skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So why is it wrong to explain this by the necessary recursiveness of predictive modeling that includes modeling “self”?

It's not "wrong", it's just not parsimonious. A system can model itself without being conscious, any time you have state in a program you are doing this.
Rich kid cred (startup or FAANG free-floating money), not quite the same as nerd cred.
There is no difference; brain = thought
Apple killed Flash.

HTML5 just provided a suitable replacement for Flash, but suddenly having a large browser (Mobile Safari) that just couldn't play Flash content at all provided the incentive for web devs to actually invest the effort to switch to HTML5.
Kid has Linux, every programming lang available, Minecraft, ebooks, wikipedia, educational websites, etc. We live a block from the library. No shortage of quality learning materials basically. Perhaps ya'll've misread the list.

It's a preference for quality over quantity.
This is typical of Musk companies:

Tesla:

https://www.businessinsider.com/ex-tesla-employees-reveal-th...

https://www.ccn.com/tesla-elon-musk-circus/

SpaceX:

https://www.businessinsider.com/former-spacex-employee-worki...

https://qz.com/281619/what-it-took-for-elon-musks-spacex-to-...

Well, the cars look great, the rockets look great. Now we wait and see if it works for the mind-machine interface. I don't think HN is capable of generating good predictions on this.
Ever get your ideas on the roadmap? Ever add new features or change how chromium or how google chrome works. I didn't think so.

Open source doesn't mean you have any infuence or say in the future of the project. It only means you can take a copy make changes and roll your own version.

The roadmap changes the internet unhealthy ways.
Google does give users the opinion of stabling AMP:

Switch your search engine to something else.

Google search results have become less and less relevant unless I'm actually trying to buy something.
> You can connect a PC to a television (or get a device to stream the game from a PC to a television) connect a controller, and crash on a couch.

> It's not for everyone, but it can be a heck of a lot less expensive and some games are simply better with the third-party mods.

This is what I do 90% of my time, I often make my gaming choices based on which games have good controller support
'Assume any current/future employer will be reviewing what you do at your AirBNB. Enjoy your stay.'
> In any case, your comment seems very aggressive.

How could that be? Perhaps because I am ridiculing that person who got nothing else out of the article.

It reminds me of a juvenile that just found out the world works a slightly different way than they were told in kindergarten. There is simply a more obvious and more substantive discussion to be had about the above article, then incessantly searching for ads, you can just assume everything is an ad as a baseline and move on, with the format of the ad being just as strategic.
Yes. The Swiss have safely encapsulated their waste into a building smaller than Norte Dame stadium. It will safely house their waste for centuries to come. The US doesn’t recycle its waste because the Democrats were afraid brown people would get nuclear material in transit and build dirty bombs. Europeans knew that was stupid and both recycle and store their waste reasonably.

Further if we spend money on thorium you don’t have much waste at all. In fact you can use your current waste as the medium to kickstart the thorium reaction.

Solar and chemical storage requires poisonous materials that will leech into the ground water.
Because the people creating the standards (i.e. Google) are more interested in pushing AMP than other solutions. That's the whole issue here.
>That's not quite why rigorous regulations were put in place.

Yes it is. Greenpeace and the like paraded Chernobyl and three mile island around and because it was the 70s and 80s and pollution was a big problem politicians tripped over each other to be seen Doing Something (TM) and that's more or less how we got the current regulatory environment. Of course their intentions were good but it's perfectly possible to both have good intentions and be wrong.
Abundant energy is the way to a post scarcity society.
There's diminishing returns along all those axes, suddenly throwing billions of dollars at a problem doesn't automatically yield a fast, high quality result.
With >99% certainty, yes. But you never know.
> For the uninitiated, nuclear power is actually much, much

> safer than it was in the previous century, and fossil fuel

> power plants have killed exponentially more people through

> pollution than all nuclear power accidents combined

I think that nuclear waste will be the next big problem with nuclear energy, with storing it safely for the thousands of years required just being a problem we're kicking down the road. It only needs to leak into the water supplies and suddenly you have a disaster on a scale never seen before (human & animal consumption, contaminated crops and land, etc).

To be honest, renewable energy sources such as solar, wind and hydro are really the way forwards. I would favour solar and wind though, as a failure to invest in infrastructure just means they break - whilst a failure to invest in hydro has some very serious consequences (dam collapse, etc).

In the next 10 years or so I want to see solar panels being recycled if they really are to play a large put of our future energy production. Otherwise there is always the method of pointing mirror arrays at a single spot to heat water.
>Google could simply cache the web pages and strip them naked

You think Google could get away with stripping or editing commercial pages by default? Be serious.

