skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say there's more than a "few attempts" at powered unicycles - it's an entire industry, complete with expensive brands, cheap Chinese offerings, enthusiast forums, and listicles with titles like "top 10 electric unicycles to buy in 2019". The design has pretty much converged now.

I was considering getting one for my daily commute, but a part of me fears that no matter how skilled I got with it, riding over rough ground would still be a risky business. One pothole and your face is in the dirt. What would you change about current EUCs to make them more practical?
Hm? I’m answering he question. If my account were deleted I’d expect my posts to be deleted.
This is gonna revolutionize the animation industry.
You are late for programming. Don't try it now
Ist doesn‘t even need to be a function call: Accessing a class field repeatedly in a tight loop is slower than a local variable.
> fingers are never publicly/embarrassingly pointed nor are people blamed

The other problem is that it is almost never a single person or teams fault. The reality is that it is everyones fault, and as soon as people accept that they can prevent it in the future.

Lets take a contrived case where I introduce a bug that floods the network with packets and takes down the network. Is it my fault? Sure. But what about pre-deployment testing? What about monitoring - were there no alarms setup to detect high network load? What about automatic circuit breakers that should have taken the machine offline, and instead let a single machine take down the whole system?

The point is that blaming the person who introduced a code bug is lazy, and does nothing to prevent the issue in the future. When a failure like what happened at Google occurs it is an organizational failure, not a single person or team. That is why blaming people is generally not productive.
>But seriously, people promoting rule changes so that advertisers can exclude anything sinful are certainly also against anything that makes Youtube interesting.

"sin" isn't the only interesting thing about Youtube. I watch plenty of content which is both non-violent and interesting.
We have an art installation at the corporate campus where I work.

It's a parody of 1984, with inspirational quotes flowing over the entire building (300meters long). But they are not inspirational, rather artsy sometimes edgy and provocative.

The sentences change every day, and are controlled by an artist in California somewhere.

One of the sentences one day was:
"Monomania creates success"

I keep a logbook of the strangest entries.
I think in some circles the meaning of the term "whistle-blowing" has drifted enough that people use it interchangeably with "reveal."

Given your 15 years of experience, what resources do you recommend to HN so that we can learn more? Can you give us a "life of an advertising bit," eg: A person visits a website on their phone, that information is accompanied by x data on their phone, goes to the initial ad server, this information is compiled against data from sources a,b,c, etc ...
If you used ‘platform specific’ built-in secrets sync you’d be done... but then how would you justify charging for the built in sync? So I see your conundrum.
My question to someone from the ad-industry would be if there are known "intersections" between these anonymised data sets ad-tech is using to sell as much as possible, and companies who buy these data-sets to connect them to real identities.

Especially because the web is full of Privacy notices people agree to, and I guess in some of those people actually agree to have their anonymous browsing data connected to their real identities.
I must take issue with the "$2.6 billion to create a new drug" statement.

This is an extremely controversial figure within the pharmacoeconomic literature.

It comes from a publication by the Tufts centre for drug development, who are heavily pharma-funded, and it is repeated verbatim by those with vested interests in the pharma industry.

More on this here:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/11/18/does-...
> What I think would help is if we don't use a term like "extremism", which sounds like a term of sketchy censorship justification.

Well, advocating for genocide on Muslims, spreading deadly propaganda such as antivaxx or "great replacement" or such certainly qualifies as "extremism".
Your preferred term is? Or are you suggesting that no content should be removed, because of the difficulty of defining the word?
In my South American corner of the world, blocks are about 100m. Most cities there are relatively new (specially when compared to European ones), so most of them were planned from the beginning.
A couple of years ago I logged into a channel on Dalnet I used to frequent when I was 16 in 1998.

Some of the SAME people were there. Nearly 20 years later.
It's basically the same reason no one but J-List wants to advertise on 4chan.
State of the climate: Heat across Earth’s surface and oceans mark early 2019
censorship doesn't work and will never work. if you cut someone's tongue you only prove you're afraid of what he has to say.

the best solution is to fight them back by showing them the opposite ideas. don't censor Nazis, put as advertisements and suggestions to positive content highlighting why they are wrong.
Even after reading this 10 times I still don't understand what this hack is about.

