skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Building communities around ideas that damage the society as a whole and justify people's most extreme beliefs is just wrong.

The issue is that determining what is wrong isn't something we know how to do.

Capitalism and communism have both killed many many orders of magnitude more people than incels or trans hate, but we don't censor groups that advocate for communism even though it lead to tens of millions of deaths.

Sure, if we let them continue to speak they may convince everyone to stage a communist revolution and mass death results... But letting them speak is required to be able to tell whether actually they've finally figured out how to safely do communism and by banning them we may be causing needless suffering when we could be in the workers paradise!

One of the things so many fail to grasp is that speech and politics is actually really high stakes! Any given question like what the central bank interest rates should be for 2023 will lead to thousands of deaths at the scale of a big country! And yes, if you're completely convinced that they should definitely be 1.4% then censoring everyone who disagrees may save many lives... but implementing a mass censorship scheme on all high stakes conversation prevents you finding out the true and counterintuitive ideas.
None. All support requests are handled by a real person, who will hear you out and can be reasoned with.
This is how I became needle phobic and hospital phobic till I was an adult and I overcame it. I remember just the smell of hospitals would send me into severe anxiety.
I can empathize. I was the same way at first. What is it that you find confusing? Perhaps we can help clear it up or link you to helpful documentation (or improve our own docs).
Whenever you create a premise that both A and ~A are are true, you can base any argument for anything on it. How can a glue be both effective at waterproofing and ineffective at waterproofing?
The only one I know of would be the Galaxy S5.
I have a ZIF to M2 board in my iPod 5 and it chugs way too much power, unfortunately. It seemed as though the only viable option for "Solid state" drives on the ZIF connector in an iPod were via SD card converters. Will be nice to have another option.
Asynchronous game design is something that holds a lot of promise. Traditionally, that was something reserved for online multiplayer in PC games. But suddenly it was possible to design local coop around one player interacting with the game in a different way than the others. The idea is still really cool, but I think most devs are unwilling to experiment with such a niche product.
Beware: https://www.arin.net/resources/fees/fee_schedule/#rsp-servic...
> Only 2.4 of the 112.4 million spent was actually on maintaining the servers themselves. ... why?

You seem to be arguing that anything other than strictly server maintenance is wrong, immoral or unnecessary. I'm not sure why that would be the case.

I think people may be focusing on these high-level figures a bit too much. The Wikimedia website has other information about what it is they are actually doing.

> Wikipedia's donation drives make it look like "Donate to us to keep the servers running"

Fair enough, I can imagine how that could be an issue. As one opposed to such manipulations in general, a critique of the sort of messaging being used is something that I would welcome.

> Side note: Gish-gallop-style questions are note a conducive way of inviting conversations around a topic.

Thanks, I didn't know that term before. I used a string of blunt questions formatted in that way to be as clear as possible, and because it mirrored the form of the OP's comment.
Yeah maybe it’s realistic in hockey too :)

Re the article: yes, I understand their reasoning. But isn’t it like saying: if we were to become a greedy civilization THEN in the future we would think how good that we were early…
The whole OP is about disputing your theory, finding no evidence for it, finding many people involved in the early days of Internet/ARPAnet disputing it.
As I understand it, life is the result of organization created by a thermal incline or disparity between things:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-thermodynamics-theory-o...

This happens everywhere in the universe, so the basic process to cause organization is everywhere. We observe this in stars, galaxies, etc. We can then also hypothesize that if organization is everywhere, so are the "organic molecules" such as those found in nebulae or on asteroids. We also know that "organization begets organization" via self-replication: "vortices in turbulent fluids spontaneously replicate themselves by drawing energy from shear in the surrounding fluid". (quote from the 2014 article linked above)

This is such a fascinating subject that I get so much joy from studying! It seems like such a moot question about whether there is life elsewhere because we're neck deep in the stuff!

This doesn't provide any answers to the Fermi paradox, to be sure, but I think it does provide a very solid foundation upon which you can say "life is everywhere".
I always wonder whether blockchain was designed to survive this.
This seems like a tiny change that will affect basically no one except for celebs and politicians and corporations. Can anyone explain why this matters? So <insert wealthy individual or group here> will have to pay or lose a blue mark?
Good. The bluecheck right now is a combination of moral approval, connections and importance. Verifying identity is a service, it costs money, it's reasonable to expect people to pay for it, and to provide it to anyone willing to pay for it.
I give solarized a lot of credit. Before it came out I pretty much stuck with whatever default theme my application used. After using solarized I started caring about my tools much more. Today, I tend to use Darcula most of the time for IDEs, but I also spend much more time customizing my tools beyond just the theme.
I agree with you, but it seems to be a minority opinion among the general population here in Western Europe.

