skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Granted, no, I don't want my $2,000 exercise entertainment center to show up visibly rusting to pieces, but as a mechanical engineer who works a lot with weathering steels (like Corten), and steels of all kinds that rust more or less, all the scare quotes in this article around "rust converter" and "cosmetic oxidation" are so over the top it's comical!

Rust conversion/"reformation" is a common chemical process that does exactly what it says - it turns iron oxide into a more stable composition to protect the underlying steel. Cosmetic oxidation is also a known and normal engineering thing - it's EVERYWHERE in architectural cladding, planter boxes, etc.

I understand Peloton's being pummeled in the press recently for the old (and new) CEO, and this is a continuing hit piece, but I can only imagine the furor if Peloton had decided to scrap/trash all those frames instead of applying a completely normal and minor metal finishing touchup.

Tip for anyone who's disturbed by rust: don't look too closely anywhere under your car, or within your appliances. You might witness some cosmetic oxidation! The horror!
What a terrible claim. For one, if you take a look at their other comments and submissions they don't talk Russia much for propaganda. For two, if they were, I'd like it if their paymasters wasted more money on them. Feed a troll, bankrupt the Ruskies!
> Closed-source software doesn't allow verifying it, so it's safest to assume it's insecure.

The bulk of the article was a response to this claim: it covered how closed-source software can have its security analyzed through black-box techniques. I recommend giving it a read before dismissing it.
It‘s important to make the distinction between facial expressions and emotions …

A while back we made some glasses with photoreflective sensors to detect facial expressions, got so many requests about using it for emotion detection.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9PMzpsDg518

Yet, that’s not what it does … maybe I was just naive and it didn’t help we called it affectiveWear.
Not a single charter right has been overridden. Every act undertaken under the EA is on the official record (available to the opposition parties). Parliament can revoke or partially revoke any component of the EA at any juncture. Then it has a followup discussion/analysis phase built in.

Let's be clear -- there is no silencing component to this act. If someone has unfairly seen their accounts frozen, do a tell-all sad tale to every media outlet you can find. Rant on twitter. Share those Facebook pages. There are plenty of outlets that would love it. There are political parties who would make this their battle cry, using it to seal their own ascension.

But there isn't a single case. Not one. No sad tales. Now accounts have been frozen -- we know that for sure -- but the people whose accounts have been frozen have been organizers and direct participants. People who knew what was coming and had literally weeks of warning to stop or face consequences. There isn't a lot of sympathy there. But the poor waitress in some small town who gave $20...boy, that story will give this country a new government.

Yet...where is it?
Thank you for the wonderful guest post (and the kind words!)
Well you'd hope the Framework would mean neither of us have to be.

This is what I've ultimately found to put me off the project - what I can customise I mostly don't need to, and the things I'd really like choice on: keyboard style, trackpad, etc. I can't.
Russia in NATO? Come on! The _point_ of NATO is to defend against the wry type aggression Russia is visiting on Ukraine this very moment. Im not sure you grasp the situation.
With some combination of good luck and planning, these factors can all get easier with age.

-You may amass some wealth and have an affordable mortgage or paid-off house.
-The need to obey/conform may diminish with age, and you may find peers with values more compatible with your own.
-You may be able to cultivate relationships with peers whose morals are reasonably compatible with your own.

I'm around middle-age, and so far these things have been getting easier and easier.
I don't generally agree with these protestors, but the government's approach to shutting them down is a major threat to freedom in Canadian society.

Freezing their bank accounts when they have not been proven guilty of any crime is an abuse of power.

Interfering with the social funding drives of a political resistance movement sets a precedent that might affect all political protest in the future.

I don't know what to think of the staged media campaign smearing people for bringing their kids to a protest. Should the state be able prevent you from exposing your kids to your deepest convictions? Maybe they should have smeared my parents for taking me to church, women's centers, and union picnics.

If the police and government had taken the appropriate steps at the outset of this protest (parking tickets, towing vehicles, laying charges for blocking streets), none of this would be even close to necessary now. But as the article points out, that would be very visible, and would require a bit of political courage.
> It's totally disingenuous to use phrases like logging in detail when there are no details to log.

That's not disingenuous. You disagree with me about what counts as "details to log". Nobody is acting in bad faith.

> As I have previously said, you're totally wrong and your misunderstanding is so far from what I said that it's hard to understand how you got there.

I made a post talking about the difference between a "CDN that tracks people" and a "CDN that doesn't track people".

You responded by linking a specific CDN as an example of a "CDN that doesn't track people".

So I guessed that you agreed that "CDN that tracks people" and "CDN that doesn't track people" are both things that exist.

