skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/business/brave-brendan-ei...

I don't feel bad for this guy - He says and does things regularly that are hurtful to society with no signs of becoming a better person.
It would be great if HN had a "request contact infor button" -- and one would get a notification alert that another HN account holder had requested to see ones contact.
Will Firefox go extinct like Netscape did?
To be fair, folks on both sides are vocal, and rightly so given the magnitude and consequences of this pandemic. Also, we must remember that the spirit of science is to question assumptions and rigorously prove hypothesis.

In case you're unaware, there are legitimate second and third order effects to consider regarding vaccines and the evolutionary dynamics of SARS-CoV-2. Don't take my word for it - here is peer-reviewed research from the brightest minds and top institutions in the world, raising serious concerns about our approach [1].

Excerpts from [1]:

- "The spike protein receptor-binding domain (RBD) of SARS-CoV-2 is the molecular target for many vaccines and antibody-based prophylactics aimed at bringing COVID-19 under control."

- "Such a narrow molecular focus raises the specter of viral immune evasion as a potential failure mode for these biomedical interventions. With the emergence of new strains of SARS-CoV-2 with altered transmissibility and immune evasion potential, a critical question is this: how easily can the virus escape neutralizing antibodies (nAbs) targeting the spike RBD?"

- "Our modeling suggests that SARS-CoV-2 mutants with one or two mildly deleterious mutations are expected to exist in high numbers due to neutral genetic variation, and consequently resistance to vaccines or other prophylactics that rely on one or two antibodies for protection can develop quickly -and repeatedly- under positive selection."

- "The speed at which nAb resistance develops in the population increases substantially as the number of infected individuals increases, suggesting that complementary strategies to prevent SARS-CoV-2 transmission that exert specific pressure on other proteins (e.g., antiviral prophylactics) or that do not exert a specific selective pressure on the virus (e.g., high-efficiency air filtration, masking, ultraviolet air purification) are key to reducing the risk of immune escape"

- "Strategies for viral elimination should therefore be diversified across molecular targets and therapeutic modalities"

[1] Risk of rapid evolutionary escape from biomedical interventions targeting SARS-CoV-2 spike protein (April 2021)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33909660/
Can we really? For torrent to work you still need someone to host it in full at all times. Who will host a 40GB file that will be out of date in a week? The website provider will, so we’re back to square one.
I knew Tom Dowdy's name as a 14 year old kid in the early 90s; from DarkSide, which was an important inspiration to me trying to write graphics demos at the time, and I knew I'd seen his name in Apple credits. I've just been reading today how admired and loved he was, and I fell deep into his journals from the culinary academy, and his over-the-top method of making cassoulet, which is my favorite dish on the planet and seems like it was one of his. Many years later, my ex and I also talked about quitting the racket and going to culinary school, but I didn't have the guts. He sounds like an extraordinary fellow, and his work left an impression in my brain. I got DarkSide running on macintosh.js today and took a screenshot of his lovely "Kaos" algorithm, which builds these abstract works over time; I remember watching it for hours on a Mac II.

https://ibb.co/ZTntfD5
Could keep this on the front page for a bit.
You don't have to replace the plant in the same location. Battery "peaker" plants can be remote, especially as there's limited need for on-site staff.
Yeah, that and the other political commentary + dropping most of their projects (rust, ffsend) really isn't helping.

Really wish they'd focus on one mission (making the web free) and not address anything else.
“Cars killing people on foot”, that is.
> what would be an acceptable percentage of collateral casualties?

As low as is currently feasible to get it at the point of this theoretical war, and lower once we have the capabilities to make it lower.

Because this is an evolving standard based on our current capabilities and the stakes of the theoretical moral war you propose, there is no single universal answer, we'll always be paying attention to the context and we'll always be adjusting. It is thus very important that the public have information about what the current casualty rate is for civilians. There is no easy, universal numeric answer to what is an acceptable casualty rate, but in no world is a secret percentage of collateral casualties acceptable. The public needs some level of access to what is going on so we can have informed debates about whether what we're doing is justified.

