skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if locking my doors as well is discrimination according to you? No geoblocking doesn't make the internet a shittier place, you're blaming the symptoms/victims not the true cause.

What is actually making the internet a shittier place is the bad actors, bots, scammers, scrapers, psychopaths and etc. Maybe those countries that get blocked should do more to stop those bad actors in the first place.

Has China or Turkey ever contributed or paid for one of my projects/services? Nope, not once. Have they caused me grief and wasted my time dealing with bullshit? Yes, absolutely!

So I don't think I am a bad, unless you think preventing myself from getting punched makes me bad guy.

Maybe you should change your frame of thought and start pointing the fingers at the actual bad guys who actually ruining the web and stop accusing people of self defense of being "bad guys".

Basically if you don't want to be treated like an asshole (geoblocked) don't act like an asshole. I know it's a very hard concept to grasp.
Will commercializing few services on top of Open Source tools work?
Now a days a lot of open source tools are building managed services on top of their open source codebase. They provide the self hosted version for free and also a manager version with a paid plan. Does this kind of open core models next big thing in software market?
I stopped adding salt in my cooking when I had to cook for a young baby. Pleasantly surprised to find I didn't miss it much, and pretty soon my tastebuds reset and when I eat out everything tastes wayyy too salty.
I use Chat GPT 4 for all coding. I’ve learned some amazing prompts that will add features to existing code.
Yes especially if you know you have answered the same thing before. You look for your original.

Remember all users are moderators. There are some explicit moderators but they don"t close or downvote often they deal with other problems - or on smaller sites just use normal user powers to vote and close.
There are some weird implications of this and I don't think the economics point to a viable futures:

1. Unlike EME (the controversial web DRM backed by Google that was standardized somewhat recently), the Web Integrity API requires a third-party service, which involves maintenance costs, as well as development costs to constantly adjust to the arms race against all the hackers who really want to thwart these tests.

2. In a "functioning attestation industry", many attestation servers would compete on price to validate users, making the network efficient and robust. I struggle to see this becoming reality because decent attestation would require very complicated techniques for each supported browser, and there is only 1 company that does both significant browser development and also wants to run an attestation server.

3. In a monopolized attestation industry, Google would be the single point of failure for all DRM-protected media on the internet. Google's down? So is Netflix, Hulu, HBO, etc. because they can no longer validate that their users are running an approved version of Chrome. This also give Google an incredible amount of leverage over other companies, because they can change fees and policies unilaterally and there are no alternative games in town. Companies have an incentive not to put themselves in that position.

If the entire media industry coalesces around Google Chrome as the only supported browser for media on the internet, and bestowed this incredible market power and leverage upon Google, then it could work. I find it hard to believe that this will slip past every significant regulatory body on Earth, and any significant gaps in market control would make the scheme unworkable.
Classic Johnson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkELicRkq1I
Giant spontaneously forming rotating ice circles
Similarly, why does a melting ice cube on a flat surface spin on its own axis?
...and a teller won't/can't do anything about it and this will change nothing. Maybe leave your keyboard for a second and understand how the world actually works.

Unless you have billions at a bank, I don't see why any bank would even consider changing how their website works because of a single customer. And, well, real billionaires probably don't care about not being able to use a website on Firefox.
The moral justification of the situation to be irrelevant - in an ideal world messages would be held in some plausible-deniability system where it is impossible for the judge to know if someone has complied or not.

Nobody has a right to snoop on other people's communication. Not even people wearing robs and wigs.
I mean, can’t we? If a place wants to they can just add a wifi network with a captive portal which leads patrons to a table-to-table chat system. Or a QR code per table with a flashing light next to it so you know your table have a message even if you haven’t got your phone out.

I bet it will be cheaper and easier to maintain than installing pneumatic tubes to every table too.
At first I thought what does Nx (nrwl/nx) has to do with machine learning, then I figured context is about Elixir lib named Nx.

Naming things is hard.
I now only use a smaller sites and you just mark these to be reopened.

The issue is that all users are moderators and the newcomers are the ones not reading questions etc.

I would flag this sort of thing for a real moderator.
Decades of public messages on recycling overwhelm sustainable waste management
No, it just means it’s not the top priority.

