skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like the that’s the obvious solution at first but if you think about it, this will make every site ever to greet you with “add to home screen” popup. Just like aggressively trying to make you install their app from the appstore. The number will increase since there won’t be a barrier of entry.

Then there would be people who are trying to make you "install" their PWA at any cost, then sell their install base and the buyers will simply rename the app/website to anything they want.

It can actually be another golden age for the web while making users hate their phones.
Because Safari has like 50+ percent of the mobile market share in the west
Yes, that's my point. That neural networks were conceptualized roughly half a decade ago. Obviously there have been a lot of advancements like convolution, drop out, attention, deep learning, etc. But fundamentally this is old mathematics and while it's yielding good results at solving specific problems, it's not the answer for AGI. For AGI we will need new breakthroughs.
And how long did it take?

I think Gov.UK was (and is) great, but it's entirely possible that doing a lift and shift of the paper based forms might have gotten more done in a shorter time.
It would be great if people just understood that they can't trust closed-source binaries.
It's not so much politics as it is the fact that no one likes surprises, particularly not your boss or your boss's boss. Almost every major people-problem I've had to sort out in the past year has been a result of someone not getting buy-in from their team or superiors before proclaiming a major change. Change is good, everyone wants you to make your awesome improvements, but you're not a cowboy. You have to engage the people who will be affected by this change, collect feedback, and address any concerns that are surfaced.
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Indeed, I just wrote the version where the counter matters, because it was used as such on the original examples.

As a matter of fact, Object Pascal/Delphi uses the for in syntax when it doesn't matter.
It would be even more useful if extension had additional rules to always set minimal permissions level for a website; easier when using standard cookie banners, harder for custom coded ones.
Alternative solution: individual cookie allow/block list, so only useful (language settings, login etc.) cookies could be set.
Good point - yes freely available to all.
I think one could argue that there hasn't really been a regulatory opening for any serious moves against net neutrality in the home broadband market. The FCC repealed the Obama-era rules in June 2018. Comcast/Xfinity was still under merger conditions binding it to net neutrality principles until that September, and had to make a show of assuring the FCC it wouldn't make any anticompetitive moves to avoid having the conditions extended. Charter/Spectrum remains under merger conditions forbidding data caps, which would be needed if they wanted to bill for data unequally, until 2023. So two of the major players with the most to gain haven't been in a position to try mobile-style throttling, and even if other companies considered it there was a possibility (now a reality) that around the time they finished rolling out any change there could be a new administration hostile to their plans and happy to use an already unpopular cable company as a villain.
As a Canadian, I have zero problems with this setup. I have no problem paying a little more to ensure stable incomes for small farmers. I would rather see a dozen small farms with happy cows in the field, where the farmer personally knows each cow by name, than a single mega-farm with thousands of them all jammed into a single barn in a faceless hellscape of corporate profit maximization.
There's still that sound in my head that the monkeys make when I'm in the dark... :|
We're (Moniker) doing palliative care for it at the moment. The technology is quite old.

Sorry about that! There may be an initiative to update it in the near future.
> it isn't needed and is just another way for the government to get more control of the internet

How is the government asserting control by saying that no discrimination is allowed? On the contrary, it’s giving control to the users.
If you look at Wolfenstein 3D, Rise of the Triad, etc, they all have level geometry that could be drawn easily using graph paper. Rectangular walls means that everything has a 90° angle. Doom on the other hand can have all sorts of interesting level geometry, as long as each individual node in the binary tree doesn't have any convex elements.
Customers decide what gets done.
And HPV
Not sure Eugen Harrigel would approve, but I think that’s sound enough comparison for pirates! Close enough!
On WeChat, there is a WeChat Wallet, similar to AliPay, you can store cash in it, so there is no need to go through bank for payment since the buyer and seller all have a wallet from the same company.
> Anybody has any pointers to how to get the ball moving?

Maybe writing an extension as a proof-of-concept, then finding someone who's a member of W3C to propose it as a standard.
I think this is the wrong answer. Of course you aren't liable, your value proposition shouldn't be shifting the liability, it should be just about shifting the bulk of the work. Any company worth their salt doesn't have one person working on RFPs or such, so you can help reduce the team, but your customer should still do a review. That way they still save money on the (more tedious) initial preparation, while still being in charge of the end result.
Everyone wants magic, even technologists.

Unfortunately, magic is hard work.
Now you can enforce your privacy rights with a single browser tick
if you are thinking along the lines of atmosphere saturation to a point of not being able to support combustion, then i guess "living" organisms who depend on oxygen would be long gone by then
> it earned the name "Internet kill switch."

Was it in the same way as Obamacare “earned the name” “Obama’s death panels”? It says more about who gave the name than whatever they are trying to describe.
The Invention of a New Pasta Shape
You can always disable all notifications from browser for your use case.

