skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Capitalism is the only reason they exist in the first place.

Precisely, which is why enshittification is a when, not an if. A paid search engine will never pick up enough users to survive at $10/mo. It will either be acquired or start throwing in "non-intrusive" ads to balance the books.
> As in I'm obviously expecting to be seen by the people in my immediate vicinity but not by people who aren't nearby.

If you're in a forest, maybe that's reasonable. But it would really be interesting to see some statistics about how many security cameras the average person is recorded on in a day, with the images broadcasted to servers around the world. I'd wager a guess that in modern cosmopolitan cities, it's probably upwards of 100 cameras a day. Meanwhile we're completely unaware of this fact and get upset when a stranger points a smartphone at us.
> Everything else is overly complicated.

> The only other UI framework I know of that is comparably simple is html and css

I'm curious to hear more. What's an example where the HTML/CSS is simpler than putting together something similar in another UI architecture?
The post itself doesn't seem to have much details. The linked article seems to have more info: https://sites.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/Goodies/Dome/

Edit: Looks like the post has been updated to point here. Just for completeness, it used to point to https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2023/08/05/nortons-dome...
at least he went out with a :wq in this world, and not a :q!
This feels monumental… can we get the black bar for the entire weekend.

This is the passing of someone that has fundamentally touched the lives of so many programmers… his work is now part of our very folklore, we make vim jokes, we emulate it in other tools, even the “enemy” (eMacs) eventually added evil mode (mind my humour it has sharp edges)… vim is mentioned in science fiction and has survived the journey from Unix to a plethora of other operating systems…

He will be missed.
That's really sad, but I'm glad that his legacy will vastly outlive him.

Thanks for vim, Bram, and rest in peace!
Disney discontinues DVD and Bluray production in Australia
Cory Doctorow has a prescient talk: "The coming war on general computation" from 2011 (12 years ago) in which he argues that all general computing platforms (OS, phone OS, browser) would face challenges by governments and corporations. This looks like another way to control content distribution and put more control in Google's hands. They've made a great strategic choice in building Chrome browser and effectively superseded Microsoft and Apple on desktops as a platform.

The talk can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg

When people have means to consume or produce content without control any governmental bureaucrat will try to control this activity. History supports this argument.

No printing press > no cheap books > illiterate population > easy to control what spreads as information and what do not.

Printing press arrived > cheap books > growing literacy > control over the presses.
Lenin's first targets were the post/telegraph (communication), bridges and railways (movement of people) and all big printing houses (Lenin's Full Collected works - vol. 32, page 282)

Radio arrived > Fixed Frequencies Radio sets sold & Governmental Radio jamming stations

TV > Licence to broadcast

Internet > Big Firewall of China & etc...

And don't even think about moving money freely as experienced by requirement to show why are you paying someone and those nice people from bank compliance departments.

The cost of enforcement in digital economy is way cheaper than before. The tools are there or can be built cheaply and sadly they're only built one way, from the government to the people. Open governmental data and strong society control over governmental actions is almost non-existent. "Brave new world" is here.

There should be a way to support important open-source projects with fundraising drives for features and etc ... Open source is one of the very few ways to sustain important digital freedoms.
That hasn't been proven, has it?
That reminds me of the Green Arrays computer with 144 cores, programmed in Color Forth.

Chuck Moore has a talk on it here, very interesting stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PclgBd6_Zs

I'm not sure how far this has gone since then. The site is still up with buy links as well: https://www.greenarraychips.com
Rust's (and other languages) memory safety doesn't come from hardware features. Implementing memory safety at the language level means that you don't care about whether the data sits in a paged mapped as read-only, because the language already makes sure you're not writing to said data.

Besides, that's the safety of the code running inside the VM. Wasm is about the safety of the host.
>Also bluntly: how would we do that ethically without severely restricting reproductive rights

Exactly. The dismantling of Roe v Wade in the US comes to mind as a form of severely restricting reproductive rights.
oh what! oh no :(

he finally figured out how to quit
> I'm always shocked by just how vicious the Reddit community is

Eventually you won't be shocked.

It's anonymous and you can say (almost) anything you like. Moderation of large subs is a joke, even before the strike. Just like the reddit "Trust and Safety" team, the mods of this particular subreddit, even though the post violated a sub rule along with the site rule, stayed up, unlocked.

> but not anymore if it becomes viral enough.

Not everyone wants to be a celebrity. But just read _this_ thread. You have at least one individual justifying this behavior.
Someone linked to this on the manifold market: https://imgur.io/a/AY1oaIO it does look a bit weird to me but I am not expert enough to tell if this could be explained by optical/compression effects.
And in quantum mechanics, we don't even know if spacetime is quantized right?

