skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not just web development. It’s most software development.

Well, of course, there's the famous idea that people who don't pay attention to history are condemned to repeat it, and unless they're as smart as the original people who made it, they might even do worse. So in the old days people were admonished for reinventing the wheel, but today I think most of the old-timers would love for the new people on the scene to at least reinvent the wheel but it seems more like they're reinventing the flat tire. — Alan Kay
In first world countries yes, the harder you work the more money you make. Especially true over longer periods of time because of the compounding value of hard work.
> The failure case when the conspiracy is "George W Bush did 9/11" is going to involve a whole lot fewer death threats to random private people.

This is a rather interesting detour. How about when the conspiracy is "Iraq has weapons of mass destruction"? Did that result in any deaths? Like, oh I don't know, many many hundreds of thousands? Was that "failure case" devastating, or is there some sort of a conversion factor between brown skinned Middle Easterners and Righteous Pale Westerners that I should be aware of?

> It's when people with significant power like Jones take to telling stories about random parents of murdered children that they do serious damage.

In the range of multiple hundreds of thousands of innocent dead people?

I would enjoy reading any serious reasoning for why Alex Jones' Sandy Hook rantings are more serious than the innocent civilians killed in Iraq. Is that not what multiple people here are asserting? If you have no regret (as a taxpayer who funds the war machine) about the situation, I wonder if any of you people have any sympathy?

My son was learning in school last year about the Holocaust, and part of the curriculum was how it was possible that the German public could go along with something that was so obviously wrong. I am going to show him this thread when he gets home from school today, so he can get a real world, firsthand, modern day impression of how human psychology can so easily find a way to justify war crimes.
A lot of it is learned heuristics. Things like how fast the ball normally travels, how hard it looks like the player threw or hit, game knowledge about places it makes sense for the ball to go, etc.
I don't give even the very slightest of a whiff of a fuck about what a US court says or does, as it has absolutely no bearing on my life whatsoever.
property rights to your old parts

This is so they can reuse the parts as “genuine” to do the next customer. The watch repair industry is notorious for this. They replace more than they need to, using aftermarket parts, and keep the originals for their own stock.
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I might be one of the lucky ones who never bought into the Google eco-system - even still have a Hotmail email address and it's getting cool again now that many are getting more upset with Google and their business model.
Meanwhile, this site has been shitting on Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies since 2009.
> In the past, the advertiser would likely to tell that to the people selling ad space.

Prior to ad networks that automatically match advertisers to display space, yes.

The thing is, though, prior to ad networks, there were a lot fewer advertisers who were interested in spending time and money on doing this song and dance with a slew of tiny web properties. Most of them wouldn't even bother.

You can have no ad networks, or you can have a long tail of low-prominence websites earn ad revenue. Pick one.
Been using Brave as my main browser for several months now. It's great.
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I hope coronavirus causes 40 million deaths worldwide over 8 years. 10 million of those for rich people in the us
Here it is in a nutshell:

By default (you can turn this behavior off if you wish,) Brave will periodically (every 120 minutes or so) popup an ad. The ad doesn't appear 'in the browser window.' On Windows 10, for instance, it pops up in desktop Notifications. The ad is a sentence of text and a button, full stop. No video, audio, animations, or anything creepy. Just a little dialog box you can click or dismiss.

Every time that happens you receive BAT, a cryptocurrency, that accumulates in your automatically created BAT account. You do with it what you will but, by default, it is periodically distributed to sites that opt-in to accepting BAT.
I've been with Google since the gmail beta and have slowly de-googled a lot of the stuff I use. Not due to privacy concerns but simply due to them cancelling products or making existing products worse (gTalk/Hangouts closure as well as Google Photos/Drive decoupling were the two big ones).

I now use Fastmail with my own domain and I love it.

I also use Firefox which is pretty much back to being the best browser after around a decade of falling behind Chrome.

For search I use DDG but I often find myself doing a '!g' search for local information such as restaurants/maps.

Chat I use a combination of Telegram and Whatsapp (but this is dependent on what other people use).

I use OneDrive instead of Drive (I get 1TB thanks to the Office family plan), which is ok.

I still use an Android phone as I find iphones to be very frustrating to use , especially if you do not use a Mac.

I think the two big unbeatable ones are Search and Maps. No one is able to even remotely compete on those two but I think that's ok. We have to go back to a world of diversifying the software we use and stop companies from forcing us into a single ecosystem.
Eh, there's nothing new under the sun. The book A Robot Ping-Pong Player (https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/robot-ping-pong-player) contains an anecdote about the robot mistaking Marvin Minsky's head for a ping-pong ball... and taking a swing at him...

See also: https://muq.org/~cynbe/muq/muf3_22.html
If you're looking for the summary, it's about 1/4 the way in.

