skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can discern a little about someone's interests by what's on their bookshelves

And perhaps learn a little more than you expected: https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/bbc-wales-today-viewers-... (somewhat NSFW)

> Some of those books might even be strategically placed so that they are in clear view.

Or just not even bother with the books in the first place: https://www.indy100.com/news/trump-erin-elmore-bookcase-sky-...
As much as I can remember, us-west-2 gets new instances and features at the same time as us-east-1. (And IIRC eu-west-1 gets new stuff as well, but I don't pay much attention to that.) Was there anything in the past few years where this hasn't been true?
The command was simple enough...

sudo apt-get install wine winetricks

and apt-get suggested i install something else, so I did. Wasn't really thinking it might uninstall most of my OS. Trying to get files off the HD now to reinstall.
I remember that.
In the early 2000s you could download any game from Steam's servers, even ones you don't own.
Counter Strike Source originally had a format string vulnerability in player name. Setting your name to %s will crash the game.
Where do we get a full list?
The idea of running games on the same machine you bank on (via insecure websites with 90s security) is ludicrous.
I'm currently working on something vaguely related, but presently focused on converting stereo to arbitrary N-channel surround (and documenting it on YouTube). I agree that spatialization should be more standardized, and it should be easy to convert between arbitrary spatialization setups.
Lambda School is a predatory bootcamp that lies about students outcomes
For frontend TypeScript I assume you mean TypeScript that doesn't use JS modules but extensionless modules, the TypeScript folks sadly have decided to not bring compatibility here ATM.
This quote about the V programming language surprised me, because I had the exact opposite experience.

> it was the unfriendly community I came across, the controversy surrounding it, and the secretive nature of the project that made me lose faith in its promise.

I know V has some controversy around it, but the community has always been open and kind in my experience.
> Wanna singlehandedly stop a disinfo catastrophe in October?

> Tell Twitter to eliminate Trending Topics for the whole month.

> Gaming Trending Topics was Wikileaks' strategy. It's how Pizzagate emerged from the fringe.

Pizzagate "emerged" from 4chan or 8chan, not as a Wikileaks' strategy. If we're going to talk about bad faith interpretations or "context collapse", I'd like to see an example that isn't so clearly false, almost to the point of it just being political bullshit.

I followed the logic of this story right up until it jumped into this nonsense.
You got sources for that being how the construction works?
From various telegram groups with the devs in them , my understanding is 1) rings are constructed client side 2) uploaded to the server inside SGX. This has two major weaknesses 1) it doesn't specify how payment notification happens, which can be a massive privacy hole 2) if SGX is broken you are subject to all of the long term intersection attacks on Monero's/k-anonymity because the rings are now public.

This is a very limited threat model and worthy of serious scrutiny.
Family farms produce income and are rarely large enough to hit the threshold for these proposed taxes.

As for case of non-income generating wealth, too bad. If you can't manage to generate the absolutely pathetically low returns (2%!) that would be needed, then you don't deserve to be rich forever.
and

- killing of innocent people, cops and others

- large scale looting and burning of shops - often smaller stores owned by minorities AFAIK

I'm even afraid BLM has gotten many to question the whole story.
No politicians today participate in cancel culture? I doubt it.

Regardless let's use a non political example. I assume if the issue is "force of government" then you were 100% okay with the Hollywood Blacklists? (Generally accepted to be part of MCCarthyism) After all that's basically analogous to deplatforming and it was private companies that were doing it with no force of government. Do you support the Hollywood blacklists?
Speaking as someone who's been using exclusively Linux for the last 5+ years I think it's dishonest of people to say any distro "just works" like MacOS and Windows. For technical users who are willing to invest the time to configure things as they like I feel it's an unparalleled experience, but it certainly takes some work to get there. Most of the issues you mentioned are ones I've personally encountered and fixed (sans the freezes, that's abnormal).

Paradoxically I had a much worse experience with things breaking themselves and not working when using the allegedly more accessible/stable Ubuntu (LTS) than I do now that I use Arch. The Frankenstein-esque mess of held back packages seems to do a better job preserving bugs in amber than preventing them. I would honestly hesitate to steer any technical individuals towards Ubuntu at this point, and I suspect it's given a lot of people a sour taste of desktop Linux.

(just to be clear- I'm absolutely not saying arch is the "just works" distro, just sharing my experience comparison)
Twitter is a platform for amplifying messages to be sure.

We can see this fairly plainly when considering that both the @ symbol and hashtag were created by the community as hacks for features that didn't exist natively.

I once met one of the original employees of Twitter (back when it was Odeo) at a conference and he explained some of the early uses of the platform when it was built around SMS.

There were instances of protestors who would message "police spotted 23rd street" and presumably other users would receive that message on their timelines.

