skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really good point. I think at a macro level it makes a lot of sense to do that and if Harvard were a state run institution the government should definitely try to share the benefit. To some extent this is what the use of national entrance exams in many countries (e.g. China, India, Kenya) do, with varying degrees of success.

The problem is, Harvard's incentive is to make a university which is best for its students - not society as a whole. They'd rather scoop up the cream of the crop in terms of affluence+intelligence and then leave the dregs for everyone else. Legacy admits are one tool they use to do that.

I sort of suspect the abolition of SATs serves a similar goal, where a university class can be curated on more than intellectual merit without articles like OP's getting published calling them out for it and the equity arguments universities have made for doing so are either facetious or misguided.
To keep track of authors and series I follow, over many years.
To collect quick notes. Both for myself and ready for recommendations to others.
To avoid trying again authors I dismissed ages ago (but whose book covers and blurbs still tempt me.)
To keep several lists/queues to things to read (theme-based lists most of them).
A few years ago I added date marks for when I read or re-read each item.
I general these lists have made my reading more systematic and I can now always, but always instantly pick something that I wanted to read AND is on the shelf at the library.
Widespread issues in us-east-2

Rumors say construction cut a cable.
Git and Jupyter Notebooks: The Ultimate Guide
Or they could have focused on building a sustainable company that made a profit from the start and didn’t use VC money to essentially give the product away for free.

I was really unhappy about switching my design team to Figma because their only ways forward are to either IPO or get purchased, with all the pain they involve. Or worse, if they actually have to start making a profit, then prices will be raised immensely and features will be diminished.

None of those things lead to a stable platform to base on potentially years of work.
It seems to me that a more effective strategy would be for an entity like Reddit or Stackoverflow to initiate a lawsuit, as they may be able to better prove that their owned/user’s content was copied, terms of service were violated, etc.
How is AGI supposed to provide this knowledge? We don't have the knowledge we need to cure disease and aging because the experiments that could potentially provide that knowledge are either too difficult to conduct or can't be conducted ethically and/or legally at all.

There is also an inherently time-bound bottleneck to producing knowledge of this sort. You can't possibly demonstrate a treatment has really increased human lifespan until an entire experimental cohort lifespan passes.

You can conceivable simulate an entire human body at molecular level to sidestep the issue with conducting an RCT with live subjects, but we already have sufficient knowledge of atomic physics and organic chemistry to do that right now. It's just not computationally tractable.
Thank you! For those who missed that one: https://github.com/everythingishacked/Semaphore

To me, the main motivation beyond "because I can" is the accessibility of these projects: you just need some Python code and any webcam. I'd love to play around more with VR, but the owners of the leading systems aren't exactly known for their openness to external APIs... Maybe Google Cardboard is worth a revisit :)
SCUMM VM is now like that, plenty of Point and Click games https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm
So why do you need the latest android version and why long term support?

If you are a nobody, there isn't a need to pay for the "latest and greatest". Security updates are a meme and just a way to add more bloat. Don't download apk's from unknown sources, use an adblocker and that's 99% of all attack vectors closed.

That only leaves pre-installed bloatware, a legitimate issue that can be solved with a few steps. The phone doesn't matter but get something android 10 or higher, their selective permissions are nice but you can go as low as android 6 without too many issues. But you might have app compatibility problems.

During phone setup, don't immediately connect to the internet.

If you can uninstall the apps do that. Otherwise, force stop and clear data of every installed app that you don't think you will ever use. As long as the apps don't open or take up ram or cpu cycles then the phone is functionally 'bloat free'

Remove all of the permissions that don't make sense. Your calendar doesn't need access to your microphone or even contacts.

Turn off all settings that even hint at telemetry including locations.

Once this is done, you can connect to the internet. Download fdroid through the browser and look for a local VPN that is capable of blocking access to apps and has a decent permissions menu. Get that configured and then you are good to go. The local vpn will almost certainly break things the first time you use it. But you can just tweak it and as long as you aren't installing any new apps very often you won't have any problems. Stick with open source apps as much as you can.

And only update Apps when they break or if there is a feature you really want. Don't actually do anything important on your phone like banking but if you have a browser with adblock then that's fine but keep it minimal.

I like this method because it's phone agnostic. I don't have to settle for a pixel or another phone that I need to get root on. If this sounds like too much and you don't want to flash a new OS, then just get an iphone.
So is this as BetaMax was to VHS?

EDIT on 'podcast':

I was literally wondering this AM where 'pod'cast came from - thank you for the link (I love in-sects, which is why I love Etymology!)
This came out on an Android website. I wonder how much of it is mobile-related.
There's a fair amount of enthusiastic or expert communities that remain the most vibrant in their IRC edition.