The Intercept's original coverage of this leak wrote:

> The implicit message on drone strikes from the Obama administration has been one of trust, but don’t verify.

> [...] Additional documents on high-value kill/capture operations in Afghanistan buttress previous accounts of how the Obama administration masks the true number of civilians killed in drone strikes by categorizing unidentified people killed in a strike as enemies, even if they were not the intended targets.

How could the public have a meaningful debate about the morality and acceptability of drone strikes when we didn't even know what their effects were, when they were being misrepresented to us by our own government? You're asking for a single, universal number of what is and isn't acceptable. I'm asking just to know what our current rate is, and to not have the government lie to me about that rate. We can't debate whether or not our results are acceptable if we don't even know what our results currently are.
Tesla aren't the ones installing or operating the battery.
Yeah but 9-5 for 40 years is fucking amazing.
> I encounter a glitchy or poorly performing page

When you have the time, you should note it here: https://webcompat.com/
Can you tell me how do I not use Safari on iOS ? Some help appreciated!
Is there anything you could imagine he could be doing with personal contributions that you would consider worth "attacking" him over (at which point I guess we could reverse engineer that you consider that activity notably "worse" than what Brandon Eich actually did) or do you feel like there is nothing that someone could be doing in their "personal" lives that should cause them to not be a good public face of a project like Firefox?
Not really, rent has skyrocketed in major cities, especially around Computer Science universities.

I had to split a 2 bedroom apartment far away from the city center with 2 other friends to get to $120/month.
Yes it seems to be happening. It’s happening way too slow compared to how fast Paris has revamped their streets. But bike lanes, bulb outs, road diets and what not are slowly being implemented in US cities.
There are bicycle advocacy groups pushing for more bike lanes in US cities. I'll strongly recommend the work and reporting by The War on Cars on this[0].

[0] https://thewaroncars.org/2019/10/04/the-problem-with-public-...
The recent changes to the address bar and the terrible new "Photon" UI are really annoying. Don't annoy your loyal users.
Thanks, I'm sorry
>It is a calling. I don’t recommend it for almost anyone but some people are compelled to do it. There is little to recommend that lifestyle. Society won’t reward it one whit unless you are spectacularly successful.

Doesn't help that the message that SV culture is imparting is "Start a business if you want to get rich unless you want to be a lowly employee."
> And those older systems has more intelligence in them. Todays’s “AI” is a small number of tricks aimed at large amounts of data, with an unprecedented and enormous amount of marketing added.

If you're talking about deep neural networks, I can understand this viewpoint. But generally the last decade has proven widely successful for high quality vision recognition models that just weren't available before then. And with something like transfer learning, you can take a powerful off-the-shelf model and specialize it without a huge dataset.

The real barriers IME are around legal and privacy implications. There's also a strong argument about if these models creating enough value in the first place, but they can work on a technical level.
I wonder whether we might get to witness audience booing again for another outrageous Apple product as pre-recorded Apple events works great for their goals.
> I don’t expect small developers to be able to make a top-notch browser engine any more than I expect them to make software equivalent to Photoshop

Procreate. Acorn. Pixelmator. Affinity.

All small developers. All successful and eating a chunk of Photoshop's lunch.

Sketch and Figma outright stole Adobe's lunch.

> or Final Fantasy XIV.

Not all games have to be FFXIV to be enjoyable or playable. And indie games are thriving.

However, you require a fully-features browser to browse the modern web.
Excuse the bluntness, but that's bullshit (as in: I don't think you're lying, just that you are wrong).

What makes entrepreneurship so special is the freedom. A lot of these downsides are accompanied/caused by that freedom but you got the direction of causation wrong.
Yes, of course, but not being able to do the proper minimum viable thing 'x', does imply the possible alternative is good enough..

