skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One part of the article that I really disagree with is the part about the Wayback machine. As much as I believe it's important we retain the information we put on the internet, I fully support that if I put something on the internet and I am the creator of such content, I should be allowed to remove that content I created if I wish.

This is closely aligned with the GDPR's "Right to be forgotten", yes this is in relation to different information but I'm simply describing its intent. But eventually, this level of control should be given to all of us who share content on the internet. That we the curators of such content can ask of the provider to take reasonable steps to remove such content. And that if a provider wishes to restrict how widely dispersed its creators content travels then that's fine. Just because something has been posted online, doesn't mean it needs to travel far and wide.

Now yes, if I post something on the internet and I never touch it again I'm happy for it to hit the Wayback machine. However, I believe it to be important that if I did ever want that information I created to be removed, I'd have the ability to do so. Now if the Wayback machine does not allow this replication, then I understand why Quora do not allow them to use it.

If anything its a battle on both sides, a battle to provide control to the content creators around the content they create. And a battle with trying to archive everything that exists on the internet and making it publicly available regardless of the content creators current wishes.

Don't get me wrong, if you post something online expect it to be on the largest most accessible encyclopedia of information of all time. But times are changing, and we are starting to implement controls to protect our digital identity and the information we create online. My argument, is that if a content provider wishes to restrict how far and wide the information I curate on its service is spread, then there's nothing wrong with that. We should not be shaming content providers who wish to provide as much power to the curator as possible.
wow... talk about informative.
Honestly, in the last few years Quora answers are just terribly bad.

It's basically turned into yahoo answers but instead of the top answer being vapid, it's vapid and an ad for some service.
I will say I appreciate Facebook's approach to this - after 60-90 days, you have to affirmatively reconfirm your initial authorization when they send you through the OAuth flow.
I don't believe this requires javascript to work.
That's definitely true, though I find that the less technical platforms are laxer. However, that level of quality control is exactly what keeps me coming back. If you ask a stupid question, SO is going point it out rather bluntly. Quora will give you a best-effort answer so someone can plug their latest product.

Ask a vague question on Quora, and you'll get a vague answer.

Ask a vague question on Stack Overflow, and you'll get downvoted along with comments to the order of, "You haven't provided enough information for us to give you an answer."
Even as the parent of a 4 year old I feel that my opinion is somewhat “armchair/backseat” but I agree with you, with an addendum.

It’s good and important for parents and other adults in teenagers’ lives to keep current on pop culture, but even at 30 years remove I remember how cringe worthy and counter productive it was when such an adult thought that they could relate because of a few radio and tv shows that they watched. Following your child’s Instagram feed may well give a way deeper insight, maybe asking to share their playlists too
I used to enjoy browsing Quora about 4 years ago. Then It started showing up in Google search results for any obscure thing I would search. Most of the time I view a question, there is some type of product placement in the answers. It's not of high value to me anymore. Stack Exchange is much, much better, and even reddit.

How do these guys honestly have a real business? I know the founder was Zuck's friend.
It’s not just specific applications, it’s more than that. For example, I happen
to have a long commute in a
very congrsted area, which kills range. My office does not have charging stations. I personally don’t have a charging station in my garage, so I would have to charge my EV overnight. Not a huge problem, but these kinds of issues make me and most people pause when considering an EV. That’s not a specific application, that’s a very common one. And yes, I have seen maybe one or two charging stations in my area of WV, but that’s it. You’re right, it is indeed a chicken and egg problem, but I disagree with the notion that our infrastructure is changing rapidly. If it’s happening at all, it’s very slow and sporadic. Nobody in my area has EVs nor would they want one not only because of all the things I’ve already mentioned, but also for many things I haven’t. Tbe pickup truck is king here, for example.

The EV is a superb idea and I will welcome it with open arms when governments mandate, subsidize, build, and generally support it, and when car companies solve the problems inherent to the EV. Until then, it is a fantasy that most people will simply not adopt for pragmatic reasons.

And yes, absolutely we are capable of building that infrastructure, but we are simply not willing. And let’s be real - car makes are not even making EVs (and I don’t mean hybrids), nor are they interested in making them because there is very little market for them. Again, yes, a chiken/egg problem, but a very real one.
Those lose zero-overhead interop with C, which is a core constraint for Rust.

