skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And ad supporters say that not providing facilities for personalized ads means sites wouldn't be able to exist.
Gee, I don't know, ask any other seasonal business how they do it.
"only works in chrome" == "not going to use" for me and all any company/team where I have influence over software dependencies/tools. Same goes for "only works on one target" software in general though, usually means something is under tested.
> I have yet to hear a satisfying explanation of consciousness from anyone...

So it's not surprising if we struggle to answer "Can machines be X?", when X is undefined.
This all - including complicated equality comparisons - is why paths should have their own dedicated type, and not just be raw strings. Thankfully, Python has had pathlib for a while now.
"Peter Jackson comes from New Zealand, says to me, 'Sir Ian, I want you to be Gandalf the wizard,' and I said to him, 'You are aware that I am not really a wizard.'" - https://youtu.be/7DtlTeheCjk

"Never have I laughed out of place, ever." - https://youtu.be/lWM4xiEbmgo?t=366
> Even a selfish asshole will be charming and kind to the rich and powerful

See Harvey Weinstein.
Which has its own problems but that's another story.
Even old-school manufacturers like Samsonite raise money, get acquired, get spun out, go public, and acquire competitors [0]. Many billions are involved. Why should business be boring?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsonite
There is no difference.

These sites that can't be used without DRM plugin do not provide you a way around DRM because you're ruining their business model (at least they think so, or their content providers).

The same goes with ads.
If your browser start for example blocking ads at sites that live from it (like New York Times website), website administration will eventually ban your browser at all.
If you take it further, it means that everything is deterministic and there is no free will. I'm not surprised this sentiment is popular on HN.
Personal blog or business blog?

If personal, any self-hosted platform will work (WordPress, blogger.com, or Webflow).

If business, you can post articles on your site. Some well-known marketers only post once a month. But they do a ton of promotion + optimize to rank in search. From what I've observed, it's not necessary to keep a consistent posting schedule, but it helps in other ways like building up the habit. More in-depth content tends to increase search traffic. That's why you'll see bigger brands like Shopify write a ton of articles daily.

The advantage of using another platform is it gives you the possibility you'll get some of their traffic if you understand their system.
Because rank and file employees don't get to effect change on an entire department or company at a whim the way managers often can.
Interesting discrepancy.

Both the ones I knew were in hospice and not a huge intervention for the six weeks, so not a tone of continuing intervention.

I'd guess that liver failure is maybe defined not as 100% failure, but failure to keep up with daily demand due to an external impairment such as cancer, and that this is just a typical curve of declining function until the body becomes too poisoned to survive.

Anybody with more detailed real bio/medical information?
I noticed a lot of people using scooters and bikes when I visited Venice Beach in December. There appear to be markets where they're used year round.
You can address this by updating the essay!

Also, I don't see your oversight as equivalent with taking on a hard task at work.

If you fail at work (which is a real possibility if the task is actually hard), you've probably wasted time on something you were explicitly told not to do and caused others to have to pick up your slack in other areas, and will be labeled as both a failure and a poor teammate. If this is an organization you would like to continue to work for, this is devastating. You can mitigate this by working on the hard task on your own time, but frequently the benefits aren't worth the effort there.

On the other hand, your oversight can easily be fixed, and I agree it is unlikely to have negative repercussions for you because no one else is really invested in the outcome of your blog. That's rarely the case when you're an employee at a company.
I have to feel its misguided in some cases. Credit card transaction fees hit the hardest on small purchases, as they take a larger percent. A business thats lots of tiny transactions might come out slightly ahead with cash, but now youre losing customers, and maybe not book keeping accurately enough to be legally compliant.

I have noticed gas stations are more prone to this (along with very small business), although it happens on occasion at restaurants as well. I figure, with 3% restaurant rewards, I break even at 3% restaurant charge and or using cash.
If you're Uber, you have other transportation products to offset that in the winter months.
Im curious who is buying these? They're so crazy expensive.
It always seems like "tiny dabs" when we're the one producing it, but I guarantee you that it doesn't feel that way to everyone else. Perhaps the majority don't care, but at least in the long tail, a bunch will, and some of those will get activated enough to lash back. The reason we ask people not to post like that isn't because we think it's somehow wrong in itself. It's simply because the quality of the lash-backs is so low, and they lead to even worse. That's why we got https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22021528 and so on.

In that way, each user here is partly responsible for the quality of the replies they get. If we want to have a good community in the long run, we have to learn to edit out gratuitous provocation.
>> to ensure that ads continue to be relevant for users

When users can't be tracked, ads will be less targeted which means Google will not be as valuable to advertisers.
From my experience, I always needed to explicitly change Firefox setting to disable 3rd party cookies on a fresh install.
> By this I mean actually a way for people to publish standardized web interfaces that can all be accessed from the same local terminal, with built-in identity, text-editing and JSON filtering with jq, who knows what else.

