skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think I ever called it a democratic governance? I think you might have misunderstood my point.

I think these platforms need to be more democratic, I don't think they're democratic at all as publicly owned companies. However, I do think control is now even more centralized residing in just one person. Which, imo, is an even worse state of affairs.

To me, democracy in these platforms is not about what speech is moderated but about taking the decision, in the first place, to do so. How is that decision taken, who is responsible for such decisions? It's about who is deciding rather than what is decided. Democracies will not always favor our personal points of view, but that wouldn't make them less democratic (think for example of the swiss people voting against face coverings, a democratic decision that goes against what I personally consider is correct).

I do consider a public company to have a more democratic structure of governance compared to a privately owned company simply by the fact that people could gain access. Of course, with such concentration of wealth it is a bit of a pipe dream. But think for example of Norway and their wealth fund; this is a country that invests in companies and steers influences them. They can't really do that with a private corporation.

In any case, this is not really a hill i would be willing to die on in any case. I want more democracy in platform governance.
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Here is what:

ls -l /proc/cpuinfo

It says (basically it is a pseudo-filesystem with read-only permission, so I don't think so it is possible without making any changes at the Linux kernel/driver level):

-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 28 09:38 /proc/cpuinfo
You're probably right, a guy can dream though, can't he? haha
>I absolutely hate to wait for slow compile times, long startup times, slow disk writes and laggy browsers. All of which you will get on a Pi.

Undeniably correct - but if you use your Pi or any other SBC as a poor man's VDI terminal, in other words, using it to remote into a better computer elsewhere, then it's kind of OK. Personally I still found it too slow and laggy for my taste and instead used an Intel NUC. There's probably a good meet-in-the-middle device available on Aliexpress like the fanless systems people use for firewalls but they too can be pricey (vs a Pi). Would love to see a small ARM device powerful enough to push 4k video but still otherwise fanless, preferably something that could be bolted to the VESA block on a monitor or at least hidden behind the monitor.
Population density of Nederlands: >500 people/sq.km.
You wouldn't make an inverted-inverted-V antenna out of waveguide. The whole point of waveguide is to be a transmission line, not a radiating element. Even if we ignore that, a dipole antenna of those dimensions is two orders of magnitude larger than what you'd use to radiate on the hydrogen line.
Fanboying Elon on the twitter deal of all things is just hilarious. He paid $44B with no diligence for a company with hardly a billion worth of revenue, stagnating growth, a last-generation social graph, an incredibly toxic userbase, and a very demoralized staff--and he has no plan for how to fix it either. This will go down as one of the worst deals in history and here you are saying "but Starlink".
Always found it puzzling that it takes 5 clicks to remove a recommendation from the homepage. 1. dots menu 2. "not interested" 3. "tell us why" 4. I've already watched this video, check. 5. submit.

No doubt there's particular reasons for not doing so, but a "don't show me videos I've already seen" would be quite effective for my aims.
Take every rant with lots of salt (unless it is labeled as a rant).

(Edit: Jest removed in favor of discussion)
log rocket pumps out incredible amounts of pretty thin blog spam. Just another example of SEO marketing degrading the quality of content
If a vendor chooses to only sell on one platform, that's not the platforms fault (cancerous exclusives notwithstanding).
Is Twitter not dying? The youth don’t care, the elderly don’t care, and those in the middle (late twenties, early forties) are ending their terminally online lives for families, careers, travel, etc.

Twitter is being distilled into a political tool - both side, endlessly crying into the void, appealing to their confirmation biases.

Hop on over to /pol/ to see what unregulated politic speak turns into.

I give it 10 years and it’ll be a ghost town.
Postgres sequences issues can impact your messaging guarantees
I've recently had the most frustrating and confusing time of my life diet-exercise-wise, so this article is very welcomed/interesting.

I work out maybe 5 out of 7 days.. and I'm talking a minimum of 30 minutes of intense cardio, bpm's above 150.. 3 days i'm going to hour-long 'core-sculpt-yoga' which at 93 degrees inside is some of the most intense exercise i've ever done.. and end up leaving near palpitations every time..

On top of all of that work, I *hardly eat anything at all* .. I might take in 2000 calories in a day, but it's typically far less.. a lot of it is also in liquid form, which I know isn't great.

The point is, I've actually gained weight in the past couple of years. Sure, my muscle mass has increased slightly with all of the exercise.. but fat around my midsection has stayed and/or slightly increased. AND IT HAS CONFOUNDED ME TO NO END .. How does someone hardly eat anything at all (but potentially eats poorly, not fatly, but poorly when he does) and who works out more than regularly .. manage to gain weight and maintain or gain fat ??

