skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are quite a few people and organisations analysing social media accounts. They have, on occasion, exposed botnets, or networks of fake accounts that are manually run.

I know of a few here in Germany, and I have no doubt that they would gleefully publish any US government networks they come across. And with the extreme polarisation in the US, there should be plenty of people or publications on either side to do the same.

The fact that, as far as I can tell, these tend not to be bots but manually-run fake accounts might point to an explanation of the relative lack of such activity: it might just be too expensive. And when it comes to networks targeting other countries, every country that isn't natively English- or Spanish-speaking is relatively save because you aren't going to find hundreds of Americans speaking Russian willing to work for low wages and reliably keep quiet about it.

That, of course, is in addition to the obvious reason that democratic countries by their very nature just don't do stuff like that. But I have a hunch the ever-cynical crowd here would take offence at the idea that some countries and governments sometimes don't behave in the worst possible way.
How are they able to make this feature work if they do not store your request/response data?

https://learning.postman.com/docs/postman/launching-postman/...
Congrats on launching! The service looks really nice and professional.

One criticism though. It's possible to overstate the value of user feedback:

> We provide everything you need to learn from your users while saving you hundreds of hours by avoiding building the wrong things.

If you just build the things your users are asking for or voting for, you may find yourself constantly correcting symptoms rather than attacking root causes, which can actually cost you time, not save it. Henry Ford's quote about building a faster horse comes to mind.

The founders of Pitch just published a good blog on the subject https://pitch.com/blog/why-you-should-develop-features-peopl...
Is that $100/$200 not "tuition"? I mean, it's cheap tuition, but it seems like it's tuition nonetheless.
Why do you consider google in decline??
> I looked at their CS degree. Just one semester of Calculus?

I have a reputable masters and PhD in CS and don’t recall ever studying a ‘calculus course’, except lambda and pi calculus.
Thank you for this. I thought the usefulness of being able to press "ctrl-c, f12, ctrl-v, enter" would be self evident.
No, we wouldn't, exactly due to the known outcome.
Not really, those things are easy to contrast. Network providers have always been comfortable blackholing DoS routes, and it’s never been controversial. That’s clearly distinct from those wanting to double-dip on transport revenues for routine traffic.

The difference is in whether both endpoints want the traffic, not whether (or on what basis) the enabling infrastructure wants to bear it.
Thanks for the hot tip! I've been struggling with my monitor's menu buttons, but after reading your comment I found the macOS tool MonitorControl, which works perfectly.
> Why is Alexis saying he wants a black candidate the only factor people look at when their ready to declare this an unmeritocratic act?

Because that's what he said. If he had said something about wanting somebody that can bring the community together, fix reddit's problems etc etc and then they came up with Michael Seidel, that would've been much better optics. This way, the only stated criteria was skin color. People tend to assume that the only stated criteria is the only important criteria.

> Why do they get to reduce this situation to one factor and ignore who Michael is and what he has done?

Because it has no relevance to the question. He could be the greatest person for the job in the history of humanity. They're not arguing he's a terrible fit. They're suggesting he wasn't hired because he's great at what he does, but because he has the right skin color.

> Class and race are tightly coupled in America by design.

That's obviously bullshit. If it were true, you'd have an upper class that makes up 60% of the population. Surprising fact: you don't.
They didn't give me a shipping update.

They could post a shipping update on the wall of their local laundromat for all the good that did me when I'm not monitoring their message forums.

If not for this thread, I'd still be operating in the dark having basically forgotten I even bought the thing. I appreciate your comment pointing me at the forum, pine64 should have emailed that link to everyone who ordered one in the affected time period.
FWIW, I fed this into AIDungeon (running on OpenAI) and got this back: “The bottle is definitely lighter than the pack because you can throw it much further away than you can carry the pack.
You continue on into the night and come to an intersection.”
I used those same winterms too. The problem was we were then updating our network for PCI compliance and one of the issues we had was our call centre teams used old green screens which were connected to via telnet and there was no way to update these winterms to install PuTTY.