People usually talk about planck length as some quantized length but it's just a scale where quantum effects are significant.
I've seen people insist a company that has never been profitable should sell a product that the recipient has a habit of destroying, sometimes intentionally, at a steep loss even though the higher price offered is less than a quarter of what competitors charge.

Because Ukraine is at war and the majority shareholder is a billionaire
Remember this is from 2016
This is technically correct (the article notes this). Milk of all kinds comes from all cows. Some fraction of chocolate milk comes from brown cows.
> So it is cool if you allow an attacker to change the program inside?

The abstract machine behind WASM is a Harvard architecture, so self-modifying code (even accidentally through attacks) is not possible.

Memory safety is still a problem for languages that aren't memory safe, but since the program memory is not writeable from the program itself you can't take over control through memory safety bugs. Now whether the program interprets its data in a way that can be made exploitable is a different bug, but one that exists outside what WASM (or any virtual machine) can fix - it does mitigate the consequences however, since every module is isolated and the runtime uses capability-based security to prevent the code from accessing any system resources that it doesn't need.
Sorry to be blunt but this is a completely nonsense comment that severely misunderstands how applications, memory, Rust and operating systems work together.
> Most authors don't even bother building in reasons why that can't happen, its just that no-one thinks of doing it.

Is it really necessary to spell out that a civilization capable of building a FTL starship is also capable of building a sufficient defensive technology?

> I daresay such a civ is not doing it for conquest, but to discover and explore. If the urge is militaristic, then such a civ would turn on itself long before the project succeeds.

I think this is much more complex. Consider a civilization so advanced that this is children's toys for them - and then that civilization falls. Then, on the scraps of it, a new imperialistic faction is built and they go for the conquest; they don't even need to understand the magic that powers their warships. I recommend you to read the full Foundation series in chronological order.
Can you shine light as to why w3schools.com is blocked and lowered so much, while most other sources of CS information are raised ?

Is their information of such low quality ?
e-Scooters and eBikes are already geofenced in this way. For example, speed limited to 5mph if you're in the wrong place (happened to me on a 35mph road) or they'll stop altogether if you enter a college campus, or attempt to leave the service area.
Twitter User Has Music Handle 'Ripped Away'
If the government mandates MiTM DRM , the next logical step is making non-DRM illegal.
That is crazy talk. I don't believe it. Korea and Japan both have crazy levels of "face" in their culture (and Taiwan to somewhat less extent), and they all produce huge amounts of high quality scientific papers.
>The captcha page looks like cloudflare, but I don't think they're using cloudflare, haha.

That's amazing, I never bothered to take a look once I saw that page but I did just now, and you're right. Google reCAPTCHA skinned as Cloudflare, hysteric.
> No it wouldn't have been.

What if I catch an off duty cop on camera assaulting a person of color? Is it immoral to post that online? Where do you draw the line about which public acts should be moral to show in public?
Ah, yeah I should have written my comment better. It's numbered freeways. No one says "the 5".
Google is barely better than anyone else in the market. Don’t treat them as your friend.
Deepness in the Sky is good too, avoid Children of the Sky
And there absolutely is a need to sensationalize.

This is a big problem and requires serious political will, whether to pull off mass cloud seeding, make more sun/nuclear energy or reduce the usage of something important like air travel or heating.
I'm sure you meant

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/08/2...

As many as one in six U.S. tree species is threatened with extinction

Some 100 native tree species could die out amid an onslaught of invasive insects, a surge in deadly diseases and the all-encompassing peril of climate change
Also: incentives are aligned. Kagi gets money from its users, so it will do what's best for them. Google's incentives are more muddled, to put it mildly.
As many as one in six U.S. tree species is threatened with extinction
This is why I still wear a mask outside. If I'm filmed, at least I'll be harder to recognize.
Reddit has grown large enough to lose any identity it once had. It used to be tech literate, now it is really just the average population.
Why would no one think that? Here in US we have various legislative efforts to make porn harder to reach.
Stop eating bread and grains.

Enjoy
Tech breakthrough could boost states’ use of geothermal power
WASM uses a Harvard architecture, so the instruction memory is separate from data memory. You can't change the program from within the program because you can't write to that address space.
Please do it, by all means! It's high time we go back to Gopher.
There is no evidence that spacetime is discrete. It’s quite plausible, but even in a quantum gravity theory it’s not a given.
I do this. The biggest drawback for me with this is that many online services are using plaid or equivalent for setting up payments and my local credit union isn’t on their radar. I can do it, eventually, but you have to find the screen that allows the small transfer verification method, which takes days to set up. A lesser drawback is that there are other virtual checking accounts that pay almost 5% interest and that means that the cost of having a credit union account can be bigger than expected. We have just $7000 in one of those virtual checking accounts and it paid over $20 last month. I say this as lesser because it’s always possible to move money from checking into investments, it’s just much easier when it happens without any friction.
Rummaging though someone's personal belongings is not the same as observing and reporting what they do in public. I am not making that argument, and you are being disingenuous to imply that I am.
Ah, that is slightly before my time:)
Why? When you’re browsing the internet, you’re connecting to servers owned by others and agreeing to their terms of service. You’re also using a service provider to provide your internet service, which is, again, privately owned. From where to you derive your expectation of privacy?
There are currently multiple states in the US that require invasive age verification for porn or the site needs to be blocked. Why is it such a leap that they won't just require the sites to be blocked completely to "protect the children"?
> You have absolutely no idea if the "solutions" we try won't lead to even worse outcomes.

