skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can't use uMatrix on phone.

You can't use it currently if you have a release version of Firefox after 68, yes. The API is buggy and in fact quite a few extensions don't work, even if you force-install them. It's still unclear if they will ever whitelist stuff that's outside of their "recommended extensions" program, and presumably the best chance it would have of getting whitelisted is if it were actively maintained and bugs encountered with the new FFA could be worked on in coordination with the developer.
Man it sounds like you have some deeper issues and I hope you can find more meaning in life in general, but being a WordPress admin would probably drive most of us to the brink. Probably one of the most tedious and banal jobs in tech.

Why not start learning more languages and whatnot? What do you mean you don't have the capacity? I was a PHP dev back in the day and progressed to things like Python/Django, but there's a whole world of resources that are accessible to you as an existing coder if you wanted to skill up and take it to the next level. There were points in the last few years I was bored of coding and rarely did it outside of my work hours. Recently I started looking at Rust and it dazzled me into being excited again.
Every country does this at least to some extent.
Which tax do you feel is being avoided?
Yep, can't wait 'till they support .cc and whatnot.
I don't think they saw the corruption as necessarily connected. I think they were just pissed that the Soviet Union fell, cutting them off from the "homeland" and blamed America for that.

I reckon if Alaska became nominally independent and Canada became like a hostile Russian client state or something people living in Anchorage would feel similarly to transdniestrians.

Where are you from?
> uMatrix has been commercially used as a name, so it is a trade mark (nb: commercially here does not necessarily mean money is involved).

Again, I don't know anything, but I'm surprised that uMatrix would count as having been "commercially" used. And as you point out, these two criteria probably wouldn't be met if the project becomes inactive:

> active use by the owner, and active defence of the trademark by its owners
"Preparation for meeting" and "presentation" are two different things. Preparation means you know what you want, you know what to say and that you dont use time during meeting to figure it out. It means we are all not waiting while you are struggling with words or go to tangents or are going through jira figuring out which issues are relevant.

It does nor have to be polished presentation.
Some more info:

- This apparently done via a NN [1]

- There are mixed results, with various factors playing a factor [2].

Worth digging into this thread, and the original thread where this was figured out. It's intriguing.

[1]: https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastruc...

[2]: https://mobile.twitter.com/NotAFile/status/13073372942491033...
See also Zoom backgrounds: https://twitter.com/colinmadland/status/1307111816250748933?...
Trump gives blessing to deal to allow TikTok to continue to operate in US
> Among the apparent sins of the Weimar Republic: one person one vote, equally counted, for all men and women over 20, as well as legalised abortion.

Back to the U.S. I recommend this 2020 book on that issue:

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-power-worshippers-97816355...

"The Power Worshippers -- Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism" by Katherine Stewart

"Stewart pulls back the curtain on the inner workings and leading personalities of a movement that has turned religion into a tool for domination. She exposes a dense network of think tanks, advocacy groups, and pastoral organizations embedded in a rapidly expanding community of international alliances and united not by any central command but by a shared, anti-democratic vision and a common will to power."

Also, from 2013, "The Not-So-Lofty Origins of the Evangelical Pro-Life Movement":

https://religiondispatches.org/the-not-so-lofty-origins-of-t...

"as Randall Balmer has succinctly put it: “the religious right of the late twentieth century organized to perpetuate racial discrimination.”"

And "How Republicans Became Anti-Choice":

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/11/08/how-republicans-...

"in the late 1960s and early 1970s, many Republicans were behind efforts to liberalize and even decriminalize abortion; theirs was the party of reproductive choice, while Democrats, with their large Catholic constituency, were the opposition."

The book I've mentioned first explains why and how the change happened and what is happening now, really fascinating.
Monitoring data flows in a microservice system
Maybe it was just an adventurous mouse?
uMatrix is awesome. I wish there were more tools like this -- just advanced enough to do some real heavy lifting yet still quick and intuitive after even a little investment. The browsers brought SSL awareness with the padlock, but most users are still woefully unaware of just how many websites they hit when they load any page. It's insanity.

I hope this isn't due to browser vendors making things difficult, but it wouldn't surprise me. Since the concerns are similar, it would be great if there was a way to marry the two. uBlock - advanced interface mode or something. Just a thought, not a feature request.

Thank you Gorhill for all your work. Sad to see it go, I actually can't fathom how I'll surf the web without it.
Apple does all machine learning on-device. So stuff like handwriting recognition, Siri, automatic improvements of photos etc. makes heavy use of it.
Unfortunately many of the countries which will be hurt the most by climate are in the Global South, which is generally poorer.

Also IIRC the US produces a lot of food so I’m not sure how on-point your breakdown of poor / rich economies is.

Plus let’s recall it’s the rich countries which have been the proximate cause of global warming :).

