skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Privacy fail 101. Never, ever host on US servers. Too often, protestors just let the fascist dick authorities lock them away for decades because they have absolute zero security hygiene and invite investigators to collect mountains of potential evidence to sift for which laws were technically broken to get a conviction.

0. Never use Signal (tied to a phone number), iMessage, email, or text messaging. Use Sessions, the fork of Signal without a phone number for anonymous group chats.

1. Never give out personal phone numbers. They are real-time traceable with ease.

2. Email if you must self-hosted on a VPS in Iceland or Sweden paid in BTC/LTC crypto.

3. Never use real names. Have a nom de guerre.

4. Leave your cellphone in a signal blocking bag in airplane mode.

5. Buy a gopro (in cash) and a chesty or head mount.

6. Never upload media directly to any site. Remove metadata and lower the resolution. Wipe source material and store it on encrypted media such as in a VeraCrypt volume.

7. Anyone who refuses to follow privacy procedures is either a naïve liability or a cop.

8. Anyone agitating for violence against specific or unspecified actual people is either a crazy fool, a dumb fool, or a dumb cop.

9. Hygiene is important, so do your part with an anti facial recognition surgical mask. Down with COVID!

10. That random person you met may actually be on a terror watch list. Being connected to them in any way, including being seen together on social media (now deep fakeable) is enough to put you on the radar of the security apparatus. This isn't speculative paranoia but what occurs routinely from on or before 2009. Friend of mine received a call from his boss who allegedly received a call from an intelligence service advising that a group picture on Facebook from an afterparty included someone "who's known as a Bad Dude(tm) from a foreign intelligence service." There's still a long game cold war just beneath the surface being played by ~10k people as rare as encountering a real Navy SEAL but you probably don't want extra airline checkpoint screenings and questions for the rest of your life.

https://ips-dc.org/three-felonies-day/ <-- People commit felonies unwittingly without intent and lack the resources to defend themselves. This makes them easy targets for DAs and investigators to pad their stats.

"In the world’s most incarcerated country, some high-profile sex offenders walk free [because they're rich]."
- John Kiriakou (June 10, 2015)
If twitter is breached then my ycombinator account isnt also gone.
Needs some yon.
> Messages promoting capitalism or meritocracy

Fascinating. I thought anarchy was supposed to be all about unfettered freedom of association and trade with no governmental oversight. They seem to be defining it as opposition to the existing societal structure rather than a description of the desired structure.

In fairness, I assume their rules are for residents of that server, not accounts which are federated in.
India is essentially at the development stage matching that of XIX century Europe and the US. Back then, nobody was following passions, and everyone was just starting practical businesses and investments which will (hopefully) bring in some money. Now it's India's turn to go through that phase.
Everyone Knew the Migrant Ship Was Doomed. No One Helped
Permanent residents are considered US persons under ITAR, so provided the company's activities are limited to civilian space projects it isn't an issue. However, if the company has defense contracts and requires employees to obtain a security clearance, that requires citizenship.
Just go get one
Love to see what this looks like if its available to look at somewhere (Github?). Sounds super interesting, even as a toy project
This is super cool. I realize a lot of HN folks might not see the point of this, but it literally saves an entire team of people for companies.
HN is very different in the sense that HN moderation and culture encourages users to be civic. Twitter incentizes for the opposite.
> Twitter is firing off about 10 requests a second to itself to try and fetch content that never arrives because Elon's latest genius innovation is to block people from being able to read Twitter without logging in.

Hey, just as an FYI, this comment doesn't make any sense.

Why would blocking people from viewing the TL on the home page cause Twitter more stress?
Agree. I would even be happy if the game was stripped of all licensed code/assets/tools/etc. And honestly, I don't even care if it can successfully compile/run. Just having the code alone would be tremendously useful for the purpose of study.
Well, past few years of Intel troubles, resulting in the success of Zen architecture made people forget that AMD is a company with mediocricity written all over their DNA. Nvidia will run circles around AMD for the decades to come. And the hardware is only smart part of it, the big thing is software.
Precisely this. :-)
> You know who the "victim" of the current invasion is. It's not the US.

