skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's unfortunately not true at all in my experience. Maybe if you're an anodyne SAAS, but if you host any user-generated content, especially if it's adjacent to gaming (my personal experience was mostly with gaming-related forums and IRC networks), politics or any other charged topic, expect to get hammered on a pretty frequent basis. IoT botnets are pretty easy to rent at this point, so the attack is accessible to every skid known to mankind.

I actually agree with your overall point as I try to use Tor for a lot of "normal" browsing, but I'm not sure what the correct solution to accommodate both is. It's a hard problem, and having been in that position myself I have a hard time faulting small website operators who have no alternative defenses.

e: just to add to this, I see the existence of ddosing as a significant driver towards centralized monolithic services. If your blog on Palestinian rights or whatever is getting hit, that's an incentive to move it to a platform that takes care of networking for you. It's a little absurd to go all-in on decentralized self-hosting without at least an acknowledgement that with current tech and typical personal-computing budgets, doing so is giving a heckler's veto to literally everyone. Cloudflare isn't the only dimension things can be centralized along.
After some digging, I found some more information here:

https://www.fastcompany.com/90635776/the-twisted-psychology-...
The multiple efforts thing is a lesson I should learn but refuse to do.

It just feels so spammy. I don't want to touch that world intentionally but it works.

It gets worse

I had two similar services, one that used a page's meta information to create URL stubs so that the link would have the semantic meaning in it instead of say "id=27158278". It'd also (this is about 10 years ago) fill in opengraph holes if found and present the social media card generators with more complete information.

It also had a JavaScript plugin that would fill in title tags to your anchor links so that you could hover over a link and get the destination page's title.

I thought it was really useful but I literally got nothing but either silence or criticism. It was really demotivating. I just abandoned it.

It sucks to create something that you believe in, that you like, that you find value in and get nothing but hot bottles of shit from everyone else. Nothing constructive, just demoralizing abuse. I've tried so hard to never be that person. The receiving end of that is awful. It's never ok. (I should make a list of "never events" in open source/programming (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_event) not in engineering negligence but human empathy negligence.)

Anyways, then I had another project (also about 10 years ago) where I registered a bunch of news sounding sites, like say, themercurystar.com and as a url "shortener" it created absurd sensationalist news headlines as the "shortened" URL from a grammar generator. So for instance, you may get a url like themercurystar.com/arts/current/henry-kissinger-sings-dances-on-broadway-in-bye-bye-birdie or /taylor-swift-proves-hodge-conjecture-pnas etc.

It was complete with the opengraph of a stock image and a repurposing of the generative title with more filler to make it like look real, redirecting the crawlers to a fake shell page to satisfy the meta content and redirecting the humans to the actual link to be shortened.

That one was probably too good. I found it hilarious but apparently I was the only one in on the joke.

So failure again. Ah well.

They're still great and I'd gladly launch them again.
>I do wonder if ransomware is (in a strange way) a(n illegal) free-market response to what is perceived to be an under-valuation of tech skills - aggrieved people who can carry out attacks and gain access to deploy ransomware are likely to be able to earn more through this route, even factoring in their "risk of being caught".

Almost all crime syndicates work this way. There is a balancing point where the crime you do does enough damage to make you money, but not so much money that the government dedicates elites to come knocking on your door. What DarkSide did was veer too far in the wrong direction.
I wish they'd catalog and identify all police participating in riot actions so bad behavior can be identified on that side.

Footage I saw of the Minneapolis riots showed some bad behavior including targeting of journalists (one lost an eye), which of course will go utterly unchecked.

The fires were dangerous of course and "something needed to be done" (I lived two blocks from where the banks got burned down), but of course do we need to hand a blank check to the rural national guardsmen to come into the city and beat up the urbans? No.

Don't forget: Four dead in Ohio.
Presumably that’s compounded by the fact that the inventor, Chuck Moore, feels strongly that Forth is more of a concept to be reimplemented for each project, customized along with the hardware, than a programming language to be standardized.
Mammals can absorb oxygen through their intestines - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27156334 - May 2021 (106 comments)
90 characters per minute is 18 words per minute.

