skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not, Manifest v3 hasn't been rolled out yet. It is in Canary already though. But it will take some time before it reaches stable.
Adding to this - ISPs likely would never try any of the above, simply because it would hurt their public perception, isn't worth the time, and is potentially illegal depending on the area.
The "tweaking" that you refer to sounds exactly like British immigration policy in the decades preceding the EU referendum. It didn't solve anything, resentment just built up and eventually overflowed. And the end result is far more damaging than it would have been to just listen in the first place.
>There is something to be said about policies put forward by sophisticated and educated elites.

Yeah, that they sell out to the highest bidder and are seeing revolts around the world as the middle & lower classes get decimated by their "educated elite" global policies. There is more to life than lifeless consumerism.
Sometimes I open Chrome, not after any kind of abnormal force-close, and it says something like “your browser profile was corrupt and has been permanently deleted”.

Which browser is good for meaningful work?
PWA and IOS app is in the pipeline ... it will be coming soon !
I’m not sure it’s changed much on the Windows / Office side. There’s definitely a different attitude with Azure. However, it’s hard to tell if that’s a culture change or if it’s just because they are the little guy in the cloud space.
My experience with Firefox in the last few months have not been good. I encounter so much input lag when typing in the address bar, usually after opening a few tabs. In general, the UI is not responsive as I'd like so I'm using Brave right now where those issues are non-existent
Not silly at all. I tried getting back into Firefox on macOS after Quantum but it still didn’t sit well with me. I just felt slightly out of place. Fast forward to last week and I happened to try it again and it looked real nice! The UI seemed smoother and less jarring than before. Plus the icon was new and slick. Not sure when those changes landed but just the look and feel give me more confidence in its solidness.
In Firefox, if you don't like the layout of a site, you can try "reading mode" and it will reformat it. Its the little document-like icon towards the top right of the address bar.
These models looks awesome, but does anyone else worry about unpickling a file provided by Facebook? After all the other sketchy anticompetitive BS they've been pulling who here would really trust what is effectively unrestricted code execution from zuck?

Anyone here got any genius solutions for how one could go about executing the code for these models in a sandboxed environment that lets you export it's output? Or model weights for that matter (model weights are what is picked)?

https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/21/facebook-removes-onavo/
Maybe. I am bothered that there's an unofficial pre-election in the US that is called campaign financing. It skews candidates towards the wealthy, corporate backed, or populist. If elections were publicly financed somehow, then perhaps we'd see a more representative selection. At least they wouldn't be beholden to donors as often.
The description of SmartSummon about halfway through the talk is interesting. One of the views looks like SLAM using a particle filter, but Andrej seems to say that it's done entirely within a neural net.
At best, this is a well-intentioned but poorly thought out initiative.

I have lived in rural France on and off for the last 20 years. The post person changes with the weather, and we have to remind them where the house is every few months. They drive ridiculously long routes, covering hundreds of kilometres on rural roads every day, and it isn’t uncommon to have them show up at 9pm with their girl or boyfriend in tow, as they’re still on their route and it’s the only way they get to see each other.

How they think that these already prodigiously overworked people will have the time for social visits is beyond me. How they think any kind of community bond can be built by a worker who’s going to burn out and leave in a few months is beyond me.

It’s like they’ve entirely failed to consider their reality before their PR department steamrolled this through.

There’s a much better way of building community and getting old people out - night markets. They started as a touristy thing, but now many communes are doing their own small scale ones, and providing a bus service for people without transport. The one in our hamlet has been heaving, and seeing people who I only ever see alone at home sharing a meal with their neighbours is a real pleasure. It also generates an income for the commune, and supports local businesses. Win-win-win.
That's pretty impressive! Can you elaborate some more in what you do and how you got there? I imagine you don't want to give too many specifics, but I'm just curious.
To be fair, Java (1995), Python (1990), and Ruby (1995) were all created before Google (1998). In a time of search engines I think that more care should be taken for naming things. Clojure is an excellent example of Rich Hickey taking the time to think about the name.
Firefox vs. Chrome
Attempted assault is a bit weird, simply because the crime of assault is typically defined to include both attempts at and successes at causing bodily harm to another.

That said, the concept of punishing attempted crimes is well established. After all, if one of the goals of having a criminal legal system is to prevent crime, we should punish those who attempt to commit crimes.

If someone fires a loaded gun at you, and you're lucky enough for them to miss, they should still be punished for the attempt to inflict harm on you or potentially kill you.

