skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's not size, but power. Twitter's curation algorithms have massive unilateral influence on public opinion (reaching far beyond its own user-base) probably including the ability to sway national presidential elections. I'm not aware of any utility companies with such power.

And most of the cases I'm aware of where they've used that power is to suppress viral lies, which is a good thing. Even then they were late pulling the trigger.

> Moreover, social media introduces an entirely new dimension: it's multicast. Your telegraph or phone call conveyed information to 1 other party at a time. A Tweet can be seen by millions or more. The volume of communication on social media dwarfs that of other channels.

And that's what's dangerous about them: the filter got removed from broadcasting. People like to talk about filters like they're bad things, but that's not true. They're in fact a vitally necessary function to increase the signal-to-noise ratio (for instance: what is peer review? Answer: a filter). when you don't have filters, ideas spread in proportion to how quickly they can multiply, which isn't a good thing, because a lot of fast-spreading ideas are akin to cancer, and do nothing except weaken or kill the host.

If Twitter's to avoid killing its host, it needs an immune system to filter out those cancerous ideas.
"Doxxing" is poorly defined enough that I think it's best to just avoid the term. They have a policy against involuntary disclosure of private information (https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/personal-info...), but names, physical appearances, and conversations from other apps aren't considered private information.
The press conference can be found here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkXDSOgLQ6M
It is yet another thing to manage and train people on as part of a CI/CD pipeline and development workflow.

It would add the complication of, if I am looking at a given service needing to determine if it was built with a DockerFile or Buildpack.

And then when that application outgrows Buildpack it will ultimately be easier (due to knowledge that everyone already has working with Docker) to do whatever the special thing that application, tool, whatever needs in a DockerFile than try to understand BuildPack.

Opiniated tools are great, but time and time again when what we need deviates slightly from the "norm" they become overly complicated to manage and going with the standard option like a DockerFile would have been better in the first place.
In my case I don’t care about organizations. I am an individual dev who would love to use something like this to easily build apps that I could monetize. I am thinking of a web equivalent of the Apple iOS app store. Some place where you write an app and let the app store take care of billing and payments. I have published several iOS apps and zero web apps mostly because there is no frictionless way of monetizing web apps. Feel free to send me email if you want to talk more about the use cases.
What would be the difference between the network effect and the meme effect ?

Networks of people are what allows for ideas to get popular...
Looks great and I can see a lot of value in this having been disappointed myself with how much is left to the developer with services like Auth0 and Okta.

Could you expand some more on the team behind this? As this service would be a critical part of any application relying on it for authentication I’m keen to know about the size of the team supporting it.

Do you offer an SLA and 24/7 support?
>He’s lean, young, 5’10”, has good skin and a reasonable fashion sense, and there’s nothing obviously wrong with his face. That alone more or less puts him in the 90% percentile.

Well yes, not to mention that he's a completely self-made multimillionaire with a charming accent. He's certainly what I imagine going for were I attracted to men. Having anyone who is into men say they're not interested is noteworthy, such a large percentage of even a fairly small sample size was definitely pointing to something unusual.
I have an under-sink Reverse Osmosis water filter. If this wasn't caught I wonder if the RO filter would have removed the sodium hydroxide or not.
> What? I don't think I would want to be in your family group chats but regardless I'm specifically talking about huge public/semi-public spaces.

The places are public. The police can go there. Even Telegram itself take down public groups that incite violence.

They just don't kick people out for describing themselves as retards.

This doesn't seem to be about "the same group of awful people that seem to poison everything they touch" anymore. Now they want to take away anything they don't feel they control thoroughly, hence the broad attacks on Telegram ans Signal.
Because macs are terrible platforms for games. They have been very low end for a long time (m1 notwithstanding), and they have been killing off opengl, the only cross platform rendering API (before vulkan, which they don't support). Also their insistence on breaking changes means your back catalog needs constant maintenance. That's normal for app developers, but not gamedev. Oh, and if you do make the port, they will be about 1% of your users. Or less. So, to summarize, mac support is expensive, difficult, and not profitable. Should we still do it? I tend to think you're better of spending your time on linux support.
A new arms race begins.
Sure, it's https://twitter.com/leckie. Thanks!
No traditional utility company does what Google has routinely shown to do as in the original post though. There's still a bill to pay and expectations of reasonable service (I assume if I just left my tap on and drew as just electricity as I could I'd eventually get some phone calls and massive bills) that allows these companies to be profitable.

