skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is how death spirals work. Twitter was treading water a year ago. Taking on lots of debt caused mass layoffs, worrying people about site stability and making them investigate other platforms. A lot of bad tweets scared away advertisers, causing more layoffs and desperation. Signed-in users engage more, so make all users signed-in users (no logical fallacies here).
Due to some revenue sharing rules that just went into effect in Canada, designed to prevent news from being absorbed by Facebook and never leading to the ads being seen on the original website, FB is closing link. Sharing to cbc.ca. People can go there directly, but eventually safety information being everywhere is a good thing.
Recently posted to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36486109
Fediverse isn't it man. Whoever owns the server is in complete control of all the content and can delete it at any moment then you have to find a new server and start over. It only solves part of the the problem, not even accounting for how confusing it is to normal users.
What's so funny is everyone saying social media sucks and needs to go away. Then when it starts to it's all "no not like that!"
I'm not really convinced that discovery was a problem with the old forums. There was no insatiable need to know where everything under the sun lives. You'd typically just follow a few forums around your interests. I think it became a glaring disadvantage when Reddit introduced an overabundance of options and allowed everyone to subscribe to 20 things because they could, not because they needed or wanted to. I think Reddit's value-add was community moderation without self-hosting.

This is akin to online dating. Nobody needed 5 dates a week 20 years ago and because it's an option now doesn't mean it was a problem than. Optionality is just a byproduct of social platforms.
The OP is probably referring to Sun Microsystems.
Can we now finally go back to the pre-Facebook, pre-Twitter Internet, before we centralized everything within a few corporations?
Maine becomes first state to decriminalize selling sex
Except at the time “farmers will be broke” would have meant “everyone will be broke” because most of the labor force was farming. Instead, farmers became a tiny part of the economy while food became increasingly abundant. Tractors were a good thing, on balance. The commenter is saying that a similar shift will happen.

I tend to think that if alignment can be solved, AI will improve the wellbeing of humanity in a way nothing ever has. But I don’t know if we can solve alignment and it might kill us all.
Using what tools?
AlienBlue (the original 3rd party app) is still working.
Me too. I'm over here wondering how fake reviews aren't already fraud and why it isn't being actively prosecuted for obvious consumer harm.
https://archive.fo/eZhK4. Musk: "Temporary emergency measure. We were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users!"
But fraud is already illegal.
I’ve only really used Apollo on Reddit. The official app never stuck for me and I don’t have it installed. It’s one of the few apps I only really use on my phone, so I don’t have it bookmarked or anything. At this point, I’m burned and so I’ll take my ball and go home.

I bought the screensavers though. Thanks for all the good times Apollo.
> In the event of a power outage, one provider could only give us 30 seconds of emergency power—versus five minutes with a standard UPS setup—because they used an inertia wheel.

If a generator fails to start in 30 seconds, that almost always means it will also not start within 5 minutes.

Does dropbox have automation that attempts to gracefully shut down systems if a generator fails to start? Are systems then kept down until the battery UPS system is fully recharged? If not, the difference between 30 seconds and 5 minutes doesn’t seem important.
I've seen discussions that Mastodon has a way of migrating accounts. I don't know if that's a Mastodon specific thing or at the ActivityPub level. I don't think it migrates the content but I'm not sure. What I think it does is notify followers of the migration. I'm not sure anything like PKI is necessary.

Conceptually a planned migrations should have a period of concurrent access to both the old and new accounts and it should be easy to publish a handshake to confirm the migration to followers to update contact info. That's my thought anyway. Something like keybase (does that still exist?) could also be used for similar sorts of proofs.

The way people used to handle this on Reddit is people would send a message from their old account saying "hey XYZ is my new account" and that seems sufficient.
As far the library itself goes, the README is all you need to know. That's what's great.

It does assume familiarity with testing in general (ie, how to design for unit testing, how to write clear tests, etc), but you'll need that to use any testing library effectively, and that skill is orthogonal to the library itself.

