skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But see, they're still putting you in a box! Now you will be more likely to encounter stereo mixers than other types of products. Sure, it's obvious and on a small scale, but when every website is doing it, what's the cumulative affect?

Choice is good. I've certainly groaned at my share of ads on traditional television, and so I can understand why someone might find targeted ads preferable. I just don't share that desire!

Amazon in particular irks me because they don't give you a choice, no matter how deep you dig into settings! You can turn off browsing history, but it's stored in a cookie per-device and also seems to randomly come back on sometimes. Even then, they'll still use your purchase history for recommendations. I used to manually go through and mark everything I bought as a gift, and this worked for a while—but then Amazon apparently decided I'd given to many gifts and started ignoring the signal.
Reflecting on the past I think there was something of a benefit to the limitations imposed by scarcity - in childhood the limitations on what books, games, toys and tv I could find forced me to explore topics and genres I would ignore today, and in my young adulthood there was still something magical about traveling specifically to go hunting for <collectible>.
What is the point of this story?
So following this logic train, the only actual faces one may see would be white males. Everyone else gets a mask?
I would be very interested in seeing any technical info on exactly what solar cells it uses, since the top-quality triple junction 30%+ efficient GaAS cell manufacturers (space qualified) are not based in east asia anywhere, but in the USA. Spectrolab is a subsidiary of Boeing last I checked.
This is extremely anti-competitive. In the old days, this was called "lock-in".

The reason it is wrong is the extreme power imbalance between you and the service provider. No matter how independent you are, or how much time you are willing to spend (another highly unequal resource), their ability to force others to use their system might also coerce you into using it as well.

Once Apple/Intel/Microsoft normalize requiring TPM-verified https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Platform_Module OS booting, this dark pattern will become even more oppressive.
this is not a visitor tracker, just a hit counter (page view). I did start writing a parser for the server logs to have a more robust statistics for my website, but there are plenty of good options out there, awstats for instance. this is not it.

the person spamming the counter war trying to corrupt the counter.txt file and reset the counter.
> Here's the current top of the Covid-19 deaths per capita chart: Peru, Hungary, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czechia, North Macedonia.

I don't know where you got this list from. JHU's database[1] shows Peru and Brazil at the top for the per-capita statistic (not CFR). Brazil, conspicuously, has a COVID-denialist leader, refused a general lockdown, and is currently #3 in the world for deaths.

[1]: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality
Timekeeping Infrastructure for the Catalina Sky Survey
Get one of those bicycle powered dynamometers.

I recall some parents who hooked up a bike to a dyno, which powered a TV. The kids could watch TV as much as they were willing to pedal.

Their taste in TV shows improved dramatically.
Perl would give you 9 for the equivalent expression of (1,2,3)+(4,5,6) :)
The one extreme position, among others, is that you are unrestrained by laws. Liberals, Marxists, fascists, jihadis, the drug cartel, and criminals, all have that in common. Win, do nothing but print money to line your own pockets. Loose, double the murder rate, burn cities, work with your Marxist friends to unleash a bioweapon on the world that kills millions, one of the worse mass murders in history.

I'm banning you because I don't like you. Go away. If I liked you, you could do or say whatever you want. Anything. But I don't like you so you're banned. That's the honest reason. They don't say it because bailout time is coming up again and they don't want the Clara Petacci treatment.
And a great strategy can make luck reproducable. Luck at scale becomes probability.
Were you using Docker raw? No orchestration? If so what's the advantage to dockerizing your data stores
What is the razor we should use when it’s neither malice nor stupidity, but instead just an unwinnable case? It seems like way too many people think it’s easy to prove Facebook is a monopoly.
The mistake here is a MongoDB that didn't require authentication, not that docker's clunky iptables setup exposed it to the internet.

Relying solely on a host-based firewall for access control is, for reasons which must now be obvious, admin incompetence.

They are responsible for securing the containers. They didn't.

Your services should be using authentication even if they are only bound to localhost.
That works the other way too, no? If you're trying to build the next regime, censorship is one of your tactics.

Karl Popper's Paradox of Tolerance comes to mind, but my issue with that is who gets to decide what is intolerant? I don't like the idea of some unelected board or career politician deciding what is suitable for me to read or view.
Can you share a sample report that your site can generate? I am on mobile and can only see one animation.

