skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
fivethirtyeight gave the democrats a 63% chance of getting a federal trifecta a week ago : https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/our-forecast-thinks-dem...
Their platform actually actively tries to prevent you from being insecure. They limit what plugins you can install with an ever growing blacklist, and they try to handle as much of the performance stack as possible to reduce attack vectors. You don't like their caching layer? Too bad.

You're also paying for decent support tech's and support availability. I think to this day you can call and a human will pick up the phone. Tech's are well versed in the WordPress ecosystem and many are developers who can help you troubleshoot things at the code level, whereas with some budget webhost, they'll tell you to pound sand and hang up (albeit more politely).

That said, I think these "premium" WordPress hosts are purely for non-devs or devs with no time to provide their own support. If you're a developer, there is no reason to pay that premium to keep your blog online. If you want a more managed solution, use something like ServerPilot or SpinUp WP, or any number of other service that will provide a thin maintenance layer on top of any garden variety VPS provider.
I hadn't heard about this as a synonym for abandonment or replacement before, only the "discourage use" definition, with a possible eye towards future removal.

It can't have been that well known. It isn't mentioned on the Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deprecation . That links to things like http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/277 which include quotes like "Very few deprecated APIs were actually removed, leading some people to believe that nothing would ever be removed. On the other hand, other people believed that everything that was deprecated might eventually be removed, which was never the intent either."

Or in Python, https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0004/ " This PEP defines a procedure for removing modules from the standard Python library. Usage of a module may be 'deprecated', which means that it may be removed from a future Python release."

That terminology is still in use; in https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0632/ published last month, titled "Deprecate distutils module" you can read "In Python 3.10 and 3.11, distutils will be formally marked as deprecated. ... In Python 3.12, distutils will no longer be installed by make install or any of the first-party distribution." That's a two year period where it's deprecated but not removed. Further in the text you can read "Deprecate but do not delete", telling me they aren't viewed as synonyms.
I do not understand the term “black hat” in this context.

Astroturfing as been around for decades.

Companies reaching out to influencers to have them write something nice is also an open secret to the extent it is any secret.
I find twitter is only useful when there is some "event" in realtime. Like a gun shooting or some shit.
Kyanka should have sold SA at least 15 years ago.
This very site denies it happens even though it is often quite obvious.

> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

If you mention this kind of thing at all, dang will pop in and warn you. You can post all kinds of other crazy stuff, but mention astroturfing or vote manipulation and you will almost always get a response. This is because these sites realize the exact opposite. That the percentage of this stuff is absolutely massive and they are terrified what will happen if the public finds out how common it is.

Its not that people do not realize it happens. It is that the average person is underestimating it by serveral orders of magnitude.
Thank you for sharing Shifter. I’ll check this out. I work on a lot of Wordpress and GatsbyJS so a simpler path to static sites from a WP admin is something I’ve been looking for.
If you keep breaking the site guidelines like this we're going to have to ban you. I don't want to do that, so would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and fix this? We've cut you way more slack than we usually do.
It took KDDI 4 weeks to change the speed of our connection from 100mbit to 200mbit... Japan is weird.
> see the emails and decide for themselves

Using information or skills uniquely possessed by HN readers?
EDIT: dang, I understand my political views don't align with vast majority of HN but me replying to correct false info keeps giving me this error on HN:

"You're posting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks."

I think HN keeps turning into an echo chamber and any opposing view point on a specific political topic gets censored/throttled here too. How can you expect me to have a proper discussion when I am not even allowed to reply?

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96% of the donations from Big Tech went to Democrats. This is a verifiable fact.

The first censorship of this story came from Facebook and the statement from them was this by Andy Stone, FB communications. Andy Stone is a former DCCC (DCCC: Committed to electing Democrats to the U.S. House of Representatives)

https://mobile.twitter.com/andymstone/status/131639590247987...

The person at twitter making these decisions is Nick Pacilio, Twitter Communications who's also Kamala Harris' former press secretary:

https://twitter.com/NickPacilio/status/1291160646231392261

Facebook's executive Jessica Hertz as well as Twitter's director of public policy Carlos Monje are Biden's transition team.

Kamala Harris had repeatedly called for suspending her opponent's twitter account:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mnunez/2019/10/02/kamala-harris...
Thanks, this was a really helpful link. In the case of HackerStash I'm confident it falls within the definition of a contest, and not sweepstakes or lottery. There are a few areas where this could be tightened up and the article will help with that, but likewise we've met all the criteria set out in the article other than terms relating to 'what happens to prizes if someone dies'. We'll have something added there!

