skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And yet there is no evidence an American died overseas in Japan during the time he supposedly killed himself. None. Just one guy's assertion and everyone else believing him.
The simple economics of panic: The 2022 Nobel Prize in perspective
> parroting the apparent consensus opinions

> People should try to become a bit more resilient of diverse opinions

Why is it hard to accept the "diverse opinion" that children were shot and killed at a school shooting, and that their parents were not actors trying to steal your guns from you? Does it trigger you that you didnt need to form a crew and go round and set them straight?

Here is a diverse opinion for you - not everything that happens in the world is done by crisis actors trying to force you to have interracial gay sex while taking your gun from you and giving it to an illegal immigrant.
I don’t know how people use trackpads for anything but causal use anyway, even on a Mac I find them to be a constant strain on my psyche compared to using my mouse- I always have one on me if I have my laptop
I think it's the opposite, and that all these can easily be achieved together.

Instead I believe that the difficulties with running social media companies come from not wanting these: there's a desire to control narratives, to push advertisements and to have central control. If these are the requirements the result is a behemoth of a company, which must do a great deal.

Meanwhile, if you have something noncommercial, where you just want some kind of forum where people can communicate with you and others, you can let them filter as they like, turning the knob down on any kind of spam-- because the user is running their machine and getting the benefit of the communication they desire, there is no need for any centralized control of the information flow-- the user decides what he sees, nor any need for advertisements, and because of the absence of advertisements there is no need for censorship or control in that regard. Furthermore, because messages are public the difficulties with dealing with things like e-mail spam disappear-- you will simply see what people think about a certain message, and you will not decide to see it if people in the tree of people you like like it.

I think internet technology is ready for this kind of thing. It's a bit of work though. To make a distributed WebRTC-Reddit where even people on phones can contribute to the communications network is a bit of work, but, I think, no longer infeasible.
Binary Lambda Calculus [1] (produces an infinite list of booleans instead):

λ(λ1 (1((λ1 1)(λλλ1(λλ1)((λ4 4 1((λ1 1)(λ2(1 1))))(λλλλ1 3(2(6 4)))))(λλλ4(1 3)))))(λλ1(λλ2)2)

[1] https://tromp.github.io/cl/cl.html
I've been travelling for the last two years. With Wifi-calling, I can send/receive calls and text messages just fine. The only caveat is when I am outside of wifi I have to turn a hotspot from the other phone.
So we used to have this thing called telnet BBSes in the mid nineties.

Discord is not too similar, but typically with less moderation.
Bunch of people talk about stuff in subject based rooms, there’s some administrators looking after the health of the channel. Join or leave rooms, etc. Open source would shield it a bit more from commercial interests.

Social media is simply too big for this, it will always be advertised run because of the size of the audience. Also the viral component and manipulation affect how valuable it can be.

Build and join smaller communities.
> Energy isn't fungible and it isn't wasted if it's securing hundreds of billions of value for hundreds of millions of people.

Sadly, this echoes the kind of defective reasoning I have observed with a majority of “crypto” proponents.

Also, without a proper source for a claim, I can just as well state that research has shown that less than 1% of cryptocurrency proponents are aware enough to realize the hole they’ve dug themselves in.
It’s a blog post. If a random blog post on HN is all it takes to harm AGI research, it wasn’t going anywhere anyway.
The Economist has a page, "World in Brief"

https://www.economist.com/the-world-in-brief

which contains seven pieces of news in a paragraph, then a "fact of the day", then five slightly longer analyses in two paragraphs. Closed by a quiz and a daily quotation.

I recommend, if you have little time, to just read that page - or find a similar equivalent - up to the level you need.
Author seems focused on toys. This seems like a more well rounded explanation and argument:

https://aeon.co/essays/how-close-are-we-to-creating-artifici...
The recent models do get quite warm, especially Pi 4, but the Pi 1 with an overclock has not gone over 50C in this setup, and that's at a constant 100% CPU usage.
Have you ever heard of Chirper?
"Stinkditch" is the category for lolcows who happen to be trans. There's also the Beauty Parlor for the beauty-adjacent, or the Internationale Clique for foreign lolcows. In no case is anyone in there simply for being trans, beautiful, or a foreigner. They are, however, there for engaging in horrendously unethical behavior which is documented using their own words.

Oh, and look at that... KF is back on the clearnet... so you can verify all this yourself.
> To be fair, "old hardware" is kind of frozen in time by definition.

No, not at all.

It's a continuously-moving baseline, because it's relative to now. And where "old" begins is a judgement call.

So, for instance, one useful definition is "not capable of usefully running a contemporary OS."

