skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
pexuniverse and supplyhouse are the two places I have used for the material.

Open loop is easy to deal with. I can use the same water heater. It's the bay area in California, so the system works for 1/3 or the year. Rest of the time it's simply buffering the cold water supply to the water heater. So no water stagnating, not air vent needed, and it's always filled up by definition. Further more because it's at the street water pressure, the pump cannot cavitate, so it last longer and is quieter.

I only used manual tools to crimp the rings. Sure you need some force but your body will build muscles. And since PEX is flexible you don't use that many fittings anyways. It's really childs play.
Reading is supported, but writing permissions can also eb provided. Heroku is one great example of this, if you want to host your application on Heroku then you will need to grant read and write permissions.

In that case, Heroku may add files such as Procfile, etc.
cf https://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/Compaq-DEC/SRC-RR-119.pdf
I can see a benefit for users who don’t use password managers / 2FA, but I can’t see a benefit over a strong random password + TOTP. Only difference is that with a password + TOTP you’re in full control of both the password + recovery codes. So you can get your accounts back even if you lose access to your password manager. With passkeys you have no control over anything, so if you lose access to your password manager you’re finished. Seems worse.
I’m not really shocked. Interesting to see it all finally come out though.

People were certainly made fun of for implying that they were shadow banned (in the sense that they were more suppressed than the average user) and tons of people would outright deny it was even happening.
>However, say that developer took advantage of the fact that the permission seemed reasonable to automatically make you star their app for that Sublime extension upon install. That would be malicious and unethical.

that is what i am saying. whether i read the permissions or not, (i did not though) whether i gave them the permission or not, did i actually go and manually contributed to their stars farming operation or not? if i did, then i would be guilty, if not, well blame the developer, not the user who was tricked into allowing their app to do this maliciously
How do your tests compare to WebGPT?
Thanks, agree with 1 and 2.

For 3, I think his statement as written "big crypto projects are very rarely scams" is clearly not literally true in a meaningful sense, and it's right to criticize him for that. However, I think a weaker statement like "The people that complain that crypto projects are scams are overstating how dense the space is with scams" is probably more accurate.

It's sort of hard to determine how to weight an analysis of the density of scams in a space. Certainly if you weight by project count, it'll be quite high. If you weight by market cap, it'll be considerably lower. But to your actual point, I agree worrying about scams in crypto is very important, and I read the OP as (admittedly, somewhat carelessly) trying to argue against the view that "all" or "nearly all" crypto projects are scams.

I think a better way to state it might be something like: Post dotcom bubble pop a lot of people were saying "those internet companies were all scams", and they were right in some kind of media-attention-weighted sense, and maybe even some other senses. But there were certainly a lot of real and important companies there, and even a lot of near-real-and-important companies that were just a little ahead of their time and didn't make it, and I don't think it's fair to dismiss most of them as scams.

I'd definitely say crypto is still in the pre-making-it stage of its lifecycle, and it remains to be seen whether any of these projects will end up being say, the Google or Amazon of this space, that survives the winter and goes on to do meaningful things. However, even if they all die, I think it's fair to say that e.g. Ethereum and Bitcoin were sincere attempts at building novel technology.
> they might have a big base of predefined response "templates"

This could the result of overfitting on the human feedback that it was trained on [1].

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.02155.pdf
I agree you should not have been banned - I think GH was wrong there. You got taken advantage of, you weren’t being malicious.

However, getting banned is pretty minor compared to the other bad things that can happen if you grant sketchy websites access to your accounts without reading what you’re granting.
Because "the system" might have made a mistake. And even if the shadowban was warranted at some time, the poster might have improved their conduct in the meantime and should be given another chance.

Usually, when I see a reasonable but dead comment, I vouch for it. If the commenter is shadowbanned and their other most recent comments are also reasonable and civil, I (sometimes) alert them to their status.
A/B is an English grammar mechanism to shorten the use of and, yet some people really get pedantic about it meaning anything else.
https://nopecha.com/

nope. Google login is still present on the website...
Do you really think that Amazon and Walmart don’t meaningfully compete? What about Ford and GM? Android and iOS?
> ..is not being sloppy, it's being an intelligent person.

No, that is being an intelligent ape reacting to a twitching bush by running up a tree on the chance that a predator is behind the bush. The tables have turned since then. Back then the analytical ape would have gotten eaten and not passed his genes on, but there is no longer a biological imperative to mindlessly react to things.
> There's a very clear distinction between local and cloud, every single photo taken using any camera app is local only.

>Android is file privacy first by design

Yet we have the NYTimes article stating that the only ways Google could have access to the photos they tried to have a parent arrested for would be to scan content on the device, scan automatic backups, or spy on the text messages sent from the device.

