skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone should make a press transparency database/site. Keep it factual: list of a reporter’s previous articles and institutions; other affiliations; topics they have covered repeatedly; stakeholders/owners of the institutions; co-occurrence of the same phrases in contemporary articles by other reporters; timing of articles compared with others on the same story; etc.
That's more an argument to stop buying so much crap than it is an argument to buy a wasteful vehicle.
A new hot thing for streamers, are not?
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There is a flaw in their method.

Take for example Santa Fe, New Mexico. I expected the most Wikipediaed person would be George R. R. Martin.

Instead, it's Murray Gell-Mann.

Odd. I mean, yes, famous physicist, coiner of 'quark', etc. But, c'mon, compared to George R. R. Martin?

Then go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:People_from_Santa_Fe,... . While Gell-Mann is on that page, there are also seven subcategories.

- Actors from Santa Fe, New Mexico‎ (2 C, 16 P)
- Archbishops of Santa Fe‎ (12 P)
- Artists from Santa Fe, New Mexico‎ (78 P)
- Musicians from Santa Fe, New Mexico‎ (16 P)
- Politicians from Santa Fe, New Mexico‎ (1 C, 26 P)
- Sportspeople from Santa Fe, New Mexico‎ (11 P)
- Writers from Santa Fe, New Mexico‎

GRRM is in that last subcategory.

However, it appears to be an uncommon pattern. I tried another 15 or so cities and none of them used subcategories.
Not that I ever saw, not really. What's far more likely to happen is that if you screw up too hard (or potentially piss off the wrong person) you can fairly easily get your clearance burnt, and that can easily (and permanently) cut your IC career off at the knees.

How devastating that is depends entirely on your level of investment in your career in intelligence.
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Trust in bitcoin.

Theres nothing to back it, if we go all Mad Max you'd have a hard drive with some 1s and 0s.

I suppose if we went Mad Max there wouldn't be anything backing the other currencies either. You might be able to pay the barter town entry fees with hard currency, it being a convenient token and all.
I switched only a few weeks ago and am not looking back!
TBL? Can you extrapolate? I google it and its "The Basketball League". I just think your comment had the opportunity to continue to educate me on something I have never heard of or about and to throw in an acronym without having used the the 3 words before is confusing.
I once did an FOIA request and found I was being monitored by the NYPD for being a regular donor to the NYCLU.

Law /enforcement/ isn’t always bad, but mass surveillance of the general populace is.
FedEx offers at least two: one for individual consumers, and one for corporate partners where the FedEx logistics network is used for customer returns and sites colocated with logistics hubs are used for the actual repairs.

I don't know if the technicians who do the repairs are actual FedEx employees or if Apple uses the service, but it does exist.
It feels like that they just don't bother to understand and use any rumor as means to claim victory over the store's death.
You don't "build" Widevine. Google distributes a binary (libwidevinecdm.so) which implements a standard API that works with both Chrome and Chromium. The "master" DRM secret key is obfuscated and distributed in libwidevinecdm.so itself.
Elsewhere in the thread, I've posted a link to screenshots of their official Twitter account making anti-Semitic comments. Here's an image of their founder using a white supremacist hand sign: https://web.archive.org/web/20190530190836/https://inshorts....
Sounds familiar and not surprising. s/Big Data/Java/g. Their Chief Marketing Officer is the guy who was the CMO back then at those dusk years of Sun and presided over everything getting named "Java", even the things completely unrelated to Java ... even Sun's stock ticker got renamed into JAVA :)
yes, big disruptive events like war can redistribute & destroy wealth.

See picketty's book "capital in the 21st century" if are interested in light bedtime reading of statistical evidence for changes in wealth over the last century or two
tim berners lee? i guess
Is it me or does that landing page not say what on earth the thing does?
Does Firefox have an equivalent of Chrome's [...] > More tools > Create shortcut... these days? With an option like Chrome's 'Open as Window' checkbox? I would love to give up Chrome, but that's a really important piece of functionality for me. I hugely prefer webapps that mostly act like normal apps in my desktop environment. I want then to show up in the window list, have their own icon, be alt-tabbable, etc.
The existing issues with ETH are why we currently use POA network for the Audius private beta. POA network has its own set of issues, but the 1) fast transaction confirmation time, 2) low fees, and 3) lack of congestion make it a great testbed for us.

