skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The problem may not be connectivity itself but rather the way social media turns so much communication into a public performance.

This is a key insight. The performance aspect is what is killing social media and getting us addicted to Like and karma points. And of course these metrics are directly related to engagement and ad-based revenue models. It will be interesting to see how far these companies dare to go undoing the damage by hiding Like counts etc.
Same thing happens to website owners, I get a ton of mail with convincing enough fake bills for scam services.
Yo DHH: it might be an Apple credit card, but it's The Squid (Goldman Sachs) who are running the actual banking side of the house. If anyone is limiting your wife's credit line "because she's a woman" it would be The Squid's bankers, not Apple.
Leaving Apple and Google – /e/ mobile OS next steps: a Roadmap for 2020
Eh, part of the reason why fact-checking "satire" sites became necessary is that some propaganda outlets have taken to using "it's just satire, bro" as an all-purpose cover applied to blatant lies that don't even try to be funny. The people behind "Q" and all the other extreme-right fantasy-world nonsense have a vested interest in keeping the line between serious racism/calls-to-violence/libel/etc and "just joeks" as fuzzy as possible.

Alex Jones, for example, famously claims to be a satirist when it's convenient for him (e.g. when he's about to lose custody of his kids, or when he loses a lawsuit to the Sandy Hook parents that he slandered), but demands to be taken seriously on the same exact topics at other times.
The docker image does contain that, though.

It's a suprisingly powerful way of running a full browser on a "mainframe" (ha!), and ssh/moshing in from a terminal on a bad link.
Hyrum's Law: An Observation on Software Engineering
Ugh. This reminds me of the USPS address change scam. Just type "change address" into Google and see how many Ad results for this are thrown in top of your search results. They are all semi official looking, and charge you. I'm ashamed to admit I fell victim to one of these after a very long day of moving and a few beers years back. The USPS offers this for $1(not free, thanks ebg13)! I blame myself, but do wonder why Google allows and even promotes these sites...
The distinction is that the US Military is not, generally, permitted to enforce domestic policy. E.g. you won't find them giving out parking tickets. National security (or "the common defense") is a pretty big exception to this rule, and of course includes border security - which is an extension of foreign policy.
I fell for a similar scam recently. I needed a copy of a birth certificate and my county's website was a mess and required showing up in person at the county office. I found a site like this that promised to make the process smoother and paid something like $50 for it and all they did was fill out the forms and mail it to me so that I could go stand in line at the county office.
dupe. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21507370
Another similar scam in France when you register a company - you’ll get a half dozen official looking letters asking for a payment of hundreds of euros for a stamp and inclusion in their registry of businesses. Usually has a deadline of within 31 days of registration of the business, and a note that looks official that should be kept for the accountant. All rubbish, of course, and reliant on people who are unaware of what is actually required to register a business paying every damn bill that arrives to be sure to be on the right side of the law.
Something similar happens if you own a domain name. They'll send you an "invoice" for your domain by email or physical post hoping that someone who doesn't know too much about IT or just blindly pays invoices to fall for it. If you read the fine print it actually says that it's not an invoice but an offer to transfer to their registrar or something.
I exported a draw.io png and they do encode the diagram information with private data chunks.
Ask HN: Knowing what we know now, how'd you design the new web?
Reading a comment on HTML Hell thread made me think.

How'd you design a new Web given what we already know about it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21512504
I receive stuff like this all the time because one of my cars will be out of the manufacturer's warranty soon. They masquerade as if they're form the OEM and offering to sell me additional coverage. Even though this has nothing to do with government services they still manage to make them seem "official" and alarming if you don't take any action ("You could be liable for thousands of dollars of damages!").