If you're looking for resources on that, I recommend:
https://github.com/testdouble/contributing-tests/wiki/London...
As soon as I saw tweetdeck, which was like the gluttonous way of consuming all of Twitter all at once, I started thinking about the architect, from the movie The matrix. The guy with the enormous wall of televisions all watching neo in all of his different dimensions, checking to make sure he wasn't about to upset the balance of the matrix.

We are are not that sophisticated of animals. I mean we're not as dumb as dinosaurs were where they forgot about prey if the prey turned the corner out of their sight, but we're not as smart as we want to believe we are. So I think Twitter is Entertainment and
Should not be relied upon.
Not with respect to “single payer health care, forgiving student loans, funding education, raising taxes on the wealthy, and ending corporate welfare.” Or taxes or regulation. The GOP has gotten more liberal with respect to the “policy choices” that OP claims causes red states to be “more reliant on federal government.”
I'd rather take is a step further:

"Foo Corp. makes Gizblams." Whether or not they're high speed depends on the other Gizblam manufacturers, whether or not it can help me or my family depends on if I like it or not.
That iPhone will also run circles around this phone in every performance metric.
Yeah, keep changing the measure until Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos etc are below poverty line.
Public institutions now often require agreeing to the Google Account ToS to get public schooling.

IMO this should be illegal.
Just goes to show you why some startups fail. It's on musk, who is changing Twitter to have the characteristics of a startup that would have failed.

Yes it's enormous and popular now, but that's in spite of musks product vision.
TypeError: Cannot compare Types COMPLIER and LANGUAGE

LLVM is an open source modular complier system. There are three main pieces:

The Front-end. This is a part that reads in your source code files and generates any syntax errors. Clang is an example of a front end. The front end produces IR or "Internal Representation" which is consumed by the other parts of the compiler.

The optimizer. Pretty self explanatory. The optimizer takes in IR and (ideally) moves stuff around some that the final executable runs faster.

The backend. This is where the magic really happens. The backend takes in IR and produces that sweet sweet machine code that we're really after.

The benefit to zig of using LLVM is that they only have to write/maintain a Frontend. I don't think gcc and other C/C++ compliers where quite designed for modularity like LLVM was so building a new front end for them is difficult compared to LLVM.
Like a lot of organisations, we use it at work for public notifications. Big gap in this space now for something simple and publicly accessible.
Is there a clear connection between orphan crushing and free lunches, like there is between industrializing farming and abundant food availability?
Fair point. Right now I'm just doing it as a hobby. I'm not going to be making any real trades for a while and even when I do I don't plan on making money from it (at least not for some time).
I had totally forgotten that you had a flair showing your expertise. I did some computer vision stuff for a while. You wouldn’t recognize r/science of the early days though. Reddit is a completely different site.
Boy, the lack of self-awareness in this response is something.

Semi-annual PSA: Pocket was supposed to have been open sourced when Mozilla bought them out. Spoiler alert: it isn't. On the other hand, maybe we should give the parties involved the benefit of the doubt. These things take time, after all—the change in ownership was only announced in 2017.

(Perhaps the person you're responding to has a perspective on tardiness that has been influenced by Mozilla Corporation's relationship with the concept.)
> Last time I commented about this [0], I made some guy irrationally angry as he told me I sounded like I was 19 years old

If people make comments like that, flag them and email dang (hn@ycombinator.com) and he’ll do something about them

> It seems there is some high priesthood of mathematics and physics that doesn't like when you ask these sorts of questions

In my personal experience, most professional mathematicians and physicists are open to questioning the foundations of their discipline, and deal charitably with doubters (even those who are coming from a place of misunderstanding).

