skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Counter-examples: the passenger pigeon, the moa, and Mauritius blue pigeon are extinct, primarily due to hunting as a food source.

Other human food species are extinct due to a combination of being a human food source and a food source for invasive species introduced by humans (eg, the Domed Rodrigues giant tortoise).

Famously the American buffalo went from 60 million in the late 1700s to 541 a century later. It was a cheap meat, provided cheap leather, and in order to deprive Plains Indians from a food source, the US government decided not to protect it earlier.

Then there's the collapse of many marine species due to overfishing, most recently the king and snow crab population collapse which canceled the season in Alaska, and the continuing question of the role humans played in the Quaternary extinction event.

Therefore, I suspect your claim isn't so clear-cut.
TBF, I'm still a little sour they didn't go the BeOS route. I LOVED BeOS.
> But they can't simply dissolve the hard boundary of having a service in another location.

I've seen people doing that a few times already. They start changing due to some uninformed kind of "convenience", and then you look at the services API and it makes no sense at all.
AI porn addiction

Both general research and the success of OnlyFans suggest that personalized porn is already quite addictive. AI emotion analysis via webcam and microphone can identify what you like and a reinforcement-learning AI can learn to produce a script for more of what you like. In combination with AI image / video generation, the whole system then creates a self-reinforcing feedback loop. Maybe add ChatGPT so that you can talk to your virtual lover, a $420 million market [1]

In the animal kingdom, sexual desire appears to be strong enough to override the flight response [2] with beetles getting eaten alive while trying to copulate with beer bottles. So this could become addictive to the point that the "victims" of this AI system do nothing else. As a prison of the mind, I'd consider it a horror scenario, even though the "victims" will probably all enjoy their captivity.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/08/06/china-online...

[2] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/j.1440...
Presumably they mean "multicellular life". Or "wildlife". As distinct from toxic and anaerobic microbes.
Definitely, the journey is a meeting of inner state with exterior environment. I read Catcher in the Rye in my teens (but almost 50 years after first being published, in the 90s) and also found it meh.
> was more thinking about in the language it's written in

Depends, but does it matter? It's usually recursion that is executed fast and with little overhead.
The abstraction leakage in Django is to know whether you should use "select_related" or "prefetch_related".
Thanks for the advice! What language would you recommend for someone like me who is completely new to CS?
Almost every job right now is so far abstracted from survival that it barely makes any sense. My job (that pays very well) involves taking an existing product and shuffling the UI around so people think it's a different product.

Even people with useful jobs like baristas and janitors aren't really helping anyone survive they're just making it nice for everyone else.

So few people are in farming, or medicine, where you can really say that. This is a societal problem imo, people really want/need to feel useful and we haven't been able to come up with 8 billion useful things to do

Also, yes there is injustice around the world, sure lets solve that, it sounds great. I feel like the solution is pretty similar to how we solve what's happening to poor people in our own country
I think you are correct. Most of the other replies seem to think that what Apple would do is like EC2 on up, but what you are saying is “would do something different”, so not EC2.

In a sense they have started to do this in small steps… iCloud Sync, and the new cloud-based service built into Xcode.

I think we would see Apple do more things like GCP’s original vision of App Engine, focused on improving the delivery story for Xcode developers. Write swift actors that run not on the device, but in the cloud. The code could be shipped as part of your app and run in the context of the device user. Or they could offer a shared compute that is, again, integrated into your App Store submission somehow, or maybe is a separate submission, but tied into your Xcode project.

I don’t see them offering a generic hosted VM solution. As you said, it’s too commodity and not worth iterating on for Apple.
Chatbot-based dating matchmaker/concierges.

You have an ongoing, lighthearted chat with the bot (maybe it pings you now and then asking for updates.) Every once in a while it asks you more personal questions to switch things up and deepen its model of you.

Now and then it says "may I introduce so-and-so to the chat?" and introduces someone else who (on their side) has been primed to talk about the same topics and, at least according to the bot's internal models, is likely to hit it off with you.

Then the chatbot itself politely leaves the conversation but keeps listening and privately messages the both of you to keep things humming along, for example nudging one of you to ask for an in person date when the moment seems right (or helping you politely wind things down if you ask it to). After a date it asks you to spill the beans so it knows what went well and what didn't.

I think this could almost be made to work with the tech we have now; a fluent-but-shallow ChatGPT style chatbot is probably good enough for the task as long as it is augmented by some additional models to predict dating compatibility, recognize when things are going well or badly, suggest actions (like changing the subject to or away from personal topics, asking for a date, etc). And of course the models would improve over time as the system learns from its own successes and failures.

