skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am no fan of digital ID's but did he really need a FOIA request to break open the idea that Apple were thinking of adding drivers license to their native app and talking to the DVLA in various states about it?

>“How did it happen? Why had I or no one ever heard of it, given I know a lot of folks in the government tech space?”

Apparently this guy doesnt know much ... but enough to waste some peoples time with useless FOIA requests.

UK shows off prototype of digital iPhone driving license using Apple’s Wallet app - May. 13th 2016 11:06 am PT [1]

Louisiana, where I live, was the first state to roll out a digital driver's license on July 3, 2018, and a few other states are working on similar initiatives. The app that you use in Louisiana is called LA Wallet. [2]

[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2016/05/13/uk-digital-driving-lice...
[2] https://www.iphonejd.com/iphone_jd/2018/07/review-la-wallet....
also used by yunohost by default.
Might not be that strange. The Minecraft plugins community is the perfect group to trick into installing malware. There are shaders and extensions that are hosted on very shady website and people just act like it is no big deal.
In fact, the Unicode consortium provides a report and extensive list of "confusable" symbols, which you could use alongside Unicode normalization tables to map adversarial back into more ASCII-equivalent text before running it through anti-spam mechanisms that are interested in the content of the message.

https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr39/
If you host blobs for free, somebody is going to use you as their host. Even if you just hosted audio, I'm sure somebody will quickly come along with a steganography tool to hide their content on your site (and use your bandwidth).

Similarly, if you make compute power available, people will use you to mine cryptocurrency. Even if all you host is text, somebody will come along to be abusive. When you put a computer on the Internet, it's open to the entire world, including the very worst people.

If you're hosting a community, start from the beginning by knowing who your community is and how they will tell you who they are. If the answer is "everybody", then know what everybody means -- it means some people won't want to be there, because some people will make life hard for them.

It's no longer 1991, when you could assume that such people wouldn't find you. They will find you -- for money, or the lulz. You have to plan for that on day 1. You can't fix it after the fact.
Another Show HN I posted was my ResumeToPDF site which gives you a simple and effective template in the browser where you can fill the fields in and download the PDF of your resume. Unfortunately, it didn't get any votes :(

Unlike many online resume builders which uses an "image" of the resume embedded in the PDF making it impossible for your resume to be read by many company's resume reading software, the PDF my site generates has actual text. Also my site does not collect your resume data and it NEVER leaves your device. The entire resume editing and PDF generation occurs locally on your device. The service DOES NOT contain ads, trackers and other such garbage.

https://resumetopdf.com/

Privacy Policy:

https://resumetopdf.com/privacypolicy.html
More specifically from ENVY/Developer

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Mastering_ENVY_Develope...

which was available for the three main commercial Smalltalk platforms: VisualWorks, IBM Smalltalk, Digitalk.
I have also given up tweaking the interface, long ago. I wish Mozilla's devs could learn the same lesson.

You might tape over the warning light on your car's dash too, if you knew there was a good chance it would come back from the shop painted a different color and having had a racing spoiler bolted onto the trunk.
>The internet is not moderated in any useful sense for content. Drug markets like white house market, and before that silk road...

You mean the Silk Road that the US government "moderated" out of existence, along with other Tor marketplaces over the years? The same ones that suggest White House Market's existence is also likely to be limited?
I see webm on chrome: https://aem.dropbox.com/cms/content/dam/dropbox/warp/en-us/c...
Surely Ycombinator (or others) would never run analysis on comments on HN to spot emerging trends.

Is moderating for users or to keep their inference engine simple?

I mean the backers of Facebook? The schemers who took back control of Reddit?

Surely the most principled of people.
I usually assume an unrequested, auto-playing, rapid-moving video at the top of a page is one of those trashy video-as-hero-image things and scroll to get it away so I can actually pay attention to what's on the page.
Why do people keep voting republican?

