jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I found the suggestions spot-on and highly conventional for a typical web property and I suspect that FB is already working on some of those...

But I also found the suggestions to kind of miss the point of FB (and I'm not an avid FBer). FB has found or is trying to find the right balance of engagement and advertising (cue the digerati: privacy! privacy! privacy! cue the interconsumers: meh...). The article kind of suggests that the balance is both obvious and easy to strike, but, having friends in management at FB, I've heard that it's nothing like that easy. It's easy to look around the web, find big properties/segments (e.g. AdSense, YouTube, news) and then paint on an FB layer; it's quite a bit harder to do so at massive scale without pissing off or freaking out the consumer market and other web properties.
A merchant's ~3% cost is passed on to the customers, one way or another. (It's not costing the customer "negative amounts of money".)
We're not going to run out entirely, but we are going to exhaust the purest and most accessible sources. As a result, extraction and refinement costs are expected to rise as a proportion of the production cost, forcing up the price of the end product.
It would be ironic if the author overestimates his interpretation of the Dunning-Kruger study...
From the very first link:

"Consumers should feel confident that the price on the shelf will be the same price they are charged at the cash register,” said Attorney General Harris. “Californians who shop at Wal-Mart should know that they have the right to ask for the appropriate discount.”

Are you under the impression that the attorney general of California is making up consumer rights that do not exist as law?

"12024.2.
(a) It is unlawful for any person, at the time of sale of a commodity, to do any of the following:
(1) Charge an amount greater than the price, or to compute an amount greater than a true extension of a price per unit, that is then advertised, posted, marked, displayed, or quoted for that commodity.
(2) Charge an amount greater than the lowest price posted on the commodity itself or on a shelf tag that corresponds to the commodity, notwithstanding any limitation of the time period for which the posted price is in effect."

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...
The dynamic gaze example really convinced me that eye tracking will be necessary for immersive VR. If you can achieve a 1+ order of magnitude improvement in rendering performance with no noticeable loss in quality... it would be very difficult to leave that on the table.
I recently picked up Zodiac for a small project as it's just the right amount of simplicity for my needs (uses awk and sh): https://github.com/nuex/zodiac
In the white paper it is explained that Bitcoin can ONLY can succeed as Peer-to-Peer digital cash, as it says in the title.

Any perversion or spin off of that goal is not "Bitcoin" as described by Satoshi.

Oddly, the Legacy BTC chain could increase the block size to lower fees and again be used a peer-to-peer cash. But it is now run for the benefit of companies like Blockstream.

Of course, Bitcoin Cash is the closest thing to "Bitcoin" we have today, and Ethereum is a close second in usefulness. The Legacy BTC chain is a "SoV" ponzi scheme at best, controlled opposition at worst.
Here's an anecdote. My friend's apartment got burglarized many years ago and when we looked at the security footage we clearly saw the thieves taking everything, their faces were impossible to recognize though, due to low resolution. Ever since that happened I kept thinking of a video codec that would store the whole video in low-res but recognize faces and encode those parts in ultra high-res. I hope research like this can lead to better security.

OTOH, government surveillance...
Not sure why you get downvoted so much but I do agree with you on many points. I have never understood the title of "Sir". The random lucky people born to other random lucky people in the little country of UK with literally no other qualification bar or their own achievements decide to call someone "Sir" and then the whole world is supposed to do the same. I'm also taken a back by Lee's rather arrogant and bold claim of "I invented World Wide Web". At best it should be "We". This is complete disregard to all other people who worked on this project and contributed far more than him. His "Contract" theory is unenforceable, impracticle and weak to implement. So this whole thing looks more like self-ego stroking.
This may be indeed true. Some say the construction is the fault of the city being old but I’ve seen the same street being worked on throughout the summer for two consecutive years. There is construction everywhere as well compared to other cities I’ve visited.
The Waypipe Summer of Code project implemented that recently:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mstoeckl/waypipe
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2019-Au...
I use i3 (with X11), and the last time I messed around with my graphical config was when I installed the system 18 months ago. Haven't had any issues even close to what you're describing, much less the screen tearing that I have never seen in my last 10 years of linux.
> The way to eliminate it...

Why? Let's just get this over with already. All these "cures" are turning out to be worse than the disease.
It always does? It's partly a psychological phenomena and partly just a question of running out of greater fools. The first one is that once there's a change in mood for some reason (some event happens, e.g. a recession which in some ways is its own psychological phenomena) everyone convinces themselves that equities are too expensive, the prices start declining and that feeds a further decline. Just look at the GME stock as a microcosm of that situation.

In terms of the greater fool thing, you can only keep buying and selling the same thing for a 10% profit every year without eventually running out of people who will buy it. I guess see also the GME stock as a microcosm of that?

