skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The language is indirect and the issue is overstated.

She gives no examples really of how such activities are menacing, just spooky language concerning it i.e. 'monitoring' /'actualisation'.

In fact it's surprising how little Google et. al. are able to do with 'all my data'. Google fails to show me relevant ads 99% of the time, and I miss all the cool stuff I want do find out about.

That said, this: " To this end, the company unilaterally declares that all public and private experience occurring within this experimental zone would be deemed “urban data” available for monitoring and actuation."

Is obviously problematic, and the issue in general, is real.

Most people are not hugely worried that Google has some magic power to control us due to data capture, at the same time, a lot of this does represent a material invasion of privacy.
are you familiar with the blog made by tony heller (also on youtube) ? He regularely points out those exact same remark.

I am very careful to wait until other people confirms that there is indeed a methodological problem before jumping to conclusion, but it really sounds very interesting.
> building just an administration GUI based on SQL introspection

I built exactly this. The idea was to make databases look and feel like a file manager where databases are shown as folder, tables as subfolders and rows are shown as files that once open shows a fully editable form that look like this: https://archive.kerjean.me/public/2020/screenshot_20200117_2...
It understands foreign keys and create relevant links to easily navigate through. The entire code is there: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash
Most of us have not developed spiritual lives and know of no reason that might persuade us that goodness is a valuable state of being, nor that the state of love (kindness; care; honesty) is also the state of happiness (beauty, loveliness).
So most people think that the world is theirs to consume and that nobody else matters whatever.
In other words, this world is becoming a major suburb of Hell.
Does that help?
Why are people working for door dash with cars?

This is the kind of job for motorcycles and bycicles (in denser cities)
Misconception. Service workers must be paid the higher of state, city, or federal minimum wage. If wages plus tips are not equal to or greater than the minimum wage then the minimum wage must be paid.

If everyone suddenly stopped tipping then service workers would default to minimum wage. For anyone with a different experience your employer was breaking the law.

But what I think you’ll find is that it is the service workers themselves who prefer working for tips.
Caltrain will soon get modern electrical trains [1] which have been in use for 8 years in Switzerland [2] and which will solve the vibration issues.

[1] https://calmod.org/electric-trains/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stadler_KISS
> Do you think people run coal power plants to generate profit? Profit doesn't matter.

Depends on where you are in the world; quite a lot of the west has privatised its generation and does dispatch through markets, so the coal plant really will be run if and only if it's profitable.

The UK has almost completely closed all its coal generation in the past decade.
Natural Gas and Oil?
Take the path less taken. It pays off better, and is a good way to get lucky.
> Have you tried building a native or .Net Framework app on a Linux machine? How did that work out?

Well now we have .NET core so its fine but previously one can C, one can C++. Its not always ideal but there are options.

This issue is that if my highly public office with full glass windows in a somewhat shady part of town gets a power cut or broken into then I've got to run around to find another mac. Even if the network goes down I have issues that happen WAY less on the cloud. Its annoying.

What's more annoying is that there's no solid technical justification as to why this is. They just want Apple hardware to sign their builds because they want you to buy Apple hardware.
That's not strictly true, unfortunately. Court cases have been brought and won against companies who do not acquire explicit consent from their users when storing information in cookies.

Companies then build solutions in reaction to these cases. The law is the ass.

Source: https://www.sueddeutsche.de/digital/cookies-eugh-urteil-webs...

"Außerdem müssen Nutzer der geplanten Cookie-Nutzung explizit zustimmen. Demnach reicht es nicht, dass Nutzer einmal bestätigen, dass sie die bereitgestellten Cookie-Informationen gelesen und verstanden haben."

"Users must explicitly agree to the planned use of cookies. It is not enough for users to confirm they have read and understood the provided cookie information."
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Technology has increased standards of living everywhere, that’s independent of coal mining because the technology was developed globally. West Virginia however has fallen behind the economic development of other states without coal.
Yes, especially considering they already showed they are open to censorship.
Parties do change over time. The Republican party used to to help black people...
Just because a service exists doesn't mean the same service can exist and be financially viable for every employee. There are many businesses that are inherently unprofitable. It can be argued that such businesses should be subsidized because their existence is beneficial to society (e.g. Ubers in the neighborhoods that taxis wouldn't serve).
Isn't this just virtue signaling? What difference does all this divestment actually make towards the goals?

Surely, someone with less of a penchant for moral grandstanding will be happy to buy up shares of fossil companies at a discount. Fossil fuel business doesn't become less profitable just because parts of the equity markets decide to value it lower.

