skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's always a conflict with "science" when somebody tries to monetize it.

Sadly, the replication crisis in science shows that the causes are equally present in purely academic settings as well. Status, power, job security or ego can be as powerful as money and the effects can corrupt someone subtlety and even entirely unconsciously. It's good to remember that no human is immune from confirmation bias or self-deception.
I’m not sure this is a fair statement given that the thing isn’t even out yet and most haven’t used it.
CREATE TABLE foo (id bigserial, bar int, baz int);
CREATE INDEX foobar ON foo(bar);
CREATE INDEX foobaz ON foo(baz);
SELECT \* FROM foo WHERE bar = 2 AND baz = 4;

Postgres (and I think MySQL) will use both indexes in the above query*. Spanner can only use one index, which will be slow if there are many non-matching bar=2 or baz=4 rows.

So Spanner needs CREATE INDEX foobarbaz ON foo(bar, baz); Which Postgres could also use, and it'd be a bit faster, but the index-combining is decently fast too and much nicer when you consider a table with like 10 cols and many ways to filter/join.

* https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/indexes-bitmap-scans...
Olfactory Overload: Knowing the Neurodivergent Nose
This seems to be a lost author looking at socialist media platforms, not capitalistic social media. Things that actually have a cost should not necessarily be provided for free, even if one does not understand said cost (such as the author of this story). Providing an API is an add-on and not actually required of any social media platform but it does cost money to maintain the storage of the content as well as to not just build said API but also to maintain it (including keeping it secure and scalable). This author seems to be thinking of some kind of socialist media platforms, not the current capitalist social media platforms we have now. Even so, I would definitely welcome the idea of socialistic media platforms although I am not even sure how one could be built and/or managed.
This sounds about the same as "McDonald's should be free" and I don't really see a big difference other than the actual consumption of said good/service.
Yes, the Apple headset is miles more advanced, but to me, the massive selling point of the Quest 2 was also how easy to sideload stuff was. The Side Quest store is full of amazing apps and ports, like Doom 3 for example, that for reasons don't meet the Quest Store approval criteria or because the devs don't want to pay the 30% fee to Meta.

I doubt we'll see such freedom on the Apple headset as it looks more of a "VR iPad" than a "VR iMac". If I know Apple well, sideloading apps will be a huge no-no and you'll only be able to run what Apple approves on it, so those hoping for immersive VR porn or other wild fantasies, might be left hanging.
Airplane data would be below 30 cm resolution.
Unfortunately this is an extremely naive take.

2015: https://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-hig...
> Somehow after all these years reddit never got their search to work.

I thought this was on purpose
It's stunning to me how little people like the author of this piece know about the economics of running large scale sites like reddit or twitter.

Nothing is free, including providing and maintaining APIs.

Someone's gotta pay for the ramen, especially if you can't run ads.
Want to get stuff done? Build yourself a “friction tunnel”
I was referring to video, because you need to take into account visuals too. It would be simpler when it is audio-only.
I, too, have done all three. For my part, this is parenthesized incorrectly.

Hybrid combines (worst of office) and remote work.

The office is remarkably horrible in contrast with my luxurious home office which does not have adjacent cubicles full of coworkers talking about there lawns and/or constitutional carry.

Commutes also are uniquely terrible, and my home office has one measured in 10s of seconds.
I want the ads to be clearly labelled and only accessible when I've asked for them. Wasn't that the idea of Google AdWords? Show people results ranked by relevance, and insert a few related sponsored products at the beginning with a different presentation.
I knew this only because Nietzsche wrote a poem about it.

https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/An_den_Mistral
Does not seem to be a worthwhile tradeoff to me. Twitter is also not really well-indexed.
I second this. I know of companies that have thousands of certs, sub-domain wildcard certs, sub-domain certs and while the ideal world these would be automated many of the cert providers do not yet offer a consistent standardized API if even any API at all.

Today, over 50% of the certificates issued by the Web PKI rely on ACME.

This is not a great stat to base anything on as not all sites are equal. I can see most hobby, small business sites and new greenfield deployments having certs that utilize an ACME compatible API. Older businesses will have to drop what they are doing and shift priorities to make this happen. I foresee a lot of outages if they are not careful about determining a timeline. In my experience government offices will be the most challenging to get updated and automated and that could lead to some interesting compliance and regulatory violations.

In this same proposal, we introduced the idea of making Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) services optional.

This part I agree with. That privacy leak should have been deprecated ages ago especially with OCSP stapling. Stapling support needs to be more widely adopted by more TLS terminating software and hardware.
I’ve noticed when Tesla stock goes on a run, a wave of such articles and posts begin appearing. This particular posters history only posts about Tesla in a negative light.
A different version of this argument is: why should it matter if I'm querying the content using the API directly versus by using the HTML web interface? If it's the case that different consumers of the API might put different load on the system than the web page that the provider can't/doesn't want to support, why isn't rate limiting the solution?

