skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have a lot of fun (\s) in Germany right now:

A youtuber named Rezo ja lol ey made a video shortly before the elections (European and regional parliaments) about how one of the biggest parties CDU (and also SPD), the ones in the government for many many years now (Merkel's party), have been acting differently from what they said they'd do, and how they're massively messing up on climate action. He calls for viewers not to vote for them, (and of course not AfD, alternative for Germany, a newish right-wing party who denies climate change - their youth organization is starting to challenge that) and to vote for people with a better climate agenda.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y1lZQsyuSQ (destruction of the CDU)

This video blew up very fast, and had a few million views before the elections (now at almost 14 million, Germany has 83 million inhabitants). The CDU actually made a response video but didn't publish it, and then published a 11-pages pdf. There was a support video of 70 more German youtubers too.

https://www.cdu.de/sites/default/files/media/dokumente/wie-w...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpg84NjCr9c

In the elections, both CDU and SPD lost a lot of votes, and the green party gained a lot. Some of the discussions and statements in the more official media are.. interesting.

Some CDU politicians seem to think that this video is the reason for their losses, and not their policies or the way they treated the young voters before (protests against internet upload filters on EU level have been called 'paid for', marginalized or laughed at, they tell the Fridays for Future protesters to go back to school and leave the climate to the pros etc).

Main CDU figures have mentioned Russian disinformation campaigns, said to review the guidelines for publishing ('If 70 publishing companies would have said not to vote for CDU, what then?'), said that the Green party had profited from a shift in public fear of climate change from terror and security etc. Now they're trying to set up a conversation with Rezo, offline. It's all quite weird.
This is probably the only reason I don't use Safari on macOS. Especially since their new extension API came out, most of the (few) extensions I was even able to find are now manual-install pains.
That strikes me as wishful thinking by intelligent people who consider the problems they and their surrounds suffer to be unique and blamed on 'the others'.
Ok you let me know how the world is in 50 years when near-perfect Chinese citizens by the millions will be demolishing the rest of the developed world in nearly every academic/intellectual measure.
What tools are used to create this?
Taking Action on Deceptive Installation Tactics
An utter neglect of the Purchasing Power Parity and standard of living of the citizens also tells a lot. In the US where capitalism dominates, the economic output is a better measure of the enrichment of the wealthy unless you believe in something like "trickle down".
So what would be effective?
Is it reasonable to expect people to buy a commercial license if releasing a free app to a commercial app store?

Probably depends on the reasonable(?) license fee.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.06006.pdf

These authors worked/work at baidu.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3k7mgn/baidu-deep-voice-s...
The fact that your personal activity log isn't in your hands at all. It's fine to collect this but google should be blind to whats in there. I agree, it is useful to go back and see what the hell you did, but I don't go around handing advertisers my diary for potential revenue streams either.
I've noticed start up of a lot snappier than Firefox 66, particularly when there's a lot going on the system.

I think they now defer loading of some of the components until the application starts and that's helping a lot.
looks like the problem described in the last paragraph has been solved...

very weird book. Similarities with Cold Lazarus
I self-published on Amazon. I got inspired by an author friend who had like 20 books on Amazon and quit his job to write full-time.

Steps I took:

- research the science for my story

- write an outline of my novel

- read a book on how to write a compelling story, for me it was "Writing the Breakout Novel" by Donald Maass

- write the novel

- edit the novel iteratively, hiring an editor if necessary (strongly recommended for most people)

- send out copies to friends and family for feedback

- convert to Word doc to an epub file

- hire a cover designer

- publish on Amazon

- run ads on BookBuB, Facebook, Amazon
Terry wasn't arguing that there wasn't fake news before the internet, but that it would be easier to create and make it seem legitimate. Harder to suss out the origins than you would something in real life. And it's not just biased news, like the way two clocks might give a slightly different time, but actual fake news and 'facts'.
Controversial question from someone not as informed on the state of current as most here:

Anyone thinking of switching to a browser that doesn't have any script-interpretation ability? (Text-only or html/css only?) What options are currently out there?
I'm in a weird position where this particular Firefox on this particular machine didn't have a backup.

Of course, Firefox should not be pushing rushed, unfinished releases as they have been, they should never destroy data even one update every 10 years, because it is supposed to be stable software.
Take a look in C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles
Too bad for them!!!
Well, I know that in France, breaking DRM is illegal (law has been aligned to EU's, which itself has aligned itself on DMCA), BUT in practice when a consumer association has tried to force the hand of justice by not only breaking DRM, but posting a detailed tutorial of how to do it (while hiding behind the "private copy" defense), and outing themselves to law enforcement to force a trial, the judge has dismissed the case by considering them as irresponsible due to force majeure :
https://www.lesnumeriques.com/loisirs/proces-anti-drm-classe... (fr)

Now might be a good time to do it, considering the lack of love for Google in EU these days ?
Implementor here. Yep, this is correct: 2FA (TOTP currently, WebAuthn is in the pipeline[1]) will protect sign-ons in the PyPI web interface, and we (Trail of Bits) will be adding support for scoped API keys for uploads.

