skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a sort-of tech-caused obsession with fighting time and entropy here. Time passes. It always has. You don't need to archive every moment. "There should probably be a law" is one of those regulations that would just give more and more preference to big platforms that could afford to archive things build systems to let you export it that data.

HN, for instance, might be a casualty - how much more investment would it be worth to YC to comply with a bunch of data archive and export regulations? Especially if different countries make different rules?

As for as decentralized syndication and self hosting and all... I'll stay skeptical until someone has a compelling set of products to actually make it easy, since it's been a few decades of mostly unrealized hype at this point.
I agree. The new name never stuck for me and I keep having to google what it changed to (Shortcut, FYI) so that I can find the bookmark to it.
>The web never forgets, and that's the basic problem

Saying "the web never forgets" is very, very wrong if people interpret it to mean that you can count on anything that happened being preserved.

There's two aspects to that, things that disappear in the sense they aren't easily searchable (or at all), and things that get revised, such that you think they are available, but history has effectively been changed.

A virtue of physical books is that they can't easily be changed without a trace.

Archive.org is something, but very far from comprehensive.
Free speech is always appealed to as a principle by our own government whenever it is convenient, especially when they are, as an example, gearing up for their next middle eastern target for regime change. "They don't align with our western ideals of democracy, freedom of speech" they'll say.

This trend to strictly delineate between the principle and the law is a new fashion. Historically speaking, although it wasn't enforced by law, if you were a private organization and you did things contrary to the principle, it was enforced by society. What has changed is, as it seems to many as well as myself, is that people merely have lost their principles.
"its very common for people just offer to sell it to you unprompted"

But are what they're offering to sell you really LSD?
If I only had just 5 HN tabs open...
I think that they are ignoring other factors.
Let's not get into a long-winded debate about something that's well established, researched and at this point, proven.

There's a reason why Patek doesn't sell a $1000 version of their watch, or why Porsche doesn't make a Corolla competitor.

If you disagree, then you're free to do so. Just understand you're disagreeing with people with a lot more practical experience, knowledge and skin-in-the-game than you.
I really don't understand the audience for articles like this. It's so blatantly disingenuous, and just... stupid. I guess there's a lot of suckers in the world who fall for stuff like this though.
Yes, would like to learn more as well.
> I'm trying to imagine backing up my presence everywhere I go: every comment I write, every reply, every +1/-1. I've definitely lost access to sites unexpectedly a number of times, for things that did not seem like a big deal at the time. And poof, massive pieces of life & time are just gone.

If anything, the strange thing is that life online is unusually durable compared to normal experience. Most of the meat-space equivalences to the ephemeralities you mention-- a discussion here, a note left there, etc, evaporate in days. Online life is weird in that this stuff sticks around for a few years often and occasionally decades.

I too miss previous communities, cultures, and participations. I enjoy the snippets I can find from 2-3 decades ago, and I wish more was still around. But if anything, I think the fact that it could still exist makes me grasp for nostalgia with energy that could instead be spent living for today.
Totally - I meant it from your pov to make yours a sustainable business you prob want to look for service providers with recurring customers. With the understanding, like you said, that the main need is for the new customers.
My understanding was that there are significant changes between QT5 and QT6, at least that is the reason I was told by people that used it in our company. There was a warning to never upgrade to QT6. I am just going by the observation, could be wrong though.

Regardless, the licensing is a total nightmare, you can see it in Riverside's own forums: https://pyqt.riverbankcomputing.narkive.com/hqREGR1W/a-nasty...
The problem is the testing kits only test for known substances. The substance you've been sold could also contain some new designer drug which no test will recognize.
I care about who I am offline even more than online. Should I be pushing for persistent 24/7 video surveillance of public space, stores, malls, parks, etc, so that I can revisit all of that too without making my own effort to preserve what I find important?
Then they should have gone with an ETA automatic movement. They have access to them, and at this point the high end rep market is using high quality automatic movements.

Besides, the whole point of the replica market is to have an omega on your wrist, not a Swatch.
Sites already have to offer exports to be GDPR compliant.

World's smallest violin for anyone griping that offering a 2 week download window, maybe with a maximum download cap, is going to be cumbersome.

Trying to hype this up as a hard problem is simply not representative. This ask is meager.
If you like the authentic experience of emacs on linux, check out acme on plan9!
They should really be forced to in the same vein as how telephone companies are forced to run service anywhere.
Lately, any project with Valentina Magaletti as the drummer. Tomaga, etc.
Also Eliane Radigue, Stuart Dempster, Jean-Michel Blais.

Bedtime listening... https://youtu.be/wS0hFfyRdNU
I'm a big fan of his most recent book Against the Grain
There are still games coming out for the c64.
What news sources do you pay subscriptions for?
> If speech is deplatformed in the Western world, even if not outright illegal, it is effectively banned. You don't get fined or arrested for watching, you just can't access it.

