skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, you can't really talk about downsides of Recaptcha/Cloudflare without also acknowledging the extreme amount of malicious actors and abuse on the internet.

We're in a "this is why we can't have nice things" predicament and you have malicious actors to thank for that, yet most people on HN only seem capable of attacking the few affordable solutions to that problem.

I'm even down with the theory that Cloudflare is a US government outfit, that's the only way I can wrap my head around such a generous free tier. But at what point does it worry you that the internet has so many fundamental issues that people willingly centralize behind such a large behemoth? How many options do I have when a kid is holding my forum hostage with a $5 booter service?

It's easy to shit on everything. Let's hear some real solutions.
At top level companies, yes. But the average for all tech companies in SV is likely lower than 160k.
Curious how much the interface changed and if you think that plays a role in the sentiment towards it. VB6 I'd expect a desktop app or add-ins to office, going from that to web changes maybe more than necessary for the users.
Reddit is great for memes and humour, not much more. Go through any subreddit on a topic that you know well, and you'll likely be disappointed.
DDG is hiding the "Ad" label on their shopping carousel, with unreadable #888 light grey text. That part is worse than Google's darker #666 (and longer word) "Sponsored".

The screenshot doesn't show any Ad links in the text list results (unless the ads are wholly unlabeled).

It's not really the same case as the OP.
Podesta got phished. The actual email that phished him is available on Wikileaks for anyone to examine. Anyone who can set up a website and send an email can phish. Invoking Podesta as proof of "Russian hacks" says a lot more about you than about Trump (for whom I would never vote) or Russia (with whom I hope we don't have a stupid war).
> Reddit-like community with more intelligent discourse

I feel like that's an unfair assertion. There is a lot of intelligent discourse on Reddit. There is also a lot of utter garbage on there, sure, but byte for byte, there aren't many websites with as much quality content as Reddit.
As a developer, maybe -- I'm not a web dev, so I have no way of knowing.

As a web user, though, it's substantially worse for me. Websites tend to have less substance and useful information, they tend to be flashier and harder to use, the ubiquitous tracking is completely unacceptable, and the web is becoming increasingly opaque and dangerous as more and more of it requires client-side scripting and the like in order to function.

As the web gets smaller and smaller for me every day, I honestly think that I'll see the day when the web is something that I will largely stop using altogether.
You can use multiple tags, but the granularity is still page level. To continue on Conor's example, you'd have, say, a note for your whole meeting, with 3 sections for each agenda point. And you'd have 3 tags.

But then when you want to see information pertaining to a given tag, it means that the content on that meeting note is 66% irrelevant. That doesn't happen in Roam.
> My big question is how this will work for accounting purposes as far as which basis is used. When you sell, say, a stock, you have to designate exactly which stock you are selling to calculate gains. If this works the same, you can choose in ways that get you as close to that $200 line as possible

100% yes. I've heard some arguments about needing to be consistent with a formula, FIFO or LIFO. Though I'm not sure how true that is. I'm also not sure how you would do that if you have currency split among different apps.

> transaction does not have to be less than $200; the gain needs to be less than $200

Thank you for this clarification.
You mean websites that others smeared as "Neo-Nazi" sites, and then whined about to Cloudflare.

Nothing less than a means of censorship ~ brand your opponent as "Neo-Nazis" and get them silenced.
* Many of the moderators left or suspended activity in October; almost none have returned.

* A few more moderators have left this month.

* Consequently, several sites have only a single active moderator or none at all.

* Two key employees involved in moderation and community relations have recently been terminated.

* Company management completely avoids any communication with the community.

* One particular moderator who had been summarily terminated (not from a paid position) was slandered to the media by SE Inc. , has threatened legal action, and has reached an undisclosed arrangement with the company. The community has responded quite negatively to the little which is known about the arrangement (which does not include any admission of wrongdoing).

This is not including unfounded rumors about where the company may or may not be heading business-wise.
In CloudFlare go to "Firewall" and then click Settings on the right.

Here you can set the Security Level and if you want to use Browser Integrity Checks among other things.
I had the exact same experience, but sub python for Ruby.

The lesson I took wasn't that awk sucks, though. The lesson was that CSV is not trivial, and should not be parsed with regex or string matching. It's a standard with variants, and rolling in a library will pay dividends, especially if you're parsing a wide variety of different dialects of CSV.

A related lesson I took is that once your awk script grows beyond a certain level, graduate it up to a real language. I love awk, but it excels at small scale text munging. It's not suited to anything more involved than that. If translating an awk program is a major task, then the program was already too big to begin with.
As an avid Redditor I love this!