Google isn't at the point it needs to be nationalized, but something needs to be done to limit the fallout that occurs when users are kicked off essential services with no recourse.
> I'm not sure I can think of a case where we were "I guess they'll meet our needs if no one better comes along."

You may not have been at an organization with a policy that unfilled positions after X time get removed. When you get close to the end of the time, there's pressure to hire someone, even if they're not great, because otherwise you'll lose the position.

On the other hand, I have had a case where someone was not hired for a position, and then later was asked to interview for a different position with the same hiring manager, and was hired for that.
This is true right this moment, yes. That may change in the future.
Sometimes the solution is different because the scale is different.

Sometimes, the solution is different because we think we understand a problem that we really don't. I'm not ready to allow that the current wisdom on system design is not what Tony Hoare was thinking of when he said, "a system so complex that there are no obvious problems".

Arguing such things with people only seems to stick when we are collectively in the Trough of Disillusionment, which may be coming up pretty soon. So ask me again in 18 months.
He is certainly biased, but he at least is willing to write unpopular things. Most of these NYT-times will write anything to get more twitter follows.
There was a website I used to love sending people to when I was in middle school (crashme dot com, just a parked domain now).

It had this bomb timer-like countdown clock and a big warning that it would destroy your computer if it reached zero. Totally pointless, but was always fun back before I really understood too much about this brave new world of internet.
and depending on which MATLAB version they run it in, it might have completely different results if they haven't tested carefully...
Come on. You don't use a loaded phrase like "Stasi-like" unless you're implying something nefarious. It seems monumentally hypocritical for a guy who's entire career is based on having access to other people's private communications. Lorenz's beat is heavily based on following social media trends including stuff like wallstreetbets which was the topic of the clubhouse chat. Greenwald is ascribing a lot of intent that he can't back up.
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Three topics you might enjoy:

Drake's Equation [0], the Fermi Paradox [1], and the Great Filter [2].

Drake's Equation basically tries to guess the number of civilizations in our galaxy by multiplying the rate of star formation, the fraction of stars with planets, the average number of planets that could support life, the fraction that actually DO develop intelligent life, the fraction that develop a method of communication that sends signals into space (such as radio), and the length of time those civilizations exist. Obviously, a lot of unknowns here, but if you take some guesses, you can create estimates.

The Fermi Paradox is the contradiction that the galaxy is so vast that it's incredibly improbable that we're the only intelligent civilization in existence, so how come we haven't found any evidence of other civilizations? Considering how relatively young the Earth and our Sun are, some other intelligent life should have expanded into a multi-star species by now, and we should have seen evidence for it.

The Great Filter is basically an answer to the Fermi Paradox. Basically, there are several steps to go from "a star system that might support life" to "interstellar colonization". Life likely needs to start from reproductive molecules, eventually evolving to complex multi-cellular life, to tool-using intelligence, to technology advancement, and eventually towards space exploration and an explosion of space colonies. The question is which step is hardest, least likely to be achieved? Which step is the Great Filter that has led to the apparent lack of evidence of other civilizations? If the filter is, say, the development of complex multicellular life, then it's very possible that Earth really is the only planet with intelligent civilization. If the filter is the final step, then we haven't reached it, and our outlook is bleak, as it would indicate that other intelligent civilizations have gone extinct despite their intelligence.

Obviously, these are very very abridged descriptions. Each of them has entire books dedicated to them.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter
What in the seven hells is this? Why on earth would any app not running in the foreground of my mobile device have the ability to launch a random web page?

Guess this is why some walled gardens look a lot nicer from the inside...
I've toyed around with some similar sites in the past. Challenges like that that sit closer to purer algorithm tasks are not at all hard in Common Lisp.
The text I quoted says "sexual and gender minorities (the LGBTQ community)". The G in LGBTQ stands for "gay".

It also says "people whose biological sex and self-identified gender did not match" which seems to include biological males who identify as women. (But maybe you're right and the article is imprecise, and what they meant is just that they excluded F to M transsexuals).

Then we could also question whether there is or not a a higher probability for gays to also initiate a gender transition- my hunch is that there is, although of course being gay doesn't per se imply a desire to transition to the opposite sex.
GCC is one compiler project among others, ironically for your example most funding comes from corporations as well, with Red-Hat being a major contributor.
Git was designed for decentralized use. It's not as slick and polished as github, but it can get the job done and scales to infinity (the linux kernel has thousands of contributors and runs entirely dencentralized with git).