Sure you can. Any loon can run a website or do things the old fashioned way (standing on a soapbox in a public square). You're perfectly entitled to seek the loons out; what you aren't entitled to are private subsidies that lower the otherwise basic level of effort required on your part.
I've either played and didn't like, or never played to begin with, almost every single game mentioned in the sibling comments.

My favorites: Towerfall, Bastion, Transistor, Pikuniku, untitled goose game, Stardew valley, Kentucky route zero.

Towerfall is like Smash Brothers Lite Lite, I love it.
Well, broadly speaking, an earthquake on one fault can alter shear and stress on other faults - up or down though.

As for climate change... well, maybe, there's definitely mechanisms whereby it can change stress on rock, but how much of an effect it has, no-one can really say. This is a good round up.
https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2926/can-climate-affect-earthq...
A Map of the Empire
New blog post. The beginnings of a blog on the intersections of pop culture, computing, and interactive entertainment.
Only question I have is- do you still talk to the people who chose to have you sent there?
It seems that people who recommend LLSI rarely mention the accompanying workbooks. Do you feel like they are a good value add, or is Famillia Romana strong enough on its own?

Consider the perspective someone who does not know anything about this book previous to reading your comment. Searching Amazon for Hans H. Ørberg is not likely to make it clear which book (or books) you are actually recommending.
> Didn’t the zoom people leave Cisco to make a better Webex?

Maybe? That doesn't tell anything about Webex being worse than Teams, though. People may also leave Zoom to make a better Zoom tomorrow.
requirements?
I don't think it's odd that a universal system covers you only in your own country. The EU is an exception being an economic zone with free travel.

NHS in the UK doesn't cover you when in Canada for example.
I wonder if there's been much research into modelling voting as an adversarial process in which different parties (and not necessarily the political parties) try to attack the various aspects of the process, including the stages before, during, and after the vote-casting and counting takes place.

For example, we've seen attacks on voter registration and availability of polling stations, and bizarre (but insidious) schemes like deceptively-named candidates and misinformation about when an election is held. We also have the problem of "fraudits" where various groups try to undermine the confidence in elections that have already taken place.

It seems like any attempt at electoral reform should take into account this adversarial context, and consider any proposed clever mathematical formula or any technology more complex than a pencil to be part of the epistemological attack surface that needs to be minimised as much as possible.

That doesn't mean that current systems are perfect, or that FUD is an unbeatable strategy for opposing reforms, but it does mean that it's not enough for a proposal to offer elections that are more convenient or that have better psephological properties.
I thought they could be an add on to podcasts or radio shows where instead of having a phone bank or twitter feed, people listen in on clubhouse and then when picked by the host they get to talk or win tickets or whatnot.
Pretty close to real life then?

Before computers, I could maybe broadcast in real-life to a few hundred people by talking directly in public square. And it would be fully up to me to convince people to show up somehow. And there would be no archive afterwards, unless I take care of this myself.

"Public square for hosting" was never a thing. I don't see why you expect this to suddenly appear.
Some good books on the general topic that I've read over the years are Debt: The First 5000 Years by Graeber:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_First_5000_Years

Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing by Goldstein (also of NPR's Planet Money):

* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50358103-money

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Goldstein

And The Power of Gold: The History of an Obsession by Bernstein:

> In this exciting book, the late Peter L. Bernstein tells the story of history's most coveted, celebrated, and inglorious asset: gold. From the ancient fascinations of Moses and Midas through the modern convulsions caused by the gold standard and its aftermath, gold has led many of its most eager and proud possessors to a bad end. And while the same cycle of obsession and desperation may reverberate in today's fast-moving, electronically-driven markets, the role of gold in shaping human history is the striking feature of this tumultuous tale. Such is the power of gold.

* https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Power+of+Gold:+The+History+o...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_L._Bernstein

Bernstein was also the author of Against The Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk.
Tweetboard creator here

If you often plan your tweets/threads ahead, please shoot me an email to hello@tweetboard.io and let's connect! I would love to know more about what kind of pain-points do you have while you're doing this.

Hopefully we can help each other, and work together on something that makes this process a lot easier.

Thanks,
Mário Balça
I am surprised that Algorithms to Live By has not been mentioned. (Disclaimer: I am still reading it.) That book is both accessible and practical for any layman. However, just enough hints at variations of the discussed algorithms are given that even a non-technical reader might be motivated to dive further into theoretical CS and read a paper or two.
Among Us Servers Have Been Down for over 48 Hours Due to DDoS Attack
What if it's a drug their doctor administers? Then you dig up medical records.
Liking or disliking something harmless is a matter of taste. Treating harmless preferences as subject to outside validation isn’t. It’s perfectly reasonable to expect that everyone is allowed to enjoy or prefer what they want, as long as no one is hurt by it.

