skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They need all those employees because apparently there is not really any algorithm at work... An insider leaked at some point on Reddit a while back that there are just a bunch of people applying back end controls on each user account to limit their posting activity in one of a few ways, and when I saw it it did a lot to ease my mind about how the erratic way Twitter works. I personally think that some accounts simply get shadowbanned for life unless they pass the "money making controversial post attention" threshold.

Smoke and mirrors and pay-for-play have completely corrupted social media now since the pandemic. "Success" on social platforms depends on how much you can afford to pay for it.

I understand everyone has bills to pay, but these services started out as free services and converted stealthily and at times deceptively into paid services, and that shouldn't be just overlooked or given a pass.
Is there not a single dimension in which the paper is novel? If not, it seems like a mistake to publish this.
Moral relativism is the opposite of moral absolutism.

Moral absolutism is the belief that certain actions are intrinsically moral
or immoral.

For example, cannibalism. Say there is some tribe that eats their dead.
A moral absolutist would say that "cannibalism is immoral", and therefore
conclude that the tribe is immoral[1].

Whereas a moral relativist would say that, if you had grown up in a tribe
of cannibals, then eating people would be a perfectly normal thing to do,
it would be moral from the tribe's reference frame, and immoral from our
reference frame.

Yes, different moral systems can be compared along certain objective
dimensions. Objectively, cannibalism causes certain diseases such as kuru.

However, choosing which dimensions to optimise for is itself a
subjective process. Objectively, cannibalism prevents food waste :)

Relativism is precisely what allows for meaningful disagreements to occur.
Otherwise a disagreement would simply degenerate into a loud exchange of
axioms (this often happens).

My problem with moral absolutism is that it requires a healthy dose of
chronocentrism to buy into it without reference to some codified set of
morals such as a religion. What is considered moral or immoral has changed
dramatically in the last century alone. At some point in the future, our
morality will be as unrecognisable to future generations as Ancient Greek
morality is to us.

[1] Historically, this sort of moral absolutism was the impetus for certain
missionary activity. No not that kind.
No no they meant "excepted", meaning the government isn't worried too much about your rain dances.
The author of this paper, Steven Strogatz, is also the author of Nonlinear dynamics and Chaos. This is a seriously good math textbook, and really accessible to beginners. I highly recommend the book.
Haven't done this recently but the last time I set a cookie with a specific value on an authenticated server side URL only accessible to testers. Inside the actual app implementing the feature I'd check for that cookie/value and if present serve the content implementing the feature. If you didn't present the cookie/value combo you got served the production template w/o the new feature. This was for a client who didn't have a staging/test environment so everything had to regrettably be done "live".

It's not bulletproof, anyone MITMing the connection could grab the cookie and access the feature, a tester could share the private URL & userid/password, etc.
Most of the ad money comes from WatchFree Plus app on the tv.

"Vizio execs said 77 percent of that money comes directly from advertising, like the kind that runs on its WatchFree Plus package of streaming channels, a group that recently expanded with content targeting. The next biggest contributor is the money it makes selling Inscape data about what people are watching."
The update with the new setting is now available. Let me know if you have issues.
Not really. When you don't want the discussion to linger for the whole transition period, announcing the news the last minute can make sense. Not saying it's the case here though, just saying it's a possibility.
Of course they're not against ad tech, they are an ad agency. They just think there's a market for a privacy-respecting setup, is all. And I think they're right in that.

As far as web ads go, a lot of people's objection to them is not seeing ads (though the ads themselves can obviously be very invasive and bothersome), but to things like tracking and fingerprinting, which the company is adamantly against. The attempt is to have ads, but also have privacy, which IMO is the correct move. It's not like we can run everything on subscriptions.

> Brave replaces the ads from the website with its own ads.

This is not exactly true. They have separate functions for an adblocker, an ad delivery system that's entirely separate from the websites you visit, and a tipping system for sending BAT to creators.

