skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The assumption is that most are not ripping the ads out of the magazine without seeing them at all. The assumption and social contract was the page is sent to you with ads and you take in all of it.

You can make all sorts of loose statements like this then draw the line where you feel it’s wrong. It will still be arbitrary.

To continue stretching examples. Developers chose to release software as is. Through some combo of your reasoning above, is it okay to pirate/crack software? Most of the time HNers will be against software piracy but for blocking ads.

I care more about the obvious social contracts in place and the obviousness of creators are supporting what they created by showing ads or charging for their software.

Another example was people getting mad at someone for wanting to split a Stratchery subscription. One big point was it’s against the TOS. Some of those people surely block ads and would not care if TOSs say you can’t. I actually find the Stratchery situation sympathetic because I believe the person was unemployed. Similarly if you have a super old computer or limited data dude to financial constraints. Yeah, that is an exception where the morals make sense.

However going against Stratchery, a pretty small time operation by splitting the cost amongst some people for one login is obviously not cool for the average middle class on up person.

> If they want money, they're free to return HTTP 402 Payment Required.

This is not true in the real world. The amount of backlash you can get for doing that will almost never be worth it. False positives are an issue as well.

Similarly, software that requires you to always be online and aggressively verifies you have paid for said software which ends up creating some friction, is frowned upon too.

Or Stratchery suspending you or sending similar headers for logging in via IPs far from one another. The false positives would be lead to a Streisand Effect
This comment has made me need to go listen to Albedo 0.39 again:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygcBT87K6BY
The internet also delivers mostly spam, and is still a public good.

The USPS needs reform, sure. But a public postal service which will deliver mail to everywhere, even at a loss, is fundamental to civilized society. Prior to the internet, this public good was more obvious. It's still needed.

Amazon delivers efficiently to 95% of addresses, so long as there's a profit to be had, and this is good for buyers. The USPS delivers to 100%, regardless of profit, and this is good for citizens and businesses - bills, legal documents, ballots and governments' communications are receivable at nearly every address in every state, thanks to the USPS. That's a tremendous public good.

If there were possible to talk about the American postal service non-ideologically, it would be a cinch to regulate away most junk mail, I imagine. Political oversight has in recent decades demanded the USPS be profitable, which misses its point.
I buy Windows laptops for the purpose of running Linux. Little things do happen like bezels coming loose, coil whine and fan noise.

I have been happy with Apple for over a decade. My MBP 2018 was an exception. The rubber seal around the screen deteriorated. The touch bar has a dead area ($750 to fix, not fixing). Bulging batteries had to get replaced. That generation of MBP was GARBAGE based on my research trying to fix mine. Waiting to see if new M-based MBP have the quality pre previous generations of MBP had.
Personal Opinion only.

I dont think Fastly has ever explicitly called out a 35us against Cloudflare 5ms. ( Please Correct me if I am wrong ) They may have some marketing material about 35us being faster than the rest of industry. But that doesn't imply it is Cloudflare because there are lots of player in the industry. First name comes to mind would be AWS.

Compared to Cloudflare blog post directly naming Fastly in a benchmark is completely different.

Second being Fastly was unhappy about this test and posted on twitter for weeks even quoting and mentioning @cloudflare.

But I agree everyone should run their own benchmarks.
I'm waiting for a quantum computer to do some 51% attacks so I can pick up a nice GPU.
Mayo is a staple in my cooking. Kewpie and the normal Best Foods. Great for marinades, great as a sauce base.

Kewpie, soy sauce, pizzazz on white rice is just tasty. Or kewpie on noodles :)
This comes across as incredibly defensive in tone from Fastly. They could have just reported the results of their test. But calling their competitors outright liars reflects worse on them than anyone else.
Well at least they are transparent about all that.
There's nothing preventing you from throwing it into the sprint. But then you gotta exchange it for something else you promised the customer at the start of your sprint.

