skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a three player world now, and Google wants a better web, Apple doesn't want a better web, and Mozilla is somewhere in-between, but increasingly playing the "privacy above all else" card too.

In June 2020, Apple declared a bunch of APIs they will not implement (https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-declined-to-implement-16...), in a big press blitz trying to make it look like they were some noble hero. Web MIDI (incredible fun), Web USB (very useful for Arduino using folk for example, who have excellent web-based tools), Magnetometer/Ambient Light/Battery/Proximity sensors, WebHID, Device Memory, and that's just the half. A week latter Mozilla put out a similar PR using the exact same Fear Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD) to try to make themselves look good, to declare themselves virtuous non-implementors.

Sure, I agree, not every site should have access to these sensors/capabilities. There are privacy risks of turning them on. But they're also excellent capabilities, that really help users do interesting things. Making users use less-secure less-sandboxed native apps is a downgrade. There should be some security regimes where these web techs can be permitted.

For a while Mozilla wasn't even reviewing a sizable chunk of web standards (tracked via the excellent https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/), just declaring them unsafe & leaving the convo. They've at least started going back to old Request for Positions & reviewing a good number of them, even if they don't intend to implement. And there's a good number of standards they have about-faced on, have accepted as real asks. In general, I'm encouraged in seeing a much more interested & engaged & progressive Mozilla emerge quite recently, within the past year or so.

I don't know what to do about web standards. Google takes a lot of flak, but who is there to work with? Edge, a Chromium fork, has some pro-web attitude, and indeed drives some new features for Chromium & participates. But there's largely no one but Google+Edge to deal with left in the web standards implementer world. The other browser vendors are broadly against a lot of features, for reasons of malicious-self-interest. Meanwhile Chrome continues to have one of the most open, progressive, interactive, review-seeking, concensus-desiring, most mature & responsible feature-lifecycle processes the world has ever seen. There is nothing else on the planet that gets shipped with such a high bar, such a socially pro-active, such a well planned & democratic process for how the feature gets developed. It's the gold standard of standards. https://www.chromium.org/blink/launching-features/#launch-pr...
Indeed it would, and because of the topical nature of the problem publication in a top journal would likely occur.
Seems a bit tabloid-y for Bloomberg. It's got all the hallmarks of a daily mail front page, except for a rhyme.

* Alliterative "billionaire brin"

* Grammatically inexact reference to a polarizing company/product.

* Pun on "giving vehicle" to refer to a nonprofit organization.
And the greatest Russian rock singer was Korean.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Tsoi
Another example:

I was working as a service tech for a hardware company. We had an order come in for 1200 off something that needed to ship in 4 days. The rub was that the firmware needed to be updated over RS232, and it only supported COM1. We realized if we did one at a time we wouldn’t have enough people to finish even 300 of them. We didn’t have any way to get ahold of the original developer in Japan. So I opened the program in a hex editor and started looking for the string COM1. When I found it I changed it to COM2, then 3, then 4 to produce 4 separate programs that we could run side by side.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moor_of_Peter_the_Great
in supplementary:

Toward an Integrative Theory of Thalamic Function

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29618284/
In general, most use cases for assembler are better off using intrinsics - these give access to the advanced instructions of a processor while the compiler still does the register allocation and scheduling, and ABI compatibility. Only in a few cases, like if you really expect to invest a lot of time to scrape out the last few processor cycles, or you're doing something that can't be done with intrinsics (like an interrupt vector) does it make sense to drop into plain assembler.
I read the article and while I have little reason to doubt what's been reported, it strikes as the usual one-sided US trying to do do good things while $competitor doing bad things. What is this, Hollywood? Or do I have to read between the lines?
At least humans are still allowed on them for now.
This seems to be specifically only for Chat bots.
It's not about being reachable in a 1-1 chat. It's about being excluded from group chats which are very important for keeping up the group and friendship in general. For example, if I deleted FB Messenger right now I would still get invited to the occasional event but there would be way fewer "yo, I'm at X, is anyone free to hang out?" type messages that I will see, or invitations from acquaintances in big group chats, or the current shitpost of the week that will become part of everyone's lexicon for the next 2 months other than yours, etc. For a lot of people (including me) such communication is a majority of their overall communication with their friends and breaking them does break a big part of their life.
I think the post is more aspirational than inspirational. The code does appear to be generated, but it also seems like a dry satire of "just solve these few simple problems."
"for now" is the operative phrase here...
Agreed, and that was the sentiment I had in mind (among many other contexts) in writing the thread. Monocultures can be "productive" in a narrow sense but then are less adaptable and do not cope with unknown unknowns particularly well.
What if we could have minimal redundancy and still be capable of error detection?

