skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's trivial to find historical examples of censorship in the US that wouldn't happen today. Here is one example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bertrand_Russell_Case

Can you imagine a situation now where CUNY was unable to appoint someone to an academic position because the Catholic church canceled them?

As another example one might mention the vast reduction of censorship in movies. Movies can be shown now that would have been unthinkable in at least the first half of the 20th century.

Granted, there may also be instances of present day censorship that wouldn't have happened historically. But it's naive and completely ahistorical to see any past period as some kind of bastion of free speech absolutism. Believe me, lots of people in your grandparents' generation also wanted to restrict free speech (particularly with regard to e.g. sexually explicit content, or anything that might be vaguely connected with Communism).
I quite like it for finding books in the same series. For example, this finds all the ringworld[0] books, but the other site mentioned in this thread does not [1].

EDIT, but looks like LibraryThing, also mentioned here, does![2]

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=ringworld&qid=DjSO9UZu2o

[1] https://www.worldswithoutend.com/searchwwe.asp?st=ringworld

[2] https://www.librarything.com/nseries/703/Ringworld
On that graph: isn't it conventional for the independent variable (in this case, depth) to be on the x-axis?
And I'm glad you have!

I was complaining that in public discourse, anything not monetizable is disregarded, despite it making up (IMHO) the bulk of human activities and creation.
Oh, LinkedIn very much already has that; see https://old.reddit.com/r/LinkedInLunatics/
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> …Controlled by Apple and Google.

FFS ! Pure FUD and you know it.

I don't know about Google, but with Apple, the data necessary to validate the fingerprint is stored on the device's secure enclave[1].

Its not readable by apps on the device, let alone Apple !

(I imagine Google devices are the same, I just said "don't know" because I don't have the first-hand knowldege).

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204587
I wonder if to an extent, the US tendency to use credit card "protections" is an outsourcing of consumer-protection law.

Some countries, I gather that the consumer-protection authorities have a lot of teeth, and they're a viable way to escalate on a lot of bad behaviour (denying return of defective goods, or refusing to honour warranty).

In the US, I don't think this is as common-- you might be able to raise an issue with your state Attorney General, and in 2029 he'll get to it-- so the magic word is "chargeback" to get a response.
> Ever had use hardware that you didn't buy yourself?

Yes, of course. The point wasn't that I would buy a device for my own use (though that is kind of appealing these days), but rather that your choices influence what the market provides.

If you want display devices to support Linux, you need to preferentially buy devices that explicitly support Linux, and make that fact known to vendors as well as you can.
I agree completely with everything you wrote. The "war" is going to just continue to heat up as long as people are strawmanned, mocked, and dismissed. That hasn't worked out well historically, it's not going to in the future either and it's something I'm very concerned about.

Re: Epstein, if I meant to imply that I thought Epstein did kill himself, that was a mistake. I have no idea of course, but it seems pretty reasonable to me that he didn't...
I expanded my spreadsheet into a webapp https://jch.app. My original thinking was to avoid broken bank syncing, but one problem I still have is how to include assets that aren't publicly listed. For example, have funds in a retirement account that's specific to that institution and can't fetch updated prices. Currently getting around that by using a similar target date fund as a proxy for the price.
Oh wow you're actually that famous physicist, what an honour! Been meaning to find a copy of your textbook. Any chance any of this has some influence on the idea of technicolor theories?
South Korea could have very well been used as the US's beachhead especially during a time when China and Japan were becoming growing empires. Several businesses also benefited from the prosperity of neighboring countries. The Korean news to this day reports on export trends because of it being an exports-based economy.

A period of rapid easy growth has put Won into the pockets of Seoulites who merely became rich from just owning property. Unfortunately, this wealth did not propagate evenly throughout and the younger demographics are suffering today as a result.
Notice there is no format in which timezone is specified as 4 digits without the colon, and yet 'date +%z' returns ±NNNN.
> you'd start a letter with "Sehr geehrte Frau Dr. Musterfrau", which implies knowing the last name, gender and title of the person.

No it doesn't. Just ask how they want to be addressed. You can't encode all the possible variants, not everyone in Germany will want to be addressed in that way even if they are both a woman and a doctor.
There were a lot of heat pumps in the 2010s (and before). There’s been a lot of attention and press about heat pumps recently, including some push for heat pumps as sole-source space conditioning, but they’re nowhere as new-tech as mass-market EVs or even the adoption of solar/wind/battery farms.
I’m starting to think they need a seamless way to give folks two accounts.

They’re trying to be both LinkedIn and reddit. I don’t want my real name on reddit but I would for linked in.

