skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> incur unlimited costs as bad guys fill it with gibberish

That's always an option, no matter if it's set to append-only or not. If you don't want to pay infinite costs for storage, you will need to limit it using software on the server.
Looks great! But as mentioned in another comment; where are my data stored?

Also, the free version seems pretty useless if there is no way for me to export my data and it only shows the three first lines of an annotation

Since you ask for feedback, here are some ideas:

* Group highlights from the same url
* Save all open tabs as a list
* Reader mode
* Archive the urls in my lists in some way; preferably as a single html file
Exactly the same in the Netherlands. Didn't even know the Americans got screwed so badly.
The comment was obviously fodder for ideological battle, regardless of what it was quoting from Wikipedia.

Can you please not post like that? It has destructive effects on the threads: it evokes worse from others, makes discussion quality significantly lower, takes threads into the direction of the same few generic black hole topics over and over again, has nothing to offer curiosity (which is supposed to be the guiding value of this site), and so on.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Oops! Mental Note, I must use 'Search' : https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=fal...
If there is a way, please, share it! I have not been able to create relative bookmarks natively and while doing research everything points to bookmarklets, which is what this extension does in the end.

Worth noting, after starting, I added a few extra features that I found useful, like mixing query parameters.
I see frequent complaining everywhere from right wingers that you can't say anything no more without ever saying what it is that it is that can't be expressed no more. Since I have seen right wing discourses and authoritarian m/order-first-and-above-all on the rise almost everywhere in the world, I wouldn't be too worried. Democratic and open societies are being pushed back constantly and checks to political powers removed. From my left leaning perspective, it seems to be part of a general strategy not to engage debate on some issues while still appearing as the ones who want debate. On HN, I have always seen ideas, even ones I am not really comfortable with being responded to and engaged.
A Case of Hate at First Sight
> multiple dice rolls each cycle

This is an understatement, just considering SNPs, there is at least several hundred thousand statistically independent coin flips when two parents breed. It is difficult to overstate how powerful an evolutionary tool this is, and the implications it has for breeding.
Kiosk mode or similar restricting modes are normal browser features. I don't see a problem here. The reason to make this digital is to easily be able to grade it. Cheating will always be a problem. Easy and cheap prevention methods are key, because your average education system is cheap and badly organized.
There are plenty of people out there who would love to see this feature more widespread. See all the fuss about making sure end users can't look under the carpet, like disabling copying, obfuscating JS, and DRM.
I think you're trying to say something close to perfect is the enemy of good. Which I totally agree with. But worse than what we have now, isn't an acceptable stepping stone because things might get better. If teachers can't write tests that students can't cheat on without using paper, then we still need paper.

While yes, theses tests are broken. The problem isn't the test, the issue is breaking something useful, so that we can have something that might get better some day. No, it won't get better. More people will depend on putting answers in the html source code delivered to clients, and everything will keep being shit.

I'm perfectly happy to die on this hill. But the hill isn't "subpar solutions can never be used, everything must be perfect from commit 0" The hill I'm willing to die on is "Don't break something that's currently good, to fix something that's already horribly broken and bad." Which I' argue is a good hill to die on.
What kind of service, is it a commercial thing I can use or do you mean in a company or so?
Yes, companies do not have some kind of right to do anything they want because "they worked for it". It's the other way around: people grant companies the privilege of making money as long as they provide a benefit and thus (of course) don't hurt consumers.

Companies are an agglomeration of humans, and we should never allow an organized group of people to make life miserable for ordinary individuals. If that happens, then democracy is lost.
We take boolean logic for granted, yet Bool's Laws of Thought do a pretty astonishing job of expressing ideas, though at the same time are so far.
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Laws_of_Thought
We've banned this account for using HN for ideological battle and ignoring our request to stop.

Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
How about enjoying life? I weigh in at a 130lbs at 5'9", and have the body and skin of a woman much younger. Moderation, not abstinence, is where the happiest life is.
I hope they’re paying him for all the time he’s gonna spend doing these exercises
That video is about the ITER that is designed using the tokamak model. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokamak

The device proposed by Helion is very different. I think they are overoptimistic, but anyway the analysis of the video is not applicable.
2015. not saying that anythings changed but worth noting.

quote from said article for perspective:

The Web site crimeflare.com, which tracks abusive sites that hide behind CloudFlare, has cataloged more than 200 DDoS-for-hire sites using CloudFlare. For its part, CloudFlare’s owners have rather vehemently resisted the notion of blocking booter services from using the company’s services, saying that doing so would lead CloudFlare down a “slippery slope of censorship.”

