skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can help change that situation by joining the million or so Fediverse users or improving the platform instead of publicly dismissing it because it doesn't have a billion dollars in funding. It's quite easy to put together a feed with an update a minute if you really want that much activity.
Yeah maybe. I definitely have a strong opinion on CCP & authoritarianism specifically.

But I don't think interning millions of your citizens & committing genocide needs much context or has much complexity. Even considering the attacks that are used as an excuse to perpetrate the crimes. Even disregarding reports of 3rd reich behavior like forced sterilizations.

I just can't buy into there being hundreds of millions of informed people who think 'yeah that's acceptable' or even good AND that they are so widespread on english language western sites actively pushing back with troll behavior and downvoting etc.

Maybe there are and I just don't want to live in that world..

Also informed is interesting in that context.

I agree in some of our biases. Like we view China as pretty locked down and indoctrinated 24/7, but it does seem lots of commenters on HN talk about having more freedom & individualism than we assume.
Thanks, agreed the paper is miles better than the article! And to be honest an easier read... I almost wish it were the post instead.
I hadn't seen that, that is definitely another negative for me, but mostly I'm concerned with the constant lip service to users and privacy while simultaneously removing usefulness and eroding privacy in the software itself.

Firefox's only selling point right now is "we aren't chrome (yet)" and if I won't fall for that line of thinking at the ballot box I'm certainly not falling for it here.

All they have to do is be what they say they are. At least google doesn't pretend to not be evil anymore.
I haven’t seen my class of app discussed here. In my case, a mobile app is useful for a subset of features of my web app, but it would never replace to full experience. Very few customers would ever think to look for my app in the App Store. Nonetheless Apple wanted to force me to offer the subscription through the App and then take a 30% cut forever. I ended up just releasing an Android version as they were more lax about not including any payment option. I could see this opening up the option for a lot of business apps that augment functionality elsewhere.
Yes, but that doesn’t matter if you’re not using iOS or macOS.
it goes both ways, i've seen a shitty opinion eventually become the better option, the truth is often not well tolerated when it is first heard. sometimes the mob is wrong but their voices are louder because they are many. but yeah an opinion becoming the better option is generally not the case.

but yeah i use ff and chrome depending on the site, i don't know the negatives about using ff, doesn't mean their aren't i just haven't heard too many bad things about them
wild guess but get enough market share to "embrace, extend, extinguish" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...
I believe it is completely wrong to believe that software can be made secure. It is inherently unsafe, by nature. I believe every internet facing computer should be partitioned in two virtual machines, one that connects to the outside world, and another that contains user data. Processes in the user data partition shouldn't be allowed to connect to the internet.

The result of current design is that I have practically lost the right to write and use potentially unsafe software, even if I wrote it - something I may want to do for performance or practical reasons.
Because we do? Most people are not chronically dehydrated, despite what a vocal minority would have you believe.
The author's description of high school makes me feel grateful for the teachers I had. I guess I got lucky with a public school that had teachers that cared and made an effort to teach rather than have us do rote memorization.
Read another way - new tax plan could remove $2.9T from law abiding citizens and put it in the pockets of beurocrats, politicians and lobbyists.
I think the answer here unfortunately relates to power dynamics. I'm senior, and others believe I'm senior, so when I dismiss reviews like this, no one fights me. Sometimes, with folks like this, even without being senior, just standing up to them works.

As others have said, using linters, auto-formatters, etc often helps with this as a lot of the things these people like to nitpick are then standards enforced by code, and you can send them off to fight people about the standard ("but not in this PR").
More like:

"Firefox Browser:

1. It is not google.

2. It's not a Chrome fork maintained by potentially flaky/untrustworthy players.

3. uBlock Origin.

4. Multi-Account Containers."
Paragraph 6:

> Scattered excrement can cause bacterial infections in cows. And when their poop mixes with pee, it creates an environmental hazard: ammonia, which can transform into the potent greenhouse gas nitrous oxide. Half of the ammonia produced in Europe comes from cattle farms, says study co-author Jan Langbein, an applied ethologist at the Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology. Given the hundreds of millions of dairy cows in the world, he says, studies have shown that capturing 80% of cow urine would lead to a 56% reduction in ammonia emissions.
As an adult, over about 15 years, I've gone from around 140 lbs (nearly clinically underweight) to almost 200 (slightly overweight), but in my case it's a well known side effect of medication I take. So is diabetes.

I hate reading about this topic. I ask (rhetorically) how can it be that people pretend that normal weight is normally achieved through conscious choice?

