skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm surprised that making sure noise output is sane isn't a standard part of certifying stuff for human consumption, but then I guess that's the whole "free market will sort it out" idea not working as expected. Nice to have work like this to say that maybe it would be a good idea :)

It isn't just the "loud" noise, either. There's a giant white and dark grey yacht parked in the Vancouver Harbour about half of the year. (It's the one near Jimmy Patison's yacht, except at least twice as large and probably modelled after a Star Destroyer). I have never seen it move, but as long as it is there, it emits a low-frequency hum that causes noticeable churn in the water over a ~150 meter radius. It is like a giant, evil subwoofer of the unreasonably rich. It's frustrating to paddle anywhere near it, it gives me a headache, and I can't imagine what it does to animals that share the water. Whenever I'm near it I'm bothered that the thing is allowed to exist, let alone park there.
All of the info was provided both directly to the news companies and was available in the description in the original and videos that were reuploaded by the licensee. There was no excuse for it not to be corrrect.
The memes were about shooting slave owners, both in the American context and others. Similar to the Dave Chapelle skit.
This seems melodramatic for something as trivial as an audio request.
Great point - I will update. For those reading here, BBB stands for the Better Business Bureau. It is a US based nonprofit that tries to collect and address complaints about small businesses. Very well known in the US.
I'm not GP, but your straw man is just as disappointing.

- Nobody here is saying trump supporters are fascists.

- Nobody here is even saying that the_donald subreddit represents all of Trump supporters.

So why are you playing that card?

GP is talking about the effectiveness of the deplatforming of hate speech in context to a subreddit that has been reported as inciting violence. The same subreddit that supported the Charlottesville Unite the Right rally that resulted in a Neo-Nazi murdering Heather Heyer.

Whether or not you think that extends to all Trump supporters, and are disappointed by that, is your own inference. Don't attack GP because of it though.
With a couple of exceptions in the enthusiast sector, where they are well regarded. Or at least they did at one point. I am of course thinking of the cars with the 1JZ and 2JZ engines. I have an inkling that my heuristic might also correlate with Yamaha input, but on that I'm not certain (not knowing the whole engine lineup)
Opinion Piece: "Foo, an alt right X"

Later "News" Article: "Foo, who has been associated with the alt-right, ..."

Later Opinion Piece: "Foo, who is an alt-right nazi, ..."
The Bard and the Bank Regulators
Not all businesses need to put effort into SEO.

I'm bootstrapping a niche B2B service. In this space I have the luxury of not relying on google for leads; word of mouth referrals have generated consistent growth by bringing in clients who initially need a few hours of consulting but eventually transition to being customers of my service.

Because my webpage is more of a statement of legitimacy than a sales tool; it doesn't need to rank on google. By the time my clients need to access my website for some information, they know my domain because they've already corresponded with me via email.

Since I haven't needed google's help for my business to grow, and I believe their level of dominance is bad for the world, I use robots.txt to block google's crawler, and generally do anything to avoid receiving any help from them.

This strategy could work for a non-SaaS/consulting company too; if I were running a bike-repair shop on main street, I would build my business through word of mouth promotion within niche bike communities to generate referrals. Once a neighborhood, city, or region full of people trust your brand, a negative yelp review or a google algorithm won't sink you.

If google doesn't build your business, it can't take your business away.
Show HN: Resume Review Website Powered by FAANG Employees
Google control most mobile OSes, almost all of the web browser market, and have more or less taken over the web standards process.

They've already won.
Deep-Dive into How Verizon and a BGP Optimizer Knocked Parts of the Internet
What a thorn the design of that Read method is, because it has caused perennial FUD against the validity of sum typing in Go circles.
Given the trouble I have with the glottal stop in "mcguire", I understand your problem.
Of course it seems like a fair comparison to you, it's your comparison. To everyone else, putting it as nicely as possible, it's very off. Software that has the potential to cause serious, directly attributable material harm to lives is already heavily regulated: The FDA regulates medical device software, the FAA regulates flight software, the FTC regulates communications software, etc. For everything else, there is court. If you buy a laptop with a lithium ion battery that explodes and causes you burns, you will probably be rewarded handsomely in a suit. If you want to sit here and try to argue in front of a judge that dark UI patterns are causing you some sort of material harm, by all means go for it in court. My advice to you is you probably won't get very far / laughed at.
Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine in Rust
Your options, as I see them.

1. Text based ads only (no third party js)

2. HTML based ads but no js (run it through DOMPurify https://github.com/cure53/DOMPurify)

3. Look for a js sandbox -- this _will_ break arbitrary js, will not be supported in all browsers, and will require dev work on your side:

* Google Caja https://github.com/google/caja

* MentalJS https://github.com/hackvertor/MentalJS

other options are available as well, in varying levels of maturity and support.