If the performance patches would make the code less secure, they would not implement it.
Well it's extremely easy to recreate vertigo in VR (one of the Vive demos back in the day was walking on a plank hanging off a building that felt 99% real), so it should be very doable.
Sorry I totally missed this over the weekend. I'd definitely be up for that, I'm hoping to be living aboard next year so will have plenty of time to explore some ideas. What general area are you based in? I'm in the UK, will probably be on the south coast by the time I'd be ready to start trying things out.
What a nice comment. Thanks for following us for such a long time :-)
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Safari used to be actively developed and shipped on Windows before 2010.
A typical pattern I've repeatedly seen in various shapes and forms:

Q: [very explicit title about F in context X] I'm specifically not asking about F in context Y which I know about but is irrelevant; I'm specifically not asking about libT which may accept it in accordance with standard U; instead, in context X, is F working for libS?

A1 [100+] [+50 bounty] [auto-accepted] [date d]: "it works" + long winded answer about decontextualised substring of F proposition working for libS in context Y

Comment 1: this is not the correct answer, see A15

Comment 2: complaint that A15 note about U is from a second hand site so answer is warrant of discredit [even though authoritative docs about U are not publicly available]

A2 through A7 [30+]: "it works" (rehash of A1, posted within d+[1..365])

A8 [30+]: Q is a dupe, see this answer [link to question and answer about libS in context Y]

A9 through A14 [30+]: "it works" (gives example for libT, which behaves differently)

A14 through A17 [30+]: "it works" (gives example of standard U, which libS does not comply with)

A15 [5] [d+5]: Q being explicit about F for libS in context X and explicitly _not_ about context Y, let's address it for libS in context X: *it does not work* because foo (link to libS doc || source code || example). Tangent for the sake of completeness, context X is irrelevant because bar is orthogonal to foo + context Y. standard U does not apply because libS is not compliant [quote or link about U]

Comment 1: this is the correct answer

Comment 2 [d+1095]: answer is invalid because libS vN+1 has just been released and adds F in context X

A16+ [<0]: completely haphazard lottery answers
Haha, I wasn't worried about the GPU price. I was worried about the price of 8 decent quality monitors.

I have a decent salary but I don't have throwaway money to just spend 2k on monitors. Or on anything for that matter, that requires a year of saving :x
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So we are in agreement that WEI poses a serious threat to open web. Now let's get to the DRM part:

> At the same time, I perceive DRM as a way to control access and ability to copy copyrighted material.

That is merely the stated objective of DRM. However, it's well known and accepted that DRM schemes do the following as well:

1. Restrict where (device or application) the user can consume the content.

2. Restrict how long the user can consume the content.

Despite denials, I'm yet to see DRM schemes that don't do these as well. And everyone's concern regarding WEI is regarding point 1 and possibly point 2 as well. So, saying that WEI isn't DRM scheme is based on a narrow interpretation rather than a practical one.
You don"t need any karma to answer any logged in thing can answer. I say thing as ChatGPT is being used to produce a load or crappy wrong answers now.

Thus I don"t understand your issue. This is a XY-problem :) I know enough about the subject to know that your issue is not the actual issue as anyone can answer, if you had issues then there is something else.
it's like yahoo groups at the end
Google purchased the ailing Deja News and its archive, and the Spencer archives got donated to it as well with posts back to the 80s.

But within a few years Google stopped caring about it entirely.
For a particular purpose or category, yes. E.g. https://www.shutterstock.com/blog/9-brands-trademarked-color
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shoot i found a bug in my makefile logic ... don't flame me too bad plz will post an update to fix it later.
Anything that depends on an ISP is not truly distributed or decentralized. You'd need a way to route ad-hoc networks deterministically. You'd have to replace BGP with something like DHT.

Yggdrasil is one example of this although it is an 'overlay' and not a direct protocol replacement. https://yggdrasil-network.github.io
Defending the integrity of the internet isn't OP's job. He's not making the internet a shittier place, the governments of China and Turkey are. Blame them, not some random web host.
[0] https://social.wildeboer.net/@joshua@nozzi.social/1107711128...
That was the Khazars, not the Mongols. And the Pechenegs after the Khazars. And then the Rus' had to deal with the Cumans and the Kipchaks. The Mongols only arrived after them.

The steppes were full of nomadic and semi-nomadic peoples. For thousands of years, various powers rose and fell, and sometimes they set out to conquer the surrounding sedentary peoples. The Mongols were just one of the more successful ones. (But arguably not the most successful, as the Proto-Indo-Europeans probably also came from the steppes.)
> we'd expect little difference

I think that also likely holds for the quants, the difference could very well be within the error bars.

Anyway, it's been posted to r/locallama so I'm sure someone will try it within the hour and report back soon :P
>Instead it will tell advertisers how effective their blast was, and help argue that Google isn't defrauding them.

Okay. So this is about validating ad effectiveness and minimizing ad fraud, right?