Unfortunately, the interfaces which need this treatment the most are the ones least likely to get it, since big companies (even those that do not intentionally profit by obscuring what they know about you from you) are terrified of what you might do with your own data if given anything more than laboriously point-and-click access to it.

(EDIT: Hi, PeopleSoft! I hate you!)
If it weren't copyrighted, they could have just copied it as is, instead of rewriting it from scratch.
What was the reason to “accept credit” in the first place, in an era when anyone with stable employment could have applied for a line of credit (i.e. a personal long-term loan) from their local bank, such that they could then pay these services with cash?

I can understand credit as a natural extension of “running a tab” at a hotel or restaurant—you order now, and settle your account later, for various definitions of “later.” But why would a retailer be interested in offering private/internal credit that they had to manage and settle? Sounds negative-ROI to me.
> that same Treasury report highlighted the fact that the United Kingdom and European Union have initiatives requiring API access to bank accounts, but recommended a private solution.

This is the Trump government failing us and gifting the next generation's financing needs to the next generation of rent-seekers.
crypt32.dll

>Update, Jan. 14, 9:20 a.m. ET: The NSA’s Neuberger said in a media call this morning that the agency did indeed report this vulnerability to Microsoft, and that this was the first time Microsoft will have credited NSA for reporting a security flaw. Neuberger said NSA researchers discovered the bug in their own research, and that Microsoft’s advisory later today will state that Microsoft has seen no active exploitation of it yet.

>According to the NSA, the problem exists in Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016. Asked why the NSA was focusing on this particular vulnerability, Neuberger said the concern was that it “makes trust vulnerable.” The agency declined to say when it discovered the flaw, and that it would wait until Microsoft releases a patch for it later today before discussing further details of the vulnerability.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/01/cryptic-rumblings-ahead-...
I should have phrased that differently. While it is still my opinion, in this context I should have phrased it: "The worst thing to happen to minority employment..."

While your comment does not add much to the conversation, I appreciate your skills in ambiguity.
I think in software we have been spoiled. For the most part, degrees are really optional. This is mostly luck as it's possible to do software dev at home (try doing petroleum engineering at home).

Most professions require a degree either by legal mandate, or by essence.
Probably mostly for marketing purposes (just to say they have it). Kvm/nitro penalty is within single percentage points these days so 99% of folks out there won’t even know the difference.
The nuisance -> regulation flow is precisely why I became an early adopter and dropped ~$2500 on a fast one .

I wanted to have my fun before the hordes ruin it. If everyone had a scooter that could go over 35mph, it would be chaos.

To those that enjoy hooligan style fun, the time to get an electric scooter is now, before the laws catch up to the reality and make e-kick scooters just another point a to b experience. That said, have the hooligan fun in a way that doesn't accelerate the adoption of laws.
If you're publishing a domain name that is supposed to be an example or test domain, there are some reserved TLDs for that! And you never have to register or maintain them!

https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ellermann-idnabis-test-tlds-...

domain.example is encouraged for documentation, but you can also use something like example.invalid.

Whenever I review unit tests that have URLs in them, I insist that they use the .invalid TLD. I know that .test is encouraged, but I find that .invalid stands out more when you're browsing a test suite.

The old argument against this was that the average person is really only familiar with .com, .org, and maybe .net, and they wouldn't even recognize something with a less commonly used TLD as a domain name.

But with the rise in popularity of alternate TLDs, I don't think that argument is as persuasive anymore.
libcurl is an important library used in their product, but there's tons of other libraries that they also use so it would not make sense to pay hundreds of dollars per month for every possible open source library being used.
> Every once in a while, I'll run into places that do a cash discount, usually smaller businesses. It's super common at gas stations - even big chains.

That's generally prohibited by the credit card merchant agreement. Gas stations are one of the rare exceptions.
We also had a similar system in Turkey too, with local grocery shops. The owner would have two notebooks per customer, one would stay at the store and one would be given to customer. Whenever you needed to buy something but you wanted to pay later, the merchant would put the transaction on his notebook with a copy on your notebook, so at the end of the month you would simply bring your notebook and cross reference the transactions and pay your debt.
Seconding this.

chrome://settings/content/cookies

Go there and enable "Block third-party cookies".

The internet still works without them.
How to organize the best movie premiere?
"Hello China, can you make me a e-scooter-ski-sled hybrid?"
This gets at something significant, but I think there's a sense in which it's backwards.

Religion promises to surveil you all the time. This stretches far beyond any one faith: the Abrahamic God is omniscient, karma is a direct consequence of each action, Anubis measures the whole of your life by the weight of your heart. Even Santa Claus, who is absolutely a religious figure to children, "sees you when you're sleeping" and "knows when you're awake".

