skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not, Edge on Linux it's not "good". To me, "good" is not only about speed or features, but also about privacy. And on that field MS Edge is just terrible.

When you launch Edge, it makes http(s) requests to 20 different hosts and 29 DNS A queries, see https://f2.tchncs.de/media_attachments/files/105/067/463/281...

This is one of the worst results of all browsers regarding privacy.
Can you recommend one that isn't easily persuaded to change domain records without securely verifying the customer's id?

It's almost impossible to vet registrars or registries, as this information isn't easily available.
>People who get banned from one platform are frequently banned from others soon after, especially if notorious.

Can you give us a few examples?

>These companies also all have content policies prohibiting the same constitutionally-protected speech

As someone has already pointed out to you, the constitution protects you from the government, not from the moderation of a private company who you choose to publish your opinions on.

>Censorship doesn't have to be binary to be censorship: an environment in which your reach is reduced to practically nothing if you have one viewpoint and amplified into the stratosphere where you have the opposite viewpoint is an environment antithetical to the purpose of the first amendment, which is about creating an open and honest marketplace for ideas

You just described every cable news outlet in the United States. The idea that freedom of speech means 'requiring neutrality' is just painfully misinformed. You can talk about literally anything you want on the internet. But you're conflating a few social media platforms with vastly different moderation policies, user bases, and business models into one mass of 'public communication'.

>There's nothing wrong with requiring neutrality from social media companies.

I couldn't disagree more. Who will be the decider in what 'neutrality' means? Because that's about as loaded of a political term as you can get in this day and age. I don't understand what an even remotely reasonable interpretation of this policy would be where individual private companies were forced to publish or barred from removing content that goes against their content moderation policy.
$168 billion for video streaming website showing mostly ads interrrupted with even more ads? The internet is broken.
You joke, but my mum's mind has died from Alzheimer's and I'm literally having anxiety attacks induced from that leaving me to extremely poor sleep patterns.

Her father had Alzheimer's (undiagnosed AFAIK), and my mum had poor sleep patterns for sure (though not as bad as mine are, I think).

If there's truth in this then somewhat ironically, yes, there's a perpetuation there.

Sorry, to bring the town down.
HTML to PDF Conversion API
There is a fully funded Kickstarter to bring support to Android [0]. We’re using Slate at my startup [1] and have been really happy with it. Our editor is pretty fancy and is relatively easy to maintain, test etc.

0: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sunnyhirai/add-android-...

1: https://kitemaker.co, a super fast issue tracker/product management tool with deep integrations to your team’s favorite tools
Not if you have mandatory hardware 2fa (advanced protection program) on, no. You're probably thinking of just 2fa enabled, which still permits TOTP (and app passwords). Once you enable APP, it is U2F only, and app passwords are no longer possible.
> Logic Magazine (https://logicmag.io/) is the only one I truly care about.

I checked out some of the articles and meh. But hey, _de gustibus..._
I'd throw Postman's work in there as well...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technopoly
For this particular disease, my personal threshold is something like, "A vaccine exists, and most of the vulnerable population at least has access to it." This kind of lockdown seems wildly inappropriate for most other yearly diseases.
Macbook because I have a + space key bound to google selected text and I do that a lot.
I watch more YouTube than I watch TV or Movies period.

I pay for YouTube Premium - $10 a month for no ads. Works perfectly for me.
> You cannot avoid targeted advertising, hell, all advertising is in one way or another targeted

But there's a drastic difference in effectiveness. No one would support private ownership of nuclear weapons just because everyone has fists which are weapons also.

Hyper-targeted advertising has gone off rails recently and when you can simply buy your way into any specific segment of the population without having to put it under public scrutiny, you are asking for trouble.
And what was wrong with arresting critics and making speech illegal? Thinking these things is bad is just some random whim the founders had with no additional thinking backing it up?

