skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What are your thoughts about accounts such as u/mvea consistently hitting the front page on a daily basis, often with links that were posted by other accounts earlier but only gained traction when posted by this account?

Not the guy you replied to but here's my take on this. Users like gallowboob and mvea have been known to post and repost the same content multiple times. If it doesn't get traction within the first few minutes, they delete that and try again. On some other subreddits like EvilBuildings, the mods frequently prune the subreddit's front page which lets posts with a lower number of upvotes hit /r/all more easily. This kind of manipulation was also being done by some other subreddits which led the admins to step in and stop them from showing up on the front page
Say you want to move from A to B on a circle. A simple algorithm would be to just go the shortest way from A to B which is well defined if A and B are not antipodal. If they are, you could define to always go against the clock.

Now this algorithm is fine, but it is not continuous (smooth), because a small variation in an antipodal point gives two vastly different paths.
> However I'd gladly pay a few thousands per year for it

0.4% on $2.5m is $10k a year. I realize "ten" is a bit more than "a few", but is Stripe's price point materially that far off from where you want it to be?

Said another way, I imagine that there are at least a few problems smaller than chargeback protection at your company that you throw $10k or more at just to make that problem go away... right? If so, this makes their price somewhere between reasonable to good.

I am really curious about your thinking on their price as it relates to other expenses in your company. Could you expand on that?
And no access to that on mobile without security dialogs. Dude originally claimed it worked via CSS. I guess he doesn't have secret superpowers.
I think Strip has a report fraudulent transaction feature. I've had someone do several $1 test charges on a donation page for a charity I managed. I was able to report the approved cards as fraudulent transactions.

This was many years ago. At the time, I think it was a beta feature so I'm not sure if it's been rolled out to everyone yet.
this submission looks like a prime candidate for posting to risks digest as well. nice overall reading :)
Wait. Patent? It's just a simple technique, quirk, workaround, something to win the arms race... Just like shadowbanning on Twitter.
You might feel differently if you wasted a whole week on a service, only to get scammed and left with less than nothing and a bad reputation with your bank.

I’ll agree that what you want maybe best for some forms of business, but what are you looking for here? A fundamental change to the credit card system?

Stripe isn’t going to make it not count against you, because the card companies are certainly holding it against Stripe.

So unless you convince Visa and MasterCard to change their way of doing business, I’m not sure you’ll get what you want.
The entire watch is 10$.
The kind of person who tells us that conferences have codes of conduct. You pointing that out isn't remotely useful, but at least you're joining in.
I agree. I use to have rental property and when you evict someone you theoretically can go after them for back rent and fees. It could total well over $2000. But it wasn’t worth the hassle and you factor that possibility into the rent you charge.

Or as my southern grandfather use to say:

Don’t chase after old money or old girlfriends
Didn't Paypal add a TOS clause (or something along those lines) that prevented donations from being valid for chargeback?
If your profile is up to date: why are you including password reuse attacks in your threat model?
> In the unlikely event that Congress or the Whitehouse take an interest in HN moderation, I'll be happy to share with them how we approach this.

“I’m doing the same things that triggered Congressional and Presidential investigations, and plan to continue until they harass me directly.”

You’re such an upstanding member of society.

I sincerely hope they do investigate you, because I believe your authoritarian censorship has infected other technology websites, and is the place many people at Google et al learned to censor for “civility”.

The exact thing that is under investigation.

And to anyone who feels silenced by dang, I suggest you reach out to your congressional representatives — and report the instances of censorship for narrative control you observe. This is an issue, and dang’s pretenses aside, it is being investigated as a serious social problem.

It’s time to standup to leftwing bullies silencing people who don’t agree as “offensive”, because those same leftwing bullies devolve into angry shouting when confronted by opposing views.
I feel like this is worth mentioning.

https://robertheaton.com/2018/07/02/stylish-browser-extensio...

