skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For sure, you can do PGP, but if it's decades old, you have to ask yourself: Why hasn't public key cryptography taken off as a sign in solution in the same way that email or Google or Facebook have been?

For the same reason a Metamask extension to do so won't take off outside of specialized applications.

Since users have not yet authenticated, this is part of a conversation process of potential users to registered, authenticated users. Only options which will increase that will be supported.

People to some very high double-digit percentage understand what a "Sign in with Google" button does, what will happen if they hit it. Because of that, there is high likelyhood if someone hits that button that they will return successfully authenticated.

PGP never had a website-based authentication option. Mutual TLS did, but other than a few certificate authorities I've never seen it out of the enterprise space - the compatibility and user experience were never even close to sufficient to offer as a broader option.

As optimized as the sign in with Google experience is, there are still sites which will not support it because they want to make sure the user does not get 'lost' on another site if there are failures. They simply will not outsource their funnel.
Using CLA Assistant with FerretDB
Maybe this is part of the training. Paying overpriced fees and stay addicted to the cloud.
I tell candidates to bring some code--any code--they wrote and are particularly proud of.

Then in the interview, I have them teach me how it works, tell me about potential improvements, and describe rationale.

In my experience, this has been a quick and effective measure, both technical and behavioral.

I find it immoral to ask candidates to put in hours of uncompensated work they wouldn't have normally done. And I don't think it gives good data.

Once we hired a dev with zero experience with the platform, language, libraries, or tooling. It was clear from the interview they had skills, though. After two weeks, they were producing good code. After a month, great code. Absolute win. And they never would have been picked by a "spend 16 hours making us a demo project" company.
The biggest issue with any "study" like this is the definitions. What is a "bot"? What counts as "inactive"?

What about "bots" that aren't "bad bots"? For example, a news organization twitter account that automatically tweets out new articles. This is clearly a "bot", but is it a "fake account"?

Yes, most studies published specify what their own interpretation of these are, those definitions tend to be wildly inconsistent, and make any sort of comparison of the rest of the methodology impossible.
Don’t talk about Twitter’s newest co-founder like that.
Did anyone else see the thread that raised the possibility that for a Russian commander, the point of the war is to expend/lose all the materiel and get back to normal life as soon as possible? It was raised as an opinion by an experienced Russian military veteran in discussion with another Russian military veteran, IIRC Girkin from the 2014 conflict.

Edit: Link. He states it's the view of the entire military hierarchy. So a bit more of a gestalt, metaphorical viewpoint. https://twitter.com/mdmitri91/status/1525904876391305219?t=2...

I thought it was an interesting thought model. It maps directly to the circumstances of the war, and it also aligns with the separate model of the Russian military as essentially neglected and kept under highly abusive oversight by criminal elements (opinion shared by Kamil Galeev). IOW, this is what you'd expect such a military to do given the internal circumstances of their existence.
You forgot couple important aspects: he also ruined the Russian economy (the conservative estimate is -12% GDP drop this year). Russian military industry also lost access to the Western high tech (unfortunately, a lot of it has been used in their modern equipment, such as missiles, aircraft, etc). It will take at least a decade for them rebuild the armed forces after the war with Ukraine.

There is indeed a risk of Kremlin using the tactical nuclear weapons. The United States needs to have a very robust strategy for such possibility. However, such use cannot be left without a response. Most likely it would be a military response. No response would set a catastrophic precedent, as it would invite the use of nuclear weapons in pretty much any conflict which involves a nuclear power. Just think about South China Sea, Kashmir conflict, etc. It would also lead to an era of nuclear proliferation, as weaker states would see no other option than to obtain nukes.

I think even the nutcases in Kremlin (or at least the Russian Armed Forces) understand that there would be an unprecedented response.
In my opinion it's destroying Ukraine as a country. Even if it takes years he's ready to keep this thing going until our economy collapses.
I mean, you're right, Russia hasn't succeeded in its goals. But if we take a look at Ukraine which will start to struggle economically in near future [1] you can change your opinion.

