skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And yet you typed this on a pseudoanonymous message board. And yet you still see incredible vitriol on facebook, which requires your real ID.

The culture of a site is largely determined by engineering and moderation decisions made by its owners. Nothing more.
You're just paying for a service that needs to know your address in order to function. Nobody will even check your id.

Alternatively, you can use free wifi or a burner SIM with data. That possibility is not the case in every country, nor will it necessarily remain open in the future.
According to the article, it was not just the page that was removed. That could have been a mistake, I suppose. But Facebook also banned "dozens of leading SWP activists". That sounds like a very deliberate action to me.
They've opened up pandora's box. Who knows what will come out of this.
You don't know my name in the street and I don't know yours. We manage to be perfectly civil to each other.

And my reputation does not follow between groups either. I can even have completely distinct friend groups for different activities. Nobody at boxing class knows anybody I work with and the people that hang out with me at a bar can be a completely new set all over. I could even use different names in all these groups! :O

Yet we're all perfectly civil.

The same works online. I choose to use `swizec` everywhere, but is `ralston3` the same as `@r_ralston3` on twitter? Who knows. Does it matter? Not in the least. Look at us being perfectly fine fellows to each other.

On the other hand, you have to show government ID to walk into a bar and yet people are kicked out for bad behavior all the time.
They were making a decision, but it’s not malice because they’re incapable of foreseeing the outcomes of their decisions. In either case, they shouldn’t be in charge of anything important.
GM closed their Australian factory a few years ago (Holden), and recently stopped selling cars here entirely.
> But no mention of whether any of the trials included both Zinc and Azithromyzin

Meanwhile, there is still no evidence that hydroxychloroquine has any usefulness as treatment for COVID19.
plebes... a great word I don’t hear often!
Doing more of exactly what I just asked you to stop is not cool.

Sure, HN is moderated, that's obvious. Obviousness-spun-as-sinisterness is at the far end of the tedium spectrum, which is why I asked you to stop.
I think you need to lay off the apocalyptic movies for a bit.
I'm curious how many EV purchasers live in single family homes, or other places where they can provide their own ability to charge at home. I wonder if a new scale of adoption will require a change where most (or a lot) of street parking is by cheap charging.
https://youtu.be/RMxB7zA-e4Y?t=1245
People are mentioning technical & payment processing hurdles, but those are all easy to figure out. Look at the gaming industry, mobile app stores, iTunes, online gambling, toll booths, tipping on various online platforms. Micropayments are most definitely already a thing, and have been for a while.

A better version of your question is – why do newspapers charge for a monthly subscription instead of a per-article fee? The simple reason is that the numbers just don't work out. They'd have to charge a lot per article and have people pay for a lot of them to break even with the current subscription or ad-supported model, and that's not going to happen. And even if it does, there would just be too much day-to-day variance in sales. The reason subscriptions are popular is that businesses like a steady, predictable stream of revenue.
This doesn't pass the smell test. Laptop batteries are effectively infinite compared to a phone.
I hated JSX when it first came out and thought React wouldn't take off because of it, then I used React for 5 years, and I still hate JSX.

I write all my components like this:

const props = {foo: 1, bar: 1}
<MyComponent {...props}>
{children()}
</MyComponent>

function children() { return foos.map(b => <div>{b}</div>) }

Why do I have to use a weird language with non-standard JS stuff. Writing conditionals in JSX is horrible, and props are unnecessarily verbose when we have ES6 language features like structuring.

