skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>You'd think that, but historically this has only encouraged niche businesses to crop up catering to that crowd. Look at Epik (or Vultr) for example, businesses that exist solely to counter this kind of threat.

And Cloudflare had no problem hosting Kiwi Farms and Daily Stormer until they crossed a line. Cloudflare's history doesn't exactly paint it as bleeding-heart liberal who can't deal with 'icky feelings.' I'm sure Epik and Vultr have their lines as well, it just happens that none of their customers have crossed it yet.

>To stop KiwiFarms from existing, you need to literally silence the people using it, not just shut down their clearnet website.

Slowing them down is still a valid goal.

>Websites don't harass people, people do.

Guns don't kill people, people do. Except people with guns can kill a lot more people faster. That's why guns are a thing.

Whether or not you want to be a free speech absolutist, you have to concede that the platform and its reach matters. If it didn't, no one would be up in arms about deplatforming. Yes, it's literally and technically true that a website can't harass people, but having a platform meant to organize and facilitate harassment is a force multiplier for the people doing said embarrassment. Without the website, the people couldn't harass as well as they could with it.

And the size, reach and convenience of the network matters in that regard, just as the capacity, rate of fire and caliber of a gun matters, even if it is a person pulling the trigger.
Don't Let 'Perfect' Be the Enemy of a Good AppSec Program
It should be noted that the person behind privacytests.org is a current Brave employee. That said, I haven't seen any signs of compromise yet; it makes sense that privacy-focused developers end up at privacy-focused companies.

However, you can have a good privacy record for protecting users from third parties and still make bad decisions. Not informing users about what websites do or do not take part in the crypto collection programme from the start was a bad decision IMO. Altering URLs to insert referrer codes is also a bad idea. This doesn't mean Brave doesn't try to protect your privacy, but it's still quite user hostile in my opinion.
I wonder if the current US West Coast heatwave is causing some shared cloud infrastructure to go down.
Those lines are separate lines of separate couplets.

The lines around it are

"Paying the bills with my mad programming skills

Defragging my hard drive for thrills

Got me a hundred gigabytes of RAM

I never feed trolls and I don't read spam"

They're not really related to each other besides being right next to each other. The lines rhyme with other lines. Which, if you were trying to link ideas lyrically, is where you'd do it, on the rhyme.

But, the entire song is just a litany of various brags centered around technology. It is, like most of Al's work, pretty clever and knowledgeable. Not only of the source material, but of the subject presented.
I base it on the article. Did you read it?
Healthcare in the US is definitely not driven by the free market. It is probably one of the most regulated industries. Whatever disfunction you want to call out in US healthcare it is going to be difficult to pin that on the free market.
How to choose a localization approach for your React application
The Segment crew tried a couple of ideas without any success. Segment was an open source project that they wrote for one of the startup ideas and it had much more success. They weren't in agreement but the partners didn't have any better ideas, they were down to the last of their capital so they launched a commercial version of their open source.

https://venturebeat.com/business/how-segment-survived-its-br...
Works for me on the same.
you buy a cheap adapter to plug a m.2 nvme drive into a pci card

and vice-versa (why? m.2 slots have ACS support for pci passthrough)

they're essentially just a wire as it's the same bus
Well by that point the market for PDP-10s was pretty much nil.
Not in the upper atmosphere, where temperatures and atmospheric densities are close to Earth-normal.

I think living in zeppelin cities would be logistically difficult for other reasons, but as long as you don't need to go down to the surface you don't need extreme cooling systems.

If you did want people to be able to live on the surface it is kind of an interesting question how you'd manage it. Presumably there'd be ample wind energy available if you can just build a wind turbine that doesn't melt in that environment.

Either way I'd rather go to Mars.
why would any language besides javascript want to be that maximalist, when they already have either a much better direct native compiler, or their own, purpose-built, mechanically-sympathetic, fully featured interpreter with first-class support and a controllable destiny? We didn't do this with Java back in the day when it was possible -- essentially all but a small handful of JVM languages died on the vine -- so what specifically is different this time?
The false equivalence is you comparing a business relationship to an interpersonal relationship between two people in real life.

