skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I do not believe that stating an opinion or taking a position on a matter, regardless of the reason, is a hollow and meaningless gestures. Opinions and positions are opinions and positions.

This runs under the very, very, very large assumption that one actually truly believes in the opinions or positions they share. You have far more trust in people and corporations than I do if you believe this to be the case.

Do many poor people flaunt wealth they don't really have by wearing expensive products as a way of being seen as wealthy as a form of social signalling? Yes. Do many immoral people flaunt fake morals they don't really believe in hopes of being seen as more moral as a form of social signalling? Not surprisingly, also yes.

If there are benefits to an individual for having a higher perceived social value irregardless of their actual social value then there will always be con artists who try and game the system.

Poor people are rarely wearing Supreme listening to their iPods or Beats by Dre for themselves: it's social signalling. Virtue signalling is a form of social signalling. The goal is to masquerade as moral. Whether actions are taken for moral reasons or result in any form of net positive to society isn't relevant - only how people end up judging the action.

This is how you end up with things like diversity quotas and people who feel like they're the "token person" of the office. Where the only black person in the company finds themselves on 90% of outgoing marketing material so that the company can pretend they're more diverse than they are.

>People who believe that "virtue signalling" is a thing are doing it themselves.

It seems to me you're misunderstanding exactly what virtue signalling is. The difference between "being moral" and "virtue signalling by pretending to have morals" is predicated entirely on why an action was taken and what the expected result of that action is.

Yes, some people may be virtue signalling by being against virtue signalling - but I have a feeling that most are people who are able to grasp the difference between "doing a good thing to be a good person" and "doing a good thing to get Instagram likes and brand recognition". The two sometimes overlap.

Imagine these three scenarios:

1) A person donates $10,000 to charity anonymously (doing a good thing)

2) A person donates $10,000 to a charity and shares that they made this donation on all of their social media accounts (doing a good thing / virtue signalling ; it kinda depends on the intent doesn't it?)

3) A person lies about making a $10,000 donation to a charity and shares the fact that they made this donation on all of their social media accounts (virtue signalling)
Related thread on Tesla Motors Club - https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/emergency-lane-depar...
performance. the Dart VM is one thing. C and C++ are closer to the bare metal.
Just don't use that as the key to generate your BitCoin address. I saw a funny video, can't remember where, where a guy does that to prove a point. He sends a small amount of BitCoin to the wallet address, and someone steals it within seconds.
Isn't that entirely your responsibility?

I mean, what do you wish were different?
Really, this stuff had the characteristics of pathological science even if you didn't have the perspective of actually doing nuclear physics with palladium, and barrier penetration on other systems. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20043790. It was clearly nonsense, on which I'd have put substantial money. I'd also have put money on the apparently superliminal neutrinos of a while back being due to the sort of issue that was eventually found; in contrast, those experimenters deserve credit over their handling of the result. Contrary to the article, you really shouldn't be so open minded that your brains fall out, as they say. Competent experimentalists doubt their own anomalous results, just as the bug is most likely in your code, not the compiler.
Changing My Mind about AI, Universal Basic Income, and the Value of Data
The most interesting tidbit for me was how similar the news breakdown was between the two sources: New York Times and The Guardian. The largest deviation was 3.4% for suicide coverage but almost everything was within 1%.

Perhaps these examples are too similar to get a good distribution but if news organizations are all covering basically the same items perhaps there is an opportunity for differentiation. The google search trends shows that what people are interested in knowing doesn't match what media is interested in telling.
Biased reply - I work for Google.

It depends on what you choose as your choice of technology, if you choose web components then you really can only really offer that same experience to users that have a browser that supports that API natively (without polyfills) which old Edge did not do.

My understanding of this situation with yt was that our server side detection code was wrong based on an update in edge (or our UA management), and we don't do feature detection in the client because it is too slow... So we send people to the older version.
No need to do expensive industrial design, tooling to build switches, simpler loom, simpler to assemble etc.

It’s a cost cutting exercise (with other advantages) which has become trend.

For me cars are like tools, they should be tactile.
So far Google have only made moves in a direction that damages privacy, so everyone would be too stunned to say anything in your hypothetical case.
Jack Kemp was Bob Dole’s VP nominee and continued to praise Farrakhan into the 90s. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/10/us/kemp-praises-farrakhan...

I understand these days the conservative establishment is mostly in sync with what’s said on talk radio, but that wasn’t always the case.
Charles Manson died in 2017.
It's the 7%/yr for decades that really gets you. There are articles about San Francisco from the 80s about how it will become impossibly expensive and drive out longtime residents if they don't increase housing production. Multiply that shortage in construction by 40 years and you end up hundreds of thousands of units short.

