skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll throw this out there, but if anyone is looking for a classic-style Internet forum/community, come check out the Something Awful forums. It's very much alive and kicking, with subforums for every interest: cooking; comics and video games; cars; art, movies, and literature; music creation and consumption; DIY crafts like woodworking, knitting, and metallurgy; the list goes on and on. It is excellently moderated, and the paywall goes a long way to keeping out the crap that floods every other Internet community, and provides a revenue stream that doesn't involve abusing its users. Yes, there are some regrettable things in the site's long history, and no community populated by humans is perfect, but these days it is probably the most progressive and accepting large community on the Internet. I've been a daily poster there for over 14 years and I can't imagine ever leaving it.
Not even remotely similar. First of all, the CIA is primarily concerned with foreign intelligence, so you mean to be concerned with the NSA and the FBI.

With a warrant, the FBI can get everything about you from your ISP, tap your phone lines, hell they can bug your house. Social media is nothing. It's the low hanging fruit.

With the NSA there's dragnet surveillance on internet backbones. There again, the kind of monitoring any social media company might be able to do simply pales in comparison to dragnet metadata analysis of all Internet traffic. If you're an actual target of the NSA good fucking luck.

Social media might be terrible and draconian but if you want to talk about big brother the real fun doesn't even start until you have State actors in your threat model.
Potentially naive question: how close is this to being able to simulate a mouse brain?

Of course, assume we actually know how to simulate neurons in a meaningful way.
They’re running ads now on channels that were previously deemed too toxic for advertisers, which makes me doubt that that was ever a real concern and not just an excuse to defund people who made videos they didn’t like.
I see people loudly complaining about it. I don’t watch YouTube. I went from a paying customer to ditching it entirely. But clearly everyone complaining love YouTube and are watching hours and hours of video. So why not pay for it? It’s more sustainable in the long run.
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"Love it or leave it" means there is no room for discussion. It can also be considered a veiled threat especially given its historical use.

It's a false dichotomy. I already told you, you don't live in a capitalist system. You live in a hybrid system where all markets and contracts are already regulated.

If you believe otherwise, try ignoring labor laws. Try ignoring OSHA. Try ignoring EPA. Try getting someone to sign an indentured servitude contract. You'll quickly learn that the world isn't that simple.
> There are probably less than a hundred people today outside the defense industry who would want to build a sensor fusion system on an embedded platform.

LOL, no. What a short-sighted thing to say.
>the I/O is crazy fast

I seem to remember watching a real time video transcoding demo, or something like that, on an iPad Pro and the dev demoing it saying it was the I/O that made it possible. Desktop machines with much faster processors would choke due to bandwidth limitations, but Apple can custom tune every aspect of the iPad architecture and aren't limited to standard, generic interfaces between components.

The original 5k iMacs were a similar case in some ways. It was only possible in an all-in-one design, because there wasn't a standard video connection at the time that was capable of the throughput.
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Halo also had aim assistance, as I recall.

It was subtle, but it was there. I remember getting frustrated with the fact that it dragged the target reticule towards center of mass, which made headshots trickier.

This is from memory of fifteen years ago, so I might be mistaken. I did play the original on Xbox obsessively, FWIW.
For UK, it looks for a special mark being used by ITV companies (and Channel 4, which are ultimately controlled by IBA) which is mainly used to signal companies in other regions that they should switch to an advertisement tailored for their region [1]. Since the television channels were controlled by IBA and BBC, this is a for-sure way to skip advertisements.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cue_mark#Cue_dots_in_televisio...
Yeah I'd love to know the experiences of anyone who has explored this.

Edit: Ah, one thing I didn't think of in my praise of the idea, is that this services doesn't give you a moat -- anyone can copy your forms, structures, etc. for getting the scheme set up.
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Dying is kinda built in. What's the rush?

But yeah, suicide hotline if you're really into it.
> I make a note to stay far away from them, and especially to never do business with them.

I have some really bad news about most of the multinational corporations you probably do business with, esp. if you are buying commodities.
Install Parallels or VMware (once they have their universal builds ready), install your favorite Linux distro’s ARM build, and you are off to the races.
Usually these issues are not a function of policy, but of degree and application.

Some types of ads are really innocuous, some not so much.

If there were only a 4 second ad at the start we'd be fine with it, but it'll be a 'click to skip', there'll be more than one, it will interrupt, the ads will be loud and annoying etc..

Product Managers are always under pressure to increase revenue, but they never want to contemplate the long-run effects of the qualitative reduction in the value of their product.
Hello HN!

A few days ago, I released SeeLink. After a lot of encouraging feedback, I've decided to make a public GitHub repository to chat with people who'd want to use SeeLink, and gather suggestions from them on the way.

