skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was being a bit harsh offhandedly. If I was making a full assessment of the product I would say that it has a market. You can't really do what I'm talking about with the tor onion router, because google blocks tons of tor traffic from accessing its services and wont even let you do a captcha cloudflare-style a lot of the time.

As someone who uses tor everyday, you basically can't get any higher quality general purpose search than duckduckgo or searx to actually load over onion routing. If you position yourself in such a way that your results engine returns queries on par with those two (or preferably better) you will have a rock solid product in your hands.
What about Wikipedia? Do you consider the minimal logging they claim to do to be “user tracking” in the bad sense? Or do you think they’re doing more bad user tracking in secret?
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I used to do it myself when I was a W-2 employee, and I remember spending a few hours on it the first or second year, but after that it’s pretty quick since the process and forms don’t change much. Kids are just a couple credits and maybe a form for dependent care deductions.

But I also had a few hours to burn. I understand preferring to spend that time with kids instead. But it is worth noting that it’s a much smaller time commitment after the first couple years.
I was actually of the opinion that Adobe for a long timer turned a bit of a blind eye toward piracy because many of the people who learned on it once they became professionals became paying customers. Almost like an unofficial free trial that felt more valuable in a way. They would stamp it out once in a while, but often it felt like until they became dominant that they were barely trying to do much about it.
That's not universally the case at least. I transferred some shares a month or so ago (in a horribly manual process I might add) and the cost basis was transferred over.

I fall into the older bucket but I guess my old 401(K) must have had basis added when it merged with an IRA and none of my other investments lack basis information.
This comment seems to have been cut off before the end?
Google's monopoly on ad tech is entirely orthogonal to the issue.

As for PG's tweet, I think it's a bit much to call that single sentence an "analysis". At best it's an opinion, and not a very nuanced one at that.

Please explain how this isn't potentially an objective improvement of end user privacy over things like third party cookies, browser fingerprinting, or other mechanisms of identity tracking.
Shuffling money around between my savings and checking accounts doesn't mean I wind up with more money.

Being able to unload a Bitcoin for $50k doesn't mean the market can withstand unloading a million at that price.
A "Super Troopers" Mister Sinus Theater presentation featuring a syrup drinking contest is burned in my mind. Three audience volunteers selected before anyone was told for what they were volunteering. The hosts handed out bottles of syrup and said "Go!" One contestant gets nowhere. One downs it instantly because his bottle had iced tea in it. The hosts lose it because the third contestant got halfway through a real bottle of syrup motivated by the performance of the iced tea drinker. The hosts thought it would be a good show (it was) but never anticipated someone seriously trying. Audience howls. All contestants given prizes. This was over 10 years ago and I can still picture it despite having a crap visual memory. I hope Alamo can pick up the pieces.
Seems to me that depends on the kind of regulation. If it's just "trust the regulator to keep ahead of Google" than that's one thing. But we can add other constraints on top of that. E.g., we could require that Google's privacy-relevant code be open source, and that they must give you data all data related to you, such that individuals could audit things and prove or disprove that Google's behavior matches their claims.

Especially if we add bounties for catching Google's transgressions, I expect we could do quite well open-source, personalized regulation.
Used that word as I am writing from Canada - country of liberals and democrats.

More strong connotations of that word are from vocabulary of our southern republican neighbor. Pronunciation is usually accompanied by trumpets and other pompous instruments :)
Turbotax’s website commits all the web sins we condemn regularly on here. They hijack the back button, change your scrolling, don’t allow tab-spacebar-enter navigation, don’t allow pasting in some fields, and load buttons on a fixed resolution so you can’t see everything if you aren’t on a hires monitor. It’s really not a good product.
Aliexpress sells pure tat, it's not exactly a home for trustworthy branded products. Amazon is getting worse by letting resellers of poor quality Chinese knockoffs commingle their products in amazon warehouses.

I live in the North of England, not exactly an urban hub.

As soon as somebody invents matter teleportation I'm sure we'll get a better service. For now, I'll keep considering amazon a best in class service for their scale. And it's definitely a technology company.
>People are getting duped, even on HN, it's depressing.

Welcome to my world!. ( Not just HN really, it extends to most people on this planet)
This looks cool! Very timely. Every time I update our AWS settings (or provision new users/resources), I spend a decent amount of time just worrying whether I inadvertently opened up everything to the web.

Any plans to support running this as a cron job and diffing successive outputs?
Until the situation improves, maybe we can just pay cash for groceries?
Pirating novels also, well, should make people feel at least a little bad. I think there's this perception -- and, candidly, I think it's a perception that sites like TorrentFreak (where the linked article is on) push -- that Greedy Big Corporate Publishers take all the money and the creator doesn't get anything to speak of from an individual single sale. I can't speak to all industries, but in fiction publishing, this is absolutely, unequivocally not true.