Curious about what you're working on now, feel free to come join HackerStash and share your progress ;) haha
The thing to note there is that despite being on a "black hat" website, most of those ads are from marketing or SEO companies linking to their own legitimate company websites. It's clear most of them just see this as how internet marketing is done.

I also note that as a not logged in user, the Twitter just shows me "related tweets" from people actually hiring or offering to sell social media content.
Germany is not at the point where large scale storage is more economical than better demand side integration and very far from the point where it is necessary for grid stability.

It's no surprise then that there is not much storage capacity available.

For gas though we already have the strategic gas reserve infrastructure that can store nearly 25 billion cubic meters. What's missing is the synthesizing part.
> I'm even more surprised people are demanding that forums and social media be stripped of the ability to moderate porn, spam, and vile personal attacks (ie not be able to moderate anything not illegal). Oh plus conspiracies and racism. This would likely turn most forums including HN into trash

Have you... seen Twitter? It's full of porn, spam, vile personal attacks, conspiracies, and racism. These things are mostly not moderated on Twitter.

Maybe Twitter claims to moderate them, but the reality does not reflect that at all. The main reason we see controversy over social media censorship is that it's extremely selective, haphazard, inconsistent, and often misdirected. There's no apparent general principles behind the individual decisions, though principles are often trotted out ex post facto when required for PR.
Government scientists discover that cats don't follow orders, do whatever the hell they want.
Your points are fair enough. I just think e2e should be table stakes these days for any communications platform. The only folks not doing it for consumers are the companies that are addicted to invading our privacy, like Google and Facebook (WhatsApp is e2e but FB has been fighting that for a while).

The others are rolling it out.

Zoom is being used for schools with kids younger than my 7 year old. And probably telehealth too. These should all be e2e encrypted.

Enterprises should be demanding e2e. Especially given the Chinese governments aggressive corporate espionage, I’m shocked that more companies aren’t nervous about having potentially sensitive meetings on Zoom. I know one of my clients expressly forbids their employees from joining Zoom meetings.
Is your blender powered by a hand crank?
But S1-S6 developed many good characters and plotlines, and it's OK leave a world in progress.

Some people don't mind that. Personally, I enjoy stories with closure. I find it a huge downer to know the canon ending sucks and will ruin the plot for many characters I have been following.

If nothing else, skipping the final episodes means I have to decide when to stop watching. In the case of GoT, the end of season 6 is one possibility, but arguably the worst shark-jumping happened after The Long Night in the middle of season 8 and watching that far does resolve some of the other plot lines.
You might want to correct this: In the bottom picture on the home page, the model is wearing her watch upside down. [0]

[0] https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0250/9396/3866/files/Pink_...
Google the following terms:

- Litvinenko

- Novichok

- Crimean Annexation

- Russia Wikileaks (the Atlantic article is a good intro)

- Sergei Magnitsky, the Magnitsky Act, Russian Meeting at Trump Tower (in that order tells the story)

- Russian Disinformation Campaign (there are stories dating to shortly after the 2016 election)

There's probably more but this is all the top of my mind. Litvinenko was my wake-up to the realities of global politics and the potential dangers Russia poses.
haha, the forum aspect has some overlap but other than that it's very different :)
This site has a long history much of which was not available to the main users.

Maybe one day that story can be told.
Because the President was impeached nine months ago for bribing Ukraine into fabricating exactly this sort of story.
Do not dismiss tabloid journalism. There's a long and happy history of Democrats being undone by lurid tabloids. Think Drudge Report breaking the (Bill) Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, or National Enquirer breaking the John Edwards affair, or NYPost breaking the Anthony Weiner sexting. This is tabloid journalism at its best.

The difference is those stories had supporting details, with the reporters attempting to follow up.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/03/how-china-built-...

>How China built facial recognition for people wearing masks:
Hanwang says its technology has reached 95% accuracy in identifying mask wearers.
I found hundreds of fake accounts on ProductHunt used to promote startups to get status Product of the day.

What Produchunt team did? Nothing)) Met some people in startup community who reported this fraud too, zero action taken.
Yes, but more likely they'd have someone be hired surreptitiously before forcing anything.
In two ways, America is fundentally different than most advanced economies.

1. We have essentially absolute free speech
2. We have the absolute right to gun ownership

If those values appeal to you, America is unrivaled.
The rule is against insinuating astroturfing without evidence. The alternative is threads full of pointless insinuation about astroturfing—the favorite junk pastime of internet forums. HN doesn't have "particular objectives", it has one objective: to gratify intellectual curiosity, and that guideline is obviously integral to this.

