skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You missed a fun bit here:

"What about "Baltimore"? That's short for Baltimore Technologies, a now-defunct infosec company, who acquired GTE's certificate authority subsidiary (named CyberTrust) in 2000, which they then sold to a company named Betrusted in 2003, which merged with TruSecure in 2004, who rebranded back to CyberTrust, which was then acquired by Verizon in 2007, who then sold the private keys for their root certificates to DigiCert in 2015. So "Baltimore" hasn't been accurate since 2003, and the true owner has changed four times since then."

The dance in between that you missed:

CyberTrust was part of BBN; GTE bought BBN in 1997. Later GTE bought a small datacenter operator called Genuity. Then GTE merged with Bell Atlantic to become Verizon, spinning off Genuity, selling much of the network to L3, and selling BBN Technologies to Raytheon. When Verizon bought Betrusted/TruSecure/Cybertrust in 2007, that was buying back a chunk of its previous self.
I'm having trouble believing that you could believe anything alleged is out of reach for a random tech company.
There's a playbook people who have zero control over a situation use to try and trigger influence anyway, and "insane conspiracy" is one of the chapters of that playbook.

Like it or hate it, Reddit can run however Reddit wants, and the vast majority of its users won't care, basically no matter what, as long as the core value prop (endless scrolling of relevant content) remains.

Subs going dark for a few days doesn't materially move the needle to the owners of Reddit, and in fact I'd bet a lot of the "normal" users are only dimly aware of how, why, or even if it happened at all. Regardless, if they are aware, they're probably mad about it, and want their content back.

Mods have no control here in the long run, users who are upset have no control in the long run, so the only hail mary chance they have is creating chaos, so that's what they do. Steady hands at the wheel are the antidote, and we'll see if spez has what it takes. So far no, but it's not over.
Obviously B?
Can you really make that much money with behavior data?

Good question. I don't know if companies sell behavior data directly or if it just helps them to target ads better and therefore theoretically improve conversion rates.
Thanks, is there any kind of tutorial on how you should use this in a python project?

Edit: I think this is one of the biggest problems someone coming to python has. Python advocates say some version of, "you can roughly do that" but there isn't a clear explanation of how to do it.

Edit 2: I see that the official docs have a Pipenv flow outlined. Is Pipenv the way people do this in python these days?
I don't follow. If one bucket has many more iOS users, it seems like you have done a bad job randomizing your treatment?
How many actual companies manage to find a SECOND money printing opportunity that is not basically just their first one expanded a little?

Amazon maybe because AWS is not retail/logistics etc. Maybe Sony because they have (had) a decent sized film studio? Pretty much no one else.

No one wants to admit it, but economically a company with a decent position (like google) SHOULD ruthlessly cost cut, pump out dividends and leave research/innovation to nimble start ups. From a purely Dollar point of view, that is the correct approach...
Any Suggestions for a Password Manager?
I'm looking for something simple that isn't tied to a specific browser or OS. A mobile app would be a plus, but it's definitely not necessary. I understand that security and convenience are enemies, but a simple, intuitive UI would be great.
Gorilla LLM: An interview with the team at UC Berkeley
No shocker here, car manufacturers typically have been trash at software. They don’t want to open up so they lean on security/their own incompetence to say they couldn’t possibly open up telematics safely.
as in being an extreme left-winger who's out of place in a (mostly) capitalistic society.
I taught intro CS for a bit. The difference between people who are good at it and people who are not good at it is like sketch art. Some people cannot draw a straight line to save their lives, while some people are natural artists. Some people can work extremely hard to perform at an ok level, while others perform at that level without even trying.

I know it's unamerican, and everyone should master the basics, but there should be some simple aptitude tests given to tell people what kind of optional classes they are going to be good at and what kinds they are just not going to like at all.

