skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great points. Social media is a different beast compared to Amazon/MS/Apple but seeing a CN company crack the US advertising duopoly (F/G) is interesting. And I do wonder how much of that pertains to the Musical.ly acquisition. Now, I'm trying to think about the discussion as it pertains to the AAM slice of GAFAM and the conversation gets more interesting for me there.

I can think of substitutes for Apple (Huawei) and Amazon (Alibaba) with US market penetration, but I can't think of any for M. I can think of a couple reasons why off the top of my head but I'm curious as to what you think.
Yes: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/sep/30/us-intelligenc...
Wow textfiles.com hit me right in the nostalgia, I was wondering, Is there a modern equivalent of textfiles.com?
For desktop, sure. I've tried a few mobile apps but the UI was worse than the mobile site in my opinion. I can deal with the UI of their mobile site, but all of the UX issues that OP mentioned keeps me away from it, so I never browse reddit on mobile devices.

I just noticed a few users below mentioning that i.reddit.com exists, which seems to be a similar UI to old.reddit, but for mobile. From the couple minutes I've spent browsing it seems to be a massive upgrade from the current mobile site.
210 Reasons for decline of Roman Empire: https://courses.washington.edu/rome250/gallery/ROME%20250/21...

Pretty much every bogeyman is on there.
Douglas Rushkoff calls this "extracting wealth by destroying value".

Apt.
In US in many areas the earthquakes safety requires to build lighter houses. Plus many areas are subject to tornados and hurricanes when it is rather pointless to build anything that lasts 100 years. On that time scale the house will be destroyed or badly damaged in any case.
Can this be disabled via Pi-Hole?
So now I can’t use my computer when my kids watch tv?
Never heard of Stundin before, but it reads like a pretty well done report.
U2.
If fancy manufacturing facilities with expensive equipment don't scale well because construction materials are manufactured in a lot of small factories rather than a few big ones, it seems like an obvious way to improve construction is to reduce the cost of that fancy equipment so that it's available even to small operations.

We see this with a lot of smaller-scale tools: 3D printers, CNCs, laser cutters, welders, pick-and-place machines for assembling circuit boards, etc.. are things that have become affordable to casual hobbyists.

I could see augmented reality being a big deal for construction. See exactly where everything is supposed to go as you install it.

Maybe eventually a mobile 3D-printing gantry that can be quickly deployed on site will be something that a small local business would own.
While it's true, the level you would have to be at to have to worry about sanctions puts you into "too big to fail" territory.
Agree 100% with everything you said here. Continuing with the example of food, the ability to watch a Youtube video about an emerging food trend on Saturday, try making it on Sunday because they taught me how to do it, then watch 5 more channels doing the same idea in different ways, and eventually understand the idea enough to use the techniques does not seem to be restricting the evolution of ideas in any way and seems to actually rapidly accelerate it.
Checkpointing - saving the state of the computation at intermediate points - can help a lot with this.

BUT, beware that checkpointing can also be unreliable if the system being simulated exhibits chaotic dynamics; truncating off "unimportant" decimal places during checkpointing can produce results that diverge rapidly between the "original" and "restarted from checkpoint" versions.
Can this be summarized as „Composition > Inheritance“?
If I was reading an article about grammar and the author used the wrong version of their/they're/there I would seriously consider whether or not I should stop reading it.
If the other requirements they've posted are accurate then the CPU list alone will eliminate anything more than about 3 years old.
I don't believe that it is possible to write safe C (or C++), even if you are both very careful and also among the most skilled C developers out there. Every sizable project in C has had critical vulnerabilities. It is not possible to train engineers on a team of any meaningful size to consistently write bug free code and catch bugs in code review. Sanitizers, fuzzing, and static analysis all help but are insufficient in the face of the utterly impossible task of writing safe C programs, let alone evolving safe C programs.

