skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
About 12 years ago I hacked together a "black hat SEO" website using synthetic content. I picked a niche (baking/recipes) and cobbled together a PHP script to generate content based on a keyword list I put together. I found a simple markov chain text generator and had it spit out a web page for each keyword in my list. There were hundreds of static html pages full of keyword rich content. The search engines loved it.

I traded backlinks through a website (whose name escapes me) where you'd place a javascript snippet on the page and it would load 10 random links to other websites. I think you could also pick which sites you wanted your link to appear on and they'd pay a certain price per month to keep it there. It was all about boosting PageRank in Google through a keyword link.

The idea was to create a website for search-engines, not for humans. It was about gaming the search engines and as a side-effect, creating organic traffic to the site where a human would then be bombarded by Google Adsense. The ads were "relevant" to my generated content and keywords.

It only took Google about a month or so to blacklist the domain. I think I made about ~$400 in ad revenue in just a few weeks. IIRC, the threshold to payout your adsense revenue was $1k and I never reached it.

All in all, it was a fun little project that furthered my interest in web development.
Well, as a user I love it.

In the other hand, as a conscious consumer, I absolutely hate giving even more information to Google.

It would be cool to have an open source, non-profit organization to work as an universally accepted authentication provider platform. One can always dream.
Well said, I'm disappointed that you're getting downvoted for expressing this sentiment. Actions like BART blocking cellphones show that the government is entirely willing to make arbitrary technology restrictions to squash protests. If drones were widely available in Nazi Germany, would they have been allowed to fly near concentration camps? Pass whatever silly laws you want, but don't call those who preserve their tools and freedoms arrogant and self absorbed -- save those labels for the assholes who actually interfere with firefighting operations.
I can’t help but think of analogy to engineering orgs where leadership places higher value on engineers whose highly visible “heroics” fix a mess they created in the first place, rather than the engineer that makes boring decisions that prevent the problems in the first place.

I have zero knowledge or expertise in forest management or wildfire fighting, but I suspect there isn’t a simply a single method that’s more effective. Meaningful progress likely requires an interrelated system of measures spanning education, policy, understanding risk tolerances, prevention and response. But if expensive response measures — with low-efficacy — are taken primarily for political reasons, I’d love to see the political value shift to more boring proactive measures. With that said, I don’t have any understanding/data on efficacy of tankers, or what proactive measures would be more valuable, just thinking aloud.
Subhead on the article: "The synchronized brain waves of non-REM sleep may play a key role in preventing toxins from accumulating in a person's brain."

It must tick off good science journalists to have their "may" turned into "now know" by the editors.
Airbnb’s Updated TOS
It's also

Required By: apitrace apm asciidoc bluefish bzr cloudprint-cups dblatex epydoc fio gconf gemrb getmail gmock gnome-doc-utils gtk-recordmydesktop inkscape ipcheck ipython2 java-openjfx java11-openjfx java8-openjfx jcl jmc kig kodi-bin kodi-gbm kodi-wayland lhapdf lib32-apitrace libgda libkate libvirt-python2 libvolk lilypond mailman mcomix mediaproxy mercurial mftrace mod_wsgi2 moosefs mopidy mysql-python mysql-workbench nss-pam-ldapd ntop pluma pychecker pydb pylibacl pynac pypanel pyrex pyrit pysol-sound-server rdiff-backup repo rtaudio scribus sgmltools-lite shedskin singularity spambayes tellico texmacs tuxpaint txt2tags vim-ultisnips wesnoth wicd wifite xpra
Optional For: android-tools arduino armagetronad boost boost1.69 brial bugzilla cairo-dock-plug-ins cantor cryptominisat5 csound dia ecasound ecryptfs-utils efl efl-docs faust freedroidrpg freeradius gammu geda-gaf gif2png git gogglesmm graphviz gvim hivex inn john kcachegrind-common kodi-eventclients kross-interpreters libdnet libevent libglade libieee1284 libnewt libproxy libuhd magma marsyas mate-menus mathomatic mediawiki munin-node ncmpc net-snmp non-timeline notmuch openconnect opensips plan9port postgresql pycharm-community-edition python-pywal recoll roundcubemail rrdtool singular skktools spectmorph spring subversion texlive-core texlive-music vim vim-latexsuite xf86-video-qxl

