skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In fact, the second-hand market for it on Ebay has it going for 150-200 right now.
#1 is definitely true — I was thinking of that mostly as an artifact of the cost point. There's a really strong ratchet effect: YouTube gets a ton of content because they not only provide hosting for free but also incentivize a ton of creators to direct traffic to YouTube since they get paid that way, which further encourages people to think of YouTube as where they go for video. Even places which self-host tend to report much higher numbers from YouTube than their own website, and that's a very hard thing to compete against.
Yes because it'll load an image from a domain that expired and is now
controlled by a nefarious third-party. The image is now a payload targeting the
out of date image loading lib used by the onboard entertainment system that has
seen no updates for 5 years.
This entertainment system is connected to the actual driving electronics of the
car that will now brake at full force the next time it reaches 130 km/h.

This scenario is fictional, but possible. cf. the works of Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek.

https://outline.com/k6U6P6
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/07/24/hacker...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OobLb1McxnI
Ohkk, just see how the network stats on both setups are. How are you testing the remote env? Is the traffic from local env or same cloud env?
/21 and /23 aren't really much, you could just as easily get those assigned directly in the late 2000s (in the early to mid 2010s it would require some extra paperwork but was still doable). Remember the difference in block sizes is 2^(larger-smaller).
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I really doubt they would take such big components components if they ever did this. Ostree sure, fedora Silverblue probably not.
> I don't think anyone should have fondness for their employer -- it's a business relationship -- but you also have an ethical obligation to do what you're being paid to do. Otherwise, don't agree to do it in the first place.

I disagree with this view. My employment is a simple arrangement: entity X pays me $Y to be their employee. To some extent, they can tell me to do things and I'll do things in response. It's up to me to find a new employer if I'm unhappy with what they're telling me to do (or the salary, etc), and it's up to them to have a convo with me or fire me if they're unhappy with what I do. If he hasn't gotten fired or even spoken to by his manager for his work, then his work is satisfactory.
Not surprised. I even made a privacy preserving proxy plug-in for Coral Talk, a comment system, that would hide the gravatars behind an UUID based parameter [1]. This was quite some time ago. I understand why Gravatar would choose to expose avatars using a hash of an email, but they could have used a more expensive hashing function.

[1] https://github.com/snorremd/talk-plugin-gravatar
Ignoring the social benefits, how would that improve competition? Amazon already pays more that that, it would be their competitors struggling with increased costs.
Imagine making this complaint with regards to electrical, or plumbing work. How would you feel if your electrician put an easter egg in your home's electrical system?
Yep, I'm on the same boat. I just don't see any resolution that I haven't really thought of by doing this exercise.

I'm not sure "Why" is the right question to ask all the time. Seems like "If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail."
Do you work in software development or IT operations? Of if you did but no longer do, how long ago was it?

Having been in the field for some time, and reading HN and talking with people in the field for as long, I believe your general attitude is one of someone who has an idea for how things should work in a stable, ideal world with unchanging toolsets and unchanging technologies. This is not the world of technology.
Can you actually prove things in economics? Or is it more like detailed analysis of history?
Banks didn't need a bailout. They needed to be allowed to fail. And restore the regulations that would've stopped them from overleveraging so much in the first place. (Or at least prosecute those knowingly involved in subprime mortgages.)

Bailouts from taxpayers aren't a sign of robustness either. They are a sign of fragile, easily bought government and large players dominating markets.
It reminded me of apt-get moo and aptitude moo, which do not seem risky or to trigger unexpected things (since they just print text when using specific, useless flags), nor cause maintenance troubles, and yet those programs are on many computers.

I don't care that much about the presence or the absence of easter eggs in curl or in most tools. It's still cool that some have easter eggs if they are inoffensive. Documented easter eggs are fine too.

Curl is a great tool and I'm perfectly fine (if not thankful) with this decision.
I think we've/they've been heading in this direction for a while. At least from a kernel perspective. All we need is a DirectX port now which is easy by kind of "reverse-reverse" engineering Wine and a compatibility layer.

I think behind the scenes this is WSL's true purpose.
I can't talk about the US, in Germany they are mainly sub-contractors. Easy to spot by their Yellow AMZN badges. DHL and company are doing the same thing so.
Oh so very broken. I wanted to do a quick meeting with a client, being used to do quick five minute video call using Google Chat + Meet I figured Teams would be able to do the same, but nope. Well you can, if you can find people, but in the end it’s quicker to just schedule a meeting and srnd them the URL to join.

