skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Journalism. Reaching out to involved parties for comment, boots on the ground, making retractions, reserving judgement, citing sources, seeking and contextualizing opposition and/or expertise, making an attempt to prefer observation over interpretation, pushing back on wild claims, etc etc etc.

I was acutely aware of partisan bias in MSM but I didn't appreciate just how much they actually did get right until the deluge of "MSM sux, here's what THEY don't want you to know" replaced it.
Anybody have a good breakdown of the philosophical/implementation differences between nushell and oil?

After using PowerShell at a job recently I'm interested in dipping my toe into using these kinds of projects, but my websearch skills seems like they're getting worse these days, haven't found a good comparison yet.
Maybe the real lesson here is nobody who wants to speak their mind should be supporting themselves on a platform of nervous advertisers.
Go is the worst language, except all the others
The internet is no longer decentralized and interoperable. It's all walled gardens. Want to send an email? Better be on a major email platform or none of your messages will arrive.

Guaranteeing internet access as a utility is a great idea but by itself it's only an illusion of freedom. Access to things like Google accounts / AWS / cloudflare and of course the banking system and payment processor duopoly also need to be guaranteed to some degree all law abiding citizens.

Edit: I don't think this applies in the case here with Russell Brand and demonitization. There should obviously not be any right to be paid by advertisers.
sort them if you want, but more than 90% of the stuff that is sorted and 'recycled' doesn't actually get recycled - its gets buried or burned just like regular trash.

Much better to not generate it in the first place, i.e. make a conscious effort to reduce what you buy and consume where possible.

"This will likely come as no surprise to longtime readers, but according to National Geographic, an astonishing 91 percent of plastic doesn’t actually get recycled. This means that only around 9 percent is being recycled. As if that weren’t enough, nearly all of that plastic that does get recycled is actually downcycled, which means it gets less and less useful every time, eventually becoming so flimsy that it can no longer be recycled properly.

As it is, that 91 percent just sits in landfills, piling up and breaking down slowly into arguably more dangerous microplastics. National Geographic reports that by 2050, approximately 12 billion metric tons of plastic will be sitting in landfills across the globe. For scale, that amount of plastic weighs approximately 35,000 times more than the whole Empire State Building."
> A house painter would make more money if he did a rush job

If the way to find a painter is to use the yellow pages, and the order inside the yellow pages is by the time the to finish painting, most of the jobs will go to people that make a rush job, thus pushing painters into that direction.
Wow, even c++ won't let you do that (without invoking undefined behavior, anyway).
I forget where I read/saw it, but someone once made the point that because there are an infinite number of questions that can be asked, someone is always making some kind of statement based on a conscious decision about which questions to ask, and which not to ask.

I think this is especially true when someone is repeatedly ask the same kinds of questions while simultaneously ignoring lots of other really good questions.
Is this why the WindowsApp/Ubuntu folder was hitting upwards 70Gbs recently?

I never really paid attention to the size of the VHD, and assumed that I had somehow generated gigabytes of dist and node_modules.
The US is indeed moving toward actual fascism, but it's people like Brand that actively promote it and its values.
I think humans have amassed enough resources and organization that at least a portion of them would continue to survive indefinitely using technical means. (Controlled indoor agriculture, artificial contained environments, etc.)

Imagine if we wanted to build a settlement on Mars, but Mars was already littered with the material resources and industrial trappings we have laying around on earth. The problem would be much easier, we'd be sending rockets full of humans already.
It's very likely that a ASI system, after destroying humanity, would either fail to survive or be incredibly boring to a hypothetical observer. I don't want to get replaced, I don't want to be an em, and I really don't want a single small group deciding that for everyone.
> Inevitably though, the algorithm steered the videos to become more clickbaity, divisive, and frankly crazy.

"The algorithm" didn't force him to go off the crazy deep end. He chose to do this himself. Don't absolve him or that decision.

