skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am a huge fan of Wireguard and use on all the major production servers I currently manage.

But user management is exactly as sophisticated as SSH key management. That is to say, easy for 2-3 people, a pain otherwise.

There are attempts at creating UI based user managers for wireguard, and I hope those go somewhere.

I bet the major wireguard-supporting VPN providers have solved this problem for themselves though.

Update: Just wanted to add that I don't think that user management (the work of actually provisioning and managing users) should fall under the umbrella of Wireguard. It's perfect the way it is. But I suspect there will be an ecosystem of tools that come up around it.
I've now found a blog post[0], which seems to outline two main reasons for WASM over JVM on the web:

1. WASM is an open standard

2. WASM spec is smaller, so it's easier to integrate into the Javascript VM, which itself brings many benefits

Since WASM wins on the web, I guess it makes sense for developers to want to develop one version of their code for both the web as well as native environments. Thus, WASM -> Native seems to totally make sense.

[0] https://words.steveklabnik.com/is-webassembly-the-return-of-...
That's a lot of presumptions. It also could have been largely "normal" but the kid wasn't exceptional, and they just wanted to make sure this happened.
It's also much easier to get visa sponsorship for a foreign worker who has a PhD than one who does not. Someone with a PhD has a stronger chance of being eligible for an O-1, whereas someone without likely has to go through the H1-B lottery
Well that's not very... convenient.
You're right the two aren't equal, that's why pro-ISIS content is banned and pro-Islam content isn't! In fact, you could generalize this to a rule: extremist philosophies advocating violence are banned on Facebook. Islam isn't an extremist philosophy advocating violence as practiced by most of its adherents. But the parts of it that are (ISIS for example) are banned. Similar to white nationalism. Where exactly is the fallacy?
>Isn't the general argument that state taxes mean almost nothing to businesses like Boeing, Microsoft, Amazon, et al (in Washington State) but are actually a huge pain in the ass for small/mid-size businesses?

"The bill proposes increasing the state business and occupation tax by 20 percent on about 40 categories of technical services, such as telecom, engineering, medical and finance. And by 33 percent on tech firms with more than $25 billion in annual revenue.

But here’s where this goes off the charts, into politically unheard-of territory. It mandates a top rate, a whopping 67 percent business tax increase, for those “advanced computing businesses” with “worldwide gross revenue of more than one hundred billion dollars” per year."

Not sure if you read more than the headline but I don't think this bill targets small/mid-size businesses.
The greatest story ever about the SR-71
https://oppositelock.kinja.com/favorite-sr-71-story-10791270...
Although I agree with some of this article, I find the closing paragraphs frustrating.

How can they go from "Twitter's boss [...], Facebook is working on some kind of crypto [...]. Market analysts and pundits provide cheery reassurance [...]" and then close with "This one guy is sceptical" and present the two sides as completely equal?

One side has, in their own words, market analysts (plural), among the top tech companies... The other side is a single computer scientist (read: non-market analyst), yet both sides have equal weight? Or, more accurately, they weigh the opinion of the single computer scientist over the above mentioned?
The SR-71 is amazing in many ways. It can't start it's own engines, they are started one at a time by a huge generator that drives under each wing. Adding to what you said about the skin of the plane, what I heard is that the skin isn't sealed until it's flying... that the SR takes off with a minimal fuel load, because it literally leaks fuel, and then gets refueled immediately. It's no wonder people speculate there was other-worldly inspiration.
> his stuff is beyond description, you should check it out

How do you do this? I've never been able to find even a partial reprodution of The Story of the Vivian Girls.
Mint for personal use, Fedora for work use, and CentOS 7 for servers.
Cool idea, but no Linux support and only Twitter and Reddit? Does it work by simulating user activity? I'd be worried about anything using the API that would trigger some internal alert/archival due to thinking it is a bot trying to remove evidence. I think the biggest thing to keep people safe is not to post under their real identity, and try to use a service (VPN, proxy, etc) that doesn't trace back to you. Web browsers are pretty guilty here in terms of what they permit to be tracked by default using JS that can almost immediately identify a user based on browser version/OS/etc.
Try to stop thinking like an engineer and read my comment as the elucidation of a philosophical position on race rather than a Facebook policy rule.
> Either they are presenting valid arguments or they aren't.

I agree. But one problem with bad-faith actors is they can bring productive discussion to a near standstill, due to the time / attention / emotional-energy costs.
> Microsoft is a relative underdog now (among the tech giants).

Microsoft is currently the largest company in the world by market cap.
> I can’t imagine fainter praise.

