skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The part of me which holds a very dismal view of human nature is chuckling at this slow-motion Year Zero. Pull these books, edit others. Take these statues down; we start with some Confederates but we should be able to get Jefferson. While we are at it, why not go after the faces on Mount Rushmore.
Don't forget the people including you in photos that go up on Facebook, Insta, etc.

You may not have accounts there but rest uneasy that unless your family and friends respect your privacy and right to informed consent, photos of you are getting processed for face recognition and location without you having to do much other than say "queso" for the photos.
Hey, are you aware of WT.Social? It’s run by Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia Guy) and he just released its second version. The philosophy of your product seems aligned with his. See if you wanna contribute or partner: https://twitter.com/jimmy_wales/status/1668266400723488769
Nothing against Star Trek metaphors but its a sign how awkward our internalization of the role of computation in society when the only wholesome vision goes back seventy years, to Douglas Engelbart, augmenting human intellect and collective intelligence.

The greed and fear unleashed by the LLM algorithms is indicative of how dis-empowered and uninformed are vast numbers of people about what digital information technology can and cannot do.

The wasted potential is indeed gargantuan. But power structures never cared about wasted potential, their only concern is perpetuation.

The question is whether there is a threshold of tech availability and power where collective intelligence will emerge spontaneously and despite its oppression.

In other words, is Wikipedia an aberration or the shape of the things to come?
I see the Nadella era rather as the triumph of PM culture, adapted/stolen from the seemingly more competitive Google and Facebook. It's all about demonstrating increased "engagement" and the ubiquitous A/B testing because new product deltas get you promoted. It's never about maintaining 'old' stuff or providing real value - only gimmicks to catch the eye of your half-wit leadership.
As if the whole Reason/ReScript story wasn't complicated enough already :D

First, we had BuckleScript, that compiled OCaml to JavaScript to bring the OCaml type system to the Web.

Then we had Reason, that brought JS syntax to OCaml, so it's easier to grasp for JS devs.

Seemingly, some people didn't care about OCaml at all, and forked (I guess?) Reason to ReScript, that focused on JS compilation. They also added a few syntax changes in the process.

Now, the remaining (pre-fork) Reason people created a new(?) compiler that's an alternative to BuckleScript, and compiles OCaml and Reason to JS.

While I appreciate the effort, and think ReScript and Reason are superior to TypeScript, I totally understand why it didn't get as popular as this superiority implies.
Ah yes. The classic straw man in the wild.
Hosting your own instance isn't a requirement for joining any of the alternatives I've seen so far (e.g. Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy etc.) but I'm open to being corrected if you've seen this stipulated. As for the rest of this comment, it's really predicated on certain ideas about what websites have to be based on what they have been over the past 15 years. In fact it's highly possible to participate in community-run efforts that aren't driven by profit incentives, which also don't aspire to drive addiction.
I agree with you - I’m sorry I didn’t gleam your original intent from the previous post. Fatalism and nihilism are mind viruses.
Aaaaand suddenly hundreds of private subs are public because they changed anything else :)
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Is the Global Housing Slump Over?
Pedophilia is coming en vogue on the left. If you can't see it now, you'll see it soon. Spez will likely claim that he really was a /r/jailbait moderator for leftist credibility, I would guess 3-5 years from now.
Debating something similar. Always loved the problem solving MVP and had a few small ones in the past but have been looking at launching a wave of micro-SaaS projects even if they are already out there to solve a single problem and stay sharp with new ideas and industries.
"Thierry Legault: Astrophotographie"- http://www.astrophoto.fr/
Hey, Johnny here. Always happy to help, answer questions, give support. Glad you find it useful.
I love the Quest line: own a q2 and pro.

The main difference is that Vision has a laptop grade processor (Apple M chip), LiDAR, and another separate processor to manage the LiDAR, a separate depth sensor, & all the other 12 sensors and cameras

The Quest only has a smartphone processor. The pro doesn’t even have a depth sensor. While the q3 will have a depth sensor, it will not have eye tracking or face tracking, in addition to only running yet another smartphone processor and only ~5 sensors and cameras
It really comes back to that xkcd - https://xkcd.com/538/ - doesn't it?

Systems designed by and used by humans will always have at least one fault - the humans involved.
> But a character going from good person to a racist due to nothing but the aging of their language is a pretty dramatic alteration of an author's intent that is easy to identify and rectify.

The character is not going from a good person to a racist a due to their language. The character (in my scenario) remains entirely unchanged. What has changed is your (and most modern reader’s) perception of the character.

Which is part of the point. Characters exist in the world they inhabit, not yours or mine or anyone else’s. A huge part of the artistic experience is reinterpreting and reframing the meaning of a work as society develops.