Personally on Android I have enabled notifications from a total of 2 sites and I find the experience quite good.
I actually think its better than having to install an app for something that you rarely use just for that one time you will need to receive a notification from it.
How is this abused when you have to opt in to get the notifications? If you opt out once the site cannot request it again.
Dear Young Artist [pdf]
Forgive me for thinking that the marketing blog of a video game console might not be a paragon of journalistic integrity. There is nothing in the post that invalidates the "just run the game faster" null hypothesis.
Then 99% of the websites you visit are spammers, that's a different problem.

Removing this feature from all users though is not a good solution either. Chrome allows you to block notifications from all sites so you don't have to dismiss requests anymore which seems like it would suit your needs and at the same time allow others to use this feature.
Personally I found this bit very interesting:

> The narrative really took on a life of its own when a New Yorker article in 1976 referred to "a sort of sit-down strike one day about half-way through the mission".

> From there the Harvard Business School built a case study on the perils of micromanagement called Strike in Space, which sourced the New Yorker article.

Reminded me of the Gell-Mann amnesia effect [0] but at a societal level. I wonder how much of our received wisdom is post facto rationalisation and speculative explanation.

Recent events in the world have reminded me of a mediaeval letter from father to son - the gist of it is that the son would be shocked if he knew how poorly the high and the mighty were at taking good decisions - it is only from a distance that power appears to be well exercised.

I can't find the specific reference, but would be very grateful if someone from the HN family could chime in :)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#GellMannAmnes...
Instagram, Facebook, Twitter are the biggest offenders here. Its worse cause for these apps if you allow them the send notifications permissions you are automatically opting-in for everything and you need to use their UI to granularly remove the ones you don't want.
ChromeOS has won, Safari is the only one left standing on the way that actually matters.

Firefox as much as I love it, and has been my main browser linage since the Netscape days, doesn't stand a chance.

Specially when everyone is now packaging Chrome as Electron, while praising it for GNU/Linux desktop apps.
> It's actually about optimisation of a complex system in a context of conflicting loss functions and hyper dimensional variable spaces

So, what you're saying is that it's an interpretation of a social problem created by someone who's spent far too long doing function approximation? (As someone in this position, i entirely empathise with your interpretation).
Here's one response to this paper.

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/can-mrna-based-covid-19-
vaccines-cause-prion-disease/

It concludes (regarding the claim) that "mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines can cause prion disease leading to neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s dementia. What are prions, and can these vaccines cause prion disease? (Spoiler alert: The answer to the second question is almost certainly no. It’s speculation based on highly implausible biology.)"

Classen is correct in one respect at least: "the current RNA based SARS Cov-2 vaccine has been approved in the US on emergency order without long term safety testing." But I think we all know that and understand why.
Hard to Begrudge the Collison Brothers’ Success, but We’ll Give It a Go
I always fancied a database that worked like a dynamic version of prolog, with facts that could be added over time, queries that can use inference etc. I couldn't really find anything that worked like that though, everything seemed to either have a fixed set of facts or didn't support inference. Looking for something like that is what first got me interested in differential dataflow.

The fact that this is bottom up makes me think that you probably can't go crazy with the number of rules.
My dream guitar was a Gibson Double Cut Special, because of Johnny Thunders. I finally got one for almost €3000 but hated it and returned. Then, Harley Benton released a similar model for less than €200 and it became my favourite guitar. They're amazing little instruments.
On the west side of the Atlantic.
I'd honestly pay for their premium 13$ per month if it wasn't Google:

Doing so would allow them to cross reference all their tracking to my personal details, or at least to a fixed id.
duckduckduck.duck is still available, by the way.

Well, .duck isn't a TLD yet and it may not be publicly available...

https://icannwiki.org/.duck
I don't think consensus needs to be unanimously affirmative in order to make progress. Even dissent can be a form of consensus, in that everyone in this group acknowledges the proposed course of action, and have formed their positions relative to it.
Scientists in Europe identify potential AstraZeneca clots cause and treatment
Why would a corporation risk loosing customers by eradicating a disease? What would shareholders say? Is it even legal?

"chronic condition" sounds like a guaranteed profit for many years. Curing/preventing disease is a bad business.
The Web is gone, ChromeOS it is.
This is because US Internet was always meh. Its hard to spot the difference between shit and even stinkier shit.
How about super and sub scripts for thr 35000 or some Chinese character? I think thr unicode committee made the right call
It is a treatment for people with cancer.

