skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Completely disagree. You are speculating or rather, like many these days jumping to a conclusion because you think it is the best approximation based on data you interpreted to mean something.

Plenty of people don't want to have children, most people want sex but even then the goal is primarily pleasure. What I dislike about your reasoning is that it is basically "Sex causes reproduction and people like to have sex, therefore people are hardwired to reproduce" in other words "Action X causes result Y therefore people who have a natural desire to commit action X do it because of result Y" . In reality, the action(sex) has many other effects both beneficial and harmful.

Another reasoning I hate: "If you do action X you will die, therefore not doing it is a biological trait" this presumes humans can't transcend instincts. As far as I know, we are the only creatures that regularly commit suicide. Our ability to reason and evaluate ourselves and the world around us and desire to seek meaning and purpose gives us a Psychological component unique to us. People can litetally die by willing themselves to death (really!), ask any medical doctor and they'll tell you the will to fight and live in a person can help them overcome or be overcomed by disease. In the military theh have a saying:"If you get shot, don't die." (Thinking you will die will kill you faster than the actual would by itself). Given all that, why would you presume something much less impactful than survival itself is not significantly if not entirely controlled by the mind?

I think perhaps you are not considering that psychology isn't restricted to the conscious mind.

As far as the purpose of life, I would hate to start a whole other debate but let me just ask you to empirically prove one thing that exists without prior cause or prove the origin of all things then I can take your opinion seriously, until then I think the best you can do is you think that might be the case but you really have no idea if life has a purpose.
you can make that with regular friends right? Or is there something im missing
I found a wife at college. Don't know how you fit that into the spreadsheet model.
You're right, I did mean the GNOME builder.

I don't know what's wrong exactly, I think it's Flatpak related. From what I remember, it had something to do with a certain version of the GNOME SDK not being installed (I think it was looking for a version of something that didn't exist?) so it failed a dependency check when I hit the install button from the Builder popup. I think this caused the tool to get into a faulty state where it thought the dependency was installed but simultaneously suggested installing the dependency, so it freaked out. I'm usually working on Ubuntu so combining the outdated Ubuntu stable-ish packages with Flatpak's bleeding edge stuff causes issues from time to time.

This could've been a temporary problem and I could've had a streak of bad luck, or maybe my deskop and laptop are somehow just set up plain wrong. I'm no expert in Flatpak internals. I also don't have Builder set up any more so reproducing the problem is kind of hard. Next time I'm giving it a try, I'll try to keep in mind to actually post a bug report.
> A Bitcoin-based economy would not suffer from this problem.

I rather like the ability of my government to use monetary policy to create favorable environments for growth. Sometimes we get a bit ahead of ourselves and things come crashing down, but when it's good it's great.

> Additionally, behold the list of extant desirable use cases for a decentralized cryptocurrency:

There are lots of bad use cases for crypto.

1. Crypto directly enables ransomware and terrorist financing

2. Crypto creators and whales get much of the upside. Why should we reward them rather than transact with the currencies our governments use? Governments which provide an actual social safety net?

3. People can lose a lot of money with dumb mistakes. There are no support strings.
Got a more specific link that discusses the actual hexagon system? And, your cookie banner is either a horrid dark pattern or broken as heck on ff/android.
> "Our discomfort about these conditions should be weighed against the discomfort of killing hundreds of thousands of civilians in bombing raids and dropping nuclear bombs on two cities."

Think about the implications of what #1 is and what you're saying. The European theater equivalent would have been to leave Nazi Germany's government intact with Hitler as its head. If that's an acceptable deal to you, well, you're probably not going to find a lot of people to stand with you.
>Additionally, behold the list of extant desirable use cases for a decentralized cryptocurrency:
>1. Donating to scihub

You mustn't be aware that Bitcoin transactions are 100% traceable (and are being traced). Donating to scihub with something like bitcoin would be opening up yourself to legal trouble depending on what country you live in. You'd have more privacy using your CC.

Bitcoin is utterly useless as a form of currency. It's non-fungible, and your entire transaction history is open to the whole public to see.
Fair. But my argument is with it constituting encroachment, like Syria in no way brought that territorial loss upon itself in any capacity.

My objection was one-sided denigration of Israel when it appears--in the comment I replied to, it was mild and implied--which mitigates things. Can't help notice Anti-Israel speech as gotten to be very common on HN in the last two years. If you want to criticize or even denounce Israel, this forum is for sure an appropriate time and place for that, and it appears nobody will claim anti-Semitism in the 2020's like they would in the past (as far as I can tell, this decade only American Jews are off limits, Israel is fair game).