Emotional and moral complexity is a goal in literature, not a bug.

> Do realize this is exactly what's happening here? These new versions are happening because of capitalistic reasons in that it is harder to sell a book that has a bunch of accidental bigotry in it.

Again I must gently disagree. First off, it’s not “accidental bigotry”. It’s bigotry reflective of the time in which it was written. Today in America we find it very difficult to view someone who uses the N word as an unequivocally “good” person. Was that the case in 1830?

Re: publishers releasing revised copies — they’re a business, and business often undercuts artistic intention for a profit. So it goes. If you want to say “I have no problem with rights holders revising (someone else’s) work to which they hold a copyright, to remove challenging remnants of the past and better reflect the vocabulary of today, so they sell better” — I agree 100% that’s well within their rights (however much I dislike that state of affairs).

But please don’t attribute their edits to “preserving authorial intent”. That’s putting (even more) words in the mouths of the dead.
The Semiconductor Industry’s Most Important Tool Goes Green
On the contrary, we should be encouraging people to customize scrollbars so that scrolling is taken into consideration again. It can help get rid of trends like invisible/hidden scrollbars or those useless horizontal progress bars that shows how far into a page you've read
Apparently me not selling you a copy is preventing you from buying any of the trillion other copies left in circulation.

Also in no other industry is a company forced to sell you a version of anything, otherwise where can I buy me a brand new Ford AC Cobra
Sadly, force has certainly been used, but that's ultimately to the detriment of all involved. Voluntary trade for mutual benefit is what grows economies and resources.
US decides to rejoin UNESCO and pay back dues, to counter Chinese influence
> How long before illegal material was flooding the site beyond the capacity of the admins alone to manage?

I guess that depends on how many people are willing to risk prison just because they're mad at Reddit. Or on what automatic moderation capabilities Reddit has. Not a moderator, so I honestly don't know how much work it does or doesn't take. They probably count on volunteer mods to filter spam and whatnot, but for legal compliance? Highly doubtful.
Commented elsewhere but I think the point of the article is the focus on the creative use of the system. In his vision I think the "ChatGPT version of LARCS" would be something like the computer searching for answers to questions in its own ways, and if it doesn't know an answer, you're out of luck.

I think it's important to distinguish b/w ChatGPT and LLMs in general - I think he's using the former term to describe monolithic corporate systems, not all LLMs.
“But the SEC let us go public” and other flawed arguments in Coinbase's defense
Your experience at a big company in those two scenarios will likely be no different.
We can only control our actions, but what happens around us is outside our control. The best we can do is try to influence it, but even that is limited to those within our immediate vicinity. At some point, we must learn to let go and stop trying to control something we have limited control over. I am reminded of the Buddhism teaching that we have expectations in life and when those expectations are not being met, we suffer. Simply do your best, and accept whichever outcome.
Perhaps /g/ is worse, but I feel that applies to most established forums on the internet. It's particularly noticeable if you've bounced around various subreddits that it's just the same 5 opinions rehashed endlessly, and anyone who disagrees has left the building. You just get a different set of 5 opinions when you jump to a new subreddit.
Why don't you just pay them more? Seems easier than setting up a social credit system.
It is a common misconception that all poppies produce opium.

They do not.

There are hundreds, if not thousands, of poppy varieties that produce no morphinan alkaloids.

Morphinan alkaloids become "opium".

https://www.poison.org/articles/what-to-know-california-popp...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10017456/
No, I remember quite well how that never worked as well as you'd have wanted it to. So, yes, there was an installation of java. No, it probably didn't work correctly. Worse, it was probably not updated. With no real path on how to update for most folks.

Such that, yes it was "installed," but it was about like relying on vanilla JavaScript back then. Which you didn't do. You pulled in jquery or whatever and monkey patched some sanity into the environment. Something you couldn't do with Java.

VB had the odd curse of being VB. Everyone was certain that MS wanted it dead, and everyone also knew that if you were writing a VB application, you might as well just make it directly in Access. Which, granted, wasn't a bad solution for a lot of things.
Well, yes. I mean if the US were to undertake something similar to the proposal.
That is an interesting point. Would assume your subreddit isn’t yours so at any point you could grow and generate content and users and Reddit could take it over and add in their own moderators?
> I imagine it would be faster on most hardware to use an array than a map due to LX caches.

I didn't understood your point. I mean, a hash map is basically an array whose index is calculated from a key.
I honestly expected many more people to push back on this point, and not jump whole-heartedly to the extreme that even the original author should not be allowed to change a work once published.

The only real counter-argument I can make to the position that the author can edit his works but his heirs cannot is that the author chooses his heirs; the author could have instead chosen to will his works into the public domain after his death, or establish a trust or foundation with a strict mandate to republish his works in their original form while returning the profits to his heirs.

