skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Center of Decentralization sneezes and all of Bitcoin catches a cold
> If the objective of the traffic experiment had been to deliberately get a certain group of cars stuck in a traffic jam, this would absolutely be unethical.

A closer analogue would be a traffic experiment designed to gauge the emotional effects of a particular route. That's an important difference.

The article itself says the experiment was designed to look for evidence of emotional contagion, which is quite different from "it was designed to make people sad".

Also, in another thread it's pointed out that the effect sizes from this study were extremely small - something like 0.3% more negative words were used by ~150k people. The effect is said to be on the same scale as any minor UI change, like a size/color change of the "like" button. So it's hard to see this as anything other than folks looking for a reason to get outraged.
Meanwhile the web development jobs market is booming like never before. WordPress and Squarespace aren't the answer to everything.
Can you wrap its invocation in a script that sets a snap specific version of the $HOME environment variable? If it's perverse, it ignores $HOME in favor of reading the passwd entry itself, in which case I'm happy to have never encountered it.
This reminds me of the (roughly the same) saying that people always spend their next pay-check instead of their current one.
For the love of God if you're trying to play games to get better at work then just go damn work. You should play games to have fun, man.
The OEIS is so useful when I have some sequence and I have no clue how to efficiently implement it in code.

More often than not, there's a formula to generate the ith term in the sequence in close to O(1) time.
Alpaca Antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 developed in Chile
But that's what all potato batteries are.
> Banks, 401k managers, and other critical pieces of infrastructure are more than happy to harvest your phone number for "added security" and proceed to weaken the security on your account by allowing anyone with control of that phone number to hijack the account.

This is a targeted attack.

> Individual numbers have max message rates and other garbage, but with an army of phone numbers you can, e.g., send out the same scam message to most phone numbers

As I read this, it involves sending messages from random numbers, not reading messages that get sent to random numbers?

> I'm struggling to imagine how you'd monetize it directly (some kind of insider trading?), but 1M person-hours worth of intercepted texts can't be worth <=$0 I don't think.

Data can easily be worthless if it takes effort to process and doesn't produce much value. This is a common case; "if the data exists, it must be valuable" is not a particularly strong argument.

Insider trading doesn't really work, since by hypothesis you have no idea who the people are whose messages you're reading. (If you know, then you're performing a targeted attack.) There's no "inside" as far as you're concerned.
>My heart goes out for those poor miners slaving away for... what?

coal?
> those poor miners slaving away for... what?

Bitcoin, apparently.
I second this comment, and if the OP is looking to grow his channel, I suggest watching a few from "Stuff Made Here".

His channel has skyrockted from a few thousand subs less than a year ago to a few million now, and growing VERY fast.
As I'm repeating myself too often regarding this: the statistical norm is to be trackable. Every browser that isn't will get flagged.

Privacy does only exist if you seem to look exactly like any other person visiting the website.

That is why user agent, web apis, asset loading order and behaviours, http stack behaviours, tcp fingerprints all have to look like they came from the Browser Engine you're trying to identify with.

If you don't, you're watched. It's as simple as that. Don't kid yourself into safety if you think that the Content-Security-Policy hack of adblockers work to prevent tracking and fingerprinting. Sure, you send less data, but less data means more obvious than the norm.

As there was not a single concept that could fix this (in regards to looking like another Browser) I started to build my own "web filtering browser" [1] that is able to emulate fingerprinting, and sticks them to specific domains and their originating uncached CDN requests so that if you have the same IP for the same website, they cannot correlate it to ptevious visits.

The most effective way to not get tracked is to not visit the website. And I think that there's a huge potential in offloading traffic to peers that have the same URL already in their caches. Peer-to-peer Browser Caches would fix so many issues on their own, I don't understand why nobody is doing that. To the end user it doesn't matter where the assets come from, as long as the website is rendered in the same way afterwards.