I suspect most of the “high priests” you speak of aren’t actually professionals at all, just Internet randoms who (at best) know only slightly more than you do, and who know very little about the norms of civil dialogue
AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton isn't convinced good AI will triumph over bad AI
What about bookmarks that I don’t necessarily want to be publicly known. Not even talking about anything potentially embarrassing. Things like where I bank or my doctor’s appointment booking page.
I mean I consider this a huge win: delete your Twitter account and never again will you be tempted to go read a tweet. If only I could set an anonymous expat cookie for all the services I've left behind letting them know "No, seriously: I left and I'm never coming back. No reason to track me, show me your content or ask me to login." Where's my restraining order cookie telling Facebook to fuck off outta my life, never to return?
Avoiding big servers is the whole point, so I doubt they'd support anything that would make that easier.

But I would love to run one phone-sized server for maybe a dozen friends, perhaps require mutual QR-scanning to get it set up.
Can you give some examples of computer hardware that are paywall locked?
The net result might be a split into zig-cc and zig-lang.

I think the disappointment might come with the ratio who choose zig-cc.
Intel is already using 18A (Angstrom).
Yep. BS artist says more BS.

It's a shame that he's not able to escape his pathological belief that his product approach is the right approach, regardless of the grotesque impact he's making on what was a good thing for all of us.
ChatGPT was quite literally optimized to be convincing to humans thanks to HFRL. I think it's going to be a huge negative externality thanks to the amount of ai noise it's going to be pumping onto the internet for the next couple of years. It's going to get harder and harder to connect with real humans and get information that we know is true rather than just proliferated by an automated system that knows nothing about quality. That negative impact might be even worse than blockchain if we see fewer and fewer people participating in creative skills, or even being able to make a living thanks to the lies the AI industry has sold to MBAs.
Dedicated, get some AMD Zen and use benchmarks for your encoder to compare performance across instance types.
This will probably not work for everyone, but works pretty well for me. I simply use the "default" Mac OS/iOS apps:

- Photos (shared via iCloud)

- Notes

- Music

- iCloud for file storage

- I also use google docs for spreadsheets etc.

This pretty much covers my digital life and mostly meet my requirement to be on auto-pilot.
There's nothing inherently wrong with "pushing a view point." Any form of communication qualifies as pushing a view point. Criticizing people for "pushing a view point" is basically criticizing them for speaking at all.
The whole basis is deeply disturbing, since it is basically a kind of half-deputized vigilantism the state governments are using in order to avoid the usual checks and balances.

All the same corrupt building-blocks could be used to punish people for having the wrong religion.
Social media companies are acting like a drug user who was getting their dope for free but now has to turn tricks behind the dumpster. Easy money (aka low loan rates) has dried up or much harder to justify so companies that have used their user population as a means to profit are realizing they need to charge money for things like blue check marks or API usage when all the VC's won't give them a hit anymore.

Publicly free content from users devolves to garbage content. I think the Chat GPT effect is they're realizing its easier for companies/entities to generate garbage that is at or exceeding the intelligence of comments by actual people (a low bar). Sure there are pockets of usefulness but this is tiny amongst the firehose of garbage.

If all that is publicly available on social platforms is just garbage nonsense, people will just stop going if any barrier is thrown in front of them. The internet as a technology stack is fine. This is how social media dies (hopefully).
The quiet story of the most powerful and profitable monopoly in the world
How is there going to be any competition or market price for "key to unlock BMW seat warmers". Unless you mean among the mechanics that will jailbreak your car and activate that feature.
> bunch of regexes for clickbait titles

Can you please share which ad blocker you use and how we might use regexes to do this? Sounds fascinating and I want to do that myself
> Energy costs will wind up going up

Will still be cheaper then gas. Total cost of living will still be less.

> Nor, will it need an expensive battery to be replaced.

Overall live-cycle cost are already higher.

And many batteries can go for a very, very long time. Even if you reach the 80% mark, they can often continue after that. Many EV batters survive the car and then go on to do other stuff for a long time. And those were first generation packs.

