skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's the motive for someone going through the effort of faking a good enough take-down notice? There's no immediate financial gain. I doubt there's a reddit bot competitor that somehow needs the extra market share, whatever market it would be. This smells like reddit admins walking back after a lawyer on the staff got too feisty, but the original takedown notice PDF cites Huffman as approving it. Not that I support his recent steering of the business, but it names names. And it doesn't look to be the caliber of writing I would expect from a top 500 visited website's company's legal team

This whole thing is fishy as heck. I've mostly stopped caring about that site, since it's become an astro-turfing testbed, but my latent fondness of the good ole days has got me curious about this.
And pure black, brown, red, orange, ...
I don't think there's a single game I've ever played where there hasn't been a cracked version of the game released within a reasonable time of a game's release date or update patch.

The only reason I don't pirate games now is because I choose not to, not because finding cracked games is now harder.

About the only place DRM seems to actually work is closed server multiplayer games, other than that, since the days of stupid puzzles hidden in the manual, to CD keys, to the crap that exists now, I doubt DRM really makes much of a difference to anyone other than paying customers and multiplayer people.

I've never found one single player commercial game at all I wanted to try that didn't have a viable crack.

Actually, using linux, sometimes, you have to use the cracks after actually purchasing the games just to get them to run. I bought Kotor 2 from GoG recently, had to download a cracked version of the steam aspyr patch just to make it run without crashing on resolution changes after the cutscenes.
If you're running a full VM, why not just use debian images?
I can't edit but in the mean time I have been reading a bit of the Wikipedia page about the black plague in Europe and a world less connected than ours still can burn from a fast spreading virus.

And there's been plague outbursts in recent years.
> Instead of relying on the system to provide security, we're relying on Apple, Google and Microsoft to decide what we can run, or can't run, even though Apple is responsible for distributing 500 million copies of Xcodeghost[3], and Google's Play Store is the #1 vector for malware on Android[4].

The security stuff is a huge red herring.

The security model is all about limiting self publishing and directly reaching consumers by the biggest players in IP, Disney, Netflix, Nintendo and Tencent. 90% of App Store revenue is games. Most remaining revenue is to subscription entertainment services. Security as engineers talk about it basically never affects the bottom line.
Netcup was founded in my hometown in Germany. They have a very good reputation. However, they were aquired a while ago by Anexia. I am not sure if that changed anything.
It absolutely did, it's only just started doing it recently. Drives me freaking nuts.
are you POC and / or non American too ?
The worst "volume experience" IMO is many (albeit cheap) laptops, with speakers that at maximum volume cannot produce sounds audible over the laptops own fan, or that can overcome someone whispering from a few meters away.
This is how winner-takes-all markets work. Though I really think that the remaining 51 students could build their career upon skills, knowledge and network gained during the program. In the end, there are a lot of jobs where you tell stories which pay much better than the entertainment industry - at least on average.
You can't have spent much time on any social media except Reddit, then.
Many means many things. It could be a few hundred annually and someone might still call that "many."

I'm dubious that many art majors wind up $300k in debt. Undergrad doesn't cost that much.
Isn't the manual sync mode the solution for blocking for classic queues (assumming mirroring)?
1. Normal vaccines take 5 to 10 years to be approved. Covid mrna therapies have been rushed and they aren't even experimenting it correctly. The only data they are taking is what goes in the VAERS database, but if you even try to mention those numbers you get the usual answer that those numbers are meaningless. So tell me: if someone wants to know what the benefit/risk ratio of the therapy is, where should the numbers be found?

2. You cannot force people into taking experimental therapies even if you tricked half of the population into taking them.
You would probably be appalled at the grammatical errors that make their way through the courts without any correction.

On one hand - lawyers are hired to know the law, not grammar. On the other hand - one would think enough reading of legal texts would filter out some bad issues. Perhaps it's now at the point where lawyers are learning bad grammar from their legal studies.

