skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spent a long time thinking about how to prevent abuse and just spam, and unfortunately I don't think I have a good solution for it.

The idea though is that these domains are generated by people seeking feedback (or looking to talk about a certain topic) with a group of people that they at least have some sort of relationship with. It isn't really meant to be an anonymous message board where you set up the topic and literally anybody drops in and says anything they like. I was hoping that with an intimate smaller group where the domain is shared with only people the creator is interested in hearing from and trusts, this would reduce the amount of spam/abuse.
How many years old was this lad, like 9?

Adult people shouldn't behave like a toddler and government should overreact by a tantrum. Is embarrassing for both parts.
Unfortunately, it's a long-standing practice in the news industry that journalists don't get a say in the title of their article. The NYT in particular has explained their headline writing process in the past (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/09/insider/how-to-write-a-ne...): headlines are written by copyeditors, with explicit goals to "[create] a mystery that can only be solved by reading further" and "reach and draw in as many people as possible".
Thank you! Resolved.
Greenwald’s pretending to be a libertarian journalist (but actually just hating US Democrats) is better than what he did before, defending neo-Nazis pretending to be a free speech advocate (but actually because he was one of them).
Amazing, this sounds like watching the Matrix in its code form ;)

https://youtu.be/MvEXkd3O2ow?t=39
This is cool and all, but it's definitely not a new vertical. There are dozens of CIAM vendors up and down the value chain who do more than authentication.
> protecting more vulnerable family and community members

So in other words, brainwash kids by only showing them one side of political arguments their entire life.

Then when little Jimmy starts hearing whispers about the evil Republicans, we'll tell him if he looks them in the eye he'll turn to stone.
I have this dilemma at the moment. My company has a management and non-management track. I feel like the company is pushing me up the levels and that all focus across engineering is on getting promoted to the next level. My problem is now that I've got to Staff level I feel like I'm a manager even though my manager insists I'm not. I hardly ever get to code, and my calendar is full of meetings. I spend a lot of time writing planning documents and having meetings about spreadsheets and OKRs and to be honest I absolutely hate it.
I've been trying to work out if it's like this everywhere, or if this is specific to my company. I spoke to a few people and they pretty much said "Yeah, the more senior you get the less you get to code". The articles I read about Staff Engineer level seem to imply it's more about architecture and planning.
I'm really tempted to demote myself back to Senior and just stick there, but I'd probably take a salary cut and I also feel like I'd taint my career and be viewed as a failure.
I thought we'd move forwards by creating twin tracks that means engineers don't automatically have to go into management to get ahead, but it feels like it hasn't changed that much. I know some people are great at that level of engineer role, and I can see why companies need it.
I keep coming back to the question: why do we take people who are good at coding and say "OK, you're great at that so I'm going to promote you into a role where you hardly ever get to do it"?

For what it's worth, I enjoy mentoring and explaining things, writing docs, and being involved in design of systems and influencing technical strategy. It's nice to be making technical choices. But when you're more familiar with a spreadsheet than an IDE, something has gone wrong.
I'm skeptical this was the reason, though (at least in and of itself). Going off of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multics#Novel_ideas, it seems that the address space (36 address bits ⇒ 36 bits/word × 2³⁶ ÷ 8 bits/byte = 288 GiB) was much larger than memory of the machine Multics was designed for (about 2 MB), and the size of a segment was limited to about 1 MB (36 bits/word × 2¹⁸ ÷ 8 bits/byte), nearly half of all memory – so I doubt this was troublesome at the time.
I don't need to Google them. "Residential proxies for sale" is one of the most common Facebook ads I see. There was one on my screen just five minutes ago. It's staggering that the industry is so blatant.
> TIL the Mafia has a pretty decent, humane code of conduct.

Towards other Mafia people.

Which is a key point. People who aren't in the Family have different opinions of people on the other side of the tommy gun barrel and its humane usage.
Another way to prevent snooping is to prevent access to the signals. Many devices contain metal mesh shielding to absorb radio emissions [0]. For example, microwave ovens have a mesh window that passes visible light (~500 nm) but not microwave heating radiation (~100mm).

How can one insulate a building against RF leakage?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_shielding
Did you go to court? Or just not pay for a long time? You said "take all your money". Was that indirect due to the fine amount or are you saying they actively took it (like a garnishment)?

Apart from the hack I mentioned, there are also options if you cannot afford.

