skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't get it. I mean, I get kinda tired of CAPTCHAs, too, but they are there for our safety. I'm not sure it is comprehended here how service could be degraded unless administrators are able to detect and prevent bots. Does he comprehend the utter onslaught of attacks, 24/7, from all sides, that public web servers undergo? Does he understand that credential stuffing attacks, brute forces, and all manner of scraping attempts occur, and CAPTCHAs are a thin weak line of defense against all that? Now I've seen some CAPTCHA styles that don't even prompt me, the user, for anything, but they seem to protect just the same. And I am sure that if there were a better answer than CAPTCHAs, they would be implemented far and wide. And CAPTCHA is not a panacea when you can pay humans $0.03 an hour to solve CAPTCHAs all day from Thailand or something.

But it's cat-and-mouse with the AIs already, and it may only get worse, so buckle your seat belts, and get used to proving that you're a human.
Hell yes, it was just the other day I was thinking to myself “I wish I could feel like an American consumer approximately four months after 9/11”.

Wish granted.
<https://lawrencehook.com/rys/> has a ton of options, and you can configure it to only block shorts, if you like.
It's funny that creating a twitter clone has been a "hello world" kind of project for most web frameworks over the last 10 years but here we are without any feature-complete alternatives.
That's already how Rust works. The post is referring to specific packages, not the whole resolution system; it is specifically 0.x versions that are incompatible at the minor revision. It is absolutely not the case that all the online tools and guides tell you to nail it down to one particular version - I have literally never seen a guide that told you to use =version notation. Finally, there's no difference between this and what you described as the Perl behavior: in both Perl and Rust, old packages with old dependencies still build.
Dont make scams illegal just because you don't like them!
It's not just pain, it’s thoughts too (which can also be related of course). I’m someone who will overthink which leads to worries that don’t need to exist and bring no benefit. This is why it helps me socialise, I’m far more likely to talk myself out of it because of the perceived “risk”. Rate limiting my thoughts lets me just act.
>> I don’t know what the hell he meant by “not came up for negotation”.

Thankfully he clarifies that by saying "the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact was beyond our realm of comprehension".

The USSR was hosting elite divisions and nuclear weapons in Poland at the time and didn't expect anything to change, what was there to discuss or negotiate?

The main question that came up was whether Americans would roll their tanks up to Polish border after German reunification, THAT is the "eastward expansion" they discussed.
Fighter plane engineers are fully aware of how their inventions will be used and generally agree with the mission.

"Because I make killing machines. And they were both damn fine killing machines."

https://www.youtube.com/live/_MUK241uZHM?feature=share
To not know of any is sort of weird. To believe a for-profit enterprise should replace the last is unspeakably dumb.
I can't speak for anyone but myself, but I'm going to try giving up internet comment sections for a while to try and see if I can live without them. I have wasted far too much time on Reddit, Hacker News, and recently Lemmy (which I tried to use as a Reddit replacement).

The articles themselves would be nice to keep around, I haven't found enough RSS feeds to make my feed reader app populated enough. I will probably make a userscript to disable comments here, use Kagi search to minimize the amount of Reddit in my search queries, and overall use a solution like Screen Time to try to limit use of other sites I spend way too much time on.

I know a lot of users are going to Lemmy or Kbin, both of which are on the Fediverse.
We’re pretty close to the end game here unfortunately.
They were good while they were the first-mover with all the good distribution contracts signed. Now everyone and their dog runs their own streaming service, and keeps tight control of any IP they may have. Netflix catalogue was never that big - they were, and are, just very good at hiding it with UI dark patterns; now, it's even smaller. They're trying to back-fill it by funding... well, take your pick:

- Charitable view: a very broad selection of productions aimed at smaller, niche audiences, so that everyone can find something unique they like.

- Cynical view: B-rate shit, going for quantity over quality, and hoping something sticks.