Assuming that's your point (apologies if I'm missing something important), what does that have to do with me or my private property?

Advertisers have business relationships with advertising platforms. Advertisers might also have a business relationship with me, assuming I choose to purchase their product(s).

But the advertising platform has no business relationship with me (assuming I'm not buying ads on that platform). As such, why do I have to give data, CPU cycles and privacy so the advertising platform can provide metrics about ad effectiveness and fraud?

None of that has anything to do with me, and I don't wish to give up those things (especially my privacy) on the devices I own.

It's unethical for these rapacious scumbags to limit what I can do on my devices (which are my private property) If I refuse to provide third (the ad platform) and fourth (the advertisers) parties specific information about who I am and what I see or don't see (which is what a permanent identifier in secure storage would do) when I visit a site of my choosing.

I'll say it again to make sure I'm clear: I don't care about advertisers or ad platforms. They can go an play with each other all they want -- but don't limit what I can do on my devices because it will make you more money. Fuck. That. Noise.

Edit: Clarified prose.
Can you help me unpack the distinction between an event in space-time vs merely a configuration in space?
Safari has had functional, good extensions for years.
Only 30% of americans were for sending people to the moon. Sometimes we should do what's right, regardless what the majority of population wants to do.
> I shamefully moved from Firefox to chrome. For the tabs man, I needed those tabs.

Opera had tabs before Chrome even got released. So i'm assuming the key difference was the ability for Chrome to advertise its features to you.
Tangential:

I'd love to donate to Mozilla, but I'm concerned my money could just end up in some C-suite pockets if I do. Is there a way to donate specifically to Firefox core(-ish) team, and maybe also MDN?
I don"t see those on google but then again I use a search blocker mainly for those sort of sites.
What Is the Pseudoinverse of a Matrix?
It was more: Incredible logistics, by virtue of being steppe nomads, command & control, government, in short organization in general. Mated with a hard to beat weapon, and army built around that. The bow was just one aspect.
It may have been replaced by a cryptocurrency indeed, for there was PrimeCoin, one of the very few that actually did something that was both productive and unprofitable (critically important for the economics of mining) with its mining cycles, and that is look for prime numbers. Although I don't remember if these were Mersenne Primes. It was one of the very earliest altcoins and by its nature was CPU bound which made it unpopular with large scale mining farms, but extremely popular with CPU cycle thieves working in clueless corporate and educational IT departments.
If you want genuine responses or discussions, I'd recommend in the future to open up with an argument for the belief/point you are holding, instead of a catch-all opener.
I would add another important point: earlier, there was nothing like NNTP. So when someone showed you "the Internet", they showed you email, gopher (later the web), IRC and so on. These were separate services with unique features. The appearance of CGI and dynamically generated content was a big revolution at that time. Then, everything converged in the web, and when Google took over the newsgroups, there was practically zero incentive for new Internet users even learn what NNTP was.
Do not dox individuals. You do not understand their situations, pressures, etc.
Do not use Godaddy

https://science.time.com/2011/04/04/godaddy-ceo-on-shooting-...
>1] Genghis Khan a Kazakh?

The source is one historian from Kazakhstan, and his main reasoning is that common names have meaning in the Kazakh language. A language that seems to trace it's origins to The Golden Horde centuries after the Mongols.

Beyond that, most of the Eurasian Steppe had a strong history of using horse archers for millennia. That wasn't unique to the region that is now Kazakhstan.

Maybe there's some more compelling argument, but the one you presented seems weak. It's possible the Kazakh language bits had some meaning lost when translated to English, as the way they are presented is somewhat embarrassing. It somewhat sounds like he's saying modern people from Kazakhstan are more closely related to the leaders of the Mongol empire, but that's a very different claim than "Genghis Khan a Kazakh."
> There's a competing hypothesis (viral interference) which seems to explain the data better.

How would that explain why SARS-CoV-2 suppressed influenza, instead of influenza suppressing SARS-CoV-2? If viral interference occurs (which I agree it may), then the two simultaneous pandemics are coupled; but you'd still expect the virus with higher R0 to win.
Lots of great stackoverflow comments here.

For me, I would say over 5 years ago I would post a question and get a flurry of activity within the first 10 minutes.

Now I post and I get no activity at all, and I end up answering my own question a day later.
Agreed this should be OSHA's bread and butter stuff.

Instead I had to do a course on cooking if I wanted to offer visitors tea at the office.
Deadly global heatwaves undeniably result of climate crisis, scientists show
I like SO but asking or answering questions there can be highly annoying. There's always some very pedantic gate-keeper who might be technically proficient but lacks any common social skills and nails you down for any slight errors. It's good people care but seriously, there's a difference between constructive criticism and just being an a-hole.

