skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IQ allows you to solve problems, in the case of humans mostly for society. If you increase someone's IQ their ability to solve problems is increased, but what is also increased is their ability to see all the problems and their desires increase with their abilities -- hedonistic treadmill. Therefore increasing IQ will have no effect on their perception of the human condition. If you start decreasing IQs and decrease everyone's then similarly it will have no effect on any individual's perception of their condition.

Intelligence is the red queen and an arms race, if you start raising anyone's IQ then you will have to raise everyone's IQ. If you do so genetically, then you will be genetically modifying pretty much everyone.

Since the technology and its long term implications are not understood at all, it's basically a giant experiment on the whole of human race. Not to mention other unexpected side-effects like the genomics wars from Star Trek where your enhanced people start wanting to rule the world and are cunning enough to do it. Another example if Ozymandias from the Watchmen, imagine someone with that level of intelligence wanting to fix the problems of the world... by any means necessary.

You don't know what you are getting yourself into, and optimism won't fix that. And if you go wrong you will probably have a genocide on your hands, either them the genetically enhanced killing you or you killing them.

I mean you could create a theory like the Nazis had if you were genetically enhanced people that would be scientifically true. Where does that leave the rest of humanity? No more than Jews to the Nazis. If the Nazis had given Jews a choice to join them and become Nazis by genetically engineering themselves to being the Blue Eyed Aryan race, would that have made Nazism okay?
Already switched to Firefox and couldn't be happier.
> You understated 2. Its more correctly described as hatred.

So? Political opinion is not a protected characteristic, because it's a choice and it affects others. I hate literal Nazis too, and pretty much nobody sane thinks that this is an inappropriate thing to do.

You might argue about the "Trump supporters are fascists" bit, but that's a very different discussion.

> You inverted 3. I said majority of white people support Trump, not majority of Trump supporters are white.

Still a fallacy of the excluded middle.

> Finally you are overstating my conclusion. Here I refer to to the majority rather then all.

I didn't say all either. If your point is that some people hate white Trump supporters, then ... duh? But anyone who thinks Trump supporters are fascists will hate white Trump supporters because they think they're fascists. At which point, I have to ask what point were you trying to make?
I have 3 more bits of identifying information than you.
(block fingerprinting enabled)
You're being downvoted, but to a certain extent, I agree.

I personally find people like Richard Stallman extremist to the point of considering their positions to be cult-ish or religious. But I think people like that serve as a valuable counterbalance to the people at the other end of the spectrum who don't care about software freedom and are purely pragmatists (or who actively try to thwart FOSS).

At the very least, when bad things happen, and the people on the other side say "we never could have foreseen this", we can point to RMS and say, "yes, you could have".
And sooner or later, Uber will start proposing regulations for that same reason: to avoid competition.
>No it isn't, there isn't any specified threat model anyway.

Well, yeah, in the sense that Mozilla people don't really think through what threat model they're protecting against here.

>What we're talking about is whether malicious extensions are something attackers want to use. Having to package an entire browser is a win - it's super noisy and means there's a huge binary to lug around.

The vast majority of that benefit comes from the default requirement for code to be signed, not from the barely measureable fraction of users that knowningly disable this protection and then get pwned.
Edit: no jokes on HN. Got it.
Natural deaths seem less newsworthy to me than unnatural deaths.
Yea, this threw me off as well.
I think if you have a 2 core 2015 13" macbook it's slow. If you have a 4 core 2015 15" macbook or better then you are fine with firefox.
My machines are: a Mac, an iPhone and an iPad, all running latest OS versions.

I find this bizarre: by now I expect the next suggestions to be that I'm sleepwalking and watching these myself, rather than a more probable explanation that Google isn't doing something right (gasp!).
SpaceX is located in Hawthorne (just south of LA), which has its own dot. It seems that there dataset is just Wikipedia's own lists of people from places. In this case, Elon Musk appears on [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_from_Los_Angele...
You rebel scum...
This is clearly not a clear case of technology not being ready. This is a case of the technology being misused by consumers. Yes marketing it as being autonomous (when it's not) causes consumer confusion, but no one should think auto pilot as Tesla markets it is that, it's a driver assist tech like every other car maker has in their lineup these days.

If anything Tesla may adopt what other car makers do when they see their driver aids get abused. Other makers turn off these systems if it senses a driver isn't paying attention and doesn't sense a hand is on the wheel.
It used to be more customisable but FF wanted to dictate what users saw, for some reason, partially advertising ("recommended by pocket"). They really like to imitate the worst of commercial enterprise sometimes.

It has become a little more customisable now, thankfully.
While you're at it, stop using Google products altogether.

This cycle will only repeat itself, Google is an advertising company.