Whether this is dystopian or utopian is left as an exercise for the reader -- I'm married and 15 years out of the game!
> Because in 99.99% of cases they won't

That's because 99.99% of the time people don't break the rules, because they know it's easy to get banned.

> you'll benefit from mass viewership

Probably not. It works for some, but take a truly random sample of Twitter users and calculate the percentage that have more than 10,000 followers.
Not in a million years. Meta is an unorganized mess under an incompetent leadership, while AWS already hosts half the net for a reason.
I highly doubt it as I know other cloud providers smaller than GCP and Azure have trouble with some clients as they want to move to AWS. Cause well the buzzwords.

Realistically, Meta doesn't exactly have a great track record with user data and privacy. So I doubt a lot of companies would be willing to join.

OVH was created in 1999 and I would say is less well known than AWS probs meta have a similar client to IBM Cloud or OVH.
> It says so on the fucking page.

FTFY
> attack him with a program that would generate a bubble just for him: fake friends, fake events happening, fake influencers and news programs just for him

In the mid-'90s, I prototyped a personalized newspaper, Web-scraped from news sites, and I was also manually reading all the major outlets that were online each day, and that immediately got me thinking of a risk...

You know how a pre-Internet politician, when speaking to one group (say, at a senior citizens luncheon fundraiser), might say one thing, and then say a different thing to another group, to manipulate them both? What happens when each person gets a personalized newspaper, and a bad actor could tailor it to push the buttons of each individual, on an automated mass scale?

However, one thing the Trump phenomenon showed was that one might not need to tailor messages to individuals' intimate profiles -- a very crude, low-tech, one-size-fits-all messaging can control a huge chunk of the population. The "visionary" thinking was barking up the wrong vector. So we might take an odd comfort from that.
One of the principal engineers at Amazon called that “Org-atecture”.
With an IDE you're can just look at the class hierarchy/data types rather than the files. As long as those are well organized, who cares hoe they span files?

For instance, in C# a class can span multiple files using "partial" or you can have multiple classes in a single file. It's generally not an issue as long as the code itself is organized. The only downside is the reliance on an IDE, which is pretty standard these days anyway.
Even in America, a demotion can be unlawful if e.g. done in retaliation for whistleblowing, or if it's done on the basis of membership in a protected group.
The US in this case, but the Russian (French-built) LNG exports have also greatly increased (for now), to the point that they are now larger than by pipeline (which has fallen dramatically) !

(Though still several times less than imports from US.)
> They can’t ban you from your own blog. They can’t silence you.

Imagine believing this in 2023.
Actually they could work on marrying design (their traditional client base) with some lighter development tools-cross platform. This could be marketed as a moat from AI. Possibly some good demand growth potential there.

Edit-the goal would be to offer a product that makes a suitably skilled designer in the tools roughly equal to a minimally viable UI developer.
Are you healthy? Lets harvest your organs to save so many more people for the small cost of one life.
I don’t know many great alternatives, but usually people will point to email in this case. And great documentation (wiki/FAQ/Readme) to preempt a lot of potential questions. I find those work well for me and it’s what a lot of people like because it reduces the amount of urgent but non-important interruptions in their work.
On one hand, I agree with you catching in all aspects would be near impossible.

However similar to Apple, a more focused approach could be viable and profitable much more quickly.

AWS has been around for a long time, but they also have tons and tons of feature bloat, and full of redundant services with different pricing. Should I use an ELB or an ALB? Fargate, ECS, EKS, code deploy? The list of services is overwhelming and confusing to most.

A new major player with a cleanly architected design from the start with a clear path to happiness could be successful. Though Meta is full of feature bloat so I don't know if they would be the right choice to execute that vision.
Due to installation deaths, PV has higher deaths per kWhr install: https://www.statista.com/statistics/494425/death-rate-worldw...
Legal use of hallucinogenic mushrooms begins in Oregon
Wouldn't surprise me if netlify eventually starts taking down sites based on some content moderation rationale, so have a plan B for that. But everything else I agree with.
A single 1TB thumb drive could easily hold hundreds of flags for every human on the planet. Actual foreign keys, not so many ... but I'm pretty sure all of the places mentioned above have fancier infra than a single pluggable mail order drive.

Compare the Stasi's reach, with only typewriter & notch card level automation.
I use it all the time. What are these "obvious" problems?
People have a hard time grappling with people not being uniformly good or bad across all axis.
People are subject to criminal penalties (and other kinds of violence) for political reasons, and for refusing to participate in politics. Voting can be seen as a ritual similar to other religious rituals, and not participating is a crime in some countries.
I'd forgotten that part, and I certainly offer no defence of Winston's willingness to commit violence (as it's deplorable, agreed).

