skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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i would go for the specs which cannot be upgraded (easily ) down the road: screen ( size and resolution ) and max RAM slots. After those, the fastest CPU available for the configuration.
I’m 100% for eliminating language that is unduly offensive, exclusionary, or racist from socio-technical platforms....that said, aren’t we eliminating the concept of desire itself once we make “unrestrictedness” part of it? The whole notion of desire is a directed wanting—that is to say, I want this, not that. Whether this wanting is shallow or not, I think, isn’t really up for us to decide. This is a technological manipulation of wants and needs (something we’ve been subject to since the 20th cen. Though usually those orchestrating it aren’t upfront about it). I think urging people to step outside their comfort zones and expand their horizons is a great thing, but I think this is throwing a technological restriction/solution at a non technical social problem—you really want people to broaden their notions of whom they might be intimate with, start by putting funding into community activities and inclusive communal structures and go from there—I think that’s a much better way to get people talking than to lump some restraints onto what are already arguably dehumanizing, distancing technical outlets. I know I’m talking past the authors of this paper somewhat (since this isn’t their point) but sometimes limiting, reducing, or restricting the application of technical solutions to certain domains is a better solution than commiting all this effort to properly technicise elements of human life that shouldn’t have been so heavily technicised in te first place.
We use WordPress and plugins which offer these features so hosting and server costs are pretty minimal.

It definitely takes time and work to develop and maintain relationships, but we also get to keep 100% of the revenue. In some ways we've just decided that ownership of the relationship and process is more important than being able to quickly slap some Adsense code up on the site.

That said, we also used Adsense early on, but have been doing this for ~5 years.
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Well to be fair, building an O'Neill cylinder is well beyond our current capabilities, and simply flying a craft to Mars and blowing up an inflatable dome is much easier and more practical given our current technology.

However, I do agree that this colonize-Mars idea seems a little silly. We have a large body (the Moon) that's only a few days away, instead of 6-18 months; why not start there? Once we get pretty good at mining on the Moon and nearby asteroids, we should get better at building some rotating space stations.
It’s not saving you bandwidth, which is the primary reason I use an adblocker.
Exploring the Oceans by Remote Control
> some search engines and sites were rigged to rank Hillary higher than Trump... Even the people in the media were saying Trump had no chance and Hillary was going to win. It's like they tried to rig the whole thing. But even then the mainstream media is all controlled by a few hands anyways too.

You don't know this, though. There's no possible way you can.

And from someone inside the media— it's more disparate than you seem to want to believe.
I don't think you can delete purchases from there.

When I hit the "remove purchase" button, it even says "To remove this purchase, delete the email."
I wonder how many of those kids rent cars, clothes, etc. to look rich. I mean it is Instagram after all.
"Being discriminating" is not necessarily the same thing as "discriminating".
I have been using Firefox, and only Firefox, on the desktop since before Firefox 1.5 (released in 2005) and Firefox has had plenty of performance issues over the years and still have some. The performance issues still reaming after the Quantum release are mostly caused by shitty websites who only optimize their crappy code just enough for it to work in Chrome. A couple of culprits which slow down my browser significantly are Trello and Twitch. Another issue is that 3D acceleration does not work well on Linux so it is disabled by default and often cannot be enabled without compromising the stability.

Before Quantum on the other hand I had to regularly restart Firefox since it seemed to slow down over time and hog all of my CPU no matter if I had many or few tabs and no matter if I closed tabs so I am not surprised many got burned by Firefox and how it could not handle today's bloated websites until Quantum. The UI also got jankier and jankier the more CPU Firefox started using.

Chrome probably has had its own performance issues but I cannot comment on them since I have not used it much other than on mobile.
I mean, the last time Nazi's came to the front, darkness was undone by carpet bombing and years of grueling war.
Google duplex uses A.I sometimes to mimic humans
Clojure has had some interesting submissions on HN, and there are some notable active project - Metabase and Jepsen are two I'm familiar with.

Clojure certainly not a widespread like Java, Python or Go, but it is also certainly not dead. A bit niche perhaps.
That's income, not wealth. Big difference. @casey_junk found the wealth numbers: (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20051782)

> Just to put some numbers on it 2017 you'd need a net worth of about 1.1 million dollars to be in the top 10%.

> https://dqydj.com/net-worth-brackets-wealth-brackets-one-per....
A quick google yields the following:

Top 1% - more than $434k/year household income.

Top 10% - more than $179k/year.

50% is $61k/year.

Source: https://dqydj.com/united-states-household-income-brackets-pe...
You're not thinking this through.

The problem isn't that creators can make fake videos (which would be analogous to DRM). Let them. There is no harm in it. The problem is that users have no way of verifying true videos. This can be solved with cryptography, because both parties involved (creators and viewers) would want this to work.