But historical falsifications are where I draw the line. I claim that is incredibly dangerous, leads people to believe that a group--here, it's Israeli Jews--is morally inferior. Do you know what happened next in the Middle Ages, or the Renaissance, or the Enlightenment, or even in the 19th century, any time the stereotype of moral inferiority took hold?

That is precisely the moment to "speak for the Jews," as the poem put it.
What is the fundamental driver of shares listed on the stock market increasing in real (not nominal) value?
Holding value is also important. Fiat currencies are notoriously bad at holding their value over any long period of time. Bitcoin might not be stable (as a result of not being easily manipulated by the government), but over the long term its value has increased due to scarcity. Many people use both today with Bitcoin debit cards that allow converting to fiat for use with lower level transactions.
No. There still are forums on lots of topics. But search how to fix X and instead of prioritizing a forum site with answers you get 5 top results trying to sell you the parts to fix X. The answers are always way down the list.
Reddit doesn't really need to build a search engine, they could just have an algolia instance like HN does: https://hn.algolia.com/.

While not perfect, it does a pretty good job, in my experience.

However, the article makes a valid point -- the moment people start using it heavily, we'll get a reddit comment equivalent of SEO, with keyword stuffing and whatnot.
> It's my opinion that those who complain about Google search results are frustrated that Google can no longer find a web that no longer exists

That, and the Google search results are bad for the parts that do exist.
… I'm in a small company, and we "use" serverless. I've never once asked myself "Should I move to serverless?" It's just whether, for some application, it's the right tool.

We run a few Github bots & a function that updates a Route 53 record on serverless. (Security didn't want to give permission to R53; "too much, too broad"; a lambda that exposed only the necessary action to the service that required it was the compromise). But it's all extremely low-frequency stuff with no or little state, where the costs of a VM would far exceed the costs of "serverless". It was the right tool, for those jobs. (& it's usually niche stuff… I'm trying to think if I've ever worked somewhere with something core on Lambda or the like…)

But also got tons of VMs. Lots of VMs. Probably too many VMs.
Reddit posts are good because the people who create these posts or make comments are doing it to share their knowledge.

…

So how can we fix the system? The best way to fix the system is to prioritize websites that are there to share knowledge

OK, so append Reddit to the google search, got it.
> How would the oracle technique help at all?

If they give you the hash upfront (or this oracle), you can test passwords offline without using up a limited number of guesses. It may be very computationally expensive to brute force the space, but the information is there.

If they don't, you get 10 guesses, and you have effectively no chance of guessing the password.
The manual is pretty good too https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html
I mean, your rainbow table would need to contain 2^92 entries...
It's true, early reddit was rather similar to HN actually. I can even pinpoint one of the cataclysmic events, reddit's "Eternal September" so to speak, where things accelerated downhill: When digg 4.0 was rolled out and failed spectacularly, leading to an influx of digg users to reddit.

Prior to that I checked digg out every once in a while and got immediately annoyed of all the "cringey self deprecating nerd jokes and memes". And suddenly they were everywhere on reddit.
I skimmed the entire paper before making that comment. I'm pretty sure I understand it. BTW I have a PhD in static program analysis.

If you think the paper is right, just explain how it detects use-after-free in the following code fragment:

int* p = (int*)malloc(sizeof(int));
int* q = p;
free(p);
*q = 1;
Well you are stating your opinion as fact, which is not useful when your opinion is wrong, which it is in this case.

Still lots of great content still out there, often times the target of my original Google query.
Currently the perception is USD is safer than INR, but that can change at any time. There is no reason not to use stable coins denominated in INR if INR becomes more trusted. Imagine if the US printed 40 percent of their currency of all time in a single year leading to subsequent years of the highest USD inflation in 40 years.. which just happens to be exactly the time we are living in.
He's finally going full Maxime now. Her approach really is the best for ruby and such dynamic languages. And for static languages you cannot beat GCC/llvm.
This take doesn't make any sense to me.

> Reddit posts are good because the people who create these posts or make comments
> are doing it to share their knowledge. And there is no financial incentive
> associated with it. They know that do it to share their knowledge.

Ok, that's why people are Googling for "xyz reddit"...

> However, once Reddit creates a search engine, and once people get to know that
> there is an opportunity to game the system and create a financial opportunity,
> people will abuse that system and we will be back to the place where we are
> now. SEO stuffed websites.