I recently looked for an active chat for hobbyist/DIY EE stuff, and I joined around half a dozen Discords and they were all nearly completely deserted. Part of it is that each individual Discord aims to be a complete lifestyle, replate with completely redundant #general rooms and what not - it's too hard to sustain that kind of thing.

##electronics on Libera, meanwhile, is alive and kicking every time of the day.

I've made similar experiences with non-tech topics like e.g. cycling.
If anyone is interested what can be made with Poly, I've composed this earlier today: https://soundcloud.com/createdestroyforget/out?si=1745dbb1c6...
Agreed. I do not engage with groups all that much and the snippets/suggestions it shows me for some are just downright nauseating. On that note it has been useful for figuring out which of my friends are secretly assholes and which of them just like to shitpost.
Thanks for this elaboration. Upon reading original comment, it felt very strange that she was "encamped" for using VPN to access her school homework. Immediately I knew there was more than it meets the eye.
I find the service valuable, so I'm happy to pay for it. I don't understand the opposition. If you don't want to pay, they offer an ad-supported version.
On a Friday! Feels for Engineers handling this across companies. :-|
Fuck yeah well said
Google Digital Garage is closing
Google Digital Garage is an online learning platform for Google software such as Docs, Sheets, GMail, Workspaces, and others.

Google will be transitioning their courses to Skillshop at https://skillshop.withgoogle.com/
Anyone that says you should keep your passport on you when you're in a foreign country has never traveled. I never keep my passport on my person when I'm walking around outside the US. I lock it away as securely as I can wherever I'm staying, and carry a color copy of it in my pocket.

Part of this is simply because American passports are extremely valuable. Another part is that anyone who wants to fuck with you in some semi-official capacity now has to choose whether to go back to your hotel or arrest you on the spot, which puts them in a better mind to give up or take a bribe.
The power of a politician to persuade comes in part, in my opinion, from their ability to convince a voter that they represent the voter's interest. Some of this is done just through words, but a lot of it has to be represented via some kind of action, or else the voter will realize they're being fooled. I don't see a superintelligent AI gaining much ground on this factor.
I agree overall with your post, especially about the various distractions they have us all protesting over. But, I don't really think OWS had them particularly scared. It was just yet another ineffective protest by powerless people.

What boggles my mind is how so many still think "protesting" makes any kind of difference at all. Talk about doing nothing about the underlying systems. Standing out on the street impotently yelling about something is pretty much one notch above "impotently posting to the internet about something". You think anyone in charge looks at a 100K person protest and says "Ohmygosh, they're really angry about this! Maybe I should change the status quo!" Hahaha never. You might as well pray--in both cases, nobody is listening.

Occupy had exactly zero chance of changing anything, because in order to actually change things, you need to be in the rich club or one of their bought-and-paid-for politicians. And all of those people are already on the gravy train--they have no incentive to change anything.
From Gothic Invaders to Mall Goths
I wanted something simpler and was just playing around.

JSON I use in my distributed DB (http://root.rupy.se), it's less verbose but XML to me is also a development tool that gains with human readability.

The bottleneck is almost never bandwidth on small solutions.

What I'm considering now is making my own ActivityPub, adding Reddit like features and Email.

I would like to make the format pipe (|) separated instead of XML/JSON...

The social protocol to end all social protocols. XD
League of Legends never stepped on Warcraft trademarks as far as I know, even though they were a clone of DOTA. Valve and others battled it out legally with Blizzard over the DOTA name and eventually won, but this was definitely not Blizzard's intention - and of course they didn't use any Blizzard-created art in the final game.

Note that I don't think anything in the W3: reforged terms of service would prevent a new game being created based on a W3 mod, it would just prevent it from using the same name and art as the mod. This is exactly what happened to all other successful mods, with Dota2 being pretty much the sole exception.

Also, Riot mostly proved that you don't actually need the artwork or names to be massively successful - you just need to recognize a good idea and be the first to market with a polished implementation of it.
> Simpler configuration

Never had an IRC server want to verify me through SMS or FORCE me to update my client.

> simpler administration

IRC is just a ban list, an except list and an invite list.

> user accounts and profile pictures by default

Don't want it.

> persistent chat history

Liability.
Personal satisfaction.
"Ooga booga, number get bigger" kind of thing
I'm somewhat convinced that Apple wants to remove the notion of a Unix filesystem (there are files and directories of files/directories and they have owners/permissions/etc) from their users' understanding of how to use a computer. Both out of ideological purity ("what is a computer?") and so that their users can't use a different device that has an entirely different mental model for interaction.

