skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You mean like how 8GB RAM in my Mini results in prolonged swap pauses with 3 apps open?

To be fair, M1 MacBook Pro with 32GB is smooth as silk with ~20 apps open.
Ask HN: What are some promising decentralised, P2P streaming protocols?
The pirate scene for sport event streaming is accessible through:

* Ad-ridden, dubious websites with a streaming widget, which have a terrible user experience and are a single point-of-failure (servers get taken down routinely)

* Acestream (https://acestream.org/), which is a proprietary streaming protocol on top of BitTorrent, available only via a closed-source, unaudited server. Very shady, but works somewhat decently.

* Youtube/Twitch illegal livestreams, which get taken down very quickly yet keep popping up in an eternal game of Whack-a-Mole. Often a vector for the streamer to advertise their shady streaming website.

This is terrible, and I am surprised that to this day this is still an unsolved issue for pirates and users alike, and in general anyone that wants to create a decentralised video stream.

What are some nascent or niche technologies that can make this a reality? AFAIK BitTorrent is not ideal to build a streaming protocol on top of (IIRC Bittorrent, Inc. announced their own take on the problem, but I guess it went nowhere). acestream apparently has not been reverse engineered by anyone (or Google fails me), so everybody still depend on shady websites exactly like we did in 2010.

To be viable, this protocol would have to be:

* P2P and decentralised, of course. Anonymous, so it is impossible to know which node is the broadcaster, making it hard to get taken down.

* BitTorrent-like, with every peer both downloading and seeding to other peers.

* Open, hackable, and well-specified.

* Ideally would work in the browser (WebRTC). i.e. doesn't require third-party software if possible.

Is there anything out there that satisfies these conditions? Why aren't pirates adopting it, given that this problem is not solved, and P2P livestreaming has huge potential in legal and legitimate avenues as well?
I think a lot of times people go through things they're not happy about in their own lives (the glaring one in your comment could be the stress of a long distance relationship) and they project outwards, trying to make it about something external like the place where they live. From there, we invent boogeymen such as "criminals" getting away scot free, or unruly immigrants. Focus on removing stress from your own life and away from the boogeymen and scapegoats.
I also want to add: HN is an especially bad place to validate this type of product because HN has the exact same interface as reddit. This post is popular because of its novelty, there is an incentive to upvote this post and say whatever OP wants to hear in order to get him to keep working on this project. Because "having alternatives never hurts". But it hurts the person developing the alternative. He already lost 4 years of his life to this. Hopefully he wises up and pivots before he wastes another 4 years.
Promise.all, Promise.race, and Promise.allSettled are a non-trivial amount of my await calls. Also, while you may consider "await" noise, I consider it signal. I want to know when the execution queue has a break 100% of the time. Implicit await would make ordinary JS code a nightmare to debug.

Contrast this with Go where you must synchronize shared resources. Yes, the go-routine model allows relatively simple concurrency. However concurrency management is simply not a concern in JS-land. Yes, JS can be optimized so that more happens in parallel, but deadlocks can happen. Multiple writers to the same object can't happen. Passing data between threads enforces ownership and visibility out of the box. JS is bulletproof from a developer standpoint, which is a boon to security and absolutely, positively required in an environment where you're executing random code from random authors on the internet.

JavaScript really doesn't get enough credit for what it's accomplished.
No other metrics really compare to chance my children will die early.And I lived a couple of decades past, and I am happy to still be alive, and looking forward with interest to the next few decades. If you don’t enjoy your time here, consider therapy, biking, a religious community, meditation, and a strong social network.

I do particularly look forward to the highways being dug up and rewilded, while we get around with Cat Buses or blimps or jet packs. I didn’t get the idea you were advocating that we improve what we have; it came across as what we have sucks and we need to go back, back to the closet, back to less power, back to less information, back to the culture of conformity for the powerful and the culture of fear for the oppressed.
Why not just use Ubuntu and a custom desktop? It’s basically intended for use as something server like at that point anyway. Then ssh into it with your ultraportable laptop. You can mail me the money you saved, I’ll spend it on something good. Don’t worry
The article stated that explicitly as its central thesis, yet I came away with a different insight.

