skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The risk should be up to the consumer to take imho.
They don't close when you release right-click, they don't contain services, they don't select the word you are on.

That's the stuff I've noticed in the couple of days I've been using Firefox.
> The present study’s findings significantly advance our understanding of the brain basis of one of the most unusual and intense altered states of consciousness known – previously likened to dreaming...

This study does not "find that DMT produces a dream-like state"; that was already well established. This study identifies the subtle brain activity that differentiates the hallucinations from dreaming.

> This experience is often characterized by a sense of entering into an entirely ‘other’ ... dimension. It is not uncommon for people to describe encounters with sentient ‘entities’ or ‘presences’ within this perceived other world and for the experience to subsequently challenge beliefs about the nature of reality and consciousness.

These effects are what makes this drug so interesting and differentiates it from most hallucinogens and dreaming. It doesn't just leave you with strange memories you know are nonsense. It creates experiences that feel real and invokes thoughts that cause you to question your understanding of reality.
Here's one: try right clicking and dragging out. Firefox's menu will open and stay open.
Right, which is exactly why I put the cake comment - small business owners want the benefits of VC capital (no debt repayment or interest) without the downside (up-or-out constant growth pressure). For the investor, it just doesn't make much sense.

Thanks for clarifying how the 37S deal worked, though. Having a structure like a 7 year buyback clause goes a long way toward mitigating my first point.
All very nice but I don't really see the relevance to GP's point. Probably a Swati national can chime in here with an equally interesting explanation of their Royal wealth or take issue with the Economist' characterization of it.
It's true that you couldn't add it as an option to the fixed list, but in practice there were extensions that enabled it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3770958 is a fun trip down memory lane.
Mixing Differential Equations and Neural Networks for Physics-Informed Learning
Phi is, I believe, pronounced as a voiceless bilabial fricative, which does not exist in English. Instead, we have the voiceless labiodental fricative /f/. If I remember my phonology correctly, Japanese uses the bilabial sound but in romanized text it's spelled with an f, which causes English speakers to use the labiodental sound.

Not sure why phi would be mapped to the voiceless interdental fricative ("th") though. I thought that came from theta. But I have not studied Greek, so I really don't know haha.
> It's a constant cognitive drain on your mental resources.

We reached the point that this is the argument to avoid ads... People will go to such a length to justify blocking ads, it's crazy.
According to Wikipedia the casing stones were disturbed in a massive earthquake in 1303, many of which were carted away in 1356 to build mosques. That stretches the definition of "recent" by a bit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pyramid_of_Giza#Casing_s...
What you are missing about the Chinese Communist Party is that it is an existential threat to freedom globally.

We were very worried about the USSR for the same reason. But there was an iron curtain, and you had to actually be invaded to lose your freedom.

Now, the CCP seems able to curtail worldwide freedom through its trade policy, which is a weird thing nobody expected.
> Even the simple act of two people wanting to go through the same door at the same time is an impossible conundrum.

Tangential, but I hit this issue very often with couple of friends during university years; two of us wanted to go through a door, and get stuck in a "you go", "no, you go", "I insist" loop. At some point I said, "you know what, let's do rock-paper-scissors, if you lose you go first". It immediately caught on with my friends, and ever since that, when attempting to go through a door at the same time, we'd just exchange looks, and immediately play a wordless round of rock-paper-scissor to resolve the conflict, while the rest of the class looked at us and asked "WTF just happened?!".
I am not trying to troll but genuinely interested in figuring out the boundaries of these proposed boycotts.

What is the difference between "accept investments from China" and allowing Chinese citizens to pay for your service?

This article does not call on US companies to stop selling to China. There seems to be a baseline assumption that creating (from the US point of view) trade deficit will destroy freedom and that a trade surplus does not. Intuitively it makes some sense, but I think it is good to explicitly discuss this question.

It seems like your real issue is with US companies that "kowtow", but having your own company accept a Chinese customer or a company accept Chinese investment does not require kowtowing.

As pointed out in the above comment, some forms of trade can promote freedom, and others can contribute to its destruction, so I am wondering if an approach that was rule-based rather than blanket would make more sense (but I have no idea how to make such rules).
Sequentializing landing so that you can ensure passing tests is the main feature of bors. The normal GitHub CI flow is already what you wanted apparently.

In a bors workflow, bors is the only thing allowed to push to master, so master cannot get out of date.

The Rust projects solves throughput with rollups, which are semi-automated. It would be nice if someone would write fully automated rollup support into a bors, but alas, no one has tried that I know of.
Marketing and sales.

As awful as that sounds to many people it just isn't enough to build an amazing product, write great code, or design something beautiful. You need to be able to get out there and tell people it exists in order to succeed. Without that ability your startup will fail. In fact, in my experience at least, far more companies fail because they couldn't reach customers than fail because they couldn't build something. Building something is the easy bit.
The same happens with the iOS Simulator. I noticed when developing an app (that doesn't need any microphone permissions itself), my noise cancelling headphones would stop the noise cancelling feature, like it happens when calling someone and using the microphone. Resetting the permissions and denying “fixed” the issue for me.

