skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If have had javascript disabled for about four years now, and it was among the best quality of life decisions I ever made in terms of web browsing.

I don't think there is a list, but I'd say it heavily depends on your browsing behaviour. In my case the vast majority of web sites that I access randomly (mostly trough some feed or aggregator) are text based and actually more pleasant to use without js: Faster, no jumping around of content, no obnoxious subscribe modals, almost zero ads, etc. If it doesn't work without js, I usually just close the tab. I hold the view, that if something is important enough for me to care, it will reach me in some form or the other eventually.

But if you are mostly about multi media content, checking out tech demos or similar, you are going to have a bad time.

You can use the "Quick JS switcher" plugin to easily enable js for a page

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/quick-js-swit...

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/quick-javascript-s...

I'm quite lenient in white listing, because for me personally disabling js is mostly about performance. If I'm interested enough in a web sites offering and see the utility of it requiring js, I'm also willing to wait a little. But I'm not patient by default
I think this is sensible, because sites in the same industry should have the same energy consumption. For example a video streaming site will always use more CPU than craigslist, but that’s okay because a video streaming site is competing with other video streaming sites.

But I think the industry’s solution to this has always been to just wait for the inevitable faster and faster computers that come out each year, so that the lag becomes less just by the passage of time. But that becomes a cat and mouse game because as CPU’s and network speeds get faster and storage gets cheaper, developers can get away with larger sites and slower code.

case in point, nowadays you can barely browse the web with an iPhone 4, but when it first came out people weren’t waiting 30 seconds for a pageload on it. Even look at the average size of an app in the App Store now. I think facebook was 40MB when it first was released, now it’s 300MB. It’s like you have to keep getting newer and newer hardware just to keep up.
Finger Printing Data [pdf]
Only insofar as the hysteria about Russia has been interjected into every issue by people caught up in the frenzy. The truth is that the propaganda arms of a variety of countries have been deeply involved in shaping, controlling and attempting to influence media and social dialogue for many, many years (with by far the most "successful" being the CIA/USA with Israel as a close second and Russia lagging far behind).
Build and deploy the homebrew system quickly if you want to avoid California Rule 21-style grid support mandates. Depending on where you live and how cooperative (!) your utility is it may already be too late. Good luck
> If you set up food regulations, are you going to exempt restaurants with only one cook?

But restaurants with only one cook can't afford a $300/h lawyer to tell them how to keep their shit hygienic!
The reboots are about making the infected routers hit the C2 server so that ISPs can identify and notify users whose routers were infected.
The trouble is, that's an assumption on your part, and it might not be a valid one. We have no idea yet how 28 different regulatory authorities will handle this sort of situation, or how much of an effort they will expect controllers and processors to make on their own if they are to receive the benefit of the doubt. And even if everything you assume proves to be correct, any formal interaction with authorities is stressful and expensive for a small business with limited time and resources available, and being confident that you aren't doing anything wrong in the first place is obviously preferable.
I still visit HN because its comments are above average. Some of the topical subreddits are decent too. Of course above average is not saying much.
>The else branch must be present, if it's missing you will get a syntax error this is to make sure that all of the possibilities are covered

Is there itsokay statement to pacify the compiler more?
It’s the most accessible way to do it. Most people don’t buy their routers, they lease from the ISP. Major ISPs replacing 100k+ devices will take a while and they’ll drag their feet. FBI commandeering the C&C domain and instructing users to reboot is not the long term fix but it is most effective
And most of those are actually misinformation. B12 being the only real one, but that isn't an issue because you can just supplement it. The B12 from meat comes from supplements anyways, so there is no difference. Just cutting out the middleman.
generating a page based on geoLocation didn't start with GDPR. I've been fighting (often US) sites making "choices" for me based on geoLocation for a decade.
Rather than linking to another insidious "social media platform," would it be possible to simply describe what is there?

Many of us have sworn off Twitter, FB, Google, youtube, etc. because we don't care for the tracking, nor do we care for regulations. Unfortunately, we miss out on many things when people insist we participate on those sites by merely linking to them as part of a discussion.
Ehhh I dunno about the PHP thing. I can see what you mean, but there’s a certain negative implication to it which isn’t accurate. PHP is bad because it’s inconsistent and doesn’t really have a coherent design. You can tell that it evolves by having things bolted on to it, and there’s all sorts of weird dark corners. Go really isn’t like that at all.
I have no dog in this race. Pretty much because I encounter inaccuracies on Wikipedia more often than I'd expect (most recent being the current status of Lancia). Just signing up to edit is just not worth my time. I wonder how many more inaccuracies there are, and how many others couldn't be bothered to try fix it.
Good God, it's depressing what they're capable of.
>* Most early-stage startups use the (in 2008, when I did mine) best practice of “delete=1”. Changing your whole database over to permanent cascade delete is only easy if you’re a very experienced programmer or who knows what he’s doing.*

You do not have to do cascade delete. Just invalidate the data that identifies the user (this includes also transaction dates).

