skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess it's a reference to https://youtube.com/watch?v=BpsMkLaEiOY

Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9048110
Seems like they are trying to get a bite of Patreon's cake. There's a fair market for paywalled dev builds in game dev, I wonder if that will become more popular in other fields of programming as well.
Fundamentally, the more popular the chain, the more expensive transactions are going to be.
Hollywood movie explosions
An absolute shitload. That's a metric shitload plus 273.
Sure. there is a cost but iumagine a GNOME dev /designer getting his hands ona video game:

1 remove the difficulty level settings, we keep medium , like only a small percent use the Super hard so fuck the those customers

2 remove brightness sittings, the game is calibrated for the desgner expensive screen

3 remove settings for FOV, bloom,shitty effects, we force teh customer to endure our preferences, if they fill sick fuck them, they can refund

4 remove Controls settings, we see what most people use and we force everyone to use that, if someone does not like it they can use a third party hacking program to customize the cntrols.

5 Sound and Music volumte, remove them, the Speackers and headphones have buttons for this, the OS has buttons for this...

.....

Sure settings cost but removing or not adding them is a "fuck you" to the customer, you can get away with it if you either are GNOME and your product is forced as default , or if you have no competitors that can provide a similar product with better defaults, options and features.

Btw I am talking about real features and not how round your button corner is, at my work we had 1 customer requesting our app be able to process TRL(right to left) input and output, we probably had 10000 users but we implemented this feature for this 1 customer because we realized that we can do it and we could gain more customers if we have this feature. Now you have an extra button/checkbox for the RTL option in the GUI , the problem is not that this feature exist maybe the problem is the designer that is not competent ernough to make this RTL button fit nicely in the GUI.
Clickbait editorialized title, and their system seems pretty reasonable. If they suspect someone is farming BAT (eg. using a bunch of VMs with different VPN endpoints to look like separate users) they simply won't show those "suspect" users any more ads.

Also, I used Brave for a few months with a VPN enabled and had no issues with ads or redeeming BAT, so it clearly is just one factor they take into consideration when looking for ad fraud.
Except if code is law then whatever the code permits is by definition allowed
Unrelated, but the replication crisis in medicine is the primary reason why anti-vaxxers have a right to be skeptical, even if they're wrong and spout nonsense. Now we *know* that a large percentage of cited medical research is fraught with uncertainty and is potentially non-replicable. Therefore, people have a right to be skeptical of "the science" even if they don't have a coherent counterargument. It is extremely reasonable to be suspicious of statistical methodologies in vaccine safety studies and adverse reaction reporting; there are statistical errors and even outright fraud all over the scientific landscape, so why not here? And given the extremely perverse financial and political incentives found in this particular pandemic environment, I would be extremely surprised if there was NO foul play happening, because you would have to be a hero to ignore these incentives.
Maybe that is something about European psyche that worships bureaucracy as the highest human achievement.

I am more into the camp which likes hiking for the sake of it instead of recognition by some regulatory body.

Camino de Santiago has a stamp system but it is mostly for the purpose of getting free lodging and meals on the way. People can cheat but those people probably are not interested in those simple accommodations anyway.
I would be curious to hear a response from an insider to Alon Levy's post about why American transit construction costs are so high: https://pedestrianobservations.com/2019/03/03/why-american-c...
Why downgrade my developer experience, when my GC language also offers C++ class features if I really need them.

People should learn more about what is in the toolbox.
L6 at Amazon is two levels up from the bottom (“senior engineer”)? Where are they making $500k-$600k a year?

From levels.fyi, FAANG and the unicorns are almost all in the $300k-$400k range. Have offers gone up $200k in the last few months? Or are you assuming people are moving up a level?
FWIW, I found this complaint a useful heads up. For back-button breakage and paywalls, they're even more useful since I never want to visit the link in those cases. With twitter threads, it depends on the device I'm on.
Bridges like that are not decentralized and rely on trust, I don't think anyone consider them to be DeFi.
I couldn't help but notice there's a second Google privacy fiasco in the top 10 on Hacker News today. The other topic is about Google Maps no longer allowing navigation without the wifi scanning permission on Android:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30167865

Within the last week or so I also noticed that the YouTube homepage -- the content shown at https://www.youtube.com/ when I'm signed in -- has switched to a mostly empty page demanding I turn on YouTube watch history:

https://imgur.com/a/45PxHZm

They literally removed all the content from the YouTube homepage in order to beg for permission to track history...

It's kind of hard to believe these moves are a coincidence. There seems to be a shift across multiple products, specifically Maps, YouTube, and Google Workspace.
Pretty sure their whole foray into metaverse and Oculus VR is to capture the younger generation of the future.
> the onus is on seller to prove service was rendered.

