skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are two great discussions to raise in the working group communications. If you go through the link that they've shared, you can sign up directly and participate in the conversation about how they architect the v3 rebuild.
Why wouldn't it follow? Human intelligence evolved in the real world with all its vast information content. Deep learning systems are only trained on a few terrabytes of data of a single type (images, text, sound etc). Even if they can be trained faster than the rate at which animals evolved, their training data is so poor, compared to the "data" that "trained" animal intelligence that we'll be lucky if we can arrive at anything comparable to animal intelligence by deep learning in a billion years.

Or unlucky, as the case may be.
You're completely right, the testing method is likely very linked to why this is an ineffective way of deciding someone's qualification.

I think multiple choice exams can be a good way – a physics exam I took was multiple choice, and so because the examiners were "giving you the answers", they took it as an opportunity to ask really out-there questions. They would frequently take two wildly different aspects of the physics course and mash them up in a new way. I thought this was very effective at testing if the student understood the areas and could therefore combine understanding with intuitive leaps, or whether they had memorised the formulas necessary for the exam and could only repeat those on command in the exact form they knew.

This suggests to me that it's less multiple-choice, and more that this is a purely fact-based style of testing.

For a computer security course I took at university one of the exam questions was "Describe Stuxnet – 20 marks" (half the exam's marks). we had had a lecture dissecting the whole Stuxnet incident. For those simply memorising facts this question would be quite hard, but for those who had understood why certain things matter and could write an in-depth explanation of the security failings, it was great.

The problem is that marking this sort of question requires a significant amount of manual work, and that doesn't scale. Another example would be Phd vivas, which I've heard are generally a well respected way of determining ability, but which again take a significant amount of expert manual input.

I don't think we'll get good certifications for these sorts of things until we find better ways to examine like this.
I really enjoy René Rebe's videos:

https://www.youtube.com/user/renerebe
There's https://peertube.linuxrocks.online/ for Linux related topics. Disclosure, I am active there as well.
You can make a case that Web search is a natural monopoly. Running the crawlers and indexers and servers is freaking expensive, requiring monster capex and operational expenditure. It’s not obvious to me that the world needs more than one.

I wonder how true this is these days?

I understand that the "long tail" of web queries is very important, but if you were to skip that for version 1, and concentrate on crawling the top 1M English language sites how much would it really cost?
> Overall, things in general are still slowly getting better for everyone on average.

For anyone interested about this topic, the book Factfulness describes why this is the case and why our society focuses on the bad news.
Do you want to make money with Facebook?
In other words, it's the individual's choice whether they buy voting stock or not.

Anyone can buy shares in Microsoft (for example) and become a part-owner and have votes. And it's never been easier to do so. Microsoft will even pay you a quarterly dividend as your cut of the company's profits.
When I click on the first video linked on this page (Aaron Schwartz one) it redirects me to some hijacked domain full of ads :(
These are ongoing crimes against humanity.
Abbot Precision Xtra is the most accurate, unfortunately the strips are expensive to the tune of 3 to 4 USD per strip if you get them new. NovaMax is also decent, though I’ve found it to be not quite as consistent or accurate.
While we're there, could we please change the name to something that is actually pronounceable and reasonably understandable on a phone call? (especially with non-native English speakers)

"OAuth" is such a terrible name. It sounds like a silly problem, until you've been through a number of calls where you had to explain to someone that this is what can be used for integration. A fair percentage of such calls end with no understanding of what is being talked about.
Sorry, I thought this is in English. ;D

The slides and description is English though.
Make money with Facebook this eBook helps me, and I want share it with you
None, one, many, all.