Either way, at this point, many Netflix users have long ago watched everything remotely worth watching on the site, and keep the subscription out of habit (or to keep access to something they like to rewatch). It doesn't take much to lose those subscribers.
New Coke anyone?
No you’re just ignoring racism if you ignore the groups that exist. This is well known hence why the idea of someone being “colorblind” is erroneous because it is trying to ignore disadvantages and pretend the field is level.

Here’s a misunderstood concept: race is a result of unfair policies. “Black” as a racial group does not meaningfully exist without the historical racism and oppressive policies enacted on black peoples. Without distinction between groups, there would be unity. But we know, for example, black people were treated unfairly and still are in many aspects today in the US, so the construction of the black race occurs because of these differences. Aka, the marker “black” for a person identifies someone who faces systemic racism in the US. It’s not just about the wavelength of light a person’s body reflects. Racial groups are the result of history, culture, policies, and present day attitudes.
Who's that? Obviously the Hostage Rescue Team exists, but most hostage situations don't last for days and getting a specific group of people across the country to the scene is harder than getting a team there that's already in the city.
The other day on IRC, someone (pjb) mentioned that clisp is the best CL, so now I'm very curious :)
I'm not sure about that entirely. It seems like kbin can federate with both mastodon and lemmy. Lemmy and kbin can federate with each other. But I don't think Lemmy and mastodon can right now. I don't know if that's deliberate or just unimplemented. I will say the kbin/mastodon interactions just seem... strange. Like you see mastodon users but I don't know why I wouldn't just use a mastodon client. But I haven't spent a lot of time directly inside kbin. I prefer the lemmy interface so far. People have described it as lemmy being like old.reddit and kbin being like new.reddit in feel.
https://www.vbulletin.com/
SuSE Linux is absolutely popular among HPC folks, especially in the weather forecasting / modeling community.
Does anyone else find those to be very odd limiting values? 1/72" is a standard unit in typesetting, but 3240 looks quite arbitrary, 14400 is 200 * 72 or a slightly more "computerish" 900 * 16, and 75000 is definitely more arbitrary than the nearest "round" limit of 65535.

As a relevant contrast, Knuth's TeX internally uses units of "scaled points" for dimensions, or 1/65536 of a point, and its point is defined as 1/72.27 inch so its precision is approximately 5.36um, and the maximum dimension of a page is 1073741823 scaled points, or approximately 5.758m.
Ah, the F2P (free-to-play) model. Indeed I’m surprised that microtransactions and pay-to-win type dark patterns have mostly not been adopted on the internet at large. And loot boxes! Can’t forget loot boxes.
I pay $10 a month to my masto instance. They do a superb job.

Is that the best way? No clue. But I'm glad to chip in.
> "I grew up changing the channel on TV when ads came on, and ripping adverts out of magazines before sitting down to read them."

Ultimately, this is the thing that matters. Back when I was a kid, I muted the TV or changed the channel during the ads break. Imagine if the technology had existed back then to prevent me from muting the sound or changing channels!

Imagine... just imagine if ads were broadcast directly to your brain like in Minority Report. Would people here also defend the advertisers, "you can't have stuff for free!".

Ultimately, I don't want to see ads. I'm sorry that so much of the current "freemium" web wants me to see ads, because I don't.

I pay for YouTube Premium because of several reasons, but before it I used an adblocker. I adblock the web.

When broadcast-ads-to-your-brain tech becomes real, I sure hope I'll be able to block it too.
>TSMC overwhelming won the 3nm node with the N3X process family, however, the 2nm node is undecided. TSMC N2, Intel 18A, and Samsung 2nm are very competitive on paper and should be ready for external customers in the same time frame. It will all depend on how the PDKs proceed. According to the ecosystem, customers are looking at all three processes so it is a three horse race which is great for the foundry business. No one enjoys a one horse race except for that one horse.

Seems like there's huge fight for 2nm, there are billions of dollars on the stake after all
For me the main barrier is that I want to have portable/roaming control over my IDENTITY, even if the content hosting is (for now) entirely through a system administered by someone else. If I control the identity, I can at least keep local copies and rehost/repost content later.

