skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Man I loved that watch - I still have it in my watch box somewhere, but it miss behaves now. I regret not buying the black plastic versions for spares when they were about £12 each. Ho hum!
Are there any decentralized identity systems? If my government refuses to give me a passport, drivers license and copy of my birth certificate, how do I prove I am who I claim?
I naturally fast once in a while. I almost always skip breakfast and eat twice a day. I was always curious why we eat 3 times a day, when we feed most pets twice a day.

Normally, once a month I'll have a lazy day, where I only eat from 6pm to midnight. I'll still have two meals, just closer to each other, one at 6pm, one at say 11pm before sleeping. Next morning I'll skip breakfast again.

That's just the way it works out for me. Not actually trying. Good to know this might in fact be healthy.
I believe currently we have only Yonge-Dundas one. Yonge-Bloor was removed due to imbalance in utility:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/bay-bloor-pedes...
Why don't they just use 'donotreply@eastlink.com"?

It's only their marketing emails that need a "noreply" address and there is no reason that address has to be exactly "noreply". There is no confusion with any other user or company, because their no reply addresses are noreply@theirdomain.com.
Are these recent in NZ? I used to work in Wellington and don't remember seeing these around.
I have to admit that I have used noreply@mydomain.com for years in cases where I have to give an E-Mail but don't really care about replies. I think I got the idea from GitHub. Before they had the current system with @github.com
email addresses I think they recommended to just put a noreply@somedomain.tld in your commits.

When I started I had the intention to just kill the address when I ever will get too much SPAM, but surprisingly this never happened.
I think most SPAM bots just filter out all noreply@... addresses.
80Probe – Brute force subdomains and probe domains for webservers
Yes, feedback loops loop. That's what they do. The trouble with open loops is that they crash and crashes are really bad. Keynesianism came to the forefront after the Great Depression which was horribly mismanaged by conservatives free market zealots. Crashes are really really bad. Roosevelt came into office with 25% unemployment. Let me say that again. Crashes are really fucking bad and are to be avoided.

In the US we currently have low inflation (1-2%) but not deflation. Same with Europe.
I find it interesting that the author repeatedly emphasizes the toenail removal. For ultramarathon runners, this is not particularly unusual (https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/heal...).
The images are remarkably good, considerning the general quality of GB camera images. I suppose this demonstrates that if you stuff enough glass in front of a camera, you can get half-decent images even from the worst of sensors.
Looks a lot like this:

https://youtu.be/OyfBQmvr2Hc?t=1h6m35s
No society is not degenerating we just have the wrong social tools available to us. Yes, there are nasty people all over. Some are always trolls by choice some are trolls but don't really know it, trolls by accident you might say. I argue that they are the minority by a long shot. Unfortunately, social media amplifies their voices to the point of domination.

Mr. Sheeran quit Twitter because of trolls but from the fact that he's a popular singer, we know that he has many more fans that love him than people that dislike him. Yet, he was overwhelmed by the trolls.

In the same way that we would never tolerate someone yelling disparages at someone else in real life we need to find tools that will minimise that in social media.

Unfortunately Twitter finds it more advantageous to let things be as they are than to minimise the antisocial behaviour of their users by enforcing social norms of civilised behaviour.

So it's not society falling apart but it's social media not policing itself properly. That's what needs to get fixed.
You're worried about browser fingerprinting? Does any Firefox extension effectively counter that?

From my understanding blocking 3rd party JS is largely insufficient for accomplishing this, regardless of DNT settings.

You may be right regardless that it's better to appear as much like a stock browser as possible, in terms of privacy settings, so DNT should stay disabled. But in practical terms it might not make of a difference.
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Wrong thread, dude :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14695265
Blocking through-intersections & pedestrianising streets are both ways to break the grid and better manage the flow of traffic, without demolishing anything.
I don't understand why this is being discussed in terms of giving something up.

Educating others, being honest about these advantages, and actively calling out people who benefit and deny the benefits are all ways to combat the systemic problems and none of them require giving up what you described.

That is one doesn't have to be altruistic to the point of self harm in order to work to remedy the ills that exist.
If there is something people need to understand about online services it's that:

(1) when you pay for an online service, a firm owes you a service.

(2) when you use an online service, a firm owes you nothing. Be OK with the idea that the service may disappear tomorrow.

Email is an increasingly important form of communication, and you should always have a service contract with the firm hosting your emails, with the consumer protections that come with the exchange of money for services.