That said I do agree with you that rich countries are vulnerable as well.
Thanks for the feedback. On desktop, the links become orange if hovered, but on mobile, it's quite unobvious, you are right.
This is pretty egregious.

For those of us working on machine learning, does anybody know of datasets that have decent representation of different colors of skin. That seems like the cause here and thinking back, my datasets aren't the most diverse out there.
And if you see $100 on the road, leave it there, it's fake or someone would have picked it up first.
I think any network connectivity related to high-power (2000W or more) household appliances is a big mistake.

Imagine someone hacks their flimsy IoT service and manages to start those 3kW heater elements in hundreds of thousands of washing machines all at once, what that will do to the power grid.
definitely saw some sketchy reports from dc and portland over the last few months. seems like they are stopping just short of the door thing.
The privacy of an Apple phone that allowed the Saudi prince to order a hacking into Bezos' phone, which ultimately leaked out info and led to his divorce? Yeah, no thanks.

Being on Blackberry, or any non-Google phone really, allows me to segregate my really important stuff from my every day stuff. Equating Apple's security to that kind of segregated security is a bunch of absolute horse crap.
This is a shame, I find the interface for uMatrix much more intuitive than uBO’s.
This looks fantastic. I’ve always wanted to understand the history of mathematics better
It's the mac chips I'm really interested in seeing. That's the unknown quantity.
It's not too hard: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=sh+dot+command&atb=v135-5__&ia=web

"period" and "full stop" were less successful than "dot", though.
> OOP only makes sense when you're solving a problem that is naturally expressed in terms of those features, but in my mind the majority of problems are not.

How do you reach the conclusion that "the majority of problems are not"? But more importantly, the right question is not about the majority of problems, but the most common tricky parts of software, or, more precisely reduce the effort where it is largest, and the majority of tasks does not comprise the majority of effort.

I am skeptical about any programming paradigm making a big difference, largely because evidence suggests none so far does, or, at least, that there are diminishing returns, but even if some programming paradigm could make a difference, I doubt FP would be it, and not only because empirically FP so far hasn't. The reason is that FP "helps" when the task is easy to begin with, and once you start dealing with interaction, it "devolves" into classical imperative programming. If any style could help, it would be a style that specifically helps with the hard parts, not the easy parts. An example of a more radical approach would be synchronous programming, that at least aims to make interaction/concurrency easier.
NoScript or ηMatrix which is a fork of uMatrix, if you're using pale moon.

https://addons.palemoon.org/addon/ematrix/

https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?p=199714#p199714
> just advanced enough to do some real heavy lifting yet still quick and intuitive after even a little investment.

This describes uMatrix perfectly. I didn't understand a single thing after installing it, but one day, I spent 20 mins reading the wiki on Github and then understood what to use each tool for.
I believe Greta Thunberg is someone put in place to EXERT authority.

If you go to the meetings of the financial elite of the world, they have in their agenda exactly what GT wants: Taxing C02, forcing people to eat insects, because meat and fish is unsustainable...

Greta is used to exert authority from those people in charge into the mass of the population. It is the reason media loves GT, because media is controlled by the big guys.

A dangerous person would be some environmentalist that actually knows what he is talking about, and who is popular.

Idealism is not a virtue per se(just dreaming about a better world without doing anything). I know quite a lot idealist that actually do all what they can to improve the world. They become realist because it is hard. It is one thing to say people should not abandon dogs and another thing creating a refuge for animals and expending all your money feeding and taking care of abandoned dogs, taking no vacations(because animals eat every day...)and so on.

Realism is what happens when idealists take responsibility, and do something. Reality has limits, it is always finite what you can do, dreams could be perfect.

Greta is just a kid that is angry(because she is ill) and is being manipulated from those in charge.
Trade marks can be registered, but need not be. The use of the trade mark in normal commerce is sufficient to establish rights. However, the registration of the trade mark can confer additional benefits. This is the general rule in most common law jurisdictions.

As uMatrix was distributed to users through the extensions platfrom, this is already sufficient to classify as commercial use.
Revisiting Apple Notes (6): The Protobuf
Ticket closed. Dog performs according to spec. Dropped packets indicate geomagnetic flux anomalies in local area network. User advised to replace faulty ley lines.
I've led the team that worked for more than two years to prepare our products for the Y2K, in real time finance, and there was not a single but many points of failure, some completely not obvious before they were detected, so most of the time was spent on developing different tests and procedures to actually in advance test, verify and diagnose the big amounts of code where anything could be implicitly based on the assumptions that won't be true at 2000.

When there were (almost) no issues at the begin of 2000, it was because of a lot of concentrated work correctly done before, early enough. The luck was that the problem was in the consciousness of everybody making decisions, and that those making decisions had a good motivation to do the changes (e.g. the company can charge for fixes, or the company will not be able to sell the product if it's not fixed).

