skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> LocalStorage is popular for web apps because it is lazy

No... localStorage is popular because it allows you to persist state without requiring a server, opening up a whole lot of use cases that would normally require a login. With the tradeoff that you can't easily sync between machines and it can be cleared readily.

Calling it "lazy" seems bit unnecessarily confrontational. Of all the times I have used localStorage on my apps I can't say the reason was even once "laziness."

With that said, it would be nice to keep stats across instances on multiple devices. It adds either a lot of complicated edge cases or a lot of server calls (or both), though and it would need login or some other way to tell the server that Device A and Device B are the same person.

You also lose offline play.

A Progressive Web App would be nice. The best of both worlds. But guess what PWAs often use... localStorage, which I guess is lazy ;)

But I for one think an app that doesn't constantly send my every move to the server is actually a breath of fresh air.

Edit: fixed typo
>There's no wifi or Bluetooth.

>If only I could add Spotify playlists to it

There is nowadays and i think you can. Otherwise correct.
Disney trounces Netflix in subscriber growth but there's a catch
I generally find HN to be the most pleasant forum I've read.

Perhaps it's due to Dang? I think HN demonstrates that, in order to be civil, you need strong moderators.
Please hang out for a while on comp.lang.forth or one of the lisp channels, then come back and enjoy how tame and reasonable this site is.
Yes we are still very early! The core framework will be released to design partners first then to the community.
> But that backfired, because too many people asked me to add stuff, and now I am forever stuck maintaining it, and cannot start a new project

You can charge money or abandon it? You don’t owe random people free work.
A reddit comment I saw last week mentioned it could be just the flock/murmuration were trying to get away from a predator and flew lower, and the ones at the bottom didn't have much luck and hit the ground. Would at least make sense...
"Inbox Zero" is 100% not the goal with Shortwave and you won't see it in our marketing. Not to be too cheeky, but "Inbox Organized" is the goal. We want to help you treat your inbox like the to-do list that it is, not necessarily smash every email that enters your inbox. Read more about our workflow in our docs. [1]

[1] https://www.shortwave.com/docs/guides/101/
"This book deals with epiphenomenalism, which has to do with consciousness as a mere accessory of physiological processes whose presence or absence... makes no difference... whatever are you doing?"
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_jump
I have absolutely been adding ‘Reddit’ to my queries for 2+ years and waiting for this kind article to bring some discourse about shit google results.

“This [AI-created content being widespread] isn’t true (yet), but it reflects some general sense that the authentic web is gone.”

It isn’t gone, but it is different. Reddit is essentially a site of blogs turned inside out. Each post produces individual comments that are often really blog posts tied to commentary/chat discourse. Problem is, each post and it’s daughter discussion/blog posts isn’t useful for continuous coverage of a topic (e.g. cooking). Thus the subreddits exist with quality control through mods that curate content.

Yet, something is missing when there is a single umbrella organization with power over these fief post blog chats. I don’t want to read archives from 2005, but it is the last time it feels like the kind of personal blogs I find here on HN were prevalent and searchable through places like Google. Each article is presented in the context of the user/owners wider work and enriched and enriching for being presented that way.

The ‘authentic web’ of 15 years ago was better, more pluralistic, and more diverse in literary and artistic design when there were more ‘online magazines’ in this way.

This death of Google feels unlike the way Usenet died. I was less broken up about that death when it happened precisely because the web offered a broader, richer landscape. What I Think we are being taught, though, is that perhaps USENET and the web should’ve existed together and been supported, since Reddit is just Usenet, after all, in many ways.

Google is like a former ritzy neighborhood that has been corporatized, had the blood sucked from it, is falling into disrepair, and now is ghettoized and awaiting gentrification, which will probably mean a return to the walled gardens of yore when they start charging for improvements (as in Youtube Premium).
Complicate how though? Can they backdoor the transfer to reverse it (or can another party do this for them)? Or only try to force the receiver to send the funds back with threats of punishment / physically take the funds?

My point is that those two things are fundamentally different.
Love this! My little dude is nearly two, I now have his first project ready.
for those having issues with geofencing on the current event, here is the video on YouTube(the high quality version): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJqdmkjSD2A

There was also an instance of birds crashing into a skyscraper in Texas: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4478166/Flock-nearl...

~400 dead.

ps: Obviously, it contains footage that can be disturbing to some.
Google knows what it wants. Its job is to convince you to agree with it.
I mean, we don't need competition, sure. But we also have a social structure that utterly depends on competition for economic efficiency. I'm not seeing the popular up-swell for communism quite yet, so until that happens, having privately owned monopolists act not just as single providers of critical goods and services, but also control access to information about those goods and services, and the publications reporting about those goods and services, and getting to pick which shops get to even open their doors, and the roads to those goods and services, and the banking system you need to pay for em... you know, that might just weaken your negotiating position. You just might get shafted.

