skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Waiting for the end of time" could mean a lot of things to a lot of people and there could be a translation issue as well. I can see what would motivate someone to withdrawal like that with religious views or not. If someone finds a way to live without the world and builds their own, I'm not sure it's a huge issue and is potentially rational. Obviously I think the morality breaks down with the agency and societal obligation to the children. Especially if they aren't being educated, fed, and kept clean which TFA doesn't give specifics on.

Hell, as a 10 year veteran remote software developer it some days I feel like I'm already there. One time I spent a year where I didn't say anything out loud to anyone. I got a cat and switched jobs and now I make sure to have more pointless conversations when I get the opportunity with coworkers so I don't go full hermit accidentally.
> making changes like this makes you far, far more fingerprintable, as the vast majority of users don't make changes like this.

You're confusing privacy and anonymity. They can be mutually exclusive.
Isn't AWS much less prone to customer lock-in? May be I don't have experience with tweaking AWS under heavy high load, but 98% of code I write for backend that I host on Amazon isn't specific to AWS or it's services in any way.
Unfortunately, I think projects like this that make it easy to create onion resources are quite dangerous. The reduction of friction to host material online in a completely anonymous way only enables adverse actions like the sharing of CP or other illegal content. Please look here for a good explaination of friction in this space -> https://stratechery.com/2019/child-sexual-abuse-material-onl...

If it is used by political or marginalized communities, then this project is also not useful. It does not have the support or attention required to enable it to be secure enough like the TOR project does. This application opens up legitimate users to incredible risk.

If I were a dissident, I would take my time and do the research required to set up a system like this in the correct way. This project may give people a sense of false security.
hmm, did he actually have any money for those beers..
It could've just been a look and feel thing then, which is one thing Ionic attempts to help out with
Found this a refreshingly blameless look at potential factors involved along with an account of personal experiences tying into the hypothesis.
We currently have two 2018 MBPs on the shelf that were bought as 'upgrades' back then but they're sitting unused because people are sticking with their 2015 MBPs until they won't be maintainable anymore or Apple (or someone else) releases a version that's an improvement over 2015 MBP instead of a downgrade.
In America, it depends what part of the country you are in, whether your largest meal of the day will be the mid-day meal of lunch (called dinner in some regions) or supper (the evening meal, also called dinner in some regions).

Even if you eat a small sandwich for lunch, it will be rare for it to have butter on it (unless it is fried, like grilled cheese). It will likely also have various spreads, sauces, or vegetables on it. A very basic/classic American sandwich has a slice or two of ham, slice of cheese, pickles, and mustard, for example, which is much more complex and flavorful than what this article talks about.

The only meal where Americans might commonly eat only bread and butter is breakfast, and then it very likely to be toasted.
Hm, you're right, that does seem to be a typo. I'll downgrade to "six month gap".
News outlets and so-called journalists only ever had “credibility” insofar as there wasn’t another information medium by which their claims could be (in)validated. Now that this medium exists (you know, the internet) “journalist” is no longer someone we need to trust, believe, or finance.
I hate Amazon.com. And Facebook. And Google! (Disclaimer: I still use Google search.)
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>However the power as it currently stands is much more likely to be used for leveraged persecution and partial enforcement against specific people, and classes of people (IE not rich), rather than for all the people.

I don't see how this is any more or less true of facial recognition than other evidence-gathering technology.

>The issue at hand is about those who should be presumed to be innocent. The many who are in a crowd, the majority that are probably not at all related to whatever search is happening.

Maybe so, but the laws which are getting passed and proposed as a result of all this journalism are much more broad:

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Oakland-bans-use...

https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/19/20812032/bernie-sanders-f...
This is basically the same trap they're falling for with Stadia. It's been proven that streaming games is not really worth it. OnLive failed for the same reason's Stadia will. The number of people with fast enough Internet but cannot afford a full-scale gaming machine is very small.
Fixed above now. Thanks!
Privacy is a recognized legal right, anonymity in public isn't. But government spying on people in public is forbidden in many/most world states.

Specifically in the US, amendment IV to the constitution says:

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated"

Key phrase: "Unreasonable searches".
You know that you can sell houses before you pay off your mortgage, right?

If you aren't in an area with very high housing costs (which, obviously, very many readers of this site are), it's not even that big a deal to sell your house when you need to. If your house constitutes 40% of your net worth, and you take a 5% hit on your sale price, then your net worth has declined... 2%. A good job is worth that.

Admittedly, it's different when your house is 90% of your net worth and you're barely able to afford your mortgage.
> It should be noted that Kentucky is located nowhere near Syria.

