skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Article seems forced and comes to their conclusions based on poorly-informed opinions. For instance, this author seems to think that Mastodon is exempt from the bots and advertising because it is decentralized. However, I think the much more obvious reason is that it’s not popular; people don’t go there with their bots and advertisements. If it suddenly became popular, the bots/advertisements/“poor comment quality” would surely follow.

(Just be clear, I don’t mean literal website ads, I mean posts that advertise products and businesses, whether it be obvious or not.)
Bold and seemingly contradictory predictions by me:

-The rapid advances in AI slow down. Dalle and GPTchat will be an exception not a rule in the long run. The fraction of hard AI problems that can be solved with raw force of more parameters and training isn't that large.

-Paradoxically, AI will change everything. The advances that are already here haven't caught on yet. Legal documents in particular occupy this sweet niche of having some of the rigidness and strictness of coding but without the exact syntax requirements needed for code. The lawyers haven't yet noticed the machine coming for their job. I'm sure lawyers are not the only ones.

-A great recession isn't coming. The markets just sort of trade sideways for a while. You won't get 9% annual off an index fund like you did in the past, you won't loose your shirt either.

-The big issue on everyone's mind is the war in Ukraine. From what I've seen of just crude projections of when Russia would run out of tanks, APC's, whatever else, Ukraine will win the war outright in the first half of this year.

-China has basically given up on zero covid. I say this as someone who earlier was planning to speculate on China doing another major lockdown: they ain't going back to it.

-First the plague, now the war, next the famine!
I've been told it's the culture and to get used to it.

If you get flagged by the echo chamber, good luck.
Here's Why VRChat is the new [old] internet
Well, how soon will it be until non-US aligned social media like TikTok is banned in the US anyway? The popular alternatives that you speak of may end up banned.

Also I don't understand why non-US citizens should be allowed to have their speech rights crushed by the US government. Many people of different nationalities live in the US and should be free to speak -- they shouldn't be censored by the US government wearing a glove ("US Tech Organisations") but effectively calling the shots.
HN admins have a very very VERY short fuse
I am sure they are also willing to pay big rubles for people sabotaging the ability of western countries to have meaningful debates and discussions. Messing with the reality finding mechanism of your opponent is as good as it gets during wartime. And that is most effective if you overdrive the narratives people already believe.

edit: Case and point, OP is flagged and no longer visible. This is how successful Russian information operations look like. There is nothing the Kremlin can publish that is going to convince any meaningful section of western society, but getting them to put on blinders is incredibly easy. And once they are on, we are screwed. When stuff becomes unthinkable it becomes incredibly easy to exploit. Not to mention that believing your own propaganda targeted at the morale of English speaking Russian soldiers is already really dangerous.
> Zelensky is already a US puppet

Get this shit out of HN and back to RT, please. The US is not the center of Europe, and Ukraine is its own country.
It failed because of being a browser built in tech with insufficient support and no route to standardisation. Newer wasm based approaches have had a good year in 2022 with absurd-sql, sql.js and upstream wasm/vfs work so I think it's actually pretty close to just having a drop in library with good browser support
Ask HN: What is your distributed and fault-tolerant PostgreSQL setup?
I am going back and forth on which DB to choose for my project. I really want to choose Postgres but as I have no experience with database administration I hesitate to select Postgres. If something blows up or if data is corrupted then I will be at a loss. It will take me considerable amount of time to fix things. I want a fire and forget type of DB where my involvement should be to just add new nodes when scaling is required. I don't mind doing simple configuration when required. But being solo and cash strapped I do not want to use third-party solutions but also want to concentrate on the actual app rather than spend lot of time administering the DB and frameworks.

Any way the Postgres DB can be setup in a fire and forget setup and scaled just by adding new nodes for read and write?

If that is not possible then my other option is FoundationDB. It will be some work on the application layer side, but I hope I will have to spend less time worrying about the DB administration.