If you work for this company, please quit and ply your talents somewhere less motivated to exploit people.
Extreme weather is pummeling the Midwest, and farmers are in deep trouble
The world's first hack: the telegraph and the invention of privacy (2015)
I’d like to believe this, but I think it will take more time.
Off topic but does anyone else automatically filter out any headline that has "may" in it? Literally anything can be true if you add "may".

Eating dirt may cause cancer.
Eating dirt may cure cancer.
Earth may sit on the back of a giant, invisible tortoise.

It feels like a lazy way to pump out blog articles when there's no real information available.
What Trade War? Africa Sidesteps Tariffs, Starts Free-Trade Pact
The biggest issue is China. Who is going to stop China's destruction of the climate?
Chrome is much worse. It seems like chopping a leg off because someone stepped on a toe.
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It’s beautiful, and reminds me of an idea that I had ... hint ... hint.

I live in Melbourne, Australia. Idle Googling led me to the discovery that someone had rated – as in on Maps, with stars – a tram stop. A municipal function, a concrete slab, a place you must necessarily and unavoidably go if you want a tram. Rated. People! Crazy.

So I want a map that, at the level of ‘Melbourne’, aggregates the Google review for everything in view and gives the entire city a score. Then as I zoom in, eventually to the tram stop, I see the ratings of individual things.

Ultimately I suppose you’d be able to zoom out to the world and see its Google review score.
A Stylish Solution for Bike Navigation
That's not a real quote. Fake news.
CF doesn't rollback either, the rollback is not done by the client but by CF backend, very different story.
What better cache management? What LB features?
I might be doing it wrong, but did't import passwords contrary to what it did promise.

Minor annoyance, though. Still switched in desktop as I was on mobile
I enjoyed this read. There is pride but there is humility too. We are separated by language difficulty. The 996 movement and this is a reminder to me that we are not all that different. They did not start the trade war, and everyone in my state desired low price goods for decades before it was suddenly wrong to have a trade deficit.
It's kind of fascinating when you put on a neutral anthropologist sort of hat and look at this stuff. Things like the incel phenomenon are basically cults, but they're a new kind of cult for the Internet age. They're like amorphous cults where the charismatic leader is a Borg-like hive-mind that exists in online forums.

There are lots of weird variations on the theme too. Look into the Slenderman phenomenon. It was something invented on a forum that ended up turning into a weird urban legend and then causing a few murders.
Netflix is good for our household, better than Sky or BBC's offerings (for us).
We care a lot about the product and the people who use it.
The reverse is also true: On windows i do everything on keyboard (i usually work with desktop / external kbd & mouse). It's possible to navigate everything in windows with the kbd, while that s not true in macs, which frustrates me about them. They have crippled the start menu with spam, that is true, but all you need is win key and start searching just like spotlight.
This is like the argument that comedians who make funny jokes about human nature must therefore have good insight into politics. Anyone who watches comedy knows that the ability to be funny doesn't equate to having a good analysis of the situation.
Thanks for the feedback! That makes complete sense. We are going to update that
Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says
I think we were just using terms differently. "Countryside" to me includes everything from really rural to lots of trees and space while still being within the general sphere of a major metro. Quite a few people in tech like the latter. Not so many the former.
California then?
I’m amused this is here. This was a random reply to someone who thought maybe we were doing this. To be clear: that’s all this is.

But I’m happy to hear all the suggestions.
Hi, author/creator here. Very neat to see this on HN, thanks. The spreadsheet is a byproduct of the weekly newsletter I publish: https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural

The spreadsheet simply contains the text and links from each newsletter edition ... but in a tabular format. (One advantage to the newsletter over the spreadsheet: the links make a bit more sense, since they're associated with specific anchor text.) The "non-structured" archive of previous newsletters can be found here: https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/archive

Happy to answer any Qs!
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There's a lot of industries set up to loose money the more people wake up to learning about modern nutritional science. Regardless of motive people in general love to hear that their bad habits are totally ok so they can rationalize it for themselves and continue their behavior.
Very arguably, transit (literally) free-ridership isn't a problem.

Nuisance riders are: disturbing peace, damaging proprty, assaulting passengers or staff.

Police behaviour, not fares.

(And have social and justice systems which can effectively deal with individuals in need of help or discipline / isolation.)
This isn't necessarily true. I live and work in DC, often as a contractor for the government, including these agencies from time to time. As far as I can tell, those working for FBI, DIA, NSA, NGA, NRO, etc. don't have to hide their employer, though they wouldn't disclose it unless they know you.

