skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think since years new knowledge has been getting 'siloed' in various social networks and apps.

Faceboook Groups and Discord are very useful for learning a variety of things.

But the discovery of such private groups is not happening based on the content - like you might find a forum on the open web because of a question that has been indexed by Search Engines.

Also, the search within these apps is pathetic.

The content seems very ephemeral, I can't find really old posts unless I put in a lot of efforts.

Reddit has been good in this regard, especially when you use Google for searching posts.

I hope they don't screw their user experience further to prevent AI companies from getting their data.

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To answer your question, I believe the open web will survive.

I hope the more personal, less commercial ( SEO optimized ) content might rise to the top if the commercial outlets block access to content.

More likely we will have AI feeding on AI generated content that will be crawled by Google AI and recommended to us by AI.
Understanding HDFS Using Legos
In my first computer science class in college, after finishing the unit on Red-Black Trees, the professor said something like "Now you should never implement a Red-Black Tree again. If you need a balanced binary tree, use std::map or whatever your standard library provides. Same goes for all the other sorting and data structures we've done in this class."

Relatedly:

Q: When is Python faster than C?

A: When the C programmer used a linked list or some O(n^2) algorithm because they didn't have a standard library full of easy to use well implemented data structures and algorithms.
> or we're ditching all our fancy cryptography-protected authenticators and going straight for access recovery aka "code over email/sms" lowest-common-denominator

Well yeah, every single online account you have uses email address as the account recovery mechanism. That isn't going to change.
By the way, regarding Windows progressbars - even if a particular implementation is garbage, like for example passing to 50% instantly, then sitting there for a minute, then passing again to 75% and staying there and son on, they are still useful if your are using the same tool or operation repeatedly. My VPN progress indicator is junk, but I can roughly guess where is the problem based on where it got stuck now, simply because I've already saw multiple failure modes of it. Or if I'm installing some CPP distributives repeatedly, I can guess how long remains.

If an operation is silent and hogging my prompt without any indication what is going on, is stuck, is the speed too slow etc. it is simply frustrating.
One of my quick-and-dirty gotos for getting a rough idea of buffered-writes size + disk-write activity on random linux systems is: `watch -n1 grep -ie dirty -e writeback /proc/meminfo`.

You can invoke `sync` to watch the buffered-writes queue burn down when you have lots of pending writes.

see: `LESS=+/meminfo man proc` or https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/... for more info
The "Source Selection Statement" from the May 19th entry has NASA opinion.

https://www.nasa.gov/nextstep/humanlander4
> Can you imagine if Marlboro or Philip Morris forbade their employees from smoking for health reasons?

Or if Steve Jobs disallowed his children from using iPads?
Complete loss of privacy. Personally went back to mostly cash, although it’s not clear how long it will be available.
My point was that they're "decentralized" in the least interesting way: they exist as a "decentralized" structure only by overwhelming centralized effort. Calling them decentralized is like calling suburbia decentralized: it's not even wrong.

Decentralization is not a virtue (or end) in itself when it comes to public infrastructure. Robustness is also not intrinsically tied to it, and there are a variety of senses in which the American road network is not particularly robust: congestion and unsustainable funding schemes are just the first two that come to mind.
At the risk of sounding flippant you might print your articles out onto sheets of paper and send them to interested parties by mail.

I'm sure a standard not unlike robots.txt will emerge. That might give some comfort, although I would remain sceptical given that many crawlers refuse to honour it.
Very few people are “uniquely evil”, and even then, those folks tend to do very same things, albeit sometimes on a difference of scale determined by their resources they had at the time.
I think the problem is that making a user or service provider create an account on an app isn't the moat that they think it is. A lot of these market domination moves only last as long as the VC money then the competitors are more than happy to swoop back in.

Consumers are super fickle, and I will happily check a different app to see if I can save a dollar on a $10 car ride
> As he's been the largest shareholder at the company, with his departure he decided to transition the firm to being an employee ownership trust. The trust will see that CodeWeavers continues to operate for the benefit of the community and staff.

I'm not familiar with the "employee ownership trust" concept, so I was curious as to how it differed from a worker co-op. On reading a layperson description, is it perhaps misnamed? It seems like people consider it to be a form of employee ownership, but (a) employees do not buy in (b) employees are not bought out when they leave (c) employees do not necessarily have any kind of voting rights, and the trust could be managed by trustees who are not elected by (or from among) employees. It sounds like EOTs _can_ share profits or pay dividends out to employees, but don't need to. So in what sense is it employee "ownership"? It seems like it's just a perpetual trust whose goal includes employee well-being.

An org on employee ownership says [1]:

> There is no legal definition of what separates an EOT from similar trusts, but to be an EOT, the purpose of the trust should include the well-being of the company’s employees.

So it's a trust which exists _for_ the employees, but does that mean the _own_ it?

