skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to agree, but I'm not sure I do anymore.

Yes, social media gives anyone a microphone; non-experts can speak on advanced topics with zero knowledge. But Gell-Mann Amnesia predates social media. The "reputable sources" of yesteryear were anything but.

Experts ignored the media and got their info from other experts. That hasn't changed. The masses were clueless or wrong about most things, that hasn't changed. People were gullible and believed anything they read, that hasn't changed.

To me, the real negative change from the Information Era isn't a decline in knowledge, it's the shift towards centralized socialization online.

People were robbed of their ability to form independent social groups and subcultures, or to differ significantly from the mainstream. There will never be anything like the hippies, punks, or emos ever again. Music used to be the major "gateway" towards political and social countercultures. Now? Music is ultra-commercialized. Online movements are much more easily molded by commercial interests and TPTB. "Counterculture political views" get promoted on Fortune 500 brands' Twitter accounts. Remember the BLM protests in 2020? Police killings increase slightly in 2021 compared to 2020, and are on track to remain stable this year; about the only lasting "legacy" of those protests was that a few grifters bought multi-million dollar houses with donation money. There is no counterculture that doesn't get coopted.

Counterintuitively, something else reinforces the status quo: social media algorithms' bias towards empty controversy. Could Gandhi's peace message succeed today? Martin Luther King? Would they even be audible?

Project yourself 10-20 years into the future, with ubiquitous availability of GPT-3-style AI; will any of what you read online even be from real people? The "open web" movement is missing the wider problem. All the effects I describe are fundamental and unavoidable consequences of the web connecting the world together; regardless of whether it's "open", or kept in corporate walled gardens.

Centralization leads to winner-take-all effects. When every road leads to Rome, it marginally increases prosperity in the periphery, while it overwhelmingly drives traffic and economic activity away from the periphery, towards Rome.[0] The same happens when you "connect all humans" together. Remember the story from a few days ago, about 90%+ of online content being created by 1-2% of people? Any counterculture needs to be insulated from mainstream influences in order to truly thrive; but social media dynamics (karma, "viralness") inherently directs content towards the lowest common denominator, i.e. the status quo. The web itself, for all the good it does, is the problem. What's the solution? Don't know.

[0]: https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1184807240198426625 (for a screenshot of the quoted tweet: https://twitter.com/AidanHeronUK/status/1184856198648139777)
> What are we going to do about this?

Maybe elect somebody different, or run yourself if you feel so strongly about it.
Elon Musk activates Starlink in Iran to counter censorship
I watched this live when it first aired. My Miracom 9600 being my gateway drug to Usenet, Gopher, IRC, and the warez scene I was a part of.

How far we have come. The future will be interesting and exciting, if we can get past this current hump of monolithic "controlled experiences" that Facebook/Meta/Google/Amazon/Twitter/etc want to push on us.
It's "Outrun" aesthetic, for example https://www.reddit.com/r/outrun
I was an east coaster and I could not stand the lack of sourdough.
Regarding keychain for password filling, you can choose to disable it in the settings -> passwords -> options. It’s selected by default but if you tap it it will deselect it.
Late addition:

It's actually worse than that. If we take a population with only median and maximum talents, the probabilities for each event are: halving: p=0.5, doubling
because median-or-above talent: p=0.5*0.6. Meaning that in 80% of the events for a given actor the talent is not considered at all.

So the result that luck plays a larger part isn't an emergent property of the model, it was explicitly baked into the model from the start.

It wouldn't be unfair to call this paper fraudulent.

DOI: 10.1142/S0219525918500145
It's difficult because it's hard to know what assumptions are correct.

With practical matters putting a man on the moon it's easy to figure out who's wrong and right.
Why platform this nonsense? Billions of doses delivered, lives saved.
This is awesome to see! Our team at Shipyard [1] has been creating a lot of solution videos on YouTube recently to show teams how they can build A -> B solutions in a few minutes. We've been meaning to provide captions or transcripts for the backlog, but the overhead was either pretty high or too expensive.