Also I was mostly talking about correcting errors in existing data..
There’s discussion on the link itself that this trade off might not be present here: the reason plants haven’t evolved more efficient enzymes themselves is that they don’t naturally have the selection pressure to produce the heavy crops we want. A plant with a less efficient enzyme could still be optimal for its environment, therefore there are resources available that it has no need to use.

Since we have different priorities than the plant does, we can “optimise” it to take advantage of resources that it never would on its own.
I see a depressing number of folks infinite scrolling, eyes glued to their screens, while walking in public.

Texting is too specific, it's smartphones in general...
I agree with your take that infrastructure is not enough, but I think it's still necessary, at least until there's a clear change in culture.

Over here in Paris, there still are many bike-related fatalities, and most cars are smaller than in the US, biking has been more popular (and feasible) for longer, etc. Yet people still don't pay attention. And by "people" I mean car drivers [0], bike riders [1] and pedestrians. [2]

Regarding pedestrian / cycle shared streets, it may overall be better that sharing with cars, but there have been quite a few cases involving scooters (as in Lime and the sort) and pedestrians, some of them fatal, on this kind of shared roads.

Not sure what the best approach would be to help change mentalities.

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[0] As a motorcyclist I try to make sure people have seen me / are going to stop and check / etc and the number of people I see completely absorbed by their phone seems to be climbing every day. Also, a new fashion in Paris for the last few years is running red lights.

[1] A few years ago I started seeing signs on trucks and buses along the lines of "blind spot / if you can't see my mirrors I can't see you / don't overtake on the right", usually with some cyclist behind. I've always been surprised by this, I thought people had figured that out. My motorcycle instructor taught us to be sure to be able to see a truck's mirrors when behind. My reaction was "duh", to which he responded "you'd be surprised".

[2] Many people walk into traffic without paying attention. The City has recently started deploying blinking lights on the border of sidewalks synchronized with traffic lights.
Firefox was born from the ashes of Netscape. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla#History
Why Artificial Intelligence Isn’t Intelligent
>only Safari is able to stop this madness now

Safari is usable on less than 20% of machines, it absolutely will not be stopping anything.
It's also the bane of my existence as a web developer.
How about not polluting build logs with stuff like this from the CoreJS developer:

https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/issues/708

I'll read the compiler errors when I don't have to scroll past solicitations for employment.
Idk about chimpanzee, but we have been at war with baboons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cph0D7Vdjp4

https://youtu.be/TAGjuRwx_Y8?t=429
I know the conversation is now (IMO deliberately) about how the mask mandates need to come back, but can we take a moment to address the rhetoric of the past few weeks around vaccines? I have been in quite a few discussions on this site and elsewhere where people were getting abused for claiming that a vaccinated host reservoir is nothing more than a selective pressure in an endemic illness, that vaccines are necessary even for low risk individuals because they slow the spread to unvaccinated individuals, that the hospitalization rate will go down if only we are all forced to vaccinate, etc. When will those of you talking like this finally admit you were wrong and that many of those you were arguing with know more about this stuff than you do?
And exactly what we don't need is an "us vs. them" to solve the problem.
William S. Burroughs in New York
High court victory for Stonehenge campaigners as tunnel is ruled unlawful
> Users can't make an informed choice about what browser engine they use. They don't understand what a browser engine is, and what impact it has on their security, battery performance and so on.

My 80+ year old grandma made the informed choice to use Firefox on macOS. She can't use Firefox on her iPhone. She wants to use Firefox everywhere. She disagrees with you.
These right there, and all the other issues in the same vein are the probably the reason.

