skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel this way about the internet as a whole. Just a complete obliteration of the culture.

The things that I hate the most are screenshots of other people's tweets (who cares) and "when u" with some stupid pop culture still attached. Everywhere I turn, I see this shit-tier cyber detritus. I am unable to escape it, even with endlessly tiresome filtering, list management, content blocking extensions and the like.

A long, long, long time ago, there was an absolutely delightful community called "b3ta" where people chatted and shared images (as still happens today), but there was a wonderful _culture_ to it, where it was simply socially unacceptable to post other people's content as your own, or even your own content if it wasn't really up to snuff. That seems unthinkable these days, as shameless reposting is not only the cultural norm, but the very business model for the largest web's primary attractions. And yet when I think about the delight the internet can bring, that's what I think of. I also think it's dangerous to cling to that nostalgia for the "golden era" of the internet, recognize that for the most part the great experiment has failed and to simply abandon it, or move on to the next thing with some of these bugs ironed out.
I've got privacy concerns on any "smart" device, particularly one the internals of which I cannot access. I want a panel with ports, not a self-contained computer. I don't understand why manufacturers won't sell me that. On the root shell, I am significantly less comfortable with any device I can't get into to tinker with. Just who I am.
Is unclear to me if you talk about Delphi and smalltalk?
I was going to mention tildes but who better to do it than you!

I have been using tildes for about 6 months so far. I love the technical side of the website. Its fast and its minimal and doesn't seem to be sucking up my data. I also love the interactions I have had while using it.

What its missing is the specialty stuff. On reddit I can find a whole community focused on one programming language. On tildes I'm lucky to see a programming post.

But this leaves me with an interesting problem, how can you have a website that has enough users to make up a group for specialty interests without it becoming big enough that it turns in to reddit. It almost seems like the only way is to have totally separate sites for every interest.
The premise was how we can ensure greater diversity in the free market and protection from big conglomerates. Taxing the rich even more doesn’t help with this in any way.

In general rich are taxed more, which is fair to a point in maintaining a functional and stable society but beyond that I think it’s immoral and theft. I also hold the opinion that rich shouldn’t have ways to circumvent the tax net. Everybody in the economy should pay their fair share.

Edit: I don’t know what’s up, this was a reply to acjohnson55
I think this kind of exercise and thinking is also pretty ahead of its time, Russia really understands the implications of cyber warfare. Ww3 is really going to take place on the net
The constraint is SEC filing requirements https://www.investopedia.com/terms/1/2000-investor-limit.asp

Wealthy investors can find a connection or pay a bit of a premium with companies like https://equityzen.com/trending/reddit/ who (last I checked) promise you most of your share of the gains in exchange for a cut and keeping ownership over the actual options.
How do you make clothes for characters on happy wheels?
How do you make clothes for characters on happy wheels?
Migrate a monolith app without automated tests?
Is weird, because reddit for me is great, sometimes even more than HN and stack overflow.

However, I suscribe to rust, mechanical keyboards, how make programming languages...
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Its a tool covered in weird gunk and makes your hand feel dirty every time you use it. The website is slow and bloated and filled with mountains of JS and tracking
The other one similar that I know of is prismo. If they all use activityPub they will be compatible. They will also be compatible with mastodon (which is like twitter), peertube (which is like youtube) and many others.
Yup, kids love their Juul. Smoking is uncool, but Juuling is what all the kids are doing. Arguably it's creating worse nicotine addicts that cigarettes ever did.

Interesting article from a short while back on the topic: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/14/the-promise-of...
Right: certainly not for many of the hard or big-picture questions. The experiments described in "Consciousness and the Brain" that I've read so far have been very conservative in their conclusions, however, and I think they mostly avoid the sort of criticisms you linked to.
I'm not sure I understand the leap from "I don't like taxing people excessively because they have more" to "I don't like the middle class being taxed."

Doesn't the "because they have more" bit exclude the middle class by definition? If the taxman comes for me, then we're no longer following the initial plan.

If you're suggesting that a country will run out of wealthy people to tax... I'm not sure how that would work logistically. Is that a thing that could happen?
While I agree with general stance there is way to avoid these problems. The reason I use reddit much more than Twitter / Instagram is because there are nice open source UI-enhancement projects and clients.

> The degredation of the UI - old.reddit.com won't last forever

I pretty sure Reddit Enhancement Suite will just continue to be developed:

https://redditenhancementsuite.com/

> The push to mobile apps (see degredation of UI)

RedReader is open source and amazingly good for mobile.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.quantumbad...
They've been on the "receiving end" of it for years already, contrary to popular perceptions the Russians didn't really invent any of this [0].

