skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have some recent experience of this where a friend switched into web dev from a totally unrelated (non-computer) field. Originally she was looking at Python/security as a path, but then changed to web dev as she was more interested in that. Did an free Google course online, learned JavaScript and (IIRC) a bit of React, and 9 months later was working in the industry. She did this in her spare time on top of her day job. She's been a year in the industry now and she has had a couple of promotions and is doing well (double her previous salary)...
You already see that ongoing with Java and .NET, refocusing on having AOT as part of the toolchain instead of some third party toolchain, more language features for lowlevel control and GPGPU access as well.

Or the pendulum going back to compiled languages after the scripting craziness of the last decade.
I assume there is still a limit on the number of books you can have out. If you never bring one back you can't keep taking out more.
Actually, this problem does occur in practice. When one needs to output some numbers in a column it can be important how wide the widest one is. Ironically, in that case the numbers are going to be converted to text anyway so you might as well use the string size....
Space-grade CPUs: How do you send more computing power into space?
If the rest of the economy was experiencing hyper inflation as seen in the game, it would extend into your coffee too ;)
I think that the main question is about how animals are killed and how they live until then.

To me, slaughtering a cow quickly is not bad because the cow may have had problems in its old age and we are causing one minute of pain vs long years of potentially serious discomfort. Also the animal’s experience is considered pretty limited so robbing the cow of many more years of experiencing life as a cow is not considered very bad. On the upside you get to use the cow’s meat, hide etc.

In the animal kingdom, deaths are often far more brutal, including from bacteria etc. so humane slaughter is far better.

The problem starts when you have to breed far more cows and keep them in terrible conditions during their lives. Especially how they used to keep veal. To this day I avoid veal out of principle. But it’s also the dairy industry, the National Dairy Checkoff and how cows are forcefully inseminated, the calves taken from them and the cows milked without being able to move.

The problem is induced demand and the explosion of number of people on the planet. The farms are not your grandparents’ farms. And cows have it relatively good compared to turkeys and chickens.

What’s really immoral is the way they keep these animals confined, cut off their beaks so they don’t peck each other, and let them live in their own dung and stench. The chickens can’t spread a single wing.

The way they use antibiotics to both combat the rampant spread of disease in confined conditions (from feces, etc.) and to fatten up the animal has heavily contributed to antibiotic resistance of MRSA strains etc. So there are negative externalities for humans even if you don’t care about animal welfare.

We must do something about ending factory farms in the USA. When you are not paying you are the product. Capitalism always selects for the farm with the lowest overhead, though. So we will have to use non-market mechanisms to solve this. Does anyone here have good ideas? Here are some of mine:

Regulations (like in Europe)

Nonprofit offering farm subsidies and to build vertical space to house animals in exchange for cameras and seizing the farm / fining it (like a government) if violations occur.

Make more people lactose intolerant by encouraging interracial marriages with non-Europeans like Asians (far fetched and works only for cows, if it works at all)

Impossible burger may be the best thing to get people to switch. Just like Qbix and Matrix.org and Solid and Mastodon need to exist as alternatives for people to switch from centralized systems.

Any other ideas?
It's not just complete information games. AI recently overcame the best humans in six-player no-limit Texas hold'em.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2209631-ai-beats-profes...
I thought all ships have some kind of international tracking system now?

You should be able to accurately estimate all ships's speeds, using basic high school physics, from a site like https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-12.0/cent...
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Expecting the entire world to turn vegetarian, seems unrealistic, unless there is some major collapse of the entire ecosystem. The ideal solution is that meat goes back to being a luxury or treat, instead of consuming it daily multiple times. With a majority of our calories coming from vegetables. There is just far too much cheap meat available.
Except seeing it was digitally received is often quite insufficient to seeing it was received by a human it was intended for. All too often in dealing with healthcare and gov't orgs our faxes get lost with no way of identifying where they went. Presumably it is a mismanaged shared fax inbox where individuals are not actually being alerted to their messages...
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Don't know what to make of this but all trains of thought seem to lead to This Is A Bad Idea
Thanks, inspirational. I plan to buy up land and plant as many trees as I can too. I doubt I'll be able to do 1360 acres though! But at least I will help in some small way.
Not true!

Acres of asphalt exists because we need to physically park our cars and then walk safely to and from the mall.

If we don’t need parking in close proximity, or parking that a human must drive into and walk out of, we can build much more efficient storage for cars than acres of asphalt.