It's the hamburger feedback but without any buns around it. And I just wanted to contribute, on my own time often, to help somebody else with the same problem...
The apps of the banks often generates an OTP or intercept a push notification, ask for fingerprint and send an authorization response back to the server. I go through that with each of my banks every time I login or make some money transfer.

I got codes via SMS when I installed those apps and I had to prove that I owned the phone number I was associating with the app.
This is where I want to remind you, Stackoverflow is a Q/A site that sometimes contains stolen content from, as you put it, so-called "content farms" and the official resources.

Now, I do have a Stackoverflow user as well, but I actually prefer publishing my ideas on my own site rather than help build someone else's content farm for free. Stackoverflow is, itself, a content farm, and it can be very hard for new users to join the site. You can not even post comments without first earning enough points. For a very long time I would actually resist joining the site for that reason. I have only recently earned enough points to comment.

Now, I happen to own a so-called "content farm" too, and the choice can either be between creating a standard blog with very little traffic or try and cover everything you can possible think of in order to compete with other "content farms" in your niche. It is very difficult if not near impossible for a single individual to create a valuable resource and maintain it, and it is simply not sustainable if you have paid authors working on it as well. There is no way you can monetize it decently. Stackoverflow probably found a way around this problem by simply leaning back and monetizing their users content.

Once your site grows big enough, you also deal with a ton of spam- and hacking attempts. Everything combined just requires an inhumane amount of time to deal with.

Of course, authors are desperate because of how difficult it is, and perhaps especially authors from poor countries that might not have other sources of income. Their basic business model seem to be: create a content farm with ads, fill it with copy-written spam and hope Google indexes. Often these sites even have multiple authors, which is quite baffling given the extra expense it must create for them. But I do not think they have actually thought the idea through – because it is just not profitable.

Weirdly it's often in the technology niche, which they are clearly not proficient in, and more or less containing stolen solutions with little original content added.

I have seen a few sites like this, ripe with some of the most nasty grammar too. It interesting they are able to rank simply based on their volume? Of course they must be using blackhat techniques, including linkbuilding if you analyze their link-profiles, because there is no way that something so poorly designed and maintained is getting that much attention compared with official sources or stackoverflow.

For those of us who own blogs, such sites are often easily outranked simply by writing a comprehensive article on whatever tiny topic they have posted about.
It lived as long as people who used it were select technical elite. You know, people with genuine interests, using it to meet other, like minded people.

But whenever people meet in unmoderated digital world, all sorts of other toxic people follow -- spammers, trolls, etc. People who don't care about the community or personal exchanges.

This makes the place toxic and unpalatable to the ones who started it and so the real people just leave and the place dies.
Because I have to install the app anyway to authorize the access to the website, mobile or desktop.
The Microplastic Crisis Is Getting Exponentially Worse
I find it incredible you find a LLM slower and less full of useless chitchat about a question than stack overflow.

I don’t even open SO anymore; if it has a direct answer to your question, the LLM almost certainly does too; and asking new questions on SO is basically impossible.

If you manage to survive the gauntlet of “too specific, already answered, not general interest, arbitrary moderator activity”, the chances of getting an answer that answers your question can take forever; most likely you’ll get a stupid answer that doesn’t answer it, upvoted by idiots who don’t understand that it not an answer the the actual question, and, ultimately, because it “already has an answer”, ignored, never to receive an answer.

Maybe one day, a passing savant will answer in a comment.

…and yet, you find it faster and more reliable?

You, and I, have had different experiences on stack overflow in the last two years.

> For real work it isn't as useful.

To you.
And yet millions of users benefit from SafetyNet every day. Just because something constrains openness does not make it inherently bad.
I spent years learning a programming language well then further years delivering a training course, iterating and then providing sections of the course on the website free online. Both as advertising and to get new people started. Your "typescript array" returns one of the sites in the top 5 that basically copy-pasted via thesaurus many of my articles. I checked and it turns out they offer $50 for people to submit content for any language / technology. So you have someone in a cheap country paid to go copy content and reword it on that site. Then they rank higher than you, as they do this over many languages thus seeming more authoritive. Even more worryingly with chatgpt, they won't even have to pay the $50 any more. So the whole internet may become like this. Leaving me little incentive to publish material except that which solely entertains myself, mmm facebook/twitter = not a good outcome.
VSCode is based on Monaco https://github.com/microsoft/monaco-editor.