skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It doesn't show any effort from your side, you just pose the question

You probably assumed I asked that question? If so, the assumption was incorrect, I answered it.

> without explaining what you attempted, why it worked/didn't work, where you got stuck

I don't think any of that is possible to do.
The question, and my answer, are too simple to decompose into smaller parts. Not enough runway to start and get stuck.

> expect other people to answer it fully

My expectation was rather different. I wrote my answer on Jul 16, 2019, and expected it to stay there.

Instead, on the next day some people have decided the question was bad, and closed it. Then on the next month, some other people have deleted it, along with my answer.

To close it, 5 people clicked once/each. To undelete it, I spent quite a few hours. Sadly, that's not a rare exception: moderation on SO is horrible.
Please stop SPAMming HN with (contentless) ads.
Had exactly the same with a bunch of developers who could change the queue priority on a mainframe for their own work. They couldn't work out for themselves that if everybody set their work to the highest priority it had no benefit to any of them. Trying to educate them failed, so we revoked access.
This is a problem on the other side of the experience spectrum too. Sometimes I want to ask an advanced question and interact with other experienced users on SO. However I have to battle the mods (who clearly don’t understand my question) to keep it open.
I feel like all of these patterns apply to adults too. I can definitely relate to number 1 and number 3.
This is a terrible take.

It is completely understandable from the perspective of Google contributors, as it is the least effort path for them to continue making profits, but shying away from criticism under the guise of “constructive discussion” is a really old tactic, and is well known by other names (such as “sealioning” when the strategy involves irritating the other party with excessive questions).
> does this make me a bad person for discriminating

Yes. And not only for discriminating. You make the web shittier than it already is, and more fragmented.

> or should I have to tolerate the script kiddies, ddosing and exploit searches?

This part is unrelated to the first part.
Writing papers is never the most utility-maximizing activity. Especially, if you're interested in cash
I don't. My productivity is just fine with bash

To empower thinking in this information overload era, turn off your computer and start writing on paper
It does say "Standard Character Claim: No" which (as best I can tell from [1]) means it is the particular form of that letter[2], not the letter itself, which is trademarked.

[1] https://smallbusiness.chron.com/standard-character-claim-mea...

[2] Although it is a pretty generic "1".
Thanks, buddy
I could take a stab at defining it but both are already defined in law (if we take 'politically vulnerable' as 'protected classes', for example) and I'd be adding to the infinite Internet crap pile if I didn't do some research first. Plenty of other dangerous speech is illegal, such as forms of incitement. It's not about feeling offended - a common way to belittle a serious, challenging issue.

I'm not sure how E2EE is implicated: If the speech isn't heard by the politically vulnerable, it's much less likely to be oppressive; if someone texts me hate speech over Signal, the encyrption doesn't matter. If it's a plan of violence, that's of course a different and existing issue.

> I get downvoted for having an opinion not totally in lock step with the social-liberal worldview.

The victim routine degrades the credibility of your comment. It looks like someone just following standard right-wing rhetoric. Also, you don't offer convincing evidence.
Genghis Khan a Kazakh
If you mean with same-era technology, the answer is they

Europeans did not bring horses to America until after the Mongol empire had already collapsed, so the people there (whether called Comanches, Shoshone, etc.) couldn't even have any horseback archers. :P
>Attribution is necessary for advertising to work at all.

No, attribution is what advertisers want, to do the least amount of work possible to blast you with ads that attack your deepest weaknesses, all under the pretense of "personalization".

> then the ad platform will defraud you[0]

Cool. How is that my problem as a user ? Grow a set of balls and sue the ad platform.
Ah, the golden student days of yore.

Mine were in the early 2000s. Back then, the computers at the lab at my uni were not very powerful, so people would do work at a Linux console, saving themselves the hassle of running a bulky X session.

Some time around 2001 I read the console_ioctl(4) manpage and found it replete with prank possibilities. I wrote little programs that would flip the console font so that all the characters were upside down; or swap capital letters with small letters, again by way of manipulating the font; or flash patterns on the keyboard LEDs; or fade to black and back by manipulating the palette.

I then added a server component so that I could leave it running at an innocuously-looking terminal, wait for a victim, fire up these effects remotely from another box in the same room, and watch what happens. Fortunately, I soon discovered that the coding part was more fun than the watching-people-slip part, so I gave up on the latter.

Another prank I used to do was simulate a successful root login on these terminals by just typing in what would be printed, including the motd, at the getty login prompt, simulating newlines with tabs/spaces (and never ever pressing RET), ending in `[root@mailhost root]# `. Then, again, step back and watch what happens. Some people would curiously type in `whoami` and be puzzled why they got a password prompt; some would step back in terror without touching anything, switch terminals and email the sysadmin.
This is also true for non-rural stops. I take Amtrack a few times a year between NYC and Virginia (Acela corridor) and it is much cheaper than flying or driving if I choose off-peak travel times.
The content is licenced under the Creative Commons license, which ensures that everyone can take it and make something useful out of it. For example in the case Stack Overflow turns evil, adds a paywall or something like that.

