skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sure, a sponsorship or freemium model would cover that though.

No, it wouldn't. It would only cover a small fraction of creators, and definitely not enough with money.

Your attention is worth far more than the cost of the content/service to the advertisers. And the service is worth to you far more than your attention.

It is a trade where value is generated to both sides: you provide your attention, which is worth almost nothing to you, and receive a service in return.

> And if you don't care about a service, why care if it goes away?

Caring and liking are different. I hate my ISP, but it would be even worse if it went away.
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‘You can encode Rule 110 in CSS3, so it's Turing-complete so long as you consider an appropriate accompanying HTML file and user interactions to be part of the “execution” of CSS.’

https://stackoverflow.com/a/5239256/453783
Agreed. Even murder clearance rates are as bad as 60% in some areas of the US. If you're not a complete idiot, you can get away with most crimes.
I'm not trying to be snarky, but I still don't see it.
I think it's more banal than that. There are people out there who are always looking for something more to sell, and there are people out there who are always looking for more program to be associated with who will buy it.
This is quite nifty, love it. I will thank you later (you a fan of Monk?)
Exactly. Though it may encourage different performance best practices now that syscalls are considered more expensive.
No, it's just the subtle, typical, anti-religious bigotry.
I think this is a good solution. There are and will still be companies that want to protect and make money off of their old assets. I really don't want to see a market flooded with Mickey Mouse knock off garbage.

But if the creator is dead and nobody is making any money off their work, then put it in the public domain so it doesn't get lost in time.
mordern feminsts professors hold fringe ideas about human nature that are far too extreme to the point that it contradicts current scientific findings while also being caught using what can only be called authoritarian methods. A group that holds strong ideas, refuses to change them and uses authoritarian policies to shutdown debate is, in my opinion, bigoted. One of the most recent examples in memory is the Laurier university Case you check it out here: https://globalnews.ca/video/3867811/extended-excerpts-from-s...

more about that incident:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/wilfrid-lau...

this is the same university that gave away a pay raise based on gender: http://nationalpost.com/opinion/christie-blatchford-pay-rais... That ended up in some female professors that were hired in the same time as some male professors having a higher pay after the raise even though they were paid the same before it.
To be clear, there's a lot more to God in the Old Testament than anger, even in those instances. There's grief, especially in the flood, and in the case of Adam and Eve, God provided for their nakedness with better clothes then they had made.

To say nothing of the promise and provision provided to nations throughout the Old Testament, the grace given to non-Israelites by keeping them from accidentally violating the marriages of Abram and Issac when both men lied about their wives out of fear.

Remembering only the anger of God in the Old Testament is a common, but incomplete reading. There is also grace there.
So you're telling me that in Europe, if a male coworker cracks a dongle joke in the presence of female coworker, and if she complains to the HR, then nothing would happen to the male coworker?

Or maybe you mean to say that in Europe all men are so sensible that nobody cracks dongle jokes in presence of female coworkers?

Or maybe that majority of the European women would not complain to the HR if someone did crack that joke because they are not stuck up?

Because lemme just make it clear, they didn't get fired for the dongle jokes, they got fired for the shitstorm which arose because of their jokes and how people on twitter were rallying to fire those guys.

Also, the woman who caused the shitstorm was also fired from her company due to the counter shitstorm which ensued.

Maybe you mean to say that in Europe, a company wouldn't fire someone if a shitstorm is created due to an employee's juvenile actions, because I am pretty sure that it is incorrect too.
There is a long standing constitutional interpretation that your garbage, once put on the street, is not protected by the Fourth Amendment.
What counts as an ad and what does not? There are obvious differences, but it is sometimes more subtle.
Thanks for this comment - this is exactly how I feel with two daughters (6 & 3). Any stories like this just make me think about my kids being in that scenario.

I try to use it to motivate me to be mindful of enjoying this time and grateful for my luck.
There are many channels for product discovery other than advertising. Like do you ever talk to your friends?
Why can't Chrome just prefetch shit from the actual servers and let ISPs handle the caching? Why does mother Google need to serve me all the content from its overly suckled teat?

Ooooh, <raises hand aggressively> I know.

Google is fighting to minimize ISP incidental access to your internet actions, while aggressively expanding the amount of incidental access Google has to your internet actions.

Apparently they've "earned" their surveillance because their core functionality can't be divorced from their ability to conduct surveillance as easily as they can be separated in the case of ISPs.
Has that ever happened before in the American or other western legal system? It seems highly unlikely that no one would be assigned blame. Heck, we already have cars driven for us (taxis) and the blame for an accident is attributed to the driver, that wouldn’t change if the driver was a computer, the legal syste, wouldn’t simply shutdown.
Ask HN: I'd like to dabble with brain computer interface, recommendations?
I'm looking for tutorials and what hardware to buy. A neuroscience online course for the layman would be great as well.

