skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why are we criticizing Facebook's models that we basically played our own individual role in building?

Practicality and precedent. We can effectively regulate the algorithms a countable number of companies use in their products, but can't effectively make people not susceptible to doom-scrolling (nicotine, heroin, gambling, whatever).

> If Facebook went away tomorrow, another platform would fill its place.

Not if the troubling practices were illegal or too expensive to operate. It would be a pretty dumb investment to bother. Instead, new platforms would pursue different techniques for content presentation and profitability, just like existing competitors already do.
My understanding is that hybrids are more costly than simply putting in a larger pack. It's certainly an order of magnitude more complex.
That is not going to happen. Calculators allowed us to outsource arithmetic to machines. They did not eliminate the need for mathematicians.

Spreadsheets revolutionized bookkeeping. They did not eliminate the need for accountants. Robots automated much of the manual labor in manufacturing. They did not eliminate the need for process engineers, etc. Same story for autocad, protools, avid, etc.
With respect, I wouldn’t say it’s out of control. Take a look at your spam folder. Obviously, I’d like to see it an improvement but I’m still amazed at how well they do.
"Oh my god, did you see what Stacy posted last night!"

But your daughter missed it because "you didn't let her have an Instagram account!" It seems to me that such worries are well-founded. At best, she made the decision herself and still feels the pain of it.
Only issue is that rest stops kind of suck for resting. :-)
But then they are out of loop in the in person discussions that are predominantly focused on the happenings of whatever is on instagram at that time
She is accused of murder.

Harrell, 24, has been jailed without bond since July, when she was accused of fatally shooting another woman and charged with second-degree murder
Thank you for noting he is the CEO, I didn't realize that in my initial comment.

While I saw the two now-deleted tweets originally, I don't recall what they said now, but I do remember feeling like it wasn't anything serious enough to warrant the "find yourself another vendor" comment.

If Kurt is willing to (gracefully, as you said) crush someone's side project over a rude tweet, why should Fly be trusted with a potential business? I don't use TinyPilot but I am a big fan of your blog. Would you trust running any servers required for TinyPilot on Fly.io after that exchange, running the risk that if Kurt doesn't like one of your tweets, he (gracefully) will ask you to move to a new platform?
I was definitely that stupid and dense during my libertarian phase. It took me a while to start generating counterexamples to the "property rights promote individual liberty" idea, though of course once I started the trickle quickly became a flood, I saw the floodwater all around me, and the gimmick was up.

Today I would fully agree with you that the most experienced "libertarians" are actually conservatives dressed up in the clothing of freedom, but there's a sucker born every minute, and the key to bumping this particular sucker out of this particular ideology was not an accusation of crypto-conservatism (of which I heard plenty) but rather a frontal attack on the core ideas of libertarianism as I understood them.
Pentagon warns poppy seeds might cause troops to fail drug tests
I think it's an interesting idea to explore. I think if a platform makes a good faith effort to know their users that it would be able to defer liability onto them. Ideally this would be coupled with a privacy aware proof of identity system but perhaps that's asking for too much.

Sites could still allow anonymous communication, but it would need to vet it first and assume liability.

You can't go out in public in a mask and say "John Smith eats worms" (when he doesn't) and not have any repercussions.
This is the standard conservative playbook, it even has a name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast
Why would I have any reason to believe they'd stop after I told them the truth? Read Gulag Archipelago describing tortures by the Soviet regime. When these entities don't know how much information you have, they just beat and beat until they're satisfied it's enough beating that they expect they got the answers. If you tell them everything they keep beating because they think there is more; if you don't tell them everything they keep beating because they think there is more. If they don't know what information you have, whether or not you told all of what you know doesn't have much bearing on how the wrenching goes.

If you find yourself getting beat with a wrench and unable to fight back, you're going to have to accept the beating in and of itself, and accept the fraction of the full truth you tell them has little correlation to what kind of beating you're going to get.
I suspect it was picked because for millions of American's tap water is not safe to drink.
Pet peeve. Just exactly what about it is unreasonable?
I sometimes wonder what the future of human rights is considering a scenario from 10 generations from now.

The survived miners will probably have children. The children who are not fit (neither physically nor mentally) will die working in mines. The mentally fit children will migrate to US. The physically fit children will have more children that are physically fit. What will happen then? Why are we ignoring the future of our species and human rights on a larger scale of time?
Do they? Is social media being used in morning classes to plan lunch? Will a socially isolated student even have friends? I haven't been in school for many years so I don't know the social dynamic but it isn't hard to imagine.
https://archive.ph/Cl9c1
That's letting kids parent themselves.
It's even worse. The claim sounds like: "Billion dollar company needs to invent new things to succeed, surely it is doomed to fail."
The heavy moderation of HN would mean that they would be more liable for content. And the algorithms showing the front page recommendations would likely be found to be similar to the "what a visitor to YouTube who isn't signed in sees" or "what you see if you go to https://twitter.com without being logged in."

