skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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The problem is us. We don't pay. We spend ridiculous amounts on nice cars, vacations, fancy clothes, but everything else gets scraps.

50 dollar for a book? Ha! 9,99 max and that's pushing it.

100 dollar to get access to a podcast with 200 hours of quality content that may change your life. Ha! 19,99 if I'm having a good day.

100-300 dollar a month for quality TV? Ha!! I'll pay 10 and then watch BS commercials all fucking day.
Perhaps when we have real artificial intelligence, whatever that is. Right now we have pattern matchers, and it is not so much the 'truth' as it is stereotypes.
I disagree and the dichotomy is a wrong one, since suppression of issues just leaves the way of taking justice into your own hands in the way you described
The false dichotomy of "ads vs any content at all, whatsoever" plays perfectly into the narrative of the scummy advertising industry.

Consumer tastes change. Just as we saw a precipitous drop in smokers from the 1950s to now, we are witnessing a sea change where the human parasites are slowly waking up to the revelation that their business model has a sunset.

Consumers are starting to be more vocal and active in their (justified) desire to not be bombarded with advertising everywhere they go.
NASA in megadeal with Lockheed for moon mission
On the other hand though, it's not anyone's duty to filter their worldview out of their speech. I have the same issue the other way around, where I follow a lot of young technical people and they just _love_ to be quoting and reposting young conservative voices, but it doesn't really make a difference to me to be scrolling past them.
As far as I remember there was an Internet without ads. I don't think we need literal garbage stimuli for media to thrive.
Vietnam?
Google Play Pass: premium content, removes ads and in-app purchases for $5/month
I spent some time implementing a Pi-hole module for NixOS, but eventually decided to go for a much simpler setup: dns server (dnsmasq or unbound) + periodically updated hosts file (via systemd timer) passed to the dns server.

At the end of the day, that’s really all you need as a technical user, so I couldn’t justify he rest of what came with pi-hole, which I believe targets a less tech-savvy crowd.

YMMV and I’m very happy Pi-hole exists, I think I’m just not the target audience.

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EDIT: see here[0] for an example configuration.

[0]: https://deadc0de.re/articles/unbound-blocking-ads.html
I'd settle for spelling and malapropism checks.
How is the painter breaking the law? He painted the forgeries, but didn't pass them off as real. Isn't that legal?
I can see this must be a bit trying for the Europeans.
In my opinion it's about keeping your priorities straight. That dispatcher had been given a script and told that they had to get people to answer a certain set of questions. The dispatcher had decided that people who called had to conform to this rule, becuase they had to. They forgot their job was to save lives, not get answers to questions. It's a symptom of attempts to codify interactions between people with simple rules. The rules become the focus, not the big picture.
End to end encrypted to device, standard pub/private key crypto.
This looks really good. Can it pull blacklists automatically?
>>I'm familiar with the holocaust.

Doesn't look like it.

>>I'm not following how normal (census, social security etc) government people registries are connected to the detention centers, much less to the holocaust.

Because https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Laws

On April 12, 1933, the German government announced plans to conduct a long-delayed national census.[2]:54 The project was particularly important to the Nazis as a mechanism for the identification of Jews, Gypsies, and other ethnic groups deemed undesirable by the regime. Dehomag offered to assist the German government in its task of ethnic identification, concentrating upon the 41 million residents of Prussia.[2]:55 This activity was not only countenanced by Thomas Watson and IBM in America, Black argues, but was actively encouraged and financially supported, with Watson himself traveling to Germany in October 1933 and the company ramping up its investment in its German subsidiary from 400,000 to 7,000,000 Reichsmark—about $1 million.[2]:60 This injection of American capital allowed Dehomag to purchase land in Berlin and to construct IBM's first factory in Germany, Black charges, thereby "tooling up for what it correctly saw as a massive financial relationship with the Hitler regime".[2]:60

They even bought in state of the art technology of the day to track all those people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

Also...

Holocaust didn't start at the concentration camps.

It started way earlier. It's not easy to convince ordinary good people like you to support gassing millions of people. The Nazis had to first build a case(propaganda, brainwashing, racial pride, internal enemies, traitors etc etc kind of trash), then the filters(list(registers) of people whom to gas), processes, logistics and infrastructure to execute a project of that horrific scale.

In this case there is an explicit intent in the form of citizenship amendment bill: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizenship_Amendment_Bill_201... and then nationwide NRC and camps as to what should be done. And the whole surrounding social case of lynchings and pogroms.
I'm not sure that criticism is entirely valid. It isn't like the last election gave anyone a resounding mandate.