This also provides providers a way to fairly monetize their API: we're giving you some basic level of access that matches what you get through the website for free, but if your access pattern is such that you put a load on our system that we can't tolerate, then we'll charge you (by providing a paid tier).
This is typical internet behavior but I just have to link some Chomsky talks on the topic. One's 7 minutes, and the other's 85 - I recommend the second, of course ;)

7 minutes: The Concept of a Person https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0XdIT_Cn4E

85 minutes: Grammar, Mind and Body - A Personal View https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMQS3klG3N0

Especially relevant if you read that article yesterday "disproving" Chomsky by noting that ChatGPT exists, and wanted to consider what his rebuttal might be.

TL;DR:

My current view is one of consciousness operating on a spectrum,

He would definitely agree

there has to be some degree of definition that we can agree to as a starting point

He would definitely disagree, as I understand your sentiment; settling on a definition for the concept you're interested in is as impossible as settling on a definition for "meaning", "love", or "justice".

it's just a useful illusion/delusion and evolutionary adaptation for cooperative behavior.

Alternative hypothesis discussed in the 85min talk: what if cooperation is a useful corollary for consciousness/higher level reasoning via internal linguistic structures?

The whole thing is a mess. Most likely... we're not special

He would whole-heartedly agree, in the cosmic sense, and whole-heartedly disagree in the sense of our relation to animals.
Where in Vernon Triangle? There's a big gradient between its eastern and western half. The western part, closer to downtown, has lots of restaurants and shopping, but it can feel a little dead further east. In general, an office-y vibe, not much green space.
I was surprised at how dataclasses are not the first thing people are taught when it comes to "classes" in python. My two personal "you should probably learn how these work" things for beginners are pprint and dataclass. Goes a long long way to helping look at things.
Not really knowing Vercel, I thought, based on the title, that it might have been a new GPU competitor (accelerator card) but it’s a startup accelerator.
I don't think of "going black" as a shutdown but as a PR move from the moderators.

It was all about getting the message out.

Real "shutdown" comes when the good moderators decides they had enough and stops being active, so reddit becomes run by shitty mods.

Only then will the users leave. So it will take many months before the effect is visible in user count.
Are you selling that by passing it as the original, or by telling people that these are minor changes for the greater good, and that it’s mostly the same as the original?
This response blows my mind. I'm not a piano player, but I have played stringed and brass instruments of various kinds since high school (over 20 years, sheesh).

On every instrument I played, there are fundamentals that are required to get beyond the beginner level. Without proper form more advanced techniques can be harder to learn, and even worse can lead to injury. Louis Armstrong couldn't play trumpet at the end of his career because his lips constantly hurt. I would imagine there are pianists with wrist or finger injuries due to years of playing with improper form.

So on a computer keyboard, the things you want to optimize for are speed, accuracy and ergonomics. It's not like a piano. Expression is not a factor. Nobody cares if you type staccato or legato. Home row typing is the most common way to optimize for this, but not the only way.

I don't use the proper home row, but I did learn to type that way originally courtesy of Mavis Beacon.
Posted this a while back, but maybe someone will want to pick this up and run with it now:

I specced out a decentralized spam-resistant reddit alternative a while ago, and posted it here a few months ago. Please build this, happy to sign away non-exclusive IP rights if you have an idea of how to monetize.
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I've specced out a decentralized reddit alternative a little bit, but have too many side projects. Someone please take this and build it. Let me know if you try, would love to spectate and advise on development.

The key is there shouldn't be a globally consistent front page. Sorting should be done on an individual basis. Upvotes boost signal signal to peers and downvotes squelch. By propagating content scores transitively through the network proportionally to trust scores, users can moderate their own feeds by voting and managing their friend list.

Users have a peer list, containing a list of server/users on it. Each peer has a user-managed 'trust weighting'. Each user has a list of "good content" (ideally hash identified for content addressability), with each item having a score based on that user's votes and votes from peers, weighted by that users trust in that peer.

Periodically, your server contacts all of your peers, and asks them for their good content list. The scores from peers are multiplied by your own trust weight for that peer, and you build a personal "good content" list that merges the lists from each of your peers together (and drops insufficient scores).

You are presented with a score-descending-sorted page of content. Whenever you upvote something, it increases your score weight for that content as well as the trust weight for each peer who sent you the recommendation, and vice versa for downvotes. Votes are transmitted to peers as a crypto signature of the content hash, but when retransmitted to peer-of-peer, they only see the intermediary's aggregated and trust weighted merged scores.

The specifics of the algorithms on how you calculate and adjust weights can be configurable by each individual user, the protocol only cares that peers are able to produce some kind of score list.