Hah. Still got it.
This is surprising behavior, to say the least.
I fully agree, but I wonder what it will take to start this trend. Do any big sites allow you to pay for no tracking/not being the product?
Mistakes that just so happen to give their company an advantage over the rest aren't mistakes.
Oh, and if you want realistic space combat in tactical minis form let me recommend Attack Vector Tactical.

https://www.adastragames.com/attack-vector-tactical

They do some nifty things with letting you use kinetic to constrain the maneuver of your opponent so you can better employ your lasers, etc.
I was quite frustrated by this as well, but then I remembered that the design goal of the extension is allowing logging into the same service with multiple accounts, not isolating services from each other. That is why the secondary functionality, the possibility of isolating tech fiefdoms, is less polished. It's not the main show, it's just a happy side effect.

Containerise and Cookie Autodelete together are indeed a very good addition to uBlock and uMatrix, and if you already have some Regular Expression classification rules written for Cookie Autodelete, setting up Containerise is very quick. It works like a charm even with the Firefox Multi Account Containers extension itself disabled.
Much like WSL may be “eating” away at real Linux user-share, it will be interesting to see if enabling FreeBSD development outside FreeBSD itself will somehow affect the FreeBSD marketshare (for better or worse).
You are still doing most if not all of that at your desk and probably writing it into some kind of document to share with your team, stakeholders, whoever.

But you can easily convert me be telling me about these "ergonomics of thinking". How does one make thinking more ergonomic?
"On the Git front, their transitioning from Subversion to Git they hope to have a beta repository by the end of October."

Their migration from Subversion to Git also provided the motive for the murder mystery book "git commit murder" by Michael W. Lucas.
I wonder if companies they can start offering Whitman amazing executive packages to _not_ be their CEO.

Her track record is attrocious. I say this as someone still reeling from the death of Palm.
English is the language that needs the most resources, and where Google put the most effort. Actually any other language would be a smaller crawling/indexing investment, if really that was the hardest part. I don't know the current situation, but Yandex was better in Russia than Google a few years ago.
The article explicitly, repeatedly says templates are a bad idea. If you disagree, it'd be interesting to see your reasoning, rather than links to free templates.
I worked with a guy during a brief stint in construction, and this fork op was so gosh darn good, i said to him; “you dont drive a forklift, you wear it”

This guy would be freaking having full on conversations while driving this thing around the factory, and spinning and be totally aware and conscious of all his surroundings - hes fn amazing.

He told me he has been driving forks since he was 14 years old - and hes like 45 or so now...

I was always impressed by his precision and skill.
I don't think anyone is going to believe Google did this by mistake.
+1 on this!
Literally the first link in "Discover our content selection" leads to an expired domain name [1].

I'm not sure what to make of it but it does seem like a somewhat of a telltale for what's going to happen with my videos should I upload them to one of the PeerTube hosts.

---

1 - https://vidcommons.org/videos/watch/4c9cece6-68dc-45be-a657-...
This is very sad news. I've been watching his shows, documentaries, recordings, for many years despite being born years after many of them happened. James Randi was a great educator and had a great ability to communicate reasoning and rationality without firing people up.
Controversial author on a controversial topic
Ban All Ransomware Payments, in Bitcoin or Otherwise
It's different things though, or?

OAuth is about getting access to something, and usually part of that is proving to some authorization server that you are you (ie what OpenID is about), no?

Do you mean you'd like OAuth to tackle the "you are you" part as well?
salt is necessary to regulate water levels in cells.
Without enough salt your cells will start dying- Hyponatremia.
Nokia Escalates Patent Wars by Taking on German Lenovo Sales
Isn't Minix running inside all recent Intel CPUs?
Wait, python doesn't have any method lookup caching before this? I would have expected that developers looked at what other similar languages are doing, but apparently not enough.
MS Edge doesn't have this feature. Just tested it on my machine. It clears all forms of storage even from MS's own domains tied to the browser like msedge.microsoft.com, msn etc.
Economics for the People
Show HN: SuperPayr. Developers should get paid based on skills not location
Those poor workers who has to use Windows for Linux-related works because of stupid employer's policy previously use VM, so it doesn't change much. Nothing to be eaten.
The best way to think of Chrome these days is that it is a Google web browser, as in, it preferences products and services made by Google.