Regardless, let's not turn this into yet another argument about why anyone should/shouldn't upgrade to Python 2. I was just trying to confirm that the parent is not doing anything that requires Python 2.
It looks too much like the Firefox logos:

https://mozilla.design/firefox/logos-usage/
Billions of people care. The market is you and your family as you deal with increased costs of living or lack of power and other goods.
Typing 1.1.1.1 (Cloudflare DNS) or 8.8.8.8 (Google DNS) into the address bar does the same job, is quicker, can be easily remembered, and is safer.
And the feel/function of a Windows 95 scrollbar differs from that of a NeXT scrollbar in almost every way possible.
That was my first thought. I’m sure I’ve seen some unsolicited re-design of the Firefox icon that looked very similar to this, but with an orange palette.
> Do you honestly think removing URLs from search results is an "egregious abuse of power?"

Yes, it very obviously is. Google the search engine, and therefore Google, would never have gotten off the ground if it had hidden URL from the beginning.

> and you're complaining about them removing a design element 95% of people probably don't care about?

If so many people don't care about something so basic and crucial to not being a serf in the information age, then that makes the issue even more important, and Google's behaviour even more egregious.
Higher res link:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/Firefox_...
What makes you think new entrants? Just curious. On the fab side definitely not... there's really only 3 fabs competing on the bleeding edge side of things, and it costs way too much to open another. On the 'chip designer' side maybe, but I'm not sure why Intel's performance affects whether or not someone jumps in. I basically see a convergence coming, with ARM stuff getting better performance, and x86 stuff using less power...so there will be an interesting crossroads of sorts to see which direction things go.
I hope they have as much success with this as they've had with VS Code and I'm looking forward to trying their first release of Edge on Linux. It will be great to have the choice of a non-Google, WebKit based browser from a major distributor who has the resources to keep up with and challenge Google on things like Manifest v3.

I find it somewhat ironic that the most used software I'm running on my Linux desktop, VS Code, is a free and open source Microsoft product. It's also the product that really enabled me to make the switch in comfort. Maybe soon though I'll be using Bing more too (among others like DDG) if Google decides to completely remove URLs from search result links.
I've tried to upstream changes or bug reports to open software. Sometimes something that is a bug to you is a feature to someone else.
I've read Disney+ has insane levels of DRM, maybe it's the same for Apple TV?
I disagree on one entry being more specific than the other. In any case, neither really tells you anything about the actual work of the people described.

As for unicorns, it is just ludicrous to complain about something that feminists have demanded. Nobody goes to a tech conference to hear about feminist complaints about tech. It happens because feminists demand it. There are even cases of female speakers hijacking talks to talk about women in tech, like at a recent Chaos Communication Congress.

In any case, if you don't want to be a "unicorn", just say no. It's simply not a valid complaint. It is a privilege that you get to talk just because of your gender.
How measles causes body to forget immunity to past infections
They won’t get their new pipelines at all if they keep getting spills in the news
Conda to install python, pip to manage dependencies.
It basically the "I don't have to be faster than the bear, I just have to be faster than you" principle in action.

GDPR violations are so ubiquitous that regulators can't possibly go after all of them.

As long as you aren't a particularly juicy target and are doing the same things that everyone else is to pretend to follow GDPR, you probably aren't going to be among the first enforcement targets.
It's not an advertised function, so it might change. I just went to 1.1.1.1. It was HTTPS.
Using a piano keyboard as a computer keyboard
I'm not going to deny that but if you just filter for content that your goal from the subreddit like I mentioned in my comment then you can pick up some meaningful information and have some good discussions. MK is such a wide field for discussion and of course there are going to be OCD elitists but there are also a lot of people who are just going for ergonomics or function. As long as you keep that in mind and just ignore the posts that don't serve your interest in the subreddit then you'll have a good time.
It's not possible to access certificates in the browser.
That could also be explained by feminists aiming to list as many female academics as possible, so perhaps they are also likely to list many who are less noteworthy.

