skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey nice report, how long did it take you'll?

I don't think your research suggests a reasonable defense for human communities, once you overlay your defense strategy over ground reality.

As the other user suggested, using sock puppets creates a force multiplier for attackers. In theory it can be used by defenders, but that suggests a level of sophistication on the defenders part that is many statistical deviations from the mean for normal people.

For attackers sock puppets won't be an unusual tool to be aware of.

But - A dedicated attacker is always going to be defeating defenders anyway.

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I suspect that the work going on during neutral interactions is far more valuable to Reddit as a whole, and you should be looking into that a lot more.

It may well help with making more cross talk (but in true depressing fashion - increase the echo chamber effect).

I wonder which subs have dissimilar features and yet have successful neutral colonization ? Perhaps that's a healthier feature to examine and deal with polarization ?
You can't really take one video of an accident and then claim that's what happens every time you try and drop something out of a plane.
Great questions and we intend to write about this more in the future. We had to build our own container orchestration mostly for speed and customizability.

A bit of context: for every language/environment we have a Dockerfile (naturally) and a JSON configuration that describe how it runs, how it install packages, how it runs unit tests, how it formats code, etc. When we build the container we insert a program that we call pid1, it's the container's interface to the rest of the world.

The container manager creates pools of these containers with some rudimentary predictive logic to make sure we have enough containers to deliver on our promise of "loads in 2 seconds". When we take a container out of the pool, if we're reviving a container, we mount a GCS-backed fuse filesystem with the user code (it needs to be backed by GCS to handle persistence, say you're writing to a log file, it should be there next time you load your project). We then send the relevant setup command to pid1 (either init, or wakeup) which sets up the repl to start the user app, the repl, or what have you.

> What actually happens behind the scenes to make a deploy go live

We poll the container for published ports and the moment we see an open port we add a record to an etcd which stores the routing state. We then send a command to the client that we published a port, which will react by opening an iframe. Then the iframe or any request to the published url will hit our outer reverse proxy which will query etcd to find the container and if the container is alive we will send the traffic to the relevant container manager which has another reverse proxy which sends the traffic to the container.

If the container however is dead (from idling or because of an error) we revive via picking a container out of one the pools and going through the initialization phase described above.

Finally, we also host our own docker image registery so that we can push new images, whether new languages, new versions or what have you.

There is a lot more to talk about here so I or someone on the team will write a post soon.
All of those things are a sign we need more, not less intelligence.

Given the current selective pressure against high intelligence it is not too wrong to say it is lethal genetic trait.
Hrm okay. I don't see much difference between Domino's, Pizza Hut, Papa John's and Little Caesar's. They are all edible, but meh...none of them terrible, but no real difference or real "mmm" factor. I go to specific mom and pop places that do NY style pizza that's actually good. Most of the good ones seem to use Lisante ingredients. Can't think of a chain place that's memorable.

Might be different if I lived in NYC or Chicago. Here in Texas, just mom-and-pop vs chain is the real difference. Fwiw, most of them are Albanian owned vs Italian. Outside of the Northeast US, there isn't much real pizza lineage/history/culture.
Maybe I'm a bit jaded...but I don't like this. Or any of the 'anti-aging' initiatives. Natural death is a beautiful thing; it's a part of life. I'll be honored to die a natural death at a normal age. I don't want to live forever - even at my age I feel the world is changing out from underneath me. Friends and family tick off one by one each year. I'm not too old yet, but already appreciative of the time I've been given. Not sure why anyone who values human relationship would want to 'live forever', even if it's just in digital form.
That should work for almost any reputable company. They know that pissed off customers are loud, and they know those customers will probably try to email the CEO. So make it easy, and let the executive response team turn a loud angry customer into a happy, content customer.

I don't abuse it, but let me tell you, when I emailed Mary Barra @ GM a few months ago because the regular customer service was having no luck finding the car I had already ordered and paid for, even though OnStar showed it 20 miles away -- a gal from the executive response team called me a couple hours later and she already located the car, had someone on-site do a physical verification, and arranged for a truck to go pick it up and take it to the dealer so I could take delivery. Then she called several more times over the next couple days to make sure everything from that moment forward was going smoothly.

She turned me from a rapidly-getting-more-angry customer to a much more relaxed, happy customer with a bit of renewed faith that GM isn't totally a lost cause ;-).
Looks interesting. But anything on clearnet remains vulnerable.
Also, just like how it's easier to add a modal than integrate more state into the underlying view, it's easier to add a new view controller to your xcode storyboard for an interaction.

