skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Why Facebook is well placed to weather an advertising boycott
Those are really helpful for making memes though.
Wondered how well it would rank on those insight scores,

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=...

Looks like 80kb and they still find things.
To get prefixed result URLs, use GET not POST. Try duckduckgo.com/lite/ and lite.duckduckgo.com/lite/

If I recall correctly there is a way to turn off the prefixed result URLs without having to turn on Javascript, by adding/changing a URL parameter, e.g., kh. However that is not the default setting. Not very friendly toward the privacy-conscious user who has Javascript disabled and does not read HN to find out about otherwise undocumented URL parameter usage.

For certain queries, I can actually get a different first result based on the HTTP method I use.
I don’t care if I get the favicon or not... can I just opt out of this functionality?
He started in 2007. The date when you consider it utterly destroyed is up to the reader.
Automation in almost every case costs substantially more, but frequently results in a lower cost per unit. Comparing variable numbers is algebra but this is a calculus problem.
You can't finish the quiz though - you get stuck on this page: https://www.spacejam.com/cmp/lineup/quiz6.html

Should I contact Warner?
>The WSJ is one of the few quite reputable news rooms out there.

Hahhahahah

I think that myth evaporated when they spend months trying to "expose" Pewdiepie.
Uh, source on that claim? The Flash player specification and even its VM are both open and unencumbered.
https://www.google.com/collections/s/list/Gik0oLzvfLI3Vb58dO... my google collection of article

https://www.google.com/collections/s/list/Yvht3mJiT6aaJJQbQG... my google collection of later plan
I remember seeing that in the news when I was 16 years old. At that time the Internet was just starting in my country so the news came in a local news broadcasting. It was crazy.
Tell that to Canine transmissible venereal tumors.
Data and selling information. There's a reason why big companies are researching building "smart cities".
> These days, every one of Kongregate's users has a smartphone with free games more accessible and convenient than the old browser gaming model.

I agree with azhenley; this is a ludicrous claim. Flash games used the input methods of the computer they ran on. Mobile games are limited to what you can do if the player's only input device is one fat finger. They are neither more accessible nor more convenient.
To be fair the WSJ has always had some pretty outlandish opinion pieces. The tradition was that these were separate to the news reporting and the news reporting was untouched by them. But now it's in Murdoch stable. Sad.
- the interviewer at FAANG is that the technical interview holds the same weight as other non-technical rounds (not sure if he's BSing me) and for good reasons.

Not true. I know someone in high ops of these things. For G I an A I can attest, you have to give the best runtime solution, otherwise its a NO.
> Imagine we're sitting at a bar, chatting. None of us have anything to hide. Then the government passes a law that all conversations must be streamed on Youtube Live, so an agent comes in, sets up a camera at our table, and starts streaming.

If we are doing imaginary situations, the proponents of this bill can also do something like this:

Imagine there is a bar, where the police are unable to go inside. Every day, people go into the bar to plan terror attacks or to spread hate and racism. They can have whoever from across the world join them in the private bar without the police being able to find out. Sometimes they also bring young children into the bar to sexually exploit them. Other times, they bring vulnerable young men and indoctrinate them with their racist hate. The owner of the bar knows that those kinds of things are happening, but they say, a lot of people just come into the bar to talk with friends, so we never allow the police to come. In addition, before serving drinks, the owner puts on a blindfold and stuffs their ears with cotton so they won't be able to see or hear what is going on. They live by the principle: See no evil, hear no evil. The owner of the bar is making a lot of money from the people using the bar.

Don't you think we should keep the terrorists, and neo-Nazis, and child molesters from having a bar that they can go to to do and plan their evil stuff that police cannot get to? Don't you think that the bar owners, instead of stuffing their ears and covering their eyes so they are unable to see the bad stuff, should make sure that bad people aren't using their bar for evil stuff. Sure, just like in the real world, you will have your privacy just like you have in your home or at the local bar. But, you would want a real life bar owner to not close their eyes to people using their bar as a planning ground for terrorism, or who are bringing young kids with fake id's to the bar to exploit them, or who are filling young men's minds with hateful, racist lies? Also, just like the police can get a search warrant for a bad person's home or a bar where a lot of bad people are congregating and planning and doing bad things, we think they should also be allowed to do that in the online world.

Now tell me, to the average non-tech voter, which will pull the most emotional strings?
Offtopic: I read that as "Valve Investing in Life Sciences"
Religious flamewar is not allowed on HN, so please don't do it here.

