skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't so much about the "The Web" but about media outlets. None of the websites I visit (directly) are anything like this.

The fun ends when I click a link to a media outlet. For some reason, most outlets seem to follow this "design advice" unironically and to the letter. I think my personal bounce rate is now well over 50%.

Granted, I'm not a "valuable customer" to these companies. I'm not going to subscribe, I block ads/trackers, I'm not going to register a "free account", I'm definitely not going to install the app and of course I don't want to be notified of anything, ever.

My question is: Who is? Who goes through all the trouble? All these annoyances must be working somehow, to get those last 0,0001% of people who actually care. It must have been A/B tested and found to be beneficial.

Therefore, there is no sense in lamenting it. It's like homeshopping - you might think it is completely idiotic, but really it's just adapted perfectly to its customers.
A key difference to understand between protests in America and in Hong Kong is that there is no division in Hong Kong about the issue. In the US, for example, half of the population opposes Trump and half supports him. There are anti-Trump protests and pro-Trump rally. The US is divided on many issues.

In Hong Kong, the whole population is united against the government. The territory is democratic on paper, but no longer in practice and basically run by the CCP.

(Note, recently moved from the US to HK and went to see the protests for myself yesterday, though I didn't actively participate)
I think it is possible, because it turns out I am right: the quality is much lower when compared directly on perplexity as well: https://medium.com/@NPCollapse/addendum-evaluation-of-my-mod...
That doesn't really change anything I said, pointing out the correlation is very different from tracing the attacks. A better headline for this story would've been "Telegram Faces Cyber Attack During Hong Kong Protests"

FWIW 200-400Gb/s is mildly sophisticated teenager-sized, but perhaps that's who the state actors are paying.
Having met with many open source contributors and maintainers, the one pattern I see from those who do it consistently is that they are usually pretty wealthy or gainfully employed. It's almost like a status symbol to be able to have many open source projects that you can afford to work on for free. And a lot of open source projects are really just part of commercialized software that has been extracted and made available to the public for free, so there has already been some revenue from it.

It is pointless to feel outraged about open source projects being "below the poverty line". Virtually no one is actually being forced into poverty by working on open source projects, and if they are, they're doing it wrong. Open source ventures are primarily a rich man's (or woman's) game.
Great comment, and does a good job of going deeper on my, as you say...terse summary.

The truth is that most of what people do in the name of SOX is cargo culting other people's ideas of appropriate controls.

In this case, you could give admin access to whoever you want. You just need reasonable documented controls around it.
Sometimes I pity myself for I’m currently not able to spend an adequate amount of time with our only child. Until a couple years ago we used to go play in a playground on a daily basis and this helped us properly bond with our child. Even my child’s academic performance was better back then. Now that we are less outdoorsy thanks to being too busy to have fun, we have become weary of our monotony. It is my experiential learning: the less time we spend together, the more we lose in terms of our family bonding.
Currently I'm located in Iran, and yes, many websites that depend on Firebase get automatically blocked (the same goes for medium.com). On top of that, many other websites decide not to provide service to Iran in the first place, so...
The whole article is satire, but I can see how one might believe it isn't. It's too real.
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Honest question, why don't you want them to transition to ARM?
Although even I don't like some usability aspects of Gimp, keep in mind that many Gimp users do not want a Photoshop-like interface. We want Photoshop-like features, which are being worked on.
Isn't it putting the cart before the horse though? Our ability to conceive of and process language developed alongside actually communicating, in an increasingly sophisticated manner. It's not like the "software" was already there, waiting for the "hardware" to catch up.
Oh the irony of posting this via medium.com ...
Chrome and AMP do seem to be part of Google's long term strategy. I don't see them dropping either anytime soon. Well ok they may drop AMP if they finally get it all integrated into the various web specs. but that's a distinction without a difference.
So no.
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Don't be a moron. You knew perfectly well what I meant. (Did I also mean that 'you', a human, should be checking hashsums and FEC by hand for every network packet...?)
The only thing that can serve to enforce the Joint Declaration (and similar bi-lateral agreements between countries) is if the signatories uphold and maintain their expectations of the other.

For the last two decades, China has been testing for any response on the part of the British to encroachments on HK's autonomy. Britain has largely remained mum, failing to call out China on increasing violations of the Joint Declaration and the Basic Law.

Then things really accelerated with the premiership of Xi Jinping, and those tests have come thicker and faster.

