skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, and for games it will be great. And a mixed bless for web applications.

What won't be great are sites that do this to enforce ad viewing. But if it becomes common enough, you can expect ad-blockers to act on the frame-buffer of that virtual browser.

Anyway, the most annoying will be the stupid people that do that just because "Even Google does it!" "It's webscale!", or whatever people will be saying 5 years from now.
And that is why I love it
Avoiding speech restrictions is always a positive in my book.

As for the larger picture "defamation" is incompatible with the first amendment and laws around it should be invalidated.
They could hash the full password and just store the two characters in clear text, no?
There's a lot of discussion here of how this was predictable given the absence of a visible prototype for so long, and the over-the-top secrecy of the project. However, for me this was a predetermined failure when I first read an interview with the founder. Classic Super-Visionary snake-oil salesman. He could say nothing about the product, except for how it would change the world more than the world had ever been changed in the history of world changes. Sure, ok. I don't remember Larry and Sergey being like that (because they had a real product). Or Bezos, etc.

Frankly, I'm shocked at how the investors couldn't see past this CEO.
From my previous: "We've still got BAT enabled on PortableApps.com with the standard custom Brave browser header and donation ask you setup via their program. We got 31.35 BAT (about $8.08) for around 2.7 million page views in the last month. We also got a single 0.95 BAT (about 24 cent) donation."
You can get rack mount servers easily enough, the ThunderX2 processors are pretty damn fast!

https://www.cavium.com/news/gigabyte-announces-384-core-2u-s...
Exactly. Many consider ordinary voters caring about and helping in verifying the result an important aspect of democratic voting. If people don't understand the vote will be counted fairly, they may be more likely to decide there's no point participating in their democracy.

Especially because most people can understand at a visceral level why all paper ballots are fair, why over complicate what isn't broken?
The recent college admissions scandal mostly charged parents with wire fraud, if I recall correctly. The fraudulent part of their conduct consisted solely of untrue speech, representing to a school that an SAT score was earned by their child when it wasn't, or representing to the College Board that the person taking the test was their child when it wasn't.[1]

[1] There were other methods, but the two I list here seem in my eyes to consist exclusively of untrue speech. There were also fraud charges associated with representing payments as donations to a charity (for tax reasons) when they were meant as quid pro quo payment for services. If the tax fraud was the basis for every fraud charge, I'll admit that this example is invalid.
I mean sure, but running around Africa for 6 months yelling about Bitcoin hardly seems relevant to Twitter's operating model.
I don't read him saying that it's a bad thing, but rather that it's a policy choice that has implications for the cost of designing and building a station.
I could equally say we evolved to live in a group and therefore we tend to be highly concerned with inequality and fairness - often we value relative equality even more than we would value a higher standard of living - see The Spirit Level, etc, so we would be predisposed towards being happier in various socialisms (and indeed we do see happiness higher in general in industrial countries with stronger social safety nets/social welfare programs)
Am I missing something? Why is Brave considered anti gay?
If he'd said "your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries" that would indeed be fighting words.
Measles isn't the only vaccine-preventable deadly disease though.
It doesn't, but I was curious to know why it was used/necessary, and I received the answers I was looking for.
> It's no more a human right than diet coke or owning a vehicle is. It's a tool.

Access to essential tools (judicial system, healthcare, shelter, nourishment, etc.) is a human right, broadly speaking. The internet is quickly becoming an essential tool for carrying out nontrivial activities in our modern society.

> the internet will grant you access to knowledge you wouldn't otherwise have

Then I am forced to conclude that you also believe that education is not a human right on the same grounds.
“Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic consequences of slave labor.”

― Norbert Weiner, Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
HQ2 was going to be in Queens, not Manhattan. Even if HQ2 had gone ahead they might still have expanded their space in Manhattan right? (As others pointed out this is more like 1-2K employees rather than the 25K of HQ2)

But frankly the HQ2 pullout puzzled me from the beginning. They backed out of the deal before it had even been turned down by the city or state as I understand it.

I actually wondered at the time if they had just re-evaluated the plan of splitting HQ2 and realized they didn’t need to expand that much in two different east coast cities after all, and used the local complaints as an opportunity to back out.
It would work just as well over HTTPS, they would just have to make a different phone call (to the site hosting the script rather than to the GFW).
Seriously? I have a hard time believing he actually thought the person was a child pedo, or that the other person actually thought that, or that any person observing the conversation would actually think that.
Yes it is. It is also hard to keep up in this expanding field. Like, keeping up with kubernetes is a full time job, keeping up with machine learning techniques is also a full time job, keeping with frontend is also a full time job. Best practices change all the time. CQRS was all the rage now people want to do away with Kafka.