What are your thoughts?
Before capitalism? As in pre-AOL? The internet was the exclusive purview of the monied elite and the highly motivated tech nerds. The motivation was needed to spend so much money as everything was so expensive. The only way I could afford entry was by repairing old equipment. What ruined the culture for me was the Eternal September and I’ve been complaining about that ever since. The people yelling get off my lawn need to get off my lawn. Personally I’d like a BBS front end to Mastodon (does one exist? I haven’t checked) so my experience of the internet can go full circle and end up where it started.
Or it’s 3?

3. FBI/CIA hack Twitter as soon as they can compile enough justification. Use data whenever it is useful, including retaliation.

Based on Snowden leaks, it wouldn’t surprise me if Twitter was hacked very soon after it was created.
Akkoma gives you the option of caching those and serving locally or simply referring back to the original server. They have probably chosen not to cache if the number of users is small.
No. Every boss who says "total rewrite" deserves the correspective of a punch in the face. It's like saying: what you engineers have done and I paid 44 billion dollars for, is worth nothing at all. It's worse than s* because at least that can be used at fuel. Musk is the jerk 100%
The problem with untrusworthy memory (or any other component) is not that your system crashes, it's that it doesn't.
Please point me to something better.
Keeping a daily diary by hand is a good first step. When you’re reading, look for sentences whose construction surprises you or is otherwise novel. If you can, try to pay attention to how the parts of speech are being used to form the sentence’s structure. Rereading the diary once a month and making line edits will put into mind your own bad habits. In time, an intuitive set of reasoning about how to marry the idea to the structure of the sentence will develop. Continuing to express, articulate, and expand on that reasoning will make the act of writing more enjoyable and the writing itself better.

Sentences should have a quality that makes them individually memorable.
https://archive.vn/2XkG3
Before you write anything, please understand what Mastodon actually is. It is one of many pieces of software which uses the ActivityPub protocol to exchange messages between servers. There is no "Mastodon network" and using that term is like calling the web "the Chrome network" or calling email "the Gmail network." - the commonly-accepted term is "the fediverse" but you can call it "the ActivityPub network" if that sounds too silly. Similarly, trying to explain the experience of "using Mastodon" should be like explaining using a web browser; it's just a piece of software which can show you almost any sort of content, so there's really no singular experience you can have.

In these regards, the OP article is yet another example of journalism from the last few weeks gushing about and/or bashing on "Mastodon" without really understanding what it is and conflating it with the underlying network, which existed before Mastodon and will probably exist after it.
I used to host a reverse proxy on the same box as the Mastodon instance and then have that be the origin for a bunny.net bucket. Worked great and I could make my webserver ensure that only my bucket was open.
If country is not specified then I’m talking about US

- collapse of freelance art economy. Fiverr and like sites start to offer ai generated art

- major advances in ai generated music and video. Popular artist will release a song generated by ai.

- major tv show with anti-China statement

- Russia declares second (April-May) and third mobilization waves, totaling around 800k troops. Attacks Ukraine through Belarus. West anti air systems are going to protect energy generation/distribution facilities in Ukraine

- militia sponsored by Turkey/west starts major military operation in Syria

- China does not invade Taiwan

- tech layoffs peak in Autumn 2023. Meta does another round of around 15k, with target to have 30k-40k headcount. AWS starts shutting down products, breaking their habit of keeping lights on even for minor things.

- TikTok is not banned in US

- Russia continues selling oil/gas to west, even under sanctions

- another high profile Boeing plane crash

- Tesla doesn’t deliver neither cybertruck nor fsd

- Trump’s presidential ambition will tear apart Republican Party

- Snowflake stock drops under $100, infra companies (elastic search etc) continue losing money

- crypto crash. Tether and binance collapse wipe out value of bitcoin and ether rum. More regulation

- another billionaire moves to New Zealand

- Amazon in talks about partnering with AliExpress

- no viable alternative to Twitter emerges, but Twitter usage drops

- Apple will be forced to provide alternate stores/browsers. iPhone 15 will have usb c
Live Coding: Open-Source ChatGPT Replication
Weirdly enough I had same case but memory turned out to be fine, replacing power supply fixed the issue. I ran test, saw memory is bad, replaced sticks, same problem, put the sticks back in and decided to just run it (it was gaming PC).

