skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article and research is talking about third party advertising, where an ad network is used to serve ads on third party sites (greatly simplified, as in reality there could be lots of other players in the chain)

What you're talking about is a completely different scenario, where the publisher is also the ad network (FB, Twitter) so inflated user activity could be beneficial for them. That's also arguable as they provide excellent metrics and different pricing models (CPM, CPC, CPA) so if their numbers were as bad as you think more advertisers would just drop FAN.

In the case of 3ve, methbot and the like, the process for the fraudsters is different and has nothing to do with bots in social networks:

1. In online advertising, it's very difficult to know who is authorised to serve ads for a given domain. Some domains have hundreds of ad suppliers and they can change all the time. This is alleviated by ads.txt, an IAB initiative to list all your adtech partners in a machine-readable file on your web root.

2. Since it's hard to know what inventory a player in the middle of the chain really has access to. So you can make a deal with an ad player to serve ads on the new york times, but actually be delivering shit inventory. This happens a lot at a smaller scale with dodgy ad vendors that simply deliver lower quality inventory; and added to this, until recently there was no way of cryptographically signing bid requests on OpenRTB protocol (v3 adds this feature)

3. If you have access to lots of consumer IP addresses (3ve uses a large botnet) you can essentially create a hosts entry for publisher.com pointing to localhost, serve a site with fake content loaded with real ads, open a real browser to it and collect on the money from the partnerships and accounts you opened. The advertisers think they're buying real inventory and these users pass every check (browser, network...)

PS. I do understand the apprehension though, I spent 10 years in adtech and at times the ecosystem is a total clusterfuck, but it is slowly getting better.
As a generality, GUIs can do only the tasks they were designed to do, and little more. Text-based terminals allow simple composition of tasks into arbitrarily-powerful pipelines.

Terminals might not have discoverability, but in terms of sheer power they wildly outmatch GUIs for many tasks.
what will be the problem with making money via referral unless they are actively promoting shady businesses just to collect referral money.
Population sequencing projects have already starting popping up. The prototype is the 100k Genomes Project in the UK

https://www.genomicsengland.co.uk/about-genomics-england/the...

and there are many other similar efforts underway.
> You cannot simultaneously claim that racism is a social construct

Where do I claim that racism is a social construct? I said 'race' (not racism).
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Selfies are not art, but self-portraits are also not one of the most common subjects in art. Specializing in self-portraits made you strange and interesting, like a Cindy Sherman, and definitely made you look self-obsessed, which played into the interpretation.
Haters gonna hate. I think you are doing a good job so ignore these comments and continue.

If you monetize too, I don't think its immoral. Money is the driving force of Capitalism so taking money for a useful service is not a sleazy activity.
If somebody had a hundred pictures of themselves before the cellphone camera, you would have thought they were insane - especially if they thought you were interested in looking at them. I'm not sure my parents took more than a few hundred pictures of me the entire time I was growing up.

You've been Overton'd, and you think that something that was sold to you is something that is spontaneous or natural.
I'm getting a bit tired of them because there's like an article a week with the same 'ol thing. At this point it's not news, and more like "duh!"
There is a black mirror episode that shows you how ludicrous it is, posting pictures and hoping someone will like them, and becoming obsessed with your score.
no, gcc and clang do provide portable builtins. previously you had to use inline assembly, now it's trivial.
Of course, Google is the one going to be handling our DNA data through an innocuous sounding subsidiary.
I'm not sure if you're serious but such measures sound more like what you would encounter in a cult than modern society.
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what, I like remote people to visit me freely..
[insert vintage photograph of people riding the train, all with their nose buried in the daily paper or in a book]
> Why can't you have just a moderate use of Facebook.

Because social media apps are designed to access the same neural pathways as addictive substances. Let me rephrase your question: "why can't you just have a moderate use of alcohol?" Sure, many people can (and note how that's not newsworthy), but try suggesting to an alcoholic to just drink a little less.
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Somebody noticed! I thought it was just me.

Even their API interfaces are dated and cumbersome to use.
It's not only old news compared to 2014, but it's also old news this year. Here's similar research from UCR: http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~zhiyunq/pub/ccs18_gpu_side_channel.pd...
I totally forgot about this. How quickly norms change.
We are not a democracy. We are at best a Republic. A democracy would be one vote one voice. But in the Senate, there are two Senator for Wyoming (population 540,000) that have the same vote as the two Senators from California (population 39 million +). On top of that you have gerrymandering.

If you live in a populous city in a populous state your vote is worth much less than someone who lives in a rural city in a less populous state.

