skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) We know that corporate America is experimenting with AI to perform business functions more efficiently.

2) We know that shadowbanning exists and is used to contain spammers and other users that a platform doesn't want on their site.

Given that the previous two facts are true, it seems like a perfectly logical outcome that somebody would decide to experiment with some kind of AI powered chatbots to keep shadowbanned users better contained.
A website that bullies, ridicules and publishes private information of people they do not like, and then pretends they're not culpable when awful things (suicides, swattings) happen as a result because they technically really aren't responsible for them. Not that they don't usually celebrate when it happens.

A trans twitch personality was swatted a while ago and fought back by informing everyone involved with keeping the site alive. They have been dropped by about 99% of the ISPs they've been with (including before that campaign, but now also by Cloudflare).
Exactly. If Alice wants to talk but Bob doesn't want to listen, it's not censorship to keep him from having to. But if he does want to listen, it is censorship to keep him from being able to.
Socialists print guns too
Over 100k Vinyl LPs Are Being Digitized by the Internet Archive
Suddenly everyone who attacks Moon supposedly committed sexual assault and is a groomer or some other slanderous attack. Moon should put up or shut up.
* desktop on emacs.

FTFY
From what I can recall, the performance issues were on the network side. I suspected accept() calls not scaling right, but instrumentation on Linux was quite poor at that time. They had nothing like dtrace back then so I can't be certain.
> Intermediate email forwarding is so rare as to be non-existent.

Where did you get this belief? Almost no e-mail user who uses a client to send SMTP right from their PC or mobile device can send directly to their destination, because they don't have a static IP address with e-mail reputation.

Directly to the destination meaning: looking up the MX record for the domain of target e-mail address, and contacting that host.

People who self-host such e-mail receiving hosts will themselves drop the connection from such a user, if they implement RBL-based anti-spam measures.
yard moose, theyve lost fear of humans and dogs, and may become defensive and territorial about your yard, especially a cow with calf. your describing the setup for most moose stompings. These are not docile pets, dont turn your back or get between them
At it's core, the argument for caution can be articulated as "utility and availability of this technology must be limited to incumbent actors in the industry for our protection" and that's very fishy. It's particularly fishy considering this technology cannot even so much as break a fingernail or cut a blade of grass. Is it consequential? Obviously or neither one of our arguments would exist. Does it have the potential to hurt people? Only if those people let it. To me it's overblown moral panic that's suspiciously convenient for the big players in the industry and software in general.
honestly i tried the vanilla default many time to start with and it was the reason I waited so long to adopt emacs.

Since I tried Doom Emacs, I am really enjoying the experience, and it has seriously improved my workflow.

Now I can gradually learn things, improve my lisp, or try new work flows, etc.

Pre made distribution are a real improvement to the emacs ecosystem.
> but the team ended the experiment at the 5.5-second mark

why end it and not see how long it would last? and did they just do this once and call it a success? I'm no expert in this field by any means, but I just don't get this methodology. hopefully someone can enlighten me.
> I think people will adapt by finally doing the thing they should have been doing all along: don't trust anything they see on the internet.

This is an impressively optimistic take.

Why do you think this will happen?

Gelman amnesia has been happening for at least centuries, with no sign of reduction that I'm aware of.
Do you think legal processes can be flawed?
I think some of the outliers are interesting:

- top left corner, VB.NET. It is probably used frequently enough in businesses but nobody cares to release projects on GitHub. Is it poor version control culture? Is is a business only language?

- bottom right corner, Roff. Probably plenty of manpages
Now you can, but 120 years ago the British Empire ruled the waves with no reason to think battleships or cavalry would ever be obsolete.

The machine gun and trench warfare forced the development of the tank.

Once aircraft became military useful, battleships were rapidly vulnerable to aircraft and hence aircraft carriers.

I can imagine replacing naval mines with normally-quiescent remote-triggered torpedoes that are scattered on the seafloor a decade in advance.

How effective are troops against 3D printed drones designed to mimic animals (including birds), but which have a short-range firearm and some computer vision? Or engineered mosquitoes with the bare minimum of remote control, perhaps similar to the "cyborg cockroach" kits that have been on sale for about 9 years now? (Or just weaponise those 'roaches…)

What happens if you can predict what a command officer will say, use an AI to fake a their voice before they've spoken, and interfere with the communications to give misleading orders in the heat of combat? Doesn't even need to be a big change to the orders to alter the outcome.

(Obviously everything I've thought of in 5 minutes, the actual military will have categorised into "haha no" and "let's wargame this scenario"; I assume mostly the former).
You make a good point here that it's not obvious if it's the tail wagging or the dog. I suspect it's both.