Panopticon relies on the threat of surveillance. You could be surveilled at any moment without knowing it, resulting in constant self-consciousness. This is the logic of security cameras and secret police. If Santa corresponds to a god, panopticon is more like Elf on a Shelf. That's not just anecdotal, it's made very clear when a kid does breaks a rule behind a closed door because "then the elf can't see me".

The claim made by religion is far bolder. You might commit or witness an unpunished crime and realize that it's possible to misbehave without judgement, but you can't sin sneakily or find an example of someone getting away with sin unpunished. However, religion's claim isn't necessarily more coercive. Panopticon threatens arbitrary judgement. You might commit a venial sin and trust that a life of piety will outweigh it, but panopticon judges you on arbitrary moments. Even a minor, widely committed crime like speeding carries some risk of a harsh punishment.

(Calvin and Hobbes, of all things, takes this on quite insightfully. Calvin theorizes Santa relies on panopticon rather than omniscience, and changes his plans accordingly: https://imgur.com/VUhe8vG.)

Social media is a panopticon, recreating patterns we used to associate with inquisitors and town gossips. (What would Mrs. Grundy say - if she happened to find out?) Mostly, no one's watching closely, and unless someone actively documents what you say it can be deleted later. But anyone tweeting an offensive joke might get cancelled, regardless of their good works, if someone happens to notice.

Data processing is, or soon will be, religion made manifest. A sufficient power can surveil everyone at once, weigh up all their deeds, and choose who to punish. And full-take storage means the end of safety; what's recorded and found blameless today can be evaluated again in 10 or 50 years under different rules. That's pretty much unprecedented, and I don't think we've grappled with the implications.
Here's a typical case:

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_19_...

In this example the fees capped were for outsiders who are buying things in the EEA. e.g. an American buying something from an Italian vineyard or an Australian buying some authentic British tableware (for now).

The EU also forbids hidden fees for most types of transaction. It wants the advertised price to match the price paid by consumers‡. If I have 25 EUR in my pocket and you advertise a product for 25 EUR I should be able to get that product. Whereas in the US if you see a product advertised for $25 you know they'll want maybe $30 or more as they add fees, taxes and charges on top of the supposed price. As a consequence this means the fee for a card ends up built in to most online prices in Europe, even if you actually transact in some other way that reduces or eliminates the fee for the seller. So ensuring the fee is low makes good sense here too.

‡ British supermarkets (used to?) use a trick to reduce taxes here - they charge you a fee for their backend card processing, but they subtract that fee from your checkout price. The cost to you doesn't change, and you'd never notice unless you read the small print, but they've successfully argued that this service fee should be taxed differently than your purchases, saving them money. Since it doesn't affect the headline price versus price paid the EU doesn't care.
I once took over a team that had number of members that were paid more than me and had higher titles.

The money side didn't bother me because they were more experienced and in specialist roles that I definitely couldn't do (at least when I took over the team). If anything it worked out to my benefit as my boss felt a bit guilty about it so I received a promotion and a hefty pay rise at the next year end.

It also helped that none of the team had wanted the role so there was no slight implied.

There were some odd moments. At one point one of the team, with more than 10 years more experience than me, asked me for career advice. But mostly it wasn't much different from other team lead roles I've had.
their unfair advantage is being a front from selling data pipelines to hedge funds.
Privacy and ethics around proprietary software, while obviously related (in that open software is obviously more transparent), are largely orthogonal. You can have closed/proprietary software that respects privacy (Apple), and you can have open software that doesn't (Chrome).

This just smells of whataboutism.

As for your hypothesis that websites will start blocking browsers that ban tracking and so forth, frankly, that remains to be seen, and my bet is we'd never actually see that happen in practice. The optics are just too toxic. Surveillance capitalism survives because people don't know it's happening. Banning a browser like Firefox would call attention to an infrastructure and ecosystem that those individuals don't want to talk about in public.

Edit: As an aside, if sites did start banning privacy-conscious browsers like Firefox, I'd just stop going to those sites. In that respect, I'd actually perversely appreciate something like this: It'd finally make it blatantly obvious who is and isn't collecting and profiting from data about me and my actions online without my permission.
What is the proper way to frame reports? "leaders reporting to me", "managers I manage"?
I was surprised by the number of times I've seen the most-voted comment on HN was outright wrong, or so off the mark it was not even wrong (in subjects at the periphery of tech where I have personal experience). I think managers & tech workers figure "Since I'm really good at X & Y, I must be good (in general). I have figured out how the world works (or can figure it out, after giving it a few minutes thought)". It's hubris.
tl;dr: google used a domain in documentation but forgot to renew it. Instead of reclaiming ownership of the domain, they updated their docs.
Can you recommend a scooter? I'm 6'6" and 260lbs, so I'd want a quality one.
> You seem to be misunderstanding the question of consciousness. It's not about how you observe others to appear conscious, but about how you yourself observe your own consciousness.

