skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, a variety of things. Owning stocks, investing in the market, preparing for a downturn, and who is doing the things I care about legislatively, including who is representing my desires as a citizen so I can vote informedly.
Shit, I pre-emptively banned gab.com and gab.ai on my Mastodon instance and they ain't even up yet.
We could say the same thing about news sites themselves.

If we allow our news to be unverified, surely we can allow unverified opinions of the news makers themselves to stand.
What you’re proposing sure sounds like a logical fallacy to me. It sounds like you’re accusing others of having the following thoughts:

1. Trump supporters are fascists

2. I don’t like fascists

3. Trumps supports are overwhelmingly white

4. Therefore I don’t like white people because they’re fascists.

This is the fallacy of the undistributed middle.
One benefit would be to reduce dependency on Google. Huawei used Android that was owned by enemy country, it backfired.
It depends on what you mean by "escape Google". You can certainly stop your machines from talking to Google servers, and you can certainly not use Google services. You can even use Android without Google hearing a peep from your device. That all takes work, though.

You can't do much about Google's real-world spying, though, such as their use of credit/debit card usage and so forth.
Wouldn't that tend to push up the cost of the bank transfer though?

With cash you wouldn't even need to do this kind of transfer anyway, partly because of all the things you mention.
I imagine it might be similar to https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditSimulator/

I'm with you. The result would either horrify, or be hilarious
Do you think that Microsoft is just doing it out of the goodness of their hearts?
And that Open Source, but especially Libre Software, is going to be compatible with whatever they have in mind ?
Yes. GeckoView is Android-only. GeckoView is currently used in Firefox Focus, Firefox Reality VR, the upcoming "Fenix" browser, some Mozilla test apps, and a couple third-party apps.
By disable, do you mean "pause"? Is there any third-party verification that they aren't storing this data? Are they just not associating it with my account at this time?
I'm very happy with the liberty/access aspect of it, but it's much more relevant for small transfers. People moving this amount of money already have access, unless they're a drug lord or from a sanctioned country (and ofc they have their ways, too, shoutout to HSBC, Wachovia, DB, etc)
But it's possible to avoid the vast majority of it.
Text Outlining and Task Management for Vim Based on Emacs' Org-Mode
There was a time when browsers did not have built-in media players.

Seems like ffmpeg libraries, developed outside of the web browser, support nearly all video formats a user could encounter on the internet.

Also, the part of the statement that reads "your new browser won't work with most internet video" is intriguing.

Can we define "most internet video" as Amazon Video, BBC, Hulu, Netflix and Spotify? (Widevine users listed on its Wikipedia page)

Seems like there is much, much more video on the internet that does not come from those sources.
So $124.60 more than the cost of a wire. Wow, BTC is sooo efficient.
Steven Pinker is selling Reason™, not reason…
They were criticising developers who worked on Gab, not just some specific piece of content, presumably with the aim of removing Gab as a platform.
How would you know that? My base assumption is to think there’s a possibility that it’s still being tracked in some way.
She's a B-list movie star who does some indie stuff.

* She was in two of the Twilight films.

* Pitch Perfect (trilogy).

* Mr. Right. The Accountant. (hitmen with a heart of gold movies).

* A Simple Favor. (stepford wife mystery).

* Drinking Buddies (a brewery drama, it's great)

* Scott Pilgrim vs The World
I find the amount of people making excuses for apple more interesting than the actual fire itself. It seems like there is quite a bit of apple worshiping going on in /r/apple
Nobody said you can't mention things. You need to drop fiery rhetoric, denunciation, and other weapons of ideological battle when posting here.
Is this due to some special technology or implementation details they used, or just the current going rate of getting your bitcoin transactions confirmed?
The article mentions the person transferring $212 million for just $3.93.
Oops ;-)

Well... I have that one, too... Chromecast.
Framing the Problem: Cyber Threats and Elections
1) is a known bug. The fix is to switch to 3 finger back swipe in trackpad settings. Back becomes instant.
I absolutely agree with this point but I think it's terrifying - rather than a reassurance. In modern society our "truth" is becoming partitioned into tribal groups with topics as extreme as the curvature of the earth and efficacy of vaccines being suddenly up for debate. If someone like Alex Jones were to publish a video where the Clintons discuss making the frogs gay then his audience - a decent portion of which trust him as a journalistic source - would be able to confirm that this highly edited video has been verified true by Alex Jones.