Your guesses are incorrect.
I'm not sure what kind of software cracks you'd expect to see upvoted here? I've seen articles about torrent sites upvoted very frequently, the same torrent sites we use to download paid software. I also remember reading an interesting article about how Adobe benefitted from young people using their cracked software because it helped establish a market dominance that strongly encouraged companies to buy Adobe software because that's what people know (even if they never paid for it).

The reason you often see websites that bypass article paywalls shared here is because pretty much all these publishers violate people's privacy (something a lot of HN readers care deeply about), their websites are extremely annoying with regard to autoplaying videos, asking for silly permissions such as microphone, redirecting to other articles if you scroll too far, and well, it's a lot easier to bypass these paywalls since they give free access to crawlers (a concept a lot of HN readers disagree with). Not to mention that more than half the content posted on HN benefit from websites like outline.com.

As for the benefits of piracy, I suggest you simply Google 'benefits of piracy' and read all the studies yourself. I also suggest you take a moment to consider that not all content is available in all countries at the same time. In fact, many countries often have to wait weeks for the content to become legally available in their country (when I was younger I even had to wait years for some series). I'd say it's safe to assume that without piracy then you can expect about half the online discussion to disappear. Not to mention that a lot of people who pirate content often obtained access to this content legally as well. For instance, I might download an MP3 of a song I also listen to with my Spotify subscription, or that I listened to a hundred times on YouTube.. Or download a movie that I previously watched at the cinema, or begin to pay for content I previously thought I would never pay for as a result of the pirated content growing on me. It's also important not to forget that the quality of the pirated content is often a lot inferior (unless you wait a long time), meaning those who choose to watch in 420p-like quality rather than paying for 4k-like quality would be extremely unlikely to pay for it (assuming it's even an option for them).
The cryptocurrency "hope ponzi" is predicated on a relatively unfalsifiable hypothesis: given enough time and effort, geeks using math can create software that will completely nuke our existing economic system.

The result of this unfalsifiability is the rapid "boom-bust" bubble cycles we see in crypto prices:

- 'informed' speculators buy early on the thesis that 'the old problems have been fixed from the last bubble.'

- typical bubble dynamics play out like 'greater fool' and 'your plumber is buying' rise up to the peak

- "problems" are brought to the forefront in the speculators' minds in response to events (in this last cycle, it was 'the network can't scale' in response to DoS attacks and 'the SEC is bringing the hammer' in response to their memo(s) for example)

- alternative, more foundational valuation measures fail to emerge through the cycle other than the primary hope and speculation in the promise of cryptocurrency, and so the bubble pops once a few whales start harvesting gains

- people lick their wounds, the press stops talking about crypto for a while, and people stop checking the tickers. developers are further enticed to keep working in the space because they can optimistically whiteboard out theoretical solutions to a good chunk of the "problems" (the ones that are due to technology or design limitations.) this is happening right now within the ethereum community, all hope is being pinned on the next set of features.

- in 1-2 years when plausible 'solutions' to the primary problems identified in the last cycle emerge the cycle repeats. note this doesn't mean they actually need to solve the problems, just be plausible enough to induce FOMO in early speculators that 'crypto's time has come.' if you recall this cycle there were memes that took hold around ethereum smart contracts being the missing piece, and that ICOs were going to incentivize innovation properly.

the only way in my mind that this cycle breaks is either a) a more grounded valuation metric comes forward based upon demonstrated value for crypto which rapidly causes some kind of pseudo-market efficiency (but still lots of vol) or b) interest in the ecosystem wanes so much (due to other emerging tech stealing talent or enough people being burned) that the brain drain causes the tech to stagnate and the sentiment that "crypto is dead" takes hold alongside this inertia or c) some fundamental flaw eradicates so much wealth so quickly that it affects most people in the economy. These seem hard to imagine right now, so my guess is we have at least a few more cycles.

Two signals that the ecosystem is perma-dead (if you ask me) is if we see:

- No active development going on due to "emotional capitulation" by most all tech talent (def not the case now)

- We see a crash which directly affected a large % of 401ks (not possible bc bitcoin et al are not fully securitized yet)

Market price action in and of itself doesn't say very much (to me) about if we will see another cycle.
those fonts are so familiar that I am surprised they are not in the public domain already, maybe they are just refinements of old standbys?
Yes, currently we’re putting full time dev resources into Inspircd to bring it up to date with newer IRCv3 features so that we can showcase what IRC is capable of these days. Once the Foundation has been setup further down the line then we plan to open that up to other projects.
All deadlines have an implied "with equivalently aggressive funding" addendum
I mean if I'm only going to read a book once I'm not going to spend $10 on it. The only books I buy are books I'd like to own so I can read them again in the future. If I'm paying $10 to read a book once that basically makes Amazon into a really shitty library that also sells knockoff goods and forces their employees to work in sweatshop like conditions.
Consider it the other way -- she's giving her child privacy.

