skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there really no way to passively collect enough data from the user agent to determine the likelihood that an actual human was involved?

I suppose there are a bunch of privacy and corner cases that would mess that up (for instance, composing a reply in a text editor and pasting it would be indistinguishable from a bot).

Has anyone tried? Are there write-ups I could read about?
Zavináč, an Onomatological Adventure
Indeed, and they've been owned by Amazon since 2009.
> government, education, healthcare and finance sectors

Very strange pick of victims for a cryptominer. Can it be just a cover?
Collectible antiques (or antiques in collectible condition) are far different than ordinary antiques. Though, ordinary antiques still have the qualities of being durable and repairable. That usefulness gives them some inherent value over cheap modern furniture even ignoring the collectible value.
I’ve never seen a note in my zappos order. Have I been inadvertently throwing away these notes for years?
I’m actually also against raising the minimum wage for the same reason. Businesses shouldn’t be responsible for providing a “livable wage”. A livable wage for my son staying at home isn’t the same as a single mom with three. The company should only be responsible for following the law and paying people what the market demands and paying taxes. Both the tax laws need to be changed to make sure that all companies pay “enough” and the Earned Income Tax Credit needs to be increased and easier to get throughout the year.

Until the current administration, both Republicans and Democrats supported increasing the EITC.
Isn't it unusual for the VCs to own close to 67%. Bankers made money! Not the actual engineers who toiled away!
Prints are push rememberance. Google’s pull model costs that. Indeed that’s pretty much true of digital artifacts. They don’t have presence. They can’t come unbidden. A bored dinner guest won’t strike up a conversation. A child cannot ask about it because the it isn’t there. It’s barely even an it.
Don't wait for someone to label you a leader.

Learn and understand the behaviors of effective leaders and implement them in your own work and relationships. So many people operate within the expectations, or what they precieve as the limitations, of their position. Stepping up and leading is about taking personal responsibility for making those decisions yourself rather than being told what to do.

No one is going to tell you to lead or if they do you aren't really one. Much of this comes from within. Having said that, a good mentor is valuable.

Lastly and most importantly, work on communication and social skills. Communication is how you operate as a leader.
Multiple YAML defaults in Rails fixtures
I do not doubt you, but for my own education could you elaborate a little on how Google or any othr company could save millions.
It’s not. They don’t have any data of their own. They offer a data integration platform and then a slate of apps on top of that platform for institutions to perform analysis on their own data. They do make a few plugins that mine social media and other “open” sources but have to do a funny ownership dance so it’s the institution that is breaching the TOS rather than them.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments to HN, and please don't do programming language flamewars here. They're tedious and shallow and usually turn nasty.. We're hoping for something more interesting on this site.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I work in this domain and am using exclusively FF for Android, but I've never been interested in following their development.

Either way, I don't think that being surprised is the problem. Having a browser update break extensions is the problem - I would bet a lot of people only use FF because Chrome doesn't support extensions (I know that's why I use it anyway), so essentially the update is breaking the only important functionality.

Thankfully, I don't have automatic updates enabled, so I can still wait and see how broken this really is and how long it will take to fix it.
Are you sure? Bleeping Computer (BC) has a publish time of 2020-08-19T06:00:00-04:00, while Ars Technica has a publish time of 2020-08-19T13:00:16Z.. looks like a 3 hour lead.

Interestingly Guardicore reports 2020-08-19T09:50:36+00:00 suggesting BC (a) can produce a quality article in <9 minutes, (b) there was a prior article (c) BC got a heads-up
This is complete nonsense.

Large TVs in 2020 cost just as much as small TVs did in the 70s (if not less), adding air bags to a car costs mere hundreds of dollars, and is ammortized over 20 years, and cancelling your phone plan is not going to let you support a family of four on a single blue-collar income. Shit, cancelling your phone plan won't even compensate for the annual growth in your health insurance premiums - which is something that compounds every year.
At least it's marketing financed by profit. The other filings (e.g. Asana) showed marketing costs equal to 100% revenue or higher...
Obviously the root comment was lame and should not have been fed, but please don't take the thread further off topic.
/offtopic

The all-new Firefox for Android (codename Daylight) is lightening fast, and perceptibly seems on-par with the Chrome for Android in terms of responsiveness.

What stumps me is Chrome for Android is 3.8MB whereas Firefox Daylight is upwards of 40MB.
It stays on the ice until a whistle, then an official takes it off the ice. It can interfere with play, such as if a pick hits it, but players are not allowed to purposely interact with it.
Interesting to read, thanks for writing. I'm getting the impression you know okay much about health care -- for example I had to lookup NSAIDs to know it means "Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs". I wonder if that makes the illness less dangerous to you, and (like you wrote elsewhere) indeed indicates how important a generally good health care system is, to handle malaria. I actually didn't know there's a treatment nowadays.