I like to think even if I had stayed the same weight my own life, I would have insight enough, but in my position, it's really clear to me. I have a thermostat, and ingesting chemicals changed the set point. People who keep on gaining weight until they die must have a broken thermostat set on "high". It can't be psychological.

I feel like there's an awful conspiracy to gaslight people who are obese, because they can't be sure when someone says it's a matter of willpower, if they've always been that way. What to compare to?

But everyone who has spent much or all of their life at a normal weight, should know it doesn't take supreme effort or fanatical accounting. It doesn't require not eating when you feel like you're starving. Empathy should come from properly understanding yourself, even if you can't be philosophically certain what it's like in others' shoes.

People have free will, but you wouldn't tell a person who had a congenital inability to feel pain that they are responsible for injuring themselves, would you? You wouldn't construct a model of them as a person, as someone that enjoyed hurting themselves, right? Because conscious thought is not a replacement for automatic regulation.
Morbid, but hilarious. Well done.
I recently went the other way - from hugo to jekyll - on a few sites. I find jekyll to be easier to install, modify, and maintain.

And I recently rebuilt one of my Hugo sites the other day and got a notice about some function that is now deprecated and will break something soon. That’ll make the third time something like this has occurred with hugo in the last few years. Dun like it.
All creators should endeavor to get paid before they create.

The labor of creation is extremely valuable but once created the resulting data will be in infinite supply and this will drive its price down to zero. Therefore creators only have the necessary leverage before the data exists.
I was with well off people that were still humans. The Romney’s I was with, I’m really not sure.

If there was a conservative thought between any of them I didn’t hear it. Nor did I hear anything that I would have described as a “good take” on any thing, like if he were to suggest something on topic X, that neither proponents nor opponents of X would consider the idea valid. In a two hours, I don’t imagine I heard a single honest heartfelt conviction.

Without giving up enough to ID me to anyone at any time in the future, I can say this… the world would burn if the Romney’s were in charge.
5. Very keyboard-friendly

6. Incredibly customizable via CSS, including multiple rows of tabs
NativeScript 8.1 adds support for Kotlin
Either there isn't a precise goal so the requirements are scattered, or there is a precise goal and the requirements don't match the goal.
'spiler alert
Don't be so cynical. you are supposed to just assume the best intentions and then not think about the details too much
I believe that micropayments are viable between trusted points. By trusted, I mean that any surplus or debit between the two will be settled, on a daily/weekly/monthly/annual basis = no side will cheat the other. If cheating is possible, some form of escrow is needed, however, with escrow it is possible. The escrow must be a mutually trusted service.
I have a stock service and pay a fee to see a document or a quote, This is in milli$. 1000 M$ = $1. My monthly due is $2-3. They trust me and I settle, if over $1, once a month. Not settled rolls over to the next month. No escrow.
If I was doing an untrusted buy, I would have to involve an escrow service. My smallest buy is 1 milli$ - is a service that accepts and holds milli$ doable? It will be a simple accumulator/decrementer, but even so one side presents the document or stock quote to the escrow for a value of 1 milli$ who holds it until I pay the escrow the 1 milli$ and then serves it to me. On untrusted, there will not be a timely settlement period, as at all times the escrow MUST have either the 1 milli$ or the stock quote at all times and once mutuality occurs the escrow discharges to document to me and the 1 milli$ to the stock service. At the bottom end, say 1 milli$ the entropy of the exchange will have a value, which must be maintained or the escrow would suffer a heat death of $? - or the escrow could draw sustenance from somewhere - where is the question?
Q: What's the most glaring sign of a failed survey analysis project?

A: "I've conducted a survey and need a statistician to analyse it for me."

(I've seen this many, many, many times. I've never seen it not be the sign of a completely flawed aproach.)
I've used Firefox since release but I'm curious what other less popular browsers people are using these days?

For example, I have tried Bromite on my phone but the adblocking is limited. I've tried ungoogled-chromium on desktop and the speed is impressive.

The main things I want:

1. Speed

2. Speed

3. Native plugins that can preempt network requests

4. Configurable for privacy (referrer, first party isolation, etc)

All these are doable in Firefox but I've doubted them ever since Pocket integration
ALL my homies use Firefox. You didn't address the OP's point... how can anyone know how many Firefox users there are when Firefox users refuse to be counted?

You think that the subset of people willing to install a client side tracker and the subset of people who choose to use firefox are representative of the whole? You want to believe it is that way, but it isn't.
Because Bitcoin is twitter for your bank account. It exposes everything you do to anyone who can download the blockchain.

You can argue that some gov/regulator should have access, though good luck finding one country everyone trusts. More realistically, and practically, you could
require that, as many jurisdictions do with cash, we should have reporting requirements for when a merchant sells something for large amounts of cryptocurrency.

