skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At work we got a login attack via VPN IPs and we blocked VPNs from login in via AWS WAF and 2 days later a major user was complaining that he cant login. We had to remove the rule. (developers were working on captcha in the meantime)

I also used a tunnel when Spotify was not available globally. It did not create any issues.

Using a Public VPN is double edged sword. If you really need it its better to setup a wireguard tunnel to a own server as the the Public VPN IPs as monitored by the security companies and also get abused all the time.
It seems obvious that this is the result of someone else having abused Reddit too much from PIA addresses.

I also find blanket proxy bans reasonable: it’s akin to refusing service to those who wear a balaclava to a store.
These sort of "which-browser?" discussions come up regularly. In 2014 I would have been laying down 10-15 interesting extensions that gave Firefox capabilities that Chrome didn't have.

Instead the points raised here are

a) Perceptions

b) Design & marketing

c) Perception

d) Trust

Just saying, there used to be real technical ammo to bring to the table. Might have helped shore up the userbase if there were great reasons to use Firefox. Maybe users don't use software for its capabilities, but it isn't like Firefox is bringing much else to the table now.
I never had the "hands off" hosting experience that cloud providers advertise in the first place. Before (with AWS and Heroku) if things went down, I was the person that had to investigate and escalate to the appropriate vendor's support. Now, I'm the person responsible for investigating and fixing things. For many small issues, it's easier to fix them than to get someone at AWS with the necessary clearance on the phone.

One big trade-off is that I only have one datacenter so in cloud lingo, I only offer one availability zone with offsite backups. But then again, when AWS us-east went offline, so went most companies, because the proudly advertised multi-AZ failover didn't work that well in practice.

As for the APIs, I just limit the subset of APIs that I offer. Since this is used only for my consulting clients, my cloud only needs to support those APIs that they require. In effect, that means CEPH+PostgreSQL do most of the heavy lifting.

I've seen Cloud APIs explode in funny ways when customers actually arrive with Petabyte-scale datasets. In that sense, my customers are pre-qualified because all of them have had horrible experiences with Cloud providers over-promising and under-delivering. So once they are on my platform, dissuading them from wanting more APIs is very easy. "Would you like to continue to use my cloud at the current price? Or would you like to pay 3x the monthly spend just to use the Amazon cloud and gain API call XY? And please remember the last time they crashed badly and you could not reach any Amazon support by phone. Didn't they even bill you for EC2 while it was unreachable?"

And if they insist, I can always point them towards the Open Source project that Amazon/Heroku use under the hood. But in my opinion, most Cloud APIs don't add business value anyway. "Keep it simple" always wins out in the long run.
I don't think reddit accounts get banned by using VPN but it is more about what you are posting using your accounts.
Huh? The world did not forget. I did not forget. What leads you to say that?
Quit your propaganda bullshit.

- Ukraine does not try to forbid Russian language, that's complete disinformation.

- Crimea has been invaded by Russian special forces and annexed by Russia, there is no ambiguity here.

- The fact that Ukraine has a part of its population related to the Russian culture, language, traditions does not justify Russian invading the country.

- Your comparison with Texas is non-sensical. Ukraine has been invaded by the USSR. The Soviet-Ukrainian war happened almost 100 years ago and resulted in a military invasion of the country. Under USSR the Ukrainian movements for independence have been crushed violently and the Ukrainian national identity and cultural identity has been systematically destroyed under Stalin.
Today? Nothing.

I used to hop between browsers often, and for a few years Firefox felt significantly slower. Does that really matter that much? I don't think so.

I often think that Firefox never really got bad, the difference between FF and Chrome was never massive. It's a bit unfair that FF lost so much market share for that small difference.
I read "Skate a 10k" as in doing roughly 10x 1080s or 28 full revolutions. The actual meaning was disappointing.
So, as the OP, just want to add my current advocacy thoughts.

I have advocated for my family to use three different browsers of the last 20 years. First Firefox, then Chrome, now I push them all to just use Safari. They have all slowly migrated to Apple completely, fist with iPhones then to Macs.

Over the last 5 years I have pushed them to all use Safari, as it has better battery usage on all Apple devices, a “just works” sync across devices, and better default privacy situation than Chrome.

For me to advocate for Firefox (and move to it myself) it would need to be better at at least two of those three things than Safari.
Finding people from remote relatives and medical inferences.

If someone has access to enough nicely distributed DNA samples they can correctly identify you from your DNA even if you are not in any database only based on your family tree.

Varitasium video for reference: https://youtu.be/KT18KJouHWg

This is generally time consuming and done to identify criminals but it is very simple.
> meaning a scholar of Sanskrit or something else?
I studied Sanskrit for 5 years in middle school, so I'm familiar with more than the basics.

