skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I haven't worked there in over a decade, but if I worked there now, I would definitely be scraping eBay and all the other sites and closely monitoring all the accounts that I see for sale.

I think if you did that you would rapidly be asked to leave, because it would expose how few genuine users the site still has. I don't get the feeling - when I use reddit - that a majority of the comments or posts are genuine.
Nope. Internet infrastructure almost runs on furries nowadays.
[Site says "Don't let Big Tech keep you in the dark" followed by a Google captcha.](https://ibb.co/0tpf982)
Sometimes I will look up interesting restaurants in advance. Sometimes I just wander and walk into somewhere at random. Ratings are over-rated. I found my new favorite Sushi restaurant, Elephant Sushi, in SF just going for a walk around lunch time.

As for finding Wifi, it is incredibly rare I go to any restaurant or coffee shop I randomly see who does not have wifi.

As for checking pricing... If I think something is over priced I take a note to look it up online later. No need to be in a rush to spend money.

I used to make the same excuses but I encourage you to leave your phone at home long enough for the withdrawl symptoms to wear off and enjoy the self confidence to know you can navigate the modern world with your own brain even if you choose to go back to a phone. Consider it wilderness survival training.
Where does DDG get its search result? Do they scrape Google? If so how do they not bet banned both technically and legally?
Yeah, it would be quite an acquihire, and I am already stretching the definition by including Heroku!

A true acquisition still is a strong possibility, but certainly far less likely than before the IPO, and it might be described as a merger.
I actually don't get the outrage on this, anyone willing to undergo an experimental procedure should be held as a hero.

If this country didn't have an absolutely horrible criminal justice system, I would love something where inmates can sign up for experimental procedures in exchange for a full pardon. But knowing America, this was just encourage prosecutors to push inmates to get unnecessary procedures.
Huh…I haven’t had a Platinum Card for a few years (some other cards provided better value), but that’s disappointing.
Actually the transaction wasn't reversed, a distinct cryptocurrency was created (a "fork") which reversed the transaction. The new cryptocurrency adopted the name Ethereum and it became way more popular than the original, so the original had to rebrand to "Ethereum Classic" to avoid confusion. The new cryptocurrency was successful largely thanks to Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin endorsing it. Similar "attacks" were attempted on Bitcoin multiple times (e.g. Bitcoin Cash) but they never quite succeeded and are unlikely to succeed thanks to Bitcoin lacking some sort of active founder/leader. For a Bitcoin hard fork to succeed, there would need to be a large consensus not only among miners, but among users, merchants, exchanges, etc.
I was just thinking that what the NES really needs is the world's slowest disk drive.
5-6% is still very hefty. I doubt they'll go above 3% this year. Some of the inflation is actually transitional, so it shouldn't be above 5% once that settles down over the next year. Those are all guesses, or based on professionals who have written stuff (who are also sort of guessing).
> February 17, 2021
> OP isn't selling things directly to end-users

That's ridiculous. If you provide a whitelabel solution, you simply add consent checkboxes and and explanatory text, the same way shop systems and virtually all other whitelabel software meant to be embedded works.

> how culpable OP is for abuse of his tool's abilities

Regulators don't care where you sourced the software from that you provided. You provide it, you host it, you're culpable.
Didn't even know it's there...
I work for Google Search, and as I shared elsewhere, quoting still works. It really does. If you or anyone finds an example where you believe it doesn't, please let me know, and we'll debug. Typically the reasons people believe it is not working is because:

1) text appears in ALT text
2) text is not readily visible on a page (maybe in a menu bar or small text)
3) there's punctuation ("dog cat" will match "dog, cat"
4) page has changed after we've indexed it (so view the cached copy, if available)
The Dead Internet Theory, yet another dumb far right conspiracy.
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That's pretty hard for babies to do. I think in the Bible, only people of age to understand what they are professing ever get baptized. Even Jesus was in his 30's before he was baptized, and by definition he would understand better than anyone.
That fixed it here. It was a little odd that the new download had the same version number as the old, but it worked well.
Are you referring to the geoip issue ? https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/-/issues/28769

This was resolved and it didn’t appear something nefarious or any kind of ban was going on, so if you have some references I’d love to see them
Linode is a fairly underrated provider. Getting acquired will hopefully bring them more visibility.

For Akamai, I wonder if this acquisition will have a negative impact on their ability to work with other providers who are now competitors. Similar to how AWS has trouble signing clients in the retail industry.
I thought this too, but parents hand their kids phones to watch something on all the time, and having a Kids profile is more elegant than hunting in a menu for a Kids Mode.
This is not the case in my experience. I type a query with some parts in quotes and often get lots of results that have in small letters at the bottom something along the lines of “does not include <word in quotes>”, with no in bold highlighted part showing the phrase in the page context. This was not the case in the past and google made sure the word I put in quotes is absolutely mentioned somewhere

I’m guessing this happens when there are less results matching my phrase
I've seen a lot of resentment towards tech workers in tech-hubs for bringing up the cost of living. They're blamed for bringing up the prices with to their outsized spending power allowing them to push up the prices beyond what locals can afford.