Dividing content into topics is a bit trickier, could just label content with tags. I think it may be preferable for each user to have multiple topic focused 'personalities' that are basically distinct user accounts with unique peer lists and votes. In that way, I could follow Dave-gardening without having to follow Dave-sports.

For this example I'm using 1 user per server for simplicity, though not required. All users could be on same server, which is probably best for MVP to avoid implementing p2p networking stuff until validated.

Ex.

Alice follows Bob with weight of 0.5, Dave with 0.1

Bob scores content A as 0.8, B as 0.2

Dave scored content A as 0.4, B as 0.9

Alice downloads both lists.

Alice score content A as avg(0.8 * 0.5, 0.4 * 0.1) = 0.22

Alice scores content B as avg(0.2 * 0.5, 0.9 * 0.1) = 0.095

Content A gets sorted higher than B.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21011645 (previous discussion)
Isn't "societies forking based upon curation of their training data" practically what culture is?

Now, I agree that having scalable generative AI and high-throughput-high-virality mass media (social networks) brings new unspeakeable horrors like feedback loops to the mix. Interesting times indeed.
> They want to quit but they can't.

If you mean want to quit but can't in the sense that there is no other place on the Internet to have a like-minded community forum around fountain pens or a particular bank or third-tier game shows, yes, this is true.

But if you mean in a broader sense, of "I just can't quit you!", then no. Reddit steamrolled all of the older forums--and, before that, Usenet and Echomail groups--I used to participate in. Much like how so many sellers of niche products have moved to Amazon, Reddit is where the quirky forums have moved to.

I don't use Reddit as a general-purpose site. It's simply the place where the community that discusses the topics I want to gas on about live. And, yes, I object to what Reddit is doing so I will leave it if the changes come to pass.
Someone selling a pure bullshit idea may not have many resources to extract via a lawsuit.
Porter looks cool and I would love to not hand roll kubernetes stuff.

But the pricing looks curious. Their "default infrastructure" is $300 a month set up in AWS plus usage costs on Porter. It's already 6x what I'm spending on Heroku, why would I pay usage costs per CPU to Porter if they're not running any CPUs?

Honest question really because I'm interested, it just seems far out of line price-wise. I would totally pay for help managing infrastructure, just not server usage. It would make more sense to pay for the things I'm actually using or a fee per developer.
Dingo, an open source robot dog
Read the footnote.
I agree that it is probably the best choice, I'm just not willing to >quadruple my server costs for the feature, unfortunately. I appreciate you taking the time to reply, and I did some further research.

It looks like as long as transactions are not taking excessive time to complete, that temporal tables will be sufficient, since the history tables get marked with the transaction begin times. I'll use a sliding window approach and dedupe.

EDIT: I also found this https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/s... which seems like it's supported on Express and Web versions and should be a fairly robust solution.
Why the Flamin’ Hot Cheetos movie is both pandering and pernicious
Chinese hackers use DNS-over-HTTPS for Linux malware communication
This talk is great and Giuseppe delivers it well. I'm really impressed with the expressiveness of the type system they have designed. Describing types as sets with predicate logic reads very clearly.

I was particularly impressed with the Exahustivity and redundancy in pattern matching, using the type to inform you when you have failed to fulfill the type contract across multiple expressions is _very_ clever and yet very easy to understand. This feels very much like the type of feedback I would expect from elixir when writing.
I don't see the connection with health insurance itself.
I agree that this has nothing to do with status. My comparison does not include domeone with healthcare and someone without.

Being treated worse is a repercussion. Being actively denied them is a repercussion and also an active negative in your definition. If you are keen on this distinction you can ignore the health care example. But the social consequences fall definetely in this category.
Removing header remapping from Amazon API Gateway
The US per capita emissions are still only preceded by micronations and petrostates as far as I'm aware.

Yes and it is dropping dramatically - getting better not worse. I.e., the decade being berated for being bad for the planet was good for the planet.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1049662/fossil-us-carbon...
Linen.dev – Switch between chat and forum
This also displays where the federation that mastodon uses, has difficulty.

If a rural post office closes (they do from time to time), unless you're using a very old "rural route" style postal address ( https://pe.usps.com/text/pub28/28c2_021.htm ), your address doesn't change when a post office changes.

Additionally, if you happen to live next to a person with unsavory views, the post office will still deliver all your mail to you.

When a mastodon instance shuts down unexpectedly (it also happens from time to time), you need to start up a new identity somewhere else and your address changes.

If your neighbor on an instance becomes problematic you may find that your messages aren't visible to others anymore as other instances start defederating from the instance that you are on.