You didn’t express a disagreement with the opinion, you expressed that the opinion shouldn’t exist. That’s not the same thing.
And refuse to bake the cake?
Individuals are still quite capable of publishing material in the ole Web 1.0 way. Get a server, get some storage, and serve the data.

The commons of "being able to publish your own content" is still as available as it ever was.

YouTube (and others) monetized a single spot to host and discover content - but the commons still exists for anyone who wants to serve it.

YouTube itself isn't a publisher - they are a distributor. Publishers publish to YouTube for it to be distributed and monetized. The Fairness Doctrine applies to YouTube no more than it does to AT&T to insist that the phone calls that it carriers are balanced.

Fox and MSNBC are publishers. Charter, Comcast, AT&T, and Dish are distributors.
I'm pretty skeptical of Stanslav Grof's "perinatal matrix"[1] theories which interpret powerful LSD experiences as stemming from supposed trauma that the person as an infant experienced in the womb or during birth.

There's no way to tell what the fetus/infant experienced in the womb or during birth, because we can't communicate with them, so this is wild conjecture on the part of Grof.

[1] - https://spiritwiki.lightningpath.org/index.php/Perinatal_Mat...
My life coach works at Chilli's, I can go see them any time between 3 and 7 on weekdays. I can put in a word if anybody wants to respond below. Blue Cross is showing some resistance, but I think they'll come around.
I love the book. I was introduced to it by a brilliant review[0] by Scott Alexander.

[0] https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/16/book-review-seeing-lik...
I'm very curious how we can attribute a threat to a particular nation state, given pretty much anything in code/IP/modus operandi/etc. can be faked by one party to look like another. I went through both links and all I found was a lot of hand-wavings like

> One of the top identifiers of Lazarus is their dual attack mission – money theft and espionage. This modus operandi is unique to North Korea, as other state actors usually focus on espionage only. North Korean money theft operations are carried out in service of the government, as a way of funding the nuclear program

Like, seriously? "You not only do espionage but also steal money, therefore you're NK"?
Sometimes, sometimes not. I believe its extremely important to get drugs tested.
That would be true at the same number of turns, but Ken explained that the control winding has more turns, in effect multiplying its current.
There's some significant gains from available mods and while they couldn't hire one of the most prolific modders in that space I can't imagine it would be insurmountably difficult to hire someone with the relevant JVM or OpenGL expertise to really clean up the game.

If they could implement some of the low hanging fruit that would be a fantastic step but Mojang seemingly have zero desire to seriously tackle performance.
That’s a really good summary / prediction.

My favorite line:

> You vow to only work on enterprise saas for the rest of your career
With NPM, what's actually published is not what's in the git repo, so it's harder to inspect/review vulnerabilities or hijacking. With composer, what's in git _is_ what composer pulls (with the exception of rules in .gitattributes to exclude files etc), making it much easier to trace. One such example: https://github.com/faisalman/ua-parser-js/issues/536

Composer packages are vendor namespaced, so hijacking an abandoned package is not possible (and it is with NPM), some examples like https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/10/github_npm_package/

Composer packages also don't tend to have the "culture" of having a million tiny packages for small functions like left-pad, so that helps a ton too. Mostly because PHP's stdlib is pretty great by default, so lots of things like this don't require 3rd-party libs.

Obviously Composer isn't bullet-proof, someone controlling a dependency of an important project can still cause harm by making a minor version release with malicious code, but it's easier to vet a smaller list of packages in the tree, especially if all you need to do is scan through their code on github.
The military-industrial complex was/is a lucrative venture. I think the "shaming industry" is similar. (Can't edit original comment.)
But brainwashing doesn't? I really don't see the issue here. "Carted off", "Political assassination", there hundreds, if not thousands, of phrases that are used that have innocuous meanings far beyond any singular event and are used regularly by people of all backgrounds in many contexts. And I don't see why the usage being applied to video hosting somehow detracts from a completely unrelated event
Yes in real hardware, though its a breadboard computer where the io is push buttons and an led array. So more a computer in the 70s hobbyist sense. I learned from Ben Eater’s youtube videos which are a good followup to nand to tetris.
"How to lie with maps" by Mark Monmonier

https://www.amazon.com/How-Maps-Third-Mark-Monmonier/dp/0226...
I was one of the unlucky people who spent time at elan. It was a terrible terrible time. Much like the author of the article I was awoken by 2 big dudes in my bedroom and was given the choice to get dressed and go peacefully or they would drag me out of bed and take me away in my underwear. I said I'm not doing shit until my parents give you permission to take me. They handed me a piece of paper with both my parents signatures on it that effectively signed custody over to them. I asked if I could smoke a cigarette before we left and they told me I could smoke as many as I wanted in the van.

