skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>But heavy feeback like "this is malicious content" could be moderated. //

You're just shifting around your trust problem. You need to handle 4chan level manipulation (million of users coordinating to manipulate polls), or Scientology depth (getting thousands of people in to USA government jobs in order to get recognised as a religion). If it's "we'll catch it in moderation" then whoever wants to manipulate it just gets a moderator ...

"Super-moderation": will a dictatorship work here? I don't see how.

"Meta-moderation": you're back to bad actors manipulating things with pure numbers.
Oh my! I didn't believe that code example you just gave, so I had to go look it up for myself. I'm astounded.

https://semantic-ui.com/elements/list.html#list
To be honest, that's probably overboard. You're pretty much never liable for fraudulent fiat transactions. Crypto on the other hand...
It's not just intentional data misuse that you have to watch out for. There's also accidental data misuse and data theft. Users are safest when they aren't being tracked at all. As privacy advocates, I think Mozilla should take this into account.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-22/iceland-s...
>anything compiled with MinGW links against MSVCRT.DLL

It has changed recently, MinGW-w64 supports linking with UCRT instead of msvcrt.dll. Unfortunately, it's almost undocumented[1].

[1] - https://sourceforge.net/p/mingw-w64/mailman/message/36621319...
> 420 Enhance Your Calm

Ha, no way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes

Unofficial Codes
....
420 Enhance Your Calm (Twitter)
Returned by version 1 of the Twitter Search and Trends
API when the client is being rate limited;
versions 1.1 and later use the 429 Too Many Requests
response code instead.[74]
Which one, out of interest? I can imagine all of them being illegal in some member state.
Google is a third party when it is about you (first party) using a Mozilla service (second party).

Mozilla exposes all its visitors to Google, it tells Google what they looked at and when, and more. This is horribly inappropriate if Mozilla touts itself as privacy protecting.
writefreely doesn't provide a public feed, it only one-off sends to servers that subscribe to it
That would require withdrawing from Schengen, and probably the EEA, impacting Icelanders’ travel rights to Europe.
Second that.

For the user, flash applets where super easy to block in general and to whitelist on pages where you wanted to use that particular flash application. Basically the same was true with Java. And for a certain extend JavaScript -- until the ugly DHTML menus arised and websites stopped to be usable without JavaScript.

Nowadays there are only two options: Either you block JavaScript --- and percieve a 1995's web view, in general --- or you let it run on your browser, having tons of programs running which you probably don't want (ads, tracking, that particular application that replaces flash).
Definitely the downside of cheap travel.

When I was young, my grandparents had a little un-winterized summer cottage in upstate NY in an area that was still pretty active with NYC metro area tourists... basically boorish and annoying people swarming everywhere. ("Hey, look at the cow! Moo! <throws rock at cow> Why don't you mooo!") That isn't a thing now anymore, and of course the folks like from every city globally venture off to Mexico, the DR, and various nature-y places now.

Yuck.
I believe it, I remember some subway trips from years ago very vividly.
A different view:

My mom hasn't driven in 40 years (she's 90). She's not a shut-in. Lives in an apartment with 100 other older, independent people. Took the bus until just recently. Goes to lunch with her kids several times each week.

And with the advent of the internet, we want to talk shutins, we want to talk young people online most of their waking moments?
Progressive Web Apps that work in offline mode are still installed when first accessed through the browser; they just don't need to go through the "traditional" method (installer, app store).

"Traditional" applications that are subscription-only are only partially installed, if their full functionality requires always-on connectivity.
A copy-on-write mechanism triggered by `y[0] = 3` would look the same and pass the test you devised, so you can't eliminate the possibility that it exists.

A better way would be to track memory use. A copy being created by either `y = x[[0, 2, 1]]` or `y[0] = 3` would show as a memory increase.
Modern hi-range IEMs come with a cleaning tool. Use it to clean the wax out, and they'll keep trucking. :)
Boeing to work on flying taxis with US firm Kitty Hawk
this is the thing about youtube videos, I Hate ADS!
so when i see a choice between video with ads or a video that has no ads, im goings for no ads flavour.
if i want to see a chemistry video for example, there are many different channels covering the same topic.

