skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh you've misunderstood, I'm not a socialist.

I do not support writers and creatives who profit from intellectual 'property', they are themselves a part of the problem. I reject the notion that workers are free from blame for their participation in the system.

A good first step to solving much of society's problems, including this is to nuke the financial sector from orbit, companies like Netflix and Universal will then go bankrupt and their employees will be forced to do something that is more beneficial for society, instead of contributing to the useless glut of for-profit entertainment.

Furthermore, transhumanists should be persecuted for their anti-human beliefs especially for creating human likeness, until their beliefs are erradicated.

None of these are easy solutions, but if solutions were easy we would not have reached this point.
I really can’t find anything nice to say about this piece. It is sophomoric at best.

Has the author spent any time in rural America or are they just imagining what they think it’s like? Or, in a city for that matter?

Have they visited a large church or a county fair? The countryside is full of inequality, drug abuse, drunkenness, etc.

Also progressives are trying to solve addiction? Really? My experience is that living in a city just trains you to tolerate it.
I use WeChat to talk to my in-laws in Mainland China. I am aware of the mini-apps that exist but they are severely lacking features & more of add on utilities to the WeChat interface.

For e.g. a popular one is a mini-app for DiDi cabs. It'll allow you to book a nearby cab & place a call/text using the WeChat integration. It is more of utility to WeChat/Weixin rather than an appstore within their app. Agreed it is somewhat borderline in definition, but the way I see it - the utilities and apps are sandboxed within WeChat ecosystem.
It seems that “government” the noun, tends toward autocracy and that democracy is a curious detour that is fun while it perseveres but it looks like many governments are tending less democratic. We’re not seeing this only in despotic systems or right wing or left wing, all of them are becoming more authoritarian. France, Canada, the US as well as the usual suspects.
> "security updates at the very least" is correct, and sometimes that happens to also be the very most updates that should be made.

And a lot of those updates wouldn't be necessary of software and tools wouldn't offer so much attack surfaces, that they wouldn't need if they cared less about those things as necessary features...
A Right wing government would stop mass immigration and not promote leftist social values as current UK government/establishment does. Far away from right wing, certainly not nationalist in any way.
That's just because the mores of society have changed.

I can think of dozens of true statements that if spoken on a show like Saturday Night Live would led to a performer being banned.
The thing is, yes it was controversial at the time to enforce HTTPS, but on the other side I 'member pwning people with ARP spoof attacks (both to steal cookies and credentials as well as simply redirecting all images to porn) at my school already way over a decade ago, and all I had was a laptop, Wireshark, Metasploit and some other piece of open source software whose name I forgot. No ARP sponge and the internet uplink was 10/10 mbit anyway so it was easy to do that shit for the entire school. A year later someone packaged all that stuff into a single software even a complete dunderhead could use to prank and steal facebook sessions at will.

Basic reality and the easiness of attacks made it impossible to stick with HTTP for much longer. And hell if I watch Scammer Payback on Youtube, I'm beginning to think it might be a good idea to disable developer tools on browsers and to only unlock them if you can prove physical, un-remoteable access to a machine, similar to Apple's SIP.
Not sure why this is flagged.
This reminds me: I'm currently reading "At Home" (Bill Bryson), and he says that the mystery of how ancient peoples managed to turn teosinte into something worth growing and eating. The scholarly research, e.g. [1] seems to be about maize spread, which is interesting, but it begs the question of how and why they made it into maize in the first place.

Even more amusing, he says there was a conference at the Univ. of Illinois in 1969 on this, and it was so contentious (even getting personal at times) that no papers resulted.

[1] https://archive.ph/Ub586
America's unhappy militarism – the $886B bone of contention
There is a thriving community of security researchers and engineers in the smart contract auditing space.

Services like code4rena (https://code4rena.com/) and sherlock (https://www.sherlock.xyz/) make audits a public and competitive process with leaderboards that track the best of the best. Naturally those that rise to the top of these leaderboards tend to end up offering boutique auditing services due to projects wanting audits from the best of the best in the business.

Trust (a pseudo-anonymous auditor's handle) launching Trust Security (https://www.trust-security.xyz/) is a perfect example of someone who turned public contest success into a highly sought after auditing firm. There are other examples, but overall smart contract security is undeniably improving over time.
One striking thing about pointing the finger at high tech for the death of literary fiction is that literary fiction has survived so many other technological advances. Why is this the one that topples it?

While I'm sure Blythe would sneer at manga in Japan, that country has adopted high tech just as much as this country has, and yet reading paper-based stories remains as popular as ever. He would probably sniff that manga is not "literary"—and that's probably closer to the heart of the matter.

