skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Who cares?" You're writing in a thread about "Why Do You Downvote?" and you researched numerous comments from my history. So, I think you care, and that proves that downvoting on HN is an interesting issue to you. I think HN cares too, because they disallow downvoting before 500 comment karma is reached.

Let's reset: I think the downvote should be used for low-effort, non-contributive comments like "lol" and "^this". Do you disagree on that point?

Next, I'll admit to self-puffery, no doubt my ideas are not as clever as I imagined when I typed them. However, I don't believe in downvoting merely based on philosophical disagreement. If I'm seen to "downvote brigade" against that practice, so be it, but I believe and will publicly state that downvotes shouldn't bury something that goes against HN/tech/societal orthodoxy. This is how hive-minds and pile-ons form; diversity of thought and opinion is healthy, and challenging one's own assumptions is illuminating. Do we want a community where a differing voice is grayed out and bottomed out within minutes?

Why do I care and fight for broader discourse? IMO, Social media can tend to reduce complex issues to mere scores based on camp-size, and I am fighting to re-complexify our dialogue. Let's upvote towards solid discussion and relish complexity and diversity of thought.
I think cryptocurrency is stupid but I thought "fiat" was still a good term to use here. Data absolutely has value, and both Congress and these companies know that and consider it uncontroversially true.
Does anyone know how I can filter out non-english posts from Mastodon? I set up an account and followed some people back in 2017, but it's unusable for me now since I can't read 70% of the content in any of my timelines.
>"They said they saw a difference."

Which would be the point, that there are no fundamental differences between corporate assets and human lives.
Do you not tie yourself to your Bitcoin when you try to use it for something physical like turning it into cash or buying a physical asset?

Can you not track all Bitcoins going in and out of a mixer?
From my (insider, biased, more informed, however you want to describe it) point of view, the fears you have are unfounded.

Why should I chose to pursue a different employer based on someone else's ill-founded concerns?

Elaborating a bit more, there's a motte and Bailey you're pulling here. I'd agree that Google doesn't have broadly "the best interests of us" at heart, but that's true for every corporation. If that's your bar for ethical action, you're asking me to not participate in capitalism as a whole. I look forward to that world too, but unfortunately we aren't there today.
Sounds like it might not even be intentional, but sometimes it's just really wanting something to happen, or betting on something because you really expect it to.
Something like 95%+ of bitcoin is related to financial speculation, investing, DeFi etc etc.

An order of magnitude of more drugs are sold on Cash App and Venmo -- which is why they're in rap songs. As for large scale hacking, extortion and ransom, yes bitcoin is used but it is increasing difficult to cash out in a large way.
It is a one-time-use token with a limited amount of data (somewhere between 0 and 64 bits from the implementations I've heard about).

You go through a process to get either one token or a 'batch' of tokens issued, then they are one-time-use redeemed to indicate authorization. Because they use a blind signature method, the server which issued them can't recognize them when they are redeemed. There is also a zero-knowledge proof used to make sure the server isn't trying to get additional bits of state by using different public keys per user.

So they are not meant to track a user, but rather indicate that some process happened - that you previously solved a captcha, that you saw an ad, etc. 64 bits is way too much information IMHO, but the implementations are still very early.
Something to do with Firefox. The images load fine in Chrome.
Trade based money laundering is like 100x cryptocurrencies.
The people releasing terrible software (that has a default-open admin port with no login credentials and no filtering, as just one of many examples) are not usually the ones who end up paying the ransoms.
I believe a huge part of it is the actual hardware of the turntable, right? People attribute a lot of the character to the medium itself, but it is of course possible to have an extremely “clean” master on vinyl. If the characteristics of the vinyl itself are changed by playing, or if the vinyl changes between plays, then yes, you would likely be providing different input to the read/amp system than before.
I have seen engineers on programming meme communities that identify themselves as Microsoft employees saying deeply disgusting racists jokes such as hanging Native Americans and African Americans from "red-black trees", and making fun of an internal linting tool that deals with terminology like "master/slave".

Because those jokes crossed the line and I confronted them and now you won't find them (they deleted them).

I know that behind the veil of strict HR policy compliance there are a lot of racists there.

And I am afraid the problem is not Microsoft specific... open source projects have this problem too.

For example the former Debian Project Leader, Sam Hocevar has been accused of being part of GNAA (not going to expand the acronym, you can look it up). Here he is wearing a GNAA t-shirt: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sam_Hocevar_Solution...