I recommend fastmail.com or mailbox.org to all my family members when the topic comes up.
Ironically the UK identity "system" bootstraps in the other direction; you need a photo signed by somebody suitably middle-class ( https://www.gov.uk/countersigning-passport-applications/acce... ) to get a passport, and lots of places use utility bills and bank statements as proof of address.
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14697421
Really wish the author labeled the axes. Took me way longer than I care to admit to figure out what the graphs meant.
UserAgent is still top culprit (16 bits of identifying information) followed by browser plugins (12bits) then WebGl (12b), canvas (9b), language (if not english nor chinese) and then fonts at 5bits.

Total is around 20bits (due to overlaps).

YMMV.
I am willing to bet good money that you are a fellow Illinois grad
You may not fully understand just how much work they're asking him to do, some of which may not even be possible, because of their own fault; and on top of this their refusal to help him fix their mistake at all.

This is not "bad luck".

This is "extreme cruelty".

Also, since you like conventions, grandfathering in decisions made before a convention became reality is also a convention.
"In an email to CBC News, Eastlink spokesperson Jill Laing said "noreply@xxxxx.ca" business response email addresses have become commonplace across businesses and industries.

The company believes that email may lead some to "believe that information coming from this address is from Eastlink."

Sounds like this Eastlink person doesn't know most mail servers receive mail quite happily from anything@any.domain, as anyone who's ever received spam knows.
It's much easier for a spammer to get through your own implementation of spam filtering than through Facebook's or Google's.

Do you think you can implement automatic ip black listing, phone confirmation and better spammy account categorizers based on common spam signals than the big players, who have dedicated research teams working on this? I know I can't and even if I could, I'd rather spend my dev time on tasks related to the core business.
"95% of people in poverty in the US escape poverty during their lifetime."

Do you have a source for that? As I mentioned, the number I found was 30%.
Is it just me or someone else thought about the 2016 movie Arrival talking about time in languages (no spoiler - I think it is a great film for NLP folks)

I remember there was a research claiming babies have innate ability to perform simply addition and subtraction (1+1=2 for example), and here is a reference to babies innate ability predicts their math skills

https://today.duke.edu/2013/10/babymath

P.S. I was also told the hardest part of researching babies is to get clearance and approval from their parents

So it seems like we as human have the basic building block for math built-in, and it takes practices and further development to create complex concepts based on those simple blocks.
Sounds like it supports the Safir-Whorf hypothesis (mentioned here by booleandilemma), which has generally been refuted by linguists in recent years: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
This slideshow points at some key problems high achieving people face post-high school - how to stand out when everyone's as smart/hard working as you when all you know is getting good grades?

I knew a lot of people who double majored (even attempted to triple major...) and filled up their schedule so much that (apologies if this sounds a bit rude) they had an "empty" life outside of classes. This actually hurt people in the CS job search (not a problem for CMU grads though). The ones found a job easily are doing the same things as me, a lifelong B+/A- student. Of course, this is anecdotal and all, and who knows where we'll be in ten years, but I always wondered if all the stress and lack of free time during ages 18-22 was worth it.

I know a lot of careers demand a ton of your time in undergrad for grades, extracurriculars, preparing for grad school, etc. I'm glad programming interviews focused more on practical skills and problem solving skills - my undergrad was a lot less stressful and more fun that way and I was able to explore and mess around with technology and life in general.
I find all this hand wringing over Google to be so tiring. Google is doing what is best for it's customers. Be that advertisers and/or searchers.

If they stop doing that, they'll lose their market dominance.

Last I checked, nobody is forced to use google to search for things, nobody if forced (except for perhaps android users) to use Chrome.

I'm not a laissez-faire capitalist by any means, but I don't see that Google has an unfair monopoly. They have achieved their dominance because their services are viewed as "best" by the majority of folks out there.

Nobody complains when Google suddenly starts delivering more customers to their web properties, only if traffic suddenly dies out.
No major publisher wants to be an app

Every action says that this is a very wrong assumption. In an era of OS-provided ad and tracking blockers, the desire to appify is greater than ever. Now we have Android Instant Apps and the almost certain appearance of the iOS alternative.

and social platforms which link to content using in-app browsers

Facebook once opened links in an external browser. Then they actually wrapped Webkit and started coddling it in a built-in browser. And now they're heavily favoring content that is pushed as Instant Article content. There are only so many times that a user can be attacked from malicious websites before the people who send you there start to get wise.
>I think it's reasonable to take it back, but it's unreasonable how they are doing it.

I don't disagree. There should be a lot of leeway for their customer to get their accounts in order.
I'm afraid pjmlp is right, and it's baked into the business model - if you make a one-off payment for the thing you're not going to get updates because they want you to buy a new one. Manufacturers will keep doing this until they are forced not to.
I think a fair alternative would have been to make his email address read-only. It still would've been inconvenient for him, but he would have been able to control his internet legacy on his own terms, and it would've solved their concern about his emails appearing to be "official."