It's not a particularly strong argument -- many authors may not have the resources or foresight to make such provisions, and you could just as easily insist on authors who do wish their heirs to manage their works and not simply profit from them make explicit declarations on that point -- which is why I lead with the more extreme case of an author editing his own work.
The highlighted quote in the thumbnail is in particular about destructive technology. Its like that scene in the matrix when Neo is in Xion with the old guy looking down the abyss at the massive machine, talking about our relationship with machines. Do we rely on them to the point that they control us? We talk about fossil fuels and global warming and that quote rings true. When you rely on something so much that you can't turn it off, even if using it will destroy you.
Bread has been a staple in most diets for millennia
Too costly to produce, too much competition, insufficient demand outside California. A loss for sure but with so much competition I doubt it will be missed by many.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/08/science/cancer-carlo-croc... says that he got $86 million in grants, some of which may have been based on fraudulent results.
The internet infrastructure is defined by central authorities. You follow the IETF's and ICANN's rules or you are definitionally not on the internet.
Purescript. By far the best type system of any frontend language, good interop, type-directed emit (so that you can, for instance, automatically generate parsers from type definitions), and unlike Elm actually treats users like adults.
> Also important though is it never really went away.

Sort of true -- but only because you can't kill the idea, the need to find the cause of the pandemic to avoid a repeat.

This is cold comfort to the people who were getting banned had their accounts cancelled for suggesting things that turned out to be actually true.

There's was a lot of collateral damage here, all in the name of... well I'm not sure. Trust is hard to build, and once broken takes a long time to regain.

The point is, as a society we're heading in the wrong direction. Freedom of speech is becoming freedom for those who keep their mouths shut.
Your framework is interesting, but it would seem to preclude much of the historical antitrust action of the past, including the pioneering actions against Ma Bell and, even earlier, ALCOA and Standard Oil.

Unless you mean that the very existence of a vertical monopoly is a positive externality that keeps the business going. In which case, yes, which is why those firms had to be broken up.
How do you measure "predatory" if not by revenue/money made?

Google's privacy invasion spans the globe.

They have the world's most popular browser feeding them user's web activity. They have the most popular mobile OS feeding them users' physical location. They operate the world's most popular email service feeding them users mail habits and purchase receipts. They have trackers embedded on virtually all of the world's most popular web sites.

It is really possible for anyone to get more "predatory" than Google?
Absolutely bull poop.

First, setting up anything using some third party service like Cloudflare is already too much work and doesn't even work for many people in parts of the world Cloudflare has determined are undesirable.

Second, I can, have and do host popular CMSes on hardware much more modest than Raspberry Pi performance.

Third, "odds are you are going to get DDoS all the time"? Are you a Cloudflare shill? This is nothing but wildly hyperbolic. In a quarter of a century of hosting, I've had to deal with one specific DDoS actor. One.

How are you going to claim that "odds are you are going to get DDoS all the time"? Go ahead, provide evidence, although I'm sure you can't and won't.
If you send more than about 6.75mbps of video to Twitch, you'll start getting errors. With the variable size of encoded streams you need to play with the cap a little to get a problem-free experience.
> Yeah, because the ecosystem is dead.

Is it?

https://metacpan.org/recent
That’s too bad I love my Instant Pot it’s my favorite kitchen accessory behind my cast iron skillet.
I find it exhausting how much of the internet is dominated by certain aspects such as news, culture, websites, and apps that revolve around the United States.

This dominance often leads to a digital monoculture where everything seems to be interconnected with US news, pricing, and the relentless pursuit of capitalist growth, which can overshadow other perspectives and cultures.

It's important to recognise that if any other country had the same saturation on the internet, I would likely express similar concerns about its impact on our lives.

I am, of course - a hypocrite as I sit here on a US VC focused website - I guess the chairs really are where the people go.
There's a difference between poking fun and outright bigotry, though. I'm not saying Dahl is one thing and the Chinese media is another, but I think we need to look harder at all of these things to figure out what place it's coming from.

And even then, poking fun, to me, is a personal thing. There are poking-fun-type things I might say to a close friend that I would never say to an acquaintance. Making fun of a random-stranger foreigner who is doing you the honor of trying to learn your language is just mean-spirited, no matter how you look at it. Makes me wonder about the kind of people who would do that. As to your specific statement:

> In Chinese media it is common to make fun of how foreigners look and how they speak Chinese.

