skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s a different type of wealth mobility than I usually see - usually low wealth mobility is saying that if your parents are poor, then you’re unlikely to change that for yourself. But this seems to be saying something much weaker - that the older you are, the less likely you are to change your status. Which, yeah, most peoples’ path gets more and more set over time. I’m not sure that’s something we should be trying hard to change? The goal is usually to make it so people have a shot at determining their own path, which this doesn’t seem to say isn’t the case.

Just saying that a carbon tax would be inherently redistributive, and also give lower income people more negotiating power. And more importantly, short of an energy breakthrough that makes fossil fuel uncompetitive, it’s the best hope we have against climate change.

Most people generally really dislike wealth taxes. They’re inherently intrusive.
I've wondered about a federated web comments system for a while. At least that makes moderation someone else's problem, lol.
But if you need to make an update to a core system that'll necessitate updating the tests and you're back to flying blind.
I don't think so. In the context of tech feudalism maps really well. People cannot protect their own forums/communities running on their own hardware from attack and/or futureshock from rapid change in underlying libs. So everyone depends on single entities with enough resources to keep community software running.
I think AI content is terrible. But I think Gizmodo is worse. They’ve basically been doing manual AI content for years. A mix of blargh-speak, advertiser commissioned content, and just really bad and lazy authors who don’t have creative freedom to write.

I also don’t think consumers like the current content, but just end up there due to dark patterns and circular advertising. So the content doesn’t matter as all they do is trick people into “reading” enough to watch a pre roll or click a link or whatever they are monetizing.
> Serializing is IO-bound

Once upon a time, DMA did not meaningfully exist in the x86 world, so an IO-bound task was also CPU-bound.
You are of course already allowed to not buy the phone if you hate everything it is.
buddhist countries had feudalism
The surprising upside of climate migration
You can federate whether you want, but the key take is people have to actually host it to avoid big FAANG
I feel these used/screen-broken phones are an under-used ressource that have usually a much better specs/prize ratio, but are held back by the lack of documentation (and lack of support from distros? Raspberry Pi OS is quite solid).

Has anyone turned one of those into a home-server? If so, which steps have you followed?
The endgame of an unregulated market is multiple markets which are now regulated by companies (platform owners).
VPSs in germany are much cheaper.
But I'm guessing this increase is paid with crypto or debit cards so pin pointing it to a specific provider like hetzner is hard
Don't miss Part II [0], which (not to discount the quality of Part I) is much less elementary and much more interesting.

[0] https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~plragde/flane/FICS2/
Once I learned that Android was supposed to be a BlackBerry OS clone that got pivoted at the last minute in a panic to compete with iOS it all makes sense.
I would avoid the use of the term "Dark Ages". It has always been a loaded term (popular with those who had or have an ax to grind against the Church, like Protestants and Enlightenment propagandists) and characterizes our own ignorance better than the time period itself. The Renaissance itself is better understood as a development of the Middle Ages. The continuity and interplay of cultural currents during the Middle Ages/Renaissance are far more interesting than the simplistic, boring, and tendentious presentation we're often taught in school (Middle Ages = bad, backwards, ignorant; Renaissance = good, progressive, enlightened). For example, while empirical science saw a development during the Renaissance, it depended on prior intellectual of the Scholastic period, itself marked by a good deal of philosophical rigor, for lack of a better term (a rigor unjustly mocked by Protestants, surviving to this day in expressions involving the number of angels on the head of a pin). Whatever the merits of the Renaissance and faults of the Middle Ages, philosophically, the Renaissance falls short of the Middle Ages.
You don't need Windows for "computing"… seems like overly complicating things.
Question: Has anyone thought of measuring velocity, performance and outcomes of management?

Why do only engineers need to be tracked and measured when reality is that systemic issues caused by managers have more of a negative impact?
I’d Love a Dumb Phone, But
What will we do with a completed connectome?

Imagine handing a late 1800s scholar a modern processor. Give him a wiring diagram, and a voltmeter. What could he learn from it?