I'm not sure if the fact that they refuse to migrate his emails to a new account is a matter of terrible customer support, technical debt, or incompetence.
>which has generally been refuted by linguists in recent years

The strong version has been refuted, the 'soft' version is pretty well accepted among linguists.
Purchasing a service is no guarantee that it will still exist in the future. It seems to me that a brand-name free provider like, say, gmail.com will probably far outlast the for-pay services that you mentioned.
It's actually quite easy after the first few days. Your body simply has to adjust to burning fat/glycogen. I've gone days when I've eaten maybe 500 calories and never felt hungry, but the first day I thought I was going to pass out. One thing you learn from fasting is to recognize when your body actually needs food vs when you just crave a blood-sugar-rush. What most people think of as "hungry" is really just a trained reflex, and it can be retrained. These days if I'm not active I can easily go at least 12 hours without feeling hungry.

Granted my job is sitting in a cube 9 hours a day with some scattered meetings. YMMV.
I did a six-day water fast and felt the same way.

Water only for four days, water with some lemon squeezed in for two more days.

Like you said, my hunger plateaued after 1-2 days. I just got weaker by the end.

Interestingly, the last couple days I found myself really enjoying watching the Food Network. My friends asked why I was torturing myself watching it, but it wasn't, I felt strangely sedated watching all kinds of delicious food being prepared and cooked.
which manual?
Speeding up crypto on Wire desktop apps
I have no idea, I haven't tried running it.
the LIKE button
Why frightening? This is long overdue - allowing us to use whatever tooling to generate interactive webpages, instead of dealing with JS.
JL Gassee took the risk of asking the high price, Apple refused... we know the rest.

Rewatching late 90s BeOs demos made me really emotional. The actual performance, the mindset, the aesthetics so much was right. Felt better than my latest linux on a 2007 dual core.
it doesnt have a page with all the answers at the end of the book
AWS is too expensive. Any other options for this big size RAM?
Neat stuff! I wouldn't have thought that old of a digital sensor would have the sensitivity to see distant dim objects like this. And being able see the same thing in Stellarium by matching up the coordinate view with the actual photo is also cool.
Well deserved.

Feel free to make products in other markets as well - as long as they are profitable.

I want you to stay around :-)
In the same vein, one of my favorite etymologies is the origin of the word "pedant":

"derived from Greek παιδαγωγός, paidagōgós, παιδ- "child" + ἀγειν "to lead", which originally referred to a slave who escorted children to and from school"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedant
> it does weaken their message and other supposed great work and actions

Jefferson's personal failings do not diminish at all the great ideas, work and actions he did. Americans have benefited enormously from them.

Similarly, Einstein's contributions to physics are not diminished by his bad treatment of his wife.

http://www.openculture.com/2013/12/albert-einstein-imposes-o...
As an Eastsider, I am mostly confused by the countless "left/right turn only" panic lane shuffles in Seattle. And also street parking.
Thank you, that helped. I had to get rid of '^' anchors (because it's not processing individual lines anymore) and I put

sed -e '' < /dev/stdin

into the script, but the solution is now much simpler and faster.
>There might be such a convention now. There absolutely was not such a convention 20 years ago when he registered it.

That's why I said it was bad luck.

>How any can defend such actions is beyond me.

Just to be clear, I'm not defending the manner with which they took his account. He is (was?) their customer for 20 years and they should give him ample time to make arrangements. I'm simply stating that I understand why they would want to regain control of that email.
I'm not sure what you mean, but the problem would be that noreply@ZZZ is often used by the company that runs ZZZ; using "noreply" for a personal address presents the same problems as registering other commonly-reserved addresses like postmaster@ZZZ or admin@ZZZ. It doesn't have anything to do with the ability to actually receive mail on an account named "noreply".
Is there a way to swing this in a way which this is not contributing to an already exploitative and (primarily) sexist industry?

I also fail to see how such a system could combat abuse of those working either.
They just installed a couple of these in the Pearl district of Portland, OR.

I think on paper it's a great idea, but having only a few in your town means you need to educate a lot of people, and don't have much time to do it (e.g. as they are approaching the intersection).

They have signs up explaining how they work, but I still see many confused pedestrians.
> If we had four digits on each hand, as some cartoon characters have, would we think in octal?

-This is too good an opportunity to reference Tom Lehrer's "New Math":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6OaYPVueW4
Why else, for example, would hitting the back button 2 stories deep into a carousel AMP article not go back one article...but go all the way back to Google?