Mhm.

The whole topic here is about how America could/couldn’t have anticipated the invasion. The very comment that you replied to says “The Pentagon should have”… that’s not Ukraine.

Not my problem that you are off-topic.
did you even read RTFM? the admin had a local copy of the database stored on his personal PC.
Been on Mastodon since November. Signup was done in seconds. Finding people to follow was done gradually.

It's lively, and I use it everyday.

TBH, I don't really miss the people that don't want to come over.
I highly recommend folks check out the Oxide and Friends calls on discord, usually on Mondays 5pm PST. More info: https://oxide.computer/podcasts/oxide-and-friends

Disclaimer: I am a fan, not affiliated.
You have to wonder how much that is true for Tesla and SpaceX too, and how much is damage control PR.
Once 7th Biggest Site on the Internet No Longer Even Has an SSL Cert
Go was the successor to Infoseek which in 1997 was the 7th biggest site on the Net. It was bought by Disney and changed to the go.com domain in 1999. Now this prime dotcom doesn't even have a free SSL cert. A sad ending.
Wow, so maybe Musk was society's savior we didn't want to need. Although, maybe if Twitter was no more, people would begrudgingly go back to FB for their doom scrolling needs.
I see more spam these days, particularly coming from accounts that paid for the blue check mark. IIRC, Musk said that paid verification would make things better since scammers wouldn't dare pay for it (I would find where he said this but I hit the 600 tweet limit), but given how lax their verification standards are, it seems to be a boon to scammers, much the same way that Let's Encrypt let anyone get a free TLS cert at the cost of destroying the perceived legitimacy that came with having HTTPS in front of your domain.

(And IMO, that perceived legitimacy was unfounded for both HTTPS and the blue check before both were easy to get, it's just that the bar had to drop to the floor for most people to realize how little it meant.)
I "abuse" unions and anonymous unions all the time, it's very practical, and make the 'user' code a lot clearer as you can access the small 'namespace' as convenient.
Here for example I can access it as named coordinates, x,y points or a vector.

typedef union c2_rect_t {
struct {
c2_pt_t tl, br;
};
c2_coord_t v[4];
struct {
c2_coord_t l,t,r,b;
};
} c2_rect_t;
Bluesky facing degraded performance due to record high traffic
I mean this was the ideal reaction of users on Twitter who have a bluesky account.
It got stuck in the soon™ phase
> You limit data scraping by blocking things a human user couldn't do, like access a thousand posts a minute. This is aimed directly at reducing normal activity across the whole system.

This isn't accurate at all.

Standard operating procedure for large-scale scraping is to use a botnet, it's a sybil attack where you can have tens or even hundreds of thousands of IPs ticking away at 10 requests per minute or some such. Done correctly, it's nearly impossible to detect which nodes are complicit from their access patterns or user agents.

That said, rate limits work relatively poorly against this. A proof of work approach like HashCash might work though.
au contraire, they can definitely make products people like but then insist on either ruining them or shutting them down.
There will be no observable long term impact from Reddit banning third party apps.

Only a few power users cared about it and no one cared about them.
Similarly my great uncle works on satellite systems. His income over 5 years when brought out of retirement to service legacy systems was greater than his income over his entire prior USG career.
Now I’m really tempted to create a Twitter account and start reading. Maybe that’s 3D chess by design by the CTO to get people to sign up. /s
If you want to have a program that outputs binary data to stdout, then accept binary data on stdin, there’s no reason not to. It isn’t the standard for historical reasons, and because text is easier to bootstrap from manually-inspected results into a script.

For example, the easiest way I’ve found to render generated images into a gif or mp4 is to pipe a sequence of ppm-encoded images into ffmpeg.
People that paid the $84- are you going to seek a refund? Doesn't seem like 8000 tweet-reads/day was the service you paid for, particularly if this lasts more than a few weeks.
I don't know what all is involved on the backend, but when I go to twitter.com it runs 123 requests and transfers 11MB of data in order to serve me a login page.
Because the value of accounts that browse extreme numbers of posts per day is near zero to advertisers.