Then I hit upon the idea of using them as even more dumb terminals. So I set up a PXE server that would serve an NFS volume hosting a minimal Linux distro and setting those winterms to boot via DHCP.

Surprisingly those winterms not only supported Linux but ran it really well.

This system ran for several years until those old green screens were replaced with web front ends instead. Which made me sad for two reasons, firstly the end of the PXE solution which works so smoothly, and secondly seeing the old green screen server decommissioned, which was a Sun SPARC box bought in the 90s and had an uptime of something ridiculous like 8 years.
Kind of the epitome of bike-sheddding. Way too much importance attached to this on both sides. Want to do something good for your eyes and battery? Turn off the computer and go get an outdoor job like forestry. Yeah I didn't think so. So in that case, my expert advice is for you to use whatever mode you like, and don't worry about what's best. Not everything can, needs to be, or even should be, optimized.
I should've made it clear when I say "events" I mean more webinar style events. 100+ participant meetings where everyone is an equal participant isn't useful, but that sort of thing isn't uncommon if you're holding all hands calls or annual shareholder meetings etc.
It’s not “moneyed classes”. Normal upper middleclass people will get screwed, while the corrupt rich will get around the law just fine.
It's the only way to bring inorganics down to parts-per-billion.

(what do we want? 18,2 MΩ cm! when do we want it? on demand!)
I've tried different options, and know what works for me and what doesn't. Not saying it's the same for everybody, but I'm pretty confident that (1) dark mode works wonders for me, and (2) I'm not the only one.
>"The pattern obtained by coloring only the odd numbers in Pascal's triangle closely resembles the fractal called the Sierpinski triangle. This resemblance becomes more and more accurate as more rows are considered;

in the limit, as the number of rows approaches infinity, the resulting pattern is the Sierpinski triangle

, assuming a fixed perimeter.[22]"

https://www.goldennumber.net/pascals-triangle/

>"The Fibonacci Series is found in Pascal’s Triangle.

Pascal’s Triangle, developed by the French Mathematician Blaise Pascal, is formed by starting with an apex of 1. Every number below in the triangle is the sum of the two numbers diagonally above it to the left and the right, with positions outside the triangle counting as zero.

The numbers on diagonals of the triangle add to the Fibonacci series, as shown below."

[see link above, for image]

So, here's a potential identity between Pascal's Triangle, The Sierpinski Triangle, and Phi.

Recursion too, if we think about the Sierpinski Triangle as being drawn via a recursive algorithm, and, at least one type of fractal / space-filling curve (another way of looking at Sierpinski Triangles)...

Pascal's Triangle -- might be some form of Rosetta Stone of Mathematics...

I wonder if there is a relationship between Pascal's Triangle and pi, e, and the square root of -1...
If the dev respected others’ boundaries and norms of expected behavior, they would probably work somewhere else.
There’s ongoing work for a fast debug back end called Cranelift. It emits code 20-50% faster than LLVM while being less optimised.

Explained further here - https://jason-williams.co.uk/a-possible-new-backend-for-rust
We use the term "theme" rather than "epic" but it's in the same ballpark in terms of "thing used to gather issues together". However, we don't use them to represent features, instead we use them to represent initiatives or goals. We try to work in a way that we're focused on the outcome (what does doing this work accomplish for our users) rather than the output (which features are we going to ship). This in turn means that a theme is not done when the code is completed. Instead we need to follow up on metrics, feedback, etc. and ensure that we got the outcome we were after.

Disclosure: I'm the founder of kitemaker.co, an issue tracker that is quite focused on themes and trying to help teams improve.
I hear that repeated over and over. And while it is true now, it could change if concepts like

[1] https://www.yokogawa.com/yjp/solutions/solutions/minimal-fab...

catch up a little technology-wise, and take hold.

edit:

[2] http://pmt-minimalfoundry.businesscatalyst.com/minimal-found...

