skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AMP had an (intentional..?) bug on Firefox for years, making it impossible to scroll in the internal page.

Luckily it wasn't a big problem, since Google also intentionally gimped the search results to an old mobile version when using Fx, so one didn't get amp links.
Yes. Especially the idea of paragraphs that contain multiple sentences.
> I haven't seen any real evidence that Mozilla has made any decisions designed to explicitly benefit Google.

Mozilla literally makes Google the default search engine.
> Rather than work 9-5 and go home and disconnect, you can mix and match personal and work tasks throughout the day.

Personally that sounds, difficult. I cannot multitask, and frankly the lockdown was horrifically lonely for me. Stuck in the same place, all the time, with no opportunity to go out.
Is there no way to run unsigned software on windows?
Anecdotally, my home city's hospitals are so full that they're turning away people from the ER who have a low chance of survival, like heart attack victims.

It's gotten so bad that the military was called in to restore peace.

The doctors there were on a news segment, completely burnt out and in tears, saying that 0% of their COVID patients are vaccinated and they're overrun.

So I believe this metric.
Your boss really should be upgrading your laptop.
>Many interesting parts of the Python extension are closed source

What stops you or anyone else to reimplement those parts?
Hardly. The company still has not owned up to their major fuck up in my book. They are willing to save themselves on the account of their customers. Dead company in the world of security, but might drag on in the scam world.
authenticity is a product of time and place. most traditional recipes, if they have ever been standardized, have only done so in the past 100 or so years. what we consider authentic Italian food now would not have been considered as such 2 or 300 years ago, but now we want to gatekeep based on arbitrary lines in the sand.

as an example, a historic cooking show I watch got a fair amount of heat for making his Scottish-descended grandmother's Scottish shortbread recipe, which used rice flour. According to the authenticity experts, this was sacrilege because no true Scottish shortbread is made with rice flour, you use corn flour. And that may very well be true in 2021, but the show managed to pull a 1929 Scottish cookbook that used rice flour in their recipe; it turns out that corn flour is now common because corn flour became extremely cheap due to American corn production, but that is a fairly recent change. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnYltDdE8Cw
This is brilliant, thank you for creating it.
As I said, I checked them. They're Source Available. Not Open Source. Read the licenses in the repos.
Problems That Hooks Solve
>mining, smelting, etc the chassis

Perhaps chassis costs (meaning carbon costs of making the chassis) are roughly comparable between ICE and EVs, so I suppose there was no need to focus on this in the report.

>and engine parts, it seems that those are acquired

Tesla motors are wound and made from scratch from raw materials on site. This data point would not be in favor of ICE cars, for the reasons you mention. Batteries on the other hand do increase the carbon cost and that's why EVs start off behind ICE cars at the start of their lifetime, catching up in terms of lower carbon used only after some period of use.

>Finally, the 24.8MPG number they cite is pretty large

They go by real world consumption, not manufacturer claims. Remember VW Dieselgate? Credibility is not a given in ICE circles. But you have a good point it's probably more about the EU/US difference here with US cars being gas hogs, due to size and possibly the impact of different emissions equipment in some states.

>Regardless, the discussion wasn't about replacing an ICE car with an electric

OK. It was one line, not so much a discussion, but it did come from you to be fair, so although I didn't read it that way, you get to decide. Still, I believe the comparison makes most sense against an EV, although it may not have been what you had in mind. If one cares enough about carbon to even make the comparison, and to try to defend the position that driving an older car is better for the environment, it doesn't make much sense to ignore the cars that are indeed better.

>clear history of greatly exaggerating various good news.

SpaceX and Tesla are legitimately doing great as far as I can see. Which good news were you talking about?
Colombia's most wanted drug lord Otoniel captured
Fair. So far there are three issues pointed out here that I'm not happy with too.

To re-cap:

1) Sharing AMP links is weird, feels wrong and Non-AMP links are hard to get

2) Breaks Safari's reader mode

3) Gives sub-par experience for websites that provide better experience when logged in since the AMP version is always the non-logged-in version.

None of those are deal-breaker for me because AMP pages come as a search results and fast loading results are very valuable for me when skimming to find the right one. Once I find it, I can switch to the full version(but Google makes it harder and harder. maybe this should be 4.).
Yep! They're completely procedurally generated to be random (within some anatomically possible range). It does get slow if you really crowd up the map (or you're on a large large screen) because I didn't particularly optimize for that case that much (and it's written in a slower compile-to-JS language I'm working on). If this was a part of something more serious I'd go back and optimize it more, but for fun, it was good enough for me.

To be more specific -- the slowness comes from the fact that the entire scene is redrawn (React-style) on every change or click, instead of incrementally updating the canvas. This makes things like resizing and removing speech bubbles easy but makes other things more expensive.
> And I cannot imagine a local zoning board wanting to go out on a limb to do something novel like approving containers just because a port is backed up.

