skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I consider it a feature that some FOSS licenses are effectively bound to their licensed code forever but don’t necessarily prohibit forking and relicensing in future.

I do think moving the goalposts or being dishonest about your intentions are wrong.

What I’d like to see when this happens is honesty about relicensing with a view toward profit (or whatever you’re after), and not attempting to scrub your more liberally licensed code from the face of the planet.

I’m not asserting that everyone does this, but it’s certainly been done many times.

If you think you might one day make money on it, just say that up front and don’t be greedy when you finally do.
i feel we need a steve gibson, "What could possibly go wrong..."
> I think ultimately unless they're whitelisting sites (like SO) there is no way to algorithmically differentiate between blogspam and genuinely useful tech blogs

It has always been utterly mindblowing that apparently not a single person with power in the entire chain of command at Google has ever recognized that websites showing exact replicas of content from the very small list of extremely famous moderated content generators like Stack Overflow should just be blackholed. The number of legitimate Stack Overflows (the genre of legitimate content producers, not the specific domain) is very small. The list could be successfully curated manually by a troglodyte.

Like, FFS, give google engineers a button they can click to mark a site as crap. They use the internet too and there are literally tens of thousands of them googling to find things on stack overflow all day every day. All they need is a "this site is an SEO scam" button.

Not doing this speaks directly to either malice or incompetence (personally I think both), because it's not a super obscure problem that nobody inside google has ever encountered before.
> Climate change activists never seem to talk about either of those things tho

They don't? You're listening to a different crowd than I am.
I saw a very interesting video of Michael Jackson filming himself in a mirror with one of the first handheld cameras. What was interesting about the video is that he's filming himself in the mirror and the first thing he says is "I'm not a narcissist." At the time, it was considered very narcissistic to film yourself, even for one of the world's biggest pop stars. When photos had limited distribution, their purpose was to remember what you had done in the past. Now, the purpose of photos is more to show off to others, so it's become the norm to include yourself in photos. I think it's fair to call this phenomenon self-centered in nature.
> If they send ads along with their free pages, we'll delete them.

IDK who "we" is in this sentence, but if you mean "the average internet user" then you're wrong. There are ads on Facebook, Instagram, Tik Tok, Google, YouTube, Twitter, PornHub... No significant percentage of the population has "deleted" these apps or websites because of ads.
Pretty much, essentially ones that will be left are ones wanting the power rather than good of their community
Sure, but I haven't seen a salient argument that they do conflict yet, until then I'm Hitchen's razor on that; it's just been FUD about people doing remote takeovers of cars and crashing them.
The analogy appears fitting at first glance, but it's crucial to note that the moderators in question aren't simply choosing to abstain from their duties—they're actively hindering others who might wish to take up those responsibilities.

I may not be an expert in French law, yet an analogy that comes to mind would be envisioning workers of a grocery store who've decided to go on strike. But rather than merely expressing their refusal to work, they also opt to seal the store's doors, blocking customers from entering.

Of course, customers might find the current situation unfavorable due to the absence of employees (think of barren shelves, paralleling communities overpopulated with off-topic discussions). Management, too, would likely find the situation objectionable due to a lack of employees to ensure transactions are being made legally (equivalent to the absence of moderators who uphold site rules, a scenario potentially hazardous to Reddit). Even though management might be compelled to shut down the store under these circumstances, it's essential to remember that closure remains a management prerogative, not a decision for the striking workers.
how did you see/find the comments?
This is a great point: 'long history of humans where "throwing things away" was just returning resources into the larger ecological systems'.

One of our team is an anthropologist. She once mentioned that there's a lot of trash around in many agricultural communities in "developing countries". And indeed, earlier the culture was that when you ate a piece of fruit you just tossed the rind into the bushes or on the field and went on your way. There aren't public rubbish bins in these small villages, so what happens is plastic bottles and chips bags fly around.
What difficult math are you talking about? In my experience, most CS math was pretty basic
This hit home for me :-(

I'm gonna go sell or donate some of my 2nd price debt items now. They're now a good reminder that time is finite and you need to curate your hobbies and attention carefully.
Hexyl's lovely and I copied its style for a hex editor.

I don't understand why there are so many terminal hex viewers that don't edit.
Sounded great until I got to this exception. It seems like there's a lot that could easily fall under this especially when the default is often to side with law enforcement.

> the law enforcement agency possesses reasonable suspicion that, under particular circumstances, swift action is needed to prevent imminent harm to life or to forestall the imminent escape of a suspect or the destruction of evidence.
Things like that, yeah. Overall inflation in the bike space seems to be on the order of ~50% since 2020.
I don't know if you have much experience managing an online community, but I believe you will discover eventually that everything you claim about self-regulation is false. A small fraction of bad actors can do enough damage to make a community not-self-sustaining.

