skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't speak Danish but I remember how amazing is their encyclopedia "Lille Salmonsen", one I "read" every evening in my hotel room in Kopenhagen. It was 1940 edition. Somehow with my German and English, and a bit of common knowledge, I could "read" it and it's really interesting, illustrated encyclopedia, reflecting Danish history, language, character, and probably their "thinking". This is one of those physical books I would like to have at least in our local public library.
“It is said that what is called "the spirit of an age" is something to which one cannot return. That this spirit gradually dissipates is due to the world's coming to an end. For this reason, although one would like to change today's world back to the spirit of one hundred years or more ago, it cannot be done. Thus it is important to make the best out of every generation.”

Tsunetomo Yamamoto, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai via goodreads
But what's the connection between radioactive contamination and the failure of Pruitt-Igoe? Wikipedia doesn't seem to mention any contamination issues, but says that deteriorating building maintenance and social conditions (crime, poverty, segregation, etc) were to blame. Radiation didn't vandalize the elevators or mug residents in the hallways.
It's especially a case of one thing not being like the others since all the examples are qualified by the phrase "the surplus is handed to shareholders". But every other example is a public company, with a vast array of public shareholders. Valve is private and, as far as I know, has >50% ownership from one person.

I feel like the argument as a whole for enshittification would be more interesting if it actually allowed for nuance rather than the rabble-rousing "all platforms are evil!" cry that it's becoming.
This is a Good Post, and honestly your last point includes one of the things that I (as an American, and generally critical of our own foreign adventurism) am most astonished by. We have culturally never expected much of NATO to stand up to Russia; the saber-rattling felt like it was frequently working against Europe. That Russia could push too far and stiffen European resolve so sharply seemed off the table.

The cynic in me sometimes thinks that part of it, and the American response as well, is perhaps as much that it's a European country being bullied and not somewhere far away (read: brown), but that it's happening at all is any port in the storm.
> this lawsuit

There can and will be others. Esp. if there is a legal precedent.
I'm so close to having zero usb-a in my everyday carry. But this is still a good suggestion & I often can do this already.
As far as I'm concerned, the "new web" (Reddit, Twitter, etc. etc.) #1 ability that was not present in "the old web" (USENET, IRC, etc. etc.) is universal identifiers.

If a problematic user on Reddits r/news gets banned (spam or whatever), there are admin-level bans that can ban that user at a global level. Allowing unrelated moderators on one subreddit indirectly-help moderate on other subreddits.

Shared global identity across the network is key. We can't have sockpuppets spamming one subreddit (or USENET group), and then have to be individually dealt with group-by-group. These sorts of moderation efforts must be shared.

Mastodon's model is to have servers responsible for their users. I'm not convinced that this model scales well, especially into the future as servers grow less trusting of each other.

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IMO, what is needed is a DNS-like solution for identities, and proving your identity. Not a real identity mind you, but a pseudo-anonymous identity that has enough trust that people know you're not a spammer.

Yes, modern sockpuppets can pay a 3rd-world country to create innocuous accounts en masse and get around this, but we need to be at this level (or better). Without this level, we're back to just automated account creation bots spamming our servers with spam.

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This DNS-like identity management server needs moderation decisions to be shared. Not necessarily trusted mind you, but shared enough so that "Moderators over in X-location believe this identity to be spam". Or "Moderators over in Y-location believe this identity to be a troll".

EDIT: Other messages, like "Starting on June 2023, it appears that X-identity has been compromised and is now a spammer. Ban messages after this. Starting in July 2023, it appears X-identity has regained control of their identifier and we can stop banning their messages." Lots of useful moderation messages that need to be shared.

Maybe its up to individual communities whether or not "troll" or "spam" classifications of identities (or if the moderators at Y-server should be trusted at all: maybe a hostile group of moderators start putting up fake complaints about masses of users that they don't like). Etc. etc.

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But the overall goal is to create a mechanism where moderators are sharing effort and working together. Reddit accidentally provided that, and that's why it was better than USENET. That's probably the only incremental improvement that mattered in the long run.
Paid ecosystems wouldn't have open discourse at this scale
Agreed. Implementing backprop myself—even if it was a crappy, slow version in MatLab—is what finally got me to understand it. I've worked as an ML researcher for 2 years since then and I'm still routinely happy that I have that deeper understanding of what's going on under the hood of the models I'm training.
Wow I read the text for that link you posted in a very different way than I intended.
When I read the title I thought that it was a Reddit proxy that was offering API endpoints by scraping the HTML version.
USB c port modules on the 13 inch framework are I believe $9. And made to be easily swapped in and out.
> "debattartikel" means "debate article", yes?