This isn't a one dimensional axis of smart/dumb either. For example, most lawyers have extremely good memories, but are notoriously bad at math. Many talented artists and creatives are not good at traditional academic subjects. It would be optimal if the test examined as many talent areas as possible.
When I left that company it had grown to massive and the product was full of dark patterns… I mean bugs, seriously, they were tracked as bugs that no one could fix without severe consequences. No one put them there on purpose. When you have hundreds of devs working on the same dozen files (onboarding/payments/etc) there are bound to be bad merges (when a git merge results in valid but incorrect code), misunderstanding of requirements, etc.
The point is that my parents have an iPhone because they are idiot proof.

Yes, they had the tool bars in Internet Explorer. Yes they had viruses.

I do not want a situation where I now have to support their phone because they followed some instructions to unlock side loading and installed Bonzai Buddy.

I suggested an alternative, something that would be just a bit too technical for idiots. A switch in iOS will generate support requests to Apple as the average user is an idiot.

> I'd think it's the manufacturer of the computer that doesn't let you use it however you prefer.

Are you this vocal on Sony for not letting you install your own homebrew on a Playstation or Nintendo on the Switch?
that article is a long winded way of rehashing the old Tzarist claim that the Russian Empire was the inheritor of the Byzantines, a self-styled "Third Rome".

Putin simply sees himself as the new Tzar, and by extension master of the lands of the Third Rome, i.e. the Baltics, Ukraine, et al.
Thanks! We’re interested in your feedback as it’s still a beta version.

Here is our documentation to get started: https://docs.giskard.ai/
Panda CSS: The fastest way to build beautiful websites in React
If anyone is thinking they are bigger than they are it's these mods. Some of my favourite hobbies have been absolutely tainted by people who become mods of a community who put their societal/political/sexual beliefs with equal weight with the actual topic of the sub reddit. Say anything that mildly offends the mods personal beliefs? Banned. Or at the very least, find yourself limited in the role you can play in the community. Unfortunately, these mods seem to have the most free time to hijack the shared common interest in the sub-reddit topic to push their own version of community standards. I'm just speaking to my limited experience of my own personal interests but that's all I can say about it.
I wonder if building new products is preferably over always building new features. Some products are done from a user perspective, but keep getting tinkered with because it's growth or death and eventually the beloved product is unrecognizable. Maybe the ideal scenario is to put those products into maintenance mode instead and move investment to new products. Google's problem is that they are so extreme on only investing in new products and don't make incremental improvements.

Is bizarre that this and how it's tight to the way they do promotions has even evident to people outside Google for years and nothing changes.
You can’t erase leftism or progressivism, because it’s a reaction to injustice. Every ossified social hierarchy has its underclass, so there will always be a reaction to that. You can’t kill leftism any more than you can kill your own shadow.

Moreover, climate change didn’t happen because of gay marriage or women’s rights, so trying to force the clock back in terms of social progress won’t make the real problems go away.
Thanks! We’re interested in your feedback as it’s still a beta version.
Here is our documentation to get started: https://docs.giskard.ai/
Banks started requiring second factor via app here. Thus, browser banking always requires phone now. I am sure one can opt out, but you start loosing features...
Yelp has a big sideline in helping to find contractors. So obviously if you then review them after finding them through Yelp they know who you are.
It's interesting to see how IT is perceived as a cost-center and not essential to the business in healthcare; yet everything crumbles and collapses when there's an IT outage.

These organizations might not be culturally accustomed to have IT at the core of their business/mission, but it very much is. They might not value engineering skills and people in IT, but they have evolved an absolute dependency on those over the years.

The issue here is cultural, not technical. These ransomware attacks, breaches and outages are completely self-imposed. They can end anytime as soon as the hospital wants it. All they have to do is value and acknowledge IT as a fundamental pillar of their organization, comp it appropriately and make sure to run on hardware that's patched and safe to use. Really no different than washing hands before a procedure to stop infections. Else the cycle will endlessly repeat itself.
Really what happened is that Devs revolted against carrying pagers for their own crappy services, and they reinvented ops teams again.