Could it be that literary fiction today is not producing the stories Blythe claims it's producing—stories of memory, stories of "average" people working through the contradictions of life? Like NPR and PBS, so much literary fiction today is geared toward a rather narrow slice of American culture, a culture that implicitly agrees on a particular set of politics and cultural mores as beyond debate. If you don't agree with those mores, contemporary literary fiction reads like entering a slightly "off" world.

I'm not sure Updike's short stories in the 1950s really were for "everyone" in America, but I am certain that the stories being published today in Best American Short Stories are not.
A company I worked for 12 years ago was using a version of Microsoft Navision (now Microsoft Dynamics or something). They hadn't upgraded for several years. Upgrading would have meant a bunch of workstations would have needed to use newer versions of Windows beyond XP. Navision was largely unsupported (only by a consultant, not by MS) and of course the workstations were dangerously behind (yes, we were definitely on the internet). But to the users and the owner of the company, everything was working. We had very few problems...EDI was coming in and going out, packages were packed and shipped, inventory and accounting were up to date. It felt to me like things were held together with chewing gum and duct tape, and we were one hard drive failure from disaster, but from the company's bottom line, nothing was broken.

I left before they upgraded anything, and they're still in business, so I guess it worked out. But it proves that not everything has to change to continue to work.
I don't agree at all. I've found the YouTube algorithms as good for discovering new singer-songwriters as when I used to see live music a few times a week in New York decades ago. Many, or even most, of the women that come up in my feed are no more conventionally beautiful than the people you cite.

How mainstream was someone like Janis Joplin? She was on the radio, but she was also somewhat counter culture. The women (who don't deserve to be written about as evidence of success without beauty) have hundreds of thousands of subscribers just on youtube, many millions of listens, and I hear their music in stores, commercials and coffee shops.

In addition to there being many more avenues for reaching a large audience outside of record labels, there are also quite a few mainstream performers who aren't conventionally attractive who became famous through pseudo-grassroot paths like television contests.
It's hard not to laugh whenever people talk about "cancel culture" being a new phenomenon. The amount of hate she received for merely bringing up the horrible actions the catholic church committed was absurd.
True.

But very few people can write down a slide, listen to what the teacher is commenting while reading it aloud and ALSO make notes about what the teacher said simultaneously. Some people even resort to recording the audio of lectures to keep up (afaik some note-taking apps on iOS actually support it directly + sync it with the written notes).

But this wasn't the case, copying the slides WAS the whole class pretty much.
That could indeed be a solution. Enough mass of water or enough flow of water will transfer the heat away fast enough.

The battery is done at that point anyway, but submerging it will stop flames and toxic fumes from forming from an "open" fire. The cells will "melt" and react with each other on and on until they're done, you can't really stop that.

The same thing is done with gas bottles. Once they have been subject to flames or enough heat, they are considered unsafe and will have reactions going on in the inside. You can measure those due to a rise in temperature on the outside, too.

Gas bottles are also put into containers full of water, for at least 24 hours, until the reactions on the inside are done.

Cooling them prevents them from heating up until they burst though. Same goes for EV battery packs.
There are always some teething problems in Gremiums of 1000 people that need to agree unanimously.
>The way I imagine it, WEI will start with skipping CAPTCHA. Then it will be about serving ads (users without WEI would generate no or very limited ad revenue.) Then it's up to the owner of a site whether or not they want to allow non-WEI traffic at all. Some will choose to block users without WEI, and hopefully the number of browsers that have chosen not to implement it, and the number of users on those browsers is high enough that that option will not be appealing.

There are a number of issues with your imagined scenario. I'll address two of them. Firstly, as nvy points out[0]:

If this gains traction, Google will simply deny adsense payments for
impressions from an "untrusted" page, and thus all the large players that
show ads for revenue will immediately implement WEI without giving a single
flying shit about the users, as they always have and always will.

This is the primary reason Google wants WEI -- to make it harder for users of ad/tracking blockers to access sites they sell ads on.

The second issue is who is providing this "attestation" and what their criteria might be for "trustworthy" browsers. This will break down to a handful (Google, Microsoft, Apple and maybe Cloudflare and/or one or two others) of trusted "attestors" who will decide which browser/plugins/OS combinations are "trustworthy."

Since these folks all have a stake in walled gardens^W hellscapes, who's to say that Apple won't "attest" that any browser other than Safari on iOS or MacOS isn't trustworthy? Or Google may decide that any browser with uBlockOrigin, uMatrix or NoScript isn't trustworthy -- thus permanently deprecating ad/tracking blockers.

Since the spec doesn't specify the criteria for a "trusted" client, nor does it allow for the web site to determine for itself what constitutes the same, it's almost certain that such "trusted attestors" will penalize those who don't dance to their tune.