The company I work for, Coil, is specifically looking to enable sites like this have an alternative revenue model that is not based on ads[1]. If you have any questions you can reach out to me matt[at]companyurl

I would also suggest you check out https://www.grantfortheweb.org/

[1] https://coil.com/creator
Its ubiquity and performance open up all kinds of sophisticated data processing on a huge variety of *nix implementations. Whether it's one liners or giant data scrubs, awk is a tool that you can almost always count on having access to, even in the most restrictive or arcane environments.
I think the diference is that the source of this case is a person that choose to colaborate.

In the case in question, we're talking about hacking private phones (not those provided by the government as corporate phone).

I don't think the same principle can be applied here.
Where Did the Nickname 'The Big Apple' Come From?
I've heard this termed a Model Zoo. https://modelzoo.co/
> At Netflix, in my larger work group, we have at least 7 FreeBSD committers

Oh that's good to hear. Reading Brendan Gregg's blog [1] I got the impression that Netflix had switched to Linux.

1. http://www.brendangregg.com/
i'll trade a year's membership for revealing how i can see the ticker for anything on this site
Google is deprioritizing sites without amp in search to force them to use it.

So, if I search for something on reddit, I already learned to use duck duck go. Cause then I don't have to edit url to get rid of amp part not scroll up and down for that link.
Don't fall into the trap of "never do X" prescriptions written in blog posts. Rewriting an application or library from the ground up is often a joyful experience packed with an immense amount of lessons to learn. Similarly, refactoring an existing application and watching it come back to life can also be a joyful experience packed with an immense amount of lessons to learn. Whether or not you know what you're getting into on either side, you'll learn soon enough, and experiencing both approaches many times over is part of what being a programmer is about.
http://archive.md/fiK4E

https://web.archive.org/web/20151213182805/https://www.googl...
"You're only allowed to virtualize OSX on Apple hardware."

Haha, good one. Who cares?
The awk on an embedded system is most likely a non-mainstream awk implementation with fewer or different features.
When writing a shell script the robustness/reliabilty can be inferred from it's scope:

1. Uses shell-only commands (echo, for) - most robust; but things like basename/dirname and regex's vary by shell (sh, bash, zsh, ksh)

2. Uses /bin - might run into missing a binary but not likely, still robust and allows a richer set of tools (e.g., uname, chmod and admin-ish things live in /bin)

3. Uses /usr/bin - runs risk if missing packages, likely not very robust (packages drop things in here, like gzip, yacc, gcc)

4. Uses /usr/local/bin or /opt/local/bin - definitely requires package installs, least robust
True, but you do get wrung out for personal data in order to sell you ads. There is always that.
The post states you're supported by donations. How do you go about keeping the site up and financially healthy based on just donations?
To put things in perspective, death by shark attack is about 6 per year globally, since 1958.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark_attack
The key is some third party. Otherwise, I'd mention http://longbets.org/.
I wholeheartedly agree, but I think that is why a lot of folks get turned off from it.
It's funny, because if you run AdSense on your website, Google has very strict guidelines about not misleading users and making a clear distinction between advertisements and your content. However, when Google shows ads on their site, they don't need to follow those rules, they blend them in as closely as possible.

Also, what's the deal with showing an advertisement for the same result that's number one? See the below screenshot.

https://i.imgur.com/f0Kolfv.png

Doesn't this seem wrong? For a lot of people, Google has become a site to not only search the internet, but to simply navigate it. It's normal for someone wanting to visit Expedia to search "expedia.com" or "expedia". They are trying to navigate to that website, Expedia is the first organic result, and yet Expedia is pressured into paying for an advertisement to prevent one of their competitors from appearing first. Even when a competitor hasn't advertised, they're still stuck paying like the above screenshot. To me, this feels inappropriate. Google is getting a hefty payday by simply redirecting someone searching for "expedia.com" to the Expedia website.
Funny thing is, this probably did not happen because some PM decided that ads should look like regular results. It is probably an organic result of A/B testing over time, coupled with revenue being an important metric. Small changes that increase revenue get prioritized and over time, it just evolves into this eventually.
Boeing Shares Halted Pending News
I had the same insight. If I'm having trouble bringing myself to do something, there is usually a good reason for it. Often it's because there is more thinking needed, or some other fundamental underlying reason. It's smart to learn to trust one's instincts, and to examine things more deeply, instead of trying to forcibly overpower one's subconscious.

On a related note, some people say that smoking weed doesn't make you lazy, it just makes you realize that the thing you were about to do isn't worth the effort. Also true.

