skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Your comments are actually pretty good, but preserving the container is more important, and it's undermined when you use it this way.

HN is a community. You needn't use your real name, of course, but you should have some identity for others to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
String builders are often not a critical optimization, however the additional cognitive burden on the reader is nearly zero. In some languages, string builders can even overload operator += which makes the type of the object the only visible distinction outside of the final conversion to string.

In languages that have immutable strings, a chain of `+=` operators is basically O(n^2) vs O(n) for a string builder. For how easy the optimization is, there's little excuse to not use them for any bulk append operations.
> It may be that these competing interests can't all be satisfied and an advertising-supported Internet isn't going to make it in the long term, but they are going to try.

Of course they can't all be satisfied. The needs of advertisers are diametrically opposed to the privacy needs of users. There is no way to square this problem so that both groups are happy and Google certainly understands this. They aren't "trying" things out as experiments, they are executing on strategies to ensure their dominance over the business of digital advertising.
Sure let me know where to send it.
Probably in 2030 we're going to see a similar but smaller hit to those sorts of schools. What effect that has is anyone's guess right now.
> This is fairly simple maths, the rich are enslaving the working class with debt through inflation.

I often wonder where this baloney comes from. The notion does seem pretty tightly coupled to the rise of Bitcoin hubbub, which spawned a small army of armchair economists. Inflation primarily benefits the non-rich in two main ways:

1. It inflates away savings, which the rich definitionally have more of than the poor.

2. It inflates away debts, which the poor definitionally have more of than the rich.

Inflation is one of a small set of tools that protects an economy from rampant inequality. Another tool is progressive taxation, which has its own astroturfed opposition in "taxation is theft" and "flat tax" enthusiasts who aggressively call for the removal of things that directly protect them.
Yes, and using ISO-8859-1 is the way to handle them without issues. You will never get error when decoding it that way. If you are using UTF-8 there are character combinations that are invalid.
Are you referring to the multi-container extension? With first-party isolation there's no visual indication of containers. It seems to work on mobile for me (FF Android 68.4.1).
That elderly woman's name? Alberta Einstein.
@kossnocorp How long did it take for you to build this?
Exactly. They take up so much less space than the bike share bicycles.Plus, with designated areas, they can be recharged on the spot with no need for people to drive around collecting them.
As he said:

“ I began looking for dockable tablets with USB-C and the ability to do Linux work on them while also having good battery life, and relatively painless wifi and bluetooth. While there are some great preloaded Linux devices out there (e.g. Dell XPS, System76, Purism Librem) all either lacked a tablet mode, USB-C , or both. Macs lacked tablet mode, and also have been using a keyboard design recently that I don’t personally like very much.”

None of the OOTB Linux laptops offered either a tablet mode, usb-c or both, same for the Mac. The clue was in the content.
The author works for a company that builds corporate spyware.
First result for me when I google "Packet". And has been for a year+....
Yes, merging is per peer, not server transformed.

"Servers" act as WebRTC bootstrapping signals, storage backups, relay/routing, etc., and you can have as many of them as you want (no need to be centralized).

True. `gunDB` tag should help a little.
Yeah, seems there is enough other services that a RFC (under "Subaddress Extension") has been proposed https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5233 Maybe it'll get enough steam.

Edit: doesn't mean everyone will use it though! But guess the plus sign in addresses would be more "email" than just email.
Sci-Hub = Spy Hub? (German)
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Is now MIT licensed. I realized after you said GPL that this isn't what I wanted for the repo!
I may be cynical, but the Accept-CH proposal seems to me like something proposed for appearances only, not with any intent to actually implement.

It just doesn't make sense from the perspective of HTTP. The only existing flow where an HTTP server passes context to the client and the client makes a new request based on that is HTTP authentication; but that's not intended to be optional --- generally servers don't provide good enough content with HTTP 401 and expect clients to display it in case they don't feel like authenticating. In this proposed flow, the server would need to, at least, start sending the content on the original request, and then send it again in case the client actually sends a new request.

If this is an HTTPS only feature, the server to client request could be moved up into the TLS handshake; the client could include an empty Accept-CH extension, and if present, the server could include an Accept-CH extension with the fields it wants in HTTP requests. Then the client would send the fields, or not, according to user preference. Zero added round trips.

Otherwise, it might be better if the server were able to indicate to clients what its matching rules were. If the initial response returns best case data, and a list of exception rules, the client could send a second request only if the rules matched. Then you could say if it's a specific build of Chrome where important feature is present but broken[1], or Chrome version before X, or Chrome on mobile if ARMv5 or whatever, please disregard the content and refetch with more details provided to the server, so it could provide an appropriate page.

