skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HN can use one other thing, that is not showing the OP's name in the story.

The OP can still reveal himself by a comment (maybe different color name of OP in comments) but there is no other way to know who submitted the story.

This would greatly encourage upvotes by merit of article than people just following influencers.
So that renders the invite system about as useful as a captcha. What's the point again?
I think I might need to clarify my point here. I'm not placing any blame on migrant workers who come to the US to make a living, my biggest issue is with companies that take advantage of this labor without taxes. Having an easier system for migrant workers to have legal status here (i.e. able to bank in the US, pay taxes, etc) would raise their income, and benefit the US as a whole.
It may be. I've also now read through most of this thread and I can say categorically that for me, this thread is now mostly full of dross, and I'd be tempted to flag it as being of negative value to HN.

I haven't, but I can see why others would. Like it or hate it, the purpose of the voting system is to provide a direction for the content. You may disagree, but it's like elections - you get what "the community" deems valuable or relevant.

There's a lot of stuff I post that sinks without trace, and other things that get downvoted into obvlivion even though I personally think they are of positive value.

The community decides - you have to accept that.
UK won't adopt EU's new copyright law after Brexit
I should have added Javascript to the list of things http sites shouldn’t be able to do without triggering a browser warning.

If it’s just a document/markup format, the warning strikes me as unnecessary. Mind, I realize that wouldn’t apply to many sites today.
I personally don't see the appeal with Lobste.rs. Every time I see it mentioned on here, I'll go back to take a look but I never see enough interesting discussion or content to make me consistently return, or desire an invite.

As a Reddit / Hacker News-alternative (or supplement), I've been far more impressed by Tildes.
The problem is Hetzner's sever are in EU only. Although I guess they could be used for cheap file server?
Ideas are the easy part. The hard things are execution, funding, and getting customers.
Cell Biology by the Numbers
How about losing your own karma points to make a downvote like SO?
99% of all web pages are noise, solely created to extract as much as possible out of ads and trackers. The internet would be a smaller but far far better place without them.
I don't know, but I don't think that having a single bathroom (I mean including both toilet and sink and shower or bath) is "typically" american.

I struggle (and I am 50+) to remember any house in Italy with a "full" bathroom but separate toilet room (and BTW at least one bathroom in the house has now a bidet).

Very poor houses (old and not renovated) had often once "minimal" toilets, with the WC but always with - even if minimal - washbasin.

Later some bathrooms (still mostly including a bidet) had not a shower like we are used to now, with a plate and glass/plastic cabin, but rather in the middle of the room with the bathroom tiles converging to a drain.
Perhaps there should be something in between the current system and no copyright at all.

For example, the law could be changed to give the creator of a work certain rights to use it even if they sell the right to commercialize the work.
> Are people using HN, etc. as an info repository?

One of the nice things about HN is that people with way more experience than you in any given field make posts and comments about their work at times. While generally not useful for specific step-by-step instructions, there are good tips here and there that are at least worth considering, or alt viewpoints that may be interesting to consider in the future.
Thank you very much for sharing your experience with HN. From my own point of view (as the CEO of a performance marketing agency working with Google Ads & clients budgets daily) I have to add, that this are learnings your agency should have protected you from.
When your device is trying to find networks its seen previously, it for some reason broadcasts the ESSID, the human readable name of the networks it knows about. A lot of these are globally unique, as many routers come with a default name which is based on their MAC address.

You walk past my house, I see you have connected to direct-roku-845-7e16d8. Great! I can go do a reverse lookup of that (say, based on information collected by SkyHooks or WiGLE), and I now know that you've at least authenticated to a network in downtown SF one time.

With a good sampling of these (many pieces of software send the last 4+ networks), I can get an idea of where you live, where you work, and where you've traveled. From your device details I can tell what brand of device you have, from the times of day I see you I can work out what your patterns and behaviors are, from your bluetooth connections I can get an idea of what sort of devices you own. I can even match this with real time video and directional antennas to match this with a picture of your face.

This is all things that an individual can do right now with off the shelf software, not something you need to be a company or a government agency to pull off. This is absolutely receive only, and does not interact with anybodies devices in any way. It is not illegal and you can not detect that someone is doing this sort of attack. Your only defense against this is to have as bland and as generic of a wifi point name as possible.
For others who weren't aware, "embrace, extend, extinguish" was an explicit strategy discussed internally at Microsoft for gaining control of the internet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...

Though I think there are real innovations discussed in the article, the portrayal of Microsoft being an altruistic actor trying to get others to adopt their tech is downright dishonest with what we know about their internal discussions of their motivations and strategy at the time.