I will go for the ad free one every time.

sooo, when you tube demonetizes a video, that makes me more likely to view it, full length, multiple times, if its a good subject.
Im wondering how many others might be in the same boat, and im wondering if YT actually ends up increasing number of views when they demonetize a video
maybe it's worth saying goodbye to "8 reasons why current internet sucks that drive spammy copywriters mad". The whole more-clicks-more-revenue based approach did not do good things to the online content.
sorry, maybe 'snob' is a better word to describe folks who cannot handle the unwashed masses invading their domain. But in seriousness, I understand the impact a bunch of oblivious (willfully or otherwise) people can have on a here-to carefully curated and managed space, I sympathize.
Seems fair to me, giving the nature of the language, the inertia of c/c++ and low level stuff, the learning curve of this domain, the popularity of web/scripting and the 4 years I mentioned.
Nancy Pelosi’s former chief of staff signed on as Facebook’s chief lobbyist
That's not how it works -- most surgeons aren't "assigned" surgeries. They run a practice, focused on a particular disease state, and perform surgeries on their patients to address health issues with respect to that disease state.

With that said, the kind of surgery being performed does have an impact on the body of the surgeon in terms of their posture.
Most environmental health regulations (all the ones that I know of, at least) forbid the use of air hand dryers in restaurants and public kitchens, instead requiring paper towels. That should tell us something.
I think phased retirement is the best approach. We see this in academia all the time and also at NASA. There’s a period of time over several years where people start doing part time work, then even after retirement they’re often brought in for consulting. At NASA in particular, it’s been 50 years since Apollo and NASA is trying to go back to the Moon and these old folk have tons of irreplaceable insight. Invaluable, really, and in my opinion their limited lifespan adds (or ought to add) a significant sense of urgency to NASA’s current efforts.
Went on a roadtrip through England in 2017 with a friend.

Your second paragraph was the reason we didn't like it at Stonehenge. Busses and busses of people, littering everywhere. They had to prohibit going near the rocks, as people would break off parts of it to take home (who in their right mind would fucking do this), draw on them, damage them otherwise... Huge bummer for me and my friend.

On the other hand, wandering through Dartmoor, meeting 5 people the whole day was absolutely one of the best memories of the trip. Easy access, no effort required is exactly the tourist category that we didn't enjoy in the end.
AFAIK spear phishing refers to the fact that the attack is tailored/targeted, rather than mass mailings.
Web pages that don't show anything without JS are broken. Ones that show only a message about enabling JS are worse.
It seems JS;DR was already a thing long before I felt the need for it yesterday, when I simply missed that article about synths at ableton.com because it was broken.
https://indieweb.org/js;dr
> ... I lie. A lot.

Stopped reading there, as the author literally just explained how valid the rest of the article likely is.

Also, all future articles from this author can be skipped as well. Bonus. :)
You think the government does not have secret access to a surveillance system, developed in their own country, more widespread and ingrained into daily life than anything before?
I m really looking forward to the day when we ll be looking back at this era of compulsive selfpromotion with disbelief at the level of kitsch we managed to achieve.
This "captalism or communism" false dichotomy is really preventing society from considering useful alternatives. There are plenty of other systems we could develop.
This. People have forgotten why the World Wide Web was needed to begin with, and nowadays think of it merely as an integrated delivery/communication platform.
Yeah? Thanks for the suggestion. I'm going to take my machine apart and come up with a list of stuff I need and see if it's worth fixing. I bought it in 2011 and used it almost every day since then, so it's definitely in need of some attention.
Is it snobbery to think that maybe those unwashed masses should get their shit together and not trample on the places they've just landed?
Have you actually run the numbers? We could support an earlier retirement age but it would require a major reduction in living standards and higher taxes for everyone else. There's nothing insane about opposing that.
An escape key would also change the way you use the iPad (pro).