FWIW, Hedgehog works with any web3-compliant API, in our case core.poa.network but could be any other one of developer's choosing eg. Infura
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Memesters are at the end of the tech hierarchy. They're using stuff that's cheap or free.

That doesn't mean everybody is.
Electron apps' Chrome stores its cookies separately from the user's installation of it, correct? That, plus the lack of a logged-in account within Electron's Chrome might help to mitigate user cookie correlation and the like, right?

Not sure about in-browser IP tracking, though...
Deploying Two-Factor Authentication to Millions of Users
> The fact that we are alive seems to demonstrate precisely the opposite.

No, it doesn't. That's the whole thrust of my post. We are alive only because we've gotten extremely lucky so far, not because we're actually smart enough to handle this stuff. Adding new ELE technologies on top of the ones we already have is just pushing that luck.
I don't think a 4 unit townhome is practical on these small lots with alley garages. Townhome construction around here is a burbs thing, and done in large clumps of 2-10 city blocks or so of area (and which tend to be singularly unattractive and gross).

I don't think it's just zoning here. There have been some small multi-family units built. But they don't sell all that well or seem economically attractive to builders.

And back to my point... I think there's a lot of sort of theoretical macroeconomic handwaving going on when it comes to housing density that flatly rejects engaging with real world conditions in any way. It sounds smart, but it's dumb.
> That extended web use is of no good to them if users are doing so at non-Google properties

Extended web use is often punctuated by google searches, even if a lot of the engagement happens on non-Google properties. If slowness causes people to get bored and go do something else, Google suffers.
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I guess there is a connection there although I feel like my importance as "random dude on the internet saying something about non specific company or companies" here probabbly has little risk / impact compared to what these companies could do.
The current build of Firefox for Android is being sunsetted soon, last noon security update is going to be in July. The version they are moving to, Firefox fenix is very fast. At the moment I don't think it has sync enabled (so no sign in) but the future looks good there.
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I went with Fastmail, with their domain. If I were to do it again, I probably would use my own domain (and I may do that in the future). I can't say enough good things about Fastmail's UI. It's just as snappy as a native app, and is both consistent and intuitive. Outlook.com is also really nice. I use it for work email, and have no complaints at all.

Thanks for the StartPage tip! I'm going to start doing that whenever I want a second opinion on my search results.
How do I zoom?
The spot price on unregulated exchanges which are presumably operating fractional reserves, wash trading, front running, and spoofing the order book.

And don't forget 3 billion Tethers, likely being used to manipulate margin trades. (see "the bart" pattern, which is likely an indication of either Bitmex or Bitfinex wiping out margin traders with temporary price manipulation)

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3195066

https://amycastor.com/2019/01/17/the-curious-case-of-tether-...

https://omniexplorer.info/address/1NTMakcgVwQpMdGxRQnFKyb3G1...
AIVD (Dutch NSA/GCHQ equiv.) -inspired by GCHQ, who also might have this- have a Christmas puzzle. Its a bunch of 30+ puzzles which are challenging to solve.
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Am I missing something or is there currently no way to print out a list of recovery codes? Will I lock myself out of my account if I lose my phone?

Edit: There's a ticket already opened for that

https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues/5800
Interesting. I don't have a Mac but it would be worth trying.

TBH the ability to use uBlock Origin was my only killer requirement, but Container tabs are a leap in web security. I hope that idea gets stolen and becomes a norm in browsers. (Or First Party Isolation in general).
Superconductivity had replicatable experiments, cold fusion doesn't.
Why not not block it, and be done? What's the EU going to do? Sue them in the EU? Good luck collecting if they West Virginia TV station doesn't have a business office in the EU (which I suspect they don't). Is the EU going to sue them in West Virginia? Yeah, good luck winning that case.