In other words, DRM is about forcing everyone to do a thing. Verification is about allowing willing participants to check a thing. Different scenarios.

Companies could make tamper-proof sensor modules that do the signing right where it matters. The important thing is to make sure they aren't astronomically priced and don't compromise privacy.
Now I don't like the terminology "elites" as it lends itself to populism, but in this framework it's useful.

Soon enough, the elites will not be overthrowable. The advantage that the many have over the few is the retraction of their consent; without housekeepers, farmers, maintenance workers, the rich have historically been forced to capitulate because they couldn't maintain their standard of living without the workers. With the rising tide of automation, I can see a very near future where the workers are simply obsolete, and the division between classes will become so wide as to be completely un-transversable. Those in control of the farmland and the machines that tend it will have no use for the lower classes any more. That's why we need to work on decentralized production, with households owning a production factor of their own which will keep them producing value. Think decentralized factories.
What is pareto distribution
File Browser: A deeper look into the repo
How do you interpret less people owning a greater percentage of overall wealth as a less bleak picture?
The thing that ages software is changes. The irony with software is that the most successful pieces of software need to be changed frequently, because of changing requirements. It means that the software is very useful. The more useful it is, the faster it ages and the worse the code gets. The best written software that doesn't change means that its usefulness is very limited.

It is impossible to design software that can account for long term changes. It's 100% impossible. You need to design for the near future as best as you can, and realize that eventually you need to refactor.

So design your software with the best maintainability you can for the next few years and then try your best to refactor it as you go along with new changes, but don't beat yourself up with things like tech debt creep up.
VLC was pulled from the App Store due to its license being GPLv2 at the time.
Don't forget the (massive) tax benefits as government employee. To get the same net amount at the end of the month, in Germany you would have to make several thousand € more per year in the private sector.

In the end, you are still right but it's still a factor.
Sure, in the US. Most countries are not that liberal with their speech laws, though.
It is a good thing that we treat minorities and the poor better than we did in the past. However, that doesn't mean that the middle class are not worse off than they were at that time.
There is a leisure class, but it's more like the top 0.1%.
Ah yes, freedom from slavery, the politically correct flavor of the moment.
Gab specifically isn't a technology though. This article is specifically about the technology Gab is going to use. So I think the more apt comparison is between Tor and Mastodon. Gab is a website in the same that that a website on the dark net is a website- both of which can and should be judged on their merits.
Or go the "insert DeCSS here" route that some used back when that was a thing. "If you happen to have somehow acquired a WideVine lib, having hash [some string], stick it here if you want to watch Netflix."
Outlook/Proton. OpenStreetMaps. Vimeo/Dailymotion. DuckDuckGo.

All free.
This of course is a big side effect of quantitative easing aka printing money. Those who held on to securities and other advanced financial instruments saw prices being pulled upward due to the massive flood of hot off the press money.

Guess what people don’t own large number of those types of assets?

So before everyone does the typical “we should get government involved” rabble rousing, be aware that it is because the government got involved that this is happening.
I thought I was the only one who pondered that! I think we'd have even more fun times in 1st century CE Alexandria.
Fake news is a pendulum. Now we have it, we start to know what it is, we start to understand how it's created and distributed. Things can start swinging the other way. But this takes time.

If you really wanted to end fake news and had unlimited time and money, a great way to do it would be to publish as much completely fake news as possible, so that people figure out that they need to use reputable, trusted sources, or end up a fool. Out of money, out of time, and that what they believed after learning about it on a Facebook group or reddit was wrong. People learn from painful experiences the most, unfortunately. So some people have learned from Trump getting elected. Others haven't learned, some probably won't. It's very easy to be fooled.

If you think of fake news like a virus, then publishing more fake news acts kind of like an anti-virus. Distributing a version of the problem that is easier for the immune system to detect and combat and won't kill anyone - to inoculate against the real thing.

Bill Gates is right. He's just early.
I'm not sure if sarcasm or not, but do you believe that what would be "fair" would be for the bottom 90% to pay for 90% of the budget in taxes?

Maybe in an ideal world that could be true, but it would also require for the bottom 90% to get 90% of the total income received in an given year. As we can see, that's nowhere near the case.

So of course the single digit percentage of the population that makes the lion's share of total income also has to pay the lion's share in taxes.
I thought the same thing. Also from the article:

> Who used Brainwash Dataset?

China.
Cloudflare makes a pretty specific statement against what you are saying:

"1.1.1.1 does not mine any user data. Logs are kept for 24 hours for debugging purposes, then they are purged."

Are you claiming they are lying?
Tons of folks bought extra gpus (and in proxy cpus/mobos/etc) and ran extra computers strictly to mine bitcoins (and other coins, which occurred strictly due to the popularity of bitcoin).

