skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are we just quoting people who make stuff up now? I tried reading his source and that's not what the numbers there say. His '67 numbers are too low, his current numbers too high.

Although maybe I misread the original data he links to. If so, please let me know.
Religious groups have certainly been responsible for chilling _some_ content in modern times, but they are far from the biggest threat.

The biggest threat is that only a handful of companies operate most of the Internet now and they want it to have all the diversity and culture of a suburban shopping mall.
They are now, but IIRC that was not previously the case.
archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20220620150757/https://www.nytim...
In the Netherlands I have been repeatedly told I should get my wisdom teeth out despite no complaints.
You forgot two big ones:

1. avoid as much sugar as possible

2. [deleted]
And spending sixty seconds researching something before giving up does not mean that the thing didn't happen, and thus shouldn't be worthy of comment.

"I did nothing and was shocked to find nothing" shouldn't be newsworthy. It also shouldn't be used to cast doubt on the blog post.
IMDSv2 with tokens required is the fix:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/configur...
> I wish we could charge those kinds of groups with the impediment of free speech (at least in the US) and fine them out of existence

That would be an actual violation of free speech, penalizing a legal, private, first amendment-protected activity. Remember, the first amendment only prevents the government from constraining the speech of citizens. Telling an organization, especially a religious organization, what they can and cannot advocate for would be an egregious violation of first amendment protections.

https://xkcd.com/1357/
Show HN: Zenphone – a dead simple virtual phone number and voicemail inbox
No, what happens is consciousness instantiated the whole setup: natural language, Chinese language, syntax, the room, computation, dictionaries, lookups, etc.

The whole thing is a giant computation. Yet computations are as mundane (lifeless) as an abacus or pen and paper. It is just wrong to thing the abacus is conscious. Same for the room.
Why is it easy to implement a Lisp?
Know the difference between a bin and /bin unless you want a new doorstop
Similar story.

When I moved to the States (Oregon) for a few years, I had to hunt for a number of services, with dentistry being one of them. I worked for a pretty large SaaS private (at the time) company, so the perks were plentiful, but most importantly, private insurance was up there in terms of quality.

Now, I'm originally from Canada, and without getting into the differences in healthcare between the two countries, but the amount of discrepancies I also received, let alone front-desk saying "oh my goodness, your insurance is incredibly good!", usually always resulted in the dentist informing me that I have 12 cavities.

The sad thing was in shopping around, and going to a number of different places to try them out, all ranged between 12 and 6 cavities, some even suggesting major dental work (2 crowns) required. I even went to 'work colleagues' recommended ones. All gave shocking details about my teeth.

Depressed, and annoyed, I went back to Canada, saw my dentist (and got a second opinion from a 3rd-party as an A/B test), and had 0 cavities to report. The second opinion stated I also had 0 (with maybe 1 on the way, and if I wanted, could opt to have it addressed now, but not the end of the world).

In the end it was cheaper (in almost every way, sadly) to see the Dentist on trips back to Canada, instead of opting for what would effectively have been the decimation of my teeth in the States.
> and the bucket itself had no protection against outside access with a compromised key

Any advice on how to safeguard against this?
> aims to optimize for being on top of problems vs being conservative in treatment

You should really read the article as this is the exact problem they’re pointing out…that the whole field is rife with treatments that are not evidence-based and that what little evidence has been collected is pointing to significant over-treatment in the field.

The dentist discussed in the article would likely have been described by his patients exactly the way you describe yours. But, according to the article, he ended up settling his civil cases for close to $4m and is facing criminal charges. Which isn’t to say that your dentist is the same, but just that it’s such a natural trust relationship with your dentist that it’s really easy to end up getting procedures that aren’t necessary and dentistry doesn’t even have the data gathering infrastructure to determine which procedures really are necessary. That’s a really dangerous thing when a dentist’s financial interests are aligned with doing more procedures.
I don’t disagree with you. Personally, I like that we have lots of choice in Google, Microsoft, Apple, Alibaba, Meta’s Oculus platform, etc.

I am both for some government privacy over site as well as free market competition. I tend to favor being a customer of small companies when possible, support independent news streaming, etc., but there is lots of choice in the marketplace.
They should be. But a Contractor is not generally in a position to hold a manager accountable. At some point; you have to know your role.
Who cares what crypto people say?
https://sso.tax/ a lot of companies put SSO behind a paywall. Not a fan of making users pay for basic security features.
Just curious what your thought are regarding this (https://zaplib.com/docs/blog_post_mortem.html) if you have seen it. Does implementing a physics engine in Rust and complied in wasm provide you guys with quite a big performance boost? Asking because I've considered doing so for my team, but have reservations about the performance increase.
Mullvard is behind the mozilla vpn. They're crazy good about privacy. You can mail them cash with account info and they'll set you up.
Fee for service in health care is not compatible with prevention. The vast majority of oral issues are preventable because they stem from bacterial infections. Dentists take full advantage of information asymmetry: patients assume the dentist knows best. They are incentivized to maintain the status quo that has patients pay enormous costs out of pocket for procedures that could have been prevented early on.

