skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I am right now looking at a Google Podcasts page hosting an unquestionably white supremacist, Holocaust-denying podcast. When I was younger, you had to go find yourself a dingy mimeographed snail mail catalog of books to get a copy of Ragnar Redbeard's book. It's way easier these days.

I think a huge factor that separates the current state of media from the pre-web-2.0 era is the rise in algorithmic content feeds. It's not just the fact that Google and Facebook allow extremist content on their platforms, it's the fact that they actively promote it to millions of consumers. Those looking to radicalize can find ways to game the algorithms and get their content put in front of massive numbers of users, often with the endorsement of a friend or family member.

I think this is a problem, but I think the current solution is also not a good one. These same organizations which in some ways created the problem have proposed that the solution should be enforcing unilateral control over which speech should and should not exist on their platforms. And as I have said in other threads, this is especially relevant now because the ability to exist on these 4-5 platforms essentially does amount to existing in public life during the pandemic.

I am not attributing malice to these organizations, but I do think we should work towards defining some rules of the road for online discourse, and that these rules should be defined by the public rather than by unaccountable teams inside corporations.

Since we're talking about the past, in the past centuries we defined a legal framework around libel and slander. We also had laws in the 20th century (which have been substantially weakened) which prevented one entity from owning too high a percentage of the media outlets in a single market. I think it's time for us as a society to think long and hard about what rules should be put in place to make online discourse safer and healthier. I am not saying I know what those rules should be, but I don't think it's a responsibility we should just hand to the organizations which have had the most success in the market.
Seriously, a waste of time_t:

#include <time.h>

#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {

while (time(NULL) > 0)

putchar('9');

putchar('\n');

return 0;

}
Interesting, and that actually makes (some sort of) sense. Thanks..!
A fair number of submissions only received partial points because the vendor claimed they were aware of the bug already.
Pretty much all militia groups have been infiltrated by the FBI or other agencies. The KKK is pretty well known to be stacked with fed agent provocateurs like Gary Thomas Rowe. He pushed other members into violence and attacks on other groups and individuals, while being paid by the FBI.
From what I understand, some or all of these XEPs need to be implemented and supported for mentions.

https://xmpp.org/extensions/inbox/jid-mention.html

https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0372.html

https://xmpp.org/extensions/attic/xep-0452-0.2.1.html
>Many people feel like the moon landing was faked.

Isn't Joe Rogan one of those people? Hasn't he had at least three moon landing deniers on his podcast and agreed with them?
Wow. So anyone with a half baked idea can make and own a patent??
I always had problems sticking to anything, I'd get enthusiastic for a month or two and then I'd get bored. Never could tidy my room etc. Not saying I've anything as severe as adhd but I had trouble with self discipline. At the start of the year I decided to try to develop a good habit, any habit, to persuade myself I could do it. I decided to exercise. I spent the first 6 weeks just with the principal of do 1 situp, or whatever. Something I could do without any effort, at home, to remove any excuse not to do it. I made a tick on the calendar the days I did it so I could see my progress, I praised myself for completion, and I made it the only priority. Don't worry about tidying or eating healthy or whatever, just do that situp every day. After about 6 weeks I was getting out of bed and immediately doing the situp without thinking, I started a proper routine like 10 minutes, still easy. It'll be 3 months next week, so I'm hoping it's actually stuck. When I get to 6 months I want to start adding something like filling the dishwasher before bed. I'm 37 and this is the first time in my life I can say I've been able to do something I'm not obligated to do and don't want to do for a long period.
I was recently required to add some JS to our product links from the search results pages. It’s a click-jacking script that sends tracking data to Google Analytics. There is a callback that fires when GA is happy that it got the goods. When that signal arrives, we then forward the user to where they wanted to go.

The entire thing makes me feel dirty. The data collected is never even looked at. And yes, it breaks middle-click and right-click behaviour.

Anyone hiring Rails devs anymore? ;)
Love the illustrations on the site!
Depending on how the container runtime is configured, yes.
Software patents should not exist.
Ah thanks, missed that somehow. The old ones had BT5 support, but somehow got the certification without LR support...
They stole electronics, but the coroner's decision* is still out on the cop.

* https://twitter.com/AugensteinWTOP/status/137986673166615347...
Tesla does not make hybrids. Ab initio.
A generic washer control board sounds like something there would be a market for today.

I could imagine a little microcontroller and say 10 relays that can control the pump, motor, valves, etc. Then you sell it together with instructions which specify how to program in which output does which function.

You could sell it to people who want to "IoT" their machines for cheap, to people who have a dead control board, and people who want to customize their appliances (eg. I need a custom wash cycle for washing extra dirty clothes).
1 in 10 million flights end in crash if you take top tier airlines.

