skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Usenet on the other hand has never been resilient against coordinated activity. The Meow Wars were one of the most deleterious things to ever happen to Usenet back in the day, and I'm sure it contributed a lot to people abandoning Usenet for moderated web forums.

>Now that the Internet has had 20 more years to further develop invasion techniques, and the invading forces are even larger and more malignant than ever, unmoderated communities can't survive unless they're invisible. Even heavily-moderated communities have trouble handling incoming raids from 4chan and 8chan.

You really hit the nail on the proverbial head... curated or moderated forums are really the only thing that can work in the face of so much noise, but without passionate ownership as we have here on HN or possibly a paid position of some kind I'm not sure what the answer is. PGP's web of trust model sort of addressed this but failed to embrace the nuance of human social interaction needed in modern society.

Google's circles kind of tried to do the right thing but failed there too. What I mean in a practical example is if my father who describes himself as slightly more conservative than Gengis Khan wants to send me some conservative screed that's fine I can handle it, but I don't want that to be generally consumable content in my "feed" and associated to me for all my friends to see, particularly as my views may be (and often are) wildly different. I need to firewall people based on multidimensional levels of interest and trust.

I abandoned Facebook over a decade ago because their business model is antithetical to that way of thinking and their regular and involuntary updates to privacy policy and settings simply clashed too much with my needs. A practical example at the time was something like my wife didn't want photos of her shared with anyone but family, but I had friended people she'd never heard of and FB let them or possibly even friends of friends see her in my posts. Since I couldn't guarantee perfect separation of interests thanks to their meddlesome tweaking I deleted facebook.

I suppose the trolls can claim a kind of victory because at least for me it's just easier to tune out and withdraw rather than slog through the noise.
Something you may not know about Kali:

It is used by the DoD, Canada's DND, and the UK's MoD, and by extension I assume all of the 5eyes.

It is the standard tool.
This isn't "just because" they saw it on Mr.Robot.
Have you ever had that actually occur to you with software bought on eBay that's non-physical?

I've bought numerous Windows 7 and a couple of Windows 10 keys, plus a few MS Office keys, never had any issues.

Sometimes, the keys would require phone activation, but that was ages ago. Nowdays they just work.

The providers give you a key that you can use to activate, and a link for the ISO, but that part is optional. The keys work with untouched ISOs, too. FWIW, I once downloaded the seller's ISO and compared the hashes, and they matched up.

I may have to add, I live in Germany, which is part of the EU, and the courts here have decided key resale is completely legal and MS has to tolerate it.

["Volume license software may be sold individually"]: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...

[original]: https://www.golem.de/news/bgh-urteil-software-aus-volumenliz...
Making a fast Safari Content Blocker: keep it super boring
In the past, they've offered to exclude the contents of the password from the trial to answer that.
they are assuming the 10W is only running 10% of the time and the smart switch is running all of the time. That puts the average use for the light at 1W and 0.5W for the smart switch.
Yeah this is likely caused by the poor accuracy of the current sensor at very low power and switch mode power supplies can mess with the way the data is sampled.
so what does this mean? do they haul all the executives and workers into court? what happens if they are found guilty? do the executives go to jail, is the company forced to shutdown, or do they just have to pay a fine and all is good. hell, do they even have to pay the fine?

so many questions :(
You could say the same about not voting.
I seriously doubt anyone cares. It doesn't even cross my mind when I pay with Google pay. And I can't remember ever paying attention to how the person in front of me pays unless they are already holding up the line and then start pulling out coupons and checkbooks.
> 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.

On Twitter it sounds like Trump has animosity for Bezos, but is there evidence Trump was involved in the process or the process was biased?
The problem as I see it is that it is almost impossible to be informed enough to hold people accountable. In the U.S. at least the news is almost always of the form: “ Person from party A (which you are a member of) destroys person from Party B”. Or, “Party B seeks to destroy Issue C”.

There is virtually no nuance in the reporting. There’s no dissection. For example, the situation with Syria is quite complicated as Turkey, U.S., Russia, Kurds, and Assad all have conflicting goals and desires. Yet all of the reporting I’ve seen on this conflict has been absurdly reductionist and used to garner support/hatred toward the party in power by the adherents/adversaries of said party in power.

I understand the desire to have an informed populace but I think that is no longer possible. It is too easy to sway large swaths of the public. Witness the rise of anti-vaxers and other thoughtless beliefs. Even if I tried to be relatively informed it wouldn’t matter because the vast majority of the people are not psychologically prepared to withstand the pressure of subtle, sustained propaganda.

I have resigned myself to the fact that the republic is dead in the sense of what the ideal of a republic ought to be. I too avoid news and social media. I don’t count this website to be what I call social media since there is no identifying information about myself on here and none of my friends knows about my posts on this website.
The judge would not decide who would win the contract. The judge would determine if the contract needs to be re-competed. This has happened many times with DoD contracts and nothing about the judge deciding it needs to be would be precedent setting.

