skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been thinking of metaphors to try to understand why I've found it so upsetting. This is supposed to be what we wanted, right? Yet it feels like something else. Like when you're sitting in a quiet carriage softly chatting with a couple of friends and then an entire platform of football fans get on at Jolimont Station after their team lost.

*They* don't usually catch trains and don't know the protocol. They assume everyone on the train was at the game or at least follows football. They crowd the doors and complain about the seat configuration. It's not entirely the Twitter people's fault. They've been taught to behave in certain ways.

It ain't their fault its the way they were brought up.

I/We/Gaia would like those gross football fans to not exist on their planet. There is only I/We/Gaia. Not asking what Gaia wants is bad. There is only I/We/Gaia. (https://asimov.fandom.com/wiki/Gaia)

I struggled to understand what I was feeling, or the word to describe it. I finally realised on Monday that the word I was looking for was "traumatic".

Suddenly having hundreds of people asking (or not) to join those conversations without having acclimatised themselves to the social norms felt like a violation, an assault. I know I'm not the only one who felt like this. The tools, protocols and culture of the fediverse were built by trans and queer feminists. Those people had already started to feel sidelined from their own project when people like me started turning up a few year ago.

There is only I/We/Gaia.
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> as for spreading democracy I find the track record more horrific than corny

Hang on, in which period of world history did the world enjoy more widespread peace and democratic rule than during Pax Americana?

Or are you claiming that the most peaceful and democratic era of history happened in spite of the US, not in any way due to it?

I don't have any objections to criticizing the US but my read on its history in this context is basically - once it expanded as far as it could militarily it decided the next best thing to do was build up a global network of nations it could trade with and make money off of. Those powers needed to be peaceful and stable so frequently ended up being democracies.
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I wholeheartedly disagree. There are certainly people involved with motorcycles that seek attention and try to be as anti-social as possible. But that is by no means representative of the overall motorcycle community. They are just the ones that makes the most noise (pun intended).

Motorcycles acts as therapy for a lot of people, myself included. Without them, my life would be a lot less enjoyable.
Isn't that why countries passed non-specific laws? E.g. in the UK we have the Snoopers' Charter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigatory_Powers_Act_2016, I believe in the US the Patriot Act did something similar.
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The marginal cost of a certificate is very close to $0.00, the same as a TXT record in a DNS server.

As you've realised, the reason they cost "real money" measured in dollars is because of rent seeking[1] by a few large corporations. These guys have sufficient clout to (mostly) snuff out any upstarts. For example, their response to Let's Encrypt was to start pushing CAA records for "security". You guessed it: the security in that context is not referring to your IT security, but to their revenue security.

Similarly, Microsoft Azure has CA integration... with the two biggest for-money certificate authorities. There is virtually no chance they'll ever willingly integrate with Let's Encrypt or add support for the generic ACME protocol because there is no margin on free.

There's not much that can be done to fight this, but there are options.

As you've said, DNS name servers and CA functions need to be combined. It's almost gibberish to have these as separate services in 2022, since practically everything uses TLS, which needs both to act in concert.

In fact, DNS-based traffic management, static DNS, dynamic DNS, DHCP, IPsec management, and CA services should all be combined into a single executable. This way back-end machines could enroll in certificates at the same time that they get their IP addresses. Their IP addresses would be registered under their name, and load balancers can add their IPs to service pools. Etc...

Microsoft almost did this right, with LDAP + DHCP + DNS + Enterprise PKI being mostly integrated, but not quite.

Keep in mind that the era when these things "had" to be separate services was when DNS needed a dedicated bare metal machine for performance. These days the DNS zone of a large corporation fits in L2 cache and can run out of a fraction of a CPU core!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking
It worse with cities and countries. Every city converges into the same bland concrete-metal-glass devoid of any detail that you can't tell the apart.
> I wonder what the people at Vine thought after they saw TikTok do what they did with a few tweaks.

Well, the founders made ~$10MM each with 5 months of work. So they were probably happy at the time. But Vine was too early, so I think video storage and movement was still pretty expensive for non-FANG companies. So they limited uploads to 6 seconds. I think that limitation was too low to do what TikTok does.

But the real reason they were too early is recommendation systems like TikTok uses seem to have been based on work done since Vine was shuttered.
My take is that companies will become "programmable" - all decisions mediated by software, and if you want to chnage how the decisions are made you need a new "release" of the company (cf chnage management). Which basically means that for majority of work done in companies, coders decide how the allocation of resources happen. managers of the coders is this the next battlefield - and that is where you have to ask, will strict hierarchical command and control work ? mission command, google's 8 rules and frankly democracy suggest not.
How is this relevant to what I wrote? You are not learning with a neural network in your example. You are not adapting synaptic weights.
The op hypothetical assertion was that there is no difference between person and machine being 'inspired' by some creative work, so if we don't pursue George Lucas then why would we pursue copilot?