So I am trying now to eat regularly throughout the day, and we'll see what happens.. Drinking protein shakes every few hours, etc.. to really test this theory on myself.
Jesus. Please no one take that as legal advice. Paying a bribe to get preferential treatment (even if that treatment is just to get the person to do their actual job) is a bribe none the less.
On a tangent. I used to be able play youtube videos on firefox on my old android phone with the screen turned off. It was some setting in firefox that I can't seem to remember or else is no longer there.
It was great because you could listen to a long lecture while walking using up less battery and even more importantly, not inadvertently clicking on something on screen.
Anyone have any ideas if it's still possible?
The GPIO on the PI is compromised for any hard realtime usage by the fact its running linux (ignoring what can be done with a lot of extra work with a RT kernel and pinning cores).

For non realtime use, the $10 USB->GPIO ones work fine on any computer with USB.

In fact many of them are just ESP's, and work even better than the pi for hard real-time because you write custom bitbanging ardunio code and send the results/control signal over the USB. They become custom peripherals with a /dev/ttyUSB endpoint.
Spotify buying Findaway (a company that previously licensed audiobooks to many different distributors with varied business models), for example, centralizes the market in a way that at best, will result in both an oligopoly for consumers and an oligopsony for creaters. It is certainly good that Amazon/Audible has competitors, but if the only competitors it has have basically the same vertically integrated structure there will be less incentive and opportunity for authors and voice actors to create genuinely interesting works, and listeners will in turn have increasingly commoditized options, with creators making less money for their work and consumers paying more.
> even Rolexes and super expensive watches are supposed to go in every few years for servicing.

Not so true these days. For example Oris (Calibre 400) and Tudor recommend service once every 10 years on their latest movements, if that. I know of Rolex owners that have gone 20 years without servicing they've still kept good time. I recently purchased a Pelagos and the watch maker at the shop told me I probably don't even need to get it serviced at the 10 year mark. Like anything YMMV.

With things like using more jewels than ever, the latest movements are becoming extremely reliable and not needing service as often.
Are you disagreeing with their conclusion or just the vibe? You can do both: believe things would be better with some global change, and also accept that won’t happen and do your best with how things are.
I don't log into google, and I noticed the YouTube search suggestions were hot garbage.

Anyway, I was watching a logged in friend using YouTube, and realized their suggestions were equally irrelevant.

I wish people would mirror their videos somewhere that's more archival focused and less of a spam shovel.
The article nails the inherent contradiction in optimizing for "free speech" and optimizing for advertising. He has burned 44 billion. He will bleed advertisers and legit users if it becomes a 4chan's pol board.
Weapons deals with saudi arabia, the Starfighter, the Spiegel affaire (more an abuse of power than corruption), none of this is mentioned?

Edit: Both, the Spiegel affaire and the Lockheed bribery scandal are mentioned.
> I'm betting that something like the Google Circles gets implemented

This would actually be a great outcome IMO. Supporting shared blocklists would have similar effect, and probably be easier to implement. Unfortunately, I very much doubt than Elmo Nutsack would allow that. Despite all his claims about "free speech" I'm pretty sure enabling those who would silence people they deem too "woke" via harassment is very much part of the reason behind his takeover. Check out the #TwitterTakeover tag to see the hordes slavering at the prospect (but be aware that it's hard on the stomach if you're a decent person).
I should be safe; The switch is still set to More Magic.
Then it won't be a joke anymore...
Has anyone experienced a bug with navigating back from a video? It's been happening for months now but it's on and off.

When you're watching a video and you go back, the url updates but the page doesn't refresh/redirect, the video just ends up restarting. Very annoying.
People whose guts produce alcohol
Lets be honest, Can you go a month without twitter and be okay? Well then its not critical
Largest recent impact craters on Mars
There is literally no such thing as a compiler bug in a language defined by "whatever the compiler does." The compiler is always, tautologically, correct.
It is the A/B test from Hell and there appears to be no way out from it once you’ve been selected.
Something like this: https://github.com/frznman/yt-dlp-server

In my case I stuck my instance (not that exact software but similar) behind Caddy and added basic auth. Then I just setup Shortcuts or bookmarklets that just did:

curl -X POST --data-urlencode "url={{url}}" http://{{address}}:8080/yt/q

Where {{url}} was the current page I was on and {{address}} was where my instance was available (with username:password added to it, example: "https://user:pass@ytdlp.mydomain.com/yt/q").
Spot on. But it's not even about writing. Developers hate communication, in any form.

Going remote made it much worse, there's even more ways to avoid communication or turning it async.

