jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It's important for us (I work at Google on web-search) to be transparent about these reports, and we use them to remove / block content that is malicious too (just like other sites can use the Safe-Browsing API to get information about sites they host). With regards to where it's hosted, there are two main elements involved: a site that actually hosts the exploit (which could be a Windows EXE file, etc), and a site that sends the user to that exploit. Often these are separate. Sometimes it's not even a direct embedding of a known malicious site, for example, it could be that a counter/analytics-tracking site is hacked, which could result in all other sites that use those counters/scripts unknowningly sending users to malicious content.

From talking with webmasters, I have seen almost no false-positives in this flagging, but it's sometimes very hard to find the actual exploit. It sometimes hides from some visitors (direct visitors - like the webmaster - might not see it, it might only be visible for those coming from search), sometimes is limited to geographies or devices. This makes finding the exploit hard sometimes, and fixing the website so that it's no longer vulnerable to the attack that dropped the exploit isn't easy in many cases either.

I take these warnings very seriously when I see them in the browser, even when accessing a site with a fairly locked-down & up-to-date browser. I would recommend never skipping them, even to diagnose an issue (use other tools for that).
Isn't that exactly what you don't want to do, since infringement is almost impossible to avoid, and wilful infringement costs more?
Please read the rules about job posts: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.
I don't think that education is the way into the elite class. I think that if you are elite, then you will probably be educated, so you'll naturally see a gap in education between elites and commoners.

But I don't think being a doctor, lawyer, or Goldman-Sachs programmer, automatically makes you an elite. Owning a home doesn't make you an elite.

Having the capacity for power and influence, imo, makes you an elite. You don't necessarily need to express your power, but if you have no power to express except for buying a nice home, education, car, and so on, then I don't think you have power. Power is the ability to substantively influence political, social, or economic spheres. Bill O' Reilly has power. Peter Thiel has power. Bill Gates has power.

Because I really have to say, how are you an elite if you seem to lack so much say over the world around you? It almost looks like you are a luxurious piece of driftwood, bobbing to force of massive tides.

A lot of people have this standard of elite where if it's better than 99% of the world, then you must be an elite. But then I look at that remaining 1%, and I find too many servants of the elites (I consider a normal doctor to be a servant of the elites), which is why I don't like that capricious cutoff point. We should be focused on a more interesting question:

How do we describe power? Who has it? How much do they have? How does their power work? That's what I want to know when I drive an inquiry around "elitism".
Interesting, glanced through your paper. How do you find real devices behave at constrained channel widths (<20Mhz in 2.4, <40Mhz in 5)? I have a feeling those are not well tested scenarios :)
Why so much let? Are you supposed to only use let now? I thought it had a very specific use (like wanting a local variable in a loop).
I'm one of the more recent users of HN and after I started liking the content I saw here I thought of this too.

I would really like to use an HN/Reddit like application restricted to different networks of people that I know to share news/content that they would enjoy or benefit from.
But then I thought perhaps that's only because I don't use facebook much and my friends/colleagues don't use twitter much.

Most of my friends/colleagues have started sharing a lot of news content on their facebook recently. So I guess some people (at least here in Mumbai) are sharing what they see on HN/Reddit/other with others via Facebook.

As for me, I often share articles that I like with others via email or text depending on the person I'm sending it too. My dad uses email for doing this too (maybe because he doesn't use facebook at all).

I guess there may be a missing communication channel for people who don't use facebook much. Tweets seem to get lost in the crowd of thousands of other tweets people see on their twitter stream.

I would use an HN/Reddit restricted to networks of people I know. But they would have to be really active in order to make it as good.
Both. It's clear right now that self driving cars can perform very well in ideal conditions. It is considerably less clear that they perform well in poor conditions. I haven't seen any demos of Google's tech in low visibility / high rain, and demos of other tech that I have seen went poorly.
> The situation you are describing is that automobile safety is implemented primarily by establishing standards and only secondarily by the existence of liability (though it's important).

Indeed, regulatory standards is what I was hinting at, not just civil liability (although I believe both exist for car manufacturers, and should probably exist for software vendors).
I think an alternative would be Sympy in a Jupyter notebook.
They raised money over the past several years at over $10bln valuation, there's no way they're going to debut at $3bln.
So am I! Permissioned blockchains (essentially, as you say, distributed databases) are the motivating use case, but I'm excited to discover what uses other people come up with.
Musk has claimed imminent 24 hour turnaround times, Red Dragon on Mars every 2 years since 2018, second stage reusability etc.

So it's acceptable to have some skepticism that SpaceX intends to drop the Falcon 9's (already very cheap) marginal cost from $1000/kg by 100 times to $10-$20/kg through Starship's fully and rapidly reusable operation.

