skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even unsuccessful SSH attempts can have operational costs, though. The machine still accepts the TCP connection and does the SSH handshake. If I’m running a server and I’m billed by data usage or by vCPU minutes, I don’t want to waste my allotted resources by making it easy for every half-baked crawler around the world to make connections to my machine. Using a non-default port cuts down those numbers significantly. Sure, a targeted attack won’t be thwarted, but at least the server is not being DDoS’ed anymore.
Frankly, he should have immediately replied "Internet Explorer".

Because that's the browser his company makes, so, amongst browsers, that should have been his main concern. No need for wordplay, no looking at competition. Just the concern you'd expect from the CEO: a focus on their own product.
> Whereas it takes a shitload of money to obtain money transmitter licenses in the USA to operate in every state, it’s trivial to accept huge amounts of money across state and international borders once you create a cryptocurrency wallet.

There's an implication here I think gets missed when discussing the political implications of cryptocurrency (as opposed to just the technology part). People spend a lot of time arguing over whether cryptocurrencies can truly keep free of states, but that has the implicit argument that this would make for more a more just or free system, and I don't think this is a well-grounded assumption.

Who benefits from crypto? To the portion I quoted, people who want to move large amounts of money. But if you already have large amounts of money, you're already in a position of a fair amount of privilege and power. If you're someone who does NOT have a large amount of money, crypto isn't going to usher in a world where wealth is more evenly distributed. It's just as likely to do the opposite. Now those who already have a lot can save on the hassle and expense of having to actually lobby and corrupt state institutions, keeping more of their wealth with no gain for the rest of us. There's plenty of legitimate criticism to be made of the failures of the state to truly defend and advocat for the interests of all its citizens, but I'm very skeptical that a a technology that empowers people with lots of wealth to move it around with less friction is really a net gain for humanity.
Same with batteries, far as I'm aware.

Can't actually be recycled. Just gathered and put in very large warehouses and nothing is done with it.

That's what our chemist teacher told us about 10 years back, anyway. So for me that remains in the "no idea what's actually true" camp.
FISA is toothless against top-level (as opposed to rogue subordinate) violations because it relies on criminal enforcement, which the executive branch controls directly.
Outside of the pandemic, I think a company doing remote/WFH carries with it some implications people don’t seem to talk about - namely that your physical workspace and equipment used is capital, and the company is not compensating employees for the use of that capital. If a company does not need to maintain office space, that is a huge expense they don’t have to pay for - but an employee is paying for it.

Right now you can see this in the real estate markets - people are moving out of their smaller city apartments into bigger places, partially I’m sure, because maintaining an office at home requires extra space. But that cost is on the employee not the employer.
It's not clear how a monorepo makes you changes hard (not why they should be). They're really easy when you can do them atomically, and even the hard cases are easier in a monorepo than multi.

(And at least at Google visibility changes required the approval of the team who you want to depend on)
My most hated part of Goodreads is that if you type something in search and try to click the middle mouse button to open the resulting, highlighted book in the new window... it just copies the page you're already on. It's a site for discovering books, why do I have to open the landing page 5 times if I want to open 5 books? It's so counterintuitive to me.
The users were hooked on buying from Amazon. But they were following the affiliate links from Goodreads to get to Amazon.
Society is an observable phenomenon that we are able to run experiments on and acquire empirical evidence about. Those experiments have so far been much more difficult to run, rely on poor measuring tools, and the limited data we have acquired is given too much weight. That's still science though.

They very much are a part of the natural world, and presumably have some kind of "natural laws" guiding them. Creationism is not, as it is about things outside our observable world
How did you define the actual "best books" ? I usually pick a group (Goodreads users in country x), scrape the books of all its users, and sort them by frequency: https://github.com/harjoc/goodreads-group-books
While they can be thought of as stacked regression, it's only logistic regression with one particular non-linearity. And for many non-linearities you'll have a hard time usefully interpreting them as a regression.
This whole thing is so multifaceted I think it’s hard to draw any conclusions from it. In CA, we have COVID and fires so I’m essentially a prisoner in my house. If you locked me in my office, my productivity might go up too. But now that’s school is on and my kids are locked in here too. Productivity goes down. All in all, it’s a bumpy ride.
I can’t think of a website in any domain where people don’t complain about recommendations.