Thanks for correctly identifying “good people” as praise (for a vehicular murderer plus a guy firing a pistol into a crowd).
What would happen if Facebook introduced friction during sharing, making the decision to share more salient? For instance, click "share" and get prompted with questions about whether the source is trustworthy and whether you personally would accept responsibility if the content were misleading or misinforming, etc.
Am I right in thinking that if you always store in UTC, when the clocks go back you will get overlapping data?

e.g. if you store your logs with a UTC date you'll see interleaving logs for the extra hour, or if you read sensor data or something like that you'll get double readings?
Correct, but the world is divided into nations already that use up 100% of the claimable useful territory. I can't imagine a non-violent process by which the United States carves up a chunk of Montana and goes "here you are separatists; have fun."

That'd be inconvenient for the Montanans that own that land.

... and the US has some historical precedent regarding how it responds to separatists in general that isn't very promising. ;)
What about the post office refusing to deliver letters? Or the phone company? How about no heat for nazis from the gas company?

It using the gas company’s platform to heat your racist meeting place allowed?

Facebook is a Privately Owned Public Place more than it is a platform.
No clue—I just wrote the code. If I had to guess, CN probably justifies it as a national security thing.

If you want to learn more there seems to be a Wikipedia article [1] that mentions some of the rules and the coordinate system.

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictions_on_geographic_d...
I wonder what today’s version of this campaign would be like. Ideas?
> The presence of hate groups on your platform being bad for your bottom line is a good thing, right?

Yes it undoubtedly is, but they only seem to care about it now.

I would love to see a more proactive approach, but unfortunately proactive approaches don't often generate profit.
It really build discipline, and work ethic that non model citizens envy. Not losing social credit is just a thoughtful bonus.
> Microsoft is a relative underdog now

How so? According to NASDAQ, MSFT is valued higher than all of the FAANG companies. It's north of $900B right now.
This is an urban legend. Landing it when it was almost empty was gentler on the landing gear, so they took off with relatively little fuel in case the mission was scrubbed.

They could have taken off and accelerated to record-breaking speeds if that's all they wanted to do, but the typical mission profile was to fly to far away locations to conduct surveillance, so in-air refueling was always part of the mission profile.
Key rotation is a hard problem. One idea is to host the public key in a txt domain record. For example yourname.com that you can also use for your email and blog.
It looks like the poster above is referencing the following

[0] https://www.theepochtimes.com/another-way-google-manipulates...

[1] https://aibrt.org/downloads/EPSTEIN_2018-Manipulating_minds-...
Fun in tech really died when they killed off the Easter Eggs. Excel used to have its own embedded flight simulator and engineers got a place to sign their names. In XL95 it was the Hall of Tortured Souls, a Doom like room you could explore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK0M74E8PS4
But do it using this box of spare change.
Redis is a great example for unbundling a pattern to a lib/service/business.
It might be worth looking at the breakup for this job requirement as immigrant vs non-immigrant workers. Many job ads that mention "Phd" as requirement might be simply to complete the PERM process of already hired employee and not a real criteria.

Secondly, in many cases bright kids from India/China/Korea come to USA to only do a Phd and end up on these jobs giving wrong signals that Phds are important.
This is the logical consequence of the watering down of undergraduate degrees over the past several decades. Employers use education as a way of screening hires for intelligence, diligence, and other factors. Since undergraduate education has become something everyone "has" to do, the graduated-from-undergraduate flag provides minimal signal. The PhD still does, for now.

This signaling game is really wasteful though. As others rightly point out, people getting these degrees aren't really using PhD skills on the job. They're wasting some of their most productive years in a zero-sum status game.

More and more lately, I've come to believe that tech companies should just decline to play this silly game. Hire promising people right out of high school and tech support them the necessary skills --- bring back the E1 level. Issue your own aptitude tests if you want. You'll be at a competitive advantage relative to the people who demand that candidates do well on the credential treadmill.
From page 2 of the first study:

> r/CoonTown was a racist subreddit dedicated to violent hate speech against African Americans.
It contained “a buffet of crude jokes and racial slurs, complaints about the liberal media, links to news stories that highlight black-on-white crime or Confederate pride, and discussions of black people appropriating white culture” [28]. Their banner featured a cartoon of a black man hanging, with a Klansman in the background [20]. It had over 20,000 subscribers at the time of banning.3 The following is a representative, highly-upvoted comment from the subreddit:

> “It would be so much easier if this [n-word] was taken outside and shot. Then rasslle up his eight or nine [kids] and shoot them so we can terminate that line of genes.”

And from the abstract:

> We find that the ban worked for Reddit. More accounts than expected discontinued using the site; those that stayed drastically decreased their hate speech usage—by at least 80%.

