skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't quite agree with that assertion. The fundamental problem remains the same in all cases: discovery of information.

The Web as hypertext/hypermedia links documents and information, allowing for the creation of models that approach the heuristics used by humans to find information: following the trail of bread crumbs. However, catering to the need to find relevant information in an efficient way is a hard problem since 'relevance' is in all instances heavily tied to context.

Google et al. are perceived as 'good' at helping someone to discover relevant information because they are experts at automatically gathering contextual information and leveraging that out-of-band while you just perform a fuzzy search based on a handful of keywords.

Without these powerful affordances made available by a handful of large tech companies, the Web would be very hard to navigate in one's search for relevant information. Moreover, even though the Web seems to be doing a better job then physical library or encyclopedia: that's still perception.

The "dark" part of the Web is still very large since it either isn't indexed or ranks very high in search results made available by major indexing tools like Google, Yahoo, Bing and others. If you want to do scholarly research, you're most often relegated to dedicated catalogues and instruments which rely on their own domain-specific classification systems to make information readily information in a digital fashion. So, it's not just about what you can discover on the Web, but - more importantly - about awareness of what you can't readily discover for lack of access through catalogues, indexes, search engines, etc.

What really changed the way we look at information is that the Web allows pepole to not have to physically dive into index cards, catalogues and libraries to discover information. That one can just jump from library to library from the comfort of one's own home. And that was exactly what people like Otlet or Vannevar Bush or Ted Nelson were dreaming about.
In a lot of the recent illegal settlement disputes Israeli Jews claimed to own the rights to the land they were evicting Palestinian Arabs from and demolishing buildings on. It's true that the legality under international law (which is only worth as much as it is enforced, which generally hinges on whose sides the biggest world powers are on) and compliance with pre-existing policies is a topic for debate, but land ownership is a major factor in this complex question.

One could call Israel an Apartheid state for its citizenship system and focus on (esp. white) Jewish immigrants over resident Palestinian Arabs and one could call the displacement of Palestinian Arab an ethnic cleansing, but my point is that both of these topics are more complex than just being emergent properties of antisemitic conspiracy theories or a naïve view of international politics.

For example, it is factually correct that Israel has been continuously expanding its settlements and land claims into supposedly autonomous Palestinian territories: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/a/13786
> ”If someone has access to a material on their own device, Telegeam can only make it inconvenient (but not impossible) to save/forward content…”

Is this effectively true for media? Key concept is democratizing DRM. You as a digital person having digital rights and letting you manage them.

Consider Netflix on iOS devices. Now consider if OnlyFans creators could have the same effective guarantees. Might they not adopt Telegram in droves?
Mountaineer awarded half the jewels he found at 1966 Air India crash site
They just break everything and tell users/devs to suck on it.
Some legislations have pretty rubbery rules about "circumventing effective DRM" to tack extra charges onto you if you find a way to save content the content creator does not want saved. I would argue that a DRM that can be circumvented is no longer "effective", but lawyers and judges might think differently about that.
As the article is in German: "dürfen nicht" is better translated as "are not allowed to". "may not" is too weak in this context.

More: It is a preliminary ruling until the court has come to a final verdict. As well, it's less about cookies but more about transfer of data to servers ultimately controlled by US-entities. As such, if the final ruling upholds the verdict, services like re-captcha or maybe even Cloudflare hosting (as TLS terminates there) will be affected.
You didn't understand the joke. GCP was born by Google copying AWS.
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I had no idea. Thanks for spotting this; I've flipped the site over to use CloudFlare Full/strict TLS; if that doesn't work I can turn off CloudFlare proxying completely.
I wonder how many nations need long range for defence? Of course offensive wars such as invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan are different, but most uses for defence should happen relatively near to border.
Better tip: never send any information or opinion you wouldnt want the public, your parents, your colleagues and the police to associate your name to. I dont get the newish trend online to send BS you're ashamed of.
Thanks for your work on Hamachi! I used it a few months ago to play a "LAN" game over the internet with friends, still works great (even on Linux)!
Can apps on iOS disable screen recording or mirroring?
To be fair, if you hook up a raspberry pi or some random old laptop to the web you can serve a significant amount of traffic as long you mind how you construct your website.

You don't need to rent hosting.
I thought the consensus on HN was that GDPR is bad because you get annoying pop-ups on every website now.
Your argument is completely valid against Ethereum and Bitcoin, I hope they will be used less to reduce the energy used by crypto. However the vast majority of others use Proof of Stake and a fraction of the energy. Take Solana, currently the 5th largest by MCAP, a tx uses a similar amount of energy as two Google searches. I am pointing this out as I see often the whole crypto market lumped together but crypto networks are not all created equally. Some are 10 years old and others are 2 years with vastly different implementations.

