skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The idea of empowering, democratic, relatively "low" tech that doesnt abuse its users has been expunged so effectively from the public consciousness (and tech journalism and others are so complicit) its not a mystery this new narrative doesnt fit"

It isnt just that, its also the fact that the media's conversation around moderation is childishly underdeveloped and nuanced. Moderation IS the hard problem of social networks, you cant automate moderation away, you cant not have moderation but any moderation policy you choose is going to have edgecases and problematic instances and the distortions those cause are going to threaten to overwhelm the spirit of the moderation (which is, dont be a dick). Also, people stuck at those edgecases (someone talking about their experience as a victim of an illegal crime for example) are going to get banned or silenced in extremely harmful ways.

The reason Mastodon is the future is that it attempts to solve this moderation problem by having many different communities with different moderation policies that have unique wordings, red lines for behavior and different moderators enforcing the established policies. When different communities federate, they do so on the basis of similar philosophies about moderation. When more and more communities with similar value systems federate the edgecases of any one particular moderation policy begin to become less important as a vulnerability or exploitation point since any one particular community is small and the shared spirit of the moderation policies ("dont be a dick) becomes more important as a guiding principle in moderation disputes. Also the red line of unnaceptable behavior is different for each community which creates a fuzzy region of more and more unacceptable behavior that trolls cant exploit the way they can tip toe justtt around the edge of a singular red line.

No moderation system is sustainable since it will by definition have edgecases which will cause problems or be exploited by trolls. No moderation isn't an option. Mastodon/the Fediverse is the third option nobody knew we had and really I have NO idea how corporate social networks with monolithic moderation policies projected across millions of people have any capability of adapting this innovation. It is the massive elephant in the room for corporate social media companies and yet tech journalism is still stuck on "should we have no moderation or a single moderation policy?" which Mastodon is FAR past at this point onto more interesting questions like how do instance admins negotiate moderation disputes? What does that look like and how can it be improved? There have been disputes between predominantly black communities and predominantly white queer communities on the fediverse and it gets absurdly complicated and nuanced fast but there is the capacity for that conversation to happen and different people to make their own choices and part paths (defederate) that makes Mastodon undeniably a far more advanced social technology than any other corporate social media platform where it just becomes person A is right or person B is right.
Let's take a reel trending on Instagram, even though same dance moves is copied countless times, it still gets views.

Prompt Engineering if utilised by artists who knows how to steal, they can deceive people that generated output is original.

A social network that can streamline these into a simple processes can massively onboard new artists who can create art with drastically less efforts.
Nihonjinron (Theories/Discussions about the Japanese)
This is actually the opposite, by default, impurities like environment variables can still be used, as well as binaries, or other things !

A small example :

```

[remy@typhoon:~/Blog]$ cat flake.nix
{
inputs = { nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-22.11"; };

outputs = { self, nixpkgs }:
let pkgs = nixpkgs.legacyPackages.x86_64-linux;
in
{
devShell.x86_64-linux =
with pkgs;
pkgs.mkShell {
buildInputs = [
python3Packages.pelican
python3Packages.markdown
];
};
};

}

[remy@typhoon:~/Blog]$ export HELLO="WORLD"

[remy@typhoon:~/Blog]$ nix develop

warning: Git tree '/home/remy/Blog' is dirty

[remy@typhoon:~/Blog]$ echo $HELLO

WORLD

```

And, because flakes are not stable, you need to enable them with e.g. `--experimental-features 'nix-command flakes'`. And by default, you can still access outside binaries, like let's say ls ! Which is why, to have real hermetic builds, in Guix for example, it's advised to run in containers and so on.
At least one round of layoffs at Google

Return to office in most companies. Reduction in remote hiring, but "remote only" companies will persist to take advantage of more diverse labour pool.

Significant drop in tech compensation, but especially in the Bay Area.

Further collapse of crypto/web3. Some major VC who has been heavily pushing it will announce their divestment from further ventures.

Some amount of intensified public/cultural backlash against LMM type AI. Bitter lawsuits, especially around CoPilot.

Significant drops in real estate prices in places that have seen overheated prices for the last decade or two (in particular Toronto, Vancouver).

Significant rise in unemployment rate, beginnings of an official recession by mid or late year. Inflation will drop. Potential major drop in oil prices as demand slackens. Perhaps leading to some political/economic troubles in governments heavily dependent on energy export revenues but this may not happen until 2024.

Major shift to austerity in western/G7 countries, administered by both "right wing" and "progressive" governments. Similar to mid-90s. Effort to instil "labour discipline", rises in productivity, and major policy efforts to resist wage increases and unionization.

End of interest rate increases, setting things up for cuts in 2024.

