skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> With that much public information all of your accounts are surely pwned and you'll be a prime target for AI based scam attacks. It's probably enough data to build an AI profile that'll be more real than real YOU to other people and all it takes is couple of API calls/scrapes of your reddit account.

What? So? How does the age of the account imply that they’ve stored anything remotely useful/identifiable?

People have different standards for privacy and different needs and desires for identity. Just because you disagree doesn’t mean that you should push people in a direction baselessly.
And you're wrong. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.en.html

"Distributing free software is an opportunity to raise funds for development". Paying salaries is a way to fund developers. Ergo, distributing free software is an opportunity to raise funds to pay the salaries of free software developers.
That doesn't solve the problem

The problem is the apps people like to use are no longer available, and Reddit doesn't permit them to just accept user API keys instead
I call BS on that. People don't magically stop consuming just because they don't get ads shoved in their faces all the time. I block ads everywhere and haven't really seen an ad in years, but I still sometimes buy useless shit I don't need. It turns out search engines and price directories do a pretty good job of finding useless shit when you actively seek it out. As long as there is a demand for things, people will find it and buy it.
who are prostituted?

assumes no agency, does your assumption assume the prevalence of independent people that are not trafficked?
Looks like shadow.
And here my idiotic comment lives in eternity! Thanks for the correction. Ow!
> but it's limited in features compared to existing peformance testing tools, and I'd personally rather write tests in a programming language, than in a bespoke text format.

I’d hardly call hurl’s config bespoke, it basically amounts to HTTP codes and some header stuff, which basically everyone is familiar with.

From personal experience a couple of weeks ago I needed some http tests. I got a CI-ready Hurl config working on some endpoints for work sorted within like, 5 minutes of downloading it. In comparison I opened the page for K6, saw the “write tests using JS” and basically noped out immediately,
Ads are tremendously useful, just ask any business owner.

The problem with ads is not that they're useless, it's that it is an industry prone to scams and grift. (Because doing advertising right requires all sorts of actual science, and ain't nobody got time for that when there's money to be made.)

t. Worked for 20 years and adtech.
There are colocation facilities, which sounds like what you're describing?
this could work for any number of review sites not just VPN sites
It very much is our problem what he does with/on Twitter because it affects us, it's one of the largest social media platforms, it's not a new yacht he bought.

One of the valuable aspects of freedom of speech is ideas can gain traction because of their virtue and not e.g because of force. Musk has no expertise in most of what he talks about. Yet he uses reach he has purely because of his wealth to spread misinformation. The marketplace of ideas is a complete joke if ideas spread just because of money.
It's been 9 years. A few tempests in a teapot later you still have RHEL rebuilds (according to TFA nothing is changing in that respect), they are more timely than CentOS ever was before the acquisition, and you also got Fedora ELN CentOS Stream as a pathway towards contributing to RHEL. So yeah, I rest my case: call me back when it happens.
I hope someone is checking the hum for encoded information.
They have now clarified on Twitter:

> We support businesses in the same countries we're open to for consumer sale. We want to hear from businesses in other countries as well though to let us know where to prioritize geographic expansion.
HN has an audience which is full of hypocrisy
This is not about nuclear power, but about nuclear weapons production.
KDE tried and discarded CORBA in KOM/KParts well before GNOME got around to putting it in production. DCOP was a response to CORBA's complexity and fragility, and was almost "reinvented" in the form of DBUS.
> There are literally thousands of sites that let you login with your google account.

I fail to see how "but everybody is doing it" is a valid argument.
Aristotle's writings are already Cliffs notes; they're basically lecture notes as it is.

That said, Aristotle and Epictetus differed pretty significantly on the question of what constitutes happiness (this English word doesn't really capture the full sense of the Greek well), which is the core question of the ethics.
Fwiw I have flown with a bunch of random pet project electronics and much to my surprise was not questioned/searched.
> So what will happen? The same thing that happened with all of Apple's bad products- they'll continue to offer it for sale at incredibly high margins for eternity and never attempt to make it more competitive.

That’s one of the good things about Apple- you know the product will stick around, rightly or wrongly. It’s not as bad now, but other big companies would try to moonshot with a new product then kill it if it didn’t get traction.

Things like the MS Surface and Google Pixel are the recent-ish exceptions to this where you could actually have confidence buying them as they are established product lines and they won’t get cancelled next month ( well you shouldn’t buy a pixel due to the chronic emergency call crash problems, but that’s a separate issue ).
Just to recap: your "even if" was very rude. I called you out on it. Instead of apologizing, you now insult me.
The word semantics game played in these articles is silly.

A URL cannot change; it is not a changeable object. For instance "https://example.com/index.html" is what it is: that string.

Just like the integer 42 cannot be changed to be 73.