The only remedy I found is actively forcing people to talk to each other, starting with yourself.

Doing a code review? Grab the reviewee in a Slack huddle for 15 minutes, it'll save time for both of you.

Need a code review? Grab the reviewer and walk them through the parts that are hard to understand.

Designing a big piece of architecture? Instead of writing a thorough design doc that nobody will read, build a rough diagram and share it with the team immediately, preferably on a call.

Writing documentation? Ask your team members what they want to see in it.

Yeah, it sucks to do all of that when you're an introvert. But it gets easier with time. And hopefully you can find joy in the fact that you are delivering value X times faster.
Who do you believe legally won the 2020 presidential election? And do you think that that is a subject that has fruitful ground for discussion and compromise?
I use MyScript Nebo on my iPad for note taking and it works great. The handwriting recognition is impressive!
Even a brisk 7-minute walk every day can help prevent heart disease
This reply is the perfect "Chesterson's Fence"!
I think this is a YouTube Premium feature now.
Is that so? There is the theory that our galaxy could be a Seyfert Galaxy, we just haven't witnessed it so far.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00717870

https://earthsky.org/space/explosion-milky-way-center-seyfer...

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49955468

Edit: I meant to say that our galaxy could, and has had such fits of rage, not that this event could have come from it.
This is why so much hate is directed at Elon. His repeated success in different domains causes severe cognitive dissonance. It's an in your face painful reminder that success isn't entirely due to luck.

It's a lot easier to dismiss someone's success when it only happens once.
> You’d be surprised at just how many people believe in the supernatural.

I wouldn't - the majority believes in an invisible sky friend.
This has been going downhill for a while. I don't know if YT engineers actually use the website. Below a certain screen width the date of the video just disappears from view. The video description becomes crammed to the side and is unreadable, with the "more" link rendering on top of the text. This seems to be (??) intentional behavior, why?

search has also become ... rather stupid? it shows a few results and then some irrelevant "recommendations"

Also would be nice if they stopped pushing shorts so hard. Why does youtube want to become tiktok, that is offensive to both users and creators, becayse YT has a distinct use case
I've just started playing the demo yesterday and I'm hooked. Will definitely buy the game, but wondering on which platform.
My laptop screen already feels a bit small - anyone has an experience playing on switch and thoughts on playing on handheld mode and/or using controls compared to keyboard/mouse?
Elon has also talked about open sourcing "the algorithm" or letting people customize the algorithm that suggests content for them, etc. I suspect that plays in here - by default, Twitter users (and unauthenticated browsers) will probably continue to see Twitter the same way as today, with relatively safe, moderated content.

Logged-in folks will also have the option to go into unmoderated mode, which will drop you into the cesspool if you so desire. Presumably respectable companies will only advertise on the default layer; ads in the cesspool will be for "edgy" t-shirt companies and extremist politicians and others who don't care about their brand being displayed next to questionable content (or prefer it!).

Illegal content of course must continue to be moderated regardless.
I don't see any data, just claims and solutions.
https://youtu.be/ZBG2bD-TE9g
Micro 4D Printing Builds on Programmable Matter
Not sure if you work with designers. They are not some isolated partially insane org in most tech companies. Decisions like that likely start with a PM, get reviewed, then eng reviewed, then they run an experiment and confirm a hypothesis. None of that involves going to HN to seek feedback. Should they ignore an engagement increases of 3% because someone has stern feedback? That’s just not the reality of tech.

Personally, I hardly use YouTube unless I follow a direct link. I have also disabled all feeds, comments, and suggestions using uBlock Origin.
Now there's "pull up for precise seeking" which doesn't do all that much but it's a new feature. And of course ambient mode which doesn't do much either.
Step 1: Don't use a gigantic header and cover image which takes no less than 3 full scrolls of a mousewheel to get to the content.
Completing the automation of agriculture is the only thing that would drive a significant fraction of the rural fifth into cities, and rebuilding suburbia to be denser is fighting against market trends. I'm betting we get self driving cars first, and I'm not at all sure I disagree with the article's title.
There needs to be a "Don't show me this type of video ever again."

I recently watched some of the trial of the mass murderer who killed a bunch of people at a parade in Wisconsin.

Now almost my entire youtube feed is things like "Trial lawyer REACTS to Darrel Brooks VERDICT!" - just absolute click bait garbage. I hate it, and I genuinely don't know how to make it go away.
This makes no sense because people on Twitter choose who they follow. If some 'deplorables' want to follow some other deplorables, then let them; I'm sure some companies will still want to advertise to them.