> https://solana.com/news/solana-energy-usage-report-november-...
I'll make a minor contribution to the discussion by mentioning the Culture ship normally referred to as the Mistake Not..., which is shorthand for

"Mistake Not My Current State Of Joshing Gentle Peevishness For The Awesome And Terrible Majesty Of The Towering Seas Of Ire That Are Themselves The Milquetoast Shallows Fringing My Vast Oceans Of Wrath".

Unsure if this name is also a sarcastic stab that the lack of gravitas in ships' names, but regardless it's very sad that Banks died young :(
> There is a good reason that ransomware only took off once cryptocurrencies became available.

What? The peak of ransomwares was during the 2000s.
Ahh, thank you! Now that you recount it, it all comes back to me. I should read more Banks, he's a fantastic writer.
I've used Telegram for years, I'm part of about 20 groups and over 40 channels, and I have NEVER seen an ad.
You won't ever see an "ad" unless you're part of huge channels, and then people can promote their posts as "ads".
Ah yes, centralization.
And today I had to update before I was able to use Telegram. Stupid policy.
> this only makes people to move away from Telegram to, say, Discord or alternatives

I simply do not understand why people are even thinking of moving to another closed platform like Discord. We already have an alternative and I think it's time to embrace it: Matrix
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I think you can just back(front?)light it.
Is the Political Slant of Psychology Research Related to Replicability?
But Mark Watney did 'science the shit out of this'.
the backwards compatibility makes sense, in the sense that...there's a cost to changing the name of anything.

but they spun off a whole new project -- lots of things were going to have to be created and changed anyways -- why keep this really strange, esoteric, five-letter filename extension unless you have a _really_ good reason.

that's probably the thing that bugs me most -- Jupyter looks really useful and fun and nerdy and wow, good job, y'all for creating it -- but what's up with the file extension that seems intended to be confusing?

if the idea seemed like it was going to have legs -- enough to spin off a new project -- then there were going to be more Jupyter notebooks CRUD'ed over each successive month than were ever created in total in the entire history of the project up to that point in time.

i guess most Windows users would never see the extension, most UI tools would not show the extension, and maybe most *nux users use command completion, so most folks would not really be affected too much.

but it just seems on the edge of ridiculous to me -- a troll job -- like, let's give this file format a windows95-like name, that'll be so nerdy and cool!

i'm cool with that to an extent, but grumpy old white guy part of me says 'nah'.

the .jpr filename extension doesn't seem to be overused. it _is_ pretty close to .jpg, which i guess might matter.

a .jup extension would potentially sound like a slur if you said it the wrong way, so no good, kind of like how dict() sounds, or the phrase 'premature optimization' -- which is a nonsensical/misleading anyways.

i don't know Jupyter well, so maybe there are a bunch of Jupyter-related artifacts/file types that would need to jockey for pole position for the .jpr extension.
In a professional setting, today, there is much much more that needs to be taken into consideration.

Anyone else found it sus that the OP didn't mention backups?
Fair enough, I haven't seen a great learning path, every question that I asked at first ended in an answer with something in emacs that I didn't know about. What the hell are helm, avy, Ivy etc? I just want to find some files.

I'm on spacemacs which I believe has given me a massive head start on a great setup. If I started from something more lightweight I would have wanted to end up where I am now, but the results on my own would have been worse.

However I admit that even the supposedly beginner friendly spacemacs still has the same problem of "find the intuitively named spacemacs layer, then start googling all the package names mentioned in the docs (which are not intuitively named), and possibly read the source", which is a big set of hurdles.
There really is no reason businesses need to run colossal bloated websites. That's mostly the result of technical ignorance from business owners. No ignorance is inevitable.
> Sponsored messages on Telegram are displayed in large public one-to-many channels with 1000+ subscribers and are limited to 160 characters. Sponsored Messages are based solely on the topic of the public channels in which they are shown.

It's a stretch to define Telegram as "ruined by ads"; this policy seems a reasonable compromise to monetize the product. The "famous competitor"'s way of monetizing is considerably more harmful, IMO.
You won't see them in private messages. It's only in some big public channels that people can promote their posts as "ads".
+ dgsh [0], I wonder if one could build a serverless sh map-reduce?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21700014
Interesting last point. Could be weighted by how each country values their servicemen, ie. culturally, (at the risk of making this political) one american soldier KIA > thousands of iraqis; makes sense that the US would lean towards safety for pilots. Contrasted with say a WW2 russia "defend the motherland" mentality where losses are acceptable.
How about you never take nudes in the first place?