And so, all bubbles must burst.
Example?

I'm not sure what you mean by "stolen" but I'm sure there's a ton of mining that is occurring at a statutory or downstream low-rate (as opposed to C&I based on peak or wholesale subject to the real-time market). In those cases, the electric providers should be able to pay them to curtail load but it's frankly a travesty on all accounts.
griddy's twitter is full of people angrily demanding refunds because "i signed up for cheaper rates and it's been cheaper til now why am i paying higher rates??? this is a scammer"
But to be fair, nobody uses just RSA. It is too slow. It is used to do what ECC does: setting up shared keys for something like AES.
I've seen comments that there's also like 13-15GW offline for maintenance (cleaning?)
NEMA, ANSI, IEC, ASTM, ASHRAE, I could go on and on. There tons and tons of standards independently developed by industry associations. Many of them later get adopted into law by various government, but the government is not forcing these to exist.
>>> But I want to ask all of you: what replaces it as arbiter of truth?

If "journalism" is entertainment, but nobody wants to pay for it, then it has no use and we should let it die.

If it's an important resource required by our society, (so that we are not ignorant of whats going on in our neighborhood and world), then it's not entertainment, it's an essential service, and it should be publicly funded like our other essential services.

As we transition to publicly funded "news" (things that happened) we can examine the various formats, and design them to to be easy to query and verify.
A hispanic/south american forum, hybrid between Image Board and BBS, most good content goes to textboard section.

Not so much new posts, mostly talks about tech and whatever goes.

https://bienvenidoainternet.org
/int/ section
https://bienvenidoainternet.org/world/
Perhaps the article is merely one of the many potential takes that is likely to foment controversy and therefore clicks and therefore more ad dollars. Aka normal internet content. I think it's unlikely to be more interesting than that.
It seems you're just confused on a basic level about how property works - property is coercion. It is literally the initiation of coercive violence on people who enter certain areas or touch certain objects (or threats thereof).

> ...for you to dictate ... that would be a hierarchy with you at the top ... your proposed authoritarian restructuring of society ... Quit trying to dictate the world to the rest of us

Once again, you're confused on a basic level - what makes my proposed system more authoritarian than yours? You want property law enforced with one particular distribution, I want it enforced with another particular distribution. What makes my distribution authoritarian and yours not?
“When California sends people north to Oregon, they’re not sending their best and brightest. They’re drug dealers and smugglers. Some, I assume, are good people.” — my sixth generation Oregonian wife.
This is a good idea and one I'm about to debut shortly. Our guests will be highly rated journalists from across the political spectrum so that it is less likely to devolve into vitriol and rather is insightful people talking about their view on an important issue.
It would be great and in the one case I will when I have space to come back to it, since I could isolate it. In the other case idk what to file other than “open source project I contribute to has a file with a question mark that your compiler doesn’t like”.
modern high class SSDs have a hardware encryption chip, sort of like Intel's AES-NI for CPUs, which greatly reduces the burden on the CPU. you only really notice a difference when accessing larger files and the SSD's internal buffer fills up and offloads
You are just wrong and speaking like it's still the 90s or 2000s.

I just mentioned 3 very popular and effectively best in class technologies that started at a corporation and now have robust open communities supporting them.
One feature that I wish HN contained is tags which would allow viewing search results by categories instead of specific words.
Perhaps en extension using AI?
As one of the clueless novices on this topic what I fail to understand is that proof-of-stake and other consensus mechanisms have been available for alt-coins now for a little while - yet BTC is still dominant. Is it just because of popularity of BTC? If so I struggle to understand how the market is rational here (not saying it has to be). And do other coins/forks issued with similar rules/characteristics cause a price decrease in BTC due to fungibility? The confusion you speak of may come because people see BTC as the successful coin and see other alternatives may have weaknesses that "are priced in". As a novice, because I assume there's no free lunch, other currencies not using PoW could have weaknesses that BTC does not have hence the price. For better or worse the most successful coin determines what people see as the successful approach to crypto at the time.

To your point I've also seen that some coins may still prefer PoW, and may have mitigated many of the disadvantages of it (e.g. made it harder to centralise mining).
It's not not true though. Climate change is absolutely an existential risk. Maybe it would not be on it's own, but we have nukes. Even a "small" nuclear skirmish could dramatically destabilize all of human economics.

Perhaps the framing needs tweaking. It is inaccurate to say "if we don't fix climate change, it will end humanity". But "unmitigated climate change could spell the end of the world as we know it. Do you like the world as it currently is, or do you wanna roll the dice and risk apocalypse/Mad Max/ etc?" is completely plausible.