This paper may be interesting further reading on the topic of regulatory moats specifically. (I saw your comment below discussing regulatory capture vs this specific subset of capture.)

https://www.nber.org/papers/w26001?sy=001&fbclid=IwAR0oYZBL3...
That sounds like the opposite of a non starter.

If it's 20-50% more expensive than a ground based alternative Im pretty sure the military would happily cover the difference if it made for a good weapon.
What is harassment? Is it talking about people on a website? People say that stating someone's address, phone number, email, is a form of doxing and therefore harassment. But, these things are just statements of fact. To say that the statement and sharing of factual information obtained legally is not a free speech issue is completely disingenous, 12 years ago when WikiLeaks was leaking information which had been given to them illegally (they didn't recieve the information illegally, but the whistleblower did break the law) they were thrown off of AWS, PayPal, Mastercard, Visa, Bank of America, for the crime of sharing documents. The highest profile free speech related issues on the internet have always been about what you should and shouldn't be able to share publicly.
FaCT: Constant Time Programming Language
> That's not how it works, neither with carpentry nor with neurosurgery nor with concert violinists nor with software engineering.

Not quite a violin, but once upon a time I bought my first guitar and literally two weeks later was playing to a paying crowd of ~100 people. I certainly wasn't producing quality, and still can't, but I found something that a small number of people valued.

Some goes for software. You can create the most horrible monstrosity imaginable, but it can very much still deliver value. The audience who finds that value may be smaller than a master craftsman can attract, but at software scale a small audience is still huge.
Do kids still know about "Spaceballs" and "Galaxy Quest?"
Can't wait for photos!

..He mentions that both the 5.5-foot lens..

Exciting project
Ask HN: Business intelligence tools for e-commerce SaaS data reports
Hi,

I am building a SaaS to help customers sell their products. Our data is stored in PostgresSQL with a pretty typical products/orders tables setup.

I want to build an internal dashboard for us to track GMV and external dashboards for customers to see their sale volumes with different date range and search filtering. All of this would be embedded in our user portal web dashboard built with ReactJS.

I am wondering which tools startups are using these days to help with this data indexing so we don't have to select all from our sql database. I have heard of metadabase.com and cube.dev but curious to see if anyone has any recommendations.
Programming is harder than carpentry, because the “surface area” is much larger, and also because you need a much greater ability to abstract and to understand abstractions. It would be a bit different if the programming ecosystem (tools, APIs, languages, services, etc.) was stable. Then you could train people to perform useful standard tasks, that they could then do for at least a decade or two. Just like how you build a simple table, bookshelf or cupboard doesn’t change every two years. But look at how much more complex and in constant flux the world of software development is.
It's not that it has no applications, it's that almost all applications it's suggested for wouldn't actually be improved by having a persistent history, write-only, distributed data backing. Until someone writes a blockchain protocol that allows data to be purged by an individual in a way that forces everyone else's records to update accordingly (i.e. to comply with laws around PII) web3 isn't a solution, it just makes the problem harder.
The article suggests using wide beams for transmission. That would mean anyone could passively take power. Without the ability to charge for power, isn't it doomed in our economic system? Is some municipality going to fund free power for their constituents?
Many thanks for standing strong for and with Open Source, Rest in Peace, dear sir. :)
I got locked out of my Gmail for a few years because I moved internationally and Google decided it just didn't like my new ip. I had access to the recovery email and would even get, "someone attempted to sign in emails." But Google just wouldn't let me in at all. I contacted support and they were no help at all. I tried to vpn back to normal locations but at that point I was flagged or something. I would try every few months after I gave up. About 3 years later it just magically let me in and I got all my stuff back. Still have no actual idea why it happened.
You missed the first part, which was “read the instructions”.

I worked at a store that heavily promoted these things to get foot traffic. The only people with problems were the people lining up on Sunday meaning to fill a cart with shit they didn’t need - or even know what it was to get it for “free”.

I remember one guy, who punched me in the mouth, screaming that he bought a scam video card “it doesn’t even play tapes” for $14.95 and didn’t get his $20 rebate for whatever reason. I think that he didn’t include the UPC code or something. The medical bills after I threw him out the window, the arrest and fine were a lot more than $14.95.

I used the free cd offers all of the time to get CD-Rs… we’d make custom mix CDs for the folks in our dorm.
Yes, but when they are, we should just fix them, rather than resorting to vigilantism.
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I love my kids and agree with some things you said, but I should point out that time feels way faster since I had kids. Our "just a blip" is _months_, which is a lot of time for a human being.

And my "hobbies" were all shared with my wife, so I can still practice them, but they are all affected.

Having two close by does help: they play a lot together.

Hanging with your kids is beautiful, but at times I would like to use all my brainpower, rather than 10% of it. I can't do that meaningfully if I play with them.

