skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have an intermittent issue in FF across platforms/networks where I can watch in network console as I enter a URL, and I can see it not even trying to send the request. All I can find is a fixed issue from 2017 and I don't have the time nor inclination to try to figure out why this would be happening. Searching for a cool new browser for the Linux box but I might just install Chromium and be done with it.
I agree with you. I first tried to come up with a universal solution using SendInput API. This shortcut is still there: Win+Shift+Ins, and it works generally well but a tad slow. So eventually I opted to stripping formatting in-place in clipboard. As a compromise, I've added a tray menu item to disable it, when a rich text paste is desired: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/postprintum/devcomrade/mai...
they have always had whitelists for friends inside of chrome
Look up Railsbank for their API if you are in the UK.
Hmmm interesting question. Maybe you could you pass in thousands of code-bases and train an AI to figure out a common General Purpose programming language...

Not sure it could be done, but it would be interesting to see if an AI could come up with new abstractions that it sees in many different examples... Maybe like a new type of iteration or assignment
This is an epic side track, but the argument you could make is that Germany's choice at the time was between Nazi-ism and Stalin controlled communism. Liberal democracy was a distant third option that had no real chance.

We know the Nazi option turned out very very bad. But it's possible a German/Soviet Stalinist block would have been even worse.
Facebook's TransCoder[1] does github-trained code translation between languages, suggesting the possibility of a polyglot or manticore language, cobbled together from existing languages.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23463812
I would argue it’s coming from the system. The national two party first-past-the-post system naturally leads to hyper-partisanship and constantly escalating stakes, meanwhile fewer and fewer Americans truly feel represented by the choices they have on offer - and very large numbers of people have their vote effectively ignored because their voting precinct is gerrymandered to ensure stable one-party rule.

Because the system is broken, people are angry and want to tear down the system and replace it with something else. Unfortunately, history says that authoritarianism is a popular response to broken systems, and that it doesn’t end well. If we don’t want to go down that path we need to quit blaming individuals and get very serious about fixing the system: we need proportional representative multi-party democracy, like almost every other western democracy.

For citations and a deep discussion on this, see: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/44244963-breaking-the...
And Newspapers have started wars with fake news.
There are plenty of religious folks who would debate the bit about Russians (I presume you’re referring to soviet Russia) respecting local culture. Cult (worship) is the root of culture, and the soviets were not well known for religious freedom.

Edit: not a defense of US foreign policy, which has been abysmal. Just pointing out that the track record is abysmal across the board.
ga144 are near sf to me

exchanging forth messages between cores seems so high level

I wonder if Moore is still thinking about improving these
To be filed under Not Even Pretending Anymore.
We got access to GPT-3 in 5 days
Right. If people are relatively expensive , as with US retail, you use fancy retail scheduling software and you maybe share a maintenance or a bookkeeper with other businesses so they're not sitting around twiddling their thumbs most of the time. Ditto for household helpers. If, on the other hand, relatively unskilled people are cheap relative to your salary or a businesses profits, it's easier for you just to keep them around all the time even if it's not as efficient.

As someone else noted, there may also be value in specialization. Rather than have a full-time all-around handyman, it may make more sense to just call a plumber if that handyman isn't that cheap relative to the [plumber anyway.
Paging cstross, your engrams are ready on this timeline.

(The Merchant Princes double trilogy features knots as informational keys to trigger world-walking.)
It's not a stupid question.

First of all, none of the GAFA were actually started as Cloud infrastructure providers.
So the question is not why isn't Europe creating big Cloud Infrastructure companies, one could argue that the biggest "pure-player" in Cloud is OVH which is European.

If anything it's the (insanely lax and pro-monopoly) American regulatory environment that has the biggest impact on the creation of big Cloud providers outside of the U.S.
The only country that manage tyo do that are China & Russia to a lesser extent because they have active protection against AWS/GCP/MS.

As to why Europe doesn't create big GAFA-like companies in other sectors, one reason is that the E.U is not a single market from the perspective of these companies.
Yes the regulatory environment is stable & simple enough for companies to operate in all E.U countries, but that's not all that makes a market.

The fact that europeans speak 27 different languages for instance makes building a european sized company much harder than a U.S sized one, for roughly the same market in terms of $$$.

EDIT: I don't think creating GAFA-style companies is a goal any state should pursue.
The U.S needs to get their head out of their ass and split AMZN & Google ASAP, & fix Facebook.
As a European I can't help thinking that this amount of money is the result of lobbying from the tech scene and that they are now waiting to bid for public contracts to win projects that they set up themselves through consultancy jobs that also were public call for tenders.
Enforcing restrictions for closed spaces or making people wear a mask is not corrosion of democracy. If you think that making you wear a mask attacks your freedom you are a moron.

