skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is more to the problem than a tradeoff between freedom and safety.

The problem isn't created simply by allowing people the freedom to express themselves. It's created by highly manipulative middlemen choosing what to promote and what to suppress (in a relative not absolute sense) via algorithms designed to maximize attention to ads.

That is nothing like a simple free speech situation.

I have no problem with free speech, and free speech forums, even if they do sometimes become cess pools.

I have a real problem with the most widely used glorified scrapbook sharing software (Facebook), biasing all our feeds toward content that is likely to pull us into comment flame wars or using provoked anger and tribal identity reinforcement as a user addiction strategies.

Note that Facebook didn't start behaving this way until after the network effect of their social graph had created tremendous lock-in/switching-costs for their users.
Nativefier/nativefier: Make any web page a desktop application
> Otherwise everything would be dominated by the huge incumbents forever.

One thing to remember is that mainframes are still dominated by IBM, 60 years later. And mainframes are still a somewhat stable market worth billions of dollars.

IT works primarily by accretion, new markets are created, and in those markets IT also seems to work by natural monopolies due to network effects, so once the market stabilizes the huge incumbents are there forever.

IBM still dominates mainframes, minicomputers are gone so no one dominates those anymore, workstations are also gone so no domination there either, but PCs are dominated by Microsoft and have been for 40 years, smartphones are split between Android and iOS and both will probably be around as long as we use smartphones.
It's not obviously a mistake to me. They may well have been better off just milking that existing business for all its worth rather than accelerating its demise by moving into barely profitable markets. As far as I know they are still in the mainframe business.
Excellent, more bubbling.
He’s dying and writing about how he feels about it. It doesn’t bother me that he has his own death at the forefront of his mind.
Thanks! I got fed up with massive manifests and was enamoured with Heroku's approach, so I looked at uwsgi, realised it was a damn good process supervisor, and just did it.
> I find that they make you feel a little too good about intending to do things.

Ouch.
> Do we have to invent a "New Speech" just to make AI understand us better so we can live a easier life?

It's already happened. Have you ever seen an a grandparent unfamiliar with new tech talk to Alexa? There's a ton of them on Youtube.
British man arrested over alleged role in Twitter hack of high-profile accounts
I guess I completely disagree. Discovery is nothing except a series of accidents and happenstance.

Nobody gets anything difficult right on the first try, and there’s an arrogance in thinking we could.
Agree. I need to know a lot of additional things about Covid. Indeed it seems to me like the article is quite superficial.

A lot of people here is doing smart questions that the article does not response.
Containers never solved the permission model. They solved the packaging and idempotency problem.

I really dislike when people assume containers give them security, it’s the wrong thing to think about.

Containers allowed us to deploy reproducibly, that’s powerful.
> U.S. has to respond in kind, but more slowly or in secret due to outcry on autonomous weapons research and actually having to deal with those loathsome constituents views on how and what things get done when.

You're totally off about this. The US announced their superhuman AI pilot about a year ago already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24232307 You could see this Chinese announcement as the response, although someone was probably working on this before the US revealed their capabilities, just with slightly less pressure.
Of course, remember that Google/Youtube is an AI/ML powerhouse who can automatically match content to copyright owners and you can't. So be ready to fight thousands of copyright related complaints as soon as you launch your site. And the government, motivated by Disney, will come hard after your site, arguing that it facilitates illegal sharing of copyrighted content.

So good luck.
Yes you can! Accessibility gets abbreviated to a11y, which is about as inaccessible as it gets.
Reminds me of ledger, the cli program
CSS Scrollbars (Firefox)
Reminds me of YouTube shorts beta. I pay for family premium YouTube mostly for music, but in part because I don't want to see ads. Now I got this tik tok rip-off eye-level on the home screen with no obvious way to disable it. Still working out the logistics of getting away from the service. Definitely feeling some effects of lock-in. Maybe I'll just put that money into a Bandcamp budget for the family or something.. not seeing ads was always a nice-to-have, but I know ways around that.
I didn't endorse anybody in my post, but your post has a strong political bias and wrong facts. Ikonomedia is a small media player with different biases and I am not sure what they support.
YouTube's definition of COVID-19 misinformation: "Medical misinformation that contradicts local health authorities’ or the World Health Organization’s (WHO)" [1]

January 2020: WHO claims that there's "no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission" for SARS-CoV-2 [2]. Should YT have removed all videos discussing an alternative hypothesis?