‘Words’ in WPM is standardized to 5 characters

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_per_minute
Yup. Regarding the silent ads, State Farm (an insurance firm) literally does that now. They have a genial looking spokesperson and run mildly comedic soft-sell adverts, then follow up a few months later with a sequel that has no dialog at all but gently reminds viewers of the midly comedic campaign. It's brilliant psychology.
arc reactor
It wasn't originally. Facebook hired Yann Collet well after zstd was a working thing.
There is a client for Epic, Heroic (https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher). EA and Ubisoft gave up on their walled gardens and sell their games via Steam now. There is still the EA Origin DRM client involved there somewhere and that can cause problems, but it can also work, so worth a try if the game is worth it.
Yeah, they're hot-keys for various things in a lot of games. If you've spent much time playing PC FPS games of the old-school type where your dude can carry a whole arsenal at once, for example, then you've had to get very good at quickly and precisely striking the entire number row with your left hand, since they're typically used to swap to a specific weapon, plus sometimes some of the F keys for other reasons (thinking in Jedi Knight, where F-keys are used to trigger force powers or healing in the default layout). Or any of the old-school keyboard + mouse or keyboard + joystick simulator games where almost every button does something, especially if they're combat oriented simulators (since that adds a lot of urgency to needing to hit many buttons very fast) like Mechwarrior or X-Wing/TIE Fighter.
Apple's imports could be threatened so there's leverage.

Really you shouldn't depend on the good nature of some large organization to protect your data. That means not using iOS though since it's pretty much unusable without Apple services (even push notifications go through them.)
I may be reading it wrong, but from your link it says 76% and 79% (pzifer & moderna) disease prevention against 351&p1. Which is still great. Note that’s just infection, the data shows the vaxxes have near 100% chance of preventing you from having more than mild/moderate symptoms.
So yeah, stupendously effective, and we shouldn’t be panicking about variants.
Yeah for sure, that's not to say it was always a certain way or that it's an inevitable march towards anything, just that massive shifts in culture do happen (and I think as your comment illustrates, cultures changes much faster than we think!).

We tend to think it's easier to change the law than to change how people feel, and that's not always true.
> - macOS is fundamentally the same as it was 10 years ago, just with some relatively minor changes to the design. I'm pretty confident they're not going to move the dock to the top and force a new window toolkit on me that most existing software can't use.

I don't know anything about macOS but that is an interesting point. I actually use Linux because of its stability. It is a deeply conservative operating system that tries its hardest to never break existing software. I recently booted up an old Netbook running Linux that is surely much more than a decade old now and hasn't seen any update and I still felt right at home.

Sure the Linux ecosystem has seen a bit of changes but most of them are opt in and can be avoided. If you were on Ubuntu you got experimented on quite a bit but thank god nobody is forced to use Ubuntu.

In contrast I am not even able to use a modern Windows system productively these days. The last version I used was Windows XP and it does not seem to have improved for the better UI wise to say the least.
What exactly do you not trust here? What bad could come out of you typing a URL in this website?
If you're genuinely asking: when companies get controlled by greedy people then morals take a back seat compared to financial gain (for those people). The greedy people have the money, they can structure society using the power they have because of it, they can corrupt others (who are also greedy) to support them. The people whose ancestors weren't as greedy, or lacked the violent capabilities to satisfy their greed, lack the resources to oppose the greedy. The greedy people get rewarded with more power to continue being greedier; they pass on their moral outlook and power to those who are similarly greedy.

The pattern seems to be that after a lifetime of wealth acquisition one buys a cloak of respectable benevolence by donating a fraction of that wealth to good causes (which you'll probably carefully choose to provide the best tax benefits and as a marketing tool to help the next generation of super-wealthy to get a good start).

Any company prepared to be sold off, if profitable, will be acquired by greedy people.

People who want a quiet unassuming life living in harmony with those around them don't acquire the wealth in the first place, they have the morals to run companies for good, they don't have the wealth to acquire them.

