skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like giving some Senate candidate in Missouri a bunch of money to go after Google?
Believe it or not:

Many of us far prefer Windows to MacOS.

And it's not just old habits:

I came to the various linux desktop environments after Windows and i still prefer some of them over both Windows and MacOS.

(Spent almost 3 years on Mac. Started as an enthusiastic user. Left really disillusioned. Have later come to the conclusion that it is really great and I'm just incompatible:-)
My favorite thing is when I search for a program, it comes up, I go to click on it or press enter, and then the web search finally comes back with the results and now I'm opening some browser with a random fucking web search. ARGH.
I'm a pedestrian. I don't drive. I'm sure the cars don't have air bags on their bumpers.
> Meaning you sign with a private key which is linked to a certain amount of cryptocurrency.

This requires that the 50 different chains each use the same private key for the stake.

What if 50 different chains are presented in which no private keys are the same?

Why would an attacker reuse the same private key for a new, but valid, chain?

> [...] anyone can submit proof to the chain which shows that a certain stake voted for multiple conflicting forks.

How does this solve the problem when the miners (who may have mined on multiple chains) are the ones who need to include this proof-of-fraud in the chain? What will make them include a transaction proving they've committed fraud?
This is the point of transaction fees in bitcoin. Fees get 'attached' to the block that is mined and go the miner. So even when all bitcoins have been distributed there will remain a profit motive for mining. The difficulty in mining is also automatically algorithmically adjusted, so if the industrial scale miners move onto other things - suddenly it might become profitable to go back to GPU mining. And the fewer people mining, the more profitable it would become.
I agree that a $100/month is probably on the low end for the whale category. But, I think his broader point is that there’s at least some evidence that the whales in question are, in fact, people with disposable income (i.e. middle class or better; often professionals) for whom pay-to-play games are a substitute for other equally expensive IRL hobbies that are not uncommon among people in that social strata (like, say, golf, tennis, or skiing).
Anytime you want. Anytime is a good time to remake something so long as you’re not in a position of privilege where your decision to remake x has an unfair advantage (I.e. other than just the actual merits of your remake).

In other words, so long as you’re not Hollywood cashing in on a remake of x, y, or z just because you can (eg “why not release a third reboot of the Spiderman series in a span of just ten years?”) and people will watch it just because of who you are and how big your marketing budget is, then by all means. Let your remake speak for itself.
Experts found a way to exploit #HP printers to hack into company networks
There are a lot of unsolved problems with Proof of Stake, despite what it's proponents typically advertise, and many of them are believed by experts to be insurmountable.

For example, one problem with proof of stake is that private keys only have value while you still hold onto them. Once you sell your coins, your private keys are no longer worth anything, which means you could potentially even sell these keys to an attacker with no risk to yourself.

The attacker of course does have value though, if someone can gather enough private keys together for a specific snapshot in time, they can create an alternate history.

Another big issue with proof of stake is that once you have a certain amount of stake, through diligence you are always guaranteed to preserve that amount of stake. And even further, if you are a validator who approves transactions, your permission is required when someone else wants to buy stake. An attacker who is able to gain enough stake to commit an attack for a short period of time can commit that attack forever.

With PoW, hashrate requires heavy ongoing electricity expenses. Getting to 51% does not mean that you will stay at 51%, and there's little you can do to stop someone else from buying more chips to push you back below 51%.

There are a lot of other fundamental issues with Proof of Stake, and a lot of good reason to believe that it will never be viable in the fully decentralized, fully trustless environment that bitcoin thrives in.
Those trade offs are unsustainable. They are something the very young do without thought of what life will be in that situation five or ten years down the road. or even in the moment. His entire "what happens if the van breaks" section boils down to fix it yourself or call AAA. The fact that maybe it might take multiple days to fix the van, requiring you to live in a hotel or motel never seemed to warrant a notice. The expenses of what can go wrong can be very serious.

I've never seen these lifestylers put serious thought into what goes wrong. They rely on youthful immortality to carry them through.

again editing for language and adding content.
An XSS issue could make your users' data vulnerable.
Wow I totally missed this. Fascinating.
> applications just need to be updated

Updated away from web standards to false and null and random string. And then they made window.print work again.

