skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course there isn't much difference because Chromium is basically Chrome. There is no single independent Chrome/Chromium fork today meaning that they are the same. Everything Google adds to Chrome get down to Chromium. Sure you can (maybe) cut some telemetry but functional changes stay. If Google decides to switch some protocol handling, or deprecate stuff, or add stuff it all propagates to all mods of Chrome.
It makes sense, if you look at a few concrete examples:

> Among Democrats, the political junkies think the influence of wealthy donors and interest groups is an urgent problems. But less-attentive Democrats are 25 percentage points more likely to name moral decline as an important problem facing the country — a problem partisan Democrats never even mention.

Political "casuals" (if you will) are more likely to be concerned with something broad, amorphous, a big problem that's hard to tackle and hard to blame. Like "moral decline", or "low wages". Whose moral decline, why, and how are we supposed to solve that? Whose low wages, why, and how are we supposed to solve that?

Political junkies are going to name problems that have a specific cause and a specific remedy - money in politics was specifically made worse since the Citizens United ruling, and could be improved with a constitutional amendment (or so the discourse goes).

Personally, my big amorphous problem that I actually care about is "our country is failing at urban growth in top cities on numerous fronts - transit, cost of living, cost of doing business, diversity of business. Our top cities have become monocultures of tech, biotech, finance, and other highly funded ventures." But that's a big, tough problem without a silver bullet, not to mention questions of who are responsible for the various reforms (cities? states? federal government?) and whether the reforms are even wanted (e.g. lots of city quality of life improvements boil down to being less accessible to suburban commuters, but lots of people prefer the suburbs).

> There might be an advantage for politicians who focus less on the demands of partisans and more on tangible issues. Yes, hard partisans are more likely to reward ideological victories, but they are also a minority of the electorate.

I wonder if this is actually true? Even if the hard partisans are the minority, as the article states they are the overwhelming majority of social media posts, opinions offered in news media, etc.
I spent 2 years working for a company (https://www.jbtc.com/en/north-america/automated-systems) that had been selling fully automated forklifts since the 90s (You read that correctly, 90s). They built special custom forklifts that were purpose built to not have human operators. It would have been awesome if the company had a way to call on human backup to drive the vehicles remotely when something went wrong or a special order came in. The more people you can keep off the factory floor the safer it's going to be.
Bitcoin's price just hit a new high for 2020
No offense. But what about all the fund of innocent people whose accounts got banned because of transactions with coin-exchanges.
> And let's never forget, Apple has been actively collaborating with authoritarian governments to shut down pro-democracy activism. That's not just a theoretical possibility, it actually happened.

I wonder why any time I see these claims, they’re never accompanied by anything resembling reliable evidence.

> The whole "We can trust Apple with our data" line starts with a flawed assumption: that Apple should be allowed to collect data from us.

Apple is free to do that, as a private entity in a free market; you on the other hand are free to vote with your wallet and your time by buying their devices and developing for their ecosystem (or not).

You’re entitled to not believe that the end goal (security) is not justified or achieved by the means (notarization, Gatekeeper, etc.), but somehow you are not making that argument.
Since the collapse of Mozilla would leave Chrome with effectively all of the browser market and leave Google in a much worse position with respect to anti-trust / anti-competitiveness investigations, Microsoft has zero reason to rescue Mozilla.
As I understand the paperwork and grand status is still step 1. https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a... Since there's no other market news outlet reporting it, the stock price of Intuit didn't move, there might not be a bigger story here.
Co-author here. Happy to answer any questions!
Sure, but all it takes is centralized one on-ramp that will take you, then you can transfer out of it. That's a big difference from having your funds in a particular exchange, where it may be seized.