There's http://openbci.com/ but I was wondering if there's a cheaper way to get started. Thanks
That's the first slide! You pulled the ripcord while the plane was still at the terminal.
I agree that it harms smaller companies (though some are not that small), but I see this as a big step in the right direction. I think the big players can only be stopped by legal means anyway.
Soonish: exciting technologies on the horizon, with excitement-preserving nuance
Has this conclusion ever been called into question?
The distance driven per year per person in the US is twice that of the figure in the EU.

As an example for the prime driving age bracket, the average driver in the US, 20 to 55 years of age, drives nearly 30,000 KM per year.

In the EU it's half that.

You would expect fatalities to increase meaningfully when you double the distance driven per person.
He explained that, too. The average age of all the older siblings that responded and the the average age of all the younger siblings that responded were within 1 year.
For the first one, that might be a net win. For the second one, it would be more inconvenient. But there has been an era before the internet and I was doing just fine then.
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Though, Google getting hit and Google making internet specs, I don't have any doubt they'll add something there to track.
I can't help thinking that some large percentage of what Javascript is used for could be replaced with a much less powerful language.
Might have missed it while reading the article, but what was updated?
If history is any indication, getting browsers to design, agree upon, and implement "better html" would take about as long as fixing cpus.
How did parents do it before modern medicine? Historically, it was exceedingly common to lose at least one child.
That's not true everywhere. My wife's parents live in rural Iowa on a highway that has a 45 mph speed limit. Their home is part of a small cluster of homes and their mailbox is across the road, similar to the circumstances in the OP story.
> So it's entirely plausible all this caloric restriction research findings is just confirmation of the fact that obesity shortens lifespans.

Not entirely. It's accepted now that caloric restriction helps fighting cancer, so that effect alone means people following caloric restriction will live longer on average. Those feeding the cancers will simply die younger.
All the people talking about being unable to handle/comprehend the death of their child, and especially the one line of conversations about the impact of losing one child when you have many more, made me think about something. For most of human history, losing some children was expected. Child mortality rates for most of our history have been abysmal.

As species, what impact did that have on us? Child abuse has a long history of being accepted, with child sacrifices in some cultures to forced marriages of children (not to say any of these events were super common, but there were cultures in which they were accepted even if not common). Look at 16th to 18th century and what happened to orphans of single mothers and it is horrible by modern standards. In some cases orphans were treated as child slave labor or worse (granted, they would grow out of it if they survived, while with actual slavery it was for life). Even into the 19th and 20th century we had children working in factories where dismemberment was all too common.

But around the start of the 20th century, that started changing, and today harming a child is one of the worse things that a person can do. Many would quicker forgive an ex convict that killed a rival gang member than someone who intentionally seriously injured a child.

I wonder if this is at all tied to drops in child mortality rates.
Not to detract from your point but the US Federal government, shockingly, is incapable of passing necessary regulations and the Constitution forbids a State from passing their own versions. For instance, vehicle inspections, licensing standards, safety equipment, etc are all set at the Federal level. Cities can't forbid oversized trucking, require truck side guards, etc.

Likewise, stupendous amounts of Federal and State taxes are forcefully siphoned off into wasteful, money-losing highway programs. Money that could go towards safer transit, pedestrian, or biking initiatives.
Not from ad industry, I'm just seriously curious who visits my site.
In the end its not the crypto that makes it more secure. Estonia still has a national identifier number, just like US has the SSN. The difference is that while I can know your name, DOB and the identifier (which actually contains your DOB in it), I cant easily pretend to be you. And this is because the process itself is different - when I got to open a bank account, I present my ID card, the bank can plug it in and pull up my profile from the central authority (ran by the government), and I need to pass the checks of being there in person, with a matching ID, which also checks out from the central system (including picture).

Combine this with for example strong proof via blockchain about who used to check your info and from where, and you are at a pretty good spot. Note that Estonia does not do that last part just yet.

As for the US, the chances of having a national ID card along with similar infrastructure are slim to none. So don't hold your breath about major changes any time soon. The best best would be to get closer to something like the above solution via private companies or maybe the credit bureaus themselves (once they are force to change their business model from aggregating and selling data without your consent).
Instinctively I agree with you, but I am having trouble convincing myself that this is fundamentally different from a CDN. In fact it seems better than a CDN - the relevant private key remains with the website authors, and is not held or controlled by the CDN. I don't get any warning in the browser that https://www.cnn.com is delivered by and signed by Fastly (unless I click to see the cert and see Fastly in the OU); what makes a webpackage of amp.cnn.com, signed by a key actually held by CNN's IT staff, worse?