Capitalism appeals to [immoral] greed, it's a natural successor to feudalism.
Amazon Sidewalk is well positioned to remove your pesky connectivity preferences.
While I can imagine ways to design a simple protocol so poorly that what you suggest is possible, I don't know if I'd be able to make one by accident. It seems unlikely that the designers of the technology are aiming for that.
Confused Waymo robotaxi shows challenges of scaling AVs
Not sure what alternative you might have in mind, but none comes close to macOS if you want a half descent desktop experience based on unix. Ubuntu Desktop is an utterly terrible user experience, people who advocate for it generally still believe for example the mouse should have never been invented and those lesser people who find it useful should be happy with Ubuntu Desktop. Windows is also a no go, if you think Apple is hostile wait until you're presented with Internet Explorer or a slew of administrative layers meant to control you on a Windows box.
You are vastly underestimating how judgemental people are. I know someone with a mugshot up for a non-violent drug use offense and she still struggles with it when background checks come up over a decade later.

I agree that we need to be able to check this stuff to hold police accountable, but there's got to be a better way that doesn't involve public shaming.
Well, the book Willpower also does mention research experiments with description of the process, not out results. I don't know who to believe, this one paper, or theirs multiple.
Shopify's Unique Relationship with Merchants
Orbit: Time series forecasting Python package by Uber
That is kinda the point, the current policy helps richer people, and older people that have amassed some investments, but for many and for most younger people there isn't much benefit. Why should the burden be shifted to labor? Wouldn't the investment plan work even better if everyone got the same tax break to say 15-20%? I mean people would have more to invest every year and so compounding works even better. It doesn't make sense to punish labor - its all income, why does the source matter?. Our current system shifts taxes to labor and stifles labor's ability to invest and realize gains.
Well I'd urge you to not be so hastily. This could very well go very badly. There are a lot of unproven, hypothetical, assumptions being made, and a lot of people are completely ignoring any counter argument. Often valid issues simply get deleted, people just don't want to hear it, they don't want to see it, and it scares me to be honest. It's also getting completely impossible to argue against the commitment bias of vaccinated people. You really don't even considered once that injecting spike protein on a regular basis might not be the best thing for you body? This is a harmful protein after all.

I don't know, maybe its all fine and good, but if you ask me, I think a lot of people are way too excited to be part of this study. Especially since the risk/reward doesn't seems to be that great in the first place.
Each round is double or nothing. The victim wins the first few rounds, but he starts losing after the scammer starts hiding the ball instead of putting it under a cup. The victim keeps doubling on, thinking they will eventually win, but it never happens.
Who knew self-driving would be so complicated!?
How would you know? Maybe you only spotted 1% of the lies people are telling you and you’re thinking they’re really bad at lying when they’ve effectively lied to you 99% of the time and you never found out.
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I think the speed limit thing is actually something that traffic engineers think about. You can design roads such that people drive a certain speed. Think about how uncomfortable you'd be driving down a narrow windy road at 60mph, versus the same speed on a multi-lane divided highway. If you want people to drive 20mph, make it hard to navigate at 30mph.

There is probably an art to this, and it's not as easy in practice as the popular books I've read on it claim. My neighborhood in Brooklyn is part of the "neighborhood slow zones" project. That means they put a speed bump midway down the street, which is a popular way to bypass some traffic lights on the way to the BQE. People drive 90 miles an hour right up until the speed bump, slam on the brakes, and then accelerate back up to maximum cruising speed. It doesn't really serve much purpose. (Meanwhile, if you got rid of the curb, and people's lawn furniture / outdoor dining started impinging on available space, it would be impossible to drive more than 5mph. But, there's no political will to block the street like that -- what if a fire truck got stuck and people died in a fire! So it will never ever happen.)

But, like tolerance, it's something we can work on if we choose to.
As someone who worked on an XMPP web client that set up a whole session in a single HTTP request and response, I can say it's definitely possible to do this.

XMPP also has optimisations so you can resume a session across network disconnects etc. so that session initialization is typically limited to app start.

A more fundamental issue for many of these apps is that XMPP group chats were very presence-focused, and quite chatty (you need to join and sync every channel every new session). People have worked around that in various ways in the past. These days we have the newer 'MIX' standard for group chats which is not per session and far cheaper for many/large groups.

XMPP has evolved, and continues to evolve. But I fear that people inventing their own chat protocols is a problem that can never be fully solved.
This domain uses 56 `a`-s. Interestingly enough 63 `a`-s .com is also a URL lengthener: http://aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...
I am more worried about being goatse’d when I’m driving.
Same story as you. Nearly a decade of professional software development, most of it on company-supplied Apple hardware. I spent... maybe a week or two getting used to macOS with my first laptop after coming from linux and Windows, and don't really recall fighting much in the decade since.