Look at all the very smart people that tried and completely failed to write libraries that do such basic things as copying strings.
It can be used with test framework. Also it provides great type definition for the object being mocked, its method and arguments' types.
Have the simulation do periodic dumps of its state to disk and have the ability to resume the simulation from those dumps if interrupted.
Can't you do this already with Python type annotations? I am a fan of typing in general (not just for data model as this seems to be) and using types everywhere saves a lot of debugging hassle and even allows for catching some bugs with static analysis.
Does it support Full HD (at least) streaming from Netfilx and / or Prime?

My setup is like GP's, ie I play the videos on the computer, but what bothers me personally is that I have to boot windows to get the high quality streaming.

I've looked specifically at Kodi maybe a year ago and it didn't seem to support this. I'm OK with tinkering if I know it's actually possible to get this working.
I only have Hulu installed, and it's the only paid streaming service I use. I'm getting ads for peakcock and disney+ too.
If you have a Windows 10 license, you already have a Windows 11 "license", since the update is free.
To their credit, Microsoft has signed a secure boot "shim" that allows the user to do that, with explicit prompting. It's being used in the boot flow of many Linux distributions.
Wash sale rules dont apply when selling investments at a profit.
I think the solution to reduce housing costs is simple and three-fold.

First: most people can build a house. It's really not difficult. Today's homes are quite complex in terms of their layers of parts, and constantly varying building codes don't help. But if you can swing a hammer and push a saw, you can build a house.

Ikea has shown it's not only possible, but profitable, to sell virtually everything that goes in a home to consumers and have them put it together themselves. So why not the rest of the house too? We've done it before: Sears shipped people houses on the railroad along with instructions and (eventually) pre-fab parts. They sold them for 30 years. https://www.amusingplanet.com/2021/06/sears-mail-order-homes...

A huge chunk of the cost of a home is the labor. So let the homeowner handle more of it! They can build in stages, offsetting costs and building at their own pace. And if somebody gets tired of doing it themselves, they can always hire a contractor.

Second: customers interest in having a unique home is a huge cost. So let's focus on building either the variable parts, or on making a "core home" that can be customized after the fact by customers. Most homes are just boxes. It should be possible for us to construct some basic designs that can then be modified or "spruced up" by the homeowner later. Most of the features that make a home look unique could be turned into add-ons, so that we could focus on efficiency of the bare home, and let customers take on additional cost when and if they choose.

Third: most people don't need huge houses! Due to the increasing cost of renting, most renters rent apartments that are absolutely tiny by comparison to the average new home. We can reduce housing costs further by simply making the building smaller, and gaining efficiencies by taking advantage of that smaller size. Want a bigger home? By having simpler designs by default with add-on exteriors, we can make it much easier to add extensions on to houses. Simply unbolt the exterior facade, build on your extension, and bolt the facades back on. This allows us to spend less money on materials and labor, while still allowing the consumer to add to the property over time.
You're a lifesaver. Wasn't able to get the 3rd party launcher going by default. Thanks!
I hope your comment is not removed here but I want to ask you something- do you support 4 year kids being taught "death to Israel"?

Let's see whose comment gets flagged first.
Adverts specifically, or just being able to scorch any design into your toast? The later sure would be neat and novel, my nephew gets a kick out of pancakes that look like his favorite cartoon characters.

But adverts on my breakfast? Dear god please no.
I never remember people's birthdays, so I have added them to my calendar, and I make sure to message people to wish them a happy birthday when I get the calendar notification. Does this make my happy birthday wishes fake? Should I never let anyone realize I use a calendar?
According to the FAQ on the linked page, not yet.
> Second, if this were true, the number of innovations would have decreased after we became globally connected. This hasn't been the case

I read the argument as being about diversity. There are innovations, but as you point out in the next paragraph, they spread quickly, which could be good, but also destroys a lot of diversity. Look at how different UI design trends spread e.g. I don't consider that a clear win. Having many less connected groups could potentially lead to more, and more diverse innovations, vs. everyone jumping on the same bandwagon

The other thing that spreads more quickly is disease (here I mean metaphorically). If everything is the same, it gets infected the same way, and I believe there is an element of that when you look at online discourse, at dark patterns and other user hostile business practices, etc.

