skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the funniest part of discussions like this on HN is all the Americans who are somehow... proud? for not taking any paid time off, and then the ones that are weirdly grateful for getting a pittance of time off from their employer?

Listen, PTO is money is salary.

Not taking PTO is leaving money on the table, it's the same as being proud that you're not receiving your full salary for your work, or being grateful that your company actually paid the agreed-upon salary this month.

But some people don't make that connection, because they're conditioned by shitty labour rules in the US.
I've used this in the past but currently it's showing no records for all my 3 passports.
Have you tried turning him off and on again?

In a less facetious tone, the Spectrum plus was my first computer, and I rather like the way the BASIC was based on single keypresses, with every built in function there to see on the keyboard. It was spectacularly well designed to be learned.
My point is that it's the biggest barrier to signup and if you're going to have a successful paid social network you might want to consider the value exchange right now as a new user. None of my friends are on Glass yet, so a big part of the value of a social network is not even present yet.
There was a way you could burn out a chip in the C64 with a poke command IIRC. And you could break the tape advance relay in the MSX by switching it on and off rapidly.

Edit: Oops it wasn't the 64 but the PET:
https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-killer-poke-for-the-commodore-p...

Also, everyone here will know the phenomenon of bricking. You can damage hardware with software. Luckily it's very rare.
> Are there any examples of this happening in a prominent open source project?

Open Source Initiative itself expelled Eric S. Raymond (a founding member) from their mailing list
It sounds like you're someone who is comfortable in dealing with uncertainty. I think most people desire certainty and stability, so they want employers and the government to 'guarantee it' (even when the guarantee is illusory).
But I'm lazyyyyyyyy come on ;) How much does it cost to host 100 videos that get 1,000 views total per month. $1/month?

While I imagine I could set this up, I want easy to use, censorship resistant video hosting for others.
I never heard of a company giving less than 6 months. My wife works for a very large financial firm and it was 6 months. All startups I worked at were 6 months.
What about windows 2000, which was also considered "good"? As for windows 10 being good, I'm not so sure. It might be good now, but it was also panned on release and received 12 major updates.
People forget that in 2004 there were several streaming video sites. They all disappeared because they featured copyrighted content.
> The bootloader does not get loaded

I get that, but there should be something in the ROM that can reflash the device.

It already has signature verification code, which is the hard part to fit into a tiny ROM.

> Without a signed firehorse binary you can't do anything, because EDL just won't talk to you.

So... either they should release a firehorse binary that can wipe devices, or they should add a small bit of code that can wipe and flash without needing a firehorse binary.

As I read it, dmitrygr was saying that the ostensible reason you can't do anything is fear of evil maid attacks, but that ostensible reason doesn't explain why there isn't a wipe+access mode. And "the bootloader is corrupt" isn't the reason, because this is about the pre-bootloader code.
My question is how can platforms ensure only “good” science is done at the scale they operate at? So many pseudosciences hide behind jargon, how much scientific education is required to delineate between the two at the velocity people want? A company might take two weeks to review and approve a flagged post, but isn’t the damage already done for how these platforms operate?
This is so well-written. Now I want to work at Netflix!
The Taliban was fighting against the US though, with all their high-tech drones and such, which are usually cited as the reason that guns are futile against the state.
$36 over the course of a year is insignificant.

> $5 would’ve been a harder sell

Maybe, but it's far harder to go from free -> $ than $ -> $$.
Does it really take 20s to perform FEC on a packet? I assumed it was retransmitting at the link-level.

Either way, the packet is buffered in the sense that it is stored in a buffer on the switch; otherwise the packets would be dropped, not eventually make it through.
Not even ported to it. An Xbox is a nonstandard PC - it runs the NT Kernel, with Windows Drivers, on a custom AMD Zen processor, it's just got hardware root of trust, a different frontend, and software signature enforcement. That's about it.
It puts the burden on judging what is or isn't protected free speech or hate speach in the hands of actual judges that are appointed for that purpose exactly.
What about MetaMask, popular crypto wallet with a Chrome extension. The extension blocks viewing of "blacklisted" websites IN YOUR BROWSER... and the blacklist is entirely community-led. So a competitor can just easily add your website to the list. Example: metalmark.xyz

Try to visit it with the MetaMask browser extension added to your browser. They won't let you. Someone decided to block a small business, and for what? There's no evidence involved. Incredibly short-sighted of MetaMask to add this & randomly accept edits to the blacklist from the community without peer review.

https://github.com/MetaMask/eth-phishing-detect
That $17k would've either been rejected as ad fraud in the best case, and just ended up funding the companies you hate at worst.
What is PASCAL at Atlassian? Some kind of a career assessment tool?
Saving this forever. Thank you for making it.
Does it really surprise anyone that a company in the spam business is terrible?
Ancient Cybersecurity II: Cracking the Caesar Cipher
Because "in case of emergency, press button" works when issued from the hands of a 5' 110-pound woman against a 7' 250-pound man in a way that the other options simply do not.
Not been on Win for a long time, but isn't Win 7 generally regarded as the best/most stable?
Excuse the ignorance, but what do they do when LEO knocks and asks "At 2:34am CST, we saw IP address <x.y.z.w> downloaded child porn. Who was it?"