[1] https://github.com/tholian-network/stealth
The article ends weirdly abruptly:

> It should also be noted that a mining difficult adjustment <EOF>

... what?
In these scripts...

/usr/bin/awk '{print $7}' /home/logs/access_log.old | /usr/bin/sort | /usr/bin/uniq -c | /usr/bin/sort -r

1) If your PATH is well configured, you can omit the path to the binaries (i.e.: "/usr/bin/sort" becomes just "sort")

2) Instead of using awk, you can just use cut.

# Delimit this line by the space character
# and get the 7th field
cut -d " " -f 7 /home/logs/access_log.old

3) Then, there's this:

# This is not correct (lexicographic sort)
sort | uniq -c | sort -r

# This is correct (sort numerically)
sort | uniq -c | sort -rn

Why? because otherwise you get 1, 10, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 instead of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.

Try it yourself:

seq 1 10 | sort # lexicographic sort
seq 1 10 | sort -n # numeric sort

4) If you are just interested in the top 10, you can add

sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -n 10
Where does it say bitcoin? The quote:

>three recent coal mine accidents, [...] that caused 21 people to be trapped.
I usually do sudo apt install docker or add servicer.docker.enable=true in my configuration.nix and I'm done. No piping involved.
Me too man -- It is isolating. My superiors are generally helpful but my reports (who were previously my peers that I got along with personally) expect a lot from me now and it's hard to figure out exactly what/how I should deliver.
Czech munitions were/are compatible with the Soviet era weapon systems used by Ukraine. At the time Ukraine was buying whatever was left at former Warsaw Pact countries.
Russia's motive was to deny Ukraine this possibility.
I think the most important thing the SolarWinds hack has revealed is that the massive pile of paperwork that has to be filled out, full of security controls, to accredit system for government systems, is fairly useless. It's the digital equivalent of the Great Wall of China. Designed by bureaucrats, impressive in size, a massive effort, and ultimately not going to stop the Mongols anyways. Security paperwork is not security.

More important I think is that the months and months it takes to usher things through the process forces things to be out of date which in itself creates security problems.

An actual audit of the source code + running it in an instrumented live test environment to capture behavior is far better.
Checked my NordicTrack 1750 and it has something similar. Didn't even realize that bar was there but it's good to know it is and what it is for. I'm not familiar with the design of the Peloton treadmill but it seems like most could have something similar.
ah, the way they handle images is just lamentable - go take a look at joplin, free and good enough. That Notesnook app looks good too, fast and slick, but they're gouging you on the price and unclear on who they're selling your info to...
Yeah, everything they write in articles is true, of course.

Qui bono?

Obama-Biden administration is major cause of millions of deaths in Middle East, Africa, etc. Yet Obama got a Nobel prize for peace and Biden accuses other of being a "killer".
When one wants to compare growth rates between things with different starting points, one uses a logarithmic scale.

Things growing at the same rate are parallel then.

I compared things on a 30 year, 20 year, and 10 year timescale. On each of them, Germany significantly outperformed Japan.
Analytics are business intelligence. Showing which of your content works well and which doesn’t.

The idea that there should be no issue sharing them is absurd. Yeah just publish the minutes from your marketing strategy meetings as well while you’re at it. Invite your competitors to go over your books with you and your accountant and then arrange meet and greets with your most profitable customers as dessert.
> and truth be told I wasn’t exactly a saint either

lmao. rich people are hilarious. this isn't a "leadership challenge." this is you almost facing the consequences of your actions and then getting out of it and being successful despite the fact that you (by your own admission) were probably guilty. too bad you weren't caught -- then you may have actually learned something.
They're not dropping Apple Watch support. They support it in classes but dropped support for it in their mixed mode workout routines. Apparently the Apple Watch is kinda bad at tracking mixed mode workouts.
As a person who finds the blatant tail wagging pretty annoying, I think a good way to address this from the boss's perspective would be to not being seen basking in the fake adulation and keep an even keel. That keeps the ass-lickers in check and sends the signal, to those who are not, that merit still trumps such shenanigans.
Crazy. Wondering why they got cut off? Here is more info https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/bitcoin-mining-pool-hashra...
... to appease Germany's environmentalists who saw shutting down working nuclear plants as a major win.