I am horrified that the author felt the need to clarify this, as if it was in dispute.
I think 2hrs will be broken in competition but I don't think it will be by Kipchoge and I think it will take more than 10 years to do so. He is pretty far ahead of current competitors, having lowered the previous mark by more than a minute. However, that has happened before and the mark has fallen pretty consistently every few years over the past few decades.

Only a relatively small slice of humanity ever even attempt to run a marathon but more and more do so each year. An accomplishment like Kipchoge's is bound to encourage even more people to make the attempt. There is probably someone out there that can do it in a race, they have probably been born but are not yet competing.
DDG itself is a front-end for bing. It gets results from there.
It is possible to deface or alter the VIN number, steal a license plate, and rig a car for remote control.

If you commit, or attempt mass murder this way, you'll probably be caught due to the amount of resources a law enforcement agency will spend investigating such a crime. If you put up an anonymous website distributing child pornography, but you're not the one producing it, law enforcement will spend several orders of magnitude less resources investigating that crime.
"privacy"

Recommending DuckDuckGo is like recommending Ghostery for privacy.

For now the chain looks like this:

Amazon Web Services -> DuckDuckGo -> Yahoo -> Microsoft

Privacy is not the more intermediaries you add, the more private you become.

Same as adding a VPN or a proxy, you just become vulnerable to the proxy operator and all their intermediates and dependencies.

And yes DuckDuckGo is tracking, for example, everything you buy on Amazon.

They are Amazon Affiliates, and as part of how Amazon Affiliates work DuckDuckGo has access to the precise list of items that users bought.

Yes, Cloudflare, NordVPN and DuckDuckGo and Brave and you have the perfect "privacy" setup.

If you want to believe, then go ahead.
I still don't get the "discovery" thing. I hear about events either via word of mouth or from posts on Facebook. Or if I'm looking for an event I Google. How would I "discover" events on meetup.com or another event service?
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Does Twitter not allow connection from the Tor network any more? What a depressing reality.

> 403 Forbidden: The server understood the request, but is refusing to fulfill it.
Not sure where you got that info, but AFAIK that is incorrect. While everyone running their own infra has the responsibility to comply with local laws (or face local consequences) - there is no central network allow/denylist. Every single node has the power to decide what content they pin and make accessible to other nodes in the network, or how to consume content coming from other nodes (ex they might choose to filter out certain types of content). There is no central ipfs authority involved in any of that. If an individual node wanted to opt-in to a collaborative denylist (ex to block spam, etc), this is the most recent proposal for how that might work: https://github.com/ianjdarrow/content-decider (still in design phase)
Never heard of Rsnapshot before. Thanks for bringing it up, I will definitely check it out.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18563063
If you are getting paid to do CI you are simply doing it wrong.

Rule #1 Host your own stuff, never rely on others.

Rule #2 automate everything
If they just shut down the site, those who weren't busted would just migrate to a new one. If you run the site under the guise of the owners, you can keep catching more and more users as they come in. Not just the people who are seeking the kids, but possibly also the ones supplying them. It's a grander version of the old trope of an FBI agent posing as a 14 year old girl in a chat room to nab a predator.

I agree with you that selling a dimebag to a teenager to bust them is shitty and shouldn't be done. But there's a world of difference between busting kids for weed and catching pedophiles. If they're taking these people off the streets I really do not care if they're "disingenuous" to get them.
I'm not sure if I believe it was really blizzard who cancelled it. I wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo cancelled it. They have a lot more to lose by becoming associated with Blizzard's controversy. Especially if there were protests outside their store.
Do you really benefit much from having robots do the cutting? I suspect most of the skill and costs are in the assembly.

Modern Tailor offers MtM clothing starting at like $50.
> According to several former executives, the apparel division cut back on labor to save money, knowing that floor salesmen in other departments would inevitably pick up the slack.

Now this all makes sense. I used to shop there and sometimes the entire floor was devoid of staff to help you except the one person ringing up at the counter. It became too depressing to shop there at some point.
EU governments limit arms sales to Turkey but avoid embargo
Actual reddit thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/syriancivilwar/comments/dhmqzm/abc_...
about:config shows a screen that says "This might void your warranty.". Is this supposed to be a joke? Which warranty is being voided here?
If every search engine, and most websites, could stop displaying local results (which have nothing to do with what I search) that would be fantastic.

Why in the world would you show me local results in the local language when I'm searching in English? Google is the worst offender, they so "helpfully" run stuff through their own translate, resulting in a special kind of garbage SERPs.

Yes, I know there's settings, but I just can't be bothered to login every time on a different device or browser. And personalized search has its own problems.
I like where IPFS is going and I think it's an important bit of software, so it's good to hear you're working on it.