And the thing is that the machine does not benefit from the same rights as a person, so we can't absolve MS from responsibility because "it does a similar thing to what people do".

So, to add one more point to spell out: the context matters! ;)
> What's changed since then in terms of technology? Unless it's very significant, I suspect it will go the same way. Apart from an assistive technology viewpoint, my gut instinct is that it's not that satisfying or rewarding talking to a computer all day.

Training data is now abundant compared to twenty years ago, and so is computation power. That means training can be much more complex now.

The underlying technology is now typically neural networks (broadly speaking), whereas twenty years ago it might have been Hidden Markov Models.

Overall, recognition quality, even without speaker-specific training, is now on a very different level than back then. Whether it’s considered good is a matter of opinion. But it’s significantly better than twenty years ago.
> They were dominated (at least by the publicly-available figures here in the UK) by retired folks.

You're saying here that most of the people who died were old, which is true. But you're also saying that this means that not many young people died from covid, which is untrue. It's untrue because a small proportion of a very large number is still a lot of people. Covid killed very many economically active people.
> To my surprise, there's at least some form of praise for TikTok here in hackernews. It is surprising because as far as I'm aware, there's a negative sentiment here in general for social media (facebook, twitter, instagram, etc.), for the mental health risks it poses.

Plus the security issues. TikTok has been proven to be full of backdoors.
Now that would be a straw man wouldn't it.

If you have any money in your wallet or your bank account at any point in time you are not spending the money that is created as a result of the dynamic ebb and flow of the quantity of money in the system.

The sum total of those people not instantly spending money when they get it is a deficit. It's just the accounting counterparty of people waiting before they spend their money.

But then we're back to the famous Dijkstra quote

"… our intellectual powers are rather gathered to master static relations and that our powers to visualize processes evolving in time are relatively poorly developed. For that reason we should do (as wise programmers aware of our limitations) our utmost best to shorten the conceptual gap between the static program and the dynamic process, to make the correspondence between the program (spread out in text space) and the process (spread out in time) as trivial as possible"

The riff on that would be called "sound money beliefs considered harmful"
q:

{(,')over min[count each x]#'x}

k4:

{,'/(&/#:'x)#'x}
Concrete rooms have such an aesthic quality that all U.S. prisons have adapted the look.
It was broken incentives. Give people a financial incentive to do something that can look like an honest mistake in retrospect, and they will make a lot of "honest mistakes".
They can intercept the unencrypted section of encrypted connections, such as TLS ServerName, and the source and destination of every IP datagram which already provides a lot of information to profile individual citizens.

QUIC moves to a model where everything except the Connection ID is encrypted[1], but it is also apparently being blocked in India[2]. The mandated transition to IPv6 in India[3] would also take away the need to track 5-tuples to identify individual customers, easing the scaling of monitoring.

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8999

[2] https://github.com/kelmenhorst/quic-censorship/issues/2

[3] https://dot.gov.in/ipv6-transition
It's the same with copilot; you have to know how to implement things to implement things with copilot (for the most part), but when you are a programmer and you could write the code, then you know the prompt to write to generate 10+ lines of code for 1 comment of text all day long. Especially for data transformation, copilot has been a real magic tool; if you put in a comment:

/*
this functions transforms this json from:

{
... some complex structure in json
}

to this json:

{
... some different structure in json
}

*/

... copilot comes up with the function that takes in the first and spits out the latter. Even if the fieldnames do not match etc, it usually 'guesses' right what fits on what (so it does have some context from it's learning phase what 'looks alike' or 'might be the same thing'. Example: I had a structure with firstName: string, lastName: string and a target structure with name: string; it just did name: firstName+' '+lastName, which was indeed what I wanted. But it comes up with more intricate stuff as well that is pretty much surprising (too human basically).

What is another bonus; if you generated function transfromAtoB(a: A) above, then you only have to do:

/*
do the reverse of function transfromAtoB, accept json structure B as input and return structure A
*/

And it'll come up with the reverse.

It's not hard to write yourself, but it's boring and error prone (some of these structures are huge). Now I press tab a bunch of times, and run the tests to see if it worked. I am also not that worried i'm infringing someone's open source code; this is all way to custom to look like anything else. That's where this shines; things where it verbatim copies something, you should've been using a library anyway.

Statically typing and using typescript definitely works better than other combinations I have tried (C# was pretty bad last I tried it, JS is good but often subtly wrong because of type issues).
I could have have sworn that a unibody MacBook Pro where I did an in-place upgrade to Lion somehow held onto Rosetta.
But Python itself is controlled by an independent foundation[1] and an elected steering council[2], which is very different from being owned by Microsoft.

