skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd argue not because I switched from Firefox to Chrome at v1

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1398220&page=11&p=...

Chrome was absolutely faster in web rendering than Firefox and more stable and the UX was cleaner, it made Firefox with its slow buggy performance and awful theme's look like myspace to Chromes facebook.

I also remember being very frustrated with Firefox on Ubuntu ~10.04 at the time and when Chrome came along it was exactly what I'd been waiting for.

Quantum/Servo/Rust/UI refreshes seems like this was Firefox catching up to Chrome v1 and honestly in 2020 it feels like Firefox has finally caught up significantly.

It's still not as stable as Chrome but it's getting there, webrender is a massive leap forward in performance:

https://testdrive-archive.azurewebsites.net/Performance/Chal...

That test is now showing at 6.65 seconds down from 45 seconds without it.
I (premium user) have just tried this with my girlfriend (free user).

I can add her as a emergency contact and she can accept that. But she cannot add me as an emergency contact since it is a premium-only feature.
My apologies I don't think I phrased it clear enough.

The delayed choice experiment is not a proof of concept of time travel.

The effect of the experiment looks like a time travel. But we don't know and cannot really explain it.

Let's make similar conjecture.

Because entangled pair interacts with each other at distance instantly this is a proof that you can interact at light speed at arbitrary distances. So there must be some kind of dimension that they stay connected through. We should be able to use this dimension to wormhole travel across arbitrary distances.

Therefore 'entangled wormholes' are possible.

Don't get me wrong the delayed choice experiment is quite disturbing. It really looks like there is some kind of intelligence at play. But thats not a proof of god (if it was not so hard to explain this experiment to common no 'science interested' person it would be 100% used by all preachers as sign of god at work).
A 1DX is still an outstanding camera in professional use daily, well beyond overkill for a webcam! Still commands around 1000GBP on the used market.

Any of the Canon xxD or M series from the same era would be sufficient at a fraction of the cost.
One of the issues this is trying to resolve is that v4 UUIDs wholly random nature makes them less than brilliant in the b-trees that SQL databases use for indices (I am actually not sure how much that really matters in practice for most projects).

However, Postgres has an alternate index implementation that uses a hash function. It is crash-safe now (previously wasn't) but you still can't use it to enforce a unique constraint. If you can use that, I suspect it might resolve the problem and would be easier than switching UUID generation algorithm.
I just purchased it as well. It's less than a cup of coffee, and most importantly not subscription based.

I may or may not use it (gonna evaluate Syncthing to replace Resilio), but at least i can support the developer for making a thing that was VERY much needed.
So where is the source for the latest patch fixing this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25803010 ?
Because urbanization AND population growth drives demand and supply has a tendency to always lag behind.

HK has high rents because ... wait for it ... they are not building enough new housing. Why? Because most of the land is government owned, more than half of the population lives in public housing, and the HK version of "US employers pay healthcare insurance" is basically HK employers pay housing subsidy.

Note, I'm not saying HK should just abolish rent control in the next five minutes and things will be fine. No, HK has many grave problems. (Of course starting with them being oppressed by the CCP.) Nor am I saying they should pave over the bay and start building. I'm simply saying that the HK market is in a pathological state. (Constrained supply, public stock is constant over the last ~2 decade, etc.)
> And this is why the US lost the war to Japan. No, wait.

It was a battle of two bureaucracies, so of course one of them had to be a winner.
On the other hand, if Australia doesn't back down and Google goes through with their threat, when life doesn't end in Australia it will be a signal to other countries that Google likes to bully that there are search alternatives. Though not a big market, Google cutting off Australia likely will do much more harm to Google than it does to Australia.
No, thanks. I decided to stop using it after Nextcloud already
got confused by a few of my Git repos, overwriting my local
updates with the older version from the server. Not to mention
the "don't sync hidden files" default setting that's simply not
a good idea, to put it mildly. This new ownCloud product
promises to handle that better("with millions of small files or
thousands with hundreds of GB each, ownCloud Infinite Scale runs
smoothly"), but I'll believe it when I see it.

So far I haven't found a sync tool that I feel like I can trust.
I don't care about user group management or online office
suites, but I absolutely want ~100% reliable file sync that
doesn't randomly do nothing for 15 minutes without me knowing
why(I care about my files and if I don't know what your software
does with them I won't use it), or like NextCloud, falsely
detect merge conflicts when 100% of changes came from the same
client machine.
No, this is not the prisoner's dilemma, because the parties can communicate and are not bound to the original decision. What you're suggesting is that the news companies form a cartel.

> It's reasonable, then, for the EU and the news industry to seek to remove Google's monopoly advantages.

Yes, it is. But this legislation does nothing to attempt to break Google's monopoly, while at the same time granting very weird and very specific privileges to the very rich, very well-connected, very corrupt news company owners.