They do it in Japan, we just don’t do it in North America.
Since asking a user to enter every possible variant is unwieldy and without doing so, the problem is unsolvable, I’ll stick with my original suggestion of using a single field. Yes, some names will break, but far fewer than if first and last names are required.
I personally think it that is backwards or at least a feedback loop. The technology shapes the society. Horses of all things could be accurately called ancient corruptors of human morals as absurd as it sounds.

They were expensive but fast enabling and encouraging raiding of neighbors and riding away before they could rally a defense with far less risk for the reward compared to a band on foot with melee or ranged weaponry who would get beaten or cut down and either enslaved or executed if they attacked a village on their own.

It may have been existing flawed morals to consider raiding then but the power influenced them.
Metarepo Architecture
Everybody saying declarativeNetRequest is sufficient and Apple's Safari content blocking works perfectly fine is entirely missing the point. Both of those statements are true enough, _for right now_.

Losing the ability to modify content in this manner means adblockers can't compete in the arms race against advertisers. Anti-adblock scripts running locally with randomly-generated names will render this sort of declarative content blocking ineffective.
We mostly accept power imbalances as a trade-off for more personal choice, and (often erroniously) assume they are temporary and teansient. Its obviously, not always optimal. But the whole "Those who would trade their freedom for security deserve neither" thing runs deep. I can't say I totally disagree, although our implementation clearly needs some work.
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Well of course, but that’s a different conversation, one in which I’m in agreement with you. Public transit is a win.

But as long as people have cars for whatever reason that is outside of my control, cars that can park themselves and then return to pick us up could create less unliveable cities than the ones we have today.
I would assume it can and will be accessed/hacked. There were security concerns about Roomba’s years ago where they draw a detailed map of your home and the scheduling would allow someone to figure out when the home would be empty. Pretty creepy stuff!
Making Peace with the Ambiguity of Progress
turret yes. Laser turret? Maybe not
A single field breaks fewer names than forced first and last names, though, and is a simpler implementation too. Plus, as long as you accept any input (besides blank, I guess), then the only way it will be broken is during display and at least the user sees the exact name they typed in, exactly how they typed it in.
You'd need a convenient, anonymous payment system. Tough luck.
Maybe it's just me but the infotainment systems in cars, despite being more complex, aren't really better in any meaningful way compared to my 2007 Mazda 3 (RIP). I've got a new car with a touchscreen but it's more of a PITA then hooking up an MP3 player via the aux audio.
DNS adblockers like Pihole are markedly _less_ effective than the declarative content blocking proposed for Chrome and currently in-use by Safari.

They do have the advantage of covering your entire LAN and working inside apps, so they are definitely useful. But they don't replace real adblockers, or even the castrated ones Google is pushing on its users.
Wouldn't a Rust interface to Qt be possible or desired?
All ships in my region now have to slow down compared to just a year or two ago. In recent years right whales have migrated into the gulf of St. Lawrence. Ships were plowing into a whale each week it seemed.

When the order was given to slow down many cruise ships opted to just not come here. But now it seems they understand the problem and follow the rules.

It's become so bad recently that even a Coast Guard ship hit a right whale.
Not just page content. They can read your cookies, they can see all requests (just not modify them on the fly). The extensions tracking you acting as spyware will see no change, the other kind of malicious extensions that want to modify your requests will still do so by modifying the DOM of pages for example.

So the "security" reasons google gave have long been debunked as non-sense.

The other half is the performance reasons. What's the performance burden of calling a (chain) blocking webRequest listeners? Last time I checked it was single digit milliseconds per request. So a very ad-laden worst-case website with 100 requests will spent maybe 500ms in the webRequest listeners, but will still load faster thanks to all the cruft being blocked away. So what's the win for performance exactly?
There are many downstream impacts. Without more information, it's hard to say for certain, but "most likely".
They made the critical mistake of touching a second Google product
Interesting to see whether or not this will be legal for use commercially. IF people are making money from post views from articles written by this AI, who gets the money?
All the Stasi were missing were computers to make sense of all the information and connect the dots. Modern surveillance is insanely intrusive!
I use Sequelize as my ORM. There are debates around using/not using ORMs but personally I feel weird writing raw SQL in any language except a SQL terminal.
One person's disagreement with a moralizing statement is another person's virtue signal. That word "virtue signal" is itself a shibboleth.
In Toronto, parking space within walking distance of shops is expensive. People would rather build condos with it. Being able to park cars five or ten minutes away would make parking more feasible.

Of course, we have a crazy thing called public transportation, but our populist Premier hates it.
Perhaps that means we should do away with the double standard... But not in the way a few might hope.
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Mozilla will certainly support manifest v3 to maintain Chrome compatibility. That was never in question.

