skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, he calls it slowbanning. Hellbanning is when you let them keep posting but other people can’t see the posts. Hackernews hellbans as well and you can see the comments from the deplorables if you turn on “showdead” in your profile.
Update on upcoming open security keys
There's no good way to recreate the space described in the article without keeping most people out.

Right. Anonymity plus the ability to create an unlimited number of accounts guarantees spam.

Originally, to have a USENET address you had to have an account on a time-sharing computer of moderate size, or run your own node. Both were hard to create in bulk, which kept the noise level down.

What can we use now? Facebook real names? RealID? Proof of work?
1 is only an issue for electron. Not viewing web apps in your web browser.
more specifically, they do not approve of putting heavy load on their web server, so a polite scraper could be used
Opened the site on my iphone 6S and could not even close the popup.
From 2 days ago: Vaccine for new coronavirus 'COVID-19' could be ready in 18 months: WHO

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-who-vaccine-...
Do Authors Write Where They Know?
In early stage products, where's the watershed between process and automation?
The snarkier he becomes, the more Facebook employees are going to follow their interpretation of the letter of the law. Ruben disagrees they are doing that.

His solution is to continue to insist that he is correct. He insists they see things his way. They decline, and basically tell him to take it up with the regulators if he doesn’t like their response.

He continues emailing Facebook.

Look, if you tell me I have to do something, and I disagree, you only have two options. Let it go, or escalate. Instead, he continues the exchange, possibly in order to get enough material to drop an outrage bomb.

This is kind of ridiculous, tbh. He has no idea why FB behaves the way they do, except his own personal story about the company. This is the kind of guy who uses Hooters for discriminating against men - maybe they’re technically in the legal area, but they come across as a complete asshat.
In the past, you weren't allowed to use MSDN distributions for everyday business purposes. Is that no longer the case?
What you think would've been great, but the entire gtk ecosystem has been wrecked by fallout from Gnome 3.0, and following demise of the community.

Open source projects like GNOME paid a heavy price for not being able to deal with people like Lennart resolutely.

I see it as a great unjustice that 2-3-4 drama queen personas can hound hound out 50+ most productive developers out of the ecosystem, and not the other way around.

This is how Gnome 3.0 was a private project of a few drama queen personas who hijacked an open source project from 100+ people
So basically up 47 free users for 2 years. Not bad.
I use Azure at work, honestly the Kuberentes/Docker support is pretty awesome. Not to mention the fact that they only run garbage collection after 28 days so if you accidentally destroy a production bucket with user images in it, support can easily get it back to you. (Yes this happened before)
Ten Principles to Control Your Finances Before They Control You
I've always thought people might catch on, since no one is engaging with their takes. I'm curious if letting bots do some markov responses might keep them in the dark a little longer.
https://www.amazon.com/How-Measure-Anything-Intangibles-Busi...

https://www.amazon.com/How-Measure-Anything-Cybersecurity-Ri...
I don't know if you're in the UK, but this isn't true for most of our police, certainly outside the cities. If anything, this fact is something they're proud of.

As an example, I called them once (using a non emergency number before anyone says anything) because I was worried about a vulnerable relative who I couldn't get hold of and they were great - went to his house and called back to say he was fine, just couldn't hear the phone over the TV.
My family only reposts articles and never has anything to say themselves.
Ah, yes, the Virus Of The Month club.
FYI Joe died last year and is best known for inventing Erlang.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Armstrong_(programmer)
I am clocking about 10 years w/out FB. Not on whatsapp and all that other stuff. I'm quite happy & when folks ask me how to get in touch, My standard reply is SMS/Phone or Face2face :)
FB has 2 barbs which are quite painful when deployed together: 1) The cheap and easy social validation of the "like" and 2) The observation of other people's status-seeking, which invalidates our own.

It's much like a drug- if you can use it responsibly, that's great. But we are just animals and all too often we gradually use FB more and more as a dopamine trigger. Often, this is in the form of edgy memes, angry politics, soft-core porn or just status-seeking. Add some FOMO to the mix and you will assuredly feel pretty crummy.