Then I think that's an "op-ed", an opinion piece. So the legislation has not been proposed yet.
What about critcoin: a block chain based smart contract that incentivizes critical thinking.
You forgot about obligatory "actually, using normal proper database would make that solution be far more simpler and faster", and impending silence from whoever proposed another blockchain garbage... or alternatively a slew of comments where the blockchain fanboy slowly learns how DBs work and how the fancy things in blockchain are possible without it for 30 years now.
We desperately need something like this to happen before it's too late. We are dangerously close to a total corporate stranglehold on digital free speech. The current generation of kids coming to age are growing up in a world where they don't even know a time when you could say whatever the hell you wanted to online. If we don't save digital free speech now it's gonna be lost forever.
It is interesting to see that every time there has been another layer of commercialization on the internet everyone thinks it was better before.

Linking a 4chan archive on here is a uuhh bold move, I think its a fun snapshot of the time but still
America’s Most Cybersecure Companies
This is not "not stepping up". These things take time.

> AWS S3 - We have been in contact with AWS throughout the week and awaiting a response to meet with the OSS team.
These days you just have to assume every piece of personal data (and meta data about your online activity) eventually is made public.
Not directly, but it is dynamic based on weather and atmosphere in each region.
Because, just like the moon landings, people will deny they exist at some point.
> I wish the laws were rational, and scaled according to the size of a business

A five-person startup shouldn’t leak my data just because they share passwords and it were not mandatory to have a GDPR person at that size.
From the post:

> Why am I not using float64 time already??? [fp used ot be slow and was not standardized, but it got faster and after a while you could count on having IEEE-754]

This is not the reason.

Until IEEE-754 fp was terrible. As in buggy terrible. It took years of pain to learn how to get it right. And you can see this in the standard: it's a very short standard, super easy to understand, trivial, really...if you ignore the enormous amount explanations, corner cases, special cases, surprising symmetries, and other copious testament to the well-meaning Mistakes that Were Made in the years before. Intel provided a ton of trade secret understanding from the mistakes in the 8087, and UCB maths prof was intimately involved. It's an incredible achievement.

The history of the standard is quite exciting but has been covered on HN several times before.
> Assuming the average adult human weighs 63kg (139 pounds) ...

Where do they get that from? I haven't weighed that little probably since I was a teenager and I've always been under my ideal BMI and I do exercise quite regularly and eat fairly reasonably healthily.
For it to be science we need a way to do an experiment or to make a comparison.
Perhaps one could be; If it's believed to be related to nursing, then perhaps we need to know if kittens abandoned early on and hand fed also knead?
They could easily have a few chickens running around in a small area and have fresh eggs year round. Feed the chickens table scraps plus free choice chicken feed. Gets rid of a lot of the waste.
the non-native animals (cats) that are disrupting the ecosystem argument
That's the sort of case that needs to be made to a judge in the course of a lawsuit against the provider, then.

Listen, I'm not saying that this is ethically or morally right. I'm just saying that's the way things actually are (in the US).
Took me a second to realize this wasn't about 60's era NASA.
Read up on renormalization groups.

There's this very fundamental problem in a lot of sciences, given some phenomena, find the patterns to compress the phenomena without knowing all the patterns a priori.

It's like wavelet decomposition where your wavelets are updates as new data is coming in.

That's renormalization.
Basic tech needs to be redone.

Assuming moderation can be automated using the recent advancements in AI
If Russia had been consistent in their reasons for expansion this would be believable. But they've said too many things to believe that they are primarily motivated by NATO expansion on its lonesome.

> Who benefits from this conflict?

Minority populations in a variety of countries (Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus) who nostalgically yearn for Russian confederation again.
The next step in literate programming, I guess.
I see no mention of the UN in these discussions. The post-wwii international order has been maintained in large part thanks to the global agreement to recognize the UN as the venue to arbitrer large disputes. But there's a dangerous growing movement to denigrate the UN for various ideological reasons.
These exemptions we are passing out are insane. This guy claims he thought it was a search engine?

Lawyers use specific case law databases and they SHOULD approach any new tools with healthy skepticism.

And if he googled it and cited a fake case would it be better? Why wouldn’t you vet the information.
A couple of benefits to the apps: one is that you get exact information on the charging session.

The bigger benefit is that some charging stations will stop charging once your battery is "full", wait a bit, then start charging an idle rate. The app can notify you about this or you can be texted or both since the station knows who you are.

All EVs have a charging curve and typically the last 80% or 90% to full goes much more slowly than starting from 0% or 20%. In one case, ChargePoint decided that my Bolt EUV was charging too slowly and started charging me the idle rate without notifying me. Since the idle rate was $.25/minute, I ended up getting charged $1.50 or something like that. I didn't think the idle rate was unfair but I was literally waiting in a coffee shop for the car to get as charged as much as possible.
I meant it as a reference to the kid leaking intelligence secrets for discord clout
> I've been thinking a lot about making such a unified desktop stack for a while now; web technology has matured to the point where I think it's feasible to build a complete environment a la Smalltalk/Symbolics but with a modern feature set.

