skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the Firefox add-on page:

> Many websites don't allow user comments, or disable comments after a certain period of time. comntr bypasses these Orwellian restrictions by allowing anyone to leave a comment on any website, as well as read comments left by others. Furthermore, your comments cannot be censored by the website administrator.

I like the concept of the add-on, but calling moderation of your comment section "Orwellian" is pretty out there.
I like to use my Mac as a normal *nix machine, however I have a lot more trust in my iPhone from a security POV these days. I can see a case for a much better desktop/laptop security model.
It isn't technically hard. What is hard is making it a priority. Many countries have exchanged long term competitiveness for short term gains. Decommodifying housing would impact those who made it their business.

The process itself would be a range of options. From removing undue leverage that make people buy things they can't (or don't want to) really afford so they are reliant on rising property values, to absolute government intervention. Of course the most likely would be somewhere in between. Where the government by allocating resource (whether that is building permits, land or directly with construction) competes with the market.

And this isn't really the market not functioning as such. The market is accurately pricing things like housing high because of its importance. The problem is that eventually the market will also reflect the decreased competitiveness of important things being expensive.
Why would the current right-wing Australian government fund a socialist station?
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I suggest disrupting the aeronautics industry by introducing development practices from web/game development. What could go wrong?
Comment collapsing is a useful feature. The problem with giving the largest weight to the most upvoted comment is it also gives a large weight to all replies (unless they're heavily downvoted). It's useful to be able to skip those replies once they get less interesting.

However, this does lead to yo-yoing: reading comments downwards, going back up to find the right collapse button then reading down again. It'd be useful to have a more direct "fast forward" button. Though admittedly I haven't thought this through in terms of UI design.
Sturgeon's Law - 90% of everything is crap. This has always been the case.

To make a compelling argument, you have to show that it's somehow worse than it used to be. For my money, the peak quality now attained by art is definitely better than it used to be. Why, even just in music, within the past decade the musical genres thoroughly burst their banks and now I find most new music defies classification - I can only listen in wonder. Not all of it is good, to be sure, but vast amounts of it are at least interesting.
A combination "20 - 40 - 60" on a dial that goes from 1 to 60... Sounds like an equivalent of a factory-default admin/admin login credentials.
I wonder if it really was the default combination that the safe was bought with, and the owners never bothered to change it. :)
Gee what could go wrong? I mean did not facebook just agree to the biggest 3 billion dollar fine in history?

I do not think Mark Z's and facebook's past actions bode well for their cryptocoin venture
> That's just not how digital ad campaigns are run

I appreciate you trying to fight the argument that's being made, and you have a background for a valid opinion people are dismissing.

That being said, I'm on the buying end and work a lot of different channels, and would argue that there are definitely direct buy models that SO could utilise.

Lots of smaller sites have started offering direct buy inventory in larger quantities recently, and pretty much every media package I've bought this year has had some internally served display with it. I'd expect this to work its way upwards, and would fully expect something self serve to come soon for internal buys.

Also, SO seems prime for a self-serve product akin to AdWords, Reddit, or even Facebook. We already buy on those channels (even though through an agency, the agency is just buying self-serve on their end - and they put their insurance, tracking and ASBOF & TI on the cost).

That's be a really cool project actually, self-serve ad platform for a forum/knowledge base.
> automation and artifical intelligence

Isn't this supposed to be good for us and make people's lives better? If that's not the case, then it's really something to be worried about.
Thank you! This works great! Another app for my list of portable tools.
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Super 15% Slower Than AMD Radeon RX 5700XT
These were generally called metaweb tech when they were popular about 15-20 years ago.

The problem was that everyone had to have a particular author's plugin to see the extra content.

Some of them were better than others, allowing cross referencing, citation insertion, and a number of other sophisticated features.

I don't know if they still are around.

Sites like reddit and hn are really inverted versions of this concept, fixing the basic problem that most sites don't have commentary.