Is there a semantic and ontological difference between "er'rybody gonna die!" and "[almost] er'rybody might die!"? Of course. Is there a difference in terms of expectation value of human quality of life in the future? Not a very big one if you ask me.
No, that's classical FMEA (Failure Method Effect Analysis).
What is a bit alarming, is how human-centric the discussion is, while ignoring what rapid temperature change may mean to life and nature as we know it.
They're not names, they're identifiers. There is absolutely no shortage of those and Twitter threads in their original form have all kinds of uses. Court cases, keeping the web in one piece, reference material, claims of prior art and so on. The archives can not be searched and that makes them much harder to use for that purpose.

Our company is pretty handy in digging up stuff but you'd be surprised how much of the web is rotting away while you're staring at it and every time that happens there is a fair chance we lose something, forever. It need not be that way.

Imagine we'd have a day-to-day account of the lives of the people from 500 years ago, and that you could home in on whatever individual from that time stuck on the web. I personally think that unless the author removes it these content farms owe it to the creators that gave them the content in the first place to at least support and store that content until copyright on the content runs out.
Some of google's success was due to simple business decisions. An acquirer would reverse these, and google wouldn't win.

These were: uncluttered search-only, instead of a portal filled with junk; no paid-placement; it was also faster due to clever backend, so an acquirer could save money on the backend, bringing it down to adequate speed.

Some argue that The Algorithm (pagerank) wasn't important for google's success at all, except as marketing to geeks, because search results were comparable to alternatives.

Today, apart from consumer habit, google's biggest advantage is speed, possible by massive capital investment in datacenters.

But also today, google is hamstrung by money (Wall St), making them vulnerable, as previous search was.

OTOH the problem/need was there, maybe eventually there would have been another google targetting search-only.
Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Google

Some people drop either Amazon or Apple, I guess.
typo ? "the colloquial term" is "average", the specific term is "mean".
I like it if the content is mainly textual. I have trouble reading double column papers and content with graphics.
If the device is really acting up, and needs restarting teep the power button/slider 'on' for 12-15 seconds. That will force a reboot on the device.
Not true. I have health benefits from Netflix.
Bah. Since I'm platinum on American but not 100% insensitive to price, this is going to force me (and I suspect all their other frequent fliers) to switch to whatever ticket aggregator does carry American.

What a pain, but due to the miles / upgrades / etc. it likely won't cost them any of their repeat customers.
But that's the point: to trigger the brownout that crashes the system, you need to really short-circuit those points. So resistors in series won't do it.
Any word on 1.9 syntax support? Sorry, I havent been keeping up on Rubinius progress recently. I've switched all my projects to 1.9 syntax though so going back to 1.8 would be kind of a drag.
It'd be neat to see someone take the time to organize all of these into a database that's easily filtered by subjects such as length of program, whether or not they require the founders to relocate, etc.
>Or the other way to look at it is that Mozilla has refused to build Firefox so that it will be compatible with MPEG-LA's licensing

Well now that you put it that way, it's obvious; Mozilla should definitely ignore those pesky licensing problems in order to support a predatory cartel in gaining a global monopoly over video on the web.

Also, I hear ground up babies make excellent fertiliser.
I agree with you 100%. The phrase I like to use is "friction". All the central banks/governments have to do is apply some friction and it will stop BTC from becoming a defacto currency. They have already started by calling BTC an asset. This means if you get some bitcoin and then spend it, you have to log that on your taxes as capital gains/loss. This is already going to be too troublesome for regular people. They killed BTC and the crypto community doesn't even know it.
Thanks for your response! That's interesting - I suppose the beat can form an external point of focus, like trataka/fixed-point meditation, investing your focus into one thing so that the route to self-awareness is noticing when your attention gets pulled off of that subject and onto to something internal like a thought or emotion.

I wish you the best of luck!
You're absolutely right - it's a very double-edged sword. Pure on-chain bitcoin in its current form is the perfect tool for totalitarian control - guess why the CCP is hyped about their CBDC?

I think that the question of if we end up being caught without an exit or not comes down to if privacy-preserving technology (on-chain like Monero and/or off-chain like Lightning) gets adopted by businesses and individuals enough for it to be too late to pull back once powers that be have the understanding, capabilities and intention to do so.
> More safe havens for wealth are the last thing a world suffering from vast economic inequality needs.

