skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I actually worked at Reddit a few years ago and our “cohort” got to chat with Steve as a part of onboarding. I was super nervous and I guess I wanted to appear sharper than I actually was, so I asked Steve directly “why do you push users from mobile web to the app? That’s a pretty bad experience.”

Apparently there are metrics showing that mobile app users are “stickier” than web users, meaning they come back to the app more.

That was a long time ago though and my perspective on this probably isn’t relevant anymore.
The fire diamond on Wikipedia says 4 0 4 or: deadly, explosive, NOT flammable. Weird stuff!
They have a point, though. In my honest opinion, more than 50% modern apps and services I've used - including e.g. Spotify, or pretty much every e-commerce site - have UI/UX strictly inferior to that of MS Access. Less functional, less ergonomic, less integrated, less useful.

A lot of UI and design work that people think is creative, making a positive contribution, is actually spending millions of dollars on removing and reducing value delivered to the users relative to cheaper or near-free alternatives.

Sometimes it's even funny. How many startups are explicitly or implicitly trying to be a replacement for some internal Excel spreadsheet? How many of them realize that their offering would work strictly better if it was distributed as an Excel spreadsheet or plugin instead of an SPA?

But it's not about utility, it's about control. Driving users through funnels, putting them on flows that minimize actual creative or maintenance work for you, locking them in and bleeding dry with subscriptions.
This article again, its a submarine for crypto storage staking scam (Chia Network).
> I rarely read documentation of anything, since I have no clue whether to trust it

There's another big issue with documentation; it's often a write-and-forget thing. I'm confident every team or department should have a full-time documentation owner whose job it is to ensure documentation is up to date, maintained, and verified.
The PDF ("sec23summer...") has metadata creation/modification timestamp of 20221004165319Z (October 2022). So presumably the paper was written last October and released for Usenix 2023.

(Reference [12] is from Usenix July 2022. See "Prior work" in the introduction).
>> No one credible is saying china intentionally released the virus or built it with the intention of building a weapon.

The latter is what the article above is suggesting, that the Wuhan lab was working for the Chinese military to develop a virus for biological warfare research. For example, if you look at the ridiculous hero image of the article, you'll see someone who looks like they might be a Chinese military officer holding a clipboard and wearing a mask, while the Chinese flag's star is surrounded by what look like little stylised coronaviruses.
> The debate is sort of obsolete really.

Microkernels are not obsolete (see seL4), but HURD unfortunately is.

> Linux has microkernel-like functionalities like FUSE. You can do filesystems in userspace now.

FUSE is far cray (capability, security and performance-wise) from real microkernels. Linux is a monolithic kernel and unashamedly so.

> The modern approach to High Availability is to have redundant hardware. A single machine being fault tolerant isn't that important anymore.

This would imply operating system developers (in any) OS are not that much interested in reliability of the system they're working on, which I don't believe is true. Also, to give just one counter-example, I don't think many people have redundant mobile phones in case one of them crashes.

> A modern video card or anything else is its own computer, with a very uncomfortable amount of state and access to the host. If your video card driver does something wrong and crashes it's by no means a given that the situation is recoverable by rebooting the driver -- the video card itself may be left in some weird state.

This was more-or less true from the moment discreete GPUs started shoping up. Modern PCs have dozens of independent processors (some of them running their own opertaing systems)! If anything, that's more reason for microkernels.

* Software is also far more complex. Great, your system theoretically can survive a video card driver dying. Too bad the compositor can't survive that, and the applications can't survive the compositor crashing, and at that point you might as well reboot anyway.

Microkernels aren't written like that. In a MK architecture, your system survives video card driver dying by restarting it and taking over serving its clients (in this case, the compositor). Of course, Linux doesn't work like that, but we've already established Linux is not a microkernel.

> Modern testing and debugging is excellent and having a system kernel panic is something that happens very, very rarely. It's not really worthwhile to change the system architecture for the sake of something than happens less often than I accidentally unplug my desktop's power cable.

Yeah, I agree Linux will never changi its system architecture, but that doesn't mean thinking, researching and building other operating systems using different architectures is obsolete.

> For HURD specifically, if you're in need of extreme reliability today, C is probably not something you want to use. Rather than dealing with stuff crashing you probably want to write code doesn't suffer from such issues to start with.