If I go looking for an extension called "Stylish", will I find the original? Is it trustworthy?
I've found this to be a fantastic resource for creating travel plans in Europe (and beyond) without flying: https://www.seat61.com/

No affiliation, just been using it to help plan all sorts of travel since I stopped flying in 2011 (although I have to say the best way to travel long distance in Europe is by bicycle, if you can make the time).
Advocating programming constructs as a kind of ‘policing’ against bad developers doesn’t work for me.

It usually ends up at odds with better objectives & heavily taxes conscientious developers, for whom we should really be optimizing things imo.
...until somebody finds another vector to reveal the value of Kernel memory.

The mantra is, secrecy is not security. The User/Kernel dichotomy flagrantly ignores this principle.
Have you tried turning down the brightness on your screen? If it's blinding you you've probably got it set way too high.
Besides meeting new people/networking, what does one get from attending a conference physically that cannot be obtained remotely?
I used to spend a lot of time manually typing up examples of why S-expressions are cleaner and more readable than XML, HTML, JSON, YAML &c. They are, they really are. And yet for some reason there's a population of people who prefer:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8"/>
<title>sample page</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="sample1.css"/>
</head>
<body>
<h1>sample</h1>
<p>
text sample
</p>
</body>
</html>

to:

(html ((lang . "en"))
(head nil
(meta ((charset . "utf-8")))
(title nil "sample page")
(link ((rel . "stylesheet") (href . "sample1.css"))))
(body nil
(h1 nil "sample")
(p nil "text sample")))

I don't understand it, but it seems to be true. The egotistical part of me feels that they just haven't experience the enlightenment of understanding the benefits of have all data & code be manipulable, structured data rather than dead text which must be painstakingly parsed, combined with the benefits of a single, general, universal, cheaply-parseable representation.

But the professional, open-minded part of me wonders if maybe I am missing the point. Maybe all that painful-to-parse, irregular syntax is buying something. Maybe there's a reason every generation for the last 50 years has been approximating some but not all of the features of Lisp. Maybe those other languages and formats have worthwhile benefits. Maybe they're even superior.

Or maybe most folks really are stuck in a local maximum, like kids who like being read to and don't see the advantage of learning to read. I honestly don't know.

Regardless, SEML looks great.
So we know what kind of person you are
True white supremacists who are proud of their culture are Christian. Only edgelords (the "Jesus was a kike on a stick" type) are pagan. Nobody cares about edgelords.

Anyway the fact that you're posting here leads me to think you should be old enough not to care what others think of your beliefs.
The issue with this is that there's a lot of "culling" happening during these recessions. And people aren't trees.
Did you read the article? You see those numbers in bubbles all the time, it doesn't mean it has taken off.
Hotel bar soap.
Clearly the evidence is the fact that Mozilla/Firefox, with a very, very tiny minority market share among browsers, is able to make it to the HN front-page whenever they want.

There simply aren't that many fans of the browser.

What else should I conclude?

(And both of my comments on this thread are flagged for 1) telling the truth about this obvious brigading and 2) saying I'd rather use MS Edge because I don't trust Mozilla after they added tracking via Pocket and after they removed an extension for purely political purposes which are 2 things that most definitely did happen. The truth hurts I guess, better hide it!)
Few consumers are going to be aware of such potential drawbacks, and those who are will generally risk it anyway. I think you underestimate people’s eagerness to trigger a system that makes them feel powerful and righteous.
> it doesn't really make a difference if the paper was the original emitter of the light or not

I think it makes all the difference in the world.

Aside from power consumption, e-books and e-paper displays exist for this reason.
Personally I find light-on-dark to be much easier on my eyes over the course of the day, and especially at night. With light-on-dark, I can turn the screen brightness up higher without it hurting my eyes.

Regarding the "dramatic new look" angle, what I find hilarious about this is remembering the vaporware that was MacOS Copland. My family had a Centris 610 and a MacUser magazine subscription. I was so eager to get that HiTech dark mode that I installed Kaleidoscope and Dad was Not Happy.