One day, people are going to see private censorship from social media companies as the same kind of antiquated barbarism. "Of course," they will say, "a few unelected managers in tech companies shouldn't get to control the public conversation".

The ability to speak without getting arrested in important because it's only by examining ideas that we separate the good ones from the bad ones. When social media companies make it impossible to have real conversations about certain ideas, they damage the ability of society to make good decisions.
> First of all, why would COBOL be considered a DSL?

Let me answer as GP and having made that claim. Because COBOL can't really do much anything else ;? Eg have fun implementing an event-driven GUI app (actually there are/were solutions for running COBOL green-screen mainframe apps on browsers, and things like IBM's HATS for running 3270 apps in Java portlets). Though apart from batch processing, I guess COBOL the language but not necessarily the runtime works well also for writing backend service implementation code.

More seriously, as I recall it, COBOL simply has straightforward idioms for arithmetic, date calculations, statically-typed structured file I/O, ISAM file access (and SQL?) as part of the language rather than Java's BigDecimal and various date libraries that all suck in a different way and at best cause enormous fluent-style expressions with cognitive overhead. Plus, COBOL doesn't have reflection and metaprogramming so self-important idiomatic Java code golf is spotted immediately as out of place next to actual business logic.
IANAL, but I think you're likely wrong on the first amendment issue. Contract law regularly supersedes first amendment concerns, e.g. even though courts are a part of the government, they are allowed to enforce NDAs. Even outright restrictions of speech are often allowed; there are broad exemptions. e.g. it's OK to regulate noise levels, even if you're shouting protected speech - as long as the regulations are content neutral (and likely a host of other tests courts apply - again, IANAL).

A state law regulating such contracts - which is in essence what this might be, as they concern EULAs - especially to the really limited extent that we're talking merely about not deleting content for a short period of time, in a content neutral fashion - that doesn't shout first amendment issue to me anyhow. Even if it required (or strongly promoted) keeping content up, I'm not sure there would be an issue (though there might be).

Here, e.g. a quick google finds a link (hopefully a reliable source, but I'm not vouching for it...) about the kind of things that can survive a first amendment challenge: https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1023/time-place... - sounds to me like requirements to keep content online temporarily to allow for dispute resolution would be no less impermissible that the converse which is already in the DMCA (effectively albeit indirectly requiring content to be taken down upon the mere accusation of copyright infringement). Also, the part about the takedown requests should give some idea as to technicalities that in effect regulate speech while technically not doing so, and those could be applied here too - DMCA after all does not require compliance with takedown requests, it merely makes it economically non-viable to fail to comply, even if the request is in bad faith.

While the first amendment may be spiritually related to laws like this, I'm not convinced it's a serious impediment either way, even if the outcome is a pretty serious chilling effect. The loopholes are too large, and the first amendment simply too narrowly focused on government impositions to reliably protect from indirect restrictions. To be transparent: I'm not saying it couldn't be a protection, just that I don't see it as obvious, and since IANAL, I'm not comfortable assuming it's a relevant factor here, although it certainly could be.
M.2/NGFF doesn’t mean SSD, anything that goes into that slot is an M.2 card, whether it’s keyed A or B or M. Like miniPCIe and not like mSATA.
Maybe if advertisements don't work for them, and the subscriptions work for YouTube, they'll roll out subscriptions too. But to be honest, I just hate advertisements, and so I'll block them, and I'll also subscribe where I can because I want to give back something too.
Can you put stock Debian on it as easily as I can on a PC?
Does a retail store employee serve you when they spend a few minutes to find something for you? Do you tip them also?

How about a nursing assistant that changes your bedpans?
Or, and I know this is almost heresy here, but why not just leave off analytics? This is essentially a static page with text and images. What on earth are you analyzing? Why do you need to collect any data at all?
Thanks for mentioning this fraudster. That dude legit conned everybody at the time because Internet was fairly new to India. Here's one of my favorite pages on the internet exposing the charlatan that he is:

http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/ankit_fadia/
> Europeans will be upset.

