skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To my knowledge, I have never been shadowbanned anywhere.

I wouldn't go so far as to say it is a "shameful cowardice", but I do think shadowbanning is a very disrespectful thing to do.

It seems like shadowbanning is a form of gaslighting, and just to see what others might think, I did a Google search. Indeed, the first two results for the search string 'gaslighting shadowbanning' are from Hacker News.

Not everyone will respond to or respect feedback with a ban, but some will, and I think that makes all the difference.

(OP: just because you've been disrespected by being shadowbanned, doesn't mean you should be disrespectful back about "cowardice" and "fragile echo chambers". I believe that is the kind of thing which might keep you shadowbanned.)

(Moderators: I hope you can transform Hacker News into a place that doesn't use shaddowbans. I mod a 50k+ user subreddit, and I do remove comments and occasionally ban people, but I almost always say why. I believe even people with poor attitudes or intentions appreciate and respect being treated fairly, and it helps make the world a slightly better place and might one day have a cumulative effect on that person and cause them to slowly change their attitude. You, I, and I think everybody wants to be respected as a person, and people generally respond well to being treated well.)
Technically a file system is just a special database. I think a better formulation of the authors point would be "the registry is a lot like a file system, even though a more traditional database approach or fully embracing it as a file system would have probably worked out better".

Also, they would have been able to at least improve the on-disk format with a major version; I highly doubt that the registry itself is backwards-compatible anyway and there are probably very few programs that access it directly.
Not positive at all; the only possible equivalence is when every school is equally bad
This paper is about long term effects, specifically whether IQ declines in adulthood after adolescent use.
I was talking about effects days after use.
"The strongest evidence regarding cannabis and memory focuses on its temporary negative effects on short-term and working memory.[83]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_cannabis

I'm not saying cannabis will make you dumb forever, but I am saying there's evidence it can diminish your abilities for up to a week or two after use, which might be a lot for certain people such as students, academics etc.
> Early subscriptions -friggin expensive in comparison to what you are getting now (speed+d/l limits) they were mainly dialups to a (restricted) shell (SunOS most of them).

And now we're back to using cloud accounts with 'friggin expensive' egress bandwidth for most of our non-trivial Internet needs. (The underlying cause is of course different - a combination of IPv4 address exhaustion and the increased prevalence of ephemeral mobile connections that are not reachable via a single network address. But it's remarkable nonetheless.)
Ask! Seriously, just ask.

Keep an eye for people on social media who you think would be of help to you, and just politely ask them if they would be your advisor or know someone who would be. It works! Not immediately, but people do respond with either Yes, or they redirect you to someone they know, or they politely say they currently don't have the bandwidth. Keep trying. It does not take long before someone responds with a Yes.
Ask HN: What advice do you have for a college student?
> When you self-host, the government has to come to you for your data.

Yes, and rather than sending a letter to the hosting company, they can come to your house and confiscate all electronic equipment. (that's not a joke btw, when local LE comes to your house, you can lose anything electronic from laptop/server down to backup drives and ipod, possibly taking years to recover) For me that doesn't sound like a good potential tradeoff.

> This was why Hillary Clinton wanted to host her personal email in her basement.

[citation needed]
The public bike system in my town can be used either with an app or with an RFID card, the latter option not requiring a phone at all.
Why not just let the market take care of it? I’d support not incentivizing vacant property (via the tax code, limiting deductible losses and/or write offs on real estate) but absolutely do not believe government has a right to force a property to rent their property out. That’s tyranny.

And what wound stop the property owner from just creating a “business” that is open “by appointment only”? There would be many ways around it.
I've dealt with this before. It's a pain.

Look at this security research about bypassing NATs: https://www.armis.com/research/nat-slipstreaming-v20/

Look at the section "Creating NAT pinholes to any internal IP using the H.323 ALG" for example.

This is using a bug ("feature") that your CGNAT may have implemented (depending on the brand of CGNAT used). Fairly likely that one of those NAT slipstreaming vectors will allow you to punch a hole through it.

Is this reliable enough to actually use for self hosting stuff? Probably not. If you do, tell me :)

Edit: even the oldest versions of this technique (https://samy.pl/natpin/) may work for you. Depends if you're lucky. You don't need any of the exploit details that make this into an attack, only the basic concept of using NAT ALGs for unintended purposes.
We're talking about police and their usefulness as well. Preventing and prosecuting violent crime is where police are most indispensable.
I always find it amazing how bottled water is seen as terrible yet bottles of pop/soda is never spoken about.

Pop is 90% to 99% water and far worse for people than just water even the diet types.
The other side of this is that unless you're a very important individual nobody is going to blow zero days on your self-hosted server, and you're pretty unlikely to get focused by individual human (non-automated) attention/exploitation.

