skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, astroturfing is real - however, you do not know how prevalent it is, or which comments are it. You don't have access to the internal server logs that dang does. You don't know whether someone is astroturfing or just really invested in an ideology. And it's against the guidelines to point out.

> people have pointed put “russian bots” on HNany times without being flagged or deleted

Because dang didn't see those comments and they weren't flagged by other users. If you see what you think is astroturfing, or dishonest/manipulative/HN-guideline-breaking comments (like those above), downvote and flag it, and if you want to respond, don't accuse the user of astroturfing, but actually respond to their points. If the people on the other end are really FSB officers or whatever, you literally waste their time and money, and divert their resources from other things they could be doing (e.g. the war in Ukraine). Accusing someone of astroturfing isn't just against the guidelines, it's counterproductive!

Use that flag button!
You can tell them that, but I don't think I'd believe it as a candidate. I'll assume that every interaction I have with you up until an offer is extended is going to influence your perception of me, whether you're taking notes or not.
Banning a site is one thing.

Banning an entire communications technology, with abusively high fines for citizens who defy the ban, is on a whole other level.
Is that really how Spotify works? What if you listened only to that one creator, would all of the artists' portion of your subscription go to that creator? I was under the impression that with Spotify everybody's subscription goes into a big pool of money which is then distributed between all of the artists based on total plays. So actually as a listener of niche music, I am mostly paying for exactly the mainstream artists whose music I am not listening to and who don't need my support anyway. This is why I prefer to use Bandcamp, where I know there is a direct relationship between what I buy and who gets the money for that.
Systemd is a huge threat this way. Who cares what distros there are when they use the same base capabilities?

I'm a systemd fan actually, but I recognize the threat. I don't like there being a total success, a monoculture. But alas, it feels like most people either live with and learn to love what systemd offers (many dimensional excellence & capabilities exposed consistently) while living with the couple hiccups, or they have a retro backwards looking anti-big reaction.

So there's like a centrist force & an anti-force. There's no one trying for bigger better. No one's trying to out-do systemd, do a better job: they're working tirelessly to try to recreate a past where we did much less, had much smaller ambitions. There's no progressive force.

This directly mirrors Molly White's recent XOXO talk (video not yet available) where she talks about how the better new web we want isn't just so replay of the past. That we need to build on, no be afraid of what's newly possible, chase new targets, evolve. https://bsky.app/profile/knowtheory.net/post/3l2ib4kfrjm2r
Appreciate the breakdown! Sounds like the typical cover-up, where it's honest disclosure (in appearance), until it slowly works its way out that it was far more severe than reported, and suddenly we're offering free credit monitoring.

I'm not sure how much data was exposed, but I've recently gotten a warning from Ticketmaster that my SSN (US social security number) was exposed. I absolutely did not provide that information, so it's either an outright lie, or there's a lot more sharing going on behind the scenes than the standard public is to believe.
Yes, your current situation does make a difference in what is important to you and which questions you have. And it also influences the balance at the interviewing table. I can imagine that it is frustrating to feel being evaluated against candidates who have the luxery of saying ‘no’ to a new job and can think critically if they want to work at the new place. Sometimes you have more freedom to say ‘no’ then you think. It can make a difference between night and day.
you like to read the articles, thats fine...but why do u want to publicise it? isnt it in your interest to keep it hush?
The conjecture itself might not be as important but the tools we have to discover and use to prove this conjecture would be of paramount importance, as they'd teach us about the nature of mathematics, numbers, and more.
Ladybird is getting migrated to Swift, not Rust. Andreas Kling goes over why he chose Swift here: https://x.com/awesomekling/status/1822236888188498031 and his views on Rust here: https://x.com/awesomekling/status/1822241531501162806
+1

(the following is a tangential thought to your point):

It will be great when we see an LLM trained on all the posts to HN, and other forums of this ilk. if there were a model finetuned specifically to harvest extremely nascient startup announcements, specifically those that launch via a git-repo-reveal.. and iterate in AI's internal AR simuCorpo9000 and spawn of tooling/ of its own.

