skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's nothing illegal about installing powerline networking adapters.

Nobody said there was.

> It's like a sit in protest, to disrupt it, without breaking the law.

Sit-ins work better if the subject is aware that a protest is happening and why, and also if the subject is the one who actually did the thing you're protesting.

Some ham operators did shitty things, and you've decided based on zero evidence that every single ham operator everywhere is equally responsible and deserves to be punished, by you. In sit-in terms, this is like you heard about a racist lunch counter in Mississippi, so you decided to strike a blow for justice by throwing a brick through the window of a bistro in New York.

What you're talking about isn't a protest. You're not raising awareness, you're not applying pressure to change behavior or change the law. You're just mad about something and you're venting it on a random bystander who reminds you of the guy you're mad at.

If you're unhappy about radio laws, there are ways to organize and fight to get them changed. This isn't one of them.
I feel like their ought to be another term for what the author is talking about, which is software developed by the community and maintained openly. Calling this "open source" seems inappropriate, as this only describes the license of the software, which seems really orthogonal.

A lot of open-source software is not developed openly or accepting contributions, it's just published as a tarball somewhere. There is no volunteer work, there is no fostering of a community. Some projects explicitly refuse outside contributions, like SQLite, but are still open-source (= license). In contrast, some software is developed in a communal fashion but is open-core, BSL, or at least partly proprietary.

In this article, every time the author says something about "open source projects", they mean community-developed projects.

Maybe the word "project" does enough work here, and everyone understands the difference between "open source software" (= the code, under open license) and "open source project" (= community-developed openly-maintained software)?
There already are GPS alternatives. China and Russia both operate their own, either of which can also be used by anyone for free. But nobody really uses them because the US doesn't actually use "selective availability" anymore, has promised never to use it again, and the modern satellites don't even support it:

https://www.gps.gov/systems/gps/modernization/sa/

You can find a list of good reasons why they should never want to do this, but one of the big ones is that if they ever actually did they could only do it once, because then no one would trust them not to anymore and would start including hardware support for the alternative systems in case it isn't available.

But that isn't really the point. The relevant issue is that the US taxpayer pays for GPS and then the people of Italy and Australia and Brazil get it for free. Even if GPS had been an exception with some strategic defense purpose, how does that explain e.g. funding for cancer research?
That's so lame. It's an ass move to have a web app but deny access on certain platforms. But whatever gets the numbers up for an IPO I guess.
There is only one appropriate, effective response to disrespect, and that is to not reward the offending party.

I made it a matter of principle to not use the Reddit app. Even if they removed all ads and made it an acceptable user experience, I'll never use the app as long as they are harassing me about it.

It's simple. Don't reward bad behavior.

Sometimes, denying obnoxious people something they want means denying yourself something you want.
Decriminalisation generally means taking away criminal penalties for possession but still having some penalty (usually the user must attend counselling), and keeping production and supply illegal.

Legalising is the 'full fat' solution which allows legal production and trade.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36283626
It's a clear play on another old pithy saying: "Love is a verb, not a noun." Maybe you just missed the reference.

The rest of the comment describes things that did, in fact, happen. So what's the problem?
The point is to kill third party applications. Social media companies watched Facebook do it with little outrage, and quite a bit of upside -- they completely control the user experience, all by squeezing out 3rd parties slowly and without fanfare. Twitter and reddit want to benefit from that as well, but don't have the political savvy to pull it off without protest. But the goal is the same, complete control of the user base and how they access the site. API access is a tenet of Web 2.0 up until a company realizes it's more lucrative to lock their users in harder.
Siri is still shit. Whisper is not
Well, in the exchange, Jobs says "Fecebooks". I wonder if that was a Freudian slip. :)
>This is literally authortiarianism and the problem is that you can use it to justify any change by any company ever.