Corrosion of democracy is when these rules are used selectively and for political reasons.

So I think you comparison to Sweden in a bit unfortunate.

Also the virus was not the reason for the corrosion of the democracy where it happened, it was the good excuse. The problem is far deeper.
Interesting, I immediately thought they would have a transaction log, I didn't think it would have the delete as well.

Its a real problem that we used to have trained DBAs to own the data where now devs and automatic tools are relied upon, there isn't a culture or toolset built up yet to handle it.
life and death vs annoying ads. i think there is a difference, mate.
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Relevant Brave (Chromium-based browser) bug discussion on exactly this:

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/1127

They merged in a (partial?) bug fix in 2019:

https://github.com/brave/brave-ios/pull/883

The underlying problem isn't that Google sites are directly excluded, it is that Local Storage, Database Storage, and Service Workers aren't cleared by that setting, and that Google uses those for persistence.

Is this being evil or was support just not added when those were introduced? I have absolutely no idea. But I agree with fixing the underlying bug in Chromium either way.
or firefox, it runs fine there for me anyway...
I'm afraid the lobby money will keep buying them extra straws.
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What makes you so sure these savings weren't passed on to the consumer?

I wouldn't be surprised if the addition of 5G alone ate into those savings, and they kept the prices largely the same in spite of it. At least it seems that way to me, given the fact that many Android phone manufacturers have a considerably more expensive 5G version of their phones.
ahh, sweet memories
I use rclone, which has built-in encryption (and is optional; I don't bother with encrypting copies of my Time Machine backup, because it's already encrypted), including even file and directory names.
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> You literally can't go 5km from your house in Australia.

In Australia? You mean metro victoria, right? Those restrictions are ending at midnight tonight as well.
> It starts slower then Chromium.

In my experience, Chromium renders and is interactive ~~faster~~ earlier, but they have about the same time between launch and browse. On Chromium, I launch, type in a site, hit enter, and wait and wait as it finishes actually starting up. FF takes longer to appear but is ready to browse as soon as it does. Or at least it did until some time in the last year or two, at which point it started taking a page out of Chromium's book. But honestly, I don't do cold starts that much so it doesn't bother me much one way or another.
In my understanding the Italian app was developed from scratch, definitely no idea why you think that the two app share code.

Can you share your source?
I'm not sure placing all the responsibility for survival on the most vulnerable is 'doing something right'... Over here in Finland we strive to take care of the vulnerable even if it is no direct benefit to us, and inconvenient.
The past 3 phones I owned had to be replaced due to the USB-C port. I my current phone somehow doesn'tlike it and only charges with USB-C if I use a USB-A to USB-C. These are all Pixel phones.
This isn't the highly visible anticompetitive behavior which might cause a backlash. Regular people, or even journalists or judges won't even understand what cookie clearing on exit means.

If there's antitrust sentiments towards Google, it needs to come from some where else.
pretends to be shocked
> This is not the way. It will help, but this is not the way.

There is no this way (i.e. no 'silver bullet') to fix the climate crisis. If we want to tackle the problem, there will only be lots of smaller it will helps that - in total - will make a difference then.
Could it be it's just peoples values are like that? That regular consumers are ignirant and short-sighted and care more about funny games and easy apps instead of privacy or quality?
For me sadly it's the WebSpeech API. A lot of sites that use speech-to-text and text-to-speech break on FF and also the voices FF aren't nearly as good as Chrome.

This bug has been pending for many years now and I don't think it ever going to be on their priority list soon.
People aren't asking for authoritarian restrictions. People have been asking for common-sense coordinated and effective measures that we can all rally around (like wearing masks). Instead we have ineffective politically driven responses marked by indecision and incompetence.

People don't want lockdowns, but we recognise that because our containment measures have failed, we have no choice but to shut things. If you don't want a lockdown, the government has to do a better job of coordinating measures to lower the R rate, 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.

Why did it take months for the government to be recommending face masks? 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. The Japanese government was giving out 2 fabric masks for every resident at that time while we were arguing over whether they were effective or not.
Is math too tidy to be useful?
Chinese hackers use SMS authentication to gain control of everything
Ask HN: Any startups try roadside signs for exposure
Hi,

I am trying different channels for exposure. One that I am now considering is small signs by the roadside. You see the political little signs in the USA now saying 'Vote for XX' - similar to this.

One problem I see is that my product https://toonclip.com is an online animation editor and is not 'a local product', so not sure about the effectiveness of this method.

