skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That essay is one of my favourites from Slate Star Codex, and it has been a source of inspiration for my current approach.

There is one way around this: to actually not care about user growth. I don’t have any pressure to make this a big thing. I’ve received a very small amount of VC funding to make a private, business version of this, and that (Aether Business Edition) considers this community version effectively a goodwill exercise / marketing expense.

If it doesn’t get users because it doesn’t serve fringe people, great! Fewer headaches for me. I would rather have the community version a small group of nice people. That, to me, is success.

If you use this one, and if you like it, and want to have it as a Slack-like organic knowledge base / productivity tool for your company, that’s already a win for me.

(If you want to pilot the business version, hit me up at the email in my profile - I’m building it as we speak. It’s on a SaaS / on-prem backend, not P2P.)
It's only a problem if you have leading spaces in your password. If you want the option of single field login you would have to avoid that.

I suppose an interior space in a password also raises the possibility of accidentally logging in as someone else. Suppose your password is "foo bar.spam", and you try to login using the normal two field approach, so you put your username in the username field and "foo bar.spam" is the password field, but somehow botch filling out the username field so it is blank.

The system will try the alternative interpretation, that you want to login as user "foo" with password "bar.spam". If there happens to be someone with "foo" as a username who happens to have "bar.spam" as a password, you will end up logged in as them!

This could be addressed by requiring some special value in the username field to signal you want to use the one field option. Say, "a" as the username means look for combined username/password in the password field. It's slightly more work for the user as they do have to enter something in username now, but still only needs one copy/paste which is the main point.
And Oracle.
Nope. Unpaid workers depress the labor market when people who need to be paid to work have to compete against people working for free. That's one reason it's illegal.
Decentralized reddit already existed in the form if usenet. This adds some moderation features which is nice, but I have trouble believing people care about decentralization enough to switch.

What would really help is if there was a website I could explore the content on before hosting anything myself. Imagine there's many instances each with many users that all sync between each other, and of I lose trust of one I can seamlessly switch to another.

But of course this has been done before and died, so the point still remains of why people should switch.
Google provides what they believe to be improved/more reliable services that they can make guarantees about. The open internet is inherently less than that. Besides the paradox about companies owning proprietary technology to key infrastructure that isn't then shared like early internet technology was, one thing is for sure: Chromecast could have made the tradeoff to use 8.8.8.8 a user choice. When in doubt, ask, but with Google, the culture has always been we know better.
Electronic GPS tags to track thousands of criminals in England and Wales
I certainly won. In my city of 400,000 we only had one unreliable cab company, Uber is much better than the alternative. Uber Eats also destroys the previous delivery service that was around. They're a really valuable service to me
PGP is still widely deployed, whether you like it or not. "I don't like it" isn't a valid argument for considering something "legacy", when it works just fine for certain cases.
Lol, that’s not how “hacking” works
Rubbish. Why is there even a section describing its methodology when it's comparing $40 and $50 instances against $20 ones? I can see why they might compare the $62 EC2 instances against other vendors' cheaper ones as that is the point of their investigation, but the challengers should be on a level playing field. Seems to me that they wanted DO to 'win'.
CloudTk: run Tk apps in browser via VNC
This is patently false, as Paul Vixie, who created DNS, clearly owns one.
CLI managing GitHub milestones as sprints with YAML file
Indeed. You literally have nothing to lose.
> I don’t think the phenomenon of unpaid internships is primarily driven by a wish to shape wealth dynamics of society.

The person you are responding to is not at all claiming the companies are driven By "altruistically" trying to shape the wealth dynamics of society.

Their claim was that the goal is to self-select for a certain type of desirable intern, not to give a certain type of person an overall economic advantage.

I don't buy that paid vs. unpaid internships offer a significant enough difference in cost to companies to be able to dismiss non-cost motivations as "not primary" without actual evidence.
Most sites that hijack and block pasting via JavaScript are easily circumvented by pasting somewhere else nearby, such as the location bar (without hitting return), then dragging and dropping that value onto the field of interest.
Right, realistically what Vixie is saying is: This is a major vendor failing to comply with IETF standards and using their market dominance to undermine open standards and protocols.
> a) Similar to Reddit’s gold, if you want to support Aether, you can buy a 'unique’ username (with a checkmark, like Twitter) that makes you the unique owner of that username for the donation duration. If you want to do so, check out the Patreon.