If anyone can do it, it's Elon Musk. But it's good to keep in mind his deep aversion to any sunken cost fallacies.
> Isn't "having a central authority" the very problem that Bitcoin solves?

“Central authority” more accurately seems to be the putative source of some not-well-specified problem that Bitcoin solves (often phrased as “trust”, but in any normal understanding of the word Bitcoin doesn't solve that, it just shifts it from a small known group of actors to a large and opaque group.)

> All central authorities are doomed to fail sooner or later BECAUSE they are centralized.

No, all centralized authorities are doomed to fail sooner or later because they are things that exist in a universe in which all things are impermanent.

But this is true of decentralized networks, as well.

The real concern of failure is the likelihood of sudden catastrophic failure without warning and opportunity for an orderly exit, and I have not seen the case made that Bitcoin is better than major fiat issuers in that regard.
I believe every single statement in your comment is factually false. The only one I don’t feel objectively certain of is this:

> Just curious.

But I sincerely doubt it’s true based on the tone of your comment. I’m willing to walk through each sentence with you, but as I have already sunk significant time into trying to help you I politely request that you first prove my doubt unfounded by investing five minutes in grabbing luakit, qutebrowser, or Pentadactyl — or at the very least a WebExtension attempt at emulating them like SurfingKeys — with your favorite package manager/browser and trying it out for yourself.

Edit: However I will walk through the sentences for the sake of the other people reading this thread in better faith, to respond to the strongest [weakly] plausible interpretation of your comment, although text is a worse medium for learning GUIs than video which is worse than first hand interactive use.

> So first you have to visually recognize every link in between the beginning and what you want to choose and then you have to count them all? I hope you don't miscount!

No, the browser automatically highlights them in a style of your choice (I use a gruvbox theme) and visually numbers them for you. You can also just begin typing any part of the link’s title and it will be selected when you’ve typed a subset unique to it.

> How many lines, half-pages, or pages is it from the top to here? Just curious.

~3 out of 4 screens on my threads right now. But note that I scrolled down one piece at a time and only know this because my bottom status bar happens to display it (as well as the url, mode, a minus or plus signifying pages back or forward in the tab’s history, on a background that signifies the SSL status of the site).

> So first you have to decide that "starts with r" is a good heuristic for getting where you want to go and then you have to find all of the links that start with r and count them?

No, you don’t need to use a heuristic but it saves reaching your left hand to the number row to eliminate half a dozen links by typing fr instead of just typing f10.

> But if it's not the first input field, then you have to count them or cycle through them?

No, you can use ;i to select fields the same way you select links, but it hasn’t taken me the months I’ve been using HN to notice all top-level discussion pages have exactly 2 input fields: one to add a top-level comment and one for the Algolia search (gi or 2gi will instantly teleport you to and insert you cursor in the first or second one respectively).

> So now you want a special bespoke reader for every website?

No, I want a native client for each type of software: a browser for browsing (exploring and reading) web documents, a news reader for news, an IRC client for internet real-time chat, a mail client for mail, a media player for playing media (I copy links and use a sxhkd binding to open them in MPV — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24509028), etc.
I would go even further and say that these prestigious institutions don't need any execs. They are just a pressure tool for corporate interests. There's no shutting down needed, just dismantling their bureaucracy. If there is one community where self-organizing is genre consensually known to work it's the academic community. There are already tons of fields where this is the case: some top-notch-international and most local conferences and journals alike in CS and math are already being run collegially by universities and unions. As always it's always where there are big corps that thing go awry (looking at you biology and medicine).
The docs:

https://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/languages.html

The book:

https://beautifulracket.com/

The video:

https://youtu.be/WQGh_NemRy4
I thought I could follow at least some of the unobsfucated C, and then this monstrosity:

t = "++#m--%am*@R<^1c/@%[_[H3c%@%[_[H3c+@.B#d-@%:_^BKd<<Z/03e>>`/03e<=0f>=/f<@.f>@1f==&g!=\'g&&k||#l&@.BCh^@.BSi|@.B+j~@/%Yd!@&d*@b";

Could someone please explain what is going on in that routine?
I wish that it was easier for talented people to come work in the US. Thanks for posting this and best of luck.
Wikipedia agrees with you right in the first paragraph. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship

But did you follow your link? It says noun.
So you think we should pursue a strategy that is unimplementable in the real world? Doesn't sound very clever to me.
It's only crazy if you think the rule of law is applied consistently, fairly, and apolitically.

If you've followed the history of protest in this country, you'll find it difficult to believe any of these things. From suffragist, to labour, to the civil rights movement, unarmed left-wing protests are routinely brutalized by police. Armed right-wing protests are not.
No, Twitter is within its right to remove stuff that goes against its policy. e.g. no one in their right mind would argue to keep a tweet up if it was a picture of child pornography.
> Hopefully the same time they remove everything BLM, who were far more violent and caustic this summer.