The issue I have seen is the fraudsters set up their own e-bay store (they set up a second account with a fake you as the customer), and then e-bay is very agressive about defending any charge backs. Even when e-bay knows a store is a fraud, they will agressively defend any charge backs to that store, even when they themselves have shut that store down for fraud. You're not just defending yourself against fraudster, you're defending yourself against an extremely powerful corporation with experts that have boilerplates that drown the bank in 'proof' that the service is rendered.

E-bay has officers who generate a lot of paperwork that exactly walks them through the legal requirements they need to stall and fend off chargebacks from the bank and in practice the bank doesn't have the patience to overcome this. The fraudsters seem to have evolved to either provide the compliance officers the exact information they're looking for, or formed some weird symbiotic relationship where it's easier for them just to go along with the fraudsters than fight it. You'll be shocked at how convincing they are in 'proving' the service was rendered. After 24+ hour on the phone with a bank, months of formal processes and claims/appeals, and continual mocking by the bank you'd be surprised at just how much money they will invest in making it unprofitable for you to get your charge reversed. Hell just _initiating_ the chargeback took me half a working day -- how many people can spare that ? I only did because I had the day off to move.

In short, e-bay has evolved a legal team and process with extensive and expert experience in absolutely steamrolling chargebacks and they use the full force and power of a massive well of knowledge, human labor, and funding they have in this area to crush you, with little regard for the veracity of your purchase.

> people rarely keep money on their own wallet

Well I do

>the private key can be easily lost

It's actually not that hard to memorize a cold storage seed, and you definitely won't forget it if you have money on that account. Hard to lose that and impossible to steal.

But sure it's true, crypto is fraught with fraud and misplaced keys, as well as DeFi hacks and all sorts of other issues.
Apologies if it was clickbaity, I did use literal quotes from their own docs. I am a new user to Brave and their docs is all I have to go on.
Oh I’ve been building one! But mine is truly different™, basically I gave up the idea of organizing bookmarks, in favor of searching them instead, building your personal search engine

In fact I’ve been blogging about it as I build it https://omnindex.substack.com/
"I don't understand this 'Internet' thing the kids are using, have no intention of trying it, and I already don't like the newspapers!"

"at lewd teenagers dancing to the latest tune or whatever the kids are doing these days." ... is a seriously dim view.

TikTok is literally the #1 app in the world, and for someone curious enough to read HackerNews but unwilling to even try app to understand the nature of its impact is a bit odd.

Personally, I despise Twitter, but I read it occasionally, and understand why it works, and what kind of content is on there. I would find it problematic to work in tech with someone who doesn't understand 'why people like Netflix' having never even bothered to stream a video before.

In particular, the feed algorithm is unlike anything else in tech and the content is definitely a lot less toxic.

You should definitely try it, that doesn't mean you have to like it.
>Why is asking users for consent, a key piece of GDPR compliance previously, suddenly not OK?

Asking for consent is still OK. Just the way how IAB has been doing it is not OK as it was found to not constitute explicit consent.

And before you say that explicit consent is not defined there are easily accessible guidelines from the European Data Protection Board.
https://edpb.europa.eu/our-work-tools/our-documents/guidelin...
Agreed. I actually spent about an hour on Tuesday looking for alternatives to outdated JS libraries, and every one of these "alternatives" sites listed mostly tangentially related libraries and very few actual alternatives. I imagine they're mostly generated by user behavior somehow, but something could use tweaking for sure.
The Integrative Role of the Sigh
All-New Apple Yas Mall Now Open in Abu Dhabi
This is not what he said
How long ago did you see Cruise cars doing these things?
Because you were comparing Apples to Oranges.

Now try that against D, any .NET language, Nim, Swift, Go, or any other GC language that supports value types and unsafe programming.
The military can be quite pragmatic, when they want to / need to.

Compare https://www.gwern.net/Backstop

Basically, war (or the threat of war) is what keeps militaries honest.

Competition and the threat of bankruptcy keeps companies on their toes.

Evolution keeps brains honest.

But those forces are rather blunt, so the day to day optimization has to proceed by other means.
You know how some people still think we can live in a world where covid is eradicated? I still think we can live in a world where major social media companies are eradicated. Or at least can't churn out new dangerous variants to re-infect the immunologically naive 14 year olds who think it's a brand new generational trend every year.

I've watched this marketing turnover at least three times now in the music industry, and I really think the killer antibody is exposure to history. The operative question for a 14 year old hearing a super "original" band isn't what does this say to you... because they know what it says to them but they don't know how easily they're being manipulated by the distillation of time-worn, shop-worn, lazy songwriting. The question is: Hey, do you realize who they're ripping off? You'll be a lot cooler if you know.

That's the pill every human needs when they encounter a new and addictive social media platform.
> The "regular folks" here are decidedly in the tiny minority. "Regular folks" by the percentages in Canada got vaccinated

I won't speak to the other arguments you made but conflating "People who are vaccinated" with "People who agree with COVID restrictions" is frustrating and misleading.