What may be an interesting hybrid is to search the commentary aggregators when you land on a site and then show the hn/digg/whatever comments and permit replying if the credentials are known
Thank you for wording that.
This should be the first question in any climate change discussion.
Construct Validity in Psychological Tests (1955)
I actually wonder about this. SO's typical user is tech-savvy, and I would imagine many access the site with adblockers on (I do). So I suspect my value to the site in terms of ads is close to zero. I would happily pay a monthly subscription to know that the service will remain, given how much value I derive from it, if that gave me the assurance that they won't track me with ads/cookies/fingerprinting.

Their other income is from job ads, and I guess the value is that they have lots of data points about their logged in users (with scores high enough to imply they've interacted with the site a fair bit), in the form of what is posted, worth more than the aggregated list of websites that a user sees (as reported by ads).

I'd love to know more about this, as I have very little understanding of the economics of serving targeted ads. How much can they be making from ads?
This is actually a very valid question - what is the difference between a company token, a casino chip, a "reward point", company scrip, gift cards, Steam account balances, Steam hats, unlicensed money transmitters, hawala banks, bearer bonds, Jaffa cakes, e-gold, Liberty reserve, Scottish banknotes, shadow banks, Libera, Canadian Tyre money, the Black Sheep Bank, a piece of paper with "IOU £10" written on it, a cheque written on a cow, an unpaid invoice, a Totnes pound, a Zimbabwe dollar, and Bitcoin?

Broadly they fall into these categories:

- debt-like: bonds, banknotes, credit balances, invoice/PO pairs, chips, and so on. Things where theoretically you could redeem it for the face value of real money. These should appear as liabilities on the balance sheet of the issuer. There may be problems if this gets very large.

- redeemable for services: Canadian Tyre, most gift cards. If you look closely at a lot of these things they will have an "equivalent cash value" of a tiny fraction of a penny printed on the back.

- "those that belong to the emperor": state-issued money

- security-like (Howey Test, and similar rules elsewhere): this is the big one for cryptocurrencies, since it depends very heavily on the marketing. If Libera is floating this may be a problem. If it's a normal token redeemable at a par value, it's not.

- non-redeemable consumable or durable items that are commonly used in barter: can usually be distinguished from money by not having a face value of any kind. Steam items don't look like money even if they can be traded.

I agree that a lot of this is combining people getting upset about cryptocurrency with people getting upset about Facebook, but in both cases there are underlying valid points; there is also potentially a TBTF issue - how much is Facebook going to issue, and what effects would its huge market dominance have?
The hand-licking incident is more like /r/kidsarefuckingstupid.
> Unfortunately nobody really knows why female names are feminine and male names masculine

It was always kinda suspicious to me that in Polish (and other Slavic languages I think) feminine nouns end in -a, and genitive of masculine nouns also ends in -a.

Genitive denotes belonging among other things. So, if you have name "Mirosław" the female version is "Mirosława", and accusative for something that belongs to Mirosław is also "Mirosława" (for example "Mirosław's car" is "samochód Mirosława", and "Mirosław's wife" is "żona Mirosława").

It's kinda fucked-up, but it's not something people consciously think about, and at this point I think it's harmless.
The US are the anomaly. In most of the developed world, higher education is actually quite affordable. Technical education is also the easiest to get funding for.

It turns out financial limitations are the easy factor to solve. Other, non-financial limits to social mobility are so much more stubborn.
if you're moving from Firefox to brave you do notice the speed increase. FF on my work laptop (i5, 16GB of ram) and my s8 is significantly slower that brave.
> Assigning the flaws of corporatism to all of capitalism is to miss all of the good capitalism has done for the world.

