skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is well-established that the human animal is evolved to live in small groups. When people come together in large numbers, it is a special occurrence, limited in time and space. The idea of living "as if" one is always in this situation is unnatural and arguably unhealthy. It is not something we should be promoting or even allowing. We should be promoting small groups.

If I was asked to "regulate" this problem of so-called "altmetrics", and the "attention economy" in general, here is how would I do it.

Twitter used to be based on SMS, but since 2020 it is just a gigantic website like Facebook. These two mega-sized websites are the primary sources of "altmetrics". If we take away the right to create these gigantic outsourced websites, what would happen.

I would place limits on websites that are comprised of so-called user-generated content. For example, if someone wants to run a website with millions of pages, they are free to do so. (If they could actually produce enough content to justify so many pages.) However, they are not free to have millions of different people author the pages. A website could not be a mass scale middleman (intermediaries) for people who wish to publish using the www. A mega-website doing no work to produce content, financed solely by selling people out to advertising could not, for example, supplant an organisation that employs journalists and editors to produce news.

By regulating creation of these mega-websites we could reduce the incentive for advertising. The mega-websites would lose their traffic and disappear. They would be replaced by normal-sized websites that cater to specific audiences.

Allowing a few websites to grow to enormous size while not having to do any work to produce content has been a mistake. Of course they can make billions in advertising revenue. It also allows any notion of egalitarianism in the www's design to be compromised in favour of a sharecropper model, so-called "platforms".

Without oversized websites no one would be able to publish their content to every website in existence. No website would be able to do zero work to create content and yet act as a middleman drawing massive traffic that can be monitised via advertising. That is what these mega-websites like Twitter and Facebook do. They sit between people who create content and people who consume it and sell these people out to advertisers.

The cost of publishing data/information to the www will continue to fall. The technology to make it easy will contnue to advance. We do need to be able to communicate in small groups, as we have always done. That is possible. We do not need to collectively use mega-websites with billions of pages run by a handful of third parties in order to do it. The follow-on effects of millions of people communicating via these third party websites are obviously harmful.
I don’t think he’s a “grifter.” Kendi thought is just the logical combination of three mainstream progressive ideas:

1) (a) The history and experience of Black people in America is sui generis and (b) justifies responses that don’t need to be generalizable or measure up to ordinary standards of procedural fairness.

2) the “bootstraps”approach of Kendi’s parent’s generation has failed.

3) bureaucratic institutions operated by well meaning credentialed people can solve every problem.

Really, the only area where I substantively disagree with him is (3)—the white people in charge of bureaucratic institutions will inevitably use any special powers given to them to advance their own economic and cultural interests.
“Creative” ways to use a $30 Wyze camera
I'm not talking about the availability of the job, but the difference between poverty tourism and having to do those jobs for 40 years as opposed to 6 weeks.
>> You prefer to be in meetings for 6 hours a day and scramble to code in between them

How did we possibly get to this and what shareholder or customer thinks this is a good idea?
The Evolution of Java at Microsoft [pdf]
If I say: Then attention becomes more valuable under Capitalism, so a siginficant portion of people will choose to have low screen time? Think of a "Deep Work" Movement or so.

I don't intend the above to be read as a would-be theorem in economics ("if-then"), I just want to know how you reason here.
Great STEAM project for schools (who likely have the needed DVD players).
It resonates with me working as a delivery driver [opinions are my own] (contracted, pretty much all Amazon drivers in the field) in SF that previously had a decades long office job. I was burnt out and needed an immediate change from spending years mostly inside.

From a physical and mental stand point, the work can be quite a lot. Amazon doesn't take it easy on you. However, after gaining some conditioning I enjoy being paid to spend time outside. It's confirmed that I need to take more serious look into fields that let me work outside.

To sustainably preform at my optimum, nutrition and recovery are essential. During "peak" (highest volume of pkgs moved) my  watch will record anywhere from 10 - 14 mi a day of walking with over a +1,000 calories burned.

Navigating streets with tourist, delivering on hills with significant grades, abnormal addresses and entrances (it's never quite as straightforward as one might think), numerous not up to code unique hazards, and what can be daily route changes - [one day delivering to skyscrapers in the Financial, the next to apartments in the Tenderloin) makes for a stimulating week of work.

It's not for everyone but can be rewarding while allowing a more focused split between work/life rather than where you're never really "off" from work.
GOP SCOTUS Justice Thomas has posited that everything is on the table: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/24/thomas-constitution...

At the risk of hurting the feelings of party members, I do not associate "good faith" with them.

Edit: I missed the sarcasm. Poe's Law, ya know.
I wonder if this might work on my old Dell Precision M4400 I've been tricking out for no reason. So far it's had its CPU upgraded to a QX9300 (Core 2 Quad), boot drive upgraded to an SSD, had a copper shim installed between its GPU and heatsink to dramatically improve thermals, and had an Intel Wifi 6 + Bluetooth 5 card installed by way of an adapter that fits into the laptop's WWAN slot.

