skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Web developers go out of their way to break Reader Mode. What incentive would they have to create content for a platform that competes with the web, which actively limits their ability . . . ?

It is unrealistic to expect most publishers of web pages -- or even most publishers of mostly-static text-heavy web pages -- to put their content on a competitor. It is still worthwhile IMO to try to steal from the web 1% or 2% of the web's user-hours ("person-hours"?) and that can probably be done (over say 5 years) with a small fraction of the web's static textual content (plus a little content that is not available on the web).

My guess is that the largest beneficial effect (on the world) of doing that will be to convince more people that the web is a mess (by showing them a less messy alternative even though they will continue to spend most of their online hours on the web).

Technically inclined people and people who used the web (or maybe Usenet) in the 1990s either already know that or cannot be persuaded of it regardless of what we do, but perhaps the most important effect of stealing 1% of the web's user-hours is convincing more people outside of those 2 groups of it.

P.S. I have already noticed the potential for machine learning to help users of the web: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27856814
In Australia craftsmen (called "tradies") are booking 18 months out, will only work on the things they want to (i.e. new builds, because they're easy/clean), and are easily making $100k - $150k a year.

Most of them still prefer to surf than work !
Yeah, the availability of countries and switching between several IP addresses is the only thing that I can think of.
During the Wild West, if someone stole your cattle but you didn't know who, you very well might have hired a private investigator to try to find the cattle and who stole them, followed by a request/demand to return the cattle. If they refused, maybe you could have filed a civil dispute to make it a matter of public record that your property was stolen by particular individuals, if the option was available. If it wasn't, the only other option was extralegal justice.

The only other option here is also extralegal justice, like committing a crime against the alleged perpetrators or their parents, such as extortion or theft, to try to receive compensation. Most would agree we don't want that to happen. So what do you expect victims to do? Just be like "well, I know who stole my property, but I'm a libertarian and civil courts are kind of connected to governments and I don't want to use anything connected to governments so I guess there's nothing I can do about it"?

I'm not really a libertarian/cryptocurrency maximalist/anti-government/anti-government-issued currency, so I might be speaking out of turn, but I don't think lawsuits of this nature are necessarily incompatible with libertarian values. Besides anarchism-absolutists, I think most people still support some kind of justice system to protect against things like theft and injury.
The inflation-adjusted SP500 has never recovered from the 2000 peak
Yeah he's not making a comedy podcast and often for his wilder guests like Alex Jones when confronted will say he's "fact checked" a claim. The fact check only extends to skin deep, one claim about coronavirus the fact check was that the article Jones was referencing existed nothing beyond that because it was a misinterpretation of a misinterpretation and completely wrong.
open a page you want to be read in Chrome, active google assistant and say 'Read It'. It also works with other Chromium based browsers (Brave and Edge).

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psEX5jPkYiw
I got duped like this once. I clicked on a crypto-bank in the /r/bitcoin sidebar, and it ended up being a scam.

Of course, this was when bitcoin was $500 and I was just trying to transf it off of a work computer.

If I was dealing with tens of thousands, I would not have been so foolish to try and transfer the bitcoin without expert help.

Who the hell installs a random app and then uses it to transfer millions of $$ in bitcoin?!? What a fool!
"Apple should stop nagging you to upgrade the OS if your hardware wasn't built to support the newer versions."

When Apple introduced OSX I refused to upgrade a G4; I stayed on OS9. I never connected that computer to the internet, it was only used as a DAW.

This "upgrade the OS" nonsense is an old trick. Microsoft made it infamous.

I had Windows computers back in the day, late 90s, where I only upgraded the hardware, not the OS. This went in direct opposition to all marketing, "technical advice" and hype.

These computers were always much faster. Hardware keeps getting faster and cheaper. Software keeps getting larger and slower.

Upgrades are almost never PRIMARILY for the user's benefit. Developers will never admit it. Upgrades are what developers want, not users. Then they try to convince people that everyone should want these "improvements".

Not that I know what other users want, but I want stuff that works reliably, does not slow down and does not need constant fixing. I prefer software that stays the same over software that is constantly changing. I like software that keeps doing what I installed it to do and nothing more.
I'm only a few years off 40. I have no plans to be anything other than an IC and think I'm much better now than I ever was. Personally I've only seen developers get better with age. Sure some are old and cranky but they are generally correct too.
Environmental impact reports are a disease and need to be abolished or reformed dramatically. Like make it only apply to a few named categories of things.
Interestingly, it is not a world record. In July, I noticed that in VAERS, there are a few people with 4-5 shots. The reports made for interesting reading.
Geez people - “checking account” should have been a relatively obvious figure of speech meaning “bank account”, or “cash and cash equivalents”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash_and_cash_equivalents

When you pull a balance report for proving personal or business funds, your bank includes checking, money market, savings, etc., the literal type doesn’t matter as much.