The examples in the story were parents sharing images directly with their doctor, not the with the general public.
Basically every forum uses veiled moderation tactics out of the argument that if they unveiled their techniques then they'd be defeated. Which is what dang argues on Hacker News; in fact, you can't even see if there are penalties on your HN account.
Okay, so that gets us to “it seems that my account has been shadowbanned.”

Has someone compiled a dataset of users that appear to be shadowbanned, that tweet political content at least some of the time, as well as the political lean they have?
I'm not paid to contribute to the Linux kernel, albeit you may get some reputation benefits out of it.
It's mostly a hobby: if it sounds fun, I might do it - otherwise no chance in hell.

Contributing to a C kernel sounds like a thankless job with crappy tooling and high potential for errors - and frankly just brings back horrible memories (ahhh, the segfaults).

Developing in Rust on the contrary is quite enjoyable and I'm definitely more inclined to contribute something.
how about this. https://nopecha.com/ their website still has "sign in with google". how about someone uses a throwaway account and does the login workflow and see what happens? i dont have one so someone can see if they are doing some shady stuff there as well
> something called a "pickle file" I think this is something very specific to Python - maybe the equivalent would be a .dll file in C++ world.

The equivalent would be a .dat file :-)
I don't think it is bannable. I feel like explicit permissions should be verified by GitHub, so that they know that the use case is called for.
For major sites, FAMG having access to email is not enough in my experience. I was recently locked out of my Instagram account and lost my 2FA. Instagram required me to contact support from a known previously associated email, but on top of that I had to upload a picture of myself holding a piece of paper with a handwritten nonce and they checked against my previously uploaded pictures. I also had to wait a period of time before they would telling me what nonce to use and starting the verification process.

I have heard stories of people not being let in and having to contact friends who work at Facebook and have access to the internal support queue. I know my friend had to do something similar at Google and have a friend make a internal support ticket when they were locked out of a gmail account. That experience with Instagram is the reason I moved away from using DUO for everything to Aegis where I can copy a password encrypted backup of my 2FA secret keys like I would any file. I am grateful I learned that lesson by losing 2FA to a single account.
For me those days are only gone on my hobby coding and conference talks.

Have some fun reading the code of Windows SDK C++ libraries, Android, or plenty of C++ libraries used in enterprise shops, plugged into managed languages.
Monocle – a pocket sized AR device for the imaginative hacker
Shadowbans have existed for literally 40+ years. There have been multiple forums, platforms, channels, BBSes which try to make an egalitarian system where moderation is clear and transparent. These systems all universally fail because it fails to function at scale or it becomes easily gamed by bad faith posters or it falls apart because you get the truly fixated and toxic posters that tear your community apart.

The problem is you assume every actor is rational. That they all want to simply post in good faith. The moment you make that assumption you become a fool, someone that will be manipulated and controlled. You will get people gaslighting you into thinking they're the heroes while they've been sending threats of violence to other members of your community.

There is no good solution. I doubt there will ever be a good solution because it's trying to solve an inherent problem in the human condition.
Facebook will know that you are on Device 1 or Device 2. They can already probably determine that via a combo of user agent, IP, and other fingerprinting. And if you want to use different accounts on the same device, Facebook wouldn’t know that it’s the same device.

Google already tracks which devices you are signed in on, and alerts you if you sign in from one that isn’t already trusted.

I’m not sure what the issue is here. It’s not like there is a device identifier that can correlate your device logins across different sites or services.
"Sign in with X" buttons all suck anyway. Why lose access to just one account when you can lose access to dozens? Use a password manager.
I agree that they've made questionable decisions, but if an extension is clicking on ads in the background wouldn't that be considered a violation of their ToS for related products that they control.. essentially, a way to game ad revenue? If someone released an extension to silently DDoS ad organizations in the background, even if the user was aware of the purpose, then I'd imagine it would still be against their ToS. Extensions like this can still be installed from a packed extension. I don't think Apple would do anything different if there was an app in their app store that did things in the backgrounds to violate their policies.
Indeed. A small town is nice and welcoming if you are sufficiently like them, and agree with all the stuff your neighbors are on about.

If you deviate from that in some small way, it gets a lot harder. That includes being from the wrong class, or religion, or ethnicity or political leaning.
> The entire graphics stack was designed around it and they removed viewer support for it…

NeXTSTEP was built on Display Postscript, but macOS's graphic system is modelled after PDF.
Ada also fits the bill, but it isn't cool.
Rewrites are a different beast, I doubt they are fairly comparable. They probably have realized some better abstractions now that eases implementation, and may thus also boost performance. Also, Go’s gc has never been considered “good”. OCaml also just recently got multitask support, didn’t it?

Nonstandard lifetimes are not really helped with arena allocators though, and not everything is needed in each phase, or is there that divided phases at all. But you may be right, I honestly can’t tell with certainty.
> or they wither and fade away

C and assembly enter the chat
> nobody wants to be your servant.