It's got both an ExpressCard and a PCMCIA slot that I've struggled to come up with good uses for, and an NVMe drive might fit the bill. With that in place it'd have crazy storage capacity with the ExpressCard slot, two 2.5" bays (one of which is hotswap) and an SD card slot.

The thing is a real brick of a machine but it can't be faulted for lack of expandability.
In my experience, no business is able to shuffle its people around efficiently enough for this choice to make a difference. I can see situations where it would help, and I can see situations where it would absolutely hurt to have multiple accounts.

Either way, people politics are going to get in the way more than any decision you make here. You can plan a pretty picnic but you can't predict the weather.
Moore’s Law Keeps Chip Leaders Ahead of the Pack
I agree that Approval Voting would probably be an ever better reform than RCV, but I don't think it's quite as simple as you suggest.

Implicit in the voting process is deciding what you think "support" means. For some voters, that threshold will be "I like this candidate, just not as much as my top preference" while other voters will set the bar at "I could live with this candidate winning, as they're not quite as bad as the candidate I'm most afraid of".

Not only does this mean that different voters are effectively answering different questions, but it means voters may feel overwhelmed or confused (as in The Paradox of Choice, and exponentially more so than picking just one top preference).

This also leads to tactical voting, with some politicians or activists telling their supporters to "approve" (or remember not to approve) of some third candidates who they think might gain not enough (or too many) just-in-case votes.

Perhaps these concerns aren't a reason not to try implementing it for elections, but I'd feel more confident about it as a voting method once I've seen how it stands up to large scale malicious campaigning, with groups trying to undermine confidence in the process or exploit voters' unfamiliarity with it.
My NAS is a zfs-root Gentoo system. I went with it because I couldn’t beat freenas and friends into doing what I wanted.
You’ve sparked a realization that I am suddenly very uncomfortable with...

It seems like the biggest reasons we have such restrictive business deals around media (movies/music/etc) is because of the gigantic publishing companies that got the chance to grow throughout the media boom and who are now absolutely terrified by the fact that they are not needed.

As gaming budgets and revenue have been increasing over the past couple decades, I think what I just realized is that we might be seeing game publishers following the exact same trajectory.

That in another decade or two it could be game publishers who are sitting on top of piles of contracts, using their lawyers to try to sterilize the gaming landscape because they are terrified of losing their positions. They could even make deals with “the old guard” and lock down all entertainment under one umbrella...

Terrifying thoughts.
Not really. Take Minecraft for example – before the acquisition by Microsoft, servers were entirely run by individuals/groups who set their own moderation policies. Some servers were entirely PG-rated, some allowed cursing/sex stuff/etc. Mojang technically still had some level of control over things like skins (which were centrally managed), but otherwise it was choose-your-own-moderation for each individual server.

However recently (and widely discussed on HN[1]) Microsoft has started censoring the entire ecosystem, to the point where you can get banned from all servers for chat behavior in one server, because your MC account is now your MSFT account. So they can just ban the latter to block you from all of MC (except for cracked servers).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32772810
> The dude is literally bankrolled by the Koch Industries.

This is just a straw man. Who cares who pays him? I could say the same thing for:

Typescript. It's literally bankrolled by Microsoft, insert quip that says Typescript devs can't have good intentions here

Tensorflow. It's literally bankrolled by Google, insert quip that says tensorflow devs can't have good intentions here

React. It's literally bankrolled by Facebook/Meta, insert quip that says React Framework devs can't have good intentions here

Etc.
Do you think ads give you a good picture of the relative quality of your options?

Whether you see an ad is entirely driven by how much the seller wants to spend to acquire your purchase. Ads give no indication of the actual quality of the service or product. In fact, companies with greater ad spending tend to be lower quality because a portion of your purchase price is going towards the advertisement at the expense of quality.

Do you really not read reviews when shopping, and just type in a search term and see what comes up? I'd be surprised if you didn't, but if you don't you should try using non-commercial speech when making a purchase decision. Level of advertisement is inversely proportional to value, so I think you'll be pleased with the results.
I think the hope is that you are buying a used but reliable vehicle. But I know the used car market isn't what it was. And unfortunately some markets have a hard limit for vehicle age (for carrying passengers, not food deliveries)

Ideal situation is using a vehicle you have anyway so you're only incurring the additional usage-costs and not modifying your vehicle age-costs.

I thought Uber (at least) had supplemental auto insurance coverage for when you're driving a passenger, but that's probably market-specific too (and then you're on your own personal insurance for everything else).
I probably should clarify that GameSpot never intentionally ran malicious ads. We shut them down as soon as they were discovered and many people on staff were vigilant about finding them. It just goes to show the need to go to bottom barrel ad networks when we couldn't sign anything else.
Interesting.

