skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well perhaps you should get your story straight because on this page:

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/329763/were-testing...

which is being prominently announced in a yellow "featured on Meta" box you can read:

"If you see any ads that are inappropriate or have any questions about this experiment, please let me know by starting a new question and tagging it with advertising"

and

"If you wish to report an advertisement, please take a screenshot of the ad and paste the URL (if possible) along with the site where you saw it to a comment or answer. I'll report it to the ads team and we can track it down to investigate."

Screenshots? Start a new question with a tag? Track it down? Shouldn't you cut to the chase and have a "report this ad" button built-in so you can immediately be alerted to malware/abusive/inappropriate ads? Perhaps it's not moderators who have the power here. As a non-moderator/employee I couldn't care less what you call the people who do it; it seems entirely inadequate. Run the ads now and if enough people complain or it gets embarrassing - like google and/or microsoft spying on users - then publish a theatrical apology. No, that doesn't work for me.

No, my ad-blocker is never coming off.
> Wouldn’t it be invasive to demand that anyone handle anyone else’s business?

Maybe, but it's a very common demand.
Many RK3399 chipset SBCs (RockPro64, ROCK Pi 4, ROCK960) have alt-mode, they are a bit pricier though.
> They are God-Given

Honest question, what do you mean by that?
So yeah that helps me articulate, but I’m still fuzzy on if there’s a different muscle back there that Arabic uses, or if the answer is “yes, it’s a variant on the same thing”?

I’m a bit of a parrot and so sounds I can’t reproduce draw me in like a moth to a flame. The click sound in some African languages and the very guttural singsong of Vietnamese/Thai are my only nemeses... so far.
/r/news is not left-leaning by any reasonable metric (there is frequently blatant racism heavily upvoted).

/r/politics is only left-leaning because of how heavily skewed right american politics is. Most of their opinions are centrist at best. Their obsession with trump is a bit annoying, but it's only annoying, not actively harmful.
European countries set new June heat records amid heatwave
Yes, but it can be innocent physical intervention.

With airgapped servers, the question is, how do you install updates? There's almost always a way; IT needs it. With those updates, you can get an attack, if the machine supplying the update has been compromised.

For example, even if the update comes via a DVD, some machine wrote the DVD. If you can corrupt that machine, you can corrupt the DVD. Now you have a way to (eventually) get hostile code on the airgapped server.
If anything, I'm surprised that this wasn't created sooner.

Additionally, entire communities exist around shopping celebrities' heads onto naked bodies; this has been a thing approximately forever but no one really cared. Now that it's automated it's "absolutely terrifying"? Like the author said, anyone with a few hours of photoshop training can do the same, it's just faster now.

That being said, news articles like this will be key to generating enough fear to pass legislation about what we can and can't do with software. Not sure if that's a good thing.
> Also the fact that reddit admins had to change their site algorithms to remove it from aggregated results, because posts were being gamed to the front page, implies that the behavior was not normal human traffic.

It implies it's unusual traffic, but it does not imply it's inhuman traffic -- doubly so because the difference has already been explained in a way that doesn't require invoking bots.

Somewhat amusingly, after r/the_donald discovered it could push pro-Trump memes onto r/all by making every post on the subreddit about upvoting content, some other subreddits managed to pull off the same stunt in protest.
> "This is absolutely terrifying," Katelyn Bowden, founder and CEO of revenge porn activism organization Badass, told Motherboard. "Now anyone could find themselves a victim of revenge porn, without ever having taken a nude photo. This tech should not be available to the public."

Or maybe the opposite?

The transition to ubiquitous deep fakes will be very jarring to those who haven't been paying attention. In time, the shock value (and indeed interest) should fade into obscurity.

Pop stars upset about appearing in one of these deep fakes should be much more horrified about another possibility: eventually their talents will no longer be needed at all because it will be possible to produce content free of human placeholders and much more effective at generating money.
Wrong link above:

https://www.cnet.com/news/fortnites-battle-royale-with-andro...

A storm of security issues is closing in on the Android version of Fortnite. And it isn't likely to pass anytime soon.

Developer Epic Games just fixed a security flaw with Fortnite's installer for Android devices, but researchers are expecting a flurry of problems for the online game as it gets more popular on Android.

That's because Fortnite isn't available through Google's Play Store. Epic instead chose an unorthodox -- and more dangerous -- route for the game's fans. Rather than download it through the official Google app store, players need to download the game and "sideload" the app on their Android devices instead.
In the US we have only two political parties that are able to regularly elect people to national offices. So yes, its pretty one-dimensional politicking here.
> Did you know there are atheists/agnostics who believe in "intelligent design"

No, but that's an argument from authority, so maybe if I run across their arguments I'll evaluate them very skeptically, but I'm not going to go chasing down intelligent design arguments. I've looked at too many alreadyl

> "intelligent design" == "creationism" is another proposition worthy of careful thought.