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Source for the models/patent? I can’t find a name
Hey HN, Supabase cofounder here. We have a bunch of new updates this month. You can now choose your region (and soon go multi-region), we expose your daily database backups, and we have greatly improved the table editor.

We're still building Auth, but it's progressing well. We'll update as soon as we release something into production.
That is gross. Please don't do it here.
Ask HN: What's wrong with adding following users to HN?
I would honestly love ability to follow certain user's posts/comments and get one feed generated for it.

I assume HN doesn't have this feature and I wonder why. Is it really that bad?

Also if I assume HN doesn't want to add it. Is it possible to achieve it in some way already? Perhaps generate RSS feeds from users /comments & /posts pages & aggregate into one feed?
Ditto. Can we see the repo?
webmaster@spacejam.com would be a starting place
Personal attacks aren't allowed on HN, regardless of someone else's train of thought. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.
27" 5K iMacs are really low-priced. It's outlier.
This is an example of what’s called literary journalism. Some people (including myself) consider this a high art form. If you want to study up on the classics, read Joan Didion and John McPhee - and Tom Wolfe, the titan of creative nonfiction.

There is no crime in making a creative story that people enjoy reading out of a true event.
just as an example, imagine you end up putting a fuse in the cable. If the fuse blows, then the cable can be easily replaced. A chip in the iPhone.... not so much.

Though likely there's something in the phone _as well_ as the cable.
The most important reason that I've heard of is that SF won't let you choose a school close to your neighborhood, so you can end up with kids in multiple schools across town, or in schools you don't like.
Deepfake Technology Enters the Documentary World
You're going to get a depression. You have to have people that can afford to purchase those items that are produced.
Sniffing a target from outside it's local network
An article on using reverse shell and ARP poison attack to sniff a system from outside its local network
It does seem very convenient timing, the article talks about Starbucks spending less than half of its ad spend compared to same time last year. When push comes to shove they are bound to return to one of the biggest advertising platforms.

Facebook in that sense similar to Google as an ad platform. Google has been threatening European publications that are refusing to allow it access to reader data that it will cut them off from the advertising avenues given it already gets permissions through its google accounts.

Seems like privacy laws and social pressure almost morphing into anti-competition sentiment for the big ad platforms.
And all you lose in the process is hard-earned trust from people like me, who switched to DDG years ago for privacy concerns.

This is troubling.
I'm curious how this happens.

Obviously the site owner is intionally keeping the site up and dealing with outages.

But I wonder why?
I find this a ridiculous thing to brag about. The only way Bitcoin will have low fees is if it fails. Since the network does not scale, if the network sees any substantial load the transaction fees will spike. We have already seen this happen back in 2017 at the peak of the bubble.

High fees are, in fact, part of the security model. The reward for "mining" a block will eventually dry up, so "miners" will be funded more and more by fees. Unless people are paying billions of dollars a year in fees, the financial incentive for "miners" will be too small to protect from bad actors.

Bitcoin can only have low fees if it both remains unpopular and dies before the block rewards dry up. Recommending Bitcoin because of its low fees is trying to sell it by predicting its failure.
Poor reasoning, if the land has value, some would sell and convert to cash for other investments. Tax policy can fix this.
Do Empty Stadiums Affect Outcomes? The Data Says Yes
BeWelcome.org - like CouchSurfing, but without membership fees. Stay in people's houses for free. There's no obligation to be a host (I wasn't for years).

The site is made by volunteers, server costs are paid by donation, and there's full financial transparency. Legally the structure is comparable to Wikipedia/Wikimedia, and is a non-profit "association" in France.

Why volunteer? I build things because I want to. Sometimes they make it to Show HN. But nobody uses them. I lose motivation when there isn't a colleague asking me to fix things twice a day. Hospitality exchange has the network effect needed to bring in newcomers and get people involved.

My dream is that it could be much bigger. Passionate people could start other social networks within the same community: BeBook, BeChat, BeMail. I'd like to build BeTranslate, starting with Chinese/English. At first it would just be partnering with existing open-source projects (like all the CS meetups that are choosing to rename). But it would also be a commitment of these developers to never close their source, never charge fees, and always involve the community.
Surely you could fetch the favicon asynchronously and update the address bar or tabs or wherever you display it only after the other assets are loaded? It’s not like the DOM has elements that depend on it. This is a really, really weird hill to die on.
He can't, but we also lack a proof that any of encryption is at all computationally hard to decrypt, so to err on the side of caution you should assume it.
Ford is clearly aiming at their fleet customers with this feature -- they're the ones hauling 5000 watt generators around. Fleet sales are a particularly profitable segment for Ford, they want to attract those customers more than your average Joe off the street.
You broke the site guidelines here. Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html? Note that they ask people not to post insinuations about astroturfing or shilling.

