skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Yet living standards aren't improving
>There's a housing bubble in virtually every major city of Europe

The former stems from the later, and from the lags inherent to markets.

Wage adjustments lag behind employment numbers. Right now while the employment numbers are increasing, there is still quite a bit of 'slack' (unemployed and underemployed people) that can be, and indeed is getting, picked up. Thus we still don't have significant wage increases.

Living standard change lag behind wages changes. Once the wages start significantly increasing, people will go ahead and spend on that one or three things they always wanted to, but couldn't previously afford. And the list is way longer than just the usual consumer goods: investment, savings, healthcare, vacations&leisure, shopping around for better job. Housing market is a great example: there's major imbalance between supply and demand, and it will take a few decades to significantly improve[1], due to both changing populations and building out. The prices will go up even higher before the correction comes.

[1] it will significantly improve in a few decades, barring some heavy-handed governmental interventions.
That's been my experience with sinatra and padrino as well.

The promise of a lean app with rails' ecosystem is too good to be true, and it is. It's so much easier to just start with rails from the beginning instead of slowly adding things piecemeal.

I still like sinatra and flask but they have one purpose: very very simple webapis, that's it. Nothing even remotely as complex as user sessions or forms.

I've been playing with Pheonix/Elixir here and there but I've never sat down and written a full app in it. I guess that's the future ultimately, at least for larger companies that need that performance.
See my other response in this thread.

This is all very fuzzy, I was asking for concrete examples of this fake news monopoly.

Here are good counter-examples: the incessant libeling against the royalty at the time of the French revolution [1], or the distortion and propaganda surrounding the Boston massacre to taint the British monarchy [2]. Not saying this was morally right or wrong, but it contrasts with the assertion of parent poster.

[1] https://alphahistory.com/frenchrevolution/libelles/

[2] https://theamericanscholar.org/black-lives-and-the-boston-ma...
Riders can self-select into a protected class, maybe?

This will of course lead to a situation where some hooligans opt into a protected class just to mess with the system. Even still, on large number of rides it will even out.
Qt isn't using native elements, and their mobile support is usable but not really great either (and doesn't appear to be a current priority, which makes a mobile-only project potentially more attractive). I'm not sure I'd use it if I didn't have existing Qt experience or even code to reuse.
In what other industry is the customer responsible for the company’s business model?

I choose who deserves my attention carefully. Internet ads have not earned it.
I'm sorry, but you're not thinking this through. Being able to prove that a video file is the unaltered output of a particular camera is in no way a useful protection against fake videos. Proving that file A is genuine tells us nothing about whether file B is fake.

Let's say I want to create and circulate a fake sex tape featuring a senior politician. In a world where signed sensors are common but not mandatory, the absence of a signature says nothing at all about the integrity of my video - there are still millions of cameras in the world that produce unsigned files. In a world where they are mandatory, I can simply fake the video in software and then re-record it using a high-resolution display and a signed sensor. A digital video expert might be able to prove that such a re-recording process took place, but I highly doubt that they'd be able to say so with any degree of confidence if there's a bunch of sensor noise and a couple of rounds of low-bitrate transcoding.

Signed sensors won't do anything to undermine the credibility of fake videos, but they may have the opposite effect if they're hacked - I can "prove" that my deepfake is genuine, because I've extracted a signing key or injected a bitstream into a camera module.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2018/09/09/why-dig...
So how do you know how much to charge? Do you relate it to AdSense's cost plus Google's profit or you follow some other practice?
Looks like you are making the classic confusion between Magic Leap and Leap Motion. Leap Motion is finger tracking.
That sounds about right. You don't pick up vim for a shopping list. You pick it up because you're a programmer.
1. That's a big "(maybe)".

