skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe using an archive.is-like service

No that has turned to shit (for me anyway). Used to be fine, now presents a captcha when JS off. Okay so I switch from Firefox to Safari (where I leave JS on) and it still presents a captcha. I'd rather use the original site with JS than solve captchas.

That has been my consistent recent experience for a multitude of those.

or a Tor-like service

I've never used Tor, but aren't there a lot of complaints of repetitive captchas when using it?

randomizes one's IP address and browser fingerprint

I haven't followed this closely, but didn't Apple make claims that they would soon have an opt-in service that did something like this?
Time does that. As you grow older and you experience loss and failures you start being more sympathetic to other people’s problems because you can correlate to a similar experience.
Did it really make the world a better place? Most sites collect as much data as ever, but now we need many more clicks, and can't have nice things like photos from kindergarden parties anymore.
Nope, if it is an HN hyped language it gets all the love of the day, Ruby, Clojure, Rust,....
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Tech%20Companies%20Face%20a%20...
Maybe Google till can track the users but what benefit would it bring if its customers can not display ads to the users? Ads are still blocked!
> Is 1% acceptable in your book vs. the majority of the workforce being in slave-labor-like conditions?

It's not ideal, but yeah. I definitely wouldn't look down on an entire city for not being able to root out that last 1% of corrupt employers.
Linux is being replaced by type 1 hypervisors, no need for Linux to run a container runtime.
I agree that Searle is often too strong in his claims, but here is what I think people need to take away from the Chinese Room and why it is useful.

That solving a problem, or an array of problems that a conscious mind can solve may be perfectly able to be solved by a non-conscious machine. That the consciousness part may not be relevant in the problem-solving process, and that consciousness may be unique to living beings who have distinct physiology, anatomy, ways to process information, that computers as they exist now do not have. That a simulation is not necessarily the same thing as the thing it simulates, and does not have all of its properties.

These are good questions none of which are mystic and which following from Searle's argument. And I think you're really underestimating to what degree people are lured in by the 'magic' of neural nets because else we wouldn't be in this thread. A neural net that does some function approximation is not 'slightly conscious' unless we're going full in on panpsychism. Even from a functionalist perspective, the neural net performs nothing that is reasonably involved in what we consider to be responsible for consciousness. Nobody ever claimed a TI-83 is 'slightly conscious', or that Stockfish is merely because it plays exceptional chess.
If you really want to fix it, take the AoA connection course with someone close to you. It will probably be pretty tough, a lot of people drop out, but it sounds like exactly what you need. It's unreasonably effective and is heavy on the integration, not just theory.
How is this crazy? Server administrators could have done, and have done anything on their side of the code. Nothing changed on this front since the invention of the HTTP request.
Starting an agency is the easiest part. Then after that comes the never ending grind to find and retain customers, who will never pay on time, refuse to budget time for frivolities like "testing" and "refactoring" and who will mercilessly shop out the work to as many of your competitors as they can find. Developer agencies have existed for decades and the reason that not everybody is rushing to work for them is because they are generally very poor place to work for compared to regular companies, even as a partner. They're often derogatorily called "body shops" for a reason.
You only get someone to talk about their vulnerabilities if you can be honest about your own. Some bad things happened to you - some things that weren't fair, made you feel weak. Just like her. It's hard to talk about them for you, just like it's hard for her to talk about hers. But telling a girl you love (do you love her?) what happened to you doesn't make you weak. Being able to talk about it is a strength, not a weakness; just like forgiveness is not weakness either. You gotta forgive her beforehand for everything she'll ever say to you. Then you can start by sharing yours, the hard beats you took in life and every time you were humiliated by someone else -- those are what are called your "vulnerabilities" -- and don't expect anything back from her. You better treat her like a friend who you can tell anything to, who you know won't judge you. And if you're honest, she'll tell you hers when she's ready. And you never, ever judge her for it.
Well, the customers must have a say in the planning and the tradeoffs that are being made :)

But what grinds my gears is when managers do not apply the same planning principles for their own tasks and deliverables.
YMMV. All of the companies I've worked for have been developer run besides one, which was basically in a permanent state of collapse as everyone left a few months in.
Yes, but the confession that ensued after they told him he was the only one using Tor proved everything. :)
There's nothing rude about providing context.
Rather that getting into some random argument about which country is worse because of their visa policies, I'd ask another question:

Why have countries (US, Canada, now EU) moved to ESTA-like systems even for countries that are typically "low risk"?

I assume because the new system allows for a more in-depth background check and the pressure of immigration to make a decision in-real time at the border is eliminated. It's basically splitting the difference between inspection on arrival and forcing people to interview at consulates.