I can, if they get paid for it. Rent should be reasonable for short-term storage and unreasonable for long-term.
First hit on google I got says:

> During April 4–July 17, a total of 569,142 (92%) COVID-19 cases, 34,972 (92%) hospitalizations, and 6,132 (91%) COVID-19–associated deaths were reported among persons not fully vaccinated,

In the same period

> Full vaccination coverage increased from 19% to 54%
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7037e1.htm
Information being all around us is precisely why your request is just as wrong. To ask experts to take time to evaluate all the questionable sources out there is unreasonable. And yes, this is a questionable source regardless of the interviewee or your feelings about Rogan. Obviously any podcast cannot be a rigorous or thorough treatment of the topic. The format makes that impossible.

The flip side of information being ubiquitous is that quality information has never been more accessible. Research papers and studies are clicks away. The answer is to not form conclusions so quickly, to seek reputable sources, and to seek a lot of them.
If you walk down many streets in the Mission and look a certain way, people will offer you weed, crack, or smack openly on the sidewalk in broad daylight. That's not an exaggeration, and if you haven't been to your city's equivalent I highly encourage it.

If you imagine a society crippled by gambling addiction, perhaps the best place to start would be by closing some casinos.
> ProtonMail needs to come up with technologies such that it’s not in possession of user’s data in the first place.

I believe it has them already? There's no reason they can't put an inline transparent Tor bridge in front of their mail infra to anonymise all inbound traffic i.e. TCP/IP->Tor Node->Tor Node->ProtonMail so it could only ever capture IPs coming from it's own Tor-node if compelled to do so. However it would still have an ability to log on the TCP/IP transparent endpoint. This risk could be mitigated by using their onion address [2] and using someone else's tor nodes.

The data-at-rest already is zero-access[1]. There is encryption of data-in-transit but no zero-knowledge network layer.. maybe they could work on this since they have support for tor [2]?

[1] https://protonmail.com/blog/zero-access-encryption/

[2] https://protonmailrmez3lotccipshtkleegetolb73fuirgj7r4o4vfu7...

[3] https://protonmail.com/tor
For drivers, I don’t think so. You can enable some boot settings that allow you to run unsigned drivers, for development purposes, but it will revert upon reboot, without anyway to enable it permanently.
Make yourself a coffee, get in front of the keyboard and start writing code to replace those extensions.
Why should I care about their work schedule then? Is it not my nature as well to disregard that in favor of my health?
> Proton should design their software and services to “fail closed”

They do have this design for their VPN if you enable their killswitch feature.
What’s annoying with Firefox is how much it advertises.

Seriously, every time you start it, it opens one or even two tabs saying why Firefox loves you and protects you. It introduces nagging on the new tab page to tell you how much Firefox loves and protects you. It installs Pocket or has shortcuts to help you buy products that love and protect you.

Firefox also insists that you should create a Mozilla account and upload all your passwords over. Because they are so kind and protecting about your privacy.

Mozilla also fires people who donate to Christian charities for the beliefs they have (and yes, abortion is a belief, whichever side you are). Even if you are the founder of JS. Hear that: Mozilla fires people who are technically good, for political motivations. It’s as dystopian as it gets. They never apologized.

Mozilla is as dystopian as Google, and the worst evil usually sits with people who believe they are the good guys. In fact, they are sponsored by Google and share the same political slant.
Microsoft and Brave both run ad networks. They are trapped in the same perverted incentives. Same thing for Apple.

Firefox is the only one that doesn't.

Then again, Mozilla only survives thanks to Google for sending search traffic their way.
https://archive.md/1yfdT
"The politicians and policy makers have failed in their job to come up with a well developed policy addressing various impact of new technology , partly because they do not understand it and do not have the expertise to solve it."

Agreed, and one of the reasons for the failure of policy is the millions of dollars spent by companies like Google and Facebook in lobbying and spreading FUD among politicians and the GP alike.

That said, eventually some remedial laws will have to filter through, as you cannot keep sweeping shit under the carpet and ignoring it forever.

However, that's when the real problems of policing new laws begin, as the long and tortured history of trying to get corporations to comply with laws
repeatedly attests. Cigarette companies deliberately lying and obfuscating the truth about the dangers of cigarettes for decades is a quintessential example.

The only surefire way of resolving this is to simultaneously legislate that company employees are equally liable under the law for a company's violations of the law. This would mean that employees would be in violation of the law if they engaged in or formulated company policies that violated the law or if they learned about such violations and did nothing about them.

In essence, as employees could no longer hide behind corporate structures, self preservation would kick in and to save themselves from possible prosecution they would make the company's wrongdoing public. (There is little doubt that this would be very effective law if penalties were high enough.)

