skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Snitch culture is a very dangerous and contemptible thing. It's what kept Cuba, NK, and the former soviet empire running. You just need to demoralize a small minority to watch over their neighbours, reward them with something petty, make a few big examples of individuals, and you can create a climate of fear to rule with.

Where I grew up, teachers used to punish tellers along side the alleged offender because it was bad for society.
Thanks, after I posted this I had a look at eternal-september that another poster also mentioned in a different thread.

I decided I don't have time today but bookmarked it for some other time.

Checking the list of clients I was pleased to see Claws on there, that also took me back. Might have to give it another look, it's been a while.

thanks again, I appreciate the feedback!
There's no assumption needed, he directly and publically interfered.

Trump specifically ordered DoD to review the fundamental deal to make sure it didn't favor Amazon.
I feel misled! Clicked on your link, expecting one thing, but getting something else entirely.
Database Research in 2019: The Year in Review
The Democrats?
> when JEDI was issued, on the day Congress recessed for the summer, the deal appeared to be rigged in favor of a single provider: Amazon. According to insiders familiar with the 1,375-page request for proposal, the language contains a host of technical stipulations that only Amazon can meet

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/08/has-bezos-become-mor...
The problem with the strategy you describe is that if too many people use it, politicians can just openly lie about what's happening in the world and what they're doing about it. A voter who has identified with a party and is no longer interested in learning the facts has no way to correct for this.
> Maybe the competition caught up and it doesn't stick out as that special anymore.

Exactly. Slack's biggest benefit was "chat with persistent history, the ability to message offline people, and notifications". That's table stakes now.
Right. My use of Facebook is similar. I almost never look at my 'feed'. I search on specific people and look at what they post, but on variable intervals. I'll look at a few people's posts once a day. Others, once a week, etc.

> I don't get how the site is such a specter of misery for some people

I understand what you're saying; it doesn't have much sway over me either. But it does over a lot of other folks, by design. And that pull is very real, and quite powerful.
Yes. I reconfigured the creds and grants so it wasn't possible to repeat the mistake. The lesson learned was about isolation and diligence.
The US is irrelevant to the situation in the article.
I feel like one of the worst things you can do when you burnout or are on the way to burning out, is to get a new job. Imo, swapping in stuff where stuff wasn't good before is just a way to divert your attention in a way that doesn't let you redevelop your value system in a way that you really need to. Just stop for a while. Maybe a long while. Then see what you want to do.
I hope there is no long term support problem, but I don’t know. I am sort-of addicted to Lisp languages, but I admit there is a lot to like about Swift, and TensorFlow turtles all the way down in Swift is a great idea.
I think the fact that Haskell is more math than programming might also be related to that. I've been programming for a decade and still don't understand Haskell.
It's a fig leaf.

It's not about the judge being biased, but about amazon really having nothing to lose compared to what they could gain, and swinging for the fences. It's also about the next contract.

They're unlikely to prevail, and have already, through their past actions, turned a lot of DoD people against them. If they had performed better with their previous contracts, they would likely have won this.
In that scenario routing the driver is still happening on Uber's end. They can probably get a pretty good idea of whether the ride took place, even if the driver is actively trying to cheat (probably by canceling the ride on their end).
That's just 'democratization' of the word 'democratization', man.
not every video works on newpipe tho. i much prefer its features, but when i want lazybrained intertainment i do find i have to open some links in creepy tracky youtube
Oracle is a McGuffin, they're only mentioned at all in this drama as an excuse for Trump to interfere. They were never any kind of contender for the contract.
If you use the IRS standard rate of $.58 per mile as the cost of driving, then if you have a ~17 mile commute (each way), you'd expect to spend about $100 per week on average. That doesn't include the opportunity cost of your time or parking.

A quick googling suggests that the average driving commute is 16 miles so $100/week seems like a reasonable estimate (again assuming parking is free and you value your time at $0/hr).
My goodness. Bryan Cantrill comes off as a complete fascist in that blog post.

I can't believe he would actually post something like that on Joyent's domain.

It's a personal attack on someone doing something he disagrees with. Shaming via a public space like that is just not done. It's okay to agree to disagree on a subject like gendered pronouns, just like it's okay to disagree on abortion laws or gun control.
I don't think it is at all reasonable to assume this. The autopilot disengagement is a major driver of "tesla autopilot safety".

I don't know what disengagement rate is for Tesla, but we do know that early 2019 waymo it was like roughly every 11k miles driven[0]. Given that waymo uses lidar/generally considered to be closer to actual autonomy than Tesla this speaks poorly of actual autopilot safety.