Winter intensification of war in Ukraine leads to a stalemate at pretty much the current occupied areas. By mid or late year a "peace" deal will be arrived at -- with some territory lost by Ukraine (but maybe the return of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia) but a humiliating lack of major progress on its "goals" by Russia. Both parties frustrated will simply use the pause in hostilities to heavily re-arm.
It's the "let's do this together" attitude. Whatever than the "how can we get rich quick" one that powers most of the internet now
Also: https://millionshort.com/
> That we cannot get laptops or even desk machines with ECC, and so have them crash frequently, is seen as a trivial side effect of the strategy

I’m not sure what you mean by “frequently”, but my non-ECC machines definitely do not crash “frequently”.

> before MS, a program crashing was grounds for a refund

Source?
> They don't see a distinction between regular contracts and smart contracts. It's all just contracts.

That is not some that any of those quotes states. The thrust of those quotes is focused on the value of the blockchain as an immutable ledger, and doesn't mention "smart contracts" once.

The statement you are trying to dispute seems to be pretty widely accepted. Once you need to refer to physical world events, you need yo trust some entity to report those events accurately, removing the trustless aspect of "smart contracts" that is their primary selling point.

The most you can read into the quotes that you posted is that the judge sees a strong future for the UK judiciary in resolving disputes about trust when "smart contracts" have to interact with the offline world.

I would also point out that "smart contracts" are not literally contracts, but pieces of trustless software. Conflating those concepts does nothing to help the uphill reputational battle that faces the cryptocurrency ecosystem given all of it's shenanigans.
They will have poisoned our asses with poisonous gasses.
> The ISS will be taken out by some space junk.

A bold but possible prediction.

I've seen a more cautious statistical take somewhere: well above 50% chance of a space-related fatality within the decade. Either from space junk colliding with a crewed station, or space junk falling to earth finally winning the lottery by coming down into a populated area and killing someone.
He got a life. But not as we know it.
Yeltsin was quite different from the successor in question. He "gave up" his "family" ruling in exchange for security guarantees.

USA probably should've chosen a stronger leader to support, but there wasn't much choice at that time. Or at least they should've helped to organize the transition of power to someone with a more credible past than that of a KGB officer.
It's not a large development team. I moved away from them years ago because support for FIDO keys for example was always "coming soon" and still isn't there. They've been coasting for years and this breach doesn't surprise me at all.
> Sure, it’s a piece of cake for sysadmins or an AWS solutions architect, but it makes me wonder how many fragile instances there are out there that have grown fast but could also fail fast.

The way I read the post showcased how easy it was for the AWS SA to make insane billing mistakes with unneeded things like CloudWatch. They also hide the cost of EC2 because there's no charge for that instance type until 2023. This isn't a positive advertisement for AWS in my mind. This is in line with experience I've had with former AWS consumers I've converted over to DigitalOcean in 2022. I saved those conversions, on average, 70% of their prior AWS bill - with no loss of functionality. AWS has spun out of control with the nickel and dime aspect to billing. I can't say I'd recommend it to small or very large clients unless you have money to burn. At the end of the day "traditional" architectures on AWS are not cost effective without excessive oversight of choices.
Ukraine has brought the war back to Russia in a handful of attacks.

Another argument is that conscription leads to unrest, and also sowing doubt amongst the leadership is a kind of war.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/05/strikes-deep-i...
Come on baby lick my battery.
I'm trying to get a double blind controlled study of the weather duringy holidays published, but the editor of Science has not returned my calls yet.
When I was a kid somebody made a bunch of Christmas wreaths with punchcards. They were individually twisted in a cone shape and stapled together maybe 3 feet in diameter. And sprayed green. Kinda abstract which was a 70s style.
Basically the same as the lead exposure in children problem discovered by Herbert Needleman:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2%80%93crime_hypothesis

I think that a microplastic build-up in the body will be discovered to lead to violent behaviour, or possibly cognitive impairment.
I have moved away from LastPass as soon as they were bought by LogMeIn. It was already a UX shitshow and it only got worse.

I now mostly use 1Password but I also host a VaultWarden instance. I haven't yet moved to it fully because even though 1P is also devolving and I don't like having my passwords db on a 3rd party server, I still find BW's clients clunky especially the browser integration.

My question was specifically about the kinds of issues in the OP though. I poked around my Firefox profiles and haven't found much but I don't really know what I'm looking for.
The countable set of real numbers [video]
I would actually. There are online escrow services for that.

Also I didn't goad anybody into doing anything: they offered to bet and I took the bait (and then edited their post to remove the request for betting). Not the other way around.