[1] - https://www.economist.com/europe/it-will-be-hard-for-ukraine...
My question is: does this price hike still make them cheaper compared to AWS?
>They talk about "active" accounts (meaning have tweeted in the last 9 weeks), and do a bunch of filtering against that. That seems like a huge bias - lurkers exist, and in my experience are usually the majority of users...this step removes them or ignores them entirely.

All true. However, do you really believe that a bot is more likely to be active than a real user? If so, fair play to you. If not, then we would expect inactive users to be bots in an even greater proportion than what we see among active users.
I have a very small number of VPS with DO, so while this price increase is not impactful to me, it is somewhat shady how they portrayed this new pricing...not evil, just less than what i expected from DO. In paralell, for a couple of years now, i had heard of and been curious about Hetzner. But i was not as interested because their focus was in/around Europe, which i can't blame them. But, now that i see they have a data center in virginia area...well, now i'm going to start looking into them seriously. Their pricing is quite awesome...plus i have also recently heard of Contabo, and wow, their pricing is really awesome! Again, i'm not thinking that DO is evil or anything, but i appreciate that more and more i - as a small consumer fish - have much more choice!
We can argue about what the article did and didn't imply, but what's interesting to me about the issue you raise is that among lurkers there is probably a much lower rate of fake/spam activity, since there are fewer reasons for a bot to log in and not tweet. Couple that with the fact that lurkers are generally the vast majority of users on any platform, and that alone could explain the discrepancy between Twitter's 5% number and SparkToro's 20%.
What part of the conversation justifies "If you truly believe that nobody will ever adopt anything new, we would all have been programming in Fortran or assembly!"? To me that is a stupid escalation -- noone was suggesting not to do new things, Python (the discussed AI alternative) is of course newer than Fortran and assembly for a start!

That just seemed like a bizarre overreaction to me.
India, Turkey, China and others are switching to alternative payments for Russian commodities.

Europe is opening Ruble accounts with Gazprombank to keep the gas flowing.

These sanctions hurt the monopoly of American financial system more than anyone else.
embedded dev, 50p/h, if you are unhappy with your rates shoot me over your contracts!:)
We're using the MySQL product, but it's interesting the exact same problem is happening on multiple products under the umbrella. It's not my job to deeply diagnose their issues, and their support wasn't able to even comprehend what I was asking in very plain English. What I could have gained in offloading the maintenance to them was lost in hours wasted so far, and I'm probably better off bankrupting the experiment. When I say small, I really mean it: less than 10k rows in the database. Queries only interacting with primary IDs, etc. It's mind boggling.
I'd love to know how much of their business is the formerly $5 tier, vs all the other tiers put together. I assume it's the majority. I also assume these popular, lower tier droplets also have a lower profit margin than the more deluxe tiers.

Shipping and inflation probably hurt their profits, but what are the chances that it's an even 20% across the board? I am assuming they're padding it with a bit of extra profit, to make it a round number. $1 a month per droplet is probably not enough reason for me to migrate all my projects to another service, and assuming most people are as lazy as me, they'll probably end up squeezing me for a tiny bit more profit.

I like DigitalOcean, I've been very impressed with their service so far. This is the first time they've done something that made me hesitate to recommend them. However, I'm reserving my outrage until there are a few more examples like this.
UK is 67 milion people. India is 1200 milion people.
> It is worth, as a long time Bash user, to change to ZSH?

It doesn't make a lot of a difference. For me the major selling point of zsh is that it has two forms of process subsitution: regular <(...) as in bash, based on sockets, and =(...), which creates temporary files. This allows you to do some neat things that are not possible or comfortable in bash.
EDIT: see my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31399397
I intended to imply that daily/monthly active users ARE the value for many businesses. Facebook valued WhatsApp's 1 billion DAU/MAU at $19 billion despite the fact that WhatsApp was not producing any cashflow.
SPAs & marketing teams are used to snippets
The whole thing is BS. Twitter could have easily got an accurate number if they wanted to. And Elon could have forced them to do that as part of the deal or done a decent job on his own before the offer.

