skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That sounds like what the folks at Mastodon are trying to do. On the surface they seem to have decent implementations. But every time I think about signing up to an instance, I realise that all the friends I care about (in the social media sense) are on Facebook. It becomes a non-starter for me. The value of Facebook is the social graph, and we put up with it's shortcomings because of that.
How about starting by just having a good, open source social platform for the Web, like Wordpress is for blogs. Wordpress is used to host 20% of all new websites.

Meanwhile, to post a comment on TechCrunch, I had to register yet another account with yet another password, and after that the comment I was writing was lost (despite the site saying it will save it). And then I still couldn't post it on a mobile phone!

This is 2018, and you can see how the state of decentralized social networking sucks. I made a video about it:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ1O_gmPneI
What you are looking for is "Private Information Retrieval". For the cube root result, check out: http://www.tau.ac.il/~bchor/PIR.pdf
Ok, maybe there are parts that are an overreach. Does that mean the whole thing is a bad idea?
My 90 year old grandpa still uses my late grandmother's AOL account and is afraid to stop paying the monthly service. He doesn't use Facebook mostly only FWD:FWD:FWD emails.
You should look at this https://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/courses/cs355_fall07/pir.p...
The matrix background on that page is cool but it does not go past the first page of scroll which sort of ruins the effect.
Does it help her see better? If so, then how is that the incorrect setting? Perhaps the real problem is the failure of roads to be properly lit. Obviously in rural areas, that’s a challenge and not always necessary, but most people here seem to not be talking about rural areas. In France, it seems that they obsess so much over global warming that the streetlights are pretty much worthless. Which makes the need to “see better” so much more acute.

Brighter or better positioned street lights would solve a lot of these issues.
Google sometimes ignores this, for reasons that nobody seems to actually understand.
Strange indeed. Maybe they are using some kind of Linux tablets? Gnome 3 seems an amazing DE for a tablet. Or maybe this is just a habit - perhaps they had to use Gnome 3 in the past and just don't want to change anything.
That's okay when it comes from Facebook. Everybody on Facebook signed up with Facebook. It's sharing with third parties that I don't think is cool.
Anyone think Uber vs. Ola will go down the same path?
So to be clear, you're saying "yes YouTube should host porn".
> with enough global effect to use it as a strategy against more modernised but smaller rivals.

In a way, you could argue that Civ II (and Alpha Centauri) mechanically included the problems of externalising cost better than any Civ-like since.
UK straight from school (high school) Research Assistant at the world leading hydrodynamics research organisation on the Mathematical Modelling and Nuclear group.
"The problem its hard when not social media to get visibility."

So the matter we must take up is that of equal opportunity for those wishing to increase their readership, (whether for influence or monetary reasons)?

That's my interpretation. In this sense, are Google and many other "given" sites on the web a barrier to having a conversation about such measures, because of their power?
I realize that it's too late to cry over spilled milk, but that was one of the reasons for which Firefox OS was developed. We wanted to push a different permission model in which permissions were much more fine-grained and could be audited and revoked easily. Sadly, one of the reactions of the development community (including HN commenters) at the time was along the lines of "Android is just fine".

I understand that recent versions of Android have moved towards adopting a permission model closer to that of Firefox OS, though, and I suspect that the example given by Firefox OS at least showed that it was possible.

P.S.: Yes, Firefox OS had other problems. Let's not try and idealize the past :)
Sounds like you've been reading the usual trash from the Daily Express or Breitbart or whatever.

If the price of a product included all externalities, then yes regulation isn't needed, however it doesn't and can't, and this is where the usual anarcho-libertarian views fall down.
I've got access to GCP and AWS, and a private account at a VPS provider with a server I can put anything on, and I still publish technical articles on medium for the simple reason that I get far more readers than I do when writing on my own blog.
> Decentralized projects will have to resist the urge to listen to these people

Think about it like this: "how will this censor calls on the network to censor the network". It's quite a conundrom.

Your proposal to well just don't listen to them is a form of self censoring -- not in the usual sense but I don't know a better term. Two sides of the same coin. One is the optimal case, you stay ignorant and it goes away, all do their best. On the other side, you can't just shut your eyes and ignore everything, which leads to various problems, some you don't want to or can't deal with and others can be resolved satisfactory. ...

Funny by-the-way. Zensur in german also means school-related "mark", "grade". Sp census is just evaluation. Weighting. Multiply content by its grade and you get zero contentrating for zero census votes. ... does that make sense?
Unless you are Cisco dev and do everything possible to screw it up

Edit: Cisco hardware was mentioned in this thread
Domain registrars are orders of magnitude less likely to censor content than user-generated content sites. Hosting providers vary on this issue, but they're a commodity and some do take a hard non-censorship line.

