skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a tired argument compared to what Docker introduced. Should we not commend Apple for the iPhone because the rotary phone was invented years before?
Two big issues for me that have kept me on Firefox despite being a huge cryptocurrency nerd:

1. The decision to base on Chromium is a bigger negative for me than any feature. We're all going to regret contributing to the One True Engine someday and it's going to be so painful to fix.

2. BAT is a pure money play. There's no inherent utility outside buying and spending. And Ethereum is nothing if not the biggest utility crypto out there. This is always one of those things in the Ethereum ecosystem where I point out that you didn't have to make yet another ERC-20 if your only play is money.

It's too late now, of course. But man, it would have been terrific to recommend a browser that blocked ads out of the box and wasn't part of the engine hegemony.
Ok, but the difference with waiting to accumulate dollars vs waiting to accumulate crypto currency is that with crypto you are subject to massive currency fluctuations while you wait to cash out.

Just look at BAT price volatility and decline over last year.
A carbon tax putting up oil prices will help, oil prices rising themselves won't help as there's far more oil than we can afford to burn and the higher the price goes the more motivated we are to extract it.

Lots of other things that help e.g. electric cars, more public transport and (ironically) a carbon tax will lead to demand for oil lessening and so drop the price till it balances with demand.
As far as I understand it, using the browser with the default settings is basically like using Chrome with ad blocking (and tracking protection and all of that) already built in.

The only opt in part is allowing ads, which you get paid for viewing.
> People will still be using USB-A for the next 10 years.

Possibly. But they'll be using it for the next 100 if no one ever removes it from anything.
>the low resolution, low contrast, washed out, low fps video that makes it hard to read emotion or even detect where his/her attention is?

This is totally disingenuous. We're not comparing a 120p camera to a 1080p camera. We're comparing a sharp camera with great color rendition to a slightly higher resolution of the same camera.
Something like a "UPS Prime" or "Fedex Prime" even?
Amazing achievement. He really nailed down the 1940s-1950s urban look. The skyline looks like an inventive pastiche of Chicago and New York. I do wonder if he included an automat.
Reading the banter between Cher Scarlett and Bryan Lunduke in the comments is gold.

+1 for Bryan in my opinion
>I always think in the future so many more people will just work remotely

People have been saying this for over a decade now (probably much longer, but that's when I started paying attention) and I've yet to see any evidence at all that it's true. As the owner of a rural house where my only internet option is satellite, I'd love for it to be true, but I still rent and apartment in the Bay Area where I live most of the time because that's where my employer wants me to be.
What in the world is a fashion-wear walled garden? I'm pretty sure you can wear nike shirts with Adidas tops, socks are like the USB-C of feet, etc.
How do we feel about places like brooklyn and queens -- which are essentially urban in nature, but technically auxillary/suburban cities?
Persistent Gmail Issues, causing quality degradation
The Web version has deleted many emails after they have been sent for some odd reason. Half the time when I am writing emails, I get two diff errors, "Message could not be sent. Check your network and try again" in red and a yellow one that says "Oops...the system encountered a problem - Retrying".

When I have a persistent cable connection, with a new macbook pro etc. Everything else works fine.

The second issue is that even the app is very buggy, about 25% of the time when an email is opened, the screen simply doesn't render the controls (area to type, reply, etc)... I have a iPhone7, everything else works as it always has...

I've been a user since day 1, but I think feature bloat and lack of testing is really affecting (power) users like myself. Can anyone recommend viable alternatives?
Tokens only go to verified publishers. Signing up to receive them is basically that consent. Otherwise (site or channel not verified), the transaction never leaves the user's browser

wikipedia.org, slashdot.org, and other sites that show a purple checkmark in the URL bar have gone through that verification process
how much time have you wasted thinking about this? Is it worth it? after over 20 yrs of being independent, any engagement that starts out with drama will end in drama.
According to Bain, China spends more on diamonds than Europe despite having a smaller GDP. It's very close to Japan in diamond consumption rate.

https://www.bain.com/insights/global-diamond-industry-report... (Figure 16)
VCs worry about that sort of stuff when they decide which fund to spend out of but companies generally don't.

LPs are patient with the returns, and in extreme cases VCs could even "buy out" the equity from themselves with another fund.