Plus do we want election after election fought on a single issue? It's torn the Tories apart, Labour isnt far behind, the Lib Dems aren't exactly endorsing a nuanced set of policies.

We're going to have a 2nd referendum at some point, personally I'd like it to come before an election so parliament can get back to some kind of normalcy, which I don't think will be helped by a parliament full of MPs selected purely on the basis of their views on one issue.
Brexit is the preferred option for some Tory MPs and for some of the electorate.

The link you provided shows the largest group (44%) oppose leaving with No Deal.
So not a private message board?
China's Social Credit System Extends to Businesses with 33M Recently Rated
I wouldn't say that's the current climate so much as the nature of publicly discussing politics under your real name. The number of people who've been fired from their jobs for advocating unions for example is terrifying.
Just recently I experimented going without my pi-hole or any ad blocker software for 4 weeks to see what would happen.

My goodness the internet is a dumpster fire without it. So many pages lagging and slow to load. Things I wanted to click that jumped when an ad loaded resulting in miss clicks. Annoying things following me around.

It was especially bad on mobile with the GDRP/Cookie notices and ad's to the point that on my iPhone SE some pages had a thin smear of the actual content no taller than a single line of text. News sites were especially bad for this.

With the experiment ended my pi-hole and ad blockers are now set to very on (and updated to this version and can confirm the block list went from 100,000 to 89,000) and I am much happier. Seems about 20% of the traffic on my network is blocked now which explains why some pages performed so awfully.

The ad industry really needs to up its game because the current state of the web is just horrible.
Paying one guy is cheaper than two. So... You are not wrong :)
This remind me of when steam tried to monetize mods and the ensuing outrage forgot to mention that some of the biggest modders (as is most popular skyrim mods) receive less than 100$ for years of work in donations.
Author here. The original inspiration for this came from working remotely for 7 years and feeling occasionally lonely and isolated.

I wanted to create a frictionless, always-on video room for your team to hang out in while you work. But I've found that so far most teams use it for stand-ups.

Feedback is much appreciated.
If they delete half the data, the probability of the remaining data sets to be rubbish is quite high. You also wouldn't want someone to pick sets in the first place.
> Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from social consequences.

I often see this phrase and it looks like a fallacy to me. Does anyone question its validity? Social consequences are a severe thing, in practice they mean losing a job or position, boycotting, etc. In ancient Greece to expel a person was a very strong punishment. Nowadays the associated hardbacks are milder perhaps, but still are pretty severe.

If speech is so potent a weapon that to protect against it we have to use extreme social defenses like expulsion, why not to use the same weapon against the perpetrators? Why not to speak in return? Stallman says something, you say something. Take that, Richard Stallman!

I would say that the only appropriate social consequence of free speech could be other free speech.

Also, a distinct characteristic of a true community is that it's inclusive. It can expel its members, but this has to be a very rare event, only when that person's action are actually destroying the community. "Creepy and inappropriate behavior" that went along for many years is hardly that. It's a mere personality quirk. [Addition] And I'd say that this expulsion endangers the community much more than whatever Stallman was inappropriately doing all these years.
'What about my business model' is not a valid argument. You are not in fact entitled to one. Personally I'd rather see 95% less 'content' on the Internet if it meant it were ad free. I'd rather have no Facebook than one that serves you personalized ads. I'd rather have no online news media than news websites that serve ads. I'd rather have no television programs than watch programs with commercials. 'Content creators' often overestimate how much people care about their 'content' and they think we couldn't do without them. Well, most of us can. And most of us hate ads.

I'm sure, in an ad-free world, that content creators who really care would find a way to make it work. Maybe there'd be less content this way, but so be it. Quality isn't quantity.
I'm waiting for a podcast app with crowd sourced timestamp like sound cloud for people to mark ads. Alternatively for injected ads, it would be somewhat trivial to run the same podcast episode downloaded in different regions through transcription services and clip over the difference. Or build fingerprints of similar sounding clips from different podcasts to single out ads. I suppose you'll also have people manually clipping out ads once podcast piracy becomes more prevalent as shows become platform exclusives.

There was a post about NPR raking in ad dollars yesterday, and I've heard in passing that their research team have evaluated DRM before.
I see that calls are being made in West Bengal which also borders Bangladesh. Not a surprise.
Could it be.. Native advertising for songs? /s
If the lambdas are always hot, what is the advantage over having a server? I thought the big selling point of serverless was not having to pay for long stretches of time where you don't have any requests.
FWIW the word 'hell' is not considered a curse in Ireland or, afaik, in the UK
Example to show bug when not giving key to react array elements
Gave an (relatively easy to understand) example to old question about using keys, on how not giving keys to react elements can cause bugs.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/57267614
> So the only difference is in distribution rights? So his sentence is misleading regarding the extent of the differences?