>Reader mode on browsers do a good job of it on most sites

Then use it.

>they can publish guidelines on how to structure your site to make it easier for reader mode to work which wouldn't be that problematic (it would also encourage accessibility).

Google actually does a lot of that. They publish a lot of guidelines, including testing tools (like Lighthouse) to have developers build faster websites. Case in point: https://web.dev/measure
Whataboutism isn't productive. Best to have conversations about the topic at hand or create a new one if you want to bemoan BLM twitter posts.
Adopt long cycles, spend most of it rewriting, cram every feature into the last couple of weeks so you have something to show for in the PI Planning. Blame subpar performance on lack of staff. You will luckily be awarded with more workforce you can employ in rewriting code. Repeat until done or fired.
> But article omits that Google only wants the Web that exists on Google's terms.

That's probably why the team behind Chromium is composed of so many contributors who are not at Google?
Chris’s blog is general quite good, but I thought this entry was weak. I guess he doesn’t use context much for his devops stuff.

If you use context at all, you know that it doesn’t mutate in place. That’s why it’s goroutine safe. It’s the whole point of using context. The answer to the pop quiz was obvious, and I only second guessed myself because I thought it must be a trick question somehow. Like “well obviously you can’t mutate a context but maybe context.TODO is broken somehow”.
Hopefully modders would reverse engineer the executables to talk to their own servers (presumably it's not as simple as modifying a DNS server to return a homebrew IP address, and there are baked-in SSL certificates) and get the maps that way...

Hah, imagine doing that and streaming a map of Mars. Or the heights and structures from a Minecraft map. Or a Sim City map, Sim Copter 2020 anyone?
Everyone knows what is being said on Twitter is the truth! People wouldn't lie on the internet would they?
>No PWAs, no notifications, no native experience.

Web notifications are great for developers, but I'm not convinced they've been all that positive for end users. I've noticed that more novice users tend to inadvertently opt-in to a lot of very spammy web notifications, particularly from online retailers and adult websites. And because they're novice users, they generally do not know how to filter or disable these notifications. I'd suggest that web notifications need a better mechanism to filter out notifications from bad actors, before said notifications reach end users. Otherwise the standard is doomed to be littered with spam like SMS or email.
With Apple laptops at least you aren't paying for the horsepower (which the machine can't actually make sure of due to terrible thermals), you are paying for the aesthetic of the OS GUI and the industrial design.
That's no an insult, any more than buying nice furniture or plants is an insult. Aesthetics matter of you aren't living on subsistence.

The power is just the fig leaf to rationalize it.
I haven't personally encountered that problem on mobile, but Fenix (the new Firefox for Android) was rushed out, and it sadly does show.
Uh...no. Perhaps you weren't there.

Microsoft wanted IE to be a wedge to drive Windows into enterprises. An open, standards-based web threatened that quite deeply (particularly one where the experiences that could be created could rival desktop apps).

Microsoft adopted a two-pronged approach. One was the inclusion of IE into the operating system to ensure the ground was seeded, and IE would be ubiquitous (keep in mind this was prior to Apple products being a realistic alternative in enterprise settings, so it was PC/Windows everywhere).

The second part was investing significant engineering efforts into ensuring that Windows- and Office-specific capabilities could emerge through IE (and only IE).

For example, if you wanted vector graphics you could use Office to produce VML and that could be viewed through IE (only). Pointedly, IE did not support SVG, which was the other major vector graphics standard at the time.

This neatly (and painfully) fragmented the market for anyone who wanted to produce vector graphics as part of a solution. You had to find a way to support VML and SVG if you wanted that to happen (and many early graphical toolkits for the web did precisely that).

All development for IE was conducted as closed source. Microsoft had no particular interest in making the browser compatible with the web standards, because as synergy between Windows and IE created a development target with benefits for Microsoft. Nobody else could create an equivalent to IE that would replicate the Microsoft-specific capabilities. The lack of standards-support created stickiness that kept IE around for a long time, because enterprises couldn't (or didn't feel like paying for) the changes necessary to bring apps into standards compliance.

A wholesale shift towards Adobe Flash was made a big crack in IE's armor. Flash ran everywhere, and sophisticated solutions could be built with it. Real web standards also made a lot of progress, and IE's creaking old engine was easily outperformed and "out-standarded" by Chrome. The subsequent rise of Apple and fall of Flash cemented Chrome (and Safari) as solid performers that could be used to deliver enterprise solutions and worked on multiple platforms.

