skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not quite, I think that FAQ item needs to be updated. The model works like this:

The user opts-in to Brave Rewards/Ads. This kicks off a machine-learning model that begins to study the user's habits and interests.

On a daily basis, the user downloads a regional ad catalog (as to other Brave users in their region). This catalog contains numerous ad options, which your device studies for relevance.

If/when your device identifies an ad within the catalog that might be of interest to you, it displays the ad as an OS notification. At this time, 70% of the ad revenue is deposited into your in-situ wallet.

At this point, the user has made absolutely no contact with an advertiser. If the user chooses to click on the ad, it is opened in its own tab in the Brave Browser. This tab, like all others, is subject to Brave's default security/privacy settings. No third party trackers, etc.

The advertiser will know that you are interested in their product/service, because you clicked the ad. But no other information about you is given to them; only what can be inferred from standard first-party browsing online.

Brave aims to keep your data private, and on-device. It is never leaked to us, or anybody else. You are sovereign over your data, and you decide with whom it is shared. That's our goal, always.
Prefer ValueTask to Task, always; and don't await twice
I remember the days of using real maps instead of mapping apps on my phone.

Those days fucking sucked.
It's easily the best zero-configuration, nigh any language symbol locator, for _any_ editor or IDE.
I would love to see a upgrade to cpan able to handle names converted to lowercase internally. To remind that you must write "use MymoDuleSQL" instead "use myModuLeSqL" can become pretty frustrating for my tired eyes.
Not entirely clear what _policy_ exactly means, does it mean Uber will pay the minimum wage or it wants the government to pay that? (I am not from U.S. so its unclear how it works)

I guess, its the government, since people drive for both lyft and uber.
Have you heard of the numerous projects licensed under the GPL? Stallman personally worked on Emacs, GCC, and GDB.
being firefox on iOS is somewhat irrelevant to the rendering engine discussion tho, because iOS is forcing webkit on all its browsers, firefox is just a chrome around webkit.
I have no trouble believing that neural nets can beat people at all of these things (including, eventually, driving). And that, in itself, is incredibly impressive and incredibly useful.

The question is how you get from that to AGI.
Catalogs are regional, and reflect only active campaigns. So far, the file hovers around 3 MB when compressed. We are able to optimize size even further, as needed. It will always remain small enough to be downloaded easily.
"This would be annoying to write in bash" is a very popular use case for Perl (5).
Unlike hair (unless you opt for very straight forward buzz cuts) a beard is much easier to trim at home by yourself. I mean you can always go for profi-services but you don’t have to. I’ve been cutting my own hair (easy thanks to the fact that it’s basically close to shaved) and trimming my own beard for years.

Went to a barbershop once and despite clearly explaining and even showing pictures of what I want it ended up looking so horrendous (and impossible to fix since it looked like it was drawn with a thin pencil) that I decided to just do it myself. I’m very happy with the result and the whole thing takes 10, maybe 15 mins.

Downside: it’s not forgiving if you mess up :).
We didn’t have this 40 years ago:

http://portal.brain-map.org/
I don't think it's really growing. There was an article on HN yesterday, but in general, the sentiment hasn't really changed that much.
But this guy mostly took a look at things from widely discredited and dishonest Intelligent Design and Creationist sources (every single person he mentions in his article). ID organizations like the Discovery Institute (of which he quotes people related to) is known to be fundamentally dishonest in trying to hide religious beliefs and pass them as science.

So it's fundamentally dishonest. If this CS professor said "I'm a conservative religious guy [as is the case], I fundamentally believe in Creationism and mainstream science gets in the way of my beliefs" it'd be one thing. We could safely disregard his beliefs in evolution while acknowledging he was honest about choosing his religious beliefs over current science.

It should be noted that another lie of Intelligent Design is that it constantly re-invents itself as the "new thing" but it's as old as the science of evolution. It's essentially Creationism wrapped in new language, but even in this guise it's pretty old. It has been discredited again, and again, and again.

For someone "outside a discipline" to be worth paying attention to, he/she must:

- Accurately describe the current state of the art in said discipline, and explain why they chose to pursue a line of thought at odds with it.

- Take pains not to misrepresent the field they are talking about, and accurately address current beliefs and not outdated views. They must not engage in demolishing strawmen.

- Explain how their current expertise relate to the field they are talking about.

- Be honest about their intentions. If it's about religion, they should say so upfront, so people interested about science can decide whether they find religious arguments relevant.

- Be honest about how they represent the fringe views purportedly backing their own opinion. For example, he claims "Stephen Meyer demolished Darwinism", but Meyer did nothing of the sort -- he is widely thought of as a fringe creationist quack, with no scientific reputation at all within the field of biology. He could instead have argued "Stephen Meyer, contrary to mainstream scientific thought, argues that [something]" instead of saying he "demolished" something (which a cursory search would reveal he didn't). This is a huge red flag.
From the proposal:

“drivers would earn a minimum of approximately $21 per hour while on a trip, including the costs of their average expenses.”
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There are only two main Python languages: 2 and 3 (it is expected that Python 3.x runs Python 3.y code for x>y).