Data can leak in multitude of ways, earned trust can be broken, etc..
if you lose your key, make sure that local (not remote) login is the recovery method. locking yourself out is a real thing.
This blog posts mixes up infrastrucure as code (a good thing) and immutable infrastructure (a good thing, for some use cases)

Immutable infrastructure is great for stateless services, to ensure you know exactly what versions are used and to avoid people from making changes on the server.
For databases and other stateful services, such as message brokers, it's less ideal.
True, and as the sibling comment notes it is still not fully there, yet as the vocabulary types are part of the standard library, it means what I have coded running on top of C++/WinRT, might equally work on top of HPX or cppcoro, just by changing includes and library being linked.
Also implementation is not what client had in mind :)
Is the F35 the american Maginot line though ? As a French Im keenly aware of over investment in traditional defense when war changes shape.

Never trust them to have done their homework, trust your enemy to have done more and alreay made your strategy obsolete.
Matrix is good in theory but its UI is still confusing. I'm also bitter that my old account that was closed a long time ago cannot be retrieved or reset, which means that I cannot use my phone number again (it's stuck forever to the closed account).
I fully agree. Its too easy for parents to be out of step with the latest fad that unscrupulous social media CEOs push on our kids. Not to mention that social media isn’t just bad for children and teens. It’s bad for everyone. Forget the benefits. Need reminding of your friends birthdays? Get a calendar.

It may take time for the US to deliberately damage national champions like Facebook and Google. Other countries will be less patient to act. I cannot imagine democratically elected governments idly standing by as Facebook drags their people into a dystopian Metaverse where there’s no more escaping the misinformation and manipulation that’s already rampant on current-generation social media platforms.
TamaGo is another example, https://www.f-secure.com/en/consulting/foundry/usb-armory
Web3 is very clearly a ponzi scheme, like most things in the crypto and blockchain space. You gotta get in early go get rich. Or stay away and spend time and energy on things that matter instead.
Wouldn’t that defeat the purpose of everyone within 5 miles can see your glowing eyes?
Do they have one for 'general non-work screen time'?
Successful for whom though? Listeners who want new music? Definitely not, but most don't.

One of my friends only listens to pop, and most people are like him in that he doesn't go out of his way to listen or watch anything new.
Because all Matrix clients are so terrible that they feel like beginners projects, even the official one is so slow and bloated that it's almost a bad joke.

Comparing Matrix to polished apps like telegram or discord is... misplaced to say the least.
> coincides with declining economic opportunities and massive political instability

If you mean the US (as per $DEFAULT_COUNTRY), it's kinda hilarious to see that you call this ‘massive political instability’.
True, but restarting a service, remounting all the data, waiting until everything has synced etc, just to apply a security patch is a big downside of the immutable approach
Miners are securing the only censorship-resistant, permissionless hard money we have. The only people who don't see any practical value in this either don't understand Bitcoin or hate freedom.
I didn't mean it was for news, I meant that the "live-ness" of it seems to be the main selling point for it.

> Game development is really the only meaningful thing you can do today that does not involve energy

I don't even know what you are trying to say with this. What makes game development more or less "meaningful" than other activities? How does game development not require energy?
> it’s bundling its own old libm (part of Glibc) instead of using the system one, but at the same time is trying to link to the system libasound, which expects a new libm and predictably fails (note that only one libm can exist in a given process, though different modules can refer to different symbol versions within).

It may have been newer when than the system provided one when it first shipped. Sadly you can't tell the dynamic linker to just load the newest version of a library. It just loads the first it finds and that breaks once the system provided version is newer.
That’s not the impression I got from the last 24 hours, nor the last few years.

1. Scale is hard and downtime is hard, HNers either recognize the struggle or appreciate their lack of experience. When AWS fails many armchair architects come out to suggest solutions but many more techies just sympathize with the Amazonians.

2. Technically, Amazon has built something impressive. It might not be what you want, or what others have, but AWS is impressive in scale and scope and even reliability. Many people share credit where due.

3. One can criticize the treatment of warehouse and delivery workers that Amazon is known for, but this has little baring on the tech workers there nor AWS generally. So AWS stories tend to be free from the social critique the company as a whole receives.
It's very unfortunate to see the parent has been down-voted for linking the Wikipedia page for an article which has over 1,000 citations - mind you citations are a key metric for the credibility of science, for good and for worse.

The science is not debunked by a blog post on nautil.us.

If the author is very sure of their argument then it would be of greater scientific merit for them to review the original data and other data, and report the fact of the data not matching what was reported in the original study, as well as proposing their own hypothesis for future work.

But the author's blog post claims an ad-absurdum proof, while ignoring that their proof doesn't extend to the difference in height between 21 year old males and females, despite that being cited as being an equivalent effect size. It's this kind of thing that means cited scientific work appears in the Wikipedia article, and Nautilus blog posts do not.

