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I'm after pointing out that a self-promoted site on the front page makes grandiose claims about public health with flimsy support.

The linked short interview was probably prompted by his 2012 paper:

> Extending the sequence of 1870, 1920, and 1970 forward suggests that the next instability peak shouldoccur in the United States around 2020. This is a simple projection, rather than a scientific prediction (which requires an understanding of mechanisms bringing about outbreaks of political violence; see Turchin, 2006a). The analysis of structural causes of instability waves is beyond the scope of this article and will be pursued elsewhere(Turchin, forthcoming)

http://peterturchin.com/PDF/Turchin_JPR2012.pdf (And yes, for the conspiracy theorists, you can search the DOI number to confirm this really was published in 2012.)

Depending how and whether you count academia, Donald Knuth may have a slightly longer career: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth

Feels like a decent chance you're third, then. Certainly you're one of the longest-working programmers. Best of luck. :)

A blink takes 100-150ms. For the 100m dash, Usain Bolt takes 41 steps in 9.58s, so 231ms per step. Either that kid is really hauling ass or the blinks are people completely shutting their eyes at the disturbance of the train's arrival, which is plausible. I don't spot anybody blinking in the background, unfortunately. I guess the easiest way to get timing would be to measure the distance between the pillars. Odd appearance made for fun little puzzle to play with for a minute.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/clearview-ai-facial-recogniti...

Does anyone know the security researcher to ask them to run this? git log --format='%aN' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn

I looked it up because I didn't see a link, and I was not impressed by his original posting to NANOG: https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2019-February/0996...

Cynically, it not plausible that a big company like Apple could deliberately steal and launch a security-sensitive marquee product in only four months based on a whitepaper. If this author sues, discovery will almost certainly show development started on "Sign in with Apple" at least months before his NANOG message with briefs and requisitions for headcounts and such going back months more.

Found an article in the "remarkable 2" section of the support site. No mention of support for offline/private syncing, which is a real shame. (The "read more" links go to v1 pages and seem to be autogenerated.)

I think "better" is too reductive a framing for comparing things as broad and deep as online communities. There's no single dimension to judge quality on, and it's largely a matter of personal taste. I appreciate the praise but this post feels like a missed opportunity for a really valuable conversation about how design features have shaped these two sites (to say nothing of the dozens of others they draw inspiration from). In short: https://lobste.rs/s/bxuqzy/why_lobste_rs_is_better_than_hack...

Couple previous takes when we've been mentioned here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21453180 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21947299 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20892064

Users and mods have used it to detect sockpuppets and voting rings. We've had almost zero trouble with bots because of the invite system.

It's not obvious from browsing the site (though of course it's visible in the source: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/blob/791b21f60a2e952cab...) but users can lose the ability to invite if they reach a net score of -5 (rare, they have be a bad actor right out of the gate) or from a mod removing it (also rare, they typically have to invite several problem users or run a voting ring).

> Google’s quick-loading AdWords text ads appear to the right of the Google search results and are highlighted as sponsored links, clearly separate from the search results. Google’s premium sponsorship ads will continue to appear at the top of the search results page.

It's a little confusing to read now, so for context: at the time Google published this, it only put ads in the sidebar to the right of search results. This post was written to criticize the practice of putting ads atop search results, which competitors sometimes formatted almost indistinguishably from organic search results.

(Context: I am the admin of Lobsters.)

You claim I didn't make an honest or thoughtful criticism, but you didn't support that by disputing any of my facts or reasoning, and your only defense of Brave is that they were caught too early to successfully defraud anyone. Whether the money was taken directly from end users or indirectly from speculators in their ICO is irrelevant. They falsely represented themselves to users as site owners and they continue to evade responsibility by falsely representing themselves to site owners as different users. It is tediously prudent to want nothing at all to do with a company that does business through misrepresentation as a standard practice.

[0] https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/4641#issuecomm...

When someone commits fraud, gets caught, shows no contrition, and then takes a little step back so it's no longer obviously fraud, I think the emphasis in that sentence needs to be on "obviously", not "no longer". I wish they'd quit spoofing their User-Agent so it'd be possible to opt out of the new version of this scheme, but they'll only send an accurate header to sites that sign partnership agreements.

Besides this document's omission, what leads you to think Freenode is not part of PIA?

Edit: I'm not trying to make an ad hominem here, but I see in an earlier comment you describe yourself as the CEO of irc.com, which is also a PIA project (in some sense - again, I don't know the legal relationship or if there's a separate entity). So it sounds like you know what you're talking about, and I hope you can help find or make public some material support for the claim that Freenode is unaffected by this.

Freenode's registration doesn't show any change in ownership since their acquisition: https://freenode.net/news/pia-fn https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/10308021/filing-h...

If you believe there are different parent companies involved, please link sources.

When reading Zulip threads I frequently mute those I'm not interested in. To do so, you have to hit 'i' to open a menu, then 'M' (there is no shortcut on 'm'), then a popup message slowly animates in saying the thread is muted. If you hit 'n' to go to the next thread, the popup message doesn't clear, so it's covering the top message of the new thread, and the popup menu is still open covering the top 1-3 messages, still listing the last thread's title. So leaving a single thread I know I'm emphatically not interested in takes five seconds. There's a nasty positive feedback loop: catching up on threads is slow and frustrating, so I leave it longer, so there's more threads that take even more time and frustration, repeat.

I reported this buggy workflow ~2 years ago and it's why I've repeatedly given up on a very interesting community's Zulip chat. There's plenty more flaky stuff, like switching messages with j/k sometimes not scrolling the screen, or long messages where you have to take your hand off the home row to scroll up and down because if you hit space the floating nav covers lines you haven't seen, long messages being "closed" so you have to navigate to each individually to read, no keys are customizable, death by a thousand cuts. I have my fingers crossed for a bitlbee integration.