skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's the wrong conclusion. Norms and conventions are expedients. To have to put such things into law is really inefficient and even questionable whether they too would hold up in the face of systemic corruption. The right conclusion is the importance of character assessment skill in an electorate.
You are probably talking about detecting Tor relay nodes IP addresses that the sender connects to or patterns in the traffic.

So you could use a VPN, or a chain of VPNs to hide the IP.

And to escape traffic analysis you could switch the entry VPN automatically (that would require quite a few VPNs for large files or many receivers).

Still, connecting to unknown IPs from a corporate network can be detected.

Then you could use some public service that stores data like Github (repos / gists / ...) and somehow communicate between your computer and a relay server through Github.

Still not foolproof, there could be timing attacks to detect when data is transmitted when the receiver requests the file, so introducing delays along the nodes would help.
It's only confusing if you leave out the context as you did.

The parent's statement was that Apple should be forced to carry the app, unless they're willing to open the platform so people can sideload their own apps without going through Apple's store.
I love this story.
Yeah, don't care. The mental image of 1000 kids peeing in the pool, and the same water being in it for months on end grosses me out to no end.

I also honestly can't imagine what is worse than human piss and shit. Maybe those leeches that swim up your dickhole? I don't think there are any of those around here. I'm genuinely curious what is worse...
You don't need to configure Syncthing either, you just pair it and then it automatically always just works.
Ancient White Dwarf with Rings Calls Star System Evolution into Question
Isn't that exactly the problem Tor's pluggable transports are designed to solve?
Think of it like a video game, which often gives people surprises by unlocking the hidden feature based on unclear conditions. I was really impressed was I discovered it for the first time. This feature is more of a Easter egg than a practical option.

If you really NEED to change the color, you can simply load a custom CSS in your web browser.
Although this spamblaster is terrible, I consider Instagram to be a clear net negative for humanity. It has almost no redeeming traits, it just makes people insecure, envious and wastes their time.
Your ability to ignore "the culture war" is the very definition of privilege.
While it only happens that some traits allowed the species to survive longer (or multiply more), there's still the "reason why" - there's generally a specific mechanism (or multiple mechanisms) how exactly that trait allows the species to survive longer or multiply more. As that particular mechanism is the reason for that trait being useful, it's also the reason (cause) for that trait to having outcompeted other traits.

So, there's nothing wrong with the title of "Why do Zebras have stripes [other than the obvious default non-answer 'because stripes are somehow good for them']? To Shoo Away Flies."

I.e. "why do they have Y" is "why" in the sense "what's the reason/cause of Y's continued existence".
>I can't think of a single element to add

How about explicit language?

>and getting so close cannot be accidental

Probably because sexual arousal and ASMR are both physiological responses.
Compare and contrast "good artists" where most really great artists died as paupers and found recognition long after their deaths.
>Anyone can become President

Somewhat irritatingly, I (and a large number of other American Citizens) cannot ever become president because we were not citizens at birth.
> Canvas Defender for Firefox

Anyone aware of something comparable for Safari (on macOS)?
Sometimes it was too "interesting". I was 13 in 1962. A few years later, my parents worked at the UN in New York City. I met some people who were into LSD, and started smuggling it back home. When things got iffy, I ran away, and lived on the road. After a few years, I found a mentor, and got refugee status. Then college and grad school, and a ~middle class life :)
Evolution doesn’t answer to a single why question. Maybe the stripes have been useful to the zebra population’s survival, maybe not – but it is quite clear.that there is no singular reason but a bundle of things. E.g. the stripes make zebras harder to distinguish in a herd, which certainly lead to some percentage of survival. Flies too? Cool! But answering it as if there was some intention behind it? That is not how evolution works.

Evolution doesn’t care and has no sense of meaning, like in genetic algrotihms it is just about which patterns survive, which die and which remain as a funny annecdote with no practical effect.
Small correction: the “web” link under a story now takes you to DuckDuckGo instead of Google.
> I mean, that's true, but it's also true that it's extremely difficult to get 50 states to jump forward at the same time

To what extent do we actually need to have all states do exactly the same? It's a common argument, but there are many independent sovereign states out there that are smaller than many of US states, and they're doing fine solving their national problems despite their size. Sometimes - quite often - that happens with cooperation with other states, but such cooperation does not require an overarching government entity.

Sure, that means that US would not be a state in a sense that, say, France is a state, with a strong national identity and uniform politics. But does it have to be? I would argue that there is no truly democratic way to rule 300 million people from a single center, and decentralization is key to real democracy. Conversely, I don't see why my ideas and values have to be pushed on someone in the opposite corner of the country, but not, say, across the border into Canada.

> As the saying goes, the Constitution is not a suicide pact.