To be clear, I'm not saying Twitter was designed for protests but it seems a lot of the things that make it look more "conversational" were definitely after thoughts and so it's no wonder that it's so broken as a medium.

Even more plainly, getting anything across with nuance in 280 characters (it was 140!) is swimming against the stream no matter how many pseudo-features like threading are added.
Left pad your strings, no import necessary!
Have they accomplished anything else? Does that justify BLM as a political organisation? How transparent are they, and who runs it? Assumptions aren't always good. BLM is not new, and i've been disturbed by the attitudes of some supporters going back a few years.
I think there's an important distinction to be made here.

Communities aren't only exclusive, they can be anywhere on a gradient between exclusive and inclusive.

An inclusive community may have a central focus, but would allow outsiders to participate.

Each of your examples have both inclusive and exclusive communities.
If Joe McCarthy operated through Twitter instead and privately convinced private companies/individuals to take action on marked individuals, would it be any less of a cancellation? Government backing certainly made it worse, but I'd think many disagree with McCarthyism because of what he did rather than how he did it.
Twitter is good to make short announcements that everyone interested can receive.

But the majority of exchange is someone publishing something interesting, a couple of people add something constructive and the enormous tail after that is people trying for brownie points by trying to prove they know more, trying to bring some forced social relevance/intersectionality and a bunch piling on like a yo mama joke that's run its course but the kids who can't do jokes make ham-fisted attempts and pile on more disconnected nonsense.
You think whatsapp service isn’t worth $1 per year? I was perfectly happy to pay that.
Nice. What hardware are you running?
A Windows defender update is protecting against reinfection assuming there are no active admins.
> Landlords used to have to maintain and fix the property. While they still do in theory, in practise they often just threaten one of the two options above to anyone who wants a repair done.

That's not very smart. So the current tenant leaves, and then what? Good luck finding someone else to rent the property at the original price without fixing the issue…
Is there a good Rust vs Ada comparison by someone really clueful about both languages anywhere? I've only seen comparisons by people knowledgeable about one but not the other. Ada like C++ has a bunch of clumsy parts that you can ignore. If you use what is left, it feels very solid (I'm no expert but have tried a few things in it). I have far less understanding of Rust, but it seems to have a more modern type system yet be hackier in many other regards.
The article title is a misquote [1] from the interviewed subject of the article, in which the subject recounts a situation where their mundane tweet was replied to thousands of times, and was trending before and after because of a Twitter feature designed to highlight high-interaction tweeets from verified accounts.

This is essentially clickbait, because it sets up an expectation in the reader that cancel culture may be involved. I have a low opinion of intentionally manipulative titles, and consider them to be a platform failure.

[1] It's literally a misquote, because the interviewed subject is in truth even more dismissive of the concept of cancel culture, but all of this is a red herring, because no one in their right mind ought to think this bizarre situation was a manifestation of cancel culture. Don't pick this apart uncharitably, my assertion does not preclude from "people in their right mind" nonetheless believing in cancel culture; my assertion is that no one in their right mind should think that This bizarre incident was a manifestation of cancel culture.

Nonetheless, the writer does have a point. The 'trending' feature was easily manipulated in the past, and now that it's been changed to add some editorial commentary, it's now complete nonsense masquerading as newsworthy happenings. But the whole site has been like that since retweets were added, where everyone is just trying to ride the coattails of being adjacent to a viral tweet and go viral themselves. Lots of people claim they get value out of Twitter, but when you listen to their example, they invariable engage in curation of their friends and the people they follow, and stick to interest-based communities rather than bored people shitposting. There's no value in Twitter-at-large, except to the trolls and people who seek fame or infamy for its own sake.

But where the writer falls short is they don't present a clear alternative. They point a laser pointer at some bizarre event that only a few thousand people know about that blowed up a blue-check person's phone for a day, conclude the whole site a cesspool, and ask us to ponder in our hearts if we deserve something better. Yes, we do, and we use those sites, like this one, and engage with those communities instead. And I think a lot of people do. Yet some people still use Twitter too, so perhaps it fulfills a genuine demand for something after all.
You don't, though. That's more like IP law, where people really do claim rights over the usage of strings. Crypto is more like allocating a string on some servers with a decentralized process
Stop protecting Microsoft. Let them absorb the damage and die.
Well, this is a totally awful development. In the 80s the idea of white worms being used to patch vulnerabilities was rejected for good reason, so I have to think this has little to do with security and much more to do with normalizing behavior that really shouldn't be tolerated. They didn't even patch the hole...