Seattle is actually doing fairly well, considering how fast people are moving here. Washington had more people move there than Texas (at 4x the population) and a higher % of the population than Florida. There's no way to build housing fast enough to accommodate that without tons of greenfield, but we'll see how the next 10 years go.

https://www.insider.com/us-states-people-are-moving-to-2019-...
I've had a terrible time using Firefox since Tab Mix Plus was killed. Dev is working on a replacement but many of the necessary APIs were also killed in the great add-on death of 2017 (Firefox 57), and have yet to be rewritten (and may never be).
I remember we used to have "IE Tab" for websites which were so bad that they needed IE and failed otherwise. I think Firefox needs a "Chrome Tab" which runs some website in chromium for the really bad offenders.
I think it would be interesting if they filtered out any entertainment & sports celebrities to see who remained.
This is very cool! Maybe you could add Puerto Rico as well.
Yeap. Tragedy of the Commons / highly-diffused externalities.

And a combination of slow and rapid food price increases such that the eventual sole focus of nearly everyone's existence will be mass distractions from insanely unaffordable food, mass starvation and potential genocides. If a modern person wants food security, they better have a climate-controlled, well-defended and discrete area to grow enough for their family... otherwise X.X.
In which case, let's talk about my original essay about dcurtis' apology for publishing something dumb (in his words) and my thesis that he is talking out of his ass (sorry, πρωκτός).
I would too, but clearly most people wouldn't, otherwise advertisement wouldn't be such a popular way to monetize apps and websites (and Google wouldn't be the behemoth that it is today). Actually I would also gladly pay for a decent search engine but even DuckDuckGo decided to monetize using ads, which IMO means that sooner or later if they're successful enough they'll become just as bad as the rest.

Besides paying for a product doesn't mean that it becomes privacy-friendly, look at how Spotify still tracks your every actions even when you're a paying customer for instance.
I see a lot of people here complaining about firefox performances and other things/bugs. But we are on hacker news. Many devs are here. Firefox needs us, we need a strong alternative. Instead of complaining, we need to participate to the open source effort.
I would describe the issue here, though, as "Federal government believes everyone has a USPS address (mailing and/or physical)", as opposed to "local political divisions within a state are particularly meaningful to the federal government".

The thrust of my point is the same -- the feds don't ask you to write a city outside the context of an address. The fact that they assume addresses exist is a separate issue, IMO.
If Google kicks adblockers, Chrome will be dead within a year.
Reader view -> Save as PDF, and you have a nice readable copy of a non-interactive website to read when connectivity is sparse.
Decentraleyes gives you a local cache of 3rd party scripts that you need to keep activated. Otherwise, their content probably isn't worth viewing anyway if they're so bloated that they need to pull in 20+ scripts from across the net.
What's even weirder is that a significant proportion of Mozilla's developers use Macs as their main platform (if I recall correctly the most popular platforms are Linux, then Macs and Windows a very distant third).
And? I used to work for a defense contractor, using the military complex money to instead pay for civil projects that actually benefit normal people. You can take money that comes from "I don't like this thing", and then spend it on "this benefits everyone".
The "SAAS security dashboard". Grab that domain!

Features:

- Including an overall alert status red/yellow/green.

- Critical issues rise to the top somehow for the team's attention.

- Mechanisms and best practices for reporting security issues.

- A knowledge base linking to relevant articles on each topic.

- A button must be pressed to say that backups have been tested, failing to do so raises alert level.

- Team members jointly contribute ratings out of 10 for the companies security practice in each checklist item

- Team discussions/actions/priorities.

- Register your companies tech stack with the service and it sweeps the net for security reports about stuff that you use.

- Integrate ansible to gather information about the versions of the software you are using and issue dashboard alerts when stuff in your software stack is vulnerable to attack.

- $5,000/month

- database lives on client site

etc etc

Don't know why I give these ideas away for free. Maybe I'll get onto building it!
> Then what is?

Every paradigm carries inherent biases, but if you simply present it as-is you're at least not exacerbating them. Once you go down the road of "optimizing", you're moving away from neutrality.

> The result of that would be software that doesn't aim to serve the user. This is exactly what software was like before the current trend of analytics and user experience

Um, analytics are a large part of what is feeding this trend of opinionated software that pushes users into behaving certain ways. Analytics optimizes for the company's goals - the users' goals can only be subservient to that.

> Instead, you're proposing to make all software so powerful that the user is in complete control of all choices, which is really another way of suggesting that the user become a programmer of their own software

You're shoehorning my argument in order to use an old ignorant put down of Free software. Yes, Free software has been outpolished by surveillance as a service - invasive control is inherently more lucrative, attracting capital. Now that centralized services are moving from "acquisition" to "imposition", their downsides are becoming a lot more apparent.

When the community is bundled with the software, Melcalfe's law restricts competition between softwares - likely leading to two attractors, the most popular option and the fed-up dissenters.