The connectome will be a big step, but not the penultimate one, in solving human intelligence.
How do you install the userChrome.CSS automatically? As far as I know it needs to be placed in a folder containing a hash that's only generated at firefox first launch.

At some point if you want to configure everything with your own shell script it will be a nightmare to maintain, NixOS is easy to learn in comparison.
Thanks! Same; I've been coming to HN for books to read for years and finally got them in one place. I plan to extend the functionality there in the future :D
Thanks for zooming out and sharing these questions that challenge pg’s assumption from the beginning. I felt caught in the essay’s ethos and throngs the moment I started reading. This helps me pause
It's a lazy pejorative, like "fascist".
EU? Basically researchers tries to get PII from people connected to Tor without consent of these people.
moderators got what are they wanting the most - power over their little garden where they can do whatever the f they want with people.
they mad now realising their power was not absolute and they can be kicked out of community the same way they regularly kick their peasants.
Your "compensation" is you get to use Reddit. They wrote the software, run the servers, manage the user accounts, by nature of their product and brand bring people to the site and then your sub (and potentially others).

Let's not act like Reddit itself hasn't been extremely valuable to these communities. It's just untrue that the mods do the only important work to build subreddits.

A lot of subs I'm in have low touch mods and I'm fairly sure if they didn't do it someone else easily would have. Hasn't dropped them from thinking they had fiat power and rights to shut down the subreddit despite many active users wishing to continue using Reddit.
You don't need to control the moderators to control the moderators. You need to control the moderators to control the readership at large.
I love flattened ASTs. One of my favorite uses of them is for inline markup in pulldown-cmark (see [1] for a brief description).

Here's a sketch of the problem being solved. The raw input is broken into a sequence of nodes, and something like * is turned into a "MaybeEmphasis" node, as it has the potential to turn into emphasis, or remain text if no match for it is found.

Another pass goes through those nodes in sequence, using a stack to find potential matches (the rules for whether a pair of such nodes actually match are quite fiddly and complicated). When a match is found, the MaybeEmphasis node is turned into the appropriate emphasis node, and the entire sequence of nodes between open and close is snipped out and made into a subtree of the new node. This is a somewhat unusual tree transformation, and a straightforward implementation could easily be O(n). But with the flattened AST representation, it can all be done O(1), no matter the number of nodes or stack depth.

For those interested in details, the tree representation is in [2] - there's basically a "child" and "next" index along with the node body - and the tree surgery on emphasis match is in [3].

The performance is excellent. I think pulldown-cmark may not be the single fastest CommonMark parser out there, but it's certainly competitive, and a lot faster than approaches that do, for example, an allocation per node.

[1]: https://fullyfaithful.eu/pulldown-cmark/

[2]: https://github.com/raphlinus/pulldown-cmark/blob/b7e709c0bd6...

[3]: https://github.com/raphlinus/pulldown-cmark/blob/b7e709c0bd6...
The current, very low RDA of 400-800 IU is based on a statistical error in the analysis done by the Institute of Medicine back in the 1960s; see "The Big Vitamin D Mistake" [1].

Finnish researchers have determined that the previously recommended serum concentration of 50 nmol/L should probably be adjusted much higher, probably closer to 100 nmol/L, at the very least to 70 nmol/L. For adults, especially those living in the higher latitudes, that requires around 8,000-10,000 IU per day.

Nobody has done more research on vitamin D than the Finns. Back when the low RDA was adopted (pretty much worldwide), Finland saw an increasing rate of rickets and type 1 diabetes. After they started fortifying milk with vitamin D in the early 2000s, rates have fallen significantly.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5541280/
You can’t pay rent with karma or Reddit gold.
A larger number of smaller firms each supporting the consumer scale they can sustainably and profitably support instead of selling below cost to capture the entire market then turning into hell when the bill comes due.
On your repo, it is Apache-Licensed.