I've been self hosting for over a decade with no intrusion to my knowledge, although I'm sure some state-level actor has access. On the flip side I've had many of my login credentials stolen over the years due to a wide range of companies getting hacked- haveibeenpwned currently lists 11 breaches for just one of my emails. It's probable I'll get owned eventually, but I've got some catching up to do.
I think that was true at one point, but later I don't think it was true. Well, at least compared to HN. I think it was always better than Reddit, but I don't expect intelligent discussion there like I do on tech news sites.
> But unless you want to live like a recluse in a bunker, what are your options?

We can:

• Try not to get infected

• If inevitable: Get as little of it as we can

• Help the body clear the illness and after-effects

• Contract the illness as late as possible, as medicine advances faster than mutations

• Seek to support the science of figuring this thing out

• Do this together

• Seek to reduce the amount of contagious people in our local and global environment

Practically, we can:

• Wear masks. Better masks are better

• Use air conditioning, advocate for air conditioning and fresh air

• Exercise. Eat well. Go outside.

• Get vaccinated

• Read papers

• Discuss the science

• Participate in studies

• Fund science

• Explain to people what the scientific process is and how we know what we know

• Should we arrive at the opinion that certain substances, drugs, or supplements may have a protective effect, we might take those

• We can be the living scientific process: When we choose to experiment, seek to carefully note down the results and publish them

• Help others

• Fund healthcare for those who are less well off than we are

• Establish robust social immunity by discussing the options we do have to reduce infection
It's not about compelling others to be healthy, it's about preventing you from infecting others.
I'm convinced that one day we'll have a public trust net. It's the only thing I can think of that can solve questions of belief and trustworthiness at scale. If I know Sally from high school and she highly trusts the general announcing the findings because she knew him at West Point, it is going to take a lot of evidence or other members of the trust net that to convince me that they're faking the photo.

The drawbacks of trust nets are well known, but I think they're solvable if we're willing and if people have a secure way to opt out.
Eventually you'd have to sell it cheap enough that someone would buy it, or, rent it cheap enough so that someone will use it preventing your tax.

It doesn't seem totally unreasonable. Is there an equivalent of adverse posession (squatters rights) for retail?
It’s tough to tell if I’m in the target market for this (I just own one piece of land with a house on it) and what kind of benefits and drawbacks I’d get from this if so. This isn’t something I’d ever considered so maybe that means it’s already not for me?
If you're asking me personally, OpenSSL always had a funny smell even at the time, and so did TLS, simply because it seemed all way too complicated. TLS v1.3 agrees. As far as TLS implementations go I think pretty much all of them have had major, critical flaws. Microsoft's SChannel has had an RCE since it was born, patched the same year as Heartbleed, Apple's Secure Transport had goto fail (also in 2014 if I recall) etc.
they didn't "validate" anything, they just opened the csv. also i'd be interested in their take on the second column, that looks like clubhouse's scoring system (which they ran without telling anyone, likely for marketing purposes, according to this* article). if so, you can in fact tell which numbers are more significant than others.

*https://futurezone.at/apps/clubhouse-leakt-38-milliarden-tel...
oh there is definitely a market for this, and cusotmers willing to pay for it.

at $job, me and another team member basically did technical deep dives into issues that occured for $customer. Usually they needed deep root cause analysis as of why something happened. (Mainly for insurance/legal/compensation reasons).

It was a ton of fun and we even got to a point where customers where willing to pay for this service when required. It costs us a lot of hours to do the troubleshooting, and not all customers have such requirements.

Some fun root causes i have found over the year:

- a bug in a firewall which resulted in kernel crash of the packet processing plane (and thus packet loss). We worked extensively with the vendor to fix this. This bug only occured because $company was using a custom TCP stack, and was sending ACK's incorrectly every X packets.

- tons of issues regarding time. Time drift on routers, time drift between processes inside a router. Time drift between hosts.(this happens a lot, and it makes me appriacate the fact that some routers have external clocks as a source option).

- quite a lof of issues with IPsec tunnels. For being a standard, i have never seen suchs a lot of edge cases with non-interoperability.
During the years when childcare is needed the numbers often work out better with one income than two. Market labor is taxed and then post tax dollars have to be used to pay for professional childcare (which is then taxed again).

However, the issue comes after the need is over. The employment market heavily penalizes a decade plus gap in work history. On a lifetime basis it can make sense to work and pay for childcare even if it comes out net negative on a year by year basis.

Even more important than these financial considerations are cultural and social expectations.
Supply and demand, right? Rents should be plummeting, right? Where are those Freedom Markets™ we were promised?

The OC says high rents are being maintained by speculators removing inventory from the market. (I'm sure there's multiple factors at play.)

One proposed remedy is a vacancy tax. I don't know anything about that kind of thing.