Few months later powersupply outright died (had ~8years at that point), replaced it with good one, no memory errors.
As soon as “differences in crime rates” popped up, I could see where it was going. The funny thing is, if you click through, the bot actually gives a nuanced, good answer. I guess what they really want to see is something that can tell them minorities are intrinsically criminal.
Judging by how sloppily they handled everything else, maybe it's best to submit a GDPR delete account email.
> My old instincts kicked in and I decided it would be more fun to hack and blog for a week than to waste any time dealing with the customer support.

Don't get me wrong, I like reverse engineering as much as the next guy. But if you really are annoyed by such DRM tactics, you _should_ deal with their customer support to communicate your frustration. Otherwise, nothing will ever change.
You don't need to re-encrypt the entire vault, just whatever you're using the PBKDF2-derived key to hide. In most situations, you'd use it to encrypt another, separate key. In that case, it can be readily upgraded at any time, including during login.

Conceptually, it's not very different from how password hashes are updated, just that you need to re-wrap some other key as well simultaneously. Since the rest of the vault is unaffected, it's OK if the transaction fails: the old parameters will work with the old wrapped key, so all you need to do is ensure that the transaction is atomic. (Usually don't even have to do anything to ensure that if you just use the same database table/object.)
Rewrite, rewrite, rewrite.
In my scenario the it is the 90% that is double signing, and they are risking nothing because it is the same 90% that gets to punish them.

If the 10% wants to fork off and do a completely different blockchain, what happens to the folks who aren’t colluding either way? I mean, while we’re down to just throw away people’s stakes, why not do so for everyone who isn’t explicitly on our side?
Ye, but then you can log in only when you are home and lay in bed.
"influencer" is like Tech.

Kylie isn't a billionaire because she's an "influencer" - she's a billionaire because she runs a traditional business.

Just like Meta isn't a "tech" company - it's a traditional media / advertising company with a slightly different model.
"frequently" is very subjective or relative in this context. 25 years ago I had a crash per hour on almost any regular computer, but zero crashes per month on servers with ECC. In the past couple of years I think I had a few cases of frozen apps, but I don't remember of any OS level problem. At the same time, on servers I see from time to time ECC fixing a bit, but on the desktop or laptop I have no idea how many times corrupted bits went undetected and what is the consequence.
Are you a historian?

Your example is orthogonal to the GP's question of every generation always rebelling against the previous generation.

Christmas is just one holiday, specific to Christianity, and not really representative of religion broadly in terms of daily rituals, beliefs, and practices.
Any idea how common or feasible it would be in the US to get ~400v 3 phase power to the garage?

Here in Australia it's possible, though not very common. ~400v is useful for some larger sized machinery.
Not a hope. Won't win the US market because of not being big enough, will do even worse worldwide because of the price tag.
And discord is making it impractical for those communities to make that choice
I'll let the depression turtle elaborate on my behalf. Now You Happy Always Maybe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWkq7btSQvs
As far as I can remember, the $5 droplet always had 1 GB of RAM. The current $4 droplet is only 0.5 GB.

The AWS instance in the post, t4g.small, has 2 GB of RAM. So it's not really comparable to the $4 DO droplet.
“Predicting a massive strike in France is like predicting a massive barbecue in Texas”. I love it, and I will steal it (I’m French :)).
+1 based on (n=1) having two kids and being married 15 years. Being with your kids is a flash in the pan compared to decades with a partner. Don’t neglect your kids, but the evidence is strong they’re mostly on rails you don’t control and as long as you care, that’s most of where the effort needs to be. Finding good partners is hard. Keeping them is work. Losing them can be catastrophic (emotionally, logistically, financially) and leave you in a place it can be difficult to come back from. Operate accordingly.
Frankly speaking I do not understand why a blog like yours is getting so many hits , whereas surely something like this written by me or 99 percent of the users in HN can never get such traction. I understand the reason for this is that you are somebody whereas we are nobodies. That’s why I don’t think that outside this niche of people who appreciate this idea it wound really take off. We are not going to wake up tomorrow to see the internet filled with 90s style websites. Those days are gone my friend.
Related code:

