skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's fairly typical for the BBC to hold fire until the trial concludes and the legal restrictions around reporting are lifted.

Simply not true, look at the coverage for the Johnny Depp libel trial on the BBC site, dozens of articles following the case day-by-day. The fact is they have become a celebrity news channel and don't want to rock the boat.
A company can pay more than $100 for a $1 chargeback, regardless of the outcome, and if your amount of chargebacks exceeds certain threshold, a payment processor may just dump you entirely, so it is very understandable, why 'companies hate chargebacks'.

Stripe is a processor with more generous chargeback terms than many out there, but merchants with small payments still suffer from them very much.
there's a lot of talk about object capabilities as a model to solve for this in the AP space. A lot of it goes over my head so I can't really go into details on it but there are some conference talks available where this is a topic.

background info:

https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot9-prague/blob/master/t...

https://gitlab.com/spritely/ocappub
For DHT’s? BitTorrent Kad
Shame on us.
Pandemic accelerated cord cutting, making 2020 the worst-ever year for pay TV
> Don't you think that's something to be proud of?

Er, I mean, if I was William Wilberforce or someone I suppose I'd be moderately proud of that, yes! As someone who had no involvement in it and was born nearly two centuries after the first steps, I think it'd probably be a little bizarre for me to be proud of it.

Seems totally irrelevant to whether the UK had slavery or not, anyway.
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It’s so weird when you think about it. Does Valve and Steam sit there and wait for a successful game, copy it, stamp out competition, see if it works and decide to continue or not?

Google represents one type of software thankfully, web. It’s craziness at the end of the day. Examining this behavior takes you into the pathological where no other being exists, Thanos incarnate.
> However, if the threat is "a botnet trying to abuse a new openSSH vulnerability", then changing the port does help. Because no bot takes the time to scan tens of thousands of ports in that case when there are millions of other hosts around who listen on port 22.

It takes about 8 minutes to scan the whole internet for port 22. If there's an SSH 0day, and I have a botnet, I am going to make the entire botnet scan the entire internet on every port, because I know people move their SSH port. With 5,000 hosts, I can scan all 65,535 TCP ports across the entire internet in 104 minutes.

How fast can you patch your server after the 0day's been announced? What if you're asleep?

The time it takes to change the SSH port could also be used to harden the sshd config, which would eliminate several classes of previous exploits. A little more time and the entire system could be hardened, so that even if you are attacked, the attacker can't do much of anything.
The other commenter has given better examples than I could have. If you are genuinely curious about these things, I recommend watching this video with an open mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLrTCYMFUbg
It doesn’t speak well for Itanium if they shipped before they could deliver better bang/buck (even after customers’ porting costs) than the commodity architecture.
I am entirely already familiar with Scalia's approach to jurisprudence. I spent most of my youth thinking it was just such a great idea. I also grew up affluent, white, male, and cis; to no surprise, these are contributing factors. Having since grown up and built for myself some facility for basic human empathy I do disagree with that, because not everyone can pick up states and leave Alabama or whatever because their judiciary decides that they can stuff gay kids in conversion therapy or can relegate abortions to back alleys. It privileges me to have such a society because I can go wherever the hell I want because I have money.

Antonin Scalia's entire worldview was built because he knew he was a rear-guard for regressive thought and maybe, just maybe, a broken country with an impotent federal government could allow people like him to continue to kick the shit out of the weak a little longer. He was never going to get to punish women with an abortion ban (and today, would never get to fuck over trans people) nationally--so the natural outgrowth of this is to punish women and fuck of trans people where they can. All in the name of "letting people choose", so they can choose to vote on the basic humanity of others.

I reject the idea that one can "be friends" with the people who want to bring the long dark back. They will break civil society on the anvil of a supremacism that exists to benefit me, and I refuse it.
Why do you think platform exclusives exist then?
(We're not a software startup.)

We're setting a fixed margin. 14% (exact number TBD) of all revenue will go into a profit account. And that will be the profit, it can be reinvested into the business only as capital spend.

86% of revenue is what the rest of the team will need to work with. They will be required to spend that 86%, all of it, on team and customer satisfaction (improving the product, improving the service, reducing the price).

They'll primarily be measured on customer satisfaction. All promotions (unless you're in a role that is directly tied to say, online conversion rate), hiring, firing, and ongoing management will be based on metrics around how happy our customers are.

Our profits will increase with volume, because we'll have happy customers.

Note, an analog to this model is very common in the franchising industry. Many franchises take a fixed percentage of revenue as their 'take', but in our case the business 'take' will simply go to a profit account.