June 2020: WHO claims asymptomatic spread is "very rare"[3]. Should YT have deleted all videos claiming that asymptomatic spread causes the majority of infections?

October 2020: WHO does "not advocate lockdowns as the primary means of control of this virus"[4]. Should YT have banned all lockdown advocates?

[1] https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9891785?hl=en

[2] https://archive.vn/LS9kW

[3] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/08/asymptomatic-coronavirus-pat...

[4] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-12/world-health-organiza...
Hmm? I don't think an algorithm has to give "correct" answers, it just has to be precisely defined. For example, one could say "For this problem, a greedy algorithm yields decent but suboptimal answers."

Merriam-Webster online says: "a procedure for solving a mathematical problem (as of finding the greatest common divisor) in a finite number of steps that frequently involves repetition of an operation" and "broadly : a step-by-step procedure for solving a problem or accomplishing some end".
How about "inhuman-ops" ?

I think this has the unnatural, unjust and just basic wrongness about using AI to be like humans.

"human-ops" is the justification to remove human pattern recognition because it's better for a small group of employees (e.g. "we cant let our expensive staff view flags of distressing pictures or boring chess videos, so we will get an algorithm instead". The tech companies HR say that this is pro mental health as an additional way to justify this change and any unemployment.
Odoo (core) is indeed open-source, but some of the apps (modules) you mentioned are part of the "Enterprise" which require you to buy a licence.

Disclaimer: happy (paying) Odoo customer!
This is not some magical high-tech vision that only exists in Singapore. It's been this way for many decades in built-up areas of most of Western Europe -- mostly it's just overland high-voltage lines that are above ground. My grandfather used to tell the story of how his American visitors were always curious where the power in his house came from (this was probably in the 60s or 70s) and amazed when he showed them the connection in the basement. It amused him to no end.

82% of Germany's power lines are buried: https://www.iwr.de/ticker/lange-leitungen-82-prozent-der-str... (in German). This figure includes everything from low-voltage lines to houses to high-voltage distribution lines.
> what is the point?

Presumably the point is to bring affected parts of California back to the first world by not having to shut off their power whenever there's heavy winds expected.
Ask HN: What is the difference between group calls and Huddles in Slack?
Poor security exposes data of magacoin buyers
> Ooopsie woopsie! Our AI made a fucky wucky and locked your account for no reason lol. We pwomise nothing pls go away and die uwu PS: If you make a new account we gonna shadowban iwt immediately lmao, if you have any compwaints please write a letter and addwess it to the hospital you were born in.
Outside of highly regulated environments, technical staff usually have local admin rights. Is it a risk? Yes, although one that can be minimized. Letting people do what they need to do with minimal interference is an important part of keeping employees happy.
> a set of largely independent tools which can each address some aspect of the problem kubernetes is trying to solve.

But Kubernetes is already this. Sure the core is a lot bigger than something like Nomad, but the some of it is replaceable, and there are plenty of simpler alternatives to those built in.

And anyway, my point still stands. What's the point of having 20 different independent systems that address the aspects K8s is trying to solve versus one big system that addresses all the headaches? To me having 20 different systems that potentially have many fundamental differences is more complex than a single system that has the same design philosophies and good integration across the board.
Article is from early 2020 - would be nice if the year was in the HN title here.
The chronological feed is a must-have for me, but here's a wild idea: having Home (personalised), New (chronological), Hot and a big Random thread button would be neat.
Congratulations! Here is a Sketchfab launch announcement from 8 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5417043
Great work making a viable money making product from the initial idea (Sketchfab has reached profitability before the acquisition: https://albn.medium.com/getting-to-breakeven-and-how-we-made...).
Proč pražská lékařka Iveta Křížová šířila hoaxy
I live in a suburb of Seattle and drive.