This 1979 Xerox innovative white-screen computer commercial, pitching the corporate executive eating a pastry at desk while forwarding memos to the different divisions.

The 1984 Apple innovative white-screen computer commercial pitches very differently. (And Apple's message actually more in line with what I've read that PARC researchers were interested in.)
Often it’s smart quotes or similar being stupid.
Well, one the developers are smart enough to create optimized packages for each architecture but instead if they wanted to cater to bad practice JS fans they could create a universal binary.
>Conversion of methane into methanol is a large scale industrial process

Since the 1980's.

I hope it's a new method and more energy efficient (that's what happened then), but producers are turning as much natural gas into methanol as the current market can handle already.

Which the market was already that way before the 1980's came along too.
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> and possibly some metal coins/washers held in place if it's a big gap

Please, no!

Thermal pads exists exactly for this. They wouldn't be worse than a coin/washer covered in a "heatsink goop".
> Everything on the internet is monetized. From your clicks to selling you subscription. Everyone is trying to make a buck.

That is categorically false.

Wikipedia is the greatest collection of knowledge ever assembled. It puts the library of Alexandria to shame. And all of it was created by people who did not make a single buck from their efforts, nor were they trying to.

The same can be said for the highly skilled professionals who devote their free time to building amazing Open Source technologies, for the contributors on sites like Stack Exchange, for the creative geniuses that write certain comments on Reddit, and for millions of others who tirelessly work to make the Internet what it is.

Of course, if you try to view the Web through the narrow lens of Silicon Valley business, you are bound to be disappointed. Join a few subreddits that aren't constantly on the front page. Get an IRC and/or Matrix account, and hang out in the channels. You may find that the Internet you are feeling nostalgic for has never disappeared in the first place.
I think the bizarre takeaway is that he recognized Fran and her boys. There are plenty of geniuses compared to the number of people that can recognize someone from an unimportant chance encounter from 15 or so years back. The fact that a lifelong musician can tell the difference between a mixolydian mode and a dorian mode, or a dominant from a diminished isn't shocking.
Also here on thinkpads (linux)

https://boilingsteam.com/gaming-with-an-egpu-is-it-worth-it/
I remember when MMO's were fun like this :(
Tree Talk
In Boston? Just curious why use Lyft or Uber instead of the T?
an excellent machine. the cpu and gpu start to show their age a bit.
Been unable to secure a pi for the last few years. Of the Pi’s I do have performance has been bad. With the outrageous prices for used Pi’s I have decided to leave the ecosystem. I’ve also improved my understanding of circuits. So I now use esp32. If I need more power I’ve found x86 systems cheap on eBay and I’ve made my own gpio over usb. So no need for a Pi ever again.
Yeah. "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
Built carefully, extremely tiny, or single purpose.

"Do one thing and do it well" - the unix philosophy, and why I still use cd, ls (dir on windows) today.

If a project exceeds two functions its probably doomed to become either redundant or broken.

If a project does one thing well, even if something else uses it, you can always decompose to it (your software is always useful, even when somebody writes the fancy bells and whistles version).
> I dabbled with Fortran IV and Pascal too early on, a bit later with C too, at the same time, but I always found the need to manually manage storage (How long to plan a string? Or how large should an array be?) annoying.

No need for planning storage most of the time in modern languages, even modern C++ you can just say

std::string s = "hello";
s += " world!";

And the string will automatically resize to fit "hello world!"
Texas Instruments’ Biggest Blunder: The TMS9900 Microprocessor (2017)
I know that good intentions and $5 will get you a coffee these days, but the economics of renewables is getting more compelling day by day.

We need more carrot (cheaper prices) and more stick (taxes/regulations) on fossil fuels to accelerate this change. I would think that energy independence would be valuable to sovereign nations -- relying on others for the energy you need is risky business when things get messy.
Are you a fire performer, chemist, or otherwise intend on being around fire a lot, or is this just a general precaution?

I mean, I do the same, but that's cause I play with fire on a regular basis, and haven't met anyone outside those circles who care about such features as char vs melt.
The healthcare system and other things that make a society run are not on the brink of collapse, I'd guess.
Oh no I believe it and I am against those practices very much! But I feel like lawns are demonized when they don't need to be if properly done. There are a lot of benefits to lawns that are just being flat out ignored in a large part of these comment sections.
Yep. And as sibling comments have stated, the advertising “life blood” of the internet is very much a deeper root cause.

A perhaps overlooked aspect of this “post-pandemic” moment we’re arguably in right now is how we can RE-assess our relationship with technology.

