skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> their job description is literally taking money in order to influence people

I mean, that's literally just a descirption of marketing, right? Or Public Relations. Taking money to influence people? It's a whole industry.

What an influencer brings to it is that they use one person's own personal likeness as a 'brand'... and try not to disclose the extent to which they are getting paid for marketing and/or PR. Which yeah, takes an already suspicious industry and makes it both more so and more... pathetic, if that's the right word. Most attempted "influencers" are struggling/hustling without making a ton of money, but even those who are successful seem just in a sad place to me.
IME, Lenovo service is sufficient reason to stay away from Lenovo.
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>Tesla did not respond to Reuters' request for comments. Tesla says on its website that its driver assistance systems "require active driver supervision and do not make the vehicle autonomous."

What a curious thing to read from a company offering functionality they refer to as "Full Self-Driving".
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Iran to send weapons including ballistic missiles to Russia to use in Ukraine
It looks promising, but why does it flicker every time I input a key? Using WSL & Terminal.
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Yeah, the whole thing was totally uncalled for IMHO. I couldn't care less about HMR speed atm, when there are far worse plagues infesting the ecosystem.
Have been looking for something like this! Alltrails and many other products (even paid Pro, which i have) is total garbage. There is a huge market for a great offline-first hiking/exploring maps app.
No amount of algorithms can improve human behavior on any platform.

You can definitely make human behavior worse using an algorithm just by pushing content that provokes negative reactions in as many people as possible. I don't see why the opposite wouldn't be true. If the algorithm pushed uncontroversial content into people's timelines and didn't reward hateful crap they might get happier. Maybe Elon will give that a try!
I've seen so many interesting password manager solutions over the years, but I have yet to move away from a Keepass file hosted on cloud storage. I can read and write to it using apps from every device I use: windows and linux PCs, iOS and Android devices. The file is versioned so accidentally clobbering it isn't a concern. There is zero maintenance, and if my home server goes down my passwords are unaffected. If I'm going somewhere without internet and need a backup mechanism of getting to my passwords, I can copy the database onto a memory stick.
It always makes me happy to see Smokey Yunick's name come up on HN. It doesn't happen very often[1], but he was clearly a "hacker" as much as any programmer or computer science guy was!

[1]: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Thanks! Yep the southern end has some good hills. I think even many people who grew up here aren't aware of this trail but it is a good one with some beautiful views. It's part of a larger 160 mile trail system that many people in the region use to train for the Appalachian Trail.
Falcon9 launched Starlink, without which the course of the Ukraine war might have been significantly different.

There's also the plan to pull CO2 from the atmosphere to create rocket fuel.
https://labusinessjournal.com/manufacturing/aerospace/big-pl...

There's the Dragon 2, the only US human space vehicle in operation, as the Space Shuttle has been retired in 2011 due to expenses and safety issues. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Dragon_2
I'll chime in here, since I'm building one. Twitter does one thing that I opted to change--everything is public. The short-form, low-effort, public posting that defines twitter leads to a platform that promotes trolling over discourse. Haven[1] instead promotes private discourse where every post is private.

It's fully decentralized in that everyone runs their own instance, but with all open protocols (RSS), it would be trivial for someone to build a centralized/federated instance that can still interoperate. The open protocol which enables a decentralized model is the most important part of that decision.

With RSS as the protocol, you get interoperability with every blog ever for free. Combine private posting with public content and you get something really neat--the ability to have private conversations about public content all on the platform.

You also get an elegant solution to free-speech vs civility. No public content means no discovery so you'll never see anything from a source you didn't explicitly opt-in to. No trolls and no spam.

Arguably, this is more of a Facebook alternative than a Twitter alternative but I still think it is a very valuable approach to creating more civility in our broader society.

[1]: https://havenweb.org
Agree with all of this but not sure how it relates to the point I was making.
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GDP can grow with a stable population if your Real gross domestic product per capita is growing which it has been for the USA [0]. Japans has barely grown for the past 30 years which is their big problem [1].