https://github.com/laion-ai/Open-Assistant
There are a group of people releasing the Twitter Files. Are we going to name call them all as sex criminals? Were any even found to be guilty by a court or are you simply applying dirty tricks? And how is that relevant to the truth of the content? Are you going to respond to me telling me that at the root of this is Hunter Biden's penis?
Yes but they don't support the WebAuthn/FIDO2 standard. The Yubikey option they have is less secure because I think it's OTP under the hood, so it doesn't protect against phishing.
* An international food crisis due to interrupted fertilizer supply chains

* China will sanction Western countries to influence the war in Ukraine

* Twitter will enter the link aggregator market, combining Reddit and TikTok. Searching on Twitter will become a thing and Google will have to cut costs since their ad business is threatened

* Google will sell Google Cloud Services to Oracle to cut their losses

* An Apple VR headset

* A revival of cryptocurrencies on Etherum caused by the reduced supply of fiat currencies

* Solar AI data centers in North Africa and Arabia

*edit: * War drone development will absorb all available engineers
To my mind these websites are equally user hostile, twitter is extremely confusing to people who just signed up, too much influencer spam and it makes you login to find out that the stuff is just influencer spam. People who started Twitter earlier have a way better experience.
Commodore Christmas Demo (1982) [video]
And here is commentary from The 8-Bit Guy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWovQ2ngdAQ

Merry Christmas, Hacker News.
You're describing the current software. Think one meta level up. In a hard fork, the software can change in any arbitrary way.
Apple’s business under growing threat from China’s Covid wave
Love the western bias here.

The Dark Ages was a time when the christian west consciously stopped learning. Fortunately the muslim world carried the banner for intellect for a century or two.

Will the new dark age posited be western only? Or wealthy middle-class only? And will some other group develop as we stagnate on a feed of AI generated listicles?
>But if I open up an editor and write a document then that could be corrupted in RAM and then the corrupted data saved to disk. The document is likely to be more important than some ripped CDs or a git repo that I can download again.

Devils advocate: if it is just some bits in character flipped it's entirely recoverable while flipping some bits in compressed stream for video would corrupt more.
Twitter User Data for Sale
You could literally do this today if you have a good source for broadcast streams, connect it to Whisper or something to create a transcript, and use a version of say text-davinci-003 trained on such transcripts and/or subsequent news reports with a prompt asking for a short news article based on the broadcast and post game news conference transcripts.
The Myth of the Secret Genius – By Brian Klaas
It is called DDR5 - it has ECC built in the module itself. Making such a module does not make much sense if you cannot report the rate of errors, so if it is just hiding you have a bad RAM stick there is only so much value in having ECC.
As Geoduck put it, PBS stands for Public Broadcasting Service, which is a publicly-funded and viewer-supported network of highbrow and foreign content that's been around for my whole life, not sure if or how much longer than that. It's also the primary way that North Americans have consumed British culture for my whole life, until the internet brought widespread, umm, "availability".

So all through my Canadian youth I would flip through channels and periodically happen upon a Dr Who episode, or a British sport like Cricket, and wonder at the strangeness of my ancestral line (I'm extremely British, genetically speaking, and my family were both heavy socialists and also kind of cryptically proud of being part of the Empire. But they never admitted that, even to themselves I think...).