There's a reason every bar has bouncers.
I said there was a value before 8, I just didn't describe it well enough.

First off your example looks a little under-constrained (What if reader:0 happens before writer:0?), so let's assume all the writes of 0 at the start of every program happen before any other instructions.

Let there be a third thread, "builder". It writes 0 to every address in the array, then fills it with new values including an 8.

The "writer" thread loops repeatedly over the array until it finds an 8, then stores the address in X.

The "reader" thread waits for X to be nonzero then loads the value at [X].

In the toy coherent computer, reader will always load an 8.

But in a very weak memory model, one that doesn't enforce dependent loads, reader is allowed to get a 0.

The write to X and the write of 8 don't have to show up in any particular order.

But in that situation I would say that X is "more recent" than 8, because of causality. And if you asked me yesterday I would have called the 0 "stale".
Closed and proprietary protocoles/software, centralization, and vendor lock-in keeping way too many users hostage of the platform. And then networking effects do their thing and prevent users liberating themselves.
Here you go: https://www.chrisfenton.com/homebrew-cray-1a/
The system of the future will inject you with a drug timed to wear off exactly on your arrival to the destination. During that time they'll program your brain directly with content you need to know and download whatever they need to know.
US seizures of Chinese solar contributed to 16% drop in solar installed in 2022
A reminder of the real costs of anti-China hysteria, based on dubious claims.

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/biden-should-wi...

https://progressive.org/latest/whats-going-on-china-uighurs-...
Which is a good thing if you want inflation to eventually fall. Wage growth is the primary sustainer of inflation, which leads to the classic wage/price spiral wherein employees negotiate automatic increases in salary to keep up with predicted inflation.

Inflation in the US today is still transitory in nature, but you can look at other countries to see examples of entrenched inflation.

I’m not saying it’s a good outcome for society short-term, but if everyone kept getting raises to keep up with inflation, businesses would respond by continuing to raise prices.
But can you pass LeetCode :-)
I think a lot of people had similar ideas, I know I did.

The idea of using Pi is essentially the same as having a shared dictionary as used in both regular compression and in lossy as waveforms (in layman's, terms - technically it's a best match) both ends have the dictionary and you simply index it.

In fact whole network protocols use this concept too such as protocolbuffers which are part of grpc.

The difference here being the dictionary is infinite and until we get quantum computers on the desktop indexing into pi will always be slow. Some of the address space may not be feasible too, e.g. your file may require a billion bit address/index.

It may still be feasible to do partial matches for a file, 50% one index, 50% another for performance improvement.

I guess the trade off is a balance between performance and number of indexes Vs the original file length, and where in Pi the address space becomes unfeasible.
I love hexyl, but the colorized output does get in the way sometimes when I'm copying out bytes
Starting to think his account is shared by a small team of people. He has to sleep like all of us, you know? And when you have his pattern-of-life documented on HN, you can discern when he sleeps, but his account is active 24/7 so there has to be a team.
I don't think a worker's sentiments about a job are contingent on rationalization that the job's end result is useful/justified.

If you pressed a red button all day knowing that it would provide value or save lives, it would still "feel" meaningless.
> I had to spend days trying to debug why a build that was working fine broke completely

Sure, but I bet that it was helpful to have the `bats` tool so that you could replicate the build locally, right? As compared with other build systems where (so far as I can see - though I may be wrong) you basically have to push a debugging change for replication.

> I disliked how needlessly convoluted the pipelines are, and how some person pushing on accident to mainline can break everything.

This is true of any CI/CD system, though? In any system, if there's no push-protection set up so that you can only merge into main(/line) once a change has been reviewed (and run your tests at the point of review so that you know the merge won't break anything), you have only yourself to blame for breakage.

> So many things seem to be done the hard way.

