skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a solution: bundle. I will never pay the NYTimes, WSJ ot Washington Post for a digital subscription. I don't read these things intentionally; i read them because someone links me to them. To then be told i need to pay to read just makes me turn away in disgust, because my experience of the internet, fast, fluid, has suddenly been interrupted. Shall i go get my credit card, fill in some forms, remember a login etc. just to read some shitty link? Fuck no.

This much is obvious and the paywall model these people are using is obviously terrible as a result. It will never work because a website is not the same as a print newspaper. Case in point: i have a subscription to several print newspapers (the FT and the Economist). But i don't read either online, even though i could, because the experience is too painful. I am not going to dig around for separate credentials for each online publication i want to read.

The solution is obvious, and has already been employed to great effect by streaming media companies. A media bundle company offers access to 50 or 60 news sites. You get one login; you pay $8 a month or thereabouts. In return you can read the Washington Post, WSJ etc., and each media company gets a payout based on impressions (or better yet, as a share of total consumption, e.g. if i read 2 WSJ and 10 ny times, WSJ gets $6 * 2/12 and NYT gets $6 * 10/12.

This gives me what i want: freedom to browse without having to negotiate each link i click. It gives the media companies a revenue stream from satisfied readers. The media pass company gets a fee for a valuable service. Win win win.

All that is required is for someone (hint, hint, HN) to successfully negotiate a content agreement for their media pass with a few big players. If you got WSJ, WP, NYT to sign up that would probably make this fly.
"the losses far, FAR outweigh the gains"

I disagree and think the topic should be open to public debate.

Would I trust the US or China to implement a system like this fairly?

No.

However, in a country with a functional and impartial judicial system I think it has the potential to save many lives and redefine the criminal justice system into something that focuses on preventing crime and treating mental illness instead of just prosecuting it.

I don't place a lot of value on your existential fear of abuse, just as I don't place a lot of value on 2nd amendment supporters existential fear of tyranny.

"Muh data" sounds just as hollow as "muh guns" when weighed against the very real threats faced by innocent people every day.
Amazing! This is the vim plugin I’ve always wanted to write. I used Notational Velocity briefly on Mac before I switched to Linux/Windows machines during university and kinda never picked it up again. At this point vim movement is too critical and I can’t use GUI solutions well... so I’m very excited to see a fusion of the two!
> This is sort of embarrassing for YC

Why?
Now they are at the position where they can make the users dance to their tune. Im quite not sure if any decision makers at Google have a glance at HN on whats the reflection on their decisions. They just know that users are hooked to their platform all around (Search, Android, Chrome, Maps, GPay, GMail, etc.,) and they can decide where to be a dictator and where to be a humble servant. In the end, all they care is how much data can they harvest & how to use that data to be more relevant for their service offerings (advertisement). Monopoly at the best level! Also, when Google gives a statement/blog post on their decision, it becomes a news for media & HN. But, the reverse doesn't happen; whats the reaction across different blogs/media/HN doesn't get much visibility.
Abolishing death seems costly.

Given that identity, as defined by all the data associated with a person, is unaffected by this "death" that the fleshbags who hold these identities seem to insist upon experiencing, perhaps we can instead simply migrate the identity to a different fleshbag; the identity lives on.

The processes and data go on, and we don't have to spend a lot abolishing death. New people can simply be assigned an existing identity and all the history that goes with it. We'd be foolish to do this without some thought; for example, we can put on hold identities that are of limited use.
Dang getting downvoted. This is a black swan
I remember using something similar called "Mathematics Handbook for Science and Engineering" in university. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mathematics-Handbook-Science-Engine...

I assume there are many others, and this is a free alternative.
Regardin principle 4 I don't quite agree, if that was the interpretation we would had something like ublock in core FF years ago. It is very clearly not a technical problem.

As for principle 5 I do not hold my breath but hope you are right.
In the enterprise world, isn't the problem that unmaintainable software doesn't get scrapped, because it's so embedded at the core of the organisation, and maintenance snowballs. I'm thinking of sprawling ERP systems and 'core' Banking in particular.

Quality can be put on a spreadsheet: Cost of maintenance, regulatory cost, transition cost. However, a lack of commitment to radical change exists due to lacking risk appetite.

For example, 'Challenger' banks in the EU with only a few million in VC funding and a couple of handfuls of developers are able to provide complete banking services and really good (instant response) customer service. The equivalent system in a F500 bank can cost hundred of millions of dollars and simply applies a band-aid as another layer on decrepit systems, which still get supported.