I think using a sandbox iframe is not going to be able to defeat browser fingerprinting, because the sandbox control options are not rich enough. You would need to block all JS.
> Simple example: Google employees gave $1.3 million to Hillary, and zero dollars to Trump in 2016.

This jumped out to me as a statistic so extreme that it couldn't possibly be true: Google has far too many employees to have literally zero dollars donated to the Trump campaign, no matter what you think of the corporate culture. Sure enough, the example is simple because it is false:

https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/?two_year_transaction_peri...

I didn't look up the Clinton donations under the same parameters, but I'm sure it's not even close to an even split. Regardless, it's simultaneously ironic and fitting for a comment on a post about disinformation to contain such an easily-falsified statement.

The "zero" statement seems to really be making the rounds, used by Ted Cruz in a hearing, by various media outlets making the case for regulating Google because of their bias... I guess "zero" is just punchier.
Why can't Google come up with an AMP for ads? That will transpile a restricted javascript (or whatever) into a runtime that just doesn't do these things?

This would get rid of the greasy ads, and Google could focus on making tools that allow site owners to filter by "features used in ad", and ad developers could actually return to delivering ads, rather than collecting fingerprints?
The implied logic you name is actually your presumed logic. I certainly don't read that logic into every time someone uses a quote.

Quotes can be used to show that past generations have said similar or relevant things

Quotes can be used because they were interestingly or eloquently phrased

Quotes can evoke someone's connection to a subject without relying on an appeal to authority.

Probably the last thing I'd assume is that someone is seriously positing the quality of an argument based on who said it. Such a logic would probably be expressed explicitly if it was key to the message.
"Creates harassment" is very misleading. Twitter has an algorithm that shows high-interaction tweets to more people, that's it.

I'm usually the last to defend Twitter but this title is pure clickbait.
They start with 'ap, 'el, 'ig, 'um, where the apostrophe is the tiniest catch in the throat. You can pronounce them without the catch, but to our ears the difference is inaudible, because we don't make a distinction. Arabs do.
Arbitrary code execution isnt really that trivial.
because if the room didn't ever exist at $129, this was false adversing.
On HN, please make your substantive points without personal swipes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Allegedly it's based off a few fringe comments that Media Matters found, with mostly single digit points:

https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/c5sbpm/reddit_q...

Those aren't representative of the sub. What's the real reason?
Not every post gets shown as widely as some do. What's that line? That's where I'd start.
> guttural/uvular

That’s the stuff. Thanks for the vocab lesson. And look at that map. Most of northern and Central Europe is a guttural r.

You trilled R motherfuckers in French class ignored your poor teachers’ pained expressions for years, while the rest of us wanted to go up, pat them, and say it’s okay, we share your pain.

Apparently I have some unresolved hostilities toward some people who got A’s but had disastrous pronunciation.
Tesla Shares Remain Turbulent as Quarter Comes to a Close
Web tracking data gets combined with your real life digital breadcrumbs collected by the data aggregators. Their profiles of you are extremely accurate.
> the price of broiler chickens jumped by 50 percent between 2008 to 2016, despite the fact that cost of feeding the chickens went down during this period.

If costs to down and price go up and there is no increase in demand there is a problem.

> Three of these companies — Sanderson, Tyson, and Pilgrim’s Pride — control nearly half the American chicken market

This sums up XXI century capitalism. Olygopolies control everything leaving consumers or even business with just a couple of options. It's easier to fix prices that way as it's easier to increase profit thru cooperation that to risk a competition war.
I don't think I could use a Mac for software development anymore if they switched away from Intel.

So much of my work is dependent on running linux executables in Docker for later deployment on a server running Intel. That is certainly extremely common.

I also need a Windows VM quite frequently for the odd program that only runs in Windows, or if I need to run Visual Studio one day. Windows is also very important for me to keep around so I can test software products in the same environment as other windows users, and there are definitely a handful of windows users out there.

Sure there may be alternative options in both areas but I'm not interested in solutions that work 80% of the time. I can't let my development environment get in the way of my work.
>Markets don't exist without the nation state because they rely on nation state technology like money

That's not true at all, in many cases markets exist in spite of nation states (think silk road and every other black market).
Modest research suggests that Epsom salts (MgSO4) or some forms of ice-melter (CaCl2) would be better options.
More early protos in the same spirit:

1) A proto Mac LC from IDEO
- https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/21652/lot/188/

2) Several other unused protos from Hartmut Esslinger @ FROG - https://www.engadget.com/2014/05/28/an-apple-flip-phone-from...
> Our data suggest a continuous submarine aquifer system spans at least 350 km of the U.S. Atlantic coast and contains about 2800 km3 of low-salinity groundwater.