Where's the sources?
Will you be releasing source-code version of this?
I think the point is that 0.5 is 1/2, and the 5 digit only appears because of our base 10 presentation of numbers.
Perhaps you didn’t have controversial views in the past 3 years. Ideas that one was banned for as recently as last year under the umbrella of misinformation are now acceptable and even common knowledge in some cases. That’s real mass suppression of discourse. This has an effect on social networks. (Edit: the suppression continues. The original thread is flagged right now. It said the campaign against “misinformation” led to the crazy situation on Reddit and Twitter that we have today.)

Think of it like a seismograph [0]. A violent swing in one direction is proceeded by a violent swing in the other direction. We’re living through the big swings right now.

I think it’s reductive to blame a single person. The people at the top are usually vessels for the people’s energy anyways. That’s why running these institutions is so hard, because you constantly feel powerless even though you’re responsible for making all the decisions.

We should find ways to settle each other, and I think that starts with setting ourselves and those close to us like our family and friends.

The world is a bit shaky!

[0] https://www.mtu.edu/geo/community/seismology/learn/seismolog...
I’ve wanted a general annotation tool for websites (and email messages) that would be private. It would be nice to be able to attach a note to a message in my inbox about why I’m holding onto it, or to be able to have persistent highlights and annotations on webpages. I guess I’ll just keep dreaming.
lmao if the west really wanted to help Africa or Asia in the name of lifting everyone on the globe out of poverty it would be something like Marshall plan & how EU is integrating the balkans (Marshall plan in todays dollars is like 130 billion :))
But seeing as it is no longer 2010, what is the public's appetite for yet another twitter-like app?
Ostensibly they are similar but there are some old threads also about how [bluesky TOS gives license to all your content](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35755501). Also, Bluesky is run by a private company. Mastodon and Bluesky have different ideologies behind them.
Any UX changes to something like Brave browser perhaps? Making it easier to use tor mode. Although this is a big jump.
What’s the ownership of code that’s translated into another programming language by a human, given that usually there’s not a complete 1:1 of all features, so some of it will need to be rewritten?
> Germany is blocking news from French riots.

What are you on about? The riots in France are on pretty much every news site in Germany.
Implementing a C-like for loop in Python
If we're talking about the United States, it's not an oxymoron at all. I've got some extremely profitable 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations I could show you. Autism Speaks comes to mind. They may not be making money for public shareholders, but they're making a lot of money for the people who run them, all the same.

Also plenty of organizations look like businesses in every way except their tax status. Thrift stores, for example. Goodwill isn't a nonprofit anymore, but even when it was it also employed all the same abusive labor practices and suchlike that you'd expect from a for-profit business.
You speak mostly of not getting attached. Which is mostly a method not to build negative karma in Buddhism and build positive karma. But positive karma is not a goal in itself in Buddhism, realization is.

The Madhyamaka way, translated to the great middle way, mostly refers to combining freedom & meaning from emptiness. Meaning things are neither real, nor or they an illusion. Therefore the middle.

This is because understanding emptiness often leads to nihilism: "nothing really matters". The opposite seeing things as real, instead of acknowledging everything is changing, often leads to suffering: if laptop breaks, relationships end etc. Both are true and both are false.

The goal of madhymaka is to explain middle way between those and also practical how that leads to freedom, joy and meaning in every moment of life.

In the end the goal of Buddhism is not to change outer conditions but to get to a state were hapiness is experienced regardless of outer experiences.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhyamaka
ThriftBooks is on Amazon:

ThriftBooks Atlanta storefront: https://www.amazon.com/s?i=merchant-items&me=A1QJ4UH6FW3UH1

ThriftBooks Chicago storefront: https://www.amazon.com/s?i=merchant-items&me=A365C2XG0O7B0H