As another example [1], a poster shared on HN a couple of days ago that Tencent have 6000 developers supporting QQ, yet WeChat has only 50. All in the same company but silo'd and very different management philosophies for overlapping apps. I find that amazing but completely understand.

'Innovation' is the fashionable enterprise-level replacement buzzword for 'creativity'. The Enterprise-world has lost it's risk appetite, and is slowly being erased.

Edit for the link: [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20021568#20024492
I still don't get why people do this. You can't use snippets of Wikipedia to make a point you don't understand.

We're talking about macroscopic systems here. The laws of thermodynamics depend on the law of large numbers (if you take the stat mech route), they can be considered laws about statistical averages. It doesn't matter that somebody in nanowhatever claims a deviation from the macroscopic behaviour, that's their job. You still have a macroscopic Earth. An Earth brimming with grey goo would still obey the laws of thermodynamics.
> It's a 10-year-old recombination of 20-year-old tooling. Merkle trees and hashcash. That's it.

This is an unfair characterization. Every technology can be described as a recombination of what existed before. Bitcoin solved the distributed consensus problem in a completely new way. This was a long open problem.

> There's no research, no innovation.

There's a ton of blockchain motivated research going on in signature schemes, distributed consensus, formal verification, zero knowledge proofs, verifiable delay functions, game theory, governance, economics, etc.
We don't call him Rockefeller of this century for no reason
Sooo, another tunnel flood when it rains only half a cm.
A couple of quick points:

- Your ad profile will be built based on pages you visit as you indeed note, not just things that you click. Any noise you can introduce surely has to be a win for obfuscation? Would be interested in your thoughts here because you have more experience than I do!

- I'm not certain that paying for content makes any difference from a data mining perspective. Loading a NYT article causes uBlock Origin to deny 14 requests; I don't currently have a subscription but I imagine those assets are still loaded even if I'm signed in (with much clearer markers towards my identity!)

- Fighting back is a fine way to effect change. It's clearly working or Google wouldn't be banning this extension from their store or limiting their API.

I'm very comfortable with this so it's interesting to speak with someone who isn't. If adblocking is on the rise, I wonder what the next step will be towards monetizing content? Micropayments didn't take off (perhaps unsurprisingly) and subscription models seem to not have the return that people had hoped. There's huge amounts of money on the table but a lot of very smart people don't seem to have hit upon anything yet!
A decent idea of course, but you are going to run in to the same issue as everybody else who tries that: unless Firefox has a significant market share, it is just not worth throwing resources after it.

What you can do is develop automatic filters to make chrome specific CSS prefixes general, etc. Those are probably worth using since a few hours/days of engineering time easily is worth the larger market share.
Regarding those "why"s: both of these companies are in my opinion outsourced Total Information Awareness projects.

This is not "surveillance capitalism". It is surveillance in guise of capitalism.
It's "free" as long as it meets capitalistic and imperial goals.
This is a really good article in its summary of the problem. It's making the negative argument that fake news is very different:

> Fake news, on the other hand, is almost always the opposite. You want to read that stuff. For example, Casey Newton pointed to this study in his Interface newsletter that says some of the “fake news” is even more engaging than the real news.

This is it. The problem is Bob going around posting "Alice is the antichrist" everywhere on Facebook to one hundred million Charlies may eventually result in one of them murdering her. It will certainly result in Alice being harassed and limit her career. What protections does Alice have against this? Note that "just don't use Facebook" doesn't help Alice, because the problem is between Bob and Charlies.

There used to be people who argued that spamfighting, at all, in any form, was censorship. They have largely given up on that one, since nobody wanted the spam, but moved their dogmatism elsewhere.

Edit: there is a second-order problem in "recommendations". If Facebook (or for that matter Youtube) was just a chronological list of posts the only way to get more attention would be actual spamming - posting the same thing repeatedly to get into the user's very finite wall space. However, that's not how they work. Facebook (or a computer system wholly controlled by Facebook) selects certain posts you might want to see over others. If Facebook "recommends" the post saying "Alice is the antichrist", to what extent are they responsible for the abuse Alice receives? It's not obviously zero.

(People considering liability for speech acts in murder cases may like to read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Bentley_case )
You have just described business. A for-profit corporation is explicitly required, by its fiduciary duty to shareholders, to do what you are describing.
Also I upvoted you - I'm not sure why you're being downvoted without explanation since you've axiomatically added an interesting viewpoint to the discussion.
Sorry what's the license of this?
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Most of the time when a team is writing low quality software it's not really a choice. No one made a conscious decision not to write tests, not to do PR reviews, or not to refactor. It's actually that the developers are not capable of writing tests, reviewing code, or refactoring to a sufficiently useful level that it's worthwhile. If you've come in to the industry and joined a company that doesn't do those things then you've never learned those skills.