The real danger is when those who make decisions (and those who directly influence them) have a good motivation (from their narrow point of view) to continue ignoring the problem.

That's how the environments described by Octavia Butler develop.
Archive and Save Webpages on Bitcoin
If you click on Decode and then Bico.Media

That is a saved and archived copy of today's front page.

Alternatively test and try it yourself:

1) https://etched.page/

2) Copy the Transaction ID

3) Paste it on a block explore https://whatsonchain.com/

4) Click Decode and then Bico.Media

Disclaimer: This is using Bitcoin SV Satoshi Vision - bringing back the orignal Bitcoin protocol
Can Child Dolls Keep Pedophiles from Offending?
Couldn't a lot of the countries that have single-payer systems negotiate better prices that more people could afford? Isn't this what happens with other life-saving therapies at the moment? The economics of health care costs confuse me because yeah, demand for staying alive is somewhat infinite, but at some point governments seem like they should be able to tell pharma companies they can either take what's offered or get nothing at all and have the governments ignore their patents.
I thought the DOD got them to put a fab in the US?
Good point about this sounding similar to AI fears.

The whole AI fear thing seems weird to me. Not impossible, but, just the level of hype around it combined with who is doing the hyping and now is strange. Kind of like the modern version of Victorian gentry prognosticating.
Ask HN: How can I improve the quality of my code?
I've been working in cloud infrastructure for the past 4 years and am looking to make the shift into software development (backend).

Although I've written code before and consider myself a developer amongst infrastructure architects, I've never released production-ready software. All have either been POCs or extensions of existing libraries used by other teams. I want to make a career move into software development, with a plan to progress into leadership in that field, but I've become aware that my limited experience working in a team of experienced developers has hindered my ability to write well-architected code.

How can I develop this part of my programming skills if I'm not working with a team of developers in a professional setting? Any books/courses I can take? My target is to land a role as a software developer in the next 6 months (hopefully not too ambitious!)
You mean ’legal‘ in a lot of states, don’t you?
The Vampire Ship: The seizure of Europe's largest heroin shipment
>What applications benefit from this? The only use-case I've seen for AI in Apple's mobile devices is the face unlock.

Oh no. You could have double the CPU core and it wouldn't make 95% of common use case any faster. But NPU ( Neural Processing Engine ) and GPGPU have lots of potentials. Siri being the first one, When you take photos its uses NPU to adjust the image. Your Speech recognition for lots of different languages. Handwriting, Your Photo Gallery Face Recognition, on iPad Handwriting / Image to Text Recognition. And lots of thing likely to do with AR. And all of them has great impact to user experience previously not available.

Not to mention both GPU and NPU scales very well with transistor budget.
I'm not trying to be some sort of Luddite, but at this stage what more can a phone really do. If it's 10% faster than chips that are already doing a fine job right now it just feels flat.

I really love new tech and especially microprocessors but have trouble seeing how a phone breaks out of it's limiting form factor in any meaningful way right now that would make use of yet more processing power.
And apple phones home a lot.

I see this sort of claim often, but reliable information about the specifics is hard to come by. Can you share any?
Is this backward compatible with SQLite?
This is sad for me as a user, but I can fully understand his unwillingness to further engage with requests from entitled users. I myself had bad experiences with releasing open source, too.

That said, this is clearly a useful tool and I wouldn't be surprised if the user base was 10,000+ which means that if you'd make it $3 monthly to use as a commercial product, the revenue (after attrition) should be enough to pay for at least one part time employee to do the maintenance.

I would also expect that releasing this as a paid product, as opposed to open source, will actually reduce entitlement by users. Or at the very least, you can always just issue a refund and be done with it.

I would still hope for source code insight to make it transparent how this tool works. But that is not necessary a hindrance towards productizing it. Unreal Engine 4 is a commercial success, despite shipping with full source code.
uMatrix is without a doubt used as a commercial trade mark. Again, commercial doesn't mean money is involved.

It's also still used by the owner, as it's still listed in several extension stores.

Trademark protection also doesn't end over night. Trademarks are generally protected for a few years after the owner ceased to use it. Also, one should keep in mind that trademarks aren't primarily an intellectual property concept like patents and copyrights. Their main purpose is to protect consumers from copycats and fake products.
It was also an episode on Ray Bradbury Theatre iirc, a great story
Check out HRVs: (air exchangers)