Since all current mainstream Linuxes (Ubuntu, Fedora, even Arch, etc.) are 64-bit that implies a 32-bit machine. One with a reasonable amount of RAM for the time, a gigabyte or two say, but which can't be upgraded. Intel Atom chips were mostly 32-bit until a decade and a bit ago. Core Solo was quite quick but 32-bit only.

Some early 64-bit chips have 32-bit firmware and so can't run a 32-bit OS.

So there is a moving baseline of machines that can't take >=4GB RAM, can only boot a 32-bit OS, maybe have 1 CPU core, but were made in the 1st decade of this century and remain fully-functional, with wifi etc.

DSL isn't very useful on such kit, and if it works, it's insecure.

So, no, it's not frozen in time, and no, a never-updated 20YO snapshot isn't very useful.
It's a fancy-ass way of talking about education.

You might call it "streetwise" education - but that wouldn't quite
capture it, because it's more about spotting a bad argument or con
artist. The kind of education that creates robust citizens (as opposed
to the 18th century dogshite we teach kids today to keep them dumb).

Here's a link to how the Finns approach it [1].

[1] https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/how-finland-can-help-us...
Very interesting! Do you have a blog or anything written for your setup?
I find myself agreeing with Jim Keller. His stance — from very high up in the chip design industry — is that individual teams at the bottom may be seeing the end of the road, but there are alternate paths being explored by other teams. Often these alternate paths aren’t yet commercialised — mere options — but enable the overall improvements to keep going without getting stuck.

Some examples:

Stacking and joining chiplets will soon enable over 2 TB/s memory bandwidths for ordinary devices, far higher than the 50 GB/s typical of mid-tier DIMM memory.

Storage latency and IOPS is still going up. Millions of random accesses per second with ~20 microsecond latencies enabled technologies like DirectX DirectStorage. This totally changes the way game engines work and how their art assets are authored.

I could go on…
Is that foam and those straps ESD-safe?
You can configure Syncthing to keep X versions of a file for N amount of days, etc.

I don't disagree that Syncthing is not ideal as a backup solution but it can be a pretty decent one depending on your use-case.
Good. Hopefully we won't get a repeat of censorship like the Hunter Biden laptop story ever again.
> It produces binary logs, which might not work with your workflow and is a kind of vendor lock-in if you don't script a binary-to-text script

I never really understood this point — it’s not some proprietary format that has to be reverse engineered, you quite literally has both encrypt and decrypt source code available for every single version it has been released. You can also just pipe the binary output through the provided “decrypt” tool and then further use the usual unix tools if you wish.

But let’s add the advantages of this logging: systemd can log events from the very start of the boot process, which was not possible before.
>thinks having a large number of domains is a brag

I’m deeply ashamed of my long list of domains that aren’t used. I think anyone who thinks op is bragging is probably young and low key impressed

On another note I love the use of “tamp down” in the article haven’t heard that phrase in a long time
Indeed; see the above example of a prime number generates in just 167 bits of (binary) lambda calculus.
It started with bad press because author made pulseaudio and its design didn't appeal to many (lots of features but missing pieces, not due to dev but market forces and drivers). So when the same guy says he's gonna rewrite pid1 with a radically different design people went ballistic.

My personal opinion is that proper dependency based init systems are amazing but I'm not fond of some slightly superficial aspect of systemd (syntax, parameters, logic, config files).. to the point I think in a few years someone may make a cleaner variant.
I use btrfs because of the snapshotting support. btrbk is the tool that makes taking and pruning snapshots easier.

In this setup with a single SSD, it has no role in preventing data loss if the SSD itself fails, but it should prevent data loss in case of user error.

If possible, use ZFS, and in case that isn't an option, use BTRFS if you need the data integrity guarantees and at least some protection against faulty hardware in mirror/RAID-like scenarios. That's my two cents.
Clickpads are horrible, but touchpads aren't so bad when they have tactile buttons. That's why I always print some for mine.
This comment needs to be pinned. We've had a similar situation where the person in coma took a bunch of loans in secret. We don't know why. We couldn't access any information. The bank doesn't reveal any of the process. We don't know if there is hidden property that we can inherit. We don't know if it was gambling, or charity, or if he was paying for someone's addiction. The whole family had to pool money to save the widow. He died a few weeks later and we have no idea where all the money went 'till this day.
> The entire history of the ecological movement is about conservationists working incredibly hard to create the notion of "pollution" as a concept, persuade people to believe it, build technology to detect it, generate data based on that, prove that it actually causes harm, and get people to care.

This seems more like a problem of convincing people of truth than problem of the contept of pollution. We have built technology to detect it - we have no such technology to detect truth. So pollution is measurable, truth is not.