(Yes, I know it's a different source of coal. But energy, in the age of oil tankers and thousand-mile pipelines, is fungible.)
No, that was the correct response.

If anything, you should have fired him intentionally yourself when he went over your head. He isn't looking to work with you or the team, he's actively seeking to undermine you; at that point his presence is a negative, not a positive.
> When people know that there's no assurance that the things…are "safe", … they tend to be a lot more careful. This is a good thing.

No, it's not. I shouldn't have to check the piping of my gas heating system for leaks, or the wiring of my lights for shorts, or my car not to fall apart on the highway, or the food I bought to poison me. If I, and everyone else, had to do those things, I wouldn't have time to do anything else, so I wouldn't bother with those things and I'd live in a stone hut.

You could argue that safety standards aren't strict enough, or aren't enforced (yes, we should address that litany of chemicals!), but there's no question that safety standards significantly improve our collective quality of life.

P.S. Add "computer security" to that list of things I shouldn't need to care about.
It's a mindless shill, exactly the type of account you should ban.

If I'm robbing your home right in front of you, are you going to entertain my musings of "Oh, but you're not even familiar with the intricacies of the law as it pertains to burglary, so you have no grounds to criticize me!"?

Denizens of HN, no one else in the world buys these fucking delusions. It's time to get on the right side of history before the guillotines come out.
I don't personally care. What I say is the audience will find a place to gather - if not on WSB, elsewhere.
I've been using Perl Template::Toolkit since around 2001 and it's even better since version 3 was released. Worth a try. You don't even need to know Perl to make use of it.
Just going off the title this sounds very niche. How many people take this kind of self help stuff seriously, and how many also value spirituality? The subtitle even says "for muslim engineers" (which I'm sure is a fairly large group, but still).
There are a few steps in between, but if the chain of events really is: coal mine accidents > coal shortage > power blackouts > drop in bitcoin mining, then the end result is effectively they were indeed slaving away for bitcoin.
> Significantly, the Xinjiang and Sichuan regions of China combined account for more than 50 percent of the overall Bitcoin mining hash rate

I don't get it, doesn't this effectively mean China can force a 51% attack by just strongarming the pools that operate there?
I think they compromised Teamcity, or at least I've heard a lot of mentions of Teamcity related to this hack, I could be completely wrong. But it's possible they just got admin access to the Teamcity build server and added their code just before the build was deployed. So not really compromising the compiler per se
Would be worse without taxes though, no?

Since you mentioned the debt ceiling, that’s another concept that doesn’t make any sense (except as yet another thing more politics can be piled on to). It’s like first the congress votes on the size of the budget, and then separately on the size of the door that it has to fit through.
Unix networking command line tools I use to do my job
> ... are done with plain JS, with as few libraries as possible ...

I was having the same opinion and practice. However, I'm kind regret it as well.

Even if you done everything with plain JS, eventually, one day some idea will float into your head such as "Hey... I want to automatically compress the script file/snip", "Hey I wonder if I can polyfill all my script", "Automatically bundle assets?", "Compress assets images?" etc.

Then, you start to learn Webpack/Gulp/Grunt (if the last two are still alive), and commit your entire soul to it few minutes later.

I think the reason for the messy front-end tech is, the Web itself is messy. You have to consider a lots of things, networking, file management, cache management, cookie, user-side storage, security etc. Some eyes saw the problem and then built a framework to address it, then others discovered some other issues in the framework ... the circle of life.

I guess we'll eventually settle down on something when people finally figure out what they want from the Web technology, or when the Web is "dead" (no dramatic changes anymore, like what happened to Desktop Applications today).
https://doctoratlantis.medium.com/how-to-restore-the-borders...

https://www.robinhobo.com/how-to-fix-the-borderless-window-p...

