skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the core of the issue. Many would-be competitors to Facebook over the years would lean on the technology aspect as if the average person would care. There's nothing wrong with a decentralized system if you can actually make it work better than the status quo, but many individuals implementing these systems get too caught up in the tech and not enough on the distribution and user acquisition.
how many accounts do you have require an email address for contact / verification?

would authy or okta be better? they for sure require an email address.

would a decentralized usenet that requires me to be bob jones/125 nonce st/cleveland be better for me the user or.. whatever the hell this proposal is?

Why should I send my passport or birth certificate to some random server on the internet?

fighting spam is an issue that I addressed in my first comment.
https://elis.nu/blog/2020/05/nixos-tmpfs-as-root/

https://elis.nu/blog/2020/06/nixos-tmpfs-as-home/
Cook st - a Banksy showed up on my building a few weeks after I moved out.
Exactly, the dc-dc bricks should more than offset the USB C costs.
Just remind yourself that these people have probably thought harder about their problem domains than you have.
I came here to find Silicon Valley references and wasn't disappointed.
The world of internet users besides the minority that blocks ads. Unless you pay for reddit? Exclude those too.

Self promotion isn't evil, idk how people expect anyone to share content they create other wise.

Reddit has up and down votes, if the content isn't good, no matter the poster it doesn't get up voted. Bad content sorts it self out
Infotel – a Russian ISP has been hacked, network equipment destroyed
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There was spam, for sure. There were also "kill files" for readers, which were immensely helpful in removing trolls from your stream. And there were some epic trolls, back in the day. Xah Lee comes to mind. He actually has an interesting website ( http://xahlee.info/ ), which I found recently when searching for a solution to an elisp problem. Yes, he was a troll on comp.lang.lisp.
https://asomenopausia.com/booksmedbio/Hormesis%20-%20The%20D...
but they can use GPT4 to regain it
I’m at a job where, for the first time in my life, I’m desperate for screen real estate. Up until now I’ve been quite happy with a 15” laptop, I never even felt the need to have a bigger screen than that let alone multiple monitors, but just yesterday I set up a third 24” monitor because the two my job started me with didn’t feel like enough.

Replacing those with a headset would not only give me even MORE room to work with, but it would also save room and clutter in my home because I have a small desk in a small space.

As for TV, it doesn’t matter how big your screen is… a headset can always go bigger, give you better 3D, and do better sound as well unless you already have a surround sound setup. Which you may, but many of us don’t have any of those things. The only real downside I see is the inability to watch with someone, but if my wife and I could both wear headsets and sit on the couch together while ALSO both being in a shared virtual space, somewhere exotic with a giant theatre-size screen? Sounds pretty compelling to me.
Are rowy and nocodecms two different brands?
I built an app using 9 different languages
Legal degree from less popular mills aren't very high standard. Expensive sure, but not high standard.

The true test is the bar, but even then you can probably get lucky or hammer enough stuff in head to pass.
If you take what bellingcat posts at face value, the amount of data about Russian citizens for sale is absolutely comical:

https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2020/12/14/navalny-fsb-...
I wonder if that’s wikipedias intent with their simple initiative. You can pull up articles by adding simple in the domain to get a less comprehensive article.
We had a printed encyclopedia growing up - I assume it was bought used, but don't know. My Dad was an academic which must be part of why he saw value in it. I forget which encyclopedia it was, but something pretty comprehensive occupying a couple of feet of shelf space.

As a kid I read the entire encyclopedia cover to cover from A-Z! Hard to say what I retained from that, but no doubt quite a bit, as well as the curiosities that were satisfied even if the content was later forgotten. I couldn't see doing the same with WikiPedia - there's something about the finite physicality of a set of encyclopedias that does seem to beckon for them to be read!
I almost never drink, maybe a couple times a year socially. However, I get a drink or two every time I’m flying.