2. The other option does already exist, and that can't be ignored or erased.

3. The second group wins out because most people clearly see that technology isn't the limiting factor in human happiness.
What's there to fix?
Boden author here, a bit overwhelmed by the feedback. We are in the process of releasing a new version that will change the license to LGPL / Commercial.
I use Firefox with NoScript and found that leaving most domains disabled by default eliminates nearly all ads. I have to fiddle with enabling a few domains on a new site, but if the site is one of those where it uses a million 3rd-party "X as a service" domains, I just leave.

This is the reason I quit using DigitalOcean: every page on their web site required me to enable 5 new domains in NoScript. Other VPS providers just required 1 or 2 enabled.

Or, if the site is coded so that it only works after enabling ad-looking domains, I leave. Vote with your feet folks.
A Taxonomy of Information Warfare
If you qualify for a security clearance then you will qualify for jobs which require a security clearance. This means that you are basically recession proof. You will be competing (if that's an applicable word) against a smaller pool of applicants in a market (if that's an applicable word) which is protected by the full faith and credit of the US government.

https://www.clearancejobs.com/
> So the real question isn't "how was the ride", it's "do I want to fuck with this person's livelihood." If the answer is no, there's no reason not to give 5 stars.

If that's the actual game that Uber & Lyft expect people to be playing (as it appears that it is), then screw that. I'm not going to be using the services at all.
> Yeah, I do think it's very difficult to build a profile of a user that automatically clear cookies when closing a tab and often change IP

Your browser leaks a lot more information than just cookies and IP.... canvas fingerprinting for example is particularly pernicious. Check this [1] for a demo of the known leaks (there are probably more that aren't in this project yet)

[1] https://panopticlick.eff.org/
> I'm curious about your comment about the migration from smaller towns - this isn't something I've heard about in the US

The percentage of Americans living in rural counties has been shrinking. Gains are mostly in the suburbs:

https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2018/05/22/demographic-and-e...
> (“there’s an election soon” ads, “we’re building a new piece of civil infrastructure” ads, etc.) I actually kind of like that; I don’t have cable, so it’s not like I would see them anywhere else.

I don't have cable, either, but I do have a pair of rabbit ears to keep up with local news via OTA broadcasts.
Most of the blogs and content aggregation sites shrivel up and die. A bunch of pay walls go up around the good content ppl would actually pay for. There's less crap on the internet because there's less spying to make the crap profitable. Everyone claps.
as an aside i always find it amusing that agitating for removing freedom from people based on religion, ethnicity or sex is somehow considered an enshrined freedom
The difference across a decade is somewhat negligible. But just in the last few years we've gotten gay marriage, marijuana is getting legalized, crime reform, HIV treatment is becoming widely available... Humans have a tendency to focus on the one or two things that might be worse for them, but over all life is better in almost every way you can think of. Every year is better than the last.
Certainly. And here I am, pointing at some speech and saying "that's bad."
I'm just a young punk, but isn't it cyclical?

- Youth Makes money in city

- Grows tired of city and wants space, moves out of city

- Starts family

- Needs supporting culture/services outside of city

- Small town grows

- Small town can't grow bigger due to geo/resources/politics

- Economic opportunity in town shrinks

- Child seeks city to make money
Gas pipelines use the product itself to fuel compression. There doesn't seem to be anything small enough to justify aggregating at the well head and compressing in situ using the fuel to compress itself.

For example I see this but it's still quite large.
https://www.wartsila.com/marine/build/gas-solutions/lng-solu...
>Have you ever tried this?

Yes. It used to be the industry standard method for recording TV programmes prior to the invention of videotape recorders. If you know what you're doing and use the right equipment, the generational quality loss is very minor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinescope
> What other behaviors are you thinking of that should be protected against easy searching but which are still publicly visible?

