skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I signed on to the internet when everything was handled through terminals, so I’ve always viewed cyberspace — and the culture which developed there — as completely separate from IRL. People can take on different personas, customs, etc. So it’s no surprise to me the customs within this “new” world are mirroring how a physical world society spreads across a spectrum of ideology. (Granted, the ideas don’t always blend with what exists in the real world.)

I’ve often thought of the counterculture to online space as those who are breaking free of centralization and the digital “monopolies.” They’re the people who are homesteading on tildes, Mastodon, or their own self-hosted instance, for example. In cyberspace, FAANG are the new industrialists (the new informationalists?), so to me it makes sense that a portion of online society wants to separate or rebel from this establishment which controls a good portion of this cyberspace.

As IoT becomes more prevalent, I can see those who seek a break from connectivity in general as countercultural, too. Some of the ideas in Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World,” or Ted Kaczynski’s* “Industrial Society and Its Future” reflect this.

* I do not condone Kaczynski’s actions. I’m merely stating the concern about technology’s negative impact on society has long been thought about. It makes sense that there would be those who seek to shun it entirely.
Absolutely perfect take. We are truly atomized and isolated, thanks to tech (and especially "social tech"). I know this may be controversial, but our (IMHO) huge over-reaction to Covid is just an indicator of the damage that has already been done.

As a side note, I have taken this opportunity recently to quit every social media account, and give up my smartphone.
> The difference, as you point it out, is that today's "cancel culture" can target people from the majority classes.

I think the difference is that "cancel culture" targets speech that is acceptable to well over 70% of the population.
+1 to this question

I'd guess that the strategy is to start with specific vendors or purchases where it's easier to model origination + creditworthiness. I think the open question from my end is whether as a VC-backed business there's an incentive to go downmarket anytime soon or whether it makes more sense to expand across higher-end businesses for the next few years.
WireDoc [1] is a service I've used a few times that has an interesting mechanism where a party with an account on the system can send or request to receive files from another party that doesn't have an account.

[1] https://wiredoc.com
> but the democratic part was accused for not opposing in any visible way.

I definitely found that strange at the time, especially since said democratic part had previously gotten a peace nobel prize, but considering she was imprisoned by the military before and after this whole semi-democratic experiment, is it well accepted now that she was mostly under the control of the military and had very little choice in any of the matter? Or do people still think she was mostly complicit for not speaking up, at the risk of compromising the little bit of democracy they had.
Maybe Reddit as a whole, but what are your thoughts on WallStreetBets? It seems that WSB has all of the elements of a counterculture, although maybe diluted after the wide spread GME interest.
Tried it in Firefox, but the timing result in the first step was already quite noisy (the two peaks overlapped to about 60%), and the second step didn't complete after 3 minutes of dismissing repeated "a website is slowing the page down" prompts.

That doesn't mean Firefox is safe, to be clear. Just that this PoC doesn't work well for my combination of browser and CPU.
One of my Indian coworkers said you could tell a lot about someone from their last name. Family origin, for one, down to a pretty fine granularity. Caste, likewise. My closest Indian friend once asked me if I could guess his caste. I told him I wouldn't even try. He laughed and told me that any Indian would instantly recognize his last name as placing him not only as a Brahmin but at a specific position within caste. In fact he hides it a bit, going by last initial when he can. I think you're right that a lot of Indians would be glad to get out from under their last names.
Advantages of Dart over JavaScript, Python, and Bash
Isn't that how the human race works? Big monke stronger than little monke
“ACM” is a plastic sheet with aluminum skins. It would be plain idiotic to cover your DC in that (and residences too, but I digress).

You can see from pictures of the OVH fire aftermath that the outer plates have melted holes in them characteristic of metal.
Propaganda isn't the same as censorship. It does not appear any of the Allies made it illegal to believe in Nazism, or to write about it, or even dare to own something from the Nazi era.

Nonetheless, it's arguable these efforts were futile, likely misguided, and likely drove some to extremism as a result. You cannot simply compel a population to think a certain way.

Instead, you must allow the "bad" ideas to be exposed in the public forum, and win over the population through logical arguments. Hiding them away does nothing to disappear them.

Regardless, it's pretty well established the average German citizen didn't believe in the extremes the Nazi party had gone to anyway.
Geostationary orbits are much higher altitude to achieve lower orbit speeds. Gravity is stronger closer to the surface. But they'd still need a lot of fuel to slow down, to drop lower to the ISS' orbit, and then they'd be on an elliptical, and need even more to circularize and rendezvous.

edit: I'm the third one to say this in a span of a minute, sorry.
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>Internet access is in fact necessary for a lot of people.