All the problems with change have to do with how the URL resolves, like that it may point to different content at different times or become inaccessible. Changing and becoming inaccessible are not different problems: the former is impossible, the latter is the problem.
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Wait is this the same spill they discovered about 13 years ago which happened in the 80's ? The head line made it look like something new happen and got scared for a second
The only winning move, is not to build on the infrastructure of an adversarial party. Pour this energy into Debian LTS, people.
Make the investment you need to make in having Internet all the time, whether through Xfinity, TMobile, AT&T, Verizon, or any of them... or whenever or wherever you travel most, remember the spots that had Internet and go back to them. Most airports are pretty good at having Internet, though LAX and EWR still cannot figure it out.
If done against the wishes of the owner of the site, yes, I would consider that unethical. Thankfully, Google respects robots.txt and noindex.
Yeah my comment wasn’t that clear but I was encouraging people to comment on future tech mergers.
I am pretty sure ten years from now people will be rolling their eyes on the acronyms of today: so-called REST, json schema and whatnot.

Lets face it, the problem that people try to solve (frictionless, large scale exchange of complex information between computing devices) and the conditions in which they try to solve it (as part of a few dominating corporations with random business models) are making for a very difficult challenge.

There is pressure to find workable solutions as the benefits are tremendus but so far it has not worked.
For the longest time, Google had an agreement with Twitter to get new posts in real time with a firehose feed. It was active at least in 2009–2011 and 2015, not sure about the current status.
https://variety.com/2015/digital/news/google-makes-peace-wit...
Wolf-Rayet stars radiate mostly in the ultra-violet, which isn't particularly conducive to life. They're also throwing off their atmospheres in waves, which makes for a very dense solar wind.

These stars are young - 10 million years, and have reached the last phases of their lives; very large stars burn fast. I don't know whether 10 million years is enough time for live to develop.
Love it <3
/r/Firefox migrated to https://fedia.io/m/firefox (Kbin based)
Somebody should let the CIA know that they probably want to be using one of the new newer SHA standards instead of MD5 to verify the integrity of their files.

Approved Hash Functions for government agencies can be found here: https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/hash-functions
Think before you speak. Discourse is a self-hostable solution
Not an uncommon story in South Eastern Washington I'm afraid. Sorry for your loss.
Just here to throw in that the English word "happiness" probably doesn't give a great sense of the Greek εὐδαιμονία but it's what we're stuck with.
> 1/20 threads

Its the twitter equivalent of youtube thumbnail face with 10 million $$$$$$$ in the title.
That's because CentOS didn't meaningfully cut into their major business which is support. Anyone running CentOS outside of a lab setting understood they were on the hook for their own support. Most CentOS users were never going to be paying RHEL customers. You can't lose what you didn't have to begin with. Along came Oracle which is taking big customers and literal bags of money away from RH's core business by reselling a warmed over version of their own product at a lower cost.
Or could save some work and build on an already established solid base under democratic control such as Debian LTS.
Federation is to social media as blockchain is to useful software architecture.
The FTC plans to slap companies with hefty fines for using fake reviews
The problem is people can easily ignore the list of links in the gutter and when it’s your main source of income you can’t have that.
I still remember AngularJS to Angular2, it was a big fuck you to all angular developers.
Twitter is falling apart. Recently almost everyone I know got accused of being a spam account and told their accounts were locked. It’s not clear what this actually meant as they could still use it normally. Though I do know one who had to fight to get his back. I also am disallowed from liking tweets quite often and am told it looks “automated”. I also noticed a period on Thursday where they turned off the spam filter and I was inundated with likes from spam accounts
I really liked the idea that since virtue is a mean, the opposite of a vice is not a virtue but a different vice (the opposite of cowardice is not courage but foolhardiness, the opposite of arrogance is not proper self-regard but pusillanimity, etc.) Aristotelian virtues don't have an "opposite".
Caning is barbaric and backwards. It will never happen here in the USA. It would normalize beating people and we already have enough of that illegally via the police
Is the linked file that size but very low res?

I was vaguely hoping to embark on a mega scroll across Europe.
I had conceded to the fact that I might be one of a very small group that feels like this about React Native, Typescript and native apps. I also did not consider that I would be in that group along with the_lucifer.
What about a static image?
>Explicitly, the FTC aims to ban "businesses from writing or selling consumer reviews or testimonials by someone who does not exist, who did not have experience with the product or service, or who misrepresented their experiences." Similarly, companies won't be allowed to obtain or disseminate reviews and testimonials that they "knew or should have known that they were fake or false."