The FB like button is such an insanely powerful feedback mechanism. I never would have thought, 15 years ago, that such a simple thing could take over people's minds so completely. But it's becoming abundantly clear that not only is FB playing to our weakness, they are playing us against each other. In the scramble for likes, we obsessively refresh our pages. Likes cost FB nothing but the chase for them leads its users to churn in circles, all the while generating ad revenue and which finally resolves itself as Zuckerberg's 18th mansion.
Thanks! We've really tried to keep Slimbox simple in every way. And yes, we went through Google's verification process and it was pretty rigorous.

Because Slimbox is a relatively simple application, we came in under $50k, but laying out 5-figures pre-revenue was a tough pill to swallow. It's certainly a great test of how much you believe in what you're making – we were fortunate to have strong validation from early testers.

The founder of a tool called GMass documented an experience of the verification process that felt similar to ours that you might find useful: https://www.gmass.co/blog/live-updates-google-oauth-verifica...

Feel free to reach out as you make progress on your inbox service.
I know its a three paragraph article with two broken links, on a page with 10 ads, and a spammy looking zoomed in photo of Mark Zuckerberg.
I think the term burnout was first applied to social workers. Just imagine the situation they are in: a steady stream of people with serious problems in their lives comes to you and you are supposed to help them. But you have so little time and power to help any particular case that you hardly seem to make any difference. And no matter what you do that stream never ends. No wonder that feelings of sheer helplessness, ineffectiveness, meaninglessness of your work, cynicism, ennui, and extreme aversion to the work can appear. That's burnout. I don't think it is specifically associated with panic, aside from the panic that if you start working you will experience all the negative emotions that you associate with your job.
I think it's very common, but in my experience living the city helps a lot (San Francisco in my case, compared to say the south bay).

There's a selection effect where people who live in dense areas are more open to meeting new people. (There's also a culture of drinking which I'm mostly over, but it's still a net positive IMO.)
I find it impossible to look at one of these expensive, third party design firm created rebrandings and not think of the famous "Pepsi Gravitational Field" document. It shall forever remain a seminal satirical work in this genre.

https://www.goldennumber.net/wp-content/uploads/pepsi-arnell...
Solve Conflicts in 4 Steps
I can't imagine that it is.

Let's say a paper is 1 MB, downloading it 1,000 times costs 10 cents at AWS prices. 10,000 lifetime views would be a lot for an arXiv paper, and that is $1. Plus storing 1,000 papers at that rate is another 10 cents a month. Storing a million papers is $100 a month.

The thing people miss about AWS's charging for bandwidth is that it's an efficient way to lower their costs handling DMCA requests. You might get 20,000 downloads of a 2 GB camcorder capture of a movie in the theaters -- the prospect of a $4000 bill to do do that encourages people to use other platforms instead. AWS doesn't have their legal department running big bills dealing with this and they pass on the savings and the generally safer environment to do whatever it is you are doing w/o harassment to their customers.
I often forget I even had a facebook. There really is just zero value add to my life from that website.
You can find several screen shots in the different client web pages linked from this wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Usenet_newsreaders
Using a server means the problem isn't event the same problem.

The General's Problem (as presented in the comments) is trivially solvable by multiple messengers WHO COME BACK to report the message delivered. Wherein, the messenger is an encrypted messenger and the general has the key (knowing which messengers were sent out).

In an ephemeral message scenario, you have to rely on the same idea, using an encrypted log of messages that both generals have access to (since they are both "on the same team", there is already coordination).

This philosophical exercise isn't practical, from the setup provided. I don't see the point in trying to solve for it without adding a ton of additional constraints, by which you can reach an optimal or no-solution.
A couple of years ago I was pretty addicted to Facebook and would compulsively open a new tab and start typing "f..." in the address bar. Even if I had another tab with Facebook open.