The question is whether Mozilla _removes_ support for webRequest like Google did. And you're right, they weaseled their way out of answering that question.
It's just a beefed up EC2. I don't have high traffic so cannot say how well the autoscaling works but apart from that, not much different than putting your app on EC2.
AIS devices are mandatory for all ships of 300tonnes+, meaning the data is open and can be monitored by anyone!
Areni 1 Footwear raising $40k on Kickstarter
Sometimes I wonder if the mistranslations are left as-is just to make a joke?
>Funding and openness are tangential

I don't think open source is a viable solution for all currently ad funded services. Some services cost a lot of money to run and many indirect funding sources come with their own downsides. Open source projects are often leveraged by some of the largest corporations for their own strategic purposes that don't necessarily help openness.

But my original point was simply that this is a non-trivial debate in which all sorts of opinions can be honestly held.
This is unfortunate. I was hoping the bad noise after this was announced would be enough for them to listen. I was literally about to buy one, and now it seems I'll just be upgrading my linux router, again.

Does anyone, literally anyone at all make hadware you can trust anymore? I feel like I am taking crazy pills.
The speed difference is only noticeable in benchmarks. It's completely meaningless for humans. Manifest v3 will not be an improvement for anyone previously using uBlock Origin.
Consider the relationship between ants and aphids. Ants care for aphids and they survive because of ants. But ants have also been known to physically tear wings off of aphids to prevent them from flying away!

And of course, farming is far different than hunting and fighting, which ants do as well.
Voice is superior when your language isn't Latin-based.

Billions of Chinese use voice as a main input for phones.
It's not as bad as you say. Ubuntu has made a decent attempt, with some (albeit minor) success. But Ubuntu seems to be moving away from desktop to also focus on cloud stuff. Valve has done a lot of work with Windows compatibility.

One thing I'm observing is that macOS and Windows are basically regressing to have the same type of nonsense and quality issues that are indeed typical on desktop Linux. It's possible (but not certain) that they'll eventually cross paths. Linux might not take over the consumer desktop market (unless it's under a proprietary shell, like Android / ChromeOS), but Linux could possibly take over the high-end/power user/workstation market.
Livestock always takes more land than an equivalent calorie-load of crops. It has to; you're feeding the crops to the animals instead of eating the crops yourself, so there's a lot of energy lost on building cows.

The actual farm footprint may be smaller, but the feed for those animals was still grown somewhere.

(Of course there are resources besides land. In desert environments, livestock still takes more land, but it takes several orders of magnitude less water, since ruminants can digest dry scrub while humans need well-watered grains. But in places that get plenty of rain, livestock is always less efficient.)
Show HN: Alpine docker image for developing terraform and go with Azure
this change is intended to move control over the blocking process from the extension author to Google

once they're in total control of how the blockers can operate: I doubt they'll be responsive to what the developers of the blocking extensions want...
Source code is here by the way: https://github.com/secretGeek/devShop
It's like having a security team perform an audit of their own security practices, and coming up with the conclusion that they are "100% secure".
I'm building a new PC soon and plan on trying my hand at a Gentoo box. Is this something I want to make sure is set if I wish to use steam?
The whole premise of autonomous cars is that they behave like limos. I don’t see how that is any worse than people driving their own cars, I see it as better in many ways, including this.

Not as good as people sharing cars, or sharing a Big Urban Service vehicle, we could build it to hold dozens of people... I guess it would be known by the acronym “BUS...”
Thank you for your condescension. Please re-read Simonyi's paper. What you called "metadata" is in fact type. Please re-read my comment.
Because they will probably follow Chromium and remove ad blocking once the pain of forking is too great.
The article doesn't list which product lines are impacted, but as far as my experience goes with UniFi stuff, it doesn't auto update by default. You can turn it on in the controller but even that is unreliable at best (and not recommended, as the updates can sometimes be touchy - not to mention that the gear is offline during the update)
It's the medieval mentality, like there is a shortage of paper or something.
The amount of it wasted in my office alone could supply every library in town. I'd be happy if a kid stole 10 books from my shelf and read one.

The most expensive thing in the world is people that are unemployable, ignorant, need support and vote for the politicians we deserve!

There should be like a national policy where kids get paid for reading, every penny spent will payoff 100X.
Would you mind disclosing your source(s) for both statements?
Speed != to fuel burned.
Other free software used include LibreOffice, GIMP and Inkscape
> everyday programmer productivity

> the Linux kernel build process
Incredibly fun game! Thought I would spend maybe 5 minutes checking it out and eventually turned into 30! You should definitely turn this into a mobile game, it can easily pass the time.