Edge is similar in some ways, but modern Chrome is not a web browser per se but a web browser clearly built by Google with Google’s corporate interests at heart.

The disconnect for many - including myself - is that we remember the first few years of Chrome. How revolutionary it was and how it provided a beautiful path off ‘the terror’ that was Internet Explorer. Modern Chrome is not the same browser, philosophically. Modern Chrome is a Google web browser and integrates the best - and increasingly by default - with Google’s many products and services.
Had one when I was 24[1]. I got a sedative, but was wakeful enough to watch the procedure on a screen above me. The worst part was when they pump air into your ass to widen the colon, and all you want to do is fart it right out.

[1] - Turned out to be polyps, non-cancerous.
For today's usage sure, but as an infra guy I like seeing the tech that will be needed for the next decade's capacity rolled out today
I did a 35 days water fast in July, I lost 12 kilos (from ~70 to 58) and then gained them back as I hit the gym again.

You can see the chart here.

https://i.ibb.co/rydPXDR/Screen-Shot-2020-10-22-at-3-07-52-P...

The top chart is weight and the one below is fat mass in kilos.

It was one of the most enlightening experiences of my life.
I had shoulder surgery a few years ago, and I had to argue with the doctor to get him to do a nerve block instead of general anesthesia. He never suggested it - I researched the options myself and found that patients who did the nerve block recovered faster and better, and yet right up until I rolled into surgery, the doctor was trying to convince me to do anesthesia. Sadly, I think the reason is that anesthesia makes patients easier to manage during surgery, which makes the doc’s job easier even if it is ultimately worse for the patient.
Hotspot or not? – Covid-19 Risk areas and measures for Germany
European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (Enisa) Threat Landscape – 2020
> To my surprise, a few members of my tribe were pushing back against this lawsuit.

Personally I think there's plenty Google is doing that's wrong † but I'm just disappointed the antitrust complaint seems to be all about the advertising industry.

As far as I'm concerned, the online advertising industry is already doomed. The first time there was a drive-by malware installation from an advert on a reputable website, the industry's fate was sealed.

When I heard there would be antitrust action, I was hoping there would be more attention to all the other problems, so hearing it's all about competition in a dead industry is a disappointment.

† Nonexistent support, low-privacy defaults in Chrome, perpetual "oopsies" breaking firefox support, over-enthusiastic anti-spam features forcing e-mail centralisation, iOS gmail constantly "forgetting" that I didn't want to install Chrome, reCapcha and DoH and AMP and GA all having the potential to act as centralised tracking, reCapcha being deliberately slow and difficult for people who disable browser fingerprinting, opaque and capricious treatment of youtube creators and android app developers, pushing sketchy browser "features" like "signed exchange" that badly solve problems of Google's own creation...
I'm not sure what you mean... why would webrtc spend any more resources than the current solution?
A Go unikernel running on x86 bare metal
I've always wondered about the feasibility of using space for temporary/short-term storage needs.

I remember a time when, as a junior developer, I'd log into operations, and hand the operator my tape reel with my work for the day - and she'd go off, mount the spool, and start the streaming, until my files were available in local storage for a few hours, and then .. when logging out, I'd have the operator re-stream the files, and off we go ..

So, why not use space as a large tape buffer? Send the satellites off, 20 minutes of light-speed away, and use the big gap as a cache.

Seems sorta feasible to me, but I guess I'm overlooking some ridiculously obvious factor, such as launch costs, viability, etc. But really, seems like a fleet of satellites spread out around the solar system could function as quite a nice medium ..
During the Siege of Constantinople, the Ottomans constructed a similar path using logs.

Meanwhile, despite some probing attacks, the Ottoman fleet under Baltoghlu could not enter the Golden Horn due to the chain the Byzantines had previously stretched across the entrance.