While not being an ubermensch programmer means that you cannot make your own software that perfectly reflects your preferences (ie nobody can), the point is being able to choose between a plurality of competing software options that are better able to match them.
I do have a script that finds all mentions of Cloudflare in stories and comments and emails. Latency between a mention and me getting mail is about a minute.
> That is not efficiency, that is regulatory circumvention. I think almost everyone agrees it is a circumvention that is good for consumers. But once you drive down the cost of medallions through competition you have no advantage.

No it is not. A medallion is required to accept rides from people that hail you from the street. Rides, say, scheduled over the phone are not required to have medallions. Services that you call and schedule a car to take you to the airport, for example, do not require medallions. These have been around for decades before Uber or Lyft. Uber any Lyft just found an effective and fast way of scheduling rides over the phone.

> You sound so passionate about the advantages of Uber and Lyft I hope you are holding a lot of Uber and Lyft stock.

Unfortunately none. I'm just point out the blatant falsehood of saying that Uber and Lyft did not develop any market efficiently.
> If you split a unicode string on codepoints, the results are always valid unicode strings.

"One of the reasons why the Unicode Standard avoids the term “valid string”, is that it immediate begs the question, valid for what?"

Source: http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2013-m01/0034.h...

The only thing you get by splitting a sequence of codepoints at random is another sequence of codepoints. Because you can end up with codepoint sequences that map to different glyphs or end up being ignored when they wouldn't have been in their proper order, you can end up with non-sense. You can shuffle a sequence of ASCII characters and still end up with a sequence of ASCII characters. What good is that? I fail to see how it would be qualitatively different than splitting a UTF-8 string at arbitrary code points. The latter is supposed to induce an error, but the former doesn't necessarily. The Unicode specification is written in a way to degrade softly when manipulated or displayed by poorly written software or old software dealing with future sequences with unique semantics. But that's not the same thing as saying that any sequence of codepoints is valid. Rather it's more akin to undefined behavior in C, except without a license to unleash nasal daemons.
You can't have both the ability to install unsigned addons and one-click addons in a software designed for average Joe, and not end up with massive malware problems.

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2015/04/15/the-case-for-exte...

Mozilla could not advertise Firefox as secure if they allowed unsigned addons.
I never told anyone to stop discussing anything, I was just pointing out an alternative view to 0xffff2's argument. I'm completely with you that only reading HN-comments can be very interesting too.

That said, I'm glad HN-rules support non-paywall links. To use your logic: If you don't support them, don't use them.
And my point is that there isn't an obvious inconsistency there.

Sized is an interface, exposed via a function. String is a type, which has methods. Now yes, you can make an argument that everything is an interface ("upper-able"). But bleh, and this avoided problems like "is it .length or .length() or .size or .size()" as happened in some other languages.
> The US can handle both in perpetuity

How can we be so sure?
are you an apple investor or in their design team or something?

calling macbook form factor as inimitable innovation is a very exaustive mental gymnastics.
Very, very excited to see you open source the EIP-712 trustless transaction relay setup. Any ETA on that?
Some military. Canadian armed forces are now allowed pot.
If you are willing please email me so I can look into this.
>But in the five years since 2014, the following fact has become absurdly clear to me: there is no difference between privacy and security. Security is an illusion, just like the lock on your front door. Advanced cryptography can prevent immediate threats, but in the long run, it is impossible to keep things private at scale. Humans can only build flawed software. There will always be bugs. And thus your “private” information is not now and will never be safe in the hands of a third party, no matter how competent. The only solution is to keep the information within only your control, and that is how Apple has attempted to architect its systems.

>And: (2) If, after Snowden, Experian, and countless other examples of leaks, you think security is going to protect your privacy, you are either ignorant or insane.

This feels incoherent. Security is exactly what Apple is leaning on, e.g. by designing iMessage so they themselves can’t read the content.

And just like Google, they are also asking you trust them, e.g. to not release an update that uploads all of your plain text messages to Apple.

What’s different is the size and nature of the attack surfaces, how distributed vs. centralized they are, and how each company agrees to use the data they do legitimately collect.

There are interesting, persuasive arguments to be made in favor of the different approaches out there, but I think it’s important to have conceptual clarity.
Thank you! Registered .dev =)
I don't see any evidence there that you got the decompiler working, which would be quite a feat. The disassembler, and even graph view, is part of the IDA SDK as you mentioned.
Solo households, as a percentage, has significantly increased from 17% in 1970 to 28%.

https://articles.ezlandlordforms.com/landlord-and-real-estat...

