skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Therefore... what? Just give up? Or start over from a non-flawed base?" - those would both be ways to avoid the presumed local optima, yes.

"Which is what? Still to be created, or does it exist?" - several different 'initial stakes'/bases in the space of programming languages exist/were made/can be created than the family of languages mentioned in OP. Exploration from those might yield better optima. The widespread adoption of the current industry 'standard' languages seems an accident of history, not guided by quality of language.

"Are the bases flawed because they are low level?" - yes. A significant part of the computing field is about abstractions. Improving the level of the technology is one of the arguments the article here makes too. Besides, it's the implicit admission of everyone who doesn't advocate/write assembly.
To be the devil's advocate, Google doesn't learn this way anything they wouldn't get to know without this intermediary link.

Another thing pops to mind, though: will false positives prevent people from accessing intranet links that Google fails to resolve (from outside the internal network).
The weekend service changes are my favorite thing to decipher.

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_F-LyTrM0YP0/TKM7nvWWJGI/AAAAAAAAH...
> we already have "practical" NP problem solvers in classical silicon in the form of SMT solvers.

They're out there, and practical for some problems, but SMT solvers aren't exactly a solved problem. They're used for deductive proofs about program correctness, which are still pretty finicky. [0]

[0] https://blog.adacore.com/using-spark-to-prove-255-bit-intege...
I use multi-account containers and temporary containers so that all my new tabs are isolated.

Is there any reason to also use facebook container if you already have multi-account containers?
Liquid Lasers Challenge Fiber Lasers as the Basis of Future High-Energy Weapons
"Paid Youtube alternative focused on mobile" has failed to become huge a couple times now (see Vessel as well).

I'm somewhat baffled by the "if we just raise a bunch more money to produce way more expensive content it'll work this time" logic, but if you're a Hollywood person I think it's probably easy to believe that more grassroots/independent youtube-creator productions wouldn't be able to compete with your A-Listers.
Doesn’t look like it does the same thing, to be honest.

- Bitmap only (major problems with search and accessibility)

- Doesn’t use Microsoft Office (hard requirement for many)

We had separate offering that used LibreOffice (or one of its predecessors) which ran in a much faster, more light-weight system. The version that used MS Office was a paid add-on.
:O! That's what Quibi stands for??!
Dumping is only bad if it is temporary. Otherwise, it's called a natural monopoly.
Haha I have been driving for 27 years but can't get past the third level of GTA V)
Off-topic: That doesn't matter much since she vocally supported Hilary Clinton and also supports Joe Biden.
It's interesting how people don't seem to understand this. For the majority of people, dealing with banks is no big deal and in-fact, preferable because the bank abstracts a lot of things most people don't want to deal with. Having the option to not use a bank, however, is a game changer for the few people in which banks act as a gatekeeper to the economy or those who are more involved and want complete control over their money. This is a good thing.
Seems like you still don't understand - the license designed to scare people like you :)

Mostly big corps.
Can journos be ranked by topic frequency?

Not too interested in the most popular topics, but the obscure stuff like why some dept in govt has changed something related to topic and there are a couple journos who have been monitoring/reporting on that dept and so over time have a high count related to that topic.
bitwarden looks cool. what parts are open-source and what parts are closed? (are all the premium features closed-source or are they just charging for that in the hosted-by-them version?)
In industry we usually refer to "geothermal" as heat from radioactive decay, and "geoexchange" from the backyard stuff, where the source is solar heating.

You're not wrong, that just seems to be the way we get around constant disambiguation. I was the CTO for a Canadian geothermal company.
cool, but I cannot find "click view -> Page Style -> No style" in Firefox/Linux (81.0.1)

I've tried the CTRL-P (Print) tip cited, too, but it is still not possible to copy (not even with PDF print) :(
I think Strongbox supports those features: https://github.com/strongbox-password-safe/Strongbox
Good point. The amount of downtime definitely depends on local market conditions. For instance if you go online at 3AM in Tracy, CA, you might have way lower utilization than someone at 6pm in downtown San Francisco.

