skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Remember Cambridge Analytica? The affair proved that it’s possible to manipulate people on a mass scale by the content they consume (in this specific case, as political advertisements).

It. Did. No. Such. Thing! There's very little evidence targeted ads of any kind do better than regular ads, much less that they were decisive in the 2016 election.

But what is true, is that people systematically come to believe dumb, wrong, things and that it's a sisyphean task to try to correct people on things that have become political loyalty statements. That kind of brainwashing isn't bought with subtle microtargeting.
Who stops people from running their own search engines?

As if you cannot look up address range of your own country then crawl your whole country for websites that may be hosted by people living locally.

As if you cannot do the same with a foreign country that interests you.

Maybe you could even find a list that only shows residential IP's so you're sure to be only finding webservers ran by individuals and not corporations.

And if somehow "port scanning" by trying to send a http request to a residential IP is illegal in your dystopian country, you can always start by scraping the site that you're interested in, there will always be at least one more link to another domain somewhere.

For large scale servers python is shit, but that doesn't mean that you cannot spend few weekends writing your own python crawler for your needs, which is so easy that you don't need to be a programmer to do it, and if you really care about this at all, a bit of a startup hurdle won't make you immediately disinterested.

And if it really does, there's always options like https://yacy.net/

You should see these things more like real life. If you wanted to know more about your own neighbourhood, what better way is there than to go outside and walk around your neighbourhood and see things with your own eyes?

Maybe that's just my opinion, but status quo is noone's but your own fault, because I never had this problem.
Oh I don't know. I like megacorps-- sometimes. Our individual actions make a difference. If everyone stops flying because they care about this number, well, the airlines will disappear. Our individual actions can make a difference.
Kids are noisy and have plenty of energy. You don’t want to be staying below me in an apartment building. The noise of my 2 kids jumping and running around would drive you nuts. And oh - they will have friends over as well. And if they’re doing band or music practice - oh boy :)

Yeah - they could go out. But they’ll come back in and its messy and noisy everywhere.

It’s just the way kids are. I guess folks need to be careful what they wish for. I’m all for accessible and densely populated housing. But I’m used to the noise.
I wonder if subtitles could be used, so rather than describing the video, you just write a script and it generates video for you. I'm certainly no expert, but it does seem like there's a lot more data there.
Fly.io has a dedicated process for moving off of Heroku. Auth via Heroku and they'll launch your app onto Fly. They also have a free tier.

The process: https://fly.io/launch/heroku

The docs: https://fly.io/docs/app-guides/speed-up-a-heroku-app

I haven't used it [the Heroku -> Fly process] myself, but it's been around for quite some time!
There is a short hexadecimal string out there that makes me a billionaire in the blink of an eye, but I have yet to find it.
(Re-using an old comment of mine from a different thread [0])

If you're curious on medieval manuscripts, definitely checkout the following:

Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts [1] by Christopher de Hameml — get a hardcover edition of this book; it has absolutely gorgeous selection of artwork from 12 of the most spectacular "illuminated manuscripts" (including the Book of Kells) in the world. The writer is a marvelous storyteller. This hardcover edition is one of my "prized possessions".

You can browse a lot of these works in great detail on this[2] excellent visual arts website by the Getty Research Institute website.

E.g. you can find the 16th century illuminated manuscript, "Spinola Hours" hereYou have to scroll twice to see the list of 182 images. And you can in turn browse the illustrations it such this[3] calendar-page miniature painting for the month of May. You can see people singing and making merry on a boat, along with other drawings—all on a small page.

Note though, one doesn't need to be religious in any sense (I'm not) to appreciate these art works.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29902560

[1] https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/316549/meetings-wit...

[2] https://www.getty.edu/art/

[3] https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/1401/master-of-...
If you want the kind of results you see in a model home sales office, hire a professional interior designer.

Good luck.
In the bygone* days of the weird internet the general populace wasn't there either.

*The weird internet's death has been highly exaggerated.
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> The way I read your initial comment, it was advocating just getting rid of most cars. It's an anti-car attitude I've seen a lot, especially among hardcore cyclists. I've never understood it, even as I spent 19 years dodging traffic in Washington, DC. If I misread your tone, I apologize.

No need to apologize, just having a fun discussion :)

I'd say my stance is more so removing the need to have a car for most of your day-to-day activities. Instead of having to drive literally everywhere as many (most?) Americans do, being able to walk, bike, or use another transit option to do 90% or so of your day-to-day routine tasks. Cars aren't going anywhere, but we could design and build cities better such that we don't focus on cars at the expense of everything else. I'm also worried about this because the economic physics of using a 2,000lb vehicle to drive a mile down the road for a loaf of bread (which I am guilty of) simply will not make sense in the future. We might get away with it at a higher cost if we are mostly EV and have substantial cheap nuclear energy (pending a new technology breakthrough), but as things stand today it's incredibly wasteful and won't last.