Additionally what guarantee was there that execCommand(magicString) where magicString is `print` wouldn’t be removed in the next security “fix” because the security fix should have broken this too as it did window.print? After all, it seems to do the same thing. Answer: none at all and then you’re back to square one.
Use the Weston full-screen shell. No need to invent a new Wayland compositor for that, and certainly no reason to have multi-display-system abstraction like Mir seems to have.
Yes, if you're being pedantic about it, but they did not go from one Facebook-like platform to another. I think people just don't see much value in Facebook-esque platforms like before, because they recognise them as places filled with all sorts of irrelevant junk that can usurp copious amounts of valuable time.
http://cacr.uwaterloo.ca/hac/
If your social skills are good enough, your date will explain that _their_ place is the destination.
It's a propaganda and indoctrination tool. It's the holy grail of mind control that multiple governments attempted to build for decades. It will be worth trillions until most governments ban it (or already had banned it, not sure the current status of it in China and Russia)
I have recently begun a campaign to unfollow everyone on my Facebook feed to reclaim my attention. Removing the addiction to seeing what I've missed in my news feed has given me back an hour a day.

Haven't used it to buy and sell things, though.
is still only an issue if you pass untrusted data to your js code.
From reading about van living, people often have a bucket for emergency defecations. And people on the road say they often go months and months without needing to use it. Toilet issues seem to be the greatest fear of people going into van living, but eventually discovered to be a non-issue, from recaps I've read.
I expect the practice of of "sous vide in plastic bags" to be shown as long-term unhealthy sooner or later.

It's one of those things where I wonder if the plastics really are as safe as claimed, or just "safer than the standard we set (and we didn't set it high, and our way of measuring is flawed)".
I'd love to see IPFS take off
https://ipfs.io
It was pretty awesome for enterprise software in the mid-90s, but the world caught up with it soon after.
These are all my personal opinions.

There is lack of law and consequences for bad behavior. It comes from leaders that are afraid of extreme liberal backlash and outrage. Unfortunately, I'd even say there is a disdain for police officers in SF. That has to be an incredibly hard and frustrating job.

I've been in SF for over 5 years, but enough is enough and I moving out next month for Nashville, Tennessee. Downtown SF is no place to raise a family.
I'm in the same boat, and I seriously think it's a form of addiction.

It's falling for the small short-term reward that you will regret later, rather than choosing the delayed but bigger reward that is ultimately more genuinely satisfying.

Sadly I don't have a solution for it yet. I've given up other addictions by quitting completely, but that doesn't look like a good option in this case. Although it also didn't seem like a good option in the other cases at first.
no its not

Several CEO's (plural) tell their Staff (singular ) a CEO only has one set of employees.

The headline implies that all the CEO's have multiple sets of staff
The first sentence of the story notes that fact, but it is still news since Thiel is a board member. Regardless of when the plan was initiated, it's interesting that Thiel owns so little of FB.
I don’t like the idea of my Facebook friends knowing what I’m selling.
I'm really disappointed in rockpapershotgun.com's adblocker strategy. They make you click on "I'm a bad person" in order to continue without disabling adblocker. While somewhat funny, I'm firmly on the side of ending bad ad implementation. The advertising industry needs to improve (I actually like the rare good ad), as most of them are trashy. Anyways, rant aside over.
What would be exciting about going back to a guy's van?

I mean, the whole thing is a living standard compromise to save thousands on rent. That doesn't make it an exciting destination - quite the opposite.
They don't. Every ad is clearly marked as "Sponsored post," and it definitely never shows up as being posted from one of your friends.
CBS will cut off Dish signal for customers over Thanksgiving weekend
The whole phenomenon of sugar and fructose being added to virtually everything is beyond comprehension. There are so many people, fat and slim, saying they don't want to be fat, yet eating foods with added sugar every day. Why not just replace all the added sugar with erythritol, for example? The whole situation with sugar reminds me of the situation with opium in early 19th century China
Cheers!

Another good book, more about the practical realities of creating a worker co-op in the current context, is Companies We Keep: Employee Ownership and the Business of Community and Place by John Abrams[1]. It's more a story about his experience founding and running his construction company as a worker cooperative. It would probably be a lot more relevant to pondering whether and how to form a cooperative business in the current world.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Companies-We-Keep-Ownership-Community...
A bald assertion on the internet need only be met with another bald assertion.

If you want someone to argue with you, you need to present an argument first.
Would this really happen?

I think the global players will just serve content from outside the US (they've all got datacenters in the EU anyway).
> Just look at the attacks on Politifact, Factcheck.org, etc.

TBH, those are not exactly shining examples of "objective truth". I've repeatedly seen different ratings given to different politicians on essentially the same statement, because in one case the reviewer felt sympathetic to the politician and went out of the way to explain why it could be considered accurate, and in the other case was hostile, and went out of the way to point out why it is not true. Neither was, strictly speaking, incorrect - almost with any statement that is interesting enough to discuss you could find, if you look thoroughly enough, something to confirm and something to reject, especially if you consider not only the bare statement, but the context and implications, as those sites frequently do. It's inherently subjective business.

