skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was a huge fan of Pixar films, but honestly a lot of their films have just been really bad. I enjoyed Lightyear, Turning Red, etc. but they weren't nearly as good as their previous films. It's now put me off seeing most of what Pixar puts out, they all look like the same film.

On the other hand, other animation studios are putting out some really good films, the two animated Spier-Man films, the Puss in Boots sequel, etc.

Pixar needs to raise it's game and try telling more interesting stories.
The problem is that we have decided above average is not longer sufficient. Everything has to be exceptional, and if it is not, someone needs to get fired.

I have a similar anecdote from my Amazon days. Amazon started a daily survey for all employees (known as connections). It started out as a survey and very soon morphed into a tool to evaluate managers. Managers would often get comments about how their team is rating the work culture poorly and it is their responsibility to improve things (even if it is beyond their control). Everyone was/is gaming the system.

My advice to my teams was to treat it like a Uber rating -
* Everything is going well, it is a 5.
* Something minor is bad, but you can talk to your manager to close it, it is a 4.
* You are moving out of the team due to your manager, it is a 3.
* The entire team hates the manager, it is a 2.
* The entire team hates the manager and everyone else hates the manager, it is a 1
If they could do both at the same time, why haven't they? You might blame the opposite party but look more closely, did their voters get what they were asking for?

You vote for democrats to increase funding to social programs, they promise they will tax the rich to pay for them. The democrats never vote to raise the capital gains tax instead if they do anything they raise income taxes or introduce a "fine" to poor people who cant afford health insurance. They then fund ineffective programs that are later revealed to have a great deal of fraud and waste. They say they will fight healthcare costs but can't even get a bill to reimport drugs onto the floor. They'll do a Medicare for all vote but only when they are not in power so it won't go through.

Maybe you get disillusioned with that and decide to vote Republican. They say they cut taxes and they do nominally, but not without craving out even larger tax cuts for wealthy individuals. They fail to cut spending. Look at the most recent debt celing crisis, they immediately caved. Look at when they had a majority, no major spending cuts.

What do they have in common? War. They love wars. They get rich off wars. Let's not let them have any wars until they do what we want them to do at home. War is dessert, make them eat their dinner first.
Google has also begun aggressively filtering domains from sending email to Gmail users. This rolled out last November but they've ramped it up this past week to the point that many "indie" domains are 100% blocked from emailing Gmail accounts.
Perhaps not being able to run trending topic campaigns is a _draw_ for Masto users. Not being able to create your own means you don't have to be spammed with attempts from others.
I have a couple phones that are running older versions of Android. Still perfectly functional phones physically, but I can't "repair" them by installing a newer version of Android. This is in fact due to a lack of ownership, to update I would need a signing key that is owned by a defunct manufacturer.

It's similar with many physical things. Safe repair requires documentation and software tooling that some company considers trade secrets. I own it, but someone else owns the right to repair that piece of technology. Do I really own it if it's broken and I don't have the right to access required repair documentation?
> What is holding back Bitcoin adoption for small online payments?

Bitcoin is pretty high friction, and comes with a bunch of downsides (no recourse for errors/scams, value volatility, etc.) that are important to some people.

Not to mention that the cryptocurrency world is generally full of shady actors and many simply don't want to be associated with that.
Singularity Institute – Update
Hmm, this is the best guess here IMO. This person did say it started occuring within the last year though. I just created a site a month ago with 2000+ pages and I did notice only 5 were indexed, which was quite annoying. I just suspected it was because I didn't have enough backlinks yet so it didn't want to waste time on it... interesting it may be what this original article is about. But yes, I 100% bet its because all new sites now have an enormous barrier with the sheer amount of fake content that can be generated.
FWIW I'll jump on the other side and note that most of these are island nations which makes it a lot easier.
The data for much of this list of cities has changed substantially in the past two to three years. Many of these are now unaffordable for someone on $45k/year, and they do not have the employment robustness of the larger metros.
I've got a script for parsing my web logs which removes all the lines which match persistent indexers/bots/scrapers and any obvious automatons. Logs generally shrink to 40-50% of their volume, so I'd at least double CF's estimate.
I think this argument is seductive but wrong because it ignores an invisible elephant in the room: funding.

Decentralization is a business problem, not a technical problem. Engineers tend not to see this because we're engineers and so we see technical problems first.

Usenet had no economic model. All the problems you list are solvable if there were funding available to solve them.

Free volunteer developer work tends to stop at the level of polish with which developers are comfortable, which is usually command line interaction and fairly manual processes. Developers generally have to be paid to develop new features and polish those features for the general audience, which is why there are precious few open source systems used by anyone other than developers.

Those that do exist tend to be subsidized by huge companies for the purpose of "commoditizing your compliments" or as tools to herd users into an ecosystem that has upsell opportunities built into it. Examples: Chrome, any open source client for a SaaS service, etc.