We won't do 14% on day one, it will take a little while to get there, but that model will be our overall guidepost.
I disagree, and partially because of the reasons that you describe. Sometimes the devs are so used to the way the software works (they built it, after all) that it doesn't even occur to them that it sucks for people who aren't starting with a mental model of the system's internal state. Likewise, I've met devs who are apparently happy to ship... poor... software - sometimes an adversarial relationship is proof that the system is working.
Spam is a problem on centralized social networks also--and they have advertisements, which are really just well-organized spam.

To the extent that this problem is email-specific, the ultimate root cause is a failure to deploy DMARC. Any new federated system will require a DMARC/SPF-like mechanism for preventing request forgery.
> Their job won't be to manage the P&L, their job will be to reinvest all the remaining margin into the customer experience.

Just listened to this 2013 talk [0] by Thom Hartmann, who made a quite cogent case that a high marginal tax rate (90% under Eisenhower, 74% under LBJ) was good for business and workers alike: business owners were incentivized to expense and reinvest as much as possible, including into hiring, wages, and benefits. That reinvestment came to benefit the owner when they sold the business, at the drastically lower capital gains rate.

Curious that in the absence of a more stern tax incentive, there seems to be a strategy of implementing a self-imposed profit cap. (I'll have to research the Costco case further, I didn't know that.)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=039Zh9KBCqY
The page loads instantly because there's no tracking crud all over it in my experience of forcing* GDPR compatibility on clients

* sorry I meant strongly advising using legalese

P.s. I'll throw an internet party when Hotjar go out of business. Creepy fucks ruin the load time of every site they tarnish.
Like firefox has said they consider unencrypted HTTP deprecated 5 years ago.
https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2015/04/30/deprecating-non...

Currently, it's just you can't use new features on non-https site. However, it would not surprise if one days chrome or Firefox decide to change how they handle non-https.
Really? I havent read anything about animal reservoirs. Are you speculating that they might exist?

Not everyone needs to be vaccinated to eradicate a disease. A large fraction can go unvaccinated and as long as recirculation is slow enough the natural immunity will result in eradication even among that population.
Supercell ordered to pay $8.5M for infringing Gree's patents
I know plenty of "aging ravers" who are well into their 50s and 60s (and for that matter - yes, goths over 30, too). Just because a community formed around a common (possibly frivolous) interest doesn't make it "not a real community". I'm part of a certain music community - the actual music itself isn't the draw to me (not to say I don't like it, but it's definitely not my favorite) - it's the kindness of the people. If I might ask - what kind of community are you a part of, and why does it make it better than the community I'm part of? And why even gatekeep what makes a good community?
Does the Edge store still allow paid extensions?
It's a sizable revenue stream for the payment networks, credit bureaus, Tivo/Roku, and others you wouldn't even think of. When a cashier asks you for your zip code or phone number in the store, that's two ways used to tie the purchase back to your identity.

I did enjoy my time at Quantcast. The dataset is used for more than targeting advertising. For example, Quantcast's offers a free analytics product that uses the same dataset.

I am conflicted, and my view on data collection more broadly is more nuanced than what's in this comment. For this kind of data collection specifically: On one hand, it's how the entire publishing industry has built their revenue model. And I like news, sports, content, etc. On the other hand, it's creepy for a 3rd-party service that I've never heard of or interacted with being able to infer traits about me based on my browsing patterns, and then sell targeted advertising to yet another company I've never interacted with. I use an adblocker specifically for this reason, despite running an analytics startup.
> Simply not true, look at the coverage for the Johnny Depp libel trial

Are the legal and practical issues on a civil trial like that really identical to a criminal trial or criminal extradition?
The issues with gambling are nothing to do with the arcana of business structures and everything to do with gambling itself.

Gambling ruined games like porn ruined movies -- it didn't. It's just a different partially similar thing.
> If the requirement can be stated formally, in an ideal world, this should not be the case.

Probably, but I submit that nobody can do that perfectly. By all means do as much automated testing as you can! But you still need humans to sanity-check it and introduce new behaviors.
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Per the article two crashes which were of 737-200/300 (i.e first and second gen) not 737NG.
Furries are notorious severe SJWs and far-leftists, so your comment checks out.
Have you tried reaching out to former colleagues? Often times, many of these companies have internal referral programs and incentives for employee referrals.
Perhaps most of them are obsessed with human overpopulation and perceive it as a threat..
The individual entities involved were _far_ smaller, and mostly don't have successor states. In terms of numbers, Portugal and the UK were clearly the largest offenders, unless one treats Africa as a single entity (in which case it would also be proper to treat Europe as a single entity).
Fein also makes amazing vacuums and they're very quiet. At least they used to; I haven't been in the space for years.
> Now we have to go through all this theatrics simply so those people can say things like "he got a fair hearing" and "the magistrate ruled against him so that must be the law".