The fact that laws aren't already properly framed in this way shows how successful corporate influence has been on government policy up until now.

If citizens feel sufficiently strongly about this then they'll be politically motivated to do something about it. Personally, I find it very odd that there hasn't been a general call from the citizenry along these lines long ago.

The fact that all past blustering about corporate misbehavior has amounted to essentially nothing and that there has been no change of any significe along these lines to remedy matters tells me that either the general public doesn't really care sufficiently about the issue and or that too many people own shares in corpations and thus have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo.
you would have to automate that somehow if it becomes an issue
Did they get the dancing bear (winamp plugin) to work?
If you just blindly follow the eslint suggestions you can very easily wind up with render loops. You need to carefully consider and understand the dependencies in each case. And if you want to do something specific when only one of your dependencies changes you need even more gymnastics.
Having a plan vs executing a plan are quite different things. I'm sure you could find all sorts of different "plans" that never came to fruition and stopped at the brainstorming/ideas phase.
I think that the number of people that want to go remote, are not the same as the number of people that we think want to go remote.

From my immediate team(20), there are two people who will go full remote. The _vast_ majority want something blended or flexible. Then there are some people ~3 who want to be in the office full time.

Granted this is for the UK.

I suspect that there is bias in news for remote only, because they are the sort of people who already put out a curated vision of them selves (ie linkedin infulencers) We know the archetype, and we know that they are not remotely representative.
In NL, a respected newspaper ( Trouw ) claims 25% of hospitalized patients has been vaccinated :

https://www.trouw.nl/zorg/wie-zijn-de-gevaccineerden-die-toc...

Dutch obviously.
Oh wow, the refusal is devastating then...
> even newest .net 5 is much more cumbersome compared to eg. golang (important for startups).

FYI .NET 6 + C# 10 has a ton of work invested into removing the "enterprise boilerplate" experience and making the language and frameworks more akin to node or go in terms of effort/LoC required to spit out a program:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tutorials/top-l...

There's also a few epics that are specifically focusing on .NET as a compelling cloud framework:
https://github.com/dotnet/core/issues/5397
Not sure about that, but I'd definitely take then there if other amusement parks killed children.

Better yet, I'd take them there if their motto was "don't be evil".

Google's old motto wasn't "we don't kill our users", so I don't really see what you're getting at here...
> What is it with MS these past few months?

I was thinking the same. It's not been a good few weeks for them. They're quickly losing trust which was hard to acquire in the first place given their history. Maybe a timely reminder to mention Halloween [1] ?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents
Well, yeah. I was talking about besides the actual terms of their agreement.
Let's never forget that we techies need to help protect the integrity of the internet even if there is no immediate, obvious harm to consumers. We're all at least suspected that Google was playing dirty with AMP, but it was frequently defended based on some pretty trivial consumer benefits. I see some minds being changed in this thread, especially when it comes to AMP, so that's a step in the right direction.
So I've researched this, because this question was asked like 6 month ago.

The short answer is yes, mainly with viral infection. Note though that sometimes it might be symptoms, not the infection itself, that causes damages. But in the case of some viral infections, like the HxNx or SARS-CoV-2, but also varicella, it's the immune response that is too strong and attack the body.
Tom's criticism was technically correct, but too nitpicky. I m on Veritasium's side on this.
This is exactly what I alluded to. See Apple’s private relay feature.

But PM needs to lead the tech world in privacy technologies instead of spending efforts in justifying why it should be trusted.

Another thing, data at rest is not quite end to end encrypted. If an email comes from a non-PM account to PM account, it’s received in plaintext and then encrypted. Thus PM has that data.
Everything about AMP is strictly worse in my experience.

In Australia, AMP pages load slower, not faster.

AMP breaks the iPhone Safari user interface, by not actually scrolling the whole page.

The URLs don't represent the actual site to which the user will navigate.

Logins break.

App-integrated links don't work properly.

And on and on.

AMP is a cancer on the web enforced by a monopoly for their own shady purposes.
YES. I had to look twice to be sure this is the same project we used 20 years ago to throw visuals on a wall while having awesome parties! Back in the days I routed the audio from the dj-mixer into winamp to get this to work. Fun times! Thank you so much for those memories and big thumbs up for the maintainers of the project!
You do have to wonder what impact this will have on the employment prospects of Google engineers in the unlikely event that it all blows up for Google. Having a toxic company on your resume is never a good thing.
Where did they actually do nice things?

VSCode is still not entirely open source and the official builds have spyware included.
Trucking is not an easy job. The working conditions are poor, you have to pay a fair amount of any benefits out of pocket, and like most "gig" economy stuff the logistics companies are driving a relentless rate towards the bottom.

