skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Was it truly that? What evidence?

Seems to me around the time that it was ended there were several other things going on.

The advent of cable news networks which gave a massive incentive to sensationalism and strong partisan ties as multiple players joined the space with a need to create a sustainable viewership.

Satellite feeds became common ensuring a single message instead of having a layer of abstraction in the form of a local or regional newscaster; instead of relaying facts, they can relay a highly opinionated version.

Local and independent news stations were being purchased and consolidated into national telecom companies with their own partisan editorial bends, a la Nexstar and Sinclair.

I have to believe that all of the above had a much greater influence on news discourse in the past few decades than the elimination of the fairness doctrine. Furthermore, if you give government the power to regulate anything; always expect the current party in power to use that regulation as a weapon. Can you imagine what our leaders would do given even more power to control and manipulate the media narrative? Ending this was a good decision.
with all the data breaches spammers have millions of verified email addresses no need to scan the web for more.
Like google mail marking all Trump/Whitehouse emails as spam, Comcast banning SMS from Republican fund raising.

All depends on who the companies consider a hate group.
Ender's Game series comes to mind.
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What is "blum"? Google is just returning kitchen cabinet parts, etc.
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I don't understand your point.

Religion and morality are distinct and the rationale for the separation of church and state is because of the power that religion wields by virtue of it's structure. Look back to the religious conflicts that were raging and provided the background for these decisions.

As much as morality can share certain qualities with religion, there is a fairly clear distinction that's worth maintaining.
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> Why do people always assume that if someone is anti-mask or anti-lockdown that they didn't think about others before they made their decision? That they are selfish and dumb?

Well... Yeah. If you considered the implications of harming others, then examined the data at hand, and concluded that not wearing a mask and not limiting your activities was what you wanted to do... Then yeah, that is selfish and "dumb" behavior.

This isn't a subjective thing. We have decently solid data now showing what the transmission rates are (we know certainly the lowest observed transmission rate), what the death rate is; we can objectively say that >180,000 in the US have died since March. So with all that being known, if you decide not to take the most basic steps to limit spreading it, you're either being incredibly selfish, or you're incapable of understanding that your actions have consequences. This is a definition, not an argument.

This is why we have laws against drunk driving; we know it kills people. It's bad for society. At least people who drive drunk have the plausible deniability that they were too impaired to make the rational decision to not drive while drunk. If unimpaired, you make that decision, there's no way to justify your actions.
And varies widely.

Our club/repeaters don't have any obvious "cultural" norms or rules. Announcing your call sign as required by FCC ham rules is about the only obvious rule.
Yea haven't they suffered enough?
Free Speech Extremist. Shitposters Club. No Agenda Social. Lets all love Lain.

There are ton of instances which much of the Fediverse blocks, but if you set up your own server and follow people on those instances, it's not 80% hate speech and racism as others would have you believe. Yes there is some of that, but there's also weebs, and anime and political discussion and weird gaming discussion and videos not posted anywhere else and memes and the great diversity of through we use to have on Reddit before it became a monoculture.

There are also straight up anarchist instances that justify violence and destruction of the state like Rage Love, Anticapitalist Party, and others.

It's a very big space, with new players entering and leaving every month.

Banning apps because they do or don't have block lists greatly misunderstands how the Fediverse works.
I'm not sure it makes much sense unless you also override the default IdentifyFile.
> This is nothing more than a monopoly stomping out a platform it doesn't like. Probably because federation is a threat to Google's position as the central hub of the internet.

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

The real reason is that Google employees live in an ideological echo chamber where censoring anything that doesn't align with their ideologies is a completely normal thing to do. They think they're protecting the world from bad ideas, without noticing how they themselves promote other bad ideas.

Basically: the moralistic version of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
Probably a non-answer but I do all of my OCaml programming on my windows desktop using Windows Subsystem for Linux [1]

I have a bash shell, launch VSCode from it (with `code`), and all my extensions (ocp-indent, merlin) run in the linux subsystem and talk to VSCode.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10
Gnome is a ripoff? I haven't ever come across this anywhere. It's been around for a long long time really.
It's near perfect for what it is, and it's also nicely customisable.

Regarding the shortcuts, I found Enter, Backspace, using Space Bar for selecting, etc. to be simpler compared to holding down cmd+up/down, and other combinations.
Essentially an optimized array with lots of built in subroutines for statistical and numerical analysis.
Any help on finding these irc rooms?
> So does the US

Not in comparison to the EU.

Most people can agree that restrictions on speech in the US are much less strict than those in the EU.
What is your current favorite hack for figuring out if people are willing to pay for something before you create an idea?

Talk to people.

