skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bet this flag is the bane of the existence of some developer maintaining a flag database or something. Like, having to rejigger the entire schema to fit this thing in, telling war-stories to the new devs coming in: "Kid, you don't even know how weird flags get...". At some point he'll write an article that's like "Falsehoods programmers believe about flags", and this will be the example for like seven of the points.
> Within 5 years, 10 years at most, Europe will have transitioned far enough to renewables that energy is a lost cause as geopolitical tool. Then Russia truly is screwed.

Genuine question, how can Europe transition to renewables until we solve storage at city scale? Because to me until future tech the trajectory looks more like gas will be the ~50% baseline for decades to come (or nuclear).
If emails can be intercepted most password based sites with an email based Forgot Password flow are vulnerable.
Post links to the technical reviews, or I will continue to believe you are an Apple sales rep.
Indeed, let's make sure only articles allowed are those with a cheesy work anecdote at the start for those who fall asleep too easily, then the entire life story of the subject person beginning with their dad, and ten screenfuls down you may finally learn what the article is supposedly about.

I'm not even exaggerating, that's one of the top posts from the past week. Editors of longreads in ‘serious’ publications love this formula for some mysterious reason.
Another option is calling it "OskarS presents: Fun with flags" (https://bigbangtheory.fandom.com/wiki/Sheldon_Cooper_Present...)
No blanket bans on websites please. I dislike Twitters interface as much as the next guy, but if it annoys you so much, then use an adblocker filter.

twitter.com##[id^="layers"] > [class^="css-"]:has([dir^="auto"]):not(:has([aria-expanded])):has(a[href^="/"]):has-text(/Log in|Sign Up/)
twitter.com##html[dir]:style(overflow: auto !important;)
Ah, so my doubt was correct, you're dissatisfied! Even when I assume good faith and try to lay out the points as best I can, to give my best shot at justifying my argument like you asked, they're suddenly all "red-herrings".

>The topic is a rate limit set high enough that no human could accidentally trigger it.

No, that's not the topic I was writing about. Discussing this would be a change of topic, because this entire time we were talking about a system that the author did accidentally trigger while making perfectly legitimate use of the system to try and restore his account in an understandably emotional state, and the machine profiled his typing cadence, IE the rate at which he was typing, as basis to deny him service. Here is the excerpt:

"I still hadn’t heard back from Instagram so I sent them another complaint, angrier this time, typing with a great noisy clacking of the keyboard, warning that the longer they took to act, the more they put their users at risk. This wasn’t about me, I wrote, except, implicitly, in all the ways that it was about me. I slapped the send button and a warning box immediately popped up that said: ‘Facebook’s systems determined that you were going too fast when taking an action. You must significantly slow down. You are engaging in behaviour that may be considered annoying or abusive by other users.’ So now I was the troll? Me, with my burner, my bugging device, my fake account and my self-righteous mission? It was an outrage."

I specifically said I was okay with rate limiting physical constraints that make service more efficient like post bandwidth, but I am not okay with using any kind of analysis of user's direct button inputs themselves to assess their likely intentions.

>Let's discuss that topic or agree not to discuss.

Deal. You have decided not to talk about what I was actually talking about in the first place, and I refuse to agree to switch topics to "that topic" IE your obviously shifted goal post, and we both move on to greener pastures.

https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/bots/what-is-rate-limiti...

Above is a great post about what rate limiting is. Rate-limiting is not about monitoring key presses, it is about requests sent to the server. At the bottom of this page, they describe "bot management", IE trying to detect a bot by inputs made in the page. An example would be ctrl+f'ing quickly to search through a page on twitter for something particular, causing your account to get locked. Which can also be infuriating, and is a lot more like what I'm talking about.

Everyone who posted in thread besides from me has been "getting it twisted", by conflating rate-limiting with input monitoring when I have been unequivocably stating the distinction between the two as soon as the "zinger" accusation was first made. But that's how they do it on hacker news, one "You're against X?" or "Ah, then you must be for Y" derails the entire conversation and people with the reading comprehension and good faith to put it back together are just absent somehow. Hecking Genius.
I've never come to understand the disdain for tweet threads. Sure, a blog would be nice, but as a reader I have no idea if it's going to render correctly on mobile or be inundated with terrible ads. At minimum there'll be a braindead cookie banner taking up 1/3 of the screen. Meanwhile, the author now has to go set up a blog somewhere, link to it, moderate comments on two forums, etc. All because people can't read with a faint horizontal line between coherent thoughts? Or is there something I'm missing?
It reminds me of The Matrix.

The machines tried at first to make humans always happy in the virtual world they've created. They did that not out of care for humans, but in order that they could peacefully harvest energy from the oblivious humans' bodies.