If trusting people with the strongest financial incentives to have the correct beliefs is "authoritarianism", then I'm an authoritarian. If there are betting markets out there that say that Reddit is going to crash and burn, then I'll trust them too. But the rando with an angry, self-interested opinion on the internet? Yeah they'll have to satisfy a pretty strong evidentiary burden before I trust them over someone with actual skin in the game.
RNZ chief executive apologises after pro-Russian sentiment added to stories
Since it was a read-only api, I'm assuming they used the readily available json endpoints that require no authentication. reddit blocked it in any of the ways you can block a good faith actor -- by user agent or IP address.
That's untrue. Viruses which spillover may spread across humans at a low level of efficiency for months, mutating for higher affinity towards humans, and only becoming pandemic once a high level of affinity has been achieved.

All viruses which have higher affinity for humans spilled over, didn't they?
Yea, but,not gonna share. What I told Sergey was to tell Steve 'you can't take a person away from a job they love'
One month old, but still very interesting. The admin confirmation is here: https://old.reddit.com/r/help/comments/135tly1/comment/jim40...
http://highscalability.com/

http://misko.hevery.com/

Old, and Hevery no longer contributes, but lots of great stuff.
He was the reason the iphone took off along with the hardware. It was truly a thing of beauty and we have gone downhill on ux since.
If chrome adopts JPEG XL, there won't be any reason to use avif or webp.

Picture tags should only need two combinations [jpeg xl, jpeg], and [jpeg xl, png]
> The LLMs we have now are extremely effective though. There’s real use case here for automating writing, and some menial tasks that human beings were unfairly burdened with, but were impossible to automate till now.

Some people take issue with that assertion. The biggest problem with LLMs is you can’t trust them and have to verify everything they output - and often writing it yourself and verifying is easier than verifying someone/something else’s work.

Right now no sane corporation will even let a LLM run their helplines that they out sourced to India. Imagine a LLM hallucinating a dangerous “solution” to a customer problem resulting in loss of property, injuries, or even death. It’s a massive lawsuit waiting to happen.
The Day the Treasury Topped
I don't see a problem at all. You need to bootstrap a UGC platform somehow.
If you allow unlogged in viewing of posts (like Twitter does) why not just implement blocks as shadowbans?

Then the person blocked doesn’t even know.
Decades ago, Paris built a new area of town for high-rises…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Défense
Logged on, down voted everything I could find, left quickly. Lets see what it looks like next Monday.
The Surprising Power of Documentation
Mine was the dumbest throw away thing ever about cow tipping. Simply that cows don't like strangers coming up to them and that it is difficult to tip a cow because 1 ton of cows is not a lot of cows.

Such insight!
Silicon Valley Renews Lobbying Biden to Lift Cap on Foreign Workers
Bayesian reasoning is that your prior is a 99.999% chance that the virus is natural, as all other viruses are.

The probability that a virus would crop up in Wuhan out of all cities in China is 1/70.

Feel free apply Bayes' formula.
Its so stupid that this is all "for" an IPO. I can't imagine huge investing houses, retirement funds, analysts and such investigating Reddit, and missing the massive user retention issues these changes precipitate.

Its not like the stock market is littered with social media website corpses or anything...
If you're on an iPhone, turn on "Website Settings > Use Reader Automatically" for any Substack site you browse to.

The next time you visit, you won't have to bother dismissing the "plz subscribe to my shitty newsletter" box that Substack forces on you.
I just deleted my reddit shortcuts. sigh

And when I went to log out of reddit, I got https://www.redditstatic.com/youbrokeit3.png
Agreed. Very interesting take on the matter. I'm not exactly sure I like the conclusion that identity is subjective, but at least it's coherent.
On Linux I expect one command to install the app. I don't want to download anything, use a web browser, or anything else.
I look to monetize all my wasted time as much as possible. So I do those survey for cash or airline points during standup. Extremely low value, but given that I am trapped in standup (worthless to me) and it is too short to do something more valuable, I may as well.

