skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which ones are actual attacks, and which are just poorly-made crawlers?

If it walks like an attack and it quacks like an attack...

I am lacking in sympathy for the perp here, as being careless like this has probably caused problems and possibly cost significant money for a lot of people.

However, this is also a compelling demonstration of why cloud services should be required to provide a hard price cap option for safety reasons. I've heard all the self-serving arguments they make about how turning things off surprisingly might be unwanted behaviour and so on. If that's the case, the admin won't set a cap. But there are exactly zero circumstances under which someone who intended to cap their usage at a level that would cost single digits of dollars or remain within a free plan intends or wants to run something that costs four orders of magnitude more than that, and IMNSHO such predatory pricing models should be illegal (assuming that the charges aren't already considered unenforceable by courts under such circumstances; I haven't checked).
> The probability can then get arbitrarily small, meaning that the expected amount of time needed before the probability of having observed a photon would get progressively larger.

Yes, but the probability is never zero, and the expected time is never infinite. So saying "the intensity drops to zero" is never correct.
I have no credentials or scientific evidence, but I never questioned the rising cases with each wave since I assume its just a property of the exponential nature of the virus spread: in march, say you had 5 people unknowingly carrying corona-virus arrive in your city and each of them spreads it to 5 more people in a two week period, your outbreak is 50 people (seems small now). But now in December, your city has about 350 people spreading the virus but only to 1.5 close contacts in a two week period, you'd expect the next outbreak to be 500 people.

I think hospitalizations are still a somewhat consistent percentage of cases, and will increase as the number of cases go up.
Better than a featherless biped, I guess.
Do you (or anyone else on HN) know why mRNA vaccines haven't been used before COVID? Are they more useful against coronavirii? Or is it just that existing vaccines are good enough, so no one has bothered releasing an mRNA vaccine for the mumps or whatever?
Allows me to... lose interest. I played GW1 for years. Prepaid 2 GW2 accounts (was playing with the family). Lost interest in a few months because of the insane grinding for everything (in GW1 the only insane grind was the forge armor if you forgot) and the in my face gem store.
How so, the message (pasted in this very comment thread), is exactly 339 character without spaces.
Note, they have dithering, and they likely went for the best one possible.
In the decision the justices note that qualified immunity was not the matter brought before the court, and it may yet shield the agents in question from personal liability.
People can be replaced. Especially at big corporation.
The no-excuses template to document your project
Yeah. All the PM stuff with Ubuntu and T480 was a bit of a disaster, there was issues at least with Thunderbolt and NVIDIA discrete graphics eating up the battery. IIRC in the end I think I just found a way to completely disable both.

The T480 I had was a company laptop and I don't have it anymore, so I can't check.
Institute for Justice is fighting the good fight. They argue tons of cases against things like asset forfeiture and police immunity, and they win.

I highly recommend sending some of your charitable giving to IJ this year.
If Google is doing this, that's not great. I am much more disturbed by the behavior of Microsoft Teams, which installs itself into your login items on install. Then you remove it from your login items and think you're all good. But if you ever open the application, it automatically adds itself to your login items again.

As far as I can tell, it will re-add itself no matter how many times you have removed it. This strikes me as incredibly user hostile and I'm surprised Microsoft is quite so brazen about it. I would expect this behavior would lead people to just uninstall the desktop application and use Teams through a browser when needed.
Life is hard without goals. Or more that it’s hard to have motivation or purpose without goals. Also I realize that this is a fairly simple topic that may be obvious to others, I’ve just started realizing that this may be the core of some personal issues that I’ve been dealing with for the whole of my life.

For the longest time I’ve felt burned out or depressed and I thought it was from doing too much of my job (swe). Instead I’ve realized that I haven’t had goals pulling me, or motivating me to do the things I do on the daily. Instead I’ve been running from the fear of failure; be that in making it through college, or somehow losing my job. It turns out that fear is an effective, but terrible “motivator”. It also turns out that it’s hard to be happy when you’re running away from something instead of towards something.

This thread first started for me when I saw the hn discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23932795 and then further became more clear to me after some deep discussions with my friend and his showing me this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7RgtMGL7CA.

The thing is I’ve had goals, but nothing that I could use as a means for helping to pull me through life. Goals like staying fit, or reaching FIRE are good goals, but in themselves it’s hard to derive a sense of meaning.

Making goals for yourself that allow you to tell a story about the things you’re doing can help with motivation; at least I think that’s the trick as I haven’t been doing that. This is the part I’m learning about right now and need to figure out to change the way I’m going through life.
The Dark Reader browser extension works very well with many sites, including Hacker News.
IBM goes oracle way , they want more money
It is one thing to enforce the oaths that government employees voluntarily swear while onboarding to their positions of trust.