A few months ago I listened to this podcast [3] about a perpetual trust set up to benefit stray cats. Despite it being created _for_ stray cats, of course no one claims that the trust is _owned_ by stray cats.

[1] https://www.nceo.org/article/introduction-employee-ownership...
[2] https://www.esoppartners.com/blog/employee-ownership-models
[3] https://www.npr.org/2023/02/22/1158865140/stray-cats-dixfiel...
Obviously the second choice is going to be a worse deal, otherwise it would have been the first choice instead. I agree it does seem kinda backwards that SpaceX gets paid less for a better proposal, but it's kind of a natural consequence of how the bidding and selection process works.
That is not what happened to me. I took it for 2 months and then I wanted to get off. I did not go back to normal. Mentally I felt like I needed more food and more junk food than I ever did before using the drug.

My hypothesis is that it supressed my body's natural production of whatever chemical in my brain helps me not go overboard with food. With that supressed by the drug I had an uncontrollable desire for food and currently I am fatter than I was before taking the drug in the first place.
Yes, talks are being recorded, should be up on YouTube in a month or two depending on how busy the (volunteer) video editors are.
> No individuality, identical buildings with the same layout for identical cogs in the machine.

And yet when the west does this, we celebrate it as "economies of scale": https://www.istockphoto.com/photos/subdivision-aerial

(well, as long as your tiny piece of lawn stays green, your house is one of the five approved paint colors, and your HOA dues/conformity-fines are paid)
I don't think there's anything except speculation here on both sides.

People are speculating that the decision may have had something to do with Musk's behavior, without evidence (aside from the behavior they've seen from Musk- which may not have been taken into account).

People are speculating that the decision to choose Blue Origin may not have been based on Blue Origin's actual launch capabilities, without evidence (aside from the lack of launches so far- though they could have capabilities NASA knows about but the public does not).
Same experience here, gallstone attacks
I just had my 10 year anniversary on Ramnode. Then there were like 2-3 weeks of shitty degraded performance on my node. Then the node was unreachable.

They had a drive failure, spent 2-3 weeks ignoring it, then a second drive died & lost my VPS.
Is there a reason, other than capitalism/entrenched interests, that the prison service doesn't have its own in house software? A non profit could perhaps assist.
So you're not wrong, but also, the Linux kernel uses a modified variant of alloc, so not only can it use sort_unstable, it also has access to sort https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/2d1bcbc6cd703e64caf8d...
None of the contracted next moon landers have been to space yet
Oh great - more private space exploration funding by public money. Instead of the people owning the tech at the end of spending 3.4bil, jeff owns it. Boo.
Tangential, but in my Java class recently I was teaching teaching the students some basic Big O stuff. I wrote a few versions of a program that found the "biggest delta" of two numbers in a list. The first version was O(n^2) time, the next version was just O(n).

I showed them how long it took to run the O(n^2) on 100000 elements, about two minutes on my beefy server. Then I showed them the O(n) version running on my comparatively weaker laptop, and it took about ten seconds to run a million elements. The students were genuinely kind of impressed, and I stressed the point to say that "these are the kind of numbers that make it important to take theory seriously."
To be fair, there are actually two grocery stores at walking distance, but I'm nitpicking here. I know this argument very well: "when you have a car, you can spot rebates week after week and reduce your grocery bill!"

That's true, but most people forget to take into account the cost of the car itself. If you spend 10$ in gas and vehicle depreciation to save 8$ on average on your bill, are you really winning?

When I really need to do a big grocery or to find a specific product which my local store does not have, I rent a car from one of the 5-6 carsharing stations near my place (think ZipCar), it cost me 20$ and I can go where I want. Only, I do not have to pay for a car all the time.

Schools are another topic, of course if you live in a bad neighborhood, it might be problematic, but again with a nice public transportation system, it is not an issue (in my home town, _public_ buses have specific routes for students of a given school, dropping them directly next to the school).

We can always devise a situation where you are "limited" by public/active transport ("I am an ER doctor, what should I do if I get called at 2AM on a winter night to an hospital on the other side of the town to save multiple children lives?")­. Sure, in these cases, you should take the car. That doesn't mean that for the overwhelming majority of people, car _would_ not be mandatory (assuming a decent public transportation system and walkable/bikable cities).
NASAs press release: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-selects-blue-origin-...

Blue Origin press release: https://www.blueorigin.com/news/nasa-selects-blue-origin-for...

Of all four submissions, it's the one from the Daily Mail that we vote to the homepage, how?

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=last24h&page=0&prefix=fals...
I'd suspect kernel devs know about function pointers.
If your product is good enough, this might not actually be a money loser.
If I never have to call support then its a win for everyone.
Codeweavers is paid by Valve to work on Proton
> about creating an illusion that this can be done so as to sell stock to a greater fool.