You can also read this thread to understand how racists are handled in the Debian project: https://debian-vote.debian.narkive.com/2R2X1Ga7/question-for...
my understanding of bitcoin is that it's just used to back the drug trade.

the recent price spike, as all other price spikes are the result of some (probably) nefarious activity that pumps real dollars in and out of the bitcoin platform.
Yep. There are even settings to require a login to view any content, designed for private instances such as for classrooms, which effectively locks down the instance. That’s how I use it for my family.
Our New Normal, in Pictures
>Let this be a lesson to those that say bitcoin and other cryptocurrency has no real value outside of speculation.

>This kind of attack would be almost impossible in the pre-bitcoin era.... Instead democratizing currency, we're democratizing large scale crime.

Just wanted to make this same point - right now, cryptocurrency has negative value for society. Perhaps this is a justification for banning the current implementations.
As with everything else, the internet serves as a kind of lense, amplifying whatever underlies it to orders of magnitude unimaginable. It doesn't matter if it's a random bit of information on a encyclopedia (wiki) or cybercrime. If it can be scaled up, it will be scaled up.
A good read and even more relevant today than when it was written in 2013. I like that Wright does not suggest the world's moral ills could be solved if only everyone would convert to his chosen school of utilitarianism.

The argument eventually concludes that the answer is bias neutralization through metacognition aka self awareness. However, Wright acknowledges the extreme time, effort, and desire necessary to overcome one's biases.

Although I can't force others to be less biased, I can work on becoming less biased myself.
> we aren't there today

Be the change you wish to see in the world. Waiting for others is the problem.
Banning... how?
It's not the 80s where you worked your way through college and 5x the median annual income bought you a median home its the 2020s there 24x the median income paid over 30 years buys you a home as long as you can afford it alongside the high cost of health healthcare and student loan debt.

Every era has always had successes and failures and a certain bar between one and the other. The bar is higher now so that the rich can extract more of the value from the system. More yet thus will fall below it that isn't defeatism nor is screaming do better at them a strategy for improvement.

> DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT

Would you like to add #trysomethingnew or #learntocode

I'm 39 year old with lungs that don't work so well anymore with a sick wife, one household income from now until forever, 10s of thousands of dollars of student loan debt, and a level of education best described as "some college" in computer science.

I'm not defeatist or defeated. I have an apartment, health insurance, and I'm planning on getting through covid and keeping my income enough above rising costs to keep having a home and even some small niceties. I'm open to opportunities but I'm not in much of a position to claw my way out of the bottom half if I'm realistic about it. The United States has always had an underclass and they couldn't ALL DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT in any particular era and not because of mental illness or drug addiction.
Hypothesis A: These are European hackers.

Hypothesis B: There are North Korean hackers who have mastered English, an enemy language whose speakers they have almost no interactive exposure to, to such an extent that they can, in real time, simulate the subtle mannerisms of another, completely unrelated set of non-native speakers of English.

Take your pick.
> The first person to notice this difficulty was Jules Richard in 1905, and the manner in which he formulated the problem is now called Richard’s paradox. Here is how it goes.

> Since all possible texts in French (Richard was French) can be listed or enumerated, a first text, a second one, etc., 2 you can diagonalize over all the reals that can be defined or named in French and produce a real number that cannot be defined and is therefore unnameable. However, we’ve just indicated how to define it or name it! In other words, Richard’s paradoxical real differs from every real that is definable in French, but nevertheless can itself be defined in French by specifying in detail how to apply Cantor’s diagonal method to the list of all possible mathematical definitions for individual real numbers in French!

I followed this up to "and produce a real number that cannot be defined". Would this be from some computation on some/all of the diagonalized reals? I can't see how to guarantee that this generated number wasn't already in the set.
Maslow's Hammer
That's analogous to saying, "For better or worse, you can look at Robinhood's stock price as an options contract on future insider trading." It's meaningless unless you consider wild west financial speculation and traders as criminal activity.
That doesn't necessarily mean they're not co-opted.
The recent price spike is from the lead up to Eth2.0
I've pondered the merits of someone spreading a virus that just sends (small, but relatively constant and random) amounts of encrypted data (maybe to other infected devices, and various other endpoints). Spread it widely enough and everyone gets to communicate privately with plausible deniability.

Of course it doesn't even need to be real data, random gibberish would work too.
Molecule+Mattress+Savings+20%+Off+Plus+FREE+Sheets
Show HN: More Letters – A Cryptography Puzzle Game
It wouldn't work in this case. It will be similar to drug trade, where everything is hush hush and the price probably will go up. It will just push more innocent people into white colar crime.

You are running the company. You spend all your life getting to CEO position. And then boom breach and your company has massive loss, lawsuits and you are out of the job. Probably 9/10 CEO types will just engage in a crime to avoid that situation.

Current situation is way better. All breaches are public, prices are public, so the correct answer is to invest in security and if you get caught with your pants down, just pay the fee Let justice department handle it from that point on.

