skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's true this release doesn't bring is as many features as the last ones. However, the jump between LTS versions wil be impressive. Everything is more polished, more functional, and more intuitive.

I'll upgrade as soon as I can, so I can check out the quick audio device switching. Audio routing in Plasma is featureful but not intuitive.
Governments are focusing more and more on end-to-end encryption. It can be banned within the next 5 years. They could need to manufacture some consent before that (e.g. mention e2e in the news every time a major crime is committed).
People have been saying this for a decade.
They do have an API. It doesn't have everything but does cover a lot of interesting use-cases.

https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/664302/S1ENwy59?versi...

You can also request to download all or filtered subsets of their entire database and play with it locally.

Among other things, I built this (http://empid.herokuapp.com/, source code at https://github.com/ses4j/empid) using eBird data.
Arguably you shouldn't put all your eggs in one basket, i.e., you'd split it up across many wallets. But I agree with this sentiment. Banks exist for a reason folks, holding your entire net worth in btc across a few thumb drives isn't much different than storing all your retirement funds in a shoebox IMO.
> Andreas Linde, the chairman of the company that now holds the rights to Crypto’s international products and business, said he had no knowledge of the company’s relationship to the CIA and BND before being confronted with the facts in this story.

I'm quite curious about this. As you said it's been known for a long time that, without knowing the full extent of the ties, there was ties between Crypto-AG and US agencies (at least). I find hard to believe the candor that this M. Linde displays here...
Not sure what to make of Wilson's post, but I can say that the Hedera news is much ado about nothing.

Hedera raised $100M from investors in 2018. They are now down to $30M in the bank and the market value of their HBAR token continues its push towards zero.

Google has agreed to be a member of the Hedera council, that is true. However, all that this amounts to is:

"...Google Cloud will operate a Hedera network node, and make the ledger data available for analytics alongside GCP's other public DLT datasets..."

So, GCP spun up a single server and will also now allow you to compare data between the Hedera network and 8 other blockchain networks (I went and counted the ones that GCP said they provide datasets for).

If I was a high schooler, then it might be kind of neat that I spun up a server and hosted datasets for 9 different networks. Seems a bit different if I do that while being the world's 3rd largest player in the cloud-computing market.
This may not apply to you, but atleast 2 of the UnderDogs in the Canadian ISP world (MNSi, & TekSavvy) have been rolling out Gigabit fiber.

I've got a 1Gb fiber pipe for 1/10th the cost that Cogeco was charging.
Since mouse dragging works fine, I expected the scroll wheel to control zooming. In fact, that was the first thing I tried before reading the instructions.
Something that cryptocurrencies changed about the internet is that you can be talking to someone who has $2 invested and is now spending their time shilling a product in bad faith.

The Brave browser suffers from this as well since they went with their own cryptocurrency BAT crap. Every "use brave" you see in the wild had a good chance of the 14-year-old hoping to get rich from their $2 investment. Yet they have all the time in the world to argue with people on the internet. There's no difference between the posts of someone who is excited about the Brave platform vs someone who holds $5 of BAT on Coinbase and thinks it will one day buy them a lambo if they put in the e-time.

It instantly makes your product reek.
> I wonder if one can arrange such conduits (6-way connected pipes and chambers) to replicate a feed forward neural network. If it can be done with light...

It actually can't be done with light, not without active switching components or very high intensities. (The "optical neural network" papers published so far are fully linear networks, lacking the nonlinear activation functions between layers that are critical for deep neural networks to have any more power than a single matrix multiply).

However, I think nonlinear acoustic properties are actually more accessible than nonlinear optical properties, and so an acoustic neural network may be more plausible.
it would be nice if firefox would stop sending unapproved requests on the background to mozilla's infra. i am tired of blacklisting all those domains in my hosts file.
also the famous welcome screen full of google and other trackers... epic joke on the users.

also, still not having custom search engines via keywords in the url bar, like chrome, is so lame.
Who or what service is going to give you $50mm in real money for Bitcoin in a 24 hr period,
I'm an avid, avid, avid Firefox user, but I switched to Vivaldi last month after doing a comparison of RAM load with the same exact open tabs and seeing a difference of:

Firefox sitting at 12 gigs
Vivaldi sitting at 5 gigs

This is on MacOS, so mileage may vary and all that, but with the same tabs open, why would there be such a difference?

Edit: And there's no difference in the plugins. I use the same plugins on both browsers: password manager, uBlock Origin, React dev tools, and Redux dev tools and that's it.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/flu_pneumonia_mort...

Let's panic when it's time to panic, in the meantime it's business as usual. You add "virus" and "china" in the same sentence and people start to lose their shit way to easily. We had worse before, we'll be just fine.
It should be noted for those who have not worked at google (since piper is proprietary) that it works quite similarly to perforce.
I agree entirely, except for the necessarily ugly part.