We're talking about children. Internet is a fact of modern life and yes, at some point in their development, children will be exposed to it ... nobody is denying that. I fundamentally disagree however that internet access (limited or otherwise) is fundamentally necessary for child development, or academic success or education in general. That's bullcrap.

>And since now in many countries children socialize online, not just in real life, it's a necessary aspect of their life.

Yeah. I know. We're in the midst of a mental health crisis especially amongst girls brought on by social media use. That's not a good thing by the way.
React Native 0.64 with Hermes on iOS
I think this is directionally right about security scanners.

But while "no patch available" is a problem, I think it's the wrong problem to think about. One obvious concern about that line of thinking is that an exposure is an exposure regardless of whether there's a patch available.

The bigger problem, not just with container scanners but with all sorts of scanners (Node dependency scanners are another good example) is that there's a huge incentive to "enumerate" vulnerabilities with CVEs, and most of these vulnerabilities are meaningless.

I spent a couple years at my previous gig triaging security scanner results. Like pretty much everyone who does this professionally, I got so I could do this pretty quickly, and without much though about my actual environment; whole classes of vulnerabilities are pretty much garbage, and most people would be better off if their scanner required a special flag to alert on them.

What you really need to know is, given a vulnerability, is it likely to constitute an exposure in my environment? Clearly, a scanner vendor can't do this analysis perfectly. But they can do more than the zero they do now.

I started my computer security career at a firm called Secure Networks. We sold a security scanner called Ballista. We competed with a much-better-known firm called ISS, who sold the eponymous ISS scanner. The big debate between us and in the market was how to "count" vulnerabilities; ISS, for instance, had a huge collection of Windows registry best-practices rules, and claimed every one of them as (in effect) a vulnerability, while we tried to claim only what our scanner could actually exploit.

We lost that debate, obviously, and the CVE system followed shortly thereafter.

I think the general thing to keep in mind is that, for the most part, modern security scanner teams are pretty small. They're driven off vendorsec and CVE feeds because that's automatable. Like ISS vs SNI, they compete with each other, and their figure of merit is often "how many", not "how important" --- a metric they're not staffed to generate anyways. I wouldn't put much stock in their results.
Yea a few Kerbal Space Program sessions were enough to convince me that it's totally impractical to have a "collector" spacecraft that just goes around collecting old satellites and space trash in different orbits.
How do you square that with the biblical assertion that all non-believers are subject to eternal damnation?

I don't believe in Jesus, so I'm going to hell -- right?

Have modern Christians just thrown this belief out? Can they still be called Christians if they do so? It seems like a core belief of the religion.
For some reason, in this emulator, the pipe character on my keyboard produces \! instead of |.
GitLab deleted some DB at some time, kernel.org was hacked years ago...nothing is perfect.
Well put, as usual.

> It's far less than 30%, maybe less than 10%.

Agreed, I was trying to be overly generous with the 30% figure.
The thing that I hate about what social media has done is that it is resistant to persistance of knowledge. I grew up in the heyday of forums (late 90s to mid-late 00s).
It seems like a lot of these groups have moved to facebook (or discord, or whatsapp), and now a lot of that knowledge for specialty stuff is unsearchable and behind a wall.

One of my hobbies is boatbuilding, and there is a LOT of good material that is still available on forums since they just happily sit there seemingly forever, and are easy to archive. But a lot of the new stuff is now done on FB, and it means that knowledge gets pushed to the bottom of the feed, and it is impossible to archive.

My feeling is that the switch to algorithmic feed-based discussion is a serious regression for a lot of interest groups.

An excellent illustration of this is Stack Overflow. They take after the forum model of preserving knowledge to the degree that they shut down discussions that have happened before. Stack Overflow's database of solutions brings literally billions in value to the world, and it simply would not work without persistance of information.
That's a good question, and something I haven't spent enough time benchmarking yet to give an intelligent answer to.
A lot of qanon came from flat earth and now have moved on to vaccines and other conspiracies. I wonder what they'll be doing next year but I am sure they will find something. There is a significant part of the population who are deeply uncomfortable with the state of the world and look for an explanation that comforts them. This used to be mainly religion but it's spreading out into things like qanon. Extreme partisanship probably has the same origin because it explains that the world is bad because of "others".
Please do not post unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN. This thread is terrible enough without being pushed deeper into hell like this.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26432620.
Just an observation that we seem to have two camps here: one camp correctly noting that GDPR was a net positive for the users, and the other camp correctly noting that GDPR was a net negative for startups and SMBs.

I am surprised that nobody is realizing that what's bad for startups and SMBs is also ultimately bad for the users, just on a longer timescale (with an equally long reversal period).

