skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>suddenly we may realize that not listening to "suggestions" proposed by the media may have us voting for (using my example) a working healthcare system, which would be great for all people, disadvantaged or not.

Maybe, but what are the odds of that vs. being kept in a state of aloof hypocognition that reinforces the status quo though?

Without hearing of disasters or San Franciscan homeless slums from the news, I'd barely know about them because I don't go out of my way to research things like that -- the time and interest isn't there. Left entirely to my own perspective, the biggest problems in the world are the ones I'm facing -- usually programming or computing related.
...at tremendous profit to executives and bankers. All of the resources that various investors sank into building "competing" infrastructure, consumed through strong-armed acquisitions as everyone slowly realized that FCC was just as opposed to competition as they always have been.
> It is a kind of social network where users debate the minutiae of history and modern life, climb the editorial hierarchy and even meet friends and romantic partners.

Exactly. Just because Wikipedia doesn't have traditional profiles and like buttons doesn't mean it isn't a social network. A social network at the end of the day is literally just that: a graph of people (nodes) with relationships (edges) between them.

For some reason, people tend to think of social networks as more specific things than they actually are. That happens all the time with language. Some big brand comes along and monopolizes an entire widget[0]. Twenty years later, we get a small fraction of people who actually believe that something can only be a widget IFF it looks like that brand's widget. Social networks can look very different than Facebook or MySpace. Wikipedia is one such example.

If you can model Wikipedia as a graph of people with relationships, then it makes sense to think of it as a social network. It's actually pretty easy to establish a toy model. There are lurkers and editors. Lurkers visit pages built by the editors, and editors effectively interact with each other through edits.

In any system where you can interact with people, unwritten social rules become relevant, and we can expect things like harassment.

[0] http://mentalfloss.com/article/56667/41-brand-names-people-u...
Basically because the current philosophy of the US justice department anti trust prosecutions is whether market dominance of the player harms ordinary people or causes them to incur higher cost. It is not really about actual monopoly power. Google has been pretty careful to stay consistent with this philosophy.

This wasn't always so in the US and it's not the same philosophy in EU. However, it is a valid and consistent view.
I'd bet most of those are grammatical in nature.
Why the hell does AMP and AMP alone get the privilege of hijacking chrome mobile's menu bar and hiding it from the user until we scroll all the way up to the top of the page and then drag it back down? It's like they've never heard of tabbed browsing before.
The UK is doing much worse

https://twitter.com/nickmon1112/status/1116005544236650496?s...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18865543
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Corporate management defines that value.
It would seem odd for Google to focus on that level of detail unless they’re producing the content. They know what you searched for, what content is on the page and if/when you came back to Google. How long you spent on a specific paragraph or image doesn’t seem like it would help Google improve search or target ads better.
Also specifically when drinking, your frontal cortex of your brain becomes impaired. This is a region associated with reasoning and judgement. Your ability to reason and judge yellow & red lights is noticeably reduced and you become more likely to think you can make it through a light in time. This is why so many of the people T-Boned at intersections were so frequently hit by drunk drivers.
It’s precisely because it is democratic that he is able to contribute this much. Anyone can, he just happens to be #1 by a large amount.
And a rich kid from the Upper West Side.

Startups are much easier when your born wealthy and your parents have wealthy/connected friends.

I'd be a rockstar if I was blessed with such a path.

Not jaded this is just the reality for many successful startup founders.
Huh- a few hours ago I was just playing some pinball at my local watering hole and noticed a zine on top of the change machine promoting Seattle's pinball scene!
doesnt china MITM https connections?
That is a really neat site. Thanks for sharing it.
@dang, please can you consider doing something about this thread. It seems to have dissolved into trolling.

Lee claims on his website to be waging a war on religious privilege, whatever that is. I assume that means trolling anyone he believes to be a thiest.

Hitlers version of Christianity did not even require the belief in Christ. It was twisted evil propoganda designed to combat the Christian Church which he deemed "negative Christiananity".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_Christianity
I just had a look on the Play store for a voice recording app and came across "Live Transcribe" by "Research at Google".

It's ridiculously good at picking up and transcribing my voice.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.aud...
Times have changed. It’ll never happen as it creates risks of a Chinese competitor taking hold, and the US government doesn’t want that.
Highly disagree. I can ignore the news and still be politically active. I put a lot of effort into insulating myself from whatever the latest freakout is and I also invest a lot of energy into voting any time we have an election.
That's how governments work. If you're the president and do something blatantly unconstitutional, the worst case is it gets overturned in the courts. If you're a citizen, you go to jail or worse.

