skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And his manager at SUN was Eric Schmidt. Yes. Who later become Google's CEO. It's all a small family ;)
The paper mentions this. If you don't like the coin flip example you can use radioactive decay, which does not appear to depend on initial conditions and cannot be predictively modeled by physical measurement.
Not true, unfortunately.

Early internet: As long as there was copper, you generally could exchange {protocol} (i.e. HTTP, FTP, POP3, ...) to {person} in {country}, quite freely.

Current internet: Many egress and ingress connections are banned by {government agency} of {country}.

Future internet: What parent comment was predicting: An increasing number of governments increasingly aggressively ban an increasing number of internet services (i.e. connections).

It's really not that hard to imagine, look at China or Russia or many other countries (e.g. Middle-East). Very aggresive white/blacklists of internet services.

This is the "fracturing" the parent comment is alluding to.
LOL at Saudi Arabia and Iran rapprochement. It's more likely that Putin wins the peace Nobel prize.
Seems like it should be working based on this https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/discussions/20952
I understand that the security of customer data is the focus, but is it yet known how access was gained?

I ask because I presume LastPass put a heavy emphasis on security, yet this still happened. Is there a 0-day still out there in the hands of very malicious actors and not yet patched?
> What strikes me most is that those people from 90th were putting their creativity into something only handful of people will ever see, they were effectively shouting to void.

Well you had visitor counters and guestbooks. There was obviously no expectation to go "viral" and have millions of visitors, but it felt social in a different way. More like a small cozy neighborhood, less like a train station.
My favourites were the projects which took advantage of the nature of the medium: bookmark & skyline night light.
My upload speed hasn't increased since the 2000s.
> Both have 5USD instances

DigitalOcean no longer has a USD 5 instance, it's USD 6 now.
If the Chinese room system is indistinguishable from a "real human being" then they are the same thing.
Why would they? Big pharma wants big money. Getting sued doesn't make money. Still not answering the question why we would even need it with CICP and HRSA in place.
7000…

Just exported my vault, and will see if there's anything relevant in there (I haven't used LP in 7 years, but I probably have some unimportant-ish passwords in there from back then)

Until now, I had forgotten that they still had my data :/
To whom ? For some on the list it could be worth their life. To a hypothetical buyer depends on how effectively he can exploit/resell the data.

I suppose you mean how much it could be sold for ? The easiest/safest buyers is probably the company itself paid for by their insurance policies. Such policies will likely cover ransoms in the millions.

However with the current Twitter management it probably won't work, Musk may even not be paying the premiums given that he is not paying office rents or more likely be unwilling to negotiate .

For any other deal it is depends a lot on the seller and buyer. You wouldn't want to be drinking polonium after driving hard bargain with the Russians after all.
I love Mastodon, or more accurately the fediverse in general. However, running your own instance seems like a loss in every possible way. It costs money, even if it's not much. It's work, even if it's not much. It incurs risk and liability. And it's functionally worse than being on a shared instance. Larger instances will take forever to federate with you, if they do at all. Your local timeline will be empty. You'll even have to jump through hoops to see all of the replies to posts, since the default is to show only replies from instances you've already federated with. If you often feel like you're only seeing half the conversation it's because you really are.

Lastly, the more people run their own instances, the worse everyone's experience will get. The fediverse almost entirely relies on direct communication between instances with no DHT or other mesh routing overlay, so messages are O(n^2) relative to number of instances. Caching works OK for assets but not for ActivityPub RPC, so many instances don't even implement it at all. One of the main reasons the large instances struggle so much is that these communication patterns drastically increase traffic volume and queue length, which is further exacerbated by the fact that Sidekiq (the part of Mastodon that handles those queues) is a poorly implemented tuning nightmare.

The best bet IMO is to join one of the medium-sized instances aligned around a community or vibe that you like (I'm on hachyderm BTW and it's awesome for me). Smaller ones have all of the problems I've mentioned above, while the very largest are sub-optimal in terms of both technical UX and social atmosphere. Goldilocks wins again.
Well what kind of federation is it handling atm? Because saying Elixir is awesome means nothing until you have 1000 MAU's all tooting and hollering at the same time, and you have to federate a bunch of messages.

That's where I actually like having the sidekiq component separate and scalable. Because it means I can make use of dynamic scaling in a cloud to work through the queues, then scale down when the queues are empty.

The Mastodon web service can run on minimal resources, even with 1000 MAU's, it's only Sidekiq that needs to scale, and that also only when there is large amounts of messages to federate.
Wow. I didn't read the article, but this 'feels like x'. Spectacular!
- as probably everyone here would agree, AI-generated content will flood the Internet.