Things like my physical location, what I'm buying at the store, what medications I'm using, and so forth. Honestly, the list is extremely long.
I use ESXi and one of the VMs is pfSense. pfSense has an additional software package called pfBlocker, which is highly configurable and just plan awesome for blockings ads/trackers/etc for the LAN. pfSense has tons of other options - I setup a vLAN and all of my IoT devices are segregated onto it. That way they can't interact with the rest of the devices on the LAN.
I don't think colonization is a sufficient explanation. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_Ottoman_Empire#...:

"Circassian girls were described as fair and light-skinned and were frequently enslaved by Crimean Tatars then sold to Ottoman empire to live and serve in a Harem. They were the most expensive, reaching up to 500 pounds sterling, and the most popular with the Turks."

Here the Turks were doing the colonizing, so it can't be said that these preferences were somehow imposed on them by a colonizer.
The recordings of my voice here from google home are rather scary.

There's a good second or two of recording time before I say the words "Hey, Google"... which means it's just always recording?!

I know practically speaking I should have known this, but I somehow assumed that nothing was being recorded until after the trigger word.
It wouldn't, but it is a pretty big hurdle to stage a whole thing for an actual camera.

What you describe has always been possible, but it seems rare.
I strongly believe this will not reduce gun violence. I also concede that it is impossible to measure.

I think their CRM software (and other software) is about as integral to the sale of a gun as the Doritos for sale in the gun retailer's company canteen. If Frito-Lay came out and said "we will no longer sell snack products to gun retailers" would you applaud them?
Saw it on twitter [1] where they ask for help to create more characters. The comments on that thread also provide more information

[1] https://twitter.com/sanand0/status/1120887415319691264
Magic Leap != LeapMotion
It probably depends on a lot on the region within the UK - towns in ex-industrial areas might be shrinking but those within commuting distance of a city or in areas with particularly high quality of life and good communication links seem to be thriving - Inverness and Aviemore being in the latter category.

I live near a small town on the Fife coast directly across from Edinburgh and all of the neighbouring coastal towns seem to be doing well - the ex-mining towns 10km away not so much. Main constraint on development being local planning authorities rather than demand.

This article mentions the growth of Aviemore (very much a centre for outdoor activities) but also the decline of some other more out of the way towns:

https://www.strathspey-herald.co.uk/news/aviemore-hailed-as-...
> Over time, there's a larger exodus of regular people, leaving only the crazies talking to each other.

That's how it's supposed to work. At the end of the day, there's a nonzero amount of people who believe this nonsense, and reaching them is a different set of problems (Education? Therapy?) but getting the vast majority to abandon it is sufficient.
I mean, it's their right, but for the reasons I pointed out, it comes off as foolish to me. Like that they are taking a stance against something completely arbitrary. Just my .02.
Survivorship bias? By definition, you are not likely to meet all the kids who failed miserably with homeschooling. Instead, you are more likely to interact socially or at work with the ones that did great. Therefore, your observation is likely to be biased.
The target audience seems very small. There’s lots of C# shops (Xamarin), and lots of JavaScript shops (React Native, Titanium), but few C++ shops that’d benefit from developing apps.

Maybe I’m wrong but the niche seems too small to be sustainable.
Github: https://github.com/lucee/Lucee
So you're saying, by redistributing wealth from only 73k people, everybody in the country would get almost $30,000?

That's... that's a lot. And that's only from the top 0.02%.
> Outside the city, populations are decaying year after year, and the only chances of benefiting from global economic trends are in the city.

We keep expecting the internet to change this, and it keeps not happening. Why doesn't it? Why haven't remote workers or remote teams spread into the smaller towns and countryside?
Breaking Out of Rkt Containers – 3 New Unpatched CVEs
Close, except there should be no need for dating apps. When it is time to increase the herd, your Provider should select a mate for you.
Not really. Technically firms like Blackrock do offer quant funds for normal people, which are, in theory, run like a hedge fund and use quant hedge fund type strategies.