We can certainly debate whether the legal system should take more of a "no harm, no foul" kind of approach, but I hope the explanation above helps to clarify why our current legal system penalizes attempted and successful crimes.
> spam

I don't think this fits the definition of spam. Many average Joe users happen to find those curated suggestions useful. Yes, user testing has been done.

> Defaults matter.

Yep. More advanced users also tend to be better positioned to opt out compared to average Joe opting in.
Disagree, governments on average are terrible at financial management. The U.S. government has raided such coffers before.
It's already the name of a popular drug that's been around for half a century, with signs pointing towards increasing usage and legalization. There's thousands of research papers on "Ecstasy" already, and millions of people searching for "tips on ecstasy" or "how to use ecstasy".

Whomever named this language is a moron.
I switched back to Firefox (after using Chrome for a long time) back when Quantum launched and have stuck with it since. Initially I fell back to Chrome every now and then for the devtools, but I haven't felt the need to do that for a good while now. Works really well for my use cases at least.
>but throws me out of websites, unoptimized websites and font issues etc. stopping me from using it

Do you have examples of these? It's helpful to report them to the webcompat web-bugs repository as you discover them - e.g. https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/36955 - https://webcompat.com/ has more information on the project.
What a terrible idea. Being a representative isn't just about beliefs, it requires expertise in statecraft. There are so many better ways to solve the stated problem.
The problem claimed in the article was with manufacture, not with the product as a concept. You could definitely argue that the FDA needs a greater supervisory role for manufacture, but this wasn't an issue with the approval.
Same for me. Been using Firefox in Ubuntu for years and it is lightning fast and extraordinarily stable.
Apache's httpd is perfectly good as a web server, and passable as a proxy. I can't say that it'd be my first choice, but I'm not aware that there's any special reason not to use it.
Not surprised. Screw them.
Yeah, but we can’t even figure out how to have reliable elections without using paper ballots. I don’t think we are mature enough to have an unbiased merit-based selection of individuals to rule us all. Who sets the merit parameters? Who will test candidates?
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$59

Rei outlet:

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$77

It is the case for virtually all the products REI carries.
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Who the heck are you that I should trust you over Amazon? What's your return policy? Refunds?

There's more to this game then you seem to think. The thing Amazon has that you're missing is customers that trust you. That's not cheap.ans easy to acquire.

Go sell it on your website with free shipping. Nobody cares.
Well, the comments so far seem to disprove the article's thesis. HN readers really do read the article.
Software Engineer Margaret Hamilton received the Congressional Medal of Freedom in 2016.

Hooray for women in STEM.
Chromium has a reader mode but you have to enable it via a command line switch I think.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Chromium/Tips_and_trick...
the password management[1] and GCP support (likely Google doing something non-standard) was lacking last I tried. I hope it got better.

[1] I use a password manager, but avoid browser add-ons or extensions to limit the surface I expose my manager such as on work machines. Besides there being the occasional exploit targeting those browser add-ons or extensions.

What do you all do?
hi jacquesm,
if you don't mind, i'd like to try an experiment with you. I've seen your name enough times here on HN that I recognize you as a 'regular'. the point-score in your profile indicates people here either love you or you post 100 times a day (or some combination thereof).

Here is the experiment:
Stare very hard at this graph. memorize the trajectory and timeframe.

https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/SPM3...

Keep it open in a tab and come back to later, maybe even several times over the course of a week or month.

For those reading along I mean specifically a few points:

* emissions peak in 2020 (<2 months!)
* emissions are approximately 50% reduced by 2030 (a mere decade!)
* emissions achieve net-zero around 2050 (-5 to -10Gt/yr)
* the entire back half of the century we run -5 to -15Gt/year

The experiment here is simple: try, just try, assuming we will achieve these goals (aka 1.5C). or for arguments sake 80-ish-% of them (2C, just slide everything to the right 5 - 10 years).

What I mean is, assume we succeed in avoiding the worst of the catastrophes. Assume success. Try optimism. Not in a blind way, but in a quantitative mental framing way.

From that place of quantitative optimism, "solve for zero". That is, in all of your thoughts, opinions, comments, actions, causes, votes, etc, ask yourself "is this consistent with solving for zero?"

The point of this experiment is that, in my opinion, the number one hold-up to making meaningful progress on this challenge is people who are trapped in "analysis and debate" mode where they assume the time-horizon is much longer than it is, or they assume the goal is marginal reduction of emissions, rather than zero (and then negative!).

I believe that we, as both a community here on HN and as a global civilization, are in desperate need of quantitative-optimism, rather than dismissive pessimism.