I agree we should call out sites for censorship, but there's a strong case for people taking more control over their publishing.
Never work at places that do this shit.

The bureaucracy is growing for its own sake.

It should be about product, not fucking policy.
I used Void on my previous laptop for about a year with no stability issues. The only reason I stopped using it was because I wanted to experiment with a no-grub EFI stub booted whole disk encryption using LUKS non-systemd setup, which I only really had an idea of how to do on Gentoo, so I went back to that. [Edit: I think I might have almost had this working on Void, in fact, but there was some piece that I couldn't get right, if I remember, but that I could do more easily in Gentoo. But I can't remember what that might have been. It's been a while since I did that.]

Otherwise, I probably would have stayed with Void for a while more. It was pretty nice.
I don't think any SJW would characterize their position is the dictionary definition of regression, and nor would I (despite not characterizing myself as one). Do people you consider SJW really say "life was better before?", I instead hear "life was bad before and is better now but hasn't gone nearly far enough: the trajectory of political correctness and minority rights needs to progress drastically further forward on that same line drawn from 1950 to 2018". It seems very difficult to attribute that sentence to the textbook definition of "regressive".

If a political position was literally "let's go back to how things were" then it would be fair to call that regressive. The closest thing I can think of is MAGA though, and for most other cases the goal of calling something regressive seems to clearly be "your politics will make things worse" not "your politics will return things to a previous state".
There are many projects using deep learning with lidar. Google PointNet, PointNet++, also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXHX9kFGXfg . These are all much newer than 2D CNNs and I don't know if it works well enough to actually be used in SDCs. Also, using CNNs on point clouds comes with all sorts of problems.
Facebook capitalised by being in the right place at the right time, a time when the internet was opened to the non-tech savy, the "regular" world spilled into what was already a social experience. This is why Facebook now has the moniker of the "mom" platform. Technology like blockchain might free the business model from having to generate revenue and better align the experaince.

But I have an easier time believing people will just dump social media than some Utopian public social ledger is going to solve what is essentially a psychological shitfest.
Also, did he mean the entire revision history of Wikipedia, or just the most recent versions of pages?
You're right, this is a weird article with a bizarre solution. Throwing obscure technology at a simple human problem is not the solution here. Facebook simply made social communication easier for the average Joes, and in the quest to do so became a monster. IRC/AIM/MSN/Gmail before that, and Snapchat/Slack after that shows that humans just want to communicate about silly things.

Whatever comes next needs to solve the problem to share the silly tidbits, without the greed to turn the users into a data farm.
Yes! It's insane. It's probably using location data and IP address among other things. If they had even an ounce of concern about privacy they would detect and explicitly prevent making recommendations across accounts that someone is obviously trying to keep separate.

The best breakdown I've seen of this issue, including glib comments from Facebook: https://gizmodo.com/how-facebook-outs-sex-workers-1818861596
So you have an expectation that CatTube should host dog videos?
Once we had a problem with Microsoft' LDAP library not handling referrals correctly on a Big Corp AD forest with domains on each sites. Real headache as we were already late for meeting our deadline...

Backstory: we produced a custom software that used Windows Embedded' LDAP library to handle the LDAP part (Winldap32 library with the Winldap.h headers). The machine running our software didn't join the domain, so it only authenticated the users with the ldap_bind function.

If I recall correctly, we found the ldap32 library referral problem when we used AdInsight (by Mark Russinovich) and saw the library was poking all around the place (the other forest DCs) and never completed any of the requests. I think we confirmed with Wireshark.

The hack was in 2 parts:

1) We made a DLL that offered the same ldap_* functions as those we used in our software. The library then redirected the LDAP calls to a python script that used a native ASN1/LDAP implementation which relied on nothing but pure python code.

2) Then we made a injection software that injected the DLL in our software at startup and replaced the Winldap32 functions with our DLL functions.

We then were able to bypass the MSFT' LDAP library problem, and I think we pretty close to our initial deadline in the end. Apart from the (very small) added latency on LDAP code, everything was fine in the end.
What on earth... I've never heard of hypnogogia. I just looked that up to discover hypnopompic... auditory hallucinations as you transition from sleep to waking up. I haven't constantly suffered this, but at periods in the last 5 years, I have often woken with a jump and an impending sense of dread to either the sound of a doorbell, or my ex yelling my name. In both cases, I know these were hallucinatory, the doorbell I have installed doesn't make the same sound as the doorbell I hear as I wake, nor has my ex been in my presence at the time I heard her calling my name. I had no idea this was a thing, I thought I was just going crazy, lol. So thanks for introducing me to these "conditions(?)" Perhaps I am still crazy, but at least there's a name for it :D
I have hardly ever used a computer less than 5 years old. All the computers I've used (except the most ancient) had built-in graphics. Yet I have never seen a single sign of slowness from KDE ever. I totally don't understand people saying KDE is slow or resource-heavy.
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I think you're downplaying the technical sophistication of Facebook, as well as the pioneering moves it made during its growth phase. Compared to MySpace, which was incumbent during its rise, Facebook did everything faster, with less friction for the everyday user. MySpace would often try and stuff full interstitial page loads between core parts of its user interface.