Thanks for the link, I'm reading it.
3 models:

- Earn cash from work, pay cash to site as user.

- View ads on site and generate cash for site via attention in real-time.

- View ads from Brave and earn BAT, pay BAT to site as user.

It's a mix between the two models. You're still working via your attention to generate value and trade it for content from the site, it's just inserting 1 more step from the usual ads but with more control over the experience since it's handled by Brave.
Academics simply don't have the time to learn languages that do not have substantial ecosystems and relative ease-of-use.
The problem is that many people see Duolingo (and Duolingo partially advertises itself this way) as the first and last step needed for learning a language. On the contrary, Duolingo is a good first step, but it's only a first step. Instead, simultaneous with Duolingo, you should be using a spaced repetition system to study vocabulary, like Mnemosyne, Anki, or Memrise. After you get significantly through the Duolingo tree (or finish it, for a smaller tree), you need to start immersing yourself in the foreign language - consuming media in the language and talking with others who speak your target language, at the very least. Another good tool after Duolingo is Clozemaster, since it helps you get exposed to lots of vocabulary and sentence structures.

It depends on your language, but widely spoken languages have "easy language" media available, which is a good place to start. But also, look on YouTube for native speakers talking, listen to podcasts, read books (keep Wiktionary or WordReference at hand), and find people online! It'll be hard at first, but you'll quickly get a lot better.

In addition, Duolingo (and every other language learning tool) is significantly better for some languages than others. There is now the "story" feature for some languages, which helps a lot with reading comprehension, especially after you get past the first few easy tiers of stories.

I'd say that completing the Duolingo tree in German got me through a similar level of grammar that my four years in high school did, but what it is lacking is the many hours of listening practice and vocabulary practice.

Disclaimer: I have no connection to Duolingo or any of the other tools I mentioned; I am simply a fan.
Two of the most exciting applications I've come across so far are allowing for in-browser audio encoding with a provided encoder and distributing WASM binaries to run on edge servers.

About 5 years ago I tried to use an optimized javascript file to encode some audio in browser before uploading, it was painfully slow and very hardware intensive. But using wasm in the vmsg [1], it distributes the LAME encoder allowing for in-browser MP3 encoding.

And secondly cloudflare allows for their workers to be written in WASM, allowing for more processor intensive apps (like resizing an image) to be completely on the edge.

I see it as eventually fulfilling the portability goals that java applets in the browsers use to have, but instead of one you have many companies agreeing on the implementation.

[1] https://github.com/Kagami/vmsg

[2] https://blog.cloudflare.com/webassembly-on-cloudflare-worker...
I guess we don't know exactly what was posted from the article, but I was imagining that it wasn't just "Vaccines are bad" but rather something more like "Don't open your door when the emergency vaccinators come around", which would be advocating for imminent action.

I still think the only reason this wouldn't be illegal in the US is that the underlying law forcing vaccination would probably be unconstitutional, not that the First Amendment protects anti-vaxx speech indefinitely.
I would think the test of the strategy is whether or not it worked, not whether or not some people were mocking it.
You're right that assessing a model like that is perfectly legitimate, but all the models you mention are much more limited and well-understood than multiple sectors of the economy. The original post in this chain claimed "a good chunk" of the modern economy was net-negative. I don't believe we make similarly hard to quantify calculations every day.

It's also important to note that all the examples you give have a lot more data supporting them than any of these internet comments. If the original poster actually built a model of a "good chunk" of the economy and proved it was net-negative and zero-sum I wouldn't have been dismissive.
I had an uncertain read because I could believe that Elon with his vast resources knew something, and I couldn't understand why Elon would risk complicating his leadership of his companies without some grounding.
Another dimension to consider: if it's good, how long is it good for?

I just got done writing a long thread on the history of 3D as a novelty: https://twitter.com/williampietri/status/1203074623232851970

But the basic summary is that since the 1850s, people keep coming up with exciting 3D innovations that sell lots of units for a while, but that never make much of a difference. Stereoscopic 3D is interesting and fun; we all loved our ViewMasters. But once the novelty wore off, we put it on a shelf and rarely picked it up again. The ViewMaster is basically a slinky for our eyeballs.

I've talked with quite a number of people who have bought VR systems, and I have yet to find one who uses it with the sort of frequency that people use their gaming consoles, PCs, laptops, or phones to play games. Maybe this wave of innovation will eventually take face-mounted VR from "novelty" to "daily driver", but it doesn't sound like it's here yet.
“Consensus” is unclear here, there were public opinion polls that were favorable toward HQ2 at the time. https://nypost.com/2019/02/12/majority-of-new-yorkers-want-a...
I fully agree with this. I'm using Cloud Run since the day it got into beta and never been happier. It beats all the other platforms (for docker) IMO.
It is an interesting idea, but it can be overkill. Just because it can be done doesn't mean it should be.