> In this context, the defining trait of a village is that it’s group of people where the average interaction over time is with people you’ve seen before.

What I find especially insightful in this description is that it applies to lots of communities at all scales, both online and off, as diverse as a childhood friend group, a technical project team, a corporation, or an alliance of world superpowers. What defines the village is that the members you interact with are mostly the ones you have been interacting with. Change happens, but it is gradual.

What destroys the village is whatever upsets that defining trait. In the article's telling, a sustained influx of strangers is one way to kill it; there are others (for example, a large set of village members exiting, or the village splitting in two would also work.) And as you rightly point out, a way to effectively manage that change can allow the village to survive, be it tools to manage onboarding, or gradual acceptance (ala SO's points-based permissions), or a well-led corporate merger where changes are introduced gradually and with the buy-in of all participants.
Wait, does Mastodon have traction?
Marco Arment was invited to WWDC as he is north a developer and operates a Mac focused blog. He is frequently very critical of Apple’s tools and actions. I don’t think Apple just invites ’yes men’
Gender balance is more like clean air than like butter. Most people will benefit from it, but individual rational choices work in the opposite direction.
Keep in mind that "drought" can be highly relative and short-term.

For regions which have historically experienced frequent (e.g., daily or weekly) rainfall, even a few days or weeks with no or limited precipitation can induce stress on ecological communities. Deluge / drought patterns (see California's long-term drought and this past rain season's endless atmospheric river storms) actually compound the problem.

Looking at long-term averages alone may well mask this effect and its significance.
Transtheoretical Model
tilde at maxg.io :)
I can't judge your specific situation one way or the other from where I'm sitting right now as I have almost zero knowledge of it. All I can say is that I was a moderator for close to five years on a SE site and every time I've seen this happen or be discussed behind the scenes it was for good reasons. On our site we even had a moderator removed at one point, and this was for a good reason too.

These reasons should have been communicated to you. If not, then clearly something went wrong somewhere.
Sony put Microsoft in this position of gobbling up game companies with their exclusivity agreements. Up until recently they had very weak exclusives compared to PlayStation and Nintendo. Halo, Forza, Gears of War, Flight Simulator, and Fable have a hard time competing with God of War, Gran Turismo, Drake’s Uncharted, The Last of Us, Death Stranding, and Horizon Forbidden West. In many ways the X Box Series X is a superior console, but it is severely let down by its game library, and I say all of this as someone who chose X Box over PlayStation for the past 2 generations. Game Pass is a phenomenal deal though!
I hope it kickstarts more development in surround sound headphones. I live in a small condo and have a big 4K projector set up. But I can't reasonably do surround sound or turn up the volume. Apple Vision. + surround headphones would be awesome, or projector + many pairs of surround headphones for group experiences.
Learn 3D modelling. It's hard to say what future interfaces will look like, but you should definitely learn the asset creation pipeline.

I've been using Blender for close to a decade now and cannot recommend it more. If you spend a few hours a week practicing your 3D modelling, you will be well-poised to start creating content when VR/AR adoption kicks off. Another safe bet is WebXR, which Apple has more-or-less confirmed support for (alongside Meta).
> CEO Michael Crandell contacted Mr. Scharf to inquire why he had not used the requested pronouns in the interview notes; Mr. Scharf explained that to do so would violate his religious convictions.

this seems more likely to be the real reason for the firing, rather than anything he listed in his own Slack profile. (though the Slack shenanigans probably helped show a pattern of behavior)

it sounds like he interviewed a candidate who was either transgender or non-binary, and intentionally misgendered the candidate in the interview notes.

that's a hostile work environment lawsuit waiting to happen, especially if he as a VP would have been in the management chain of that prospective employee, and would have continued the misgendering once they were hired.

if I have a religious belief that sexual harassment is totally fine, that belief does not give me free reign to commit sexual harassment and expose my employer to lawsuits. you'd think someone at the VP level would understand that.
Who do you trust to be the filter?
IANAL either, but my reading of that is the "and" in there is important. That is, you'd have to be "intentionally accessing a protected computer without authorization" and recklessly cause damage.

