skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Presumably most people don't want their life threatened so almost nobody will pick an instance that allows that to happen. The few people who are interested in posting death threats can go ahead and make a rogue Gab instance or something, and every other instance will block them. They'll be their own silo where super sketchy things go on until the feds decide it's time to step in (since death treats are legally actionable). Such silo websites are already possible without the fediverse (and by some accounts already exist), so my model doesn't change anything here (assuming blocking is effective). (BTW even Gab dot com would block that; they ban people for death threats and porn and maybe even Doxing).

Disinformation campaigns? Well again, if you don't want to be misinformed, pick your gatekeeper. Probably all the better. If somebody's going to protect me from being misinformed, I want to know what their biases are. I don't trust Twitter or Facebook; it's not a simple and objective task.

I think your point that this stuff is complicated is exactly my point. It is complicated, and people have different preferences. No one company can be the gatekeeper that satisfies the entire planet's preferences (at least, not under the current models).
> writes it down in his phone, protected by a 4 digit pin code
How big an antenna would a cellphone with an AM receiver need?
Emphatically yes! I believe that may even be the reason humans grow feeble when old - so that the grandparents sit around the fire and nurture the young, teaching and telling stories.
That ban actually happened about a year before the lyrics info box came into existence.
For the average consumer, (i.e. not the average HN user, where this is far more debatable), yes.
Conan is actually quite nice. I've been porting a series of projects to it and it's been a pleasant experience - Conan is very flexible, the documentation is thorough and the developers are very responsive on Slack/GitHub.
https://conan.io/
Agriculture is just kicking off now too. You're right, it's consuming the world.
This is awesome!

Original credit goes to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21783848

Reposting for visibility.
Even at low, prescribed, dosages, I find myself needing to take a day or two off each week to avoid building a tolerance.

I'm not sure if others experience the same thing, but I can absolutely feel the effects slipping away, even after just 10 days of continuous use.
I'm definitely able to open it up, I just need to sanitize it to get my information out of it and clean up some things. I've started with the component I referenced here, but I do have a basically complete workflow that I'm able to release.

I'm putting it here: https://gitlab.com/linsomniac/fogbugz-to-jira
What's being omitted in most cases are (1) the increase in productivity allowed by things like robots at warehouses and (2) the new markets enabled by new technologies.

The first can be estimated in various ways (revenue per worker, costs per worker, packages shipped per worker, etc) but the second is not estimable. The example I like to use is the advent of the automobile. I'm sure there were a lot of horse-and-buggy drivers or train operators that were decrying the disastrous unemployment it would cause, but the automobile industry now employs more people than that industry ever did, not to mention the new industries it has enabled such as long-haul trucking, taxis, private postal couriers, ride-sharing, logistics, etc. On top of that the automobile industry enables new productivity gains in hundreds of not-directly-related industries such as sales, food service, plumbing, medicine, and so forth.

The average American owns more than one vehicle. They're an affordable, quick way to do things like work more than a couple miles from your home, haul goods, or take a vacation. If the horse-and-buggy operators had got their way we'd have deprived ourselves of many of the luxuries we enjoy today.
My take.

The Euro "cookie popups" were a stage in the normalization of deviance to the popups that harass people everywhere they go on the web.

The Euro popups were mandated in some countries because the Euro zone didn't like it that Google and Facebook dominated the web. Thus they had to pass laws that would ensure they would never have Euro zone competitors.

Any resistance that devs, designers, and others who care about UX was destroyed by "it's required by law". By the time everybody started chasing away their customers with popups, it was too late.
You licensed the lyrics, which the rights holder didn’t supply. You didn’t license a third party’s (often subjective) interpretation of them.
See the above comment, I'm putting it out here: https://gitlab.com/linsomniac/fogbugz-to-jira
> In plaid's defense, lack of performance tuning isn't necessarily a lack of security focus

Come on, this is not about "performance tuning", where you're trying to eek out every last drop of performance - it's about a completely indefensible, complex, wasteful solution to a simple problem.

I'd say engineering insanity at this level is very worrisome for what they've done at the security side of things.
b/c if Genius didn't get SEO traffic, they wouldn't let Google scrape their site ...
For me it would be helpful with some more examples of how to formulate the query and how the reasoning would look. Could someone share some examples of "common knowledge" that they think are cool?

Here are some common knowledge in English that I would love to see the system answer.

- Is a dog owner likely to own a rope-like object? (Yes, they likely own a leash.)

- Does the average North American own more than 1 shoestring? (Yes, most people have at least 2 shoes, and most shoes have shoestrings.)

- Is it safer to fly or to travel by car?
Wait, how is this bad?
VAT are regressive taxes and would impact the poorest the most heavily.

That said, the pricing curve doesn't ignore tax, and if the company has to pay tax, then the price will go up, but sometimes not at all because the pricing curve still means passing on all the costs mean lower demand.