I would say that his persecution is absolutely real. There's the scene where he's talking to his loudmouthed friend in the cafeteria and he's like, "This guy talks to much, one day he's just not gunnuh be here. Oh well." The converse being, Winston is reserved at work because he knows he'll be disappeared too if he speaks his mind.

When he does start to express himself it all comes tumbling out. I'm not sure he actually would be willing to throw acid on a child. I think he's just trying to say whatever it is that will get him employed at a revolutionary, because he's desperate to do something.

What I thought you had been referring to was how the whole thing was a bit of a setup from the start (the love nest was bugged, etc).
> How many people's blog posts do you check daily?

Several hundred, of which maybe 20 have something to say on any given day.

RSS is awesome.
Isn’t that just the nature of installing software period?

I suppose perhaps you could read all code you use before installing it, but I expect the number of people who do that rounds down to zero.
But climate is composed of weather.
> And no, Cloud Kitchen doesn’t want to have people fail out that quick so they can “get the deposit.” That’s a terrible LTV to CAC ratio, and like the article says, they can’t even fill the place as it is.

This is the principal-agent problem at work.

The CEO (principal) likely doesn't attend sales meetings, they just set the targets and lets the salespeople (agents) do their thing.

Agents are incentivized to use whatever legal methods at their disposal to close a deal, and book a commission. LTV is the principal's problem, not the agent's.
There used to be a lots of these (Aggregators) and I believe quite a few still survived. I remember writing and getting swarms of traffic -- almost all of them via Aggregators.

This Closure Planet is still active - https://planet.clojure.in
I designed the theme about a decade ago as a fork from my website, and it still is holding strong today.
You realize "second most powerful military" is a meme to mock that same military right? Woosh.
Ask HN: Which CS and math books do you consider trash and which ones gold?
Literally what the title says.
SourceHut offers CI. People end up just using the CI for litecoin/bitcoin/eth/etc mining or the storage for chia mining.
Not convinced by this article until they mentioned cursive. Now fully convinced that essay writing will follow the same path as cursive. Irrelevant and dying skill
Yeah, it’s way more than 5. I’m fan of his, and I’ve listened to everything.
I would say AI policing. I know a lot of western police forces are willing to give it a try even if there are false positives such as met police and predicting if someone is likely to commit a crime.

So similar to blumes ctOS in watch dogs I think that is likely to happen
Given the average crowd, it would be a one-handed version of things….
Twitter seems to have adopted Microservices in 2014, and in 2013 they had ~200M MAU (presumably using a monolith architecture).

Even if Microservices are better for scale, most companies will never experience the level of scale of 2013 Twitter.

Are Microservices beneficial at much smaller levels of scale? Ex: 1M MAU
There is a concept in Sociology of 'civil religion', used to describe central dogma, beliefs and ceremonies of nations distinct from traditional religious institutions, especially in France, the former USSR, and the USA. For example the Australian/NZ commeration of ANZAC day is part of their civil religious landscape and for the USA the War of Independance. It would be easy to argue and I'm sure it has been elsewhere that things like crypto, electric cars, and certain public figures attract similarly quasi-religious followings and beliefs, irrespective of science be it physical or social.
Everything you mention (network traffic cost, code duplication (we instead resorted to auto-generate some shared code between services based on a open-api spec), locked into the architecture) applies to our use case...

And it is reassuring to hear that you seem to have success in avoiding these issues with a monolithic architecture, as I thought I was oldschool for starting to prefer monoliths again.
How do you organize teams if not around services? As the GP points out, the whole point of SOA is to scale people. Yes, this makes rearchitecture hard, but that is always the case at scale. The problem of territoriality and resistance to change needs other solutions (tldr; clueful management and mature leadership level ICs who cut across many teams to align architecture vision and resolve disputes between local staff engineers)
>To claim that you're physically safer in Mexico than in the U.S is an exercise in extraordinarily selective thinking or very particular, completely non-general circumstances.

That's fair. And I think my comment was unintentionally misleading. I was not saying that Mexico is a safer country than the United States. I was trying to explain my perspective. I personally feel safer here, because of neurosis I've built up after living in the US for almost 30 years. Even when I've interacted with police. Because a cop potentially wanting a bribe is more predictable/understandable to me than a buzz cut guy with an assault rifle who could kill me like its nothing and get away with it. That's what the police are like in the United States.

