skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do you lock your computer every time you leave your desk?

This was a corporate requirement where I used to work, unofficially reinforced by the local jokers who would rotate the screen and / or send prank messages if you didn't.
Short of building your own and coding your own you never fully can. Very much a best effort cost/benefit thing
Reminds me of this quote attributed to William F. Buckley Jr.:

"I Would Rather Be Governed By the First 2,000 People in the Telephone Directory than by the Harvard University Faculty"
Negative SEO scammers use intentional search-policy violations to push down the rank of perceived competitors for a few weeks.

While it is more likely the poster will get a few people to check on the situation and naively drive up page rank... a personal site is just a rounding error for traffic in a long-tail distribution known as the modern web.

Most search engines will correlate user-side telemetry traffic against crawler and web stats. i.e. if the bots tend to prefer your site for abnormal reasons, the ranking algorithm may blacklist a signature, domain, and IP sets for several weeks as punishment.

Note too, it is still common for a human employee to manually check a suddenly popular site that pops up out of obscurity. i.e. this catches the more sophisticated cheats, and may have legal repercussions in severe cases.

In summary, if you mess with modern search engines, than expect the ban hammer to fall eventually. ;)
I use the web app too, and it's incredible how laggy it is compared to accessing it via API-driven 3rd party apps.
I don't trust that my machines are not compromised.

All I can do is to start with a machine I believe to be "clean", and take measures to keep it that way (others have suggested suitable measures). But even a brand-new machine might have a compromised BIOS, or compromised firmware in some peripheral processor like the Wifi adaptor.

I don't know how to guarantee that a machine is "clean" to begin with, and I doubt anyone else does.
Increases in egg prices likely caused by Avian Flu culling chicken populations
The background image doesn't render on the homepage in Firefox. This makes the blog links appear as very light blue text on a white background. Makes me wonder how it renders for the crawler and whether it's getting flagged for invisible content.
More classified documents found at Biden’s home by lawyers
If you have a perfect shuffle, something like 10-15% of MTG hands are basically unplayable, and another 10-20% have no realistic chance of winning (eg too slow, not resilient, etc.). The exact fractions depend on the deck and your opponent.

The game mitigates this with a mulligan rule, where you can get another hand with one less card if you want. That way, you can get rid of a bad hand, but it costs a card each time. Commonly, magic players overvalue the card, and don't mulligan hands that they should, but it is also possible (and common) to just lose games to luck even if you do everything right - top MTG pros only have ~65-70% win rates against random people.

MTG arena apparently also does an internal free mulligan for you (to make the game more fun) - it draws 2 hands initially and gives you the one with the better mix of cards.
You could use something booted from a read only medium like knoppix (if your computer has a cd reader!). At the BIOS level all bets are off though.

https://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html
Follow up,glad to know I read it right the first time.
Hey,

The project is still in early stage and hence I don't show many comparisons.

Here is a benchmark on TechEmpower - https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=test&runid=4...

I also have a comparison on the docs website: https://sansyrox.github.io/robyn/#/comparison

And my own benchmark code is https://github.com/sansyrox/robyn-comparison-benchmarks
Twitter has a number of clients that don't run ads.
Well if you are silently placed on a hide list (by manual human intervention without you being able to know without a third party), then by all means that is a shadow ban.

Edit for clarity.
well, there's like 800 million pigs in the world today as-is, so...
Is there also a term for being algorithmically suppressed on a social media platform, I wonder? I.e. a much more subtle, harder to dectect mechanism whereby the algorithms ensure you get some exposure, but never the same as other unsuppressed people would get based on similar activity. Or only exposure to a certain limited subset of the graph based on some metrics (e.g. just your 'friends' so no one points out you are effectively shadow banned).
> it does not have a single tracker [...] it blocks trackers from other apps

Except when it's Microsoft: https://nitter.fly.dev/yegg/status/1528838579455250434
I'd argue it's reasonable behaviour depending on how dodgy the link is, but it doesn't prevent them getting malware in general, especially if they're not careful with regards to what kind of things they are downloading.
For UK it's 4% physical banknotes/coins [1]. I would assume it's about the same for all developed countries. Which is why sometimes "ATMs ran out of money" if there is a mismatch between physical demand and supply.

[1] https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/knowledgebank/what-is-money
> enable anti-malware if your OS has it . . . Would be interested in hearing other things

Given the most common network activity is web browsing, it seems like enabling protections in the browser is becoming mandatory for the security-conscious.

For me this amounts to enabling NoScript and uBlock[edit: [0]] plugins in Firefox, desktop and mobile versions, and disabling or locking down various "features".

An additional step I take is to use several browser profiles for different purposes (mail, banking, shopping, default, to name four) so that Firefox always asks me to pick a profile on startup. As well as reducing the possibility of XSS, this lets me relax the settings for some profiles where I restrict myself to a small number of trusted sites. (This may well be overkill!)