> Usually, the viruses that humans care about are successful because they shut down both of these signalling programs. The coronavirus is different. “It seems to block only one of those two arms,” tenOever told me. It inhibits the interferon response but does nothing about the cytokines; it evades the local defenses but allows the cells it infects to call for reinforcements. White blood cells are powerful weapons: they arrive on an inflammatory tide, destroying cells on every side, clogging up passages with the wreckage. They are meant to be used selectively, on invaders that have been contained in a small area. With the coronavirus, they are deployed too widely—a carpet bombing, rather than a surgical strike. As they do their work, inflammation distends the lungs, and debris fills them like a fog.
>The now well-regarded "Made in Germany" was mandated by the UK to warn British customers about cheap copycat products from Germany (which later backfired because those products were both cheap and high-quality) [2]

I mean in a sense we're approaching that stage with China now. Huawei, xiaomi etc. Make great quality phones, laptops, vacuum cleaners, etc.

Made in China as a cheap copycat is already over, although it still exists in parallel.
The parent comment that you responded to:

"... Oversized stations are even more problematic when you consider that the MTA wants to build all of these by mining rather than using cut-and-cover, because cut-and-cover has too much disruption to surface tenants. And mining is far more expensive than cut-and-cover..."

Your response:

"... It is ALWAYS cheaper to build capacity now than to retrofit later, even inflation adjusted. ..."

The implication of your response is that on a 100-year timeline, the way that the modern stations are apparently being built (by mining) is cheaper than building them by the way the parent commenter says (cut-and-cover).

I was just curious why it's "always" cheaper. Is "mine and build big" the cheaper method only when there's a ton of density on top like Hudson Yards, or is it also the case in places with less surface density?
Not just YouTube. One of my competitors spent thousands of dollars on AdWords to send traffic to my site with an ad for something completely unrelated.

This of course led to bounce rates of 99%+ for all of this traffic, which dramatically increased my bounce rate overall.

As far as I can tell, Google used this as a signal that my site was a shady/scam site and removed me from the search pages I used to rank on entirely.

Took nearly 6 months to figure out the problem, and where all this phantom AdWords traffic was coming from.
I'm referring primarily to gaming subcultures (board and video). Tech illiterate may not be the proper term. But most geeky people I know (even the ones who build their own PCs, and dabble in scripting) have a very cargo-cultish understanding of computing technologies.

Dilettantes, perhaps?
I still think it is useful to make a distinction between prices and wealth creation, even taking the government out of it.

For example, the economics of much of human history are basically agricultural societies. The US was in a better position because of a virtually unlimited supply of capital (land), but in many other countries the model was the serfs work the land, and pay rent to the nobility who own it (and who in most cases inherit it from their parents). Such a system doesn't really require a violation of free markets.

In this scenario, is it really correct to say that the nobility are the real "wealth creators"? They neither created the productive asset (land) or are working to produce the goods (food).

If you accept that income = wealth creation, the nobility can simply create more wealth by raising the rent on the serfs (as long as they can survive). And they would be creating less wealth if they give the serfs a break.

This is where I think a different definition of wealth creation makes more sense, that focuses on productivity (which determines the total size of the pie, for a given amount of labor). So different farming techniques that produce more from the same land would increase wealth. Or capital investments in farming equipment that raise productivity. And if the same amount of goods is being produced but only the rent changes, that is not producing or reducing wealth, simply changing the distribution.
I’ve just been gradually de-Googling. It took years to take slowly take over my life, so I figured I’d play the same game and have just been picking something else every time I have a choice. So now I’m on iOS, not Android; personal email has moved to Fastmail, my sites have moved to Clicky instead of GA. There’s still plenty of Google in my life, but a few years from now it will just be gone.
It's not youtube's fault, it's the EU's. I was going to say "remember this the next time you vote", but it's not like us EU citizens are really given a choice.
The elevated portion of the expo line in LA is remarkably quiet. Imo it's far quieter than a highway or even an arterial road. The problem is concrete supports are a lot more expensive and take more time to build than cheap creaky squeaky steel girders that you see in chicago and nyc. Plus, somehow, people were still pissed as hell about that train in LA and managed to dilute the plan from being a fully grade separated line into a mixed grade mess, where it might take you 15 minutes to travel through certain 2 mile stretches (on a train capable of 75mph).
> $100 isn't cheap when you're poor.

I meant if they somehow got ahold of one (community program, kind person from across town, local school getting rid of them, etc.). The discussion was more about whether a child in a poor family who gets one can actually use it without any extra hardware, not how affordable $100 is to a family in poverty.

Most parents in poverty don't have the brain space to think about buying one of these for their kids, much less the $100 it costs.
I sure do miss having Project Wonderful ads against my comics. Moderately targeted to my audience, no flash/javascript/etc bullshit. Worked real well for my solo-creator stuff.

Honestly though once Patreon came along I had a goal of "turn off ads" and I'm pretty happy with that, too. "Everything on the Internet will be free forever, supported solely by ads!" was a terrible idea.
> Coming from MN and NY, that was nothing, but I had only packed t-shirts.

Being from Newcastle, England, it sounds like you were dressed perfectly adequately for the occasion!
> Well if this is possible, why wouldn't he just post the full unencrypted movies (or whatever) there instead of bothering with the xor'ing scheme?

The movie is 30GB. The URL is 30 bytes. It's like asking why The Pirate Bay uses BitTorrent instead of hosting the movies directly on their servers.