I see your point about locking people out of access once they get past a certain number of hours. I think there are two reasons why this is probably not realistic. (1) the hourly count is over a quarterly basis, so harder to track. If a user has 25 engaged hours in week 1, why lock the app if week 2 or 3 the user may have 0 engaged hours? (2) the apps commonly have "bonuses" for hitting certain trip count goals, and you don't see apps trying to lock users out before they hit that goal.

However, Uber has put out a proposal asking governments to establish a "benefits fund" that all gig-companies are required to deposit into, on an hourly basis. That way someone working 5 hours on one app and 20 hours on a second would get benefits partially paid from both companies, without an incentive for any company to shirk their duties.

See the following link, under page 12 - "we want to contribute to funds that workers can individually direct toward the benefits that matter most to them. We are asking states to require our industry to accrue such funds":

https://ubernewsroomapi.10upcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/...
> To be the devil's advocate, Google doesn't learn this way anything they wouldn't get to know without this intermediary link.

They'd know if and when the link was clicked.
those scroll-matched curly braces are something
Do you think GitHub Desktop is easy enough ?

I really don't want to have to spin up a cms
Yes, this is a fantastic project. The official Bitwarden Docker image is kind of wonky, it needs some sort of license and you have to generate the docker-compose.yml, etc. It really doesn't make for a good automated process at all.

bitwarden_rs on the other hand, works just fine, never had an issue with it or incompatibility with the browser extensions or mobile apps.
KeepassXC is packaged in most distros and is open source.
Then you have bizarro purposes, because Python is in production all over the world, in business critical, billion at stakes, systems...
> trying to essentially buy their way into mainstream adoption, but it doesn't really work like that.

Katzenberg comes from an industry (film studios) for which that is largely the model. They are willing to have some expensive failures ($100MM-scale) if the successes will launch a "franchise" which is subsequently mined.

A failure more than an order of magnitude off what's tolerable in his old industry may be hard to survive, who knows. But industrial filmmaking is a lot like industrial food production: a blend of fear (customers won't adopt the new) and dictating the product to the customer.
That's pretty close, and would definitely be super useful to us beyond just my personal use case. Saving would be absolutely awesome because right now I "save" queries by doing this [1] in the query editor and saving a giant comment block. Then when i want to run something i edit and uncomment the single query i need.

I just tried playing around with it, and it looks awesome, but I can't fully commit to it yet, because it doesn't have a way to select staging vs prod like my dash does.

I'd be happy to give feedback! My personal email is in my hn profile, but if you'd prefer i can email you from my work account.

[1]:

-- select
-- select
-- select
-- update
It doesn't work with DUO 2FA yet so... I don't know how this can be out of beta.
Wikipedia Blocks for Anonymous Access
I've been running the dev preview since early August, and it's been pretty good so far! Really pleased they're working on this.
I'm confused how the self hosting works. Doesn't it force you to give them an email address? Why is that necessary when self-hosting?
JAIC, in Partnership with DIU, Delivering AI-Enabled Cancer Diagnostics
I have a feeling this may be React related. Safari is on average far, far faster on any site. But I have a larger React site that slows down quite a bit more than Chrome.

Perhaps related to the const+let vs var bug the other day.
I am hard pressed to think of any other website in the 25 year history of the WWW that was so abusive of its users that web browsers had to start inventing features to protect user from it.
I really want to hear the story about how Jeffrey Katzenberg managed to raise $2 Billion for a media startup
Meanwhile in Canada, our providers use the “it’s a big country so that’s why it’s stupidly expensive in the few percent of the territory that’s covered” excuse.

Meanwhile, in Europe you can take a train and have good coverage in the middle of nowhere through a base station that probably sees 20 minutes of heavy use per day...
Scope and scale don't transition into being a problem until they begin to behave with a political (or religious, or...) bias and work to influence their customers in ways outside of providing value. Your phone company, auto manufacturer or favorite restaurant chain should want to provide value regardless of their customers' politics.