I never asked to "friend" my son on social media (and told him why) and he invited me to FB, which I believe he curates pretty heavily and doesn't use much -- basically to make a picture for old people.

He hasn't asked me to friend him on instagram or snapchat and that's OK (and various IG pictures leak out anyway via other channels, like other people)
Id like to learn more about your bootcamp experiences. Do you still recommend it?
A student, a teacher and a computer programmer are the CNN heroes
What did your friends & family think when you told them you were going on the trip?
I agree. It also aligns with the 'right to one's own image' for example, which is important in jurisdictions like Germany and gains increasing relevance with the prevalence of facial recognition and finding oneself on social media without having given consent.

There is a real danger of the internet becoming a macabre and voyeuristic zoo where people lose control over their own data in the name of ever more transparency or public interest.

It has always been particularly interesting to me that this is an especially big issue in the US, where you would expect the opposite given how it handles these matters of privacy and non-interference in the analog world.
I appreciated that the author even related her disconnection to her daughter to her own perspective of the same thing when she had been the same age.

The whole point of childrearing is that the kids have to disconnect as part of becoming responsible independent adults. While the ultimate level of disconnection varies by parent/child, the process of getting there is going to oscillate above and below the "ideal" amount.
Here's another good site for visualizing path finding algorithms: https://qiao.github.io/PathFinding.js/visual/
Hmm. An interesting critique.

I think I offered to help you write a resume. The offer stands. I’m sorry things deteriorated between us.

Best of luck.
These discussions always follow the same script :)

Before I started the trauma-healing therapies, I'd spent about 6-7 years trying to get well using other methods; initially mainstream medicine and mainstream psychiatry including antidepressants, then things like diet (paleo etc), exercise, nutrition supplementation, meditation, yoga.

I believed in them all just as much as I believed in the trauma approach, yet my health continued to get worse. Indeed, when I started the trauma approach I didn't believe in it. Yet it worked far better than anything I'd tried before.

Over the time I've undertaken the trauma healing, I've lapseed in and out of focusing on diet, exercise, etc. These things are of course important; I wouldn't be getting healthy if I was spending all day on the couch consuming burgers and Coke non-stop.

But my experience is that they don't have any positive effect if I'm not also doing the trauma healing work.

Also, you might examine/contemplate what the placebo effect actually is. If it's healing that comes about due a change in emotional state (i.e., belief and optimism that a cure is being implemented) then it serves more to prove the theory than cast doubt on it.

Edit: added the fact that I'd been sought help from mainstream medicine at the beginning of this journey.
Interesting. Reading some of the comments they really run the gamut (no pun intended). It's reassuring to see though that people are starting to pay attention to this. For myself, it is the flicker (PWM) of some LED drivers that I am uncomfortable with. I went through a few different brands of LED track lights before finding one where I could perceive no flicker.

Similarly for LED lightning in the garage.

For the kitchen I had a need for rope lighting and never did find LED/driver combo that I was happy with.
I completely agree. I’m the copyright holder of text I published on my own website years ago; the fact they hold on to my written copyrighted work without my permission, ignoring my explicit request to remove it from their internal database is infuriating.
I think you nailed it from the armchair. My parents and my wife’s parents reminisce fondly about evenings spent playing cards and singing songs with their families growing up, and they’re sad that those things aren’t much a part of our culture any more (at least not in our small circle of the world). The other night though, my wife and I were playing Stardew Valley multiplayer with two of our young children and it hit me that we had basically organically stumbled upon family game night just from trying to do things that the kids were interested in as much as us that also involve some interaction with each other (as opposed to say, watching the same TV show next to each other).
You don't actually have the right to be forgotten, even within GDPR. That provision was heavily modified before GDPR passed, and the final phrasing doesn't really grant you the ability to erase all of your content from the internet. (If I recall correctly, the term "right to be forgotten" was also largely replaced with "right to erasure" in the actual text of the law, with the intent of indicating that you had the right to erase certain content stored in certain ways by certain services, but you couldn't truly be "forgotten.") Remember, a lot of this information isn't actually personal, so it's mostly not covered by GDPR anyway.