And Amazon has a vested interest in making The Cloud as complicated as possible so that you wind up getting suckered into vendor-lock-in and can never migrate away.

Combined with all the overly complicated crap surrounding concepts like CI/CD, K8s and the whole CNCF landscape with a couple thousand different vendors trying like hell to get their tentacles into your organization.
its also not a big stretch to acknowledge anybody could harm anybody else’s app with an astroturfing campaign

something more obvious right now given how bad the astroturfing campaign is. one word reviews?

everyone knows Reddit is vulnerable to a thousand cuts right now, its the perfect time to do so

I’ve seen that in a lot of crypto projects, because people consistently develop a parasocial relationship with the founders and then try to digitally harm them after the founders dont do what they expect

this looks and acts like the same thing
As a fairly simple example, consider the number wirtten in decimal notation as:

0.101001000100001000001... (with an increasing-by-one sequence of zeroes between each successive 1.) It doesn't contain all sequences of digits, or even all digits, yet it cannot be written as a fraction.
Step 2 is the "find out" phase, the pattern is consistent for every fuckup I've been a part of. Noone wants to hear how obvious it was.
2023 Mac Pro unboxing shows why Mac Studio deserves a nicer design
Lambda Labs just dropped H100 on-demand prices to $1.99/GPU/Hour
It's hypothetical. The use of ^ for pointers comes from Pascal.
I'm sure Hitler brought a lot of jobs and built a lot of quality infrastructure. Is saying the world is better off without him unbalanced because of that?
LingoDB is an interesting system. Jana has done great work with it. I like projects that take unorthodox approaches to old problems.

The problem with (most) query optimizers is that they take a one shot approach at optimization. I think an optimizer should be built from the groundup to support adaptive query optimization. Something similar to Berkeley's Eddies project from 20 years ago.
I don't like mid because it never accurately depicts the speakers actual opinion.

People usually say mid to things they think are bad, not middling. Or they believe that the thing is bad because it is middling. A poor descriptor...
Or the use of "should not" instead of "must not" is giving them the leeway they're using.
Most of Miami is 6-8 feet today because Miami has had mayors (mostly democrats) for multiple decades now that took climate change seriously, made it a core part of city planning, and overall, in general, the city paid a lot of money to avoid some of the most egregious mistakes ahead of time in its infrastructure.

"Miami is going to be fine, mostly" isn't a slam dunk argument that climate change won't have real impacts, because Miami has already been fighting against it. (A lot of the rest of Florida has more to worry about in part because they haven't been nearly as proactive.)
No but I’m not made to eat them against my will when I’m trying to have the other dishes.
I think it means mid grade.4, 5, 6, or 7 on a scale of 1-10. Basically saying it's poor quality. OP please correct me if I'm wrong.
From what I gather, a lot of Reddit usage comes from Google referrals, similar to how StackOverflow gets a lot of its traffic. If people leaving Reddit delete or scramble their comments (which some are definitely doing), they also screw up Reddit’s referral value and Google ranking, so Reddit has quite some motivation for trying to restore those comments.
I wouldn't be surprised if a marketing team, either internal or external, coordinated contractors. It's their job.
ab initio catalyst discovery and launching the new simulator backend for my hobby project https://atomictessellator.com
I hate feature factories so… much. It it the… flame. Flames. Flames, on the sides of my face.
Those words lack an unearned sense of superiority, which is all the rage for youths these days.