- the above will lead sites to desperately search for better bot prevention tools, eventually culminating in a few years with the introduction of systems where online activity is tied to a person's real identity via their government (privately - we will still be behind usernames but the site will be able to verify with the person's government that they are a real person) and passing off AI-generated content as human content will constitute a rule violation.

- AIs will be "let loose" on virtual machines, where they will experience many lifetimes' worth of computer use in a short time, learning to fully operate computers and start the process of replacing jobs not by having a technically capable person operating an AI, but by simply having an AI fully replace a person's job by acting identical to a remote worker from a manager/coworker's point of view. After AI gets intelligent enough, it will replace all desk jobs.

- After it becomes clear that AI will replace large portions of jobs (which I think will happen in 2023 when the next few iterations of AIs are released) there will be a push for UBI which will be supported by both sides of the political divide, as well as both the rich and the poor, and divided along the lines of who "believes" in AI and who doesn't
To be fair, the teachers are hopelessly outgunned here. They're competing with a deep pockets industry that can develop infinitely addictive, engaging content that is also designed to be de-educational.

Trying to make successful educational media on the same playing field is hopeless. For one thing, the resources for doing that don't exist. For another, kids can instantly perceive that something "educational" is going to be slightly more boring than something purely entertaining and addictive. The playing field can't be leveled.

Third, we're really not helping them by reinforcing that the only way to learn is to be saturated in addictive media content.

Disclaimer: I'm not sure education was ever all that great, but there were people sincerely trying to make it better.
It was never the right price, which is why the twitter board was so happy and eager as hell to sell rather than stay an independent publicly traded company.
An attack on home energy or heating systems via cloud management takes out a major grid. e.g. the most popular brand of solar inverters gets attacked on a still cold day, or the most popular brand of thermostats is increased a couple of degrees at the time of worst grid load.
> There are a few reasons this joke might be considered funny. First, the joke employs a classic setup-punchline structure. The setup introduces the two women and the punchline delivers the unexpected twist. In this case, the punchline suggests that the secret to a long and happy marriage is not love or respect, but rather, a willingness to compromise and make sacrifices. This ironic twist is what makes the joke funny. Additionally, the punchline uses the word "compromise" in two different ways: first as a verb meaning "to come to a mutual agreement," and second as a noun meaning "a settlement of differences by mutual concessions." This further undermines the illusion of the original scenario, making the joke even funnier.

Seems like it does a pretty good job of explaining the "compromise" is an illusion.
I put a fake phone number into Twitter and a throwaway email. Got a few complaints about not having verified my number, then got banned for breaking the rules.

“Your account is permanently suspended
After careful review, we determined your account broke the Twitter Rules. Your account is permanently in read-only mode, which means you can’t Tweet, Retweet, or Like content. You won’t be able to create new accounts. If you think we got this wrong, you can submit an appeal.”

I can’t even follow anyone, but at least I can read tweets.

As I tweeted nothing nor indeed followed anyone all I can assume is that you have to have a real phone number to sign up.
I would not be surprised if people downvote this sort of comment since—no matter the predictions—it seems like an attempt to piggyback off the parent post to make more people see your own post when just posting a top-level comment would have been more appropriate. Not trying to imply intent, though.
She did try. She just didn't handle it very well.
And cost of living in France is very low. People are happy with 1800€, as long as they have the rebates for theater and transports.
My first thought was to scramble to see if Canada had any plans to stop printing the Canadian National Topographic System map series (not nautical maps, but topographic maps that cover the entire landmass of Canada).

For wilderness canoeists, topographic maps are indispensable, and not replaceable by electronic systems. There are no electrical outlets in the wilderness, lugging batteries across 3km portages isn't an option, and canoe trips can easily last two or three weeks.

Fortunately, they don't currently have plans to stop. However, the Canadian government has recently added a list of Certified Map Printers in addition to the older network of Map Dealers who carry the entire series of thousands of maps (but frequently run out of the map you're looking for). Presumably, Certified Map Printers will print maps on demand. Sounds great!

Incidentally, you can also download Canadian topographic maps for free, and print them out yourself. But going into the wilderness with maps that aren't waterproof would be tantamount to suicide.

I wonder if the UKHO has made similar provisions to refer customers to print shops that have the equipment to print waterproof charts on demand.
A better command would be « how do i », that simply prompt chatgpt for an advice
Have you read Rainbows End?
I went to the trouble of getting a disposable number
I think the wording of the error message that was eventually implemented is still off because in many schools parents are supposed to buy the Chromebooks that then get used during lessons. Your administrator is not always the owner of the device!

I doubt the effectiveness of turning off this game, kids will be distracted either way. Does it really matter if they play the dinosaur game or stare out of the window?
Twitch requires your phone number to a) become verified (because apparently paying them every month for 5 years is not a verification) and even dumber, b) to enable TOTP.