These aren't the weak little monopolies of times past, stuff like standard oil - these new setups are much more clever, and much more pervasive, and much more powerful.

Oh hey, as it turns out tech companies are making obscene profits (so much for economic efficiency!), and we've given them little legal monopolies by implementing copyrights, patents and contract law in just the right way to make competition almost impossible. Startups competing with them need great luck, huge pockets, a brilliantly found niche - and even then they'll probably just get bought or simply fail.

I mean I get that browsers are just one small element of the whole puzzle. But on the other hand, it's also one of the few where avoiding lock-in might still be fairly easy. I don't blame anybody for using chrome - use it myself on occasion - but I'll avoid it as long as it's at least easy to do so.
I'd need:

- Money and/or investors

- Time

- Enough manpower

- Great marketing

- A stronger understanding of scalability

- Ideally, a product that solves a problem in a niche area

I have bits and pieces of the above (except the investors and marketing), but it's not enough to get something up and running.
> Because this is a thread for airing grievances about Apple

I'll start by expressing my disappointment in the lack of a deleted [Delete] button on MacBook Pro keyboards. I resent having to use Fn+Backspace on Macs when all of my Windows laptops (I <3 ThinkPads) and Mac full-size desktop keyboards have a forward-delete key.

It's another example of Apple valuing visual and aesthetic simplicity over user-needs.
I just checked - both Firefox and Chrome are at version 97. that's sort of funny.
In what way would you say that the current article is misunderstanding the fundamentals of Bitcoin? I'd argue that it merely contextualizes in-system (technical) finality in the larger context of "social/legal finality".
That's the explanation I read when this was released the other day. The birds closer to the wire bore the brunt of the shock as it arc'd out to birds not even touching the wire. You can see where the bulk of the dead birds fall in line with the wire, and get more sparse as they're distributed outward. Then, a few of them are merely stunned, and get up to fly away.
What's the difference with Chromium OS (its open source counterpart)?
The biggest problem, doing that, is that you increase the pressure from bad actors to websites that are trusted by lots of people.

So, for instance, the more weight you give to sites that are quoted by Wikipedia in your search rankings, the more content farms will have incentives to sneak edits that link to their sites.

There are ways to counter that (eg moderation), but in general, defense is more expensive than offense.
Yeah I’ve given up on inbox zero. Inbox is my filing cabinet and that just works.
FWIW the Linux users group at my university (in North Carolina) is predominantly anime people
Well, keep in mind that major version numbers used to change slowly. In the first ten years Firefox existed, it went from version 0.1 to version 5.0. At that pace, it would have taken two hundred years to hit a three-digit major version. In my opinion, browser vendors brought this upon themselves by changing what "major version" meant.
Interesting, though the only example I see listed in that article that's not a change in the physical properties of matter is the ferromagnetic<=>paramagnetic phases.
The way I look at it: the person I think should be in my place is capable of things I don't think I'm capable of.

How can I prove that wrong? By setting those things as goals and working toward them. Any failure will be instructive. Either it's a gap in knowledge/experience/ability I can eliminate, or it's something I can't control. At any rate, I learn the truth behind my anxieties (I'm usually not as big of an imposter as I feel).
haha, I found this funny and accurate. It captures what I feel is common among the toxic responses that make it past moderation/downvotes. HN has an acceptable way to say "#$!@ your ideas" and "I'm smarter" using intellectual or polite sounding words, but it's still the same thing. I might even prefer the more crass approach that gets filtered out. At least those are honest and not passive aggressive.
In what sense are international money transfers with western union supposed not to be final?
> We collect information that alone or in combination with other information in our possession could be used to identify you (“Personal Data”) as follows:

> Email Data: we collect your email address and the contents of any emails and messages you draft or receive in our Service, as well as associated metadata (such as the time sent).

I understand the technical need, but no thanks, I would prefer some local client. Especially given that:

> In certain circumstances we may share the categories of Personal Data described above with the following categories of third parties without further notice to you: [...]

> we may share Personal Data with vendors and service providers, including providers of hosting services, payment processors, email communication software and email newsletter services, customer relationship management and customer support services, and web analytics services.

So you (could) share my (business) emails with more or less everybody in the world?

Hard pass.
Could be - but at least for me it feels intrusive and irritating, not any positive feelings really
> Large proportions of the supposedly human-produced content on the internet are actually generated by artificial intelligence networks in conjunction with paid secret media influencers in order to manufacture consumers for an increasing range of newly-normalised cultural products.

> This isn’t true (yet)

It's at least partially true:

https://www.jasper.ai
Hmm, or you outsource the trust problem to your users. Let them select which domains to trust or who to trust to weight trustworthiness of domains for you.

