skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Brave, with the Basic Attention Token (BAT), is building exactly the client-side anonymous contribution + ad-matching system you describe. We will take BAT to other apps after proving the model in Brave.

BAT in Brave is opt-in -- each user consents before anything local happens with data or zero-knowledge/blind-token attestations -- and users can get _gratis_ BAT grants right now using the stable desktop browser (this is coming to mobile in about a month). The anonymous contribution system is the basis for the also-opt-in Brave Ads system, which uses local data only, local machine learning agent, and no cookies or user tracking by any server (even ours). Ads match against a catalog fixed daily or less frequently for a large set of users in a region who speak the same language. Attribution and confirmation use Chaumian blind tokens.

Users get 70% of revenue for opt-in, user-private (in tab), high quality ads at user-configurable frequency. We are working with publishers to provide user-opt-in ads for sites too, 70% revenue to the publisher, 15% to the user. User ad trial is under way right now, ping me if you want to be included. System should be available in Brave 1.0 in a couple of months.
I'm always amused how everything created on the market is most of the time thought of by their creators as some unholy kludge that by all purposes should not work at all.
I have some free passes for this Bangalore Automotive event, send me a note, I am happy to pass them along. www.genivievents.com
> I mean, isn't the point of feudalism actually the former -- that the public authority (the feudal lords) address the basic needs?

Lordship in a feudal system is a private property right (perhaps not freely tradeable because of the terms on which it was granted, but a property right nonetheless) [0], not a public position. (It exercised powers that current and even pre-feudal systems which had a concept of public authority associated with such authority, but it was not such an authority.)

[0] and while the lord/land relationship was granted from above, the lord/tenant relationship was in many feudal systems theoretically one of voluntary formation, though frequently, especially at the lowest levels, the subject of at least economic coercion.
Wikileaks directly contradicts this, so someone is promoting disinformation. Who are you going to believe.

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1041642204274548737

Doesn't seem like an HN story either, except that socially-eningeered credibility is broken.
But then you have the problem that typeof null === 'object'.
In the UK, debit cards can chargeback. While this is currently implemented over MasterCard/Visa network, it's the bank that performs it and there's no reason to expect that would change if something replaced the plastic.

Something similar (but not quite identical) exists for direct debits called the direct debit guarantee.
Yeah, and I think it actually uses a pretty old (0.x) version of lunr. You could definitely grab data over the network and then feed it into lunr's indexer, you'd just have to do it manually. I'd prefer to do it more like Cloudflare's stackexchange search (build the index locally, and publish the index to IPFS), rather than having the client have to fetch the data and build the index itself.

Your tool looks cool! If I find the time, maybe I'll try to dig in a bit and see if I can help with anything!
Read your original post. As far as I understand you are saying these two things:

1. Yandex search results very closely match DDG's in Ukrainian (or did) as opposed to Google/Bing

2. When Yandex could no longer operate in Ukraine, DDG's region for Ukraine disappeared

I am reminded of Hanlon's Razor in this situation, that perhaps in Ukraine they simply did not fix their search after their top index provider was blocked.
To me, that implies the possibility of there being a "wage ceiling" for people of a given skill level as the other western nations appear to be on a trajectory that will top out around the same level at which US wages have stagnated. The existence of such a ceiling does make sense given that the distribution of innate ability in a given population is on a bell curve. Even if we assuming a perfect allocation of resources (capital, education, etc), there will eventually be a point at which an individual can be made to be more efficient in performing a task and without groundbreaking advances in technology that drastically change the amount of value an individual can generate at their peak level of efficiency, there will be no economic force acting to increase their wage.

There are plenty of inefficiencies in the current American model of resource distribution, hence the continued slow growth of wages as they get worked out over time, but it looks like we may have exhausted all the "easy" problems given the length of time this trend of slow growth has been in effect.
Redo: a top-down software build system (2011)
How many Chinese companies are giving Americans access to high level permissions in their computing infrastructure?
Performance doesn’t interest you? I wish we stopped requiring "features" from every software release. I'd rather have less "features", but get software that works better.
> but they have not highlighted it much in the past

Sure they have. Every instance where they stonewalled an investigation was undoubtedly seen at least in part as a way to differentiate themselves from their main competition, which is an run by what is essentially an advertising company that functions by gathering user information.

If you can do something that differentiates you from your competition and they can't feasibly replicate it without changing a large part of how they function at a base level, you do so, even if it might take a while to (or never) pay off. The return on that gamble far outweighs the cost.
I specifically specified mechanical watches. You can even match plain quartz oscillators with new exotic mechanical escapements, such as one from Zenith Defy Lab.

You can get temperature compensated quartz watches that run at 10 or 5 spy. Note that watches spend a lot of time above 30C. There's not much point in calibrating relative to an atomic signal in a watch unless you're already thermocompensated.