> Avoid Necrotizing Fasciitis

I have recent (last couple of months) personal experience with this with an immediate family member. I am incredibly sorry that you had to experience this disease.
WeNomad was created out of extreme frustration with the unreliable and sometimes fabricated information on the leading site in the "city guides for remote workers" space.

I've grown tired of scouring the internet and forums for insightful information, so instead, I assembled a talented team to compile everything you need to discover and move to cities you'll love!
No one has said we should eliminate cars entirely. Cars make sense in rural areas, we should use them there. Cars don't make sense in cities, so we need alternatives.
Sure — and we’ve seen the removal of voting mechanisms on numerous platforms (YouTube, Netflix, etc) or the manipulation of review sites (such as RottenTomatoes) or programs to remove negative comments (such as YouTube movie trailers).
It's not enough to win. You have to cost the troll big money. So their 'business model' breaks.
I think it's just the case where there is a handful of extremely vocal anti-car people. Mostly everyone else likes them and doesn't feel the need to defend them because it's the status-quo.
Heroku has had severe security and service outages over the past year. A long time ago, Heroku was talked about in positive terms. More recently, I've only heard negative things about them and plans to migrate off. They poisoned their brand.
You may want to look into housing prices in european or asian cities :)

Less drivability -> harder to move out to suburbia -> more demand for in-city housing -> increased prices
High loads at low revs are stressful on engines, which is why automatics won't let you hit more than 20-30% load in a high gear.
Tesla demands removal of video of cars hitting child-size mannequins
So as a two car millennial American family that makes regular trips into our city center, we never use our cars going into the city. It's just stressful, streets are narrow, parking's expensive and car-jacking and vandalism are more likely. Just makes more sense to take the bus, cheaper too when you count the cost of parking. I also like having places to walk to from my house.

That said, I like having my own house with my own land. That house and land is freedom to live how I want (within reason) without worrying if the neighbors will complain about my watching The Mandalorian at 1am. A car is freedom to go wherever I want whenever I want, and I use said freedoms on a regular basis. It's also carrying capacity, instead of making multiple inefficient trips to a local market multiple times a week I can get all my family's groceries in one trip once a week. Ditto for outdoor supplies, small furniture, Christmas Trees, etc. Never mind that WFH doesn't work for a lot of jobs, and not just low-paying ones. Many good jobs require a car to get to them.

So I think there's a good middle ground here. Make city centers less car friendly and denser to discourage car use, improve walking infrastructure in the suburbs (more sidewalks/bike trails that actually go places).

I'm all for a wide range of options, but cars are not a universal evil. The frog is not being boiled, this is what a lot of us see as a better life. Granted there are plenty of people doing it wrong, but that's always been true.
In these cases I usually opt for gsl::not_null<T>
I wonder if something about the rudders themselves has changed?

For example maybe the makers of paints or sealants used on wooden rudders changed formulations due to pandemic supply chain issues or for environmental or regulatory reasons, and now they include something that smells like food to the Orcas.
Could we at least argue honestly? This isn't about "browser implementation internals". A lot of users are aware of the basic issue about browser choice in iOS. Granted, some are oblivious, but a lot know the basics of what is going on.
Excellent idea! That makes the potential market huge.
Modern Employer of Record services make all of this quite easy. There’s some additional cost, sure, but in my experience if you’re trying to hold on to talent it’s well worth it. As a bonus you avoid all the pitfalls of trying to pass off an employee as a contractor.

Disclaimer: I work for Remote
> wouldn't that be pleasant

Not really. Small grocery stores lack variety (by necessity, when their potential market is limited to families living in a 1-2 mile radius). Two restaurants lack variety. It makes for stupidly boring food choices over time.

Frankly, I'd end up not using them, ordering even more over the internet, and interacting even less with folks nearby.
I once got in an argument with a Puerto Rican coworker when I told him Spanish people are white. He genuinely could not fathom it, and was very pissed off about it. I guess he thought Latinos are direct descendants of Spaniards?
Running the numbers is exactly what patent trolls do so yes it seems like a valid approach.

Reading down the Twitter feed from the troll in question shows a Tweet of a discovery by them and their lawyer that it's cheaper to deal with the court costs of trafficking 15 kg of cocaine than to legally assert a patent.

This of course can be read two ways like what a shame because it's a sin to use cocaine and not a sin to legally assert your intellectual property rights, however in context, it's so much more sinister scenario of shaking down legitimate businesses for illegitimate reasons.
Said like someone who hasn't talked to anyone before.
> 6: DRM control over what the user can/cannot listen to.