That seems suboptimal. And what happens if you make a duplicate username while it's not being paid for, and then it gets paid for?
“here in Europe” is not the same as “here” by itself, because the “in Europe” part specifies exactly what “here” means.
You don’t necessarily need a better networking device if your current router is supported by openwrt/lede
There are extremely obvious negative externalities, though. That's why minimum wage laws exist in almost every country in the world.
Or inspect element, then

$0.value = 'hunter2'
I've noticed this on certain bank sites. It's not enhancing security as their developers must assume, it's quite the opposite because of the reduction of the chance users will utilize the password manager which generates secure passwords and stores them encrypted on their devices.
Amusingly Amazon could have simply dropped the trailing "a" and had a gender neutral name.
Another trick you can do is change the field type from password to text in the web inspector, which will also reveal the password in plaintext.
Yup! Aether is basically a nicer, decentralised Usenet.

(It’s more decentralised than Usenet - everyone is an ‘Usenet server’ in Aether, vs large university servers in the original Usenet)
I'm curious how filtering proxies like Privoxy, Proxomitron, Proximodo/Proxydomo, etc. compare --- it's an extra (local) hop of network latency, but those are pure native code. I've been using one for a long time (ever since I heard of them) and it effectively works across all the browsers on the system, even those built-in to other apps (often only for the purpose of showing ads...) Even for those who don't routinely use multiple browsers, given how increasingly user-hostile and unconfigurable they are becoming, I think it makes sense to move filtering into its own application.
While paperwork is easier with a cc, and the ~1.75% charge that processor's apply is valuable, there are additional risks that follow cc processing.

Fraud. While you may have an individual pay for $10-$500 in goods with counterfeit currency(rare), you'll definitely encounter $10-$5000 purchases with stolen card numbers. This means you not only lose the sale income, but you get charged a fee because there was a filing against you (charge-back).

Depending on your line of business, this can be as high as %0.66.

https://www.ns8.com/en/solutions/case-studies/industry-repor...
Sadly doesn't work with one of my banks (it detects the ctrl key on keydown)
Hermes refusal to change
Netherlands extremely rarely gives anyone an actual life sentence for anything. Plus, it's a property crime, and depends if she had knowledge of their value and intent based on that. Also, you'd need to lock-up half of the European aristocracy and most galleries for taking, and not willingly-returning, works taken from WW2 Holocaust victims and survivors. So in the grand scheme of things, she's, at most, a committer of criminal mischief.
It's not unreasonable to assume people missed that news. It was front page here for a day and on reddit for about the same duration. If someone didn't login for a few days, it was very easily missed.
Yup, It’s because it’s not signed with Authenticode, which is because it’s taking Comodo an insane amount of time to actually give me a certificate. Let’s Encrypt for code signing can’t come soon enough.
Actually, my understanding is that it is in fact illegal to have unpaid interns do work that you would otherwise pay someone for. Internships are for the edification of the intern, not the company. That's the reason they're allowed to exist at all in spite of minimum wage laws.

https://smallbusiness.findlaw.com/employment-law-and-human-r...
What volume of sand would you need to make a difference? And at what rate does it collect Cs137 to reach 99%?

Would it be feasible to stack filters? (E.g., 0.01 * 0.01 * 0.01...)
Everybody could foresee "don't be evil" would die with the IPO. Not only that, but the spirit of young Google, like 20% time or Google Labs and off-the-wall ideas that could bubble up, all eventually died.
That’s clearly false unless you value your time at $0
Requiring a phone for setup now counts as evil?
For my Google Assistant, I've made it a point to select a male voice, and I always refer to it as the Google Assistant or just Assistant. The choice in voice gender was so that my wife could keep the default female voice, and we would know it's responding under her account when she talks to a Home in our house vs defaulting to my account like it does for me or guests.

Having said that, I've never heard a genderless voice (although there have been times when I'm on the phone and cannot make out the other person's sex from just their voice). I think this idea that everyone should stop considering gender as binary simply due to the apparently increase in gender dysphoria is a bit ridiculous. Creating the voice for a digital Assistant is a perfect example of this, since the big companies involved have probably done a lot of research to try to determine the best way to make one that doesn't lend itself to a particular gender but always seem to default to a female voice / character (excluding this "Leon").
No reason to retain backups beyond the period for which they ensure disaster recovery.
Sorry but being opposed to this incentive targeted exclusively and non-competitively at Amazon, #4 in market cap, does not mean being opposed to incentives.
Giide launched interactive audio beta for learning
I find arbitrary limits like this to be totally idiotic. The number of rules does not need to fit in a 16-bit variable. The "to ensure performance for users" is simply patronising and attempting to divert attention away from the fact that they are trying to neuter this feature as much as they can without raising too much opposition. I should be able to filter millions of rules if I have the RAM and CPU power available.
A native app is not really that great for Reddit style content.

Not keyboard friendly at all.

Took me a couple of minutes to find subs. I was about to give up.

You cant have a Reddit without pictures/gifs. And it should open in the app.

This should be like sabnzbd, or couchpotato. A local software that you can access in the browser http://localhost:xxx/
Chernobyl liquidators
NYC as a whole not being desperate still makes throwing billions in income for residents, not all of whom make as much as Amazon would bring, a dumb move.