For example, as you note, you have space to describe it and add possibly more UI to the feature. And in a future pass, you can decide to fold it back in to the existing UI and solidify it there. But that pass isn't necessarily worth it.
On the one hand, I agree with you. On the other; GOD I hope it works because their documentation is loathsome sometimes.
Cool, I didn't know that Gitlab was going that direction. Really awesome how much surface area you're able to cover.
This was many years ago, so I don't remember the exact details besides it being one of those basic black plastic housing straight-through ones. I had been surprised because the quite-black electrical tape turned out to be seemingly transmissive. I probably solved the problem with something equally hacky, like sandwiching a piece of plain paper between the folded over tape, or perhaps a bit of metal.

If it blocked say 90% of IR, it would congruent with both of our points. I'll have to investigate further - it would make a much simpler ID mask.

(hm. Just did an experiment with two IR remotes and it did appear to block for the most part. One of the remotes worked really close up, but I can't easily rule out leakage or some other type of coupling.)
Surely you can acknowledge that some conspiracies, including those involving high-level state actors, have occurred? Why do you pigeonhole all conspiracies in such a way?
Have you considered Firefox support? Since there are only minor differences in the underlying API nowadays, it isn't hard to build an extension for both browsers from the same source!

Source: currently maintaining a production extension for both Chrome and Firefox out of the same codebase
What is Computer Science (1967)
If that is the case I probably won't ever find polite words for this kind of shady lock-in behavior. Certainly one more reason to abandon Slack.
Do any of the music services not suck at suggestions and or auto playlists?

I tried Spotify, Google Music, Amazon, Pandora and all of them drove me batty.

The most common problem is just bad selection. For example I picked "Daily Lift" on Spotify expecting uplifting songs. First song was about woman finding out man is cheating on her. Second song is about woman thinking of x while sleeping with new guy. Neither was remotely uplifting.

Another example, on Google Music I play Prince. Pick "related" and get rap. I have nothing against rap but it's not even remotely related to Prince except in maybe some possibbly racist way.

Pandora had the problem on playing the same songs and if you ban the songs you just end up getting different mixes of the same song.

Yet other issues is "more like this" never works. If I'm playing say a ballad and I pick "more like this" I expect more ballads but instead all the music services just give you songs by artists someone judged as popular with people who like the artist you're currently listing too so you might get dance or rock or rap or anything and not actually "more like this"

I've cancelled all of them as I didn't find them useful because of those issues.
What is technical analysis doing on HN?
It's interesting that they mix markdown and restructured text. ReST is clearly the superior formatting language, but markdown is so much easier to pick up and use.
This might come across as a bit snarky but it is not intended as such at all...

Why did you post this link?

I would assume that the HN crowd would be aware of what an ICO is at this stage. Am I wrong?
lol dumb$ter
Then again, Y Combinator makes no direct money off HN. AWS’ docs, if they are quality directly impacts their profit because more people can use their services more easily.
The man that lost (part of) his mind
I don't want to make the same mistake when doing something. It's more of a service to other people than to Amazon (People probably aren't going to choose a different service based on documentation). It also helps to have different viewpoints from levels of experience to help with wording and such.
People also often claim they "love music." Turns out many of them just want to turn a fob and have the top hits continuously fed into them without effort on their part.
What constitutes a natural death? We used to die at 40 now we die at 80. Is that natural? At what point does natural become unnatural?
The majority of Intel's newly developed HDL is systemVerilog on the design and verification side, but honestly there is still a mix of everything going on there.

Some chip designs make use of purchased IP which is at times VHDL. Heck some unit owners and architects even experimented with HLS (High Level Synthesis) using SystemC for part of the graphics hardware and a few units still have state machines which automatically translate from a DSL or word macros.

I do think both of the trends people are identifying hold true though. US is more verilog than not, Europe I see more VHDL than verilog. US exceptions are typically FPGA developers and defense contractors (but definitely not universally).

In my opinion I find systemVerilog to be much easier to design in with less verbose syntax, better tooling and some nice constructs that make realizing design intent easier. systemVerilog always blows away VHDL in testbench design and general verification environment support. I would never wish designing an elaborate testbench in VHDL on an engineering team. VHDL does have some advantages if you have requirements to do a lot of formal property verification though.
Repl.it rocks. My girlfriend is using it for learning javascript, it's by far the best tool out there for learning how to code. Great product by a passionate team.
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I disagree.

I will happily take docs, such as rust's docs or NaCl's docs, which don't ever mention the possible of md5summing a password, to docs where there are hundreds of comments recommending exactly that terrible practice.

There are a practically infinite number of ways to do things wrong, and very few ways to do things right.
Documenting the right way by exhaustively demonstrating the wrong ways is a fool's errand.

But more to the point, I will happily take no docs at all to docs that are more wrong than right.
2001 Superbowl (pre 9/11) crowd scanned for "possible terrorists" and "identified 19 people thought to be wanted on outstanding warrants for misdemeanors."

