skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being in a country that was the last holdout for Firefox (majority usage) before it was also taken over by Chrome, I know that several others as well as I have issues with Mozilla. Personally, I've always used Firefox, without exception, and stayed with XUL, rather than switch to their new browser, as add-ons are the most important part of a browser for me. I don't care if one is half a second faster or not.

Not to mention that stuff like stupid redesigns of logos as well as the Pocket issue made me basically lose all trust in Mozilla. Privacy is a huge deal here after all. Those who switched regularly complain about design issues (apparently the desktop browser is becoming somewhat "mobile-like") and most recently the address bar problem which upset everyone except for one person who didn't care about that. (Meanwhile, I'm happy with my address bar being my address bar and my search bar (being just right of it) being my search bar.[1]) If you would ask the people still using Firefox here whether they would recommend it...they would most likely say "no" but then would go on that while it isn't good, the alternatives aren't either.

So the question of change in direction (which is obviously there) regarding Firefox begs the question which people they are actually targeting? It's certainly not your average Joe because Firefox will never be able to out-Google Google. They are also annoying the more advanced users who just want privacy as well as useful things (add-ons, proper baked-in features etc) with their shenanigans, so it can't be them either. The only people I see actually celebrating new releases all the time (regardless of negative changes) are the crowd on HN. So, to me, it seems like they are targeting some kind of tech bubble (no offense) while basically ignoring the users out there. This is, of course, also reflected in them continuously losing marketshare while all the back-patting is happening.

[1] https://abload.de/img/address-search3hjh4.png
I'll give it a go! Seems pretty easy to replace the blacklist test with a WHOIS lookup.
I enjoyed watching this. And I restrained from finding out who played Mandalorian till it was revealed in the series. That along with other things in the series, kept my interest alive. And 'the child' is adorable beyond description. :) Thanks for sharing this.
I strongly disagree. If they were actually interested in this, they could simply tell the developers what to fix. This is beyond arrogant and counterproductive.
That's a good way to put it. I think we're in agreement that dogma wasn't avoided in this case.
When you say "At the point" do you mean now with UE4 or what we think UE5 will bring? Unity will probably be a bit behind because they seem to focus on mobile more but they're not usually significantly behind.

UE sort of seems to have a technical advantage on some platforms and Unity sort of has more of an outreach to smaller teams. Most games are not trying to be on the cutting edge though.

You can ship a game on either engine just fine. In my experience, licensing plays the biggest role in the decision.
I mean load a pull request from Github (takes <1s) Load one from Gitlab and it takes 10+ sec. Maybe I'm spoiled from using Google's tools previously.
A lot of statements and theories about these camera's from all sorts of directions, but they're just pole cams. LEA's have been using pole cams since before I was born (I'm 34). I worked in law enforcement as an analyst and spent some time staring at pole cams that were setup to surveil known drug dealers or criminal gang members. To do one correctly (i.e. legally) you typically need a warrant or a court order, but it can vary I guess based on jurisdiction. They're often deployed as an alternative to human surveillance efforts. They're called pole cams because, well, they get thrown up on telephone poles usually, to take advantage of the power source and ease of view. The surprising part of this isn't the cameras, its the fact that these are wide open on the internet. But honestly police are not IT people, and they often have officers or agents that work specifically as "surveillance techs" who are not IT people either.

I imagine this will draw a ton of ire about privacy and such, and I generally agree, but from my limited experience with them, they aren't wide spread, they're typically temporary, and they're usually purged except for the parts that are relevant to the investigation. These cams appear to be the exception, not the norm. If I saw a cam was sitting on an openly accessible server like this I would have filed a complaint with the agency and the OAG. I don't live in a state where any of the ones listed on Reddit are in, but I would encourage people who do live in a state with one of these cams to notify your OAG about it.
On a per-restaurant-basis, it'll likely not work. The attractive part of an aggregator is that you don't need to keep a few people per restaurant to make deliveries. And you need to have them available whether people order or not, because predicting demand is hard, and if you disappoint once, you might not get another chance.

If you have the drivers work for an aggregator, it gets much easier. That doesn't have to be a for-profit corporation though, it could be restaurants getting together and cooperating.
Ha!

neuterization
neu·ter·i·za·tion
the denial of a person's sexual identity and gender
identity to someone else
"she had undergone neuterization of her facial hair"
> then what do people use now?

Language has basic string type (character array, really) and basic file access. People would use NetCDF or HDF libraries for reading and writing big numeric datasets. Algorithms, people would write their own when needed. For linear algebra, BLAS, LAPACK and (sometimes Intel MKL) is de facto standard, it's just not called a standard library.
Redirects shouldn't compromise the CORS / XSRF security model, which is the key item of concern from a Chrome Extension standpoint. Like if pushbullet.com redirects to foo.com, the crex is now looking at the foo.com page and its permissions will apply accordingly.
This is one area where hardware accelerated ray-tracing has me excited. I like the idea of walking sound sources to the observer. Unlike light, you need to account for the speed of sound through mediums, which adds an extra layer of cool imo. You also don't need to update at the audio sample rate, since most objects will not be moving very fast (unless you want trans sonic simulations, which would be exotic and cool).