Kind of a Chrome OS but not so tied with the Google ecosystem?
Even worse when some modules have global mutable state like matplotlib and co.
Who are "they"? Because "they" did a terrible job. It was at or near the top for nearly 24 hours already, and it's still accessible. People can still post comments on it and engage in the discussion. And the front page still has Reddit-related discussions going on so it's not like the topic has been disappeared from the site. If this issue (Reddit) is so near-and-dear to your heart, go engage in those discussions. It would be more productive than posting nonsensically about censorship on a site that hasn't censored the topic.
There's definite leaching of plastic compounds into food, which gets exacerbated when heated. My concern is the number of unknown unknowns. BPA became a big part of the consciousness a few years ago, and now it's PFAs, but what else?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/18/are-plastic-...

My general view is that glass is super-durable, microwave-safe (I would never microwave Tupperware), and the cost tradeoff is minor, so it seems worthwhile. That said, if I order takeout and it comes in a plastic container that's hot ... I still eat it :).
I don't understand the problem. Of course I don't understand the modern trend of trying to make one's decor as sterile and lifeless as possible.
I love how Google casually shifts the blame to the device manufacturers to avoid any flak.

Don't make it on by default unless you make it blatantly clear to the user - because nobody really cares about phone updates, they'll just do it and won't look at patch notes.

If you're adding features that will potentially put a strain on emergency services, you better make sure that you let your users know as soon as the feature is added and give them the ability to turn it on or off then and there.

I've accidentally triggered this before, but was able to stop it from calling 911 thankfully. Now the feature is turned off.
Chickens get sick from wild birds... No wild birds here.
I dearly miss the golden age of Usenet, I still keep an eye on some groups and use GMANE as well.

The Fediverse is the closest thing we have now. It's not perfect but it's ours.
United States of America vs. Donald J. Trump and Waltine Nauta [pdf]
It sounds less like they need a new policy and more like they need new politicians. You can’t make a good system out of faulty parts.
I don't see how is that relevant. When for example PV energy is abundant and cheap enough to power green hydrogen manufacture, then it's a game of scale, not thermodynamical efficiency.
This is a massive exaggeration. My daughter reads encyclopedias I buy for her, just as I did.l back in the day. And it wasn't horribly popular to be the book reading kid 30 years ago as well.
This is the exact conversation I had with my friend, just not the same numbers haha. To be fair to your friend and mine, I don't think its impossible for them for their outcome to come true. Whether its delusions or not, there is a belief they have that its possible what they're thinking can come true. So what kind of "support" is best here? We can be dismissive, and I don't think they'd feel good about that. We can be rational and debative, but that doesn't feel good to be "attacked" in some ways. But at the same time agreeing and staying silent also doesn't feel genuine to myself.
Sure, but that’s not the point here. With that logic, nothing is truly event-based if you can conceivably use it other ways. JavaScript was designed to interface with the DOM and had to support certain flows which is why I classify it inherently event based even if that does not meet technical requirements to call it so.
Pinker's "long peace" theory with respect to global conflict is likely bad statistics - 20th-21st century under US military hegemony had a comparable if not higher number of conflicts, see Max Roser’s work documenting global conflicts over the past 600 years. What has changed is that war now is generally shorter and less deadly especially towards combatants, but that's more reflective of the pace of modern war enabled by modern weapons. High intensity wars don't last for 20+ years anymore because you can pretty much destroy nations in 1-5, and belligerents are quicker to exhaust and forced to settle. In aggregate war fatalities is down, but not # of conflicts. US hegemony didn't stop USSR and RU from warring in their periphery, nor PRC border skirmishes pre 90s when US had vast more naval power asymmetry. When countries want to fight for their interests, especially regional, they still do.

Ultimately, US military dominance is good for US+LIO interests / serenity, but hard to extrapolate anything more. IMO multipolarity will increase the chance of "smaller" conflicts as poles assert their own interests for sure, but it's going to be around the baseline of conflicts that's consistently been simmering throughout history. The fear is increasing large-scale conflict between poles/blocks - ending the cyclic gap between major wars among major powers - but that's what happens when declining hegemon pushes their interests to the exclusion of others too intensely for too long.
Morgan Stanley note on GPT-4/5 training demands, inference savings
> Also, I just checked the FAQ for Copilot, and it says that users only accept 26% of suggestions, so 3/4 suggestions are garbage.

Without knowing the specific statistic being reported I’m not sure you can reach that conclusion. Copilots plug-ins can be configured to suggest as you type just like any other auto complete. It may just be that the user has paused and doesn’t need the suggestion being offered.