Check this[0] out:

[
id [0003]
type [donut]
name [Old Fashioned]
ppu [0.55]
batters [
batter [
[
id [1001]
type [Regular]
]
]
]
topping [
[
id [5004]
type [Maple]
]
]
]

Now if we delete `id` we will get a syntax error. And yet no commas, no colons, no quotemarks! Only square brackets. Minimal redundancy.

For a bit more error-checking-thru-redundancy we could analyze indentation (one reason why I recommend C-style rather than Lisp-style formatting) and warn if we detect any inconsistencies.

Ergo: through design magic we can get rid of a lot of the redundancy and increase desirable properties, without trading off much of the positive side.

NB for a machine we could compact the above into:

[id[0003]type[donut]name[Old Fashioned]ppu[0.55]batters[batter[[id[1001]type[Regular]]]]topping[[id[5004]type[Maple]]]]

[0] More on that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35675811
Doesn't gasoline habe to (typically) go through carnot efficiency limits though when it combusts?

IIRC, EV motors are 90% efficient with battery power --> road power conversion. A typical ICE engine is, what, 30% efficient and maybe a bit more with good turbo design. So practically gasoline is about 4000 Wh/kg?
Perhaps if some advanced civilization were able to modulate radio pulsars. But it's not like we're monitoring across a wide bandwidth, so they'd need to transmit at the specific narrow band that we listen to. SETI is fun to think about and experiment with but it always strikes me as bit of a fool's errand.
Modern day cobra effect https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive
The 30x redirect status codes are handle by the browser whether or not scripting is enabled. It is part of the http standard.

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9110#status.301
Sounds like it wasn't handling junctions correctly. I wonder what obscure/ancient code caused that.
But will the shareholders be happy with all the stuff that needs to be done.
If anyone in the San Jose, CA vicinity are looking for a recreational hog hunter to help control the pig population on their land i.e. shoot them, feel free to reach out. Zero cost to you, and will abide by all rules, regulations, and any preferences that you have. Will also share some of the dressed meat!
I did this too, now i generate a random pwd long as hell and i do a pwd recovery when i have to log-in so i don’t have to store them anywhere.
My master pwd is my email pwd based on a mail server i operate.
Yes paranoid is my second name.
Don't know why you're getting downvoted -- this viral tweet was a huge catalyst to getting people aware of this issue. There's even a Reply All podcast about it: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/n8hw3d
A chapter from An Invitation to Mathematics (Springer 2011):

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-19533-4

Supplementary material: https://extras.springer.com/?query=978-3-642-19532-7
Don’t think legislators can force Apple to write software for your phone in the US at least. Maybe in places with fewer free speech protections.
Spanish is in fact younger. The language was standardized and normalized by royal edict about 500 years ago. While strongly based on Castilliano, it was not the same. "Spanish" as a single cohesive, consistent language did not exist before then in Spain or anywhere else.

By comparison, the rules and structures of English (such as they are) were not altered significantly following the great vowel shift in Chaucer's time. Mostly minor spelling changes and word choice.

All languages adopt foreign words unless there is an active body attempting to prevent it, such as the French Language Academy.