And agile doesn't just mean Scrum and sprints. If your primary way of working is what you described and you are able to get this feedback within hours then Kanban (another agile way of doing things) might suit you better.
I don’t install anything on my work computer that I can’t say 100% is used for work so I could never justify uBlock. It does make a HUGE difference. The web without it is a giant mess.
> You're driving a multi-ton hunk of steel around

No, sometimes I'm the pedestrian. As such, regardless of whatever anyone else does, I bear some responsibility for ensuring my own safety. I owe it to my family. I owe it to other pedestrians, any of whom could become a victim if a driver avoiding me swerves into them. Drivers failing to see pedestrians in the dark at night happens even with the greatest caution. There's no excuse for being an idiot, or BTW for insisting on such a right. If you have an objection to ducking responsibility and always pointing the finger of blame outward, consider your own statements.

> it's up to them to light streets appropriately

It's not feasible or environmentally responsible to light every inch of roadway even on side/residential streets or rural areas, and I sincerely doubt that happens where you live either. Also, lights fail sometimes. If people want to enter the commons, they have a responsibility to participate in keeping it safe.
Hint: Use `document.location.replace()` to prevent the back button from going back to the mobile version, creating an endless loop.
Append this info in your article please. It's a very useful suggestion for future readers.
Oh, great. The banking industry is getting “tough on crypto” by helping themselves.

The Bank of Japan and the large banks in Japan operate one giant, corrupt, stupid oligarchy. It’s the insane incompetence of these entities, and witnessing it first-hand, that made me realize that non-bank crypto/digital currencies and stores of value are going to end up winning. Living in a first-world country with a third-world banking system has been an absolute eye-opener.

Don’t buy the hype — this is all about helping a bunch of entities that have done very little to serve the needs of the people whose tax revenue directly subsidizes their elaborate racket. The worst part is, these large Japanese banks aren’t just a domestic problem: outside of their borders, they’re some of the largest financiers of environmental destruction in the world (palm oil plantations, coal mines, etc) because they know the Japanese media will never tell the public what they’re up to.

It’s almost as though these global regulators and banks are hoping for massive systemic risk and failure in crypto, so they can step in and “save the world.” And, judging from 90% of the comments in these sorts of articles on HN, the “enlightened” public will cheer them on as they do it.
> totally depending on other people's whims and fancies

Last time I checked trains run on a schedule, not the whims of the engineer, but maybe trains are really weird in your country.
You can also create a tiny filesystem in a file, set root user reservation to 100%, mount the file with `-o loop`. That should give you a "real" full device.
Might be the best outcome anyway.
Incredible, I always thought that was an idea worth exploring. AOT compilation and not paying the cost of context and MMU switch would unlock incredible performance boosts, even on modern processors. I didn't know AS/400 did that already.

IIRC Microsoft explored something similar with their research OS Singularity.
Because of the initial conditions of the universe and the laws of physics.
That's as deep as we can go right now.
A personal messaging system for you and all your friends who have a 35m radio telescope dish in their backyards...
Discussion forums. I'm your Diogenes.
I'd totally pay for that.
Well at least they did something worthwhile. I always ask for no mayo on my burgers, but they still often fuck it up!
Ah yes, The French way, over manned, over budgeted and overpaid - way to beat SpaceX
With a 25 meter dish, moonbounce is not hard. That's a sizable radio telescope. Radio hams have done this with a 3m dish and 150 watts.
This is sort of the case in the US at some crossings. Crossings where there is a separate signal for left turns will turn on the don't-walk sign on that side when the left-turn signal is green.

Occasionally I do see intersections where there is a signal phase where car traffic is red in both directions, and pedestrians get the walk signal in all directions (which is extra handy if you need to go diagonally across the intersection). But these are pretty rare.

Most intersections don't have left-turn signals at all for cars, so yes, there will be pedestrians crossing when cars are turning. And I guess for right turns it's nearly always the case that pedestrians are crossing when cars are turning.