> Optimist in what sense
The one who wants to see a script for PIE discovered :)
To be honest I've tended to think of past or current statements, but I guess the trick is thinking about future statements which are harder to predict and get people to agree on.
One objective fiasco is the inability of FF on Android to keep multiple tabs in memory. Older versions were capable of it without issue, ever since the tab unloading feature, Firefox has been reloading tabs at the slightest pretense.

Switch apps? Tabs get reloaded when you're back.

Lock & unlock phone with Firefox in focus? Tabs get reloaded

Switch tabs in Firefox? Tabs get reloaded...

I wish I was just ranting, but all of the above happens with a single active tab loaded...
That would be accurate. They were price increases because of war. Same for Iran.

Inflation is not about changes in the world itself. The price of horse carriages has skyrocketed, because they're a luxury niche product now. The price of global travel has dropped to the point that people are semi-seriously suggesting that mach 15 travel by rocket might become a thing. Paris-Sydney in 30 minutes. That's not inflation and has nothing to do with the actions of the central bank.

House prices, by contrast, are inflation driven.

Inflation is a measure of the effect of the evolution of the money supply. It's done so the central bank can adjust course to optimize how smoothly the economy runs.

It is not a measure of how expensive it is for you to drive to the next city. When Washington decides to go to war, that doesn't affect inflation directly. When your city council decides to block the shortest route to the next city, that doesn't affect inflation, even if it doubles your cost to go there.
Long-term rental for colocation cages in an existing datacenter + long-term leasing contracts for the hardware + long-term support contract with a guy that lives close to the datacenter and keeps a stack of HDDs in his basement

So in effect I provide cloud services and cloud APIs on top of physical bare-metal servers that are maintained and housed by someone else.
> Designing a monospace font is much harder than a traditional, proportional one: being constrained by the same width of all glyphs can result in a boring or unreadable font.

A very ironic statement because I find the font to be absolutely unreadable.
Sure! This old one from GamersNexus runs through some pretty good detail and even arrives at the same "20C temperature reduction" conclusion I experienced. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d42PSM0CN8g
Best will be to youtube for your specific model laptop to see if there are any connectors to be particularly careful of when opening. The hardest part will be finding all of the screws to remove the bottom of the laptop. In addition to the x10 around the perimeter, my Dell has a little flap which hides two easy-to-miss screws.

And bonus, here is a bit of a theatrical conclusion to changing thermal pads on an Nvidia GPU https://youtu.be/-kPUq-q8tT8?t=410 (observed memory temperatures dropped from 110C to 70C, 40C reduction, and overall GPU performance doubled)
> Then you try to relocate a note, only to find
> that your favorite app’s search doesn’t seem
> to be as good as you thought it was at first.
> Now we don’t feel safe forgetting anymore

I guess I'm lucky that this rarely happens. Search works great, and is instant.

I kept waiting for deeper insight, like a system of prioritzation, or culling tricks. But the article seemed to just repeat itself: writing things down frees our brain, and forgetting is ok. We feel value in doing so, ok.
It's stable within a few tens of millions over the last years.
It can be even worse than suspending you, as early as 2018 i noticed they were shadow banning you based on VPN (PIA also). Meaning you could still post but not be seen, or have the ability to notify people you replied to. I've never since bothered to have an account there. Reddit's CEO, like Jack Dorsey, denies 'shadow banning', even though you can test it by getting -100 karma and watching your comments reach nobody. The negative karma shadow ban is why Reddit is the biggest hivemind on the internet, FYI.
I watch college soccer. There are talented players, talented coaches, shit players and everything in between. There are people who go on to become pretty known and there are people who die out in college soccer. I've never seen a single championship won by a team that doesn't have synergy going on between the players also, and not just a great top management.

Anecdotal:

There's a huge team here, wins most of the high level championship because they have a lot of money and end up buying worldwide players, so their access to the talent pool is broader. They also have the best coaches money can buy.

One year, one of the most famous players we've had decided to start up his own academy and create a new soccer team, with local people. He worked on it for a couple of years and came in and took first spot in the championship. Brilliant games.

They sold players due to their win, for a lot of money, and started the roster again. Next year, and since then, they have yet to achieve such a victory.

I would blame this situation on the synergy of the team and find it hard to imagine your world where the top management gets to decide who wins and who doesn't.
Almost three straight weeks of multiple livestreamers documenting every aspect of the protest non-stop for hours unedited all day and all night, of thousands of highly-skilled resourceful people with a deep knowledge of logistics and shipping - including of dangerous goods, and including possessing truckloads of fuel - and the best you can come up with is one clearly-unassociated utterly moronic lone actor supposedly attempting to "burn down a building" by lighting a few bits of paper in the middle of a hard floor of a building filled with smoke alarms and sprinklers and in clear view of a security camera and the building residents?
What does this argument even mean? Of course managers are involved in choosing who is on their team. That doesn't make them the team.
First past the post system is really hurting UK and US, removing it would reduce divisions and improve society
> The Nazi flags, the Gadsden flags, the Trump flags, the fact that they're saying racist, sexist, homopobic stuff in the Zello? The fact that their contributions are from right-wing US sources and the extreme right press is giving them publicity? How about the fact that they love Pat King?