Do you believe stores should be allowed to ban black people from shopping there? Do you believe pharmacies should be allowed to deny medication to jewish people? Perhaps you believe bakeries should not have to sell cakes to gay people?

Are these groups not “owed a literal service at their own expense because... principles”?

To me it seems you’re the one painting yourself a bizarre rhetorical corner. You can’t have it both ways. If we agreed as a society businesses should not discriminate, then they should not discriminate.

So to answer the question you should asked, yes, I honestly believe that nobody should have consequences for any actions outside of the literal legal system when dealing with a business. Business relationships are not the same as interpersonal relationships.

And to answer this one too:

> What, specifically, is the protected class you think Kiwi Farms is a part of?

People who think differently from you.
The team is ethnically split between russian and ukrainian, but that's about it. The company was set up as a non-russian entity way before the war, which is why sanctions didn't cause them much problem when they started shipping the product. Shipping was done through Hong Kong, the manufacturing process (which they went into crazy details about in their blog posts) is done in China.

I don't think the whole "they are a russian company" makes much sense as an argument here. For one, it would he helpful if Paypal actually tried explaining their reasoning, instead of staying silent.
And add on top the oft-repeated that “health insurance is healthcare.” That’s how you obfuscate a whole of things.
Makes sense to backup user data, and script your server/app/database install and setup.

If your RTO is very short, then full backups with fast restores are best.
I’m going to have to stan for Weird Al here and say that there’s basically 0% chance that he didn’t know the difference between RAM and hard drive space. He’s actually quite meticulous in his songwriting and pays a lot of attention to details. And with a mostly (white and) nerdy (ba-dum-tssshhh!) audience he knows he’d never hear the end of it if he screws up. Must be quite the motivator to get things right.
How do you come to the conclusion that mental health issues around sickness identity is a smaller problem than underdiagnosed (physical) diseases? Could you point to some statistics?
Personally I do not know many people who were told of being depressed which were later diagnosed with a physical disease. Could you please give some examples?
I don't think flipping these flags is expensive. Can you provide a source for that? AFAICT modern microarchitectures are going to register-rename that into the u-ops issued to the functional units, rather than flush the entire ROB.
Interesting that no one mentioned Netflix, which originally started off as nothing more than a rentals company.
No. Please refrain from putting words into my mouth.
and if people think your code of conduct is too harshly enforced they can and will go elsewhere, there are thousands of badminton clubs in the world. Different strokes for different folks.
Trying to kick someone off the internet entirely is a completely different matter.
In an early startup, where developers are also doing ops, and there are periodic manual tasks (like daily/weekly/monthly running certain kinds of backups, eyeballing AWS dashboards and logs to check for anything alerts missed, etc.), using the same board and issue-tracker you use for development tasks helps.

In one company, I used GitLab Board, and had special tags for the recurring and background tasks, which were sticky in Kanban columns right below the generally one-time development tasks. The deadline dates for recurring tasks kept changing to the next time the task had to be done. The Issue description had the concise immediate instructions for the steps of the task (with a link to the wiki for related and background info). And every time you did the task, you added a very quick Comment with any notes, and bumped the due date.

It was very lightweight, and fit the simplicity I was advocating (e.g., the GitLab Kanban board says what everyone is doing, all info goes into GitLab in one form or another, minimal other tools and silos to juggle, etc.).
Making a Mac App Scriptable Tutorial (2016)
I have to admit that the ESPHome flash tool is quite convenient. There's a quick web interface to set up some config and you can flash microcontrollers with dedicated firmware from pretty much any device.

