skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It takes a long time to get there. You need thousands of flight hours and you need to have been at the same airline for a long time. Pilot perks, benefits, and salary are all based on seniority. If you switch airlines, you start almost at the bottom again. It's not at all like software engineering where switching jobs is often the best way to get a salary boost.
Data-based AI, rather than being neutral, seems to be a tool for amplifying and extending human bias. Whereas a person might occasionally treat a member of a discriminated against class neutrally, whether by accident, oversight, training, human decency, moral bias or a different form of discrimination - on the other hand, a computer will always do the same thing, and amplify the "people from poor backgrounds are refused entry to places that might increase their wealth".

Police get more arrests where there's more police, so if you use an AI to work out where to send cops, it's going to find you the place your discrimination wants it to.

The modern data-ocracy is just the old eliteocracy with a new coat of paint.
It turns out, yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Rich
I recently made a rental car reservation through Expedia and hadn't noticed it was nonrefundable. When my plans had to change, I called them up and they took care of dealing with the rental car company and getting me a refund anyway. Pleasantly surprised how easy they made it for me.
I read as Asterix 17 which might be the total book count but I could be wrong.
Not OP. This can get you going: https://www.reddit.com/r/LucidDreaming
There are very simple tricks that can help, from what I understand. E.g. you can sleep with one leg outside your blanket and also writing down what you dreamt and reading it before the next day’s sleep.
This story is fiction? Man I did not get that until I googled for a few of the company and individual names and came up with nothing. What are the real analogous companies? Is this story actually illustrative of the recent history and state of this industry?
That's an interesting point of view I cannot say I disagree with. I do not see big fundamental differences between many small countries working together with those smart borders you mention or some kind of big federal estate that gives a large autonomy to its members, but you are right that what you propose may work better in practice.

Either way, my point was that the reason I care is not the unity of Spain. You said you did not understand why anyone would care and I said why I do. You do not have to agree with me.
1) Right. And the holocaust was perpetrated by germans who were elected by citizens in a fair and open democracy.

The extermination of the native americans were perpetrated by americans who were elected by citizens in a fair and open democracy.

You seems to have a naive understanding of democracy. People always forget that the nazis won elections. People forget that the greatest evils ( genocide, atomic bombings, etc ) were all perpetrated by democracies.

There is a reason why democracy is called tyranny of the mob.

2) Just because you say they are "transparent, progressive and highly respected around the world" is meaningless. There is nothing inherently good about being "progressive". Once again that is a naive understanding of progessiveness. There was a time when nazis, communists, etc were viewed as progressives. But most importantly, just because they are "competent" today doesn't mean they are eternally competent. You do realize governments, judiciaries, etc can change right?

3) That's because they are filthy rich due centuries of european colonization.

4) Are they?

> But besides those things, you're right. It's just like the situation in Saudi Arabia, China and Russia. /s

It is just like that. Do you know how I know? Saudi, chinese, russians, etc all "self-congratulatory" excuses for why they need censorship. Just like you did.

To you, denmark may be heaven on earth, but to me denmark is nothing but a nazi collabotor who got off easy after ww2. Also, if denmark is so saintly why are the inuits in greenland ( the land you stole from them ) doing so horribly?
Exactly this - sounds like he wound up the other guy enough for him to constantly click spam on each of his tweets.

Naming his account as he did made it easy for Twitter to ban him
> your definition of a state of privacy will be my definition: the effective capacity to misrepresent yourself.

This is true of the world we live in today, which comprises of almost completely centralised services. But in the future, I believe the second option will be: building and using local FOSS replacements for those services.

Many of those local replacements will need no communication at all - So many things that run off a server today have no functional need to, it's about control. Others are more difficult, because communication is inherent to the service, and centralization is the simplest and most obvious choice when being provided by a coorporation, so an infamous "decentralised" solution is needed, which are more difficult to create, organise and promote.
Funny that in Brasília "pala" is a slang for broken and for psychotropic experiences, in the sense that if a gadget of yours start misbehaving or stops working than you can say it "deu pau", same as "deu pala", it's also used when you're experiencing some drug effect, for example laughing uncontrollably is the famous "pala de riso" or "broken of laughing", lol
The global shortage of privacy experts
I understand this argument but find it brittle.

Firstly, yes, empires can be good for peace in some ways. The Roman Empire had Pax Romana. But the Soviet Union was also internally fairly peaceful, at least as much if not much more than the Roman Empire. Oddly enough, lots of people didn't want to be a part of either empire. There are downsides to empires that outweigh enforced "peace".

Secondly:

EU is not an empire and it is not trying to be

I think you missed a possibility: the EU is not an empire yet but is trying to be, and this is already causing various kinds of conflict. The fact that it's not creating World War 3 is no excuse: the Soviets didn't cause World War 3 either but not many people think the USSR was a good thing.