But I also live in Merida, which yes is a non-general, very safe city. But even when I was in CDMX I felt generally safe walking around, going to restaurants and malls.
Palo Alto has a quick and easy site to recategorize URL and was thinking the same would exist for SOPHOS but... nope. Support forms tell you to put in a feature request - what a joke.
They have no good reason to because AFAIK Microsoft and Google are still bleeding money with their cloud divisions because they have to hand out huge free credit grants to gain new customers.

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/why-openai-spent-bar...

"When Microsoft in 2019 said it had invested $1 billion in OpenAI, the high-profile artificial intelligence startup agreed to develop its products exclusively using Microsoft’s Azure cloud servers."
> the US government decided not to protect it earlier

The US government actively supported exterminating bison, for that reason. That included having people shoot them dead from passing trains.
In Illinois the opposite has happened. Been legal for going on 3 years now and an mid quality ounce goes for $300-400 minimum. 1 gram carts retail for $60 plus taxes bringing it to an easy 80. I just drive to Michigan now since the prices there are 4x lower, but the black market is doing quite well here since the number of smokers has increased and prices are half for similar quality flower.
I haven't ventured much into the high CBD territory yet. I'm going to see what I can find when I am back in Thailand in March but might have to wait to be back in Canada as Thailand medicinal is still very early days.
Sorry but that's nuts. Teams that work together on the same project should regularly get together in a synchronous conversation. Doesn't have to be everyday or anything but this is ridiculous and extreme.

It would seem reasonable to me if it were "no meetings with more than 5 people" or something, depending on how their product and development teams are structured. But... three is verboten?
It's not the Blog I have a problem with, it's building the audience. I suck at self promotion, and my soap-box isn't close enough to a steady stream of passers-by.
>Activists have protested the arrival of gas acquired through fracking.

In Appalachia we can set our tap water on fire because activists protest so hard against one last generation of nuclear plants that could have bridged the gap until solar energy became cheap enough to be ubiquitous.

These small but vocal groups were often funded by an odd mixture of dark money coming from former KGB operatives and fixers from the GOP who’d selectively boost useful policies to accomplish goals at odds with a happy, healthy populace.
> and were smug about it

I feel like a lot of the people who had this reaction were reacting to being told (correctly) that how they handled strings was broken. A big reason that projects had difficulty upgrading, especially difficulty using the automatic 2->3 upgrade tooling, was because of broken handling of unicode and broken handling of binary strings. I remember reading a quick assessment of a large open-source project that there were thousands of calls to a single string-handling function that would each need to be inspected by hand to determine whether it was correct usage that would be correctly translated by the 2->3 converter or buggy usage that needed to be fixed before running the 2->3 converter, with some people guessing a 50/50 split. The effort was going to be gargantuan, and though the ultimate cause and responsibility was poor design choices in Python 2, the immediate cause was that the code was wrong, and some people didn't appreciate hearing that.

No one really blamed programmers for getting strings wrong in Python 2. It was unreasonably hard and extremely rare for people to get it right, so there was not really any shame in Python 2 programs and libraries being pervasively broken in that way. But some people still felt it was smug and condescending to make reference to this elephant in the room. This put the Python maintainers in a bad position, because they were trying to explain the benefits of upgrading and also the costs and difficulties, both of which were intimately tied to the brokenness of current codebases.

As a user and spectator to the whole drama, therefore, I felt that some maintainers got overly defensive about issues that virtually every codebase suffered from. And some of them took a "so what" attitude towards bugs involving non-Western languages, saying that if they personally didn't care whether their code handled Chinese or Bengali filenames then it wasn't a bug to do random things with them, which sounded just as bad ten years ago as it does now.
I assume they were aping motherfuckingwebsite.com and its descendents, so it may not be quite their usual style.
> I don't believe MasterCard and Visa are forcing anyone's hand, but they obviously give better deals to card issuers that don't co-brand their card with the domestic payment network.

MasterCard has banned any and all co-branding with domestic payment networks, starting 2023-01-01. Which is why many banks are now forced to abandon Girocard, or are switching to Visa.
I'm making an open source, programmable tactile display called PinThing. Like the classic "Pin Art" pinscreen desk toy, but each pin is motorized and programmable.

I didn't design PinThing specifically for people with blindness, but since it's a real 3D display, it could be useful as a 3D display for shapes, graphs... or even as a real 3D output display for Scratch.

For awhile, this has been a side/passion project, but if there's interest, I'd love to get them a prototype.

Software demo: https://www.pinthing.com/

Hardware demo: https://youtu.be/tx4W3ZDA_Vg
Silver lining, hopefully some rich people of influence are disappointed enough to start taking CC seriously.
GCP seems like a major player in this field even though google is also ad company known for sunsetting products and suspending accounts without clear resolution path (search for "gcp suspended" at HN).
What issue?
Canada ;)