skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah the problem is that there's nothing to stop product designers from specifying the connectors even though the device doesn't logically support the implied standards.

Some people here talked about the Switch; but it's a general problem. For example: I have an external USB drive that has a Type A USB 3 host socket on the back of it (???). It came with a cable with a Type A USB 3 plug on one end and a USB C plug on the other end.

Now that's a combination of connectors you will definitely see elsewhere. I have such a cable that came with my PS5 for charging its controllers - but I know for a fact that it's not interchangeable with the one for my external drive.
1) be pseudonymous. People in my real life don't need to know what I do on the internet. Not like I'm doing anything untoward, but I am candidly discussing things with random strangers, including things some might view as beyond discussion, and you don't want some crusade against you for that. Your real life and your internet life don't need to overlap, and 99% of people get no benefit from them overlapping.

2) never capitulate, never apologize unless you genuinely did something wrong. This can be hard, but there's no other option. Also, never explain yourself. I've done nothing for which I owe anyone an explanation, least of all random people on the internet.

3) don't use main line social media. Nothing good comes from having an account on twitter or Facebook.

4) anyone who says they care about you that decides they don't even know who you are because some random stranger on the internet accuses you of something doesn't care about you really. At the very least they'd ask you if it is true before passing judgment. I know it can be hard even knowing this, the people you can trust are never exactly who you expect or want them to be.

5) the mob is only as powerful as you let them be.

6) sue. If someone slanders or libels you, sue them into poverty. The only thing keeping people from transgressing you is fear of reprisal. Make an example out of them. If it actually negatively affected your life and you have evidence that what they said isn't true, you may be entitled to compensation.

In the age of the internet, you have to have a thick skin. It is required. I understand that some people take it hard and some even hurt themselves from the pressure, and I feel bad for those people, but the failure is that they let noise from the ether affect their emotional well being. You cannot do that. The internet is a resource of information and a communications channel. Nothing more.
Twitter is a toxic wasteland of shit eaters.

I avoid Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, pretty much anything considered social media. In fact, the only websites I use are email, banking, and HN.

I don’t need social media. Social media doesn’t deserve my bandwidth, advertisers don’t deserve my attention, and my mind doesn’t deserve to be manipulated.
One issue is that your friend would often not want your public support. You throwing yourself onto the pyre will not rescue them, only destroy you too. In many cases it would be symbolic-- and really just another example of virtue signaling, just like the mob but signaling a different set of virtues to a different audience.

Better that you stay employable so you can lend a financial hand if they aren't and protect your psychological health so you can be there for them in other ways.

So sure, pray for the courage to throw yourself physically in front of an unstoppable train... but also pray for the wisdom to know better. :)
> The best solution here is to completely disconnect from social media

I've thought about that, but your reputation is being destroyed. You'll offer no defense? You'll let everyone who you value get that impression of you? You'll allow it to become permanent, public record for anyone who ever looks you up with a search engine?
> You're not the first to comment on the name, and I can't see the implication there.

Seed is a slang term for semen. The cover has nothing at all related to plants and instead looks like spy stuff, where you expect a fair bit of sex due to the genre (e.g. Bond girls like Dr. Goodhead or Pussy Galore), which is what tips the interpretation towards sexual innuendo.

Also, it doesn't help that it feels like a reference to some Bond film names that were also sexual innuendo, e.g. the Man with the Golden Gun, where gun also means penis.

I hope this helps your understanding of English, I know how hard it is to learn other languages and you write well enough that I would not have guessed that English was not your first language.
> All one needs is a VPN

You don't need that. At least, I don't.

> a torrent client

All good operating systems (i.e. Linux) come with one. Though obviously most non-technical people don't use Linux.

> a browser

Pretty much standard on everything.

> an internet connection

Which they would be using anyway for streaming services.

> Most tv's nowadays are smart enough

Aaagh! Don't use "smart" TVs!
A good example happened to me yesterday. I brought my MacBook and charger to my partner’s family’s place along with my USB-C SSD that has some files I thought I might need on it; however, I managed to forget the USB-C charging cable for my computer. I ended up using the USB-C cable that came with my SSD. It’s not charging at full speed, but it’s working!
Scotland, so yes I am.
For everyone blindly rage triggered by the presence of the bytes "t-e-l-e-m-e-t-r-y", cogman10 elsewhere ITT [1] summarized that concern well:

> It's like being afraid your browser profiler is being used to spy on you. Could it do that? Sure. but there are so many easier ways to accomplish the same task.