Before anyone tries framing it as a service to the security of the majority - understand that this is the introduction of a new attack vector: state actors hamfistedly bumbling around your network while "doing you a favor". If the threat even approached a level justifying this kind of action, the far more effective and less damaging approach would be directing upstream networks to blackhole routes to the machines.
What's the alternative to a credit bureau? Determining the loan amount you are qualified for by a magic 8 ball or a person looking at how nicely you're dressed (and your gender, religion and ethnicity) and guessing? Or the second option, but they also take into account your paystubs, which makes it better but has similar issues.
Hey Ben, I'm not the person you're replying to but I'm a long time paying customer and I have observed the same problem. See this post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26799379 below that explains the issue in detail. Creating new login items is a needlessly complex multi-step process that involves converting a password item to a login item and manually filling in your username.

It's really hard for me to understand how you can have an otherwise great product but are failing at what I would argue is one out of the two most important features (creating logins and autofilling).
the specific "Her" I was referencing was the journalist that was the subject of the linked article.
In my understanding its a free worldwide immediate news distribution service. Was never planned for a reasonable discourse? I am a bit disappointed that BitClout started with that paradigm.
Not so long ago, like in the 80's, smoking was acceptable nearly everywhere. It was fine if you didn't want to smoke, but if you asked somebody to, say, not smoke right next to you, or not smoke in your car, you were considered to be the one with a character flaw, impinging on their "rights" and "freedom."

It's interesting how things change.
> Went to a private business, like a restaurant or a shopping mall? What happens if you start insulting people and been rude and un-polite like people are in social media?

People say "it's not worth potentially getting shot or otherwise attacked to try to get that asshole to put on a mask"
Does no one else think it’s odd that the general assumption of the tech community is to avoid an entire region of the largest cloud provider in the world, and then to assume these “newer” regions won’t have stability issues in a few years?
Let's replace the term “technical debt”
I logged into GitHub on mobile just to star this.
Beautiful satire :-)

BTW: if you own the whole pointless.click domain you could rent out subdomains, at least I instantly wanted one (or maybe you use them yourself already, I just don't find anything on pointless.click)
Frankly I'm amazed that spam doesn't fall under harassment laws.
No idea about the commercial prospects but if you haven't used any modern statically typed languages yet (Haskell, Rust, Scala, maybe ML/OCaML, or some of the more pointy headed ones like Coq) then I think getting some understanding of these is an important part of your tool set, even if you don't use it at work. They used to say the same thing about Lisp and it's still true.

I've spent a fair amount of time on Haskell and it's been worth it even though I haven't ever directly used it at work for anything significant. Rust at worst seems the same way.
I disagree with the studios' reasons for doing it (it was dressed up as a patriotic move, but was fairly thinly-veiled anti-labor action intended to disrupt the growing trend towards unionization in the entertainment industry).

But as political affiliation was not (and for pretty obvious reasons, probably should not be, California's subsequent state-level decisions notwithstanding) a protected employment class, they certainly had the right to do it. The HUAC is a different story.

(You take away the studios' right to blacklist communists and you take away their right to blacklist KKK members at the same time. It's a step I'm not personally comfortable with. And especially in the modern era, when the technology is cheaper and more decentralized, I prefer to see the solution to such things be competition to the Hollywood system instead of tying Hollywood's hands on political matters.)
Same here, it is like some people on here take any chance to down vote you at any given opportunity over mundane stuff.
I received four separate calls that “my social security number has been suspended for illegal activity” calls yesterday. Those scammers have been able to walk away with multiple tens of thousands of dollars from unsuspecting (mostly older) Americans- draining significant portions of their life savings. Add in the other three calls offering to “lower my interest rate” and a few more offering Medicare advantage plans, and...

It’s a scourage and the only reason this continues to be a problem is because of lax enforcement. It was trivial to track down and punish - even as a private individual under the TCPA - robocallers when they resided in the US. Now since all this activity is overseas, they operate with impunity and it’s disgusting.
Mobilecoin is a proof of stake system and there is no Bitcoin involved. Proof of Stake systems are not damaging to the environment like Proof of Work systems (like Bitcoin’s) are or can potentially be.

Yeah there is a big education gap that just gets wider with stigma.
I think the best content I've read on twitter are blog posts chopped up into twitter posts and reassembled on some 3rd-party viewing tool.
Really? If Muslims were attacking Jews for being Jews before the Nakba, then obviously Muslims disliking Jews does not lie at the feet of the Nakba. That is like the most solid argument I've ever heard.
Isn't it rise of WFH, bitcoin, a faltering Intel, consolidation, and a growing demand throughout the industry?
I either completely agree or completely disagree, not quite sure. On one hand, yes, it is not exposing things that don't already exist in human nature. On the other hand, I've seen lots of things said on Twitter (and other social networks) that I've just never seen people say in in-person interactions, because the normal rules of social interaction would make people feel an intense shame/embarrassment to say it face-to-face without the benefit of pseudo-anonymity.