You may argue that divestment prevents companies from rolling their infrastructure. I disagree, if there's a solid profit to be made, someone will bankroll it.
The world is going to shit. India and China still build coal power plants and that alone, undermines the weak efforts of the rest of the world in CO2 emission reduction. Many countries do not have proper waste management causing huge quantities of plastics going into the ocean. Someday fish and sea food may not be healthy anymore. Note that carnivorous fishes are not considered healthy anymore for e.g. pregnant women. The future 1st economy is not a democracy, and democracies themselves struggle not to become plutocracies. That should be +/- OK for the next 50 years, but then?
I have 2 reasons uBlock and the fact that I can use my own sync server.
>Google fails to show me relevant ads 99% of the time

either this or the people targeting you have their audience completely wrong
Chinese characters (hanzi) are not an 'archaic writing system'. While hanzi allows for the expression of meaning in addition to pronunciation, which is unique amongst the other writing systems of the world, they are also more phonetic than is commonly perceived.

The majority of Chinese characters (more than 80%) are 'phono-semantic compounds' where 1 part of the character indicates the meaning and the other indicates the pronunciation. And the majority of these compounds follow a surprisingly regular pattern: for instance, the character '召' is pronounced 'zhao' in Mandarin Chinese, and forms the right side of the characters '招' and '昭' - both of which are also pronounced 'zhao'.

Here's another example - the character '包' is pronounced 'bao', and is frequently found as a component in characters pronounced 'bao': '饱' ('full stomach', with the food radical ⻠ on the left) and '抱' ('hug', with the hand radical ⺘). '包' also forms the phonetic component of some characters pronounced as 'pao', which sounds similar to 'bao': '跑' ('run', with the foot radical ⻊), '炮' ('cannon', with the fire radical 火), and '泡' ('bubble', with the water radical ⺡). I had been studying Chinese recently, and understanding the phonetic aspects of the characters has helped me to read them more easily than before.

Having said that, a lot of these phonetic relations date back many years and some of them have been obscured due to language change. But to blindly assume that Chinese characters are 'archaic' is false - as others have commented, you can say the same for English spelling, which also has spellings that date back many years but do not make sense today, like the 'gh' in 'tough', 'dough' and 'caught'. Also, it would be possible to reform Chinese characters such that every character with the same pronunciation would use the same phonetic component, while allowing for additional components to indicate the meaning. And that was what Simplified Chinese did to a certain extent.
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In Berlin they have a voluntary facial recognition zone at one of the train stations. Passengers can opt in and be part of the pilot program or just go through the non-facial recognition entrance. I'm guessing most in privacy-valuing Germany don't go through facial recognition.
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Evidence? Observations from our point of view (including readings from space, still fairly close, on scale) are limited to our current position etc. So how can we really tell if it's just not curvature of space and blackholes that distort our point of view and readings? Interesting anyhow, but perhaps a bit soon.
In an ideal world, maybe - but most delivery drivers employed by the restaurant (like pizza delivery drivers) take multiple orders at a time to deliver. You're going to have to get very lucky to beat this on average with DoorDash or similar services.
The sun’s output blipped a little bit in the other direction. Wall Street started selling “reverse carbon” derivatives. Politicians and other scammers were very very concerned. Most people didn’t notice a difference.
You would need to be able to dynamically find that 828, I think it is entirely trivial to have a jsfuck2 that produces a non deterministic "eval(" structure of arbitrary length.
It looks like it is more marketing than reality :).
The keywords from their description "piloted initially and eventually autonomous"
> it is the service workers themselves who prefer working for tips.

I'm sure they'd prefer a sensible wage + tips, over a sub-minimum wage supplemented by tips.
So, what's the easiest way for me to make HN dark? I have enough karma to change the color of the bar btw, I set it to C0C0C0 to make it stick out less.
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"plus 100% of tips are split at the end of pay period"

Split with who?
This is awesome! Saves so much work on building simple admin panels. I have experience in custom software development, and that's such a huge pile of work for developers it's insane
It's a fascinating read the complete Le Monde article [0], but there's an extended quote in the second to last paragraph. Google translate gives me:

"The gap that has widened between the beauty, the seriousness of the work, and what it has become, all of this is beyond me. Such a degree of commercialization reduces to nothing the aesthetic and philosophical scope of this creation. I only have one solution left: turn my head. "

[0] https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2012/07/05/tolkien-l-...
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If you click the link a second time, it launches Firefox for you. At least, that's my experience.
I've too posted multiple times about Sarno because by just reading his books I got cured of my years of chronic back pain (I think it was more than 11 years of pain doing physiotherapy, yoga, pain meds, ayurveda, etc none of which helped me for long).

It had gotten to the point where I couldn't sit for 1 hour or pick my daughter up.