It isn't the parties that are the issue. It is the money in politics. You could go back 100 years and find both parties passing laws and marketing them as beneficial...but in reality they benefited big business. Corporate overlords expect return on their investment.
The proto-balto-slavic root for honey is "med", which is why the word for bear is usually some variation of "medved", meaning "honey eater", due to that weird process where something scary becomes taboo and gets replaces with some phrase.

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic...
Does this mean we have to get rid of Speechless at Google IO?
Tella is also a competitor: https://www.tella.tv/
Where do you propose to build, then? Alaska? I live near the massive Intel campuses in Hillsboro, OR. We rarely get above 100F, but we experienced the same several days of 115F+ weather this last June just before summer officially hit. Almost 200 people died in Oregon/Washington directly from that heatwave and up to 500 in BC, Canada[1].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/08/pacific-nort...
The methodology is not completely crap. The role of the ad network is to get paid to display an ad. They aren't incentivised to ensure the ad is actually relevant - as long as they find some sucker to pay them to display the ad, they'll happily display it. Whether the mark then "converts" is not their problem.

The problem is that the entire advertising industry is crap and has successfully contaminated and taken over the tech industry. The only way out is regulation so that 1) advertisers are liable for what they display (to discourage scam or illegal ads - and in some countries NSFW content would fall into this category as you're supposed to ask or verify the user's age) and 2) privacy regulations that make targeted advertising opt-in so that overall the cost of advertising becomes too great and starts allowing alternative monetization models (such as actually asking the user to pay for the service) to compete.
Unravelling Data Structure Displays
> Having an out of date browser is as "dangerous" to you and those around you as driving in a car with flat tires. Declining to upgrade software because of aesthetic changes seems shortsighted to me.

If the browser designers think it's so important for people to update, then perhaps they should stop driving people away with relentless, needless, irritating aesthetic changes! They're the short-sighted ones here.
The good news is that the Unicode consortium has a report on this issue, and the tables already exist for normalization and mapping of confusables to their ASCII lookalikes: https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr39/
Source on it being de-facto illegal?

I've not seen anything that says simply scanning for open ports is illegal, doing vulnerability scans may be though.
This is interesting ...

For the longest time we tried to convince people that they should have an off-amazon archive of their S3 data ... we even ran an ads to that effect in 2012[1].

The (obvious) reason this isn't compelling is the cost of egress. It's just (relatively) too expensive to offload your S3 assets to some third party on a regular basis.

So if R2 is S3 with no egress, suddenly there is a value proposition again.

Further, unlike in 2012, in 2021 we have really great tooling in the form of 'rclone'[2][3] which allows you to move data from cloud to cloud without involving your own bandwidth.

[1] The tagline was "Your infrastructure is on AWS and your backups are on AWS. You're doing it wrong."

[2] https://rclone.org/

[3] https://www.rsync.net/resources/howto/rclone.html
The name wasn’t based on bees just because bees are respected. “Bičiulystė” (meaning friendship, using the same word Bičiulis) was usually a neighbor friendship with a particular purpose: to take care of bees communally.
>far past the most stringent fuel economy minimums.

Only because the efficiency of generating and transmitting electricity isn't included.

Electricity generation is generally only ~30% efficient. Transmission and grid for on-demand power slightly reduces efficiency further, while non-on-demand sources like solar and wind result in higher than apparent grid inefficiencies, since the grid investment tied to it is also only as efficient as the power source.

Solar efficiency is 20%, and lower when you factor in grid inefficiencies due to its variability.

Yes, the cost of solar already reflects these inefficiencies (land use, etc), but so does the costs of other fuels.

And most batteries aren't getting anywhere near the efficiency on the label either. All that heat coming off the battery when charging (especially using a supercharger) isn't free energy either.
On windows: windows key + G. All operating systems come with one now, so I don't know who Dropbox is targeting here.
This seems like a solid starting point, but it's a pretty long ways away from being something i'd be willing to put in my home.

