skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's more "this bad thing isn't notable, it's just one of many events like it".

Musk draws negative attention like no figure in the modern era. He is just too fun to hate. This story amounts to a mildly anticompetitive action by a middle tier social network. It's just not a big deal[1] in any reasonable context. It's a front page freakout on HN only because Musk was involved[2].

We're here for entertainment value, basically. For myself: the Taibbi angle here is absolutely hilarious, given the level of spin in the "Twitter Files" you really would have thought the guy would have bought some loyalty, but Musk's brain doesn't work that way.

[1] But, of course, bad.

[2] c.f. all the front page coverage here of Tesla foibles that would be 100% ignored on the cars of any other manufacturer.
Bad analogy. Auditors have conflict of interests and risk losing clients if they keep asking too many 'wrong' questions. Reputable ones will refuse to sign the final audit. Less reputable ones will even help clients cook the book.

It's more akin to you being denied Linux maintainer privilege if you keep finding bugs and annoy Linus in the forum. Which is hardly the case (heh).
A counter-take, also with zero citations:

Libraries are in the set of institutions that tamp down on envy, which-- according to many psychologists-- is by far the most destructive emotional force in modern society.

Libraries achieve this by a) offering an array of standard services, many of which are affordable (or even free!) to literally citizen, and b) not attempting to capitalize on offering premium or FOMO services for a bump in price. There's no equivalent of say, an American Express Black Card, at my public library. There is a single, unadorned laminated card offered to every patron, whether that patron is a an oil man or a fourth generation Appalachian hillbilly who just got running water[1].

Moreover, the kids of both the oil man and the hillbilly sit in the same story hour together (well, half hour-- they're kids after all) and get all excited about reading together.

Moreover, those kids are all treated the same by librarians who, like Oprah, end by giving every single participant a prize. (You get a book! You get a book! You get a book!)

But most importantly of all, the people who could not afford to buy the access to these books and programs can participate without feeling like a charity case. They are simply accessing a common resource delivered and paid for by people in the community who care about all the kids and adults who are patrons of the community library. That lowers the barrier to entry and makes it possible for more kids of various income levels to get a head start on reading at the ages when it's most impactful. It's like vectorization for reading enthusiasm.

Finally, that hillbilly or oil man can go to any state in the union, walk in to a public library, and for a small fee get another laminated card that gets them the same access. It's like the McDonalds of American civics.

I rankly speculate here in the bowels of HN that no one has ever envied another person for entering a public library.

I also rankly speculate that if you take a young sibling/niece/nephew to your local library's story hour (ok, half hour), your rhetoric and perhaps even demeanor would soften in quite the same way as the Grinch listening watching people hold hands and sing.

1: Okay, perhaps a single clarifying citation here. I believe the family got running water back in the 80s.

Edit: clarification, formatting
You still need a recovery mechanism, if not another device then it's usually a password like secret or code.
This looks amazing! This appears to perfectly fit the huge gulf between pl/pgsql and C in the Postgres stack.

Pl/pgsql, while not exactly elegant, is well suited to bridging that gap between imperative and set-oriented business logic within the database.

On the other hand, pl/pgsql is far from optimal for defining custom types and implementing operators for those types. For that, we've needed C.

But now the possibility opens up to create efficient custom types, operators, and other functions that can run at machine speed without depending on what a vendor decides to bundle or the mostly unvetted quality of some 3rd party's C code extension.

Potentially huge!
Interesting! The preferences in this thread very closely match those of ours. Irrelevance to the number of pixels and blackness of black, making it more of an event, having big picture (ours is about 3m diagonal, can't help but sometimes brag to people that my setup is 110"). For me it matters that it's also not a colossal piece of furniture, but a small piece of equipment, tucked near the ceiling and thus usually out of the view.

It sounds like a well defined niche. I wish it was a bit less of that, so that I could upgrade to a bit less noisy, with a bit brighter picture, at a lower price point than what they seem to be going for here in Northern Europe.
> Hilary Clinton would consider most of the people in my community “deplorables.”

From Time magazine's summary of Clinton's remarks — which are spot-on:

<quote>

“You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right?” Clinton said. “The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic—you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up.”

She said the other half of Trump’s supporters “feel that the government has let them down” and are “desperate for change.”

“Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well,” she said.