If that sounds too glib, and you really want something of a "hack", I'll offer up what Steve Blank calls "the million dollar question." If your domain isn't enterprise software, you can probably find a way to riff on this and adapt it to your needs.

“I ask them, “If the product were free, how many would you actually deploy or use?” The goal is to take pricing away as an issue and see whether the product itself gets customers excited. If it does, I follow up with: “OK, it’s not free. In fact, imagine I charged you $1 million. Would you buy it?” While this may sound like a facetious dialog, I use it all the time. Why? Because more than half the time customers will say something like, “Steve, you’re out of your mind. This product isn’t worth more than $250,000.” I’ve just gotten customers to tell me how much they are willing to pay. Wow.”
Well, nothing matters but I don't like to get steamrolled.

Also, it's kind of interesting how in our circles it's legitimately easier to imagine the world ending than for capitalism to end.
Chrome automatically upgrades known DNS providers to DoH.
Telephone companies and email providers as well. Full transparency, no encryption, proactive censorship for the purpose of safety and protection. They shouldnt be letting anything dangerous over their tubes ever, and we shouldnt be tolerating their facilitation of violence.
Here - https://pantel.is/projects/css3d/indexdiv.html
(no option, but I force set the first level to use div tags instead of img. Curious if this fixes the FF linux issue!)
No, and there are laws and tomes of case law that reinforce that no matter how much curation they do, an interactive computer service will not be held liable for user generated content.
Twitter is literally a platform for hate speech right now, and people have been killed because of it. Will they be taking down Twitter?
Of the 16 GPRs on Icelake / Sunny Cove (Intel's next generation desktop core), there are 352 renaming registers available.

Of the 32 GPRs on ARM's Cortex A78 application processor, there are 160 renaming registers.

> I really wonder if compiler register allocators help/hurt/know about renaming which in fact would require microarchitectural knowledge.

The benefit of register renaming is that idioms like "xor eax, eax" automatically scale to whatever the reorder register size is.

"xor eax, eax" REALLY means " 'malloc' a register and call it EAX". Because the reorder buffer changes between architectures and even within an architecture (smaller chips may have smaller reorder buffers), its best to "cut all dependencies" at the compiler level, and then simply emit code where the CPU allocates registers in whatever optimal way.

The compiler doesn't care if you have 160-renaming registers (ARM A78), 224-renaming registers (Intel Skylake), or 300+ registers (Intel Icelake). The "xor eax, eax" idiom on every dependency cut emits the optimal code for all CPUs.

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You should have a large enough architectural register set to perform the calculations you need... in practice, 16 to 32 registers seem to be enough.

With the "dependency cutting" paradigm (aka: "xor eax, eax" really means malloc-register), your compiler's code will scale to all future processors, no matter the size of the reorder buffer of the particular CPU it ends up running on.

EDIT: It should be noted that on Intel Skylake / AMD Zen, "xor eax, eax" is so well optimized its not even a micro-op. Literally zero uop execution time for that instruction.
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There are a ton of video clients available, it’s not that special. It’s just popular.
What if:

Mozilla is a spooky company. They covardly pretend to be pro-freedom, but in reality they have a shady agreement with Google to look like an alternative, but not better.

This is well known pattern. For example what if Nvidia has agreement with Microsoft to provide mediocre experience to average Desktop Linux user.
I did a project where we produced maps of car dealerships. We clustered close together dealerships. The distance function that I used for measuring "closeness" evolved from a simple Euclidean distance (sqrt(∆x²+∆y²)) to one that used box-shaped neighborhoods (max(∆x,∆y)) to a variation on this last one that took Mercator distortions into account because Alaska. This was one of the most fun projects I worked on.

There was one subtle bug that I had in the web interface where at the US level, clicking on the wrong place in the spash screen loaded, instead of the clustered dealerships at that level, instead added a pin to the map for every single dealership in the country. It took about 10 minutes to render on 2007 hardware but was really pretty when it was done. I no longer have the screenshot unfortunately.
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One of the express purposes of the amateur radio service is to facilitate experimentation and innovation in radio technology, and the FCC grants special licenses for that purpose all the time. There's a significant amount of harm you can do with a radio, so willfully causing interference to other radio services will earn you a hefty penalty. You should definitely get into amateur radio if you have an interest, and maybe look into some of the instances the FCC actually issued fines - if you're not out to cause harm you have nothing to worry about.
I have a similar address and get a lot of similar email.

My personal favorite was a contract offer to play for a minor league baseball team in the Midwest a few summers back.

I also once got hired by the National Park Service for what sounded like a nice gig as a park ranger.
I'm pretty sure the campaigns get your email address, I often get emails directly from them.
A super-interesting question that is also an invite for people to flog their own personal theories. People will tell you lots of reasons: increasing incomes, the development of ubiquitous media, increasing diversity, weakened religious control mechanisms, etc.