Why else would you pursue a role in a system of abuse than to abuse and profit?
Most of its functionality is built into every modern browser. As the 3.4.0 release notes observe, for example:

> "Now that many of these selectors have made their way into modern browsers, it’s almost time to say goodbye to Sizzle. [...] When we remove Sizzle, we’ll replace it with a small wrapper around querySelectorAll"

jQuery does have a nice interface. Fortunately, it's almost exactly the same as the native JS/DOM interface that every browser offers for free these days.
We've moved from Teams, to Slack, and back to Teams over the last 2 years. Teams has come a long way since 2017, but the basic chat functionality is still pretty far behind Slack.

Next time, I'll stick with Slack.
Interesting case. What surprises me most is that the lawsuit was filed by Washington's Attorney General which is technically also a part of the government. Probably that is because he was elected rather than appointed.
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If you do it incorrectly, however your nervous system will build up an immunity by learning to ignore the external signals.

That sounds interesting. Where can I learn more?
I interpreted the parent's complaint in (1) as the login form having the username/password entries split across two screens, not as a complaint that it tells you the account doesn't exist.

AIUI, splitting the entry across two screens like that breaks a lot of password managers, as they can't handle it. This hampers the adoption of password managers, which would largely help the average Joe's security.

Google supports external auth in some cases¹, and to know whether they need to redirect to that auth, they first need your username / email. Then, you're either redirected or you're shown the password entry prompt.

I don't know of any banks that do this, so this might not be applicable to them. (Theirs might just be bad design.)

¹GSuite, not consumer GMail, but I assume the flows are the same
Pretty much par for course these days, anyone who says something that offends me must be wrong.

Before the truth will set you free, it'll piss you off.
Since they mention Office 365, it's worth noting Microsoft's Smart Lockout tooling has been pretty efficient here imo.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2018/03/0...

There are also some great capabilities like forcing a password reset after multiple "correct password but failed MFA" logons.
"Why the hell use Chrome?" : a corollary, no?
Does it necessarily originate from privilege?

Or simply support the status quo privledge over alternate privilege?
Just to confirm, you are well above 350k, correct?
It's entirely within the intentions of browser vendors to make blocking of content without consent of a user hard or even impossible.

If the school cannot be bothered to block content properly (ie, only via DNS block) then that is their own fault. The tools exist to block on an IP level.

For all computers the school owns, they SHOULD definitely do HTTPS MitM.
No, you don’t.
Probably when he said the risks he took without a fall back made him more focused and targeted. There was no room for liberties. So conservative approach that minimized risks was the way to go.
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Googler here. This is how it works. If you find a team with an open position you want to work on, and you and the teams hiring manager agrees it's a good fit, your manager can't do anything to stop it.

I did something like this myself. I found the team I liked, talked to the team a bit about the work I'd be doing, and at my next one on one with my manager I told him I'd be leaving the team in two weeks.
I think breaking Google's monopoly over search is the biggest challenge that nobody is trying to solve ... Maybe nobody's knows how to, maybe nobody's willing to invest in such endeavor but I hope people will realize soon that the cost of doing nothing is becoming much higher than the cost of trying ... And yeah I know there's duckduckgo but we need at least 2 or 3 much better duckduckgo's
vacuum full locks everything, never use that. We do vacuum analyze table_name depending on tuple count.
this appears to be a legit email, although I don't understand how this got into the page source.

The URL posted in the email nytimes.com/privacy-project redirects to https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/opinion/internet-pr... and there are articles that are published on 4/11/2019 whereas it's only 4/10 as of me writing this comment.
... we do not have the same problems. Every single software engineer I know does not work 996 even if they work at a fast-paced startup
I really don't know what to say to you if you think "status quo" is inflammatory vocabulary. And I never said anything about suggestions from the media. You are mixing fact based news with opinion based news. You can be informed by ignoring opinion based news, but you still need fact based news to have an educated opinion on an issue.
True - it would be more accurate to say that both English and non-English TLDs are common.
Wow, how is this comment not getting more notice. This is a hilarious screw-up. Seems like the NYT is launching a new privacy initiative tomorrow.
There are plenty of reasons to use a different resolve on app vs OS level, not only for malware or "broken" applications.

The DNS setting by the OS, just like the proxy settings, is a first suggestion on how to connect.