> the attack is targeting organizations that do their own independent verification of stories (or at least try to)

Or sometimes not :) Yes, the MSM does reporting and verification, but also does irresponsible reporting, exaggeration, conjecture, moral panic, sensationalizing and distortion. And people that are angry at them for that are trying to keep them (a little bit more) honest.
regardless of rates, it puts a strain on the healthcare system
I disagree with you for a number of reasons, but it starts with I think you have "smart" mixed up as search boxes are the epitome of "dumb", even if a lot of work goes into them behind the scenes to make sure they anticipate what the user wants.

Google proved many years ago that average users are more than happy to use a search bar as their primary user interface to everything. I've seen so many users that to go to any website never use bookmarks, addresses, shortcuts, anything, just type it vaguely into a search bar, and that's been some of their norm for a decade or more.

It makes sense for Microsoft to front-and-center the search box because that's what users use the most. That's what Google has been doing for its entire existence. It's about as dumb and simple a UX as possible.

Beyond that it's a "Why not both?" situation. A search bar isn't very discoverable, but it is easy and typically "does what the user wants", eventually, depending on how much effort goes into the "man behind the curtain". But you can have search and try for a discoverable UX at the same time. The Settings app many deride is something like Attempt #15 at making Windows settings discoverable. For better or worse, with as many settings as Windows has, making that discoverable is a herculean task, if not a sisyphean task. Every attempt has annoyed some people. The Control Panel has always been painful to use. The Settings app tried for a somewhat clean break and of course there are ton of opinions on it, because it moved cheese and its so different (though is it really?) from the Windows 3.1 Program Manager folder some people seem to expect still frozen in perfect amber from when they first learned to use Windows... There's no pleasing everyone, and there's no perfect path to discoverability or usability.

There's no "smart" path on either side; one requires currently unimaginable tools to read people's minds based on tiny text fragments they through into the void of a search box, and the other to anticipate every users needs and somehow make them all discoverable exactly when the user needs them. (One requires telepathy/telempath and the other prophecy, perhaps.)

I mentioned a "happy path", but that's extremely subjective. (One user loves it if search works great; another if they know just what to click; a third if they have a good CLI to automate it; etc.) It's also clear that there are many more fewer happy paths, than paths in general, and nearly impossible to "pave" all the really good paths for people.
Is selling a cabinet or a pair of skiing gloves a pretty major privacy violation for you?
Lack of net neutrality regulations for 25 years didn’t cause any problems. Why is this now the end of the world?
Posting anything online is a sacrifice of privacy. Using HN means your IP, your username, a bunch of connections and other data are logged in various places. We're all willing to sacrifice privacy for little conveniences, some people prioritize differently.
I've been mostly using it for their oauth because I don't feel like making a million accounts for every website I go on. I've been using it less and less now that I've installed a password manager and registering is essentially 0 cost.
Looks excellent. I have no data to back this up but it feels very crisp and fast in the browser.

I must say however that the idea having the orderbook on the left side of the screen is something I would have to get used to. This may sound silly but I like having the orderbook on the right side of the screen since that way new bars on the candlestick chart appear right next to the orderbook box which is congruent with the reality that the orderbook is literally producing the new candles on the the chart.
Silicon Valley wants to save the world but can't help Silicon Valley itself.
In terms of cache busting comment, that's purely a configuration thing. You'd just make your cache objects never expire and fully warm the cache yourself (again, via some sort of plugin). WP itself wouldn't exist to the client it'd literally be a static site.

Anyway, that aside: So it's literally just the desire to have a zero-footprint blog. I can appreciate that notion but I'm surprised this trend came about with brand new tools as opposed to just packaging up the output of existing blog generators.

Sounds like you should build a WP plugin that generates a static/exportable site. You know the space and clearly understand the market dynamics.
Nobody's getting screwed yet. Nobody had their data stolen then covered up either, until they did. No investors were lied right into their face about this either, until they were. No women were harassed and had the events covered up either, until they were.

If the company views engineers as better than other people and someone they wouldn't want to screw with, I'm not working there either on principle.
Regular expressions can get out of hand, but that's a developers (bad) choice. Perl lets you use multi-line regular expressions that ignore whitespace and allow end-of-line comments, which lets you properly document longer expressions if you need to use them.

Regular expressions are really powerful, and are so much better than the typical non-regex string operations most languages support. Combine that power with the ~= and qr operators, which make regexes as integral to the language syntax as == and "", and you get why Perl is so good at textual searching, parsing, and manipulation. It's easily what I miss most about Perl development since my career has moved to primarily C# and Javascript.
My friends sometimes make events show on my FB either by sharing or just by signing up. But most of the time the event is textually mentioned in a post ("hey Combichrist are coming" or whatever), not via an actual FB event. As some of my social groups have moved to Whatsapp (or Slack, etc), that's where this type of action is moving too. I'm on the older side of the spectrum so that probably has some effect.
They are working on that. As more people stream TV, it will be easier for Facebook to enter this market.
I'll bite.