I see they have a branch office in Moscow now

[3] https://minimalfab.eu/
Something that comes back regularly in my circle is Blokus:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blokus

You can play it with 2 players, it is more fun with 4 though (should either be 2 or 4). Go and chess are classics I enjoy with 2 players, although I generally prefer larger groups. Not very creative, I know.
There's one special aspect to "unionize": according to the article it was the word Facebook chose to use as an example in a presentation. If that's true, this title seems rather fair.
China asked Zoom to block its citizen, Zoom cut everyone on Tiananmen talk
This is also setting a precedent - banning cards for political reasons.
Which brings us back to the original question -- why are they starting with Google and not the others?
You must be joking, or else work with very low caliber people. I don’t consider people for positions who cannot write well, and certainly know that most successful people do write well. Really, can you take a poorly written engineering spec or RFP seriously?

Just in case you are serious, counterpoint for others who may not know, all forms of communication are very important to succeed and move up.
You're right on the capacity to ban/control discussion around any word. However it is probably notable that Facebook chose to highlight 'unionize' and not 'football' or 'American Idol' in their sales pitch.
The whole point of a no knock warrant, being plain clothes, not announcing (disputed), and serving in the middle of the night is to not let the suspected perpetrator know the cops are serving him a warrant.

Each of these decisions trades some risk of death and injury for an increased likelihood that the police officers will find drugs.

I don't think this is a good trade-off, I don't think any amount of drugs you can flush down a toilet in a minute is worth the loss of life or violation of individual rights that a no knock warrant entails.

> So let me ask you this: if you went down to Kentucky, and loudly broke into a house in the middle of the night" do you think it's likely that someone (yourself or the people in the house) could come to harm from this?

Likely, no, possible yes.
Thank God you're here to save the day!
Show HN: My first website – The fastest way to share feeling a moment
D's borrow checker is only semi-documented/WIP at the moment.

https://dlang.org/blog/2019/07/15/ownership-and-borrowing-in...

Basically D just needs that big break to actually get things done. There are some absolutely brilliant people working on D but there's only so much sweat people will donate (some people are paid but I imagine rust probably has upwards of a hundred full time staff given that Mozilla and Microsoft use it in an official capacity)
> "A lot of people forget that the G in GTK stands for Gimp, it is arguably the foundation of much of modern Linux GUI."

I didn't know that. I'd always assumed the G in GTK stands for GNU. Well, indirectly it does, I guess.

Cool to know. But from other comments in this discussion, I get the impression that right now the limitations of GTK are one of the biggest things holding Gimp back.
First thing, it will not happen overnight (if it ever happens at all). I mean, let's be honest, the US is still a massive market so there is no doubt that it still has a lot of tricks in its books to maintain a lead.

But the thing is, being the major dominant currency actually comes with drawbacks:

https://equitablegrowth.org/reserve-currency-privileges-cost...

So potentially, the US dollar losing its role as the dominant currency may actually come with benefits for everyday Americans.
Sinking Risk for Los Angeles (2017)
Dark mode is very useful for people with "eye problems", for example, eye floaters are small black points you see all the time, they usually appear with the age, dark mode make them "disapear" making you brain happier.

Thanks whoever started dark mode trend
Knoxville shuts down parts of network after ransomware attack
fun fact, your retinal receptors are releasing transmitter in the dark and stop releasing it when activated by light.
VNC supports TLS... What part of that is insecure? By my experience I can't see in which use cases it would be slow either, but they possibly exist...
In some sense your eye might not care, but it really do seem that either eye or the brain cares. Not necessarily about the background or foreground itself unless the background is really bright, but something more like the relative contrast of our entire field of vision, and interacting with the size of elements.

