skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We mostly assumed things would be better because we assumed the net would be 'information'.

The military, academia, government, business are 'conscientious' culture who assume people act rationally.

But go to the drug store and look at the magazines: games, sports, sex, porn, gossip, celebrities, fashion, vacations etc..

And that's the 'above bar' stuff - now you have to add in all the things people are interested in that's not 'regulated' by social mores of 'what can be in a magazine'.

The internet is a 'giant ball of noise' that are are thoughts, and it's mostly not about knowledge, civility etc.

Even as people have access to 'information' they don't want to access it, often they prefer to live in a bubble of someone telling them what they want to hear.

So the web is a bit like 'everyone's voices being raised very loudly, some more than others' and that's that.

There is 'some' information in there, but even then it's still hard to parse through the noise. Even in ultra conscientious culture we debate about what reality is.

Take heart: I really do believe that 2022 might be the start of a 'post noise' era. Every one of us realizes that we've been duping ourselves a bit. We all know Instagram and LinkedIn are a bit vapid, Facebook is a bit rubbish, TikTok is meaningless, Cable News is into flame wars. We continue to use them for their nominal value but I really believe we are bit sick of it. Even the 'ultra digital native' Gen Y are tuning out a bit.

It's here to stay obviously but I think we are developing a new relationship with it.
wow.. after subsidies, i paid for 5120Wp panel + 5kwh inverter+installation+earthing for EUR 2222 approx 2 years ago.
$7k tends to be on the higher end, but it ends up fluctuating wildly

When he releases a new version, people pay attention and donate. When he takes time to introduce fun features that drive excitement, people don't donate because he doesn't release.

He occasionally adds a gentle ask for donations at the end of his progress blogposts, and it seems more like a guy who hates having to ask and would prefer to ignore money - which also seems like his entire personality.
How about a version of copilot that only learns from your personal career codebase? Or perhaps only works based on a company's internal codebase? That would remove any legal ambiguity.

If these templates are as common as you suggest, it seems learning from your personal codebase should get the job done.
I focus on regular vigorous exercise, minimizing processed food consumption, and avoiding alcohol entirely. These are things I try to do year round, but extra emphasis helps me during the fall and winter.
Substituting Arial by Helvetica is the ultimate expression of pointless counterproductive font snobbery.

If you really want to do the world some good, substitute by something that

a) isn't boring and overused

b) isn't almost indistinguishable from what you're substituting

c) isn't non-free with onerous licensing terms especially when used in the web

d) isn't worse and unoptimized for screen, non-print purposes

Now queue the font snobs' complaints ;)
In case people read this comment as "the EU is spending €20M on hosting a mastodon": no.

The EDPS does a lot more. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Data_Protection_Sup...
I really enjoyed your writing.
Knuth’s section on binary search in The Art of Computer Programming is enlightening. One historical curiosity that he notes is that it took something like a decade from the discovery of the algorithm to an implementation that was correct for all inputs.

I briefly tried using binary search as a weeder problem and quickly abandoned it when no one got it right.
> she told me to stop worrying about it because I'm not responsible for fraud.

I'd start asking to be reimbursed for the time I have to waste on dealing with the fraud then.
Yeah that can be an issue since you basically only have 2-3 years left to have kids if you want them and are a woman.

Also 90k ain’t what it used to be. It’s probably equivalent to 60k 3-4 years ago.
I've used a Philips lamp designed for SAD. Starting my day by waking before sunrise and spending ≈15 minutes with the lamp to one side, I found my energy, alertness, and mood improved.
> Putin clearly stated he has no such intentions

If Putin told me the sky was blue, I'd go outside and check. To describe Putin's relationship with the truth as "tenuous" would be far more generous than he deserves.
We are social creatures and I absolutely believe in community and helping each other. My issue is that other people want to use the state to solve all of their favored issues, and fund this by stealing from citizens such as myself. It’s especially bad because the recent vintage of politicians exclusively attack the rich and pretend that purely by stealing from them all the money can be found, when instead they should be advocating for shared sacrifice by all to achieve their aims. It’s class warfare mixed with naivety and it’s lies because the rich are far more nimble and able to avoid such taxes than the demagogues believe. They don’t advocate for broad tax increases because then their “something for nothing” mantra falls apart and suddenly their solutions are far less popular.