As I remember it, it didn't go well in terms of production. So, the machines replicated the real not-always-so-happy world instead.

I'm not trying to suggest anything btw.

Or, am I?
WindowServer is hungry for memory on M1 Macs
IMHO that's the beauty of HN. By "sifting" through "unrelevant" submissions you discover things that you wouldn't have looked at otherwise.
That's probably it. Jobs was a prick but not like Trump in many ways. I mean he was actually rich instead of just playing the part for one, lol.
Or as a community, if we don't see a nitter link in the comments, add one.
That is just a load of shit, I am so tired of this toxic positivity. Of course its a choice in the first place, but choice is not what brings you there. You need to choose right turn, yes, yes! But you have to walk the path towards the destination and that is a whole different story. If all you postulate that it is enough just to make the right turn, then… ah, whatever.
1% could be the difference between breakeven and loss. I am a Linux user with 2 "low" resolution monitors, because I don't trust software support for higher resolutions, but admittedly also because 1080p is fine for me.
Here's the full link: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/onetime-codes-share-your-2...

I'm thinking about building a service which is capable of receiving your 2FA SMS texts from third parties, and forwarding them to you via email.

We'd do this by registering numbers on your behalf, which you'd then use when signing up for the third-party (or setting up 2FA later).

This has a number of advantages:

SMS can be unreliable and/or slow
your phone might not be nearby, charged, or have signal
you could share the codes with other trusted contacts (via email, or have their own accounts to view online)
can use auto-generated numbers to reduce risk (multiple numbers, multiple services)
"new phone who dis?" no probs, your number isn't bound to any of those services any more

There would be an option to forward directly via email and/or to view the latest code(s) on the site.

I can see this being especially useful for SMEs where a lot of 'personal' SaaS plans are being used—where there's often only a single root user which multiple people access—or individuals who dislike being bound to a phone number.

I will never have enough information to access their account for the 3rd party service, and I'll only be processing the codes. Privacy & security is my primary concern with this, I am not interested in holding the keys to anyone's castles, so I will be operating on a minimum trust basis.

Really keen to get some thoughts on this project. If I go ahead with it, I'm intending to build it as an Open Startup and share progress in public.

I've got a landing page here for those who wish to register their interest: https://onetime.codes/

I've also got a bare-bones post on ProductHunt if that's more your jam: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/onetime-codes
If you can’t understand why it’s more expensive and less efficient to run 1 unit of work per server on 100 servers as opposed to fitting them into 20 larger servers then I’m not sure what to say.
His ties are questionable but they would actually be useful instead of the hotshot idiots now putting their weight into the dialogue. At that time the relations to Russia were far better and it would be desirable if they return to that. Especially for safety concerns. But after 9-11 Russia had to be tamed in the context of the war on terror. The connections of Schröder predate that.
Foes now friends: US stealth pilot and the Serb who shot him down (2012)
I agree with this.

This is asked for somewhat regularly as well as banning paywalled sites. It would be wrong to do so.

In general I think it's good to have the primary source be the linked posting. If that's a Twitter thread or an original price of journalism on a paywalled site, and its interesting to the HN community it should be linked here.

What the OP if suggesting is that the only Twitter threads that are submitted are submitted by the Twitter user themselves, that's a tiny proportion of posts. If someone sees a twitter thread that would be interesting to the HN community there is no other option but to post it.
Relatable story here about security.

My dad is a pilot, and pre 9/11, I would sometimes join him as a kid on flights from Europe to the US. I still vividly remember walking with a backpack behind my dad in pilot uniform trough all the US airport "security" without them checking anything.

Fast forward several months after 9/11: even the pilot had to take off his shoes and get them checked.

Flying really was amazing and luxurious in the 90'ies. On the other hand: the price has gone down a lot making flying a lot more accessible.
samsung TVs have the worst behavior when connected to a computer. Every once in a while, you get a screen that appears as if there's no signal, but instead it's asking you to "configure". But there's nothing to "configure", except to select that the HDMI is connected to a "PC". If you don't do that, there's no way to have a stable, full picture. If you do it, it deliberately limits you to two picture settings presets. The settings details menu often doesn't come up - you have to perform about 12 navigational actions to be able to control brightness etc. And this kind of crap goes on and on and on and on and on
Obligatory "Chicken" strip from The Parking Lot is Full (PLIF), 1996-03-15 [0]

[0] http://j.aufbix.org/plif/archive/wc072.gif
True, different tools for different jobs.