Anyone, experiment with this? Any feedback?
I’m with you. I have voted for an Nth party every presidential election since I was 18. Every single time I was told that I was throwing my vote away or voting for one of the major party villains. Every single time, I was told that this was the most important election of my lifetime, and just this once, I needed to bite the bullet and vote for a major party.

Not doing it.

That entire narrative needs to change.
I am not a big fan of bending spoon, but calling them a random startup is quite misslleading.

They are a rather small company by headcount but with great success in the app consumer market and with a lot of experience in the sector.

Not everything need to be huge to be good and successfully, especially in technology.
Not exactly this: according to that bug-report, it happens to non-Google sites as well, if I'm reading it right.
Sadly, one of the few ways to fight back is to make your website perform slightly worse when viewed on a Chrome browser.
Add steam to that too. So many people are angry that there are alternatives...
Thanks. I realized that there are several types of MMU. I was thinking of the simple MMU (on 32bit MCU) that limit memory access. Not the one that provides the illusion of virtual addressing.
Lobbying seems to be done in Mar-a-Lago these days ( US), the president is easily bought. Eg. A QAnon member seems to have donated 1 million to the Trump campaign.

Without checks in place of course, unlike in Europe.
Chrome is one thing the DOJ is using to push its case against Google.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/10/feds-may-target-goo...
Surely that's a quote by Winston Churchill.
google knows it should do these things slowly. Nice in future my insurance company will show me ads on basis of how much fit i am by watching my computer usage. If i see computer for more than 8 hour they think i am unhealthy and will not give insurance. Good job google. And to all those people using chrome you are reason this is happening.
> European cities are typically built for denser living - far fewer McMansions, far more well built, sound proofed apartment

Well, here (Prague) you can have small flat in city for the same price as full-sized house with garden in suburbs (villages around Prague), so it is mostly question of preferences.
- Guy Montag, 1953
> Also, I block firefox myself. It phones home a lot, even when you tell it not to.

Do you have sources on this? I use Firefox on Mac OS with Little Snitch and have never had Firefox try to phone home with analytics disabled (a one click decision on first start of the app).
No, the EU blames FAANG for skipping taxes and monopolistic behaviour. They might just prefer to punish US companies rather than domestic ones.

What I don't like as an EU citizen is that our network infra is ridden with Huawei equipment. I'd much rather have US equipment and services if domestic companies aren't capable delivering it rather than One Belt, One Road. Just take a look at Kyrgyzstan and how it's going to become a Chinese colony.
It is called protectionism.

Calling the ban or taxing of uber "internet censorship" is too funny... lol
That's what democracy is. The current "tyranny of the minority" that we live in is an anomaly (and quite undemocratic)
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A cool feature update would be to map the multiple layers of related suggestions on a force-directed graph.
You can't understand the RISC/CISC "debate" until you spend a few minutes skimming through the IBM 360 mainframe instruction set.

:)
The EU just needs an investor climate similar to the US.

The only problem is that investors like the idea of cornering markets, which, due to regulation, is harder in the EU.
Yes, this is a fundamental part of Python. By default, a single Python process is single-threaded in the traditional sense. So, using "threads" (i.e. the Threading module) in Python is actually more like using fibers in some other language. They're not OS threads. So, if you're not waiting on I/O, then yes, the threads will fight over the GIL and performance will suffer. This is inherent to Python and will not be changed.

But there's a few more things that can be said about this. Python "threads" are really just a mental construct for designing programs. The selling point is that you can share variables and data between "threads" without having to worry about locks or data corruption or anything like that. It just works. But, even with that advantage, you're relying on Python to switch between "threads" on its own, and that could easily slow things down. If you're willing to drop the mental construct and go for better performance but still use a single process and be able to share variables, the asyncio module will let you control when the main Python process will move between points of code flow.

However, if you really want to use traditional multiple processes/threads just use the Multiprocessing module. It actually launches multiple Python processes and links them together. It's called in a similar fashion to Threading, so there isn't much code change for that part. But because it's no longer a single process - and no longer bound by the GIL - you can't share data between the processes as easily. With Multiprocessing, you'll need to create slightly more complex data structures (like a multiprocessing manager namespace) to share that data. It's not that hard, but it requires a bit of planning ahead of time.
Political corruption is everywhere. A good idea in theory that is unimplementable in reality is not a good idea.
Or since before it was a nation, and ever since then, depending on what cages you care to look at.
I’ve always fantasized about the eval() function in JS, which means if you feed it the correct random string, it could modify itself (which even the human brain can’t do). The AI version of Bogosort ;)

If you try to generate language artifacts, maybe you need to gather the sources of major projects, which large companies can do easily with their internal codebase.
Ask HN: How can I contribute to climate change action as a developer?
I'd like to help out with climate change action, having a few years of professional development experience is there any way I could use those skills to help out?
This is demonstrably false. Batteries and solar are already cost competitive.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-17/solar-wit...

https://www.utilitydive.com/news/new-mexico-approves-100-ren...
He has developed a ton of stuff! What I found particularly impressive is the PC Emulator developed in Javascript which runs Linux within a browser!

https://bellard.org/jslinux/

You can actually run X-Windows, Windows 2000, FreeDOS etc in a browser using this.