It's arguable there's also no point unless you have hand correction tech (seen in some Casios and Citizens) too.
445M customer records on left open AWS server
Well I would assume Stripe gets a better deal than a little business would, and I would expect them to take some significant cut, otherwise they would not be a viable long-term provider, yes? I don't want to be exploited mercilessly, but I also don't want to rely on a payment processor that makes no profit, it seems like they would not stay around for the long term.
I would second that
This is a truly inspiring project. It's surprisingly intuitive for its minimalist design. The exploration aspect is rather quite poetic. Thanks for sharing!
"...create a culture where it is not necessary to check in while on vacation or once you are off the clock."

In other words, what a job is supposed to be for most people.
Or, I just don't like when people summarily dismiss and deride things that don't personally appeal to them, even when others find value in it. I think it's hard to justify calling my direct response passive, regardless of how it was phrased, but if it makes you all feel better to defend the bullies go right on ahead.
I have a 6s that's still on 10. Reading this and other comments make me think that maybe 12 won't be too bad. There's a few apps out there that I use that don't work with 10 anymore and so this may be the time for me to upgrade.
Colombus day is also still celebrated in many parts of the US because why not celebrate one absolutely awful man ?
What is the scientific definition of a vegetable?
I don't think Seattle has any such policy. Can you back this up?
Not to mention a violation of GDPR.
On paper, I would agree with you that up to 12 months of jail time for a relatively minor crime like shoplifting is reasonable. In practice, it appears the result of the new law is that the police don't bother showing up and property crime essentially isn't enforced.
> no delete support

Yeah that's a show stopper. There's just way too many scenarios where's you need to delete something.
I always thought the primary appeal of a universal income was to eradicate poverty and remove the inefficiencies of the welfare state
Nvidia Announces Tesla T4 GPUs with Turing Architecture
Does anyone know if and what concrete changes have been made to Core NFC, beyond the speculation beforehand [1]? I understand there has been a beta of iOS 12 for a while now. The documentation still shows information for iOS 11 [2]

[1] https://9to5mac.com/2018/05/25/apple-will-reportedly-open-up...

[2] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/corenfc
Audi's future traffic simulation
Why Antitrust Makes Me Dizzy
It is a marketing move with game theoretic implications for the user. If Facebook and Apple are both considering Shady Feature X, it’s much more financially risky for Apple, since it’s discovery would jeopardize billions of brand building. So Facebook is more likely than Apple to rationally choose to do it.
Rosetta: Large scale system for text detection and recognition in images
"I don't want to touch iTunes and do computer backup, that is like a very geeky way do it"
Alex MacCaw on the benefits of having a CEO coach
I'll have to download and check, but imagine if, this time over, they actually managed to make the "trust this computer" decision persistent so that you don't have to trust the same pc over and over again every time you plug a device to recharge.
I've switched to RunBox. Custom domains are supported; they're based in Norway. The web interface is very basic (I think they're about to release a new version), but I prefer IMAP anyway.
In the last 18-24 months I've seen a huge uptick in software positions are are C2H, not full-time salaried.
TDLR: This is a content addressed data store similar to IPFS (although this project is older). You can configure one of several backends such as local file storage, S3, SSH, etc. It includes an organization system based on tags, and other meta data. You can construct a fuse filesystem representation based on a query. A web UI exists allowing exploration of existing files, uploading, etc.
My bank, Westpac, calls me up every time I make an online payment with my VISA card or when my card is used at point of sale or at an ATM in a country I haven't notified them that I'm visiting.
Its impressive that Apple is still supporting the iPhone 5S - a device released in 2013.

By contrast Google's Nexus 5 flagship Android phone, also released in 2013, received its last major updated in 2015.

5 years of software updates (and probably more to come) vs 2 years - that's why I switched from Android to iPhone.
Seems to be local disk or Amazon S3.

https://perkeep.org/doc/server-config
"You are in control of your Perkeep server(s), whether you run your own copy or use a hosted version."

Can the perkeep server be an SSH/SFTP login ? Or is there a server side component that would need to be running ?

I've thought in the past about the intersection between (camlistore) and rsync.net but it's not obvious what that looks like ...
How is it a big leap? If an economist says productivity will not take a huge hit, and meanwhile employees' QoL greatly improves, seems like a very small leap.
>FaceTime with up to 32 people at once.

"Why would I _ever_ want to do that?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzqXzYGN-gs
I switched back to FF with Quantum. It was faster and the devtools weren't noticeably different--in fact, devtools was better because of CSS grid support. I'm still disappointed by the comparably small add on ecosystem, but I haven't been tempted to switch back.
Not trying to justify slacking off, but I know that some times I just can't get in the zone in the morning. I could have the best of intentions, block FB/reddit in hosts, but I never really did get a whole lot done. It's why meetings are generally best in the morning (in my view), since meetings are mostly a waste anyway. Come 3 or 4:00 though I'm really getting in to the groove, but then the workday's nearly over (and since I wasn't able to arrive late to compensate, I wasn't about to stay until 8 or 9).