- First, you really do get per-unit royalties, and it's not "just a few cents"; even with traditional publishers, ebook royalties are 25% or more. (With my publisher, I get 50% if you buy directly from them and 35% if you buy on other ebook stores.)

- Second, the vast, vast majority of fiction books sell in the thousands. Not millions, not even hundreds of thousands, and way more often than you think not in the tens of thousands. For a small press, a title that sells 5000 copies across its lifetime might qualify as a runaway best seller.

- And third, contracts for future books often depend on how well previous books sell. A friend of mine published a book a few years ago that sold decently and was even nominated for a Nebula Award. Its sequel was well-reviewed but didn't sell as well, and even though it was meant as a trilogy, the publisher doesn't seem interested in the third book.

So don't use the sales of J.K. Rowling or Stephen King or the like as a yardstick for how piracy affects fiction writers. A few thousand "lost sales" of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Gender Essentialism is a rounding error; a few thousand "lost sales" of my novel Kismet would literally double the title's revenue if they were converted to real sales.
Proof-of-work is still the most secure way, and also the most fair way to distribute new currency, because it's just energy converted into currency.

If proof-of-stake or something else actually works, then bitcoin's algorithm can be changed to that.
Now that sounds like a fun conference to attend. I'd be curious about the positive impacts of cluster munitions, altho I'd be hard pressed to find any. I would imagine an ethics conference on this topic would have one session: "do not use".
Wow, search engines are having a busy day. First Brave and this one is on the front page.

I said it about Brave's purcahse of the defunct Clickz, and I will say it here:

Privacy is a feature, not a platform.

--

Building a business on this feature is not enough. It actually has to be better.

Competing with Google's 20+ year and 500 billion dollar head-start on broad search seem foolish unless you are willing to buy up the talent and resources to go head-to-head.

I'm not here to poo-poo effort, but I do think there is a better way.

One based on niches and human curation.

We can get around the problem of head-to-head competition with general search by focusing on better facets and data sets curated by subject matter experts.

At least, that is one hypothesis.
It is in the ePrints abstract, which is essentially public.
Native English speaker, no extra connotations that I recognize.
High res radar seems pretty energy intensive and doesn't scale down to typical drone size (especially considering the new registration requirements for over 250g drones). Dry branches have low radar signature but are still fully capable of catching props. Low torque motors paired with large props optimized for flight time and for smooth cinematic flight (remember, it's foremost a flying camera) aren't capable of super-fast braking either.
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Another reason is that we design websites for mobile users primarily, which requires more spacing due to touch input. And it's easy to just leave it in there for the desktop as well. It's also often more visually pleasing at first glance, even though it's less functional.

I got to say that HN does not provide a nice mobile experience in my opinion. I've clicked the wrong link many times due to lack of white space. However I agree that a lot of sites add way too much spacing between everything.
> Are accountants prohibitively expensive in the US?

No, they're not. Obviously cost will vary based on complexity (self employment, side-hustles, stock options etc) but for the most part a basic return by an accountant would be in line with what you're paying.
> funded by government funds, maybe even additionally with an AI regulation fee

Ahh, rent-seeking at it's finest. Do we really want to use the tax payer's money to fund this type of behaviors[0]?

[0] https://syncedreview.com/2020/06/30/yann-lecun-quits-twitter...
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>people who are all running the same OS

I don't think we can claim that by any stretch.
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The internet founded by the crazy far-right dude that believes in the Dark Enlightenment? I’ll pass.
Employers do withhold some income for federal and state taxes, and for social-security and some other odds and ends.

But the tax system is very complicated, with multiple tax brackets (income above a threshold is taxed at a higher rate), deductions, exemptions, exceptions, alternative-minimum, and more. There are deductions and exceptions for things like mortgage payments that go to interest (on only one residential property), donations to certified charities up to a limit, green energy incentives, travel to start a new job, who knows what.

So, we have to settle-up with lots of complicated forms each year, and I've tried alternatives to Turbo Tax, but didn't have enough confidence with the alternative's handling of all the complexity, they just were noticeably worse at handling all the complex details. Not that I like Turbo Tax or the overall situation, but for me it's either Turbo Tax or pay a more expensive accountant.
It's true that if you go and use that word in anything like the British normal fashion, let alone Australian, you will get panicked looks and be shushed.

But then again: for the most part, Americans don't know what bugger means. It registers as a silly British euphemism for the f-word!

Truly two people divided by a common language. Lets not even get into the fact that you can buy an accessory where the label says it's a "fanny pack"...
The algebraic structures multiplication brings is different from the algebraic structures from addition. That's the point of rings (as opposed to groups).