There are some reasons homogeneity is good, especially locally in time, but it presents an evolutionarily disadvantage over longer scales, which is what I took to be the point of the MC quote
I was working on Nationbuilder, a horrible all-in-one master-of-none thing, back in 2016 or so, and ran so many concurrent tasks in our BE that it started affecting all of their other clients. Waking up an engineer in CA was fun
Please don't take HN threads straight into nationalistic flamewar hell, regardless of what site of what battle you happen to be on. That is emphatically not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The 5.3 second figure is the time from the start of the first API call to the completion of the final API call, as shown in Firefox's Network tab.
This is nonsensical. Glider pilots (no engine!) fly aerobatics programs all the time, in planes with curved wings. If the pilot is a bit of a masochist, they could fly upside down for half an hour in still air given enough altitude. The various forms of air resistance will be greater and energy/altitude loss hence higher, but the wing will still be generating lift equal to the weight of the airplane.
How are the compile times? That's a really big point in the article and you don't mention them at all.
I think science fiction author Charles Stores put it best in this 2016 blog post[1]:

> 2007 is when the human species accidentally invented telepathy (via the fusion of twitter, facebook, and other disclosure-induction social media with always-connected handheld internet devices). Telepathy, unfortunately, turns out to not be all about elevated Apollonian abstract intellectualism: it's an emotion amplifier and taps into the most toxic wellsprings of the subconscious. As implemented, it brings out the worst in us. Twitter and Facebook et al are fine-tuned to turn us all into car-crash rubberneckers and public execution spectators. It can be used for good, but more often it drags us down into the dim-witted, outraged weltanschauung of the mob.

[1] https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2016/01/some-am...
In other bad news, Microsoft developers on Twitter stated that 8th Gen Intel or 2nd Gen Ryzen CPUs will, actually, be required to install Windows 11 at all by RTM. If you are on 7th gen Intel or 1st gen Ryzen, there is no mercy. A 2013 MacBook gets more support than a 2017 Windows laptop.

https://linustechtips.com/topic/1351028-microsoft-makes-thin...

A security director now says that a blog post "clarifying the floor" is coming. But frankly, if this turns out to be a miscommunication, if you read those tweets Microsoft would have to be unbelievably incompetent in their use of words.
The law is advancing at it's usual pace. Some highlights include the Magna Carta in 1215, the Constitution in 1787, the Emancipation in 1863, the 19th Amendment in 1920, the Civil Rights Act of 1964...if anything, progress is happening more quickly now than ever.

It's just that culture/society/law change far slower than technology. Most US Senators are over 65, with associated world-views and educations more than half a century old. A quarter century ago, neither smart TVs, targeted ads, nor Google itself existed.

Children today are warned about Internet tracking tools, privacy management, they're aware of the creepy omnipresent big brother nature of tech, perhaps in 2080 Congress will be ready to address these issues.
Basically every streaming device has a Plex app: https://www.plex.tv/apps-devices/
Lol @ “actual journalists”

You do know there is no such thing as journalistic licensing or certification, right? They went to college. They have nothing above anyone else who break news because they are employed by a corporate outlet. That makes me trust them less actually.
Isn't this case discussed at the end of the article?

> C++ committee member Tony Van Eerd commented on reddit that with std::memory_order_acquire and two locks a and b; calls to a.unlock(); b.lock() and lock() for different locks could be reordered to b.lock(); a.unlock(); and introduce a potential deadlock. I don’t think that’s true. Reading section 6.9.2.1 Data races (paragraph 9) of the C++ standard] no loads or stores can bed moved into or out from between a load-acquire and store-release pair.

