skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is terrible news for free speech. But maybe great news for the unvaccinated who will be able to go after all the people that spread lies about them, and ostracize them from society for two years.
> in 2022 of returning to 18 hour work days and acceptable workplace deaths

This is exactly what is happening in the gig economy.

Workers that are not classified as workers and have no representation being taken advantage of by companies like Uber etc.
Right, electric motors can develop max torque at zero rpm (and with no shifter), this is similar to steam engines. That’s why many diesel locomotives are actually diesel-electric, with a diesel power plant generating electricity for motors driving the wheels.
Database locks is our issue. We're doing anywhere from 5-10k req/s to our RDBMS. This could be minimized if not completely avoided, and I'm keen to make it so, but I got here a bit late and the underlying foundation of our application isn't something I can safely describe.

Most of our work happens in the background. We're running a Sidekiq process per CPU core with a concurrency of 20 — which, while the default, seemed to play the best during our tests. We set a max RSS of 2000 and use some code to automatically scale Heroku based on queue size. We do a lot of network IO.

It was a headache to get here, and a hole in our wallet, but I'm mostly happy with the application. Previously, we were running Resque in production on a super over-provisioned AWS node that was costing us $xx,xxx a month: Resque forks the app process for concurrency (we weigh about 450 MB); Sidekiq is a threaded model. Heroku, at least in this case, has been exponentially cheaper. We keep our RDS on AWS for at least some savings versus having it on Heroku. I cannot imagine what a xx-TB database would cost us at Heroku.
Loon was shut down, but some of the technology is being elsewhere. (not surprising, this is how a lot of r&d projects go)

Some of the laser communication link tech is being used in project taara.
Shame, used it a few times when they had a Monzo integration. Was really neat having a receipt show up in a banking app, despite the limited merchant support. Seems that went away a while ago.

This idea has fantastic utility but needs an awful lot of work to get running. AFAIK every merchant needed an integration in their point-of-sale system.

To pay for that I assume they were selling lots of data, something which makes it then less attractive from a consumer point of view. I wonder how much they could do / get away with without active consent.
All poverty is energy poverty.
> Who cares what a desktop processor plugged to a wall outlet consumes?

Anyone without solar panels?
Still fair to ask, given the world we have now where there’s kinda just “nothing” / broken and crappy implementations, would the alternative world in which SQLite was anointed, have been better head-to-head? I think maybe yes it would have?

The perfect defeated the good?
IoT camera that can do IPv6 is much rarer than IoT camera with security issue.
They're saying that the compensation for damage ought to be less. This doesn't say anything about punitive damages, however.
> significantly-sized companies that ripped Ruby out of everything as they scaled

I am assuming Ruby, used here meant Ruby Rails. Or specifically, ripped Rails out of everything as they scaled?

The calculus, in many situation would indeed be in flavour of another framework or language in ~2013. The cost of CPU Core has dropped significantly since then, we are not far from having 128 x86 CPU core in a single socket. Even if could only do 10 request per second per core at a target latency, this is 1280 Request per second on a single server. ( In the context of a non API serving App, or Server rendering App )

Edit: Miscalculation here, it should be 128 Core, 256 vCPU, so 2560 RPS.... but the main point still stand.

But at the Scale of Shopify, ~$33B Market Cap ( ouch.....I remember they passed $100B market cap in 2020 and $200B market cap in 2021... ) They could finally afford to pour some resources into Ruby. The only Top 10 programming languages without large cooperate resource backing. I am pretty sure the performance potential of YJIT and Ruby tooling has a ROI of less than 2 years at their Scale.
What if he made 1.2 Billion off of his grift that attacked actual people?

He isn’t going to jail (which seems like it should be in play to me).

He’s just not able to keep any of his ill gotten gains. It’s really hard to feel sympathetic here.
It kinda depends on whether you're charging money and how. I can express legal opinions all day, without being a lawyer. I can write a blog with my legal opinions. I can sit in a room with you and regale you with them.

What I can't do is offer to represent you in a legal case, or imply (with signage, advertising, business cards etc) that I can provide any sort of legal services. And if I took money from you, it would have to be on the understanding that I was just providing entertaining opinions which it would be unwise for you to rely on.

At some point you have to grant that the clients of such a service have some agency and are able to evaluate straightforward disclaimers of liability or fitness.
One example might be legal injunctions, which could prohibit specific actions directly. These may be temporary or permanent, and are generally applied through civil law.