It’s an issue they need to solve.
The physics of why the first clock in America failed
Having spent some time recently in Seoul, the amount of materialism and status oneupsmanship was striking compared to the USA. One hypothesis I have is that it's because of the genetic homogeneity of everyone there, meaning the main way to differentiate between others is through your things.
In German, you have to ask the customer whether they want to be addressed in the formal way “Sehr geehrter Herr Schmidt” (esteemed Mr. Schmidt might be an approximate translation, of course this sounds totally off in English) or the informal way “Hallo Paul”, or maybe they prefer “Lieber Paul” (dear Paul) or even “Lieber Herr Schmidt”! Note that the formal and informal ways use different parts of the name. So if the website asks me for my name, then I have to rub my crystal ball to figure out which style the company intends to use.
Lock-Free and Wait-Free, definition and examples (2013)
The solution is fewer people - which is the direction they are headed.
S.Korea has twice the population density of Germany for instance. So cutting in to half the current number seems about right.

Honest question: who benefits from population growth besides developers?
> These posts from this and other servers in the decentralized network are gaining traction on this server right now.

> Nothing is trending right now. Check back later!

Incredibly popular server.
can't? or doesn't as part of a negotiation tactic? - do you really think the richest person in the country couldn't pay his rent if he wanted to?
> Reddit is, I think, a better version of Usenet culture than the original.

Reddit is slow, censored, and for-profit. How could that possibly be better than what we used to have? You still get spam, bots, and flame wars, but you also have a needless popularity contest with votes and mods.
> Let's face it, we don't really need 24fps+ footage from the moon. Nothing is changing on a timescale that would be interesting.

NASA's funding problems would compound if they took an attitude this naïve during what is largely a PR mission.
Have you dabbled with plain text accounting systems at all? They seem like the next step after spreadsheets because ease of version control and pipelines to/from.
> because of the games you can play

Plus, when the workforce is 99% H1B visa holders, what does "local worker pay" even mean?
There are quite some wealthy people who happens to understand technology well and use and contribute to many open source tools.
Is Kindle that dominant among book readers?
Show HN: React-statechart: OSS components to visualize and edit state machines
It's slightly more than I explained. My wife worked her way up from a rural farming town here in Korea, basically taught herself English (and 18th century English), went to the states and got her PhD in American History (something she worked 2 jobs to do + we have debt) and became one of the few Korean born American History professors in the country. We'd both really like to stay in Korea, and we'd like to have kids, but these things seem at odds in SK these days, maybe things will change for us, maybe we'll move one day, we'll see. As it stands today, caring for aging parents on both sides, giving our kids a better life than ours, seems... challenging. (Thanks for the positive and helpful comment, btw :)
There are tons of old people on social media though
> …Controlled by Apple and Google.

...Both of whom manufacture hardware/phones where the local processing of biometric data takes place.
> It's deliberately rude to tell Muslims [...]

Rude, maybe. But you're just stating an opinion of the Muslim religion, not the individual.

Deliberate deadnaming serves zero purpose. There's no reason to deadname other than "I have no respect for you as a person."
The publishing process for the public registry is very prescriptive, and there is indeed a manifest file involved - https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/registry/providers...
I remember that setting up a server was not too much of a big deal in the late 80s /early 90s. We did it for our university. I can't remember how we federated (the word was different back then). We definitely didn't have to pay anything to the server (or servers?) we were getting news from and sending our messages to.

Anyway, this is probably an even higher hoop to jump through.
I think that's just out of the necessity of not having to explain who exactly "her Dr Rer Nat" is.
Excellent comment. The desire to have children being generationally transmitted has inertia that doesn't account for a landscape that has changed much more rapidly.
I'd never know. Slack does not natively support my platform (FreeBSD), so I use the web client.
I used to be in the former group. I'd take. 120-200mg/day to program and "get stuff done" (hundreds of unfinished programs)

Thankfully a decade later and I'm in the latter, typically don't take my full dose so I always have some left come next refill.
Even with only one service I still consider Compose to be a necessity. Otherwise you need to manually specify how to mount the volumes, set the environment variables, and forward ports when you run the container. Only the most trivial containers are easily usable with plain `docker run`.
The idea of someone purchasing Teams (i.e., paying money) sounds ludicrous to me. The only reason I can think for someone to use Teams is this: it comes free with the office suite (IIUC).
>Mastadon has distributed identity, and localized management of moderation. Is this sufficient that we should deem it "not a social network"? I think not.