This would be a great tool.

I'd like to say to bot (I partially do this already - see [0] --):

"Take this [.git-url-to-repo], give me a mermaid and swimlane and a readme - give me deployment considerations, a ps1 and an aws to deploy to ecs on docker with fastapi on port 8888. use the .env for db creds - and give me a grafana dashboard for [this that and these]."

And its so far doing quite great given how zygote stage we are with AI.

https://i.imgur.com/7YOjJf8.png

https://i.imgur.com/KecrvfZ.png

https://i.imgur.com/tKYsmb9.png

https://i.imgur.com/nCGOfSU.png

https://i.imgur.com/ayDrXZA.png
Ask HN: How much would it cost to migrate Twitter to Cloudflare?
I'm from Brazil, and currently, our ISPs are dropping any requests for the Twitter IP range (AS13414 Twitter Inc.) and refusing DNS queries on their servers.

If a user is already using Cloudflare DNS (1.1.1.1), wouldn't moving Twitter to Cloudflare make the block unfeasible? What are the downsides from a business perspective to not migrating? How much would it cost to migrate Twitter to Cloudflare?

Edit: Yeah, they could just ask Cloudflare to block it, but what if Cloudflare refuses to do so?
And have never had a single crash from their code. And wrote a fully compliant Open GL stack for it in rust.

Shipped by Fedora. Used on all Apple Silicon Macs running Linux.

The value exists and has been proven. The community can say no to it, but dismissing the work of Lina and the Asahi team members who have worked on Rust stuff as a “toy project” is just being rude.
Not sure what your point is? Especially when the comparisons aren't really proportional.

I don't consider letting rotten meat pileup an example of a working inspection process, which is what I specifically responded to, first world or not.
Probably the FBI, going by recent reports of their sloppiness? ;)
I don’t agree. As soon as commercialisation of the web began, this massive incentive existed. The early search engines all fell victim to “algorithm hacking” (granted, these algorithms were far more primitive). Google won search in these years by having much more sophisticated algorithms that were resilient to such attempts.

Today - well, two possible things have happened. Either scamming search engines have become too effective for even a company with the resources of Alphabet to mitigate. Or, Google optimised for revenue rather than knowledge indexing. Which one seems more likely?
The interesting stuff that will make an employment unpleasant is not going to come out in an interview. That stuff comes out over time. To boot, I can think of quiet a few lies/half truths from interviewers. It is like dating, nobody says they are actually a lazy slob and the codebase is a POS on the first date.
Study in question: https://sci-hub.st/http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2009....
Show HN: Non-Lead Pickleball Weights – Material Science FTW
My buddies and I love playing pickleball and also nerded out to make some non-lead pickleball weights. We use a copper suspended in a polymer to make flexible, non-toxic weights. Took vacation to attend a wedding in Brazil, so you can also see them photo'd in some amazing locations. We originally just wanted to make them to get the lead out of the game, but we found that they were more shock-absorbative than their lead predecessors. We ship them out of Idaho. If anyone wants them, we'd love to get you some!
“There’s a product manager sitting out there who just had a mediocre idea for some new feature. What happens?”
Why do you loathe snaps?
i think rclone is what you need. but for "backup", check restic. i personally use restic to backup all my stuff to b2 using restic's encryption.

have a checklist kind of a thing here if it helps: https://geekodour.org/docs/tools/homelab/#backup-plan I've not updated it in a while my setup has diverged since
Will there be a receiver for Fire TV too?
"Never accept the first no." I like it.
I think interviewer answer candidly when they care about the candidate actually thriving once they join, instead of spending a "I'm not job hopping" sacrificial year and get out as soon as they can.