Google is absolutely a monopoly and is absolutely abusing that position. We should stop the monopoly situation, not introduce very weird stuff that just so happens to favor people with no reasonable claims whatsoever except "I'm friends with the regulator".
Judge rejects Parler’s bid for Amazon services restore
As I see it, part of the problem is that Google no longer simply provides links to the content, it also provides substantial excerpts.

Based on my own infrequent use of Google (I use DDG by default) I'd guess that frequently people do the search, read the summary, and then never click through to the source.

Perhaps if the summaries were significantly shorter people would click through to the source, and then the source would get more traffic, hence more ad-revenue (or whatever).

So the problem, perhaps, isn't that Google is linking, it's that they are effectively copying, plagiarising[0], the original works.

[0] Added in edit: squiggleblaz[1] correctly notes[2] that it's not plagiarism, since Google is not passing off the words as their own. It's more accurately a form of fraud, or perhaps copyright infringement. Copyright laws allow for short snippets to be quoted as "fair use" (or similar) and so far the quoting by Google has been regarded as legitimate. Perhaps that needs to change.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=squiggleblaz

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25870909
But given a v3 or v5 UUID, you can’t tell what namespace it belongs to. Both are one way functions from (namespace,name) -> uuid. The gp is asking for a way to tell user uuid apart from group uuid just by looking at the uuid.

That is actually possible with the v2 uuids used with DCE. But, since just about nobody uses DCE any more, just about nobody uses v2 uuids either
As you say, you need to set certain bits to special values to encode a v4 UUID, leaving less than 128 bits for the payload, which means a random 128 bit number is not a valid UUID except by chance.

Second, a v4 UUID should set all remaining bits randomly. Encoding a timestamp in some of the bits is not random. Sure, you could argue these could have been randomly generated by chance, so any such UUID is not invalid, strictly speaking. Still, a collection of these v4 UUIDs don't have the properties that you would expect of random UUIDs.

As specificed, the scheme satisfies neither of these two requirements.
I am unaware, I'm not planning on reading the case details until after a month or two has passed. Best to get a little hindsight.

That is an interesting exhibit, thanks. It has swayed me on the time-frame, I'm not sure it changes my basic view - the AWS rep is talking about literally 3 posts in mid November, one of which seems to have 450 views in 5 days if the eye icon means what I think. From politely raising 3 horrible posts to extinguishing a business in a month and a half still leaves me questioning if the TOS was enforced politically.
Lawyer, legal tech startup founder and now founder of www.mypath.ai - personal ai based career assistant.
>iphones benefit from: a processor that costs more than the entire webcam. A firmware and software stack with a billion dollars behind it.

Still the camera is great alone, even without "computational photography".

And similar IQ quality can be had in competing Android phones for years -- some costing the same or less than a premium $200 or $300 webcam.

Anyway you slice it or dice it, this is not a "good cameras are expensive" issue.
Shady because of the customers they are serving, it sounds like.
Quote 1: "...even consider buying Macs because...crappy laptops that cost the same or more than the MBP's we all wanted but it a complete no-go."

Lemme call this BS. Apple's hardware is expensive crap compared to other. I can make at least 50% cheaper from parts desktops/laptops having the same performance.

Quote 2: "...but we were running VMs...but I was the only team member who could build/test the iOS builds because I had a Mac."

I call this another BS. My machine is running Windows as host OS. My VMs are Linux(Ubuntu and Mint)/Android(both Vm and emulators - Bluestacks an Memu)/Raspbian and MacOS (at least 10 MacOS VMs starting with Mountain Lion 12 years ago and copy/upgrade a new one every time a new MacOS was released). I can run any flavor I want and do cross-platform build at the same time.

Conclusion - you're lying.
The Rove Presidency (2007)
You'd have to change the model. Signal and WhatsApp can sync the private E2E chats because the web frontend is talking (securely) directly to the app instance and communicating through that. With Telegram you do not need an app or anything, you can just use the desktop client.
There are groups in Telegram with more than a million of users. Actually, Telegram is now more like a very good aggregator of news. You can use it just for that purpose alone.
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Creating image reveal videos with ffmpeg and primitive
It depends on your desired emphasis -- theoretical or computational?

From a more theoretical angle, Jim Hefferon has written an outstanding introductory book. It is free and open source, available with loads of supplementary material, here:

https://hefferon.net/source.html

From a computational perspective, I've heard good things about Gilbert Strang's book, although I haven't read it personally. User superbcarrot linked to his MIT course materials, including video lectures.

One word of caution though: as a mathematics educator, I don't endorse "efficiency" as a goal. When I have pursued this goal myself, I have generally regretted it, and decided in retrospect that I was largely wasting my time.

To really learn math you should: do a ton of exercises, come up with your own questions and try to answer them, be willing to explore blind alleys.

