skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've wanted an extension like this for a while. Thanks for sharing!
Ethereum has been planning to move to PoS since the beginning. PoS is already working and devs are making incredible progress toward The Merge.

PoS chains such as Solana and more efficient L2s are already starting to see wide adoption.
That's because, so far, they've managed to deflect, deny, and discredit research and critics pointing out exactly how social media uses things like variable rewards in the same way as slot machines use them to keep gamblers pulling the lever. They do this using tactics developed by the tobacco companies to fight findings that smoking causes cancer and other harms and refined by the fossil fuel industry to prevent action on global warming.
but we have fmtlib thank goodness
Only on the Latest Episodes page, which doesn’t allow you to group by show. The Downloaded page lets you hide played episodes, but doesn’t hide them for 24 hours (why??). The Shows page … that’s all messed up. You can hide played episodes, but it randomly displays episodes from years past with no possible way to mark them played without first downloading it and then marking it played.
What people choose to "amplify" is none of the government's business. People are allowed to be wrong. Yes, even if you think it's about something really important.
> leadership read out emails from customers telling us how we let them down and lost their trust).

That's amazing. I would never have expected my feedback to a company to actually be read, let alone taken seriously. Hopefully more companies do this than I thought.
This is about compatible properties. On typical DTs and SoCs, you end up with entirely new compatibles for tons of stuff every SoC generation, and it'd never work with the old ones. What we're doing is putting on generic compatibles that old drivers can continue to bind to, and designing the rest of the binding to be generic enough to describe parameters of the device.

So, a GPIO driver for a random SoC might hardcode that it has 42 pins. Ours uses a property instead. The vast majority of clock and power management drivers for other SoCs hard code the clock or power hierarchy and provide static sets of outputs. We put every single clock control in a separate DT node and describe their relationships. A typical cpufreq driver has intimate knowledge of the clocking controls for the whole SoC, and hardcodes the layout of the clock registers. My prototype for that just has a separate instance for each CPU cluster, and describes the performance states in the DT. And so on and so forth.

Basically, on a typical SoC, either a hardware block is identical to last generation's, or it's incompatible. Apple's blocks instead follow patterns, so we're building parameterizable bindings that can handle any configuration of those blocks with a single driver.
No need to convince anyone or write new laws. If remote work is more efficient then it will win in the market eventually.
2 questions:

1) What would you expect be implemented to reduce/eradicate doom scrolling?

2) What would making the algorithm public do for us? I'm not an ML engineer, but presumably their algorithm isn't just an algebraic equation where x is how toxic the post is and y is how inflammatory it is and y is the number of kids who will think harder about suicide because of the post.

Maybe I'm just super naive and that _is_ how Facebook made their algorithm, but my understanding is that the algorithm is a little more of a black-box and is a little abstract. How is a lay-person supposed to evaluate something like that?
> Kids need to eat vegetables and lean protein sources. But if school districts instead optimize for profit they may end up feeding the kids borderline poison like sodas and candy. When companies come to dominate a public space, like huge parts of digital comms, then maybe it's OK to demand more responsible behavior of them.

Adults are not children and social media sites are not school districts.

The school district analogy also doesn't really hold up on its own terms unless you're talking about boarding schools, which you probably aren't given the term "school district". When I was a kid, I ate at least 2 out of 3 meals at home, and more often than not, I brought a sack lunch. I know that poorer kids rely on school lunches a lot more than I did, but that's still just one meal a day. My high school actually did have a Coca-Cola machine, but I think that's old enough for kids to start making some of their own life decisions, like whether or not to have a Coke with their lunch. I mean, high school is around the same time that students start planning for their future career and/or higher education, so if you can be trusted to decide between taking vocational classes and fulfilling college admissions requirements, I think you can also be trusted to decide whether or not to drink a Coke. 14 isn't that far off from 13, which is the legal minimum age to get a social media account.

Also, unlike going to school, nobody is forced by the government to spend multiple hours a day using social media. Of course we regulate schools. We also regulate prisons to make sure that prisoners are humanely treated, or at least we're supposed to. The better analogy isn't school districts but convenience stores, in an alternate universe where children under the age of 13 were prohibited from entering convenience stores and some people were complaining that still wasn't enough.
To be fair it was written in March, a lot of progress has been made since then
Intel and AMD don't make the computer (most of the time). They make the CPU. ARM is as open a CPU platform as x86 is at any rate, so if you're gonna pick your line only based on the CPU there's literally no difference there. But you obviously know that's not all there is.

Most computers anyone can buy are full of components that only have drivers or support in the linux kernel because people reverse engineered them. Most are also full of components that linux only works with because of extracted firmware blobs from other systems.