This is a lot better than almost every other comparable site with user-created content. In most cases the company has the rights there and can do whatever they want with it, and users have no right to reuse the content of the site.
Not when the answer references libraries that haven't been maintained in five years or have fallen out of favor completely (like jQuery).
Whatever it's called, it has all the downsides of Manifest V3 that are being criticized for Google.

Just slapping another name on it doesn't make the issues go away.
>chinese

You mean the country we’re in a low-key Cold War in with?

That doesn’t seem to be something to celebrate.
https://www.google.com/search?q=parent+income+correlation+ch...

Do you really need that or are you just sealioning?
Google doesn't pay Mozilla's bills as a donation, they pay for traffic because they make money from it. Why does this make Mozilla powerless? Was Google successful, for example, in making Firefox not support all the things is does that allow for better Ads blocking?

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
Those are all using the same browser engine with the same limitations that ManifestV3 is bringing to Chrome. You're using it.
>The piece where the author suggests focusing on "technical arguments" when the issue at hand is fundamentally political is frankly laughable

It is essentially just asking for constructive feedback. When people just say not to do it, insult the author, or make assumptions about the proposal that aren't true the comments are not actionable.

Even if an issue is political you can still make a constructive argument on the risks that adopting the proposal has.
No drama, easy slip to make when commenting on the trot, I wasn't laying blame on you (I've done similar myself) just setting the record straight :-)
It's available in openSUSE repos. Just saying...
Greater than Top 5% of income earners resulting in top 5% childhood positioning, services, access to material and equipment, and more.

Need I say more?
>What is he doing? We can ask but I doubt he knows himself.

Muxk likex X and xe doexn't gixe a fux.

But seriously, Musk likes X. When you have the kind of Fuck You Money(tm) that he does, you don't need a reason to like something or use something you like.
Safari is already having all the limitations of what Google is criticized for and some extra. It is the new IE in that respect.
> Would you really want to visit a notary just to set up an eBay account?

If that would allow me to 100% regain control of a hacked account. The answer is yes.
The one I go to these days (US-CA) discontinued used of the tubes, but they're still present in the ceiling.
Paper: Fast Segment Anything
> I suspect most of the silent movies of the time would seem quite trivial compared with much amateur YouTube content today

I can't say what constituted "most film" in 1926 (are we going by what sold the most tickets? big blockbusters versus daily newsreels & cartoons?) but if you look at the era of 1925-1927 it includes Phantom of the Opera, Battleship Potemkin, The Vanishing American, The Bat, Metropolis, and Wings. Many of this list is iconic to this day to where they continue to be referenced & emulated in pop culture that many people recognize even if they haven't seen the originals before.

Granted this discussion will be hamstrung by how much film has been "lost" with so much of that content no longer in living memory at all (to say if it was masterpieces or crappy filler).
I don’t think they intend to destroy Twitter, but rather influence content and moderation policies towards more favourable outcome.

Twitter is extremely popular in Saudi, more so than the US/Europe, so some level of influence is extremely valuable.
There’s not much proof that it even existed, and absolutely none that musk himself profited from it.

https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/11/17/elon-musk-emerald-min...
The top search resuls used to be either a SO answer, or a forum post or the actual docs having the answer to the question. These days it's either a dupe site copy pasting ad verbatim, a recurgitated and slightly modified variant of the former, or a "AI" generated answer, all full of ads. And to make it worse, none of them are useful as they obfuscate the answer or are simply wrong.

Looks like Google started to prioritise ads even more than actual useful results is what changed mostly.
> it assumes Saudi investors would value silencing dissenters at $44BN.

Why not? For the Saudis it's pocket money.

> It also requires believing that these machiavellian Saudi investors are so dumb they can't tell how much power they would have by keeping Twitter growing so they can more effectively silence dissenters before it becomes news.

The thing is, reach-wise there is no replacement for Twitter:

- Meta's platforms forbid sharing of non family friendly content and enforce that ban through rigorous moderation, which means reports from violent protests have a very hard time there; on top of that the user base of Facebook has declined to mostly Boomers and people using it for the messenger only.

- Telegram has no problem with violence or unrest, see the coverage of the Russian invasion, but people need to already be in the groups that share such information - it's a good tool for organizing protests, but less so for spreading the word to the general public.

- Reddit has a similar problem, unless you make the post rise in one of the default subs, no one will care, and Reddit's format doesn't lend itself to real-time updates.

