skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's because of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which says: "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider."

In this case, the Wikimedia Foundation (which owns Wikipedia) is the "provider ... of an interactive computer service".

The "information content provider" is the individual user of Wikipedia who writes or edits an article—usually doing so under a pseudonym. (They're all unpaid volunteers—anyone can click "Edit" at any time and add something to a Wikipedia article.)

For better and worse, this is the legal situation in the US.
This by no mean a defense of Googke et al...

To be fair, we (the public) have been complacent and complicit. We so often opt for convenience and "personalization" and "free" without pausing to consider the implications. We write it all off as inevitable even though that's not the case. Google and such will take that continue to nudge it further and further in their favor.

"The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" is an amazing - and sometimes boring :) - dive of both depth and breadth. It altered my lens for the better.

https://theintercept.com/2019/02/02/shoshana-zuboff-age-of-s...
The overwhelming consensus in this thread and in the replies to that tweet is dissent on the basis of the many completely obvious holes in the author's reasoning, which I won't get into here.

What I'd like to appreciate is the uniqueness of the blockchain space in its seemingly bottomless capacity to generate these bold propositions for which blockchain is _blatantly_ ill-equipped to solve whatever problem is at hand.

This is seen virtually nowhere else in tech with such regularity: engineers are obsessed with picking the "right tool for the job," entrepreneurs are obsessed with finding "product-market fit," etc.

This would make complete sense if the sector as a whole were, to put it crudely, one big Ponzi. The type that could influence otherwise intelligent, well-meaning, technically-inclined people to make glaringly absurd claims like in the linked thread as a pretext for luring in investors.

The typical response to that explanation is to split hairs over whether NFTs, or Bitcoin, or whatever token this guy is selling (I didn't check) fits the classical definition of a Ponzi.

I say "typical" because we re-engage in this discussion anew every day here on HN -- apparently in direct proportion to the total cryptocurrency market cap, with the occasional two-or-three year relief period when retail money dries up.
No, that's a different thing. HTTP request 2 from this scenario is from an entirely different client on an entirely different socket connection.

(This kind of architecture might also be useful for http pipelining, but that's not the question in this scenario)
Yeah this just sounds like certifications for crypto-bros. "Quests?"

We all know how fabulously certifications work for hiring people, after all.
> China's conversion of coal into cheap products????

Who buys them?
Wouldn't it be more correct to say that they (I mean the Wikimedia Foundation in this case, as the operator of the Wikipedia platform) don't review content at all?
Starlink at the current point still requires nearby ground stations. These might be in another country but the satellite has to see both the client and the ground station at the same time.
> But control of the vehicles operation, environment and entertainment systems should have robust, tactile and intuitive physical input devices that don’t require eyeballs to use.

Last time we looked at cars we avoided anything like this, it was depressingly common.

Worst, I think, was Peugeot - the volume and (I think) AC were completely controlled by the touch screen - but you couldn't just press and hold, when you pressed it, it only moved one "setting" and you needed to tap-tap-tap to change more than one notch. Also, the above-steering HUD screen had frame-rate issues! It's completely absurd that they both sell this and people buy it.

We did end up going for a brand which had touch for radio channels/Carplay, but physical buttons for controlling AC, volume, start/stop/skip controls etc.

I really, really hope this trend goes away.
Yet if all you ever do is talk about how sucky it is, then you're effectively just part of the PR wings of Firefox's competition.
I paid more for my old Honda Fit maintenance than the car is worth, and will continue doing so until this touchscreen nonsense becomes passè.
I used shake for some simple build scripts and to work on a predecessor of the Haskell Language Server. Due to it's lack of hermetic builds I don't think it's really appropriate for any project you're going to share with more than one person.

That being said I think it's an absolutely amazing Haskell library for building complex systems with scheduling jobs and caching of intermediate results. Once you use it you get the sense that every large codebase has an ad hoc poorly specified build system nestled inside of it. I described the experience of using it briefly here:

https://4ta.uk/p/shaking-up-the-ide
Twillio offers API level text message sending. You'd use a twitter API -> twillio -> sms bridge to have twitter available…
yes, they value has left and belongs to upper classes, and middle class has slowly turned into a unified lower class.

You’re only a couple paychecks away from losing your house and car, no matter how nice it all is.
Great. Now can we get rid of them on washing machines, dishwashers, fridges, radios, clocks, and doorbells?
>What I'd like to appreciate is the uniqueness of the blockchain space in its seemingly bottomless capacity to generate these bold propositions for which blockchain is _blatantly_ ill-equipped to solve whatever problem is at hand.