Good luck!
Do you think it is a bluff??

A free search engine operating under that law would have to have to be filled with allot more ads to recuperate the costs of showing links.
Seams easier to just stop indexing Australian websites.
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People aren't being cared for adequately by their family, their community, and so they're suffering - angry, and anger clouds judgement, allows people to hate, feel resentment.
We’re in the midst of a mass exodus from whatsapp to signal.

If google pulled out the same would occur.

This is a battle between monopolistic titans (google and news Corp). If google pulls out and news corp misses out on this new revenue source, I feel thats the best of both worlds.

We need fresh competition in search and news.
I've said this elsewhere[0], but as I see it Google no longer simply provides links to the content, it also provides substantial excerpts. In that way they are effectively copying the original works.

That's called Plagiarism[1].

I've said more in the longer comment[0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25870825

[1] Added in edit: squiggleblaz[2] correctly notes[3] that it's not plagiarism, since Google is not passing off the words as their own. It's more accurately a form of fraud, or perhaps copyright infringement. Copyright laws allow for short snippets to be quoted as "fair use" (or similar) and so far the quoting by Google has been regarded as legitimate. Perhaps that needs to change.

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=squiggleblaz

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25870909
Exactly. And the v4 UUID will have 122 bits of randomness.
Related: https://www.cnet.com/news/chip-designer-arm-ditches-huawei-b...

Unsurprisingly, this has been done by Alibaba-owned T-Head Semiconductor. The obvious result if Chinese vendors start facing obstacles to obtain licenses to manufacture ARM-based chips (or any other non-Chinese architecture).

How can anyone expect that software/hardware-bans to global superpowers can result in anything but their software/hardware-independence in the long run?
Brain is not a pure research group. It builds infrastructures/platforms for machine learning related tasks and its research part is relatively small compared to the entire organization.
Sounds like basic memoization and topological sort gets you all the way there? If that's really all this is about, I'm sure there a lots of adhoc implementations of it in many codebases. It doesn't necessarily seem like something you'd need to bring in a Rust framework to do.

Edit: lots of downvotes, yet no replies? Can explain someone why my comment is apparently so terrible...?
I use Riverside nearly weekly for my podcast, designbyus. I do like it, but I think the biggest opportunity for solutions in space is to reduce 'jank', and make the recording process as transparent as possible.

We once recorded an interview in Riverside and had mistakenly added the guest as a 'Producer', and not as a 'guest', meaning it did not record one stream of the audio. Anything the UI can do to essentially scream in my face 'this is recording, and everything is ok' is what will build trust in products like these.
Yes, exactly. People can listen music at home, and also see pictures of paintings at home. Yet people do go to digitally scaled events of musicians, while they don't go to digitally scaled events of paintings. Why that is, I tried to explain in my previous post. Your argument regarding authenticity of unplugged artists applies only to a fraction of people.
Something I find concerning about sophisticated attacks like this is the asymmetric time expenditure it places on the victims and investigators.

It'll be tricky to push back attackers (as a trend) if they're able to consume defenders' time resources.

That makes me wonder what are useful avenues for defenders to explore in order to reduce defence time cost.

Much of it, I think, will come down to the ability to simplify and reduce the size of systems and software infrastructure without impeding business operations.
I guess it depends on your workload. My Nextcloud was only for myself and my family, and we only used it for "files on the go".

Calendar/contacts is handled by iCloud (Apple household, it's a Danish thing...)

Notes are handled by whatever each person finds the easiest. My wife defaults to the iOS notes app, i switch between various clear text editors.

File synchronization on desktops/laptops is handled by Synology Drive, which syncs beautifully whenever the machine is connected to our LAN, either directly or through VPN.

The only problem i needed to solve was ad-hoc access to files on mobile devices, preferably without opening ports, and since VPN doesn't always work from other private networks (ip scope clash usually), i chose not to use Synology tools for this. Besides, Synology Drive doesn't support selective sync, and while documents probably wouldn't be a problem, synchronizing gigabytes of books to my phone isn't really an option :)

Resilio on Linux does have a nasty habit of doing disk IO all the time, a habit that syncthing doesn't have. When i look at running processes, Resilio on linux is constantly using 2-5% CPU.
If I have a six figure support contract and ask you how to do a simple thing with your product, you better have an answer. If it's so simple, why are you worried about it, when I'm paying for it?
The motivation for a lot of this discussion lately is people leaving WhatsApp for something that is more privacy respecting; for the reasons I said above (especially the monetization point), Telegram is maybe no better than sticking with WhatsApp or FB Messenger.
This approach has become my preferred way of generating IDs for database rows. It is relatively space efficient and doesn't require a round trip to the database to generate an ID like auto increment does.