They just say "We don't know"? Aren't there consequences for letting people download illegal content via your servers?

It seems likely that they would say "At 2:43am CST, the IP address proxying <x.y.z.w> was <your actual IP>," at which point LEO would knock on your ISP's door. Right?

I think it's totally crazy (as in actually-insane) to trust your life to these services. You're right, you can't really be sure. And if you're in a situation where you need to protect your identity, you're already caught.
Agreed - the lesson here is platforms like YouTube have a lot more control than most assume. An easy to use, censorship resistant, video host seems needed.
You're confusing the NRA with the NSSF.
That's actually worse than Apple though - at least Apple lets you download Xcode and install self-signed apps for 7 days between updates without a developer account or a fee.
Well, tell that to the people who are regulating (not) [0] the gun murderers in Chicago.

Note that Chicago has some of the strictest gun regulations in the US. They just don’t enforce them effectively, for some reason.

[0] https://heyjackass.com/
>Windows 10 has ads, and that's unacceptable.

just use enterprise/ltsc.
So Facebook will (in addition to policing free speech) police the right of assembly. There's no way this can go wrong.
>What? I can’t call someone a “f** f*” anymore?

If this is what you honestly think they're referring to then I feel like that says a LOT more about you then it does about them. They were very clear that they aren't talking about situations like this one you've just described.

Are you being disingenuous or do you honestly need someone to explain what they meant? They're talking about crybullies who will disingenuously misinterpret what someone says and take offense to it. Very much like you've just done.
Not sure how anyone can respond to your assertion that it's silly and absurd. I'm fine with you feeling that way as long as you don't try to restrict my right to own them.

I guess one thing I can say is that security needs indeed are met by firearms, including yours to the degree that the police or private security protect you. So, it shouldn't be too foreign of a concept to anyone. Some of us choose to extend that protection to our homes and person, and take responsibility over it to varying degrees.
Wouldn't surprise me if you reboot your computer one day and surprise! It's windows 11 now!

Remember, they did the same thing with Windows 10 a couple of times.
I think you need to approach it more like grep than google. It's a forgotten art, dealing with this type of dumb search engine.

Like if you search for "How do I make a steak", you aren't going to get very good results. But a better query is "Steak Recipe", as that is at least a conceivable H1-tag.
Boring food can be good, but maybe there are fewer types of restaurants per capita.
Why not make a rule to address all brigading? why targeted against groups you like or dislike? The groups you like and dislike are not going to be concentric with other people's so keep it consistent.
This happens on Spotlight as well.
Thanks for replying even after a few days. It took me some time to think through your responses as well, so I hope you forgive my own delay.

> I was trying to explain why many humans are not at all comforted by this "choose your own values" system.

> there's nothing to be said beyond "I hate that," as far as I can see.

> I'm saying that if one doesn't, there's no basis for arguing that someone else's ethics are wrong.

This makes sense. You aren't saying that people won't condemn Stalin's and Kim's action. You're not saying that you or others couldn't be wrong about condemning those two. You're saying: how can anyone judge anyone else if there isn't some objective source of morality?

I dunno though, this seems very juvenile. Are you really saying that there's no way for people to condemn killing if there isn't some objective morality? How would you even be confident that killing is objectively wrong? I'd rather acknowledge that I can change my morals based on good arguments and reasoning. Saying that morals are objective or subjective doesn't really matter to individuals if we can't know for certain what the objective moral guidelines are. We should always consider whether our ethical guidelines are actually good or if they're doing harm.

> It comes down to "ethics" by mob rule and democracy

You don't have to agree with the majority with your own ethical beliefs. Sometimes being in the minority is a signal that your own reasoning is faulty and you should listen to others, and sometimes it's because other people aren't thinking ethically.
As a consumer, I can see both sides of this. On the one hand, I like energetic spam blocking without fear of legal liability, even if there are occasionally a few false positives. On the other, I do not want ISPs/telecoms to be the arbiters of traffic (net neutrality).

The net-neutral solution is for ISPs/telecoms to not spam-block, but rather have spam-blocking be an optional, additional, layer that the consumer can choose at will, or not have at all. But the problem with that solution is that it requires the consumer to do extra work to obtain spam protection, and the consumer would not be protected by default. It also means extra work by all parties delivering spam messages. Unless spam ceases or things otherwise change, I think the clunky solution we currently have is fine for the most part.
Beams don't have to be that accurate to boost signal quality.

