skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually he picked good examples.

"Greek nationalism developed around the same time."

This not true.

While the 'nation state' as a legal formalism didn't arrive until recently - the 'Greek identity' existed in antiquity.

Not only that - Greek identity was maintained throughout 2000 years of occupation!

That's how strong and 'not arbitrary' their cultural foundation is.

If smaller Greek states were 'arbitrary' - they would have evaporated during Roman occupation. But an entity the Romans called 'Graecia' (sound familiar?) changed hands several times throughout history - more or less intact as a people and culture.

Though Greece was a collection of smaller states, and never a unified entity - they shared very similar cultural foundations, which were distinct from those around them (most of which changed and/or evaporated).

When the Persians invaded 'Greece' - the infighting Greek states bound together and acted more or less as an entity to push out the invaders.

Point being: 'Invading Persians' was not the same thing as 'Spartans invading Athens'.

Nation states were not arbitrarily formed, they are mostly ethnically oriented, and some of the boundaries have not changed in eons.

The thesis that 'nation states are arbitrary' is easily dismissed by having a look at maps of Europe throughout time. The state of Sweden is not some random thing, it's where 'the Swedes' live - roughly.

If the lines were 'arbitrary' - we'd see a mishmash of weird lines, crossing ethnicities - much like the somewhat arbitrary divisions between Syria, Iraq, Kuwait etc..

But they are not.

Funny enough, I think the legal IP questions of this article have nothing to do with this issue! For once, we're dealing with a more secular, legal thing, I think.

Summary: 'Graecia' was Greece literally more than 2000 years ago, the formation of a 'Greek state' is not arbitrary.
Not sure I can trust anything from that dude. He realy did a number on his credibility by not making the glitter bombs, faking the 'prank', and lying about it afterward after being presented with clear evidince of his deception, and his pre-existing knowledge of it. No thanks, people who sell their credibility for views deserve no respect.
ESPN seemed to work hard to manipulate those statistics. I see the old “well the most clear statistical test said there was a 23% chance of it being random, but then when you exclude a bunch of games...”
>> The moment [cryptography] becomes a viable way to subvert the state, they'll just change the laws.

> Does that sentence make much sense? Government decrees don't eradicate goods, they create make black markets.

Your argument is that Bitcoin will let you subvert existing state monetary policy and other regulations. My argument is that once that happens on a significant scale, states will change their policies and enforce them more or less with state violence.

A good example is anonymous payments via a tumbler. As soon as these payments start seriously foiling law enforcement, states will outlaw tumbler services. If that doesn't solve the problem, and the problem is severe enough, they'll outlaw Bitcoin. The way they would do that is to outlaw exchanges and pursue them over Tor the same way the pursue dark web markets, by enlisting banks, employing cyberwarfare and other espionage, and ultimately with on the ground law enforcement.

It's very, very hard (maybe impossible) to solve a political problem with technology, unless that technology is weapons. It's immoral in a democracy because it by definition subverts the will of the people.

>> if people actually start using it to smuggle money

> If? People already use bitcoin to evade capital controls in China, Venezuela etc

I mean "on a significant level minus state actors".

> equity vs. equality.

I think if you're a "taxes are theft" person then we have deeper disagreements, because I'm a "property is theft" person. But those antipodes aside, Bitcoin no more promotes equality than regular currency does, in fact there are lots of services that only let you do certain things with certain account balance amounts.

Furthermore, I have no idea what you mean about a "neutral rights network". Do I get to vote on things because I hold Bitcoin? Did I miss the votes on various forks? Does my vote count equal to one of the Winklevoss'?

I think the exact opposite is true. Not only is there no voting, but holders of lots of Bitcoin (which you can only accrue with actual currency or mining, which you need to spend actual currency to get the equipment for) have far more power over the Bitcoin network than I do. I have no idea what "rights" you think I get through Bitcoin, but I'm pretty sure the answer is "none".

EDIT:

Also, come on, I'm fine with "crypto" meaning "cryptocurrency" now, but it absolutely doesn't mean that "cryptography" means "cryptocurrency" now. This is a hill I am willing to die on.
Wouldn't that also ban child actors? Also, a lot of famous Youtubers like Mark Rober show their kids or newphews playing around with their latest experiment. Most people would consider banning these videos reactionary.
>Which logically would mean it’s the universe that’s flawed not humans.

Logically you can argue either way. Logically one can say the universe doesn't give a fuck, so can't be flawed any more than a rock is.

Humans however both crave unity and love and compassion and so on (and know those things for good), and also do the cheating, lying, killing, bullying, racism, and so on. So, one can justifyably call them broken.

Heck, tons of our books, movies, and songs call us just that.
Why Do Zebras Have Stripes? Scientists Camouflaged Horses to Find Out
Their extension [1] is also down, but this idea may be cool (and something panopticlick doesn't provide?):

"An extension to follow the evolution of your browser fingerprint! Be notified as soon as a change is detected!"