There is probably at least a little truth to each of those, although I think many of them are also effects of central causes (e.g., religious control over common people's lives declined because of increasing incomes, which increased due in part to advances in communications tech).
I don’t think it’s (generally) a question of “product-market fit” when raising $100M. It’s a question of “product-market domination”.

It’s not a bet that the product will be profitable and successful—that should be a given. It’s a bet on the company becoming the leader in a huge market.

That said, your larger point still holds :) And of course raising the stakes this way can also increase the risk of ruin.
Potter Stewart knew it when he saw it.
Just to clarify: the meat packages I ordered didn't use any dry ice. They provide two (standard) ice packs, one which is placed beneath the meat and one which is placed above the meat.

Because the polystyrene is so thick and they send so much ice, the ice was still fully frozen when I received it 42 hours after my order.

We've actually kept the polystyrene box and ice packs to reuse for picnic days and things like that.
It's not even fine for that. If you assume that JayNesmith@ and JayneSmith@ are duplicates, you're eventually going to annoy someone.
Of course, being in a crowded theater violates social distancing guidelines, so now you don't need to shout anything :-)
This is disparagingly referred to as momtech. Young silicon valley transplants try to replace the role of their parents with technology. They want to avoid cooking and cleaning so they can code all the time. "If only a robot could do my dishes for me!"

It's the epitome of fitting a solution to a problem. Cooking and cleaning are simple tasks that any able bodied person can do themselves. There is no shortage of able bodied people in the world.
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Ironically, I think one promising solution is the Fediverse.

Or, more generally: given how subjective ideas about acceptable speech are, the only real solution is to break up giant gatekeepers like Google.
blockchain tokens are experiencing a flight to fungibility as we speak.

the state is aware and all of their actions have to be precise and large all at once because the antifragile nature of these networks makes them harden after every enforcement event.

right now, more private blockchain technologies are outliers that experience a threat of shunning and being crippled.

but existing networks are going to upgrade en masse, and will have strength in numbers against all existing exchanges and public policy discussions

basically what it comes down to is the observation that the government never had any rationale to surveil people's money and it found itself in the convenient position to do so over the last 30-40 years, leveraging financial institutions where it at least has to issue a subpoena to obtain information. Over the last 5 years it found itself in a more convenient position of embracing transparent public blockchains to surveil even more without needing a subpoena, alongside the capability of also issuing subpoenas to crypto financial institutions.

this power is simply going to be removed from the state, reverting its surveillance capabilities at or below what it can do with cash, with individuals themselves needing to be subpoena'd if it can identify them.

the governments will just have to find another way to curb whatever behavior it is actually trying to prevent.

(disclaimer, this isn't intended to be "edgy" and I would say any perturbation only highlights my point of how used to the idea of an omnipotent state you've become, but its not a prerequisite)

technologies to watch are:

Aztec implementing Zk-Zk Rollups. This will allow all existing erc20 tokens to inherit privacy on a highly scalable private system, unburdened by layer1 blockchain throughput limitations. It allows new erc20 tokens to be issued privately where no origin is know in a highly scalable private system.

RenVM implementing EdDSA, this allows isolated private cryptocurrencies like Monero to be swappable and transposed to an erc20 token. This removes liquidity limitations of cryptocurrencies like Monero, and removes the problem of exchanges removing liquidity routes of Monero. Aztec + RenVM would simply add a whole pipeline. Also provides exits for less private assets to swap out back to the Monero blockchain, which is currently not surveillable.

Taproot and Schnor on UXTO blockchains like Bitcoin. Adds levels of confidentiality.

There are quite a few other technologies as well.
I don't think it prevents a bootstrapped business from doing well. My own are proof that this is not the case.

I do think it makes growing a business slower and more expensive than it needs to be.

Some examples that come to mind from from recent years are the Consumer Rights Directive (soon to be superseded, but the UK will probably have fully separated from the EU by then), the GDPR and ePrivacy Directive (ditto), and the VAT rules (of which there are so many variations depending on context that I won't even try to list them all here).

To be clear, it's not that I object to things like strong consumer protections or privacy rights. On the contrary, I am a strong advocate of such things, and my own businesses have never done the sort of shady stuff in these areas that tends to attract criticism. I just find the EU's approach to these things unnecessarily onerous and not always effective at achieving its intended goals anyway.
That by itself implies that every URL you visit has to be looked up to see if there's a related discussion.

No way I'd trust any add-on/startup/mega corp to do that. I barely trust Mozilla to keep my history on their servers, and that's only because they only keep the last few months and purge older data.
Thanks for the recommend, I just grabbed it off Audible.

I feel like you are hitting on "Gibson based" Cyberpunk being now a specific aesthetic, that's now almost more of a genre fiction than sci-fi.