Non-profits can fund to some extent, but the truth is that polished feature-rich easy to use software is extraordinarily expensive to produce. A system that a developer can create in their spare time might cost millions to render usable to non-developers. Computers are actually very hard to use. We just don't see this because we're accustomed to it. Making them easy to use is a gigantic undertaking and is often far more difficult and complex than making something work at the algorithmic level.

Centralized systems with built-in economic models like SaaS or commercial software tend to triumph because they can fund the polish necessary to reach a wider audience. A wider audience means exponentially larger network effects. See Metcalfe's Law.

Cryptocurrency could have offered an alternative model but failed for entirely different reasons: perverse incentives that attract scammers. In crypto by far the most profitable thing to do is build a fake project that can appear just credible enough to attract retail buyers onto whom you can dump your tokens. There is no structural incentive to stick with a project and really develop it because all the money is made up front through the initial offering. This also ruins the ecosystem because "the bad chases away the good." Scammers make legitimate people not want to go anywhere near crypto, transforming the whole ecosystem into a "bad neighborhood."
Set the system prompt to:

Translate the user-provided text from English to Japanese.

In the user message, provide only the text.

Testing it on your comment, it works well even with GPT-3.5.
They are free to buy a living room and criticize away. My living room, I am allowed to determine whom to allow and whom not to allow in. And I would like to find online spaces where the loser spam (both commercial and ideological) are kept out, so I can find the speech I am interested in. Why is this desire felt as oppressive by so many?
Revision for generality:

All of these best practices are great for humans dealing with their humans as well:
Its hard to imagine so many people could have known about this for so long, yet it remained secret. I expect you could keep something like an assassination secret since everyone who knows about it is probably in some way complicit. Wouldn't be the case here.

Also of course the energy required to get to Earth from somewhere else, for an organism that used any kind of "vehicle" we could recognize as such, would be enormous.

But, good to stay open-minded.
My real world usage for a Rpi 4 is pretty close to 5W nominal, 8W peak (but I do run a zigbee/zwave and NVMe ssd). My Zero W is pretty close to 2.5W but it’s overclocked. I’m pretty sure you can underclock the CPU and RAM, and under voltage the RAM, and you’ll get very close numbers to a Rpi. Has to be a N100 though, didn’t look into but a N95 is significantly more inefficient
When these clearly superior beings that have advanced far beyond us come knocking, I am sure the first thing we should ask is - whether they accept Jesus as their lord and savior, as it seems very important to us.
The solution is to not use a pronoun (“her”) in cases where it can’t be made clear who or what the antecedent is of that pronoun. In this case, there are two women mentioned in the sentence (not counting the first person narrator), so best to avoid “her” entirely.

And yeah I split the infinitive above on purpose
These were common back in the day for software. Jetbrains still starts by default with a tip of the day screen.

I find them quite useful.
Maybe we need a ranking system based on asking "Compared to your previous transaction, which was a better experience?" Answers "This was better" or "My last experience was better".
Given the propensity for night time riders to be tipsy, if not outright drunk, I'd think they'd need more cleaning, not less at night. Or is it due to the sheer number of people? I've yet to try driving for Uber tho so I could have the wrong impression.
18 overdose deaths recorded at the property, those beds all had to be removed, fumigation etc . Over 1000 uses of Narcan administered by staff in 2 years.
https://sandstorm.io/how-it-works

Sandstorm implements a capability-based security model, where not only does each app run in a strong sandbox, but a new instance of the app is created for each document (or whatever the app's logical unit of data may be). Sandstorm itself enforces that each document can only be accessed by the people with whom it has been shared, regardless of any bugs that might exist in the app itself. All communications between the user's browser and the app go through a proxy implemented by Sandstorm which applies this authorization regime.

Apps cannot even talk to each other or the internet without specifically requesting access, granted by the user. The UX model for these requests is designed to flow naturally for the user, by deriving the user's intent to permit access from the action they took that caused the access to be needed. For example, say the user wants to embed a chart into a document, where the chart editor and document editor are separate apps. The user clicks some sort of "embed" button in the document editor. Now they are presented with a chooser where they can pick which thing they want to embed. If they make a choice, there is no need to separately ask the user if they want the document to have access to the chart -- of course they do. Sandstorm works by having the system implement the "picker" UI directly, so that Sandstorm knows the user made this choice, and can automatically provide the implied authorization.

All this actually makes apps easier to write since they don't have to deal with authorization and user management themselves, and as a result there are a lot of neat unique apps for Sandstorm written by various people in a short amount of time. However, the down side is that existing off-the-shelf apps that do already feature their own user management and authorization are somewhat laborious to port to Sandstorm.