I think it's more like, he knew this was coming out and it was going to make him look bad, so he preemptively decided to modify his audience to consist of people less likely to leave him once the news did break.
Thanks for sharing this. One of my major motivations when I was in high school- around the time that AIDS was starting to grow rapidly, was to go into drug discovery to find medicines that could cure HIV infection/reduce the impact of AIDS on patients.

At the time (about 5-6 years later) we were working on reverse transcriptase inhibitors, which I think eventually turned out to work pretty well as an early treatment. But boy, was the process slow... decades of basic and applied biology... to get where we are today.

It's so painful to watch COVID vax deniers today because it's hard enough to stay motivated over long periods of time... but when people just sort of crap all over the important scientific and medical work to get to where we are, it reminds me of some of the aggressive groups, such as Act Up SF (which actively fought against the establishment, including Fauci, who was a critical ally to HIV-infected patients at the time): https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/31/opinion/anthony-fauci-hiv...
Point of order: That acquisition is far from complete. It's winding its way through the courts in the UK now, and it could still get jammed up. Everyone else has grudgingly given it their blessing.
SnapStart for Java 17 was only released very recently, so if you are a bit early in the cycle it doesn't help. Don't even want to guess when it will be available for Java 21.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230919111212/https://www.nytim...
57 is called the "Grothendieck Prime" after another eminent mathematician who erroneously said it was prime.

Maybe Terry was making an inside joke?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/57_(number)
> high end cars

Yes. For premium cars that already have this functionality. But I am pretty sure the Mitsubishi Mirage is not going to add state-of-the-art driver tracking technology to comply with the 2026 law.
Is there a place where I can lab test my soil? Just over our fence is a main road, we grow a bunch of veggies on our side of the fence.

I wonder what’s being accumulated into our veggies.
I think the point you're making is there's no such thing as the Far Left, despite the Far Right seeing such common use.
Well, yeah. Ownership is responsibility, and the world is shifting towards more convenience, so less responsibility. So we're also going towards less ownership as well, with products being turned into services and leases. And frankly, in a lot of cases, I don't mind it.
There are, but basically only because of Facebook, who seem to actually care quite a bit about crypto and have the clout to make things happen. I don't think it's coincidence that they're also the main sender of encrypted emails (you can set your PGP key and then they'll use it for all their emails to you).
I'm under the impression that it's sort of the opposite; it's been too good at bringing in money. The exact number depends on year and methodology, but a significant chunk of the national debt is money owed to the Social Security fund because politicians kept borrowing its surpluses to spend on other stuff.
Especially catalytic converters. Can be stolen from an unprotected (i.e. no massive baseplate) car in below 30 seconds, and nets you about 1000$ a piece from junkyards willing to ignore the sawzall marks.

[1] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/watch-catalytic-converte...
I'm thrilled this was posted, because now I've discovered a great blog to read. This level of writing about these topics are totally what I'm into. I opened most of the links in the post in new tabs, and now I've got a lot of reading to do.

I'm surprised I haven't come across Nicole's blog before now.
How are you determining what people (strangers) "already believe"?
> The original way of making money with FOSS

But at risk because a large company can offer the support as part of a larger offering. For example, if you were a large company on AWS or Azure, would you rather get your MySQL/MariaDB support through MariaDb or through Amazon/Microsoft?
I don't think you got GPs point, but the complete opposite.

The slaves on your example were useful, GP (and others) are anticipating a world where most of the non-ruling class is useless. What happens then? Will good samaritanism and humanitarianism kick in? I doubt it.
I tend to take "it's impossible" statements from scientists seriously only when the reasoning can be firmly tied to an extremely well established physical law with no "wiggle room."

For example I accept that faster than light travel and inertialess propulsion are both impossible. If either of these things were shown to be possible, it would mean that there are huge errors or oversights in the most well established areas of physics.