Either way, I don't regret having them, they are amazing. I love how they climb on you all the time. I love how they are attached to my wife.
Trying to figure out how to maintain a good relationship in teenager years, I'm afraid it's really hard.
I am the author, feedback welcome.
No, but Cloudflare and several other ISPs will not drop you simply because a large volume of people complains. This doesn't work like Twitter moderation. The quality of these complaints warrants not wanting those people associated with you.
> This is why arguments justifying censorship by saying "just host it yourself then" are wrong.

That was never the argument.

The argument is that private companies have the right to provide their services in their terms, and if your intended use violates those terms then you also have the right to pick a services that tolerates you and your intended use. Aka gay wedding cakes.
No, but any reasonable examination of Kiwifarms shows a history of swatting, doxing, and bullying that has led to suicides. If I had a hosting business, I don't see why I should be required to carry their content or provide service to them. It's not a free speech question - it's a shitty behavior question.
Interpol unveils a metaverse for law enforcement worldwide
> Which is why yelling "FIRE!" in a crowded theater is also not speech (despite people also thinking that's another gotcha example to free speech)

Next, you’ll be telling us that it’s OK for the government to arrest socialists for passing out anti-war flyers.
It is a KKK-level hate site against LGBT people and particularly trans women, that actively seeks to terrorize them by doxxing them and their family members. Several suicides have been attributed directly to their actions, as well as the Christchurch massacre.
Google Data Studio is pretty good for this use case. https://datastudio.google.com/
> ”bigoted parents”? Who are you refering to, FSF?

They are referring to my parents, and other parents like them.

Parents who are so disgusted by the idea of homosexuality that they will disown their kids or send them to "re-education" camps or retreats.

Parents who force their kids to attend churches where leadership will actively talk about the sinfulness of being gay, and how such a thing is deserving of death by stoning and an eternity in hell.

Parents who are more interested in enforcing puritanical beliefs during the most formative years of a kid's life than they are in ensuring their kids develop a healthy sense of self and psychological safety.

This is not hyperbole, this was my childhood. My ability to find support outside of my family and church circle without intervention from my parents is arguably why I am alive today.
The digital camera is still several orders of magnitude slower and more expensive to operate than DALL-E or SD.

Side note: if you're a materialist, you should believe that psychological harm is physical harm. It's obvious that being able to publish images of someone doing things they themselves find reprehensible could cause lots of trauma.
I think you're confusing speech with protected speech. Those are all examples of speech, they are just not protected.
> Therein lies the problem. Either someone in the governing body doesn’t understand the fundamental science behind how TVs and displays work, or they just don’t care. The fact is that 8K TVs, by nature of how LCD panels function, consume considerably more power than 4K TVs

And yes, we are talking about saving energy. Everything is said in the introduction. There is nothing scandalous in the choice of this venerable institution.

Sorry, but it didn't inspire me to read the article.
Ah dang, that websockets thing would have been useful a month ago for me. I was trying to forward stdout to a scrollable pane - I initially tried textual but the performance was kinda poor when scrolling. Ended up going with prompt toolkit instead because I could get it to work.
Single points of failure are weaknesses against events outside of your control.

Redundancy protects against single points of failure, so redundancy only makes sense when you're trying to protect against something outside of your control.

Your database might go away for many different reasons. There could be a network error that prevents you from reaching it. A power outage could take the data center down. A hardware failure could make the server crash.

But if you have multiple instances of your database, you can protect against that. If "the platform" (AWS, Azure, whatever) detects that one instance of your database is unreachable, for whatever reason, it can invisibly start pointing your app to a different instance. Redundancy protects you from these outages.

But, if Redux goes down, there's really only one reason: there's a logic error in your code. You can't protect against this with redundancy; you can only protect against it by finding and fixing errors. If the Redux layer crashes every time you send it the string "hello.world.png" having multiple instances of Redux won't help; you need to find the logic error and fix it.

Also, your app should (and probably does) treat the database a single source of truth, even if you have multiple instances of it running "for real". To give a basic example, you might have one Leader database, where all of the writes happen "for real", and a bunch of Follower databases, which subscribe to the Leader and copy whatever it does. Then, if the Leader goes down, one of the Followers becomes the new Leader, and the new, single source of truth.

But your app doesn't need to know about any of that; the platform takes care of it invisibly. You point your app to "db.aws.com/?db=12345" (or whatever), and AWS automatically redirects you to the Leader. So with this scheme, you get the benefits of both single source of truth and redundancy.
One could argue that a great many things have been left up for corporations to decide, especially in the US. That is by design.