At what cost, though? Sure: us Westerners are way better off than 50 years ago, but the effects that capitalism has had on the environment (especially global warming and natural resource exploitation) are on the best way to totally wreck the planet for our children, and I don't want to get started on the plight of those in the poorest regions of the world that have gotten even poorer in the same timeframe.
Google Sidewiki is what I was thinking of, too. And as I recall, people were not a fan. Giving up control of your website to these anonymous, semi-invisible comments seems like a bad idea.

The description calling content moderation "orwellian" is also concerning. I think at this point we've all seen how twisted unmoderated comments get. If the platform is built on this premise then I can only guess how toxic such a community will become.
Agreed - the only reason ad-blocking is even a thing is because:

- Overuse of tracking, including nefarious attempts to de-anonymise users through excessive fingerprinting

- Crappy, distracting, in-your-face ads

- Ad networks serving malware (rare, obv)

If ad networks focussed on ridding the world of these issues, more people would be happy to let the ads through and help support content creators through ads.
"Not based on science", how? I have stated my observations, and have formed a hypothesis from them. The first part of my prediction is untestable because of a precondition we cannot meet (an instantaneous 100% reduction in carbon emissions), but the latter part is testable.

Let's just wait 20-30 years for the permafrost to thaw, and then re-analyze the jet stream, shall we?
Homebuying Difficult for Americans in Three-Fourths of Markets
They definitely can't reasonably do that but in the long run I don't think Brave has the resources to maintain a hard fork from Chromium. That's the main reason I don't really get the Brave hype when Firefox does the job just fine and is actually a fully independent codebase instead of a relatively shallow customization of Chromium.

The only argument that keeps coming up is that Brave has a built-in adblocker but it's not like installing ublock origin is very challenging in Firefox (and on top of that your extensions are automatically synchronized if you use the Sync feature) and the relatively blurry monetization scheme of Brave makes me think that in the long run this built-in ad-blocker might prove a liability more than a strength. I'll take my ad-blocking independent, third-party and non-profit, thank you.
> Thank the French for that, who are the main reason behind the EU legislation about Cookies.

This again is wrong. The problem originated by publishers who track users and disrespect their privacy for many years.

The regulation that happened after a very long time of people urging governments to do something about that, makes this initial problem better visible.

Still it is important to understand: no cookies are needed at all for publishing content.
maybe a blanket precautionary principle regulation would work better: manufacturers have to prove it is not harmful
Good thing we have pirates then.
Car seat belts and helmets don't prevent accidents, but they surely improve survival rates.
I'm really confused as to why they do this: there must be hundreds of people and hundreds of millions of $s working on the YouTube algo. I'm seemingly in the minority that thinks it's largely brilliant, it regularly uncovers things that are related to stuff that I'm interested in but new takes on them, and sometimes throws up some absolute genius recommendation from nowhere. However, like you, my "Up Next" selection is plagued by videos I've previously watched! It's horrible UX.
> Downvoted comments (i.e. with a score < 1) reduce their placement on the comment thread and will appear desaturated to other users deemphasize them.

This desaturation is the most annoying misfeature of Hacker News IMO, it makes reading comments very hard and negates the "bandwagoning prevention" that not showing a visible score has (which is a good idea). I'd rather judge for myself a comment's worth than have it faded out for me.

(yes there are workarounds, like using Stylus to override the CSS, but my comment is against the misfeature not trying to find a workaround)

On a similar note, i see a lot of dead comments which i guess are marked as dead by getting flagged too much - essentially using the flag as a super-downvote and driving whoever is flagged out of discussion, not just because of faded out text (which can be worked around) but because you cannot reply to dead comments. The idea is only goon on a surface level (stomp out the bad commenters) but in practice it often backfires since if someone is spreading misinformation and their comment is killed, you cannot reply to it with the correct information so all what people will see is the misinformation.
The scooters have all the hardware required for a moderate amount of electric braking already. Emergency braking is still a physical brake, and cannot be actuated through software.
You're assessment of me as a "really unpleasant person" and other critics here as "internet nerds" also indicates a lack of understanding of the site's rules.

