skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People (the same people, actually) were building (not-so-)custom supercomputers for QCD (and other tasks) in the 80s:

https://www.europhysicsnews.org/articles/epn/pdf/1989/02/epn...
I use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-contai... for a year now. Works as expected.
Right, but now they have a blog post written about them…
It all starts with turning off your camera, friend. The possibilities are after that, endless.
>What is wrong with locking on "this" ?

Instance.this is implicitly public because something else could have a reference to instance.

synchronize(this){}

that will lock with the following if its inside instance.

synchronize(instance){}
Plenty of us still do.
LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft. These things make me very hesitant using Github (another Microsoft outlet) more.
First make it dominant then milk it to the bone?
As in, it doesn't block most stuff automatically. You need to pick them using the element picker manually. And even that doesn't stick all the time.
I was pretty "meh" on containers until I put in a bit of effort to set them up. Flagging certain domains to always open in a specific tab category took a bit to work through on the common sites I visit, but now that its all set up I think its great.
Ugh, "DailyStormer" is your example of a "news" site?

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/indi...
I still use Firefox and only Firefox, as I still see it as the lesser evil, while being performant enough (I never really noticed any significant slowness that people keep harping about), but Mozilla is making it harder and harder every year.

Still, I am nowhere near wanting to switch to a Google product - Firefox would have to become really bad for me to consider that - and I see no other browser even remotely close to replacing Firefox for me. It's still "good enough".

I even keep an ancient Firefox version installed in /opt, because I need it to run a small proprietary Java applet for work, but that's another topic. :)
Bash is a user interface, not a service runner. If tini could run several processes, what can possibly go wrong?
How Python was shaped by leaky internals: Armin Ronacher
Or just have people drive the forklifts
I don't think anyone argues that SRE is wrong, but I think most people will be wrong if they assume most places can or will implement it. It's just like DevOps in the sense that it's a corporate efficiency strategy, but it's never seen as all that necessary. Execs just see it as another Six Sigma, something to banter about at the golf club. And nobody outside of sysadmins and managers really get it at all.

I think the more companies rely on technology, the more screwed they are, because they don't realize how much harder it is to run a business dependent on technology. The fact that SRE exists proves that, I think. The system is by default a garbage fire, because by default you can't push back on product in order to fix your tech debt. Most other businesses seem to grasp the concept that they need to perform maintenance on their machines or they won't be in business for long, but as soon as it's "the magical box with the 0s and 1s inside", they pretend it doesn't require long term investment or a different strategy.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

You're welcome.
Submitters: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please don't cherry-pick the details from an article that you consider important, as the submitted title did ("Google Captures 95% of mobile search traffic and 92% of desktop traffic"). This is a form of editorializing because it frames that as the story for everybody. Titles are by far the most powerful influence on HN, so this is a big deal. We want the content/author to speak for themselves, not go through a layer of filtering by submitters.

If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's great, but do so in the comments. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
Can we get a 2019 in the title?
I think the DoJ's plan is for the Government to own Perdue Pharma, operated as a public-interest corporation in the same vein as Amtrak and the Post Office.
Facebook employees contribute overwhelmingly to democratic candidates. Suggesting they are largely not conservative.

https://www.govpredict.com/blog/political-contributions-by-f...

There is some reason to believe said employees do try and suppress conservative content.

https://gizmodo.com/former-facebook-workers-we-routinely-sup...

The idea that a companies politics must coincide with that of their users is a bad one.
Wow, okay, so pawn shops too I guess: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20602562

If reporting is already required for all cash transactions, then certainly it will be built into the digital USD.

And Monero miners would have a problem here too. KYC required on every transaction in every block.

Okay, so, what if you did KYC on all the inputs, but you ran a mixer such that the outputs would be obfuscated? Is that legal? What if you take outputs from a set of those mixers? Is there any legal way to provide irreversible privacy for known legal sources?
>about 20-30% of the time I have to switch to google.

What kind of searches are you making? I switch for fewer than 1% of my searches.
> That will be determined by DoJ

The court will decide (unless the issue is settled beforehand).
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

They have been doing it for years.
das Telefon is much more common than Fernsprecher in my non-native experience
I've been using this for a while... would recommend!
As the post says, the React team isn't saying you _should_ do that. They're just trying to make it _possible_ to do so if you _need_ to.

One reason is that you can incrementally migrate parts of your app to React's upcoming Concurrent Mode if desired, while leaving the rest of an existing app in place.
Isn't this position at odds with the Pope's previous statements regarding wealth inequality?

