skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's overstating the issue here.

Facebook built their empire on browsers being super super permissive about tracking. Critically, this tracking was (a) something most users weren't aware was happening and (b) something that was very very possible to curtail, because it wasn't something Facebook controlled.

People started noticing, and they didn't like it. Browser makers and platform makers moved to make these unhappy people happier. Facebook got caught out, because their whole business is built on this invasive tracking.

I am 100% untroubled by the way this is playing out. It's not a general case problem. It's very specific to Facebook's dependence on an accidental aspect of the web that, when explained, most people are horrified by -- and that was fairly easy to rework.
arn't they good on funding now that they integrated their monero copy into signal ? https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/mobilecoin/ ...
If you stop watching after season 2, it's still fun.
1. Learn how blockchains work.

2. Go learn Solidity. Write a few smart contracts. Go try to hack a few. https://docs.soliditylang.org/en/v0.8.11/ & https://ethernaut.openzeppelin.com/ is a good starting point.

3. Read Smart Contracts that you use. Understand them (if you can't, go ask people who created them on Discord or reddit).

4. Be in awe that we can have such applications without any 3rd party.

Have more questions? Ask on reddit or Discord.
> Thank you, yes I am aware of that guideline. At the risk of excessive pedantry, I didn't actually say that Hacker News "is" turning into Reddit

Hello fellow "pedanter" :-)
I did pick up your nuance. To be clear, I was replying to this part of my parent message "It feel like it already is. Gone […]"
But sorry anyway, I didn't mean to annoy you.
The end of the article mentions but doesn't elaborate on how the beneficiaries are Google and Apple's surveillance advertising business which are booming.

Some commenters are speaking about a false dichotomy of Apple verses Google. Android open source platform does not contain Google. I don't use Google or Apple and do not recall seeing an overt advertisement in years.

Facebook makes no mention of the impact of deGoogled Android phones(GrapheneOS, LineageOS, CalyxOS,..) Linux, Ublock Origin, pfBlockerNG, Pi-hole, Adguard, or the other tools that block surveillance advertising probably because even mentioning them will create awareness that people can opt out of almost all surveillance advertising, including from Apple and Google.
Oh, yeah, that should have been caught.
Facebook replaced the phone book. In the 1990s it was difficult to find someone's contact information. With Google, you can find a way to contact someone, find their email. With everyone having smartphones you can find a way to get a text message to someone.
In 16 years, will the hardware still be working anyways? That's longer than any other network device I've ever used has lived.
It's also the starting point for Inductive Logic Programming (as in Shapiro's "Model Inference System"), as I'm sure you know ;)
This is the exact same situation as me. As I’ve revisited old hobbies I used to be obsessed with 10-15 years ago, I realize that EVERYTHING has moved from the VB-based forums, to Facebook groups and marketplace.

I don’t mind the marketplace architecture, it’s quite nice actually. But Groups is the absolute worst place to house former forum content because it’s just not indexed well. There a few groups that I’m in that are managed really well, which gives them ~60% the utility of a tradition forum still.

What I’ve done on FB is aggressively unfollowed every single friend and page that I don’t care about. My feed is now strictly a feed of group posts from people I don’t know about my hobbies that I enjoy…it’s actually quite nice!
I agree. Tests for example used to be in a separate folder mirroring the code folder structure. I have moved away from that to put it right next to the file.

Random thought: Can the IDE recommend next file to work on - “people who worked with this file, also worked on”. The real problem is not where we keep it, it’s how quickly we can get to it.
Defaults should be good enough I agree, but ability to change settings still should be there.

Some settings are even more important than others - like changing default browser in the operating system - that even if no one ever changes them they should be there basically by law.
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It's also likely that the majority of the money on the bridge was theirs to begin with.
"Second Life never really took off as a social space."

Not everything has to be a household name to be considered a success. Second life is very niche and very successful.
You may be small, but you’re hoping to ride the coattails of giants by exploiting the same toxic systems they do. A symbiote who survives on a predator by eating its filth.
> Moderate inflation is a feature not a bug. It drives investment and increases the money supply.

It fundamentally isn't as simple as inflation good, no inflation bad.

It's all fine and dandy until central banks lose control and inflation causes catastrophic issues. Not to mention that it's most definitely a bug for people that intend to save for basics like housing on smaller incomes that can't efficiently invest in assets. Inflation tends to benefit those closest to the money first, common assets second then everything else by which point a new cycle has already begun.

BTC & ETH aren't deflationary as much as they are predictable in their money supply. You could say that they elongate the time preference of investments and that isn't only a bad thing.
Yes, it's pub chat. I know what it is.

