skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> > Web pages that don't show anything without JS are broken.

> What about web applications?

I would say is depends upon the application.

A data entry and simple reporting service? That should definitely be accessible and can easily be made to work without JS. Though some scripting might be acceptable: modern screen readers will cope and holding back for people with ancient screen readers is no different to holding back because some people still use IE or Android 4.4 (though do some research/testing to see what they actually w{ill|on't} commonly cope with).

If it is an interactive game or similar then you are not going to replace that practically with form submissions and no JS, so by all means don't bother caring that it doesn't work without JS. Though do make sure you include a <noscript> tag if otherwise nothing useful would display, just so users know what is going on and there isn't a fault at their end or a fault in your app that they should report.

Anything between is a grey area: you'll have to use your best judgement of your actual and potential target audiences. Though again, make sure something useful displays for everyone even if that is just a polite "sorry, we can't get this working for you" message.
Proof that London's double-decker buses were not a tipping hazard (1933)
While I agree with the overall message, Boeing would not be my first choice for best practices on safety
I partially disagree.

All adds are subconscious manipulation.

I hate them, no matter if they track me or are in-your-face.
I will always use an ad-blocker, but allow ads if a site asks me to do so, and I enjoy the content.

But I realize I'm probably in a minority here. Most users would not bother with adblockers if ads would not degrade the web experience so much.
Of course one shouldn’t keep score or anything, that’s unhealthy on the long run and one should treat themselves once in a while. But showing affection even if it is by sometimes buying something is appreciated. And i speak this from an experience similar to the grandfather.
India, Indonesia, and China are already using WeChat, GoPay, PayTM. I'm not sure what Bitcoins or Libra can offer that e-wallets don't already provide. And these e-wallets, unlike crypto, work well with existing gov't regulations.

Some of them, like GoPay works with the Indonesian gov't to provide loans for micro-small businesses. Since they have the data of business transactions they can forecast loan repayments.

> By the way, what are they all planning to do if the scaling efforts of real cryptocurrencies succeed and the dream of digital cash becomes a reality?

My fear is WeChat and GoPay will get there first well before cryptos.
Puzzling that after 20 years of internet stupidism, people still think unrestricted user content could somehow be a good idea.
That is also true, but that is something that can be mitigated and resolved with government policies. However, that is unlikely to happen effectively in societies that have a work as a core component of personal value as they will say "they're not working? Why should we help them?" At some point the policy changes will NEED to happen, but the societies with that core value will have a very difficult time adjusting as value systems can't be changed overnight like laws can.
I've switched from chrome to Brave (with duckduckgo as default search engine) after seeing this https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity and really satisfied with the result.

Unfortunately Firefox is not a good match. I've tried the latest versions of Firefox and the developer edition, before using Brave and it still uses so much CPU in my macbook and the fan of the laptop sounds like an airplane is about to take off.
> First, banning people absolutely does work.

Agree, but not always in the direction we want or expect

> Second, these are internet forums, not segregating society.

This is an increasingly irrelevant distinction as we move more and more of our political debates over the internet (How often do people talk IRL with people of opposing view?)

> Third, if being around other people like yourself makes things worse, that isn't a problem that other people can solve for you.

Do you believe the same for addiction? Sorry for the strawman, but it is a silly statement.

>Finally, check out voat, incel groups, the_donald, etc. [...] there is no rationality to conversations in extremist toxic internet forums.

That is entirely the point, if you segregate the extremist and the moderate that is exactly what you get.

Yes, banning more people is the solution to the problem caused by banning too many people (the 'too' is important).

Without getting explicitly political it is important to point out that platforms ban people based on the consequences of not banning them. When you have strong external influences (like journalists asking loaded and threatening questions to create their own stories) platforms become a tool of political activists.

Democracy and eager banning people from political discourse (Reddit less, but don't tell me that twitter is not fundamental in that) do not work well together.
Especially after reading this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20290449
> Yes, the Go compiler team is now working on working on fixing this issue, but defer is not a new language construct and they should have started fixing that long ago, considered how often it's being used. What's worse, they still didn't make it a stated goal to eliminate the overhead of using defer completely, but only talk about reducing overhead in common cases.

They constantly improve defer's performance. If it's all you have against go, then I guess it's good enough for you.
There are several other intelligent and adaptable corvid species that would be a lot harder for man to wipe out: carrion crows, hooded crows, rooks, and jackdaws all thrive near human societies.
Neither would the replacement for search engines.
If this got popular, and an administrator wanted to disable comments, one thing that they could do is add a unique random prefix to every request to a URL. The web server would just generate a random prefix for each link it produces, and strip the random prefix from the path in every request it receives.