It's not great, but I think there's a trade off to be made. As a frequent pedestrian in a city, I don't want to have to wait until both directions of cars have their turn before I can cross. I get that the current situation does increase the risk to me, but that's a risk I'm willing to take. (But I also jaywalk through don't-walk signs all the time if traffic is clear, so perhaps I'm not the best person to make this judgment.)
But CO2 causes faster plant growth.
> People are probably tired of hearing this, but this is not a problem with wiring, it's a problem with US banks.

I have a US bank and I can send wires online. It's really not uncommon. I don't understand how or why the OP is banking with an outdated bank an hour away from his house when there are good options that can be accessed entirely online.

There are a lot of behind-the-times banks in the US, though. If you're stuck in one, considering switching.
That seems reasonable. But then to bring it back around full circle- would garlic then indeed be a spice, when used as an individual clove finely chopped in a larger dish for flavoring purposes (or garlic powder), by the same logic you're applying to peppers?

Not a big deal though. It sounds like you apply stricter categorical food definitions than I do, and that's fine. It's hard to draw exact lines.
Maybe Oracle Cloud. They give you up to 4 cores ARM64 instances with up to 24GB total RAM.
Equivalent to securities yes, but equivalent to stocks no. Wash trades are allowed.
As someone who is also vaccinated as has had the same thought re: other health choices, I think the convincing argument here is that indulging in junk food and being obese aren't contagious conditions. Although with early data on Omicron seeming to indicate that this variant evades antibodies from prior infection and vaccination, I'm not sure how much this specific mandate is going to help--especially considering that it's probably coming too late for NYC to avoid a massive spike this season.
The Lancet was reputable at one point too. Now, not so much.
I find this painfully impressive. Relatedly, Mitchell seems like such a genuinely cool guy.
Yet I know lots of people with defects in Apple products. I replaced multiple laptops. Is there real evidence of fewer defects?
In addition to that, the same set of notes can represent different chords depending on the context and the chord's function, so instead of just picking up notes and recognizing them, the software has to actually understand the chord progression and the harmony.
My official work was server side verification. Sending codes to people via SMS and Voice. So that's evaluating new SMS/voice providers, checking that the current ones are working, tracking down issues, working with carriers to setup direct SMPP connections for SMS (which thankfully got offloaded to the FB Mobile Partner team), supporting carrier deals. Figuring out how to make it as easy as possible for users to input codes (including working to make the messages readable for platform APIs that allow automatic/assisted code entry)

But even though that's a lot of things and is super important, most days there wasn't urgent work on that, and I'm pretty good at debugging weird stuff, so I debugged a lot of weird stuff. When you have millions (or billions) of users, 'one in a million' stuff happens a lot.

Diagnosing bugs in FreeBSD and fixing them (or convincing upstream to fix them), diagnosing bugs in client platforms and finding workarounds (also trying to get them fixed, but it's hard to get a lot of movement even when bugs are general and just nobody else diagnosed it), diagnosing bugs in ISP networks and finding workarounds (almost nobody follows through on email to whois contacts, even if you're sending from @whatsapp.com), diagnosing issues in our hosting provider's network and convincing them to fix it, etc. If I had stayed longer, I'd have probably started diagnosing bugs in the FB infra and Linux, but I more or less left when we were almost done with our FreeBSD hosts and it took a while to wind down everything, so it was a good transition point to more or less not touch the service where it was running on FB.

In terms of privacy, I'm not going to say much. I think it's fair to say our goal was to only have the necessary private information to provide service. Messages aren't kept on the server beyond delivery, have a limited time frame waiting for delivery, address book is numbers only, no names, etc. Signal certainly stores less information on the server than WhatsApp. You can certainly read about our many failures (no client to server encryption, then poor encryption, and eventually good encryption) among other well reported issues. End to End Encryption took a long time to develop and deploy, but it sets a bar that hopefully other providers will meet (or exceed).
I mean points for creativity on the threats
Well if you think this is bad, wait until you hear about MFA ;-)

On the real, I think there are people who will want to try this if it’s made easy enough. Some people could try getting a name and keeping a wallet through a 3rd party, in which case they’re no better or worse off than they are now. But at any moment, if they feel the need, they could transfer that username to a cold wallet if they want to take control of their security. Or transfer it back to the third party if they later decide that’s too much work.