Flying (well, navigating airports) is stressful, and the long gaps between flights are boring. That combination always seems to direct me to the bar.
Felt so disappointed when I read that in the AMA thread. I guess it's not unexpected, someone stupid enough to make such an obvious lie would of course be stupid enough to also double down, but it really does dispel any remaining droplets of hope that their priorities could still be in some tiny way in the right place. Here's to hoping their valuation drops like a rock.
> The human brain does not have Terminal (sic)

It has, and lots of people are accustomed to it :)
They don’t mention email 2fa in the page. Is that considered insecure now? Would be really nice for people like me who don’t install the app because i don’t want every link to GH to open there.
Yes you’ve hit the nail on the head. It’s made out to be relatively censorship light, but in reality it isn’t. Things just need to be clear and up front so users know whether they want to use that instance.
School actively teaches people to be bad writers.
I was actually curious on how they would manage to actually destroy network equipment.

Which has been confirmed on the website of infotel itselve.

Note: Down for 34 hours and counting

This affects Russian banking too. Inter bank transactions need to be done manually now.

People seem to be able to use daily transactions as usual ( eg. ATM)
Why is the only way to learn something worthwhile about a computer to poke blindly at the terminal? Experimentation is a healthy component of learning, but that doesn't make it the only component of learning. Preferably, you at least learn enough about the computer beforehand to know what you risk messing up and roughly how long it might take to get back to the previous state so you can experiment more than once. At that point you "really know what you're doing".
This looks like a commercial product of the same idea https://sens.ai/store/headset/
What is a "typical" week-over-week variance for dementia rate?
Yeah, the G tries but it is nowhere near sufficient. Then there is the E and A. You would have to ride those for hours since you have to go through Manhattan.
This was a great read, thanks for sharing the link!
In the last few years I've noticed lying by omission has become the new fun corporate/gen-z internet trend (see also: overfunding/gofundme fraud). Like priests and fund managers, their product is a black box, and there's a lot of mischief you can get into when you're entrusted with one of those. They play a fucked-up game of Rumpelstiltskin, where they mislead by default and only admit the truth if you can guess the right question to ask.

You're on the right track, and I too think that's what their actual pipeline looks like, but you're missing a step. I think there's another step where they effectively alter the output of production models by hot-swapping different LORAs (or whatever) to them.

This lets them plausibly claim they haven't changed the version of the model, because they haven't messed with the model. They messed with middleware, which nobody knows enough about to press them on. You ask them if anything changed with the model/API, they say no, and leave you to think you're going crazy because shit's just not working like it was last week.

Nobody's asking them about changes to middleware though, which genuinely surprises me. I am never the smartest person in the room-- only the most skeptical.
Someone created a Usenet-like thing on IPFS. https://github.com/mrusme/superhighway84

It's kind of dead. IIRC the dev put that on the back burner in favor of a new BBS-like app. https://github.com/mrusme/neonmodem
At first glance I thought you were talking about "Thai" time, which is a surprising calendar when you have dates with years in the 2500 range. Looking at you Symantec AntiVirus, storing AV definitions date using the user's locale...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_calendar
I'm trying to come up with a charitable read of this that isn't no true Scotsmaning the concept of a corporation but frankly am coming up short. I might be missing some part of your argument here - why do you believe that dedicating resources (cost and time/expertise) to having your own hardware is always the right decision for a company with a software/internet based product?
Related:

- "A man sued Avianca Airline – his lawyer used ChatGPT" (13 days ago, 174 points, 139 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36095352

- "Lawyer who used ChatGPT faces penalty for made up citations" (1 day ago, 106 points, 128 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36242462

Original court documents: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63107798/mata-v-avianca...
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For a moment I was disappointed that Microsoft was able to port Windows faster than the community to port Linux. Pfew, that's not it. I suppose running Linux streamed from the cloud or virtualized on M1 and M2 has never required any particular official support, MS is just very late. I'm surprised this support only comes now actually.
Thinkpad Carbon X1, Microsoft Surface Laptop, and the HP Dragonfly.
> Still I don't buy, "I suspect it’s easier to teach a waitress to be a writer than an intellectual to be a waiter."