Chrome will contact 8.8.8.8 in certain circumstances and Firefox has DoH. Both can set proxy settings different from system via various means.
Good point...I'd like to see a flat income tax of 0% and then have taxes based on consumption
Windows 3.1 in my BIOS? It's more likely than you think
When it comes time to vote I research each candidate and ballot measure and make an informed decision with the information that I find. I don't need to be plugged into to every daily scandal to know that I fundamentally disagree with Trump's policies, a few minutes of research will tell me that just fine.
It's a ex-Google (xoogler) inside joke from a certain period in time (circa 2009). Similarly with the Free Tibet Goji Berry cake.

Basically examples of decisions which the rank and file had a hard time with but were implemented anyway.
The Privacy Project
This article would be much more interesting if they showed that the AMP version of the page actually was slower than the non-AMP version. Instead, they just say that Google's Page Speed score is lower for the AMP version. But _nobody_ cares about the Page Speed score - it's just a rough proxy for user experience. The author of the article, however, doesn't do anything to look at actual user experience.
I don't know that open source software as whole is winning I think that license free open source libraries published through source management on the internet are winning. But I tend to think of "software" as being end to end applications and I don't know that there are really all that many OSS or FOSS applications that I think are truly "winning"
In Greece, when I asked a waiters for directions to a drug store they all made big eyes until I said the German word which is probably derrived from the Greek αποθήκη. It was quite funny.
Noble effort though the project looks dormant.
I would really like a big news service. These focuses might be a little morbid, but like major catastrophes (e.g. Idai), a single pre election explaining the stances, a post election on the results. Right now articles are being written on one person saying something about an event of interest. You can read 10 paragraphs a day on the Mueller report when nothing has really progressed on that front. I would love something that just lets me know when big stuff actually happens (e.g. wake me up when the report is out).
Who said anything about ignoring the plight of others? The news does nothing at all to aid me in helping other people. Indeed, most of the time it distracts me and keeps me from being aware of all the myriad ways I can give back to the community.

I volunteer lots of my time with various organizations and I didn't need anyone in the news media to tell me that what I'ma doing is important and valuable.
It certainly smells of the shady shit Microsoft was doing back in the day.
Shame we don’t have fuckedcompany.com around for this any more.
Then your child could simply download the content at home and show it at school without internet connection.

Parent would still complain.

The solution isn't to play helicopter-parent because other parents might helicopter even more.
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Every time I use jQuery after helping my friends battle Reactive monsters, I am so eternally grateful that I have such a productive and satisfying tool at my disposal. It requires zero bike-shedding and almost every imaginable edge-case is solved before I start. If it ends up sucking, it's because I made it suck.

Just to abuse metaphors, I believe that jQuery is a "bicycle for the mind" in the true Steve Jobs sense. If you don't love it, please knock yourself out or try an edgier SPA. Spend all of your free time learning how Hooks just made everything you were excited about obsolete.

The pool is warm and the weather is lovely, friends.
Corollary 1: You are legally allowed to kill all of your competition while not improving your monopoly product as long as you keep your product free.

Corollary 2: Human attention is considered equivalent to monetary value of exactly $0 by US government.

Corollary 3: You should never trust your government to be smart or do right thing for you.
HN was designed in the mid 2000s and has changed very little and that’s a good thing.

Just for grins and giggles, I occasionally charge my first gen iPod Touch from 2007. Most web pages are unusable - except for HN and daringfireball.

I have no affiliation with the site below. I just saw it on Show HN a few years ago.

http://tenyearsago.io/news.ycombinator.com
It’s approaching the same because jQuery spent a decade setting expectations about how the world should be.
"you'll be wrong at least some of the time."

I think the adoption rate for UserAgentSpoofers, could be a related metric, approximating the value of "some of the time"

my user agent rotates randomly, or when the spoofer button is clicked
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Those other systems are either based on 5 Why's or have essentially the same core. The author's complaint is that there exists an informal approximation to his technical system, that's easy to understand and which can be used effectively if you don't have a RCA team that's gone through a bunch of certification classes. It's like a Java programmer mad that someone launched a product using Python.
I was at my local arcade and I was lucky enough to come across a group of friends that met up every week to play Killer Queen. They had the full 10 people and someone asked me if I wanted to sub in while they went for a beer. One of the most exciting arcade experiences I’ve had in a long time. You get 10 people hunched over that game and it’s like nothing you’ve ever seen or done before.
There are billions of people with capped data plans and where 200kb/s is the standard.
Thank you. I've seen the effects of severe depression first hand. It's not a matter of just needing to smile more, it's a serious medical condition that requires professional intervention.