>This would make complete sense if the sector as a whole were, to put it crudely, one big Ponzi.

snake oil, that is a phrase that is commonly understood as metaphorical and nobody is going to argue that "it is not matching the classical definition of snake oil so it can't be that".
rga is one of my favorite tools ever.
Imagine if each IRC channel on freenode had between 5 and 10 subchannels. It quickly becomes impossible to follow up. It seems it's by design, it's another attempt of attention hacking.

Not to mention discords also has weird subchannels like "movies" or other specific subject, inviting people to atomize their conversations, conversations that already exists elsewhere.

The actual worst thing about discord, is that you cannot have a list of favorite channels. You spend time to mute mute mute channels and servers. It's almost designed to encourage users to just explore and read conversations they have no interest in.

Discord "servers" are not even servers in the classic meaning of the word. When software starts changing the language, you know something is wrong.
you can embed fonts in HTML so everyone has the same font.

How often do people embed fonts in the html via a font-face + base64 ttf or woff data-uri?
Making a game to memorize facts about every country
“Terra” is a word, not a cryptocurrency. It was a word thousands of years before crypto was even an idea.
feb 2020?
I am using and paying for NextDNS together with Firefox and uBlock Origin. Pretty painless setup.

It works pretty well and as I have setup NextDNS to be the DNS resolver used by my access point, the family get the benefits of it without knowing about it. On the mobile, you need to set it up as VPN, this adds clutter in the notifications area, my kids do not like that.
You can. But why? Hertz probably likes managing their inventory with an in-house database rather than integrating with some other ecosystem they have limited control over.

NFTs offer the ability to separate ownership and management of a thing from the business that created that thing. That makes no sense for a company that has inventory they personally control and doesn't want people to resell for liability reasons.
I am not sure this is so. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29050482
> Now the people who help out on the project do so in Discord and I hate it. I have to constantly copy the info into a Github issue or discussion otherwise it's pretty much impossible to find again as it scrolls up. There's also a ton of noise in between the contributing comments.

This is one of the reasons I prefer Zulip to Discord. You get more organization by default, with all conversations happening in threads with subjects, and a tendency to create new threads for new topics. I can actually find information in conversations long afterwards, and cross-link to useful Zulip threads from GitHub or elsewhere.
It's great and I use it almost every day: paperless-ng uses it in the background.
It is completely abusing, because it is not a technical knowledge here but just a usage.

I did not spend time looking at the patent, but I can't understand how they could have a patent on remotely turning up a volume otherwise they would have a patent on remote control.
Here's a way to stop them: make it illegal to have car controls without tactile feedback. Changing volume or radio stations, changing AC, everything the driver might do in the car, should never be done only through a touchscreen, which is too distracting and unsafe.
Most of GABA agonists can be addictive and seemingly all of them are dependence-forming.
Unfortunately, in this case it sounds like the alternate input is a touchpad, which is no more tactile and clearly worse.
I fought this battle and lost many times. More sub forums just means fewer eyeballs on any given topic…
> I'm also learning Mandarin and a lot of what I've learned is through apps like Anki. Feedback is instant. But it doesn't really feel that rewarding to get a card right, so I'm not sure how successful it is in a Skinnerian sense. Teaching machines are here and work but I think they're still suboptimal.

A lot of users use addons to provide positive feedback in Anki. You may want to give them a try

https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1722658993 - Puppy Reinforcement

https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/579111794 - Anki Killstreaks

https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/41708974 - Leaderboard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkveLkAgXiM - Anki Add-on Guide: Gamify Your Reviews
My solution does not fix the problem, it reduces it, so if we get all the missing STL functions in a trusted STL package then you as a web developer will have to review 200 less packages. But maybe some other luicky guys will have to review no package at all since most of what they need is in this STL-extra.

You can come with other solutions to reduce the problem further, like some of the other ideas suggested, one of the ideas is to maybe make it less CV worthy to have a npm package to discourage the behavior we seen where someone creates or forks some package and then pushes it into other projects just for fame.

I apologize if I miss-understood your point, honestly is not clear what you did not like about an optional STL library that is trusted and people could use instead of 100 untrusted leftpad like ones.
The problem it would solve is a back-end process handling multiple Web Sockets connections, efficiently.
You did not need to break your contemplative silence to write this empty pretentious drivel.