Nonetheless, in a ring (and all fields are rings), multiplication must and always is related to addition, through the distributed property (which I argue, the distributed property IS the mathematical term for "repeated addition").

Without the distributed property, you have no ring. You at best only have a group. Therefore, all multiplication operators ever defined (or more precisely, all rings) must have multiplication related to addition: (A * (B+C) == AB+AC)
I would love a search engine that searched mainly only Stack Overflow, Stack Exchange, Twitter, Flickr, and Reddit.

Google results are currently awful, full of blogspam and Pinterest-mirrored images. I don't remember when this changed.
> What you're really saying is that you don't think BTC should help banking the unbanked (because they often live in poor countries where their weekly salary is your cup of coffee).

That is not at all what I am saying. I'm saying that technically only a very small subset of transactions should be settling on the base BTC layer, and hence that is how incentives should be (and are) setup.
Another tired diatribe about how "the left" is "forcing people to silence".

Seuss Foundation not printing some books? It's "the left". Saying something your employer doesn't like and you lose your job? Definitely not a problem with the culture at your place of work or your boss, it's "the left". Twitter tells you that you're violating the terms of service and mutes or bans you? Definitely not a business decision of Twitter's, but some insidious conspiracy where "the left" is pulling the levers of power in the shadows.

People say something unpopular with a group of people and they do it in a way that has never been more public (YouTube, Twitter, etc) and are upset when that group angrily shows up and interacts in a predictably angry way. If you want to engage in public discourse in an era where humans are more connected than ever you have to suck it up and accept that there might actually be a negative response.
Brave has a long way to go to build real trust.
Too many reckless stuff: hijacking links, suspicious url-rewriting, crypto-token stunts, forgetting to communicate with users about serious privacy leaks with their faulty TOR window...
also it looks like they care about privacy only in their PR brochures.
Cryptocurrency mining is mostly about Bitcoin.

Bitcoin has maintained at least 60% market dominance year-over-year since its inception (averaging 75% all time dominance). Ethereum (which can be profitably mined using GPUs) has currently 15% dominance, with most of the other top 15 coins not being PoW (except for Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash and Dogecoin, from which only Bitcoin Cash can be mined either with ASICs or GPUs). Also, Ethereum is in the process of moving to PoS.
It's much easier to watch a pirated movie copy than pay for a movie service. Just open a website and select video. Done. Registration is not needed, no payments, no subscriptions etc.

and if you use an app for a movie service, then they will usually install dozens of trackers. Here is the list of trackers used by a tiny app LastPass:

AppsFlyer,
Google Analytics,
Google CrashLytics,
Google Firebase Analytics,
Google Tag Manager,
MixPixel,
Segment

When I use a website, most of trackers are blocked by uBlock Origin, so I don't care that much.
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I was making a different point, yes on most days it’s a net positive. But, it’s also introducing new black swan events like a short squeeze where the price becomes wildly disconnected from the underlying economic reality.

It’s often argued that a small increase on most days is more important than large but rare inaccuracies, however it’s a question of how you’re measuring things. If you use a direct average vs square root of the sum of inaccuracies squared etc.
I believe that's only for filing a federal tax return, and for filing your state tax return you still have to either use a tax preparation website or do it on paper.
For what it's worth, I know people share loyalty cards across large groups to mess this up. Me, I just eat the cost. Developing a "I will not play your games" has been great. I know people who absolutely obsess over gamified consumption (e.g., airline miles) and I'm glad to have the brain space for things that matter.
If you buy a high end wood plane today, it's still recommended you disassemble the whole thing, lap the faces and then reassemble.

They do a good job, but you can achieve better tolerances using equipment that costs less than the first plane (and which you might be able to borrow)
How come you include pigs but leave out cows?
But the point is that they can meet the deposit requirements on settled customer funds easily with those funds themselves, since those funds are actually settled. But on unsettled customer funds, they have to come up with their own money to bridge the gap until the customer funds settle.
It still totally works that way on Google Fonts homepage, nothing has changed.

The icons page is just a separate page that works differently from the rest of the fonts.
As mentioned in my previous comment:

There is a better way to service users interests; initially it was "keywords" - but now it can be more structured;

"I want to learn [topic]" and the response may be a step-by-step how-to on how to learn [topic]