The only thing really visible to portfolio companies is "we have X dollars for these stages".
Okay, that's your position. Plenty of people do not want an AI that, say, gives parole to someone that is a high risk of re-offending because someone engineered the AI to be more lenient towards people who grew up in areas with greater lead exposure.
It's delusional to think Berlin will forever be the leftist dreamland that it has been for the last 30 years. This change is inevitable and in the end creates value for the city. The problems can be solved in different ways than fighting against tech companies that want to create well paying jobs and pay a lot of taxes.
This actually draws a lot of diversity to Berlin, almost none of my friends and coworkers are germans, not even europeans and i love that.
Yes because 9000 bots in China haven't already done that to your public repo...
I used brace for a while on mobile but stopped once brave started to out ads in the notification bar. I don't remember exactly what they were for - probably BAT and the browser itself - but I definitely don't need another pathway to get slammed. Back to Firefox and happy as can be.
So don't opt-in. There are other ways to acquire BAT and support the sites you visit in Brave besides watching ads.
I'm reasonably sure USD (or EUR) will still exist, have some reasonably similar value, and be usable in five years. There are quite a lot of crypto tokens I do not have anywhere near that level of confidence in.
It reminds me about Google Code Archive[0]

[0] https://code.google.com/archive/
There are surely some startups for which this is bullshit. But the good version of it is:

- take some valuable task that's never been successfully automated before

- do it manually (and expensively) for a while to acquire data

- build an automated system with some combination of regular software and ML models trained on the data

- now you can do a valuable task for free

- scale up and profit

The risk is that it's hard to guess how much data you'll need to train an accurate, automated model. Maybe it's very large, and you can't keep doing it manually long enough to get there. Maybe it's very small and lots of companies will automate the same task and you won't have any advantage.

I think there'll be some big successes with this model, and many failures. So be skeptical -- ML isn't a magic bullet. But if a team has a good handle on how they're going to automate something valuable, it can be a good bet.

As an investor, you may well face the situation down the line "We've burned through $10M doing it manually, and we're sure that with another $10M we can finish the automation." Then you have to make a hard decision. With some applications like self-driving cars, it might be $10B.
It's not always easy. If I need to quickly move to the arrow keys (I touch type, so no looking!), I have about 80-85% success finding the right key on the first press... with the inverted-T layout, that's about 99%.

There's something weird about the way my brain handles the key being the same size as the option key next to it, and the fact that the tops of all those keys are exactly the same.
Allegedly, fake IDs en route to DPR were intercepted at the Canadian border, and that investigation yielded Ross Ulbricht. Whether or not this is a plausible explanation is a matter of perspective.
> I believe that is the business he wants to be in. Can you please clarify why this isn't an accurate representation?

Not the parent, but: a staffing agency typically handles lots of administrative stuff for its workers. They handle billing the client, they make sure taxes are withheld and give you the documentation you need at tax time, they may provide group benefits like health insurance. They also provide the legal entity the client contracts with, so the workers don't all have to incorporate individually. This is the ongoing value they add, they shield their workers from all the messy and complicated hassles that come with entrepreneurship.

If the idea is you're an independent contractor who's still expected to handle all that stuff yourself, your friend isn't acting as a staffing agency. They're just bringing you on as a subcontractor.

As to whether the amount they're asking for is reasonable, anything's reasonable if all the parties involved agree that it is. It sounds like you don't, and are looking for some justification you can hang that objection off of. But you don't need a justification, you're two parties trying to strike a deal, it's perfectly within your rights to say "I think this deal sucks" and make a counter-offer you like better or even walk away. That may not be smart, depending on how badly you need this work -- remember though, he needs you to make this deal happen as much as you need him! -- but it's absolutely something you can do.
How would I disable CSS in Chrome?
ICO was not established by GDPR. It has been around since 1984, and was also the agency responsible for enforcing GDPR's predecessors.

I agree that a regulatory agency specialized to these issues would increase their importance, but it's not the whole solution. ICO already existed, it just didn't have teeth.
This is exactly the problem. An AI classifier without sufficient context is simply a very efficient discrimination machine. We must make sure that AI systems have enough context and protection from human bias before large scale deployment.
Imagine if they raise prices exponentially for organizations they don't like, imagine if like the aclu or eef can't renew their .org because those organizations run counter to their interests.
Many large companies use MarkMonitor to register their domains.
If I'm going to build a project like I'm building something for a client, then I want to see the "brief" from the client. A 2 paragraph description with a 10-15 bullet points would be absolutely fine. Otherwise, these kind of courses can feel like a series of tasks with an unfeasible thread trying to link them together.

For example:

The client wants to run a calculator on their intranet, to avoid staff searching for dodgy calculators on Google. A lot of the ones they find are on dangerous, script-laden websites. Some of the calculators even give wrong results.

* The client really likes Apple design, so wants the calculator to look identical to the macOS one.

* They want all the results to load client side, with no calculation done on the server.

* Staff do a wide range of calculations, but they're all using basic arithmetic.

* The largest numbers the calculator has to deal with are in the low millions.

