skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a rule of thumb, which didn't fail me yet - don't buy fancy looking networking gear. Buy the ones which look like ugly military tech (not fancy military tech) or something you could see in a factory. I have two failed fancy wifi routers, two failed good-looking switches, but one wrt54-gl still working and two metal-cased 5/8 port switches which are older but still working. With fancy looking gear, while it worked, there were always stability problems.
I agree those examples represent positive changes. But what is the direction of causation? Did people become less homophobic because "gay" stopped being used as an insult, or the other way round? Did nazism end because people stopped saying "useless mouths", or the other way round?

I think the simple answer is: it's both. Changes in attitude cause language changes, and vice versa. But the balance of these forces isn't necessarily equal, and it may tip from one side to the other at different times in history. I would speculate that, in a society with a sustainable pattern of moral 'growth', more importance is placed on improving our ideas (through open discussion, taking in a wide range of perspectives, including those we find disagreeable) and allowing most language changes to flow organically from that. If the focus shifts too far towards trying to directly influence what people say (at the level of words/phrases), we risk stunting moral progress by encoding the status quo as dogma. Which, unless we are sure we already have the answers to all future moral questions, would be bad.
"left" indeed -- I have been a pretty radical socialist since I was 16. (Well, at least on paper, I haven't been done activist work for years) ... And I don't recognize myself in this "left" that people keep talking about. I think it's hilarious to call CNN "left" or think that anybody in GitHub leadership is "left" for relabeling git branches. Plz. It's just a proposterous strange (and uniquely American) partitioning of the world.

If you define "left" as anything "not far right" then, yeah, ok, of course it's going to include a bunch of liberals who are not interested in any real structural change in the political-economic system and so are obsessed instead with changing how people speak.

So I just don't use the word anymore if I can. I'm not "left wing", I'm a socialist... Unfortunately "socialist" also seems to mean something weird to many Americans, too. (That anybody could with a straight face call Obama or Biden socialist just boggles my mind...)
> Can you send DMCA takedowns based on owning the NFT for an image?

I'm also curious about this. Does the buyer now legally own the image itself, as well as the NFT?
> I am sure it served different HTML based on the user-agent but I could be mis-remembering now as it was well over 15 years ago.

It did - but the "different HTML" you refer to was HTML4 for IE5.5+ or HTML3 to browsers it didn't recognize. Even by 2001 that was a bad idea, and by 2004 Firefox was leagues ahead of IE6's support for HTML and CSS features yet ASP.NET WebForms defaults to rendering HTML3-era HTML to Firefox.

...and don't forget all of the problems inherent in user-agent sniffing. Users with too many third-party IE toolbars or shovelware on their computers would see things break (because said third-party software would frequently alter IE's default user-agent string to add their own product-names, which broke things).

> The lack of being able to run it on anything other than IIS isn't a concern

It was a *huge* concern because it meant that web-application code could not be run by automated testing tools! That was one of the design-objectives when OWIN was introduced: for greater testability (for unit and integration testing). Otherwise the only way to test WebForms applications was by having a dedicated web-testing farm with web-browsers open on the desktop driven by custom-written automation tools - that just wasn't an option for smaller shops. And Visual Studio didn't add built-in unit testing support until 2005 (only for Enterprise edition), and 2008 (or 2010?) for everybody else.

Another problem was that in the days of WebForms 1.x (before .NET 2.0) the only way to run ASP.NET applications, even for development, was by having IIS installed - but IIS was not available for Windows XP Home Edition (ASP.NET 2.0 introduced the "Cassini" local development web-server, but it was severely lacking and did not faithfully recreate the IIS environment, and IIS Express wasn't introduced until around 2008). People doing hobbyist development at home had to either pay to upgrade to Windows XP Professional (to use the rather limited IIS "5.1") or apply a variety of crude registry hacks to trick the Windows 2000-era IIS 5.0 to run on Windows XP Home Edition.

> Most of the problems I've encountered was when people tried getting around the framework itself and rebuilding what already worked quite well within the framework

What works "quite well" is subjective. ViewState just doesn't scale and is unsuitable for public Internet websites because it balloons the rendered page-size (e.g. if you have an <asp:DataGrid>, used as-directed such that it's only loaded on the initial page laod) then the entire data-grid's data is persisted in ViewState, which practically quadruples your rendered page-size (due to all the hidden control state) - which was unacceptable in the days when 56K modem use was still widespread (even through to ~2006+). Disabling ViewState was essential for any public web-pages, which increased the amount of work required to get things to _just work_. I could go on...
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That's quite the lengthy article. Interesting topic though. I recently stumbled over the Astray podcast (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/astray/id1552069504) which is also a decent look at the psychological risks (and maybe easier to consume than a 6000 word essay).
Do you live in a country with a functional democratic government and legal system?