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[1]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/NYGDPPCAPKDJPN
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Starlink? Not sure it would be economically viable without reusing a good deal of equipment
Pff, my current Twitter feed is informational with the current events.

What happened during Trump was an idiotic shit storm which i hope can be blocked easily ( i do follow us politics somewhat, but not that kind of idiocracy).
New study pinpoints genetic mechanism linking dopamine to schizophrenia
> what technological choices would I make to get it quickly off the ground but allow for scale?

Wrong question. End users don't give a shit about your tech stack. You should be thinking of requirements and features.
How much of this is just the hacker news demographic skewing perceptions? For a lot of people here, it makes far more sense to hire someone to do home maintenance while you continue to work on a well-paid technology job. Doing a lot of home repair is a hobby/choice, not something you're doing out of necessity.
You are right. I got so excited I missed it. I will play with it a little more to see if I can get it to make similar statements. It does not change that it is really impressive, but you absolutely have a point.
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If you need to run (very) old software, just don't update to the latest OS. Just keep the machine off any networks and you don't need to be concerned about security patches or lack thereof.
I recommend Hiking project
I think that’s an illusion. The last 50 years of modern computing have proven without a doubt that global energy consumption will far outpace improvements in performance/watt that come with each generation of cpus.

Any improvement in energy usage is wiped out by more kinds of and ever faster gadgets: Desktop computers followed by mobile phones, every possible sized tablet screen, voice assistance speakers, voice assistance speakers with screens, smart watches, smart lights, smart vacuum cleaners, drones, and so on. And with all these smart devices, we have more and more data, which we then need AI to make sense/use of in order to develop new or more useful things. It’s a never ending cycle.

VR and AR never arriving to the mainstream would possibly be true. But our lives are already great today without that.
I ran an official fan site once, for an EA title of all things. Doing this I learned some neat tricks to limit the amount of administration required. One thing that stuck was that there is a huge benefit to maintaining a specific section for garbage posts.

Sticky threads existed titled: Potentially offensive/spam? Post it here.

Everyone used it and followed the very few rules of the spam board. I rarely had to move anything. People would even use links to their rants as replies to regular threads, clearly identified so that people could avoid it if they wanted.

I also did the same for another hobby forum I ran in highschool. With 3 mods and one other admin we were able to keep a forum completely clean for years with ~2 million monthly unique visitors.

I do believe Twitter is about to do something similar.
Last time twitter news was all over the place was during its blue whale interrupts.
Estimating Labor Market Power
Works great until the Vary configuration on your CDN accidentally drops that.
Just add the same features but focus on a Reddit like format with communities.
Yes, mission profile required it to use all of its fuel to reach the target.
I have long been an advocate against systemd for the typical reasons (overreaching responsibilities, lock-in, lack of choice, software assumption "it will be there", complexity, driven by large corporate interests [see lock-in], being modeled after launched, etc etc). I feel like the chickens are coming home to roost.

That said, if one wants to use it, then use it. However, there are alternatives which I would love to see receive more adoption. I've been extremely happy with my Artix [1] system running s6 [2] init.

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2. https://skarnet.org/software/s6/
There is a lag between the service being available and missions being planned to use it. The US government is finally starting to see the light and is presently benefiting from lower costs and better performance compared to legacy providers. Starlink wouldn't have been possible without this, both competitive constellations are considering using SpaceX for launch services too. This area alone is providing incredible value to humanity already but also doesn't require human capabilities.
I think it's probably hard to distinguish what you truly "agree with" if your income relies on agreeing with it. You can avoid shilling for things you truly know are just out and out scams (although it will make your career harder, sure, before you are successful enough to call the shots yourself), but you have a lot of interest in convincing yourself you like the things that pay you. Reminds me of the well-known Upton Sinclair quote “It's difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on not understanding it."

But if there are some influencers that make it very clear on all social media that it's a "paid placement", that they are getting paid to shill for the thing -- then I would definitely have a lot more respect for those folks. I'm not sure this is possible though? it would definitely make your "job" a lot harder, and that is telling.