The cool thing about this is that it’s another option out there and it offers flexibility. For the record, again, I’m not one of those people calling this a revolution or “the biggest thing since the invention of the web”. I just think this one idea is kind of neat.
Nice, yeah, just crashing is even simpler, and sounds good enough...
There is a lens inbetween, it is usually optically equivalent of being 6ft back or so (sometimes infinity).
Raise interest rates. That will take care of it.
Why make more SKUs to support? They don’t want the business or the headaches. They squishy things mold to people’s ears anyway. Imagine asking others to put on several types of headphones or needing a scanner and it getting it wrong. It’s a stupid business decision for mass produced Bluetooth headphones.
And reproducible benchmarks with cached, publicly accessible results.

At some point, you either have to make free tiers worse, or deal with thousands of people using them to run the same benchmark over and over.

Cloudflare loves alliances: start a distributed benchmarking alliance! :)
Short version: "Get off my lawn".

Now if we could only kill off cheese on everything.
There's nothing interesting about being able to write apps. That's what computers do, they run things.

What's interesting is being able to write an app that actually does what you wanted it to do.
30k Unsuspecting Rose Bowl Attendees Scooped Up in Facial Recognition Test
It has been two weeks since Fastly's VP of Eng called out your ToS and errors in your benchmark in her original tweet thread [1]. I would hope that Cloudflare would have a better response than this that directly addresses Fastly's claims.

Are you going to remove the ToS clause or issue a correction on the blog post?

[1] https://twitter.com/lxt/status/1462896850055352320
> To clarify, Fastly did not perform any benchmarks on Cloudflare's network. We ran our own benchmark…

Am I the only having cognitive dissonance here? I was confused how they complained about not being able to perform benchmarks but then… ran a benchmark? There must be some distinction here that I’m missing
Former Employees Allege Tesla Faked Original Full Self-Driving Video
Be careful interpreting this. Delta and now Omicron are more contagious than the original virus precisely because they have higher peak viral loads and shed more virus from infected patients. Hence, the virus in wastewater per infected individual has been changing along with the number of infected individuals.
After a normal fire trees begin regrowing immediately, and many trees survive. The fires weve been having are in forests choked with dead fuel, so they burn extremely hot and kill absolutely everything including the soil. There is supposed the be a mycelial network and microorganisms and seeds left in place after a fire.

Part of the reason for the current state of things is mismanagement through blanket fire prevention. Another part is things like pine beetle in colorado and new mexico killing millions of acres of trees because of warmer temperatures associated with climate change, and that wood drying out for years in the desert air.
> I'm not OP but I had to wire money earlier this year when I bought a house. To accomplish this, I had to drive to my nearest bank branch (1 hour drive), talk to a bank teller for 15 minutes while she filled out forms and printed out papers I had to sign, and then they told me the wire would probably arrive in time for the house signing (3 hours later). This was to send ~$15k. Compare this to sending USDC on [smart contract enabled blockchain] which takes a few clicks and minutes at most.

You really need to switch to a modern bank that doesn't force you to go in person to do a wire. That's insanity.

Fidelity has free wire transfers, no need to go into a bank: https://www.fidelity.com/customer-service/choose-eft-or-bank...
alternative view https://teddit.net/r/antiwork/comments/ra7tjf/i_lasted_three...
> Seems bonkers to me to have people and cars in the same space at the same time.