Reddit mods are not accessing a protected computer without authorization.
Indeed. At this point, you need a reason to not put that $2 in the ChatGPT subscription bin.
I'm downloading a large app update (MAMP Pro).

It's screaming along at 47KBsec.

I'll have it all in about two and a half hours.

Not sure if that is related.
Appearing under a certain age is enough.
Minor gripe: there was no one "author." I found it interesting that this was "authored" by WP's Editorial Board. I sense that they wanted to avoid someone specific being dragged to shreds on Twitter (a lot harder to drag an entire editorial board of a publication than an individual). It is a smart move.

And I agree with your point, and that it extends well beyond the 20th century back to the day of patrons and benefactors who would support a creative endeavor.
> Basically, if a patent holder is designated as an “individual inventor, startup” or “under-resourced innovator” then their patents are protected from the IPR process.

Just curious...is there a good faith argument why this change would be good?
Many groups and identities (e.g. geographical areas, marginalized groups, and various large fandoms) each have a variety of subreddits (and corresponding Discord servers) with their own unique roles: memes & humor, meta memes & humor that elevate obscure in-references to a type of absurdist canon, serious support groups for various situations, places to gather and coordinate social events and remote gaming sessions, places for non-members of the group to ask questions and be answered seriously, etc.

Each of these "villages" have different subcultures and distinct moderation needs, especially to the extent they are targeted in different ways by bad-faith actors and repost bots. And it's good that they have different needs! No single moderation team should need to maintain all those subcultures with one single set of policies, nor do they have the same on-ramps and levels of traffic. Together they form a web of meta-communities. Web platforms can easily allow overlapping spheres to coexist; the dimensionality of the platform, so to speak, is practically infinite.

But part-and-parcel with this is that the number of potential moderators in any group is spread across those sub-groups. If Reddit wanted to continue to grow, it would make sure the barrier to entry to maintain these communities was low. It is doing quite the opposite at this precise moment.
Again, you are simply denying progress and the existence of cheap green energy. The reason I have issue with your posts is because they are so emphatically against green energy outside of a specific goal, that it simply must be because you are brainwashed by BEV propaganda. It is so detached from reality that it is its own form of climate change denial. It is the kind of emotionally charged delusion that lead environmentalists to tear down nuclear reactors and replace them with coal power plants, leading to more climate change.
Yes, but more specifically, all technological progress since the industrialized revolution. Prior to that, we at least had a reasonable credit limit in the form of a fixed Nitrogen cycle. Advancements in pre-industrial technology primarily made life easier, not more abundant.
> You mean those centuries before we truly recognized individual rights?

I'm not sure what this means. Individual rights have been recognized long before the founding of the United States, though.

> Inform the public and let them personally assess the level of risk they're willing to accept.

This is impossible and irresponsible when you cannot accurately assess the risk.

The question of a draft is so unrelated I'm intentionally ignoring it.
It's ironic that this is what all repressive governments do. They hold data and when they need it they spring it. But I guess this escapes them -or maybe not.
I remember taking part in an early Reddit gift exchange. People were gifting members in need computer monitors and and pizza. There was the jackdraw facts biologist guy. The website definitely felt smaller back then. It was toxic, but still cozy.
I dunno. I used it a few years ago and haven't noticed any suspicious behavior on my Gmail, but that's just me.
Each one is a different product
I mean, that's what happens when you make copyright extend to 90 years past the death of the author. They and everyone they know dies, and the copyright still exists, and eventually it's a committee.