Genuine question - what do you find convoluted/hard about them? To me, the apparently-industry-standard of "push a change to your App Code, which triggers a build to generate a docker image, then trigger an automatic commit containing that Docker image to a Deployment Package, which is picked up by your CD system and creates a deployment" is way more convoluted. Having a conceptual "pipeline" built out of lots of little disconnected GitHub Actions (or whatever) is also way harder for me to wrap my head around than the CDK definition of a linear pipeline.
Lots of subreddits have minimum account age and/or karma requirements due to how bad the bot situation has gotten, so unless you're willing to farm karma and wait a month to post each time (or maintain multiple semi-permanent "burner" accounts, which, as pointed out by Maximus9000, can still be linked together by writing style), it's easier to just purge your comment history on a regular basis.
in the United States, there is a history of limitation of occupying armies, and to some extent police. It comes from a time when you, citizen, had to stop what you are doing and become under questioning or controlled without any checks and balances. A group of men in uniform could stop and hold any number of people for "suspicion" .. that is illegal here. So in reverse, if you are going to be stopped, questioned, and your actions controlled, there must be sufficient reason, and that authority has limitations. Cars have changed that calculus a lot, laws are being updated. Murky legal waters for "searching" crowds.. one factor is that information systems hold data for days and years, millions of records can be searched instantly on a regular basis. so the practical reach of technology has changed. IANAL
I was talking more of mini itx and micro atx form factors. E.g.:

https://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=X...

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/k8KhP6/asrock-motherboard-x...

But they do have a smaller platform:

https://www.asrock.com/microsite/DeskMini/#About
And, individually, we can help that process by reducing or eliminating our support of those companies.
We're a small software company and have not followed suit. Our competitors have and because of that we have had more new clients. For this we are happy and our clients are too, we will continue to keep cost low.
To me, it is completely obvious that constant drone surveillance of the whole population is a dystopian nightmare, just like implanting brain chips or constant untargeted cell phone surveillance would be. All of these measures need to be commensurate. Reducing violence may be a noble goal but it needs to be weighed against other values such as individual freedom, privacy, and protection from constant government interference.
And other lies we tell ourselves.

We are getting to a point where the majority of people can’t actually start their lives because of wealth inequality.

Wealth inequality has only gotten worse in the U.S. in the past 10 years.

The truth of the matter is, life does not have inherent value in the U.S. (and generally the world mainly because the U.S. drives world economic models).

We’re entering an era where not as much human labor is going to be necessary, and our response to that is effectively starve out billions rather than spread the gains between our race.

At some point this is either going to go full dystopia, where you’re only value is what you create and what you were born with. Or it’s going to go into a revolution with the heads of the rich on spikes.

I know which one would at least feel better for the majority of people.
Mercedes has L3 self driving now so it should be fine
It's closer to 3-4% and it's over shadowed by inflation by a bit. On top of that, corporate profits are higher than ever and workers are seeing less and less each year. That ridiculous profit is not trickling down
No, /r/IamA was a default subreddit for many years, thus all new users would get subscribed to it (I think defaults have been gone for some years now, but subscriber inflation already happened)
How do you log gyro data in a phone?
> Checking just now

how did you check? profile page?
This is a really cool board! But, it's bizarre that it has a VGA connector and no HDMI.
The biggest problem with Flutter is Dart. Not the language specifically (it’s a nice enough flavor of C-family language), but the ecosystem. Even Swift is better in this regard. Flutter ported to TypeScript and sufficiently distanced from Google would actually be very compelling.
If the increase in cosmic ray detections is due to some change in Earth's magnetic field, presumably where and how the magnetic field changes would in some way correlate with the activity.
A CPU socket so dense there is a moiré pattern in the image.
Okay, you got me, those mods are on a power trip lol.

Although it depends on the size of the subreddit - you tend to get a lot of idiots who complain incessantly about plainly justified moderation, and we have to remember that these are literally unpaid volunteers, they're entitled to take actions that make their job easier.
I think the split on these conversations isn't usually between extremely effective people and not-very-effective people, it's usually between people who aspire to be more effective/get more done, and people who think that par is fine.
Personally, I prefer waiting for all of the animals to seek higher ground as my seismic activity indicator.
You can create your own subreddit and be the sole moderator of it in about sixty seconds of effort.
Gosh that’s a bit mean
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4053686-minneapo...

Expect heads to roll at the Minneapolis PD. Just kidding. Nothing will happen. Not even a slap on the wrist.
Of course. The question in the title isn't exactly the one I was trying to ask, but it is close. In my mind there is a difference between content moderation, which enforces the ToS and removes illegal content, and curation, which is more about community preference.

Clearly there are some things that dang needs to remove for legal reasons. And the same goes for Reddit, some things just can't be hosted.

But when it comes to curation, which is the subjective judgment that a post or comment is either fit or not fit to be posted, do we need a singular moderator (or group of moderators) to enforce this? Is there any real issue with allowing multiple sets of curators for the same dataset? If we're trying to escape the fiefdoms of Reddit, I think we also need to escape the "law" that moderator teams and communities must be one to one.
I liked a lot of things he had to say but I could never get out of my mind that his mother sent the housemaid over every week to tidy up.
I got tired of being that guy at some point within the past few years and started personally contributing.