That was the start of one of the worst times in my life.

elan was a real life hell.

AMA if you want.
Should they be forced by law to allow non-violent ISIS propaganda on their platform? If not, on what principle have you made that distinction?
Understood, I still don't fully buy the analogy though, if someone said they were being verbally abused at their job I would give this a higher probability of being true than being verbally abused, for racial reasons, in front of everyone, using slurs from a different era, etc.

As you add more conditions the probability tends to zero :). Once you say it was happening in front of more people who weren't reacting, and this was happening on a regular basis, and this was happening in one of the biggest car companies of a country, where a big percentage of the population would never tolerate anything remotely like this, then I'm going to ask for that evidence which you surely already have, since at the very least there must've been many witnesses.
Thanks, I'm glad you liked it! You (and the other commenters) have convinced me to make a table of contents a priority.
> We have not even put any affiliate links.

Ah, I was mistaken. I noticed that the links were tagged with "ref=" codes, but I looked it up and apparently "tag=" is for referral codes on Amazon.
Chris Hedges is far from a liberal, he's more of the "everything wrong Russia does is NATO's fault" type of guy.
>Agreed. They are not impartial about Russia, but their coverage of, say, Latin America was pretty good quality.

People said similar things about Al Jazeera, but how many people actually were aware that they were state media? I wasn't for a long time, and I still can't remember the country offhand without looking it up.

I'm not saying that they made it a big secret, and I'm not saying that it is shocking that "Russia Today" is what it is, but I dunno, why did KFC start using its initials or Dunkin change its name?

Marketers know there is a benefit to not saying words like "Russia", "Fried", or "Donuts" because a significant number of people will not think of them.

And it doesn't make sense to assume that bias towards something can't affect reporting on anything else, because everything is interrelated.
I know what "being disappeared" has meant historically, and I don't see why the same phrase would be problematic here. Again, I see this the same way as complaining about the term brainwashing being used in contexts that don't involve intelligence agencies
I’m not that worried about random bacteria and microbes, people are covered in them. As long as it isn’t too much, we don’t need our buildings to be 100% sterile, except in certain locations like a Hospital. Mould, micro plastics, pm 2.5, microfibres, car pollution seem far more concerning, and we need to do something about those.
This looks to be a potentially interesting article. I started scrolling. I kept scrolling. It is long. 23,000 words long. wordstotime.com says it will take roughly 3 hours to read.

Distrust any comment on the content that appears before the post is at least 3 hours old. Similarly how can we upvote it fast enough for the algorithm to not bury it before anyone has a chance to read it.
Only the initial release.
Been using them for, I think, 16+ years at this point. Their support is great. Their product is great. The price is great. For a techie like me, it's perfect. I don't know if I would put Grandma on it, though, but perhaps I would.
"Hard problem" vs "tedious and stupid problem" are different things.

But it's real cute that you mock people who don't want to deal with government regulations proposed to REQUIRE making it a burden of a third party to help people do obsessive self-archiving, but you take offense at having this desire questioned.

(Does HN even have a GDPR export? I can't find it on their legal or FAQ page. For your proposed "my own content export": would it just be comments w/o any context? What's the point, if so? The comments and replies of others too? What if one of those users had issued a CCPA privacy removal request, say?)

Letting things go is a good thing!
The article clearly acknowledges this:

> Given Amazon’s obsession with speed and eliminating friction to foster faster consumerism, the dawdling data solicitation process seems like it just might be intentional, designed to dissuade requests. A far simpler explanation comes through an invocation of Hanlon’s razor, the old adage to “never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.” Amazon whistleblowers cited by Politico have said that the company “has a poor grasp of what data it has, where it is stored and who has access to it.” If that’s the case, then it stands to reason that it can take a month or more for Amazon to process a data request. As former Amazon chief information security officer Gary Gagnon succinctly put it in an interview with Reveal, “we have no fucking idea where our data is.”

However, there are many dark patterns here unrelated to how long it took:

- Repeatedly trying to direct users away from a data request to their "Your Account" page, which has a tiny fraction of your data

- 6+ different pages and many many clicks required to make a request

- Data divided into ~100 different downloads (how many more days would it have taken to make one zip?)

Also, Amazon is an ad company. They have well-designed APIs and and tools for managing all this data because it's how they make money. When an advertiser accesses your data, they don't have to manually download 74 different zips.
Thanks for the disagreement; those are all very reasonable points. However I reiterate I'm not condoning Google's behavior. Rather, I'm talking about the app-creator's own lack of transparency in trying to make his case. He should be more forthcoming to his audience about the nature of his app and whether in his estimation there was anything potentially illegal or objectionable about it. And if not, state so unambiguously. This is information he could convey regardless of how opaque Google's own process is.