Apart from the nostalgia of being a kid with a computer customized to the point of dysfunction, there is a sense in which Mojave is a realization of Copland's visual ambition, offering an alternative hi tech theme that takes a step away from the original desktop and paper metaphor.

Interesting article on Kaleidoscope that I found while googling for an example screenshot: http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/articles/learning-from-kale...

screenshot: http://pcdesktops.emuunlim.com/pictures/ss/hitech.jpg
It’s a bit different when the territory is settled by non-indigenous people for a few generations, versus occupied, or just a few structures built and no one really lives there at all.
As someone who lives in Africa, I can assure you that the cheapest food around is locally grown. My guess for why is that import duties make a sizable chunk portion of the cost and that the infrastructure for keeping things cold/fresh is expensive or non-existent, driving up the risks and costs of importing fresh items.
"but remember it's been a while since the last one, and it's a common thing to occur in the economy, or any other ecological system"

The general term for this is 'business cycle' [1]

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/businesscycle.asp
Yes, but the only way to get that data is to read an email that Stripe sends. There is no programmatic access to the data.
Show HN: MillionDollarHomepage-as-a-Service (MDHPAAS)
Selfmade IoT Timeseries Platform with LibreOffice
Much, if not most, of "unskilled" work also has a lot of hidden complexity that means your productivity starts off slow and improves over time.

There's a reason capitalists have gotten us to think of some work as "unskilled," and that's so they can pay those people far less than they should be, and no one raises a stink about it.

The farm worker is an obvious example of "unskilled" labor, but if you watch a video of what these people do minute by minute, hour after hour, for the entire harvest, they are absolutely being underpaid by criminal amounts.

Yet, because we've been convinced it's "unskilled" labor, hardly anyone cares.
True horizon has nothing to do with angle of attack. Angle of attack is the direction the wind is coming from relative to the aircraft. It's possible to have a nose up attitude relative to the horizon, and have the actual aircraft motion be downwards at 10,000 feet per minute.
What Is a Reactive Signal? Think about It with the Marble Diagram
Or demand just slows down and we make less stuff and therefore less emissions ?

Not everything needs to have complicated side-effects.
Yeah, the economic situation of npm, Inc. is worrisome (not acutely to the best of my knowledge, but structurally so). What they do is try to sell npm enterprise with private, company-internal repos, but why don't they attempt a business model where they mediate F/OSS (or similar licensed code) to commercial users, handing out most of the money to the developers, and keep something for themselves? If they can't do it, github (MS) might be (right now, though, there's only github marketplace for github.com, and GH sponsors), or github might actually buy them. If they don't attempt to go into other markets, npm, Inc. is suspectible to turn to the dark side by eg. limiting access to the registry, inject ads (like SourceForge were doing), flood the registry with dubious packages and sell security screening to enterprises, or whatever. Not saying they will! But, pessimistically, these are the incentives another group of investors might have when making the current owners an offer for npm, Inc.'s assets.

Couple notes regarding TFA:

- Author rightly points out to look at a company's incentive; what are their incentives to release a new package manager?

- "Javascript commons" is a bad term; node.js' API is based on CommonJS [1], and these two are too close; besides, "JavaScript" is trademarked

[1]: http://wiki.commonjs.org/wiki/CommonJS
Cool! Kudos! Also don’t feel too discouraged if it takes you awhile, I’ve been trying to learn Bayesian related things for years now, and there are many aspects with significant learning curves (speaking for myself, maybe you won’t have so much trouble!). It’s not trivial stuff. But it’s helpful so every bit you can understand is a good investment I think.
> A plane despite transporting hundreds of passengers is less efficient than a fully occupied car.

And according to these numbers, a plane is more efficient than a car with 2 occupants. Average vehicle occupancy varies around 1.5 people.

It doesn't make the plane a better way to travel, of course. It just shows that individual cars need to be proscribed just as much as airplanes.
There’s also https://www.justwatch.com for that.