0: uBlock Origin, that is, as per instructive commment below[1]

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34389942
My understanding is that there is a cap of 1TB per person, with up to 6 people on the account.

I suppose that 1TB is still quite a lot for personal backups.
It'd be more interesting a Webasm list...if you have to compile, compile to the metal.
I protect my machine from as many commercial interests as I can. This removes a whole class of issues.

For the rest, the thing is so complicated nowadays I can't really say anymore.

I spent my youth on 8 bit machines. At that time I was 100% certain there was no compromise. But nowadays,...
I've just realized that in my previous comment I've barely touched the surface of what I would have expected from an article that criticizes Python.

1. Criticism about performance. Such criticism would have held in 2018, but it holds much less nowadays, with Python 3.11 coming with tons of performance improvements, and tons of C-native libraries like numpy that can help you move numbers at the speed of light.

2. Criticism about the "there should be one way (and preferably only one way) to do it" approach. While this has helped keep the language very intuitive and the syntax very clear (in opposition to Perl), it has also put it on the wrong side of history when it comes to functional patterns. Quite ironically, the language is very popular among scientists and mathematicians, two categories that have always praised functional languages and patterns. The "one way of doing things" approach means that Python has fallen behind when it comes to functional patterns. Yes, list comprehension is very elegant for small things, but try to traverse a multi-dimensional array of objects using list comprehension, and you'll easily hit readability walls. Iterating on multi-dimensional array means "two or more nested loops in your list comprehension", which is a very unintuitive and imperative-like way of building algorithms. The functional way of doing things is through composition, and Python is a very weak language when it comes to composition. The lambda feature is also quite ridiculous - an ugly syntax that only supports one-liners, and it makes the code overall much less readable than having functions that can always be expressed in the same consistent way no matter the context (and that is a grave contradiction of the "one way of doing things" principle). Languages like JS solved the functional problem in a better way, and Kotlin does so in a much more elegant way. Python initially snubbed these patterns, then it came up with patches as an afterthought (like the functools and operator modules).

3. Oh, and typing. Static typing is another thing that came too much as an afterthought. I eventually like the typing implementation, but I don't see much point in it if it's just about showing some warnings in your IDEs without actually enforcing the typing constraints - at least at runtime.
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He’s kinda Trump-esque in his willingness to just redefine words (and basically pretend the original use never existed) to his own benefit and have his followers jump on board. Another great Elon example of this is Tesla’s “Autopilot.”
Had the same problem due to negative SEO campaigns by naughty competitors. Wrote to Bing Webmaster Tools Support team (https://www.bing.com/webmasters/help/webmaster-support-24ab5...) and after a lengthy process got a response that ”the issue” had been addressed.

It’s been a few months since and my website is indeed back in the search results so I advice whoever is having this problem to reach out to Bing.
Hey,
The project is still in early stage and hence I don't show many comparisons.

Here is a benchmark on TechEmpower - https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=test&runid=4...

I also have a comparison on the docs website: https://sansyrox.github.io/robyn/#/comparison

And my own benchmark code is https://github.com/sansyrox/robyn-comparison-benchmarks
Good on you mate for keeping yourself and your loved ones safe !

I must say I admire your ability to keep cool when the minimizers creep out of the woodwork.
I'm genuinely curious: Do you check/audit the code you compile and run on your machine? Going with the assumption of "no": How is it then different than downloading a prebuilt version from an official source?
Since you mention routers, I’m curious what brand you use.

Since Ubiquity started fown the cloud-first path I’ve switched to Mikrotik. While they do seem to have regular CVEs (which is good, I think?), they also don’t seem to have a public bug bounty program.
It's been a while longer than a typical holiday break. Sites typically have some sort of serious incident that requires human intervention every so often; at some point the humans to handle it will not be present.
> "Compromised" meaning that malware hasn't been installed or that it's not being accessed by malicious third parties. This could be at the BIOS, firmware, OS, app or any other other level.

I don't believe there is a way to be 100% certain, but if I had to go to a store and pick a new device with the lowest likelihood of being compromised, it would be a desktop, a laptop, or a tablet running ChromeOS[1].

[1] https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/...
He doesn't appear to cover multiple hypothesis testing, which seems like a pretty damning omission.
To be fair, a decade-old SFW blog with 2.2k crawler hits ought to be automatically indexed by any major search engine.
good luck using that one next time you're at the bar...
A mental health tech company ran an AI experiment on real users
This was ridiculously eloquently put. +1.
TIL: “The monitoring of popular television channels is an important factor in electricity grid control centres”
> It all works if real estate prices keep rising, if the owner can get one tenant to replace another without any vacancy, if the rules of the game remain the same and if the mastermind can manage the accounting nightmare of dealing in and keeping track of so much unsecured debt. It fails if any one of the many participants fails to play their part, or if any of the conditions change.