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/04/us/tampa-scans-the-faces-i...
How to get my domain unbanned?
I suddenly got my domain banned for some reason...I've been posting a different contents not the same one over and over again. Where do I need to apply to get my account unbanned?
It's unclear that that's possible, though.
"postgresickle" rolls off the tongue so nicely!
Love the clean, minimal look of your website. Definitely going to keep the Raleway font in mind for future projects.

I noticed two small issues. First, if you enable gzip on static assets, it will help images load faster. Second, Mason's picture is 2MB, bigger than everything else combined!
On the other side, what if Amazon gets sued based on something written by a volunteer contributor?
It's a false equivalence argument used to discredit all investigative journalism. Any allegation of anything shady is instantly compared to Moon hoax and shape shifting reptile baloney.
entertainment for the Mars trips possibly?
> Edit: I know, I know. It's already possible to make unauthorized copy-pasta sites. But at least Amazon would have the ability to threaten the site's owner or hosting provider with copyright infringement claims. That option disappears when you release your official documentation under a Creative Commons license.

You misunderstand trademark law.

Trademark law is meant to prevent confusion, and would kick in here.

Nothing is different with respect to creating a confusing fork; before they wouldn't claim copyright infringement before either, but trademark infringement.
> ... can't sort basics of their their UI out ...

Consumer lock in && feature bias to minimize UI complexity && tradition of maintaining long standing bugs...

So basically, XXXXX XXXX as in Don’t care.
So they store it in a way that they can compare any fingerprint they find/take an image of to your fingerprint ...

That's SO reassuring.

So nothing prevents them from taking the packages of their fries stand, get fingerprint images from them, figure out who it is, and send you an offer for 50% off the weight loss holiday package ?

What exactly does privacy for fingerprints imply, except that people are not able to do exactly that ? And I don't mean that they won't. Privacy means they CAN'T. Not even if the next Disney CEO is Vladimir Putin.
This is.. Odd. AWS is notoriously a black box. Their services aren't open source and on github; who would have the insider view necessary to work on the docs outside of their own employees? Is this easier than having an edit suggestion feature? Will PR's cause clashes with their technical writers?
Natural in the context of not being murdered or otherwise unlucky. I really feel especially for say, kids who get terminal diseases before they reach their teens, so I'll throw that in. I'm not old yet, but I've gotten to experience a lot of life to the point where I'd accept my fate. Sorry for the nonanswer, but it requires a bit of thinking and opinion.
Why do people put in countless hours of free labor for Jimmy Wales?
https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/luck-gone-bad-lottery-winne...
Thanks! You're not doing bad yourself either, keep up the good work!
If medicine advanced to the point of repairing your body to be able to live a healthy life indefinitely would you try stay healthy using the best science has to offer or would you not?
I don't agree with comments which assert that proper, well-sourced, sober information can't change minds among people seeking videos about fringe topics.

I also think that Wikipedia is a great resource for exactly this use case, especially where a small number of easily observable facts can overturn the thrust of the disinformation (think flat earth or anti-vax).

However, in some cases, it might not be as good a resource for this purpose. For example, here's the opening sentence in the article about Lee Harvey Oswald:

> Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18, 1939 – November 24, 1963) was an American former Marine and Marxist who assassinated United States President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963.

Of course Oswald enjoyed no trial, and the evidence against him is very flimsy. I (and I think many Americans who've studied the topic) don't think there's enough evidence against him to make such a brash declaration.

So, in this case (and I suspect, some others), Wikipedia serves to add bias rather than subtract it. I think that a sober, reasonable article on Oswald will offer a more nuanced and more factually-driven article.

I think it's especially important in these politically acrimonious times to investigate the Kennedy assassination, and the obvious conclusion from the evidence is that actors within our government executed a chief executive. Let's not misdirect people of a younger generation who try to study this topic.
"It's their privacy being deprived."

I wonder if anyone will be surprised when they learn how HTTPS and HTTP/2 will be used to push more advertising to users and exfiltrate more user data from them than HTTP would ever allow.

Will these "advances" benefit users more than they benefit the companies serving ads, collecting user data and "overseeing the www" generally? Is there a trade-off?

To users, will protecting traffic from manipulation be viewed as a step forward if as a result they only see an increase in ads and data collection?

Even more, perhaps they will have limited ability to "see" the increase in data collection if they have effectively no control over the encryption process. (e.g., too complex, inability to monitor the data being sent, etc.)
Thank you. Oof, will look into that. Thanks for the tip.
"Finder aliases have never been fully documented by Apple, but have been found to contain within their opaque data structures inode numbers."