[0] - https://9to5google.com/2019/02/13/waymo-self-driving-disenga...
UPDATE:
Seems like I somehow managed to confuse the readers.
I choose to trust the candidate. Even more so than anybody with traditional approach with technical interviews and endless back and forth. I hire, pay salary after 1 hour of chatting. Only Im direct about my intentions. I specify what is expected of the candidate when hired and Its up to them to live up to what they commit to during the chat.
I mean, I use gitlab, gitea, github, and bitbucket all fairly regularly for different projects, and I haven't seen anything out of the gitlab posts here that I think is wrong.

People disagreeing with you and/or opposing the free offerings of a company known for embrace/extend/extinguish does not mean they're astroturfing.
One of the benefits of social media is supposed to be transparency, and I believe that. However, isn't it an indictment of global callousness that so many people have seen Assad's destruction of Syria and no one is helping? In fact, Russia's bot armies far outnumber Syrian refugees on Facebook, and they're spreading confusion on the whole situation. They're making it seem like Syria is some sectarian black hole, where no one is innocent, and global action will accomplish nothing. That keeps everyone else out, Russia and Iran in, and leaves Syrians to be genocided day in and day out. More people rallied behind Kony 2012, even though it was a campaign of lies. The American public has been successfully and systematically jaded into glossing over the whole Syrian tragedy.

Facebook is probably a net-negative for Syrians all things considered. Your social network may know the truth of who is committing 98% of the crimes, who invited ISIS/terrorists into Syria, and who is responsible for a modern-day genocide (half a million people erased from existence so far), but unfortunately that's not the case for the vast majority of people.

After Syria is destroyed, the history books will ask: how did we allow that to happen? What happened to Never Again? Social media will be part of the answer. We are reduced to tears when watching a film about Rwanda, and merely confused when hearing about Syria. Dictators love it when you are confused, because truth is their greatest enemy. In a state of confusion, the truth is not fully resolved. Moral clarity is dead. The solution starts with caring strongly about this problem. Only then can we begin to address it.

I would be pleasantly surprised if we're not both downvoted. You have my solidarity. I know how hard it is for you to receive zero empathy, and sometimes even aggression, when speaking the truth of who slaughtered your people and deprived you of your country. Keep telling the truth regardless. Part of the problem (of confusion and jadedness) inadvertently originated in the tech industry, and part of the solution will come from the tech industry. It won't know or care about the issue until victims come forth and make the problem clear. The tech industry needs to hear your voice. Creating a tool that is, on net, an accessory to perpetrators of genocide and manipulators of the public, without fixing it, is very, very problematic. Separately, Youtube is deleting video evidence of the genocide (even though it said it doesn't mean to). Many of the posters of those videos are no longer alive, or not in a situation where they can raise a dispute with Youtube. That is perfectly legal, and almost noone knows or cares.

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FACEBOOK, GOOGLE, are you listening? A GENOCIDE is going on. Facebook, your platform is being leveraged by the perpetrators of genocide as a modern-day Pravda of epic proportions. Google/Youtube, you are continuing to delete critical video evidence of the genocide from your servers forever even though activists put you on notice. Help.
You don't need to run stuff in Electron. I usually use stuff like Spotify and Slack in Firefox, which works well enough.

And yeah, the web isn't perfect. As mentioned in the article I just wanted to highlight some of the good things here. It's not intended to be a comprehensive overview of all the pros and cons.
Microsoft’s Windows 10 X gets ported to Apple MacBook
I noticed that certain politicians do their best to reach the media and news, and others just do their job.

Why would the news be the best source to judge your politicians?
Show HN: Bob – A GUI for DNS Record Management and Name Auctions on Handshake
Windows 10 KB4532693 and KB4524244 causing new issues
Another sinister way of doing this is having users solve captchas in order to comment and keeping a badness score of the troublemakers. Then pretend they failed the captchas at a rate proportionally to their score.
Facebook and Cambridge Analytica Data Scandal; Ethics, Privacy and GDPR
Activist judge again.
I don't know, probably because it's not 'plug and play' with a swath of libraries and tooling like most popular languages.

Whether it's used or not wasn't really my point but it's hard to deny that such a simple syntax so close to the metal is quite amazing and elegant :)
They should have large families, as it used to be common in the past: "... and then, the youngest brother's son-in-law attacked from an unexpected direction, upsetting ..."
That's debatable. Where is the social element? If you stretch the definition of social media long enough you could also call the usenet, mailing lists or Wikipedia social media.

