skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> What if I leave for work for a year? Or 4? What is a "good" reason?

> Where do you live during that time?

Antarctic Research Station followed by a backpacking trip through Europe.

>> why should that mean I don't keep my paid for property?

> Because someone may want to live somewhere but land is too expensive because everyone is hoarding it?

Food gets expensive; let the hungry take, literally, from your kitchen? Not everyone can live in downtown, some must go to the sticks. West Virginia has some land at $1000 an acre. What is the right density in the city? How small should homes be? How many to a room?

>> At what threshold do you tell someone: fuck you and your property, we are taking it because we want it.

> "residential housing not being used as a residence for more than N years"?

Prove I didn't stop by for a few days N-1 years ago.

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Affordable housing is a real need, and local governments and city planners should work to make that so. You don't get to take my family's nth-generation home because my area is popular and we don't use it in a way you approve.
This resonates with me to a great extent.
Even if there are some more cases, the basic point is still true: The majority of additions don't warrant word-size wrapping and it has been a source of many, many bugs.
Not yet - there isn't a suitable replacement yet. But this would've been the perfect time for a Reddit alternative.

I think this will actually not change much for the users themselves. They'll continue using Reddit as normal, and move on. Mod teams will be shuffled, and some of the people using third-party apps (like myself) will just... not use Reddit as much (or at all).

I also don't know how a multi-hundred-million-user platform can be justified as already "dead". It might be dead in some elitist sense, as in "oh, all the smart people like me aren't using it anymore", but...
How do you even represent HDR colors? I've tried Googling this and I can never really find an answer. Is it basically just eight hex digits instead of six?
Someone I know is a hydrographer who charts our local waters and it’s incredible to see how many wrecks they pick up in their multi beam data. Some are very clearly ships, others less obviously; you kind of develop a knack for picking that signal out of the noise.

Apart from ships, there are also the odd aircrafts here and there. Those are far less common from what I’ve seen.

I’d estimate the bays around our city have several dozen wrecks combined. The main harbour has had some removed over the years, but there are around a dozen fairly small and boring wrecks and 3 which recreational divers frequently check out. A little further out and you can actually find an entire barge that lit on fire and sank with like 100 crushed cars on it. So weird. Maybe not all that shocking though, considering one lit on fire with a pile of cars on it just 5 years ago (though it didn’t sink).

It’s a real mess down there.
Only things that can be described exist.

A thing is something that can be thought about.

The description of something new causes the new thing to exist.
It appears it blocks you if you send an X-Forwarded-For header, but if you happen to be behind a proxy which sends one, you'll find you can't access it... Rather broken HTTP behaviour.
That does look cool, but $20/month or $120/year =-\
They also train it not to produce jailbreak-related content.
Um, why Google? So your indexes can be polluted with their shitty advertising? Why not expose your index as a service? I mean really, WTF not?
Wikipedia also has employed developers.
> If there is one thing that was conclusively proven by the now almost 40 year old "War On Drugs", is that controlling their supply does nothing for their demand.

Quaaludes have been effectively nonexistent globally (with the sole exception of South Africa) since the start of the 1990s and entirely because of the "War On Drugs".
Civil asset forfeiture should be abolished. It should not be possible to take property without due process, nor should it be possible to abandon property on the side of the road. It just doesn't make sense.

Also, when stuff like this gets taken, part of it goes to the state, part to the county. That needs to end too. We see it over and over, take the incentive away and this stops.

How can those sheriffs and deputies look in the mirror at the end of the day?
I can do in 5 seconds with ChatGPT what would require 50 minutes of doc reading, assuming I was able to hold attention for that long.
Fuzzing Loop Optimizations in Compilers for C++ and Data-Parallel Languages
These days, is there a single email provider out there that wouldn't do that?
What? There were pentium 2 and 3 machines back then that could certainly do more than a edge detection kernel every 2 seconds.
Or do you mean on an embedded CPU?
A seat cushion is big enough to carry a person over the Niagara Falls.
I mean I guess the university did pay the cleaning staff to go through afterward. AV was done by volunteers, and the streaming was free AFAIK (https://bsdtv-player.secdn.net was the host for the stream, I'm not sure who runs it but it worked fine).

So yeah, you could say the University of Waterloo sponsored it by allowing us to use their conference room. Somebody did have to empty the trash cans after the attendees left. But to the best of my knowledge the only money that changed hands was for the t-shirts, and as I said I think that ended up being a donation from a Foundation member.
Elon Musk is in control of Twitter?
> The NSA thing is the only thing I didn't check out

You might want to check again because your post is full of inaccuracies. From signal being on f-droid to their backend being relevant to security, you got almost everything wrong.
You're missing the point. You said "The ISA [and ratified extensions] has a soup of wacky opcodes". You're being asked to name a single wacky opcode from the ISA and ratified extensions. The response mentioned only vendor-specific extensions having bad opcodes.
They're the best. They don't even ask for personal information when creating an account (heck, they don't ask for anything at all) and you can pay with crypto or cash. They use Wireguard and their desktop and mobile apps are very good.