...and then of course you have the dummies like this who probably caused these idiotic trends:

https://forum.level1techs.com/t/is-it-possible-to-get-rid-of...

The real problem is the lack of configurability. You could change the window border width to anywhere from invisible to some insanely huge number on the older versions of Windows, and everyone would be happy. Now you're forced to use whatever some stupid "designer"'s idea is.
> The whole point of personal responsbility [sic] is that it ends at the people responsible, in this case the parents who left their children unsupservised [sic] near a high powered electric device.

That's an understandable view, but my view is that the individuals responsible are the ones who designed and approved the dangerous device. The courts should decide which of our views is right.

As a separate point, consider who is hurt more when this goes badly: the company that has some (bad) PR or even (gasp!) a recall, or the parents who enters the room to find their child dead.
I still think there is an opportunity for a hosted browser vpn type service or a generic contained browser. It would look like every other person because every other person uses the same setup.
It is closing, but it is still a valley.

With WSL, I still have to account for poor FS performance when files are not in correct location. GUI is still not seamless (Wayland is coming, but not yet arrived). I still have to fight the terrible UX that is Windows DE, instead of natural flow of i3wm.

Its the little things that eat up my cognitive budget that tire me way early in Windows compared to full fledged Linux distro.
The most naive collection of people on Earth exists right here on HN.

You don't think the elites have had an influence on tax law? Jesus fucking Christ.
I've been on the 'lucky' side of many layoffs. It is always good to remember that the responsibility of a corporation is to shareholders, not employees.
Here’s the notice I got: https://about.codecov.io/security-update/
App Tracking Transparency Explained – Get Ready for iOS 14.5
https://simone.computer/#/webdesktops
List of other mostly retro desktops like this
> They ended up paying for that in spades.

Assuming that guy behaved differently with other companies, shouldn’t we call it corruption?

Edit:

> This was in the planning field and he was moving from a private consulting firm to a government job.

Some downvoters want explain? Seriously HN, you want this kind of government workers?

< I'm not condoning what he did.

I didn’t assume so. It was an interesting story to share.
Sikorsky S-97 Raider Demonstrates Agility During Future Vertical Lift Flight
Sure, in the same way that code is intellectual property and should never be shared, and all ideas should all be patented in case they become worth something.

In all seriousness, I'm OK with that as long as people are honest about it. Just say "We track our users to collect business intelligence." and I'm happy.
structured in such a way that he did not have
sufficient control of the outcome

Yeah, I worked at a job once that tried an incentive program that failed miserably for this reason.

We were supposed to hit X number of billable hours per month. For the first few months I worked my ass off and achieved this.

However I wound up with almost zero bonus. It turned out that the actual bonus was based on what the clients actually paid, and when they paid it.

We had clients fail to pay, or they paid late, or had been given discounts. So most of my hours didn't count, or were shifted to subsequent months... which also happened to be months were sales wasn't able to provide enough billable hours to us for us to reach our bonus.

Total BS.

As you say... and similar to the linked article... I worked my butt off for the bonuses, and fulfilled my part of the bargain. But was then denied, for reasons 100% out of my control.

I quit. Even as a 23 year old that was obviously crap.
>Microsoft is complex. It was evil in the nineties. It's a different company now.

I don't get this marketing campaign that I read over and over again in any thread mentioning Microsoft.

It's a real fantasy; Microsoft begins realizing that there is some real cold cash in the open source biz, hops onto supporting linux in any way that might cause Microsoft to see some revenue (WSL comes to mind), and this somehow causes everyone to start parroting "Microsoft isn't evil anymore!"

Two ironies : 1) "Microsoft isn't evil anymore" was motivated by Microsoft losing ground on the OS side of things and acquiescing into the support of another system as long as it made a buck doing so.

2) "not evil anymore " is a pretty fantastically horrible show of support, and honestly I am made queasy by supporting any formally evil entity.