Yup, that's the entire point of the paper (and it's really clearly written and approachable by non-experts!)

Parent was equating predatory pricing (in general) with loss-leaders, which have nothing to do with the subject of this paper.
This particular inmate has more posts in that site. This one discusses a cancer scare for which he didn't pursue an examination because of the degrading way they treat inmates with medical conditions in prison:

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/01/28/i-m-having-a-c...

His last post is from July 2022. I wonder if he is still alive.
exactly,
it is not problem of making it slower / faster or which is slower/ faster.

BUT

that we use solutions across multiple problems instead providing solution specifically for that problem. if you have KNOWN vm, on KNOWN hardware then why you need all kinds of hardware and other bull.. initializations, checks.... ? just provide list of things it has to have then after list is run over without problem, continue. also why would amazon/gcp/azure care ? they are making money from you running inefficient solutions....
That's always the structure of such a case, though. Courts don't in general make big pronouncements where they don't need to, they find as narrowly as they can. Nonetheless, this case was an arrow fired directly at section 230. And the court didn't take the bait.

It's true the finding wasn't "about" section 230, but to say the case wasn't about 230 is missing the point.
> > I believe a lot of this was driven by fed rate shenanigans creating far more investment wealth than there were organic opportunities for investing it. All of these market-distorting startup deals were just symptoms of that broader systemic monetary policy error.

The Fed is not distorting anything. It's an anomaly that you can "invest with Uncle Sam" , for the longest time if you wanted to see your money grow you had to take it from your fellow American somehow.

The ability to passively invest with the government is alienating, unsatisfying and creates growth problems to the country that allows it because it subtracts participants from the creative destruction process.
Ah, I understand. My reaction may or may not be rational. It's too soon to say. But right now, I think this tech poses a risk well in excess of the potential benefit. I'd rather feel foolish later on when I open my sites again than to regret contributing to something that does harm. After all, I can always put my stuff back up, but once my data contributes to the training, I can't undo that.

To be honest, I'm far from convinced that this tech will have anywhere near the impact that proponents believe it will. But I'm pretending the proponents are correct anyway out of an abundance of caution. Nobody, especially me, actually knows what the impact is going to be.
If your load is under 500W you can buy a turnkey EcoFlow/Bluetti/GoalZero system and just plug it in.
Well, it’s mentioned in a sense that “Reactive UIs never became mainstream” :( Would be interesting to understand why
Circa 2015, Uber charged roughly $30 USD for a trip to the airport from my house. Now it is usually between $60 and $70. There has been significant inflation, but $30 in 2015 is only worth about $38 today.
A Quick-Start Guide to the Moore Method (Discovery Learning in Mathematics) [pdf]
Landing is easy, every BO rocket has landed
>> Americans are not putting bidet toilet seats into their homes despite how cheap and easy it is.

Social proof related behavior are not changed easily, but they eventually. Despite availability of email, people were still writing letters. In longer time frame, people do adapt.
Check out https://coral.ai/products/ accelerators you can actually buy.
Terrible offers.
Only a single HDD/SSD.
Also you're posting affiliate links
What OSS model comes close to 3.5?
@dang, can we change the link to the actual press release?
Sun Ejection May Hit Earth's Magnetic Field, Causing Geomagnetic Storms
Right, but if you want to keep it running, you probably need to replace the battery and may need to replace failing storage. I have an 8 year old laptop that still works but the battery is in terrible shape, and it's not an easy one to repair so it's not realistic to fix it. The machine otherwise is fit for purpose so it's a real waste.
I have no idea how you get to this from the article or the discussions in this thread. What do you propose to replace CSS with? How will it avoid the problems you perceive with CSS while still being useful?

(I’m genuinely curious what you think is wrong with CSS, and how it could be fixed. I’ve heard this kind of sentiment from time to time, and never had a reasonable answer. CSS certainly isn’t perfect, but it’s not at all bad, and most criticisms of it like the meme “CSS is awesome” box with overflow genuinely come from not understanding it and why any other approach would be worse.)
I very rarely use dd. And thank $DEITY for that, because my typical use case is creating a USB boot drive and then backing up or recovering what I can from a failing disk.
I think you're reading a lot into very few words and I probably mostly agree with you. Both TikTok and Twitter have impacts, and neither have much to do with Uyghur genocide — that's a straw man.

Americans aren't oblivious to the genocide of the Uyghurs due to TikTok, they were oblivious before too. On the whole there's no impact on our daily lives from their plight, and as long as that's true it's going to continue having no bearing.

YouTube has radicalized people to jihadi terrorism and white supremacy, Facebook has promoted Rohingya genocide, Instagram is seemingly having a negative impact on depression and suicide amongst teenage girls... these are all problematic platforms regardless of regime... and that's before you get into more of the state-sponsored nonsense that the CIA and other do to spy on everyone regardless of which country they reside in.
Burning anything is never the right answer in a world of climate change.