While Britain doesn't necessarily have a large amount of leverage these days with its own problems going on, taking a principled stand on things in the public eye is not without its benefits.
The thing I (eventually) realized was that all that advice and techniques almost never help with the current situation you are in. However, it almost always helps with future situations. Rarely do kids (or people, or pets even!) stop their reaction when you use some technique. However, the next time they have that reaction, they will remember what happened before and react differently.

So when my son was a toddler and through his food on the floor, me taking the food away caused a tantrum and made that moment worse. However, the next day (or whatever) when he had the same food, it was much less likely he would throw it on the ground because you could see him remembering what had happened before.

I think of it as teaching my future kid ;)

And so far, it still holds up (my son is 10). If he is arguing too much with his friends, the discussions I have with him about it rarely fix the immediate problem, but I can see it have an impact on future situations. "Dad, my friends were being mean to me, but I remembered we talked about how sometime I talk over them, so I stopped talking as much and they started being nice to me again." Stuff like that.

Also: parenting is fucking hard, I agree, and 100000% agree on being empathetic with them. By far the biggest phrase I use that helps with my son is, "Buddy, growing up can be really tough, and we're here to help as much as we can!"
I wasn't really looking for problems, it's just something I noticed very quickly. Bad luck then I guess. Upon further testing, it does only happen with certain window sizes indeed.

But it's a typical example why front end development with web technologies still isn't where it should it be.

And I'm not blaming the front end devs, the technology just isn't up to the task. The fact alone that you have to deal with problems like this is telling enough.
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I know you don't want to mess with interface, but have you considered a minimal dark theme? Think it might be nice.
That's not a particularly hard problem to solve. Buy good roasted beans, a grinder, and basically any coffee pot. Grinding your own beans before brewing makes a big difference vs. brewing a pot of Folgers.
China is going to use these protests as an excuse to accelerate taking control of Hong Kong.
This is true. Words matter, if OP meant liberals they should've said liberals, not "the left".
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So you're saying doctors are doing their job properly is a problem? How many people with bad eyesight could be high functioning individuals without their eye doctor?
I assume they mean a system that uses existing crypto algorithms, rather than building everything completely from scratch. For example, if the system involves a key exchange, followed by the derivation of a shared secret, followed by symmetric encryption, all of these steps could use existing solutions with multiple available implementations (DH+AES, or perhaps X25519+ChaCha20). Wiring existing algorithms together to form a secure protocol is certainly doable by a competent programmer in a weekend. And in the Gopher spirit, if you really want to implement ChaCha20 yourself, that's much more tractable than implementing all of TLS.
This is terribly dissapointing.

I've been keeping my eye on Purism for awhile now, eagerly awaiting a more polished product lineup before purchasing. It wasn't even really a question of "if" I was purchasing, just a matter of "when".

This has stopped me in my tracks. I hope these issues are addressed by Purism, but I'm not going to keep my hopes up.

A security issue, although not ideal, is something that can be worked through and learned from. However, trying to underplay the severity of a security issue is a red flag for potential systemic cultural issues of the company which are much more difficult to fix than a vulnerability.

The issue of suggesting dangerous defaults for PGP/GPG is also worrying. Considering the target market demographic and the Purism mission statement, one would expect a large amount of research time into the defaults of any security or privacy related portion of the phone.

I hope to see more information on all of this - and I hope to be proven wrong. I'd love to see Purism succeed. We need more players in the security/privacy first market.
Bezos declined to be added, ie photoshopped into the photo.

Bezos wasn’t photoshopped to the photo along with Jurich and Bashir, because Bezos decline the offer to be photoshopped into the photo. Jurich and Bashir accepted the offer to be photoshopped into the photo.

Bezos, Jurich and Bashir attended the event. All three were missing in the group photo. Each three got a offer to be photoshopped in. Two accepted, one declined. That is what the article writes.

"nobody noticed that two people were missing for the photo" is missing the fact that three people was missing for the photo. Bezos, Jurich and Bashir.
Yes, we support restic. I don't have anything interesting to say about borg vs. restic ...
This is fantastic. Can you add a way to sort stories by comment count?
A pattern that I see a lot in parks etc is parents wanting to leave and telling the little kids "5 more minutes!" then after 5 minutes "just one more minute!" or whatever. Pro-tip: kids are not aware of what 5 minutes looks like, make it a specific number of activities: "going down the slide 10 times more", you can count together and it looks initially like a large number. Not a magic wand but works way better than the time warnings.
Japan shouldn't really be passing laws while drunk.
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That was revolutionary for me. I was a poor kid at the time, but a huge fan—so I was able to pay very little at the time to hear it. I was able to buy it again later at a fair price.
Where I live (The Netherlands), if you get caught driving while intoxicated it doesn't really matter if you're operating a business vehicle or not (except lorry/bus drivers for obvious reasons). I don't see why operating a drone while being intoxicated AND on the job should be fined higher than doing the same in your free time.