It would be surprising if there was really a bias to delete entries about women, as actually Wikipedia is assumed to be under SJW control.
I’ve used http://www.fake.com for years just because it worked. If that London-based artificial plant company ever goes out of business, I don’t know what I’ll do! ;)
"I guess I shouldn’t doubt it too much."

How ELSE would you do it, on a machine with no ROM? We always had to manually enter one instruction into memory to start up the card reader to read the bootstrap card. (This was long before the PDP-11's that others have mentioned.)

"She did used to bring old (some used!) punch cards home from work for us kids to play with. I suppose they must have been clearing out obsolete equipment and systems."

Old used punch cards were far more prevalent than new ones ... every time you type a line into your computer and then delete or correct it, that's equivalent to having an old punch card.
How to Fetch Data with React Hooks
Or, if you're a myopic glasses-wearer, simply try on-off. I love this trick for images of all kinds because it allows me to apply a uniform blur, no computation required.
After the disease, the children lost, on average, about 20% of their antibody repertoire. Some fared much worse, losing more than 70% of their immunity to viral pathogens. The findings are particularly sobering now that measles cases are increasing sharply, by more than 30% due to undervaccination and misguided vaccine safety concerns.
The article's point is that individual actions really don't scale.

This is a general problem of race-to-the-bottom dynamics -- a form of Gresham's Law. At best, personal resistance simply opens more space for the bad actors / RTTB dynamic.

Instituting systemic blocks, through regulation, legislation, taboo, or other mechanisms, is required.

Individual action can help spread awareness. But it's a first step, not a last.
thanks for mentioning! Added.
After WW2, the Allies took scientific, military, and industrial personnel and equipment from Germany. The biggest scoop for the US were rocketry advances with Von Braun and his team, but the Russians took scientists too. The also sought any nuclear developments but there weren't many. When the Russians withdrew from Austria, they took entire factories with them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Osoaviakhim
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied-occupied_Austria#Mounti...
I think the idea is that you already have this tool before you are mitm-ed. Also, you don't really think that attackers are gods right? As in that they know about every single website that could alert their victims of their attack?
When I’m having trouble logging into a Wi-Fi network I just go to 128.1.1.1. Seems to work every time.
New Australia Post Electric Vehicles Delivering in Queensland
Nobody made that point. You're underestimating how important oil is to the entire economy. Understanding all the potential issues that will affect people is necessary if you intend to actually make any changes.
I don't think HTTPS is the default automatically. When I create a new Chrome profile, then type example.com into the url bar and hit enter, I go to http://example.com . Then when I type https://example.com twice (each time hitting enter) then type example.com and hit enter, I go to https://example.com . So I think it might be whichever is more common in your history.

Firefox behaves very similarly, except I don't have to visit https://example.com twice before it becomes the default, I just have to visit it once.
This is definitely one of those things I wish GitHub would “backport” from GitLab.
It may not be optimally helpful, but it's one of the articles's recommendations:

> So, what can you do? You can encourage people to report bugs. I visibly write in my GitHub README that reporting bugs is encouraged and welcome: “Please tell me if something is wrong, you’re helping me make this project better.”

Nothing in the post is about frictionless report submission, mostly observation that if something is broken most users won't bother reporting it. If the suggestion has been made that bug reports are welcome, that might help, and a good place to make that suggestion is in an error message, especially for a development tool (though it is also in the main README).
> This would be a neat graphic.

my utility company actually provides a graph of low/avg/high temperature and power consumption for each day of the billing period. it's a great way to see how your heating/cooling schedule affects your bill.