I do have a question though on the immutability, how do you address problems where people contribute harmful content, such as revenge porn pictures, or doxing someone? If the content is immutable, it means these things would always exist and never be removable? Is there any moderation that can stop this kind of stuff?

Just wondering, I still like the idea, it's just a question I have been thinking about.
This wouldn't solve the problem of too many inner city residents voting and messing up your legislative majority.

In-person fraudulent voting is one of those problems that basically doesn't exist. People have looked for cases of it happening and have come up empty handed. Attempting to solve that problem is a waste of time. The only point of these laws is to suppress voting blocks.
I was in a similar position a couple years ago, and ended up buying.

If you read the article, they mention "built to rent" houses. I bought one of these, and although I do not rent it out now, I could quite easily rent it out if a better opportunity comes along that would require me to move.

I think this is a good option for people who have the cash for a down payment, are looking for a place to live, and don't want to deal with rising rents in case they do stay, while still increasing net worth every month with the mortgage payment. You might be tied down for a year or two, but it's not like being stuck somewhere for 30 years if you have the option to rent a place out.
I’m pretty sure it was a joke.
> But I’ve still yet to see a clear argument for absolute internet anonymity for anything that would benefit the average person (yet, I can think of dozens of ways it harms people).

anonymity doesn't make it impossible to be held accountable for your actions. people tend to (unintentionally) dox themselves without any outside help. what it does is make it a lot harder for law enforcement to catch people without specifically targeting them and investing resources.

I know you're an upstanding, respectable citizen who would never do anything illegal, but just think of privacy/anonymity as a hedge against that tiny chance that the government might actually make an unreasonable law.
> the responsibility lies with whomever made—or okayed—-the system

And generally speaking these are very different people, but that is besides the point. I am still unsure why we are talking about testing and evaluating, as if we are only talking about failure cases.

If I set the alarm clock for 7AM and it starts ringing at 4AM, the fault is with the clock designer. But if I set it for 4AM and it starts ringing at 4AM, it is somewhat silly of me to start blaming the clock designer for my disrupted sleep, isn't it?

And we are not talking alarm clocks, we are talking about systems that make complex decisions based on hugely multidimensional data. Decisions that we provably cannot explain. There is no amount of testing and evaluation that can ensure that these systems are error free. But when they work, they do work well and provide a competitive edge over human analysts.
Related from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14785504

2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12692775
Make a list of allowed technology items. Any internet connection out of the house must go through the specified router, which monitors traffic and proxies SSL/SSH to allow monitoring. Only allow a phone that the probation officer controls. Any attempt to tamper is a violation.
It does have an analogous feature, the MBP's trackpad is huge and you probably touch it by accident all the time.

It's just that Apple's system tries to separate deliberate touches from accidental ones, rather than disabling the trackpad input completely.

You used to be able to turn this on and off (it was called "Ignore accidental trackpad input" in the trackpad preference pane) but now it's an always on feature. The trackpad has extended so far into the palm rests that it would be very difficult to use without it, and the feature works well enough that you don't even realize it's happening.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201822
Yes, Original, exactly! Original denotes something very powerful, a beginning which sets things off, which branches off into a bunch of other things that are only iterations of that first thing. You can draw a line through history from the ancient Greek philosophers, who in your view were so ignorant as not to deserve any consideration, directly to the first chemist who discovered what fire is actually made of.

Maybe Plato's hypothesis about fire was incorrect, but you don't think it prompted the next guy to try and find a better answer? And then the next guy, and so on? You don't see any value in knowing where we have all come from intellectually?
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Behind the phone is actually pretty natural if you try using it.

I have the Pixel 3 XL, and my index or middle finger rests naturally on the fingerprint scanner when I pickup the phone or take it out of my pocket.

Having the scanner on the front of the phone means you need 2 hands to unlock it... on the back... it can be done in 1 action.
Even on the development side, I got that impression with the first version of Angular, they created the framework but rarely used it on their development.
It depends a lot on the school you went to and what kind of financial aid you were able to get.

Back when I was picking a college for my CS undergrad, the choice boiled down to (numbers are rough estimates, because I don't remember the exact ones, but they are close enough and should relay the point I am trying to make):

* UCLA out of state: some financial aid for the first year, bringing the costs down to around $25k/yr. Around $35k+ each following year.

* Georgia Tech in state: without financial aid, around $9.5k/yr. With Zell Miller/HOPE scholarship (which every in-state student gets, provided they maintain a certain GPA), it brought down the tuition costs to essentially $0/yr. I still took out some loans for rent/basic necessity expenses, but those were miniscule. Like, less than the first year at UCLA kind of miniscule.