Or how about this. The full list of URL pairs is provided after the end of each movie, so if you get one pair you get all of them. And the same scheme is also used for all kinds of things that aren't allowed to be distributed everywhere, like public domain or permissively licensed works that are banned in some countries over content.

If someone openly posts the URL pair for one of those works, which is permissible to distribute in the US because it's not copyright infringement and the content is only proscribed in some other country, would you punish them for that just because at the end of the work they actually intended for people to watch, someone else had included the URLs for all the copyrighted films?

> Er...under the justification that they are downloading infringing material?

Not if Bob was the innocent party, which you still don't know.
I posted this in another child comment, but I think the same response is appropriate. I've miscommunicated.

I'm referring primarily to gaming subcultures (board and video). Tech illiterate may not be the proper term. But most geeky people I know (even the ones who build their own PCs, and dabble in scripting) have a very cargo-cultish understanding of computing technologies.

Dilettantes, perhaps?
So it's not "everyone using it" but "some people talking about it" that you're saying is an issue.

I'm not sure such brags prove anything, I certainly don't always tell the truth on the internet.
I opted for Posteo because the FSF recommended them. The web UX is, how to put it, retro, but the service is flawless otherwise. No custom domains, but there's an alias feature which is cool.
Until very recently, I thought they wrote all the episodes without outside involvement, but then I recently came across this clip where Bill Hader talks about being part of a "South Park retreat" where they bring people to brainstorm episodes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdZnGz9CWpU
Were nukes the only way to deal with his appetite?
> he might have added Hebrew and Yiddish

Unlike all other examples, these languages are not that close; it would have been Yiddish and German, or Ladino and Italian: both Yiddish and Ladino are basically German and Italian, respectively, only written down with Hebrew characters, with some words from it.

A better example would be Modern Hebrew and Torah Hebrew.
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Tokyo is also seismically active and their subway system looks like a fisherman's net.
Is it better to provide the raw data, or to instead provide some interesting statistics from aggregating or running a model on the data?
It's our fault for not being tolerant enough.
You're overthinking this. It's more like consumers love cheap goods. Chinese policies enable the supply.
I have some at Gandi, for some years now, stable service, good API, straightforward web interface.
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I had a guest poster write an article for a blog I run called "Always be journalling": https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/2018/12/14/always-be-jour...

where he talks about tips and tricks for journalling and how it makes you a better writer.
Inbox? Hangouts? Play Music?
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Noscript is incredibly fussy and hard to use. Also it does not have the 'allow scripts [to run] once' ability afaict.
Hmm, let's look at how feasible this is.

Namecheap is quite a popular place to buy domains, isn't it?

(myname).xyz - 10 years - £85.29 / $110.15

(myname).com - 10 years - £69.87 / $90.24

(myname).net - 10 years - £98.40 / $127.08

In a world where many people are not able to afford food for themselves[0][1], this is hardly an alternative. At minimum wage ($7.25[2]), a single domain name would take about half a month to earn, assuming you have no other outgoings, which is very likely not the case.

What coherent person would do that?

[0]: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/10/01/how-confron...

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/02/magazine/food...

[2]: https://www.epi.org/blog/millions-of-workers-are-paid-less-t...
also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy
Obtuse? It was even made into an opera, among other things.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-xpm-2012-jun-1...
Trumps identity politics is reactionary in nature, itself being developed as a right wing response to the dominance of left identity politics that have been slowly creeping into mainstream culture since Obama (although you can probably trace the roots to Clinton).
The obsession is not just with stations;everything is bigger over there. My first visit to the US, I was traveling from Japan. The difference in size of things in the two countries is uncanny. From people to cars to food;my impression was Americans like it bigger.
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It was both a good back up as well as method of distribution to clients I suppose. Self hosting is going to be the way to go, though UX-wise and ease of use still seems off.
Linux subsytem for FreeBSD you mean?
I cannot resist the urge of sharing this wonderful sequence (also made in UK :) ): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1EBfxjSFAxQ
Ah still? Interesting. Maybe supply is geographically dependent, as I'm seeing Chromebook availability in Walmart / Amazon / directly from Acer. The sub-$200 laptops are mostly used or renewed though, so maybe school districts are more hesitant to purchase those.
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I expected the downvotes of course, but there's no error in the logic. The role of the union is to advance the interests of it's members. In this case, if the city or transit authority was foolish enough to make a contract so easily gamed, that's on them.

Although to the extent that labor unions finance local political campaigns, one wonders if it isn't perverse incentives all the way down...
Yes, this is the route I am looking to go most likely. I will check this out
Of course, adblocking has always been and will always be a game of cat-and-mouse.

Interesting link. I will say though, Brave's been aggressively pushing for an end to third-party cookies, and if websites are increasingly forced to run first-party analytics as a counter-measure, that is still a major win for the internet as a whole.
Yup, graft.
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> To add a further strange twist to the death of Aeschylus, Roman author Pliny, suggested that Aeschylus had been spending a lot of time outdoors to avoid a prophecy that he would be killed by a falling object.