Does anyone buy this stuff?

'Big corporation' isn't good or evil, they are capitalistic with morals and ethics that try to align best with whatever cohort will attract the most profit by doing so.

Don't be fooled into actually thinking about this problem with good/evil in mind, it's a distraction.

It's just a more attractive way to frame 'We changed directions -- since that thing we formally hated as competition is profitable now we won't make it our mission statement to disparage and destroy it as a target, now we're going to use it to make a buck ourselves instead while evangelizing about the product with about as much effort as we tried to disparage it earlier in time.'
No. Literally Germany's coal is specifically because its their own coal, a natural resource within their own borders they control. For national security, they maintain a coal capacity. Germany's coal burning is national security, nothing to do with environmentalists.
Because this is clearly altering emotional states. Is it known whether any individuals became more sad than others and committed suicide as a cause? No? Well thats because studies like this are required to go through IRB and review processes to ensure outcomes like that DO NOT HAPPEN. That did not happen here.
The absence of specific regulation doesn't mean that you'd have to check everything yourself (however "trust but verify" is a saying for a reason). It would rather mean that the companies providing these services would be competing to most convincingly prove to you that their products are safe for your home and guaranteed to function.

This competition would bear out in your heating or electric company guaranteeing their installation and agreeing to be liable for any damages caused by faults in their product. Your car already has such guarantees and warranties, and they are the result of market pressure.

Computer security functions similarly - top companies would complete to provide guarantees of security by offering to cover losses that result from breaches. This already happens too. It's not as bleak as you make it out to be.

Also we would all be much healthier if we lived in stone huts.
The long list of optional dependencies listed on the page?

If I'm understanding correctly, these just provide additional niceties and is fully usable without them.
As crypto matures it becomes less and less decentralized and more like our "legacy" world of finance. It gets to the point where the main benefit you can give is that you are still in control of your bitcoin. My response was that with traditional banks I feel just as in control of my money. Granted I live in the US and that might not be the case everywhere.
Except tracking services know about centralized VPN IP ranges that do not rotate. That's why everybody in algotrading switched to mobile apps and 3G/4G proxies that are installed on actual smartphones, and usually they have dozens of SIM cards laying around.
Yes, is it known whether anyone affected committed suicide? Was that a part of the test, did they take that in to effect, did they ensure there were signals that if that could happen they would lay off the negativity for those people? Any psychology course at a University on ethics shows this is mass experimentation without proper oversight.

I for one, do not believe that a bunch of twats in silicon valley give a crap about ethics, do you?
Roblox Struggles with Sexual Content, Hopes Ratings System Will Address Problem
Thats now what this is about.
Folks, just say NO! NO! to React, Vue, Angular or whatever is your SPA poison. NO! to Webbpack or whatever JS bundler. NO! to AWS, GCP and Azure. NO! to Docker. ABSOLUTELY NO! to Kubernetes. Does anyone using React or Angular remember what their use cases were when they were invented? Face ****ing Book and GMail, not your crappy little website which ran fine for years with only a splash of jQuery. Kubernetes was designed for massive fleets of servers, not your tiny little AWS instance. Just say NO! Even if your page occasionally has to do a full refresh - SO ****ing WHAT!? Are you really going to give-up all your family time for the marginal benefit of having your almost static website update pages without a refresh? If you really must there's now a version of Hotwire for pretty much every major web framework out there so you can still render server-side.

Say YES! to raw ES6, Hotwire and judicious use of jQuery. With SPA's the motto is YAGNI unless you're Shopify.
Bitcoin price crashes 14% sending cryptocurrency market into tailspin
I don’t think they really do. They just project an image. I think Elon Musk spends most of his time watching anime, shitposting on Twitter and laughing at how stupid his employees are for overworking themselves.
He does only human things, like drinking water from a glass.
That’s just a misunderstanding of Costco. Costco is an expensive store with high quality products for high income shoppers... don’t be fooled by the name.