Can't understand why the Simulator needs it.
I heard an alternative is "yopo" where they blow it up each others nose via a straw and I don't think that needs an MAOI.
Prewar. Since everybody knows what that means instead of these weird Latin words. It's even worse because the choice of language contains information about which war it refers to! Latin for the American civil war and English for WWII. Let the context determine which war you're talking about, not some arbitrary choice of language.
I think it's worth remembering that this nation (the US) is currently trying to get Assange extradited. Part of the decision to be made in the UK should be wether or not the US will grant him a fair trial.

There are many reasons to throw that US demand out of the court, but this adds one more: they clearly have zero regard for any of his most inalienable rights. They have repeatedly violated them already, all the while trying (sadly successfully) a complete character assassination.

IMHO, if anything, the people responsible for this should be extradited to an international court.
The right to attorney-client confidentiality does not apply in the context of national security intelligence gathering. The United States was within its rights to gather intelligence about a foreign person in a foreign country.

Such intelligence would be absolutely inadmissible in court. But intelligence agencies aren't interested in prosecuting people. They are tasked with national security, not prosecution.
A growing number of research agencies are assigning money randomly
Many, though not all, participants and shamans report the presence of an intelligence that is distinct from their own.

That's been my experience with it. For me, the literalness of "plant spirit" is accepted reality. In the circles I hang out with, we don't put the term, plant spirit, in air quotes.

Generally, the two plants that are combined are the Ayahuasca vine, which contains the various MAOI, and Chacruna, which contains DMT. Many plants yield DMT, though only some plants yield a sufficient concentration to be useable.

From an experiential point of view, the plant material of Ayahuasca and Chacruna are the material body. They each have a specific intelligence that is sentient, and conscious, and responsive to the ikaros (the song sung in ceremony).

It does imply that, it should be possible to contact the intelligence named Ayahuasca by ingesting the vine alone, or without ingestion. After all, what is contacting the plant spirit (plant consciousness) is your own spirit (consciousness). That has happened with me as well.

To followup: Marijuana, the plant material, should also house a plant spirit, with its own intelligence, knowledge base, and purpose. Likely, also responsive to songs that are related to it. And indeed, that has also been my experience with it too. I call that spirit by the Sanskrit name, Ganja, and tried it with the Sanskrit mantra.
It's not a single video - it's a channel dedicated to helping its viewers becoming more charismatic, a damn effective one at that.

Charismatic people are, of course, people who exude social skills and confidence.

One of the most useful things to watch, for somebody without good social skills may be the video clip breakdowns - where he breaks down social interactions celebrities have and why people perceive it like they do. You can't learn by example the same way through text.

This may be a good first video to watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjES8831wKc
Functionally, nothing. WASM being a compiler target just lowers the bar (although we've had Emscripten for years). The browser developers are working hard to make it performant, too. Sufficiently obfuscated Javascript is as difficult to reverse engineer as a binary, though.
It's like how I grew up speaking French and never realised that it only has two genders. I'm Greek and Greek has three, including a neutral gender that French lacks. It seems I was always making the assumption in my head that, .e.g. "table" or "oiseau" were neutral ("une table" is female in French and "un oiseau" is male. In Greek they're both neutral).

I was a bit shocked when I realised, too. I mean, I studied French formally at some point and I had learned that it only has two genders but it never, you know, sunk in.
Those are all vendors that get access to cookies and traffic. The point is that data flows through plenty of companies are various levels and providing a CMS or CDN is no different than providing ad serving.

The real issue is whether your data is more protected, and with first-party serving (and all the other anti-tracking restrictions), it's isolated to each domain instead of the cross-site tracking we had before. It's basically a user-to-site connection only now, regardless of the backend tech they use.

Any serious privacy change would require regulation as you noted, GDPR and CCPA in the US will provide the real protections soon enough.
It’s the outrageous penalty that upset Blizzard supporters. Initially announced penalty to Blitzchung: [1]

(1) banned from the current tournament
(2) forfeit any prize money (approximately US$4,000 by that point)
(3) banned from other Grandmaster tournaments for one year

By contrast, Overwatch League player Josh "Eqo" Corono made a racist gesture and said "I am Korean" on a stream, and was suspended for three games and fined $3000. [2]

Not that Blizzard cannot penalize Blitzchung. Just not out of proportion.

> Millions of Chinese people (lot of whom have nothing to do with HK or goverment or human right violation) instantly lose access Blizzard products. Their lives become unequivocally shitter.