Ah yes, ye olde "just don't write bugs!" argument :-)

More seriously though, I would agree with you that replacing GNU/Linux with GNU/Hurd will never happen. I just want to emphasize Hurd is not be-all and end-all of microkernels (even open source ones). In fact, it never was.
Capitalism doesn't run on rationality.
Can I run Firefox or Redis on L4? What's the performance of that compared to Linux?
Affordable dev env for Large Language Models
You sound joyful to work with.
I only use Spotify for music, and recently, my homepage was all podcasts and audiobooks, with only 1 or 2 lines of recommendation for music. Spotify, please stop! You’re literally turning your homepage into something that is unusable for me!
The Dems didn't make Trump bet everything on "ignore it and it will go away." He could have pushed for public health measures in February 2020 ("Stop the China Virus, wear a MAGA mask!"). He didn't. He squandered the opportunity to use gentle R reduction, so we had to jump to strong R reduction with lockdowns.

I know that following the science doesn't come naturally to Republicans, but this is basic shit. If you had figured it out then, you wouldn't need to be on Trump daiper duty in 2023.
"""However, with analogy to influenza, it was shown many years ago that the simple insertion of a polybasic site into an H3 virus does not result in a high pathogenicity phenotype7 and is likely to only function in the context of a series of other genomic changes provided by a process of natural selection."""

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5...
Yeah, that's my point. The situation isn't, "MS is garbage, they only support C89"; the situation is "MS supports modern C pretty well, their lack of official C99 supports is just a technicality caused by VLAs which you shouldn't use anyway".
Fun with CHAR in SQL
Wat?

I am perfectly content with my current learning strategy, it got me this far in life. However I'm open to new things, and I enjoy reading people's open opinions first. Even if I were to try it myself, I may have a different experience depending on my expectations of it.
> Nobody is being forced to drive a car with autopilot if they aren't comfortable. The risks are obvious and understood. Personal liability is fine.

What about all the others participants on the road? Should pedestrian and cyclist also take personal responsibility for getting hit by a self driving car?
From my experience redesign of UI of anything is usually bad for end users. But I don't have statistics so just a random opinion.
My friend once worked at a place where the security policy was that every part of the PC including monitors was crushed and shredded. This was a financial services company, but nevertheless totally over the top.
>I call bullshit on this, unless you can show me a single example of this ever happening anywhere.

Real world and lab conditions are different.

Given how high stakes somethings can be, nothing would surprise me.
IDK, if someone advertised an AI job like this in 2023, I bet it'd pique some people's interest.
Yeah, that sort of thing is a really solid indicator that you probably don't want to work for the company. But will you have a choice?
How many of these sellers were selling counterfeit Apple products, even occasionally?

Amazon has a huge problem with counterfeits, and of all the major brands on Amazon, I think Apple is the safest to buy because of this agreement.
As a counterpoint, I accept donations on my website (see profile), and it pays about 1% of what affiliate links pay. It would not cover my grocery bill. I'd estimate that I get about 0.70€ per thousand visitors.

If I got 5€ for every email exchange where I personally advise people, I'd make more than that. The donation link is in my signature.

This suits me, but it shows that people expect the internet to cost nothing, and won't donate unless they're shamed into doing it.

In my opinion, donations don't work if your goal is to live from something. They're a bonus, not a business model. Even major open source projects like OpenSSL struggle to keep the lights on. Only some content creators with a large audience can make it work.
Yeah, IPO (or VC) capital at this point is a Pavlov's dog trained to expect riches from every additional bit of private information in the data feed.
I don't think it's necessarily "making things up". I believe that these people legitimately believe their stances but they are based on wrong, incomplete or outright fabricated evidence. Usually of a potent emotional nature. Which makes them care too much about trying to convince other people to their viewpoint.

If you read about "woke leftists cancelling [my tradition/Christmas]" day in and day out you start believing this stuff, even if it just started out as hanging out on certain subreddits for fun.

I don't believe everyone is as susceptible to this "convincing emotional content built on fear and rage" but it absolutely seems like a decent amount of people are. Especially considering these are usually the loudest voices in any debate.

That's the worst part about the American internet being so prolific in Europe. I don't think Americans understand how much their internet impacts Europe. I can only really speak for Northern Europe. But the impact is massive there, most content we consume after we learn english in our teens is American/English content.
So you were already planning to cancel, no need for clickbait comments.
I was under the impression that there already were investigations, so if your assumption is true, then the anecdote would be too late.

But it's intellectually dishonest of you to pretend that was in fact the purpose of the anecdote, and not to serve as evidence of a lab leak.
> De-deprecating volatile compound operations.

Thank goodness. Those deprecatios are a pain in the butt.
Disagree. They should not be the first tool to reach for, but they are basically just safe compile-time macros (mapstruct at least is compile-time only)
> 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.

What exactly do you mean by "political savvy?" The lacking the impulsiveness to make abrupt changes? The ability to accurately foresee the reaction to their changes, and change plans to minimize the negative ones?