They bought and mined for the idea of getting easy rich on the disguise that it helps the poor that don't have access to money or computers since the governments of the world forced them to be poor with currency that wasn't created by the internet. I'm wondering if there was a decrease in self-help book/video sales.

The companies that really profited were power providers and gpu manufacturers. Nvidia even publicly claimed that the mining rise really helped their stocks.

It was an artificial demand like Beanie Babies. I'm open to a real argument that it was a real demand outside of those people who think that Tai Lopez is a business messiah.
Each fork can choose the path to follow and MS has the manpower to keep that.
I am unable to reproduce either of your bugs on mac. I've never had firefox ignore a "force" reload in over 10 years of using the browser, and despite having the "dark" theme running, going to mozilla.com shows a white background just fine.

I am running nightly
This is basically the Pareto principle in action, and isn't surprising.

Most of the top tier wealth is driven by investments and in the wake of globalization (and "easy" money from CBs,) stocks and other asset classes have risen drastically. Given that the lower rungs in the world all have little to no investments compared to the "upper class" it's just basic math than people with investments will out perform those with none.

There will undoubtedly be a mean reversion on asset prices at some point in the future, which will lower the wealth gap as prices fall...but that might not be a good thing. What we really need, if we want to bridge the gap, imo, is teaching people to invest their money...and I mean in more than just a 401K and a house. If you look at actual living standards, even the middle and lower classes are in much better shape than they were in every previous decade. So we're making strides there. So we need to improve our education system (specifically for the lower class) and teach everyone to invest in the economy as a whole.
This is a bit sad but inevitable. They were trying to cover so much ground and execute to perfection. Whatever lead they had shrank with time and advances on fronts outside the hw and core dev may not see the light of day.
This confirms what another teacher told me: the training is garbage. He found it to be insane psychobabble that he could only tolerate while drunk. There was nothing useful. The teacher training did almost nothing to cover the key skill of classroom control. His fellow students were incompetent, spending most of their time partying. You could pass if you regurgitated the nonsense.
I'm not sure I fully understand the objection here. The purchase list is a view over your email. They have the email, and they have the code to construct the purchase from the email. What possible additional security would there be in deleting the derived object if they still have the source material and the means to reconstruct the derived object?

If you don't trust them to handle the derived object according to your desires, then deleting it should not give you any assurances, since they could just rebuild it from the source material and the code they have on hand.

I think what you're really looking for is a mechanism like, "don't use this derived object in ways I find objectionable." I'm not sure exactly what that would look like for you; it would probably be different for every individual. For what it's worth, at least if you believe the news and Google's public statements, it doesn't use the contents of your email for ad targeting.
> It's no one's fault that no one listens to those recommendations

People do, in fact, listen to the recommendations.

Those gatekeepers, however, are just as heavily biased as the “news sources”, which themselves are actually just gatekeepers for freelance writers and press release mills.

Whatever point in the network is influential is, obviously, the highest value target for corruption, and more layers of gatekeepers with no greater inherent resistance to corruption don't change anything.

> But Pratchett's claim--that all information would have the same veneer of authority on equal terms--is patently false today.

No, it's not.

> Everyone knows how to filter for content they should believe and content they shouldn't.

Yeah, everyone knows how to select the gatekeepers that reinforce their preconceived biases.
When you buy big enterprise systems you enter contracts that aren’t easy to exit. You also bind so much money into those contracts that you don’t really want to leave them either, even if the company sucks at delivering. Maybe you’ll fight them in the courts for a few years and maybe they’ll compensate you a few hundred million, but once you enter these deals you’re basically in them until the law dictates that you have to do another round of bidding.

I’ve done this with a lot of difference companies and a lot of different development and project management philosophies though, and they all fail.

We’ve gone full waterfall, we’ve gone full agile and everything in between. We’ve done long detailed requirement specifications and we’ve invited companies into the heart of our business, to let them literally work inside our offices sitting shoulder to shoulder with our domain knowledge. None of it produces high quality software.

The highest quality software we have, aside from a few small suppliers, is the software we build ourselves. It’s anecdotal again, but it’s the same story I hear in my network of digitalisation managers across the countries public sector and banking.
There are still issues with Firefox but you are correct about people maybe not knowing. I tried it a few years ago before the speed update and it felt unusable. Nowadays it's a little more sluggish than chrome on certain things (JIRA for one) which perhaps is just a result of people optimizing SPA for chrome.

It is VERY important for people to give things a try with and without a proper ad blocker. Any browser gets WAY slower and buggier when it has to deal with the nutty page takeovers with autoplay videos and javascript running.
Nancy Pelosi says Facebook is lying about Russian manipulation
I would suggest recording one of those calls. There's no telling how long that voicemail will remain active.
This just means that ad blockers will need to work with a natively-installed proxy.