I need laundry put away (heck folded too), groceries put away, dish washer loaded, and unloaded. I need to pick up toys my 3 year old left on the floor. I need the dog to be fed. The stuff I want a house robot to do is the hard stuff.
One has to admire the bare-faced cheek on display here!
Thanks! I rarely see ads on desktop because I use Firefox + ublock + Pi Hole. I do, unfortunately, have to whitelist the occasional domain because some sites that I need to access don't play well with that setup.
For adversarial problems like this, a shadowban approach can sometimes be necessary. Perhaps people can still see their blogs but GoogleBot gets blocked from indexing them, or they only appear to someone with the spammer's cookies. That way it takes them longer to catch on and evade the model.

Of course, that means you'll need to at least spot check your bans because you can't rely on legit users escalating to you.
Jaguar Season 2: Will Netflix Renew This Spanish Series?
"tattleware" is the exact opposite direction that we want to go, and this new release is part of us putting our flag down against it. Thank you so much for saying this.
For some reason their video at the top doesn't show properly on Firefox on Windows. They have two versions, one .mov and one .webm. The .mov doesn't work for me while the .webm does, but that's the second video source so I guess it's not selected correctly. Maybe the .mov works fine on macs.

https://aem.dropbox.com/cms/content/dam/dropbox/warp/en-us/c...
Not exactly, you can have multiple blocklists limited to 50k entries apiece. Many Safari content blockers support that.

Safari content blocking (and thus Chrome v3 manifest blocking) basically works OK at blocking ads today. The problem is this is an arms race, and as the advertising agencies come up with inventive ways to evade these strictly controlled content blocks, they have no real way to adjust.

At that point we'll need to rely on Apple or Google to add new features specifically to support blocking ads. Google seems particularly unlikely to do that. To say the least.

And even if they do, there will be long periods before new browser releases are available with those features, and then the blocker developers need to support them.
A teenager searching for video game plugins is the perfect target for all kinds of scams - it is absolutely not strange, the system is working as intended within the constraints it's given. Change the constraints by introducing regulation (such as advertising networks being liable for the ads they display) and the problem will go away.
This has nothing to do with particular dimensionality of jeans.

This is US Political Correctness gone wild. Cant say "People who got FAT risk developing diabetes", it could hurt someones feelings! Just google "all shapes and sizes" and be bombarded with stuff like https://www.bostonmagazine.com/health/2020/01/24/health-at-e...

Accept your size.
Trust yourself.
Embrace size diversity.
On top of that, it's expensive for what it does.
Dropbox now offers screen recording for Macs
How did the lousy content affect your legit users?
Writing "Hello" and nothing else has been one of my large pet peeves (similar to pinging the whole room for anything that's not prod urgent). I really dislike seeing the wasted time.

That said, I have not yet found a way to bring it up with the people that do it. I'm not sure if I sent this page to a person, that they'd read it.

I imagine the exchange going:

A 13:30> Hey

Me 13:45> Hey. Maybe it's better to ask right away, see no-hello.com for more info.

A 14:30> Ok?

A 14:31> So did you get ...

Cue next week when A has forgotten all about some silly no-hello page. I might try it and see though.
Since, High Sierra I think? Cmd+Shift+5 has opened screen record mode.

With Dropbox automatically archiving screenshots and videos saved to desktop, this use case seems to have been covered already?
> Were they hoping to get non-tech-savvy people that were searching for computer help?

Yes.

They would create this posts and get quickly on search results (The platform is pretty good for making SEO optimization out of the box) and they would write good quality posts as well.

They would also share this posts on some other websites, especially social media accounts.

We don't have Google analytics or such to see where exactly they would come from. I noticed huge traffic to such pages by looking at the logs.

Our nginx log parser was alerting us about sudden spike on certain blogs and pre-defined list of words we have.

That's when we noticed something is going on.

Didn't take more than couple of hours (while working on the model) that we receive email from data center people about hosting phishing content, again didn't take much longer we received emails from some of those companies as well.