It could easily be just a nested tree structure.
Maybe I'm cynical about the folks I grew up with, but I think if people got wished Merry Christmas by their barista on just 1 day, but Happy Hanukkah for 8 days, we'd suddenly see a lot more complaints about the War on Christmas... ;)

I've been immersed in both sides of this for different large parts of my life, but I find it hard to place the blame on both sides. The Christians who get upset seem to be demanding a right of exclusivity that I find unreasonable.
Am I really the only CLI guy in the room who still prefers irssi+bitlbee-libpurple over Pidgin? Am I doomed to be this guy https://xkcd.com/1782/? :)
Decentralization means rooftop solar, and decentralized control (aka smart meters) have been in place for quite a while in many places.
The guy's clearly a genius but he's also an asshole. Bigger projects across multiple disciplines require collaboration and communication, which inherently add complexity and cost. We're not all savants building indie games, so we use other people's work in things called libraries and dependencies.
Objective-C is a very simple, clean language–very much unlike its other "object-oriented-C competitor" C++. Unlike C++ it's a 100% superset of C, and it takes its cues from Smalltalk where objects send messages to each other rather than statically call each other's procedures. To support this, there is a very rich runtime that allows all sorts of reflection and metaprogamming atypical in a compiled language.
I started to hope that someone is going to do exactly that. What if we really try to create the most healthy, long living mice? Could we do it? How much healthier could it get? If the answer "several orders of magnitude", the risk averse zeitgeist towards human medicine might change.
Having lived in Manassas, I express my deep regret that this pioneer spent his final years there.
It completes a cycle of heating and cooling every 90 minutes as it orbits. The temperature differential between sunlit/shaded is quite large, so even though it certainly does not heat to +120C / cool down to -100 C as there is just not enough time, it would still put some stress on it.
For the other Dutch/German people out there confused at what Mensch means other than 'human', dictionary says: "a person of integrity and honor" (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mensch)
I think FB/Twitter and others got bold, but kinda forgot they are also most likely digging themselves deep into regulation hell.
The context is the global pandemic greatly reducing travel, manufacturing and therefore emissions.

Concepts around 'Climate Change' are very much secondary to that IMO, not the lead
> Apple has no Linux strategy.

macOS comes with a free built in hypervisor for running things in VMs. That's how Linux is supported. (Although I guess not if you want to use the GPU.)
I'm fine paying for things, but I don't like paying to receive advertisements. I refuse to subscribe to magazines and news papers and the like because if they get my address, the go open season on sending me junk mail advertisements for their other magazines
> Sheep farming is pretty uneconomic in the UK

So it makes sense the farmers would be opposed to anything that may eat their tiny profit margins
Can someone who knows more about the subject that I do comment on the statement "electric powered vehicles are coal powered vehicles?" I'm seeing that in conservative circles.
Self driving taxis are like flying cars- they’re technically possible and have been for some time, but you don’t see them on roads, because they’re just not quite right
What do electron fumes smell like? :)
The reality is that most users don't care about computer personalization anymore, a computer is just a conduit to the actual desired activity (browsing the web, playing games, watching movies, etc.).

Sure, 20 years ago, when content was scarce, people would find joy customizing their Winamp themes/visualizations, or changing their ringtones every week (remember when spending money for 20s of midi music was a $B business?).

Nowadays it feels like a chore for most of us.
Hack*Match for the NES (Zachtronics)
I was all ready to read about the kind of people on 4chan, and all of a sudden I’m presented with the kind of argument made on 4chan. A surprise to be sure
Next, bookstores purging UK bookstores of old Left Book Club books?

This is the trouble with censorship. Where do you stop?
Databricks Raising a Private Round at $27B
I have mixed thoughts about this. An upside is that you can accomplish things that surprise you, that you probably wouldn’t otherwise experience. But if it leads to knocking your head against a wall, it’s probably not the way to go.
Does Stretching Work?
I was actually agreeing with the analogy.
This. When I read the title I was really excited. All of my GitHub users can already access private wikis. It's nice that I can now publish a site to those same users, but I'd like to write docs for the non-technical users at my company without making them public. It would be nice if I could restrict a site to people on my company VPN or, better yet, an IP range.
There is a reason that used Leafs are cheaper - the range is reduced due to poor design around thermal management for the battery (no active cooling) so the battery life degrades quickly.

Newer (2018+) Leafs fixed this, but if you plan on buying used - make sure the range is confirmed.