> I can store 100+ miles of range in a $30 plastic container that I can store in the yard

Something 99% of people have never done.
It takes two was GOTY.

I think it’s more that split screen is almost exclusively the domain of ‘party’ games these days.
Really? I would think the opposite.

Anything posted on the CIA website will be thoroughly analyzed by state agencies that are well funded and well equipped to find shenanigans. If the CIA were really doing something to US citizens via something on their public site, it would come out very quickly as it would be an embarrassment to the agency.

Unless you mean that the mere act of visiting the CIA website would be suspicious because you are in a country that might frown upon that, like China? But wouldn’t the CIA site be blocked there anyway?
How is a link and snippet any different from a headline on a newspaper visible through the window of a box on the street?
fzf to open anything in HOME.

immutable backups of HOME in s3[1].

usb drives with encryption keys and s3 creds stashed all over.

always setup new pc/os via backup restore with usb drive keys.

every new pc/os gets a new backup location.

1. https://github.com/nathants/backup
A way of explaining the motivation of such an attack, without saying that a chip disruption would help the struggling Russian state.
We're building an EEG headband that improves the efficiency of deep sleep (https://soundmind.co)

Pedal handle is like bike, not guitar, though I recently started playing guitar.
I've never heard somebody suggest a guitar, I usually have people ask "why are you nicknamed after a flower" (PetalPete) :)
What sort of precautions would one need to take before just firing this up on their toy project running on localhost...
In Australia you can't activate a SIM card without registering your government ID with the provider.

Similar with prepaid credit cards if memory serves.

Flipside would be: don't use a burner phone/SIM to call 911 - or at least have an alternative method of verifying location / address.
It sounds fine in theory but leaving Vancouver to go to St John's for affordable housing is not really an option for any one with family here. I may as well go to Thailand for affordable housing, it is more affordable and flights are the same price. People have obligations with family and they want to be close to their friends.
It's not like Europe where you can do 60 minutes from a big city and prices fall off a cliff. In bc you have to go four hours drive from Vancouver to find cheapish housing (Hope it's the spot) and that's not a commutable distance. The complete lack of public transport makes it worse but the sheer scale of it is the biggest problem.
If I was going to start again there is no way I would choose Vancouver but people get stuck in cities for many reasons but the biggest one is either relationship commitments or where the work is.
Verizon having a major outage across many major metros
Right, I'm more worried about Sucralose with all those chlorines hanging about.
California property taxes are fixed to when you bought the property + 2% change per year
Even if the all other car insurance cost 10x as much I would not buy from Liberty Mutual, FUCK them
Thanks. I've heard that yahoo finance historical price data is usually pretty accurate, but can get it wrong sometimes. Is there a better source for price data, or is yahoo finance good enough in your experience?
Does vitest have this same issue or make a trade off to avoid it like jest-light-runner
We can call it a telescreen, and have the government monitors also be able to use it to inform you of important things.
There was also sustained effort over the past two decades to move Emacs from Elisp to Guile but that has stalled:

https://emacsninja.com/posts/state-of-emacs-lisp-on-guile.ht...
It’s a little worrying that your anti-lock brake subscription might be cancelled due to credit card fraud, but what can you do? That’s I always prepay my DocWagon account.
What's missing from your example is that the firefighters would sometimes respond to a false alarm but set the house on fire. That's what people are concerned about.
I've been encountering machine learning on and off for the last 8 years or so. The idea that people are generating data with LLMs to then turn around and train LLMs without a hint of irony is hilarious and astonishing to me.
I think the FAIR folks did a good job capturing what, to me, is the most core essence of this all: exposing the data at the heart.

It's important that we also reveal & spread light on the computing, on opening the source. But the data underneath is highly occluded, highly captured, and is the root thing we want empowerment over. The tools are good to open, but the key radical movement that feels like it just has to happen is opening the thing the tools work on, the data. Once we can start to actually grasp what's underneath interface, once the data itself is FAIR, we open up human agency. That's the first start for freedom respecting technology.