Asking for Trump to be deposed is the smartest thing Amazon has done in this case. Of course he will refuse which will lead to an extended court battle to try to force him to be. This will extend the case passed the election and at that point a different administration may decide themselves to scrap the contract award and re-compete it.
A great night's sleep really is the best drug in the world. I've found that even small quantities of alcohol can interrupt my sleep to the point that I'm aware of it the next day.

I've started to cut the wine with dinner and feel much more productive throughout the next day.
Ah, got it, thanks!
1. I'm not 100% convinced language is, or more importantly should be, defined by the speakers -- or rather be defined indiscriminately by all speakers, regardless of their qualifications or credentials. It tends to result in a convergence of similar words, weakening the strength of language and variety of expression available for people who understand the (original) distinctions.

2. I'm an English language speaker (and writer) and you seem to be discounting my right to define language. Or just to maintain the definition of certain words because they contradict a weakened but popular & recent redefinition.

3. I'm not advocating initialism - it's not a word I recall ever using. But I'm not sure it's reasonable to claim that it's silly to invent new words to describe new things. I'd advocate abbreviation for an abbreviation you can't pronounce as a word, and acronym for an abbreviation you can.
Don't worry, soon you'll probably be able to put your balls in the hands of Google. Git is distributed by definition. If you really want to be free, stop using external centralized sc services.
I see. Not very functional for those who have tabs for these sites permanently open.
This is basically an application of CBT, so it's not surprising that it works.

Make room for yourself to notice you're doing something you don't want to do aka mindfulness and that space allows you to change your behavior.
Here’s more actual data on DNSSEC. Spoiler: DNSSEC use is going up; DANE usage is way up: https://stats.dnssec-tools.org/#
this is so central. and i almost never see it mentioned here on hn. i feel seen lol
To quote office space:

"That's my only real motivation is not to be hassled, that and the fear of losing my job. But you know, Bob, that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired."
Odd, I just popped 3 in everything to get 3/6 and it gave "mid" https://i.imgur.com/0YSLoyP.png
This is great feedback. I have removed the popup, I've had the suspicion that people may find it annoying and you and a few others have now confirmed it. Maybe I'll find some other use for it. I despise these things myself also, which is a bit funny lol. It turned into a "can I do it" rather than a "should I do it"-thing when the idea first crossed my mind..

I'll see if I can come with some non-disruptive way of adding some context to the site upon entering it.
Conservative Foundations Finance Push to Kill the CFPB
How Elite Institutions Lost Their Legitimacy
I guess I should have put in an /s forgot this isn't wsb
> Most of the pot-banging from Washington is at the behest of AT&T and other US carrier/handset/chip companies who are rightly livid that Huawei made it to market with 5G before they had a chance to monopolize it.

Nope. Pretty sure most of the issue has to do with the spying, backdoors, and overall lack of ethics. This is the from same country that brought us a potential global pandemic because they spent weeks lying and covering up a rapidly spreading illness simply because they didn't want to lose face.
Lots of people have gotten lazy about turning off lights since LED is so cheap. E.g. I think our kitchen light is on around 12 hours per day because the switch isn't very convenient. Or the garage light - if it's left on during the day, it probably won't be noticed until morning.

Also kids tend not to turn lights off.

But yeah, even if you are saving money, smart switches are pretty expensive. It will take a while to recuperate the extra $ and time invested.

I would focus on switches that control several lights at once. E.g. our garage lights use 100 watts in all. Kitchen uses 65. Hallway 50.
I think it would be great to indicate POSIX sh compatibility for every item.
Being on the Homepage of Hacker News
Why would Microsoft have to stop providing any such support they currently give to the DoD? Do you think Dell or HP or whoever they get servers from does this sort of thing instead of MS?

And why do you seem to think that the infrastructure vendor would be required to support the code base of any & all software that runs on it? This isn't a contract for everything that will run in their cloud. This is an infrastructure contract.
It's like a rubber band. You can stretch it far, but then it reaches the limit.

That's why people who are burnt out can suddenly freeze and are unable to continue what they were doing.
I assumed this was done on purpose and thought it was quite clever.
Raku and the (Re)Blessed Child
Regal, regular expressions as Clojure data structures
> not only lower cost but have more features and/or better performance

Yeah, many of these vendors do improve upon the original products quite a bit so even while initial versions can be shoddy knockoffs, later editions are often times improved compared to the original.

> Its hard not to see a lot of them as sort of a Robin Hood.