As I observed in a previous story about booters, CloudFlare CEO Matthew Prince has noted that while Cloudflare will respond to legal process and subpoenas from law enforcement to take sites offline, “sometimes we have court orders that order us to not take sites down.” Indeed, one such example was CarderProfit, a Cloudflare-protected carding forum that turned out to be an elaborate sting operation set up by the FBI.
Improve Your Digital Work with Analog Tools
As I have said above the whole point I am making is that you want to turn a set of them on for only one function.
Genuinely curious, how is Ruby any better there? You can build usable front ends in either language. I care about delivering usable software. Interactive front ends for the sake of it is not a good use of effort. If your app and situation justify it, okay, but it isn’t a hard requirement like many other aspects of full stack. Just depends on what you need for good UX. A pile of Javascript isn’t a requirement there. I also stopped caring about developer titles a long time ago, that is a straw man. Real full stack devs with adequate experience in every aspect are unicorns anyway.

E: I don’t even hate JS it’s fine, just not a great investment of time for a lot of apps. And the ecosystem and getting it deployed is an absolute chore.
Securing Your Digital Life
Bool's Laws of Thought
The comment was snarky flamewar fodder that invoked several provocative topics. That's all I meant in this case. Perhaps I should have gone with "unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments" or "fulmination" than "ideological battle" - but whatever the right moderation term is, the comment was obviously breaking the site guidelines.

I referenced the other thread simply because we had warned the account so recently and I didn't want to assume that they had seen it and were flouting the request.

I'm not sure what you mean by "carrying baggage over", though. Obviously we have to moderate accounts differently depending on different patterns of behavior. For example, someone who slips up and flames another user once, but otherwise posts well, is in a completely different category than an someone who does that all the time, who we may have warned multiple times already, indeed who we may have banned several times already. I respond differently in all these cases.
I could see the benefit from both approaches. My guess is jumping to conclusions has probably saved many a human ( and animal) energy and lives throughout history.

I also remember reading a research group managed to train adults to learn like kids again. Can't seem to find it now, but maybe it's not set in stone and we could benefit from both approaches where needed in life.
> Can this be used to incrementally backup the whole / (root) directory?

That's how I use it (with --one-file-system), but I haven't tried restoring that. I just check that my data is there (e.g. open some pictures) and call it a day. For me, if I need to reinstall the system anyhow (super rare), I'm also happy to just reinstall the OS, do a bunch of apt installs, restore a few files in /etc perhaps, and put my homedir back. So I can't vouch for whether it will store all special attributes on system files, but I would expect that common things like owner/group/mode are there.

Fwiw, I once rsync'd a remote root partition to the current machine and that worked. Would not recommend to depend on this, but it apparently doesn't take much to be able to restore the root and boot from it :). You can also quite easily test this in a VM, if you'd like to make sure it works.
Wasn't there some money to be made for you and the Lawyer? Sue the bank, make lots of noise, then offer a settlement in which they pay the lawyer and some amount of damages for getting your credit score in jeapardy.
Ask HN: Is it possible to find skin cancer using bioimpedance?
Hello! I'm using a device that uses impedance to find measurements in moles. It's called NOTA mole tracker. Tell me, are there any others who have used this device?
I just don't know if we should firmly say "we have enough technology so now the only problem is how to make humans amenable to radical change". It's frustrating but maybe "more technology" is a more practical path that can still get us to the same place.
I currently have that setup for my old work-provided Macbook Pro from 2017. One cable going from the laptop into the thunderbolt dock (no extra cables, as the same cable also charges the laptop). The dock outputs to 2 external displays, one 4k@60hz, another 1080p@60hz. Same 2 monitors are also plugged into my Windows desktop directly.

Been using that setup for almost 2 years, zero issues whatsoever, so I have no idea what you are talking about. I would be willing to concede that I just got lucky with the stability of my setup, but my friends who use similar multi-monitor setups with thunderbolt docks have no such issues either.
This is a pretty poor quality article. I say this as someone who works in a population genetics research group. If you like some actually thoughtful reading on genetics and eugenics I would point you towards gwern who, as far as I can tell, seems to at least get the science and math right.

https://www.gwern.net/tags/genetics
Moderation here isn't about predatory businesses, exploitative practices, or any of these other things, all of which HN users post critical comments about all the time. It's much simpler than that—it just has to do with your breaking the site guidelines, which you've unfortunately been doing repeatedly. HN users aren't allowed to do that, for the simple reason that we're trying to have an internet forum that doesn't suck (if possible) and doesn't end by burning itself to a crisp (if possible). That's all.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
A classic and wonderful piece of internet lore. If I ever have kids this is one of the ones I'll be telling around the campfire. The one about the internet going down because the delivery truck blocked LoS is a good one too.
What's the difference between driving with and without kids?
This is not user hostile. In this case the user is the teacher not the kid. Man, do they really have to deploy iPads in kiosk mode for shitty tests so you don't shit on them? Teachers do their best to optimize and digitize teaching under the worst circumstances. If this litte bugfix helps them I am happy.