For example, there are ~130 lines of CSS in the Go file. Most editors have auto-formatting and suggestions for CSS for files ending in .css, which you won't get with this setup.

Also, with 885 lines of code, you have to wonder if reading the code is easier via scrolling / searching a single file or via tabs with multiple files.
I am extremely cautious about installing any sort of browser extension; especially ones that request such intrusive permissions that could so easily be severely exploited with any given update.
> I don't understand why, in this day and age, I need a kitchen in my house.

By that logic, you could remove pretty much everything from your home, apart from a bed, bathroom, table and laptop.

But I can also think of two concrete reasons why you would want to cook for yourself (in addition to training a potentially valuable skill or treating it as a leisure activity)

- Cooking for guests: In some situations, you want to treat guests with a restaurant-like experience at home. In such a situation, takeout may be either impractical or inappropriate. For social reasons, it may be important that the food is prepared by yourself and not commissioned to someone else.

- Controlling ingredients: When ordering takeout (or eating at a restaurant), the restaurant is in full control of ingredients and will choose them in a way that is optimal for the restaurant - but not necessarily optimal for you. E.g., they may choose ingredients that taste well but are unhealthy it may choose ingredients produced under problematic conditions.
Total security is possible but unrealistic. In our modern world we have terrible baseline security, we can do better with some trivial adjustments that the market is countering with a strong disincentive because we as a society haven't placed a clear value on security (outside EU where GDPR has flaws but is an attempt to reward good actors).

This is essentially equivalent to a tragedy of the commons mixed in with a race to the bottom - companies are currently penalized for practicing good security, they are voluntarily accepting lower profit margins in exchange for something nobody cares about, they're also losing access to some supplemental revenue through reselling customer data. If we add decent incentives and make it economical to follow a "good" path we can increase our baseline of security, hacks will always happen but we can minimize the costs of those hacks and their frequency with best practices.

Heck - my standard line with companies w.r.t. PII is that "Your proposal is essentially to collect everyone's alarm code into your safe, your safe has gone from something nobody is interested in to something that, if compromised, could lead to a bunch of people being burglarized." the issue is that over-collecting PII and then, shucks, losing it in that completely unavoidable security compromise, doesn't lead to appreciable punishment for the company - in the real world it sure does (if your locksmith copies your key an extra time then gets burglarized and the burglar uses that extra key to burgle your house the locksmith is absolutely liable and may be found to be a conspirator). It's anomalous that these two worlds are in contrast.

All that said, I absolutely agree that it's a balance and there aren't super simple answers here, but it's important to reject the thought that being as vulnerable as most businesses are is acceptable.
> instead they're limited to just constraints on future actions

Just as a small reminder:

CA is officially shutting down. [0]

They're also re-emerging as Emerdata. [1] (Same people, same office, different name and registration.)

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/business-43983958

[1] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/02/cambridge_analytica...
We did that monthly subscription model: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19038820

It had too few conversions and many of those were too small (< $5) to make it viable.

Ads are already effortless and fair, they generate cash from your attention in real-time and on-demand. The problem is the overall experience (interruptive formats, high frequency, tracking, etc) which is what Brave is really improving on. Good luck to them.
I can see now that I was interpreting the statement contrary to the intent of the writer. Sorry about that, and thanks for pointing it out.

I've always thought of myself as being pretty clever, but I'll bet many HN readers would say the same about themselves. "extraordinary" seems a little over the top, but thank you.
It's not a homosexual innuendo (or a sexual innuendo at all).

I hope you don't mean to suggest that saying someone is homosexual is on a par with saying that they're a pedophile. The former is not defamatory.
I agree that Duolingo is not sufficient to become fluent in a language, but I’d argue that no app could be. Immersion is generally the only way to become fluent.

Having said that, I’ve found the learning experience on Duolingo varies wildly depending on the language. French, for example, has an excellent curriculum with stories and live conversations with bots. Dutch or Hindi on the other hand are extremely lacking.
Flattr has recently added recurring subscriptions, though the browser extension obviously still works.

(Not sure if the insert-in-website buttons still do ? They were pretty much killed off anyway after Twitter denied them API access 7 years ago...)
Case Study on Evotec
Uber admits 6k sexual assaults during US rides
They require PII because they can, not because they are legally required. To accept cryptocurrencies and allow people to withdraw them into a wallet, you do not need to verify their identity, unless the tokens are exchanged to fiat on the platform.

There are companies that are more established and popular than Brave which do not ask you to hold your ID next to your face and take a selfie in order to withdraw donations to a cryptocurrency wallet.
I just subscribed to your site, and currently enjoying it so far.