Teams is basically junk, made from the bits of Skype no one else wanted and things that feel off Chrome.
I think this is really why we can't "have fun" anymore. Because bad actors exist and can exploit things being done "just for fun". I do wonder, however, how much of the "serious" nature comes from actual bad actors or from the security research community.
It is actually documented in cmd /? .. kinda. cmd's help shows that autorun is disabled with /d, and mentions which keys it looks for.

I use it to have a different prompt for administrator windows.

To anyone using it: Be careful. Any side effects in your autorun script can have entertaining effects on batch files when you least expect it.
> that there is no serious appeals process, and no third party oversight of moderation decisions

Yes there is, see [0] - also posted by me in another reply in this thread, where I mention that my own YouTube account was suspended identically to OP earlier this year, but was restored 3-4 hours after filling out the form. The decision may or may not have been AI-driven, but I'm pretty sure there was a human in the loop behind the solution.

Don't mistake me for a Google fanboy - I had my primary Gmail account locked last week for daring to use a VPN, so I'm currently looking at de-Googling myself a bit. But to be fair, I was able to fix both issues within a few hours.

[0] https://support.google.com/accounts/contact/suspended?p=yout...
It also does not imply the owners of that land - that had to take a risk in allocating their funds to acquire it - do not deserve to benefit from it (given they also very likely pay taxes on that ownership, which is true in the vast majority of the US; and property taxes are a very important government funding source in the US).

"Producing something on it" is a wholly subjective standard. I can just as well proclaim the opposite, that not producing anything on it is the standard that should determine ownership.
These are not the same! Plumbers don't make piping for fun and then allow others to use it for free.
The cost is whatever it takes to convince one rich person to decide it's profitable to invest in a competitor.
When you use installable/desktop software you can also control network security and therefore application security via your firewalls and other devices. So the user is able to control secure access and contain any possible breeches...cheaply...instead of just pumping all their data to the cloud and hoping the SaaS provider knows what they are doing and has secured every single exploit and leak vector that comes with publishing a web-based solution.
[Disclaimer: IKEA employee]

We’ve got buy back / resale programmes globally, and the US trialled it a couple of months ago. I’d expect to see this expand over time.

https://www.ikea.com/us/en/newsroom/corporate-news/ikea-us-h...
>would not even be able to book my Dog in to the Groomers because they won't answer the phone and only respond to Whatsapp.

Good luck getting businesses to move away from Whatsapp. I deleted my account and was able to get friends and family on Signal, but thankfully I don't have any businesses I interacted with that used Whatsapp (or Facebook). I might be missing out on products and services... But hey, at least I don't know what I'm missing. :)
They were starting to cultivate the image of publishing serious investigative journalism, but I stopped paying attention after the Steele Dossier debacle.

I’d have to peruse the links on that page more carefully to determine whether or not the content is worthwhile, but it’s telling that the latest featured longform article is over a year old. Likely a sign of where their priorities lie.
Here's a good "state of the art of geothermal drilling" article - https://austinvernon.site/blog/drillingplan.html
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Its not about visibility but how they manipulate and taunt people by distracting people with these silly trinkets like whistles and flame throwers. This is what psychological warfare looks like.
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On notaries (and related officials) in the middle ages, see this[1] painting by Pieter Bruegel from around 1615. Here Bruegel mocks the tax collectors that are bamboozling the farmers with paperwork. "The work was boldly socio-critical in its time."[2]

[1] https://kunstberatung-zurich.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/...

[2] https://kunstberatung-zurich.com/pieter-breughel-payment-of-...
Yeah the censorship is cancer. Way over the top. There was a point when it wasn’t anywhere near as bad but 2020 really pushed all these tech companies over the brink
> Cheap, tabloid news funding "real" journalism. There's merit to the idea

I respect your opinion but I couldn't disagree more strongly. To me, an outlet publishing trash irrevocably taints anything else they're putting out, however hard-hitting and "real" it may be.
The answer to your actual question, "why is everything changing too fast?", is "what is it you thought would stop it?" There are advantages to moving quicker than your competitors/peers (some substantive, some merely in appearance), and therefore there is a "Red Queen" affect making things go faster. What is supposed to slow it down? In the current system (either economic or technological), there is nothing that is intended to keep the pace of change from getting too fast. If there's nothing to prevent it, it will happen.
Even as a user, you cannot do "whatever you want" with GPL software. Specifically, you can't distribute the GPL unless you also adhere to the GPL's requirements for distribution. (It's even worse for the LGPL variant, because that imposes requirements on how the software is built in the first place.)