Seeing how they react to the current company strategy is a valuable in that respect, and it will be better for both of them bail out during the interviews and not after signing the contract.
That's not the case. The law as it applies, is thoroughly explained here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39966382
Prefer C? Or haven’t used Rust?

All the Rust kernel developers have to know C. Is that true of the bigger maintainers who are arguing against it?

It’s fine to prefer one over the other.

If you haven’t learned one and refuse to try it and your argument boils down to “it’s not what we’ve done and I don’t want to change” that’s not good technical decision making.
It’s related yeah. In Ocaml it’s a generic, and in Rust, lifetimes are also a generic type.
That sucks, sorry to hear that. You should reject take homes like this in future. At least, don’t invest 8 hours before they’ve even interviewed you. The time investment should be symmetrical for the candidate and the employer.
> The hiring process sucks and it sucks that this method of filtering works, but it does work.

How do you know this? (That this is not just sampling error, survivor bias, and/or confirmation bias)

I speculate that a good hire is almost random. Context matters as well. I worked with someone that was horrible, to later find out they were the other dev that I was going to work with later on a contract job. The different environment was night and day.

That being said, I do think the signal of a horrible hire can more often than not be detected during an interview. Otherwise, IMO, there is too much noise that it is close to random.
Yes! That IT guy got you. So many of us, myself included, can trace our love of computing and free spirits to people like your IT guy.

Remember kids. It will be your turn to free a young soul one day, and you should give same as you once received.

And having already a turn or two myself, I can report it feels great!
Heh Heh Heh. I like this author:

Each further recombination makes it politically harder for a live player to “unfuck”
a company in the future.

They make a good case of companies needing better succession leadership than the vast majority of current offerings.
As you said - Moraes didn't threaten. Moraes executed.

The prior legal representative of X had all her personal bank accounts frozen.
No...? Most crypto is pretty bad for tax evasion because the blockchain provides a permanent public record. There is pseudonymity which when done carefully can provide privacy, but crypto is primarily for digital transactions that get blocked (e.g., credit card companies banning adult content sellers).
I upvoted you stance, but at this point in technology, it's fairly easy to find articles on how to get on Tor and use a search engine that indexes Onion content. The two are not equivalent, but is it possible that you worry about visiting the dark web, versus the actual difficulty to do so? You are in infosec, so you are probably very conscious of what you can and can't do and track easily. The dark web is more difficult to track, but is it that much more difficult to access if you don't care about general privacy concerns? There are so many "easy" methods online to get you on the dark web, and most don't care too much about privacy like you or I care about. Just food for thought, I don't go searching the dark web, to keep my security to a level I can understand, and I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
I’m not sure it’s rewritten so much as new code. But it sounds like it’s been taking a very long time (year+) to merge even smaller things like structure definitions Rust developers need, let alone “real” code.
A thorough explanation of the applicable law, point by point, that demonstrates that what you are saying is complete fantasy:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39966382
It doesn't seem like screen has plugin support - while tmux has a fairly large plugin ecosystem.
fare thee well*
Did the journalists publish or share the details that could harm witnesses or investigations? Our default assumption is that journalists keep these kind of details confidential and secure from spreading... more than the city did.

I think they city would need to actually believe witnesses or investigations were actually harmed, and I don't mean picking whatever belief is most convenient for them. Maybe they do believe it. If they can prove it, they should win their suit.
Because the answers are likely not reliable anyways. Catfishing is the term.
> build a sustainable company by adding new features willy nilly whenever some dev has a Great Idea.

This is hilarious because it seems to place some kind of value on a stable interface, but that is something that companies / product managers have themselves systematically destroyed over the last decade or so in pretty much every arena. Only software for professionals is even slightly immune to this (IDEs/CAD/etc). Pretty much everything else has auto-updated churn that you can't opt out of, on everything from UI to core features.