This is a theme that Bridge of Spies carries off pretty well.
He will probably be better off in https://old.reddit.com/r/experienceddevs
To both rubenerd and some_furry - keep doing what you're doing. You write articles for your own enjoyment and your own communities. As you probably realize - you have no obligation to cater to anyone but yourself. :)
Overview - https://github.com/PipedreamHQ/pipedream#event-sources

Code - https://github.com/PipedreamHQ/pipedream/tree/master/compone...
Except age and experience are not necessarily correlated.
Is your community formed entirely based on zoophilia, pedophilia, and hardcore pornography?

https://ganker.com/discord-has-a-furry-pedophile-problem/

https://kiwifarms.net/threads/kero-the-wolf-joshua-hoffman-k...
Yes, he goes on to contradict himself a bit. The initial statement is clearly incorrect, though. And while it might be true that slavery isn't as much a part of the national psyche in the UK as in the US, it, er, probably _should_ be. 30 years isn't that much of a difference. There are plenty of practical reason that it _isn't_; the ending was of course far less dramatic, and it was far away. But I do think there's a tendency to de-emphasise it a bit too much.

> From the context immediately following his statement, it seems fairly clear that he meant we didn't have slavery...to the extent that it happened in the Americas

Only if you discount the colonies. (It probably is fair to say that British colonial slavery tended to be a _little_ less nasty than American slavery, mind you).
I really wish we didn't put so much pressure to be professional and serious all the time. Working takes up 1/3 of my life currently and I can't actually be my self. Another third is sleeping. So for only 1/3 of my time I can actually act like my self. I hate that there is a pressure to talk a certain, act a certain way, express my self a certain way. I think we really need more of a emphasis on being human, less "circle back" and "work streams", more jokes, more smiling and experimenting.
That's not it. When you have a profitable IP, the expected value is so high that variance offers you nothing, and hurts. When you have nothing, expected value is so low that high variance ideas are the best -- bankruptcy takes away the sting of negative income.
Air travel provides some insight into how market conditions determine quality (of service) in this case. Air travel used to be extremely expensive and out of reach for the majority of Americans until airline deregulation took effect in 1978. My grandfather flew for Pan Am, and air travel was special, with incredible levels of customer service, and a corresponding price tag.[0]

Deregulation was great because it opened up the market to more competition, and that led to lower prices. A true race to the bottom. Turns out, most people don't want to pay for more leg room, better service, more on time flights. They want the cheapest flight they can get (unless their company is footing the bill).

So whenever I hear someone complain about leg room on a flight, or not enough overhead stowage, or crappy food, I think about the choices ticket buyers have made over the last 40 years.

Price is almost always the first and most influential factor in a sale. Quality (whether actual quality or the illusion of quality) is usually way down the list of factors.

[0]https://gizmodo.com/traveling-in-a-boeing-747-in-the-1970s-w...
The day I stop laughing at fart jokes, enjoying doggie kisses, and start dressing like a standard-issue, business casual office drone, I hope someone hauls me off to a doctor to get checked out.
I’ve got a bunch of audio related USB kit. Audio interfaces (sound cards), midi controllers, samplers, external drives, control interfaces, synths, etc. Fills up the better part of two 8 port hubs.
Or use a TOTP with a long period (10 minutes?) and use that value mod, say, 10k with a base of something like 9000. Easy to calculate the port in your head, impossible to guess without knowing the TOTP secret (I think) and can be extended with other fun* rules like "But subtract 10* the first digit" or "Add the first and second digits multiplied".
Stop now before you lose your sanity
Actually, I think it does. Their revenue model is "get people to voluntarily donate". So, that means they have to make a product that is easy to use (low barrier to entry for new user), and valuable to the user (so after using it for the 10th, 100th, 1000th time, you eventually think, "I should give them some $ every month). Like public radio, they have a business model that does not involve ads or fees. But it definitely drives what they do and how they do it.
I live in Brooklyn in a neighborhood with a demographics this administration would call rapist and criminals because they originated south of the border. But there is no anarchy here either.

I do acknowledge crime is up in New York but it's not like everyone is running around the streets shooting, looting and burning things down.
And what do we do with Master of Puppets?
As I noted, generally if you're going to conjure an explanation into being, the burden of proof is on the conjurer, not the listener. The response to "prove God doesn't exist" isn't "I can't, therefore God must exist;" it's "Happy to consider it if you can bring some evidence that the existence is necessary."

> there is nothing that comes into existence from nothing

This aligns with our observations by analogy, though not directly (as there is a singularity at the limit of the Big Bang, where our observational power is limited). And I respond to the assertion that it's a dodge to assume an infinite chain of causality with "It's a dodge to assert by analogy that an infinite chain cannot be the answer," because we are aware from study of mathematics of the possibility of infinities.

But even if we assume the prime mover hypothesis is true, we don't arrive at a place that most religions do. For we also observe plenty of causes that fundamentally mutate or destroy themselves in the causation, and plenty of intelligent designers that create things and then walk away from them, content to let them operate under their own rules.