I agree with the UX problem. I think the decentralized exchanges will manage to scale, research is ongoing. And the UX of decentralized exchanges is not much worse than/different from using Coinbase or Kraken, for example. The big UX challenge is self-custody of keys.
Molten Salt Reactors: New Reactor Design Eats Up Nuclear Waste
Sweden is the best example, although not necessarily a model of success.

https://time.com/5899432/sweden-coronovirus-disaster/
BPF, XDP, Packet Filters and UDP
They helped fund Stellar.org which provides open source blockchain payments software.
Especially the macbook pro keyboards. Those really hurt my hands.
> But "in practice" is hardly sufficient :P

I would argue "in practice" is all that matters. No matter what you do if someone with enough power wants to fuck you up legally - he will. As true in USA as in Germany, Poland, Russia or North Korea. Only the probability is different. It's sad, but it's the reality we live in.

I prefer a system with obvious loopholes and low "getting fucked probability" (GFP) to a system with no loopholes and high GFP.

Government of my country in last 5 years broke constitution dozens of times, including unlawfully changing the election date, changing how judges are chooosen (making them dependant on the politicians), restricting many kinds of personal liberties like freedom of assembly without going through the proper process and many others. And nobody can do anything because they have political support because they gave away a big portion of yearly GDP to poor people.

Constutitional Tribunal said the government is breaking the law. Government ignored it and changed the judges (breaking the law again). Some people protested, most people ignored it. Now a PM that admited "our law breaks the constitution but I will vote for it" became the chairman of that Tribunal as a big "fuck you" to the opposition.

So what that our system of checks and balances was pretty good (I'd argue better than the one in Germany and USA) if the government just decides to ignore it and people don't care?

So I much prefer practice to theory. Good system doesn't work if people don't care. Bad system still works if people care enough.

> So if a Polish resident contributes an original photograph to a Wikipedia article under CC-BY-SA-3.0, and I (or a Polish entity) use that photograph under the terms of the CC-BY-SA-3.0 in a way that "harms" the copyright holder, he can sue me (or the Polish entity in question) under Polish law? This seems absolutely insane to me, and surely can't be the case!

I've looked into Polish description of CC-BY-SA-3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.pl

and it mentions "autorskie prawa osobowe" (personal copyright rights) as one example of additional restrictions.

> Licencja może nie zapewniać wszystkich niezbędnych zgód dla niektórych użyć utworu. Dotyczy to w szczególności innych praw, takich jak ochrona wizerunku, prywatności czy autorskie prawa osobiste. Mogą one ograniczać możliwości wykorzystania utworu.

Paraphrased (sorry IANAL and translating legalese is not my strong point): The licence might not ensure all required permissions for some uses of the art. It's possible especially in cases of other rights being violated, like the right to protect identity, privacy or personal copyright which might further restrict possible uses of the art.

I'm pretty sure Poland isn't the only country where there are additional restrictions, I don't know why you think it's insane honestly.
"Do Things that Don't Scale"[1] - Paul Graham, July 2013

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[1] http://paulgraham.com/ds.html
Guess you mean Colombia.
I am confused why you assume I am a "Julia booster" or use such combative language. I love Python and Jax and use it for much of my research work, I just also like learning of other approaches. Please try to honestly address the sibling comments. We have repeatedly claimed that tools like Zygote.jl can autodifferentiate efficiently things that Jax can not (without a lot of extra special code and hand-defined backprop methods), e.g., an array of structs with scalar and vector properties over which a scalar cost is defined. Just give examples, so that we can both learn something new about these wonderful tools instead of using such offensive language. It is hard to not take your own comments as the ones being dismissive.

Also, look from where this conversation started. My claim was that jax does not work with "(scipy ode solvers, special functions, image processing libraries, special number types (mpmath), domain-specific libraries)". A julia library does not need to know of Zygote.jl to be autodifferentiable. A python library needs to be pure-python numpy-based library to work with jax.