For read-only access you can host a git repo on any static file store, like S3, netlify, digital ocean, etc. Just rsync/rclone/upload a bare repo from your machine and you're done: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-on-the-Server-Getting-Git...

For write access it's more difficult without running your own server (which is super easy with gitea, gogs, etc. and just a couple clicks to setup on popular hosts like digital ocean). You could take an entirely decentralized approach and run things like the linux kernel--all patches (aka pull requests) get sent to an email list where they're reviewed, discussed, and integrated by the maintainer of the read-only repo.
There's probably 100x more cell towers than there are water plants. The impact of hacking a cell tower isn't direct loss of human life (granted, knowing off a large number of cell towers would be very disruptive). The answer to the question "should it be online" and "how much $$$ should we spend securing it" is going to be different in these two cases.
Typically, that makes sense. Specifically, there's nothing on the website to indicate that is how they calculate MAU. The website is missing this critical bit of detail to inform would-be buyers.
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It's more that some people think "people choose to do things society greatly disapproves of", that is going out of their way to be difficult, and they want to punish them for this.

But, then you would have to consider why it is they greatly disapprove of it in the first place, is it as unhealthy and dysfunctional as they think? Is it even their place to complain about someone else's affairs?
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This is one of these scary areas where reality matches my teenaged experiences playing Shadowrun. I used to hope that the brutal dystopia we played through was just fun. Now I’m seeing that the present needs a word even more brutal than dystopia. :(
What's an SPF Record?
I see. It wasn’t even until a couple years ago that non metal sunscreens were found to be useless.
Fair enough. I live in the country and I mostly need traction for hiking so need something more substantial (and of course even microspikes aren't enough for some situations).
Haha, "Better Call Saul" was the first thing I typed too. Man I can't wait. Heart did a backflip when I saw it was "already released" and then it sank when I found out it really wasn't.
> People have the right to make up unscientific nonsense like “vaccines cause autism” or “masks do not help stop the spread of COVID-19”, but people also have the right to say “that’s unscientific nonsense”. Freedom of speech is not freedom from rebuttal.

Oh, now you're a proponent of free speech? That's surprising, considering that a moment ago - in this very thread - you literally asked the moderators to censor this article that exists for the sole purpose of exposing the kind of censorship that you were advocating:

> I’m disappointed this kind of article borderline espousing conspiracy theories made the front page of Ycombinator. @deng: I don’t think it serves Ycombinator’s interests to have this kind of article prominent.
Uuuugggh... no, license proliferation BAD. Seriously, did the world need yet another Copyleft license? Is there something they couldn't find in the GPL, MPL, etc?

And "For a limited time, husky 5 will be released under License Zero's Parity License. It will be MIT again later."

What the heck? Who wants to use a project without a (relatively) stable license? To me, this is muddying the waters and making things confusing for no real reason. IF I were a Husky user, I'd probably drop it at this point.

I'm sure they have good intentions behind this move, but from a more pragmatic standpoint, this just doesn't seem like a desirable thing to me.
Yes, those are ironically more likely to make it through because it makes it look like they’re following through on their promise to not moderate any store content. It’s all luck though, we don’t know what never made it in.

Actual foreign developers who don’t speak English don’t have as much luck explaining themselves as indie irony-VN devs and can’t fix problems if Valve sees a picture of an anime and decides it was questionable sexual content when it wasn’t.

(Often it does still work out, some of the VNs had some really out there actual sexual content because they’re weirdos and the work was improved by removing it for Steam/Nintendo platform so
Yea, with the Mac key repeating issue that value could get input by accident.

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/293523/single-keyp...

https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/4/21246223/macbook-keyboard-...
You lose money when you buy, and you make money when you sell. Everything else is somewhat fake money.

So they're in 100% profit if they sold. Usually when you want to sell, everyone else wants to sell too (see Mar 2020) so it all comes crashing
I thought we had all agreed that "Chinese hackers" was the correct term to use /s.
No problem.
i took a second look at it. I did not realize I could scroll down from the orange splash screen. Reduce it to maybe 75%, so its more intuitive you can actually scroll.
I'd like to actually see it in action. Thanks
They will be super angry and look at all the details, including the past profits, then calmly decide to look the other way because they need a retirement account after all :)
What they're describing is a very broad range of variations across multiple genetic loci with subtle effects that do not predict, only relatively vaguely correlate with, sexual behavior. They say as much, too, although at much greater length and complexity.

