough, that's not been my problem for some sime now. Note that I largely read nonfiction....

1. Find a topic of interest.

2. Start reading at some arbitrary entry point, though generally favour texts with references.

3. Branch from there.

- Find the authors you most respect / who most make you think, and read their publications, and track down their sources and references, or where they're cited. Notes, footnotes, references, bibliographies, and citation indices are gold.

- Find the topics, questions, ideas, methods within the topic that you're most interested in and drill down on those.

- If you find yourself needing new skills in the course of explorations, pick up on those.

- Don't hesitate to ask for recommendations.

- If there's a concept that seems unclear, chase that down to its origins, and trace variants as the concept evolves

- Incidental histories and biographies can often provide further illumination.

- Eventually you should start constructing your ow structure or modle of the field or space (or subsets / components of it/them). This can further drive your exploration.
“If I take the bottom out of this glass and I keep refilling the water or the wine, you won’t know when to stop drinking”

That's not how drinking works. That's not how anything works.
The Belgians have this tool called "itsme" which acts as authentication manager/digital signature tool with authorized partners.

After validating your ID, you can use the app to do 2FA with most major services in the country, including almost every bank and financial institution.

https://www.itsme.be/en/

A program like this could go a long way in the US to help cut down on the issue you describe.
> The important property of a lock free system is that pausing any thread/process does not stop the others from progressing; whereas with classical locks (mutex, semaphore, spin, whatever), if you pause a lock-holding process you risk starving the entire system.

With that being said, stopping any thread/process is rare in high-performance circumstances. In many cases, it is easier to avoid getting your thread stopped (as simple as spinning up one-thread per logical core), rather than to switch to a lock-free algorithm.

Besides, your typical OS Mutex (CriticalSection in Windows) handles the pause situation just fine. The OS will keep track of which threads are waiting on which locks, and restart the threads as resources become available. Its the "known problem" and well studied by pretty much all programmers.

Lock-free data structures are exponentially more difficult to write, especially when you are handling "out of memory" edge cases. The general recommendation is to write "mostly lock free", but use a lock for corner-cases.

CAS-loop with pointer swapping gets you lock free in most cases, and is very easy to understand. The only problem is that it doesn't work in all cases or data-structures, so you inevitably end up using locks to finish your program.

EDIT: And it should be noted that locks can be faster. So if you're going for absolute performance, you should write both implementations and measure.
> Most of us C coders were still defaulting to C89 for portability well into the late 00's. But now C99 is mainstream enough that you can (mostly) safely target it.

Sure, but if C came out with a new standard every year, you'd essentially never be on the latest version. Isn't there at least a valid argument to slowing down a bit to give the implementations a chance to catch up instead of having a new ES 20XX every year?
I am happy buying stuff from the iOS store. It's convenient, quick and easy. No objection as an end user.
Haven’t we done this experiment enough times? When the publishers switch to hard paywalls their viewership tanks, their advertisers freak out, and they immediately roll it back. We’ve seen this in Europe we’ve seen this in the US when newspapers tried to force Google to stop indexing their content - turns out it is much better to allow Google to index. I expect to see a repeat here. All the paywalls do is send more revenue to the other guys. As long as their is one single source for content that’s not behind a paywall, no paywall will ever work. Furthermore most news outlets today focus on soft news and opinion pieces, and I really don’t care what tantrum some star or starlet is throwing, what else Donald Trump said that offended someone, who isn’t going to the Hamptons this summer, etc. It is news to someone but I’ll never spend a penny on it.
I won't be surprised if 'imaginary friend' thing is probably tied to specific culture/regions. I grew up in a SE Asian country and there, we never heard of kids talking to imaginary friends. I myself grew up only imagining that I was fighting with robots, cars, machines, etc. When my sister played, she pretends she's selling some stuff like food to us (my brother and I). I also used to imagine that I am superman or someone who can fly. That's about it. Never imagined having an imaginary friend who I talk to regularly, and never heard of my friends or any family members saying it's normal to imagine like that.

As I am now in my 30s, I think of ways to design different room and land layouts for my imaginary apartments, houses, island, etc. That really helps me fall asleep quick (as a side benefit).
And more importantly what is essentially verbatim in your question:

Why is flatMap = map().flat() and not flat().map()
Non-paywall link: https://web.archive.org/web/20190729173504/https://onezero.m...
This seems like an extremely short sited, overly broad and unlikely to pass bill, and to make it all worse, based on the title, I thought that someone was attempting to ban videos that play automatically when you visit a website, which would have been a deeply noble cause.
Right, because you're "intruding" where you're not supposed to. It's hyperbolic but not wholly inaccurate. Gotta get clicks!
Parking Requirement Impacts on Housing Affordability [pdf]
There are numerous other people who make book lists. Authors write book lists called "bibliographies".
God this is so fucking stupid. Can we get the Government to focus on actual problems rather than this bullshit?
The failure of Facebook might well be stimulative to employment and the economy. Imagine the wave of startups and new initiatives from other companies trying to compete in all the areas Facebook's in now. And unlike banks no significant part of the broader economy is at risk if facebook.com and instagram.com start 404ing forever tomorrow. A hiccup in the "influencer" economy, such as it is, which is negligible anyway, and they'll all have new homes one place or another (or several) inside a week and be building their followings back up.