A good black and white (true grayscale CRT display) in a properly lit room can be eminently readable and cause very little eye strain. However, as soon as you start to use color and images, and/or the room isn't properly lit, it seems the level of contrast necessary for make colour look right - especially in images - also tend to make white backgrounds far too bright. According to my experience the effect get worse the bigger the screen is.

It does seem to be an issue, but not really a problem with the text versus background color, rather because we handle gamut/contrast/color the same way in both UI elements, on screen text, and images.
While this might partially be down to the last decades dominance of LCD screens with rather poor color rendering that nobody has cared to fix it, the color profiles of UI, text, and images should really be adjusted separately.

So why does dark background seemingly alleviate this issue for some fraction of people? I don't know for sure, it could be the brain "averages" light over a small area, when determining some global brightness/contrast measure, thus making might on black seem less contrasty while still allowing use of brightness/color range that also works reasonably well for images?

I notice my daughter brought up with screens around seem to care less, but that could be a coincidence.
IANAL but I would assume FB is in the clear legally though as they're not actively blocking anything in particular, merely providing the tool with which admins can do the blocking themselves.
also if you have glare from LASIK or sth. There are however combinations of dark mode that are much more legible. colors and fonts and UI elements matter a lot too. Outlines and lines are perceived differently if dark. TWitter's dark mode for example is terrible
The cost of digital assets: How to optimize your budget
They did no such thing.
I don't want to be too snarky, but "beautiful data visualizations" does not go well with typographic errors on the example pages:

- overlap of label

- HTML tables overlapping the right many bar
Like I said in my other post, I don't use postman. Your HN post reads like they are doing this without your permission and secretly: akin to say, finding out that facebook records your microphone to sell you ads or whatever. This is what I am reacting to, that they are doing it without your permission.

So what actually is going on then, is that postman has a feature that you don't have to use, that you know about, that you know requires it stores request / response data, and it is doing just that.
The Last of Us Part 2 review: A less confident, less focused sequel
Tango hasn't been in use for I think a decade now.
Using mass moderation tools for keeping the workplace chat clean is the wrong solution in any case.
"to make the world more open and connected"
This is nitpicky, I'll admit, but I consider it a canary in the coalmine.

On the MBA admission requirements page (https://www.uopeople.edu/programs/ba/degrees/master-of-busin...):

"As an accredited University, UoPeople has a number of requirements for all potential applicants, to help maintain a strong, intellectual student body. [...] In addition, applicants need to have:

" * Be able to demonstrate undergraduate degree completion

" * Have English proficiency

" * A minimum of two years work experience

" * One reference (from an employer/lecturer etc.)"

The phrasing of the first two bullet points doesn't agree with the preceding sentence. That's a poor example of English proficiency.

If they don't proofread and correct their own admissions page, I'm frankly not too optimistic about the rest of the university.
>>is what we're seeing today just a passing trend or a fundamental shift?

Facebook advertised to Walmart with union busting capabilities. Walmart has a union busting history going back 50 years minimum.

Looking at public opinion on unions, it seems to be rising the past few years, while membership keeps going down (in the US).
I've gone in another path: applied programming. I chose a position that also involves programming rather than an actual developer role.

Personally the whole standup thing just drove me away
>give more financial support to address homelessness, mental health, and domestic violence.

is doing a lot of heavy lifting in this poll, which should be obvious. I'm not ignoring anything. Cops respond to a variety of calls, all the time ... because there simply are not enough of them to have this "specialized" force you think would solve all of these problems. The grand irony of all of this is that the defunding of the police departments in this country will make the kinds of reforms you are talking about impossible.
Most of the jobs don't require you to be able to write well at all - especially not university level writing. Really, all most folks need is the ability to communicate effectively in person or over email. You might - just might - be required to write a letter. Of course, these skills are ones that a store manager at any random retail or dining establishment needs too, and some of these 'middle class' jobs require nothing much at all (if it is a factory that pays well enough).