So why bother blocking? Not blocking seems even easier than blocking (unless someone is hosting their web presence, and needs EU compliance for some customers, and so just does it for everyone to not have different versions for different customers).
This hints at the problem I have with a lot of censorship efforts. Censoring a bigot doesn't make them any less of a bigot, nor does it make them disappear. Censored bigots just form their own separate communities, where they're less likely to be exposed to ideas that change their minds.

Conversation is a two-way street. If we refuse to let bigots converse, we have to realize that we're also losing the ability to converse with them. A lot of people's gut reaction is, "I'm okay with not talking to bigots", but I simply can't accept that. Every progress toward reducing bigotry has been due to having a conversation about it.
The sum of one's beliefs, false or otherwise, is one's bias.
Is there any reason to disbelieve it? It seems like a reasonable thing to try.
Safari doesn't support doesn't support multiple user profiles, and it doesn't support uBlock Origin.

If you're switching browsers because you're upset that Chrome is breaking uBO, it makes no sense to switch to another browser that's never supported uBO and probably never will.
Thank you for the recommendations! I’ll check them out.
Bitcoin has created/revealed players that don't. (Binance, Bitfinex, exchanges and Tether).
Possibly something like an ESP32 would suffice as a web server.
All the stuff you wrote about people paying, or wanting free stuff, is patently false. It was proven false by Cable TV. The promise there, when it was introduced, was that by paying a subscription for your TV, you wouldn't have any ads. So people bought into it, and pretty soon, they just added the ads back in, so now they were making money both from advertisers and the viewers at the same time. And this didn't cause them to be "spanked by users" by them canceling their cable TV subscriptions. It's been decades now, and cable TV is still here, and only now is it waning, but only because of online services like Netflix, not because people were fed up with ads.
This is interesting. Do you have any links to research about the topic?
Yeah I know, I was just making a distinction from
cortesoft's "I want everything I've ever done" in my history. I was saying "so do I, except I want active sessions separate" (which as you point out, they are by default).
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we sure do love our entertainers!

a little interest makes sense but i've never understood the intense interest that most people have with entertainers and celebrities in general. i'm more interested in people who have, and can, impact my life, like historical figures, friends, family, scientists, and local/regional leaders (political or otherwise).
I too am confused. If I'm interpreting (guessing) correctly, Lyft showed (and charged based on) an erroneous route in their app. GP reported it and got a refund, but after reviewing Google's location history found that the driver had actually driven the route that they expect, not the route that Lyft claimed they did.
Since everybody has their own way of handling it, mine is

* Generate a new history file for every session (https://github.com/stilist/dotfiles/blob/master/dot_sh/sessi...)

* A 'histgrep' script that searches across all the files and highlights matches (https://github.com/stilist/dotfiles/blob/master/dot_sh/bin/e...)
Do mods not enforce copypasta rules anymore?
Super neat! This is a compilation of datasets sent out from Jeremy Vine's Data Is Plural Newsletter - https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural
Something that has been niggling at me for a while:

• C-Sections now account for 30% of all births, compared to 5% in 1970.

• Preliminary evidence suggests that babies born via C-Section are themselves more likely to have children that require C-Sections.

Source: https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2016/12/7/13855350/c-...

Assuming this applies to other traits as well—as evolutionary theory suggests it should—what are the long term consequences for humanity? This line of thinking has led past leaders down some very dark paths, which I am fully uninterested in traveling.

But, what is the ethical alternative? The only one I can think of is to take control of our evolution directly, rather than allowing natural selection—or lack thereof—to run its course. And thank god, it actually looks like modern science will make this possible!
I want to use C++ less than Java and Swift, especially Swift, I don't see this as catch on because C++ is lower level language.
A bought service could track you all the same.
> Well, it's "choosing this absurd behavior itself" insofar as risking tens of millions of dollars in fines for violating murky and ambiguous that can be interpreted differently in any of the 28 member states counts as "choosing the behavior itself". And companies blocked by the great firewall can simply choose to comply with whatever the CCP tells them to do, too. So in a sense they're choosing to be blocked as well.