Were there ever any popular 3rd party clients for Facebook? I don't recall any. Maybe the smart thing that Facebook did was keep control from the start. People don't typically get mad when they lose something they never had in the first place.
Generative AI has a serious problem with bias
One of the authors lists the paper as 2023 on their homepage [1], and the naming of a preprint [2] suggests summer 2023.

It's a recent paper.

[1] https://casa.rub.de/en/research/publications/detail/every-si...

[2] https://www.usenix.org/system/files/sec23summer_235-rohlmann...
I already live in one of the shit holes of the country mate with some of the cheapest housing but with not a lot of good jobs available unless you became a tradie out of school (wish I had to be honest). Half of those guys seem to have gotten out of here anyway, they can often earn six figures abroad or on the oil platforms.

Been working my arse off for a decade and the only reason I can afford to move away is because a relative died and I got some inheritance. I can either move somewhere else in the UK or take a chance on a better life somewhere else. At this point, I’m that angry with this country, it’s blatant hypocrisies, mismanagement and corruption, that I’d rather leave and take a chance elsewhere than continue on here. I know everywhere has its own problems but I really think this place (England) is a piss take compared to elsewhere.

I would have been out of the country permanently pre-Brexit if I’d have had enough money at the time but I didn’t have a pot to piss in. Felt like that scene in the movie where the door starts coming down but the characters don’t have enough time to escape so they get locked in and resign themselves to having to take the hard way to get out.

If I was going to stay here, I’d be moving to Glasgow or elsewhere in Scotland. Much more competently run place than England with much friendlier people. Hopefully they’ll find a way to get their second referendum because they don’t deserve to have been sucked into this Brexit shit show like they have been and they’ll do just fine without the rest of the UK.
> Imaging an AI hiring system, no human being involved.

I have imagined it. This is one of my nightmare scenarios.
How is that easier for law enforcement than just hacking the targets anyways? It's way more steps that can go wrong and way more people who could blab about your operation.
I love the mental gymnastics to make up a "safe" motorcyclist group. But doesn't do the same thing for car drivers. This article is a great example of "Lies, damned lies, and statistics".
Hi there. Over the last 2 years, I've interviewed over 200 seaweed innovators, academics and investors to get to the bottom of this question.

In answer to your question, YES. It probably is one of the fastest and least expensive tools to fight climate change. It requires next to no inputs, can be cultivated alongside other extractive species which foster biodiversity and clean waterways, and can sequester carbon. The products we can make from it can further reduce emissions.

However, we have to be super careful with overselling the solution. To have measurable impact, we need to grow a lot of seaweed OUTSIDE of Asia. Scaling up supply will be a challenge - because market demand for this seaweed as a food/feed/bioproduct alternative has not been completely validated. This will take time, but it will happen. Watch this space.

Overall, it's became very clear to me how hard it is to distinguish signal from noise in this sector. That's why the Paxtier Report newsletter is so good. If you're keen to better understand the space, check it out here: https://paxtier.substack.com/ . The Phyconomy newsletter is also superb: https://phyconomy.net/

Hope this helps. And shoot me a message if you have more questions.
That article is decidedly not about considering whether you would act differently.

What the authors is doing is pointing out is that assuming you would act different is unhelpful. It is far more helpful and interesting to look at a situation, and examine what are all the things that would cause you to to end up in those circumstances despite your best effort. What this does is forces you to overcome the human minds tendencies towards lazy evaluation, to really break down all the forces acting upon the situation these individuals encounter.

This is actually very similar to a technique useful for startups. Assume you have failed some number of years from now. What are some of the reasons you might have failed?
> Now why don't these companies keep the drives in-house instead of destroying? That, I don't know.

Keep them and do what with them? If you're an enterprise running many disks, you're generally replacing them with higher capacity disks and the old disks are less useful. Or maybe you have some policy on retiring drives based on age or ssd wear. Or maybe you eliminated a storage tier for whatever reason.
No one has ever demonstrated those purely theoretical methods even on an ancient very low density drive, or even a floppy drive.
They closed the gates when their specific niche has been captured so that they can extract maximum value. As a result interoperability between services is dead. Fediverse is a valiant effort but the barrier to entry is relatively high, even for techies. It's time to accept that people just like the "comfort" of walled gardens.
10k? Try 300k: https://shop.lambdalabs.com/deep-learning/servers/hyperplane...
You will never be able to perfectly tickle everyone's funny bone with a given joke, but most everyone agrees that the role of forums is to offer a funny experience, and a good admin will play a significant role in making that happen. One does not spend their preciously scarce free time on an Internet forum if there is nothing funny about it.
I deleted my account of 60k comment karma and 12 years last night. If anyone can source a tildes invite I would be grateful. My email is in my bio.
Yes, and we even have a system for that. Retraction.
https://retractionwatch.com/