HN isn't really about human connections or personal interactions. We might discuss them, but HN isn't designed or usually used for creating them.
> ineffectiveness, meaninglessness of your work, cynicism, ennui, and extreme aversion to the work can appear

Jobs in corporate software development can feel pretty much like that, at least for me. Startups are better, but, on the other hand, they work you harder.
It was up for debate only among people who think "cloud" is web apps written in NodeJS, Go and Python rather than the old boring applications that used to be ran locally. Microsoft and Oracle are gigantic specialized vendors in that space. "Cloud" part is a commodity.
Also, adding some degree of anonymity. It’s much easier to delight in a story/post where there’s less orientation of the story to an attention-hungry identity and less social pressure on friends to ‘like’ and so forth. Not that anonymous social forums are without problems.
One big reason is the Mr Robot TV series. The main character uses Kali Linux for "hacking", and it was quite a popular show amongst casual computer users. As a result, many people who had limited knowledge about security started installing Kali Linux on their laptops so they could be "hackers" too.
It's actually relatively easy using a media-query in CSS: https://css-tricks.com/dark-mode-favicons/
I found, by the way, Melinda Shore's "abuse of process" messages on the tls-wg mailing list, and they appear to be directed at the proponents of the dnssec chain-extensions draft.
I'm struggling to think of anything that could serve as a better source, or even a reasonable runner-up. Am I taking a broader interpretation of "news"? I would agree that cable news is probably a net negative; web aggregators like Google are hazardous, and following individually-selected news sites is a lot of work, but what else is there?
> The real shocker was when I decided to measure only the Wemo mini smart plug with nothing connected was costing me $0.31/day.

I can't buy this. That's 3,100 Wh each day, or roughly 130W constant usage. That much energy being dissipated in the plastic housing would be burning hot to the touch, or melt it.

I'd wager he's off by a couple orders of magnitude. 1.3W is much more likely for a smart plug to draw.

The 55W his Echo is drawing is suspect for the same reason. That's more power than almost any idling laptop.
This is a really cool project! I dig the clear explanations. Although I have a base of this knowledge already I look forward to when the more advanced topics are discussed. I'd love for a breakdown of more advanced, real-world, circuits that are broken down by subsystem and explained. cheers
We Are Doomed as a Civilization
GDPR fines may prove an interesting incentive.
They measure how well you can memorise something that you will probably never use in practice unless in some extremely specific field like database tree building.
"It's impossible to stop a truly determined attacker, so we'd better not take any steps to fend off the less-determined attackers" is a terrible approach to building safe spaces. Some applications of that logic:

- We shouldn't bother checking for characteristics of credit card fraud at transaction time, because a determined attacker might get a fraudulent card through.

- We shouldn't bother checking IDs at bars, because a determined attacker might get a fake ID through.

- We shouldn't bother trying to prevent email spam, because a determined attacker might get a spam message through.

- We shouldn't bother making laws against recording people without their consent, because a determined attacker might do so anyways.

Please construct a more plausible argument than "it's ultimately hopeless". I'm willing to consider alternatives, but I'm not willing to consider fatalism.
The original reporting on JEDI was pretty much that it was written specifically with Amazon in mind, and that the RFP was a formality.

Someone at Oracle with access with Trump brought it to his attention, and Trump personally intervened, ordering DoD to ensure Amazon was not favored for the contract.
> what I hear is "they feel they have to support it, and as long as they have to support it they're going to do it right, unlike other CAs".

Did you hear that from @cpu too? Is it an actual quote, or is this you paraphrasing again and it might be completely wrong?

Regardless this did prompt me to go back and look at what became https://github.com/letsencrypt/boulder/pull/3726 and confirm that yeah, they still don't get it. Must try harder.

I thought I did a pretty good job of spelling out what needs to happen to have confidence here, using an example from EMV of what not to do - but it didn't have the desired effect and this is still the same "parse first, regret later" approach that is ultimately why that PR even exists in the first place (Let's Encrypt were mis-parsing CAA records and discovered in post mortem their records weren't good enough to actually figure out the impact from the incident).

> Another thing you're well aware of was that one of the key design goals for SSL/TLS was not to depend on the DNS for security.

I can't figure out any way to squint at this which makes it both true and non-trivial.

In practice what Netscape did was punt to the existing Certificate Authorities and carefully avoid asking awkward questions about how they did it. This achieves a goal "not to depend on the DNS" only in the same sense that that chap the other day was able "not to depend on a mobile phone" by just getting a friend to receive all their calls for them and pass on messages...

For many years what the Certificate Authorities actually did was not officially documented anywhere. But we do have some amazing patents they filed to protect their "innovative" solutions. They're uh... they're very bad. Go read some, you can laugh now because none of this is permitted any more. What we know of the unpatented stuff they did was mostly worse. Would you be surprised that OCRing the images from anti-spammer WHOIS websites was an actual thing that an actual trusted Certificate Authority was doing to figure out the contact email address for a domain? Guess how reliable that was...
It's probably being down voted for a couple of reasons.

1. The claim in the link that Patreon banning someone from using them to receive funding is tortious interference with a business relationship giving the people who wanted to donate that person a cause of action is extremely tenuous at best.

For an act to be tortious interference there has to be something wrong about that act other than just that it impacted the relationship between two other parties.