That's just nonsense. It could (shocking I know) (1) try not to save personally identifiable data for undefined periods of time; and (2) accept that it has no business presence in the EU and thus flout the law with no repercussions; or (3) use a modicum of common sense and notice that just because there exist maximum penalties for truly egregious behavior doesn't mean they're in any risk of those if they're non-malicious, especially given the not-exactly hard-to-find actually assessed penalties are nothing like what you're saying there for behavior that's much worse than anything I can imagine a local news station doing unless they really are Machiavellian; and (4) note that GDPR regulators have approximately a googleplex of more relevant cases, and are literally never ever going to be interested in them; and (5) not forget they;re likely in some technical sense breaking untold laws in all kind of jurisdictions even closer to home, and the sky isn't falling.

This is just FUD. And comparing the censorship by the great firewall with the truly onerous restriction not to cyber-stalk all of your users is a farce.
Not directed at you, but I find it amazing that now that drugs are hitting “rural America” it is seen as caused by the lack of opportunity, jobs, and social mobility but when it was happening in the “inner city” it was all about “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps”, “the government doesn’t owe you anything” and because of a “culture of dependency”.
As an idea and ideal. In practice- to greater and lesser degrees, with varying overton windows, in different places.
Just tested it and 'history -a' behaves how you say. Maybe it was an older version of bash that had this behavior.

Edit: now I'm obsessing about reproducing this behavior from years ago! If anyone knows what I'm talking about I'd be grateful for some validation :)
Your claims are completely unverifiable speculation and are frankly absurd. I would bet every dollar I have against there being a simple method to increase IQ by 0.5 SDs within 5-10 yrs. I’m sorry but your prediction of 5SD increase is frankly science fiction novel territory. It is not science.

Gene editing will be pursued around the globe, and countries that fail to embrace it may be left behind in health and wellness. However, let’s not radically rush to science fiction level conclusions (stated as fact) of megahumans without any evidence that it may be possible.

[Edited for an incorrect use of hyperbole around the math of 5x standard devs. I removed it from the post as I am acknowledging that using excess hyperbole in a post specifically directed at criticism of wild predictions is beyond ironic and unfair to the OP above.]
Safari is so much better at preserving battery life it's not even funny. I'm still using Firefox because I find their containers concept incredibly useful, here's hoping Apple steal that idea with the next version of macOS.
Ask HN: Is there a way (service) to detect brand colors based on a company url?
Let's work with some simple numbers and think about what's happened in history.

Imagine median worker income in the 1970s was $100. For a lot of women, they weren't allowed to be workers. Let's increase the population of "workers" by 20% (adding those women), but only pay those women $70 (because patriarchy). What's the median income now? $95.

Let's increase the number of "workers" by another 20% by bringing in 30 million immigrants and their descendants. Those immigrants were making $5 in their old country, but they aren't represented in that original $100 median worker salary. But now they're making $60. Better than they were, but worse than white men because racism. What's the median income now? $89.

This is the real story behind all the drama about median wage stagnation, median household income, etc. We added a bunch of lower wage people into the calculation. Those people are better off than they were before, but they drag down the one stat we look at with tunnel vision. That doesn't mean I deny any of the real concerns people have about racism/sexism/etc. But everything can literally be better for everyone, and as I demonstrated above we can still decrease the median household income.

When you say something like "median household income has barely budged in the last twenty years" that's a very shallow assessment. What's happened to the labor market? What's happened to the housing market? Are there more single people as a percentage of the population? Should we expect single households to have the same income as married households? What has been the historical household income for single moms? Are there more single moms today than 20 years ago? How does that impact median household income?
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FWIW Brave also has a dark mode
On top of uBlock Origin / uMatrix, some of the other Firefox's trump cards to me are:

* Tree Style Tab: makes tabs much more manageable, no parallel in Chrome. If you open dozens of tabs, after using this, you can only pity the traditional tab management [1].