Instead, it feels like the current Fediverse demands that I make a blind choice to entrust not merely a copy of my content but also my whole future identity to whatever of these current instances looks the most stable/trustworthy at first glance, hoping my choice will be good for 1-5-10-15 years. It's stressful, and then I look into self-hosting, and then I put the whole thing off for another week...

AFAICT I would need to set up a whole federated node of my own in order to get that level of identity-control. Serious question: Is there any technical limitation preventing the admin of an instance from just seizing an particular account and permanently impersonating the original owner?

In contrast, I was hoping/expecting some kind of identity backed by a private asymmetric key. Even if signing every single message would be impractical, one could at least use it to prove "The person bob@banana.instance has the same private key that was used to initialize bob@apple.instance."
Used a different app but it died too rip I don't like the website so guess I'm done except when I need to Google something.
> This killed nitter.

I suspect that was the intent.
Mac hardware is better though. My HP Elitebook from last year is a pretty good device: good screen, solid build, nice glass touchpad, really great keyboard. But the screen resolution is only 1080p, the battery lasts for 6 hours and the fan noise is meh. These are quite expensive premium Windows laptops that cost somewhere between a MacBook Air and a MacBook Pro.

Overall I'm happy with my Windows laptop considering that the competition for a Windows laptop is not better, but MacBooks are really a lot better with battery life, screen quality and fan noise.
Here's an interesting video I just watched of someone making a hardware mod for existing controllers using a rotary encoder hall effect position sensor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAsrLxaAkY0
I check my local news station's website every day for good local news. It always has a big banner if there's relevant news like a weather warning, big road closure, fire, etc. The website is pure garbage and viewing it with an ad blocker is mandatory, but it at least loads without all the dark patterns like Twitter.
I'm surprised to hear that. I know that "AI superpower" is a punch line, but isn't Center for Intelligent Machines supposed to be at the heart of it?
Someone needs to make a dead simple “clipboard to URL on your server” shortcut/applet/script. If you have a domain you should t need Imgur.
Posting US propaganda is cringe.
Guess I'll just have to start using NewPipe on my desktop if ad blockers stop working.
> When refusal to take cybersecurity seriously results in 1/3 of Americans losing their identity

Part of the problem is that the term "identity theft" itself is spin to avoid addressing security problems.

As brilliantly pointed out by Mitchell & Webb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E
>Edit: sorry, Apollo wasn’t open source. That’s what happens when I make a post while two beers deep I guess.

Well, the server backend was recently opened:

https://github.com/christianselig/apollo-backend
Umm..

> Discourse is the 100% open source discussion platform built for the next decade of the Internet

Are you thinking of Discord?
Did he run your puppy over with a truck or something?
We want the same things, but please try to at least engage with me on the data and research. I don’t want the powers that be to crush us any more than you do. I care about people, and from what you’ve written I know you do too, so let’s tackle this the best we can with the information we have. I’m not trying to trick you, really
This is got to be reversed eventually because Twitter was a public square and now it is a closed square where every tweet is logged on who sees what.

Nearly everybody is going to be getting off of Twitter now. It no longer is what it used to be. A place where celebrities could brag about themselves publicly.

Remember, this is what influenced Facebook to open up and make all of the profiles public.

Mastodon and blue sky here we come.
This is an unreasonable set of goals, given that the current system (advertising) fails to avoid any of these issues.

Regardless of current issues with Reddit's business model, it does seem to have been particularly successful as a US/English repository of product knowledge, despite not having any specific strategies to deal with the problems you mention above.
Yes and it’s weird how weaning yourself off these things can go more easily than expected if you’re ”forced” to (because how you need to use the service changes too much for your tastes).

I think it speaks a lot about the _illusion of value_ these networks provide vs actual value.
And it will be a relief to have an option at the leading edge.
The "User attempting to steal online gameplay" bit came from Cliff Blezinski et al saying that splitscreen multiplayer and co-op was a mistake, because half the people who played didn't pay for the game. In the past ten years we have seen local multiplayer evaporate.