That is the process. You can participate in it.
When twitter suspended my account after creation I tried to use these type of services. Unfortunately every number I tried resulted in an error.
I haven't done any research, but my set of anecdata (3 Internet providers from Romania, 2 national and one regional) says that providers do have ways of bypassing their router at Layer3. These ways are not advertised, sometimes not even documented. But they should be just a phone-call away.

If the router is also used as a media-convertor (upstream is Fiber or DSL or coax), they should be able to set it to "bridging mode", where it will function as a Layer2 device (switch), thus allowing the customer to use their own Layer3 device (router).
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Generalizations like "chinese people are ..." or "muslims tend to..." are garbage. There is no possible objective truth to any of these since we are talking about billions of people.

You brain might think it’s very smart and clever and has the world all figured out but most likely it doesn’t.
The world is a chaotic system beyond any one's comprehension. All generalizations that are not purely mathematical and 100% abstract in nature are wrong.
> which not too many black Americans are doing, BTW

It’s pretty hard to measure such a statement, but I noticed that Trump won 8% of the black vote in 2020 and 6% in 2016. [0] And it seems Romney won 6% in 2012. [1]

It’s not smart to extrapolate some trend from these three data points, but I don’t think its accurate to dismiss claims that this isn’t happening. Comically, dismissing the claims of a literal black person walking away from the left speaking of others in vis community is sort of like what the author is saying happens with people patronizing black persons and making decisions for them (eg, “it’s not happening” and “master offends you”).

[0] https://www.vox.com/2020/11/4/21537966/trump-black-voters-ex...
[1] http://ropercenter.cornell.edu/how-groups-voted-2012
>That's not a citation. And vaccines are designed with a very general goal of "make the body fight this". That can potentually affect both symptoms and transmission. Don't argue in bad faith and equate that to "anything could be true"

>Huh? Checking if the vaccine does anything at all is after the design is done. The choice of when to test symptoms vs. spreading is more about difficulty of getting the data than anything else.

You're the one arguing in bad faith, demanding evidence of a negative. When the vaccines were released, the published testing only covered a few key endpoints - primarily, incidences of lab-tested Covid cases. Any work on measuring effects on transmission was done by 3rd parties (in this case, I believe it was researchers in Israel).

Covid has a very specific (and small) risk profile. That's the idea we were all sold - vaccinate the vulnerable, get on with our lives. Given that it presents very little risk to the vast majority of people, it doesn't really matter about transmission. Except that is, now we are apparently trying to surpress potential mutations, which means we'll be battling a relatively harmelss (compared to the great pandemics of the past) disease forever.
Because you can prove you own it. Why would you pay millions for an autograph? You have a pencil and you can draw if you want. So if you have a transaction from Jack that includes a jpeg he made with his first tweet, that's the value. It's difficult to understand art. Have you seen paintings with nothing than a red dot selling for millions? Probably not and that's why you are confused.
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Client applications should be assumed to be insecure. If you’re app doesn’t load content from a secure (paid) backend, you’re not going to make much money on the Play Store.
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How come you forget about HLR?

Banks can see. There are lot of APIs on the web that provides this capability.

One example,

https://www.messagebird.com/lookup/
How would a secondary App Store affect you one bit? Don’t install it, problem solved.

On the other side, developers and users who do want it are harmed by the current policy.

Or do you not have self control? Like an alcoholic who is compelled to drive to the store and buy some alcohol?
> If you sign up on the platform, you can apply for a job, complete it and get 100% of the task value.

What about fees for transactions, fees for converting crypto into real money etc?
That is awesome to hear! Website looks great. Did it take some time to gain traction/users?
Historically, monogamous societies are far more prosperous than harem-based societies. The reason is obvious: monogamy entices the entire male population to invest in their family and nation, have a good career, and build property and wealth. Without monogamy, a large segment of males have no such motivations, and they are uninvolved in society, detached from the future, and more likely to pursue self-pleasing leisure or even crime.

There is also the disease angle. STDs, including common ones like herpes, are a major factor in cognitive decline, early-onset Alzheimers, etc.

The West is about to get a major lesson in this.
> I don't get it. Who profits from this?

I'm not sure about direct profits, but I usually assume things like this are part of some convoluted money laundering scheme.
Pretty cool. The kind of thing I’d never look for, but now want to explore.

I’ve seen some awesome looking terminals / setups while watching programming demos / tutorials.

I would totally try their setup if they had a link to it via your site.

Likewise, any sort of preview / screen shot on your site would be awesome.