I think most people sleep better when the ambient temperature is a few degrees cooler than they want their house during the day. so an extra hour in bed during the coldest part of the day could save some energy, probably marginal though.
Reporting bugs is considered as work for most. I gave up on Apple cause I am not paid to report.I only report those which affect my apps.
How can you possibly create a controlled enough experiment to give quantitive results? You’d need two different leaders leading the same people and companies to be able to compare.
> However, it's difficult for me to identify which problems are caused by the remote-first culture, and which problems can just be attributed to the company itself.

This really resonates with my experience. What is my mindset vs what is inherent in the company/remote-work in general?
I would be interested to know what others use. I have found that following other scientists on Twitter (i.e., crowdsourcing) is surprisingly effective.
virtualenv is a nasty kludge and needs to die
Agree with everything except the ancient grains bit. While it does not in itself mean anything (good or bad) in terms of personal nutrition, buying heritage or unusual food strains clearly helps improve biodiversity in our food supply (because there is an economic incentive to produce those strains) and is generally good for resilience - if the major commercial strains become susceptible to pests and diseases there are others to fall back on.

The lack of such diversity in certain food crops (eg bananas being one of the worst examples) is of concern as it makes our food supplies fragile.
Sure, it has a conservative cast, like the New Yorker has a liberal cast. Although I'd argue that it's more libertarian than conservative most of the time; for instance, I don't think I'd ever see Breitbart publish a defense of polyamory, which Quillette did last week.
You'd think they'd at least bother to test with the most common browser/os combo...
Leadership is actual work. I don’t think anything is harder than being in a leadership position - it’s usually lonely, isolating, exhausting, precarious, and with little support.
And even buildings, or at least according to the legend in which Napoleon expressed a wish to relocate the Church of St. Anne in Vilnius to Paris.
That seems pretty good. Doesn't use much space, then has a handle when you need to use it.
https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-ci...

"MDDS was introduced to several dozen leading computer scientists at Stanford, CalTech, MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Harvard, and others in a white paper that described what the CIA, NSA, DARPA, and other agencies hoped to achieve."
Second known interstellar visitor after Oumuamua
This is a good review of the book by Joel Spolsky which also touches on that point:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/12/14/biculturalism/
And as more and more organizations and social circles become global, I think the only stable end state is the whole world using UTC.
I use Vivaldi on Linux, macOS, and Windows. It's the most customizable browser I've used since Opera 12 (which makes sense, since one of the Opera founders started Vivaldi).
Wish there was a way of getting mac os x 10 lickable scroll bar back. Does anyone know any hacks to get it working on latest mac os?
React Conf 2019
You don’t have to be local (2012)
Migrating Chrome Extensions to Manifest V3
I find it to be intrusive and disturbing. Medium.com does this and I've always hated it.

Mediums usage of it actually caused me to switch, on my work computer, from always being logged into Google, to never being logged into my Google account. Now if I have to use one of my companies apps that requires a Google login, I do it incognito.

At home, I never browse while logged in, so I didn't ever notice it that much. Using my Google account for logging into a third party web application is never my first choice. I'll take separate email / passwords for everybody please and thank you.
Some of the issues on tv.apple.com seem like they may be related to DRM (sometimes playback simply doesn't work, even though the m3u8 playlist and segments load nicely), but most of the problems are just really (severe) UI glitches.

They're probably not doing any more DRM than e.g. Netflix. Anyway, it's pointless - the launch shows are already available on The Pirate Bay. I'm sure the video/audio/subtitle quality is excellent.
To me most of this is basically a sign that more companies who are hiring should try to shift to remote asap, because of the talent pool you get. Also, taking 2 months on a reply to schedule an interview is crazy.
KVM VPSs are generally significantly more expensive than OpenVZ, so for side projects where I want a cheap (<$5/mn) plan I've always used the OpenVZ VPSs.
2I/Borisov, the second known interstellar visitor after Oumuamua, looks like a normal comet from our own Solar System. The size of the two objects, along with the rate of their discovery suggests this could be common occurrence - at any given moment about a dozen interstellar visitors are passing through the Solar System.
I believe Edge is based on Chromium not WebKit?
I just use http://captive.apple.com
That’s why there is a web link above.
This website unfortunately has a reputation for the extreme levels of spam employed used to promote the platform.
In the NeXT/Mac family tree, at least, it has steadily improved.