The mRNA cancer vaccine they're developing is for people who already have cancer. It's targeted based on the specific tumour the patient has, and basically primes the immune system to attack the cancer cells. They can't even develop the vaccine until the patient has the cancer it's fighting against.
Electronic global shutter lacks most of these issues, but costs about 1 bit of dynamic range, as the pixel needs to have space to move the received charge to where it's shielded from further exposure.

They are basically non-existent outside of machine vision hardware, as most non-measurement applications don't care about mild rolling shutter artifacts.
I love it. I will add to my list of favorite quotes. I am also interested by a full reference. thanx
People can also choose to buy other phone.
The realism in the POV physics is pretty astounding, camera-shake and all. It's like you're there!
AI is going to take over the world they say, but we still don't have an easy to use and free high end OCR available.

Australia's Trove is getting humans to translate them‽ - https://trove.nla.gov.au/help/become-voluntrove/text-correct...

Anyway, very cool, the world needs more of these out of copyright newspapers online. History has been lockup up by historians for to long.
Nesting is actually not such a problem in itself, it just hides the fact that your seemingly simple object on the surface might have a reference to a large collection of small subojects that will be slow to pickle.
Musk says Tesla would be shut down if its cars spied in China, elsewhere
Subtly change the RNG implementation so there’s a predictability only you know.
Awesome.

I made a project in Reason some time ago, it was a really nice experience. It is based on an OCaml project, and thanks to the OCaml-compatibility it was really easy to make a web app.

The project is a visual interactive regex compiler, using GraphViz D3 to visualize the compiler phases transforming the NFA/DFA graph, into a minimal DFA.

The graphs are updated in real-time as you change the regex expressions. This was a fun project as part of a compiler course.

http://compiler.org/reason-re-nfa/src/index.html
Looks like it’s Postgres protocol compatible rather than running as a Postgres extension?

I’ve been keeping an eye on work that’s been done to support this internally in Postgres. Looks like it’s still moving along. I guess it’s a pretty tricky puzzle (especially once you add aggregates). Depending on the performance implications, it would sit in a pretty sweet spot for some usecases. For example, at the moment I have a form of materialised view that’s simple too slow to build from scratch. My compromise is to run periodically, figure out which subset of the table needs refreshing and update just those rows.

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Incremental_View_Maintenanc...
It's almost like it's in beta, right ?
They don’t even release instructions on how to turn it off.
Or... Just focus on being a good manager and not on saddling them with extraneous bullshit.
If your progressive web app stops working because the browser is missing a feature, by definition you have not built a progressive app. It’s supposed to work everywhere, with progressive enhancements if platform features are available.
What about making it dischargeable starting 3-8 years after their last day/graduation?

Then lenders have an incentive to stop supporting useless $150k degrees, and borrowers can't declare bankruptcy immediately after graduation as an intentional tactic to dodge the debt.

Seems to address all major problems.
This gives you dynamic facts, feed-forward rule application, and soon even dynamic rules.

It doesn't actually care much about the number of rules, and more about how much memory it costs to materialize them. There are delta-join techniques to do at least most of that in linear memory (w.r.t. input size) though, and DDlog has at least experimental support for them.
Amazon’s delivery personnel in Pune go on strike affecting deliveries
I find this fascinating, it's still in beta but the amount of work thrive) they've done to get here is amazing!

Props to Tesla's engineering team, hopefully it'll be a bit better as years go by.
> I was fine after the first shot

You were also not that well protected (though one could argue well enough for a start).
> Yes, I can't fathom why the hate is on the law, and not the companies now being exposed by the law..

Because the law obviously didn't help stopping companies from doing shady shit and made the user experience of the web worse?
Sure: https://acoup.blog/2020/09/04/collections-bread-how-did-they...

As usual with Bret Devereaux, this is quite a long read.
For the 6502 there were manuals that detailed how many clock ticks every instruction takes and what happens during the ticks, which is pretty much the same.
You should enable EasyList Cookie filters if you are using uBlock Origin.
Webflow - have been using it recently and it is excellent
What are developers learning in the 1Q of 2021?
Two popups before I even begin the article, gross.
So keep your money in a Romanian bank and buy locally sourced goods when there are alternatives available. I'm not talking about bananas.
To me separating compiler and interpreter looks like a new two languages problem (maintaining consistency seems difficult)
If it is a progressive web app, then it should abide by progressive enhancement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement .

So no, lack of push notifications are not holding back PWAs. They are holding back web developers which choose to aggressively require new features, then get upset when they only work in the browser they tested with (invariably Chrome).
I don't know the situation in Poland very well, but I think in general in Romania you (assuming you're Polish) are perceived as a success story.