> Poverty can be overcome, said the Pope, if an economic system is put in place that includes, feeds, cures, and dresses those left behind by society. “We have to choose what and who to prioritize,” he said. Our choice will lead either to increased social injustice and violence, or to “humanizing socio-economic systems”.[0]

also

> And he condemned recurrent tax breaks for wealthy individuals as “structures of sin”. “Every year hundreds of millions of dollars – which should be collected as taxes and go to finance healthcare and education – instead end up in offshore accounts,” he said.[0]

In other words, the pope demands state action to address the issue of poverty, but shies away from supporting action on the "moral" question of homosexuality. You can certainly make humanist arguments for these positions, but it seems incoherent when viewed through the lens of church dogma.

[0]https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2020-02/pope-francis...
But that's not really what it's about.

The problem isn't that they came to dominate search, it's about what they do now that they have. They leverage it into control over browsers, video hosting, mobile operating systems. Which makes the monopoly stickier, and creates more of them which reinforce each other, because Google is the default search engine on Android and Chrome is the default browser on Android and Google is the default search engine on Chrome and Chrome is the browser promoted on Google.

And here's a fun one for them: Android has an effective monopoly on mobile phone operating systems from the customer of the OS itself (i.e. the device OEM), because Apple won't sell them iOS licenses. So what's the implication of that when they leverage it into the dominance of Google Play for Android apps, or Chrome?
The time to switch back to Firefox was years ago. But better late than never.
One thing Google has not solved is dublicate content. Often you search for something and all results are copies of the same article.

There are some low hanging fruits of problems and the market is dying for a competitor.
I love this Facebook container. Love to see the Facebook container mark also on other websites trying to track me.

I also use the Firefox multi-account containers to set a temporary container for every new tab. To not lose logins etc I'm websites I visit frequently, I set up dedicated containers for those. Work very well.

Anyone else with experience of the Firefox multi-account container extension?
Dataminr Targets Communities of Color for Police
From the HN guidelines:

>> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. ...

>> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Sampling shouldn't be feared

Well I would say the opposite, sampling should absolutely be feared. In a lot of case sampling is not an issue, home page, or popular page but in others, including checkout pages, , product pages, and low visibility pages, sampling can make massive difference. When working with sampled data you should always keep it in mind
I think it's more about aligning expectations.

If you expect a flashable vendor-provided OS image with long-term support and vendor repos that get continuous updates, I think you'll be frustrated with anything else than a Raspberry Pi or NVIDIA Jetson.

If you're fine with community images and configuring/compiling kernels yourself, vendors like Odroid/RockPi/NanoPi/OrangePi/Pine64 are fanastic. They're hardware manufacturers, not an OS vendor.

At least the spec is open enough that anyone has the ability to do things like Armbian without having to do reverse-engineering or extracting data from binary blobs (which is the case with a lot of other vendors).

The Odroid C2 was released in 2016 and is now EoL.
Related analysis of open data:

"The NYPD Was Systematically Ticketing Legally Parked Cars for Millions of Dollars a Year- Open Data Just Put an End to It"

https://iquantny.tumblr.com/post/144197004989/the-nypd-was-s...
Is this down for anyone else?
I'm sorry to hear about your neuropathy, I'm glad my suggestion eases your mind!

On pairing in general: For a long period of time when I worked at bigger companies (before co-founding my current venture) I pair programmed 90% about of the time.

For the most part I really enjoyed it, we alternated pairs quite frequently and I worked with people at a range of seniorities. I really enjoyed alternating between playing the role of teacher vs learning from someone much better at the (insert programming language, database, business domain).

I think during that time I also had some of the most stimulating and deep conversations about software development. When pairing, pairs have a deep shared context that's hard to replicate in other scenarios.

There are some drawbacks though, the main one being it's extremely full on and emotionally tiring. I'd class myself as a high functioning introvert and after a day of pairing I needed some serious regenerative quiet time!

My advice to someone considering this suggestion would be to try some pairing now with friends or colleagues and get a feel for it and see if it works for your personality and working style.
By the way, even though it is not yet turned on by default, http3 support is present in Firefox and can be activated by toggling 'network.http.http3.enabled' in about:config to true. I have had it enabled for a few weeks and everything seems okay except that rarely I've noticed a few sites not loading the first time I visit them but needing a 'refresh', but I'm not sure if this is because of the new QUIC code or just another connection glitch.
Large previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20214752

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18853607
This is a red herring fallacy.

The government can be more evil than Google and Google can still be evil. Does that mean we should not care that Google is evil?

The government is the only tool we have to fight Google. And while there are lots of problems with our government, we still have the ability to enact change by voting. You can't really do that with Google, even as a shareholder. The founders have supervoting rights, so even if every investor voted against them they don't have to listen.
I agree, and I think anyone whose complaining about SRE as a cult probably is writing a blog post to their company or their boss or their consulting consortium - they have a narrow focus of what's generally occurring.

