skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know this doesn't add much to the conversation here, but I just had to say this might be one of the most well thought out and clearly articulated responses I have seen here in a long time.
It's a good longform read about this charming (well not in that case) country.
China is using furnaces to manufacture 10B tons of rain
I think it's a nightmare either way
It's hard to answer your question without knowing more about your marketing and sales pitch. Feel free to email me if you want to talk more about it.
> It's only a matter of time before a great subreddit reaches /all/ a few too many times and becomes a meme factory/circlejerk/battleground instead of something interesting.

Subreddits can opt out of appearing on /r/all, and many of the better ones do.
I am at ISC West right now, a global security conference held in Vegas every year. I write FR and my company's software is in over a half dozen partner booths, as well as our tech is the FR core for several others. Due to the recent gun violence at Parkland, in Vegas, and on and on we are talking with many, many school districts, large retail chains, city officials, private and public parks, and reps of high net worth families who want FR systems up and operating yesterday. You're gonna see FR blanket the United States. It has already started.
There's a very popular young adult novel out called Scythe written by Neal Shusterman. In this novel there is a benevolent cloud-based AI in charge of ruling over the whole world named The Thunderhead ( because The Cloud wasn't impressive enough).

It's cool to see part of this fictional world coming to life
Because spot markets are a terrible way to do anything but sell commodities.

And because they are the easiest to model economists have turned everything into a spot market.

Companies used to have pensions which locked employees to companies so companies could invest in employee training.
Tesla is lacking static obstacle detection. You can't expect it to be safer than a human until they fix this glaring issue.
You asked about innovation, not how easy it is for new people to enter the market. Innovation in browsers has definitely gone up and as a user I feel like I'm winning from this with better websites and more powerful web apps.
Google loses 'right to be forgotten' case
Advertising is showing a given set of eyes a given ad. Then how else this particular person can be shown the ad, other than by using some kind of knowledge about them?

So then the line can be anywhere between completely random and a single person. What about a group of people, like maybe two (a couple), several (a family, close friends) or a bunch (small company)?

My point is that i'd imagine many people will also have a problem with those group selections too. It's not very clear where to draw the line.

But in general, do we have a problem with targeting, or just with keeping data about individual people? What if you could target without keeping data about individuals:

- some people (e.g. Brave browser) are working on keeping the data only locally and having the browser choose the ads to be shown.

- in the future, you could have your local personal AI keeping the data and just selecting remote ads.
Doesn’t journalism get some sort of a pass for certain copyright infringement?
> The ultimate objective is to continue the decentralised crowdfunding opportunities that are similar to ICOs, only this time, with improved functionality and without restrictions imposed by regulatory bodies.

Emphasis mine. Why do these people think regulatory bodies exist?

Further, could someone ELI5 how this works. I issue ILP, what is my liability? Do I pay 20% of my profit in USD? If yes, why the blockchain? Do I pay 20% of my profits in cryptocurrency? If yes, what cryptocurrency I use and who defines the exchange rate, and why I would want to pay the profits in cryptocurrency?
When I was a child in elementary school, a standards committee decided to change my native language.

They replaced the spelling of most words, and many grammatical rules.

We were forced to obey these changes, any use of the old rules was counted as mistake in school.

Back then, many older books were still using the old rules.

By the time I left high school, almost no books with the old rules were left. All had been reprinted. All newspapers had switched. Autocorrect programs had been updated with the new rules as well.

In a matter of 8 years, an entire language had changed its orthography and parts of its grammar, top-down, and it worked out fine.

I’m sorry, if an entire human language with 120 million speakers can be updated top-down like that, a web spec can as well.
> If we are going to be adults, these pensions are contractual and need to be paid out

If we're going to be adults, we're also going to recognize that many of us were not adults when these contracts were drawn up and signed. Many of us were never even born, and some of those who were of the right age opposed them to some degree or another.

Maybe we should recognize, in a truly adult fashion, that the mistakes of previous generations should not be passed on to the current generation. Maybe adults should recognize the math just doesn't add up.

> It’s not a responsible behavior to use retirement plans as weapons at the 11th hour.

It's not a responsible behavior to over promise pensions and bankrupt dozens of states either. Nor, in the pursuit of fulfilling those reckless promises, is it responsible to bankrupt future generations.
Well, even that no longer seems to be assured. Plenty of ways to strip a company and make a profit in the short term, destroying the company in the long term.
The 1% are not equally distributed, or indeed necessarily distributed at all, in all the places with excessive pension obligations. Taxing them is not a general solution.