Pain is all I could think about waking up to before sleeping.

Then I read this comment on HN and my life changed. All I had to do is read Sarno's book and even before I could finish it I was feeling a lot better. It was like a decade of pain leave my body in 2 days. Though it does take time after that to learn how to get totally pain free.

I'm glad to say that someone else too read my comment on HN and posted that he was thinking of ending his life due to immense back pain but he too had a similar experience like me after reading the book and feels almost cured.

It's also not placebo either since I'm pain free for almost 3 years now.
For my current project, we're auto-generating a relatively full-featured CRUD interface with granular access controls and the works. [one detail to add there is that while it's primarily used as an admin interface now, it's not meant to be restricted to that - it has access control and workflow support built in that we're building product flows on, where the UI is still generated the same way]

It's not just from the SQL, but we use Sequel (Ruby ORM) to introspect the DB as a starting point, coupled with a plugin to Sequel that lets us annotate the models to provide more precise information that our Sinatra based API introspects to return JSON data to our React frontend that drives how the UI is presented. This extends to e.g. declaring which fields are most useful for users to search for relations that should be linked via foreign keys, for example (e.g. users are linked to by id, but when linking a user from another record, they are searchable by name and e-mail). As much as practical we auto-generation validations etc. from the database schema as well.

I think doing this by SQL alone would be quite painful unless you sacrifice usability, because a typical database schema has too little information on how users think about the data.

E.g. we dialled back on using Postgres enum types because they're annoying to update and deal with if you frequently update the allowed values - but you need relatively little extra config to be able to generate very full-featured interfaces, and you can make most of that extra information entirely declarative. Foreign keys is another issue, as described above - a normal database schema just tells you how things are linked together, not how users would like to see it. E.g. knowing a comment was written by user 42 is much less useful than knowing it was written by bob@example.com; to allow user-friendly linking etc. you'll want more information. We refer to our additional layer of information about the structure of our data as our meta schema.

You certainly could put the parts that don't fit perfectly in your database schema in your database anyway as regular data, and to some extent we do - e.g. the meta information that we augment our Sequel model classes with can be overridden by rows in a table.

But the main reason we've not fully embraced that vs. annotating the model classes in code is that it makes version control painful, and if you update it with migrations it's really not saving that much vs. just putting it in the model classes (this might be different if you have other applications accessing the database and the database in effect needs to be a versioned API in itself accessible by multiple consumers, but in this case all the database access happens via the API exported from the model classes).
> I block JS by default until I get at least a basic understanding what the site wants to do. So I explicitly choose not to execute their code before I have some reason to trust the site.

But then the only difference is unobfuscated wasm vs unobfuscated javascript. In both cases an obfuscation can easily hide the scary bits anyway.
Don't let your imagination run wild, just do the math. Coal exports are on the order of $50 billion[1], 1% of that is $500 million.

Meanwhile, the money already going into renewables is on the order of $15 billion per year (for the past two years)[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_in_Australia#Production,_...

[2] https://www.news.com.au/national/federal-election/almost-30-...
Used to do something similar with Microsoft Light switch.
I don't understand why you've brought up what the current state of affairs is, the article says:

> For current Nightly users, it’ll feel like a big exciting upgrade of their browsing experience once they update the app

Which sounds to me like Fennec is going away and the update will replace it with Fenix.

>as of right now both Nightly and Preview Nightly exist side by side; regular nightly users are not impacted at this point in time

Is anyone disputing this? What will happen when the "new experience" the article talks about is launched?
In the case of Cloudflare, there also is option C, "Keyless-SSL", where you control the key. (https://www.cloudflare.com/ssl/keyless-ssl/) But that is irrelevant in our case.

We opted to use Cloudflare Spectrum to facilitate our change. There is no way to mix Spectrum and non-Spectrum on one hostname, but Spectrum allows us to choose between TCP, HTTP, and HTTPS pipelines.

While we intend to TCP proxy port 22 on gitlab.com and 443 on altssh.gitlab.com, this also allows us to use Cloudflare's HTTP(s) content processing pipeline on ports 80 and 443 on gitlab.com. In the latter case Cloudflare will be terminating TLS, performing WAF, CDN and Workers duty, then re-encrypt and send the request to our origin.

You can look at some visualization of this here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/readiness/tree/master...
I read through and finished The Silmarillion once, when I was younger.

I remember nothing.
very nice !

As an advice from a marketing POV : i wouldn't start by explaining that it lets you navigate ftp servers using file abstraction. This is very confusing, because most people already access ftp servers using tools like filezilla clients that do exactly that.