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-op...
Yes this is going to inevitably lead to your phone / face / way you walk being a "cookie" that follows you offline and online. They say 'while maintaining privacy', but once a FAANG buys them out, that is probably going to be over, let alone governments tapping in.
They’ve been plenty overt when someone talks about Taiwan...
The original desktop site on mobile works fine for me, it’s all I’ve ever used. But it’s not the default and the redesign is unusable, so you have to configure each new browser you visit the site on. My usage has definitely dropped over the last few months due to usability alone.
Now if only I could automate my mail merge and build a CRM from a spreadsheet, scan business cards into it and hit a button.
So now I know Facebook is listening
Software isn't the only investment they do though. They also invest in electric car companies (which prompted Musk to threaten to go private), companies that do major infrastructure/construction, industrial manufacturing, virtual reality and machine learning, chemicals and materials, aerospace, etc. Not using an app is easy, but if you really want to escape them you'll have a fairly hard time doing so. They even own 25% of Arm Holdings, so better toss that cell phone and tablet.
About 9% of US households use food stamps at some point in the year [0]. About 0.17% of US people are homeless on a given night [1]. Nowhere near half.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supplemental_Nutrition_Assista...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_Sta...
The authors' point seems to be "if you ask people questions whose real answers correspond to informal statistical judgments, then they will give the right answers."

This isn't really that informative, but the strongest form of this argument is "informal statistics is better in a lot of real-world cases." This sounds to me quite a bit like the case the behavioral economists make -- that these intuitions aren't crazy, or stupid, but they do exist. They were constructing tests specifically to isolate them, and succeeded.

A further point is that these kinds of situations when intuitions are challenged happen regularly. I don't know what behavioral economics says specifically about causes, but it seems to me they take a fairly neutral view: such situations can occur by chance, due to hostile intent, or by mistake. Whether the outcome is positive or negative depends as well. The point of "nudge policy" (opposition to which seems to be the main point of the article) is to see about making these situations positive -- that is, arranging the world through policy such that making intuitive considerations actually yields positive outcomes. I don't think the authors' argue successfully for the point that since everyone is rationale and no-one ever gambles when presented with the opportunity, that therefore arranging policy such that intuitive choices yield positive outcomes is unwarranted interference.
Yes, that should be happening within the next week (but it will still require an invite to register/participate).
There's already very little choice in the marketplace. The world's top brands are owned by just a handful of multinational conglomerates. This Gizmodo article has a lot of examples [1]:

* Among supermarket goods, almost everything is sold by just 10 companies, including Nestlé, Unilever, Kraft, P&G and Johnson & Johnson.

* 54% of all financial assets in the US are owned by just 10 companies (JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and a few others).

* Same thing is happening to media conglomerates (Disney is a good example), airlines, alcoholic beverage companies, and everything else.

There's an increasing proliferation of brands, but an decreasing number of brand owners, resulting in an illusion of consumer choice. Even Amazon itself is a good example: An increasing number of products on Amazon are "secret" brands [2] owned by Amazon itself.

[1] https://gizmodo.com/fascinating-graphic-shows-who-owns-all-t...

[2] https://qz.com/1039381/amazon-owns-a-whole-collection-of-sec...
Their mobile app (on iOS) is pretty terrible in my opinion. I use Apollo. It's fairly priced and the developer is responsive, and it feels like an iOS app not a web app.
And most Americans don’t like him.
However, people who would create a forum for a topic were often more dedicated. Same for those that seek out such a forum. You also got a lot of different quality of content from dedicated forums. At least for technical ones from my experience.
It's just us bro, thread is long dead otherwise.

... Consider those hundreds of millions (!!) who have joined the middle class. Are they your enemy? Should we start another cold war?

What if you tried to think from their point of view?

(And who is downvoting this deep into a dead thread? Some humanitarian?)
Integration of Lightning Network into Cash App Only a Matter of Time:Jack Dorsey
Or maybe Pingdom, NewRelic, or gtmetrix?
User namespaces have been supported in Docker since 1.10. I don't think that it's necessarily "supported" in Kubernetes -- there was a KEP to add support last year but it's still a while away.

As for setuid and fscaps, they both work in containers (container images can contain them but some filesystems don't support xattrs such as AUFS). And yes, without user namespaces, they escalate to host root. You can use no_new_privs which blocks things like setuid or fscap but it also can cause problems (though I think you can enable no_new_privs in Kubernetes).
>> We encourage all users to update to the latest version of Android where possible.

Good luck with that.
Can you give me an example of how apple was so bad?
Hi, I'm a Redux maintainer.

FWIW, we've got a new Redux Starter kit package that tries to be a bit more "batteries included". It includes utilities that help simplify several common use cases, including store setup, defining reducers, immutable update logic, and even creating entire "slices" of state automatically. It also includes `redux-thunk` built in, as well as some middleware that check for things like mutations.