Someone who has seen thousands of ads per day for years on end is basically immune to ads (or has blocked them, or is a bot)

One of the hard things to grok as an engineer or power user is that we are not the target audience for ad-supported services most of the time. How many people in this thread have aggressively blocked ads everywhere and are confused about why ad-supported services aren’t catering to people like themselves?
> The creation of Uniterd24 was the manifestation of the technology WE in the Bitcoin community built

Are you talking about https://u24.gov.ua/ ? Not a trace of crypto... (obviously since all crypto is a scam.)
"Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is free to play. Is the revenue then from in game purchases?"

I would assume so.

CS:Go Prime was free for a long period of time - you just had to reach level 21 in the game...they only started charging again recently.

The amount of in game purchases, though? Massive. And Valve sure does like taking their cut.
On further reading:

"Due to this ongoing bad behavior by IBM's Red Hat, the situation has become increasingly complex and difficult to face. No third party can effectively monitor RHEL compliance with the GPL agreements, since customers live in fear of losing their much-needed service contracts. Red Hat's legal department has systematically refused SFC's requests in recent years to set up some form of monitoring by SFC. (For example, we asked to review the training materials and documents that RHEL salespeople are given to convince customers to buy RHEL, and Red Hat has not been willing to share these materials with us.) Nevertheless, since SFC serves as the global watchdog for GPL compliance, we welcome reports of RHEL-related violations."

TL;DR: To be sure they were complying, marketing department is as important as the legal one, and they were fearful of people taking a good look there.
I think some of this (not being able to tell crypto types apart) is the emphasis on specialization. I helped with some intro infosec courses years back, and these were smart students but they had not much exposure or understanding of basic CLI tools. They had interacted with Windows with a mouse for their entire life, so using a prompt was something new and strange. Most picked it up, but it took a bit of time.
> Blue sales ultimately can't hope to come close to what big brand ads used to give.

I don't know, I think the hope is there. With these rate limits and some Fermi estimates, we can guess what Twitter's hoped-for revenue per user might be.

Suppose that this move is designed to move regular users over to Twitter Blue, and a regular user might ordinarily see 2000 tweets per day. Suppose further that Twitter would show 1 ad per 10 tweets, and ad sells for 3$CPM on average, and a Blue user sees 33% fewer ads.

An ordinary user would then expect to give Twitter 200 ad impressions per day, at $0.60/day of ad revenue or $18. By seeing 1/3 fewer ads, that ad revenue drops to $12, but Twitter picks up $8/month in Blue subscription fees, increasing the gross revenue to $20.

That feels about right, and the math gets better in the short term for Twitter if it's having a hard time filling its ad spots — a proportionally greater share of its revenue would then come from the pushed-for Blue.

Likewise, if Twitter is having a hard time filling its advertising spots, kicking non-Blue viewers off the platform is not a short-term revenue loss: the marginal eyeball is unmonetized. In the medium to long term, of course, Twitter is strangling the very content that attracts those eyeballs, and this is still a bone-headed business decision.
I'm part of the rest of the 4 billion. The ones you mentioned only take their own citizens (probably except UAE).
Also, just out of curiosity, how would one go about removing out these extra steps? I don't program in OCaml, but I'm fascinated by it.
> Why would blocking people from viewing the TL on the home page cause Twitter more stress?

If you block stuff somewhere in the microservie hell in the backend, but forget to update the frontend code properly, and everything was built with the assumption that authentication and authorization is not a thing, and suddenly it is, there's bound to be craploads of stuff that can start spamming network requests.
I wish Twitter was a public company so I could short it.
I’ve seen speculation correlating “Going down at 9am on the first day of Q3” with the fact that they have apparently been trying to migrate off Google cloud by June 30th because of Melon’s blanket policy of “Not paying bills”.

