skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mostly it was just the cost of the domain since there was free hosting all over the place. You could also just run it in an old PC in your bedroom, not sure how much electricity that used as I was not paying electricity at the time :) but mostly the problem is simultaneous users, 100 users is ok as long as they are not all making requests at the same time.
Anyways, with modern frameworks it would be practically free.

But the SEO and marketing costs to get any kind of traction these days are in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. That’s the real reason we can’t have decentralized communities anymore, the big guys have formed oligopoly. They control the market and prevent any competition by owning user attention.
I used to wish Facebook had a wrapper which changed its look and feel to look like Reddit. Old Reddit of course.

They obviously have very different architectures and must have been a very impossible task.

This on the hand, makes me think that if someone wants it, it can look like anything, twitter or Facebook or Reddit (which it looks like currently)?

What’s the reason for it being more inter-operable with mastadon than lemmy?
There’s been an intense, well-funded libertarianism outreach effort for decades and it’s been especially pronounced in the tech sector where relatively high wages and negotiating power let a lot of people tell themselves that they’re in the same group as their CEO, and should vote to give them a tax cut (surely I’ll need that, too!) and freedom from paying for externalities, etc. That meant voting for Republicans over the years and saying that the people they voted for probably wouldn’t really do all of the anti-liberty things they promised to do.

After doing that, for some it’s easier to support Trump than admit making so many mistakes for years. There’s an entire media empire devoted to supporting that decision.
I think it's straightforwardly true that you cannot understand what it feels like to be under the influence of cocaine in the same way as someone that has been.
Open source licenses are quite clear. We needn't appeal to overused-by-nerds buzzwordy Greek paradoxes, just read the license and carry on.
You lost me at UI. But I’m one who believes if you don’t write your software defined infrastructure as software, you’ll regret life pretty soon.
good god! No autonomous drive should drive through fog or flooded roads or construction zones. I wouldn't trust any system in those conditions regardless of what stans say.
You can tell the author wasn't one of the lucky ones because MUMPS is a joy to work with compared to VB6.
My first job out of college way back in 1996, I was a hybrid computer operator for a backup site for a state lottery and a “programmer”. My manager told me when shit hits the fan and if we did have to take over from the primary site, I would be fielding calls left and right and people would be breathing down my neck - including my skip manager and people from the business side. We had a stupid high SLA and steep fines for being down.

He said ignore everyone and talk through the checklist of the step I was taking on the checklist. I had permission to tell everyone including him to give me some breathing room. In other words - do one thing at the time.

I’ve taken that to heart in my personal and professional life for the last 25+ years.

It’s especially helpful when shit hits the fan at a job and I need to prepare for my next move. I’ve developed a “it’s time to prepare for another job” checklist that I can activate at a moments notice.
Yeah but I only have to come up with a reasonable doubt.

It's analogous to coming up with one counterexample to disprove something in mathematics.

I can reasonably theorize that he fully intended to stop bombing people based on this "deal". There. Done. I can doubt he planned to bomb people in a reasonable way.

The onus is on you to remove all reasonable doubt. You have not done so by simply showing that there are bombs in his cabin. He could have built them before he made the deal to stop bombing people. That's a completely reasonable scenario.
It’s legal to turn left in such a case as long as you entered the intersection already. So at least the first 1-2 cars are not doing anything illegal
I worked in Kurian’s org at Oracle and I was shocked when Google hired him. OCI was a total disaster at the start. Like embarrassingly bad, they threw most of the original platform in the trash.

Literally failing upward.
Funnily, Kaczynski was an ecofascist, he was also an anti-leftest.

You have to remember that when he performed the bombing in the 70s environmental protections had bipartisan support (Nixon famously created the EPA [1]).

It wasn't until much later that being green turned into a radical partisan issue. I mostly blame Rush Limbaugh [2] and the Koch brothers [3] for that shift. Turns out, a lot of big oil propaganda [4] can really sway public opinion.