Me writing this comment to you is playing snooker, because the protons are bouncing off each other and stuff.

It's an attempt to discredit the network by using low-brow humour as a comparison.
The urls that are used for the streams are pretty well known, and can limit all traffic on those URLS to specific speeds. Here are a few for example:

Twitch: *.ttvnw.net

Netflix: *.nflxvideo.net

Hulu: *.hulustream.com

YouTube: *.googlevideo.com

Amazon Prime: *.aiv-cdn.net

Edit: This is by no means the only way to do it, just a potential way to do it.
Unless the owner is letting the property sit empty it isn’t going to have an effect on the supply/ demand balance of housing. Where you live is always going to have financial consequences that can’t be ignored.
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The past 5 years I only used messenger and miniature wargaming groups. That's all the utility FB provides, and sadly, I don't see the wargaming groups move anywhere else.
Yeah ok, but that one falls under "freak accident" in my book. Hard to think of a more spectacular failure in the recent past :)
“Code is law”? No, VM implementation is law!
The only reason I still have a facebook account is because I have logins for other sites tied to it. Haven't personally logged into facebook on purpose since 2016.
Would a vpn work around this?
Incredibly helpful to conceptualize what is going on. Thanks!
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>One day tech will be sufficiently advanced that it can adapt to the environment and user and consistently pick an excellent default volume.

This is sadly true, but I really wish it wasn't. There's no way to automatically determine the correct volume without privacy violating brain scanning.
Very poorly.

Supporting ignore files in the root of the search is trivial.

However supporting files deeper is much harder, since find does not support this.

For the case where few directories have ignore files, it's best to find all the ignore files first and generate one find command for each.

If most directories have them then it's faster to exec find for each directory, and use maxdepth 1

In terms of me just using find by itself, I don't bother, since I find silently ignoring files to be a misfeature, and I don't use git at work anyways
Is it more expensive comparing median income to median house price? I doubt it, Romanians don’t make very much.
Bookfinder to the rescue: https://www.bookfinder.com/search/?author=&title=&lang=en&su...
Small savers are protected up to $150,000. But not really - since they get worth less local current (has lost 90% of its value).

Rest of the depositors get 50% of their original value in a 15-year payment plan of local currency.

Wealthiest depositors (e.g. diaspora, Arab overseas investors, gulf states bodies) get 50% of their value in long term bond instruments and newly issued bank shares, reaching ~70% of the bank ownership. BUT, the shares have no special protection, so the current bank owners continue to control the local banking system.
> A huge success for IBM.

A huge success for users because it created the clone market. IBM was never a big player in the PC market after the clones came out.
My quick and dirty trick is to set an alpha=0.8 to soften the default colors. It always looks better.
You can buy THC gummies and THC vapes in certain Alabama gas stations now as well. I have no idea how this works legally though because it was only relatively recently legalized for medical use here. Must be something to do with some CBD-adjacent regulation that snuck in during COVID.
The cynical analysis is Democrats can motivate voters to get out every year while it remains illegal, at the cost of ruining peoples lives.
I feel that the solution to this would be some kind of generic online storage solution. Like Excel, but for the whole web, where you can put any kind of data in, get an address (a web-ified pointer) to it, and be sure that you can look it up again at any time, from anywhere, using the address key.

A generic online storage system with Excel-like properties.

If that existed, then people would use it for bookmarks, and probably also for a host of other types of online storage needs.
The reason Facebook is losing, is because they're boxing with two hands behind their back. They're blocked by de facto anti-trust from ever acquiring their relevant competitors.

Acquisitions are a critical instrument for large corporations in terms of competition. TikTok's parent, ByteDance, is not restricted by such problems despite how massive they are, for example.

ByteDance is a $400 billion market cap company that doesn't have to play the game the same way Facebook does despite the fact that they're clearly competing in the same tier of scale now.

And that's not a statement of woe-is-Facebook, nobody should feel bad for Facebook, it's just the fact of the real context they're stuck with and their giant competitor is not.
It depends. If you're not doing anything that pushes the boundaries then GC isn't a huge deal. After all, there are plenty of games out there written and running on the god-awful web stack.

But historically games have been boundary pushers, and a GC's overhead isn't really desirable in that space.
By this kind of reasoning, web browsers should be held liable for the websites you visit in them.
That's Ethereum though, not Bitcoin.
You were the one that brought up the product quality. But I'd argue that the quality of the product I went home with is part of the shopping experience.