Worth half a business class trip to Europe every year.
Air Canada used to have some direct flights Toronto<->Mumbai that are now unviable because of the russian airspace restrictions. So it now stops over in London under 5th freedom rights to refuel/load/unload passengers and continue. This London<->Mumbai leg is one of the few unusual routes that Air Canada flies that doesn't start or stop in Canada.

(It probably could be viable direct with limited passengers/cargo, but financially unviable).

https://onemileatatime.com/news/air-canada-london-mumbai-fli...

But if you fly this route on Air India, it's still non-stop, utilizing Russian airspace: https://flightaware.com/live/flight/AIC188/history/20230610/...
No, I think AMD is really worth 500x earnings. No bubble here
Big fan of Matrix. Really wish Google would bring back the native app.

By the way, the fare calendar search looks like dogfood on mobile.
It was successfully recovered and was flown back to Mumbai. Must be so disappointing for you.
> It’s frustrating because the stores are understaffed and always ask for applicants during checkout.

If they wanted to hire more, they would. Understaffing is intentional.
All the companies are cutting off access so others can’t build chatGPT-like AI models from their “content.”

The internet is going to be less open and less searchable going forward. Go look at google image search these days. Useless. Mostly to cut off access to millions of images to build models.
“Trigger’s broom” is an identifier not the physical thing itself. So it makes perfect sense for the physics to change while the identifier stays constant. The same way that the identifier of a mutable variable in a programming language never change; but its value might change all the time.
The AIs "regular traders" will have will be the same ones as one other, so they'll make similar recommendations, so they'll be priced in.

But they'll make similar recommendations to many people, so those stocks will go up, and people will think it's working. Then some new AI will be released that makes different recommendations and the stocks artificially inflated by the obsolete AI will crash. People will say that you need the latest AI or you'll be left behind.

This is not a new thing. It's how every commodified stock-picking mechanism works. By the time retail investors have it, you're already inside a bubble.
It’s not really whataboutism to say “I like the US empire better than other wanna-be empires because not a single wanna-be empire allows you to meaningfully criticize it”

The US did bad things to its own people like bikini atoll and MkUltra and the Tuskegee Experiments. Maybe it even did things like stage 9/11 as a false flag (there were real plans to stage a similar false flag in the 70s to support a war against Cuba) - even if it did, I’m allowed to speculate about it or even claim it to be true online. In China try to mention Tiananmen Square. Even if the US empire is evil, which I think is a bit overly harsh at the general level while agreeing that many of its individual actions have been evil, it’s better than any of the other empires.
> It’s not higher level concurrency mechanics

That’s what I assumed. I guess what I’m confused (and concerned) about is the types of “disaster” described, which aren’t just about trade offs, but a long tail of potentially undetectable error conditions. I would have expected that to be either a solved problem for Postgres or at least mostly agnostic to the concurrency mechanism. I would figure the change would be questionable for performance and broad computational complexity reasons, not correctness.

Maybe that’s par for the course and my naivety isn’t (just) distance from Postgres internals but the realities of concurrent programming in C?
The banks + corporate wonderland will create smarter crony AIs to make sure most of the stimulus goes to them.
"the alternatives are all based on a reframing of mindset versus a change in external environment."

In other words, being forced (or reengineered as Kaczynski writes) to take it. Not exactly an alternative now is it? Imagine telling the victims of the Holocaust, on their way to the crematoria, that they should accept the absurdity of life and release their ego, learn to not take things so seriously. Kaczynski's essential view on the destruction of the human condition by technology is of similar order to the contemporary view of Holocaust atrocities.