EDIT: The Kinnect had a microphone in it too
Lots of communities on Reddit have started the process of migrating to different platforms. The federated alternatives like Lemmy have had recent success although I question the complexity of it all in terms of getting mass adoption.
Most of the alternatives seem to be missing the core idea of what Reddit really is (a community of communities). I think first and foremost it's the community aspect of Reddit that makes it appealing.

I've been building a platform called Sociables which is intentionally not just another Reddit clone. We are trying to create an all-in-one place for people to create communities first and foremost and not just posts.

Here's an example of a community:

https://sociables.com/community/Sociables/board/trending
Scientists discover new deep-sea octopus nursery in Costa Rica
For them? Either be a part of a wider alerting system, or an app. Actual emergencies - push text messages to the area, FM/AM radio.

The second they should already know about / be a part of. Maybe email them to check?

For the first, it really depends what area you're in. Australia/Victoria for example has a state-wide https://www.emergency.vic.gov.au/respond/ which has its own app with location/severity based alerting. There may be something similar around you.
And what do you do with that produced C program?
People use xenforo now, which was created by some former developers of vbulletin so it’s very similar.
That is great. Now I need to buy a 65" Looking Glass display just to play this all day.
The alternative to responding with SWAT isn't to do nothing, it's to respond with a less dangerous force (two/three/four officers in-uniform, knocking). We could easily default to non-SWAT unless there's very good evidence (i.e. not a single unconfirmed phone call) to believe SWAT is needed. The same way no-knock warrants should be almost never allowed.

From your source 6 cops died in 2022 due to disorder/disturbance (domestic disturbance, civil disorder, etc.) - so 6 at most. So I don't think it's reasonable to think of that as a "big cause" of police deaths. Also, and this is a personal thing that annoys me, innocent people being shot/killed by police is strictly worse than police being shot/killed. Police are knowingly taking these risks, they're compensated for them, and they are wearing protective equipment. I'd rather a police officer be shot in a domestic dispute than a guy getting shot in a swatting incident.
While it rings rather hollow at this point, I still find NPR's description of how they differentiate "advertising" from "sponsor messages":

- no qualitative adjectives

That is, you can say "Foo Corp. makes high speed Gizblams that can help you and your family deal with the challenges of flamming" without it being an ad.

BUt if you say "Foo Corp. makes the best anti-flam devices", it's an ad.

I mean sure, it's sort of bullshit, but there's some sort of idea buried in there somewhere.
As a layman boglehead, what are the returns of doing trades like this as opposed to an index fund? I assume it either works or there enough money to hope it works, but really curious what the situation is.
> finding random invented constructs you have to reverse engineer and step through

Like functions and procedures?

I would pray that a good number of them are compile-time code transformers that execute in the comfortable development environment, so I don't have to reverse engineer and step through them on the embedded target.
Assuming social media companies are profitable via their normal services, then how they are hurt by downstream AI companies squeezing out a bit of leftover value? Because it feels like me being mad because I find out Jiffy Lube is making money reselling the used oil from my oil changes without giving me a cut.

I think it's a mistake to block third party providers from profiting from their service. First of all the hypocrisy in that all of these large companies exist because of massively profiting off of mostly uncompensated user-created content. Second, this drive toward relentlessly monetizing every aspect of your company's business is how we get degraded services like Microsoft putting ads in their search bar. It's one thing if a downstream OEM does it, I can just use an alternative OEM that doesn't shovelware the crap out of their product. But when the primary provider does it, then their service is permanently borked and eventually becomes unusable. So if the idea of blocking scrapers is because the goal is to eventually provide their own shitty AI services, I think Twitter et al are just going to end up killing their own geese -- making their own services unusable out of greed.
I'm pretty sure police are more likely to be shot than any other occupation. Logging is the most dangerous occupation of all, but I don't think any of them die from bullets. In contrast, police lives are at risk in brief high-stakes incidents that might require them to use a gun, or not use it, to save their own lives. All the other highly dangerous jobs involve pretty different risk models.