Forget all of the little hacks. Sound processing is cheap. In 2020 it is unnecessary to select from a set of pre-baked filters and applying them to some predefined volume (ie this room is echoey, this room is absorbant, etc.)

This is one area where software has regressed then stagnated [0]. It doesn't make any sense, other than it wasn't prioritized. I think it's only a matter of time before engines go back and finally complete the audio simulation problem.

0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS_Fbueh7F4
> Lahey saw Vescovo’s mission as a way to develop and test the world’s first unlimited hadal exploration system—one that could then be replicated and improved, for scientists.

This really is the crux of the matter. It's easy to dismiss these sorts of projects as just indulging the fantasies of the super-rich, but because of forward-thinking people, as in this case, they can amount to a great deal more.
The excuse that 4channers are all just innocent, mischief-making kids and it's the rest of society that's the real problem is really starting to wear thin.

If someone says they're only fucking goats ironically, they're still a goatfucker. If a community is being racist ironically to the point that actual racists take its shit seriously, mass shooters shout it out in their manifestos, and that community harasses and doxxes people for racist reasons, then that's just a racist community. If someone gets off on the outrage that racism generates, then they're just a racist and an asshole.

Irony is not magical fairy dust that can be sprinkled over one's actions to make their consequences disappear. And really, at this point I don't think we can give 4chan and the like the benefit of the doubt that it's all just memes. Eventually, if you wear the mask long enough, you become the mask. 4chan became the mask a long time ago.
Spoiler: they can all quit if they decide to!
I've reviewed 4000 line MRs without problems using other tools. It is possible.
Oh, ah; I thought the above meant "why not Chromium and/or Edge" rather than "why not the Chromium version of Edge."

Yes, I can see why you'd avoid Edge specifically, same as avoiding Chrome specifically.

But that's not an argument against using upstream Chromium (which is, in fact, a browser all on its own, stadnalone downloadable and shipping with several Linux distros); or against other Blink/Chromium-based browsers (e.g. Brave), no? Either choice would get you compatibility with anything Chrome itself is compatible with (in terms of websites; not necessarily in terms of extensions—though the difference is just in the legacy Chrome extension APIs; WebExtensions work fine everywhere.)
That's a stupidly hidden way to go about it.
Ask HN: Where do you find the best movie recommendations?
Third parties do not typically have legal liability for how their customers use their products, but this a murky area that I am sure has tons of edge cases and exceptions depending on product, industry, and local regulations.

To your example: You can buy drones today that will follow people around. The person who uses it is generally responsible for using it to film legally.
Professor James Zou on Data Science and AI for Covid-19
I actually have the opposite experience - if my delivery goes wrong on an app there is nothing I can do. If my local restaurant fucks up I call them and get it sorted. Oh and 'delivery between 8:30-8:35... 8:35-8:40..8:40-8:45...8:45-8:50.... Like jesus, these companies hire *thousandss of software engineers and AI experts and this is what you get? I know the restaurant is more than 10 minutes away and you're telling me my delivery will be here in 3?
Oh no, it must have missed my blacklist. It's supposed to give a little "this word probably exists" when that happens. It's surprisingly hard to determine if a word already exists: https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/tissue/eyJ3IjogInRpc3...
One worry about tying your identity to your own domain, is the security of your identity (aka your domain) hinges on the security of your registrar. If a bad actor can socially engineer their way into controlling your domain, your entire identity is compromised.

Here's a blog post about this nightmare happening to someone:
https://medium.com/@N/how-i-lost-my-50-000-twitter-username-...
http://archive.is/zxK0b
Wow. GPT2 is so, so, so much better than Markov chains. I'm reading these definitions, and the fact that the last few words of the sentence match the first few words subject-wise is pretty amazing. Just some random ones:

> denoting or relating to a word (e.g., al-Qadri), the first letter of which is preceded or followed by another letter

> a synthetic compound used in perfumery and cosmetic surgery to improve the appearance of skin tone and irritation

> a type of cookie made with dough, jelly, butter, or chocolate, often filled with extra flour

Pretty impressive. I've never seen fake text so real. (I mean none of these seem to quite make 100% logical sense, but if you were just skimming the sentence nothing would stand out as a red flag.)
I would argue it is the government's job to not allow businesses to impose dehumanizing conditions on workers due to the extreme imbalance of power.

It's probably not a risk for most of the HN users. Most of us are in high demand jobs, and we would simply refuse to work for a company that uses this kind of spyware. A lot of people don't have that option, because there isn't as much demand for their jobs.