Instead, HN's view would likely become "everyone sees https://news.ycombinator.com/newest and showdead is set to 'yes'"

I'm not sure how to construct an argument that would allow HN's front page while at the same time curtailing YouTube's not signed in front page - both are recommendation algorithms.
The complicated part is the outright legal prohibitions on moving money. Say, if you have family in country X that you need to send money to, and country X that happens to be under sanctions for decades because chickenhawk politicians in country Y need some red meat to throw to their electorate.

And sure, the countries are already cracking down on it, just as they've been cracking down on Hawala before. So far, such attempts to regulate seem to have the most effect on miner operations and speculation, not on meaningful movement of money.
> Nio is also deploying fast chargers alongside their battery swap stations

Why would you think it's exclusively one or the other?

It's never been exclusively swapping or charging. It's always been both swapping and charging. Nio's cars do both.

Remember your claim was "the physical infrastructure required to do this at any scale makes it prohibitively expensive". That's plainly false.

> Tesla alone has more than a thousand 150-250kW+ charging stalls in Norway alone

Yes? And? So? What? Nios can charge at those Tesla charging stalls.
> Doesn't that ipfs.io URL contain an IPFS content address?

Some NFTs contain an HTTP URL to a specific IPFS proxy. This one in particular indeed doesn't, which is better.

> but it would be more difficult to take down all the peers hosting that IPFS content

True, but IPFS isn't private. If the authorities want it badly enough they can create a fair amount of trouble.

> So I'm not sure if the "depends on external infrastructure" criticism really holds. It does require some participation in the IPFS peer-to-peer network, at least for you to download the content the first time, but that's also trivially true of the blockchain itself.

IPFS is far more vulnerable than the blockchain. Arguably you're not participating in anything specific when you run a blockchain node. On IPFS you voluntarily mirror content. That means that to provide an extra source of data not only you must run IPFS, but you must voluntarily take the step to mirror this particular file.

So while on say Ethereum there's as many copies of everything as there are nodes, on IPFS it's very possible there's just a single server in the entire world that's hosting that particular data.
We're effectively assuming that the number of toys are infinite and equally likely.

Or, to put it slightly more formally, we're choosing each time from 4 equally likely possibilities, with replacement. Imagine you're drawing from a bag with 4 toys inside. How long until you've drawn each of the 4 toys, if you replace the toy in the bag after each choice?
I've been calling social media companies "the tobacco companies of the mind" for quite a while.

The effects are most obvious with teens but I see this stuff as bad all around. Social media algorithms have really driven today's insane political polarization, and there's lots of examples of adults having their brains sucked out by social media rabbit holes.

Here's one pile of examples:

https://www.reddit.com/r/QAnonCasualties/

It seems pretty obvious to me at this point that if you connect a bunch of people together and then artificially prioritize content to maximize engagement, the result is unbelievably toxic.
Yes, it should. As long as you can figure out the correct memory addresses to look at, you can tell the ATmega to send you the data.
This is totally boss.
An eggcitedly quick eggxamination of this eggemplary eggxample of web design made me, no eggaggeration, eggtremely egghausted.
Let's find a solution that does not involve expanding the Amish model.
I have a generalized view of social media - Humanity has not yet evolved adequate social and cultural defenses for the ability for every Tom, Dick and Harry sitting on their sofa to reach an audience of millions in real time.

One the rumor mill went from days or weeks to real time, once the ability to present a.. diorama of life to a large online audience became commonplace - it in my opinion breaks a bunch of cultural and social factors in human life.
IANAL: unfortunately only 10.6k results, thought I had a winner for a second.
I am more willing to bank on climate feedbacks we don't even know about yet doing a number on our ability to keep modern infrastructure running on a wide scale. It depends on regular inputs of resources of no small portion of the periodic table as well as energy sources, and I do not think nuclear/renewables can sustain today's infrastructure.

And of course, there could be nuclear war, societal breakdown as mentioned, another global plague (H5N1? Marburg? Cordyceps? Prions? The possibilities are endless), or, my favorite, Butlerian Jihad. :)
That's about a '97 settlement of a '91 lawsuit...don't see how it is relevant to a discussion of "90s and 00s" media.
Kids are a lot more susceptible to feeling left out of stuff. They don't know it's all the same crap everywhere yet ;)

There's also a spectrum of FOMO, from accidental to intentional. Some people feed off of excluding others.
RPC usually means stateful client so REST goes out the window.
"It also creates a trap—a collective action problem—for girls and for parents. Each girl might be worse off quitting Instagram even though all girls would be better off if everyone quit."

