skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thx; I suppose that's also why my fridge, microwave, tv and door lock are as dumb and unconnected as I can make them :->

I found a quote a while back - don't know the source - which sums up how many IT experts view IT:

"Non-magic users: collect crystals, call their pet a familiar, draw pentagrams.

Magic users:the most magical things I keep in my house are rocks, and I keep a hammer next to them in case they act up"
I poked around a few weeks ago and ran into a variety of errors when I dug into the more hardware-specific bits.

So I was shocked when I could use the Disk Copy utility to image Macintosh HD right into the Uploads folder & onto my (real) desktop.

"It Just Works" in the best Mac sense. Amazing job.
A little fixed point math for embedded audio
Mastodon, apparently. That has been a popular proposed alternative.
There is also its cousin https://system7.app/
Found this on Reddit
https://status.io/pages/538511e2ce5cb97537000144
This is a better way to read the massive twitter thread. I think it's a pretty interesting take and thought this community would like/benefit from reading it.
> So why does section 230 exist?

Section 230 is a two-sided safe harbor included as part of the Communications Decency Act (and pretty much the only operative part of that law that wasn't struck down for violating the First Amendment) that exists because:

(1) Online services were starting to be targets of legal action targeting them as publishers of libel, slander, pornography, and otherwise unlawful material, relying on the traditional law wherein having an active role in even minimally controlling the content of a publication rather than acting as a purely hands-off distributor of content made one a publisher with liability for unlawful content whether or not they had actual knowledge of the facts making it unlawful.

(2) Services that were not actively moderated, avoiding that problem, were also quite prominent, being casually stumbled over (including because of aggressive spam, popups, etc.) by internet users, and causing lots of offense with both illegal and legal-but-offensive content.

Section 230’s two-sided safe harbor existed to allow users and providers to use available technology to tailor experiences by enabling and encouraging active private moderation of content, by:

(1) Not making users or providers that take any steps to control content automatically liable without notice for all unlawful content in the set of content impacted by their action,

(2) Immunizing users and providers from liability for actions taken to restrict access to content that the acting user or provider finds objectionable on any grounds.

> If section 230 was a negative right.

Section 230 is a negative law, but it is not a right.

> If you were CNN, you would legally become like twitter but censor every subject to the point that people can only say nick sandman is a white supremacist. You aren't liable anymore right? You can say whatever you want right?

It’d be easier to do what the media has always done to prevent liability here, and find someone else (even if anonymous) to say the thing, and then just print that they said it (emphasizing the message, but mentioning the existence of the source), and be protected by the truth defense (because what you published, that whoever it was said the thing) is absolutely true.

But, no, Section 230’s good faith restriction means that while something like this would not create liability under Section 230, it would likely also not fall under its protection. So libel laws would be available as a remedy. Section 230’s negative nature means when you go outside it's protection, liability requires some other law. Libel law is another existing law providing liability.
I like window snapping when I'm using linux and I like opening apps in full screen on a mac, just like I do when I'm using a phone or a tablet. On windows the application window is the application instance, on MacOS the application instance is still running even though you closed the window. I think this is what throws people off when they switch from Windows to Mac. They're used to doing things a certain way and when it doesn't work that way they complain that it's "broken."

It's like me saying Windows is broken because I have to install an app to use SSH, or because I can't just go to internet explorer and type vnc://.
We already stepped in it. A number of pundits and public figures have been tweeting (I know, ironic) sentences in substance similar to "Free speech advocates are the promoters of white supremacy and white colonialism", also said equivalent to Jan 6th supporters.

Some proeminent ones have even quit Twitter altogether with that as a message.
eh, in most cases I have seen, it is the product org that is dysfunctional, not the engineering org. The people who are paid to know how to make money are often not good at making money. That leads to poor morale, loss of trust of eng team, and the rise of bullshit work.
What crowd is "this"? Both you and the person you responded to are being uselessly vague.
> Knowledge based on experience and trial-and-error is still empirical--i.e. based on "sense experience." [...] Artists paint stuff and then observe how people react to it.

Artists do this, that is true. But they don't exclusively do this. Artists may also develop their skill in private through introspective means. Furthermore this analysis is almost always qualitative in nature; artists or their audience assessing distinctly qualitative properties of the work.
why not link to the original source: https://mymodernmet.com/ancient-egyptians-attendance-record/

@dang?
You should be fine, but it depends on your definition of “small VPS”. Generally, assume that each process will need about 512MB of memory.

You’ll definitely want to restrict the JVM by memory, either by explicit flags (-Xmx ) or by running them in a cgroup or container.
Here's what I don't understand. Microsoft had (and still has) a monopoly on desktop computer software. Like 90% of the market. The anti trust concern was that they could abuse their position to gain dominance in another market, such as the browser market. A very genuine concern, given their install base.