</quote>

The Time piece includes the transcript of the full remarks.

https://time.com/4486502/hillary-clinton-basket-of-deplorabl...
So, Wirecard claimed to make huge profits. Now, the auditors would expect to see a pile of cash in the accounts. However, Wirecard claimed to expand rapidly by purchasing other companies in Asia. Those, then, booked most of the "profits" and were the assets on the book. Wirecard produced bank statements from the Philippines claiming that they had $2bn cash sitting there. So, to the auditor, the numbers added up, and the whole story was somewhat coherent. It's just that the foreign businesses and that cash didn't actually exist.
Interesting. I guess that is the inherent flaw of all audit methods which predominantly check the paperwork, while rarely venturing out into the real world. With sufficiently bad actors, the whole paperwork can be doctored and completely untethered from reality. Such bad actors need to only make a plausible Potemkin village for the controllers in selected spots where they are expected to verify if reality matches presented paperwork.
I’m not aware of Facebook doing anything like this. I’m pretty sure I can go on Facebook and post a link to a substack article, or a tweet, and still get likes and shares on that post.
Especially because the lithium
deposits are concentrated in Logar province, which other Pakhtuns stereotype as hicks (which is saying something). It's also adjacent to ISKP's and Pakistani Taliban's heartland - Waziristan and Kohat.
We were thinking about this. We have the query and we might show it to our users, but we're not going to do that at the moment.

However this could be an option and we might add this feature if it would be valuable to our users.
That's the part of NoSQL I've never understood. With a "normal" SQL DB my app has to be able to migrate between versions of data, but the code ever only supports the current version. With NoSQL, you will either have to support every possible version (which might be unique per entry), or implement migrations yourself. How is that not strictly worse?
Rhetorical question - "honest people doing what?" I just don't see anyone in the crypto space doing anything other than speculation. Where's the safe, low cost banking, where's hedge against stock market risk?

There's all these new things in crypto but they still haven't delivered something safe, functional and more reliable than a checking account with an ATM card.
> What are we going to call posting on Substack Notes?

For as long as it doesn't have ActivityPub integration, "Getting ignored".
I don't understand these two sentences in the article:

>Natural evaporation would rapidly lower the level of the enclosed Red Sea. The dam would also lower the Red Sea by about 2.1 meters per year (6.8 feet per year).

"Also?" What's the second mechanism which would the water level besides evaporation?
Ask HN: Recommendations for personal files backup/sync?
I have a volume on my computer which I'd like to keep synced to the cloud, ideally somewhat automatically. I'd also like to be able to access the synced files from mobile. Any suggestions?
There are significant differences between trademark law and copyright law. Using the same logo may well be acceptable in a work of art; while using something that resembles it, even if cropped and rotated like here, on a shoe would be quickly stopped by Nike.
Every language group has a hierarchy of accents, often roughly corresponding to wealth. There is usually a prestige accent used by the wealthy, and which the upper classes mimic. And everyone looks down on rural people, marked by their accent.

It's worse in some places than others but it's practically universal.
The word "meritocracy" was coined to criticise the idea. Here's another reason.
Who is "they"? The head of the agency? Their advisors? Individual employees? Politicians? Failure of this magnitude is almost always a systemic failure.

Actually figuring out who, if anyone, committed a crime (through gross negligience, willful obstruction, or similar) will take years.
It's not making any progress towards completion or even the end of alpha status.

Proof in point: Their roadmap doesn't even have these goals.
Substack has been very controversial in the past, making very questionable /shady decisions to growth the platform. Not that Twitter and other social networks don't operate under the same grow-at-all-cost mindset, but thinking that Substack is in fair disadvantage here or that Elon's Twitter is just trying to kill a good upcoming platform is naive. Behind these companies are billionaires fighting for their new shiny toy, if anything it should be hilarious to watch them.
> if Musk just believes his target audience will happily swallow nonsense and so has no need to make up plausible lies

Yes. See the replies/QTs/RTs from his fans, and see politics for other examples of this phenomenon.

Also, the news media will dutifully repeat and spread lies even while "debunking" them.
Thank you. We will review our privacy policy because we don't actually collect so much data.
I honestly don’t think Twitter is a good place to be on seriously/professionally anymore. LinkedIn wins on that front right now for me.
Accent based class system and discrimination is rampant everywhere: UK, Italy, Romania, Austria, etc.
I stand corrected!

My original cursory understanding of HTTPS -- was that it required SSL/TLS to make it work, which in turn required CA's issuing certificates and the validation of those certificates to make that work...

Now, all of the above is true -- but the subtle distinction that I realized after reading your comment (and performing more subsequent research on the matter) -- was that everything above is (apparently -- based on the best knowledge from the research I've done at this point in time!) based on local Root Certificates whose data is contained in local files (i.e., no need to reach out to a CA server for validation) which act as the "Trust Anchor" for all other SSL/TLS certificates...

I.e., new certificates handed to a user's browser by a new website -- do not need to be validated by making an Internet connection to the CA and asking that the CA validate them -- instead, they are validated using cryptographic hashing techniques against the user's local CA Root Certificates...

These CA Root Certificates are apparently X.509 certificates -- or follow that format:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.509

Now, that's a good thing!

It means that there's no dependency (one less point of possible failure) that a CA be up and running -- for all of those HTTPS/TLS/SSL transactions to work...