I still think 4600 dollars is pretty hefty, especially considering the risk (fairly low compared to drunk driving) and occurrance. And your argument that businesses or rich people can break the law because they can afford to... well, the same could be said about every other crime I guess.
The trick is to play random matches and gradually add people you enjoy playing with. We started doing this a year ago, and now we have a small discord server with a few dozen people who are all fun to play with. It's best to recognize things are frustrating by not verbalize it 24/7 as it lowers the teams moral.

Otherwise, yeah it can be terrible.
Actually we have extradition treaties/agreements with many countries so yes if an American were to break the law of another country that country could in fact ask to have that person arrested and extradited.
The Guardian also saw an increase of their circulation - in a dying industry - during the time when they've published WikiLeaks and Snowden documents. Which translates into an increase of ad spending and consequently revenue.
Free software projects not earning significant donations is exactly the same phenomenon, or an aspect of it, as selling software (regardless of license) being difficult. Most software doesn't sell. Not only is it hard to sell software, it's hard to get people to just download it and try it for free. Most software will not find any users, let alone paying or donating users.
There is a threshold, I know too little about the situation to say whether my personal one would be reached if I lived there.
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Does Medium have a team of people here to downvote anyone who points this out? I've seen several comments like this one, and they're dead or nearly.
Almost all foreign travelers to America face more scrutiny of online activity
Or the Block Site extension for Firefox.
It’s a messy process, and we may not be able to see where it’s going, but you can bet that there will be changes in human phenotypes and their prominence over the course of many generations.

>Evolution will have hard time identifying genes to promote, when the minimum unit of change is probably "how smart people are" or "how social people are", both having many more reasons for being favoured by natural selection.

If I understand you correctly, that’s just not true. In his seminal work, The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins showed that the individual gene is the unit of selection. A genotype that tends to result in a slightly stronger preference for a family life is exactly the kind of thing that could become more prominent, even within one or two generations. I’m sure this is happening right now.

>In your particular example, this arguably derails biological evolution completely - the decision to have kids, and how many kids to have, is dominated by economic and (secondarily) cultural considerations, which change significantly between generations.

I was not making a particular example at all. That is the function of natural selection: it selects for the genotypes had by those who have children who go on to have children themselves.

The selection doesn’t have to happen at the level of a preference for kids. A gene related to diligence or conscientiousness or just about anything else can have effects that ultimately cause differential reproductive success for you and your offspring.

The fact that it’s all too complicated for us to model has bearing on it at all.
Then it got me there. And in respect to a satire, then it's a good one. Reverse it and you have a more accurate Webdev '19 Article.
Which modern aircraft does it cost more than? Lot 12 has has an agreed upon price tag of $81 million per F-35A, and lot 14 has been estimated to reach $76 million.
Source: https://www.defensenews.com/air/2019/06/10/lockheed-pentagon...
GIMP has been my goto graphics software since the early 2000's and yes, this is true. Several common tasks that Photoshop has baked in or has a plugin for has to be done manually in GIMP. Since 2.10 the plugins have really improved but it still definitely has a steep learning curve compared to Photoshop. Another good open-source alternative is Krita. It has a really good balance between usability and features with a slick, modern UI.
Lol, I would drag out going down the slide 10 more times to like, 40 minutes.
Building 1500 of the early-adopter version is madness though. What we should be doing is something like what's ended up happening with the much-maligned Zumwalts: build a handful of the gen0 fancy stealth tech and experimental weapons, some of which aren't going to work out. Then take the lessons into the next mass-production system.
Yes, I think it was a great ad campaign. A much inferior airforce posed serious trouble to a big power thanks to their great product.

To be fair, Israel also advised Argentina on air-to-sea surface attack tactics that proved to be seriously good.
I'm sort of glad we've changed our approach. Back in the early days of gene therapy in the 90s in one of the first attempts at curing OTC[1] the medical ethics board decided that the trial could only be conducted on people with a non-lethal version of the disease. It was thought that people whose only alternative to the treatment was death wouldn't be able to say no and thus couldn't give the required consent.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornithine_transcarbamylase_def...
I certainly have! I've tried a few color combinations and themes, but nothing ever fits right. You can create an feature request on GitHub so others can contribute on this idea too :)
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My company would buy into this if there were some kind of boilerplate contract you sold to a business/institution vs the Patreon page you have right now.