For some reason the media keeps failing to make this distinction, e.g. "The protestors are a fringe minority, and that is because 90% of the population is vaccinated". You can look at the statistics of how many people are boosted (41% of Canadians) to see that not everyone is onboard with current public health recommendations, even if they were OK with the idea of getting vaccinated initially. If you start to deconstruct the numbers and look at polling there are a lot of indicators that the majority is not in favor of restrictions.
I think your read on the parent is right but despite that, I'd encourage you to check it out. IMHO, the most interesting developments in computer science are happening right now in web3. Stay away from the NFTs/DEFI and just learn about the new systems being built. If you look into the technical details of these new distributed systems, game theory applications, and zero-knowledge proofs, I have a hard timing believing any programmer can't see the new features unlocked in how we build things.

It's also socially important for well intentioned people to join the system right now. Web3 is a thing, it will happen. Mobile happened and now two companies worth roughly a trillion each control it entirely. Web3 is roughly on the same path. It's being built right now to gate keep and capture value. If you don't want to the internet to continue to dwindle down to a privatized button pushing consumption app, the battle ground is web3.
Okay, so to be clear, you're saying if I want to use a VPN that I cannot and should not expect BAT rewards to work.
The cynic in me answers this with: "Because they got professorships out of it". But then I'm quite cynical
Here's an opposite point of view:

"Sometimes the Best Ideas Come from Outside Your Industry"

https://hbr.org/2014/11/sometimes-the-best-ideas-come-from-o...
I think this is an energy activated "nano-scale" vector. Whether the vector is microbial, or chemical, I think one way to look at the support for this theory is because the targeting is so specific.

If it was just "directed energy", surely other people would get cooked as well.

But if you combine two vectors, you can target right down to the individual, simply by having some physical contact to deliver the "nano vector" and then bathing the general area in the right type of radiation to activate it.

It also provides extremely wide options in terms of tissue/protein targeting, and the technology for doing this targeting already exists. The non-obvious thing to me is how do you then "activate" it with energy...but I'm sure it's possible.

I think I get the how--but I don't get the why. Why only "embassy staff"--why not target other influential or important people?
I remember that from college but maybe I’m misremembering or maybe I’m simply wrong.

After a brief look around, I also couldn’t find anything about harm to the participants.
The picture you paint of connecting with friends and acquaintances is no longer how Facebook works for me.

The last years, my Facebook feed has been completely dominated by a few groups I'm in (OK, I guess - but not what I signed up for originally), news and commercial entities I have "liked" at some point, and ads.

I never see my friends there any more, unless they're the marketing hustle type. It feels honestly not entirely unlike LinkedIn, which is not a compliment.

As a test, I visited some of my better friends profiles to see if they have posted anything lately. None had. For YEARS. All their content has moved either to Instagram or Snapchat, or they have just stopped posting altogether.

But my group of friends still use Facebook as our primary Event invitation system, and roughly everyone has FB Messenger (as that's the standard here in Norway).
I think all centralised social networks have a shelf life.

The question has always been if META manages to create/buy the next big centralised social network after facebook.
And this has always been a long shot.
Again you are talking about the framework as if it is exactly the same thing as the papers that attempt to describe it. It is not. Your statement that "deductive frameworks can't be wrong" is irrelevant to the question of whether a math paper can be wrong. If I prove something, it can be wrong, and it may turn out that I haven't proved it at all, but I can still call it a proof, convince other people it's correct, get it published in a journal, and have other mathematicians rely on it before the mistake is discovered. Papers can be flawed. The papers are not the framework. The reason you think they are the same thing is probably that mathematics has not had that many big mistakes recently, since the renewed effort on solid foundations last century, which means the system is working.

You can't define your way out of the fact that mathematicians will make mistakes and write papers that draw conclusions that are not valid. They are just pretty good at discovering the mistakes, and finding them is culturally essential to the practice of mathematics; arguably if it were not, it would be a big game of Numberwang. Psychologists are, on the other hand, not nearly as good at discovering mistakes. We didn't have to use any properties of the self-containedness of the disciplines to get to that result. It was not necessary to prove mathematically that mathematics does not or cannot have a replication problem. You can just observe it.