Now after all that typing to tie it back to your post here. We both know airships flying containers are not going to be as cost-efficient as a diesel powered truck or a kerosene fueled jet. That's basically just stating the obvious. But that's also accepting failure.

Please stop accepting failure as the default mental framework with which you engage the topic. For any one person it can seem like reasonable skepticism. But when the majority of a community does it, especially its most vocal members, then the cultural result is one of inaction and delay. Analysis paralysis. Stalling. Stalling on climate change is effectively denial, even if that's not your intent.
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As usual experts do not judge it as simple as that.

Rust and corrosion will attack the strongest container – all they need are the right conditions and enough time to work. Not only that, but metals behave differently (and chemical reactions proceed more quickly) at higher temperatures – such as those produced by the decay of fission products. So the thermal effects also have to be factored in when designing the things.

So here’s the bad news about long-term disposal of spent reactor fuel – and the containers meant to hold it. Nobody knows how a container is going to hold up over even 100,000 years, let alone a million years (the time span required by EPA).

Source: https://fas.org/category/yucca-mountain/
> Difficult to read on big monitors.

I'm on a 55 inch screen and have no problems with this website. In fact, I much prefer it to websites that only fill the center third with content.
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Couldn't the government and ISPs stop file sharing?
The article left that in doubt. They did not rule out the thickener.

FTA

> Did the cold processing method and the failures in sanitation cause NEC?

> Nobody’s sure. The FDA’s current theory is that the problem is the xanthan-gum thickeners themselves, because of the way they interact with an immature gut.
I personally have used it for years on linux and have never once experience the apt-get block. I also can't remember the last time it crashed.
Interesting! Not a bad idea given there will likely be more stem cell based treatments available in the future. The cost benefit analysis seems to make sense to me.
This seems very interesting, however also dangerous.

I mean, this seems to make Bash a modern programming language, however if you do need something like this a modern scripting language like Python would be better in those cases.
When it comes to random - ask yourself this:

People mostly accept the results of a lottery draw, if the same system was used to pick politicians, then we all deep-down just know - people would question the results more and more. Indeed I'd expect headline reports that a Russian satalite was flying overhead when the draw took place and effected gravity and the results and they should be voided.
Just how society works.

But if you printed out a list of random numbers printed out upon a page of A4 and produced 10 pages. Then asked a group of people to pick which of the 10 pages is the most random. Well, the result would be enlightening into what random is and what individual perspective of random is.

One person's random is another person's pattern.
Similar thing with me except I stuck up with them even with Quantum until that fiasco with SSL certs happened and all extensions came to a halt. I'll never be able to trust a browser which does such a thing to its users.
Probably, but they would not do the same for your lawyer and a few well placed media mentions.
The same supposedly educated elites that through ignoring everyone not an educated elite caused the current political climate in the US?
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“I’m using ecstasy” will be interesting to hear around the office.
Why is the full name guaranteed to go wrong? A better assumption is that there is no reasonable nickname and you have to use their full name.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/huge-thermonuclear-blast-pulsa...
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If they didn't adjust the policy they would be in the same place as Britain is with Brexit today.
I think the key point here is isolation. Often presenting dashboards and reports lead to more questions than the isolating infrastructure can reasonably manage.
I'm assuming you're from a certain large corporate from whom no one actively engages our community or makes any comments on PRs or creates any issues or contributes anything for that matter and does not actively pay for support.

As a developer and user of open source I completely understand your pain. As a maintainer who has built and managed this project alone for the past 4 years I would tell you that you have many options in how you make use of a completely free open source project with a liberal Apache 2.0 license.

You are entirely free to fork the project, pin your dependency to a certain release, to actively engage in the community, to file an issue when you have concerns and to of your own volition use something entirely different if you are unhappy with your usage of a free tool.

We are in the process of moving from a totally free open source project maintained by one person to a small team building a product and business around these tools. During that period there may be some pain and issues, we'll move fast and potentially break things and in that make many mistakes but hopefully people will engage to help us move in the right direction.

If you are a company who relies on this piece of software for the 24x7 uptime of your business and this adds measurable value to your company then perhaps it would make sense to engage in some sort of SLA or support agreement for this critical software that you currently pay nothing for.
This already exists, it's called initiative and I believe that some of the U.S. states even implement it. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initiatives_and_referendums_in...

Representation, referendum, initiative and lottery are all just different tools in the toolkit of democracy. They all have advantages and disadvantages, and ideally, they should be used as such.