In reality, these have no consistent record of outperforming index funds after fees. Many of the more boutique strategies are too small for them, as they are running billions of dollars.
>Cloudflare claims that they don't keep logs

Emphasis on 'claims', sadly we have no way of verifying that they don't actually keep logs.
Why do you configure from ground up? Don't you have your home directory in a separate partition? I keep it around and reuse it in case I have to upgrade the whole system. When you install most of your configuration into user space (except things like ssl and third party repos) it becomes easier to recover from a full system upgrade. Worked for me past 10 years.
I tried to find some remotely interesting content on that site, all I found was boomer political rambling and bile.

If they do this, I'll be making sure I blacklist their instances. While there are plenty of free-speech oriented or even right wing mastodon instances, the signal to noise ratio on these is pretty good and there is actually content worth engaging with.
If you switch between jobs once every five years, then 20% of the time you've been at your current job for under a year. That's what that 20% measures—not people who left in under a year, but people who left within the last year (which is easier to measure). If that rate goes up, people must be switching jobs more often; if it goes down, people must be switching less.
She Thought She’d Married a Rich Chinese Farmer. She Hadn’t
Great work, I've added it to my belt of solutions. Now I just need the right problem to use it!

It's interesting that knowing this product I was curious to follow the link to the parent (at https://gramener.com/ ) and now I know another company.
Government employees got back pay, so as long as they're financially stable to start with they experienced no lasting consequences as a result of the shutdown. (Unfortunately the same isn't true for government contractors who were unable to work due to the shutdown.) The last shutdown was also a historically unprecedented event. While shutdowns had occurred before, they were never on the scale of the latest one.
I believe the device is always listening for the keyword (all done locally), and likely has a buffer of the last few seconds within the device at all times. Then when the keyword is triggered, it starts to capture and relay the request to Google.
It didn't appear then, but it became a grave concern at that point. Meanwhile conspiracy theories have existed for ever. Pizzagate is nuts, but so is belief in reptilian aliens controlling governments, etc.

The energy to contain these stories escalated dramatically, with Zuckerberg being dragged in front of Congress, etc., after Trump's election.

Meanwhile the biggest "fake news" item of the past few years was Russiagate, which escaped your list along with widespread condemnation from establishment media.

I don't suggest that Pizzagate, etc., are true, merely that the sudden alarm about them is a symptom of elite anxiety.

By the way, i am not a Republican and am not parroting anything. Please don't poison the well. Just make your argument.
That won't happen because the constant alarmism about censorship is part of the appeal. "Your rights are being violated by the Hollywood/feminists/liberal elites! Send me money so I can tell you how to combat this scourge with Logic & Reason (TM)"

People like J Peterson and Sargon could deal with being deplatformed in the way they preach to their disciples, but instead they whine about it while shaking their e-collection boxes.
Is this the one you’re referring to? (The content matches your description, but it’s more of an interview.) The professor (Zhou Xiaozheng) is a famous for being extremely outspoken about the Tiananmen incident, even when he was in China (he lives in the US now). I am not aware of any translations, unfortunately.

https://youtu.be/xQM2ICCD94E
The reason fake news can still propagate, is because we have no "Vouching" system, by which a citizen can vouch for a piece of information -or even another citizen/organisation.

Where there inheritance of trust, and one weak link in this chain, the social media plattforms would be very quiet.

Advertising - beyond local, would not be seen. Seeing all content equally, would be a active choice against this model.

The truth is, we could return to this medieval world, where the wise men vouch for information given, or proofs of work vouch for the information, or publishers pay you a cent for reading.

But the powers that be would be undone by this. Thus it will not happen, unless integrated sneakily into a add blocker.
Yes. There have been a few "linux phone" projects, including the ubuntu phone. I too want an open phone onto which I can install a variety of operating systems and would pay serious money for such a device. Sadly, no such product exists atm.

If anyone is listening: I could not care less about instagram or reddit's app. Forget the app store ecosystem junk. Just give me a phone that can make calls and runs a basic web browser. I'd like an alarm clock, and a map/navigation service might be nice, but those aren't deal breakers.
I mean, I agree, I think it would make more sense to repeal the Second Amendment, and then ban all autoloading firearms and all handguns, similar to what many other nations have done. I don't think it makes sense to go after guns based on aesthetics.