Might also be possible to purchase a Visa gift card for a little extra, and then try the official Thriftbooks site:

https://www.thriftbooks.com

With the converted gift card, Humble Bundle (ebooks):

https://www.humblebundle.com/books

Math and CS concepts rarely expire.
Yep. Any community that is run as a single business will eventually enshittify. Cut the gordian knot by avoiding all commercial or even incorporated entities for community communication. The incentives of incorporated entities, like the assumption that making a profit is required in all contexts just because they apply in business contexts, just don't align with human persons or communities.
Protecting Australia’s Most Charismatic Murder-Bird
They literally had Hideo Kojima, one of the most celebrated game developers of all time, featured in the WWDC keynote.
I had created a browser extension that does the same thing: https://everycomment.top

The biggest reason why I built it was to be able to get insight from a community on every site. Most web sites don't have comments and some filter a lot so I wanted to have a platform where the website owner can't modify or change the comments from people.

I didn't work on finding users though and it has about 10 people using it.
It’s called a BOM. But unwieldy to use in this context.
I have two beautiful Trinitrons and though they are both 480i they draw as fast as the console tells the electron beam to shoot and i wouldn't trade them for anything. May i interest you in a game of Duck Hunt?
There's a chrome extension for that: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/what-hacker-news-s...
It actually does? Compared to designing a freaking missile.
This is not an intentional indication of activity, but rather just of power.
Huh? I've never really understood this metaphor.

Take any photograph in Photoshop. First, save one copy of it as a compressed JPG.

Now, on the original, add a small densely repeating tiled pattern multiplied on top as a layer. Like a halftone effect, dot texture, whatever. Technically you're adding more order and less chaos. The resulting image won't compress as efficiently.
Entertainment is one piece, but the control of information and narrative is far more critical. Think election victory or losses, capital city riots, business boycots, and opinions towards LGBTQ+ etc. I've always believed flesh and blood died in wars but the war was really over thinking. In today's insular, isolated, community-deprived world, your social media (for many people at least) is their only way to interact with or understand the world at all.
That GAU does help with morale though.
the nature of the fences and punishment, have changed.. agree
Sometimes I wish we didn't end up with flat address spaces. The "virtual memory" technique allows us to stitch fragmented regions of physical memory into a contiguous region of virtual memory and if virtual address space was segmented, it simply would not ever become fragmented; any memory region could always be grown in-place, without intersecting with any other region, so realloc() implementations could just drop their memcopy() paths... oh well.
Ectropy has been suggested, but the term is not in common use.
No one I know has had issues like that. They also don’t spam, but Hetzner is generally considered in ny circles to be a pretty newbie-friendly service especially for people looking to use basic baremetal machines. Maybe we’ve just gotten lucky, or maybe we all hail from the right geographies.
The Antagonistic Hallmarks of Aging and Potential Interventions
I’m still surprised that Meta is planning on using ActivityPub instead of atproto
I think the most obvious causes of obesity are known - higher than needed caloric intake and lack of any activity. All the other factors are piled on top of those two simple facts as to why people cannot work on either or both of those two facts.

>> For the morbidly obese, exercise carries risk too — to joints and the heart, for instance.

All exercise? Like simply walking 1/2 to 3 miles per day at a leisurely pace? Being morbidly obese carries way more risk, and no amount of meds will help someone who can't bring themselves to even walk somewhere.

I know one person who was morbidly obese, had the surgery to limit their capacity to eat, and yes, they look better in clothes, but they are on a ton of meds, and they refuse to walk more. I was in Mekkah and they took the electric cart instead of walking during umrah.

Anyone I know who is on mental and/or diet pills are not doing well even after years of following this advice. I don't see the long-term benefits. Hell, I just read an add for some heart supplements on Amazon where people say, "I've been taking it for a week, and I don't feel anything yet." The instant gratification of social media and modern conveniences have softened everyone from taking some self responsibility and applying some self discipline. We can't save everyone who is self destructing. Big Pharma is sure making out like a bandit. Last I had cable TV over 10 years ago, all it had were ads for pills with the cliche afterword on the side effects in lower volume and spoken much more quickly. Isn't it obvious?
He may be tenacious, or at least has been in the past. And TBH I hope that Twitter succeeds, but it's becoming pretty clear that my definition of success is different than his.
This Slovak's autogyro is licensed to fly or drive
Time is just one possible meaning you can assign to a dimension if it's convenient for you to do so in order to model a problem.
yeah, precisely as I laid out in my post too. But Brian Armstrong took the "build what I want" option when it came to a "decision that could be life changing to thousands of people"
have you got any kids?
I'm 30 and one of my biggest worries is that starting a family will mean I will never get the time to do great things.
I also got a fair share of skills under my belt and a lot of motivation. My relationship always ends to taking time away from my projects however and that's only going to get worse once there's a kid 5 years down the road.