Hard disagree. The problem with inequality is that too many people have too few assets. Increasing the security of property is a powerful way to mitigate this by giving people safe havens in which to store their wealth.
[author] Many did and it was well earned. The team was awesome and had great camaraderie, but the work was horrible. Everything that broke led to a SEV for our team, even though 80% of the time it was not our code (somewhere deep in the API that had insufficient logging and observability). All our customers hated the product since it was so buggy, and our internal customers (sales ppl at FB) hated it for the same reason. They didn't see the 16 hour days, nights and weekend that we were all putting in to fight fires, do a fundamental rewrite from two JS frameworks to an untested new one (React), and add hundreds of new product features to keep up with FB's exploding Ads org. It was three years of hell to be frank, but very rewarding if you're into that kind of thing. It took a special type of person to join that team, knowing how long it would be before any payoff was really visible in the product, all while being vilified inside and outside the company even though you didn't build the thing, you just agreed to jump in and help fix it.
If your tax situation doesn't change from year to year you don't need to scour the instructions. Just work through the forms using last year's return as a guide.
Yes, solves an interesting problem if everyone plays by the rules.

But nothing in there prevents me from stealing your media, changing it slightly and reposting it, grabbing all that sweet sweet Zora cash, or whatever you would call that. I recommend to call it Karma, you know, like what you get for reposting on Reddit ;)
Great find, and it sounds like a great place to work.
my neighbor also had this. was not really able to fix it. felt pretty bad.
Well look at JavaScript where self (this) works exactly the same way (it's conceptually just another argument to a function) but is passed implicitly and declared as parameter implicitly. People are not very happy with that either...
Then there are operating systems based on the Linux kernel that are not GNU/Linux, most famously Android.

For something to be GNU/Linux, it must use the GNU base system and toolchain - the core/find/inet/binutils, glibc, bash, gcc and so on.

There are generic Linux distributions that also do not. Alpine Linux is one of them, using musl libc and busybox, eschewing GNU software wherever possible. Though, the question arises - is a distribution of Linux always GNU/Linux if it uses GNU software at build time, even if it's almost entirely stripped of it at runtime? That is to say, the use of gcc, GNU make and autotools are largely unavoidable in bootstrapping a Linux platform, or even Unix software in general these days - even if llvm/clang are making progress.
Ah, how I wish I was game dev instead of working mostly on Java backends for large financial institutions (and actually spending most of the time in meetings).

I am pretty interested in the modding Minecraft with Scratch part. I have found some abandoned projects. Can you point me to what you have used that worked for you?

Happy it worked for your girl and little scared she started at 5. I have two boys, one is 7 and the other is 4. The younger one is inseparable from the older so I wonder how it is going to be different for him.

I have been thinking about who gets to actually program. For now I am happy that mixed routine where we regularly switch works for him (he seems to be happy and engaged) and so I think I will continue this way for some time before I experiment with it.

I see that the best results we got were when he actually himself figured some stuff and made it by himself. His first machine -- ugly chest to destroy unnecessary items with a noisy clock that runs constantly whether there are items or not -- is still occupying middle of main room of our hobbit hole but I don't think I will touch it, because he was so happy when he got it to work.
I got into programming at around middle-school age, with no particular guidance from my parents beyond general encouragement.

I have three kids and none of them are interested in programming.

It's fine to support and encourage something your kids are interested in, and to give them opportunities to try things and discover those interests. But be careful you're not pushing them into something just because you like it. Your kids are independent human beings and may be interested in very different things than you are, or than their siblings are.
The nuclear option is the only option which normally brings change when enough people make use of it. Everything else is just kicking the can down the road, but nobody will ever pick it up.
Apple have developed Bootcamp and provided drivers so far for Intel Mac. But shipping Bootcamp for Windows ARM would be an EULA violation until Microsoft loosen theirs conditions. Changing this is literally step 1.

Wether Apple would develop Bootcamp for ARM or not is purely theoretical discourse until then.
My daughter (who just turned 4) seemed like she might like programming, so I started out having her "program" a stuffed walrus, by telling it whether to go forward, backward, left, or right to get to a piece of food. Her natural inclination was to point to where it should go, so I first taught her that the walrus doesn't understand pointing or the word "here", just the directions.

Then we started "programming each other" by telling each other where to go, and I introduced doing multiple steps at once (like "step forward 5 times").

My goal wasn't literally to teach her to program, but just to introduce that way of thinking, which is pretty different from how we normally think in day-to-day life.

She was excited about it, so I got her the Osmo programming kit for iPad. You program a little monster walking around, using physical, scratch-style code blocks. She's been excited about programming the monster every day, and is able to (sometimes) do some short programs of a couple blocks.

If she learns a bit more, my plan is to show her how to program a simple lego robot with scratch, like one that spins a flag when it sees something pink. I love that idea because with 2 lines of code you can make something really happen in the world, plus she'll be able to come up with new ideas for the robot on her own, and learn about the constraints, sensors, and eventually more basic programming logic.
Insofar as they're tied into the online advertising markets, yes. You need to collect the data for good ad revenue, and in-app purchases don't typically pay the bills on their own, so there's an incentive to collect data. Since the actual collection tends to be via libraries, it's relatively easy to ignore what your app is actually doing.