For an empire to dominate people it must have at least two things. One, a large number of people physically within that population who are loyal to the regime. Two, military strength to swiftly put down any rebellions and ensure the loyalists remain in power.

The EU has the first in abundance, as the horrible situation in the UK is showing. People were given a vote. The British establishment are refusing to implement it, as they're more loyal to the EU than to their own voters. This is no surprise because the same pattern is observed throughout Europe, where the EU creates a constant series of constitutional crises. Democracy is being crushed throughout the continent without a shot being fired due to the massive weight of regime loyalists already in positions of power.

The EU doesn't yet have the second. But it wants it very, very badly and has identified an EU army which reports directly to the Commission as its new top priority. Why does the EU need an army when NATO exists and works? Nobody can quite explain that. But let's face it: people keep voting in anti-EU politicians throughout Europe and if current trends continue, eventually one of these power struggles will be lost by the loyalists. The only way the EU could then keep control is by suppressing anti-EU citizens through force. If the local police won't do it, an EU army will be ready to step in and enforce Commission policy. It's hardly going to be useful for major conflict anytime soon given its size and newness, but as a form of ultra-loyal police it won't be half bad.

I'm personally planning based on the belief that the EU will be a new USSR-style empire before I reach retirement, complete with ability to put down insurrections, a large propaganda apparatus and ideological loyalty of at least 100 million people. I expect to die of old age with it firmly in control of most of Europe.

Finally:

Second: The collaboration between countries is not mandatory to be an empire as form.

I completely agree, so why are we building one? The useful work the EU does could be better done by a constellation of standards bodies and independent political alliances. The politics of unity and Europeanism that comes with it is unnecessary and dangerous.
Whilst that's do-able, this means you'd be starting a new CDN on a new domain from scratch. Bringing the existing CDNJS traffic over to something new would be a very difficult challenge.
Show HN: EmboldenIt – Decentralized app to highlight words on any web page
I read the article, it talks about the brain as if it's a washing machine, which it's not either.

Why would it not be relevant? While there are white blood cells in CSF, it's several orders of magnitude less than in blood. Is it enough to clean anything? White blood cells don't pass the brain-blood barrier. So yeah, it's somewhat like a snow-globe for a lot of molecules and cells.

So yeah, how is the fluid cleared?

Also article states, that there's even less blood flow during the sleep cycle, so at the same time, there's even less opportunity to wash away things that can pass through blood-brain barrier away to the kidneys and out.

My background is watching a lot of biology and trying to understand.
also getting involved in a project also means dealing with its politics and drama, too. And the entitlement, criticism and blame from users.

and in a lot of cases, it would be less effort to write the functionality you actually need (and the tests for it) than writing the tests for an entire OS project (and then dealing with all the other crap).
Some advice I've found helpful is to quit Twitter and Reddit, while also unfriending particularly misandrist and racist (yes, anti-white racism is still racism) Facebook friends. I've found myself a lot happier when I cut out people who would constantly try to demonize me for various physical traits. If you have the mass media constantly telling a group of people that they're inherently evil, of course it's going to cause suicides.
That's the sort of thing that I suspect if you can honestly say it's coming (because of observable events or trends) that it's already pretty much here.
Ask HN: Test tasks for junior iOS developer
Please share your test tasks for Junior iOs Developer position.
The problem with privacy by obscurity is that once broken it cannot be fixed. Once information is released and becomes public, there is no way to retrieve or expunge it from the public record. The only remedy is law, regulation, and a social compact that the continued dissemination and use against your interests is forbidden.
Hello HN

There are some types of apps that help you save content online:

+ Bookmark app. This type of app saves your list of URLs. Then, the user accesses the list later in a dashboard. Besides, these apps can recommend users related content base on user's data

+ The highlight text app. These app highlight many texts with a url. But you have to go to this URL again to view the highlights.

+ Note apps. These apps have a lot of 'fancy' features like synchronization, multiple users working on a note.

So we decided to build a new and simple way to save highlights. It's inspired by the Medium highlight feature. It can be used on all websites by a browser extension.

You just need to Select text -> Right click -> Embolden It with this extension.

Besides, EmboldenIt is a truely decentralized app that runs on the Blockstack platform. You own your data.

We form an opinion about making something less complex with blockchain so that users can adapt to the technology.

When users are more familiar with DApps, these changes assist for blockchain platforms and blockchain developers and vice versa. They will build more DApps for end users.

We hope that EmboldenIT can be your everyday highlight-taking app.

Use it at:
https://emboldenit.com/

Google Chrome Extension at:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/embolden-it-chrome...

We really welcome your feedback.
Thank you for reading!