I'm not terribly fond of crypto, so I use Brave as essentially a degoogled Chromium with a built-in adblocker that won't get fucked over by Manifest v3 (since it's not an extension) and is available on mobile, and who run an independent end to end encrypted sync service. It's pretty nice.
End users don't care about the management of firefox being messy or not. They install the web browsers that are advertised at them. Every time they go to a youtube link or to their gmail inbox there is a banner ad to install google chrome. Corporate IT now installs google chrome by default on work hardware at a lot of organizations because it works out of the box with their google business products, so you are familiar with google chrome from the workplace or even in schools with chromebooks now too. Google has millions of dollars more to blow than Mozilla at this sort of arms race and its shown in the market share.
>It is crazy to get into my partner's mid-2010s sedan and laugh at how bad the lights are at nighttime compared to the perfectly aimed and calibrated Subaru lights

On the other hand, that mid 2010s sedan's headlight system will age gracefully - there are no aiming servos to fail or autodim relay output to stop working or such thing. It's just lights with a switch to turn them on or off.

Increased complexity also implies increased maintenance and often more troublesome failure modes when something does fail.
"If anything, DNSSEC would allow one to prove that the .ly TLD had published bogus DNS records."

No it wouldn't. If you can force the registry to change name servers records then they can change DS records as well and your new bogus name servers are nicely signed and legit.

I think DNSSEC has potential but its a chicken and egg. So few places use it that its more of a risk than a benefit.

The number one issue I see at the registries I manage happen when someone moves their shiny domain to a new provider who know nothing about DNSSEC, but the previous registrar had it signed. Instant foot gun which of course seems to be working for most places but not all because not that many recursive nameservers are set up to check for dnssec. Its really hard to diagnose if you've never used DNSSEC before.
Check out a percussion massager like Theragun.
"Delay" is not "Contain".
The question is valid though as to why they've kept growing if the user-facing product hasn't changed. There are some good reasons but lots of bad ones too.
> The physical act of owning an explosive can be made illegal and is.

Then let me change my example to show legal items being used with the intent to cause harm is still illegal. I'm free to put razors into candy, but if I hand it out on Halloween it'd be illegal.

>However, it would be an extreme stretch to apply or expand these to apply to simply wearing a t-shirt. There is already plenty of case law that says wearing/displaying symbols or profanity is not enough to be considered fighting words/act.

This hypothetical T-shirt isn't comparable to fighting words, wearing it would unquestionably cause harm to the relevant ones who encounter it. Owning or creating it might not be a crime, but wearing it in public is endangering the public.
Could be just stats - lots of Indians in tech, so completely plausible that more than a few are picked as leaders.

A lot of global brands have or have recently had Indian CEOs as well (Pepsi, MasterCard, etc).
To be clear, I don't think Nick Lamb is an opponent of DNSSEC.
> Was that laptop a low end one with repackaged older hardware that wasn’t functional out of box and had no drivers or support?

At the time it was a high-end laptop with perfectly functioning Windows out of the box. Debian still allows to browse the Internet (not bloated websites), use ssh and Libreoffice. The camera does not work anymore, because the Linux driver does not exist and the Windows driver was proprietary with undisclosed documentation. This is the same planned obsolescence I am talking about.

> What can that laptop, openmoku or a raspberry pi do that someone would care about?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20264911

> How is selling old nonfunctional hardware not planned obsolescence?

Who is selling nonfunctional hardware?
I'm not so sure. The illusion of action could be worse than indifference. Who would build a service/standard that Twitter could make obsolete/outmoded in one day, with potentially billions of $ against it?
Or at least a clear picture of the dime.
You're trying to prove some kind of point where you respond as ELIZA would have to show how "even back then we could pass for conversation". The truth is that GPT-3 is actually, totally qualitatively different and if you played with it enough you'd realize.
Because the available choices change their platforms in response to the voting public to some degree. By not voting, you send the message that they don't need to care what you want, since you don't vote. It's the same reason that it's so hard to get permission to build new housing in some places: the people who would most directly benefit don't vote (because they don't live there yet).
I agree with all points here. Most anti-DNSSEC talk is just silly, especially if you ignore DANE. The two are separate protocols with separate use cases.