I don't agree with Kaczynski's philosophy as I'm as far from a luddite as one can possibly be, but I have put the time in to digest his work and I find few-if-any flaws in his major positions. Superficial dismissals of the sort one frequently encounters in this thread expose their originators as hopelessly naive and reinforce Kaczynski's message.
Show HN: Battle unruly retail customers in this RPG powered by ChatGPT
Full prompt: https://github.com/AdmTal/chat-gpt-games/blob/main/games/ret...
Comerford Crown or Ikerrin Crown is the name of a lost archaeological relic
You can get ublock origin on Firefox mobile
> We speak of management pseudoscience not as a wicked and depraved ideology now, but as a legitimate field of study, like math or history. What an unbelievable farce.

I think you could also apply this to software developers or other professionals where there are relatively few who can distinguish between the engineering, science, craft or ignorance of the profession.

There are good managers and management theory as there are good warriors and war theory. Not the same but have some similarities. The average general couldn’t win a complex war. Many skills are needed beyond the specific studies you have (e.g. MBA).

I agree with you that management is a placeholder that hides the ignorance behind a title. This doesn’t mean there aren’t people who have merit and strong background in management.
Xcode's view debugger in 3D would be great.
Why the Future Doesn't Need Us (2000) [pdf]
Thank you for the TLDR !
Isn't the current rate of mass shootings in USA at an average of 2 a day???
One important thing to note here. In decentralized social networks, blocks make very little sense and are nothing more than social convention.

There's nothing stopping you from writing a Bluesky (or Mastodon) server that doesn't respect blocks, shows a list of users that you have been blocked by or gives you block notifications. On centralized networks with closed-off APIs, you can make first-party apps respect block semantics and the point of blocks is accomplished (friction increases.) On decentralized networks, users can just migrate to non-block-respecting instances, and nobody else will ever know whether another instance respects blocks or not.
> They avoided flying over China

Sometimes it's easier/cheaper to avoid a country's airspace through a slight diversion than pay the overfly costs. Some country's ATC's can be kinda hostile/annoying/unprofessional/expensive. (I've heard China likes surprise military airspace restrictions that make flight planning annoying).

Plenty of routes that don't take shortest path for geo-political & artificial cost reasons (but you don't hear climate change activists raising issues with that much).
The new reddit UI has - and has always had - compact options. I often suspect that the old.reddit.com sticklers never bothered to check the preferences.
True. This is only going to get worse unless technical people in these companies put a foot down.

Maintainers do not have the resources to pay for a legal defence (companies know this), the community has shiny-object-syndrome and so it's up to internal employees to show resistance to these immoral policies.
None of those companies allow third party apps, do they?
50% of people are below average.

But somebody's on the other side of those trades.
Yeah, that's why back in Jan 2021 Intel ousted their CEO Bob Swan, who was a finance guy running Intel into the ground.

The replacement CEO, Pat Gelsinger, has an engineering background and looks to be fixing things properly:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Gelsinger

The Intel board looks to have recognised and addressed the financialisation problem properly for once. Pretty rare for a board.

Pity the boards of IBM, HP (etc) haven't been as capable.
> I don't feel like HN is censored.

It's heavily censored but that's fine as it exists to serve a niche business community. And HN never claimed to be a free speech platform like reddit did.

> dang steps in mostly with technical edits or to break up a particularly nasty fight once in a while

He does that for sure, but he also censors heavily to meet the corporate, social, etc agenda.

When the admins and power mods of reddit decided censor more, HN is one of the censorship models they looked to - the psychological tricks, front running, shadow banning, etc.
That's ok, if it doesn't work out they will just use it as a shell for a massive loan then abandon it with the repayment burden
I only browse Reddit on my phone, and I use Apollo, so when that’s gone I’m not sure I’d use Reddit anymore
The issue is for every person like you and me, there are 10 or 100 others who put up with this crap, and reddit attracts people, centralizing communities, giving you little option for alternatives. It drains activities from forums, etc, toward itself as it is presented as a more convenient solution. I for one will try to undo my past contributions to accelerate its decline. The blackout is unlikely to work, but I hope it can be longer (a month or something) to encourage people to find alternatives.
"The wise used to think the sun revolved around the earth."