Would you like to try again?
Your assumption is that this targets white people generally. White supremacist content is spread by a tiny minority of violent extremists in hopes of recruiting others to their cause.
> speech that encourages harming others

How can it be consistent when some of the very same people that consider white nationalist speech as harmful encourage the spread of antifa's ideals?

I'd rather everyone feel free to share their ideals so I know who to avoid. It's going to happen anyway, and I'd rather it not be restricted to behind-closed-doors, so to speak.
The alternative is:

Make towns growth into cities. A lot of heartland available. A lot of people wants to own their house. Good Mortgages. Good construction credits. Industries can have tax benefits to be there.
The problem is that Asians hit bamboo ceiling when they try to climb the corporate ladder in the west. It's very difficult for them to get into upper management. Google "bamboo ceiling", it's an interesting read.
I agree. In the only project I worked on where time was really important I stored a triple (original datetime, UTC timestamp, original time zone). I used UTC to globally sort events and sent the original datetime back to clients for display.

On the other side, sometimes we don't know where an event happens. Think of GPS trackers close to a border which is also a timezone border. This is a more complex problem which requires at least a model of country borders and maybe roads.

Finally, on some systems I'm using as a user, they have some EU timezones but not even all the major countries. It doesn't matter now but it will. I expect they'll add the missing timezones and make us confirm where we are.
Thanks, this is exactly the kind of useful information I was looking for.

(this wouldn't be an issue for my personal use, but it's useful to be aware of it)
> Why? That's an interesting statement, but I don't see how one follows from the other.

You're right, of course, I don't think there's a direct implication between the two. There's a difference of degree, not kind, to some extent. My intuition is that the value that YouTube derives from being a place where people can post videos (and, somewhat importantly, monetize them) is much higher than the value that HN derives from people posting content.

EverybodyBeNice.com is an interesting thought experiment. It wouldn't be very convincing, though, as a shield, if there was no effort put into active moderation not only for "niceness" but also for copyrighted or libelous content. The idea lives in that grey area between "completely curated content" and "just a place where people can post content". I guess my feeling, roughly, is that at some point during EverybodyBeNice.com's rise to serving billions of videos, they can no longer credibly claim that they are preserving the "niceness" unless there is some sort of review process that by its nature must also police for other kinds of illegitimate content.
There was a ton of marxism/communism related violence in the US in the 20's, mostly centered around labor strikes. In general, that period saw much more violence and instability than the 70s. There was a literal battle win West Virginia between striking miners and the government:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain

> Why must we wait for tragedy to strike in order to act?

Actions of the government (or other actors WRT policy changes) are given legitimacy by serving as a response to perceived existing problems. In essence, if there is no tragedy, there is no legitimacy to the action. Without legitimacy, the policy change carries less weight and is not effective. This is a basic reality of policy implementation.

The actions of banning white nationalist speech on tech platforms are given legitimacy by the recent NZ shooting, where
(1) the shooter made numerous callouts to the white nationalist subcultures that these platforms foster (subscribe to pewdiepie, etc)
(2) The content the shooter generated and streamed spread widely across nearly all distribution channels (FB, youtube, reddit, etc) despite censorship efforts,
(3) We know that wide distribution of the extremist type of content that this guy distributed (whether its white nationalist, ISIS, or anything) in his actions inspires more people to extremism.
Russian Startup Wants to Put Billboards in Space
I have previously used Shame Eraser [0] for this, which uses your Twitter Archive [1] to get all of the status IDs so you don't run into rate limiting problems. I was able to delete 87k tweets in a few hours a couple years ago with it. Is this software just as fast?

[0]: https://github.com/benjaminjackson/shame-eraser

[1]: https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/how-to-dow...
I do agree with the premise to the point that I built a Reddit-like thing that has this natively at 6-month mark. (Link in profile)

This is probably where all social platforms will eventually end up, whether they like or not.
> You can do everything right and still lose

This one. I'm not sure how many readers I would have if I tried to explain it in a book, but I'm tired (to the point that I don't read the books, just the covers) about how everything will be ok if you just wish.