Well yeah, I experience something which I understand to be a conscious experience, but I don't think it's real. I accept there is an experience of consciousness, but I don't see any reason to believe it is real even though I think I experience it.

> Who is "us"? Or, to be more precise, if your brain tells you that you're experiencing pain, than what is "you", and what is "experiencing"? That's the question of consciousness.

I think my brain is sensing pain and telling me to perceive the pain in the context of "self".

I've never understood why some people don't think this logically consistent honestly. It seems like the only possible explanation unless you start assuming consciousness is a metaphysical, almost magical thing.

> You'll probably say that they're both not conscious, although there is no hard evidence either way. And that's because we don't know how to reliably observe consciousness.

This isn't a good argument. There's no hard evidence that there isn't an invisible elephant sat next to you right now. I don't understand why you are even assuming that there might be something such as consciousness? There is literally no objective physical evidence for it, where as there is mass amounts of data to show neurologically it's probably an illusion. Really all I am saying is that I don't think we should believe our minds when they tell us our experiences are important because we are so bias, and there are clear evolutionary incentives for us to think that way.
> it's still better than sending cold e-mail

Just not true. This topic is complex and yes sending a cold email to a random investor is worse than getting a warm intro but these are two extremes. There are many ways to raise significant funds without intros.

So, I have to click on a clumsy website around and don't get email addresses? No thanks.
This is a horrible article and borderline (maybe full blown) blog spam. While there's nothing intrinsically wrong with going after unsolved problems, and making headway on one of them is a really important part of intellectual and professional maturity, it's not a panacea, and it doesn't come without severe existential risks. Nowhere is the downside of going after moonshots addressed, which is failing completely and having little to show for it. I have seen many a talented friend (and friend of friend) waste 7 years of prime youth going after something that wasn't just hard, but intractable. I can't put into words what an incredible hit to momentum, network, and skillset that is. A huge part of professional maturity and productivity is determining value at risk, using leverage, and getting outsized impacts out of reasonable amounts of effort.
No, it's a gmail-specific "feature". Other mail services may also implement it, I guess.
Fucking all of them!
You might want to use a better example than the brain trust over at Project Veritas.
which part didn't USB-C fix?
the vast majority of people with a nvidia gpu
IIRC Visa (at least) has a rule stating that a business can’t charge more for Visa card transactions than cash transactions, nor can they have a minimum purchase for Visa card transactions (unless they also have the same minimum purchase for cash transactions.) If they find out a business is doing these things, they’ll stop allowing the business to accept Visa (even through intermediaries like payment processors).
The why isn't the board voting for an easement for overhead distribution and a single junction off the service connect to power the charger network?
>people are getting into mortgages and home equity lines of credit they can't afford

The numbers suggest otherwise:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MDSP
I don't have access to the logs when I deploy to Github Pages. Github Pages is really convenient for me for many reasons, but no access to the logs is the main downside when it comes to analytics.
Isn't there an element of being in the right place / right time though? I sometimes feel like my side-interest niches fall into two categories: things I came late to the party to, or things I thought would be a good thing to get into but not enough other people cared.
Not sure that's right re railways. Railtrack was de facto renationalised by the Blair government (becoming Network Rail) in the early 2000s, and we had an election one month ago where the main opposition party campaigned on a promise to not relet the private sector passenger franchises, ie de facto take them back into public ownership at the end of their terms. That isn't quite all of the railways (you've still got a few privately owned pieces of infrastructure, freight operators and rolling stock leasing) but it's pretty close.
Yes, all non-top-tier investors and angels have currently a crappy deal flow. They read every email they get and they have a hard time to get into good deals right now.
How will this affect caniuse.com? I use it every day.
Ideally, imo, most sites should use the web platform as intended and their sites will work fine regardless of input device.

If you are using UA sniffing to determine if the device has a keyboard it will be wrong a lot of the time; you can’t tell if a Microsoft Surface has the keyboard attached or an iPad doesn't. you’d probably be no worse off trying to detect it by screen width, which is already a defacto way to detect mobile devices anyways, for better or worse.

(The right solution is probably a new kind of API or media query.)
You could have a cable that is unidirectional, with a bidirectional connector. On a $100 motherboard, who cares if the connector raises the price by another 50 cents?

You can even have a round cable with pins radiating out from the center, and the connector would be concentric circles. Then the plug will always go in no matter what.
Generally agreed, but also depends on how hard we want align our jobs with what we want to do. And a lot of times it is just laziness.