Interesting to hear about how it feels, physically / health-wise, with chills and muscle aches.

Looking at statistics, apparently most people who die, are children, whilst for the flu, it's old people. That's a pretty big difference I think -- imagine one is 40 years old, and one of one's say, 70 years old parents, or one's 10 years old child, dies.
Or the founders already cashed out...
> Luckily, the extension "Auto Tab Discard" solved these issues for me.

This looks like a useful extension to me (I'd even love if this was a native FF feature). But I'm noticing it has full access to web pages. Does anyone know how Richard Neomy deals with this data?
The HN guidelines include a version of please don't feed the trolls. It goes like this: "Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Research, trains of thought, read later
I'm glad you enjoyed it! Some of these patterns are a little controversial, because they add extra layers of indirection + bloat the code, but I've personally always found that they make Erlang / Elixir much more readable.

One of my favourite talks is "Writing Beautiful Code" by Garrett Smith (of "MongoDB is Web Scale" fame), and he walks through refactoring a part of CouchDB (also in Erlang) by using some of these techniques.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdJwECjylB4
HTTPS doesn’t protect against DNS or SNI interception
A lot of it depends on who your Fedex ground contractor is. In Ann Arbor, MI, I frequently was failing to get packages that came via FedEx (Whoever was delivering that day may or may not know that it was an apartment, code) that were either (A) reliably delivered by Amazon without issue, or, worst case Amazon would contact me via phone for delivery instructions.

Ironically - in neither case was I dealing with either "Fedex" or "Amazon" - but third parties that were contracted to Fedex/Amazon. Amazon just had better responsiveness and communication.
> The main problem is that in Japan everybody has like 15 credit cards

This is a fascinating departure from my expectation, because when I was in Japan, I distinctly noticed that credit cards were not accepted everywhere. One could load money into Suica/Pasmo cards and use those at convenient stores, but I learned that carrying cash was imperative -- Japan seemed very much to be a cash-oriented society.
It is the same as some unknown football club without money declaring that they are not interested, contrary to most of other clubs in signing Messi
This is genius. Make this happen fintech.
True brutalism would've been a bitmap font.
I’m almost at a point where I think a well programmed robot would do a better job using known heuristics and a method to test legislation for effectiveness.
This is one thing I hate about starbucks, so many laptops it feels like being in an office.
Agreed, outside of unix-like tech circles, I don't know that his reputation was ever that bad.
I haven't either. Is it possible it's a "this is a gift" option?
> which is pointless and stupid

Not so. The point is that you can set DDG to be your default search engine, and put !g anywhere in the search string to search google in case you need it.
I don't understand this "private namespace" ability you claim WebBundles have that URLs don't already have. Any URL remapping that can be done inside a WebBundle, can be done outside the WebBundle, and on a per-user basis as well.
Cue is nice because it unifies your files and tells you of they are valid, in the sense that they make sense and do not conflict. The ability to add constraints is huge
I wouldn't know, mr Cantrill knows his stuff.

It seems to me that Mr Cantrill is more aware of the business side, while you're more keen on the philosophical side.

Yeah twiddling the source and everything, but if you didn't choose it in the first place that wouldn't happen.
> he

*she :-)

> Chrome will literally go towards the high 70s for no fudging reason, while idle

That seems extraordinarily high, and I've personally never experienced that problem.
I've never seen one, and at this point have gotten so used to finding what I want that it has never occurred to me, but this seems like a nice little bookmarklet idea.
Similar structure usually, here's a few others by Wilson Sonsini:

- Palantir: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1321655/000119312520...

- Cloudflare: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1477333/000119312519...

- Zoom: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1585521/000119312519...
I got a strong "Nimbus 5000" vibe reading this. It's pretty easy to read this and replace "stick" with "broom", "ice" with "arena", "quaffle" with "puck", and "hockey" with "quidditch" - and have it all sort of sound right.
USC Proposes Monocular Real-Time Volumetric Performance Capture
Perhaps; I haven't read that closely. Obviously it's great if you're writing something better about a topic, but there needs to be a specific URL to what you've specifically written about it.
Ya but those are "the good guys" so it's ok to spy on citizens.

Quite the gulp of koolaid to swallow straight faced
"everyone" may be a bit extreme. There seems to be a national goal of going more cashless, but right now they're one of the most cash-based countries: https://www.statista.com/chart/19868/share-of-cash-payments-... Japan had 82% cash transactions compared to 14% in South Korea. From personal experience it's relatively normal to find a food place in Tokyo which has no card reader at all.
In the previous version I had all my most visited sites as
toplevel-bookmarks (which were displayed in the new-tab-page) and
a bookmark-folder with "maybe-read-later"-bookmarks. That was
never very good on mobile because there was no way to reorder
bookmarks.