Well, maybe it is possible to cross reference a person based on the transaction volume?
What's the plumbing part?
And what scale are the projects, ballpark?
Huh? Maybe I've misunderstood you, but porn laws in EU are quite a bit more liberal compared to US. And authorities are also subject to GDPR.
In my experience this just opens or expands corruption. You pay your way to be able to be "approved" by the authority.

For example, the legitimate interest. Who determines that? The authoritaa. But then the authoritaa might approve Google and disapproves small-naughty-trackor. Both are doing the same privacy invasion. So why one gets a free pass and another is reprimanded.

Even if the current regulator (persons) are honest, they are not irreplaceable. Maybe the guy after them will be corrupt. And since there is a lot of money here, money corrupts.
>>"GDPR will wipe out many niche blogs"
>That is purely unfounded speculation on your part.

It's speculation but not unfounded. GDPR will absolutely reduce small publisher revenue significantly, so making the leap that it causes a culling is rational.
At it's core, it's apparently just Bootstrap, an HTML/CSS/JS library. The React version is a whole JS front-end framework.

I'd rather it was built around Bootstrap 4, but I didn't write it, can't be too choosy.
I don't think regular plants with all kinds of pesticides, or GMO plants with all kinds of non-long-term-tested gene modifications to improve sale-ability and profit margins, would be much better...
> Precisely where is the line drawn that makes one scenario reasonable, while the other is completely unacceptable?

1. don't be unreasonable

2. be acceptable
My parent's got a set of these in the 60's, leather bound with gold leaf printing on the covers and page trims. I had them assessed a few years ago, and they are worth a small mint. Then my evil sister got them and they are gone.
I've read three articles about this today (this one included), and they all specified the same Mikrotik models:

- Mikrotik RouterOS for Cloud Core Routers: Versions 1016, 1036, and 1072
As I say below, a reboot will force the router to hit the now-sinkholed domain. This will let the ISP identify customers with affected equipment and notify them.

The core message here that everyone should reboot their router is simple enough to survive on Twitter and be understood, whereas specific instructions about which devices are bad will likely be screwed up.
I exclusively program on a small laptop and don't have great eyesight. Formatting code such that it only looks good on huge displays makes my life more difficult.
Nice collection of often useful examples done in JavaScript and CSS
In my experience in webhosting, unless it's CHINANET it's usually compromised CMS's.
Occasionally things change enough that a rebranding is in order.

Kodi was previously XBMC which stood for "X-Box Media Center" long after the X-Box was no longer their focus of development (and perhaps even completely unsupported).

Your criticism applies equally to phpBB, and is valid. I suspect if NimForum becomes popular, the Nim part of the name will go away.
Another recent, fun take on the history of D&D https://reason.com/archives/2018/04/07/the-radical-freedom-o...
It's very important to note that the term 'causal inference' in this research paper is not the same thing as Pearl's causal inference techniques, and in fact the main two statistics and econometrics researchers cited in your linked article are Imbens and Rubin, two of the biggest critics of Pearl's methods.

The linked paper mostly goes into instrumental variables and mixed effects modeling for how classical econometrics has dealt with trying to understand the causality of intentionally varying a treatment. And, despite citing Rubin heavily, the paper doesn't go much into the Bayesian methods for solving similar problems (hierarchical models), even though they are a state of the art approach with modern computational MCMC techniques.

The last few sections do offer some interesting research citations for how classical instrumental effects models have been morphed with advances in machine learning, with things like causal trees.

But just look at one of the take away points of the survey, in section 5:

> "4. No fundamental changes to theory of identification of causal effects"

Overall, the link you've shared would be strongly in favor of ML-extended classical econometrics and possibly Bayesian hierarchical models or latent variable approaches, but almost surely would be against the notion that do-calculus could lead to a wide-spread or real-world set of applicable models.
Hawaii is the place to watch, they just changed utility law to recognize how much their grid use models have changed
https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2018/04/hawaii-reforms...

Battery tech is still very immature though, and a significant persistent fire risk if damaged, as is the case with electric vehicles.
Those who don't learn from history etc.
For most articles, you don't have to sign in to edit.

And what's the Lancia status inaccuracy?
"Minimal risk" in business means not actually doing business or doing business in a way that doesn't make you liable, eg blocking EU users.
Mainly using DigitalOcean's droplet backups.
> obtain native speeds on mobile

With browsers and heavy JavaScript frameworks? That's an oxymoron right there.