This is also speculation on my part but I'd suspect they're targeting specific clusters of devices in an area and using multiplexing than having dozens of radios on one tower.
This is what I find bewildering about people who want to essentially dismantle government, because "freedom": where do they think the power goes?

We'll be living in a company country.
I'm saddened to see that "thatoneprivacysite", once a comprehensive database of VPNs and their policies, now redirects to some scammy-looking "review" site that that pimps ExpressVPN right at the top of the front page.

A shame.

It looks like the next-best guide that hasn't been corrupted by referral money is privacytools.io, which currently recommends Mullvad, ProtonVPN, and IVPN. https://www.privacytools.io/providers/vpn/
American evangelical protestant churches are functionally largely segregated, and have been for a very long time, so they've developed into different things. It's probably as good a way to classify them as any.
They are killed for ignorance and for making a statement against environmentalists. People sweating blood and tears trying to protecting nature.

Danish have not more rights to hunt whales for cultural or historical reasons that Spaniards should have. Do you think that Faroese invented cetacean hunting? It was called Basque Whale for something. And do you know what? We stopped it. Because we wipped them. Spaniard whalers got extinct with the whales. Their children just found a different job. We admitted our mistake and changed.

Almost 100 years later the Basque Whale that was common once in Europe still avoid our coasts. There are a few thousands of those whales remaining in all the N Atlantic. His japanese cousin is much worse. They are not pigs. Not even close.

So what this people did is a huge "f*k you, I'm different" to the rest of Europe. Not more, not less. They don't even understand that this whales don't eat fishes [1].

We see a lot of this anti-knowledge people raising again from their caves lately. Spain is in middle of its first six generation forest wildfire and... surprise, surprise, it was deliberated. As usual just a few weeks after the Californian wildfires. A man lost his life trying to fight against this crime, so... What we can do with those kind of people?

Keep trying to respect their feelings? their "my culture is special?" Trying to justify it because the bullshit "we do it for the meat that nobody needed"?

NOPE

[1] I know it. I have necropsied a few that stranded dead. And don't let me talk about the parasites in the meat, or about the smell.
video hosting for others

Well there's the rub. If this was just for you then yes you could get a $1/mo VM, maybe RamNode but there are cheaper ones and just write a script that generates static pages.

If you want a platform that others can upload videos to then you are going to need a web application, probably PHP that has a database backend or at least a SQLite DB to map the videos files to the URL's. That could easily put you into the $20 to $40 per month VM. Then you would need something like PeerTube [1] or related software.

[1] - https://joinpeertube.org/
This is the comment you choose to moderate??? I guess we can add anti-vaxx to the list of HN's right wing ideologies.

By all means though, let this guy keep posting:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28514405
flagging is something normal users can do.
I'm more talking about your own devices recording and spying on you, without your consent.
> Furthermore, i find US fascination with their theoretical ability to fight their government with small arms adorable and misguided.

As an American, so do I. A citizen revolution vs US Military under the thumb of a dictator would be hilariously asymmetrical. There are no consumer predator drones.
I personally won't be using the app since I don't have an Android; I don't think I'd spend enough time on it to justify the subscription (I don't use Instagram either); and it doesn't appear to solve the photo-related problems I have (backup & private sharing).

But it's good to see this—it's an experiment similar to Instagram but with a different business/community model. Best of luck to the authors.
> Guns are seen as an integral part of self-reliance by many.

For context, can you clarify if the many you're referring to there are some fellow USA citizens?

If so, I'll note that USA is < 5% of global population, and also note a very fresh Pew paper[0] which indicated more than half of that population was keen on stricter gun controls. So 'many' has some caveats around it.

> They provide you with a reasonably effective defense.

Against what? Other people with guns, or other people with feebler weapons?

If it's the former, then we're back to a basic escalation problem, and it's what most other western nation states have avoided falling prey to by, simply, not playing that game.

If you trust your fellow citizens with arms - who is it that you don't trust and that you need a weapon for 'effective defense'?

As to:

> ... in other words disarming populace is step down a slippery slope.

I really can't speak to what it looks like from within the borders of the USA, but from outside, it feels that the USA is well down that slippery slope (of eroded freedoms, and citizenry exploitation) compared to many other democratic nations - so guns in the hands of private citizens don't appear to be a panacea.

[0] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/09/13/key-facts-a...
This is an excellent point that I don't hear often.
But in both cases you face the problem of aggregating preferences of many into one. In one case you are combining personal preferences in the other case aggregating ‘preferences’ expressed by search engines.
The origin story is that 3 young urban hustlers talking giant miles of smack, making ridiculous claims on the 'pitch stage' in full Millenial bloom, managed to convince some major players that they were onto something huge. I think their talent and boldness convinced some investors to go along, though the total investment seems to be a bit much.
And if you exploit it, you'll get fired. And if you're so valuable to them that they don't care, they'd be flexible on limited PTO as well, and just give you extremely generous limits.
Yup. Programming and math can put me into a state of mind where it is hard to socialize with people. It takes hours or days to come out of that state of mind.
>>> I would have asked for unpaid time off and for Atlassian to continue to pay my medical insurance. That would be a deal which I think could have been reached.