Thanks!
Unexpectedly in your sleep.
That is just a coincidence (decimal ending in "5"), plus the fact that `.to_d` does some cleanup preprocessing.

Counterexample:

BigDecimal("1.5999999999999996") == 1.5999999999999996.to_d
=> false

The most ergonomic way to initialize decimal numbers is IMO

"123.45".to_d

(Note the quotes around the number. `.to_d` is being called on a string.)

BigDecimal's only lossless API is through strings. It would be nice to have native support for decimals at the parser level:

0d123.45 => BigDecimal("123.45")
> However, this is the sort of foundational service change that you simply don't do ten years into a lucrative partner program without a good reason.

YouTube is a monopoly. This is exactly the type of things monopolies do.

Yes, there are other places to upload videos to watch on demand, but they’re much smaller, less well known, and just more niche.

> "Changing the deal" in a very big way like this makes your customers - the people giving you video content with no up-front expectation of payment - very, very mad.

As the saying goes, “If you’re not paying for it, you’re not the customer, you’re the product.”

The creator is not a customer. The viewer is not a customer. The advertiser is the customer.

Yes, you can poison the well and lose users, and thus alienate your customers, but again, YouTube is a monopoly. There aren’t any obviously viable alternatives for long form videos.
Usenet could really only function in its form so long as the people who could access it were mostly part of a somewhat exclusive club. It may also be worth noting that there was the alt hierarchy and most everything else. I'm sure I'm remembering somewhat selectively based on where I participated, but I recall things like rec and comp being mostly pretty sane and mainstream and alt being a lot wilder.
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Do you really want to do tennis with how much good/bad the catholic church has done? Good that they provide some hospitals, but not a replacement for good government policy.
I can get a few hours of light gaming in on my Zephryus G14 on battery, and it has a vastly faster GPU than the one in the M1 such that I can also still play demanding games when tethered to a wall (it also has a VRR 120hz screen). A trick that the MacBooks can no longer pull of at all since eGPU support was killed.

It's a fantastic experience, but in no way has having this laptop for the last 6 months "redefined how I think about a laptop." It still does all the same things a laptop does, it still has all the same limitations a laptop has (like the physically small screen vs. other common gaming choices - be it desktop monitors or TVs). The M1 in the MBA doesn't really change any of that. Especially since the loss of bootcamp & eGPU means the MBA is a rather terrible gaming experience unless something drastically changes between game devs, Apple, and MacOS. The extra battery life is definitely welcome, but it's not game changing revolutionary, either. For some it may now be enough to go all day without charging, which is a key milestone, but many people were already there with the existing set of ultrabooks, too. Beyond that, eh? Kinda like a phone that can last 2 days. Cool trick, but it wouldn't change anything about my day to day life unless there happens to be a power outage overnight.
An aside...

Google is terrible at documentation. After reading the first few paragraphs, I have no idea what they're talking about. It's full of unexplained buzz words I've never heard before.

The first thing that comes to mind for me is a phrase my old boss used to say, "there's money in confusion".
I went the extra mile and create a random, unique email address for every single service I sign up for, so I know precisely who sells my data to spammers if I ever get any. All the unique addresses redirect to a central one for ease of access.
Ahhh, ye olde yslow... http://yslow.org
I am so glad to learn about these features in Rust and Elixir. I'm coming from Python originally, so I always want them!

https://docs.python.org/3/library/doctest.html

https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/doctest.html
Can you give me an example of a search that produces content farm results? I mainly search for technical docs and such so perhaps I’m not seeing it as much because of that.
I get you, though pip isn't particularly changing, at least not in the context you seem to be implying? The dependency resolver is a good move, implementation seems poorly conceived though from the sound of the other comments.
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I'm working on fixing this problem. I'm 5 days in so a little while a way from a full fledged product. Maybe I'll deploy an alpha if there's interest on HN?
My Air hasn’t gotten warm yet and I’ve been trying to really hammer it while I’ve been setting up my dev env and running benchmarks.

I have not tried Civ 6 late game benchmarks yet tho ;)
Whoever gets BBC BASIC running on this thing first wins.

Funny they mention ARM though, the original beeb was made by Acorn.
shhh. it will hear you.
Not true. 65% of email addresses already existed in the haveibeenpwned database, and 35% are new.
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This is correct. Also everyone using GitHub or similar services and uploading code must also have an impressum on their GitHub profiles. It applies to all kinds of web presences.
The same was true of physics (for example, Tycho Brahe's extensive astronomical measurements paved the way for Copernicus's heliocentrism model and Newton's later theories of mechanics).
When I upvoted this, the story was titled "Publishers may finally be able to ditch AMP as Google faces antitrust scrutiny" and linked to [1]. Several changes in the title, and now also in the posted link is a little bit too much editorializing for my taste.

[1]: https://themarkup.org/google-the-giant/2020/11/19/as-antitru...