Do you have a real example of this? Because this sounds like BS.
> While not stating exactly what the business purpose of Flow is, he dropped multiple hints about the issues it is trying to fix: “You can pay rent for decades and still own zero equity — nothing,” he wrote.

I think Flow's long-term plan is to offer an alternative to mortgages, i.e. rent-to-own with increasing fractional ownership without actually taking out a loan. I think there is a similar startup in the UK.

Not sure why you need tokens here, they are only redundant for loyalty points.
The most naive idea is that the tenant receives tokens as a reward for each month of rent paid, and hopes that in the "crypto" bull market these tokens will rise in price so much that it will be possible to buy an apartment ;)

EDIT. The model that makes sense: the more reward tokens you accumulated the larger will be the discount if you'll decide to buy the apartment you are renting. If these tokens will be listed on the secondary markets their price will become linked to the residential real estate prices in the properties operated and owned by Flow.
I have used this parser generator and it works like a charm.

The only thing I would change is the way it is distributed: the links at the end point to a sort of amalgamation of the actual sources that make up the parser generator (in the same style that is used for the SQLite source amalgamation), but I think it would be more beneficial to have access to the separate files that actually make up this amalgamation (and you could hide as static variables / functions some of the implementation details this way).

Anyway, excellent tool!
The people standing outside don’t give a damn what the people on the walls call it.
Here is a writeup by Eric Meyer on all that went into digitizing this: https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2022/08/09/recreating-the...
There are several subtypes. The most common are the transient, resident, and offshore orcas, but these are all located in the Pacific Northwest. (I believe there's a fourth, rarely observed one in this area, but I can't remember the name.) Several other subtypes exist, such as the rarely seen Type D pod in the Southern Ocean. If I recall correctly, the orcas attacking these boats are tuna specialists. Fish-eating orcas typically concentrate one a single or just a couple of species of fish, which explains why they're upset.

Orcas are highly intelligent, and it's my opinion that they know exactly what they're doing and are frustrated with the competition.

I think the running assumption should be that orcas are as intelligent as humans. Their brains are much larger and have more complex/dense folds than ours. They're also more socially bound than us, likely giving them a higher emotional intelligence.
Walkable towns abound in the US. They’re all what most would consider “rural” but a town that’s not even two miles wide can’t help but be walkable.

But people don’t want them, they prefer the suburbs or the city - the suburbs often because it’s near the jobs in the city and yet still has some of the spacing they want.

One solution is to stop building suburbs as they were in the 50s and build them as many small towns even if butted up against each other. Even the worst suburbs have shopping areas, etc, that could be spread out and made accessible.
“Science must respect the dignity and rights of all humans”
The real names solution to abuse is often bandied about here, but it hasn't stopped garbage on facebook and it has a fundamental flaw in the logic behind it: It assumes all people have shame and that can be used to make them behave. Many real people don't, and they are the ones least likely to censor themselves by attaching a picture of their face to what they post. And a normal person is probably not going to want to interact with those people without the distance provided by being pseudonymous.
This is a sad day. Pricing changes are always hard, and having been through some of the earlier pricing changes at Heroku you can't make everyone happy. But, so many developers deployed their first app on Heroku and was a staple for so many bootcamps. Without it I'm confident we'd have less developers in the world.

It is still one of the gold standards for developer experience. Years after its heyday companies and tools talk about and try to emulate that experience. I recall polling on twitter a few months back which the key feature was:

- git push heroku master

- Heroku add-ons

- Heroku Postgres

- Review apps

And the reality is any one of those could standard on their own. But put together, Heroku simply lets you forget about ops and focus on shipping, and shipping is king.

I fully get it's a business, but can't help but feel this is the writing on the wall for the future.

Gonna pour one out tonight for Heroku.

Edit: And may be trying to figure out how to offer free Postgres databases, cause shutting down databases with 3 months notice feels pretty short. Not sure if that means deleting the data itself or what, but ouch.
No, it's not even close to that. I'm referring to one issue, obviously, and it's a fairly clear and major issue. The issue in question is also representative of larger and even more obvious issues regarding the inherent conflict between total user choice on one hand, and a degree of top-down OS control that keeps users in a walled garden but provides some protections, on the other.
GPL (and friends) are about preserving the user's rights, in exchange for the developer's. The user is free to do what they want; They can make their own personal changes and builds, but the developer can't unless they follow the license.
Are you claiming that viraptor or yoshuaw are victims of KF? Because they were the ones demanding Cloudflare answer for not stopping business with KF in this thread, and I have not seen any claims that they were doing so in their own name.