For example, if Microsoft wanted to change CPython to automatically collect sloppily anonymized user data and send it to Microsoft without asking, as they did with .NET[3], I would expect the steering council reject that proposal.

[1] https://www.python.org/psf/

[2] https://peps.python.org/pep-0013/

[3] https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/issues/6145
In reality most of these are really simple, the big question is how to handle end of iteration across iterators e.g. given zip(a, b) where a is shorter than b, on the last iteration will b get updated or not?
Because doctors won't treat you, restaurants won't feed you and the landlords won't provide a roof for passion.
Ask HN: How do you deal with constant failures?
I've launched 5 startups. All of them failed, pathetically. I have to urge to build and try again, but I've lost all faith in myself. I know people build 10's of products before they succeed, but I am exhausted after my 5th product. How have you dealt with failures? If you gave up, how did you get rid of the urge to try again?
> It was never removed because Classic MacOS itself was never fully native.

Are there any current OSes that have the same level of historical cruft that Mac OS Classic had?
The Future of Experience
Intel Announces First x86 CPU with HBM Memory: Xeon Max 'Sapphire Rapids' DC CPU
yea, that's what I'm saying - mastodon is the perfect fit for those people, so this is not an Eternal September kind of event.
It's still amazingly difficult/unpredictable to deploy a simple node app with HTTPS enabled in 2022.

The best and easiest service was still Zeit Now v1 back in 2017. It has been made harder 6 years later.
I can't wait to edit my Unreal blueprints using voice commands. Truly the future of programming.
- political agenda
- hidden paid trending topics

And already there has been a (partial) elimination of quite a few bot networks:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1590612193590259712
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Crashes on my iPhone SE 2. Gen which was to be expected :-(
Twitter doesn't need "best people" - it's not innovating and hasn't been for a very long time.
I like the scenario: Imagine I've hired an assistant with an eidetic memory who has read loads of books. I pay them to help me write a book and they reproduce a few paragraphs from a different book into my book.

Am I violating copyright? Yes

Imagine they change the character names in those paragraphs. Am I still violating copyright? Yes

At some point you can change enough of the text to not violate copyright. The grey area involves the courts.

It feels very simple to me so I might be missing something.
That's roughly my current situation. My humble business does well enough to let me focus on what feels right. I haven't thought about the income-generating bits for a while now.

It's nice to do good work and not pollute it with the usual growth strategies, to tell advertisers to sod off, and to obsess over details of your choosing.

This completely changed how I work. If it's sunny outside, I'll forget about work and go ride my bike. But I'll also take a day during my vacation to implement an idea because it's just can't wait.

I don't know how other people work, but I found my perfect way of working. I've never been so productive before.
Or debugging. Goodness. I can only imagine.
When I read “beautiful people” I understood it in the sense of the underlying beauty of the fact that we are somehow sentient beings in a universe of chaos and entropy.
It's been nearly two days and apparently this hasn't happened yet - they're still there and haven't started withdrawing.
A human re-using some code according to its license is not the same as an automated machine snorting up all of the code on the platform ignoring any licenses.
No, the misinterpretation of the ToS is not the most interesting part. The part that clearly shows her colors is:

"It looks a lot more like trolling if an otherwise incredibly useful and productivity-boosting technology is being stymied by people who want to receive payouts for a lack of meaningless attributions."
The most charming of these is the singer Shakira seeing a camera phone for the first time in Japan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1lY3jzsFWU
What’s the best way of monitoring suites? The built in report tool is amazing, but would love a solution that makes for easier analysis and maybe a closer integration with jira.
How did you make the shift? I have actually had a lot of the same thoughts. It seems like a lot of the abilities and "thoroughness" needed in tech, would be transferable to law. I can only say that I spent quite a lot of time reading legal documents as part of technical and security-related due diligence and my background reading specifications and planning software architecture, is directly transferable.
I wish we could blame our hatred on altruistic reasons but in the end we both know it's not true. We're ashamed and embarrassed. Every time someone presumes we got rich off Bitcoin it fuels our anger.
Yep, all business talk and generic tech hype. It's no surprise that it is failing if they approached this problem from a business and tech orientation, rather than looking at it from the customers point of view.

What problems does VR/AR solve that would want to make one wear an AR headset all of the time? Why do I want to wear one while changing my daughters diaper, or walking my dog after work? I see no problems that it solves.
Why do so many cars look so angry? Big front grilles that look like a growling, howling maw full of teeth, bulging, muscular body shaping... It's like car designers all got together and decided that aggressive-ugly is a good look.