So I guess if one takes 100 flights, then odd of ending up in plane crash over life time is 'only' 1 in 100,000.

If you take a lot of flights on less safe airlines, it can dip to 1 in thousands pretty quickly.
That page doesn’t link to the examples in GitHub whose README [1] is unexpectedly informative, having its own roadmap.

Anyone using this in anger?

[1] https://github.com/aantron/dream/tree/master/example#readme
From pizza to performance: A business and IT alignment Experience
As an european I find the american legal system baffling. I do wonder if the sentiment is reciprocal. In particular everytime I see a movie about lawyers I think that something must be broken if there is a subgenre about "how the system works in the end". That and incarceration rate. Trials suck everywhere, even if you win, but it seems it's much easier to end having one in USA.
I feel the need to point a finger at the gun death rate, and also point out that many suicides are probably gun deaths too [0] (not in the trivial sense of suicide by firearm, but that many of those suicides would not have happened without the availability of guns).

[0]
httpss://www.hsph.harvard.edu/means-matter/means-matter/risk/
Hi HN,

This is an ongoing effort, which will never be completed. So recommendations are much appreciated.
> ... find their approach much more flexible vs lambda@edge being possibly triggered four times at edge part of a request life cycle.

The lamda@edge function is executed only once but you decide when - before or after the cache and either on the request or response.
Those are not "top causes", as they are labeled "selected" without any indication how.
So the fact that someone was a developer of X, means their resilient to following some agenda or non objective opinion? There's a really famous and often quoted talk about X vs Wayland from one of those developers and it was clearly made in a way to present Wayland in a better light by purposely portraying X11 in a bad way, for example by leaving out crucial details. Like in one example they picked on the slow startup time of applications and attributed it to the blocking calls made to X.org, without even mentioning that asynchronous alternatives are not only available, but toolkits like Qt were already using them exclusively at that time. The verdict of course was that X11 is broken and fixing that is almost impossible.
It's common knowledge that the CCP tried to cover up the SARS outbreak initially, and then later changed course. Just like they tried to fly under the radar with covid-19, the WHO changed the timeline last year admitting China never informed them. Then China tried to silence anyone who spoke out about it. It makes you wonder what would have happened if Taiwan never requested information from the WHO, effectively informing the WHO to begin with.
Yes, though that's a bit apples and oranges. Being killed by someone else with deliberate intent is not scary because it's the most common, it's scary because you have absolutely no control over it.

Where as overdosing on opioids is something you have a hand in.
You can count me as one person.

I choose an iPhone because some people in my circle only use iMessage. I also don't have anyone in my circle who uses Signal, except for other people with iPhones. And they prefer iMessage if available. As for Facebook Messenger or WhatsApp, I don't run Facebook code on my devices.

That said, even if iMessage went cross-platform, I'm pretty sure I'll stick in the iDevice family.
I've found that being poor actually sharpens the mind. It reminds you that if you don't eat, you'll die; clarifies that most laws are just rules crafted by the ultra rich to keep them in power; reminds you that many many people have way more than they need, and can afford to have some it go missing without longterm damage.

It's very rational to choose crime over starvation or exposure, especially when our legal framework (US) is morally bankrupt. Why not turn to crime when crime really isn't such a bad thing compared to the other shit going on.
> By the 1700s most of Europe had moved New Year's Day to January 1 (known as "circumcision dating" because it fell on the Feast of the Circumcision)

Do we know why this happened? In a world context, beginning the year in spring is normal; beginning it in the middle of winter is very weird indeed.

And it's not like this was a restoration of an older tradition. Four of the months are still literally named on the assumption that the first month of the year is March.
It can simultaneously be the case that media is radically less centralized than it was 20 years ago, and that it is significantly more centralized than it was 20 months ago.

To make an analogy, the average life expectancy has increased massively since the iron age. That does not mean we should not be worried if we observe a decrease in average life expectancy year over year.
Interestingly, connecting smaller cities through High Speed Rail to bigger ones might just be the elusive solution to the depopulation of small town America. If people can continue to live where they grew up while being able to commute in decent times to the City with all its jobs, I wonder if people would continue to live in their hometowns and bring in much needed tax revenues.
I don't think we disagree? There's plenty of reason to dislike the CCP, in relation to their handling of SARS-CoV-2 and otherwise. I just don't think SARS-CoV-2 originating in a WIV lab accident would add to that.
Pretty much. It's appalling.
Materials (iron and most especially steel), the fuels required to produce these (the Mediterranian has little coal and was largely stripped of fuelwood in ancient times, oil is of little use in iron smelting and steelmaking as coking of pig iron is required), precision of several manners (machining and working metals, temperature and process controls), mass-production techniques (not entirely unknown in ancient times, but far from Fordism). Pneumatic tyres aren't essential, but quite the bonus, and would have been difficult to come by in ancient times (neither latex nor petroleum-based rubber being available), and practical alternatives are difficult to conceive of.