Yunohost takes a more traditional model of just running each app and letting it figure out its own authorization.
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I've noticed the same. And sometimes you'll get search results showing 10+ pages, but if you actually follow through them, the results die by the second page. Google also omits many domains from search results now.
In my opinion, forcing everyone to standardize on Intel architecture chips is bad for an entirely different reason. However, since the industry is already broadly standardized on DDR RAM, I think we're not losing anything by pushing for "standard" RAM interfaces, even if it's just "some kind of standard socket for current JEDEC spec". It's sort of in a similar vein to the EU pushing for USB-C standardization on phones.

For motherboards, it ought to just be more future-proofed. Exactly how to incentivize that is not trivial, definitely not going to be figured out in a Hacker News comments section.

> And it will also result in worse computers that are necessarily slower and larger?

Slightly, which is exactly why it's never going to just magically happen on its own even if it would literally be better for everyone overall. But I don't really buy the idea that Apple can't make a competitive motherboard or computer if they're forced to support modular system RAM.

And personally, I'm not in favor of outlawing soldered RAM or embedded RAM or what have you, I'm in favor of disincentivizing not supporting expandable RAM on desktop and laptop computers. It doesn't have to be illegal, but it absolutely should be discouraged.

I am not, on the whole, more concerned about Apple's bottom line over concerns like ewaste and consumer rights. I have a sneaking suspicion they will do just fine, somehow.
Given the RROD, I don't think its worth putting time into Xbox360. Unless there has been some development on the 360 hardware, I doubt people will be using theirs for too long.

I went through 4 RRODs before the final RROD was in 2019.

I thought that xbox360 was going to be pals with my son at my parents...
There nothing wrong with it.
As someone who used to work in a technical support call center, I understand just how much control these metrics can have over someone. Anything less than a 10.0/10.0 CSAT was considered not good enough at times.

So today if I call and I get an agent at a call center that is even moderately competent I give them a full score to help them out.
Hacking Spree Hits British Airways as Experts Warn of Extortion
* buying a house costs a shit ton of money in closing costs, fees, taxes, etc. IMO we oughta ban real estate ages before we ban renting

* but if I want to move, now I have to eat a $40k set of fees just to change houses. Fuck that.

* if I don't plan on staying somewhere for 10 years, it's just way easier to rent

* renting means outsourcing maintenance, property taxes, and other tasks

* to buy you need a lot of capital, and even if income is high you need spare cash; it may not be feasible.

For example I lived in Australia for 2 years. Why would I buy a house there? I also was in the USMC at one point and lived in California (among other places). Buying a house was a terrible idea since I had no idea if I'd be around, or get moved elsewhere. Was I gonna try to rent that, and chase down tenants while in Iraq? Hell no.
That's one of the advantages of Clojure: it's lisp-inspired but with different brackets for different data structures.
Deep fake video of Putin declaring martial law is broadcast in parts of Russia
I've noticed my newer GitHub repos are not indexed by Google for weeks, while on Bing and DDG they show up very quickly.
Phone calls and e-mails are horrible, but where did you get the idea that 3 stars is above average?

On a scale of 1 to 5 stars, 3 is in the middle. In a normal distribution, that is average. 4 stars would be above average, 2 stars is below average.

Although many people would even view that as overly negative. These days, most people interpret 5 stars as basically "met all expectations, zero complaints". Then 4 stars means there was something wrong but still ultimately did the job fine, 3 stars means serious problems but still had some usefulness, 2 stars is nearly useless, and 1 star means totally useless.

Edit: And I don't understand what "absolute perfection" means. If a delivery driver shows up in the expected time window and rings my bell and hands me my package, that's 5 stars. I'd give probably 90% of deliveries 5 stars, for example -- there's literally nothing for the driver to improve upon. Do you consider that "absolute perfection"? (If they don't ring and they leave it on the stoop when I'm home, that's not 5 stars.)
Nobody complains about the Java compiler. Everyone complains about the class loading performance.
Your summary is incorrect, and insulting. That is not how it happened. The old academic usenet was more than content to discuss sensitive topics. The problem with post-September usenet was spam.

Small groups were ok. As soon as a group had any reasonable traffic, the spammers moved it. Since the spammers didn't care about conversation, they didn't need to maintain stable identify and evaded killfiles. They could quickly drowning out the topic with 10x ads. Not wanting this is not about being uncomfortable - it was about swimming in 90% garbage ads.
> A lot of people use third-party apps.

Where do you get this information from? And what is "a lot"?

I'd wager 99% of Reddit users (therefor, income) use the official reddit app and new website.
Almost all high-level languages have builtin containers. I do think it's a bad fit for Rust (at least for what Rust became), but it's not the end of the world by itself.