Good point. Something created for the explicit purpose of competing with (in the sense of taking users away from) a social network should be called a social network.
They have some really weird terminology in the UK. A "public school" is not like US public schools at all but rather is an exclusive private school:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_school_(United_Kingdom)

George Orwell went to one, maybe that is how he got some of the ideas about language that are in that essay at the end of 1984... For the definition of "grammar school" see

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammar_school
Facebook wanted to do this 8 years ago. There are many, many reasons this is difficult, but for starters neither Twitter nor Facebook control a meaningful hardware platform. Apple/Google get a little closer with some of their payment stuff, but I’m skeptical they will ever displace credit cards.
> saying no to spreadsheets in 2023

Normalize spreadsheets as evergreen technology. Say no to weeb3 in 2023.
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> It's honestly miraculous how far it's come. Within one lifetime, it went from a primarily agricultural economy to one of the world's largest and most industrialized.

Is it miraculous if it's not sustainable, as we are clearly seeing? They had a massive, far-beyond-replacement-rate boom of the population, based on the 1970s and 1980s levels of fossil fuel consumption, fueled also by rapid globalization.

If the trends for energy and globalization are reversed, what are they going to do with a massively aged population around 2040-2050?

It seems like their demographic crisis is going to be one of the worst in the world, perhaps worse even than Japan's ?
> 1. Screening mammography has been proven to reduce cancer specific mortality in many studies.

So let's assume that an annual X-ray caused another cancer in women who would never develop breast cancer (i.e. 87% of them). You are saying "we don't know", but the authors of that paper are trying to answer exactly that. We may have saved lives in 13% group (that would be < 2.5% of those dying from breast cancer), but may have lost some lives in 87% group. According to the paper the net outcome is around 0.
This seems a rather loaded telling to fit with recent dislike of the man, rather than any investigative, relevatory, or even catch-up on drama article. I'm no musk fan, but we have to be more objective if we want understanding or change.
> The post your replying to says "the most corrupt American history"

That post was edited after my reply, possibly in response to my reply. My quote was accurate at the time.
the key part is 'knowing what I know now'

I migrated, not to US, and my brother stayed. We work in the same industry, and has 2x my quality of life with 60% of the income.

Peope who immigrate on these visas are typically not lower class in their home societies, they are usually upper-middle class. And usually you wnd up just in the middle class in the west. And standarss of living for middle class have beeen declining for the past 10 years or so, while developing nations are developing.

There is also cost to immigration - losijg contact with family, expense and stress of applying for visas, etc. You wouldn't make the jump for like 10% improvement, the QoL improvement has to be at least 50% for it to be worthwhile.
I can't believe I bothered reading that. Luckily the discussion of the client side encryption feature request gave me enough context to immediately stop.
I love the cheat sheet format for programming language guides. Hoping this becomes more of a trend. It's nice not having to click through dozens of pages when following a guide.
> I don't see anyone prosecuting Google for bundling Chrome with Android

The EU did this: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/it/MEMO_1...

> pushing Chrome in Search,

I really wish this had happened, but maybe no-one made a complaint?

> prosecuting Microsoft for pushing Edge with Windows.

This will 100% happen, but the wheels move slowly.
This is 100% the correct answer. I've spent a lot of time brainstorming ways to take on Goodreads, and this is the moat that I can never seem to cross.
I am an occasional user of the site and basically get value out of it two ways

1) check if any FB friends/acquaintances have read the same books that I have
2) use the ratings to rank-order the books of a particular author. E.g., if I know I want to read another Balzac or Mishima novel, I check the ratings to see which one I might try next
>I don't include HN in the same "social media" as twitter/facebook/Instagram

I don't either -- HN is the same category as Reddit which is much worse to me.

>Over there most people use their real identities and it seems they take everything very personal as a result. Here people are just nicknames in a comment section

There are plenty of people taking things personally here, all the time, and if you stick around you'll notice that a good number of them either use their real names as a handle or have it in their profile. And there are "celebrities" here just like there are on Reddit, except here it's usually tied to some high-ranking position at a company. For instance, the CEO of Matrix has many comments under the username Arathorn in almost every single post about Matrix.

>I don't see many negatives of sites like HN

Tree-style nearly-endless commentary combined with an algorithmic ranking of "top" stories that may have a big payoff if I just press refresh one more time turns out to be way, way more addictive than "traditional" social media, at least for me. Twitter never hooked me, and I kicked Facebook a decade ago, but even after forcing myself to use a privacy frontend for Reddit and never, ever logging in, I'm still addicted. I spend hours a day scrolling, and resolve to quit, and then go back.

I do the same thing here. It's so bad that I consider HN and Reddit to be as addictive as video poker.
Realistically, you don't want to fire the person that makes this mistake. It pretty much is _never_ going to happen again for that employee, it's burned in their mind now.
.. unless you piss off the government. Then they'll get you good!
> I suspect the cybertruck will wind up with a similar makeover

They haven't been able to redesign or even facelift the 11 year old Model S. You may be right, but it'll be a while.
The other commenter is correct, founders were a selling point but it had the opposite effect bc I am aware of the whole laundering thing done by my rich compatriots
Texas hooked up its first virtual power plants to help the grid
The easy way to download something in a Dockerfile:

RUN wget URL

Your better way?