You’re also assuming as a fact that the court system and the police are not corrupt and can be trusted...
When I was younger being in the same neighborhood was the main way to make close friends. This wasn't just for kids, it seemed like my parents' close friends also tended to be neighbors. Now it seems like people's friends are more far-flung (as in 15 minute drive radius vs walking distance), and people who aren't able to maintain those kinds of connections as well also don't get the automatic friend opportunity of neighbors because their neighbors' social lives aren't as local. I think the internet and especially cell phones contributed to this by allowing some people to maintain friendships easier with people further away.

Don't know if that's generally true or just nostalgia + what I've seen.
I, on the other hand, re-joined Facebook after years of absence and was really disappointed. It’s all politics and memes. Just an eponymous Reddit.
With zsh and a good completion script (e.g. one provided by oh-my-zsh), tab completion will discover every option for a command. And the man page will list all the options as well.
You know, I consider myself fairly liberal on technical issues, and I agree with you in the general sense, but I don't agree in this specific instance.

This isn't a situation like Aaron Swartz, where the companies in question are restricting access to publicly-funded research. The newspapers are privately-funded entities that conduct their own investigative journalism.

This isn't a situation like Weev, where there was no access control to the data and he was just probing exposed endpoints.

This isn't a "right of first sale" issue. It could be if the publishers were trying to restrict access to page content after you paid for an account, but that's not what's happening here.

I agree with the GP that the issue is the framing. It's the difference between selling a mask, and selling a mask that's advertised to let you rob a bank without being caught.
https://imgur.com/gallery/WkHHpZ1

But seriously, even if you consider phones as more distracting than papers, well keep in mind that many people in cities just don't want to be talked to, especially not on their daily commute or what not. I mean, try striking up a conversation with someone on the Tube when in London. They'll probably look at you as if you're mad, and that's been the case for decades.

Hell, they even tried that recently, and people weren't having any of it:

https://www.citylab.com/life/2016/09/tube-chat-no-thanks-say...

Makes me wonder if large cities/groups in general kill conversations and people's interest in being social more than anything else.
They do have to be sharp. As an exercise, consider a metallic cone with a charge of 1 and look at the distribution of the charge that minimizes the electrostatic energy. You will find that the charge collects near the tip of the cone. In general, charges will collect where the curvature is high. It's easier to push electrons out of a pointy tip (or inside of a pointy tip) because they are denser there.
Journalist writes the obvious and gets credit for what the dissenters have known since the inception of "social media." Shocker.

At least it's upvoted highly here on HN; gives me hope that more and more and catching on.
I hate them too. There are a number of things wrong with them, discoverability is one of them but what really gets me is tracking state. Why do I need to guess at the state of things inside my head as I'm running commands, or query the machine to tell me, when the actual state is sitting there in memory the whole time?
Those screenshots are DejaVu Sans, not Noto Sans, and with a different font rendering engine than the ones in this article. We should probably update those, though.
That paper describes two very different attacks from the 2014 paper. The old news was being able to get memory with stale data from previous processes.
> I don’t know of any reputable company that would take the risk of using open source software in a way that was against its license.

There were few cases actually, such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Software_Foundation,_Inc..... (HN strips the final dot from the url)

Though it is true that most violations are from unknown local adware or whatever companies.
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I've just spent some time on this. The Oumuamua scenario is superb - that alone is worth every penny.

Thank you.
Well hopefully this is not a sentiment that continues to grow in the technical community. All nice things have a cost. For all the efficiency gained from the web-view, consider the cost of building the web-view, maintaining it, hosting, and the other myriad of frontend activities. Contrast that process with downloading a few popular libraries, coding up some methods, exposing them via a cli lib, and then publishing to one of the many package managers. I can do the later in an afternoon, but I may never release if I think all my users should have a web-view.

I suspect if all technical users simply stopped considering text based ui acceptable, we'd actually have less quality software overall. There are too many programmers like myself, who can make decent programmatic interfaces, but simply can't put together a usable web-interface to save their life.
If you don't understand the appeal, do you think you should pass judgement? Hate is quite a strong word. Terminal interfaces are quite "discoverable," more so than GUI's I could argue. You can often display the list of available commands, see their documentation, etc. Terminals are universal interfaces to many different types of software. With GUI's, you must learn the different ways people have decided to hide away commands in convoluted menus. I am personally a reformed GUI-holic, so I understand where you are coming from, and know from my refinement that it is a place of misunderstanding.
Sadly I have to agree with you, when you're in the spotlight like that you have to realise that your actions ripple outwards and drive the behaviour of susceptible recipients.

One can argue "he's just a guy, he did something stupid, probably thought it was funny at the time" but that argument falls flat when you consider that some people will use that as an excuse to imitate the behaviour. Even if you're not a creep yourself, the "I was just messing around" excuse isn't good enough when it might enable real creeps to do the same.
Ask HN: Favourite command line applications?
What are your favourite command line applications and why?