One product that I could see myself paying for is an app that poisons data brokers' profiles of me, but this, I am guessing, would be pretty hard to do.
Off topic question: Is there a database maintained by BioHackers that has reverse engineered some or all of the prescription pharmaceuticals, showing not only the compounds used, but how to make, measure and test them? There are government sites that list all the chemical compounds, but details are scattered all over the place on how to make, measure and test them. Asking as a prepper that wants to stock up on food, water and medications. Doubling or tripling BP prescriptions is insufficient by my standards.
I guess someone could argue that it only costs $150 because of the ads. Windows 95 cost well over twice that when it was launched (inflation adjusted). Maybe in the same way that airfares are way cheaper than they were in the 90s, but with much crappier included service.
in 1996 a vial of Humalog produced by Eli Lilly cost $21. Today, it's priced at $324 despite the cost of production remaining steady

Honest question, how do pharma executives walk the streets? If I was engaged in activities that vile I'd be terrified of being murdered by a vigilante.
Maybe? But I'm going to get what I wanted.
>why is it sad that most of the chinese restaurants in america cater to american tastes?

Their heavy reliance on immigrants. Imagine moving to another country eager to start a restaurant featuring the food you've spent years cooking only to show up and be told you need to learn all their recipes and call it American cuisine.
There is probably not a clear precedent in relevant markets so it is quite possible that they put forth a case to see where the bar is.
Bummer. Thx.
Unless I am misreading it, you can configure this to allow some real files to be created, so it isn't all or nothing. But of course those real files will use memory.
Some past threads:

A little-known Soviet mission to rescue a dead space station (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20489142 - July 2019 (36 comments)

Little-known Soviet mission to rescue a dead space station - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17068017 - May 2018 (3 comments)

The little-known Soviet mission to rescue a dead space station (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11744920 - May 2016 (10 comments)
An incredibly rich ecosystem. I would recommend checking projects such as Uniswap, Aave, Sushiswap, Compound finance, Maker DAO, Yearn finance, Balancer, Synthetix, Alchemix, etc. There are over 52 billion dollars worth of capital being used in these projects today https://defipulse.com. Uniswap v3 is an extremely sophisticated dapp being used today https://uniswap.org/blog/uniswap-v3/. Their code is a masterclass in solidity optimizations. dapps on Ethereum are thriving
Do you remember the early days of Facebook, 2007-2010 or so? There was a time when Facebook was just direct posts written by friends, photos they posted, and ... no links, no articles, no newsfeed algorithm, nothing else. Hell, at one point there wasn't even a newsfeed, you actually had to visit everyone's page (though iirc you could subscribe to a notification when certain friends posted?).

I'd pay $5/month for that 2009 Facebook back. And honestly I'd pay $20/month to get that for my parents and a couple of other family members who've experienced serious brainrot as a result of years of feed addiction. They wouldn't know where to find garbage 24/h news articles without FB.
Author using "dark patterns" to describe anything he doesn't like (vendor upholding their side of the bargain)
Kiwifarms under DOS attack, claims Byuu tried to extort owner
I am not sure this site explores all possible molecules. Rather, it shuffles couple different real groups in different combinations.
Macs and chromebooks are the way to go for nontechnical family members. Of course we now have scam apps that are trying to spoof iOS native applications to try and get one to download something from the App Store.
Thanks for the good vibes, and glad you found the deep links useful!

To your second point about introducing "noise" into your profile at data brokers to make it more useless. That's an interesting idea, but unfortunately, not something we would touch at Operty. Data brokers have hundreds of upstream partners who supply them with information to enrich their profile on you. We send opt out requests to data brokers, and nothing else.
Bikes are not loud

Motorbikes are
> It sort of worked, but I wasn’t able to scroll any further on the page.

Just an FYI the author needed to remove the CSS attribute on the body? element "no-scroll"

I've noticed Instagram's A/B testing however only so far as it prevents users from seeing "too much" without logging in. The case OP mentions is the least fool proof as there are many images left on the page after you get rid of the obstacles (modal, dark modal screen covering page, and no scroll css attribute). The other more robust method I've seen involves Instagram only sending the amount of images to the browser they want you to see
I literally do not. That was my point.

Edit: To clarify, seriously no I do not “work hard.” Running my business is so, so much easier than building a deck or carrying sliding glass doors on my back 4+ stories. I got lucky in that I found myself in a situation where I fell ass-backwards into a bunch of clients wanting something that I can do easily (general IT and website stuff) that I learned as a kid (stuff I learned while also not doing hard work.)

I am literally just lucky.
so this guy is buying puts on some bitcoin funds. Such a method would have gotten you killed more often than not . nothing in this post suggests he has anything of an edge or a good strategy.
Is there unbanned Left Wing Watch as well?
https://archive.is/wDqL5
> has nothing to do with upgradeable contracts.

Although the article is talking about the SafeDollar contract, there were some general points about crypto / blockchain in this thread that I was responding to. Tezos is one example that has on-chain governance, which is why I mentioned it.

If you want to provide more info about how the on-chain governance is really just done through soft forks, and why you think that's not innovative, I'd be curious to hear. I'm not huge on Tezos but I think they do some interesting things.
You can have a domain with us but only if you dox yourself to Google to give us the name to hash mapping for it. (The signup is via Google Forms and asks for email and requested subdomain and hash.)

