skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where it all went sideways was when mainstream news started showing tweets on air.

EDIT: I need to add clarification. I don't mean when breaking news gets onto mainstream channels. No question that happens.

What I mean is the use of a single tweet with maybe 1 or 2 likes here or there to reflect public sentiment on different issues. All any news station had to do was fish through the pile of tweets about any given topic to find something they wanted to show on air and then act as if it represented a large segment of people. I watched it happen over and over for years.

Twitter created the ability to engineer the perception of public sentiment already with bots, but when main stream news joined in things went downhill much, much faster.
People should not be self-prescribing and should listen to medical professionals. Sorry.
Given that VSCode is built in TypeScript, and it existed primarily for JS/TS in the beginning this is expected. You don't get whole lot of more from JetBrains/Fleet in that case.

Usually though JetBrains' editor is used by other languages, which don't yet have as good open language servers, like Java/Kotlin/Scala/C#...
Free all-in-one database version management tool
There is little value to slapping numbers on to probabilities that haven't been calculated, why not just say "seemingly likely" and "unknown probability" instead of "90%" and "50%, with an explanation that it isn't really 50%."
You any specific verifier/wallet, you won't - but the fake chain will have 0 uncompromised actors after the fork.

Which means that large stakeholders suddenly stop verifying blocks. Long-term active wallets stop transacting.

The same might be true for both chains after the fork, but I would imagine the fake one would have a larger change in participation (weighting older wallets and larger stakes) than the real one.
could you expand in this point?
I'm having "MongoDB is webscale" flashbacks.
HN is not what I'd call cancer. Social media doesn't need to be an engagement-obsessed, emotionally charged misinformation hose. Social media is broader than the category that twitter and FB live in. It can be less toxic, but less toxic platforms are less exciting and don't get the same kind of attention, which is what all the toxic stuff optimizes for.
If the minority is sufficiently large, say 40%, is it really that bad if their preferred candidate wins?

And if the minority is small, say 10%, then does this research still apply?
Given how each Web n.0 is met with fizzling hype, it's kinda surprising to see some of the people hyping Web 3.0.

I agree that decentralization will be important going forward. There are some specs starting to emerge that give me hope that a decentralized, open, and free web is still possible. For example: https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/

Maybe we should call it Web 3.1 or something. The typical bug fix point release.
And they explicitly used him as a selling point for Twitter: https://www.cnet.com/news/donald-trump-twitter-ad-campaign-j...
you can copy curl from browser, change https to http and it will work, is that susceptible? The whole react app uses https
This is good advice generally.
The Windows ecosystem has a long history of closed source freeware. It doesn't seem strange at all to me.
We need certificate transparency logs for DNSSEC (for ICANN and TLDs at least).
I have an open mind about it and have seen it many times, but I struggle with the leaps of logic required to understand the one proposition of conservatism. On its face it is obviously unfair, and it's hard for me to see it as the obvious consequence of conservatism which is "heavily trust the past and move forward with caution".

Can you help me connect the two or at least help me understand the underlying proposition?
Distributed, borderless raising of capital seems like a great application.

But I guess where I'm not seeing it is here:

> The point is not to make a better system, in every way; the point is making a functional system that is decentralized, so it can operate in a trustless, geo-distributed, multi-party way.

A way to raise capital with less restrictions would support this statement. But that's just one application. And I'm not in the business of raising capital.
IntelliJ has much superior code completion even for dynamic languages such as Python and Clojure. I seem to recall having tested Javascript too, but I could be misremembering there as its been a while since I didn't use use Typescript.
I just came across this tool, and it seems pretty useful. It's made by the people who make TablePlus.

https://tableplus.com/
GPT-3 can do some kinds of basic arithmetic. Specially so memetic calculations (if that's a thing) like 2+2.
If the shackles are short like on a trailer hitch lock so that a hardshell case like a Pelican fully covers them, then they will have to cut through the body of the lock itself or destroy the luggage.

I have never once had a lock cut. Only one flight ever did they call me for access but normally they don't bother.

YMMV.
https://pypi.org/project/six/ ;)
Wiktionary sometimes comes handy in such musings, because it has IPA spellings and recordings of pronunciations, and marks the dialects—not always but frequently for more popular words.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fore

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/four

The IPA suggests that pronunciations of the two words are identical both with and without the merger, but I'm no specialist.
The spatial Finder treated files and folders like physical objects. There was only one window on the screen for a given folder because a physical folder can only be at one place at a time. The location of each file and folder on the desktop or in a window was saved, as is the size and location of each open window, because objects remain where you left them unless moved.