But its pretty hard to argue everyone should be financially naked and exposed to anyone who wants to look. To fix that, even if you're government surveillance friendly, you first need to make the blockchain zero-knowledge (which Monero actually isn't good at, but thats irrelevant here).
> If they won’t take a rapidly developed vaccine, why would they take a rapidly developed treatment?

* Ivermectin has long since been approved for human usage. It might not treat Covid very well (this is very much unproven) but a proper dose wouldn't kill you.

* People who are resisting the vaccines are famously seeking out the version of Ivermectin made for horses. Of course there's interest in trying this out.
> Although researchers have rarely thought to control for energy intake in their experiments, when they did, testing whether their animals get fatter than lean controls even when eating as little or less food, they almost invariably report that they do. “These mice will make fat out of their food under the most unlikely circumstances, even when half-starved,” as Jean Mayer wrote about obese mice he studied in the 1950s.
This is why having tests shouldn't be enforced by review, but if the code coverage drops for the PR, it fails tests.
This is just what I read off of the internet, but IIRC at the time the reasoning was in part because opening any is business is somewhat risky.

Thing was that by allowing dealers to open the business first, manufacturers could entirely offload that risk of opening a location that wasn't profitable, and watch the orders from the dealers. Anywhere that sold well, just open up your own store and undercut the dealer until he goes out of business and then return prices to what the dealer was originally selling for.

Putting in laws was meant to put a stop to that practice. Like I said, it's just something I vaguely recall reading on the internet so take it for what it's worth.
Indeed. And eventually they just go unenforced but still on the books.

Often waiting for a clever law enforcement officer or lawyer to use them to their advantage.
Yep.... laws of physics and the conservation of energy.

I'm 45lbs down, in some of the best shape of my life, and to boot I have my second XCO Bike Race this coming weekend! I feel better, I look healthy, and I'm happy.

I don't count anymore, but I do think about the caloric content over everything I eat now and try to keep it reasonable.
Facebook has already taken a stance on manipulating society.
Homeschooling is a great middle ground here if it’s available to you.
195 million vehicles, and "We are the embedded OS of choice for ventilators, train controls, factory automation systems, medical robots and more."
NativeScript is the best hybrid mobile app platform that you've never heard of. I think it's better than React Native (strictly at a functionality level), and beats the WebView approaches hands down.

The project has seen many stewards and seems to only be getting better though it still deals with old crufty packages that aren't maintained as much (if you search for certain things you'll come across very old repos with sometimes old unfixed bugs).
Oh no, it works like cash!

People will do things with money that you're uncomfortable with. If it's criminal, then laws and enforcement and investigation will have to evolve. That doesn't mean "well, I guess we have to give up privacy now. "

Not your money, not your business. Privacy is important, and it's a binary proposition. It's either part of the currency or it's not. You can't have any gray area because people are fallible, malicious, and stupid. You design the system to disempower human foibles as much as you can. Monero does a good job of that.
> if an account or content is reported by hundreds of people it’ll be taken down.

This is extremely simplistic view which is extremely prone to obvious abuse, I really hope FB does much better than this. With obsessive surveillance that FB collects on pretty much everything it can lay their paws on and then some, they could do much better than just counting abuse reports. Much, much better if they really had some smart people - like behavioral science PhDs they surely can afford and they now surely use to figure out how to better sell ads - to work on it for a couple of years, I'm sure they could arrive at something better than "if it gets more than N reports, shut it down". If they don't, it means they don't care enough.

> After all, there’s no reason for accounts in good standing to lie right?

Of course there is. Politicians lie all the time. MSM lie all the time. Why won't regular people lie all the time? Of course they do, for a myriad of reasons. And since there's no punishment for lying, there's zero incentive for them not to.

> There needs to be exceptions so such rules

No, there need to be better rules. If you rules suck, and you have to do exceptions for the nobles, they still suck for the peasants. Making it easy for friends of Zuckerberg is not fixing it, it's just sweeping it under the carpet and leaving it to rot.
I have no direct knowledge, but Intel has had a history of struggling in everything but x86, until recently where x86 has struggled.

Of course it's management, but there is a particular kind of management that spawns around highly technical, highly profitable industries where engineers originally took the company to prominence.

Basically, engineers in management will be displaced by sociopathic MBAs in management that will use machiavellian social isolation combined with financing tricks.

In a way this goes back to a classic high school quote: popular people are popular because they spend all their time being popular. Nerds aren't popular because they spend their time learning.

So the "cool businesspeople" swoop in, isolate and eject the engineering-focused management with quick fix finance tricks and the usual middle management dirty pool.