Your comment is great without that first bit.
Alternately,

Case A) A poor person pays their fine, and is devastated by the loss of money.

Case B) A poor person can't pay the fine and gets sentenced to prison or gets something repoed, and is devastated by either the criminal record or loss of property.
The fearmongering list has also been expanded to Russia and the far-right. As the list of perceived threats grows more varied, so does bipartisan support for undermining encryption.
> But I wonder why?

Publicity for Space Jam 2?
The annotations brigade has taken over the JavaScript
This is what destroyed the beauty of Java
Are you saying DDG is forcing you to send a User-Agent header?

DDG's privacy policy also goes on about the privacy implications of User-Agent headers combined with IP addresses.

So let's say I take what they have put in their privacy policy to heart and I stop sending a User-Agent header. In response DDG sends prefixed result URLs? WTF?

Using haproxy, for example, I can use a "modern browser" and send no User-Agent header. I still get prefixed result URLs.
I like this.

It seems like this could also be within the scope of a single fund? The fund would own mineral rights, investors could buy in expecting those rights to appreciate in value over a very long term.

I suppose you’d want a few funds with different speculation strategies and then basically end up back at a market though.

Also I don’t see how anyone invests without the end goal _eventually_ being extraction.
I've made neither ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm not sure neural nets provide plausible deniability. The NN can be proven to be discriminatory.
The VIC-20 remake is shipping soon pre-order on Amazon
Well if you can come up with a more elegant way forward, one that doesn’t require all that hardware and money and should, therefore, by definition be within the reach of the critics of “big” AI, I see no reason why it’s superior qualitative results wouldn’t be appreciated.
"Any fool can build a bridge that won’t fail, but it takes an engineer to build a bridge that just barely won’t fail"
Doesn’t free speech protect my right to speak in code?
Not using your vehicles to the limit of it's capacity is one of the ways your signal that you're upper middle class.

Think of the stereotypes that plywood falling out of the bed of a 2010 Tacoma evokes vs the stereotypes that plywood strapped to the roof of a 2010 Crown Victoria evokes.
Misusing terms like that makes it harder to have a meaningful conversation about political beliefs. Someone might say "I'm not conservative, I'm liberal". But that is nonsensical. Liberal and conservative are on different spectrums. It would be like saying "I don't like white things, I like sweet things". The color/light spectrum is different from the taste spectrum, and vanilla ice cream is both white and sweet. Someone can be liberal and conservative.

The three political spectrums are:

- Progressive <-> Conservative

- Liberal <-> Fascist (Authoritarian)

- Left-wing <-> Right-wing

Progressive is someone who pushes are for change, major change, and rapid change. Conservative is someone who likes things how they are, wants to make changes slowly and carefully. People can be progressive on some topics (like pushing for civil rights), and conservative on others (like being careful about changing fiscal policy). But lots of people will default to one or the other.

Liberal is to allow, a true liberal would allow things they disagree with. A fascist (authoritarian) forces everyone to be like them, and passes laws to force everyone to do as they believe.

Left-wing and right-wing is less a spectrum and more clustering of ideologies.

Left-wing ideologies generally favor the community as a whole over the individual, and support those with less power or who are less well off. That results in things like pro environment, minority rights, and social welfare. Internationally left-wing could include going to war overseas to protect people from oppression and powerful aggressors.

Right-wing ideologies tend to favor the individual and those in power, more everyone for themselves. This could mean freedom to make individual choices that hurt the environment, pro big business, lack of social services. In the extreme it can be racism against minorities. Internationally it could result in isolationist policies.

I think if people actually understand the terms, and they are well defined, people can thinks about how they as an individual feel. And maybe that can help us break away from the two-party fighting we have now.