Putting devs in charge of inserting features "willy nilly" would likely result in a much more consistent experience than what we usually get, because they'd be willing to declare something "finished" eventually. Product managers want the churn, because they can boost fake metrics like engagement, and it gives them stuff to do.
Since you asked for feedback, the first two things I noticed were:

1. The license.

2. On the home page, everyone had the X logo by their name.

For me, personally, these things combined were enough to decide to not bookmark it.
I currently use an archive.is bookmarklet to grab the latest copy of a page — or initiate an archive if one doesn't exist
To me the "lightbulb" is obviously a sail, because it's sitting on a well-known depiction of a boat. I think the snakes and some of the other hieroglyphs depict water passage.

What I meant by ancient invisible technology is more like... consider a USB stick. What about that physical object would reveal what it is if you strip all cultural context (including language) away?

When we see depictions of some ancient symbols (e.g. those handbags and wristwatches all over the ancient Middle East and Africa) I sometimes wonder if it is simply an unknown technological device - we'll never figure it out being in our time and place.

Historians think everything is a temple or a tomb, instead of more everyday things like drive-thru restaurants and gaming devices. Surely those existed too, and if they did they probably iterated on them - they probably had some innovations we haven't thought of and wouldn't recognize today.
How does FCast differ from Matter Casting?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41171060&p=2#41172407

"What Is Matter Casting and How Is It Different From AirPlay or Chromecast?" (2024)
https://www.howtogeek.com/what-is-matter-casting-and-how-is-... :

> You can also potentially use the new casting standard to control some of your TV’s functions while casting media on it, a task at which both AirPlay and Chromecast are somewhat limited.

Feature ideas: PIP Picture-in-Picture, The ability to find additional videos and add to a [queue] playlist without stopping the playing video
When you get ill and what the doctors give you doesn't work you have to research for yourself. Added to that you wonder if you'll ever get better.

My own research was the only way I got clear of an illness I had after what the doctors gave me didn't work.

It's easy to feel like stupid people are falling for reddit bullshit (and if course some are), but reddit is a potentially huge sample of empirical reports. Even if their reasoning is wrong it doesn't always mean they csn't find cures. That's how we got most medicines in history anyway.

Secondly reddit etc are full of highly motivated, desperate people. You might become one yourself one day too. The saddest part is their illness, not their trying to do something about it.
Amazon hiring top talent from AI robotics startup Covariant
High-tech basketball backboard in Tompkins Square Park
Even if the goal of the brazilian judge makes sense, that doesn't make the judge's actions legal. In a country of laws, the end does not justify the means.

A thorough explanation of the applicable law, point by point, that demonstrates that everything that is happening here is outrageous :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39966382
Oh right makes sense. You crave it because it made you feel good yet is a low quality food. So the cycle repeats itself.

I am going through a weight loss journey myself and it is very eye opening now that I am tracking my calories and nutrition. I was eating very poorly
It's odd to describe this as "emacs-like". It is an emacs. While most people mean "GNU Emacs" (or in the past XEmacs) when talking about emacs, emacs is really a family of editors, with many variations over the years. Including ones written purely in lisp, like lem is.
This isn't surprising. Birds are incredibly intelligent, and crows/ravens are up there. Magpies too. We have grackles here in Houston; those fuckers are clever as well!
If it is okay for him to tell reporters that the data is publically accessible, knowing that they would verify that by downloading it, how is it dangerous or malicious for him to send examples to them directly? The outcomes are the same at worst and at best the reporters have considerably less of the data. There's a legal distinction there, not a moral one.
I used Tcl and Expect on Solaris at a job in 1995
Re: terrible maintainers, I'm reminded of "Fox" who maintains (maintained?) TTRSS (Tiny Tiny RSS) dude is atrocious. Makes Linus and jwz and Theo De Raadt look like saints.
Downloading it wasn’t really the problem, though. I agree that pentesters should be able to.

But redistributing a police database (even just to reporters) is obviously going to cause the city to file a restraining order to stop further distribution. Especially when he said he plans to make a site that would share details related to that database.