Yes, and after considering it carefully, I found that equivalence to be true. I also found Discovery Institute arguments to be almost entirely deceptive and in bad faith, but you may believe otherwise.
Algae Blooms Fed by Farm Flooding Add to Midwest's Climate Woes
Quartz is shutting down its Quartz Brief mobile app July 1
Fair enough, I always associated PowerPC with Apple and assumed they were the driving force behind it's use.

Regardless, that makes the financial calculus even more suspect as they would have even fewer units to amortize the cost over. But I don't work for Apple, and quite frankly the CPU market could certain use the injection of some more competition.
Apple extends its ARM, gives Intel the finger.
> Always work stop early while you're on a roll, while you still know what to write next.

Oh, that's easy: tests, documentation, ... :)

Seriously though, one way to stop on a roll is simply not to commit the code into the repository, even though it appears good to go. The next day there is a git diff waiting for you. You now have to write a bit of prose in the commit comment to explain it, and that can get the ball rolling.
I’d prefer legitimate api usage be broken than suffer through all the abuses.
Mexico is a failed state
NoScript + Decentraleyes + Random user agent + Self-destructing cookies.
Why don't mainstream newspapers (like NYTimes, Economist, etc) include a list of citations at the end of articles the way that scientific papers do? It seems like this would be easy to do, and would help to restore a lot of trust, because people could easily see if they like the sources being referenced and if the sources are actually fairly represented in the article.
Thanks for the reply.

It's helpful to hear that this is a reality.
The crunchbase story title "Apple Said To Have Bought Assets Of Struggling Drive.ai" perhaps indicates what happened. https://news.crunchbase.com/news/drive-ai-reportedly-closing...
This is assuming additive growth, not multiplicative growth. The expectation is relevant when you have additive growth, but multiplicative growth is the relevant model here because you are increasing by 50% of your wealth vs. decreasing by 40% of your wealth (not adding fixed amounts, e.g., +$0.50 vs. -$0.40). Multiplicative growth also returns 0.95 per unit time, whereas the (irrelevant) expectation value is 1.05 (hence the violation of most people's intuition). Here is some R code demonstrating it:

set.seed(123)

# simulating multiplicative growth

n <- 1e4

init_wealth <- 1

x <- sample(c(0.6, 1.5), n, replace=TRUE)

init_wealth * prod(x)

# analytic model

n1 <- length(x[x==0.6])/n

n2 <- length(x[x==1.5])/n

rate <- (0.6^n1) * (1.5^n2)

init_wealth * (rate^n)

(Edit: formatting, and wording for clarity)
But you know, we wouldn't stop serving ads until we work it out... no no imagine the loss in revenues.
Because he runs a vast, violent empire that smuggles illegal drugs?
Maybe learn to recognize when you're being trolled and quit taking your scrum certification so seriously
It's probably just a mistake and not actually trying to collect anything.
> Such a logic would probably be expressed explicitly if it was key to the message.

Not if you don't want the audience to critically examine it. Commercials don't say "product X will give you a happy family" - they just happen to show a happy family using product X.
You are mistaken. In a car with an automatic transmission, the engine RPM is related to the drivetrain speed, but not directly proportional. The input and output shafts of the torque converter always spin at different speeds during acceleration.

You can try a similar experiment to the one you proposed in a car with an automatic transmission. Stand firmly on the brake (with the parking brake engaged and nothing in front of the car, for safety), put the car in drive, and give it some gas with your other foot. You can easily get the engine to more than twice the idle speed without the wheels turning at all! (Don't do this for extended periods. It makes the torque converter get hot.)
AMD is beating intel on price and performance and they have a fraction of the resources of Apple.

Intel is behind on process and has been for a couple of generations right as everyone hits a process wall.

For the first time since I got into computers in the late 80s Intel looks vulnerable.

As to whether Apple would go ARM on a MacBook who knows, I’d guess they wouldn’t but they could straight buy AMD in cash so it’s not beyond the realm they could tool up for desktop class ARM.
I also have an Arabic book (which was super fun to read on plane post 9/11, oops), that likens it to Scottish's glottal stop, which seems right on in retrospect:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4MJUi03GHM
It was already possible to write CSS that adapts to various screen sizes before CSS became a privacy issue (ie. before CSS 3); except it was called regular CSS, not responsive.

My guess is the difference between "regular CSS that adapts to screen size" and "responsive CSS" is that the former only has a single set of rules while the latter has different CSS rules that get enabled/disabled based on screen size.