Yes, it's misleading. There's no practical difference between the two in terms of licensing.

What this boils down to is that not all open source developers subscribe to the free software philosophy (e.g. believe that proprietary software is evil). Therefore, rms doesn't like the term.
If Reddit video is the poster child then serverless is in big trouble.

That thing almost never works.
Why do paid subscription models not work?

Apple Music, Spotify and Tidal seem to work. Switched to Tidal recently, love the reach incl. ECM label!

(If there would be something comparable for newspapers I'd pay too, as is, I ublockorigin (or abstain))
> If it everybody steps up now, it means there was clearly a disconnect between his self image and what his environment thought about him.

Oh, certainly. And I'd say the reason for that is

> because of the importance of his figure people were more willing to keep their mouths shut and look the other way

I don't necessarily blame people for not spekaing out if they were troubled by his behaviour, but this is really unfair towards Stallman. Decades worth of small issues that Stallman was mostly unaware of are being condensed into one big issue. That's why I think the situation is crooked; in my view, Stallman never did anything particularly bad, nor did he harbor any ill will, yet he's facing the consequences of a major scandal.

Also, I don't think that Stallman should be held to the standards of a "medieval monarch". I think you're overstating just how powerful Stallman is (was?); I don't think he was actually in charge of many impactful decisions.

Your points are good but perhaps more applicable to someone like Linus Torvalds, who is fully aware of his controversial behaviour and does actually hold a position of substantial power.
I hope you don't think that the people dealing with issues like this are anywhere near the discussions on DRM of digital video. It isn't as if MPAA board members are also in a basement somewhere editing films.
> on a university mailing list has direct negative effects for a lot of people.

That very mailing list was about to arbitrarily accuse a dead innocent man of a crime to help provide cover for actual criminals still walking the halls at MIT.

This charade around Stallman is an injustice against Epstein's victims, the decent people at MIT, and Minsky.
They will be hated for it, but they do provide a really important service here. And if it is just pulling down the pant of people trying to classify the world.
I think it's important context that "had her" means "she initiated", rather than "was imposed upon her":

"Make me beautiful," she said, hoping to bring to light how standards of beauty differ across various cultures"

She specifically asked for some kind of alteration, so leaving the picture unaltered was implicitly not an option. Furthermore, this assumes a random (but distributed) selection of Fivver artists represent worldwide beauty standards.
Virginia energy company planning major offshore wind farm project
Tech Book Face Off: Facts and Fallacies of SE vs. Programming Pearls 2
It's not that I don't understand it, it's just very confusing for anyone hearing that for the first time. Is it freeware? No, it's like free speech not free beer. Come on, we can do better.
China has been doing this for years! How can they say they are first in the world?

This is an article from 2016: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2016-08/08/content_263919...
Funny story: Selam G., who's building weapons for the US department of defence, triggered by something she hadn't read, written by a person she did not know, leaked everything to Vice, founded by Gavin McInnes also founder and head of the Brooklyn-based misogynist libertarian group Proud Boys.

To defend women rights.

If this wasn't serious, it deserved a giant "LOL! FAIL!"

Should we start doubting about her real intentions?

Why she has contacts with a magazine founded by a misogynist?

What's in for her?
You do, and that's fine for you. But I rather have a reasonable amount of ads to support content, than have no content at all. I do use Facebook as a means to communicate with a lot of people and catch up with friends and family. I consume content form sites that do have ads. I agree the situation is not balanced at the moment, but cutting out 95% of the internet is not a solution. There has to be a balanced middle ground.
I have been told that you have to make the copy obvious. Usually this is done by changing the size of the canvas. To be honest, though, as all of the works will be out of copyright, I'm not entirely sure what law is broken simply by painting a copy.
Paid subscription models don't work in presence of advertising, because advertising-based models have a huge advantage of being ostensibly free. If we could get rid of the advertising-based models, paid models would become profitable again.

(It's like observing that horses don't work for races because motorcycles outpace them. Well, get rid of the motorcycles and horse racing makes sense again.)