It's one of those silly features that you use maybe once or twice a year at best; same with WebUSB and WebBluetooth.
Unless you have some extreme circumstances, like a plugin that's leaking memory or 100s of tabs, I really really doubt that.
"1 leg's worth"
Thanks for the feedback! Chitchatter uses https://www.metered.ca/tools/openrelay/ for relaying communication when P2P connections can't be established. So, chatting should "just work" for users right now. I don't know if the current connection type (P2P or relayed) can be determined by JavaScript. If not, it seems that allowing the user to disable relaying servers might be the safest option (at the expense of the app not actually working).
there is too much propaganda on wikipedia, and most people done know it because they dont do research.
That price pays for the parking deck, security, janitors, nurses to administer the bag, needle disposal, IT, admin salaries, the hospital building itself, etc etc.

An urgent care can probably administer an IV. If that’s all you need, go there. They are far cheaper and not as lavish (or equipped) as hospitals.
YouTube is definitely doing curation of "viral" videos to introduce novelty into their recommendations. They've gotten so conservative that the usual algorithm can't fully satisfy users' need for novelty, so they widely promote a curated selection of videos. I first realized it with this video "An Old Man's Advice" with an older balding guy in reading glasses with an enormous Santa beard in the thumbnail. English language users will probably recognize it from about 2 months ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhckVlgYZJE

Here is the guy's Social Blade page where you can still see the spike in views and subscribers from late June partially scrolling off the end of his historical graphs:

https://socialblade.com/youtube/channel/UC5hWk56PCwg1D11kDgt...

I think one they currently are promoting to English-language YouTube today is this Kurzgesagt video about loneliness:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9hJ_Rux9y0

I haven't seen it in my own homepage today (although I haven't been looking at it much) but I saw it mentioned several times by Twitter users expressing mild bewilderment at the recommendation, like these two posting about ten minutes apart:

https://twitter.com/Grary_/status/1567265382750093312

https://twitter.com/bradplaysclari/status/156726305981873357...

Oh, apparently these were two more, the originals I saw were these:

https://twitter.com/masterlerle/status/1567262297424560128

https://twitter.com/microfennec/status/1567257618061692928

These are all within the last hour. The fact we have four people posting about this within the last hour on Twitter visible under a single search term suggests the video is going out to a massive audience, many of which are caught off guard by the recommendation. This doesn't seem to be normal algorithmic behavior, especially for a video that is only 7 hours old as of my writing.

There was another article (from The Atlantic) posted here about an old supposedly discontinued practice of "coolhunters" at YouTube, individuals responsible for curating and promoting videos (in the article they discuss Justin Bieber in particular as hand-picked for promotion), which supposedly were replaced with the homepage recommendation algorithm. I am pretty sure they were brought back:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32730285

To combat the lack of algorithmic novelty on YouTube I am working on a small team to develop alternative YouTube recommendations. Search a channel to get a list of similar channels. Here is Kurzgesagt's similar channels list:

https://channelgalaxy.com/id%3DUCsXVk37bltHxD1rDPwtNM8Q/

Navigate by clicking the icons or using the top search bar to look up a channel.
The same Epik that turned down 8chan? https://www.epik.com/blog/epik-draws-line-on-acceptable-use....

At the end of the day, businesses gotta eat. They're not a charity or a benevolent public force. If your user generated content impacts their bottom line, you're gonna get kicked to the curb.

>The endgame for all of these so-called 'abusive platforms' is retreating to I2P/Tor, or another internet-adjacent network

I'm pretty positive Cloudflare and IA do not care about a moral crusade to stop Kiwifarms, and would not care if they went to Tor. Both CDNs are primarily concerned about business risk with hosting content and calls to action that could be found illegal.
Wouldn't that be a ridiculously dumb heuristic to employ?
God I wish. I’m not sure they’re actually a good idea or not but I miss classic web.
The 5 Characteristics of Highly Dysfunctional Groups
Based on the comments maybe they were just A/B testing the new 500 error page?
It seems like a distinction without a difference. The investing outcome is identical, so why does it matter that your job pays you out over the entire year.
> if there's some standard for integrating music and visuals...?

