skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's mostly a historical term of art: Browser plugins refers to NSAPI plugins (and could also refer to OLE/ActiveX plugins), which is older and now obsolete, and is based on plugging native code in compiled binary dynamic libraries into the existing browser app (or OLE control container), without necessarily requiting an extension language like JavaScript / Visual Basic.

Browser extensions refer to more recent JavaScript centric extension techniques (like the older Firefox XUL extensions, and more modern Chrome/etc extensions), using JavaScript as a browser extension language, throwing in some XML and CSS, and coding most if not all of the plugin in JavaScript, instead of linking compiled binary code.

Python makes a distinction between "embedding" and "extending", that doesn't map directly into the browser plugin/extension dichotomy, but is kind of similar -- it's a question of "who's on top", and embedding usually implies some extending:

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/python-in-a/97814919138...

Extending Python means building modules that Python code can import to access the features the modules supply. Embedding Python means executing Python code from an application coded in another language. For such execution to be useful, Python code must in turn be able to access some of your application’s functionality. In practice, therefore, embedding implies some extending, as well as a few embedding-specific operations. [...]

https://docs.python.org/3/extending/index.html

>This document describes how to write modules in C or C++ to extend the Python interpreter with new modules. Those modules can not only define new functions but also new object types and their methods. The document also describes how to embed the Python interpreter in another application, for use as an extension language. Finally, it shows how to compile and link extension modules so that they can be loaded dynamically (at run time) into the interpreter, if the underlying operating system supports this feature.
The article says YC declined to comment.
"caring .. is not enough.”.

Then WTF is enough? Because it seems like you're trying to change my mind so that I have to agree with you.

"listening is merciful and really caring...that is not enough."

China keeps looking better.
What scenario are you talking about, or what does VS Code have to do with anything?

Did you mean running VS Code on a remote server and forwarding it to the local machine? X11 based forwarding?
Not having DRM in-browser would jut mean having to download separate applications for each service, most like.
I was busy yesterday. I request a link to yesterday's thread!
We can hunt and eat any animal that we "want" and systematically control and produce supply. That's the highest you can get in the food chain.
People are being conditioned to think that their freedom is selfish.
Because the problem being raised isn’t whether the “accused” was correct, or the “accuser” was correct.

The problem being raised is that the mere act of making an accusation is sufficient to kick someone out of Ycombinator.
It's like as if the users want the tech elite to be the arbiters of their truth, handling 'accidental' banning of users who disagree and allowing the free-for-all manipulation of content that it only approves of (Even when it approves of lies) whilst also claiming to stopping 'disinformation' as so called 'mOdErATioN' whilst breaking their own rules.

These companies will never change and neither are your friends or are on your side.

They are on the side of profit.
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People's attitude towards Amazon is the biggest counterexample of this. They have avoided a lot of taxes not through nefarious means, but by constant reinvestment (items 1-5). At some point, when a company is bringing in enough revenue, a lot of public attitude seems to be that it should be paying taxes regardless of whether it's investing that revenue in things that we generally see as positive.
It's a philosophical point disconnected from reality. In most countries we've got some system of elected government with various branches who get more power and influence than other people. Having a solid philosophical point against it doesn't change the world.
To be honest, we don't know where this is going. We all want a peaceful outcome.

The next elections are in 2023 so there is no near resolution by the ballot.

There is over 50% unemployment, mega inflation, currency devaluation etc and yet a consistent clampdown on anything deemed progressive by the government.

The truth is, if anything happens to the peace of Nigeria and if only 5%, of its occupants get displaced (10million people) the world will feel it's impact in a very negative way.

Unfortunately, thanks to COVID, Brexit et al, no one is paying attention so the government assumes it has it has a freehand.

Unfortunately for them, our population is very young, quite adept at adapting, innovative etc. So I do not see us backing down. Despite the worst of policies, there has been unprecedented growth in our tech startup scene (YC can testify)

So for now, we watch.
It's baffling to me what goes viral. This spat gets people talking but the DreamWorld scandal doesn't?
Your hypothetical would lead to roughly 98% thinking that their jobs are not bullshit when 99% actually were. At that level we wouldn't be having this discussion at all.

The actual numbers are more like 60% non bullshit / 40% bullshit, though.
That's a great motivating example for compute shaders, and I'm sure very fun to play with. It should be reasonably straightforward to put the ant-like agent simulation logic on top of the infrastructure in my sample code (either wgpu or the lightweight abstraction layer), and I'd love to see that.
A woeful sight strikes your eyes.
> According to an article (above) in the Post sponsored by the automaker

Interesting! I had no idea submarining was happening a hundred years ago. I wonder how common it was.