What I have learned from decades of smoking weed and observing things, is that this society has absolutely no idea what the hell it's doing. It's a bunch of kids who are desperately pretending to be adults. The "reasons" given for the things people do are mostly just rationalizations and excuses. At least 90% of these things people are trying to force themselves to do, they likely shouldn't be doing in the first place.
The parent mentioned that: "as they can't fix [the URL appearance] without losing out on tracking, they're trying to change what the URL means."
Thanks! I will look into that further.
Did 8chan promote "extremist" views...? No more or less than posters on Twitter do on a regular basis, yet Twitter hasn't been silenced.

The same people that got 8chan shut down also hate 4chan, and want to see it silenced.

It has to do with the memes that come out of 4chan, mocking a certain crowd of people for being emotionally fragile and over-reactionary to everything...
The difference being that you pay magnitudes less for your branded keywords than the competition, through the quality score. Allowing companies to advertise against their peers is actually creating more competition on the marketplace (which is a good thing).

Edit: Disclosure - I work at Google but this is my own opinion on multi-sided markets
Very well done and a nice explanation. Over the years I have just sort of inherently come to "know" these things but it was nice to read an explanation of the "why" aspect! Also thought the in-line quiz thing was on point.
The same stuff? What about quality? Newb here.
3 day work weeks will arrive only when mandated by law. We’re long overdue in that regard [1].

Fixing housing through mandating remote work also would go a long way, so you’re not held hostage to a job through geographic requirements. Kudos to remote first/remote only Orgs contributing in this regard. We can always use more flexible/remote roles ("mostly" remote, flexible enough to still have reasonable amounts of face to face time with colleagues or others in the industry).

[1] https://economics.stackexchange.com/questions/15558/producti...
Not saying they can’t turn evil later on down the line when they do get big, but at the moment it’s (IMO) a non issue. They would lose their entire business (whatever little they have) immediately if they did so and presumable make less money out of the attempt than they make right now by respecting user privacy and only offering content-targeted ads. For now I’m happy to trust them - this can of course change in the future.
The Path to a Software Architect
Yup! Just had a LAN party with some of my friends, and we usually play very old games; think: red alert 2, Warcraft 3, etc. The irony with these old games is that wine is actually better equipped at emulating these very old environments, and as such has much better compatibility. I had to go all kinds of hoops of installing old winsock32 drivers etc on windows 10, but all that works out of the box with wine!
Rebranding works when it’s paired with significant changes.

Without that people tend to keep using the old name for a long time. People still call the Willis tower the sears tower and that change happened 11 years ago.
Microsoft already announced a Surface Android phone: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/10/microsofts-first-and...

It's supposed to come out later this year.

There's definitely a differentiator, at least. Apparently they've forgotten what happened to the many previous attempts at dual-screen phones and tablets.
Along these lines, I worked on a team project in a university course to create an automated Q&A system making use of IBM Watson. We chose to focus on a Q&A system for business regulation in the state of Illinois. However, just using existing FAQs isn't sufficient. To build a corpus, we scraped several websites belonging to the state of Illinois for any information that would be relevant to businesses operating in Illinois. Then, we created sample question-answer pairs, with answers taken directly from the corpus. Using both the provided QA pairs and the rest of the unlabeled corpus, Watson trained a model to answer questions that hadn't been trained on by providing excerpts from the corpus. By ensuring that the model was providing excerpts from the corpus, we wouldn't have to worry that we were providing (too much) incorrect information; most of the time, the answers were relevant, too. Of course, you could create a similar system without using proprietary IBM software.
Google is now a spam search engine
Came to say the same thing.... Try changing the user-agent the browser sends to match the user agent that Chrome sends.
> You never known the web without Google

Of course I have. I used Ask Jeeves before Google even existed, and navigated via those awful web directory services before that.

I never claimed that Google "built the web", but that they've contributed to it. You're putting words in my mouth.
> Coldfusion (you've probably never heard of it),

I still use it.
Yes, and that fix is worse than the original problem.
> If your reason for rewriting the code is that you don't understand it, you should not rewrite it.

This is a fundamental thing that most people miss.

If you don't understand the code/system/structure/process/law, you can't possibly rewrite it in a way that is a) effective and b) addresses the use cases it was designed to address.

If you try to rewrite something you don't understand, everything after that decision is re-discovering the same old pains, lessons, and practices that the first person discovered.
Federal tax evasion: Why it matters and who does it
I've been using duckduckgo and bing for a while now. Google is just a fallback.
> How are you going to talk about the downsides of Recaptcha/Cloudflare without also acknowledging the extreme amount of malicious actors and abuse on the internet?

This is acknowledged by the original question

>> Also, how would your implementation differ to solve this issue?
Because their regex is crap and if you have @twitterHandle or something with a legitimate "@" you just see the obfuscated version.