I already see this with juniors/students/kids that grew up using nothing but mobile devices, tablets, and chromebooks with GSuite. They don't know what a file is.
I know all things cryptocoin are anathema here on HN, but one of the stated goals in the satoshi whitepaper was enabling micropayments. I don’t want to give my credit card info out to every video creator I watch, but what if I could load a digital wallet and pay for streams exactly as you suggest?
Oh, and what happens then? I’m mostly using Apple devices, but also have a Pixel as a backup phone and a laptop with Linux as a backup laptop. It’s not like I’m locked in the ecosystem entirely.
That's the companies choice. How I interact with the company via my user-agent is my choice.
The other part is that carbon fiber is good at handling expansive pressure (pressure coming from the inside of the vessel) and bad at handling compressive pressure (pressure outside the vessel).

It kind of intuitively makes sense. Carbon fiber is roughly like a fabric. If you make a tube out of a piece of fabric, there's almost no resistance when you try to compress it between your hands. There's far more resistance if you try to move your hands apart inside it, up until the fabric rips.

It was a terrible material for this to begin with between the risks of delamination and carbon fiber being specifically bad at the kind of pressure they were dealing with.
Because nothing is ever enough. You were already enough of a sucker to pay for one thing, why shouldn’t you be suckered into paying a little more?
Probably searching for the deepest pockets
How does Twitter's requirement differ from paywalls?
I can tell you that for 3rd party titles back in the PS2/N64 days, the HW engineers handed you a spec manual explaining such useful things as "Bit 7 at address 0x70002048 toggle RFTAG mode on the MDEC". This was great when I went to write a VU emulator because no VU debugger was available. But, not so great when trying to figure out how to use the beast effectively. If you google "ps2 sdk docs" you can still find them after a while. If it's a doc with examples of how to do anything, it's from the software team at Sony Europe.

Sony Japan's documentation for how to use a mouse & keyboard on the PS2 was literally just the URL "https://www.usb.org/document-library/usb-20-specification". Eventually, they provided a binary-only keyboard library that everyone complained was buggy, but actually just had documentation that was so brief it was easily misunderstood. After black-box testing it for an hour it was clear it worked fine, just not how anyone would expect it to.

Many years ago I made a tiny stir online by writing a stream-of-consciousness report of the experience of dealing with stuff like this for a decade.
https://venturebeat.com/games/what-is-making-games-like-for-...
The question I have is, why would I ever use an app that has ads? If an app has ads and I can’t pay to get rid of them, I delete it.
http://archive.today/5K9ae
They added 8 more levels and the ability to recurse (essentially start from L1 on either team again but keep your all-time AP). Just saying...

Go Resistance!
Maybe it won't be so bad. For alligators. In the arctic:

https://www.ctvnews.ca/how-canada-s-arctic-once-hosted-allig...
I definitely spent too much time scrolling through Reddit before a couple weeks ago, but I stopped cold when the protest started. Honestly, I think it's better for my mood generally and I wouldn't go back.

Thanks for looking out for me, spez.
Well now I'm intensely curious about this. I've turned off monetization on this video https://youtu.be/liJac6RysE4 . Please let me know if you see any ads on the video, I'm curious if YT will still display them regardless of my input. (So far I'm not seeing any ads).

Edit: Also, when I click on the help icon next to the monetization bubble, the entire Google help article[0] talks about turning on ads. Which seems to imply they're off by default, but they don't mention turning off ads, so who knows if that's just "clever" writing to indicate there's no way to turn ads off.

[0]: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/94522?hl=en
Ah, the fiber-seeking backhoe strikes again https://imgur.com/a/Yqva7
My implication was merely that I too am old and yelling at clouds. :) No actual offense taken.
Yep, arms and legs control "thighs" and "calves" - although I was roughly as bad at full-body QWOP as on a keyboard!
Does anyone have a detailed understanding of why CommonJS (and its async incarnation, AMD) were not adopted by browsers?

I do much like the `import` syntax personally and its a little cleaner to read, but CommonJS and AMD were the undisputed winners of the module format until ES Modules were born. Not that I have a problem with ES Modules, I don't, however I am interested in what was so insufficient about the preceding formats that we couldn't have standardized on them

EDIT: I know about the deal with CommonJS being synchronous. That isn't per se an issue I don't think, esp. because AMD built on top of CommonJS primitives, and with minimal refactoring CommonJS code could be used in the browser when defined this way if asynchronicity is a must. Generally, what I "imagine" browsers doing with CommonJS is making the `require` calls async in the background (IE non visible to developers) so they can resolve the modules then parse the code. This isn't terribly different from how import statements work today.

I'm wondering why we didn't undertake the work to just improve the existing format, more or less.

EDIT 2: I'm interested from a historical perspective. I think ESM is the right choice and 100% the future.
> As the AI improves over time, it progressively becomes much better at these things than their employees.

> People looooooooooooove speculating about things that are nowhere near happening.