The part about should have known is going to become an open ended debate over if e.g. Amazon should have known or not.
Someone is going to have to host users.
You might be interested in this: https://rant.gulbrandsen.priv.no/indian-election-machines

One size does not fit all (threat models).
Twitter had a brilliant brand (which is now tainted). Chirping birds, positive visual. BlueSky shortens to BS and mastodon is an extinct animal. Lemmy, on the other hand, is kinda cool.
Why start your own RHEL (or fork of it), when you could help a friendly base such as Debian LTS?
There are probably 3 classes of Retail investors

a)Members of political elite that get insider trading stock tips.
(illegal of course). The number of folks in usa congress and senate that become
'very lucky' investors after they join the rank, has to be amazing

b)Lucky

c) everybody else -- that looses.

Overtime, I would say last 30 years, the amount of 'influencing' retail investors to trap them into unreasonable actions had gradually increased.

So the percentage of folks going becoming the victims of the charade, will become higher.

Certainly if you concentrate on ( b ) you create the plausible deniability defense for the manipulators
> This is a feature in my opinion.

I tried to join a server.

Went through a long list of them. I was confused on which to pick, and if that decision mattered, and what would be the security implications of it.

I finally picked one reluctantly. The server was down.

Not a great feature. Feels more like a bug.

> Mass adoption has ruined so many sites (including reddit).

Nonsense. Mass adoption means it's the place to go to consume and produce content.

If the feature of Lemmy you single out as being better is that no one uses it then I'm not sure what would be the point of joining, or why are you promoting the service so that others join.

> Reddit was better in 2010 than in 2020.

No it wasn't. At best, it was different.

And people like me are leaving 2023 Reddit, not 2010 Reddit. What we want is an alternative to today's service, not nostalgia.
How do they protect from false data injection? Are the sensors cryptographically signing their data?

BTW are there any sensors that encrypt and sign data before sending out for real security? I am not able to construct such a device, so I hope anybody did already? preferably open hardware?
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Thanks for that! I was looking for a place where I can send a message to Reddit leadership (and other mismanaged tech companies). Here we go... deleting a 6yr old account with a lot of karma accumulated.
And it's all of the infrastructure in the official GNU Linux distribution, so I guess you're right, but it was supposed to be the scripting language for the GNU desktop, and to the extent that's still Gnome, that didn't happen. Also the Guile team itself keeps toying with writing a (shudder) Javascript front-end.
I am sure they have thought of this but why don’t they “just” divert the Columbia river.

Hats off for a genuine demonstration of peak HN comment excellence.
Do you think self-hosting means "it's free to host"? Do you understand someone is paying the costs of hosting, and that someone can do whatever the hell they want to recover such costs?
Archived copy:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230614093839/https://twitter.c...
I have mixed feelings, that's the same as edge that enabled dnt header by default killed dnt.

Same goes for utm parameter, because of this removal it's just getting more hidden instead some standard parameter that are easily guessable.
Why would I use Dropbox for my git repos instead of just using - a purpose built hosted git server?
Why do i care if i'm living well or not ? There's no absolute specification for it.

Instead i care if i can get enough sleep, enough relaxing, enough studying, enough working to fullfill my life or not.
They’re riffing off https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html , which was written in the 90s before IPFS was a thing.
Except with modern software, some wannabe genius programmer will think they can get a bunch of money or cred or whatever by infantilizing the process down to something your grandma could use. Then, suddenly, everyone is scraping. The net effect is largely the same -- server operators see an overwhelming proportion of requests from bots. Still ethical?
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As a Reddit user I'm a bit puzzled by these death or Reddit posts. I use Reddit by going to reddit.com with the old settings and it works just the same. Does the death of some third party app really matter? It would be like saying HN is gone because some 3rd party app on it that I've never heard of is gone. Honestly a bit puzzled.
I have some sketchy memories for which I have trouble filling in the blanks about an internship at a bank where I wrote a Java POC for getting data from one of the other departments.

It must have been in 1998 or in 1999 and I was brought in to solve a specific problem, only to find out that the higher ups had no idea that there was a problem and there was no documentation. Eventually I wrote a specification and that POC.

While doing that, I learned that the Java CORBA implementation they used at that time was not yet able to talk to the C++ CORBA implementation from the same software producer. How is that even possible? That's the whole raison d'être of CORBA.

As I said I can't get the details together. I'm pretty sure the hardware was Sun but I'm not sure who made the CORBA implementations. Possibly IBM? It would fit the landscape.
Well, that was what search was for before that got broken… or should I say broke itself?

If it wasn’t so sad, this would actually be quite amusing to watch.
It’s not just established companies that you know to subscribe to. How does someone set up a new company or start selling a new product without advertising. People that are perfectly reasonable about some things can be so short sighted out how society even works.
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I agree.

My main gripe is that over the last 40 years we have worked hard to force people to get college degrees even for work were on the job training produce more competent individuals.
Isn't the high cost a natural barrier?
It's still at the early days, so give it some times. But there are already some lively communities and, IMO, they are generally better in terms of quality since Fediverse is more niche and has higher barrier of entry.
Your chart including what looks like backtesting data starting 2009 looks a bit disingenuous. It’s a totally random starting point. It’s obviously not your actual performance, if you say you started 3 years ago. It’s made to look like your model actually outperformed the market significantly.