It's laughably adorable to think it's actually solving a problem or helping in any way, the 'bad actors' it's trying to prevent probably have a work around anyway.
it's not as if Windows 10 shows you ads if you use open source projects is it?

https://external-preview.redd.it/mZxH3Zh3-fme9ENc2j1CAENz3nQ...
Yes, within the bookmark manager, but not on the main search bar... It should be much easier to use in that way... :/
"Yet not a single [bank] meets the [PSD2] requirements and standards to be compliant [as of August 2019]."

PSD2 went into effect on 14 September 2019. I thought it's an open secret every European country and bank is behind on implementing. Every country extended the deadline or added grace period.

https://support.stripe.com/questions/strong-customer-authent...

"On 16 October 2019, the European Banking Authority further announced that the new SCA requirements should be fully enforced by 31 December 2020."

The open letter from August 2019 was correct at the time but needs an update.
But does racism have any power? Humans are tribal and some tribalism surfaces in the form of tribalism-of-immutable-characteristics. But some tribalism forms around political beliefs, both on the left and the right. I see the right/left tribes wielding real power. What i don't see is societal buy-in for racism. It still exists, but non-existence can't be the threshold criteria by which we measure a phenomena.
I've never worked there and can't say for sure, but I have to assume that the broad strokes of their search engine are the same as Bing's. Bear in mind my response above was a very very high-level description of a really complex system with tens of thousands of person-years of accumulated knowledge and experience inside it.
I'm 100% behind this being passed as I can't see digital currencies being useful as a US citizen with the current reporting requirements.

At the same time, I also think this is an incredibly difficult policy to get right.

I think structuring could become a common thing among those who have done well with digital currencies to either avoid taxes or purely out of convenience & without ill intent.
We need more information about you and your team
I completely agree. In an environment where everyone was just copying the iPhone UI, some of the design ideas that were coming out of Microsoft were really refreshing and exciting. There was really nothing else like it (and nothing like it ever since).

I would love to see how Windows Phone would’ve matured.
So if your browser agent is not firefox, chrome, safari internet can stop working. What a great side feature.
U.S. officials confirm first U.S. case of China coronavirus
This makes me think "beef" is hardwired into us. I read an article somewhere about how Neanderthals were individually stronger in small numbers susceptible to getting taken over by homo sapiens because the former were more independent and the latter had things like religion to rally around which united them and made them stronger as a whole.
Chinese Ambassador Cautioned by Swedish Government over Threats
Why Gawk for AI? (1996)
I feel most things in Rust are harder to do, at least at first sight. A compromise for the enhanced safeness I guess. Could give it a try again sometime.
> I probably would not reach for .Net and Java if performance literally mattered.

There are many tiers for performance mattering. It is quite possible, and common, for Python to be too slow while .Net is fast enough.
Um... You're article doesn't mention amazon, everything in it happened in China, and there is no actual evidence the issue was the charger or that the charger was "fake". Its just someone who electricuted themselves while using a phone.
Google always says x many results and when you click page 5 6 or some it is usually empty... not as many results as displayed on first page
Yeah, the whole article is based around that one study of piglets. It seems like a lot of conclusions to draw from one data point in general, especially since there are often differences in animal/human studies that can lead to incorrect conclusions.
This is exactly the story Greenwald is selling, which I disagree with in many points.
The redesign is ABSOLUTELY TERRIBLE! It's really hard for me to find the actual results! WTF!
I wonder what sort of API could be used to control that kind of phased array. I guess that's the point of the blog post though: asking for help with reverse engineering its interface.
It is mere marketing, if it is meant to convince consumers of one thing while in practice it's a different thing. The reasons why are irrelevant. Apple would prefer everyone just assumed iCloud backups were encrypted, and tries to keep quiet about it.
Thanks! Keeping the site minimal and fast is definitely one of my main goals, and I'm never going to add any third-party assets, advertising, or anything like that (for both speed and privacy reasons).

There's quite a bit more info about my approaches from a technical perspective here: https://docs.tildes.net/philosophy/site-implementation
I can send you a code if you drop me a message. My email can be found in my profile.
An artistic title can work in media rich publication, but in an aggregator like HN you need something descriptive of what the article actually is (although I tend to just keep the original title if it fits in the length limits)

Maybe something like "How soon can we expect Summer Sea Ice to end?"
Fantastic that you don't need the article. I'm sure you also don't really need this article: https://www.wikihow.com/Tie-Your-Shoes

Have you considered that there might be people who would find that article on "being random" interesting or helpful? Consider just for a moment, the perspective of someone who isn't what we'd call "neuro-typical" - someone with an ASD, for example. Such an article might be incredibly useful to them.

But hell, if you feel that strongly: https://www.wikihow.com/Nominate-an-Article-for-Deletion-on-...
Makes me wonder why they only mention iCloud specifically, does that imply our local OS is already pwnd?