[1] https://www.epa.gov/history/origins-epa

[2] https://www.mediamatters.org/rush-limbaugh/rush-limbaugh-cli...

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/23/opinion/sunday/david-koch...

[4] https://www.axios.com/2017/12/15/big-oils-electric-fight-aga...
It’s not about bandwidth inside the AS, but about fiber peering from ISP datacenters “to the Internet”. I don’t have anyone’s internal informations but that must cost 10-100x more than $35/Gbps/month. Residential internet is gym membership model, a best effort offering. Resources are always heavily over-committed based on typical use cases of groups of average users.
I highly doubt the accuracy of that, the ~one time per month during weekends that I have to travel to the city, the subway and busses were so unreliable with timing that it's easier to just take the LIRR to the nearest place to my destination, ignore the busses and walk the remaining miles.
Ok I was ready to hate this article the second I read the title, and I clicked on it just to get enough ammunition to crap on it.

But it's actually quite good and I came to similar conclusions after trying to make CBV work for years.

Plus it's well written.

Damn.
Only available for people who sell themselves to Google or pay the Apple premium. Well, one could say it's a gift so don't complain. No, it's paid by the taxpayers. And French/German taxpayer money should not be used to make citizens less free for the benefit of a US duopoly which has continuous problems to comply with EU legislation.

P.S. I am no longer affected. I benefited from a French/German youth program 45 years ago, which I am grateful for.
OVH offers DDoS protection for free, and BuyVM for around 3 bucks a month. This is an awful deal.
I would generally discount any claims that someone that is a problem for the CIA is a sexual deviant.

He had a serious problem with authority, needed to draft dodge and had a meeting with a psychiatrist where he planned to practise discussing feelings of being a woman with a psychiatrist.. I'm not really sure I should believe a forensic psychiatric evaluation decades later by a psychiatrist with a motive on what evaluation to give.
I often used google to search for technical things from documentation sites - and what I've found out is that ChatGPT provides better answers than the official documentation for most tools. So it's not about a searchbot doing better search for the sources, it's about a "knowledgebot" providing a summary of knowledge that is better than the original sources.
Mind the second part of the quote,

> Apple has a huge advantage price / performance wise with the cheap m based Mac book air.

The MBA is in the US $999 with M1 and $1099 with M2. (You can get them even at about $800 in sales.) This is an entirely different segment.
This sounds kind of frustrating because it would be hard to predict or trigger. “Last time I ran into this error a super helpful window popped up, this time I’m getting nothing?”
I only saw it on twitter, not here.
But that's pretty much what copilot is... It's just Intellisense 2.0 and I would say even only marginally more useful.
You can't even really instruct it except with some comments which may not work.
There's not a universal country-wide law in the US. Some states have "Son of Sam" laws that keep prisoners from profiting from publicity about their crimes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Sam_law

Though with Ted, he probably had things other than his crimes he could have published and made money from. Of course, any earnings could end up going to a civil suit or existing orders of victim restitution.

None of that seems directly related to intellectual property rights though. The prisoner retains those just like anyone else. I suppose there might be some cases of asset forfeiture for remediation or fines?
In addition to what others have said: everything you've said is a reason to lower end-user public transit costs, not lower car tolls. A well-structured scheme here would simultaneously disincentivize individual car traffic and use some of the funds from that disincentivization to subsidize public transit.
> a piano and cello duet playing a sad chambers music

No such thing as chambers music or a music. Maybe "a sad piano and cello duet" or "sad piano and cello chamber music" would be a better prompt.
Is there a relation between the quality of content and the ratio of posts' points to the number of comments (beyond a certain threshold)?
That's two heavyweights from Florence Supermax dead in two weeks. Hanssen is the other.
I haven't built a channel with the goals most people have, but I have viewed a ton of YT content.