RUN wget URL && \
if [[ "$(sha256sum <the output>)" != "the hash" ]]; then \
# Wow, I sure hope I spelled this right! Also, can a comment end with \
echo "Hmm, sha256 was wrong. Let's log the actual hash we saw. Oh wait, forgot to save that. Run sha256sum again?" 2>&1 \
echo "Hmm, better not forget to fail!" 2>&1 \
exit 1 # Better remember that 1 is failure and 0 is success! \
fi

An actual civilized solution would involve a manifest of external resources, a lockfile, and a little library of instructions that the tooling could use to fetch or build those external resources. Any competent implementation would result in VASTLY better caching behavior than Docker or Buildah can credibly implement today -- wget uses network resources and is usually slow, COPY is oddly slow, and the tooling has no real way to know that the import of a file could be cached even if something earlier in the Dockerfile (like "apt update"!) changed.

Think of it like modern cargo or npm or whatever, but agnostic to the kind of resource being fetched.

If there was a manifest and lockfile, it really would not be that hard to wire apt or dnf up to it so that a dependency solver would run outside the container, fetch packages, and then install them inside the container. Of course, either COPY would need to become faster or bind mounts would have to start working reliably. Oh well.

> Honestly I've always found reproducibility harder to enforce when using Linux package managers

Timestamps could well cause issues (which would be fixable), but it's not conceptually difficult to download .rpm or .deb files and then install them. rpm -i works just fine. In fact, rpm -i --root arguably works quite a bit better than docker/podman build, and it would be straightforward to sandbox it.
To put the "Marshall Plan" into a modern perspective, it was equivalent to $173 billion in 2023 dollars, over a period of four years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan
It also creates a ton of e-waste for a few hours of entertainment when you already have the compute power available to you in another portable device you already have to own anyway.
Would you mind expanding on what you meant about BitTorrent? It seems like it's one of the few decentralized technologies that hasn't been ruined.
Yea but competitors (Apple, Meta, Google, etc.) are better across the board and they would be able to provide alternatives or prevent these activities.

> How about I only carry X-related data over my global net of satellites

Just cherry-picking this one but, but it would get regulated and competitors would come on to the market, and you can also obtain service from traditional providers (ISPs, and mobile providers) like you do today.

Also you can see how well these items work now ala Apple (maybe Google too?). Apple Card, iCloud, iPhone, Car Play, etc. good luck competing with that when people actively hate your products lol. I'm not super worried about this. I'm much more concerned about something like disinformation campaigns on social media or something along those lines than I am any sort of competence with Twitter turning into a dystopian nightmare machine.
It would be better to move to the midwestern US honestly. Housing and childcare is super affordable out there and wages will probably still work out better than in europe. I expect when shit hits the fan you’d rather be in wisconson with american citizenship than on the proverbial maginot line. Civilians don’t often fare well in european continental conflicts.
Many an American is green in the face with jealousy about the total control that China has.
I think in the West we would benefit if the default position was that it's shameful and selfish to not have kids. The way our welfare state is set up currently is such that we don't pay for our own retirement, but need the generations below us (hopefully a larger generation) to fund our retirement as we did for the generations before us.

When we don't have kids the welfare system which we seem to value simply doesn't work anymore and puts increasing pressures on younger generations. And this compounds the low birthrate issue because we now have to raise taxes on younger generations and take out more debt (both public and private) to afford the welfare spending. This high level of taxation and indebtedness increases wealth inequality and makes it harder for young couple to have children.

I think we'll work this out the hard way at some point... The West is trying to offset the inevitable with ever increasing levels of immigration but that will only work for so long. Eventually the welfare system will collapse and people will have to have kids if they want to be cared for in their older age. I hope we don't get to that point, but it seems to me people are too nice to shame people for not having kids and are unwillingly cut welfare spending / fund their own retirements.

https://www.cbo.gov/publication/58340

Not sure what the situation is in South Korea. If people care for their own elderly family / neighbours instead of expecting the state to do it then perhaps a low birth rate is less of an issue. Sure, GDP might not grow, but that's not the end of the world.
Theseus is very cool, as are Singularity and Midori. I'm trying to think of how a general-purpose OS could incorporate ideas from these intralingual OSes while allowing other programming languages to be used, without sacrificing security. I haven't gotten anywhere yet because I'm inexperienced.
Is it easy to live without it? Can you go about your business without it?