Python 2.x language has several implementations CPython (the reference implementation), Pypy, Jython, IronPython.

Python 3.x language also has several implementations CPython, Pypy

Cython understands Python but it is not Python (I don't know whether it is a strict superset).

MicroPython implements some subset of Python 3.4 (mostly)
He doesn't want to use Javascript because he doesn't want non-free software (the JS code) running on his computer.

Using a proprietary software on a proprietary OS is not going to be any better.
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I've never had a good experience with printers, no matter the ink type.
I'm not defending Uber here and it is very likely they are spinning this in their favor, but they claim that rate does include expenses:

> Ensuring drivers would earn a minimum of approximately $21 per hour while on a trip, including the costs of their average expenses

https://p2a.co/H9gttWA
WWI, not II
Beards are too hot for a global warming earth. I don’t see a fifth age of beards coming.
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This is a good example of Nassim Taleb's Ludic Fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludic_fallacy
And getting his videos up on the front page of one of the biggest sites in the world, reddit, probably helped too!
Lame. There's literally youtube channels popping out videos for how to pi-hole https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBXTnrD_Zs4

At least with Brave there is some hope of getting value back to the content creators.

Unless you'd rather paywall all the content?
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Apple Care isn't cheap. It's getting more accessible, with the ability to pay monthly instead of up front, but I think there's a significant number of consumers who never buy Apple Care.
I'm less and less convinced that a handheld keyboard can really be justified if you want to do some linux or programming stuff on such a device.

Touch screens can be simple enough if you get used to them, they save a lot of space on the device and I think they are cheaper than a keyboard.

Touch-swipe features will also make things much, much easier on a touch keyboard, and I'm sure it's totally possible to add linux commands or programming keywords to a swipe dictionary.

Touch keyboards can also have their layouts changed.

Other thing to consider if you're typing code, it would be nice to introduce more autocomplete to make things easier.

In the end if you really want to type, just get a real keyboard and sit down at a table. I'd also rather buy a well-made handheld keyboard that you attach to a device, but sadly I can't find one that is worth it.
He's not banning JavaScript, he's banning nonfree JavaScript. I'm sure he'd be happy to use a mapping service that was licensed under the AGPL.
I like Apple's approach. When some scammy dev ran to the press with a sob story, Apple would expose all the shady shit the dev was doing. Sorry, but 99% of these whiney stories are the developer's fault. Don't violate the terms of service, and don't be shady. It's not that hard.
You are misunderstanding Stallman's argument. He doesn't have a problem with Javascript. He has a problem with non-free javascript. He probably would have even more of a problem with Apple Maps because it's an entirely proprietary program.
AVs for Android are themselves a privacy nightmare. You need to grant them all sorts of permissions and their privacy policies, oft times, leaves a lot to be desired. That said, Malwarebytes is decent, and so are some other offerings, but I wouldn't recommend using any.

Here's basic steps you can follow:

1. Uninstall apps you don't use.

2. Firewall apps that do not require internet access to function (Calculator, CamScanner, Alarm Clock etc)

3. Block trackers and ads (use pi-hole and set private-dns).

4. Remove permissions from apps that do not really require the permission (Bank apps with all sorts of permissions).

5. Disable notification for apps that do not really need to notify you of anything at all (most games).

6. Install apps you're not comfortable using in work-profile, or in a privacy friendly app-sandbox (parallel-space started as one, but alas, aren't privacy-friendly anymore).
I'm pretty sure you will need the creator's permission to re host the video. Otherwise it's just piracy.

In the LinkedIn case the scraping was allowed, I don't think that HiQ is creating a mirror. Also there's a case for LinkedIn not having much copywritable content there, only information.

YouTube's real moat is that after years of operation they're managing to maybe break even, even with Google's insane infra. It's just doesn't seem that profitable to host all the videos for free.
T-digest is definitely the best rank-accuracy sketch for higher percentiles in terms of size. However, it was much slower than GK, and we found that by increasing the rank-accuracy of GK (taking the penalty of a larger sketch-size), the results were not too different. Both of course had the issues inherent in all rank-accurate sketches in the higher percentiles over long-tailed data.
Have you looked at their fees lately? You can expect to see as much as 12% of the value go to Patreon. Further, you have to give them personal information about yourself to play ball. Brave has a 5% fee on contributions, and we hope to reduce that even further as the system grows. Secondly, you enjoy anonymity in our system. Not even Brave knows to whom you're offering support.
Lizormato and some other folks have put in hundreds of performance fixes...I think these things just take time. The language might have been in development and design since the 90's, but it only just got to 1.0 or a "stable release" in 2017 I think. I'm surprised Larry Wall hasn't written a Perl6 book yet. Plenty of other authors have, but I was really looking forward to something from him or Damien Conway.
The byline does indeed indicate it was written by a woman, but I've seen similar misandristic critical writing from men too.
If you want to write a new command for vscode then you have to register it in contribution points in the editor which is done in a json file. I don't know if you can do that dynamically and if you can't then you can't create a quick throwaway editing command either.

