skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dear god it's not even the data mining that I find disturbing. It's the blatant manipulation, the locked/closed spaces that can't be searched or linked to, the deliberate cultivation of outrage or other engagement hacks, crappy moderation, etc. etc.

I got put in Facebook jail for a month for posting an "indecent photo" which was just a picture of my son at the beach in his bathing suit that some algorithm misidentified... when I appealed, they punished me even harder; but when I report actual neo-NAZI content, death threats, disturbing content, illegal sales on marketplace... reports rejected.

I miss the fantasy we had about the web in 90s. How naive we were.
Well they carry all sorts of bad stuff, and recently have been found to cross blood brain barrier.
threads dot net was also taken, clearly from the gp post. I think they (fb/meta) prob reached out to both and the made an offer that couldn't refuse.
Wow! Would love to compare this to Flume! Been using it for some time but can’t quite catch one tiny leak I have
Not that I doubt this, because it seemed inevitable to my outsider eyes, but do you have any proof of that?

I’d recommend getting off of Evernote anyway due to trends. However, is there evidence that this is newly urgent?
Fortunately Meta has chickens and eggs. Bootstrapping the graph from Instagram hopefully means that Threads gets enough critical mass that Twitter->Threads tooling (ala Mastodon's Movetodon or Debirdify) will actually work becausethe people you follow on Twitter will already be on Threads when you run them.
I don't think so at all and the evidence points to a profound stagnation in our ability to build. So, if we can't even admit that we're terrible at building fast, there is very little hope. Step No. 1 is admission and introspection:

https://www.fullstackeconomics.com/p/why-america-cant-build-...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/25/us/california-high-speed-...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/05/opinion/economy-construct...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/04/opinion/manufacturing-uni...

https://www.palladiummag.com/2022/06/09/why-america-cant-bui...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/infrastructure-us-costly-explai...

https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/19/why-cant-we-build-anything...
You can't maximize profit without customers, they must be aligned with someone.
It’s also politically hard, in that the organisations best positioned to build these attribution tools have large incentives not to do so.
OpenAI is forming a new team to bring ‘superintelligent’ AI under control
There have been stories of how convoluted and practically impossible the unsubscribe process from Amazon Prime is.

At almost every step, the system sort of nags you with "Do you REALLY want to do this?" almost with a trolling attitude!

If this is the case with proper big tech capitalist, think what will the scenario be with smaller pleb capitalists like Evernote in this grave recession.
Metalium is really a fantastic resource and this is despite how gatekeep-y the people that run/maintain that site can be. The laundry list of bands they exclude because they deem them "not metal enough" is regularly baffling.
I love GitHub but I sure wish its code review functionality was much, much better. Doing complex code reviews is really painful.
Woodriver is certainly cheaper than LV. Are you comparing woodriver
tools to any of the brands in the LV catalog? Or strictly comparing them to the Veritas tools? I think a lot of the no name tools in the LV catalog are over priced and of questionable quality. But I do not think woodriver is on par with anything that says Veritas.
Software is never done if the software it runs on is never done. Making that transition is not easy, and tech debt can accumulate to the point where you have to make substantial changes. In the meantime, UI standards/tastes change. Now you're at the right spot for a re-write
The Tyranny of the Tale
I… don’t really follow this take? I agree that Lee Valley occupies a position at the top of the market, but I don’t think it’s about luxury, at all. My father was a cabinet maker, my mother a school teacher. They built their own home in the countryside, grew much of their own food, and could not have been less interested in “luxury” in any familiar sense of the word; but the shop and house is full of stuff from Lee Valley, because it is consistently high quality, and they don’t like buying stuff that gets thrown away.

I think your comment maybe conflates quality with luxury?
Glad to see Sense here!
Been using it for 3+ years and am surprised how good it detects electrical appliances and other typical stuff.

Do you have any plans regarding always on load? So hard to track it down…
I didn't mean that using it alongside means blindly trusting it.

I think its far quick to read the code than write those 15 lines of code generally, especially for those type of code snippets. It also is a less stressful and takes very little mental energy to do so (if you already are familiar with the language and codebase)

> I am still learning how to distinguish the cases in which it is not even a good idea to involve it and when it can be somewhat trusted.

Interesting, can comments of that code block being generated by some AI tool be more helpful in your case? Sure it generally isn't' that nuanced and mostly isn't in isolation but labeling the major parts of code like generated data structures, generated functions might be easier to deal with.
I already ejected out by not setting up the hooks to begin with. No problem!

The problem with hooks is that inevitably the smartass who sets them up thinks they're clever and makes the hooks so elaborate that they are borderline inaccessible outside of the hook themselves. Just put the linter in the lint build rule. I'm an adult, I can run builds and tests and lints myself. I'm fully capable of ensuring my code is of sufficient quality prior to CI.

