skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, gotcha. Here's a source that might help.

> There is a theoretical expectation that some types of vaccines could prompt the evolution of more virulent (“hotter”) pathogens. This idea follows from the notion that natural selection removes pathogen strains that are so “hot” that they kill their hosts and, therefore, themselves. Vaccines that let the hosts survive but do not prevent the spread of the pathogen relax this selection, allowing the evolution of hotter pathogens to occur. This type of vaccine is often called a leaky vaccine.

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou...

Basically, it all comes down to whether or not the vaccines prevent transmission. If they do, we're all good. If they do not, we might be in trouble. It looks like they do not.
Driving high is like driving as a grandma.

You're hyper vigilant, looking everywhere, your reactions are delayed a little such as that of an 60 year old person, and you're definitely listening to speed "limit" as the maximum, and not as the average.
Have you met a crow? They complain all the time.
Apologies, I didn’t realise people struggled to this extent. I’ve taught many people to count this way and not encountered anybody who struggled, but it was ableist of me to assume that was universal.
I had something similar done ten to fifteen years ago and found it significantly more painful than an injection.
With my current thinking about how circles can work, a circle can reference another circle. So in a way, one task (circle) can belong to multiple circles. It's similar to how Workflowy allows the user to mirror list items.
Still easy to identify and safe to nibble on, like strawberries.
It's an insult akin to "stupid" or "dense". It worked for git, but "git" at least wasn't in vogue.
This article appears to have been originally written in 2002 and republished in 2016
But isn't this exactly the same thing Canonical did with Ubuntu? Heck, Mozilla did it for Firefox. All the trademark does is stop people calling the modified version “Elementary OS” – not stop them modifying it.

I was giving the author benefit-of-the-doubt earlier, but this follow-up just seems… petty, if not malicious.

> Their respective communities seem convinced that you can pirate GPL software, which I find fascinating.

But nowhere do they say it's illegal to do so. They consider the distribution to be akin to illegal piracy, because they consider it the Done Thing to pay for the Pro distros.
i have grown to dislike the vegan debate

so arrogant of us, to look at something and judge it conscious or not.

the reality is, for me to live, something has to die.

be it fungi, plant, or animal, i just try not to waste, and treat it with respect (subjective).

i think only Lithoredo abatanica [https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspb.2019...] can live without eating living things, but its still unclear how exactly it gets energy
Exactly! This product idea is the brain child of Workflowy, Basecampe, and Clubhouse ... combining all the features that I love from all of them into one product.
new to the fonts space, but I really wanted a totally unique look for a new site I'm building and came upon an font foundry called photo-lettering. The story of how itsfonts came to exist and be available on the web is truly cool (and informs this debate a little).

Photo-lettering, Inc aka PLINC was a high-end foundry and design firm in New York City beginning in the 1930s that was used as a volume service provider by Madison Avenue (think proofs flying across midtown via courier). Their unique claim to fame was that each individual letter of their font faces existed as a large photographic plate which was then projected onto layouts using a proprietary overhead system. The result satisfied the exacting needs of magazine designers and such in this era.

Fast-forward to the present, and the fonts, which are supercool in a 60s 70s way (think warholesque), have been scanned and lovingly converted to webfonts, using various advanced features available in opentype etc.

They do use that funny desktop/webfont pricing described by the OP. I'm more than willing to plunk down $125 apiece for the 2 fonts I'm using because of the obvious value this company is offering. The pricing does get into nosebleed territory relatively quickly, but this is a product I feel really good about supporting.

For the full PLINC rabbit hole ... https://www.photolettering.com/about/history/drawer_one/
Of cases reported, 2% have died. If you want to go with CDC estimates, it's about .6%, still 5X the flu. If you include all excess death's it's about .7-8%.

Pick your number but COVID <> The Flu.

I can't believe almost a million people have died and people still shrug it off as just the flu.
Believe me, I've been in your shoes multiple times. I suppose I've resolved that instead of being frustrated as I have been in previous roles, I should simply take advantage of it and be aware of those biases if the situation arises for me.
> Safari Books Online subscription service (safari.oreilly.com) can be had for as little as $9.95 a month

It's $499/year for an individual - more than a 4x price increase in just 14 years since this was written.
I don't really have any way to contextualize these rates -- like how often is the Icee machine at 7-11 down? 30% is definitely crazy high, though. Would love to see it broken down by franchises, because I'd wager that the machine is out more often at specific locations.
Imagine if we were making chocolate chip cookies and rat poison in the same factory. Periodically a family would drop dead after buying a bad batch at the grocery store. Reformers loudly cry out "Can we please stop making chocolate chip cookies next to rat poison!"