I understand these things independently:
1) SHA1 collision weakness
2) Nix checking package SHA1 when updating packages
3) Chromium returning different SHA1 for each download

Seriously, what is this?
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>So, basically Google created the most unreliable cloud system in the world

I'm pretty sure that title goes to Azure
Thanks for posting this as I was looking for the exact same info as I will be designing-developing a productivity suite based on my ADHD experience of using productivity structure to control my ADHD.

very useful story
No, they're still mostly written by one very hard working person

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0111765/
'It's Not Us, It's You': Huawei Breaks It Off with US Employees
The Wayland based Jolla phones are very responsive in my opinion (uses Android and Jolla regularly)
I think it should be up to the user.

I know Reddit is a four-letter word around here but they seem to get by with allowing users to delete their posts and account at any time. Hacker News should do the same, along with allowing bulk download of an account's posted data.
Per version payment is “no business model”?

You do realize Adobe, Microsoft, others, made money fine for 40 years before realizing they could leverage corporate procurement into wildly overpriced (~3x what was already profitable) subscriptions?
This comes from discussions and lectures from people working on engineering in some ad aggregstors - at least one said that in the end, they have a table with 300 million IDs for each person in the country and they key all the data they can link to that person with this id. In principle this data is annonymized. But does that make a difference? At least in health care people worry about hipaa and do audits to minimize reidentification risk but I'm not sure if adtech companies do anything like that. So yes, a good data scientist can find any person they want from the data but even otherwise I think these companies can work on a fairly meaningless definition of annonymization to get away with all this crap.
but nothingness in fact isn't an impediment to creation because nothingness just isn't. it's not an impediment nor a boon nor anything at all.

and how can you concieve of a way to measure "nothingness" when by definition you would be trying to measure that which isn't there to be measured?

have you ever seen zero of anything? how would you measure that?
If they started banning all Muslims from their platform, would you be okay with it? I guess not, so the power is hardly "absolute, irrevocable, and arbitrary". Which is a ridiculous proposition. We absolutely can legislate about what private corporations can and cannot do.
Assemble your own servers.

Cast your own copper.

Make your own country.

It's always the argument of the censors that you can just move to the next layer. Then push for censorship of that as well. `for (;;)`.

And when there's no place to retreat to, because they're literally telling you "no wrongthink allowed on my planet", you won't have any means left to complain.
As an engineer, I'm amazed. As a person who doesn't want the person on the other end of every website I visit to know who exactly I am, I feel violated. At this point though, all I feel I can do as a hapless consumer is to desensitize myself to said violation.

I use a VPN, Pi-Hole, Ghostery and Firefox. All of these a relatively recent additions though, so if a website can get my email and that links to an already existing database of all my collected data up to that point, I'm buggered anyway.
Why would you need a blockchain to cryptographically sign video footage?
Which genetic algorithm were you using?
It has been tried, and it turns out they come after your hosting providers too and get you kicked off that way, they also get you blocked from integrating with any payment platforms (as Patreon competitors have found out). Do you want to use Sendgrid to validate users by email? Twilio to notify people when their subscriptions upload new videos? nope, the thought police are getting you booted off of those too. It's not about making you use another platform, it's about making you shut up completely. If someone actually did everything themselves and made a usable website, I've no doubt they'd be getting ISPs to block it.
Any website can have a miner, outside of some safe content only sites. It may as well be, that in some distant future, users of social sites will be able to link only to other pre-approved major social sites.

You can't even link on most of these websites without going through some intermediary URL forwarder.
I don't understand why would creation require something beforehand, that seems to be transformation or transmutation of some sort.

in any case, nothingness already makes no sense on its own
US lightning deaths by sex and location, 2007-2017
Trump's Huawei Ban Is Now Impacting Shenzhen's Housing Market
Jerusalem’s 700-year-old spa
Good Database Design Starts Here
India considering jail term for mining, holding, buying or selling crypto
When running ads, Youtube allows you to target certain audiences. Perhaps they should just allow people to target (or block) certain content creators in a similar manner.

Choose target video controversial threshold: 0 =O===== 100
I have a co-worker that I regularly talk to about stuff that he has some interest in, like games. Quite often, he'll be uninterested in a certain game, until I start talking about it. Afterwards, he's very interested in it. He has repeatedly remarked on this situation and how it affects him.

That leaves me with a moral dilemma: Am I influencing him too much? My goal has never been to get him to buy something. I've only ever talked about my interest in it and why I want it. But I feel bad whenever he ends up spending money based on my interests when he already has his own.
Yeah, the idea is to reduce distribution unit to single function, you could technically do that with any language, some are just better fit I guess.
Because now they can rope-a-dope the market segment who don’t need to upgrade every year, usually only with a new computer.

