skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I clicked "This is evil" although I think that is just partially correct. The problem with tracking is that it exploits functionality that wasn't intended to identify users.

In context of reality it is very nice that the author even ponders about it. This is already less evil than what we can expect on the "modern" web, however nefarious and tricky the mechanism might be. But loading a resource for tracking IPs isn't really intrinsically evil.
Does This Thought Deserve to Be Here?
It’s indeed a job of solution architect or CTO in smaller companies to do this review and develop a strategy telling, when something needs to be replaced by a custom code. Also it’s important to look at the costs not only in absolute values, but also relative to the IT budget. It’s ok to spend later 200K instead of 50K now if company revenue is going to be 10x higher or if your current budget is consumed by a more important project. Cost of money and resources can be different.
Moment.js https://momentjs.com/docs/#/-project-status/
Isn't medicine the same, only on a smaller scale? We already allow many people to live much longer than they would have lived "naturally".

Would it be better to have dozen kids and watch half of them die before their first birthday?

If no, then what is so great about watching your parents die before their hundredth birthday?
Emacs Prelude 1.0
vgacon: remove software scrollback support
To close the loop: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24477941
In that case you have a perfect example of starting with org-mode instead: Then you can already add tables and images and all the stuff and have much less finetuning to do:

- create draft in org
- export to LaTeX
- polish for publication
While the article does a great job outlining the motivations (fear of X, etc.) from a movement participant, I think there is a far easier answer to the headline question if looked at from a movement organizer perspective:

It's hard to argue against pedophilia.

If you argue against another conspiracy theory (e.g. flat earth), the worst thing that will happen is that theorists label you as "part of the system" (or whatever) and everyone not directly subscribing to the theory will laugh it off.

If you argue against a pedophilia conspiracy theory, the theorists will quickly label you as someone defending pedophilia, or a pedophile yourself. If even people that don't directly subscribe to the theory hear that, there is a serious risk of social exile. This makes it incredibly risky to argue against it.
It's kinda bad for multiple reasons...

.) definitely an abuse of CSS, which is meant for visual styling

.) invisible to the user, can't even be blocked with noScript (blocking all JS), and blocking CSS would make most sites unusable or at least less than "human readable"

.) could be used to track and record a lot of information that does qualify as non-anonymous, personal data (in combination with IP address and timestamp)

.) probably illegal according to the GDPR, unless you fully inform the user and get their consent first (before loading the CSS) - and allow them to opt out.
I'm sure this is already in use but maybe not as published because it is mostly a corner-case (non-JS users). Browsers have already had to implement lies in pseudo-classes, specifically :visited since it leaks too much data.
A large amount of mathematics is trying to find the easiest way to express a problem, changing to that view, solving the simpler problem, then going back to your original formulation

Solving indefinite integrals by substitution for example. Justified by the chain rule.
"Done" as a goal would maybe mean "mature", "polished", "complete".

But in this case they also say they don't actually recommend Moment.js for new new projects, generally. "we would like to discourage Moment from being used in new projects going forward." In this case "done" also basically means "obsolete", "newer better alternatives exist".

That doesn't seem to be the kind of "finished" that you are talking about, or that would be a goal of developers. Or is it?

Examples of open source projects which are very popular, mature, not obsolete, still recommended by their maintainers for new projects -- but also "done" -- might be closer to what you are trying to compliment. They are definitely few and far between.
If you also act like a cock in person then definitely not. Even the most brilliant people in the world usually have the self awareness to not give themselves glowing reviews, perhaps you're great but have a social blind spot in that regard. If you consistently speak like that in person then many people would not like working with you and that would call your glowing self review into question.

Literally everyone? Ok :)
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nload - displays the current network usage

Hasn't been updated since 2012, but I use it everyday.
http://www.roland-riegel.de/nload/changelog
I like this sort of question, albeit it is akin to preparing to re-tune your violin, in order to do some fiddling while Rome is burning, given just how far we have lost all privacy.

In an ideal world, it should be up to the user what they want to disclose. So, perhaps there should be no logging at all. And having loaded a page, the page should work 'offline' with no further interaction with the page or site by default. I mean, that's how simple sites appear to work. That they don't work like how you think they appear to, illustrates how technologists are selling illusions for profit.
It's an interesting question. I'm not sure I came away with a clear understanding of the article's thesis on what the answer is. If I really had to guess, I'd just say that culturally rapists and sexual predators are the worst kinds of criminals in the United States. Far worse than murderers. It permeates media. Not sure I've ever, even once, seen a fictional character achieve redemption after committing rape. I'm not even sure I've seen a character consider seeking redemption or expressing remorse after committing rape. If you do it, you're a monster, and probably have myriad other awful traits in addition to being physically weird-looking or having a creepy goblin-esque set of mannerisms that only manifest in the most private moments, and are prone to quietly staring at someone so they can have a chance to intuit that you're a sexual predator by appearance alone. And so if you're trying to make a conspiracy theory that says the libs are just the worst, you say they're rapists.