The people who only want to consume government and corporate propaganda will only see content from like-minded people anyway; they will get the safe experience that they want. No problem! Companies can target them and sell them cricket flour, dried maggots, lab-grown meat and COVID booster vaccine number 27... These people won't even realize that the deplorables also use Twitter because they will be in a different filter bubble.
Haters are always telling me not to jump into a barbed-wire-covered nettle bush in a tar pit - why don't any of them have the vision to help me succeed at it? :)
I doubt this reply will be allowed, I'll type it anyway.

Anyone pro-elon-twitter is being brigaded and isn't allowed to speak. I suspect the opposite is true as well. Therefore the subject isn't going to make the front page. It's just a battlefield of shooting at each other and no discussion can be had. Therefore HN downranks it.

It's remarkable to me to see this as well. I expected Hackers to see this positively.

Why do you think HN is so divided?
How is trying to build right habits trying to blame external source?

It literally starts with observation that current habits are wrong and need to change.
Elon Musk Completes $44B Twitter Takeover, Fires Executives, Makes Himself CEO
And that doesn't even include the more specific concerns about the way Spotify uses contract labor to squeeze artists.
This is fake news, based on a misunderstanding of how twitter remediation works: https://twitter.com/passantino/status/1586012602274140163
I buy old SAS/SATA drives that have lots of hours on them. They tend to look like this:

https://pastebin.com/raw/E39HuK59

Run SMART, check the stats, make sure the grown defect list is 0, make sure it's never been over-temp, run a SMART long test, run bad blocks, run another SMART long test. If it passes all those I'd be fine continuing to use it.

The HUH728080ALE600 drives in that server[1] idle at 5.1 watts[2], so it's 184 watts just on the drives. I'm guessing at idle the server runs around 300 watts. Which is not great, but it's not terrible. I pay ~ $1/watt/year in NC, so running that server 24x7 would cost me $300 annually.

If it were me I'd disconnect at least half the drives to keep as spares.

1. https://imgur.com/a/zb6Mqty

2. https://documents.westerndigital.com/content/dam/doc-library...
wow I also have a Sony Bravia around the same age and this also happens to me sporadically! drives me insane when it happens, but it's infrequent enough that I haven't replaced it yet.
No, it increased the political power of slave holders since slaves couldn't vote but were counted as if they could.
I think there could be a balance here, allow that which is legal but distasteful but don't promote it or advertise beside it. You could probably repurpose some already pre-existing ML models searching for users to ban over takes that are too hot for twitter to mark as un-monatizable. Cleaning house is the way to make this vision of twitter a reality.

Bots I think is both the harder and existential problem.
tabliss is great, you can pull up your github contribution calendar (without needing to sign in to github), show the weather, and add links that you can open with the number keys which is convenient and saves a solid quarter second of typing every time I open a new tab, which is fun.
It never really made sense to me. But then again I live in country that can do mobile infra. 4G and 5G with good availability and affordable or even cheap prices. And we are not even dense.

So I never really got how any other place has any excuses.
I really enjoy having a mechanical wrist. I could have the exact same watch in Quartz and it would be cheaper, more reliable and more accurate, but there is something about having something 'non-electronic' on me that is a pure marvel of engineering that gives me joy.

I think your word 'romanticism' is right - there is a sort of semi-magical quality of a mechanical watch for me about how a vanishingly small series of weights, springs and cogs manages to keep time with zero electronics.

It's not to say that there isn't a bit of magic in a quartz watch - but that type of magic doesn't feel as magical in a world of iPhones and laptops. Putting my watch to my ear and hearing ticking that sounds like a victorian automoton however feels like an entirely different type of magic, and one which is far less common.
_Musk made an offer for the lulz_

Seems to me Musk got bored waiting for the EPA to give a go-ahead for Starship and things got wayy out of hand.

Have any journalists had the same insight?
Do I have enough experience for Google senior Eng?
I got an interview at Google - it’s a company most people dream of working at, so why am I writing this instead of grinding leetcode ?

Well it’s for a senior Eng role. Do I actually have enough experience or will I waste my time grinding leetcode just to be told off.

So, my experience:
- 1 year of no name company internship
- masters (with published research)
- 2 years at startup
- 1 year at Amazon as L4 ( on resume just says software dev so level is not explicit)
- parents related to my work at startup

I did not apply to the position, I was contacted about it by a recruiter. Do they have a decent screening process before the interview invitation?

I am just worried the recruiter is impressed by my skills, but when I talk to an engineer they will tell me to stop wasting their time.

Impostor syndrome or reasonable concern ?
anyone succesfully patches their nginx to speed up ssl requests?