I also accept the conditional impossibility of things that are just provably beyond our current ability for fundamental reasons, like a Dyson sphere. I don't know of any physics that says you could not build one, but for us it'd be like dust mites building the international space station.

For everything else I leave the door open. People have historically underestimated creativity.

For the first types of things, taking preparatory steps would be irrational. We don't need to plan for the arrival of FTL travel because we have no reason to think it will ever arrive.

For the latter types of things, preparing does make some sense as long as it's not unreasonably expensive. We do have reason to believe that a large quantum computer might be possible, so mucking around with a bit of code to defend our security against a surprise seems rational.
I don’t want to state the obvious but the part of the ecosystem being harmed is advertisers.
Twitter's community notes works quite well. I don't think that people are incapable of discussion.

IMHO the problem is anonymity combined with some harmful dopamine loop, making people act horribly. Maybe even putting the age of the poster next to the nickname will reduce the heat of the discussion quite a bit.
most cool tech stuff usually starts out with a single person hacking away in a bedroom somewhere.
they are both a problem, but if you buy a 'small' EV and it weighs as much or more as a bigger ICE, the EV contributes more of this type of pollution.
Not to mention that Cannae was famously a double pincer and the Schlieffen plan was not.
In this case it looks like theyre essentially just keeping his money because they decided to.
> You can have your subjective vision along with a legalistic code, so the abuse in practice could be tested against the vision itself.

When has that ever worked out in practice?
Posts from banned users show up as 'dead', which means you have to turn 'showdead' on in your settings to see them; they are invisible to users who have not activated this setting. Maybe there's another kind of ban that prevents posting entirely, I don't know.

I don't think that dang claims that there is no shadowbanning on HN, or at least he no longer does if he has in the past; the post from him below details who gets shadowbanned and who doesn't. Basically, users with a posting history get the same ban as spammers, but they're told that they've been banned, while spammers are not.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37137747
Consider what an artificial super-intelligence can do in the physical world with humans as a proxy. An ASI could effect meaningful change in the physical world through simple text interfaces. What's the limit for an ASI that has access to monetary resources? Can that ASI convince a human to operate on its behalf?
You're deluding yourself into believing that costs set prices. This is econ 101: prices are made when supply meets demand. Costs only set a floor on supply. In any case where a business has a moat of any kind, only the demand curve matters: prices will be set where price times # of people willing to pay that price is maximized.

Companies are profitable, by definition. If they aren't profitable, they die (eventually). As long as there is a profit, worker pay raises does not need to be completely covered by an increase in price. Where does profit go? Into the hands of the rich.

Thus, workers demanding raises is simply a progressive wealth redistribution, from lining the wallets of fatcats, to rewarding the people who actually created that wealth.
“Love-hate relationship” were the exact words that I used when I used go professionally every day.

I could complain all day about things the language does obviously wrong, often in the name of simplicity. But after all my complaints I still admit it’s a very good choice for certain kinds of software and software companies.
Your Job Is Useless
Yes but not in the way you think. You will be prohibited from opposing it. It will be "self-harm" to live and it isn't suicide when the government kills you to save the NHS money.
I can picture a PKD novel about God being a subscription based AI, perhaps "salvation" requires monthly "tithing" or else you get cut off from everlasting life (or the real grease under the hood : social connections/power). Perhaps you could subscribe to various differing AI gods... hedge your bets as it were through a costly polytheism. Perhaps the social power by those who donate the most... Almost like a Scientology type religion, where those who buy in get more compute power to enact their goals.

Apologies for the derail.
Python could very easily have a similar mechanism. Hell even CMake manages to do this right, and they got "if" wrong.

The Python devs sometimes seem stubbornly attached to bugs. Another one: to reliably get Python 3 on Linux and Mac you have to run `python3`. But on Windows there's no `python3.exe`.

Will they add one? Hell no. It might confuse people or something.

