skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a pretty solid idea actually. Have robots build everything and then grow the people as the last step. This could actually be doable in this century with continued incremental improvements in computing and robotics, which we're already working on. No need for propulsion breakthroughs or hypersleep. From the perspective of people on earth, it doesn't matter that much because it's such a long term project that no-one will be alive for both the launch and the landing anyway.
You Need a PO Box
So the context collapse of early social media ultimately led to context restoration. Why does the author never propose that content collapse might lead to content restoration? After all, I'm choosing to consume this content through the lens of hacker news for a reason.
exactly. you'd have to send a ship with all the robotics and equipment but there's no need for intelligent beings to lose conscious time during this period.

Although at this point you (=the AI) would lose 11 years transmitting yourself, you won't actually be conscious of this process.
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From the sun:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_engine
Zuckerberg's approach might actually work if people were universally accepting, but it does not match up with reality as it is, where behaviour that is acceptable in one culture/subculture might get you ostracised, shunned or even killed in another.

I have read posts on Facebook help pages from people who have had to deal with the consequences of Facebook forcibly breaking down the walls between a person's mutually exclusive cliques, e.g. a girl complaining that hijab-less photos of her posted and tagged by her friends were appearing on the Facebook feed of her conservative Islamic family members (the pre-approval option for tagging only controls whether it appears on your Wall; posts you are tagged in can still appear on your friends' feed even they are not directly friends with the poster).

I have always wondered why Facebook designed it this way, or why they did not fix it, since they already know all about your cliques. Zuckerberg's comment suggests that they had almost an ideological reason for it.
I think it really depends on what you appreciate in your life.

Europe is better for a stroll down to the pub to grab a pint with friends and then going to a museum .

America is better for using some snow-mobiles with friends and driving around in a fancy car.

As an American, there's some things that I just couldn't do in Europe: I'm making my own aluminum plane and learning to fly it. That's basically impossible in Europe.
Realistic should take into account required time, tecnology, biology, culture, politics and economics (just to name a few).

Taking out of the map colonization, and trying a very long term (decades, or centuries) plan to send something like the Voyager or even the Mars Explorer just to learn what is there is more realistic. And once we know more decide what are the next realistic steps. But think in hundreds or thousands of years if everything gets right.

In our current stage it would be easier (not easy) to colonize Venus, the moon or the asteroid belt, and could have a more realistic time frame.
I was a Uber driver for two years and year after year they keep saying they are struggling. I really don't get it. On a ride where passenger pays 20 bucks, they usually keep something like 8 dollars. How can it not be profitable? The computational and human resource necessary to make a ride happen can't be that high. Maybe they should fire their CTO and CFO.
Chrome Extension: Infoscope, tired of the classic constipated Google search?
Easily perform complex online queries with nine different operators.
Ideal for anyone wanting to easily use the customized functionalities. In particular it can be helpful for students, researchers, forensics experts, journalists, content curators, fact checkers and for specific investigation in any field. Super-useful utility puts the full search power of Google at your fingertips. Easy to use.
Great idea! Do you think such kinds of tests could be fully automated (executed in CI)?
Just yesterday I started a VM of beta2 of HaikuOS for a good dose of nostalgia. Some observations: the responsiveness of the UI is instantaneous. So much so that it feels alien nowadays. Also the UI does not waste space, but at the same time it does not feel cluttered. Laying out windows feels more organized than Windows 10 or recent macOS. I can't really point out why. Lastly, having dedicated window borders is so useful for aiming the mouse pointer when reszing.
At some point our UIs became more a design than a utility.
Finally. For a long time it has been quite embarrassing that playing video on a modern laptop drain the battery like nothing else. Looking at the CPU usage shows just how bad it is.

At the same time, mpv has been able to play the same videos for years with hardware acceleration. The only reason FF hasn't implemented it was because they were worried about it failing on some systems. Why they couldn't even have enabled it using a flag I don't know.
Show HN: Hrddt – Client-side Reddit thread/post to audio podcast conversion
I'd love to read more of people using underwater drones. Smaller-than-a-football kind of drones. To boldly go where no modern human has fit before.

I imagine building out supply lines for refueling, developing sophisticated position tracking methodologies, and lots of other neat problem solving with no risk to human life.
I think the point is that signed exchanges ( https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/11/signed-exc...) could potentially be useful, if separated from AMP, and made an actually secure thing. Like, for example, the spec doesn't require specific Google controlled js URLS to be in the content.
>Keep to the right,

Do you then switch to the left when walking in the UK? :)
Does people get referral bonus for sharing this paid website links?
Leverage PodSpec to customise the Fission runtime and builder pods
I have some old machines too, and that thought occurs. But that is also slightly boring. What can I do on those that I can't do on amd64 at higher speeds?
Hey there, I wrote this post. It's a great question.