Well executed thus far.
I'll also make more because of it. I'm just saying that it won't make that much difference to the vast majority of developers.
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That's exactly one of the reasons, but a representative one, why Google needs to be broken apart
Not an argument, not interesting. Next time you get scared on the internet, you can write about it on your blog.
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Imagine making fundamental contributions to society and you win a thankless award. But create a "hot or not" for college chicks and you become a billionaire.
Are you working there?
They should really use a crt filter for proper comparison.

I really enjoy the dark scenes in blue monochromatic. It gives a really good athmosphere. Somethings that's lost in the 'upgrade'
Learning from YT videos, the kind you get by searching “learn programming” is IMO not a good idea. These videos are engineered for ad revenue and engagement metrics.

Maybe be watch one or two to get a gist of how things come together but please buy a good book on the topic. Even better, take a college course in Coursera or EDx.
That article hurt to read. I'm not surprised the author is from Melbourne too.
Linguistic prescription is saying it shouldn't be done because there are rules, and the change breaks them.

I'm not saying that. My position is it shouldn't be done because creating new slurs for no reason is stupid. A prescriptivist and a descriptivist could both agree to that, though they'd disagree with each other on whether the idea of the change is legitimate.

Which is probably a similar position to ccmcarey's original comment. No position was taken on whether the change breaks the rules of language or not, the argument was that either way the change is being bought on by ignorance of both normal usage and the lineage of the word (ie, potentially in defiance of both prescriptivist and descriptivist logic).

This isn't really an issue of prescriptive vs descriptive philosophy. Although the descriptivists will be hopping mad.
How many died under capitalism? I guess you gonna tell me UK empire and such weren't "true" capitalist system? Well communists think that China is not a "true" communist society.
Point is wikipedia is not dishonest you can Wikipedia every single massacre that happened communist or not.
Same in Sweden and some basic easy to get by programs apart from the more traditional grants.

I'd still pick sf and infinite funding for every silly project but for the small business rather than startup it's pretty sweet.
Good suggestions. Thank you. I have done something similar before. Only problem is, I had to revert the setup each time isp had hiccups otherwise they refused to provide any support
> Either do some real shit or stay silent. Stay the fuck out of our way and don’t pretend you care. Then we can all get on with our lives.

Yes! Also, I think that if you see 'master' for a git branch as a problem, there is something seriously wrong with you.
That looks more interesting. Never heard of such APIs being sold for more than a single operator.

How many operators in the world sell them this access?
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That doesn't add up though. If you guess that black people are more likely to have guns and you search them far more often, more evidence will turn up, even if they are/were as likely to have a gun than any other group.

If you never search white people for drugs, guess what? You never find drugs on white people.

It's a self-fulfilling racist prophecy.
Interesting, did not know this. Any links / sources on ongoing trials?
Mypy support in the core will be great - dropboxes stubs are good but will be better to get full typechecking when projects have it enabled.

It's also great news that the asyncio users be able to use this brilliant ORM! Like many others I (reluctantly) toil in the async mines nowadays.
Very sloppy article.

Wikipedia never mentioned going explicitly after Google.

Also I guess this is not the story the author wanted to tell, so it isn't mentioned, but Google is regularly donating millions to Wikipedia.

This looks like a great way to formalize their symbiotic relationship, which the article got right, but - I didn't think I would ever say this - the article isn't exactly being fair on Google by singling them out and omitting any mention of their contributions.
Very similar experience here too:
I'm not a full time dev, which is probably even worse,as I have to switch between very different contexts throughout the day, which is draining. After work I have two options,either forgo time with family,which isn't sustainable,or try to work late evenings/nights on a side project. It kills every drop of motivation that is left there when trying to debug that code at 1am. Weekends are the same: I can't tell my family I'll be going through some code for 5 hours,while you sit there and keep yourselves busy.
Does the AmpliFi fit into this category? I got an Instant a while back and while it's not super tweakable, it's been incredibly stable and easy to use.
I'm actually just using styled components and styling everything one-off (trying to re-use components as much as possible to maintain some sense of cohesiveness). Started building a design system in Figma awhile back, but realized how much time I was spending on something that wasn't adding value and backed off.
Mr Flow, Please try a TMobile number on ZipWhip. You will see it fails.
You will now claim that I am lying and that NetNumber has fixed this. So there is nothing I can do to help you.

I have known about this attack since 2012, but I did not publicly talk about how insecure SMS is for promoting an anti-fraud product.

Note, this is just the tip of the iceberg. There are other attack vectors that only I know!
C64 produces too high voltage levels for video signal, way out of spec. So what you're going to see on the screen is very specific to your monitor/TV. PAL, being newer system, is a bit more resilient to signal issues so that could be the reason.
For everything that works as an app and is good enough in a mobile phone Firefox, I always chose the combo Firefox+Bookmark. This way I can also block half the trackers that are include in the app/webpage.