Whose saying? Last time I remember hearing that everywhere, it was to justify stuff like the PATRIOT Act and other post-9/11 abuses.

> Our Constitution wasn't written with the management of 50 states and citizens numbering nearly 350 million in mind. Our founding fathers expected that there would have been multiple constitutional conventions by this time. It's easy to see the dilution of individual voices[0]. Our founding fathers though that one representative for every 40,000 individuals was inadequate, and changed it to be closer to one for every 30,000. Today, it's one for every 700,000 on average.

The even bigger difference is that those representatives then go and vote on far more issues than they did when the system was originally devised, which increases the dilution of individual voices, by bringing more important issues to the level where their vote is at it most diluted - as opposed to state level. Of course it's going to be overwhelmed.
One of the best ways to get downvoted is to predict in advance why you'll be downvoted! In this case you appear to be setting up a narrative to claim downvoters are evidence of a particular ideological point, when instead they might be downvoting you because you're being a jerk.
I was kind of disappointed when I found out about this because I had already written a Userscript to do it for me
I think the discussion is important, because something needs to be done. It's a scary situation going on.

Yes, the videos are kids being themselves, and typically uploaded by the children. However, then these predators show up pretending to be other children, and they talk these kids into doing more explicit and inappropriate things. They ask children to film a video sucking on a lollipop, they ask them to make a video showing how to do the splits, or they ask them to make a video playing twister with their sister. I even saw them asking children to do the "toothpaste challenge", where they try to get them to fill their mouth with toothpaste so it looks like cum. If I start typing "toothpaste challenge" YouTube autocompletes "toothpaste challenge drool", "toothpaste challenge tongue", "toothpaste challenge little girl", "toothpaste challenge girls".

These kids don't know any better. They make 50 videos that all have 50 views, then they make a yoga video and it gets recommended over and over again to predators, and they end up with one million views. Then the above situation unfolds where they're requested to make more inappropriate content, or the children realize their gymnastics videos are by far the most popular, so they make more, and more. They think they're making tutorials for other children, but the other side of the camera is just thousands of predators watching and pushing them to go further. Then they start trying to trade contact information with the children to get them off the site.

I don't know how you fix the problem, but it is a problem. We're talking about videos with millions of views here. It's not one or two people trying to exploit these children, it's literally hundreds of thousands, and I think the kids need some help protecting themselves.
The majority of programmers are, by definition, mediocre or worse.

MISRA C specifically bans this code style.
HN should update its color scheme. I use a quality IPS monitor with color calibration, and those comments are still hard to read.
I seem to recall that Am I Unique has a FAQ on that very question, but I can't recall the answer.

However, does Panopticlick actually do canvas fingerprinting?
I don't understand what you mean, why is correcting a pronoun "going too far"? Do you not think respecting people's gender is worthy of the tiny amount of effort it takes?
The Technology Behind OpenAI’s Fiction-Writing, Fake-News-Spewing AI, Explained
I believe its a perfectly fair criticism because honestly what has western psychiatry accomplished on a broad scale over the last two decades? Self-reported mental illess which correlates with poor health outcomes overall has shot up. Suicide rate is up. Resources dedicated to mental health and the mentally ill can't be dedicated elsewhere.
There has been a pretty substantial stalling when it comes to developing truly innovative new drugs and therapies. Most of what's being developed are new takes on ssris, cbt, talk therapy etc. Most of the existing therapies are getting less effective over time which I would guess is due to saturation/diminishing returns.

The Mental Health field collectively doesn't know what the fuck it's doing. More time and money is spent on mental health every year and things are actually getting worse. People are not as skeptical of the mental health field as they should be. Either our current efforts are counterproductive or they're failing to address a bigger picture concern which outweighs any positives of increased mental health treatment.
> great APIs...great apps...feel good...I trust them...I'm exited...possibilities...will unleash...

That sentence has too many happy adjectives - something which seems to be endemic in the Apple world - and could have been lifted straight from an Apple advertising campaign, the latter in no small part due to the use of the word unleash which thrives in that context.
Yes, we do (a little bit).

Uric acid and urea in human sweat: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12817713
I'm a fan of tor and the work they do, but doesn't this sound like security through obscurity? Anyone with the address can upload files without logging in.

I know Onion addresses are huge and the chance of someone scanning to upload is tiny, but I remember saying the same thing about IPv4. "There's 256^4 addresses, of course I can run an unsecured FTP. What could go wrong?"

I'd like to see some simple one-time-use password option. It doesn't even have to be enabled by default, just having it there would be a big step. HTTPS would be great, but I understand the difficulty of that hurdle.