I’ve commented in the past about potential workarounds I though I had found, but still haven’t found a solution that works.
"toaster" is pretty common argot for "low-power computer"
Well, after everybody and their mother pushed for 2FA they realized people can still get phished for the 2FA token, so...

If the service that you're running is not made by idiots that will store your password with anything weaker than PBKDF2 then a strong (unique) password is still a good bet.

Human factors are an issue and I believe lack of enforcement and prosecution is another issue.
What does . mean?
> Who are you to say it's useless? Such hubris. They do it because they've been led to believe it's necessary, and in some cases it actually is. Kind of hard to become a doctor or lawyer without a degree. Even if that weren't the case, that doesn't absolve the people who take advantage of them. Victims of fraud are acting voluntarily, but that doesn't make it OK to defraud someone else.

That's why I wrote 'useless'. By that I mean degrees without real job prospects.

> You can't even know others' motives, and yet you choose to assume the worst possible ones. That says more about you than them.

I'm not judging anybody. I know people who took 30k loans without needing them just to pay for a new car, new computer and other non-necessities. They were studying art at a community college. There are many people like that. That's entirely their fault and their debt to pay.
Cool post. One small nitpick:

> Neil describes his pre-university education as “High School”. We don’t have “High School” in the UK - we call it “Secondary School”

Not true at all I'm afraid. Where I'm from (Norwich) we had First / Middle / High School / (Sixth Form or college) splits, alongside other schools that did the Primary / Secondary / 6th split.
Great, the IoT is bullshit. A NoT is much better.
It's not clear from the article, since the author didn't (apparently) get successfully targeted, what the ultimate goal of the attack was or whether they were actually after something from a particular individual. However, it doesn't seem like a well-planned attack if that was the case.
> Do these super talented artistic photographers see the photos they take, even once, after they have taken it?

Nope, similarly the affect of using cameras in museums has been studied before. In real life it's pretty blatantly obvious that 99% of people don't go to museums and galleries for their interest any more, it's all about being pretentious and shoving as many pictures on facebook as possible so their friends think they are cultured. every time I go there are people who never look away from their phone, just take a picture, next, take a picture, next... all the way.

I find it difficult not to be disgusted by it. If all they really wanted was a picture they could have bought a book far more easily, but they don't want a picture, and they aren't interested, they just want to put it on facebook.

I try to ignore them but they often try to make you get out of the way for their important pictures of EVERYTHING if you dare to appreciate something with your actual eyeballs for more than 20 seconds.

Ok enough this thread is not helping my attitude towards people.
Nope, widespread. Try looking at the YouTube frontpage when in a foreign WiFi...
> Resta prohibit explícitament per la ICANN la utilització del domini .cat per a pàgines de gats (cat en anglès), llevat que siguin en català o tinguin a veure amb la cultura catalana.

It's explicitly forbbiden by ICANN the use of .cat domain for pages about cats, unless are in catalan [language] or it has to do with catalan culture.

[1] https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/.cat
You'd be surprised how easily such things change.
The "spear" means it's targeted, but it's still "phishing" - meaning the attack vector is a cloned version of a legit page

I guess this should be called spear-hacking?
It’s the Wild West in cyber warfare right now. Draws lines for the US and UK to follow with plans of action if they are crossed.

The EU is a bunch of small countries and last time I checked there is no EU army or intelligence service. So yes it is a pan-national countries fighting off giants.