[1]: https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/pull/5795
Safari has a few things not going for it:
1) ad blocking options are really inferior to chrome (for now) or firefox so a lot of what you gain in speediness gets taken away by some of the garbage that modern websites spit back at you.
2) The dev tools are confusing now. They have good ones but they need to redesign some of the UI on it.
3) There's not a good way to containerize things which means you end up having to open private windows when trying to login to services with different users.
People keep saying this, but I don't see how Safari dev tools are all that bad. My needs are quite simple, but by and large things appear to work in a way very similar to Chrome. What would be the main things you usually do with the dev tools where Chrome shines and Safari sucks? I'd like to understand what I'm missing by developing on Safari.
"Production Ready" /prəˈdʌk.ʃən ˈred.i/ - noun - capable of telling the difference between a lane of traffic safe to drive upon and a concrete divider [1]

1: https://futurism.com/the-byte/tesla-sued-deadly-crash-autopi...
I have. It simply sorts tabs by profile, rather than sorting whole windows. Think about it this way: I want to have 6 separate instances of Firefox running at the same time, where I can seamlessly switch between them. Each instance has its own theme, bookmarks, cookies, etc.

Firefox can do this, but it's not intuitive and it opens 6 different Firefox apps on my Mac, so it isn't easy to distinguish between each profile. On Chrome, I simply click the person switcher at the top right and I can switch between sessions very easily.
The parent is an adult and as such can make their own decisions about whether roads are too scary to drive on.
That's because you agreed to use the old version, right? https://imgur.com/a/1qJUsI3
I think Spacex being located in LA is the more likely candidate.
> my daughter—as well as all of your children—could become just another anomaly in the path toward progress.

Wouldja think of the children! I'm astonished that this argument-enhancing cheat-code still flies in 2019. It should be as obvious as "these N-units of clickbait". If he's so concerned about his daughter, why did he take her out on a freeway where several lives are lost per year? Why does he allow his precious daughter to breathe the smog from millions of automobiles in the LA Basin? I mean, think of the children! breathing all that NOx into their little-children lungs! We need regulation!

The game is stacked against Autonomous tech since the detractors can point to any incident at which AT is at fault, but AT supporters can't point to the lives saved by safer decisions, faster reaction times, less emissions, zero emotion which serves to reduce stress and road rage incidents.

But since those gains are invisible, and people are emotional, hit pieces like this will always be popular.
Probably a hit piece, but if we're to analyze the policy changes required here to mitigate/adjust for risk effectively (and which can be compelled by any insurance company with worthwhile risk adjusters):

- Insurance rate deltas for never-on v. ever-on "beta" automated driving features. This absorbs risk both for the insurance companies as well as on behalf of the driver.

- Visible and blatant notices by companies trialing self-driving features that such features may result in insurance rate adjustments if used as the features themselves pose not-yet-quantifiable risk.

- Mandatory reporting by car companies as to who enabled beta self driving features (accepted the risk) to send to insurance companies if needed e.g. in the event of a collision.

Don't know which of these would happen first, but frankly, insurance should be leading the way on appropriately derisking beta-testing self-driving features since it's... probably an inevitability that these will be tried by drivers on public roads.
I think it has do with how they're pulling the data. GRRM doesn't seem to appear on the wikipedia category page for people from Santa Fe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:People_from_Santa_Fe,...
Do we know if he or the other oculus team members are still using racket?
I'm from Utah....I love how Ted Bundy is #1 for not just Salt lake but looks like the whole state.

Edit: I'm living in utah, from Ohio, I do not claim Utah citizenship. I'm also not Mormon (ex-mormon/agnostic). Cheers!
Better Bash History (2012)
You can download all your data and see what they have on you here. Be warned that this is an extremely upsetting experience for many people.

https://takeout.google.com/?pli=1

You can then delete your google account under "data & personalization".

I've been on proton mail for a few months now and am pretty happy with it, try it out!
Huh. Tree Style Tabs has millions of happy users. And if you type in the address bar FF will match against open tab names and urls, and let you switch to them.
Also useful if you lost your phone.
I know where my profiles directory is... But my profile is trashed. The only two profiles aren't mine but default releases.
That page needs a bit of help. The call to action to install could be more front and center and the docs link is buried in the last sentence. Arguably the docs link is way more important than github or Twitter

Docs here: https://owntracks.org/booklet/
Seems like a hit piece. We are al variables when it comes to making vehicles safer.
Because libmysql.wasm runs on any platform whereas libmysql.so has to be replaced with libmysql.dll on windows.
adblockers are just filters and aren't scanning your files like an antivirus, little cpu used I imagine.
Happy millions of users use Chrome.

