skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good question which can only be answered by them. But given the amount of money they raised compared to their likely acquisition price (bending spoons has only raise slightly more capital to buy all the apps they are buying than evernote did for its development), I don't think they've walked away with much financially.
Depends on your needs, if it's just one or even multiple clients reading from the db then range requests of blocks is a great option. Adding a server layer is a huge leap in complexity as you now have code that has to be deployed, managed, secured, etc. vs. just simple blob storage for chunks (s3, etc.).
Not really it's just a proven psychological effect applied successfully in many places: people will drive as fast as they feel comfortable. Make it too comfortable and they'll start speeding. This is not to say to actually make it dangerous or impassible or anything of course.
The meta-lesson I've learned from these types of examples is that language is a slippery construct: the more you wander away from concrete words and specific meanings, in the direction of metaphors and abstractions, the easier it is to convince of yourself of stupid things. It's on the back of my mind a lot when worrying about LLM's. The power to convince, and the power to reason, are very different things.
Simply take a look at the CBC’s latest debacle [1], where the CBC published an incredibly defamatory article against the premier of Alberta in the middle of an election. They of course just recently retracted it, but they will suffer no consequences. The CBC literally tried to pick the premier of Alberta themselves. This is just the tip of the iceberg. See also the Rosemary Barton lawsuits during the 2019 campaign for further evidence of CBC bias towards the current governing party.

The reason why the current liberal government looks quite monstrous even on the CBC tho is because they really are quite monstrous in reality and it’s finally starting to show. Just look at Bill C-18, who’s interests are they looking out for? Not everyday Canadians that’s for sure.

This is a government that on one hand says Meta is an evil foreign owned corporation interfering in our democracy and therefore will end all ads on Meta platforms, but on the other hand, made an exception for itself such that the Liberal Party of Canada will actually continue running ads on Meta because after all nothing is too evil if it helps get them elected. Rules for thee but not for me. A classic Canadian liberal party dynamic. Story as old as time.

[1] https://www.nationalnewswatch.com/2023/07/05/cbc-news-retrac...
wayland support when?
I may put my foot in my mouth but is the weekend considered a holiday? You get a 100 days off a year just from that + the 2 weeks or whatever that most professionals get which make up the bulk of hackernews readers.

I know in some other countries like the middle east, they operate more like what the writer of this article suggests. They work weekends but they get many many more random holidays.
I think because Obama didn't extort a foreign country, commit an insurrection, or sell top secret information to US adversaries.
This blog post is a response to an advertisement for coaching services. The article it responds to was so content-free and sales-focused that it actually got flagged here on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36615325

I don’t think anyone needs to waste their time arguing with a strawman.
Could someone advise if this is a suitable platform and language for 10 year olds to learn Game programming ? My kid feels that he has outgrown Scratch and he is looking for a better platform . Will GDscript be easy for him to learn ?
Nope, they have an extensive ad network that conveniently continues to track users, even when they opt out of the tracking that Meta and Google fought so hard against:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-08-14/apple-...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2021/10/19/apples-...

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/apple-is-an-ad-company-now

https://9to5mac.com/2022/08/03/apple-ads-expansion/
This thread baffles me.

There are a lot of replies that either didn’t read the article (or even the headline) that seem to be government apologists, or arguing that a particular email isn’t coercive enough, etc.

A court found that the government abused its power and infringes on people’s first amendment rights by using its intimidation power to coerce social media to censor free speech of citizens.

Freedom of speech is literally the first thing in the Bill of Rights. The government did a bad thing. Why defend them?
All judges are picked for their political bias, that's how it works. Democrats pick judges who are more left leaning, conservatives pick justices that are more right leaning. To pretend it's just one way is incorrect.
Facebook is employing former CIA agents to moderate content/determine misinformation policies. https://thehill.com/hilltv/3566225-reporter-facebook-using-e...
Depending on who you ask, yes
The GP didn't ask for examples of libertarian social media. The GP asked for examples of forums/platforms from a "free society" that had not turned into a cesspool.
No desktop app huh? Pass.
Do you not have phones?
Agree.

For example, pg said that ViaWeb was successful because they had put care into their code, which allowed them to iterate quickly and integrate new features that customers requested. Whereas competitors were held back by their cumbersome code and slow cadence of releasing features.
While I agree that they're not terribly encyclopedic, I don't know if we should use the Academy for their categorical skills, considering the first Grammy for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance was awarded to Jethro Tull, who beat out Metallica.

Disclaimers: I love Jethro Tull, and love Dio, refuse to give Metallica any money, and am a nearly full-spectrum metalhead.
>How many people can read advanced math formulas? Mostly none. So what good is it that they are used? The answer is, it doesn't really matter if outsiders can't read it. Yes, it increases the hurdle to enter the field, but the benefits drastically outweight the initial learning in the long term.