1) There is a problem here at all. The regulation that is being repealed was only introduced 2 years ago; how did we get along before that?

Yes, there is a problem here. ISPs have already started overstepping the bounds by extorting money from Netflix. T-mobile has a plan out right now that gives you unlimited Netflix, but rate limits everything else. This is a violation of the principles of Net Neutrality.

Yes, there is a problem.

There wasn't much of one before, because the ISPs were very careful not to upset the balance. In the past five years though, they've started seeing what they can get away with. Net Neutrality regulation is a response to the ISPs testing the waters.

2) This problem can be solved by this regulation (not all regulation achieves its goals, and sometimes it is even counter productive).

Probably. It's fairly easy to say "all ISPs have to treat all packets the same." Then have yearly audits of internal routing infrastructure.

3) Regulation is the best/only solution for this problem (what other solutions to the problem described in 1 have been proposed, and why are they not suitable)

I don't believe regulation IS the best solution. Not so much because the regulation itself is bad, but because each set of people who get into power have a different idea of what the regulations should look like, so it ping-pongs back and forth ad-infinitum.

I think the best solution is for towns to build municipal fiber that competes with existing ISPs. The infrastructure could be rented out to local ISPs who compete on the publicly-owned lines. If Comcast wants to charge people out the ass for shitty service that rate limits (or hell, censors) certain websites, go for it...but there are 20 other local companies who give faster speeds for cheaper prices that support Net Neutrality.

The problem is, Comcast generally stops this kind of market competition from happening via propaganda campaigns and jamming through state laws that prohibit it. A municipality entering the market is still a free-market competition, so it should be an option supported by libertarians.
Hypothesis:
bitcoin is well-modeled as an emergent superintelligence optimizing for btc instead of paperclips. If so, we've got a problem.
something I've noticed in my news feed

"John Smith likes Wall Street Journal" with the headline and picture from a recent article.

It appears in your news feed like John Smith recently liked Wall Street Journal, or that article.

In reality they probably clicked the like button years ago, and Facebook just continuously recycles that in your news feed, in a way that appears recent.
Why did it take too long?
Can you post some examples of times when a fact checking organization rated a statement differently based on who said it?
Jeez, this guy gets really angry and swears for pages and pages over a stupid little feature he doens't like.
Up through 7, ignoring the occasional sucky release like ME or Vista that you could simply skip, Windows was quite good. I liked it more than MacOS. Something changed after 7 though, and it's no longer trying to be a good desktop OS that puts the user's needs first.
Oh, thank God.

I saw that this link was second, checked it out and was baffled.

I'm glad this is the first comment, I almost got scared people were praising the service.

I agree with everything you said.

A crappy logo is 100 times worse than no logo.
Billion-Dollar Bumble: Whitney Wolfe Herd Built the Fastest-Growing Dating App
The Reflectix would reflect back in your body or cooking heat. It's not going to have a role "keeping out cold". Van converters often use a mixture of foam board insulation, Reflectix, spray on foam, etc to either keep out heat (in Summer) or keep in heat (in Winter).
Why would FB want to shoulder an additional cost?
I use a nice little utility called Launchy[0]. It is invoked by Alt-Space (or whatever shortcut you like), is lightning fast and finds the right application 99% of the time. Based on your problems, I think it could be worth checking out.

[0] https://www.launchy.net
What if they live in a van too?
>If the excel team was blessed with a plague of inspiration tomorrow morning, Is there a way they could make it so that excel is the right way to manage an insurance business?

No... but I think the converse might be possible. If those with the programming knowledge sought to replace the Excel system but in a way which actually preserved the useful features of the Excel solution. Dirty, filthy things that programmers don't like. No referential integrity, data duplication, deferring decisions to human beings rather than lists of rigid criteria, etc. If they could swallow their bile for just a bit, they could build a system just as useful and flexible and introduce tools to add in the things like data consistency and referential integrity - tools that the user would initiate, thus accepting responsibility for the restrictions such things impose on themselves and the data.

That is not, unfortunately, how it is usually done. (I am currently literally working on a program to replace a 40K row Excel sheet that crashes multiple times a day which has a workflow centered around it that involves slicing and dicing the sheet, passing it off to multiple different groups for separate editing, etc... not sure I will be able to sell the team on this approach, however I do believe it is sound.)