(If Let's Encrypt is out there - .onion isn't a dirty word!)
Everything will be perfect when I am king. Trust me.
A new account posting a very old and famous post... almost looks like karma farming...
As long as they are not near you, moving over is fine. If they are approaching you quickly and they are close, from a defensive driving perspective, you should probably stay put until the speed differential is reduced and can safely move over. Otherwise you risk both you and them attempting to change lanes at the same time.
>How about explicit language?

Can you point to another piece of media, say something on the Disney Channel, where adding a few curse words would turn that production from innocent children's entertainment into soft core pornography? If not why is that a unique feature to this particular video?
Also remember the number of people getting in the pool is likely much larger then the number of people peeing in it.
At a (admittedly hefty, but not prohibitive) premium over the combined price of a higher-end phone and a tablet. The whole idea is that you're getting one device that can do the work of both.
That's only true if you use the definition of "broad powers" that was used back when the Constitution was written - which is very different from what it is today.

And all of those broad powers they wanted the government to have, were explicitly written into the text of the Constitution. Sometimes it was deliberately vague, like the Commerce Clause (although if you showed our modern jurisprudence on that to people who wrote it, they would be horrified). And in the Federalist Papers, there are several instances where some bit in the Constitution is explained as, "yes, this is rather broad, but the government needs it for real world reasons". But it is always enumerated.
School / company network with content blocker?
Somehow I knew you weren't actually going to accept your own stated criteria.
Lyft Going on IPO Roadshow in Mid-March
Pinterest Cracks Down on Anti-Vaxxers, Prompting Facebook to Follow
Looks like /topcolors is getting hugged to death
Your product is a good tool for teaching improved English. A tutor once told me, for a standardized English test, the shortest answer option that still sounds natural is likely the right one. I nearly aced it.
I tend to fail these uniqueness tests pretty catastrophically, and I hadn't heard of Canvas Defender. But solutions like that seem a bit heavyweight to me (and more likely to affect the UX negatively). Is this really the only way to get around this problem?
Cant get past the captcha.
I was hoping to learn about why sometimes comments can't be replied to, especially if they're deep in a thread. Can somebody fill me in?
No, it's a strict subset of emojis, and they are not part of the actual plate number used for identification.
PeerTube. What It Is, and What I Think It's Problems Are
I've always heard it was blue. And have seen movie scenes with blue as well.
Here's some features I wish we had:

- Overhauled voting system. Comment votes are effectively "like/dislike" buttons, and some people use them to help promote/discourage comments central to the discussion. If you get downvoted or upvoted you do not know why, and that helps no one. Slashdot implemented a useful feature for this over 20 years ago.

- Tags on submissions, which would enable very simple filtering by topics.

- New hidden sections to let us dig into dead or controversial stories (maybe /dead and /deadnew?). If you watch /newest, you'll sometimes notice information that is interesting or meaningful, but it's auto-killed. There's no way to only show dead info except to page back through /newest. It would also be neat if we could actually vote on these, even if they remain dead. I don't even need comments to work on them, I'd just like to occasionally look at content that either a bot or overzealous human deems 'inappropriate'.

On the last one, here's an example: I just found this dead article in /newest (https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Renewable-Energy/The...) talking about the world's largest battery being built in Texas. It was submitted by protomyth, number 55 on the HN leaderboard. Of their past 30 submissions, 5 are dead, 1 has >100 votes, and 1 has >200 votes.

You can't easily find articles like this, because you have to keep paging back and paging back to find 30 or more dead articles. And you can't see the highest voted dead articles, so ones that might be interesting but were killed for some reason are also hard to find.
I think this has less to do with respect and more to do with detracting from the original discussion e.g. source code integrity having nothing to do with human genitalia.
Really depends on the subreddit. On the front page ones, sure. But you get into the enthusiast and smaller ones you can still get a lot of high quality discussion.
Like I commented on below, the system is still imperfect. Its about a level 2 safety if compared to a self driving car, and it will not being doing stunt tricks any time soon. That being said, we are hopeful that it is only a matter of time.
Try clicking the time stamp link of the comment, you should be able to reply from there.

I don’t know if there’s a limit to thread depth?
Florida Inmate Says Prison Sold Him $569 of Music, Then Took It Away
For a bit more context, see this blogpost we made: https://code.fb.com/open-source/sparta/
I think you mean "I can recommend a summer job lifeguarding" :)

I also was a lifeguard all during high school, and if it was financially viable at this stage in my life I would do it again.
And why is it a good thing that they didn't rule on the other merits of the case, such as clarifying that a confiscation of a $45000 car is "excessive" for a crime with a maximum fine of $1200?
Hash All the Stories
I don't have an X, bit my SE unlocks (fingerprint) in less than a second.

Also, you don't even need to. You can swipe from the bottom and pick the camera app from control center.