But is there anything more than that? To be honest, it seems a bit like overkill for any country to "pre-screen" all arrivals from what seems like very low risk countries.

No doubt there is some DHS policy paper that explains all this.
> Eventually teenage kids will be making Star Wars at home.

Perhaps, but the same was promised when camera and editing equipment became commodities. There are a few examples like the Blair Witch Project, or Tangerine, a great movie which was filmed with two iPhones. But in general successful movies are still expensively made by professional teams.

The problem is: Even if the technical equipment is cheap, successful movies still require time and talent and lots of hard work.
I’m not saying it’s not what voters want, I’m saying they’re not going to vote for it. There’s a difference.

The average voter has a fairly limited horizon in terms of what they see and understand about what’s good for society. And in a democracy you elect representatives because they’re supposed to have a wider horizon and more in depth knowledge, in part because they’re on average smarter than the average voter and in part because they get to dedicate all their time to that specific job.

This means that lawmakers will sometimes have to do th8ngs the voters don’t understand they want. It’s on them to explain it to the voters. And it’s on the voters to vote them out if they still don’t agree.

As for voting with their wallets, I would have agreed say 20 years ago. But marketing has become so all-encompassing and so much money and effort has been spent making marketing stick, that I don’t think most people can make truly independent decisions anymore about many many things.

And free stuff on the internet is definitely something that most people have trouble dealing rationally with. Just look at all the free trials that hook people into costly year long subscriptions, etc etc. Let alone when it’s free in the sense that the users never pays directly but through things as ads and privacy.

My view of this is very much influenced by my being a European and EU citizen, though. And if anything, the EU is a bit of a technocracy that likes to decide for the “good of society”. And that’s not something everyone will like every time.
You say alchemy I say superstition. Actually trading at the quant level was the deepest anthropological experiment I ever saw. So much reptilian emotions it was incredible :)
If I remember correctly, the first Bourne Shell was written in a Pascal-ish C.
He seems to have bet his whole life and at the end he seems to have won. I wonder why he doesn't do a crowd funding, I am sure he would raise the money easily and not have producers on his back.
Notch became a billionaire and he didn't like it.

It is pretty weird that according to capitalists liberation is defined by the ability to exclude others from society.
Is it really worse for the users? Article also mentions possible privacy benefits, as Google could prevent transmission of some data to third parties.
Those who do not understand history are doomed to repeat it.

In the beginning, there was HTML, and it was good. Then "modern content creators" did not "want to learn syntax", created "tools that edited and rendered HTML differently and inconsistently", added hundreds of unnecessary tags in it, then started to get smart about "semantic information" and introduced HTML-5-style tags like <article>, which too few people use...

Techies felt that all to be unworkable and did a new thing. They remembered text files being good, and started to call a very minimal syntax "Markdown", with a common core large enough to be almost universally understood. And now we have this article again, which reads a lot like it was about HTML, ca. 1995.
Well, at least that is the obvious way to delimit a math div, isn't it?
I'm not a fan of neigbhorhood nuisance, obviously, but I also feel like it's trendy to pick on new phenomena like 'dark stores' as opposed to established phenomena. For example, my biggest noise concerns in residential areas are: loud city service vehicles at extremely early hours in the day like rubbish collector trucks and the binmen throwing things around at 5 in the morning, or police/ambulances/fire trucks speeding through in the middle of the night, or the city doing overnight roadwork on a nonresidential street which intersects with the residential street and so basically makes sleeping impossible. Why are there no (popular) petitions or news articles about this more mundane but also much more universal noise pollution?
That's cool, it's what hedonjs tries to achieve, but much nicer.
Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding dices
So I wanted to book some places for my next holidays on Airbnb and I came on the most annoying CAPTCHA I ever saw

https://i.postimg.cc/sXppmyxm/airbnbdes.png

Now you have to make sum of dices only to acces the website. And 5 times in a row.

And be sure to make no mistake ! I unfortunatly did on the fifth/last one (was getting really p*ssed), and had to start over !

So this morning I had to make around 50 dices sum just to acces this website.

I don't kow who came with this idea, but I find this really bad.
We must have seen different movies. Whose downfall?
The article is from 2020, and I don't think I've ever seen a site using this approach yet. It is an egregious attempt to circumvent the Same Origin security policy in browsers that developers and privacy advocates should rightly be angry at, but it doesn't seem to have caught on. That's something to be thankful for.
Crazy how evil Google is. Just wow.

Yeah, but there are a lot of employees there who check their bank accounts twice a month and say: "Just wow".

Venial evil is easily bought.