> Were they embedding malware into your blogging platform, or getting ad revenue out of this somehow?

No. On the blogging platform, we have everything bleached out, nothing would go in without passing through sanitizers.

They would simply had people convinced to call those US numbers.

I actually called one of those numbers and yeah, it was one of those customer supports some other part of the planet earth and definitely not from the company he was pretending to be and very quickly asked me to install team viewer on my machine. I really wanted to let them access it via the windows on my virtual box and have some fun with them, but well, someone had to fix the moderation issue :D
I can understand disliking the current behaviour of the company but which car company would you approve of?

Presumably not Volkswagen because of the diesel scandal. GM used to engineer in planned obsolescence. I imagine that plenty more of them have dirty secrets too.
<shameless-plug>

Former co-founder and CTO of InfluxData here, currently building a new company in this space. My strongly-opinionated view on this is that Elasticsearch is not a time-series database and asking it to handle large volumes of logs (fundamentally a time-series use case) is always going to be painful and expensive.

We've built a product called EraSearch that mimics the Elasticsearch APIs for ease of integration but is built with a significantly more efficient (read time-series) architecture. We can handle ingest volumes with about 1/10th of the hardware required for Elasticsearch while still offering comparable (or faster) query performance. If you are generating large amounts of logs (~1TB per day or more), my guess is that this will resonate with you.

If any of this sounds interesting, drop me a note at todd@era.co - I'd love to hear more about your use case. Or even if you just want to talk about time-series data, I'm game. ;)

</shameless-plug>
I'm sure you can find examples with particularly poorly written adblockers but everybody should be using uBlock Origin and it is extremely efficient.
A very nice and well-built tool. Excellent use of sequence numbers for stateless send/receive (SYN cookies): https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/masscan/blob/master/src... (very well-documented source too, a pleasure to read).

I once (2016) used it to scan port 22 on the whole ipv4 (had to experiment with rate limits to not trigger alarms and get complaints forwarded by my VPS provider; the clever ip+port randomization technique helps a lot with that). Then took the ~22m (iirc) IPs which responded and ran ssh-keyscan on them to extract and analyze some ~15m ssh banners and public keys (a bunch of them broken, through debianized PRNG etc.) I think most of the scanning + extraction was done overnight, via ~13 VPS rented hourly (whole thing cost < $10, and very few complaints). Fun times :) I should write it up some time, and do it again.
Sure makes collecting up ID's quicker if it is just tap and go. They should also log the transfer/recipient for the user.

Wonder what kids are going to do for fake ID when you have to tap to get into the club...
Historically, companies have shown that they will do the worst imaginable.

The bar needs to be set high on holding them too account, or else the shareholders will get their way and Arizona will gets new superfund site. Being charitable will be abused by companies
Why would anyone make a browser if they didn't have a political agenda? You're looking for a massive software project with no motivation?
Yeah, I remember using this as far back as 2009 or 2010
If we don't need them we won't subsidize them. The OP seems to think we'll need to subsidize children more for some reason.
Is Joe Biden a trillion-dollar coin kind of president?
Yeah, we've analyzed enough data over the years that I think for the most part we can finally move away from this. The trick is keeping up with new applications and websites and understanding how they fit into peoples' work habits but that's a solvable problem, I think.
That's the "Xbox Game Bar". I tried it, and while it works, it's pretty klunky and non-intuitive.
The city of San Jose is forcing a local airport to close largely over lead concerns. However research has shown that children living near the airport don't actually have higher blood lead levels.

https://sanjosespotlight.com/san-jose-airport-lead-levels-ar...