I was holding out hope that Apple would publish a tool for working with aliases, or at least a specification of aliases so a 3rd party could design a tool. I have a volume with hundreds of aliases that don't work anymore, because the files they pointed to have moved to a new volume. I wish I could batch edit their paths, using find and replace. Many Apple users have asked for an alias editing tool, as I found when I went searching for one, to no avail - not even a kludgy hack exists. I wonder what risk such a tool would pose. Why doesn't Apple document the structure of aliases? Is it just because they're messy, like photoshop psds, and they don't want anyone to see their inelegance? Or is it because it would open Macs to new kinds of mischief? Aliases are fantastically useful, until they break.
Having `d` (close tab) work on all pages except special ones puts you in a place where you might as well just use `cmd-w` (browser default) to close tabs because it actually works all the time.

That experience repeating with a few more critical vimium features and I ended up uninstalling it. Firefox's vimperator, on the other hand, was just great. Though I haven't found a replacement since Quantum.
Not yet, since we're first focused on an MVP. It's something we do have in mind for our roadmap!

How difficult is it to maintain both browsers compared to only one?
There is a serious blind spot most people have, or at least publicly act like they have to avoid ostracism, when it comes to challenging the mainstream narrative. Thank you for pointing it out directly. Everyone else is dancing around the gorilla in the room.
Well, maybe if that theory is true, then if the connection is "severed," so to speak, there's no way to restore it?
Not sure if you'll see this, but I really appreciate all the time you spend on here and other places answering questions. It makes a huge difference in getting people interested.
It looks like at least some of the guides are licensed Creative Commons BY-SA.

For code samples do they do something similar to Mozilla?

Mozilla MDN:

“Code samples and snippets

Code samples added on or after August 20, 2010 are in the public domain (CC0). No licensing notice is necessary, but if you need one, you can use: "Any copyright is dedicated to the Public Domain. http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/".”
hrm... I wonder how vast their facial database is. I know gov't has my driver's license and passport photos, but they're pretty crummy quality.
Three years is much too long. Last year Google's Ryan Sleevi basically said this needs to be much shorter, it takes far too long to fix anything properly with such long-lived certs. Ryan pointed out that it they couldn't get traction by agreement then Chrome can totally just be modified to count certs as expiring after 90 days and that's that. Unsurprisingly CAs did not go "OK we'll do what Ryan suggests, 90 days it is" but they also didn't try to stick with the status quo of 39 months and call Ryan's bluff. The compromise that got enough votes was 825 days for all certs after 1 March 2018.

For future reference - the BRs have a section with a timeline, it's great for finding upcoming or recent changes significant enough that the CAs needed a deadline.
No benevolent dictatorship has ever existed. It is hard to imagine how it could exist; it seems that corruption is such a natural and apparently reasonable behavior that we will always see it.

Your a theoretical should be discarded.
Thank you so much. This is one of the most insightful articles I’ve ever read on Japanese design! I frequently visit Japan and absolutely admire their sense of aesthetics.

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It would depend on a lot of factors. Can everyone afford it, even my poorer friends and family? Is the population booming?
Off the cuff - no. If we all lived forever there'd be no world change, the birth rate would have to drop by a ton to near zero, etc. The older I become, the more set in my ways I become. That's just natural, even if you consciously fight it. Imagine where we'd be as a society if they'd discovered how to live forever in the caveman days...
> What am I missing here?

If I "own your DNS" wouldn't I just change them all to an IP space I control anyway? (If that was a requirement).

Unless I'm missing something, requiring "owning the IP space" seems to be an impossible requirement to fulfil. I'm on a virtual host in Azure/AWS/Linode I have no way of proving I own the IP (because I don't).
I agree, except liberal racist aren’t being silenced (despite being racists) because they are liberal.

It’s an odd double standard.
I tried Anndroid Auto app multiple times on my Android phone. One thing I don't like is not able to change route preference from within the app such as Avoiding Tolls etc. Because of that I always have to come back to Google Maps app.
Professor Stephen Hawking is dead at 76
YC does two things that aren't directly making money but are definitely helping their portfolio companies:

1) Special ad positions with front-page placement (currently #22 is "Willing (YC S15) Is Hiring a UI / UX Designer" https://willing.com/designer , a privileged post that can't be voted or commented on)

2) The moderators can and sometimes do intervene by removing certain comments that are critical of YC companies.

Comments make the forum more interesting to the community, which increases eyeballs and makes the front page spots more valuable. And shaping the discourse helps with damage control when necessary.
CNCF is currently tracking 27 offerings in the CI/CD space, of which 13 are open source: https://landscape.cncf.io/grouping=landscape&landscape=ci-cd
It's not so much "forever" as "longer". I may want to die eventually, just not.. yet.
Physicist Stephen Hawking dies aged 76