Sure, make a simplified browser interface by default. But don't forget to give power users an escape hatch to get more control over the browser, and make it do what they want. They are the ones that recommend the browser to other users.
If you want to help, report the sites you have issues with here: https://webcompat.com/
I believe that part of the problem might be that people have lost "traffic reflexes" and situational awareness during lockdowns. Anecdotal evidence: as a cyclist I now encounter a lot more people suddenly stepping from the sidewalk right in front of me without looking. It feels like every week has a years worth of hairy situations when compared to pre-covid era.
I'm not sure if this has been attempted, so please do correct me, but I would very much like to see AI models designed to assist rather than give coarse classifications like "X disease detected". The best example I can think of would be creating bounding boxes around specific tells, or listing specific markers that a clinician would be looking for themselves, leaving the final decision up to them.
I had the same problem and used one of the dark overlay tools that the author of the article criticizes to bring it down further than 0% brightness. But that trick also messes up color depth. I've since switched to an iMac, and the nice thing is that while the display can go very bright, when you dial down the brightness to the lowest value it is very dim to the point of being hard to read in daylight.
>It's 100% texting, both drivers and pedestrians.

This is unfortunately very true, even for societies which are much more sensitive to this issue. As a regular cyclist in my hometown of Berlin/Germany I sometimes see so much as every third car driver looking at or obviously typing on their phone although this is illegal and of course dangerous.
I adblock with this in combination with iOS Firefox:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/weblock-adblock-proxy/id558818...
How exactly is the web "untenable to use" on Safari?

You can't seriously call Chrome-only web "tenable"? https://web-confluence.appspot.com/#!/confluence
Not on all devices and browsers... Doesnt work for me.

A link to a pdf is just a file download. There's not really an established way to pass that page anchor to an out-of-browser pdf viewer.
> - The project already exists, and now you need to refactor out all the compile-time errors in order to move forward (time-consuming).

Use a static analysis tool with proper, non-brittle tracking of new vs old findings (including proper move and copy file tracking) and forbid new findings, e.g. by preventing offending code from being merged to master with tools like Gitlab, Bitbucket, what have you. Works very well in practice. Bonus points if the tool can also tell you when you modified a function and didn't clean up the old findings in there. Then you can really enforce incremental improvement.

Disclaimer: I work on Teamscale (https://teamscale.com), which does all that.
Although, some would like to use this case as something to ban battery storage all together, new much safer battery technologies[1], Current magapack has been deployed using old battery technology and built 4 years ago. Batteries will just get better check this one:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOxIoFNfEsk

or even this one from May 2021 Harvard university

-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXo9TlEb41A
What’s your source on recyclability optimism? Otherwise it sounds hand-wavy. Recyclability is very bad right now.
Me too. Firefox on both my Windows and GNU/Linux laptops. Firefox Focus in my phone - I use a phone browser only for reading and Focus works perfectly for that use case.
> my Mac Pro happily drove 2 27" 4K monitors in 10 bit color at 144Hz.

It's a bit tangential, but I keep seeing people mentioning 4K monitors with high refresh rates on HN, but I've never seen any. Would you care mentioning what make / model those are?
I can deal with my stuff without politics, but when I need cooperation like when sharing a road how do I avoid politics? Isn’t getting buy in to share the road inherently political?
Obviously not. I have close friends who worked as waiters (and even worse, in the kitchen), and they were getting $300/month on 12h of work with the promise of tips.

That practice really needs to stop.

Recently I went to a restaurant in Cluj that had an app from which you could do everything: see menu, order, send notes to the chef, pay

The experience needs to be polished a bit (low 4G signal and no wifi made this quite hard to use for me), but I feel that could empower waiters more. Maybe by getting paid the same for a lot less work, or by creating a completely different type of job.
That's awesome man. I didn't know you could host Wikipedia on your own client / own back-end. Seems like this means if someone could built a better interface and performance for Wikipedia they could begin to steal some of their traffic. Is it not?
Superspreaders do not care about compliance or COVID prevention tools.