Yeah, I don't buy that either.

I know that the best software engineering work I've done in my entire life happened when I was working as a hotel housekeeper, before I was programming professionally.

It was because cleaning hotel rooms is a purely physical, and highly repetitive job. Every day at work, I was mentally "checked out", working on difficult programming problems in my head while my body just robotically did the work.

Once I was programming professionally, I no longer had the luxury of spending so much time deeply thinking about programming problems.
I know it's optional for now. But now that the knob is there, it's only a matter of time until someone finds a way to effectively mandate that it be turned even on other people's computers.
'07 was the height of Google's cat-and-mouse game with webspammers. It'd degrade to near-uselessness for a month or two, suddenly get a ton better, repeat. This went on though the whole of the middle years of the '00s.

'08 or '09 is when they seemed to surrender that fight, and just give up on indexing the entire Web. Major sites got a huge boost, and a great deal of the Web seemed to just drop off the index entirely. Google's never been really good since.
Prior to Deng, they were operating under a command economy, which is not what we are discussing.

"The 5th Republic has been teetering on the edge of collapse for the last few. years, so I wouldn't be so bullish on France."

OK, I don't think we're going to see eye to eye on anything if you hold those kind of hyper-cynical views.
Earlier submission of original post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36261369
>defensive alliance

Offensive alliance.

Libya. Serbia. Afghanistan - all offensive operations.
'Could care less' is imo the preferred formulation, the implication being that while there is no fundamental physical law preventing me from caring less, from a practical standpoint it seems highly unlikely. It's like how I could be a high lottery pick in the 2023 NBA draft - I'm unathletic and old and get humiliated by 7th graders in games of 1-on-1 - but technically it only takes one NBA GM seeing something special in me and I'm shaking hands with the Commissioner.

It's all in the delivery.
There is a much less malicious explanation here.

If that tablet company had very recently begun an internet marketing campaign, across multiple ad networks, target approximately your demographic, then it's wholly reasonable that you and your wife would independently see ads for it.
Well, all I can say, is these numbers seem crazy to me. It appears that the condition is all a mishmash of "lungs in bad state", predicated by anything from "that dude was breathing deadly toxic air", to "always like this".

I think there should be more nuance here, but concede you are correct as the subject is discussed.
Your analysis is accurate in one sense but inaccurate in another.

Correct; Putin had an issue with NATO expansion.

But the reason this was an issue for him is completely missed (or deliberately ignored) by people like yourself.

The fact that NATO is a defensive pact IS the problem.

Because if a country joins NATO, that means Russia can’t invade it.

Putin’s wet dreams all revolve around restoring Russian glory and territory. He’s also said this publicly, too.

And that is why NATO expansion is such an issue for him. Any other narrative is absolute hogwash
> I think you were in a pretty distinct milieu if you thought this was a popular idea in 1992, or any time before, say, 1998.

It wasn’t mainstream before people could afford computers and connectivity but nobody serious was laughing at the idea for the reasons I mentioned: it was an obvious extension of what businesses had been doing for over a century and there was tons of prior art (services like CompuServ had online shopping in the 80s). By the mid-90s it was obvious that it was going to happen for easily shipped items as soon as people got online - when Amazon launched in 1995 it had customers around the country almost immediately and the book operation was profitable within a couple of years.

> Yes, I imagine that the companies you interfaced with as an employee of an webdev company in the late 90s were all over this. That is not the same thing as it being generally popular.