And it’s not like people use 100% of the suggestions their auto complete tools provide, but that doesn’t make those suggestions garbage.
AI is nifty but obviously too expensive for now.

We can't just assume that hackers around the world have 80GB NVidia GPUs laying around to run high-end, usable LLMs. And we certainly can't expect people to pay Amazon Web Services for a rented GPU, those things cost significant amounts of money.

Sticking to basic automation tools we have for spam filtering and automated reading of messages and the like, lets start with Reddit-level tools of just banning, blocking, users. And a global effort that helps kill spam accounts and sockpuppets.
Is this case different from the same incident a couple weeks ago? (also on the front page here)
The economy is just as important as any other element of our civilization. In a total economic collapse, millions of people may starve to death, and millions more would live on the edge of starvation.

Energy, food, materials, and all things managed by logistics rely on economic activity.

To downplay the importance of the economy betrays little consideration to all aspects of our civilization.

"During covid, the only voices that got heard were those of companies"

So you're saying nobody heard BLM and Antifa during the "summer of love" mostly-peaceful riots?

Considering BLM got $90MM (to mostly buy mansions in two countries and employ Cullors' family), I'd say they were heard well.

And people who got extended economic benefits, not heard? huh?

And the states that got virtual blank Treasury checks to buy PPE, vents, ambulances, and everything in between...

"would rather fight against their own interests"

Who are you to tell other people what their interests are? That bit is simple arrogance. You can only ever speak for yourself.
Parallelising Control Flow in Dynamic-Scheduling High-Level Synthesis
I love the concept of notebooks (as referred to in this article). It reminds me of the way HyperCard made it very easy for non-techies to create something that looks great to share out with the world. I'm honestly surprised nobody else has exploited this functionality before!
That’s not the point. How do you store a moment before 1970 if your timestamp is an unsigned integer?
in this thread (and all threads on this topic):

angry armchair legalists trying to stick it to The Man!! by pretending neglegient homicide is the same as premeditated murder
I did a recent full playthrough of Morrowind and all the expansions on OpenMW, using one of the available curated mod lists as a starting point. It was rock solid throughout, looked much better than the original, and was at least as much fun as I remembered it was. Highly recommended for TES fans.
I like the experience of using this tool, but did not work for paywalls. For WSJ, it generated a summary of its pricing offer.
Past data does not predict the future, especially since we're expecting changes to the climate remember? Even if you're right "most" of the time, even a tenth of a percent system failure is terrible for something like the grid.
> I can definitely see some shifts happening

Oh, sure, I agree. I just think they aren't as great as some people think.

> But having an online existence, being part of the written/online universe is a risk.

This is true, and is why I've never used my actual, real-world identity in any online fora. Instead, I have a handful of alternate (but persistent) "personalities".

It's the only way I am OK with saying what I really think about anything. If I were readily identifiable, I wouldn't participate in any public online discussions. The risk is just too great.
The old binaries are not necessarily simple to rebuild. Projects move / go offline. Tags get moved. Binaries for the impure systems may not be public anymore. You can't easily rebuild everything from that cache.
Bing’s chatbot now lets you ask questions with your voice on desktop
I find that this nostagia is mostly to who was on that internet, rather than tech at the time.

By far much less monetization or ads so far less SEO spam (and so less need for moderation and/or spam filtering), minority of population so not much political campaigning aside from personal conversations about the topic, more technical people etc.
I still think you can use economics to model pretty much any human interaction. The problem is, you can't just slap a token over everything and call it a day – the incentives that drive people are way more intricate than that. On that note, I think many systems will function better without blockchain. Trust was driving the internet (and any other distributed human networks) for the long time – long before Ethereum came in.

Hugs are worth more than handshakes.
The nix cache compresses store artifacts in NAR archives, which I think defeats de-duplication.

Its possible to serve a nix cache directly out of a nix store, creating the NAR archives on-the-fly. But that would require a) a big filesystem and b) a lot more compute.

Which are not insurmountable challenges, but they are challenges.
I guess Netflix isn't a company then, since they use AWS after all. You might think AWS isn't a good deal but it's hyperbolic to call companies that are on cloud services as not being real companies.
Technically there are still plenty of tor v2 infrastructure software running out there. It's only the people using the modern Tor Project releases that cannot visit these sites. The rest of us still can.

I still host a couple v2 onions on brute forced vanity tor domain names. Because that's what I wanted to use tor for, the name system, not to be anonymous or secure or anything. I just didn't like having to "rent" a ~.com domain that's not mine. On tor I thought I owned my domains because I held the private keys. But the tor project relieved me of that delusion when they simply dropped support for v2 name resolution and (mostly) everyone stopped being able to get to my sites.

But that's tangential. Regardless of weather tor v2 removal was early or not, the switch to secluded, account requiring, forums instead of comments was bad. Self hosting the bad system doesn't make it better.