Do they? I feel like a "citation needed" is in order.

There's a target for math formulas, and it's mathematicians. Those can read math formulas, even advanced ones. If outsiders (that is, laymen) can't read them, it's ok: they aren't supposed to be working with math most of the time.

The target for programming languages is programmers. But unlike math formulas, the outsiders that can't read some language J isn't laymen, but still programmers. The problem is not that non-programmer Joe Sixpack can't read J. The problem is that programmers can't read it, or find it unyieldly.

You could argue that, 'that's ok, the target for J is people who comprehend and are productive with something like J'. Sure, but that's precisely what we call out here. That some languages, even though expressive technically, put off not just outsiders from programming, but also programmers.
Yeah I've gone back to traditional bulletin boards just because the conversation quality is much higher and therefore enjoyable. When people are racing to go viral or get "upvotes" you get lowest common denominator junk food, which is the life blood of these social networks which are about stealing your time and showing you ads.

Unless someone generates a social network based on a paywall and exclusivity that somehow delights the business model just doesn't work for the user.
Hum... You are agreeing with the article, aren't you?

There aren't only 4 general document types, there are others, and you don't always need the 4 ones either.

Anyway, I'd say release notes are for upgrading.
Former U.S. officials have held secret Ukraine talks with Russians
I invite you to have a conversation with my six year old child and then reflect upon the difference between power dynamics as they exist and as they are vocalised.
You'd be surprised how many businesses are run by completely incompetent people and still manage to survive.

A relative of mine who was an accountant for a small manufacturing plant and the systematic problems from top to bottom were shocking. They worked there for well over a decade and also managed a lot of other business aspects. Nothing got shipped, billed, ordered, or paid without them knowing. The company always had just enough income to keep going. Somehow, it was sustainable without any hidden external sources of money.
> while production systems are generally hardened with SELinux and AppArmor out of the box, making practically exploiting them much harder.

Is it really so? I get an impression that SELinux is a so complicated that nobody wants to bother with setting it up and everyone disables it as soon as possible.
What is the computational difference between cat and dd?
> Luckily this is JUST a local exploit

Its very rare for only one exploit to be used when a system is compromise. Multiple exploits will be used, one for entry, one for escalation of privileges, etc.
Who uses English acronyms in their own language?

United Nations: FN (Danish), VN (German), ONU (Spanish), VN (Dutch)

European Economic Area: EØS, EWR, EEE, EER

And English does it too. The Deutsche Demokratische Republik — DDR — was the GDR in English. Содружество Независимых Государств (СНГ = CNG) is the CIS.
Do you count the lines that Slack needs to get the text to appear on your screen? Or to send the network packets? Do you count the lines involved in all the routers on the way, too?
New Species of Gliding Gecko Discovered in India
It really, really depends on the use-case. You certainly don't want bugs in your MMU, process scheduler, sensors, security libraries, etc.

But a piece of line-of-business software that sends out the wrong email once because someone made a bug in a batch script? Sure. Not the end of the world.

Users will tolerate some level of errors. Even if that level is sometimes expected to be 0.
and bluesky is a really rough beta.
Glass is normally made with 50-75% silicon dioxide (sand, basically) and the remainder various metallic salts or oxides like lead oxide, soda, potash, etc. These are combined as powders and when you melt them down they all dissolve together into glass.

From a layman's perspective all these metallic compounds seem really different from glass but in reality that's the magic of glass. I'm no chemist but SiO2 doesn't seem chemically very different from PbO or TiO2.
Limited? There are no tests anywhere near this code.

To reiterate: the Linux memory management subsystem contains a core data structure implemented in C without any tests.
Idk how anyone can be functional on the long term without at least 5 or 6 weeks of vacation each year.
Mandatory reminder that many of the "but the Crusades" arguments are also misleading. Sure, ~1.0-1.7 million people died in the Crusades according to modern scholarship. However, the Crusades were an extremely diverse set of conflicts that spanned a 196-year period, with both sides having their own atrocities.

The last 196-years of secular government has killed, let's just say, way more than ~1.0-1.7 million people. Even the nice ones like France, which killed ~1.5 million Algerians from 1954 to 1962, so small by comparison to other atrocities you probably didn't even hear about it. That's before even considering the Reign of Terror, Communist Governments of all kinds, US Forced Sterilization in the name of science for decades, and on and on.

And as for the Spanish Inquisition, despite the horrible memory, modern estimates now show the total death count was about 3,000-5,000 people over a 350 year time span. At worst, 14 executions per year. Secular courts were far less forgiving. Even Wikipedia has updated their numbers accordingly.
The plaintiffs have not demanded a jury, so yes, this judge will make the final ruling, although it will certainly be appealed. Docket:

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63290154/missouri-v-bid...