Besides, plagiarism isn't really about writing. You can lump it into two categories: Cheating, which isn't most folks' intention, and more importantly, giving someone credit for an idea. This last one is something folks need to do in some professions. Don't take an employee's idea and call it your own, same for something your boss has you pass along. Don't pretend something is your own idea when it was implemented at a job you had years ago. This version of plagiarism is vastly more important than writing skills (which can be taught without needing to address plagiarism).
Here are some more details from my report to FB:

"My webserver is getting hit with bursts of hundreds of requests from Facebook's IP ranges. Google Analytics also reports these hits and shows them as coming from (mostly) Philippines and Peru, however, IP lookup shows that these IPs belong to Facebook (TFBNET3). The number of these hits during a burst typically exceeds my normal traffic by 200%, putting a lot of stress at our infrastructure, putting our business at risk.

This started happening after the Facebook Support team resolved a problem I reported earlier regarding connecting my Facebook Pixel as a data source to my Catalog. It seems Facebook is sending a bot to fetch information from the page, but does so very aggressively and apparently call other trackers on the page (such as Google Analytics)"

69.171.240.19 - - [13/Aug/2018:11:09:52 +0200] "GET /items/ley3xk/ford-dohc-20-sierra-mondeo-scorpio-luk-set.html HTTP/1.1" 200 15181 "https://www.facebook.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/64.0.3282.140 Safari/537.36 Edge/17.17134"

"e.g. IP addresses 173.252.87.* performed 15,211 hits between Aug 14 12:00 and 12:59, followed by 13,946 hits from 31.13.115.*"

"What is also interesting is that the user agents are very diverse. I would expect a Facebook crawler to identify itself with a unique User-Agent header (as suggested by the documentation page mentioned earlier), but instead I see User-Agent strings that belong to many different browsers. E.g. this file contains 53,240 hits from Facebook's IP addresses with User-Agent "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/64.0.3282.140 Safari/537.36 Edge/17.17134"

There are a few Facebook useragents in there, but far less than browser useragents:
7,310 hits: facebookexternalhit/1.1 (+http://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php)
2,869 hits: facebookexternalhit/1.1
1,439 hits: facebookcatalog/1.0
120 hits: facebookexternalua

Surprisingly, there is even a useragent string that mentions Bing:
6,280 hits: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/534+ (KHTML, like Gecko) BingPreview/1.0b

These IPs don't only fetch the HTML page, but load all the page's resources (images, css, ..) including all third-party trackers (such as Google Analytics). Not only does this put unnecessary stress at our infrastructure, it drives up the usage costs of 3rd party tracking services and renders some of our reports unreliable."

final response from FB:
"Thanks for your patience while our team looked into this. They've added measures to reduce the amount of crawler calls made. Further optimizations are being worked on as well, but for now, this issue should be resolved." <- NOT.
I'm 100% on board with these ideas, and I've also been following a lot of these ideas for a while. I'd like to learn more about the startup if possible, my email is in my profile if you don't want to post here.
UK economy shrinks record 20.4% in April due to lockdown
At large tech co that pays well, writing is very important for career progression:

1. You often have to write design docs to communicate what you are making and gather feedback. These documents if badly written won't be as well received.

2. At many companies, you have a million things to work on, so in a way, you get to choose who you work with at some level. If someone communicates badly to the point of annoyance, it will take something special for you to decide to work with them or not.

3. To convince execs and managers to approve your project ideas, you often have to write a document explaining your idea. If it's badly written, the exec isn't going to be as interested in it.

4. To get fame as an engineer, you often should write compelling blog articles. Badly written blogs tend not to be read.

5. Good docs make popular libraries, popular libraries get attention.

Which leads to:

6. Promotion is often done by a committee of people who don't know your work, and all they are going to do is review what you wrote. And promo is often based on leadership of projects. And how do you become the leader of projects? You write compelling documents.

Bad writing is not a good sign. It's like saying, at my company, we don't write tests and we don't have alerting & monitoring on our servers.