The other problem is that we don't just need to come up with money; we need to find ways to convince/force governments to stop making these promises in the first place. A government promise about something it'll do 30 or 40 years in the future is not quite worthless, but it's just not an institution capable of reliably keeping it.

(Whatever politics you think drives me to say that, I mean that and I mean lots of other things too. If nothing else, in the general case, a legislative body can not truly constrain future legislatures, who can always just vote to not keep their old promises, made by people who are mostly not here anymore, for constituencies that were growing in power 30-40 years ago but are now dying off and not very useful to the current 30-40-year-olds in the legislature. Looking to governments to keep promises so many decades in advance is far more risky that many people seem to account for on all kinds of levels. The history of the 20th century suggests that counting on your government to even exist in 40 years is, in general, not the safest bet!)
I agree, targeting based on the current page is okay, but targeting based on the user isn't.
>I think it's interesting public unions in Illinois advocated 30 years ago for enshrining pension benefits into the state constitution. That language was added specifically because the public unions knew the deals they were making with politicians were not fiscally sustainable.

More likely it was added because they knew that there would eventually be a concerted political effort to strip them of their pensions )and raid those pensions) by a combination of business lobbies and wall street.

>I also don't think quadrupling taxes on the next generation is morally any better either.

What is your moral objection to taxing unearned income at a higher rate?
time to use WASM to render the whole thing, ditch W3C. and all the players are there to make the change.
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The article explains specifically that it's referring to advertising targeted on an individual basis, not targeted by location or context. The issue is that using personal information to present adverts is damaging to privacy. Non-individual targeting (what page the advert is on, or where the page request is coming from) is not a personal privacy concern.
You're not the only one. Many other people also vastly underestimate the societal and privacy implications of user targeting and behavioral analytics.

My position on this is simple, let it be opt-in. Something as simple as a HTTP request header(DNT for example) should by default tell advertisers they shouldn't perform any sort of user targeting.

For individuals such as yourself,you could simply turn off that feature in your browser and start seeing targeted content.

Why should the technically illiterate masses be targeted and tracked by default? Why not allow it only for those who accept the privacy and behavioral modification implications?
Maybe the first step is to find abother good consultant to make a company, and then start hiring other people.
Yes. Expect by next Superbowl every major sports arena will have FR and potentially additional biometrics in place and active.
There is no corporate entity supplying terrorists with air. This is why this consumer-based end-to-end encrypted chat messenger space isn't going to go anywhere. Telegram is delusional if they think nations will let them operate this kind of a business. Every terrorist attack where Telegram is used will paint a bigger and bigger bullseye on their backs. The media will get in on it. The public will get in on it. Lawmakers will get in on it. Hacker News will get in on it.

The witch hunt against Facebook shows how this will look though the particulars will be different. At the end of the day, Telegram has devs that need to eat and servers to pay for and at the very least all revenue sources will be denied to them.
Well, at least for me the fact that you can't strike it big selling expertise or art looks like the triumph of form over substance and a symptom of a society that has yet to develop fully, maybe because of its flawed model from the start (humans anyone?).
Encrypted Text Messaging app
This whole conversation makes me wish Stanley Kubrick were still alive, he was famously interested in subliminal ads, which were the 'adtech' of his day.
a recent discussion, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15778530
How many new browsers do you see? Is that innovation in browsers? Browser competition and innovation is at its lowest ever. Chrome holds 2/3rds usage globally.

I don’t want more powerful ways to display ads, I want to get more content, better connected, without any of the fluff around it.
The big mistake I made in trying to do this was to hire other people with my same skill sets. I am an engineer and I thought "Ok, I'll just hire more engineers," thinking I would transition to the business side of things. What I should have done was hire people with different skill sets like sales / marketing / etc.
So you would need to restrict Drs ability to turn people away.
> The states could raise property/land taxes ...

In CA specifically, I don't see the threat of bankruptcy being enough to overcome prop 13.

Plus if it was in the cards there would be a massive exodus that would further erode the tax base which would be a vicious downward spiral.

> ... and eliminate corporate tax cuts and tax loopholes.

Referencing "eliminating tax loopholes" is like saying "We need to do something about guns". It's meaningless without specifics.

> That wouldn't be a 1% friendly solution though - too much of their wealth is tied up in land and equities.

Equities aren't taxed by States or municipalities, at least not from a "wealth tax" perspective. If such a wealth tax was passed I'd immediately invest in U-Haul and other mover services.

Raising income taxes enough to cover these obligations would lead to an exodus of high earners as well. That doesn't address the municipal pensions either as they don't necessarily have income taxing ability nor high earners to tax.