I remember the US Congress grilling Zuckerberg back in 2018, and him responding that he's certainly willing to make amendments, but if you tie his hands too much, someone from China will swoop in and bypass all regulations. Everyone scoffed at that, and less than 3 years later, TikTok is unstoppable despite Facebook's best efforts. While users' privacy has benefited from Facebook's downfall, their privacy has never been at more risk with the rise of TikTok (I do realize that TikTok's servers are in the US and Singapore, but let's not fool ourselves - the ByteDance leadership would be quickly replaced if they refused a data request from their government). I would consider this a net negative for the users, and particularly for the US as a country.

Just another example proving that the paradox of tolerance [0] is a real thing. If you get too tolerant too quickly, you end up with a less tolerant outcome.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
Couldn't you just copy & paste the title from BBC?

The title you picked reads: Microsoft performed an attack to 3000 servers in the UK that were not secured.
They're basically trying to make a sale, a windfall, from an existing customer's personal troubles. It's not a sale they would have made except for the guy needing to switch laptops. Frame it however you want, but that kind of thing makes people feel taken advantage of.
I don't understand how you can interpret it as either awful or a paycut if you don't take public transport...

If you buy a season ticket (at least a monthly ticket) to commute between your home and office you send a copy to HR and they have to refund you half of it.
You typically use different types of salt based on the size/shape of the grains. You want something larger and hollow for finishing, because it gives a nice texture, as an example.

Every time I get the chance, I take a small amount of kosher salt (which is just salt used for koshering, not salt that is kosher) and a small amount of iodized salt and have visitors do a taste test. I've never had someone prefer the iodized salt, and they can always tell the difference between the two.

Maybe they have different labels in different countries, though.
> either economic protectionism (bad in the long-term) or getting into a race-to-the-bottom (potentially even worse)

That's a strange thing to say. Globalisation is usually criticized as a race to the bottom. The opposite of that is protectionism, which you say is bad. So which one are you in favour of?
Indiehackers is the first that comes to mind. https://www.indiehackers.com/

You can go into a "products" section and filter companies/side projects by category, revenue, type, etc.

Pretty useful, especially when the founders are sharing their entire journey and you can ask them questions.
This happened to random 18 year old college kids who were just not active on social media. I saw it first hand. I actually saw an entire group of girls let go of one of their friends who didn't post in support of BLM along with them. She had like 60 followers on Instagram (mostly family).
As one of these people, totally agree. I don't really have people I sympathize with over this stuff (except a few friends with whom its a minor topic of conversation) or anything I'd consider a culture. Mostly I just deleted my accounts and moved on. On the other hand, despite the lack of other people to commiserate with, it does feel a little countercultural insofar as I'm doing something different from most people, and it sticks out on occasion.
Everyone else is missing the point. Obviously you get an automatic transmission, otherwise you'd have to keep talking your hand off the keyboard.
Every time a company advertises "bank-grade security" it lowers the bar in my mind. I guess the layperson thinks that banks have good technology but their security is mostly via the legal system.
What if your project board would have one column?
No, that's not the counterculture. Those are just bigots butthurt by the fact that society is starting to enforce norms of human decency which the counterculture has promoted through example for decades.

Meanwhile a child who stands up for trans people is being censored. As in, actual censorship, by the government: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/canc...
For those curious, CAFO stands for "Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation". I was unfamiliar with the term and had to look it up.

See link for more details (found in Wikipedia sources) [0]:

> A CAFO is another EPA term for a large concentrated AFO [animal feeding operation]. A CAFO is an AFO with more than 1000 animal units (an animal unit is defined as an animal equivalent of 1000 pounds live weight and equates to 1000 head of beef cattle, 700 dairy cows, 2500 swine weighing more than 55 lbs, 125 thousand broiler chickens, or 82 thousand laying hens or pullets) confined on site for more than 45 days during the year. Any size AFO that discharges manure or wastewater into a natural or man-made ditch, stream or other waterway is defined as a CAFO, regardless of size. CAFOs are regulated by EPA under the Clean Water Act in both the 2003 and 2008 versions of the "CAFO" rule.

[0]: https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/main/national/plan...
Yep, and each iteration replaces the previous one. Think of each iteration as its own scope.

If you want to persist a const across iterations, you'd define it in a scope above it. You could also modify a let variable defined a parent scope. Personally I avoid doing that, but it's possible. Anything defined in an iteration though, I'd consider disposable unless it's a reference to and outer scope variable.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong!
HeadFi: Bringing Intelligence to All Headphones [pdf]
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar hell like this.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26432620.
I think this ties in well with all the recent discussion around advertising and its effect on internet discourse. To become counter-cultural now inherently means foregoing ad revenue supported platforms, which inherently means you lose audience.
You regulate the fiat onroads.

If miners cannot sell their coins, they can't pay the electricity bills.

Bitcoin will always be around, but with sufficient fiat blockages the value plummets.