There are a host of other issues with WEI, especially privacy and property rights related, but those two (IMHO) are most relevant to your imaginings.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36882333
Based on what? Where is extreme right wing you are talking about?
I've experienced the same with routine tasks such as showering or going for a run. I'll often put on a podcast or audiobook, but if I don't find myself actively focusing on the narrative, the daydream will be "louder" than what I'm listening to. I find I can go almost an hour with background noise I never heard before realizing I completely lost my place.

This phenomenon does not occur if I'm reading a physical piece of media, like a book.
Ironically one of the most famous fabrications was also material science[^1]. I'm not in the field so I don't have anything else to add but I suppose these retractions and scandals show that the scientific process is actually working as intended.

[^1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%B6n_scandal
This is pretty old news by now... But yes, it was long overdue.
Instead of focusing on your own point, look at the answer I gave you. You seem to make up an image in your mind that I'm disregarding the child's own personality, when I haven't even touched on that aspect. Fight a real battle instead of an imaginary battle.
Didn’t you know? Marx was a hedge fund banker too!


, obviously…
Communism, Marxism, Fascism, and other "everything I don't like is ____" names aren't the same thing as totalitarianism.

You can tell because this is a right-wing government trying to do this while Communism and Marxism are left-wing ideologies.
...which is unfortunate, and worth pointing out that academia is not the only conductor of scientific research.
You like bussing because it creates lefties?

I wonder about the premise of this idea as well. Cities are more expensive and cramped and have more fun things going on - the perfect mix for younger people, who also tend to be more progressive.

A very large majority of homeowners with babies move out of dense cities. These also tend to be more conservative.
The scare quotes as I think that's an inappropriate, though common, use of the term.

Rather than argue I'm quite curious of your take on something. Imagine we have a hypothetical individual - Bob. Bob comes from a single parent and poor family. He's the first of his family to attend college. Bob, like most kids doesn't really like school at all. But he eeks by. And he graduates. Having no clue what to do with his life, he decides to whimsically apply for Whatever U, where he's accepted.

Once in he looks for the easiest major - and settles on psychology. Made even easier after noticing all the cute girls in Psych 301. Bob squeezes by mostly using pickaprof, ratemyprofessor, and so on sites to just find the easiest profs who pretty much hand out 4.0s for just showing up. So naturally he ends up a solid 3.0 student. Finally he graduates.

From my perspective, he's now in pretty much the same situation as he was 4 years ago, except now he has 6 figures of debt and a sheet of paper. How would you say Bob has benefited from higher education, in concrete ways? Would you expect his life to be better or worse relative to him just deciding to e.g. pick up an electrician apprenticeship out of high school?
If it costs the average person a dollar more or requires them to drive a mile less, it won't happen. People are selfish and will gladly vote away their future for a more convenient today.

This isn't a 'party' problem - this is what the public wants.
The sites listed all pay US politicians, judges, and regulators for political favors and leniency, Canna does not.
If part of who you are is in direct response to significant and ongoing unresolved trauma (by whatever source), if resolving that might result in that part ending up ‘killed off’ - or at least changed - no?

Hypervigilance, at least?

If nothing changes, nothing will change.
If everyone can understand something, then repeating it won't lead any place new. We're trying to optimize for curiosity [1], so we're trying to avoid repetition [2].

That goes double for the repetitive+indignant sort of internet comment—those almost always lead to shallow conversation.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
on Twitter in November 2018. She wrote: "What I'm about to say is something so racist I never thought my soul could ever feel it. But truly I never wanna spend time with white people again (if that's what non-muslims are called). Not for one moment, for any reason. They are disgusting."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin%C3%A9ad_O%27Connor#Tweets_...
That’s the reason I called it out as respectfully as I could. I was hoping OP would edit the comment given the rest of it is valid and gets the same point across.
>85% funded by Google Search revenue share. Wheelchaired around unconscious.
Remember, republicans regularly vote because "gas went up" while they choose to drive a pickup truck that gets half the fuel economy of other options while they never even use the truck bed, and while they ignore that if gas going up a few cents a gallon significantly impacts your financial situation then you were in a very bad place already and you should maybe consider how that happend (it's probably not the liberals who have had like six years of total fed control over the past 40 years and have basically never held power in actual states) and also you can cut your fuel usage in so many goddamn ways that don't involve voting for the party that refuses to allow military appointments because he's upset that we allow trans people in the army.
I do not agree with configuring apache and nginx to do that by default, unless WEI would somehow prevent a server that doesn't understand it from working properly (as far as I can tell, that is not the case). (A system administrator could still change the configuration; this is only about the default setting.)

However, I think the other stuff that you had mentioned would be OK.

Furthermore, a distro maintainer could configure clients by default to disable WEI (or to not include client programs that have WEI).
Realistically, we probably need energy all of efficiency, renewable boom and nuclear, and more. We should get going as fast as we can, but definitely will not be done in ten years. It is not just electricity that needs to be got off fossil fuels, but also transportation, industry, heating etc. Very likely nuclear power will have roles to play too.