* Staff machines are all fairly up to date, with the latest browsers (typically Safari or Edge), but they're not very powerful. They don't use phones or tablets to access the intranet.

* One of the users is partially-sighted, another is colourblind, and another suffers from restricted movement in his hand. As such, accessibility is really important for this calculator.

And so on...
Actually, I haven't even thought of that, you are absolutely right! Flipping the paper just seems so natural.
System from Garmin can land a private plane when your pilot can’t
Advertising isn't ethical. It is lies and manipulation.
> Unless you're arguing that it's the fact of being non-white which makes people more violent

This is not how I interpreted OPs comment at all. I just read it as a note that data shows correlation between minority communities and crime. Minority is a flexible, relative term, to my understanding - which, notably in recent years is frequently attributed to "non-white", but over time has been attributed to many different groups of people (caucasian as well).

Interpreting it as meaning "non-white" in this context is yet another good example of our predisposed biases and relativistic understandings at play, I suppose.

Not to harp on you - just noting the differences in our perceptions.
Samsung Blockchain
The main reason I block ads is because ad networks make so many requests (and the ads load so slow) that it always affects my browsing. I am either waiting for the page to load because of poorly engineered synchronous ad network code, or I'm having my content fumbled around at the tail end of pageload. Both situations are obtrusive, aggravating, and slow me down.

In the early 2000s ads were simple images that loaded just as fast as everything else, and I didn't mind them much, even the cheesy animated ones. It's the delivery, not the content, that I abhor.
> the issue is practicing political activism for your own pet cause in the workplace on company time and expecting literally no retribution

When the pet cause is something that affects working conditions at the company, then that "issue" you describe is simply expecting the company to follow labor laws.

Workers have the right to organize with other workers and advocate for change in their working conditions without retribution from the company.
10,000 years from now, society has been destroyed. And people come across a glass plate with laser etchings. How bummed will they be when they go through all of the effort of decoding it, only to learn it's like some python library for managing drivers on a 2014 Dell laptop running linux?
Ah there you go. That's exactly why I deleted brave. Make it more annoying, splendid! And in the process demonetise websites and claim it's all for the greater good.
I was wondering - very strange that the aricle doesn't mention the weight of the new 16" MBP!
Because the trashy sites are also the best at SEO (and google isn't properly incentivized to punish them for their ads) so you end up seeing them by accident.
How many more would there have been without him?

Anyway, You listed 14 unique devices. In the late 90s Apple probably had that many Performas alone, never mind everything else.
That link claims to be about tolerance, yet leads with a picture of someone holding a bat menacingly but wearing a uniform that appeals to your political taste.

Sorry, no, that is not tolerance. Rather it is political violence. Political violence may be justifiable, but needs to be argued for on its own merits - not couched as an exception to "tolerance".

> You can totally go get [a swastika tattoo]. I won't welcome you back.

I was examining your adherence to your statement that "un-inhibited self-expression if I were looking for a success metric of tolerance". You are now saying that you will discourage people from expressing themselves in ways you do not agree with. You can't have it both ways.

Apparently that lofty generality was just serving as a dog whistle, to be ignored for those whom you disagree with. Furthermore, you took my hypothetical and responded directly in terms of me, as if I am some "other" that is personally interested in getting a racist tattoo.

> It seems clear that most people are able to mostly tell when something intolerant is happening

Much of what one political team considers "activism" is perceived as intolerance by the other team, so where does that end up? Setting subjective feelings as a standard practically guarantees herd behavior.

> Yes! Pretty sure the answer here is "forgiving tit-for-tat".

And yet you have continued phrasing things in terms of ultimatums, where your judgment of someone's actions is justification to write them off in a larger way. Even if you yourself deescalate in your own personal interactions, what you've written directly supports escalation.

I stand by my original comment. You, right here, are fanning the flames of intolerance.
Among the reasons I like OpenBSD is that it tries (hard) to be "secure by default", meaning, that the initial install has had "only 2 remote holes in the default install" since about 1996. Then as I make changes from that default I can consider the implications of each one.

And I appreciate the low likelihood of privilege escalation (I keep seeing those bugs come up for the linux kernel, not for OpenBSD), and pledge/unveil limiting what apps can do to what they normally should do, so that damage by compromised apps can be greatly limited to a given user account or less. And yes, the clarity of documentation (like the excellent FAQs) and predictability of the system.

So basically, I read news all the time about this or that exploit, and I am not in the vulnerable group. But I do think that it took me more work to get set up the way I want, than when I used Debian more, but that work was very well worth it, and even more so when I include my config customizations to various apps that now work just as I want.