Conditional rules -> different content gets loaded -> server gets notified of what rules are enabled -> fingerprinting
This change drives me nuts! Earlier, listening to a song brought up similar songs. But now the recommendation list is filled up with old videos that I've already watched and have no relation to the song being played. Why would I want to watch a Paw Patrol cartoon after listening to a sad Bollywood song?
Sequoia-backed unicorn Medallia files for 2019 IPO
I think part of professionalization would include your professional organization having come up with a set of standards for password handling that must be followed under penalty of professional sanction, having those available online and in printed form, and having courses that programmers could take to help them work under those guidelines efficiently.

Programming seems like a job particularly suited for professionalization, simply because programmers have to constantly be learning new things, and that's a thing your local org could provide to keep the lights on rather than relying completely on dues payments. If they were a blanket organization, they could even control supply through raising standards, and could certainly detect wage-fixing collusion easier than individuals.

Having clear guidelines and a place to find instruction that supports those guidelines makes "If you think you know what you're doing but don't?" a pure ethical problem. You either checked or you didn't.

Maybe look to the National Association of Realtors for a framework.
They sure have a lot of fake nude-but-censored photos in this article. I think one or two would have sufficed to show how the technology works.
Cheaper to desalinate, but you have to drill and pump it to the desalination plant. Compare that to the instant availability of unlimited amounts of sea water and it might not be such a good deal.
Does that count to cite oneself? Doesn't pass my veracity check.
Can we have the liberty of a society with information abundance without personal responsibility and coping mechanisms to deal with questionable information on the fringes? At some point humans need to adapt to information abundance. Historically adaptation to the new and scary required the subject to be immersed in the new context and most likely felt uncomfortable at the moment.
How do you in a democracy force a company to do this?
Please don't break the site guidelines by getting personal, even if another comment is wrong or broke the guidelines itself.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

People assuming that someone with opposing views must be disingenuous, astroturfing, a shill, or bad-faith actor, is so common on the internet, including HN, that it is probably a cognitive bias we all suffer from. I've written about this a ton, and we do everything we can to counteract the toxic effect this bias has on discussion. But that doesn't make it ok to lash back at someone.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
Have you heard of those projects trying to defeat behavioral tracking where, whenever you visit a page, it simultaneously opens a bunch of other random pages in the background, hidden from you, and simulates activity on them, the idea being that Facebook has no idea what actual websites you like to visit because it's lost in the noise? What if instead, whenever you visit a page, your browser or a plugin or a proxy server or whatever opened the same page simultaneously in a bunch of hidden background windows, with a random configuration of audio enabled/disabled, user agent, screen resolution etc fingerprinted characteristics?

That way, the page displays correctly for you, but the server has no idea your actual fingerprint.

There's some trickiness to get this to work right; the collection of fake fingerprints would have to have a certain amount of persistence, because if it was regenerated every pageload, the server could probably tell that only one fingerprint kept showing up repeatedly. Maybe each fake fingerprint should have a completely realistic-seeming browsing session, happening in parallel with your real one, with half the collection continuing on browsing even after you're done? Except wait, ads could just separately target every fingerprint, and it doesn't matter if 99% of them are fake as long as its accuracy for your real one is still good. To defeat that you need the randomized activity using your real fingerprint.

The ideal would be if this was done through a proxy server, which would then know every fingerprint ever sent to a website. It could then provide you with a random collection of past fingerprints that have actually visited the same website, so every visitor gets a collection of fingerprints randomly drawn from the same "bag", rendering visitors indistinguishable.
Baggage claim being far away from arrivals, and baggage claim being near the exit, are orthogonal requirements. Baggage claim could be close to both the exit and arrivals simply by having arrivals be near the exit. But airports are intentionally designed such that you have to walk pretty much the entire length of the terminal to go from arrivals to baggage claim.
Wikipedia link: https://bit.ly/2ZJLGPi (because HN isn't dealing with a period at the end of the URL)
Agree. I wish the entire internet looked like GNU documentation page.
This. on the side,

> banner or overlay that darkens the page

Sometimes with ABP or UBO you can right-click and blow out that <div> which their JS would have cheerfully made invisible. Also, sometimes FF's "reader view" blanks everything but the meat of the article even if the article was hidden. (you probably know that-- for future reference and any passers-by, until the world breaks it all again. vive la révolution)
> And for what it's worth, I don't think The_Donald should be banned either. People have a right to speak, and we can ignore them if we want - or we can at least try to engage.

The thing is, with The_Donald, I don't think anyone could reasonably actually try to engage. Their subreddit has and had some of the most heavy-handed moderation. Read their rules on "concern trolling" [1] to get a hint of what kind of things they regularly removed. If you read their full rules, you quickly realize that not being a Trump supporter is a top level rule as well. They were a self proclaimed endless rally, and anything that doesn't fit their narrative was removed.