Edit: changed again; for posteriority, the title was "Timing for bringing page experience to Google Search"
and linked to [2] at the time I wrote the above comment.

[2]: https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2020/11/timing-for...
I copied (most of) my method for taking live LaTeX notes from this guy.

https://castel.dev/post/lecture-notes-1/
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If you mean running GUIS, in the Intel version yes.

The ARM/Apple Silicon version not sure if it's ready, might need work to even run cli.
It seems to me that toxicity of online communities has risen immensely.

Quite a few of the Facebook groups I participate in have been taken over by defacto moderators who police the whole forum. One FB group of 10K people recently shared that 10 people posted about 50% of the comments over a 3 month period. The moderators seem intimidated by the 10 members. These 10 people will only accept topics and discussion within their own narrow personal guidelines - they push back hard against any deviation - moving to personal or ad hominem attacks immediately.

I appreciate dang and the moderating systems here at HN in keeping discussions focused and productive.
The applicability of NLP/NLU/GPT is reasonably obvious (though, as you note, not easy), but what's the social-graph angle? Do you mean the ability to subscribe/follow other users, or something else?

Anyway, plans not so grand, really,you can feel free to insert the qualifier "toy" at various points. I wouldn't count on the results of any of these (should I get them to a working state) being actually useful to me, much less anyone else.
Same. Personal integrity has a value, and for people who clearly show they don’t value their own, well, it is worth noting.

We can’t change the world, but we can do our small part to be good people.
I had my Ruby on Rails / node dev env setup within a couple hours - the only weird thing was Redis (via Rosetta) had to run as root for some reason.
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>Well we have progressed since then a little, don't you think? What used to be solved by force is now solved by diplomacy more often.

That transition happened at basically the precise point the world transitioned from a multipolar situation to a bipolar one.

I'm not saying bipolarity brought peace, but there's hardly any evidence that we've gotten any better at multipolar situations.
In your account setting you can set showdead=yes. It's not as many as you probably think. Email the moderators (link is in the footer). Other users can also click 'vouch' on comments, I've done that a couple of times. If comments are short or non-substantial others tend to ignore them. And I don't know how many readers have showdead=yes switched on.
I set up a Mattermost server for my friends and former coworkers to keep in touch. It's far from perfect technology, but it's pretty good on a $5/mo droplet. There are about 30 people, no official rules, and it's worked nicely as a small community for about two years. It's been especially valuable in the last nine months or so.

I've tried setting up bulletin boards to achieve that same sense of community, but it never worked for me. BBSs were definitely important to me as a teenager, but even in that realm my favorite part was chatting with the sysop in real time. I think low-latency communication is better in general for fostering community.
No, that is the definition given by wikipedia right in the first sentence, it is not a function of location.

You can come up with your own definition of what you consider local (neighbourhood, city, county, state, country?) or cherrypick a basket you want to use as a base (McD), but that simply reflects your biases.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchasing_power
Thanks. I also found:

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/490524/evaporati...
I liked this https://yts.mx/movies/antarctica-a-year-on-ice-2013
> Nobody

You.
It would actually require a massive investment by Apple to actually support all of those things as tested, enabled, documented, secured, stable, and fully supported (by the help-desk) features of their product.
good deal != fair deal
Not sure which those "non-desktop" systems are.

If you mean "smartphones and tablets", ok. But this is a laptop, not a mobile phone, and it's new development there.

If you mean "laptops" then, no, they didn't have unified memory, much less have it be "pretty normal".
> How do we help it die

Competition. Replace it with something better using https://web.dev/vitals/
How do you handle driving on roads with billboards? Or walking through a city? In most of the US, the number of outdoor places you can go without advertising attacking you is dwindling. Europe seems better regarding roads (fewer billboards and more highways with none) but similar in cities.

The rise of blindingly bright LED billboards in the US feels like all the downsides of a sci-fi dystopian world without any of the upside like self-driving hover cars.
True, though most of the videos I watch these days either have explicit sponsor mentions, or I support though patreon. My general feel on adblock is that it is a reasonable step against an abusive advertising industry. That it harms creators is the side effect of the advertising industry's overreach, and is not a moral fault of the end user for acting in self-defense.
You've forgot that in 2008 software developers jumped into unknown to masses Apple ecosystem. Think about it.
Don't worry, we (at Docker) have been working on Apple Silicon support for a while. The command-line tools work under Rosetta 2 but the local VM inside Desktop will take a little bit longer to port. Just in case you haven't seen it there's some further info on Docker+M1 in the blog post: https://www.docker.com/blog/apple-silicon-m1-chips-and-docke...
When I read this, I feel more than anything here, Google is dictating how any web page should look, behave and be structured in order to be considered for display to users. Disregard their content/structure/style guidelines and you will be at the bottom of the rank.