OP asked a question. I gave what seems to me to be the obvious answer.
The demarcation represents a minimum set of restrictions on behavior which fundamentally differentiate civilization from its opposite - namely the presupposition of peaceful coexistence. From there, there is no means to derive the degree of compulsion to cooperate, so better not at all.
NFTs also get stolen. For example: https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjb4nq/investor-says-bored-a...
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As someone who cares about page load times and reads the news, I’ve never seen this
Has not yet happened.
Actually, Democrats have criticised Section 230 as well. They complain that websites use Section 230 as a shield in order not to do any moderation of hate speech and the like at all. Nancy Pelosi e.g. has called Section 230 a “gift” to tech companies “that could be removed.” See https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/06/technology/section-230-ha...
> If there's an organisation that I wouldn't like to be politically aligned, it would be an encyclopedia. But hey, here we are; enjoy the ride.

You forget that Wikipedia is already biased and has been for years despite many complaints (some of which have been featured on HN over the time):

- the utter majority of its authors in the English and German are young white males, which has led to numerous cases of "toxic culture"/"hostility to newcomers" issues as well as complaints of bias in deletion requests such as for female authors vs male authors.

- the entire Balkan region is, and I say this as a half-Croat, a shitshow everywhere. Nationalists of all kinds, from the individual ethnicities to "Grand Yugoslavia" Titoists, continue past wars in the online world, with both sides resorting to whitewashing of atrocities (Ustasa on the Croatian Nationalist side, Srebrenica on the Serbian side), fake news and other propaganda.

An organization such as Wikipedia can only thrive wenn all people of this world are represented by it, and yes, that includes taking a stance on societal structural discrimination.
> (...) after a month you want to install a new package.

What's your point? If you want to update a dependency then you also need to go through all their dependencies. This is not a javascript/npm problem; it's a software development problem. Dependencies don't get magically updated, even with semver. You experience the exact same problem with other tech stacks. I'm fact, I've experienced this problem far more with C++ projects than with JavaScript/typescript ones.

Why are we expecting and demanding random updates to work with JavaScript/npm when that belief and expectation was always totally unrealistic with any other stack?
It's a shame that this totally genuine supporter of nuclear power doesn't believe in electric vehicles. You'd think EVs and nuclear would make a great pairing. But no, strangely, in his opening paragraph in this very honest attempt to sell nuclear power to a skeptical public he's more worried about gasoline costs and silly politicians subsidizing uneconomic cars. Hmmm, whatever could he mean by that surprisingly vague swipe.

> The United States has only 241 coal units in operation, so shuttering them would be a meaningless exercise in virtue-signaling.

I'm beginning to doubt the authors sincerity in seeking solutions to this problem.
Giving Robots Social Skills
True, Why you always got to check things out for yourself and decide whether or not to use it.
Nope. The middle class is losing more and more people to the upper class, who are getting wealthier.
In MRI (aka "CRuby", standard ruby), you don't get parallelism with threads either, due to the GIL. (Similar to CPython).

A lot of people are used to thinking mostly of that scenario, where ruby doesn't currently give you parallism for threads either.

JRuby does give you parellism for threads -- but I believe currently doesn't actually implement true coroutines (Fibers are just implemented on top of threads), so there are now two reasons this wouldn't be as useful on JRuby, true.
Maybe find different servers? I have never been banned from anything on discord.
The upside-down orbits of a multi-planetary system
> The Swedish government (of which the green party is part) has closed down several nuclear reactors

Only Barsebäck 1 in 1999, Barsebäck 2 in 2005, and that was primarily because of Danish pressure (it's very close to Copenhagen). So that's 15-20 years ago.

The other reactors (Ringhals 1 (2020), Ringhals 2 (2019), Oskarshamn 1 (2017), Oskarshamn 2 (2015)) have been shut down by the private companies operating them because they have either reached their operational lifetime and were deemed (by the private company (Vattenfall, Uniper/Eon)) not economically feasible for modernization, or just plain not profitable to keep running, due to low electricity prices.
Maybe this is good enough for your use case:

https://dangerzone.rocks/

It converts documents to just images, then converts those back to PDF, all in a sandbox.
This has got to be a bit, though looking at his bio he has gone all-in on it. Tremendous stuff!
Not sure about tech, but for pop culture like games, I blame that partially on Wikia/Fandom. I would not wish the horror of scrolling through Wikia websites on a phone upon my worst enemies. It's a lot easier to write and view useful information in Discord.
Not the best move but at the same time what else is there she can do?