Bojack Horseman is the closest example I can think of, in which he is not bad faith accused of such things, and feels vaguely accountable for them even if he wasn't actually a rapist.

And just to be clear, I do think rape and sexual exploitation is maximally bad. I think our cultural understanding and characterization of rapists is terrible and harmful to everyone, especially victims, and that saying our this does not in any way diminish the badness of it.

edit: and for completion, it used to be worse to be a witch, or a commie.
By that standard, no Windows software is ever done because pretty much all Windows software pulls in stuff from system dlls and those libraries are always being worked on.
H-1B Revamp Could Radically Reduce Visa Users
UC Berkeley launches new center for psychedelic science and education
Is there is link for his old UK desk build? Those steel tubes look boss, great look, and might be something I could tackle myself.

This new Japan project looks a lot more ambitious, good luck xD.
My group of friends used to use Vine all the time. Never used twitter. I was quite shocked when they killed it.
Apple claims on privacy is a joke, they only use that angle when it suits them and especially to get one up up on Google.

Apple fan boys are very vocal and therfore help amplify the "Apple and Privacy" message way more than it is in reality.
Anti-Maskers Forced to Dig Graves for Covid-19 Victims in Indonesia
It slowed down the phone a lot, not "slightly". I wasn't asked if I wanted the slow down, there was no way of disabling it, Apple didn't acknowledge it, and I had no reason to believe the battery was in a bad state.

Last year I upgraded from a mid-range phone which was almost 4 years old. It didn't have any "slow down" feature and it never shutdown, so as you can imagine, I'm not willing to give Apple a pass here.
I wonder how much the effect is slowing metabolism relative to cancer cells.
Scientists Discover Antibody Highly Effective in Preventing/Treating Covid
GCP also offers a "always free" micro-instance that's more than enough for the task at hand. https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/gcp-free-tier#always-free
If only US OFAC export restrictions were as easy to bypass!
tex/latex.

i3wm is really damn stable.

i haven’t updated emacs in 3 years but i hear 27’s cool.

i also haven’t updated irssi in forever.
Bill Gates Wonders Whether FDA Can Be Trusted on a Covid Vaccine
Notepad is discontinued, please use NotepadVR instead.
For what it's worth, the first two I grabbed at home come apart into two halves that snap together rather than being hinged. The hinged variety can actually be useful though, as you can drape them by the hinge over the back of the laptop (taking the part of the pencil in the original photograph). The one thing you really don't want is compacts that are full of actual make-up, as that's gonna cause a huge mess.
> How much energy does a Bubble Barrier use?

> The Bubble Barrier uses compressed air to create the bubble curtain. Depending on the scale and length of the Bubble Barrier, this is done by means of a compressor. The length of the Bubble Barrier has a significant influence on the necessary energy usage. Our Bubble Barrier uses much less energy than bubble curtains that are used to separate fresh from salt water or to prevent oil spills.

Based on them explicitly not wanting to give any numbers and comparing it to much larger and more difficult operations, I'm guessing this is the main issue. It may well work, but costs a lot of energy. Doing that in NW Europe feels like spending a lot to achieve a little, because plastic going into the ocean is a) not primarily from rivers and b) among that which is delivered via rivers, it's not primarily from rivers in Europe.
Possible signs of life detected on Venus
If you have to provide a simple (ELI5, if you mention one scientific word their eyes rollup into their skull etc..) way to view how fasting 'controls' the cancerous growth in the body... sadhguru makes an easily digestible concept of 'crime' in the body [1].
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWnyTJ96upw
Alright, fair, but then again what if you're building something more complex, where CSV-parsing is just 1% of what it does? Do you implement every single non-standard library functionality you need?
The common user has JS enabled and probably expects their pageviews to be tracked
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Yep, the discussion in that comment thread was what prompted me to post this Ask HN. Fully finished software _does_ seem to be rarer than it should be.
This is my approach:

- Copy email eddress
- M-x mu4e
- S-C C-y C-c RET f <select patch exported with magit>

I found just sending an email with my contribution to be a much smoother experience than filing a pull-request.

Also M-x org-submit-bug-report
> I have not read this article

Technically, this is also a small contribution towards reducing the carbon footprint.
An Introduction to Hardware Hacking
If you have such a costume chip that you optimize on an instruction by instruction level software comparability probably doesn't matter that much.

> So you can either be non compatible and lean or compatible and bloated.

That's a waste overstatement. The profiles are optimized for specific fields already and you have to evaluate if you want to take advantage of all the software and infrastructure around that profile of if you want to redo all the work just so you can cut out a few specific instruction.