I get the concern for potential risk around selective abortion, IVF, etc; I was around for the "gay gene" debate in the 90s. This isn't that. This disproves that. And what they're reporting could not be used in that way.
Thank you very much for this detailed and insightful post. Much appreciated
Vs, why was this remote facing, and why don't they have a definitive answer on if it's an USA or non USA ip address.

Sounds like no logs, probably showed up on shodan and someone wanted to have fun/many people did.
> You can hold the stance that WSB fiasco is idiotic scaremongering while also acknowledging that there are other internet mobs that do real harm.

You mean like that group that has torched neighborhoods, shot polive officers, shot other protesters, thrown rocks, use baseball bats on police and civilians etc etc?

Or do you mean the really really scary ones like the ones that walked into Capitol Hill and had four lunatics with strips along with them while the rest were busily taking photos?
So, when you see that picture of 1 Billion galaxies, each with a few billion solar systems, you think it’s more likely than not we’re alone?
How does your service compare to Protolabs?
Sadly, evidence contradicts that thought. It shouldn’t but it does.
That isn’t what they’re asserting.

I worked there for more than a decade. The settlement changed behavior - you thought about how to avoid future trust-like behavior.
Jives with my experiences working in consulting and on the vendor side of things, honestly. Systems that don't have any practical need for air gaps always seem to be air-gapped, and systems that probably should be air-gapped often aren't.
Maybe use a /8 subnet with reasonable DHCP lease durations to avoid that possibility. I know not all home gear can do it (old WRT54G with stock firmware can’t; thinking more along the lines of pfSense or Ubiquiti routers).
Maybe to have a Cleaning Cycle once a year? But yeah there is a lack of security there.
Thanks for the reply! I think your last point is what worries me the most. I feel like it makes sense to tackle custom attributes, because you own the user management pages. But, I also feel like you're almost never going to be able to support the kind of flexibility customers will need if those fields are anything more than simply metadata.

It's nothing about Clerk specifically, it's just a problem with these kinds of products. I just worry that as your customers grow and scale, they naturally need to leave your platform (or downgrade to an auth-only solution). I'll definitely be curious to see how the product grows, though!
We used to be worried about the national debt. Now it feels like a given that it's all funny money.
Are you referring to LayerCI, possibly?
Hacker News is not a place for you to troll.
When companies grow, they often go public to keep growing and play against bigger competitors. When they go public, investors buy stakes in it.
When investors buy stakes in it, they want a return on their investment.
The key point to understand is that those investors’ job is exactly to make a profit, but that’s not always because they are sharks and want to afford a faster car. Some do. Some others may be from pension funds, insurances, retail banks or other socially relevant entities, and all of a sudden if they don’t make a profit, some family in some place might just not make enough interest to withstand inflation, and some other one might outright lose their life’s savings.
The problem is not greedy players. A game that rewards unbounded greed is the problem.
My guess is a bit of each: The company high-balling the LoC estimate to try to impress/scare the judge, but prooobably also has a truly terrible codebase.
A couple of the left wing economics blogs I read are now blocked on facebook. Which tells you what Zuckerburg thinks is actually a problem.
Look, dude claimed everything would be a-o.k. if you just walked. Well, apparently not.
I think we should team up and take them down
Interesting, Theron is certainly an example of someone whose attractiveness I've mostly heard affirmed by people not sexually attracted to women - there seem to be a fair number of people who possess what we might call beauty without much in the way of sex appeal. What's strange is how unconsciously we'll imagine that someone is highly desired without ever encountering a reality check.
Go is clearly not for crud web apps. For that you have all the rails clone that’ll autogenerate pretty much everything, and has a predetermined path for every situation. Or the enterprisy version, with a decent orm, if you want type-safety.

Go is for system-level programming that mainly consists of plumbing api endpoints together. i would recommend it for building middlewares in a server environment
There are 3 Nim frameworks in the plaintext benchmark. Httpbeast, Jester and Prologue.
This was my gut instinct too. Some high school kid or just a random hacker who stumbled across it is just as likely as anything else.
You forgot Russians/N.Koreans or Iranians...it's a flavor question.
If it calls attention to vulnerable infrastructure in the US, good. We need to put a lot more tax dollars into securing these systems.
Efficacy of RO systems is highly dependent on incoming water pressure and temperature. I got a professional water test done on our RO system and was surprised at how much remained in our (hard well) water. It turned out that our incoming water temp was far too low for the system to reach peak efficiency.
> This happened on ios for me years ago.

Neither of the 2 scenarios you describe are even remotely what's happened here. Not sure how you got from 'malicious ad popups' to 'app added cloud feature'.
Not the first time I've seen something like this.