To an extent, they are. But most of the conversation here seems to be about refugees and asylum seekers rather than legal immigrants. It helps that I'm more than willing to adopt the European way of life: fashion, food, work-life balance and all the rest of it.

As to your first point, that was the crux of my post. I no longer care (nor am offended by, mind you!) whether you judge me or not. I know how much vitriol coursed through my veins every day I was in Chennai, Bangalore, Delhi etc. And I know how much more at peace I am in France. I am a better human because of it; kinder, more useful to society etc. I would not trade any of it for more abstract notions of whether Europeans as a whole will be upset by the wider trends.
Observability: The OODA Loop
Some of the complaints I hear are difficulty breathing, and fogging up glasses. Seems to me that in such cases a different mask design might suffice. Some also believe that the masks aren't useful, so don't bother.
I own a small payment processor. One of the biggest problems we have is on-boarding new customers. The issue is the banks and service providers we work with require physically signed documents, or we have to use their online signature solution. Their solution is often a worse experience than signing with paper, scanning and emailing. The provided solutions also are about as secure as emailing without encryption, too. Interestingly enough, most of these solutions just overlay a png image of the signature (sometimes collected from the user, sometimes picked from a list) on a PDF and then sign the document with the provider's cert. The final, signed document is delivered via email (hey, post to a webhook, it's 2020?). It would be nice to be able to have our own, better experience that worked with our vendor.
Sure:

```bash

# !/bin/sh

cd /media/youtube-dl

docker-compose run --rm youtube-dl -v --cookies /etc/youtube-dl.cookies.txt https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=INSERTYOUROWNWATCHLATE... -o "watchlater/%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s" --ignore-errors

```

That’s a bash script that runs via cron.
One thing to note: this uses the cookies from a logged-in browser session because at some point YouTube blocked password log in from youtube-dl. This was is a bit of a pain to set up, and I wish it was not the case, but it mostly works.
Instant gamified video dating, drop your mail and get ready for biggest party
Brexit is just an example. Manipulation of citizens is of all time. The danger lies in how precise the targeting nowadays is, together with internet being world-wide and advanced.

Its the price we all paid for some of us having a dishonest ML data hoarder.

I'm involved in the integrity of elections in The Netherlands. I have a political preference, but I am able to leave that out when I manually count votes.

I also am aware of ways which undermine our democracy: electronic voting, strategic voting, and abused ML. I believe a high integrity on elections benefits society on the long term.

However given the international forecast of our societies (ie. what used to be called globalization 20 years ago), and difference in population and cheap labour, a country like Russia or China can heavily influence our society. In this case with the help of an American behemoth, but there is no reason other sources cannot be abused.

I don't have the solution to this problem. It warrants further investigation though. Hopefully before it is too late.
Look up Obsidian (https://obsidian.md/). Built by the team that built Dynalist. It's basically Markdown + wikilinks ([[like this]]), allowing you paragraphs, quotes, and codeblocks.

I found out that I end up using lists more often than not, but I like the flexibility it offers.
> I see nothing immoral and fully support extending this to big tech (while not suppressing competition of course, i.e. it should only affect companies once they reach a certain size).

The problem here isn't really Section 230 in particular, it's the market power these companies have in general. It's not just censorship, it's also high fees and lack of customer service and lock-in / barriers to entry created by vertical integration.

And this isn't a natural monopoly like the power grid. Federation gives the same economies of scale as long as the dominant network is federated. So the better solution to these companies isn't to mess with Section 230, it's to break them up.
Thank you for the Denon recommend. That’s an excellent alternative. I wonder why they didn’t elect to also include chromecast.
> What's the opposite of monolithic?

The web's answers for a suitable antonym seem inappropriate [0] (all referring to "small" rather than "many parts". I reckon megalithic is the way to go.