This was my favorite line though:

> Ford employees would be “demoralized by this sudden affluence,” and, of course, Ford Motor Company would soon be bankrupt.

Nothing hurts employee morale like a huge raise!
Food chain vs. food web aside, not many of us die from being eaten.
Why are we linking to the press release instead of the paper?
That's what the median is! The middle number in a sorted list.
>I'm also a bit cynic that it took a pandemic to make countries realize they need money.

Money doesn't come from taxes. Maybe 'progressive' taxes should be low to none.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27399581
Doesn't the fact that these conservative politicians constantly get elected belie your statement that they are supported by a majority of the population? Trump opposed them all and yet won in 2016 and had a decent showing in 2020.

It used to be that everyone supported democracy -- the rural, the poor, the uneducated, along with urban, rich and educated all getting a say in their government. Not it seems some factions in the left have sold out to corporatocracy in a bid to fast track their favorite policies.

I don't think this is going to end well.
Blur can be reverted with deep neural networks. You should not rely on it for hiding sensitive info.

http://yuzhikov.com/articles/BlurredImagesRestoration1.htm
Interesting facts about coding you had no idea about
> Google forced Manifest V3 on the world without consulting the other browsers or the existing WebExtension stakeholders.

WebExtensions is still Google's browser API. Mozilla implemented it so they could support Chrome extensions, but they didn't inherit partial ownership as a result of that.

I also think it's premature to say it was "forced on the world" when Manifest V3 isn't even released yet.
I'm actually not 100% sure what audience would find this most compelling, it's something of an experiment. I'm personally motivated by 2D vector graphics rendering, but that's a pretty small world, and I wouldn't be surprised if the main applications for compute shaders ended up being scientific and machine learning.
Apple's cash reserve hasn't grown in a while since they are spending it on stock buybacks and dividends.

But the very reason they didn't repatriate it and spend it in the US is the corporate tax the GP is arguing against.
It's more likely the people who develop and test and prioritize the features live in mountain view, with 5g and gigabit fiber with ultra low latency to the data centers.
This reads like a long winded version of calling people sheeple.
More taxes = higher prices. In the end buyer is the one who will be charged.

+50$ for an iPhone in the US, +50€ in EU and +5000₽ in Russia.

People in rich nations will spend proportionally less than people in poor ones obviously. (no serious analytics, just thoughts)
Innovation theatre doesn’t just kill startups. It kills innovation managers, too
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As I noted in the story, I’ve been enjoying it. Though, yes, the app stores are bureaucracy laden, but there’s nothing preventing you from developing for your personal benefit. The app link might not work for you as the app is currently in beta and limited to 47 countries/regions to better support this. I apologize for this, but feel free to let me know what country you are in.
> Look at it another way, some time in the past using just a password would have been considered 'good'.

Maybe, if I'm generous, the 1960s?

> In the future any password of a complication that could be remembered might be considered not 'good' enough.

Human memorable secrets weren't "good enough" before and they aren't "good enough" now and they won't become "good enough" in the future. This is not a novel insight even if it's new to you.

> It was only a short time ago people considered a password and an SMS good enough for banking.

Not "people", banks. Go back and look, the people who care about security would have told you SMS "second factor" isn't a good idea back then too, but the banks weren't looking for actual security, they wanted to reassure regulators and customers that they were on top of this.

It's that emotional support versus engineering viewpoint. The banks offered emotional support. Don't fret, we care about security and we'll make everything OK. Outfits like Google took the engineering viewpoint. Understand problem, identify solution, deploy it. U2F => WebAuthn. Emotional support is great when your dog died, while engineering is a poor substitute. But if a bridge fell down the emotional support rings a bit hollow, engineers can ensure the next bridge doesn't do that. I say user authentication is a "Bridge fell down" problem not a "My dog died" problem.
You see this argument in discussions of the finance industry a lot. What percentage of financial trading is useful allocation of capital, and how much is just shifting ownership of the things other people make?
I understand the sentiment of many people supporting the decision of the Nigerian Government. But, you have to understand that for us twitter is not a luxury like it may seem in the West. It is the only popular safe space to express your opinion and call for international help.

So, even though some may like it, Nigerians and Africans fear this sort of move. It usually precedes pernicious acts of injustice that should be hidden.

If only you know the role of Twitter during the monumental protest held last year by young people against Police Brutality here.

I'm not canonizing Twitter, it's not without its faults, but, it's also of great use for us here.

It technically the Assembly for the Youth
Lovely thesis. I'd read the rest of the paper if you write it.
I’m of the opinion that there should only be income tax (paid as a function of standard deviations from from the mean wage on the logistical curve). And all personal profits should be considered income, including sold shares, paid dividends, earned interest, etc.