<https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/injunction>

In cases of professional or corporate misconduct, individuals may be stripped of professional certification (e.g., law, medical, or engineering licences), or barred from participating in specific roles within an organisation. An example, also from a civil (rather than criminal) case is this temporary bar against participating in hedge-fund activities:

<https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2016-3>

A third possibility might be to have a mandate that a representative of the plaintiff's be granted a board seat, editorial oversight, or some similar role in any future media role held by Alex Jones. I'm not aware of any specific similar instance, though lawsuits seeking, e.g., board representation, have been filed. See:

<https://www.wral.com/lawsuit-seeks-board-seats-for-unaffilia...>

In cases of cybercrime there are many instances of punishments (typically criminal law in this case) of defendants being barred from Internet access. That seems to have somewhat fallen from favour though I believe it's still practiced. A 2003 discussion:

<https://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/21/business/barring-web-use-...>

Mind: I'm not a lawyer.

That said, none of these options involve bullets

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Late edit: Another example of extant prior restraint would be prepublication review, a process which applies to members of the intelligence and justice communities. I just heard a mention of it during a Fresh Air interview of Geoffrey Berman. It's described (for the NSA/CSS) here:

<https://www.nsa.gov/Helpful-Links/Prepublication-Review/>

That's not at play here, but does give an example of prior restraint on free speech under US jurisdiction.

It also brings up the matter of classified information and that system's impacts on free speech. C.f., Edward Snowden.
I mean, I run a startup not doing that much worse.

I have 0 accountants (pay CPA yearly for tax work). 0 lawyers. 0 devops. 0 QA. 0 monitoring . 0 HR.

I do have :
3 devs (if I include myself)
3 support (tickets)
2 other supporting roles

If I coded 100% myself (which I have in the past and could in the future, it would just mean less new features) and had a way to not answer tickets (like the OP story it sounds like due to product complexity), I could totally do this alone…

It’s amazing how lean you can be in SaaS if you must. Us bootstrappers know this.

So much if a modern enterprise is bloat.

You have how many DBAs? How many QA? Lol.
What is exchanged for the napkin, though? That's generally where courts draw the line between helping out a friend, and providing a service.

If you exchange something, like money, then you may be providing something under an oral contract, even if nothing is signed. And if you introduce a waiver, then you turn that oral contract into a written one.
Steam Deck as well.
Interesting. Does anyone know of any comprehensive resource that can give a number for the US? I'd be very surprised if the situation were the same (although if it were it would be a nice pick-me-up), and I'd be interested in speculating on why the US and Britain might be different. Could it be directly blamed on the degree of penetration of Amazon or Amazon Prime?
MFA gets in the way of automation, and large scale adhoc actions.

Say I want to load a huge amount of data, or do a ton of s3 uploads. My role assumption via MFA / TOTP lasts 4 hours.

Now say you are doing lots of different "big data" flows, how do you assume privileges when you need them?

I understand what MFA / TOTP brings to security, but security people pretend like my job is about logging into a box once-in-a-while for a couple minutes, and that is the ONLY USE CASE.

Least privilege is another thing that sounds great to a security guy but is a nightmare for development. So whenever you do anything off the beaten path (diagnose new systems deployed, try new database backends, do some data moves or loads, backup/restore), uhoh, you spend a ton of time diagnosing shortfalls and decoding error messages. The security guy DOES NOT CARE.

S3 is a perfect example. S3 should be simple. It is a nightmare of permissions on the user side, permissions on the bucket, and even worse across accounts. Tiresome. Magic numbers/dates for the "version" field policy, what is with THAT? ACLs/Policies stomping over each other.

The funny thing is, ask a security person to first enable cloudwatch and dig through the data to find issues and vulnerabilities, or ask security people to actually produce well-tuned IAM roles for what you need. Guess what? They don't want to do it. They want to sit around making checklists and sending memos.
Sounds like this feature isn't NextDNS specific and can it replaced with anything?
If you don't want enum's runtime footprint, just use `const enum`

Less typing and easier to read than your solution
To be fair, when benefits meet your goals, it could be very good deal. For example 401k matching is the same cash in your pocket, but without tax. Good health care plan, especially when you have family is worth much more than cash and also doesn't add to tax base. In some states you pay more than half off what you make in taxes, so making something a benefit is a convenient way of legally saving on said tax
Reading a value out of /sys/fs/idms/key seems like just the right amount of barrier to entry. Most languages and environments support this out of the box with a line or two of code. Some may treat it as a privileged operation, which is a good thing. Operations like fetch() can only read it if they’re wildly misconducted so they have local filesystem access, which is a rather higher barrier to entry than plain SSRF.

And this supports regular file modes and ACLs, whereas getting this right with iptables/nftables is awkward at best and requires enabling a firewall.
HN has the absolute worst combo of people who are very technical but without the domain expertise to actually understand the limits of what they know. Lots of software people making wild ass conjectures about semiconductors and CPU architecture...
AWS certainly offer AMD boxes as well (M5a, M6a, T3a etc), but nothing like the broad range of Intels, and not even the same kind of offerings as Graviton.
Because it's a carrier-owned upsell feature. It's nuts that people even consider a non-Internet protocol that applications can't implement, and users have to get permission to use — from the same carriers that charge for bytes of crappy size-limited MMS messages in the same ballpark as delivery of physical letters.
How the candidate echoed the conspiracy theorist on the campaign trail (2020)
> Unless the service you are trying to use requires that you use a particular model of authenticator, which the service provider can enforce via attestation.