Audio and video were sort of aberrant in fact that they could still generally be accepted at face value (as compared to quotes and attributions) and we're very quickly losing that stability.
I actually did try to diversity my information inputs, but I am not one for YouTube or podcasts (cognitive weirdnesses with human voice comprehension). I also tried to diversity the angles of which I read things, but I couldn't read Fox News anymore after their website had a gif of someone getting hit by a car on their front page.
Creating a mass surveillance apparatus seems harmless right up until the wrong kind of government takes power. Then it suddenly becomes a lethal tool of oppression.
Don't forget the total costs of running Bitcoin software:

Bitcoin's current estimated annual electricity consumption* (TWh) 63.23

Bitcoin's current minimum annual electricity consumption (TWh) 38.25

Annualized global mining revenues $6,705,703,327

Annualized estimated global mining costs $3,161,647,973

Current cost percentage 47.15%

Country closest to Bitcoin in terms of electricity consumption Switzerland

Estimated electricity used over the previous day (KWh) 173,240,985

Implied Watts per GH/s 0.125

Total Network Hashrate in PH/s (1,000,000 GH/s) 57,577

Electricity consumed per transaction (KWh) 465

Number of U.S. households that could be powered by Bitcoin 5,854,904

Number of U.S. households powered for 1 day by the electricity consumed for a single transaction 15.7

Bitcoin's electricity consumption as a percentage of the world's electricity consumption 0.28%

Annual carbon footprint (kt of CO2) 30,036

Carbon footprint per transaction (kg of CO2) 220.7

Source:
https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption
Ironically, this should be a great gateway for Microsoft to heavily invest in a completely open browser. It would ruin Google's decade long plan.
I was going to say something similar, but I think that response is going too far.

If it's only "free" by virtue of the bank absorbing the costs to suck up to big clients, that's not much of a boast either. What's the comparable internal cost borne to process such transactions?

And I assume bigger transactions in the regular financial system do take more documentation and have to adhere to more safeguards, which, to correctly account for, you'd amortize over the cost of each transaction.
can anyone please explain how BASH history on current Ubuntu, is different when logging in from different desktop machines, to the same login ? the dot-local directory or dot-gconf directory is part of this ? consternation..
On the plus side, we now have another large player working on Chromium, which may help prevent Google from forcing design decisions which benefit them alone.
My favorite features of Firefox is bookmarks tags, which IMO is way better than directories to categorize them.

I hope Mozilla won't deprecate those..
this made me laugh out loud, thank you.
MapR may cut 122 jobs and close Silicon Valley headquarters
I glued fzf and vimwiki together to do something very similar. If you have both of those tools installed, you can use a mapping like this:

nmap <Leader>wp :Files ~/git/vimwiki/<CR>

so that you're just a couple of keystrokes away from fuzzy finding any entry in your vimwiki.
Been experimenting with similar stuff in Lua: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQUq2INrdiU
SaaS Startup Explains What They Do Just from the Top of Their Page
Converting and Preserving Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book
Deep Mind AI Beats a Multiplayer 3D Video Game
No, the NRL developed Tor.
I was kinda surprised by the Los Alamos result. I was expecting Oppenheimer, instead it was some guy named Drew Goddard.
"- then rinse and repeat, building an internal model of trustworthiness for different sources and update those models as the trustworthiness of those different sources change over time."