Edit: dis-disclosure I have nothing to do with the person who wrote the parent comment, just an observer
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Also: it's primarily based on applying Schrems-II, so not that surprising IMHO. This is something were lots of the industry just looks away and pretends it's not a thing, because it's quite a hassle to deal with (and arguably there is some ambiguity how far you really have to go).
"Telegram Introduces DRM"

Just want to point out that it's not actually DRM. Just Telegram giving users the option to prevent message recipients from downloading content.
Now I’m curious how a game engine can handle the performance penalty of using a dynamic typed language
Science is not like a religion.

Independent people have and can discover the same truth while in religion everyone who invented one, believe in something different.

Science is universal. Religion is stupid.
> This trend to prevent others from saving content is stupid. Are people not going to read the content? It’s already “saved” and of course doesn’t stop people from using another phone to screenshot or simply typing up the contents

Building walls in physical world is also very stupid. It does not prevent people of using ladders hehe.

Sorry about the joke. They want to create more friction so users can avoid people from 'easily' taking screenshots.
That’s already been done: it’s called GDPR.
And besides that, it's very easy to bypass those restrictions anyway. The most common would be to screen _record_ prior to opening, that usually isn't detected — or alternatively, for us rooted users just use a screenshot app which ignores those soft-blocks.

In short, this limitation is rather pointless.
Right up until it falls over in a huge mess because Elasticsearch was never designed or intended to be used as a general purpose JSON store. It's a search engine.

Or to quote Kyle from the Jepsen tests, "I would not use this as a system of record".
Odd, I submitted that thing long ago (few days). I'm confused but anyway.

I found the poset aspect of partitionning pretty. Also the page links to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young%E2%80%93Fibonacci_lattic... because apparently the structure embodies a fib sequence. Quite cool
Different people will have different thresholds, through I would suspect that people will start to react if the military started to take political sides. I can only speculate, but I think a lot of people tune out when most of the events occur on twitter or in political speeches. I think also that people got a bit desensitized to mountains of lawsuits occurring from the whole period between 2016 and forward (a trend that might have started even earlier). The details are different but if people are toned out then they won't be listening to hear the details.

It is generally hard to make people care about a threat that they don't perceive, and even more if they view the whole process as being done by fools and jesters. The many Capitol Building riots memes is a good example where people are mostly joking about how incompetent the people involved was, rather than portraying a realistic and scary threat.

It is hard to have a more polarization response than one side laughing because they see fools and the other being scared because they see a realistic threat.
I've always wanted glasses that can convert color to grey-scale. Wear them and walk into a black-and-white movie.
A comparative algorithm audit of conspiratorial info in web search results
Cold turkey is a legitimate addiction strategy. Not successful for everyone though, and basically impossible for most people with the internet.
Anyone else surprised to see that Demis Hassabis didn't have a hand in this research? Given his background as a player of many games, and involvement in a lot of their research.
Apple Neural Engine Internal: From ML Algorithm to HW Registers
Band doing a gig - they only wanted people there who would film and share on social media. No great loss, as I hate being surrounded by present but absent people, watching something right in front of them on a tiny screen rather than with their own eyes.
Well, that's one way to look at it. Another way is that they have a marketing problem: everyone knows that Windows has ignored the basics for decades in favor of all kinds of random crap like rewriting their web browser 3 or 4 times, putting adverts in the start menu and so on. But the foundational stuff an operating system is expected to do, like open text files or provide a calculator or a working terminal app, has been rotting away unloved and unowned.

So now they're finally (!) fixing some of these issues. They have a terminal that isn't a total embarrassment now. OK it's slow but at least the features are there. They are upgrade Notepad. They upgraded the Calculator. These projects are revealing weaknesses in their new round of Windows APIs but fine, whatever, at least they're dogfooding stuff now and it's not like the original Windows APIs smelled of roses either.

As a result, yes, they seem to be making a big deal about stupidly small stuff. But, whatever. I can forgive them for that. They all do it: GNOME makes fancy marketing material for changing icon themes or adding a dark mode to their settings app or whatever, Apple promote lots of trivial stuff as well. It's still better than the status quo of Windows development for the last 20 years.
It makes no sense to use FAANG in this context.

It's the cloud providers that are the target of the license, specifically AWS.
The article focuses on three areas

1. stopping crypto assets from being used to launder money

2. taxation of crypto investments.

3. financial regulation: protecting consumers from fraud, reducing systemic risk and ensuring fair competition

All of these seem like fair measures. How successful they will be? Exchanges like Coinbase are a key point of regulation.

Also regarding the lobbing, "The Economist calculates that crypto firms spent around $5m lobbying the American Senate in the first nine months of 2021".

For those more experienced in lobbying, is that a lot?