Expats in poorer country exceed this by at least an order of magnitude or two in relative spending power. I wouldn't be surprised if a high density of expats would cause resentment among the locals due to the resulting gentrification.
What's the best alternative right now for secure web based email?
This is the other reason Google is failing to return good results; so much forum-type content has moved to Discord.
I find that my Apple Watch is a fantastic compromise. It has cellular data to stream music, a built in arm strap and it doubles as my run tracker
Have they gotten faster at applying updates? it would take something like 45 minutes to an hour to make any changes back in 2014, when Fastly was doing sub-minute updates for any CDN changes.
It's intentional. The first 5 games are ad-free. Most of the ad-revenue are from people who stick, so I kind of try to give people the best experience the first 5 games.
There are a lot of elected positions in the US that actually undermine democracy by themselves being democratically elected, such as sheriff, judge, and indeed election commissioner. These are jobs where the correct thing to do is often at odds with the popular thing to do, and favouring the latter over the former is potentially disastrous.
https://www.kaiostech.com/ is the lineal descendant of FirefoxOS. It got to scale on the same plan: attack the low end of the Android market where the fatter, more recent versions do not fit.
I'd take with a grain of salt any information from a website that claims that invoking satanic imagery will cause it to be manifested into reality: https://theconsciousresistance.com/on-lil-nas-x-satanism-and...
I think you’ll find all kinds of ‘libraries’ for doing that, especially in small embedded devices with a web front-end.

I also fear there’s software that correctly extracts all the digits of the version in the user agent, but then compares it as a string with a given version. That would get you

“100” < “99”
Wordle's stats would be easy enough to encode into a Base64 string that you could then copy and paste into a new one, or save in a text file as a backup... so if you're going to write something along those lines, consider doing that.
> Especially considering "admzip" is a misspelling as you admit?

I don't think this is true. A quick look at https://github.com/cthackers/adm-zip

> var zip = new AdmZip("./my_file.zip");

It's entirely possible that a person could be querying the exact variable name "admzip" for a variety results that should only be code snippets of the by-convention "AdmZip" variable name with no concern for the package name "adm-zip", which, by the way, Google will interpret hyphens as just whitespace, so it's the equivalent of searching "adm zip".

I know this could be a case because I do this kind of programmatic search all the time, and in fact I remember specifically searching the web for "AdmZip" and not "adm-zip" a few years ago.

And if there are no good results for "AdmZip", that's fine! At least I can, at a glance, quickly know that there are not many code snippets across the web lying around with that conventional variable name.
I keep a spreadsheet of subscription services. Mostly so that I don't forget which ones I am paying. I have a column where I automatically multiply the monthly cost of a service by 12, so I can see how much it costs me over time. That way I can ask myself whether a $10/month service is giving me $120 a year in value.

An improvement to this would be a date for the start of the subscription, and a running tally of how much it's cost in total: was this service worth the $850 it's cost me already?
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How does that support what you implied in your earlier comment? From what I see the incentives are just all wrong. Based on my limited reading, she appears as someone working within the legal system to keep her (ill gotten) wealth. You can condemn her for that, but it's a far cry from being in on some larger plan of faking her husband's death. And her not being "the sharpest tool in the shed" is even more evidence against her knowingly being part of a larger plan.
Bizarrely reminds of a decade ago when HP's Open webOS was intended to ship on PCs:

- https://www.engadget.com/2011-03-09-webos-will-on-every-hp-p...

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sS3Vk821w8
Fortunately, most of those web results give a pretty good rundown on the history of Linux. But yes, this is weird! I'll get it looked at.
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> no RTL override in the HTML source, the string is merely reversed

What? After opening the source, ctrl-f "representation" selects the reversed word. The source view just happens to interpret the RTL override.
> If PM decides to act maliciously, they can do so undetected. Unlike the mobile application who’s binaries get cryptographically signed to match the official codebase, there is no method to verify a web application.

Because everyone uses reproducible builds and verifies them for every automatic app update, right?

> Although they do use the same client side OpenPGP library maintained by ProtonMail (its likely the only one in the world that works in browsers), they have accounted for the concern and developed a system that allows you to compare the code in your browser with the code that they’ve published
Their implementation for the checksum is actually cool, I like it.

However, I believe that most people use protonmail for convenience and that it fits the threat model of the average joe.
If you're getting targeted by the NSA, you shouldn't use a browser with JIT enabled anyway.
It looks like Magniv is targeting Python in general. This is similar to ClearML. What are the differentiating points to Magniv compared to similar products?