So take a second to straighten out your panties and then actually look at the thing first. It's just an open-source (!) APM protocol that competes with (edit: more like, adjacent to) DataDog, DynaTrace, New Relic etc etc. It's not even a suitable tool for spying.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27296419
>nazis and other people who are desperate to express their hate, and even break the law and recruit others will eventually find it and spam the hell out of it. 4chan is a perfect example of what happens to an actually occasionally funny place that allows any kind of discussion "just for lulz".

No, the problem is that right of center posts and comments are banned and cheaply and falsely dismissed as "nazi" ideology. The issue is exacerbated with the heavily politicized moderation. It's a self reinforcing bubble at this point.

There is far more diverse discussion on 4chan. You may get shouted down, but you won't be banned or downvoted into oblivion for dissenting. I think it's far more telling that unmoderated forums tend to lean right - it speaks to the authoritarianism that has consumed the left, and pervasive control that progressives have across the internet. When you ban both far right extremism and right of center opinions, the people are forced to congregate in the select few alternative forums that are not politicized through moderation. It's also seems that leftist opinions can only flourish through heavy handed moderation and community gatekeeping. Reddit is just one example. Take a look at Wikipedia, or stackexhange, and the kind of sources that are permitted. Frankly, the "nazi" right is more open-minded at this point than the left, because leftist forums (and in person groups) tend to suppress dissenting ideas, to the degree that people on these moderated forums are simply not exposed to alternative ideas, which are far more nuanced than the trivial -isms that they are universally slandered with.

Polarization in the US is thusly driven primarily by left wing authoritarianism, which uses the paradox of intolerance as an excuse to be intolerant, assigning guilt to right of center opinions by tenuous assocation.
It's interesting considering other markets where Amazon isn't so dominant. Web novel websites are really popular in Asia for example - the content is completely free to read and anyone can upload a novel. The best novels get ranked really high, are easily discoverable, and end up getting publishing deals. Due to the low barrier to entry, good UX, and popularity of the sites, even new authors can get a lot of exposure. I feel like there isn't really anything similar in the US. Amazon has basically extinguished all innovation in this area (like they did with the audio market too, e.g. CDNow which was one of the best curated music sites of all time... and now we have Amazon Music and Spotify).
SaaS competitor to buffer, later, Hootsuite,etc.
It's more complex than this but yes, allow smaller competitors to exist long enough to compete by offering similar enough products as a large, evolved ecosystem/platform provides, as to eventually have competition in place to keep fees/how much they extract from society in check.

I didn't argue Stripe has a monopoly but even ogilopolies once mature enough are problematic.

Also of you're trying to argue VCs make investments in companies that ultimately make good decisions for society vs. self-interested - then I disagree.
I have a little kid. When we watch cartoons, they might point at the villain of the piece - e.g., Jafar - and say "he's a bad man!"

And I take the opportunity to nudge them and ask, "They did a bad thing. Does that mean they're always bad? Can they make things better? Should we forgive them? How do we know when to forgive them?" (not in a single tirade; these are just questions I drop over time.)

Because, in anticipation of the fact that they're definitely going to fuck up along the way, I want them to learn that mistakes and failures and even doing bad things don't make them irrevocably bad - that ultimately, the most important thing is making amends / trying again / etc. That your worst decision is not the sum total of who you are.

I don't see why I should try so hard to teach that to my kid, and then "disavow" friends who may have fucked up.
Remember Mats Järlström? He was an engineer, but not a "licensed professional engineer" who complained about traffic light timings, and the state board tried to fine him $500?

https://ij.org/press-release/oregon-engineer-wins-traffic-li...
There is already a mechanism for conveying liability to the publisher (not the platform, but the tweeter/poster, as it should be) when they publish false claims of fact (ie lies).
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This depends on what you think makes a great movie and a great system and there really is no right answer. I'm not sure the above 'proves' that things were made worse for consumers. Fact is, weird independent 'auteur' filmmakers and foreign films entered the market in the 1960's and were able to distribute without being locked out. The producers taking those risks perhaps didn't feel they were taking a risk at all. Maybe they knew they had a winning hand and had better know-how than the studio bosses and their risk avoidance BS. That's how you get those Easy Riders and Raging Bulls.

At the same time, movie theatres ceased to be these lavish 'palaces'. So what 'going to the movies' meant shifted in consumers' minds. Film productions also shrunk in size and scale so there is that. I would assume the business side actually deteriorated while cultural relevance rose. Probably not everyone on the consumer side was happy with all of that.

If we're talking about that studio era though, these portfolios of movies being managed from the top definitely made films bland and predictable. But then on the other hand they also forced the talent to hone skill through repetition. So you had some specific aspects of the films being executed on a high polished level like the noir cinematography. I'm feeling/seeing something similar going on right now with the VOD offering. Even though it's all really well produced and shot and put together, I just sense everyone is following the same seemingly risque but safe playbook optimized for social media marketing.