I like this part, it is quite clear quitting social media alone is probably even worse and self-isolating than not taking part.

The solution would be to address it on a societal level, but that requires pretty strong societal/political will to put such a policy in place.

Such is the dilemma of the age, no doubt this is only one aspect, boys and even dating are affected on similar levels.
> them for doing this for 20 years?

"them" likely were layed off, hence they shut down service now.
Is there a simpler model out there, somewhere between Rust and Haskell, where -nobody- owns the objects and all arguments are pass-by-value unless otherwise stated or inferred?

Pure functions should be able to share objects. The problem I suspect is working out the calculus of transitioning from stateful into stateless code, but the plus side is that you end up with a programming language that enforces functional core, imperative shell.
The models aren’t comparable. ChatGPT is better in some ways, particularly in giving “reasonable” responses to naive prompts, and producing acceptable length on requested writing like essays. It’s also much less agreeable — ChatGPT will refuse many inappropriate requests, but the API models never do. The API models will gladly produce offensive or controversial writing if requested, and don’t need to be “jailbroken” the way ChatGPT does.
I don't quite follow your argument there.

This is unrelated to kernel threading.

If you have 1 thread handling 1000 requests with some async io mechanism (epoll, io_uring, ...) ,instead of 1000 threads each handling one request, there are much fewer threads fighting over CPU cores and the 1 thread can stay active much longer, hence reducing the amount of context switches.

Especially with a mechanism like io_uring, which helps minimize syscalls (and hence switching to kernel threads).
Nuclear power has avoided 70-78Gt of CO2 emissions over the last 50 years
I use it every day at the f500 I work at.
I have gotten my team to adopt it, and it has increased productivity from those who were already productive.

The people who weren't already good can't figure out how to use it properly.

I also see a bunch of people online, most?, using it incorrectly, writing prompts that would give bad info. Maybe they're doing it on purpose?

To those who have everything, more will be given.
There’s a startup named Movano Health trying to build a glucose monitor sensor chip that uses RF energy:

https://www.wareable.com/wearable-tech/movano-ceo-on-its-rf-...

Movano plans to ship an Oura-style smart ring this year, but it won’t have the glucose monitor. (One might suspect the “moonshot” glucose RF chip story is meant to keep investors excited through the zero-revenue stage until hopefully the more ordinary smart ring takes off.)
Ask ChatGPT to summarize the article for you?
Are you saying it's actually good to abuse people because it makes the gene pool stronger in some abstract way?
The problems with Vietnam's internet have been going on for a long time now.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2872728/dont-blame-sha...

https://saigoneer.com/saigon-technology/11885-sharks,-anchor...

https://vietnaminsider.vn/apg-undersea-internet-cable-which-...
I use ChatGPT to summarize. It works well, and I can ask questions about the text I paste into ChatGPT.
I think he's trying to simplify it for a general audience, vs putting out an academic paper that might be discussed and nodded over, only to be misrepresented or over-simplified in health/science reporting and largely ignored.

I don't fully agree with his argument and have said so before (briefly, I think it overlooks other major contextual factors like increasing international violence and political polarization that are less obvious but just as deadly). Nevertheless I think his argument is worth examining because mass networking is resulting in huge social changes but many of these seem to be making most of us less happy.
That's exactly how we've positioned ourselves so far, for a variety of reasons that mostly reduce to not feeling like our values fit in well with American society at-large. It's not perfect, but I hope you're right and it helps with this issue.
It's weird that there is no reason given here. It's not that I expected a real reason, but there isn't even a fake PR buzzword-filled explanation, there's just... nothing.
To me it looks indeed as if we after decades on computers are still grappling with two of its most fundamental tools, text input and text rendering. As Exhibit A I offer the almost unusable and bordering obsolete state of affairs around xmodmap &cpp on Linux; as Exhibit B, the soul crushing complexity yet utter failure that is fontconfig, and the community's denial of these two facts.
But "millilitre" isn't named after a unit of weight.

A fluid ounce of mercury doesn't weigh an ounce. But a millilitre of mercury still takes up one one-thousandth of a litre, which is itself one one-thousandth of a cubic metre.
The cost of context switching between threads sharing the same address space is much lower than between tasks, because there's no need for a TLB flush. It just comes down to the cost of saving/restoring register state (more or less), and that's a nice known fixed cost on any given processor.