https://www.popularmechanics.com/home/interior-projects/how-...
Moderate muslims are much more dangerous than the actual terrorist IMO.
Robert W. Gore, the inventor of Gore-Tex fabric, dead at 83
Makes me wonder, why doesn't TSMC demand 30% of Apple's profits? :)
I think the benefit of FP is long term. Refactoring and maintenance of systems somebody else, not with the company anymore, wrote. 2 months into a project you could be forgiven for thinking oop and fp are equivalent. You haven’t yet gone through a major shift in understanding the requirements.
Ask HN: How to gain some good SEO backlinks for my website?
It looks like, having a backlink from a high domain authority website cannot fetch you traffic. Though the website is relevant to the contents, for some reason, people do not look at your content. Any idea, how to solve this issue?
Rethinking UI APIs
I assumed the animal, but expected the record to be in the category of "size of testicles".
Doesn't cut the mustard
So fossil fuels provide the base load...
Generally, you are paid less in absolute numbers if you are located not in a rich city/country, but software devs earn very well comparatively to average income at any given place, and I dare to say it's true almost everywhere in the world.
> I always feel object oriented languages are some sort of poor approximation to some sophisticated functional programming concepts (lenses, comonads, etc)

Even if they were, I don't see why it matters. The nature of the basic mathematical building blocks doesn't have much of an impact when the problem described is intractable to begin with. Not a very good example, but the n-body problem is just as intractable, and no easier to simulate, using Newtonian mechanics than when using epicycles (well, it is, but not because Newtonian mechanics is more mathematically simple). My point is just that when dealing with intractable systems, simplifying the basic mathematical building blocks is not necessarily where we should spend our optimisation efforts.
I really really hate these piecemeal twitter "articles". Is there really no other way to inform the world about stuff?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24529301

Fossil fuels provide the backup power source.
> it has been proposed (to try) to design machines that we could instruct in our native tongues. this would, admittedly, make the machines much more complicated, but, it was argued, by letting the machine carry a larger share of the burden, life would become easier for us.

> I suspect that machines to be programmed in our native tongues - be it Dutch, English, American, French, German, or Swahili - are as damned difficult to make as they would be to use.

Seems to me there's a intermediate step here that's worth mentioning: formal specification languages, such as Z notation and Event-B, which let us precisely describe our problem. [0] If you want a 'compiler' to be able to deal with a natural language request like Give me a C function that sorts an array of uint32_t, of arbitrary length, in place, you have two challenges:

1. Automatically map the natural language problem-description to a precise formal specification of the problem, in a language like Event-B.

2. Automatically map the formal spec to an efficient and correct implementation in C. (This is called refinement. For an example, see [1].)

Formal specification languages are rarely used in today's software engineering, but it would make sense to use one in an automated system, to separate out these two very different challenges. (Needless to say, automating either of these stages is enormously challenging, and we're nowhere near accomplishing either of them.)

Ideally, stage 1 would warn or error about the ambiguity in the example request: most likely the user wants an ascending ordering, but this should be made explicit in the request.

Would such a system be useful? I think the answer is yes regardless of what precisely is meant. I don't share Dijkstra's concerns. We already know it's possible for humans to do effective software engineering, and the question here is really one of what an automated system would have to do to compete with that. Managers already make software happen using natural language! I don't think a comparison to attempts at spoken-word mathematics are all that relevant.

A computer simulation of a skilled software engineer, including being a good conversationalist with requirements-engineering skills and the ability to absorb domain knowledge, would be useful by definition, and would put software engineers out of a job at a stroke. Would it be useful to have the weaker system Dijkstra describes, that 'compiles' a natural language specification? Seems clear enough that it would, as much human effort is currently spent doing this. Assuming the system works well, and isn't unworkably pedantic or obtuse, it would still be extremely valuable.

> As a result of the educational trend away from intellectual discipline, the last decades have shown in the Western world a sharp decline of people's mastery of their own language

Is this actually true, or is this one of those back in my day children were respectful things?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specification_language

[1] See chapter 7 of this large PDF: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/422225/1/Thesis.pdf
> NOTE: This is the second Ig Nobel Prize awarded to Alexander Lukashenko. In the year 2013, the Ig Nobel Peace Prize was awarded jointly to Alexander Lukashenko, for making it illegal to applaud in public, AND to the Belarus State Police, for arresting a one-armed man for applauding.
I have been a (lay) user of uBlock Origin for some years now. I haven't heard about uMatrix before.

Can someone link to a tutorial or a detailed review for it?
They have seized 30M in cash which means they will be able to fund their department with that cash.

If taxpayers don’t fund the police, the police funds itself.
Gherkin/Cucumber/Behave too. All the same problems.
>It’s incredible that anything could live that high, at 20,340 feet—there is no vegetation, and seemingly nothing to eat.

There's clearly vegetation in the background of the photo.
EBBra – One bra, two masks
I have been using both FP and OOP (and I started with FP before OOP) for a quarter century already and have written extensively about the use of mathematical formalisms in software (https://pron.github.io/). But the question isn't about me, but about the industry as a whole. How many decades with no large benefits do we need before we say, this isn't helping, we should look elsewhere?