Edit:

As a EU citizen

I really hate to even say this, but "Crazy Vlad" nearby is what true evil is about.
Show HN: Spurr · Asynchronous Team Building and Fitness Challenges
Hi, when I started to work remotely I was looking for ways to keep in touch with my colleagues on the not work-related stuff. As someone who loves sport and gets motivation from other people, I built an app called Spurr for teams to run asynchronous challenges. For example, you can run 500 miles together, do 10,000 pushups, 100 minutes of plank, etc… or design your own challenge based on your unique team culture. It's just a bit of fun and next time on Zoom I have a great small talk topic with people who are in my challenge.

How do you keep in touch with your colleagues while working remotely? Do you not have fatigue from Zoom events? Thanks for any feedback!
>I could be able to run the proxy on any infrastructure that I like. Not only one Google's cloud offering.

This is already true.

https://developers.google.com/tag-platform/tag-manager/serve...
As someone already said, firstly: STFU, be attentive and listen.

You need to understand when it is a one way or two way communication.

When the other person is having a monologue and is sharing something concerning to them, or even just some neutral event that happened during the day, you just listen attentively like you would when listening to someone reading a book for you. Then you stay within a "tell me more" response.

When the situation requires a dialogue, however, you stay within the proximity of shared experiences. Here you don't venture into advice space unless the other part explicitly requests that.
> Doesn't civilization itself induce demand for cheap clean energy given the environmental forcing of unclean energy?

Now this is probably not a good comparison, but the first thing that i thought of was something along the lines of: "Burning tires is bad for the environment, so we should burn more tires until some factors force us to stop doing that."

Surely if there's a recognizably bad behavior, we should be able to stop doing it without being forced to, right? Where did the idea of being cautious in service of a potentially better future go? Why do we have such an exploitative mindset?

> I don't see why the bitcoin case needs to be singled out any more than the yacht, private jet, gaming rig, or hell...even personal car cases.

I don't have a yacht and i don't see why people should have them either, outside of sports or transporting many people (albeit there are more efficient ways).

I don't have a private jet and i don't see why people should have them either, maybe apart from transporting government officials in certain situations. Actually, planes in general are overused and people should rely more on trains, which are environmentally friendly.

My "gaming rig" draws around 100-200W in total under load, with a 65W CPU and a GPU that's power limited to 50% of its total power draw for longevity purposes. My homelab servers run off of 35W CPUs with iGPUs and both of them run with a total wall draw of 100W. Honestly, outside of media production, there is no reason for overpowered devices, plus the developers of games and much other software should be more concerned about doing more with less.

And i don't own a personal car, thanks to the public transportation infrastructure in my country not being crippled. I studied for both my Bachelor and Master degree in the city and never felt the need for a car due to being able to take the bus, tram or trolley bus wherever i needed to go. And even when you need a car (e.g. living in the countryside or needing to transport tools or other things), you shouldn't got for wasteful ones.

In summary, the human existence is one of excess, unnecessary luxury and waste. We absolutely should address that.
It's just a new information. I don't think anyone complains about it.
If it hasn't limited by the modem, you could just saturate the connection up to where it's limited when uploading

For cable modems, the modem runs the ISP's firmware which downloads runtime parameters from the ISP. The supported modem list is modem's they have firmware for that run on their network

Afaik it's not very difficult for the ISP to detect modified modems
What's wrong with Github?

IMO being able to do everything from Github is a huge advantage, not a disadvantage.

SW development is already hard enough, we had to use tens of tools even for a simple project, so if it possible to avoid new tools/services, or use a mainstream one, even if it's not as fully-featured as a specialized tool.

Occam's basic rule was "Thou shalt not multiply extra entities unnecessarily".

Everyone already has a Github account. You can add any external collaborator with a single click.

Everything (issues, PR, releases, etc.) is super-customizable with templates.

You can do any SDLC or Project Management with Github alone.

- You can do Kanban with new Github Projects.
- You can use TODO task lists and convert them to Github issues when needed.
- I even implemented Shape Up method in Github with scopes and tasks[1]

[1] https://basecamp.com/shapeup/3.3-chapter-12
> You don't seem to know very much about the redesigned lids. ... There's a lot of legal scholarship on this topic that specifically discusses that shift, and analyzes the impact of this lawsuit vs other causes.

Go ahead and cite some of that scholarship. I would genuinely love to see it. Explain how the current designs, which are still subject to coffee spill lawsuits, differ from those before Stella's lawsuit. Then explain why, if the lid was inadequate for its purpose, Stella's lawyers specifically cited her difficulty in prying off the lid as the proximate cause of the accident.

Otherwise, your detour into lids and cups is a bit of a distraction. The primary allegation, and the one most parroted by sympathetic media and trial lawyers to this day, was that McDonalds' coffee was a defective product due to outrageously excessive temperature, far beyond industry standards or best practices. Nowadays the trial lawyers like to claim that the lawsuit forced McDonalds to drastically lower the temperature of their coffee. I don't know whether you also believe these easily debunked claims, but you sure seem eager to redirect the debate in a direction where you know I don't disagree as strongly. It's kinda weird.