Or, at least, the wise said they think the sun revolves around the Earth.
The index does well because it doesn't need a crystal ball?
With how low post quality has gotten on Reddit, the only reason I'd continued using it is because Apollo offers a nice smooth experience that isn't trying to sell me anything or shove irrelevant posts in my face and makes it reasonably easy to filter. The official app crapifies the experience enough for it to no longer be worth using.
I have been to over 20 countries and recently had an overnight layover in AMS. Without a doubt, the worst airport I have even been to, so I think this guide is a little outdated (it was 10th best for 2019)
This is a super interesting take I haven't thought about before, maybe it's time for me to find forums related to my niche hobbies.
> Throwing the CISO in prison because the CEO/CFO won't fund infused isn't going to change anything.

It might? In civil engineering it kind of works like this, doesn't it?
“the aggregate thermodynamics of what is happening [...] is staggering”
Musk is actually very successful with Twitter. All time high users. Musk has never failed any business. Ignore the white knights
> The fact they own the software means they can make it easier or harder to surprise or spread certain messages, and do so in very subtle ways.

I just can’t imagine how, honestly! It’s not exactly trivial to programmatically hinder certain messages in a way that others won’t notice and complain about — as they did when Lemmy had hard-coded blacklists for slurs.

If anything, they'd abuse their control of the Lemmy.ml server, like you said.
If you buy/sell a lot then there are also fees, both to brokers and I guess implied fees to market makers. So there are more than 2 parties involved (buyer and seller), and so more than 50% can lose.
Looks like United Airlines used to have an SFO-Delhi flight, last ran 15 months ago...

UA867: https://www.flightera.net/en/flight/United+Airlines-San+Fran...

It would need quite a diversion to avoid russian airspace: http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=sfo-del

Newark-Mumbai by United also cancelled: https://www.indianeagle.com/travelbeats/united-airlines-susp...
That's really not right. Andres Freund and Robert Haas at least are pretty clearly theoretically in support (which is all anyone can offer at this point). Those are some big names to have in the "aye" column.
Chimera Linux Entering alpha stage
The lack of controls in the cockpit area makes me really nervous.
THIS is what AI art should be like. Hard for humans, easy for computers, amazing visuals. And on top of that it functional as well.

I feel like this is closer to how human artists create, artists have a set of constraints, and a lot of limitations, and forcing NN to output valid QR codes puts the same constraints on the process itself.

Next step, include the QR reader in the training loop, and make it differentiable to increase the valid output from 1/4 to 100%
I've also noticed an aspect of group think at that level, people who go against the current philosophy of the group, even if they are unemotional about it, tend to get booted out or fired too.
It took over 4 years for Facebook to hit 100 million users. It took TikTok 9 months to hit 100 million users. ChatGPT hit 100 million users within 2 months.

It doesn't seem to continue to sustain the same explosive growth as TikTok, but to be fair, it wasn't intended to be a full consumer product to begin with.
That's my impression exactly. I was thinking "junior high" rather than "3rd grade" but yeah.

Hollywood could get a good script for a sequel to Mean Girls just by watching those people.
Ah, I guess I did misunderstand then. I see now rereading that the "don't treat as a mutable borrow until first write" is already how things behave today and have since NLL.
Because if it so happens that gain of function research accidentally caused a global pandemic, we need to know so we can properly evaluate the risk of continuing such research. Which could also be part of the motivation for governments to cover that up. I'm not saying that's necessarily true, but I haven't seen that it's false either, and the way China and other officials and related expecrts have acted, trying to dismiss the lab leak theory as just wild conspiracy theories or politically motivated, makes me suspicious.

There were serious attempts to completely shut the conversation down and prevent investigations into there being a lab leak.
This is slightly wrong. build/ will ignore the build directory at every level. /build will ignore the build directory at the top level.

I also have no idea what it’s trying to communicate with its /*/temp/ examples