Skeptics chime in "Well... It's really not that simple. Even without rat poison, chocolate chip cookies are pretty unhealthy. Do we really want to be sending a message that it's okay to eat cookies by not poisoning them. Wouldn't that just encourage more people to try them. These people knew the risk of rat poison when they choose to eat the cookies, why is it our job to protect them?"
- Student's t-test
This is almost how the new scanning system works.
Apparently not.

I am not against files, actually, I am a big proponent of files. But your statement I quoted is just naive.
Don't we track transaction security by chain length as well as new block generation speed? Those should let you determine the probability of your transaction being rejected no matter the mining incentive.
>Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.

Does it matter? Most authors will remain obscure. The odds of becoming widely known seems as likely piracy or not.

I get the gist of the points but I still think "If someone doesn't like their work pirated, that's their call.".
Others have answered what the 8 means, you might also want to know why it's used, since it may be "obvious" that traceroute is a system utility. In many cases it's not obvious whether one is referring to the syscall, kernel API, system utility, etc, since overloading a single simple word is quite common.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/apple-looking-for-risc-v-p...
Anti-gouging laws also cause hoarding:

1. stocking up whenever possible because of anticipated shortages

2. hoarding in order to sell on the black market

3. hoarding by people who don't need it "just in case"

4. runs on items, so the people who get it were the ones who got their first, either by being lucky or by getting tipped off. (How is this fair?)

We saw this play out magnificently in the Great TP Shortage of 2020.

100% caused by anti-gouging laws.

The idea that anti-gouging laws (and rationing) produce "fair" results should have been amply proven in that shortage, but people can't get past "but it isn't fair!"
Okay, so i have multiple problems with this blog post. I want to give the author the benefit of the doubt. They're a CTO at some startup, surely they know how cloudflare works. But i dug a bit and i don't see evidence of this.

In short, for the non-cloudflare-users among the HN crowd, and since this is a super clickbaity title, cloudflare is a reverse proxy. ALL IPs in the user's access.log, unless explicitly configured otherwise, will be cloudflare's.

Cloudflare also doesn't proactively update its cache. It does so on demand.

What I'm really confused with is if they did indeed talk to CF support, how was this not caught by the support agents? Could they genuinely be CF IPs? Having a hard time believing that.

Anyway, first step would be to look at the x-forwarded-for header. If not available, since these are logs, cloudflare has traffic analytics and wouldn't confuse its own IPs in the mix.
So _this_ is what the Hollywood "hi-tech injection" trope is based on.

I always thought it was a purely fantastical creation for cinema for a satisfying "psht" sound to let you know it worked.
You just reminded me of https://type.method.ac/ where everyone can quickly check their font kerning skills against a standard. Fun for us developers!
Stupid thing but I had to inject my wife for months and I hated the whole thing. Where, what angle, what pressure to apply and then when I was 'in' taking care not to move or cause more pain and blood. Shaking or slight tremor = pain. Depending on the size and action of the 'pump' I was always putting her through some new pain everyday. And then I nicked myself several times, even with the modern home-injection kits for noobz... Mronths of this, I don't feel better poking anyone. I should have got trained.

So, yeah, if we find a way to do without nurses, or teach properly the thing to everyone, OK...
>they promised not to look at personal files

Where was this promise stated in these explicit terms, especially the definition of "personal files"? Because Apple is also promising that this only applies to file that are set to be uploaded to iCloud and the expectation of privacy is different for files uploaded to the cloud.

Either Apple's promises can be trusted or they can't. And if they can't, you can't trust anything about their devices.
Can you open an issue in the gitlab-runner project? It would be great if one of our engineers that focuses on the Kubernetes executor can weigh in.

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/-/issues
I am vaccinated but to be fair, that article is not a great rebuttal: it’s only a total of 34 hospitalizations and it doesn’t indicate that those young people were healthy. For all we know they could be cancer patients.
"Tech savvy" and "not tech savvy" are just 2 of hundreds if not thousands of tags put in your info, to steer it into the proper SALE buckets.

The 'you are the product' adage is true, but there isn't a single quality you can have that makes you stand out from thousands if not millions of others. Advertising is a numbers game for them.
nullc's flagged comment may not have been the best way to get the point across, but it's an important point nevertheless. Conversations about the US intelligence community's repeated attempts to suppress and subvert modern encryption standards never seem to mention Crypto AG, perhaps the most egregious example we know about. A great article just came out that highlights some of the shenanigans:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-scandalous-history-of-the-last...