In my opinion, how notoriously heavy handed their moderation was probably amplified how upset the admins were that they had to regularly step in and clean up content. Anti-trump comments are almost always removed within minutes, and so the idea that they were incapable of moderating away things which violated the site guidelines is easily busted.

> "Deplatforming" whole groups because of their political views

But it's not because of their political views, it was because of how they ran their community. There's a huge difference here. There are plenty of conservative communities that remain on Reddit today. The difference is that those communities have chosen to cultivate and moderate a different environment. T_D cultivated a community that produced problematic content on the regular. They amplified the visibility of that problematic content by hiding downvote buttons and making it more difficult to report. They prevented any sort of self-policing in the community with heavy handed moderation that removed any dissenting opinions on almost any topic. For all the cries about censorship, censorship was at the heart of how T_D was run. Any hopes that you had of interaction with better adjusted individuals providing a counterbalance to the predominant content were removed.

In short, T_D is quarantined because they have intentionally developed a toxic echochamber that amplified content that the reddit administrators view as objectively bad enough to ban site-wide. It's not a matter of political views, it's a matter of views on how to run a healthy community, and a true community T_D is not.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/5asj7o/announce...
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And?

The mental exercise was if a human could last a significant time away from the aid of other humans. Not if one human can continue humanity.
Does it automatically block ads that try to access audio?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20288768
I still deal with BFRB and I've had a few instances of old tics resurfacing, but a combination of practice and learning much about my disorders and cognitive science has helped me tremendously with everything else, such as nervous tapping, twitching, repetitive audible excitations, speech impediments and the like. I believe even my BFRB will eventually no longer be a problem. They all subsided at different points in my youth, mostly after conscious effort.

When I was first placed on medication at five, I developed a pretty awful tic wherein I would swallow every five seconds. I was sent to therapy and the therapist first thought I was lying to get attention and then thought I was crazy and needed more medication. This tic was causing gastrointestinal distress, dental issues from lack of saliva, and was a major speech impediment for me. My esophagus would get pretty raw. This was my first experience in learning how to deal with these on my own.

One tic that seemed to go away without extended cognitive effort (on account of its lower frequency) was extended periods where I would laugh uncontrollably over nothing for half an hour or longer until I was red in the face and choking for breath and my diaphragm was convulsing. This lasted for a few years until adolescence. My family thought I wanted attention again and would punish me when I couldn't stop at their command. It's honestly insane how some people respond to behavioral anomalies in their children.
To be honest, you could say HN is just another forum (although it's more like a news & comment site with less self-posts by character) but Reddit's place in the social media landscape gives it a lot more power in addition to the loss of a community when it is banned from there.
It’s completely insane. Can you imagine a TV station receiving ads on tapes and playing them to their audience without looking at them first? Can you imagine TV stations occasionally showing ads containing porn, urging people to kill, showing extreme violence during cartoons, or containing specially crafted audio that blows out your speakers, and the TV station just shrugs and says they try their best to stop these things but they can’t stop everything?

Imagine a TV ad that tries to make your phone call a 1-900 number so they can rip you off, and the station says they don’t know where it came from but they’re trying real hard to put a stop to it. And somehow watching the ads themselves before broadcasting them never crosses their mind.
The mod was removed because they violated Reddit rules of not using mod positions to promote financial gain. The mod was promoting his gofundme campaign and broke the rules. This same mode also delisted three other mods, which was making it harder to moderate the subreddit.

Interpreting these actions as site admins intentionally making it more difficult for moderators of that subreddit is cognitive dissonance.
I dunno - "We have THE CARROTS" does not resonate with me.

Or are these carrotoids really real meat, meat that's grown in some unholy lab, meat that never sees the light of day, never knows a mother's care, meat that develops into unspeakably deformed teratologies?
There are plenty of apps out there where you cannot apply HTML document semantics or that would be a waste of time (money) doing so.

If using canvas or web-assembly would be easier/possible than using HTML tags for a rendering layer, nobody would ever disturb the HTML document designers with this div "soup" :)

Semantic HTML serves 2 purposes: lets search engines correctly index your content and makes it easier for a human to edit this HTML directly. Other than that, there is no other reason which requires semantic HTML.

True accessibility is achieved through other means.
What’s horrifying is the part where the nude image is created and published without its subject’s knowledge or consent.
While not offshore, the Great Man-Made River project [1] in Libya exploits the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer [2] which may have 150,000 km3 of groundwater (7x the volume of The Great Lakes), or if you’re in the UK enough to fill Wembley Stadium 131,682,907 times.

It’s a significant amount of water.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Man-Made_River

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nubian_Sandstone_Aquifer_Sys...
Because PEs have a legal definition under the law.