You act like as if every company makes its own costume chips with the minimal set of instructions they need, but that is about 0.01% of the market or less. For the waste majority of use case simply not required and standard embedded profile is perfectly reasonable. And the commercial chips and commercial software will also target that profile.

If you really want to redo everything with your costume chips and compilers, software and so on then that's your choice and RISC-V should not prevent that.
Shedding light on designing web features with privacy: risks, impact assessments
JavaScript Optional Chaining (?.)
I want to see evidence of causation. The herd mentality here has yet to even show correlation. Just repeated assertions without evidence.
EU supreme court upholds and strengthens net neutrality
You can mostly track the interactions. Just the fact that CSS was loaded distinguishes the user from a lot of automated tracking. You should be able to track time spent on the page with CSS animations as well, up to a point, that's mentioned in the post.

I don't think you can do anything particularly nasty even with CSS variable programming which can apparently be used for interactive games (https://github.com/propjockey/css-sweeper). As I looked into things writing for this post I couldn't come up with a non-JS way to transition much significant data into CSS.
Don't feed the troll. This is a flamebait account. I've seen it pop up many times.
Just out of curiosity, I wonder how many layers of encryption one can reach in a day-to-day usage scenario.
Such a payment system would need to work for the unbanked (including the underage). That would probably mean accounts that aren't tied to personal IDs, and governments hate that.

As bad as ads and tracking are, they truly enable everyone to use the internet, no matter the background, financial or legal status, age or nationality. In my view, that makes up for all the problems tracking causes.
Weinstein was accused of 98 events and condemned for 2 of them. So you could say that even for Weinstein, 96% were more false or unsustained.

There is a debate on whether going to a « coke and prostitutes party in exchange for a role in a movie » is an act of consent or such naivety that it is unbelievable, but the immense majority were consenting adults who did take the role in the movie in exchange. But blaming it entirely on men shifts the focus of the major problem here: the number of women who want to become actresses and who are willing to compete on sexuality because they believe it’s their only asset. In other words: We haven’t succeeded as a civilization in giving women self-confidence in doing a job of science or talent, and they keep falling back on offering what they are, not what they do.

That would solve the problem in a much wider way than giving the power to women to crucify any man around them, because that makes a large percentage of men weary of working with women, and multiplies the problem of female employment. Just saying.
What are you going to do with all the extra cash he's making you?
Which Parsing Approach?
Wow, this is incredible. The closest analog I can think of with widespread support is 3D sculpting along the lines of ZBrush. Blender is fantastic, but the lack of this kind of tooling has always made asset creation enough of a commitment to put me off from trying to approach game-making casually. I guess "casual game-making" is still an oxymoron for now, but I think tools like this could change that.
I assume bc doesn't stand for Borland C?
Advances in Real Time Rendering (Siggraph, 2020)
Yup. I have no interest in electric. Sooner or later they'll breakdown. On the other hand, this thing is sturdy and well made. It will always be work bench worthy. My only issue is that at full-height it's a bit short for my taste as a standing desk. But I knew that would be the case. That's where the supplemental top comes in.

If anyone is wondering, the hand crank is easy to turn. But if I had to I could trick it out so it's longer to add leverage and make it easier to turn.

The issue with the drawers is one of leg room. I would love to be able to use them but it might not workout that way. Give me a couple days for design. Then a buildout on the weekend.
This is interesting. There's a related "startup" tackling the problem from a different angle: https://theoceancleanup.com/

They did some research and found that something like the top 5 or top 10 rivers in the world are the source of 80+% of the plastic in the ocean. So they came up with this plastic-filtering-barge design with hopes of placing them at key points in all the major rivers. So far four are built and in operation. Absolutely not a solution but a ton of harm reduction.

https://www.youtube.com/user/TheOceanCleanup/videos
I am inclined to compare CSS to guns now. At what point is the tool evil and when should it be banned? When all it's users are evil? More than half? Is the tool never evil? Ethics...
The most experienced techies use adblockers which would have completely nullified this scam - OP does not fall into this group IMO.
True, but OTOH CA will likely start to change it's forestry management practices as a result of this. The distribution of surface fuel is a joint effect of drought and policy/management.
The problem with starting from scratch and doing it completely differently is that inevitably you'll end up researching only to get to the same point (for all intents and purposes). Some things just converge towards the same solution given the set of conditions.

So between spending all that (partially duplicated) effort to rethink everything and the fact that the end result would have little buy in due to the high threshold of effort involved with adopting and using it, this is rarely a tempting proposition for many. Either to develop, or to use.
The Tron movies are up there for me as well. The most recent Tron movie is one of those movies that I can watch with no sound or listen with no video and still enjoy it.
Does that appeal to anyone? I got the impression TikTok was all about awesome sensational feeling stuff. This platform sounds like the opposite, which is a weird take I would think.
Right, I worded that a bit lazily. There's no confidence score output from GPT-3, but if there were and if the user would select to only get high confidence results then it would shut up quickly. And that's what I meant by common sense. Of course it depends on the corpus. It's really-really just text, as you said. (It's possible that it can somehow eventually encode high level things like arithmetic, but so far it seems, even if it does have that model somewhere embedded, it doesn't know how/when to use it.)