For example, HN's front page contains a set of URLs for each item. This item would be https://news.ycombinator.com/b149012c-56f4-4859-82b8-1f3f83e... for one request, and https://news.ycombinator.com/73e78d90-cc25-4091-8ffa-94783a2... for the next request. Both requests would get mapped to the same page, and serve up the same content (except with another uuid inserted into links).

Every comment would go into a unique SHA1 bucket and never seen again.
One person has unfortunately died according to dutch news yesterday.
Some people just want to be able to say what is legally allowed. That ability is attacked again and again. You don't have to want that freedom yourself, but imposing that restriction on others can be criticized.
In the 1960's "I don't want gay men to work here" was acceptable and would not have been seen as unpalatable. Same sex sexual activity was made legal in Canada in 1969.
What We Learned from the NHS Hack Day
I'm sitting in a McDonald's right now in the Netherlands. There are about 30 unfilled orders on the TV and only 1 cashier. How is that possible? The other cashiers were replaced by touchscreen ordering kiosks, which there are 4 of in this restaurant. This has happened in McDonalds worldwide, easily eliminating hundreds or thousands of jobs. It is only a matter of time before these ordering kiosks become commoditized. I'm surprised I can't already order on a tablet at restaurants.
My crucial concern is whether the newer generations are expressing themselves in meaningful ways. Social media is ok for talking about ones emotions and sharing experiences through it. But what about expression through music, art, literature? Are they being hampered by consuming media instead of creating or are we just unaware of the vast creative talents that go unnoticed? Given uncertain economic times I'd expect authority figures are still pushing them to follow paths for lucrative careers.
Ah, I missed that bit, thanks!
Number of bytes would apply in cases - like the len() of a python3 bytes or python str object, or something like C's strlen function - where you're not operating on characters in the first place. It's trivial precisely because there is no encoding.

"\xC4\xAC" is two bytes regardless of whether you interpret it as [latin capital i + breve] or [hangul gyeoh] or [latin capital a + umlaut][not sign] ("Ĭ" / "곃" / "Ä¬").
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What anti-spam capability does this have? What's to stop someone from just flooding the DB for the top Alexa sites with junk?
Planet Money: The Cost of Getting Your Money Back
Does this extension give any party the power to unpublish not-legally-allowed content?
I wrote a chrome extension that went the opposite direction: hit the extension button and you would get a list of hacker news and reddit submissions for that URL. Was super useful for finding some cool comments on a page

I’ve since moved to Firefox and gave up on the extension, but it might be an easy port...
Looked at in another way, it lends support to the functionalist viewpoint that intelligence is not dependent on a specific medium.
I recommend people checkout Dissenter [1] if they are interested in this, it has quite the user base already (almost a million users late 2018 [2]). Some of the discussions had on there have been really quite interesting.

My motivation for using their comments add-on is mostly to avoid tracking, although it's quite annoying they rely on Cloudflare.

On a different note, the Wikipedia article on Gab/Dissenter is quite politically charged [2]. It seems that Wikipedia editors are mostly left-leaning (after clicking through several political articles).

[1] https://dissenter.com/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gab_Dissenter
At some point someone has to write it, like school textbooks. After that your just looking at distributing that knowledge. The replacement for search engines solves the latter problem.
Hello, human here. Interacting with you through a screen now.
Every president has been essentially increasing taxes in the sense that they are raising spending, and spending increases are tax increases. People just dont want their gas prices to go up. Their fine with ignoring a financial catostrophe for the next generation which is the national debt. They are also very happy to soap box and advertise that they care about the next generation by talking nonsense about global warming.
Nothing, This is currently quite a common thing with factories in china producing these on mass.
Check out the subreddit repsneakers the fakes(Replicas as they call them) even come with StockX tags for reselling online as authentic.
Yes. Cashback from credit cards is mainstream in US culture, but not in the UK (maybe some people care about this, but only ~5% of my friends even have a credit card). Probably this difference is because card transaction fees are regulated to reasonable rates.
>Actually, as being able to leave prison with a small nest egg would almost certainly reduce recidivism, it would probably be more fair to the taxpayer than the current system.

Or it would give people bankrolls to go out and jumpstart their dealing, buy a weapon for their next string of robberies, get spent at a bar/strip club the first week out, get spent on sex workers after a few years of abstinence, used to immediately buy drugs for personal use after forced sobriety.