Please try it out and let us know what you think!

https://redux-starter-kit.js.org
If you do that, you're moving the cost on to the motherboards and increasing the cost for something most consumers won't get any advantage out of.
>A decent programmer would never trust the remote end to actually just send [number of bytes to come] bytes.

Well, I applaud your optimism, anyways, but programmers of almost any skill level make egregious security mistakes, especially when working on a deadline. Maybe not everyone would make this mistake, but managing trust while writing optimal code is very tricky.

LZO is a fantastic example of a library that had an "obvious" security flaw for many years, with a fairly trivial integer overflow bug, due to how the decoder dealt with the variable length int encoding.
You have been down voted, but I think this is a reasonable point and a reasonable question. It seems to me that the method of iterated transformation you suggest will indeed yield a random draw.

My analogy is to Markov chain Monte Carlo. It is well known that MCMC on a discrete space will converge to the desired distribution (we’ll get to that in a second) if the chain is irreducible and aperiodic.

Irreducible means any state can eventually transition to any other state using the permutations allowed. This is easy to validate if we just use the various face rotations. Aperiodic essentially means that there is no fixed “loop” from one state back to itself that occurs with probability one. (The even parity issue that @someone raised comes in here. An absolute fix in the lack of full understanding of all possible such issues is to allow null moves with some low probability.). For a simple state space like this, the main thing is to make the permutations chosen in such a way that all states are reachable.

OK, iterated permutations converge in distribution, but to what? All the states in the target distribution here have equal probability, so (in MCMC terms) the posterior is totally flat:

P(s) / P(s’) = 1

for all states s, s’. This means that a reversible Metropolis-Hastings sampler that just accepts every proposed move will converge to a flat posterior. OK, so we just need to make the permutations we propose reversible.

What is reversible? It means that, if you are at state s, you are just as likely to go to s’ as if you are at s’ and going to s. [1] The easy way to ensure this is to make “clockwise twist of left face” chosen with the same probability as “counterclockwise twist of left face”.

This is the obvious strategy anyway, which is why reversible samplers are popular.

So in sum, the recommended algorithm is to start from any legal state and perform “N” permutations randomly chosen from clockwise/counterclockwise (50/50 chance) rotations of a randomly chosen face. To accomplish the null moves, just subtract a small random number from N.

On a discrete state space, you will get exponentially fast convergence to the desired distribution. The space is strongly connected, because you can get from any state to any other state with at most 40 moves.

I don’t see the problem here.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis–Hastings_algorith..., A(x, x’) = 1.
not sure why your comment was also downvoted.

it seems that anything that points to a reality that doesn't paint China favorably are downvoted instantly here and reddit.

given SV's willingness to take Chinese money, I'm not surprised if see winnie the pooh banned on HN.
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Show HN: Open source balloon simulation with Three.js
A couple of years ago I produced this as a study into procedural heightmaps, shadow mapping and online geometry loading with Three.js. I had big plans for it but abandoned it half way.

I found it on my hard-drive the other day and thought it might be worth putting up in the case that it's of any use to anyone! The project is full of performance issues and other weird things but hey I hope it's worth something! Enjoy.

Code lives here: https://github.com/alexanderperrin/threejs-ballooning

Works on desktop and (most) mobiles. You can use the arrow keys or touch the screen to move the balloon.
It's fine, Google updates everything through Google Play Services now.
Great points all around. One question though — how many apps actually need to share state across pages? Seems like mobile apps have this problem more than desktop apps, because their screens are small and so the UI must be split into pages. Whereas a large monitor can support an expansive UI that isn’t “split up”. So if you’re making a desktop app, what would you use instead of redux? Seems like your points about splitting off business logic, debugging and testing all still apply when the state is confined to a single heavily interactive screen with complex state.
This is just sick. How the fuck do these priests live with themselves?
Note that I didn't specify gender of the escort, either way is equally possible once a person's orientation has been identified.
The same thing happened to me. Recently, one company put me through three Python challenges. One on the phone, and then later two in person. One was on the whiteboard, with no "hello" or questions about who I was, starting immediately as I entered the room. I completed his assignment (and in an object-oriented way). Later he said, "We're looking for someone who can come up to speed quickly." And later HR said, "Feedback was very mixed, but unfortunately you don't come up to speed quickly."

I answered all the questions, have a proven track record, am self-taught for 15 years with increasingly high salary / rates, and yet for this one guy I was incapable of learning quickly. This was determined in a 30 minute whiteboard interview I passed.