We can't have nice things because advertising is inherently cancerous in nature. It will grow and repurpose everything it touches until it too serves to feed the advertising machine and depends on it for survival. There's as much balance to be found here as there is with cell growth rates - you want them at the level that supports the functioning of the organism, and not somewhere in the middle between that and the fastest-growing cancer cells.
> Comparing to classic computers, their practical usability has been clear since Babbage time

Is this true? I thought that in the 40s-50s there was some argument over whether practical computers could really be built given that vacuum tubes were so unreliable. Von Neumann wrote gave a series of lectures in 1952 (eventually transcribed into an article) showing how it could be done: http://arep.med.harvard.edu/gmc/Von_Neumann_1956ro.pdf , and the argument became more or less moot once transistors arrived).

There's perhaps an analogy here to be made with quantum error correction, but that seems to be a lot harder...
> There is no way to use the software without it plugged in.

This is only true if the software hasn’t been crack?
Not quite clear what they are replacing easylist with?

Like I get depreciating stuff but this seems like it’s still very much in active use? No plan B/transition?
or that another nobody who actually worked with him?

https://archive.is/https://twitter.com/thomas_lord/status/11...
Perhaps instead of using human categories of race, we should ask the neural nets to provide those categorisations?

It would be based on a larger selections of individuals (non-local), based purely on appearance, and un-biased by human conception (we are really good at processing faces/facial features).
I have run pi-hole on the cheapest tier of Rackspace cloud server for 2+years now with great success. It’s wonderful. Just configure my routers dhcp to set my pi ip for dns and no ads anywhere (YouTube, streaming [except Hulu unfortunately], and general browsing). It’s especially nice now that it seems every company is offering their own streaming apps with ads. Recent example was I wanted to watch an action sports video and firetv had it with the redbull app. Ten or so minutes in and the video was interrupted with “here’s some ads” stinger and then the video immediately resumed. Kinda caught me off guard but produced an instant smile.

One thing to consider though is becoming a dns resolver for any random thing on the net. What I did for this was create a bash script that adds the visiting ip to iptables whitelist. Created an impossible-to-guess php page (pi admin uses php so it’s already installed and ready to go) which takes the REMOTE_ADDR and passes it to the bash script to add to iptables. Makes it super easy to allow ip’s when isp changes address or when visiting family/friends and they want to use it.
"The final negotiated Withdrawal Agreement that May unveiled to Parliament last November caused the whole country, Brexiteers and Remainers alike, to gasp in horror. May’s team had been sent away to declare British independence and had returned with a document of surrender. The agreement not only contained (as expected) a £39 billion ($50 billion) “divorce” fee, but also left E.U. courts free to top that fee up. It locked Britain into a customs union with the E.U., with no mechanism for leaving it—ever. The E.U., and the E.U. alone, would decide when Britain had fulfilled the backstop agreement, and any move to break it unilaterally on Britain’s part would be resolved by giving the E.U. jurisdiction over Northern Ireland’s economic relations. It subjected Britain to E.U. trade sanctions more onerous than those meted out to other countries. It laid out contexts in which E.U. law would retain its supremacy over U.K. law.

The Withdrawal Agreement not only did not end Britain’s ties to the E.U. In the name of Brexit, it actually deepened and constitutionalized them."
Mostly it's because continental Europeans are utterly fed up with the chaos that is Brexit. Right now the uncertainity is extremely expensive for every company involved with UK trade, as precautions like capacity on ferries or in warehouses gobble up money and organization time.

For what it's worth the UK can also cancel Brexit, but that would not solve the problem that the "special deal" for the UK is a massive inequality against all other EU states and can be/is abused by EU-sceptics across the EU, and in addition canceling the Brexit would be a signal towards Hungary, Poland and the rest of Visegrad that they can drag the entire EU on the nose ring and then suddenly canceling everything, while all other parties have to pick up the tab.
I don't believe they actually hunt them, but in reality are protecting their eggs.

Mice/rats/etc LOVE eggs. Chickens (and all birds) know this. As ground layers, they're surely protective of their eggs from mice.
The transcript makes the article ridiculous. This issue had nothing to do with the trivial choice of words that the article talks about. The nurse was 100% wrong.

She asked to speak to the person who couldn't breathe!
DRM so strong they can’t even produce the film.
It would be relatively simple to implement since you have image data as well besides audio and animations before and after ads remain the same for months.
Apologies for assuming you were from the US but I hear this from Americans quite a lot about their tech giants.

I wasn't trying to create a strawman but I stand by my argument as counter to yours.

Tax isn't a moral issue. It's a financial one.

Also, it's not that I don't care but I stand by my assessment: If you increase Apple's costs, the consumers will pay it. You are basically taxing the consumers.

It makes no sense to have corporation tax.

Edit: changed my argument a bit.