> Now that their actions created a massive hole in California budgets, they advocate for stripping California pensioners of their money as the "fiscally responsible" solution.

The fiscally responsible thing to do would have been to not make promises to pensioners to buy their votes. Sadly that continues to this day. Try running as a politician that's going to address this problem with any form of austerity measures for the people involved and see what happens.
That's a pretty tiny 'everybody else' compared to users, web and browser developers. They seem to be doing mostly ok and I still don't follow your argument that their concerns should somehow reign supreme over those of, you know, the actual everybody else.
That seems to ignore the conventional wisdom that according-to-Hoyle XHTML was a DOA standard because it mandated error handling in ways that no browser implemented and most of the authoring community didn't want. Authors don't write well-formed XML, even today.
Introducing <FB for work or whatever tool> for internal communication and then not using it for internal communication kind of defeats the point then, doesn't it?
I very much doubt Opera gave up because of "parsing HTML5". Parsing HTML5 is well-defined, certainly better than what was there before (unless you are willing to say "if you don't write perfect XML you don't get to be on the web", but good luck with that – no browser ever was and never will be in the position to do that)

The vast majority of the difficulty of the web platform is in the layers above, which don't care if the DOM they are looking at came from HTML5 or XHTML: layouting/rendering, interactions of JS and DOM, ...
The HTML5 crawler would be able to crawl the web, the XHTML crawler would be able to crawl 0.0001% of the web.

XHTML would only improve the web if all existing HTML went away or was changed to XHTML. Since this is never going to happen, XHTML does not simplify anything.
You target the content and location and not the user. That is how advertising had worked throughout history,for example with TV,news papers and magazines.
Yes, it seems reasonable, and the analogy with programming languages seems to make sense. But there's a big difference. With programming languages, you write a program, and when it's correct, you check it in and it's immutable until you check in a new version. Web pages are composited on-the-fly by programs that combine static files, database content, content from third parties, etc. The only way you guarantee a valid output document is if your compositor is bug free and defensively validates any third-party content you might be pulling in. Any bug in the compositor and your website is totally unavailable for users that hit the bug.

This is a great illustration of the concept: https://web.archive.org/web/20060613193727/http://diveintoma...
Geez, I can see the politicians slap happy high five already - - what a great new way to meter and tax citizens.
Get them accustomed to getting their power from the Gov't road, and away from decentralized do-it-yourself charging at home with solar panels which is not metered.

Just watch how the prices will increase over time, after all, somebody has to pay for that $3/4 million per kilometer track in the road . . . and then of course there is the reliability question, which in my city we loose central power every month.
I made DistrIndex - Crowdsourced and Incentivised P2P Network Indexing
It's a pity that people aren't more concerned about the problems of leaking information to potentially hostile websites and polluting the window object with their project specific objects.

As the earlier poster mentioned, Metamask had this exact problem and it's been widely commented on. Of course the metamask problem is worse than the IPFS problem, as it marks a user as a potential target, whereas IPFS by itself probably doesn't do more than mark them as someone interested in the distributed web.

Your argument for why you do it seems to be a non-sequitur. Whatever you choose for how IPFS Companion exposes the api can be exactly the same as how the future browser exposes it. In fact as an early mover, you have an opportunity to do something positive and set a good direction for the built in functionality that comes later.

It's not a problem that there is consensus on how to solve yet, but I believe a standard solution built into browsers for exposing apis with capabilities we may not wish some sites to observe is needed. Polluting the window object with a host of api objects is likely to be a bad idea long term.
I'm not too knowledgeable on the background here, or on how the politics of standards organizations work, but my understanding is that the EU standards bodies (presumably as well as similar organizations for other governments) consider the W3C to be authoritative. Even if all the browsers prefer WHATWG's spec, won't they be forced to adopt W3C in the same way phones have to support USB charging[0]?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_external_power_supply
Presumably ~half the people surveyed were women, and being unmarried that might be a position they'd like to hold onto.

That said, it seems like this has been a recurring theme in stories about Japanese youth I've seen in recent years, that asexuality is becoming a thing.
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Does XMPP support seamless E2E encryption?
I think there's something to be said for the ability to realize you (as a criminal) have made a mistake, and decide to just leave everything and start over.

So long as you're laying low enough to not draw any attention, it seems like in many cases this would be a better thing than the cost of the criminal justice system and incarceration, plus the way incarceration seems to ruin any life that had any value beforehand.