All that said, I have a cheap EV (2017 Focus) and it's a blast to drive - not a Tesla but still a sleeper.
Interesting to see that even a world war would not be enough to drop C02 emissions to a safe level...
Also backup vs. back up.
What did Shopify do to amazon?
Tanks! long winded context is the best context
I filed an issue on the project, "Point out the privacy risks of timestamps in object IDs" [0].

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Non-random object IDs have privacy issues. Developers need to learn about these before they choose to use non-random IDs over simple random IDs. How about adding a PRIVACY section to the readme?

Timeflake encodes the precise time that a user created an object. Timestamps in IDs can reveal:

User timezone.

Geographic location: If the client software creates multiple associated IDs at the same time (like an article and embedded media), then the differences in timestamps of the IDs can reveal the latency of the client's network connection to the server. This reveals user geographic location. This can also happen if the client creates a single ID and the server adds an additional timestamp to the object.

User identity (de-anonymizing)

- Most Android apps include Google's libraries for working with push notifications. And some iOS apps that use Google Cloud services also load the libraries. These Google libraries automatically load Google Analytics [1] which records the names of every screen the users view in the app, and sends them to Google. So Google knows that userN switched from screen "New Post" to screen "Published Post" at time K.

- Some ISPs record and sell user behavior data. For example, SAP knows [2] that userN made a request to appM's API at time K.

- Even if the posting app does not share its user behavior data with third-parties, the user could post and then immediately switch to an app that does share user behavior data. This provides data points like "userN stopped using an app that does not record analytics at time K".

- Operating Systems (Android [3], Windows [4], macOS [5]) send user behavior data to their respective companies.

- Browsers and Browser Extensions send user behavior data to many companies. Data points like "userN visited a URL at example.com at time K" can end up in many databases and sold.

- Posting times combined with traffic analysis can perfectly de-anonymize users.

How long the user took to write the post. This can happen if the app creates the ID when the user starts editing the post and also shares a timestamp of the publication or save time.

Whether or not the user edited the post after posting it. This can happen if the posts's displayed time doesn't match the timestamp in the ID.

Whether or not the user prepared the post in advance and set it to post automatically. If the timestamp is very close to a round numbered time like 21:00:00, it was likely posted automatically. If the posting platform does not provide such functionality, then the user must be using some third-party software or custom software to do it. This information can help de-anonymize the user.

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[0] https://github.com/anthonynsimon/timeflake/issues/3

[1] https://firebase.google.com/docs/cloud-messaging/android/cli...

[2] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/03/five-creepy-things-you...

[3] https://digitalcontentnext.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/DC...

[4] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/08/windows-10-microsoft-b...

[5] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/macos-leaks-applicatio...
I suspect there are some regulatory hurdles if the held money can be spent with companies other than the one that takes the deposit. You bleed into banking rules.
I bought a PHEV a year ago and the fuel savings are enormous. I've been filling it up once every 3 months so far, most of my journeys are done in fully electric mode, and when they are not I'm averaging 100-150mpg. Charging at home is pretty easy, but I do have my own driveway which I realize a lot of people don't.

But yes, UK company tax structure around them is absolutely broken. You can get one, get a massive tax discount, and then simply never charge it, resulting in higher emissions than in a normal car, and yet keep the low emissions discount. It's stupid. I think you should have to prove that you're actually using the EV capabilities, otherwise it's just straight up fraud.
People do nothing as long as they have their cheetos and xbox near by.
I think in 10 years we are going to see a lot of stuff built into the web platform. Typescript definitely now that MS is using Chromium. Then we have Deno for the backend.

One day in the future a kid will be learning programming, and not realize the billions of lines of tooling, or the hundreds of thousands of hours of thought that was put into working around an inadequate platform. However, a lot of this will have been necessary to get to the end result. But also a lot will not have.
Thanks and apologies! If you submit once in a blue moon then it's easy to forget.
Both were always nouns though, right?
Clubhouse, Part 1 – The Beginning
Suppose that you had to have a RealID, or the equivalent for your country, to post on Facebook? Or at least be visible beyond a few close friends. Comments?
It's not DIA issue here. If it's legally available for purchase it seems no different than buying a phone book. Whether such database should exist and be legal to sell to anybody is another question.
It feels like they opened a Pandora’s box.