In terms of translating audio to variables useful for driving visuals, ColorChord is getting some traction; it's an algorithm that powers a technology called AudioLink, which is growing beyond its origins in VRChat.

https://github.com/cnlohr/colorchord

https://www.colorchord.net/

https://github.com/llealloo/vrc-udon-audio-link

https://github.com/llealloo/vrc-udon-audio-link/blob/master/...
Netflix is a cool one but the transition from rentals to streaming feels more like a natural progression than a pivot.
That's pretty impressive, considering it's size !
Also, it seems way more common to find devs you work with to be over-idealized (focusing on “code beautification” or some other vanity metric vs. accomplishing a task). There’s nothing wrong with beautiful code, but I’ve seen the complexity it can add to an otherwise simple project.
It took Weird Al a further 7 years to perfect the tech diss track:

https://genius.com/Weird-al-yankovic-white-and-nerdy-lyrics
I found one story posted on Jan 1, 2020 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21926713

FWIW, I've not found Algoila to be a reliable search engine for HN. In fact, when I narrowed my search down further to link it here, as below - that article disappeared from the results. (Also doesn't help that keyboard input to the date picker is totally broken)

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1578182400&dateRange=custom&...
What part of the post am I not addressing? It's basically all generic bombast and invective. You can't really post generic bombast and invective on HN, even if some people like your generic bombast and invective because it's generic bombast and invective. I'm sure I'm not telling you anything you don't know about a forum we've both been on for about 83771 million years.
I backup to DVDs. I have every backup for the last ten years. And yes, I can still read them.
For a company whose bread & butter is “outrage” I would imagine political ads of the type you’re likely to see on Facebook in 2022 are like having someone else do your work for you. And they get paid for the privilege to boot!
This is so frustrating. Aliexpress was an innovator in the space if making it as hard as possible for consumers. The emails contain no information but an order number.
That would mean you are sending your shortcuts to the server on every request, localStorage would be much better in that case to save bandwidth.
It was a bright cold day in April, and github.com was up…
> Drawing a game at a decent framerate at 320x200 required careful coding.

320x200 is 64,000 pixels.

If you want to maintain 20 fps, then you have to render 1,280,000 pixels per second. At 40 Mhz, that's 31.25 clock cycles per pixel. And the IPC of a 386 was pretty awful.

That's also not including any CPU time for game logic.
Both have been reversed, and both were addressed convincingly (that these were true mistakes, not misbehavior they walked back).

https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/8/21283769/brave-browser-aff...

https://www.reddit.com/r/brave_browser/comments/a8d34y/youtu...

It's suspect to me that every thread that mentions Brave attracts such bizarre vitriol, with people who keep rehashing old arguments (which are off-topic and never with any actual context so people can make up their own minds). Haven't
I had a PayPal support person flag my account for fraud because I asked to speak to her manager regarding a minor annoyance with the way she was handling my case. (She refused and my account was immediately flagged for fraud, my project was paused and they ultimately unblocked it because obviously no fraud was happening, but by this point we’d lost all momentum. I’m 100% certain she did it because she was annoyed with me, I also know there’s not a thing I can do about it)

I’d never trust PayPal with a nickel let alone over a million bucks.
I’ve been noticing the same thing too. I wonder if the state of the job market over the past couple of years has anything to do with it. More people leaving and taking their knowledge with them, meaning issues are identified/fixed at a slower pace. I know I’ve seen it happen at the company I work at, but I wonder if big tech similar issues.
don't need archive.org if you have a brave browser
How many tabs do you have open? Typically that's only necessary if you like have 100+ tabs open or are running many demanding web apps at the same time.
Most of my outrage is aimed at censorship of left-wing and antiwar content. Much of which is already banned from most of reddit and deranked from google - I don't want to see the whole internet go down that road via DDoS protection, and fear KF, who I hate, was a first step and not a last one.