For example, if Patreon decided to kick off all black creators, that would be wrong regardless of whether or not it impacted any business relationships between those creators and others. A claim for tortious interference might be viable.

The bannings being complained about don't fall into any such protected category as far as I know.

2. The link is to a site that is generally unreliable. The author is a major pusher of conspiracy theories, pedophilia accusations, and the like which almost never stand up to scrutiny. For those rare things he publishes that are not those kind of things, there should always be a better source you can link to.

No one has time to fact check every article they read, so you want to get your articles from places that are mostly right with at most a rare goof, not places that are the other way around. Many people down vote for linking to the later kind of site, even if the particular article is one of their rare reasonable ones, because it makes more work for the reader than linking to a better site would have.
Another from me: blacklist the recommended questions from other stackexchange sites! I always get distracted by some juicy story on workplace.se or interpersonal skills or academia or worldbuilding or politics. My monkey brain will read those questions and think about the answer, then I have to click and see what others say. But Stackoverflow remains productive if I block this box.
Would you mind explaining autophagy debt?
Firefox 73 Adds Support for Site Specific Browser (Web App) Mode
dupe; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22320289

The above is a news article while this is the exact DOJ release. If anyone wants to hop over to the other thread.
Lockdown: Open-source firewall that blocks app tracking, ads, snooping
> I vividly recall it came with two 200-odd page printed manuals, both in my native Dutch. One for MSX-DOS, which told you how to launch a word processor and print documents.

Ya, I still have that one :-) I ditched almost all my belongings a few years ago when I moved to New Zealand, but the MSX-BASIC book is one of the few non-essential things I kept :-)
> I thought phrase in my post "I choose to believe you" indicates basic trust.

Interesting. I took that phrase as indicating the exact opposite. It implies that you don't really believe the person, but are electing to act as if you do (and to inform them of that fact) -- which means there is a lack of basic trust. I think because it's such an odd thing to say, it's hard to know how to interpret it.

In the context of the rest of your post, it seems to me to indicate a lack of trust even more strongly. But perhaps that's just me, and others would take it differently.

Why not just use probationary periods, but not emphasize the reason to the applicants? Everyone already knows what probationary periods are for, after all.
A few reasons. First is that developer's don't buy it, non-technicals do, and it's got serious vendor lock-in capability. The other reason is that an excel-formula-wizard-type user can basically google his/her way to building a CRUD app for the business - and it works for the most part. Those combined are a billion dollar company. Us developers might not like it, but it has huge business value one way or another.
I see it far less frequently now (thanks @dang!), but a few years ago it wasn't uncommon to see shadow banned HN users continuing to post for years, talking into the void. Sometimes I'd look into their post history and so many of them had been banned for utterly trivial reasons, it was pretty sad.
How would you name an abstract string without any implied meaning?
Hi Ruphin. I guess you are a developer at ING -- may I ask you something Off-topic?

I have a simple giro account at ING and just would like to query the balance regularly with a script. Nothing fancy at all. Is there some API you offer? I've seen your website https://developer.ing.com/ but it seems that developer access is only intended for developing activities and not intended for "productive" usage, even if it is with the giro bank account of the developer.
Your point is correct but could have been made without commenting regarding them having read the article. Doing so is against HN comment guidelines.
In the olden days you could read between the lines to see people mocking the very culture their post was supposedly glorifying. Later this nuance disappeared as the board was overrun with actual Neo-Nazis.
or any internet provider in germany.
You forgot 1 other nasty group: those who feel better by judging others. You won't see them post or comment, but they will judge everyone behind their back.

I've see several cases like this from up close, including one extravagant girl (who wasn't doing anything wrong, just posting a lot), that basically cut out her entire family so she could post without all the gossiping.
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While this doesn't directly have to do with the CCP having backdoors in Huawei products, it does seem a bit too coincidental that the DOJ is just happening to go after them since corporate espionage is a common theme when dealing with China.

Hopefully this reflects a changing of the tides when it comes to enforcing IP laws in China rather than just an excuse to target a single company. I don't even like IP laws but if we are going to hold the rest of the industrialized world to the letter of the law then at some point China will have to be brought into the fold.
I know that as shadowbanning. This is one of my favourite reddit posts on the subject:

https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/351buo/tifu_by_postin...
Mostly just getting tired of not having a quiet place to work and needing to grind leetcode so that I don't have to worry about being un-hirerable in my free time. Besides that I generally like being an SWE. I'm also pretty tired of private companies wanting me to value stock options equally to dollars.
The president told the secretary of defense to "screw" one vendor in a competition for a $10B contract because of personal biases unrelated to the contract. In any normal time, that would be an administration ending scandal. Right now, it hardly rates, but on an absolute scale it's still a big deal and completely justifies this lawsuit.