Unrelated, but what should I do about these children on my lawn?!
I identify as a lurker although I've made occasional posts and comments. I don't see how the mods are the problem here. Third part apps go, I go. It's that simple.
If somebody uses it and achieves some success, you can bet the truth will come out. Whether whistle blowers or crafty people on the internet piecing it together, people are pretty good at figuring that sort of stuff out.
They are sponsoring posts on Digg too. Which is ironically hilarious.
You're probably used to desktop users. Most people seem to use their phones to interact nowadays, and the quality of content is lower as a result.
there’s some truth. higher end bikes have electronic throttle and stability control. but still the bulk of bikes and the systems are 80-s tech . abs disk brakes . efi. controls are still mechanical and hydraulic (no software) . engine are traditional cam valves and accessible . transmissions are still 1950s tech

100% of a mid level bike and 80-90% of a premium bike can be self serviced
not knowing what comes in the next 12-24 months is exhilarating because you're actually living life with an acceptance of the nature of reality instead of deluding yourself or fighting it.
How is power consumption on Sailfish?
I wonder if Reddit just bought Apollo and sunset it over like 2 years (think darksky), if this would have all blown over.
It’s rampant/common in industry. The evidence is self evident in the reviews characteristics.

Secondly the CEO has a history of posting fake user engagement himself or at his command in order to show more popularity than actual. He does this.

You’d look at twitter bot replies and say the same thing huh
In this implementation, to maximise performance, we consider each individual byte of the file separately, and look it up in π.

LOL so you get to store your data for free, and all it takes is allocating like 8 bytes for every byte. This project is galaxy brain
Slurs like "chronically mid" don't belong on HN.
There is most definitely a cost in preparing the comments I write. I have to pay for my energy, pay for the lost opportunity, and I have to pay to recoup past investments that came together to allow me to formulate the comment. As I find entertainment in writing the comments, I am willing to pay the price, but it absolutely does not come free.

Other people don't enter the picture. There is no hate towards them, they simply don't exist in the sphere the comments are created in. It is a false premise to think that they are involved.
> Two of them were defense jobs, my current job deals with the Linux kernel.

I don't work on the kernel, but one of the most professionally useful talks about the Linux kernel was an engineer talking about how to use statistical tests on perf related changes with small effects[1]. It's not an _online_ A/B technique but sometimes you pay attention to how other fields approach things in order to learn how to improve your own field.

[1]: https://lca2021.linux.org.au/schedule/presentation/31/
It’s an experiment, you shouldn’t be “expecting” anything. You hypothesize an effect, but that doesn’t mean it will be there and if you prove it wrong, you continue to iterate.
Smacni to AVX512: the life cycle of an instruction set [pdf]
As a person with a bachelor's in math who dislikes statistics, it's the one field I know where "gotcha" problems are more common in reality than in class. And they are nasty problems. It takes a lot of education until you can confidently say what simplifications are justified for your situation. And a lot of professional statisticians like to flex on newcomers for simple mistakes.

You're right that some education would help people with everyday situations. It'd be nice if schools had intro to probability and statistics as the only required math course for all students. Even just covering fractions for probabilities, mean/median/mode, and then memorizing basic tricks or terms to look up on Wikipedia/Wolfram throughout life.
the problem is the hand wavy "user research"

if you have done that properly, why ab testing? if you did that improperly, why bother?

ab testing moves from an hypotesis, because ab testing is done to inform a bayesian analysis to identify causes.

if one knows already that the reason is 'button not visible enough' ab testing is almost pointless.

not entirely pointless, because you can still do ab testing to validate that the change is in the right direction, but investing developer time for production quality code and risking business to just validate something one already knows seems crazy compared to just ask a focus group.

when you are unsure about the answer, that's when investing in ab testing to discovery makes the most sense.
> Apollo

> Apollo threatened us, said they’ll “make it easy” if Reddit gave them $10 million.

> Prices we released work out to one dollar a month per user; if Apollo doesn’t put effort forth, it hits three dollars per month.

> (As mentioned in Mod Tool section above) Pushshift will come back online for mod tools within a week or two.

https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/143sho8/admins_c...

Are you kidding? It took literal seconds to find.
I was going to add that OpenSSL does in fact have a strong CLA enforcement policy, as should anyone attempting to earn money from open source software.

Of course you’re right, if the actual copyright ownership is in dispute then ownership rights associated with that ownership are difficult to invoke.
More like "I disagreed with a user I didn't realize was a mod and they banned me".
Careful now, you're posting on HN. Venture capitalist incubator... which funded Reddit.