Is Chrome the new IE? Well, is Chrome being used to drive Google-specific functionality that can only be used with other Google technologies, and can't be implemented elsewhere? Does Chrome actively avoid standards? Is Chrome actively attempting to fragment the standards? Is Chrome developed as closed source?

The thing is, Microsoft's strategy stood a pretty good chance of working. I'm always amazed at how IE stuck around when there were better alternatives, and how long it took before market pressure forced Microsoft towards web standards. A lot of money was spent on Enterprise Windows, and a lot of solutions used Microsoft-specific parts of IE. Enterprise dollars cast a long shadow, over time.
> Google has a reputation for getting bored of projects and shutting them down, if they controlled the web it’d be gone in six months and everything would have to be AMP

They haven't shut down Search yet, even though it's pretty boring as a service.

I'm sure you can understand there are "core" projects, and non-core ones.
Cybersecurity Information Sharing Success Stories
HUA. I feel you on that imposter syndrome. Thanks for your response - I bet that punk band was a barrel of fun.
Not just the ads but also autoplay videos, 2mb of javascript and the ocasional fancy background fullHD video.

Amp gets ride of those.
Well, you separate the spent fuel into chemical components by suitable chemical processes. One of those components is plutonium salts. So, yes, reprocessing is a rather direct way to nuke materials.
I also call it stagnation. Stability suggests that you are in a good place and don't need to move on. IE was anything but a good place, in particular for the people that had to build things for it. Not all modern trends in web dev are good, but there have been many, many quality of life improvements for developers and users alike since IE finally stopped being so ubiquitously supported.
Is a custom chip really that big of an accomplishment for a company the size and scale of Tesla? I really don’t know. Maybe someone here has some insight into semiconductor design and fabrication and can provide some insight into just how hard it would be to build a chip similar to what Tesla has built.
The internet didn't exist when I was a kid and I became a software engineer. "porn" on my computer consisted of a random sentence generator loaded from cassette tape on my Commodore and given profanity as input.

Turns out constant surveillance is not a necessity for learning.
Caching and editing could be construed as a derivative work which would run afoul of copyright laws
I do think you should tighten up a bit before teens depending on your kids.

For others, I would really advise you all to not rely on content blocking too much. Content blocking is one of the tools and you need more than one to fight off erroneous side of the internet. Be proactively involved in online activities of your kids.

See: https://www.fastcompany.com/90539906/sex-lies-and-video-game...

Side note: Limiting freedom of your kids is not bad. It's better to shape how they live so they continue with it later. Usually, the problematic parts are where people don't adequately explain or misunderstand the problem.
Every religion is based on faith, in the exact way you portrayed it. Faith by definition regards things that cannot be proven. If they could be proven, it would be knowledge, not faith.
Covid-19 Pandemic Drives Patients – and Deal Makers – To Telemedicine
I hear antarctica has unexplored land melting away /s
> ... Are they all good ideas? No, probably not, and that's why we have processes (that get revised - hi, that's part of my job now) to make sure we're including lots of external input too. The Web stagnating as a platform for just docs would be bad too. (cont)

Oh, you guys have internal processes!

You're close to able to unilaterally set the direction the web should be taking, but that's ok, because you have processes!
https://archive.vn/EHlzP
I'm sure Apple would be just fine as well, I just found it a little funny that the previous poster claimed Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft were justified in taking 30% because of the "value of creating and enabling an entire ecosystem"... as if Apple hadn't done the exact same thing.
They can put their ads in the AMP pages, what do they need the rest of the web for?
Brave blocks this on iPhone. I’m using it now, even though much of HN hates Brave.
I had similar problems years ago and switched to a trackball. No problems since. I use a Logitech with thumb moving the ball. I keep it and keyboard at waist level with monitor at eye level.
>...Milton Friedman's biggest lie is a law,

You are misrepresenting what is called the Friedman doctrine. He didn't claim it was the law of the land. As the wikipedia article states:

>...The Friedman doctrine, also called shareholder theory or stockholder theory, is a normative theory of business ethics advanced by economist Milton Friedman which holds that a firm's main responsibility is to its shareholders.
This shareholder primacy approach views shareholders as the economic engine of the organization and the only group to which the firm is socially responsible. As such, the goal of the firm is to maximize returns to shareholders.[1] Friedman argues that the shareholders can then decide for themselves what social initiatives to take part in, rather than have an executive whom the shareholders appointed explicitly for business purposes decide such matters for them

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedman_doctrine
Well, this is a post by Jason Scott of the Internet Archive. I trust him. And he posted the source code and online playable game.