That brings back repressed memories of the painful experience when a client came in with a Quark file (desktop publishing) that they wanted converted into a website. Getting the data out was difficult enough, actually formatting it and trying to replicate the layouts and styles and all was a nightmare. (This was back in the IE 5/6 days, btw - none of the modern CSS niceties.)

Just because you can do something (in desktop publishing software or otherwise) doesn't mean you should, and certainly doesn't mean a document optimized for print is good for the web.
Do you think it's viable to isolate the data trickle and block it or create fake responses?

Edit: or maybe a pi hole or something like nordvpn cybersec.
>Managers hire "almost great" candidates

I would think an almost great candidate is someone who knows how to do most of what you need them to know how to do, people not changing is generally in referral to their innate personalities and not some idea that people can never learn anything.
Source credit: abiro's comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30425318
They might not be common in the US? All the cars I've had in the past ten years (French and German brands) had automatic wipers and they were not expensive models.

Some work better than others, but most of the time when they don't work well it's because the wipers are worn and need to be replaced.
The paint chips themselves are small and are not very damaging to the phone, but getting the paint chipped like that probably means he dropped the phone.
> Instead of comparing yourself to arbitrary thresholds, use the raw metric as a KPI instead. Use "minutes until airborne" as the KPI. That you can optimise indefinitely, and it is an honest representation of your current process, not how it compares to a number someone threw out at some time.

This is an example of a more general phenomenon - when you have outcome buckets, it's generally better to do your modeling on raw outcomes ["it took us 32 minutes"] than to try to do it on the bucketed outcomes ["we didn't make it in 30 minutes"]. Bucketing throws most of your information away.

Andrew Gelman talks about this all the time in the context of election modeling, where it's better to predict how many votes something will get, which is a continuous variable (and then, based on the predicted vote, predict whether the thing will win or not), rather than trying to predict whether the thing will win, which is a discrete variable.
Lua vs C# - chose your poison. There's a ton of AspNet Core libraries for handling http things e.g. JWT handling. Things that might need the licensed version of nginx.

Also it's embeddable and self-hostable into any .NET / AspNet Core application.
Hmm. You stumped me with that one. I suggest that you write directly to our Support via Robot to ask this question. The team responsible for the Storage Boxes will be able to give you a detailed information. And if you have more questions about the topic, using the ticket system is more direct, efficient, and quick. (I usually only check HN about once a week because we're short-handed at the moment.) --Katie
I had the chance to work with a few people I'd consider genius level. While I'm pretty smart myself, they all have something I don't always have: The ability to be happy in any situation and interested in everything.

For example, we were walking trough a hallway. On a wall is an old, damaged, ugly map of my country, half covered with graffiti. I'd walked past it almost every day for half a year.

He checks it out, and starts noticing a lot of semi-interesting factoids about names, merged cities, obscure places, old mapping conventions, etc... All of this with an absolute positive energy of pure interest. We spent a fun hour just looking at it. I should have known all this, and yet an hour with him makes me look at it with new eyes.

Wherever he was, he instantly attracted a group of friends and wannabe girlfriends, and never really seemed to notice. Same in this case: There was a group of beautiful partygirls we'd never met before, no nerdy interests at all, which accreted around the map in less than 5 minutes. They loved the situation just as much as us nerds did.

I learned a lot from him, and try to follow this example, but I still can't do this today and am humiliated (in a positive way) by this way of living.
I think open source would be prudent to completely ignore this conflict or any sanctions some countries want to enforce or not.
This got me wondering, are there any websites that are banned from HN?
Apple can still use their name. But it has to be written in Comic Sans.

>:)
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Over the short term or over the longer term?

In one day - not at all.

Over the longer term? If it makes shopify unable to function and shopify collapses, or if shopify loses many of its shops (due to worse terms) - then you get less choice in the market place. Those shops don’t necessarily open elsewhere, vendors stop selling and go back to whatever they did before.
I have agreed with all your points at one time or another but I now think that it's HNs structure that stops it turning into Reddit/social media or another echo chamber. I don't program or develop for a living or hobby any more but the realtively high quality submissions and the super high quality comments and discussions make the the trawl worth while, I regularly find interesting discussion in subjects I have no real interest in that cause me to reflect on my own opinions and thinking, to me that is invaluable and I don't get it anywhere else.
Cool distribution tails, bro.
If content is relevant for HN, I would like to see it, even if it’s on Twitter. Yes, we would collectively prefer that it’s in a blog and that there are no paywalls or login screens, that RSS is available everywhere, that Google Reader is still alive, etc. But that’s not the current reality.

To make things less abstract, John Carmack is active on twitter. Should we ban a link to his tweets if it’s something interesting?
I have met two people who snowboarded. Both of them broke one of their collarbones. I do not fancy sports at such high speeds.
>Also note that watching a video at 2x speed may result in the server sending less data than watching a video at 1x speed.