Both sides are bullshitting to negotiate a better price.
Why would miners folding cause Bitcoin to drop in value?

The same amount of Bitcoin will be mined no matter what.
I've recently stumbled upon Signoz.io which also builds ontop of ClickHouse, but this seems interesting as well.

Wondering why uptrace is creating modules for their node/web tracer, while it does the same thing as OTEL instrumentations
That guy is a famous Kaggler that works for Nvidia, not a minor Twitter user
As I'd expect them to, regardless. Throwback to EC DRBG.
My first thought was that it was just an admin dashboard that was poorly attempted to be hidden by obscurity. It probably was thrown together during migration to work from home.
Thank you building something like this!
RunBuildRun makes creating a runner a one click operation. We give you a registration token for your runner, which you then register in the GitLab interface like usual.

The primary value over GitLab's runners is that RunBuildRun doesn't have any CI/CD minute quota. With GitLab, you get a finite quota (e.g. 400 minutes on the free tier) and then you have to upgrade to a per seat premium plan or buy additional CI/CD minutes.

Also, RunBuildRun gives you a dedicated runner so you don't have to wait on shared runners and you don't have to setup/manage a runner on your own server.
Exactly! AFAIK client certificates have been in browsers for decades and almost no one uses them. Whereas, like you said, millions of people now the ability and basic know-how to generate and sign with public-private key pairs, adopted via incentives that keep the wallet ecosystem thriving.
Where can I share few absolutely amorale books on English? I have few found on Hidden Wiki. I don't know are they forbidden (or just unknown for thems) but they are highly informative and even literate.
If you want to be rich, solve search without full-text indexing of sites. Pagerank only ever worked because of human curation of webrings. Full-text search made is easier to find content, and opened the door for spammers. The only viable route forward for search will be to replace full-text indexing with human curation, somehow. Solve how to scale that up instead, so that when everyone else realizes we need it for the health of the Web, you’re ready.
It is a flaw. Computers don't work that way fundamentally, and it introduces lots of awkward translation.
So your friend is willing to risk planetary destruction over a friends list dispute with your neighbor? I'd think thrice before relying on them when such stakes are on the table.
>with 1.5B people, 4M is 2% of their population

Missed a decimal point: 0.267%
> It should be easy to install some new software on any of your computers (router or desktop or TV or phone or whatever) and have it do some useful new thing. But it's not.

I disagree. I don't think it's difficult for compute-related tasks (gpio now, that I'll grant). However, installing this sort of think on a desktop PC is more likely to be bespoke just because of the near-infinite range of user configurations and customizations. The PiHole works as well as it does because it's a uniform base without being a walled garden.
"Dry" in what way exactly? It seemed rather wet with the enormous amount of loss?
There are also other countries (G7) which are doing it because: others should do it.
Being neutral means having ties with everyone, not just the West. Austria is a good example for this, we decided to be neutral and were between East Bloc and West during the cold war and all related tensions, yet never worried due to strict neutrality and good relations with both sides.
no? I'm pretty confident I had to set it to zsh when I got a new mac a month ago
The problem is the choice seems to be oiligarchs or socialism. either way the average person loses.
What if we have a mirror moving randomly around the box? That would lead to the same effect, whereas a randomized Maxwell's Demon would not.
Oh, yeah we’re in the same page, I misinterpreted your original comment.
I don't have the answer but out of curiosity what's your background and experience?
Why? Serious question.
Chinese CCTV showed map of Russia divided between neighbouring nations:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraina/comments/ueskix/chinese_cha...
My experience is that with both YAML and XML, the key is to have a well-designed schema. The problem isn't YAML or XML, but abuses of them. Most of the criticisms come from badly-designed schemas. HTML 2.0 was very usable, and there are other XML schemas which are nice.