Meanwhile the engineering-focused managers, invariably doing no-good-deed-goes-unpunished things like good engineering and good-for-the-companey... well, those people's days are numbered.

Then it devolves into a two-caste system: the engineers thrown enough money to keep the moneymaker ship on course and flowing, and the management caste partying on the decks.

This is not an environment conducive to moving into new markets.
It's mind boggling Clapper wasn't crucified for this.
This sort of thing keeps happening and some sketchy outsider may get elected with catch phrases like "Drain the swamp". Oh wait...
On one hand, your point seems to be technically correct.

On the other hand, don't we average things that we can't technically justify all the time? Teachers give out homework and tests, assign a weight to each homework and each test, and average the results to assign you a grade. Is that grade arbitrary? Yes. Does that mean it is useless? Probably not.

If I were you, I would make your case based less on "you can't do that" and more on "if we used this approach to aggregation, we would improve our ability to detect cases X and Y that our customers really care about".
It's comparing apples and oranges though isnt it? Monero is fungible, cash is not.
> Both for humans and for animals, the recommended dose of Ivermectin to treat parasites is 200 micrograms per kilogram of body weight.

I think he might have meant the dosage that it is sold in is different.

Ivermectin for treating parasites is typically supposed to be taken as a single dose. For some parasites it might need to be repeated in 3 to 12 months.

If a doctor prescribes it to treat a human I'd expect the prescription to be for the right amount of pills for your body weight to deliver that single you-sized dose.

Horse ivermectin is sold in a quantity suitable for a 1250 pound horse.

From what I've read it appears that a lot of people buy that horse-sized single dose and use it all. Worse, a lot of them seem to take it daily.
I don't know, that seems kind of trite. Lots of kids have really bad experiences in high school, including being physically attacked: Slammed into lockers, rocks thrown at them, that kind of thing. I don't think that does them any good. Plus, high school makes a few kids miserable enough that they are willing to commit suicide. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger only if it doesn't actually kill you.

Anyway, we do have some empirical evidence of what happens when people skip high school, since many kids are homeschooled. My general impression of people who have been homeschooled is that they are just as much balanced adults as anyone else. That shouldn't be too surprising. Homeschooled kids still socialize with their friends, still struggle to understand concepts, still get into trouble on occasion.
Certainly von Neumann is far from infallible, but his views on the safety of technology were based on reasoning and knowledge, not what would make exciting prime-time TV. We're literally contrasting the inventor of game theory and modern meteorology* with a TV show where sounds travel through outer space and all the extraterrestrials speak English.

This is like discussing whether Stephen Jay Gould or Jimmy Swaggart has a more credible opinion about evolution. I mean, punctuated equilibrium might or might not be correct, but you're being ridiculous.

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/10/13/teching-the-tech/
https://archive.is/khTlp

> when you admit that Star Trek has as much to do with plausibly extrapolated science as The A-Team has to do with a realistic look at the lives of military veterans, life gets easier. ... Meta to this is the discussion of why we have to accept that film/tv SF is riding the shortbus — there’s no actual reason it has to be that way — but let’s not get into that right at the moment.

______

* As well as, as you point out, a significant contributor to the development of the fission bomb, the hydrogen bomb, and modern computation. He was also the guy who axiomatized quantum mechanics and the foundations of mathematics, discovered continuous geometry and quantum logic and Hilbert spaces, and solved the compact-groups case of Hilbert's fifth problem. I guess you don't know much about mathematics, so that won't mean much to you; suffice it to say that the "von Neumann machine" was among the least of his achievements. Not bad for a chemical engineer.
If we have no idea what it is, and no way to detect it, then does the category have any meaning or significance? Why aren't we worried about how "florp" everything in the universe is, where "florp" is a mysterious, non-detectable, seemingly incomprehensible property?
That's a popular view, but only true for people who don't have any deductions, depreciations, business expenses, mileage, etc. For a large group of people, the IRS can run the math only after you submit the full list of inputs.
There was a bug, with which the Zcash developers could have used to generate infinite coins for themselves, and it so far cannot be proven that this did not occur. I do not know how so few people are aware of it. I do not mean the trusted setup, but this: https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcash-counterfeiting-vuln...

The developers were funded by suspicious government organisations including DARPA and Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology.

It is centralised, with an organisation receiving significant coins directly from the protocol.

Opt-in privacy defeats much of the point and creates traceability issues - privacy needs to be the default for people to use it, for their coins to not be treated suspiciously if they turn on the privacy feature, and it is a requirement to have a large anonymity set.

Among other reasons, there are many...
The per country caps are intended to drive diversity, otherwise all of our immigrants would be from 1 or 2 countries.

It’s a good thing.