In order to try to contribute to the discussion: I think this paper describes relatively well what is so special about the Julia autodiff tools: https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.07951

For a separate approach, which is also very original, check out https://github.com/jrevels/Cassette.jl
Lambda Calculus – Fundamentals of Lambda Calculus and FP in JavaScript
Extremely well structured and delivered talk on lambda calculus. I got interested with a recent post here on deriving boolean logic in lambda calculus - but most of the material I found didn't help. This talk made it click.
Wouldn’t server side analytics be better though cause you could filter ip addresses and the like? For most people using the web it’s unlikely that they will have randomized ip addresses beyond a certain range if I recall correctly however it’s been almost a decade since I had to think about this problem
Daily reminder that google's captcha implementations serve to collect data for their image recognition models. The fact that they can also be used to block bots on websites is mostly coincidental. This is also true of previous incarnations of reCAPTCHA.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_g...
Cryptocurrency represents ownership or investment in the proof of work or proof of stake in the network used to validate the transactions in a decentralized and verifiable way.
Offtopic: is it just me that can't comprehend this title?

I'm not a native english speaker, but this has happened all too often to me in the recent past and I'm thinking if I should be worried.
Yes, chapter 2 in Martin Kleppmann's Designing Data-Intensive Applications.
Has anyone written about how it would affect energy markets if Bitcoin reached the flippening price? If the price did hit $500k, as of the most recent halving it would be profitable to keep spinning up miners until aggregate mining costs reached $72 million. Even assuming 80% of marginal mining costs is energy, that's a lot of additional demand on energy markets.

(To say nothing of the climate impact!)
It’s Pronounced GIF
When I think about C++ "smart" pointers, I often think about easy to provoke / difficult to spot fatal edge cases. E.g.

- C++ code where some method calls std::shared_from_this(), and that method ends up being called indirectly during the object's construction, leading to a 0-pointer dereference [1]

- accidentally creating two shared-pointers to the same object leading to an eventual double-free (that may just silently corrupt the heap while the program continues running)

- undetectable cyclic shared_ptr<> references somewhere deeply hidden in the code causing a memory leak

Modern C++ feels like a case of "but we can do that in C++, too" syndrome. Stuff that "just works" in Java or Lisp, can now be done in C++, too, however in C++ it will only work for 95% of all use cases, and break in a spectacular manner for the remaining 5%.

E.g. think about the template meta-programming madness (and efficiency WRT compile-time) and compare that with what Lisp offers (see also [2]).

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31924396/why-shared-from...
standpoint

[2] http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~jacobm/pubs/templates.html
> (Chrome forks don't count.)

I'd guess that as far as regulators are concerned, Chrome forks count just fine.
Another comparison: gold's annual rate of production is steadily increasing; bitcoin's is aggressively decreasing.

I've just started writing about this. Here's an interesting chart:

https://bitcoinflippening.gold/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/bi...
I can’t tell if this is a sarcastic remark or if you truly believe speeding up something as complex as a browser is a cake walk.

Two big reasons Rust was invented was to (1) easily parallelize the renderer without introducing many bugs (2) speed up the browser without introducing many exploits.

It’s common knowledge now in applications like Chrome (and even Windows) that memory errors are the largest source of CVEs and that type of exploit is almost impossibly difficult to cause in Rust
This depends on who you want to prioritise.

How many people use Gmail in a language other than US English? How many people change their UI language and rename folders such that there is a clash?