So, you are correct -- and I stand corrected!
We will create a set of CRUD APIs, using Node.js, Express, Postgres as a Database, and Docker with docker compose.
> The whole point was to raise a middle finger and say ...

I'm all for subversive art, but that can be done _and_ credit the original.

> At the time, the art that they were appropriating was not even considered to be art as such.

I know you're saying that the idea, rather than the specific artistic merit of the contents, was the main point of these works, but this sounds super close to the "you should be thankful I published your study under my name, your work would never have gotten so much influence otherwise" argument.
Besides not making any sense on a basic level, I'm also skeptical they would have even detected scraping unless it was truly massive. Back when I worked with the Southern Poverty Law Center, they scraped large amounts of data from Twitter to trace extremist networks, and they never ran into access issues.
Since there are no gravity loads in space, one could have humongous mirrors with this technique.
Not an expert but I imagine thermal load design becomes an issue too.

Current rocket fairings can be 5 m in diameter and 20 m in length. One could roll up a 20 m diameter mirror in there....
It's not about the efficacy of the techniques we're seeing deployed, it's about the gap between capabilities and promises and the use of AI as a magic keyword for fundraising and relevance. For example, github is now branding itself as "AI Powered".

I've been making a living with many of the tools and techniques from prior to the original "AI Winter" -- but the companies that produced them and that were promising expert systems and other forms of knowledge engineering have very few survivors.

When Meta, which is basically dying advertising company, is promising AI as it's core innovation center, we know that it's a shibboleth for signaling some participation in a notional future economy.
It will be far away from a thing you wear all day or slip in your pocket. It will sit in drawers and on shelves at home.
>Land is neither created

Speaking very pedantically, it can be.
It can also cause cataracts (https://news.fordham.edu/science/st-johns-wort-and-sun-dont-...)
Everyone realised we are watching someone have an episode on social media right ?

He just happens to own the social media platform he’s having an episode on.

(If I had absolutely had to guess I’d say Musk has a “mild” version of bipolar disorder. I say this because I have it too and this is overly familiar).
land is also usually taxed. Squatting on it, at least the most desired/valuable kind, has a cost.
History is circular. Another example, we have cars and yet are pushing to move back to not having them.
The inventor who fell in love with his AI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Pollack
HTTP server merged into Zig standard library
Thanks for the feedback.

1. Agreed, we're working on this, but for now we just went on the safe side. We don't want people to break things right now and this is why we have tight rules that flag potential dangerous operations.

2. Agreed as well, but you can provide a read-only user, and we store the credentials in an encrypted form. Also, you can whitelist the ips to our ips only.
LittleFreeLibrary.org applied for trademark control of “wooden boxes with a storage area for books”. Additionally, LittleFreeLibrary.org now stakes claim to word variations beyond their trademarked name “Little Free Library”, such as “little library” and “little libraries”.

From a beautiful idea in 2009 to these terrible ideas now. :-(
I'm currently stuck in their support hell and have been told:

1. My issue is not real

2. Okay, your issue is real, but because I'm not paying $$$ we're going to ignore you

3. I should do free work for Vercel and poll their community forums to see how widespread the issue is

4. Their support is only trained to handle frontend issues and because this is an issue with their CDN it's expected that they'll respond incompetently

5. They'll escalate with their CDN team and respond in one week (that was over a month ago, no follow up whatsoever)

It's hard to take Vercel seriously. As a toy, it's probably fine. But I'll ultimately move this project off of their CDN product as soon as it reaches costly volume.
I wonder what code-words or Unicode lookalike glyph substitutions people have started using so that they can continue to refer to "Substack" without the bots supressing them.

"Hypopile"?

"ʂυβʂταƈκ"?
Housing might be neither. There we have artificially constrained supply, driving up prices and price volatility.
Hm. Flat mirrors take less space that hollow rolled-up tubes of mirror. Maybe they could be rolled around something else in the rocket. Hm.
He's nearing "I backtraced their IP" levels of older person tech talk. [0]

[0]https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/jessi-slaughter-cyberb...
These aren't Meccano, they are East German "Construction" sets. A riff on the Meccano idea, but metric, and probably not paying license fees to Meccano at the time ;-) The parts will look great quality while played with only a little, but the plating has a habit of coming off in small sharp flakes if you ever bend them.
>you never deliver anything

A thorough audit would reveal this as well though, as it would actually evaluate the entire supply chain is actually working as intended.
Perhaps I haven't figured out the best way to query ChatGPT, but isn't the magic here that your approach implicitly already understands all the tables/ relationships that exist within database?
Are the two issues directly comparable? A large volume of tire particles settle near the road, going into the soil or washing into waterways for us to drink. Exhaust particles stay suspended in the air for a long time & blow far and wide for us to breathe. Both matter, both impact health, but we can't fix bad air quality by fixing tires.
I've noticed strong shades of this in various dialects of Caribbean Spanish too; I didn't know there was a name for it much less a possibly correlated colonial origin.
"And, they had a clear profit motive,"

Uh?
I have never heard of Castilian Spanish referred to as "accentless" before.