- The thumb became proportional.

- The arrows moved to the same end (so you didn't have to hit another tiny target on the opposite side of the screen when you overshoot by one line), and then disappeared entirely (when hardware scrolling interfaces became commonplace).

- They gained the ability for click to mean "jump here" (and option-click to reverse this setting on-the-fly).

- They disappear when not in use (to save space), and became bouncy at the ends (to show you more clearly when you're at the end).

Not every OS has improved their scrollbars in the same ways, but most other OSs have proven themselves not-quite-competent at understanding (and copying) the state-of-the-art in GUIs. Windows 1.0 was terrible at everything, not just scrollbars. That's not an indictment of this process as evolution.
relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CzURm7OpAA ("Knocking my neighbors kids cruddy drone offline")
The designer of the software should be liable for bugs that cause life and property damages. This makes sense morally, and the costs incurred from damages should be factored into the costs of pricing a driverless car.

This protects the consumer from being responsible for damages they have no control over, provides meaningful competitive incentives for driverless car manufacturers to improve safety, and doesn’t hamstring the industry’s development.
Just love the "Mac OS X Lion" version
i've heard it's strongly coupled to windows' underlying rendering.

also, probably lack of value to microsoft.
Given that this is a website for medical use, I'm surprised they are allowing account creation with google oauth. I'm 95% sure it's not HIPAA compliant.
If not Gitlabs, what do you think is a good policy for setting salary rates? Paying based on SF/NYC rates seems ... dumb. Maybe companies should choose a salary that's competitive in any mid-tier cost of living American city and leave it at that? I'm genuinely not sure.
Once you figure out how venv works it's really simple to set up a python project. It's just another quirk with just another programming language, they all have them. People don't complain about how hard it is to learn to program, but learning how to use some pip commands is too difficult for them?
Nice one, never heard of pigeon (PJON) before but it has potential. I understand that it’s mainly for low end devices, but I’d like to see it combined with https://balena.io
The Misunderstood Roots of FRP
The new entrants would be on the design side.
If Intel no longer holds the keys to best fab-tech in the world then all bets are off.

(I'm assuming that Intel doesn't allow competitors to use their fabs; and that Intel does indeed have the best fab-tech at the moment; maybe I'm wrong.)
Just like renting homes ended home ownership?
Because these are desperate people.

Look at the kinds of people who are part of the so called prosperity churches, they see mostly poor or lower middle class people who have no other means to raise their standard of living but to hope for god or some magical entity to just give to them.
I wonder if anyone has insight into how they have been able to do this consistently in the modern era of quantitative trading (this article had scant detail)? His returns are such an outlier and strategies such a closely guarded secret that they leave people on Wall Street in awe.
It was in a perfect space for me and for many people. It was still the best-selling drone, despite competition offering smaller drones. Inspire is not easy to fly by a grandpa.
It is not. I was about to write "I hope someone doesn't think telemetry is the answer to this", thankfully it took quite a while - because it really isn't.

The answer to this would simply be to test it on OS X. Or just state that OS X isn't supported - or just do nothing. All three are acceptable for a project like this.

Telemetry is not.
Yeah, I do all of these things by hand today as well. It is very time consuming especially when I want to make changes. I’d be willing to accept more constraints if that’s what I have to do but my current attempts with PlantUML can’t get close to the look I’d like even for simple diagrams unfortunately.
Has an interesting WHOIS record too. The "registrar" is "RESERVED-Internet Assigned Numbers Authority", and no admin/technical/billing contacts like in standard whois entries.
> When reddit banned /r/fatpeoplehate the problem moved around for a little bit, but it promptly died. Or when the white nationalists were forced to move to Voat, their numbers dwindled.

I don't buy this. Do you have any actual evidence for this?