Some of the arguments brought up ("but Libya could pown bit.ly") are complete nonsense because as the TLD owners, they already control EVERYTHING, including who the rightful owner is. With DV certificates like Let's Encrypt the whole idea of CA's somehow stopping the regime from a takeover becomes completely silly. If you want control not to fall in the hands of a foreign military regime, don't host your domain with said military regime.

All this talk reminds me about the strong resistance against HTTPS in browsers. Certificate validation was broken in many browsers just like validation of DNSSEC responses is broken today.

The outages due to DNSSEC Slack reported were all because of buggy software, with buggy software written by Amazon in their last failed rollout. Route 53 was incredibly late to the party, only introducing DNSSEC less than a year ago, so it makes sense that their implementation still contains bugs. I fail to see why this would be DNSSEC's fault.

European TLDs (.no, .cz, .nl, .se) seem to be ahead of the curve on DNSSEC with adoption rates already above 50% and most American TLDs have basically no DNSSEC adoption at all. It'll take a while for DNS to be verifiable with no interest from the major TLDs and no suggested alternatives.
That's a heavily biased think tank. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Tucker#COVID-19_pandem...
Be aware that donating to Mozilla doesn't contribute towards the development of Firefox.
Big Tech firms should pay ISPs to upgrade networks, telcos in Europe claim
Look for a video of his speech during the Bitcoin conference that happened in Miami this year. Some activist invaded the area blaming him for censorship and then he proceed to apologetically explain that the pressure comes from the companies advertising on Twitter.

EDIT: here it is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFd5zlw13FU
Exactly. Not much of an Apple or Safari supporter but credit where credit's due Safari 13-15 has made more improvement each version than previous Safari. If they keep up the pace Safari 16 should be very close to current Chrome and Firefox.

https://developer.apple.com/safari/technology-preview/releas...
that's not petty, that's downright patriotic. we have an inalienable right to privacy, security, and liberty, and absolutely no obligation to let companies (or governments) invade or curtail those rights.
the washing machine and drier we just purchased was much worse than the older model, this was due to planned obsolescene would be my guess. the salesman was quite honest about it: "they don't build em like they used to, nowadays they only last about 8 years". the older models could last more than 10 or even 20 years.

this newer model wasn't better in any way that i could appreciate. sure it had a bunch of useless apps attached to it and the brochure was filled to the brim with lists of shiny technologies, that didn't make a ounce of difference in the power usage or water use (at least not compared to our 10 year old model). Driers haven't improved in power usage at all in the last 30 years.
The Romans were not afraid of nudity. The public baths that this were next too would have been taken nude with other men.

Most people learn about Romans from the Christians as the story of Jesus is with the backdrop of Roman rule. However the Christians inherited their nudity views from the Jews. Thus in the biblical areas there would be less nudity because of the Jews, and then the biblical writers would have censored the nudity parts even more to keep it christian friendly. Thus our cultural attitudes around nudity despite coming from a Roman area have nothing to do with what Romans would have felt.
It looks webview-based, but otherwise it's a native app.
I've found most everyone responds well to "on your left!" Many will wave and thank you, largely because most bicyclists provide no alert at all and instead just fly by (which is dangerous and rude).
twitter is playing both sides taking the money from the PACS and giving the brain scramble to others...
For what it's worth, I actually lived in the pictured neighborhood, and having that simple 25-MPH max offset from the main road was so much nicer than when I lived right up next to a 35MPH road, even though the larger road was 45. It was also great to be able to walk across the street to the grocery store. The street width really wasn't an issue.
The best Smart TV alternative I've seen so far is probably this 55" gaming monitor from Philips [1]. The previous model (558M1RY) could be also an option if you don't care about HDMI 2.1. At least on paper it ticks a lot of boxes, but there are not many reviews online and it might not be easy to get your hands on one.