The sentence that really got me was where the PDF states

>you (owner of Redditsave.com) are responsible for paying your Attorney’s monthly bills.
Show HN: New benchmark Mezon Router is up to 128 times faster than Teto Router
Use nix-env -i . But i would suggest using home-manager instead.
Sure but Amazon isn’t that far away from banning books based on ideology. They have issued a ban for certain books already (https://www.foxnews.com/media/amazon-bans-books-that-frame-t...), and have banned ads for other books that don’t violate their ideological policy but draw attention from activists (https://quillette.com/2020/11/07/gender-activists-are-trying...). From what I have heard, they’re under significant internal activist pressure to ban books (that don’t align with progressive American politics) with some regularity. They can’t be trusted to hold this line unless they regain a mission orientation and shut down internal political activism.
Zara launches its own cosmetics line
Yes, in the same way gasoline facilitates fire, but doesn't cause it.
I’m actually working on a toy payment processor for fun and to learn some new tech.

The tech I’ve chosen:

- Postgres for the DB

- Redis for caching + queues

- Go for the customer-facing backend services

- Rust for the bank-facing services

- gRPC for internal communication

- TypeScript + React for the frontend checkout app

- HashiCorp stack for deployment
Rhit – Nginx log explorer that leaves nothing behind, no temp file, no database
> Also Russian gas has only accelerated in recent years, their prime competitor.

Russia also achieved its major goal in Syria - maintaining Assad [Shia] regime (part of the Shia belt from Lebanon to Iran) thus preventing [Sunni] SA from building pipeline toward Europe which would have been a significant hit for Russian interests. Without such pipeline - if i remember correctly SA was recently trying to bring some stuff to Poland by sea at cheap prices, yet with no big success so far while Russia is nearing the completion of the Baltic sea floor pipeline directly to Germany. And at the same time US - SA's large market - is running a large fracking of its own and even explores the options of exporting that natural gas, and thus SA seems to start feeling a bit of squeeze, at least when it comes to natural gas. With "greenification" and electrification of economy the natural gas is the near- and mid-term future of our civilization when it comes to fossil fuels, and SA hasn't yet been as successful as they would like in securing the desired top spot in that future.
They're not, but you can't search through them as fast :)
I just reach into my pocket and press the physical buttons on the phone. Works pretty well.

I do wish there was a way to do it by touching the headphones though. I held off on buying AirPods for a few years mostly for that reason.
A 200hz saw, despite having twice the overtones than a square, sounds much lower. I still haven't gotten an explanation of that one, ooh well.

Overall, nice stories, thank you. I'd be surprised by the lack of the fundamental in a grand piano. However, I've heard that's true of small headphones, where they simply mechanically can't produce large wavelengths. Yet they are heard!
So there is base NATS and abstractions built upon NATS. Which are you referring to?

There's documentation on this bug/feature[0] and it looks like using NATS streaming is a way to fix this. I will admit that it's a bit annoying to figure out the difference between NATS streaming, jetstream and Liftbridge but I don't think this issue affects all 3. Jetstream is essentially NATS streaming built into the NATS binary itself, so switching to it should produce the feature set you're looking for.

[0]: https://docs.nats.io/nats-server/nats_admin/slow_consumers
And I'm happy you mention polio because it's a great example of what can happen when we allow companies to rush their product without enough safety standards:

In April 1955, soon after mass polio vaccination began in the US, the Surgeon General began to receive reports of patients who contracted paralytic polio about a week after being vaccinated with Salk polio vaccine from the Cutter pharmaceutical company, with the paralysis limited to the limb the vaccine was injected into. The Cutter vaccine had been used in vaccinating 200,000 children in the western and midwestern United States.[76] Later investigations showed that the Cutter vaccine had caused 40,000 cases of polio, killing 10.[76] In response the Surgeon General pulled all polio vaccines made by Cutter Laboratories from the market, but not before 250 cases of paralytic illness had occurred. Wyeth polio vaccine was also reported to have paralyzed and killed several children. It was soon discovered that some lots of Salk polio vaccine made by Cutter and Wyeth had not been properly inactivated, allowing live poliovirus into more than 100,000 doses of vaccine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio_vaccine
AFAIK, every native app can subscribe and read all notifications, at least on Windows. So, sending notifications to the OS is a huge privacy issue.
Hell yeah. I have unreasonable amount of rage against that one haha
Tell HN: Hacker News got me a good job
So, if you're considering replying to a "Who wants to be hired?" thread, do it, ASAP.

The original version of my comment wasn't very good, but it still got me traction. I updated it as I improved my resume and interviewing skills, and the improved version[] is what my new employer saw.

Thanks HN.

[] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27705122
That already exists, of course ;) https://youtu.be/ntc1dRSbo2U
>"General consensus is that a boxer who actually gets to punch and be punched by another human being will be far more effective at any of the eye gouges/throat attacks etc than someone who does not have sparring as a focus."<

Consensus? Has someone done an actual survey or a study?

If you train, you will probably fight as you train. The techniques that you learn and repeat are the patterns that your brain will follow under stress of combat.

BTW how does the typical MA fighter respond to someone who picks up a metal pipe (2x4, rock, knife, gun) and proceeds to attack the MA fighter? I would hope that (s)he would do the reasonable thing: get the hell out of the area!

Avoidance & evasion are the most useful "martial arts".
That's the entire problem. (At least this the view I ended up adopting, and thus my argument.)

It goes eyes-shut-closed full-throttle balls-to-the-walls against safety. You don't rush nuclear power plants, why are we doing it with planes? (And yes we should use reuse already approved, known, standardized - modular, components. But they should be indistinguishably the same, not "we certified it the same by introducing so much complexity, so many new failure modes, that we have to hide those".)

And if safety costs a lot, then we can work on improving our processes (design, safety evaluation), but the process itself should lead to better stuff, not probably-not-that-worse but marginally cheaper so we can keep our semi-vendor-locked-in clients.

I'm aware of the Boeing-Airbus US-EU cockfight, and that as usual a coordination problem is at the root of this. But the way forward should be a healthier market, more competition, not a monoculture. (Or duo.) Or, if costs force us into such a pathological state of the airplane market, then we should treat it as such. (It should be viewed as one big problem. The total lack of healthy competition must be factored into the approval process. And a high-level Market Authority should step in to prevent regulatory capture and the usual - almost guaranteed to happen - shenanigans.)
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> Would anyone else just be fine with a thick phone that had a better internal battery?

Replaceable battery.

Anyway, this argument has been made plenty of times. Apple prefers to sell you a new phone and an external battery.
Not really. African studies is a thing (and European studies is a thing). However African American studies is a subset of American studies, just like European American studies. It's not like we have a special trigonometry department.
Right after the iron curtain fell was a weird place to live in in Eastern Europe.

I felt like people really wanted to emulate the west, partake in its wealth and successes, on the other hand there was this ingrained sentiment that it was a bit decadent and was not really “us” They didn’t understand us, and had their nose up in the air, snickering about the poor stray EE kids, who couldn’t distinguish investment portfolios from pension funds, the savages.

There was a very strong Us vs Them mentality, and if you couple that with the idea that copying isn’t exactly theft, it has made sure any moral qualms were quickly overcome with peer pressure. You were “stupid” if you even tried to own SW legally.

Its similar to how an american would feel about owning a Japanese good luck flag, or a nazi medal of honor. Yes there was a person behind it, somewhere, with his/her struggles and dreams, but at one point in time nobody really cared.

Couple that with the fact that some software packages were priced as decent cars, it made the decision pretty easy.