It's definitely crossing a line for them to covertly influence the political leanings of their customers.
That is interesting. I move extremely fast only when I feel threatened. I wonder if lorises switch to moving extremely fast when they know that a predator has spotted them.
This is the first I'm hearing that it's a video streaming service. Shutting down is the best marketing move they ever made, let's see if it works out for them.
From a variety article.

"Actually, Quibi doesn’t own any of the big-budget premium content for which it has shelled out upwards of $100,000 per minute. The company has seven-year licenses on its short-form series; after two years, content owners have the right to assemble the shows and distribute them elsewhere."

If they don't own the content what they hell did they spend 1.7 billion dollars on?!

https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/quibi-considers-shutti...
Deals on Computer Parts for a Workstation
Isn't the government the ultimate monopoly though? Wouldn't big companies be some sort of (admittedly twisted) competition for it?
panfrost is buggy as hell on my Odroid-C2. To the point where I have to use the framebuffer driver to run X.
The rate of change is of course an important factor, but some things like the order of how you installed fonts (which depends on the order you installed the software that fonts came with) or the plugins you have installed in your browser are still going to be constant.

What we saw was that people tried to spoof their UA only made it more unique. (E.g. your UA says Internet Explorer but you have Chrome specific plugins). Or even worse if you have a completely unique User Agent.
It seems to be subscription only, just like the Windows and macOS versions.

EDIT: I was wrong about 1Password 7 for Windows and macOS, see further replies.
This is interesting.

I have a couple of points. It says:

"To be sure, the problem seems much less acute in harder sciences – e.g., physics, chemistry, cosmology – that have an established tradition of skepticism, replication, or even blinding researchers to their own conclusions."

Of is this because there are very few people who are trying to replicate the studies? The equipment is a barrier. Its not clear...

My second point regards innovation, is that surely replicability is essential. If studies aren't reliably replicated, what exactly can the innovation be? So I see replication as a core issue.

Replicability is also only one of the problems science faces. The other issue that isn't well discussed, is that funding comes from 3 sources by and large - the government, the military and corporations. We, as individuals, cannot assume that this method of funding will serve our interests. Why would studies on 'good food' receive funding over a new type of medication. When the funding is tied to profit, or vested interests, there is only so much inclination to 'rock the boat'.

But in general, I'm certainly glad this very major issue is being discussed. I'm not holding my breath for any solutions. And I only wish there was greater awareness of how much trust, or faith, goes into un-skeptical acceptance of scientific pronouncements.
I am not really sure which apologists you have developed an ire for; I've only ever heard economists say that the auction system is better than the previous, arbitrary licensing system. Do you have any specific examples of these groups of apologists?

I don't especially like rent-seeking, but in this case, it's more like begging than anything else; the government is the one responsible for this mess.
Platform with an online IDE
You're always "free" to take whatever crumbs the master drops from the table. You're also free to organize a rebellion for a better world.
Those are supposedly going away with this update. They sometimes hide MASSIVE service changes in that sea of bullshit.
Is that not the whole premise of Fuscia/Zircon?
I had heard of them multiple times before as well, but while I knew they did some kind of content, I had no idea what it was.
How does this stop facebook from tracking you? I'm fairly certain that on facebook, google, everyone, etc tracking is largely through processing request logs to gstatic.com or fbcdn.net for example with a referrer header saying what site you are visiting, your source IP and various other things to fingerprint the request.
Did anyone here ever actually try it out? What were your thoughts?
I usually get the “this page is using too much memory” warning repeatedly using safari. And apparently there’s no way to make it go away, which is super annoying.
I have several bookmarked filters along the line of "label:inbox label:2-youtube".

Should they all break just because I change the language settings?