I'm actually more pissed at the OEM for giving these companies my information.
A socialism attack - everyone joins together to make the system collapse.
Show HN: Clue – Command Line User Experience – C++17
React Adaptive Loading Hooks
Good on her (judge). Let this lawyer be on the record as having lied before the court, or be fined until he learns his lesson.
Exactly, the student isn't even paying for the use of the location, just like the illegal grows.
Problem is easy to fix without explicitly outlawing the practices. If business is selling government records, they need to disclose the actual cost in a defined format on a separate insert. Violations are similar to canned spam law and have a statutory damages of $750 per violation.
AlphaPoint’s White Label Tech Now Lets Crypto Exchanges Offer Margin Trading
Make sure to mash that "SERP Feedback" button when the result for your search isn't the appropriate/official result.
The Ban on US Government Funding Research Using Human Fetal Tissues
I honestly hadn't been tracking WeWork until recently. I know here in Minneapolis we've had some pretty decent "co-working" spaces before WeWork, so I just assumed they were using the same real estate subletting system these other companies were. Then I started seeing the stories and right away a ton of red flags started going up.

It struck me that Adam Neumann was a fraud in the same vein as Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos.

Then I read Matt Stoller's post regarding "Counterfeit Capitalism" and everything made a lot more sense and it was clearly a lot worse than I initially thought:

https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/wework-and-counterfeit-ca...
i thought w3m was the go to text-based browser... i already felt like i was missing out when using elinks (which in a sense is better then lynx). Lynx has the nice feature that it can dump out the ascii version of a html page.
This experiment only involves solids. The new phase is a different electronic structure of the same crystal.
I guess they have never had credibility then, as they have always done that.
A nonprofit that mails to lists based on the same thing, but with a postcard listing common scams would be pretty cool. I was shocked by how much of this stuff I got when I bought a house.
Sure, but the Corvair had a turbocharged option in the 60s.
I didn't argue there was zero negative impact. I just said it wasn't major.

If the tabloids were unable to make fake photos, would it affect anything at all? They can just write up a fake article without a photo. The actual act of making fake media just isn't necessary for any of this behavior.
The Battle of the Chinese University of Hong Kong
I have no ads or tracking on my website and provide code and projects, I just enjoy sharing things so other people can learn or get benefit out of what I've created.

I remember early 2000's, late 1990's internet...it was truly better times. Simplicity ruled, content ruled, not design solely around selling clicks.
I'm one of the folks working with this alliance, and I'm incredibly excited about WebAssembly outside the browser. Happy to answer questions.

Imagine extensions for applications or databases, written in any language you want, with no ability to exfiltrate data. Imagine supporting a safe plugin API that isn't just for C and languages that FFI to C, but works natively with safe datatypes.
Bitcoin Price May Surge to $14,000 Before Halving: Crypto Trader
Cityfibre Entanet Executive caught with his pants down
ISPA Awards 2019 Nomination - Internet Villain Award - Entanet

Congratulations CityFibre Entanet!

After careful consideration we have decided to nominate CityFibre Enatnet's Head of Marketing for the 2019 ISPA Internet Villain Award.

Having uploaded hundreds of explicit pornographic images to our favourite motorcycle website and openly commenting on his sexual preferences, Mr Darren Farnden (aka DazF) has clearly displayed a complete lack of consideration or respect for any women or children visiting the website.

Mr Farnden also displayed a complete disregard for the reputation of Cityfibre Entanet or respect for his colleagues by using the same website to boast about his job title and post a link to Entanet's website.

Considering Mr Farnden's position, we're sure you'll agree his behaviour is shocking and inappropriate. Having tarnished the reputation of the industry he truly deserves the title of 2019 ISPA Internet Villain.

We look forward with anticipation to the ISPA Awards in July. On behalf of myself and the ladies at WMCC UK, we wish you the very best of luck.
Yo Amicus: it's "Vampire Squid" not just "The Squid"

https://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/vam...
"Barbara sold her shares to a couple of people who also owned the company that handled advertising for Snopes."