Our customers weren’t tech companies but brick and mortar retail, banks, manufacturers, etc. They knew that this was an easy way to sell direct to customers - which cut out some hefty margins charged by major stores & catalogs - and try new products. The opportunity was obvious even to people who weren’t in the industry — absolutely nobody was laughing at that, although there were dotcoms of the “lose money on every sale, make it up in volume” persuasion who everyone knew were doomed.
I don't use copilot but I did try a few tools lately like phind and chatgpt and tried to use them during daily coding chores. So far without much success. I tried using them as glorified code generator but the problem is that the generated code didn't take into account existing conventions in the private codebase.

This makes sense since it wasn't trained on the private codebase but not using existing helpers, naming, abstractions makes the results largely useless since only a minority of output is useful. Like the author mentions what these tools do with the input is a gray area and nobody wants to publicize their code through chatbots. It'd be cool if there was a selfhosted alternative out there, trainable on private codebases.

I've also tried using the bots for answering questions about tech problems I've been having. Answers are mostly off point, have a lot of nonrelated info and most importantly are generated slowly. In the time I get an answer from a chatbot I can scan through a dozen Stack Overflow pages.

As far as I'm concerned we're not there yet but never say never.
Sure use whatever tool to find suitable cases supporting you. But also verify that those cases support your position. Better not give ammo to your opponent.
Netflix's password crackdown leads to subscription spike
Please pardon my ignorance...

My understanding is that there are 1000s of different compression algorithms, each with their own pros/cons dependent on the type and characteristics of the file. And yet we still try to pick the "generically best" codec for a given file (ex. PNG) and then use that everywhere.

Why don't we have context-dependent compression instead?

I'm imagining a system that scans objects before compression, selects the optimal algorithm, and then encodes the file. The selected compression algorithm could be prefixed for easy decompression.

Compare a single black image that's 1x1 to one that's 1000x1000. PNGs are 128bytes and 6KB, respectively. However, Run Length Encoding would compress the latter to a comparable size as the former.
Not for Lisp or some ML derived languages, FP isn't whatever Haskell does.
de-dupe in ZFS is a "here be dragons" sort of feature, best left alone unless you're already familiar with ZFS administration and understand the tradeoffs it brings [0]

in this case, the files being stored are compressed archives (NAR files) so the block-level dedupe that ZFS does would probably find very little to work with, because the duplicated content would be at different offsets within each archive.

beyond that, there's also the issue that they would need a single ZFS pool with 500TB+ of storage (given the current ~425TB size). that's certainly doable with ZFS, but the hardware needed for that server would be...non-trivial. and of course that's just a single host, they would want multiple of those servers for redundancy. distributed object storage like S3 is a much better fit for that volume of data.

0: https://www.truenas.com/docs/references/zfsdeduplication/#co...
The problem with such a demo is it will be conducted in a way that does minimum actual human harm, as it obviously should. As such, a raw feed of it won't really demonstrate much besides "big boom knocks things down" and at worst be celebrated in the same way people celebrate fireworks and rocket launches. Nations may attempt to "add context" through fake corpses or actors or some such to demonstrate the heat & radiation burns it does to humans, but that will be quickly called out as manipulative propaganda, as it pretty much is. Tragically the only way to demonstrate it's effect and prevent a nuclear attack from happening is have a nuclear attack happen.
> Working on something with unrealistic confidence, even if that project itself is completely doomed to failure, is probably better for you than watching Netflix.

As someone who’s heavily biased towards just sitting on the couch (but reading a book, not watching Netflix :)), but married to an unrealistically confident wife, I have to agree.

I tend to panic whenever my wife comes up with her way-too-frequent ideas and goes ahead with them with minimal risk analysis, but at the end of the day she’s a much more accomplished and satisfied person than I am. I tend to look at every project from the most pessimistic angle possible and the end result is that I almost never actually do anything. I have a lot of book knowledge about a number of things but little to no experience, whereas she’s the exact opposite, and that tends to be more beneficial in real life.
That was excellent!