They shouldn't keep logs but even if they did there's no personal information metadata.
r/chatgpt is a bunch of literal children. I will eat my shorts if >50% of the active users are >20.
This is nonsense. In every US state, work you do in your own time on your own equipment that does not compete with your employer is yours.
> Remember that if you're not USA based, NSA doesn't need an NSL to collect information from you; they can just own you up, and that is literally their chartered purpose.

"Owning you up" is harder (not impossible, but harder) when they can't simply send a letter and bring the force of the law to bear. NSLs are a very good reason to avoid any system that requires you to use a provider that has a presence in the US (and there are analogous concerns about e.g. AU, and obviously any country where legal and practical protections are weak enough that a strongman can just send a team of thugs round is a nonstarter). But really any specific country is beside the point; it should be table stakes for a serious cryptosystem that one can avoid depending on any single point (and make choices based on one's own trust base vs available resources) whether that's for relay servers, app maintenance, or anything else.

> Pick a service that doesn't have information to share about you in the first place as your high order bit.

True enough; obviously trusting your security to a system that requires you to use a phone number identity is laughable in the first place.
Huh? How are those equivalent to getting and English degree?
We're just about to appoint an outside analyst looking at our technology stack and processes over the next few months to make recommendations on how we can improve things. This too is a volunteer, but someone with both FAANG and Mediawiki experience.

Also, users can create their own backups of wiki content and export it. This doesn't excuse our history with backups at Miraheze, but with good backup practices on the user's side it can greatly reduce your risk. You are not dependent on Miraheze's backups, as you would be at certain other wiki providers.
Sitenotice is up. Thank you.

RE:communications I'd like to see more of.

1. The shutdown notice would have been one; important news, instead of only posting on Twitter and other social media. After a few tweets like "30,000 wikis!" (not all active, ahem), this just turns into noise.

2. Decisions made by the board. A summary will do.

3. Current or ongoing technical issues. Or do we have to go through the whole of outstanding Phabricator tasks?

This communication can be accomplished by subscription. I would then like to see a notification/bell made with a capsule of what's being shared and its location within the Miraheze maze.

On other business, check out Lithuania as a possible location. It's a very tech-oriented country, and I've worked on a MediaWiki-based wiki based there. I don't know the specific server farm or company.
> maybe they misunderstand your message, maybe they fumble the delivery, maybe they forgot

This sounds like a you problem. Maybe your communication skills are lacking?

> Their priorities all need to be "This time, build a product that's going to be around in 10 years that will reflect well on our brand."

Lol I couldn't disagree more. I believe this sort of mindset leads to analysis paralysis.
Just want to throw out a way we could align everyone’s incentives: a robust universal economic safety net. If people were working to make a good product rather than stop their children from starving, our natural inclination to take pride in our work would be allowed to flourish.

Not gonna convince anyone but hopefully someone reads this and starts thinking about such options. They are not as impossible as those in power would have us believe.
> You don’t go into a banking situation, without telling them the type of business, and the type of profit that you expect.

But that's because you're not just banking with someone, you're asking them for a loan. That money has a cost associated with it so the bank quite reasonably wants an indication you're able and likely to repay it.

Waste is waste under any economic model: if the input costs in whatever form they take exceed outputs the endeavor isn't viable.
Can’t control who forwards the meeting invite to who. At the end of the day a 1 second scan for 14 people can tell you, those are agreeing, those are disagreeing, those are confused, those have no skin in the game and are on their phones and I don’t need to worry about them.
Ask HN: Possible explanations for today's Schumann Resonance anomalies?
> These are the dudes who get dumped or divorced and never see it coming

no, i do believe you have it exactly backwards.

you're also just making up straw man arguments like "can't connect with people". i didn't even mention that, or hobbies, or charity, or anything. pure fiction in your mind.

you see a post about 'self improvement' and your mind just fills in the blanks with your own assumptions. you probably didn't actually read half the post.
This "why don't you do it?" type of argument is probably the most common straw-man response to this topic.

The whole point, is to point out that some people have enough money to uplift hundreds of thousands out of poverty. Some have greater personal wealth than the GDP of an entire country, and that those people should either:

Give up some part of their wealth for the greater good.

Never be allowed to accumulate that much personal wealth in the first place.

