skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of a great This American Life episode, 'In Defense of Ignorance' [1], that deals with this theme, only the ignorant person was the one dying. It follows an elderly Chinese woman whose terminal cancer diagnosis was kept from her.

[1] https://www.thisamericanlife.org/585/in-defense-of-ignorance (act 1, What You Don't Know)
Making unpaid internship illegal is not going to magically turn current unpaid internship into good jobs for everyone, quite the contrary. So in that case those people that are supposedly harmed will be even more harmed
Is there an interface to Aether that I can view in my browser, such as at http://localhost:8080?
I wonder why the peer to peer. Aether can still remove content, so it’s not really decentralized. And you have to store the entire site on your computer, I wonder what the legal ramifications are if there is bad stuff saved on your computer but you didn’t put it there.
What's facebook?
Indeed. Just read this, Rape Joke, Lost in Trumplandia, and just reserved at the library her memoir Priestdaddy (her father is a married Catholic priest), and her poetry collecion Motherland, fatherland, homelandsexuals. Powerful.
I think nothing would happen. I mean, the stock market would dip a little, possibly, but people would simply adjust their lives with no real problems.

Thankfully Facebook remains a tool of whimsy for most people, not one of necessity. There are plenty of other "distractions" in life that will occupy our time.
FYI, there's even a Chrome extension that makes this easier:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/display-anchors/po...
If you happen to grab a video of that, I'd love to see it :-)
Yeah, but FB has irreplaceable targeting in the short term. Want to provide software to teachers or plumbers at scale? FB is really the only place online you can do this.
The comment would be useless if a salaried job / internship was only about exchanging your workforce into money. It's not. It's about experience and real-world training. Learning by doing something useful, learning how to behave in the workplace, being introduced into a new industry etc. The employee might gain something else than money in the deal.
I would love Apple to add this to their app review process, as some apps also disable pasting. In addition, force all apps to allow password managers.
> top firms pay interns around $10,000 a month

Source ?
Until some years later when it did...
So why not quit already? I mean if you really think that...
Amazon Moments lets developers reward customers with actual gifts
Why do multiple DNS implementations exist? Why do multiple entities run different implementations? Does every DNS contain the same information, and do they all respond the same way?

You might find Google's DNS privacy policy to be of interest: https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/privacy
Prior discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18370208

Happy to answer any questions, as usual.

Source code is here: https://github.com/nehbit/aether (I’ll update it with the latest release as soon as I can clean it up)
In what way does the quote you are rejecting wholeheartedly differ from the claim that there is no such technology?
Or you could imagine that they don't have a cash flow yet, but they could offer training in exchange of salary. Why try to regulate a number ? Salaried jobs and internship are not only about money.
Why is big pharma cutting R&D?
Would it, or would it just be cheaper and more effective? Internet is still not a majority of advertiser spending, Facebook does not have a majority of Internet advertising, either.
Supply and demand ? There would certainly be less internships (not none though), so less opportunity for everyone. Some internship might get paid a little bit, that depends on the minimum internship wage, but that won't be true for all internships
Right! If "radical inclusion" is a principle, then radically include we shall. But the Burn spends a fortune on security, policing, fences etc. with the specific intention that radical inclusion doesn't include people who haven't paid. What they _mean_ is "radical inclusion, but only people we like".

It's not a very good principle. I never did get the coffee and ice thing either.
Amazon Invests in Rivian, a Tesla Rival in Electric Vehicles
Top journals publish corrections to misreported results 40% of the time
yes, if you're running the app; this is from the post:

> Like Reddit, you can link to Aether from the web

> Here’s an example link:

> aether://board/86e782e80681ac580b4d6d102b12e787c066e59f194fee57bb0bf83cc1e42fc6
These kinds of social media platforms always seem so technologically interesting, but in practice, end up as a bastion for content too distasteful or hateful to post on "normal" services (think voat, the vast majority of Mastodon instances, gab, the list goes on). I feel like the centralization and the ability to direct and moderate persistent conversation is what allows "mainstream" social media to have such widespread popularity. These services abandon that model with good intentions but never positive results.
RevenueCat Is Hiring a Senior Back-End Engineer
Do you believe in a right to privacy regarding purchases? (every electronic transaction can be tracked for all time) If so, how does that weigh against the small amount of tax evasion that takes place?

I do think there's a right to privacy, and I do hope it's difficult to gather political will for taking away rights.
That seems like quite a claim. I'm sure I can reach plumbers via trade magazines, trade schools, trade shows, displays in plumbing supply shops, etc. In fact all of those sound at least as effective as targeting them on Facebook.
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> There's nothing natural about it. It's the result of policy choices. The whole idea that exactly the system we have is "natural" and that anything else must be "artificial" is infuriatingly dishonest.