... In 1966, the relationship among CAG, the
NSA, and the CIA went to the next level. That
year, the NSA delivered to its Swiss partner
an electronic enciphering system that
became the basis of a CAG machine called
the H-460. Introduced in 1970, the machine
was a failure. However, there were bigger
changes afoot at CAG: That same year, the
CIA and the German Federal Intelligence
Service secretly acquired CAG for
US $5.75 million.

I'm surprised no one has submitted this one, actually.
My 'storage solution' up to this point has been 'random disks in a desktop tower' and I was doing some research just this morning for upgrading to a more complete local solution.

My use-cases: primary storage device for home lab, computer/phone backup server for myself and extended family, media server, self-hosted web archive, general self-hosted services.

My preferences: I don't like the direction that Synology is trending in (i.e. the same direction as Ubiquiti) / I don't like that it's proprietary. I really like the idea of using ZFS. I don't want to spend a ton of time designing building and debugging a custom system.

That leads me to the IX Systems Mini X [0], a 5+2-bay integrated system with FreeBSD-based TrueNAS OS (successor/rename of FreeNAS). One of the X+ models comes with dual 10GbE which is pretty nice for future-proofing. So my current homelab plan is:

Mini X+: 8 core, 64 GB, 2x10GbE - $1600
5x 6TB WD Red Plus (in zfs-raidz1 for 24TB net capacity) - $650
1x 480GB Kingston DC1000B M.2 PCIE-3.0 enterprise SSD
with power loss protection (PLP) as a SLOG/write-cache - $130
MikroTik RB5009UG+S+IN router-switch [1] with 1x10Gb SFP+, 1x2.5GbE, 7x1GbE - $185
Encrypted backup from NAS to rsync.net using Borg [2][3], maybe raw ZFS snapshots for certain workloads (databases).

Total: $2565
Monthly: internet - $70 (1GB) - $100 (2GB), remote backup: $10 (initial) - $80 (half capacity)

That's my current plan anyways. Feedback welcome.

[0]: https://www.truenas.com/truenas-mini/

[1]: https://mikrotik.com/product/rb5009ug_s_in#fndtn-gallery

[2]: https://www.borgbackup.org/

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27997856
As I said, the only innovation I am aware of that piracy has produced is circumvention.

You seem to be confirming that.
That's exactly what Servo was/is, an embeddable browser engine. It was never aiming to build a usable reference servo browser with the engine. The packaged nightly binaries were just to demo the current state of the embeddable engine which is why they were so barebones.
It’s more and more obvious we need competition in the browser space. Firefox as an excellent and performant alternative. Personally I use Chrome for work and Firefox for personal stuff.
Matt Stoller pretty convincingly lays out why this is a monopoly issue here: https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/what-broken-mcdonalds-ice...
Are there any good hosts in the United States that won't cut you off on ideological grounds? This shit should be plainly illegal, IMO. If it's in compliance with US law, I should be able to host whatever the fuck I want. I'd argue this is a better deal for the hosting companies as well. Why? For the same reason why your company can't cancel your line if it doesn't like what you're discussing on the phone.
Kind of an overly-sensational title, but it sounds like a legitimately frustrating situation to be in, and.. I guess I'm not surprised? It sounds like support in this situation has little incentive to believe the fault is on their end, but I think we all know if this blows up on social media then this ticket will receive higher priority.

The article is a little light on data though. No vertical axis, no information on the volume of data transferred or the associated costs. I feel like its pertinent information, and if the numbers are small enough that it makes the title seem silly well.. dial it down a little, I guess.
Thanks for the condescending remark.

"they" = governments and corporate media.

Obama throws a party and nobody is wearing masks. The Mayor of Washington DC has a wedding and gives herself an exception for all the included rules. Bill Gates, etc. don't ever need to quarantine when traveling. If you think Bill Gates isn't traveling much, I can assure you that other media figures such as Nicole Kidman are. [0]

[0] https://news.yahoo.com/hong-kong-quarantine-exemption-nicole...
> Just fyi, you can delete individual cookies in the developer tools.

While I very much agree with the point you're making, I can count on one hand (with fingers to spare) the number of family members I have who know what the developer tools even are, and that's because I showed them when troubleshooting an issue they were having. They aren't going to learn or remember how to access the dev tools to manage cookies, but they do know what it means to delete individual cookies and the current process to do so, and if they forget the exact steps they could certainly figure it out in settings/preferences.

What they're not going to do is think "well, I can't find the thing I used to use to deal with cookies, I'd better go muck around in the developer tools." I'd imagine a very large percentage of non-technical people who have heard about cookies fall into the same category as my relatives, but that's my own bias talking and YMMV of course.
Do something that alters your baseline consciousness long enough and it becomes your baseline. Doing anything over a long period of time with regularity will change you.