Tested this out in the span of a few hours and got a solution up and running to download the video from Youtube, spit out the transcription and upload the resulting transcription file externally. We're still missing a piece to upload directly to YouTube, but it's a start!

As a part of this experiment, we built out some templates that will allow anyone to play around with Whisper in our platform. If you're interested in seeing it, we built a video for doing the process with our templates [2], or directly with Python [3].

Hope someone finds this useful!

[1] https://www.shipyardapp.com
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGr4v3aY1e8
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfJpGgyUkvM
> AWS and Azure routinely do conferences and meet and greets with dev communities and are constantly pushing their product

So you think its because of marketing. Not because of something else...

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/dear-google-cloud-your-deprec...
Prediction: they will still see ads for the topics shared in writing because the surveillance being done is based on recording the inner speech of everyone with microwave imaging and machine learning.

Encryption is useless against advanced covert radars. Big Tech knows and benefits by lying by omission.
There was an article here on HN recently that linked air pollution to cancer via inflammation.
Wish I had that problem :)
I aspire to having a video wherein I am wearing slippers that has had 90 million views. I think I have a new way that I will define success.
Quadratic: Open-Source Data Science Spreadsheet with Python, JavaScript and SQL
Therein lies the problem. You have many thousands of pieces of evidence but limited manpower and resources. Even more so when politicians and residents are pushing to shrink your budgets. Couple that with a DA that is letting some pretty spicy characters walk on serious charges, and you have a recipe for todays conditions. If only someone saw this coming...
Sure, it is now, but was that the case 20+ years ago when The Wire first aired?
This app worked for me just fine. Thanks
I was raised by a Catholic deacon, in a family of prominence in my local diocese.

Before dismissing my experiences and perspective, you would do well to question your own experiences and perspective.

Perhaps you were raised thinking you were Catholic, but I was raised according to what the Church actually peddles. I was deeply involved. Mass every Sunday morning, beatings on Sunday night (most nights, actually), religious education every week, forced participation in youth group and anti-humanitarian protests.

My traumatic and abusive experience is indistinguishable from a cult, and your effort to discredit my experience of the Catholic faith, intentional or not, is extremely harmful to me and others who have suffered.

And when I refused to be confirmed into the faith at 15? I was dropped on the streets and made homeless for years, just barely etching out a high school diploma despite my circumstances. That's the Catholic institution. Anti-education and anti-humanitarian at its core.
BBC used to be an extensive and complicated site with non-news articles, study guides and curated collections. All of that was destroyed with a revamp. You can still read the news articles, but that's all that's left.
Came here to say that, it's way too sour. Sourdough is okayish when done well but I prefer yeast 100% of the time.
Because vim is useless for those who do not touchtype.
>All the prisoners were treated well and were released promptly on the payment of a small ransom.

https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-the-Thirty
Crap I need to do a deploy and switch to the backup provider but I can't because my spreadsheet's internet connection is down!
> It's interesting that the Software Dev job market has been on fire for over a decade but retention strategies have evolved at a glacial pace

Capitalism. The absentee shareholders' interests trample everyone else's interests. Even the actual founders' interests...
The C64 is not used to run the shop. It is used to control a drive-shaft balancing machine.

The article talks about "transferring 25 years of records" but that's not what's going on at all. It's just acting as a microprocessor. Also, the computer was programmed in 1990.

What's really surprising here is that the disk drive is still operating.
It drives me nuts that a fresh install of Android apps defaults them all to "in-app" browsing instead of my default browser. And you have to go to each app and turn it off in a different place. Wish I could just override all of them and "open every web page in My. Default. Browser."
SD cards are the storage equivalent of writing on a one-ply sheet of toilet paper. Nowhere near identical to SSDs
You might like this DIY, illuminated, force-feedback Bluetooth „Smart knob“:

https://github.com/scottbez1/smartknob

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30646371
I assume spinning up a JavaScript engine is much lighter than spinning up a chromium browser (like in electron)
Again, everything you said is technically true... And functionality irrelevant.