I'm not saying the system is perfect but it works over time.
Most people are generally more interested in functioning software running on existing hardware. Focusing on that might actually make Hurd actually relevant at some point in the future.
none of those are comparable quality in terms of streaming.
There are millions of old devices that are never going to support new image formats. Overall, the benefits of the new formats don't overweight the negative aspects yet.
P/E ratios of Google, Apple, Microsoft are all in the 25-30 range, which is not abnormally high. Amazon's P/E has always been wonky because it rarely posts high profits. Nvidia is the current outlier, and I think everyone is in agreement that it is entirely fueled by AI hype.
I think the problem is that moderates think you can have democracy without having to participate in politics which can sometimes become costly. Extremists already accepted the costs and reap the rewards (control, influnce, power) because people won't stand up to them.
It does, but if you create a fixed length array that's too big, you'll just deterministically blow the stack regardless of user input. With VLAs (or alloca), your array length is determined by some runtime property. Whether you blow the stack doesn't just depend on the code path any more, but on the data you're operating on too.

As a bonus, that data is often user input...
> You should write three types of documentation. One for users, one for admins and one about architecture.

I use an airplane analogy (different order than your three above):

1. "Congratulations on purchasing your 747"

2. "This is how you replace the auxiliary power unit"

3. "This is how you survive the engine catching fire"
> It would be nice to have an auto reply script that makes them fill out a Google form with relevant information for you to review later.

No, that's weird. Ask them questions in the chat instead of redirecting them to a form. It's much more friendly and personal.
The biggest problem is that buying is simply the only option, because renter protections are poor and the government constantly shovels taxpayer money into the pockets of homeowners. And so house prices are artificially inflated with help to buy schemes that inject taxpayer money, instead of being their real value.

The reality is that in the UK, a house is no longer a house, it is a government backed asset that will never be allowed to fall, lest the pension funds fail.
We're living in the midst of one of the greatest mind control experiments in history. Why would we think these agencies have cleaned up their act? What do you think all the BS of the last several years have been about? The corruption of the FBI, CIA, and DOJ are visible daily. The sad thing is how well it's working.
I'm not sure she knows what a normal QR code is...
>hardware, or performance, or storage space, or power consumption or whatever are too high

I just upgraded my 10 year old laptop because I wanted to do AI Art locally.

I ran video games, CAD, cellphone emulators, my programs, etc... on this computer and it still works. Heck, I still use it in a different room now.

Its not the 2000s anymore, we don't need tons of processing power to open web browsers and M$ Office. Decommissioning could be a rare event in the future.
I mean the Debian site isn't so much different?
The majority of nonperishable items are restocked during the midnight shift. Fresh items do get delivered during the day.

Search for コンビニ配送トラック and you'll see branded trucks doing deliveries.
I am a happy Anybox user and previously used Pinboard and Raindrop.
It syncs the bookmarks via iCloud.
This is one of the main reasons why I canceled my Spotify subscription.
Only if you expect people running large companies (tech or no) to not be uptight control freaks.
There has never been any strong consensus (including medical) against, quite the opposite. That's why the lockdowns were done in the first place.

Don't try to turn your personal beliefs into accepted reality.
Go is great for CLIs and utilities. It compiles to native code, has a low memory footprint, and the source code is pretty readable even if you've never written Go before. And when it crashes you get a human-readable stack trace not just a core dump :)

But I've never seen a large-ish Go application that I didn't hate. Because, yeah, as you said, it's closer to JS in a lot of ways.
El Niño year. Hold on to your hats, it's gonna be a hot summer.
> till they just discovered this thing

There’s introns, alternate splicings… lots of very common exceptions/complications to the central dogma that I never knew about until I started learning more than high school biology.

This is discovery of a new form of post-transcription modification, but it’s not the first.
One place to learn all about API Security
This one repository contains all things you need to learn about API security.
I’d love “informed voters” though from what I see of social media, it does anything but inform through its creation of cliques and upvoting based on popularity, not veracity or even reasoned argument.

One example is the switch to paid blue checkmarks on Twitter. Prior to the switch, there’d be some semblance (not great) of debate on comments. Now, all the musk fans and RW-oriented subscribers completely dominate so all you see in response to a Dem or “RINO” tweet is reflexive comments calling the OP lies, incorrect whataboutism, conspiracy theory of the day, etc, with more reasoned fact checking buried way down.

This is particularly pronounced with any tweet about the Trump indictment with little discussion of the substance of the indictment. The crackpot hypothesis/meme of Paul Pelosi’s attack being a gay love spat is another example. The participants didn’t even want to read the police report before moving on to another conspiracy theory about the report’s generation. Reasoned discussion would be great. It’s just not happening.
Interesting times.