skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FF just got web socket inspectors so I really don't know what chrome dev tools has now. Everything about ff dev tools is better. Especially looking at css layouts.
Show HN: One KV interface to rule several storages in GO
I recently switched to qwant, seems to be a decent search engine, owned by a European company (as far as I know ddg is american, so pretty weak legal protection of user data). Though I also occasionally have to search on google.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21713048.
There was just a case in Norway with what looks like a mom drowning herself and her 3 children. The mom and the eldest expired, while the two youngest were brought up and are in critical condition but alive.
> Option to not use any cookies while still being able to determine returning visitors and unique pageviews.

This strikes me as a potentially non privacy-friendly feature. How is this implemented? I assume some form of fingerprinting must be used?
To avoid deep binges into youtube. First of all, youtube thumbnails are cancer anyway, so blocking them is one step towards a Lower Information Diet. And the first step to being able to quit any addictions to youtube.
McDonalds is the place where you can get something like a cheeseburger for a dollar without getting food poisoning. McDonalds was a high quality product at one time.

There’s no regulatory environment that prevents exploitation of the workforce, so doing so is the low risk choice. The company chose a low quality bar and competitive pressure forces them to mercilessly attack cost.
Yes, and apparently it's also used in Indian schools (see comments found here: https://www.facebook.com/poshenloh ).
IEEE spectrum is kind of OK for informative popsci?
> Because creating a cooling system to use on a body with a central nervous system fighting to keep it warm

And yet, something as simple as ice cold water seems to work fine for this. You can cool e.g. even a heatstroke victim pretty quickly, without worrying too much about internal thermoregulation.
> "well, you have the perk of no commute (...)"

I guess my belief that employers should pay for commute time of their employees wouldn't fly with them.
I'm talking about the article linked in the comment upthread which is about identity theft. Where in that article or the thread was it suggested to refer to yourself as a shareholder to customer service? It's only ever mentioned as a reason to contact investor relations.

The author specifically recommends against grandstanding exactly because it signals "not a professional". So I really don't get your complaint.
Losing Chrome doesn't necessarily stop you being tracked. If you make a vacuum it will be filled by someone else. I am not suggesting apathy but opting out just makes holes for someone else to fill. And as we have seen in the past competition is great but it quickly gets amalgamated behind the scenes, just look at the alcohol industry. All those brands look like healthy competition, but it's largely one parent company.

You can imagine that a young Instagram or What's App could have been on the safe list of alternate social platforms, but Facebook bought them both. Firefox isn't impervious to a change of management and ownership 5-10 years down the line.

So what you are left with is using esoteric applications and social spaces that no one really cares about. That's analogous to living off the grid. It just isn't really suitable to the majority of people and as such it isn't a solution at all.

The problem isn't Chrome or Google per se, it's technology. We should be pressuring the big guns to conform to our needs, not opting out and abandoning the people who benefit from large social platforms and convenient, well supported applications.
What Can Be Done? Digital Media Policy Options for Europe (and Beyond)
It is not OK to require people to be 100% "Pure" before seeking to improve the world around them.

Hypocrites who seek to make the government do better things even when they're doing similar bad things are still seeking to make the government do better things.

The morality of an act of activism does not change based on the personal failings of the person engaging in it. (It can change based on the intentions of that person—eg, if the thing they're trying to get the government to do would also make it easier for them to get away with currently-illegal/immoral acts, but that's a separate issue from mere hypocrisy.)
Top tech firms are excited about blockchain again
Cidco made hundreds of millions of dollars off of caller ID devices in the ’90s
‘I Feel Like I’m in Jail’: Hospital Alarms Torment Patients
You're right about that. Me too. And especially retail.

As the poet warrior Lil B The BasedGod once stated, "I'd rather be a broke rapper than wash some dishes."

Well, I ignored that advice once because I figured my dish-washing skills were more employable than my street cred, and ended up having to quit that job because I developed carpal tunnel from being overworked. Several years later, I still suffer from the consequences and have to be vary careful not to injure myself at my desk job. I don't think physical or mental burnout gets anyone anywhere good. At least my former boss ended up having to get surgery for carpal tunnel himself sometime later.
Why Teslas Are Bad at Towing (Today) [video]
Show HN: Search and explore reputable online brokers on a map
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This is fantastic. Probably the most approachable example I've seen
One might be bigger than the other, but in absolute terms both are just big.

In a big grid you can't make sense of the cells anyway, so that alignment has no function beyond being just an alignment.
I'm assuming you are asking about undergraduate schools since you did not specify. University is not free or cheap in the USA, unfortunately this is a reality that you will have to deal with if you want to study here. Most schools offer merit-based (scholarships / grants) and need-based aid. Need-based aid may be hard to come by if you are not a US citizen (perhaps other users with experience can chime in). IMO for undergrad financial aid will be the most important thing to bring down the price, so you should engage with the office of financial aid early at whatever colleges/universities you are applying to.

