skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What else is shady on the internet?

Click farms

Review farms

Residential proxies

Captcha solving services employing people in very low cost of labor locations

Fake tech support scams

Canada revenue agency / IRS scam call centers

Porn website hosting

Anything involving Rob Monster

Bitcoin tumblers

Cryptocurrency exchanges

Fad of the week newly created cryptocurrency

College essay writing services

NFTs

Selling used panties online

Website hosting for services similar to the now shutdown Backpage.com (anything escort or prostitution related)

Buying drugs with cryptocurrency
> Also, could you elaborate more on how your solution is able to reconstruct the query on the backend after reducing the URL length by 50%?

Seems like it’s for readability on either end so maybe a dictionary is a solution for when it’s actually used
No. The Hermode tuning algorithm supposedly can, but that's a much more complicated thing.
Companies do not have to allow people to use their platforms to engage in antisocial behavior. I'm sorry, but you can't go say whatever you want in the middle of a restaurant and assume that freedom of expression protects you from what happens when others don't want to hear what you have to say. Unless of course you're a toddler.
The word was used correctly and not in an offensive manner: https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/retardation — perhaps you need to readjust your outrage detector?
You seem to be blaming linux users for vendors' lack of interest in launching the software you want for the linux platform. It's not their fault. Nobody really expects Adobe or Epic to launch their products just on linux, but in today's age when a game gets shipped to multiple platforms and Photoshop has OSX and Windows versions, what's one more platform to add to the build matrix?

Granted linux is not exactly a single uniform platform, the market is small, and the users are the most vocal about submitting issues. However Valve proved it can be done, and other vendors are just hiding their laziness with "market share" excuses.

And to your last point, to my knowledge nobody is really up in arms against Valve because "closed source" because if you want to support a open source OS you inadvertently contribute to the ecosystem one way or another, and their work with Proton and flatpak and Steam OS is more than worth it.

Edit: I guess I should have read TFA before replying to you, but as a linux user of almost 20 years I disagree with some of the fringe opinions in it, as you can tell from what I wrote. :D
Here's the latest (2021) Financial Modeling World Championships (FMWC) on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSU11kxxJvc
Isn't that kind of the point, that most people don't use enough stuff to make it matter?
The automatic bug report generation tool produces the following:

"Absent comma results in unwatned string concatenation on line 330"

Bug-ception!
> The value of a deed is that it's recognized by a legal system

Sure, I’m not saying an NFT is substantively like a deed, I’m saying the link in an NFT serves a broadly similar purpose to the address in a deed.

An NFT is perhaps more akin to a certificate from one of those star name registry outfits that were popular for a while, but with less specificity as to what you supposedly bought with respect to thing it describes.
"...the single greatest success predictor is whether the founders had a successful startup in the past."
Even in the case of democracy, you have to put trust in the sovereign.

And whenever the sovereign enforces a law, the person facing the enforcement will consider it tyranny. It’s a known paradox of the power we, the people, grant to the sovereign.
ehh.. why sell the item once to a person in a large open market, when you can sell the item multiple times to the same person in multiple markets.
Thanks for the feedback! I generally prefer darker themes, so my eyes don't hurt. I am however working on a toggle button to make the website light/dark.
That’s literally one of the most salient points of TFA: protocols move dog slow and provide too little too late, platforms iterate fast and give people what they want right now.
In the US, maybe. In Europe, it's very unusual for a kid older than ~9 years to be driven to school.
Reminds me of the problem with MaxMind and the IPs with undetermined locations being assigned to the geographical center of the country, with resulting problems for the people that lived there.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37048521
I don't feel particularly badly treated. Things like the fuck-you are peculiarly Dutch. The 50 euro note incident is comical because there are hundreds of ways to handle large notes, it's a problem the whole world has. It's not unique to the Dutch shop to find it annoying. The Dutch shop response is a bit more unique.

The restaurant thing I should have been clearer. It was a repeated experience I and others shared. Not 45min before closing time: 45min before kitchen closing time. If the staff just ignore you, until the kitchen closes they can close up faster.

The premis/registration things you also misunderstand me. The problem is that Dutch officialdom is incredibly complex. Many other expats told us of the experience I relate here, you ring to ask a question and get a bad answer, if you ring back 20 minutes later you get a good one. It's a notorious problem many expatriates get: there's one form, it's actually all 26 different forms stapled together and you have to find the one page which applies to you, in the set. The funny thing is that the south Amsterdam registration office even gives you a booklet whose opening phrases are "yes, we do paperwork very differently here. Expect to get a lot of this"

All cultures have their quirks. My Dutch friends and longterm resident non Dutch shrug, and accept these things.