If you're not willing to bet, then don't create a post on the internet stating that you're willing to bet? simple.
A programming language designed specifically to be generated using prompts would be useless because the AI would have no data to actually generate the code from prompts.
You have to realize that so-called AI is more of a lossy search engine than an actual intelligent being.
Lisp with all the money JS has had thrown at boring repeating problems would do more with the money and you'd get to see the explode out view of the structure and meaning at all levels in the information model.
The one prediction I've seen (not here) that I agree with is that the Model Y will be the highest selling vehicle in the world in 2023. But I don't disagree with you about BEVs. I think companies will focus on hybrids as much as BEVs.
I’d focus more on how existing standards can be abused - there’s some cool work on creating a combined privacy and security review instrument

https://www.w3.org/TR/security-privacy-questionnaire/

That was done after issues with the battery api

http://lukaszolejnik.com/battery.pdf

Back in 2016, my supervisor at the Center for Democracy & Technology used to physically block the door to his office and make statements such as that if I didn’t want to compromise on encryption, I’d have to agree that fingerprinting isn’t tracking.

(As well as claim his “friend in GCHQ” agreed.)

To this day I am shocked that a major NGO allowed a first generation PhD student be physically threatened by an agent of foreign power for trying to avoid privacy leaks in new web standards, and that paired with career obstruction when I tried to retreat to something less political is why I left civil society entirely and am currently interviewing around at coffee shops to save up for emigration, since there’s no point in further self education if folks are just going to treat job interviews as chances to engage in further abuse or as free consulting sessions.

If you want to see an early version of the work I did, it’s live at https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-privacy/2015AprJ...

Merry Christmas, if you celebrate.
'Life or death:' Britons buckle under the cost of living crisis this winter
Gendered affordance perception and unequal domestic labour
I appreciate that I don’t have to worry about financial insecurity. Layoffs are not scary to me. My biggest fear is lack of health insurance and healthcare costs when unemployed.
From Nigeria and wishing everyone a merry Christmas and a prosperous New year ahead.

I have to say that this is an amazing community full of really awesome people. I never regretted being a part of this community and I pray we all keep growing in leaps and bounds.
> When hiring begins again a large number of the new hires are either remote or are in other geographical areas where labour costs are lower.

I think this is a definite possibility too. I understand the reasons why US tech comp is higher than the rest of the world, but I don't see why it is _that_ much higher - I'm not sure it's sustainable in the new remote-work world.
Cheers, I'm also currently on 1P and it's fine. Although I'm not nearly as positive about their improvements as you, it's still a fine product from the user's pov.

My question is related to the OP though, I'm not looking for UX/UI or feature comparisons.
My favorite is when data silently corrupts, and then is happily propagated to your off-site recovery :/
i'd definitely pay for a book about sun too... it seems like the one company that in s.v that never got one.
I was excited about Musk buying Twitter and his supposed free speech agenda. Yet lol free speech when it only suits him as well the constant changing his mind and broken promises. I once again deleted Twitter off my phone.

If this hack is true Musk buying Twitter shows he is no genius or ever was. He's just another ego maniac Trump type which the majority of the public is tired of
It's a very good point. Linux was basically invisible until Red Hat showed up. RH wasn't even the first for profit business distributing Linux, but they were the first with a marketing department.

And after some publicity, people who wanted to try Linux were no longer just the usual nerds who would download it or get a copy from a friend, but were folks used to paying for software so who were happy to pay someone to send them a disk with a distro on it.
What medieval manuscripts teach us about our ancestors’ pets
Facebook does a few very simple things lots of times a second.

It doesn’t scale to lots of different things regularly.
This couldn’t be any further from my experience. Instead of being told fuck off, I was offered (and later offered when I became a maintainer myself) constructive criticism, often times with the patches, required to make it up to standard, included.

> maintainer says the old package works for him

We’re all just volunteers, who are doing this in our free time. Usually this works well enough for most packages, but you are always free to submit the fix yourself on nixpkgs ;). At least compared to other distros, that workflow simpler.
Uploaded to heavens.
however, it might be that someone who would actually benefit from such remediations hasn't thought of it seriously or recently (very, very common with ADHD). Stories about such things working could be useful to these folks and aren't necessarily meant to undermine the difficulties you mention.
‘I stopped saying Xi’s name out loud’: Why a correspondent had to flee China
You can sign garbage therefore it is a human issue.
Definitely, I will take a look to sources you share.
Just want to thank you for your effort and time to write down this response. This answer alone is an evidence to my initial take on the christmas topic, this question never disappoints no mather where you ask it (:
> Nope, your time isn't valuable because there are too many of you and just one nix.

This ... seems entirely reasonable, though?

As you point out, having to do extra work on behalf of others isn't desirable.

-- If a pull request is made and the maintainer(s) don't like it, the options are "reject it", "maintainer puts in extra work to accept it", "pull request author puts in extra work to get it accepted".

With as many open PRs to nixpkgs as there are, it seems reasonable to ask that pull requests are as streamlined as possible.