This is not a new thing (AMP) but it's the first time I realize that's exactly what they're doing.

I hate it. Even if I fully agree with their judgments on the specifics, this is not healthy for the web.
I also like Rustdoc, using markdown and the new linking improvements. It's much better than learning yet another DSL.
However, there's one thing I find annoying, and that's the lack of a structure for parameters.

Following the `# Arguments:` convention is redundant (I get it's petty, but I'm annoyed every time I write it), but more than that it's error-prone and limiting.
Because arguments names are just a convention that's not strictly enforced, it's not automatically checking the naming is correct, and it limits the ability of tools like cbindgen and flapigen (love them both) to transform param specific docs.
Where do you live? I don't know a single person in America that does. Probably a sample size of (realistically) 400 people.
Maybe if they add a few more crappy features I can avoid YT altogether!
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I do this. Its not cheap (12$ month), but it comes with "youtube music", which I'm starting to use a bit. like all things google, its a little difficult to figure out exactly what is going on.
Wow, that brings back the memories. They used to have a repository for crank phone calls, and there was a series of cranks to some bar on the east coast that got completely out of control. I remember the Beasty Boys talking and laughing about the bar crank call series in some interview. I can't confirm this, but didn't the Beasty Boys get their Cookie Puss audio from Something Awful's crank phone call repository?
Yeah, this is great. Julia has it since a couple years in the Documenter package. Plus basic Markdown rendering in the REPL when you hit `?func`. Markdown + extension to understand language specific cross-references is powerful! [1]

[1] https://juliadocs.github.io/Documenter.jl/stable/man/guide/#...
He runs VS Code on a Mac. And he hails Satan (it's on his coffee cup).

Hmm.
Not so much a faulty DNSSEC protocol but a misuse of DoH embedded maliciously within applications.
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Having youtube premium is definitely the biggest time saver for me.
Other than not showing ads, lets you listen to videos like a podcast on mobile in background. For podcasts that also posts youtube videos, I just use youtube since it lets me see reactions when I want to from podcasters.

I never understand HN Crowd complaining about ads on YouTube. It literally costs(1 month sub) less than typing a comment like this for most people on HN (At least in opportunity cost).
Do you not think drug dealers aim to "maximise engagement" too? It's not the drug's fault for the dealers actions. So how about we stop blaming an inanimate f----- object and work to find a solution to the problem.

In your schoolwork example I can come up with four potential solutions off the top of my head:

- Speak to the teacher about concerns and ask about other ways of doing what is required

- Speak to parents and ask them to help with the homework

- Buddy up with a friend and watch the required video with a friend to avoid falling down a rabbit hole

- Use software like youtube-dl to download the video locally, to avoid temptation of watching another video

Then we come back full circle to the parent comment. It's not the drug's fault. It's not the phone's fault. It's not some software instruction's fault.

Blaming and ascribing fault is only helpful in identifying the problem. After that, the question becomes what can I do about it that will helpful for me today? What is my solution for how this affects me?

i.e. learning to develop personal responsibility.
>which gives you just about everything a standalone forum could want except self-hosting.

A lot of forums want to not be joined at the hip with a cesspool of transient internet riff-raff which is exactly the problem that platforms that try to cater to everything (reddit, 4Chan) have. It's impossible to have real quality discussion about anything when the people who have deep interest in the subject are outnumbered 100:1 by people with passing interest.
No matter what I buy, no matter how niche and one-off the purchase is, Amazon never fails to recommend a hundred similar (usually knockoff) products.

Instead of focusing on what I just bought, they need to focus on predicting what I'll want to buy next. Just because I bought a coffee maker doesn't mean I'm turning into a coffee maker collector.
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I read words incorrectly when I'm tired. Is this abnormal?
> No idea if the creators opt in to this “feature” (I bet they don’t; it’s probably either all or nothing with ads), but it definitely exists.

You used to be able to opt-in to mid-roll ads. A few months ago, YouTube switched it to an opt-out system, helpfully enabling them for all then-existing videos that hadn't opted in:

> Starting in late July, videos that are longer than eight minutes will be eligible for mid-roll ads. As part of this change, mid-roll ads will be turned on for all eligible existing videos and future video uploads, including those videos where you may have previously opted out of mid-roll ads. Videos that already have mid-roll ads turned on will not be impacted.

(As I understand it, there is no way to disable the mid-roll ad on all videos, so you'd have to manually flip it for every single video. How kind of YouTube.)
Laptops with iGPUs are pretty normal, no? (And common on desktops too)
It obviously can't be DHCP, because that's not a secure thing to begin with

Why not? DHCP is supposed to be authoritative for the network you're connected to. If you don't trust that network, you should probably also not be using its advertised gateway. Where does that leave you?