One benefit of using certificates for emergency access is that SSHD logging can be configured to show a lot more detail about the certificate that was used. With public keys, there isn't anything to show. But with certificates you have a key ID, serial number, principals, CA fingerprint, etc. So, that log is a good hook for sounding the alarm. A more advanced version of this would allow you to record a reason for using the emergency access key when the connection is made (or when sudo is used).
Just for context, there are 22 other solar systems within 12 light years of us.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nearest_stars_and_brow...
It sounds hard, but might not be orders of magnitude harder than impossible.
Sure when the batteries burn it's a problem. But the batteries don't burn that often. For example, when a diesel car did burn inside an airport parking in Stavanger, many electric cars did burn as well but not their batteries.
This comment is pretty ill informed on the tech scene in India. Most large companies already have engineering offices in India dealing with varying complexity of projects. You are probably only thinking of outsourcing companies.
"Particles accelerate to light speed all the time though"

No.
Superb piece. The ideas are pretty great but what really stands out is that the guy can write, beautifully. So often people have great ideas but little ability to express them, so it's nice when both happen at once..
Yep, autocorrect! Thanks for the link.
I've always been curious, when the design phase ends and construction begins, wouldn't new technologies have emerged by then? Do they try to keep up and incorporate improvements or are new breakthroughs rare?
Yes, the system used multi-factor auth and could be locked for suspicious activities.
I recommend looking up Executive Order 13526 and the differences between a state’s ability to classify information vs. the Federal government’s. Also recommend taking a look at the elements for doing so. Lastly, I would also take a look at SF-312 and the commitment those with access to classified information make. Outside of that, I’m not going to go into this further.
This trick reminds me of that game ten year old children play where one of them shoots the other with a "gun" and the child who was "hit" suddenly declares a new rule, "I have a forcefield!".

Meaning, you can't pinch or cut. So sphere eversion is obviously impossible...but the suddenly, "I can pass surfaces through one another!"

So I guess the game here is not in finding interesting solutions within a set of constraints (no pinching or cutting!) but in just making up arbitrary new rules when the problem becomes intractable?
> I'm struck by how the description of witch conventions matches the description of "elite pedovores" that the Qanon conspiracy people promote:

Both the medieval fear of witches and the modern fear of "Hollywood elites" have their roots in anti-semitism. There's a reason witches were often portrayed with giant hook noses, after all. Judaism has often been negatively correlated with occult elitism, academia (see the actual origins of the term "cultural marxism"), Hollywood and left-wing politics. Hillary Clinton drinking the blood of babies is just a modern retelling of the ancient belief that Jews secretly did the same.
Just use ASCII art instead! It’s cooler anyway.
> Particles accelerate to light speed all the time though.

No, they don’t, as far as we know.

There are particles that are always slower than light, and particles that always go at exactly light speed, but no particles that accelerate to (or decelerate from) light speed.
I use BrowserFrame[0] fairly often for creating tutorial screenshots etc. This looks very similar. Was it inspired by that?

[0] https://browserframe.com/
Piping made easy in Raku – Wenzel P.P. Peppmeyer
I just read Aurora about a month ago. Loved it. So much in it. A great not-evil self actualizing AI, an unexpected story arc. Beautiful book.
If #4 actually existed platforms and developers would put real prices in the games instead of obfuscate the transactions and currencies. This would make them the same as every online and brick-and-mortar shop, where children and adults alike are not inadvertently spending thousands of dollars stemming from a single small purchase but may do so with explicit consent.

There are definitely millions of #1 though, we know this because Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Google have all been sued for the sheer volume of #1s they allowed/enabled to be defrauded.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2014/09/googl...

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2014/01/apple...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-classaction-idUS...

https://www.ftcadlaw.com/ftc-scores-big-win-against-amazon-i...
In my province in Canada there are hefty fines[1] for distracted driving, and yet I still constantly see people texting and driving. It's very frustrating, and as somebody who walks/transits whenever possible terrifying at times. I don't know how to get through to people.

[1] https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/transportation/driving-an...
"I've talked to Mark about integrity. His understanding of the subject is limited." - Fake Quote, 2020

I think it's rather that we have one identity and different aspects of this identity show when interacting with different people (think: projection of a higher-dimensional object onto a lower-dimensional screen).
This has been discussed over & over again and there is no representation from amp team to make it any better. I was surprised to realise how much my life changed when I started using firefox + duckduckgo. Full time, at work & home, on macOS & android.
I can appreciate that, but that's not what I meant at all. I was referring to the questionable nature that certain things are allowed or not in the first place. If we're banning things solely on them being carcinogenic, then we shouldn't let people go outside since sunlight can cause cancer.
A serious thesis, but I feel one that reflects on a transitional mode.