(Also, for replies saying the 6 months worth should only be in a higher return higher risk account — things that can lose significant value — well, ideally, no, that’s what you do with everything beyond your six months cash and cash equivalents reserve, or carefully understand your risk exposure and ensure black swan deviations would still leave you above your reserve.)
That is among the interesting questions, not the sole interesting question.

This paper seems to answer “can entities other than Amazon get data from me via network exploits?” and “are drop-in calls transmitted in the clear or using end-to-end encryption?”

You might not be interested in those answers if you’ve already concluded you’ll never own one, but that doesn’t make them uninteresting to everyone else.
Galileo didn't really do a good job of proving the heliocentric view though. His advocacy of it was based more on aesthetics than observations. There was a great look at this in an article called "The Great Ptolemaic Smackdown and Down 'n Dirty Mud-Wrassle" in the Jan/Feb 2013 issue of Analog. The author has an expanded version on his blog here [1].

[1] http://tofspot.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-great-ptolemaic-smac...
We have reason to believe it's possible because we know we can simulate a single neuron. It's just the sheer complexity of full brain we can't scan and efficiently simulate.
Ask HN: It seems that I'm not a senior software engineer
I have been working as a software engineer for the past 10 years (just after getting my degree in Computer Science). I like to believe I have a solid understanding of the fundamentals of programming and software engineering: from automata theory, to compilers, generics, OOP, functional programming, SOLID, MVC, etc. I have read almost all the "N books every software engineer must read". I have been working with multiple programming languages and frameworks and in a variety of sectors (fin tech, e-commerce, automobile, etc.) While I can setup servers and databases (e.g., the typical nginx + mysql + ssh keys + ansible + bash scripting + a bit of terraform), infra topics is not my A game. I have been looking at the market (I would like to switch jobs) and 9 out of 10 job descriptions for senior backend engineers include in their "must" section knowledge about infrastructure topics such as Docker, K8s, GCP/AWS, CI/CD. Five or 10 years ago such topics were stated in the "nice to have" section of tech job descriptions for senior software engineers. Nowadays, it seems that companies care more about you being able to pack your code in a Docker image using GitLab CI/CD pipeline and write yaml files to describe the state of your K8s cluster.

Companies seem to value much more knowledge about GCP than functional programming or OOP. "Oh, you know why one should not parse HTML using regular expressions? Well, that's cute, but do you know how to setup oauth2-proxy in our K8s cluster? You don't? Oh well, thank you for coming."
I could also mathematically say that "almost all" integers are not powers of 58279. I think that would fit the commonsense meaning, even though there are infinite counterexamples.
People who purchase music and groceries from Amazon, for one.
Some ideas for that $10B, that I won't charge for:

- Fewer lines of code in production, to reduce attack surface (subtractive problem solving[1])

- Free and open source by default, to help defenders to inspect components before they use them and get outside expert assistance more easily when required

- Free and open source by default, to aid vulnerability researchers find and report problems in code at all layers

- Free and open source by default, so that vendors and developers can learn to work with an awareness that their output may receive (and in many cases may deserve) scrutiny

- Free and open source by default, so that the next generation of software developers and security professionals can learn from and contribute to a variety of widely-used codebases, rather than certifications that apply largely within the preferred and understood contexts of their corporate sponsors

Allowing end-users (for example, app store users) to see code would also be a nice side-benefit of some of that. I'm certain that 98%+ of consumers won't want to view or inspect app code, but for the small number that do, it could be important. Viewing HTML and JS source is no doubt how a large number of web developers begin their career journey.

[1] - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00592-0
Didn't know that bit of history, thanks.

"The band made a brief comeback in 2004..." Err, I saw them live in 2007 and their last album was 2011.
US leaving Afghanistan turned a mexican standoff into a hot war. Maybe we'll see a world war, who knows.

but what you will see is russia pakistan and china carving up US's corpse.
Having a very selective school in the Bay Area is a good thing, better than one that just keeps growing in size. You can't be super selective and huge. Hence Stanford vs Berkeley.
Can you name a country that has a strong, fair, and just judicial system without having complete control of their monetary policy?

I can’t even begin to imagine how that country would continue to exist. A government that doesn’t control its own monetary policy isn’t a government at all.
Because it was a figure of speech for “bank account”.
The claim was that what made him a gateway was his literally acting as a gateway:

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When you have extremists on and don't challenge what they're saying, that _is_ pushing a narrative.

This is in spite of his politics.
First instance of what?
Property rights are not possible without a monopoly on force. Property rights are inherently broken because it means someone is giving you rights over some __property__ that you're defending with some arbitrary rules.
They have been weaponized by activists. It can take up to a year to prepare one. Then the activists say things have changed over the year, so you must prepare another. And so on, so the project is indefinitely stalled.
But you also have to assess risks. Joe is a prime candidate for getting canceled. Being on YouTube carries this risk for him.