Getting the idea of increasing quality to reduce cost understood by many higher ups can be a losing battle, especially when management changes ever 2-3 years.

It's almost always easier to cut spending than have some organizational breakthrough that standardizes delivery.
I guess this partially explains why LinkedIn is the worst performing website/SPA that I (have to) use on a regular basis.
Does anyone find notifications to actually be useful? I don't think I have them enabled for any site.
> Cryptocurrency payments on PayPal will be settled using fiat currencies, such as the U.S. dollar, meaning merchants will not receive payments in virtual coins, the company said.

This is worse than any of the existing exchanges. It's the robin hood of holding cryptocurrency.
Finding strong product/market fit using keyword research tools
> there is a strain of political thought in America, independent of political party (although traditionally associated with Democrats), that is inherently allergic to concentrated power — monopoly in the populist sense, if not the legal one.
> Hatred of monopoly is one of the oldest American political habits and like most profound traditions

In what country does the author live?

Americans are so used to concentrated power that they don't bat an eye when they need to pay $100/mo for DSL, $2500 for an ambulance ride, or 1000%+ retail cost on lifesaving medication. Or when their boss (usually acting in the capacity of a multi billion dollar conglomerate) insists they pee into a cup or be constantly tracked and spied on in their workplace. Or when a single company siphons 100+ basis points off their tax payment (Lockheed, military budget). Or when we allow a handful of private companies to put human beings into prison. Or when five companies own nearly all television output. Or when three companies decide arbitrarily whether we can participate in the financial system (credit ratings). Or when 2% of every single transaction goes to one of two companies (Visa or MasterCard). Or when billions of dollars are spent each election cycle by only a handful of players. Or when a handful of individual bankers destroy the entire country's pensions and retirement funds, and are rewarded millions of dollars for it. To Americans, ceding power to a entity controlled by a half dozen stupendously wealthy shareholders is as natural as breathing.

Or, yes, when two companies (for most, just one company) control the flow of every single bit of information we see and hear online (Facebook or Google). Our allergy to concentrated power is the same one that a patient dying of AIDS would have against influenza. Though, let's be fair: HIV is a pre-existing condition.

This lawsuit probably sputter, though, because it doesn't adhere to the working legal definition of monopoly. Which itself suffers from the same blindness to power shared by the super-majority of Americans.

New laws for a new era? Look at who is on the judiciary. Look who is writing laws. Look at -- oh who am I kidding. We have made our choice the past few decades, and we are making our choice now.
Llol
But why do you care about failed login attempts? If your passwords/keys are good enough and you keep your software updated why care about failed logins?
I sort of think the way it's being dealt with, by and large, hasn't progressed beyond peeling off the stickers and re-arranging them.
Because the examples use the Dataframe API and not the RDD API? At least as of Spark 2.4.7, both `Dataset.map()` and `Dataset.flatMap()` are still marked experimental.
Ez Battery Recon Review
Does really EZ battery recon works?
Many viral infections including relatively mild ones can potentially cause post viral syndrome, which includes cognitive problems.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/chronic-fatig...
You're contradicting yourself. Tickets and citations (usually issued for lower grade misdemeanors, things like drunk in public, loitering, reckless driving) are hardly "major crimes".
I don't disagree with your comments but I also don't see the connection between them and the specific case the DOJ has actually filed against Google.
Are you talking about stuff on the Facebook website? I'm talking about blocking Facebook tracking on other sites.
I think that one of you is talking about network filters and the other is talking about cosmetic filters. Cosmetic filters are a bit hard right now, due to Facebooks effort to obscure them. Network filters are as easy and as reliable as ever though.
Even if browser competition is important, and even if that (currently) requires a stream of money to flow to Mozilla, it doesn't follow that we should allow unlawful abuse of other monopolies in order to support that. Of course, it's possible the courts decide the status quo is lawful and there's no change.

In a hypothetical situation where you separate Google Ads from Google Search from Google everything else, Google search would still want to pay browsers for default search, and Chrome, Firefox, Safari, etc would still have a revenue stream; however, they would only be able to do so to the extent of their web search revenues. Likely the baby Googles are still dominant in all of their fields, but it's not as assured, because there will be less cross promotion, exclusivity, and tying.