People complain about goodreads, Netflix, amazon, etc.

Even things like google ads whose business is ultimately showing ads for products you might like to buy, a kind of recommendation algorithm, people constantly complain about irrelevance. And they have billions of dollars on the line for making that better, not to mention a dataset that is second to none about the internet using population.

Maybe good recommendations is actually just super hard and nobody has really solved it well.
I had to take 300-400 interviews in short period of time to hire few candidates. I created excellent team by asking basic concepts. If they could answer those then they could build a product or figure the product out.

That works best for programmers with entry to mid-level. In Senior level you need to focus more on problem solving.
> I’d like the opportunity to work from the office again

Is that a useful answer? Of course people would like that opportunity, even if they never used it - it's pure bonus.

More useful question would be "how many times a week (or how many hours) do you plan to work from the office given the opportunity to work from both home and the office?"
From the original article, "NYT Is Threatening My Safety By Revealing My Real Name, So I Am Deleting The Blog" "Unfortunately, he told me he had discovered my real name and would reveal it in the article, ie doxx me." "I’m not sure what happens next. In my ideal world, the New York Times realizes they screwed up, promises not to use my real name in the article, and promises to rethink their strategy of doxxing random bloggers for clicks."

So maybe he's saying that the Times doesn't realize they screwed up, so there's no "ill intent". But in my moral system, if you know you are causing serious harm to an innocent person for no good reason but are so callous that you don't even care, you are still responsible for that harm.

I don't want to split hairs over cultural terms. I will accept your definitions for you.
China may not be detaining millions of Uyghurs (2019)
Walking is less energy efficient per km than cycling, so by that logic, we should spend our lives in electric wheel chairs. I don’t want us to go there.

Luckily, it may not be true that this is more environmentally friendly than cycling. I would think this 485 kg car uses more road space and causes more wear and tear on roads than a 25 kg bicycle. That must count for something.

You also have to take the health benefits of cycling/the effect of more car driving on obesity into account.
> I'm pretty sure iron/steel recycling makes sense too

Oh, sure, forgot that. Though steel and iron are not that common in household waste where I'm from.

I specifically point to glass reuse rather than glass recycling. As soon as you have to process glass, the energy costs are massive.
It makes consumers feel better about using single-use containers. It was really not very long ago that my university cafeteria had real plates and silverware and just washed it.

Now it's all faux-compostable plastic and polystyrene for some unfathomable reason which all has to get thrown in the trash even though they have "compost bins" that I know from calling around can't even handle the "compostable" plastic provided in the cafeteria.

Probably literally millions of containers thrown in the trash over the last fifteen years because they didn't want to pay a dishwasher... just doesn't even make economic sense...
How many meeting rooms would you need to do that? This would work if most people were in individual or very small offices but that’s rarely the case.
I was hoping for information about time, but this list is almost entirely about calendars.
ARM revenue is, something like $2B annually https://www.eetimes.com/arm-revenues-up-royalties-down/
Not the parent, but I use a Logitech 920s webcam. I could use one of my high-end cameras--I even have an older model Fujifilm I don't use any longer--with an HDMI to USB converter but I decided it wasn't worth the trouble and it's harder to make work in physical space anyway.

I use a Blue Snowball mic but any decent USB mic will work. I have a dedicated office and I haven't found using a headset makes it better though YMMV. I'd just as soon not wear a headset unless necessary.

Computer is just a 27" iMac with a 2nd monitor. (Though I actually usually work with video on my main screen and do any work with shared docs etc. on a MacBook.)