Needless to say, if true, this would be extremely funny.
I’m not sure we got the same thing from this essay.

Picking problems is one of the first things mentioned in this essay, and neither soccer-playing nor strawberry-picking seem like fields where there are lots of questions folks haven’t answered yet. (This is not to say that there aren’t interesting questions in agriculture or sports in general!)

Picking a field that’s zero-sum, where there are already 100 workaholic geniuses pursuing the only possible positive outcomes (eg, champions league forward) seems like maybe not the right way to go, and the essay is pretty explicit about this.
I came across this the other day, it's pretty elegant and basically solves the problem. Comes in handy when you have eg a call with people in >2 timezones.

https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html
“RTFM”?
No ads for me, using uBlock origin.
You realize that heirarchy is exactly how you enforce rules, correct? You can't enforce rules without heirarchy. Seems to me it's you who has no idea what anarchy is. "no slaves, no masters" doesn't mean people who can arbitrarily enforce "rules."
On one hand the humanitarian element of this story is brutal and sad, it's hard to shrug off the drowning of so many people. On the other hand... I feel like there's a vast ignorance of the overarching problem here. Migrant ships keep banking on the good will of their destinations to keep them alive, it's a HUGE money industry, and it's going to keep getting worse as global trends drive migration.

I feel like this debate only ever gets two sorts of representation, the people who think every migrant is a desperate refugee in need of rescue, and the "fortress Europe, it's an invasion" people. I don't think those extremes are very useful in addressing this issue. There's a serious shift to the right wing in Europe right now, especially Italy and Greece, who are on the front lines of this thing.

Because the existing framework favors migrants once they reach an EU country, the countries where the migrants first land are incentivized to intercept and return them at sea... or just ignore them and let them take their chances.
I haven't had that happen, but it would be refreshing. I would be really weirded out by a "sir" though. casual environments where people can just work and not worry about wearing a persona are nice.
What the US is using NATO for now that the USSR is no more and what is the EU getting out of it are actually very valid questions.

They were very valid questions up until the Ukraine invasion revealed Russia to be the mustachioed villain we were always told they were. Now nobody questions the need for NATO. Good job, Mr. Putin, your "Recruiter of the Year" plaque is on the way.
Except a lot of the formers ways of doing things / getting things have been pushed out of the market with all the capital influx. So there aren’t any small stores anymore, small restaurants don’t do delivery anymore, etc etc.
VPN searches spike as pornography websites block access in Virginia
Zaluzhny wants shells, planes and patience
I need to taste a supernova
There was a time where lights were too big to be on headlamps. Many of us of a certain vintage grew up holding what were essentially metal cages around regular household light bulbs attached to a power cable for our parents and grandparents while they worked on carburetors or whatnot.
Because I said so on twitter?
Scroll to the bottom. He always credits multiple people. I assume all of them read his drafts.
This is one of the great writeup!

In case you want to listen it instead of reading it like me, you can do so by following command, it creates a audio file (named greatwork) which you can play:

wget -qO- http://paulgraham.com/greatwork.html | sed -e '/<script/,/<\/script>/d' -e 's/<[^>]*>//g; s/\&nbsp\;/ /g; s/\&amp\;/\&/g; s/\&lt\;/</g; s/\&gt\;/>/g' | say --progress -o greatwork

please note, this is tested on macOS only.
It doesn't support that out of the box, but you you can specify or capture values for variables like tokens in the hurl tests.

https://hurl.dev/docs/manual.html#variable

https://hurl.dev/docs/capturing-response.html
Lol. Not even. What about Musk. He is not born in US
> I find the scraping explanation plausible.

How do you explain it suddenly being a problem today and not, say, during the recent World Cup when not only the AI scraping would have been happening but el Morko himself was crowing about how much extra traffic they were handling?
Freedom of association must include the freedom not to associate or it is meaningless.
Not generally known, I think, but Canada is technically part of ESA. Not a full member, a 'Cooperating State', but there are some benefits. Wiki sez "Canadian firms can bid for and receive contracts to work on (ESA) programmes."
> kolektiva.social was launched by "the anarchist video colletives subMedia and Antimidia".