And a need to travel distances. Bicycles emerged in a world in which long-distance transport via trains was common. It was trains which, ironically, induced a demand for increased local point-to-point transport (notably of horse-powered drayage), and of people, especially to and from train stations. In a pre-mechanised world, most commerce and activity simply remained local.

This isn't to say that the bicycle couldn't have been invented (perhaps with different materials say, a bamboo-based design from China). But there were numerous technical and motivational hurdles.
On Android as well. Quite useful!
If these were lottery odds we’d all be pretty fucking happy...
"What year was George Washington born" makes for a great trivia question; there is no answer.
Pynchon is simply amazing. One day I want to be able read one of his books and understand it.
Pretty great that the fix is accompanied with a unit test to make sure it never regresses going forward!
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Come on. What do you think happens when you borrow money from organized crime?
You're framework doesn't render on an older chrome android browser.
I assune the attacker doesn't own that EC2 instance. If they did, the bandwidth costs would be prohibitive (there is no economic reason to pay XX cents per GB to send data to a tiny remote CPU for processing)
The link just goes to some articles about golf.
Define "start in a lab" -- are you talking about "created in a lab" or "accidentally released from a lab in which it was being studied causing a pandemic"?

If the latter, I don't think you have any evidence to say the pandemic didn't begin as a result of an accidental release from a lab in the literal epicenter of the pandemic. It's not possible to prove a negative in general, although in this case, it would have been pretty easy to prove by allowing international inspectors into the facility and turning over records.

Of course labs are not necessary. However, there's a precedent for labs causing outbreaks.

Were it indeed a totally spontaneous wild situation that occurred, why would I blame China? Diseases start all over the place, there's no fault for that. Any more than I blame the Congo for Ebola (named after the Ebola River) or America for Lyme disease (named after Old Lyme, CT). Even if it was an accidental release from a lab, I don't think China as an entity bears responsibility for that.

If it was an accidental release from a lab (an if), then they bear the responsibility for the coverup that led to insufficient efforts towards containment.

America has done a dreadful job to be sure, but that's more whataboutism.
Not really? I don't really care how much money they burn on useless stuff. You brought up misuse of engineering resources so I pointed out the fact they didn't actually have to write any software. All they have to do is release documentation and the problem will take care of itself.
> With X11, if you copy a password from your manager, you must assume all running apps now know it and transmitted it to a malicious server. There’s no way to tell.

With Wayland, it is only transmitted upon pasting, and only done directly from the copier app to the paster app.

Can you elaborate?

This sounds implausible, wishful thinking since key bindings are managed by individual applications. Whoever holds the clipboard must trust the application that claims to have received a paste command from the user. I don't see anything that could prevent spoofing without just blocking clipboard access entirely or making the usability a lot worse.
Fully agree. It's a total mess and it needs a major reform.

It's also a by-design unfair system only for the rich - as those with ideas (especially in 3rd world countries) don't have the resources to file for patents. It really makes my blood boil.
Last Soviet Leader
I think this is pretty different to stating that you can't code for more than 2 hours.

I don't think anyone can instantly snap into being productive on command, all the time.
I wonder if someone at Google will tell us how it happened after they fix it. The algorithm keeps getting more opaque over time.

FTR, This is taken at 11:00 PM PST, April 9th.
More than 500 Alphabet employees demand Google stop protecting harassers
So if I want to hook into each 4 parts of the lifecycle, I configure that and it gets executed once?

Can I maintain state between inbound request->origin request->origin response->inbound response?

My understanding was you can’t and it got called 4 times with different events, workers solves this by you being responsible for making the origin request (there is a simple mode where it does it for you to) with promises to manage origin response and inbound response logic.. I thought lambda@edge didn’t work like that?
Against conventional wisdom and popular opinion, I use AngularJS 1.x for all the SaaS platforms I run. Python (Flask, and Falcon for newer stuff), Postgres, AWS, AngularJS 1.x and will continue to do so for at least the next 24 months. Boring, but making great income. No need to jump on the "the next big thing".
Market leader afaik, albeit in a niche market. Perhaps insufficient replacement rate and planned obsolescence los deemed inappropriate?

I have one, I worry about replacement. Perhaps a spare is worth getting now.
And nowadays Shimano dominates the production of most bicycle components. And that comes with all the disadvantages that a de-facto monopoly has.
30 days of vacation... With that many their effective hourly wage goes up 10-15%. How many vacation days do you think amazon workers get? The parent post might consider amazon warehouse workers to be slaves, but that is likely more due to the harsh working conditions rather than their pay.
Is the reasoning here correct?
> The employers would be more than happy to accommodate that request (who does not like free money).