No thanks.
YouTube doesn't endorse things that are in violation of their TOS, regardless of someone's ability to evade a censor for whatever reason.

And yeah, sure, everything should be judged on it's merits, however there's simply not enough time in the day to independently verify all facts. It's much easier and generally reliable to start with the mainstream news sources like NPR, who we can generally assume to be trustworthy.
Things in orbit like satellites and the moon have not escaped earth's gravity at all. There's lots of gravity in orbit. Being in orbit is when the centripetal force from an object's tangential velocity matches the force of gravity. In other words, get thrown so fast that the arc of your trajectory continually misses the Earth as the surface curves away from you.

The only reason why you need to go up at all is the pesky atmosphere works to slow you down, making it difficult to maintain such high speeds. Satellites have to be up high enough that drag becomes less of an issue. If it weren't for the atmosphere, you could achieve orbit 10 feet off the ground if you moved fast enough.
> Not sure if I really buy that the Switch security bot is a serious project

It isn't. Switch is famous in the telecom/datacenter industry for weird security theatre. Notably they started having conspiciously armed-with-AR15 guards at their Las Vegas area facility 15+ years ago. Compare them to any major carrier hotel/critical IX point in the USA, they stand out as weird. And they're not even as critical as they claim to be.

I can't share the details but the real, hidden, non-theater security behind some of the US's major traffic exchange points very much exists but is not on public display for touring the rube customers.
The difference is that with a smartphone you can choose which service provider you want (even if they're more or less the same, at least there's "competition")... or don't if you just want to use your smartphone as an internet device/music player/weak little *nix box.

Without a subscription, what can you use a Peloton treadmill for? A really low bench?
I WANT PRIVATE FOLDERS AND FILES
There are several remote jobs sites at this point, maybe a reverse with remote only candidates would be nice!
KiwiFarms offline due to alleged DoS
That’s the same for everything, no? I assume most JavaScript websites come packaged with their (transpiled, minified) versions of the “standard library” of whatever framework they’re using. And that has to be transmitted as gzipped bundles of plaintext javascript.

Further, tree shaking is much harder with a dynamic language.

My understanding is that a WebAssembly implementation would usually be smaller than a JavaScript one, assuming you’re using a language without a runtime.
Your response lacks nuance.

The supply 'increases' are already growing negligible as the current supply is 18.6mil / 21mil. Yes, it will continue to offer miners rewards, but that is cut in half every few years. People also lose their keys quite frequently. It is hard to estimate, but at some point 'misplaced' crypto will surpass the amount generated by block rewards, making it deflationary in a literal sense.

Also, 'holders' are not paying miners. Miners make money from transactions, as well as block rewards.

As for your stated preference, it is your freedom to avoid cryptocurrency, just don't obstruct other people's financial freedoms.
Sounds like tech at Walmart.
How would that be any different to the US doing it and releasing the video on the 4th July?
Yup, I always start with "Where is it, if not remote. And what's the salary?"

Anything else is a potential waste of a lot of our time.
Ignorant newbie question:

Similar to a pulse oximeter that measures oxygen saturation non-invasively, is there some research on finding similarly the level of glucose in the blood, etc?
I figured you wouldn’t touch it, since you’re a legitimate business and all. But … as previous employees at such data broker companies there must be some strategies that individuals could take to do so :)
Is this their CYA legal dept making it so if someone is injured it's the users fault for staying logged in so the run button was accessible?
Writing too much CRUD code makes me unable to complete sentences…
Going a little deeper into this, 10km jogging times only have any meaning because people figured out smarter ways to move 10km faster long ago. The only meaning today is for bragging rights. Nobody's going to pay you to improve your 10km time.

Being fit for health reasons doesn't require that much exercise. I jog for health reasons, and there's no health benefit past a certain point (and in fact, you're wrecking your body if you do). I don't time my jogs because there's no purpose to going faster. If I need to get there faster, I'll bike or drive.
> No system of rules could ever handle all the obscure edge-cases that humans can.

In the US federal criminal justice system during the 1970s and early 80s judges had a ton of discretion over sentencing. Some were “hanging judges” that gave really harsh sentences. Some never gave any harsh sentences. Some gave harsh sentences to black people but not to white people, and so on.

The legal profession and Congress looked at this situation and decided it wasn’t fair. The difference between probation and ten years in prison shouldn’t be whether or not the judge had indigestion. The federal sentencing guidelines were put in place—-a very detailed system that considered the crime, mitigating and aggregating circumstances, the background of the convict, and several other relevant factors. Judges were supposed to use this system to impose uniform, fair sentences.