But I don't necessarily want to demonize influencers; I more feel sorry for them, most of whom are hustling without making a ton of money. But the whole thing seems very sordid to me.
Sorry, did you say "this computer that only cost me $150 a year but allowed me to test and deploy for its platform on native hardware was a waste of money"? Because it kinda sounds like the completely opposite?

As a counter anecdote, I've done this three times for macs so far, and all of those still work for their intended purpose. The 2011 model even survived overheating due to user error and fried its internal graphics cables but works fine with an external monitor. And sure, they're all stuck on whatever their respective latest operating systems are, but that's fine: they're test/compile machines, not daily drivers. And not all of them: in 2022 the oldest realistic mac target you're looking at is the 2015 macbook pro (i.e. "the good one", that even today's models can still take design lessons from).

And here's the best part: if something in them breaks, replacing the entire machine is only a few hundred bucks. Which you don't have to: you just need to buy a "for parts" with the bits you need still working. Any model that's still being used in the wild still has a decent sized for parts market. You can tell when the world stops using a model when the parts dry up.
When I'm using PowerShell as a shell, I use all the aliases and shortcuts.

When I'm using PowerShell as a scripting environment, I use the full name for every command and parameter, and even include the names of positional parameters.

I love that it can do both.
Judging by the shuttle era and our lack of ability to even launch Americans into space for the last decade thanks to failed programs that have come since, I think it’s a matter of how much worse this program would be.
Very nice work! Sleek interface. I'll need to field test it soon ;)

Have you by any chance also evaluated MapLibre (https://maplibre.org/) as an alternative to Leaflet. I'm just wondering if anyone has any insights on how they compare. I use MapLibre for one of my side-projects [1].

What are you using as source for height data (I see the curve colors represent the altitude). I've noticed that one of the most commonly used datasets [SRTM](https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/products/srtmgl1v003/) has some deviation compared to OSM data in high latitudes. E.g. some peak locations from OSM don't match to the contour lines from SRTM. But I have never found any further infos about this.

[1] https://cubetrek.com
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I don’t think “I don’t think it suffers from inherent problems” is a universal opinion:

https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-where-did-tweet...

Also, people talk about the bot problem like non-stop, including the new owner.
My experience with Twitter Blue was that, quite frequently, the "ad-free articles" were still behind a paywall and inaccessible. So very little of value is being lost here.
Depends on what you consider it's mission objective. If you consider it a jobs program that we happen to get a rocket out of, it's an astounding success. If you consider it a rocket program it's an abject failure.

To give you an example of why it's a jobs program and not a rocket program. Congress forced NASA to build a multimillion dollar testing facility they never intended to use for the SLS nor for any other rocket NASA has.
Someone recently posted a link to an IEEE story about the upcoming 50th anniversary of Pong. I'm slightly too young to remember Pong in bars in the early 70s, but old enough to have fond memories of when my dad bought this for the family one Xmas. I have very fond memories about the feel of the controls, not great memories about the game play. I thought it was worth a shout-out for those of us who remember it, and worth an introduction for those who don't.
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Funny tidbit, sure. Basically "[made] from shit and sticks".
You need to assume abortion is murder to be against it.

If I went to an Animal Shelter every day, got a cat or a dog and then painlessly killed it when I got home no one would call me a murderer. A monster maybe but not a murderer.

Everyone thinks that we owe dogs and cats a certain amount of respect. We acknowledge that sometimes we have to kill them but we're trying to create a world we do not have to do that.

My problem is with people who are so eager to preserve their freedom of action if they one day want to kill their dog that they will not concede that doing that is something we all want to avoid. That the question we're discussing is not if it's right but how exactly we should go about making sure it doesn't ever have to happen.

I understand there is a fear that people who kill their pets will be put in jail - and that lead to people getting hurt. Or that if we don't pay for people to have their pets killed then only rich will people will be able to kill their cats. It's possible to look at this from different angles and come to what might seem strange conclusions - I just don't think we should lose sight of the fundamentals.
How is HN viable? There is zero revenue only cost right?