This is absolutely untrue.

The mechanisms of how SO2 in the stratosphere cools the planet are well understood and empirically observed.

This includes the fact that it breaks down in ~2 years, making it self repairing, should something unforeseen happen.
At what point do we say, “Ok, we’re revoking your corporate charter. Please wind down your operations and liquidate your holdings.” A corporate charter isn’t supposed to be an eternal grant. If the corporation continuously breaks the law —lies, cheats, and steals over and over — there’s no reason why it should be allowed to exist anymore. As a bank, their first responsibility is to secure their customers’ money, and it’s clear that they are incapable of that. Wells Fargo has shown that they cannot reform itself. Time to pull the plug.
The NYT is too far gone to be salvaged.
One day I hear he's in charge and doing everything bad. Another day he's not in charge and everything is going well.

I hear SpaceX wants 2.5k to 5k per month per terminal and 1.5
K for the terminal itself. Pay up or pay someone else
For me at age 7, the hardware definitely did the trick. My parents sent me to a summer camp, which kick-started my interest.
A Fresh Approach to Cryptoassured Distributed Data
> Bourdieu didn’t need to propose anything. He proved data in hand that the system was unfair.

La crtitique est aisée, l'art est difficile.

> We could just get our heads out of our asses and copy what’s done in a country having better results.

Id est? The US system, where you can get a pass into an Ivy league if your granddaddy paid enough money, the Chinese system where any exam can be skipped with a few millions yuans, or the Russian system where the children are taken from their families at 12y.o.?
G.H. Hardy was also famous for not working that hard. From https://math.stackexchange.com/a/845622

"In fact for most of his life his day, at least during the cricket season, would consist of breakfast during which he read The Times studying the cricket scores with great interest. After breakfast he would work on his own mathematical researches from 9 o'clock till 1 o'clock. Then, after a light lunch, he would walk down to the university cricket ground to watch a game. In the late afternoon he would walk slowly back to his rooms in College. There he took dinner, which he followed with a glass of wine. When cricket was not in season, it was the Australian cricket scores he would read in The Times and he would play real tennis in the afternoons."
I was first introduced to Vim from a Jeffrey Way tutorial about HTML5 way back in 2010 or maybe 2008 when first learning about programming. Ever since then I've used Vim throughout my career, even somehow convincing others to use it too. I've been using neovim for the last 5 years but can still hop on a colleagues machine or into a server and still be productive.

Easily the most important piece of software I've ever used in my life, since it has allowed me to make a living.

RIP Bram Moolenaar.
Where I've landed on this one is that the difference is whether the characters understand the plot device (or investigate if they don't understand), not whether I understand it or whether it comports with my notion of what is possible. In Star Trek, the characters understand the unrealistic elements (warp drive, Heisenberg compensators, space communism, etc). In Lord of the Rings, they don't. In Star Wars, they understand some of the unrealistic elements (FTL travel, lightsabers, etc) but not others (everything Jedi or Jedi-adjacent).
He also made a YouTube video on this

https://youtu.be/dk8pwE3IByg
I did, but that took a lot longer to process on my computer for some reason.
Keep believing that
> There may even need to be street-side solutions. But it’s all doable and the engineering is straightforward.

That‘s true! Vienna, Austria has over a thousand street-side chargers already. They‘re tiny and right next to the parking spot.
While I agree, humans are immoral, and will always be immoral. We're inherently flawed and self-serving (speaking collectively, not individually as a rule).

This is why cryptocurrency is at its core a very good idea (I personally found the Satoshi whitepaper very beautiful), yet in practice is completely and utterly abused and useless to society - it failed to take into account that humans will do anything and everything to abuse a system for a dopamine hit or for status, etc.

As soon as technology catches up to this reality, we'll start to see change there. I don't think regulators will ever catch on to this, honestly. I think we need to stop thinking they will.

I don't know the solutions here, but this is my pessimistic take. It makes the problems harder (but IMO not unsolvable).
Yea I'm being a bit cheeky. I just want to push back a bit against hard sci-fi. It can be really interesting to come up with new science as opposed to just coming up with new engineering given known science. Greg Egan books made me realize that.
> Michael Burnham

I should have clarified I was talking about TNG. Not the Netflix mess
Again, it's not really 'native binary' vs wasm. The binary can only really tell the os what it expects it to do. It is more of 'operating system' vs wasm.