Please note that this feature is part of managed Chrome which can be restricted in many other ways. The exam workstation itself of course too.
Do you have any links about the tarsnap vulnerability?

I've been using it for a few years and was not aware of it so would be great to know if any backups were affected.
It's not, they're not trying to solve all issues. Just the ones they're aware of. You're thinking too deeply if you're trying to understand their motivation. Occams' Razor also applies to understanding motivation. Students are cheating by viewing source -> block viewing source. Is much easier to understand than fixing the actual problem, which looks like.

Students are cheating by reading the source code -> the source code contains the test -> the test shouldn't also contain the answers -> the source code shouldn't contain the answers -> we need to remove the answers from the source code.
I don't see any mention of conspiracy. I see a (colorfully hyperbolic) description of systemic problems.

And there are plenty of them out there. Look at the opioid epidemic, where a pain-relieving drug creates pain when you try to stop it. Look at Facebook, which simultaneously creates loneliness [1] and purports to offer its cure. To say nothing of more traditional addictive substances, like nicotine and alcohol, which create problems for users that more consumption temporarily ameliorates.

Then we could look at more subtle, multi-agent problems. For example, consider the way the US's incarceration rate is 5-10x peer countries. [2] Why is that? There are many factors, but look at the way for-profit prisons and prison guard unions are big spenders on influencing politicians to be "tough on crime". Look at the media that profitably generates fear about crime. The way police are not incentivized to reduce crime, but just to performatively fight it. This of course takes money away from schools and social services. And all of that creates disruption in communities that ensure the supply of criminals necessary to keep this going.

Is there any conspiracy there? I doubt it. One of the miracles of free-market systems is the extent to which conspiracy is unnecessary. All you need is networks of agents with aligned incentives and you get very robust, persistent systems. There's no conspiracy to get lovely fresh produce in my grocery store the year round; there's no need of one. But markets are morally neutral, so we always have to use POSIWID [3] thinking to keep an eye out for pernicious systems.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7820562/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_United_States_in...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...
Harvard students looking for love fall victim to MIT student’s prank
The really rich can do homeschooling and that avoids all problems. What is the problem that you are trying to address, the rich having access to better education than others or the others not having the same education as the rich? There is no solution to that than forcing everyone to go to the same school, but one can also avoid my moving to a different state or country.
Isn't that the whole point? We get somewhere to escape the real world and Big Company get their own world without existing regulation and oversight.
Soda stream.
I think the formula is .8g per kg of bodyweight, not per pound. That’s a significant difference.
He's saying that post-WWII society had a lot more free time. But this isn't true for people living in rural areas. Historically, many had more free time.[1]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/28q7l5/how_m...
Vaccum-chamber quantum sensor device could allow GPS-free navigation
Reading the author's profile[1], since I'm left leaning and he's been associated with libertarian and right-wing circles, I'm just going to delete from my brain whatever he wrote. Maybe what he's written is true, but given his associations, I'm not going to give him the benefit of he doubt. If I cared more I'd try to debunk it, but well, I don't really care enough.

> Formerly, Alexander worked in Washington D.C. as a Research Associate in the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, a Foreign Policy Fellow at Young Voices, and an Associate at the Charles Koch Institute.

Well Cato is libertarian, Young Voices I've never heard of, but Charles Koch... oh geezus.

> Alexander’s works [...] have been featured in The Washington Times, ...

A reputable rag.. not!

> ..., The National Interest

Wikipedia: The National Interest (TNI) is an American bimonthly conservative international relations magazine edited by American journalist Jacob Heilbrunn and published by the Center for the National Interest, a public policy think tank based in Washington, D.C., that was established by former U.S. President Richard Nixon in 1994. [...] Writing in Politico, journalist James Kirchick argued in 2016 while commenting on Donald Trump's Russian relationships that The National Interest and its parent company "are two of the most Kremlin-sympathetic institutions in the nation’s capital, even more so than the Carnegie Moscow Center."