To a first approximation, the appellate system is the only real mechanism for oversight of federal judges not engaging in outright misconduct. This is why packing the federal judiciary with intemperate partisans is so dangerous.
Taylor Swift fans exploit iTunes Music Store to disclose unreleased lyrics
The problem is that anyone with a semblance of professional pride will find it mentally quite difficult to knowingly ship bad software.

Like, sure, even if we make best efforts to catch both obvious and less obvious bugs, all software we ship will still be full of bugs. But knowingly shipping software full of obvious bugs... it feels unprofessional. And makes you really feel the weight of all the inevitable bug reports that come in.

The alternative often becomes to warn about it, have the organization respond (whether explicitly or otherwise) "we don't care", and then, to preserve your sanity, say to yourself "well, then all bets are off, and I'm not responsible" which also isn't healthy, because it leaves you jaded, disengaged and robs you of your sense of professionalism.

I don't have a solution here lol other than find an org that cares about quality to an acceptable degree.
Decentralised AI
This rings true to me, but it reinforces my existing beliefs, so my awareness of the dangers of confirmation bias demands that I not trust it without some due diligence.

Does anybody have any citations to backup this point?
Both Google and AWS storage, at least, are CORS accessible:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/enabli...

https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/using-cors
> also, in American courts, it is the actual harm that matters. No harm, no standing, no court case.

Traditionally, yes, although that didn't stop SCOTUS from ruling last week in a case in which the plaintiff experienced no harm (not to mention admitted to perjury).
I think it's interesting that the comments from this are coming from James Whitbrook. I thought about writing a simple generator last month that would take any arbitrary movie, game or other media and write an outraged article based on the alignment with his personal political views. It really doesn't matter what the aligment is - it's simply predictable.

So what is the difference when the bot content comes from a human, or from a AI?

I'm mostly kidding here - but I think it's revealing exactly how devoid of value modern media is that some think that AI can replace it. I pay for NYT and WSJ - but the rest all seem to be little more then flame-bait ideology bubbles these days.
Buzzfeed's reporting division was actually good... Pulitzer good. May it rest in peace.

But in hindsight, reusing the name of the SEO trash parent was a terrible decision.
> P.S.: I didn't want to open the box of performance issues of microkernels

Why are there performance issues? Are there any reasons for them except for context switch costs (which are only due to legacy CPU architectures that were optimized for outdated insecure OSes)? Is microkernel architecture somehow incompatible with good performance?
Depends what's inside model, if it's just a bunch of pointers to meshes, materials, etc. that are allocated and owned elsewhere then it's really not a big deal or concern.
Tor’s history of D/DoS attacks and future strategies for mitigation
Amazing work. A took your list and I created a list of them in linksradar.com which shows those that has SEO metrics, which might be of interest for some:

https://linksradar.com/list/d691cc611d6e8922567cc3124c58b2bd
Computer as She Is Spoke
are there other verifiable delay functions than essentially just proof of work opinionated about hardware capabilities?
You could’ve done the googling yourself though.
Why don't you write one? The whole API is presented in C.

https://sqlite.org/c3ref/backup_finish.html
> Lots of hoops to jump through for a well-configured & internet connected box.

This is a pretty typical assumption for most local privilege escalation bugs.
In regards to scraping users from the platform your moving away from, Facebook did the exact same thing to twitter in 2013. The veterans running these companies know the playbooks.
https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1650894515702763521

Its naive that people sit on the sidelines opining they should've done the opposite when all the evidence points to blocking scraping as a standard business practice (and scraping is illegal if the company forbids it in their policy). Most people saying otherwise have not run a company or startup in a competitive environment where every other player wants to steal their lunch.
> Mastodon and now threads aren't going to fully coopt that community -- And they need to fully coopt it to win.

And that's the problem with end-stage capitalist thought. Mastodon isn't trying to "win". Never has been.

Mastodon was all about creating a non-commercial community of people talking with each other. It was done so to prevent the inexorable enshittification process of a for-profit social network that must raise the walls of communication higher and higher to extract smaller slices of profit.

But no, Mastodon does not "need" to win. We're not even playing the same game. Winning in our collective cases is being able to talk with friends without being psychological-advert games, fuckyoupayme demands, bulk selling data to anyone who pays, forced viewing of advertiser content, or a multitude of new scams made by the advertiser committees.

And threads.net is still unblocked at my instance. We're waiting to see how it's going to play out. If they somehow, some way, actually act like a proper steward of the fediverse, I wouldn't mind talking with their users over federation. But if they allow or otherwise enable the wasteland facebook has created, fediblock'em.
I'm in the exact same position as you, I get positive feedback on my management style but I'll be honest: I am paranoid that it's just people engaging in "people-pleasing", after all: there's no value to frustrating or being overly honest to your manager.