That doesn't make actual astroturfing ok. We spend many hours combating it and banning accounts and sites that do it, including the ones that Troy's reporting on here. There's just a huge difference between it-really-happening and pointless-toxic-speculation. The difference is evidence, and that's what we require.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You are using the phrase “active suppression” in a way I have never seen it used before.

Extending the use of the phrase to describe these sort of political tactics has a downside. It waters down the emotional impact of the phrase when being used to describe, say, the poll tax or grandfather clauses in the US South. Real voter suppression.

And thus, in a backhanded sort of way, dilutes the honor of those early civil rights workers who fought, and sometimes died, so that everyone got a chance to vote. Why would you want to do that?
a. They had the same information as everyone else, so what would they figure out in their ‘review’ that readers wouldn’t?

B. It’s really the double standard that is the problem here. If you do it do it for this then do it for everything else, including the myriad stories about Trump that are posted based on ‘rumors’, ‘leaks’, anonymous sources etc. Whether you like Trump or not should not matter if you are honest with yourself!

Funny thing is, this story was not ‘trending’ on twitter but the meta story (totally with no evidence) that this was the result of Russian hackers who gave the content to Rudy was trending! That tells you everything about why this is so inconsistent and thus either grossly incompetent or malicious.
I agree. It was extremely dumb and obvious. TOO OBVIOUS. What are the politicians and social media tech companies trying to get out of section 230?
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People in the minority when it comes to political views would be better off in a workplace that isn't allowed to discuss politics. Especially if they're getting triggered and trying to shame people, or openly protesting company decisions.
I've noticed that a lot of the younger crowd likes to over-embellish their titles. For example, maybe they worked on a team of 2 software developers and they call themselves "Senior Software Developer" because they had 2 years of experience and the other guy (or gal) was an intern.

That might seem like a joke, but it isn't. I have seen that many times.

Another popular one is people that put "CTO" or "CEO" on their resume because they did freelance work for their cousin's friend's brother's pizza restaurant once. They started a company called "AAA Software Enterprises" and made themselves CEO. Then closed the company after that project finished.

These people need to realize that overembellishing your resume can often hurt you more than under-crediting yourself.

I have also noticed that the 2-3 year experience gap is a dangerous gap in Software Development. Developers have learned enough at this point that they are walking all over the other junior developers that are doing basic bug fixes. They feel like a God and feel like they can do anything. But what they don't realize is that they might have too much experience for the Junior Developer position, but they don't have enough experience to realize how much they actually don't know yet, because they have never experienced it. So some developers fall in this trap of never being pushed hard enough in their early years and not realizing how much they still have to learn. So they think they know it all and tend to overembellish, without realizing how dumb they look because they have no idea how niave they still are.
Aside from the content itself, I’ve noticed the commenting and voting patterns on Reddit for articles about AccessiBe are suspicious. I always assumed they had “help”. It’s a shame social media doesn't have a “this looks suspicious but I have no direct evidence” report button. I expect it’s very easy in a lot of cases to determine abuse when you have access to internal data.
It’s really a wonderfully well designed game. Very well balanced, and cleverly piggybacks on human psychology to make gameplay surprisingly engaging and complex when you’re with the right group. It has the feeling of a really good board game, but with the mechanics of an online video game.

One thing I did notice, though, is that it took me about eight or nine rounds before I really started to appreciate. Until about round six I really didn’t understand what the hype was all about. It’s much more fun once you take the time to get past a surface level understanding of the game and start learning the nuances.
Here is a further article on the event: https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/10/twitter-and-facebooks...

> By the afternoon, Twitter had joined Facebook in suppressing the article, not only barring its users from sharing it with followers, but barring them sharing it through direct messages as well. It locked the accounts of White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, the Post, and many others for retweeting the story.

Twitter and Facebook decided to prove their critics right. Censorship was supposed to be for Russian bot-generated fake news. The New York Post may be a shitty tabloid, but it’s a real organization with a Manhattan office building and hundreds of thousands of subscribers.

As far as I can tell, it’s unclear whether the laptop the New York Post sourced it’s emails from really belonged to Hunter Biden. That’s an ordinary question of a news article’s credibility. It’s insane to make that the bar for sharing an article on social media.

Matt Taibbi has catalogued how many New York Times stories about Trump ultimately proved unfounded: https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-bombshell-memory-hole-d20 (paid). The Times is a hell of a lot more credible than the Post, but again, the fact that an article from a real source may prove to be wrong can’t be a justification for censoring it on social media.
Not really, according to their page, disclosure is a best practice, but doing otherwise isn't inherently illegal. Their own guide [0] begins by talking about adhering to their guidelines as "voluntary compliance", and that a failure to do so would require their investigation into the specifics to determine if it was a violation of law: It is not automatically a violation.