Remember, with https you can install a certificate and man-in-the-middle yourself. This is how tools like Fiddler and Charles allow inspecting and debugging HTTPS.

In this case, a natively-installed proxy can deny requests to blacklisted domains.
Well fortunately, unless you are interviewing for one of five or six tech companies. Your company is not that special and probably not paying more than average.

No I’m not going to spend months studying leetCode and reading “Cracking the Code” instead of just calling my carefully curated network of contacts that are itching to either hire me (former managers who have moved on to other companies) or refer me.

I’m no special snowflake. Anyone with 10+ years of experience, a decent network, can competently talk about architecture, and who knows how to answer soft skill questions can have multiple offers quickly.

To be blunt, there are more of you - companies looking to pay quite well for seasoned software engineers/architects with practical skills than there are of me - people who have those skills. Statistically, I can find a job a lot more quickly that pays well than you could find someone who has practical experience and who is looking for a job.
That works great if I'm looking for an official video from the Wall Street Journal, but not if I'm watching Fred's Blog Channel. Also, what if I want to edit something? What if I want to tweak the color profile? Add an effect? Oh, so now adobe software can re-sign something, but not the open-source option?

And as pointed out by another comment, you'd get a modified camera and feed it into the sensor, or modify the firmware. And some guy in China will do a clean-room RE and make little video signers.

The bottom line is it's a cool idea, but I don't think it will work, and I don't think it will stop fake anything.
Coding a WebAssembly CTF Challenge
The problem is two mutually incompatible use cases:

1) trusted endpoint / untrusted network (laptop in a coffee shop)

2) untrusted endpoint / trusted network (chromecast/alexa/other corporate zombie on your home network)

Which category a given scenario falls under depends on who you ask - to Google, Chromecast is in the first category. I don't know if it's possible to design a system that somehow always favors the rights of the individual.
There is no fix.

The wealthy are growing wealthier due to demographics. Collective IQ is declining right now, due to the relative demographics of the developed vs. developing worlds.

There is nothing you can do to stop unintelligent people from giving their money to the intelligent. We are just going to have to wait it out, which will probably take 200+ years.
We should be allowed to keep our past emails without having them build a purchase object of everything we have ever bought.
They can try getting a new DV cert for the domain. It may or may not work depending on how thoroughly the CA checks the domain resolution from multiple places.
Those sites are probably doing useragent filtering. Force a Chrome or Firefox useragent in the Developer menu and try again.
I've had everything paused but device info and youtube history for a few months now.

I have not noticed any significant change in the quality of search results. Though I primarily use DuckDuckGo I have to fall back on Google every now and again (or use Google to get different results).

Google is still better at inferring what I mean in a search than DuckDuckGo. Google seems to take into account current events, my location, and pop culture better than DuckDuckGo. I have not noticed any effect from changing my privacy permissions.
Firefox on Linux absolutely does not support hardware accelerated video playback

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1210726
Privatized censorship is legal in the US, but it is still censorship.

For example, the MPAA was formed because the movie industry felt it was better to self-censor than to have the government censor them.

If your movie contains anything the censors don’t approve, then it will not get an R rating, and will not be distributed to theaters, etc.

They even censor political speech sometimes: https://boingboing.net/2007/12/20/mpaa-censors-torture.html
Not just a dream, but a reality: https://www.pfsense.org/. (pfBlockerNg rather than pi-hole, but I think those are equivalent in functionality; someone correct me if I'm wrong)
https://i.imgur.com/SZP9n3b.png

That's what I see in Firefox on Mac.
MAGA hats boldly proclaim a fascist resurrection myth, though; it's not an inaccurate banner to be put under! I can understand the unhappiness of many folks on the right. It's unpleasant to have one's beliefs placed under scrutiny.
I would love Maps and Gmail alternatives if anyone has them.
This goes deep. I see not only when I have used Instagram, but it knows which instagram profiles and direct messages I opened.

I'm using Android at the moment, of course.
Or burn it, pretty much the same. Anything furthering bitcoin going to result in much more electricity use, so flaring might be preferable environmentally.

Microgenerators or fuel cells (both complicated by source stream being unscrubbed) would be better. If grid tie is the issue, would be more interesting and productive to advance trapped energy source storage methods, either thermal/kinetic, hydrogen separation (of source stream or splitting local water), or other chemical.

One thing is that you don't generally have a bunch of completely isolated wells - usually clustered smaller platforms or a giant one with tie-backs.. point being they share infra, though, so you can probably have a bunch of wells in the same field sharing some energy storage infrastructure. What the net energy saves would be is a great question.