Few things:

- It gets really confusing when I have 3 different specializations named Renee

- It makes sense that when you get more team members, you have to scroll to see them, parallels actual work where you can't really give full oversight to large teams

- Because there is an option to get a large team, you should add project managers that can take some team members and auto-perform their work
Maybe the attacks were less sophisticated back then. I've seen so many windows computers completely owned by people using chrome to stream tv shows or perhaps visiting the wrong site while looking for discounts on shopping.
I admit that I don't know about the US - but I'd assume this would work somewhere there. Might vary by state.

In Canada just buy your prepaid credit card at one of the independent corner stores we have all over the place. Several don't have cameras. Equally, there's nothing to stop you from walking in with a facemask; it wouldn't be abnormal at all.
> they may have gotten them in part because Apple knew who they were

This is bending over backwards to make up a "certain people are singled out for better treatment" story just so you don't have to admit to yourself that a "certain people are singled out for worse treatment" story is at least as plausible.
You know what actually fixes this the simplest way; a carbon tax set at a high level!
The parent requests that you supply an example of something better, which you haven't done.
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How many books do you imagine they are going to keep/loose, a hundred? Paper is cheap, have a backup. Books in copyright are a bit more difficult, but still.
That progress has mostly come in the last 10 years, not 50. Before that we were just doing it wrong.
What do you think of these names for a monitoring platform?
I'm launching a startup in the fintech landscape. My startup intend to be active in africa where fundraising and revenue generation can be tricky. I'm currently setting up a monitoring service based on grafana+graphite+prometheus/telegraf that i'll also provide as a service to other startups (either local or international).

I was looking for a name for this service. So what do you think of :
- perfmonkey
- hackstream
- streamstow

PS: your ideas are welcomed too and by the way I'm looking for a co-founder that want to change banking and financial transaction in Africa :)
Just because you get a receipt from the protocol doesn't mean it made it from the fax machine to the intended recipient. Folks who send faxes still regularly follow up with calls and emails, "just sent the fax did you get it?" and the answer is often "no, what fax?"
And the vacuum. People were skeptical of Aristotle's natural philosophy as far back as the 1200s.

But each of those things that Aristotle wrote about need to be independently evaluated. Saying he was wrong about X and therefore we should ignore what he said about Y (or about everything) is bad logic:

* https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/composition-division

* https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/black-or-white
I grew up in Michigan and we would have loved having these as a kid! We built our own igloos from time to time, but this would’ve have been the ultimate winter club house. Closest we had was old ice fishing shacks.
https://status.cloud.google.com/summary

Google App Engine seems to be a very fragile service. From Sept. 2019 It's going down every month. 10 hour+ outage in July, Sept. and Oct.

For the premium they charge for App Engine, one would expect the service to be more reliable.
Forbes' one is actually a nice accidental workaround of itself. They put that up as a modal and slightly grey out the rest of the page. It disables the various on page JS lazy loads, and load of next article when you've scrolled far enough down the page. Hmm, just like web pages used to be then... :)

So I just read the article and close or back out, GDPR dialogue untouched.
According to the article, ships locations are tracked by satellite these days.
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Disagree. Chrome feels snappier. Firefox stalls sometimes when rendering and can't achieve 60 fps on some websites I use. (Not Google properties)
All-In-One Messenger 2.0 released - Gmail, Instagram, FB, Whatsapp ...
Yeah, but imagine getting in on Apple when the Newton was the big thing, and then staying for when the iPad was the real thing.
There are alternatives. We just need to use them if we care a little about it. e.g. your own web server (e.g. blog) / p2p network (e.g. zeronet / dtube) or even 'the modern social network' (e.g. facebook / twitter)
operates like Franz (https://meetfranz.com),
but much more simple and minimalistic with less CPU usage.

Beside all the common messenger it supports new messenger like Instagram, Tinder etc. - Signal and „planed Messages“ are the next goals.

I personally like to have my Gmail account isolated from my default browser and stay logged out of Google while browsing the web.

It’s free and feedback is greatly appreciated! :)
Describing what those companies do as “collaborating with the [OSM] community” might be a bit of a stetch. At best some companies have been dragged kicking and screaming to actually talking to the OSM community.
I pity the family of a beginning clarinet student, like mine when I was learning to play it. Gaining control of the amount of wind to put into the instrument along with understanding how the mouthpiece and reed interact with your mouth, lips, and teeth takes a lot of practice during which time, mostly squeaks are produced. But, it's like riding a bike. Once mastered, you rarely fall off. It just takes practice.