French words are not however just loaned to English. It was thoroughly baked in following the Battle of Hastings in 1066, when the nobility all spoke French for hundreds of years. Basically every "fancy" word in English came directly from French while "plain" words came from Anglo Saxon (Germanic) or other related sources. Incarcerated vs jailed. Debris vs trash. Magnificent vs great. "The player regarded his opponent." vs. "The player looked at his opponent." (French for "He looks" is "Il regarde".

The great vowel shift didn't mess up English; the lack of concerted normalization of English is what did it in. English is the greatest pragmatist without design of all world languages.
Kids today:

https://tinyapps.org/blog/200702250700_why_in_my_day.html
> I would say because it relies on an hardware key

This isn’t true on Apple, Google, or Microsoft devices which have a trusted hardware store – I use my MBP’s Secure Enclave for 90% of my logins since it’s just a Touch ID check.
That really depends on the audience. On this topic there are broadly-speaking two types of people: those who want the conclusion first and the details later ("managers", if you will), and those who want the details first and the conclusion later ("investigators", perhaps). Knowing which class your audience falls into is incredibly valuable.

I've seen this described as a pyramid. The first group wants to see the precipice first and work their way down to the foundation. The second group doesn't want to look at any stone before understanding what it's resting on.
I'm looking forward to listening in on the Guardian / Colossus chitchat, if that's allowed, or even comprehensible:

> "After the scientists activate the transmitter linking Colossus and Guardian, the computers immediately establish rapport with mathematics. They soon exchange new scientific theories beyond contemporary human knowledge, too rapidly for the Russians and Americans to monitor. (wiki)"
> The United States does not do anything other than what serves it's own interests.

That's a common belief, especially among people outside the U.S. But I think it's totally wrong. I don't think you can look at the Iraq or Afghanistan wars, our our support in Ukraine, and say that's serving America's interests. George W. Bush and Hilary Clinton exemplify a bipartisan coalition, cut from the same cloth, that believes in liberal democracy and individualistic human rights as a religion, and who think America is justified in using war to promote that religion around the world.
I assumed insider information was going on, but instead it seems like a coincidence once you read it. It is very tabloid-y.
Thanks, so what would qualify as in-app payment then?

If an application unlocks certain features only with a license code, is that an in-app payment?
The logo on the shirt looks like Incredible Universe
It sounded like he was developing a new, more magnanimous electric car.

I wasn't sure how cars can be magnanimous or selfless, but I was prepared for the article to explain. Maybe it reads you Shel Silverstein books while you drive.
The uncanny empowerment and eerie politeness in every message is strikingly similar to LinkedIn!
yes, i got that. my thought was that UX is more than just the prompt. although it is nice to have a consistent prompt over different systems
So I've been using Language Transfer English to Spanish.

The method uses your native language to scaffold the target language using patterns and rules. They constantly discourage you from trying to memorize or remember the word and instead encourage you to use your principles to "find it" or "think your way there".

For example, they teach you that virtually any English word that end in 'ation' will correspond to a Spanish word that sounds virtually the same, so for example:

- salvation = salvacíon

And the Spanish verb will be the Spanish word minus the "acíon" plus "ar". Since this almost always works, you can often use this principle to find a lot of common verbs you need. So if, for example, you want to say "save", think of the english "ation" word that is related to saving, so "salvation", Spanish "salvacíon", which gives us the Spanish verb "salvar".

So with that rule, and some rules for present tense conjugation and word order, you can soon you can say a surprising amount very quickly by "thinking through it" rather than memorization. So they "build up" your Spanish from these sorts of building blocks, and there are a surprisingly large number of them. "Don't remember it, find it" is the guiding mantra. And it really works well. Even as my Spanish advances, learning new principles continues to be helpful and kind of magical.
I know of two instances, but they were short lived. One revolved around hole_birth, and the other around reflinks and sendfile... but that second one could have been a python/portage issue instead.

There was one instance of issues with encryption, but the feature was in testing at the time, and has long since been rectified.