[0] https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-re...
> While Google may not like this, it's highly unlikely they'll ever find out about it.

if you donated or is affiliated with _any_ political cause, and google fired you for that reason, then they've committed illegal discrimination against you.

However, this political affiliation/activism needs to be conducted outside working hours, lest it be associated with google's official public stance or incur liabilities. You actions as an employee could be misrepresented as the position of google, and they are well within their rights to restrict how you represent yourself during office hours, and they should also be allowed to prevent you from mis-representing yourself too (i.e., you cannot use your position as an employee to act as an agent of political activism or affiliation unless authorized by the owners of google).
While I'm a pretty big fan of low tech solutions, I'd just like to point out that electrochemical hydrogen compressors can basically already do this, but better. 80% round trip compression efficiency, up to 700 bar compression, no moving parts, and massively long lifetimes (in the 30-50 year range). The fact that the compression medium (hydrogen) is also an energy storage medium is just a cherry on top. It's just a matter of price coming down for 700 bar pressure vessels.
Sure, but they were much more limited. I had many of them.

On paper the Nokia N70 I was using when the iPhone came out could do everything the iPhone did and more. But it was essentially unusable by comparison. All three aspects of the iPhone were dramatically superior to prior devices.
Hey L1quid, great site! I have been using CCC since 2 months and it is amazing. Could you shed some light on how often do you check for price updates? I am asking because I was using it during Prime Day and it seemed like the prices were not immediately updated. Maybe this could be a new addition to the site!
I find Amazon’s acceptance of CCC interesting.

If they see value in CCC, why not natively add the feature themselves? If price history is made transparent, consumers also don’t have trust issues.
The average person isn't aware of the very intentional acts to subtly shift their perspective and world view. You're aware of its presence, which to some degree, inoculates you from its effects. Whenever you see any news, you ask yourself: "What actors might be trying to influence me to believe this, and why?" and I assert the average person does not offer that level of introspection when consuming content.

The solution is media blackouts for a period of N days to weeks before elections. It's what other democracies do. But, during critical periods of time, we temporarily restrict speech. That's how you handle it. Is it a perfect solution, no, but it offers some benefit with not too much restriction.
Yes, I did mean the earring.

But - the missus is fond of wearing white gold, gold filigree, maybe some earrings with sapphires. I don't expect that she's necessarily in the initial market you'll be addressing.

While I can imagine you'll have a variety of styles, you won't be able to produce enough styles to match the breadth of the market. It would be a shame if your growth were capped by how many axes of preference you could address with your limited resources. You definitely want enough to bootstrap the market (and you mentioned that part of your business plan was to be able to sell additional earrings to repeat customers), but I suspect the long game is in creating and licensing the standards for mating the active components and the earrings. Other companies may be taking part of the pie, but as long as it keeps growing exponentially, there's plenty for everyone.
I was a Heroku employee until recently. I know the people who work on those blog posts, and I tried to contribute one myself.

To my knowledge, employees absolutely do work on those; articles are edited and go through several rounds of review, but they aren't ghost written. Even the ones written by the management team seem entirely congruous with their level of product knowledge.

There are external people (usually former Herokai) who contribute to the Heroku blog; their names / positions are listed on the byline of the article.

I wouldn't see the point of having a non-employee writing the canonical description of a new feature; they wouldn't have the context necessary to do the best job.
The developer toolchain for the cloud this author is looking for is CDK: https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk

* Self updating code pipelines? Yep: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/cdk-pipelines-continu...

* Cross-cloud compatibility?

Yep: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/introducing-the-cloud...

YepYep: https://github.com/awslabs/cdk8s

YepYepYep (CDK for Azure): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q89VbEA9I4
Source? According to Wikipedia, Mongolians conquered all of China.

"This was the first time in history that the whole of China was conquered and subsequently ruled by a foreign or non-native ruler."
I don't find this a convincing rationale. I already had to jump through hoops with an authentication code to make my iPad "trust" my Mac before it appeared at all in Side Car.

Now that it does appear, I get a pop-up when clicking on the iPad income, saying I can't use it because the account doesn't have 2FA set up. Nowhere in the advertising for the device was there a disclaimer that a legacy phone number was required to use the features.
> I haven't laughed so hard in months :)))

Please don't be a jerk in HN comments. We're trying for a different quality of discussion here. The rest of your comment would be just fine without that swipe.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html