skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Was this a RuneScape private server (RSPS)? I remember back in the day you could find a free RSPS DDoS tool with a quick Google search, and all you had to do was enter the public IP address to start attacking. The culture for the RSPS scene was exactly what you're describing.

Also there was another kind of attack where you would start thousands of bot clients at once that would spam messages. The hopes would be that you would (a) shut down the server, (b) attract the players to the server your bots were advertising
Often a DDoS is used as a smokescreen/cover for an actual compromise. I guess the hope is that it gets unnoticed in all the noise and whilst all hands are busy at the pumps. Hope not!

I see in their status page that OCSP endpoints are also impacted. There could be any number of motivations including interfering with someone's ability to check if a certificate has been revoked.
It's fine for you to spend 20 hours producing content and for me to value it at zero. Saying it looks like people prefer any money to no money is not a new or unique observation
I've driven some smaller, compact cars, and I swear the rear window was just decorative (small, obscured by the back seats). I can picture them being eliminated in some sub-compact hatchbacks.
Cable wasn't in a competitive market. It at least seems like websites are.

Newspapers are dying and clinging on to a model that worked when being one had a high barrier to entry. Would you honestly think of taking out ads in a newspaper these days? Apart from for very specific things, I wouldn't.
I don't use NFTs, but the author of the linked blog article said Proof of Stake avoids the ecological problem.

That author also does not engage meaningfully with the green energy side of the crypto ecosystem. Strong international and local regulations would go a long way in protecting the environment and local prices.
Looks like the core problem is not rust, but the device abstractions. There is no reason peripherals that are literally the same in hardware should not be the same type in software.
Normal distributions are used all the time to model strictly positive phenomena. https://math.stackexchange.com/a/1335872
eSims are on the device itself. The QR code on cardboard is probably a link to the AT&T website or AT&T app to activate.
> Above 1 million views/month (which I would say is still a pretty small commercial site) goatcounter already is in "ask us" territory

I can give some context on this: determining a good pricing on these kind of things is rather tricky. In principle this is easy: "cost + markup". But "costs" is actually pretty variable and independent of number of pageviews as such: sending 1 million pageviews on a single path is cheap. Sending them spread out over 1 million paths is much more expensive.

For smaller sites this is not a big deal, but above a certain amount this can matter a lot. I don't want to overcharge "light" users, but I also don't want to undercharge "heavy" users.

Basically, figuring out a good pricing is just hard. One of the goals is to be a viable alternative for GA for at least a bunch of use cases (though not all), and being cheap is part of that. This is the entire reason there's a free plan in the first place: when I started working on this there was no real alternative: you either had to shell out money or self-host, which is too high of a barrier for many people's blogs and whatnot (especially if they're not technical and will have trouble self-hosting). It's all a bit of a balancing act.

> And from a UX perspective, none of them seem to support searching for a specific page to display the stats for. Yes, you can edit the URL, but that’s a horrible way to do it.

That is supported, unless I misunderstand what you mean?
Don't forget that this is just a social construct. Without anything tangeable (physical) we just have to agree that a NFT is unique / original.

Compare it with paper notes, they are worthless but sociaty gives it value. If we all agree paper notes are worthless it is worthless.

I can see easily how this becomes worthless in a couple of years when the bubble bursts and the hype is over
I think libraries are a better place for this sort of code reuse than builtin language features though ;)
Individual cable stations are in a competitive market.
Could you expand with evidence to justify and further explain what you mean?
In my limited experience, they're just far less kind. They won't hesitate to arrest you, and if they do, they'll throw away all the stuff you had collected and take your dog to the pound if you had one. Police won't help if you call, and if someone else calls about you then you are presumed guilty.

The end result is that the homeless either end up leaving, or moving their camp to somewhere out of the way like the woods. If you're an eye sore, people will call 911 on you 15 times a day.

I'm not advocating for it, but "let's make the homeless in our city so miserable they don't want to be seen" seems to be effective in reducing the eye sore.
Possible a timing/age issue. When I first encountered the antivaxers, it was in the late 90s with parents of children on the autistic spectrum grasping at whatever cause they could. Now it is pretty much just the kind of people that are attracted to ideas like climate skepticism or crystal healing. And they all have a bogeyman like evil corporations or the government.
> People will never pay for what people now derisively call "content" nowadays.

I wish there were a button I could push to take away money from the publishers of 3/4 of the articles I read on the web.

edit: to head off any objections like "but you still read articles on the web so you must be getting some value," I have to state the obvious: I don't get to read articles before I read them. 3/4 of articles are the garbage I have to dig through to find something that meets the standard of mediocre. If it weren't for them, I could spend 3/4 less time reading articles, and 3/4 less bandwidth (so they're environmentally destructive, like bitcoin.)
The worst is when you pay for an online newspaper and they still have ads!
So much FUD. If the author tokenizes their blog posts they may come to find out they cannot sell them for much whereas Jack's first tweet tokenized is definitely worth something to people.