Where Martin Fowler says you'll see the benefit of high quality code in a few weeks he's making the assumption that the team is capable of writing high quality code but choosing not to, whereas it's actually more likely to be the case that the team would need to go away and learn how to write high quality code before they can start, including things like learning how to write testable code in the first place. That is a much bigger and much more time-consuming problem.

The article is absolutely 100% correct that high quality code lets you go faster but it ignores the root cause of the problem - developers have been writing low quality code for so long that unlearning all the bad habits and actually getting better is a huge undertaking.
That's correct. Also my feeling at this point.
So I have to disagree about revealing war crimes being vital to the health of a society, historically people don't care, they may initially act like they care, but they take no action, our societies are built on destruction, exploitation, and suffering of others. Which is the logical reason you don't see public protest or change for any of these crimes.

The reason that war crimes aren't stopped isn't because people don't know, it's they don't care.

So some video may get 15 minutes of face, but it doesn't change anything is my point.

It's just annoying to see people keep acting like wiki leaks and it's figurehead are doing noble work and must be protected.

Perhaps my view point is jaded, but it's based on first hand seeing how regardless of the slaughter the first world is, and it does nothing without material motivation.

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> I still have a hard time imagining a growth that doesn't use more energy (except the one defined in that article as "development", which seems to be a more sophisticated/involved use of existing resources, rather than extracting/creating more new (primary) resources.)

Can’t you imagine efficiency gains leading to an increase in output (GDP) for constant inputs (resources)? That’s growth. (Note that the article talks about development as something different from GDP growth.)
It's needlessly complicated, and a horrible way both to understand and code rotations in 2D and 3D.
Thankyou for making these arguments. Anti-DRM groupthink in geek communities has always been one of the more grating aspects of the software world. Video game producers have detailed data on how DRM protects their sales - they can literally see their sales curve tank the moment a crack comes out, and they can see the sales return to normal when the cracks are patched. Movie studios have similar data. They also know that protections will be broken and then repaired, but it's a simple financial calculation - is the impact on sales greater than the cost of developing and repairing the DRM? Yes? Then they do it. And who can blame them, they're just being rational economic actors.
sing along: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6IQ_FOCE6I
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Sorry, I didn't make it clear: I was arguing that point alone, not claiming they sold private data or anything else.
This question is open to anyone:

I'm extremely curious what the business model here is.

Who is paying for this to be created, and what do they get out of it in the long run?
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> extensions that will inevitably get banned (due to this being essentially fraud)

AdNauseam has been up on Firefox Add-ons for a while and it is not banned and I don't believe it will get banned. Explain why you think differently please.
Take any information (blog posts, articles) that comes from the company itself with a grain of salt because it is essentially marketing and so will downplay the downsides of their approach and paint a rosier picture of the process than what really happens there.
Whether there is an existing and verified proof or not, there is still a great mystery to be solved by figuring out what Fermat actually meant by what he thought as an elegant solution, whether it is an actual solution or not.
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I mean, no. It's easy to swap browsers and ad-infested pages are broken pages.
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You can try Firefox containers. They even work within the same window.
Chrome might not have that many security holes, but if you browse without adblock you will quickly see just how festered the web is with horrible, horrible ads.

Chrome without adblock is essentially ie6, with tabs.
I didn’t know about MPEG2 in Bluray. Still, with higher bitrate?
This sounds to me like an American problem
This is untrue. It's a particularly rapacious Wall Street meme, but a company can do whatever its board dictates, including not being a monopolizing monster.
The iMac Pro's Xeon CPUs have pretty good turbo boost frequencies. If your machine isn't pegged on all cores when you want to do the task specified in your post then you should have zero problems.
Overwriting the data with random data is deleting it.
I found a way of importing bookmarks: Run 'normal' Safari and preview Safari at the same time, 'view bookmarks' in both, and then dragging the favorites top level across from old to new app worked!
Cannot believe I supported that shtty outfit ...

Google ... you were the chosen one. And you fcked it up.
Because it is not normal to have such a low yield on Guilts around 1% for ten year in the UK
PHP is no more the slow dog it used to be a decade ago.

I am also noticing a trend of many "rational" developers regaining interest in it and considering it for their new applications.
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj, the 26th section.