Kudos to you if you really sit on an untapped gold mine, but imho, there are some red flags that makes me not buy in.
You're not hosting the repos on there, you're syncing changes between computers you frequently have to switch back and forth on, without all the git command ceremony

When I was doing embedded linux development I'd frequently have to get up from my seat to go test something on actual hardware. Necessitating a laptop and a desktop.
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My grandfather (an actual nazi, who fought in the Wehrmacht on the eastern front) complained about us young people not wanting to go hunt with him (which had more to do with the man than with hunting). He complained about how his generation was strong men and how me and my small brother are corrupted by television and anything with a screen on it. His greatest fear was us becoming "verweichlicht" (literal translation: "softened"), being perceived as weak was one of the worst things for him.

Yet he was the man that could never face what he did, never talk about what his real ideology was, he could never face how bad of a father and husband he was. In fact his eating disorders and his silence took 4 generations to heal. If only he could have faced his past and lived in the present, strong men — in my world — can do precisely that.

The point is that generational differences exist and very often a simple "the young people do it different" will become a "the young people are morally corrupted" — because the alternative would be to face your own weaknesses and demons or question how your society has done things up to this point.

Men being afraid to look weak (something that only bothers men that feel weak) is a huge driver of all kinds of problems, even today.
Since we're on the subject of clever construction, I think the 6/6/23 puzzle by Daniel Jaret from just a few weeks ago is legendary[1].

Standard American-style crosswords have rotational symmetry in the squares. This one has rotational symmetry in the answers themselves. It's extraordinary. I think I actually yelled out loud when I finally realized what was going on.

[1] https://www.xwordinfo.com/Crossword?date=6/06/2023
Often things can be ported easily without much effort, but the issue lies in validation and testing, there are often corner cases that need to be identified and tested, it can cost a lot of time and effort and it's not always feasible. Redhat knows it may be cheaper to purchase RHEL subscriptions in that case.
no one is going to sign a legal contract so that they can review crap they bought on Amazon.
Exactly how it means. Your average consumer of smart or internet connected devices.
Hello HN!

I'm building https://rings.social in response to the Reddit API changes.

My goal is to add a compatibility layer for Reddit clients, so that the switch to Rings will include the already existing apps (Sync, RIF, Apollo, Boost, Infinity, ...).

To try it out on your own, you can compile a version of Infinity for Reddit [1] by doing a one line change [2] that uses either https://api.rings.social or your own backend running on your network.

Please, be aware, the project is still work in progress - you're free to contribute to it and send PRs. You can also help us shape the future of the project via GitHub, email or Slack. By commenting on this thread you'll already help shape it.

[1]: https://github.com/Docile-Alligator/Infinity-For-Reddit

[2]: https://github.com/Docile-Alligator/Infinity-For-Reddit/blob...
I'd go around money advantage being way too significant and the money cap way too high or non-existent. Otherwise every game is kind of pay to win as getting your hands on one more chess book, or getting a better tennis racket gets you an advantage.

While mtg is not cheap, I would say that only older cards get crazy expensive and sometimes are straight out overpowered.
Is the Burden of Knowledge on Us?
Preventing such stripping as a website operator would be trivial. Just sign the combined URL and tracking parameters and refuse to serve the unauthenticated version. This is very well understood technology with a barely novel application.

(Please cite this comment as prior art!)
What git ceremonies?

git add .

git commit -am “…”

On the other computer

git pull.

I know that I have all of my changes synced to and from the server as one “transaction”. With Dropbox you are dealing with eventual consistency.

And besides you get all of the affordances of purpose built tools and hosting your git repository at a place that understands git.
Typescript?
They could just provide or even sell well curated datasets instead.
Reminder:

The FBI are masters of entrapment. They create domestic terrorists and then swoop in and arrest them and then pat themselves on the back

Would you like to know more?

- https://theintercept.com/2023/06/15/fbi-undercover-isis-teen...

- https://theintercept.com/2023/03/21/fbi-colorado-springs-sur...

- https://theintercept.com/2016/08/03/18-year-old-arrested-on-...

- https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/15/magazine/fbi-internationa...

- https://theintercept.com/2015/03/16/howthefbicreatedaterrori...

- https://www.ted.com/talks/trevor_aaronson_how_this_fbi_strat...

tl;dr - You cannot trust the FBI.
Spotify does. Can't use any 3rd party apps without having a premium account.
I've always been confused by that too, how does a camera being there change anything? Objectively, selling yourself and being filmed sounds strictly worse from the no prostitution point of view.
>need to be eased out

Euphemism of the day.
I would have preferred "told to get the fuck out", but boats floating and all that...