Facebook invented photos tagged with social profiles. Facebook invented the one-column social news feed. Since going public, Facebook's ad platform has remained at the forefront of useful and powerful online services. You can target users by interest, worldwide location, age, and more. It is an elegant platform that has been mishandled by aloof executies.
How about moving away from free services and demanding security, privacy, and customer support. Change our attitudes so we are not willing to be the product any more.
5/4 decisions don't matter. Just as good at 9/0. No rights are unlimited. And the limits suggested by Heller are totally unrelated to the purpose clause.
If you ever need a pick-me-up at my past selfs expense let me know ;) That place was full of stories!
Why should decentralization equal blockchain? I didn't quite get the idea. Decentralization for social networks was proposed a long time ago. The problem is not in application of it, but in the fact that good social networks aren't supposed to be commercial. And that means someone should invest volunteer time to advance them.

Diaspora grew over the years, and it's still growing. But the growth is slow.
The age of aestheticization
What is Eclipse OpenJ9?
Couldn't the indelible blockchain-embedded data be pointers to data hosted elsewhere? If the externally hosted data is "forgotten", the blockchain-verified pointers would be useless.
Manjaro with KDE is yummy.
I think you were still very right in your intentions. I despise Dropbox, personally, and wish it would die. This is what Operating Systems are for.

However, the fact it has not died and is in fact 'a success' from the capitalist side of things, means what I think about filesharing being an OS service, doesn't really matter. Microsoft and Apple and all the other vendors are asleep at the wheel - but it has to be said that its just a distro upgrade away from being the end of Dropbox for a lot of people.
I've updated that piece several times to clarify things, so you might check it again.

What it's a call for is hacking our way to publishing norms that don't involve tracking. And that's what we're starting to do at Linux Journal, where I'm editor-in-chief.

For the first time anywhere, we'll be agreeing to readers' terms, rather than the reverse. In legal terms, the reader will be the first party and Linux Journal will be the second party. I explain how we're approaching this in "Help Us Cure Online Publishing of Its Addiction to Personal Data": http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/help-us-cure-online-publ...

The barn we’re raising is for all of publishing, but we’re short-handed. So, if you're interested in helping, let me know (doc at linuxjournal dot com). Or show up on 2 April at the Computer History Museum: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/vrm-day-2018a-tickets-438706894... . Thanks!
Is there a list of lobby or non lobby groups who pushed for SESTA/FOSTA?
We used sock puppets in /r/netsec last year (and are sorry we did) (2015)
There are some use cases for which SPAs are a huge leap forward, greatly improving the user experience. A lot of modern web applications don't and shouldn't behave like a collection of pages, after all.

A blog is not one of these use cases; it is exactly a collection of pages.
When people propose blockchain solutions, I always think: How would it work with just a regular database? How would a blockchain make it better? What coalition of people will run the blockchain, and why would they be more trustworthy than whoever would run the database?

There are good answers to these for some applications, but I don't see what they are here.
Are they pushing a commit to github every time someone downloads something, or is this download_counter something else? https://github.com/AdoptOpenJDK/openjdk10-releases/commit/44...
I agree with this sentiment. Yet, it seems instinctive to suggest that the internet wasn't made to be exploited by those wishing to monetize it. I just think we've let the presence of large tech companies pervert this concept.

Absent such groups, it would seem to be desirable to let individuals monetize work which makes them happy. In such a web, it would be more akin to a street marketplace, as opposed to, say, a curated set of goods.
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/313/
Google has absolutely changed in the past 10 years. Have you tried looking for something obscure recently? Google increasingly over time takes more and more liberties with your search terms, regardless of operator use.

I notice that one of the pages you link to is from 2012. Again, the old ways just don't cut it any more. Since it doesn't even mention Google's "Verbatim" search option, it suggests to me that while its content might be technically correct, it's useless to hand-wave towards it as the cure for contemporary complaints about Google's results.
CTO had to make a deadline for the next morning, so he decided to override the safety system of an Autonomous Guided Vehicle of a few tons. Just bridged over it electrically.

Not only this, but he failed to inform the onsite crew that was going to put it in production.

AGV went somewhere it wasn't supposed to go, first employee pushed the red safety stop. AGV kept on riding, and thank god there was another person at the electonics panel to make it stop.