Seen in another way, the internet aspect of these distribution systems really can make all of the above completely irrelevant too. I find my satisfaction with MUBI and weird niche shit on YouTube. A piece of my money still goes toward partially paying for the very same infrastructure. As someone else mentioned here already - I'm not physically limited from seeking what I want to find online, and it's all there side by side for me to view. This was not at all the case in the 1950's.

In my mind one thing is certain, and this is just my take - I don't really want to watch a James Bond that has been developed by a goofy logistics e-commerce corporate giant. I just really don't see it.
Which is interesting, because I have a Bachelor of Software Engineering from Australia, and am certified by the Australian Institute of Engineers... but there were a TON of Engineers at the big Canadian Telco I worked for who were hell-bent on me NOT calling myself an Engineer.
Same deal. I've switched everything I can to USB-C, and so far had literally zero issues.

Obviously my phone charger will charge a laptop more slowly, but I had that issue with micro-USB and Kindle chargers that couldn't charge a phone faster than it used the power, so hardly anything new or unexpected.
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He's not representing himself as such to a potential client or in the context of a for-pay project, but as part of a talk. He's a person who made his living from engineering, so in that context it makes perfect common sense.
The bigger issue here, and what is threatening the integrity of the research, is blind reliance on conference publication count as a proxy for research quality.

Maybe it's time to move on from some of these conferences, and focus on interactions that maximize sharing research findings. I know that is unrealistic, but like every other metric, conference acceptance ceases to have value once the metric itself is what people care about.
I don't know if this service allows uploading images, but if it doesn't, storing text is cheap. "Too cheap to meter," as they used to say about nuclear power (although that turned out to be a pipe dream). For simple sites like these GitHub & GitLab Pages is free, or NearlyFreeSpeech is "nearly free" as the name implies. Hell, set up an sdf.org account and serve out of public_html. One of my hopes for the future of computing is as storage, bandwidth and compute get more efficient and cheaper (and fees on financial transactions don't, and adblockers become more prevalent), people decide it's not worth the effort to charge users fractions of a penny for their use of a service. Having the site's admins cover the cost isn't a big deal if it's on the order of $5/month.

I would be more concerned about moderation than storage or bandwidth usage. It's more difficult for text to be illegal than images, but it's clearly still possible: hate speech, copyright violations, etc. (whether it should be is another argument...)
And when I last looked at doing certification, the core requirements had literally nothing to do with what I practiced (fluid dynamics for a software engineer? Take a hike)

It's all a racket. I'm an unlicensed, non-PE software engineer. Am I allowed to call myself that?
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Except they aren't specific concerns, it's just a generic "it's dangerous, we need to control it". Considering that they said the same about GPT-2 (and it's release ended up doing ... nothing), I think there's good reason to be suspicious of bias, because OpenAI being the gatekeeper is profitable for them.
But he won his case and the court declared that he could say he's an engineer, even though he was not a "licensed professional engineer" according to the Oregon state licensing board.
As a regular techie with a 16,000 person following you are not getting any of those perks. Your app will die. You may feel like you are raising a stink but a phone call would work better. Recruitors finding you on twitter is possible, submitting your resume ensures they have it is a better strategy. Making conference organizer friends on twitter or in person can get great conference speaker spots but not something the average developer does.
You’d get burnt in 15 minutes in NZ or AU. Maybe 30 if you’re in shade. Even with best protection (spf 70 and shade), I still get burnt after half day on the water.
imagine a world where new houses are cheaper and as it ages and surrounding develops houses become more desirable and stronger
Going by that logic, you should never take a chance on a bad company because they are bad, and a good company because they are too good and might get acquired. So should you just never rely on a small company for anything?
There is always another side to the story.

I was friends once with someone who I later found out had schizophrenia. She used to say horrible stuff about what other people had done to her.

Then came the couple of times some raging hot-headed guy would be banging on the front door of our house yelling at us and wanting to have a go because of the all the horrible things we had done to this poor girl..

It is amusing looking back but wasn't at the time, and it was scary how far people are willing to go even off hearsay.
The book "So You've Been Publicly Shamed" by Jon Ronson, is an excellent look at this topic. He interviews a number of people who have been the focus of such "mob attacks", and spends enough time on each to show how they happen, and what the long term results are. It's an oddly thoughtful and reflective look at thoughtless and unreflective behavior.
Yeah, they had one of the best remote talks I've ever seen at last year's NeurIPS: https://nips.cc/virtual/2020/public/invited_16166.html
Um. Example of sites where you have to load the whole video? I've never seen that in my life (I'm 29).
Have you heard of the Screen Recognition feature in iOS 14? I haven't had a chance to use it myself yet. From what I've heard, it's impressive, but not a complete solution, at least not yet. Apple published a paper about it here:

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/creating-accessib...
You're using natural log, for my quick-and-dirty I used log2, which gives a slightly higher crossover point. The exact crossover depends on the size of the constant term, of course.
For good reason. When I get a plan stamped by an Engineer I want to make sure they're certified to make sure my thing doesn't fall over / collapse.