And yeah, ditto Equifax. There are two other credit agencies already. They're all same-ish as far as I can tell. Pretty sure there are only three so they can pretend there's competition, not for any actual purpose. Again, it might be an opening for a new competitor anyway, while causing minimal short-term harm.
iTunes does not always work reliably, from direct personal experience.

IME, wirelessly iTunes can be flaky, though better than in the past. My direct personal experience is that if you use a wire, as stated, it's flawless.
I'm also wondering where this is coming from. So far I've heard this exclusively from American movies. In Germany this kind of thing does not exist at all and I haven't heard anything like in South-East-Asia where I live since 7 years either.
With the Economist you can at least do it via email, or if you’re doing digital only you can use a subscription via Apple’s in app purchases etc and manage it that way.
https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?action=profile;u=3073...

God this guy is such an inspiration. Reading this devlog is giving me goosebumps. I finished the game a couple days ago. To know he made this entire thing (music included).. mindblowing
So fitting for The Verge to be reporting this.
Vivaldi! I just can't get enough of it! It's very customizable, runs great, Chromium engine. I don't think I have ever been this happy with a browser.

As for ads/malicius scripts I rely on ublock orgin.
There are better things to be wow'd over than a random encounter with an online idiot. It's the most used language in the world, there are plenty of idiots to be found.
Most current smartphones don’t fit in pockets anymore.
No way...I don't remember hearing about this. You mean changing the URL from like /data/customer/1 to /data/customer/2 ? And the person who did this was prosecuted? Jeez.
And evidence that sapiens x neanderthal offspring were not always fertile, see elsewhere in this thread.
Facebook Teams Up with UCSF on Brain-to-Text BCI Research
CSRTale #13: Formal verification of strong eventual consistency
The example I was thinking of is [1] - "Revenue-hungry cities mess with traffic lights to write more tickets [...] cities and towns shortening yellow lights spike the number of tickets, and thereby increase revenue. The profits come at a social cost, as shorter yellow light times have been associated with an increase in car accidents."

In that case, X=car accidents - any public red-light-camera advocacy will say they reduce X.

Of course, you're right to say that a tax on X doesn't prove people dislike X - a tax on income doesn't mean citizens hate income. You could even argue a tax on alcohol means citizens like alcohol too much! But a subset of taxes, such as fines and some sin taxes, are presented in the public discourse as about reducing X rather than making money.

[1] https://www.salon.com/2017/04/05/this-may-have-happened-to-y...
News publishers should get their asses together in one building and build a "netflix for news". No I don't want to register or put my CC info at your US 10k town TV station with a single overworked dude managing IT just to follow a reddit link, but link yourself with a central ID provider that manages payment and does not disclose my personal data, and I'd be in for it.
Even 200 seeds per hour would require ~145,000 participants to plant all 350M seeds in a 12 hr time frame. I’m literally just imagining a few guys with a leaf blower and a bag of seeds for how they got 350M in 12 hours haha.
US issues hacking security alert for small planes
"Multi-level storage system having a buffer store with variable mapping modes" (1972) mentions caching. The term doesn't require explanation in the paper so was obviously in reasonably wide use already https://patents.google.com/patent/US3820078A/en

"Sequel: A structured English Query language" (1975) https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=811515

"Vertical Migration for Performance Enhancement in Layered Hardware/Firmware/Software Systems" (1978) describes how to do live/live migrations behind load balancers. https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/co/1978/05/01646957/1...

All of these technologies is way older than you think.
Somewhat relevant: Julian Jaynes theory of the bicameral mind. The TL;DR of it is that we have multiple selves that are cooperating and competing for control, and that we mostly learn to suppress all but one as we age. Those other "voices" are still there for kids (imaginary friends) and schizophrenics, as well as "normal" people (apparently, 7% or so report hearing voices) and are Jaynes explanation for all kind of oracles and "god spoke to me" historical descriptions.

I don't know that it's really testable or really applicable to anything, but it is very interesting. I recommend reading even if you know you'll disagree (I'm not sure yet what my position is).

[0] https://www.julianjaynes.org/bicameralmind.php
Just in case you weren't sarcastic: the parent was, and US is obviously nowhere near the top of the list in regards of clean air and water.
Ethiopia is a gorgeous country. I highly recommend it as a place to visit. I've been a handful of times and there's so much to see. The people are awesome, the food can't be beat, and coffee is everywhere. Its a multi-cultural country so as you travel around the diversity in how people live and dress is striking.

Regarding the trees - it is the rainy season in Ethiopia, should last another few months. The country is huge and while parts of it are very very dry, other parts are borderline jungle. There are some cloud rain forests, not sure if they have "proper" rain forests. Ethiopia actually as a country has a lot of water (though it does need to be carefully managed)

The government invests heavily in the country (as does China). In the span of a few years I saw huge changes in the infrastructure.
What is even more ironic is that it has anti-adblocker.