But it's all different committees. There's no Grand Woke High Committee dictating these changes to these works from the shadows. It's just capitalism, copyright law, and market forces.

Dr Seuss Enterprises is a private for-profit foundation established by the author's widow before her death, and while it's probably run by some sort of committee, it's a completely different committee than the board of directors at Netflix, and whatever VP heads up the Roald Dahl Story Company after its acquisition (I assume from the family, who were speaking for the company as recently as 2020).

So do we not allow the author or the author's family to set up foundations or sell their work to a corporation for half a billion dollars?
Ask HN: Are USB external multiple disk cases reliable enough for RAID?
Next summer I'll be building a new bigger home file server and repurpose my current one as daily|weekly automated backup (wake up, sync, sleep) for most important data.
The one I'm using now (1) worked flawlessly for like 7 years with the only downtime due to disk upgrades and I would like to maintain a similar configuration on the new one as well, however I wonder if a multiple USB3 disk drive dock case (2) could be a reliable solution today.

I'd put there a maximum of 5 disk pairs arranged as ZFS mirrors. My current server case wouldn't allow more removable disks so I have to move to a bigger one, but SATA capable ones cost a lot more, therefore not being in need of great performance, I wonder if I could trust USB for that use. I'm not sure if XigmaNAS, which is FreeBSD based, would support that; in that eventuality I would consider moving to a Linux solution such as OpenMediaVault or similar dedicated systems.
Actually there is a similar case model with one eSATA port and 8 drive bays, but I've read about potential incompatibilities with port replicators, so I'm not sure what to choose. Any ideas?

1- Self built. XigmaNAS on a Supermicro X7SPA-L Atom Mini-ITX board, two ZFS pools plus one non mirrored disk for non important uses. All disks on internal SATA ports plus one on a ASM1062 PCI-E card I added.

2- https://icybox.de/en/product.php?id=301
> Canada drives me nuts with how much of an edge it lacks, how slow and sort of boring it is

Yep! It’s alright. We definitely aren’t the greatest country in the world, but it’s nice enough to be enjoyable, and boring enough to not put random personal or societal disasters in your way with any sort of regularity.
Prefab has something that you could use in more or less this way. The value of the flag can come from different sources and there is a defined order precedence. The base levels are default yaml files, which would be committed in your project. We think of live values from the server as a "potential override". So if you only wanted things in git you could just not use the UI. Details in https://docs.prefab.cloud/docs/explanations/bootstrapping

I'm spike-ing on some similar/adjacent things right now actually if you want to jam. I won't claim that what exists today is very polished for your usage pattern.
It doesn't take much to get "day one" access like he's describing. I was some random kid with a couple years of (completely self-taught, solo, using free tools) Mac OS X dev experience in 2008, and I had beta access to the SDK and could have had an app out on day one if I had been more disciplined. Same goes for both the iPad and the Apple Watch. The SDKs for both were easily available before the devices shipped.
yes - as an american I take the uncommon position of not making prescriptive judgements on how other countries should conduct their affairs.
What is their ethnic breakdown?
I think the author is saying that dedicated apps built from raw, open models (like LLaMA) are the path to building LCARS-like systems, not cloud megaservices like ChatGPT.

And there is something to this... Certain LLaMA finetunes can be way more specialized and focused than what OpenAI offers at this time.
You lost me at "schedule recurring conversations with your AI". What do you mean by that?
That would solve user issues, but nothing for Reddit the company.

If have seen versions of this serveral times, and it assumes that what is good for users is good for Reddit. It is like asking "if people like free lunch, why dont all restruants serve free lunch. Imagine all the customers they would have."

In reality, there is a trade-off between happy customers and customer revenue.