You can use intercooler.js to wire in very usable modern UX with very little overhead, relying on the native, screaming fast DOM implementation.
Also a feedback. Since you’ve already put the effort to make it a website it might be worth add a filter tab/button so the users can filter them based on different dimensions(e.x city, equity, ...)
And the more specific those meanings get, the more divorced they become from the way a new observer interprets the plain symbol.

Picard and Dathon, at El-Adrel.
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CIA owned the world's top encryption company
I'm not convinced that software has been increasing in complexity, I just think that more complex sites are being created now than in the past, and there are less capable developers having to work on these sites.

I agree that pressure is high and time constraints are tight and this forces people to look for an answer outside of themselves.
I rather think that some emotions are best expressed as emoji. Emotions are a lot more linked to images than written characters.

I mean, how do you exactly express the nuances of ಠ_ಠ
These numbers do seem in line with the propensity an average user has to switch default apps. I often compare this to how many people out of 100 bother to change their shoelaces on day 1. I'd wager less than 1, due to the friction of effort, configuration and learning curve, whereas the original usually just looks "nice", more "in place", "fitting" the decorum. Big icon is sitting there already.

Thus it's useful to consider market shares for all end-user internet-browsing devices, wherein x86 today is dwarfed by mobile and general ARM. The fact is you can pretty much correlate browser market share¹ with OS market share (which I guess retrospectively validates the anti-trust case against MS in the 90s).

- IE dominance throughout the x86 era (until early 2010s),

- then stratospheric rise of Chrome as Android took over 80-90% market share on mobile and probably 3-4x as many devices as Windows. Chrome took over everything else.

- Safari steady around 5%, about half of Apple's market share in both x86 and mobile (as low as half is surprising to me: since all iOS devices use Safari, the discrepancy between Apple's market share and Safari's must come from x86 MacOS, and I would have expected much more people to use default Safari on that OS, especially given its battery optimizations, compounded by Chrome's relative cost in RAM etc).

- Firefox is at an all-time low (still second though). Given the current trend of OS makers to expand into "ecosystems" (multiple devices/OS + cloud services), I don't find it surprising: mainstream users are more and more entrenched in the more-or-less walled "gardens" of each variety.

Clearly, Google is winning that game as of 2020 in terms of numbers, but Apple is winning too within its own (much smaller but more profitable!) userspace / customer base. MS is but failing so far, TBC, but meh it's Chromium underneath.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es9DNe0l0Qo
I've always had awful luck with Kubuntu. I switched to Manjaro's KDE flavor and haven't looked back.
Your right we don't have the same conditions, we are much more connected now. The plague was also spread through flea bites where as Wuhan Fever has an aerosol vector.

I don't know what the icubation period before symptoms is for bubonic plague but Wuhan Fever hides for aleast 14 days which makes it particularly difficult to contain.

My biggest fear is not getting Wuhan Fever as apperantly it only kills 1% of infected but rather what cancers and other diseases may come from it later in life, similar to HPV and it's ties to ovarian cancer.
OutcomeOverOutput
The comment period is closing in 3 days. The page links to a 4MB text archive of comments so far[1]. I think this one quoted below explains the issues with this proposed amendment:

[quote]

Dear Madam, or Sir,
I am concerned about this amendment to the Registry Agreement because it
will affect, not just me, buy any individual who would like their own
domain name. I am 100% sure that no corporation will object to the 28%
cost increase every six years as they earn money off their domain name and
paying almost any amount would be acceptible to them. However, there are a
great deal of small businesses that would see this as a burden as well as
individual users out there that have purchased their own domain name and
are using it for personal use, not commercial use. Several of us have
multiple domain names, if for no other reason than to protect our own names
from being used to run a website. I personally have about 6 that I use to
protect myself and my family while also allowing my children to be able to
have a domain name that is exclusively theirs.

20 year Cost analysis:
$ 7.85 / year 2018
$10.29 / year 2023 (31% increase over 2018)
$13.49 / year 2029 (72% increase over 2018)
$17.68 / year 2035 (125% increase over 2018)
$23.17 / year 2041 (195% increase over 2018)

I am aware that the 7% is a maximum per year for each of the four years
and, theoretically, there could be no increase or a sub 7% increase some
years, however, I have little faith on this being the norm and, most
certainly, CANNOT plan on it being any less than the full 7% in any fiscal
plans made.

I understand it would be extremely difficult for you to create a
regulation that would charge businesses more and individuals less, however,
that may be what is required at this time. This would leave a loophole for
businesses to have an individual register their domain name, however, no
corporation of any size will be willing to leave their domain names in
private hands. This would also allow fledgling businesses (aka startups)
to keep their costs low at first. Remember, many businesses have been
started in individual's garages.