Not trying to defend it too much, just putting it into perspective so people might understand a bit better why someone from EE might feel the way we sometimes do.
This is ridiculous and hyperbolic on a few points, namely that Chrome's position is way worse than Microsoft's. Even if we ignore the fact that Chromium is open-source, that Chrome is heavily extensible, that Google has demonstrably shown commitment to developing the web in an open manner (eg WebRTC) - ignoring these and other facts, when Microsoft was 'in charge' of the Web (via IE's power) they locked IE down, killed their competition, and literally single-handedly stalled the progress of the Web.

The fact that you say IE at it's peak was worse than Chrome shows incredible ignorance on the matter.

Your anecdote about your friends reminds me of this odd joke from school

There's a senior citizen driving on the highway. His wife calls him on his cell phone and in a worried voice says, Herman, be careful! I just heard on the radio that there is a madman driving the wrong way on Route 280! Herman says, I know, but there isn't just one, there are hundreds!
It's much different when you start moving something and let it go with inertia vs when you keep it still against gravity.

Compare moving your arm like a pendulum vs keeping it stretched horizontally.
Aren't they mostly just used for Bloody Mary's?

I fly a lot and I've never actually seen anyone order a tomato juice.
The "relations" in relational databases actually correspond to tables, not relationships between tables. Which makes the "truly relational" sound a bit silly...

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relation_(database)
> authorities should be able to explain why this was a good decision.

Yeah, you're not getting more than a boilerplate reply.

Some people may suffer but that's a risk the authorities are willing to take.

Hell, the people working there won't even know it. "It's the law", "such is the system", or at best "I'm just doing my job".
I think it is misinformation if one omits that the cash the US sent to Iran was the Iranian government's own money. Omitting that crucial fact makes it sound like the US government is sending US taxpayers' money to Iran, as opposed to simply returning to the Iranian government some of its own funds which the US government had previously frozen.
Shoplifters Pour Out of San Francisco Stores
> rural is rural and urban is urban.

Not in Hawaii. We have a weird blend of Democrat in name and somewhat Conservative and Liberal function almost everywhere in the state.
Also nice that it controls playback of other apps. Intended as a nice feature: your listening to music, accept incoming call, music stops, hang up, music starts again. Sounds nice, in practise it starts randomly music during calls. Or you stopped music for hours, accepting a low level call and raise your volume,hang up and get blasted away by your loud music starting to play.
It was not the paper that get her fired. (Probably there isn't just one ultimate cause that led to her firing, but maybe we can say that big G has a tendency to fire those who rock the boat too loudly.)
Most powerful magnetic field blows up science lab (2018)
That's what everyone else does around here, but I just don't get it. Why would I want to risk losing a ski season for something way less fun in the first place? Not even to mention how expensive the bikes are.
It is legs that gets tired and hurts from standing too much, not the core.
The rotary encoders typically require quite fast sampling (~1000Hz) to be reliable when turning fast (it can be also done in hardware though). They are probably running a whole RTOS on that poor microcontroller that controls radio, so can’t afford so much processing power ;)
Hey, if it works...
> Isn't iCloud data backed up on Chinese servers? I'm pretty sure that means you're being spied on.

Are you thinking of Apple’s switch in 2018 to storing icloud data in China for users in China?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICloud

> In February 2018, Apple announced that iCloud users in China would have their data, including encryption data, on servers called “云上贵州” located in the country to comply with local regulations. This raised concerns from human rights activists who claim that it may be used to track dissidents.

From some quick reading it looks like apple “has six data centers in the United States, two in Denmark, and three in Asia” as well as use of the major cloud providers. I’m not sure if there are restrictions on where or how data is stored for people not located in China though. I am assuming so.
This is the first time I've heard of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_golf

Interesting concept, not unlike dumping thousands of hours into Factorio, or some forth compiler, etc. Being clever for the fun of it.
Sending this comment to my SO, will reply if she says anything interesting.
Try a 3rd-party client app like "rif is fun". As a bonus, it nicely segregates your Reddit identity from your regular browser.
It's seriously impressive how much css3 can do.
I opened that one https://codepen.io/claudio_bonfati/pen/mdryxPv with the expectation there's going to be a good chunk of javascript in there, but nope. Pure css.
>Vulgarity was is descended from the inappropriate use of existing sacred words. It evolved into a comparative tone device. But it was always a cheap trick (just like the magic words it corrupted).