To me that just sounds like propaganda. The Chinese media is promoting the idea of Chinese superiority. "All those people from other nations look funny, and are too stupid to speak our language properly." Anecdotally, an ethnically-Chinese friend of mine who lived in China for a few years (and traveled around the country quite a bit) used to tell me that many, many native-born Chinese people speak Mandarin poorly, some to the point of being difficult to understand. So poking fun at foreigners for their bad Chinese is ironic, perhaps to the point of being a little sad.
I would say that's a subjective assessment of its substance :). I'd agree it's not very explicit, but I see substance.

Also accepting that assessment as a premise, perhaps Cunningham's Law applies: _the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer._
And the Bitcoin zealots specifically are guilty of
simply playing games with terminology in order to hide their own admission that were a deflationary currency to become standard, with a fixed circulation, you can "print money" just as easily by issuing further and further subdivisions of the initial units of distribution.

Thus you hear among crypto zealots how if 21 million units is not enough they could simply start referring to the unit of currency by successive powers of 1/10.

Imagine what these people would say if the government answer to inflation was to start gradually pressuring citizens to accept ten-thousandths of pennies as legal tender, the way that coiners advocate switching the bitcoin reference unit to satoshis. Infuriating to hear people advocate this nonsense, as if they think no one is clever enough to realize that expecting later adopters of their scheme to use microscopic shards of the tokens they themselves hold entire, isn't a shameless admission that they're only in this to grossy enrich themselves at everyone else's expense.
Whereas at a company, the equipment would be destroyed because it checks a box on some asinine security requirement.
What are some examples of articles that you think would be of more interest to hackers?
The wage-price spiral theory is the sort of thing that would lead to a boom in the guillotine supply industry if it were more widely known or understood. “Worker wages going up is intrinsically bad and should be fought by intentionally causing a recession and putting people out of work” is the kind of thing economists can say out loud in public because there’s no such thing as class solidarity outside the billionaire class anymore.
I fear Apple’s effort will be limited to an iPad-like content consumption experience without the platform opening up to a Mac-like degree. And that no other company has the chops to “cross the Rubicon” in such a comprehensive way, dooming AR/VR to a niche of limited usefulness.
Economy shut down for almost 2 years for COVID - that productive supply was lost while people continued consuming (at record pace). There has not been any real policy adjustment to address the imbalance. The rentiers didn't take any of the pain, they're trying to pass it all along on the productive class in the form of increased financialization of the real economy and higher interest rates. It's disturbing
> But the fact that they are the same should mean something to you.

Yeah, it means i'd love a refence, and one that includes actual effiency too.

> It also helps not to spam FUD about efficiency, and in the real-world they are much closer than you are thinking.

BEV well to wheel is 77% while hydrogen is 33% [0]. A 2x is what I have in mind.

> In fact, hydrogen cars are the second most efficient form of transportation possible

Yes, a far far second behind electric and far far ahead petrol, which is not particularly hard to do.

[0]: https://www.transportenvironment.org/wp-content/uploads/2020...
Yeah but I don't have any problem with Firefox on Android. I'm typing this on a Samsung A40.
Sounds like the village did exactly what it was supposed to do - criticize a stranger who only wanted attention for themselves
Fishfuzz: Catch Deeper Bugs by Throwing Larger Nets [pdf]
There have always been fluctuations and swings in HN's history, sometimes big swings, and those always bring these sorts of reflection. But then it fluctuates or swings its way back out.

Randomness inevitably includes sequences that seem non-random—sometimes longer than one would think possible from a random process.

If you have any ideas about how to further dampen hellthreads, I'm all ears. We can't just suppress them because that would produce an even more hellthreadish backlash.
I assume that you’d be able to look beyond the edges of the screen.
"Joseph Stiglitz agrees with greedflation. He is a Nobel Prize winning economist"

Personally, I am not forming an opinion until I hear what Paul Krugman, another "Nobel Prize" winning economist, has to say.

He says many things as well. Big brain on him.
> I don’t see how you could get misled when the peaks are annotated and immediately and clearly visible.

This is a textbook graphing error, or worse graphing manipulation. Humans perceive proportions, and not including the origin of a graph gets these plots out of whack.
I put this in another comment, but disconnecting of code and feature release can still be achieved while storing feature flags as code. You need to build out a seperate pipeline and release process. With this you can still achieve all the advantages that you listed out.

I think the key difference is if you consider feature flags to be configuration and believe in configuration as code as a best practice.

I think this is the right approach in the long term. People having the ability to modify configuration in production in real time is an outage waiting to happen without having an obvious way to rollback to previously known working state.
That implies creating market for data, attaching speculative value to it and et cetera, and stinks of web3 bullshit.
How do you prevent users from posting other peoples artwork and stealing money from the actual content creators?
The fact that I had to register at all to see the content (unless I am missing something obvious) was nearly a turn-away point for me. But I ran into the same thing. But it seems to be an issue with the site on Firefox. I was able to register with Chrome just fine.