I think this "context collapse" explanation is really accurate, because it explains that it's not just "human nature", but it's actually taking advantage of how humans have really only evolved to have back-and-forth conversations with other people who have the same conversational context.
I do agree that it's a cultural thing. American, European, and East-Asian lockdown policies have been massively instructive on the spectrum of humanity's willingness to submit to state and cultural authority.

But I wouldn't go so far as to say that the next generation values its privacy less than the previous. If anything, my observations would suggest it's the opposite.

The amount of energy and expertise required to function in society while avoiding the excesses of corporate surveillance has simply expanded past the point where people can realistically fight it. Younger people know that the war is lost.

No significant segment of the population truly appreciates the scale, and the precision with-which they're being tracked. But among my younger friends and family, there seems to be a persistent appreciation that privacy is a precious commodity in very short supply. They may not always be cognizant of it, of course. They grew up in this world, and it's impractical to think about the air you breath all the time, even if it's thick with smog. It's simply not realistic. They do intuitively know which battles are lost, moreso than 'older' folk past their late 20s who vividly remember the advent of Facebook, who like to grouse about the tracking of social media while aggressively ignoring the fact that the little spy in their pocket would be just as insidious in its violations with or without any apps installed.

But you need a phone to function in the modern world. You'll never be able to truly escape the panopticon without a great deal of money, and if you could you would have to leave everyone you ever knew behind, and many of your prospects to do so. And after all, it's not bit you yet. Better to resign yourself to what's already lost.

The Europeans I've known have generally been less reticent in their acceptance of the state of the world, FWIW.

To your second point...

My instincts, and my morality tells me we'd be better off with the prisons, and possibly the sanitariums. Not because of the potential downstream consequences, but because to psychologically muzzle anyone like that without their active and continuous consent would be an atrocity of the first order. Our criminal justice system in America is often abysmal. But at least our prisoners are not lobotomized for the comfort of those of us who find the idea of prisons offensive. They're granted at the very least, the dignity to resent those who locked them up.

I believe you're right, these are for the time hypotheticals. Tomorrow is a foreign land, but it's a foreign land in-which many of us will live. Regardless, it's incumbent on each and every one of us to ensure that that land shares in what virtues we consider right, and just.
I would suspect the possibility that 60% may be weapons-grade with modern timing systems and precise manufacturing of detonation layers and waveguides. It would seem that the ability to do finite-element shock wave simulations changes everything. But I know little about this.
That's so true! A third of the view it gets is the underside of your face and nose and the rest is the ceiling.

I have this XPS and use an external webcam when I need one.
Are any top players really leaving CSGO for Valorant? Or just washed players and players who could never break into the upper echelon?
Thanks! It's my favourite joke so far.

My pet projects go on this domain.https://todays.pointless.click is my neglected home page.

Never thought anyone would want a subdomain on it!
Well obviously because it can be used to attack US interests.
> For a more even-handed comparison of Fauna to DynamoDB, see this blog post: https://fauna.com/blog/comparing-fauna-and-dynamodb-pricing-...

An even handed comparison from the authors of FaunaDB?
Not to get all Darwinian in here, but what exactly is the problem with anti-vaxxers getting killed by the virus they refuse to get vaccinated against?
Not most people, but Death isn’t worse?
The search for text -> tab to highlight more of a search result -> the highlighted text is already copied to the clipboard automatically

workflow was such a game changer for me, it’s so snappy.

Could probably be configured on other terminals?
There's tons of examples. Check Yardbird Suite by Charlie Parker in the RB, you'll also find a lot of mistakes :)
Since ubiquiti is currently going the way of the crapper, this is great news
It's easy to write spam off as a minor annoyance, but you're not the intended target. Your parents and grandparents are, and your immigrant neighbor who doesn't speak English well, and the intellectually disabled woman who waves to you at the grocery store. These are predators who prey on the vulnerable and ignorant and ruin lives on a daily basis. They are the absolute scum of the earth.
Why wouldn't China seize the opportunity to say it's the U.S.'s fault?
Egyptian judges are highly motivated to rule how Sisi tells them.

Assuming Ever Given's insurers get stuck for the entire billion, the ensuing premiums for Suez transit for similar sized ships might just make routing around the Cape more economic. If there's a 1/2,000 chance of getting stuck in the Suez, the insurer would need a premium of $500,000 to break even. So the ship can either spend the $500,000 on Suez premium or on fuel to go around the cape.

Which will of course deprive Egypt of the fees it charges large ships.
> Everything in life has turned to spam.

Why do we do this to ourselves?
I've always thought of Twitter as an indigestible enormous chatroom, that users interact with via the aid of different kinds of filters. The format and platform do sometimes exasperate negative tendencies but I think the primary design flaw is within human nature not Twitter.