I took programming languages CS course. We didn't exactly build a full compiler from scratch but we did do parsing, generating AST and bytecode. That being said, I still consider myself an ultra beginner in compiler, do you think the latest edition of Dragon book can be approachable by me?
If the universe is 13.8B years old, how can we see 46B light years away? (2018)
Getting a new phone line and getting fiber run are not really comparable services. There's a massive infrastructure that already exists to get your phone connected; a one-month lag is remarkable in that context. Your fiber delivery was probably a bona fide construction project, in addition to whatever cooperation needed to occur between you, whoever your fiber was run to, and whoever was installing it.
Tablespoon(15g/ml).

Sometimes it's written as tblsp, tsp is teaspoon (5g/ml)
You are probably also ignoring the cost of getting your house connected to city plumbing. It's thousands of dollars.
For the unfamiliar, what marketplaces exist? I don't think I've come across these.
Wire fraud requires an intent to defraud ("obtaining money or property"). In your example, the defendants were all free to lie about someone being their child. They were not free to lie about it for the purpose of defrauding the College Board, which meets all of the standards of Brandenberg (inciting imminent lawless behavior that is then likely to occur).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21717931
and when you do break backwards compatibility, you version.

Now how is versioning managed? The database can easily fill in here with a standardized approach, with supporting tooling.

Or it can not, in which case you come up with an adhoc versioning scheme that you maintain manually.

Same way you do in all computing scenarios when you don't have any versioning tool available to you:

AGREEMENT_v1.doc

AGREEMENT_v2.doc

AGREEMENT_v2_revised.doc

AGREMEENT_v2_Revision2.doc

AGREEMENT_v3.doc

AGREEMENT_v3_fixed.doc

or perhaps you start doing some strange behaviors to force other tools to fit in, like attempting to version your schema/functions with git, by tying it to a single application's ORM

or perhaps you stop touching the database directly, and try to make it all work with migration-scripts, and it all falls apart when a second application comes into play

or perhaps you try to force coordination between all dependent applications and your database, and make this update simultaneously

or perhaps you convince the RDB management system to manage your system
The problem with subscription models are that they are walled-gardens. You can only flattr to people who use flattr. That can not scale. An it would be terrible if it does. The web monetization can not be in the hand of a single company like flatter. Coil however is just one payment provider that use the interledger protocol. If the content creator uses another payment provider who also uses the open interledger protocol donation form someone using coil still would be delivered. Coil doesn't care what provider the other party uses. It just reads the Web Monetization Meta Tag and sends the donation to the given address. Anyone on the web who has a banking relationship with user could potentially be a web monetization payment provider. For example Netflix. As a content creator this changes nothing. You still have one Web Monetization Meta Tag in your page with the address where to send the donations you don't have to care if some donation come from Coil user and some from Netflix users.

>Also, what mechanism does coil have to prevent a “content creator” from bombarding the end user with ads?

Nothing. Coil is a payment provider for web monetization. It's up to the content creator to provide content in way people want to consume it. A content creator can of course still show ads to user who donate and piss off the user.
And the user can of course still block ads or turn off donation for that site (or both). Donation hardly depend on the time you spend on a site. So if you go to a site and its overloaded with ads you simply leave. (The fact that people know that sites get donations if they stay on the site probably has a very positive effect on people behavior)
Great suggestion! We've got it on our product roadmap, so stay tuned! ;)

In the meantime, I would love to hear what you think and how you use the product after testing it, either here or via email :)
Elon Musk wins defamation trial over 'pedo guy' tweet
What lawless behavior does that incite?
I don't read books with ads, I don't watch films with ads, I don't listen to music with ads. One-way broadcast technologies where one suckles at the teat of momma-Media-empire will come with ads because baby cannot help but drink what momma puts into her nutrition. The content model has changed, the internet is a two-way or multiplayer chat, not a one-way broadcast. Advertising has no place on the internet. Advertisements are not a stand-in for content. Human attention is not a commodity. These problems are solvable, but not with steam engines and model Ts. Why wedge a brand new frontier of technology between the rear view mirror of the obsolescence desert and a nearby Tuesday? Surely we can think of something more delightful than indirectly pointing to consumption via thinly veiled business-as-art. As one who adores the study of logo and design, it doesn't make sense to pay someone to make mediocre art to sell me something instead of just using that money to make good art in the first place. There.
If you genuinely believed this, then you would by definition also have to believe that JavaScript is an anti-gay programming language, which is just silly. Stop being so silly (:
Not seeing images is better than not seeing the page at all. People who block content know that things sometimes don't load. There is no reason to block loading of the pages for 8 seconds.