skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you work for Facebook, you are contributing to a system which will grow into being the most effective mechanism, by far, for a bad actor to deploy capital to successfully alter the beliefs, behavior, and choices of your children. One day, through VR/AR/AI agents, they will even be able to turn your children against you for someone paying the right price, if the development of Facebook, the system, continues on its present trajectory and no ethical framework is put in place to restrain their actions. (Regulation won’t work, it is the wrong solution to this problem imo.)

You should resign if you do.
Certainly more than enough, it only takes a few minutes as mentioned. You could probably lower the temperature gap further.
> their business model is one that incentivizes and enables the creation of a global scale surveillance and behavior modification empire.

huh, that's the first time i have read this one. the one i read about recently has to do with connecting the world.

now this is making me realize that maybe, just maybe, nobody knows what their true business model is?
Several years ago, there were a number of credulous stories in the tech news about a DARPA project called the "Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot", 'EATR' [0], a robot that could refuel itself by ingesting biomass. Obviously the idea that the US military was researching robots that ate (formerly) living things as fuel engendered a certain reaction in the online community.

You probably haven't heard much about EATR in the intervening years. Who knows, maybe it's still being developed?

But what intrigued me at the time, though, was that the research organization to which this EATR project was attributed was one 'Robotic Technology Inc.', RTI [1] - and that, on that organization's projects page, they list (I actually find it kind of amazing that this is still the case to this day):

- EATR

- IVTT (apparently the 'intelligent vehicle technology transfer project' [2]

... so far so DARPA... but then:

- Military Memetics

- Cognitive Collective

So what stood out there: Military Memetics. From their website: "The initial focus is to establish a scientific basis for memetics in order to predict and control memes and their effects.... The attempt to establish a scientific basis for memetics is critically important. For example, within a suitable memetics framework could be the means to prevent irrational conflict and promote rational solutions to endemic national and international problems. Of course, without safeguards memetics can become a double-edged sword."

I leave it to your judgement to determine whether the announcement of the EATR project and its subsequent online reaction were a legitimate DARPA robotics research announcement, or alternatively just a bit of practical military memetics research....

It's kind of interesting that this site hasn't been updated since. It almost feels like a leftover outpost in some kind of ARG marketing campaign.

Note this was first in the news in the timeframe of 2007-2010.

At the time this seemed kind of amusing. Well before Cambridge Analytica, eastern European fake news troll farms, or GRU Fancy Bear weaponized misinformation campaigns. I guess it's kind of reassuring, in a way, that the academic defense research establishment has maybe been considering the post-Internet information warfare environment seriously for some time...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energetically_Autonomous_Tacti...
[1] https://www.robotictechnologyinc.com/index.php/home
[2] https://www.robotictechnologyinc.com/images/upload/file/Webs... (PDF warning)
Hypochondria spreads
I don't see a reason for this post to be flagged. I read the guidelines before posting this and just can't see how this violates it. Even the title is a common X reasons why (listicle) that's found everywhere on the internet.

I shared this because I think this person describes programming as it is for most people outside big tech and startups. It's likely to resonate with people like me who aren't born in US where most of the fun development happens (read the conclusion of the article).

Looks like the article disturbed an echo chamber.
It’s funny that people always guess that Satoshi is someone already famous as opposed to someone who is not known.
write* due* hear*
If there's no way to remove energy from the spring then it will oscillate indefinitely. So there has to be a damping factor somewhere.
Hypochondriacs increasingly convinced they are sick
Yes, that was my point, that in 2016, actors were using the feed and ad algorithms to influence the elections. The point I'm trying to make is that isn't what is happening now.

Now we are seeing a large group of people freely sharing misinformation amongst themselves. The fueling of this, I would argue, is outside of facebook and is being brought there by the people themselves.

It was really easy to blame the lowering of the level of discourse to social media. However, the "our side at any cost" has its modern seeds in the advent of right wing radio with Rush Limbaugh, followed by the rise of fox news. With the internet, the public has learned that they too can be players in the political landscape by commenting on news articles. All of which predates the rise of social media to a large extent. In the early 2000s, Yahoo News political articles would have 10s of thousands of comments, even now, the 2020 election market on predictit had 300k comments on it, of people posting memes and s*t talking to each other.

This is the culture now. To change this, you can't go and regulate a social media company, you have to change the culture.
No it’s a grotesque technique which goes against the open web and should be condemned for the garbage that it is.

If your website is resorting to do this then your website has failed.
Thank you. Good to know.

For me most interesting about this situation is, that most people I know, think they are EU citizens just because they live in an EU country. But that's not really true, until they executed their EU rights first.
There's a bit of both going on, the military did make use of some portable equipment developed by Bell System family companies including WECo. But for the most part, military transportable equipment into the cold war was made by RCA. RCA was more of a "manufacture for sale" type operation than AT&T and had more expertise in portable equipment.