Android's implementation of passkeys currently does not support attestation. https://groups.google.com/a/fidoalliance.org/g/fido-dev/c/nh...

Neither does Apple's, I believe.
I would like to see these challenges happen more often

I think there is a fundamental limitation in US society that the only people that can challenge laws are the people that are damaged by them. You can't just look at the law in passing and take these exact obvious arguments to court because you have a little free time and money. You need free time, money, and a whole government agency coming after you trying to take all of your free time and money! What kind of power dynamic is that!?

We need a more comprehensive check and balance to get these laws in front of courts way earlier than that. I have some ideas if anyone is interested.
Then sign me up! I have my own unbound instance.. but also been pretty happy just using custom /etc/hosts files, so not feeling a strong incentive to shave this yak right now.
DR-DOS / Novell DOS actually shipped with a basic multiplayer space sim (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetWars) in the box, with the official explanation for its existence being "to test network topology and configuration".
I've no idea why you're getting downvoted, as your comment is spot-on. Currently going through a permitting process for small modification in my yard, and the town is very explicit about what needs a certified engineer's stamp and what does not need it. It is a very specific requirement and specific thing to produce.

If it does not have the official stamp and signature, it is NOT a certified/stamped/approved drawing. End of story.

Perhaps it works differently in different states, but this has been the routine in every state in which I've lived.

the bottom line is that the presumption is that it is NOT an engineering drawing NOR is it certified, unless the certification/stamp/signature is explicit.

Also, thinking about it a second, the stamp/certification/signature is literally the engineer putting their reputation, license, and career on the line over the accuracy of the drawing. No engineer is going to want that to happen as a default operation — it must be explicit.
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> not trivial or cheap

From your previous comment, it sounds like your experience may have been from a while ago? In 2022, it is fairly trivial and cheap: https://github.com/osqzss/gps-sdr-sim

I can not ;^) personally confirm that this works with a HackRF, which is like $300, but probably also with any other reasonable tx-capable sdr.
This does not work with going down the pipes, since he disappears "into" the pipe (so behind the front part of the pipe)
We don't need to ask "what if" because we know he made nothing remotely close to a billion. So now what?
For anyone that's upset about this, don't focus on the SMS vs. Signal messages UI distinction giving as the primary reason.

That's something a simple UX change could improve and does not justify something so radical. There's probably another reason they are doing this, these are my best guesses:

- Feature parity between Android, iOS and Desktop

- Moving towards Signal accounts tied to usernames instead of phone numbers

- Developer resources (unlikely, since this feature has existed since the beginning and probably requires less maintenance than other features, but I'd pay for a subscription if they kept it)

Whatever the real reason is, make them say so, the reason given is extremely flimsy. If they go through with this it will put lives in danger for people like activists, journalists, and anyone crossing a border who depend on their SMS messages being encrypted at rest (despite SMS not being end-to-end encrypted in transit). Using Signal instead of a different SMS app also prevents other apps from reading your SMS messages. Test this out - switch your default SMS away from Signal and sign into an app requiring SMS verification, and that SMS is probably readable by the app without any interaction on your part.

Cue the Apple-ish response of them saying they're listening while not taking any of their users' valid concerns seriously at all. Very disappointed in them.
A lot of people seem to be missing the fact that adversarial (or adversarial union system) is a term of art and a definition, not simply a talking point (No! It’s not the unions that are adversarial! It’s the evil company! The union is evil - because it’s adversarial!).

As far as companies, unions and good faith go - go read up on some of the less ideal aspects of the adversarial system. Beyond the strike breaking, and violence - It’s relatively common for the zero sum adversarial system to result in outcomes that corporations or unions are willing to literally destroy themselves (over the long run) to win a short term victory. For example, Charlie Bryan demanded to see the books of Eastern Airlines as part of a negotiation, determined that Eastern could not survive without concessions from the unions, and instead chose to maximize their claims and call a strike figuring it was worth getting more for employees, even if it meant the inevitable death of eastern airlines.
Forcing interoperability sounds like a good idea, until you recognize that it results in a system of compliance that absolutely stands in the way of innovation for years if not decades to come. Look at seatbelts: the technology has come leaps and bounds in recent decades, with 5 point harnesses being common in racecars, however, you'll probably notice that the seat belts in your current car look a lot like the seatbelts in your first car, because of a government enforced standard. This is the issue with the EU's recent adoption of a mandate that all devices use USB-C (never mind if some of the proprietary chargers that were in use were able to provide a faster charging speed) as well.