The childcare thing is worrying. It has huge assumptions, like the premise they will learn bad Dutch. Really? So the Dutch grandma who lived in Jakarta All those years ago being raised by Indonesians... she learned bad Dutch? And, there's a reason immigrants work in childcare which needs to be seen too: if you want echte-dutch language and culture in childcare you have to pay better)

Australia is far from perfect. I'm not saying we do it better or the French do it better or anything. I'm just saying the Dutch have their quirks and institutional racism of a kind, is one of them. Along with a very new yorker fuck-you attitude. But maybe you're right, it's an Amsterdam thing. I'm told the south (maastricht) is very different and they certainly dress differently from what I saw. Somebody said it's like catholic protestant a bit too: old Dutch catholic money down south, old Dutch protestant money up north.
for a travel time of 35 years, you'd not get very long at Proxima Centauri, because you'd still be doing 0.12c when you arrived
> Once waited for over an hour for the only attendant to pump, but we weren't going to make it to CT on that tank.

CT? so you could have gone ahead and bought in NYS but you wanted that cheap cheap NJ gas, didn't you!?
Hi!

Massively predictable comment making noises about Symantec code-dumping QEMM, DESQview and DESQview/X :)

Besides being a lot of fun to read, the latter (which incidentally got some attention on here just a month ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29396561) is a whole DOS-native X server. IIUC only Netware's commissioned port of XFree86 comes close to that, but that runs on top of Netware's kernel infrastructure so doesn't really count.

Naturally these sorts of situations sadly represent communicative chasms between geeks and management. Case studies in "it wasn't the end of the world" can perhaps be useful. My standard such example is the HP-20b and HP-30b calculators. On the surface they look just like other calculators HP made around the same time period (2008), but there happen to be a set of pins inside the battery compartment that allow reprogramming the non-bootloader-locked microcontroller inside. An SDK (https://www.hpmuseum.org/cgi-sys/cgiwrap/hpmuseum/archv018.c...) (consisting mostly of a keypad test demo) filled in the remaining pieces (how the keyboard matrix worked, and how to get code running on the ARM CPU, basically), and the result was the WP-34S firmware that reimplemented calculator functionality completely from scratch (the code samples in the SDK provided zero such functionality).

TL;DR, this kind of thing can definitely work and be constrained to a nice little obscure niche of very happy people with low/zero external side effects.

In this case, I wouldn't even mind if the code was released under a similar license to what D used to use (https://archive.ph/20161022202138/https://github.com/dlang/d...) before Symantec relinquished control of the project (https://forum.dlang.org/thread/oc8acc$1ei9$1@digitalmars.com) and it was made fully open-source (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14060846). Microsoft licensing GW-BASIC (https://github.com/microsoft/GW-BASIC) and early versions of MS-DOS (https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS) under MIT is... fascinating but understandable, yet entirely unnecessary. "View only with no repercussions but not open source" works for historical interest just fine too.

What is a very good question is whether adequate precedent was set by relinquishing D that it would be tractably viable for say one or two individual campaigners to internally achieve something similar for arbitrary effectively-abandonware software that is only of historical interest.

(If this turns out to not be possible because QEMM and/or DESQview are actively being supported in some way I think the whole retrocomputing scene would be very curious to hear about that through the grapevine!)

Thanks for the interesting info about PC-DOS. That's very cool!
I second this. If history has thought us anything is that every web3 company will work toward increasing the competitive gap.
Here we are talking on HN. Is it okay for HN to ban people who don't follow the rules? I have heard this is something that can happen here. Does this mean HN is preventing people from talking?
That's a shame. I hope they release there soon!

We have Disney+ in Australia but I'm pretty sure we still don't have HBO Max.

Though every service in every country has wildly different content. John Wick 1 might be on Netflix in the US but it's on another service in AU.
Yeah, reverse-engineering a 386 is way beyond what I can do. The 6502 has about 3500 transistors, the 8086 has about 29,000, and the 80386 has about 275,000 transistors. So it's almost an order of magnitude of complexity each time. Not to mention that the 80386 has two metal layers, which makes it a whole lot harder to see what's going on.
The article mentions that they have a deal with Cloudflare.
It's a bit similar to your email address not only being just a way to send you email, but also effectively your identity.
This would be what AWS’ Event Bridge and Event Bus are trying to solve. Pitty it is not a standard across multiple cloud providers.
I mean, they care enough to mention it in the changelog, if they cared even less they wouldn't mention it there (not condoning any of their behavior, just pointing that out)
> ok so you own a certificate that describes the content of a link

More precisely you have a certificate that says you own something (often ambiguous, though this could be precise; ambiguity is a choice in the minting of an NFT rather than a fundamental issue with the technology) relating to the content described by means of a link (the NFT may or may not include additional description of the content via metadata.)
Front page on HN is a nice achievement too :)
But, is <everything else> web scale?
Fructos is plentiful in fruits which we must have been well adapted to consuming.

