skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The purpose for a PAID Usenet provider is for hosting binaries (i.e. piracy). You're paying someone for the bandwidth, and ignore or deal with the DMCA takedown notices. There is little to no reason to have a paid Usenet account just to read or post on pure text forums, and NOT download porn or other pirated content.

This may reflect the state today, but back in the late 90's and early 00's, it was not. Even for the pure text forums, you had to pay someone. In the earlier days it was included in the ISP package, so you wouldn't see the costs. Or via your university. But I distinctly remember when my university dropped USENET lots of people complained because they couldn't get free access elsewhere.

For me: I used BBS's before I used USENET. BBS groups ("conferences") were much more civil, and had much better discourse. The moderation was very effective. When I moved to USENET, it was quite chaotic by comparison. And then with the onset of spam, I went elsewhere.
I'm through the first preface and this looks like a fantastic read. Thank you!
Order them one hour apart
I don't include HN in the same "social media" as twitter/facebook/Instagram. 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. Points aren't even shown next to the nickname so people are more or less equal in comments. Personally I don't have "friends/followers" on this site nor I seek them (which seems the main drive on sites like facebook/Instagram/twitter).

Does HN meet the definition of "social media"? Yes it does, but is it the same kind of social media as these others? I don't think so. I don't see many negatives of sites like HN. Even Reddit could be a nice experience if certain things were tweaked there (atrocious user interface, showing up/down votes next to posts, showing account age, probably a better algorithm etc)
You mean like luxury SUVs for soccer moms? Yeah marketing can push people into some seriously weird choices, I guess that's why marketing was needed.
Perhaps it's culturally "normal", but it goes against evolutionary psychology, and it's probably unhealthy as well.
Based on their features and bug fixes in their releases and how it got progressively worse in terms of reliability/performance for the backend: I think it was clear they made a decision to stop investing/prioritizing it and only tried to fix things when they realized they had their market share absolutely annihilated in no time flat. I can't imagine it was a "surprise" to anyone in management there but I'm not sure they expected resting on their laurels to result in major blowback as fast as it did.
Probably around 30 for me. I attribute most of it to burnout and family issues.
The difference is that Facebook is still Facebook, like how google’s Alphabet thing didn’t re-brand google, really.

Incidentally, my social circle (mostly non-tech) still just calls Meta and Facebook both by Facebook, most of the time.
I have wondered if FedNow is going to hurt the credit card industry. At least I hope it brings some competition.
Isn't it already the case in the US that trucks and large SUVs etc don't count as cars, so don't have to follow any crash safety rules?

I.e. they technically classed as agricultural vehicles or something, so like you wouldn't expect a combine harvester to be particularly nice to pedestrians or other road users either, these large vehicles are treated the same in the eyes of the law?
I don't know how many typical hourly workers are going to be able to be reasonably trained for it, but there are some. The vast demand for it and tech workers should pull them in. But it doesn't, cost is one reason, but a bigger reason is it's hard or they think they can't do it or are actively dis-interested.

One way to see this is that a million people every year who are already in college choose not to study cs or it type things. They could do it as part of regular college but they don't. Then they get out and can't get a job.
I haven't seen a Cheech and Chong ad.
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Next time I got to the Din Tai Fung in my neighborhood ;-)
Also possible that they were given early access?
Where can genuine discussion be had in the digital age?
At least they didn't try to change the name of the actual product. X is trying to erase Twitter from existence.
You can’t seriously believe that we’re in that grave of danger
It’s the exception that confirms the rule.
> sorted by created at desc

Interestingly, this seems to be amongst the most controversial aspects; some people _hate_ it.

Personally, I was only quite dimly aware that Twitter had an algorithm now, like a common Facebook; until Musk ruined it I generally only really used Twitter via Tweetbot, so was getting a time-based feed anyway. So Mastodon was just what I was used to anyway. But more people than I expected actually liked the Twitter algorithm, and couldn't cope with Mastodon's lack of magic ML stuff at all.
You're drawing connections, but you're not making concrete arguments.

Perhaps China and the West will both face population collapse. The argument still stands that Western values (and Chinese values) will be lost.

But humanity won't just vanish in a puff of smoke. It just means that societies that do not share "our" values will live on.

Do you believe in human rights? Feminism? Racial equality? Well too bad, because, at the current going rate, very few people in the 22nd century will.
> Who the hell is signing a large contract with IBM and expecting them to deliver working tech?

Considering they have tens of billions in revenue every year, a lot of people. But what's IBM's niche? I remember they promoted watson a few years back and nothing seems to have come out of that. IBM is such an iconic name in tech but I don't remember them doing anything noteworthy for a long time. At this point IBM is just famous for being famous.
Cannot this gradient be used for some sort of heat pump? Or is it more effective to just outright collect the photons with solar panels.
hmm hiring for safety team Elon disbanded....