You have definitely met pot smokers who have, and do live perfectly normal lives because their baseline is better. You probably have no idea who they are.
I think Rectangle is the spiritual successor to Spectacle.

https://rectangleapp.com
10x faster sure! https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/... this is not true in the context of this project because I'm limited to I/O speed, but oh well.
> You can also navigate to the site in the browser and then view the detailed data

The author addresses this point (or has now addressed it) in the addendum to point out an "observer effect" shortcoming:

This information can be seen with the web inspector in both Chrome and Safari.

Yes, but the crucial difference is that you have to navigate to an individual site in a browser window in order to see the site data in the web inspector. Whereas in the Preferences, you can get to the site data, for every website, without having to load the sites. And remember, the very act of loading a site can make the site data change, so there's an "observer effect" if you try to examine or delete it in the web inspector.
I don’t think that is true. The ‘median’ person has empathy and care, and would not hurt someone even if they could be totally undetected - but there is a large skew, which makes this true for the ‘mean’ person and thus ‘reality’, if that makes any sense.

As an example: a bowl of candy on Halloween with a “take 2 pieces only please” sign on it. Most people will only take 2. A few people will grab a handful. And one person will come along and take the whole bowl.
Shouldn't there be some way to match up an ICMP packet received to a particular probe(s) e.g. by UDP port or something else?
I don't see evidence they aren't logging the wrong source IP (which is the default format with nginx, which the author is using).

These are extraordinary claims, which require extraordinary evidence.
Giving creators a monopoly over their creation for a limited time is a good thing.

However, life of the author plus 70 years, and whatever that means if a company owns it instead of a flesh-and-blood individual, is way too long. I can't even come up with a reason to defend that isn't "I'd like to create a multi-generational legacy and copyright minefield based on my IP so I can collect royalties without having to actually do anything productive."

In modern times it should maybe be 5-7 years, ability to collect significant damages shouldn't start until works are formally registered, and if you don't use your works in a commercial revenue-generating activity, the protection expires after 1 or 2 years. Longer or shorter durations for certain industries may make sense.
I agree the terminology is sometimes used in this sense. Though if there is a bigger engineering effort it's often because the engineers are attempting to go beyond the requirements. I.e. the requirements may be satisfied with SQLlite on a raspberry Pi but the engineer builds a large distributed system that runs in the Cloud. This could just be because they have no idea what they're doing, or it could be because they're intentionally building something beyond what is asked. It's definitely possible to build more complicated systems that just barely satisfy the same requirement that a simpler system would satisfy. I'm tempted to call this "bad engineering" rather than "over engineering".
Sure. I mean, my main concern would be people planting actual illegal images. Not just colliding hashes. If anything, a handful of images that have hash collisions, once they made it to the authorities, would then be reviewed in detail and shown as a false positive, and then ignored in the future / whitelisted. Or investigated because someone is generating images to directly tamper with the program / frame people.

No one is going to be prosecuted on "significantly downscaled ... ambiguous" versions of original fake images with a hash collision that flagged a review and was handed to the FBI accidentally because a "minimum wage" fatigued person passed it on.

I get the counter-arguments, but the hash collision thing is just, sort of... weird? I even get the argument that an innocent hash collision may have your personal and private images reviewed by some other human - and that's weird. But I can't really see it going further (you'll be arrested and sentenced to life in prison from the HASH COLLISIONS!).

It's just using technical terms to scare people who don't understand hashes and collisions and probability, and not really founded on reason.
Thanks for reminding us all of that irony. I was one of those tape traders and I will forever regret being even a tiny bit responsible for Lars' fame.
OP is very misguided. Cloudflare does not proactively refresh their caches. That's just not how CDNs work.

Here is how I would troubleshoot:

1. Look for the X-Forwarded-For header: All requests or the AWS server will come from Cloudflare. That's the point of a CDN. The X-Forwarded-For header tells you the actual client IP making the request. I think Cloudflare has some tools to block certain IP addresses. You can use that once you have identified the IP to block.

2. Make sure nginx returns appropriate headers so that Cloudflare will cache the responses from the origin server. If caching is set up correctly, Cloudflare will not make requests to your server. They will serve from their cache instead.
Google has being a surveillance tool since it's inception, they cannot work without accumulating and/or embedding people's data.
Well, considering that real frogs jump out when the water gets too hot, maybe people will too. (If there's an alternative, and they really feel the inconvenience.)
> IT is a highly skilled and trained job; staff it as such

He's going to be disappointed by the private sector too - I haven't been trained on or even given time to learn anything in at least 20 years. Any learning I (or anybody I've ever worked with) undertake is strictly on personal time only.
No. Musicians should get value when they play their music to a person or audience willing to pay. If they are starving they should find another job.