As others have said, spoken audio is a big deal. Or more accurately, giving viewers the abilty to hear spoken audio well is a big deal. That can mean not having constant background noise or music, but it can also mean intentionally speaking more slowly and articulately (as one does when practicing for stage theater). The way you speak really matters. Oddly, I have observed that some of the most prolific and informative presenters are also people with some particularly weak articulation skills... one might think they were slightly inebriated, but it's just the way they talk. You'll hear words like "butns", instead of "buttons", for example.

There is no user-end fix for the above. If the audio isn't clear and understandable, and the speech is important, then the rest of the content is irrelevant.

The content in general should be enough but no more than necessary. So many videos have a title that suggest they will tell you X, but the video spends 80% of the time talking about why you might be wanting to know X before _maybe_ telling you X. Don't f with people's time. If you have a solid point to make, make it early and then indicate that you will expand on the idea or reasoning after. Of course, the monetization scheme of YT encourages viewer time, so one might be inclined to draw out a video length. But be assured, after one or two time waster videos, viewers will never return.

If showing code, use LIGHT MODE, not dark mode. Dark mode text/code is practically invisible to people in a bright environment, which includes some rooms and certainly outdoors. Many people, myself included, will watch informative YT content while eating outside as a break from work. If the content is invisible due to the high ambient light, then obviously we will move on. And for the cave dwellers (which I am also at times), they can turn their screen brightness down. The non-vampires have a maximum brightness limit which cannot compete with the sun.

Lastly, don't fuss too much about the rest. Just do what you like, and do it occasionally or regularly for a long time. It seems to take weeks to years to "suddenly" become popular. Most overnight sensations were working for years before their subscriber curve went hockey-stick.
> And then this people used reverse engineering techniques to build a bios that did the same as the working one they had, but all they could see was electrical currents coming out of the pins etc.

> So I think copyright law would allow you to look at a web page and, without viewing the source rebuild the page from scratch (ie box is red and 12 pixels wide)

What I don't exactly see is, how the hell do you prove you didn't just rip off the original and pretended you never saw it? In fact if you knew what the original was it would be easier to use different methods that would otherwise likely be duplicated because people go for the obvious solution first.
Compared to the Kaczinksy quotes from this thread I have to say that these are mostly lame truisms.
Car owners are already hugely subsidized. Toll roads cover only a tiny fraction of road maintenance. The rest is paid by taxpayers, even those who do not drive.
Because such systems are brittle. Bespoke forums disappear and their archival status may be incomplete or hard to search. We have nearly all of Usenet preserved in multiple places.
> are banned from using FSD

Do you get a refund?
That's flawed in a few ways.

With regard to #1

The vast majority of the population are seeking to fill some need when they get online. Its not about popularity, popularity only provides exposure.

Its whether that need is being satisfied, both at the time they choose to jump ship, and continuing on into the future. Also, almost everyone born after the 90s has been indoctrinated prior to the age of reason that they can go online and find anything they might need, addiction triggers and other psychological traps await. There is also, as always, the ever present coercion through concentration of business sectors into a few entities who play shell games and limit your agency and choice. In some places you can't apply for college anymore using paper, its all digital and digital systems break when they aren't properly designed for resilience; these result in less opportunities acting as a filter and coercively limiting those who fall into the implementation cracks with no other choice.

#2 is purely normative, and neglects abuse which may include jamming communications or something more subtle but still malign. This view is filled with supposition, and makes broad over-generalizations, its non-sequitur.
Heh. I can't tell if this game is satire or not.

https://youtu.be/l8zQ3piJpqs?t=289

Note: From the blog itself.
And a way to fight spam. You don't want users to be too anonymous, else someone can just post bullshit with zero ways to fight it.
So elm is abandoned or there's more to this story?
A word's meaning is a specific legal document can be different than a word's meaning in a product's marketing material.
> Nobody was talking about Christie at all for years

I've been hearing about Christie for absolute ages, no clue at all what you're on about.
The core problem with decentralization is anonymity at scale.

