skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I would have though that the CEO of the world's largest investment company would count more than "one single data point".

I said that CEO undercuts your point. You claimed short-term-ism was a "myth," then quoted a CEO saying that a lot of people focus on short term investing, rather than long term investing. Therefore making it not a myth, according to your own source.
Seems to be, according to the creators of nothingprivate.ml: [1]

[1]: https://github.com/gautamkrishnar/nothing-private/blob/maste...
This isn't about using semantic markers to identify inaccurate news. It is about identifying synthetic news.

"A lie will go around the world before the truth has got it's boots on."

-Mark Twain, 1919

He said that way before "fake news". How did he recognize this?

He saw that it's trivial to make a lie people want to tell, and that truth is by comparison less often compelling.

This seems so obvious, but it's so little known. At this point when I read a story online that makes me want to tell somebody else, where I feel "why doesn't everybody know about this", I start fact-checking.

That's all accuracy takes. Just that little bit of skepticism. For example, that Mark Twain quote I gave is total bull. Twain died in 1910 and the quote is actually a distorted version of this:

"Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it;" -Johnathan Swift, 1787

Why do I know this? Am I that conversant in satirical literature?

Nope. The shape of my desire to include that well-known misquotation in my reply signaled me that it might not be real. I'm not kidding. It was too much fun.

So I looked it up, saw the irony, and left the misquotation in to make a point.

That's the force we have to fight. Anything that feels Snopesish is suspicious.

Is it true that Obama was doing the same thing to asylum-seekers that Trump is? No. Is it true that Trump started the whole asylum detention program because he hates immigrants? No.

Is it true that the asylum program has a decades-long and complicated history, that the current administration has focused attention on the border to deflect from a dozen other issues its facing, thereby highlighting the detention program, and that a series of inhumane missteps have been made in managing that program, demonstrably causing a new level of suffering, because the people currently in charge tend to view that suffering as a form of justice for what they believe is a threatening criminal act?

Yeah. That's mostly true. It's also not very much fun to say.
It was unsafe.

Edit: Corrected Link

https://www.cnet.com/news/fortnites-battle-royale-with-andro...
I think you greatly underestimate how much damage even one bad reporter in news organization can be to the entire outfit. During 2016-2018 things were especially bad in the MSM. Even "trustworthy" papers like the ones you listed were "taking the rare step of publishing an anonymous Op-Ed essay". And I'm supposed to believe they don't have a vested interest in the narrative of their story?

Meanwhile the official OIG report[1] investigated the relationship between our intelligence agencies and reporters. Here's something awful from that report:

> In addition, we identified instances where FBI
employees improperly received benefits from reporters,
including tickets to sporting events, golfing outings,
drinks and meals, and admittance to nonpublic social
events.

Anyone with a critical mind can see that these things stink. They stink from a mile away.

1. https://www.justice.gov/file/1071991/download
this is pretty amazing. i buy a lot of costco canned chicken. it's usually $10 for 6cans, 7oz of chicken each can. that's like $3.80 a pound. i know that cans have additional packaging costs but fresh chicken isn't too much more than that, you can usually get it for $6/lb.

i feel like canned chicken should be far below fresh in price. who knows how old these cans are? or how many chickens are actually in each can? the ability to inventory should keep the price pretty constant
Brost! Aha yes, rhyming with "Boast" gives it a nice ring, while the pronunciation and meaning of "Brook" is kind of ambiguous.

I wonder if spies now prefer to be called ghosts instead of spooks because of the latter's racist connotations, or have they reclaimed the term and wear it as a badge of honor? ;)
It looks like the related feature is now in the regular release.
It's often the case that what is blocked prevented more scripts to be pulled, which scripts could pull even more scripts and so on. Those subsequent waves of scripts are not counted as blocked because they never had a chance to be pulled by the first wave of blocked scripts.

I have a tweet in my timeline which illustrate this:
https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/934474012377444352
Which is why one of several things should happen. The first option is that there be legal requirements to adhere to public standards if you are a content distributor. And that any standards compliant client side software be allowed to use the service. In some areas we're in a world where your telephone carrier sells you your telephone, e.g. twitter, apple's imessage, etc.

Other options would be that if you are a content distribution company, e.g. youtube, google, facebook, twitter, instagram, etc. then you cannot have any control of the client side applications that consume the content. Trustbusting would come into play here.

Or legal obligations to follow a user's desire not to be tracked with real criminal fines and jail time applied to executives, managers, and developers who failed to follow the law.
Wouldn’t it be invasive to demand that anyone handle anyone else’s business? There’s two freedoms being negotiated there, and the law origins basically boil down to — by emphasizing the business owners freedom the market should be able to support a solution for the other (or you go build that business, if it is needed). Total freedom in that system is higher than in the one that demands anyone do business with anyone.