It depends on the elasticity of demand. Which is why a "flat tax without exception" has downsides. Inelastic demand allows companies to push more/all costs to customer without impacting the pricing curve.
Agreed. In fact, Yang's platform isn't so much stop-the-robots, but rather to make our culture (social and corporate welfare systems) align closer to a world that is friendly toward robots.
Remember that "releases" are a Github-specific feature, not a git one.
The same happens with Device Guard/Credential Guard, it monopolizes the hypervisor.
When I was forced to do this, I would just change my password 7 times until it was back to the original one by appending 1 digit/letter each time. Easy peasy.
That technique works if you're good at remembering long phrases/stories/quotes verbatim.

Not everyone has a memory works that way. I've tried mind palace style and mnemonic techniques, and I will always remember the general gist, but typically not the exact order and specific words used. Same issue with reciting quotes. I can just about remember the 7 word phrase that I use to unlock my password manager, and I still sometimes mess it up.

Similarly I can never remember the plot of films more than a few days after I watch them - though one great thing about that is you can always re-watch films like they're new. Yet simultaneously, I maintain a working memory of several programming languages/frameworks, and otherwise generally have a good semantic memory.
JWT are effectively that, a signed token that contains the session information.

You could build a session cache, either in memory or out of process, but it would still be more work than the token approach
It looks more like a ToS claim; they aren't claiming to own the lyrics. They aren't objecting to Google scraping their site for the index -- they object to Google/LyricFind scraping the lyrics, removing hidden watermarks to prove provenance, and displaying the lyrics in whole on SERPs, without attribution.

The removal of watermarks, after repeated contacts and the WSJ article, indicate that Google/LyricFind acted in bad faith.

The best part is they encoded the watermark so that Watermark #1 spelled out REDHANDED and Watermark #2 spelled out GENIUS, using a pretty clever method that survived multiple data transfers/transformations.
The Cybertruck is not brutalist
The VM originated as the physical machine of a previous developer and for a number of reasons is stuck at XP, hence a lot of the reasons it needs to be network isolated at this point.

Also, because it is from an ancient image I don't want to break it because I doubt we could rebuild the ecosystem from scratch, it feels like it is stuck in VirtualBox, which is I think a large part of the slowdown because VirtualBox doesn't just directly support Hyper-V-based acceleration like just about everyone else finally does. I really need to convert it directly to a Hyper-V VM, but I don't have the free hard-drive space at the moment to have multiple VM copies around, haven't had the budget time, and I'm not sure I trust some of the available tools.

I'm using the last build of Git for Windows I was able to get to install on XP, and I pray that there isn't a compatibility break as right now a shared worktree-less folder as "remote" to the VM internal repo is the only way I'm getting code in/out of the VM. I'm generally happy with VS Code outside of the VM for full text search, but VS Code can't build "Find All References" and "Go To/Peek Definition" maps, and that's the biggest itch that I miss, and VB6 IDE never had a good "Find All References" because it predates that tool in VS by like half a decade at least, and more than a decade before "Peek" sub-editors came about.
If you're collecting accessibility data consider adding it to OSM or making it available publicly for others to add :)
That's a little extreme.

I got hooked on Unix when as a dev/DBA I inherited Solaris administration that I wasn't really qualified for. Sun support bootstrapped my skills and taught me alot. In another gig I had similar experiences with IBM.

It contrasted heavily against Microsoft, where even the $$$ Premier offerings are pretty awful, with lots of ridiculous hoops between you and super-skilled SEs.

Companies may suck or not, but that doesn't mean their support organization sucks.
That was pretty great! I especially liked "We’ve now reduce the problem to a subproblem we can easily solve!"
This lawsuit isn't about copyright. It's about violating Genius' TOS and anticompetitive behavior.
Same here. I have a fairly complex (secure) password I use at work and they make me change it every 90 days so I just appended an "01" to it which I increment on every change.
Shopping Sucks Now
Thanks for the Information, apparently it was discussed a year ago already, had missed that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18567578
A sales automation platform grew from 0 to 500 paid users in 6 months
Lately, Bloomberg has been "doing the math" on a lot of the Democratic field. They've recently done articles on Warren's and Bernie's plans, as well.

Absent of a lot of critical coverage is Michael Bloomberg. Here [0] we have an article that simply reports on Bloomberg's apology for stop and frisk, but of course it's behind a paywall.

This isn't suspicious in the least. Right?

I am not a supporter of any of the above-mentioned candidates but I hope people see what is going on here.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-03/michael-b...
In my opinion, the ship has already sailed for the FTC to have any say in how Facebook interoperates its own applications. If they were truly concerned about a monopoly on social media, the sale of those apps should have been blocked in the first place.