So for example lottery is great if you want people who are good representation of common interest (i.e. not corrupt), but of course it suffers that these people might not be experts or interested in the problem. Lottery is probably the best for advisory or supervisory boards.
Nativeness is a scale, for sure. Druid tries to be more native in certain ways, such as using platform drawing API's (Direct2D on Windows) when they're appropriate. I think the main reason to choose druid over browsers is simply performance. Also, druid binaries are pretty small, for example the calculator is 792k.
It also nudges the state towards a well informed populace over years...
The mention of NASA in such a wild headline did cause consternation. Thankfully the article did clear it up. Very satisfactorily. And the comments so far has restored faith in HN readers.
That's interesting, I've never had issues getting old sessions back. You could try recovering it via "History > Recently closed windows", it should be there usually.
A simple solution is just to forbid http altogether. No properly encrypted HTTPS connection - no website, sorry (unless you downloaded some kind of firefox developer build). But we're not there yet.
Good ol' velocity-cubed.

Increasing their compute per watt allows them to get more compute per watt, so they will pursue it lots, low speed energy savings are a way of making the range extension seem like a big deal when it isn't (maintaining highway speeds requires tens of kilowatts).
Can you easily change any of the above?

Firefox: Yes!

Chrome: No.
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> The competition in this space is great but I can't help but wonder what would happen if instead all these companies pooled their resources and went after the goal collectively.

It would probably slow down. 9 women can't have a baby in 1 month. Besides that, the disagreements about approach, politics, or eventual competitive interests would probably bring things to a halt for a long time.

I don't think the solutions to this problem are resource-constrained. Many companies would happily find more resources in order to be first to market with this technology.
> Or modifying the html form

You used to be able to send a POST request containing a comment for sites with comments disabled, and the comment still got submitted for the article. Newer versions of Wordpress don't let the comment through anymore. You used to be able to spam the admin area of Wordpress against the admin's wishes.
> For example, let's say that a country had to displace 40% of its productive arable land in order to install wind & solar.

How do wind turbines take up substantial arable land? The wind farm near the university I went to in Indiana was surrounded by corn fields outside of a little dirt road to each one and a small patch of of unseeded space around each turbine likely for a crane.

Example: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7421689,-87.0894657,152m/dat...

And as others have said, we don't need to worry about solar space until pretty much every roof is covered with solar panels.
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I never thought I would say this, but I'm actually really looking forward to the new Chromium based Edge browser.

They have announced they will be releasing builds for Linux recently. They also are weighing their options with the Manifest v3 changes.

If Microsoft wanted to steal a bunch of users from Chrome, this seems like an easy "win". Don't support / force the Manifest v3 changes and win a bunch of goodwill from people who are able to use uBlock Origin style adblockers.

I know this has implications with extension compatibility but won't this just mean that the new Edge browser supports a super-set of extensions when compared to Chrome?
Yes, there are downsides to federation, but I would argue spam is not inherent to federated communication.

There are many ideas to stop spam like proof of work.

Main reason for spam in email and PSTN is legacy protocols, which were created long time ago and cannot be significantly improved without breaking compatibility.
I used to use FF exclusively until the last update. After that it doesn't fully load some websites like Slack. I poked around to try and figure what is the problem, but in the end it was just easier for me to switch to Brave.
How do you get by without extensions? The extension "store" (now part of the App Store) isn't searchable, and among the available extensions, which are very few, most are junkware.
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If you're on a Mac with wide color gamut, here's a trick to improve Firefox's rendering so colors aren't oversaturated:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1250461#c28
Belgian writer David van Reybrouck has written a very interesting book on this topic: Against elections. https://www.amazon.com/Against-Elections-David-Van-Reybrouck...
Toronto being the sprawling megalopolis it is, I can see why. Having lived in Vancouver all my life I was pretty shocked the people here in Toronto wouldn't even make eye contact as they passed by on the streets.

I can't imagine being elderly. This is a cold city if you don't have an immediate social group to join in on.
> Being a representative isn't just about beliefs, it requires expertise in statecraft.

I suspect you don't live in the United States - or have never watched these representatives in action in their various sessions and places of work, because ... elections are a beauty contest that are simply a reflection of a candidate's ability to campaign, and have nothing to do with the actual ability of the representative to capably do their job.
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Here's a page on why Firefox uses cloudflare for DNS resolving:

https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/commitment-to-priv...

This page makes it sound like a good thing from a privacy stand-point, but I'm sure there are concerns that people here would know something about. Please educate me!
Expertise in statecraft sounds a lot like ‘skill in owning slaves’. Statehood is not a self-evident state
Well, I guess be glad the surgeon is there, they have to live it, and we struggle just reading it.