Anything tolled has a utility value to me of zero.

I already pay state gas taxes, vehicle licensing fees, etc. If I visit Seattle I really don't want to spend extra money to cross the lake, or drive under the city. In fact, that parking costs money and there aren't good IO interfaces (parking garages) at the edges linked to the mass transit core within only encourages me to avoid the mess and expense.

Since I also don't live IN that particular area I don't really get to vote on the issue other than with my unwillingness to pay the fee and thus not use what was once a not-taxed route through the area; before they tore it down and replaced it.

There are many, many systemic issues though, and like the PG&E fires, and wild fires generally, this is but one more symptom of a lack for looking at the big picture and planning accordingly. Bigger than any corporation and most voters speaking up a time or two a year can hope to view. If only politics weren't about popularity, but about civic responsibility.
If the article is true it doesn’t sounds like the list has anything directly to do with NSO.

It can be that the project just compiled a list of 50,000 high value targets and then assessed which of these has been targeted.
Well I mean it's no more of a defense of Facebook than of a liquor store or whatever. But I don't follow your logic. If you shut down the restaurant on the corner here I will go somewhere else too. Doesn't mean I'm necessarily fine with people granting themselves the right to shut places down.
That's my worry too, but I don't know if you can already make it worse on twitter. Reddit has the random button and easy access to two "feeds" (chronological and "personalised"), so I'd like more of that.
I suspect it's almost impossible for a business run on high margins to compete in a low margin sector. I can't remember an example.
I pulled an Amstrad cpc464 out of the loft at the beginning of the year and headed deep down the rabbit hole. For me the most interesting thing is interfacing with modern microcontrollers. Pics, stm32, esp(s) etc. There's something about telneting to BBS over the internet from a machine from 1985. The wargames effect maybe. Standouts for the CPC include the M4 board, the dandanator and the USIFAC. I have a lot of respect for those who built these. Despite an engineering degree and a 25 year career my low level knowledge has expanded greatly from playing with these things. It's also been a lot of fun.
Using Wang Tiles to Simulate Turing Machines (2016)
> It's difficult to know how hard I should be considering something else

Hard - I don't know which city you're in but £32k is low for a senior role anywhere in the UK. In London that's a low salary for a graduate role.

I'm similarly disheartened when I read people mentioning that £90-120k salaries are fairly common in London (those numbers seem completely our of reach to me) or when I read about salaries in the US.
Piece of shit company that declares another character gay to cover up any bad press turns out to be a piece of shit company.

Can't say I'm surprised.
And yet we have things like -Wmaybe-uninitialized in -Wall which by definition will occasionally warn on perfectly good code.
Mute is fine if you personally don't want to hear from someone. Downvote is to prevent an outsized influence of bad actors on the platform as a whole.
DoorDash, Grubhub sue San Francisco over permanent delivery fee cap
What about OpenBravo ?
That's entirely off-topic.
I'd say that it's perhaps more tied to moderation. Reddit communities vary dramatically in quality of discussion and one thing that seems to separate the highest quality from the lowest is heavy moderation. AskHistorians for example is extremely strict and has very high quality answers. Another example that's strict in a different way is CasualUK, where even vague references to politics or politicians is an immediate day ban (I was banned for making a joke that someone looked like a particular politician) and this results in a high quality "discussion" (the goal is not debate but fun friendly chats and it achieves that perfectly).

edit - evidence on the voting system not always helping is that quick, low effort posts and comments quickly rise to the top and drown out all other things. To the point where banning direct image posts so users have to click twice rather than once makes a difference in what's posted and rises.
It's a marshmallow test on a national scale.