I tried blocking it for lapses of time but it didn't reduce my addiction. What did work was logging out of Facebook. The annoyance of having to log in and stop my flow was enough for me to stop using Facebook. Now I use it less than once a month when I want to contact some company that only has a Facebook page.
Before that can happen, we'll get WebASM + WebGL interfaces (efficiently) in our browser. I expect an explosion of alternate layout mechanisms to arise from that. They won't be very good at first, but they may end up somewhere neat.
The concept of evaporative cooling (from other comments, not the OP) is really interesting.

If you buy the principle, then a way to encourage quality posts and discourage poor posts would be to:

1. Limit the number of posts a person can make.
2. Reward posts that get responses with the ability to make more posts.

Obviously you'd want to add some filigree to these principles to allow members of a conversational thread to post with abandon once they've already joined.
Fail over?

I’m not against redundancy/HA in production systems, I’m opposing clusters of machines to perform data workloads that could more efficiently handled by single machines. Also note here that I’m talking about data science and machine learning workloads, where node failure simply means the job isn’t marked as done, a replacement machine gets provisioned and we resume/restart.

I’m not suggesting running your web servers and main databases on a single machine.
I knew a dev that did Canadian government web dev contracts. They have a very particular style. They sound like a nightmare, frankly. Very well specified though, not much ambiguity there.
It’s still not the health care prices “2017 edition” (2020)
My middle school years were pretty miserable due to family drama stuff. I'm only in touch with two friends from that era (via FB). I contrast this to my kids, who went to a really great charter school from grades 7-12. Their core social groups are still made of their junior high and high school friends - my daughter (age 25) was just an attendant for one of those friends' weddings, and another one of their jr high friends was also an attendant. For someone in their mid-20s to have a whole social network of friends they've known half their life amazes me.
"Have you ever, while running Linux, questioned the teachings of the Mormon Church?"

"Micheal, where did you get this?"

"It's from a website."
I'd be happy if they just stopped cramming more stuff into HTML CSS and JS and just worked on optimisation from here on in. That way we could let our computers catch up.

Lets call it done.
Category: Principles
Ask HN: Thoughts on Tesla Stock?
This is interesting. Tesla stock has gone up from averaging $300 to $800 in last 3 months. Before that, it was pretty flat in the same price range. What has happened suddenly ?
The overwhelming theme of social media is propagating envy. Look at this amazing vacation, look at how handsome I am, look at this happy family with baby and wedding photos, look at all my money, look at me landing a great job, look we just bought a beautiful new house.

How can one be content with your own life if you're constantly comparing yourself to everyone else. Removing images and video might go a long way.
You got to be kidding me. You "exclusively" rely on FB for news? That's like trusting a Nigerian scammer with your money!
Because it's not a cup of coffee.

You're more or less guaranteed a consistent taste when you order a cup of coffee. Not so much when buying a subscription to a random SaaS from the HN front page. Trust is a significant issue here.

Coffee also doesn't require commitment. I can walk out of the shop, and say "that's my last coffee", and that'll be the end of it. No hunting down unsubscribe/cancel buttons, etc.

I mean as someone building their own SaaS, I totally get the frustration. But anchoring your price to coffee isn't as useful as say, what people pay for Dropbox, VPS/VPN or email providers.
Excuse in the sense of "forgive" that people have a US bias. I agree with you and you read something from that I didn't intend sorry about that.
Don't forget that their are other options than node for your back end. Flask, Django, RoR, ASP.NET, whatever floats your boat.

I am not a huge fan of js for web app dev, so I use django.
From Riches to Rags
Native image lazy-loading has been merged into the HTML standard
My FB experience is like yours, but I had to mute friends and family who are perpetually outraged, as well as those who ask for help every day on things like which shoelaces to buy. I also raised the feed prominence for people who rarely post.

Similarly for Twitter, I don't follow people who post ragebait or feel the need to comment on everything.
Senior Huawei Official Acknowledges Clandestine Access to Mobile Networks
Same boat for me. Solidarity.
If it didn't before, it certainly does now.