It can be infuriatingly dishonest, but usually it's just infuriatingly ignorant.
We shouldn't be the pot calling the kettle black. This place is an echo chamber on a variety of topics to the same extent or worse than I've ever seen on FB or Reddit.
tptacek - What would you consider a good modern way to replace encrypting large text files to multiple PGP keys? That's my main automated use case for OpenPGP in Go. If there is a simpler, more modern way, I'd like to try it... thanks.

Edit: We do this, then push the files to a S3 bucket and users can get the files and decrypt them without having to deal with remembering/forgetting static passwords.
Not final.. just the 2nd step. They previously awarded ~$40m (each) to boeing and lockheed for the design phase. This phase is for prototypes of the vehicles that were designed. There should be a 5th that should be awarded to Lockheed. In a few years, then they'll start production.

Edit: This is part of the Navy's plan to develop UUVs. They've already spent billions on it. On page 4 of this you can see the UUV systems they're planning:
https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Portals/103/Documents/Exhibits/S...

This year they have $210m allocated for just XLUUVs ($120m) and LDUUVs ($90m). And I'm sure they have more allocated for other parts of the program (Edit: $1b this year for navy underwater drone r&d, and they spent 7-800m last year on it too).

Edit: XLUUV has a few other parts too: there's projects for developing lethal and nonlethal payloads for it; and a payload delivery system.
I don't think that a company that is so early that it does not even have enough cash flow yet to pay an intern is well equipped, and has much incentive, to train interns.

I mean, seriously now. Do you think an executive in a company that's that new and/or that strapped for cash is going to sit there one day and think "You know what's on top of my mind right now? Training an intern, showing them the ropes, offering them some quality career experience!"

My guess is that it's more along the lines of "Man, I really wish I had some cheap labor right now".
How big is the local cache of the network on each client device?
Heavy moderation is why people don’t hate each other even more. When I started using Twitter I followed loads of people who disagreed with me politically who I thought were intelligent. Lots of them are, and thoughtful but it just made it really obvious that there’s still plenty of support for people and views I consider odious. Non-filtered news consumption leads to a more accurate picture of reality in which huge portions of the population hate each other and there’s an excellent chance of widespread violence at the level of the US in the 1960’s again.

https://status451.com/2017/01/20/days-of-rage/

>> “People have completely forgotten that in 1972 we had over nineteen hundred domestic bombings in the United States.” — Max Noel, FBI (ret.)

> Recently, I had my head torn off by a book: Bryan Burrough’s Days of Rage, about the 1970s underground. It’s the most important book I’ve read in a year. So I did a series of running tweetstorms about it, and Clark asked me if he could collect them for posterity. I’ve edited them slightly for editorial coherence.

> Days of Rage is important, because this stuff is forgotten and it shouldn’t be. The 1970s underground wasn’t small. It was hundreds of people becoming urban guerrillas. Bombing buildings: the Pentagon, the Capitol, courthouses, restaurants, corporations. Robbing banks. Assassinating police. People really thought that revolution was imminent, and thought violence would bring it about.
I guess it depends on everyone, when I accepted that it's extremely likely there is nothing after death I didn't draw the conclusion that everything is pointless (I mean yes, it is if in order to get a purpose you need some kind of eternal continuity) but instead that I should make the best out of the very little time we have and appreciate every waking moment.

The question isn't if there is a purpose (there likely isn't), purpose is a human concept after all, our mind trying to find explanations to simplify the world around us. So what if there is no purpose beyond this life and this is everything there is? That's more reason to appreciate it for what it is and to pursue all things that you think you may not regret later on because almost certainly you will be regretting not having done/tried them.
They already are, and shouldn't be
Lokad.CQRS Retrospective
It should, and almost certainly does, have scuttling charges. Alternatively there could be an “incident” although that’s less desireable.
The world would rejoice that a service that does less good than it does harm is gone. We would be less polarized. We would be less narcissistic. We would be less depressed. We would also we able to pickup our phone and call any body we truly wished to stay connected to. And we would not have an avg of 1500 friends

It would be a cause for celebration.
Creator here. I’m very aware of this problem - and I’m working make this suitable for mainstream use. That’s one of the reasons why there is a SFW list as mentioned in the article, for example.