According to the American Trucking Association, turnover rates for drivers have been at about 90% for a decade. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2021/05/25/999784202/is-t...

I would assume that the tight job market is making things worse.
Actually the guardian headline is perfectly accurate. It completely is accurate to say the algorithm has a bias, even if that bias isn't "if (right-wing) then amplify()"

> If you search for the word “bias” in Twitter’s post you’ll not find support for The Guardian’s editorialization

But if you search for "favour" you'll find "[our findings revealed that] algorithmic amplification favours right-leaning news source". In the abstract. Which means the exact same thing.

> Here’s an important excerpt, which notes that more analysis is needed to understand whether the amplification is unnatural relative to user interactions

The guardian article includes your quote so I don't think you can accuse it of omitting important context.

> Twitter’s internal research is saying that certain tweets are organically more popular and engaging and more likely to be shown

I'm not sure where you're reading this from. It is pretty explicit that further research is required in to the cause of the discrepancy.
Not really surprising that states with major tech/datacenter presences aren't on this lawsuit: California, Colorado, Massachusetts, New York, Washington (state) and North Carolina all come to mind.

Texas being on it is a bit of a surprise.
If you know there is a problem, why not fix it before the crash happens?

If the US fails really hard here, many innocent people will lose their jobs, homes and lives.
While I generally agree, what you said is more applicable to games. When you make tools, the long tail of the income distribution is thicker due to a large number of niches that are too small to to be interesting to large players with budgets for user aquisition

It's still possible to make a livable wage by publishing high-quality niche apps and investing in some ASO
> San Francisco already has among the highest number of people placed in supportive housing per capita of any city in the country.

Is it actually higher in SF than in NYC?

> When Newsom tried this approach as mayor, his conclusion was that for every homeless person they put into housing, two more would show up the street.

This is a fascinating idea. Does this mean that kicking one person out of housing somehow remove two from the street?

Or could it mean that three people end up homeless in the time that it takes to house one homeless person?
They didn't lie, they stated a policy valid for one context.

When the context shifted, they changed policy.

Public Health Policy is based on Science, but it's not the same as Science.

It's a strategy, a general policy and set of communication principles, based on facts, designed to get a large variety of people moving towards better health outcomes.

Some of those facts are not pretty, much of it is too complicated for public consumption, and necessarily not going to be directly part of the communication.

Obviously, in the interest of transparency, those facts and other bits of information (such as study results) are definitely publicly available to anyone who can Google - but what you're going to hear from Fauci, CNN, the 'papers of record' is the basis of a Public Policy.

If everyone acted conscientiously, in accordance with CDC guidelines, even while remaining vigilant to the extent they choose (i.e. verifying information as they so chose), this pandemic might very well have been already over.
Good luck for them, this is absolutely terrible for your doctors. Hope they get help from neighbors with their kids and groceries.
> Community banks mostly don’t have programmers on staff, and are reliant on the so-called “core processors” like Fiserv, Jack Henry & Associates and Fidelity National Information Services. These companies specialize in extremely expensive SaaS that their customers literally can't operate without.

The complexity in this space is difficult to overstate. We've been working on building solutions that integrate all of the disparate legacy banking technology into 1 logical application the bankers can use. Been going at this for almost a decade now.

Success in this space is extremely unlikely. We failed ~4 times but were encouraged by how close we got on that 4th try to give it a final go. Seems we have some traction this time. Watching other vendors (with far more resources than us) try to break into this space is quite amusing at this point.

The key to winning in banking with technology is to listen to the business. There is a LOT of contradictory bullshit in banking, and if you just use your developer intuition to build the domain model in isolation, you will fail as soon as the business gets involved. Outsourcing development of these integration products to a 3rd party is a guaranteed fail when working with these kinds of customers.

Expert mode is building a product that can work at 3+ banks at the same time. Darksouls mode is building one that can handle more than 5 jurisdictions.
Ultra-processed vegan and vegetarian foods: are they as healthy as they look?
Online advertising nuked most media company revenues.
I have been following this GitHub issue for a while now, as a user and fan of Flutter. In my opinion, I have not seen a more clear explanation as to what problems hooks (both in React and as a general programming language architectural concept) solve exactly and why other solutions don't work. It is not merely about terseness or typing fewer characters but about the fundamental limitations of composability in class based approaches.

This is the longest thread in Flutter's GitHub issues, and it has some lively debate by the creator of the issue, Rémi Rousselet, the creators of Flutter (Ian Hickson is one, who also wrote the HTML5 specification), and even the creator of Redux, Dan Abramov. I recommend, if you have the time, to follow the discussion between Rémi, @rrousselGit, and Ian, @Hixie, which contains the most pertinent info. I also chimed in here and there, once I understood hooks more thoroughly so that I could help others understand them as well in the thread.
230 people living communally on 175 acre eco village [video]