To anyone reading this, if you think you're depressed, please seek out a qualified talk therapist (CBT has been shown to be effective in treating depression) and a qualified physiatrist for medication.
I’m not defending Republicans but as someone else said American anti trust law has always been about protecting consumers and not businesses.

Unfortunately, everything I could site about the difference comes from Ben Thompson’s (of stratechery fame) Exponent Podcast.
> If Google allowed arbitrary pages in the carousel, and then preloaded those pages, then BBC and BuzzFeed could insert trackers that let them know what you searched for even if you never click on a result.

There's nothing you can do with the carousels that they can't do by just parsing the content or meta tags they could have defined. And when you click on the carousel, it could have redirected to their page.

And before you talk about the "speed" of preloading like I've seen this argument over and over again on AMP threads, AMP could have defined an HTTP header which would have made the browser understand it's an AMP page and load the cached AMP JS (among other stuff like refusing to load non-AMP content), there's no technical need for an AMP server.
There’s a difference between an orderly discussion leading to change of team/focus in a timely manner and just doing whatever you want whenever you want, which is the point I was making.

You can certainly find yourself a better team fit and organise to move to it proactively, that’s true of any organisation, with greater or lesser degrees of red tape.

...but the parent assertion was basically, if you don’t like your job, just get up and walk off and drop your stuff on some other interesting teams table. Job done!

Don’t do that.
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Just tested myself and the official client refuses to send. Third-party clients are unaffected, good thing I still use one really.
That kind of obscurity actually sounds more safe then a lot of other solutions.
Who are now their current residents and "citizens"
It’s definitely interesting seeing a service provider place restrictions like that. It seems bad for business, unless business isn’t really the point?

I would say if you want to be a provider, be a provider, don’t treat your customers like potential enemies.
I wonder if there's a way to "shard" these counters to avoid this problem.

If you had 10 different counters (maybe in ten different tables) and a mechanism for round-robin or randomly selecting which counter gets incremented/decremented would that allow ten concurrent transactions at once?

The query to return the total count would then need to sum the 10 individual counters, which should be extremely fast.

Or is the concurrency limitation here caused by the trigger on the counted table itself, not the writes performed by the trigger?
Is it me or is there no way to store the transcript? Looks to me like it doesn't even allow basic copy and paste.
The block has been (mostly? I guess) lifted. If national news paper[0] joined the discussion, nobody dare to keep the blockage. Especially they (the web browsers) was lying about the reason of block.

[0] http://paper.people.com.cn/rmrb/html/2019-04/11/nw.D110000re... (Chinese)
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It depends on how the market responds. While AI will be here in 10 years this product will be outdated long before that point looking ahead it almost begs to be shutdown and replaced with a newer version.

If you build your business on this platform your business must be willing to evolve with it.
Sorry but there are dozens of studies and hundreds of reports of people basically losing memories of entire portions of their life and the ability to do simple things like tie their shoelaces or do simple math after just one round of ECT. How this is still not banned by the FDA is beyond me.

Not to mention the number of people who get heart complications from it or outright die during the procedure.

How can you say that "the alternative is unbearable"is beyond me, unless you're saying it's better to become mentally disabled than suffer from depression?

The argument that "this is not the same ECT" is also bogus. The difference is now they paralyze you so you don't convulse and break your bones while doing it. They also use a higher voltage (more damaging to brain cells) and higher frequencies with shorter, repeated bursts (also causes more brain damage and hemorrhaging). But it's "better" because the patient doesn't thrash around so much anymore. Give me a break.

Summary of the issues with ECT and associated studies: https://truthaboutect.org/ect-causes-brain-damage-a-review-o...

http://emord.com/blawg/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/1-ECT-Citi...
Good luck browsing news stories with video content or image slideshows. Also publisher analytics, advertising, and all the other basic staples of web journalism. But yes, if you completely change everything about the business model of online news, reader mode might be viable.
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Throwaway Google search engineer here. People here really do care about making the web faster and moving metrics, both because that is how the company is set up to reward employees but also because they believe it makes the product better.
Google has been penalizing slow sites forever. It stopped moving the needle (I suspect because it isn’t marketable). Amp on the other hand really is working, metrics show a faster, smoother experience, and user studies have been positive. That’s why Google is doubling down so much with it. Not because they have goals to control content providers or wall off the web, but because it makes a dramatic difference on the whole.
I don’t think Ben Thompson (stratechery.com) spends too much time worrying about SEO and Google. He built a solid reputation with excellent idea and he did this strange model of getting people to pay money for stuff - over 3000 people to pay him $100 a year to read his content.
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