And people on the Twitch subreddit insult you for even questioning this issue, even after they had a data leak. And yes, that's a majority opinion over there.

It's sad.
Normal flow in other distros I contributed to: "thanks for the patch, we'll do the rest".

Nix flow: your patch is not done according to our guidelines, so fuck off. Still not. Still not. Read the guidelines. Still not, read the guidelines. You have to squash commits manually, we won't enable autosquashing because someone important doesn't like them. Nope, your time isn't valuable because there are too many of you and just one nix.

It's like they enjoy spending time to tell occasional contributors, who can't memorize all nix rituals, "fuck off" instead of spending that time to do the necessary finishing touches.

So, critical issues/vulnerabilities remain unpatched, some formulas are outdated by 5 years, because the relevant maintainer says the old package works for him but new one breaks something on his machine and offers to investigate his issue on your own by a single log line. Of course completely ignoring all _your_ issues which are fixed in an upstream patch made one year ago.

I know people who decided not to make a single contribution to nixpkgs until the things change because of that shitshow and I joined that movement. It's really easier to have a personal private fork of nixpkgs and make all the changes there instead of dealing with the upstream and that's what I would strongly recommend to any nix newcomer.
This is fantastic, but not fully in the spirit of the old web. Personal pages looked like they did because they were essentially outsider art: the product of experimentation by teenagers and rank amateurs, who had no idea what we were doing. In 1999 we were using Netscape Composer and FrontPage Express, because they came with our browsers and were fun to explore. Only a web professional could use these tricks today to simulate that appearance.

The click-and-drag tools and absolutely garbage code generators were integral to the experience, because they brought in the weirdos who didn't know we were doing it wrong. We learned, but lost something along the way.
Why use a tutorial when ChatGPT has you covered?

> How do I create a nix package that clones eMacs from GitHub and builds it from source?

{ pkgs ? import <nixpkgs> {}, fetchFromGitHub }:

let

emacsSrc = fetchFromGitHub {

owner = "emacs-mirror";

repo = "emacs";

rev = "master";

sha256 = "0xabcd1234";

};

in pkgs.stdenv.mkDerivation {

name = "emacs";

version = "27.1";

src = emacsSrc;

buildInputs = [ pkgs.autoconf pkgs.make ];

configurePhase = ''

autoconf

./configure --prefix=$out

'';

buildPhase = "make";

installPhase = "make install";

}
Is this something that's documented publicly? I'd love to read more.
"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." -- C. S. Lewis
- Magnitude 9 earthquake in Japan near Tokyo
> The FBI and CIA were driving the removal or soft-censoring of speech that the US government didn't like.

There’s no right to post CSAM or revenge porn on the internet, so of course the FBI “drives the removal” of that, it is their job.

I’ve done legal compliance for this elsewhere, I have turned down government requests without being persecuted in return, and I know for a fact Twitter’s previous administration was one of the most aggressive at fighting back here and put a great deal of legal effort into it. Example of a more cooperative response would maybe be Amazon Ring.

There’s also no right for foreign intelligence ops to post on US social media so of course the CIA has opinions on that, it’s their job. Etc.

(Current example of this one: a Chinese group is flooding Twitter search for different Chinese city names with ads for sex workers, to block people searching covid news.)

All these things happen under the rule of law, not random emails. If you don’t like it, change the law. I don’t know why you’d want to do that though.

I agree people might’ve said something other than this, but those people are amateurs and are wrong; talk to the EFF if you actually need advice here.
> sneaky marketing blog

What’s sneaky? OP states at the beginning of the post they’re a solutions architect at AWS… and provides reasons you may not want to use AWS if you want your own single user mastodon instance.
The professor in question is employed by University of Zürich, Switzerland.

Their Research integrity office can be found here: https://www.research.uzh.ch/en/procedures/integrity.html
You think all of this will happen in 2023? I could see AI becoming more powerful and more of an issue for content moderation/spam/propoganda, but leading to social, political, and economic change? I'm doubtful.
Censorship that violates the 1st amendment. I doubt that anything illegal happened, but that is the implication.

FBI or “OGA”
Mental time travel can make us better people
Now we are just talking by each other. Previously you were talking about university students picking easy thesis topics. I reacted to that, and now you are talking about primary education.

These two are very different contexts.
I'm 40+ year old dad as well. I don't feel stuck at home with wife and kids. I don't want to ever return to the office. I'm in managerial position and know that WFH is not any less efficient or less comfortable. I find office to have more distractions. Sentiment is shared across the team as well.
I would add The Castles of Burgundy to that price range list.
I dunno, I’m 36 and Adderall is the difference between “low performance dev about to get put on PIP because he doesn’t do his work” and “software engineering team lead being congratulated by higher ups on your teams performance”. Which is literally the last few years of my life’s ups and downs.

