skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AWS is a corporate parasite - this is their real main offering, which feeds unnecessary or already unavoidable existing complexities. Being a long time AWS user myself (like in half of my projects), first thing I do with any new client, is try hard to persuade not to use AWS.
You can do reasonable steps (masks, distance, no big events) that keep the infection rate to a minimum until we can get a vaccine approved and administered to 95% of the population in 1-2 years time.

Maybe we will live with strains of the virus forever, but that's not the problem. We have many diseases among us that are harmless in childhood and much worse later in live, but they are much more harmless both because people are exposed to them starting in early childhood, allowing them to build some immunity; and because vaccination is an option. That's a much more harmless situation than the initial outbreak ripping through a population that has never seen the virus.
I've not checked anything to do with Stadia - or any other game streaming service - as they don't really appeal to me. Who needs lag single player games? :D

With that said there are anticheats which work on linux like Battleye but only with linux native versions of games which negates all the proton work unfortunately. IIRC Valve are working with AC developers to get it working via wine/proton but I'm not holding my breath.
There are no cap on rules currently.
Taxes and entitlement programs differ too.
"I am shocked, shocked... "

Chrome creates a unique ID for each user (there has been much discussion about the entropy vs the uniqueness for the install key), they have been found to give a pass for Google Analytics when visiting from Chrome, etc. And what else do you expect when it is in their interest to track you (and to have a excuse to justify their knowledge when found out in other grey areas).

EDIT: The quote above is from Casablanca, was once very famous [1]

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjbPi00k_ME
Yes, that's why I referred to Mandarin as a "tonal language". It is a formal linguistic categorization. Speakers of all languages may use tone, but an actual tonal language is quite different, taking the concept of tone to a another level in terms of grammatic and lexical importance.
In Windows/Linux world we have been craving for a 5k/27" monitor for years so that we don't have to deal with non-integer scaling.
I disagree. This sort of double standard is a very clear-cut and easy to understand case of abusing a dominant market position.

I wager that Google will be very quick to declare this a bug and fix it ASAP.
And I’m a Swede and have seen them all sold in stores, although the grid one is rare nowdays (we use prepackaged serving size ones if needed).

And the butter cover looks about the same size as ours.
If you right click inspect and go to applications you can clear all of the site settings. But the end user UI should support this option.

You could argue that a Service Worker should not be cleared since that is more than likely not personal data exactly.
Nice.

I think --incognito makes no difference if you throw away the data dir anyhow.
A CLI for note-taking, bookmarking, archiving, and knowledge base
A package is made of ham?
> we have no choice but to shut things

Genuinely curious; where is the evidence and statistical analysis that shows the variance of infection rates across the world can be explained solely (or overwhelmingly, as you suggest) by lockdowns?
Sure, but for anything long running or potentially just long lived that gets run a lot, the chart would approach roughly this one.
>In this forum, right here on HN, people routinely espouse desire for more authoritarian restrictions.

Wait til you start to pick up on the undercurrent of jealousy and resentment this board accrued from hearing about successful startups.
> the music app prods your for a subscription to Apple Music or to buy songs on itunes- you could argue Apple TV shows content from providers you’re not subscribed to (next to ones which you are)

That's what I mean.

> but those are first and second party ads.

But ads are ads.
This seems to be displaying a common disconnect between the perceptions of "AI" and what modern AI actually is.

There is no "emergent" phenomenon currently in AI. I am thinking that the closest concept to what the author is asking for is a generative model, but even this does not really come close to performing tasks like "discovering" a new programming language. And it certainly would not discover an "emergent" anything. If it did "discover" anything it would be an object very statistically similar to the objects used to construct the model in the first place (e.g., deep fakes).

Everything in current AI is data first (read: data only). You can sometimes synthesize data and use that, but you always start with real-world data, and the models you end up with are parameterizations of the data you trained with. Always. So, while there is a future where a technical answer can be supplied to this question appropriately ... We are as of yet not in that future.

I consider this a technically valid answer and not a dismissal of the author's question, btw.
That is exactly how it works:

http://about.lunchbox.pbs.org/blogs/news/pbs-statement-trump...

You have to realize that there are politicians that would remove funding if something doesn't benefit them. Most politicians aren't going to want to fund open source efforts when it benefits them more to support companies opposed to those efforts.
Another aspect is you might get better accuracy with larger input dimensions, but the number of pixels scales quadratically with width/height.
I guess one could argue that the elegance of Forth is that it's so minimal that you can get "high level" programming at a "low level" cost. However, the small print of "low level" cost mentions that this includes not having any types whatsoever ;)
I’ve had this question for a long while but no one to ask it to. You might have the expertise required to answer it.