In terms of Catholicism I’m not sure there is a lot of writing specifically about how the tech industry and it intertwine. I believe that if you are a healthy individual and have nothing preventing you from working then it is your duty to be a productive member of society to help your family, friends, and those around you. The whole point of the teaching and faith is that it’s universal and timeless - doesn’t matter if we are peasants 1000 years ago or on a space ship 1000 years into the future. Just because I’m in technology doesn’t change anything or make me different from a janitor, doctor, or craftsmen.

In terms of technology for myself I see writing software as not dissimilar to constructing buildings or bridges - it’s an act of creativity that creates something out of nothing and I find beauty in the systems produced. If you are curious about Catholicism or something inside of you is seeking answers it may be worth reaching out to your local parish, they are always happy to chat.
My public policy idea is that we should limit bars & restaurants to serving customers 3 drinks, and also have a mandatory cover charge to get in. I think it's rather strange that we that we have these licensed, socially acceptable centers right in the middle of a downtown commercial district where it's basically normal that people get blackout drunk and commit crimes every weekend, year in and year out. If people have a serious drinking problem, they're free to get drunk in the privacy of their own homes or a private party- just not at a licensed, regulated facility in public.

It might not work, I realize this! And yes yes I'm sure people have their Prohibition analogy ready to go. I just think it's worth trying, and also within the power of any individual town or city to experiment with (there are already dry towns and counties all over the US)
> SHA256 checksums do not verify the authenticity of the downloaded software

Well after googling for various SHA256 sums, and seeing many results that other people have got, it is at least some peace of mind. Then you know you aren't targeted specifically. There are 'known good' hashes of things like Windows ISOs for example, so you can install a clean 'untouched' Windows that isn't trojanized or laden with malware.

I am aware that simply seeing 100s of the same sum on various sites doesn't mean the executable is 'clean', it just means you weren't MITM'd specifically and targeted with malware that is baked into the executable/ISO/installer/whatever.
Wasn't it the idea of Musk to give everyone on Twitter absolute freedom of (amplification of) speech?
Also, unironically, r/HydroHomies, it has been my drink of choice in social settings for a few years now. That and coffee.
FOSS Weekly – Linux Lite 6.2, Mozilla Ventures, Rust 1.65, Grafana's New Tools
This is an unfortunate truth. The physiology of how methylphenidate and dextroamphetamine work in the mid brain allows the brain to "correct" for the solution, sadly. You will need to work with experts to properly manage your medicines. I have used ritalin/Concerta and tried Strattera, catapres, SSRIs, etc. Only stimulants worked. The hardest part is that the government forces you to not use drug holidays--Yay government....so helpful.
Shirley Temples and Rob Roys
I'm curious to know what you still need to pull out a hardware vt420 terminal for!
Agreed. The printing press is probably the second-most socially transformative development in the history of human kind, right after fire.

Tribalism and feudalism reigned for a millennium from either the death of Theodosius or Odoacer deposing the last emperor, depending on how you measure it. The invention of the printing press in the late 15th century led to an explosion of communication and education.

Perhaps most importantly, it arrived at a time when the Medici-funded artistic and humanist influences were at their peak, allowing those ideas to spread until they led to the Renaissance.

The idea that a new, cheap, fast global network of communication (the Internet) at the same time as a major global cultural moment (the collapse of communism and the end of the Cold War) could lead to a flourishing of democracy, humanism, and reason... was not unprecedented. And it's not entirely clear that it failed, either.
Moore's Law was already known about. Techno-optimists especially expected something even more dramatic. I have a cybernetics encyclopedia for childrens written in the 80's (or was it late 70's ?) that discusses neural networks in one chapter, and in another Moore's Law including some scifi projections of the expected computer power (IIRC fairly accurately) and new computer types like optical/photonic and organic computers (IIRC too optimistic, though they were careful to not give a precise timetable).