R_TheDonald is a forum on someone’s product, there’s a low barrier erected here, they could go buy a url and some servers and continue their speech.
> we are aware of the issue.
> We're trying to sort out how to kill the audio behavior now.

Are you really aware of the issue? The issue people have here is not the fact that the ad is trying to access the audio api per se but that it is trying to fingerprint the users.
The surprising thing about all of this is that sentiment analysis--machine learning algorithms that can interpret the feeling you're trying to convey with your words--is a fairly solved problem.

These companies can easily put a filter over this engagement maximization algorithm and they are choosing not to.
It changed a lot of things. The amount of bugs found by AFL is insane.

http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/#bugs
And CSS. Not sufficient for what? If you want to make a full-fledged program with a weird custom interface instead of a website, maybe don't try to use the browser as a virtual machine?
I've upvoted you because you make a good point, but I disagree. IMO, Fake News, in your restrictive definition, is to modern propaganda what Bootstrap is to modern frontend dev. It's an easy shortcut, widely known, and even talented operators are going to use it because it's the easiest way to control a (domestic or foreign) population. But resources are there, funding is there, to build much more subtle/complex systems if needed. Cut away Bootstrap, and you don't particularly dent the startup ecosystem. Cut away fake news, and you don't particularly dent the ability of troll farms to get work done. We're in a new era, fake news or not.
Just getting rid of the guns for drugs trade would eliminate a lot of Mexico’s violence: Mexico’s gun production is trifling compared to the USA, they would be underwater on gun violence without that illicit trade link.
If that's how you feel, why not disable CSS?
Even if you like the replies, it's overwhelming.
I've noticed that videogames, where killing is normally the main point of them, often justify it by dehumanizing the enemies, but does that make any difference to anybody except worried parents?

For example, Wolfenstein 3D has you killing Nazis which we're already trained to see as valid targets for violence fantasies. Doom's human enemies are "former humans", Quake's human enemies have probes in their brains to make them evil. Sonic the Hedgehog only kills robots, not animals or even Dr. Robotnik who always escapes. But you wouldn't know these things unless you read the manuals or really paid attention. So would a teenage player really feel any different killing non-dehumanized humans instead? Maybe it's just a storm in a teacup when there's outrage at games like this immigrant killing one, Postal 2, or CoD's No Russian level. It all seems kind of perverse to train people that killing is very bad unless it's somebody belonging to a class which has been labeled as "bad" in any superficial way, or a humanoid monster, in which case any amount of gory violence is fine, such as Doom 2016.
To be honest, this looks like a CYA feature to get out, not like something that is actually intended to be used.

They took pains to give the "follow the recommendation" action the most frictionless path possible in the UI - just wait and do nothing. In contrast, this new feature to dial back recommendations is a buried in an obscure menu only reachable by clicking a button labeled "..." in a counterintuitive location. I can think of few ways how you could increase the friction any more.
Hey don't drag satanism into this, Lucifer doesn't serve His followers arbitrary JavaScript!
I don't usually wish cartoonish misfortune on anybody, but I make an exception for the person who decided that the infant changing table should be installed right next to the Dyson air dryer in a certain popular retail store.

That person should have a piano dropped on them.

It's awesome that this young scientist decided to investigate and call attention to this issue, and even better that she's resolved to help come up with solutions!
Been a fan of JS since before The Good Parts book. Used it server-side in Classic ASP, Netscape Server and a couple more obscure runtimes before Node.js.

Personally, I find Rust as more approachable and easier to wrap my head around opposed to Go. Though some of the syntax changes I don't like as much. Waiting on async/await to land in a couple months though.
> We're not talking about people's houses.

I'm talking about private property and the right to do with it as one pleases so long as it doesn't infringe on the rights of others.
When a group of people create a business this doesn't magically go away.

> In the context of business, California has already made that argument for me, making it illegal to discriminate based on political views.

Certain protected classes are legally protected from discrimination, yes.
To my knowledge "advocating violence" is not a political view; this is what the r/The_Donald is being quarantined for.
No, the authoritarian (anti-media, judge filling, etc) and nationalistic (trade wars, rejecting international treaties, etc) policies do. The human stories are just the result of those policies.
I would pay for an ad-free version of Stack Overflow. Take my money, please.
I did, and the first three search results were bbbcycling.com, bigballerbrand.com and a local football club. I think people don't realize how much Google actually localizes search results.
> I’m a ‘frontend of the frontend’ kind of guy. My expertise is in HTML and CSS,

There are 2 different things: documents and applications. These days you can find IDEs running in the browsers, excel spreadsheets, terminals and all other things which are not HTML documents. Yes, you cannot use <ul/> </li> to style an output of terminal `$ tree ` command. This is why you see <div/> soup when you examine HTML of the web terminal output.