When I see new solar projects that have tendered absurdly low prices, are the bidders bidding with today’s solar prices or are they betting that solar prices will fall further, allowing them to eventually make a profit? For example Adani solar won a contract to supply energy at INR 3 or $0.05 per kwh. Is that the price of building and operating a solar in 2022 or is it the price that the winning bidder hopes it’ll be in 2024 when they’re building the second and third phases of their contract?
Yes to some extend in relation to holocaust.

No in relation to Nazi victims in general. Jews were not only German victims of it all and most killed Jews were foreign. (German Jewish minority was rather small). As any other regime, it had huge amount of other victims too.

The crimes against non-jewish germans are part of the whole thing and part of reason for robust rights. So was the destruction of Germany after all of that which was pretty profound.
The coronavirus could be messing with your pain perception
I'm almost certain that salt was never added to butter as a preservative and your "cleaner" method theory is unsound: there is nothing about churning that would accidentally introduce salt. Salted butter is probably best thought of as a subset of compound butters.

Salted butter was a popular spread in restaurants and consumers wanted it in their homes.
Wialon and Irrigation Maschines for Agriculture
Interra team are developing a project on telematics of irrigation maschines. The key functions are full control over the irrigation maschines and remote control of them
That site doesnt even load in my browser... I only see the Google wave (Firefox mobile v6x)... but on the other hand, there are Firefox extensions that make websites load as if you were using Chrome.
what's a situation where you'd be tunneling to a production service?
Huh? I've been using Firefox almost exclusively for five years and have been a gmail user the entire time.
Ok, I can be at fault here, still nothing stops EU from making local businesses more comfortable on ANY market.
Bruh did you miss the part where OP said “developing world”? They’re talking about projects in India, where the grid looks very different from the US grid.
> People have been asking for common-sense coordinated and effective measures that we can all rally around (like wearing masks). Instead --

We're already doing this.

> because our containment measures have failed, we have no choice but to shut things.

Until when? The shutdowns were supposed to be about making sure that hospitals have time to prepare, research has time to be done, society has time to adapt. This has already taken place.

> which they (here in the UK but also in the US) failed to respond promptly with measures that anybody with a bit of common sense would agree with

Should a layman be expected to know what a common sense response is for a pandemic? If such knowledge were that ubiquitous, we wouldn't be seeing these kinds of issues, so calling it "common sense" serves only to insult people who don't agree with you here.

> Don't say it's because of the shortage of PPE for health care workers because a friend made around 40 cotton masks over a weekend for all of her friends and family back in early April.

Except the virus was thought to be much more deadly at first, and the efficacy of cotton masks has been and is still a controversial subject.

If you truly believe it is "common sense" to do things differently, you might be inclined to think there's some kind of conspiracy going on. I assure you that the more likely scenario is you just haven't taken the actual circumstances into account and are guilty of playing armchair general.
It’s not as simple as taking the compliance rate. The question is, how much data do they hold that they can tune over. How much of it is client-side encrypted.

Twitter handing over the DMs for a user: very much problematic- they’re plaintext. Apple handing over the iMessage history for a user: much less problematic, it’s E2E encrypted. (though still an issue - metadata may still be plain)

Fundamentally it boils down to some trust level - how much of what apple says about their data storage is true?
I read that as referring to people who were already ostracized for their belives having an option to get back in.

You seem to have read it a completely different way. Are you by chance worried about the second order effects? Perhaps that the existence of such a pill would increase the range of believes that people are ostracized for?
Even stranger are comments made in this link:

https://electriccoin.co/blog/defense-against-counterfeiting-...

Especially this part:

>Upon detecting this condition, the Zcash Company would begin its investigation into the possible source of the vulnerability as well as which pool, or pools, are affected. If we are able to identify that the bug affects only a single shielded pool, we might choose to effectively deactivate that pool by invalidating any of its outgoing transactions. A necessary consequence of this action is that any legitimate funds would also be lost forever in the affected pool.

The mechanisms for this remote disabling are not mentioned in detail, and I don’t really mind, but this feature seems difficult to square with their desire for transparency. It’s an anti-feature perhaps serving a justifiable goal, but if this feature is possible to be abused, how would we even know if it had been?
Break up Google into the following companies, each with its own independent shareholders, board, and CEO:

- Search

- GMail

- Drive/Docs

- YouTube

- Android

- Chrome

- GCP

Until that happens, these shenanigans are destined to continue.
No, this is absolutely not true.

First, the second most probable outcome was non-nazi military dictatorship that almost happened.