What counts as a "distribution"? Well, that's a contract interpretation question, and if you are not asking that question of a lawyer, then you have a fool for a client. I suspect that there's actually a lot of technical GPL violations going on, but since the open source community is not litigious in general, there's little realization of those violations and even less care that those are going on.

Personally, I am not a fan of the GPL licenses for this reason. If you are trying to use legal contracts to enforce norms, it is disingenuous to argue that you don't need lawyers to be involved. Using social contracts and pressure instead would truly allow everybody to avoid lawyers and achieve much the same goals.
Yes, maybe. There's a definite tension between:

* Restaurants being unwilling to raise prices (diners are notoriously intolerant, it can kill restaurants).

* Landlords being unwilling to lower rents.

* Restaurants being unwilling to tolerate < 6% profit margins.

* Landlords being unwilling to lose a good, paying tenant if there isnt another around the corner.

The pain has to be distributed somehow though.
I think the analogue would be Amazon Logistics projecting their power into _space_ in order to protect their eventually-patented Planetary Logistics Ships
This would be an issue of national security. I would not want to be the person who spends money to set up drilling toward the Yellowstone Supervolcano without alerting the US Department of the Interior of the plans.
I probably will get downvoted to hell and back again but I really have a hard time with Musk not caring about public safety at all, sacrificing humans to train his AI is still something that just completely baffles me. There is also a Very Long List of broken promises.
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The author's logic is that only things comparable in scale to a volcano can cancel out the volcano by brute force, and nuclear detonations are thousands to millions of times smaller than volcanic eruptions. Proposals for things like this involve using nuclear detonations to make small but critical disruptions to systems, so the logic doesn't apply, but without actually digging into it you generally wouldn't know that's what the plan entails. Admittedly, it's unintuitive to think of nuclear detonations as a precise scalpel instead of a blunt cudgel. It also doesn't help that the well thought out proposals often get crudely parroted, so "collapse the well 1 km down to choke off the flow of oil" becomes "blow up the well".
If we measure "innovation" by solving hard CS problems, sure.

But one definition of innovation is:

> make changes in something established, especially by introducing new methods, ideas, or products.

Focussing on the eComm side:

Amazon made and continues to make changes in how people find stuff, pay for stuff, and get stuff. Even something as seemingly simple as Amazon Prime for free+fast shipping. Or keeping a credit card on file and jumping straight to "checkout complete" first, and letting the user modify shipping/billing details for a while after the order is "complete".

None of it was invented at Amazon and all of it is trivial to implement on a small or perhaps medium scale.

Amazon's innovation is implementing Amazon.
Webassembly is much more restricted than regular machine code.

It's a stack machine with a limited set of operations, no direct control over the stack/control flow and restricted access to memory.

It's way easier to compile this limited set of operations to assembly (or C) that is guaranteed to not do things it shouldn't.
Presumably, many Googlers who are directly involved in designing and implementing content moderation are active readers of Hacker News, as is evidenced by the fact that having a story hit the front page is an effective way to solve problems like these.

But what I never see is any of those Googlers taking the time to explain why they feel these seemingly-broken approaches are the only ways to solve the problem of moderation at scale. To me, it seems insulting to one's intelligence to receive an automated message that your channel's been banned, be given the option to appeal, and to receive an equally automated message rnd() minutes later that your appeal has been denied. But what do I know? I've never been tasked with solving such an engineering problem.

I know FAANGers here may feel put upon by what appears to be a hostile environment against their companies, but that's at least in part because you've never said exactly which technical and practical challenges lead to this state of affairs. If it's not against your company's NDAs, I challenge you all to try; whether the community agrees with you or not, I think we would all learn something useful from a productive discussion about the problem.
Easter Eggs have lead to do many security concerns over the years that software authors have had to get serious.

To put it another way, an easter egg in a TV show or movie is interesting and fun. An Easter egg in a critical system in a plane or car is not amusing.
Of course, Linux is special case, KHTML/WebKit/Blink is special case, Android is special case, etc. Blame special cases.
At least in my experience, the higher end people understand inflation and would demand higher pay to match or beat inflation. Especially at the executive level.
> Microsoft could explore Fedora as a base, which would be a fun “throw-back” to the IBM PC days, knowing that Red Hat is owned by IBM.
When the API that enables the effect has a buffer overflow that no one noticed because the feature was snuck in and attackers exploit it to take over your brakes (and from there the CAN bus because how could the brakes possibly have any vulnerabilities?), you'll care.
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>the one the “caring progressives” keep voting for.