I am a Software Developer - I did not graduate from an Engineering college. I am not an Engineer. The stuff I do does not kill people when it fails.

99% of people that claim to be Engineers (at least in Software) are not.
And, it should be stated, that it isn't even really about gathering metrics. It is about providing a standard interface to gather metrics. (I know you know this, but with the confusion here, I figure I should go into details).

The point of OpenTelemitry is to make it so you could write the places you get your traces/metrics in one part of code and configure which backend system it is collected into in another part.

So, for example, you'd add a `trace("my slow thing"){ be slow }` into your code and later add `report to zipkin` or `report to Jaeger` in another part. The place where you trace "my slow thing" doesn't care about how to interact with the backend system or which backend vendor is ultimately used. You can start using prometheus, zipkin, new relic, Jaeger, whatever, just so long as they have an OpenTelemetry adapter you are golden.

The analog is SLF4J in Java.
I had that view initially. And then I followed his writings for quite a few years and it started getting old.

And long. Loooong. His sales pitches seem to always go in circles. Computational irreducability here, causal graph there, namedrop Wolfram Language a few times with pretty pictures, make sure that "in our models" Einsteins theory and quantum mechanics are mentioned as special cases and "surprisingly everything works out beautifully". Yeah no right.

Time to move on. I've read enough of his 20-mile-long self-praising sales pich novels. He is just going in circles.
>free expression is only temporarily inconvenienced if one is told to express elsewhere, while free association is inalterably destroyed if one cannot ask someone to leave your private property based on their behavior.

Were not talking about abolishing freedom of association or property rights, thats the same strawman hateful business used which of course did not happen.

Were talking about the most powerful corporations in the world who have become de facto owners and governors of the town square in which the majority of communication takes place.
Renewable energy is already a thing.
Their approach to reliability isn't quite on par with mainframes, AIUI. At least, not yet. And the programming model is also quite different - a mainframe can seamlessly scale from lots of tiny VM workloads (what Oxide seems to be going for) to large vertically-scaled shared-everything SSI, and anything in between.
This is just a conjecture, but I think the 280 character limit on Twitter (or whatever it is now) is one of the key culprits behind the trend of deteriorating discourse not just at the societal level but even at a personal level. It's simply impossible to express nuance in a 280-character span and if you can't win over an audience within that limit, they'll just scroll past whatever else you have to say. Even if you personally have a more intricate perspective on the matter, you're forced to play by majority rules if you want to reach an audience and that quickly becomes a race to the bottom in a system that rewards whoever can come up with the best one-line mic drop instead of the best formulated ideas. I've noticed in my very limited experience with Twitter that it seems to drive "engagement" from opposing sides more so than Facebook's echo chamber, which is a breeding ground for confrontation (whereas long-form Facebook rants seem more so geared towards getting people on "your side" to egg you on). In theory our society needs that sort of cross-aisle engagement to reverse the trend of political fragmentation, but if all you have is 280 characters to make your case that just simply doesn't work. I wonder if there is a solution that could make it work, but given the trend of social media culture being driven by the lowest common denominator I'm inclined to think you'd need some sort of centralized moderating authority and that just brings us back full circle to traditional media outlets
No, 16k accounts follow his. Of that, maybe a few hundred actually have users behind them that look at his tweets with any kind of frequency.
When I was a kid, we had this massive high-voltage transformer that produced about 2,000 volts, at some sick amperage.

We used it to make jacob's ladders. That was fun.

Until I touched the two bars.

I woke up on the other side of the room, smelling burning...me.

That wasn't fun...
books haven't been around forever, and in particular printed books are only about 600 years old.the basic concept of a bound set of pages is about 1500 years old.

pen technology in 2021 looks absolutely nothing like pen technology in 1621. I don't think a person from that time would visually recognize a modern pen, even if they could understand its purpose once it was explained or they got to use it.

paper is only about 1200 years old.

None of these technologies has "been around for ever", although one could clearly make a case that barring total civilizational collapse, they might truly be here to stay.

I don't think that the same could be said for any current computing technology.

Sailing technology is similar, except that very few people ever sail, travel in sailboats, receive goods shipped in sailboats, or even see a sailboat. The things that have largely replaced sailing would look very foreign to someone from 1621. I suspect the same will be true in 2400. There will still be some people (perhaps) using technology that we're familiar with today, but most people will use something else.