It's not something that surfaces in conscious memory, but subconsciously this takes advantage of millions of years of evolution of the human brain to cope with and manipulate objecrs in the physical world, something other file managers don't do. Apple invested millions of dollars and thousands of user-hours of experimentation into making the OS take advantage of innate human psychology like this, something NO other computer manufacturer (including Xerox) had done at the time. It's a big part of why the original Mac OS was, objectively, the easiest operating system to use in the world (and far easier than many operating systems that postdate it including modern macOS).
This short documentary about Bitcoin in Africa makes it easier to understand why Bitcoin is important in developing (or authoritarian) countries. It'll answer some of those questions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7lm7IHnKDw
The working class seizing the means of production and the destruction of wage labor.
Isn't Reddit usually considered a social medium? HN seems pretty similar to Reddit, but without subreddits and with better moderation.
In Israel, flashing the warning lights or hazard lights or whatever they're called when driving, means "hey car behind me, you're on high beams and blinding me, please stop". Since moving to the US I haven't found an effective way to signal people about this, they certainly don't understand this signal.

Flashing high beams quickly is either a warning about police ahead, or "turn on your damn lights" (there is also a hand gesture for this, spreading and closing your fingers towards them to illustrate a light beam). If someone is blinding you coming in front of you, you just turn on high beams and blind them back.
foobar2000's library features kind of suck IMO.

Clementine/Strawberry have issues with large libraries or just skip tracks

Spotify is cloud, automatically eliminated there

VLC Player gets used for porn and videos

Winamp quietly Just Works(tm), it scans all my songs, plays them, and is great for tag grooming and setting ReplayGain levels

What else is there?
I've always found it amusing that she got kare.com first, and the TV station down the street from her had to settle for kare11.com.

+1 for the nerds.
Ask HN: Are there any 4K “dumb” televisions?
With news like [1][2], and problems I’ve had in the past, I would like a TV with a modern resolution, but just inputs and a tuner, no “smart” features. Does anything like this exist?

[1] https://hackaday.com/2021/11/29/samsung-bricks-smart-tvs/

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/10/22773073/vizio-acr-advertising-inscape-data-privacy-q3-2021
As said above, it depends, battery indicators (usually) are:

green=OK

red=no good

yellow=so and so
> We try to make known poisons hard to make, we try to track people who could make them, and we try to make it hard to deliver poison.

Actually no. We know that only some psychopaths would do that and so the risk is minimal.

AI is currently simply not 'good enough' to be used in critical environments. The problem is that _any_ sticker or even dirt or snow or ... on any road sign can lead to misinterpretation, you can never proof that it's safe.
Warfare comes to mind, as weapons gain increasingly powerful ai functions and become autonomous
The more I learn about them, the more astonishlgy complex and amazing technological marvels modern commercial jetliners are.
Unrelated:

I really liked the "Hi mom!" at the end of the letter. To be one of the co-founders and CEO of global tech co, and to say "Hi mom!" at the end of the your publicly shared resignation letter is such a big flex.

I understand his mom must already have been very proud of him, but this hit different.
Sometimes you can't get that grid size ;)
Yeah. I sometimes miss the days where I could chat with my Facebook friends using Empathy on Linux without having a browser open.
Yeah, feeling of novelty causes a dopamine spike, but shortly afterwards the level is back and we feel like they need more new stuff. Mindless purposeless scrolling may last hours and hours. Twitter is bad, but Tik Tok is the worst. Remove all this stuff from your phone and read HN instead. Here you at least should focus on sophisticated comments like yours!
I agree. To me, the definitive negative characteristic of Social Media is the "feed," where each person has a unique view of content. There's no good way to "curate" that for engagement (or monetize for advertising) without creating toxic incentives.

HN is a forum because everyone sees the same discussion.
The Water Bear That Wasn’t: Tardigrade
I wonder how much your mind would have to distort reality for you to believe you're providing the world with a good service when you're at the helm of Twitter or Facebook.
To folks saying this is heartless, I'd urge you to scroll down to the "Experiment" section of the article:

> I received three 8-week-old male Long Evans rats, Romero, Carmack and Tom. Romero was fearless (more like thrill-seeking) and loved grapes. Carmack was a real architect building around its home keeping it tidy; he was fond of bananas. Tom began shy, but held the most surprises in learning performance.

> I spent around 6 weeks with them during their (and my) night cycle, ~1 hour with each daily. It took two weeks to habituate them to me — this process could be accelerated, I was just a little slow with them. One week to teach them to stay put while I was dressing them; I also tested multiple harnesses and their combinations during this time.

It seems to me from this that the rats were well-cared for and the author formed a bond with them, considering how he seems to fondly recount their personality quirks.
With just 75 cents and a smartphone, you can now trade crypto in Indonesia
Prediction: more censorship and narrative protection incoming.
World AIDS Day Report 2021 [pdf]
Not my blog. Author works on a backup/archival tool called "Asuran", which I assume motivates a lot of the research into AEAD.