I am just wondering how one would balance speech against the
obvious revenue by ads bias as with newspapers the claim was that
the editorial was that structural to balance it which then turn out
to be somewhat a farcical lie.

Plus, one has the system bias of the limit of characters and the way posting
as implement promotes trash talking rather than other forms of discourse and
it is my understanding that was done to correspond to mobile SMS at the time.

Interesting discussion would be what routes Elon had at disposal to attempt:
-buy twitter out-right and hope to hobble it to change it.
-buy twitter hobble it and then find an upcoming competitor to buy to transform twitter into.
-etc.
hmm, do you think a lucrative vehicle is like a lucrative video game, which recoups all its costs in the first week?

Or do you think it's like the other kind of lucrative video game, that was made very cheaply and is continuously delivered very slowly over time, usually for free, monetizing a very small number of very strange people?

A flawed vehicle is neither of these. It is really expensive to make, and must recoup its costs over a very long period of time, where the 100,000th buyer will have all the wisdom from the previous 99,999 buyers.
Ask HN: Agile methodology is great but bad reputation due to inexperienced devs?
Agile methodology is great but gets poor reputation due to inexperienced teams
Poster did not say to “stop thinking” entirely but to avoid over thinking / over rationalizing about the reasons not to have kids.

You are on a tear in this thread, you may want to get some fresh air
MomTestGPT – A Better way for founders to write notes
Hey guys,
Recently I created an internal tool for my team and I that write notes from all of our meetings and save them into a spreadsheet, following the "The Mom Test" book guidelines.

Also it shows you some red flags about stuff that happens during conversations such as fluff, bad questions, etc...

What do you guys think?
How do you write and analyze notes today?
How is that a grift? They'll get like 3 meetings with that contract!
The US has plenty of oil and didnt need to go to those places to get more of it. We destroyed Iraqs oil pipelines and infrastructure in that war and a lot of it still is in need of investment in reconstruction today. Likewise Afghan oil production is a recent thing like in the last 10 years, and today the taliban government sells those mineral and oil extraction rights to chinese companies. If the goal was to get at those resources for American companies, we clearly failed. It seems China’s belt and road imperialism works better than our bomb the civilians and overthrow the government for a puppet method.
Me, 3 months ago: "The Cybertruck is unlikely to be sold in any market." - wasn't popular with the Muskbros.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35914808
In fairness, that system wasn't designed to increase the # of skilled workers in the US, it was designed to propagate and spread "American values" overseas.

A half century ago, the idea was that you bring a lot of the best and brightest of poorer foreign nations to the US for a university education. Then they return to their home nation and eventually work their way up to positions of power. Hopefully, their positive view of the USA will influence their decision making. In addition, many will have maintained contacts they made during their school years.

It's not a crazy tactic given that the cost was mostly borne by the foreigners.
Having kids was, effectively, not really a decision until the mid-20th century.

Would you say that all of your ancestors, prior to your parents, were utterly irresponsible?
>Agreed. Discovery is a big problem with youtube.

As well as with their parent Google. Did you know the minus sign is meaningless in the search now? Man, Google search is so useless now I'd actually pay a monthly fee (up to $10) for them to give me a bloody regex based search.
Me too. The value captured in forums is very high. It is relevant for years.
X-ray is not just adding anxiety, it's harmful, and it's affecting all women who get screening, not only those who actually get cancer. Magic of numbers.
If they accepted you then you're probably good enough.

Just do your best and keep learning as you've done so far. Cheers.
> What even is the defining characteristic of a "file"?

This is where you have to start when you read b/s articles like the one in OP.

But, to answer your previous question, lets first look at a different example: the word "car". Back in the days, before we had horseless carriages, "car" was, basically, a contraction of "carriage". I.e. two hundreds years ago it would be completely natural to picture cars as being pulled by horses, and cars that weren't pulled by horses or other beasts of burden would be the stuff you find in fairy-tales.

Were English speakers stupid two hundreds years ago to so grandly misuse the word "car"? -- I don't think so. In their context it made it perfectly fine. The context is gone now, so, whoever calls a buggy with a horse a car today is not using the language correctly.

And such is the case of the early filesystems. By today's standards they wouldn't have qualified to be called that way. Probably, the early filesystem more closely resemble key-value stores we use today. The discrepancy happened due to semantic drift caused by changes in technology.

Similarly to how you wouldn't use the word "car" to describe a buggy today, you shouldn't use the word "filesystem" to describe a key-value store today. Well, unless you make sure the readers understand that you are talking about what happened some 50-60 years ago.

