skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s true that “thing but not” sites tend to have issues with getting the unwanted population of the original “thing” website. And of course, some of that “unwanted” population is actually not necessarily bad, but a lot of it certainly is. I think the main way you can combat this is by disincentivizing users to bring their unwanted behaviors to the new site while incentivizing existing users to check it out. Obviously network effects dominate, but that hasn’t stopped there from being small niches where Mastodon instances and Matrix chats are good and healthy. OTOH, the point of sites like Voat and Gab were to support users who were not welcome on Reddit and Twitter, and therefore it quickly became a problem. But I don’t like the notion that you can’t directly compete with established sites - I feel like back in the day this is Exactly what happened with news aggregators. Digg and Reddit were once fairly similar sites; although Digg always had a nicer interface, they served an extremely similar purpose at the end of the day, and yet it was possible for them to compete. I think it’s harder now, but probably still doable if you can be novel enough, or if the big site becomes too annoying (Reddit seems to really be trying at this, to be honest; just try using their website on a mobile browser!)
From the FAQ:

> Q: How do I import my current SSH keys, or export my Secretive Keys?

> A: The secure enclave doesn't allow import or export of private keys. For any new computer, you should just create a new set of keys. If you're using a smart card, you might be able to export your private key from the vendor's software.

I don't get it. If so, how am I supposed to back up my keys in case of a hardware failure or hardware theft?
And given how Office loves React Native, and Microsoft is making it work across all major desktop OSes, with the team continuously bashing Electron's bloat on their talks, I look forward to the way when RN powers VSCode.
With projects like johnny-five [0] I think we're pretty close to that reality.

[0] http://johnny-five.io/
Can we try to figure out sociologically, why by default unmoderated social forums become far-right oriented?

Is it because:

- People on the far-right are magnitudes more vocal and active online than those on the left? That they spend a magnitude more time posting and voting on the internet?

- Or when people are anonymous, they reveal their "true selves" more which exhibits more far-right (selfish, tribal, conservative) values.

- Or we are underestimating how many people are on the far right, because they are constantly censored so in our minds we think they are the minority but maybe they're about half of the online population?

I'm just trying to figure out why it takes herculean effort to shift things enough to the left to be publicly palatable. And if so, then then it seems like any social forum is going to require heavy censorship/moderation to even be tolerable to the general public.
Hey there. OP here.

I submitted that particular title since I was on mobile and in a hurry, so I converted the URL of 'http://www.androidauthority.com/lawful-access-to-encrypted-d... with two words such that the title would be a grammatically correctish sentence.

No editorialization intended and if I had more time I would have opened a separate tab to load the article, then copy/pasted the article title.

Mods, feel free to correct the title as needed.
Not a good sign when the website doesn't load: https://i.imgur.com/Us1mwrD.jpg
I pay 3x the price for protonmail just so I can buy crypto at an inflated price with cash and pay for my email. Yes it is critical for me. I and many others are willing to pay up for a service that respects our privacy and asks for consent before selling us out.
I keep coming back to Block Buster. Their model was borrow money to open stores and drive smaller mom and pop rental places out of business. I'm not sure but I think when you add everything up they never made a positive return doing that. They just ended up leaving banks holding the bag when they went bankrupt.

Lot of VC unicorns feel like that times 100.
When free speech on the internet is discussed, it is within the context of freedom from excessive moderation on a platform. To call a Fediverse a "platform" doesn't seem quite analogous, these communities are more like their own platforms that are far more intensely moderated than even Twitter or Reddit.

Free speech advocates who aren't convinced by the "just go to another platform" argument in a discussion about Reddit or Twitter censorship likely won't think the argument is worth accepting simply by redefining what a platform is.
Here is a link which doesn't require DRM and works with youtube-dl:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84phU8of02U
Digital.ai Acquires Arxan Technologies
raddle.me is a reddit alternative created by lefists after being banned on Reddit. It hasn't been taken over by the far right.
Compounding of continuous improvement in daily life, similar to compounding of an equity portfolio. In other words, focusing on "Aggregation of Marginal Gains" in all aspects of life [1].
[1] https://jamesclear.com/marginal-gains
I cannot tell if you are joking or not, but needing to place an entity into the world for a single frame to accomplish this rather than simply applying an impulse to the player is precisely the kind of over-complication I'm referring to
You aren't. It is the same with Yubikeys, if you use them. You are supposed to generate a certificate per user and device they are using for authentication, which is not a big deal at least for remote login on servers, as you can set an arbitrary number of valid SSH keys.
More expensive for a 1:1 16in than a 16:9 16in. Also 16in is usually 15.6.
The problem is always 'how do i allow this user to reset their password', or more 'how do i verifiably contact the user'/'how do i verify someone emailing support is who they say they are' - without email, it's completely on the user to know and remember their password, something a lot of people can't do (and most don't use a p/w manager). HN does fine here since it's a 'tech' community where the majority likely does use a password manager, and Reddit gets away with it since their UI is so quiet about the email being optional - almost everyone thinks it's a required field since other websites require it and it looks just like the u/p field.
I kinda agree that "fairness", even though a valid issue, seems receive a disproportional amount of attention.