I meet a lot of people who think their life will be short and nasty if Russia drops a nuclear weapon over Ukraine (which, at a distance of 2000km, would affect us not at all).
A lot of the comments so far have been negative, so I’ll add a positive one: I think this was the right move, and I’m content (as an actual paying member) with it.

Kudos particularly for the well-laid-out position statement. Drew and I have extensive differences in opinion when it comes to software, but his sincerity and willingness to put his money where his mouth is are apparent in cases like this.
Some, probably yes. BUT - engineers are also humans, HN is not (99.9%) their job, and humans have social needs. If they are [stuck] trying to meet their human social needs on HN (& similar platforms)...then the oft-cynical/critical/pessimistic atmosphere here is really not gonna be good for their emotional health.

Back in the day, western society offered humans a far richer social life - neighborhoods, churches, formal & informal social & service clubs, etc. Now - those are, mostly, dying or gone, thanks to relentless capitalism and mass media. Families are far smaller and more fragmented. But the human needs which they met are still with us.
Fashion and mimicry
GE capital was a mistake IMO. I worry Apple might make the same mistake with Apple Card or whatever. Easy money in the short run, attracts the wrong kind of zero sum people in the long run (and takes away focus from engineering and building things of positive sum value)
It definitely helps to heat the phone for a bit to loosen up the gasket. We have a blue heat mat that helps with this, as do most repair shops.

I had to go back and look since my knowledge dates back to around the iPhone 4/4S (we've been running our shops since 2014.) Only the original iPhone was glued together. The gaskets started with the iPhone 6s, to my memory. The original gasket is peelable, so it typically gets destroyed when you open the phone, but they are cheap and pretty easy to replace. If you buy a DIY replacement iPhone screen, it will usually come with it.
No, Venezuelians were forced into cryptocurrency by a completely incompetent leader that thought that making your country based solely around gas was a sensible idea, and despite buying millions upon millions in various cryptocurrencies, has lost over 50% of their investment.

The bolivar is still hyperinflated, the Petro is still useless.
Sorry; I meant more polished features as much as more by count.
ClickHouse vs. Postgres
You can work on getting that law passed, but I don't think you'll have much support.
>(telsa's brake lights are triggered based on deceleration so they constantly flicker when you're just using regen a bit)

Thank the SAE (the de-facto regulators of this space since many laws are just pointers to their specs) for that. There's a spec for triggering brake lights based on how fast the car is decelerating. Depending on your regen setting you're probably right at the threshold.
The best general advice on earth
The same way you do with anything else that's waterproof and has removable batteries....You have a small rubber gasket.
It’s also an American organisation, and yet the WMF has a global remit.
Is it more to do with revenue size, or inflated headcount? How do these things compare to some other measure, like say market cap?
> Thousands of people who get paid billions of dollars mostly missed it.

Did they? In the 2007 sense? Where are the suicides? Where are any similar indicators? Anyone who didn't recognize the signals and the pressures being created is then highly overpaid.

But being overpaid seems to be what happens when you happen to be in the right place at the right time.

Regardless of what we don't know. We do know the income inequality gap keeps increasing. We do know more wealth is being concentrated in fewer hands. Well, we know this. Apparently the Fed likes to pretend otherwise.

Where is the data that says thousands missed it? Sure it might not be the super easy money model the Fed shamelessly provided. But I don't see anyone leaving Wall Street, etc. cause the compensation and opportunity sucks.
I'd love to have a glowing vial of tritium and I cannot find them on Amazon. The one site I can find says that it won't ship to the US without proof of an NRC license.
Is this something you think exists, or something that you're proposing? You're very cryptic.
Admittedly, I'd imagine Twitter tech, while no doubt decent and battle-tested, isn't super hard to replicate (famous last words).
Not when you count the DX of the backend developers. Good luck making a performant GraphQL backend that doesn't suffer the N+1 problem, and have fun whitelisting the GraphQL queries produced by your frontend, because attackers will be supplying their own queries with no regards to performance.
Could you give some examples of these things, please? All waterproof hardware I have ever owned (phones, cameras, flashlights, watches, etc) doesn't have user-replaceable batteries. In all cases the batteries need to be replaced by a specialized shop and the waterproofness is tested afterwards in a special machine - and it's not always a success and the job needs to be redone.

Note that there is a significant difference between "water resistance" and "waterproofness".
> I would argue that if your "graphical user interface" doesn't involve any actual graphics

It does GUI, according to most common understandings of the term. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_user_interface:

> The GUI (/ˌdʒiːjuːˈaɪ/ JEE-yoo-EYE[1][Note 1] or /ˈɡuːi/[2] GOO-ee), graphical user interface, is a form of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons and audio indicator such as primary notation, instead of text-based UIs, typed command labels or text navigation.