> Really, please do learn more about the history of ecology and conservation and you will realize that the truth is anything but what you just said.

No, I don't think me having an epiphany of "Gasp! That person on the internet was RIGHT, I was completely WRONG! Pollution is a harder problem than truth!" is going to happen, no matter how much history of ecology I learn. It's a cute sentiment, though.
The other guys aren't limited by power, they're limited by grip. The wall adds lots of friction, sure, but he also now has unlimited grip and therefore full power.
Nobody needs an excuse for being wrong; it's a perfectly normal part of the human condition.
> Would you please stop posting flamewar comments to HN?

Just tell me what ideology to cheer for and I'll do it. You've last asked me about some 4 or 5 years ago not to write about history stuff, I didn't since then, maybe you're confusing me with someone else.

Later edit:

> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle

Didn't see that put into effect on this website after February 24th.
I wonder if Instagram adding text would push some people away who want it for the original use of photos? It already feels extremely bloated and unusable with latest shopping stuff (to me).
Association studies are worthless.

We need to stop doing them.
Would you mind sharing the detection script?
Haven't built any detection in so far, but if I do notice instability, then taking a look at kernel logs should reveal those pretty well with USB device reset messages popping up.

I have never used the WiFi on newer Pi-s that shipped with it, so I cannot say how reliable that was. The USB WiFi adapter seems to work quite well, assuming you have the firmware packages present (included out of the box on Raspberry Pi OS).
I think that we (humans) are all a little (or a lot) phony, and none of us are phony in the least bit.

We are all making this all up as we go along. We all have difficulty with metacognition (this is my particular area of research) in certain situations (it varies for different people). And yet, being phony is part of the human experience.

There is such a disconnect between reality and consciousness that our brains trick us into thinking that our brains are accurate simulators of the world outside of us when, in fact, our brains interpolate and extrapolate a lot of the outside world, and then we act as though that inner simulation were a completely accurate rendering. See, for example, "phantom limbs", "filling in", the abject shittiness of memory encoding and recall (your brain makes up details that you are convinced really happened, all the time), and the variable time delay between sensation and perception. It is quite literally impossible to live in the present; our brains are modelling what it thinks must be the present by predicting how the world should be based on the most recent sensory input, but is in reality milliseconds in the past. And this ignores the fact that sensory input is itself filtered and incomplete at best.

I won't bring my own research into this, except to say that metacognition research would suggest that we all believe facts or theories about the world that simply cannot be true at all times. If that is the case, then how can we not be, at least to some extent, phony? At the same time, our counterfeitness of being in the world is exactly the same human experience that everyone shares, so if everyone is phony in the same ways, is anyone really phony?

The article gives two really good bits of advice. 1) "I think the more you know, the more you realize just how much you don't know." If you can bring yourself to understand that the disconnect between sensation, perception, and simulation exists, then you can also understand that you might not be absolutely correct in all situations. Embrace that, and be more humble. And 2) "Fake it til' you make it." Nothing to add there.

Anyway, I realize that my comment is a bit meta itself, but I couldn't help it, being the phony that I am. :)
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We ran into huge problems using Hibernate. Hibernate is such a complex beast and and includes so many traps that I think it's just not worth it, at least not when you don't have an absolute Hibernate expert on board.
In our case, people don't care, as long as it "works" - which of course causes a lot of performance problems down the road.

I'm not opposed to ORMs in general, but there has to be a middle ground.
The war started in 2014, following the Euromaidan protests, and the Russian invasion of Crimea.

Putin isn't crazy - he's coldly calculating, and clearly demonstrated his ruthlessness in Chechnya (which the world chose to ignore).
While on one hand it makes sense, as there’s tons of law-breaking, we need proper safety measurments to ensure this isn’t abused, to censor something what points out actual mistakes of government rather than hatespeech and alike.

And from there, comes another issue - who will moderate it? It’s already terrible on facebook/instagram, and it’s purely report-amount based (talking from my personal and acquaintances experience, from last ~3 years). I’ve personally had case, where I was replying to comment (direct translation, so excuse the french) „All fa*** should be hanged” - reporting it had no effect, yet my reply “want to do it yourself” was worth month-long ban, because it’s against their community guidelines.
I'd argue that most of modern economics does not make any sense in the
modern economy :)
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I hear that the plan is (roughly) to try and grow thin layers of something like silicon carbide (SiC) on top of silicon wafers.
If you want to play with DSP, I highly recommend just playing around with GNU Radio, it works well with audio frequencies, and can use your sound devices for I/O.