* Containers and container tabs: it's a bit like having separate Chrome profiles for separate contexts, but you can also have them as tabs in the same window.

* Sync / sign-in server that is open source and that you can run on your own if you choose.

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...
You actually see nonzero value in more targeted ads? Genuinely asking.
I can't claim the same. I get (usually minor) rendering differences between Safari, Chrome, and Firefox pretty equally at work.
You have a very naive and sheltered view of the world we live in then.
Doesn't "usually" mean "there are already other options"? Otherwise, why not use "always"?

Is it really the case that TOTP applications only exist for smart phones? And not for desktop computers?

EDIT: I see that crankylinuxuser in a parallel thread already pointed to a couple of desktop solutions, one for MS Windows and another for Linux-based OSes.
>Literally legions is PhDs study this attack vector and work at Google and Facebook.

You know a society is in decline when their smartest and best-educated members dedicate all their efforts to advertising crap to people to buy, instead of something more constructive like medical technology, space exploration, etc.
And spark was sort of killed by Storm / Heron as even Spark Streaming does microbatches and isn't truly realtime.
Does anyone really think replacing the browser's back button with a "undo" feature equals a nice UX?
"Worldwide, Larry Page is certainly more of a public figure than Magic Johnson."

This is HN bubble thinking.

Very few regular people know who 'Larry Page' is.

Almost everyone knows who 'Magic Johnson' is.

Have a look at Google search trends.
I don’t click on ads so, if given the choice between targeted and non-targeted ads, I’d rather have non-targeted ones, because then at least I have a little more assurance that I’m not being tracked. The “relevance” of an ad is totally unimportant to me since I disregard them. What’s important is whether my PII is being traded around like baseball cards.
Not as clickbaity.
If by soul you mean human feces on the sidewalk, you are correct.
Tax payer subsidy would seem to be a feature from a consumer perspective. Surely its better for someone else to be paying the fees?
This is basically the premise of Brave New World, you are really not supposed to turn down people (within your own caste) for sex there. This is helped by the fact that everyone is approximately equally attractive through selective breeding.
> I don't understand why Mac users use Chrome.

No profile support. I have four profiles in use right now, mostly "thanks" to the fact that Twitter can't run multiple accounts at once and Tweetdeck is garbage. Three "private" profiles and one for "work" stuff. That's a dealbreaker for me.

In addition, as a web developer, Chrome has way better development tools, and I like to use Chromecast integration and see full URLs in a real address bar, not just the domain like Safari does.
As a follow up I decided to implement a "Sprint 0".
Works for me in Firefox 67
I initially read the title as "John Carmack's VBScript Samples" and I was very perplexed as to when would have John Carmack ever had to mess around with that...
No data after march 2015. Good.
The terminology isn't actually accurate though. Did you read his response?
Good job, Oak Harbor, WA.
On one hand, large magazines are useful in a murderous rampage, especially in semi-autos. That's why they're banned in Canada.

On the other hand, assault-styled weapons give kids that "video game feel" and there's a high incidence of their use in domestic terrorism.

On another hand, dogs are living creatures, and it's not generally acceptable to throw them into a grinder. But popehat is written by lawyers who deliberately represent scum. False equivalence is their bread and butter
I've had this in my .bashrc for years. I thought it came from this post judging from my commments, but looks different, so I wonder whether it came from HN comments when this was previously posted.

## Better bash history
# Avoid duplicates
export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups:erasedups
# When the shell exits, append to the history file instead of overwriting it
shopt -s histappend
# After each command, append to the history file and reread it
export PROMPT_COMMAND="${PROMPT_COMMAND:+$PROMPT_COMMAND$'\n'}history -a; history -c; history -r"
Interesting! Any suggestions for us Mac-inclined desktop users?