At the very least, it seems that present-tense atheism (the assertion that there is no god right now, agnostic to the question of whether there was a god to set things in motion) matches observation and the Occam's Razor of assuming no additional, unnecessary unobservables. Occam's Razor is, itself, a bit of an act of faith---The trick to Russell's teapot is without the technology to probe it, we can't actually prove that there is no teapot in orbit around Jupiter---but it invites us to take the leap but there need be no unobservable magic in the universe If a simpler explanation can fit the observables.

Even if an invisible purple dragon created the universe, I'm not obligated to assume it's still around.
The interesting thing here is that a commercial marketplace for browser extensions failed. That seems surprising - surely a marketplace for extensions to the most popular browser on the planet could bring in some revenue?!

Is it just that nobody paid for things? Presumably they're going to keep running the chrome web store, so isn't a cut of paymens "free money" to them? Is there some big cost to this I'm not seeing, maybe too much fraud?

I understand shutting down expensive products. It's weird keeping the expensive product running and shutting off the revenue model, no?
i just want to point out that a USB4 connection is good for 40Gbps, which is 2.5x PCIe 4.0 lanes of throughput. 20 ports of USB4 would take 50 PCIe 4.0 lanes to saturate.

i'm not sure how many actual pcie lanes USB4 can transport? 2x?
> inclusion of posts about cooking garlic are a waste of time and somehow detract from my serious technical and political posts.

I know people who would say that everything could use more garlic. I suspect that would also extend to blogs.
Everyday we stray further from God's light
https://wiki.debian.org/Multi_Seat_Debian_HOWTO with a bunch of USB3 docking stations: run an entire coffee-shop or class-room off one computer.

With active USB3 cables you can attach 20x 4K terminals, up to 10m away from the computer, easily.
At least the apps don't take up any physical space.
DMARC can effectively eliminate email spoofing. Unfortunately, that doesn't prevent spam, phishing, or malware spreading through email. In part because email addresses are largely hidden. In part because not a whole lot of people would notice if their scam mail come from webmaster@somerandomsite.example.net instead of from their bank.
Talking with non-programmers about remote work and waste
They left a comment on the internet - I don’t think it’s civil to conflate it to being universal - why not explore their opinion, or just accept that de gustibus non est disputandum?

Also, what if vanilla could be proven to be universally better? That’d be cool, how could one go about doing that? Probably either: eliminate the supply of chocolate world wide, or spend billions marketing vanilla... Probably lots of ways to get a universal sentiment with the right levers!

One ding in chocolate: there’s no chocolate coca-cola... or is there? I should google that :) There do seeeeeem to be more vanilla flavored mass market colas than chocolate, but that’s very much cherry picking.

A ding for vanilla, I’m not sure if it’s ever eaten alone in any meaningful way, but I dunno, I’d have to think about it more.
Instead, you implied that the people who disagreed with you have been duped by propaganda.

Which is not a particularly helpful, or charitable statement.
If you learn a lock you can open it quickly when pressed, but most pick-resistant locks are quite troublesome to open. If you can't bump the lock or use a pick gun and the area is not secluded it may not be reasonable to pick the lock.
This Deal Helped Turn Google into an Ad Powerhouse. Is That a Problem?
>I know plenty of "aging ravers" who are well into their 50s and 60s

Sure, my point wasn't that they don't exist, but that it's a sad clinging.

>Just because a community formed around a common (possibly frivolous) interest doesn't make it "not a real community"

In my book it does. For one it makes it exclusionary. And what when you lose interest in the "frivolous interest" later? You lose the friends or alienate some of them? That's not much of a community then to begin with.

>And why even gatekeep what makes a good community?

Shouldn't I rather ask this question to you? After all, you're the one who accepts a community that's gatekeeping based on an interest!
Huh? Pyramids exist because they are the easiest comparably thing to make. no one makes them because they have better skyscraper designs now and no one cares about making a 4000yr old tomb.

You know what's today's 4000yr long monument to vanity? Elon Musk's orbiting Tesla
When I found this video (on Hacker News) many years ago, it had a profound influence on my thinking. I still reflexively think about his words in this talk, from time to time.
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> quality of game engine is completely orthogonal to how good a game is, right?

That's exactly my point. I haven't once conflated the two, all of your comments have.
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Write a blog post enumerating all of them :)
My personal sense (not knowing anything internal about the product) is that uptake is extremely low. It also isn't free to run a product that accepts payment. You have to hook it in to a payment processor, handle fraud, handle a different expectation of support, have a bunch of custom code to handle the paid vs. unpaid case. At Google's scale, there's liability to consider, and various compliance and moderation issues that probably don't exist or are much less serious if you're providing the service for free. It's not a zero-overhead proposition.