Unless you want to argue that being capable of rendering images isn't "graphical".

> Zenity can't do any actual graphics, just text you can point at with a mouse.

It does scrollbars, progress sliders (also animated if you want), buttons, images, lines, boxes, maybe more stuff.

None of those are plain text.

TBH, I'm confused by your complaint - you wanted an easy way to produce simple GUI applications. Hardly anyone would consider a paint program a simple application, nor do most people consider a file open dialog as a text interface.
Not when you constantly struggle to fix crappy tech products designed with planned obsolecense in mind. You're lucky to not have dealt with that, I suppose.
Opinionated, but objectively not unrealistic, unreasonable or arbitrary.

There has been a clear statement made about the reasons for these actions and they are obviously realistic, reasonable and specific. You just don’t agree with them.
> iPhone batteries are also not glued in.

I haven't opened one myself since the 5S but that sticky substance that holds down the battery, while it might not be "glue" in a strict technical sense, adheres the battery to the case rather firmly. It's totally reasonable for someone to say that's "glue". This is especially true if they end up deforming the battery when removing it.

I think it all boils down to reparability. Just doing the basics (disassembly, and part replacement) with these assemblies take A LOT more practice and skill than the vast majority of people are generally prepared for.

Does it have to be this way? I think that's the key question. There's ultimately trade-offs between having something that's easy to work on vs something sleek and thin vs something that's affordable vs something that's performant. As consumers we are at the mercy of "genius designers" to decide those trade-off's for us. Personally, I don't mind having my phone be a nightmare to repair as long as it does the job I need it do and I can pay somebody to fix it if that's prudent. With other things, like appliances (that don't have borderline microscopic parts), I really want something that has a service manual.
Unexamined phrase based development is the true root of all evil.
BGP blackholeing is used routinely.
Since someone is paying me, presumably someone finds my output useful.

Does anyone think another book report on Anne of Green Gables is useful?

When I was doing alumni interviews I reserved the top rating exclusively for applicants that had ever had a real job. Not three weeks allegedly building houses in Central America, not an internship for well connected teens, only things like flipping burgers. That’s meritorious.
I understand your frustration, but this is not arbitrary: we've outlined a specific niche and clearly stated our reasons for banning it, and set aside a means for projects to appeal.

I am an opinionated person, and perhaps you find some of my opinions unrealistic or unreasonable. However, SourceHut is handled separately from my personal opinions and governed by clear and well-defined values which are much narrower than my personal beliefs.
There are people here who seem to take the view that businesses hosting the content of others ought to absolutely protect their "freedom of speech", no matter the content. I disagree. Some things are harmful to the lives of those around us, and just as the private individual can cast a social/cultural vote against this harmful thing by refusing to engage with it and support it, a business can cast a vote in the same way against the thing its maintainers see as harmful. Inaction is also political, and I think acting according to your values is better than pretending to be a bystander.

Put yourself in the maintainers' shoes — would you be happy to idly stand by when you know your service is being used to actively harm others' lives? [^1] Perhaps you would, and if so, I would be interested in hearing your view.

Let's also not forget that, even if you disagree with sr.ht's stance, you can still freely benefit from the thousands of hours of work put into SourceHut by self-hosting it for whatever project you want. Therefore, I think the maintainers' work should be applauded regardless of your take on this post.

[^1]: This is, of course, assuming the view that cryptocurrency nearly universally causes societal harm; some people may disagree with this, but this is a separate question.
I have no comment about the main article, but I agree about the other unrelated point below - that Commons is really start to show its age.

It’s kind of comical how YouTube and flickr is listed there as the “new boys on the block”, but I agree that there should be more development on making Commons easier to use.

Try to upload photos to Commons… they don’t even have phone apps and using the web uploader is really cumbersome.

(I also hate wikidata with a passion, but it seems like there is a push for this Semantic Web nonsense from the very top of wikimedia so what am I gonna do)
Again, completely unfounded speculation about aliens, about as illuminating as the Drake equation (not at all, actively misleading).
no snarkyness intended
There seem to be 2 points of view here. One technical (sensors and the algorithms), one organisational (people and teams working on the problem).

My understanding is that by focusing on fewer things (vision only), they bet to make progress faster because of the simplified organisational aspect.
There is a great argument for having ultrasonic sensors and radar in a recent video by Rayan from FortNine discussing two fatal accidents involving tesla autopilot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRdzIs4FJJg
GraphQL has a DataLoader (to avoid N+1) and query complexity utilities to avoid those issues.
Like most things in the current year, most of it amounts to jobs programs for university graduates of dubious usefulness, and patronage systems for political machines.
My point was that it’s easy for them to ban cryptocurrencies and NFTs while saying that it’s for the good of the users, while they themselves keep supporting almost identical things on their platform. They only difference being that Valve gets a cut of the non-NFT transactions
> But how then does people working from home logon to their AD joined computers?