However I can see how that system would be abused. E.g. instead of buying that yacht from your personal money (which you need to pay 70% tax on when you transfer it from the company) you simply have the company pay for it and say this is a company yacht. Then I can see how people would continue to hide their wealth in off shore shell companies that they never have to pay a tax on. So even with this scheme it is still ripe for tax havens.
> t doesn't matter because the elite always have advantage. They have better access to tutors and education and can go very far.

That's unavoidable but can still be kept in check by investing in good public education. It's more important to make sure that the most disadvantaged have the opportunity to progress on their own merit than to hit the most advantaged.

If you don't like the elite having too big an advantage because of their wealth and background then you want more meritocracy.

There'll always be an elite. That's not a problem. The fair way, though, is for that elite to be made of people who got there based on their own merit, not birth, not connections, not background, not corruption. That's what meritocracy is.

> that's not entirely how we want to structure society.

No, that's how we want to structure society, as I mentioned in my previous comment. That's the fairest and most just way we've found and it is massively better than the alternative (birth rights, privileges, connections, etc)
it's a loose terminology that includes a wide range of weapons. It's not really a simple definition. Also, the AR15 isn't a weapon - it's a weapon platform that allows for massive customization. IIUC much of the complaint about California's law was how it identified a specific part of the AR-15- the lower receiver- as the "gun", and the other parts were really accessories.
The massive infrastructure and education is free then?
I suppose they’re speciously similar, but the argument at its core is “people should be able to freely associate” which cuts against this decision by the Nigerian government.
After entering my email I see the downloads page but it has links for Chrome and Firefox only. The landing page listed Safari and Edge in the "available for" section; are these browsers supported at the moment?
Replacing a thing with something else that performs the same function by other means does not demonstrate that the first thing was doing nothing.
You can get meta and demonstrate the food chain is closed in a circle, which it is, but in a conventional sense, yes we are.
Thinking for myself, I'd rather not read this. I'm sure I can reach the same conclusions myself.
Which "people"? Consumers are delighted with Amazon, otherwise Amazon's revenue would dwindle. Investors, even more.

I think the attitude you are talking about is largely driven by media.
Are you certain that you are qualified to judge the quality of peer-reviewed studies? In either case, that isn't what I was asking about and you know it.
That’s hilarious. Do you think he actually does that, or was he just virtue signalling?
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Lately, I've seen a few open source projects go this way: GitHub issues, this gets unwieldy so they create a Discord, this descends into chaos so they nominate a community volunteer, issues are then filtered by thier preferences, etc.

I like Discord, especially in the early days, you can reach out to the principal dev, etc. But it soon seems like they either disappear to get work done (good) or spend all thier time on it (bad). Either way you end up with chaos.
>You cant pick wrong, there is no chain bigger.

It happened multiple times that a longer change was discoed shortly after. So in reality you have to wait some blocks to reduce the risk of a longer chain to almost zero.

Also the trust you missed is that you have to TRUST that at least 50% of the work is produces and controlled (pool owner) by honest humans, because if not they could collude and re-org/double-spend. which essentially means you will pick the wrong chain because they make you think its the longest while secretly mining a longer chain that will eventually repalce the once you picked. There is absolutely no way you would know before its to late so you blindly trust that from an unknown number of people the majority is honest.

If you take mining pools into account you trust a hand full of people who control them.

>All other cryptos are a fantasy and cannot provide any comparable guarantees.

Obvious nonsense, other tech has defined finality. Not pick the longest and if a longer shows up later you switch. These systems provide MORE guarantees.
Here’s an idea, let’s charge tax on revenue and it can just be the cost of doing business. Small businesses get a tax holiday for the first few years. Problem solved.
This is the first step. G7 can then strongarm or cajole their "client states" with coordinated action. Even just the fact that such action is finally happening, is a great step. This was considered a sci-fi scenario 20 or 30 years ago and now it's become reality.
The question whether wars actually improve our technological knowledge is fascinating and complex.

There is no doubt that the threat of being murdered by another bunch of people concentrates the minds a lot. You will do your utmost not to get yourself and your loved ones killed, which means a lot of technological improvements in order to win the war, or at least force the enemy to negotiate a ceasefire.

On the other hand, several future Einsteins, Flemings and Korolevs might just get flattened to bloody pulp in the trenches at the age of 18, before they even had a chance to show their intellectual capacity. That is a major loss, too, and one whose true dimension cannot be guessed.
...which has gone through Google translate at least once.
> I'm not saying that its going to be easy but I doubt that its impossible.

So you're willing to concede that people being unable to make the choice to keep something about themselves private will make it harder for them to promote their own rights? Can you understand how a lack of the ability to have private conversations, relationships, etc. could cause serious problems for some people?