I was outraged about this, said that someone could have died, and that could mean jail time for the CTO. They said I was overreacting, and continued on their latest project that involved an AGV carrying people in an amusement park. I quited after that.
I upvoted you. What gets down voted on HN no longer makes sense to me. You make a really good point alluding to the direction our society is heading. I think a world where everything is digital and behind a "veil" of keyboard and monitors is a dangerous one. We need to make sure we don't lose touch with the reality that is the physical world so we don't live 100% online. All I see these days are groups of teenagers standing together looking at their phones...it's fucking terrible.
I know that Samsung at least ships with Facebook pre-installed, and I think HTC does as well.

By pre-installed I mean impossible to uninstall without rooting and flashing a different ROM.
I'm familiar with the expression. Its use here indicates that the reviewer believes the world is divided into those who are smart enough to follow the book and those who are wastes of time.

If it's not obvious why that sucks, imagine going to this professor's office hours if you're having trouble following a proof. Imagine that, rather than thinking you might just not have seen this style of proof before and trying to walk you through it, he indicates you aren't cut out to understand it and suggests you change your major.

(If it sounds like I'm being too harsh based on that one data point, after I read the review I went and looked up the professor on ratemyprofessor.com, and that seems to be his approach to struggling students: that he's weeding out people who just can't learn the material, not people who just got stuck because they're lacking the mathematical sophistication or exposure or confidence they need, or people who are learning more slowly and will be fine if they put in more time and effort and come up with better strategies. Not sure how a professor at Loyola Marymount decided he's qualified to be The Gatekeeper of Mathematics, but there it is.)
"not fun for someone to see the civ they built over the course of hours being taken from them."

Depends on the definition of "fun". A DwarfFortress-like definition might say "fun" is desperately trying to prevent or simply deal with things falling apart.
Aren't they all just burn investors money? Hence no income and no corporate income tax to pay?
Well, HN is not devoid of shittiness.
Meltdown and Spectre: Analyzing Performance Impacts
Reading does it for me. I could be high on 200mg of caffeine, tossing and turning for hours, but 5 pages into a book and I'm out.
It is fine to want things. These articles are as well founded as those that complain about the way Android does permissions. In that, they inform us about the spectrum of possible preferences among users. But inevitably every user considers only their use case, not how fixing it might break other use cases.
I am extremely happy with Manjaro. The only problem is it doesn't include a WiFi driver to support 2013 MacBook Air, you will have to install it manually if you have this model.
Their services should be built-in to the OS, and nobody should have to pay for it since we've all got computers perfectly capable of delivering the same quality of service.

The hype has to be perpetuated, lest this fact become reality: the OS vendors can wipe this business out with a single update.
It's getting harder and harder for me to muster any sympathy for these "Company X suspended my account and now I can't do Y" sob stories. As long as it's not your server, running software you control, you are taking the risk that whoever is providing that service will go out of business, capriciously close your account, censor you, ban you, etc., whether or not you're paying for it. Moreover, if your business actually relies on this service and you haven't accounted for this risk or prepared a mitigation plan? WTF!

How many examples of this happening do we need before we start acknowledging and taking the risk seriously, rather than crying about it after it happens? The sooner self-hosting comes back into fashion, the better.
This isn't true - that syntax is no longer honoured by default. It may give the search engine clues about what you want, but it sometimes chooses to ignore keywords and double quotes.

Verbatim mode is a little better, but still not as direct as it was 10 years ago.
Ask HN: What data does HN collect about its users?
Deleting your account is doing something. It's not our job to "fix" Facebook. It's not our responsibility to save FB from itself. FB is not a public service and it's purpose was never for the public benefit. It's a corporation who's sole purpose is to generate revenue and our personal data is source of that revenue. FB will never stop exploiting us. We only know about this recent scandal because of a whistle blower and it would have continued to happen unabated if it hadn't been exposed. And it will continue to happen so long as it's profitable for FB and it will continue to be profitable for FB so long as we keep giving them our personal data. This wasn't a mistake or by accident. This is what FB does and has been doing all along. They just finally got caught. Facebook does not care about you, don't care about it. Quit rewarding bad behavior. Quit expecting corporations to have morals. Money is their morality. Every time the Facebooks and Ubers or the world get away with this crap, it just encourages them to do it more. "Social Media" is not magic. It's just some software. Let's make something new. Fuck Facebook.
but you can check if the process is running and automatically restarting supervised services is the norm.
AOL had pretty much the same moat, so there is hope that Facebook can be dethroned.
That would definitely explain 2TB haha but yeah, if you pull the recent English version without images it's like ... I wanna say 30GB off the top of my head.

As for anyone curious:

https://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html
LMAO, I think you're right. It's pushing commits like this every 30 mins
And the memories continue to accumulate until we have no more need of progress.
Rust's futures leverage the type system to have extremely minimal overhead; many of those languages don't try to do that. That's where the difficulty comes in.