I think that's why I've had issues with management too, I've always seem them as doing a job that's different from mine, as in: we are the same level working on different areas. -- Whereas perhaps they seem themselves as superior.

Regardless: I really wish I could trust the feedback I get, I want to improve, I want to be the best, I will always fail in some area but I am completely blind to my faults since all I ever hear is praise.

I do not believe for one second that I'm worthy of such praise, I work hard for sure, but I don't doubt that my managers (whom I didn't enjoy working with) did also.
Same. I've tried a dozen different notes options and logseq is the one that has stuck the longest. After screen sharing it at work a little there are now 10 more people using it daily for notes and talking about how it's what they've always been looking for.
The success of the Genesis in the west had a lot more to do with the fact that Mortal Kombat on the Genesis had blood.

Slick marketing and Sonic made the Genny a contender. Lax content restrictions at a time when gamers were thirsty for more mature content put it over the top.
I think the VC world's obsession with growth has tainted how we (me included) view things, especially stuff like social media. There is a fixation with growing and doing it rapidly that I believe is harmful. I don't know when this switch flipped, but I've felt it gradually building up over time.

Things can just be what they are, grow naturally and then die naturally. I suspect that injecting cash and attempting to achieve an unnatural growth is probably not good for both the quality of the product and the long term stability of it.

I would love to see more niche things grow organically and fill a role for some people, at some time and not try to be everything for everyone. Because when that's the case, does anyone really enjoy it?
Nevertheless, the assertion that religious regimes are somehow advantaged is off base. Religious morality is not some constant force, it's a malleable, flexible construct that has less to do with actual scripture and more to do with what religious leaders of the time say it is.
Why ask? There has never been a release of Linux without a known local privilege escalation bug. If you take the union of all known exploits, they cover the entire history of Linux. Knowing the interval of this flaw is pointless.
Sorry for the staff who’ve lost their jobs. I did a phone screen with one of their recruiters a couple years back. They told me they couldn’t afford my (slightly above market rate) salary, but went on and on about how the company enjoyed a very “comfortable” work life balance. WLB is great, but I’ve never had a recruiter spend so much time on that and so little on the “exciting” product/role. That was a red flag to me at the time.
It happens much more in Asia, a place with oh idk several billion people. So hardly a US phenomena.
Original title of this HN post was:

"Responding to “Are bugs and slow delivery ok?”: The blog post that I’ve hated the most, ever"

But if you scroll down to the end of the post:

> So thank you, Valentina, for your thought-provoking post.
I loved to hate it.

So the author does not actually hate the post they say in the title they hated.
Instead of fixed-date holidays, just mandate 15-20 days of paid vacation. Why is this so politically untenable in the USA? Why would voters (besides the relatively few business owners) vote against this?
This sentence made me chuckle:

> But, to this day, there are more people in the world without an account on Facebook than people with one.

So that's an upper bound of what, four billion people? I think basically anyone watching would consider that a success!

When people are wondering which social network will "succeed", they're not watching the different apps duke it out like a sports tournament. They just want to find a space in which they can communicate with most of the people they care about.
I guess that explains the distinct lack of public freakout videos from Europe.
It's also the price. Saturn was $399 on release, Playstation was $299.

Without Sony's big name and 3D graphics, $299 would have spelled doom ($199 was the standard price before).
As usual, I think the term that applies here is projection. A vast amount of politicians and Trump in particular have taken to heart a particular realpolitick tactic for dealing with the loyal opposition, of never wasting a chance to accuse the other side of exactly what you're doing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accusation_in_a_mirror

And further, Trump's actions were fairly wild & chaotic & needed restraint.
> A court found that the government abused its power and infringes on people’s first amendment rights by using its intimidation power to coerce social media to censor free speech of citizens.

This is not how a preliminary injunction works.

The court has ordered that the governmment stop doing the in-dispute things until the dispute is resolved - in either direction - in court.

The standard for such an injunction is not proof, but "they might prevail in court, and there's potentially enough harm from letting it continue in the meantime".
I don't think the problem is user retention so much as upkeep. That the web is an extremely adversarial environment.

Popular forums are high value targets as they both tend to be central in the PageRank graph (so link spam has historically paid off very well as black hat SEO); while also sitting on large user databases with associated emails.

So there are non-stop intrusion attempts and ceaseless bot spam. Operating a forum is a lot of thankless maintenance. It's not made better by the fact that a lot of the older forum software had nightmarish upgrade procedures.
I'm a macOS user who makes games using Godot and publishes them on itch.io, and I haven't experienced this issue. Can you link to an example where this occurs, and provide some information on how the build was exported?