Being young, in your "dream job" and then being told "there’s someone waiting outside to collect your corp devices" without any real explanation.
It's 100% HR + Managers fault that this situation has escalated to this.

If a future employer asks for a reference from Google she's screwed.

This whole "don't say anything bad about X, it will reflect badly on you" is how the Epsteins and Weinsteins of the world go undetected for years.

If what she says is true she should probably go to a lawyer and sue.
Same thing kinda goes for anything on the command line.

The amount of commands that are 2-3 characters long really slows down learning and when it comes to it you will often be typing another 80 ish characters after the command name for options and piping anyway.
Cyber: A Search Engine for Web 3
Raspberry Pi Pico Variant with Ethernet Port
How do you look up who the gem owner was at a point in past time?
I like watching those documentaries not only for the exposure therapy, but also to see all the redundancies that are in place and how the investigation leads to the same type of incident hopefully never happening again.
> Or broken features because someone had to have their bells and whistles

Like it or not, at least Google blazes ahead and brings new features to the browser sphere. It's not like innovation can be expected from Firefox any more, not with them cutting costs on the development team.
The things people build to avoid learning vi...
Windshield wipers.
A game like Donkey Kong uses a static tile mapped background and some small dynamic objects that move around, and the hardware combines them.

These machines don’t even have enough memory to store one frame buffer, you can’t program like a modern game where everything is customizable and you can just do whatever you want as long as it’s fast enough.

In a game like Donkey Kong you do what the hardware allows you to do (and of course the hardware is designed to allow you to do what you want to do).
Unfortunately I think it's more driven by cost motivations. As noted in the Mk8 VW GTI review [1], the interfaces are often straight up awful, this being a particularly bad design. They're the biggest source of complaints/issues shortly after buying, and three years later.

Additionally, distractions are already abundant in a vehicle. A crappy user interface, which most are, is a safety concern. At minimum, lag between screens loading should be extremely minimal. Staring at a screen for an extra second or two while it registers that you pressed a button and updates the screen is incredibly dangerous and has surely lead to some number of deaths.

Two years ago Mazda announced they were moving away from touchscreens, which was very well received on HackerNews. [2]

And I can't find the thread right now, but 1-3 years ago there was a really good discussion on here about an eye tracking study in a variety of car models.

Touchscreen-only interfaces in cars are kind of like electronic-only voting machines. Technical people who know about computers breath funny thinking about it and see issues left and right while large swaths of people really want it.

[1] https://youtu.be/XGbPHp6QfkQ?t=6m45s

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20200335
Paper at Astronomy & Astrophysics:

https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2021/10/aa41527-...

Arxiv pre-print:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.14214
That is an argument against having most non-service industries. Indeed, a similar argument would have been used for off-shoring huge amounts of manufacturing from Western societies to China (why put up with the pollution externalities when the Chinese could pick those up for us?).

The upshot is lots of the know-how now lives in China, the wealth is being generated in Shenzhen instead of the west. The argument was correct, but in hindsight it does look like the positive externalities were greater than the negative. China's growth has been much more impressive than the EUs.
The idea of a Free encyclopedia and knowledge for all humanity is a political aim in itself.
the way NFT's or blockchain can improve hiring is by asking candidates, if they think these technologies have potential, and if they say yes don't hire them.
This is what I tell them pro-nuclearists, who mostly, in my circles, tend to be engineers or tech-savy minds with a better-is-better mindset:

Nuclear is the mainframe. Let's just concede, for the sake of argument: the hands-down better, more reliable tech.

Renewables is the distributed. Worse but worse-is-better [1]. Setup and investment is incremental. Take down and/or upgrading is also simpler. There's huge traction in the battery and renewable tech ecossystem. The lower entry barrier makes it a competitive, highly decentralized market where costs are going down fast. There are "killer apps" and a constant flow of innovation happening everywhere else too, outside of power generation: from cars, to airplanes to homes. And it's all that swarm, and not a single "because it's better", that makes the renewable+battery duo the winner.

Maybe nuclear could have been that distributed, pop energy too, but the fact today, for various well-known reasons (regulation, monopoly, distrust...) it isn't. And, by the looks of it, it probably won't be in the future. Nuclear failed to capture the traction in the West for decades already. Just like the IBM mainframe it's not going away, and it's a perfectly good solution for some people (banks for the mainframe, China for nuclear in this metaphore). But most of us are heading into a "cloud" of multi-tiered renewable tech solutions and nothing can stop it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better
This is about SIM cards for mobile phones, not the game about the Sims.