As for failure modes... the first issue above caused issues with send/receive, the second issue caused empty/sparse files to be written instead of data, and the encryption issue caused issues with send/receive and/or garbage data.
This is just a guess, but forming up into sounders (group name) probably was good vs predators that existed in Europe long ago, but don't exist now in the southern US. There are a few mountain lions but not enough anymore to impact the population and coyotes might take an abandoned young but even one adult would probably scare them off I think?

Farmers that really want rid of them use big net/cage traps that catch a whole sounder at once, because escapees learn to spot the traps and spread the knowledge apparently. Not sure what they do with the meat.
breaking Lanham Act here we go
It means it is your forever, unless it is taken back, the reasons for which would be described elsewhere in the contract. The language may not be lay language, but neither was the ream of paper it took to buy my house, but people still do that every day.
Making something “autoregressive” by moving the numbers around doesn’t mean it’s meaningless. A stateless thing is stateless. It has no internal state. It has no self to be aware of.

> Why should continuous time matter for intelligence? That seems entirely arbitrary.

Intelligence is arbitrary. This is a personal view that helps keep it meaningful. If you exist discretely you may as well not exist. You’re just a concept

> How often do humans apply reasoning to make a decision? Are humans not intelligent when not employing reasoning? Does reasoning require language? And are humans without language intelligent? What about animals? Any definition of intelligence really should spend some time grappling with the facts of animal intelligence...

You’re gradually shifting the bar from “self aware” to “capable” and I don’t care about the latter.
GrubHub driver made nearly 1k deliveries after committing deadly hit-and-run
Finally something really useful.
That was my intuitive first thought, but a healthy left brain stuck trying to control a crippled right body is a worse situation than a healthy left brain controlling a healthy left body and merely deadweight on the right.
Yes. That's literally my point. It's really hard for Apple to establish a network effect when any group above a certain size can't use iMessage or FaceTime and have to use a 3rd party app like Discord, Snap, or Messenger.

You can't be the "everyone else is one it" social network when every Apple user uses a 3rd party messenger and video chat app for at least one person. That app ends up being the winner.
Also 100k people
I am blind. I know sensor-thingies since the early 90s. I have to admit, whenever I tried one, it was kind of fun to play with, but eventually turned out to be useless in practice. The problem always boils down to the bandwidth you have for getting input from the sensors. Those based on vibrations have a very limited bandwidth, and those which auralize your environment tend to impede your actual hearing, which is more contraproductive then you might expect.

In general, there is this phenomenon that tech-people, when confronted with the problems of the blind, tend to think there should be simple and cheap solutions. The truth is, there seldomly are any. Whenever someone tried to find a better way to build braille displays then piezzo electrics, they built something with subpar performance or low durability/lifetime. Even when just recently a EU-funded project tries to built an indoor navigation system, they found out during the evaluation phase that what they have produced is not practically useful.

There is cool assistive technology, dont get me wrong. But the barrier to producing something which is useful in real life is higher then most student-project creators might think.
Exactly. Half of those achievements are space related and the guy responsible for them (Korolev) spent 6 years in the Stalin's gulag that he barely survived, his life was cut short at 59 probably as the result of the traumas he received there and who knows how much more he could have achieved if not for that.
Isn't that just the "reject all" button in the provided screenshots?

The dark pattern you describe is shown in the first screenshot as an example of what not to do: they say it "can at best be frustrating to users and at worst draw enforcement actions from regulators in a number of jurisdictions", which is a nice way to say it's annoying and illegal.
Any definition that tries to claim your response here is consciousness is wrong and uninteresting to me. It is subjective either way.
> Google wants a better web

Really? I believe that they want to control the web.
that's an interpretation I hadn't considered, I would say the only new thing is that prominent billionaires have large percentages of a public stock, and the movements of those stocks have to be disclosed.