I very often write few lines of temporary commands if I have to do some mass editing which can be automated.

With vscode I'd have to do it in python or something outside of the editor which is much less convenient than an emacs script which can work on a file as a buffer.
thats a bit of semantics. if they block someone elses ads, and display their own ads they are still replacing what a persons attention is drawn to, even if it is an overlay instead of injected into the page. (its literally called an attention token, diverting attention to a new target.)

should they be allowed to create an ad driven piece of software? absolutely? but if that software is an ad blocking browser, its creating a new interesting gray area.
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> Do you know any publicly available recommendation from these regulators against MongoDB?

If there isn't one, there should be.

>Let's assume this is made the top priority, in your opinion, what task immediately follows? Or what former priority does it replace?

Mongo jeopardizes the overall security and reliability of the system, thus exposing Stripe to serious liability, so I'd say replacing it is part of the basic expectation from any production-level computer system. Obviously I don't have a copy of "Important Stripe Person's Priority List", but I'd assume such basic functionality is part of an implicitly-assumed functional baseline, and that Stripe would expect said important people to escalate and develop a plan to handle such a fundamental flaw ASAP.

If we were just tracking people's favorite cat videos or something, it'd be one thing. Attacks targeting malicious data modification and exploitation of races wouldn't really be that much of a concern. It's not great to have that attack surface but not necessarily the end of the world if someone's favorite cat videos get added to their account 1000 times. But when we're dealing with money, this kind of thing needs to be taken seriously, and tacking on a big pile of crap in front of the datastore is not a serious way to address its fundamental shortcomings, at least not when there are many better, proven options on the market.

Just in case someone thinks I'm being an alarmist here, this has already happened; multiple bitcoin exchanges have been pwned due to their reliance on Mongo's flawed semantics. [1] I can only assume that systems like Stripe haven't been attacked similarly because it would provoke the ire of much bigger fish, and why do that when you can knock over smaller bitcoin exchanges?

[1] http://hackingdistributed.com/2014/04/06/another-one-bites-t...
While it's true in human language that idiomatic expressions are a barrier to learners, they are also a means of enhancing communication between experienced users of the language. Take Jargon for example, I've not got deep experience in functional programming, category theory, or discrete mathematics (really anything much higher than college stats), so the phrase "constrain the input domain of functions" set me scratching my head a little. I'm still not exactly sure what you meant by it.

However, it's one of those phrases that I'm sure is immediately clear to your intended audience. One who has experience and understands that monads are simply endofuctors that map between two category spaces (I think I got that right, and if I didn't the main point was illustrated anyway). As a person gains experience their language usage become much more intentional and expressive. Idiomatic language is really only this expression of experience and an effort to communicate the full context and nuance as succinctly as possible.

The best Perl developers I know understand this and what you see as praise for arcane-ness is usually in my opinion just embracing the idea that jargon and idiomatic language is inescapable, and should be just another tool in the toolbox for expressive writing.

Also Perl does some weird shit, and sometimes you gotta hack around that.
We'll see how long that lasts once the VC money runs out.

Blocking ads and displaying your own certainly is an "ad replacement" model though, and websites that don't want to participate have no choice.
The catalog contains edge-cached URLs and metadata for the ads. The size remains small, as we're not compressing down images, rich media, video or other assets in the catalog.

(I work at Brave, and am on the team bringing the ad platform to market)
Nah not really, there is loads of stuff invented by by humans that, as far as we know, did not appear in the universe before we did it. For example, I'm unaware of any natural implementation of a free spinning wheel attached to an axle.
Given the username I'd suspect a troll.
>Uber is circulating a petition urging people to “protect ridesharing in California.” In the petition, Uber advocates for a policy that would offer drivers a minimum of $21 per hour, paid time off, sick leave and compensation if they are injured while driving, as well as a collective voice and “the ability to influence decisions about their work.”

Uber circulating a petition to ... urge Uber to do a thing?

Why don't they just do that thing?
> That's exactly what the GPL is: limiting the developer's freedom for the sake of the expanding user's freedom.

Sounds spot-on.

> This is completely unethical.