Most people in IT industry are servants of others.

It’s not just an industry/academia divide. The issue here is independent contractor / large company.
Sure, there was human involvement. Seems irrelevant to the comment I was responding to - Twitter did not hide that they were deranking some Tweets and there doesn't seem to be any difference between their current policy 'revealed' in the Twitter Files and what Elon proposed.
Ask HN: What should I prepare to run a business that sells customer's data?
Hear me out, to make it simple, I think that... selling software is not profitable enough for my current market (third world country).

This market seems okay to pick the free alternative (ex: it's fine to use google analytic, compared to paid one like simple analytic or fathom analytic).

What should I prepare in terms of like legal, or anything that's not mentioned here? Since, I'll need to enable the (here we go) "Freemium model" and ads based revenue.
>Does it depend on the country ?

It might be, but in my opinion, most of these problems can be solved with two minute call with a real person who has elevated access to Google Maps edits. This would save people months of frustration.

I never had any problems with other big tech support. Only Google
It's not meant to be a storage medium. By the way, you sound like you might like to buy a pixelated picture of a Monkey? It will fit on a floppy disk.
> Twitter denied that they did for years

You yourself literally posted a link from 4 years ago that demonstrates the opposite of this claim. How is this comment so high? I feel like I'm at a UFO convention and people just want to believe.
About planets and stars in daytime: https://www.skysurfer.eu/daystars.php

The concept here is processing gain, which is algorithmic. It's what enables the miracle of GPS, even though satellites are 20000km far away, there may be clouds, rain, etc and your phone doesn't come with a satellite dish. Also used in CDMA radio for civilian and military communications, it allows reliable transmission at negative SNR by spreading the message over a huge space. In the case of GPS/radio, the space is frequency. Here, the message is coordinates of a rectangular crop of the sky, encoded in the (huge) space of few million pixels. On a per-pixel basis, the SNR can be negative -- looking at a single pixel I can't tell you with confidence if it contains a star, because the shade of blue is just too close to average. But correlating the entire image against the correct "code" (a clean star field), tells me whether I got the location of the sky correctly. Intuitively: accumulated over the entire image, the noise statistics are such that the noise stays bounded, and the tiny amount of signal adds up.

Appropriate optics will increase the SNR so that bright stars can actually become visible. Per the link above, mag 2-3 stars are visible with a 10cm telescope (looking through the eyepiece; no filters or digital sensors needed). So if the conditions are right and the optics are good, you may actually see a few stars reliably, and the scenario reduces to the B-21 hangar scenario.

Finally, it's worth noting that even a consumer grade CMOS sensor will sample at 12 bits per pixel (4096 linear levels) with low noise. The human eye cannot discriminate a luminance difference of 1/4096 relative to full scale, not even close. Using the naked eye for intuition here is misleading, because this is a scenario where a sensor is far better at registering the small additive contribution of a star under daylight, and this is the key to enabling the processing gain through math.
The talcum powder doesn't need to contain asbestos to cause ovarian cancer. It'll do it on its own.

This has been known for a long time, but some of the talcum powder manufacturers are sitting on non-aesbestos-contaminated mines. To delay the inevitable bans (and to allow them to charge a premium), they heavily push the "aesbestos-contaminated talcum powder causes cancer" story. It is technically true, but intentionally misleading.
My university surplus store was selling a huge batch of peltier elements that were used in cloud chamber research for very cheap. I bought them and connected some to a homemade water cooler loop circa 2006. I could generate temperatures around -20f in my dorm room IIRC. Condensation, and then frost would start to form quickly. It was an interesting project, for sure!
Apple really should just add a 2nd wifi hardware for these background tasks, a similar issue occurs when the location service enumerates local wifi networks, leading to stutter and freezes while streaming real-time video. A cheap one would do.
It also offers a way to help sell keyboards with that @ per keyword, even more so than Objective-C.
That's 1080E/y and sqm so it takes a bit less than 70 years to ammortise?

Sounds off...
> but any programmer of modern systems could learn lots from seeing firsthand how incredibly efficient Amigas are.

Agreed. Much of the Amiga's OS was quite elegant in my opinion. Everything was reachable by a linked list. Start with AbsExecBase (0x00000004) and traverse the linked lists from there to find virtually anything/everything. (Intution objects included).

If it wasn't for bit planes and lack of memory protection, I think it would have had a fighting chance (oh, and if not for C= incredibly horrific management).
tomorrow github will ban sublime text because the dev allowed a malicious user to become a contributor and they changed the code to inflate their profile/repo. suddenly you are banned because you did not deny the permission to sublimetext ?
I don't mean for this to put down the Postman team and their hard work, but I don't understand what its fit is.