> if you type in the address bar FF will match against open tab names and urls, and let you switch to them.

Hence my comment:

> That's what the address bar and Ctrl+Tab are for.
Safari has a noticeable lag making a new tab, and it doesn’t support my Yubikey.
Why are they a net negative? Genuine question.
Well, if you really care about the ongoing issue, shouldn't you rather go the "Chrom(e/ium) not supported, use Firefox" route ?
Isn’t Apple put neural net to Safari to fight trackers and allows AD blockers on iOS?
On spaghettification (great word, it's like a constant fight against entropy): I see a parallel between visual/codeless programming and domain-specific languages (esp. of "low code" category).

As the user/application reaches a certain level of advanced usage, visual/low-code representations tend to turn into a big ball of spaghetti. As you pointed out, the reason I think has much to do with how the user is not familiar with programming concepts and organizing logic.

On the other hand, I imagine it's possible to have a language/IDE that encourages good program organization naturally and intuitively, to guide and support managing complexity..

Well, this topic is deep and endlessly fascinating. Contrary to the originally posted article and its call of "doom", I'm more hopeful that the field of software development will continue to explore new and creative approaches.
Yeah, fair. I haven’t taken a broad sample of homeschooled kids.

But I do think there’s some signal in the fact that I’m dealing with the success cases of public and home schooling, and the homeschooled ones stand out as exceptional in that population.

What kinds of conclusions can reasonably be drawn from that, though, I don’t know.
Which of the shinier, newer solutions do you think people have found more attractive in particular? Genuinely curious, thanks!
Email misses most of my appointments. Doctors? Dentists? Picking a family member up at the airport? Your kids' karate classes? Playdates? Anything else arranged by text message?

Although maybe the problem is they don't know enough about my and my kids' life.
I'm not sure that really jives with the statement in the article and really just boils down to "people can test what they want just don't drive then" and I don't think that is workable.
Because if firefox hadn't nuked the user's config we wouldn't be talking about how to recover that config. Any time the advice is "restore from backups" then the product has exhibited a poor user experience. And this isn't because of some hardware failure, this is just the software bungling an update flow, with no special notice to the user or any obvious way to recover.
That's not even close to a facebook shadow profile. It was a way to donate to a public creator page. It didn't track anything.

They have also fixed the issues. The page makes it clear when someone has not opted in, and in that case it won't use profile images or names and the tip won't go through.

https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/wp-content/uploads/2019...

https://twitter.com/tomscott/status/1085242421817102336
It's like when you have one clock, you know what time it is. When you have two clocks they're always somewhat different, and so you're no longer certain of the time, and have less faith in clocks

The difference is, before the internet you had one or two or three clocks, and they were off by a minute or two.

With the internet, there are seven million clocks, and some show the time for days and places that don't exist.
Yes, this is what I've seen too. Basically if the person's individual wikipedia page has a category at the bottom like "People from X city", then they will be included in the rankings for the city. So it leaves out a bunch of people who were missing that tag.

It would be cool if they could also include the "Notable People" for each city in this ranking in the future.
> A) Want to use unsigned addons to play around, or tweak your existing ones[1]? Nope, even if you allow them in about:config, you can't; you have to use a special development version and update it separately.

Signatures were mandated for add-ons because there was a plague of malware (or near-malware, such as third party anti-virus software) silently installing add-ons that broke Firefox in various ways. If the end-user could disable that requirement then the malware could do that too. The only way for Mozilla to address the issue was to hard-code the signature requirements. I don't think asking power-users to use Nightly/"unbranded" versions of Firefox to load unsigned extensions is something you should count against them.
Reverse Engineering of a Not-So-Secure IoT Device
That's cute, but I develop software in the real world and I am beholden to both market forces and my clients' wishes.
I am 100% on board with this sentiment. We are already exclusively using SQLite to back our B2B application and it has absolutely zero issues even under heavy workloads. I would say its easily faster (especially in terms of request latency) than the SQL Server instance we previously-utilized for the same purpose. WAL is an absolute must if you are dealing with any sort of concurrency. As long as you can satisfy the following constraints, I see zero reason to use anything other than SQLite:

- Only one process will ever own the authoritative copy of the database at a time.

- You don't have any near-term plans to cluster or otherwise go wide on your persistence layer across multiple processes. Keeping in mind that even if you do need to do this, it shouldn't be a huge deal to import your SQLite files into something that natively supports clustering like Postgres, or use some partitioning strategy that can distribute SQLite databases across multiple nodes.

I feel like a lot of misinformation has been put forth that would make SQLite seem unacceptable for larger-scale concurrent business applications, but every benchmark I've personally ran against SQLite makes every other database engine look like a joke (within the constraints laid out above; obviously a 30 node Postgres cluster is going to destroy a single instance of SQLite). You just need to understand a few magic PRAGMAs to get things up and running (journal mode = WAL), because it certainly isn't capable of any of this directly out of the box.