(In a submarine ad, the intentions pretty much matter. It refers to an article directly commissioned or written by a PR firm).
> Imagine a system that kills 5k people once every 20 years, versus a system that kills 1 person a day. You end up with scary headlines about the first one, but the second one kills significantly more people over time.

"Imagine a virus that kills 300,000 people once every 100 years, versus a virus that kills 20,000 people per year. You end up with scary headlines about the first one (and shut down economies, and political turmoil, and...), but the second one kills significantly more people over time."
make it optional =)
Show HN: A CSS file that reshapes the web
A year ago I shared the first version of augmented-ui here, inspired by Deus Ex: Human Revolution, and got an awesome, really motivating response.

Today I released version 2 - it's a complete rewrite with over 150 new ways to shape HTML elements for a futuristic, Sci-Fi look. No JS needed!

It's still 100% free to use anywhere and Open Source :)

I linked to the repo since that's usually what's important around here, but if you're interested in the site, here you go: https://augmented-ui.com/
Would love to hear what you think!

PS: Wanted to say cheers to you all too because since that first post a year ago, I've shared a handful of other CSS ideas here and the conversations are hands-down better and more friendly than anywhere else. Glad to be here!
Hope the CSS file helps!
If it wasn't for Google's investment we would still maybe running Flash.

It wasn't Google, it was Apple that very famously and publicly killed Flash.

https://web.archive.org/web/20200614182254/https://www.apple...
This page on the Azure SQL docs site has lots of great info too: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql/database/sa...
Its probably because humans in general are not capable of generating good predictions at this.
At least they didn't say no games at all. What's so different with "having" to game on a computer vs a console? Consoles don't come with a learning opportunity, are vendor locked devices and they're just more expensive for their value compared to a PC.

There's a small number of games that are exclusive but you'd have to buy 2-3 different consoles just to get access to them all anyways, which is not a realistic choice.

And yeah, some online multi-player games are console-only but as a parent I wouldn't want to be "forced" to buy a certain console make just because other kids might or might not have it.
My friends had Xbox 360, I had PS3 and we're still buddies and we mostly played together on PCs anyways.

How many Xbox One / PS4 / Switch games can you get for free? A small handful if any. On PC, thousands literally. If you're not too picky, one could just play free games and never have to even pay for them.
Right but the preparation for the meats doesn't really vary between most dishes and they're added as the last step.

Big marinating dishes of beef pork and chicken
> And as for whether userspace should catch up, thanks to OS X for the most part that already happened a long time ago for a ton of open source packages

That’s a bold claim. Open source developer here (on the fish team): given a user-entered path, how do you make it canonical?

Specifically, without recursively opening directories and listing contents, how can you convert /foo/baR to the correct case as it appears in the filesystem index? Without following any symlinks, should any of the path components be a symlink?
> [...] including third-party resources that are cache-control:private (as Google ads scripts are) wouldn't work! For example, many third parties use user-agent sniffing to serve JS optimized for that particular browser.

This is relatively easy to work around: only embed resources that are included with SRI or match a whitelist of commonly-used third-party resources that don't do this.

And yes, Google Ads would either need to change its stance on rehosting or write a "wrapper" that uses the arbitrarily-complex JavaScript to generate the path from which to download the real ad script. Both of these seem like things they could plausibly do.

> As long as third-party cookies are still a thing, ad requests are still going to go to well known domains, because otherwise they won't get the cookie.

Google owns several well-known domains, such as "google.com", that ad-blockers can't just blanket deny access to because that would break non-advertising functionality.

> I see the next step in the ad blocking arms race as sites CNAMEing over to an ad network which reverse proxies their site.

This could work too (Google's currently developing their own version of this, which I think they call the "AMP cache"), but you're right about the drawbacks and it makes sense for them to be trying multiple approaches to see what sticks. After all, ad blockers are an existential threat to their primary revenue source!
Lessons from Centuries of Innovations
Maybe in 50 years workers will be forced to impant this thing. Imagine your boss screaming at you literally in your brain because neuralink is telling him you feel lazy!

What can be abused will be abused!
>Because the people creating the standards (i.e. Google)

Google doesn't create standards. They are one of the major stakeholders, but they don't have the final say.

>That's the whole issue here.

No. The issue is that Google built a browser that is better than anything now, and was better than anything out there for the past decade and got themselves into a dominant position. They haven't yet abused that position - contrary to a lot of the posts in this thread - but people are nervous. I can respect that viewpoint because it is something to worry about.
In firefox, about:config and set media.peerconnection.enabled to false.