This sounds like a pyramid scheme, doesn't it?

s/tenant/investor

s/play their part/ask for their money back
Good boots can have their outsoles replaced by a cobbler. I bought Merell Wilderness boots with the intention of doing that but scuffed the toes so badly that I'm not sure I will bother. They're also the heaviest boot I've worn, adding effort to high difficulty mountain hikes. They were in the expensive category.
Thanks for the suggestion. I replied about Ruby here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34389323.
May I ask why is webasm not eating the market?

I mean what are the impediments do improvements like compiling to the metal make?
"Shadow ban" would be a good term to use for that if it didn't already have a meaning that was different. But it does.
Those Russian Twitter Bots Didn’t Do $ % in 2016, Says New Study
My average draw is around 300 watts during the winter, more like 200 in the summer.

One of my big electricity users is the gas heating system (inducer and pumps). Clothes dryer is probably the biggest single load.

I think I have 100 amp service. But it's matched to the potential load of the house, not the average load.
"low-hanging fruits" is implying that other fruits would be available for harvest - which they are not - the IRS lacks the funds to go after these other "fruits". So I'm not sure this metaphor is applicable.

> do you really believe US corruption is minor enough that politicians will target the major donor class for tax violations en mass?

Not giving the enforcement agencies the means to do the enforcement is not going to help either. If you are worried about corruption in the US, support efforts that get money out of politics, reversing Citizens United, etc. Not by virtually absolving rich people from paying taxes "because they already bought the politicians".
No, a shadow ban specifically is designed to mislead you into thinking you are not banned, to delay you attempting to work around the ban.

Regardless of whether you were notified, if you can see that you are banned, it is by definition not a shadow ban.
Then you have to get into why you are talking about sines and cosines, adding unnecessary complexity to the explanation.

The OP is better. It's the frequency that matters for intuiook, the shape of the periodic function is a technical detail.
> "An elegant weapon for a more... civilized age."

One of the ideas people had back then was having a product catalog in XML that your tool would give you, and that you could upload to your website and display as a nice website via XSLT.

It was such a fascinating technology when I learned about it, but I’m not sure if it ever saw any serious use? Maybe in enterprise?
If your main computer has had all its files encrypted by ransomware, will the backup NAS know not to replace the good backup with a bad one? i.e. hopefully it's not doing something like `rsync --delete`.
I love the irony of being lectured about "rewriting history" from someone arguing that the WHO adopted the position that "Asians don't know what they're doing" and "masks not only had no effect, they were bad for you"...
Thank you for suggesting this example.

For the undecidable Diophantine equation Q=0 of n variables - I'm assuming that the fact that someone could hit a solution randomly (by randomly generating the n variables and getting lucky) does not contradict with its undecidability.

Still I'm not clear what happens if such a solution would be randomly hit for an equation that's mapped to another hard question such as ZFC consistency. It would imply that a question such as ZFC consistency could be solved by randomly generating an answer, which seemingly doesn't make sense?
I would never call XSLT elegant, it is horrible IMO.
Social media gives you that dopamine fix quicker than your other options. It quickly becomes a habit if you've been doing it for long enough.

I'm sure if you tried to make doing other things a habit, it would come easier to you over time. Then there's less reliance on willpower required.

If you put a block in the calendar at the same time each week, you will feel more obligated to do it.

I've done this with all kinds of things like socialising, couch25k, flossing. It really helped me when covid restrictions first hit and it was too easy to just lay about all day.
Hence why I said silently. If I’m posting something and it appears to me as usual on my feed but not others, by all means that’s a shadow ban.
Depends. How long will voters remain ignorant or apathetic about externalities?

Then again, you may already be paying a carbon tax based on your current energy usage, and therefore paying more when running energy intense CPU/GPU workloads.

Regardless, this change is good for everyone as it should lower their energy bills and reduce the likelihood (however modestly) of straining energy systems.
Many here probably have seen The Engineer Guy's series of videos showing a Fourier Analysis machine.

If not here it is it's a great watch.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NAsM30MAHLg
GeoGebra's constraint solver has similar issues with this type of figure. I get the impression they get stuck in a local optimum or something.
Yes, its called Algorithmic Supression.

That doesn't sound as cool and victimey though.
Read the following short story… Disclaimer: I’m not responsible for any paranoia, computer fear or conspiracy thoughts that might arise after reading it:
https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/coding-machines/
I have to physically go under my desk to see if my computer has been tampered with.
On Linux there are techniques involving a loopback, such as here:
https://github.com/umlaeute/v4l2loopback

Effectively these let an app (eg some VToonify tool) generate content that from the perspective of your live streaming app look like they are from a webcam
As far as I can tell, it really depends on the intensity of the "slider".