Apple doesn't have more than 25% share in mobile or desktop markets. People can switch to Android and get what they want. It's egregious if a monopoly restricts you, but for smaller players where do you draw the line? 25% of the market?
What does one have to do to get as clear and pretty of a UI as that on the modern desktop OSes?

Buy a retina mac ;)

I kid but only partly. Running at integer (2x) scaling on a 200 dpi screen makes everything perfectly crisp. Anti-aliased text no longer appears blurry and lines are rendered at exact pixel boundaries.

Those old bitmap art displays didn’t do any scaling. Every pixel appeared exactly as someone drew it, with crisp boundaries. It’s the scalable part of vector graphics that fuzzes things up.
I live a block off the salt marsh here on the coast and mine'll hunt after Fiddler Crabs[0] until they get pinched on the snout.

The mutt learned and the Lab just keeps on going after them... strange creatures, dogs are.

[0] - https://www.dnr.sc.gov/marine/mrri/acechar/speciesgallery/In...
I don't have time right now to find and read the paper and try to evaluate the significance of the finding, but I hope someone else does.
Yes, with https://leaningtech.com/webvm-server-less-x86-virtual-machin.... Wild stuff.
Nah... if anything, the Trump wing of the Right is far less interested in money than the "traditional" business-first wing. For instance, this whole anti-Disney thing in Florida his hardly about wanting more money. It's just about power.
Enforcement controls whether and to what extent they can do what they want. That’s the point.

Also, not sure what you mean by “ideal”. You seem to be assuming an unstated ethical frame there.
someone should ask him if he had success in the meantime
Another interpretation is that this has nothing to do with engineers, rather organizing any large organization to do useful work is difficult because of information asymmetry and politics.
That’s a problem I’ve noticed too. There doesn’t seem to be any good definition of what constitutes either gender without referring back to the sex that it is most commonly tied to (e.g. “feminine gender is composed of those behaviors that women stereotypically do”), which seems to make it somewhat of a useless concept standing alone.

Also: I was merely using “other side” to refer to my friends who hold a differing opinion. It’s an interesting debate, not a war.
Which country? You're constructing a narrative that is impossible to challenge because you're being deliberately vague. If you want an honest discussion, you must be more forthcoming.

Edit: From dontlaugh's comment history, it's Romania.
Created 2 minutes ago, commented 1 minute ago! Seems like a bot.
That's honestly the direction I thought this was going to go as well.
i said it in the context of layoffs in the parent context. even if there were no layoffs and instead they gave people bonuses there still would be unrest. that was the point i was trying to make. that the unrest has nothing to do with layoffs/money
5P: Privacy-Preserving Proof-of-Personhood Protocol
No relation (other than both being about writing Go). This site's origin dates back to Go's release in 2009 [1].

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20091113154825/http://golang.org...
Makes me wonder if he will allow this to be an election spring board for failed past presidents on a selective basis?
Same for me... everytime I have to lookup the basics... and I love awk,perl and xpath/xslt.
Why not Tesla?
Sounds like you’re having a lot of really tiring conversations lately about things that you don’t care about. Maybe find something else to talk about and consider having conversations with other people.
> The guy who he appointed was an obvious stooge who was clearly not up to it.

Curious to know why you think so?
>Uniswap was a poor choice ... There are far more complex DeFi products that are much harder to replicate but people here wouldn't understand them.

The choice of protocol here doesn't matter. There's nothing difficult about any of the other ones. They're just code that executes on the EVM[1]; anyone can pick up that same code and process transactions on a centralized database instead. Doing so does not introduce any inherent implementation difficulty, only the normal tradeoffs related to centralization.

>My argument is merely a counter to his "databases are faster therefore they are better"

And on that point, you're correct -- you can't simply say that centralized databases are better, since they give up the (very real) benefits of decentralization, and I'm glad you raised that point. I'm only objecting to the more dubious bits about how you "can't" do uniswap on a centralized DB.

>when in reality decentralized finance is better on almost every dimension. Take Uniswap on polygon:

That's also not a fair comparison. Many cryptos show good figures merely because they haven't had to scale up to the volume of Ethereum L1. And Ethereum L1 is much worse on those dimensions.

>I'm going to write an article on DeFi composability because it's super underrated.

But you can have the composability with centralization, it just isn't currently offered. (Although if you imagine centralization as a continuum, then the Ethereum L2s are more in that direction.)

[1] And code that has to severely economize on cycles executed because you have to pay for each one.
If your backends are registered via SRV records (e.g. Consul), this will be very useful for you! It also works similarly for A/AAAA records.

This feature is modular, so other methods of retrieving backends can be implemented as well.
The problem isn't with who the speaker is. It could be Obama or anyone else. The problem is who gets to define misinformation. Should we have a government ministry of truth?