For situations where people say "well host your own...", for most of the populace, this is similar in practicality as staffing your own post office.
That’s not what the article describes at all so I’m curious what documentation you are referring to.
I edited that out, apparently some of the replacement lenses can flex.
The accomodation distance can be set to any value by the headset lens design. The problem he's discussing is that you can't change the distance depending on the content shown. Probably apple is setting the distance to 1 meter since that's where they show all their content at.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vergence-accommodation_conflic...
> Due to the way cellular networks are designed, it is difficult to prevent Delivery Reports from being returned to the originator making it challenging to thwart this covert attack without making fundamental changes to the network architecture

Couldn't you just add a delay from the device?
VCs aren't marks. They're fencers, hoping to get rid of the product before anyone realizes it's worthless or stolen. The (possibly sometimes subconscious) reason they don't care to deeply investigate is because if they're convinced by a shallow inspection, they're pretty sure they'll be able to convince others.

It's a greater fool shockwave, pretending to buy into something and betting that you can get someone else to buy into it before the bottom falls out. Not that you know for sure the bottom will fall out, but if you're going to buy in based on how marketable the pitch is, examining it too hard might weaken that pitch or make it fall apart. In that case you've wasted time and money and have to find something else. If you're committed, the last thing you want to do is examine the business; you're shortening your bullshit runway.
I am friends with 3 different businesses in my town. A baker, a cafe, and a small restaurant. All three of them have experienced the exact same thing. I've seen it happen first-hand on their accounts.
The issue Google has with blogspam is they don't want to filter it because it inevitably uses Google's advertising. So Google gets to self-deal traffic to blogspam which makes them money. They're not incentivized to actually eliminate blogspam.

LLMs aren't automatically disincentivized from training on blogspam so they're not going to avoid it either.
The Intricate Beauty of Pecking Orders
On the other hand, if you count downloads of all the 3rd party Reddit apps on Google Play, it'll sum up to at least 10m. So 3rd party apps users might actually be in range of 10%-20% of users, which is far from negligible
Ryan Young, a tech writer at Stripe, gave a good talk at this year's Write The Docs on some of the philosophical choices they made in structuring their docs and responding to user feedback about where it didn't land as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OKRNQvZbL4
To me it seems like less of a war on general computing and more like Apple is hoping to prevent mixed reality or "spatial computing" from becoming an extension on the privacy disaster that smartphones became.

This seems prudent, because as personal as smartphones are, a headset like the Vision Pro dials that up tenfold. Considering what third parties have done with just the information surfaced in mobile operating systems, or heck even the web, I shudder to think of what they'd do with gaze data and a high fidelity color 3D map of your surroundings.
I moved to Porkbun after some HN post a few months back, just a single .me domain but it was quick and easy. Happy so far.
Which is the flip side of aggressive removal of possible fake reviews people are clamoring for.
HN commenters like you and I are like ChatGPT, unaware if what we're saying is nonsense; we're full of ourselves and believe have something worthwhile to say.

The lurkers on the other hand are humbler and smarter than us, they prefer reading instead of voicing their misinformed opinion, aware of their ignorance.
Study predicts highest educated workers most likely to be replaced by AI
Multi-planetary-AZ DB cluster deployments. Putting the emphasis on "Eventual" in eventual consistency.
Go for a walk before retrying reading from this replica!
The smart way to go would be something like Apple CarPlay, so in three years when the computing device is out of date, you can just use a new computing device to project into your vr headset.

Not good if you want people to throw away the old headset and buy a new one, perhaps good if your selling point can be longevity and its associated advantages of cost and environmental friendliness.
What I think he meant by "specific desired outcomes" is arbitrary rules that cater to special interest groups rather than universal moral principles. And yes, that _is_ democracy in action, where the only rule is that the majority wins, at the expense of the minority who just lost. Your ">1M users" rule is an example of such arbitrary rule that proves his point.
> Based on this man's logic, if I were to run a web forum then I must provide an API or data dump to download the posts created by the users? How about a comment section on my blog? How about a community Discord server? Why not Facebook posts? Or Instagram stories?

Yes? I don't think it's a very radical, unreasonable or difficult thing to provide: this is available as a first class feature on most blogging/forum software (RSS feeds) and wasn't even remotely controversial 10–12 years ago.

> They also seem to reinvent history such that there was some "implicit" agreement between Reddit and the users of Reddit.

There was an _explicit_ agreement: the site's terms of use have allowed free API access with reasonable quotas for 15 years, and are being changed now with very short notice. Of course the terms of service can change, but users are also free to leave, complain, or demand that they don't change. There are also strong cultural factors involved. For example: just like in the US it's customary for tap water to be free at restaurants, and people would be probably angry if you decided to charge for it, on the open web it's customary for some reasonable level of API access to be free.

> IMO, just because I wrote some shitposts on Reddit does not mean that I am entitled access to every single shitpost that has ever been written on Reddit.

There's no such asymmetry in scale: _everyone_ wrote the content, _everyone_ is entitled to access it. If you're referring to incredibly resource intensive, mass-access to download several terabytes for AI training I can see how that should cost a price. But they're blocking reasonable use-cases.