Digital collectibles can be transacted much more easily that trying to sell your old baseball cards (store, list, ship, etc).

ETH is moving to PoS and FLOW (which is used for NBA Top Shots) uses PoS. The energy complaint is short sighted.

Check out eulerbeats.com for a model that allows owners of originals to generate income and owners of prints to easy recoup 90% of their cost (all built into the smart contract).

If I could buy an NFT of my favorite YouTuber's piano video, I would do it in a heartbeat. It would support them directly and allow me as a fan to 'own' something valuable to me (proof of that support).

Yes, there will be many who lose money and like anything else, we build up a lot of hype for something new, but it is early days and there is so much potential.
You can probably try most paid services without long term consequences and quit if they aren't worth your money?
The new Google Pay repeats all the same mistakes of Google Allo
Have you done something similar in the past? Do you have a webpage that explains the type of deals you make?
Firefox introduces extension that automatically censors “hate speech”
The submersible vehicle used for this is called “Limiting Factor”. This is the name of a GOU (general offensive unit) ship from Ian M. Banks’ Culture series. Culture ship names have also been used by spacex, most notably their two drone ships “of course I still love you” and “just read the instructions”. Would love if this trends is kept up, some of the culture ship names are just amazing.
I'd day the "irrelevance of cars" as most will work from home (and many will have no work to go to) is just beginning...

Actually it's already on going, with less interest in car ownership in the 21st century, the advent of Uber and similar services, and renewed interest in modern public transportation, at least from countries that progress to the future (like China, India, and so on), not from countries that cling to the past and let their infrastructure deteriorate (US but also common in Europe, where several countries are basically shells of their 19th/20th century self, infrastructure, geo-politically, and demographics wise).
Added repo just now https://github.com/PassPilot/PassPilot.com
The incentive for websites is to build a moat against competition, and many succeed.
In public beta since 2019? Is there a key difference between vvvv?
The keys to the kingdom are ever more being placed in the hands of relatively few internet custodians. Figuratively here of course, since the private keys are generated locally and never transmitted to LE.
How I hijacked a Twitter Account
> The problem isn’t the wealthy people per se. The problem is industries like tech that generate highly paid upper middle class jobs that most people aren’t qualified for (and realistically will never be qualified for), as opposed to a larger number of middle class jobs that most people can be qualified for.

You talk as if that is a problem. If you are surrounded by rich customers you also get to charge more for your low skill job. The problem is that there isn't enough housing for both high skill and low skill workers.
i was looking for this
Some of this seems a bit arbitrary. “Good health imparts reality to subtle creativity.” While poorly worded, it contains a kernel of truth that you can only express your creativity by being in good health. However it is put into the bs pile. The non bs section contains motivational quotes which are popular but are bs mostly. What is the definition of bsing? Thinking out loud? Not being accurate? Intentionally stringing together words to sound impressive?
At the end of the article there was mention of a fossil, and they seemed to imply that they retrieved chemical samples from it,did I miss something or is that a thing now?
Ask HN: Where can I volunteer to teach prisoners to code?
Translated: Firefox follows US trends and norms of what is "hate speech" and what speech should be allowed, and censors the internet it was supposed to help keep free.
I am curious how they determined the subjects tested were bullshitters.

Did they get to know them enough to realise they bullshit a lot?

Or did they ask them if they were good bullshitters? If so, then maybe they missed those who are bullshitters but either don’t know it, or won’t admit to it.
> but I seriously doubt that they'd be willing to internally maintain the absolute truckload of code that would ensue from getting to feature parity with Jetbrains on languages like Java or Python

Why would you doubt this? Microsoft is huge compared to JetBrains and revenue opportunities of code editors have been clearly demonstrated since the 80s. Microsoft sold how many billions of dollars of Visual Studio in the 90s? Plus the red flags are already popping up: Microsoft is already not open sourcing Python language tooling [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25719045
Can’t it be both? Surely it’s more difficult to navigate your way out of a convoluted, multi-layered false understanding than an erroneous belief about a simple fact?
At this point there are plenty of pictures of the earth, other celestial bodies, airplanes going round the earth and what not, so that anybody can see it and it doesn’t require any trigonometry or scientific knowledge.
Of course one might not have personally flown around the earth or been part of an operation to take a picture from space, but the same can be said about anything. For instance how would you prove that your heart pumps blood? Have you seen it personally?
the linked BJSP paper is paywalled

what's the effect size?
Check out my other comment here [0] on abusing tracking and ads anyway, but basically, just run an ad blocker anyway :)

As for when the payments happen, it's only when the page is open and active, and stops if you go idle.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26376118
This is the main thing. To make money as a business (and running a personal website is a business in that sense if you want to make money from it), you have to give something that others value.