For the 90's look up terms like "the global village" and also maybe Charles Stross' Accelerando for a differently optimistic viewpoint :

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelera...
Legalize Cannabis!
Shout out to Lagunitas Hop Water. Also Trader Joe's just started carrying it.
I feel that it’s so simple that many people will overlook that it even exists. In languages that have both, it’s hard for functions to compete with operators. I don’t think that this is the best design to promote correctness.
Astro physicist Johnathan McDowell[1] was tracking it. I doubt the Cotes d'Ivoire did an official investigation due to their general lack of funds, and China denies that the Long March can even reenter the atmosphere so they didn't go check it out. Here's another story that references local reports[2]. An article from Ars quoting the US Space Force confirming entry over the Atlantic headed toward Cotes d'Ivoire[3].

What more do you want?

[1] https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1260222397350887425

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/13/21256484/china-rocket-deb...

[3] https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/05/large-chunks-of-a-ch...
I’m not sure if this comment is a jab at the unwashed masses but you did leave out another group, corporations. BBS Sysops, and people that were putting up web sites in the mid 90s weren’t doing it for money. It wasn’t until the cult of money got involved and turned the internet into a giant direct marketing platform that things began to get really bad.
Is the signature even necessary? As I said, an opaque bearer token is considerably simpler. Generate as many as you need for whatever services you're running to limit the damage of a leak. Set server-side policies for expiration or whatever else.
How very disingenuous of you. Anyone who paid attention knows that the issue was the conspiracies surrounding that event, which are most definitely not “100% true”.

Even today, it’s not “100% proven” that the laptop did belong to Hunter Biden.

So the goal was to curtail misinformation, which is clearly needed for folks like yourself.
First, congratulations! Being a dad is an amazing life experience. Only two insights to offer from 29 years experience:

1) Spend as much unstructured time as possible. “Quality time” is not schedulable.

2) Provide your child with age-appropriate decisions to make. Turning out a young adult who can evaluate situations/opportunities/problems and make good decisions takes years. Ask “what would you do?” and “what did you learn?”
the real issue is “what is the probability of human injury or death?” Is it 1% per launch? 0.01% 0.000001%

The area of the earth’s surface occupied by humans (not their stuff, but the people themselves) is around 8000 km^2 (1m^2 per person) out of a total Earth surface area of 510 million km^2. so the probability is around 1.6E-5 or 0.0016% per launch. This obviously doesn’t account for the specific trajectory or population distribution, but gives us a rough order of magnitude.

I would prefer they didn’t do it also, and it definitely loses them international good will - but it’s a pretty low (but non-zero) risk.

[typo corrected]
Spanish has a similar amount of tenses, some expressed in inflections, others through auxiliary verbs. Spanish doesn't have the obsession with the gerund ("I go home" is fine), but has (im)perfect past, plusquam perfect, and future tenses, combinations (no habría pensado: wouldn't have thought) and conditionals in all, just like English. They just don't correspond 1-1.

The subjunctive in English is a bit of joke in comparison to the Spanish one.
Politicians: “No, of course we don’t want war with X”

The think tankers they fund: “Kill them all”
> Blue collar folk is another story altogether.

Around these parts of the world blue collar (and former blue collar) work has got the very end of the stick for the last 20-30 years now, I can't blame them.
Good work! I stopped drinking two years ago. After year one of the pandemic, I came to the realization that alcohol brought zero positives and many negatives to my life. Being in lockdown with few options to go to pubs provided the space to make the break.

My local friends are all moderate to heavy drinkers, but they also respect my choice and it’s not awkward to be the only one not drinking. If you don’t have a friend group which respects your choice, try to find social groups based around an activity. Otherwise it could be very difficult.