(Also, if we think this is worth indicating, it should be done by the browser itself, not by the web page voluntarily including some CSS.)
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So 90% of drivers are incredibly negligent now.

If you slow down to non-lethal speeds for every parallel parked vehicle or obstacle in anticipation of some kid sprinting out from behind it, you might as well walk (not ride a bike, because that problem still exists).
Laws are enforced by force. It's not just civil laws, but the acceptance of chiefs, then kings, then Presidents. Contracts, and other duties, are also shared fictions.
I wonder if it's possible to make an opt-in ad network that could take the place of what existed before. Is there any way ad-supported monetization strategies and the free/open web can co-exist? While the current system is indeed terrible (buggy, overbearing ads taking valuable bandwidth and screen space, pervasive tracking, etc) is what we want really an arms race between ad companies and the rest of the internet?

As much as I dislike overbearing ads and marketing, a "free" web should enable enable monetization strategies I like as well as ones I don't like.

Could an opt-in ad network work?

Let's say you like the work of some content creator -- is there no ad network currently that you can go into, register preferences, allow/add the cookie (maybe download a browser plugin that inserts it for you on registered sites), and enable you to pay the content creator by way of watching an ad from time to time? Even something that did a monthly fee (like twitch) for just any kind of content? Surely this exists already and I just haven't heard of it yet -- the only thing similar I can think of is Flattr/Patreon.
This is what I took your comment to mean as well. To me, watching the responses to your comment illustrate why it is that it’s so hard for anything to change with respect to traffic safety.

I mean, we have here a story with a dead child and story of a woman who caused the death. On the strength of the emotional narrative presented in this story, people here have largely decided that it’s not even worth asking questions, maybe dotting an i or crossing a t or two.

I wouldn’t expect the officer to knock her head shoving her into the back of a squad car, or to keep her waiting in an interview room until she’s good and ready to crack. But then again, I generally expect humane, dignified treatment of people that police interact with.
Your attention is only valuable to advertisers to the extent that you might buy something. If you can't afford what they're selling, your attention is not worth anything to them. The whole online advertising industry is propped up by a few % of people who click ads. That's how I know that a relatively few people can keep it all afloat.
Orwell is wrong, because most of public relations (and propaganda more generally) is printing what someone else does not want printed, too.
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I see. Sounds weird that having 2 phones is cheaper than just one. Esp. since the smart phone is powerful enough to run WhatsApp. Why would one want a second phone and pay for a second data plan? I don't understand how that works out.
Before we continue, I'll need you to paraphrase my hypothesis in your own words, so that I can be sure we're talking about the same thing, because I'm not entirely certain we are.
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What's verifiable is that you wasted a lot of work.

Is anything useful actually being done with all those calculations that are being performed? It seems the only purpose is to prove that you performed this amount of useless work, because the system is built on rewarding new bitcoins to those who waste the most work this way. It's intentionally wasteful just because the system needs something that isn't easily gamed without massive investment of equipment and energy.

Other cryptocurrencies manage to exist without being designed around wasting energy.
The efficient-market hypothesis is an idea that already has a well-known name. In the article the words are a Wikipedia link.
Most people wouldn't complain if a new category of copyright were created just for Disney, and anyone else who wants an extra 75 years. Let it be opt in. Most people understand why Disney values its mouse etc., and that it stands to lose income if copyright expires. We get it that they're a special case. We the people can live without that stuff in the public domain. Why doesn't Congress just ask us? (Or would that be unequal protection under the law?)
I ingest photos with rapid-photo-downloader https://www.damonlynch.net/rapid/ 1) rapid-photo-downloader handles renaming. I rename using dates + filename because that's easy to automate and renaming with semantic content requires decision making during ingestion. 2) rapid-photo-downloader also will copy the stream to another location as a "backup" while downloading. In the end, I wind up with a set of RAW files that I cull and edit and a set of RAW files that I don't cull and edit.

Rapid-photo-downloader is reasonably rapid when working off the SD card. And so the first level of organization is no effort. Which is good because organizing photos is not something I enjoy and not something that I've found ever provides much payback in terms of time saved for time spent. So aside from date, my organization is various "shoe boxes" living on various hard drives and thumbdrives...and some old photos on DVD's...and some older photos in physical shoe boxes.

So deeper organization is pretty much ad-hoc and short term with darktable color categories and tags that seemed to make sense at the time. On the other hand, I am not required to make my photos searchable for someone else, so dates work reasonably well because I roughly know when I took the image I am looking for and I can call up a date range of images in the Darktable lightable and visually scan for the ones I am seeking. Well and mostly because I don't have long term relationships with particular images...Usually I prefer to make something better than what I've already done to what I've already made.