That really reads like a decision just bound to bring up more conflict...
BrowserFS has a few different APIs integrated. Not the lightest library though.

https://github.com/jvilk/BrowserFS/blob/master/README.md
SO is a great place to go when you're in a jam at work as a pro doing your stuff. It has specific answers to specific questions. Sure, if you have enough background expertise to navigate the answers, you can "learn something" (1) along the way.

The kinds of questions that people ask when they're focused on learning something new, however, are DEFINITELY NOT what SO is intended to handle. It is why SO is actively hostile to people that try to use it to learn by asking questions.

(1) For .net in particular, Jon Skeet's answers are magnificent resources. He even made the content from his answers into a book. The book, of course, has context and coherence. It's not just the answers copy-pasted into a text. Sadly, Skeet is the exception rather than the rule. For everyone putting up nice answers to questions following the example of Skeet, there are dozens of smug, persnickety jerks making people feel like shit in a hundred different ways for daring to ask a question.
When I first tried drawio I also felt slightly clunky, but after a few hours of use I fell in love. Now most of diagrams I make (to share with others) I make in draw.io
I would guess they're only used to research fake meat. As in, to understand the chemicals and nutrients that make up actual meat and give meats their properties. An example I suppose would be to understand the chemicals and reactions involved when cooking meats e.g. how meat browns when cooked[0] and then synthesise these chemicals from plant matter[1].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maillard_reaction

[1]: https://faq.impossiblefoods.com/hc/en-us/articles/3600189374...
It’s not a “workaround”. It’s the standard concept of “least privilege” you should give any application - don’t give any app more permission than it absolutely needs. It’s one thing that iOS makes easier than any other operating system at the user level.

The one (unrelatedly) thing I still feel is missing is the ability to deny an app any network access. You can deny an app access to the cellular network, but the only types of apps that you can deny any network access are keyboards.
best news for my day.

I no longer really hate systemd, but for OSS, keeping options open is always good, in the case of system that is before it is coupled with all distros too deeply, let's make sure there are possibilities to use other init system as well.

for example, in embedded system, we avoid systemd at all costs.
Are any of you offering embedded analytics in your products? Mostly applies to mid-market/enterprise SaaS platforms but interested in learning more about how you offer analytics/BI to your customers in your products.
you do realize that the bystander effect hasnt actually been observed in reality, right? i mean, just look and the examples in the article. every single one had people reporting it.

and the fiasco that started that conjecture was `Kitty Genovese` murder, which was repeatedly reported as well. the police just didnt care enough to actually dispatch someone at that day. or are you insinuating that random people from the street should interfere if there is an armed perpetrator running around knifing people?

or `Raymond Zack`, ...how do you expect random people to actually do something? he wanted to kill himself. if he wanted to get out of the water, he couldve done it within the 60 minutes he was just standing in the water. and after he collapsed someone even went in. despite the fact that its incredibly dangerous to try to help someone who is actively trying to kill himself. if that doesnt disprove the conjecture by itself, idk what could.

each and every example is just showing that there are tragedies which the police arent able to handle. that doesn't mean that the bystander effect is actually real.
I see your point but aircraft engines can burn diesel, and many small power plants and backup power stations use aircraft engines in stationary services with diesel fuel.
Or, its possible they should be able to appeal it because the company got something wrong, and the violation isn't there. Besides this feels excessively paternalistic.
A major differentiator for PeerTube, if they are still doing the decentralized data route, is that content publishers control their content. I am curious if that is still the case with PeerTube, but it used to be 'Mastodon for Videos'. That means a central authority can't take down videos. A site like peertube.social can only ban certain videos from being shared through its site, or ban individual users, and perhaps keep a blacklist to share with other sites.

I find it interesting that the Madame Secretary episode I watched last night (from last week) dealt with the issue of deep fakes. Particularly how easy it is, if someone is willing to put in the time, to create and publish video showing someone doing/saying something they'd never do.