Because earlier in the thread you said: "I never heard any convincing argument about why privacy has value." but now you are seem to be implying that privacy actually does have value to some people, correct?

> That's why I'm advocating we spent the effort on solving the problem that arise when the information is public rather than trying to hide information.

That would be a reasonable statement if you weren't also earlier criticizing the concept of privacy and stating that it had no value. You can choose to reject the idea that people should have individual privacy and try to push for a world where people didn't feel that they had to keep secrets, but you'd need to fix all the systemic issues before you could ethically promote the sort of radical transparency that you're talking about.

Trying to claim that privacy doesn't matter because it'd "be better if everything was public" without first addressing these other issues is terribly callous and could only seek to increase the amount of trauma in the world.
The site is intended to vaccinate the population as quickly as possible. Ignore the rules, get jabs in every willing arm until there is none left. Vaccines in the fridge or thrown in the bin don't lower R0.

The goal of any competent vaccination program should be to get the most socially active population vaccinated as quickly as possible to lower R0. This means 15-35 and retail workers first. That's not what happened anywhere in the west because of gerontocratic politics.
"Amazon’s 2018 wage increase from $11/hour to $15/hour resulted in an average local unskilled low-wage increase of 4.7% suggesting those local markets didn’t need to meet Amazon’s wages in order to compete with them."

I think you're 100% right, but that doesn't mean they don't provide a useful service in bringing up the bottom. If you're in a state where the minimum wage is $7.25, you're suddenly dealing with employees that have a credible alternative of $15/hour. To your point, a lot of folks will trade some money for better conditions, but it makes it pretty untenable to pay less than half of what Amazon's paying.
Runek seems more likely to be asking, why pay the very high price of putting a trusted instrument on a trustless blockchain. Which I believe is a fair question.
that would be horrific
you can go to a community with high vaccine hesitancy or you know actually click the links I posted
Yeah, "skepticism" doesn't mean cherry-picking papers and data that agree with one's intuitive understanding of things or some pre-conceived narrative. It at least includes being as skeptical towards one's one beliefs as towards other ones.
The actual rate is the least important part. What is important is jurisdictional issues, accounting standards, corporate law, deferral rules and the like.

This is the problem with corporation tax generally. You can't really have a conversation about it in "normal" terms, that a journalist, politician or MOP can understand. It can only be understood via scenario plans and spreadsheets. It's a million little details. There is no "big picture."
Why on Earth would this be a good thing? I'm all for freedom of information, but I'm even more for foreign companies not ignoring the laws set by the government I elected.

Things get murkier when governments don't come to power in kosher ways, but I'm absolutely certain that the solution is not to have a bunch of profit-motivated companies from a completely different country and culture decide what's best for a nation. What happens when they get together and decide to make an unbannable advertising network instead?
This headline is is like saying drivers drive cars more than gas does. Which is nonsense.

They mean cultural evolution helps us adapt faster than genetic evolution. Which... we didn't need research for, it's blatantly obvious and easy to derive.
I was just making a tongue in cheek comment about being frightened by loss at the bottom of the chain, but (presumably) not about the top, where we are.
> Case in point: the recent demotion of Google diversity head for anti-semitism.

Who is the "woke" party in this case?
One problem is that this would effectively distribute tax revenue from a company by the citizenship of the owners (6 and especially 7) but most countries think they are entitled to some tax revenue from companies operating in their nations even if the company is wholly owned by foreigners.
It seems to me Amazon's comingling is bad for competition. Players on their platform, not between Amazon and others.

Have any of the regulators taken note?

I've been reading Congress' anti-trust research and reports. Haven't seen this called out yet.
For a bit more context (from the article)

Twitter's CEO Jack Dorsey personally donated money to groups organizing protests in Nigeria.
Twitter also created a special emoji just for the protests.
I read through the article and I genuinely do not understand what it is trying to say. Maybe I do not understand the backstory.

Can someone explain it to me like I am five?
That is basically what Flutter is. Renders to desktop, mobile and web, only tui is missing there.
Yep, the only possibility is that your business might be destroyed, you might be bankrupt, and your family needs to start again from zero.
Predatory from the perspective of other nations/states.
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That is the definition of median. You might be confusing the definition of median with mean or mode.
Wild animals either shelter from thunderstorm, or they learn from each other differet behaviours (like making herd close-knit) to pull through.
Except we already have a minimum tax worldwide - 0%. Perhaps every country should meet the others and offer 0% corporate tax. The solution isn't as simple as "minimum tax" as some places legitimately believe that corporate tax is not the most effective way to generate government profits (Wyoming and South Dakota at the state level).
Wow, this is kind of bonkers (if you'll read it you'll agree, trust me) ... Was seriously wondering if it was generated by a bad language model. How did it hit front page?