Many of these 3rd party apps are made by single developers, some are open source. Reddit could clone or recreate them easily if they wanted.
Nothing in ActivityPub cares about whether a post is back dated. How would it even know? Maybe it's just an old post.
Instead of turning with the earth, it stays "in place". Meaning it turns to the opposite of the Earth's rotation.
Do you actually think sock puppets will be too expensive? The value of the bot only has to be more than $2 to justify paying it for the bot operator, and if there is monetary incentive to get upvotes/attention seems like it could pencil out (if N bots can generate some multiplier of attention)
If we count that then we count an iPad remote-deskoping into a Mac, which severly limits the actual use.
My code is running <- no await

My code is accessing another resource (storage, network, etc.) <- await

It's really not that complicated. If you're surprised by the presence of absence of a Promise, you might want to take a moment to understand what is being processed. There's a good chance there's a gap there that extends beyond a simple keyword in JS.
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This is a bad proposed rule that should be killed, to be sure. But this article is missing the context about _why_ the Patent Office claims to think this is necessary in the first place. Patent trolls of a sort are setting up shop on the other side of where you would normally expect them in litigation, attempting to use the Inter Partes Review process in ways that look very much like an abuse of the system. For example, one company opened an IPR against a valuable patent and then offered to withdraw it for money. It was rightly called out as a shakedown.

https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/director-vidal-removes-ope...

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/opensky-abuse-sanctions...

The US legal system generally requires parties to have standing before they can make use of courts or pseudo-courts like the PTAB. Situations like this make it clear why: when lots of money is on the line people will try to “hack” the system in ways that its designers didn’t expect. Uniquely open processes like IPR are vulnerable to exploitation in a way that is annoying to lawyers compared with what they’re used to, so they reflexively reach to reimpose standing requirements. That’s basically what is being proposed here.

Again, the above doesn’t mean I think this rule change should go forward: the IPR process and its openness are incredibly valuable and should be retained. but it’s misleading to portray this proposed rule as arbitrary or corrupt.
Instant Pot and Pyrex Maker Instant Brands Files for Bankruptcy
On the other side of the coin - launching an attack that would overwhelm that vps has never been easier. Even if you're serving static pages and your 2 cores can fill the 10G nic with compute to spare, the pipe can be filled with enough inbound garbage that legit requests have their packets dropped. This isn't that hard in 2023. There are dozens of booter services for hire, and if you really are scraping the bottom of the barrel of hosting, some pissed off kid can probably convince their discord buddies to generate enough traffic to knock your site over.
Btw, how do any of these work for people with glasses? My vision is too bad to survive without them and I'm sure half the city dwellers around me are too.
Now, imagine a wikipedia trying to juice it's numbers before it hits IPO in order to pay out it's VC overlords so they decide to have a 'premium truth' section above the regular article where facts are open to the highest bidder, the bidder with the most Free $peech.

Wikipedia is a easy target but it's definitely a mile better than a lot of the trash out there.
The average net dowry is $361 in India.

From a BBC article at
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-57677253

“the researchers found that a groom's family spends on average about 5,000 rupees ($67; £48) in real terms in gifts to the bride's family. The gifts from the bride's family, unsurprisingly, cost seven times more at about 32,000 rupees ($429). This implied an average real net dowry of 27,000 rupees ($361).”
> If I hover over the link like my phishing training says to do

How do you hover on mobile? Instead of training my family members to hover on their phone's I will continue to just block these TLDs.
Where can I buy my own information? I’d like to know what info I am leaking so I can make adjustments to limit what I’m sharing
Just to be clear, Samsung was caught using basic pattern matching to detect the camera being pointed at the moon, triggering wholescale substitution with the image from the $4.5k camera. A redditor blurred an image of the moon, took a photo of the blurry image on their screen, and got the high-res image.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/13/23637401/samsung-fake-moo...
It seems that bad patents would hurt less if they didn’t persist for so long. Why can’t we come up with some sort of earlier phase-out, where patents must be re-litigated or justified to remain in effect?
When you pump it up with VC money, you get Reddit all over again.