I'm not saying that that's how app reviews should work, just answering your question regarding where the blame should fall in your store example.
Really getting tired of all those zero substance hate articles against blockchain by people who have no vision and zero clue of how long it takes for new technologies to reach maturity. This is a shitpost for all I care.
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Your comment is ageist, derogatory and smacks of fanboism.
Firstly, the full quote is actually:

> The "regular folks" here are decidedly in the tiny minority. "Regular folks" by the percentages in Canada got vaccinated and aren't harassing people who live near government buildings / borders.

That second part is significant and matters.

Secondly, in response to this:

> 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.

As I noted above, I didn't do that. Let's discuss your example anyways. Canadians broadly support further restricting people who are not vaccinated.[1] Next, Canadians broadly support ending COVID restrictions and trying to return to normal.[2] In the same study ([2]) nearly half (49%) of those surveyed blame the unvaccinated for prolonging the pandemic.

It might be ugly but the general attitude these polls suggest is one of "if you're not working with us, you're working against us."

> 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 addressed the latter part above. However, that 41% number is disingenuous for a few reasons.

1. The booster campaigns only began for the general population in December. In a number of provinces there is a minimum wait time for getting a booster shot after your second shot.

2. Each province handles health care on its own, so responses are different and rules are different all across the country. You can see numbers at a few places but there's a tracker at CBC that's still being updated.[3] The globe also has an article about the uptake slowing and suggests it's there's a variety of different reasons than just individual attitudes (though that is undeniably a factor for each vaccination).[4] On that page they chart out doses administered. Because supply was much higher the spike is much larger for the booster than dose 1 and the trend appears in most provinces to be following the second shot. Consider: 41% of Canadians got the booster within two months of the start of booster campaigns. This suggests it's actually pretty popular.

[1]: https://globalnews.ca/news/8532791/covid-unvaccinated-restri...

[2]: https://angusreid.org/omicron-incidence-restrictions/

[3]: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/track-how-many-people-have-be...

[4]: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-uptake-of-cov...
If they sold access to websites and made a cut from it, yes!
I'm about to shoot the shit. Oh well, here goes nothing!

* You proudly display your art. Someone right click and save as. They now have your art for $0.

Is this any different from owning a picture now, in the sense that pictures have always been a bundle of bits, which you could freely share across the interwebs since around 1995? People still buy pictures because there's some sensation in "owning" something. You can copy-and-paste a picture without legitimately "owning" it, but you've been able to do that since ~1995.

I don't buy art, so perhaps I shouldn't be the one speculating about these things. Maybe I buy CDs? But those have nice posters and concept drawings -- it feels premium.

I think NFTs lead one to ask what it means to own media in an age where the physical cost of media is $0.

Or for hell they might steal your real asset or even the NFT used to verify you own it.

- What is your recourse?

This is a serious objection. Maybe there's some mechanism you can build on top to deal with it. But that mechanism would be a human court, and we're back to where we started.
Too bad, the diagrams are too tiny and blurry to be of any use. And two of the references at the end are 404. A publicly accessible repository for the prototypical implementation would have been nice.
No set time they must be repaid. As close to a gift as you can get.
Everything they can possibly get with the app. Only message content is E2EE.

https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/privacy-policy

https://faq.whatsapp.com/general/security-and-privacy/end-to...
I bought a one time boost badge on Jan 12th and got a notification 3 hours later that it had expired.

Still to this day no response from Signal support. Every message I send is either ignored or their bot auto-closes the ticket claiming my Signal version is out of date (happened both when sending an email from the BETA version of the app and from their own website without specifying any version at all)
The exact number of memory cells in your computer is also bounded.
Isn’t Dell famously a private company?
> exchanges are making billions in profit

Is this realized profit in real cash, or book profit based on valuations?

Who puts real money into crypto by billions? I somehow doubt that enough actual physical people come to buy crypto. Is this money "invested" by funds?

This whole ethereum thing sounds like the old joke "we exchanged a dog worth 1 million for 2 cats worth 0,5 million each".. yet now they try to find someone who will buy this stuff at those bullshit valuations - to be the one left holding the bag.

Also if so much real money is generated then where are the billionaires? Actual ones who divested from crypto (to lower risk) and bought unsexy real world stuff.
I understand that in theory crypto is always growing, but who is coming to buy that 1 BTC for 36k usd? To get billions it would have to be a lot of people.
Ah, gaming consoles must not be things people use then either.
> I pay a lot more for other services that I use far less often and provide me far less value, so why not pay for this

Is that the only reason why you would like to pay for this service?

It seems irrational to me to justify an expense merely by the existence of other expenses.
Analytics helps authors understand their visitor demographics and if what they are creating is right or wrong (not in the moral sense). I don't publish free content for myself. If you want to anonymously consume others' work for free use Tor.

Site visitors are saying "how can we work around the visibly-expressed intent of the site authors and avoid giving them the data which they have visibly demonstrated they need".