The common person, like myself, doesn't have that kind of money. I cannot even afford a house for myself.
I have been active in two organizations that are American 501c3s where the staff, who enjoyed a high-paying position and continually pushed the board for pay raises, explored putting advertising on the organization’s website and selling user data as a way to raise even more funds. So, users can be the product even with 501c3s.
> California has all the startups, not because Californians are smarter or harder-working, but because they are more free.

Nah. It's the weather /s
I don't know what the balance is; when people embrace "alternative facts" I think there is fundamentally not a way to have a meaningful debate. Without a commonly accepted subset of (relevant) objective reality, all argumentation reduces to marketing. These sort of "debates" typically amount to little more than battles of charisma and oratory skill.

Edit: But perhaps the more damning thing about such circumstances is that even if both debaters are charismatic, intelligent, and honest it simply results in two people talking past each other by making equally logical derivations from separate and irreconcilable sets of facts.
What does a small server mean here? Is there an architecture diagram for a Lemmy instance somewhere? What parts can't be replicated? Is it a small database server?
Dark Mode!
Around fifteen years ago my machine learning professor dismissed neural networks because training them is not a nice convex optimization problem.
Right, regarding the modem, saying the driver is buggy is inaccurate. The firmware is what unusable. I tried all available versions, including the closed source ones and biktor's many hacked versions too. The only difference is the time it takes to crash. Some versions just crash every 4 minutes. The best ones only crash anytime between 4 minutes and 6 hours. (It reboots automatically, which takes around 20s + PIN code + network registration..)

One thing none of them does is to work reliably for any period of time.

And of course, it gets too hot to touch, sometimes to the point when I rather literally remove the battery for a few minutes in fear of heat damage. I really wonder what was the rationale using the same modem in PPP also...

Then we have the Wifi/BT driver, which actually works once one finds the binary blob required, but they can't be turned on/off independently. But this is the smallest bug. At least tethering works, as long as one turns off all power saving features (and as long the modem doesn't crash).

On a personal level, I wonder if the camera drivers can be even made mainline compatible, with the "2 physical sensor with 1 sensor interface" solution, which kind of requires a custom tailored application also to work...

I really find Pinephones a lot of fun, but only as a hacking playground. I take one of my Pinephones with me all the time, but I also keep a phone that I know I can rely on.
From my experience talking to bawolff on WMF's Phabricator, we can definitely assume good faith.
Not sure how many are still there, since I read that the State of Washington had a campaign about cleaning up derelicts a few years back, but the canals just north of where US Route 2 crosses the Snohomish river by Everett used to have a ton of derelict and sunken boats. I think there are some back-alley marine works up the canal to the east that might be the source of it. I skipped work one day several years ago and took my little boat up that canal to look at a half sunken wooden tugboat (that doesn't seem to be there anymore) and actually saw a derelict motorboat hull, upside down, with its inboard motor removed, just floating down toward the sea. The cops were there at the dock when I landed, trying to figure out if it had flipped in an accident or something.
A few years ago, I started spoiling answers to captchas. I make a game of getting as many false positives and negatives I can get away with.
I worked at a startup at my last company where the CTO would give me “special assignments” to come up with proof of concepts that wouldn’t require him to go through the “process” - product managers, sales, project managers, etc.

I wasn’t expected to know everything. I was expected to pull in the right people.

Now that I work at BigTech, why would I struggle trying to figure out how something works on one of the hundreds of cloud products for more than a $Timeboxxed period of time when I literally can reach out to the team who wrote the service?
Have a look at Jackson from https://boxyhq.com . Spin up one container and a couple of simple endpoints - voila, up and running. And a really cool team too!
My favorite example of this is the grocery store checkout kiosks that make you weigh each item. So much wasted effort both to produce and use those machines.
Same for "safety"
Software is iterative. At least when I was studying in the mid 90s people had really only just gotten the idea to do a Fourier transform of an image and look for high frequencies to indicate borders. Add ~3 decades of each generation of grad student doing slightly better than the last one.
It’s Reddits platform. There’s no way to beat them other than leaving.
You've already missed the boat and others have a big headstart. I would focus on the next big thing.

People have already figured out AI won't replace the developer in todays development process. At some point it will produce programs that work.. but programmers will be needed to connect those to other programs. Once AI designs the entire system at that point you will not be needed.

You have boring skills you can consult with now.
A Love Letter to Driving Alone
I was studying computer science and AI in 1987-1990; I didn't know it was the deepest, darkest pit of AI research despair.

I found the two Rumelhart & McClelland books, just a single copy on the shelf at Cody's Books, soon after publication. I worked through the examples, and was immediately convinced that this low-level approach was a way forward.

For some reason, none of the stressed out Comp Sci professors wanted to listen to a weirdo undergraduate, a lousy student.