That was my last job, though. Now I work my own schedule and it's nice. WFH though so focus is even tougher. I find that if I start to tire in the afternooon a workout does wonders..
CAR and CDR
My guess is that the privacy/tracking on Safari is going to be turned on for all apps. iOS will soon keep track, at the OS level, of whether apps are allowed to access your Advertising ID. If you say no, then ad-based apps simply will not be able to access your advertising ID and/or SKAdNetwork will be used at the system level to anonymize you as a user. Not sure what they will do with other tracking (like analytics). https://developer.apple.com/documentation/storekit/skadnetwo...
Software is not a violation of the GDPR. GDPR means you can not use it for some things, but given the focus on a personal storage system it's less relevant.
What possible use cases where such high scrollback speeds could be useful?
Sounds like AllAdvantage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllAdvantage). An inspiration in part to Brave, but of course it did not blind itself to user data as we do.

The entire Google ad supply does not need to be downloaded, just a relatively brief catalog (which compresses well) of live edge URLs and metadata (keywords, essentially), updated as new deals for a given region with large enough user base come online, and old deals expire.
Wow, they all seem to be fully commented too! I remember when I first found out about the Atari homebrew scene for the 2600... I was so excited by the idea you could make your own game the first console I ever experienced as a kid. It made me learn 6502 assembler and discover the insane world of Atari development. "Racing the beam" still blows my mind.

I did kind of follow through and made "sort of a game" for it: https://github.com/mrspeaker/plops Though it lacks polish, it does have a theme tune!
For the skeptical, there are two quantum computing job tracks which can operate independently for the next while:

(1) The engineering and basic physics research necessary to build a real, working quantum computer of high enough quality (low error rate) and size (number of qbits) for real-world use. Scott Aaronson believes we won't have a sufficiently-advanced quantum computer to, for example, run Shor's algorithm against a real-world key size for at least 15 years.

(2) The development of quantum algorithms, error-correction schemes, cryptography, and as-yet-unknown use-cases; the implementation thereof in a large, well-designed software library; finally, the development of education materials to ease onboarding of the existing software engineering workforce to quantum computing. Microsoft has an actual quantum software engineering job listed, at this very moment: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/job/503847/Quantum-Softw...

Now, it's completely possible that (1) just won't pan out and we'll never, ever have a quantum computer advanced enough to work on real-world problems, in which case all investment into both (1) and (2) will have been a complete waste. However, given that we have good reason to believe (1) will succeed, why should we put (2) on hold for the next 15 years? Do we really want to finally have a shiny new quantum computer, then not have anything to run on it?

For an overview of the current state of quantum computing and what we can do with current NISQ (noisy intermediate-scale quantum) computers, there's a good survey paper by John Preskill called Quantum Computing in the NISQ era and beyond: https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.00862
Curious how they made it to work (the same for startpage.com). Even my stationary workplace PC with static IP occasionally asks for captcha in google search. It says something like "we suspect you're a robot that abuses google search, back off". Sometimes solving series of 4 captchas is still not enough so I back off and beep twice.
Firefox (and Firebug) used to be THE environment used to develop for the web. Things changed and will change again. Chrome isn't some magic immortal browser.
Not an assumption at all. All evidence seems to indicate that FTL travel is impossible. Also remember, you have to go way faster than that because everything in space is moving away from everything else. So really you have to go (faster than light + rate of expansion) = speed you need to go.

Also, its one thing to go the speed of the light, its another to slow down from it!
I've recently started using Fossil[0] to archive all my personal data. It works rather brilliantly. Technically you can use any VCS but Fossil is unique in that the entire repo is a single SQLite db, so it's very easy to backup and restore. Not to mention the web UI to have a quick glance before checking out any files. Even better I can sync flawlessly between multiple hard drives and computers. I've a few separate branches for Docs/Photos etc. I checkout the related branch and just add more files whenever needed. After files are added to the repo, I just remove the working copy. There are some limitations though like files larger than 2GB aren't supported.

[0] - https://www.fossil-scm.org/
For the 30th anniversary, the BBC put online the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text adventure: www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2game
It's entirely possible to consume fewer calories "automatically" by making simple dietary changes that don't involve tracking calories. Thermodynamically, a calorie is a calorie, but it turns out the physics picture misses the point of recommending how to eat for weight loss and good health. Nutritionally, a calorie is emphatically not a calorie.