We are scrambling to find ways to capture atmospheric carbon and store it underground and burning garbage is literally the opposite of that.
The procedural issue is which substantive question to tackle first. If they address the merits of the underlying liability and conclude that there was none, then they get to skip the question of Section 230 because it's irrelevant.

Now suppose they want to avoid tackling the question of the underlying liability. Well, if the defendants would be immune under Section 230 anyway then that question would be irrelevant and they could avoid answering it. But that's not what they did.
It seems to have happened with search engines already. At one time, a one-person show writing interesting content got some quid-pro-quo traffic from Google.

Google increasingly pushes organic results down in favor of ads. Then, "rich snippets" publish your content on their site. Or as they did with Wikipedia, just bulk copying lots of content into their pages.

The one-person-show used to make enough money from that referral traffic to pay for hosting and perhaps a small bit more...but that stops. So now they are less incented to bother with it at all. Ultimately then, less quality content for Google to scrape.

It does feel like eventually, the incentive to publish things publicly goes way down.
> The SEP also reviewed Blue Origin’s pricing for advance payments and concluded that it did not propose any advance payments.

I'm guessing none. Unless NASA has a creative definition for advance payments.
I took it and started out with a small dose. The impact of that dose wore off eventually and the plan at my clinic was to raise it over time.

I am concerned that maybe there isn't a dose where you can stop taking more and keep the results. I am worried that everybody will need to keep taking more as they build up more tolerance to it. The study that showed how effective the drug is was 60 weeks long.

That is a long time, but it doesn't show what happens if somebody plans on staying on the drug for years.
HN values thoughtful commentary above all else: curious conversation. I suggest re-reading the guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Not entirely misleading. They left it unscathed by not addressing it.
An excellent source of information on the motives of UK legislators for passing this legislation, other than the incompetence and malice hypothesised in the other comments, is this parliamentary research briefing from 2022 [1], which summarises the previous five years of consultation and links to a heap of previous white papers and critical responses.

The "news" is that on 17 April 2023, the heads of WhatsApp, Signal and other companies published an open letter questioning "the Government's stated intention to protect end-to-end encryption and respect the human right to privacy" [2], and on 27 April 2023, a member of the House of Lords said that "services such as WhatsApp will potentially leave the UK" [3] if the Bill is passed. The debate is actually pretty informed and a refreshing antidote to the cynicism about democracy expressed elsewhere, until you recall that the House of Lords is not that democratic.

[1]: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-...

[2]: https://blog.whatsapp.com/an-open-letter

[3]: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2023-04-27/debates/AC7C7...
> According to Blue Origin's lunar lander head John Couluris, Blue Origin privately contributed 'well north' of the contract's $3.4 billion payout.

Seems like the NASA award is only is only paying for some minority of the total cost.
Sometimes I see people have written a bug in code and I wonder why they didn't just do the obvious and write it without the bug.

Personally, every time I'm about to introduce a bug I just choose to not do it.
I'd personally base the alert on the syslog message as it comes in but YMMV
He's one of the few people actually pushing humanity forward in real tangible ways, and he's the bad man because he thinks independently and challenges the official narrative? Which itself is the one spreading the most dangerous conspiracy theories and disinformation all the time. Weapons of Mass Destruction, Russiagate, Hunter Biden's laptop, lab leak hypothesis is racist and so on. The people in charge lied about all of this and more to the American people and the entire world. Why are you defending them?

He points this out and stands up for free speech, which the marginalized need the most! It's the powerless who needs free speech and freedom broadly. Not the powerful.

Someone that uses his wealth to accelerate sustainable energy and reusable rockets and satellite internet for Ukraine and working almost every day instead of retiring and buying mansions for himself. He could do that and would get none of this hate. Unfucking believable. He has 0 mansions and 0 yachts and removing 0 freedoms and doesn't even hoard patents with Tesla and SpaceX. He praises other competing companies for moving to electric vehicles. But oh no, he's independent (who voted for Biden, fwiw) and challenges the official narrative and occasionally says and does dumb things. Spaceman bad.

As though the rest of us are all perfect and have made greater contributions to humanity and would have dedicated most of our time and resources into such projects after winning the Paypal stock lottery.

You're really going along with the corporate media and other powerful interests that he's the villain and not themselves who get us into devastating wars, are actively removing our freedoms and privacy, and managing our way into debt and collapse? Get real.
Public funding of space flight led to mediocre results. And the tech still subcontracted/built/owned by Boeing/ULA folks.
This is very much my experience too. Occasionally ChatGPT can give me something quickly that I wasn't able to find quickly (because I was looking in the wrong place, likely). But most of the time, it's just a more interactive (and excessively verbose) web search. In fact, search tends to be more optimized for code problems; I can scan results and SO answers much faster than I can scan a generated LLM answer.