At Bristle, we’ve created an at-home oral health test that also pairs you with ingredient recommendations to prevent the progression of oral disease. The goal is to give data around oral health without the misaligned incentives of a practitioner who benefits from your demise.
Though it no longer seems offline, this is why you should pick up an extra hard drive or two and use Downie to back up channels/videos you enjoy.
I only know a handful of Americans and we often talk about the differences in our language. Even had an Australian join the conversation once too and it was a very interesting discussion.

The use of double negatives stood out as something more commonly used in British English however I accept it was a very small sample size!
My point still stands. Multithreading is not something you "just" throw in. It's riddled with unexpected gotchas you didn't know you had in your own code, plus all quirkiness of the underlying libc and OS.
A consequence of the major tech companies being based out of the US and serving the US as their primary market is they've all adopted US-style prudishness. In many US jurisdictions, public toplessness is perfectly legal. But on the internet it will generally get your account flagged/banned/deleted. Instead of the internet providing a free medium for the exchange of ideas it has exported the US obsession with censoring nudity to other parts of the world.
Running the numbers for 300 streamers at ~3Mbps each for ~30 hours a week works out to 12,150,000MB. That value * 4 for about monthly bandwidth usage. For a s-4vcpu-8gb instance on DO, that's ~$436 monthly overage on a $40 monthly cost droplet. Not too insane, but you're really stressing out that single droplet. You'd probably want to balance that across a few different instances across the country instead of it all being on a single droplet, in which case you're essentially rolling your own probably crappier CDN and trading CDN costs for your time managing it all.
My point was if you don't know something well, you fall into expensive traps. This was one that hit our company - some sql devs don't even know sql has ternary logic and why that matters.

Another that hit our company, was not understanding isolation levels in SQL, meaning that two people who could write SQL very well didn't realise their approach to avoiding a race condition just didn't work. When I pointed that out, they had a hotfix on client sites by the end of that afternoon.

I worked on the Cassandra database, we were having problems (albeit in development, it didn't reach production). Turns out truncating in the database did not release the space. That was causing people a lot of problems in till I ran into that by chance. These were full-stack, and smart, I respected them.

You can't have what I consider thorough knowledge on all fronts, and if you don't you can pay very heavily (I can give other examples). No more than that, no LOL'ing at people.

Draw your own conclusions I guess.

Anyway, thank you for taking the time to reply and for several people here pointing out that I've got the wrong end of the stick.

Edit: the sql example was me trying to make a point, not trying to catch you out. Please don't take it that way. It came across badly.
Only if you own the car in the first place and wouldn't part with it by any mean.

Owning a car is brutally expensive.
goodpipe looks interesting! My first thought is that it seems to lack support for bash file descriptor things that I often rely on.
Good advice. A moral oft repeated in stories. They said it well in Kung-Fu Panda: there is no secret ingredient.

I remember as a junior developer caring a ton about programming but constantly feeling like my skills weren't up to par. I read some quote from Ray Bradbury about how he wrote for 10 years before he created anything he himself liked. I mulled over that idea and it gave me hope. Years later I am now writing code that I think is good. Hopefully more than the senility kicking in.
When the total cost of human labor is cheaper than specialized equipment.
I'm afraid there isn't much written about the buttons we're speaking about there, but this tidbit may be pertinent: "Users should vote for a story because they personally find it intellectually interesting"

Granted, we are talking about comments, not stories, but presumably the same logic holds? What do you find intellectually interesting about low value content? Doesn't the premise of downvoting "bad" content violate the notion of it being intellectually interesting, thus violating the intent of the voting system?

But let's assume that comments are meant to be treated differently. All we really have to go on with respect to comments is from pg[1]. He indicates that the buttons have no meaning; use it however you please. He only considers it abuse if you press the button without reading the comment first, which, again, goes back to it being an analytics system.

In fact, there already exists a flag button for dealing with "bad" content which doesn't reveal analytics data to the user.

pg was an early pioneer in developing methods to stop spammers[2], so no doubt he, more than most, understands the importance of not leaking participation data to spammers. If they know you're reading, they're going to keep on doing it. Only when they think their audience has disappeared will they stop. And, so, downvoting their content is ultimately nonsensical, even if nobody is going to ban you if you do. Given that the buttons have no meaning, there is no policing. It is fundamentally impossible to determine your voting intent by observing your action of pressing an unlabelled button. But there is an assumption that you will use the buttons in good faith around content you find interesting, not to feed the trolls.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171

[2] http://paulgraham.com/spam.html
Handle what? Of course someone can go to Stripe and get that info, but as OP just said, they won't be able to tie it to a specific VPN account as that link is now broken.