They feel they have the power and self imprimatur to manage speech as they see fit, but now also activists are telling them to shut this or that voice they disagree with.

They made this bed themselves.
As someone who used to watch the BBC, but stopped in the last year or two, the BBC has for the last 30 years been more interested in giving a positive voice to right-wing movements than it has been left-wing.

See: how Farage was treated by the BCC, versus Corbyn

Related: https://www.lse.ac.uk/media-and-communications/research/rese...
Rocketshipping: Book Excerpts
quick google search brought up this: https://www.motorbiscuit.com/a-cheat-sheet-to-debunking-myth...
Sure, caveat emptor.
> That's what the post is arguing against. You seem to be under the impression that separating "users" and "developers" implies taking control away from the former - which is false. Users are different than you - and you should give them power.

False, but it happens. And I don't like it. I feel like we are making a mistake here (a mistake older than time) by separating users between "technical" and "average", and "protecting" the average, "for their own good". These "average" users don't exist, we are creating them by keeping them digitally illiterate "for their own good". As I said, this theme is older than time.
> somehow the official line that it's only Jews that were targeted is not holocaust denial.

How is this the official line? Jews were the primary target but I’ve never ever seen anything ‘official’ claim they were the only ones.
Like you said, it’s the result of many years of various effects. But it wasn’t just subsidizing. You may not want to hear it but I think it was also the effect of personal choices. Not everyone wants to live in or have their kids grow up in a hive of activity without a lot of access to nature.
>> "megatransistors" is an exciting word.

Not as cool as megaFonzies.
Districts drawn on natural boundaries as much as possible, that are geographically compact, will do a fairly decent job of representing people fairly as well as giving decent representation to minorities in segregated areas. Gerrymanders often are designed to violate this (for example, chopping up liberal Austin, Texas so that parts of it are in five separate congressional districts, each of which has a suburban majority).

It would also be an improvement to increase the size of legislatures to reduce the potential for gerrymandering. The UK parliament has 650 members, each representing 102.5k people. The US House has 435 members, each representing 754.5k people. The number is set by law and can be easily changed. Make it 1000. It would then be much harder to game things so one party can wind up with 80% of the seats with 50% of the vote.
Same here!

I love my frog-looking golf cart of a car. It’s also (between tax incentives and subsidised electricity) been essentially free to own and run - and is worth about the same now as what I paid for it years ago.

People need to check out what they’re missing.
Economist George Selgin provides empirical evidence showing the free banking era's financial system was remarkably stable:

https://youtu.be/PpCONK5vgjs
Clubhouse is down
Thanks for the links. I know of icones which uses another service. Really rad, but wanted to go a slightly different way.

Already have IconPark included (http://iconduck.com/sets/iconpark-icon-set). Adding awsicons set now :)
I am quite sad to hear this news. Only a week ago I was bingeing on all the old DVDs for Babylon 5. Upscaling on my Sony 4k TV was spot on for all but the CGI generated content which looked as if they were 640x480. Netherlees I enjoyed rewatching it all. RIP, Delenn. I had a huge crush on Ivanova.
You were breaking the site guidelines by repeatedly posting off-topic, unsubstantive flamebait. Asking you not to do that is bog-standard moderation. There's no ideological implication—we'd ask you to stop in the same way if you were posting that way about literally anything.
All my ISP can see are the entry points I communicate with. Today I can tunnel all my traffic through my own VPN mesh, someone else's VPN mesh, open proxies, private proxies and I can reach most sites. That is how I operate today. If that becomes illegal to do, then I would be an outlaw and would have to write a song about it. My band of merry outlaws would travel the countryside, giving anonymous internet to everyone.
Can you elaborate why "just power through" is pretty damaging?