Mehmed ordered the construction of a road of greased logs across Galata on the north side of the Golden Horn, and dragged his ships over the hill, directly into the Golden Horn on 22 April, bypassing the chain barrier.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Constantinople
Personally this sounds like exactly the type of content I want to have removed from platforms I frequent. Same as foreign election meddling ads on Facebook or Nazis and bots on Twitter that users urge the platforms to deal with in a better way.

If I look at the front page of some peertube instances it consists of Liveleak-like content, conspiracy theories and ISIS recruitment videos and I can see how that is not very appealing to the average user.
Impressive Source Codes
> It's funny how electrolytes are still ignored or overlooked by the fasting and keto communities.

I see you've never visited /r/keto on reddit, then... It is very much pounded by the regulars, and in every guide they recommend. IIRC, /r/fasting is also aware (though not as pedantic about reminding everyone).

Which communities are you referring to?
Yes, I developed a search engine across hundreds of Peertube instances:

https://peertube-search.com/

It's built with Laravel / SOLR, and has free-text search, language, category, license filtering support etc.
Almost did the same, except I went towards Syncthing for document sync, KeePassXC for passwords, and Sailfish / degoogled android for mobile phone (because the apple ecosystem is imho much worse, especially in terms of software durability. Got two perfectly working ipads just sitting around because apple said fuck the devs and users. At least, with SOS and android, I can still develop for them).
iOS widget that shows the amount of toilet paper available at drugstore
> 1. Agree for the first 24 to 48, disagree thereafter.

a neat-pick. That is BS. If you dont eat for 24 to 48. You will loose roughly 2500 x2 calories worth of weight.

And

On top of that you will loose weight due to water being dumped from you muscles. After refeeding that amount of water will be reabsorbed 'gaining back the weight'.

So its not like you have to fast for +3 days to loose some weight.
> Polymorphic JSON. The protocol elements have different data types that convey additional contextual meaning, allowing us to avoid mutually exclusive protocol elements and design a more succinct and readable protocol.

Yeah... let's not please.
> I wonder how long before we start hearing stories like "How chrome obliterated my 4 year old website"

March 2021 is that date, when Google will entirely drop all content that is not made for mobile phones: https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-mobile-index-news...

Seriously, fuck that shit. Google is the gatekeeper to the Internet for many people, they should not be allowed to essentially throw away two and a half decades of Internet history to all but vanish.
Same here.

If anyone from the workgroup is reading this: please clarify in the first paragraph that XYZ is like a 'working title' for OAuth 3.
There is something terribly wrong with a species who, in the infancy of their space travel, spends so much time and effort considering the matter of making war in space.
Hi HN,
I am Karan. One of the co-founders of Superpayr. I wanted to ask your opinion on a product we thought is necessary: The way we see it is that no matter where you live, your salary should be based on your skills, not the place you are living.
We want to do something about that developers (with a comparable skill set) earn so differently due to their location.

Superpayr analyzes your skills and puts a global price tag on them. We want developers to earn the same based on skills not based on location. What's your opinion on this? Do you think you can get behind this?
PEGs absolutely do prevent ambiguity - they don't 'hide' it - I don't even know what that would mean?

There is exactly one way a PEG can parse - there is no ambiguity at all.
I gave up on FreeBSD on my hobby server after having have to maintain tiny differences all over for my ansible script and zshrc and whatnot.

It just takes unnecessary effort to keep up with what just works for Linux and I didn't see much benefit sticking to FreeBSD.
> I'm just disappointed the antitrust complaint seems to be all about the advertising industry

The DoJ focussed on search. Specifically, Google paying for the default slot.