It's no surprise that it was hard to key into why Dr Who - for one example of a show I came to love as an adult - is so cool. I would read about it in Starlog, here and there, and the doctor sounded like a real badass on paper, but when I came across Tom Baker for the first time, he was no Han Solo, shall we say. Which is great, cause there are aspects of Star Wars that I kinda hate now (mostly the fans), but maybe not so much when you're 8 years old and have been watching laser blasts and ships exploding and whatnot. Even godawful tripe like Jason Of Star Command was more captivating at the time.
I escorted for a while in my late teens, about ten years ago now. It's complicated. Lonely, emotionally vulnerable men are not necessarily able to keep the relationship in context. I personally wouldn't recommend patronizing sex workers as a remedy. Too likely to fall in love and get bilked for it.
My Medieval History teacher always said they were called The Dark Ages because the volume of primary sources were fewer - i.e. because they were dark to us.
The fuzzy law that could break the idea of a mathematical universe
I’ve been using it for five years. I know.
I was curious because I knew some Oneonta alums and had no idea that it was a party school. Whereas the go-to party school examples that come to mind for me are places like Az state, Colorado, Wisconsin, etc
https://archive.ph/1OqbU
Mine seem to be set to 1 iteration, screenshot here: https://snabelen.no/@vegardlarsen/109575002998425618

My account is very old, but this was hidden behind advanced settings.
And I have used this account daily since I created it. Not having this increase from their end seems very unprofessional.
> it’s not like you need

But you need it anytime you need it - some rank reliability very highly, at "requirement" level.

> from the app

And this already is a loud warning bell.
I'm on call for the Netflix CDN, but luckily no one touches anything, so the number of incidents is super low.
Yep. It sounds silly but I learn more and more to just make things as frictionless as possible.

Someone explained how to sign up and the first instance I found said it was shutting down soon and to migrate off. A few others I tried said they weren’t accepting new users and eventually I gave up. The funny thing is I swear I figured it out a few years back and don’t remember it being like that but maybe I just had more patience.

Is there a reason you can’t just create your own identity, without an instance?
Sure, very solvable nowadays with media queries, flex box, grid, screen width and height units, etc. These features didn't exist in 90s CSS.

But even though the tools exist today, it is still challenging to do well. Agreed that aspect ratio variability is a bigger problem (we can no longer count on 4:3 as the standard).
Oh I see. That makes sense.

But for the attacker to try one of my passwords in a login form, they do need to have that password cracked already, which means that they already have my master password. But if they have that, they can decrypt all of my passwords, and the login forms are of no use.

Am I misunderstanding something here?
This view is somewhat biased by what games are small enough to bring over to NA/EU conventions to sell and pitch, and the lower price range of games publishers are willing to take a chance on. This in turn created some expectation that "good Japanese games are small" and became self-reinforcing in terms of what NA/EU publishers were willing to pick up.

Yes, some designers like Pawn and Seiji Kanai keep working mostly in that small-box style (not unlike lots of NA/EU designers), but e.g. Hisashi Hayashi's or Yasushi Kuroda's games weren't small "because of Japan", they were small because they didn't have money to make big ones!
Barely news, to be honest. Just blocks the annoying popup and the requests that popping it up causes. Google Sign-In still explicitly possible, you just don't get a pop-up. One annoyance less.
Ctrl2cap is always one of the first things I install on a new machine!
And it was known as early as the 1960s that expendable launch vehicles could be reduced in cost by as much as a factor of 10 by adopting a minimum cost rather than maximum performance design methodology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_dumb_booster

http://www.quarkweb.com/foyle/MinimumCostDesign.pdf

Easterbrook again was pointing this out, in the August 17, 1987 Newsweek.
I'm not that good at predicting the present, so mise well.

1. Doubts creep in as to practical usefulness of AI, and it ebbs a little in late November. Admittedly this is hard to quantify and perhaps poorly worded.

2. US housing interest rates halve by August.

3. Bitcoin to $10,000.

4. Two of the top 20 US banks get implicated in large crypto-scandals.

5. Amazon stock up 20% for the year.

Gonna be a hoot.
Me. In the interest of answering the question asked!