Why is that guess "so far from what you said that it's hard to understand"?

You're saying you don't think that, so why didn't you just say "No CDNs can track people"?

If every CDN is a "CDN that doesn't track people", then what use is it to link the terms of a specific CDN? If no CDNs can track people, then it doesn't matter what their terms say!

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But as to your argument, I think your definition of tracking is too narrow, but I don't see any way to convince you otherwise so I'm not going to attempt that.
Thank you! I shared it with the team
I'm sure there' space in the tutorial area. A general point for $tech:

If any reader is thinking of writing a tutorial, do check if it's been done before. Likely a grossly simplified example of how to do X while the person reading it has read upteen tutorials on how to do X, Y and Z but still doesn't know where to keep configuration files, or how anything interacts with anything else.

Instead, think of writing Series Of Tutorials That Together Build Moderately Fully Fledged Thing Including Satellite Stuff Like, in this case, Nginx, or SMS, or why XX characters for an email address string, or whatever of the plethora of things to Make It Work are needed.

Some books do this. Not a huge number though, certainly not compared to hit-and-run tutorials.

Call them books. Call them Tutorial Super Series. I don't think the little more time invested would not generate outsized returns.
https://www.reuters.com/
Ooooh, I understand now, and I do apologize for misreading your comment.

Banks do offer bill pay services, you just set it up and they mail a check every month. To your point, I don't think there's a way to get your bank to send the recipient cash every month, but I feel like that's a moot point since your cash is already in the banking system at that point.
Why would you pick nginx over envoy?
If anyone is interested in the strategy I took to try defend New Zealand from being torn apart by the Convoy protests, I've documented it here.

https://www.facebook.com/thomas.minnee/posts/101600891209174...
Steam downloads are plain HTTP in separate file chunks. Easy to cache and load balance across connections.
To be fair they were fighting for docker swarm which ended up losing, so it's not surprising that they're on the back foot.
You can get yourself all twisted up in semantics if you want.. lots of people seem to be arguing all sorts of goofy stuff - Canadians that work in the banking sector actually know the government is telling the truth. That is what is actually going on.
Ok, fine, perhaps we need to take Trudeau's measures more seriously, and the ramifications of his measures, but guess what else we need to take seriously?

The current threat of Trump-inspired fascism worldwide. Of which the "protests" in Canada are but one facet.
> If TDD is so great, why is it so uncommon in the industry?

Likely because it's not actually that great. Every ultra-dogmatic TDD programmer I've met has also generally been weirdly argumentative about literally everything.

I've never met nor heard of a TDD fundamentalist that I looked up to.
lol. I did some homework on this idea. Check this out: https://purse.io/earn/btc
IDK, he said the scope is a donation of over $100,000 - so probably zero people should be worried?
You did not mention the Lightning Network, where fees are negligible. You cannot seriously research on bitcoin without coming across the Lightning Network.
> they haven’t yet figured out that it doesn’t work when I’m looking straight them.

They don’t have forward facing eyes, so they might not understand that a human has to turn its head to see something.
React was a pretty big step for frontend-development; people have done good and bad things in React just as they've done in any other framework, but the important thing it (or other frameworks like it) did was establish a better way of tying state to a series of rendered elements that was better than doing CSS-selector-fu and trying to update things that way.
Yep, that's exactly what I was referencing in GP!
Once you know you are on the side of good everyone who disagrees with you must be assigned to an out-group. That way you don't have to listen to them.
I've now implemented a JSON API for you to use at /api.

Example to get the tech topic via API:
https://brutalist.report/api/tech

Or front page:
https://brutalist.report/api/

Enjoy!
Strategy I Tried to Defend New Zealand from Being Torn Apart by EndTheMandates
> Every ultra-dogmatic TDD programmer I've met has also generally been weirdly argumentative about literally everything.

Have you considered that has nothing to do with TDD and everything to do with being ultra-dogmatic?
Scotland's Hate crime bill: Hate talk in homes ‘must be prosecuted’ (2020)
I can't really decide if Bluetooth or USB should be listed at the most disastrous success story in modern history. Both are an absolute mess, but so widely adopted that they couldn't possibly be viewed as failures.
Also us secondary people (the majority) whose English is not native. My first thinking when I tried wordle was that for sure it's a word that I don't know...but all the words in the main list are known by us as well.
I recently setup Cloudflare email forwarding to receive emails in various mailboxes depending on the address, and use SES to send mail.
When I tried to sign up, I had to scan my driver's license, enter my SSN, take a picture of myself and attach a bank account. Doing all of that kind of goes against the anonymity aspect.
I'd mentioned how Wordle clones failed to copy its success because they didn't understand what made it unique before, the article does a decent job too: https://twitter.com/esesci/status/1481734261434507268
Maybe Elon shouldn’t have fired his entire PR department. This is what happens. The closest thing now is a comment on hacker news
I took it to mean if the "movement" (of which you are a member) is donating that much money, but I can see your interpretation as well. It's ambiguous, which is not a good look for an official on such an important topic.
Fun fact : a least one city in the country has a large percentage of bar being cash only. ( New Orleans )

It’s clearly to have difficult to trace accounting.