I wonder how much that contributes to road-rage?
Still would not use V myself, its the prime example of overmarketing of impossible features, silencing of critics online etc
This killed the blogosphere, and will kill any decentralized system that becomes popular unless they can do something extremely clever.

Instead of a dark forest (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Forest) think of the outer internet as a fake forest. If you wander off the beaten path - the same dozen sites that everyone uses and complains about - you wander into an endless, trackless zone of fakes all of which are ultimately trying to sell you something.
I am happy to take a severe deficit over not being able to work at all. When my back was acting up, I could not physically use my left side. Dictation was the ONLY way I could code. By the end of this period, my output was back up to 95% of my typed output - especially as I don’t type code nearly as fast as I do general language writing.
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> Bitcoin will never give dividends

Niter will Tesla shares, yet people still buy. Its purely for resale at later stage.
I recently tested it, and even on a desktop browser "new" Reddit loads slower than old.reddit.com when e.g. navigating from the thread list into an individual thread – the initial page load isn't substantially faster with new Reddit, even though the server has to serve less dynamic content, and then you always spend another second or two waiting for the comments to actually load.

Whereas with old.reddit.com the initial page load might possibly be minimally slower, but end-to-end it's still noticeably faster, because everything, including the comments, loads in one go.

On an underpowered phone with mediocre JavaScript-performance it's even worse, so old.reddit.com is even more preferable (besides the fact that you're also getting around all the "are you sure you don't want to rather view this in the app" nonsense that way), even though it means having to rely on the browser's font inflation-algorithm for getting readable text instead of having a layout that's natively written to accommodate small screen sizes.
It's impressive that he's managed to make it even more chaotic.
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The federation aspect is the most interesting to me and has the most potential but it also the least important to most users. So much so because moderation issues, computing power and maintenance and simple powerful network effects all point to centralisation.

That's what we are seeing, people are choosing one thing not a federation of things.

There needs to be some reason and big benefit that people get for choosing federation. The only thing I can see would be if there's some kind of major and controversial moderation defederation event (e.g. a cancel culture controversy) but very soon before people get entrenched in their patterns and can see why federations are useful.

Possibly then, having instances run by media organisations might actually show the difference in moderations in the fediverse.
Don't let the schadenfreude and confirmation bias get to you. Centralized exchanges never had anything to do with the value proposition of cryptocurrency. And trading on them is just speculation with no relation to crypto. It's what gets views in the press, though.

Whenever news like these occur there is always a bunch of "I knew it would all fall down" self-validation comments in HN. Yet it really doesn't fall down, after over a decade. Perhaps it's time to consider that you are looking at the wrong thing and barking at the wrong tree.

Of all these collapses there is 0 decentralized exchanges (i.e. on-chain) involved. Pretty much because they can't, by design. That's the value proposition. Unstoppable exchanges, transparent, publicly verifiable, highest availability.

What you have seen all this year is more and more validation that centralized finance is problematic by design (3AC, Celsius, BlockFi, FTX...) while decentralized finance comes unscathed (Uniswap, Aave, Curve, MakerDAO...).
Yes they do, mainly because it’s the law.

That it’s a misguided law is open for debate, but I don’t believe there is any state in the world that doesn’t monitor and control tele-communications (internet is regulated as tele-communications WW).
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I could see it being useful for things like "goto line 42" or "rename this file as...", or very simple things like that, otherwise, I don't want the cognitive overhead of having to translate coding intent through a voice interpreter.
I love the idea of Mastodon and I would love for things like that to take us back to the less centralized and less corporate internet of before, but I am pessimistic that it will happen anytime soon.

The real reason why people are "migrating" to Mastodon right now (and can't seem to stop talking about it on Twitter) is one and one only: to signal their tribal affiliation. Twitter used to be controlled by the blue tribe and now it was bought by a member of the red tribe. That is all that is happening. Nothing more, nothing less.

I don't know if Elon Musk will destroy Twitter or if it won't matter in the long term. I suspect the latter, but I'm close to 50/50 on that. What I am sure is that the average Twitter user will not actually stay and use Mastodon right now. Most people are on Twitter for the audience and/or to follow those with large audiences, and Mastodon does not have that not will it in the near future (which makes it sound like a really nice place to hang out now that I mention it :)

I would also point out that, in my experience, internet communities are great until they get noticed by the mainstream. Once they become mainstream, they attract huge masses of users that want to fight for their political tribe with high hostility / low creativity content, and the eye of Sauron (politicians in general) falls upon it, and opinion piece writers start fanning the flames of moral panics, and the good times are over.
Most probably because we live in different areas and are also part of distinct demographics. I live in Eastern Europe and I don't have that many IT people as close acquaintances and friends, in those circles of mine "always-available access to audio" sounds a little quaint.