Example: in LA they have community service or payment plan options. [1]

[1] https://ladot.lacity.org/projects/parking-in-la/pay-your-par...
Django does not have this feature-set out of the box, that's for sure.
I'm still wondering how the incredibly large intelligence gathering apparatus in this country was unable to thwart an attack that was being planned openly on social media, in broad daylight. If you can't even stop an attack you should have known was imminent, how does giving them even MORE tools stem the massive failure that allowed the attack to happen in the first place?
I hear yes but I don’t have experience. The particular editing commands aren’t what make SLIME nice, it’s the interop. Viper should be fine.
You want to argue that the guy espousing sexism through his anecdotal experiences has valid anecdotes?
>You can click through and the article in question was Greenwald attempting to give oxygen to GOP propaganda about Hunter Biden.

Photos of drug fueled sex romps with prostitutes by the president's son are newsworthy. Same goes for his investments and work in foreign countries. The lack of investigative journalism into Hunter Biden is the product of something far worse than what Greenwald is covering. This has zero to do with the false Democrat/Republican dichotomy - this is powerful people that are doing things that the proles cannot, while being shielded by the same people tasked with holding them accountable.
> "While I am concerned about Telegram in general, it’s important to note that group chats there are not end-to-end encrypted. Neither are forwarded messages. So if Telegram or law enforcement authorities wanted to investigate the contents of a big group chat, they could do so, in theory. If Telegram does become the next misinformation hot spot, we won’t be helpless."

Notice the "we won't be helpless" - a clear inference that if information is published there that this person considers to be misinformation, they have an avenue to report it and get it censored.

And the whole tone of the article was clearly "the tech giants have agreed to censor the bad people, so now the bad people have fled to smaller apps where it's going to be harder to censor them". It's a discussion about how authorities can "stop the spread of disinformation" - you know, censor people.
what you are saying is "use lisp if you don't want any dependency". it's a practical use case
This sounds similar to the subreddit whose members post "CP" to subreddits they do not like in order to get them taken down. We should be talking about the false accusation and false accusations in general, but it is probably easier to talk about the messenger.
Downvoted? Why? When user-related information is outsourced, the GDPR is absolutely relevant. Even the Google(!) screenshot on the landing page shows "Privacy and personalization" as the first item, that goes to show...
To Webmaster: How much $$ to jump first in line?
Even AWS S3 is a key-value storage system. Meaning your key can be anything.

But over time, people tend to name the key using a path structure, separated by forward slashes, to give a logical separation of data into subdirectories.
Is the User schema[1] extensible? Can I add custom attributes or metadata to my users?

[1] https://frontend-docs.clerk.dev/object-reference/user
Thanks for the explanation.

Perhaps a quarantine period — say, 1 year — will work, the same way e.g. phonenumbers are recycled?
> "Stasi notebooks", really?

Hyperbole is a well known tool in writing.

Here it is obvious that he is using it and it resonates with many of the readers. I say he used it well.

When is hyperbole wrong? IMO most often when it isn't obvious. If a normally capable but uninformed reader actually believe it to be true word-by-word then it is missing its mark.

I might feel more strongly about this than you since a bunch of my friends has been on the receiving end of some major abuse of power by journalistic powerhouses around here.
Additionally, this is perhaps the most overt or high-profile example of her untrustworthiness, but there's a long tail of slightly subtler and lower-profile incidents that undoubtedly factored into her termination. It's not like this was a one-off, out-of-character incident.
I recommend everyone does this; not just if you switch to fastmail. Having your email identity tied to a particular service provider is a terrible idea. Email will probably be with us until we die; and chances are very high you won't want that particular email service provider for 60 consecutive years.

I used gmail with a custom domain for years before I finally decided to move to fastmail, which made the move pretty painless. That said, when I set it up gsuite with a custom domain was free. I don't think thats the case any more.
PayPal shuts down its domestic services
Ragel: State machine compiler or a fast way to build fast parser
The point of the article is that journalists telling tales on dubious things semi-public figures wrote on social media is bad, particularly when they make evidence-free claims about their motives for doing it and appear to mostly be trying to encourage an enraged mob to pile on. In isolation, this might be considered a reasonable point to make.

To prove his point the author, a journalist, spends most of his article telling us a tale about a dubious thing a semi-public figure wrote on social media, claims she is "malicious, disgusting and sociopathic", suggests the only possible motivation for journalists like her investigating things which semi public figures say off the record is "to control, to coerce, to dominate, to repress"[1] and says his followers should feel "a particular obligation" to heap scorn on her and other targets of his ire.