Quite another when regular citizens / journalists are pressed into service to protect the state from embarrassment.
This is something he mentions in other letters too, yes. The person was clearly mentally unwell.
I know one guy who has a hobby/obsession to learn perfect English pronounciation. (English English, not American English.) Seems to me he did a great job. I am not a native speaker, so my opinion probably doesn't matter much here, but at least I can say he sounds quite different from other people who have English as a second language.

Knowing how much time and money he spent to achieve this goal, it seems to me like a complete waste of time and money. Apparently, his opinion differs. But his example makes me believe that the goal is attainable... but also explains why most people don't do it.
It might be better, certainly, but I can’t imagine it would be more popular. Languages ride to popularity on the backs of platforms, either commercial or educational. It has very little to do with their features.
Just because we invented doesn't mean we have the monopoly. Many American inventions have been perfected overseas.

Besides, I would not put that opinion on him. pg isn't what I'd call a mainstream thinker.
Well the first use case on the website is for someone who is 'looking to become a programmer', so it doesn't sound like the goal is simply for someone to recall their own knowledge of the standard python language.
> Is there any real concrete — or at least scientifically backed — reasons why we’re continuing to see numbers rise, in spite of more lockdowns in place

Anthony Fauci summed this up pretty well a few days ago in a press release. He basically said that the USA is really bad at following rules, which we are, and that with the recent holidays (Halloween, Thanksgiving) and because of the cold weather (people stay indoors more, share the same air, air being recycled and heated in HVAC systems to reduce energy consumption), that numbers would rise. And so they are. I think these human explanations are the main source of the rise in numbers.

Another interesting one was in a WHO release a few weeks ago, that people seem to be experiencing "mask fatigue", or what is more generally known as "caution fatigue", where people, after having to be cautious for a long time, and not experiencing the source of that caution personally, just lose their ability to pay attention to the problem. It's the same reason the TSA inserts fake firearm pictures into the x-rays of luggage, and the same reason the military regularly inspects guard posts in key locations.
Is "gatekeeping" now just another word for making people feel bad? Like "pretentious" or "elitist" has become? Nobody is saying that people with crutches shouldn't be allowed to walk.

edit: It's so strange to not only demand the right to not know how to do something without a complicated tool (a right which is inalienable and not threatened), but to also demand that people who do know how to do that thing not think that it is better to know how to do that thing. I get that when one has invested their time into a tool they want to defend its usage, but people who aren't dependent on a particular vendor's tool have also invested time, and should be able to think it's better to not be dependent on a particular vendor without it being considered violence or bullying (in the modern twitter sense.)
As democracy is in N.Korea
Which would be a fine ratio, on the basis that it's better to let 100 guilty men walk free than to convict 1 innocent man.
Didn’t say it was easy to monetize.
I do recall a bust, some time ago, of a ring that used prerelease (?) announcement pdfs already placed on publicly accessible servers (?) as a source of insider alpha.

(‘?’ because I’m on my third whiskey and about to turn in :)
One thing that Raph is exceptionally good at is building a community around these sorts of things, and guiding it in the right direction. None of these things are being built by Raph alone, though he’s definitely still a primary worker in a lot of them.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25396745
Infinite is a construction, misused in this paradox. And most.
How is prosecution a violation of rights? Illegal search and seizure or unwarranted detainment is a violation of rights.
And then the day comes when you've been laid off and your lack of product development expertise keeps you from a world of opportunity.
I'll be waiting for an AR app to overlay billboards with 'OBEY', 'CONSUME', etc. personally.
No single detail
Seems like they connected two events solid state batteries , all of them are far away from 2021 and producing first electric car from Toyota
My snap folder only has chromium in it. Like probably most users who don't (and shouldn't) care about snaps.

The snap drama is a ideological purity contest by people who should know better (aka use something else than Ubuntu if that pisses them off that much).
Structural and Functional Analysis of the D614G SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Variant [pdf]
> GitHub, do better. Give us the dark mode experience we deserve.

Does anyone else find this to be unnecessarily abrasive? It's a really harsh note to end the post on when describing a product that many people use for free. It seems to imply that Github has some sort of moral failing for their color choices and additionally that the author is entitled to command them to change their work.

Edit: I doubt the author intended it as such. The tone is just unfortunate.
I’m in favor of ending unlimited qualified immunity but capping the maximum damages seems like a reasonable compromise for most cases. In the most egregious situations, the cap should be removed and government officers should face the same penalties as they would had they been acting as a private citizen.
Amusing no. HN which hates censorship. Instinct is to censor hard facts that don't fit their preferred narrative.
> Texas does not need permission from the federal government to secede

A majority vote within Texas cannot deprive any in the minority of the protection of the US Constitution, or absolve the US federal government of their obligations to that minority.