If you're not capable of that, then certainly do what you need to. Having others help you is great as well. It's always a good to make things easy to get right out of the box.

But don't make your problem my problem.
In most of the states
I agree, but I can understand wanting it narrowed down to a single org.
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I reserve my True Name anywhere I can, even if I don't think I'll use the service. If I can't get it, it's very likely I'll never use the service.
There's definitely a lot of truth here & valuable perspective.

Given what a sensationalistic heavily spun story the other side of the media was rolling with, it is a bit hard to imagine who is going to step up & grab the third rail to make a case here. The whole story starts & ends with selectively chosen soundbites being used to wreck & ruin a name, and signing up to be the next target in this kind of a sniper war is terrifying; even if you can form ranks it's unclear that your constituents won't see only the worst-most spun forms of your defense. It's a problem with democracy in general that nuance & perspective don't convey nearly as well, are much harder cases to build than attention grabbing soundbites.

I can definitely appreciate the value of 1 part federal consent laws, as enabling folks to help bring to light the bad in this world. Sunlight is the greatest disinfectant & all that. That this was such murky shit doesn't really change that basis. Still, it's quite disappointing to see what seems, to me, like such an off-base & illegitimate Federal ruling used to so broadly undermine State legislature. Using the fact that this law allowed recording of the police & felonies endangering human life as the sole basis - because that's discriminatory - to say it's unfair & entirely has to be ended seems absurd.
Exactly, the ruling does not affect phonecalls.
I feel like the Facebook Messenger XMPP support is a better example -- but it's hard to find any reference to it remaining outside of the internet archive. Even this old HN thread about its death leads to a dead end (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9266769).

8 years doesn't feel like long enough for this extremely relevant example of Facebook closing support for an open protocol to have vanished.
The samsung phone app does support call recording and does not make any announcement about recording to the other party
We don't have a working fusion reactor. We do have working electrolyzers and fuel cells. This is night and day difference.

Electrolyzer and fuel cells are electrochemical systems and are basically batteries themselves. There is no fundamental downside compared to choosing some other electrochemical system. People are just swallowing the FUD and marketing BS of li-ion battery companies. There simply isn't a big enough difference in efficiency for this to matter to begin with, and even then the gap will shrink away to nothing. For instance, for large installations it is already possible to do heat-recapture and use that heat to drive a turbine. We can see 85% efficiency and above pretty much right now. We are going to see more ideas like that and therefore there won't much of any real difference in efficiency.

The other point is that we are not here to just replace fossil fuels with something just as limited and problematic. The goal is to move all of society to something truly sustainable. In fact, if the goal is to replace every single vehicle on Earth with BEVs, then the goal is already a dead one. It would be both absurdly expensive and environmentally damaging to attempt that feat. As a result, we pretty much have to invest in hydrogen eventually anyways. So we might as well do so now, rather than keep spending everything on what is basically a transitional technology.
Why did they rewrite?
"room" for the bike was metonymic for "room" in your budget
I don't think I agree. What §108 allows libraries to do, and what §107 will shield individuals from liability for, are related but separate topics.

Charitably, I could maybe see how the library's notice might cause confusion to someone who only skims it. However, upon close reading, it's very clear that they first talk about the conditions the library is bound by in order to use the authorization under §108, and then talk about individual liability if the individual exceeds fair use under §107.

In my view, both their summary of §108 and their reference to §107 are cogent and neither is false. As a result, I believe it's incorrect to say that they are lying (and I believe the question mark should have remained).

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100m of washed trades a day, plus not stated is how much they really had
If anything, my confidence gets lower as I get more experience. The amount of politics, power jockeying, engineers who hide behind decisions as if they were technical only to be highly personal preferences, how many people reject simplicity and prefer complexity while calling it simple, lack of documentation, etc.

It just all makes me feel like I don't belong in the field. It's all so overwhelming and complicated, and any attempt to try to make something more simple or documented is fruitless if even accepted. People just can't see to be able to wrap the idea around their heads that one thing doing one thing is simple and not "tedious" or "verbose".

The reason why my confidence lowers is that everyone else is seemingly okay with all of this and continuing along the trend. Meanwhile, I feel like I'm just continuing to participate in building giant balls of mud that just barely work and are just barely understandable. So there's an impedance mismatch, and I face it so much, I just have to wonder if it's me, that I'm not smart enough to push through all the cruft or figure things out or just don't understand how to design. Thus, the low confidence. It's just all very confusing.

I would be somewhat suspicious of anyone in software engineering who purports to having figured it all out or having confidence in the field.
They're aligned with the military-industrial complex. The US military is one of the biggest consumers of fossil fuels[1] and it's the same with other nations and their energy use. So profitable is not the same as aligned with human values.