And people who get to decide what to call a filesystem and what not to call filesystem are the people who make filesystems (and I'm one of them).
Reminds me of the Monty Python skit about a bording house resident called Monsieur Hilter
i get that phones can last several years now, but it helps when you start with a good one.

maybe i lucked out with the phone i chose, but what it offered for under 500 is still phones struggle to do 4+ years later (e.g. 4k 60fps recordings, baring the quality matter). meanwhile, this one is starting with an enterprise version of a dated midrange for a processor.

while i keep respecting the mission they've managed to maintain, the oneplus-like price creep and catching up to the rest approach is not for everyone. but what you get is hard to argue if you'd *want* to use a phone like this after 8 years.

also the audience that would commit to this phone also tends to be the most demanding, as you can see from other comments. i personally would've loved dp out over usb-C.

it is indeed a tough market and i wish them the best.
They do, and PowerToys also has some additional functionality in FancyZones, but it's still not perfect. It's hard to express "I want exactly this window alongside exactly this other window" purely via the keyboard, it's hard to cycle between multiple layouts, it's hard to launch a new window and have it appear exactly where you want etc. I'm not very interested in VR personally, but I am hopeful in the long term that eye tracking, gestures, and voice control make interacting with computers spatially a lot easier, just with the already-quite-good 2D paradigm we've already got.
Getting all of those dead straight lines to line up perfectly and not look awful is the challenge I think.

The eye is quite good at spotting straight lines, so a tiny difference will be obvious immediately. On a more "normally" shaped car there are curves and sweeps and things that change radius and direction as they move down the car, and other straight things like window sills etc are broken up by door pillars etc) so it is harder for the eye to ntice when things are 2mm out front-to-back.
Positive rights are a thing, my libertarian friend.
An allegedly leaked email from musk described it as important that the straight panels are ruthlessly dimensionally accurate because imperfections are easier to spot. Real? Who knows.
So he's after that sweet, sweet presidential campaign advertising money?

Will twitter make it that far? Doesn't it have to pay back like $13bn by the end of this year?
"Starting in the U.S., we’ll continue to apply specific policies to paid-for promoted political posts. This will include prohibiting the promotion of false or misleading content, including false or misleading information intended to undermine public confidence in an election"

Yeah, right. And Fox News is fair and balanced.

The problem with prohibiting "false or misleading content" is that you have to somehow adjudicate what is false and misleading. Is it "false and misleading" to say that (say) Joe Biden is "the most corrupt president in American history"? [1] I certainly think so [2], but there are literally tens of millions of people who would profess to disagree. So who gets to decide? In the case of X, the answer is: Elon Musk.

The problem is not that there's anything wrong with the policy statement. The problem is that we as a society have totally lost our grip on what is false and misleading, and this can be laid squarely at the feet of Donald Trump, whom Elon supports (or at least has supported in the past). So no, a commitment from X to "prohibit the promotion of false and misleading content" does not inspire confidence in me. Quite the opposite. It feels North-Korea kind of creepy.

[1] https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/newt-gingrich-bi...

[2] https://newrepublic.com/article/175141/fact-check-republican...
I don’t think any of Googles many abortive chat applications are ever a good example of company acting anti-competitively. Honestly Google seemed to have made a sport out of shooting themselves in the foot.

With regards to Google’s productivity suite vs Office. Googles stuff is very impressive, but honestly not even in the same league as Office. Googles stuff is pretty useless for anything beyond pretty basic editing, and I say that as some that used Googles offerings extensively in a professional environment for many years.
> why they will never agree to WGA demands to release viewership numbers in order to pay writers residuals; their stock would go to 0 if those numbers ever became public

Well, they're not going to have any WGA shows either any time soon, and maybe the WGA will start advocating for an investor lawsuit on this basis?
Are there any recommendation engines like this that also allow filtering by books included in Kindle Unlimited?
So the fungus can cross the blood brain barrier? Or does it get there via other means?
I tried it a couple months ago and wasn't too impressed. Unless I missed the feature, I trade enough to need something that can plug in to my brokerage accounts. There is a trade import feature, but I'm not going to export/import transactions from multiple accounts daily.
Ask HN: Is it a red flag if a job doxxes its devs?
by doxxing i mean things like expectations around having your company github profile being public with your name in the handle and profile and a picture, or adding you to their public team page where they show your photo and name and some details about you, or expecting you to have and maintain an open linkedin profile. how do you push back on this kind of behavior without losing the job?

i want to work on the code, not on building the company's social media brand or online presence for them...i also don't like talking about work outside of work and this includes wanting to have boundaries about my online presence as well so that any associations online are entirely my own instead of related to where i work for a day job.

i appreciate any advice in how to best communicate this, English isn't my first language and i'm also not very good at saying no to things.
Tip, get a VOIP number like Google Voice and forward your carrier number. Never have to worry about porting or losing your number again.
agree with comments but a starbucks coffee is not $16.
watsonx.ai where have you been !
It depends on who's cancel messages you honor.