NATO needs to have offensive and defensive cyber ware capabilities if they don’t already have it.
Agree that they are very much a business based on how most act, despite some having good intentions.
The kind of people who are not HN readers.
Which no-code platform did you use?
maybe crowdsourcing would be a solution - something similar to "@home" project, only for web indexes/cache - maybe even leverage the browsers via plugin for web scraping. It already kind of works for getpocket.
OP s got a point, the current tourism bubble is mainly driven by peer pressure.
Most of the time you actually know more than you would assume. Even if you barely touched something, if you know about it you at least know what it is, what it can be used for, were to start learning... That's already much more than what average people can quickly pick up.
1. is tinfoil hat domain and i'll ignore it

2. the finance watchdog verifies that balance sheet must close to 0 for everybody when everything is accounted for - i.e. I have 100 libra and I want to buy a printer, there has to be somebody to deliver that printer and take the 100 libra; the gadget shop can't account for the printer disappearing from inventory without accounting for 100 libra coming in, and the chain thus complete. the only thing you'd be able to buy are services and goods outside regulated economy, so sex and drugs?
There are problems that arise in 4 + 1, such as how gravitational orbits aren't really stable and the force between the electrons and the nucleus is too strong to allow chemistry to exist as it does.
The Bar Code
I don't mind if they're actually relevant ads, but they rarely are. Quite regularly, they keep showing me the same irrelevant ad over and over and over again. The logic behind their ad selection completely eludes me.

Maybe I've blocked enough cookies that they actually know nothing about me? But I use plenty of Google services, and I'm generally logged in to my Google account by default.

Maybe the problem is that the things I'm interested in, are things that don't generally advertise much. Not on such broad generic advertising networks, at least.
Whip smart is an ironic choice of words, in the context of political parties.

Unfortunately his appeal does translate down. Even to those for whom his proposed tax cut will be detrimental.

The Mail readers, the people who have been convinced that EU migration has stolen their jobs, the people who want to be in the £50k bracket... And those who are fed up with political spin and disillusioned with politics, the Brexit voters.

They have been led to believe Boris is the answer, whereas he's arguably just the cliff we'll be jumping off of.
'Berkeley' never used only the BSD license.

BSD UNIX used the BSD license (among other things).

There is/were/always will be many projects, departments, professors, etc. doing things needing license at UCB,
and each will choose the appropriate one for their circumstances.
China hacked eight major computer services firms in years-long attack
Clickbaity title implies that all tourists that visit Iceland trash the place and this could not be further from the truth, I thought people were pretty well behaved. This article was about a few bad actors, literally. Iceland’s economy is now heavily reliant on tourism but tourism always comes at a cost and this needs to be factored in when choosing this as your source of income as a country. You don’t hear about the Ecuadorians complaining about tourists ruining the Galapagos Islands because they put a lot of effort into managing tourism there. Tourists are all the same, they just don’t care about your country, deal with it, manage it. Restrict the numbers, increase the cost, use the money to make repairs and clean up the mess. If not then don’t let them in (by making it prohibitively expensive to get there) and find another way to make money for your people.
This was neat, good job!
Fibs, Lies, and Benchmarks (2019)
I wonder how much of this is about the author's ego. They can't or don't want to delve into the (admittedly labyrinthine) world of JS, so there must be a matching lack of ability on "the other side".
did you manage to get that doria reservation for tonight?
This quote from the article baffles me:

> The good instagrammers try to show different ways of enjoying nature. We don't tag places that are off the beaten path that we want to protect as long as possible. Some places have become "insta-famous" without ever mentioning where they are but eventually they become known to everyone.

Wait, what? So you take a picture. Put it on instagram (because you are an 'instagrammer'), but you don't mention the place. But since you are an instagrammer, people want to figure it out and now flood the country in search for that place. Trampling all the nature on their way...

I get the idea of taking a photo once in a while. Mind you, I really enjoy photography. But I found that a photo never does justice to the moment. So I choose to savour the moment before anything else.

Let's hope the future learns people that most of these instagram shots are basically digital waste.
This will make a nice addition to my office computing playlist

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjIYRqpIFecpDSXqCOddU...
I wish the rolling towel devices were more prevalent. I think I've only encountered them once.
I regularly wear hearing protection when I visit the bigger city, and when I'm on public transit; even as an adult.
> Unless we impose stricter limits now

1) What limits are you going to impose on China's satellites?