Although the absolute risk is probably small the aviation industry should have moved faster on this issue. Airplanes last longer than cars but they can't expect the status quo to be tolerated indefinitely. At some point airplane owners need to be forced to upgrade their engines, or quit flying.
It is mysterious how paywalled articles find their way to a highlighted position on HN.
Can I finally install matrix on a cheap server for semi private - semi public server ? Or do I have to wait for the new server ?
When I start on something, I usually think about all of the components it would actually need, in order to succeed. A 'half-baked' business plan, so to speak. Sometimes, I start a project in order to test the entire plan, but usually, I start a project either to test just one aspect of it, or, as often as not, just to scratch an itch. There should always be an idea of the "growth engine" that could potentially drive the business. (Which may change.) If you want it to be a business, don't think of it as a product, think of the entire business. Though, you don't have to implement the entire business right away. Find out, as quickly as possible, if there's any chance of viability, whether you'd actually like to spend more time on it, and whether some of your assumptions are true or false. A project isn't a business.
This is a very high value comment, thanks for sharing the insight.
>Ideally, I'd like to see MV3 continue supporting the persistent context use case as well as maintaining webRequest blocking support.

Same, which is why I engage with browser representatives in the W3C WebExtensions Community Group.

Unfortunately, the status quo is grim with Firefox seemingly uninterested in standing up to Chrome and citing compatibility as the main reason for following Chrome into mandatory Service Workers.
I think I do the opposite: revenge bedtime productivity.

I end up wasting too much of the day doing something fun/interesting like gaming or sports, and I try to work late at night to compensate, even though I may as well go to sleep early and work early in the morning instead.
> In terms of overall welfare, an additional dollar in the pocket of a typical union worker is going to be more welfare enhancing than that additional dollar in the pocket of the typical owner. This is from just basic diminishing marginal utility of the dollar.

Remarkably few people seem to truly understand what "marginal propensity to consume" actually means.

Economically, money saved is money lost. Money invested is a promise of debt. Consumption is what drives the economy. That's why the poor and middle class are so important. Without them having enough money, the economics of scale... don't scale.
I have seen it used for legacy SFTP installations where password auth is still a thing (customers uploading CSV files and such).
I am aware of this, I consulted full-time for 4 or 5 years and it all but paid for my first house. I was merely responding to the very prevalent - and likely incorrect in most cases - sentiment that being "stuck at work" for 30-50% of your time is what's actually preventing you from getting stuff done.
I thought buying a gun was easy in the USA? Is it using a gun that people find "not easy"? It's the triggery thing in the middle... you just squeeze.
meh. sometimes I think with the right people "hey!" or "hello!" is sort of an equivalent of a playful nudge
The [3] resource is fantastic! Have you tried sponsoring rclone? I was studying their docs last week, and I'm sure people reading the docs are interested in this use case of moving between clouds without using their own bandwidth.
anthropodie, very interesting connection. I have always been superficially interested in Jung but on a brief search, I haven't found exactly the literal connection between what I wrote and the description of individuation.

If you have a bit, could you point me to something that discusses individuation from this angle (versus more general things I quickly found?)
Interestingly, Dropbox has a second product in this space called "Screen Capture": https://www.dropbox.com/features/content-collaboration/scree...

There are others as well: Loom, GetCloudApp, Gyazo and a few more.

I have actually built one myself [1] ScreenBud.com, which is not ready for Show HN yet, but we already have >15000 users of our Chrome extension [2].

I am quite curious to hear from others about what you are looking for in these products. As for me, my main use cases are:

1. In-browser screenshots with visual annotations (parts of emails, docs, or anything else that's not easy to share or pinpoint with a URL)

2. Design feedback

[1] I hope the selfish plug is OK!
[2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/screenbud-%C2%B7-c... -- (it works on Firefox as well, but the publishing process for Firefox is a bit more involved)
Oh, that's nice.

I guess I can use that next time time to work on the data cleaning for that model.

Thanks.
Neutral Bots Probe Political Bias on Social Media
Clickhouse is in no way an RDBMS.
Best way is to signup at https://www.gitpod.io/#get-started and allow changelog emails https://gitpod.io/notifications.

We are working actively with the team at Jetbrains to offer a great DevX integrating with their remote development implementation(https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-226455).