EFI is more or less an open boot system (which.. you know intel macs used that right?), though with plenty of proprietary extensions and alterations in most booting computers, but the BIOS boot that predated it? Yeah you know that was a proprietary system right? Linux booted off it because people reverse engineered and cloned it until it was forced to be an 'open' thing. It didn't just magically happen one day and IBM even sued about it back in the day.
Because the current make up of the court, as well recent rulings seems to indicate that the Supreme Court is willing to start looking at limiting the ability of Congress is just hand wave is responsibility of making defined laws away to the executive branch like they have been prone to do for the last few decades.

Congress needs to legislate not just demand the executive / Administrative state do all the things.
I have JS disabled by default. The page appears blank, I bounce off.

Please have at least some text on your site, an about link or whatever. Something.
Example of a time when the Control.Monad functions were useful to me: https://lalaithion.xyz/posts/practical_monad.html
Then you're SOL. What's your point? The backup might fail, so don't have a backup? I don't understand what you're trying to say.
The only ethical alternative is an ecosystem of independent, interoperable sites which are based on a common protocol.
Woz was introducing people to the personal computer that he built before Jobs even came around.
Uh, cryptocurrencies can't have "the same problems that our large wealthy democratic national governments" - cryptocurrencies aren't institutions, they don't hold elections, have bureaucracies or have head administrators.

I think you're trying to say that a cryptocurrency fuel regime would have the same problem as current democracies. But just cryptocurrencies added to what exists today and as the gp points out, will act to increase all the problematic qualities of the present situation.
Sounds like the machine thinks you're writing too prosaically. I'd give in and indulge its flights of fancy.
Moxie from Signal was completely correct that your contact list is your social network. Building off of sms numbers was smart.

Apple Messages might be the best social media for me at the moment.
Brain implant relieves patient’s severe depression
Those social programs are unrelated to socialism and communism - social democracy is not socialism-light as some people seem to think. Socialism, the "dictatorship of the proletariat" and its supposed destination of communism, the "classless state" centre around state ownership of the means of production. Social democracy makes no such claims, it aims to spread the gains of the economy over a larger part of society. That economy tends to be some form of controlled capitalism.

In other words there is no contradiction between supporting European-style social programs and the insight that socialism and communism should be put in the same corner as fascism and national socialism for being destructive and dysfunctional ideologies.
The Hacker Zephyr: Cross-country hackathon on a train
> Curious, do you not wear seatbelts too?

I wear my seatbelt, I don't smoke, I don't drink and I'm vaccinated.

Everyone keeps talking about these "negative externalities" without being specific. Why not just make the societal harm illegal and let people hurt themselves without buying permission from the government?
Let's assume Facebook does invest into policing their platform to the extent necessary for it to not result in political consequences ("misinformation and disinformation"). There's still the rest of the internet. There's still all the open-source tools available that can be used for good or ill. The problem is much larger than Facebook.
Anyone have any details on what the exceptions were:

A year earlier, in 1933, Executive Order 6102 had made it a criminal offense for U.S. citizens to own or trade gold anywhere in the world, with exceptions for some jewelry and collector's coins.

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Like how much jewelry?
Poor targeting choices.
It is not true that Steve Jobs was bored with the Mac. Steve Jobs loved the Mac and would have preferred for it to be at the center. The thing is that Apple nearly died only just a few years before by not selling people what they wanted and by that time what people really expressed desire for using their money was personal devices.

Apple had many problems dealing with processor suppliers over the years and probably would have looked for solutions beyond Intel when they floundered no matter who was at the top.
I heard a Jobs story from someone who shall remain nameless:

They all went out to dinner with Jobs (this was before his return to Apple), eight or more people. Jobs announced that he'd order for everyone, ordered all vegetarian dishes, and then ate nothing himself.
The reward system is quite similar, in my opinion.
The majority of people in Europe have no consequential savings to speak of. That's also true of Asia, Latin America and Africa.
UN Report Warns of Global Water Crisis Amid Climate Change
It is significant that she is advocating for censorship of "hate speech". Considering that she donated to "critical social justice" activists [1], the increased centralized censorship she asks for is most likely another step to censor dissenters to critical social justice. This is neither measured nor moderate.

Facebook already apply heavy censorship in a way that is arguably driving a lot of suspicion and division. Their content "supreme court" is currently largely staffed with establishment democrats [3].

"Hate speech" [2] as defined by critical social justice adherents could refer to anything that doesn’t proceed from a critical consciousness, i.e., that which accords with critical theories, especially those for “Social Justice,” possibly including microaggressions.

That the GOP and DNC establishment are in alignment to censor dissenter in both ranks is not surprising. That being "Bernie bros", "Yang gang", "Trumpians", or any other flank.