(Edit, all of that in brief: if it were truly impossible to be wrong in maths, then why do mathematicians spend so much time trying to verify each others' proofs? Are they wasting their time? Or is it the entire reason there isn't a replication problem?)
Ok, but is that hate speech?
Happened to Bitcoin as well, the moment was the big block debate and UASF - the narrative from Bitcoin Core developers for years had been "miners hashrate 1 CPU 1 vote" (this is how they drove BitcoinNG out, the client by Andersen the person Satoshi left maintainership to). Then over a day decided to flip "well fuck the miners it is the users running node software which can activate a fork". No clothes.
Life lessons from the book by an IIT-ian turned monk
Thanks, I am new to Brave and saw it in their docs and was alarmed.
> Looking at my teenage kids and their friends

I wonder how important this demographic really is. I understand there's an argument for kids being the future, and so on, but almost everyone I know with disposible income is on Instagram and Facebook, via the apps, and seeing ads. As teenage kids stop being teenage kids, they're going to start caring about sharing baby photos and travel photos and cyber-bullying their mayor and stuff, for which the only games in town are Instagram and FB. In short, I don't think it matters if teenagers are ignoring the platforms as long as they age into them, which I think they might well, especially considering kids don't actually have much money to spend.
FTA: “In 1993, the bridge lost its function as a river crossing for train traffic between Breda and Rotterdam due to the arrival of the Willemspoort tunnel.”

It’s an unused bridge, left as an iconic monument.

And no, blocking the waterway for a week or so won’t affect locals, either. Most shipping passes at the other side of the island.
This came up in another thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30181560), it's pretty interesting. I have never heard of the sigh as a physiological function before.
UN accused of colluding with China to delay Xinjiang human rights report
For some reason (I suspect why, but I won't go in there), Brave doesn't have good opinion here.

I am a happy Brave user for the last 5 years. FF is my backup browser but I tend to find the need to use it less and less.
I am not a "yoga type" so I was completely unaware of Neti pots. By chance my doctor told me about a "Rhino horn" which is available at the local pharmacies around here. It is the same thing.

https://www.yogaprosess.com/usa/

(I am not affiliated - any odd neti pot will do!)

You mix salt and lukewarm water. It gives instant relief. Even if you are not fully obstructed it relaxes the nose. When fully obstructed just have a little patience and it will rinse through.

I think Yoga practitioners use it as part of their daily morning routine. But I am too lazy and only use it when I have a cold or allergies (been around cats and horses).

It was a really weird thing to use the first couple of times. But the relief is so worth it.

This is a total game changer for a CPAP user. If you nose is clear when you go to sleep the pressure from CPAP it often enough to keep the nostrils free.
> try to capture the entire stack, with some crypto stuff slapped on top to monetize

No. The last part of your sentence is what stops them from being able to do the first.

There is absolutely nothing stopping any competitor to set a different ad network that also uses BAT as the payout. There is nothing stopping Facebook (or any other media company actually) to start accepting BAT for payments.
Pinboard is the clear winner in this market, as evidenced by the fact that Pinboard acquired at least one other defunct bookmarking site.
There is currently no major city in China under lockdown. China relies much more heavily on contact tracing and mass testing than on large-scale lockdowns.

At the height of the "wave" this winter (which means about 200 infections/day), about 20 million people in China were under lockdown, out of a population of 1.4 billion (that's less than 2% of the population). That "wave" was successfully contained, and the major city that was under lockdown, Xi'an, reopened (the lockdown lasted 3 weeks).

The vast majority of people in China have not experienced a lockdown since April 2020.

> Once Omicron gets into a country, that's it.

China has already successfully controlled a few Omicron outbreaks. Omicron is a bit harder to control, because the serial interval (the time from one infection to the next in a transmission chain) is a bit shorter, but it's not fundamentally different. Your contact tracing has to be faster to control Omicron, and Chinese contact tracing is very fast. They identify all close contacts of an infected person within hours.

> Denmark is back to normal.

The vast majority of China has been back to normal since April 2020. The advantage of zero-CoVID is that it allows life for the vast majority of people to go back much closer to normal for the vast majority of the time. If your neighborhood has an outbreak or if you're a close contact of an infected person, you may have to quarantine, but outbreaks are few and far between in China, so these measures only ever affect relatively few people.

Danish people have been living with on-and-off restrictions for two years. The average Dane's daily life has been more restricted than that of the average Chinese person.

> Eventually, they will have to bite the bullet.

Not in the way that most countries have "bitten the bullet." Chinese public health experts have said that they will reevaluate the policy when drugs and vaccines render SARS-CoV-2 less deadly than the flu. We're not at that point yet. When/if China allows the virus to spread, it will be much less deadly, and China will not suffer the same sort of enormous death toll that the US and Europe have suffered.
Facebook says Apple iOS privacy change will result in $10B revenue hit this year
"Bitcoin currently has the highest cost to roll back blocks and therefore the most assurance."

Bitcoin was rolled back at the cost of sending out emails several times.
Facebook, great engineering org as it is, has done a lot of less than great things. Not just bad stuff to others, but less than optimal stuff for themselves as well. Could this be karma? Zuck's chooks coming hoome to roost?
It doesn't help that Saashub is from the same person.
I tried switching to brave for a bit and even signed up for their ad program, but it's a pretty infuriating experience overall.
Why would you want to live without one?