Superspreaders (antimaskers, antilockdown, antidistancing, antivaxxers) are the people keeping COVID alive.
Care to...elaborate?
I’m not a grid expert so I could be wrong, but don’t they place the peaker plants in urban areas to avoid “congestion” on long distance transmission lines during peak demand?
You're also manipulating datastructures directly with Redis. So there is very little abstraction compared to a DB.
Most reputable news organizations already control the narrative of the world for most people. Allowing them to entirely censor other opinions will block both fabrications like the example you showed, and inconvenient truths like the situation in Palestine, the general strikes in India, even the miner's union protests in New York.
No shit. Not only do we simply not have sidewalks, drivers in their gigantic dumb-phone-enabled SUVs and lifted trucks have no incentive to not drive like complete jackasses at all times until they pancake someone. It’s absurd to me that 1) roads are no longer built to be pedestrian-friendly and 2) drivers aren’t constantly ticketed for driving like assholes.

Disclaimer: I’m an NYC-SoCal transplant. But god damn I wish these drivers weren’t so bloodthirsty for road rage ultra kills.
It seems the Greenland sheet (684,000 cu mi) has around 1/10 of the volume of the Antarctic ice sheet (6,400,000 cubic miles; figures from Wikipedia).

Not that many years ago, those numbers were hard to find. Somebody's been thinking.
Yeah, me two (coming from Edge).

I would argue that Chrome is better in some aspects, but using Firefox is the least thing one can do to stop Googles dominance.

I also quite like the UI changes and would say that Firefox now has the best looking chrome after Safari (highly subjective).
What issues are you running into with Mongo?

With Mongo you can still use Schemas, and migrations are pretty easy.
Thanks a lot! I guess that validates a bit my choice of style. I was afraid it might sound too story-like for such a technical subject.
had no idea people have that much trouble with the new UI. Looks quite alright to me, although I did lose compatibility for 2 plugins so that was a pain in the butt.
Is a Four-Day Week the Future of Work?
> only Safari is able to stop this madness now

Safari is a hard sell when one can't install an ad-blocker on it (work on the street is you can but not easily)
> and all I can say without laughing too hard is that these arguments are extremely wrong.

I’m not trying to imply anything, but why do you think you’re uncomfortable?
> Tawana Vicenia Brawley

That casea didn't even pass the grand jury. Compared to Ronnie Long who got 44 Years when the races were reversed.

> 2. Tony Timpa

"Random events" is a funny way to say a consistent pattern of Whites police killing mostly nonwhites and White murderers and lynch mobs getting away with no consequences. Vincent Chin's death was racially motivated and the all white jury punish to convict his murderers. That is a race problem.

> Black women and men and American Indian and Alaska Native women and men are significantly more likely than white women and men to be killed by police. Latino men are also more likely to be killed by police than are white men. [0]

[0] https://www.pnas.org/content/116/34/16793

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/28/us/ronnie-long-nc-wrongful-co...
Its funny that you mention the not really annoying shit and forget about the push for pocket, the constant push for some of their free services like firefox sync, send, vpn, etc that, the reappearing ebay bookmark i deleted like 12 times by now, the removal of live bookmarks, etc... and those are just the things they can control.
I keep using Firefox on the desktop as a kind of resistance factor,. however the truth is that the war is lost, the Web has turned into ChromeOS for all practical purposes.

Specially since Microsoft has always been on the same boat as Google, remember that such kind of features go back to Active Desktop.

Additionally, everyone pushing Electron apps is basically contributing to Chrome market share.
Terrible title, and we should not be rewarding such clickbait with our attention.
Its like someone at Pentagon is really bend on implementing all of Jonathan Nolan ideas.

https://personofinterest.fandom.com/wiki/The_Machine

https://westworld.fandom.com/wiki/Rehoboam

https://westworld.fandom.com/wiki/Solomon
But the implication appear to be the virus is unlikely to get there, because of low rate of mutation. Which appear to be a very weak counter argument..

To my untrained eye, it also seem that mutations are not a straight road, but an open space, and it is not really possible to put predictions on when a thing, that is jumping around in a chaotic manner, will end up at a certain point, just based on how often it is moving...