Although I've been hosting my own mail server (postfix/dovecot) for years I must admit that I treat most of its parts as a single black box. My head just doesn't grok the entirety of processes and the various sub components (spam, grey listing, filters).

I prefer monolithic every day. It's not hard to provide plugins that allow custom filtering/ spam etc, so the end result can easily be the same.

Especially for personal /small business servers, simplicity wins everytime IMHO.

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monolithic
isn't part of the reason for the curve to keep the needle from bouncing out of the groove?
Before the Mayflower
The reason that conversation isn’t being had is because the intention from a lot of these public health folks is to never end the mask mandates, since as you said they are such an effective tribal signaling mechanism.
Exotic Programming Ideas, Part 3: Effect Systems
Same, at this point if I had to make choices I'd only pay for Netflix/Youtube
ESP32-C3 WiFi and BLE RISC-V processor is pin-to-pin compatible with ESP8266
Postgres isn't 100% set up to let fully untrusted clients do stuff. For example, right now there is no access control around listen/notify. You'd have to do some baseline query pre-processing to be completely secure, which could be a non-trivial task depending on just what you want to let clients do.

I've done it in read-only internal business apps though, it's great.
You may be interested in AWS Sustainability page: https://sustainability.aboutamazon.com/environment/the-cloud...

They are working towards 100% renewable energy and last year energy usage was more than 50% renewable.
I wish more of these systems allowed arbitrary indentation as a feature instead of just providing list items. I've gotten used to this in OneNote, and of course in plain text and Python. I don't want an outliner necessarily, but want to be able to indent a group of paragraphs and images with further indented sub-points, then outdent to move on to the next point.

Of course a lot of these systems don't support it because MarkDown doesn't support it. An indented block is a code block and that's it.

I started putting together a Tiptap editor project, which itself is based on ProseMirror, but got overloaded. I also tried building something with CKEditor but also ran into too much personal friction trying to get a simple project working. I have to learn Node and JS at the same time and it's a lot.
" it's that the quality of people in leadership roles is not sufficient"

This is rubbish, they are high quality leaders, not only that, they are perceptibly so.

This statement is easily disproven by the examples in almost every other country besides the US where masks are generally not contentious (they are in some small circles, but not broadly), the difference in the US being 1/2 of the countries populist leaders are either against masks or don't openly support them.

'The problem' is that Trump, Fox News, certain famous individuals, and Conservative politicians will not openly support masks, and attack the credibility of the medical system.

If Trump and Brett Favre were to make a 10 second video vignette promoting mask wearing, and Trump+Fox+GOP+Everyone else were behind this ... then there wouldn't be much of an issue.

" but leadership everywhere has forfeited that by using the pandemic as leverage for a pre-existing social management agenda"

Again, this is conspiratorial falsehoods.

"but if people find their leadership is using deception against them"

More conspiratorial falsehoods.

This is a disturbing misunderstanding of the situation: Americans would, by and large, be 'mostly ok' with masks, if 1/2 of the populist leaders told them to be. That's the only issue here.

Turning the pandemic into a political weapon is the problem.
I've recently bought the Helios64 (https://wiki.kobol.io/helios64/hardware/) and it looks pretty similar and is well supported by Armbian.
No. It's definitely a special distro.
> Evading taxes with cash tips for food service workers is not the way to accomplish that.

I can only choose among the options I am given, and the ideal system is not one of them. I can either choose to tip someone, and maybe they don’t pay taxes on it, which increases the tax burden for everyone else, or I can choose not to tip someone, which means that person suffers just for the unfortunate coincidence that I am their customer.

Let’s say that the normal tip is $5. If I choose to tip someone and they don’t pay taxes, perhaps their marginal tax rate is 12% and this is 60¢ in lost tax revenue.