Posts that are asking to violate curfew and go into the streets to protest should be removed at the time these calls would violate said curfew, regardless of the reasoning behind the protest.
It's not government censorship, so it's not a free speech violation. It's a corporate censorship of the platform they own.
Presumably twitter wants to carry some authority no matter what we want. What they did is in service if their own goals.
Exactly what I've experienced with my dad. He went from someone I idolized who could fix anything and solve any problem to the guy who rants about Muslims coming to kill us while building up a stock pile of guns.
they never really tried to monetize. they just put some ads on the search pages.
Maybe they're just trying to crank up the pressure on CDPR to pay.
Regarding the "emscripten-imposed file size problem", I've written a couple of alternative cross-platform headers which might help in this case (e.g. avoiding SDL). These enable WASM apps in the "dozens of KBytes" range, and you get native-platform support "for free":

https://github.com/floooh/sokol

Check out these samples and have a look at the size in the browser devtools which are IMHO quite sensible:

https://floooh.github.io/sokol-html5/

https://floooh.github.io/tiny8bit/

PS: really great writeup btw :)
Why can’t one be bitter about being impacted by something ridiculous?
Yeah. Even in my graduate math studies I sometimes used Word. Obviously LaTeX is more powerful and expressive, but Word equations are quick and easy for simple tasks.
Until Apple arbitrarily decides to stop including it like they did with Rosetta 1 for PowerPC emulation.
That's right. If you want to sequester more carbon, you have to create more forest.
I love functional programming. At least the functional parts of Python.
However, Lisp seems better suited for computers than for humans.

Which is probably a side effect of having been created when 64kB was a decent memory size.
Yet they still get a vote. And if they vote for something you don't understand, then it just proves that watching the news helps you know what journalists think - not the public.
This is scary that you can be punished for using a system, not hacking but just using it.

I don't want to give too much details but my company allow you to subscribe to people's PTO calendar. By default, you can see your teammates but you can search other people and add their calendar to your dashboard.

To me it seemed like a logical thing to do to add all those people who I interact with to my dashboard. Also I added some of my friends and some higher ups. Just to help me with planning my vacations and sure a bit of curiosity.

Now I wonder if my company can use this against me.
I'm partial to the Emacs keybindings, but you you're so right about the laptop keyboards. Mine doesn't have an End key (Home, PgDn, PgUp, Power).
I don't think I'd have GHW on that list - Clinton, sure, but during GHW's presidency we had pretty strict sanctions on China and investment in China was mostly curtailed.
https://business.financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/rich-cal...
Income stagnation is directly correlated to outsourcing and globalization. Union busting’s contribution to stagnation is sort of a side show. That’s to say strong unions cannot stop jobs from being sent overseas.

What good does it do you to have a union without members because all work has been sent overseas? None!

That’s Clinton and his MFN and fastracking into WTO. That’s who we have to thank as well as everyone who didn’t dare challenge that world view but rather cheerled it, including the Bushes and Obama.
This is for HPE (not HP, which is now a separate company). I haven't heard anything about HP (who makes desktops not storage arrays) experiencing this problem.
A cogent and well-written article.

My only possible contributions are the following:

1. The author perhaps underestimates the bottom 90%, who are written off as politically irrelevant (in terms of real power) near the start of the article.

I do think there's a good reason for this, but we are only one true crisis away from that changing. For example, suppose India and Pakistan only were to have a nuclear engagement and the outcome was a small global "winter" for a few years from the dust and rubble kicked into the atmosphere. When crops and supply chains fail and famine kicks in, who is going hungry?

That's about the point that true populist revolts happen.

2. The author discusses at length the phenomenon of "the 10%" elites who align themselves (in ideology) with the working class, perhaps blinded by not realizing that they are actually trying to support their own interests.

But I think some underestimate how soon the developers and programmers of the world will crater from "elite 10%/5%/1%" to something resembling median salary.

This is my own opinion, but it's clear to me that the tech industry (and it's associated venture capital scene) are in a state of irrational exuberance as the capitalist class is convinced that tech startups (or the word "tech" attached to non-tech startups) offers incredibly high ROI.

This paradigm will end as easy opportunities and low hanging fruit dry. Maybe we're already there, but nobody has acknowledged it yet. When this happens (and is widely recognized), venture capital will flee to safer vehicles. Meanwhile, the big tech of the world will consolidate and cut costs to grow shareholder value.

When this happens, we will all stop hopping jobs for 30% pay raises and instead we will start hopping jobs (post-layoff) for 30% pay cuts. And this will continue for decades.
>Secretly Tesla knows their truck will win in just about any 1v1 competition with a Ford

i'm not sure how this counts as clever marketing? making a product that's legitimately better than the competition is the opposite of clever marketing.
Not really.