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/amiunique/pigjfndp...
Can you provide some evidence for your last paragraph?
>Saying "the world is fallen" implies that the world fell from something. It didn't

Welcome to the magic world of metaphors and symbolism...
Some extinct dog breeds are pretty wonky. The Turnspit dog was specifically bred to nicely fit into a kind of hamster cage, so that the dog would power a turning spit for roasting meats. Of course, the dog becoming obsolete led to its extinction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnspit_dog
> I understood you perfectly fine, that's why I said this approach is easy to exploit by simply spamming the videos of some uploader you don't like with "sexual comments".

You'd need to have dozens of puppet accounts. Obviously you could take into consideration whether all the sexual comments are coming from one person/ip address.
I'm with you. If the NBA was rigged, wouldn't the Knicks not be the tire fire they've been for the last, what, 30+ years?
"why not just send commentators to reddit, HN or another social site?"

Because I want full control of the comments, don't want my users to go to another site (because I don't control those sites, nor the comments the user leaves there, and don't want my users or their interest in my site or whatever I post to be tracked by those sites either).
> Is that immorally gained money immoral anymore?

Yes.
And when they get banned they have trouble cancelling their subscription, which is tied to their email account. Apparently to cancel you have to use the plug in from your email account. I think we figured out where a lot of the $115k/mo is coming from. Wouldn't be surprised to see some legal push back.
Having studied with a Coast Salish weaver, apparently there are some ongoing attempts to (re)create an analogous modern breed of dogs. Of course, the high accessibility and low cost of industrial wool yarn makes that the default for weavers carrying on this technique.
A Quiet Place outsold Mary Poppins Returns? This can't be right!
But which year's crop of psychiatrist ideas should we enshrine in law? In 1950 there were rebels who didn't buy the consensus, and their ideas won, things improved. Why wouldn't this change have been prevented?

Or worse, how do you know that the evolution side would win the battle to be selected as the official experts on this matter? We have these fights over school boards right now, and sometimes the biblical literalists have more votes. Who gets to decide the how the head-count of experts is to be conducted? I think it pays to imagine these weapons being used by our enemies.

I don't know the solution to the anti-vax madness, but I think censorship is a much bigger battle.
> Small ones are even worse

This has not been my personal experience at all. I've worked for huge companies and tiny ones, and the only real difference I've seen is that the working conditions tend to be far superior in the tiny ones.

Compensation between the two tends to be comparable as well (ignoring startups -- I'm not talking about them here, as they're a unique beast). I don't think that large companies have an edge on that score (actually, I think the opposite is true, but not by a enough to matter much). As an example, I left a megacorporation to work at my current job, a truly tiny company. My total compensation at my current job is about $5,000/yr less than at the megacorp -- not nearly enough of a difference to matter.
I've wondered if you could do something similar for keeping birds from landing on flat elevated surfaces. I wasn't thinking stripes though, more like reflective holographic surfaces so the birds couldn't even identify the flat surface as flat. I'm inclined to believe that the crows would figure it out sooner or later though.
It isn't so much about the benchmark one uses. A CPU converts electricity to heat, and does computation as a side-effect. A CPU embedded in a laptop (or moreover, a desktop) is going to be able to convert more electricity into more heat — and more computation — by virtue of being able to better dissipate the heat due to having a larger surface area to do it over. (In addition to having active cooling — vents and fans — which I've yet to see on a phone.)

Modern non-phone CPUs can have TDPs of more than 80W. If your phone did 80W, it would burn your hand. So, forgive me if I'm skeptical of any benchmark that says a phone outperforms a laptop.

You're arguing that the phone CPU can get significantly better performance, do so with less power, and occupy a form factor smaller than what a laptop requires? Why would I not just manufacture a less space-constrained version of this chip (to make it cheaper) and stick it in a laptop?

I Googled the specific benchmark you referenced. I'm not able to find results on it, but one of the top hits was this: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/04/googl...
It wouldn't work for static sites, but that doesn't mean you have to use javascript. As another comment in this thread pointed out, you could use server-side CGI to do it.
Part of it probably has to do with lungs originating as gills. Passage of water across the gills was what was crucial for optimal oxygen intake, and taking water in through the mouth facilitates that for fish. Getting food stuck was probably less of an issue because if you had proper flow of water it’d just get flushed right back out.