Decentralized trust and reputation metrics are going to be a big thing over the next decade.
Its called a joke little buddy
This can be replicated for Telegram, Facebook or any other IMs too.
When a Pope Writes and the Church Rebels
If you don't need the GPU another good option is the Dell Latitude 5400 (2019). I am loving the hell out of my higher tier model (8565u, 32gb ram, 1tb nvme).

Yeah it's a business laptop and not very pretty but that just means you can literally repair any part on it with only one or two sized Phillips head screwdriver. No having to remove fragile ribbon cables to upgrade RAM like on the razer blade :|.
This is my favorite kind of content marketing.
Dean Foods (DF) to Reorganize Under Chapter 11
Who's asking? The National Forest Service? Approved.
> The only people who could possibly be confused that this is real news are toddlers

Have you been away from the internet for the last couple of years? There is literally nothing on the internet so fantastical that it won't be posted to social media stripped of context and believed by somebody.
When it comes to blogs, prioritizing new over old is generally a good idea.

If a blog post is worth publishing multiple times then it should be published as something different.

I think Google ranks microblogs, blogs, articles, wikis, discussions, books, etc differently.
"X is dead, long live Y", is a meme. I wouldn't read into it past, "I'm switching from X to Y".
That scam exists in the USA too. Anybody with their contact details on file gets a barrage of scamola emails and snail mail.
I'm still on the fence about how much correlation is causation here.

There was another key development in the early 1990s, with the development first of the 24-hour news cycle, then the partisan divisiveness of it. At the same time, political consultants began to focus on divisive language and coded name-calling, continuing a notion that dated back to the late 1960s -- a notable divisive time in American history.

So I can't tell whether this is just the natural growth of partisanship as reflected in new media, or whether there is an actual inflection point. There is a feedback causing an exponential growth, and it can be hard to tell the difference between an apparent sharp, sudden increase in an exponential curve, and a real external effect.
I would be very interested in partnering with local outreach groups and/or Code For America to spin this up with Lob. After a postcard is designed, the only cost should be postage (which, based on Lob's pricing, looks to be between 41 cents and $1 per piece) and some compute time for taking property record data and generating mail pieces with API calls to Lob.

Not a permanent solution, but an effective shim until regulation catches up. "Department of Hotfixes"
The Daily Northwestern Apologizes to Student Protesters for Reporting
You (yes, you, the CEO) should be talking directly to customers
> But I think that most people don't understand those kind of technicalities, and don't really care to know them.

Sure but do they need to understands them to make this effective? It's effectiveness will come from people being able to say "this website is slow" instead of having to argue whether it's from their computer, their internet, etc... and in the end just being ignored. Not all of them will care to know, but enough will and be able to use that information to go much further with it.

> I see it, as someone else put here, a "badge of shame".

You can begin by saying that a sign in the middle of the ocean is absurd because it's obvious, yet it's a badge of shame. Everyone know it's slow but once it's only a badge of shame once it's been shown?... That's a bit incoherent.

> First, what is fast depends on how the browser parses websites, so one website can be faster in Firefox but slower in Chrome, and still get a "badge of shame".

Does it matter? If it's slow on Chrome, it's slow on Chrome... If someone would tell you it's currently slow on Chrome you would just answer: "Well it's fast on Firefox so change your browser"? I hope not...

This badge is just a formal proof that it's slow on Chrome.
It's typically not OEMs. DMVs and other auto industry participants sell your VIN, vehicle, and address info. These extended warranties are extremely lucrative, hence why so much effort goes into marketing them.

https://www.google.com/search?q=extended+warranty+spam
This might be it:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/10/08/super-rich-iro...