They also mentioned it's about less data, not about zero data. The moment you use a credit card, of course it's stored in a bunch of places. But this won't be stored with them.
On the other hand, wrongthink is quite likely to come out of such an institution (historically speaking, maybe not so much in the current place and time). So it would be a bad idea from the censors' point of view to allowlist the account.
"millions of users" depends on the service, doesn't it? im sure you could serve random integers to millions of clients with quite modest hardware, would that count?
I owe a lot to Orkut
Bamboo-Copter
I mean NO2 from diesel exhaust is provably reducing longevity i.e. killing people sooner, still no prison sentences happened for any of the heads in VW. [0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal
That caught my eye too and made me wonder just how much larger the fish in their tale had gotten over the years.
Thanks for this comment. In a previous draft of the post I had more about this, but I decided to omit it because I didn't have much insight about it beyond some handwaving around how it's just encoding the instructions and the optimizer will do something different. Your comments (this and the other one in this thread) are better than what I would have written, so I learned something today! (Edit: I updated the post to link to your comment.)
I got you. Everyone has their preferences. Having said that no consumer should be replacing appliances that often.

Refrigerators used to last 10-20 years for a fraction of the price.
CA settlements almost always have standalone domain names and minimal branding like this precisely because the company at fault doesn't want to be associated with the settlement.
> Writing to a null pointer is just writing to the memory array at offset zero, as legal as any other write.

This seems like a huge design mistake. Is it possible to make dereferencing a null pointer trap in WASM? That's an essential part of debugging C/C++ applications.
Beeing a full-stack engineer isn’t problematic. But searching those amongst really young people may be misguided. Because yes, learning takes time.
If you want someone with profound knowledge and experience in nearly every programming language, concept and project management methodology, you should look for people in their 50s.
Those, who had time to invest 35k-40k hours into their passion and are going strong still. The real „unicorns“!
"She participated in the famous WELL, back in the 1980s. It is interesting how long this particular struggle, over moderation policies, has been going on."

This has been going on at least since publishers existed (ie. centuries ago).

Publishers have always held the reigns of power, and decided who had a voice and who didn't.

That's where self-publishing comes in, but of course self-publishing and independent platforms/publishers won't have the reach of huge organizations.

At least for now we still have a choice where to turn our attention, even if it's only a minority who'll make the effort to do so and stay informed from outside of mainstream media.
This may be a stupid question, but is growing mushrooms in bedrooms safe?

It would make sense to me that mushroom growing medium is perfect for less healthy fungus to grow as well.
Is my analysis correct in that Capital One ran a WAF with an instance role that had overly permissive access to unrelated S3 buckets?
Authors of the excellent "Clear and Simple as the Truth: Writing Classic Prose," Francis-Noël Thomas and Mark Turner, have this to say about Elements of Style:

Strunk and White’s disarming treatment of what everybody really needs to know about writing has been treasured by genera￾tions of people who are occasionally forced to write something and view the prospect with a sinking feeling of dread. As a guide to writing, The Elements of Style, being little more than an apparently arbitrary mixture of grammatical digest, handy list of common mistakes, and expert hand-holding, is drastically incomplete, but it is a masterpiece of psychological insight. Its attractions derive, we suspect, first, from its implicit, cheery, and optimistic promise that if you just read its few pages and work those few surface tricks it teaches you (“In summaries, keep to one tense,” “less should not be used for fewer”), you will not embarrass yourself; second, from its exhortatory cheerleading that seems so assured and upbeat; and third, from its tone of common sense that masks, at key points, an essential vacuousness: “Choose a suitable design and hold to it.”

Edit: oh and by the way, the two authors recommend this as a better alternative (I haven't read it): Style: Toward Clarity and Grace, by Joseph Williams and Gregory Colomb
Likely not but SBF said he is going to bail out crypto companies earlier so yeah that celcius thing might have been due to him.
What Inflation? The Super Frugal Say They Were Made for This Moment
"When the X will be done?"

"Tell me when it's needed to be done!"
> It is above all a changing thing. Everybody seems to be coming around to the idea that you don't have to routinely remove wisdom teeth, but it's still commonly done in Belgium and probably other European countries as well.