My irony meter exploded.

[1]yes, this is the founder of The Intercept and prominent Wikileaks advocate Glenn Greenwald suggesting there's something wrong with "eavesdropping on private conversations" of influential billionaires by getting invited to their chatroom.
At my age, degrading gracefully through time is about the best I can hope for
It was a funny cute thing when they came up with it cause they were a landmark company built on the web, breaking new grounds in terms of how businesses will be run in the future, sticking it to the establishment, etc etc etc

Now they are the establishment. Their power and influence is on par with the US government, so it's an expectation that they should actually not be evil. But they fail at that in the most basic ways and they're not held accountable for it because "they're a private company, they can do what they want!"
Why Startups Fail – Lessons from 150 Founders
Court documents show FBI has tool to break into Signal on Locked iPhones
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Lisp-2 vs. Lisp-1 has nothing to do with hygiene, it just splits Scheme's single problem (lexically binding values in macros) into two problems (lexically binding values in macros, and lexically binding functions in macros).

The real problem, which Naggum includes, is the lack of GENSYM (if scheme indeed lacks it), and lack of first class symbols, as he mentioned.
I used to think the same until I tried Hugo and it generates my site in milliseconds. Deploying from there also takes less than a second.

It is really astonishing what power our devices have and how little that power is utilised by many tool chains.
I know what you mean. Junior isn't the cakewalk it sounds like though, there's an "up or out" requirement that you advance to terminal level or get fired. So eventually you'd end up back at senior. Plus a lot of places use former interns in those junior roles so those positions are ironically very hard to come by.

But yes, I can identify with that. Being one level below senior for the rest of my career would be great if it were possible.
> I feel like Google is a case study in an engineering only company. Everything is reduced to a technical problem. Incentives are aligned to solve technical problems. No one wants to work on something unless it is technically interesting and new. There is no incentive at all for delivering an excellent user experience over the long term - which usually can't be done with tech only, and involves a lot of dredge work of continuous introspection and improvement.

This goes well beyond Stadia - Google has an air of institutional contempt for humans, especially humans who aren't inside Google. Dealing with humans who are struggling with getting bounced by "the algorithm" is something they simply aren't interested in.
Most interesting line if this article for me:

> The ape cost £300, about £25,000 in today’s money (or about $34,000USD).

Holy cow, has there been a 10,000% inflation of the value of a pound in one century?
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Reference:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov
> One is aimed at crushing ordinary peoples possibility to send private messages.

You really should read it, because the article takes the opposite conclusion. "Are you concerned?" "Honestly, not really?"
If NYT or any big dinosaur media company has any shred of integrity left they'll fire and blacklist every single so called journalist engaging in this sort of behavior. They represent your brand, their behavior is your behavior. It reflects on every other employee you have, including any presumably honest ones. If you're an honest journalist and you work for one of these companies, know that their behavior makes me and millions of others distrust you, they're making the most important company on your resume into a hindrance, you need to demand that these people be fired, if not for any reason than to save your own reputation.
Never heard of this but now I'm in love.

Now to figure out what I can write about.

Though I'm definitely going to use this for internal docs at work probably. Very nice.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't you have to formally map out all of your inputs and outputs for partial recompilation to work?

I believe the last time I touched make was to fix an exceedingly badly mapped out chain of cause and effect that would consistently compile too much and yet occasionally miss the one thing you actually needed.

Partial evaluation works out the dependencies by evaluating all of the conditional logic and seeing which inputs interact with which outputs.
Hey, Braden one of the founders. It's a good question, and a question that gets asked a lot. Out of curiosity would you trust a more established company like Auth0 or Firebase? We hope to gain developers trust over time, and we want to build a tool that makes it dramatically easier to build out session management, and a lot of these user flows.

A similar question that was asked only a few (10?) years ago, was "why would I trust a third party with my credit card data?" And now it's something that people don't think twice about, because of all the regulatory challenges around storing credit cards, and how bad a breach is.

We see auth, and more generically, basic user data, as a corollary to that. With User Data regulations popping up in different countries (GDPR/CCPA), in the next 5-10yrs, we think it will become pretty common place to use a service to offload some of these gnarly responsibilities.
Silver: What Next? Mike Maloney's Take
The authors of that article pulled off a motte and bailey fallacy[1]. The motte is "There should be message forwarding limits and group size limits on encrypted messaging platforms".