Anecdote:

When I depressed or stressed, taking action and following a preset list of tasks (brush teeth, hit the gym, make lunch) doesn't 'cure' my mood, but it does reduce my anxiety/stress/depression.

By "powering through it" I stop stress driven by inaction (e.g. not brushing my teeth while result even more stress later).

If I stick with my routine, it reduces my cognitive load, allowing my brain time to calm down. Its similar to how mediation helps you stay calm. Following the routine reduces the number of decisions I need to make.

As much as I might want, taking a sick day to lay in bed all day doesn't help anything and would make me more depressed as I think about all of the stuff I should of done.
Thank you so much, truly. This is all really helpful. r/ADHD and your comments do resonate a lot with me, but I haven't checked out "Driven to Distraction" nor How to ADHD. Will check them out and see how things go, then go seek diagnosis.
Google has to push back to stop this happening in other countries. In any case, they can negotiate with price on SERP results ads and on the ads they no doubt place on Murdochs sites. Things will balance out if it does go ahead.

I wouldn't be surprised to see Google leave briefly to fully illustrate their power in the marketplace - I doubt it's an empty threat. If I ran a AU based business that's dependent on Google I'd be emergency planning right now.
Solar Phone Chargers of 2021
Fwiw I didn't post it after I read that answer.
Another great example of how miniature personal directories are experiencing a comeback.

* https://tray.club - like this, but allows subpages and notes areas.

* https://gossipsweb.net - pay $1 to be in this directory ('cozy web'-type vibe)

* https://terra.finzdani.net - personal directory

* https://marijn.uk/linkroll/ - another one

* https://href.cool/ - mine

But I love the simplicity of Multy - dump your links and click create. Great work.
Should that be future-proofed and be per mm^3? I was under the impression that designs are becoming more three dimensional.
> yeah but just because he lost money doesn't mean that he is wrong.

He's been wrong for 12 years (since Tesla IPO'd in 2010). What more conviction do you need?
> feel they have the power and self imprimatur to manage speech

Well they shut down the former president of the USA. They clearly have nothing to fear.
Hi, worth noting a lot of your comments are dead. I agree with you, but you're on the path to being shadowbanned, if you aren't already.
... and Tim Cook spent 12 years with IBM around the time when you joined.
It's interesting to see how social media reacts to this. The same people that were cheering on conservatives being purged are now crying over how Antifa and socialists doesn't get a free pass.

Does anyone know of any good study where participants are asked their opinion on a quote before and after they are told which ideological leader said it?
It doesnt stop, the goal posts just keep shifting until it eventually gets directly to you.
I’ve never heard that phrase used in this content before. How does “cold butter” apply to these metals?
Taxation also doesn't reduce spending, often it causes more spending to occur than if it wasn't taxed.
>due to fee structure

Why is a little bit of data exchange so expensive? (Ok because they can, so why aren't the competitors to drive that fee structure down? What's the barrier to entry?)
That will be less of a problem than you think. Power demand is already inconsistent throughout the day. Depending on the time of year it will peak around noon or in the evening but overnight the demand is low.

When people start charging overnight at home the overnight loads will increase. This will intern allow power companies to increase capacity.
You posted 3 or 4 escalating comments that were way over the top. That's obviously not ok, and it's all I was reacting to. Nothing else. Please don't do it again. That's all.

"Labeling as inflammatory any criticism of people this community venerates" is not a thing. Actually there's not even such a thing as "people this community venerates". Any $person venerated by some is criticized by others, and you'll find plenty of such criticism in HN threads.

If you have that impression, you might be falling prey to the notice-dislike bias: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor..., a form of sample bias where the massively greater impact of the data points one dislikes leads to false feelings of generality. We all seem to suffer from this.
Hey, those are my weekend plans you're talking about!
Good. Maybe this’ll clarify for some people that a tech oligarchy isn’t the optimal way to control speech.