[1] Let's say that particular version crashes when the feature is attempted to be used; it's plausible, and not really detectable from Javascript.
Sir Roger Scruton Obituary
I use to keep a cookie that was only used client side with the previous pages the visitor visited. It grew a menu in the side bar. I never got around to it but it could be interesting to generate a tiny tag cloud for the visited pages and say 3 article suggestions based on those. I didn't build it because the "visited = interesting content" doesn't seem real to me. Its more of a top 10 of click bate headlines.
But why should a browser care about anyone other than the users of the browser? The browser is meant to be my user agent, not a third-party market maker.

(yeah, I know they have to care about website designers, otherwise every website will just break, but when you have substantially a huge share of the browser share, you can tell website designers to get stuffed and they will have to deal with it)

I'm being intentionally simplistic- sometimes, complicating things with markets and so on feels like it obscures more than it illuminates.
Google to Require TLS 1.2 or Higher on SSL Websites
I am trying to keep my meeting today and still respond to these comments, so I apologize for the lack of clarity.

Some people would consider a whole category of "making fool of oneself" a risk and it has been in the past.
Evolutionary, shame was a real threat and being left by the peer group sometimes meant death.

So we carry this mechanism in our brains to avoid perceived failure, perceived risk, and perceived embarrassment. It is in all of us to an extent.

I am no Seth Godin, but that is how I understand his concept of "hard work" - emotionally putting yourself out there.

But in reality, those things are not really risky in healthy corporate environements. I have been making a fool of myself repeatedly and if people see it was an honest try and it took guts - they will usually respect you for that.
This isn't advice, it's what I learned for me. So it may not make any sense for others.

You can and should endeavour to love your job and do it very well. But I discovered that my first job is where all my friends were and was where I exercised my creativity and mentorship skills. That was all great but it meant I lost a lot of identity when I walked away from it.

I have now found non-work outputs for all those things. So if one day my job makes a left turn and it no longer fulfills me creatively or I have to walk away from it, I'm still a whole person.
All true.

But there has been some progress, in recent years.

Not enough, though.
How would you know that a conversion came from an impression?
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Users are demanding greater privacy--including transparency, choice and control over how their data is used--and it’s clear the web ecosystem needs to evolve to meet these increasing demands. Some browsers have reacted to these concerns by blocking third-party cookies, but we believe this has unintended consequences that can negatively impact both users and the web ecosystem. By undermining the business model of many ad-supported websites, blunt approaches to cookies encourage the use of opaque techniques such as fingerprinting (an invasive workaround to replace cookies), which can actually reduce user privacy and control. We believe that we as a community can, and must, do better.

The Webkit team already proposed a privacy-preserving way to do ad click attribution [1]. I'm guessing that was too private and Privacy Sandbox works better for Google.

[1] https://webkit.org/blog/8943/privacy-preserving-ad-click-att...
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I just did, the repo is now MIT. Enjoy!
I get that you were being deliberately a wee bit provocative, but If you honestly believed that of every manager you had, you would have been a horrible co-worker.
I think that if you do something for large amounts of time, but doesn't bring you much value then it could be considered wasted. The problem is people probably don't realize it's been wasted until later.

I used to play a lot of video games, and while not all of the time I would consider 'wasted' I definitely could have used some of the time doing something else that would have made my life better today.

There is an opportunity cost to everything you do. Time is the only truly limited resource in life, you should try to use it as wisely as possible. Everyone needs some leisure time, but it shouldn't be the majority of how you spend your life.
I for one think the expression 'leaders under me' is clear, accurate and inoffensive to anyone.
You seem to be taking something about this thread very personally. I'm sorry for that. I hope you have a good day.
> Because the founders get to keep more ownership of their company.

At first that would be the case, but as the valuation drops (and becomes more realistic) wouldn't the founder lose shares, and the VC would gain more control due to non diluting shares?
Looks like they just switched to the MIT license (same license Electron itself uses).
Mozilla Common Voice 4200hr voice dataset release
More Wikipedia, more paywalls, less free news sites, Facebook, Instagram, etc.

A tremendous amount of resources are wasted on adtech - bandwidth, latency, which ultimately are accounted for in non-renewable time. Just compare using hacker news on mobile to reddit. I have a newish iPhone and reddit is basically unusable. Plausibly it’s a net-neutral situation, the downsides balancing out the upsides.

Similar evaluations can be made in the gaming space, comparing paid, freemium, and advertising driven. It wasn’t until fairly recently that advertising was even a viable revenue source for game developers.