I don't understand the argument against fructose. It seems to mainly "the liver has to work to digest it", but isn't that true of a lot of other nutrients as well? I mean, that's the main function of the liver, so the fact that fructose engages the liver should not by default imply that it's bad.
Most of my support problems went away when I took away my parents admin privileges. It wasn't really them that was the problem, somehow my brother had managed to install two 3rd-party anti-virus programs on top of Windows Defender.
Sure, S3 is also cheaper than torrents. And HTTP/Telnet is cheaper than HTTPS/SSH. But some people do see value in math-based guarantees over those given by governments and courts. And others don't. We need both approaches to keep each other in check.
Its an energy mix. One country isn’t the whole network.

Any country that subsidized electricity distorts the whole market there.

The best approach to this consternation about mining energy use is vigilance in ensuring miners use captured and renewable energy.

If there are subsidies or if governments get directly involved in trying to control the network that’s when it distorts the market forces. It’s sad that this discussion is currently limited to simply not being willing to accept that captured energy has always existed and is being utilized by miners as a significant energy source on the network. Energy that would only have been used to pollute the atmosphere but now is not.
I'm not a big fan of sugar, and I regret that I even avoid fruits on account of them being too sweet. Some apples are sour, but that's not preferable either.

What's a nice fruit that's not bred to be way too sugary?
Nah, they will move after. So then we will discuss issue of teenagers never seeing sun. And then teenagers will move late activities even later and push sleep time 2-3 hours up, to make up for it. Then we will discuss that 10am is absurdly soon.
I’m certainly no expert. After reading “The Hacker’s Diet” and having some success counting calories, I started reading more about nutrition; but mostly what was in weight loss books. I stumbled across https://www.hockeytraining.com/nutrition/ , which has a lot of information I had never seen since it’s more focused on exercise.

It may not be what you’re looking for since hockey players aren’t trying to bulk up. But perhaps it can give you a good introduction to the basics.
I remember some people i know learning programming using DarkBASIC which had a custom fullscreen IDE[0] very reminiscent of QBASIC, though unlike QBASIC it was focused on making games (especially 3D games). It provided out of the box commands for graphics, sound, music, etc (IIRC you could place and animate a 3D model with a couple of lines of code and the examples were simple 3D games[1]) and had integrated hypertext help that taught the basics of programming, among others[2]. Also had a CLI (inside the IDE) for quickly trying out stuff.

It was later replaced by DarkBASIC Pro (which was eventually open sourced years later) but that one used a more traditional IDE that was kinda reminiscent of a simplified Visual C++ 2005 and had a more complex language.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/UKZtMue.png

[1] https://i.imgur.com/lslPht6.png

[2] https://i.imgur.com/TqrSzEe.png
These used to be virtually crime-free countries. My sister lived in central Sweden for a year, coming from another EU country, and was genuinely shocked how crime was effectively an alien concept to the locals. And that was an university town, accepting international students for a long while. Unfortunately this seems to have badly changed over the last decade, according to my sister in law who lives in southern Sweden. The nation is also having a hard time adjusting to this new reality.
If I understand correctly, due to NAT we’re not limited by the number of computers vs available IP addresses, but rather by number of simultaneous connections vs (number of IPs) x (number of IP ports)
Thanks for the constructive criticism! When I said surreal I didn't mean the hikes, I meant the way they took me into their inner circle and treated me like just another team member as opposed to just a temporary intern. I'll have to run a spell checker, no real excuse for that. I can only draw from my own experience when writing the blog, so I just wrote about how I felt while going through it. As "inauthentic" as that might sound. Also Goldman wasn't my first paid SWE job, I've had previous jobs where I've had to write production software and my thoughts on Open Source are my own, through my own experiences. I'm not simply regurgitating a position.
Good thing we aren’t talking about restaurants. Social media companies are common carriers, just another set of telecom utilities that must be regulated so they cannot deny users access once they’re above a certain size. AWS is also just basic infrastructure the public is dependent on in our modern society and should be regulated similarly. All these companies face limited competition due to network effects and market capitalization, and should be regulated for antitrust reasons as well. And in all cases they must be forced to accept customers of all different persuasions. Political viewpoints should also be made a protected class formally.