"Though the CD-ROM drive was not currently working when it was found in 2009, it has since been repaired by Benjamin Heckendorn, a YouTube personality known for his console repair videos."
> Adulthood is a much more even playing field than childhood. You have resources (

> HR department,

There to protect the company, not you and definitely not to admit any kind of abuse because that is a liability

> change jobs

Looks very bad on your resume if done after a short period of time or frequently

>change neighborhoods

Makes you look shady and like you are dodging responsibility. Ties with the previous point.

> police

Comprised by mostly ex-bulies. I'm sure that will go well.

> social services

Here you face real repercussions for what will be seen as you not accepting your lot in life.

> lawyers, etc...)

As long as you have money...

> And that sometimes means standing up for yourself.

Remember: Appeasement never works.
> You got to be kidding me. You rely on FB "exclusively" for news? That's like trusting a Nigerian scammer with your money!

Context is important. In this case, he actually has some pretty defensible reasons for using Facebook this way: active suppression of local independent journalists and low activity by independent Western journalists. My guess is his alternative to Facebook is probably some pro-Assad propaganda rag. As bad as Facebook is, that's worse.

Your reaction would be more appropriate for someone chose to rely on FB for news about the US or Western Europe.
That's not how I interpreted it. I thought he meant that he didn't use Facebook for other things.
Maybe I'm not burning out. Maybe I'm just tired and intellectually drained after 8 hours of intellectual stimulation. And maybe that's totally normal.
Kubernetes operations made easy with Integrated Services
If anything, making Linux look dangerous and forbidden will encourage more kids to try it out.
Interesting that it’s explicitly limited to B2B startups.

Is there a feeling that B2C isn’t a “real” business? Or maybe because B2B startups are more likely to be acquired by larger companies, thus absorbing Microsoft’s stack?
Show HN: Render Arbitrary 3D Boolean Functions
Understanding Team Success, a Primer
Right, but the velocity is probably slower.
This is a web demo for creating 3D models in JavaScript. It uses a variant of ray casting that can render any function mapping `(x, y, z) -> bool` in real-time.

It's easy to define very interesting 3D models as boolean functions. In my opinion, it's much easier than creating triangle meshes or composing a bunch of primitive shapes. I had fun making the examples, and I'm curious to see what other people can come up with.
I tried it and I'm pretty sure that's all it does. There's also no way to import your own SVGs.

Kinda seems like the blog post was just there to sell the app, which is just there to sell 'premium' icons.
What gave me the most satisfaction is quitting the news. Incidentally I don't have or use any social media either. Except imgur and sometimes among the funny memes I get news.

But I'm afraid for people I meet who always remind me of all the awful things they've seen in the news. I'm aware of none of this until someone tells me.

And yet my life is the same as everyone elses. Not knowing what is going on, living in a country with a high standard of living and personal safety, doesn't affect me at all.
You didn't report a faux crime, you requested a welfare check.

But even a wellness check can go exceedingly wrong in the US.

"He said he called a non emergency number for a wellness check. Smith said minutes later he heard a gunshot."

https://www.npr.org/2019/10/13/769891781/fort-worth-officer-...
Freezing and starting to cry without any reason was the exact same moment for me i recognized i hat do change. I made three weeks holiday without any technical equipment just to slow down life very drastically. A few weeks more of just working half days and much sport and i was back to normal. Never again!
With my luck, I found a bug. If you press one button for an answer, then press another one, I find that the button is not selected, but the length of the button is shortened. It's strange. After clicking again it seems fine.