I hope posters here can appreciate how problematic that is, not just from an epistemological standpoint, but also the practical implications.
That's probably for the best for both parties. Twitter sounds really freaking exciting right now. If I were leaving uni, I would be rushing to get in there instead of a FAANG. If mad product development happens, you'll have a chance to be there, making it work. The only reason I'm not is that I've got even more fun going on.

But FAANG folks self-select as low-variance people in general, so it's best that they seek low-variance outcomes. Happiness is in indulging your true nature.
Is making profit the same as being in a solidly profitable state?
> The suggestion in the report that science has been used to promote the dominance of Eurocentric views is a particularly egregious example of this misunderstanding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_racism#Ideological_...

> There is just Science: a process that allows us to understanding how the world works by careful empirical investigation supplemented by rigorous theoretical analysis and predictions that are then subject to additional empirical testing.

I take issue with this definition. It uses a lot of words which seem meaningful, but are just arbitrary thresholds: "careful", "rigorous", "testing".

How do I know if I'm doing "careful empirical investigation" or just "empirical investigation"? Am I being rigourous enough to be "Science"? How do I tell if my "testing" is valid?

Is it "Science" if I think parachutes work? There's evidence, but it could simply be a placebo.
Here we go. Another fanatic. Pfft
Twitter will offer a package to quit. The worst thing to do would be to quit prematurely.
I remember Launcher having buttons at the top of the window for categories. This version of Launcher doesn't have that, though? It's just a window with Script Editor and SimpleText (which doesn't launch)
This was followed up with KDX, an idiosyncratic, extremely curious program that even offered a native Linux binary (that still works!). The program was (closed-source) freeware, and without a viable business model behind it, the developers eventually moved on. But I think that dynamic supported a refreshing alternative experience that flew beneath the radar, took the path less traveled, and achieved closure: my memory of KDX is of a quietly efficient program that felt largely finished. My goodness literally nothing feels like that anymore.

It's still offered for download by some of the few remaining Hotline/KDX-compatible file servers that are still floating around out there, like https://preterhuman.net/gethotlinekdx.php (scroll down to the KDX heading).

I definitely recommend downloading it for the sole reason that, connected to a server, bunch of windows open (what do you expect, it came from Mac OS, of course it's a GUI program), transfers flying along... it'll be using 8MB of RAM. Yes, on Linux.

Finished. Compact. Efficient.

I wish I could pull out some references for similar programs like it, but I have none :( the closest I can come ideologically is LIST.COM for MS-DOS (!). Ha.

But on the subject of file transfer itself, if anyone's curious, a very obscure alternative to Bittorrent and news servers besides Hotline/KDX is DC++. There are quite a few DC++ servers still out there, mostly in Russia (or at least there were when I last checked). I don't remember what client I used when I played with it a while ago, but I remember one of its features was that it would show the total amount of data available across all of the servers currently connected (the protocol works very similarly to Bittorrent but users send full directory trees to the "trackers"). Well, after connecting to every server I could find >:D my client started having serious swap issues so I had to give up, but for a little while there I think the statusbar was showing something like 4 PB+ available. Fun times.
it was a made up stock market acronym. twitter hasnt performed well.

bigger question is why was microsoft not part of it? mainly because it didnt form a catchy word.
I never heard people advocating for this approach (people like Michael Nielsen and alike). Anyone is in reseach and had a positive experience with it?

It makes sense that context-independent SRS are not suited for incremental reading, so I wonder what's stopping from this approach filling the gap. Is it solely pricing issue?
> This hack attack "attacks" Germany without actually doing any meaningful damage. It serves US interests more than Russian.

The US has little to gain, Germany<->Russia relations are already in the trash. Why bother trying to achieve what Russia already did for you?

The US has a _lot_ to lose and extremely little to gain. If they were shown to be at fault it would be a huge PR win for Russia and would basically tank the goodwill that intra-NATO has gained.
It's still censorship, yet I'm not convinced censorship is a bad thing. Rather censorship is inevitable because the amount of peoples who want to speak is greater than peoples collective capacity to listen, so some sort of filtering process will and must take place.

Reddit has huge "tyranny of the majority" problems and many communities spring up to essentially censor the speech of people outside of that community so people in that community can speak their mind without getting downvoted (I.E. censored) by the masses of Reddit. BlackPeopleTwitter has a system where all users that are not verified black users will be censored if the moderators deem it appropriate, which is perfectly reasonable. Is this racist censorship? Absolutely and yet it turns out that's not always a bad thing.