Just FYI, you're missing out on some dollars because of that. For better or worse, the bean counters at my work place won't approve anything less. I have a feeling I'm not alone.

If you can quickly whip up some boilerplate business checkout with an invoice, you'd make more than a few dollars today.
Seems to me, the gopher thing to do would be to add a new type, eg E, for an encrypted file.
Also, some open source projects are of the category "gosh darn it, this just wants to exist, regardless of whether large numbers of people are willing to use it and popularize it".

The developer is gainfully employed with another source of income, but believes in that project.
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You should probably use an accounting software.

I used a self-hosted instance of Odoo for my consultancy company. It worked well when I did it right. It worked really bad, and data loss when I tried to use Docker.
Japanese drones are already banned in areas with over 4,000 people per km^2.
Back around 2000 programs were instead expanding until they were able to burn CDs. And apps a few years ago - until they included Snapchat-like stories.
I would be curious if these companies put similar pressure on women to forego their maternity leave, or if the pressure is only directed against men.
It reminded me of various movies where a solid soap inside a sock is used as a weapon. Still I don't think this is what it's about in this case.

Related: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanket_party
Before you pull the trigger wait to see what the latency between the chiplets/memory does to framerates. We'll know once benchmarks are out, but remember not just to look at average framerate but minimums too, you can have high framerate with terrible stuttering.
We do, but isn't that typically when the law was originally broken in the country they are to be extradited to? Not overseas? I'm also aware this isn't the first time the U.S. has done this sort of thing, but it's still very authoritarian.
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The CRM needed to be sophisticated enough to accommodate high standards for data security and access control, several marketing integrations, and the complex data model that resulted from a permissive culture.

I'm NOT an expert but my understanding is that, in terms of complexity and cost, there's a whole tier above Salesforce where you're provisioning servers and installing Oracle or SAP. We didn't need and could not afford that.

And if you're thinking of smaller CRMs like Hubspot, Zoho, Sugar, Apptivo, or building one from scratch, well, we already had many of those. :-) Those are what Salesforce is replacing.

Our IT department is superb on metrics like security and availability. But they don't know Salesforce, and are not the right people to evolve the broader culture associated with data. The org hired a leader with experience doing this sort of thing, and he is building out an internal permanent Salesforce team which will own the thing after implementation is done.
> imagine what the Valley could do with $1.5 trillion

More Javascript frameworks and misused machine learning?
> What saves you from "data corruption and data loss" is backups. But how do you know you have to go to backups if you're not aware that your data has problems?

It doesn't actually. It introduces inconsistencies unless on first detected corruption your filesystem stops all reads and writes until you recover corrupted block from backup and you might not even have it in backup, because backup is not synchronous replication.

> Checksums allow you do know that there is a problem in the first place. If you don't know there's a problem, how can you invoke "recovery mechanisms", automatic or otherwise?

You do your own appropriate checksumming suitable for recovery mechanism that you have. It's hardly as primitive as you think, because you have to respond fast, without corruption, transparently on request, you also have to schedule a check whether you actually need to heal anything, maybe it was a transient error, then mark it as corrupted, find what to resync from where, all of which also has to be fast, which means a bit complicated algorithms with sort of checksum databases on each replica, etc.
Some people interpret the leaving and the coming back as distinct events. When you leave, they think you're giving up, either on resolving the situation or repairing the relationship at all. Until you come back, there's an anxiety-inducing chance that you won't.
Hi, thanks for the feedback.

We think this approach has the potential to develop networks useful in applications where we need to train the weights really quickly for the network to adapt to a given task.

We put in the discussion section that the ability to quickly fine-tune weights might find uses in few-shot learning and continual lifelong learning where agents continually acquire, fine-tune, and transfer skills throughout their lifespan.

The question is, which "super task" do you optimize your WANN for so that it is useful for many subtasks that you did not optimize for to begin with? We think perhaps optimizing a WANN to be good at exploration and curiosity might be a good start for it to develop good priors that are useful for new unseen tasks in its environment. There's a lot more work that can be done from here ...
Seems fairly simple to do! To track these feature requests, it'd be great if you could open an issue on the GitHub repository, so that we can discuss it there too! Thanks :)
Sounds like survivorship bias. The people who are able to start and keep working on open source projects have other income sources, because the current donation model affords them below-poverty wages.

I would like open source to be a viable model for projects run without maintainers needing to be independently wealthy or full time employed elsewhere. This article is pouting out that we’re a long ways off.
Yes, doing it at the application level would be better. But doesn't preclude it doing it at other layers as well.

It's why we have Ethernet checksums, IP checksums, TCP/UDP checksums, etc. Defense in depth.
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