And the alternative is what?

Keep on hoping the oligarchs will share their wealth and it will "trickle down"?
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Even the name is hillarous. It's like one of those cryptocurrencies that try to be sellable by a pump&dumpy name, like SafeMoon, haha.
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I need to backup company data long-term, where loss or leak would be catastrophic.

What's the best way to do this? Or what does your setup look like for mission critical data?
In Germany, the "nurse" (it's a separate profession from nursing) performs a variety of medical tasks (like vaccinations, blood tests, allergy tests) and does prioritization of incoming patients based on initial assessments. I've also had the "nurse" complete initial medical history with me.

This model is strongly influenced by the size of the clinic: we usually have small clinics owned and run by the only doctor in the clinic (though they sometimes team up). As the amount of patients per day is hard-limited by the doctors time, such small clinics have no need for a full-time receptionists.
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Tangentially, if you want to get chords from a song (and can't find them already written online), Capo does a pretty great job at it and is very easy to use. Mac/iOS only, but the best I've seen.

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If anyone is interested in Easter eggs, I run a subreddit for them at https://www.reddit.com/r/eastereggs
How have your property taxes and/or insurance changed during that period?

I have a rental (family living in it) where the insurance has changed a few percent in the last 5 years but the property taxes are up 5x. Yes, 5x in 5 years between the rate and appreciation.

What started as a small net loss is getting bigger and bigger so I hope you're not in the same boat.
For me, an issue is that the most popular frameworks are created by huge companies who primarily rely on ads and tracking data, so everything requires massive/complex server-side resources, which are too expensive for someone like me who just wants to make free and open source web apps. I was hopeful about the 'unhosted' movement 10 years ago, but it kind of fizzled, as seemingly have related projects like pouchdb and solid. I'm hopeful about recent posts using sqlite in the browser and w3's storage foundation, but they are still in development, not really ready for prime time anytime soon. pwa's and the like seem to not be in much favor anymore, either.

Browser vendors (controlled by the same huge companies) blocking websql and poorly supporting things like pwa are other examples of this issue.
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> In addition, using an algorithm, it will scour the web for tweets, posts, news and headlines.

Whelps, that's one CVE script kiddie away from becoming an indestructible paperweight
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He talks about it in the corecursive[1] podcast. No mention of code bounties anywhere.

https://corecursive.com/066-sqlite-with-richard-hipp/
My first thought. They could have used some undisclosed (illegal) tools and methods to find him, and then cooked up this story to explain it.
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There are other issues. The random/shuffle has never worked properly. Why can't a billion dollar company figure out that they just played the same song for me a half hour ago? It is so bad we are drifting away from Spotify after subbing for ten years.
You may be aware of twitter.com/Bitfinexed; they've compiled an overwhelming amount of evidence for Tether's manipulative behaviour.
No, it more or less means that a language is described in (part of) the language itself. And before you ask, no, it's not quite the same as self-hosting (good question though). The latter is more associated with compilers that can take a source file and produce another compiler. The former is often more like an interpreter that provides support for part of a language, but those part are enough to define support for the rest of the language.

So in this case, the base implementation starts with support for only a subset of the Forth language, picked for being either essential or much more performant when implemented "natively" in the binary. A subset of this subset is then used to construct support for the rest of the language. This is very typical for Forth- and Lisp-like languages.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-circular_evaluator

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-hosting_(compilers)
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Two points:

1)Stephen Wolfram is not a police officer and has not been spat at in the face.

2) You don't know the tone of the question and neither do I. The question is obvious and expected and deserves an answer in such a context.
Absolutely. Failure to report results on a popular benchmark suggests to some reviewers that you have something to hide - even though they might be computationally expensive or tangential to the main point of the work.
When we used 5Ys at Uber SRE I always like to say that you are looking for a tree of depth 5 but if it's width 1 you've not tried hard enough. "Root cause" or at least the idea there was a single factor that was the defining feature of an issue is hardly ever true.

There is quite often one symptom that is pivotal and cause a critically failure, but generally that symptom itself is a result of multiple inputs.

I'd simply say 5Ys should be a rule of thumb to get folks to be sufficiently inquisitive to keep asking follow-up questions about whatever they are investigating until they've hit around 5 questions per area.