> The life of the American worker is inherently undignified

This is true, and even goes for highly-paid, high-status gigs. In fact, I think that sometimes, companies consider high pay, a license to humiliate.
That's a double edged sword, reminding some people that the weapons exist and are functional
Looks like the prior discussion wash shut down (@80?)

A wide range of discourse, a beloved topic.

It is not that will cannot be coopted, or controlled, or predictable based on common patterns, it is that will is arbitrarily available at the discretion its possessor that makes it “free.”

Will, is the determinate resolve (of our “potential of being”).

Will, the determination of resolve.

That you may exercise your determination at your discretion is your free will. That you may be under some other influence is a psycho-intellectual complexity that is each’s lot to resolve, those who would be “masters” of their own.

As an aside, determinism in general fails by lack of account (always an encompassing scope of interceding unknown variance), and decay (it is falling apart consistent only by eventuality.)
I posted a snippet before if you feel like checking my history
Edit
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35390782
> and which wikipedia says "is thought to be a normal gut commensal in humans"

So is E. coli.
Fair, but it's still a good analogy, especially for less technically inclined.

If our brains were easy to interface with or scramble remotely, it would become way too easy for one to kill or severely mess up themselves or others, possibly at scale.

With computers, especially today, almost anything can be fixed by a reboot and maybe a rollback. But can you imagine having a REPL to your own brain and accidentally screwing something up? Say, disabling higher functions, or launching an infinitely recursive function, and then losing connection? You can't exactly reboot your brain.
Apollo’s developer has stated multiple times that he has no problem with Reddit charging for API access.

The problem is that they are charging so much for it that it will kill all of the third party apps, which is likely one of reddits main goals with the change.
I've never tried to make a terribly general attempt at it, but I have done it a couple times and had it work pretty well.

Here's one of the latest attempts I've done, although I'll note I still haven't managed to get an actual working Apple Silicon build. It keeps building for x64. The Windows builds were smooth sailing since I didn't need to worry about cross compilation yet, though I'm sure it'll be interesting when I eventually try this for AArch64 Windows.

https://github.com/puyonexus/qt-sdk-builder

(I don't do this for Linux since it's easy to get a Qt SDK on Linux.)
Adding one extra bit doubles the time horizon...
It's probably simpler than this - advertiser just runs a campaign with some broad criteria (like income estimate based on IP-geolocated ZIP code) that both people in the same household fit. No surprise the same ad that one person had seen (and remembered) will be eventually shown to the other.
I have yet to find a non customisable nixos component. It'd a source system that's excellent at building from source so there's always a way.
I gave up on this article about 1/3 of the way through. I could fill dozens of pages with my aimless years after I quit college, but I wouldn’t think to bore people with it.
Miniatures games aren't really play-to-win, though. You have to spend (lots of) money to be able to play, but you can't spend arbitrary further money to increase your chance of winning. The size of your army is limited by the points cost of the units, and the composition is limited by various rules, so you can't just buy twenty super-duper battle robots and steamroller everyone.

I don't think it's even reliable that the point-for-point best units are the most financially expensive ones. With 40k, i believe the most expensive stuff is often obscure Forge World models that usually have terrible rules.
Unfortunately, this is not an unreasonable determination.

Additionally, the public restroom procedure in Paris is hyper-alien to anyone from a major US city. I imagine there are a lot of very ignorant 20-something US kids dropping nuggets at night in shrubs out of sheer necessity.

Imagine a normal, closeted US kid, doing a weekend or Semester abroad in France. They go to a friendly looking Irish expat pub, put down a pint or two, head to the loo, and just see A HOLE IN THE FLOOR.

If I was that sheltered child, I'd poop in the shrubs too.
THIS! Just make it so the third party apps only work for reddit gold users, or have limitations for non-gold users, and now they've converted a bunch of the apollo users into paying members. Instead they're lying and slandering people, getting caught, and doubling down.

I'm getting the impression that reddit isn't profitable not because of any fundamental issue, but because the leadership of the site have absolutely no idea what they're doing.