As web-assembly becomes more mature, I expect developers to abandoned the HTML/CSS scene and leave it to HTML document template designers so there again can be a clear understanding when you have to use HTML.
A couple years ago the other option was to dump the EDID of the connected monitor (while it was on of course) using Nvidia's display software and then set the EDID data using the same software (overriding the EDID which would apparently get cleared when the monitor sent its hotplug event). If you ever actually removed the monitor you'd have to go remove the EDID data.
You should all check out overload by the original descent developers.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/448850/Overload/
<br /> is syntactically correct HTML5. So is <br>, but that's beside the point.

From https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#start-tags

> 6. Then, if the element is one of the void elements, or if the element is a foreign element, then there may be a single U+002F SOLIDUS character (/). This character has no effect on void elements, but on foreign elements it marks the start tag as self-closing.

From https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#void-elements

> Void elements: area, base, br, col, embed, hr, img, input, link, meta, param, source, track, wbr

The problem with making the SOLIDUS optional for so-called void elements is that the set of void elements isn't finite across time. A new one could be added in the future, which means any document which relies on implicit syntactic behavior requires an updated parser simply to get the most basic AST.

XML and XHTML formalized a distinction between syntax from semantics, permitting forward compatibility for code, like low-level parsers, only processing the syntax.

The WHATWG made the argument that out in the real world syntactically correct documents are almost the exception, not the norm. Because that's true the vision of being able to ubiquitously slice-and-dice documents with a shared syntax but distinct internal semantics was not attainable as a general matter. Any software consuming HTML out in the open universe would always need to be aware of contemporary HTML semantics even for low-level parsing. The insistence on separating syntax from semantics for HTML had a high cost but very little realized benefit.

However, the benefits are attainable within a closed universe, such as a CMS. And this is why HTML5 doesn't require, but nonetheless permits, XML- and XHTML-compliant syntax. It's not even treated as an error or exception, not in the way that other malformed but recoverable constructs are. A self-closing tag is syntactically valid, so there's absolutely no reason not to use it other than convenience. Excluding it out of convenience is perfectly acceptable, but in some situations--e.g. when using the more general and diverse ecosystems of XML and XSLT processors--it can be extremely inconvenient to exclude the SOLIDUS.
Traditional Arabic (fusha) is closest to Modern Standard Arabic. Everyone who said msa or fusha is generally relegated to academic or formal use is not incorrect. But fusha is still widely in use by Muslim scholars (clergy-ish). It is necessary to do an advanced study Islam, Quran and majority of Islamic texts (legal, spiritual, theological) and new texts of a higher academic caliber are still written in fushah today (albeit with voweling)
This would be pretty slick as a new tab chrome extension.
Average users aren't running out of write cycles. SD cards usually corrupt themselves and can be reflashed multiple times before they become physically unusable. If you are willing to pay a premium then you can get a more reliable brand but there are no guarantees that the specific model you bought is reliable. Usually corruption happens in combination with sketchy micro USB cables and power adapters (micro USB compatibility isn't actually a great benefit). Smartphones have batteries so the only thing that matters is that the average power sent to the battery exceeds the discharge rate. A temporary voltage drop for a fraction of a second can ruin the stability of your SBC and corrupt the SD card in the process. eMMC is non replaceable, therefore it has to be more resistant against power loss. Corrupting eMMC can turn the entire device into a paperweight.
I'm curious, when was it right to left?

In computer speak, the way we write numbers in English is 'big endian'. We write the most significant digit first.

The most common 'little endian' system is postal addresses, where we start with the smallest unit (name) then in, some cases, house number, street, city, country.

Note that roman numerals are commonly written in big ending way. So this practice is very old.
Wayfair Furniture Employees Walked Out over Sales to Migrant Facilities
My “solution” is that the VM is a different OS, amplifying the resources required to attack me beyond worth.
correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the reason they moved to Intel chips in the first place because their homegrown CPUs couldn't keep up?

Has that calculus changed in the meantime?
and for me, a third reason is that I don't want to be served malware through an ad.
You may very well pronounce them without a glottal stop. If you whisper the words, you might be able to hear it as a click in your throat.
Really Google do very much care about how content is marked up having a relevant H1 is just the start, use of tables for tabular information, structured markup Hreflang for geo targeting and so on.

The brutal truth is many business websites are terrible
> by banning it we draw lines as to what is acceptable discourse that excludes a large segment of the population.