2) Constitutionally, there's no right to privacy outside of your home.

3) Article title is misleading clickbait
Part of the fallout from fraud isn't being afraid of losing money. Banks and credit unions are generally on your side when it comes to disputing fraudulent charges. The hassle is getting it all sorted out - verifying identity with sometimes completely inept telephone reps, replacing cards, entering new payment information for recurring charges, etc.
I feel this is an appropriate place for a shameless plug about my website, http://ipkitten.com. It offers valuable IPv4 information while also offering a kitten GIF. No ads, no tracking; just cats and IP addresses. Zero lines of Javascript.
Ummm, that is not the record in most people's minds
This isn't even remotely comparable to the tragedy of nature being so carelessly trashed.
Author of the npm module search-index here.

"1- Finding information is trivial"

The web already consists, for the most part, of marked up text. If speed is not a contraint, then we can already search through the entire web on demand, however, given that we dont want to use 5 years on every search we carry out, what we really need is a SEARCH INDEX.

Given that we want to avoid Big Brother like entities such as Google, Microsoft and Amazon, and also given, although this is certainly debatable, that government should stay out of the business of search, what we need is a DECENTRALISED SEARCH INDEX

To do this you are going to need AT THE VERY LEAST a gigantic reverse index that contains every searchable token (word) on the web. That index should ideally include some kind of scoring so that the very best documents for, say, "banana" come at the top of the list for searches for "banana" (You also need a query pipeline and an indexing pipeline but for the sake of simplicity, lets leave that out for now).

In theory a search index is very shardable. You can easily host an index that is in fact made up of lots of little indexes, so a READABLE DECENTRALISED SEARCH INDEX is feasable with the caveat that relevancy would suffer since relevancy algorithms such as TD-IDF and Page Rank generally rely on an awareness of the whole index and not just an individual shard in order to calculate score.

Therefore a READABLE DECENTRALISED SEARCH INDEX WITH BAD RELEVANCY is certainly doable although it would have Lycos-grade performance circa 1999.

CHALLENGES:

1) Populating the search index with be problematic. Who does it, how they get incentivized/paid, and how they are kept honest is a pretty tricky question.

2) Indexing pipelines are very tricky and require a lot of work to do well. There is a whole industry built around feeding data into search indexes. That said, this is certainly an area that is improving all the time.

3) How the whole business of querying a distributed search index would actually work is an open question. You would need to query many shards, and then do a Map-Reduce operation that glues together the responses. It may be possible to do this on users devices somehow, but that would create a lot of network traffic.

4) All of the nice, fancy schmancy latest Google functionality unrelated to pure text lookup would not be available.

"2- You don't need services indexing billions of pages to find any relevant document"

You need to create some kind of index, but there is a tiny sliver of hope that this could be done in a decentralized way without the need for half a handful of giant corporations. Therefore many entities could be responsible for their own little piece of the index.
I was thinking more serious things than sanctions. For example, if Iran launches a cyber attack on the west like the Saudi-Americo wiper attack we shut off their internet for a few days. Hack our infrastructure, we shut down the whole power grid.
Well it depends on the 'place'. Complaining about the common folk using USENET? yes, that's snobbery. Complaining about too many people messing up a natural space? No, that's not snobbery.
I lived in California my whole life before moving to Arizona about twenty years ago. I saw a mountain lion in Carlsbad California right before we moved. It was standing next busy College Avenue waiting for a break in traffic, then trotted across the street. Now living in the mountains of Central Arizona, there is more potential for seeing them. We have had tracks under our deck and very early in the morning I saw one on the street two blocks from our house. Mountain lions can pose a real threat to small children, so literally, pick up your kids with you if you see a mountain close by.

re: stopping development in some areas in California: that sounds like a good idea in general, and in this case I believe that protecting some areas of natural habitat is probably a good idea.