The fact that JS has about 3 of them (is it only 3? I'm not sure of this), with different interfaces, and non-usual behavior is what creates problem there. But other languages quite successfully make their own containers either different enough or similar enough that it's not a problem.
Loved everything about Alta Vista, including the logo, and the UI.

I miss 90s Internet in general. It wasn't the ugly battleground and desolation planet that the current net has become.
Pseudonymity beats anonymity. People's track records and comment history should be a factor when judging what someone says, unless we expect every comment to be a lengthy thesis.

If I see a comment from someone I know to be a relative expert on a field based on my previous interactions with them, I want to judge it as more authoritative and interesting than a rando who registered two weeks ago and has mostly commented "lol".
I actually agree with you, and I know for a fact that the planet (which includes human society) has a huge untapped potential for supporting many billions if everyone just allows things to work.

Why cash? Why not a free apartment, free local transportation, free food, free doctor, and free TV. That would cover 90% of the people 100% of the time.

The reason is that cash is fungible and will therefore flow more freely to the actual recipients of the handouts, which are merchants who price necessities according to what the market will bear. If anyone would like to debate that last assertion, I'd be interested in a counter-example where the price of essentials just kept on getting lower and lower.

I'm not sure UBI is any different than all the prior plans to spend our way to prosperity. To learn the truth, we will have to ask our descendants when they are paying for all this. (Of course this assumes we don't bankrupt first.)
I don't blame people for jumping ships. There are a lot of mature, safe and fast enough languages (no, I'm not talking about you, python) and for many projects there is very little justifications for writing them in C++.

I expect Rust to grow to be about as complex as C++, except for the most part memory safe. I still think it would be a big win overall but I don't know if it will significantly displace it though.
I just give 5 stars cause I think it's funny to undermine the rating systems.
Every iPhone photo even today would require it.
Launch the Polaris. The end doesn't scare us.
In all fairness we need to note that it speaks of the most vocal followers. There are likely many others who are evangelizing it much less, but that's exactly the source of the bias: we don't "see" them.

I in fact agree with the observation, but I also think that the same can often said of many passionate people. Scala? Blockchain?

Continuing the observations, mainstream approaches seem to have less passionate followers. Very few people are evangelizing Java as passionately as others do Lisp. I wonder what makes mainstream less attractive in this sense.
https://github.com/luohongyin/SAIL
Or what about “the site went down?”
Also, Gmail is not playing nice with non-Gmail email accounts. If it's not coming from a large corporation, Gmail is filtering it.
Exactly, it's "a language" but what you say will be interpreted differently depending on which specific version of which specific compiler you happen to be using today.
> I too balked at the absurd complexity in the HomeAssistant stack

I did for the longest time, trying every alternative but I eventually embraced it. The modern docker container OS image runs perfectly fine on an old Raspberry Pi 2B and the modularized container architecture makes it easy to up/down grade parts of the system as needed. Add-Ons (e.g., Z-Wave, Zigbee, TP-Link, etc) are Docker Containers by default so they're easily maintained and upgraded by the core supervisor.

It is a lot of complexity that they have been progressively hiding behind a pleasant UI but it still has some rough edges. The complexity is due to the modular ability to support nearly every smart home feature out there.
Ah yes, the “offhand comment by someone years before they took a position indemnifies you business for all behaviour infinitely into the future no backsies” law
just a nit, where is the link to part 1?
I get that you're saying Not "our" problem from the perspective of an employee "our" – but you're a consumer, aren't you? A taxpayer too.

Pretty much every single issue that we face as humanity will have a business component in the solution. Even larger government-funded solutions will have to fund private contractors to carry out whatever actions, and in many cases, make a difference whether some companies go above and beyond. Take public transit. The buses and trains are manufactured by private industry. So would you like to ride in a train manufactured or driven by people that every step of the way had a "not our problem" attitude?

How about the concept of having pride in your work? I'm honestly not trying to make excuses for predatory and greedy management. I'm not. I am arguing that having a "not our problem" makes you just as bad as the evil management. In both cases, the consumer (you) suffers.

I wasn't aware there was even a question about fairness regarding equity. Sure, some places would be even more cutthroat in their negotiations, but if you want more equity, usually you have to take more risks. Has that calculation changed in any fundamental way?
Climate change won't either.
That lends itself to other solutions though, if there's the political will to implement them.

To take an unpopular example: Iran

Iran provides food and shelter to all it's citizens, making sure everyone has their minimum needs met. They've combined this with strict laws against begging. If they see anyone begging on the street someone will come up to them and ask "Why are you begging? Do you have some basic need that's still unmet?"

Outcomes will range from:
- Helping them with that need (if it's legitimate)
- Directing them to getting some kind of job if they merely want more income (even if it's selling trivial knick knacks on the street)
- Presumably there's penalties for repeat offenders
Exactly my thoughts. It works well IMO and experience. Our company has this same policy for yearly feedback ratings.