On Spotify not only he got some cash upfront, but also significantly mitigated this risk, since platform is way more aligned (i.e. it's important business for Spotify and a footnote for YouTube).
It's only ironic if the person who had their bitcoins stolen actually lauded crypto as an unregulated market outside of government control.
They should perhaps have said digital assets instead but their point is valid. Not all property has to be physical. We live in an era where digital and intellectual property exist and are rightfully protected by law.
I'd like to imagine he used the phrase "Not your keys, not your Bitcoin" at least once.
Not really. You surely know what the mob thinks about property and privacy rights.

100% of intellectual property rights requires a government. It's not really a right. It's manufactured. Patents user to he called monopolies. It takes a government to enforce such a regime.

Without a government there's no agreed upon, or forced upon, authority to prevent violence.
If you took Rogan's podcast and transported it back to, say, 2014, there would be no controversy. He would simply be seen as a liberal comedian having casual, friendly conversations with a wide variety of people.

It's just that we're currently in the middle of a moral panic and the self righteous authoritarian hall monitor types are having their day in the sun. Just as we saw in the 80s/90s with Howard Stern who was offending similarly delicate sensibilities. Although today's empowered puritans are not the same group that went after Howard, they are of the same cloth, merely rebranded to the time. It's an unfortunate recurring bug of America.

Frankly I find it incredibly boring, anti-intellectual, anti-curious and absolutely stifling. The sooner we all get back to ignoring them the better.
"Because plaintiff did not file his lawsuit until May 21, 2021, three years and five months after his injury, his claims should be dismissed."

Can someone please explain how the statute of limitations works?

From what this lawyer wrote, it sounds like the clock starts ticking when you find out you were injured even if you have no idea who did it. So, if it takes you years to track down the thief, then you're out of luck even if you file suit the day you discover his identity.

Is this correct?
Yes, the USA for most of its existence.
The exploit was that the victim downloaded some malware (that came bundled with software he intended to download) which ran in the background looking for a Bitcoin address in his clipboard and quickly replacing it with a different one. It wouldn’t be possible to do that in an ordinary JavaScript application (lots of restrictions on clipboard access) and the malware was not a website so turning js is irrelevant
Even if I cherry picked the one I thought was most clearest, none of them are even imply a shared set of principles that are followed without question, nor do any of the definitions under (1) contradict what I was saying.

>Also, when has Joe Rogan ever claimed, or even implied, that his beliefs are "authoritative"?

If you literally watch JRE today he does with regards to keto.
He's honest, curious, talks to interesting people, and uncensored. He's a great window into perspectives on life I don't have, and doesn't feel coercive or pushy when I disagree. I've learned a lot from him, and don't honestly have much of a substitute. Mind you, with the Spotify transition, I don't really trust some of those points anymore and haven't really listened since.
If this is all true the kid tried to frame another boy for the theft. The ethics of stealing aside, that's just pure evil, especially at such a young age. Imagine they'd not discovered him and it would have ruined the other guy's life having to go to prison for a crime they didn't commit.
Hmm maybe I should reconsider all those Amazon recruiter on LinkedIn...
so if someone is left but isnt as left as you then they arent left, right?

would you consider biden left?
>Firefox USED to allow accessing reader mode by prepending the url with 'about:reader?url='. This doesn't work anymore and I don't know what to use instead.

Prepending `about:reader?url=` works for me, but only for pages that Firefox shows the button on anyway. For pages where it doesn't show a button, prepending `about:reader?url=` says "Failed to load article from page", which is to be expected because...

>Sometimes the button just doesn't appear (why not, reader mode usually works fine).

... the Reader Mode script uses heuristics to identify if the document has an article. So it can't work on a document where it can't find an article to extract.
Linus Tech Tips addressed this claim in a recent video comparing GPUs that were used for years to mine crypto vs like new identical or similar GPUs. Turns out it's barely 1% a year and that's likely a difference in cooling capacity from a dusty card.
> Neither of the defendants’ families are disputing the basic claim that their kids stole from Mr. Schober. Rather, they’re claiming that time has run out on Schober’s legal ability to claim a cause of action against them.

I was honestly shocked to read this. Can it be surprising the kids think it's okay to steal if this is their parent's response? Clearly two very smart guys but in the long run ethics matter a lot more than money or intelligence.
> Can you name a country that has a strong, fair, and just judicial system without having complete control of their monetary policy?

This description seems to apply to most European countries, who have explicitly given up some control of their monetary policies.