I'm glad I was there at a reboot of AI, but my timing was lousy.
So, other than the Westernmost parts of Eastern Europe (which we can start including, since the EU has kickstarted their economic development dramatically), the US is by far the most religious country of any in what we might consider "The developed West".

But it hasn't experienced a lot of the same cultural changes that it's most significant allies have gone through. Why not? There's a number of other reasons: The Strong Link culture (ie optimize for the STRONGEST members of your society rather than the weakest) that is somewhat unique. The fact that it wasn't destroyed in WW2 is another (Though neither were Canada or Australia). The fact that it felt like it was "The Leader of The Free World" for the last 80 years (and therefore had no reason to introspect).

But I think the core of the disagreements within the US between the Left and the Right come down to easily 40-50% of the country fundamentally believes that there is a magical man in the sky who will reward them from being good (for a fairly regressive perception of good) with infinite blissful life after death. And this is what they fall back to when it comes to justifying white supremacy (in every extreme), the discrimination of the LGBTQ, immigrants, etc.

Before you get to any other matters of policy or values, this is a fairly fundamental hurdle to get past. You either believe in a magical sky monster based on faith, and consider this to be more important than anything else you might do in your finite earthly life, or you...don't. And Americans DO at a rate more than most.

Everything else flows from this. How can you even conceive of getting on the same page of what a sensible tax policy, an introspection of the culture of police, the segregation of the cities, or the crumbling education system when you can't get past a fundamental belief.

So the systems prevail. The GDP grows. And just like wars stimulate scientific progress, so does the knowledge that if you fail you will wind up dead in a ditch, inspires some great entrepreneurship and ideas. A lot of which continue to change the world.

Then people on this website and others wonder why the same parts of the country generating the highest GDP also have the most human misery on the streets. It's because it's the other side of the same coin.
I loved reading your comment. Your story is very similar to my own! A little over 8 years ago, I also started at the beginning of Khan Academy. Due to reasons related to my childhood, I had essentially no education growing up. When I was in my early twenties, I had only an elementary education. The highest level of math I knew was basic fraction arithmetic. I had never written an essay and I did not have a scientific understanding.

Having no education, I only did menial work for money. Yet in my early twenties, I was contemplating my lack of scholarship and realized I wanted to fill the holes in my education. I went to Khan Academy and, as you did, started with pre-K and worked my way linearly through up to pre-college math. Thankfully, I was soon laid off from my job, which was an opportunity to start attending community college.

I then transferred to a state school and double majored in applied math and computer science. Now I’m doing theoretical research as a PhD student in computer science.

The 8-year path from pre-K math to graduate-level math classes and now being published has been a journey. And I’m deeply grateful for resources like Khan Academy.

Deciding to commit to a daily study of math transformed my life.
property is incredibly valuable in Dublin City centre. However there are many vacant lots and abandoned buildings. There has been an issue with "land barons" for decades. They own a lot of property in Dublin, and leave it vacant to create scarcity and drive up the price of property, and then they use the leverage of their now more valuable property to buy more.
It was identified in the 70's that there were gaps in Irish property laws that could allow this to happen but nothing was eventually done about it.
At the end of day that's what matters.
Ironically I tell people all the time not to trust me.

I run an IRC network (and have for 15 years), and I tell people often to use OTR in DMS primarily because I shouldn't be trusted. I definitely do not tell people to install my client and forsake all other networks.

> -that you can bribe the New Yorker magazine to write a profile about you

Oh that's definitely true; though I wasn't saying bribe; Did you know those "30 under 30" lists, you have to apply to be on those. It helps if you're rich, but you don't technically have to pay. It's like this with a lot of media.

I have been in the room when discussing paying for PR pieces on our senior staff, especially the CEO in top magazines. Truthfully you hire a PR agency and "things happen".

> -that Facebook Messenger is as secure as Signal

Why are they not?

> -that you cannot be open source if you do not instantly share every change

You are not, since nobody can bloody run the software themselves anyway, and the entire point is transparency.
> I think sitting in pointless meetings and having some task on the back burner for ages as you go through the meetings is not pleasant

What seems pointless to you is not pointless to the team you manage. What's important to you is often not seen that way by your team either. This is a really straightforward dysfunction to fix and it's always the manager's responsibility to do it.

> have some more senior person say a few words to skip the ego soothing

The best managers don't have this attitude. You're absolutely right that someone in charge of the project needs to moderate the meetings, but I'm curious if the "few words" are really constructive suggestions based on experience that speed up decision making, or just dumb whip cracking. If it's the latter, I wouldn't keep you on. If the team just needed to be reminded of deadlines, we would replace all managers with a clock on the wall.
You ran an article titled "I don't trust Signal" with a subhed that read "Signal took NSA money". That was false, as you acknowledged. You can correct it properly or not. People can draw conclusions from your actions either way.