That's an interesting point, but I don't think that's the case for Youtube.
Unfortunately Twitter still remains as a major information source.

Since Twitter does not care about UX for unregistered users (so do Facebook, Instagram, Medium, Reddit on mobile and so on), users can switch to Nitter instances or using some extensions to block it.

It would be also somehow helpful to disable Cookie on twitter.com.
I’d develop that argument a little further, you can’t stop the manufacturer from changing the UI you currently like arbitrarily at some point in the future.

I don’t like that on my computer and definitely don’t want it in my car. It’s bad enough when you buy a new car and things have been “improved”.
Here it is: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskMen/comments/sxcvvm/why_are_youn...
I'll admit that a lot of users don't like it. And maybe someday there will be a WYSIWYG editor that lives up to the name. But after about 30 years of dealing with ones that don't, I might be a little jaded. Plain text conventions like Markdown may not be fancy, but they do at least work.
Generally speaking the 'just use X' reply, where X is a technology with more friction than whatever it's meant to replace it's a sure sign of not understanding the problem.

In this case it's right in the title: "Simple". Setting up connectivity to third party services like Firebase or Auth0 is not that.
sometime in 2022 ( see part 1 of the series)
Some domains are shadowbanned (Huffington Post, for example), but the list is not public.
I've just done some rudimentary testing...

1. Incognito window -> No Model Popup, just the accept cookies/sign-in bottom bar

2. Edge with no add-ons -> No Model Popup, just the accept cookies/sign-in bottom bar

3. Chrome with uBlock Origin -> Model Popup, impossible to browse Twitter if not logged in.

So, are they detecting an ad-blocker, and ONLY doing the model popup on those browsers?
On my old Peugeot 405 (from 1990) that was done by an additional tube attached to the metal of the wipers. The wipers themselves were just standard and not especially expensive.

It was interesting but I didn't find it especially better. They moved away from this and the later models just have normal sprayers. Maybe the very latest have that again, I don't know.
It’s not good to me since I often use these keys with Ctrl or Shift. Adding Fn to the mix would be too much.
> The ability to be happy in any situation and interested in everything.

I would add: and the ability to share that enthusiasm with others. I consider myself a very average person, but from time to time I do experience what I have highlighted from your paragraph. Most often than not, I keep that enthusiasm to myself. I don't have the ability to share it with others, and when I try, it's not like you have described it.
> why should he be held to a higher standard on Twitter than any random joe posting garbage to thier feed for friends to read?

Because he is an influential spokesman for one of the highest valued stock market traded companies in the world, and a throwaway comment can cost billions. I mean sure, if you're cynical enough you can pooh-pooh it as monopoly money for the 0.01%, but this same monopoly money fuckery caused the 2008 financial crisis. If he 'accidentally' crashes Tesla, that's hundreds of billions disappearing into thin air. Monopoly money, sure, but it'll drag down a lot of others - including things like pension funds.
Right. My suggestion/rant is not just strictly about HN posts, but about Twitter in general. I'm hoping HN discouraging such links would have a wider effect and encourage Twitter users to write their next blog post elsewhere.
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That’s fair, but with consumer electronics you need to sell at 2.5x BoM cost. Breakeven is death.

It’s worth mentioning that display scaling was one of many dealbreakers that made desktop Linux unusable for me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28490753

I’m pessimistic about any of this getting fixed in the next few years.
The beatings (unemployability, no investment for entrepreneurs who aren't 'upbeat') will continue until morale improves.
I'm glad CDPR is still working on this despite the dismal launch.

It looks a lot closer to what they promised on release now.
Nice one to add to the list of accidentally Turing complete systems. What's your favourite :)?
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I have 15 minuets experience!
>There are many free blog posting platforms out there that don't annoy users like that [...] All it takes is a couple of minutes to sign up...

Your proposed suggestion usually can't be followed as it seems like you're not noticing the difference between the HN submitter userid vs the Twitter userid. The HN submitters sharing the links are usually not the Twitter authors.

Consider the Twitter SSD thread on the HN frontpage right now and look at the metadata fields : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30419618

* The HN user who submitted it : ahachete

* The Twitter user: xenadu02

Side note: I notice that xenadu02's Twitter profile has a link to his blog website (http://russbishop.net) but he hasn't put any articles there since 2019. (It looks like that site doesn't have SSL enabled so it's not even modernized for https.)

The SSD comparison was only published to his Twitter page. It's been frequently discussed why people do that even though many readers don't like it: the Twitter platform has more engagement from a bigger audience than a personal blog site.
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