OTOH, I have never met anyone who has admitted to working for the CIA - either directly or as a contractor. There is a definitely a non-disclose policy for them.
Well, the aside from one Democratic candidate for California Governor that I voted for because the Republican candidate seemed uncommonly dangerous, the people I vote for pretty much never get elected so that's not an issue for me. If it was, then I don't see why I wouldn't be able to look up the voting records of candidates before I vote for them a second time.
thanks for letting me know
Weird that they have Kurt Cobain in Montesano, not Aberdeen.
Is it possible to browse HackerNews without all these circlejerky posts?

I'm talking about contextless direct links to the Firefox download page and documentation links. And now all the contextless "view your history on Google" links plaguing the front page. None of this is technical.

If I wanted to read about today's social outrage, I'd go browse some tech group on Facebook.

I miss actual interesting technical discussion and articles. This is worse than r/programming on a bad day, now.
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I was once participated in a diet program where I was given some pills to eat to suppress my appetite (in addition to other generic mediterranean diet principles).

Being skeptical, I immediately scanned the ingredients and they all seemed like harmless/filler so I figured it was some placebo to placate those who needed pills as a confidence/mechanic. However, upon taking the pills for a few days, I did notice a marked decrease in appetite.

Re-examining the ingredients, the first one was "silica". Sand. Dirt. I've since come to the belief that our modern diet is too clean, and we are evolved to eat some amount of dirt - even if it's inhaled, so we may need to reintroduce some to control weight/allergies/disorders.

That dirt also contains other beneficial ingredients other than silica doesn't surprise me one bit.
macOS and iOS delete the entire grapheme cluster on backspace, not just the combining mark (which is to say, backspace with no selection is identical to shift-left to select the previous character and then hitting backspace).
When I switched to Firefox, I tried enabling uMatrix and strictly blocking as much as possible.

My guess is that about half of sites had issues of one sort or another. So many load javascript from 3rd parties, or other domains under their control, that strict blocking quickly breaks the browser experience.
It is your responsibility to understand the terms and conditions of creating and using a Google account.

If you're not informed, it's your fault. You did legally consent.

That said, could Google do better at explaining these things and giving controls and changing opt-outs to opt-ins? Sure.

But the argument you made is false.
But then how are you supposed to make decision in regards to which political candidate has the best response to the problem?
Actual title is “How Many Bones Would You Break to Get Laid?” Why was it changed?
It also reduces incentives to actually make moves that benefit privacy. Because if the people who say they care about privacy aren't going to support you, why bother?
I very much doubt that you know all the parties to whom you are constantly being sold by Google. You do realize that Google does not benefit from keeping your info to themselves, right?
If I'm at a party and I find a group of people discussing "Game of Thrones", I don't tell them to stop because I don't have an HBO subscription and so don't know enough to follow the discussion. I go find a different discussion that is about something I do know about.

I don't see why it should be any different with discussions on a link sharing site like HN. Unlike with the GoT discussion at the party, I've found that the HN discussion of articles that I do not have easy access to (such as at The Economist or the Wall Street Journal) are usually interesting and informative even without having read the article. All that not reading the article usually means is that more caution is needed when commenting.

If there is some topic I'm interested in, but find that I frequently can't enjoy the discussion here on that topic because of frequent posts of articles behind a particular paywall--then that's a pretty good sign that I should actually subscribe to that publication.
I dont think there is an MBP equivalent in hardware. That said , i wonder why do developers work in laptops, which are extremely anti-ergonomic and generally terrible for working long hours. My solution is a good thinkpad + a docking station with a big screen, mechanical kbd & vertical mouse.
Interestingly enough, uBlock Origin actually stops that site from working, seems to break the fingerprinting step. If i disable uBlock, I get 16.63 bits of identifying information. Likewise the canvas fingerprint is the biggest, in my case 1 in 101154.
This is a rediculous justification. Websites should not be coded to a whitelist of browsers.
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Azure Automation with Perl6 and Sparrow6
Too bad, I was really excited about Gitflare :)
The evils are by far not comparable in scope.
> Why are free speech absolutists only supporting fascists?

They aren't. You're totally free to advocate instituting a Marxists state, the execution of the bourgeoisen masse, and forming a communist society on Gab. Gab has the blanket policy that any legal speech is okay on their platform (and yes, calling for the execution of the bourgeois is legal in the US. Non-specific threats of violence are legal as per Brandenburg v. Ohio). There's nothing fascist about that in and of itself. The fact that Gab is filled with fascists is because of displacement. Fascists got banned from all the major platforms, so the only ones that don't ban them like Gab and 4chan are full of them.