That’s a lot of water.
I found it on YouTube -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBQoCQyStsw
I'm an amateur at math: is what is being calculated in the article the same as a Taylor series?
The curious case of the disappearing Polish S
Arbitrary javascript execution is generally meaningless. Very rarely you'll get a zero-day or something, or maybe a site will use too much battery when focused.
They did this during the Presidential election as well with Gary Johnson as well.
Ok google yes, but not duckduckgo
When an account has more than a little history here, we tell people that we've banned them, and why:

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

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

Brand new accounts posting trollish or flamebaity stuff get treated differently. Software filters some of those, and we shadowban some of them, especially if there's evidence that this is someone we've banned many times before. The converse is also true: if software has filtered out a new account that's not posting trollishly or flamebaitily, we restore their posts and mark the account legit so it won't happen again.

I think this is a reasonable balance between transparency and defending the site against abuse. If we tried to give every banned account the same high-effort attention that we give established users, we'd do nothing else all day and still not get through them all. That would just be a new vector for people to DoS the moderators. A small number of abusive users can create a large number of disruptions. Shadowbanning is an appropriate tool for those cases.

Edit: there is also a significant amount of spam, and if we told spammers we were banning them, they would spam us with emails demanding attention, asking why, and telling us how high-quality their articles really are. Actually they do this a lot already, and it's a pain.
A virtual tool for real problems of the human mind: VR and Psychiatry
> Of course I am not referring to the worst stuff on that subreddit, there is shit there, and much more than average, but if a sizeable part of the population has views like this is banning it really fair?

That's the problem though. The mods were repeatedly hostile to any attempts by the admins to handle the more egregious rule violations. The admins have treated them with kid gloves for years now. They were historically one of the worst sources of brigading of other (much smaller) subs. For instance, /r/legaladvice had huge problems with them in the past.

Even the chapo mods complied with the admins when they were asked to crack down on calls for violence... Even though those calls for violence were about _dead_ slave owners... Hard to kill someone already dead.
I would call this a 2D amoeba. In 3D, they eat and excrete pretty much as you describe.
I believe Mark Gurman does a good job with his rumors.
Riot Games Does Account Creation [video]
It wasn't just your father. A lot of American companies never felt the need to improve. It's kind of sad really.

In an industrial systems engineering class we learned of Deming who was trying to help American auto manufacturers with quality control and they wouldn't hear of it. He later was in Japan and influenced the ideas over there. Japan would go on to create the Deming Prize as one of their highest awards one could be given for quality

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deming_Prize
As someone who has been through an acquisition, it's a liminal space. You remain the employee of the company being purchased, right up until the purchase goes through, which is after the offers from the purchaser are extended to people. The amount of people coming over can be part of the due dillegence and terms of the deal. (e.g. n engineers are to be purchased, but all the engineers suck, so the deal is off, or the price is reduced.)

Apple never extended an offer, or an offer was not accepted. Either way, they were not at any point an employee of Apple, or any other company.
Nice vice spam. What's horrifying about a person being nude again or seeing a nude person? I get the novelty but this is not " absolutely terrifying"
Probably auto-formatting that removes underscores.
Don't forget Japan even has an award named after Deming for quality!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deming_Prize
Its a cryptocurrency. Sounds cliche I know but its a story for a different time. I want to go to a busy place with loads of people to learn from and connect with. I am living in London, UK, right now. To move from a 10 mil population city to a small town is going to be very very difficult for me. I would rather find a side-job
This problem didn't exist with vga or dvi so why can't it just work like that and why can't I configure linux to ignore "monitor off" signals?
Is there an ad blocker that interrupts/blocks your profile (the data that would normally be sent to the ad company), lets you edit/alter it, and allow the resultant profile to be sent to the ad company? As a consumer, I prefer relevant ads to irrelevant ads, and I might even prefer very relevant ads to no ads, but I don't want the ad companies to know stuff about me that isn't okay with me.
it's much less magic than defer, panic and recover - it's basically just a macro. if that irks you, all of the above should make you hate the language.
The dynamic dom frameworks (and webpacks) have a tendency to encourage moving everything into javascript. Generally this means that enabling gradual degredation requires building most things twice, once in static form and again for when vue et al have been loaded. Separating the two takes significant time and effort, which also introduces extra surface area for bugs and odd interactions. It is expensive to build this way, and there are other things worth prioritising.