Such a vote might plausibly be argued to justify a negotiation process which might lead to a separation, including territorial or other accommodation to the minority that wishes to remain affiliated with the US, but absent a more specific preexisting legal/Constitutional framework for succession the right of self-determination does not mean a potentially transitory majority has an automatic right to forcibly separate the territory including an unwilling minority from the institutions of a nation to whom that minority wishes to remain affiliated.
I don't have a financial services background myself, so assessing I can't really comment on the risk of consolidating custodianship and trading. But market consolidation will at some point run into legal and jurisdictional limits (data sovereignty), if not other ones first (do I really trust that giving you all this data doesn't give you an edge?). The idea behind the virtual shared DB is that you don't have to outsource the data, but you can still transact (with strong consistency) over data shared with many entities.

Like I said, I don't have a background in financial services myself, but there are people on my team who have vowed to never have to do reconciliation again. As you seem to wear the same scars, I'm very curious to hear your thoughts on the whitepaper based on your other good comments in the thread. Feel free to e-mail me (address in profile) or post here.
The specific systemd drama the parent is referring to was really Debian drama and the requirements put on maintainers to support alternative init systems. If upstream drops support for non-systemd setups do the maintainers have patch in support? If upstream now has a hard dependency on systemd do maintainers have to patch it out?

Red Hat wasn't involved in any of the drama outside of being the ones writing and funding OSS software for themselves.
Of course if you need to cross reference the entirety of a gigaproject like Chromium you're going to need some sort of a cache and smart search. If I was a Chromium dev I'd probably set something up to help with that.

99.999% of source trees are a tiny fraction of that size however.

As I mentioned in another comment I routinely hack in the Linux kernel which contains about 15million SLOCs (per sloccount) and ripgrep takes less than 5s on a cold run and is near instant after that. ctags lookup almost instant regardless of cache. And that's on a 5 year old middle of the line SSD and CPU.

Inability to easily deal with chromium-sized repositories out of the box might be a deal breaker for you but it's a total non-issue for me.
Memory corruption exploitation in C is a proof that no, it doesn't crash, only if you get lucky.
Thanks for the response, and thanks for reading. You make a terrific point:

> This logic makes sense, with one exception: this assumes that the standard for release quality remains unhindered pre/post swapping the position of RHEL / CentOS.

I don't really have an answer for that. It does seem like it would come down to "trust" and as a skeptical person I don't like that very much.

As I think about it more, while we have realigned some economic incentives for the better, it does seem (in addition to your points) there might also be an "incentive" to break CentOS from time to time, just to remind enterprises who are using it that "RHEL" is the gold standard and CentOS is "unsupported" D-: Knowing Red Hat and many of the volunteers that work on these projects, I would be shocked (and indeed would quit my job immediately) if such a thing were to happen, although it would be hard to prove.

That said such a thing would no doubt backfire. There would be outrage of course, and it would hurt the CentOS brand (which also hurts RHEL since these days the two are inextricably linked). We all fully expect another distro to "take the place" of old CentOS as a bug-for-bug rebuild (I'm excited about Rocky Linux personally) so not will there still be an option for that, but competition is great for quality of projects :-D

Anyway, much appreciate the comment :-)

I'll keep mulling it over as well.
You brilliant guys need to find a way to extract more than $7500 for solutions to problems that less than what, 2%?, of the worlds population can solve.

If I were your tech agent I'd demand Facebook pay out $75,000 minimum for this specific problem.
Why shouldn't apple? For some reason apple gets a pass on HN for things like fighting to keep forced labor camps open [1]. Lets hate Google AND Apple.

1. https://9to5mac.com/2020/11/23/anti-forced-labour-bill-apple...
Fedora was long dead ? haven't heard since 2008
While I am heartened by the ruling, I think it's important to note that SCOTUS is merely saying that the language of the law allows for personal liability of (and lawsuits against) government officials.

Do not rejoice too soon. If the law gave immunity to officials in their personal capacity, they might have equally ruled that you cannot sue them personally under the law. The court is making no principled or difficult stand for any kind of civil rights here, hence you may note the unanimous opinion.