His implementation of 4G LTE purely in software is also pretty amazing.
https://bellard.org/lte/

His other projects:
https://bellard.org/
On the other hand, a corporation cannot be allowed to continue its anti-competitive practice just because the subject is too complex for an average person to comprehend.

Techology isn't going away and is becoming ever more important. It seems obvious to me that we will need cross-domain specialists to handle cases such as this in the future -- someone with both a legal and computer science background.
Ask HN: What should I keep in mind before starting a remote-only startup?
Same here, faster. Especially on mobile. Part of that had to be the built in ad blockers.
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Which market is 3x larger? The US and EU are comparable markets in size; minus Britain the EU is economically moderately smaller than the US (by 20%-25%) however still a solid direct comparison.

The estimates for 2020 so far by the IMF have the US at $20.8 trillion, China at $15.2 trillion, and the EU at $14.9 trillion (this will be the first year since the EU's inception that China will have a larger economy than the EU).
The us government has not successfully prosecuted an antitrust case since att in 1984. This is a pretty clear cut case
This is an interesting question. I think the first thing you need to decide is what will compile the language.

If you decide the language generator itself should be doing the compiling and processing, then congratulations, you are interested in the GPT-3 self-prompting community, and should go read everything Gwern wrote about GPT-3, then join the openAI GPT-3 slack. The short answer is that text transformers output a vector of likely ‘next tokens’ based on a token input. You can choose from this output vector using whatever rule you like, and feed it back in as input.

If you’re wondering how an AI might ‘talk to itself’ and program its own behavior internally, then you might like papers like this as a starting point: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105120041.... Short answer: because of how they are wired, NNs tend to have activation ‘areas’ as they process things, and this is represented as the connections between and weights of data flowing through very large matrices; not a thing that’s super easy for humans to interpret as ‘language’.

I believe OpenAI also is publishing more on interpreting how AIs work and think behind the scenes, so you may want to check their blog / published papers.
I would highly recommend trying Antidetection Browser GoLogin for Multi-accounting
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Each profile is in a separate container so that their data do not conflict with each other.
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Before using the browser, GoLogin will open a page with your connection data, so you can make sure it is safe and anonymous. Antidetect without installing software
You only need to have a regular browser and Internet access, you are not tied to a specific place.
Automation
Automate any emulation process in a real browser. This will make your digital fingerprints look natural and your accounts will definitely not be blocked.
Teamwork
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https://gologin.com/?utm_source=forum&utm_medium=comment&utm...
TB approach with „national champions“ can work too and may work better in a situation where there’s competitive market with few dominant players with unlimited resources. Look at Russia: they have achieved very high digitalization of government and society on locally built infrastructure. There are some state actors involved, e.g. Rostech, but large private companies did the majority of work, quite often not being directly affiliated with oligarchs or officials. The only thing they needed was to direct SOE to buy from local players and close the market for services hosted abroad. Technologically and CX-wise local platforms are strong enough now to expand abroad, but due to political climate this won’t happen soon. Europe can learn some lessons from this and try to do better.
I'm sure you can write a book and disprove what Tocqueville wrote about what constitutes a democracy and what does not.

Personally I'm still on the Tocqueville's side.
Here we are again, discussing politics in our tech forum. Why? Because we invented brain washing machines. Social media married w/ Algorithms and AI.

The bigger story here is that these brainwashing machines are susceptible to being manipulated by their owners to meet their own subjective needs.

It gets even worse, because these are for-profit companies, the brain washing machines are being rented out to the highest bidder.

Even worse than that the owners of these machines are being pressured and manipulated by others, in power, to affect outcomes that, as it turns out, are probably not in the best interest of the public at large.
When did you last try? It's gotten very good in the last year for me.
Re your second point:
CISC and RISC are primarily characterisations of the instruction set architecture, not microarchitecture. (And of course this microarchitecture level translation was done with microcode already long before RISC was invented. )
You might start here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET
This guy's pretty good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5HAYVHsasc