Recent artistic AI phenomena have made me feel this quite strongly for some reason, where it feels inevitable that mainstream internet is just gonna be full of bots posting “art” made by other bots. Makes me think of unplugging back to email/phone/text/Fax and maybe a well curated forum or two if they’re still around and spending time in the real world.
Yes. The "prestigious journals" aren't helping. Nature used to mostly cover biology, and had reviewers who understood that. Now, "Nature" is a brand covering a wide range of topics, badly.

Then there are university PR departments, who hype every little lab result into a world-changing breakthrough. This is particularly bad in energy-related areas. (I want some publication to reprint, each month, battery PR from 1, 5, and 10 years ago.)
It needs to be addressed from every angle simultaneously. Wind/solar/geothermal/smart grid/heat pumps/efficiency upgrades/etc.

It's a solvable problem if we all agreed to do it.
That's fair, it wouldn't have prevented all fraud, but it would've excised a decent segment of obvious fraud, and tbh, we weren't Google, so the transition from t2.micros to bot nets may have proven economically unviable for the cut-rate scammers.

All "well, actually" aside, my point was, and remains... ...we could've taken some action against obvious fraud, but we didn't, because the business team didn't want their numbers to go down.
IIRC, OpenZFS is the ZFS in Illumos. It's just not the ZFS in Oracle's Solaris.

OpenZFS was created as a way to combine development of all the versions of ZFS across Linux, FreeBSD, Illumos, and others. If you're using a (fairly) recent Illumos, you're using OpenZFS.

Disclaimer: Not an OpenZFS developer; just a happy user.
They should have added other items to the list: fueling one's own descent into paranoid schizophrenia, giving a false sense of security, a waste of $30 bucks.
Like I answered to a similar question, while your questions point to a plausible dystopian near future, this is not the situation right now. We don't see liberal vs conservative versions of the same article based on our browsing history.

It could happen, but it doesn't right now, and therefore the article is overstating its case.
SEC Charges Kim Kardashian for Unlawfully Touting Crypto Security
Varies by government, but the people are, look at what happened to the former treasurer.
And then you miss all the composability with existing tools and platforms which is most of the point. It's like saying why use stripe when you could just build your own payment system.

Crazy that HN still misses that permissionless composability is the key benefit of blockchains.
You can’t implement the colouring with an image map.
It's an interesting question.

If the fraud were evenly spread out, and if all advertisers had the same goal, the equilibrium bid just adjusts for less valuable clicks/interaction/etc (in line with what the earlier commenter mentioned), and the advertisers pay the same amount as in a world without fraud. Fraud isn't evenly spread out though, and advertisers are sometimes unaware, so it probably does hurt them.

The other loss is from honest publishers (think newspaper websites, etc.) - they're having to split payments with fraudsters, even though they're providing all the value to the advertiser. Downstream effects mean the publisher is probably producing less, showing more ads, or using other ways to replace ad income.
Does Napa count? I have a rural cabin and sleep on an Ikea nerf on the floor on weekends. My Murphy bed skillz aren’t up to snuff.
I think we need a Big List of Nice Strings that your program must handle correctly.

It would be forgiven for rejecting an evil string, but names with apostrophes must be handled.
In for a penny, in for a pound. When in Rome, do as the Roman's do! Even the part about drinking water from lead pipes. Should be no problem at all.
Still hard but I think the parent is arguing that there are more famous people today than say 50 years ago. One of the things the internet did is create more niche groups. There's way more B list and C list celebrities than ever before. Being an A list is still very hard, but being a celebrity in general is easier. Plus there's all the one hit wonders and many more of them. Even the "runs into burning building" famous people are much more likely to become known across the country or globe than before
After a run at Mars, India says its orbiter has no more fuel
Solving One Problem with 16 Programming Languages
Both are true.

I would throw in a third conclusion: given that you're directly using signals (without a wrapper to rationalize the interface) your team should be composed of people who fully understand how signals work. Neither the person who wrote this code or the person who reviewed it had internalized the fact that "the default SIGHUP handler kills the process", and therefore using signals was an inappropriate decision for this team.

But this is an exceptionally high bar; most interfaces do not require that your devs have memorized so many details. Signals expose a terrible interface and there is essentially no satisfying way to make use of them. We should expect better from the tools we use.
i remember tymnet! their local dial-up pops fueled a lot of the commercial information services (compuserve, genie, prodigy, aol) that were popular in the 80s and 90s.
Humans are awesome. Some of them anyway.

Knowing one or two people in your life who could do such things is actually the opposite of being ordinary.

I think you are coming from a place of distrust for cults of personalities, and while I agree, we should not idolise them, we should not go the other extreme, that of the jaded teenager who "has already seen it all" and is therefore incapable of wonder.

That's not how we progress as a species, as a civilization.
If you don't trust developers to use prepared statements, banning input strings with apostrophes can be a blunt way to avoid SQL injection attacks.

Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;-- https://xkcd.com/327/