California's over-suppression of fires is a bad thing that made the problem worse. But that's still only a tiny fraction of the problem compared to the 800lb gorilla in the room, which is climate change.

We're focusing on the 1% and ignoring the 99% here, in terms of casual factors.
John Wallis
But consider that if you have 10 people steal 900 from you each month, you've lost almost 10k, which is not small potatoes
Why would you need to see the candidate's face? To make sure they look like you?
Nope. Just have been following the /r/ProtectAndServe subreddit the past few years to get a better understanding about their profession and the reasoning behind their decisions and tactics.

What I described above is a very common recurring trend from verified officers that work in major cities like SF that have gone soft on crime over the past few years.
Unless you're doing something that is explicitly supported with flyctl's automatic setup, I found writing a basic Dockerfile was far far easier than messing with buildpacks.
Certainly the N64 (immediately prior to Gamecube) was supposed to be super high tech. They actually stressed the partnership with SGI in the marketing, and literally named the console after the word size of its CPU. In retrospect the former was pretty weird, since the public would not have known that name or anything.

Folks can quibble about the Gamecube if they like, but step back one generation and they were definitely trying to push the technology.
> Google went too much on the PM/Sales side

Did they?

They are still deprecating products on people's faces. And combining/renaming/tweaking product names.
Could it be staked out so at least money can be derived from the "interests"?
> You might have good luck discussing the issue with a competent Christian theologian or pastor.

My experience with people of faith has always been to be told that I must have faith in order to understand it. Is there a path to understanding that doesn't involve circular logic?
What's the size of an Hello World with Wails? uncompressed? Because that's the issue with Electron, shipping yet another entire web browser with every installation. At the same time, if the app doesn't ship with a browser and use the webview available then it defeats the purpose of using that kind of tech since it means that whatever chromium engine which runs on the user's device has to be tested. No an issue for simple apps, a much bigger one with complex applications with browser API edge cases.
Maybe we are misunderstanding each other - I don't starkly disagree with anything you've just said.
What happens to digital currency confiscated by the government? Do they cash it out or does it just sit in a wallet somewhere?
I wonder if the breach of etiquette was that it was a squire who charged, not a knight.
By default it will download wheels for the system it is running on, but there are knobs to tweak that.

https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/cli/pip_download/#cmdoption-pl...

https://peps.python.org/pep-0425/
It seemed obvious to me that time of use rates will have to change when you switch from thermal generation to solar because when you have over/under-provisioning is different.

Thermal plants have excess capacity late at night, early morning. And under during the late afternoon early evening. Solar will have excess during the late mid morning. And nothing in the early evening.

I don't think you need smarties at Standford to figure that out.
Not only will you get your recipes, you'll get to hear part of the author's life story before every ingredient!
For Mozilla it always is browser-whining season but it never is browser-improving season.
If you purchase eth now, how can you be sure you don't have eth that came from tornado or some other prescribed system? If I buy through a reputable seller, say coinbase, will they be able to certify my crypto is valid?
I think it's become more common, but the subgenre of "surveillance" media has always had elements of this. Compare The Conversation (1974)[1], for example.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conversation
12 year old me was not much of a scientist. I don't think I ever tried any number other than 14...
Since she's the only living witness, and it's her book, you can decide for yourself.
I'm pretty excited by what Val is doing. I feel like this is the next step in languages: finding a way to combine the techniques of the last decade (Pony's unique references, Rust's borrow checking, etc.) in new and interesting ways, to get closer to the ultimate goal: a language that has speed, safety, and simplicity.

The simplicity is particularly important. We've almost certainly surpassed the complexity limit in languages like C++, Rust, and Haskell. Each of these can be easier with time, but even past the learning curve they can impose a lot of artificial complexity.

It's also interesting that a lot of languages adopting subsets of Rust's model:

* Val is using unique references for its data, and not including shared references.