> http://eel.is/c++draft/intro.races#9
Why Is Europe Crap at Tech?
The quoted recipes were written by people who don’t know what they are doing.
Starting in 2023, Windows 11 will require new laptops to have a front webcam
It was interesting to see architecture and engineering broken out as ~1.5% of the total cost of building a home, and it made me wonder: How much does better residential architecture actually cost?

If I were in the market to build a home, and the difference between building something that looks like your average suburban detached versus something modern and striking were, say, an extra 1.5% (doubling the cost of architecture and engineering), I wouldn't even consider skimping on architecture.

And yet, most architecturally-interesting homes are most certainly not 1.5% or even 15% more than average-looking homes, being generally restricted to luxury markets. Why is that?
> The majority of games now support Linux according to ProtonDB

This is misleading IMO. The dashboard doesn't do a good job of letting me know what proportion of mainstream games (from Ubisoft, EA, etc) are supported. And what the performance delta is.
We probably have different views on this, but I consider who murders the first people as the instigator. That combined with lying about being attacked and the documented execution of Egyptian prisoners doesn't make me want to give credence to your point of view.

Also when France and the UK declared war on Germany, it had already occupied Poland using armed forces, so I feel like your comparison is a little tenuous.

My understanding of the six day war is not good, I'll admit that, it's based on some very vague memories of my history class in school and on some late night Wikipedia reading, but I am very confident that Israel doesn't have the moral high ground to the level of certainty that your original post implies.

(Also I would have liked that before accusing me of not reading my source, maybe you'd considered that even though we've read the same words we might get to different conclusions, and that's fine)
I remember when moving to Linux in 2010 (then Mac) being surprised that:

- There were practically no ads, and especially no ads with easy traps such as “You have a virus, install this to remove it”.

- There were no OEM drivers, and thus no Askbar, the 404 pages were really 404s, and the Search on Google bar really went to Google.com. That was new for me, coming from Windows.

- If there were ads, on Mac, they were for higher-class products, not fast food.

People joke about the 20% to 100% higher cost of Apple products, but being away from the grandma/noobs ecosystem has no price. Corollary: Grandmas and noobs endure an obnoxious OS experience, because advertisers know that a lot of them will click on traps like “Error 404. Enter your credit card to view content” (or, today, “Want in on the Bitcoin experience?”).
Capitalists build for ourselves as amateurs, hobbyists, or artisans, too. Do we offend you as much as dog whistles do?
In the same way it is important elsewhere?
Some questions from non-american from Eastern Europe:

1. Why Palestinians celebrated 9/11 attacks on civilians

2. Why Palestinians teach to kill Israelis from the kindergarten

3. Why Palestinians support ISIS and generally jihadists who behead kids/women/elderly people
I was going to question whether this is really an "AI" application but, given its function - mimicking a human - it literally is artificial intelligence.
The worldwide disdain arises from what you said, the additional association with communism / cheapness, and the fact that they are mass produced, generic, and boring, and no one wants to spend a lot of money to get generic and boring.
Early on in my career, I worked for a secret unit of a secret government law enforcement group that handled surveillance.
Being young, full of verve, and not nearly as smart as I thought I was, I was always trying to improve things and tinker.
Knowing nothing about networking, I plugged a switch into itself. Due to the configuration it knocked the entire surveillance network offline and everyone was freaking out.
I was cool as a cucumber, because it couldn’t have been me. Must have been a coincidence right?

Right?

The sense of dread the dawned on me as the former Navy Seal turned Network Engineer (and later doctor) started sniffing around the switch I had just touched was palpable.
Luckily for me, He kept my mistake quiet and fixed it quickly.
That's what is usually said. I don't think I've actually heard of this getting triggered. I'd like to think that global governments have this totally under control. Maybe the US does, but does China? In any case so far it's seemed like a whole "this rock keeps away Tigers" sort of thing.
Candidates at Google – Ron Paul (2007) [video]
old.reddit.com is great, but it has nothing to do with what's described above, which is google results. At least on mobile I think you're automatically sent to the stupid AMP page regardless.
Actually the first flight of Ariane 5 exploded automatically when it started to fall apart, because the flight computer read an Ada exception as flight data and from this, it decided to turn as fast as possible.