It’s rent seeking of a sort. No additional needed value delivered, artificial change to extract more monies.
I think the whole point is that some people don't want you to understand what the others think. In 2019 even empathizing with certain people, or trying to follow the logical steps that lead them to their views is considered a sin by some people.
What's a "dead" SSH client? If the client works, and if you aren't connecting to untrusted hosts, what's the problem with using it?
> Sharing batteries doesn’t work. That’s why Tesla dropped it even though the cars are designed to have batteries swapped in minutes. The only way for battery swaps to work is if truly nobody owns their own car. Which brings me to the next point.

There's a narrative presented, including by Tesla in some of their statements, that the pilot showed there was low interest in battery swaps. But the battery swap pilot was the complete opposite of what was presented in the announcement and what would have been a compelling offering. The original announcement was that it would be faster than supercharging and more convenient. The pilot program required you to schedule an appointment days in advance. So, the choice became convenient, free supercharging with a "fill up" right when I need it, or paying money to get a "fill up" that I schedule days in advance. Of course supercharging won that experiment...
I think the answer is in the article in thios case

> Plugged into a Supercharger, a Model S battery can be charged to 80% capacity in just 40 minutes, free of charge. On the other hand, a battery swap is by appointment only and could cost the driver between $60 and $80.

There's also the question of "where can I swap my battery?". Charging stations are now common enough[0] that it's not a worry for people who would consider an Electric Car.

[0] Within reason...
You got that wrong mate.

Third step: Broaden the definition of nazi and repeat.
I personally use an IRC Bouncer. ZNC for instance is a really good one
Thanks for your feedback.

After the trial ends you won't be charged. We don't use iOS or Android native mechanisms to provide trial functionality. Once your trial is ended you can switch to basic version with a few limitations or you can explicitly buy the subscription - no hidden charges.

We also have a web dashboard where you can manage your account.
> Due to the nature of JSFiddle, anyone can post anything, so wallet codes are ok – we did implemented a content filter to shadow-ban these.

> I asked Twitter if they they could help out and ban twitter accounts that were posting scam tweets that included links to the rouge fiddles.

So they basically sent a message to Twitter saying "We're knowingly hosting malware and we don't intend to remove it, here are some examples"?
Blocking cryptominers or other script isn't possible because of JavaScript's nature as Turing-complete language, much less with new shiny WebWorkers/PWAs. It's also not just a minor annoyance when miners, trackers, and all kinds of other nefarious or just plain garbage scripts drain your batteries and consume power/bandwidth for no other reason than browser vendors being busy to develop webapp platforms and world domination schemes rather than declarative and privacy-focussed content consumption/authoring ... browsers.
I read a while ago that there's a platform to access videos in some block chain, similar to youtube. Don't know what became of that though.
Let me put it this way - as an European, I have literally never been to a city which is divided into blocks like the American cities are. Every time TV shows/movies mention "oh he ran 5 blocks!" I have no idea if I'm meant to be impressed or disappointed by the distance.
The split between sexes might be understandable by different preferences for outdoor activities, a gradual regional variation would be explainable by different probabilities to actually have lightning storms there but why these sudden jumps? Different reporting mechanisms with data going missing or some thresholds or something like that?
> Never heared of boingboing.net

That's a genuine surprise! You can read about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boing_Boing

> > Steven Crowder's hate channel

I don't see this phrase in the article, perhaps it was removed. But, regardless, it seems quite apt in this context: https://twitter.com/gaywonk/status/1134264395717103617

> I don't think it's a very trustworthy source of information

Use of a single, seemingly accurate, phrase seems like an odd reason to distrust a source
Not for the things described in the article, no. If you really just want to document things, you can host videos by yourself and just offer them for download.

What makes youtube important isn't that they host your videos, but that they get people to watch them.
The easier method is to only log into Google in the private tab. That's what I do.
That's about to become a problem once a sufficiently large share of humanity is economically obsolete and not worth feeding by the industry.

With an automated agriculture and seed production in the hands of a few companies (among which Monsanto/Bayer), it becomes trivially easy to start producing GMO seeds that are toxic to humans in massive amounts.
> It only makes sense if you have nearly free energy that you can dump into the process and don't care about loses.

That's kind of the case in a few different places though - e.g. Solar is "free" and the losses don't really matter in many places.
Boom is one of the early hardware startups in the world of software startups, so it's quite notable actually. The only problem it has it that it's doing something hard.
> If you sell technology, then the last thing you want is to convince people to buy something they don't actually need.