Given a choice between “60¢ in federal tax revenue” or “$5 in income for a low-wage worker”, the correct moral choice becomes stark clear, in my mind.
Well, realistically, rails is a bad choice for a json rest api. As for everything else you said, it is doing that as far as i'm aware. Webpacker it's a thing.
Yes, that is a lot more meaningful than an ordinary signature. Notaries often do a lot more to attest a person's identity as well.
The waiter bothering you is not about trying to seem helpful in pursuit of more tips. It is because they want to nudge you to free up the table for the next customers. Sadly, this same culture of asking you every five minutes "Is everything OK/Can I get you something else" is spreading in Europe, because the business owner wants to boost turnover, ambience be damned.

The centuries-old concept of the intellectual cafe in Central Europe where you could order just a coffee and then spend two hours at the table talking with your peers, is now dying out: the proprietor wants you to drink your coffee quickly and then either order more or get out. Sometimes the business owner intentionally plays bad pop music loudly, so that it becomes uncomfortable to maintain a conversation in the long term.
I mean the last time this happened it was Cambridge Analytica, so maybe you shouldnt trust either?
I use screen sharing on my primary mac to log into two other macs, and copy/paste works between them without the need for logging into and apple id. Also drag and drop.
> On the few occasions that the E has run stories on topics I know well, it has been remarkably accurate and insightful.

I have had the total opposite experience, so much that it really turned me off from the magazine.From obligatory weekly reading now I get an issue every once in a while, the same happens again and I question my masochist tendencies.
Are you saying they could have cut it without RIAA equalisation? That probably wouldn't work as the recording might not fit on the record without it. Quoting from Wikipedia:

> The purposes of the equalization are to permit greater recording times (by decreasing the mean width of each groove), to improve sound quality, and to reduce the groove damage that would otherwise arise during playback.
But the reason you wear a mask is to protect other people. The point of liberty is the freedom to do what you want to do without imposing costs on other people.

If you believe that you are free to use your neighbour's bathroom, you are free to have that belief but not to impose that belief on your neighbour.

Liberty does not mean my beliefs to the exclusion of others (indeed, it is the opposite, tyranny is attempting to impose beliefs on others).

And public health is one of those areas in which, I believe, the role of govt is questioned by very few libertarians (the converse of this view is ludicrous, the point of a public health crisis is that it imposes costs to individuals that are less than the cost to the group).

So...it is hard to understand. Maybe the "Live Free or Die" crowd have a secret vanity?
a 64bit DOS flavor with VT-x/SVM shim could be very good for 'cloud'
To do politics or not do politics? Tech startups are divided
and Nokia phones. v.cards were a thing. Later we briefly had BT business cards, but that was quickly killed when smarter people looked into BT and discovered what a complete shit show that clown car of a standard is.
It’s used by nearly everyone, not just babus. The memes in fact originate from engineers in India interacting with their international colleagues. In any case, it’s not something worth getting upset about.
(American here.) No, no. You have a point.
...but Facebook doesn’t have to let you use their service (for free) if they don’t want to.

If they don’t like something you are doing, they can do whatever they like.
The lack of faith comes from incorrect or manipulated information being delivered with the same confidence as information that had sounder foundations. One of the weaknesses of a mainstream media that only deals in propaganda is that it delivers all official declarations with an equal, demanding intensity.

It might have been an advantage to have such a hated executive branch during the period, which at least forced something that seemed like a debate at the margins since there was at least an effort to show why Trump was wrong about stuff. Even that ended up backfiring with the shit Hydroxychloroquine Lancet study fraud. I guarantee that being published and witdrawn resulted in at least twice the people drinking "Miracle Solution" i.e. chlorine dioxide than would have if they hadn't published. The Lancet made Wakefield famous, and now they turned Trump into a health care martyr.
Said whistleblower (assuming you're talking about Christopher Wylie) got banned from fb. That's my issue with all this. Did the Russians or Cambridge Analytica do bad stuff? Probably yes. Is Facebook also incredibly hypocritical and self serving? Yes