I think that covers what we’re talking about here. As in, it is ok to just delete the link between a real person to an anonymous key and not all their anonymised data. That allows one to avoid having to delete all the data itself (imagine how hard that would be from historical backups etc).
But it’s not very optimized. It’s very low level and you have to add defensive code, taking up space.
It is illegal. It breaks the contract. But what the you going to do? Fine radio shack?
Scala developer unwittingly switched over to Angular + Typescript.

I would love to code Scala across the board but the value proposition that frontend frameworks provide is too compelling to ignore -- code splitting/lazy loading, strong UI support (via Ionic), fantastic tooling (VS Code + Angular CLI), standard app structure, etc.

Now the backend is a fairly dumb API that just shovels JSON to/from database with some Akka messaging mixed in here and there for websocket based content.

Never would have imagined leaving Scala.js, which is amazing in its own right, but the vast majority of frontend work has migrated to Typescript for a reason.
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And how is this different to Chad who went to an Ivy and got a job on wall street IB based on daddies connections.
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Should I feel guilty for doing no homework at all?
Why is obtaining a follow-up email from an event impervious to being spam? Attending an event is not consent for marketing. Marking spam as spam is not being an asshole.

I know it sucks when an IP gets burned, but when you're acting in good faith it's a rarity - or has been in my experience.
>>Also, the headhunting was a resistance by the tribals to christian missionaries.

Source please? (The Wikipedia article does not say this).
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Fine the company that purchased it if they use the data in violation of existing contracts.
Not much of a shame IMO - there are plenty of other languages that transpile to JS without those goals, if you don't care about backwards compatability and 1:1 mappings to vanilla JS.

On the other hand, there's only one language that I'm aware of - TypeScript - prioritizing these things, which is a major selling point of it to me. I don't want yet another leaky abstraction, or yet another runtime heavy enough for those abstractions to not leak.

I just want enough types for my intellisense to work right, and for my sorry ass - spoiled by years of nothing but static typing systems - to be able to code without drowning in a veritable sea of uncaught type errors to debug, when I poke frontend stuff.
Are brave in control of the web request API within their build? I know it's a fork of Chromium, just not sure how much is available for them to change.

I have been using brave for months and intend to continue if uBo keeps working. Braves internal ad blocking doesn't stop everything.
In your opinion why Firefox does not ship with some kind of adblocker by default?
One thing that DownThemAll got right that I am not sure any other downloader I have found does is that if a download is terminated by the server before the reported file size of the file had been downloaded, it would see that as a failure and retry. Unreliable servers often terminate the download partway through and it seems most other download mangers, browsers etc. will just leave the truncated file on the disk and report the download as successful, not allowing you to continue from where it got to.
Couldn't agree more. Here in Romania it is illegal to not put your children in school and homeschooling is basically a crime.

Also religion was obligatory up until few years ago after they changed the law that made people do extra work if they want to study religion.
Thanks for pointing this out. I, too have the impression that most of the commenters here are completely oblivious to the effects of their choices on society at large. The fact that I have been accused multiple times of not having children is evidence of an appeal to emotion: "You can only understand this if you think about your own family".
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Firefox are bankrolled by Google, and seem to make changes according to that relationship.

FF seems to be "still give your data to Google" (or other partners we force install for you) but for people who have realised that Chrome is "give all your data to Google".
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You can choose the target latency. Presumably, the larger that value, the less effect dropped packets and network jitter have on the quality of the output:

https://roc-project.github.io/roc/docs/manuals/roc_recv.html
Facebook's culture is basically a younger brother of Google's, or at least used to be. There's a reason their tech stacks are so similar - FB went through a phase where it poached a lot of Googlers.

A tech firm is most easily defined as a company founded and run by a software or hardware engineer. The only exception I can think of is Apple, but Jobs was immersed in engineering culture from the time he was a teenager - he was sort of a sphinx in that regard. Even so, it's fair to say Apple under Jobs is maybe more of a high-end design house than a traditional tech firm: their in-house talent struggled with online services and anything involving complex computer science R&D, e.g. their AI / mapping efforts were weak sauce compared to Google.
Jira was the fastest for me in Chrome. Firefox was slower, Safari was slowest.
It feels a bit like SeaMonkey, repeated a decade later.
Yes not sure what he's getting at - the MBA who went straight from a Batchelors to a MBA are more of a concern.
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Well they're shocked by the 30 number, despite having had investments in like 624 billion companies so far. You think they would have at least heard about something to this effect from their relationships with YC companies? Especially given the whole "YC is about the network"

How good is the network if it doesn't even give you the basic knowledge for a thing you are extremely likely to have to go through (Series A), right after YC itself?