People hearing the same thing over and over can be annoying to some, but for others it’s the only thing that’ll really get through a lot of our skulls and get us to try something different.
Spot on analysis. Especially the last point. The divide will indeed be between believers and non believers much more than rich and poor.

The rich and poor will both have among their lines people who think the AI will uplift the masses and others who think it is a tool of oppression. The real battle would be on those who think they can control it for the betterment of humanity. And those that do no.
I thought Elon having his arm in there up to the elbow was considered part of the problem.

Now that he has shoved said arm up somewhere else, Tesla should be a bit more free of his grip? Or is the removal as painful as the insertion?
I talked to the hacker, he's asking for $50K
Are certified electronic charts hardened against EMPs?
Monet’s Garden in Giverny
It's possible there was something wrong with my flake config as it was a cargo culted hack job. I tried updating using unstable and it made no difference. I looked at nixpkgs head for chromium and I didn't see any update PRs landed or incoming. I asked on the community chat and whoever was the knowledgeable person answering questions at the time did confirm that it looked out of date.

I'm sure I could have found a way if I persevered and ramped up properly. I just don't have that kind of time. Maybe after I retire I can pick up where I left off. I do suspect there's a big opportunity to build a shallower ramp onto nixos.
And people are realizing that Musk isn’t a wizard and Tesla is just another car company.
Ask HN: Disappearing Comments?
Just out of curiousity, under what circumstances do comments completely disappear from HN threads? I recently posted a comment (this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34116509 )that several people found offensive to the HN culture and rules. Some comments called me out for my word choice, or the sentiment I expressed. Some agreed. In two or three cases, where I responded to criticism with an explanation of my intent and and apology for the unintended offense, and one where I simply agreed with the interlocutor, the comments - both my response and the one I was responding are now gone. How does this happen?
They can be breached and in compliance with GDPR. Basically you need to do 'best effort', avoid holding on to data you do not need (data required for verifying logins, password recovery would typically be 'data you need') - and report breaches to the authorities and end users.

The GDPR does not make impossible demands like "never have a security breach".
How did you come to the conclusion that religion works at all?
You could improve in some places.

I also use DO and first of all Mastodon itself, the web services, streaming API, can run on minimal nodes. I have almost 1000 MAU's now and only need about 600M RAM for each web service container instance.

And backups, for that I use postgres-operator (yes it's kubernetes), which does S3 backups and those cost almost nothing. (I know cost can go up if I need to restore because of egress traffic)

Media is also in S3, with a Cloudfront proxy. As soon as I enabled the CF proxy my S3 costs went down to 0.1 dollars basically.

And finally, thank the gods for kubernetes because it allows me to dynamically scale up sidekiq when the queues are backed up.

So my base cost for 1000 MAU's on DO is about 150USD/month. But it goes up if Sidekiq scales up temporarily, so it's a fluent final cost based on how many times Sidekiq had to scale up in a month.

Most importantly for me is that nothing in this setup is vendor locked. S3 compatible services are plenty, cloudfront web proxy services, plenty of those out there, AWS SES for outgoing e-mails can also be replaced. And of course kubernetes with proper IaC can be deployed into any managed k8s solution.
This tweet[0] from about a month ago is pretty interesting.

"If you ever wanted to dump someone's entire LastPass vault, this is where you start :D"

The author was referring to the linked presentation slides.

[0]: https://twitter.com/_MG_/status/1600980559009677313
See the NixOS manual for more information on buildFHSUserEnv (https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/#sec-fhs-environment...).
This feels like an overly utilitarian outlook. Some would say STEM fields help build a better world, but art and “pulp” actually make that world worth living in.
Yes, though I don't remember any of it 15+ years later. Do you have a (spoiler-free) reason to reread it? :)
I loved this line, cause I hadn't looked at it from this angle before:

"For some reason, people who would never read an article in the Wall Street Journal about Procter and Gamble acquiring a new shampoo company will devour content about Microsoft acquiring a tech startup they’ve never heard of."

This is so true. I've known people who get this instant passion for an area they know nothing about, if it brushes up against an area they do know something about, and want to start analyzing it like baseball card stats or something. But they're basically reading a card that's a square kilometre in size about a sport they have never played or watched for any amount of time longer than it takes to momentarily look at, and then flip past, a PBS cricket match (if you're North American and have no British relatives).

edit: Only modification I would make to the article would be to emphasize that not only does Mastadon work in a way that is antithetical to contemporary understandings of how the internet works, it more importantly embodies the way that the Internet worked before capitalism showed up.

I gave up on slogans as a means of social change decades ago, but I would love to see "Protocols Not Platforms" get more traction in the zeitgeist.
Exactly my point. You can already do it with direnv, have guix shell once you cd into dir and then just do `jekyll build`.