The larger question perhaps is who loses their audience when they can no longer buy targeted advertising? Hint: it’s not the giant brands who blast billions of dollar blindly on mass advertising campaigns and can purchase Super Bowl commercials.

Disclaimer, a significant proration of the money I’ve made in the past decade + was from digital advertising.
Streams and Tables in Apache Kafka: Topics, Partitions, and Storage Fundamentals
> The first big leap is considering experience to be a continuum from humans down to inorganic matter. This is stretching the meaning of 'experience'. If I walk on snow, does it experience deformation, or does it just deform?

This is the part where materialism has the burden of proof to explain a mechanism for how, suddenly, snow doesn't experience de-formation.

You get it. You've made the logical link of connections from human down to snow, and you see no mechanism for a sudden loss of the ability to experience.

The rational answer is to say that provided what we know about the universe right now, it seems that there is nothing that does not have the property of experience.

The only other rational answer is solipsism because there's no real evidence that anything other than your self has any experience, but that's no fun and doesn't have any interesting conclusions.
It's not like the Trolley Problem, it is the Trolley Problem.

I don't want to argue with you, what you're saying just sounds like rationalization to me. If you don't see the grotesque arrogance of poisoning the only known biosphere in the Universe, well, "I can't even...", as the kids say.

Here, imagine that Dr. Who (I know that's not his name) picks you up in his TARDIS and takes to the bedside of one of the people dying of radiation poisoning, can you explain to that person how you were just "optimizing"?

- - - -

> Every time you get in your car, you take the risk of causing a fatality to another driver or pedestrian. Have you sworn to walk everywhere?

I actually don't drive, and for exactly that reason: I learned as a child how many people are killed every year by car collisions and I was so horrified that I vowed never to drive a car, and I haven't. (Technically, I did have a camper van a little bit, as part of a plan to buy some land and camp there while building a house. It was a violation of my vow but I allowed for it as I wasn't going to use it on the road except to get to the land. Other than that, I've kept my vow.)

Our traffic system is an insane "mayhem lottery" that we force everyone to play whether they like it or not.

- - - -

> switching to nuclear power to save potentially millions of lives with a marginal risk

Yeah, or we could just reduce our power consumption and increase our energy efficiency.
If that formula could be perfected it could be automated without gathering data that can be used for other purposes?
What are your favorite ways of setting up containers? At home I have the following containers, each with separate cookies:

Banking - all finance related stuff

facebook

twitter

amazon - Amazon + AWS + Zappos

Google - google, gmail, maps
Context: This is an anticipated vulnerability reported to Microsoft by the NSA, patched today as part of patch Tuesday.

Related thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22039481
i've never used bear.app, but i do a lot of writing in Ulysses[0] and selectively copy/paste back into Notes if needed.

[0]: https://ulysses.app
I think 15mph makes a lot more sense having ridden at 8mph.. the Scooter is barely stable at that speed, but yeah limiting cars to a speed that's more like 2-3x that rather than 5x would make the slow speed much more safe.
Intent to Deprecate and Freeze: The User-Agent String
Those are dumb clients! It’s like assuming your developers are all the same.
Some authorities also use restriction of movement as a lever to strip citizens of their other rights which threaten the authorities' power, such as free speech and the right to bear arms. Thus you are "free" to protest or have a firearm, but are highly restricted in where you may actually do so, in some places even down to a prescribed list of specific locations. Even privacy vanishes if you wish to travel by air or near a border, so anyone who wishes to access the full breadth of their rights is stifled in their movement.

The intended side-effect being that the right is neutered, both by hamstringing its practical effectiveness and by posing such an inconvenience (or outright economic disadvantage) that most citizens are deterred from exploring it. On a deeper level it trains citizens into a culture where their rights are a mere vestige which exist at the whim of the state, and may be balanced away by the courts in the name of public interest as soon as they pose any real interruption to the state's goals. Yet they still exist anemically on the fringes so that anyone who complains for them to be restored can be gaslighted and painted as an extremist.
Given the absolutely ridiculous amount of content that is ad-funded, I very much disagree. All of my preferred youtubers and streamers would immediately be without livelihood.
Same is probably true for a whole lot of news websites.
What if our ideas about consciousness were an artifact of our language?

Just like our ideas about morality? Where a lot of the time if you are explicit all the “mystery” goes away?

So when you say an ought statement “A should do B”, what you really mean is “A should do B if A wants C to happen” which expands to “If A does B and C doesn’t happen, then any D can’t blame A if D wants to be rational”. It’s a bit self referential like that.