While working on a C# implementation for MySQL and we found that when the DB uses Little Endian Binary that the GUID must be reversed to store in order:

https://github.com/PomeloFoundation/Pomelo.EntityFrameworkCo...
Other companies already do provide search tools. They're widely regarded as not being as good as Google's. Since other search companies are not covered by this code because they are not dominant, they will have an incentive to remain non-dominant, which implies that they will have an incentive to not significantly improve their algorithm.

Obviously leaving the market will not be great for Google, and staying in the market will not be great for Google. This is from their perspective an entirely crappy situation.

Moreover, the entire situation for Australian web users will be harmed by this.

But the fact of the matter is, the Australian government doesn't care about Australia web users, Australian businesses, or American web search companies. They do not care about free markets or equitable remuneration.

Their primary interest is in a certain American media company, because to get the American citizen who heads that American media company on your bad side means you lose government.
See https://www.slatestarcodexabridged.com/ for an anthology of Scott's works.
In the United States municipalities are not sovereign - they basically exist at the whim of their respective states. So no, nobody is “owed” local governance.
Even if you “trust” FB/WA, they’re still monetising a model of you and your friends, they expect you to update that model, and don’t share the profile from that model beyond letting you use the tools that update the model.
There is this good old goldmine:

http://www.theassayer.org/cgi-bin/asbrowsesubject.cgi?class=...
Ask HN: How would you learn an instrument (ukulele) with no music experience?
I'm trying to pick up the Ukulele since I like the sound and it's portable, but I'm not sure the 'optimal' way to progress if that makes any sense.

I'm mostly playing for fun, but I want to get better at the same time in a systematic way.

Figure a lot of you are similar to me so just want to pick your brains :)
Seems like a lose lose situation for Google to me.

If the Aussies call their bluff, then 90% of the population will switch to Bing/ddg and will be fine.

More discerning Aussie searchers - like people googling for why their spring boot app won't work behind an nginx proxy - will just use a vpn to get to Google US - and they'll be fine too.

Google's dam will be broken open and the emperor's clothes will be left a little raggedy.

There's more at stake here for Google than Australia, and Aussies play hard and ruthless at the best of times (can confirm, am kiwi).
Could one perform this attack without redirects by changing the page's DOM.head.link(rel=icon).href value with JavaScript?
Thanks for this valuable point of view!
This is exactly our focus right now. The next two weeks we are doing a sprint called "Improving reliability by UX" where we are going to do exactly what you said.
The problem with convincing a democratically elected government is that existing players can use their power (think of the jobs!) to rescue their bad business and thus preventing better alternatives from coming up.

I for one think news industry is worse than worthless. No news would be better than current news. I think there is a need for information but news is selectively picked information turned into entertainment. I don't think we are better informed nor in any other way better off because of this junk. Let it fail and see what comes up next.
I'd worry a bit about the chance of collisions.

They correctly state you can generate 50 million of them per millisecond with only a one in a billion chance of a collision (per millisecond).

Unfortunately this means the chance of a collision in a year is 99.999999999998% which isn't great!

(I think they've given too many bits to the timestamp.)

Also, the uuid format it creates isn't a valid uuid which is a pity.

If you want to have "only" a one in a billion chance of a collision a year, you can only generate about 300 a millisecond.
Why downvotes? I really think this is how we change the world for the better: by giving the users their rights.
Lot's of comments to pick up on this post but one in particular stands out...

> If Donovan's observation were accurate, how can he explain humanity's long history with monetary metals. Gold and silver are still regarded by some as the only legitimate forms of money.

I'm not sure how true that -- money is precious metals -- has been throughout history. For example, if you look at coins from the past, they are all different weights and mostly made of greatly differing ratios of various metals and alloys. There were never really coins of uniform weight and until early modern times we didn't really have the technology to even mint coins with a uniform weight. Whilst the unit of account probably was some weight of precious metal, e.g. the weight in silver of a bushel of wheat (shekel), the issuers of these coins rarely offered convertibility to precious metals. Furthermore, the nominal value of the coins were typically higher than the intrinsic value of the coin, even for coins made from gold and silver. If the coins has a nominal value equal to or lower than the intrinsic value of the coin, then people would melt them down into bullion. So the assertion that the unit of account was a gold coin of a particular weight seems as unlikely as it is illogical. Instead, the coins typically represented a debt of the issuer valued at the nominal value of the coin. Even still, most people didn't even use coins. Kings would withdraw all coins from circulation to re-mint them and commerce would continue as usual because most people just used credit ledgers to transact with each other. Ergo, money usually always has been and will continue to be credit/debt. Gold is not money... it's a commodity, albeit a valuable one :)

From what I've read, it seems we only recently (since early modern times) developed an obsession with precious metals as money. Of course, we tried a gold standard but it ends up in deflation and misery for all involved so I don't suspect we will go back to it.