The way bank robberies are handled is the best. Just give them everything they ask for. In the end of the day it is either insured and even if it is not, it is stupid to risk anyones life for money created in fractional-reserve banking system.
There's a setting for that
This is a piece of jewelry, compared to what I've seen.

Our team was called in to help on a strange case. An important organization had corruption in the management and they had contracted a mission-critical service, one that created income, to someone.

The code was written in asp (the project has started in 2016, 16 years after the last release). Database tables where named table_01 to table_36, columns named Column_01 to whatever. All values stored in database were "encrypted" using base64 most files where 10,000+ lines of repeated code, no modularity, no naming convention, not DRY.

All the income from the orders went to the programmer's personal bank account. The money would then be wired to the right companies.

Well, this was just the beginning, the code was much worse, I cannot bring any examples as I don't have the code and don't remember, but suffice to say that even though we had made our minds that we're going to handle this mess, but faced much much worse problem than we expected.

We came up with a smooth plan to transition to a good state.

Meanwhile, the corrupt management had been lobbying, got reinstated, made the version 2 contract with the same guy and the team I consulted was asked to just keep the version 1 running while the genius is coming up with more brilliant ways to write version 2 of pure shit.
It certainly is a valid use-case, but if you want something that is simpler to manage, look at pleroma and the Soapbox frontend. Pleroma takes way less resources and you'd be able to run on a Raspberry PI.

Another thing to consider, though, is to not run something like a social network and instead just get matrix and create group rooms for your family? Everyone would still be able to share updates and even call each other. Not only you eliminate the need of Facebook, but also WhatsApp/Messenger.
Can you explain what is ambiguous about "This information helps us measure server-side metrics for large groups of installations; it is not used to identify or track individual users."

> Do you think the average user knows that Chrome is sending unique identifiers to DoubleClick?

What's your actual concern? What you've described here applies to nefarious data like the IP address.
Do you have any evidence of Apple selling user data?
Given how far away the camera is, it's hard to tell how close the boats really are to the capsule.
It’s a little heavy, but I can say it runs fine in a 1 GB VPS, with the addition of a 1 GB swap file to compile the front end during installation and upgrade.
Another windows local admin/group/domain thing. When are IT departments going to take it off their networks? Why have LANs at all, for most back office work?

Immutable, versioned files in managed cloud storage eliminates the locker threat (not the disclosure one though).
How much does Apple spend buying up old devices?

My impression was that Apple did trade ins to acquire stock to refurbish and resell in India, and to incentivize users to upgrade.

I would be pretty surprised to learn they were losing money on trade ins, and I've never heard of any kind of direct buy back.
And, let me guess, you can't block "trust tokens" in Chrome.
Yeah, same issue with Nobel inventing the dynamite. Just because some people are going to use it for unethical purposes, it doesn't mean that we have to stop the advance of science and technology. Besides, it seems that Bitcoin was inevitable, the internet needs its own decentralized currency.
You can also install this plugin for WordPress:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/

The ActivityPub ecosystem is pretty interesting. Look at it closely.
I wonder if you got downvoted mainly for not thinking Microsoft deserves scrutiny. Honestly every giant corporation should be under intense anti-trust scrutiny at all ties. We should have a "default anti-trust" state that kicks in when corporations reach a sufficient size perhaps. (such as being large enough to influence the government)
>it is increasing difficult to cash out in a large way

It is actually difficult to cash out?
Don’t forget the converters. A lot of people get crazy headphones and connect them to their laptop headphone jack or a cheap Focusrite interface where poor design and pcb layout mean you can literally hear the power section.
Differences Between FHA, VA, Conventional
No one mentioning that the site being SPA makes it laggy? If this were a static webpage - and it should - the scrolling would be 100% responsive. Instead on my 2015 macbook the animation stutters when loading the page in and scrolling down too fast incurs a delay while the content loads.
Not sure how you arrived at a negative value. Or are you suggesting there is no positive use-case that could offset it?
Harvard ornithology professor bicycles across the U.S.
If I say I like cats, and you find an article saying someone else doesn’t like cats, that does not mean I’m mistaken on the fact that I like cats.

You seem to think they said that ‘everyone sees a difference’. They didn’t. They said ‘I see a difference’. They’re only ‘wrong’ about that if you think they’re lying to us about their own personal position.
Why not make it a criminal offense for companies who don't take reasonable approaches to preventing such attacks in the first place? We place a lot of trust in companies that hold our personal data (e.g. Equifax), and I'd argue there need to be harsh penalties. The tools exist and guidelines are clear.