Second, the other largest party was strogly pro democracy. They were called social democrats and were definitely not communist. Trying to cast them as such is just repeating nazi propaganda.
> it's a reflection upon the creators of those technologies themselves that they didn't see their creations being abused or exploited by large tech firms and governments

The designers of a network built to withstand nuclear bombardment had a wide-eyed view of human nature?
Your whole position assumes that the other person has some kernel of truth to what they're saying. A flat Earth assumption can be right in some circumstances, but the "VACCINES CAUSE AUTISM" assumption is just insanity. It's wrong, and if your epistemology won't let you say it's wrong, your epistemology is broken, not vaccines.
I wasn't debating that part, I just didn't particularly like the simile used, so I offered a different one.
Could you provide a link? A search on YouTube provides a lot of similar sites and/or videos are using “Japanology” in their titles.
Exactly. Which is why I buy iPhones rather than Android handsets. I'll support Apple as long as their business model is privacy orientated but once they pivot (and I'm sure they will at some point in the future) then I'll switch to the next platform that supports my privacy -- assuming by that point that there are any such platforms left...
> suggesting the possibility of a polyglot or manticore language

This does not have to be true in order to translate languages.

But in the case of current programming languages, they all compile to the same standard instruction set architectures following the same basic laws of boolean logic, so it should not be surprising that PLs are translatable. Likely, the model has discovered some basic statistical representation of those things.
My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as “lines produced” but as “lines spent”: the current conventional wisdom is so foolish as to book that count on the wrong side of the ledger.

I'm yet to encounter a point in my career where KISS fails me. OTOH this is nothing new, I don't have my hopes up that the current trends of overcomplicating things are going to change in the near future.
Then… don't read it? You are perfectly within your rights to start reading a thing, go "this is not for me", and stop reading it, without announcing this fact.
This actually seems to me like a fairly blatant breach of multiple important aspects of GDPR on the part of google.com and youtube.com

Are there not serious fines for companies saying they opted you out of this kind of data collection and then not actually abiding by your requests?

France Sweden and the UK is already in on that action, Im sure others will follow.
I'm not so sure of that. My top sites by media engagement are:
Spotify
Twitch clips
Youtube
Twitch
Eurosport
Netflix
The Independent
Discord

It isn't obvious to me from this that Google are privileging their own sites above others here
It's very incomplete actually... I've just found this video while navigating through Wim Hof's site - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tybOi4hjZFQ
It's quite easy to do, btw... I'll try it for some days and see how it going to go...
You can modify quite a few objects in JavaScript, but you can’t modify JavaScript using eval. There’s no way to add an operator to it, for example (AFAIK. I’m not following its rapid evolution closely)

If you want that, use Smalltalk, a Lisp or a Forth.

Also, the brain does modify itself at least as much as you can modify JavaScript. For example, my brain nowadays accepts that 0.999999… is equal to 1, that there are equally many primes as natural numbers, etc.
> I'm sorry if that's dismissive

No, you're not, your muddying the waters to try to cleanse regimes like North Korea.
What are your proposals? How do we make the masses of people less susceptible to this kind of manipulation? Without using the tools of government.
The US is already in the process of moving bases from Turkey into Poland and Romania. Those states cannot count on the EU for defense against Russia and they're already on good terms with the US, UK and Israel. The US also needs more reliable allies than Turkey in the Black Sea basin. Turkey was conveniently close to Iran and Russia but thanks to Edrogan's ambitions it fell out with the US.
I have had some problem with Firefox for many years, maybe 5 years since I've tried to use it.

The problem is whenever I start FF it hangs for 30 seconds before I can type the first url in. That duration and the fact that it's consistent means it's clearly a network timeout.

I have a locked down computer, layers of security enhancements so I kind of understand something I've done is causing it.

However, why should it lock up for 30 seconds if it can't do some background thing! On startup! It's an atrocious UI failure. And it's been this way for 5 years that I've been counting, through their Quantam speedup etc. Major flaw and unfixed for aeons of 6 week release cycles.

Btw it's not updating as it still updates ..

It's actually really bad design to have a lockup like that, and especially on the critical hot path of the first time you use it! It's a sign actually of bad user experience design, and it's one of a number of bad anti-user things I've found about it. Things that Chrome gets so right!

I want to ditch Chrome because of the many Google anti-features, but UX is also very important to me I use the browser all day every day and I'm extremely fast at the UI with advanced shortcuts etc. Firefox locking up for 30 whole seconds before I can use it not only destroys my flow but is actually an eternity - I could have about 40 chrome tabs opened with urls types and autocompleted or pasted into the url bar in that time ..

Sadly Firefox blows on a large number of design decisions. I get the impression that user experience is down the list at Mozilla, below either Google donations or SJW antics. Whatever, but they consistently fail on important points. I wish it wasn't so I truly do. I'm in the process of moving to Brave in anticipation of uBlock finally being sabotaged by Google.
Should vegans eat vegetables grown in manure?