Of course, AT&T was one of the founders of RCA, but by the time microwave and troposcatter were coming into use AT&T had sold their shares. Nonetheless there was plenty of technical interchange between AT&T and RCA during that period, and some of the RCA equipment for the military was based on Bell Laboratories and WECo work.

The military often made practical decisions of whether it was better to field themselves or contract - and so military connectivity was sometimes contracted to AT&T even in surprising situations like overseas. But field-deployable portable systems have always been impractical to contract out and so the military tends to keep its own assets.

Other parts of the government took this other directions. The State Department nearly exclusively contracted to AT&T including for foreign installations. The FAA did so surprisingly infrequently, maintaining its own expansive microwave network until just recently.
It was also probably not one person, but a group.
I hate how crypto proponents try to rewrite recent history to fit their narrative.

“The early Internet was useless too!”

“Everything on the web in the 1990s was a scam too!”

It’s demeaning towards the online pioneers, and it’s depressing if young people actually start to believe this stuff just because some dweeb wants to sell them multi-level casino tokens.
"Web3" all too often is just the same old client-server model. The key difference is the API calls are formatted as Ethereum transactions and the server is Infura.
You might like Peergos (disclaimer: co-founder here), an encrypted global filesystem built on ipfs - https://peergos.org

More detail in our book - https://book.peergos.org

We can also do signed identity proofs with better privacy than keybase's. Here's a public example https://beta.peergos.net/public/ianopolous/.profile/ids/iano...
No their business model is very clear: leverage their user attention machine to sell advertising opportunities to buyers.
Lol. If what you said make any sense at all, why this they/them is not a norm in English already? Please explain why this is a new thing?
I stopped using Facebook when they stopped showing you everything in chronological order and started implementing boosted posts and advertising in your feed.

I really don't understand why it's taken almost a decade for you idiots to figure out what that would result in.

"At this point"

What point? The point they started hiding your friends "boring" posts in order to serve up the most clickbait shit possible?

Or the point they allowed political parties to ram Obama and then trump down your throat.

Or the point they decided to become arbitors of truth?

Or the point they decided to censor you over your beliefs?
I am seriously confused.

Internet is already decentralized for the most part. I run my own web server and mail server from my home. There's my "piece of the Internet".

Sure, DNS is centralized (even though it's heavily federated), and TLS certificates are centralized (less federated).

So, what we are looking to replace is simply "who is there?" and "is it the real you?" services with something less... centralized. This can live on the blockchain, sure, but blockchain is a database you sync across in its entirety, right? I am sure you can only get parts of it for some applications, but this, by definition, does not scale to the size of the Internet. (Hum, this is probably a decent dapp proposal: domain name system with certs, but it'd still grow very large if it was to cover entire Internet)

I don't get the connection with Google/Amazon/Facebook either: they are humongous services operating on the decentralized Internet today. Yes, people flock to them, but that's exactly the Internet you can avoid (a recent discussion on search.marginalia.nu gives a pointer as to how).
"they'd just need significantly more innate intelligence, which is a very tall order."

I dispute this. Ramanujan is by all accounts on Von Neumann's level and so his example seems to disprove this statement. Or maybe you think Ramanujan has "significantly more innate intelligence" than Von Neumann? It's possible, but without evidence, and a bit farfetched.

I think wealth helps but through a different mechanism to what you're thinking. Avoiding malnutrition is the big one. A secondary point is avoiding the need to work and being able to focus on intellectual passions, which many average-wealth people can do. Adding more money to the picture doesn't help beyond a baseline. Ramanujan was fairly poor but still had enough family wealth to be able to eat enough food and dedicate a lot of time to his passion.
In my bathroom I replaced the large bulb that is turned when switching on the vent with this bulb from Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07TDP67LR/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...

I use a small hand held concave vanity mirror and reflect the overhead light into my eyes. I wiggle the mirror handle to increase the spread. This is done while brushing my teeth since my electric toothbrush has a 3 minute timer.

Ergonomic ? yes. Practical ? for me yes. Safe ? maybe given the persistence effect matches what the paper said should occur. The Oxford paper used a small handheld red LED flashlight purchased for around $10 with a paper diffuser. I didn't enjoy doing it that way and stopped after a few attempts.
Serious question - why?
No. A technology article use they/them for a specific individual is a very new invention. Please don't make up stuff and claim this is a norm.
Obligatory Shiri's Scissor: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/
This goes back many years, long before "the need to tighten the belts":

The first "user-enhancing" in-browser ads ("sponsored tiles") were introduced in 2014 https://twitter.com/dherman76/status/433320156496789504

Pocket imposition was 2015 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1172126

Mr Robot stunt was 2017 https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/mozilla-back...

