skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, we don't have human-meaningful names even now, at least not for most humans - for us technology types, sure, but if the names were truly human-meaningful, we'd have far less ...ibm.com.cn style of phishing, e.g.

A few commenters make the point about phone numbers and IP addresses being somewhere between analogous and homologous. I think that's true for IPv4, but definitely not for IPv6.

But that misses an unexpected benefit of the DNS: Traffic management based on geolocation. Even without human-meaningful names, nickname to address translation would have benefit for that reason alone.

As others have pointed out, we don't so much need a name service, we want a reputation service.

After all, most people get to web sites, e.g., via a bookmark or embedded URL or a search result.

If we got rid of the DNS and had to enter IP(v4, not v6) addresses by hand, a lot of us would still get there via bookmarks or embedded URLs or search results. Little/nothing would change.

I'm not suggesting redesigning the Internet with a dedicated search engine layer in our not-7-layer stack, but I do think the differences between current use and design intent are significant enough, even if sometimes subtle and unforeseen, that a rethink could take us to interesting places.

(My favourite part of the article are the counter-examples. So the triangle is itself wrong, generally, and only correct, more or less, for specific technical approaches.)
That is a brilliant summary of the US China strategic situation! I normally think of it from the US point of view-- China can't really invade us, a war would be catastrophic for them economically. You made me realize how symmetrical that thinking is. Yikes!
I’d suspect this is driven more by using those sites as internal test cases. Every browser vendor since Firefox broke IE’s total domination has had a “don't break the web” priority to some extent. Using large scale real world examples to validate that has the added bonus of revealing cases where you did, in fact, break a significant (by usage) portion of the web.
The US is proveably 50/50-ish

Unless Facebook has a strongly biased audience, it seems likely that their algorithms should represent the population.

68% pro Trump does not.
tldr

> We’ve now started limited rider testing in San Francisco with Waymo employee volunteers to gather feedback and continue to improve our technology. We’re conducting this testing with enhanced COVID-19 protocols to ensure the safety of everyone involved.
The boards are pretty good.

https://weworkremotely.com/

https://www.tecla.io/

https://remote.co/

https://www.flexjobs.com/

And if you're up for it, I highly encourage trying to try Zapier which is an amazing company and has terrific remote recruitment. Even if you don't get the job, great experience.

https://zapier.com/jobs/
Someone at Microsoft screwed up and created a DeleteMe repo on the main account
Sideloading is Android terminology, isn't it? What does that have to do with Apple?
Not surprising considering Facebook's demographics in the United States.
To be fair, Fortnite did try to get their players to use sideloading to get around the 30% cut Google took. With Apple's more aggresive consumer protection stance, it wouldn't be surprising for more companies to take that step.
> At least in the UK, we have an inordinate amount of benefits cheats that live off other people's money

...

> perceptions among the British public were that benefit fraud was high – on average people thought that 27% of the British welfare budget is claimed fraudulently; however, official UK Government figures have stated that the proportion of fraud stands at 0.7% of the total welfare budget in 2011/12

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefit_fraud_in_the_United_...
I have to say this feels rather strange next to the functionality of my PrintScreen key.

Maybe I'm missing the point. I get that it's easier to look at than pastebin, but I'm struggling to grasp what else. I've always agreed that LOC is a terrible measurement, and similarly I don't delude myself into thinking positioned or colored code is more functional.
Statically recompiling CHIP8 using LLVM
Please stop posting flamewar comments to HN. I realize the topic is provocative but that's no excuse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Humans are held responsible if they cause harm to others.
If a driver hits a pedestrian on purpose he is charged with murder.
Who do you charge if a self-driving car behaves in this way?
I can’t wait for someone to create an rss feed which sends an email which updates the rss feed which sends another email. Repeat ad infinitum. I wonder what would break first.
Finding parking seems to be the biggest problem by far, and for good reason
Casinos are highly regulated and must follow a number of restrictions on how they market their products and handle troubled players. So yes, our society has indeed already decided that casinos should be forced to be less predatory.
Isn't it the case in most industries with few jobs but with a high demand.

The media industry is in high demand. People want the fame associated with it and the money of stars. Making music is also enjoyable for a lot of people. For that you certainly need talent but there is more talent in this world than what is needed by the industry.

The result is a lot of competition, and when there is so much competition people will do a lot of things to get in. Closer to the HN crowd is the video game industry, you hear more stories of abuse than in other sectors, probably because, well, making a video game sound more fun than managing a customer database for a wholesaler.

Add to that that people in the media industry tend to be particularly attractive, and you have a greater chance for abuse to be sexual in nature.
Sure, from and individual perspective. What if I want to build software for people who use the iPhone and I want to add some web3 functionality and Apple says no? Apple basically does stifle innovation on their device by acting as a regulatory agency for their users. Even MSFT didn't do that. Basically every iPhone user is on a closed system that one company controls from end-to-end. That's a type of market power that we haven't seen since maybe the railroads were controlled by 3 people.
Bullshit fearmongering by Bloomberg destroys one's belief in Bloomberg.