I don't know about the 'anger' aspect of it, but I certainly feel dejected by the current approach that most take regarding business object persistence. SQLite feels like a way to sidestep an entire universe of non-value-add concerns (creating a separate sql instance, networking, security, configuration, policy, etc).

In terms of management, SQLite absolutely cannot be beaten. It is literally as easy as copying any other file when performing backups or restores. You need to be a little careful with the .WAL and .SHM files, but nothing that can't be managed with a few lines of script in a cron job.
> slog through webkit

Isn't surf based on WebKit?
The flatness might be going on 40 years now. People were saying 30 years like 10 years ago.
I actually find Google to be quite good here - if it detects something suspicious, such as login from a different browser or location, it will prompt you for another authentication factor, such as an SMS one-time code, or 2FA if you have it enabled.

I would add that if you haven't already enabled 2FA, you should.
Why once a week? Leave it plugged in, you get more granular recent backups, and don’t have to remember to plug it in.
Not the most active sub but useful:

https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/
I suspect it does too, but probably for different reasons.

Criticism of "thought leaders" like these guys only strengthens the hold they have among the legions of young people who follow their words like gospel.

Any criticism of these figures for their platitude-heavy content and huckster-style marketing must also be a criticism of their followers as individuals, because they have bought into that mindset wholesale.
If you take as gospel every public corporation's PR materials, you should get in touch with Herbalife; I'm sure they'd love to sell you on a garage full of overpriced placebos.
> So you're arguing that at some point in the future, nobody will give even the slightest credence to amateur footage captured on camera phones

I think that's the end goal of all the "deep fake" hysteria we're being primed with. In the future if some damning video of a politician or other elite member of society pops up the defense will simply be "well you can't rule out that it's a fake, look, it's not signed and it's not in our database of trusted videos!"
Here is the link to Klipse on github: https://github.com/viebel/klipse
Klipse is a Javacript plugin for embedding interactive code snippets in tech blogs.
And here is a link to my blog where I make an extensive usage of Klipse to embed interactive code snippets into my articles.
I agree with you, but it may very will be that Chinese manufacturing is over-represented in the high-volume consumer-goods sector.

The US/Japan/Germany may have proportionally more of their output in low-volume but massively expensive products, many of which may have little direct consumer exposure.
> According to them, a view from a Youtube Premium user nets them 36x more money than a view from an Ad viewing user.

So we are overpriced 36 times for the privilege of not viewing ads ?
Barrier to entry was raised significantly. You have to partner with someone to make it work, as an individual. Helm looks expensive but interesting.
Save aggressively, invest in index funds, and watch your money grow passively.
My profile disappeared, replaced wholesale. I use Tab Session Manager to automatically backup profiles and Mozilla figured out a way to delete those, too.
My location history showed me as being on the strip in Las Vegas for 40 minutes while I was at google's Next conference in SF this year, which i found to be interesting. As far as I can tell my phone must have registered an SSID that caused google to think i was in Vegas. My history no longer shows this, but i did save some screen caps.

https://imgur.com/a/eNBP5t7
I don't think it's possible to do revocation in a stateless manner. The token that you are revoking was once valid, and when you decide to invalidate it, this change of state needs to be persisted somewhere. But yeah, if revocation is rare and only few tokens are invalid at any given time (which can be easy by adding an expiry field to tokens), keeping a revocation list is the way to go.
That’s made obvious by Steve Jobs having an oversized presence on the map in Portland, Oregon... having only gone to college there briefly, before dropping out, and having no other connection to the city. He was more like a visitor than a resident.
I knew about the activity stuff linked to here, but I've never come across this before... got to say I'm not a fan.
Speaking only of intelligence modification.

Everyone seems to be making a leap from high IQ --> dominating the world. Sure, your average world leader is probably has a higher IQ, on average, than her constituents. But this relationship is not causal, nor is it reversible. Simply making babies "smarter" is not going to result in them ruling the world in a few years and causing massive generational strife. If you'd like examples, I recommend checking out a MENSA meeting (Kidding, there's some perfectly nice people there). But the point still stands -- social standing, zip code, parental achievement, and even height are all important factors in success; intelligence is only one facet of a successful individual.

This is, of course, assuming that we can freely increase intelligence with no repercussions -- are these high IQ individuals at risk of [schizophrenia](http://www.schizophrenia.com/sznews/archives/000607.html), or other mental disease?

I would also like to point out that the biggest real gains will come to those who move first. You can't be 5 sigma out when everyone else has the same gene modifications as you.
Save aggressively, invest in index funds. This is by far the most reliable, simple, profitable strategy you can implement.