I totally understand blocking trackers and ads, but the "holier than though" attitude you demonstrate above only helps to solidify the hold the incumbents already have. By all means block all the trackers from the demonstrably evil corps with motives that serve to exploit you... but asking small blog authors to act guilty so you can block their analytics while consuming their content for free is entitlist and exploitive on your part.

That said, I'm aware this is a slippery slope and I am glad people like you exist and push for privacy, even if I think it's a bit extreme sometimes.
Been using DeFI protocols quite successfully for over 2 years now. Have created and read many of Smart Contracts. Yes, there is no free lunch, you need to spend lots (and LOTS) of time to understand how all of this magic works. But you'll be regretting that you didn't. I can tell you that for sure.
I always surprises me how few people are willing to pay $5 a month for a piece of software they use everyday, but will gladly spend $3 a day on a Starbucks Coffee or happily drop $8 on a single beer at bar.
From what I remember, it started out promising, but very quickly devolved into cartoonish camp where every parallel world had a silly theme like "Halloween world" or "America is still British wot" world. And then there was plot arc about Cro-magnons trying to take over the multiverse.
What about a time-limited fingerprint, built with a seed that rotates daily?

That way, you can only track any given visitor for max 24 hours, which often would mean tracking them across a single "visit". I'm pretty privacy conscious, but personally would be absolutely OK with this.
100% this.

I casually read a huge amount of interesting technical/business info on the web. But when I want to use that knowledge later (say in a business presentation or technical design), it's nearly impossible to find the original webpage! I can remember the basic idea, but I can't turn it into search terms that are precise enough for Google. ("What was the name of that programming law about tearing down fences?")

What I want is the ability to constrain my searches by pages I've personally visited. Even better would be able to "star" pages to say "this is good, rank higher in future personal searches".

Has anyone built that yet? Why or why not?
> Once the teens in IG grow into adults

That already happened btw, teens are on TikTok not IG
They applied to Apple before they applied to third party apps: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202074
How does a GC help with that? That's just boundary checking.
15 years of life for a home router is pretty good anyway, no?
> It drives me nuts to deal with the typical Java "Each class has its own file -no matter how small" thing.

There is value in keeping some source together, but I think it's more judgment based than you imply, it can also drive me nuts when I have to dig through a dozen 2k+ line files to find the thing I need to change, and it also reduces my confidence that I can change that thing without introducing unwanted side effects (unit tests help increase that confidence regardless of code structure).
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I was born and raised in Mississippi. GP isn't wrong.
If you have your keys then yes, you can sign a new transaction.

But what happens if you lost your keys and no central authority has the ability to change your address?
Yes, and I get a mental picture in my mind of a guy walking down the street with $320 in his pocket. Some thugs walk up and take his $320.

So he stops at the nearby ATM and withdraws another $320. Then walks down the same street with even more thugs waiting.
Integza has a Youtube channel creating several types of rocket engines.

eg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzHIrAapiFg
I would guess it’s delta-8 thc derived from hemp. Skirting some loopholes. Some states have already started clamping down on it.
I wish so bad that the signal crypto integration would have been done better. They could have implemented a wallet and generated revenue in the hundreds of millions like metamask does.

Starting a new blockchain obviously has founder incentives which are great but it only makes sense when people feel like your contributing to the diversity of blockchains not simply copy pasting monero.
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That doesn’t really affect the exploit; this exploit isn’t worse because it involved a bridge. Vitalik is talking about how bridges interact with 51% attacks and nothing else, so his points are interesting but not relevant to this.

> even though nothing was broken on the Ethereum side

The smart contract code was wrong, not Solano itself. This situation was made no worse by dint of being a bridge or involving two blockchains, except that it required domain knowledge in both chains.
According to the link it's because people have moved into cities that they are most at risk for climate-change-based disruption to their lives.

"The frequency of torrential rain and storm surges is on the rise in big, densely populated cities like New York, Mumbai and Jakarta, hitting those living in marginalised, informal settlements like slums the hardest."

Also, large cities tend to be on the coastal regions -- that's how they first became large cities, by being accessible to ports in many cases.

Why would climate change force people out of the Omaha suburbs to Manhattan? I just don't understand the logic here at all, but maybe I'm missing something.
Second Life is still active almost 20 years later, I don't know why people keep using the past tense.
I had previously donated 2$ monthly for around 1.5 years through PayPal (through their webpage) and just recently noticed the badge system.

Seeing that the minimum was 5$ left me with a bit of a bad taste in my mouth. I know, no one is forced to pay and 5$ for the service is not at all much.

But what can I say. It left a bad taste in my mouth.