"inbox", "trash", "drafts" are labels and localization shouldn't pretend that they are something else.

It is nice if the UI presents us a named shortcut displayed in our chosen language setting, which applies a certain filter on labels when clicked.
$2B later no one is accountable?
Shut+ is an added bit of security focusing on control over microphone and camera
> I wish instead to live in a society that doesn’t have low-level court appearances to incentivize.

Abolish presumption of innocence for low-level offenses and jump straight to punishement and you do away with low-level court appearances to incentivize.

I kinda like the status quo by comparison, but YMMV.
Smart Doorbell (2018)
Adblockers work fine on YouTube.
> investors aren't usually stupid

Citation needed. Every portfolio I've looked at outside of the top firms has had multiple investments (approved by partners) that to my mind look mind bogglingly dumb. Not Theranos level of dumb, where they'd have to have a little knowledge of blood based diagnostics and the statistical significance of results from finger pricks to know its a fraud, but "we didn't do due diligence and found out that this is a perpetual motion machine/founder doesn't own critical IP/financials don't make sense in any universe" levels of dumb. The former slip through the cracks at even the best firms, but the latter is like watching a slow motion train wreck.

With the benefit of hindsight, the entire industry looks like thousands of monkeys with typewriters (especially when biotech gets frothy).
Right. In the best of worlds, websites should of course respect the "Do Not Track".
I'd love to help you get your geolocation data mapped.

I've been giving your feedback some more thought. I think I'll make changes to allow comma separated files to be used as well. The reason I've avoided it so far is because some countries use commas as the decimal separator but there are ways around that. I was also thinking it's easier to just paste from Excel as that makes iterating through updates easier.

I'd also be interested in what normalization issues you had because I can probably make some changes to make that easier as well.

Here is an example of a page that used geolocation for tracking birds. The size of the circles represent the height (you can literally see them pulsing as the sleep each night and fly during the day). You can open up this link, download the data, modify it and paste it back in. You can't overwrite someone else's page but you can then save it as your own:
https://mapipedia.com/s/u/drdave/fall_migration_of_white_sto...

If you don't want to go into detail in this forum feel free to reach out via the contact page: https://mapipedia.com/contact_us
Most of the work moved the package ecosystem as the standard library shrank with many of the things in there moving to separate packages (for example, even the package manager is a separate package: https://github.com/JuliaLang/Pkg.jl). The result of this is that what you now see in Julialang/julia is mostly compiler work (and some tweaks to Base things like linear algebra overloads). With that said, it's quite an actively developed compiler!
Revisiting the Racism That Inspired One of the World’s Bestselling Crime Novels
There are states where all traffic violations are classified as misdemeanors.
Geothermal has a problem in that the capital to build a plant is much higher (2-3x) that of a combined cycle natural gas power plant. Even though the fuel is free, in order to make the economics work you have to project power prices out 50 years. Usually when we scope power plants the proformas only go out 15 years.

And by "make the economics work" I'm not talking about excessive returns. I'm talking about a <10% rate of return, getting the investment back in 10-14 years.
Yes I would consider the search string as a kind of api, just like bang sequences in DuckDuckGo. I think of an api as anything where you send input to a service that is validated against a syntax of some sort and affects the execution of the program. It’s a broad definition.

Why wouldn’t you as a user expect that the search strings be portable across accounts? It would be surprising, especially if the changes across locales was small such as the one in this article. I have copied and pasted filters from blogs on the web for example to get some more complex queries. It’s not like you get a lot of feedback from gmail if you get it “wrong”.

Your comments on naming are on target and that’s why we end up with ugly guids across Windows, for example. I mean who wouldn’t know that your trash folder is really {4f342ebb-d392-4a7d-8db8-3f718c1bcd71}. But that would make for an entirely unusable experience for 100% of users. I would assume that, just like a programming language, “trash” is a reserved word and you can’t use it for the name of your own tags. I have not tried it though.