- Mastodon and the rest of the Fediverse suffer from a lack of cross-instance content discoverability. The "trends" on most of the Mastodon servers are completely broken, disabled or useless and the platform doesn't have a concept of geotagging to make it easier to discover regional content - the best it can do is language, but Arabic or English is spoken worldwide. And search isn't fediverse-wide, just the toots that the server the user is active on has gotten into their global feed view.

The USP of Twitter was that everyone could connect with everyone, worldwide, and get their issue trending in a matter of minutes if need be.
I haven't read any Heinlein but your comment piqued my interest and, after reading the plot summary of the book you linked and summaries of a few others, you seem to be bang on the money.
Trademarks don't have to be original. It's very common for a mark to be just a word or words written in a standard typeface. Perhaps you are thinking of copyrights?
I switched over to an escooter. The no brain thing is right. Press button, go forward. I suspect that's one of the reasons they're super popular.

I used to have a one wheel I commuted on. It was fine. I was fine getting it up to full speed a lot and had a good commute for it (mostly flat, mostly bike lanes). At some point you realize they can break 20 in the right conditions. This is a stupid line of thought I suggest no one reading this follow if they get one. Didn't crash but I could have. Always wear safety gear (I have a replaced cracked helmet to show why).

Bikes are the best, locking is the worst part about them. If they had a bike I didn't have to lock you'd never get me on anything else.

Would also love to do more then a few demo rides on an EUC. From what I've been told by riders who've done both they're much harder than a one wheel. I've honestly kinda wondered about safety on them. On the one wheel if I crashed, I normally ended up falling backwards or forwards off it and rolling. On EUC it feels hard to fall anyway besides forwards or backwards without getting your feet tangled in it. Those things are heavy and fast, I'd hate to see what they can do to ankle bones.
I don't think you do. Your platform should have an explicit and expected code of conduct set up in advance, and people should be held to it. If they cannot, they aren't allowed to use the platform.

When it becomes apparent that there are cultural norms that make it difficult or impossible for people from those cultures to use your platform, you re-examine your code of conduct, of course, to make sure you're not unduly excluding people. If you are, you amend the code, you change the platform in ways necessary to support them, and everyone tends to end up better off as a result.

But some cultural norms will be antithetical to the point of the platform, like in this case: SO cannot function properly when people attempt to game the system. In those cases, the CoC remains, and people from that culture will either have to adapt to the platform or find (or make) a similar one that works for them.

The alternative, as we see here, is that your platform degrades until it's not useful to _anyone,_ this "problem culture" included.
I was having a discussion with ChatGPT about development difficulties in a micro services architecture. It helped me arrive at a possible improvement using dependency injection functions like get_sentry and get_mongo that can return a MagicMock instance of the respective runtime dependency by checking a RUN_MODE environment variable. The idea solves an immediate need to allow me to bootstrap the application to a minimum functional state in a CI or pre-commit environment. We can also expand on the idea by defining RUN_MODE behaviours for development, staging, and production environments with various gRPC stubs and service mocks in some environments.

I’ve also had a great experience using ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot assist me in writing unit tests for a Dango/WagtailCMS website project. ChatGPT particularly knows some subtle nuances of the Django and Wagtail APIs. It has been like having a personal tutor. Copilot then picks up on unit test patterns to write tests based on comment prompts or function names. In some cases, Copilot is suggesting test cases that I didn’t even think of simply by pausing my cursor on a blank line.

I’ve been live streaming my open source development using these tools, in case anyone would like to see how they are making me a better developer.

https://youtube.com/@brylie
That's the premise that the RIAA and friends was pushing. There is of course another choice; to stream the movies without DRM. Once Flash was gone, eventually they would have caved in because there is a lot of money to be made by streaming movies.

This was a faustian bargain.

Now that DRM is in the browser, it's going to be pushed further, as with this proposal. It forced Firefox to compromise on their values of open-source in order to stay relevant. Streaming movies are still getting copied the same day.

We know from experience with the gaming and music industry that what protects the publishers is to provide a convenient platform, with reasonable prices. And of course the legal system to take down pirate websites.
Why don’t the government just look here? Already like 4 great ideas in the HN comments. Get it together ya dummies!
Where do you post your SmallCo jobs these days?
It could be so. The theory is that if we were to implement that, we should start at the coasts, establish dense forests there, and then continue planting inland.

(2015) https://theecologist.org/2015/mar/02/without-its-rainforest-...

Mainstream climatologists predict a 15% fall in rainfall over the Amazon if it is stripped of its rainforest. But the 'biotic pump' theory, rooted in conventional physics and recently confirmed by experiment, shows that the interior of a forest-free Amazon will be as dry as the Negev desert

(2019) https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/23/amazon-r...