There are a few keys:

1. Don't reinvent constructs. If your XML looks like <element name="foo"><attribute key="bar" value="biff" /> </element>, you've got a problem. It should be <foo bar="biff"/>

2. Provide reasonable defaults. Everything should be optional.

3. Break up files into manageable chunks

I wish everything in /etc/ used a common format, like YAML, or a small set of common formats.

I also wish for good configuration libraries, which handled:

- Parsing / validating YAML config files, command line parameters, environment variables, database overrides, defaults, etc.

- Printing pretty error messages

- Worked in a few languages (Python, JavaScript, and perhaps C)

- Guided developers towards sane designs.

Also, if you're putting objects in XML, documents in YAML, or strictly tabular data in either, you're probably doing something wrong.

- YAML: Configuration files, objects

- XML: Documents

- CSV/TSV/TSVX: Tabular data
> Needless to say, that 3B didn't do a damn thing.

If it propped it up long enough for insiders to dump their positions it did it’s served it’s purpose.
How to Block Ping in Windows Firewall?
Yup, one wants to play and the other wants pets
Everything you say is true. It's been true to some degree since the beginning of consumer-level computing. What is also true though is that open companies like Framework and System76 (who I work for) actually are developing the power and scale to push back on this paradigm and ... sorry for the drama ... bring out a new era of open hardware, software and firmware. It's so hard to claw back freedom from these megaliths, but it is actually happening.
Phones have batteries and maintain the decent battery life they have with aggressive sleep, control of background processes, etc.

Ethereum does a tiny number of transactions and I'm not sure Moore's law will keep up with any scale (see Solana and Polygon) as it applies to mobile devices. Then you still have the power and cell connectivity issues.

No one is going to want to wait for their local node on mobile to take a half hour (or more) to sync after it's been disconnected/idle/etc for a few hours/days to make a transaction that should take seconds.
Sure, it’s a commodity and trades like a commodity.

Anything that stops a supply from overwhelming demand results in an increase in price.

Commodities traders accept the seasonality of their assets, and arent perma-bulls, with the exception of metals traders. Bitcoin inherits a mixture of stock traders and metals traders sentiment, where perma-bulls mentality of “number go up forever” is present but less warranted.

There are obvious periodic supply and demand movements in bitcoin, just like there is in oil, natural gas, and other commodities.
Reasoning with someone threatening your complete destruction seems like a shaky foundation for productive negotiation.
Elon pledges Tesla stock as collateral, Tesla stock goes down. Announces deal 'on hold', Tesla stock goes up. Unless he can get the price of Twitter down to where he does not have to use Tesla as collateral, its just a bad purchase decision.
Again, more assumptions, now it's why don't I have a more powerful router when I could be running in (along with a load of other stuff) on a Pi.

Firstly not all ISP provided routers are even flashable with OpenWRT, so how the hell do you install something on there to start with?

I have a hAP.ac from Microtik, I flashed myself by PXE booting the OpenWRT images, not an underpowered router in the slightest, it just doesn't have enough RAM to load the lists needed, as I said. Connection state tables in SOHO routers don't need to be large, so why need all the RAM, their inteded purpose wasn't soley to run after market, home hacked, heavy memory intensive software.

You know, if you'd actually attempted this and had some valid point, I could take you seriously, but you seem to ignore everything I said, like I run multiple things on the Pi, or I'd have to keep the PC on 24/7 and the idle draw would be more (electicity is expensive here), or how I can just magically install pihole on any router, then why is my router not 'powerful' enough.

Yes, I want my router to be an appliance, not something I need to curate, like updating my PC or laptop with the latest and greatest packages. I want it to be a dumb box in the corner (with security patches when needed) but I don't want to be messing with it.

I have a Pi to mess around with things I want to run 24/7 but not take excessive amount of energy in doing so.
Not surprising.

On the flip-side, you do realise this is a way to justify complete verification of users on the platform to significantly reduce the bots, fake accounts, etc? I won't be surprised to see that implemented soon.

Probably by the end of this month, things are going to get very chaotic at Twitter.