No, that's a puritan misconception.

Not only is a powerful (and culturally significant) method (as opposed to some mere trick), it also has evolutionary and psysiological benefits.

Among tons of other things:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypoalgesic_effect_of_swearing
Cuba's Protests Are Different This Time
Zoom works without problems on Firefox here (Linux). The browser version tends to be much better than the app, which crashes for me consistently.
Your suggestion about SMTP is a good one. Disappointing that I had to downvote your comment for the ad hominem on us old Node developers.

Why you need to insult a whole body of people, rather than just make a claim about the technology, I don’t know.
This is all well and good but the author seems to still naively assume best and honest intentions. Sadly all kinds of people have all sorts of motivations for writing papers.
They turn out to be somewhat vulnerable to being sat on by a hippopotamus.
They'll listen and they'll like it.
This works well. Basically every shop has a QR code on their door/counter and when we have outbreaks of COVID we are asked to register stores via an app as we go in.

Then if someone with a positive test is in the same store/time they can ask people to isolate and get tested.

Downside is the big brother element and cops used it to catch someone which seems short sighted in keeping trust, so govt put new rules cops can't access easily.
They want you to sign-up.
Actually, they are. By and large, email is sent unencrypted, and can be spied on by a variety of groups, both private and public.

Opening USPS mail requires a warrant, and it is a federal agency that protects their jurisdiction and customers.

Back when I did drugs, and back when I bought them off the silk road, many US based distributors used USPS overnight mail, because intercepting and opening a package took a court order, whereas FedEx and UPS retain the right to inspect their packages as they see fit (which may include at the request of authorities).
> Bush v. Gore 2000 down in Florida comes to mind.

I think about this one frequently. I think this was actually pretty impactful, and in an interesting way. I suspect that Gore would have put all of his energy into climate change work, and he might have actually made a dent in it, because it was still possible to do so relatively cheaply then. I think the consequences of that would likely have been that the problem got mitigated to a degree, and everyone would remember it as that ridiculous fake crisis that Gore made up and wasted a bunch of money trying to prevent.
> Democracy is not the solution.

It is a solution, that is imperfect. If you have something better, now is the time to explain it.
I don't think I've ever had iCloud "beg me for money". I've had it where iCloud tells me I am about to run out of space and should probably buy more, which seems reasonable.

iCloud data is backed up on Chinese servers? Without being E2EE to boot? Do you have a source on this?

If consumers seriously want easily repairable devices, it seems like such a phone would compete easily in the free market.
> What's the motive for someone going through the effort of faking a good enough take-down notice?

I doubt it takes that much effort. If I recall correctly the whole idea originated from some 4ch spin-off a couple of weeks ago. Someone probably just picked it up and simply did it, because ... well, "reddit is cancer".
> google fired ____ for questioning ....

This is the Google way apparently. They fired Damore too for pointing out that either the diversity effort is an intended sham, or it's so unscientific that it's useless.
This was (is) the case for classic queue mirroring. Quorum queues use a raft implementation and can synchronise the delta. As of now, the two major features missing from quorum queues are message TTL and priority. The former will come soon. It is true that QQs have different runtime characteristics but they are much more stable in a clustered environment.
No new information came out to prove the lab leak hypothesis. They just lied about it to cover the financing of their gain of function research.
"just"? The above comment is overconfident.
In Belgium, the Polio vaccination is mandatory.

It seems they came very close to completely eradicating it from the world. But it seems crazy religious people prevented it.

Reading something like this is just very sad. When one of the kids catches Polio, they will soon realize the importance of vaccination.