Best of luck on your journey.
Deaths from other drugs also rose sharply in the last few years, associated with the pandemic and the lockdowns. Alcoholism does seem to be a bit of a slower burn because it's a lot harder to overdose on.
If you consider A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace as singularly representative of the zeitgeist "back then"... Yes, everyone was stupid, in the same manner that love can be stupid. Humanity never gave up on love, and I hope it never gives up on starry-eyed idealism; it can lead to dogmatic and authoritarian horrors, but some of the ideals may enhance the fabric of society and make it a little less savage. Less of the former and more of the latter, please, if possible. The process is slow and uneven, and personally, I'm not too hopeful, but I still prefer faint hope to unrelenting cynicism.

(What's strange about A Declaration... is that it came a decade after Neuromancer and two years after Eternal September. You may choose to doubt the predictive power of dystopian fiction, but the reality check of the influx of participants outside of the pretty exclusive early-internet club should be much harder to overlook. That document managed to disregard both. It was strangely anachronistic even at the moment.)
Who is running current 5k servers? Same kind of people.

http://demo.fedilist.com/instance?q=&ip=&software=mastodon&r...
Paywall. Welp, guess I'm not reading that one!
I'm qurious when you would say your birthtime? I don't even know mine.
Nope.

The mistake we made, one that we continue to make, is conflating human communication and social interaction with just moving bits around.

We thought the net would be great because we have these bits other people might want. Let's share them! They can learn to grow better crops, ease the world of oppression, and so on.

We still think that, it's just now we've arrived at "Sending bits around is great! But they need to be the _right_ bits"

I think anybody back then would have agreed too. No stupidity required, just a misunderstanding of how progressive societies actually operate. If we had been approached with this problem in these words back then, we would have said something like "But that's not a tech problem"

Well, maybe some stupidity was at play. But heck if anything's changed.
Why not?

Looking back at the beginning of war, had Ukraine fell in days… I don’t see West actively trying to stop Russia in Baltics and Poland. Russians would have had super high morale while West would have been in 100% panic mode trying to keep business as usual going. Tiny annoyances in the middle be damned.
We've been using copper.com for the past 7 years or so internally, and implementing it into companies for just about that long too.

The easy recommendation that we give to people is:

1. Using Google Workspace? Use Copper.

Why? There's no other CRM on the market that integrates as deeply. Add a contact and it will go back and entire year into all of your team's emails and log any of them that were sent in the past to that contact. Most all other CRM's do that day moving forward.

It also syncs all files sent via email and aggregates them all on the person record and all the people from the same company's files to the company record, allowing you to easily find all the files you sent to XYZ, without doing anything. The Google Workspace integrations are like magic.

2. Using O365? Use Pipedrive (sometimes recommend Hubspot, but it has many issues and gets wildly expensive quickly).

Now to be fair, Hubspot is often what people end up landing on when they are thinking about getting Salesforce, and that's fine, Hubspot is a better fit than Salesforce for most, but you're going to spend a LOT more on Hubspot than you think you are. We've had customers switch from Pipedrive to Hubspot because "it's a free CRM" and they are now spending $40-60k/yr on Hubspot alone. They have a good way of sucking you in for "free" and then paying for contacts, so you're paying an insane amount for having 20-40k contacts in your CRM (you will have that easily over time).

Salesforce is good if you have 500+ employees, as a startup, stay away. You're going to either burn way too much money configuring it to be the way you had envisioned, or it's going to be a mess. Either way, employees and salespeople don't enjoy using Salesforce. They might be used to it at their prior job, but their prior job probably also spent $300k getting it set up to how they remember it as.

Here's a deeper article and more thoughts on that:

https://efficient.app/post/salesforce-alternatives

Stay away from Airtable, it's an amazing tool but not a good company CRM:

https://efficient.app/post/airtable-crm

If you're a young B2B startup, use a more flexible smaller CRM, it'll allow you to easily build out your company processes, iterate, and your team will actually enjoy using it. Yes, the hope and goal is to grow quickly, but that itching thought of "should we use Salesforce?" The answer 99.9% of the time is no. Unless you already have 500+ people already using the CRM daily. If you get it too early, it'll slow your team down from growing.