This isn't to say that this option should be encouraged, or even allowed to work a lot of the time. But the fact that there's some flexibility there, keeping the system from complete bureaucratic ossification, has some value to society.
I'm not certain that it's true to say most of the web quickly moved to XHTML. Sure a number of sites advertised themselves as XHTML but they were not strictly XHTML compliant. This could be due to third party widgets or other included code or it could be due to a mistake in template construction. Whatever the issue fully compliant XHTML wasn't used much in practice outside of hand-crafted pages.

Also Internet Explorer, for example, never implemented XHTML which would have been a deal breaker for many sites.
Seriously? You don't need to do DLL operations in day-to-day use but you'll need to when you're doing development work.

For example, you had a "color" column on a table, for a new feature youre now adding the ability to have multiple colors. You're going to create a new column, create a new table, populate that table, and drop the old column. If anything fails during that process you'd like to be able to roll back.
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I found most of them too cheesy to watch for very long.

What makes them fun is trying to figure out if (or where) the voice is a robot - usually child's play because robots frequently places the em-PHAS-is on the wrong syl-LAB-le.

But the British butler voice isn't too shabby.
Try reading "Q is for Quantum", by the end of Part I you will understand one quantum algorithm thoroughly. All necessary gates are explained carefully and the linear algebra gets sneaked in without using bras and kets and so on...
It’s written in Lua.
Thank you, that means a lot.
The website you are mentioning (lurkmore) was blocked in Russia and had to edit its content. See https://reestr.rublacklist.net/search/?q=lurkmore

Please do at least a little research next time.
We know that Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla, consider the WHATWG to be the canonical version. We don't yet know whether the other 450+ W3C member organisations that represent the wider web platform agree with this position or not though.

Honestly, do the other 450+ W3C member organizations matter? (https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List)
This is why I said "individually targeted". The TV advertiser doesn't know your name, age, gender, search history, etc.
Regarding the last article: it is a little vague in its argument, and I definitely have a few questions:

Is it true that the encrytion algorithms still aren't the weakest link for highly sensitive classified information (e.g. in the government)? (Or in similar high-secrecy situations, not the ones that an everyday person takes part in)

Also, if current methods aren't backed by rigorous mathematics, isn't that a risk in it of itself? So, while the benefit of having a more mathematically rigorous security protocol may not have practical implications, it would still be more secure, right? (Even if it isn't the top issue in most cryptography) It might not solve security's biggest issues, but I don't think it is claiming to do so, anyway.

The author is also fairly harsh in general on quantum computers. Note that they have made notable strides since 2008, and much larger computers have already been built --- they haven't performed a computation that classical computers would struggle with, but they can certainly factor numbers larger than 15 (although you wouldn't use a near-term quantum computer for this, anyway, as they will not be powerful enough anytime soon to factor interestingly large numbers, anyway). At the very least, it is outdated in that respect, and at worst, it's rude and being dramatic to catch people's attention.

At least, nothing that has been carefully analyzed in this respect and published.
It was amazing. The new orthography is much simpler, and has far fewer insane rules or exceptions. And most people that have seen the transition, but were born after it, or went to school during it, agree.

I know it can work on this scale, I’ve seen it IRL. Many languages do stuff like this, German has the council of German language, and French has their Academy.

You can do the same on the web. You just need to have all vendors working together to actually do it.
DistrIndex facilitates crowdsourced indexing of P2P networks. Discovery and quality of content varies widely across many torrent networks, resulting in a multitude of usually shady magnet sites or high quality but closed communities like What.CD (RIP).

Using an open-source music torrent network as an example. The user fills out a set schema (Artist, Album, Year, Version..) and submit it to the blockchain via a Smart Contract. The submission is checked by a group network participants who earn tokens in return for their service. Miners, as well as securing the blockchain run file validation functions. In this case, downloading the .flac on the external network and confirming the submitted meta-data is correct (file type, bit-rate..)

The resulting network can be accessed and browsed through a simple DApp. Accessing the DApp requires the user to hold a certain amount of Tokens in their wallet, purchase of which is redistributed to the community.
What language is this? This sounds fascinating.
The federal bailout is exactly what is going to happen. The Pew numbers are somewhat optimistic in terms of overall liabilities. My estimation (and its just that) is that when we really dig in we are going to find that things are much, much worse. Some states will have their budgets overwhelmed with pension costs and I don't think there will be the political will to say, "Well Massachusetts, best of luck. This is what you voted for and now the tab has arrived."

Washington will also look at this as an opportunity to take more power from states and move it to DC. Of course they can also print/borrow money do this.
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No, there's an incentive for another company to make a treatment and only make $9B(/y).
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Because XMPP is modern too? Even Matrix' own FAQ [0] about that is full of notes that "now XMPP does that too".

[0]: https://matrix.org/docs/guides/faq.html#what-is-the-differen...