PS. I live in Finland, our electricity is already mostly clean, in large parts thanks to nuclear. Next we will need to clean up heating and industry, probably with a combination of electrification (heat pumps), storage (heat storage, hydrogen), renewables and nuclear.
Hired at 60 for marketing/tech and, after that job went away as the company itself was near death, again at 63 in a purely IT role (first one in my life, although I’d been doing IT-ish stuff as part of my other jobs for most of the previous 25 years). Retired from that one on the Friday before my 66th birthday.
> While I don’t want to be defeatist the web was smaller then

Yeah, but that also means that fines can be much bigger now, and make bigger headlines - which is what politics is about.

> Any fight back that isn’t mobile first is doomed.

This is actually a prime chance to highlight that mobile needs serious antitrust work.

Firefox on mobile exists, btw. Are you using it?
Yes. I would put this on my website if someone made it.
Just for storage lol, all the AI is cloud still.
I think this is tribal view of the word. Reality is much more complex than left vs right. The political elite is pushing this false dichotomy too.
I agree that industry does a lot of worthwhile science, and maybe more than academia, but I was talking about 'prestige', not 'productivity'.
Communism and Fascism are solely vehicles to and end. Those who govern desire more control no matter what system gets them there. “Whatever works!”
The existence of a configuration that limits attestation to a probabilistic phenomenon seems like a very thin foundation to stand on here - if it can be changed to requiring 100% attestation rate in the future I think it will be changed as soon as it is feasible to do so.

I haven't reviewed the proposal enough to see how they implemented that, and if it was done in a cryptographic way that prevents changing to 100%, then that could work. But the fact remains that control of our browsing computing environment is diminishing under this proposal.
> So many people want to erroneously believe Elon is some child with the mental capacity of a 3 year old with access to billions of dollars because they don't want to like him or give him credit for anything.

I think the contrast between Musk's SpaceX and Twitter experiences is largely down to whether the organization grew up around Musk. SpaceX has an immune system built up for the nutty stuff, from Gwynne Shotwell on down. Twitter got thrown into the deep end with zero staff powerful enough or with the experience to do the post-idea cleanup work.

It's a huge mistake to say "Elon had nothing to do with SpaceX's success". It's also a huge mistake to say "SpaceX's success means Musk's Twitter plans are good".
It's easy in America. As soon as your industry becomes big enough you can afford to petition (lobby) the government to write regulations that favor your busines in your industry.

Fortunately any American can petition their government. Collectively we could hire our own lobbyist to write better laws (and regulations).
No, Google has plenty of skilled engineers that can make spoofing an attestation extremely difficult. It will probably rely on hardware that you cannot modify. See details of a plausible implementation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36859465
There is approximately a 0% chance that people won’t figure out how to make their bots “verified” if this goes through.
It's near zero. Did you report the candidate for this? Actually, have you ever had it happen in any interview you've done?
See the original note: It was much more of a "maybe we could do this, but it has a lot of problems": https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/...
Banks are not the target of this. If Banks do something that inhibits people with disabilities, corporate account managers with disabilities, or senior citizens, they will get skewered. They will tread carefully.
Dan I don't think that comment was designed to be religious flamebait. It may seem like sectarianism if you're not Catholic so I understand feeling this way, but the people who are the most angry about Catholic priests raping children are people that grew up Catholic like myself.

Ie, this isn't attacking anyone on the basis of their religion.

I'd probably say the comment could be improved by adding a link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Pope_John_Paul_II instead of 'that bastard' but criticism of people that facilitate child abuse is quite reasonable and very separate from attacking members of a particular religion.
No more then a meeting on Big Foot :)

Seems Congress is doing all it can to ignore Issues that really need to be fixed.

>There were 138 congressional hearings on climate change in 2022 alone.

And what came of this ? Just denial, finger pointing and "fund raisers" to get more bribes from the fossil fuel industry :)
I certainly didn't mean to suggest that having a GitHub profile could be a negative. My point isn't about identifying red flags, but about pointing out areas that could be improved to make one's profile stand out - especially in the case of the person I was responding to. As someone who reviews numerous resumes, I'm providing insight into what I typically look for when I peruse a candidate's GitHub account, based on my personal experience. I don't disqualify someone based on their GitHub activity, but I do use it as an additional datapoint to help identify those who might stand out from their peers.
Doing crime on a system with a perfect immutable record doesn’t seem like a smart play to me.

As noted above the firms like chainalysis will continue to uncover and attribute all of the nodes in the graph. If you are taking 100s of thousands or more through fraud the incentives are aligned to see your crimes prosecuted.