I don't think reddit is the measure of acceptable discourse. If the_donald was banned it would just mean that its users would have to find another subreddit or site to use, it says nothing about what type of discourse is generally acceptable. Further, I think it's pretty obvious by now that reddit's problem with the_donald is not related to their political ideas since there other subreddits supportive of the president that have had no conflicts with the site admins (e.g. /r/conservative, /r/republican).
Basically every Atom board ever.
> You're right, social science got even less replicable and less scientific.

You'll need to substantiate this claim, of course.

> Yes, you're right. But that doesn't mean that you can ground it in empirical evidence or effectively apply the scientific method of inquiry.

Why not?

> Philosophy is a method of studying human behavior -- it is not, however, science. And for substantially the same set of reasons the social sciences are also not science.

You are simply repeating the old misconception I've hinted at: that human behaviour is off-limits to scientific inquiry, even though it is real and physical. I fail to see why this would be the case. We are, after all, talking about measurable, quantifiable things inputs and outputs regarding human behaviour.
With absolutely no disrespect intended, the hope that we'll forget about the WORA dream is delusional. WORA is inevitable and the Web, for all its flaws (and they are plentiful), is far and away the closest we've ever come. Even on mobile, which was a bit of a setback for the Web as WORA, JS has only been getting better over time. There's just no turning back the clock.

Security-wise, I think the best we can hope for is more and more OS-like sandboxing and isolation, capability-based security, and other defense-in-depth measures.

Privacy-wise, for defeating tracking and the like, ideally I'd hope for technical countermeasures to win the battle, but if we do end up having rely on legal measures, they have my full support, GDPR and CCPA included.

(Random idea for a technical countermeasure against fingerprinting: 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 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?)
How We Make Money at Stack Overflow: 2016 Edition: Quality ads. "...we don’t want to use an automated system that selects some ads for us. We looked at this. It didn’t allow us the control we required to maintain the level of quality we want to maintain."

How We Make Money at Stack Overflow: 2019 Edition: Taking money from Microsoft and Google fingerprinting our users 100+ ways

source: https://stackoverflow.blog/2016/11/15/how-we-make-money-at-s...
PowerPC wasn’t really homegrown.
If you haven't yet, take a look at rust... ;-)

https://doc.rust-lang.org/rust-by-example/custom_types/enum....
A friend got me a pair of Nuraphones for my birthday and they've been great: https://www.nuraphone.com/products/nuraphone

Noise canceling, Bluetooth and analog, good battery life, awesome sound quality. They're a little weird as they use both cans and earbuds. It took me about a week to adjust to the feel but now I can wear them for long times no proble.
Sennheiser HD25: fantastic sound quality, bulletproof construction, easy to drive, and replacement parts (earcups, pads, cables) are readily available and easy to install. I've used them daily for a decade and have no regrets. No noise cancelation, but they block out ambient sounds well. One caveat: they are "on the ear" earcups... if you plan to use them for more than 2-3 hours at a time, then "over the ear" models may work better for you.
I saw these for the first time on monday. The first thing they did was blast all the water in the sink into a fine mist and spray it over me. I can't believe that the people who designed or specified these ever used them.
A regular subreddit would see almost no admin interaction, so if the admins are needing to correct failing moderation every couple of days that's a very bad sign.
I helped moderate a large subreddit teaching people how to buy drugs on the darknet and we had zero admin interactions despite being very close to the line of what was allowed because we were aggressive with our moderation. The subreddit only ended up being banned after SESTA/FOSTA passed.

Edit: It's important to note that there isn't a report function that bypasses subreddit moderators, unless you directly message the admins. So if the reddit admins are having to step in on reports it means that the moderators are ignoring them, either deliberately or due to a poorly managed moderation team (not enough members or time zone coverage).
Makes sense, thanks.

How does uBlock calculate the "blocked since install" percentage?
HTTP has been misused recently though, applications that really have nothing to do with HyperText Documents using it as a communication protocol when a lower level protocol would have been more appropriate...
The fundamental problem seems to be that you are including non-sandboxed JavaScript that you don’t control.

Perhaps you should stop doing that.
In the 2005 era when I was a young video gamer I used to play World of Warcraft. There was a site, Thottbot, that players would use to find out information about things in game. I picked up a keylogger malware from their adservers. One of the advertisers had been hacked and was serving Malware every few thousand ads. Since that day I've used an adblocker and I'll always continue to do so.
I call this “argument by URLing” its literally the least convincing form of argument if someone cant make the argument in their own words.
A lot of those subscribers are sock puppet accounts though, and the quarantine function on reddit prevents accounts without email verification from posting or voting, so there's going to be a hit in activity. There are no quarantined subreddits that have come back from being quarantined, regardless of size, so I think that it's safe to lean towards this subreddit slowly withering away.
Can you explain how the authoritarian and nationalistic policies make humans so eager to get here that try to swim across Rio Grande with their child tucked under the shirt?