Creating an account per decentralized unit is a high cost. Fighting abuse of a platform on the scale of decentralized units rather than the platform as a whole is a very high cost. How does a decentralized platforms perform against an adversarial attacker (spammers/nation states/etc)?

You have addressed the idea of centralization by talking about what it does well, but you have failed to address what decentralization does poorly. Namely, turning O(1) problems into O(N) problems.

How do decentralized organizations handle conflict/how do you prevent schism?

Email was very decentralized, but spam never got dealt with until email was nearly entirely centralized on gmail. So why could e-mail never successfully fight spam before centralization?

I don't think your post attempted to explain the forces that led us towards centralization in the first place and what the benefits of that centralization were.

I don't think decentralization is obviously better or worse than centralization, I think there are a series of tradeoffs that make different styles of platform better under different contexts. I think a "good king" centralized platform will beat a decentralized one until it doesn't (which is what we are experiencing right now), which means that during the reign of the "good king" the cost of decentralization is higher and therefore unappealing.
Extremely curious that PaLM-E, PaLI, and GPT-4 were trained to be multimodal (accept non-text inputs, such as images) but the released API's are text-only. In GCP's case, here, they've released PaLM-2 which is not multimodal like PaLM-E and PaLI. This prevents using it for visual reasoning[0].

I'm just wondering why multiple parties seem reluctant to allow the public to use this.

0: https://visualqa.org
> I kinda wish for a mix of todo/calendar system

I imagine there are various ways you can do this with existing tools. I just mostly find it useful to separate calendaring from needs to be done in the next month or two from bigger/more aspirational/not fully defined projects. So I generally (if loosely) separate them into different spaces.

The main thing IMO is not to put stuff with loose (and maybe never) dates on your calendar where you now have 50 overdue items on your calendar which just encourages never wrapping anything up. (Worked with someone like that once.)
currently use a lot of rare metals like platinum. inc vol of fuel cells will drive up price of fairly inelastic supply of rare metals. or require step change in anode/cathode catalysts to cheaper metals
I feel like there's a meaningful difference between that stuff and the computational photography common on smartphones.
Living in the part of Manhattan that's covered by this, I'm absolutely looking forward to paying $17 to drive a quarter-mile to the FDR early on a Sunday morning /s.

The thing that's interesting is that the average vehicle on the roads in lower Manhattan (in my experience) is not a luxury car. It's a taxi or a ride share or a delivery truck (or other commercial vehicle: contractors etc) or what is essentially an economy or mid-tier private vehicle.

EDIT: not a popular observation apparently.
Given that this looks to be just a particular build of Supermicro server, I wonder what mechanism the malware uses to achieve persistence such that a reformat or FS restore wouldn’t take care of it. Does anyone know if these devices have supermicro IPMIs on them? Those are notoriously insecure (like most lights out managers) and a great place to hide malware persistently.

Edit: Typo.
It's totally fine to run the project (or don't run) as the owner see fits and use it however one wants.

But let's not pretend the project is actively maintained and there are no bugs. That's what klabb3 alludes to.

Elm has this "this is fine" phenomenon where people like to pretend its a one-of-a-kind software that has no bugs doesn't even need a patch with bug fixes.
If OpenAI didn't go out and post the content then where did Fred Riehl see the content?
little snitch seems to be the correct approach. almost every compromise that isn’t target will attempt odd looking network connections.

we need more little snitch like things, including for filesystem access.

we also need the ability to run little snitch in paranoid mode, where the approvals happen on a separate device, sign each message with a key not on the primary device, and the validation is baked deeply and irrevocably into the kernel. smartphone face up on desk left of keyboard would work well for a second device.

linux lsm seems to work[1], and building the kernel is easy locally[2] or on cloud[3].

hopefully we see more and better use of lsm and custom kernels. we all should want our most trusted public key baked irrevocably into the kernel.

personalized linux is the next frontier!