They're definitely profiting, and they're doing it partially through lower worker standards and looser laws on pollution. They are acting for profit, not to fix the flaws of Western capitalism.
I wondered if I was the only one to notice that the logo’s use of a lone star and Oklahoma’s proximity to Texas.
Some people on the Unix & Linux Stack Exchange site have created a definitive answer for beginner questions about Kali, with the general theme that Kali is incompatible with beginners.

https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4640/what-shou...

https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5360/why-is-ka...
It depends on what you mean by apathy. I'd look up the definition for you, but honestly I can't be bothered. Hyuk hyuk.

Anyway: I am incredibly productive in my ops job, where I feel like the platforms I support are largely meaningless and do nothing but drive efficiency to achieve nothing important for no one in particular.

I feel I am driving 'value creation' for people whose wealth is already immeasurable, in a way that it's like it's without beginning or end and perhaps does not even really exist.

Running thousands of watts worth of automated infrastructure capable of serving gigabytes of traffic at sub millisecond latency, over multipath anycast triple redundant n-tier software defined fuckin' whatever, so that your loading spinner shows up bit faster.

Like a literal hamster wheel.

And all that said I am neither unhappy nor close to burn out. I have absolutely no passion for my job, but I do for the things that it allows me to do. Work is always, for everyone involved, a means to an end:

For the company, that end is whatever it is producing, widgets for the widgetless, convincing people that widgetlessnes is terrible, tracking widget purchases to better market more advanced widgets to those that desire them, or whatever.

For me, it is my salary: The thing in life that grants me the affordance to do what it is that I actually want to do. That which I have pathos for, it could be.

Honestly, a lot of people I deal with are the same: If they could leave their nine-to-five in tech and make an equivalent living doing interpretive dance or painting while doing handstands or competing in spoken-word free-verse poetry competitions, y'know, the thing it is that they want to do that is worth absolutely nothing to anyone else, they probably would. I would write bad novels from the back corner of a dimly lit cocktail bar.

I can't do that for a salary anything near like what I make now, so I do it in my free time.

Maybe I'm doing it wrong.
Is anyone selling BigFish casino accounts?
Is anyone selling bigfish casino accounts?
Exploring Rebless with Raku
> HR department,
There to protect the company, not you and definitely not to admit any kind of abuse because that is a liability

If this was 1983, I might agree with you. But these days the vast majority of HR departments are there to protect the company from legal action brought by an unhappy employee or government agency acting on that employee's behalf.

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

Depends on your industry. In some industries, it's seen as climbing the ladder of success and that your skills are in demand.

>change neighborhoods
Makes you look shady and like you are dodging responsibility.

I have no idea where this comes from. Maybe you're from a small European town? I've seen estimates that 30% of Americans move each year. I've lived in almost two dozen homes in 15 cities in a dozen states in my life. Everywhere from small towns under 3,000 to New York City. The longest I've ever lived anywhere is four years. Most often, I would move each year. I never heard anything along those lines from landlords, neighbors, or employers. I moved just a few months ago and all the landlord cared about was whether I'd filed for bankruptcy in the last 18 months, if I'd been evicted in the last four years, and the size of my paycheck.

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

Now you're just grasping at straws. But it's OK, I understand. People who are being bullied will grasp on to any excuse they can to keep themselves from changing their lives. It's normal. But you have to understand the difference between reasons and excuses, and how making excuses for your situation in life can prevent change.
In the context of the article and the point OP made it’s working out great not being informed or voting. At least for me. I don’t stress or get worked up by stuff. I feel like I’m a lot happier these days. Deliberate ignorance is not for everyone but it does work well for me.
I run an unlimited design service by myself ($220K+)
I think I like IRC as much as the next guy (probably more). But I also like talking to friends who aren't in tech, like those from childhood, high school, or college, and who went into medical school or business or who simply write code during the day and don't make it their life, and the one network we have in common is the one managed by Facebook. For me at least, I'd rather stay connected to my friends using any means necessary than die on a hill over a chat protocol.

I don't ever want to be the guy who's not there for his friends, and I don't want to be the guy who regretted not staying in touch with his friends on his deathbed. I think that's a good reason to use Facebook, as good as any. Just offering my two cents!
I can't think of a case in the past decade where I've really wanted to have a web application rather than a proper native thick client.

I understand the attraction, and I've had to build my fair share of them, but I don't like it at all.
Good god no.
We don't need more of our country becoming privatized!
the captions don't really help!
I think the train on Huawei has already left the station. The most likely scenario is a U.S. maybe a few states highly dependent on U.S. security assurances vis-a-vis China toeing the line and everybody else using some combination of Huawei and Nokia/Ericsson in various combinations within their infrastructure based on how close they align with the U.S. or China.