Cliqz tracking was 2017 https://www.zdnet.com/article/firefox-tests-cliqz-engine-whi...

booking.com ads was 2018 https://venturebeat.com/2018/12/31/mozilla-ad-on-firefoxs-ne...

It's easy to look at the actions of the last few years as if they are the exception, but this has been going on for a long time and Mozilla was given a slide for "reasons"
It’s not hard to ascertain someone’s business model when they are a public company, nevermind one that you literally can start spending money with in about 5 minutes.
https://www.piliapp.com/screen/red/ looks legit

LCD display red should be pretty close to 670nm
Listen, even if you disregard all of the privacy concerns and support of cancerous communities, Facebook is a shitty social network. The platform has decayed into a junk drawer that is legitimately terrible at the things it was originally designed for. It's bad at connecting you with people you know or might want to know. It's bad at showing you updates from your existing friends, and vice-versa. The site at one time felt cool and fun; it feels like AOL now.
Canada's 'gamble' on delaying, mixing and matching Covid-19 vaccines paid off
Sorry, do you want to know about the recent fuel shortages? Or do you want to know why the country completely collapsed over a period of 2 years?
Isn’t it though? When was the last time you could go buy an AC unit with CFCs in it or leaded gasoline? Both of these products were banned for environmental reasons, both had huge industrial opposition to their ban, and we’ve managed to live just fine without them.
I never stopped learning or tinkering. My programmer journey has been discovering how effective I can be.

When I start thinking about software as a solution, I think about what stories I want to tell about that software. I think about the user and the problem space and how I could deliver value. I think about what events (past tense!) may occur in my system. I think about how I can deliver/deploy the system and I think of what incremental steps may be required to constantly deliver iterative work. The stories I want to tell are a god send when I write tests. Spending time setting up CI/CD pipelines up front is a habit.

I’ve been working on a hypothesis that creating software is actually easy and understandable. I eventually overcome challenges to that working hypothesis. I want it to be true, so I’m figuring out how it can be true even if just for me.

I study a lot. I practice a lot. Maybe this is where anyone similar enough to me would be at this level of learning.

At any rate, it’s obvious to me that there are mentalities that are more effective than others at certain tasks. Of course there will be some who are 10x more capable than others.

Someone who is meditated and practiced the craft of software will be much more effective than someone just starting out.
day of the tentacle, indiana jones, monkey island... so many classics
> "But in C++ we immediately run into problems."

Except, we don't. The built-in array type works fine. Anyway std::array doesn't need runtime-library support, iterators likewise. Nobody implements "freestanding", or would use it, so that's a non-issue. Libraries are fine. But std::ranges::join_view [1] seems to be what you are talking about?

(NGL, you read a bit desperate. Things OK?)

It is a mark of weakness, in a language, to need to implement in its core what, with better core features, could as well have been in the library instead. Finding stuff that lives in the C++ Standard Library in core Rust is not really a thing to brag on.

[1] https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/ranges/join_view
Fwiw, while we're being pedantic, do and due are only homophones in some English dialects
Ok well if that's tank controls, what do you call the controls I described, used for driving tanks in video games (and Katamari)?
Precisely. In fact, the last part of the article explicitly states that.

> Take an application that you use every day, such as YouTube. Very likely, it is mainly written and maintained in a single country, the United States. Engineers not part of YouTube and engineers elsewhere in the world are just tasked with creating and maintaining mundane business applications.
Hal Finney theory is too convoluted what with him talking to himself, a stark contrast in programming styles between Hal's organized manner and Satoshi's haphazard hacking, and no connection to the genesis block being a headline from UK/Europe and British lingo. A Nakamoto in town is just a common coincidence, there are 2,800 of them in the US.
I really hated it when pet.com stole all my pet food I ordered..oh wait!
Mental health startup BetterUp raises funds at near $5 bln valuation
Your point had nothing to do with autism, your post was thinly veiled edge-posting. Must hurt getting rejected by HN.

@dang
Wait, wasn't Web 3 the whole semantic web thing? This blockchain-y thing should be Web 4, or at least Web 3.1.

I expect it'll be just as successful as Web 3 was.
Lisp in a Weekend
I deleted my Facebook account many years ago so I would say the obligation to resign, to me, probably goes back pretty far. But overall I understand this wasn’t self evident for many for a long time and for many it still isn’t. I wouldn’t peg it at their feed engagement algorithm changes, but I think once people started seeing them creating creepy targeting buckets in their ad system, like “target parents who just had their first child” (how would they know this?) it started to be pretty obvious how fucked up the logical endpoint of that was going to be.
I think that is the point of the comment you're responding to?
More historical claims of such: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_from_laughter#Notable_ca...
If you look at the examples, "they" are all used in a general sense not pointing to any specific individual.