Also have an Elgato keylight to get the lighting a bit more even.

ADDED: Probably at least as important is that you're not backlit by a window and you have the camera at maybe a bit above eye level. I've also done a bit of "set decorating" of my background.
Bluetooth is currently basically unable to do high quality voice calls.
Sounds like a cry of a many managers who suddenly feel that their precious skin (some of them do nothing really useful) is in jeopardy.
> Are we supposed to judge that person for not wanting to suffer slowly instead of taking a faster route?

Speak for yourself there.

As for me, identity makes him a person, a possessor of human qualities, something more than an increment operation on a counter.
Because there's a big difference between asking for the address of a Mall vs. Asking for the address of the sex toy shop in the mall openly. Or the gun store. Or the space the labor Union rented out in the building for a meeting.

Given that the Internet wasn't made with the concept of nosy people as a adversary or threat, many adversaries have flocked to using the metadata as a gold mine instead of just ignoring it and passing it along. Which is half the reason it seems like we can't just have nice things.
The question was phrased to avoid that response:

> Boies: What non-Microsoft browsers were you concerned about in January of 1996?
Sure, people say they want to have to check for _every_ possible error, but then Java gets endless heat for having checked exceptions.
Ask HN: Finding Legal Advice for Startup?
We are building a news aggregator and wanted to make sure if we are not infringing any copyright laws. What would be the best way to find a lawyer/company to make sure we're in the good?
hg has a mode to make initial clones faster by offering zipped compressed checkouts for download.
Why? Separation actually works pretty well, I'm not sure why we need to "fix" that. What doesn't is people still leave food in things and don't do basic things like not throw in little bits of plastic like straws.
There are more apis than just rpc ones. If I change my library's api, I can update the callers atomically.
Reading things about Qanon I can't help but think how easy it is to fool large swaths of people by telling them exactly what they want to hear. Especially if they, like all Qanon supporters, believe that "disinformation is necessary", something that enables them to believe in you when you're demonstrably lying.

Decennia of sagas, myths, legends, religions and cults have proven that people just want to believe in something that explains the things they themselves can't explain. Things that enable them to form groups that give them a sense of safety. A sense of belonging. A way to feel superior to members of other groups.

No matter how bizarre a believe system looks to the general public, the scale of the internet enables you to reach a large group of people anyway. There will always be an audience that actively searches for things to believe in. You don't have to do anything but to sow some seeds, and they'll actively search for the "facts" that will strengthen their believe.

The internet also enables you to monetise your scam easily with Patreons and advertising.

What have we done.
I think clear bottles sent for recycling just end up in other colors.. Getting clear out would be hard.
Great. Can we also discuss now how recycling paper hurts climate?

Modern landfills are airtight, so buried paper is sequestered carbon. Less buried paper - less sequestration.
Huh, I get recommended Murakami a lot but really didn't enjoy Colorless - maybe I'll try a different one.
That is just when signed 32 bits rolls over. Unsigned takes us all the way to 2106.

Nervous nellies worried about rollover, and insisting we switch to 64-bit timestamps everywhere, are a nuisance. You can keep one 64-bit epoch, such as boot time or most recent foreign attack on NYC, and as many 32-bit offsets from that as you like, and always be able to get a 64-bit time whenever you need it. Most often you only need a difference, so one epoch is as good as any, and you can work purely in 32 bits.