I do know I support whatever it takes to repurpose these spaces.
Random stable matching would work.. rank your top 5 and they rank you.
Or maybe don’t buy stupid cheap gizmos that you don’t really benefit from. If I don’t want something enough to buy a quality instance, I probably won’t buy it at all.
You could create a ZeroTier public network that anything can join. You can self host the network controller too.

Still means remotes have to install a piece of software though instead of going straight to the host.

No IPv6 I presume? If it’s CGNAT without V6 that is a shit ISP.
A couple of years ago, my wife had been practising a particular piece of music on the violin for some time in preparation for an exam; after a while, she noticed that the blackbird in our garden began using the opening few bars as part of its song.
Something is still translating the virtual files back and forth to the half-arsed hive format. Would recommend reading the link I posted since I have actually reverse-engineered the hive format.
I think with GDPR we'll end up seeing more self hosting at companies. Outsourcing it to SaaS platforms is easy but I think we'll start seeing more and more hassles with privacy and data breaches from SaaS platforms and companies who use them getting fined for not doing due dillegence.
Maximize your time in college across all domains: Studies, social life, learning new things, meeting new people.

College may be the easiest time in your adult life to meet new friends. Take advantage of that, because it only gets harder from here. Build many good relationships.
If they don’t share it we can safely assume it’s shitty
Attack of the Cosmic Rays
I'm in Finland and it's the same here.

A friend who basically was freelance and did tons of self-hosted IT shit for years, has given up and is now doing contract work in fucking Photoshop, because you can't practically run own hardware services anymore.

It's a joke, and it upsets me that it all seems to just have happened quietly under everyone's nose, and no one seems to be worried about it at all.
That would require that nobody has any extra use for free/cheap space. It would mean that nobody needs additional storage space, nobody needs space for a studio or an office.

This would essentially only happen if you rented in a mega high crime area, which means landlords would be incentivized to do something about crime.
If you encrypt the disk is a VPS provider going bother going to effort of trying to hook into the running machine via their hypervisor in a way that won't be evident to the owner of the server?

I'm not saying they can't I just don't see that they would spend their time doing this when they can send to the request to the server's owner and then it's no longer their problem to deal with.
Then why visit such sites? I deliberately do not install extensions that hide problems for me. I want it to be cumbersome. I want to get annoyed so that I get discouraged to use the site in the first place, and I get reminded of that fact with every single visit.

If the few that do care still visits there is no incitement for the site to not do it.
They didn't ignore the rules. The FCC reviewed Starlink's plans and agreed to modifications of the rules based on the assessment that Starlink met the requirements in a way that didn't require an in-depth environmental review.
For exactly the same reason I use mainly iPhone 7, it cost me ca. $100 and if I lost it today I would buy another one tomorrow without even thinking about it. I use it for various tasks without worrying about it for a moment. On the other hand, there is nothing cheap about it, it feels very solid and works reliably. I would never feel the same about, say, iPhone 12 Pro.
That’s not what this lawsuit is about.

Frankly that’s a bullshit excuse viasat is making and thankfully the court system knows that and the judge is throwing it out.

With 5+ years of notice of the changing landscape and seeing starlink/spacex progress the geosat companies did nothing.

They’re not even really alleging it’s because they followed rules and spacex didn’t - they’re more complaining that the environmental review for spacex from the FCC wasn’t “enough” (which the FCC disagrees with). It’s not like viasat tried to do LEO and was blocked because of rules.

It’s basically the satellite company equivalent of NIMBY building suits about shadows on a park. The true motives are elsewhere.

This is just a company that sees the writing on the wall using their legal team to try to find ways to stop their competitor rather than actually competing on the merits of their product.

The faster they go bankrupt, the better it’ll be for actual players in the space building real tech.
I get a perverse pleasure sometimes in taking extra care of cheap products. It's like a paradox - you're supposed to treat, say, a dollar store whiteboard with rough disdain, since it's only a dollar and you can just trivially go buy another one.

But there's an almost ironic fun in taking good care of it, handling it well, cleaning it carefully, making it last.

And of course you can often be more rough and careless with expensive and heavily built products - it's one of their benefits. But they're often more clunky, with an unnecessary leather carrying case, 3x the weight, etc. Not always a clear win.
Lockdowns are massive restrictions of individual freedom, which is something the right claims to care about and sometimes actually does.
I built a tool to create deployment scripts for AWS ECS based on Blockly: https://craftydeploy.com/

It didn't really hit the mark - but working with Blockly was a great experience nonetheless
Self hosting is logical if you want to have control over your brand. Even if circumstances arise (scalability, bigger audience) you can always design your architecture with focus over maximum control.
In this moment in time, with this prices if you are software professional and you are not self hosting your blog (or having maximum control over your intellectual property) you are lazy. :)
If the price of the services go down enough, that should cause people to move to your city, because it has cheap cost of living.
As I understand it, rustc_codegen_gcc [1], which is being merged into mainline rustc [2], supports building for MIPS.