* HVM is using shared reference borrowing and implicit .clone()s for its data, and not including unique references. [0]

* Vale is using the borrow checker at a higher "region" level to make it opt-in, and using generational references which were inspired by Rust slotmap / generational indices. [1] (disclaimer: am Vale lead)

* Lobster is using implicit borrow checking for the simpler cases, and falling back to reference counting everywhere else. [2]

* Cone is using borrow checking on top of garbage collection, reference counting, single ownership, and any other user-defined memory strategy. [3]

Just as Haskell (and FP languages before it) showed us how far we can take immutability and what interesting patterns might emerge, I think Rust shows us what happens when you try to apply aliasability-xor-mutability to every problem. And just as how a lot of languages are adopting the good parts of Haskell, a lot of language's are adopting the good parts of Rust.

I hope Val goes far!

Also, I love their name. I tend to like languages that have the V and L sounds in them, though I might be uniquely biased ;)

[0] https://github.com/Kindelia/HVM

[1] https://verdagon.dev/blog/generational-references

[2] https://aardappel.github.io/lobster/memory_management.html

[3] https://cone.jondgoodwin.com/
Boeing pays $200M to settle SEC charges over 737 Max
That's why I keep an abacus on hand when smoking my joints.
I am suitably horrified.
I am from the bay area so maybe I acquired the taste early, but I love a good strong sourdough personally. I think a big part of what people enjoy eating is culturally inherited. If you've been told all your life that good bread should be sweet, you're likely to regard a different less sweet loaf with suspicion or derision. Certain cultures relish in eat things that may seem pungent or unlikable to outsiders. I didn't initially enjoy kimchi, but after some time having it around here and there I've come to love the unique intense flavor.
> We can be placated with boxes of wine and zoom yoga classes lmaooo.

You may have a business idea there.
Do these products get written faster with more money? More people? It seems what they need is users.
A quick search didn’t yield any matches so i will just leave it here, maybe some more inspiration: https://permacomputing.net/
Two small contenders nobody mentions here are Winmerge and Notepad++, my daily drivers that are quietly just working.
By efficiency I meant the lift-to-drag ratio [1].

The wiki page I linked quotes an L/D ratio for Concorde (in cruise mode) of 7 to 7.5 and for Boeing 747 of 15.3 to 17.7. Taking the mid-points of 7.25 and 16.5 we get that the L/D ratio for Boeing is 2.275 higher than of Concorde. But Concorde's speed was 2.41 times higher than Boeing's (Mach 2.05 vs 0.85).

There are 2 things to go from here to actual fuel per passenger*mile. How much fuel do you need to produce the same thrust, and how much aircraft do you need to carry a passenger. On both counts, supersonic airplanes have a problem: supersonic engines have a lower bypass ratio, so they are inherently less efficient, and supersonic planes need to be sturdier, and therefore heavier than subsonic ones.

These problems are hard.

But the difficulty of building a supersonic aircraft does not come from the air resistance being the square of the speed.

By the way, the L/D ratio decreases with the speed, but it does not tend to zero in the limit. This fact is actually stunning, if you think of it. As the speed goes up, at some point the L/D ratio stops decreasing, so you end up burning significantly less fuel per mile. That's the reason some militarizes invest in hypersonic missiles: they have much longer range than their size alone would make you think.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lift-to-drag_ratio
Google’s entire business model is giving users stuff for free to serve ads - as is FB.

We aren’t talking about Apple giving three months free to entice customers to subscribe to AppleTV+ or Apple Music.
The standard for bread is so low in the United States, anything with taste is amazing!
I've done fun things with p5.js, which might have the primitives you need to do what you described.
There are two cities that are completely surrounded by Detroit, Highland Park and Hamtramck. Both were affected by the decline of Detroit.

Hamtramck was an almost entirely Polish enclave that is now populated by mostly Arab immigrants. It was never as dependent upon the auto industry and has fared much better.