That should, on average, cut the household income of those houses in half compared to if two of those singles were married and/or living together. I don't know what the data is for just the last 20 years, but taking a small fraction of the households and splitting them up into two households each making half as much puts a big dent in median once you run the math.
My Tungsten Cube
If terrorist detonates a nuke, then it's around a million by some estimates [1], so even then there is a relatively low ceiling.

But creating and operating a bomb requires expertise, that all terrorist lack.

[1]http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/06/what-a-nuclear-attack...
Doing it with just one emoji sort of misses the point...

One way in P6, combining the full family into one character:

my \test = "test\c[Woman,ZWJ,Woman,ZWJ,Girl,ZWJ,Boy]";
say test.chars; # 5
say test; # test
say flip test; # tset
say test.chop; # test

HN displays the 7 codepoint family as three spaces.

To see that P6 treats the family as one:

https://tio.run/##K0gtyjH7/18BCHIrFWJKUotLFGwV1EG0ukKdQmleZk...
Advertising does affect everyone in the broad picture. Specific advertising campaigns don't affect everyone, though. Also, different people are affected by different approaches. What works for one set of people doesn't for another.

This is why there are a set of different approaches that have been shown to be effective (given names like "the bandwagon" -- which covers the group of people who can be swayed by convincing them that everyone else is into something). A comprehensive campaign will have different ads for the same thing, each using a different approach, to maximize the number of people they affect.

By the way, if you ever want a deep-dive into this stuff without actually taking college courses on it, my recommendation is to find a copy of guidelines provided to car dealerships. Those things are very comprehensive, unabashed, and to-the-point.
WHAT DO YOU THINK THIS IS, SHITLORD? FUN AND GAMES?

GET BACK TO YOUR SIDE HUSTLE.
Yes, these may be still in it, but they're climbing out. They're not leapfrogging it, they're just getting slowly better, inching further until they get past the valley.
Left of the URL on the URL bar is an information icon. Click that and click "custom" next to Content Blocking, or just go into the options at Security & Privacy.
Maybe this is already in the works, since the enterprise plan has a logging feature, but an integrated logging solution would be nice for the other plans. Cloudwatch isn’t perfect, but logging from a lambda worker to cloudwatch is very easy compared to, say, having to setup/manage an ELK stack for this purpose on Cloudflare.

I’d like to be able to have more than one unique Cloudflare worker per account. And be able to assign specific workers to specific routes. This feels like an odd limitation and forces you to make huge workers code with path case statements to separate the request actions out. Pretty soon a single worker starts to feel like a large app instead of a simple function that does mostly one thing.

The ability to have more than one worker or at least a “dev” worker is really showing to be important to me. Especially the more logic that is moved to the edge, the more complex it gets, and the more testing/review might be needed so you need some way to stage changes before promoting to production.

Overall though I really like Cloudflare workers. I’ve moved a project that was built on AWS and it’s mostly all an improvement on CF, especially performance which was very noticeable. I run one public API entirely on workers and I use workers on the public facing site to scrub the path users send us and 302 them to the right place, instead of having to do that in the app. I also remove most query params inside the worker to improve caching performance. I should have a use case for the KV system soon.
zsh-histdb stores history inside a sqlite database instead of a simple text file.

The good thing is that it includes context: current directory, session, date.

I use it together with ssh-suggestions which can use SQL queries to find the most relevant command. You can program rules such as: use the most frequent command in that session, if you none do it for the current directory in the last 6 months, if not, search globally.
This is a really interesting point. It reminds me of the story of the American soldier meeting a former Vietcong many years after the Vietnam war. The American said, "Every time we met you guys in the field we beat you. You never won a battle." The Vietcong replied, "That is true. It is also irrelevant." Vietnam was a great example of how misleading measures and statistics could be.
They're opening an office in San Diego to do just that.

https://www.macrumors.com/2019/03/06/apple-san-diego-enginee...
Once you build enough muscle mass through heavy lifting, it does really get a lot easier in terms of diet. Muscle just existing evidently consumes tons of calories. I eat as much as I want whenever I want and I can’t gain weight unless I really really try, and it’s very uncomfortable to do so. But it’s hard for me to say how long it takes to get to that state, since it kinda of crept up on me.

You won’t be shredded or ripped doing this, that does require a strict diet unless you’re lucky, but you can be pretty fit looking and feel great.
Sure, buddy
The audio CAPTCHA always works first try for me. The image CAPTCHA can go eff itself, it would always take me five tries while the images loaded super slowly.
Interesting. Also often missing in the Western great antibiotic search is phage therapy, which was shunned mostly for political reasons (not invented here red scare). And antimycotics of all types and new classes are desperately to fight c. auris and other species in the fungal kingdom.
CanvasBlocker actually increases your track-ability because the consistent factor is now that you have a changing canvas fingerprint (which almost no one does).

This is why Safari tries to give a universal canvas fingerprint so you can "blend in" with other users.