Hope this helps!
(a) Both can be among the causes for slow knowledge growth

(b) The past tense is by no means in order where persecution is concerned.
> when a request hits the server authenticating you, it has to recreate the signature

Authentication doesn't require signatures, that's my point. They often place the burden of getting the security right on the client.
Related:

StopTheMadness – Take back your web browser - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31625804 - June 2022 (50 comments)
"Arial should be a firing offence"

Grant me the comfortable self-righteousness of people who don't realise their personal aesthetic preferences are not objective statements of fact.
Who has clear biases and voiced support for one of the two american political parties.
Here was an interesting recent longer story about megafarms vs residents conflicts over water in one particular Arizona county and what residents are trying to do about it: "The Cochise County Groundwater Wars--A thirsty megafarm is driving a libertarian enclave in Arizona to embrace a radical solution: government regulation" [1]. I submitted it to HN a few days ago but it went nowhere [2].

It's one in a series of several articles on climate change and megadroughts [3].

[1] https://grist.org/regulation/arizona-groundwater-cochise-cou...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33407914

[3] https://grist.org/series/drought-parched/
This comment would be more useful if you recommended such a font.
Not only governments. I’d say a good portion of our population wouldn’t bet their lives on this.
I installed a couple of LED "corn lights", each supposedly equivalent to a 750 watt incandescent, I believe it was.

I just got them recently, so I haven't had time to really make an evaluation. We'll see at the end of the winter.
Is there a term for this phenomenon? Always been curious why this is the case for me.
Before they are bought by bigwigs with cash.
It's not just alcohol. The surge in use of opiates was roaring a good 20 years before national attention started to emphasize it. Governments and media always seem to be behind the curve when addressing new problems that arise. Usually, a crisis or reality is needed to force the issue to our attention.
Definitely makes sense given they are descendants of people from asia
Wouldn't this put Prague underwater?
The historical record seems to show a great deal of knowledge being obtained, then lost.

Knowledge transfer ain't bean-bag.
Have you watched Dr. Russell Barkleys series? https://youtu.be/sPFmKu2S5XY. I have actually done professional research into executive function and working memory--not a PhD but have one masters and nearly through another. His explanation lines up with the physiological psychology that I have learned.
Even when someone gets exposure to a competing viewpoint, it's rare for them to really give it thought if the topic is important to them.

People build their identities on what they believe about the world or on which people (dis)agree with them.

When their belief (and thus their identity) is threatened, people readily perform whatever mental gymnastics allow them to continue believing they're in the right.

The excellent book The Scout Mindset covers this in depth.
Alcoholism often turns into a lifelong addiction. We can expect elevated alcohol health-related death rates in the future. A proper accounting of lockdown policies must take into account life years saved during the pandemic and life years lost afterwards due to secondary health and economic effects of the lockdown.
>"the US did it 50 years ago therefore we can do it today"

The US / or other countries for that matter "did it XXX years ago" to advance their goals and get more prosperous at the expense of the others. If you want to punish countries for doing similar things now it is totally ok, as long as you punish the same crimes committed earlier. The crime must be paid for. This of course will never happen so when you are trying to tell other countries that they should not be doing things that you've done yourself and got away with the only reasonable answer you can expect is fuck you very much.
As a non-American, I love how America is about individual freedom and the right to earn a living right up until the point where nationalism is invoked and everyone's back to advocating that the government confiscate farms.
This is all accurate. There is flexibility in funding, but if you use your grant money for a completely different project than you proposed, you better hit an absolute home run or you won't get any more grants.
It's an analog computer.
I assume you’re joking, but in case you’re not - the plan would put the capital city (Prague/Praha) under 200m of water.