Not sure where your optimism is coming from...

At least for the time being, it will bring mixed environment which is far more costlier than just running Adobe for everyone.

And then when it comes to making the switch entirely, you will drop the efficiency of the senior designers who had decade(s) of experience on Adobe platform who are actually making money for the company and even after that, there will be shops doing business with your company still sticking to Adobe passing PSD files around and you have to give them good excuse that you don't accept PSD anymore.

That's why Adobe is being so arrogant with its pricing and their pitifully performing software never gets any better.

But I agree, Adobe needs to get out of everyone's way for the better future of design business.
We use S3.getObject to fetch it and create a custom response.
Good to see someone giving private equity a bit of a drubbing for a change. Long may it continue.
What you describe has always worked just fine on my Firefox/Mac installations.
they could have used carbon fibre
Iirc the inventor of the Polio vaccine could've patented it, but chose not to.
They are not. See: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-format-patch#_discussion

To quote the relevant bit:

"The patch produced by git format-patch is in UNIX mailbox format, with a fixed "magic" time stamp to indicate that the file is output from format-patch rather than a real mailbox".

The date "Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001" is that magic date.
Because everything before "safety bike" was bloody dangerous. "Safety bike" requires precise racks, chains, and rubber (so industrial oil refineries must exist).
I haven't consciously chosen to use Chrome in so long, I can't actually remember the last time I did.

Firefox for the win, every time!
Just checked and seems not available on the usual suspects yet (AliExpress, etc).

Would be fun to experiment on the RISC-V stack.
That's strange I don't have any Google widgets on my home screen. Perhaps it's the Xiaomi variant of the Android UI that allows this?
I made this prediction a little over a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21506330

> after one year of Manifest V3 actually shipping to users in mainline Chrome:

> - Assuming that Manifest V3's declarative API is not significantly changed from its current implementation.

> - If you visit each of the top 10 publishers in the US (including open publishing platforms like Twitter/Facebook/Youtube) [...]

> - Firefox will block more web trackers (65% likelyhood).

> - Firefox will block more visible ads and popups (55% likelyhood).

It's debatable whether or not the December rollout of Manifest V3 "counts" because Manifest V2 is still going to be available for about a year, but it's also increasingly looking like it won't matter -- the prediction might end up being proven right regardless of whether or not Manifest V2 is removed.

I would probably raise these likelihoods if I were to revisit the prediction today. I think it's reasonably unlikely that CNAME masking is going to go down in popularity, and I think it's reasonably unlikely that Chrome is going to put in the effort to catch back up. The one thing that gives me pause is that the original prediction specified looking at the top 10 publishers, and I'm not sure if any of them are using CNAME masking yet.
With ‘smoke ring’ technology, fusion startup marks steady progress
> * Glucose and other sugars are one of the handful things that there’s a consensus it’s bad for our health.

Is that really the case? There is a difference between something being inherently unhealthy vs excessive in our current diet. We like sugars because our bodies need readily accessible energy. The issue is that today it is to easy and cheap to produce and consume and we don't control ourselves.
Yeah I always wonder why the only option for so many bicycle components is Shimano. Most bicycles bought complete in a shop are all Shimano. Only in regions with bicycle commuting culture (e.g. Netherlands) one has broader choice.
Citations would be nice...
https://stackoverflow.com/a/27005870/5230900
Pretty solid arguments. I had an idea once for an addition to a cane specifically for blind people trying to learn or use echolocation. This would be a periodic noisemaker built into the cane so the blind person wouldn't have to chirp themselves.

I guess there's no reason why this would have to be in a cane as opposed to a little device you could store in our pocket or on your belt. When I was imagining it I thought the cane would be a good spot to put a battery plus device, but seeing so much emphasis on weight from this article - maybe not.
I enjoyed the writing of early Wired. What duo you read today that resembles it?
"... manufactured overseas"

That means different things to people in different countries. If the writer knows the countries where they were manufactured (with proof) they should say so.
It doesn't make it irrelevant. For example, sponsored Tweets on the Twitter web app aren't blocked in Brave (at least the last time I checked).
For a change, a hint of new physics does not fade away
I think a lot of the obscuring is intentionally done by corporations who seem to be run by sociopaths. It seems likely that corporations actively make workers feel like a union would be useless.
That's not how pricing works. Just because "you" can/are willing to pay doesn't mean the pricing is right.

What other software/service with the amount of users of Adobe charge $50/mo?

The pricing is set based on their lockdown through their closed file format, so the competitions can't exist.
The Lockdown's terrible toll on kids.