Different groups may follow you. PI trying to determine marriage issues, health issues for insurance reasons, etc

If you are famous or have something to add to the news cycle reporters or people trying to sell your picture may follow you around.

Most people post where they have been publically to create their personal brand that they share with others.

These have no mal intent. The overused word creepy is subjective.. and doesn't make it wrong. I know someone who feels creepy going outside at night. We shouldn't morally make a judgement for everyone based on someone's feelings. I don't think going outside is creepy.
"Illegal" under what jurisdiction?

> They must allow you to inter.

That's evidently not true. Or at least grossly misleading. Countries can and are refusing to allow all people who want to get onto flights bound for the country they're citizens of.

My country (.au) is currently limiting inbound international travellers to 3000 per week, with over 40,000 Australian citizens registered as trying to get home. Some of those people have been trying for close to 12 months to get home.

These restrictions mean that airline seat pricing is going insane. In pre Covid times, I'd regularly fly Sydney to SF round trip for $AUD1500-$2000 or so on United. A recent news report says they're now flying business/first class only flights with the cheapest one way LA-SYD tickets being $AUD21,000.

Can you imagine being on a trip last Jan/Feb with a return ticket for March or April, only to be told your return ticket keeps getting bumped for higher paying customers but you could always upgrade to a $21,000 ticket to get home. And your travel insurance says "Sucks to be you, you're not covered for pandemics, as outlined in section 374 on page 93 of your Product Disclosure Document you got when you paid your premium. Have a nice day!" So now you're stuck in the US, originally of a 90 day tourist visa waiver and not legally able to work, and there's no casual work available anyway because of Covid shutdowns, and you've needed to manage to find food/shelter for 12 months while waiting for a flight home. I know one of those people, and know of several more...
From Swatow's post - "i kinda think that google got a 100% monopoly because at the time they were the BEST search engine"

Emphasis on -best-. Compared to all the others. I.e., altavista, yahoo, ask.com, msn, lycos, infoseek, etc". Google came into the party late, and -displaced- the existing players, by offering a superior product.

Swatow stated that when PHP came on the scene it was the "only way to throw together a website easily", that it's now being displaced by other tech, but because for a time it was the only way to do it easily, it somehow had inherent quality. That would be like saying that because Archie was the first search engine, it had inherent quality.
If you trust the other party, you don't have to clear the transaction through the block chain.

You could also just log in and supervise two automated systems interacting, rather than entering numbers.

(Mind you, I don't believe in the glorious future of bitcoin, but any wider usage will certainly be accompanied by better UX)
If pointless-ware is a thing, then this is it. Can anyone comment on the "missing" in the title? Missing by who?
Considering that you just figured out very nearly exactly what's happening (sans press conferences) - how exactly are they blowing it?

PS: There is no current Concorde service.
Epidemics != disease. See my other comment to a similarly confused poster.

Even if you believe in transhumanism, I don't see how forcing others into that believe system would be "awesome". I like Chocolate Chip ice cream, yet I would oppose a law making it the only allowed flavour.

Other than that, I don't get what souls have to do with anything. I don't believe in God, or souls, or even dualism. Yet dignity, defined as each individual being worthy of respect (as opposed to being a collection of molecules expendable in the service of any other goal), would seem rather fundamental to our code of ethics.

I think by "souls" you're actually just referring to morality in general. And yes, if you subscribe in anything-goes nihilism, then I have nothing to answer you. Except that I'll be coming to rob you of your soul as soon as it becomes beneficial to my narrowly-defined interest.
This perspective is ignorant of modern findings on mind control.

People born into certain religions with certain kinds of parents and communities often don't have a psychological choice because of the nature of their environment. Just because some INTPs slip through the cracks does not mean that your typical ESFJ has a choice.
I would be pretty upset if I was still at work at 12am on any day, Friday especially...
You have to understand the perspective of the FSF. They view non-free software as fundamentally morally evil. In the same way that most people today view slavery as fundamentally wrong. The comparison to slavery is one RMS and the FSF often make themselves.

To extend the analogy: if picking cotton was only economically viable if done with slave labour, then most people would agree we are better off not picking cotton at all. Similarly the FSF position is that if solving a problem using computers is only possible in a way that uses or enables non-free software, then we are better off not using computers to solve that problem at all.
True on volume, we only had about 15K users per day. Half the bugs were iOS issues we could do nothing about, and the most of the rest were data related which were out of our control (but we fixed when they appeared). It's just the QA statement that bugs me, Apple may have quality issues but they have a gazillion products, and FB has very few.
"I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion." - Mia Hamm (For who do know who she is, she is a ex-US soccer captain)