The language model (GPT-3) doesn't have to understand physics, it just have to help extract out some semantics of the paper.

There needs to be a classifier on top trained with a labeled set of good and bad papers.
I'm familiar with teen marriages and the laws/regulations that allow it in the US, and elsewhere. I know it is possible with a court consent in Australia (where I grew up) from 16, and it is the same here in France (where I live now).

I'm unfamiliar with the notion that child marriage is a conservative cause. Do you mean in the context of religious freedom? Are there conservatives who push for child marriage in unambiguous terms?
Ad-blockers have been around for years and I have always wondered why the Ad industry has not moved to server-side yet. Then I realized that maybe they weren't hit at all by this, but actually that helped with that 50% budget they often claim go to waste in advertising.

Much like Nigeriam Scams self-select the most naive users with their silly stories, some advertisers may likely get better impression/click ratios once the savvy users are out of their game.
Soundtrack for background nostalgia: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4VD06iQuXulKarrsIHia40?si=...
oh hell no! time to rewatch the blu-ray. :) A reboot would get it wrong.
> I do wonder why you need CSS analytics rather than just using the server log from the request for the HTML file.

From the article:

Lots of automated traffic on the web, bots, crawlers and scrapers. So if there is a way that can remove most of the automated traffic without loading any JS, is that a win?

body:hover {
background-image: url("https://underjord.io/you-was-tracked.png");
}

[...] This has a certain elegance because it actually requires mouse interaction.
The evil part in tracking is tracking user behaviour and personally identifying data. If you’re tracking overall metrics anonymously, it doesn’t really matter if it’s done via HTML/JS/CSS, it is probably not evil.
KB4576754, or yet Another Update Pushing Edge to Windows Users
Considering their 'stories' feature has received no useability improvements or features since its introduction that's probably justified.

TechAltar talks about using it for more than a year here: https://youtu.be/hePnMAL1eh4
It could be relevant if a bunch of different wildfires happen around the same time worldwide. If they bring the global average temperature above some tipping point and result in the melting of permafrost and release of large amounts of methane, that could cause the runaway greenhouse effect to occur much earlier than previously forecast.
They don’t stop you. They just don’t take your proposal for a better sign at the entrance. Because they already had the experience of artists forbidding them to change the sign for copyright reasons (no, a yellow line around it so people with bad sight recognize it would violate my artistic vision).

Which is the better analogy than picking up trash, by the way.
iOS vs. Android vs. Cross-Platform: The Designer’s Opinion
Well it does matter in the sense of how bad policy can annihilate the benefits of good policy
I've seen this, and can confirm that.
In what way(s) is it finicky?
It is not possible to calculate the ratio between the transition frequencies in different atoms with anywhere near sufficient accuracy for metrological applications. Therefore, only Cesium clocks can serve as primary standards for the SI second. Other clocks can be calibrated to Cesium clocks in order to serve as secondary standards, but it is not possible to measure a frequency in Hz with an accuracy that is better than that of the best Cesium clocks. Probably the definition of the SI second will be changed at some point, but currently there are still too many possible candidate species and transitions without a clear favorite.
> This is not true. DEMO will not be able to breed Tritium.

DEMO not only will breed tritium, it will not be feasible without tritium breeding. Otherwise, it would not be able to operate, as it will run out of DT fuel. Even getting enough tritium to start DEMO operations will be difficult, as there will be little left after ITER is done. The primary source of tritium, heavy water power reactors, will not long survive, and even all of those would not provide enough tritium for DEMO operation without DEMO being able to make its own tritium.

The need for breeding to work at DEMO means there's going to have to be an intermediate reactor, a Fusion Nuclear Science Facility, between ITER and DEMO to firm up blanket engineering.

I don't think this gets talked about much because, frankly, those in power in the fusion community will be retired by then.
You missed this bit (emphasis added):

> You could then press a "copy" key and it would copy one character at a time from the second cursor to your current editing position

Each time you pressed the "copy" key it would literally advance both the main cursor and the copy cursor by one character, with the copied character appearing under where the main cursor just was. To copy multiple characters you would need to press the copy key multiple times or hold it down to trigger autorepeat (even then you would see this process gradually happening until you released).
Invented by Czech inventor Jára Cimrman. Undisputed fact.
The vast majority of bots and scrapers today are headless browsers, so I’m not sure that would be very effective.
I worry about the consequences of prolonged exposure. There is historical precedent that shows we should be concerned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Smog_of_London