I found the article really interesting, but I could do without the rose colored glasses.
It is much easier to compartmentalize and hide things online when your true identity is unknown. I have enough karma here on HN, that I am sure I could get someone on Lobste.rs to vouch for me without personally knowing me. But maybe my karma is only high here because I have a cabal of other accounts upvoting me and the mods haven't caught on yet. Or maybe this is my one authentic account and on Reddit I run a swarm of bots that hits /r/politics to support my chosen presidential candidate.

Appearing to be a good user on one site doesn't guarantee that a person will be a good user everywhere. Personally knowing someone and having that real life connection to provide consequences is a much stronger deterrent to bad behavior.
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Not only that, DDG shows "ads" marker on the far right, making it more difficult to distinguish ads.
Also, they sometimes put ads in-between organic results - e.g. show maps first, then show ads, then organic results.

DDG and Bing have ads favicon that's in very thin fonts, making it much less legible than Google's black, bold font.

There are many valid reasons to switch from Google to DDG, but ads being less clearly marked on Google is not a valid reason, since Google is objectively far more clearer in marking ads than DDG or Bing.
As the web contracts, becomes more silo'd and locked behind paywalls and app gardens, the volume of searchable data is also retracting. Add in that most of Google's users never go past the first page, or the 6th result, and I think Google's search is vulnerable.

Now, add in all the great features and functions they have built over the last 10+ years (maps, travel, etc) and they will probably always maintain an advantage. They are after all a verb...

But the actual search results, IMHO are most definitely within reach for a competitor or 3 to tackle.
What would you do if founder of Friendster is now starting a Facebook competitor? It would not work.
> LGM-30 climbs to 100km altitude before deploying the payload bus, which gives it ample range to hit GEO targets anywhere in the hemisphere.

This doesn't make sense to me. Could you explain further? LGM-30 is a land-based ICBM designed to strike targets on the surface of the Earth, and hence to take a (just barely) sub-orbital trajectory <13,000 km from point-to-point, with maximum altitude a few hundred km. Wouldn't its thrust capability have to be drastically upgraded to reach 20,000km in altitude, where MEO satellites like GPS are?
Why did Microsoft choose Chromium, and not Firefox?
Mission creep on the part of the EFF.
When ordering the fake ID, you'd need some kind of method that allowed the buyer to remain anonymous - I guess there are a few crypo currencies that fit the bill.

You'd also need to get the fake ID delivered somewhere other than your home, so it couldn't be trivially tied back to you.
Show HN: Simple app to break up larger decisions into many pairwise comparisons
Seems to me like your test bed would be more reliable if each test is responsible for resetting its own global state before it is run. If you rely on everybody else cleaning up after themselves, you're gonna get burned by another developer.

To use the drier example, if my test always cleans lint before running, I know my test will always run with a clean lint filter.

If I instead rely on all other tests cleaning the lint filter after their tests, it only takes one developer to make a mistake and break my tests' assumptions.

As for tests "cleaning up after themselves", that's generally a good idea if you are, for example, altering a database, generating a file, etc. However, that is also error prone (just takes one developer to mess it up and forget to delete a generated file). The way I've made that more reliable is running tests in a docker container so that any new files, etc. created are destroyed when the container is destroyed at the end of testing. I've also toyed with the idea of using the VCS to clean test fingerprints (i.e. git clean) but the main problem I've run into with that is some developers' tests will write stuff to /tmp.
I have been using Spectacle for ages (with a custom javascript config, another post...).
The problem is, Spectacle uses a 32bit API that is scheduled to go away and I am afraid that at some point (or 10.15 already?) it will stop working.
See also https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/08/an-interactive-automated-3...
I wrote this app to as an excuse to learn React and to help pick a name for the baby we're expecting.

I've since found that I'm using it semi-regularly for other subjective decisions: most recently choosing a holiday destination.

Posting it here in the hope that others also find it useful.
Slashdot's Moderation System (1999)
The deaths are mostly among older ages, 60s, 70s, 80s. This group is probably less likely to be traveling.
Linear Exeuction, Multiprocessing, and Multithreading IO-Bound Tasks in Python
If San Francisco is to properly be the "Paris of the West" it should have pissoirs in strategic locations.
I have been keeping an eye on them too, along with DO, Linode, Vultr. If I remember correctly UpCloud has disabled HT due to Intel's security issues, so all of their Core are really Single Core and not a Single Thread.

They seems to be working hard [1] with 10! more DC planned in 2020. The entire Hosting market is growing like crazy!

[1] https://upcloud.com/blog/upcloud-secures-18-million-funding-...
Tiktok had good content, more than vine, good suggestions using AI which vine probably has but was really crappy, they had great marketing where they probably paid people to do some really crazy viral stuff, they had good timing, they had China. A lot of you are asking why tiktok is better, it’s probably 10-15 things they needed to hit out of the park to get here.
Although I can see the advantages for Microsoft, I don't think it's a good thing that the browser engine landscape is going to get even more homogeneous. Firefox is now the only web browser of note that is not based on a WebKit/Blink/Chromium derivative.