This is probably the only reason that Catalyst4 is known about at all, because it is the organization that sold shares ultimately controlled by Brin.

edit: no. its saying the strategy was new, not that Catalyst4 was new.
Self-Management: The Top Ten Business Reasons to Trust Your Teams
Looks like a project I launched https://culture-club-333.web.app/
Does it respect DNT headers? If no, it does not respect users.
https://twitter.com/NYTGames/status/1620791597788008457

On March 1st, they removed the digital versions of the acrostic and cryptic puzzles. They've taken down the entire archive, including something like 150 cryptic puzzles and 450 or so acrostic puzzles. They also no longer publish either type at all digital, though they still are in print.
Cloudflare doesn't magically put itself between you and the website.
They're like the NRA/gun manufacturer, they build the tools, the usage is Up to the websites.
And most of the web admins are lazy or not knowledgeable or just smart to not want to deal with negative stuff that comes with hosting a website.
So the question is, does the website you are visiting respect its users?
Irony is some of the most popular, "file download" sites use cloudflare to protect themselves from scraping and spam too.
What's the difference between "Reject All" and "Confirm My Choices" (with nothing ticked)? Could be a subtle dark pattern...
Also..

Although the domestic pig as we know it today took hundreds of years to breed, just a few months in the wild is enough to make a domestic pig turn feral. It will grow tusks, thick hair, and become more aggressive. https://mybosstools.com/fun-facts-domestic-pigs/
Yes, people that don't agree with you are pure evil.
We are betting more on Cloudflare as a company lately. Our static website was just moved to Cloudflare Pages and it is working really well (we have over 200 Pages and counting). We were trying to figure out how to handle the Cookie/Consent stuff and this comes along. Would love to try and see how it works out.

Btw, if you haven't tried, give Cloudflare pages a shot if you are looking for a no nonsense static website tool. Combine it with Cloudflare workers, you can add dynamic features as needed. I don't work for them but just a happy customer.
Agree, blanket statements as "never a solution" always bring out the worst in me :-)
Yes, your analysis of my deficits also reflects what language concepts I wish Duolingo would focus on, but for some reason it’s dozens(?) or hundreds(?) of units before you get to other tenses.

They don’t focus on word order explicitly at all, and instead correct you with guidelines only after you fail to answer, which I find to be incorrect instruction.

All in all, I’m learning something, but I feel frustrated with the lessons taught and at such pace.

Why should it take me 2 years or more of instruction before I learn tenses or appropriate word order?

Their focus seems to be primarily on building vocabulary, but it too is spotty. There’s no app feature in any language to look up common language features like how to pronounce the alphabet or count.

It’s bizarre. A United States preschool class will cover these things.
Sounds like it would be trivial to compromise your phone number and sms 2fa
How do people come up with variable and function names in a decompilation like this?

Do they guess it based on what they end up thinking the function/variable does in the code?
I know xkcd thinks we should celebrate the 10,000 people learning something new each day, but I wish people would hold back from having strong opinions on renewables if facts like the sun not shining at night are blowing their minds.
Alpha-Co-Vision: Real-Time Video-To-Text
A real-time video-to-text bot that captures frames generates captions and creates conversational responses using a Large Language Models base to create interactive video descriptions. Powered by Salesforce BLIP (Bootstrapping Language-Image Pre-training) and Cohere AI, this bot is capable of unified vision-language understanding and generation using transformers.
By the way, my encourages the agents to disagree. Many are not polite at all. The goal was to explore inter subjectivity.
Yeah, half of those achievements are just rocket science. Seethe and cope harder.
> If you don't like PWAs, you're free to not use them, and you're even free to benefit from the improvements their competition brings to the whole mobile software ecosystem.

IMHO, that's very naive. Look at ElectronJS apps. I hate ElectronJS, still the most used apps on my Desktop computer are ElectronJS. Why? Because I don't have a choice, because it's cheaper for the developers.

Before ElectronJS, I actually had real desktop apps. So yeah, I see the case against PWAs.