That this isn't a great experience for new (or infrequent) contributors is unfortunate; although, "contributing" was raised as a pain point in the last community survey. https://discourse.nixos.org/t/2022-nix-survey-results/18983
I probably shouldn’t keep repeating this joke, but IMHO they’ve been going downhill since they let Thatcher privatize the Ministry of Sound.
On ‘slow’, this is very instance dependent; perhaps try another. My original one was pretty painful, but my current one is fast, certainly faster than Twitter of late.
People used to die from transportation, drowning when crossing rivers, accidents around horses, etc... were very frequent. Safety codes are fairly modern.
Kinda WEIRD that military fighter jets follow Santa around "protecting" him.

https://youtu.be/MU1iptxTbog
Hmm, the OS makes pretty heavy use of OpenGL ES AFAIK, so I would think that's unlikely.
> The second one is much easier to implement, so that’s what they chose.

Easier to implement, I can agree on that, but does it lead to better outcomes in the long term? Since you already have your back covered, as one could say, doesn't that affect in any way the strive for a better product? My personal opinion is that it leads to more mediocre results than otherwise would have been.

I don't believe for a second that a private company will stop developing a product that (1) has a market and (2) has a demand. Without a market and without a demand the product is useless anyway.
Every system has flaws. That doesn't mean all systems are meaningless. It's easy to point out the flaws in a system; fixing them or proposing a new system with fewer flaws is much, much harder.
I'd like to see two large language models go head to head in philosophical conversation one playing China's Liu Hsieh and player two the U.S.'s Marvin Minsky beginning on the topic Ai.
Protocols Not Platforms - like Bitcoin which is mostly traded on a few exchanges, or email which is mostly handled by a few giant services?

Mastodon will be no exception with high likelihood. Choose it over eg Twitter if you prefer where it's going _as a platform._ I actually prefer where Twitter seems to be going, but to each his own
There are some newer medications that show promise for people who've had little/no effect or bad side effects from the usual stuff, or who had trouble accessing Adderall. Suggesting that could help. Yet another "Ritalin? Therapy?" floating in the void will not.
To be fair I don’t think nation state actors care about the bill. Be it US, China, Russia, Saudi, etc.
Mastodon. It's bitcoin for your tweets. You're welcome ^^

(Edit: just for clarification, this is not meant to be serious, hence the ^^, but rather a play on bad analogies in newspapers trying to explain something the writer has not understood to people that probably never will)
But how can you marry Scarlett Johansson if I'm also going to marry Scarlett Johansson?
Don’t tempt fate.
Inequality isn't the inevitable result of anything, that's an outcome we choose.
this would bite me in the worst possible moment when i need to login to somewhere and i lost my phone/battery dead/company hacked/etc.

i have been using keepass(xc) since it's been around and i dont use random passwords. every year i create a formula that creates all my passwords and i put these in the vault. it also enforces password rotation. losing the vault i can still come up with any of my psswords just by remembering the formula.

for company server services it's a different story, i generate wholly random strong passwords and store them in the offline vault.

edit: typos
When I was in middle school, I discovered that the content filter proxy server could be bypassed: it ran on port 8080, but outside of the school's firewall. So if you found another proxy running on 8080, you could use that instead.

I found an RSS feed of proxy servers and their addresses. So I wrote a VB6 app that would pull it, set the registry key for a proxy server, open the embeddable browser in the background, and time how long it takes to load a bunch of popular sites. It would iterate through the list of servers, and finally settle on the server that had the fastest load times. When you closed the program, it would set the registry key back.

At the time, autorun.ini was still a thing. All of my friends had flash drives that would "turn off" the firewall when they plugged them in.

I was a young teenager. If you think you can stop a determined kid from bypassing your rules, you're fighting the wrong battle.
It does look pretty clean. You're the creator of this blockchain, I assume?
Show HN: Alone this xmas? Come say hi in an open virtual xmas party
Video of the actual talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlmEiT5bhxg

Aside: I never really understood distributing just slides from a talk. Any good talk most of the information isn’t in the slides.
No, that’s highly unusual. Maybe people know a handful of greetings / numbers in other languages but I think you’re vastly overestimating the number of people capable of speaking more than one language.
One can process petabytes without bit flips if one use proper checksums and error correction codes. While that does imposes overhead, it is not big and, thanks to Shannon theorem, can be made arbitrary small with sufficiently big blocks.
A huge crisis of confidence in financial markets as larger frauds are uncovered.
>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.

Why would the FBI be involved with anything related to revenge porn? Posting revenge porn is not a federal crime.

(Tangentially, it appears that there remain two states in which revenge porn is not a crime. Yuck.)
> In my experience you just get blocked after a couple of requests.

Ah, that confirms what I suspected then. Good to know, thanks!
Yup. I'm not going to argue with myself, but you are correct that this is a complex and fascinating topic that deserves more attention. Space constraints led me to vastly oversimplify. If you'd like more of a rebuttal/clarification, see https://danielbmarkham.com/epistemology-wars/ but by all means challenge my assumptions and premises.