No... You say that everybody is "coming around to the idea that...", which makes it sound like people used to believe that you should routinely remove wisdom teeth and now that's changing. No, in Europe this was never common belief. So people aren't "coming around to the idea that..."
Another happy Mullvad customer. Been using them for a couple years now, and couldn't be happier with the ease, speed, and privacy.
Selecting Pretzel24 as payment method redirects to https://go.przelewy24.pl/ where in turn you choose between different banks. I guess it is a Polish service for direct bank payments?
I suspect a temporary ID that links the two that lives for just the time of the Payment Request and transmitted as metadata? Once the payment is successful, it removes the ID linking the payment to the account ID & severs the link - just the account has the credit
There's a lot of unpack from the story... For me one of the core teachings is that we all have something in common, being human. No matter what time period you lived in, no matter what family you were born into, no matter how your life proceeded: you are still human and have more in common with your neighbor than you might think.

It's easy for us to get lost in our own heads, saying "I'd never be like that person". We see them as the other, but in fact they are not so different from ourselves. This seeing of people as "the other" is the source of much conflict in the world.

But in this story, there is no other. There's only you. As the reader, you step into the shoes of the main character and ponder how you might feel if you were presented with such news upon your death. How would you look back on all the choices you made? How would you look back on the way you treated other people, who you've now learned are in fact yourself?

How would you feel? About your life just lived? About the lives ahead? Would you find peace? Finding peace in this reality is equivalent to the acceptance of others. In pondering these questions, the separation between yourself and others begins to dissolve, offering you a glimpse into the illusory nature of the self.

Plus, we don't know what the afterlife holds, or if there is one at all. So it's an interesting thought experiment also because it is an entirely plausible reality.

That's just my 2 cents though.
> As one Google rep emailed me in the 1990s, “If you were a 10-figure net worth institution, we woudn’t bother. But you aren’t.”

Uh-huh. In 1999, Google was a pre-revenue startup with probably 50 employees and a tiny number of early users. In the unlikely case that they'd somehow specifically targeted the author for "un-platforming", how likely is it that the author would have even noticed, let alone gotten a reply talking about requiring a "10-figure net worth" to be listened to from a company that itself had only raised low 8-figures of VC.
> we may need a platform where educational/government institutions can upload content

All these institutions already host their own websites.
Interesting. A similar thing happened to me. After a lifetime of zero cavities, the dentist I'd seen a few times for cleanings announces that my luck has run out -- I've got several cavities. I declined any work, but I was concerned. Shortly after that I ended up moving to a different state and it was about year before I got back in to a new dentist. I was dreading it since I figured he'd tell me I've got cavities. Nope -- said everything looks great, see you in 6 months!
Probably not what you meant, but sometimes, before I fall asleep, I "see" bright flashes of light, as if there's a strobe light going off outside my window. Rarely, I also hear a loud "boom."

Apparently it's a known sleep disorder and has the terrifying name "exploding head syndrome"

https://www.sleepassociation.org/sleep-disorders/more-sleep-...
> As for the backend, WebAssembly startups want to bring back Application Servers.

We're really moving back to the early 2000s. I wonder when websites start working without Javascript again!

WASM on the backend makes sense in a few cases (i.e. let customers upload modules in a sandboxed, heavily restricted environment, or whatever) but building your entire application around a speedup format for a Javascript engine while writing low-level code is a new level of ridiculous I didn't even see coming.
On the other hand, it may be a feature for some streamers:

"Our service includes built-in stream-sniper protection by default!"
Other than preventing some viewers seeing a delayed feed, why do I need a CDN at all? This can run off a single server with a 1Gbps uplink... can't it?

In any case there's plenty of people/organisations who run less regular streams and don't need to serve this many viewers.
I wonder if running Mozilla's autopush[1] and making web push a standard across apps would help solve this?

This would let you run your own push server (or use someone else's), configure it system wide on your device, and all apps would be able to use it automatically with their services.

[1] https://autopush.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
Part of the advantage of the recurring subscription model is having predictable revenue every month due to it being recurring. And many businesses count on that "gym membership" effect, where people who don't use a service also don't take the time to cancel it for a while.
Browsers have never intentionally let anything outside the filesystem, the site the page is loaded from, etc... there are always escapes.

The design of the WASM vm seems to preclude escapes, unless people get sloppy and make ladders that can be climbed out of. That's where my concern comes from.
Incentives guide everything in medicine and it's really unfortunate. Even the best meaning doctors get pushed in that direction. See x patients a day for y minutes. X goes up 10% and y goes down 10% every year. My brother is in his residency and in one rotation was asked to see 35 patients a day at a clinic. Impossible to do anything but the most cursory work. Health advocacy is becoming a bigger thing in the United States and it will only continue. People need to remember that medicine is now a consumer good, with all of the pitfalls that entails.
where did you find information on affected rivers?
> Maybe the HN crowd wisdom has some ideas on how we can improve this situation.

HMO / Capitation dentistry is the obvious answer here, where your dentist gets paid X per patient per year, to focus on preventive instead of pushing unnecessary care.

It’s really hard to implement in the US though because people push for a lot of unnecessary stuff.