Public Universities tend to be cheaper, especially if you live in the state where the school is located. This is especially important if you live in a state with good public CS schools, like Illinois (University of Illinois @ Champaign Urbana is a top 5 program) or California (see the various UCs, including of course Berkeley). So if you are lucky enough to live in those states then that is a viable option.

If you win the admissions lottery and can get into an elite program (unfortunately it is a lottery, in many ways due to simple supply and demand, and I say this as someone in a top-ranked CS program), it's gonna run you up to $60,000 per year without any financial aid depending on the school. Many people will take out student loans to offset this cost, and with a CS degree it is easier to pay off the loans, but that is still a financial risk you need to consider.

Honestly, if possible, just go to school in the EU if you're an EU citizen. There are many great schools there and the cost of flying there and finding a house is likely lower than the tuition on this side of the pond. Many Americans would kill for the opportunity for a free education.
a TLDR is on their twitter: https://twitter.com/risj_oxford/status/1198939037031120896
I've recently been reading Galileo's Error by Philip Goff which covers a lot of this ground (he's a proponent of panpsychism). Quite an interesting look into the various arguments though I thought (I previously had no background in this type of thing).
I dunno if it's better to pretend. Europe used to rape and pillage Africa and America and pretended it was all to bring them freedom and liberty, eventually you'r reputation will proceed you.
If you can get a hold on a Windows 7 or 8 license, you can still upgrade it for free to Windows 10.

Might be worth it if they're heavily discounted.
I love the idea of having a Linux distro that emulates macOS, but I see no point in copying only the vague look, when it still differs in basic functionality, like using different keyboard shortcuts.
I don’t understand why (based on semi-thorough googling in the past) it is not possible to change all shortcuts to be like macOS (cmd-c instead of ctrl-c etc.)
Adobe's open source text editor
It's a great technique.

Using it, and a suitable test program, you can bootstrap an emulator core for something simple like a mips, z80 or 6502 in a day or two.

I highly recommend it as a low-level itch scratching programming exercise.
Love conquers all, it’s a beautiful force that will transcend our brief physical awareness of it.
Hey, glad you ask because I feel strongly about this!

We're absolutely against fingerprinting as I believe it's better (for the visitor) to just use a cookie in those cases, since they retain control that way. (Delete cookie = be forgotten.)

That's why we opt for a cookie by default, as I believe it is more in "the spirit of the law" than fingerprinting the visitor and storing information about them server-side.

So, when you disable the cookie the plugin falls back on checking the `document.referrer` value for determining returning visitors and unique pageviews. It's a lot less reliable obviously, but some price has to be paid if you do not want to rely on storing something client-side.
Political hashtags make some people doubt the stories they’re attached to
Streaming Cassandra into Kafka in (Near) Real-Time: Part 1
Strongly-typed events are axiomatized up to a unique isomorphism here:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3418003

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3459566
I don't see how I'm bullying him. I told him that he should not resign himself to being lonely due to his disability, because I think that his understandable distress about his issues might lead him to perceive his situation as bleaker that it is from that standpoint.
Ive been to ex “2nd world countries. They’re attitude towards the environment was a bit more man vs nature than what we see in the West. See the gigantic sometimes failed exercises in diverting rivers building dams etc. one of the more spectacular examples is the Aral Sea, connecting the Arctic rivers and in China the three gorges dam... which while a twinkle in Yatsen Sun’s eye, became a windmill in Zedong Mao’s policies, and finally realized by the current regime.
Yes. One of the side effects of being a liar is that nobody trusts you even when you're telling the truth; one of the side effects of having a corrupt legal system is that nobody trusts you, even with actual murderers.

EDIT: It's worth pointing out that this is why Ecuador gave Assange asylum: it was clear that the UK and US legal systems were being politically corrupted. The political corruption of the legal system is just much more systematic in China.
The proposed record types are just regular types with minimal changes to the initialization syntax. It's not like the divide between value types (``struct`` ) and reference types (``class``), which indeed have quite different semantics. You can argue that this is too much, but IMHO you need some way to guarantee that value types will behave like primitives without introducing a massive burden on the gc.
Hour of Code Will Teach Kids How to Use A.I. To Judge Who Is “Awesome” or Not
This still seems way more complicated than it needs to be to teach it. I always used a much simpler way to avoid memorizing anything.

Imagine you have a parabola y - c = k x^2 and want to solve for y = 0. Dead easy, right?

To turn any other parabola into this form, you only need to scroll left or right on x until the minimum is at x'=0 (algebraically, this means eliminating any b*x' term). Teach students how to do change of coordinates and how to solve this trivial problem, and they don't need to memorize any formulas.