Disclaimer: I work there
Ah I see what you're saying. You're right, in the interim period before everyone changes to client side hashing that is an issue. Though there's no loss to implementing it, but it's just not as beneficial until more sites have it.

For example:
If there is no client side hashing: a user uses the same password for n websites. If one of the n websites gets hacked, an attacker can login to all n sites.

If one on site you have client side hashing: a user uses the same password for n websites. If one of the n-1 websites gets hacked, an attacker can login to all n sites. If the client side hashed website is hacked, the attacker can only login to 1 site.

Once each site has a unique salt, then we're secure.

Another issue is how can a website migrate over to client side hashing? I don't think there's an elegant way to do this.
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> But wtf, Firefox redirects it to uniregistry.com :o

Same thing on mobile, but it's taking you to `ai.com` first, and then redirects to Unregistry as it looks to be for sale.

And as another commenter has stated `http://ai.` works as expected in FF.
On Firefox you can use the Dark background Light Text addon to tweak colors and contrast to Tour liking, i use it sich solarized.
The article is talking about a particular type of corporate dishonesty that we're only seeing from 1-2 specific actors in the industry.
Is that really a snarky response? I write as someone who has been the minimum-wage (or nearly) employee dealing with the public.
As someone who was raised in a pretty religious household, I have to say that churches can, indeed, be pretty weird. Churches are like clubs. Whole lot of different clubs out there, but you really do need to be careful that you don't end up in one that's, well, let's just use the word, "unhealthy". There's a lot of "unhealthy"-ness out there in the religious community today.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't modern web servers often use a handful of threads, and use epoll for each thread? If so, could this be a Part VIII?
I find it very disappointing that the definition of "incel" has now strayed incredibly from the actual literal abbreviation of "involuntary celibate", a rather clinical and descriptive term.

In my eyes, it now encompasses anti-feminist politics and overlaps a lot with "redpills". What happened?
To the extent that that white supremacist groups in Norway and Sweden at least show any outwards signs of "religion" I'd say that variations on theme of Asatru are by far the most dominant.
I really like white-on-black dark modes. They are somehow more pleasing than the other way round. There's a problem with all dark modes, though. If one is using laptop running on battery juice and needs to prolong the battery time, then conserving battery with low screen brightness makes reading the dark modes really hard. Hence I've ended up using multiple crucial apps like IDEs with black-on-white themes as they are more readable on dim laptop display. Annoying but better compromise than writing code without laptop, haha.
Agile product roadmap: pros, cons, and best practices
I am a geometer by training.
One interesting trend I’ve seen is amongst Keratinous (uneven thinning of the cornea, causing bubbles) patients: they overwhelmingly prefer light mode on screens. The reason why is fairly straightforward - the additional light constricts the pupil, making the text sharper, leading to less eye fatigue.

For this reason, I know a few of us tend to get annoyed when only offered dark modes (or half-baked light modes - looking at you, Discord).
Perhaps the ethical thing to do in those situations is to fight the dispute? Acquiescing encourages bad actors.

Your current course of action is probably still best for your business and sanity, though. Hmm...

I assume you send an invoice/receipt email every month by default, to reduce the chance that a user forgot to cancel and to make it easier for those that wish to. (If not, I think Stripe Billing offers this, though I'm not sure...)

(disclaimer, I work at Stripe, though not on Radar or Billing, thoughts my own, etc)
As behind as the US is on this front, the NE Regional and Acela are fantastic for NY-DC travel. It's infinitely less headache in terms of what you can bring (liquids in baggage and not really much of a weight limit), space (leg room for days), general comfort (no cabin pressure)... I could go on about this.
How does that even work? The chargeback is initiated and the fee levied by the card issuer (Visa, MasterCard, etc).
Why this title ?

Also, low number of respondents and considering the survey went through his own twitter with a Climate Code idea, probably very biaised sample.