In this case, Satoshi is a Japanese male name. If you have evidence to suggest otherwise, there is no reason to pretend you don't know the gender.
Let’s be serious. No one is going to build out hydrogen based infrastructure when everything points to having electricity as the common energy source and then concentrating investment into multiple ways of creating and optimizing that source.
Unfortunately, not everyone is as fortunate. You need to be in the right place at the right time to have good experience like yours. I think the author mentions this in his last few paragraphs.
Availability bias. If you actually look at the data on nuclear safety relative to other power sources, you'll see that what you're doing is the same thing as quibbling over the safety differences of AstraZeneca versus Moderna. I am not making a false analogy here. The anti-nuclear perspective really is detached from the reality of how safe it is.
The original N64 uses 19 watts(as printed on its power supply) to run a 93.75 Mhz processor. Actual usage may vary depending on the game.

The Raspberry Pi Zero is less than 5 watts I believe? And thats a 1 Ghz processor with accelerated GPU. Plenty of opportunity to bring the clock rate down. Now what if you manage to run the game on bare metal? How low can you take the power consumption then? maybe 1W? Maybe less? I've thought about how to even measure this. I don't think those Cheapo tools on Amazon can go lower than 1 watt.

We really benefited in so many ways thanks to the reduction from 350nm to modern nodes.

I'm sure many will think its a silly idea but it came from this story I once read about the co-founder/CTO of Tesla: JB Straubel.

Whenever he used to go to a hotel he would measure the power efficiency of the lightbulbs and actually replace them with more efficient bulbs. He was obsessed with extreme power efficiency.

I also recall during the first Tesla AI talk that when designing their computer they focused on how many pJ each instruction burned.

This story just remained in my head and comes up because the idea of optimizing down to this level just wrinkles my brain! :)

[1]:https://youtu.be/Ucp0TTmvqOE?t=5196
Passive repeaters were certainly not common, possibly not used at all in the AT&T Long Lines network. I am not aware of any examples at least. In general AT&T did not like them, it's more common for telephone passive repeaters to have been installed by CLECs or telephone cooperatives, and later on I know MCI used some in this area. These were all later installations than most Long Lines.

I'm not sure exactly why AT&T eschewed them besides the speculation that AT&T built much of their microwave network relatively early and so the attenuation may not have been acceptable given the already short range on their links. AT&T's first generation of microwave sites had to put the RF amplifier in a hut on top of the tower because the waveguide loss was unacceptable, for example.

A very common place to find passive repeaters in the desert west is at dams, where they were almost invariably installed to provide the telephone connections to the power house.

A later interesting example of passive reflectors is the "periscope antenna," mostly used by Western Union when they operated a microwave network for a time. The actual microwave antennas were mounted on the roof of the shack pointed up, and at the top of the tower passive reflectors at a 45 degree angle "bent" it to horizontal. It put the more maintenance intensive parts on the ground at the cost of some power loss.
You can make okay avocado-toast for a lot less, especially if you've been spending the last year and a half baking your own bread anyway. I don't think I've ever spent $4 on an avocado, but if I did, it would have to be the equivalent of this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baked_potato#/media/File:North...

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Lebanon defaulted on its debt in March 2020, followed by the Beirut explosion later that year.
The point is more that your skepticism seems to be based in what you want to believe, rather than reality, which is that extensive testing of fuel cells and associated technologies has already taken place across various industries, in various use cases. What we're seeing now is a scaling up of the infrastructure necessary to take the knowledge gained from those pilot projects, and translate it to industry. There are already fuel cell trucks, buses, drones, boats, and even military assets in operation every day. As industry moves applications over -- where it makes sense to do so -- the necessary infrastructure will be expanded. If there's a market for it, it'll be made available to the public as well. Expecting it to progress any other way is unrealistic.

As for hydrogen usage in vehicles, it's hard to imagine that it won't be used in some capacity. Battery electric cars aren't a one-to-one replacement for an ICE car, and there are genuine drawbacks to the recharge time. Crucially, this isn't a problem that can be fixed through battery technology -- it has to be fixed at the grid level, because electricity has to be consumed when it's produced. Fuel cell tech is already cheaper than battery electric for use cases where the cost of overlay is taken into consideration, and it's hard to see new battery chemistries fixing this without somehow being dramatically cheaper than existing chemistries. Not to mention, fuel cells aren't exactly standing still either; future battery chemistries will have to compete with next generation fuel cells, not current ones.

The reality is that there's almost certainly a market for people who want vehicles that refuel using a traditional model, and that's okay. The idea that there has to be a winner in the automotive industry is asinine, because different vehicles fulfill different needs, and it's unlikely that someone who relies on on-street parking, or goes on frequent long roadtrips, is going to want the same solution as someone who owns a home with a garage, and mainly drives around the city.