You're a public institution and the taxpayer gives you a marshmallow with the expectation of using it to create some public good. You can eat the whole marshmallow yourself and feel pretty good for a while, but after that you'll have nothing but a heap of dirt (and soon that heap will be washed into the sea).

You can take a bite for yourself and get a dysfunctional society, but at least you and your countrymen get some kind of half decent jobs, food on the table, education and healthcare.

You can just nibble a little on the edge, and you get western society.

What happens if you save the whole marshmallow? Who knows.
The problem is of course solvable when you realize Youtube is not synonymous with "video on the internet", there are other hosters too.

Of course I am not blind. Big tech companies have just too much power. I hope governments will split them up without being authoritarian but I am afraid this is asking too much.
I meant "voice through", of course.
> I also think % body fat would be a better measure of obesity than BMI.

The author mentioned why they list BMI rather than body fat percentage in part 1:

> (Most experts consider measures like body fat percentage to be better measures of adiposity than BMI, and we agree. Unfortunately, nearly every source reports BMI, and most don’t report body fat percentage. Here, we use BMI so that we can compare different sources to one another.)

https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2021/07/07/a-chemical-hunger-p...
I have not heard of many of the ad blockers in this list [0].

However, it was good to see that UBlock Origin is consistently performing better than most of the other "security" extensions.

Edit: It appears that this anchor is used more than once on that page so it takes you to the wrong link! This [1] is the image I wanted to link to!

[0] - https://www.debugbear.com/blog/chrome-extension-performance-...

[1] - https://dbb-dev.imgix.net/blog/2021-chrome-extension-perform...
Run BBC Basic on the Apple II
Try Nomad:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25351446
If you coined this it's great!
Will be banned in the EU next year: https://www.saveourantibiotics.org/media/1842/2022-changes-t...

(aside, but I suspect the author is One Of Us; I clicked on https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2021/07/15/a-chemical-hunger-i... because of the funny title, but it addresses an argument I see a lot on here and cites a HN comment!)
Also "womxn"
Agreed.

This is the paragraph that Barrin92 is trying to missrepresent.

> Let me be clear: The horror of Mao’s China was singular. I am not making a comparison to the death and destruction it caused or to the severity of the punishment that the mobs imposed. Instead, I am drawing a parallel (one that various journalists and commentators, including the pseudonymous Chinese-American academic, Xiao Li, have made before) to an instinct—the inclination to humiliate and terrorize
From the videos, it looks like the human observers were about ten meters away.

That made me wonder how risky filming this is.

Google didn’t give me cases of attacks on observers, but it did give me https://observers.france24.com/en/20120926-midst-armed-confl..., so I think those observers are at some risk.

It also taught me chimpanzee wars exist (https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22229682-600-only-kno...)
Moonlight Manifestation Review, Legit or a Scam?
MuleSoft too.
Reminds me when Morrowind caused file corruption issues.
Ferengi looks the same as فرنگی if 'g' sounds as in 'girl'.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%86%DA%AF%DB%8...

"A foreigner, especially a British or a white person." https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/firangi
"We directly convert fusion energy into electricity" — how does that work?
You mean ‘fattened’, not ‘flattened’, right? Unless those guys had a thing for steam roll-erred livestock :D
Ask HN: Will Firebase become more or less popular in the future?
I don't know if my installation is broken, but I haven't had Defender remove what I thought was a legitimate binary since I first installed Windows 10. Literally not one single time on half a dozen installations.

FWIW I installed and ran qBitTorrent recently and it didn't complain.
If that were true then why is this mainly a us phenomenon
What has been changed to improve k8s for applications with poor connectivity between workers on the edge and the control plane in the cloud?
I think you meant steroids.. not antibiotics..
Maybe those candidates wanted to take fundamental control away.
First, you are relying on Kaspersky which I don't think is that reliable of a source anymore give what we know. Second, I can definitely say there are something up with a lot of keygens and cracks. I thought a lot of big name scene groups were reputable and there is no way that they'd sneak in a trojan, but low and behold after ignoring a few Windows Defender warnings... I could literally hear my computer randomly spinning up at random times, it would never sleep, games were choppy, etc.