Or anything, really.

When I worked sales (non-commission, thank goodness) I was often in a situation where management wanted me to push certain products. I never felt comfortable with it, and ended up being told repeatedly that I needed to do better.

Luckily, I was incredibly good at helping people buy what they needed, and so I sold a lot of product, and management didn't want to rock that boat. I even had people who would come to the store, ask when I worked, and then come back later to get me to help them instead.

I attribute this to being knowledgeable about the products and, as you said, never trying to convince anyone of anything. They asked questions, I answered them with as much detail as they wanted. Super simple for me and never hurt my conscience.

The problem is that very few of the other salespeople there understood the products to that degree at all. They learned everything they knew from the sales stickers, boxes, and brochures at the store. They knew nothing that the customer couldn't discover if they spent enough time reading. It was still helpful because they could get the customer to the rough area quickly, but not much beyond that.

The company did not pay me enough for the service I provided. I was there until I got a better job and that was all.
I’m definitely no relationship expert, but the “experts” often talk about the difference between “dependence”, “interdependence” and “codependence”.

Edit: Just in case it wasn’t obvious, “interdependence” is the only one that is considered healthy.
I disagree.

If you had your own website where choices of this kind need to be made.. sure, you can go ahead and make determinations based on principle. Your own definitions and evaluations of Nazism, evil, eviler and such will shine through, especially the priority list. Your own values will shine through the "what worked?" Step. Overall though, it would be totally fine. You are a person (presumably a decent one) and your principled choices are a great way to govern your website.

YouTube is a major part of global media, a major subsidiary of Google/alphabet and a major channel through which democratic politics, speech and social life is conducted around the world. YouTube makes more mayors, parliamentarians an public intellectuals than they likely even bother to know about.

It's an institution, in every sense. Ways of doing things that are perfectly workable for a person do not translate to institutional scale.
I often get the old generic “an error occurred” nonsense. I’m not signed in. Tin-foil-hat-me wonders if I’d see it as much if I were...
>If they started banning all Muslims from their platform, would you be okay with it?

No, but again, that would already be illegal, whereas Google demonetizing content due to violence is not.

Moderating or banning content for any reason is not equivalent to discrimination against a protected class, but fair enough - "absolute, irrevocable, and arbitrary" regarding content and accounts, where legal.

My characterization of the rights Google has over user supplied content versus the rights users have over Google is still far more accurate than not.
I liken it to drinking water.

No “significant” innovation has been done to H2O in a while. That hasn’t stopped plenty of companies getting built on selling what most people with disposable income can also get in high quality for free.

And much like already paying for iCloud, Google Drive, One Drive, or Dropbox, most companies that “subscribe” extra for water delivery to the water cooler in the break room, already pay a water bill.
From this reprehensible API, "enriching" a simple candidate key (e.g. email addr) (slightly edited for brevity):

https://docs.fullcontact.com/#data-add-ons

{ "gender": "Male",
"name": {
"given": "Johnathan",
"family": "Doe",
"middle": "David",
"prefix": "Mr",
"suffix": "Jr",
"nickname": "John"
},
"age": {
"birthday": {
"year": 1980,
"month": 1,
"day": 10
},
"range": "35-44",
"value": 37
},
"locations": [
{ "label": "deduced",
"formatted": "Denver, Colorado, United States"
}
],
"education": [
{ "name": "State University",
"degree": "Masters Degree of Automation",
"end": { "year": 1998 }
}
],
"employment": [
{ "name": "ACME, Inc",
"domain": "http://www.example.com",
"current": false,
"title": "Widget Maker",
"start": { "year": 2010, "month": 6, "day": 1 },
"end": { "year": 2015, "month": 10, "day": 15 }
}
],
"interests": [
{ "name": "Quilting",
"affinity": "HIGH",
"category": "hobbies"
}
]
}

edit: Note the arrays, which presumably can return multiple records.
To put it in perspective:

5 months ago Alex Jones was extreme. In this last round, Eli the computer guy was considered too extreme.
Spectector: Automatic detection of speculative information flows
The Superrich Endanger Democracy
Ok, but they’re not blocking CodePen etc. And furthermore, you don’t even need a JSFiddle/CodePen whatever, you can run it on any website that you can edit code on! Is github.io next to be blocked? How about any unrecognized website? That JSFiddle has been targeted by this action is absurdity.