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_usage_of_the_United_S...
I don’t accept that. If those procedures are failing, then someone should be getting 5xx alerts. Before they started failing, unit and integration tests should’ve been raising alarms.

A site that remains persistently broken has a lot more wrong with it than just some software bugs.
I thought the same thing… quite the irony
> Are we to believe that if you authenticate a plug-in into your session you are okaying it to do any of its supported operations, even at wildly unexpected times, and this is considered “in the loop?”

Here, someone chose to run code and give it credentials. The code was designed, among other things, to let ChatGPT open issues. They were surprised when the code opened an issue on behalf of ChatGPT using the user's credential.

When you run code on a computer designed to do X and give it credentials sufficient to do X, you may expect that X may occur. This isn't really an AI issue.

Code hooked to a LLM that does durable actions in the real world should probably ask for human confirmation. It's probably a good practice of plugin developers to have some distinction similar to GET vs. POST.

Most code that would automatically open issues on GitHub should probably ask for human confirmation. There's some good use cases that shouldn't, including some with LLMs involved -- but asking is a sane default.

I remember being surprised when I ran a program and it sent a few hundred emails once.
Writing (parts of) an operating system, networking stack, interpreter, and text editor. It dispels all the magic.

Getting over the whole idea of beautiful or perfect code. Realizing that code is a medium of expression and that there is no single right way to do everything. Beginning to think of code as a clay-like medium rather than literary prose that needs to be beautiful like a cathedral.

Seeing how some of the most experienced and productive programmers do things in extremely simple straightforward ways, with no unnecessary cleverness, indirection, abstraction, or anything like that.

Seeing how linus torvalds is right. It's really all about the data structures. Once I understand the data structures and their relationships, I can understand any system. Dispelling the myth that some things are just "too complicated". Almost every problem or system I've ever come across can be reduced to a page of data structures.

Realizing the power of fast feedback loops. How just about any requirement or problem can be expressed as a test case. And that once you have the test case you can fix anything.
I agree. You need to have prepared stories for the standard questions, and you need to be able to convincingly bullshit on questions you didn't prepare for.
That's exactly how I feel. If you look at the responses to my original comment, it's mostly unclear rambling or extremely mild exceptions. "Bad incentives", "weird decisions", "needing an account". My experience has been perfectly fine. I haven't seen anything I'd consider far-right or extremist, I don't pay a cent, I haven't hit a 1000-post daily limit because I have no use for 1000 Tweets in one day, and I've found a few new interesting groups of accounts to follow (mostly AI). When I hear some of these apparent negatives, I really don't understand what they mean or how that impacts anyone's actual user experience.
Will be interesting to see if electric car charging at night screws up their current economic model.
Yeah but there's also a chronological timeline option that just doesn't show me people I don't follow.
> Bertyar88 never managed to withdraw his funds - his account never got unbanned, and his withdrawal was never processed.

Seems like theft -- was Bertyar88 doing something wrong here?
You can check out any time you like

But you can never leave

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ZenStack provides toolkit that simplifies the development of a web app's backend, which makes customer to focus on his business logic. Great tool!
I panicked before my first job. It was in .NET and I bought a couple of large books about the subject and read them. Then to get on the job and eventually realize a lot of the other people were hacks who didn't understand the technology they were working with.
Counter point: Autocracies are actually extremely efficient, but we don't like to admit that. So, we come up with various narratives.

Let's be honest, there is plenty of corruption in democracies and autocracies are pretty damn good at infrastructure. Just not an ideal governing structure for individual freedom and things like property rights which we value higher than efficiency of building things fast.
For a community of entrepreneurs who understand iteration to find product-market fit, the comments here are very shortsighted. I'm pretty sure they won't age well.

No competitor could ask for a better time to launch with Twitter and Reddit users disaffected.

FB have the experience, reach, resources and timing to win here. Their biggest problems will be other well-funded attempts, but I can't think of any other blue-chips with the same experience or initial advantages (eg social userbase) to bootstrap with.

I'll be buying some FB shares later.
>What was wrong with mastadon?

It doesn't make Meta any money. Can't you see how wrong that is?
It was interesting to see this fact crop up with the reddit vs. Appolo debacle.
"Fake it till you make it" feels like the current AI strategy. Now that the ChatGPT hype cycle has calmed to a simmer, we'll see what real world utility sticks around from the hype cycle.
>To be fair, simply being server a company that's easy to deal with is enough of a differentiator in this space. Would absolutely blindly buy from them just to avoid having to deal with HPE/Dell

I'm in the server business (within a very specific niche). I wish I could find more people like you.
We are designing some turnkey programmable ECU products that suit a range of applications such as low volume electric vehicles, motorbikes, hobby cars, watercraft etc.