It seems like the product also integrates with SCM systems. Are you using gitea and then containers to push code and data to execution like CodeOcean?

https://github.com/allegroai/clearml

https://codeocean.com/
That is creative :) Although I imagine when you have an upvoting ring you want to avoid the participants being linked together as much as you can
Googler, opinions are my own.

I believe this is exactly what it is.
well, that sucks
i think once google made the decision to go from returning results you want to see to returning results you want to see ( minus what google and their political friends don't want you to see ) created the incentive to look for alternatives.
And what exactly did I get wrong? Your response flirted with an ad hominem insinuation, namely that I am biased and emotional, and ignored what I said.
This is just nutjob bs.
"And the flaw is that it is relatively simple for ProtonMail to serve you a modified version of their web application or the underlying PGP implementation. There is no way to cryptographically verify that you are getting the official version of the web client as stored in their repository.

If PM decides to act maliciously, they can do so undetected. Unlike the mobile application who’s binaries get cryptographically signed to match the official codebase, there is no method to verify a web application."

If the web client is open-source (as at seems), can't anyone build it locally and compare the built files to what they were served?
To be clear, we signed a contract that explicitly prevented this API to be used for anything other than our particular commercial use case and access to production creds to this service was heavily restricted. I never once saw the service being abused, but you're absolutely right. The question I kept asking myself was: who is out there using this service against the vendor's TOS for whatever reason? This industry was largely built and shaped by people that didn't care at all about the rules, and the longer I work in this field, the more cynical I become about the effectiveness of just adding more rules. It feels like a pinky promise at this point.
I've been quite happy with tutanota since a couple of years.
Wow I had no idea there was a keyboard and BASIC ROM for the Famicom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_BASIC It's a shame this never got released for the NES in the USA. I would have had a lot more fun with this instead of the silly Rob robot.
PM lead for the Ecosystem team @ Netlify. Thanks for the feedback! This is precisely the balance we are trying to strike - simple enough to solve core problems that are routine, and yet offering an exit hatch to go and code some additional stuff that you might need in your applications.
They have their own web crawlers, as well as a deal with Bing (And perhaps others)
I can't remember the specifics, but about 4 million games are played on the site each month.
> “Unresponsive dude” lol. Interesting descriptor.

Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
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It took me a few tries to move off of Gmail onto FastMail and I still miss the Gmail iPhone app. I haven't found anything I prefer.

I suspect I'm not the only one and that a good desktop + mobile app would increase the number of people migrating away from Google. I frankly never would've seen myself use a third party client while I was still on Gmail.
+1 for MailSpring! It is easily the best desktop email application I have ever used!
Yep, confirmation from their staff here:

https://www.linode.com/community/questions/22243/google-and-...
Indeed. And alive immmediately before 9/11. And in the 90s, and the 80s. And the 70s.

Jingoism subsided? Really? MAGA, America First, The BNP, Britain First. Its really not gone away.

And surely an increase in empathy, tolerance and understanding is to be welcomed. Unless your definition of woke is something else - no-one who is "anti-woke" will actually tell me what they think it means, just vague insinuations that "they do x" with no concrete examples.
This worries me. I've been a happy Linode customer for a while. I've mostly only noticed Akamai when they were screwing something up for one of their customers. I try to be ready to migrate off of any service like this at the drop of a hat, but I suppose this is a good reminder to test my plans for getting off Linode, just in case.
Does the stock you like have a death-spiral PIPE deal like the one in the article? If so, sell. You're correct that someone is pounding the stock down, but what you're missing is that management is helping them do that by printing new shares and selling to the PIPE lender at a discount. It's just a way for management to pay their own salaries by diluting the existing shareholders.

There will be no reckoning. What they're doing is scummy but legal. The selling will only stop when no outsiders will buy any shares at any price.

Well, legal as long as they don't short ahead of time. But either way, it's a terrible investment for you.
> Aren't there a lot of immigrants from poorer countries in California?

Poorer countries - maybe. Immigrants who are poor but end up being wealthy? No.

Most people who immigrate to SV are wealthy or at least upper middle class in their home country. (US or otherwise - actually. This is prevalent across all countries - again - I don't meet people who are from poor backgrounds in SV, regardless of country)
No. Yet the 'hero' was patently unfit for the job they sought, and cheated other qualified candidates to get it. At a possible societal cost in the billions.

It might have been a good movie, had the protagonist been actually qualified for the job but cheated of the opportunity because they were the underclass. That would have played into the theme instead of refuting it.

I am baffled by the reputation Gattica has received.
PM lead for Ecosystem @ Netlify. It's currently free while in beta. We haven't yet announced any pricing for the feature.
> If you could liquidate the deceased person's estate and exchange it for consumables or capital and donate those to a good cause, is that really worse for society than the nebulous idea of increasing the value of everyone's money by destroying the deceased person's money?