Now I have my most visited sites in the new "top sites" section and the
rest goes to bookmarks. Works for me but there is also absolutely no
benefit to before (bookmarks are even less accessible). And you still
can't reorder any bookmarks/top-sites/collections nor export/import
them.

But why fix old bugs or implement requested features when you can just
start completely new and ignore the users. That's definitely more fun
for the programmers.
> Why reduce your margins for an adversarial customer who will squeeze you until they build their own distribution network with underpaid independent contractors?

Would you rather make $0 on 0 packages or "not $0" on lots of packages?
I find the similarities & diffferences interesting between this and CRDTs.

This seems to be saying that any algorithm with a monotonic output with respect to input information "has a consistent, coordination-free distributed implementation".

As I understand it, for data to be monotonic requires that the data is partially orderable.

CRDTs require partial ordering, as well as a merge() function so as to create a lattice.

This seems then that CRDT's have stronger requirements - this seems to make sense, since CRDT's are about sharing data, whereas this CALM theory is only talking about making a local decision.
If AI has made a decision to kill without human approval, I haven't heard about it. Do you have references I could look at?
This is a ridiculous story.

Japan has a population of 150M.

If you can't give folks a number from SIXTEEN digits - something is wrong with the folks giving out the numbers.

Some answers to the excuses. The 6 digits at front, if a company legit runs out of numbers, ask for another prefix.

The reality. Instead of using the numbers properly (random ID to tie to a user account) they are probably putting some kind of structure into the digits that results in very inefficient use.

These are the 10 digits available PER PREFIX!

1,234,567,890

Even with a check digit you are at a billion numbers PER PREFIX! You can't get 125 million folks into this address space?

Absolutely pitiful.
Reddit Shuts Down AMA from Former NSA Technical Director Bill Binney
That gives you more dollars per house, you mean.
However: One of their customers can literally print money.
Have you driven the blocks around downtown Vegas lately? It's very seedy, full of pawn shops and payday lending stores, liquor stores and closed stores. Streets are dirty, numerous homeless people. I admire his goal of revitalizing it, but it didn't work.
You mention Canada as though we have one unified set of laws, but that is not the case. In Ontario, for example, I can fire an employee without cause prior to their first day of work or even on their first day of work but before they official start and I am not required to pay them anything.

To the best of my knowledge, most of Canada follows the same rules and the only province that is likely to differ about this is Quebec.
I'm not dismissing it... but it's being eaten. The Web is the ultimate platform. Every goal Java and the JVM had (that they didn't mostly drop, like native bytecode CPUs) has either been achieved, surpassed, or quickly will be by browsers, Javascript and WASM.

The only holdouts I see are stuff where Java is part of the standard (e.g. SIM cards using Java Card standard) or embedded systems where they use Java of some sort where it doesn't make sense to use the enormous browser runtimes (although I have to imagine that's a less popular option than C, but I'm not super informed on the embedded market).

I mean, I'm not particularly a fan of where this is heading (it feels like we're heading for the second coming of Java applets/flash and all those associated problem), but it seems pretty obvious, to me at least.
I would have assumed so...they acquired a couple companies that were building webscraping + data-extraction tech a few years back.
With all these companies going public it is obvious they are planning for a crash after the election
For consumer commerce, between the contactless and the smart chips this should be solved.

Someone else said the number is 'hidden' from the users but it's not hiding versus not hiding that's the problem. It's that for e-commerce the human has to transcribe the number by hand. You can't hide it, except via another system.
If you're naming something public, you gotta Google it first. This should be common sense nowadays. Searching for "teal language" brings up the Typed Lua one, and a domain-specific language. So the name is taken twice already.
> Whatever does this have to do with codes of conduct?

Whatever does a rental property issue have to do with OpenZFS? What about political contributions? Are you genuinely unaware of all the crazy witchhunts, totally unrelated to the code base, that have occurred as a result of this CoC push? Have you ever heard of ESR?
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8609
> WebBundles Allow Sites to Evade Privacy and Security Tools

I completely disagree. Browser-level code can still effectively apply user-defined privacy and security policies onto WebBundles.

Didn't Firefox originally solve the issue of deep-linking into opaque bundles with it's jar: URI scheme idea? For example, this URI could be used to reference specific files in a zip archive in Firefox. iirc this scheme might not be supported by Firefox anymore.

jar://https://site.example/archive.zip!/file%201.txt

The same concept could be applied for WebBundles with another similar URI scheme so that content blockers and security tools can effectively introspect the bundle before initializing resources from the bundle. For example, something like:

bundle://[optional hash, origin, or regex?]![uri or regex]
// e.g.
bundle://https://site.example/!https://site.example/regulated-sub-bundle-file.html
Casa del Libro maybe.

https://www.casadellibro.com/ebooks
Chrome's engine is built into Android, whereas the engine Firefox uses is not and thus has to be shipped with it.
This probably assumes customers as the DoD as one single entity, when in fact they probably have dozens of individual contracts from different sub departments and with different timelines. Which makes it very different from the typical SaaS where the top costumer can just unsubscribe.
Really though, S-1 is the old Show HN. In the dot com bubble, companies would go public before they built the product. The only company I heard of doing that recently was Nikola, and they didn’t go through the IPO process.
There are also lots of SPACs (Special Purpose Acquisition Companies), like 27 of them just in August. A simple way of entering public markets bypassing the regular IPO path and required filings.
> but is it actually true?