Also your claims of judging and disallowing speech on a subjective determination of being “antisocial” is exactly the kind of authoritarian kafka-esque censorship that makes the policies of these huge tech platforms incompatible with a free society.
I think the post was clear as to which meaning they were referring to. I would also argue that ‘slow’ is frequently used in the same way as one the one that you are concerned with.
I agree with the 3 lesson, but here I find the main problem is the lack of test. And weirdly the author doesn't seem to have noticed it.
Story: Houston We have a water problem
I don't know if Iceland follows in lockstep with the rest of EU monetary policy but here in Denmark, they take your money another way: negative inflation applied to comically low limits (100,000 DKK) equivalent to $15,000 USD.
"We should accept the premise that people will not run their own servers by designing systems that can distribute trust without having to distribute infrastructure."

This resonated with me. If we want Web3 disruption to happen, perhaps we need better P2P networks. For example, with things like static IP per user, it would be trivial to standardize and build next gen chat apps.
Mine too, for the last 10 years or so. She found some local IT guy who set her up with some random distro, provides in-person and remote support. Seems to work great. If she’d asked me I’d probably have just bought her a Mac.
I don't know about no support but there is probably some benefit to weakening Microsoft's stranglehold on this market. Spolsky wrote an interesting article on this:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/
Very few of us as kids would have cared about the financial modeling world championships - I wonder at what point people start to like these frankly boring topics (this is on the front page so many of us, including me, in our free time on a weekend decided to read about it) and how much is genuine intrigue and how much is forced from trying to excel in our work lives. I think about this a fair bit as I’m trying to separate my work and life a bit more as a new year resolution and I’m catching myself reading these things and wondering why.
> 'blockchain is a form of internet money'

Is it?
I think you are being overly dismissive of a language that you claim to haven't even played with. Go has been in existence since 2009, so has a 10 year developmental head start on V (mid 2019), and not to mention Go having a major player like Google in their back pocket. But, that can be seen as a bit of an disadvantage too, where Google can direct and influence the language to its purposes versus the majority.

V is in alpha, and has been making steady progress and changes over the last few years. To get an idea about this, refer to https://github.com/vlang/v/discussions/7610 or search their feature request history. The developers and contributors had and are clearly having a healthy exchange on what features they believe are best for the language.

It's at 0.2.4, and have stated they won't lock in most things until 0.3. Which at their rate of progress (based on their history), looks like that will be this year. Then they are shooting for 1.0 (which is quite fast).

Some volatility is expected type behavior for such a relatively young language. Various things are options or "up in the air" versus built-in or might not make the cut for 0.3. Which is understandable.

Various people and "angry" supporters of other languages, are acting like everything about V was supposed to be carved in stone and on lock from day 1. Actually, as if the developers were suppose to supply a finished product upon its release on GitHub. That's outrageously unrealistic and bias hostility that appears to show threatened interests.

I'm sure they will be updating their website to reflect the state of their language, as necessary. Their users, contributors, and developers understand where they are at.
Taper Discretion Means Not Loving Payrolls Anymore
The intent is irrelevant. The Internet delights in this nonsense. Invoke fear all you want, we're practically living in a cultural fear buffet. A killjoy is still a killjoy.
Start fishing around for a new job. Trust me the headache is not worth it.
> That's the author's point -- his dynamically changing NFT was revoked in this manner.

For me the much scarier weaponization is to change the linked content to be something illegal after you buy the NFT. How would you prove the illegal thing is not the thing you bought? (You will certainly not be treated as innocent until proven guilty if we're talking child pornography in the USA or democracy advocacy in China, etc etc.)

I don't think making them revocable defeats the purpose, it's having the registry of NFTs effectively being "OpenSea API" and not "blockchain" that's the problem. Having the NFT content itself be erasable is probably a good thing as long as there is some way of making a local copy. Sometimes we want the government to have the ability to stop the spread of information; but (subject to the risk of your possessing it) your "ownership" of content with a hashed URL is also going to apply to the download, assuming the hash is reproducible.
This video should speak to you

https://youtu.be/b2F-DItXtZs
Incredible Footage of Jet-Powered Coyote Drones Obliterating Other Drones
you were incorrect to describe the wikipedia article as backing your point.

I self labelled as pedantic and pointed to an explanation, that does not make me a prescriptivist, it makes me didactic.
I’m Sweden at least, it requires a little bit of hoop jumping and has prompted several grey zone companies to spring up.

The companies get a publishing license, effectively giving them the same free speech protection as the press. They then request all the information from the government and offer it in a easy UI, for a nominal charge of course.