Pcap format is good until 2106 assuming the 1970 epoch. A bit of one of the now-unused header fields could be repurposed to indicate another.
Yes. Wish there was a way to disable points and karma on HN
That was really not the focus of the doc. As the title implies, they wanted to take a peek in the interesting ideas going on in his mind right now.
Thanks! I am 23 and live abroad so I always told myself I owned a smartphone to stay connected to family at home. But I just started to realize that it owns me. Plus during COVID I don't go out anyway. So why not try...
Socialize the Data Centres! (2015)
Half of your problem sounds like infrastructure issues and possibly not having a good workspace setup. I am super lucky and have fiber internet at home and we have an awesome VPN at work, so I can get <10ms ping to almost everything lol. I keep my work computer plugged into a desktop setup (mouse/keyboard/monitors) so I don't have to deal with that.
Most of the article explores the question of exactly this reaction--why do we instinctively look away, even two decades later?
Amazon Alexa Print
How? And what would be the place/value measured against? And would all "timekeepers" need to get signals from that place to get their offset? If so would we need to take lensing from gravitation into account?

How do you even measure a global value when the local perspective by definition changes the value?
Can you fill in the rest of the picture? How many different receptacles do you have to put out on the street?
I don't get the reference?
Ironic Gates claims now (and then) the Government will stifle innovation, yet when innovation came in the form of Java, the first thing Gates did (as proven by evidence) was to seek a way to destroy it. (because he was a man-child annoyed because he didn’t invent it, and couldn’t find a way to compete honestly). So he did what big bully’s do, he crushed Sun and got all his big boy friends to help.

What a inspiration.
Concrete requires river sand because of its texture. AFAIK, desert sand is quite abundant and perfectly suited to being melted down into glass.
I'd love to see a class action lawsuit keeping the people who lied accountable for the amount of additional waste in effort, resources that are used to separate and collect these separate streams.

Stuff like this (h/t @neltnerb):
>>In almost all locations, PLA, "compostable plastic" (often labeled number 7 or 0 for marketing) is not only not recyclable but actively contaminates compost and recycling plants. I see all these places using "compostable plastic" because they think it's more environmentally friendly. It's a noble goal, it makes me so sad to see.

So many groups would have standing to sue here...
Might want to shut down Citi’s website until a security review can be performed.
Google's main repo was 86TB in January 2015.
What would be nice is either a stipend to account for a bigger place with a spare room and connections, or to work out of a shared work space things. Like give me an extra couple hundred a year to get a place with an extra bedroom
Metal and plastic are super easy to separate by density or by electrical conductivity. Batteries are considered hazardous waste and have to be disposed of separately, similarly for old electronics or CFL bulbs that contain mercury.

But commingled recycling was one of the most predictably stupid moves in the area of environmentalism I've seen in a long time (well, prior to 2016 anyway), when I heard my city was moving to commingled recycling I knew they were no longer actually recycling it, I guarantee almost all of it ends up in the landfill because of contamination. It's so frustrating.

At least corn ethanol wasn't obviously quite so stupid upfront, it was always theoretically possible that it would make sense even if it was kind of obvious it wouldn't actually work.
In 2014, a large site but not the behemoth it is today, how did Facebook manage to clock in at 17 million LOC?? Genuinely curious for anyone with first party experience.
IIRC it's been a lie for quite a while where I live. It used to be that PNW "recyclables" were just shipped to China where I strongly suspect they were promptly landfilled after payment was collected. But China stopped taking our trash years ago, so now they are landfilled in the US. Ironically, it's likely less harmful to the environment overall, since you don't have to ship it first, and the US is likely to have more rigorous environmental standards for landfills.
I'm sick of stupid people.

This was never a secret.

If you were dumb enough to think recycling works for anything other than aluminium you are the problem.

Penn and Tell even did a Bullshit, for pre internet times.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0771119/ ( although it was a awful episode )
That seems win/win, doesn't it?
Gates claims now (and then) the Government will stifle innovation, yet when innovation came in the form of Java, the first thing Gates did (as proven by evidence) was to seek a way to destroy it. (because he was a man-child annoyed because he didn’t invent it, and couldn’t find a way to compete honestly). So he did what big bully’s do, he crushed Sun and got all his big boy friends to help.