It’s not just personal websites that face this issue, everyone who wants to make money from their interests does.

That’s why the world has business people and employees - both have different strengths and weaknesses
KYC = Know Your Customer, a kind of law applying to financial services; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_your_customer
And did you have fun making it?
Agree. This started as a feature for our custom events/goals as people wanted to see conversions on dynamically generated checkout pages for ecommerce. But turns out it is useful for the use cases we're discussing here too so we plan to make it easier to discover/work with in the future.
> It accepts that digital recreations are easy and doesn't seek to prevent them yet still provides scarcity and reward for the effort in producing it.

I like this description quite a bit. Im obviously a believer already, but this is a good way to describe the value potential of blockchain based NFTs.

Slight digression, but personally I hate the way scarcity always makes its way into the conversation due to the obsessive discussion of deflation, but I think in the case of NFTs it fits well.

I'd rephrase your statement as saying that NFTs using blockchain protocols preserve the scarcity of owning an asset. Then extending that, digitally verifiable proof of the scarce resource (i.e. ownership) is the aspect that can create an economic incentive for ownership.

Well said!
> without ads or any friction

Initially there will be friction. After all the hype has dissipated from the early adopters, then regular users of the web will need to adopt it en masse. It's not going to be smooth sailing from the outset.
But every now and then some smartass in a boardroom will come up with the idea to test that theory.
Okay. I was about to write a Svelte compiler in C. I am choosing Zig. Thank you!
I first wanted to choose Rust but I never liked that language. I feel that it inhibits thought process. I was making yet another project with Rust. I didn't continue because I felt if in future 25 people were to work on this, only 5 could actually write code without scratching their heads. Rust surely does solve bugs, but does not let me think with freedom. I am on the Zig train.

I loved Nim and considered it to be my second choice. But something pulled me off. Maybe the GC. I still don't understand though why Nim is not as popular as Go. I mean it has good compile times, good performance and the best part, it compiles to C.

Why these languages and not Go or <insert language here>? Simple. Rust, Nim and Zig have `extern` with a C ABI. People don't realize how big this feature is. Two way communication with C.
That redot project seems like perfect candidate for a kickstarter
Since the theft is newsworthy, it would be clear that only the first NFT was genuine.
> Tracking is about greed. Webservers already tell us enough otherwise.

There are a few aspects that can't be tracked from server logs, for example screen size. I think this can be fairly important for UX reasons.

There's some other tracking that can be useful as well; for example if you're considering removing a button or feature then it's useful to know how many people are using that. If this is a JS-only feature (like, say, sorting a table in JS) then you need some JS tracking on this.

In short, I feel lobbing all "tracking" in one category is a mistake. It's all about how you use it and what you do with it. This applies to most technology really.

I do agree that trust is a big concern; I don't really have a clear comprehensive solution to this.
I guess that makes Dart a less dead language than it used to be, but from what I can tell there’s almost no momentum around Dart at all.

Basing your future applications on a language which seemingly is already slipping into its coffin (even discounting the regular Google discontinuing thing), seems like a really weird choice.
As a non-UI developer (I specialize in NLP, deep learning, and knowledge graphs), I like Flutter because it is so easy to make cross platform apps that someone like me can get started quickly. I would expect that experts would still prefer native Android, iOS, desktop, etc. frameworks.
I have a Timex Sinclair 1000 in my basement (the 2K USA version of the ZX81). Commodore had the largest warehouse of these in North America by 1984.
It’s subsidized power and these “businesses” are effectively just reselling that power to foreigners at a markup. No government would want to participate in that.
If Alice buys art from Bob, and that art goes up in value due to the open-market activity of anonymous [Carol?, ...], then Alice can donate that now expensive art to a digital museum for a tax write off. Where could Alice get the NFTs appraised? Is the open market activity sufficient?

It's almost like the NFT system allows proles to do fancy tax write-offs like their bourgeoisie cousins.
My mom publishes a tiny site via WordPress. Some of the plugins and themes she relies upon are no longer maintained. I was researching Publii yesterday, wondering if it could be a better alternative. She already exports a static version of the WordPress site using a Simply Static plugin. Publii also has a WordPress import feature. Those two facts combined with that seems to be a friendly UI makes it worth trying out.
Understanding P-Values Through Simulations – An Interactive Visualization
> The idea of checking that a pin is "only used in one place" doesn't really jive with how I think about microcontroller programming.