Otherwise known as "Shooting yourself in the foot".
It is generally easy to identify, find contact information for hiring teams?
The difference is that Forth compilers can be bootstrapped from not-very-much assembler on an embedded system. That's not really true for Lisp and Smalltalk. Forth impresses me because of the degree of leverage that bootstrapping process affords for small computers.
What do you think about philosophers?
As a small data point - the streets of the Sunset are being inundated by self-driving cars. They're well behaved and mostly pretty effective from what I can see, but I'll see literally 10 or 15 of them most times that I walk my dog (and they're out all night too). Primarily Waymo's vans and Cruise's Bolts but a number of others too. It's striking since overall traffic volume is down so much but there are just a ton of these guys collecting data.

(Edit; My word choice made it sound like I'm complaining, but it's all good with me. Would rather have these looking for me at intersections than the typical distracted driver.)
Fb may have overshot. They've not only blocked news pages but gov pages as well. Most people I know in aus have been getting covid updates purely through government body social media posts. These are now blocked.
Me: Nobody's saying it's Apple's fault that they're in a duopoly position in the phone space, but that doesn't absolve them of the responsibility that position holds either. What is Apple's fault is that they're using their position in one market to force out potential competitors in other markets.

You: Microsoft did not get prosecuted for being popular.

How does that response follow at all?
> The US is proveably 50/50-ish

The “ish” does a lot of work there.

> Unless Facebook has a strongly biased audience is

If it doesn't, it would be one of the few media sources that didn't. Why wouldn't it?
https://www.sammobile.com/news/galaxy-wearable-app-breaks-go...
That's around the number of people who've lived all their lives before moving to SF in suburbs I would say ? Coming from any other big city, San Francisco doesn't feel more unsafe.
Show HN: Make all web forms copy/pasteable as a single input. Web 3.0
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar, regardless of how bad another comment is or you feel it is. That's what flags are for. Pouring fuel on the flames is exactly the wrong thing to do, so please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It would make more sense to escape all submitted html instead of trying to sanitise it, also add a sensible character limit. At the moment this guestbook seems to be unusable.

I'd also like to note that doing purification on the client on submit [0] isn't wise - anyone can just skip purification and post something malicious directly to the netlify function. If you absolutely have to sanitisation on the client - at least do it on render instead.

[0] https://github.com/sgolovine/sunnygolovine.com/blob/master/s...
Congrats -- do you like it? I wasn’t able to snag one before they all sold out. Hopefully, I'll be able to get one after the CNY break.
I mean, I wouldn't have sold yet. Just think it's thinly veiled cope because he's now a nocoiner and hoping he wont have to buy in again.
I have apps I want to publish, but why would I even begin to work on them knowing that Apple could pull the plug on me at any time?

And yes, the Cydia store is for jailbroken phones because that's the only way to load your own software onto your phone, but there are plenty of useful apps on there that aren't security issues and are only there to get around app store restrictions.

Apple doesn't have to restrict which apps I run to keep it secure. They do just fine securing MacOS, which allows one to install whatever they want.
You must really hate E2EE messaging services like WhatsApp and Telegram. They provide dramatically strong privacy guarantees while being proprietary and driving engagement.

What is the reason that users shouldn't be allowed to have the strongest guarantees of privacy possible if it happens to be the case that they are users of "proprietary apps" that want to "boost engagement" (here, of course, engagement being people talking to/with other people)?

This is the most horrifying thing I've read on HN and not seen downvoted to oblivion.
Including some lines about how it works would be good in the readme I think!
Yeah it's kinda a big dichotomy though... they only review very few extensions after doing their automated testing on them. my extension is marked as unverified and there doesn't seem to be a way to change that other than getting some unknown critical mass of users where they are interested in doing a manual review. oh well... not a big deal I guess and the extension is more for my own usefulness.
You're going to have to explain why you don't think Ben Shapiro is alt-right, he's basically a poster child for them.
Finding parking is half the challenge. Hoping you windows aren't smashed when you get back to the car is the other half.
The point is we could have vaccinated the young and healthy summer 2020, had we had challenge trials proving efficacy in that group. How could that not have helped?