Ok so now everything suddenly becomes clear and you find you can’t formulate a single basic question about morality in English that doesn’t have an obvious answer. “You should do your homework! Unless you don’t care about your grades.” or “You should be consistent! Unless you don’t care about being viewed as a hypocrite.”

What if things simply were, and scrupulously including unspoken clauses made all basic questions about consciousness have obvious answers?

“What is it like to be a bat” is not a well formulated question.

However, try including the subject and object of the sentence all the time.

The bat saw the phenomenon

The bat’s body experienced a feeling

And so on.

Then the question comes down to two things:

1) Identity. That is a mental construct that organisms develop. It can have a lot of layers, such as how you see yourself, how you choose to express yourself, etc. But the biggest one is how you identify with the person you were a few years ago and with who you will be in the future. If you were gonna go on a vacation for 2 weeks but later not remember anything about it, does it matter where you go? Do you do things just to make your 80 year old self proud to remember them? And so on.

2) Existence. Yes actually the word existence has no well-defined meaning without resorting to conscious observers. Consider the question of whether the Harry Potter World exists or not. How is it different than not existing or a made-up work like blabladeblaa? The sentence “the Harry Potter World Really Exists” has almost no meaning without resorting to consciousness, we are just used to saying that word. Be thorough and you’ll always invoke yourself and your conscious awareness.

Now what if life never arose in the universe? In what sense would the universe exist any more than a Harry Potter world?

So in a way, the concepts of existence of consciousness are duals of each other!

People often think that the concept of existence is something fundamental. But it is really a dual of the concept of consciousness.
> If you're the type of person who enjoys the former, I think it's safe to say you won't enjoy the latter much, at least not at first.

I disagree, I volunteered (edit: to step up and take on) for a manager role and discovered I loved it. I really enjoy helping built teams and team culture, helping people learn and grow in their career and abilities, and working to coordinate work across multiple teams to get work done at a scale that I never could have as an IC.

Saying that people who enjoy coding don't like dealing with people is like saying people who enjoy painting won't like programming, it is a stereotype that is easily dis-proven by the existence of people who, in both cases, do enjoy both!
I completely agree with you that we effectively killed natural selection among humans. Natural selection is dead, and now guess what, we are going after artificial one, with UBI, welfare etc. Ridiculous, right?

We reward stupidity, promote mediocracy, and teach dependency.
I really don't have any better luck with HDMI than USB. The connectors are usually at an awkward angle due to being on the GPU/back of a TV. Gotta say I enjoy the Lightning and USB-C connectors that have no "right-side" from a dumb users point of view the most.
It definitely could be!
Part of the proposed deprecation of the useragent is a JS API to expose the information.
Note that this does not seem to be limited to software signing, but affects all X.509 certificates[0]. This means it can be used for example to man in the middle HTTPS connections.

0: https://mobile.twitter.com/taviso/status/1217146026923978752
If you are a human, I don't know for sure, but it seems reasonable to assume.
The vast majority of the content on the internet would disappear and the entire western world would likely be thrown into one of the worst economic recessions in history.
Ah okay, that would make more sense, so its an article about a hardware preference. I was under the impression also that there was a specific linux distro for the surface (variant of ubuntu afaik) but okay, could be a bit more clear then about the restrictions of loading a full blown linux distro on the surface specifically.
My search didn't show any located in North Carolina. And while NC isn't SV, it does have RDU and a decent number of small VC's.

One of the problems with VC in the United States is the very unequal geographic distribution.
If I walk on snow, do I experience walking, or do I just walk? What is experience?

If we explain experience in a way that its reactions happening in my body, maybe biochemical reactions, that could even translate into thoughts in my head, I could say that in a lower level the snow also experience reactions, physical reactions. A snowflake don't have a body to experience like we do, but it does experience something, because if not, it would not even deform.
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I am not ignoring it. I'm stating exactly what the NCAA says that it is. You are trying to adjust the definition to fit your argument with an unsourced article from Forbes and assuming that the NCAA is using a methodology that it clearly states it is not.
It's possible to address both in parallel... But the car storage problem should get priority over the scooter storage problem, because it's a much larger problem.
This is a comic, which glosses over all of the actual facts (or lack of)...but I guess this is what passes for scientific discussion these days.

..and we wonder why there are so many skeptics.
> I'll go one further, and say the people controlling the system will control you

Some times, yes. But as a generalization, you are granting too much agency to people. Most systems simply have nobody controlling them (even powerful people), people are satisfied to just live within them and not do the labrorious task of gaining control.