The central dangers, apart from misuse, seem to be a coordination problem and a control problem.

The coordination problem is that AGI will likely lead to a winner-takes-all scenario, implying a per-emptive strike becomes rational once one player seems too far ahead of the game.

The control problem is that the value function of an AGI may diverge from our own value function.
Using Zig to provide stack traces on kernel panic on bare metal (2018)
California coronavirus surge continues: Another 5,624 cases reported
If your choices are:

$20 mother board and 15 minute of $50 / hr tech

vs

$0.40 cap and 45 minutes of a $50 / hr tech

Replacing the cap might not actually be a win. Would need to know more about the actual hardware costs, as well as how often swapping 1 cap really fixes the problem (like, why did it blow to begin with? Will it just blow again in 3 days?)
I would say it's not "more moderation" but rather "better moderation". An unbelievable amount of human effort is spent moderating reddit. It is very, very far from unmoderated. The issue is that the moderation going on is not intended to help along things like constructive conversation. Moderation on Reddit by and large exists to make subreddits as insular and myopic as possible.
The VT100's industrial design shouldn't look too unfamiliar to anyone either.
Keep a separate spare set of keys
Wren was originally written by Bob Nystrom, author of Crafting Interpreters. He recently handed it off to another maintainer.
No, it‘s not. Most machine learning is used for practical applications where it‘s easy to judge if it works.

For example, if I provide some automatic assignment of let‘s say a related object, reducing the work required to find the correct one and the team using it is much faster, then I can measure this and that‘s enough. Likewise for, let‘s say a recommender system. The BI department will look at conversions and that‘s in fact the only thing that matters. Nobody cares how good the model is. What we care about is whether the recommendations have the desired effect in that case.

And besides, what‘s hard about measuring how accurate a model is for predictions? Compared to most things in a typical CS curriculum that‘s rather easy indeed.

Finally, what‘s „dangerous“? ML is usually applied in a business context. Better recommendations; automatic assignment of objects. Automatic classification of pictures. Things like that.

Sure, in a medical context perhaps or financial. Then it may be dangerous. For everything else, maybe you get a worse result. That‘s not unlike everything else in software engineering where many people with different skill levels get very different results (some better some much worse).
Proposed bill will require broken encryption, backdoors on devices
That's sort of a deal-breaker for a lot of use cases. Think of all those small corporate desktops out there which are beefier than a Mac Mini and wired to cheapo VGA-only 19" LCD monitors because finance isn't going to pay to replace a working screen. The iMac form factor is never gonna compete there.

And of course the neglected "I just want internal drives or expansion cards" demographic. I;m not sure if the cheese grater design fixes it, but with the trashcan Mac Pro, there were plenty of configurations where the equivalent Dell/HP/Lenovo workstation was one clean self-contained box stuffed with PCI-e cards and SATA/SAS drives, and the Mac Pro was an angry squid of Thunderbolt, USB, and power cables to feed an array of external drives and devices.

I understand that their brand is based on seamless design and we-make-the-decisions-for-you presentation, but it feels like there'd be an opportunity for them to use a small-scale clone program as a market research tool.

Have it sell the form factors that Apple won't. The long-whined-for xMac. Units with servicable/cleanable designs for embedded markets. A mini-ITX Mac mainboard you can fit into existing kiosk/appliance designs. A rebranded Toughbook running MacOS. Something in a huge rackmount/server cube case that you can fit with a dozen internal drives. Frankly, I'd envision it as a wholly-owned operation, that charges over-the-odds prices. If people are still willing to put their money where their mouth is, they can claim epiphany and make an Apple version of the same design. If not, they can declare the business a failure, shutter it in a year, and start over next time they want to trial a product.
I’m hopeful something good will come of this. I wrote this about LinkedIn but most of it could easily apply to a Reddit alternative, I love HN but would love to see a broader platform that didnt become cancerous. https://blog.eutopian.io/building-a-better-linkedin/
"Even Uber might never be profitable."

Uber will never be profitable, they can't pay their labor.

What sucks is that their failure will destroy the business model for someone who might have been willing to give it an honest effort.
Face Surveillance Is Not the Solution to the Covid-19
There's a whole discipline around converting diagrams to code, called Model Driven Engineering. The idea is that you capture business entities and rules in various well defined diagrams, which then can be converted to code through code generation tools, i.e. can be turned into programs.

This was mainly promoted and developed by the creators of UML and has strong ties to it. That was UML's vision after all, a visual diagram language that unambiguously captures the essense of a program.