[1] https://github.com/antoyo/rustc_codegen_gcc

[2] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/87260

Can you give it a try?
Eh, we need more things that get hacked
No. I was there, it wasn't N dimensional chess.

That's what I'm saying - I said "I can't do that" and their demeanor changed totally and obviously. It was super obvious they were lining up people to do deep presentations on their previous employers IP.
I'm not religious but I think this is brilliant. Some 2000 years ago they'd already realized how dangerous it is if a tyrannical government has a way of IDing everyone and using that ID to arbitrarily grant or deny people rights and services on a whim. It's like anti-totalitarianism built right into the religion.
I'd agree a filesystem is also a type of hierarchical database but the author doesn't think so:

"Back to point 1, the Registry is a half-assed, poor quality implementation of a filesystem. Importantly, it’s not a database. It should be a database!"

Noting "not a database" is bolded.
Both styles of startup building have always existed. There were plenty of VC-powered startups aiming for 30X exits years ago.

Small groups of friends building startups without VC money and without aiming for unicorn-level exits still exist today. You’re just not hearing about them because they’re not in the news.

There’s nothing wrong with starting a small tech company that can become self-sustaining without VC-level exits. A lot of founders are doing just this. They’re usually doing it quietly, though.
Is there some international organization that would help people that want to setup kelp farming?

I live near a beach and I wonder how feasible it would be to start something like this
Or pasta/noodles for Italy as well.

Or if you think of Ireland you think of potatoes.

Many types of plant from the Americas (the continent not "USA! USA!") and make up what people eat all over the world; potatoes, peppers, corn, tomatoes, chocolate, peanuts, vanilla.
I'm sorry, but I strongly, firmly, believe with evidence based research to back my concerns that this is a large amount of alarmist research which at best is to cash in on readily available covid money.
I unfortunately believe this to be shortsighted and ultimately unethical.

This is a virus from the covid family.

What reasonable assumption should lead us to suspect it behaves so strongly asymptomatically as to cause severe hitherto unheard of side effects compared to say "bird-flu"?

I am very much up for caution and as I say I very much welcome a renewed effort to say compare long term flu effects and things like cronif fatigue. But I think writing about evidence being inconclusive vs "there is no evidence to suggest" are strongly different lines for a journal which knows has the attention of a major global news source.

This is the difference between publishing this in nature and saying "more research needed" rather than "cautiously there is no strong evidence for".

In not invoking ad-abusurdism I'm highlighting mixing 2 statistically unlikely events can reveal unfortunate data points which incorrectly leads to the wrong result.
If I caught the lottery after being diagnosed I could say I've strong evidence for when I don't. This is no different to getting cancer after being diagnosed and blaming cancer on covid from 1 case.

We are in vaccine autism territory again with long term covid studies and I just hope that the research community (not an individual researcher) and the media tred carefully. So far they have both been rather like a bull in a china shop with their subtleties.
Talk to your professors like normal human beings which they are. Ask about their family and their hobbies and interests. If only to make sure you have sources for letters of recommendation in the future.

Second tip: start a blog in whatever industry you want to work in post college to showcase public creativity.
Dumping VM memory contents is pretty trivial.
Especially if you're a company and you've integrated their services into yours. I was talking about a business idea with someone and they literally mentioned that once you get into a business relationship with a company you're super hard to remove and used the example of customer service outsourcing they experienced. That's not even tech related and they had serious trouble moving away from the provider.
Not only US-Americans joke about that.

“I need a license for my pet fish, Eric.”
Certainly there is a lot of legacy with the registry, but how would any of these issues be improved by moving to a file based config? All these issues could still exist under that model, and there would be new issues too.

Like for example, you already point out how the type system in the registry is very limited. But isn't the filesystem even worse? Everything there is binary blobs with no types at all. So how does that improve things?

It seems like your complains don't really have to do with the "directory" structure of the registry much, so I don't think moving to a file based model would really change anything. You'd just end up with the same legacy issues, but spread across more files.

Finally, AppData wasn't introduced with Vista, but rather it's always been there if applications need to store file-based data rather than individual configuration values. That is not a new or improved way of doing things as you seem to imply in the post.
Yeah, it was the only way to remove defender. Then I used debloaters and shutup10 to remove all other "features". Windows didn't like it and returned ALL of them on update. Now I disabled update, and are totally motivated to go back to linux.

Luckily all the tools I use on Windows are x-platform and with PowerShell, vscode, sql server etc. on linux and games working nothing holds me any more. I will probably miss Autohotkey and Foobar2k (maybe total commander but Dobulecmd is decent alternative and much better in some domains).
Can we solve serverless cold starts?
What do the global chain stores do differently that they can justify the rent against the store revenue?