Perception is all that matters, and a large chunk of the country follows conservative media.

Unfortunately the country is doing a great job of lining up behind their preferred propaganda outlets rather than looking for truth. This is true for both Liberals and Conservatives.

We hear what we want to hear.
If twenty years of fighting banking websites has taught me anything, I'd never assume that the backend would "just work". In fact, if any bank decides to roll out a longer number scheme, I'd probably want to make sure that I wouldn't need their service for a few coming days, just to be safe.
No, it's pretty novel. The big 3 perpetually have 49.9% voting rights.
Sure, this is true. But it's also true that some people just like shifting the goal posts or redefining terms whenever it suits them (not in mathematics, outside of it, that is).

So in terms of a productive discussion, saying 2+2=5 without context and then backtracking and saying "well but I'm talking about Z/Z (or R/Z, see uncle comment)" would be kind of annoying and it's not generally what mathematicians do.

I think this is one of the fascinating and difficult aspects of maths:

On the one hand, once you fix your axioms, there is no way in hell you can avoid the conclusions - they might be hard to find (sometimes even impossible to find), but if you find and verify them, they are unmistakably true. This can turn off some people that are more used to thinking about everything being just shades of gray and there always being multiple valid opinions. Maths is the subject where you can't just make up your mind, the evidence when you're wrong is deafening.

On the other hand, real maths can also turn off some of the more OCD-ish kind of people that think maths is all about the one single truth and everyone agreeing about everything, whereas maths is infinitely malleable and you can say things like "what if the parallel axiom is wrong" or "what if negative numbers have square roots" and even if it sounds silly, you can create proper maths out of it. If you've ever seen people with only high school maths knowledge arguing passionately online about the correct order of operations or whether the square root of -1 is i or -i (or, in another context, Grammar nazis), you know the kind of people I mean.
2015 was the year you personally started paying attention:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=z...
Minor nit: this would increase cash flow but not revenue, which has to be recognized when it is earned rather than when it is paid.
It's because he is looking long term. Once you eradicate polio then it's gone forever. If he stops now to save more children from malaria instead then polio will return and the work so far wasted.
If you think I am saying "climate change is a fear-mongering hoax!", you are reading in things I never said.

I'm an environmental studies major myself, though I never completed my bachelor's degree. I also have a lot of personal reasons why my personal philosophy can be boiled down to "It's the end of the world as we know it -- and I feel fine."

I said nothing about climate change at all. Jumping to conclusions about my opinions on that topic is entirely unwarranted.

I'm guilty of being an optimist. I've been guilty of that my entire life. Previous remark by me about being an optimist in the face the shit really hitting the fan: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22619932

Sorry the world is all stressed. When I was homeless and dying of CF and it was just my life that was a personal apocalypse, no one was all up in arms about needing to rescue me. You will have to excuse me for failing to wring my hands about how other people are now running around screaming "The sky is falling" now that the seeming apocalypse is larger than just my personal reality.

I didn't die on the street. I got healthier and back in housing. Life goes on.

And it will probably go on for most of the rest of the world after Mother Nature has once again proven that scientists don't know everything there is to know about this world.
There were only 350,000 cases in 1988, when the vaccine was first deployed, and 5 billion people on Earth then versus 7 billion now. How do 350,000 cases turn into 13 million, according to the WHO?

[1] https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/poliomyelit...
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Completely off-topic from the article, but objective data doesn't go deep enough to engender trust for another reason: If I don't agree with your position, and you show me objective data, I have to trust your data (or the source of your data), and that you haven't cherry-picked your source. Essentially, I have to trust you to be able to trust your data. So your data isn't going to make me trust you.
The stock market numbers have been pumped up for years now, and how convenient they are planning on the crash right after elections
Sounds like the problem lies with whatever group you chose to associate with.

If you're depending on Apple to stop you from making bad decisions about what kinds of employers to work for, I think you've got bigger problems than what might happen if there were an alternate iPhone app store.
This might be a stupid question, but how long does it take to write an S-1 prospectus, and how many people are generally involved? They are always so long and with tiny font!
losses losses everywhere
Ok, but the problem is aggregating all of the data under 1 platform. Whether you own the data or not isn't relevant when you still have access and show that data to your users.
Mux (YC W16) is hiring devs that want to help others build video (remote ok!)