The Eclipse Modeling Framework is a framework that implements this approach.

I think MDE was up and coming around the end of the 2000s. As far as I know it didn't really go anywhere.
Nice review of the UX...

If you want to take a look at something different you can try my side project https://taaalk.co. It's a platform for interviews.

(Sorry for the shameless plug, I just worked hard on my UX and would be interested to have it judged!)
I have used them for everything from Stack Exchange to Quora. Only yopmail seems to be banned consistently.
I had several problems trying to get the page to load. After allowing it to use lots of javascript-related resources, it eventually loaded but took a while to display the actual text, on a fast internet connection. Unfortunate.
The website is down only for me
It's a weird issue honestly. I've been on reddit for almost a decade, and I don't like what it has become. I would love to switch to a better alternative, but the problem is any alternative that pops up seems to be filled with extremists as soon as it starts. This doesn't imply that anyone who wants to leave reddit is a neo-nazi, a lot of us are stuck with reddit because everything else is filled with shit.
Um, this is just a random subset of the truism:

"Capitalism is mostly a scam"

(which is mathematically true but nonetheless it's the best system we got)

P.s. I've lent to dozens of people on kiva and tracked their stories - really uplifting and highly recommended... but you have to be choosey...
Thats really cool!

Its interesting to know how possible (and easy) it is.

Thanks for your work, and pointing this out.
Not many numbers involved, so I can't take this article seriously. I looked up this Doctor. See for yourself:

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Malcolm_Kendrick

Here's an easy way to determine spread and increased severity:

Deaths recorded this month last year / million population

vs.

Deaths recorded this month / million population

Of course you'd have to be a month off because these things don't always bubble up quickly, and people are found dead in their home after having been there a week

You could get tricky with it, and filter out obvious non-viral deaths - murder/suicide, car accidents, drug overdoses.
I struggle to see how composing into functions adds a runtime cost when using modern compilers; as others have pointed out the compiler will inline it if the function is only used once.

This rationalization doesn’t make sense to me, especially for game engines which I assume are not limited to a release or 2 but are used to power multiple titles. If the software artifact is going to live for a long time, it’s probably worth the effort to make it easier to understand and test.
I'd expect that it's because if you have some new forum without (as many) restrictions, you get both:

- people who disagree with the restrictions of other places on principle and want a freer alternative

- people who can't say what they want to anywhere else, because it's generally disliked

and most people probably do not want to read stuff from the second group.
“Loss of smell” Google search now trending in West Virginia, Nebraska, Nevada
"Fediverse" = federated universe. Basically a bunch of smaller social networks speaking together through common protocols. Think: being able to follow a YouTube channel straight from your Twitter account — no need to create a YouTube account.

The most popular of such networks is Mastodon (https://joinmastodon.org/), which everyone can run on their own server (often referred to as an "instance"). By default, you create an account on one server and just speak to everyone like if you were on the same server. If one of such servers turns out to be a cesspool full of bigots (like Gab is), an admin can simply say "my server will no longer communicate with that server". When a bunch of servers do that, Gab is pretty much isolated, even though it's using an open protocol.

To put it in layman's terms: if a lot of spam comes from user@example.com, Gmail can just dismiss the emails coming from all addresses that end in @example.com.

Server owners are usually transparent and keep lists of servers they're not speaking to on GitHub or somewhere.
My estimate was for 1 restaurant location.

The company can build out 10,000 robotic restaurants like this, which may bring you closer to your estimate of $100M USD per day.

But, there’s also competition. Which will limit your earnings.
Also Requires visual studio
It makes the spam irrelevant as you never see it, it makes it being sold irrelevant as again, you never see it. It can be stolen and nobody can tie it back to you.
https://fediverse.party/
The problems in UX/UI in what I've tried span from fundamental interaction design down to code.

I guess it's a young project, so lots can be improved. I think the problems you mention are bad but they sound fixable.

I'd think about contributing or at least start by running my own instance and tweaking the interface to my liking. I'll also need to check if Inferno is worth learning.
Voat attempted several design choices to make it solve certain complaints about Reddit, and most of those choices ended up being terrible ideas:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/voat-what-went-wrong/

I think the right answer is federation. Having a lot of instances moderated by different people gives people a lot more freedom of choice.
That's how language works. We call people "engineers" who have never and will never work on any engines.
No it wasn't. Voat was originally "Whoaverse", a reddit clone that the developer created as a school project. He literally copy-pasted the HTML/CSS from Reddit and then started gradually rebuilding some of the backend in C#. You can see the original version in the internet archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20140427060403/http://whoaverse.c...