Are there not news verification products out there that I can use instead? I'm not a journalist. I don't have the education to find very specific claims sources that aren't other news articles. eg. Where am I supposed to go hunting for an exact quote stated by a politician on video except from another news cast recording the event?
See Gwen Stefani from both Anaheim and Fullerton, California. She grew up in fullerton but famously got neighbors agitated from her own rental in Anaheim. Perfecting "I'm just a girl" out of her garage took a long time.
App stores and various middlemen like Uber getting a cut funded a lot of tech innovations and SV fortunes, I wouldn't say low fees are absolutely best.
In this case though, the fees are mostly spent on electricity and are rather large for a single transfer.
I work in QA and don't like the reduced focus on quality (selfishly, because I've got the skillset to get paid by assuring quality).

The article shows a graph that indicates that, over the long term, teams that attack cruft or spend time reducing it make a better product with more features.

To be cynical though, who cares? Who cares about the long term? Your goal as a startup is to crank out features fast enough to keep ahead of the competition and do so long enough to get bought out, IPO, or otherwise exit with a wheelbarrow of cash. Then the cruft is someone else's problem.

We're not exactly in a "long term focused environment". We're over here moving fast and breaking things. Bugs on production are fine, we'll just do a hotfix and then thank everyone for staying late and being rockstars.

Hell, half the S-1 documents I've seen flat-out state "we're losing a billion USD per year, our operating costs are definitely going up in the future; we may never be profitable" but it doesn't seem to matter one bit. "We're going to get big enough to raise our margins!" Neat, enter a scrappy competitor using vc funds to subsidize their overhead, undercutting you with the same business model you started with. That's not long term thinking.

Yes there are better ways to produce higher quality software, but who cares?
I don't think it would be hard to make an Electron Netflix app if one doesn't already exist.
It makes no different. The data is still logged.
Confusing funding with subsidies is a very disingenuous mistake. Whoever thought of this nonsense was desperate to sell the idea that somehow rideshare services were less efficient than incumbent taxi services, which flies on the face of reality.

In fact, whoever came up with this nonsense is so distant from reality that he even failed to acknowledge that the main criticism that incumbent taxi services direct at rideshare services is that rideshare companies have a lower operational cost due to lack of expenses such as purchasing medallions.
There's no region blocking being forced on this poor site by anybody. The site is choosing this absurd behavior itself.

And that's fine and all. But unless HN aims to be local-interest only, pretty please don't bother me with junk like this. At least redirect me to some nice rick astley, so I can appreciate the sad joke.
Or VIG, Vanguard's dividend appreciation fund. Cheap, high dividend returns, stable underlying companies.
Azure's HDInsight all-in-one suite uses it.
I believe the Time Machine extension was deprecated due to an exploit that caused irreversible time paradoxes. You might want to remove it.
> If we link this up with the fact that the majority of white Americans are Trump supporters, it's hard to escape the conclusion that people are basically calling for persecution of white people.

1. X is bad and deserves punishment.

2. The majority of Y are X.

1 & 2 together do not imply: Y are bad and should be punished.
Can Safari play webm files in the browser? Never works for me.
Agreed and I'm not the type to be like "well I've got nothing to hide" but the reality is email is a requirement for modern life and I'm guessing nation states can intercept my plaintext mail in places besides the servers of my mail provider so...
I like that meta-dataset. Actual source (newsletters) is at: https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural

I even used it itself as well as one of mentioned datasets (puppies! kittens!) to explain Apache Solr search engine features at the ApacheCon 2018.

So, if you want to play with it, you may find my presentation useful: https://www.slideshare.net/arafalov/from-content-to-search-s...

Examples:
* Slide 45: how to find entries with maximum links
* Slide 59: merle puppy!

Matching github repo is: https://github.com/arafalov/solr-apachecon2018-presentation (including the final configuration, if you are not into learning Solr step by step)

I also have an idea of taking datasets from there one by one and doing series of blog posts of how to actually get them into Apache Solr showcase advanced search functions. But it is a lot of effort to prepare and I am not sure how many people would actually find it interesting.
Samsung will strip the Galaxy Note of its headphone jack and buttons
My new Pixel tracks songs that I've "listened to".