The aim of Aether is to deliver a real improvement in privacy to the masses. It explicitly chooses to be practical, with mass appeal, versus the narrow appeal of the instances you mention. (Well, at least try to do that.)
That article is about an incident involving aircraft, I don't think that is what you meant to link.
I've experienced ISPs trying to block sites by intercepting the DNS request and returning their own servers. DNS over HTTP solves that for now, but I'm concerned that they'll just switch to blocking by IP or SNI.
About 9mb as of now. Of course, the compiled graph is larger. If you want full text search, that has its own index that takes space as well. But that last one is optional.
Depends on what people are looking for... If I had to choose between a recently-funded startup offering 600 USD a month for grunt work with founders I don't like, compared to unpaid internship with founders (self funded) I like, seems to explain technical stuff very well, in technologies I am interested into, I would choose the latter.
Where do I report ethics violation (promised vague conditional pay and unpaid internship) at YC company? Would this stripe YC membership from an offending founder?
> It would be much harder to promote new products and businesses through ads.

I've been lead to believe that the economy and all of human civilization would collapse if that happened. /s
For no good reason, this comes to mind...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wx8CEy0yMSY
I did the same thing and gave up too, but that's because every hotel TV used composite video.
Not yet - but that’s a good idea.
I think it'd be cheaper and less effective. The benefit for advertisers on Facebook is that the rate of click throughs is significantly higher than the more shotgun-style advertising that was in use before Facebook and Google started managing so many ads across the web.
This reminds me a lot of HackNY (https://apply.hackny.org/) - it's a non-profit in NYC that handles housing, activities, and placement for NYC startup interns
Western Digital’s RISC-V “SweRV” Core Design Released for Free
Given a fleet of submarines is $50B and the cost to fully instrument the entire ocean with sensors is $1B, is the price of a submarine worth it anymore?
> The taxi experience in cities other than NYC, Chicago, and SF got a million times better. Before Uber in a city like Nashville you call for a taxi and maybe one shows up at some point. Since Uber you can reliably get a ride whenever you want. And that's not even talking about discrimination.

That is a good point I hadn't considered until now.

I remember back in my college days in Champaign, IL right before Uber's debut, I would have to call three separate cab companies a day ahead of time and then the day of to get a ride to the airport, and only one would maybe show up.

I ended up befriending an Ethiopian cab driver that was really kind and responsible and only then this challenge came to an end.
Speculation from Tuesday: 90+ comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19148976
I think you're heavily discounting the amount if actual labor involved in finding and getting into those magazines, schools, shows, and shops...
Yep.

How about a “Senior Intern Program”?

BTW: It’s a good and underrated movie (https://youtu.be/ZU3Xban0Y6A)
Would that break DNSSEC?
Interesting rationalization. Thanks for putting it into words.

I agree that my tone was could have been better.

I don't buy the rest of your arguments, and would not comment on them for the sake of being misinterpreted again -- following the Golden rule of not feeding the trolls.

Thanks.
> The university was completely free for you because someone else paid for it.

Exactly, "everyone" did. And I probably already paid it back with my taxes already. And, one can dream, maybe in another way too, through the work I perform.

Had university or my internships been very costly, it's not unfathomable that I would have a lower salary, in addition to performing lower-quality work (in terms of knowledge going into it).
I think of the movie "Up In The Air" with George Clooney.
Methadone is a very good answer although there is a lot of bad news about here and there- mostly on the internet.
Methadone allows addicted people to control that addiction and reduce thier needed dosage milligram by milligram without feeling withdrawal pain.
Methadone clinics are a great thing to know about just in case.
If you read this and you understand about opiod addiction or even if you have just picked up a new habit, or know someone who has- send them to the nearest methadone clinic and I guarantee that the clinic will be able to help them to " live life again"
Scott Alexander at SlateStarCodex makes some good points about this effect here[1]. The problem isn't the lack of moderation per se but the dynamics of starting an unmoderated alternative to an existing service. The kinds of people that would switch are only occasionally principled advocates of free speech. Most of the time, they're the people whose communities were banned on the moderated platform -- everyone else ignores your new, smaller entrant and continues on the moderated platform where their friends are. You end up with a just the hateful people. A decentralized platform would probably be better and have better social dynamics if it were the default and _everyone_ used it, but I don't know how you'd get there.

[1]: https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/07/22/freedom-on-the-central...
> These kinds of social media platforms always seem so technologically interesting, but in practice, end up as a bastion for content too distasteful or hateful to post on "normal" services (think voat, the vast majority of Mastodon instances, gab, the list goes on).

Part of the problem, at least with voat and gab, is that those services were created to avoid the moderation that kept the "distasteful or hateful" content off mainstream services. I wonder if alternative services that start with communities that strongly want to keep that stuff out would fare better.
Obligatory recommendation for the Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP). It not only gets deep into programming fast, it really shows you what a program actually is, or can be.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_and_Interpretation_o...