I work in this exact type of environment. Your laptop is joined to the domain in office before being sent to you. You can of course logon to the laptop even though it cannot connect to the domain. You just have to connect to the VPN and domain periodically to get gp updates if there is some mandatory software it'll install when you connect. So you connect to the VPN after you logon locally.

You also have to connect to the domain to change your password.

> Those servers have been exposed to the internet because if they weren't the organizations using them would be forced to solve the chicken and egg problem of how to authenticate the users against an authentication server they cannot access without authentication.

No you can logon to a computer with your domain credentials even when it's not connected to the domain.
It did? I never noticed performance issues with breath of the wild
maybe if wikimedia gave more money to development and less to random grants, it would be better. but I don’t know. This community stuff is always hard to pull off.
its a simple game. you fly horizontally across the screen and shoot enemies. if you look at the git source you will see that there is alot of code, alot. mostly loops and call backs. much more complicated than the simplicity of the game. so i imagine when the hard parts of the game are implemented the code is literally going to explode.
Honest question: Is anybody using perl for new projects? We have a medium (~100k) codebase written in perl and are actively working to convert it to python.
I don't know why everybody just accepts the idea that Humans will leave the solar system one day. I think we're doomed.
Personally I know very little about brazil. Botflies mean I will never ever go there. Canadian here, and I would say our media represents Bolsonaro quite poorly. LGBT rights aren't even on the table(middle-east like), and he's actively going the other direction on women's rights.

I believe i recall him also looking to 'send in the military and kill all those who protest' something along those lines. This was in comparison to Canada's banning of protests and simply arresting all the lawful protestors. Under the same vein, having not followed the same lockdowns for covid he was committing crimes against humanity.

I do believe he was pro-putin and ukraine war. In that he was providing support to russia, but no direct military support? Kind of like what the west is doing for ukraine. I get this, BRICs is a thing.

Here's the thing, you dont have to tell me the above is inaccurate. Canadian political media is extremely biased. Curious if you agree with any of this?
I don't mean to be rude, but you were the one who brought up QAnon
To the author and everyone who might think the way he does:

Here are a couple of rules I have found true and are actually really basic.

- No one owes you anything not attention, not money, not food, not land, not bandwidth, not domain name, not peering agreements, nothing.

- Access to everything in the above list is predicated on not being an asshole, because if you are an asshole, you are going to be shunned in the best of cases.

Finally if you can't find hosting, peering whatever, setup your own ISP and peer with Jim Watkins, I am sure you are going to love each other.
> They prohibit people from editing who believe child sexual activity isn't harmful[1],

From the linked page:
> Wikipedia does not tolerate inappropriate adult–child relationships. Editors who attempt to use Wikipedia to pursue or facilitate inappropriate adult–child relationships, who advocate inappropriate adult–child relationships on- or off-wiki (e.g. by expressing the view that inappropriate relationships are not harmful to children), or who identify themselves as pedophiles, will be blocked and banned indefinitely.

Looks pretty sane to me? If it's only one "party" that draws this line, what are those that don't?
I find these highly speculative theorizing about hypotheticals to really be a pointless exercise. At this point it's so abstract and theoretical, that positing a creator seems just as valid as positing what types of civilizations may be out there. Why should different forms of life follow some general pattern? Maybe there is life out there, and maybe we're the odd ones out.
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Proof of stake is a perpetual motion machine.
The point is not that they're bad/good - the point is that Wikipedia is presenting us with heartfelt pleas to keep the servers running, while also running a massive budget surplus and donating our money to other people who we've never heard of.

And the lack of transparency makes corruption incredibly likely. How much of the donated money has been siphoned off to the bank accounts of Wikimedia executives? How many grants have been awarded because of kickbacks, bribes, etc? I have no evidence that any of this has happened, but there is no evidence it didn't, either.

There are basic, simple, good governance practices that are being ignored here. Which is very suggestive that the people involved are actually corrupt and resisting the implementation of good governance practices.

Also, the ongoing pleas for donations when those donations are clearly not required is very suggestive. Why are Wikimedia executives asking for this money when they don't need it, if they're not siphoning off into their own accounts?
Hm, I do not see any definition of "blockchain technologies" in the new ToS. Will that be added? My understanding of "blockchain" is that for example git could be described as a application of blockchain technology.

First question: Will there be further clarification regarding what is the precise definition?

Second question: If there will be some HW accelerator thingie or something for blockchain technologies or cryptocurrency, and the driver for that gets merged into upstream linux kernel, will that make linux kernel un-hostable on sourcehut? If not, why not?