And the incremental nature of evolution favors the adaptation of similar but suboptimal structures over the development of entirely new structures and especially of new topologies (changes in what passages are connected to one another or pass all the way through the body).
I think the article makes a pretty persuasive argument for the relevance:

"It matters all the more now. On May 14 of last year, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a 1992 federal law that had forbidden states from legalizing sports gambling within their own borders. It's widely believed that the ruling will lead to a lifting of the interstate prohibition on sports betting, which, in turn, would give rise to a massive increase in the money wagered on American sports. At the same time, the NBA -- which once balked at gambling -- has now openly embraced legalized sports betting more than any other U.S. pro sports league. In 2014, commissioner Adam Silver penned an op-ed in The New York Times advocating for legalization. In July of 2018, he announced a multiyear deal for MGM Resorts to be the 'official gaming partner of the NBA.'"
Samsung Galaxy S10 Announced
That's not sideloading, is it? It is just developer workflow to enable testing with a wider audience without actually submitting to the app store.

By sideloading, I mean the ability to install and run a binary downloaded off the internet. Mac OS allows this, but does put a prompt out. Android allows this as well. No certs, no UDID etc.
OnionShare 2 adds anonymous dropboxes
They do, just not locally. Ask an average californian about the average person from tennessee, and the bigotry is just as real.
They question the correctness of decisions made by the US judiciary system from inside the system

They decide if the inside of the box is working correctly in an undemocratic fashion, based upon their biases

Not the correctness of the US judiciary system itself

Thomas Jefferson advocated for a system that would allow future generations to reasses it’s Constitution and laws, and adjust as necessary

We got James Madison’s version of government, who described the Senate as a legislative body to protect the rich minority from the poor majority. Thus the justice system evolved over time only assessing laws and building its existence on questions of property rights and ownership.

Not saying it’s scandalous or wrong but it’s only concerned with internal consistency, like India.

Look at how the GOP is largely pushing a platform that’s hundreds of years old, with an outcome that resembles the way things were before the New Deal

It’s just old guys advocating for their personal feelings. Exactly what the person from India said :shrug:
RBG herself is well known to be in favor of a different grounding. If Roe is weakened or overturned, let's test that case on its merits.
Most all of the domains on the list are using GSuite, so I would think at least some use Google drive instead of Dropbox.
If they are working from the OS side that’s perfect. But I Im no way expecting to see anything but the most important apps have useful multi-app-in-screen interactions. Yeah YouTube, FB, Search, w/e but will that make it worth it?

Sort of like the Touch Bar on MacBook Pros (which I have). Yeah it’s awesome to have on select apps like Photoshop, Safari, etc but it’s in no way so valuable as to build a whole product around - like this phone is trying to do.

You can take the Touch Bar away from me at any moment and I won’t mind.

Unless apps deeply integrate with this folding capability etc its just a gimmick that I expect will die pretty quick or remain a very niche product.
The problem is not the videos being there, its the advertisments next to them.

Youtube simply needs to move to a proper gatekeeping model around monetisation, requiring human review and biannual review checks. Start it at 10,000 subscribers to avoid being overwhelmed. Prompt once-off approval for 'viral' trending videos from new channels (even if the advertising money goes completely to Youtube).

The internet is maturing and existing gatekeeping models are too lax. Same thing with games allowed onto Steam. Now any idiot with a phone can upload something - previously you needed a computer and decent knowledge to do that.

Limiting new uploads from new accounts to 720p30 max until they hit 1,000 subs or pay a $100 'starter fee' will save on storage and processing fees.

I don't understand why Youtube (and other tech platforms) sets the barriers to entry so low, then inundate themselves with work. Simply raise the barriers until your human-approval processes can handle the volume.
A lot of the videos he shows seem like they're mostly Ukrainian, some Eastern European or Russian. Are there different social standards where parents there just don't care as much if their kids post this stuff?
BVGame – A Game about Berlin, Written in Elm
If the calls are so subjective that one can't tell the difference between a ref accidentally being way off and on purpose being way off, then maybe your sport/rules are the problem when being way off is either excusable or indeterminable. (in the NBA and some other sports, you can basically call a foul every play)
Reminds me of a HN story awhile back from a guy who built a business with eye-popping revenue. The article was cagey about what the product was - some kind of imported good.

Turns out it was counterfeit watches. Ugh.
Fair enough.

The big push in my lifetime was the big push around drugs. My family was involved in politics in the early 80's (I was fairly young at the time). I recall a lot of "get tough" political talk around that time and some touting establishment/expansion of civil forfeiture for these purposes.