Just as the all-in-one context collapse spurred a revival of context (unified FB -> Snapchat/finstas et al), the earlier primitive TV news of the 60s and 70s and RSS feeds of late 99/early 00s rapidly broke into more structured channels, today using filtering and aggregation — my RSS feed is broken into synthetic “channels” specifically for this reason. People settle into a mode they like; “all-in” providers of content become context as well; Fox has an older demographic reflecting not only comfort with a familiar delivery mode but also a context.

And the medium-type segregation that Carr describes (newspaper vs magazine vs LP records) certainly remains: FB is no threat to Netflix or Prime video, much less vice versa (and see the fox reference above). FB and Twitter May have killed the short blog post but hardly the long ones.

This is straight McLuhan.
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From reading the comments it seems this effort is more on the nostalgic sentiment for reliving the IRIX desktop.

I'm more interested on reliving the CEDAR/Tioga interactive desktop environment pioneered by the Xerox R&D team back in 1980s/1990s for their in-house productivity tools [1]. The system still have some productivity enabling features that are still not widely used as of now. Xerox also managed to port the system to SunOS at the time.

Anyone aware of any effort or clone that can enable CEDAR/Tioga to run on or emulated Linux?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22375449
IPMI is painfully insecure, and therefore assumes the existence of a completely separate, protected network. Some people don't colocate more than a few machines (and therefore can't justify the extra infrastructure for an IPMI OOB network), don't want to pay extra for a colo provider to provide IPMI OOB, and/or don't trust their colo provider to have access to such a sensitive and insecure thing.

Having an emergency method to connect is an excellent idea.
Infantry in Battle (1939) [pdf]
OMG--that would have been SO nice to have. I don't think I got my first taste of syntax highlighting until I got access to Turbo Pascal.

Adding it to Retroputer BASIC should be trivial. I think I'll have a go at it tonight, since it has support to use control codes to change the text color.
I think anything real Web 2.0 (I'm takin' it back, it's not their word anymore) would allow for both models. Whatever is next needs to be both simpler, more generically useful, and fill the requirements of this project as well as the most progressive "web app". At this point, I am open to "starting over."
Private hospital in NYC: Just the hospital "room and board" line is north of $40k: $13k per night of "enhanced nursery" for the newborn and around $10k per night for Mom. That's before all the doctors add their services.

No idea how you can make it lower than $10k :) Where was that?
I don’t find these ideas useful, in the sense of having explanatory or predictive power. To me this reads like academics, writers, and other elites who used to frame and guide discourse lamenting that discourse has been opened up such that they no longer control it. That’s not to say discourse has improved due to that shift, and I’m sure some of the deficiencies noted here are real.

But you have to ask, what do these notions of context or content collapse help us understand? More than just gussying up the claim that social media is bad. This just seems like fodder with which to sell books, hold conferences, etc. Mostly shibboleths.

This was written before the current flare-up of protests in the US (and other countries as well), which were indisputably driven by social media. I wonder if Black Lives Matter is a context collapse or a content collapse. :rolleyes:
X11 is in hard maintenance mode. All developer effort is focused on Wayland. Accordingly, if you are going to be adding new, advanced graphical features to your browser or other program, it makes sense to support only the display system where all the activity and support is. Plus, Wayland makes more sense if you are a browser vendor worried about security implications.

ALSA is more widespread on Linux than PulseAudio, and that didn't stop Mozilla from deprecating raw ALSA support for Firefox.
Travelling 11 lightyears in 10 years would require faster than light travel, which last time I checked is impossible in this version of the universe.
Or possibly just turn iptables off, in the same cron.hourly.
Really? Is Mark Zuckerberg a robot? Wow!
I'm very confused, given Yubikeys have smart card fuctionality and they can be used by gpg-agent to SSH with the regular gpg key (you can add to authorized_keys just like any other keys) and you don't have to go through this whole mess of setup to create a CA and install it.

What am I missing?
Interesting! That’s a bit surprising to me. In Japan they have the yellow tiles with bumps near the center of most city sidewalks that I always assumed was a kind of lane system. If it’s not to create lanes, what are those tiles for?
> price-subsidies on non-sugary foods.