Soaring deforestation coupled with the destructive policies of Brazil’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, could push the Amazon rainforest dangerously to an irreversible “tipping point” ... After this point the rainforest would stop producing enough rain to sustain itself and start slowly degrading into a drier savannah, releasing billions of tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere, which would exacerbate global heating and disrupt weather across South America.

(2023) https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/04/magazine/amazon-tipping-p...

The consensus used to be that ecosystems are merely a product of prevailing weather patterns. But in the 1970s, the Brazilian researcher Eneas Salati proved that the Amazon, with its roughly 400 billion trees, also creates its own weather. On an average day, a single large tree releases more than 100 gallons of water as vapor. This not only lowers the air temperature through evaporative cooling; as Salati discovered by tracking oxygen isotopes in rainwater samples, it also gives rise to “flying rivers” — rain clouds that recycle the forest’s own moisture five or six times, ultimately generating as much as 45 percent of its total precipitation. By creating the conditions for a continental swath of evergreens, this process is crucial to the Amazon’s role as a global “sink” for carbon.

Many scientists now fear, however, that this virtuous cycle is breaking down.
"reforest", "rewild"? Are you sure that these would apply to this specific part of Australia? A very important part of agriculture is suitability of crops in the environment. Australia is not known for its very hospitable agricultural environment. I would at least ask myself if the effort of planting and growing things there at scale could be higher than the benefits.
Wow, when the animation began I got a flood of nostalgia chemicals in my brain.

I was reminded of childhood, a particular smell, a particular moment. Neato.

Thank you!
This is insane, and what suprises me most is the Apple's customer service according to the original post - they barely know nothing, denied their customer's resonable request, and shows no respect nor professional attitude. They just say 'no' to things they don't understand or believe.
> I know there are better tools for the job, but this is the one I have.

You may know, but someone else asking the exact same question may not.

So sorry then, but listing every constraint and design descision it is.
Oh, you're right about the timing. It's probably not ChatGPT.
Or that just mean the rest of the industry is careless about their security and unrespectful of their users and prefer racing the marketing and performance arm race.
Of course nothing happened to their reputations. Unfortunately there are very few people who care about this, or now who the people are in these proposals.

A reminder: the tech lead for AMP who promptly closed all discussions critical of AMP and AMP for email, and banned people who raised the questions repeatedly is now the CTO of Vercel.
WhatsApp is a closed source client, however.
>any somewhat reasonable person will be able to see that twitter's rebrand to "X" isn't really going to confuse anybody

I feel that reasonable people and the people who suffer from Musk Derangement Syndrome (seemingly a lot of the people here...) are two very different groups.
They had a hellava run. I remember the before times, and it was bad.
The central issue seems to be that Yoav frames this as a technical discussion. That people are unhappy with how Google tries to achieve the goal.

> Focusing on use cases would enable you to distill the essence of the proposal, and potentially propose alternatives that still address them without the bits you find harmful or risky.

But I think its obvious from discourse around the proposal that the goal itself is the problem. People aren't "constructively involved", not because they don't know how, they aren't because they don't want to construct anything. They think your goal is bad. They want you to stop.
> let’s have an aristocracy, why not?

/s (if that wasn’t obvious)

My point is that letting in applicants by (aspirational) merit does not create an aristocracy, even if some of the high performing applicants are wealthy. Aristocracy is created through corruption of (aspirational) meritocracy, because you need some non-(aspirationally-)meritocratic force to hold the same families in place generation after generation. They won’t continue to perform well forever. If they did perform well forever (again, they don’t), then aristocracy would be a more workable system than it is.
The very popular Zalgo answer is a perfect example of this problem [1]

The user asks a question that can be answered quite easily, and dozens of people post answers claiming that this is the wrong way to do it and that they should use some other tech to solve the problem.

Some people on Stack Overflow care more about showing off how smart they are rather than answering questions, and I think the point system attracts these people.

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open...
Prosus acquired Stack Overflow for $1.8b on June 2, 2021, 3 months after the all-time high for traffic.
That whole article sounds like a parody, you can't seriously say that Google is interested in debates and technical merits on web proposals...

The Amp disaster being the best example of that. They do what they want according to their corporate goals and those proposals are just poorly made PR after the fact at best.
I understood what you meant. But first of all, many languages have libraries relevant for several decades; second, asking questions about legacy code is often valid (and often where you need the most help); third, some people even still use jquery! (Poor guys)
My Bose NC700 ANC headphones are by far my most expensive peripheral, and once when they broke I bought new ones the next day, I gain so much from them.

That said, as a programmer it annoys me I can't properly control the firmware. If there was a way to do the same, IE increase the hear-through volume above the "real-world" level, I'd even risk installing counterfeit firmware. If I understand properly how they work, it would just be increasing one multiplier.