I had never heard of the "partitioning oracle" attack, which is a really interesting way to exploit Poly1305 tags under certain conditions. I never would have assumed that it's practical to generate multiple ciphertexts that all authenticate under the same Poly1305 tag. That property leads to some interesting attacks.
This seems to hold true for many social media sites: facebook, reddit, twitter. It takes effort on behalf of the user to make their experience on the site "better".

And by better I mean, less divisive, and less mindless scrolling of memes/low effort content.

Thinking about it from the business's perspective, it probably ultimately also lowers their user engagement metrics. Users get a higher quality experience using the site, but also spend less time on the site. It sorta reminds me of the freemium/grinding experience in games today. It makes for a worse game experience, but a better company bottom line.
It truly was all about the Pentiums.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpMvS1Q1sos
The thing is, the "natural selection" of this network is decided by people on average spending 5 seconds of thought before getting outraged/scared/intrigued etc (also, whatever is that emotion that says "look world, I found something really clever that y'all have missed!") and clicking retweet. I find that incredibly unlikely to yield any great content whatsoever.
True, but for a large class of problems in aviation, the analytical methods can provide faster iteration before going into CFD for deep optimization, at least that's my understanding (I'm the computer science person in the family, not aerodynamic physicist :) )
SpaceX, largely due to Gwynne Shotwell.
We've banned this account for using HN primarily for ideological battle. We do that regardless of the ideology the account is battling for, because it destroys what this site is supposed to be for.

Please don't create accounts to break HN's guidelines with. It will eventually get your main account banned as well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
My impression was that top-dollar was being payed for web-devs, with competition from some of the biggest tech giants driving the trend. Not sure that's a market for lemons, unless you are talking about the lower-end of web dev.
GitHub Actions: reusable workflows is generally available
>how do you distinguish 'telemetry' from 'surveillance'?

For starters, consent. Telemetry generally supposes that the user opts into, either directly or by accepting the terms of using a service, and is free to walk away.

I find the increasing usage of the word surveillance completely silly and ideological. If the NSA vacuums data from some underwater cable that's surveillance, when I exchange information, aware of what's being handed over in exchange for some service, that's a trade.
For a technical audience, I would look at some TTS (text to speech) programs especially by google and IBM.

It's definitely robotic and nothing like a nice narrator but audiobooks are amazing regardless. And your mind actually starts filling in the emotional blanks. It can also be really cool to use like internet archive's scanned book's OCR -> TTS and make an audiobook from a cool old book that would never be professionally narrated

And for anyone who listens to a lot of audio, I'd look into using an audio equalizer. Pulling down the high frequencies (especially for some woman narrators) makes it more comfortable after many hours of listening. On android the "Smart audiobook" app has this and it's really nice. Maybe some headphones/android phones can do this globally
> agency-alerting level of poison

Doesn't this fall under: "We try to make known poisons hard to make, we try to track people who could make them, and we try to make it hard to deliver poison"?

And the rest of it being you should use something odorless / tasteless.
On the Caddy website (https://caddyserver.com/) it says:

> Caddy is both a flexible, efficient static file server and a powerful, scalable reverse proxy.

> LIGHTWEIGHT For all its features, Caddy runs lightly and efficiently with relatively low memory footprint and high throughput.

> STATIC FILES By default, Caddy will serve static files in the current working directory. It's so brilliantly simple and works fast.

> Caddy's HTTP server has a wide array of modern features, high performance, and is easy to deploy.

Emphasis with the italics being mine. All of these seem to hint at performance comparaisons being done in specific domains agaisnt other web servers. For example:

- efficient static file server: I would assume that "efficient" here is compared to other file servers, though that could mean also that it doesn't use much resources

- For all its features, Caddy runs lightly and efficiently with relatively low memory footprint and high throughput: That seem to imply that other servers with all these features are heavier and less efficient? Or that other servers just don't have those features? Relatively low memory footprint and high throughput? Relative to what?

- It's so brilliantly simple and works fast: What does fast mean here? Fast relative to what? Apache? The standard Go static file server? Python SimpleHTTPServer?

- high performance: High compared to what?

My goal here isn't to be confrontational. My point is that if there are all those claims on the main page of Caddy, then you must at some point have measured performance, resource usage and things like that against other servers. I think what people are asking is to substantiate those claims with data. You're right that it's hard to generate data in a way that applies perfectly to everyone use case. But then on what do you base all these claims? Why is Caddy called "the ultimate server"? At least that's why I'm wondering.
> Oh, you’ll get a decent machine, but as the top comment conveys, developers that think this is a license to bloat need some firm correction, or simply weeding out.