I find much of the discourse on free speech to be an oversimplification to the point of self-parody. I support the intentions of free speech but not a literal interpretation of what it means, which is just never censor anybody ever. That literally doesn't work and can't work, it's not a thing that's possible outside of a thought experiment, you'll end up getting DDOSed by speech.
Source for the SpaceX profitability? They raised a lot of money last year, which wouldn't be necessary for a profitable company. Falcon is probably profitable, but it only grosses a couple billion a year. OTOH, Starlink and Starship are both $10B+ projects that aren't generating significant revenue yet.
Tell HN: DuckDuckGo now seems to have tracking links on its HTML search results
See screenshot: https://0x0.st/oTlH.png

Full URL is: https://html.duckduckgo.com/html/?t=lm&q=test

Its main search (which only works if JS is enabled) doesn't seem to have that.

This is similar to how Google tracks their search results.

Why such a privacy oriented search engine implemented this, is beyond me.
It's going to be a privately owned company, I doubt that anything will "come to light". Since there is very little private companies are compelled to produce publicly, there's typically very little benefit from doing so voluntarily.

If new leadership takes over a publicly traded company, then it makes sense to reveal past failings so that investors can gain new found trust in the new leadership. But I don't see any reason that would benefit Musk in revealing anything damaging about the company, past or present.
The way things are trending, it's going to be FAAG soon, which is not so good. I guess, technically, it's not F anymore, so it's MAAG, which is almost as perilous. But if we're truly being technical, it's not G, it's a, in which case it's MAAA, in which case we might as well go with GOAT.
FWIW: The emulator dynamically loads chunks of the hard disk over the network, and will usually crash if that fails -- which can happen if the site is busy.
> The problem even with the paradox is that you can define "intolerant" as anything you want

I'm having a hard time understanding this given how fixed the definition of "intolerance of intolerance" is. Can you help me understand how you're receiving it?
I believe this is a direct quote from our former president
Thanks for that - updating it now!
It is lame at first. But then eventually people in a similar situations move in, and you are surrounded by people who wanted to live in major league city, but settled for a minor league city. Then you make friends and your situation is not so bad.
msft has grown as much or more than google and apple. (and more than fb and netflix)
Do you understand my observation that pointing to that web site doesn't make your statement "646 on one side vs 0" meaningful?

At least some of those posts are on topics besides Hunter Biden, like the image banned for implying that kissing one's grandkid on the lips is sexual. I don't think you want to get into that argument.

Your reference lists "140 cases of Big Tech censoring people over the New York Post’s bombshell Hunter Biden story in late 2020". (I'm now curious about how brought up the Hunter Biden story. Was it 100% of cases that got blocked? 0.001% of cases?)

As to your challenge, https://www.wired.co.uk/article/twitter-political-account-ba... says: "Twitter accounts run by activists linked to the Occupy movement have been suspended after the social network continued its attempted crackdown on bots and fake accounts. Around 80 activists with a collective following of five million people are thought to have had their accounts suspended."

80 > 14.

But frankly, I don't really care. A company may exercise its First Amendment right of free association within broad limits.

What I care about is not seeing people use bad arguments to support their point.
Linux is “selling” a billion “jars of jam”, a different one for each person… Apple is “selling” like 6.
Cutaneous Rabbit Illusion
Like most of Elons strategic vision, its hardly a tactic he came up with on his own. his operating strategy is similar to a few historic figures i can think of.

Sears CEO Eddie Lampert was so ruthless in his cost cutting he would pit his own divisions of sears against eachother for bonuses an even continued employment. he declared a moratorium on any in-store livery updates for 25 years and played the company off its stock to increase its value. the guy bilked sears for personal wealth hovering around 2bn and left shareholders holding the bag.

Al Dunlap, former Sunbeam CEO, was so ruthless people called him "chainsaw al." he was notorious for massive layoffs, factory shutdowns, and threatening physical violence against board members. the guys famous catchphrase was "if you want to be liked, get a dog." he died in 2019, but is really only remembered for massive accounting fraud nowadays.
I learned the same lesson after dealing with a black widow infestation. It's a an easy habit that saves a lot of personal suffering.
Spacedrive – A File Explorer from the Future
Vectors will scale to any pixel density, but they look irritatingly fuzzy at the lower pixel densities you commonly see in large widescreen monitors.

Obviously it's not an apples-to-apples comparison, but decades ago bitmapped fonts could give you crisp text on any monitor, and in 2022 I'm using a popular, >$1300, very favorably reviewed monitor, and the text is ever-so-slightly fuzzy. It's plugged into my Macbook Pro right now, and the difference in how well the text renders on the two displays is plain.

I guess as soon as Apple started making laptops with 300dpi screens, it became okay to render fuzzy text on any screen that wasn't 300dpi.
Attempt at making an instruction reference guide for RISC-V
> Unfortunately Howdy does not have control over these IR emitters

Wasn't sure if "does not" means can't, so I did a search and discovered this interesting development: https://github.com/boltgolt/howdy/pull/611