It’s a blip, but still, that exists and I don’t see that changing any time soon for those particular places.
Wisdom is life, whereas folly is undead and feasting on brainz as we speak.
That and blocked on many firewalls, especially corporate ones.

Also, Opera used to support torrent downloads.
Anyone claiming this was a "peaceful protest" is I think at this point choosing to ignore the mountain of evidence to the contrary.

Separately, at what point does a protest cease to be peaceful?

What percentage of bad apples would satisfy you that this wasn't a peaceful protest? 1%? 10%? 50%? I'm curious because you can make that argument about pretty much any protest/disruption.
I'm Canadian and I'm both familiar with CCLA and glad they exist, especially at the moment. Not to be hyperbolic, but many people around the world don't know Amnesty International exists until they find themselves locked up without due process and find that they have a weighty advocate.
In the asymmetric centralised case of a reasonably established business accepting payments from thousands of people (and barely, if ever, issuing payments in the other direction) it's not. It's about the same, barring this hyperbolic stuff about "despising" coins.

In the generalised case, e.g. I need to pay my friend, or a builder, or a taxi driver, or someone at a market stall - essentially any standalone human, it's a complete mess. You need an account, so you need to decide whether you're an individual or a business, then you have that account, then you need a terminal for cards or an app or bank numbers for them to use an app to transfer or...

With cash: here is $20, done.

Cashless payments impose a bureaucratic structure which simply does not exist with cash. You give me thing I have thing, job done, bish bash bosh.
Raspberry pi OS has both.

Regarding hosting, I am not exactly sure that it changes anything. You still have to seed the torrent, so the file needs to be hosted somewhere. What is reduced is the bandwidth, but you rarely pay for bandwidth.

I do like the torrent option, but it’s a little more work for the person who downloads.
Some websites optimize exit intent by breaking the back button. Some malls optimize for it by making themselves difficult to navigate. It may not be a dark pattern to you, because you know how it works, but it might influence another person. I hope there will always be engineers and designers who refuse to implement them.
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Wordle

mechanics are nearly identical to the 1955 pen-and-paper game Jotto and the US television game show Lingo

He had created a similar prototype in 2013, the prototype allowed for endless play, with players able to play puzzles immediately after each other, and its wordlist was unfiltered.

In mid-October 2021, he made it public after it "rapidly became an obsession" with relatives

The game became a viral phenomenon on Twitter in late December 2021, after Wardle added a sharing element to the game, letting users copy their results in the form of a grid of colored square emoji. The feature was inspired by a group of friends from New Zealand
Ah, understood. I read your original wrong then.
It is a matter of principle.
I have not watched the movie but read reviews - they fictionalized and combined different aspects to make it filmable. The real writer embedded herself in vanlife for years and met a lot of different people across the USA who were living vanlife for one reason or another, so instead of focusing on one person's life per the movie as I understand it, the book spends time with different people for months, the audiobook was about ten hours with people and background stories about people and situations which might give a more comprehensive overview of what was happening at that time and now.
Past: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29002669
Facebook reportedly was using Bittorrent to distribute their own application across their servers. I remember outreach presentations where they mentioned this over 10 years ago, and this article seems to have some corroborating details: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/04/exclu...
Already makes the crucial mistake:

Security people always want to "set policy" "educate on practices" and "enforce". You've already lost the battle.

PROVIDE SOLUTIONS. Why recommend all this "policy" when what you need to do is provide, at a minimum, a reference implementation. If you get called in as part of security architecture, PROVIDE A SOLUTION.

Because if you don't the devs will do the absolute minimum, and likely will have backdoors galore, especially as your policies impose real restrictions on their systems support quality of life, ability to respond to production issues, and iterate to produce features.