There are farmers experimenting with “vegan vegetables”: vegetables grown without manure, but plant-based fertilizer only. E.g. https://www.partyfortheanimals.com/inspiring-pig-farmer-beco...
Google might be blocked in mainland China, but is it blocked in Hong Kong? This page [0] says that Google isn't because HK is not behind the great firewall, but there are recent reports that the GFW was extended to HK as well [1], so maybe that page is outdated? But if Google had been blocked at a network level, then it would likely have made much larger headlines. Also, the author talks about Google play still being a present thing, not something unavailable to them.

[0]: https://www.comparitech.com/privacy-security-tools/blockedin...

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/08/china-great-fi...
Ask HN: How to Get over Waiting for Permission
Working in a large organization, the feeling of inertia creeps into one's mindset. I have a lot of ideas that feel good and right, but I rarely act on them without external encouragement.
Also Venezuela is a sovereign nation with its own currency. We live in a globalized world where those things do matter. The best you can achieve by isolationism is North Korea.
Back in the days (2014), I did something similar, albeit for network packet visualisation based on `libpcap`: https://github.com/Pseudomanifold/EtherCurve.
'The system' includes the attitudes of developers and people that pay them.

Everyone takes job of a medical proffesional seriously, from the education to the hospitals that enmloys them to the lawmakers to the patients.

When you pick a surgeon, you avoid the ones that killed people. Do you avoid developers that introduce bugs? We don't even keep track of that!

You can have the license taken away as a surgeon, I've never heard of anyone becoming unemployable as a developer.

You are not gonna get an equivalent outcome even if tomorrow all developers show up to work with an attitude of a heart surgeon.

However if suddenly all data loss and data breaches would result in massive compensation, and if slow and buggy software resulted in real lawsuits, you would see the results very quickly.

Basically same issues as in trading securities: no accountability for either developers or the decision makers.
I'm slowly cutting the cord with nearly all social media sites and other sites that track me for any reason, and as part of that, I'd like to get away from Chrome and use a truly open and privacy-focused browser. Every time I start Firefox, I'm turned off by how unpleasant it looks. The UI is just bad. Sharp corners, asymmetrical margins, crowded menus, lack of whitespace. The rendered colors don't match Chrome. Fonts aren't as smooth. It's like switching from MacOS to Linux. Things just don't look good, and that matters.
For what it's worth, Netflix has a higher score on my machine than YouTube.
Be careful of the source of your station report. In the US, station report pressures related to aviation are in units of "inches mercury" ("Hg) with the preceding 2 or 3 omitted. Here is a resource: https://aviationweather.gov/metar

In the grand scheme of weather, it does not make much difference, as the change in pressure in time or location is more important than the units.
Gmail/G Suite now editing URLs in mail message bodies to use Google URL redirect
https://drewdevault.com/2020/09/25/A-story-of-two-libcs.html
[Article author here] I'm not logged into Chrome or any Google services. I've gone through everything in chrome://settings and disabled all of the Google-related settings.
Goal Setting Doesn't Serve You
I once replaced a bunch of customer photos with a picture of Spock as part of a test on my first week on the job.. The dB admin had just overwritten a sales force dev dB from production and a previous developer had hardcoded the IP address of production in the code of a script somewhere..
Interestingly enough, one of the things that I hate about travelling in the US, is that a lot of restaurants only have that creamed butter.

Maybe it's an acquired and/or cultural taste, but it certainly isn't what I prefer :-)
I decided at a young age to forgive my parents for their faults and also admit my own wrongdoings. Even when these wrongdoings were sometimes the result of my parents unkind actions. This was a dialogue with myself, a prayer I guess.

As a result I decided to tell my Mum I loved her. Let's just say the didn't go well. It was an important step for me however. I have my own wonderful family now and saying I love you doesn't come easy but I do it.

I'm nearly 50 and time has taught me two things. People are generally self-focussed. Thankfully there are those who put others first. Luckily I married one. Secondly, parents often get it tough and then bring their brokenness with them into their own family. It doesn't excuse them but understanding your parent's journey can sometimes make you more aware of what they did do for you rather than what they didn't do for you.
You're the moron.
No, that's only if you want the human to be able to make the reaction. If the application was self-driving, you'd prefer the car to react faster than a human. For a military application like projectile detection to avoid or destroy the object, you'd want something even faster.
Where do you think starfallg's comment makes that claim, especially considering the section you quoted?
Regarding masks in the UK, the evidence for their effectiveness is still up in the air. I think the UK gov didn't want to confuse the messages that were already numerous. I think they gave up on that idea when all the other countries went with the masks.
Yes, the longer the program runs, e.g. the kernel of a computer, the more the overall energy consumption approaches the ranking listet in the paper, as far as those benchmarks are meaningful. They are not very good about dynamic memory allocation in long-running programs though.
AI cameras introduced in London to monitor social distancing