You'll likely want to honor the anti-spam ones as they're deleting spam. Most sites limit the sources of cancel messages they honor (and have checks to make sure that its you who are deleting your own messages).

Back in the day, censorship was an issue because everyone would honor everyone's cancel messages and, well, talking about a contentious political topic would likely have people attempting to forge cancel messages.
Same. It's a bit "random" though. Maybe because the Mastodon world has generally resisted having good global search. And even though certain instances have broad topics (like sigmoid.social for AI/ML, or fosstodon.org for F/OSS) a feed tends to quickly fill up with plenty of random stuff.

With Usenet, if you join, say, comp.ai, you know that (spam aside) you're just getting AI stuff. Same for comp.linux, comp.lang.c++, or whatever. There's something to be said for the topic hierarchy there.

I see a place for both ActivityPub and Usenet, personally. Although, again, acknowledging that somebody could probably in principle build the Usenet style experience on top of ActivityPub. But as far as I know, that part doesn't exist today. If it does, somebody please let me know.
This article stinks of...
A little dramatic. Put it in list mode and you’re good. Or drag the folder you want into the window.
Holding artifacts for safe-keeping is a nice idea in theory, but in practice has been used as a way to justify retaining colonial-era thefts long after any reasonable concerns have subsided.

This has been cited for the Elgin marbles for example, and US museums for indigenous cultural artifacts, and even by the Germans in WW2 to justify keeping things like the Ishtar gate as they were being bombed.
what has changed that would make you less likely to immigrate today?
I haven't used it myself, but I've heard lots of non-tech people say they like it. I think they are probably comparing it to skype/email rather than to slack.
As a way too make that easier, maybe it would be nice to support a user-specified set of timestamps? Say recipe A: 0:00-7:46, recipe B: 7:47-15:33 and so on
The Internet Demands Greatness
When people fear discussion they will disengage, leaving discourse to the most motivated or incentivized to program thoughts.
That makes political propaganda a willing source of ad revenue in an otherwise vile environment.
I heard that you can grind leetcode to compare yourself to other programmers. My understanding is that it's for self contained puzzles like in interviews or contests, so it's obviously not representative of everything that makes a programmer a valuable employee, but it can be some kind of data point.
After a certain point, social media has become a source for recycled garbage. It's costly to create original content and content creators aren't being properly compensated for their efforts. AI will only further this decline as content creators will have a cheap source of unoriginal content.
> But I distinctly remember when my university dropped USENET lots of people complained because they couldn't get free access elsewhere.

Unless they dropped it _really_ early, there was dejanews/google groups, surely?
Ad-supported cheaply produced reality TV + added subscription for premium content. Basic cable + HBO.
OpenAI-backed app Speak raises $16M
Not really. If you need it fixed or extended and you can't do it yourself, you can always hire someone to do it for you. With open source, you have options.
They have absolutely tried to censor wrongthink. I don't know if the boss has had users banned, but he has clearly demanded interference.

Here are the two most famous examples:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/15/twitter...

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/05/1168158549/twitter-npr-state-...

EDIT: A lot has happened in Twit-land over the last year, so I forgot all about the ElonJet affair. Twitter has banned people to try to suppress news the owner didn't like.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/16/business/media/elon-musk-...

Here is the current tracker, by the way.

https://mastodon.social/@elonjet
X Plans to Collect User Biometric Data, Job and School History
Saudi man sentenced to death for tweets in harshest verdict yet for critics
> It's very difficult because calling someone "Nazi" means you get to attack the "Nazi". So people who want to attack others just call them Nazis to justify it.

Yeah, that's not true. That isn't something that happens.

I'd be surprised if you can find even one news article about a non-fascist being called a Nazi and then attacked and everyone being ok with it. Nazis don't get punched as often as they should.

Russia invading Ukraine is not a good example. Much of the rest of the world said "No, you're full of shit and we're sending Ukraine missiles." I don't think anybody has actually supported Russia's "anti-Nazi" justification, even those countries economically bound to Russia and unwilling to resist them. It's just something Russia said, that doesn't mean it worked.

Further, international invasions are extremely different from internal politics are extremely different from personal/public interactions. You're painting broad strokes as if the entire planet of 8 billion people has the same mindset that "you can call anyone a Nazi and attack them." That doesn't even make sense. We are talking about US culture.

Finally, I shouldn't even be replying since it doesn't seem you read the majority of my previous comment. I've already said this: we know what Nazis are. You can call anybody anything, but whether or not they're a Nazi depends on if they hold Nazi beliefs.