The DoubleClick/ad business is not directly addressed. The harms in the complaint are more widely discussed than in this article.
Your first point is actually not a OAuth issue, but how the provider designed it. You can build an OAuth provider that don't need to disclose anything(not even email)
and their salaries?
Also, another post of a related article a couple of days later:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24837404
Thank you for this background detail! So actually instead of google, it was FB who with trademark protection legislation took down the app.
I think the parent post is alluding to scenarios where Google uses their market position to stop loading websites based on other factors. i.e. a website that does or doesn't implement a certain API. It's a very dystopian view, though.
For some reason Google's Captchas work much better on Chrome than on Firefox. I thought there was some sort of dedicated tracking built into Chrome. It turned out to be far simpler. They just give google sites special treatment.
See recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24852385
Just curious, you returned to your previous BMI or gained muscle mass instead?
I wish they renamed the thing to OAuthorize. The current name is confusing. It's not for AUTHentication, it's for AUTHorization.
Step-by-Step Integration of Jira with Testlink
Same here. I even setup an openid provider using my domain - was great!
“The Gang drives heavy equipment”
I don‘t know, Confluence allows to easily attach and embed files. It’s a really nice WYSIWYG editor. You can embed draw.io diagrams, you have a lock of „blocks“ and tools you din’t get in a simple markdown editor. It is very (my words) intuitive even for non-technical people and it has mobile apps.

I don‘t know how to explain to use git to somebody who isn‘t technical savvy at all...
In my opinion, the only reason you need a degree is to pass the resume screen. Yes, they are helpful for learning the fundamental concepts which are necessary to perform the job, but you could learn those in other ways too. When it comes to IT, almost every job will require on the job learning regardless of your degrees due to the plethora of technologies that are in use today and even the variance in how they are deployed at each company. You would be better off taking coursera courses and working on an AI project to show experience in that field.
Little bit of spam: http://iagovar.com/youtube-alternative
You would think a Google project like Google Chrome would benefit from Google Search.
Browser extensions, a still untapped goldmine for hackers
I think the argument is that Big tech is strangling itself with monopolies, which stifle innovation and leave the US behind. It's already behind in phones, payments, de-fi, some social media, IoT etc, and arguably the monopolies are to blame. E.g. where is the advertising innovation? it's as if the industry is dead. The iphone has not been the best-tech phone for a long time.
Doesn't work for me either.
That’s exactly what is maximizing the informational value :-)
> I seek to understand.

I can't speak for the parent poster, but I find that "things are getting better" and other forms of 'incessantly positive' narrative give me some degree of dissonance. The bad things don't cancel out the good, but the good things don't make up for the bad.

The times I find myself talking about it are when things seem especially bleak, and a given positive spin just turns out to be that last straw of annoyance. Pointing it out just seems to bring back some sense of reality, sort of bracing for when the next awful thing inevitably comes up.

Personally, I try to keep it in my private notes, but sometimes things spill out. It's not an attempt to bring others down.

Of course, this is comment is just as moot.
How does one issue and grant land ownership without an goverence group ?

Even if LAND was given to citizens or tax payers for FREE

Whats going to stop one person claiming 10-100 ha of land for themself in a town
and no one else gets a bit

or another person comes along and kills the land other
then claims its their because they WANTED IT

This is why ancaps and peacefull interactions fail under its own system

Everything is enforced with FORCE if a person doesnt agree
It can replace Jira and Bitbucket, yes. But I can‘t see it replacing Confluence...

Confluence was fine for me on Server, but the cloud version is really slow. Try to use it on an underperforming notebook and you‘ll constantly see „something wen‘t wrong, try reloading“.
I wish they wouldn't use mailing lists. Keeping track of threads/topics must be a nightmare.
GP has written authorisation but they must mean identification, because only a resource owner can perform authorisation, not some random external service.
I personally would say it matters quite a bit. In most cases the train is not competitive with a car, both in term of time and money. Convenience is less clear: availability is good during peak time, but the trains are crowded so good luck taking your laptop out to work. The rest of the time, availability is still decent if you stick to the main lines and the ride is very confortable.

Also, cars are not expensive in Switzerland, especially when you take into account the high salaries.