What do you like about them?

What problems do they help you solve?
I have the exact opposite problem: it's too difficult to politely exclude myself from potential social situations.

Seeing that some people consider "loneliness" as a problem to be fixed is a nightmare. I know I am very much part of the problem and I don't want to be fixed: I want to stay the fuck away from you.
I'm sorry you feel that way but maybe the invisible hand of the free market has decided that it just isn't profitable for large companies to provide platforms for people like Alex Jones. You should be happy to live in a world where a business is allowed to make decisions that act in their rational best interest instead of being forced by government to do something that doesn't make sense to their bottom line.

Maybe Mr. Jones can build his own content distribution channels? If he can't, maybe his ideas just aren't that popular and his business should fail?

And for what it's worth, Alex Jones supporters spread like a cancer through sites that allow it. The community surrounding him and those like him are often more toxic then the founders.
This is a great idea.

However - how would you define a partial cure? Or reward improvements to a cure? A cancer drug that works 60% of the time? 80% of the time? Etc.
that's not editorializing, that is neovim's tagline: https://neovim.io/
There are a couple of features I feel are missing.
1) ability to filter by beginner/intermediate/advanced resources.
2) ability to rate & review resources and then sort by popularity/rating.

As it is I see a ton of resources for my target language, with no way to choose between them.

Nice work overall, this seems like a really useful idea especially for less popular languages!
Some of this stuff sounds vaguely reminiscent of Nix. Which is unfortunate. I rather see a port of Nix(pkgs) to Haiku so Haiku is able to continue their wonderful unique innovations rather than reinvent the (albeit rarer and hirer quality) wheel.
Absolutely. Amazon feels like a 3-rd part eCommerce site this days. And here is some help for everyone who wants to start small with online store: https://medium.com/@JohnBeardslee/woocommerce-guide-how-to-s...
Ah, gotcha, appreciate the clarification.
Terminals don’t suit this approach of trying to get an overview of what a program does. Personally I find trying to get an overview of a complex program/concept/project/anything quite taxing and laborious. Terminals are a welcome relief from this issue. They are precisely as complicated as they need to be for a given task. A GUI will never have this property.
After reading on the Circassian language in the article, I can't dismiss Ithkuil again.

No wonder some Russians are attracted to the conlang...

Give me Toki Gonna though!
It doesn't imply that at all -- it appears to be a political choice. Many cities give free parking passes to residents of the city center to park in their local neighborhood, for example.
You're welcome and best of luck.
Even if patreon & friends are ok with it, they still need to avoid businesses that visa & friends do not want on their payment networks or will only allow them for a large cost. And by derivative what major regulators do not want on payment & banking systems or without a lot of onerous paperwork and gotchas.

The classic example in this is porn, and now it's fringe right wing things.
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Etiquette is just discipline. once we start dismissing manners as pointless, then we're degrading as a species. We as individuals value certain disciplines over others, or we accuse certain disciplines to be excluding others, but manners is the universal discipline. Being polite has gone out the tube. Parents verbally abuse their own kids, smoke in front of them. Imagine how they treat other peoples. Why? Because they are petty. They are jealous. They hate the rich, hate the poor, hate the black, hate the white, hate the muslim, hate everyone. Why? This is a lack of etiquette. I am not saying we should be militant, but why don't we try to be nice to each other? Why don't we walk in each other shoes?
I can't believe it either. Heck, even most (all?) family members and friends would probably balk at the idea of lending 2K for whatever reason.

Do most people's friends/families have the ability to just give out 2K in cash at the drop of a hat? Maybe yes if they're upper middle class or upper class and can just plonk thousands on a random whim, but I suspect someone making less than 40-50,000K a year would be hesitant, even more so if they're not super close.
You'll be sad soon enough.
Nitpick: Not Germany, but Lower Saxony (a German state). They own 20% of VW and have a special case in the law that gives them special veto rights on (some?) supervisory board decisions.
I'm assuming Steam handles the application of regional sales tax/VAT based on country of purchase (that would apply in the EU I think?) that alone might be worth it? Not to mention they have a really good/fast distribution system.
this also looks good: https://github.com/hswick/jutsu.ai
It's because photos cost virtually nothing these days, compared to the film photography of your childhood.

People also have hundreds of photos of lattes, food, cats, their friends, and all kinds of other stuff that makes them happy.
A pet peeve of mine is confusing the terms "terminal", "shell", "CLI" etc. They are not interchangeable and the distinction is important to understand.

- shell: the "top level" user interface for the operating system. Can be text-based or graphical, command-line based or point and click etc. It's how you do things once you've loaded an OS. Examples: sh, bash, zsh, fish, eshell (emacs).