The truth is, people/organizations doing this simply put other concerns above user experience and friendliness.
Couldn’t get any worse? The Internet is basically unusable today.
I have been doing that for a long time but with the use of javascript framework & SPA for pretty much any website, including the least appropriate applications like blogs, I kind of had to capitulate in the name of convenience.
No I’m being glib. I’m not much of a believer in regulation. If the people want the Internet to be crap it should be crap.
Mud Island in Memphis (located in the Mississippi river) has a 2000 foot long model of the lower Mississippi river that is neat to walk along: http://www.mudisland.com/c-14-riverwalk.aspx
Desktops with users who have not noticed any issue. Making them notice an issue could be a good thing.

Question is, would this approach get their attention? Seems unlikely, but maybe some users would wonder why their computer was sluggish, and run a virus scan, do a system update, or take other steps to check for malware.

Let's be clear, I'm not claiming it would work for sure. I said "maybe." Point is, the computer being a desktop should not lead to shutting the idea down.
That's how brand marketing works, and maybe those ad budgets aren't going to budge much, but the great swaths of performance marketing budgets are going to get a big haircut.

Performance marketing companies will spend as much as they possibly can for incremental profit, the budgets float based on the results. So the cycle goes:

Worse Targeting -> Lowered Performance -> Lowered Budgets -> Lowered Publisher Revenue
Post-9/11 world in 1987?
A good point from the forum.
“Now PARSEC won’t be used in SAFE to let the entire network communicate and come into global consensus like for example Bitcoin does, instead PARSEC will be used by many small sections of the network to reach “local” consensus for the corresponding section of the network. The obvious attack vector here is to join one section with many nodes of your own to hijack that particular section. The idea is to make this attack infeasible by having the network occasionally relocate nodes (when they age/rank up), so an attacker doesn’t have control over in what sections of the network its nodes are located. If this idea works as well in practice as it does in theory, attacking a section is about as hard as attacking the entire network (all the sections).”

So proof-of-work is inherently resistant to sybil attacks while PARSEC on its own isn’t, so to tell the story properly the random but deterministic relocating of nodes needs to be included.
Would requiring clients to hash passwords for a large number of times before sending them help? I imagine a 3s second effort would be unnoticeable by human users but hurt the attack rate? That and maybe block the offending IPs, at least temporarily?
Why is the article FUD?
Probably because React having this capability was enough to silence the opposition, without actually committing to using said capability.

(Also, they probably save money on electricity by externalizing more and more processing to users.)
How many GDPR notices did I get?
He's probably referring to the UK, specifically.
Ask HN: How do you find front end partner
So, I'm a pretty good backend engineer but I have a horrible sense of beauty. Everything I design becomes ugly and that has hurt my previous side projects. How do you go on to find a front end engineer to partner with for your ideas?
I wonder how the cost-benefit analysis goes between creating yet more e-waste, and letting some malware persist...
Ah, interesting. That's a good example of something I think about a lot. Startups mainly focus on testing product hypotheses, but they also test organizational hypotheses, like ones about who to hire, how to organize people, and how to approach the work. This is a good reminder that you need to have enough of your organizational stuff right just to usefully test your product hypotheses.
> unless you belong to a certain high risk segment of the population.

I don't think we are so far from the day that "high risk" will mean anyone who opposes the government.

> Mine is similar to one of the affected units, enough so that it's likely vulnerable. I'm looking at replacing it.

That's probably wise.
Hmm... I now wonder if it'd make sense to make a version of this that uses Constant Q instead of Fourier transforms...
I think it's more about the generation who were kids in the 1st edition days getting to the point in their careers where they have influence and a platform.

So you get Stephen Colbert making D&D references, and Dan Harmon writing it into Community, Vin Diesel talking about getting Judi Dench to play while making a film, etc. And for every high-profile person like Colbert or Harmon there are probably a few people on their writing staff with a similar gaming background.
I'd say, why not both? You can advocate and also demonstrate that you walk the walk.
Either you "believe" in decentralized governance systems or you don't. If you do, then this means your participation is required for improvement (edit articles, run a bitcoin full node, etc) which in practice is more expensive in resources and effort. If you don't, then just sit back and relax, but also accept you're just going to have to trust those centralizing influence a variety of incentives.
“Compurobot”¹ and “George”² were both obviously based on the design of V.I.N.CENT³ from Disney’s 1979 (live action) science fiction movie The Black Hole.

1. http://www.theoldrobots.com/compurobot1.html

2. http://www.theoldrobots.com/compurobot3.html

3. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078869/mediaviewer/rm366124518...
I just change “flex” to “grid”. It has the same result and it can be grids all the way down. I’ve seen issues on mobile platforms when containing grids in flex boxes.
Most users aren't tech savvy enough to block tracking technologies and don't have the legal knowledge to actually understand byzantine privacy policies written in deliberately confusing legalese. It's not obvious that the presence of a "like" button, an ad unit or a hidden pixel means that you're being tracked by a third party. None of us have the time to actually read and understand the privacy policies of every single website we visit. The old "by visiting your website, you agree to our terms and conditions" doesn't actually give users any choice in the matter - you're being tracked before you've actually had the chance to read the policy. Opt-ins without opt-outs create a ratchet effect of ever-diminishing privacy, especially when those opt-ins include overly-broad third-party permissions.