It shouldn't be the criminals penalizing them, but here they are filling the gap that the regulators ignored.
Getting Rosetta[at]Home and Folding[at]Home Running on ARM
I don't actually like working outside that much because of screen glare etc. But, yeah, I'll wear a polo shirt "uniform" when I'm recording a presentation or whatever but otherwise I'm wearing a T.
One of those stories is having a bad password memory. One is a person conducting business on his personal account and triggering flags. Another is a business messing up.

It's a good habit to keep multiple interlocking personal email accounts from multiple providers, but being cloud-first is still obviously correct.
I used to have an old Windows 2000 laptop without onboard WiFi that I called "Deadline" and used for the same purpose. If you have work you can do without connectivity for extended stretches I recommend it.
How about a tax on paying bounties that is used solely to fund agencies that track down and put those engaging in criminal activity online in jail. In order to be allowed to deduct the expense require paying the tax.
Thank you very much
We are learning more from you guys. Thank you for all such great feedback. We will always try to provide the best and do what is always necessary.
This is a great example of my own first law of UX: Almost everyone is terrible at UX, including people who think they are experts at it.
An NSL often includes a prohibition against even telling a companies own counsel that the NSL was served and for many years the FBI didn’t tell people this was even possible to challenge (until a 2008 appellate court ruling). Even after that point, barely one in fifty thousand letters even get to the point of a court hearing. It’s de factor quite similar.

In addition, the legal challenge usually happens AFTER the letter is complied with, which makes it moot.

These letters can, and do, end up causing companies to fold (e.g. lavabit) if they refuse to comply.

Like many other national security issues (such as FISA court rubber stamps) there are theoretical checks and balances that do not tend to do much checking or balancing in practice.
What is really missing is a "Translate" button under non-english posts.
In its prime it was high-end, and was probably about 75% women's items and 25% mens. I enjoyed shopping there, but you have to be the type of person who looks good and fits into higher-end clothing.

I'm wondering if the massive obesity problem in the United States has also contributed to this problem. People who don't really fit well in to clothes probably don't want to spend a lot of money on them because it's humiliating/degrading to shop for them.
They looked pretty harmless to me, although I suspect future landings will have a larger coast guard presence.
There's, broadly speaking, a difference between telling me to find a different employer based on an unfounded concern (what you did) and asking me to work to enact a more socialist future. It's not even clear that the two are aligned in all cases.
Isn’t stuff stolen in a theft/robbery deductible generally?
The best approach -- unironically -- is to look at fedi blocklists propogated by radical left instances. They hate the word "free speech". However, here are some neat instances you can try:

freespeechextremist.com
noagenda.social
neckbeard.xyz
gleasonator.com

I'd also recommend hosting your own -- Pleroma preferably, since it's way lighter than Mastodon.
Mushroom Farming in Nigeria
"I like not having choice, so long Apple is the only choice. And I want others not having choice too, as log as Apple is their only choice, whether they like it or not."

They should at least allow optional sideloading on device versions they no longer support, e.g., "obsolete" iPhones and iPads. There should be an "official" way to "root" these devices that otherwise in effect can no longer use the AppStore (because most AppStore apps only work with the most recent iOS versions). Another idea would be to have an AppStore "archive" so older devices can still use an official AppStore.

Apple's "AppStore" is in effect a way to force obsolecence and mandate device upgrades.
Well, when someone seems to be claiming that "everything would be fine if Trump wasn't a fuckup", I try to push back with "even if Trump wasn't a fuckup, there's enough other breakage in the way to prevent things from going perfectly". Trump messed up - that's kind of what he does. But with current US politics, there genuinely may not have been any set of actions Trump could have taken that would have both limited US cases to the levels Taiwan or South Korea encountered and not be impeached for it. (Because it would have meant doing things like "somehow convincing NYC to implement a no-seriously-you-stay-home order" and "implement a travel ban from everywhere", both of which would become a partisan issue and thus gridlocked)

A vox article about how the feds fucked up has no bearing on a counterfactual where the feds treated COVID like an existential threat back in February or early March. In that situation, you'd instead have an article saying that this was a major infringement on the rights of Americans, or that it disproportionately impacted a minority group. Which would have been true! But everything is a trade-off.

And as we can all see, it's not like the American Left has any real commitment to fighting COVID. Just look at how fast "stay the fuck home" turned into "protests are fine".

EDIT: you said "Why do you come here to peddle that BS?". I responded as if you thought my "I'm not sure anything Trump could have done would have turned out well" statement was BS, but you might have meant something else. Let me know!
You're going to need to be more specific. People are downvoting you because it's not really clear what you're talking about, and I'm getting serious alt-right conspiracy vibes.
I'm just looking at how it is currently used. If after all these years there isn't a positive use-case to offset it, there might not be one at all.
Then say they’ve been corrupted and name the corrupt members so the discussion can continue past vague implication.