I used to be a heavy desktop linux user, and can kind of empathize with the idea of being frustrated with less control. But at the same time... I feel like if you're legitimately fighting with an operating system, you're just picking a fight because you're unwilling to adjust your workflow even the smallest amount.

If I had to use a Windows laptop for work tomorrow, I'd probably spend a couple of weeks annoyed about relearning it, and then I'd be fine again (though I'd miss unlocking with my Apple Watch and having iMessage). Life is too short to get worked up over stuff like this.

Sometimes I'm frustrated by AWS and miss being able to SSH into bare metal. Sometimes I'm also annoyed by payroll software. Confluence's text editor has a habit of freezing input if it thinks I'm offline. No tools are perfect. Imperfect tools still let you earn a living, and you can even do it without fighting holy wars in internet comments.

There have got to be dozens of us around here who are competent technologists without the zealousness.
It’s amazing how consistently broken our legal and social systems are when it comes to dealing with public goods. You’d think we would have found some way to make all these papers easily accessible in a sustainable way by now.

Torrenting or hosting on ipfs solves a part of the problem, but it pushes the social and legal norms even farther apart. But perhaps the path towards a longer term solution is to lead with that social fix, and then let the law catch up with society? Feels gross, but it also feels substantially more feasible than fighting by someone else’s rules.
You would need to replace them with something that could effectively replace the rectum.
The changes can be explained by two simple factors, without the need for some grand nefarious conspiracy:

* The CDC's default position is caution
* We know more now than we did in the past

In February, we realized vaccinated people could still get asymptomatic infections. Out of an abundance of caution, the CDC recommends vaccinated people keep wearing masks because the vast majority of the population isn't vaccinated.

As evidence accumulates in the intermediate time, we realize that vaccines also lower the percentage of people with asymptomatic Covid-19 [1]

With even more evidence, we realize vaccinated people overwhelmingly avoid hospitalization, which is the real issue we are trying to avoid [2]

With those two pieces of information, the CDC can now change their recommendation. Nothing nefarious going on, nothing 'unknowable' to anyone paying attention.

The problem is when people who are already predisposed to distrust the CDC - most likely due to their media diet - and put 0 effort in understanding the changing landscape see the CDC change the recommendation and assume it must be 'something political'. Those of us who were paying attention weren't that surprised about the announcement.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-br...

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/p0428-vaccinated-adu...
OMG, I've waited for this! I was SO worried litigation from Clonato would make all the work by Thomas Richter & Co. go to waste on the finishing line. It's remarkable how litigations are still a thing with the Amiga brand. I don't understand how the profits for the winning party is expected to be greater than the lawyer costs.
Nothing has changed for many decades, actually. For much longer than I'm alive, for instance. There's nothing new in money classification, currently.
In my experience that is not the case. Increasingly the CS grads know a lot of CS and related trivia while the bootcamp grads are fearlessly able to jump into things and figure it out. Most of what BigTechCos use is non-standard anyway. BigQuery, Scala, GCP, etc. people who bias towards a FFIO mindset will be better and often Bootcampers (especially the ones solid enough to get hired) have that in spades and are hungry.

I have never seen a CS student "run circles" around a bootcamp grad after equivalent experience.

It is telling that "The Missing Semester of CS ed" would be laughably basic to most boot campers and last I checked would be done as part of the pre-work to get into the bootcamp to begin with.

Side note: The bootcamps around today are much much better than 5 years ago. They are iterating rapidly.
Most Amiga users prefer either WB 3.1 or WB 3.9 with Boing Bags up to 3-4.
Reminded me of a childhood joke:

Once there was a hedgehog who had learned to breathe with his butt. One day he sat down onto a tree stump and died of suffocation.

But seriously, if my lungs had to go and I had an option, I would totally grab at any tech to breathe with my whatever else.
Your economics teacher was wrong.

The purpose of a corporation is to fulfill their chosen corporate mission. Corporations are no more bound to choose financial accumulation _above all else_ than are any of the people that form those corporations.

Cooperatives and public interest companies are corporations, for example.