GDPR doesn't stop you from creating a service that's a massive invasion of privacy, but you've got to ask permission first in plain language and allow people to change their minds later. If it turns out that users aren't willing to give that permission and revoke permissions that they have previously granted, it vindicates one of the basic arguments for GDPR - users wanted privacy, but they weren't being offered the opportunity to make a free and informed decision.
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The issue with paying for journalism is that quality journalism is spread out over many, many publishers on the web. I can't afford to pay for subscriptions to dozens of quality news sources. Until micro-payments or, more likely, a multi-publisher, subscription-based model is available, I would not be interested in moving to a payments based system.

Ironically, the most effective micro-payment or subscription-based system will probably come from Google or Facebook in the end.
I wouldn't be so sure. It's not just you that has to pay for the news and other websites, it's your entire family. Would your grandma pay for it? Would you pay for this for your children?
This article contains a dead link in the third paragraph marked as "bugs the lead language designer". Here is an archive.org link from the same time period: https://web.archive.org/web/20140822173033/http://gophercon....
Once off grid solar battery tech is mature it will transform the housing market. Hoping the utility bureaucrats and their captive politicians don't destroy this opportunity by commandeering our batteries
recent experience (yesterday) with Postgres 10 from the PGDG repo for Ubuntu.. reading indexes plus data from a 30GB database for analytics on a four-core i5 consumer motherboard with "spinning rust" disks, parallel configs set in postgresql.conf, and shared_mem of about 6GB, the reads from disk are consistantly 30-40 percent faster for the larger tables, with no change in the smaller tables.. (it is easy to see the parallel workers in htop) Great feature from PostgreSQL Global Development Group!
> I will echo the opinion of others in this and say that in my experience fuzzy matching based on string distance metrics is a better approach in most cases I can think of.

Most likely, but keep in mind that one of the design goals of Soundex was that it be easy for a human to work out and that it be indexable. It was developed for the US Census at the start of the 20th century, after all…
Waw, pretty cool actually
السيدة رشا الموسوي ل ( شبكة الاعلام ): البدانة قاتلة للصحة والجمال
Interesting to see PARSEC mentioned in this topical piece. https://news.bitcoin.com/proof-of-work-coins-on-high-alert-f...
Does anyone know why router manufacturers aren't financially responsible for the exploits that allow their devices to be hacked?

At the very least there should be some kind of policy or standard that allows someone on the inside of the network to know if the password or software has been changed. If the FBI can tell from the outside, then how in the world are people still in the dark about this?
You basically described cable TV in the second part of your post.
Alex Jones would be all over it as proof of lizard people? But then again, Alex can find conspiracy in pure oxygen.

TBH, I haven't seen a whole lot about this beyond some mentions on HN and Reddit. I tend to ignore Wikipedia news as a rule.
>implying Congress will do anything other than continue to line the pockets of rich cronies

The federal government in the US is profoundly dysfunctional to the point where this isn't worth the time or money. However, it may be worth the effort on the state level.
For a second, I thought that http://www.exploringbinary.com/converters-and-calculators/ had changed domain names.

(The rest of that site has plenty of good, extremely detailed articles about floating-point maths too.)
Yep. They also block countries until they can be sure they can abide by their regulations.
You're right, I just got down to the bottom of the article and those models are listed there.

I don't recall what article I read a day or two ago, but I don't believe it mentioned the specific models.
>PHP is bad because it’s inconsistent and doesn’t really have a coherent design.

Same for Go. Built-in special case generic behavior -- but only for specially blessed types, and many other things besides:

https://medium.com/@tucnak/why-go-is-a-poorly-designed-langu...
People in an adversarial relationship with the government they live under would definitely be that segment of the population, yes.
The information is in the article, I don't think the headline is misleading.
Study Offers Pessimistic Outlook for Commercial Space Stations
> In the US, corporations are people.

> in the US, corporations can have religious beliefs. In the EU that sentence doesn't make any sense because --

It doesn't make sense because in the EU we didn't artificially create a legal construct to support the notion of corporations having religious beliefs (or "being people").

Please don't act as if both ideas are equally valid descriptions of the real world when one of them is strictly a legal fiction and completely meaningless in any other sense.

I'm sorry but just like the notion that a 2-person startup would need $300/h lawyers for any significant amount of time to ascertain they're sufficiently in compliance with the GDPR to not get sued into oblivion (.. or something? over here people can just read and implement the needed provisions by themselves in under a week, is what I heard from my friends in the business), this seems to be a problem inside the US legal system, doesn't really seem to me like it's the EU's problem to take into account when it's broken like that.