When you just learn that sometimes people fail even having taking the best possible decision at any point, you get another perspective for your life.
Can you show me an example of a WebAssembly app that runs in the browser with JavaScript enabled?
I really like 60's documentary styles.
I've been meaning to learn redis for quite some time. Do you have favorite resources for this? Thank you.
Most of the Microsoft main campus is in Redmond, not Renton. They have some buildings in Bellevue and Seattle. But as far as I know, Microsoft has no office space at all in Renton.
Would the civil liability be under tort law or something else? The first requirement for tort liability is that the defendant owe a duty of care to the plaintiff. There are some exceptions to this, but I’d be curious to know the theory here. I understand that people sue Walmart for ammo sales and such, but is there any chance that a shop owner who sells, for example, duct tape, a ski mask, and zip ties to a kidnapper could have even civil liability? The shop owner has no legal duty (even civil) to the potential victim, who may not even be identified at the time of sale. how would the shop owner be liable? I’m still not seeing it. If you can just point me to the ammo cases then I can just read up on how these cases work.
Yeah, I read that Backblaze thing, and used their spreadsheet. Tape came out to be nearly 9x cheaper for us, given our large data set but extremely slow growth rate. Basically, we have a lot of data we need to protect from disaster, but it changes/gets added to very slowly, so capex (buy some tapes, put the data on tape, put the tapes in an offsite box and forget about them) is vastly cheaper than opex (pay by the month for hundreds of terabytes).
Yes: we now have a glut at the low end, and tech is going the way of law. That's what happens when you spend years arguing that we should turn every molecule of biomass on the planet into a tech company employee.
Just the government. A corporation is not at all beholden to the first amendment.
The x-32 was just happy to be there. Like a big metal basking shark.
“The problem is someone can screenshot a Nazi Facebook post with the Facebook logo right there in bold blue and spam it across the internet as evidence that Facebook implicitly supports white nationalism (by giving it a platform).”

I don’t think this is a real problem unless Facebook follows its current path where they are acting like they do endorse content on their network (because they don’t ban it).

A nazi can take a picture holding a coke bottle and spam it everywhere. That’s not coke endorsing them. But if coke decided to only sell to “cool people who weren’t nazis” and then NAMBLA sends out coke pictures people might get confused.
I'm not speaking about Facebook at all, never mentioned Facebook anywhere in my comment or in this thread, and have not made any statements about the validity of speech restriction in any context so I'm not sure why you're mentioning that. I'm speaking to a general issue brought up by the parent.

As for your comment, the cake shop has a product they are letting people buy (in effect, serving them). They are willing to produce that product for a certain group of people for a certain activity (celebration of a state recognized marriage) based on their identity. They are not willing to produce that product for another group of people for the same activity (celebration of a state recognized marriage) based on that second group's identity. Now you can argue that the shop is within their rights to do that for religious reasons and the Supreme Court would agree with you, but it's still refusing service based on identity and you know it. If you want to split hairs and say they "refused to provide COMPARABLE service because they were gay" as the buyers may have been able to buy other products then so be it.
Yes, clearly. The question I think you're really getting at is "have I given consent to that?" And the answer to that is, assuming that I have been notified of the practice before I enter their property, yes.

Which is precisely why these systems will mean that I won't go onto their property.
To maximize expected value (EV). You can go all in with AA pre-flop and get a bad beat from someone with 27o. While the result is bad (you lost this time), you made a +EV decision because you were ~80% favorite to win so over the long run this move will actually be profitable.
Leap seconds are nothing to worry about when you're dealing with calendar times and dates in business. They are just a real-time clock adjustment which disappears from the calendar, which uses calendar seconds.

We can't phase lock real seconds to calendar seconds, because calendar seconds are a moving target. As the Earth's rotation slows, calendar seconds get longer. Seconds that get longer are not acceptable in science.
Because for future events whose time is fixed in their local timezone, you can't be certain that the timezone's offset from UTC on that future date is going to be the same as what you currently think it will be.
These are investor questions, not employee questions. In my experience, you're either going to get a vague dodge or a flat-out "we're not going to share that / it's confidential" response unless you're applying for a C-level position.

A better approach is to dive into the product and make a judgement... "What does the company need to do to secure its next round of funding?" VC-scale rule-of-thumb is you need a new funding round every 18 months... 12 months to improve the metrics, then 6 to close the next round. Figure out when the last one was, when the next one comes due, and how honest the company goals are from now until then.
Intercom launched a new feature today today: Account Based Marketing
He can't cite any actual citations because all the studies were made up by conservative think tanks which refuse to provide their data.
> There must be quite a few really existing worlds then

Apparently there are. Please give my regards to the people who live on your planet, wherever it is.
But he is completely wrong to claim that is common or even a working solution.
I Sold a $2k Product I Hadn’t Built Yet
I'm not saying you have to know their first pet's name. I'm saying it's usually pretty obvious through regular conversation if someone is who they say they are, and worst case, if you're suspicious, you can ask about some shared past event without them knowing that they're being challenged.
Your comment is so pointed and concise that I expected it to be a formal quotation when it reached its end.

The need to feel unique leads people into these camps of delusion. This delusion is up there with the fallacy that art can only come from suffering or that being destitute is a requirement for empathetic art.