Optimise for where it will have the most impact, and develop a work-around for the minority of users where this causes a problem.
Oh it’s not, the people that take that most to heart just start running exchanges and services because they get a lot of coin and big keys
I would say that the validity of this argument depends entirely on the availability of hardware. To take an extreme example, reference counting would have been completely infeasible in the days of assembly programming. An assembly programmer who had this insight would have had to wait decades for the hardware to catch up. I'm sure more and more tools, language constructs and compiler features will emerge in the coming years to reduce the cognitive load on developers so that they can focus more and more on the business logic. But that doesn't invalidate the some of the discipline you need to make software fast and stable today.
This is exactly the problem that Monero tries to solve. There you cannot trace transactions or "taint" them, so you don't have to worry that a drug dealer might pay you and you'll get your account locked.
Not necessarily. I know at least the older Amlogic (805?) based boards run a custom kernel, which ended up stuck at a specific version. You can't just install any arm distro on them, it needs to be specifically built with the hacked up kernel. And support tends to end sooner and get spotty (it looks like Odroid C1 is finally supported by Armbian, but hadn't been for quite some time). I don't know how much of this applies to this specific board, but there's a lot we take for granted in x86/amd64 land.
I've switched back to firefox as my main browser recently and I'm pretty damn happy about it. I'm even more now that I see those perf improvements <3
> "referer"

At least that’s equally wrong for everyone.
Except those other commodities have intrinsic value, while cryptocurrency has no intrinsic value or legal practical applications after nearly a decade. At this point I don't see that changing. They're the tulips of our age, sold from speculator to speculator until the music stops and someone is left holding the bag.
Generative Figures
I recently bought an Epson Perfection V600 based on online reviews and I've been pretty happy with it:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002OEBMRU/

(I used to have a CanoScan 8800F.)
It's never been a goal of incumbent financial institutions to prevent cryptocurrency from becoming dominant... they just want to slow down its adoption and use until they're prepared to co-opt it, just like power companies are doing with grid tied solar panels.
> The reality is that in 99.99999% of the cases, nobody will ever come after you for trying to do the right thing. If you engage the GPL community in good faith, things will work out fine with minimum fuss.

> So no, we don’t need another license, we just need people willing to do the right thing.

What I'd actually like is for the license to be clear enough in its intent that I don't need to engage anyone in a consultation with either a lawyer or the community to figure out whether I can use a project or not.
I don't need to watch St. Klaus the Patron Saint of Bike Shedding skewer someone to know that internet commenters who have mostly never operated this kind of equipment are mostly not qualified to discuss the practicality of doing it remotely.

Edit: and I was right, it was the Klaus video.
Transform Your Marketing
There is no evidence to support your first claim, and some evidence that it is incorrect, but okay, let's hypothetically assume it's true.

That still doesn't make the comment to which I responded make any sense.

- A

- Evidence of Not-A

- "Or it’s evidence of A!"

No, there is no way whatever that it is evidence of the opposite of what it is evidence of. Just re-starting the assertion without any supporting evidence, and worse, pretending that evidence against is somehow evidence for based on restating the assertion again, it's not a good faith statement.
You may want to look at netlify and what their server side logging is doing I heard good things about it from others but I am no expert in this domain.
Are there any docs for Tecton?
I haven't heard of it with the flu.
Thanks to this I've found building a product in the cryptocurrency market has been the most challenging for applying typical online marketing strategies - I've exhausted most avenues of advertisement - basically the only tools left are the more expensive sponsorship arrangements as every advertising platform will instantly reject your content.

I can appreciate why the pendulum swung hard against ads - it's incredibly hard to differentiate between real and fake ICOs, and we're seeing that again with the defi craze at the moment. It's just made it so much more expensive as an emerging company to try to sell services in this market even when you _aren't_ trying to sell a coin.
Microsoft debuts portable data center
Surprisingly hard to find a simple explanation from FSF, but here is a "proof by contradiction" explaining why should use GPL instead of the LGPL- https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html

Basically, the LGPL exists because the GPL requires any binaries linking to GPLed code to inherit the GPL.

My understanding is that properitary programs can utilize / incorporate GPL binaries via interprocess communication (pipes, TCP, shared files, etc), but if they cannot do intra process communication without potentially violating the GPL.