> Last July, before he had written the [harshly critical] letter [about Obama], Cooperman was invited to the White House for a reception to honor wealthy philanthropists who had signed Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge, promising to donate at least fifty per cent of their net worth to charity. At the event, Cooperman handed the President two copies of “Inspired: My Life (So Far) in Poems,” a self-published book written by Courtney Cooperman, his fourteen-year-old granddaughter. Cooperman was surprised that the President didn’t send him a thank-you note or that Malia and Sasha Obama, for whom the books were intended as a gift and to whom Courtney wrote a separate letter, didn’t write to Courtney. (After Cooperman grumbled to a few friends, including Cory Booker, the mayor of Newark, Michelle Obama did write. Booker, who was also a recipient of Courtney’s book, promptly wrote her “a very nice note,” Cooperman said.)

Here's a more recent retelling:

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/10/leon-cooperman-eliza...

> For those unfamiliar with Cooperman’s history of bitching and moaning, this isn’t the first time he’s complained about being treated just sooo unfairly by a politician. During the Obama years, he claimed that the president’s description of Wall Street leaders as “fat cat bankers”—made in the immediate wake of the financial crisis before he would go on to be extremely business friendly—was encouraging “class warfare,” and that Obama’s “polarizing tone” was “cleaving a widening gulf…between the downtrodden and those best positioned to help them,” i.e. the rich. Speaking of tones, Cooperman, like many of his brethren, chose to liken Obama to Adolf Hitler, and also got his knickers in a major twist over the fact that the president had the audacity not to write a thank-you note to Cooperman’s 14-year-old granddaughter for her unsolicited book of poems. So Liz Warren better shape up, and fast.
We use Snowplow directly into Snowflake and report on this using Mode. We are a data native SaaS firm, and we set things up like this about 5 years ago and it has served us well. Streamlined and high performance. For all other sources, we use Stitch -> Snowflake, with one semi-custom Singer.io tap also running on Stitch. All this was simple to set up and means we don't have to worry about getting the data into one place. Of course, we then have lots of work to do in Snowflake and Mode to get the data the business needs. We share the reports from Mode to various teas via Slack. Hope this helps.
Because it is more productive and safer, instead of forcing everyone to learn C and C++.

A lesson that Khronos learnt too late regarding OpenCL.
Just a standard DDoS attack - that was handled by CloudFlare as designed.
What is actually happening here? A lot of rhetoric about the "Transfer of data" etc, but other times this just reads like a Google Cloud Infrastructure play, with some consulting on top.

Also - The deal was only just signed, e.g. the transfer hasn't happened yet?

There's a lot of hearsay in all of this reporting...
I'm sure you are aware, but some databases have specific extensions and technology for this. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial_database (though that tends to focus on GIS stuff).

However, if you are simply "pulling blobs up" of compressed (or uncompressed) volumetric data... well yeah. Don't put that in a sql database.
The code for writing is here: https://github.com/jgraph/drawio/blob/master/src/main/webapp... Reading is here: https://github.com/jgraph/drawio/blob/master/src/main/webapp... We're using the tEXt chunk.
I've been using draw.io massively over the last years everywhere from concepting & mindmapping up to integrating it directly into website editors where needed - huge kudos to the authors, such a useful and well designed tool.
I must be out of touch, I thought elinks was the standard-bearer for text-based internet browsing. This is a cool idea though, might have to test it out.
I knew Kale didn’t taste like something man was meant to eat...
I guess it's outside of the scope of what mosh is trying to achieve, but if they could add the ability to port-forward into it, that would be great.

I often use SSH as a poor's man VPN through a SOCKS proxy in areas where some VPN protocols won't go through, and having the resiliency of mosh would be great.
being fed anonymized vs with full details is where I'd draw a line
> ... full of obsolete information ...

That would make it not "one of the best," right?
This assumes we blocked people for no reason just to engage them, or that there was some automated blocking or something. At the time, all this stuff was manual, so once someone was blocked, it was because there was a real problem.

Now, every once in awhile we would get the "johnny logged into my computer and did it, not me." For technical and privacy reasons, we can't really block people, just computers. So, ya, they stayed blocked.

Is it perfectly fair? Nope. But simplifying a TOS definitely cut down on arguing with people, which was a win for us.