> It’s interesting to note that WhatsApp has restricted message forwarding for exactly this reason [preventing false information spreading like on social networks]

We can all agree message forwarding limits are a good idea - no one like spam. The bailey is implied to be that we should keep tabs on identified extremists even in encrypted platforms.

> I share your worry about the encrypted apps becoming, essentially, huge shadow social networks.

> there’s now this debate about whether it’s good that all these unsavory characters from the dregs of the internet are disappearing from big social platforms, or whether it’s dangerous to have them congregating in spaces where researchers, journalists and law enforcement can’t keep tabs on them as easily.

The authors (or speakers, as this article is a dialog) never make the bailey argument. Instead they make arguments that would naturally lead to the bailey, if taken seriously. Private messengers could become "shadow social networks"? Well if they do, they must be policed like social networks.
Also note in the second quote how the speaker distances them self from the argument with "there's this debate". They don't mention the alternative to the current situation, so it is left to the imagination of the reader - should we allow "unsavory characters" back on social media platforms? Or is the alternative that we continue keeping tabs on them on the encrypted messaging apps?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy
Oh, that's interesting. Looks like I have some reading to do! Thanks for replying.
On the one hand, it's annoying that they leave out the most seek-after detail of the article, one that everyone who reads the article wants to know about.

On the other hand, the BBC has been in hot water in the past when they reported people's speeches/posts/etc., as is, since many people consider it insensitive, causing emotional harm, etc.
We have 13 years of compulsory education in the United States to convert children into "We the People." Your ideological opponents (whoever they are) are not victims or imbeciles.
I think the question is actually "what is this company trying to sell you?"
Note that declarative syntax for specifying GUI properties is actually old hat, too. (Even if we ignore things like HTML and CSS).

I mean, for instance, oh, Windows resource files.

Glancing through CLIM, I also don't see anything like that sort of separation between GUI logic and form.
I can answer with the opposite question. Why would you trust your homemade solution instead of heavily invested experts? Auth0 (and Okta and a thousand others) do nothing but auth and customer management and do it at 1000X the scale as most enterprises. They do it way better than your IT team could possibly do it. And support every cutting edge feature and potential use case. You can also get them to absorb indemnity for damages in case of a breach rather than absorbing the cost yourself. From my POV, you'd be nuts to try to own your own passwords if you're securing anything remotely valuable.
> It's painfully clear at this point that we need a consumer "bill of rights" to protect us from these giant tech companies.

It isn't the only solution to this problem. Not using their products is another one. However, in some sectors (e.g. smartphones) it is next to impossible to not use their products, especially because they are build on centralized schemes. But regulating those things is probably harder than a consumer rights bill. But the downside is probably, that a consumer rights bill would not just affect the few large corporations, but many smaller ones too.
I'm dreading when the pandemic is over. Having to drive 2 hours a day for the commute, being too tired to do anything when I get home. Working from home is utter bliss for me. Get to walk once or twice a day with my family, whilst still getting in 7-8 hours of work.
Just want to chime in that one can use a static site generator without upgrading it. Or upgrading it infrequently.

I’m currently on Hugo 0.80.0 and who knows, it might take years before I upgrade it.
Yep. I run a few WordPress sites and the amount of maintenance with them is crazy. The plugin model makes maintenance brutal too since it's all independent devs with different release cycles, testing practices, etc.
Wordpress can be configured to receive automatic updates as soon as they're available. Plugins are a different story...
I think Django has by far the best story here, so much built in or activated with simple plugins. It took us an hour to add 2FA.

On the other hand, looking at node.js it's really a dumpster fire[1]. Even when using passport, you are still back to writing the code to compare passwords at which point so much can go wrong. So there's a lot of scope for hosted services. This of course compounds the problem because those service providers are GREAT at SEO and content marketing, so now a lot of Google hits on nodejs auth end up recommending Auth0 &friends.

[1] https://medium.com/hackernoon/your-node-js-authentication-tu...
These cases also often come up with drug and alcohol detection tests, and as John Oliver points out in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f2iawp0y5Y, software used to select jurors.

All of these companies claim that their source code is valuable intellectual property and that disclosing it can hurt their business. Even if this were true, when you're providing something that can be a significant factor in someone being imprisoned or executed, when creating the business you should accept that you're providing a public service that needs to be publicly accountable.

If it's not open source, at the very least there should be a requirement that software code and hardware designs must be provided on-demand to experts in court cases (with a non-disclosure clause to mitigate leaks and corporate espionage etc.).