We'll see what happens.
You are responsible for your career. No one else is
Turkey's location is incredibly important strategically. They control access to the Black Sea.
North Korea is always in stock at the media crisis warehouse.

Free overnight shipping, too.
Pay £1.99 a month for a boat load of space on Google Drive, back up to that, then a local Synology to pull them back down locally. All passwords and important information are stored in an Enpass vault, which is also located on Google Drive.

All photos automatically go onto Google Photos and then pulled back down to my NAS. Gmail is backed up to the NAS too. All contacts in my phone are synced to Gmail too.

Basically... Google Cloud ;)
someone watches too many Hollywood movies
At every company I've worked at any time someone has asked "How many active users do we have?" it was a difficult question to answer because everyone's idea of "active user" was different.

"Active, as in logs in regularly? Wait, what is 'regularly'? Once a week? Once a month? Every day? Does 'active user' mean, online right now?"

Etc, etc...

Their definition of "active user" is relative, not inaccurate.
Said like such a vimmer.
Anyway, my real comment is that I used vim exclusively for 5 years before switching to Emacs for like the past 9. I use evil mode to emulate vim of course. I'd run a server and ZZ or :wq as soon as I finished editing the file. My colleague, a regular Emacs user, commented how I drive emacs like vim in pair-coding.

Now with vterm I run Emacs all the time, my buffers stay mostly open. Anyway, the best manner to use the tool is probably dictated by the tool, but I will tell you I am not bothered at all for my Doom Emacs 2 second starting time every few hours / days.
> The data subject has rights, but companies have a legitimate interest in keeping the context of a discussion around, and are also allowed to consider the legitimate interests of others. An analysis would be required to figure out if it is an overriding interest.

Yes, but (at least under GDPR) it is reasonable to demand that Discord removes everything not needed for following legitimate interest of others (e.g. IP address, browser user agent).
I was under the impression there is no such thing as an isolated wave function. They are all part of a larger wave function. If the isolated wave function is missing energy, it's in the larger wave function.
* From Crypto Bros putting cash in Luna, hoping it will reach the moon, as the name implies. The foundation bought BTC as hedge in case Luna/Terra goes haywire.

* No, there's no proof.
SRSLY?

;-)
Spotify tests letting artists promote NFTs on their profiles
Not sure if you’ve heard but, over the last two years, some of the most polished and well-produced voices on NPR were literally coming from someone under a blanket in a closet. I’m not sure how much web3 is happening in closets but I wouldn’t bet on zero.
What're they gonna do? Say 'no' to his billions? He's the gorilla in the room. If a gorilla sits in the wrong chair or says the wrong thing, they have to just make room and accept it.
And that is ridiciously expensive imo haha ;)

tbf, its about 2x the EC2 instance cost, so I guess is actually kinda reasonable for a kinda managed service.

But the (backup) storage is really how they get you in my experience.
And do not turn on auto growth for diskspace, it will just grow to the limit and then you are paying for 200GB of daily backup storage you are not even using.
I would charge more.

Or more specifically, I would recommend charging weekly or monthly (up front, ideally), depending on the nature of the project. And each larger chunk of time they reserve, the greater the discount. So your monthly rate would be cheaper than your weekly rate, and both should be much cheaper than your hourly rate.

But, even if you continue charging hourly, you should charge progressively more until you meet sufficient market resistance. You determine your rate.

Personally, I only do small side projects (different language/platform) and I don't offer less than week billable periods, and my rate for that equates to $200/hour.
So, just to be clear, this is a 20% increase on the lowest tier, and a smaller increase on the more expensive options.

I can't see how this change doesn't push their small (hobby) users away entirely.

It sounds crazy, but this may actually push my personal usage into "AWS might be cheaper" territory.
Hi, elnatro

Thank you for your words and for describing your use case. For writing, I tend to go analog. I use paper and pencil to write a rough draft and get my ideas on paper; the next stage is to type up the thoughts digitally and use a low-tech device like an AlphaSmart Neo, or Pomera DM30. I've found breaking up the writing process into steps and using a dedicated device works for me.