[1] https://www.usa.philips.com/c-p/559M1RYV_27/momentum-4k-hdr-...
Thank-you. Candidly, I think 'no car' is what we should be promoting. I got rid of mine earlier in the year. I may find out this plan is wishful thinking. We'll see.
> Never update the OS.

Unless there are new features or fixes you want. My TV needed updates to support Dolby Vision and to fix ARC/CEC bugs. More recent TVs have required updates to support HDMI 2.1 features.

At least you can download the firmware separately and update through USB instead of a network update.
Shifting blame is the norm, period.

Remember the coverage around Toyota’s stuck accelerators, or the woman who suffered third degree burns from McDonald’s coffee?
There are free DynDNS services for example DuckDNS https://www.duckdns.org/

Could also get a domain name and make a simple cron job and update your DNS. Works with many DNS registrars like Cloudflare.
Yes, I have a 4K Sceptre purchased for a song, and the sound isn't great (and HDMI-CEC doesn't work as reliably as I'd like to bring up the soundbar on HDMI-ARC, etc.)...

...but it doesn't have any of the smart TV BS. Still takes too long to power on, IMO.
Well done, whoever crashed the board with post #80. That's what Show HN is for!
Not my area of expertise, but something can be academically novel and interesting without having any commercial or industrial applicability.
Isn't this what usually happens when the PR department of a university runs away with a story?
You'd think we'd have more sophisticated paint in this day and age.
Other than Musk for Tesla and SpaceX, I can't think of any of the major companies who would really be impacted much by their CEO leaving. Maybe Zuck leaving FB might make a small difference but IG seems decently independent of him anyway.
Show HN: SQLToy – a tiny relational database for learning SQL via code
I am a Javascript developer and I've used SQL for years but it's always been a bit of a black box. I recently learned about the SQL order of operations and the relational model and it kind of blew my mind. In the process of digesting this information I wrote my own database in Javascript which I think might help others in my same situation. The result is SQLToy.

It is a SQL database written in Javascript. It's under 500 lines of code (including comments) and has zero dependencies.

The purpose of SQLToy is not to use it as a database but to learn SQL. Instead of doing this from the "outside-in" by learning the query language you do it "inside-out" by going through the implementation of the most common SQL operators. Instead of just learning what the operators do, you also learn how they do it which (hopefully!) should lead to a much deeper level of understanding.

A detailed wiki walks through the code of 15 different SQL operations including SELECT, WHERE, JOINs, GROUP BY, Aggregate Functions COUNT, AVG, MAX, MIN to name a few.

The wiki can be found here: https://github.com/weinberg/SQLToy/wiki

Feedback appreciated!
I find constraint solvers a perfect fit for window managers. For example, take a look at [1] what scwm [2] could do 21 years ago. Sadly (for me) modern window managers (on Linux or Windows) are way inferior to something we had in the past, usually employing something half-baked that often doesn't work correctly.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCMUxj2f3Sc

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scwm
This might not always work - low end SoCs might also be built on older process node, making them less efficient. A higher end SoC also can complete tasks faster, meaning the device can sleep more of the time instead of crunching stuff on old slow cores and keeping the device fully up.
There's even an interest or social-reward factor to participating in these kinds of things. Working on an open-protocol messaging client for free is a lot less rewarding when the userbase of the entire protocol is 1% or less of all online messaging, because most of that market's captured by closed platforms that forbid and/or discourage other clients, than when it works with 20+% of clients and even your non-geek friends are using the protocol, if not your particular client.