There's nothing in this article explaining how the existence of better search on Reddit would provide different incentives than the very popular search engine for Reddit that is being used today (Google). What is this "financial opportunity" that doesn't already exist that will spell doom?
You can face your accuser in court. The camera isn't accusing you. The city is. It's using the camera as evidence.
Audible calculates Net Sales in A La Carte and Membership mode [1]. Is the membership mode closer to Pro-Rata mode like Spotify [2] or the User-Centric mode. Is the claim that Net Sales are shady with respect to either or both? Because pro-rata is hard to calculate and predict. Either way, this is a very complicated matter that affects the livelihoods of thousands of authors and producers but the lack of specific details makes it hard to understand what's really going on.

Audible has had to change policies based on author complaints [3] and rightly so. But the claim of "Net Sales" being correct or incorrect is hard to prove without Audible releasing the detailed data like the authors are asking for. Frankly this seems like a matter best decided by lawyers in arbitration instead of Twitter-threads but maybe online pressure is the best way the authors can get Audible to come to the table.

Either way, good luck to them. There are so many laws around sales, returns, commissions, royalties etc. that have evolved over the last century or two to protect all parties. But it's a wild west in the subscription world where Apple/Google control app markets, Netflix/Disney control TV/movie subs, Spotify/Apple/Amazon control music streams, YouTube/Tiktok/FB/Twitch control video streams. Each platform has their own rules, payment sharing, metric calculation etc. And while users can switch if the product sucks and platform owners can ban users or producers based on ToS violations, the producers barely have any power or say because there's almost no profitable alternative left.

If this was 1960s, users and producers would definitely fight for some basic standards and guarantees across all platforms (e.g. right to pause/cancel easily, allowing usage from multiple locations, right to review/audit records etc.) But in 2020s with trillion dollar market cap companies running the show, I'm not sure that users or producers get a say in how they are treated anymore. Best we can hope for is a new entrant that is better for a few years.

1. https://www.acx.com/help/HJSJJK8XP7HYURS

2. https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2021/11/how-spotify-royaltie...

3. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/26/audible-adjust...
We were overpaying royalties. Contrary to the ideas in this thread, I think most of the people working at Amazon really do believe in earning customer trust and customer obsession. I never experienced anything even remotely like someone saying "We could earn a bit more by cheating!" And if I had, I would have felt complete confidence in raising a red flag to literally anyone above me in the org chart (though, of course, I would've gone in order). Conversely, I did experience many, many genuine people expressing earnest opinions about what they thought was best for the customer.

I would not be surprised to learn that there are harsh or exploitative terms for audiobook publishers. In that sense I think Amazon would consider that serving the customer means securing better prices. I would not be surprised to learn that some element of the people responsible for getting this working correctly were not doing so in some way (either because they didn't understand, bugs in the system, or they were too busy doing other stuff). I would be really surprised if they were intentionally cheating Audible publishers out of relatively small sums of money though.
SEO before Google PageRank was basically submitting a site multiple times in an online form to Altavista and it would rank higher. As a teenager I automated this with the only programming language I knew, mIRC scripts.
> you could reconnect to IRC client under a tmux session from anywhere

That would actually be a pretty decent solution if it could be automated on a mobile device: run the IRC client in the cloud and then have tmux auto-reestablish every time it gets its connection dropped while the mobile device moves around.

I'd have to see it in action to be confident that a continuously-dropping-and-reestablishing tmux won't drop incoming messages or double-send though.
The only reason you know not to put metal in the microwave is exactly because of 60 years of manuals. It's common knowledge now. You bet they talked about radiation and how a magnetron works in a microwave back the 60s.
Marketer perspective: you can not build a communication tool you find useful that won't end up being used to make money. It will get figured out.

I could go into a bit more philosophical angle with reterritorialization done by capital, but I think it's much simpler to consider the following: between politics (where once any division in population is found, it becomes valuable instantly), classical business marketing (where once anyone makes purchasing decision informed by something, it becomes valuable), capital markets (where once anything can be used to predict anything about any company or asset class, it becomes valuable) and more personal scams (where once you figure out someone's niche interest, it becomes valuable) there just isn't anything left. Go ahead, try to find something.

Reddit is being constantly targeted. I still use it, because what else?, but if the method isn't obvious, here's what you do: you are hired by/own small company making niche potato chips dip sold via Amazon. You go to google keywords and check 'potato chips dip', you google all you can find there and some of your ideas, you write down all top10 results and check every now and then (well, your SEO monitoring app does it for you). Whatever you find that allows for user input, you generate that input - accounts are cheap - and maybe do some external SEO (thus beating 99,9% of social media results online).

That's it, it's easy. What Reddit (and any mildly aware SM company) does, is they try to offer marketers access to audience for a price that's lower than cost of what I just described. There will be edge cases, especially on international markets where value of time for various business owners differs vastly, which will lead to sites slowly getting more clogged up with ads, but that's the general gist. If you can imagine using similar method to get in front of your eyes when you're looking for something, then it would just be quite weird if nobody ever did it.
I do like using Libby for books that don't have a long hold list and those that are very short. I absolutely hate wasting an Audible token on a 2 or 3hr book, I'll drop a token on something like a 51hr Tom Clancy book or just books I'm too impatient to wait weeks for.
>There still are forums on lots of topics.