With this setup though you miss out on the 'benefits' of the notifications :)
> Do you notice it too?

Nope, not in my circle of friends and I didn't even know about Polyamory apps until this article. I've no doubt there are many of them but it is not something that interests me or something I've ever talked about.

Do your friends talk about it? Do any of them use these apps?

> all women can now access that top 20% of men quite easily

How? Surely, many of them are already taken and most will be faithful; after all that has got to be one of the attributes defining them as "best". I don't think its any easier for women than it is for men.
Why can't we move this fast and effectively to eliminate the nonsensical concept of race?

https://www.britannica.com/topic/race-human/The-history-of-t...

Its 2021 and we're thoroughly adamant on tribalism.
I'd argue that any other stance would acknowledge and justify their position as a utility provider and the Play Store as a public space.

I don't want that.

Instead, Google should be required to provide equal capabilities to third-party app stores as the Play Store now enjoys on Android. Like Microsoft was forced to accommodate for other browser vendors in Windows way back when.

This is in contrast to ISPs, which I whole-heartedly believe should be subject to net neutrality.
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Leaking spinal fluid after a Covid nose swab with similar symptoms. And subsequent discovery of a condition unlikely to have been created by a nasal swab, but rather aggravated by it. I did add an edit to note it's a different person.
Does evidence show more school funding would fix underperforming public schools?
Agree as OpenWrt user.

> "Linksys is by no means alone in using its customers as beta testers

No sure, but my Linksys router starts painfully slow and kinda 10x faster on OpenWrt. Crazy slow for dual-core machine. Maybe it's the part of their plans to force clients for buying new routers?
"This fact must be true, I saw it on Facebook!"
Low end Android phones/tablets are so cheap that some serve as dedicated displays/devices. I have one that I use as a OBD2 scanner, another sits as a DRO display on a desktop mill. My actual phone is iOS.

If those facts mean I’m counted as an iOS user once and Android user twice, the iOS me spends a lot more in the Apple App Store than the two Android mes put together.
Most digital content actually has some sort of use, compared to an NFT.
You don't. But you never do.

Just because some company has a thousand pages of legal boilerplate policies doesn't mean you have any meaningful information about what they're doing with your data.

The only thing you can do is try to give them a minimum of data to play with.
Speaking of dishonest.

You are claiming more than a hundred million die every day in China.

That means for a country with a population of around 1.5 billion people, they will all be dead in 15 days.

Now I'm not claiming Wikipedia is correct, or the Chinese government is some sort of model to which we should all aspire, however I certainly know your claims are false.

Finally you seem to have forgotten that China is in fact a communist regime.
Most of the times you can set them to bridging mode from the management interface as well.
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"In Europe" is not really accurate here. In some countries it is actually illegal to do any background check at all apart from the ones provided by the state (you can still check if a diploma is real of course).

In some other there will be no real obligation of keeping the records accurate (sometimes there is one theoretical but not enforced, sometimes there is one but with a legal leeway that allows a certain amount of inaccuracy).
17 shows the author considers higher end routers, like the ubiquiti unifi routers, are not in this class.

I bought unifi specifically because I wanted some professional features (proper in house roaming, wifi bridge, and VLANs) but live in a rented house where I cannot carve out some decent rack space or channel the walls.
Gotta keep in mind the concept of "Federation" isn't the same as "Anti-censorship" or "Free Speech".

It's less escaping the censored and restricted megacorp service to freedom or free speech anarchy and more you're able to build your own service that fulfills your own needs and own preferred blend of moderation vs free speech and that service can interact with others own instances with their own rules.

Same goes for the clients.
Just because you can do a thing doesn’t mean you should be able to do a thing or that you should do a thing, and it definitely doesn’t mean you should be immune to criticism for doing the thing.
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It's one that's actually getting built. Can you provide examples of ones that are actually being built and how they've controlled cost overruns?

What unique geological issues?
I think you underestimate how much advertisement would influence such a website.

There are very strict content rules with most advertisement networks and threading over those will severely limit the income from ads as those that run advertisement often do not wish to be associated with various content.

Consider what happened to TVTropes, which at one point decided to remove articles that dealt with a variety of sexual subjects as it was very bad for their advertisement revenue that the articles even existed on their website.

If Wikipedia become dependent on advertisers, it would have to tailor it's content to accommodate them.

Of course, it's content also influences the number of donations they receive as it is.
Until reality has a signing mechanism it’s not really going to fix anything.

Otherwise you can just feed whatever video you have in mind into the first stage of that chain you’ve created and say you were there when it happened.
No. I've tested it anyway.