I truly think we couldn't launch something like the email protocol these days and have it gain traction, and I don't mean because of its flaws. I judge that a pretty crappy state of affairs, and I think the #1 cause is that it's so lucrative to keep your users in a position where you can track & spy on them very well, while avoiding leaking anything they're doing so that competitors can see it—IOW incentives are set up to greatly reward successful closed platforms while discouraging interoperability, so we get even more of that than we otherwise might.
This thread, and the author's blog which I've but skimmed, are to me a microcosm of the clash between 2 archetypes that roughly correspond to Science and the Liberal Arts; let's call them Type 1 and Type 2.

Type 1 aims to formally represent the world in patterns of symbols, with maximal simplicity. Type 2 aims to explore the complexity of the world, with maximal nuance. Type 1 finds value in constructing reductive models that are wrong but maybe useful to influence life in the world. Type 2 seeks freedom from models that reduce life into forms that can be easily influenced. To Type 1, the discovery of a computational model or equation or diagram that explains art or mysticism is a Holy Grail to pursue at all cost. To Type 2, art and mysticism are effectively defined as that which is inherently beyond the grasp of a formal model.

With such a gap in outlook and purpose, it's hard to communicate, to convey information that can be integrated across perspectives. Indeed, the gap is so large that the meanings and connotations of words like "reductive" and "wrong" are only worth quoting from a particular frame of reference.
"Observability" existed 20 years ago and it consisted in application metrics, OS metrics, log analysis and correlation, SIEM.

It was called monitoring.
If you have a holy-grail, do journals like Nature do things to try to lure you into publishing with them instead of the one this author chose?
For those who don't like what I wrote, I encourage you to read the cites, which are official documents, rather than what journalists who literally know nothing about flying, piloting, or aircraft design, imagine is true.
Canada calls for international pandemic treaty summit, second in history
The Prosperity Public License
Hi,

Gluetun has no link to the actual tunnel setup, but since many people seemed to struggle with a vpn container I just used that as a bonus example!
It's always DNS.
Virtually every outage is because of buggy software. When we evaluate the resilience of protocols, what we're really talking about is how difficult it is to build reliable implementations of those protocols. DNSSEC has a particularly clumsy design (it's heavily encumbered by decisions made by government contractors in the mid-1990s, when it was widely believed that DNS servers simply wouldn't be powerful enough to "do" cryptography).

I'd have a problem with DNSSEC even without the wretched design it has now (it would remain a government-controlled PKI), but the 1990s design is most of what animates me about it.
It's novel, it's a huge iteration in the space. But, it's also being misrepresented as more significant than it is due to the summary being friendly to laypeople.
I put "Standard" in quotes because there is no such thing as "Standard" English. There is English as it is used (that is to say, as many dialects as there are people who speak it).

What matters is that the meaning was conveyed correctly, and it was. Your prescriptivism may be welcome when drafting contracts meant for other lawyers who speak "Legalese English", but not here.
What are the 10 computers you have?
You Can't Buy Integration
Andre Antunes does satirical takes on the effect [0] [1] [2].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JPRvxTjfOk

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZFt9KUvYs8

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OxYUhAZOy0
We don't even have 5G. Just newly available spectrum applied to on a 4G LTE network and billions of dollars in marketing hype.

Yes 'massive MIMO', beam forming, and other pipedreams exist in the lab but are hilariously impractical in the real world.
That sounds awesome. One point though - VS Code also allows you to setup a reproducable dev environment locally or through an SSH connection. It isn't clear to me based on the video if that feature is exclusive to Space or not.
Annecdotally, Cable news seems to work just as effectively at confirming prior biases as social media among my relatives who don't have computers / smartphones, maybe even more effectively. I'm skeptical that the algorithms are so much better than people self sorting between news networks that it's a difference of kind rather than degree, and I think we give "the algorithms" way too much credit in general
It's a religious impulse for people, for companies is pure profit-driven marketing. They are into politics because people nowadays love politics. It is everywhere. People want to brand themselves and carry their political flag everywhere. So it sells.
Judging by the quality of German customer care/support, that has got to be sarcasm :D
Yes but to nitpick he already mentioned bugfixes and file format support alongside security fixes (which he wouldn't/shouldn't need). :)