They are programmable using visual tools that have some guarantees ie generated code won’t crash.

The ecosystem will provide some additional tools such as data logger and OTA updates with a subscription.

Hardware design 80% complete. The software will be difficult.
This is a wonderful writeup albeit with a sad ending.

> Bertyar88 never managed to withdraw his funds - his account never got unbanned, and his withdrawal was never processed.

> However, he can at least comfort himself with the fact that he single-handedly managed to take down a $100M volume/day crypto exchange - with just $1,000 in savings, and 1,000 lines of Python.
I went from San Fransisco to Shenzhen. This is the kind of lies Americans tell themselves to make themselves feel better. Chinese infrastructure is 2-3 decades ahead of US in major cities - the only way you to deny this is to put your head in the sand.
Very few commenters seem to realize that this decision affects only "States prohibiting recording without providing notice
to or obtaining consent from the recording’s subjects
when created in a place where the subjects lack a
reasonable expectation of privacy“ (e.g. when talking in public).

Which is only 5 states: Alaska, Kentucky, Montana, Massachusetts and Oregon.

https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2023/07/03/2...
The permissions[1] the android app wants are rather terrifying. Think I'll pass.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/datasafety?id=com.instagr...
that's actually, um...common? i just had to repair an electric jackhammer last week. i worked in a machine shop for a large well drilling company not long ago, and not only did we create/repair tools for the company, but obviously had to keep our mills and lathes and cranes, etc. in good working condition.
Interesting so it would seem a little more organic than just throwing up a banner with a button to download the new app and juice numbers
The site currently says, "There are currently 168268 bands..."

Even spread over 20 years, that's a lot of bands to vet!
-> I've often wondered why dont we have more pure water pumped through the water mains in various countries,

It has to do with the economics of water treatment. If you supply water you're incentivised to supply it at the lowest acceptable level of treatment. That's because people just want plain old water, and they don't want to pay a lot for it.
(Opinions are my own)

Gerrit seems to have a lot of extra features in it that make it extra confusing to me. Critique has a lot of features but all of them feel more like intuitive extensions on top of a code review platform (ex: attention set https://abseil.io/resources/swe-book/html/ch19.html). Gerrit seems to have a lot more going on in a much smaller (cramped IMO) UI.
They already reverted that. https://www.engadget.com/twitter-quietly-backtracks-on-requi...
That isn’t single party consent it is all party consent. Single party consent is anyone in the conversation may record without telling others about it. Or a third party may record with the approval of any one who is in the conversation.
Good point.

It also makes me think of solar, which isn't going to be available at night.

But also, that area has some of the worst solar availability in the US, so that's less of a concern than it could be. https://www.nrel.gov/gis/solar-resource-maps.html
probably for developers' sanity :)
I just get a blank screen with the threads logo.
There are still plenty of real injustices and other problems in the world. Attempting to change any of them is hard work, because it puts you up against real entrenched interests who will spend real resources to maintain the existing arrangement. Whereas "speaking out", language policing, and fighting minor online injustices require much less energy. Doubly so for nitpicking to design some perfect system of bureaucratic code that's supposed to stand in for human empathy and judgement.
I just meant in the "do this thing for me" (x100) way. Surely there's a more meaningful way to interact as a user, even a non-technical one.
LLM is not enough (for self-service analytics)
Have you personally seen those construction sites? Just go and observe, the stagnation narrative is overblown.
Even more interesting if electric cars can act as peaker plants during the day. Both of these models come down to efficiency I suppose.
Personal journey: I used to be a heavy user of Evernote, but encountered a bug that the developers were not keen on fixing promptly. It was then that I realized the importance of personal notes surviving beyond companies, apps, and formats. Quickly after, I switched to a collection of plain text files using org-mode markdown and have been happy ever since.
Yes, trusting grifters to play by the rules. In crypto the most important risk is counterparty risk.
Strongly recommend the talk on which this answer is based: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43XaZEn2aLc
Chicago, so those low temperatures are achievable.
Really makes me feel like I'm a cow being herded when its phone-app only.
Instagram has pretty good support for multiple accounts (including, for example, having a feed that shows content from multiple accounts). Even if they don't ever fully decouple threads accounts from Instagram ones, you could still basically have one for each.
You know I'm something of a "Google User" myself
I remember when Evernote launched and everyone was super hyped about it -- even some of the biggest VC names promoted them. Not to mention the funding they raised ($290M). It was literally iOS Notes on steroids. I even used it for awhile, but somehow it didn't stick.

They hired bunch of great people and had some good backend tech -- sad to see this happen to them.
From their About section:

Capital Research Center…

> study unions, environmentalist groups, and a wide variety of nonprofit and activist organizations…

and

> how those organizations are “captured” by interest groups and used to undermine Americans’ freedoms.