It also sets students up for the useful math mindset of solving new problems by reducing them to previously solved ones and relies on conceptual understanding. Seems way better than the "memorize this formula" approach.
It's not running GNOME, they make their own Desktop Environment called Pantheon which is written in GTK+ and Vala.
That's the same thing. Intel calls their stuff a dynamic boost so that some of their measurements like TDW are for lower clocks. Both CPUs end up scaling their clocks to a wide range.
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> But we certainly shouldn't assume these things about her, because we just don't know her circumstances.

That was not what happened; an anecdote was offered as an example and other anecdotes were requested as counterexamples.
These are all good points but they feel very insensitive in tone given that OP has shared something personal; I'm not sure if you realise what you're doing
Surely this is a prank?
The dev tools available in the Firefox developer edition are honestly way better than chrome's in every possible way (as far as I'm concerned) recently switched myself and couldn't be happier!
What if you end up at head+1, not head?
Obituary of cyclist Raymond Poulidor, 8-time Tour de France runner-up
This is a brilliant piece of AI, it's a long time ago I used such an amusing piece of tech. Thank you so much, this truly is awesome!

(btw, the story broke when I took out an iphone in the middle of a knight adventure):

> take out iphone and shoot a picture

> You return to the beach.
> You return to the beach.
>
> You return to the beach.
>The sun rises:This is a>A new world.A>In this>The sun. The sun
Firefox uses the Gecko engine, while Chrome uses Blink. The engines don't even have a shared ancestor.
This is very entartaining but it's not very good as an interactive story
generator.

The problem is that it can't keep the state of the story world consistent
between generated passages. Essentially, everytime the player is prompted for
a sentence to use to advance the story, a new story is generated.

To explain what I mean by a state of the story world and its consistency.
Suppose we start a story with "Once upon a time there lived a king who had
three daughters and three sons. One day a witch turned the three daughters
into geese". This establishes a world-state where there exists a king, his
three daughters and his three sons and where the three daughters were turned
into geese by a witch. Now, suppose we continue the story with "Like all pink
hippos, the daughters liked beer and cheese". That would be inconsistent: the
daughters were changed into geese, not pink hippos. So far nothing in the
story tells us that what applies to geese applies to pink hippos (there is
some hidden state in the world that might include this kind of information for
other plot elements, e.g. daughters are normally female, but we can't assume
anything about geese and pink hippos; well I can't anyway).

So it seems that the game can't form a coherent model of the state of the
world and continue a story so that it maintains its consistency. At least it
can't do that reliably and where the story seems to be consistent it's either
because the state of the world is vaguely enough described to allow it, or
because the game just lucked out and produced something that made sense, at
random.

Like I say, this is very entertaining and like others have said it has an
interesting "dream logic" quality to it. But, if what is desired is a
consistent narrative that develops according to a player's actions, then
that's not it.
Requirements can certainly be waived -- a good candidate who can "network in" can often bypass gates like that if they're a known quantity to someone in the company. Personal recommendations do make a huge difference -- I've networked my way to nearly every job I've gotten in some way.
What Makes a Good Scrum Master?
Uhm. Is that somehow relevant to OC's comment?
Disinformation on Facebook During Portugal’s 2019 Elections
I usually do it when autoindent is going to make a mess of whatever I'm pasting into the file.
Smaller countries are far less likely to suffer from secessionist or identitarian agitations, especially small and wealthy countries like Switzerland. Comparison to Switzerland and similar countries is not instructive.

This is especially true for language. Linguistic division within countries is often a source of tension, even in smaller countries. In larger countries, it is almost assuredly going to lead to tension, especially so during times of hardship. This is why the United States must remain an English speaking country. Major regional linguistic differences would quickly fuel secessionist energy in the US, given how much diversity already exists even with relative linguistic homogeneity.

Just to harp on the language point a bit more: language is the soil in which culture grows, and a unified culture is critical for any functioning entity, whether that be a family, a corporation, a club, or a country.
I learned a little bit of Norwegian before traveling there. Sure most people we met spoke English but it did help when the trams in Oslo were being rerouted and I was able to read the sign at the otherwise empty tram stop telling us the stop was closed and where to go instead! Or read the Norwegian menu and order appetizers (in English), at which point the waitress realized we weren't Norwegian and gave us the English menus (I didn't realize most restaurants had English menus as well, good for us). I wouldn't have fared well with the main courses. I've found lay food terminology is one the least universal things.

My point is, however, that I found learning Norwegian easier than learning Spanish, which I was fluent in at one point, years ago. There weren't 14 tenses to learn like in Spanish, sentence structure felt more familiar and closer to English, and there were many more cognates than I expected. Sure there were some new things like putting articles before or appended to nouns to denote indefinite or definite. Or even the gendered articles (my favorite thing about English is nearly all nouns are neuter).
This doesn't seem any different to what most businesses do. If a particular customer is losing you money, why would you continue to do business with them?