You may also assume that all ".com" domain names are used for, or are
supposed to be used for commercial purposes, however, this is not the case
today. If this had been defined and enforced from the beginning of the
internet, this would be a non-issue, however, to start enforcing it today
would cause many many individuals to lose their domains. Yes, there are
other top level domains they can move to, however, that doesn't alleviate
the fact that they would be losing an asset they had invested much time,
money, and resources acquiring.

Please keep the annual fee very low or consider a more flexible charging
system for the .COM top level domain that will keep it accessible to
individuals and small businesses.

Thank you,

Andrew Farnsworth

[/quote]

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[1] https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/comments-com-amendment-3-03ja...
> > liberals are insensitive to the fact that safety net social programs may displace support provided by charities and family.

> I think that's true. I'd actually say most partisan liberals are reflexively hostile to the idea.

This is a fascinating thread! You and rayiner are having a laudably introspective and low-charge discussion of this stuff, so I’ll try to throw in my (hyper-progressive) take on this:

I’m certainly not insensitive to the fact that government social support tends to be a substitute for faith-based social support (and the presence of substitutes inevitably weakens any marketable good).

From my perspective, religious traditions that have offered social support, but only with strings attached, resorting to shunning when those expectations weren’t met, have caused so much trauma to people I love that I am, at least in unguarded moments, quite happy to acknowledge that I want to break down the economic foundations of those groups.

On the other hand, my wife is an immigrant whose family was sponsored by a church. I am immensely grateful to religious communities offering love and support to the neediest without any strings attached. The Unitarian congregations I’m familiar with have consistently impressed me with their wise, worldly social support without any hint of shunning.

So while I don’t think I’m hostile to people of faith offering support, there’s no doubt I want robust well funded alternatives.

It’s definitely true that there is a culture war at play for progressives, and I agree it’s disingenuous to pretend weakening religious institutions isn’t at least a foreseeable, if not actively pursued, effect of many social policies I support.
(I need to quickly ship a 50mb file to 50,000 clients worldwide.)
I was sort of wondering if it was going to be about or related to Yurtle the Turtle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yertle_the_Turtle_and_Other_St...
I think that the number of calls home on first run is more important because you don't get an option to disable them.
The fundamental problem with the appeal to consequences argument is that it's a willingness to hide or ignore the truth, or outright lie.

I've said before that I think the ends do justify the means (consequentialism), but you should be extremely skeptical of "ends justify the means" arguments because people rarely look at the complete consequences. If you're willing to hide or ignore the truth, or lie, then I'm extremely skeptical that your motivations are actually prosocial, and I'm skeptical that the results will actually be good.
To me its weird that immutability is what is focused on. Yes immutability is not really great for Wikipedia; sometimes people accidentally post private info and its nice to be able to redact it. However it seems like the least of the problems of applying a bitcoin fork to hosting wikipedia. Like I can imagine immutable wikipedia being possible even if not desireable. I can't imagine using blockchain as backend database of wikipedia even remotely scaling to something like that.

Heck, the entire pitch for bitcoin sv seems to be we will make bitcoin scale by removing all the limits that give normal bitcoin the slightest chance of scaling. It seems pretty rediculous even by bitcoin standards.
Closure of the agency, along with the NEA, is long overdue. The arts and humanities are politically vastly outside the mainstream of American culture. As a result, there is no practical way for these agencies to operate. If the government doesn’t carefully oversee how the money is used, you end up with a government funded platform for academics and artists to peddle fringe views. There is something deeply wrong about using public money to fund something that has neither functional utility nor aesthetic value to the majority of the public. The alternative is even worse. If the government does actively curate the work funded by these agencies, you end up with propaganda: https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/is-the-n....
Linus discussed this in: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Pine.LNX.4.58.0504090902170.126...

The key point for me is his note that you have to more than copy the SHA1. That it will have to also be a valid zlib object with a matching header.
They're working on it https://github.com/Pocket
I get that organizations want to avoid the association because of the current social view of the technology. I wanted to give a different view of what the sales pitch could be (for that particular item, my response isn't for the other issue called out).

I don't see why it is considered such an inherently bad sales pitch. It is a sales pitch that involves taking a stand. Just because the cost benefit aren't in line with current organization goals does not make it the worst sales pitch ever. Is it any worse than trying to convince a group to run a tor node, giving all the sorts of illegal things that happen over tor?

There are social and legal ramifications, but that is also true of using tor, and if certain government officials get their way, of using encryption without the government being given a backdoor. Currently data stores that can't forget have a worse view, but I don't really see why people treat it as such a difference of kinds instead of just a difference of degrees.
> Why Mozilla is hellbent on pushing this upon their users is beyond me

It's one of their many attempts at finding a revenue source that isn't Google. Their hope was that people would love it so much that they'd sign up for the pay version.