Now, admittedly, it isn't impossible to have regulations like this revisited on a schedule to make sure they're still making sense and adjust them, but considering how well that approach has panned out for the USA-PATRIOT Act, I'm not holding my breath on politicians coming up with a reasonable solution here. If your kid complains about the phone they have, I suggest getting them a job application from the nearest retail store. If they're too young for that, perhaps it's a bit soon to have a phone in the first place.
That’s only sort of true. Consumers don’t pay directly, but the carriers charge each other for them, and they still make a lot off people injecting sms into the system (think twilio, marketing, 2fa, application generated traffic). RCS was aimed (and priced) to try and make lots of money off a2p
Exactly. Did the Wuhan doctors sounding the alarm about a new virus, without “evidence” have freedom of speech?

The CCP tried to suppress them for “inciting a panic” until it became obvious they couldn’t cover it up any longer
Define "real". It's definitely measurable in the lab, but the effect sizes aren't very impressive, and the link to real-world outcomes remains quite controversial.
When I refer to craftmanship, I'm referring to the software experience. No slugishness, no crashes - everything just works.
The line says no such thing, in fact it says the opposite. From the project page on GitHub, Hegel wants to have zero runtime type checking and have it all be proved statically at compile time.
It is rent seeking. In unrestricted negotiations, the company would be free to reject collective bargaining, and find workers who will work at market wages. When unions obtain wages above market wages, they are extracting economic rent.

>>Why don't the private sector workers unionize themselves instead of attacking other workers?

They did, and they destroyed the industries that are amenable to unionization. 50 years after the unions sucked the previous American industrial giants dry, Amazon, Starbucks and Tesla have emerged as new targets for private sector unions, and the unions will steadily take them over. But capital once stung, will be twice shy, and with every cycle, there will be fewer lucrative private sector jobs for unions to colonize.
the issue isn't the site, its the product. those disclaimers aren't on the product.
> The key takeaway for me was that the mid-2000s were the perfect time to be a founder of a software tool. I can’t help but feel that there are so many tens of thousands of similar stories without such a successful conclusion.

The key take away is that any companies that survive for 15 years or more make money or go bust.
Prosecco is a completely different wine made through a completely different process.
That’s not really true - because most other common law jurisdictions aren’t like the US in this regard, the US is actually an outlier among common law countries, most of which prefer to resolve controversial social issues through legislative rather than judicial processes
It’s better than MMS is about the only good thing I can say about it. But that’s a terribly low bar
I think 2008-2012 was the sweet spot. Building your product in 2008 for 2 years would have taken you to 2010 when SaaS was more mainstream., but still relatively low competition.

Mid 2000s though would have been the best time to start an internet startup though (ie TripAdvisor, MyFitnessPal) given the low competition in search.
Hehe, this instance of subtle product platform sabotage is genius espionage, ensuring Elon Musssk inherits the most expensive website ever purchased with an gigantic tire fire actively ablaze.

While I commend you and your huge cajones, Mr. Agrawal and friends, you might want to hold off on too much more of this until the wire transfers are complete. Just sayin'.
You can edit 4k video on an iPad mini and run CAD software. The things that needed workstations now run on tablets.
He can move behind some objects though, such as flags, which indicates there is more than one pixel width in that plane.
The startup I worked for before my current company sold services to health care systems. It was hit hard by Covid. Hospitals were losing money and not paying for new products or even old ones.

My CTO said specifically “we need everyone we have and we aren’t going to be successful by laying off people. We have a vision and we need you all to help execute it”. They were bought out less than 9 months later for 10x revenue. I had moved on to $BigTech by then after leading their “cloud modernization” efforts.

The profitable tech companies are using it as an excuse to get rid of dead weight. No one is going to come after Cook, Jassy or Nadella for short term revenue misses.

Facebook and Google still have founders who own more than 50% of the voting shares. No one can come after them.

You can say a lot about the big 5. But none of them can be accused of short sightedness.
> I don't think we're in any danger now, in 2022 of returning to 18 hour work days and acceptable workplace deaths.

Really? Workplace deaths seem absolutely acceptable, as far as I can tell: https://www.denverpost.com/2017/03/23/in-a-case-of-a-trucker...
This doesn't answer my question. "Harassment is distressing" might be your opinion, but I'm not asking for your opinion. I'm asking if you can point me at anything in the plaintiffs' claims or their lawyer's arguments or the court ruling that based any part of the damage award on harassment by people who had nothing to do with Jones but just heard what he said, instead of just on defamation by Jones and his associates and employees.
I recently got hardware TOTP keys and I wanted to use them with my financial accounts but all the banks have their own propritary authenticators :(
In academic admissions, you're probably right. In tech hiring, I have seen it firsthand, on multiple occasions.