That makes a big assumption that people aren't buying more spinach because of price of spinach.

beans and rice are already super cheap. Much healthier and cheaper option than mcdonalds.
When I spend too much time on R&D building something big and it doesn't work out the way I planned; the first thought is to turn it into a platform and sell it to other people who might find it useful. Then I remember that starting and running a company is exponentially harder than developing a killer app, so the next thought is to open-source and document it and hope people pay me as a consultant... It seems this thought process is universal.
FPGA for fun at https://www.fpga4fun.com/
Fuzzing rust like a super hero
So it looks like they’re not so unaware of their surroundings after all?
I had luck to pretty much grew up around SGI and Amigas. This is awesome to see, we'll see how useful from day to day though compared to GNOME.
More so in Eastern Europe -- the other day there was an article about an entire bootleg helicopter factory in Moldova.
He missed an important piece - it all functions because the Reward circuitry in peoples brains are feeding off of Likes/Clicks/View/Upvote counts etc etc.

Take the dumb counts away. Hide them. Delay them etc etc and all of a sudden pavlovs dog or skinners rat starts behaving differently.

People act as if this dumb half baked reward system solely existing to increase "engagement" underlying everything is now unchangeable and baked into the fabric of everything for ever and always.

They are wrong.
When flour gets wet, it sticks together to form dough. Dough can have large air pockets in it. Dry flour with a bit of humidity can also form these air pockets, albeit typically on a much smaller scale.

Whether you pack flour down or sift it through a sieve into your measuring cup can make a huge difference in the weight.
I could see some sort of alternative URL bar ("https://nyt.com/somearticle/ | served by https://somecdn.example.org/blah"), but complete replacement is far too dangerous and confusing in that it is completely hidden.
Civil War Soldiers’ Final Reunion at Gettysburg
Who killed the air-powered vehicle?
Brilliant book! I recommend it highly.
WhatsApp confirms a raft of fun new features, rolling out
Do any of these tools support gif animated screenshots?
Hydrogen is sexy but alcohol matches our existing context better.

Small-scale alcohol fuel production integrated into regenerative agriculture farms is different from mass ethanol production.

You can ferment anything that has starch or sugar, the leftovers from the distillation can be composted or fed to livestock. Most existing internal combustion engines can be modified to use alcohol fuel. And it's carbon-neutral.
> For example, from food waste through yeast and other methods.

How is it better than generating biogas from biomaterial, something we already do at industrial scale? What’s the advantage of biohydrogen over biomethane?
quality = min(community, interface)

If the community is bad, it doesn't matter what tools you use, people are going to write and upvote bad stuff, and sometimes downvote good stuff if such option exists, flagging will be misused, etc. There is no way to conjure a good discussion out of bad actors.

On the other hand, any community will contain a few bad actors. If not now, then definitely when the community becomes famous. The good guys may try to stop them, but it depends on user interface how comparatively easy it is to wreak havoc vs police the behavior. If the good members outnumber the bad ones 10:1, but it is 100 times easier to post bad stuff than to remove it, the website is doomed. Ideally, fixing problems should be so easy that moderators won't get tired doing it.

Related problem is that an online community cannot work on pure democracy, because it is simple to create sockpuppet accounts, and also unless the community is huge, it can be easily overrun by hordes of real people coming e.g. from Twitter. Again, a reasonable user interface will assign greater powers to established users over the newcomers. But it needs some metric to do so, for example the total karma gained. Again, if the core members are bad, they will abuse the rules for petty reasons.

When people complain about some features of the interface, typically about downvoting or even karma as such, they usually correctly point out how the feature can be abused, but forget to consider how a lack of the feature could be abused. For example, downvotes can be used to suppress dissent, and karma can lead to hive minds. However, websites without downvotes are easy to spam (whether by literal ads, or just a small group of people pushing their agenda everywhere, upvoting each other). The standard solution to spam is blocking, but then we have gone full circle, because blocking can also be used to suppress dissent, except it is done per user instead of per comment. (A good website needs both mechanisms. Sometimes there is a bad comment from otherwise good user, but also some users consistently post lots of bad stuff.)

Also, ultimately there is no way to build an online community that would make everyone happy, even if we exclude the obvious trolls. People have different opinions, duh. Most people don't like the environments where the opposite opinion is a norm; many dislike even when the opinions are balanced; and for some even hearing the opposite opinion, no matter how small the minority that supports it, is beyond the pale. Deep in our hearts, most of us want to live in a bubble; we just don't want to retreat to the bubble and give up the places we enjoy, we would rather prefer the bubble to grow and swallow the places we enjoy. We all can't have it this way, so someone is going to complain no matter what.
At least for the first part, article mentions an Instagram feature to separate contexts without splitting accounts but do people not do that all the time anywhere, feature exists or allowed or not?

I don’t know how many such Facebook accounts exist but I’ve heard about dummy public facing accounts to play a boring person.