The other persistent issue with security is that it is anathema to automation, and therefore efficiency. So dovetailing with providing a solution, these practices for 2FA and SSO (which invariably involves horrible popup UIs and other hacky things) will block, say, automated backups, auditing, monitoring, etc that also require access. So be ready with those.
Don't they? https://www.login.gov/help/verify-your-identity/overview/
Bitcoin is hardly cost prohibitive. When was the last time you sent a transaction?
The last one I sent cleared at 2sats/byte and was <$1. Are you going to buy your coffee with it? No, probably not, but that hardly makes it a useless as currency replacement. Replace-by-fee doesn't make small transactions any less trustworthy either, since you should never trust any unconfirmed transaction (by definition, if its not on the blockchain its not yet a transaction). Furthermore, the lightning network blows away the competition in terms of cost per transaction, and while not perfectly trust-less (unlike the base layer) it has far less custodial risk than a bank or credit card account. If for example your counter-party goes rogue, at worst you just close the channel resulting in a rollback to the last settled balance state, minus an on-chain fee.
Dreams being caused by random static doesn't need to mean that there isn't something transcendent, significant, or purposeful going on. For any given pet theory about what dreams "mean" or what they're "for", I just don't think there's a good way of falsifying it.

At the same time there's plenty of evidence that everyone's brain is a lot weirder and deeper than what we're consciously aware of. I think the truth just has to lie somewhere a lot spookier than dreams being essentially meaningless.
What Is Truth Social? All You Need to Know About Donald Trump's Social Network
I think it's an even better personal success than Wordle, or at least different. It was a man's labor of love for years, which tied together all his interests: music, art, programming, games.

And better yet he built a career out of doing all of those things and still owns and maintains it years later. Presumably still loves it too.
Office space on Campbell parade and I'd sign up
> Imagine if we could sort Google search results alphabetically. Imagine if we could sort Facebook "News Feeds" by any criteria. How would this affect advertising.

AAAAAASEO.com will be the first result for every search.
I basically agree. Here’s why I think interest is so odious though: barring rounding errors like minted coins and federal reserve notes, our civilian money supply is bank created deposits. Anyone who borrows at interest from a bank will have to get more money than the bank initially created when it originated the loan. In aggregate it’s clear that it’s impossible for all borrowers to pay back usurious loans. It’s a fundamentally unjust system that guarantees that no matter how well they manage their finances, some borrowers must be forced to default.
Why is the error occurring in the first place? In my opinion, exceptions/errors should be rare. If it's a software problem, it should eventually be fixed. If it's an infrastructure problem, it should be fixed. It's not just something that should continue to happen without any mitigation what so ever over time.
One might say the same about the AWS management console.
As a resident of the city in question, lets talk facts(whatever that means) if you care to read on..

Almost nothing was shut down as a result of this protest. You could travel over 99.5% of the city and forget a protest was taking place. Almost anything that was shut down, was shut down voluntarily.

Only the 3-4 blocks immediately adjacent to the Parliament buildings (where else do you go to protest your federal government's policies?) were partially blocked with parked vehicles (Mainly trucks, again very relevant to protesting a policy involving trucking.) This area is 90% + unoccupied government office space ( they work from home ). Almost all roads had at least one lane open for local traffic, and a route was cleared for members of parliament to be able to drive into work without obstruction.

A few residential side streets and a few high priced condo buildings were on the edge of this area. Those people did hear a lot of honking :( and perhaps had to see what people look like outside of their shiny city. I personally think that the important people in the high priced condos were a big reason why our local politicians were foaming at the mouth to wipe this group off the face of the planet.

The honking was mostly resolved by a court order to stop honking and after 2 weeks, the mayor actually talking to them to ask them to move; which they then did (pretty much).

While I had not been paying much attention, on Friday, my wife (muslim) who reads the news, was completely beside herself at the invasion of horrible violent people into the city and how minorities would have to go into hiding etc.. really total fear..

On Saturday, I took my wife and our kids to the protest to see this for ourselves (hard sell.) I was able to find parking without any issue or traffic about 10 minutes walk from parliament (there was space closer but blocked by police.) Once we got into the area near the parliament it was very loud and chaotic with the truck horns blasting (my kids enjoyed) and the smell of diesel fuel in the air (my wife did not enjoy.) But what we found were not angry people, but happy people. People made way for our stroller, help carry it up snowy stairs and thanked us for coming.

While I don't think my wife became a supporter, she certainly didn't have any further (irrational) fear of this group over the next 3 weeks, which we lived completely normally.

I'm not sure why it is so easy to hate people you have never met or care to meet, but it certainly not making this world a better place.
Magpies have learned to remove tracking devices, but we haven’t. Makes you wonder which is the smarter species?
That's what makes it so easy!
But once you get pretty good at it you can choose to start with a suboptimal word, like a handicap.
Links in the table of contents don't work, they're missing the '.' period character in the URLs.

From the ToC:

> https://abarrak.gitbook.io/linux-sysops-handbook/#1-processe...

The working link is:

> https://abarrak.gitbook.io/linux-sysops-handbook/#1.-process...