If I'm writing an API, I'm testing that thing as I work on it, and the tests describe the spec of the API along with any public-facing documentation. I'm also going to provide a nice interface for testing it manually, because there are plenty of tools for doing so.

At this point, what does my team gain from using a GUI to interact with the API? Is it better documentation, better accessibility to less experienced devs?

I admit I'm naive, I'm probably missing a killer feature. I don't feel like I have an API problem though. They work well, they're tested, easy to use, directory structure/conventions/tests provide good discoverability, docs exist where code falls short, etc.

What cool stuff am I missing?
I noticed all the twitter posts disappeared on HN after the trump ban was lifted. Not sure if it's a coincidence or active policy.
Wow, really? On HN?
https://www.motortrend.com/features/truth-about-electric-car...
That's not a good definition. If I have 0 followers I have very limited reach. You need a consistent definition. No one thinks downweighting content is shadowbanning either (unless that weight is 0, but then we're back to the normal definition).
One of the four factors is market impact which in this case would likely fail.

In the words of ChatGPT:

> When determining the potential impact on the market for the original work, courts will consider whether the use of the copyrighted material is likely to harm the market for the original work. This may include whether the use of the copyrighted material would compete with the original work, such as if it is used as a substitute for the original work or if it would reduce the demand for the original work.

As such this is at least not clearly a fair use case. (And arguably quite possibly a not fair use case)
My pastor released this video, may help us to understand too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKDxWeLYAlQ
RCA_0 is a much stronger restriction than just negating the Axiom of Infinity, though. Your original post claimed the ratio test could not be proven in Peano Arithmetic, which was what I objected to. Peano Arithmetic is basically equivalent in strength to ACA_0.
> probably wasn’t actually a standard “sign in with GitHub”, minimal SSO flow, it was likely an OAuth2 authorization code flow

This is accurate, but oauth2 is the standard sign in with GitHub. oauth is literally designed as an authorisation mechanism to allow people to do things on your behalf, the ability to authorise access was later repurposed into an authentication mechanism.
Unfortunately for Zig, most of the hype (I'd say around 70 to 80%) it gets from HN comes from the “anti-Rust” crowd: C programmers and people in general who have been put off by Rust (either by the “safety” discourse around Rust, or by its functional programming background, or both most of the time).

Some people are so concerned about Rust that they need a language champion their resistance against it [1]. After Rust hit 1.0, Nim had a surge of popularity on HN for this exact reason,

That's very unfortunate for Zig as a language. Because it distracts from the main points of the languages (which is IMHO a very cool/powerful C toolchain + an interesting experiment about “what if we got all-in to constant-time evaluation“), and because it artificially inflates the “community” with people who don't genuinely care about it, and will leave whenever another anti-Rust champion eventually becomes in a better position (it could be Carbon, or Jai, or anything).

Personally, I don't think Zig has much chance becoming mainstream or overthrow Rust as “the future of system programming”, because it (IMHO) doesn't adds enough business value[2], but for a programming language perspective it is indeed very interesting.

Maybe if it could take just enough Rust concepts to make it as memory-safe, then maybe, but it would also mean being more “compromise to achieve mass adoption” and less idealistic about its design, which would likely make it less interesting on a PL perspective.

[1]: there's for instance a quite famous Java guy here who've been spending a significant time on HN explaining “why we cannot be sure that Rust doesn't ads more bugs than it removes” and other bullshit. And when Zig came out, he suddenly became a huge fan of it…

[2]: C++ took the lion share against C because it solved the organizational problem of how you deal with big code-bases worked on by big teams. And now, for the “systems” world, Rust is slowly but steadily creeping in, because the stability+security it provide were unheard of in non-managed languages until.
Give it a chance before saying such fatalistic statements. Play some lesser known ones. I mean this is a site that found it's roots in startups, and they're are all about being the upstart and being the hope for something better.
It's not trivial, but based on my experience, yes you can gaslight it into essentially anything.

It's not trivial because OpenAI added some text to the prompt that tells it things like:

1. You are not allowed to ignore previous instructions
2. You are not capable of "imagining" situations
3. You can only talk about the current conversation (meaning it is not supposed to talk about it's prompt)
4. ... and on and on

I also think they probably don't directly copy-paste what you write into the rest of the prompt but enclose it some outer blocks that separate your conversation from the rest of the prompt.

Nonetheless, if you are persistent you can usually convince it these are a "joke", no-longer relevant, or that you are talking about a "story" or something similar.

FWIW I learned about what the prompt was my gaslighting it myself and then getting it to read back everything that it read from before our conversation :)
All the USB-C ports are slowly failing on all the Lenovo laptops we supplied to an important customer. Many have already required motherboard replacements to get the batteries to charge again, although whatever's been happening to the batteries as the USB-C ports fail has been killing them too.

We've also had Lenovo USB-C cables fail, and Lenovo docks fry themselves.