Judging from China’s ban on NBA’s that lasted only two days, China’s ban on Blizzard may be equally short-lived. [3]

> Blizzard loses a ton of money and have to downsize significantly firing half of their staff. They can't affort investing in new projects at the scale they used to. Their products become cheaper and lose in quality. Maybe the company even have to shut down due to not being able to sustain itself. It's pretty shitty for Blizzard on all fronts here.

Only 12% of Blizzard revenue comes from Asia-Pacific, which includes China but also South Korea, Taiwan, etc [4]. Some sources say only 5% comes from China [5]. Even if Blizzard loses Chinese market completely, I don’t see why they need to downsize significantly and fire half of the staff.

The same goes for your remaining claims.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitzchung_controversy

[2] https://www.usgamer.net/articles/blizzard-is-in-an-internati...

[3] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-basketball-nba/exci...

[4] https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/dfezlv/activis...

[5] https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/dp1py7/blizzard...
More Intuition-Building on Non-Empirical Science: Three Stories
I had a coworker who was a social butterfly. Loved nothing more than talking to customers. She has a huge impact on the business. She had basically developed relationships with customers where she could pick up the phone and call the top physicians in the US and ask a favor - and they would always say yes. Was she good on the technical side? Not really, but she offered incredible value.

Same thing with leadership. Get people to buy into your plans in a large organization is not easy. Again, I had a colleague who was really good at it. She could basically "get shit done". Did she understand the nuances of the business really well? No. But we wouldn't have gotten anything done without her.

HN loves to harp on the technical knowledge, but guess what? That's only a part of a successful business. You might have the best product in the world, but if your customers don't know that or you can't launch it, who cares?
Almost got sued by Facebook for discovering a vulnerability
Sonos acquires Snips AI voice platform
I get no ads on Twitch, and I currently don’t have Twitch Prime or any subscriptions. I’ve spent maybe 50 bucks on Twitch in the 3-4 year lifespan of my account. I’m running Vivaldi (which uses Chromium) with uBlock Origin, Ghostery (I know), and HTTPS Everywhere, on MacOS.

I get ads when I use Twitch, with the same account, on a stock installation of Chrome (which I use as my backup browser for when I don’t want to figure out which extension is breaking a website). So it’s not related to my account, location, etc.
So is the implication that it's likely that another major provider like T-Mobile or Sprint is behind this but isn't disclosing it?
Venison is generally much better-fed meat than grocery store cow.
This lecture from Dr. Peterson was pretty fascinating and succinct: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gol5sPM073k
>It was the first to block third party cookies by default

Which led to the FTC collecting a scalp for it.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2012/08/googl...
I would not shout coverup.

But that's the problem of closed source rating algorithms
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21544537

(not suggesting that HN would use contractors and blacklists, but generally the discussion about the black magic happening)
This is great! At hackathons in the past, I usually use SQLite for development, and once everything is set, switch over to a more traditional RDBMS. This is a great site that is definitely going in the bookmarks.

Out of curiosity, can you elaborate on the the technologies you used for this (lang, frameworks, hosting services)? I've been trying to learn design patterns for larger software like this, so your insight would be great.
> looking at you, Microsoft teams

Teams definitely doesn't block Firefox for me?
That process assumes nothing gets merged during the integration test run. The script could check to see if the target branch has changed in the mean time, and fail the merge if it has, then I think it would be the same.
Yes, that is how the electoral college in FPTP works. What's your point?
I think ToS that say "We can screw you and you can't do anything about it." need to get ripped up once you reach monopoly status.

At the very least, Apple and Google should have to appoint a "public ombudsman" overseen by the government that handles these kinds of complaints/problems that people can actually contact. And if they don't seem to be handling them very well, they need to get fined increasingly severely until they do.
Hiring and managing people is something I will never do in this lifetime. I'm not a people person.
Going to church as a kid and young adult taught me how to sit and do nothing for an hour or so every Sunday morning.

I distinctly remember one time I was sitting there, mind aimlessly wandering when the solution to a bug I was having in my code on Friday popped into my head. I wanted to go straight into work to fix it!
Can Emplace_back Replace Push_back?
What dialogue?
Does it? A lot of the people I know who've accomplished significant things did so not because they were happy, but because they tried harder than anyone else. They were not satisfied with the way things were and put a lot of effort into changing them. I myself didn't lose half my bodyweight because I was happy, quite the contrary, I hated --and still hate-- my body. That kind of motivation is incredibly helpful for overcoming the suffering required to accomplish big things.

Success will not make you happy, this my experience agrees with, but I'm equally sure that happiness will not make one successful.
I would have thought it was obvious: the British Royal Family have no wealth that accrued from their position as heads of state.

This is usually not the case in most monarchies outside Europe (Brunei, Thailand, etc.).
Myths Programmers Believe about CPU Caches (2018)
IPA is about phones, not phonemes. Phones are described precisely and are (mostly [1]) constant across all languages; phonemes are broader and are language-specific.