The only difference here is, it's algorithmic.

And really, given the reputation of many bookmakers - not a surprise at all.
This whole thread was started as a discussion on personal agency.
>Animals in places with a long history of disturbances are relatively resilient, the researchers found.

Figures... the species that were less resilient are probably already gone, so the remaining ones are the resilient ones.
Wouldn't it be fraud? At least according to the UK definition of fraud (lying for profit) it would fit the bill.
Pixel-perfect? The GIF looks compressed to me…
Please substantiate your claim.

You'd need to rely on dualism/metaphysics to support the view that consciousness is just an algorithm. Without some medium to implement it, an algorithm is just an abstract idea. The implementation could in principle be arbitrary.

I belive consciousness can be explained within a monist, materialistic worldview. I see it as the result of a biological process, much like digestion. To stretch this analogy (perhaps a tad too far): You can simulate digestion on a computer but it will never produce a real shit for you.

I think John Searle got this right and can recommend his book The Mystery of Consciousness.
How AI is changing agriculture
How to Use AWS Federated Identities with Amazon EKS
You can go into the short cuts and set them up yourself.
How Happy Is the World?
Literally the day Firefox finds the way to be able to use all my passwords in keychain/suggest and generate new ones, I'm switching to it full time. I loved safari, but killing extensions is crossing a line.
Totally easy to step off the net. You just put bits of it in your own space.

I wanna write a book titled: "how to run your small/medium-sized office with just a linux box on the wall and your staffs cell phones..."

Pretty sure I read a FAQ for how to do this, 20 years ago, though...
What even is this comment? If you care about bugs, don't carry one around. Smartphones are beloved by intelligence agencies for their ease of access. Most devices running today are full of unreported zero days up to and including "hot mic" exploits that are routinely used.

If you care, you care. If you don't, don't pretend lol.
I agree with Jason completely
This looks great! I'm looking forward to going through it to look for next steps for some Twitter scraping I've been doing.

If the author happens to see this, one tiny feedback: it would be very helpful to add the chapter titles to the sidebar links for easier reference.
Ever thought of using ClickHouse for data storage?
Zero-fee commission platform for private equity
The Chinese ‘Economic Miracle’ Is Much More Average Than It Seems
My local newspaper went from having an open, freely accessible archive of obituaries to a time-limited paywall that you can have removed for various periods of time at correspondingly increasing prices. Just the lowest of the low.
I don't know anything about the situation other than what i see in western media, but to me, Amnesty International seems to be doing good work.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/search/?country=38361

And while their reports don't "make it sound like Hong Kong is Syria" they do sound pretty bad, with reports about police behavior including widespread beatings and denial of access to council and medical care, arrest of human rights monitors, and in some cases shootings, vehicular assaults, torture, and sexual assault.

Man-Kei Tam, Director of Amnesty International Hong Kong, said:

“These are not policing measures – these are officers out of control with a mindset of retaliation.”

Joshua Rosenzweig, Head of Amnesty International’s East Asia Regional Office, said:

“Rather than deescalating the situation, Hong Kong’s authorities have chosen to grant themselves sweeping new powers to quash protests, demonstrating the extent of their growing intolerance for freedom of peaceful assembly,”

And Nicholas Bequelin, East Asia Director at Amnesty International, said

“The evidence leaves little room for doubt – in an apparent thirst for retaliation, Hong Kong’s security forces have engaged in a disturbing pattern of reckless and unlawful tactics against people during the protests.”

That sounds similar to what I've heard in western media.
I think this is nice. It's a method of calculation derived from an important fact—that quadratic equations have two solutions and those solutions can be written in such a form.

I don't have the experience or interest to debate whether it's better or worse than any other method pedagogically. I can definitely imagine that I would have appreciated learning this method as well as completing the square as a child.

But honestly, the real interesting thing here is the (a) gathering information about what you think the solution ought to look like and (b) working backwards from there. That's a good general trick and worth having in your back pocket. It also emphasizes the importance of visualizing and examining your belief about what should occur.

People should suspect the fundamental theorem of algebra long before they prove it.
Use Brave. All the good without any of the bad.
I'm surprised there aren't hackers out there that have created a cell phone tower in a box to obtain all outbound traffic from a device and reverse engineered all the comms chatter to be 100% sure what's going on with phones.

Given that these devices exist and are in use by law enforcement to catch criminals, we know this is feasible.
I guess it could also be fraud to use something like a UL mark without paying and being certified, which could have criminal consequences. If the vendor is attempting to deceive customers by using the mark, it probably counts as fraud for marks that are well known or for specific purposes or industries.