Governments should announce that people will have a year to sell all their coins (the price will tank immediately anyway), and then buying and selling of PoW coins will be banned.
Charles Taylor, the philosopher, covered much of this about twenty years ago with far less snark and buzzwords. I strongly recommend reading The Ethics of Authenticity. It’s all about the trend of individualism and how it precedes social media by...centuries.

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674987692

Social media is no longer authentic so you’re seeing a slowly growing backlash against it.

https://seoulphilosophy.wordpress.com/2015/06/19/charles-tay...
They never bothered to clean it up because without the power plant, the town was dead. Most of the people living there were plant workers.
Since we're dealing with geopolitics, genocide, conflict, etc. - what does right have to do with anything? Other than being an entirely hopeless ideal that is discarded immediately in conflict between nations or peoples.

Might dictating outcomes has always been a fact of life. Why would anyone attempt to deny that aspect of living in reality? What good does it do to pretend reality isn't what it is?

Might determining outcomes between nations will never stop being true. Everything else - the UN for example - is merely a very small (often laughable) influence, and at best reduces the brunt of the might factor.

Pick a major country at any point in history. Might is huge part of their equation and there are no exceptions.

The US and China can freely ignore the world, freely ignore the UN, freely ignore all rules, international laws, anything they want to. That's because there is nobody that can do anything about it. That fact of how things actually work merely lessens as you scale downward with nations (as the nation in question gets weaker), it never goes away. Weak countries can pick on weak opponents, see: Armenia vs Azerbaijan. Might always ultimately determines the world, including in defeating Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan in WW2. The strongest nations even have the most influence at the UN, so even soft politics is always backed by might.
What trans rhetoric is homophobic?
Guy Fieri has seen all the memes about him (and he loves them)
> Somehow the world simply tolerates all the blatant espionage they perpetrate with zero diplomatic repercussions

Because pretty much every other country with a security service is either pursuing similar operations or wants to be. Sure when something becomes public a fuss gets made, but oddly enough no concrete repercussions ever follow.
There is a setting to use old reddit for www.reddit.com. Or you can visit old.reddit.com.
But afaik it's simply not the case that 30% of the population was sympathetic to socialism in the 1950s. Maybe if you really tortured the term "socialism", but come on.
Glancing over your comment history, this seems to be a trend for you; being intentionally abrasive/provocative for no reason. And you get downvoted to oblivion as a result, so I'd hope you understand by now that your comments aren't appreciated.

Obviously you're entitled to your opinion and welcome to share it, but don't be surprised when that begins having repercussions on your career, and don't be surprised when people on this forum in particular don't respond well to it.

HN is focused on technology and business, not so much politics or your personal opposition to making historically oppressed individuals feel more comfortable in tech, a traditionally white & male dominated space. If you're going to make reasoned arguments around why changing the name of a branch has a demonstrable negative impact on your life, please do. If not, this isn't the place to air your grievances with crass and unproductive comments.
I have quite a lot of vintage test and radio equipment. It’s cheap, completely dangerous and unreliable and fun to fix. I couldn’t be happier playing with it.
I love Bitwarden, but this move is something that I don't like that much because it fragments more the way we have to share passwords between people / companies.

For some reason GPG frontends (such as Keybase) aren't a trending thing, and therefore the average guy in IT doesn't even know how to deal with an encrypted gpg file - let alone creating one given my public key. Unfortunately it seems like emails are more straight forward, or encrypted e2e messages via Signal / Telegram / you name it.

I would very much appreciate if somebody created something like Keybase and made it popular - this is a security improvement I would love to see in everyone's life. Things like Bitwarden Send, unfortunately, are probably not going to be the best solution to this problen and not even strong enough (e.g: not E2E encrypted). I wouldn't feel safe in using it to be honest.

In any case, everything is definitely better than sharing credentials in plain text, so there is that :-)
Hey bberenberg, thanks for the question! We have moderators and security walking around the venue with moderation powers to mute and kick users when needed similar to security at an in-person conference. We also have an automated security system that flags suspicious users to security staff for review. Thanks!
Officially, US cheddar seems to be trending about $12/kg ($5.50/lb). I actually pay a lot less, ~$12.50 for a 4lb block (Walmart).

ref: https://www.statista.com/statistics/236863/retail-price-of-c...
I've really gone down that rabbit hole recently, and I get it, but I don't regret it. There's a whole world of electronics that I've been missing. As wonderful as Linux is, at the end of the day, once you have Linux running on a device, it becomes a bit generic. The Raspberry Pi is useful and fun, but they are sort of interchangeable with any other Linux computer. These gumstick-sized microcontrollers bring back some of the joy I had with computing in years past.
Begun, the space wars have.