So it depends on how your define "build" here :)

Regardless, because my role involves creating and distributing potentially proprietary software, I generally handle GPL projects with caution. I'll happily use Linux, but I don't look at the sources. If I see a GPL license on github, I'll generally move on. If I see something is AGPL licensed, I'll move on very quickly.
ARM SBCs often only work with a few "approved" distributions (downloaded from the SBC vendor) because the kernel patches required for it to boot aren't in mainline Linux.
I work at a company where IE is colloquial with internet. If even mention chrome it's like I just told a homeschooled christian kid that atheists exist.
One in 20 people likely to suffer from ‘Long Covid’, but who are they?
Does it matter though? The answer certainly depends on the context of the question: do we just want to assess the risks more precisely than the dead/alive boolean? No, it doesn't matter. Do we want to increase humanity's knowledge about how the virus affects our bodies? Yes, absolutely, if it's worse than standard damage of respirator episodes we'll want to know the "mechanisms" that we causing that extra damage.
Its more about reliability (SSD are much more tougher than hard drive) and space (the M.2 format is very compact).
You want me to look up your vague unspecific conspiracy theory?
> I've never been able to find a legitimate use for it that didn't seem like a novelty (Shop at [existing store], but with Bitcoin!).

You're let down because a currency is acting like a currency?
How Silicon Valley will solve the trolley problem
There are some high tech breakthrough in this space. You can have microphones that hear the faintest of internal voices and even non-invasive ways to hook on the nerves to get your internal monologue.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/device-can-hear-vo...
'Zoom towns' are exploding in the West
Speaking as a mostly recovered pedant, I heartily recommend giving in and just working in US english (all the time when coding, as needed in emails and discussion threads). It's so much easier just to use "color", "center" etc, and generally stop fretting about it.

Keep speaking and writing proper English at home, of course!

Because we Brits share a language with the US, and because most software is written by americans, or by people who learnt american english as a second language, our language is being steadily eroded.

I'm not sure there's any solution to that, unfortunately... Possibly building new software from scratch, and putting in place a strict style policy that code and comments must be in British English?
I would be quite surprised if a cold or mild flu caused a cognitive deficit equivalent to ten years of aging, persisting after recovery.
The terminal story should be a lot better on Win10 these days, what with ConPTY and VT100 support.
That fatalities are going up as cases are going up is expected, but compare the rate of increase now with those during the first wave in March: significant quantitative difference.

People are quite clearly dying at slower rate than in March, while the weekly rate of new cases is growing faster now than they did in March.
Reminds me of the Figma GPT-3 Plugin

https://mobile.twitter.com/edleonklinger/status/128425141917...
Depends what you think the resolution is going to be. If they stop them funding other browsers maybe.

...If they force Google to divest Chrome, it's not going to be a gift.

All this is proving is there is no effective alternative to breaking Google up and selling it off in parts.
My comment was not about robotics but about detecting when things had gone wrong. Again, the manufacturing lines are in a very controlled environment - loaded with sensors, compute power, perfect lighting, humidity etc. Compare that to the noisy world of roads, traffic, weather and humans.
Tl;dr:

Chess players peak around age 35.

People are getting better at chess from generation to generation.

The generational gap is much larger than the young vs old gap.

EDIT: The method in the article measures performance based on deviation from best chess move as calculated by a computer.
Yaaay, a new major version with no new features to learn!!

Refreshingly chilling!
The impact on non critical patients wasn’t as bad as that, but more than half as severe. Even so, if that were the case for mild viral infections I’d be a vegetable by now.
That is also false. I described what happened here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24659174
I think it did change one thing. It made it possible to ransom people's data.
Media center with the HDMI port, so you only need one box for a simple NAS + single media player setup
Apple manufacturing budget >> Self driving car r&d budget.
I'd prefer browser makers focus on improving the browser and stack support, and leaving "creative functionality that only a fraction of the users might want" to extension authors. I don't need the already tiny number of folks actually working on a browser to be spread even thinner by also having to become versioned registry maintainers (because you can bet your teeth no one's going to hire additional FTEs for that)
A Brief Introduction to Beam