Sure, it's one fewer target to test against, but it saddens me to think that this is going to make it even more likely that web developers target Chrome and its ilk only and that the layout bugs in it are becoming the de-facto standard, just as happened with IE6 for ages. This is actually bad for Firefox even in the parts where it adheres to the standards when other browsers won't.
Sure, but we'd expect that to decrease the value of the rights that they sell proportional to the value of those work rights. I guess that's a trade that artists/legislators could choose to make. OTOH, they could just negotiate such deals today if they considered it important. Maybe this is a case where the law needs to account for the human tendency to discount hyperbolically.
> >The former Israeli military intelligence doctor also said suspicions were raised about the Wuhan Institute of Virology when a group of Chinese virologists working in Canada improperly sent samples to China of what he said were some of the deadliest viruses on earth, including the Ebola virus.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jan/24/virus-hit-w...
Is github on your list?
That was deliberately a less controversial one than climate change, and newspapers publish denialist claims of basically the same level of substance as flat Earth ones all the time (e.g. James Delingpole)
I am not suggesting we remove the ability to downvote or flag. I still want the community to decide most of these things. I simply want more accountability for these actions so they aren't used for petty reasons. You would be free to flag this post for causing a comment section full of garbage. You would just have to say that rather than flagging and moving on.
Current portability potential of the engine. The codebase of Firefox has some legacy burden in it plus Rust as a dependency for building.
Gecko is apparently a pain to embed. Other browsers built on Gecko such as Epiphany and Flock later moved to Webkit.
Ahh that does make it better but the same limitations still apply to some degree... that’s just a byproduct of exclusivity
There are two reasons for wanting an open source phone: safety and hackability. Yes, the actual modem part isn't hackable, but they did do a good job (as do iPhones!) of segregating the closed source part so at least you don't have to worry about it remotely popping the actual phone OS. (nitpicking about "the modem is the real phone" not withstanding)
There are two things happening in social media world right now.

First, when it comes to messaging friends and connecting with people most college kids uses Snapchat. I am in a big college and everyone at my university uses Snapchat for messaging. I believe that it is smart for Snapchat to default on camera when opening the app this way it keeps the distraction away and you can focus on whatever you were planning to do like reading a message plus it is a good privacy oriented platform.

Second, when it comes to being silly and occupy boredom, kids are using tiktok. TilTok has a great recommendation algorithm. Sometime, if I don’t pay attention I can spends hours on the app. TikTok became a safe space for younger generation, where they don’t need filters and photoshop to be part of a community.

Here is a great article in WSJ about TikTok

https://www.wsj.com/articles/help-im-trapped-inside-tiktok-a...
Haha 100%
Twitter had no video support and Instagram wasn't a thing yet or was just for photos (can't remember). Vine was the short YouTube or the Twitter for videos. Didn't have to be 7s that number was completely arbitrary. It could have been 3m for the same position and less restrictions
That's it, and everything syncs across easily. Installing Chrome is now pretty much redundant.
Not GP: but I assume the answer is "because GPS is in the modem, the closed source untrusted part could still be actively disclosing your location".
> It does seem like we've realized that GUIs are not really the most automation-friendly way to interact with programs. But there are a lot of nice macro tools out there still.

Yeah, in general the opinion seems to be "you want to manually do stuff, use a GUI. If you want automation, use the API of either a server-side backend or CLI tool", but there is a huge segment of users that are between that. Imagine power users that don't know how to program. For them to be able to quickly record > playback some common thing they do, would save a lot of time and be valuable
Here is an article from the Daily Mail that shows in a bit more detail what having a bat for supper looks like: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7920573/Revolting-f...
Coronavirus: First reports of clinical data from initial cases
There's already many services that exist for accessing databases of personal data, it's just a matter of combining them into some sort of mesh to really tip the scales to the extreme.

With facial recognition being able to query a face against a number of databases, and payment information able to be queried as well, it just takes a matter of some SaaS subscriptions to be able to know someone's: name, address, email/phone/social media, wealth, education, employment history, what they look like, where they go, who they associate with, when they go places, what they buy/own, etc, etc.

It's like having a stalker behind your back all the time letting subscribers know someone's life history in exchange for trying to extract as much money and value out of person as possible until they are completely used up.

We might as well just back to feudal society and slavery because the game may be different but the motivations are the same.
The slow but steady creep of copyright extension since the founding of the country has completely parted ways with legitimate protection for innovation and creative endeavor. It started out at 14 years with a possible 14 year extension. We’re now at what - 70 years after the death of the creator??
This is the result of the attention economy and the fact that nothing generates engagement like anger. That's what gets the most clicks and does so much cheaper than real journalism. So performative outrage is what becomes incentivized, both in the news and on twitter in a self-reinforcing cycle. Those who generate and harness the most outrage are the winners of the game.