In truth, while understanding the history is important, I think that is ultimately secondary to what needs to be done with it now. It's a backdoor to punitive recourse that bypasses legitimate interests of criminality and due process. It's an abomination.
It's so good. It's incredibly simple and fast (it's just a script which works as a front end to git and GPG); it's very well documented and there are only a few commands you need; devices are sync'd by way of git; it's got a heap of add-ons, including an OTP generator. There's even a great iOS app, PassForiOS, which also handles OTP 2FA (the only downside to the app is that you have to clone from an existing pass repository, but that's not a big deal unless you don't have a computer or you were planning on starting to build your password database on your phone). Never used it on Windows or Android so I can't say what it's like there, but if you're on macOS, a combination of GPG Suite, pass, and the default Terminal make password management easy.

edit: there's the unfortunate fact that the names of files in which passwords are stored are in plaintext, since it's all ordinary files and directories. pass-tomb is supposed to be a good way of encrypting your .password-store directory, but I don't think this is compatible with the iOS app. Still, not a serious problem for my use case anyway, and a solution is available if I'd be willing to forego the iOS app.
This appears to have been discovered by the syzkaller fuzzer.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here - there's nothing wrong with enjoying it, there's nothing wierd about younger people enjoying it and that still doesn't really change the fact that movie targets nostalgia of a certain demografic. Considering it's success, it does that very well.
Convention has proven, especially recently, not to be a great thing on which to stand the propriety of a nation.
Yep, I'm currently reading my EPUBs and PDFs on an ancient iPad 3. I researched a newer solution and settled on a Kobo Aura One (or perhaps the Forma which came out only recently) running the open-source KOReader [0], which is apparently much better than the built-in app on the Kobos. But I'm too cheap to upgrade while the iPad still works.

[0] http://koreader.rocks
Why must it scale? Laws don't have to scale.

That the solution must scale algorithmically is purely for the convenience of the site, and for matters of law and taste nothing but an excuse.

Even having different countries with different laws and standards doesn't scale. So what?
What matters is if it is wrong or not, not who says it.
Like any community, the SV startup community falls for clickbait, and given the upvotes here it certainly drove traffic both to the IH site and to the topic company's site.
and really if you don't intent to have ads run on your content, you shouldn't use Youtube. Setup a Peertube instance. YouTube is just too big and content creators that are up and coming should see if they can take control over their content instead of depending on Google, which is just a new version of NBC/CBS/ABC at this point.
Pool shock (a spike in active chlorine) will react with amines and oxidise them -- saying they don't work is bizarre. It is painful to do manually though. A UV filtration system is far easier, but also far more expensive.

Dumping water isn't practical as many places have water restrictions. Chlorine gas is produced in vast quantities industrially, then compounds like calcium chloride, sodium hypochlorite and sodium dichloroisocyanurate, which are used in both fresh water and waste water treatment. So when you dump your pool water you are still using chlorination, just at the municipal level.
Well, I think, that a second central topic of the article is the 'naming calling'.

That is, using labels that previously widely used defined patterns resulting in real human-killing -- to, instead, describe a pattern that a person finds unfitting to his/her policy views.

In other words, misplaced naming calling, in a way, stealing the valor
from the real victims of the true dystopian past events.

"...
It is important to keep dystopia in its place, and in perspective.

There are and have been real dystopias in the world, and imaginary ones help illustrate how utopian visions can endanger decent regimes and communities.

Not every call for a border wall or “Medicare for all” is dystopian; one (or the other) may be a stupid idea, but it is not summoning 1984.
..."
The opinion people have of youtube comments says a lot about what sort of videos they probably watch. You hear the sentiments echoed by the creators that run different sort of channels too.

Some people think youtube comments are complete trash. They usually watch videos of very large channels. Other people think youtube comments are dull but not particularly horrible but rarely insightful. It's common to hear this about channels with a million subscribers or less. But below 100,000 subscribers, in the long-tail of youtube, you'll often find that content creators enjoy having reasonably constructive conversations with their viewers in the comments.

There are always exceptions, but these are the general trends I've noticed.

Examples of the first category, the very large channels, are easy to find. Pewdiepie, and anybody like him, have awful comment sections and I think everybody knows it. I subscribe to several very small channels with only hundreds or thousands of subscribers that have great comment sections, but you'll have to excuse me for not sharing them here. In the middle range, I can give you a few examples. Matthias Wandel (woodworking) and Forgotten Weapons (history and overview of rare/historical firearms) both recently passed 1 million. Their comment sections are rarely insightful, but typically not offensively bad. Mostly just people making the same obvious joke over and over again, or people trying and failing to be insightful.
> someone steals your laptop

For me, they would have to steal it while I'm actively using it. When I go away from my desk, I enable the screensaver which A) requires my Mac login password to unlock and B) locks 1Password, requiring the master password to unlock.

In 1Password 6, the Prefrences > Security settings include Auto-lock: on sleep, when screen saver is activated, when main window is closed, when fast user switching, when computer is idle for X minutes. I use all but "when main window is closed." It's much less of a nuisance since I started using Touch ID to unlock 1Password.

I haven't looked into them in a while but there is 3rd party software than can automatically enable a system's screen saver when a particular Bluetooth device is out of range (e.g. a smartphone, a smartwatch, etc.) which would help even more.
This was also the point of the Luddites, they weren't against technology, but against working in a factory 8 to 8 instead of working from home.