We vaccinated no one in that period as it is.
at my old job (roughly 60 people) the company just got regular lunch ingredients (usually some meats, cheese and just normal bread) for the entire company. culturally it was expected everyone had lunch in the common area from this stockpile.
costs for this where deducted from your pay, but because it was bought at suchs a large scale it was very cheap compared to buying your own lunch or making it at home. (roughly 20€ per month I believe).

this system worked pretty nice imo, lunch wasn't anything fancy but it was healthy, cheap and having lunch with coworkers from other departments helped massively in regards to culture.
Does Australia have businesses in similar model like Facebook? Or are you talking about completely different models?
It seems like a very logical move. Compare to Gilbert, AZ, SF is more challenging. And of course, there will be way more media coverage. Excited to see full deployment!
They likely can’t. What happens when whatever quirk they used to isolate goes global and breaks workarounds on thousands of other sites they didn’t test? I mean, it’s awful that anything like this exists but it’s pretty likely well past any kind of turning back.

Given WebKit’s lineage I have to wonder if some portion of this was inherited from KHTML.
So if it was created in a weekend, the statement that it was created in a weekend is an uninformed opinion?

On the face of it, I would call it the truth.
From watching Tesla FSD videos on YT it's clear that they aren't competetive with companies like Waymo that use lidar.

Edit: This comment once had 3 upvotes lol
All: the article is interesting and, as many fine commenters are showing, it's quite possible to have a curious conversation about it. So could the rest of us please not go off the deep end into flamewar? The amount of moderation this thread has needed is beyond the pale.

Yes, the topic is provocative, but the art of being a good HN citizen involves learning to resist the most provocative bits of an article and the provokey reactions they induce in us.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Sounds like you don't know the difference between right and alt-right.
Predicting that some tech will surprise us is easy, predicting which one and how is almost impossible — in part because any obvious consequence will be defended against.

I don’t expect, yet also wouldn’t be surprised if, an Islamic fundamentalist group genetically modifies a pig-specific retrovirus so that any pig which catches it will start internally producing enough capsaicin that nobody will even want to eat pork.

I do expect software based attacks to achieve government goals.

I would be only a little surprised by private nukes or lunar mass drivers.

If mind-uploading becomes a thing, I expect totally novel forms of interrogation in addition to virtual hells (a la Surface Detail by Iain M Banks), and several other legal and political messes outside the scope of this thread.

3D printing, protein engineering, AI controlled mining robots, etc. will lead to synthetic von Neumann machines that radically transform industry, giving small states or mid-sized criminal gangs significant war-fighting capacity.

AI can out-strategise humans. Who trusts it, wins — unless the AI was made wrong, in which case who trusts the AI, loses. Nobody will know if the AI is right or not until too late.

A/B testing propaganda, so perhaps you can fool all of the people all of the time.

Most of these are better as Hollywood plots than as real concerns. Whatever does eventually happen will seem obvious after the event, but will seem like science fiction right up until that point.
I think I read a few years ago that a better estimate than the BMI is the ratio of the circumference of the belly to the hips.
The antibodies in pandremix would have had the same effect had those who were vaccinated been infected by the flu instead, except the narcolepsy would have been worse.
Scientists discover why two shark species emit green glow (2019)
just use matlab smh
> Trying to patch up C is not promising. It's been tried, many times

Isn't it? It looks like the author is cherry-picking approaches that haven't worked. Isabelle and verifast do very well at making c secure, for instance.
No, of course I’m not saying whatever silly extrapolation you put into my mouth.

I‘m saying there is a complex interaction between content creators and aggregators, and a power imbalance currently favoring the aggregator. I’m also saying that high-quality journalism is a necessary condition for a functioning democracy.

Combining these thoughts leads to the conclusion that it may not actually be the worst idea to reverse some of the changes the market for news has seen in the last few years.

I have no idea if Australia’s policy will end up working. But the collective pearl clutching and either pretend or real ignorance with regard to the motivation for this law in the comments here is just breathtaking.
For some reason my mind had replaced hwy 1 with I-5. Whoops.
I suspect, though I hate to say it, that the biggest change autonomous war vehicles will make is that democracies will come to really, really love war; now that it won't cost voters' sons and daughters.
I'm not familiar with news media consumption in Australia, but I wonder would this push users to news aggregators like "News Break" or "Apple News"?
Just because something is a necessary evil does not make it good
Coming from Chicago, SF felt a lot less safe to me. Would not even consider living there even though I've lived in a big city for 5+ years.

Chicago has a homeless population, but it's nowhere near as large or as emboldened as SF's.
I haven't paid close attention, but I think he wouldn't have a complaint if these journalists had uncovered a conspiracy worthy of public attention and instead were basically tattling on people for using bad words when the bad words were just quoting e.g. reddit.
At 300kg you probably cant even walk, meaning someone is actively harming you by bringing you food.
I've read both Enlightenment Now! and The Better Angels of Our Nature and agree. Pinker has never said progress is uniform, or even preordained, for that matter. Both books are more descriptive than prescriptive, relying on hard data instead of theories, and appeal to the values of the enlightenment, i.e., the use of facts and reasoning for solving the problems that inevitably come with technological progress.