Context switching between tasks has a variable cost, because the implications of the TLB flush depend on the working set size of the switched-to task. If it doesn't touch much memory, the variable cost is low; if it touches a lot, the variable cost can be much, much higher than the register save/restore (fixed cost).
It’s time to develop a backbone. You’ll need one when she starts dating someone with a motorcycle and leather jacket, or modern equivalent.
Even if another world war isn't starting, think of the data pollution from all those leaking bits!
Not all 12 year olds are in a single social group. If one is being left out because they don't have an instagram account, there's another social group they can gravitate to that has other interests besides instagram posts.
Thanks for the feedback! Yeah, that's a valid point. You can probably right now look at built-in programs for examples, or check the docs on the site: https://www.liftosaur.com/docs/docs.html. Hopefully that helps!
On the "pro" side, uses code instead of pointy-clicky, and the integration with the audio source and waitFor looks really nice, useful, and intuitive.

I don't know typescript so much of the youtube demo (linked from here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34900161) was magic to me. I have worked with OpenSCAD some and prefer its declarative approach over imperative approaches. I don't know what all the author doesn't like about declarative, but the one example he gave in the video was that if you want to change the time of one keyframe, you have to adjust the time of all the keyframes that come after it, but that doesn't seem implied by a declarative model, maybe by some other particular tools?
While tempted to say something snarky here (for example, “wait for it….”) I’ll just say that this comment makes zero sense to me. There is widely-available evidence that women-founded startups receive less than 2% of Venture funding. That one person VCs saw as “pattern-matching” enough to get funding was huckster doesn’t say anything about women’s general competence, nor paints a great picture of how VC funding is allocated.
The explanation I saw, and which sounded reasonable to me was that ivermectin did help reduce covid mortality -- in countries where water-bourne parasites are common. People could have a parasitic infection without realizing it and this would act to stress the immune system making it harder to fight the covid virus. When the took ivermectin, it cleared that parasitic infection giving them a better chance again covid. In areas that don't have many parasitic infections, like in northern countries, ivermectin had no effect on covid.
We actually have an open API for anybody that wants to contribute live score data. https://wiki.scorbit.io/ Give me a ping at brian [at] scorbit . io and I can hook you up with a license and a dev token.
Tinder was definitely a contributor to my last bout of depression
I've tried to find the most charitable interpretation of this comment, and the only thing I can currently find is that appreciating photography just isn't your thing and that's ok. But generalizing your personal preferences to the general case is just fundamentally disconnected from reality and ignores the vibrant communities of photographers and people who appreciate the photos they take.

Your comment as a whole claims that I do not exist. It claims that the people I follow do not exist, and the people who follow me do not exist. It claims that collectively we have no good reasons to follow each other.

Since none of this is true, the only conclusion that can be drawn is that you do not understand why people value photography, or follow other photographers. That is also fine - you're not obligated do do any of those things, but again, that does not generalize to the conclusion you've drawn.

> It's a fun hobby, but no one would really care if you stopped doing it

This is just incorrect.

The last time I took a break from shooting and sharing, I had people reaching out asking if I was ok. When photographers I follow stop shooting, I care, and their communities care. Again this feels like a projection of your personal stance/tastes, but that simply doesn't generalize.

People still care about photography and following other photographers for a myriad of reasons. Photography is associated with a diverse set of communities, each with its own interests. Some topical, some geographical, some vocational.

> Photographs are completely fungible for the most part. There's no room left for artistry. Low-skill photographs are good enough as to be completely equivalent with high-skill equivalents for most intents and purposes.

You seem to be concluding that technical "quality" i.e. the visual quality of the captured frame is what primarily makes a good photograph.

Lighting, composition, perspective, leading lines, interesting subject, etc. are all far more important than the gear one is using, and none of these factors are magically solved by equipment that allows "low-skill" shots. There's a reason people spend money on wedding photographers in an era where everyone attending the wedding also holds a decent camera. And the same reason that drives people to hire a pro drives people to seek out and follow photographers who create excellent photos.

And while I get that this is not your cup of tea, there are plenty of us who actually like this kind of tea quite a lot.
Intel slashes dividend by over 65%, to 12.5 cents
OneMedical was running for years without Amazon -- let's not start giving them credit for revolutionizing anything but their telemetry just yet.
>Being so alienated from others that they're having an intimate relationship with a computer program seems like a very worrying issue

You could say something similar about becoming sexually aroused by looking at an image on a computer screen instead of actually having sex with another person. Just like sexual response, romantic attachment operates in a simple and predictable way. It can easily be triggered with artificial dialog, and is subjectively experienced the same way as in a "real" relationship.
Just looked at the thread you linked. I wouldn't say I read that as a threat - more like he's saying "if you don't like it you can leave".

Not that that sounds great, but I can't see the original tweets that kurt replied to because they've been deleted, so it's kinda hard to judge
>We are surrounded by stodgy, calcified software firms.

Cue Amazon's efforts to stay away from 'Day 2'...
It's universalizing agency.
This is fairly sensationalized, I think. "The researchers still need more data to confirm that these galaxies are as large, and date as far back in time, as they appear... 'Another possibility is that these things are a different kind of weird object, such as faint quasars'."