Imagine that user A can create a list of domains with trustworthiness score. User B can then use that list by going to user-a-awesome-curation.koogle.com?q=nice+shoes

It might create filter bubbles but it would be transparent filter bubbles. You could even wikify/open source the curation.
This may be disappointing but I've always been a pacifist, my family on my mothers side comes from some dictatorial/war torn areas and democracy and democratic change seem to be an approach that engenders less overall suffering in the long run. I like that people exist in our world who have never appreciably had "need" in their life and I don't begrudge it. I personally wouldn't be alive if I had even been born 3-4 years earlier (or in a lower tech location) due to my heart defects and the technology required to address them early in my life.

I like that HN is a place to discuss ideas with other nerds, be inquisitive, share experiences and perspectives in a mind expanding way, tech and peaceful community have both helped me immensely in tangible ways. I want to widen the road behind me as much as I can.

I hope you can appreciate my personal perspective, I've not found many places online where outrage and strong speech isn't the dominant mode of interaction. Thanks.
> Essentially no crypto transactions can be reversed.

Bitcoin transactions are hard to reverse (not strictly impossible, as shown by the recent example, and a few others of the same vein, but it requires to arrest the key owner and seize the key, which is obviously kind of hard) but practically all other cryptocurrencies are centralized enough to allow for transaction reversal (The ethereum hard fork after the DAO hack is the practical example of this). And I'm not even talking about weak chains for which an attacker can even reverse transaction against everybody else's will[1]…

[1]: https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2020/08/29/ethereum-classic...
A Crucial Clue in the $4.5B Bitcoin Heist: A $500 Walmart Gift Card
Are those statistics actually interesting to many users? I barely noticed the move to NYTimes because I'm mostly just interested in playing the game once a day, sometimes sharing the result.
Cash is a bearer instrument, but your duties as a custodian of someone else’s cash is another matter.

If I leave a box with cash in your care and you steal it or are negligent, I can seek relief in the courts. If I win and you refuse to pay, the sheriff will seize assets and sell them to satisfy the order of the court.
Genetics ftw. I firmly believe that consumer genetic tests, self-order lab tests, and overseas pharmacies will disrupt the corrupt healthcare system because they empower patients to treat themselves instead of resorting to conventional medicine where Big Pharma, insurance companies, and overpaid doctors gatekeep access to treatment.

For 100 dollars, you can obtain a full copy of your genome from a service like 23andMe and run it across a parsing tool such as https://www.codegen.eu to find genetic predispositions to all kinds of medical maladies. I found numerous bad SNPs in my genetic data that I correlated to confirmed family cases. I also discovered genes I have that reduce my response to certain pharmaceuticals or cause harmful reactions. Why take a risky shotgun approach when you can know in advance if something will or will not work for you?

It's literally like looking into a crystal ball of ailments that are plaguing you now or in the future. Forget about bouncing around from specialist to specialist for years and years; read your genome to get the answers you seek today. It's your source code.
Talking about weather, why are warm countries always cheaper and poorer?
"Sorry, this content is not available in your region."

Germany btw
> Isn't the whole point of taxes that they are for spending we don't get to choose, because if we did, it wouldn't happen?

No, the point is that as a city we should be able to choose, not individually. I said if my local election decides we should be able to funnel our property tax dollars to vouchers then we should be allowed to do that. I don't mean each individual gets to decide what line-item taxes they're paying that year.

> WHile special needs may be segregated, they are still funded by the general pool, you completely failed to address his argument

I said we should separate the funding for special needs because it's fundamentally a different cost structure and hides inefficiencies in the non-special needs costs.

> You also seem to say criticize his opinion for not being in a school this decade, so are you arguing that maybe people who are say, more expert in schools, should make schooling decisions and not just any old person, say someone handed a voucher

I think people whose kids are in school should get to decide. I criticized his opinion because it seems like he's trying to impose his one-size-fits-all public option when he's neither a parent nor a student. The US has never been a technocracy.

> Instead of fixing a sinking boat, it just figures out a way for some to get to lifeboats

Curious how you think we can do better. The US spends the most out of any nation on education per capita and has among the poorest outcomes out of any developed nation. More money doesn't fix the sinking boat, it just lets it take on more water before it sinks. Vouchers aren't perfect but I think they're better than pouring more money into a black hole with no accountability.
Google allows for searches within ranges of dates.
> The latest conditions on mountain bike and hiking trails are being shared inside communities like Reddit but not on the web

This point especially rings true for me, but it also concerns me a bit. Reddit has killed a lot of other forums over the years. If something happens to Reddit, we run the risk of losing a large corpus of information.
I'd like support until I decide to be done with it.