What is Reddit if not the largest forum in the world? You have the same gripe; you are looking for a web where people share things for free (like in forum); and when Google first existed most of the web is like that.

And if google were to prioritize forums; then SEO blackhats would do everything in their power to make every website look like a forum; and then you are back to square one. The problem is the profit motive, not Google's algorithms.
> However, once Reddit creates a search engine, and once people get to know that there is an opportunity to game the system and create a financial opportunity, people will abuse that system and we will be back to the place where we are now. SEO stuffed websites.

I help run a Reddit website and open source project for managing scheduled posts [1] and we see a lot of garbage there, sadly. Over the years the site has processed nearly half a million posts and has tens of thousands of registered Redditors. In the early days it was pretty cool, we had a lot of individual users with various interesting projects. I remember early on there were some musicians using it and a few book authors that would release their books one chapter at a time - using our service to schedule the posts so they didn't have to do it manually.

But, as time went on, the entire platform has been just swamped with mostly live sex workers and people shilling bullshit products. I'm not judging the sex workers or saying they shouldn't be allowed on the platform and we don't ban them, but I would say now literally 99/100 of new users are just trying to push their Only Fans accounts to porn subreddits. Regarding the weird product shills, we've seen a few really odd campaigns. There was one guy who would post to various left-leaning and "green" oriented subreddits on the terrible nature of plastics while also promoting his own metal straw sales. Again, none of it is illegal and I'm not even sure if any of it is unethical or immoral since it really depends on if you think people are doing these things in bad faith, etc.

Either way, the project has for sure taken a backseat for us. If the server stays up and everything works, cool, if not, that's fine too. I have no interest in trying to monetize the service anymore whereas in the early days we took donations.

My point is the world of gamifying and commercializing Reddit content is already very very well established and there are large players doing it at a very large scale. If you measure it the porn industry is virtually all of it, but if you exclude them and look a bit harder you'll find other industries that have also carved out their niche in exploiting the platform.

[1]: https://cronnit.com
Your experience on reddit is 100% the result of the subreddits to which you subscribe. Unsub ALL default reddits and you'll be surprised at how quickly the quality goes up.
I'm not too worried. When I was a kid some of my peers invested incredible amounts of their youth into pursuing professional sports careers. None of them succeeded, but I think most of them eventually did fine in other fields.
Avoid r/Canada just a toxic community where mods delete anything that offends them and goes against their beliefs. I honestly think it is also overrun by bots trying to steer an narrative. Everyone just argues and fights now it seems.
> Reddit posts are good because the people who create these posts or make comments are doing it to share their knowledge.

people post to Reddit (and here) not to share their knowledge but because they get a little squirt of dopamine from upvotes and downvotes and replies.
It does exist, just the same - probably more so, because the web as a whole is many orders of magnitude large now, so there's just more of everything.

However, 90% of everything is crap, so the good stuff is not buried under thousands, or millions, or mere billions of pages of crap, but trillions.

> any tom, dick and harry could open up note pad and get a website online.

This part hasn't changed one iota - you can still do _exactly_ that, even following a tutorial from 1996 to the letter, if you want. All that stuff still works fine - and I have websites that old, built that way, that are still up and work fine.
MS grew out of the enterprise, where as AWS/Google exploited the massses.

Im liking how Password rotation becoming a thing of the past because of this.
Windows is your foil.

On the same hardware, Windows is 100x slower at forking an external process.

When you are using a (POSIX) shell on Windows, don't cause a fork, especially in a loop.

Do everything internally in a POSIX shell on Windows, unless an enormous time penalty is acceptable.
"Relatively".

But the Wikipedia page does not in fact include any "misled federal officials" language, quoted above as if it were from there. It says, instead, "Ultimately, none of the investigations of Solyndra found any evidence of wrongdoing or undue political influence." Sometimes a business failure is just a business failure. I have not heard of any multi-billion dollar solar failures or cost overruns as are the norm for nukes.

Most wind projects are large scale, yet buy their turbines on the open market. Again, I have not heard of any big cost overruns or non-delivery.

Solar concentrator projects have not paid back investment because they have turned out to be uncompetitive, same as Solyndra, undercut by the staggering fall in cost of conventional photovoltaics. Their natural value would be for process heat, which I have not heard of being tried.
I still have mine. The C64 given away long time ago.