Finally understanding what a negative frequency really meant was an interesting shift in thought.
I strongly suggest not using TOTP, HOTP or similar MFA solutions based on a shared secret if security is important. It is basically the same as storing your password both at your provider and in your phone in cleartext. With SMS you have at least the possibility to do auditing when a token is generated.
Contrary to what the author and others have written, I would discourage wiring with single mode (SM). For ethernet the cost of modules and patches might not seem so significant, but structured fiber can be used for things other than ethernet, for which SM is vastly more expensive than multimode (MM). Think 4k display port for cinema/follow-me TV, although that is being replaced with SDVoE for 4k@60. However, you do want to use higher quality OM3 or OM4 MM cable (aqua or violet sheath). If required you can carry SM origin signals over OM3/4 by using a mode conditioning patch cable.

In terms of pulling, a lubed cable sock can get through lots of places, and save a ton on termination. Cablers often use a strip of yellow tongue (the nylon tongue on chipboard flooring panels) to poke through a run, and then run a conduit or pull cord. Pre terminated MPO/MPT (which is 12 core) and MPT breakout fans are very cheap in comparison to splicing. It's generally much cheaper to run more fiber than it is to run conduit so you can run more fiber.
If you have a workload that writes data quite frequently, then moving that data off to an external SSD is also a good way to extend the lifetime of the SD card.
Just played around with it, loving the concept so far... great work!

Feature request: dark mode setting :-)
separation of Big Tech vs Big Govt needs to the thought of like the separation of Church vs State in Medieval times - two poles must be kept separate, to divide power and avoid absolute control
Trump and friends were attempting to weaponize social media, and they were successful. They were causing harm in the real world. That’s why they were banned.
That sounds soo dirty though
Suits wanted Java because nirmies.
I've used both (OpenRC and systemd). I like the simplicity of OpenRC and still uses it on a few servers running on Gentoo, but on a laptop/desktop I think systemd is a better fit, having user services with user level logging for example.
Interesting, why is it that it's "so obviously inspired by the tactics of videogame football"? It sounds like a pretty good (albeit annoying) tactic for a real game. In European football it's actually very common for players to use stall tactics, and they don't even gain as much because there's no hard limit on how long the game lasts.
I was sold after a single session of writing a couple of dependent services. Logging, retries, cleanup. Everything was so ridiculously straightforward, rather than a bunch of bash hacks and lock files.

I have trouble believing that people who loath it so much have actually sat down to read the documentation.
I like the Nostr approach where "the data IS the network".

It is true that their current approach of having "relays" as their main distribution system is not that censor resistant, but once you have that "network in the data" it is trivial to switch at any point to swapping encrypted files or even USB-sticks with your friends if you want.

Has ActivityPub anything similar?

Edit: and this is not just important for distribution, but for archiving. How many interesting Twitter threads and Youtube videos have been lost in the ether unless you manually archived them? And even if you archived it nobody can't tell if they are the same as the originals. With Nostr you can solve this with clients that do archiving automatically, and all the links stay "fresh" and shareable as long as somebody keeps the data.
> skills may see a resurgence in value.

I think it is the opposite. I have almost as much experience as you, I started a little later, didn't get serious until my teens with 68k assembly language and custom chip programming on the Amiga 500. Not all nostalgia, some of it germane context.

I think it is important to have a mental model of the hardware so that the architecture of the program has some mechanical sympathy. But the ability to think abstractly is more important, that is what allows Moore's law to be realized. Our compute topology is changing and if the perf curve is to continue to be exponential, our code and more importantly the expression of our ideas has to be able to exercise 30B transistors today, and 150B in 8 years. Knowing how to compose neural networks is one of the new skills that is akin knowing how to shave off cycles in the 80s. Mod playback, Doom, Quake, mp3 decompression, emulation all redefined our relationship with computing.

The Amiga had this custom hardware for doing bitblits and sprite compositing, it could do these trippy multi-layered backgrounds that used parallax to give it an Arcade like 2.5D rendering (wow that sentence, not fixing it). These had a bunch of registers you had to muck with, I only ever called them from assembly, I knew C but it just felt more natural to do it in asm defined files. My point is, you can do the same things using some high level garbage collected code. In Python or JS, you could implement Quake, using naive algorithms. No asm, just regular code, no custom memory copying and compositing hardware, just assignment statements in a dynamic, GCd language.

A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engineering
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3466388

The programmer that can code an awesome parallax demo using numpy arrays is not going to be the next Carmack. The programmer that can compose 3-ai models to make something we have never thought of is going to make Quake or some other piece of software that changes our relationship with computing and Moore's law. Abstraction gets us there.
The textbook that we used in the course was this one:

https://www.amazon.com/Signal-Processing-First-James-McClell...

I don't think this is considered a fantastic book. The professor was simply amazing.
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