He tried to get people to use it for a while, but since it was just a less-functional and empty Reddit, nobody was very interested. Eventually some of the users/subreddits banned from Reddit started using it since they had been kicked off real Reddit, and the developer ended up welcoming them while justifying it as "free speech". I think he mostly just seemed happy that some people actually wanted to use his site.

It's all been downhill from there, and the original creator even abandoned the site a few years ago and handed it over to someone else.
There's a story in which aliens unexpectedly destroy nearly everything in the solar system and when asked why, they explain that they received transmissions of Star Trek episodes and people singing "We Are The World" and so they put together the fantasies of galactic domination with the idea that humans might be close to global unification, and decided it was time to apply a bug bomb to Earth.

In other words, the things we see as negative might not bother aliens much, if they mostly indicate we might destroy ourselves.
"You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like."
There is:

https://www.esev.com/blog/post/2015-01-pgp-ssh-key-on-yubike...

https://developers.yubico.com/PIV/Guides/SSH_with_PIV_and_PK...

The yubikey (at least some models) can work as a smartcard.
I am not sure it's that fair: have you ever attempted to design a typeface?

FWIW, I am using "fair" in comparison with other copyrightable work: there's a lot of it that obviously did not involve a lot of "human thought" (Hollywood blockbusters included ;)).
I've been thinking for a few weeks to change my diet to avoid having high sugar spikes and keep my energy high throughout the whole day.

When I workout I use to eat 5 times a day and a snack with a high glycemic index (like a handful of raisins) during workout or I'm unable to keep up. That's probably because all the energy from my last meal which is usually 3 hours before my workout is gone.

I'm the kind of person who loses weight on a normal diet that someone else would gain weight and my body fat is around 13-14%. My problem, as I said, is keeping the same levels of energy during the day.

I'll probably start by eating 2 times a day. High protein meals with veggies and some whole grains with a low glycemic index to see how it goes.
Everyone else has no strong reason to leave the existing platform.
Am I the only one on HN which thought this was a bad idea all around from the beginning? I remember that people were very enthusiastic back then because of the Rust hype and the author's pedigree, so critics were quickly silenced.

For me, picking Rust and the JSON-based IPC were huge red flags and this post-mortem confirms that. But what I find odd is that many are still not willing to accept the conclusion that using Rust for a UI-intensive app is a bad idea. And using multiple languages in a project and splitting in back-end vs. front-end or lib + UI is also quite popular around here, unjustifiably in my opinion when one considers the extra complexity involved.
I'm tired of somehow having to accept that giant corporations and their lobbyists get to dictate what I'm allowed to read on the internet.
And what stops a network of lemmy instances from being that more intensely moderated Reddit alternatives? That's my point: just because other reddit alternatives have branded themselves as "free speech" doesn't mean all of them have to. And federated platforms might make that easier than one-offs.
Human brains uniquely tuned for musical pitch
I'd argue that raddle is far more intensely moderated than Twitter or Reddit, probably more so than most subreddits.

I may not have done a good job of illustrating it in the previous post, but the example was mainly focused on platforms that bill themselves as an anti-censorship alternative to Reddit. Censorship and free speech on social media are incredibly complex topics, and the development of an endless stream of tiny, far right echo chambers doesn't seem to capture the spirit of this "town square" that free speech advocates are looking for.
there’s extremists on every platform
Design, remix, and share your street
Quantitative approach aka “noob gains” stops working fairly quickly even with athletic training
Non-paywalled copy:

https://archive.is/FWzaA
I don't think HN outcompetes Reddit...

Also, Reddit has more moderation than Reddit. Subreddits exist for a reason.
Moderation hides content

That's the biggest limit of moderated forums, they only reflect the opinion of the most active groups who can steer the discussion helped by moderators who benefit from rewarding the largest groups instead of the best comments

If moderation was visible and moderators were forced to leave a note about why the moderation took place it would be a real discussion platform

HN is not

Slashdot is a lot better than many others in this regards, but it's not popular anymore and you can't make money on it, while a lot of people leave by posting shit on Reddit

Worse is better always wins
Nothing Verifies Your Materialistic Pursuits as a Small Town Visit
The Reddit redesign made Reddit ridiculously unusable. Also like the web in general the more users it got the horrible it became. The stardard of content fell through the floor. The stanard of comments did the same. It went from be a pretty free market liberal types to angry left wing reactionaries over the course of a few years. It felt like the users got younger and younger until one day I saw a pic bunch of high school students egged on by their teachers holding a "socialism now" banner, this was front page.
I have it too, and I'm with you it's great for non heavy phone users.

I got mine fully unlocked directly from palm site.
The three people that this article is about, for a start.
some parts of a query cannot be parameterized, e.g. the column name for an 'order by' in many cases. So you have to do some kind of escaping, sanitation and concatenation.
There is poo on every surface. The key question is the amount of poo relative to the other stuff.
Looks like what JavaScript would be like without all the baggage from the ‘90’s.