I saw a few odd ones that I had never heard of was sure I didn't listened to.

Until I realized ... it identified and logged songs in a movie my kids watched on a rainy day recently.
Travel Agents vs. Online Price Comparison Tool
I was recently in Asia and found lot of the air tickets are being booked by travel agents. Being in the US, the concept of travel agent for tickets seems archaic. But, going by customer needs, I thought it will be useful if one could post their travel details and send to all the travel agents in one click. So, quickly built this https://travelagentpricer.com, to trial the idea.
What do you think? Will it be useful?
> Technologists who say "I'm neutral, I just listen to the data/user/profits/shareholder/specification"

This is not being neutral - these are all justifications for changing user behavior based on the interests of the company.

The real answer is to separate dataset (aka community) from software (aka policy). Then every individual is better able to opt out of choices made for them, rather than the current state of outrage groups pushing companies to adopt their team's desired policies for everyone.
I for one like to have some protection from crypotolockers. And power surges.
I am sorry but you are invoking a strawman by claiming the article does a "think of the children" argument. This is one specific child in one specific case of narrowly avoiding harm. The example is one clear case of the technology not being ready, not being likewhat you describe it.
The phrase "virtue signalling" is made-up nonsense that has been utilized, primarily by far-right commentators, to denigrate and ridicule any opinion or action that runs counter to their world-view.

Most bafflingly, people who use the phrase seem oblivious to the fact that its mere application is in and of itself an example of the phrase.

People who use the phrase "virtue signalling" in almost every context should be treated with the same deference and respect that someone who uses the phrase "genetic terminator" is due when discussing vaccines.
| Can we define "most internet video" as Amazon Video, BBC, Hulu, Netflix and Spotify?

Maybe you could in terms of unique videos, but in terms of the volume of watched video, not at all. Netflix itself is responsible for something in the range of 15% of the worlds bandwidth usage.

Either way, it not going to win an end users to have something like that.
I'm, all for bitcoin, but articles like these are bullshit.

How many cryptography and bitcoin experts were consulted/hired to babysit this transaction, knowing that the smallest mistake could lead to total and irreversible loss of funds?

What was their compensation?
I see near the bottom they have instructions on adding your own characters. So... maybe you could do it? :)
But it's not limited to "white" nationalists.

They recently deplatformed infamous anti-semite and black nationalist Louis Farrakhan. And before anyone says this guy has always been a crank: he was actively being courted by Repulicans like Jack Kemp in the 1980s back when his anti-communist views were deemed politically useful.
Thanks, I wasn't aware they had finally produced source code with an open source license for the wrapper code. Still, I don't see anything on their Github about the servers that run the backend of their ad-serving and cryptomining services. Until I see otherwise I'll assume that is closed and proprietary and that all browsing activity is monitored, logged, and monetized per their advertising model.

https://www.reddit.com/r/brave_browser/comments/a2y9iv/is_br...
"Currently, add-on sync leaves setting synchronization to the individual add-on. If an add-on has support for syncing settings, they will be synced. If not, they won't. For now, if an add-on doesn't preserve settings during Sync, you should contact the add-on's author and request Sync support."

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Services/Sync/Addon_Sync
Britons increasingly fearful of internet risks, Ofcom research shows
Why does Facebook recommend friends I've never even met?
I'm referring to native malware abusing admin privileges to install extensions without the user's consent, not users deliberately installing malware extensions themselves. This was particularly bad in the XP/Vista era (I know I had to remove some rogue extensions from my relative's computers during that time). If the signature check were a flag the malware would just disable it at the same time it installed the extension (remember, it has admin privileges so no user interaction would be required).

Additionally, keep in mind that when the signature requirement was added there were still XUL/XPCOM extensions which could hook the browser much deeper than Chrome-style extensions and wreak much more havok.
You seem to be saying that an example of MS's evil is what they're doing to github. And what they're doing to github must be evil because they're MS.