Amazon’s role is not charity. It is to be as productive as possible. NYC does have the role in being a good steward of resources for its citizens. It threw out a lot of money and job for them due to a vocal minority.
If the company is so early that you cannot even afford them a meager internship salary, then what you need is co-founders, not interns.
> This is a major vendor failing to comply with IETF standards

What IETF standard is violated by a device using a known DNS server rather than the one offered by DHCP?
After games started popping up I left facebook only as a photo storage where my family can see my/our/their photos. I also use FB messenger to talk to a total grand of 1 person that doesn't use any other messaging service.
You're stuck in an utopian delusion not dealing with reality. When you privatize government, you create perverse incentives for corporations to extort citizens by charging excessive prices and fees, provide shoddy service and tie them to other things they don't want or need.
make -j65536

Clickbait title?
Algorithmic Beauty of Plants [pdf]
Incidentally, debit cards ('check cards') in the US are more expensive than credit cards as a ratio of processing costs to fees (they charge %~.75.

These fees are more in line with costs in Canada (~$.03 a transaction).

https://www.cardpaymentoptions.com/fee-sweep/debit-fees-expl...

These numbers align with my experience when working for a processor in the US.
The "start with communities" is the hard part. You never start with a community, you have to build it. Early adopters define the shape of your community as much as intentional design does. And when you compete with a monolith, who are your first adopters going to be? They'll be people who were kicked off the bigger ship. Most of them were kicked off for a reason.

That's why pretty much every successful social network has a killer feature that everyone is potentially interested in, like Facebook's directories and news feed, or Twitter's microblogging concept, or Reddit's constantly updating Frontpage that'll give you the latest buzz on every topic you care about, or Instagram's photos-as-first-class-citizens concept.

"identical to reddit, but with less censorship of hate speech" just isn't going to make people turn their heads.
Amazon’s Alexa Keeps Quoting Jeff Bezos to Me
Sensors don't attack. Sensors don't even defend themselves. They are one piece of the "kill chain", but they aren't the "kinetic" piece.
Ah, I see my mistake - I confused one participant on the list with another. My apology to Jared. Thank you for the correction, Dan.
https://outline.com/BY7Hge
So it's basically an updated Usenet.

I started to use Usenet years back to download shows. Around 10 years ago it was unusable due to spam, now there's actually a few active newsgroups and some people came back to post so they could remain pseudoanonymous and not deal with upvote economy. For whatever reason, spam seems to have mostly gone away. The infrastructure is still quite robust and unlike Aether, posts stay up for many years.

Honestly, the only super annoying thing on Usenet today are noobs coming in from Google Groups and responding to threads started in the 90's.
I wish we were all this thoughtful.
Well, if you have no connections in the world of plumbing, why did you start writing software for plumbers?
I have plenty of time, but the games these days are awful and are purely centered around siphoning as much money out of the consumer as possible. It's quite unpleasant. I'm stuck playing older games because of this.
Doctors Knock Out Sheep to Discover Anesthesia's Dark Side
Nice, another large contribution to the field from Google just a day after Open AI’s paper on better language models and their implications. This is in addition to other nice recent public contributions from Uber, Facebook, Microsoft, etc.

I think I understand these huge tech company’s “generosity”: these public contributions to the field probably help in recruiting efforts like salary and fringe benefits do. The field is moving so fast and growing so fast it is difficult to hire talent right now (I manage a machine learning team at a very large company, and at least this is my experience).

This paper is claiming a 5000 times increase in performance over previous state of the art techniques. Huge.
Don't worry, Russia found them
His mother is a terrible person who should go to prison for life for intentional destruction of irreplaceable cultural items in order to cover up serious crimes.

What do we hope to gain from locking up an old woman?
Yes. Let corporations in to cannibalize and strip-mine the public commons (common-wealth) with perverse incentives and gamify things too important the government should be doing.

Btw, do you ever watch TRNN or Economic Update?
That's a very wacky take.

A general privacy principle is that if the user requests the service provider to delete the user's data, then the service provider should comply, unless there are legal injunctions.

It's arguable about user expectation for direct messages on twitter, given there is a sender and receiver and Twitter in the middle, but what is not arguable is that if both users delete the message or their accounts, then the messages should not be retained by the Twitter.
And it's almost all sequels
I'd encourage you to read the article. Those "poor children" evidently disagree with you.
> I think this idea that everyone should stop considering gender as binary simply due to the apparently increase in gender dysphoria is a bit ridiculous.

But gender isn't inherently binary, even if many but not all cultures have tended to ascribe gender from a binary pallette.

> Creating the voice for a digital Assistant is a perfect example of this, since the big companies involved have probably done a lot of research to try to determine the best way to make one that doesn't lend itself to a particular gender but always seem to default to a female voice / character (excluding this "Leon").