That would depend on who gets to decide what counts as "a good cause". I can think of worse ways the purchasing power could be employed than distributing it widely among other users of the currency. Even assuming the best of intentions, you're still directing resources rather arbitrarily away from other goals in favor of the selected cause, which is not necessarily a net benefit to society.

In general it makes sense to follow the wishes of the deceased, if they are known—it serves no good purpose to distinguish between gifts made just before death vs. ones made at the time of death via a will, and doing so penalizes those who die unexpectedly before making their bequests. Beyond that, I see no reason why relatives of the deceased should have an automatic claim in the absence of a will—but their claim is stronger at least than any the state might make, so given the choice I'd rather see the property go to the heirs than the state. Personally, though, in the absence of a will I would just consider the property abandoned and available for anyone to freely use and thus claim for themselves via homesteading. In some cases that process may have already begun—for example, if the owner of a house dies without leaving a will then anyone else who was already living there (presumably the deceased's family) would have priority to assume ownership once the deceased's claim was abandoned. Their prior investment in the home didn't matter as long as it had an owner, but with that owner gone it should count in their favor for the homesteading process.
They explicitly choose not to sell to the developer. They want big fish customers. This is why I can’t find pricing on their homepage.
> larger sites like Allrecipes

But the problem here really is the consumer. In the past, people would have bought a recipe book or subscribed to a cooking magazine and thought nothing abnormal about having to exchange money for data. Now the consumer expects quality data for free. Obviously something has to suffer.
The OpenSearch standard is great and definitely an improvement where it's supported, but unfortunately as far as I'm aware in most browsers that's limited to site-search (in website search after typing a url). It doesn't work at all on iOS.

On Firefox it makes it easier to talk a non-technical user through how to change their default search engine, and at least they aren't entering search pattern strings into a settings field as with Chrome.
A 2012 Bitcoin hack victim was none other than a lead developer of Bitcoin. Back then, they ran a Bitcoin faucet on it that gave out a paltry 0.25 Bitcoin at a time.

I never bothered to jump through those hoops for like a dollar (now about US$10k):

http://gavintech.blogspot.com/2012/03/bitcoin-faucet-hacked....

He only lost 5 bitcoin (like $20 then or $200k today), but another lost 3100, or around… $124 million today:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=66916.0

They ran a Bitcoin mining pool and this hack motivated them to create a hardware wallet:

https://blog.trezor.io/how-trezor-was-born-from-a-hacking-at...
Damn man. Sounds nice . What website was it?
The reason we know that neutrinos aren't massless is that they oscillate between neutrino types. A massless particle must always travel at c, so it doesn't experience time, so it can't decay or change into another particle.
Managed databases should be coming soon to Linode: https://www.linode.com/products/databases/
I was skeptical when I started reading, but then I started thinking about it, and 99% of the time I use Google (actually Startpage, I don't use Google directly), I already know what websites have the content I'm looking for. Those sites just have piss-poor search tools.
This disingenuous line of argument is reminiscent of Antifa greenwashing that was common a few years ago. Feign ignorance, pretend you have no idea what kind of people identify as Antifa, and then ask "Isn't fascism bad? So why is it bad to be anti-fascist?"

...while Antifa is literally burning down cars and shops indiscriminately...
Right but its a toy that will actually be human rated for flights from and landings on Earth. Sure its not big or flashy, but it will get the job done.
This is an interesting mix. In my experience Linode has a good UX and is well targeted at SMEs, whereas I'm not sure anyone has bought an Akamai contract anywhere but a golf course, and it has a UX to match.

Is this Akamai trying to buy access to a market who would previously not even consider them, or is it Akamai trying to buy access to the more general cloud infrastructure market? If they're trying to do both I can't see it going down well.
You may have convinced me to move over to Vultr.
Bullshit time that still ends in delivery of world changing products, pretty consistently. He can bullshit about timelines all he wants as long as he's delivering at this level eventually, as far as i'm concerned.
If every single platform or watering hole is deemed 'toxic' and all they have in common is that people frequent them then I guess what that really means is that people in large quantities when they exchange ideas and information are 'toxic'.

It's not the platforms.
Having user auditable source code and verifiable builds is pretty much the gold standard approach. Yes, the vast majority won't check the checksum and even less well check the source, but it only takes one critical person to get the ball rolling upon compromise.
For bonus points: I'm trying to figure out if this will work on Chromebooks. So you flash a coreboot+tianocore build (mrchromebox is a popular prebuilt option) to convert your EOL chromebook to a normal UEFI laptop... and then install Chrome OS Flex, and get a supported Chrome OS device again? I can't see any reason it wouldn't work...