How many coffee shops have asked you for your facebook name to check whether you are engaging in online harassment of their other customers before serving you coffee? If the customer in line in front of you claimed you harassed them, and even showed the barista some proof, would you think it's normal for the barista to throw you out of the shop?
To be fair if a kid crosses a road dangerously in front of human drivers there are a lot factors at play that impede with the accuracy of those drivers. No system is perfect and we shouldn’t expect that.
Like many other languages targeting the web Kotlin will "compile" to JS and is deployable to the web.
The weaponization has already started, and will just get worse. I wonder if we will need a sort of antidote ai, which generates fake content according to our values.

That is, it dramatically widens the impact of thoughtful, kind, caring, just, understanding, forgiving, etc. content, to counteract.
Sony is raising the price of the PS5
This is good news for existing paying Heroku users.

This is good news for Fly, Render, etc.

This is bad news for Heroku in the long term. Free tiers are a gateway to users.
You’re comparing incomparable values. San Jose house prices are high because you can’t amortize the land costs. Square foot by square foot, Manhattan land is far more expensive than San Jose. Chicago land may appear cheaper, but it’s only because they have higher taxes on it than San Jose.
This is like saying the problem with linux is that there’s too many distros. How do you expect users to choose one? How can you compete with Windows, which has one easy answer for what to install, when every linux user needs to first become an expert on whether they want to use arch, ubuntu, nix, debian, etc.

I think it would be kind of silly to say that, because the whole point of linux is that it’s open and if you put the work in you can set everything up just the way you like it.

Equivalently, the whole point of ethereum is that there’s no boss. Imagine if the EF could push an auto-update that everyone’s clients and wallets automatically pulled. If that were possible, ethereum would just be a centralized service with extra steps. If you want a centralized service for moving your money around, there are plenty. The single most important design principle of ethereum is that it’s not centralized, so saying “but it would be so much easier to use if it were a bit more centralized!” will fall on deaf ears.
> 1: I do not wish to charge my headphones.

Then use the dongle

> 2: I have many headphones with higher quality sound than earbuds can provide.

Then use the dongle

> 3: Bluetooth still kinda sucks, even after all this time.

Then use the dongle

> 4: Bluetooth is subject to denial of service, security concerns.

Ok suuurrreee, then use the dongle

> 5: Apple's purpose with the decision was to increase revenue, that is all. You all are now paying $$$ for headphones with batteries, etc. onboard, and they no longer had to implement an audio amp or jack. win for apple, not the consumer.

Or you could, you know, use the dongle. Literally everyone I know that has AirPods loves them and wouldn't consider going back to wired.
The funny thing is that that definition of content is still operating. “Content” is a term for the undifferentiated media framed by advertisement. To an advertiser it doesn’t matter what the content is, it’s just bits on the wire that seem to attract attention.

If you can’t put an ad in it then it isn’t content. Insidiously, we now call things content even if they don’t have advertisement or are not created for show.
Possible water world spotted orbiting an alien star
1. While true, in practice what I have tested it is that the performance is very, very rarely worse (although often it is negligible difference). The thing is wasm performance is predictable. This is really important for graphics and games since there is no JIT going on, JS (and python, ruby, etc) performance can vary widely based on how often a codepath is used

2. This is planned to change with Interface Types which will let you call any DOM method from any wasm code without without custom bindings and performance hit as well as, for example, calling a python module from golang for example (as long as both are compiled to wasm)

I recommend this article about it: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/08/webassembly-interface-type...

> If you don't do frontend stuff, you don't have to use WASM, you know? You could just go native binary in the first place especially as modern languages have great cross-compilation support.

the main point of wasm outside of browsers is sandboxing and compatibility, a whole set of applications become possible when you have that. A simple example are SaaS application that let users upload wasm plugins that run on the SaaS application servers

> If you don't do frontend stuff, you don't have to use WASM, you know? You could just go native binary in the first place especially as modern languages have great cross-compilation support.

wasm is just one part of the puzzle, the other one is WASI which is poised to become a standard interface for OS interaction. With it you could conceivably have a single binary for any OS+processor architecture (as long as there is wasm runtime + the parts of WASI required by your app implemented). This is huge for embedded development, I myself spent insane amounts of time trying to get shit compiled to different OS+architecture
As others have said, it's our money. We work together to decide savings plans, goals, etc.

I am the sole income earner between the both of us and we just communicate what to spend money on. We each have our own accounts, but almost all of the money goes into the joint checking and savings accounts for us to use.
That's still often the case in enterprise environments. There's a reason companies use Openshift instead of plain Kubernetes (despite it being a bloated mess), or Redhat over Debian, or Sqlserver instead of Postgres, ....
This should strengthen the position of Facebook and their social graph. If everything can be faked then only content with known origin will be valuable.

It should also give rise to micropayments. If views can't be trusted as currency then hard currency has to finance the creation of content.