Should we really be given that extra privilege simply because what we chose or wanted or had the ability to do is in higher demand? I would say no, it should be a fundamental right of workers in general. It's not as if there is some drastic harm that not installing spyware would impose. If your best means of measuring worker productivity is this junk, you're not going to last as a business anyways.
One of the words I got was "unsubsidized" which appears in pretty much every online dictionary I've looked at, although it is red squiggle underlined in the comment box.
Yes, the government is responsible because it violates basic human rights. At least in germany this kind of behavior is forbidden.
LONG term Pushbullet user here, big proponent of their services. I use it on Firefox myself so this doesn't affect me personally but still there are few services I will strongly advocate for. Pushbullet is one of them. Google, if you're listening this is going to make a lot of users very unhappy.
It's that last one. Chrome Extensions, as a whole, are a value-add to Chrome. Individual Chrome extensions have negligible added value.

As long as Chrome isn't killing extensions "everyone cares about," their system can bias pretty far towards making it had to get an extension accepted and maintained in the store without killing the whole ecosystem.
Seeing what someone is doing is different from hearing a description of it. For example, someone may be using the wrong tool for the job. Or he may be using an ineffective sales pitch. Or he may be doing his job by going around the horn rather than using the canal.

I'm not saying it's never abusive. Just that it isn't necessarily abusive.
> A sufficiently sophisticated operation could use canned footage to fake the apparent call and response here

I mean, if the tech reaches such heights that a customer can't tell it from a human, does it even matter for the customer?

(Actually I think that on an emotional level it does, but realistically it's a question of inputs to the brain, i.e. the whole Matrix mind-body thing. Anyway, I'm sure this is firmly in the AGI territory.)
I used to do big Skype calls in the finance company I worked at several years ago and it was de rigueur to stay on mute until you wanted to talk. Most people actually did it. I always wondered why they didn't just have push to talk as it's way more convenient and less error prone.

I discovered an interesting feature around muting one day as well. People used to conduct calls at their desk in the open office as there was nowhere else to go. It was awful, but worse was if I was in the same call as someone near me as I'd hear them both in my earpiece and across the room. One day it was my boss, sitting right next to me. I noticed that each caller had a mute icon next to them so I pressed his and, lo! It worked. I could no longer hear him in my earpiece. But neither could anyone else. Turns out you could remotely activate any other caller's mute button.
> But I'll never understand that people like Elixir for being FP.

To me the answer is: using mutable state is opt-in. I disagree that "mutable state is rampant".

By opting in to the mutable state constructs you are basically saying "I know what I am doing, let me do my work" which is IMO quite fine because "pure" FP languages like Haskell can be a huge hassle when you actually need to deal with the real world.

To me Elixir is a very nice compromise.
And for an authentic contemporaneous example of this technique, here's my website that I designed in 2002 when I was in high school: http://cydeweys.com/archive/

You won't know it from looking at it because you'll only see the rendered static HTML, but that entire site was actually written in C++. Using the AP C++ libraries (yes, that AP).
I try to do this too but Slack updates the favicon when in do not disturb. It’s like catnip, plenty of dark patterns
I see... this makes sense
Because when it first was released, they were one of (if not the only) (free) email providers to give every user over a gigabyte of storage. At the time, most email providers only allowed mailboxes in the dozens of megabytes range.

Nowadays, everywhere gives you plenty of space, but for me personally, it’s just been the fact that I’ve been using it for so long and switching is a hassle. I’m sure it’s the same for a lot of other people, and for the majority, they probably also don’t care enough.
There was no business model for HTML/HTTP.

It was a set of technologies. Advertising later came to it.

There are tons of subscription models for HTML content that you're ignoring. Patreon, YouTube, online news. Some small, some large.
> this study doesn't need to predict vitamin D levels because they used measured vitamin D levels

If darker-skinned people have, on average, lower vitamin D levels, then measuring vitamin D levels proxies for skin color.

So if the underlying cause is e.g. access to healthcare or stress or exposure to airborne particulates, and those correlate with skin color, those will also correlate with vitamin D levels.

One could thus find vitamin D levels relate strongly to outcomes. But increasing vitamin D has zero effect on the outcome. Because it's not the cause. (We see this a lot with poverty correlates in education.)
My current yearly subscription to Fastmail was about to expire today. Didn't think about it for a second before I renewed it for the third year.
My model is bolted onto GPT-2 which is trained on internet text; I think some of these examples are coming from there.
This is not how any of this works. Sound simply is a variation of pressure over time, hence a one-dimensional signal (in classical physics, time is not considered a dimension).
Sampling is simply a way of approximating this continuous signal on a digital computer. A music instrument doesn't have a sample rate and neither have your ears.
> no potential for gaming

I'm very confused by this. This demo gameplay is pretty representative of a few genres of games like Tomb Raider. It also translates well to different types of gameplay, so I don't get your dismissal.
You're struggling here because you're not being specific enough in your reading and you're not being specific enough in your writing either. Is where the water comes from relevant to what? You need to be more specific.