That seems pretty unavoidable to me, considering we put sidewalks right next to roads. As a pedestrian, I don't want to wait for both directions of traffic to have their turns to cross before I get mine. Though it can be handy if I need to cross diagonally.
In general, I don't even consider the stuff sold in store mayonnaise - if ever there was a need for what you can call stuff. You can make your own (real) mayo pretty easily, an egg yolk, some mustard and vegetable oil, I like to add a few drops of lemon or vinegar. Get ready to have your mind blown by much better taste and an inviting yellow color rather than the crap that's mass produced. It's also a good way to realize how much oil is in mayo and to wonder how your 90lb grandma was able to whisk for hours but your arm hurts after a 25 seconds...
threat of lawyers and settling out of court is a powerful extralegal deterrent all on its own.
I typically use LD_PRELOAD hacks to simulate failure conditions. That way you can get deeper into your code than simply something that always fails.
> I am actually in favor of E2E encrypted chats and the like. But we need to keep politics out in the light of day.

That aligns with my position. I fundamentally believe in the necessity of transparency in politics. What I don't believe in is the the necessity of government / law enforcement snooping on E2E encrypted chats.

I don't want back-channel politics, I want back-channel private conversations amongst the citizenry. If this enables some back-channel politics then that's a price I believe is worth paying partially due to the fact that the end results of political decisions and actions are, by necessity, public.

Politicians should, by policy, have their political communications recorded (not made public, but archived "just in case") since they're working for the public. Those who avoid such scrutiny should be named and shamed if it can be proven. Utopian, I'm aware.
Methodology is at: https://discuss.httparchive.org/t/lighthouse-scores-as-predi...

All pages with two 'good' core-web-vital grade, and one 'poor' get exactly 200.

All pages with one 'good' and two 'poors' get exactly 100.

Getting 99/101/201/199 requires a much more specific set of performance characteristics.
Mayonnaise is an unfortunate casualty on the warpath to great victory, i.e. killing Yellow Mustard.
Why the "five whys" is just another cargo cult like Scrum/Agile/Lean/Six Sigma/etc. ?
Biomes are changing and it's our fault. Planting trees won't virtual signal our way out of climate change when there's too much CO2 in the air, not enough rain, and too much heat. If I hear any more about planting trees somehow magically sequestering carbon, I'm going to scream into the void until my eyes bleed.

One of the primary scalable ways to fix the atmosphere is to use oceanic bio CSS by growing gigatons of kelp and/or phytoplankton, and sinking it to where it's more-or-less permanently sequestered. Floating automated kelp farms and processing stations could make this happen.
It’s definitely still a nightmare. And I’m very concerned that the current demand, while nice right now, will drop hard at some point in ‘22 as some form of industry “market correction” takes place, likely not long after we start moving back to normal whether COVID remains a threat or not. When that correction happens, expect layoffs. Might be worth sticking it out to maintain or build seniority so that is layoffs do come, hopefully you’ll be spared.

I hope I’m wrong, but I doubt that I am.
No. They do. I can see crash logs for assetsd, awdd, com.apple.mobilemail, DifferentialPrivacy, and much more. Just open up Settings and search “analytics”
Delete a semicolon from a C/C++/Java/C# program, and it won’t compile.

Delete a byte from a zip file, and it won’t unzip.

I don’t see why HTML should be different…
In this case, Meta was most definitely complicit for other reasons.

- they started operating in a country but had no Myanmar-language human moderation, in a place where FB quickly became synonymous THE internet.
- the AI-powered content moderation failed hard on identifying hate speech partially because everything was written in Zawgyi, not Unicode.

It was way after the FB had a lot of eggs on their face that they issued public statements: https://about.fb.com/news/2018/11/myanmar-hria/

They should have been much more proactive, but it seems like it was growth at all costs and ignore the rest.
For various SaaS https://github.com/cjbarber/ToolsOfTheTrade
There's no technical reason it has to be a few organisations. Anyone can set up a provider. The only OpenID i use regularly is from Stack Exchange:

https://openid.stackexchange.com/

HN could be a provider! You could be news.ycombinator.com/api, which admittedly would be a very confusing name to the casual observer.

The reason it all ended up being centralised is that almost nobody really valued it being decentralised.
IRS agents make $60k/year. $80B/87k/$60k = 15 years salary. Clearly there is more to the story. Why not tell the real story instead of mischaracterizing it as going to "spying" on bank accounts?