MoronInAHurry

Rachel's posts would be so much more useful if she would just say what she meant, instead of twisting everything into knots to find a way to say it backwards so she can be sarcastic and condescending while doing it.

I'm sure there's some useful information in here, but it's not worth digging through the patronization to find it.

Let's say I want to donate $100 to IA. Here's how I do it now:

1. Go to https://archive.org/donate/ in any browser, on any device.

2. Click "$100", click "Donate", enter credit card info.

Now you write out the process for doing it via Brave. Assume the user just installed Brave and has 0 BAT.

Cloudflare's business lost them over $100 million last year alone. The way they operate right now is not a viable business, and we have no idea what they will change when they need to become one.

No, that's not how a left join works.

You really shouldn't act so condescending when you clearly don't even have a solid understanding of the basics yourself. That's a perfectly reasonable query that would run in less than a millisecond on a large database as long as it's been indexed correctly. There's nothing sloppy about it at all.

What exactly makes that "one of the worst-performing SQL queries you've ever seen"?

It has two left joins on foreign/primary keys, and 4 trivially-indexed where conditions. That's all it has, and none of that is even slightly complex.

Why is a single tweet that doesn't say anything of substance getting upvoted? What value are people getting out of this?

This is just rewriting the info from the EFF report, without even doing them the courtesy of linking to it: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/01/ring-doorbell-app-pack...

Discussion from yesterday (same report posted on boingboing): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22165985

And now the HN mods have flagged this comment as off-topic, which causes it to be collapsed by default for all viewers of this thread. Everyone needs to specifically click the [+X] on it to even be able to read it.

Regardless of that, it seems like you're upset because of some mistaken expectations of what HN is for. It's not trying to be a "general purpose" site where you should expect to be able to discuss any and all topics. It has a pretty narrow focus, and users tend to aggressively flag posts about anything without a clear connection to the set of subjects that they feel "belong" here.

You shouldn't try to treat HN as a place where you'll be able to find general news about the world or discuss anything in particular, no matter how important you feel it is. It's a good site for its particular niche, but you're going to end up with a myopic view if you aren't also using other sites too.

Please stop with this kind of garbage content on HN.

If you want to read random people bitching on Twitter, just use Twitter.

I got the same error while deleting my account over a month ago when it was announced that their parent company LogMeIn had been bought by private equity: https://www.zdnet.com/article/logmein-sells-to-private-equit...

So the deletion process has been erroring in that way for at least a month now.

SpaceX recently relicensed their photos to an Attribution-NonCommercial license, when previously they were effectively public domain under Creative Commons Zero: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/88449p/spacex-just-retroa...

Blogspam of https://www.engadget.com/2019/12/14/snow-crash-tv-series-hbo... which is itself blogspam of https://deadline.com/2019/12/snow-crash-sci-fi-drama-series-...

If this site starts getting any traction, you're going to get destroyed by lawyers and copyright infringement claims, so I hope you're prepared for that. outline.com does basically the same thing, but they've had to exclude most of the major sites from working through it now.

Outline even seems to make it difficult to find any way to identify/contact them, but it only took me a couple of minutes to find the identity and location (inside the US = easy target) of who's behind Trim. Seriously, talk to an IP lawyer before you continue trying to promote this. You can't just copy other people's writing onto your own site.

What's the point of making an accusation like this without naming the users?

The image (which is basically the whole "article") even has a Budget Direct watermark on it.

It's still blatant blogspam, whether the person/site doing it is well-known or not.

A meme-style image from cheezburger.com near the top of HN.

These truly are the end times.

It's also suspicious that the page's title says $100 Million, and the headline says $75 Million. A bunch of the meta tags also say "$100" (without any "million").

Proof seems necessary when they obviously changed how much money they were saying they had by $25 million.

I hate this pervasive attitude that paywalls are some sort of annoyance that sites just "hastily slap on" for no reason. They do it because the subscription is how they make money, so that they can pay people to write all those articles that you want to read.

Thousands of us pay for the subscriptions that enabled those articles to be written, while others complain about how annoying it is that they can't read them too. If you find that there are a lot of articles from a site you want to read but can't because of the paywall, that should be a hint that it's probably worth paying for.

Most of the major sites' subscriptions are very affordable, and they can only continue producing that content because some of us are willing to pay for it. Paywalls seem more common now because the old model of giving everything away for free doesn't work.

All laws start out as simple concepts. Then they need to be applied to reality, where very few situations are simple.

A comment like this being upvoted and responsible for a large portion of the "discussion" on the language creator's goddamn retirement announcement makes me embarrassed for this community. Keep the pointless bickering over programming language superiority somewhere else.

A bunch of non-lawyers taking a tiny chunk of law in isolation and speculating about whether something "seems illegal" based on it is really, really useless.

And this HN thread is just going to be even more of that.

Spend less time in incel communities. You're falling for baseless propaganda written and spread by depressed people looking for a way to "rationally" blame others for their unhappiness and self-perpetuating loneliness.

List three examples of government shows of force that were successfully foiled by armed civilians. Should be trivial if you believe it happens regularly.

Somehow rachelbythebay links always seem to jump to the top of HN, no matter how banal they are. I never understand it.

Not being able to get the specific type of free iced tea that she wanted annoyed her so much that she saved an email about it for (presumably) years so she could make a blog post complaining about how mildly rude her coworker was.

Probably because it's a bit ridiculous for some random guy that set up a website to suddenly declare that he's going to solve this complex international legal issue.

Because people upvoted it and that's how HN works.

Why do so many people think "just rewrite it in Rust" makes sense to post on every single topic about a dynamic language, even though nobody ever does it because it doesn't actually work in reality?

The hyperloop references seem misguided, but otherwise this about covers it: https://jalopnik.com/elon-musk-says-hyperloop-tunnel-is-now-...

If this goes like The Boring Company reveal a couple of months ago, I expect them to show off a 640x480 CRT monitor.

NPM foils plot that was only possible due to ridiculous house of cards built by NPM.

I notice that the NPM blog post also fails to mention that it was actually successful and resulted in about 1 million KMD (current value ~$1.7M) being stolen. The Komodo blog post contains that information: https://komodoplatform.com/update-agama-vulnerability/

Even worse, they had also successfully stolen about 9 times more than that. The only reason it was prevented was because the seeds were being sent to a public server, and Komodo was able to access and use them to "steal" the 8 million coins (and 96 BTC) from those wallets before the attacker did.

This was a successful $10M+ theft that NPM is somehow trying to spin into a positive.