Given that it doesn't do this, at all, I'm not sure how to respond. Yes, if you open a story in the carousel and then swipe to the next story via the machinations of the carousel, then clicking back goes back to "google". But if you follow "organic" links it goes to a rote web experience.

Phrased as if I said AMP was their sole strategy

No, it's phrased as if you said exactly what you said, and needs no strawman. Whether you hit a Google cache or a host site means exactly squat. Google's core intention, it seems, is simply to try to provide a good experience for the user which is indeed a long term income strategy.
What I find troubling about Yelp's arguments and the antitrust situation is that these parties are basically telling a company what its website must look like and have.

They are saying that a website must conform to their idea of a search page which contains only plain text search results.
I do something similar with chrome users. I like it better because each 'user' is a separate window and I can color scheme which one i'm in with browser themes. The setup takes a while initially although.

Having multiple container tabs on the same window can be hard to manage & track, at least with the way brave presented it with their numbered session tabs.
This kind of thing is why it's foolish to use an email server that doesn't offer IMAP access. IMAP is what allows you to get your own data to do with what you will.
There's nothing reasonable about expecting others to read your email when you don't read theirs. All these orgs should be blackholed as abusers of the commons, little better than spammers.
I just got my calorie need measured as part of a dexa scan.I'm 6'3", around 200lb and my need is 1600 calories/day before activity. High 2000s sounds really high unless you are significantly larger than me.
Indeed, Google is too big and has a massive effect on the Internet across the whole world. A single capricious decision made by Google/Alphabet can cause dozens of businesses to shutter or fail. And that is a big problem, especially if we care about upstarts and new companies.

However, that responsibility they fail to take in consideration except by lawsuit, does not counteract YELP's BaaS - Blackmail as a Service. They have been known to, time and again, to shake down companies as local as mom-and-pop restaurants and other "juicy" targets. If YELP were to die today, we would be better off. They are the broken window in the Broken Window Theory of economics, and exact their damage by "Oh no, someone else wrote bad things about you - Pay us and they'll go away".

The courts ruled incorrectly about their doings. They should have been ordered to cease and desist. Or owners should be able to order them to bring down their respective reviews. Perhaps impartial review sites have a good reason to exist, but Yelp has shown that if you don't pay their protection money, you get all the bad ratings put forth and all the good ones 'disappear'.

Blackmail as a Service. As founded by the Better Business Bureau, and continued by Yelp.

(Edit: Evidently, I struck a chord that people don't like. I'd prefer that people rebut me instead of -1's that mean effectively nothing other than "shut up". )
Yes, I write it on the back of my CV using a small font so nobody could see it.
It seems to be varying a lot. As of writing this, they're about the same and the widest variance is ~0.3ms but I've seen both lines spike over the other.
The pattern still needs to be different at each sampling, yes. Moving the grating is one way to do it, or it can be done with a micromirror array, for example.
The Hacker Work Ethic
Steve Bannon's Hollywood Years and the “Seinfeld” Royalties
I think it’s more frightening the thought of compiling an entire language runtime to run in the browser
That's not exactly a fair representation of the recent work. It seems to be more that because people aren't very discerning, they often demand things which are bad for them.

The real mystery to me is why this was ever considered a bad thing, shouldn't the market reward competent participants at every level (including consumers)?

Say what you will, but before we introduced so much planning, the market worked just fine for most people, at the expense of some people; now it's been hobbled and it works poorly for nearly everyone, to the immense benefit of cronies and the bureaucrats who receive such generous donations for exercising the new control in their favour.
Not to mention the widespread availability of SDR chips in the RTL family which can hear this data transmitted if you're reasonably close to an airport.
It fails at other things too.
The keto diet, and low-carb diets in general, already are under heavy fire from the mainstream media. Said media often cites government studies funded by said Big Agra / Big Pharma lobbies.

Big Corn is infinitely more powerful than Big Tobacco, and arguably more dangerous.
GnuPG crypto library cracked, look for patches
Thanks for putting a smile on my face!
I wonder whether the Oxford Circus crossing is actually just an attempt to reduce the number of pedestrians walking around the outside edges of the junction - it's pretty disorientating coming out of the Tube and not knowing which corner you're on, and the entrances seem to get in the way of pedestrian traffic trying to cross non-diagonally.
I think you might mean "marvel at the fact"
"Yes, but the typical internet user has never heard of AMP and wants it even less..."

But they might have seen the icon, and realized it means "it loads fast!", and they want it.

Users want faster pages, we can agree on that, correct?

They don't know what AMP is, and don't care about it.

"Which can always use simple lightweight html pages instead of AMP with its JS cruft?"

You can, but no publishers seem to want to do so. But you can. AMP is optional.