So, Germany, for example, seems to contradict your thesis that any such country would quickly cease to exist.
What's the difference between your bitcoin balance at Coinbase and your cash balance at Wells Fargo? Neither is physical property. There's not enough physical currency in circulation in the entire US to buy out Apple, let alone back everyone's bank accounts.
Sure, but people shouldn't dismiss something bad happening to a public institution (as in this case) as inevitable, just because it's public.
Google used to advocate "Do no evil" Why not advocate that again?

Any old twat can shuffle numbers around - it means nothing.

(Feel free to DV me to null but why not engage instead)
The world you're describing is one where the weak and poor are beaten down and killed, because they have no agency to protect their property.
Wait, when was the US not in charge of its monetary policy?
All the salary ranges can be found on levels.fyi already, and the numbers here match that. The hard ceiling from the article is interesting but the numbers probably will be stale soon anyway.
It is true. And yes, using the year is more politically correct given the current culture and climate.

I think the question of naming is less of origin, and more of cultures and what offends someone. Back when and where I was a kid growing up, people were mature enough to realize that terms like "Spanish flu" or "Chinese coronavirus" weren't condemnations of Spain or China, and we somehow never saw violence or offense over these sorts of things.

They were neutral, factual descriptions. And yes, factually, the Spanish flu was first widely reported in Spanish newspapers.

In the US in 2021, it seems like racial tensions run high, and these sorts of thing DO lead to offense and violence.

It's an odd shift, but not an unreasonable one. A big part of this has to do with intention. With COVID19, the racial terms were intended to be offensive by many who used them. Whether someone is trying to insult you goes a long ways to whether you might reasonably feel insulted.

Have you heard of anyone being insulted by "Spanish flu" prior to the e.g. 1980?

As a footnote, a more subtle way to play this is to code switch language based on where you are. In China, I don't get offended by people calling me fat, whereas in the US, I do.
Do you enter CC info on random porn sites?
> The various health authorities told people not to use masks at first because:

> Hospitals were in danger of running out of protective equipment.

They said: "We need the masks for hospitals. Please don't use masks, because they don't work for you, they only work for us in the hospitals".

Why would anyone take from that that masks don't work? How/why did people believe that? They literally say that masks work. This is one of the greatest mysteries for me.

Could you maybe also pull this off in some other context, too? "We want the good stuff. But it doesn't work, so please don't buy it. Leave it for us"? Could it be made to work?
You've made the "it's just math" argument multiple times in this thread, but it's irrelevant.

Bitcoin are securities that have value because people say they do. Saying that BTC is just math is like saying that credit default swaps or frozen orange juice futures are just pieces of paper.

The market assigns value to things. What those things physically are is irrelevant; If there is a buyer and there is a seller, the thing is real and has value.

There's no question that theft of BTC is theft, the fundamental technology behind it isn't relevant to whether or not it's theft because people treat it as a concrete security that can be bought and sold.
The author of the blog post is a senior PR (titled government relations, but basically same thing) guy, so I think your assessment is fair.

IMO - Every word of that blog post should be taken as code for "this should keep the US government off our back for a while and probably help us win contracts."
Bretton Woods is one notable example, it was in effect for the US from 1945 until 1971.
The statute of limitations argument isn't an argument stemming from guilt, it is merely an issue which may block the lawsuit before anything else is even presented to the courts. The mom isn't saying "Yeah he stole them, but the statute of limitations has expired". She is saying "This lawsuit doesn't even have standing because the statute of limitations has expired".

If someone sued you for property stolen 50 years before you were even born, you would still argue the statute of limitations has expired before even getting to the physical impossibility of the act.
I think the problem is that trial outcomes are often reported using language as if the judge personally endorsed the entire case of the victorious party, as opposed to simply deciding the case in their favor.
I bought a kitchen knife there maybe 8 years ago. Lovely knife, surprisingly cheap. Still excellent; I wish I had bought more. It was so much cheaper than our other (german made) kitchen knives and just as good if not better.

Mr Zamorano was also super nice despite our limited spanish. Hint - get it wrapped well for travel. He asked if were traveling on rail/air and made sure the knife was nicely sealed. Sure enough, the RENFE folks found the knife and inspected it carefully before we could board.
I don't disagree that these sets are the same cardinality. But cardinality isn't the only way to describe the "size" of a set.

I suppose the typical measure-theoretic definition of "almost all" / "almost everywhere" insists on "everywhere but a zero-measure set", and you can't define a measure that satisfies sigma-additivity that treats intervals of finite Lebesgue measure as such, while ascribing nonzero measure to sets of infinite measure.

But even so, the Lebesgue measure of R is infinite, while the same measure of the unit interval is 1.
You don't think armed agents will come...?

No, I do not, because that's not how the IRS works. Do you have evidence to the contrary? Perhaps even a single example of "armed agents" showing up to the residence or workplace of someone who has failed to pay those taxes?

your recourse is to do something similar to what the IRS does when they do not get paid.

Except that I don't have the authority to garnish wages or put liens on property. Like the IRS does.