Tech giants started justifying their abuses through "nazis bad" and now pointing out US support for Azov gets your website hidden.
`/nod`. I hear ya. RSS and mutable torrents seem like a fine starting place (if only to learn from), and I think we could argue ActivityPub's community has attempted to work on this problem. I worry that if we can't achieve the underlying distributed network (and effective DHTs [or the overlays on them] have a very long way to go, imho), we will lack the proper testing grounds to even know what the fitting standard(s) should be at some level. I hope I'm wrong about that.

I could see federated networks perfecting some aspects of self-sovereign, decentralizable identities or portable logical accounts, as well as fitting standards for sharing the data we find most salient among that federation. It's a start. I can't say something like Mastadon has succeeded here, but these amazing projects simply haven't received the funding they deserve. I could also imagine a centralized, for-profit institution creating something similar, but it would be a trade secret. I hope we find the answer before they do.

I'm not going to work on that problem until I have an underlying p2p network meant to actually replace at least the web (and, I am, of course, a huge fan of Sir pfrazee's astounding work in this sphere). I consider that an extremely tall task as it is, and, so far (and I say this with profound [[gratitude]] for those who have worked to solve the problem), nothing comes even close.

It's a pleasure to meet you, btw.
This is both only true for small transfers (not bulk/asynchronous transfers) and for the ~99th percentile. Large transfers have some buffer management and handshaking, so they tend to have highly variable latency that has a very fat tail.

The latency degradation for large transfers is so noticeable that most audio DACs (not just ones for gullible audiophiles, also for the pro market) use custom drivers and USB protocols. For 1/1000000th the data rate that a capture card would need.
The fact a lander is only going to return an hour (at best) of science data is why NASA hasn't bothered with Venus. There's a low chance of initial success and then no real opportunity for a mission extension if things actually go well. A Mars lander returns a lot more science per dollar than a Venus lander will.
Thank you, that was the missing piece.
yeah, the Usenet reference had to have been obscure even back then. and beta-testing OSes back then would been.. what? Windows Neptune and Copeland?
"Sufficient" is a product perspective I don't really have. Anonymity isn't even a product most users want to buy and the users that do, you may not want as customers. There are reasons I strongly recommend you do not download the bitmessage Blockchain for example.

I'll agree those ideas are better.

My concerns are really only around "how to you meet in the middle". If you are running your own relay, what benefits does your software now have over a more general self-hosted chat? Design with "ease of deployment and use" in mind. I actually think this is a good start on that.

"Never stored" is moot. "We don't store it" is better.

You can at best promise the client the user is currently using isn't logging. Nothing stops the relay or the other clients. Any relay that can know the password owns all data going over it, and any other relay knows at least who is saying how much and when.

"I can't afford to spy on you and I don't even want the liability of being able to do so" is the real argument. WebRTC using 3rd party MITM servers provides that in theory. In practice WebRTC degrades into servers acting as proxies a decent chunk of the time. You are basically at the cutting edge of message ephemeralness and security you can get out of a browser app right now.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/16/youtube-p...
The errors seems to be rather intermittent. Metrist saw a grouping of them at about 4am pacific today, and then again 3pm. That said, in the last hour, less than 1% of Metrist functional tests failed.
Hardly a pivot. Paul Graham’s write-up on their very early days: https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/the-airbnbs and a pretty gushing wired article about how AirBnB got into ycombinator: https://www.wired.com/2017/02/airbnbs-surprising-path-to-y-c...
Doesn't show my actual camera but a virtual one. So I guess it would need an option to select which camera to use.
What happens when they copy/paste from Word Doc a thousand <!-- StartFragment --> and other random BS Word injects?

Do you limit their changes to just plain text? Then they ask "Why doesn't the website look like the Word Doc I made? It looks perfect in Word!" Where is your God then?
I think a better measurement would be something like "Enough breathable air for x people"... At least it instantly gives the information of how many machine you need to sustain x people.
There's a name for that too - the "Suffering Olympics".