- terminal: A hardware device for input/output of text. Originally teletype machines (ttys) but later used CRT monitors instead of a printer. Example: DEC VT100,

- terminal emulator: a piece of software that emulates a terminal. Examples: xterm, GNOME Terminal

- CLI: command-line interface. A user interface based on typing commands one line at a time. Does not include text-based UIs like htop etc. Examples: git, curl.

- TUI: text-based UI. Essentially a GUI but works on more advanced terminals (ie. not actual ttys). Examples: htop, emacs, vim.
Imgur front page policy is no selfies and no NSFW posts, which results in lots of comics, animals and silly gifs. Might have some of what you're looking for?
>In the case of fallout 76, the game is so buggy nobody wants to play it.

Buggy, bland, and hamstrung by silly design decisions:

- No non-player characters transformed into 'we'll use robots to awkwardly get around our self-imposed rule'

- 'Let's use our time-stopping VATS system in a multiplayer environment where you can't pause time, I'm sure that will work well'
Just logging out of facebook worked for me. Or uninstall app from phone if you use mobile.
Figure this is a troll post, but I'll bite.

As an example of composability... Say you have an api that returns products, but you want to find out how many have the word aliens:
curl # gets the api responses
grep # searches input
wc # counts input.
jq # parse and query json

Streaming those together:

curl api.myapi.com/products | jq .name | grep 'aliens' | wc -l

You have your answer quickly without thinking (after you know all this cold).

Most of the commands are also mnemonic -r is usually reverse, -R recurse, -a all.

I recently in 5 minutes took the API response from one api and constructed sql queries into a test db for test data using roughly the above method. Another fun, trolling type command, a product manager that wanted daily updates got a scrum.sh that ran on cron and posted summary of what people did on slack.

I don't know how you can work effectively as a software engineer without knowing something about it.
I don't think the vast majority of gamers give a shit about Uplay's terribleness.
HackRF one can be purchased for $100 nowadays:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/HackRF-One-1MHz-to-6GHz-SDR-...

Is it worth paying $380 more to have a better ADC and a few more bells and whistles in the BladeRF micro?
I was surprised to see the NYT say "males and females don’t stay together for long or care for their young" in light of the female's ultimately fatal guard duty for their eggs[1]. While I suppose that is technically "not caring for young", it certainly outdoes most other invertebrates.

Personally I am impressed that cephalopods can be as intelligent and resourceful as they are while being cold-blooded, though I suppose tropical species don't suffer much from that problem.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus#Reproduction
ISPs used to do this. No one seemed to use it. What's the point when hosting is free and most people have no desire to publish a general page that's disconnected from social media or a blog service?
Exposure is key, I know I don't buy games that aren't on Steam. So many games I wouldn't know about at all if they weren't on steams recommendations page.
I'm not all that concerned with monopolists' and near monopolists' freedoms to be honest. VISA isn't some family-run corner store.
Please stop posting unsubstantive comments here. Also, please don't take HN threads on generic tangents (especially ragey ones).
Must your employees be ambitious? Competent-and-responsible is not enough?
Then you would have to explain why the same thing happened in other western countries where the dominant sugar is not HFCS.
Public exposure is stressful but itself; but surely the platform can make choices that increase or decrease that stress.

For instance, most platforms provide a public popularity score. I imagine some people at least would spend less time fretting about the number of likes they get if they were the only ones who got to see it.
Agreed.

I'm involved in selling high volumes of name brand, licensed manufacturer products on Amazon. Zero advertising and we move a lot of units.

We compete with Amazon, but we're also well rated enough to be in the Buy Box. People know the products and will buy it if they want it.

Getting this kind of product can be more challenging, but as a starting point, it makes more sense.

All I do is list the products with inventory, and between Amazon FBA and Seller Fulfilled Prime, we mostly just worry about product selection, availability and pricing. Of course, accurate SKU details, descriptions, images, etc are important, too.
Not so much for the games that are hitting those revenue levels, as they already have mind share far greater than you get from being on Steam.

It's a game changer for smaller and unknown developers to be findable on the steam store. Once you're a battlefield/witcher/fallout etc, you just don't need it.
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> What about DynamoDB?

From what I recall DynamoDB is a somewhat hacky API layer over a bunch of MySQL clusters. I'm not sure anyone would, or should, attempt to use a non-managed version of it.
Is $100 the cost the real cost or is it subsidized by keeping your data?
It certainly wasn't, but it also was not normalised to the extent it is today.

People laughed at selfies only 5 years ago, thinking it was a bit self-interested, now it's a normal part of the culture.
I've been using my taskbar on the side of the screen for the past decade, because every screen I use has an excess of width and limited height. I seem to be very much in a minority here - I guess people don't change things from default?