Then again Bach had a lot of kids, and look at the body of his work.
For the people making a living off YouTube it's a lot clearer how the power relations work
Curiosity mostly: is there any public knowledge on the sort of tech stack they use?
Everyone absolutely ADORED Twitter during its “fail whale” years
Alt-F4 #65 – Factorio visualizer in Unreal Engine 5
Anyone can download it and try it out. https://www.Didgets.com
> who's gonna defend anyone from an unscrupulous butcher selling someone cat meat, and stuff, Like, no one. That's how it is everywhere else in the world.

What? Don't you have trading standards officers (UK) or something similar in your part of the world? Or something like Mattilsynet in Norway? These organizations are responsible for exactly that kind of policing.
I also recommend https://cryptohack.org to practice exploiting common cryptographic vulnerabilities.
Those machines are pretty nice though. Great for “base load” (handling the scale you almost never go below).
I'm pretty sure there's no such thing as an "acid mine"?
Right or not, /u/spez* really needs to stop relying so strongly on the 'techniques' of the "Marie Antoinette" School of PR**.

* AKA "Steve Antoinette"

** Yes, Antoinette was, really, particularly unfairly maligned and the enduring "PR failure" around her is a more complex and "apocryphal" case-study - but, whether understood this way or in the common vernacular sense, the point holds. See, e.g. and as a starting point: https://guides.loc.gov/women-in-the-french-revolution/marie-...
ouch for jongjong's argument
I see status 429 (Too Many Requests)

that is definitely frontend error
Nothing personal, but people not aware of where these concepts came from in distributed computing history is annoying, and I don't like repeating myself:

http://erights.org/elib/distrib/captp/index.html
No, not really, and I don't think the other reply about it being a 0th dimension makes much sense either. The key word is `spacial-dimensions`, whenever math talks about just spacial dimensions, there is no time dimension. In other words, a 0-dimensional 'world' would just be a point, 1 dimensional a line, etc. In something like flatland, where there are living beings, of course there would be a time dimension. But if you are just talking about the volume of shapes, all the dimensions are spacial. So when we go from 3D -> 4D in this scenario, we are adding an extra spacial dimension perpendicular to all the other 3. The idea that 4th D is time is more of something from physics, although the fact that we call it the 4th dimension doesn't mean much, it could be called 1st 2nd 3rd dimension and then a spacial one gets moved to a different number.
The most notable recent _political_ prosecution would be the Lina E. trial: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Lina_E.
H1B people can and do jump ship. The bigger issue was Twitter laid off so many people it was a poor time to look for a new job.
The risks are that one is in a very vulnerable state mentally.

The more popular psychedelics become the more bad actors will take advantage of this.

A trip sitter is a great idea in theory but just rarely actually happens.

The deepest thing I have learned on psychedelics though is that the very idea there are experiences that are "fun" and experiences that are "spiritual" is complete nonsense. The person sitting alone in a room on a spiritual quest of some sort looking down on the person dancing at a rave is an utter fool.
https://orgmode.org/quickstart.html

I’d say you’re mostly right. I’ve used org mode a lot in the past. Now I use One Note, which I’m sure would draw a lot of complaints from this group, but it works for me. I think use whatever works best for you, try different things and stick with what you end up liking.
I don't get it. Surely if you ever needed to, you could write an interpreter for loading tbe older files if you decided to abandon this 1:1 representation?