I agree with that, but I think the real risk isn't that AI improves and gets better than an employee. I think the real risk is that it replaces employees, regardless of whether or not it's better, because it's cheaper. It'll be like the first tier of tech support, but without an option for escalation.

My personal opinion is that is dumb, oversold garbage and people are falling for it because it's good at grammar and spelling. I base that on asking it about things where I know there are common misunderstandings with authoritative clarification. The dumb loud people confidently repeat incorrect claims in large volumes while the authoritative sources are silently bewildered at the stupidity. From what I've seen AI is trained on data produced, at least in part, by the "dumb loud masses" and it's "knowledge" is based on quantity over quality.

As it about the ZFS scrub of death which is a mass mania of idiocy and it'll gladly tell you all about it. Or ask it what the validation methods are for TLS certificates and it'll happily regurgitate the common knowledge of DV, OV, and EV even though the official docs [1] definitively state it's DV, IV, OV, and EV in section 7.1.2.7.1.

It's unreliable and perpetuates misinformation because, AFAIK, it treats most of the input information equally and that's not how things work. I don't remember who, but I remember seeing a famous marketer from the 70s or 80s (?) talking about how most of their success came from realizing that "visibility is credibility". That's true, and unfortunate because we're ignoring a lot of intelligent people that aren't willing to engage in a shouting match to get their voice heard while the dumbest, loudest half of the population is having their viewpoints used to train the LLMs that people are going to rely on for information discovery.

The really scary part is that, based on what I've seen, people that do contract work for the government seem to be very eager to replace their workforce (costs) with AI (not costs). Just wait until you need to deal with the government for something and the whole process is like having an argument with a super Redditor.

1. https://cabforum.org/wp-content/uploads/CA-Browser-Forum-BR-...
But then to circle back on the submission, do sites have any obligation to make it easy (or no harder than it initially was) for you to separate the useful from the annoying? No more than you have right (which I agree with) to render it differently to their desire, I'd argue.
> <anti-freedom rant>

I suppose you’re not a big fan of right to repair either then?

Nobody is forcing you to write or use free software. However, freedom is intrinsically valuable, and there’s a huge difference between being able to control your own computing hardware vs reading second rate children’s books.

> I want to make money in proportion to the value I add to the world

That’s a pretty thought, but nobody does. Perhaps you should revise your expectations to be realistic?
Could be a use case for X-Windows with ssh -X [0]? (so your web browser is actually running outside the GFW, it's just the window updates that are coming over the SSH tunnel).

[0] https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/12755/how-to-forwar...
I use it but screen sharing is still a bear. I can't get it to work with Slack at all - (this is on the flatpak release of Slack 4.32.127)

It's good enough though that I'm just kind of working around it - always hoping that some update to Sway or Flatpak or some tweak with Flatseal will fix the issue. Hasn't yet though.
Python seems closer to the GIL being optional than it’s ever been before: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-python-gil-past-present-a... I was surprised to read this myself.
Do you realize how genuinely awful most people's advice is? Most people parrot off a poorly regurgitated version of whatever they read in the latest fad software engineering book, regardless of whether it's even applicable to your situation or not. Go read the Software Engineering Stack Exchange to see this, and realize those are generally much better than random advice. Good advice requires a deep understanding of the problem and the tradeoffs involved; random people online just aren't going to spend that kind of time and effort unless they're a serious co-contributor to the project. That makes their advice worse than worthless -- actually harmful. Like intentionally introducing design-by-committee to your project.

And that's only the ones who are actually acting in good faith! There are plenty of people engaging in bad-faith "contributions" to open source as well.
That's what 403 errors are for. But once you send your program to my personal machine to be run, I will use whatever tools at my disposal to make it useable, as is my right.
This looks interesting. I wonder if i can redesign it like GTalk and bring back the old memories :')
That's all well and good, but what about those of us that already have a mountain of Jest tests with mocks that aren't supported in ESM mode? https://github.com/jestjs/jest/issues/9430

I've definitely worked around my fair share of CommonJS issues but until ESM "just works" I'm slightly pained by how aggressive the tone of this article is.
I'm in China right know with a Mainland/Macao/HK eSIM. My Chinese friend has to use a VPN to access Instagram as did I when I was connected via WiFi in mainland China. Using the eSIM connection I could access Instagram and Youtube without any issues, likewise here in Hongkong (with WiFi).

I didn't investigate how large the difference is, but Hongkong traffic is still treated more liberal.
The CEO is aggressively dishonest.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/13/23759180/reddit-protest-p...

https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/14dkqrw/i_want_t...
Thank you. I will check out that. I had started down the YC Startup School and went with Clerky etc but will pick that up again. Such a shame how Product Hunt has turned out.