Or just strengthen the gangs inside prisons "hey bubba, we know you've got to have a few thousand dollars in that account, you'd better give it to us or you might not live very long. Congrats you've got a new girlfriend her name is Jane Smith, add her to your visitor list then transfer the funds to her on the outside"
If you start doing a good thing for a bad reason, you should stop?
If the code was 20-40-60 and the "enlisted help of experts" failed to crack it, then said experts are not really up to scratch.
> All well replacing mundane jobs with robots, but what will those displaced workers do

The only thing we know for sure is that they will continue to vote, and if things aren't going well for them they will vote in the most disruptive way they can.
This was also practiced (somewhat pederastically) in Japan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_Japan#Militar...
Real Problems with Functional Languages
Indeed. See also: phrenology
Wrote my thesis on an Omnibook 800 (with 16 megs of ram, lol) running twm. Miss the form factor, the ruggedness and the amazeballs integrated mouse. Still can't understand why people haven't copied the mouse design. Then again, I still can't understand why manufacturers are incapable of producing a nice keyboard like the Omnibook 800 had.

http://www.hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?hw=233

HP of today ... it's just a brand. The engineers that designed sturdy and usable stuff like the Omnibook 800 have been all put out to pasture or went to Agilent.
I have no idea. But I would assume they would comply with the law in order to not get sued?
Did you actually read the article? Because all of the author's claims have data to match, it's not just the perennial kids these days rant. As a member of the so called iGen, I can attest anecdotally that the prevalence of anxiety and mental health issues is very real.
> not by the legal actions of a judge or jury.

You're right, it's not by the legal actions of the judge and jury. It's by the legal actions of the legislature and enforced by the executive branch.
So we should just let child rapists and murderers roam free to offend again, with no consequences?
I fail to see any merit in the claim that mainstream adoption is necessary for a tool like this to have any value.

You're not going to be using this tool for synchronous conversations between commenters, or even conversations at all. Any information you leave in the form of a comment is going to matter to the people who visit the site after you. You're also commenting about the website's content in question, not having a soapbox discussion.

The tool doesn't need to suffer from the effects of the empty room problem known to social networking, because there is no "social" in this network.

Granted, it's going to take something a lot more clever than what's already there to deal with the separate moderation issue.
Reminds me of Chernobyl, where some steps within the safety system test checklist had been crossed-out for an unexplained reason and they had to essentially guess what to do. Not that a properly maintained checklist would have necessarily prevented it.
Can you offer a link to a light introduction to the topic and/or its data? This was my first search and I'm clearly not doing it right: https://www.google.com/search?q=Climate+Change+and+Extreme+E...
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>Some people just want to be able to say what is legally allowed.

Not all speech is legally allowed, is this extensions going to deal with copyright violations, threats, libel, etc. Or even someone posting the name of a person arrested on a news story when the laws disallow that information being public.
Huawei Issues White Paper on Intellectual Property
About that ... http://www.gs1greece.org/DNLfiles/srvNhelp/Meat_and_Poultry_...

Chickens are currently a bit small and shortlived for the full system that gets applied to cows, sheep, goats etc. In the UK, if for some reason you wanted to pay for something with a cow, you'd have to tell DEFRA. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/report-and-record-cattle-movemen...
> This is a pretty good idea but it needs a lot of people doing it.

There is no way out of this that doesn't involve a "lot of people doing" something. Our lifestyles are just not sustainable.
It's a great read, but also deeply frustrating. I can feel in my bones what they're aiming for — I loved Agenda, and the idea of Notes is a brilliant one too, but it seems so frustratingly hard to actually deliver a great product that delivers on it.

(It's also very easy to criticise Chandler's approach with hindsight, but the book does a good job of making you appreciate just how much was up in the air at that point with approaches to building networked applications: see for example the amount of effort they poured into making it work locally because the idea of constantly having to chat back to a central server was anathema to them)
Well they still are a tax-burden. It's just offsetting that burden, so your criteria is still satisfied :)

> In 1883,

I'm not saying the modern penal system isn't without need for reform, but using an example from the 18th Century isn't helping your argument here.
There's blackmail, but also it was the zeitgeist at the time that homosexuals were in some way morally compromised in the same way that drug users are seen as immoral (personally I don't feel that drug users are immoral but I feel I'm in the minority).

I sometimes come into contact with more old-fashioned industries where I hear similarly old-fashioned ideas from time to time. The idea is dying but not dead yet unfortunately.
100 MHz in traces is very uncommon for typical DIY PCBs. The only place I can think you'd get that is in a microcontroller clock, but most people use modules or internal clocks.
>Allowing people to make as much noise as they can is almost as damaging to free speech as censorship.

The thing is, to see that noise you would first have to be on the specific link, want to see comments on it, then go out of your way to install the addon if you haven't already. This is so much better for the people running the websites as they do not have to even acknowledge the comments' existence and are not obligated to moderate anything. Anyone who wants to comment or see them should know what they are getting into. They can grow a skin or uninstall the addon.
Puts me in mind of Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman...
Not when you're looking at high utilization, as presented in the example in the article.