But that's why training of police is so important, and we as a society need to hold them to an incredibly high standard. But I think it's silly to tell police they shouldn't be jumpy because their occupation is safer than logging/fishing/piloting/roofing/etc.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7728020

DonHopkins on May 11, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Unix Haters Handbook (1994) [pdf]

[...]

The worst use of the <BLINK> tag ever was the discussion held in the early days of RSS about escaping HTML in titles, whose attention-grabbing title went something like this: "Hey, what happens when you put a <BLINK> tag in the title???!!!"

The content of that notorious discussion went on and off and on and off for weeks, giving all the netizens of the RSS community blogosphere terrible headaches, with people's entire blogs disappearing and reappearing every second, until it finally reached a flashing point, when Dave Winer humbly conceded that it wasn't the user's fault for being an idiot, and maybe just maybe there was tiny teeny little design flaw in RSS, and it wasn't actually such a great idea to allow HTML tags in RSS titles.
Why would you want the link to work?

It cannot possibly be anything other than some rando opinion piece about social media posts from two androids now controlling Internet megaphones, that they oversee in a way that hopes to deflect any kind of dissent. Megaphones that can be algo-tuned to their whims without oversight.

Meta (let's be real, it'll always be FB), has an Oversight Board. Great. I'm sure they are going to be able to deal with the posts of ~3B human/bot accounts in real time.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but 2nm etc haven’t actually meant anything except “generation” for some time (except going down by 1 instead of up for marketing purposes).

So do they have a plan for 2 generations from now with respect to naming or are they really going to start marketing 0 or negative “nm” nodes?
not really, it is in fact generating lies automatically
It’s depressing to me how few folks are willing to tolerate “meandering prose” from folks they respect.

There seems to be a complete lack of understanding that this approach has been powerful for so many.

It seems to me that hardly anyone anymore understands or tolerated fruitful historical processes for creating systems of ideas.

Which, incidentally, involves reading.
Are there any specific white label solutions that you would recommend?
I still do, though I hardly watch much regular TV anymore. Can’t listen to a radio either, not enough music in between stations to get away from ads.

I pay for a few subscription services and get my entertainment _mostly_ ad free. Unfortunately there’s no similar subscription I can buy to escape advertising as I walk down the street.
Turned out that one was, as you said, a totally unrelated toy language, nothing like this hurl.dev one.
Men don't care what's on TV. They only care what else is on TV.
Is there a demo instance?
Yeah, wasn’t that a major hoopla before? Removing the forced login prompt? Making it optional, then removing it, but now re-adding it even worse.
Since the Apollo dev broke the news, I'm trying out Lemmy and it's an interesting alternative. Definitely too new to say what will happen to it, but looks promising.
If this is Linda Yaccarino's first major policy decision as CEO then it's not looking good. I really don't know what they (corporate) can do at this point.
"The internet" isn't in their hands, the "Pop Web" (eg, pop music) is. Plenty of other internet out there, it's just time for people to start paying attention to it again.
This is true of any medium in any free society. The net has nothing to do with it. It certainly isn’t capable of interpreting some website action as censorship. It’s not sentient. And there’s no dynamic network routing/damage at play here. It’s just people going somewhere else.
Every keypress is a history navigation!!! What madness is this?
I.e. they are being prosecuted not because they were "incompetent and got hacked", but that they then "tried to cover it up"

Capone was taken down for tax evasion. Any tool we have, is a good one.

And the more shareholders and board members feel lax security could lead to a bad path (eg hiding the result), the better for all.

I can hardly wait for the first civil lawsuits, for any such incident, by shareholders over negligence and loss of value.

I can hardly wait until everyone had to provide a license validation for all code they use, so we can finally put node crap to rest.