I’m not taking any sides here, but GitHub’s sponsor feature makes this _very_ easy to do, and that’s valuable to me.

Edit to add: Agility in contributing money to FOSS projects is not where it could be, and that’s absolutely a place we could do better in to drive more direct funds into the FOSS ecosystem.
2 to 3 dollars a month is hardly crazy
This is doubly true when we're talking about predicting earthquakes, a practice that has had no successes and a LOT of notable failures.
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These discussions inevitably split the crowd into nine to fivers and enthusiasts.
I can imagine why a person would want to spend more than 40 hours working per week for a limited period of time, but I can't imagine why you would want to stay in that state for a prolonged period of time.

Even if I can be more productive working 9 hour days, so what? I did not get born for being productive.

Long workdays also point at bad planning, lack of proper task delegation or plain old overload. Overload is also bad in the sense that it implies a big backlog, and when you have big backlog, important things get not done.
That's for the IPMI.
AB tests are still vulnerable to p-hacking-esque things (though usually unintentional). Run enough of them and your p value is gonna come up by chance sometimes.

Observational ones are particularly prone because you can slice and dice the world into near-infinite observation combinations, but people often do that with AB tests too. Shotgun approach, test a bunch of approaches until something works, but if you'd run each of those tests for different significance levels, or for twice as long, or half as long, you could very well see the "working" one fail and a "failing" one work.
Instead of referring to the bill as House Bill 3902, the common name that can be used is the "Drones as First Responders Act." This is fairly standard boilerplate.
How much of that is Management?
Between industry capture and ideological capture, federal agencies seem to be the weakest part of America's democratic system as of late
No. It would be able to do some of the parts of moderation everyone would find easy, none of the stuff people would find hard and would cost a lot.[1] There are AI-powered companies and tools[2] that help with moderation but nothing that can automate everything that human mods do on any site with a reasonable user community.

[1] Source: am responsible for trust and safety including the tech solution and the moderation team for a 1bil+ views site.
[2] For example https://hivemoderation.com/ or https://www.openweb.com/
Welcome to the Brazilianization of the world (https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2021/05/the-brazilianizat...).

As social inequality increases, people with more money start being able to afford services much more easily. Do you think British nobility used to vaccuum their own homes? Ask someone with money how the Brazilian upper middle class used to live. Or ask people in India.

Doctors can afford to have people to clean up their houses, to cook their food, everything.
> Because outside of Go (and maybe Rust) it will be very difficult to actually do what Elixir does

It's just as difficult in Go and Rust. BEAM, the Erlang VM that powers Elixir, is not just about lightweight processes. It's also about guarantees that neither Go nor Rust provide. E.g. to do what Elixir does you need robust process supervision trees. You can imitate, but not replicate those in other languages.
Ask HN: How should we compensate forum moderators?
Given what’s happening at Reddit - there are a lot of ideas in different comments across hn.

I wrote this last week - thinking about some technological solutions. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36272935)

Trying to get a sense of how the community thinks about it from a product or policy perspective.

How should we think about this?
I’ve been looking forward to the combo, it seems like with a little prompt engineering towards short answers, ChatGPT could be fun just for musing out loud while working.
My "car" is a 2012 Toyota Tacoma (2dr 4x4) with crank windows, no screens, no keyless entry. It was difficult to find in 2012, and nothing like it is being made anymore. For trucks, everything has to be larger with huge screens, internet connections and all kind of other techno-junk that is bound to stop working at some point.
Worth reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moderation

My view is that it is needed. Otherwise communities quickly devolve into cesspools. Even toxic places like 4chan have moderation, despite attracting the worst of humanity.
At leat latests versions, coming from the store or just baked from https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/releases. As per [1] One invokes
GET-CimInstance -query "SELECT * from Win32_DiskDrive" in Powershell to list devices and then, wsl --mount "\\.\PHYSICALDRIVE1" --bare or whatever.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl2-mount-dis...
Surely VGA is simpler to implement than VGA and doesn't carry the burden of HDMI licensing requirements. It's common to see VGA and PS/2 connectors on server boards. A little bit fuzziness on the console output isn't going to stop a sysadmin from getting work done. :)
I haven’t heard of any big companies switching away from DataDog. They have a product that is both genuinely valuable and very sticky. Once you’re in it’s hard to get out and they know that.
Out of curiosity do these HS CS classes uh... Teach Computer Science? I took three years of CS in high school and it was prepping us for the AP CS test. So memory layout, algorithms, data structures, logic, base conversions, and tons of self-guided study and projects.

But when I read a lot of these articles I come away with the impression the conclusion is that the best way to teach CS is to... Not teach CS at all.