Please refrain from personal insults and take the time to read the guidelines before commenting further.
I guess StumbleUpon had comments feature too.
Can you please open-source this?
How Theresa May’s Vacation Revelation Convinced Her on Climate Change
Please, let's not go back to a debunked theory. Global Warming models did not work and we phased them out a long time ago. The real term for the past decade on climate science is Climate Change and Extreme Environment. There is a lot more data on this graph if you cross fossil data and ice sheet research.

Science is the only thing that everyone can agree with. I feel that it is our job to be accurate and not just do lazy one dimensional research. We might solve the wrong problem and just damage the environment on the process.
No smartphones for my kids until they reach 18.

Human interaction cannot be replaced by a screen and a keyboard.
This is FUD. Apple has clearly stated that MacOS and iOS will stay separate platforms. It makes no sense to sell laptops at all if they make them into iOS style appliances as you have described.
Some people also drive cars without seat belts or motorbikes without helmets in name of freedom.

I rather have the inconvenience of using them, even if they don't prevent accidents.
"One popular "trick" for obfuscating voting manipulation on Hacker News is to link to the Hacker News's /newest page of new submissions (instead of a direct link which would otherwise make voting manipulation obvious), and asking friends to upvote the submission from that page. This trick doesn't actually work."

I use /newest to find and upvote new stuff all the time, are my votes being silently ignored?
This might be an idea for RSS readers.
Agreed, also while they can not be censored by the administrator of the website, they can still be censored (or moderated) by the Plugin Owner, right?
Adapting to catastrophes has literally evolved for millions of years. Species that couldn't adapt to change - died. The ones that survived didn't survive because they successfully prevented a catastrophe.
Isn't every decent TV these days a smart TV? Not exactly practical advice
And I'm sure this won't be used by bad actors at all...
>It's amazing to me that an advert can run arbitrary javascript at all.

I'm not fully up to date with how these things are usually set up - is there anything in the web security model that prevents "ads" from exfiltrating arbitrary information from any page that they're on? Could an ad read my keystrokes, or scrape private messages?
The purpose of a business is not to create jobs. If you think jobs as we know them are necessary for society, then a government run Dept of Jobs that pays people to dig holes and fill them back in (or whatever) might be a better solution. A makework government job isn't much different than a job that can be done more effectively by a machine.

Capitalism finds the most efficient way to produce a thing. The price competitive nature of markets tends to pass that efficiency on to consumers in the form of lower costs. We probably shouldn't mess with that.

I think that society will evolve in many ways in the coming decades. That may or may not involve jobs and careers as we know them. If humans are good at anything, it's adapting and changing. No sense wringing our hands over dystopian scifi fanfic that might not come to pass.
>calculating the expectation value is not informative

Well, only if you use a linear estimator, i.e. the arithmetic mean. Any accountant would know to use a geometric mean (the annualised rate of return).
How to choose a reliable cab service
Also "Fruit machine" is a British term, referring to a slot machine.
> their lease must have cost them near $2 a mile

Yikes, they didn't take a bath, they were drugged, bound up in a sack and thrown into the river.
If past is any indication, either of the Ambanis or Adani will get contract.

But it's a good idea nonetheless. A lot of confidential data is sent over WhatsApp.

Imagine the data that PM/FM has!
What is the difference between having the share holders taking decisions for the users against user wishes, or having the heads of a non profit organization doing the same (like Mozzila did quite some times)?
and I'm sure the extension doesn't just send the URL of every page you visit somewhere...