Edit: Also +1 for Advent of Code
Or the Greek mythical defender of Europa, the mother of King Minos.
Is Condoleezza Rice still on the board of directors? She had a fairly strong anti-privacy stance.
> Due to the recent news about Reddit

Which news specifically? Also, it might be useful for the blog posts to have a date at the top. I saw there was a “1 day ago” notation at the bottom, but having it at the top would be more convenient/conventional.
A region can accommodate only so many rich people. Once the cops, teachers and plumbers are crowded out by real estate prices, you're overcapacity
Before reading the article I thought it would be about prime numbers which encode erotic images in a similar fashion to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_prime . (in which case if the image depicts a minor, it would be a sexy illegal prime...)
> Don't break the back button.

Can someone please tell SAP?
Zero Clause BSD License
I think you’ve made an honest error here, confusing the power plant of the subs with their payload. SSN’s are attack subs, not armed with nuclear SLBMs like an SSBN.
Where bad people means enemies of the US.
I definitely won! An early driver (2009), I'd just quit a low pay postdoc job, and 1.5x'ed my take home pay. Since I was a Lyft driver, Uber gave me a crazy signing bonus including 50 hours a week at 40 an hour (I found the farthest Starbucks in the service area and worked on coding katas). At the end of the year when I got my 1099 I calculated that Uber lost $8k on me, which is about as much as I put in the crypto currency markets around that time...
The only social media I do is here and I'm not seeing the connection.

To me, HN is a refuge!
"Google really needs to" in the sense that it would be useful, or that it would be a good investment for them? Sure it can afford to do it, but how would it help them make more money?
Windows 10 informs me this is unsafe to run. You're going to need to fix that if you want this to catch on.
Except for instead of having something that has held value for thousands of years, you have an unfinished concrete box.
The critical difference is whether it is under control of the user.
You can get karma via the points field, at least for older content:

Example: https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?query=bar&tags=comment
Ask HN: Does DigitalOcean hire globally?
I can't find any US-only restrictions in their remote job posts and I believe I'm very qualified for the position I applied to but I only get a polite email saying I'm not what they are looking for. This is two years in a row.

I live in Brazil, have 17 years of experience and no CS degree. Could it be they don't hire anyone in Brazil? That would make me feel better actually.
Tencent investment?
Why can't we as a society say it's ok for a dying person to be selfish.

It wasn't best for the kids, but that's ok.

What matters is the dying person was as happy as possible, which one can see, keeping it from the kids would have helped with.

The kids will find out about the lie and further lying that it was for "them" is where it's not healthy.

The concept they went through hardship by not knowing acknowledges their journey AND gives it value by saying it helped their parent in their final days rather than the awful guilt of not being able to help or even given the chance to help.
>he couldn't see his story in the film ...

Published comments, just last month. In German -- would any bilinguals care to summarize?

https://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/donnersmarck-hein-das-leb...
Probably the investment round: https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/11/reddit-300-million/
I found perhaps a dozen other taxi / ride hailing apps when I was making my own proof of concept.

Lyft's innovation was "regulatory arbitrage".

Uber's innovation was burning investor money.

There are times when I've pondered, "Gee, what could have happened if I had finished that POC?" But I don't think I would have ever thought to break the law, burn investors, or exploit drivers.
Yes, at least for SSBNs -- the subs that have nuclear ballistic missiles. An "undetectable" nuclear launch platform that could be anywhere in the world [ocean-wise] at any given time is part of the "nuclear deterrent". Sure, lay waste to the continental US and all of it's farm-based missile installations; the floating, traveling, launch pad will still strike back, 24 missiles each with multiple payloads each on board. That's not including the UK's fleet.
Internet Hall of Fame Paul Vixie Says Chromecast DNS "Bogus as hell"
Then we don't need most mainstream human news reporters anymore: same level of research and knowledge on topics.

It's when AI can do hard-hitting investigative journalism that we should be really worried.
How does anti-trust legislation work for these kind of sites? If Facebook was split up then what would stop a single identical entity from popping up in some other country that fills the niche for the entire world? I've seen it mentioned in various places on this site but I can't understand how it would work in practice.
The worst part of the medallion story was how the industry tricked the driver's into investing back into the medallion scheme, thereby becoming small time exploiters the next generation of drivers (n=2) and in any case winding up with often negative assets when the inflated price cratered. Meanwhile the owners of say ticker TAXI and their trust fund kids are probably doing just fine
>Anything you post on Aether will be gone in about 6 months. This is nice, because no one can stalk your decade’s worth of Reddit history and figure out where you sleep.

This seems really misleading. If I can view it, I can save it. Enough people take data dumps from reddit that even if reddit decided to follow the same policy, it wouldn't mean "no one can stalk your decade’s worth of Reddit history and figure out where you sleep."