With a Linux base, it seems like releasing the drivers to mainline and supplying browser updates ought to take care of that. I don't really understand what else would need to go into that so maybe I'm missing something but especially for x86 boxes it should be pretty simple.
May I add...Rasterise your documents after redaction if using digital tools to manually redact.

I have seen many a doc with history still included because they were using illustrator or something similar
I would think that there'd be an online opportunity for a search engine that only searches humanly curated sites. Those sites would be ones that have quality information rather than spam. Some obvious examples - wikipedia, reddit, hackernews, public domain books, etc.

It's easy to game an algorithm, but hard to game a human - humans know garbage when they see it.

As an aside, whenever I get a prescription, included with it is a dense two page sheet of detailed information about the drug. I see nothing like that online with a search. Why is this sort of thing not online?
Feature, not bug. If there's no public search, it can't be gamed for money. The problem TFA identifies is one of discerning that the person you're getting your info from is an actual person, who cares. The best way of doing that, until we find some way of creating institutional trust in these matters, is talking to the sort of person that spends all day in talking to a chat room about whatever it is you're asking about.
So true. I found that if an issue is really important, then they will find a way to contact you or it resolves automatically. If I really need to get a context, I'll search for the recipient's name and get instant context on the "issue".

My solution is just to never delete any e-mails. Inbox zero is a complete waste of time for me.
Mercury Raise – apps opened to help raise seed/A/DTC rounds
Google Is Bringing Chrome OS to PCs and Macs
You might need to establish ID, source of funds, etc., or beyond a certain limit cash transactions might just not be legal. Failure to comply might then lead to all sorts of unpleasantness.
The term “bucket list” did not exist before the creation of the movie
Is this English? I am unable to parse.
I develop on mid 2014 15" MacBook Pro mid with 16GB of RAM and 150k LOC Java project works quite ok with latest Idea. It probably depends on what expectations are. It's hardly comparable experience to what was available 10-20 years ago.
Skepticism is good and valuable. Iron sharpens Iron. HN isn't toxic, and a bunch of smart nerds sniping each other results in smarter nerds. Smarter nerds is a net benefit to humanity. Arguably.

There's probably other places for continual positive affirmation but I can't think I can't think of any on the Internet off hand.
Url changed from https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/new-tool-can-uncover-reda..., which points to this.
Google still gives decent results for many other categories, especially when it comes to factual information.

Increasingly it doesn't. I posted a similar finding earlier yesterday: Google search relevance fail: result for “Africa longitude” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30337563.

- For that query, Bing's image results are much better, but the #1 site hit is still the exact same SEO-manipulated auto-generated e-ecommerce page, not any reputable reference source like we might expect. And that is a basic query.

- I tried the query on Reddit, the results are a disorganized jumble.

- So, the surprise winner on that query is... Bing. Or "none of the above". Back to atlases and encyclopedias.
I would love to have search engine similar to Google (I search in Polish and English, duckduckgo is no good for this, I tried) with ability to have favourite pages. If there are result on any of this pages from my search always show them in top 3. It should not matter how old are this favourite pages are or when last time they were updated or if they have low amount of reference links to them. They are my favourite so show me results from them on top.
And they should still show in my results even if Google or any search engine delist them for some boggus reasons from default results (they are my favourite so I veted they are good for me).
Google is still the number one driver of users to my business — by farrrr — but non Google sources (mostly DDG) — have more than quadrupled in the last year.
Lately with the G Suite announcement it has felt more like a massacre. Who cares about Google Currents shutting down, when we have already learned not to touch new Google products like Duo, Hangouts, Meet or whatever they are named.
Well that's disappointing, I held out hope that you would have some actual evidence. It doesn't seem like you have anything other than what happens to ever single penny stock.

1 and 2 have nothing to do with any of your claims

3 is the only way to sell stock in a thinly traded market.

4 i'e been in the industry for more than 10 years and have never come across anyone who has actually performed these fabled short ladder attacks.

This isn't something that happens, its a creation of the hive mind of /r/superstonk.

If they want to say its a real thing then the onus is on them to put forward some evidence that it happens. I so far havent' seen anything that looks compelling.

Point 5 makes no sense at all, why would people cover all at the same time?

6. this is what happens with shitty stocks that has someone trying to offload their long position, it by definition, has to close down as the selling pressure overwhelms the buying pressure.

7. again no sequitor and has nothing to do with shorting or wash trading.

Do you have any actual data to back up the wash trade or short claims?

And as a side note, shorting to zero isn't something that happens as you need to close out your position by buying to make any money. And as stock prices drop they run the risk of being delisted before the shorter can buy back their position. Which is a terrible position to be in.

A typical shorter will short at $100 and buy back at $50 or $25 and doesn't mess with anything under a $1.