They probably haven't aimed for genderlessness, and in fact has e probably avoided it, because real people have genders (whether or not aligned in the stereotypical way with external sex traits) and conforming to social expectations improves receptions (and, at least in America, there is significant research that, across genders of listeners, people on average respond more positively to feminine voices, which is why the default usually is for a feminine voice.)
For anyone else curious, just found an article on this: http://time.com/4501670/bombings-of-america-burrough/
You can simply run your own. The protocol doesn't rely on the servers for security.
Real database supports real erasure.
To be honest, it sucks for the guy, but I do love everything about this title. We hear so much about "changing the world," in the startuplandia, but rarely does anyone talk about living the life, and actually having years and ability to enjoy it.

We need more x-founders and investors, the rare ones with heart and soul, to not only talk about health, but actively promote a healthy lifestyle. You might miss a unicorn or two, but you'd end up with less dead and utterly messed up founders, I think.
For a large enough corporation, very few employees can make a significant enough difference in cost savings. Every employee moves the needle a bit and the aggregate effort of thousands of employees is significant.

With these internships, it's possible that the person in charge of hiring interns decided an easy to way to have impact is to reduce the salaries of interns. They do it and at the end of the year claim in their performance review "reduced the cost of the intern program to $0 while not compromising on quality". Great, here's your bonus.

Another possibility is that some folks need interns but don't want to go through the hassle of fighting other departments in the organisation for budget. The workaround is to offer unpaid internships that cost nothing.

And then there's just plain greed. The Kardashians run a business empire that makes hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue annually. They offered an unpaid internship as a gopher because they were stingy and knew people would do it anyway.

All of these strike me as more plausible motivations for unpaid internships rather than wanting to shape society. I'm sure that exists in some places, like elite law firms, but I think the scenarios I highlighted are much more widespread.
They are far, far behind in autonomous driving business. They tried to catch up, by being super reckless, and they killed a person.

Using self driving car to justify their valuation is very risky - it's huge project, tons of competition, no idea about when it could even become a product, etc.
What's the term of art for bikeshedding something so long that you give up and opt for a solution that is materially worse than all the bikeshedded options? Because that's what you're doing when you debate cryptography and give up and use OpenPGP.
What we need is better frameworks (both legal and technological) for building decentralized platforms, so that it would have been just as easy for the Reddit founders, way back in the day, to build Reddit as decentralized from day one. Of course, that's really tough. Simply designing the right policies for decentralized platforms is tough, much less implementing them and figuring out how to keep your users compliant with the law in the face of trolls and illegal content. But I'm hopeful we'll move in that direction.
PGP’s UI isn’t user friendly to begin with, in fact, it’s notoriously bad. But that’s not the point. You try to get PGP to verify a signature without importing the key into a keychain fist.

The purported benefits of web of trust are completely irrelevant, the problem is that PGP handcuffs you to the web of trust and web of trust is often unwanted. You have to reduce and simplify your trust to something that PGP understands. There is no reason on this earth that signature verification should require importing shit into a database.

The whole philosophy of “do one thing well” would be nice here. PGP never lets you do one thing, it makes you buy the whole banana.
I feel like this is yet another something I'll have on my PC for a few days, forget about it, and come back to find it defunct for my desires because there's still reddit.
You might also acknowledge your faulty critique of systems that use XSalsa20.
My apologies. The front page at https://getaether.net has a better description:

‘It keeps 6 months of posts by default. It's gone after. If something is worth keeping, someone will save it within six months — but not from beyond that.’
That strategy works, even on public market - check Tesla.
Website displaying random pairs:
http://primes.sexy
I don't know exactly what Mr. Piketty actually claimed, but that statistic pretty good evidence that return on capital vs the growth of income is not the major cause of wealth inequality. The major cause would be inheritance law and birth rates in wealthy families.

Economic divides are a strange concern anyway; I don't see how I am unfairly disadvantaged by someone else's obscene wealth through winning the birth lottery. The issues as I see them are (1) high inequality is often an indicator of corruption and (2) many cities won't build sufficient high-density housing for political reasons.

What exactly is Jim Walton consuming that should be given to the poor? He probably doesn't eat that much food, and I doubt he is competing for housing stock with people who are struggling to make rent.
After Kroll's girlfriend received no response when she called him, she asked NYPD to visit his New York City apartment.[8] Kroll was found dead at the age of 34[1] of a drug overdose.[9] Drugs found in his system include fentanyl, fluoroisobutyryl fentanyl, heroin and cocaine, the examiner said.[10]

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He passed away from his battles with addiction, not really from "working too hard".
If you think it’s an empire.

Also nobody needs a empire except for the emperor
Source: I've managed tens of millions in ad spend in many mediums.