Other than that, cynicism checks out on the results. 5.1.
How Solid Topped the JavaScript Framework Benchmarks
I was recently pleased to discover that the Internet Archive even has a browser-based emulator for the Cat: https://archive.org/details/canoncat
Wow. That's quite a tricky test, too -- if you study Thompson's original paper you can see plenty of pitfalls. E.g. his main code would loop forever on a star of a star, and he solves this in an appendix with a preprocessor to rewrite regexes of that kind, only it looked like that rewriting would blow up the size of the regex exponentially in the length of the stack of stars. No hire!
Note they talk about the web, not HTML/CSS (and many of their pro arguments do not apply to Electron by default, so it's clearly not included)
Full Stack Pronounced Dead – Welcome the 2020 Stack
Does anyone know any free/open-source alternatives to Charles? The closest I could find was this [0] but it doesn't look like it can throttle connections for specific hosts

[0] - https://github.com/sitespeedio/throttle
Is 47 users really a "startup"? If you have anywhere near 47 actual users, affording $1k a month is going to be trivial.

Would be nice if you could have, say, 5 users and extend the 2 years by not using all $1k monthly credits, adding users as you grow.
> I expect an explosion of alternate layout mechanisms.

No need WebASM for that. Just one CSS property:

div {
flow: custom [funcname/url(of-layoout-controller)];
}

+ single function funcname() that will replace children and report min/max intrinsic sizes.
That's great, the more kids will play with Kali and other tools the better. Rough times ahead, youngsters shall be empowered.
Tesla had a good earnings call and a spike in stock price Feb 4th. The spike has leveled off back to the general upward trend now. They also just announced $2B in added shares to capitalize on stock surge according to Yahoo News.
I assume it can also be used towards their hosted CI (GitHub actions)
>just to give parents and kids some information on what is/not wrong to do.

I'm not sure it's helpful to suggest to parents who may be in over their head that Discord and Virtual Machines are "wrong to do" or even things to worry about.
Telling your child "you'll make new friends" seems to be about the least helpful and least sensitive thing you could say. As though friendships were some fungible substance of social interaction, none of any more value or special quality than another.

Though I do wonder if the trauma of severed relationships is helped these days by social media, cell phones, video chat, etc. When I was growing up, even long distance phone calls were too much money for regular use to stay in touch. Moving away, or having a friend move away, was for all practical purposes similar to losing a friend to death. There was a very good chance you'd never see them again.
The secret to Palm Graffiti's market success was that it hacked user expectations.

Because it asked users to learn a new way of writing, when the recognition failed, users were more likely to blame themselves, like, "Oh, I must have not done that Graffiti letter right, I'll try again."

But when it came to recognizing regular (i.e. natural) handwriting, users believed inherently (i.e. somewhat unconsciously) that they already knew how to write, and the machine was new, so mistakes were the machine's fault.
> and the next 40 years I spent minimizing the importance of friends.

Do you regret that now?
Yeah, just staying in index funds until you die is risky. A more standard strategy would be to invest in index funds until you retire, then switch to an annuity that pays you for life. This has the same pooling of risk as a pension.
Yes, I run a large Xenforo discussion forum for my online community, and the term used here is called marking a user "discouraged"

The system "slows down" the user experience, and also introduces random timeouts and other unpleasant user experiences.
"Someday we'll find out that cell phones cause cancer and it'll be a big scandal" is possibly #2 only to "Apple is dying" in tech news reruns.
> In any way, i was just curious. No bad intentions.

My apologies, then!
Can you elaborate a bit on what you mean plz? What's the link between "interchangeably" and having a build process?
kali linux? not sure what was the original comment.
I opened up comp.misc and the first post was from 9 days ago arguing that women can't code, and the insinuating tirade of arguments.

I don't think you'd find that on HN at least.

I feel like since just anyone can sign up for Usenet these days instead of just the technologically motivated, communities like them have been altered significantly.
Boing Boing definitely has an issue with looking, and frankly, acting like blogspam these days. Still some interesting original content, but the site design is pretty garish, and it's not always clear what is or isn't an advertisement.
Do you want to improve SEO or do you want a safe semi-private public space?

If you permit full text search of content, you permit abusers to discover and harass your members, because they can just sign up to find out who posted something once full text search discovers it.