This is ultimately a subjective decision to make. I’ve done this hundreds of times when designing APIs. Balance usability across multiple user bases and maintain compatibility with decisions that I’m sure were made decades ago when gmail was a beta project in the early 2000s. It’s a problem with no “right” answer, so I think having a guiding principle - such as prioritizing consistency - can make those decisions easier and result in a more sane api.
I wonder what trucks will look like if they don't have to accommodate people.
Fortunately, it’s mathematical definition, were we to equate a science of Nature with a science of motion, is not. Euler’s Formula characterizes all universal phenomena in time. The important judgment to make is in understanding our observation is an effect of our brain processing, with everything reducible to discrete units of simple harmonic motion, ie quanta, in time.
Well, I am not sure if that is possible. You should stay within the comfortable confines of the platform and its features. Then you can build CRUD applications on it that scales to thousands of users each using the app on their phones or tablets.
That is not too hard if one uses Pybind11 C++ library, which allows creating native code Python modules (shared libraries) in a simple and declarative manner. Other library that can be used with Pybind11 is Eigen for linear algebra that can perform loop fusion in numerical computation, for instance, it can add multiple vectors of same size in a single loop.
Also adding to this - you can set up container-specific proxies with "Container proxy" addon. This is great for when you want to ensure your connection is going over a private network, for instance if you have a regular torrent website (or porn or whatever) - you can configure it to automatically open in a container, like this Facebook addon - but when it opens - it will only connect to the endpoint over a proxy. If you're not connected, it fails.

Works really well with Mullvad which has a SOCKS proxy setup only available when connected.

Great for work connections too, I've setup all work/business websites to auto-open in a "work" container which I've created a local bridge proxy for to ensure my work connections are always over the corporate VPN.

This is also really good if you consult or work with many customers - you can start to build a catalogue of containers with specific settings for those customers.

Container Proxy addon:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/container-pro...
To be fair, both Girls and Git have the concept of commitment. And I've got an extensive .girlsignore file. But under no circumstances should a push be tried on the former, especially if a gentle pull does not succeed.
I think Larry and Sergey fundamentally don't think Google is in the wrong in any way at all. The slow boil. I think Schmidt is just a cutthroat businessman.
Simple Wikidata Query Service Tutorial
I'm half convinced this was a giant payday scheme on the part of everyone but Whitman and Katzenberg. "Oh yes, sounds like a great idea! I need to get paid up front of course" - All the creators and actors cashing in.

I've never liked any management work Whitman has done, and Katzenberg's primary skill is raising money. How could this have possibly gone right?
The implication here is that visual object detection in the weak link in human driving safety: I would counter that distractibility and poor response times are the weak link.
I would honestly pay significantly higher taxes if we could get Swiss-quality train service in parts of the US (and especially if they have good internet).

When I traveled Boston to NY in the past, compare my flight experience vs Amtrak.

Flight:
- Take $25 Uber to airport and get there 1 hour early to go through security and wait.
- Fly to JFK (1h 20m)
- land, wait to get off, go through terminal again, then take $50 Uber to Manhattan (or $20 via public transit but god forbid you are even slightly confused about transfers).

Train:
- Take the Red Line to South Station, getting there 15 minutes early
- Take a 4 hour train to Penn Station, with essentially a full desk, no real baggage limitation, freedom to walk around, and good wifi.
- Walk outside into Manhattan

Admittedly, I took the Acela, which is business class, but almost all comparisons hold true for the NE Regional except you'd have to tether your own connection and it's a bit more crowded. The main thing is that this 4 hour chunk of time is uninterrupted by checkpoints and transfers and whatever else. It's relaxing rather than stressful.

People tell me the reasons that everything is more expensive than in Switzerland is because (a) the US is bigger, so infrastructure cost more [and flights scale easier], (b) the US is bigger, so city-to-city distances eat more of day up, or (c) labor unions make costs higher. But is (b) a real problem if you can work on the train? And I don't really get (c).