Both are well respected colleges, same program, but wildly different loan situations post-graduation. I obviously choice GT, but not everyone is in the same situation as me. The amount of loans doesn't always correlate with the kind of program you are choosing.
> Customers regularly report cost savings of 90% by switching from Oracle to AWS.

How the hell is Oracle still able to charge so much? Earlier this year we were looking to spin up a temporary development instance of Oracle DB for a proof-of-concept project, but the license alone was over $50k. People were already pissed about them adding licensing costs to Java, so this kicked off an effort to start migrating to a modern tech stack.
1099 income you pay full amount of payroll tax. W2 your employer kicks in 1/2.
I believe Capacitor is the absolute life-saver of hybrid development. I've been using Cordova for quite a while and switched to Capacitor last year, and it made my life so much easier. Where Cordova tries to do anything and everything, for all platforms, with its super flaky plugins and buggy config.xml, Capacitor is really focused on doing one thing well: being the shell between your code and native hardware.
One of the major points is the code it generates for iOS and Android can be committed to GIT and is yours; you have full control over the native part of your app and could extend it in any way shape or form.

I have an app running in production now for almost a year and am so so glad I've chosen Ionic 4 and Capacitor. Kudos to the team.
For what you mentioned you might consider Sencha (assuming you want to pay as they're not exactly cheap). Here is the demo page with all their visual components:

https://examples.sencha.com/extjs/7.0.0/examples/kitchensink...
Sure. Try getting 50 sovereign states to agree and get back to me. Its not like the federal government has any authority to decide how the states run an election
I've visited this in person: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/tom-kellys-bottle-house

It's kind of neat if you're ever in the area.
Sometimes we want to go out for a walk somewhere without many purposes and we are looking for a close cafe to drink coffee. Sometimes we spend Saturday evening with friends and we are looking for a club or bar where you can sit with a beer. Sometimes we are in a foreign city and we are looking for a restaurant where you can eat something.
... and over the past decade-and-a-bit, C++ has been evolving itself quite nicely (IMHO), so the motivation for moving away from it has decreased. Also, now D probably has to "chase" some C++ developments.
Yes, saying "everyone can get into" is an exaggeration. However, low acceptance rate doesn't mean much given the pool of candidates who compete to get in is limited to people who are able and willing to spend $100K on an MBA.
It's important to remember a simple fact about artificial sugars: they're about 10 times less dense than sugar (at least the one i use, which is a combo of maltodextrin and sucralose). This means that 10g of sugar is sugar sweet equivalent of about 1g of artificial sweetener. Which means if you're switching your sweetener from sugar to artificial you're getting 10 times less sweetener! Which means, even if sugar and artificial sweeteners were equally bad for you gram for gram, you're still getting 10 times less of thus 10 times less bad for you.
Another vote for Fastmail. I've been using it with my own domain for the last couple of years with zero problems.
Where are all the creatives flocking to nowdays? HTML5?
Never attribute to incompetence that which can be adequately explained by politics.
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As your link says, it already works for Firefox, Safari, and Chrome, which to me makes it "a thing." The only big browser that (apparently) doesn't support it is Edge.
It's unclear to me that they've controlled for "people who join Mensa."

To be clear, I'm not throwing shade, and I was a member for awhile before I got sick of paying dues, getting spammed, and not going to meetings. They're a fine organization, spam aside.

But in general, people who join clubs based on personal qualities do so because they put some level of value and identity in that quality. Some people who tend that way do so because they have an emotional hole to fill, and some people who tend that way do so because it's their dominant positive quality (in their own perception).

So, neither of those speak to Mensa's core message of joining so you have people as smart as you to converse with. But both of those suggest a higher potential for Mensa members in general to have life issues they're compensating for by joining intelligence clubs.

I do believe the basic trend that very smart people have more mental disorders, at least. I think our knowledge of twice-exceptional people has grown a lot over time, and I think there's plenty of anecdotal evidence that quirks come with the intelligence territory. Get quirky enough and a quirk is a diagnosis. But I'm not convinced that particular skew starts at the 95% percentile.
There are over a billion people under a particular authoritarian regime that could potentially benefit from practical use of this technology.
I suspect someone sold them the altered footage and they rushed to get it on the air. Either for a financial benefit, or to specifically get them to air falsified footage. (Project Veritas?) Responsibility still lies with ABC to verify.
In the states those people can pull guns on federal agents and get away with it. It's really incredible.

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

They're really lucky they didn't send Texas cops up to deal with that. They'll shoot you in your own home just because you forgot to close your door.
Car is a general word for 4 wheeled motorised personal transport? SUV is hardly more specific. A 2 wheel drive with slightly increased ride height is classed as an SUV these days.

Your mention of costs seemed to imply that it was cheap which didn't seem to me to be the case.
And then just work for that company forever? What's the end-game?