I think FAIR lights the fire of interest, re-opens the window for enlightenment to flow again. And that will be compelling for people.

FAIR: Findable, Addressable, Interoperable, Resuable. https://www.go-fair.org/fair-principles/

Hat tip to one Dorian Taylor for the reference.

This is just one of a million angles, but it does make me think of the semantic web. There's a lot of business & data & research folks in this sector, but one of the core lessons is that things should have URLs; core axiomatics of the web itself (https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Axioms.html). Even the littlest drop of rdfa or microdata often starts with marking up different elements of the page to give them their own URI/URLs, making it explicit that the page is made up of many different objects. This is a low key change, but sets the seeds to let the web be more than opaque pages, to let the web be a thing of many objects.
These time lines are aspirational and are rarely met.
It was interesting to see Gorsuch call out Sotomeyer's dissent like that. You'd think they heard two entirely different cases.
And if it's not Google it's Microsoft. Which is, and I can't believe I'm saying this, the lesser of two evils at this point. There's a 2003 me staring through a time travel portal absolutely aghast that 2023 me is saying something like this.
Why Did the Twittermigration Fail?
Imagine trying to do your job closing ad deals and the owner decides to block public access without prior notice. Nothing says "we're a trustworthy partner who won't damage your brand," like major changes made seemingly at random.
“Emergency” is used here in the sense of “sudden or unexpected occurence”, i.e. “fallback”. Maybe “backup channel” would have been a more appropriate term.
Reported to be a fiber cut, but its affecting a very wide geographical area - Ive heard as far apart as NYC and Memphis
It's well-known to use `Array.isArray` instead [0].

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Any thing bureaucratic in Canada takes longer than you could possibly imagine. Very frustrating when you are relying on it.
Under limitations:

"No WebSocket requests."
I’ve done the same with Signal’s Note to Self.
Where do you recommend looking for a reseller?
https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=2546121
I like to be able to point to times when Musk errs from his stated free speech mission so I'm curious for the journalists in question. I know he upheld the Alex Jones ban explicitly because he found Jones' speech distasteful. It'd be nice to have a more sympathetic person to refer to.
I am very thankful for my current job. WFH, flexible schedule.

My central job task is simple and involves one quite repetitive flow. It's piece-work, and so I claim up to 5 pieces at a time and I work through them. It probably takes me 3-10 minutes to work through each piece, longer if I stumble on an advanced case.

So at its heart, it is really not a problem for me to get distracted by Slack or email or something at home. Because I can finish one task so quickly and be at a stopping point, it doesn't affect my workflow.

My schedule is also 100% flexible, so I can choose my hours and clock in/out as I please. If I clock in and feel drowsy within 10 minutes, I clock out and go to bed, no harm, no foul. If I wake up full of energy, I can clock in and go for a 5-hour "marathon" (I work part-time).

Here are a few things that help, nonetheless: limit distractions. My home life is quiet, I live alone. My computers have a dedicated work account and there's no social media or geegaws sending notifications. My phone stays live, but it's well-behaved.

I also like to play soothing music that helps focus and lays down a rhythm. I found some ambient, instrumental public-domain tracks that last 1 hour, very repetitive. Very listenable. NEVER listen to vocal music if you're doing intellectual work! You will sing the lyrics or your brain will jumble trying to pay attention to both at once!

Good management, good coworkers: Slack is really quiet anyway. People don't do idle chit-chat and I work with a cast of thousands. Mute those Slack channels that spam you. Don't allow notifications to ping you unnecessarily. Management doesn't go in for 1:1 Zooms or extensive chats about something, they want us to focus on our job priorities, and they facilitate that in every way.

Stay well-fed and happy. Don't neglect hygiene and household tasks, they'll get you down and keep your mind off work. It's good to be at peace with yourself and the world. Meditate on a regular basis, religious or not: you'll obtain that serenity you long for.