From a distance it's very hard to judge what's true and what isn't. My level of trust in the media these days is extremely low so reading stories about Nazi Flags I'm thinking "click bait". Meanwhile forums like reddit - and slowly HN as well - are clearly filled with "paid shill" accounts. So what to trust?

> I've been living in downtown Ottawa for weeks, I've been harassed.

I'm sorry to hear that. I did check your HN profile briefly and you "seem legit"
Watch it from the beginning, its great
> With Manifest V3 in Chrome stopping the use of uBlock and friends, Firefox could be a real alternative that provides users with a visibly better experience.

Coincidentally a similar issue is why a number of people I know shifted away from FF to Chrome: breaking changes in the add-ons system which meant a lot of old ones stopped working completely and some major ones were slower to update then you'd expect. Moving onto better maintained extensions is a good thing in the end in terms of security and stability, but the hassle of needing to find/choose new options meant one of the sources of friction stopping people move to Chrome then existing even if they stayed with FF.

> If Mozilla fails to position themselves to capture these users

Hopefully they'll remember the other side of the coin and organise to make sure those users are aware their option is viable. I don't currently use FF much (though I've experienced some irritations in Chrome in recent months so maybe it is time for my bi-/tri-annual switch of primary browser) but the existence of a significant browser that isn't essentially a reskin of Chromium and isn't locked to one platform is important to avoid the monoculture issues we experienced in IE6's 90+% market share days.
Most of the benefits of credit card networks don't apply in the EU. Like the purchase insurance and easy chargeback are not easy at all here. My bank stopped the insurance a few years ago.

I think it's just that they don't make any money (their profits mainly evolve around interest and late fees), as mostly everyone here pays their CC bill on time and has only one card. There's also hardly any loyalty programs to speak of. I've never seen anyone do cashbacks and with the loyalty points you'll be lucky to get a towel set a year :P The whole situation is very different from the US.

Most people only even have the debit version of the card but even for the credit version it's like this. I still have both because some US companies don't accept the debit version of my card. Though it's becoming much less of a problem and I haven't used the card in years, will probably cancel it as it counts as an active loan.
Zeitung Mono Pro for me, rarely mentioned anywhere https://www.underware.nl/fonts/zeitung_mono/buy
SEEKING FREELANCER | remote

Stack: TypeScript, GeoJSON.

I'm looking for someone who can build an algorithm that based on GeoJSON can find jibes (turns) and for each jibe extract data like lowest speed.

https://github.com/surflog-tech/geospeed/issues/1

A session example: https://surflog.app/session/e8ff77fa-2b15-522f-976c-43bfbc36...

Contact: jacob@webcom.dk (no agencies please)
I'm pretty sure a certain chinese company invested ~300M$ couple of years ago[0] if i recall correctly.However the platform became totally unusable and a sh*tfest way before that,think ~2014+, mainly because it was the turning point where no transparency was maintained or provided anymore, especially when it comes to moderation of users & their posts and management of subreddits.By early 2016 this was almost 'proved', but at that point this tactic resulted in creating echo-chambers, which drove up users and made it the "successful" platform it is today.Turns out nobody really cares about transparency and doing the proper job when the users and numbers are constantly exploding due to the forementioned created echo-chambers.
By the way my guess why reddit was never russian-oriented or 'aligned' is because most russophile subreddits were actively targeted and shut down(for good reasons many times), whilst chinese subreddits, the 'official' north-korean (propaganda) subreddit, and many others, were kept up and almost treated as separate platforms from the mainstream website.

[0] ( https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/11/reddit-300-million/ ) Indeed it was,once again, Tencent, the company famous for destroying MMOs, infiltrate the western gaming markets and pollute it with micro-transactions, cosmetics, etc.We're on the edge of touching politics and geostrategy here and I don't want certain people to jump telling me i'm a conspiracy nutjob.At this point the record is there, go look at it.
I am a enterprise consultant, my clients will laugh in my face if I tell them we have to use some other company's server via internet. :-) The reason I asked is because we use metabase, and it was simple to host it because we just pulled the docker files and ran them. (https://www.metabase.com/docs/latest/operations-guide/runnin...)

I dont see any such instructions on your website so that why i asked. Thanks for your time by the way, your product looks very good.
This author's ideas are hardly original, Stephen King has said for a long time that keeping notes is a great way for a bad idea to stick around.

relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30098219
Strategies for Holding Yourself Accountable
> Is that actually conflated?