They reused the launch code of Ariane 4 in Ariane 5, but Ariane 5 was much faster to take off. It was an overflow on the acceleration and bad testing because reading an Ada exception as flight data is not great.

We learn that at school in France many years later.
Not everyone chose to do that then. and I don't think of it as a golden age.

I wouldn't know how many deliberately chose not to self-promote in that way, but it is probably far more than those who chose to blog.

I think system architecture is part of the present problem, but it is not at the root. Even during your so-called Golden Age the deeper issue was already manifest, though not yet scaled.
It makes Linux more complicated to deploy, for one. And if they ever change their mind and don't allow it on x86 any more, Linux is basically exiled from the PC OEM market.
Also all manufacturers which are not tracking Google's updates in a monthly interval are essentially worthless from a security perspective. Nobody needs to care about the latest Android version, which is only bringing marginal improvements amyway.
Apple TV is ad free so long as you don’t count the un-dismissable 1p promos for Apple TV+ trials and Apple Arcade trials.
At $WORK, there's a process for automatically scanning docker images for packages that have CVEs against them. Any docker image that includes glibc instantly shoots to the top of the charts, mostly because of a boatload of high or critical severity CVEs relating to bugs in asm-implemented functions on platforms like ARM, POWER9, etc. Everything in our company runs on x86, but the CVE scanning tool is dumb, so a switch to alpine was heavily encouraged.

This broke teams that rely on python and on node, but the docker image guidelines come from a team whose ideal language is now go (and most of whose legacy code is in java), so they are not really sensitive to those concerns. Ironically we tried to move to distroless as implemented by google[1], but that's based on debian which includes glibc, so the un-nuanced CVE checker freaks out again. That effort was quietly dropped.

(I'm not actually disputing the proposition that alpine is better for security under certain circumstances, but I think a lot of "the push" comes from what might uncharitably be described as cargo culting, or with more insight as interpretations that make sense in one context [everything is a static binary, little to no reliance on traditional userland tools] being unquestioningly extended to other contexts.)

[1] https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/distroless
Or as large subdivisions built all at once, like Levittown mentioned in the article.
The point of the above posts though is that Virgil Griffith is probably going to prison because he wasn't paying attention to sanctions though? Or, the case of Meng Wanzhou who is a Chinese citizen who avoided connecting flights through the US and was arrested in Canada anyway for violating trade sanctions with Iran?
I hope that they go for the hydrogen fuel cell...
Reddit is literally the worst use of AMP I've ever seen, and honestly probably plays a great part in why a lot of people dislike AMP. It honestly has no place using AMP in the first place since it isn't really a static page.
… and ditch the steam turbine and switch to fast reactors so the waste is less radioactive the original ore in 500 years …
sounds like a fantastic addition to https://github.com/chubin/cheat.sh
Doesn't the same apply to this [1] comment?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27645772
I mean there is no reason wooden structures shouldn't last over 100 years if not double or triple that except for lack of maintenance, usually involving leaking roof or a negligent design that traps water. I grew up in a house that was 150 years old and the only thing not wooden on it was the roofing material, although when it was first built it likely was cedar shake. The walls were wood, the floors were wood, the siding was wood, and any interior plaster was backed with wood. We never had to question any of the woods condition despite the majority of it being completely original.
You can't post this kind of slur to HN, regardless of who you're slurring. I've banned this account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Religious flamewar is not welcome on HN in general (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...), but this was a step even beyond that.
Would you clarify your comment please. Are you saying balloon vs platform framing is a personal choice?