The lisp always sounds odd to me. That and vosotros. The vast majority of Spanish speakers worldwide use neither.
How beautiful of this distinguished artist! Next let me start copying and selling some music recordings that's considered "low trash" for a high price and keep all the money for myself. What a grand contribution to culture!
Yes, the paper is too long, but it is mostly diagrams and so it is not too challenging of a read. It takes a little while to get into it and the solution seems somewhat easy, but perhaps we must invoke Occam's Razor in this regard, as we are looking for (what is defined as) an EASY solution to these difficult problems. Feedback would be appreciated...(but please only send me insults if you have actually read the paper). I already know what your intuition is saying. (No the work has not yet been peer reviewed, it is a pre-print/rough draft ... DIMACS benchmarks data tests are in the works/coming). (Also, please don't send me links to the PvsNP page or use the "extraordinary claims" quotation... I throw up in my mouth when that happens). Thank-you

johnarchiegillis1@gmail.com
Seemingly that statement is just not logically true (just need to find one counter example)

Perhaps corrected by saying: _sometimes_ it's a grift, or _often_ a grift, or IMO it is a grift.
I worked for a company once that had no official policy that you HAD to use their company issues laptop. You were allowed to use your own. But, they would give you this speech of how they _strongly_ advise you to accept their laptop because in the event your personal laptop is stolen or hacked into and company source code is stolen, you will be held personally liable and sued.

So many questions about this. Has this ever happened? An individual employee sued like this for not maliciously handing over source code, but just having their laptop stolen. And if I'm poor and can't even get approved for a car loan, why is the company allowing me to take this risk and potentially own them millions in a law suit?
Already got people fired. Copy-writers are being replaced by a manager getting an AI to write bland drivel. Also model-designers for software (games). It's only going to expand.
Behind the paywall: https://archive.vn/2023.04.05-214243/https://www.economist.c...
Nowhere else... just the whole South of Spain. At least the aspiration.
There are some companies that make textiles in the US. American Giant makes hoodies and sweatshirts that are MIUSA, and their quality is excellent. Flint and Tinder makes shirts, coats, hoodies/sweatshirts MIUSA and their 10-year pullover hoodie is the best hoodie I've ever owned.
But this research came out mere weeks after the release of gpt-4. That is in itself rapid. If small incremental changes like this continue on a sort of monthly basis, the trendline points towards something that's not a dead end. That's my view of it.

As with most technology there isn't necessarily always a constant influx of inflection points and paradigm shifts. Improvement will likely creep up on us incrementally. Suddenly one day its clearly more intelligent then a human and we can't point to when it happened.
I split my blame with roughly 2/3 going to CPUC and the rest going to PG&E.
I’m glad comedy is now allowed again on Twitter, because this is all pretty funny.
Was iOS 7 created in Microsoft Word? (2014)
Do those actually matter in jobs? Most valuable facts I encounter are far more niche, often in someone's head and not written down, only stored privately somewhere etc.
Twitter is dying. But it'll be a long, drawn out, dramatic death. Oscar-winning.
Manhattanites tend to be healthier than pretty much any other Americans. It would be logical to conclude that Manhattan is the healthiest place to spend your time.
I turned my account into an Elon parody so that I could effectively park it via ban.

I encourage everyone else to do the same.
I'm not sure I can define the difference between plagiarism and appropriation, but I know it when I see it. Lichtenstein should have been ashamed of himself.
I think this marks a cross-road: you build a "batteries included" programming language (python, Go style) or an artisan one (like C, Rust).

Zig is the batteries included one, with an optional standard library. Makes it truly versatile in my opinion: I have played with pure systems programming[1], played with bpf and will run it on a microcontroller in the upcoming workshop[2]. After 15 years being a professional in tech I am excited about a technology again. :)

[1]: https://git.jakstys.lt/motiejus/turbonss
[2]: https://softwareyoucanlove.ca/talks/intro-to-zig-on-embedded...
We are finding that strict, rule-based approaches are actually essential in an LLM-enabled architecture. Right now, we are looking at putting something like Watson in front of GPT4 in order to filter, route & contextualize our system.

Generative AI architectures get a lot of attention, but classification is the real magic for making something that looks as polished as ChatGPT. The determinism you get with something like an SVM is much more certain than adjusting a spiciness slider between 0 and 1.
Ask HN: In browser screen timelapse tool?
I'd like to capture a digital history of what I work on so days or weeks later I can go back and see what I've done + potentially share the workflow with others. Does anyone have a good recomendation?