> But then, you also don't seem to know very much about product liability in US law.

Guilty as charged!

> McDonald's conduct before & during this trial actually shocked the legal community. Their position was seen as surprisingly risky, given the fact pattern.

Right, I definitely remember personal injury lawyers and opponents of tort reform acting "shocked". They still do. No surprise there. And almost every single one of them lies about the temperature issue.

> Your knife example is pretty silly, and I'm not sure why you expected it to prove anything.

I don't expect it to prove anything. I'm simply curious how you feel about strict liability as applied to other dangerous but common products, where the the issue of whether the product is safe for its intended or anticipated use is in dispute. It's a simple if unimportant question, which you appear unable to answer.

> Again, I would encourage you to educate yourself, instead of just making a lot of assumptions that are emotionally convenient to your preconceived notions.

Hmmm, I sure don't feel very emotional about this. My strongest emotion is, like I said, contempt for McDonalds' influence on peoples' health. And again, I was happy that Stella bill's were paid.

EDIT:

Seriously though, please cite that "scholarship" on lids and cups you mentioned. I'm skeptical, and it's somewhat tangential to the more sensationalized allegations made by Stella's lawyers, but I'm also genuinely curious.
> I mean, we've entered an age, where a farmer can't milk their cows, if the software of the milking robot has a hitch - can't plow their fields, when the gps-software that drives the tractor isn't working.

Seems like quite a dangerous situation, if something like the Carrington Event knocks the grid offline for an extended period of time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event
Okay, excluding superhero movies and franchises

You've cherry picked huge hits across decades... I'm saying generally if the budget is >$100million and it's a Sci-fi (not superhero/franchise), it'll probably not be a hit
Honestly, citation needed there.
Article addresses this: google is actually encouraging users to modify said script.
I'm interested and capable and yet there are no opportunities to transition. I tried for years to make it happen. People aren't interested in ex Devs for anything business, in mid sized UK companies.

I've gone off to found a company instead.
It's a good point, those endpoints can't change forever. Ultimately there will be solutions to detect and prevent this tracking just like whatever exists today.
I fail to see how this is any different (for the purposes of getting around google) than any other VPN or proxy service out there. The proposed mechanism is just using a script that comes from the same server as the main website with perhaps slightly changed up code and a different file name to trick up adblockers. It can still fingerprint you without your actual ip address, as it collects data clientside.
I think NVC is a dangerous tool in the wrong hands (or mouth if you will). Or to put it a bit more fairly: I think, it’s easy to miss some of the nuance when reading the book and applying its principles without proper nuance. One of its cornerstones are reflections of the other party’s comments and feelings. Yet statements which are meant to display empathy can sound rather condescending. In an agitated state I might consider the following to be the verbal version of a middle finger: “Okay, so what I’m hearing is you’re angry because I broke my promise to you.” And the book is filled with such examples.

That said, NVC can be a really powerful tool if used with proper delicacy however. The idea of listening, reflecting verbally what and that you heard and then speaking from your perspective with clear markers without aggression can be a very strong way of having challenging conversations.
“Us sticking to 8 bit bytes” is a consequence of having preferred BCD to octal in the past, so the causation is reversed (“12-bit words would have made a lot more sense if it was, say, octal.”) [Edited: actually 12 bit words would make sense in either case, as it's three BCD digits or four octal digits]

The Intel 4004 used four bits to manipulate a single BCD digit. The 8086 had BCD instructions. There were many reasons for preferring BCD when designing computer architectures, though my favourite which was already becoming less relevant at 8086-time was that it meant a full column on a punchcard wouldn’t be “all holes” and reduced the likelihood of the cards tearing.
Netflix includes some classic movies. They started as mailout video.
Again, I'm not defending every single workplace here. Obviously some developers aren't treated well, and in those cases, they should find another job. I was commenting on the fairly blanket statement made.

But the way the conversation should go isn't the developer deciding when refactoring should happen. It's the developer giving an analysis of the cost and benefit of a refactoring (it will take X time, but will save Y work in the future). And the manager factoring that into all the other circumstances, and deciding whether it's worth the current cost.
It easier to prove the existence of plans rather than intents. For the former a few messages about what building should be blown up might be enough.
Agree completely with your voice there.

In fact, I think especially when you look at digital privacy and curbing ever more intrusive tracking practices, the EU has been THE most engaged international body by far. Of course it's a game of cat and mouse, but advertisers will do what advertisers do and when the practice is exposed don't think it'll go unnoticed.