EDIT: Oh, it appears to be hashed... that's not as bad as I expected - but it's still extremely abusable. Nope... just nope - absolutely not without some sort of differential privacy or other concealment, thanks.
Articles seem completely pointless to me as a Slavic speaker. In my language you can specify the a/the distinction if you want by using equivalents of "this/some", but it's optional and most of the time you just use the nouns alone.
Mayan Numerals
If you see neo-nazis EVERYWHERE it might just be about you

EDIT: From downvotes (without any arguments) I can only guess that there are sizable amount of people who don't know what the word nazi means.
It only convinces, doesn't force.
U.S. vs. China: Why This Power Struggle Is Different
Yeah, this is pretty weird and a little scary. I wonder if they are using it as a negotiating tactic - get offered a super low price and then give that price to Airbus to match? Airbus have already enthusiastically said they will bid on this business.
These recommendation engines suck

During election month I watched lot of news videos

Then my feed was just news

Then I unfollowed and said "I want to not see channel x" for every 25 such channels

And then I watched standup comedy

And now my entire feed is comedy bits

I've moved back to watching tv shows/reading books and occasionally watching a specific video on YouTube
It was University of Göttingen, 1915.

https://www.famousscientists.org/emmy-noether/
Only if its paired with concurrent wide scale changes to society. That seems unlikely given the worldwide political order.
Boden Cross-Platform Framework v0.2 released: C++17, native widgets, iOS+Android
The Mathematica/Wolfram language support of Mathics is good enough that some of the functionality is implemented in itself rather than a straight SymPy wrapper, but if Sage (a much bigger system than Mathics) can't simplify the expressions you want, probably Mathics can't either.
Endangered Whale Deaths ‘A Major Loss’
Human interaction outside of school is coordinated by kids with smartphones, using smartphone apps, to other kids who have smartphones.

No joke a child without a smartphone would seem weird to the rest of the group and risk alienation bases solely on the lack of that smartphone.
It's more readable, better organized, and shorter, too.
Astronomer – detecting illegitimate stars from bot accounts on GitHub projects
This is why my hair stands up every time we have the "backdoored encryption" discussion -- we had, and probably still have, people in positions of power that think of encryption as something that should be regulated on the order that guided missiles are.
Regular contact here means "there were people who could have made the journey between Asia and Americas, yet we don't have any proof and its effect on both societies is pretty much non-existent"
There are IDEs on iOS.
Per watt, I'm willing to bet (without evidence) that the ratio is quite favorable. Yeah the open pit looks bad, but uranium has a simply stupendous amount of energy. And the damage is well localized (while renewables tend to need a lot of area).
Regulators won't do anythings against facebook. Not in the data leaks, the gdpr, so I have no reason to believe they'll do something against libra.
“The "fruit machine" was employed in Canada in the 1950s and 1960s during a campaign to eliminate all gay men from the civil service, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), and the military.”

This is very interesting considering in ancient Greece it was the opposite. Having soldiers being gay was said to improve morale and make the soldiers fight better, as their partners was fighting together with them. More information on the subject here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_the_militarie...

Seems we're constantly in a pendulum in terms of sexuality, what's ok or not.
The same in Dutch.
I'm alluding to the fact that a whole generation of software developers who grew up idolizing Japanese video game companies got bait and switched to pursue the manic automation principles of a car company rather than enjoying the joy de vivre of our heroes at Nintendo -- the respondent didn't get that my question was rhetorical to begin with and gave an essay-length diatribe on what I consider wholly misguided literature so I switched gears into troll mode and the whole thread blew up
On the subject of pupil dilation, in the book Thinking fast and slow, Daniel kahneman explains that for any mentally taxing task pupils dilate in proportion to the difficult of the task. If the task is too difficult, they don't dilate at all.
If only it could load a bit faster. To mask that time, you can use the load progress screen.
What I've been taught during my EE studies, is that the main reason to avoid square traces is for EMC reasons, mainly due to reflections due to the hard boundaries. Interesting that the article doesn't touch on that.

PCB design/layout is one of the more important factors influencing EMC. Taking it into account early in the PCB design phase saves you a lot of trouble during certification.
Israeli AG investigating collusion between FB and Netanyahu on 2019 election
A bookmarklet would be better. It could achieve the same functionality without the security issues of an extension.