If I had a really serious business records case for documentary photos, I'd probably consider hard copies and physical filing. It makes records retention and destruction more clear cut...though it would depend on the use case.
Random, but an excellent list. Worth specifying that Solaris should be the Tarkovsky one, not the dreadful remake.
2019 to be the international year of the periodic table
> What's running in your $800 internet-connected 4K TV?

Not my banking website, for one thing. Your point is completely valid, but sadly no-one in the media cares whether your TV or toaster is vulnerable.

Perhaps they should be, because in reality, all these devices could be used in a botnet. But then again, it's so much easier to hack those devices with default admin/password123 than it is using speculative branch predication exploits...
God is omnipotent, he could save these murdered by others. Instead he chose to let them be murdered and then punish these that did the murder. And then also to punish their kids and grandkids.

The funny thing is - most modern people are more ethical, than Old Testament's God.

You wouldn't kill your children if they decided to become hippies, or to burn your house. And you certainly wouldn't kill their children, etc.

And yeah, most Christians believe the God is the same. But the behaviour described in the books changed drastically.
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> Do you really want third party sites knowing what you searched for...?

My user agent /is/ me. If I want to prefetch results, I unerstand it means people know I'm looking at those results. I don't think it's really the privacy issue they are trying to make it out to be. And the counter consideration is that you are implicitly saying you trust Google with that info more than the actual service providers so it's not "do you want people" it's "who do you want" knowing.

Easy solution: off by default and inform users of the implication when turned on. As a user I don't actually want the internet prefetched for me mostly because it's a stupid idea catering to a subset of people who are so impatient it's baffling. If your site performs poorly on mobile let users complain to the creators so they can make better sites. Does Google really get the schtick when a mobile site has a poor UX? No. So why are they even investing effort into this?...

> ISPs can't cache the content of HTTPS pages.

Indeed. That's the point of HTTPS. As a user I don't expect that contract undermined even by a claimed benevolent Google just trying to altruistically get you content better with signed bundles that masquerade around as the original service. A few points, too. Often the static CDN content is served HTTP because it's not sensitive or it employes other means of restricting access such as GUID/signed urls etc., all of which can be cached. But even if that's a bad idea (I think people are moving away from that model, and http2) that just shifts the responsibility to the ISP and CDN providers to make sure that they have good fast connections between their networks. That's something that is in both their business models and it works just fine today. ISPs want to provide the best user experience on their network compared to others and CDNs sell their highly available global network to customers so a better CDN closer to more users means happier customers.
"Fearing the car may be spotted and shared on social media, the company insisted on an indoor drive"

...and let's BBC film and publish a report on the car. Doesn't add up, what's the real reason to not driving outside?
I used the term detained intentionally, and then specified that arrest wouldn’t be unreasonable if required by circumstances of the investigation.
45 is a speed zone if the normal speed is 60 or 70. I just got done traveling on US 395 through most of California, and we would typically speed zone down to 45, then 40, then 35....around houses. I’m sure there are actually well defined rules about this in California.

Regardless, living on a highway is not prime real estate.
Good question- but it's clearly posted "updated" in an almost unreadably light gray font on the byline.
HN: Whereby, when presented with a Maciej slide deck, pedantry takes precedence over humor.

Oh well, at least he can take solace in

> that no matter how bad my talk, it won't be remembered.
Same. It's bad enough that my son (then 2, now 6) almost ran into a very busy street while I was in the car waiting as my wife was getting him ready to go home from daycare.

That feeling of utter panic and helplessness watching him run while my wife and I screamed for him to stop will never, ever go away. It still pains me when the memory comes up, of what could have been.

He stopped 3 feet from an oncoming 18-wheeler and turned around in more fear than I've ever seen in a little kid since.
I'm always in awe of Amazon's sustained growth. Bezos has built a company that has innovated constantly (after a tumultuous start in the late 90s) and at scale:

- AWS was launched in 2006 when Amazon had < 15k employees.

- Kindle was launched in late 2007 with 20k employees.

- Echo was launched in 2014 with 150k employees.

It's no surprise he's the richest in history. Will be really interesting to see how he spends his money over the next 2-3 decades.
You're correct, but the article is overall a great read. This one little factual oversight is tangential.
Ya, black coffee is fine. I can't remember the number but if it's under like 50kcal I think you'll stay in the fasting state, so you can even have like a small fruit. Definitely double check this though :p
I would seriously love if they took the scan and sold prints (maybe even a special full-size one) to help their funding.