TBH this was a subject addressed on NPR this morning.. People staying at home are talking about the old infra of edu where people cant be in person - but nobody is talking about the opportunity on changing the structure of learning at all - there should be seen the opportunity on changing the way in which we learn something.
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Brave has a long way to go to build real trust. Too many reckless stuff: hijacking links, suspicious url-rewriting, crypto-token stunts, forgetting to communicate with users about serious privacy leaks with their faulty TOR window... also it looks like they care about privacy only in their PR brochures.
In recent years, "AI ethics" generally refers to the problem of building regression models whose mechanics and outputs follow a certain set of political sensibilities. People investigating the problem you're describing typically identify their work as "AI safety".
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Good suggestion! The underlying tech actually does support diffing resources over time, so it would be very possibly to generate a delta report.
Germany prices on the supermarket (or even on a corner Kiosk) are much cheaper - you'll get a Beer as cheap as 0.25$ for 0.5 Liter bottle
Maybe I'm being too generous but the electorate has all the power over elected officials. If a candidate makes a big deal over free file and voters don't care, then the lobbyists are effectively absolved. You'd have to show me that Congress actually had this on their agenda and removed it at the behest of lobbyists to say it's really corruption.

Unless they're actively spreading disinformation or corrupting the vote.
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Businessweek used to be incredibly cheap, I remember having a web+ print subscription back in 2014 and paid very little. I'm legitimately shocked to see how much it costs now.
The cuttlefish test was very different though. Instead of more food, it's about better food.
> it had documentation on mainframe products going back to the 1990s

Holy crap! That's so old that it's when I was programming (in assembler) on a 3090! (First programming job. Early to mid-90s. Moved to *nix. Never looked back)

:)
Thanks for the input! I'm going to reflect on this.
I take it someone finally put down the smartphone and picked up the telephone? It turns out retired 70+ year old math legends don't frequent Twitter, so of course the chances of the "crypto community" hashing this out through ever increasing frantic Tweets weren't great.
> I'm actually excited about the idea of a search engine that I pay for.

Right now you can pay to host an instance of the internet meta-search engine SearX: https://searx.github.io/searx/
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I think the most interesting idea here is that of Goggles, filters like

- trusted product reviews
- left biased media/right biased media
- my cooking sites.

This is something we've been doing for a while in Insight (YC W19) (https://insightbrowser.com/) and our users really like creating and sharing them. They work on top of Google, DDG or whatever your search engine is. We suggest useful filters as well.

It's cool to see that idea proliferate — it could be a part of every search/browsing experience soon. All modern search engines try and guess intent that that's an increasingly difficult guess to get right.
> Another thing that often bothers me are claims and emphasis of how fast constructions are. This just makes it easier to brute force.

People generally talk about speed of encryption and decryption. You're complaining about time for bruit-force attacks. In general, there's not a linear relation between the two, and the time for initial TLS session setup matters. If it takes a year to hit amazon.com for the first time, how many people are going to visit amazon.com?
> I'm not sure if you're aware, but this is a very US thing. In Europe it's not even uncommon with laws against discriminating on these grounds as well.

As (almost) always when "Europe" comes up in the comments of this site to oppose it with the USA: *Europe is not a thing* (as in: it is not an homogenous thing at all, it covers many different countries with many different situations, laws and everything).

At least in France, quite many jobs require a criminal record to be presented, to check that you were not sentenced for a crime/offence deemed incompatible with the specific position.

It is less invasive, and less public than in the USA, but it pretty well exists and is perfectly legal.
> it’s going to be hard for the less attractive ones to develop the necessary capacities.

Exactly this. After hundreds of attempts and success rate 0 I simply lost any reference point. Should I invite her to museum or to the garbage dump? Come barefoot or in evening shoes? Say "hi beautiful" or "screw you"? I seriously have no clue.
Can we just take a moment to appreciate how insanely garbage the linked to site is?

The first thing you see is a large floating ad in the middle of the screen. Then there's a huge banner at the bottom of the screen asking for permission to send you notifications. Then there's a large banner at the top asking you to subscribe to a newsletter, and right under that there's an ad asking you to download (in my situation) curve. Once you close all that out, there are more banners underneath telling you that the site uses cookies.

A perfect example of how not to do things.
Wikipedia is a special case for me because it's owned by a non-profit which has thoroughly proven it can sustain itself on donations and grants.
Yes, it's rare. could you name other incidents where this happens? I feel like this is always brought up in these discussions, but it really only is an outlier. There'S not much to conclude from this.
The market depth could handle couple million dollars without changing the price too much, but if you want to buy/sell large amounts, you'd go to OTC.
Having dealt with tax authorities in several countries, it's a recurring theme that they have no interest in coming down on you hard if you seem to be trying to do the right thing and make actual efforts at compliance, as they have their hands full putting actual effort into dealing with people actually trying to evade tax.

What I always do if in doubt is to attach a letter setting out my assumptions. I've outright had to tell the tax authorities I didn't know the real numbers one year, because I realised shortly before filing that I'd lost documentation in a move, and so a whole bunch of details were estimates. Even that was accepted without additional documentation.

Of course I'm sure there are countries that are worse.