I would encourage IceHegel to read the books more closely too.
You don’t have to do those things. The earth will not stop if there are unread emails in your inbox.
> I would trust Netflix. Other companies? Not so much.

Missing the point. Sure, many users will trust the Netflix app, but we only need one trustworthy app (like Netflix) to open the gate for all other kinds of untrustworthy apps to also skip the check.
We didn’t even bother manufacturing vaccines. Even though they were paid in advance.
"He was editor-at-large of Breitbart News between 2012 and 2016. [...] Shapiro is a critic of the alt-right movement."

Sounds like a classic case of the "flat-earth society that has members all around the globe".

In any case, it doesn't get much more fact free and hypocritical than that.
I'll ask you... Bitcoin is a high-risk, aggressive investment by any definition. Which is fine if you believe it and like that sort of thing (other than killing the planet but that's a different question.)

Would you define someone who put 100% of their net worth into an aggressive, high-risk investment as irrational?
That's how you can tell it was a survey of drivers, not generally of people moving about in the city. Parking would not be a concern for the majority of trips that happen without a car.
It's the perfect time to test. Less civilians to hit, winter weather, still good data to use.
Why you can no longer share or see news on Facebook in Australia.
No better time for autonomous driver software to practice driving than when the streets are relatively empty. (Obviously, eventually they'll need to handle full traffic, but the current situation is probably good training wheels for that.)
Yes, it’s in their immediate interest in the same way as working for $5/day is preferable to not working.
As others have started, when looking at events in Australia, you can consider the currently-governing Liberal party (economically liberal, socially conservative) and News Corp as effectively the same organisation.

On the other hand, the Liberal party is very hostile to the public service in general and the ABC in particular.
> Just to clarify, if you have a problem with what eInk is doing here, then you basically have a problem with patents altogether.

What in the world? So I can't agree that the patent system is net positive, and disagree with a company's specific business decisions under that system?

What a blatant false dichotomy.
It's pretty simple. Apple users don't want to spell it, so I will.

They want Apple to have a strong market position, so Apple can dictate their conditions to everyone else. They like the fact that Apple can bend every developer out there including Facebook and Google, because access to Apple users is a luxury. They like the fact that Apple uses its position to benefit Apple users.

Of course Apple uses its position to benefit Apple itself as well, but users don't care as long as they got their personal benefits like improved privacy or security. If that comes at a price to other developers, price that those developers would not pay with more open approach, users still don't care.

If Apple would allow installing of any applications to their phones, plenty of apps would run from Apple, because developers hate Apple. Installing some kind of OpenStore would be the first thing you're doing with your iPhone. AppStore would be empty just like Mac AppStore is empty. Very few developers would willingly pay 15% of their revenue to Apple just to have non-existent AppStore marketing (unless you're in lucky 0.001% who got top ranks). So those developers would not bend to Apple and Apple users would get reduced experience, less privacy, etc.
My grandfather had 4 different sms services when I tried to debug his phone.

He was tech illiterate. Yet without any effort or choice, people had engineered multiple ways to compromise the basic functionality of sending a message.

If I could have burned his phone in a fire and given him an iPhone, I would have.
Epic Cycling on Ice [video]
>It's striking since overall traffic volume is down so much

That's interesting. Ex-urban Boston intersecting with a couple of small cities, I basically don't immediately see material differences relative to pre-pandemic. Maybe a little less traffic congestion on the major roads? But certainly not "much less." (Which I find a bit surprising given how relatively little I go out but that's what I see.)
This is why I always try to take the crappier of my two cars when I go to SF.
The American Civil War demonstrated the horrors of trench warfare back in the 1860s. The penultimate Union campaign in which Grant took Petersburg, Virginia and Richmond, Virginia was primarily a 10 month long series of trench maneuvers costing some 70,000 casualties on both sides. In particular, The Battle of the Crater would play on repeat 50 years laters as a mine opened a hole in the line only for thousands to be slaughtered trying to go through it. A similar scene played out a year prior when Grant assaulted Vicksburg[2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Petersburg

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Crater

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Vicksburg#Crater_at_t...
Really fun to finish and draw the slider backwards. Revealed a spiral pattern I didn't realize I was doing!
Why so? I think this is the way to be promoted/lead things. You don't have to live and die with your project but there are definitely a few opportunities that are opening up if "you care and army that doesn't". I believe calling your colleagues "army that doesn't care" is a bit disrespectful and this is what is wrong with "I care so much" people at big companies.

upd: I did generalize "I care so much" people as well; but I do consider myself one.
Ask HN: Rush Limbaugh dead at 70 Where do you see Conservative ideology heading?
Rush absolutely changed the media landscape with his radio show. The highest rated talk show for over 3 decades -- perhaps the person most individually responsible for shaping modern-day Conservative ideology (at least in the US).

His legacy will be felt for decades still to come.
Do you have a link to your project page?
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