Hamtramck was wholly dependent on the auto industry with both Ford and Chrysler plants. Chrysler even had their headquarters there until 1996. There was concern over how city leadership would react to this major loss of revenue when Chrysler left. The city leaders kept spending as usual pretending it didn't happen until the city hit a wall and then rapidly declined.

Unlike Detroit the city never declared bankruptcy and is carrying crushing debt.
As a result there is no high school, no streetlights, a weak police/fire department and the roads are third world quality. In other words it is far worse than Detroit was in 2008.
Why DeepMind isn’t deploying its new AI chatbot
I don't know why the police need this, as they don't arrest anyone anyway for crime in SF, even when caught on surveillance video.
The sanctions caused the donation. Criminals with big bucks in their account are blowing it on donations because they can't convert it to Lamborghinis, hookers, and mansions anymore.

Tornado Cash wasn't some haven for big money philanthropy pre-sanctions.
My Hybrid Docker and Ruby Development Environment
If the police are too apathetic to do their jobs, they shouldn't be getting paid at all. If they don't want to do their jobs then why don't they quit? Actions speak louder than words - they just want the paycheck without the work.

The police are the problem with police, regardless of whatever distractions they say are to blame.
> You should consider leaving the faction of people who are irrationally bitter at that game because it is a position that is becoming more comical over time

I'd be happy to as soon as it's possible for me to complete or discard the "Get a gun" tutorial quest that is stuck in my quest roster. Stuck quests are a category of bug that stick badly in my craw; personal preference.

> Literally EVERY software developer is guilty of this

Absolutely true, but there's degrees, and CP2077 was the buggiest game I played in 2021. When it works? It's... Okay, it's fine; I didn't find it as captivating as I hoped.

When it doesn't work, the results range from annoying to comical. I did have a good laugh the time that NPC got her handbag fused to her hand at a right angle, just gesticulating wildly in a conversation waving the thing around like an oven mitt. I did not have a good laugh when I got stuck in the floor crawling through an air vent to get into a locked room with a 'runner jacked into his chair, levitated off horizontally into the void so I couldn't move, and found that restoring from save took me all the way back to before I'd accepted the quest.

I'm old now; that shit eats into my finite time to enjoy games at all, and I have minimal patience for that category of error.
This is where the entire libertarian ideology starts to fall apart for me.

Who does "contract enforcement" in a libertarian society? Who enforces "truth in labeling and advertising"? How do you scale those things without introducing regulation into the market?

Edit: grammar
Starlink were always pretty explicit about solving your exact scenario. That didn't stop people hoping that they could abandon Comcast or their other local incompetent telecom monopoly/duopoly. Still, I wonder just how slow Starlink has to get before the likes of Comcast start looking better in comparison, because I don't blame people for hoping, I really really don't.
Rattling the Cage
Marketing would help to drive users, yes?
> Twitter and Facebook both have websites that are both easy to deal with on the phone.

I am not saying that you need to have an app to succeed, only that succeeding without one will be difficult and lead to a higher likelihood of failing.

If apps are a waste and don't provide any use to people then why do these companies waste their time and money making an app? Why do users often times use the apps?

>Global IT spend is 4.5T.

> AWS percentage of that spend is infinitesimal.

Literally has nothing to do with anything.

I don't think you understand what I am saying despite repeating myself multiple times.

The percentage of spending going to X doesn't let you figure out the market share of X. Even if it could, which it can't, it has nothing to do with the topic at hand.

I am not even talking about data centers. You brought it up and couldn't even provide the accurate figure for market share. Spending on IT has nothing to do with market share.
In the UK we have "Tiger Bread", which is my favourite type of bread. I wonder how that differs to Dutch Crunch.
Why are the only two packages on political offer "don't prosecute" and "beat up innocent people?"
You can't be very far in the game if you are stuck on that quest. Why not just start over?
Dirty money in, dirty money out.
They still won't care to change. They will complain, yes, but change? No.
Mobile ‘Usage Gap’ Is Key to Achieving Sustainable Development Goals