That's just circular reasoning, you've going to have to provide some concrete argument.
PayPal is a nightmare but the reason is that banking and other innovation was so slow. Even if you don't like it, it still solved a massive problem in the internet, or at least made it more possible.

You can say PayPal is bad, but pretty much any company starting on that path run in many of the same issues.
Probably depends how you define most: by number of videos or bandwidth.
You don’t need to enroll in the developer program to run code on your own device anymore, only if you want to distribute through the App Store.
Birthplace would be interesting, but there’s plenty of famous/important people who are connected to a location other than their birthplace. Think sports stars who were on a team far away from their home.
Sounds cool. What are some example costs? Airtable is pretty basic software. An expert of it can only show you so much you can’t figure out fairly quickly or learn from someone who isn’t billing themselves an expert which I assume is more of a premium. Nonetheless this should speed things up considerably for a lot of software especially if money is worth a lot less than time.
This is interesting in large part as a demonstration of how bizarre/indefinite the idea of being "from" a place is. For instance, Cambridge, MA isn't headlined by a famous MIT/Harvard academic, or local political figure, or even Neil Gaiman- but instead by Bhumibol Adulyadej, the previous king of Thailand, who was born there while his father was studying at Harvard, and left at the age of 2. Meanwhile, Boston gets John Cena, who was born in a far-out suburb.
Widevine works with chromium just fine - by which I mean that like with everything chromium it gets broken without apparent reason every now and then, but after some time they fix it.
> 2) Do they not understand that wires are free for corporations and HNW individuals?"

They are also free for people living in countries with healthy banking systems (i.e. most EU countries)
HDInsite is built by hortonworks which was acquired by cloudera.
There was a post recently about some CS OG who stated at some point that print statements was all you needed and using a debugger was counter-productive to your understanding of the code.
I felt the same. Also feel that he put too much stuff in, as if wanting to make it run for as many pages as possible.
I really want to switch to Firefox. I don't need it to be better-performing than Chrome on my work PC or Safari on my home machine - I want to support free software. But Firefox's text just looks bad, like really bad. On both a retina Mac screen and 24" 1080p monitors on Windows at work, the fonts look pixelated and blurry, like there's something around the edges of the characters. Contrast seems off too, much lower than Chrome or Safari presents text, which makes it hard to read. PDFs in the browser are especially awful to look at. Has anyone else had this experience and found a fix?
In the 'Notes' sheet, it says we can create a copy of this Google Sheet, but I am having a hard time seeing the Menu to do that. Does anyone have success downloading this sheet into CSV or something? If so, I'd like to know how. Thank you.
> 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.

What makes you think that China won't be beholden to the same path-dependence as the West, given they're already dependent on the same standards and implementations?
He is not really like Jobs at all. Jobs created nice end user devices and that pretty much all he did. Other then some personal things people like to focus much of their process and goals are vastly different.
Cmd+nun on Mac :)
In the grand scheme of things, not that I think it would make that much of a difference, but how would the wealth of the middle class that are close to retirement be different if you counted the present value of annuities such as pension plans and even maybe social security?

I know my parents could afford to have a lot less “wealth” and be comfortable thanks to my mom’s pension as a public school employee.

On the other hand, how much worse off is the middle class now that private pensions are rapidly disappearing?
> classical definition of free speech is easily abusable

the classical definition of unfree speech is easily abusable, which is why free speech exists.

If an idea is bad, the best way to beat it is with better ideas.

Of course some bad ideas are good at spreading, or otherwise persuasive. But if you take the big picture view, the vast majority of really bad ideas and statements have been imposed centrally and have persisted by latching onto the levers of censorship and censoring all competing viewpoints.

The level of censorship and central control of information is already far too high in our world.
> The problem is that Twitter's definition of "nazis" basically is "anyone we don't like

No, it really isn't. It's a minority of people calling for violent white supremecy.