Which may be a front for the FBI. There is probably a really good chance that any social site that is catering to the groups outside of the mainstream has the FBI behind it.
It’s not a failed science. It tells us useful things all the time including countless things that you take for granted. Pointing out industry interests and better evidence superseding worse evidence doesn't change that.

In my experience, harping on epidemiology always seems to boil down to inconsistent epistemological standards that favor the foods someone wants to eat.

Most commonly, epidemiology is shit because it gives us strong causal inferences for trans and saturated fats being bad for us BUT we want to eat meat and dairy so nvm epi studies suck except for the ones I take for granted.
Never, EVER get into a semantic debate with people who are lying to themselves.
> they're building everything on Illumos (Solaris)

This is an amazing plus in my eyes. Solaris systems are amazing.
Broken retry logic due to an unexpected situation.
Ater Chernobyl birth defects in humans significantly increased. Similar in animals. Usually those defects (not an expert,just my understanding) is in bad formation, rather than novel formations [eg, an arm fails to develop properly rather than developing a third arm]
I think that you have to look after yourself initially, like putting on your own oxygen mask before attempting to help those around you. You may be able to bring across some of your team members in due course.
> A distributed system working against a single relational database, even if its just metadata, it's not only the ultimate anti-pattern but also sooo 2004

Perhaps I wasn’t clear enough, but in your comment you make it sound that having multiple nodes interacting with a database is an anti-pattern, which is not, the discipline of distributed system is well researched and from the top of my head I risk to tell you that such anti-pattern is never mentioned, and the concept of a database rarely appears in DS, instead it focuses in a more abstract concept, which are the network nodes.

To support my argument, from the moment one decides to replicate nodes, most likely those same nodes will be connected to the same data source, because data replication isn’t as trivial as application replication.

In a Microservice architecture it can be considered an anti-pattern to have different bounded contexts using the same database.
Yes, that's it! Thanks!
Why do you people say "carbon steel", when all steel has carbon? Is this the new "nation state"?
Yea. Perhaps elon is good at other things than sound business decisions.
Keep in mind that Twitter engineers are under extreme pressure, knowing that their H1B visas are at stake, to implement Elon’s whims as quickly as possible on systems they’re unfamiliar with. I doubt many of us would perform better in their situation.
This is presumably a reference to Musk offering to buy a SpaceX employee a horse in exchange for sexual favors.
That definition has nothing to do with political anarchism.
This is an important milestone for a science project that has been 20 years in the making and might yield a few nobel prices. I think it's worthy enough for HN.
> [...] I got an interruptive ad [...]

Even on HN, theres's people complaining about things that happen to them because they are not running an adblocker.

You want privacy? That's the place to start.
An essay worth waiting months to read
Current rate limit is about 20 minutes of use for me. Remember that it loads a couple dozen replies at a time if you click on a tweet, so 600 tweets is really not much.
It could be retry logic that gets stuck in certain conditions that have been met by how TL blocking is handled.
I don’t think ‘built with the assumption that authentication and authorisation is not a thing’ is the best description. Requests from logged in users would already need to be authenticated to see private accounts they follow. It’s more just the client having aggressive retry logic in the case of whatever rate limit responses they’re getting.
10 If User has reached end of scroll region, load more content

20 Wait $timeout for new content; if a load failed, it was probably a mobile network glitch or something else we should ignore

30 GOTO 10
It's also to enable you to do non-CUE things in CUE or do things more efficiently (in the long run). Think of things like topological sort or processing a value recursively. Places where an imperative system is so much easier to do something.
I think this is the decade this problem goes away.

Of course, the phrase that gains traction won't be "keypair".
fine, I'll rephrase: social products. Remember Google+? You and 10 other people do. Most people's memory of Google+ was how to avoid it after it became a mandatory thing for all gmail users, and then it was just gone. So yeah, people really liked that product
I have a feeling I will enjoy it a lot.