Free speech absolutists are disproportionately made of up right wingers these days, likely because the right wing is being subject to harsher censorship. I think it's unambiguously true that most big tech platforms are overtly biased in their policing. People are getting banned for tweeting "learn to code" to journalists (in mockery of how some suggested that laid off coal miners should learn to code). And by comparison, verified leftist Twitter users outright advocated for the doxxing and violence of the Covington high school students with no apparent repercussion. This podcast with Jack Dorsey, Twitter's global lead for trust and safety, and Tim Pool gives some good insight into the situation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZCBRHOg3PQ

> Where are the people advocating for the destruction of intellectual property rights, for widespread declassification of state communications, for suffrage rights for felons, and for unionization and striking rights? I don't exactly see the gab users advocating for laws permitting sympathetic striking.

This is pure whataboutism. What do any of those things have to do with free speech? Why do you assume that support for freedom of speech should needs to be coupled with destruction of intellectual property rights? Is it not possible to staunchly believe in free speech but also believe that patents are an effective way of incentivizing innovation by allowing innovators to monetize their work? Why does freedom of speech have anything to do with unionization or letting felons vote?
I would switch today if Mozilla added tab completed search in the address bar that Chrome pioneered. It's very intuitive and difficult to give up.
The map seems like it doesn't specifically stick to municipalities. In New York City it gets granular enough to show that Sylvester Stallone was born in Hell's Kitchen. But for the city of Chicago, it only shows Barack Obama.
The market price of cobalt now is around $38/lb.

The market price of Mn ore is about $0.01/lb of contained Mn.

A good Mn nodule might contain 1% cobalt. It would be really stupid to mine these things for their manganese. Of course you'd sell what Mn you could, but that's not the value proposition here.
Firefox Fingerprinting protection has nothing to do with real fingerprinting protection, and does not afffect panopticlick results in any way.

It just bloocks a couple of known scripts based on the disconnect list.

Of course they don't tell us in their marketing posts.
If old pw is considered leaked, new seed must be generated as well. Leaked password is the main reason why users would change passwords.
When you reported to Google, are your reports public on a Google Groups or something? Is there a bug you can link us to?
True, and I wasn't.
That's an interesting suggestion, thanks. Certainly worth looking into. In the meantime, you can consider the newsletter's landing page to be a canonical URL of sorts — it will always link to the structured archive: https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural
If technology is war, then "stagnation" is peace. And technology, at least the way that Capitalist society does technology, is war more or less on the status quo. You could do technology other ways where this would not be the case, but then that would force you to think differently then the way you are thinking now where war is good.

I am not arguing here that Capitalism does not work, it works very well... I am not arguing banning technology either. All that I am arguing is that there are other paradigms outside of those where technology is progress and progress is good. This paradigm is a very convincing paradigm because of how well it works in Capitalist society and how it generates wealth and helps accumulate power.
I’ve used PrivacyBadger as an extension providing a similar service and it frequently breaks as it mis-identifies important third party scripts as trackers.
He just proved how secure most of crypto solutions really are.
A configuration language for cache management (think Varnish VCL). If you can give us cache management for page sections, that'd be wonderful.

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Permanent presence in China.
CloudHub
> The United States does not have the power to call on all other countries to close the door to Huawei.

Sure it does. The US has the sovereign right to decide who it wants to do business with, and the right to say "if you do business with Huawei, we won't do business with you", and leave it up to other countries to decide which route they would like to go.
The Department of Energy Is Now Calling Fossil Fuels “Freedom Gas”
I did not call it evil _because_ they support free speech. I call the specific content of that speech evil, and I call the act of promoting that specific speech evil.

I would call ISIS recruitment videos evil. If someone created a social network for ISIS under the banner of "free speech", I would call their project evil.

I don't in any way apologize for flatly condemning the kind of speech Gab is designed to harbor. And yet I happen to be a pretty big fan of free speech, somehow! If you'd read closely, you might notice I haven't called for the government to shut them down, and suggested that a Mastadon instance might be a good move. There's a case to be made that the Streisand effect means unilaterally banning neo-nazis helps spread their ideas.

In my mind, perhaps it's better to pre-empt their persecution complex by allowing them a space that the rest of us can mute. On the other hand, there is plenty of evidence that these spaces serve as recruiting grounds for a rising international terrorist movement. That complicates things, and I don't have an easy answer for what should be done.
ID requirements more onerous? Not sure what you mean. You simply need to show a State ID verifying you are 21 or older. I've sure noticed many more dispensaries requiring ID instead of just..."forgetting to check", but that's not the same thing.
You have tab completion in the search bar (Ctrl+K)!

Personally I disable the cloud-based suggestions and rely only on my local history.
That's not what's outlandish. What's outlandish is suggesting that you fail to recognize satire because somehow discourse has become so ridiculous that reality is indistinguishable from fiction.
I've seen comments on GDPR topic here where arrogant posters complained of sites that just banned EU visitors rather than take on the increased resource burden.
We do want to add lots of good developer features to our Workers product so the feedback is great and interesting.