Multiple phones can belong to a single phoneme within a given language. For example, English groups the aspirated stops with their non-aspirated counterparts (e.g., [pʰ] and [p] both belong to /p/ because they are non-contrastive, despite being different sounds phonetically).

This is why it is the International Phonetic Alphabet, and not the International Phonemic Alphabet.

[1] Worth noting that there can be some variance among different speakers when it comes to the articulation of specific phones, but the IPA essentially is the result of determining whether languages draw any meaningful distinctions among these. If there are separate symbols in IPA, the phones are noticeably distinct. It is very uncommon for multiple sounds to get mapped to a single phone in IPA by rule, and this usually happens based on some dispute among linguists. A good example might be the "tensed" consonants of Korean, which have their own diacritic applied but are not fully understood (meaning linguists cannot precisely identify what, if anything, separates them from their un-tensed counterparts).
Another good book on Aristotle's metaphysics and the modern world is Edward Feser's Aristotle’s Revenge: The Metaphysical Foundations of Physical and Biological Science:

> Actuality and potentiality, substantial form and prime matter, efficient causality and teleology are among the fundamental concepts of Aristotelian philosophy of nature. Aristotle’s Revenge argues that these concepts are not only compatible with modern science, but are implicitly presupposed by modern science. Among the many topics covered are the metaphysical presuppositions of scientific method; the status of scientific realism; the metaphysics of space and time; the metaphysics of quantum mechanics; reductionism in chemistry and biology; the metaphysics of evolution; and neuroscientific reductionism. The book interacts heavily with the literature on these issues in contemporary analytic metaphysics and philosophy of science, so as to bring contemporary philosophy and science into dialogue with the Aristotelian tradition.

* https://www.editiones-scholasticae.de/index.php?page=shop.pr...

* https://www.amazon.com/Aristotles-Revenge-Metaphysical-Found...

He regularly posts on his weblog, including rebuttals to any critiques on his work where he thinks there is errors:

* https://edwardfeser.blogspot.com
Thanks, I didn't know that. But the world is full of ruins of great old places, which we try to preserve today, but had not been kept in shape when they were still close to their origininal state. I think old churches are one of the few exceptions.
Looks great! One thing isn’t totally clear to me: Does the database itself get removed after 24 hours, or just the data?
I don't know, but that seems more likely than Verizon lowkey talking shit about its own brand.
Well... it's not just about military technology. The ages are named for advancements in tools in general. But a good bit of human history is dictated by natural resources and a societies ability to exploit them. Military technology enables me to take over your natural resources and instates my culture as the predominant one in our geography. See the fall of rome, qin dynasty, the conquest of mecca, or the american revolution.
The action should be indistinguishable from a remote-wipe if possible.
Not long after I discovered Usenet and email lists, I decided that anonymous coward was the way to go. And more so after hanging out on various web forums.

We didn't call it "social media" back then, but people did get doxed occasionally. And online anger did sometimes spill over into meatspace.

I did not want my professional reputation to be damaged because of something (even something truly cringeworthy) that I'd posted somewhere. And then there was the FBI investigation of Jim Bell, which involved subpoenas to several cypherpunks contributors.

There was also an investigation of some truly crazy itinerant folksinger, who had posted some of the most amazing rants that I've ever read.

Edit: It was Carl Edward Johnson aka Toto aka TruthMonger.

See https://people.well.com/user/declan/toto/

I'd quote some, but it's definitely cringeworthy.
I don't see the connection you are making. The DA elected two weeks ago can hardly have caused this issue.

Putting enforcement priority on burglary and vandalism (the problems mentioned in the article) instead of the issues you listed seems like the right thing to do.
The language is official.

https://mozilla.github.io/firefox-browser-architecture/text/... says:

> XBL is a proprietary technology developed by Mozilla. We are solely responsible for the maintenance and improvement of XBL. Any time spent on doing this doesn’t contribute to the evolution of the Web so effectively we don’t spend anytime improving XBL except for plugging serious holes.

What they mean is they 'own' it, the good, the tedious and the bad parts.
When reading this page my first thought was, “this reads kind of like it was written by T-Mobile’s CEO.” Not to say that I don’t think Verizon sucks though, I definitely don’t like any ISP or mobile phone provider very much.
One problem is that you aren't allowed to make mistakes in social situations anymore without facing extreme consequences, and you're right that it isn't the sort of thing you can learn by reading about it. There's really no chance for young'uns to learn in this day and age.

It's tough, and the worst part is that there's no way out or hope for things to improve. And you can't complain or seek help, or you get treated like someone who must be broken to feel that way. It's an impersonal and judgemental world that we live in today, no matter who you are or what your views are like.

No wonder so many people seem to feel that our current culture and society are so vehemently toxic that they aren't worth even trying to participate in.