When the insensity of the style transfer is pushed mostly to the right (high), it just seems like Pixar or cartoons. Nothing uncanny whatsoever.

But when they show is about a quarter of the way to the right... it's utter nightmare fuel, like plastic surgery taken way too far. The worst kind of uncanny valley, so I definitely agree with you there.
The author is extending the concept to include an inadverted ban. Why would Bing warn him anyways, since there is no user account? Welcome to Cancelbannia.
How I ruined my SEO
The standard that USG holds others to is not complex- it’s “might makes right”. The areas where USG backs down from its interest are fully in line with this ideology- cases where local authorities, political groups, or competitor nation states are able to pose a credible threat to military supremacy. That’s not to say USG is morally in the wrong, all successful states operate along this principle.
Modern combines sit idle when the harvesting period ends. So about 90% of the year. With indoor farming, you are not constrained by the seasons. You can rotate your crops, so you harvest some in January, some others in February, etc. Whatever machines you need for harvesting, spraying, tilling, etc, you can arrange to use each 100% of the time.

I personally think grains will not be economical indoors this decade, or maybe even next, but in some not very distant future, the majority of the agricultural products will be produced indoors, just like chickens are now. Of course, when that time will come, indoor farming will be perceived as bad, horrendous, anti-nature, etc, just like people perceive the industrialized chicken farms now.
This was me though I ended up moving to SuperMicro instead. Not fancy but their BMC seems to get the job done, and also doesn't cost a significant chunk of money extra for basic functionality. And then even more money to have IPMI be dedicated connection not shared. And HP's frigging BIOS wouldn't even work with their own HP rack console! But it was happy with an Apple mouse and keyboard. Argh! Making me irritated again remembering it. But yeah, we didn't return them but did sell them off to some other poor sucker and never bought an HP again. They may be great at large scale with the higher end central management software suite and support etc, but the BMC definitely was a dealbreaker at an SMB level. It's one of the few differentiating features vs a pile of other competitors who do the same basic thing, so I do think it's not entirely meaningless to get it badly wrong.
> Unless you're auditing the source code and building it yourself, you're trusting the developers as much as any other piece of software.

The thing is that you probably have to trust someone at some point. Better focus on those that have a good track record.
This [1] comment mentions https://homepowersolutions.de/

There's also a recent HN topic [2] about it, but without any comments yet.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34298804

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34302276
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Very surprised that makes any sort of sense on any level frankly
Life is an infinite game. You cannot win it. The only way out is to realise you're the game.
France also made policy mistakes by significantly reducing its investment in nuclear without committing on any real alternatives, and lately also by postponing critical maintenance "because of Covid", which was a ridiculous thing to do.
Lock my computer: Always[1][2].

Check for keylogger thumbdrives: I use a laptop so it would be immediately obvious. But now that you say it I haven't checked the charger USB-outlet on the back of my cabled keyboard.

[1]: it has happened I have failed. Once a year or something.

[2]: I sometimes try to allow myself to go downstairs in my own house to fetch a cup coffe without locking when I am alone, but I find it so stressful in practice I always lock it. I don't need to know but it is a good habit. I'm otherwise normal :-)
Of course, a nation state is unlikely to 'tip their hand' so to speak.

If the U.S. has backdoors on every PC, they're not going to bother draining the wallets of "small fish"; they need to keep these things secret so they can go after terrorists
If you had your chance to redo your choice, would you?
Which of these three would you say gives me "broader" opportunities?

I have a hard time trying to figure out what exactly I want to do, I've touched different roles like software tester, web developer & fullstack developer.

I want to get a degree where I am not locked within a field or role, so I can
pick freely later on in my life.
I'd like to know more about "certain individuals trying to disrupt the language design process" alluded to in the readme.
Separation of concerns is a good idea. Don't run everything together, e.g. multiple boot Os, or nested OS (windows with several WSL setups for different work, test untrusted windows apps first in windows development VM etc.). If you have a server, run dedicated VMs and work on those via remote, these days you can even stream your games from your dedicated VM. In case a game is compromised, it will at maximum compromise other games on the VM, but not your important work on another VM.
"Automatically downranked/downweighted/penalized" are terms I've heard.
I believe they get installed to a particular location that can be of course set in bundler’s config. I believe this is also per script, so they one script won’t interfere with another. I’ve used it before, and never had a problem
They mostly recommend charities which are based around saving lives of small children or baby’s in 3rd world countries. A noble cause, no doubt. However, I wonder if there is a similar thing for saving the earth as opposed to humans?
I don't believe that, especially because jpeg is already compressed using Fourier analysis before you gzip it using non-Fourier compress.