Ultimately all website are optimised for their target audience, if 30% of our users used IE6 then we would (sadly) target that. If users value ease of use on a baseline browser then that is prioritised, and if static information and nojs turned out to be what most users valued highly then we would do that too.
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The RWD thing is definitely important here. Given that the majority of cars and a significant number of SUVs are now FWD, this doesn't hold water. Given it is the front brakes that are more powerful than the rears, and if your brakes are maybe a tad worn out, you might not be able to take your brakes from a dynamic friction situation to a static friction situation. In the mean time, your engine would just continue injecting heat into the brakes, which could easily overcome them. It might also be that he was not braking with the full force initially, meaning some degree of heat saturation may have already been present.
Do they need to? If they make enough money they can just buy the food they need - and more stuff besides.
It’s incredibly disrespectful. Nobody wants some random ad listening to their microphone. That they’re trying it anyway indicates that they’re hoping to get some people with browsers that don’t block it, or trick some people into saying yes.

It’s not harmful, as long as you’re not one of the people who gets tricked. But it does indicate that they want to do you harm, and try to. That they failed doesn’t make it all better.
> Beyond-8K Resolutions

I'm also gonna need a sound system with a 200 dB dynamic range, with speakers demonstrating a flat response out to 100 kHz.
I can get breasts for $1.60/lb here in bulk
> its fairly difficult to have an honest discussion about anything remotely controversial.

Like most media companies, reddit wants to promote its political agenda. It's natural and common (and expected of the traditional media), but since reddit doesn't pay for their own content, can only be done with censorship.

So they're making it difficult to have an honest discussion about anything they have an opinion about.

That's particularly concerning because reddit seems to be a natural monopoly, having operated for years with no successful competition. Perhaps this censorship will be the impetus that finally allows some competition to break through.
> and only works on images of women.

Gamification shows up in some unlikely places
Likewise here, for a good year or so, and it has always worked for me.
Yes that was my next choice however I decided the $108 could be better spent on a separate monitor. Does that thing have a keyboard switch feature?
It did sort of feel like my eyes were being sucked back into my skull. Maybe nasally? I’m not an anatomist.
Another interesting thing about language differences, is that some languages don't have articles (like "the" in English - if I remember my English grammar [1] and my Hindi and Sanskrit [2] correctly, heh).

[1] Slightly funny anecdote: When in school (maybe class 5 or 6), I once mixed up the dates of the English Grammar and English Composition semester exams (they were within a day or two of each other), and thought that the next day's exam was Composition, so did not prepare (because you do not prepare for composition a.k.a. essay writing, you just do it on the spot). Turned out that it was actually the Grammar exam, for which you can prepare. I was surprised and pleased to learn later, that I got as good a grade / mark on it - a high one (as I could guess) as if I had actually prepared for it :) I think I had and (still have) some natural aptitude for English grammar, and maybe of some other languages too, for which I am thankful. Good fun.

[2] I studied both Hindi and Sanskrit for many years in school (and did well on both), but don't remember all the grammar rules now, I just speak Hindi naturally, same for English grammar. Native Hindi speakers have told me in the past that my Hindi is pretty much indistinguishable from that of a native speaker.
Prisoners should be paid the same wage as everyone else. There is no reason to deny them minimum wage because that is effectively slavery.

And prisoners should be able to accumulate money because it makes their reintegration into society easier. What's unfair to the taxpayer is a system designed to punish and not rehabilitate because that makes repeat offenders out of prisoners.

Right now we punish prisoners and give them nothing once we kick them out of prison. It should come as no surprise that they return to selling drugs or crime to survive.
Tracking is more than just ads. A website owner wants to know who his visitors are. Where they come from. Which devices they use. Maybe he can support an other language, optimize for other devices, offer deals for a group of customers. But he doesn't want the risk to be fined by GDPR, so he skipps all this. Less optimisation, less/worse contacts - everybody lose.
> Google has heavy cognitive dissonance

Perhaps, but I think some of that behavior only appears dissonant. Like the NSA, Google often uses carefully constructed language that is designed to sound like a statement about a topic of concern without saying anything actually useful. For example:

> Google doesn’t use fingerprinting for ads personalization

The only reason to add "...for ads personalization" is if they are using fingerprinting for for other purposes. This could include other ad-related purposes like attribution.

Google claims about not using specific data for a specific purpose are probsabl7 true. They simply fingerprint (and probably correlate) everything else.
While I would agree in principle that there's nothing shameful about nudity, in most societies, this is simply not the case. Having images circulated of oneself in the nude would be shaming, and I imagine that having these images faked makes one feel a loss of control over one's image.

The fact that this was only made to effectively "unclothe" women is also disturbing (if unsurprising).

Not sure it qualifies as "spam".