[1] https://thenationalpulse.com/news/facebook-whistleblower-don...

[2] https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-hate-speech/

[3] https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/05/06/facebook-supreme-c...
Hi I grew up with a TRS-80 and a Tandy 1000. I'm not sure what generation you think I'm from but I suspect you're wrong.

What disappoints me is a "generation of folks" who can't tell that openness is a spectrum and that every bit of openness they enjoy was hard-fought for by pushing the boundaries of the platforms that existed beyond their original intentions, and now treat an effort to do the same on new platforms as some kind of windmill tilting.
I tried using the auto-router in KiCAD on my last <simple hobbyist> design and realized that it had been removed from KiCAD.

There was some external package that could do it, but at that point “screw it, I can route this board faster than reading the docs on how to deal with the autorouter” took over, especially since I couldn’t be sure anything I learned for this project would still apply for my next project if KiCAD later re-added an autorouter.
> I'm so glad to see that they framed this in terms of a bug in a tool designed to prevent human error, rather than simply blaming it on human error.

Wouldn't human error reflect extremely poorly on the company though? I mean, for human error to be the root cause of this mega-outage, that would imply that the company's infrastructure and operational and security practices were so ineffective that a single person screwing up could inadvertently bring the whole company down.

A freak accident that requires all stars to be aligned to even be possible, on the other hand, does not cause a lot of concerns.
The creation of a new gilded class is definitely a valid side effect in the event cryptocurrencies really do extend into a mainstream form of transaction/economic activity. what's doubly interesting is that group, especially as the early adopters are the ones with massive holdings, tend to have fairly intensely libertarian views. a potent combo of "i put my money where my mouth is" and "i was right" and "none of you believed me" is sure to be present in some ultra-wealth people.

the primitives i'd push back on is this though, are these not the anthesis to democracy as well as you've defined it?

- inflation hits the poorest classes the hardest re: devaluing their largely all-cash savings, and they have no accountability measures to change that. who will they call, the fed? their senators who approved the fed chair?

- how do consensus algorithms and the open source nature of cryptocurrencies factor into your judgement? provide provide a visible way for anyone to audit and approve of (via participation in) a currency system of their choice. that's a strong feedback loop.
Not preventing spam was also the downfall of… oh man I can’t even remember the name right now. They built their own crypto currency social network. And added chat that uses Matrix protocol.
BGP doesn't really cache routes, though you can configure routers to hold a route for some time if a peer times out, but this is only used in special cases and usually not something you would want your router to do with routes to other networks. If a router gets a withdrawal for a route it will remove the route from the table without waiting. This is a feature and important part of how BGP acts in case of problems and how it can self heal quickly, there's no point in caching a route when that path is not working anymore and usually there's a backup path.
Are you coming after my collection of Smiths CDs?
I’ve been encountering similar challenges dealing with old Kubernetes library versions, CRDs, etc. Is this a problem mainly with the Kubernetes project or just Go dependencies? It’s quite frustrating, and I always discover some new set of voodoo to handle it.
Don't deal in etherium because they plan to move to PoS, go to cardano which is the big PoS player right now.
You vote with your wallet.
But Dropbox has file version history and folder rewind.
Apple are absolutely not going to do that. That would be illegal. Sony lost a class action over this, and Apple have a lot more to lose in the PR realm than them. Please don't spread FUD like this. Apple have never, not once, locked down a Mac, post facto or otherwise. It always has been a platform open to third party OSes.
Do you have a reference for "immediately forgave them"? I haven't heard that before.
> But you can't write laws targeting one company..

Why not?

And it's certainly been done in the past, see the history of Standard Oil.
National Strategic Computing Reserve: A Blueprint [pdf]
What I'm saying is that I feel it's a better use of man hours of open source advocates to code for hardware from companies that support OSS and not one that is viciously hostile to its users.
> - inflation hits the poorest classes the hardest re: devaluing their largely all-cash savings, and they have no accountability measures to change that. who will they call, the fed? their senators who approved the fed chair?

Inflation generally hurts the middle-class the most. Poor people generally don't have savings and are debtors. Debtors benefit from inflation.

Cryptocurrency being open source isn't really relevant to my point.

To your first point, the current views of holders isn't relevant as personalities are certainly not immutable, and as well all know, power corrupts.
Tesla must pay $137m to racially harassed former worker
> "Jobs introducing the personal computer" ??

Um, no. Read some history.
iTunes was always a complete pig.
One fairly common pattern seen is that companies develop in a nascent space where there were few rules and were therefore able to basically outrun regulation/ the law that moves very slowly. When that regulation eventually comes it ends up solidifying the monopolistic advantage by essentially creating a moat and closing the door on practices that helped create such growth in the first place. I think when stakes are that high, companies are generally rewarded and incentivized to be unscrupulous rather than virtuous, especially when the unscrupulous actors just become wealthy enough to buy out the virtuous ones.