However, when people do, it doesn't make sense to quibble with the terminology used when that terminology is actually accurate.
Are you saying you want EU users blocked from HN? Lots of sites have done that, but I think EU users find the blocks annoying.
I'm running a pfsense setup with cloudflare as my DNS (DNS-over-TLS, in specific). As soon as I had the rpi in the middle, it jacked up resolution times like crazy (rpi was set to use my SG as its DNS, so <clients>->rpi->pfsense->1.1.1.1

It's good to know you guys haven't been having problems; I thought everyone was just fucking nuts or something, but no; local problem. Sigh.
Just tested Google 2FA login with a Solokey. Works perfectly. https://solokeys.com
Some of the posts that I liked:

* Her: https://scifiinterfaces.com/2014/02/11/her-interface-compone...

* Enterprise combadge: https://scifiinterfaces.com/2014/01/23/the-wearble-combadge/...

* Ironman HUD: https://scifiinterfaces.com/2015/07/01/iron-man-hud-a-breakd...
It's obviously always listening since it has to respond to the trigger word. I assume that it's got a little buffer, and when it detects the trigger word it uploads the spoken text plus a little buffer of time before the trigger word was spoken.
Ignoring internet access issues in rural areas,
What is there to do in your free time in smaller towns and the countryside?

That's the reason.
I'm (still, despite the downvoting) suggesting one which I believe to offer a better route to gain experience, then the other which it seems everyone agrees generally pays better but perhaps more so in experienced roles.
Can China Refactor Western IT?
If current trade disputes cut off China from Western tech, then China may be free to pursue IT standards and designs for internal use that are only partially interoperable with Western IT. Further, China may need designs that more efficiently use domestic chips and do not require as advanced semiconductor manufacturing processes. One way to achieve these goals may be to "refactor" Western IT.

The design of current Western IT is governed by a plethora of standards, both official standards from IETF, IEEE, ITU, ISO..., as well as unofficial standards set by dominant manufacturers and associations.

The complexity of standards grew over 4 decades because researchers want their contributions included, manufacturers want their patent positions protected, incumbents want their investments protected, and new entrants want extensions for differentiation. The complexity of unofficial standards grows because of multiple competitors in the same market, avoidance of patents, and backward compatibility to protect market positions. Besides the variety of standard venues, there is the inevitable commercial, political and interpersonal relationship issues that are settled by adopting compromises.

China, with less IT history and a large market, may be in a good position to analyse and extract a small subset of Western IT standards for internal adoption.

The West has coped with complexity by making very fast processors using advanced processes and implementing the complexity in software. With less complexity it may be possible to move more functionality into ASICs made by less advanced processes and achieve the same end user services results using less infrastructure and energy.

China may have an opportuntity to remove the cruft of compromise and the baggage of backward compatibility, and to refactor Western IT into a better system.
could setup a small firewall (pfSense) that routes all DNS queries from connected devices to your own DNS server.
Grover – state-of-the-art detector/generator for Neural Fake News
My general sense is that high quality software always wins in the long run. I'd argue that is the primary reason Google has rapidly gained share in markets traditionally dominated by Microsoft and other enterprise software companies -- Google's software is noticeably better.

As with most things, you get what you pay for.
It’s a bit more pernicious than a single clock that’s off.

It’s a group of clocks claiming time is significantly off and that the “other clock group” is the wrong bunch.

That gets very convincing quickly.
> Not to mention capitalism is an umbrella term with many variants making it a works claim.

That's part of the strength of Capitalism: You can tweak it, modify the regulatory regime, and it's still Capitalism. You don't need a revolution to modify some deep theory in order to improve how you regulate a Capitalist economy, or to adopt some ideas from the Socialist platform, like you would to modify a specific Socialist ideology.