It's literally in the post from GP I am responding to:

> Bobby Knight led the Hoosiers to three national championships and 11 Big Ten championships. I'm not sure the definition of "bad manager" would fit succeeding at the most important metrics in sports - championship wins.

This feels like it's conflated.
And I find it very readable and pleasant. This is why there's more than one font in the world.
We don't want the toxic waste from Solar panel production [...]

I am really tempted to call this one bullshit. I will admit that I just started reading about this topic half an hour ago because of this thread, so I may be wrong and I will happily change my mind if someone makes the case. I just skimmed the first page of search results for toxic solar panel waste. They mostly seemed rather negative, so I don't think I only got to see the white washed numbers. However most numbers seemed a bit dated, 2016 was a year I repeatedly came across. I will not provide sources as I really just skimmed the articles and collected the numbers.

Solar panels are recyclable but the costs of USD 20 to USD 30 per panel are considered prohibitiv. Doesn't seem to bad to me, it's not negligible but also not outrageous. High recycling costs are attributed to low recycling volume while on the other hand the problem is described as a gigantic pile of toxic waste. Europe seems to mandate the recycling because it is not economically attractive.

For 2016 I found a number of 11,000 tons of lead, I am neither sure for what geographical area nor whether it is cumulative or for that one year. On the other hand I found that in the European Union an estimate 100,000 tons of lead are annually introduced into the environment from sport shooting, hunting, and fishing.

Another thing that gets mentioned is silicon dust during production. Seems a manageable problem to me if we think we can manage the handling of radioactive compounds for nuclear plants. There is admittedly probably a difference in scale and volume, so this might have an impact. Nitrogen trifluoride also gets mentioned, especially because of its carbon dioxide equivalent of about 17,000. I did however not notice any numbers about the amounts used or released. But this again seems not like an unmanageable problem.

Cadmium is also usually mentioned, about one percent of the amount of lead, but there is not much more information than that it is carcinogenic. Finally rare earths are often mentioned and their limited supply, the production condition, and so on just as in the discussion of semiconductor and electronics manufacturing in general. If I am not misremembering the easily accessible supply of uranium ores is also quite limited, especially if one considers a substantial expansion of nuclear power production.
This would be a political statement combined wuth cutting off millions of existing users with iphones from the appstore (breach of contract).
One thing they do is raise the bar for "public interest" scales used in legal matters. For example, protests make it more difficult for a government agency to claim information retrieval is "unduly burdensome" when compared against the public's interest. That reinforces the capabilities of journalism and so their message is more easily consumed by a wider public. In theory, anyway.
"Build it and they come" works, for example Hotmail and Google did not invest into marketing initially. But it works in non saturated market with a few players.
DigStack is a collaborative whiteboard without the learning curve. Invite anybody to collaborate by simply sharing a link to your board. These 'day passes' allow you to collaborate with people outside of your organization easily.
Decoherence is easiest to see in a MW setting. The basic observed fact is that at some point you need an observer that makes a clear, consistent observation.

Decoherence is a concept about an isolated state (that can be multi-valued, like dead cat / alive cat) that leaks out into the environment by entanglement with more and more environment states, and proceeds to "pull in" versions of you (as the observer) one by one as the versions of you are also entangled with the environment.

You can recurse this analysis and eventually you reach a point where the "leaf" quantum state only involves one outcome and is entangled with a single version of you, and at that point you don't need any collapse anymore. Also this process is completely deterministic.

The Copenhagen interpretation is a shortcut that basically says let's ignore all those intermediate interactions between the original "weird" state and the observers, in a very real sense you "collapse" the chain of entanglements. You also ignore that you have multiple observer versions of yourself and instead explain it as a probabilistic distribution from the point of view of the "pre-split" observer. This has turned out to be a good enough strategy in practical physics since the 1920s!

Note that none of this explains the quantitative aspect of it, the Born rule, or what it actually means that something's more probable than not. It just discusses how you can start with superpositions and end up with observers who don't see the superpositions.
sounds like the difference between utilitarianism and deontology - focused on outcome versus focused on process.
So, it sounds like learning HLSL (which is also what Unreal and Unity use natively, I believe) and cross-compile it where needed is the most portable approach nowadays? How well does the Kronos crosscompiler perform in practice?
An Orkney dig uncovering Britain’s stone age culture
Oh I expect the fraudster would quit if they are challenged about it, but people are insanely afraid of conflict around here.

Hiring someone is pretty much a choice the section heads can make. Firing someone, pretty much no matter why, is a choice the top level boss, 4 layers up, has to make, and they(government) are required to inform the unions a month in advance.
Can't you do a captcha with the WAF? I'm pretty sure that's an option on AWS
But there shouldn't, one day Comic Sans will rule them all.
Both of which happen much more often than with laptops, at least in part because they are treated as being more disposable, but maybe more directly because they are smaller.
Apache Eventmesh (Incubating)