Calories in different macronutrient forms (protein, fat, simple carbs, complex carbs) have different effects on metabolism, satiety, insulin secretion, and mood. These differences in turn alter caloric intake. Cutting out refined starches and added sugar is more effective for long-term weight loss than obsessing over caloric intake, e.g., https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/20/well/eat/counting-calorie...
I mean there are places where removing a hand is still the standard, and it reduces but doesn't end crime.
Amsterdam to Frankfurt in 50 mins? Dutch hyperloop startup believes so
When losing your job means getting deported it can really sharpen your sense of focus.

Don't worry though, it's not just immigrants to the US. I emigrated from the US and to be completely honest I still work hard but not with the underlying worry I always had just a little bit of before I secured my status more permanently.
What is spec work?
Peter Turchin points to a blip in violence in the 1970's, and the 1920's (think Prohibition), and maybe also the 1870's. These are on top of a long-term downward trend, though.
Does the GRPR apply to single-user, standalone products where there's no company providing a service?
> The "humiliation" that he felt Germany suffered due to the end of WWI generally played much better.

Hitler believed Germany lost WW1 specifically because they were "stabbed in the back" by the Jews.
> Fixing 1960s and 1970s electronics is hard. But they're fixing IBM's good stuff, not junk.

Depends. I found my various Tektronix pieces quite easily repaired, with insights gained. But then again their documentation is quite good.
Dragging the retired into a debate about how rich people spend their time seems like a stretch to me. You can't fault someone if they want to laze about in retirement.
> I'm pro nuclear if costs are not externalized (insurance, EOL tear down, waste management) but priced in.

Then fossil fuels would have to pay a carbon tax, natural gas would have to pay for every ounce of methane they leak into the atmosphere, other plants would also have to factor in decommissioning (a 10GW reactor is equivalent to more than fifty million solar panels, how much does that cost to recycle?), hydro dams, coal mines and oil platforms would have to carry catastrophe insurance, etc.

Pricing in every cost for nuclear but not for anything else is not a level playing field. Come to nuclear after you've actually priced in the costs for fossil fuels.
Do we really need to throw shoplifting kids into prison, which will only serve as a training school for worse crime? Stores have insurance for this kind of loss.
You can get accuracy well under 100 ms using ordinary NTP over the public internet, and I assume that since the Apple Watch has GPS that this is also used to synchronize the watches.

All you need is an ordinary crystal oscillator and a GPS receiver, stitch it together with a little software and all your watches in the store are synchronized.
The one thing I didn't see mentioned in any of this is, are we certain that we're not just sending underaged kids to regular prison? I would like to think not, but if we're charging them as adults...

But hopefully that's not something we do. Right?
There was some discussion earlier about the former Camlistore, and how it differs from the Upspin project in a couple threads here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13700492) but maybe the authors can chime in here and restate what the different usecases would be between Upspin and Perkeep -- it seems like they are targeting the same audience: personal users wanting to back up data. The biggest point of emphasis is that these are not to be used for enterprises, and using them as such would be an anti-pattern, but curious as how the breakdown goes after that.
I'm sure the effect is exaggerated because it gives people the warm fuzzies to know they're smarter than those newspaper dolts, but demonstrating a few news articles were correct doesn't seem like it proves all reporting is correct.

Although perhaps there is actually the opposite effect. Now people read an article in their field, notice some flaws, and conclude all reporting is terribly flawed?

But really, one month you read a wired article about kaminsky and the keys to the internet, and then you read an article about hacking slot machines, and you think, oh yeah, I'm sure this accurate?
If this is a marketing move, then any feature could be described as a marketing move.

For example, how is Apple's emphasis on privacy, with the additional features they have added to push for it, different from their emphasis on backing up when they introduced Time Machine? I think that the Time Machine introduction was as much of a marketing move, at which point you've broadened the definition of the phrase where it doesn't really mean anything.
Economics has a somewhat different definition of wisdom than human philosophers and ethicists.

Economically, investing in cancer cures research is wise when selling a cure would be profitable. Even if you had a death oracle that could tell you exactly what a person would die of, and when, it might be wiser (economically) to invest in a cure for the disease that will kill Bill Gates in N years than the one that will kill you in N+M years.

Because the money you spend on curing Gates's disease in N years might return enough to allow you to finance a cure for your own in less than M years, whereas the original amount might cure yours in N+M+C years. It's all hypothetical. You make the best decisions you can with the information you have at the time, but luck and skill are always factors.
Unrestricted capitalism will never be a force for good.

Unrestricted capitalism, sadly, doesn't even exist. But capitalism in its various forms is already a potent force for good - perhaps the most powerful such force the world has ever known. No other system has done more to create wealth, raise standards of living, and improve the world.

Attacking capitalism because it's slightly less than perfect at delivering the ideal end result for everybody, is a horrible kind of "throwing the baby out with the bathwater".