This whole thing looks just like AIIB a couple years ago where the U.S. made a huge stink about not joining the club and in the end everybody but Japan and Taiwan signed up.
Our common idea of burnout largely comes from Christina Maslach—the Maslach Burnout Inventory is more or less the standard tool that psychologists use to score and diagnose burnout now—and interestingly, it diagnoses burnout as three related but independent subscales:

Exhaustion - somewhat self-explanatory

Professional Efficacy - your view of your performance

Cynicism - a distancing of yourself from your job

Though you may come across different names in different writings. It's interesting how the subscales impact each other.

I don't know if I fully buy into the framework 100%, but it makes for interesting research nonetheless.
When you quit Facebook do you puke for 5 days straight and shake violently all the while?
How does consuming the news on a delayed basis address the issue of being distressed by the news?
U.S. law says corporations are people. People can be charged with RICO. It may be weird, but it's consistent.
My previous employer and my current one (both Fortune-50 tech companies) each had quiet policies that prospective job candidates who had Huawei on their resume needed extra clearing before they could even interview. Reading through the indictment makes the policies seem less paranoid or perhaps even not paranoid enough.
Because if you're a startup, you probably don't want to deal with something like that. You want something that "just works."
there's a checkbox `Block only first accessed page of site when delaying page is used`. Uncheck it.
A Python toolkit for network statistical analysis
So that’s how it works!
Your experiences don't translate well to anyone I've know who was bullied. I was bullied in junior high. I was told to stand up to the bullies, to defend myself. I was 5'6", 125lbs. The bullies (three of them) were all 50lbs heavier than me, and were on the football team. I stood up to them once. Kicked one in the balls. The other two, beat my ass and held me down til the third recovered; he beat on me for a good ten minutes. This went on for several years until they got bored with me and discovered girls.

Sucking it up and getting over it? Yeah, I sucked it up. But you don't get over something like that. At my current job, my boss is a type A manager who encourages "competition." I have a family to finish raising, so yes, I'm powerless to change my circumstances. I suck it up everyday for the paycheck, knowing that my kids are fed, my mortgage paid, and my retirement is being funded.

But to blithely state that people should suck it up and get over it minimizes the cost of that type of treatment. I have few friends, I'm incredibly cynical, and I'm probably a bad coworker since I have a sense of snark that I frequently voice.
Did you look at some of those links?
Please don't confuse 'popularity' or user numbers as being the measurement of what is 'real software'. I'm sure anyone involved in any of the aerospace projects would argue the Forth software used matters a great deal and is very real!

A few more links to meditate on https://www.forth.com/resources/who-uses-forth/
No, suck it up means find a way to cope, which can mean suffer through it or make changes.
Possible. But I used facebook a lot more when I enjoyed it. I enjoy instagram now for example and use it a lot.

Facebook showed me stuff I didn’t care about it that aggravated me, so I stopped using it. now I’m in thE 5 min a week category. But I’d rather follow more people, but only the important stuff
<quote>and using proxies such as professors working at research institutions to obtain and provide the technology to the defendants</quote>
You know this talk about using American Professors as proxies for exfiltrating information reminds me of this: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00291-2
I was really turned off by react because of the necessity to use JSX, which in turn required me to use babel, its just adding too much complexity. So I'm still just using jquery.
Taxes certainly existed before state-issued currency, but the purpose was obviously not to grant value to the currency. (It can't have been -- this was before the currency existed.)

Ancient taxes were assessed in kind, most commonly in grain or labor. The reason was that the government wanted the grain or labor. The main benefit of taxing in metal is that grain is perishable and voluminous, not that it creates demand for more metal.

Consider a stylized section of Chinese history:

State-issued currency: copper coins (low value, accepted most places); paper notes (high value in the capital, hard to spend elsewhere)

Means of exchange: raw silver valued by weight

Form of taxation: silver
I think in a country like the US, where news networks can push a political bias (not needing to give both sides of an issue equal coverage), without accountability, it requires consumers to do their own homework on issues. I guess the question is, why not optimize and cut the news out of the middle?
If the app or site isn't trying to sell me something then I don't see the draw. I understand the research around the marketing aspect but if I've already paid for something using a sleep() doesn't seem like it would make me trust something. I think I would rather ask why something is so slow (and doubly-so for anything on-prem which should be fast!).

If research shows users aren't sure if something happened then fix the UI to give some feedback to the user that their action was registered. This will likely involve a small delay even if it's just in the user's perception of the feedback but less than presented in the articles.

It's been much too long since I've run or participated in a UX study so maybe it's a good time to get back into it.
Tieshun, I fulfill those requirements, submitted the claim, was told the Handshake coins would appear in Namebase within half an hour, and... they didn't. The experience was smooth, except for the last part, which was a little underwhelming.

Time to read more about Handshake I guess?
I don't get it either. Then again I don't get how Twitter or any of social media site could be either.. thin skin I guess.