If you instead leave Google whole, and prohibit paying browsers for default search, you still have internal payments (de facto, if not explicit) to Chrome and Android that drive product decisions like defaults and putting an unremovable search bar in the default launcher.
Is this a method that, in the most extreme cases of needing to do it, could be used to try and recover data from memory? Like if someone's iPhone needed to be hacked by law enforcement? Would they try this, to read registers or memory directly?
Is it better than uBO? If so, how?
I can't help but click into Bitcoin-related submissions for the same reason. I always assume the militant cynicism is from techies pissed they missed out on ez wealth or something. It doesn't seem to be skepticism to me because, well, Bitcoin works today.

It's a shame. The concept of digital cash is such a cool concept, it would be nice to discuss it without every convo mired in the same boring non sequiturs.
> I'm not flaming anyone, personally insulting anyone

Reread yourself.

Your entire comment can be reduced to: "I believe that people are childish and unable to take life seriously".

The paper explores a different possibility for why defendants might miss court: simple human error. They then explore that theory and notice that by implementing ways to avoid this human error the failures to appear are lower. It also explores the theory that by shifting away from punitive attitudes (i.e. not blaming or punishing people) you lower this behavior.

Your comment is irrelevant to this discussion as it blames the victims of the system.
The Justice Department announcement says:

"The resolutions do not include the criminal release of any individuals, including members of the Sackler family, nor are any of the company’s executives or employees receiving civil releases."

Isn't it a bit early to fulminate about how nobody is going to jail?
BuildZoom (better way to build custom homes) is hiring a business ops lead
That's really surprising if one considers for a moment how many things Python has in common with Common List, a language which can be compiled to run near C speed (albeit with some sacrifices on safety i.e. "unsafe" optimizations). And if anything, Python 3 has become more similar to Lisp, while running at 1 / 20 of its speed.
Making location a required field to search tells me either this is a very old website or the developer(s) have a very old mindset.

Either way, pass.
Google made a good browser and defaulted the search to their own engine. Then Google bought a mobile OS, bundled all the Google apps and services by default, and defaulted everything to their own browser with their own search engine. Google also paid Mozilla and Apple to default to Google search.

Google made good products and good services and aggressively defended them through acquisitions and paid placement deals. It may be your opinion that these acquisitions and placement deals are not "dirty" or "underhanded" but I find them to be fairly anticompetitive.
I just interviewed with GH and they claimed MS hasn’t interfered, having learned lessons from earlier buyouts.

Sounds like it was more of a goodwill gesture to stabilize a resource important to the internet.

Tbh LinkedIn could very well have bubbled this up if their culture was untouched. Never really seemed like much more than Facebook curated for professional profile content. Pretty like minded sort of snooping, IMO.

Not saying MS isn’t interfering and GH is selling a line. Also no evidence this isn’t just LinkedIn hiring the same kind of people. They’re kind of all over.
I use them for email and chat websites.

I've never turned them on for news types sites though.
I tend to use Python for batch jobs and things where its speed isn't that important to me. Am I alone in this?

When I reach for python its not for speed. Its because its fairly easy to write and has some good libraries.

Either its done in a few seconds, or I can wait a few hours as it runs as a background slurm task..

I feel like there is a group that wants python to be the ideal language for all things, maybe because I'm not in love with the syntax, but I'm ok having multiple languages.
Check out http://journeyapps.com for another perspective. They call it "Ultra high-productivity, yet code-centric."
If your software can be successfully hacked by "random vulnerabilities" or your passwords can be that easily brute-forced then it's not going to help anyway, and if they can't then I don't think you should care that someone failed a login.
> by design

Non-native English speaker here but doesn't "by design" refer to something being designed explicitly for that purpose? I agree that lots of ICOs were indeed scams and/or attempts of just taking money for low-quality work, but I don't think fund-raising was initially designed for that. It just happened to be that lots of fund-raising are scams.

But to say that it's by design it's going a bit far, and making your point weaker, not stronger.
If curious see also

2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6295146

Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=650914
From an informed comment on the recent discussion of that, the fine was from doing that while being a money transmitter i.e. also dealing in fiat currencies, not for the crypo mixer per se.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24829562
> In addition, I'd demand removing Captcha-alike when using VPN services, to avoid them from tracking my IP.

You'll demand that from whom? Is not Google that plops the captcha in your face, is the particular webiste/app that is doing it. Is the same thing as with the Facebook trackers/buttons.
Interview with Demis Hassabis at Deepmind (EV/HBR Podcast)
White House pushing no-bid spectrum sale to Thiel-backed Rivada
I don't think breaking up AT&T was a success story. Instead of a national monopoly, you got regional ones and a long-distance provider. It was all still very over-pried and silly. The situation didn't improve for consumers until cell phone plans got close to the price of landlines.
no. Vibrations while it runs matter. Do not put it next to speaker.