If nothing else, it was probably a bad idea to do what he did. I was only trying to caution overeager outsiders against doing similar things.

What do you make of all this? The lawsuit itself seems dubious, even if the restraining order made sense.
I actually quite like the term “mental template” but then they immediately equated it to an image.

The best way I can describe my aphantasia is that I think about objects three dimensionally. There’s nothing visual about it, but I can think about the relation of “points” (really surfaces) in terms of the whole.
It also goes toward funding foreign wars and criminals (depending on your political leanings).
Analysis of World Records in Speedrunning (2021)
The studies purporting to show evidence of long COVID, i.e. long term complications from COVID infections, are notoriously weak on rigor. Most make no attempt to control for the psychosocial impact of positive COVID diagnoses, like the isolation of quarantine, and the anxiety associated with being given a positive diagnosis for the infection.

The best evidence available suggests most cases of "long COVID" are misattribution:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...
They can't. A thorough explanation of the applicable law, point by point, that demonstrates that what you are saying is complete fantasy:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39966382

Why they could: The ruling socialist party is allowing the judge to go on a rampage because the ruling class has too many skeletons in their closet to mount an effective defense against the opposition. They hope they can just play dead during this mess - but if history is any guide, the judge will come after them later.
While I'm unskilled with CTMU theory, what you mentioned could be considered a consequence of the first law of thermodynamics, right? Intelligence might decrease entropy locally, but they always increase entropy globally to do so. Ie we accelerate the natural process of increasing entropy.
I’m surprised no one has attempted to train crows for use in asymmetrical warfare. At least before the advent of cheap drones.
No, it doesn't make sense. The reason they had to pull out of the country is that representatives of X were about to be thrown in jail for an American business not honoring censorship edicts written by this judge. Why not Meta or Google? Because they've honored the censorship orders.

When he couldn't find representatives of X, he went after SpaceX and StarLink, even though no law allows him to do so. The judge is simply on a personal vendetta against Elon Musk solely on the basis of political alignment.

This isn't baffling, this is leftist totalitarianism at work.
Is Everyone Conscious in the Same Way?
That would be one way that heaven, hell, and all the other religious ideas could be true. Hell is just the next experiment over.
It looks like Expect was first released in 1990 and Linux in 1991 although Linux wasn't really that usable until around 1993.
> once saw an app that did bidirectional RPC over message queues

Haha I've seen this anti-pattern too (although I think it's in the enterprise patterns book??). It would bring production to a grinding halt every night. Another engineer and I stayed up all night and replaced it with simple REST API.
To be clear, I think Moraes is out of control in this case.
How does he know it’s a coincidence?
Yes. However checks and balances work because the other branches will choose to assert their power over a branch that is overstepping. However, the other branches are in the hands of the ruling socialists, and they are just happy to let the judiciary do their dirty work. And, they have quite a few skeletons still in their closet after the Lava Jato scandal.

Anyway a thorough explanation of the applicable law, point by point

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39966382
> Alz is

This one theory that currently doesn't have a lot of hard evidence supporting it. It is a promising theory, but I don't think it is good to state it as if it is established fact.
No, its not. A thorough explanation of the applicable law, point by point, that demonstrates that the tyrant is wearing a robe

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39966382
Ah, that's interesting! I Have never been able to figure those hardware tokens out. Sometimes when 2FA comes up I will click "Use your security key" thinking it is going to be a passkey/biometric or authenticator. Nope! It is some kind of USB stick that folks like Bloomberg traders use.
> “That way, no one person can take over—it’s too slow,” Josh Wardle, the Reddit product manager

Except reddit admins / mods abused Place, bypassing the timeouts, to place as many pixels as they wanted.
In the TV show "The Orville" a character has their matter replicator create "500 cigarettes", but it only created 463 after someone counted them all. This is a meme that's been making the rounds for a few weeks in some circles now.