It's a very lazy pallet to turn to for world building, but its a world that everyone likes visit so its probably going to be around for awhile. It's annoying from a logic perspective, but it certainly looks cool.

The Netflix series "Altered Carbon" and did some of this same Cyberpunk borrowing that didn't really make sense as well.
The parent was just mentioning that "compare" has existed for a decade.

The latest Office products have proper real-time collaboration and change tracking, a la Google Docs.
Also to note, you can use `::before` and `::after` on `input` elements in all new browsers if you set `appearance: none`. Works good for custom checkboxes.
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As others have pointed out, it's laughable to consider Zoom to be critical infrastructure when so many alternatives exist.

Moreover, I find it somewhat strange that he's referring to Zoom as "critical infrastructure" instead of the major cloud providers like AWS or Azure. If Zoom goes down, it's an inconvenience to many. If AWS or Azure goes down, many business just stop functioning. Heck, many government departments might stop functioning, given how government infrastructure has been moving to "the cloud".
I've got a catch all email redirect for my address. I do get a decent volume of spam these days.

Most of it goes to:

* admin@<mydomain>.com - listed in whois publicly for a few years, understandable

* <dropbox's address>@<mydomain.com> - started coming in 2014, the fact they were breached only became properly known in 2016.

* <my first name>@<mydomain.com> - This is the actual email address I give to in person contacts. Not quite sure how it ended up on spam lists, my best guesses are from a recruiter sharing it, git commits (though the fact the address I use way more commonly for git isn't there indicates probably not) or someone just figured it out.
Tusky appears to still be up.

Wonder if this has to do with the recent Husky/Tusky drama.
My understanding is that it's okay to be infuriating if I have an analytics query or something claiming that it'll not affect 99ish % of users and also save customer support a bunch of work.
I feel like Zoom is the least concern. It is relatively replaceable, unlike providers with significant network effects - payment processors (Visa, Mastercard, Paypal, Stripe), social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Reddit), ad networks (Google, Apple, Facebook) or dominant share (Google search).
Why is this thing on GitHub if it's not an open source project? Seems very misleading.
With my last address change, I used a PO Box. My current physical address isn't listed in the FCC database (or qrz.com) and I use my PO Box everywhere else. You can find past addresses easily but not my current. I like it that way for the very reasons you've mentioned.
I did that for a while, and then my provider decided that people using catch-all e-mail addresses were causing their systems to store too much spam and stopped letting people use them.

That left me in a slight bind as I had used well over 50 different e-mail addresses. I had switched to Gmail as my primary e-mail address, but hadn't bothered changing my accounts. Luckily, they allowed a very easy way to create forwarding addresses and basically set it up to forward 50+ addresses to one.
I think their meaning was they stopped replying to further email back and forth with people who clearly were very far from understanding and whose ongoing conversation was becoming increasingly frustrating to deal with due to their misplace mental model around how email works which then then relied upon to continue to correspond with the sender.
Yes.

99.9% chance no one would care. But people do freak out over this stuff.

Knew one guy that saw that a Bank got hacked on the news. Did an nslookup or similar to check the banks site.

He was arrested the next day and expelled from college for hacking the bank.

Eventually all got cleared up, but screwed up a year of his life
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Cyberpunk 2077 has a very interesting position, there's a lot of interesting architecture detail and layers in what little I've seen of Night City so far (we'll see when the game comes out), including some parts of the city that look usefully old. It just has its own layers of the fact that Night City is an American city, here being designed by mostly Polish artists giving it a strange (accidental?) European sensibility, combined with the idea that in the source fiction (the RPG), Night City was a planned city that didn't ever exist before (the future year) 1994 (Cyberpunk itself was written in the 80s). So there are at least 70-ish years of layers and tarnish to put on the thing, but the fact that it is entirely distinct from a real place was a fictional conceit from the 80s fiction it inherits.

Which is to say, that I think Gibson is absolutely correct that most "future places" are and will always be built on the tops of the bones of the old places. No one is going to demolish all of San Francisco or DC's haunts and landmarks. But also that's not a criticism that I think directly applies to Cyberpunk 2077 as a specific example because the fiction intentionally wanted and built a young city, with some of the EPCOT feels of the setting an intentional planned commentary of a different sort than most of the space Gibson enjoyed inhabiting in his books. Gibson did his own bits of entirely new construction such as space stations, too, to make various points/contrasts. Corporations building modern "cyber" company cities is a rich tradition of its own in cyberpunk fiction, evoking and reminding readers/players of the past dystopian company towns that did exist in a previous American century and could easily exist again.

https://cyberpunk.fandom.com/wiki/Night_City
I bet it was https://www.dailylit.com