In Romania it's actually quite hard to buy products and services that are not provided by some foreign company. Most banks, all big shopping chains (as GP noted), lots of the food and clothes, agri-business, almost all the telcoms are foreign. As a matter of fact, even though we have our own currency, a lot of products are pretty much directly priced in euros: cars, home appliances, electronics, apartments, land, rents, utility bills. All of these go up when the euro goes up (they don't go down when the euro goes down - and the euro never goes down).
Thanks :) I think a more earthy way to express it is: politics is like a sausage factory; if you knew how the sausages were made, you wouldn't eat them!
As someone who gets marketing calls every fine day, I agree with your every word. And with gp too.

The problem with not implementing notifications is that when they are useful (instant dispatch software), they are not implemented. But honestly I’d just spin up a telegram or email bot, if clients were not brainwashed with tekhnology. Messages and email are notifications. It is also a matter of minutes, opposed to creating a stupid service worker client-server-like runtime and trying to get things right without any test mode (long story short, implementing and debugging webpush requires publishing every change to a certified https host). There is even an entire company that sells you a properly configured webpush as a service. That’s just stupid.
If you’re not doing this as a hack but to get more control over your own processor, you can just turn off secure boot, it’s a bios setting.
"Hoarding" is simply a characterization of what others call saving.

Look at economic history: places where people are able to save effectively tend to grow significant investment in economically productive activities.
I never understood how/why Bioshock got that reputation besides for marketing.

It's not a bad game, but putting it next to System Shock as a "spiritual successor" only sets people up for wrong expectations which can ultimately lead to a lot of disappointment.

Imho the immersive sim and RPG elements in Bioshock are very minor parts of the game compared to System Shock, Bioshock doesn't even have an inventory.

Personally that really soured my experience with Bioshock, I was expecting something like System Shock, yet ended up getting a FPS game that was rather "of it's time" mechanics wise, which I was a bit tired off at that point.
To be fair, they can’t trust open-source either. Particularly when so much is happening server-side and on the cloud. Our trust model is fundamentally broken.
I was impacted by some of those decisions for sure but I didn't let that affect me one bit is what meant to say by impervious.

In a biggish company you will come to learn that ICs's opinions doesn't matter; at best they will be heard to be ignored later. So as an IC the best thing for me was to focus my energy and skill to create the value the best way I could i.e., shipping software and helping my immediate neighbours unblock their work whichever way I could. Once my line manager noticed that I was indeed creating value through my primary skill he began seeking my opinion once in a while and I could see that it did have a bearing in his final decision.

There were a few vocal engineers who would regularly vent out their frustration over mailing lists, lunch tables etc., But as far as I could see it wasn't very useful in the sense it wasn't actionable. It takes quite a bit of energy and time to influence an outcome in a meaningful manner. You first need to build up sufficient social capital and then start pushing your opinion either directly or through others (i.e., "influence the influencers" as they say). Obviously it is a useful skill that can be acquired, the question is will you enjoy this in the long run.
You don’t need to bribe anyone; Intel is a US company, so A TLA can just discretely explain to them how export restrictions work.
Was it all from _South_ America?
I wonder if these cars distinguish between "I don't know what's in this space" and "I'm sure this space is empty". I hope they do... If the car doesn't recognize the other car right away it is no problem, as long as it is 100% sure it can stop in time if something appears.

I believe safe autonomous cars should behave a bit strange to human sensibilites: They would drive a LOT more defensive in many situations since they cannot be 100% sure that a child is not going to pop out the bushes and onto the street. But on a freeway, maybe if they negotiated with all surrounding cars to drive as a "fleet", it would be able to drive a LOT faster than the safe speed limit for a human driver. The comfort of the passengers would become the limiting factor in many situations.
Are you thinking of Machiavelli?
It doesn't run as an extension (at least that's not the typical deployment, and I'd be surprised if it did).

You can feed a CDC to Materialize and either feed the output back to Postgres, or just query it directly in Materialize (via a normal postgres client).

It's very likely that you can cut the typical maintenance latency down below one second. Currently that likely involves using a Kafka broker between the two databases, but feel free to plop in the community Slack [0].

[0]: http://materialize.com/s/chat
I have been using this for months and it hugely improved my web browsing experience. I would love it to become a browser feature at some point.

(Yes, I really dislike how the "privacy" warriors are dragging everyone into their pointless crusades.)
We need to stop tolerating these kind of tinfoil conspiration theories. It does not even make economical sense.

If you are the first to come up with a cure for that disease you will make huge profit compare to the rest of the industry. Especially if the cure involves coming up with a vaccine or a personalized treatment. Thats like the sustainable subscription wet dream of software companies.
As a scientist, I support sci-hub.

We are, sadly, locked in by the predatory publishers. However, I don't know a single peer who does not support open access and even sci-hub.

The only party losing are publishers, who add zero value to the process. Like leeches, they suck dry academic researchers, simply because they are the gate-keepers of status and quality signals.