The author was fired if you believe the title of the post, so it's way past asking for time off or insurance coverage.
Have you ever tried to pull a gun on someone attacking you? I think most people find it easier to fantasize these 'armed defense' reactions then to actually experience one.
Monitoring the top product's upvotes on ProductHunt during the day
Yeah, I cannot fathom the carnage and full blown civil war in Northwestern China if Uighers had guns.
I don't think reinventing Instagram (as it originally was) is a terrible idea. Instagram with a different culture from the Instagram of today, with a highly-polished experience focused on amateur photography (today's phones have incredible cameras) instead of just being "Facebook, but the images are really big". It would be niche, but I think we need more niche and specialized apps/services these days.

Not that it shouldn't expand to Android and the web, but I think for this kind of premium and niche experience you can justify handwriting your MVP for iOS instead of starting with the web and/or React Native
No - like, Apple sends a DMCA complaint or legal complaints to the project and the developers saying to shut it down or they'll bring in the lawyers.
Websites have always moderated incoming content.
Did that at an earlier point in my career, and it absolutely was, but calculators pretty quickly reach a point where "less is more", and at that point it's just better to leave it alone.
Real enough that Utah passed a law to deal with it (i.e. "no, the state is not going to be used to abduct your children while they're walking home from the park, no matter how many times Karen calls us about uNsUpErViSeD cHiLdReN").

Is it that far-fetched to be wary of concern trolls given that the state allows itself to be used as their weapon?
The (now open) secret is the NSA possess those records on hard drives and in a database, but that those records are (via a legal fiction) "uncollected" until a query is made that returns those records. And if the NSA wants to return those records from a query, a user needs to fill in the field alongside the request with a good justification, and (most of the time) that query is logged.

I don't think there is any dispute that such records actually exist.
I talked to him on the phone once, many years ago. Even though I was a kid I knew who he was. Very sad. RIP.
You didn't name them. You could have shared and accepted.
Nigeria’s naira tumbles vs. dollar at N570/$ as CBN investigates AbokiFX founder
Although I’m not in the industry, I’ve witnessed professional photographers taking photos and sharing them using iPhones. There was a brief anecdote of a photographer that took pictures of a model on an iPhone for Vogue (or some other magazine). It had more depth to it (something to do about doing it remotely), but in general, I wouldn’t count off phone’s photo quality.

You’re definitely right about post-processing and all the other jazz that comes into the play after the picture has been taken though.

Disclaimer: not a photographer, and have close to 0 artistic abilities, so I might be completely wrong.
> I don't understand the pride bit.

I can't speak to the parent, but I take pride in self-reliance, and taking responsibility for securing and defending the well-being of myself, my family, neighbors, and community.

I also am a volunteer, state-certified structure firefighter, and take pride in that for the exact same reason.

You might find it interesting that, as part of our classroom instruction, my structure firefighting class was asked how many of us owned guns — all of us raised a hand.

This mirrors my experience in the broader fire service.

> Perhaps I could interest you in some Iain M Banks (taken from Excession).

I love Iain M Banks' Culture series, but they live within a utopian, post-scarcity benevolent dictatorship managed by AIs with powers verging on that of a demigod.

We most certainly do not.

As for the quote? Any tool can only be fully appreciated within the context of its intended purpose, and the effects that it can produce in the world around us.

The value of a gun as a tool is a tragedy, but the tragedy isn't the gun, but the necessity for one, and it's a tragedy inherent in our mortal existence.
Obviously for this stuff to be workable you need to way more than what's needed to cover living expenses and have long term savings.
At the risk of sounding defeatist, I don't think this strategy works. It's a static view of what is a dynamic system with strong feedback loops. Feedback loops that all but ensure one of the following outcomes:

- You succeed in becoming a politician with the power you need, but in the process you either no longer care about your original goal, or are bound by enough deals with other people that you can't do anything about your goal.

- You succeed in becoming a politician, but you get marginalized because your co-workers realize you can't be trusted to play along.

- You fail at becoming a politician, because your co-workers realize you won't play along, and ensure you never get anywhere close to any power.

The way I see it, the whole system has evolved to protect itself from changes that hurt its participants.
Consistency would be good.

Also some of the old elements don't work well anymore. Like new menus that appear in certain folders, except you'd never know because the menu bar is hidden by default. Or forms that were never designed to resize.
The only time a tech company should work with police is when they're required to by law, and not always even then. What are we coming to when we side with police before even knowing what law they're enforcing?