I would of course also love to see this addressed in legislature, but that seems unlikely given the current political climate.
Could this deficiency be caught by some kind of blood test, though? Do regular checkups screen for this? Is there some reason you'd be "super low on it in brain tissues" and not in other parts of the body?
Thank you for acknowledging that I made it to the edge :)
Well thankfully I'm not, but even if I were I think that's a bit of a stretch. A materialist acknowledging an effect he cannot quantify or directly observe is not much of a materialist.
Two wrongs don't make a right. If Kiwifarms is acting illegally, sue them in court. If there are no laws, lobby to make them.

ISPs are not police, elected representatives or courts; they shouldn't be allowed to usurp that role.
Silent Running (1972).

Solaris (both of them).
It's heartwarming to see children freely sharing the legacy of their parents.
Yet another chapter in these pathetic cry-bullies' lives. What a waste of your life to be so dedicated to "defending" a forum to meticulously document and mock the existence of people that they find distasteful.

To pretend this is a crusade for free speech is laughable.
Moon? Please loop me in. There is precedent for censorious tech conglomerates (reddit, at least) to defend people who are sex offenders.

I'm no fan of Kiwifarms, but I'm also no fan of the DIY HRT guide Keffals runs that advises (often underage) people on doing home-chemistry to make hormones.

Would be nice if the right could stop slandering every trans person as a mentally ill groomer and the left could stop labeling anyone questioning the ethics of underage transition as nazis long enough to have a reasonable discussion about the topic.
i'm enjoying the right-leaning comments here -- it's not censorship, it's being censured

which highlights a point i like to make: if you wish to defend KF, first you have to justify the concrete speech being carried out on it

with examples

which you can't post here because it goes against the rules of this place -- which should be a pretty big hint as to why the fruit site got censured
For the PHP folks there are a few options.

Ones that I've used include:

- Statamic https://statamic.com

- Jigsaw https://jigsaw.tighten.com/
Actually, I'm not selling anything. The authors themselves get to sell subscriptions to their readers when they gain reputation. Yea, it's fictional, but hopefully it will be a better proxy to their value as compared to outright selling a newsletter subscription.

Plus, authors can only start selling subs after 6 months, and no one would subscribe if their ideas are bad. I'm trying to build a skin-in-the-game kinda system as much as I can with the constraints that I have.

Might need to work on my copy since you didn't get it. :(
love the design of this, nice work!
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We keep seeing actions from Kiwifarms that include doxing, swatting,and cyber bullying that lead to the suicide and death of people.

If you're saying that swatting is free speech, then we've pushed the idea of speech beyond all reasonable boundaries and have decided that speech just means that people are free from consequences of their actions.
That's true in the case of email. Malware hosting services get removed all of the time, none of the people they were targeting "consented" to that or were even aware.
The right supports the right of private businesses to decide who to serve unless they are kicking out right wingers in which case we need government intervention to guarantee a platform.

It’s sort of like how they support federalism except when states do things they don’t like, or small government except for when it comes to their pet issues.
Is code speech or action?

If you're old, you say speech. If you're younger and watch any integration modern technology into life, you'd say both.

But at the end of the day, your viewpoint doesn't matter. What does matter is when the 'average person' feels unsafe by this 'informational speech' as you like to call it, that it will be banned and restricted and you will be punished under the full force of the law for trafficking in it. Your neighbors will cheer as you're dragged out of your house by a swat team for being an evil terrorist. SCOTUS will make whatever finding is politically expedient for the majority parties point of view that is the majority at the time, and you will rot in prison until you die of old age.

So, your choices are attempting to setup a regulatory framework to minimize the dystopian hellscape your ideas will create or embrace the dystopian hellscape.
Powering cargo planes seems like a niche market that would be suitable. The planes could have just enough power to get up above the cloud layer, then receive a charge boost each time they go below each solar powered satellite. This makes the planes lighter as they no longer need to carry as much fuel or batteries.

A second consideration is that these satellites can be factories in space. Raw materials are much easier to launch into space using rail guns as the materials can survive higher g forces then humans or pre-manufactured goods. Once in space, the raw materials can be made into higher quality goods due to the lack of atmosphere and gravity. Once they are in space they can be put to use making further satellites, orbital rings or habitats.
Something about spending most of your time defending scoundrels comes to mind.
Thank you for your reply. It seems to me datastudio helps you generate one-off reports? What I am looking for is more of an embedded solution for sellers to log into our dashboard and can slice and dice their data directly on our website.
I think Textual would be amazing tool for building advanced dev tools. As a Python web developer I would love an interactive development server / debugger. Imagine a ui showing all requests to your dev server (normal, Websockets, or long poling / SSE) and being able to expand the details and drill down the stack frames. See the context to your templates. Or being able to pause a request at a break point and step through. Add in the ability to see background tasks in the task queue and have the same level of insight. All interactive from the terminal with a beautiful textual UI.

If only there was more time.
Where did you get that nonsense from?