What is the point of telling Facebook not to make their apps interact with each other? Are they thinking Facebook employees can't see the databases of their other apps? Is the FTC going to pretend they know anything about how the databases are supposed to operate? What about one big database with an App field; would they know if Facebook did that? What about multiple databases on the same server; is that an antitrust violation?

The entire rationale for looking at Facebook now just seems like going after an easy target. Either evaluate the antitrust arguments on their own merit and break those apps off Facebook, or leave it alone.
As more of a meta point, it's fascinating to see the corporate media's response playbook to outsiders like Yang. First stage was a Ron Paul style pretend he doesn't exist, such as MSNBC consistently omitting him from polling reporting despite the reporting including numerous competitors polling under him, or corporate-hosted[0] debates not letting him talk for 30 minutes straight.

Perhaps he's hanging on for long enough now to progress to the next Bernie style 16 negative stories in 16 hours[1] level.

[0]: https://www.lwv.org/newsroom/press-releases/league-refuses-h...

[1]: https://fair.org/home/washington-post-ran-16-negative-storie...
First of all, this is an excellent comment thread. Secondly - I think technically they said "used as a textbook," not sure if the link demonstrates this extent of reliance on the book.
>Now it’s easy to purchase bitcoins on any number of mainstream markets and “tumble” them so that their point of purchase is obscured. Similarly, thanks to Tor, accessing the dark web requires only opening a browser and enduring slower download speeds.

lol has the author tried buying bitcoins and then tumbling them? I would not call submitting tons of ID to buy and withdrawal $5000 of bitcoin and then setting up tor and getting a tumbler working to be easy, and not getting scammed in the process. Also tor and tumblers are not necessarily fully anonymous.
> I don't think anyone wants that

Someone is presumably making a handsome living by lying for the rich, so at least one person wants this. And there are people paying for this service, so clearly there are people who want to live in this kind of world.

It doesn't matter that this problem has existed forever. So has murder. Are you arguing that we shouldn't care about people murdering each other because it's a timeless problem?
I assume no.

It's not tricky at all when someone knowingly, intentionally pushes fake content at scale to sway public opinion. That's an unconscionable act with very clear and dark intentions. That shouldn't be "tricky" to assess, because we know very clearly that what they are doing is absolutely, unequivocally, wrong.
> It's a very naive view of how the world works

Reporting costs money. If you can control the budget, then you can control which stories are prioritized and which aren't. If you own the paper, you can control the editorial section. Pretending that these tools can't be or aren't being used to influence the population is naive.
Are those Github "releases" or git tags? Or are they using a specific branch for that?
I can see an interest in ethics leading to its study. Not sure how much good the reverse will do by the time the person is old enough for university.
Except Google licenses from companies who don't do it legally, and didn't cease when they were notified. They didn't stop after a WSJ article. On top of it, once the watermark was disclosed, they removed it.
Reminder: initiatives like Hyperboria (formerly Project Meshnet) exist. Using the cjdns protocol and some communications medium (e.g. wires, line-of-sight microwave, WLAN, IPoCP), you can become the ISP for your own local area, assigning IPv6 addresses and providing a bridge (or many) to the 'net at large.

The various pages on the topic aren't well linked (due to server migrations, name changes, low attention to marketing… you know how devs are), but the main homepage is https://hyperboria.net/, some installation guides can be found at https://projectmeshnet.org/docs/ (which mostly links to https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns#how-to-install-cjdns) and generic, somewhat complete documentation is https://docs.meshwith.me/.

cjdns has some other neat features, which are outlined in its whitepaper: https://docs.meshwith.me/Whitepaper.html
I once had the strange problem that shaking my Apple Magic Mouse helped to reestablish the lost blue tooth connection to my Mac. This happened quite often. It took me quite a while to figure out, why shaking the mouse should help with the bluetooth connection:

The reasons is simply that the batteries in the Magic Mouse are often loose and so shaking seems to help moving the batteries around: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/15709/magic-mouse-...
People should remember that the recommendations are part of a large security program and assume the implementation of others that are not so straightforward. Multi-factor auth and resistance to offline attacks on a stolen database or MITM'd creds in an outdated Windows environment tend to be big technical pain points. Most companies, especially outside of tech, aren't in a position to remove password expiration yet.
In which case, worst case scenario, Genius is saying “then come up with them yourselves, you can’t plagiarize our efforts”. Note that the anticompetitive part of the info boxes is a far different and separate issue.
It's all possible with Firefox and DuckDuckGo.
That's how music master tapes are stored. Irreplaceable originals often stored by contractors. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/magazine/universal-fire-m...
Thank you so much for putting into words thoughts that resemble my own. I absolutely love how productive I am working with Node in JS vs anything else. I like C# and have enjoyed learning Rust, but nothing really compares.