This is an opinion, of course.
Well, you're at least halfway there with the butterfly keys, since their left and right arrow keys are full-sized and only the up and down keys are half-height! Mac laptops previously have had half-height arrow keys literally for two decades, going back to 1998's PowerBook G3.
In context it must be a governmental policy
$1/hr at 5 hours per day is ~$150/month. I have no idea what you can afford but that’s basically the price of cable these days.
Why is it worth mentioning?
"While on a trip" is very slippery here.
They're saying that the quality of the ads shown are terrible.
Interesting article. I had no idea about the diamond industry, even though I really thought the expensiveness is sooo exaggerated and unworthy and all those ladies desperate to have diamonds are just brain washed. So the men who are buying the diamonds for them.
> I should be able to install whatever app I want, without having to jailbreak my phone and deal with warranty nonsense from the manufacturer. Just like my computer, which I can also install whatever software I want on it.

I'm not familiar with Apple, but where do you see this problem in Android? "Allow installation of apps from unknown sources" is a one-button toggle in Settings, after which you can download an apk from anywhere you want and install it without issues.
Prices are indeed flexible.
well the linux kernel is compiled with the gnu compiler project, so literally everyone uses it if they connect to the internet or have an android phone.
Status seeking, sure. Materialistic approaches to that? No, that is far from universal. Me snearing down my nose at people with materialist obsessions is certainly a form of status seeking, but not of the materialist variety.
https://basicattentiontoken.org/faq/#why-not-bitcoin
>It’s a phone where you might save $20. It’s not like it’s the right to vote....

You can thank them the next time you get your car fixed without buying a new car.

>And when Apple doesn’t approve a repair shop there will be another uproar about Apple “gatekeeping” repair shops....

We don't want them to approve anything. The iPhone isn't some magical unicorn. Its a box that contains components purchased from suppliers around the world. Apple forces the suppliers to not provide parts to repair shops. They use DRM in random components that have nothing to do with security so that repair shops doing basic repair have to beg Apple to "activate" the new components.
You can guarantee a contractor an hourly wage.
3 is a common anti-pattern among software systems without clear leadership. Absent a steady, guiding hand, developers behind a component of a system are forced to set their own direction.

Unfortunately, that direction stems from their motivation which is easily tainted by group ego. Maybe the developers feel like they're not getting the attention they deserve, maybe they have a big idea they want to solve and their tool is tangentially related. Or maybe they know exactly what to do, and the "other" people in the system do not.

Whatever the rationalization is, it's enough to transmute their original purpose into a larger mission that everyone in their little silo agrees with, and that gradually diverges them from the rest of the system.

"We're necessary and therefore we're important... more important than the system we were built for!"

Eventually, a new name springs forth to signal their existence or even assert their dominance over the system to which they belong.

The kind of thinking that plagued ParrotVM:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7358646
The goal is to force every other company to do it as well, protecting the long-term prospects of Uber. A smart thing, and possibly a good one in the short term.
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I am fortunate to live in a country region where insects are quite thriving, from bees to butterflies to all the bugs in between .. it is late summer, and our garden is packed with sunflowers.

Every morning for the last few weeks, my family has had breakfast and witnessed a number of extraordinary events: of 100 sunflowers in our immediate environment, only 1 had no bee.

Then, there was a swarm of butterflies, which literally showed up as we sat down to our freshly picked garden treats, of about a bit too early in the morning, but nevertheless with heat from the sun waking us all up. We ate, the butterflies fluttered about, 30 or so of them, suddenly, as a flock ..

A couple days ago I shook my outside garden shoe, as it is wise to do, before putting it on, and out fluttered a praying mantis. I amused myself with this immediately, until my toes touched the egg it had laid in there. Or perhaps it wasn't an egg, lets see..

I've also been blessed to have lived around the world, and seen things kind of disappear, with return visits, to parts in which I grew up myself. Such contrasts are jarring. There is a big point to be made and it is this: if we want to save the planet, its pretty easy to do it, you can get help from your plant friends: grow your garden.

Tomorrow morning I will have another bug report, I'm quite sure, but its getting cooler now ..
> How does allowing sideloaded apps or unlocked bootloaders help the average soccer mom?

Millions of people installed Fortnite mobile without an appstore, you should ask them.

This kind of industry-wide myopia indicates that there's an opportunity for disruption, and I'm glad EA recognized it.

> If I'm a lawyer/politician/activist, I want a locked down device so someone can't install a backdoor if I lose sight of it for a few minutes.

But you get a device that records your life intimately and is one subpoena to Google or Apple away from making your life very, very difficult.
The mainstream user doesn't care about privacy. Speed has always been paramount.
Can someone explain this quote to me?

>Then again, maybe you shouldn't eat any fast food. It is meant for fasting, not for eating.
Generally the government does not pay/augment wages for companies in the US.
Minimum wage applies to what the companies pay an individual, not the government paying people.
Someone has to maintain those tests. Those qualify as "support". The idea behind code review isn't that amateur developers are going to do it, but that other companies can independently pay someone.