However, I'd totally favour a company with a flight offsetting policy. Can anyone point me some?

Though I agree face to face is definitely a different experience. My point is maybe crossing oceans is not mandatory to learn from one another. A while ago people didn't had the choice, yet they were able to do much in all science.
> You always have your mind.

Yeah. Human mind is very limited tool without external support. That's why writing was such a boon for humans and notation was such a boon for math.

> Are you incapable of just sitting and thinking about things?

Yeah. I can but that rarely acomplishes anything. If you think you can solve a problem just with your mind think again. Most problems are problems because you lack some information. And you won't get any missing information just by thinking. And if you have all the information, you just need to process it then you are still out of luck. Even moderately complex processing let's say roughly as hard as derivating moderately simple calculus requires at least a pen and piece of paper to support you wonderful mind with crappy operational memory that can hold at most seven things at once.

I would much rather do the thinking with my phone than without it.

I'm not Feynman and Einstein had plenty of paper.
I have a Keepass app on my phone, Keypass2Android:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=keepass2androi...

It has a keyboard bundled into it that will ghost type in the currently opened username and password. Works awesome for stupid stuff like your story.
I'd say 5 hours is about the limit where the train makes more sense practically than flying. An eight hour train isn't worth it IMO compared to a 1.5 hour flight.
Earn from your existing blog traffic
If I look at my cat he seems happy having: Endless time to sleep/think, affection from his feline and human family, reasonably comfortable shelter, steady supply of food/water, sunshine, the freedom to go outside and explore. Seemingly little desire to turn on my computer/TV (outside of a brief fleeting curiosity), moving into my neighbors house, colonizing mars, listening to the news about starving cats in other parts of the world/city, or doing any "work" beyond directly helping him achieve the items on the first list. If I'm being honest that probably sums up the necessities for my own personal happiness.
> I had a problem of finding an out-of-the-way clock for the shower to keep track of time.

How long are your showers?
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Shouldn't the issuer be able to figure this out on their own when they see the attempted charges coming in? It seems like the resources of the issuer would be better spent improving their own detection rather than dealing with third-party reports.
No. I'm talking about things like endlessly copying horrifically monstrous multiple inheritance patterns, and painful single-threaded state machines instead of using threads to spin off work, and using shonky home-grown reference counting (that's thread-dangerous) instead of standard library smart pointers, and writing your own polymorphism instead of just using the inheritance that the language comes with, and leaving 80% of CPUs idle while trying to jam all the work into a single thread, and rewriting pieces of industry-standard libraries which then makes upgrading impossible, and writing horrifically heavy wrappers around simple DB access that turns modern DB interaction into sludge for the purpose of solving problems that the previous product had and the current product doesn't.

Take all that, and then insist that all new code do that as well. That's what I'm talking about.
This might be of interest ?https://www.amd.com/en/campaigns/packet-epyc-challenge
There is a dark mode setting on the Android app. I'm looking at it right now.

Otherwise, you can customize the color profile to your liking.
The Rick and Morty API
>Hacker News showing its true colors here.

Your high horse certainly isn't helping.

>Not much being said about [...]

What exactly are you getting at here?

Do you want everyone to talk about this to the exclusion of other aspects of the case? Or if there is some room for other topics, as long as there exists a certain percentage of us giving perfunctory agreement on this point?

Your post reads to me as a roundabout saying-without-saying accusation of moral failing among people who very well may agree with you, for wishing to discuss other aspects of this case.
> they are lamps with a color profile hotter than the Sun, and we should treat them differently. That's especially true of mobile devices, where being used before sunrise/after sunset is typical.

Well said! VLC (at least on Android) has a day-night theme that switches between dark/light modes at sunrise / sunset. I wish more applications did the same.
AFAIK the technical reason for light on black was the refresh rate of early monitors: it's much easier on the eyes to have flickering text on a solid dark background than dark text on a flickering light background. That became less of the problem with better CRTs, but only disappeared completely when LCD screens took over.