Is where the water comes from relevant to the correlation between where the water comes from and cholera? Tautologically yes.

Is where the water comes from relevant to the correlation between hydration and cholera? No.

The reason you need to be more specific is that these are completely different experiments:

If you want to see whether where the water comes from is correlated with cholera, you might observe everyone who goes to the well and everyone who collects rainwater for 30 days, and see whether more from the well group or more from the rainwater group develop cholera. Note: you aren't collecting any data in this experiment about how hydrated these people are.

If you want to see whether hydration is correlated with cholera, you might randomly select 30 people and measure how much water they collect every day for 30 days, and plot that against whether they develop cholera. Note: you aren't collecting any data in this experiment about where these people get their water.

"Is skin color correlated to vitamin D absorption from the sun?" and "Are vitamin D levels correlated with Covid19 infection and severity?" are two completely different questions and two completely different experiments. And to be clear, they aren't even connected by a common cofactor: "vitamin D absorption from the sun" and "vitamin D levels" are two very different things, which may not even be correlated in certain situations (that is to say, I may absorb very little vitamin D from the sun, yet have very high vitamin D levels--this could happen if I supplement or consume a lot of vitamin D in my diet). You cannot draw any conclusions about vitamin D absorption from the sun or skin color from this study, because it does not collect any data about those vitamin D absorption from the sun, and it does not collect any data about skin color.
How does Chrome prevent people from installing their own extensions? Download-and-unpack still works fine, last I checked.
For a small restaurant which does a few deliveries only it's hard to be profitable. They could do that for brand awareness or attracting new customers.
On a small margin profitable are the ones who specialize in cooking for delivery (mostly for pizza) but with tough competition.

For the UberEat, Foodora, deliveroo, ... style delivery coordinators it is tough - their game is to cover each and every restaurant they can get to offer wide variety on offerings, but little optimisation potential in the delivery routes. Playing for the endgame where there is no alternative and they can raise prices.
Every single LVT proposal includes an extremely important stipulation: deducting improvements from the total value, and only taxing the resulting amount. The core thesis is that you don't want to dis-incentivize productive economic activity, and simply holding onto land is unproductive.

LVT (and Georgism writ large) propose to tax the unimproved value of land. This is a form of discriminating the source/type of value.
Back when I worked with Fortran we tended to buy our library's from NAG https://www.nag.co.uk/content/nag-library or Gino F for graphics
Yes! Every time you signup with an email you should have to verify. There's someone who consistently uses my email to sign up for all sorts of things (nearly every piece of mail has his name attached to it). It's actually quiet sad, he seems to be going through hard times right now, and started signing up for what are obviously get rich quick scams.
Seriously? Knowing what books people read and search for isn't valuable information?

Do you also feel the same way about search engines? Should my Google searches be encrypted?
I had a similar experience but it wasn't important to me and I let it go despite being a growing extension with 10s of thousands of users and lots of good reviews.
I have written about this recently on the Android side.

https://medium.com/@lazherrera/that-one-time-google-made-it-...

If you use any of the words related to the COVID-19 pandemic, they will pull your app, suspend you and ding your account.
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Does Google send this message to random developers ([1]) and then look at the changes that developers make to get a list of things that developers apparently think are not so good?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty-Six_Stratagems#Stomp_th...
Yeah I got comicbook, nonreferential, barleywine, geophile, which could all be compound words, maybe hyphenated today but perhaps not tomorrow.
If you're already using GCP, my general advice for new projects is almost always some form of "just throw it on AppEngine". No, you don't need multi-region deployments. No, you don't need 32TB of memory per instance. No, you do not need kubernetes. No, istio is not going to solve this. No, you're not hosting your own kafka cluster.

I've found devs are always trying to over-engineer complex solutions to dead simple problems. Just let Google do it and get some sleep.
It's a really simple task (so humans getting it wrong isn't a major concern), the crew needs to be on board, trained, and equipped with manual controls anyways (for contingencies), so... why spend effort automating it?
Repeatedly referring to an argument you disagree with as "emotional" undermines your own position.
Presumably these invasive measures were instituted after the pandemic. Employees didn't agree to these measures when they accepted their jobs, so of course they have a right to be upset with their employers now. If these measures are unpopular, we shouldn't blame employees for being upset; instead, blame the employers for dictating those unpopular policies.

Employees have little bargaining power here. While quitting is hypothetically an option (albeit realistically not necessarily), so is shaming. And I see nothing wrong with shaming companies for their stupid, dehumanizing initiatives.