I think if people actually analyze there beliefs, they may come to better understand themselves, and people can better understand each other. For example I think some people that call themselves "Progressive Liberals" will find out they they are "Progressive Left-wing Fascist", and some people who call themselves "Conservative" will find that they are "Conservative Left-wing Liberals".
good question. but I think the answer is obvious when you consider the different risks enormous groups and small groups face from disputes.

for small groups nearly every dispute could pose existential risk, but for enormous groups very few disputes pose existential risk. then in the conflict side, enormous groups have MAD, where conflict itself carries existential risk. small groups of course can also be wiped out by conflict (even if they don't possess a bureaucratic mechanism to ensure that,) but the risk side of the calculation is heavier for them I think.

and enormous groups still engage in conflict with each other although it happens indirectly via proxy wars.

also paradoxically the larger the group becomes the more its interests, or "meta interests" (such as favoring stability and security), tend to align with its competitors but for small groups it's almost like every group for itself. but I believe that the calculation can tend towards cooperation being more beneficial the larger group gets. but I think this factor only applies when groups become very very large.

also there's some sort of entropy argument as in large groups cultivate more structure, organization and order and therefore it would take more energy to dismantle them so they're more stable. which not only makes them harder to dismantle but also gives them more to lose if they were to decide to tear everything down and build it up again.

that's how I think about it. what do you think?
Does anyone actually like seeing publisher content on their Facebook feed? It'd be great if Facebook could just go back to showing me posts by my friends. Not things they've liked, not things they've been tagged in, just what they've posted. All I want the Facebook feed to show me is posts from my friends, and events that my friends are going to.

I've taken the rather drastic step of unfollowing everyone just to get the utter garbage that is the feed out of my life.
> Why is it "complicated"?

When history involves territories changing owners, and Stalinist Russia was involved at some point, then things are always "complicated".
Elk Return to Kentucky. Their Home? Reclaimed Coal Mines
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I don't know what phone you have, but I wouldn't know where to begin to learn programming on my phone. But I started learning programming at 6 years old on a desktop computer.
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Oh yeah? And what if there are no other cars on the highway?
What do you use to skim listings?
Strategies You Can Use to Promote Your Business as an Architect
Its quite possibly literally just a bunch of static html files. There is not much maintenance cost there. They probably run all their static sites from the same webservers. It may very well be the same effort to keep it as to delete it.
"A special case of squeezed light, known as the squeezed vacuum, forms when the average amplitude of the light is zero."

I love this. Don't ask me what it means.
Everyone knows what most people do in the bathroom at work, yet they still close the stall door.
Love that quote.

I think why so many people want to "dismantle the system" is exactly the same reason that less-experienced engineers push for rewrites: it seems easier to build a good system from scratch, than it does to build the skills required to refactor what you already have into what you need.

(Not to mention, the skills to understand what you actually need!)

Because, more often than not, it turns out that the old system had evolved to deal with a crazy number of edge-cases that were, in fact, really, really important.

Also, and connected: there seems to be this odd zeitgeist of "make other people solve things".

Like, most of us think homelessness is bad, and most of us want to help the homeless, but how few people actually directly invest their own money -- which I would argue is more important than donating time -- towards actually solving that problem?

If I lived in the US, I'd be half-tempted to do a YouTube series where all I do is run around, ask people what they think the biggest problem is in society, and then ask them how much money they've spent to help fix it. Might be interesting, especially if I could do so with a curated list of charities (e.g., ones that don't just pocket the money for nefarious purposes)...
You could move that a notch up and say that only the owner of the bar and their friends get to watch all these conversations and they keep copies. That should really freak out some people.
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It is hard, but possible.

I’ve had to park the truck in downtown San Francisco a half dozen times. I’m pretty good at fitting into tiny spots, but it devolved into Austin Powers-style 100-point turns a few times. That’s with cameras, proximity sensors, power fold mirrors, sticking heads out the window, etc. I take the car instead of the truck whenever it’s possible.

As someone who’s visited Europe a few times, I can say that your big city delivery truck drivers make it look easier than it is in the US. I’ve seen more than one back down an alley at speed after folding back their mirrors to make the truck fit!

An American pickup truck is comparable in size to a European-style delivery van. (Eg: the common Mercedes ones, or the things where the driver sits over the engine.) US delivery trucks are much larger. Our streets were made after automobiles were common, so they’re wider than they should be (I prefer to walk!). That makes driving a truck easy.

Parking spots tend to be under-sized, however. Also, there aren’t consistent rules regarding “compact” or even full-sized parking spots. Some compact spots can’t fit an American sports car (it will be over the lines on both sides, but other compact spots are 2 feet wider and 4 feet longer than a full sized pickup truck.
Instead, they’ll just say “not a cultural fit”
https://archive.is/jyjNn
I look forward to watching this.
You click on the username and then submissions, you get all their submissions. Is it what you are looking for?