Some of the interviewers have extremely low sociability on the psychological scale, even if they're tech geniuses (which isn't even evident). Everyone talks about the skillsets, S-curves and so on, but no one talks about the mediocre evaluation process by those who aren't good at it.
Differential privacy.
> My question is that the README implies that pledge() and unveil() are required for functionality, to the point that porting to an OS without support for that is an inherently questionable idea.

Knowing Kristaps, he probably considers strong privsep and privdrop basic functionality. That is after all why he developed acme-client in the first place; he acknowledged at the time the plethora of “lightweight” certbot alternatives but was more concerned with security architecture.

> That certainly isn't true of Chrome (I run it on non-OpenBSD and there are no functionality / security issues in doing so). That isn't true of OpenSSH, which also supports pledge() on OpenBSD and still is pretty secure on other OSes.

Chrome uses different techniques depending on the platform. On OpenBSD it uses pledge() and unveil(), while on Linux it uses seccomp. Kristaps isn’t a fan of seccomp’s complexity, as he mentions in the readme: “Linux's security facilities are a mess, and will take an expert hand to properly secure.” He’s not suggesting it can’t be done, and the Google Chrome team in particular has the kind of expertise he’s talking about.

For projects of less‐than‐Chrome scale, though, Kristaps feels that seccomp is too difficult: https://github.com/kristapsdz/acme-client-portable/blob/mast...

> And I am worried, in particular, that the author means that the validator is not very strong, and the bulk of the validation is that it unveils the filesystem to the files it's supposed to write to and then blindly trusts the input, on the grounds that the remote side could just have sent different files.

I don’t understand this interpretation. It’s not what I got from the readme at all. What kind of validation do you expect Kristaps to be overlooking?
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204146
If you are making $500K an year. By many a definition, you are already on a way to NOT needing to work ever in a few years, than even working for yourself.

Why would you throwaway an opportunity to amass like $5 million in 10 years, and then put it in a retirement fund and just retire. Instead of throwing it all away and starting all over again on something that is known to work in only exceptional cases(start up lottery).

Looks good on paper and all. But not a smart move.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060672/

Edit: It also needs humor.
Honestly, as an Asian American, I actually prefer the villain characters as opposed to the new “sidekick/background” character trope.

Hollywood writers and producers still know how to marginalize these new Chinese characters and unfortunately, it seems the Chinese audience is still naive to it.

At least the villains had agency. These new Chinese sidekicks only purpose is to serve the “American” hero.
Yes, obviously. The API is the same though. The interface.
Reddit was outraged when the users heard that Reddit was going to take $150M from Tencent but now there is not a single mention of it on the frontpage even after they took double the earlier reported amount.

I cannot help but think if it's the Reddit's censorship is in play here.
If accepting BTC was raking in dough for some merchants, you would expect more merchants to start adopting it. However, it appears that many merchants who did accept BTC in the past no longer do.

Or put another way, can you point to some stats that show increased organic BTC spend for e-commerce?
On one hand I think Apple and Google should drop this, and never should have hosted it. On the other hand I disagree with your assesment that “every little bit helps.” Too often these largely symbolic acts do little more than assuage guilt, they don’t improve anyone’s life. Think of it this way, if you’re riddled with cancer, and I offer you a single dose of chemo, you might reasonably complain that I’ve done nothing for you. If I then shrugged and said that at least I tried, and every little bit helps, you’d be well within your rights to laugh in my face.

Sometimes helping just a very little bit is as good as doing nothing, or even worse, because doing nothing at least is unequivocal in terms of moral culpability. In this case we’re talking about Saudi Arabia, a country with vast riches because we all buy their oil and kiss their asses. It’s like my government (U.K.) crying about Yemen while selling the Saudis more weapons.

Helping is a good idea, we shouldn’t host these apps, shouldn’t sell them weapons, and frankly shouldn’t dare to pat ourselves even slightly on the back for it.
Also robustness costs, -- many heuristics that get poked at by champions of behavioral economics are behaviors that tend to give improved results when reasoning with noisy inputs (and, in particular, inputs with unknown levels of noise or even malicious distortions) compared to a formal decision theory that doesn't handle low quality inputs well.

These limitations are only a concern when people attempt to suggest that behavioral economics is telling us to rework how we live our lives. Generally such claims are unjustified extrapolations from very basic studies which in no way support the pop-economics advice. Like if someone did some experiments and determined that submersing people in water often killed the test subjects, then other people ran to the presses recommending that no one drink anymore because water was proven to kill in scientific studies... :)
Or references to the sovereign nation of Taiwan, or the Dalai Lama or Tibet.

Allowing such an oppressive government to control so much of our cultural mindspace is quite chilling.
The admins have been pretty vocal about not giving up the old design. But I only imagine for long are they willing to they keep the two interfaces up and running?