The thing is, I don't think a lot of businesses care about whether the software they create is bloated or not. Performance isn't valued as much as features or functionality. Teams for example makes repeated multi MB REST requests where websockets would probably be much more efficient. Until the business incentives are changed, I don't think we should expect much change (and maybe that does start with the developers).
What they initially proposed was essentially WebMetal. Their likely reasons for doing so were to force a change in venue to W3C instead of Khronos, and preempt any attempt at a WebGL 3 or WebVulkan, due to their ongoing legal dispute with Khronos (also the reason they deprecated OpenGL).
You forgot quality tailoring. See Boeing for examples.
I tried to use it but it didn't seem as user friendly as the one @calculator.ipvm.com which I have used before. Maybe take some ideas from their interface.
In principle, I agree with this. Gecko/Quantum seems like a dead end.

The problem here is twofold. The "reference implementation" is already beholden to Google's interests, and only getting more intertwined as time goes on. The other problem is Mozilla, who I wouldn't trust to manage taking a dump, let alone a web browser.

Chromium is a fine platform. I'd love to see a community implementation of that which isn't directed by corporate interests or utter incompetents.
My story is so similar, but I’m still in that stagnation phase now. I went from never working on a production service to building, evolving, and ops-ing basically our entire back end over the last five years. I can answer nearly any question about it within a few seconds. And I’m so ready for something new, and for a break.

Leaving this kind of comfort won’t be easy, but I know that I need to find a way.
I can propose a non-trivial solution to these problems, that is to have a data cleaner average and ignore certain data like how humans does it. Humans would ignore everything else but the face and maybe the body, and also we don’t examine someone’s follicles either, we basically average.
I think I knew that. And I've also known execs who spent substantial time between multiple offices who tracked for tax purposes.

However, for example, Concur now has an auditing service through E&Y for business travel in the US generally. It was implemented fairly recently and I unsurprisingly haven't traveled much but I did have one trip that triggered a "Is it correct you worked in this state for these three days" email so I guess I'll see what happens.
The obvious problem with storing certificate chains in TXT records is that it deeds control over your site cryptography to the government that controls your TLD, and, likely, to the "Five Eyes" IC consortium that probably exerts de facto control over the DNS roots themselves. We don't have to wonder whether governments manipulate the DNS for policy reasons; they do so loudly and proudly. People assume governments can simply suborn CAs directly, but that leads us to our next issue:

A slightly less obvious problem with storing certificate chains in the DNS is that you can't revoke the DNS. You can, in fact, revoke entire chunks of the WebPKI. Not only have Chrome and Mozilla done so before, they did it to the largest and most famous CA. Google cannot revoke .COM; in fact, in practical terms, they can't even leave .COM, because hundreds of millions of users are trained to reach them at .COM.

An even less obvious problem with storing certificate chains in the DNS is that virtually no software --- especially not the low-level library code that everything is built on --- is designed to assume that the DNS can fail for policy reasons. When certificates are for whatever reason rejected, you get a UI flow telling you what's going on. It doesn't do a very good job, but it's better than nothing, which is what you get with DNSSEC: your site silently falling off the Internet, as if it had never existed.

There are other reasons too, but these are some of the high-level ones.
Humans are not so bad as drivers. Your example is an event from over 2 decades ago and was deemed newsworthy. Humans drive in all kinds of conditions but death rate is about 1 per 100 million miles driven. A search reveals crashes to be on the order of hundreds of collisions per 100 million miles driven. Age, country, intoxication level, road design and laws, road and environmental conditions also play a major role such that accident rates for someone aged 30+ in a Northern European country are going to be a lot less than teenagers in a country where road laws are merely friendly suggestions (and considering the chaos of driving in those countries, the rates are actually surprisingly low).
I agree. News stories about X "dragging" Y on Twitter were rock bottom.
"As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously"

Benjamin Franklin.
They might be right, though I wouldn't say the name is synonymous with speed anymore. Intel is still using this name for entry level cpus [0].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium
We're big fans of Umso too! Some of our users have created brand styles on Parade and built their website there.
Yeah also a big flex saying the company you just quit should be the most transparent (but not during my tenure of course)
Not the entire program; that wouldn’t have fitted in memory. The Segment Loader in classic Mac OS supported something similar to program overlays (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overlay_(programming)) in the sense that it allowed programs to be larger than available memory, but with an extra feature that, if memory permitted (it rarely did in the 128k Mac) segments could stay in memory.
Other than having to unlock it, my 2017 MBP does the same with respect to turning on when I open it. For me, that's a feature. It makes using it, closing it, writing, opening it to type or read something, and putting it away again frictionless (other than unlocking). That's both a pro and a con. As a pro, it makes it easier to put it away (I don't leave it open just to avoid the friction of bringing it back up). As a con, it encourages reaching for it once it's put away (because there's no friction). Net, though, it's better for me as I spend less time on the computer total unless I'm doing things that need to be done on the computer (still browse HN too much, though).