If you post something to the internet, it's permanent. Lawmakers can say all they want, but someone somewhere is storing it regardless of laws, and it can get out again at any time. From a security perspective, it's irresponsible to provide people with the illusion that they can erase their tracks; they'll believe they can truly eliminate all trace of what they said and prevent any future consequences when that's clearly not the case.
This is interesting. If LED lights pulse so quickly that we don't notice the flashing, how are these people able to perceive it in a way that causes them pain?
Correction : For Canada from most Europe Schengen countries you need an Eta visa, it’s not visa free.
Same for US green card holders.
> we accept with the presumption that no one would offer so much money if it weren't very important

oh boy I'd take a higher paying job to pay my mortgage or ease vacation with kids. No need to have a higher value than that.
This is Water (2005)
This law is so entirely bad, it's literally making highly-paid software engineers, who are essential to our way of life, seriously consider revoking their citizenship, leaving the country, working in another field, and encouraging other countries to boycott dealing with Australia entirely.

Just thought I'd note that. This is crazy.
This isn’t an issue just in Japan.
I can't be the only one who finds the whole forced "inter breeding" bit morally extremely dubious, can I?
Adding a reference source in requirements details might be helpful and assuring.
The Chinese copy of it "Zhihu(Did you know?)" has become a distribution center of misinformation and misconception, a haven for
"folk-science", all driven by financial gains, why would "clever ones" waste time on the internet if they can't make a buck out of it afterall, and if it's not a pragmatism populist hangout, how can they make their most valuable eyeballs keep coming back.

But the sin of it is it makes you think your are "clever" too, and both the website and the answerers are willingly fabricating, promoting and propagating deleterious garbage.
Look at youth unemployment rates in Europe: https://www.statista.com/statistics/266228/youth-unemploymen...

>20% youth unemployment in France, Italy, Portugal, Spain. I don’t see how a country could recover from that.
Ed Department to Erase Debts of Teachers, Fix Troubled Grant Program
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AlphaFold at CASP13: What just happened?
Ernest Lawrence's UC Berkeley Cyclotron: Invention for the Ages
How to Monetize Maker Blogs to at least $99/m
A few days ago I built a little site called https://makerblogs.xyz.

After a few people submitted their blogs via Twitter, I decided to post it on Product Hunt.

To my surprise, it actually went semi-viral and reached #2 for the day on PH. Quite a big deal for me.

Probably a premature 'launch' if I may call it that, as I realised I forgot something major - I never set Cloudinary (my image CDN) to resize images into something smaller before serving as static files.
This has caused my bandwidth allowance from Cloudinary to max out, currently standing at 208%. Ouch. Somehow they still haven't cut me off and they are still serving the static images.

I tweeted Cloudinary if there's a way to bulk resize images, but no response yet.

They will probably pull the plug on me eventually unless I pay $99/m for their service, which wouldn't make any business sense, considering I'm not making any money off this site.

Anyone else got ideas on how I can potentially monetise to at least pay for my hosting and servers?

(I added a "sponsor" button to see if I can get a reaction)
Tis the season for PWM-induced headaches from cheap LED Christmas lights.

I'm curious if folks in countries with 50Hz mains have the same issue. At that point it might be so bad that products without at least a full bridge rectifier would be unsellable.
What's wrong with Indians?
Yes but the developers are incentivized to get it done as quickly as possible and if they start to present multiple steps their managers will be likely to acuse them of overengineering the system so they just try to do it all at once.
This bizarre racism seems quite off-topic.
Also, as the article points out, it's really hard to write exciting books about achieving incredibly tight tolerances in manufacturing.

And engineers tend to be less colorfully interesting than physicists. (No offense intended, I'd include myself in this characterization)
Youth unemployment rates in EU member states as of May 2018
Limited prosocial effects of meditation
Sign me up :-)
Sounds interesting.

Btw SAOL (structured audio orchestration language) was proposed as part of the mpeg7 initiative, which is itself quite long dead.

SAOL was based on csound concepts. Back then, we had "csound cards" that ran csound units directly on them in real time with a near-zero (read sub ms) control-to-sound latency. Btw iirc even a control signal sent to a Bluetooth device can suffer a 3ms delay, which is low, but not "essentially zero". I get about that much from trigger to sound on the ios. BT Streams have 100x more delay than that (also noted in the keynote).

PS: finally watched the video.
Ha ha, those who would sacrifice ownership for convenience deserve neither.

That about sum it up?
One Frickin' User Interface for Linux (2003)
I think the discussion was about energy consumption.