It was only ever about profit, why would you think otherwise?
You're right that a generator must be taken care of, but a truck with an inverter is very different from a generator if you plan to power something significant. The truck+inverter will probably keep your fridge and lights running, but can't power your whole house unless you get an oversized aftermarket alternator, which will cost more than the generator probably will (aftermarket car parts aren't cheap).
We have both Dashlane and RoboForm.
RoboForm is somewhat browser agnostic but also requires an internet connection which is a negative in my opinion.
Dashlane is also browser agnostic.
If Dashlane can connect when offline, even though they moved away from their fat client, I'd say its one of the top three.
What do you do to prevent falling for unfounded or false claims?
That was my first thought too. However as someone pointed out above though senior Reddit management has a history of creating fake accounts, plus there was that incident of using database access to alter someone’s comment so this seems right up their alley in terms of ethics
I'm sure their NFT system will be super profitable /s
I have been seeing this as well, it seems like the “gotcha” levels at even the early stage of interviews are at an all time high as well. A few years ago getting the “gotcha” part of a question was mostly icing on the cake as long as you could solve the rest of the problem.

It seems like there is just such a massive influx of people applying for the same positions that companies can be extremely selective, so it’s not that you are doing poorly in the interview necessarily but there are much higher chances of a few people acing the interview now
I am building a new immutable cryptographically verified database using IPLD data structures and prolly trees. This allows changes made anywhere to be transparently synced, and for operations to be commuted amongst untrusted peers, for instance allowing for shared index maintenance.

https://use-fireproof.com/docs/architecture

It's also the easiest way to write React apps. Here are some ChatGPT expert builders that I've trained to use the CSS framework of your choice with Fireproof: https://use-fireproof.com/docs/chatgpt-quick-start/#react-ex...
> continually neglected, underfunded

In the US, we pour staggering amounts of money into education. It's certainly not underfunded in raw dollar terms.

Now, the lion's share of that money going to administrators of one kind or another, is a big problem.
Product Lessons from Dan Robinson (Ex-CTO of Heap)
This is the hardest nostalgia. I'd forgotten about the manual diff! I was doing this at 13 and was basically what got me started in PHP development in general.
I think that's more of a component documenter than builder, no?
It sounds like you're just saying it's boring when an adequate library/framework is available. But I've never heard of such a library/framework that makes it THAT easy.

Either the software you're working on is simple or the projects are too small and not complex enough for you. Has nothing to do with Python.
I didn't immediately find a first-party source but according to these COMP522 lecture notes from Rice, AMD still uses MOESI for Zen [0].

[0]: https://www.cs.rice.edu/~johnmc/comp522/lecture-notes/COMP52...
https://web.archive.org/web/20230616154646/https://old.reddi...
I would suspect this was submitted due to Andrew's excellent contributions to the comments on the Let's Encrypt outage yesterday; put another way, "if you enjoyed this blog post, you may enjoy reading https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36342808 also"
Watch out for Spark. If not dead, it went into some kind of hiatus. Little activity recently.
I noticed a few years ago that Rick's been involved in so many of my favorite albums it is nearly disturbing. I don't know what he's after but it's what I want to hear, apparently.
They (admins) recently started a couple of new German language subreddits, that were 1-to-1 translations of existing successful subreddits, like r/showerthoughts and r/explainlikeimfive. They very clearly created fake accounts that then posted badly translated copies of existing posts from those originals onto the new subreddits. Then after that they sent unsolicited private messages to users subscribed to certain organic German language subreddits (like r/de) inviting people to those new subreddits.

The r/de subreddit is still in blackout, so I can't really provide a working source right now, but once that ends, you can check it out here: https://reddit.com/r/de/comments/13orxh0/milde_interessant_r...
Ah yes, because all these concrete implementations of anarchism are able to disprove my description. Classic dogmatism.