How do we fix this?

That's an open question. But I think we need to change the game and the incentives. We probably need a new business model and/or for this kind of news to become widely understood as the junk food entertainment it is. Maybe put a nutrition label or cancer-like warning on them, heh...
I should have made it clear I'm not a user,feeling your frustration at being 'invisble', that given, yes, I think a dashboard as you described, perhaps you could have some interactive option to enter your system config to allow you to see how that would have affected your infrastructure?
> shared bathrooms are probably a top-5 source of family/marital stress,

Huh, this is apparently one of those shared experiences that I have absolutely no experience with. I can't even imagine anyone in my family getting upset about a bathroom.
Again, not a dichotomy. Humans will remain exposed to pathogens even if we eliminate one source of new and dangerous ones.
report appears to be as of jan-23, key findings:

We are still in the early days of this outbreak and there is much uncertainty in both the scale of the outbreak, as well as key epidemiological information regarding transmission. However, the rapidity of the growth of cases since the recognition of the outbreak is much greater than that observed in outbreaks of either SARS or MERS-CoV. This is consistent with our higher estimates of the reproductive number for this outbreak compared to these other emergent coronaviruses, suggesting that containment or control of this pathogen may be substantially more difficult.

We estimate the basic reproduction number of the infection (𝑅𝑅0) to be significantly greater than one. We estimate it to be between 3.6 and 4.0.

We estimated that the ascertainment rate in Wuhan is 5.1% (95%CI, 4.8–5.5), reflecting the difficulty in identifying cases of a novel pathogen. Given the generally good accessibility to healthcare in China, this suggests that the majority of infections may be mild and insufficiently serious for individuals to seek treatment. However, it is worth noting that a number of identified cases have died (Centre for Disease Control and Prevention 2020) and that the true case fatality rate has yet to be estimated accurately. We also estimated the size of the epidemic in Wuhan at the time of the market closure to be 24 individuals (95%CI, 22–25).

We estimate that only 5.1% (95%CI, 4.8–5.5) of infections in Wuhan are identified, indicating a large number of infections in the community, and also reflecting the difficulty in detecting cases of this new disease. Surveillance for this novel pathogen has been launched very quickly by public health authorities in China, allowing for rapid assessment of the speed of increase of cases in Wuhan and other areas.
Hm, article talks about new homes coming with 10 to 20 bathrooms. I have never seen or heard of such a thing. There's no way that's for normal houses. If the ultra rich want mansions with 20 bathrooms, that's their business. There are worse things one could spend their money on.

I have always lived in places with around 1 bathroom per 2 persons. Sometimes though you'll have say 5 people in the house and 2 of them are using both bathrooms, both doing things that take a long time. At this point when a third person needs to use the bathroom, they are stuck with holding it or having to go outside. So I can see that getting closer to 1 bathroom per person can be reasonable. Not all the bathrooms need to be full baths. Having a utility bathroom near the front door for guests with just a toilet and limited storage or room to do things helps maintain a bathroom that isn't going to be occupied for a long time.
The rust part is actually an improvement as it is not in addition to but instead of. Building any rust component together with all its dependencies is one step and fully modernized. That’s one of the benefits moving away from legacy components with competing build systems duct taped together.

Additionally, pure rust dependencies (which is the ultimate goal of the effort) are all statically linked and different versions of the same library can be used multiple times without symbol remaining voodoo, etc solving all sorts of typical DLL hell issues associated with adopting a huge foreign component into a project.
Yes! This would be awesome
> Ask in an HN thread and there's a good chance somebody will hook you up

That works for users who have seen this thread. How does a person who has not seen this thread knows that they have to ask in some random HN thread to get an invite? What about users who don't have an HN account?
I believe we are at the part where we think how the city works is by mapping it, but you got sewers, pipelines, everything underneath that you haven’t really dug into. There is a lot more inside a neuron that can be mapped. Let’s just say your map isn’t detailed enough
This is coming at a good time with the surveillance concerns in TikTok.
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FWIW the current pricing page shows only a starter plan that caps you to 1GB, with no info about what happens after 1GB. Predictable pricing is a good feature, but you don't have that yet.

Really cool otherwise, I may use this for something. Great work!
Yes he's not talking about Trident missiles.
The Economics of Pandemic Preparation
The Halting No Go Theorem
It's just a coincidence that the apparent origin point, Wuhan, has this scary looking virus laboratory a la Steven King's "The Stand." Just a weird coincidence, right?

But also, how bad is China if there is a "wildlife market" in Wuhan where people go to eat exotic animals? WTF, China?