More and more things are falling to the courts to decide because Congress is paralyzed for some reason having to do with the new atmosphere of microsecond attention span and single-issue voting. I think we would be wrong to place so much hope in the courts, and rather try to fix what is broken with our system of creating and updating laws.
Thankfully Firefox has the "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of your selections above" setting which you can uncheck so that Firefox always uses your preferred fonts. All pages can do is choose between serif, sans-serif, and monospace. And you can set a minimum font size, so that text is never too small no matter what the page does.
I wonder who the intended audience of this post is?
So? We all benefit when state power is applied in a consistent and rights respecting ways. It doesn't do to allow government to run roughshod over one group of people just because you approve of the outcome (or disapprove of the victim), because eventually that process will be applied in a way you'll disapprove of.
the government doesnt have any money of its own - thats our money. to rephrase: the government does something the courts rule as wrong, so they take money from us to pay for their mistakes. the injured party clearly deserves recompense, but i feel like we can do better than this.
I was expecting a pattern, but there wasn't one; one of the two classic problems in computer science, I guess.
I mean the writing seems to be on the wall that someone is going to buy Canonical and crush Ubuntu at some point in the medium-term.
Fortunately there's a terminal window baked right in there if you find yourself needing other tools.
They are increasing the amount of Chrome deployments and developers using Chrome only APIs.
This still seems a little sensational. Fedora would be the explosion here. If Stream is a release candidate they still have every reason to keep it stable so RHEL updates more quickly.
>Instead, they should change the moniker from Artificial Intelligence, to Artificial Insight.

Several times when I spoke to people about this point I got empty faces. Some seem to like the idea of automating things more than augmenting human thought with better tools.

Related article about Moldable Development:

>We can trace both models back to the early years of the first electronic computers. However, the struggle between these two worlds is still present today. For instance, Intelligence Augmentation (IA), is all about empowering humans with tools that make them more capable and more intelligent, while Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been about removing humans fully from the loop. You can read an excellent essay (Shan Carter and Michael Nielsen) about this topic.

via: https://osoco.es/thoughts/2019/05/designing-media-for-though...
In context though - 'earnestness' here is a quality looked for in academic founders and is being looked at as an ability to solve important problems that other people care about.

The humanities studying hermeneutic dialectic hegemonic whiteness don't have that. In particular, the entire field has come up with no useful commentary on 'hegemonic whiteness', hermeneutic or otherwise, that leads to problem solving. It isn't a culture that is producing strong startup founders like STEM does. It's fair to say they are less earnest in the way PG is using the term; the humanities isn't where people go to solve real-world problems.

Humanities is arguably at the base of some very successful companies (arguably Apple, for example). Hermeneutic dialectic hegemonic whiteness is the base of some profoundly ... albinophobe? I dunno, they're racist and don't like white people ... arguments and nothing admirable that I have yet encountered.
It they don't like it, every party member has a right to stand in meetings and press for change.
I don't think there's so little to be charitable about. But in any case the GP was a snarky, shallow dismissal, which is not what we want here, regardless of who the target is. From a moderation point of view your comment is totally different and I don't have a problem with it.

Btw, pg has been talking about earnestness for years—same with the topics of his other recent essays—and he has always written in this style. I don't think he's changed a bit. People have always gotten pissed off by them too. If there's a difference in public perception now it's a combination of his social status having changed [1] and the online climate having gotten steadily more acidic.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25233038
Why do you have to follow everyone you interact with? If you are using this to tag people of interest, isn't it beneficial to use another method anyway once you reach 5k, that will let you annotate and categorize them (such as lists or some non-Twitter method)?

The follow function is intended to get people's tweets into your feed. I can't imagine your feed stays usable when 5k people are posting into it, so it seems to me you are just putting stress on Twitter pub/sub platform to subscribe to more messages than you can possibly consume anyway.

Why does anyone really need that many follows? I limit myself to a few hundreds, removing old connections not to stay under some technical limit but just so that I don't get drowned in noise. I guess everyone consumes social media differently, and some people might want to get everything remotely interesting in their feed (and read a random sample) rather than the stuff they actually intend to read, but once you hit a technical limit why not take the hint?
Illegal search and seizure can often result in unlawful prosecution.
What do you think my comment was?
Yea, this was basically my computer engineering curriculum. Start at solid state physics, build a transistor, boolean logic, digital circuit design, cpu design, operating systems and device drivers, and then software engineering.

Most people in my class ended up at the top of the stack (operating systems and software engineering) since the jobs are more numerous and the pay is better.
They == the ArtFrame's built-in software ;) What I posted was generated by the device. It is an example of the actual picture quality.
A big part of the reason I gravitated toward Emacs is that it hits the best of both worlds there; by default, it's a simple editor, but it can be extended with the exact set of IDE-esque features with which I'm comfortable.
You forget that intelligence and espionage goes both ways. Iran could use FB in some way to attack the US, just like Russia did, just as it could shield itself from FB.