One addition to the base system I always make is to change the /etc/profile to set the default umask to 0077 (and other changes for my own convenience etc). I've long wondered why umask 0077 is not the system default. Although after changing it I had to wrap pkg_add in a script ("pa") which sets it back to the original default so that some apps don't get broken during installation for some reason.

Also, it seems worthwhile to choose compatible hardware, or some things might not work.
No, I'm still right. It is true some places will have more rise, but also some places will have lower rise. Also storms are not getting noticeably stronger either, that's just as slow. Really you can buy ocean front property, and the concerns are more to do with local tides and weather and topography than anything to do with climate change. Cost will still be the primary concern, beachfront property is not cheap. The local issues dwarf climate change to the point that it likely doesn't even feature in your final decision, if you're being logical and not emotional.
docker is finally dead - it's k8s turn next

it looks like they went out of their way to find their employees a new home which is super cool of them and we probably don't hear about that much - that's what actually happened here

as if enough of us haven't said this enough - if your company is adopting containers/k8s you are going to end up with a bag of dead horses, buyer beware
I keep no email on Google. I have a Linux box that pulls down all email, for all my families email accounts, and stores it locally. Then we use Thunderbird and access it via IMAP. It is then easy to back it up with everything else onto external drives and my Backblaze account.

With what is going on with big internet players censoring and deplatforming people, why would one trust these people with your money.
Secrets of the largest ape that ever lived
Zappos is owned by amazon, and your credentials will work there too.
>Why "fuck ads"?

Because ads are basically useless? I can remember MAYBE a handful of times in my entire life where an "ad" has actually prompted me to look into/buy something.
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Entire cities fund themselves with speeding tickets:

https://www.npr.org/2019/10/18/771371881/episode-945-the-lib...
They started popping up for me without any opt-in.
I have a rural house with satellite internet. I work from there several weeks a year to stretch my time away from the hell that is the Bay Area. It works fine as long as all I need is access to the git server, despite the fact that I usually blow through the bandwidth soft cap within a few days at most. I usually take at least two trips into town (7 miles each way, pop. 700) to get cell service for conference calls over the course of a week.
Just moved to Oslo. The number of Teslas here is borderline comedy. And it's all because of that succulent zero-tax on electric vehicles.
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Yea, I mean I get why a lot of people would be angry that their very real, but not VC fundable, business is hard to finance. There's a lot of things that should exist that have small markets, long time horizons, lots of upfront risk, are in markets that VC's don't understand, etc.

The shame is that for many of these there are likely possible funding sources that could exist, but new asset classes are hard to get started, especially when LPs are pretty risk averse and experience strong herd mentality effects.
It means they were in debt. This helps resolve that so that they are basically paying employees instead of death-spiral debt payments.
Then why have the option to delete public repos at all? Public tweets? If we had the means, should the web as a whole be append-only?

There’s a big difference between “public” and “stored in a glacier forever”.
This has become standard fare up and down the East Coast.
Honestly I think the diamond-ring culture is deeply unhealthy - it creates an artificial large resentment event right at the beginning of a commitment, that may destabilize the whole relationship.
>Apple made the Macbook Pro less usable for people who want to do actual work

That's straight up nonsense. You can still do everything you could do with a USB-A port. I'm also in the full USB-C camp and any of my old USB-A devices just use a USB-C to USB-A cable. I am in no way hindered from doing actual work.
you might say,

> but this is what cloudflare does!

yes, and it already caused one of the worst breaches in the short history of the internet https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13718752
A lot less than stretching for Esc.
Is it introducing bias or is it introducing appropriate weighting? The most crime filled neighborhood in America may not be the inner city you have pictured in your mind but Lower Manhattan.
There is only one warehouse nearby, Munich is the German HQ so. Let's just say that Amazon likes to use the applicable laws to the fullest. Sometimes that means getting an official verdict at court.
I'd consider Linux to be the culmination of some of humanity's greatest achievements. Certainly I'd prefer they found that instead of the average website on the internet.
It contains theobromine and caffeine.

First google result: https://www.dandelionchocolate.com/2015/09/14/caffeine-and-c...
> How do you store and carry your weapon safely? How do you transport it? Who has access to it and the ammunition? It is a simple tool that kills tens of thousands of people a year

Unintentionally? I highly doubt that. I would guess the majority of the tens of thousands of deaths were the result of the gun owner intentionally pulling the trigger, not because they were bumbling around transporting it incorrectly, storing ammo incorrectly, etc.

According to this[1], only 500 people died in 2016 due to gun accidents. The rest were intentional.

[1] https://www.aftermath.com/content/accidental-shooting-deaths...
Given that I once threw a bean burrito at a road sign for fun as a teenager I take issue with its supposed purpose of being eaten \s

Your argument is invalid.