1. https://github.com/nathants/mighty-snitch

2. https://github.com/nathants/mighty-snitch/blob/master/kernel...

3. https://github.com/nathants/mighty-snitch/blob/master/kernel...
From what I understand, the M2 was released due to TSMC struggling with yields on their N3 process. Apple had to do something with the N5 node to keep hardware available to consumers, and M2 was the result.
This looks like a brilliant idea. Unfortunately, many websites that started out as social-networks have turned into places of “creators” seeking attention to make money on ads. Because of a bad incentive structure. It seems Twitter is now heading this direction as well. This extension might help to bring a bit of sanity back to the web. I also enjoy using the SponsorBlock extension made by the same guy.
I think lists also serve the purpose of getting your tasks out on paper. If I am working on 4 projects, I need to be constantly reminded of those tasks and need to break them down into smaller tasks. Getting Things Done is an effective method, but all of these things, including this method, require real effort. There is just no way around the fact that there is effort required.
> It's not that there isn't enough electronic music being made, it's that every new track that lands on soundcloud is a drop in the ocean of mediocrity. There is _too_ much, and 99.9% is just boring to listen to, because it sounds like everything else.

To the extent that sounding like everything else is a problem, how is ML generated music not going to have it?

And in general this isn't going to be a qualitative improvement in experience. ML algorithms for recommendation are searching the preference space in much the same way ML generation would, they're just doing it over existing stuff. If you really find 99.9% of existing material boring you're probably going to find a similar order of generated material boring.

Though I suspect 99.9% is hyperbole. My rate of "this is listenable and interesting and I'd like to come back " on Soundcloud is better than 1 in 25 on the worst day and better than 1 in a dozen on most, and the rate is often north of 1 in 6 for curated platforms like Pandora. It's never been easier to discover good new music to listen to with not much in the way of effort.
> I’ve developed a “it’s time to prepare for another job” checklist that I can activate at a moments notice.

Did you ever have to activate said checklist? If so, at what time or what times?
Admittedly, C89 has very little utility, especially among people my age. For example, my university progresses from Racket to Java to C++, and has a systems course that partially teaches C11. Although good for teaching, I don't think those languages artificially constrained me in the ways that C89 does. I felt that my programming skills improved the most when I forced myself to work in such an under-powered language.

I also like the idea of being able to run my code anywhere, kind of like Doom.
Ask HN: Why did major desktop OSes settle on a macOS-like taskbar?
Glancing at the new Debian 12 screenshots, I realised that in the past years most major desktop OSes transitioned to a macOS-esque (middle-aligned, bottom) large icon taskbar. Why? Being a fan of the "classic" labeled taskbar, taskbar items with text could provide a lot more info (document or media title, current path etc) and even the elongated click area is larger and more predictable. Also presenting just icons means there has to be a second level grouping if the same app has multiple windows.

Touch displays? Should be irrelevant in desktop mode. High DPI screens that demand dense rectangular items? The tradeoff seems to be big to be just that.
You and he are talking about different things. Let's take a concrete example: me and Donald Trump.

In 2018 Trump's federal income tax was over 100x what mine was. But as a percentage of our respective incomes he paid 4.1% and I paid about 10%.

He's talking about the amount, you are talking about the percent of the taxpayer's income.
> The performance of the chip is matched to the memory size.

That may be approximately true if you only look at a single generation of consumer graphics cards at a time. If you compare across generations or include non-gaming workloads the correlation falls apart.
The content itself isn’t toxic just because he community.
I think "Are you insane?" from the first link is a clear example. Not so sure about the others.
Sad as it may be, I don’t think this has ever been a real problem for other countries. In the case of Stalin, the issue was lending credibility to socialism.
Herr Hitler looked like a respectable man because he was very much against socialism, sending those filthy reds to a lager.