It's probably 1.5/2s from screen off to photo taken
unlisted links shared via email are still able to be opened by anyone with a link. They don't show up in recommendations and search results, but they're not private/whitelisted.
I have exactly 251 karma, this is so exciting
One feature I’d like to see is the split between upvotes and downvotes on a comment. It’s a measure of controversiality which I would find more interesting than the net score.
You say it's absurd, but many people will instinctively remember goto fail: https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/02/22/applebug.html
One very grateful audience is non-native speakers learning English.
You are absolutely right, of course. The person who thinks this is "fair use" is a worse than a thief. The thief knows he's doing something wrong (has a moral compass). This guy just rationalizes his theft.
Congestion can also be caused by too little free capacity to even maintain that distance... Which is what typically happens where I live. There's a bridge with four lanes. Two of the lanes split off to an exit which includes another highway junction. Two other lanes continue, and are joined by a third lane from the other highway. This turns almost the entire bridge into a parking lot every afternoon. Even on the weekend, this interchange will typically be backed up.

https://www.google.com/maps/@27.9445375,-82.5425725,1869m/da...
China Bans Millions from Flights, Trains in Social-Credit Crackdown
Some kind of anti-flamewar feature. if there are multiple responses added in a very short time HN will temporarily hide "Reply" link.
> some people here also make money doing shady or even downright illegal things.

No thanks.
There could be some benefits. I wouldn't be surprised if separating the battery in 2 actually helped with some of the thermal characteristics and reduced battery aging
I've never seen it before, and I've been reading HN for years. A new user might naturally be interested in undocumented features and stumble upon.

I can't help but notice that it's still missing `noprocrast` and related settings.
From the article: Two key identifying marks of dystopia are social regimentation and an inevitable totalitarianism.

"Conform or be cast out." --Rush, Subdivisions, Signals, 1982

"Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences."

From the article: Next, dystopia is marked by dehumanization

How one tweet can ruin your life | Jon Ronson -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAIP6fI0NAI

From the article: The abuse of technology is another characteristic of dystopia.

Google. Facebook.

From the article: Next, dystopia empowers a new class of rulers and uses propaganda and state terror to maintain the power of the regime...The ultimate result of dystopia can be seen in the tragedy of an individual.

Instead of only relying on state terror, there is a new brand of current day authoritarianism which is trying to use non-state power through media, social media, and non-governmental civic groups. The new twist is to erode freedom of speech, but not have it be technically illegal, because the government isn't doing it. The new twist is to erode due process and presumption of innocence, but it's not technically illegal, because trial by public opinion and media isn't a judicial process. The new twist is to disenfranchise people, but not in person, only online and in social media, because it's not "technically illegal." However, all of the above violates various principles of individual rights in spirit. To me, they are all dishonest means of having coercive, authoritarian effects on people at large, without being "technically illegal."

People who actually believe in universal principles of human rights don't try and coerce people. People who actually believe in those principles actually try to convince people, and when they can't convince, they listen. It's authoritarians who have succumbed to groupthink who seek to use power to coerce people into acquiescence. In my life experience, it's only those who believe another group are less than human, who give up dialogue and trying to convince.
Artificially inflating a valuation is not in VC interest - after all, an inflated valuation means that they're getting less % shares of the company for the same money.

VCs generally don't get any meaningful impact from intermediate numbers, they get their numbers - both regarding investor returns and their carry fees - only on exits. So the share they get for that money has a direct impact on how much money the VC personally takes home after the exit. Any before-exit valuations have only a PR effect for them (which may be a factor if they want to raise a new round anyway right now, and are failing at that - but if they can raise a new round, then this PR won't bring them any extra profit), and any useful effect on the secondary market is too far in future; if there's an investment round happening now, then any potential buyers would be in that investment now; at this point the participating VCs are participating because they want to increase (or at least maintain) their share, not divest it - and if they want to divest after a year or so, the valuation PR effect will have faded.

The benefits of such a valuation to the startup, on the other hand, are much more clear.
Your ping pong ball example is fairly counter to everything I've ever seen but I'm no physicist. I would be very surprised if there's any velocity that would put the ball through the paddle without completely destroying both
Is that still true with Rust?
Really? It seems moral outrage against engineers working at Facebook and Google has been pretty popular for the last ten years. First it was because they are displacing long term residents in places like San Francisco, and now it's because they are responsible for building giant surveillance machines.
We considered removing recaptcha, since we are fully aware of how annoying it is, but we had to keep it because of the rampant bot abuse.
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A Centuries-Old Idea Could Revolutionize Climate Policy
I feel like you picked a bad example; I imagine it sucks to be referred to as "he" when you're not a "he".
The first example is interesting. Suppose we have a smart compiler that emits the same machine language code in both cases. Which version is better? Perhaps the first, which is more verbose but expresses the idea in a way that some readers might prefer.