The borrow checker is not checking that the pin is used in "only one place", it is checking that you don't use the same pin for two different purposes at the same time.

It make sure that you configure your pin as output pin before using it as an output pin, and that you reconfigure it to input pin when using it as such.

(And there are some escape hatch to use when the type system is not sufficient to express that different code paths are disjoint, like RefCell, with runtime check, or unsafe)
Not sure if I'm missing a joke, but the part commented out is in Rust (not C++) from the original post?
One way to see the parents comment is not as:

- "These will be classics"

but as:

- "These authors are already dead/or will be, and their books are already decades old, but they are very good according to me, even classic status worthy".

In that sense, it's an answer to TFA's question: "why read classic books" if we consider it as not just asking "why read classic==canonized books?" but "why read class==old books?"

And the answer is "because old books can be great, and contemporary books that are great will at some point be 'classics' themselves".
Businesses maximize profits, and people showed across many mediums, that they’re ok with ads in content, paid or not (press and cable are great examples - you pay for both, and they’re full of ads).

Getting more paid content will not meaningfully reduce amount of ads, as they can provide extra income for companies, with overall little negative impact.
If you are killing someone to print them elsewhere why not print more copies? Teleporting people this way seems to be a faster horses way of thinking method of travel.
> We've had freedom of speech for a while without having disinformation going rampant

I'm confident that if you look at archived US publications going back to before the revolution you'll find rampant "misinformation" the whole time.
Note that I wouldn't endorse owning a person, but whether they have the same value is a matter of whether they have the same utility. Leaving the painting in the museum might make the certificate more valuable for all we know, because it ensures that the painting will be stored properly and not forgotten by the public.

Honestly I didn't even think about a definition of ownership when coming up with my idea.
I don't think it's safe to generalize "x is slow and electron, y is fast and native" to mean "native is fast". Electron lowering barrier to entry also means it's used by projects who aren't going to carefully profile their app no matter what, so the same app written as a native app would also be garbage. At least some of it is "correlation not causation"

And for your chat example, when I was at IBM the Sametime chat native app couldn't even accept single line incoming text without grinding a several thousand dollar machine to a halt. Bad software is going to be bad no matter what language it's written in.
As an aside, Boswell also noted that James Grainger removed the line “Come muse, let us sing if rats” in his poem The Sugar Cane because he discovered that when he uttered these words his audience dissolved into laughter.
> I believe the current deluge of ads unseen since early 200X is the biggest proof that that "Internet economy" does not work, and will not work.

Financial statements by Google, Facebook, Twitter and co would imply otherwise.

> If somebody does not want to give you money, why would they?

They wouldn't, and that's the point isn't to force them, it's to allow those that do want to give money, to be able to do so easily. If the website you're on is some random crap, you can usually tell quickly, well before the Coil extension kicks in and starts streaming payments; if on the other side spend 10 minutes reading an article or exploring a beautiful map of Westeros, then some cents trickle directly to the creator.

> People will never pay for what people now derisively call "content" nowadays.

Substack and Medium exist, showing that people can and do pay for "content" ( which doesn't mean a TikTok dance or SEO filler).

> The only suggestion I have for the type of one man blogger enterprise complaining about nobody giving them money is to change occupation, and get a normal source of income.

You do you.
Hacking a Budget-Priced Aldi E-Scooter
If you are willing to pay then you are also a lot more valuable as a target for ads. There is no chance of ad reduction. Unfortunately, “post purchase monetization” is a new buzzword.
> There is one new feature in the new Google Pay. I swear I'm not making this up: new Google Pay is yet another Google messaging app!
IMO they are bidding on Flutter hoping that it'll become next big thing replacing Android. It'll allow for easy porting mobile apps to Linux.

Time will tell whether they're right or not. They made some failed bids in the past (Mir, upstart), but at least they're trying to move.
Some of my friends are implementing a blobchain using it.
"doesn't handle ergodicity?" non-ergodicity. The ergodicity economics' name is confusing as it dropped the non- part.

"Why do those two things need to be mutually exclusive?" EUT is basically the formula of ergodicity with slight changes. It doesn't retrofit.

"their retirement portfolio" The ergodicity economic formulas generate slightly more money on average than their regular economics counter parts. [You can see where this is going...]
> Websites that don't disable ads for subscribers will get fewer subscribers.

How does that differ from today?
The problem with bitcoin mining is that they require very little human resource compare to other industries that requires similar amount of electricity. It's more likely the local government is concerned of employeement rate.
I would love to try this out. Thanks for all the effort :)

P.S. happy to see other "critters" around here.