What a inspiration.
Also crazy to think of, is:

If you have a billion (i.e., 1E9) dollars, or any other currency, and you spend $86,400 dollars a day, it will take you more than 31 years and 8 months to spend the entire billion.
As someone who is ambitious, I hope the lockdown continues. Fewer pieces on the board makes everything easier.
It is really more recyclable. It is still not infinitely recyclable so personally I'd prefer paper, glass, cloth, etc.
The question was specifically about non-Microsoft browsers.
With liquid democracy voting is not an one off thing, where wealthy person can buy a vote once, and then make up for it by corruption.

If wealthy people can keep paying half the country to keep the laws the way they want, and half of the country keeps accepting that, then maybe the laws are not that bad. It is a much better situation than politicians promising tax cuts or subsidies.

If country is in a situation when mobs can threaten people to vote certain way, then the same mobs can simply not accept the result of the secret vote. Moreover in a polarized society the secret vote is more likely to create mobs, because large number of people would think that no one of their acquaintances voted the "horrible way", and no decent human being could vote that way, and there was some fraud, or it is all done by hateful people from other cities and fighting is the only solution.

The situation is exactly same as with money, mobs can threaten you and take your money, fraudsters can scam you, but the solution is not for everyone to hide in bunker, and pretend that he does not have any money. The solution is for everyone to accept that threatening people is not allowed, and markets are good.
we tell ourselves stories to live. politicians use stories too. but is the story of, say the american dream (51% of 18-34 year olds still live with their parents) less dangerous for politicians to tell than that of hollywood child sex rings?

I dunno.
I have a twitter bot called time_t_emit that tweets palindromic seconds since the epoch. (somewhat inspired by the now defunct @megasecond)

https://twitter.com/time_t_emit

It's going to tweet twice tomorrow at lunch time (in my time zone) either side of the rollover.

I fondly remember the gigasecond party I went to with a load of friends - it happened in the small hours on Sunday morning, ideal party time for a bunch of geeks in their 20s, like an extra new year's eve!
The sand used in construction is different than the sand used to make glass.
But what self-respecting embedded-system coder would use a signed 32-bit value?

Various libc choices in use probably have time_t signed.
As opposed to the company employees making it?
It's a one-two punch.

One one hand, mesianic movements tend to re-occur throughout history whenever populations are under prolonged stress for various reasons. Then you get the same thing all over again - some powerful figure shall rise, and is indeed rising as we speak, to deliver us all from our bondage.

On the other hand, yes, the internet and social media have made it a lot easier for bullshit to spread out and take over the minds of millions.

I don't think that combination was ever tried before.

What have we done, indeed.
It doesn't sound like you actually understand the relevant aspects of the case. Psystar made multiple counterclaims, including a claim of tying between "Mac OS" and "Mac OS-capable computers". A tying claim requires establishing the existence of two separate product markets, which is why the court analyzed both the "Mac OS" market and the "Mac OS-capable computers" market separately. Ultimately both markets were found to be invalid. The "Mac OS-capable computers" market is a wholly derivative aftermarket of the "Mac OS" market and the reasoning for why it was ruled invalid is also relevant.
FISA provides reports to Congress at least annually.[1]

[1]https://it.ojp.gov/PrivacyLiberty/authorities/statutes/1286
Discovery engines are pretty easy if you just use clustering unless you allow transitivity (book in two clusters can be used to suggest a book in either cluster)
> Gates wasn't splitting hairs there, though. "Concerned about" could mean...

That's why I think he should have taken his own interpersonal and forced that through.

Which browser was he concerned about? Internet Explorer. Why? Because it's their product - in the browser space, that one is literally his main concern.

Evoking a "That's not what i meant" response comes across rather differently than the wordplay shown here.
And having the attorney narrow the question to sth like "but out of IE's competitors, which one concerns you?" is the open door you're looking for.

("None really concern me in any sense of the word.", etc.)
I agree, which only solidifies the argument that it's naive to think a company in the mobile space can ignore iOS.
Not clean cardboard?