By no means an authoritative list and I've not brought up the sandbox at all - that's completely out of scope for this argument but:

* wasm has no aslr - making it incredibly easy to figure out where something lives - you can run the same wasm payload again and again again and get the same result, for instance on linux:

me@box:~/w/zz/aslr$ ./aslr
Library functions: 00007faebfc9f3f0, Heap: 0000562a103c12a0, Stack: 00007ffeea5d8fec, Binary: 0000562a0f1cf179
me@box:~/w/zz/aslr$ ./aslr
Library functions: 00007ff2eda9f3f0, Heap: 000056509ae012a0, Stack: 00007fff849209bc, Binary: 000056509a92d179

~/w/wasi-sdk-20.0+threads/bin/clang --sysroot ~/w/wasi-sdk-20.0+threads/share/wasi-sysroot/ aslr.c -o aslr.wasm

and on wasm... Nothing changes:

me@box:~/w/zz/aslr$ wasmer aslr.wasm
Library functions: 0000000000000002, Heap: 0000000000011500, Stack: 00000000000114b4, Binary: 0000000000000001

me@box:~/w/zz/aslr$ wasmer aslr.wasm
Library functions: 0000000000000002, Heap: 0000000000011500, Stack: 00000000000114b4, Binary: 0000000000000001

(btw - all of this works on all wasm runtimes)

* wasm can write directly to 0x0 - meaning I can just initialize variables to all sorts of random bad values (eg: overriding functions that might return an expected value or perhaps I have a user_id from a database or worse an 'admin' flag or something, these are just a few examples - it gets way worse in other languages that depend on this)

* wasm can easily overflow buffers (despite claims to the contrary) - that claim really should be taken down from the website - it is totally false

* doesn't have the concept of read-only memory

These are all issues that linux hasn't really had to deal with for 20? years now.
Also the Martian iirc.
It has little to do with education or intellect.

The disease of righteousness is available to all.

Being able to reflect and examine one’s own thoughts and beliefs is harder than fitting in and being righteous.
It's important to understand that reducing carbon emissions doesn't cool the planet. It only makes the future warmup slower.
Nobody is putting down people who don't like remote work. People are putting down the people who are telling other people why remote work is bad. Those people are trying to take it away. Go work in an office or find a place that is onsite if you think this way.
It's actually the hardware that enforces such guarantees. The OS could have bugs, like the WASM program - even if the entire stack is written in Rust from top to bottom.

Really the only solution is memory safe hardware, which there is effort going into, e.g. ARM CHERI[0] and ARM MTE

[0] https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2022/01/an_armful_of_cheris/
I guess the point is, it can be a fabrication, it can be something very important, and it can't really be anything in between.
And this is exactly why the custom domain block list is so useful. Blocking w3schools entirely would be unhelpful to beginners, but a lot of experts find their content to be less helpful than that on other websites and would rather not see them at all.
This is my problem with git. SO many moving parts to visualize.

So on the topic of visualization, can someone make a simple(?) GUI tool that has all these entities, and sequentially animates some arrows, with annotations, showing just what the heck is going on ? Do it for the most commonly used commands but also for the rarely-used ones. And for every command that invokes it (presumably using a hook), then display OK/Cancel.

Git training wheels. Meant to be abandoned once you get the hang of it.
So long Brad, probably the single most used tool I've used over my career. Thanks for that!

I guess he finally learnt how to exit vim
And when I'm showering in my apartment, I'm on privately owned property agreeing to my rental contract. That doesn't give my landlord a moral right to place a camera in the shower and post the photos online. Privacy in private is a right.
What I'm saying is that they already do it and already have access to enough information to know who is making the most of a rabbit hole and who is not. Code commit frequency is sufficient in itself.
> Quite frankly, I have never used “RHEL” and have not used Fedora in a long time. Personal preference.

Anyone know what he does use?
All of this is true.

But my own sites (+email, DNS, etc) are running off-grid in my kitchen on a RPi which is basically a smart-phone chip-set, and can cope with an occasional Mastodon/HN/Slashdot(!) stampede. Typical power consumption ~1W. Faster response in the UK than many sites behind CloudFlare...

http://d.hd.org
https://www.earth.org.uk
> In reality we already practice social media consent; it is not unusual to ask a friend if they’re alright with having a picture posted

Is this common practice? The author keeps insisting it is. I don’t think it is, I think the author is just a member of a particularly inclined friend group. It would be a nice consideration but I can honestly say I have never asked nor been asked.

I’ve certainly asked after the fact to have particularly unflattering pictures I’ve been tagged in taken down and friends have always apologetically complied.

I don’t generally post many pictures of people outside my direct family, and can only think of one occasion where my sister had me take a photo down.