I have a huge amount of sympathy for Mozilla on this issue. They get slammed for being funded by Google, but pretty much every time they do something that could generate revenue and get them off of Google's wallet, they get roundly slammed for that, too.
I switched to Firefox Dev Edition last year and havnt gone back since. It really does have a noticeably smoother feel to it. I do miss certain Chrome dev tools such as Lighthouse, however its not a difficult transition at all.

I hope more people take the leap.
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Deep Learning Dropout Explained
A friend of mine just made this switch. His biggest reason was Latte Tasks, which he says is much better than any of the similar docks available for XFCE.
Nobody. You’ll never find an answer and just get mumbles. The truth is crypto trading in actual USD (not tether) is super thin. Everything else is smoke and mirrors.
Happens to me in Chrome too, specifically when I reload a page that's stopped at a breakpoint. Instead of force quitting the whole application, check out Window -> Task manager. There you can force quit just a single, specific tab without closing the whole application.
I didn't really expect our cyberpunk future to look quite like this
Coinbase has a $10k per day withdrawal limit. You have to contact them to get more. They don't specify how difficult or time consuming that process is.
Yeah right ! That's why I was thinking that freelancers would be OK to stay a few months on upwork (and improve their profile) and if you want to hire them more long term they'll be OK to switch and avoid the high fees
Yes, I want massive reduction of content. I am sorry, but if you haven't noticed, internet is a giant, steaming pile of garbage. Amount of usable content is 1:10000 and the reason for this are ads - you earn money regardless what crap you sell. It is no longer about content but about watching ads.
Hacker News is mentioned in the Quartz article, which is an interview with Anna Wiener, author of the new book "Uncanny Valley"(underscores mine):

Quartz:"You talk in your book about the tendency in Silicon Valley for venture capitalists or people on _Hacker_ _News_ to hold forth on philosophical issues and debates that don’t reflect the actual world we live in, and suggest there may be a moral problem with the way they go about those discussions."

Weiner: "I think this tendency to discuss and attempt to address human issues, social issues, within the framework or logic usually reserved for economic conversations, is morally bankrupt in a lot of ways. I think the intellectual culture here, I have qualms with it because it seems so flattering to power, it’s so vacuous, it’s so ahistorical, and fancies itself apolitical.

A thought experiment is a fun thing. I, too, love to smoke a joint and think, What if the world isn’t the world? But it starts to get frightening to me when it’s people who have the ear and the attention of power and when this pseudo-intellectual mindset is incredibly flattering to power and also presents a way to look at the world where everything is a little bit of a fantasy."
I wish I knew but something has always bothered me about people jumping browsers due to open tab usage for tab counts above 20.

Is that really the only feature people care about?
If you have a house you ever intend to sell, you will also try to make the neighborhood it is in sound more attractive, to increase its sale value, regardless of whether you can extract utility from it.
Thanks for the Dark Reader suggestion, I was looking for exactly that on mobile.
The moment ublock origin is limited or broken in chrome is the moment I abandon chrome completely and switch to firefox full time.
Are you telling me that I'm not supposed to take other peoples opinions into account when deciding who to trust and support? Because if that's the case I will decide not to put any trust in what you say.
I am on iOS so can’t try orgzly unfortunately.
Brave is just trying a system of micropayments to support your most visited websites. To the end user, the crypto part can be invisible.

The user just deposits something like $10/month from their credit card and spreads it across their favourite websites.

They can do that and be completely ignorant that everything is running on ethereum. Which is really the way it should be in the end. Ethereum is just a hidden value transfer backend that saves a company money.
I considered other browsers too (Vivaldi, Brave), but they all seem to be Blink/V8. It seems like Firefox is the only other extant, viable platform for running the web. Personally, I'm not one to frequently compromise quality/convenience for some ideal, but the idea that we'll have a future with only one way to render the web is terrifying.
That’s the business proposition for lots of businesses, I don’t see why it’s invalid if an employee can figure it out.
Well, it's going to test a non-standard theory of quantum waveform collapse. If the non-standard theory is correct, then quantum waveform collapse is explained. If not, then... back to square one.
My favorite reply:

> Please consider the very real possibility that it is you, not him, who is missing something.
IIRC Wikitribune fired its journalists is now WT.Social, a social networking site which requires a login to view the content of. I don't know what's on it.
It seems like there are far easier ways to make money, such as buying an existing business with established revenue and growing that e.g. taking B to C instead of A to B.

Is it more about building something from scratch yourself?
I've tended to avoid Upwork, because it seems onerous on Freelancers, and also seems to result in the commoditization of freelancers. Working with that kind of talent can be burdensome. The best results require you to be ultra specific in your requests. I guess I'd prefer spending a bit more on Smart people... but those guys aren't on Upwork.