> The Washington Examiner

Ha!

[1] https://iea.org.uk/alexander-c-r-hammond/
A wonderful problem. I must have spent over a year thinking about this on and off before arriving to the critical insight. The funny thing with some of these problems is that you get an amazing rush on the moment you solve a problem, but afterwards just feel kinda stupid for not seeing the solution much much earlier.

Years later, I was able to impress my colleagues by solving a similar problem someone posed over beers in an instant.

Have fun!
B2 is super affordable and restic supports it ootb
Well, you could feed the right digital values into the arbitrary waveform generator, but you have the problem of how to generate the values. As for your other questions, I don't really know anything about audio.
what business model? cloudflare basic ddos protection is free
Plex Systems and Duo Security are the only two software of companies of relevance/size - both were bought within the last two years, by Rockwell Automation and Cisco respectively (both for $2 billion-ish). The metro Detroit/Ann Arbor startup scene is tiny. OneStream will probably have an exit north of $2 billion in the next two years.

Tens of thousands of jobs were created by FCA/Stellantis with the renovation of Sterling Heights Assembly Plant for Ram 1500 Production, the brand new $1.6 billion plant on Connor and Jefferson (which builds Grand Cherokee L (WL75) and Grand Cherokee (WL74) in Detroit across the street from Jefferson North (which still builds WD/WK2), and the GM renovation of Hamtramck (Factory Zero) for Hummer EV/Silverado 1500 EV/commercial EV VAN production.

Detroit's economy is still 95% automotive. Those four plants I referenced were huge positive developments for the local economy - SHAP, JNAP1, JNAP2, and Hamtramck are the heart of the working class economy in Detroit, providing good union jobs building high margin products, along with the suppliers that feed those plants.
Kiczales and Bobrow are also the author of this book https://www.amazon.com/-/de/dp/0262610744 which has more details.
Thanks for your feedback pvg!

The data is stored using 'chrome.storage'. So it's either stored locally if you aren't signed in to Chrome Browser or stored in the Google servers if you are signed in. So the sync happens using your Google account. (https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/stora...)

Concerning the 'lifetime' word, I get your point. I just wanted to highlight the fact that you only pay once for the premium features and that it's not a 'subscription business model'.
I thought we were arguing for rapid iteration and continuous integration? Why would I NOT live as I preach? How can I teach others if I'm not learning bugs, quirks and workaround BEFORE those I work with?
it won't even make a difference to his finances that he used a coke bottle as a vase. he just enjoys the feeling of restraining himself from buying trivially inexpensive things. maybe he could get a good return if he did that for big-ticket items - "yeah i just stuffed old clothes into some amazon boxes and that's my sofa."
If we're gonna have an energy economy based on nitrogen fuels, I'd vote for the even spiffier hydrazine. What could possibly go wrong?
Rust's npm like approach to crates and micro approach to standard library make it a real problem, regardless of the quality approach to the standard library.

You would have a point if the standard library was batteries included.

When a language sells safety it has to go all in.
> If teachers can't write tests that students can't cheat on without using paper, then we still need paper.

LOL. Teachers will never be able to prevent students from cheating. This will only help against a very easily accessible way of cheating that would otherwise render Google Forms Quiz useless for teachers.

They don't remove your precious feature. I would fight against this too, if they would. They just allow admins to restrict it on workstations they manage. Just having a shitty electron app in Windows kiosk mode is the alternative... which I thinks is definitely worse.

You seem to unknowingly argue against straw men!
What are you going to do when she asks for it back?
They're not just "web pages". They're a key part of the financial infrastructure sustaining the problem that Cloudflare gets paid $600m/year to fight.

Does that imply that Cloudflare is intentionally boosting the problem? No. But let's be clear here: anything that makes DDOS attacks less of a problem means less money for Cloudflare. So whatever their intent, Cloudflare is helping to support the problem that they owe their existence to. It's very much a conflict of interest.
True, and unfortunately a reason why we keep having CVEs related to memory corruption.
Technical debt like knowingly shipping privileged information to the client by design? I mean, it is true that 'perfect' is the enemy of the good. But 'terrible' is also the enemy of the good.

I would question whether a computerized test with these problems is actually better than a paper test. But more than that, I would question whether people have an obligation to make other products worse just to accommodate bad coding.

I don't think anyone is demanding perfection by (correctly) pointing out that not designing a product to deliberately leak secure information is kind of the bare minimum bar in a secure testing environment.