Yes, there are a number of footguns, but that's true of any language and platform. You can do stupid things in any number of platforms and languages. I don't even see anything particularly egregious in TFA for that matter.

There are fortune 100 companies with systems handling hundreds of thousands of requests per second on a couple dozen servers in Node.js ... is it absolute performance for CPU intensive operations, not really, does it handle more simultaneous requests than everything else, not even close. What it does offer is a really good mix of good enough performance with unmatched developer productivity.
The report is at https://angel.co/pdf/growth.pdf.
Cool site.

I notice it says that "A tint is created when you add white to a hue. .... you can create a tint by lowering the saturation value of your hue."

This is true in most paint programs, but shouldn't be. Moving a pure color like red to white is also an increase in value (i.e. brightness). So if you reduce saturation to zero while leaving the value the same, you should get a shade of gray (and it should be a darker shade if starting with purple/blue, as compared to say yellow)

I guess the way it tends to be done is so any combination of hue, saturation and value result in a valid color, but according to traditional color models such as Munsell, that shouldn't be true. (which is why the Munsell color solid is like a distorted sphere, rather than a cube) https://munsell.com/about-munsell-color/how-color-notation-w...
Thanks for a reasoned response to what I realise was a very negative comment. I do agree with what you've said, and I do feel a little bad for slamming them when they're being transparent.

OTOH, I do still feel this is so bad they need to be called out on it, and it really does scare me off using them. Given they're being transparent, it boggles the mind that they're tried to justify this, rather than just owning it, admitting it was the result of letting a junior do some resumed-driven-developlemt (or however it came about).
> Mr. Gottlieb said in an interview with the Journal that he found his press coverage unfair and wanted to fight back.

Favorable opinions and professional character praises are not the same as fake news as in conspiracy theories and outright lies. Really, this is just criticizing people for acting in their own rational self-interest to protect their reputation.

Idk, I guess you could make the valid criticism that this is bad practice because this is a privilege only the wealthy and influential have, but I'd argue that is (in most instances) the only class of people who likely have to deal with a barrage of negative news coverage to begin with.

Which begs the question: do wealthy and influential people have the capacity to reform their behavior, and are we willing to let people make mistakes and try again in life? If the answer is yes, then clearly they need some recourse against the astronomical influence of online search results and social media.

Wish the masses were just as open to forgiving people as they are for grabbing the pitchforks and torches.
Pro tip: circular buffer it. First letter becomes the last every 3 months.
Ordering a hit on yourself doesn't really make it a suicide, someone has still committed murder
The watermarks they encoded to identify the original source are pretty creative :).
They used to have a mobile page you could login to. It was really plain but it did what it did best: provide an easy and clean way to access your passwords when you are somewhere.
It was something like https://lastpass.com/mobile ...
> Yang's platform isn't so much stop-the-robots

no one is claiming that this is his platform though.
The pursuit of profit is not an absolute, though. If you choose a route to profit that ends with the company getting sued out of existence, then you didn't really do a good job. Judiciousness is implicit, by necessity, in the goal; the argument then comes down to what the best sustainable route to profit is.
Hmmmm that could work, but I worry that if people treat their Roth IRA as their emergency budget in the event of a recession their total amount they can withdraw will be lower than their needs.

That is why keeping an emergency fund as a separate savings account at a bank makes me feel more comfortable. At most I'd put my emergency fund in a money market account to at least earn something, but the point of the emergency fund is to be liquid and available for emergencies. If there's a steep recession and all of a sudden you need to tap into your savings for 6-12 months until you find another job, you don't want to be doing that when your Roth goes down and cashing out your contributions means selling more shares than you purchased.
Artificial Intelligence Starter Kit
I volunteer at a crisis center in a number of roles. My sysadmin job gives me the security and freedom to engage with people outside of that realm in my spare time. It has been refreshing and meaningful to focus on something _other than_ tech in that capacity.

There's so much going on in the world that doesn't revolve around computers that has a need for people.
I'm young and don't make a huge amount of money but I'm a racing crew for a few yachts competitively so I'm exposed to and worked directly with some people with net worth's anywhere from a few million to a few hundred million.

The reality is that happens with dollar amounts even less than what you'd think. If you want to go buy a used $100,000 fishing boat. Nothing crazy, definitely not a yacht, the salesperson is likely going to run a background and credit check on you before scheduling a test drive or tour.

It saves everybody time and prevents those who are unable to even afford the fuel on the thing from wasting the salesperson's time or clogging up a showroom.

Even the realtor I used to find my $1XXX/month apartment had me consent to run a soft credit check before she would schedule tours with any of the higher-end buildings within my price range.
> It's possible that the police know something the father does not. I would not put it past a suicidal person to order a hit on himself.

It's absurd to assume the police wouldn't share such information with the victim's father. And if someone would order a hit on themselves, the police would still classify this as murder.