Did a complete reinstall without installing any scene software and the problem was solved. Just because people haven't taken the time to properly investigate the security of cracks and keygens doesn't mean that they don't contain actual trojans.
You must be biased against the French, mentioning only Hugo in your list! What about Dumas, Stendhal, Balzac, Zolya, Flaubert, Maupassant, George Sand, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Valery???!

(That's only from a Russian, pretty sure actual French will add dozens more to this list)
Now I wonder if coal is more electrically conductive than dirt as well as thermally susceptible. Could you ionize a coal vein? Maybe we can transmit AM radio with it and map it with a heavy metal detector!
The problem of Facebook has nothing to do with it being for-profit. This is an issue specific to companies whose paying customers are not the users of its supposed product—a situation that distorts how the market is supposed to work (behold a whole new level of information asymmetry, famously not good for markets except now it’s the entire premise of a huge business).

The belief that free social is the norm is part of it. The promise of the free leaves users at the mercy of the provider serving advertisers. We can’t vote with our money (free!); all our friends are here (free); a competitor who makes its users its paying customers can’t survive against a free offer.
Antibiotics are used in livestock for the specific purpose of causing weight gain in the livestock. The question is to what extent this causes weight gain in humans.
It's a pejorative for someone undermining other people's struggle for a better life. Either way, it's a sad state of affairs when HN threads constantly get derailed by a dozen or two very prolific reactionaries like yourself. Always the same names.
You are correct sir. Miami has only ever touched 100 degrees F 3x in history. Super saturation exists at times, when humidity can reach well over 100%, and still not rain.
What about the density of the virtualized resources?

KVM or even OpenVZ (or similar) virtualization has a larger amount of overhead in most instances, especially when all that you need is to display a few webpages with very simple interactivity. At the same time, having dedicated (regardless of whether overcomitted or not) resources will probably mean them being used somewhat inefficiently due to idling a lot of time, whereas shared ones could lead to higher density.

What about the need to administer these VPSes?

Furthermore, administering OSes and updates, as well as packages is definitely not in everyone's skillset. Being given an environment that centers just around what you need - running apps, does seem like the more reasonable choice for the more casual deployments, mom & pop shops etc. (though offerings like Squarespace could eat shared hosting's lunch in those cases nowadays).

So you're suggesting that the above are not big enough concerns nowadays and it's still easier to just go the route of VPSes for vendors?
Tell HN: Type this in a terminal, then follow the link
host -t TXT dns.google
Nowhere near as popular as the skit with the vikings.
I run k3s on a single node. Used to be two, but I consolidated because this isn't a production usecase for me.
Availability isn't the point for me. If I have to turn the thing off for an hour ever year or two to fix something, sure, fine.

The real value I get is Infra as Code, and having access to the same powerful tools that are standard everywhere else.
I can drop my current (dedicated) hardware and go publish all my services on a new box in under an hour, which I did recently.

From my point of view, I already pay the complexity by virtue of k8s being The Standard. The two costs of complexity are 1) Learning the Damn Thing 2) Picking up the pieces when it breaks under its own weight.
1) I already pay regardless, and 2) I'm happy to pay for the flexibility I get in return.
If you make an optimization system, you can optimize for things besides just raw up/downvotes. E.g. up- or downvotes from a broad selection of people (as deduced from the social graph) could count as more than up- or downvotes from a smaller group piling on the post.
Yes, it seems not possibile. You can EMULATE a multi mode cluster but inside a big host machine.

Minikube is very effective on my huble opinion to STUDY K8s becauese it is always strong aligned with K8s releases.

I do not think minikube is a good choice for production but hey, I could be wrong... someone want to share any experience?
That lazy euphemism for systematically circumventing labour laws for profit kinda proves my point about confirmation bias.