Enjoy emboldening!
"You only spend money on things you identify with emotionally, which is mostly limited to yourself, your family, and your tribe (and people also spend money for signaling). This is also part of the reason why OSS and public service projects don't get many donations, except for short bursts when it's fashionable, and why you can't have nice things as a society without taxation."

The entire reason for taxes, and nation states. Those whose ambition is not paying taxes really do not understand what we're all trying to do together.
Poor cats. If birds die its their own fault for getting caught by a cat, but what did the cats do wrong?
The original article only discusses a specific, non-standard (to me, at least – probably made more sense for IT departments) method that Mozilla is calling ‘sideloading’ will be disabled. Per the article, ‘sideloading’ is defined as putting an extension file in a special folder that results in all instances of Firefox on the machine automatically loading that extension.

In the page yorwba linked, it shows how to generate a signed XPI file that can be distributed and installed locally from that file in a more conventional manner (e.g. drag & drop the file onto Firefox’s Add-ons page).
But how do you separate the two?
Don't they already do this? I hear them all the time on my scanner? Hell they use a four digit unencrypted code to activate the emergency sirens.
So make these ai’s corporations — instant personhood.
On http://aurynfund.org they say they are a fund for supporting a better variety of psychedelic medicine businesses (equitable,affordable, for all) but they list no portfolio companies or otherwise no references to any such companies. Weird.
A quarter of the US population isn't common? Not to mention entire countries with limited connections.
The use of the word Privacy is misleading the conversation. We should be setting the goal to make it illegal to collect. It should be illegal for commercial entities to collect information that can be considered personally identifiable information without explicit consent. Additionally, that should not be allowed within a commercial terms of service agreement, and if automated must also provide means to remove with the same timeliness of the automated subscription.
Do you have a like for a more detailed/specific reasoning against mattermost in particular? I might want to throw it at some grassroots instance in an attempt to get rid of it/user's acceptance of it.
It’s been acceptable for a long time now.
Seems like just "moving on" would be a bad idea. The Republicans need to figure out why their party was so willing to go full monarchist. For the rest of us, I guess the question is "who's the heir to the US throne?", and how do we prevent it?
ZeniMax to refund consumers for the Fallout 76 game
Maybe because they could still refuse to pay? Anecdotally, I know of at least two pizza shops near me that only accept cash, and don't deliver. They're not hurting for business in any way. They're also on their 3rd and 4th generation of owners, so maybe they never adopted the practice of accepting credit cards.
From what I know (and I've got quite a few self developed addons running), installing unsigned XPI files has not been allowed for a while. I've been uploading them to my profile in the add-ons developer portal and getting back the signed XPI file. I could be misreading this though so apologies if I jumped the gun here.
Newtonian gravity has an infinite travel speed itself, so you don't need any special knowledge to show that it isn't compatible with relativity. Once special relativity was known it was realized that all field theories must obey certain symmetries, which Maxwell's equations (having been invented long before SR) actually did.
Can't even recall all the times I've posted on a topic I'm strongly well-versed in on reddit and ended up downvoted. It's very frustrating when something you know to be a fact is downvoted in favor of some popular conception of truth.
And with whom.
typo: raft-rs is at https://github.com/tikv/raft-rs
Try offering a free product - you'll meet real assholes.
Resources for Measuring Cybersecurity
Thẹn why not just leave the functionality there but force users to confirm the installation the next time you restart the browser? And make it possible to remove the sideloaded extension always?
> Cast in this manner, the nothing to hide argument is a formidable one.

No. It's still the same old weak argument. "This surveillance will never be used for the wrong reasons and any level of incidental damage to innocents is acceptable, as long as we achieve our goal of preventing people from doing a narrow definition of the wrong thing."

The flaws are this.

(1) not only is there no definition of "the wrong reasons" ("only those who are engaged in illegal activities"), the definition can change, and experience has show that such surveillance data inevitably gets used for purposes outside of the original limited intent. Such primises are not worth the water in which they are writ.

(2) The only acceptable level of incidental damage to innocent parties is zero.

(3) Surveillance is often a form of terrorism. It's a well-documented historic fact (thanks, Stazi, for you predilection for recordkeeping). Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Error for site owner: Invalid key type
thanks @vankhoa1505
P-O-T-S-CHHCKUMPH-A-T-O Potato.. top notch.

I cant look at a potato without that machines voice in my head
Well you can drink coffee, whereas most apps are garbage and not useful.
>Moreover, the security interest in detecting, investigating, and preventing terrorist attacks is very high and outweighs whatever minimal or moderate privacy interests law-abiding citizens may have in these particular pieces of information.