The db -> file browser is a very interesting idea that i think should stand on its own (even if the underlying tech is similar).
ssh -A is a thing. A risky thing, but so much better than keeping private keys on server.
It mentions yacc/lex as bad idea, because they generate code that needs to be compiled again. It is perfectly possible to implement an interpreting parser, which parses some input from a grammar that is specified in some means. (If you have the grammar of the grammar, you could even use it to parse the grammar.) An example of this can be found at: https://github.com/FransFaase/IParse
> However, the reliability of the average publication has probably decreased. If there are indeed "diminishing returns to science" in recent decades, as Patrick Collison and Michael Nielsen argue [2], with roughly constant rates of important discoveries (as rated by experts) and flat economic productivity (a measure that we'd expect to correlate with technological progress) despite exponentially growing numbers of scientists, publications, and dollars devoted to science, then the quality of the average paper, scientist, or dollar allocated to research must have gone down. In that case, a randomly chosen older paper should be more trustworthy than a newer paper.

I don't quite follow this line of reasoning. I must be misunderstanding something because Sarah is way smarter than I am. But it seems to me the diminishing returns in biological science are due discoveries having a smaller impact, not on the quality of the paper. i.e. a 1985 paper doesn't have more of an impact than a 2019 paper, but a paper released in 1985 has a bigger impact than that same paper released in 2019.

If older studies are more fruitful than modern studies I would imagine it's because they were wackier. Modern studies have to deal with a more restrictive IRB and also seem more likely to fit inside the box. I hardly ever heard of modern studies where someone was like "I hooked up a battery to a weird part of the brain to see what happens."

I have a theory that as colleges, PhD programs, and then professorships have gotten more competitive that we have been selecting for higher and higher conscientiousness which has led to greater conformity. My professors didn't seem nearly as wacky and they described their professors/mentors.
I wonder how much Fastly's pricing impacted this?

OT but my clients are small players (10s of GB traffic a month); but they value availability and low latency for their dynamic content. Fastly (and varnish) are ideal for this, but every time I talk to Fastly about services beyond the PAYG-CDN it's "min $2k/month", "$5k/month + fees".

I'd rather use them than Cloudflare, I've been accused of being a walking advert for Fastly - but they are pushing me towards other providers and proving actively hostile to small clients.

Good for them if they are raking it in from enterprise customers. But AWS manages to cater for both ends of the market, and it's a shame to see good services price themselves into "enterprise-only" territory.
This looks pretty interesting! If anyone is looking for a tool to build a full fledge Back Office I warmly recommend react-admin (https://github.com/marmelab/react-admin/). Been using it for a year now and we went from 0 back office to a feature full one in no time!
It's the feature they were complaining about. It's useful if you're in some other apps (e.g. a feed reader) from which you want to open several links in a row, which you then work through in order afterwards within Firefox.

Disabling the tab queue means tabs get directly opened again.
It's less than stellar, but still a lot better than the defaults.

I think the content and the controls should be kept separate without messing with the other, that applies to websites hijacking the scrolling as well as others trying to do creative Vim keybindings. I wish Vim browser plugins were comparable to a solution like qutebrowser though, Surfingkeys(which I use) is pretty good but the input delays of those plugins are frustrating.
I think you've missed the point, going by your second paragraph.

How capacity is provisioned from A to B influences how people choose to move and, over the long term, build homes/workplaces.

Induced demand does not suggest that supply is less than demand - it implies that demand is "flexible" to meet any supply conditions. There is overwhelming evidence of this at work over 50 years and across continents.

As a consequence, the argument is not "why bother?" but rather - "build it in a way that scales". For urban areas, private transport doesn't scale well.
>Most people are not hugely worried that Google has some magic power to control us due to data capture,

And yet most people are worried about Nineteen Eighty-Four's Big Brother becoming a reality.
This is supply and demand in action. From a strictly capitalist perspective DoorDash should continue to drop wages until people stop working for them. The equilibrium is obviously lower than their current payouts or people wouldn’t continue driving for them.

I don’t think it is possible to make money in the gig economy driving a vehicle. These articles talk about direct car expenses but never talk about indirect. If you factor in vehicle depreciation I am convinced that the net wage for driving is below $0.
Also keep the delay slots of MIPS in the back of your mind, which with the evolution of MIPS became a burden.
Does it have to be space? Can't you send the excess heat to deep ocean waters or into the earth's mantle?
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If you don't like it don't work for them. Why is that so difficult ? Don't overregulate.
The problem with this is that most public places have private places right next to them. So this will be easily circumvented.
This certainly hasn't changed, though.
It was mostly about industrialization requiring increasingly skilled workers and employees of all kinds.