For that particular case (a M/M/1 queue with arrival rate of 5.8 customers per hour and a service rate of 6 per hour), even your median response time is 3.5 hours.

Unbounded FIFOs are _really_ bad once you get to high utilization.
Maybe you want to opt out of Google activity tracking? When I go to that page it says "No Activity".
The Unscented Kalman Filter for Nonlinear Estimation [pdf]
Very Short Introductions – Concise and Information Dense Introductions
I think Hanlon's Razor is a more likely answer to why the FAA failed
Well they have to, as it is law. I specifically wrote about legal speech. Extensions like this (or much more popular: dissenter) allows people to exercise that right on sites that limit their free speech.
https://news.ycombinator.com/topcolors is kind of fascinating (and ridiculous - why does it exist?).

Let me add some plots to the situation: https://imgur.com/a/KRzcQcU

Quite a range (I've always been happy with orange).
The cookie situation has been exacerbated exactly because of the cookie law. Previously I could just block cookies client-side (like any sane user avoiding cookies would) and every site worked just fine. However, after the cookie regulation, numerous sites just straight up started to block access _unless_ you accept their cookies.

Cookie regulation is one of the best examples of how governments meddling into tech has backfired.

It would have been a much better idea to launch a public awareness campaign about cookies and their client-side blocking, or even provide patches to open source browsers to have a better UX for blocking cookies by default.
The only regulation that should have been passed (if any), would have been to allow access (to static content) despite blocking of cookies client-side.
Assuming your local green party representative doesn't think that shutting down a safe nuclear power plant has higher priority than CO2/Methane...
Nextcloud introduces collaborative rich text editor
If Firefox is blocking trackers by default, how will you know if more are using it now?
Life is fundamentally about getting resources to sustain yourself. In that regard, humanity is, more and more dependent on the industry. At the same time, the industry is less and less dependent on humanity, since it is deriving more and more of its power and intelligence from machines.

We will probably reach a point the industry doesn't improve its survival ability by feeding and serving people. If that happens we will have reached a point where we do not have the ability to extract resources on our own since machines do all the critical parts of the job and we won't have the know how/or the access to resources.

Specifically:

- mining, farming and transportation is in the process of being automated away, as is manufacturing.

- in a world dominated by renewable energy, the cost of energy will depend on local weather. To optimize the logistic operations, we'll have to integrate weather predictions and adapt the flux of goods. Humans won't be able to compete with machines for that task, and logistics will also be automated away.

Once that part of the industry can work without human input, we'll be in deep trouble. The rest of the human economy is the result of accidental complexity due to the fact that meatware stems from biology.

This is the natural consequence of optimization and growth seeking. The only way to optimize human labor fast enough to be competitive is to optimize it away. If we're not economically competitive we will not survive. We are in the process of making ourselves redundant, and magic thinking makes us believe that it will end nicely.
I actually don't know if that detail is true or if it was added for dramatic effect in the HBO series. The official record seems to state that they simply didn't follow the approved procedures for the test: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster
A simple guide:

Does it make money by showing you ads?

Chrome: Yes
Brave: Yes
Firefox: No

If yes, then they need to track your behavior in detail. I'm sure your family deserves more.

Give them Firefox, turn on Webrender (it's awesome even today - biggest speedup you can get in FF).
Machine Learning for Email Signature Detection with Python and XGBoost
A simple guide to choosing your browser:

Does it make money by showing you ads?

Chrome: Yes
Brave: Yes
Firefox: No

If yes, then they need to track your behavior in detail. I'm sure you don't deserve to be tracked.
If the content is to be found via search engines, then this may not be advisable, and the plugin owner could try the same techniques that say Google would to use the canonical URL.
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Unlikely. When people talk about homosexuality being acceptable in ancient societies they leave out the fact that it was acceptable for barely pubescent boys to be the receiving partner for adults. So are we going to head down that route in another decade or two when we become even less authoritarian?
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The platform discovers obselete/potential weak hosts, subdomains, opened ports, sql injection, xss, SSL problems so far.
The platform also do a vulnerability assessment for discovered hosts.
Also, we discover security weaknesses directly without any human intervention.
Basicly we are automating penetration testing reconnaissance and vulnerability assessment across the clock.

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Article contains some a priori speculative criticism of the test. I wonder if its empirical efficacy has been assessed in the current epoch, and how that would compare to using AI to assess facial features towards the same end. Peculiar that the designers tried to measure interest rather than arousal (which can be done somewhat reliably by taking readings from the genital area).
Array-Oriented Functional Programming