No thank you, I'd give up my privacy if it could help prevent heart attacks, cancer or maybe even automobile crashes but terrorism compared to the above pale in comparison when you consider the number of deaths. Literally giving up one of the fundamentals the country was founded on for something so minor is clearly a reach of power for the government to control the population under the guise of keeping them secure.

https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2019/05/Causes-of-death-i...

https://ourworldindata.org/terrorism
And really what is the point of the selfie at the Pizzability pizza restaurant. A few seconds on a person's Instagram page or maybe ever never used.

Trophy selfies remind me of the trophies a serial killer takes from their victims. Whether serial killers or Instagram nuts the only thing taken comes from the victims.
Normally you get a vet to do that...
As if this is the cause of the life expectancy drop for American men. I think learning how to deal with this type of criticism is a quality one needs to have nowadays. I'm white and I have no problem with twitter or reddit. They are actually great platforms.

I think the root of the problem with American men is that inequality in America is increasing. Also the culture and education system needs a reform, a lot of kids are growing in an environment where drug abuse is cool, doctors don't want to hear patients and just prescribe medicine etc.

There are a lot of wrong incentives. Hopefully the next president focuses on addressing them.
"X written in Rust" is becoming a tiring clickbait pattern on tech boards.

Why not simply announcing "X" in the title?
Obviously all of this is kind of wrong.

Short-term prices aren't driven by fundamentals, but by rumors/sentiment/herding. So thinking that a bunch of short sellers might orchestrate a rumor campaign against a volatile stock isn't much of a stretch.

I wouldn't hark on the bankruptcy semantics. Obviously, the original statement doesn't necessarily mean that the bankruptcy will be the result of short selling.
if we are talking about female mathematicians don't forget Emmy Noether: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Noether
My main point is that if it's something you cannot write exhaustive tests yourself in a few minutes then forget it and use something that has been in the field.
I turned on every notification for a month
Be Afraid of the Post-Feminism Man
Interesting article. Title needs changing, but flagging seems unnecessary.
They have those evil metrics about what users are doing.

If 1% of users are getting exposed to malicious software by a feature and 0.0001% of users are using it, it's a little more clear than you say. I've made both of those numbers up, but I think it's likely enough that very few end users are depending on the ability of other software to silently inject plugins.
Yes, but in a browser ! :p

It reminds me the quote: "Everything that can be implemented in javascript will be implemented in javascript." And this implementation is actually pretty neat.
Be careful, new Astérix are not as good as the old ones. The one with the Swarzenegger Superman is even awful.
I have linked to that post quite a few times here in HN along the years, it is surprising for me how many times this same kind of answer pops up and I don't understand if it's lack of vision or empathy that there are people out there that want tools with better ergonomics and are willing to pay for that.

Quite a few of us here work in software, of course we can just jerry-rig a lot of solutions based on existing tools, it doesn't mean it is sufficient to be a product or useful for a broader set of users...
“If women get paid less than men why don't employers hire only women?”
A question I saw on Reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/dq2f9b/if_women_actually_get_paid_less_than_men_why_dont/

and found interesting. Would love to hear the responses in a more civil fashion, it's chaos on Reddit.
I find it hard to believe that white men are dying because people are pointing out that racism exists on social media.
If you have to upload your addons to the internet before you can install them (even if it is to have them signed) that's hardly "local".
I don't see how removing the option gives more control. If you want more control why not just add a confirmation step the first time the extension is loaded, and make it possible/easy to remove it?
As someone that lives in Charleston, SC it's way too easy to hate on tourists. They jam up the roadways, fill up all the restaurant reservations, take all the parking, etc. However, at the end of the day, it's hard to overstate what a tremendous benefit it is for the local economy to have a firehose of money dumping into your town the better part of the year.
European Cloud Project Draws Backlash from U.S. Tech Giants
What this memory exercise reveals about creativity and the brain
>Tourists tend to be cheap, and have zero emotional investment in what they're touring

Then why do souvenir shops exist? Wouldn't they be extremely unprofitable if this was true?
It's in the surveillance data.
Something like this couldn't happen without the tacit approval of an actual sovereign state. No matter what powers this city claims, it has to do so under the authority of and through negotiations with the governments of Toronto and Canada (or wherever future such projects are hosted,) or else attempt to secede and fight a civil war over the matter.
I think the prevailing political system is intentionally set up so that it is “nobody” or a low-level scapegoat. That’s the whole point of the system. Similar with corporate legal structure, corporate oversight and the way executive actors can avoid personal liability.

My overall point is that “explainability” is inherently subjective & situation-specific and whether a decision process “is explainable” has virtually nothing to do with the concept substrate it is made out of (e.g. “machine learning models” or “military chain of command” or “company policy” or “legal precedent” and so on...).

It’s about who successfully argues for control, nothing more.