Judges hated the sentencing guidelines and kept on trying to depart from them “in the interest of justice”. For a while the Supreme Court said no—-it forced them to follow the system. But in the mid aughts a new majority reversed these precedents. The sentencing guidelines were declared to be advisory.

It took a while for the guidelines era habits to fade but now we are back to a situation where which judge you get is a significant factor in how harsh a sentence you get.

In theory the magic answer is guided discretion. That allows for mostly uniform treatment and a safety valve for unusual situations. But how do you enforce that on a nuts and bolts level? Everyone thinks his particular case is special. Thoughtful empathetic judges are likely to be persuaded that they are.

I don’t know what the answer is but I do know there isn’t an easy one.
They had me at “all objects are immutable.”

They lost me at “ date time values without time zones.”

I’m mostly kidding with the second line. Working with third-party React calendar components requires doing some moment.js math and then hacking off the last few characters of the .toISOString() to make the calendar happy. So I can see how it’s a very practical addition. Please don’t misuse it.
Indeed skylab had a good volume: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1sr6aVzW9M
> California water is essentially given away for free and there is plenty of it

Where can I get me some of that free water?? I’m paying ~$7 per CCF (100cu ft / 748 gallons). That works out to $3-4000/yr to calwater…
It's similar on a lot of Canadian newspapers. The real interesting comments come out when they forget to turn off comments on a youtube video. Some news services, like the CBC, now just turn off comments on certain topics because the comments simply added zero value, often detracting from the stories like a kind of intellectual blackhole sucking any reason out of the air.
As a counterpoint: if there is to be productive discussion about fringe drugs being used to treat diseases, it's going to be between medical professionals. There is no compelling reason that uneducated citizens with no medical expertise need to discuss them. I personally know several medical professionals that were aghast at the "discussion" around hydroxychloroquine.

Also worth noting hiding behind "just discussing" something is a slippery slope in its own right. There's a long history of people claiming to be "just asking questions" when they're transparently using "discussion" as a means to spread fringe ideology.
What's your point, exactly? You can write a driver in practically any language.

> Not a comp sci major eh?

I guess you're a comp sci major.
i don't personally have diabetis, not that i know of, but this is nice to hear about. tackling commodification is gonna be a really difficult problem
But also, maintain a bunch of memory and cpu state invisibly, and apply a bunch atomically or roll it back, and do this for multiple threads simultaneously.

And then try debugging some seemingly unrelated issue at the memory/instruction level, and drop the assumption that everything below your level of abstraction works perfectly as you expect.

And yes, this is very similar to mis-predicted branches and the speculative execution vulnerabilities. I have honestly tried to understand those at the instruction level, and felt like I did at one point, and then a few months later felt like I forgot some key details and couldn't put it together again... like I get the idea, but can't quite put together the assembly to demo the problem on my own, it's a bit of a mindfuck ...
It's hard to explain because it isn't like seeing the actual objects I'm about to list - these visuals all morph into each other, and sometimes it feels like I'm seeing an idea rather than an object, if that makes any sense. Using Ganzflicker for about a minute I recall I saw:

- some strange smooth shapes, like two glass hourglasses on either side with oil refracting light, with a blob sliding through the middle of them

- A cat's face

- A forest with non-existent animals running through the tall large-trunked trees

- A palace full of marble columns

- Some sort of grand tower that went out into space, and seemed to branch out like a rope being made

There were all many more abstract things, typically in between (or as a transition between) the more identifiable parts.
> The mistake here is a MongoDB that didn't require authentication, not that docker's clunky iptables setup exposed it to the internet.

If you're backing up diligently, have a problem, go to restore backup, and discover that the backups are unusable due to an issue caused by the backup software's default configuration, you could say "the mistake here is you relying on a single backup system, pardner, not the backup software's bad default configuration," and in the sense that it's good advice to have multiple backup strategies, sure, you're technically correct. But that doesn't excuse the backup software from having a dangerously bad default configuration. That would be relatively trivial to fix. That they've apparently known about for years.
Edited my comment to include a link. The chart you've linked only include the "twenty countries currently most affected by COVID-19 worldwide", whatever that means. Probably something to do with current cases or recent deaths. The numbers I found match that chart for the countries which are on it, but Hungary, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czechia, North Macedonia, and Bulgaria just weren't included even though they would've been higher than Brazil if they were. Edited: as someone pointed out, there's a sortable table further down which gives the same ranking as I quoted, except it includes a couple of additional micro-countries with only a few thousand people.

(Also, Brazil is probably pretty representative of South America as a whole, they just seem to have better testing than other countries there and likely report more of their Covid deaths than others. I know a while ago, there was some analysis suggesting Mexico had more Covid deaths than Brazil with a substantially lower population and was just massively under-reporting them due to missing testing.)