I wouldn't be surprised if we are currently in the middle of a version of this regarding social media and how privacy of personal information is handled right now.
Yeah, real show-stoppers for a company that's quite literally the largest, most powerful corporation in modern history.
> Show me a protocol

Based on the W3C recommendation, ActivityPub.

https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/

There are other interoperable implementations noted here:

https://git.feneas.org/feneas/fediverse/-/wikis/watchlist-fo...
https://archive.is/dS43n
Early next year when Ethereum becomes PoS, it will basically be JUST Bitcoin that is PoW in the top 20. From a climate perspective, we can only hope that this narrative will cause Bitcoin to slide in favor of more green currencies.
What is a data product manager?
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I think FB is having its MySpace moment.

From what I remember, right around the time FB was picking up, MySpace was facing a lot of scrutiny especially around predators preying on children, which was one of the main, if not the only, reason for MySpace's downfall.

The time is ripe for a competitor to enter this space.
Can you elaborate on this? There are always going to be security/reliability tradeoffs. Things that fail closed for security reasons will cause slower incident responses. That's unavoidable. Innovation can improve the frontier, but there will always be tradeoffs.
wow they've made a ton of progress -- wish this work got more press. Not to take away from the Asahi linux folks's work but I had no idea the netbsd for example was this far along.
At first i thought it was inappropriate hyperbole to compare Facebook to Chernobyl, but then i realized that i think Facebook (along with twitter and other "web 2.0" graduates) has spread toxic waste across far larger of an area than Chernobyl. But I would still say that it's not the _outage_ which is comparable to Chernobyl, but the steady-state operations.
Any amount. The idea was that owning wasn't really the problem, they just didn't want you easily trading it. So you could have a huge statue of solid gold and it wouldn't be a problem but a handful of 'junk' Krugerrands -- yeah, that would be a big problem. The former is an asset, the latter is currency.
Haha, yeah I'm not going to argue for rich Corinthian leather, or the aesthetics of the old iTunes UI or brushed metal or whatever. The visual style now is great. But the usability and quality of the animations and general fit-and-finish is much lower now, I think.

Some examples of pretty glaring failures that exist now:

Tabs in mac Safari: Very unobvious, sometimes even anti-obvious, which tab is currently selected.

The Today tab in the iphone App Store app: Try scrolling when your finger starts its drag on a button. The scroll is completely lost. In practice, this just feels like sometimes you try to scroll and it doesn't work. Way back when the iPhone first came out, Apple wrote a whole detailed tech paper on how to get this right. (It's a little tricky because at the start of the touch, you're in a quantum state: is this a button tap, or the start of a scrolling drag?) That institutional knowledge and attention to detail seems to have been completely lost.

On iPhone notifications, check out the animation as you long-tap to see options on a notification. The default behavior is a fade-transition to a slightly-smaller copy of the same content. Very jarring, almost glitchy.

Check out in mac Safari the awful opening and closing bookmarks side area animation: As you open and close the bookmark area, the icons don't animate with it, and just jump into place after the anim is done. (I wanted to share a screen recording, but surprisingly there doesn't seem to be an easy, imgur-esqe site to share videos??)

And on and on. Those are just the recent ones I remember. Overall both iOS and macOS are flickery, badly animated messes. (I guess arguably the level of polish was never high for macOS, but for iOS, it used to be very high indeed.)
> So you get to ignore all the responsibilities that come with your rights so

Absolutely not. I know lots of people that manage to drink alcohol responsibly. They never drink and drive, don't regularly over indulge and it makes their and their peers lives _better_.

What negative externality are they paying for with alcohol taxes?

> How about you take full responsibility: you get to not put whatever in your body, and you agree never to take an ambulance ride or be treated by a hospital.

> Don't want the vaccine? That's fine, it's your right. But now when you can't breathe, nobody coming to help.

If I pay for health insurance, I'm already taxing myself in this instance. It would be perfectly reasonable for a health insurance company to offer incentives for people to be vaccinated just like they offer incentives to non-smokers.

If the government wants to start providing that healthcare, then they can have a say in the cost of poor health decisions.
The challenge with tiny structures is usually building codes. Also, in a city setting, the cost of the dirt is likely going to mean you wouldn’t like the daily rate very much even if someone built it.

That said, I’m developing some work/live spaces that is a new zoning concept for my local municipality. They’ve essentially addressed some of the limitations regarding multiple structures, how far apart the need to be, parking, sanitation, etc to make it a bit more feasible. This was really progressive for the town to come up with and something I’ve been looking to do for a long time.