Except... if you install Python from the Microsoft Store it does have `python3.exe`.
> "innocent until proven guilty" only applies in a court of law

No, it doesn't "only" apply in a court of law. I choose to apply it in my own psyche (which breaks the "only"), and I choose to do so because I understand the reasons why a court of law applies the principle.

Just because the whole village is wielding pitchforks doesn't mean it's rational for you to also do the same.
Let's go more extreme. Tech companies are free to not host Nazi content. The US govt is NOT free to lock someone up for being a Nazi. That's the power of the 1st amendment.
Well phone number can always be re attributed to a real user so it’s rare that a deny list is the only indicator used to prevent fraud, at least that’s not how our antispam works at https://ding.live :)
This needs to be said, so that people can make an informed decision. Because I think it's important to know that not one is better than the other.
I mostly agree but my argument against “rules” is that these things never seem to be unilaterally enforced. So it really is more like a guideline because enforcement is unpredictable in several aspects.
NFSv4 should never do that, and I've never seen it happen.
> where local variables can be mutated

They aren't local, but belong to the outer scope. The misconception in a nutshell.
Wow so much focus in the comments on the individual instead of YouTube's ability to randomly remove whoever they dislike, reminding us of the problems with large corporate companies controlling essentially public services. Just imagine if Tencent decided to buy YouTube from Google, would get real interesting.
Nushell seems like it's really its own thing. It works with commands that output tabular data (and provides tabular versions of the most popular commands) and then provides functions to query that data. It's more of a query language in your shell than a regular old shell language.
It doesn't have to apply everywhere but it's still a good policy in a lot of contexts. I think a massive general audience platform is a good example. If this were, let's say, an online community of survivors of abuse, maybe that sort of prudence could reasonably take a back seat.
Well, in the sense that as a retrovirus that integrates into your genome and then erupts unexpectedly decades later.... yes.
I hate to be that guy but this would not be possible with rust, as the captured reference could not escape the loop scope. Either copy the value, or get yelled at the lifetime of the reference.

This is one of the things the language was designed to fix, by people that looked at the past 50 years or so of programming languages, and decided to fix the sorest pain points.
Looks like he works for a think tank of some sort, founded by the guy behind Mt Gox.

https://astera.org/about/
I have a Lenovo Chromebook with 4GB and GalliumOS and it is still very capable with the latest Firefox.
They’ll just go to other forms of media, and/or skip long form videos altogether.

With platforms like TikTok also being extremely popular, advertisers may simply choose to focus their budgets on these platforms instead of YouTube.
Related. Others?

Princeton ‘AI Snake Oil’ authors say GenAI hype has ‘spiraled out of control’ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37243354 - Aug 2023 (101 comments)

ML is useful for many things, but not for predicting scientific replicability - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37089573 - Aug 2023 (37 comments)

The greatest risk of AI is from the people who control it, not the tech itself - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36139852 - May 2023 (504 comments)

GPT-4 and professional benchmarks: the wrong answer to the wrong question - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35245626 - March 2023 (185 comments)

ChatGPT is a bullshit generator but it can still be amazingly useful - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34618376 - Feb 2023 (154 comments)
Telcos and isps have terms of service and contractual provisions that allow for common carriage. They clearly and intentionally seek this status to protect themselves from liability rooted in the carriage. (Edit: in exchange for additional duties based on the special relationship formed, if I recall correctly).

Purveyors of coherent speech products derive similar but different immunity from cda section 230, with terms of service that define the relationship as distinctly not content neutral.

Accordingly there is a very differentiated line: the common carriage of goods. Common carriers do it but internet platforms do not.

Stepping back a moment, I stated before that the fee element of common carriage was not present in internet platforms but of course you can buy movies on YouTube so this is not as universally true as I said. On the other hand, try posting a snuff video to YouTube and you will see exactly why it is not a common carrier.

As I understand it, the argument is that if a web site gets to be sufficiently systemically critical to (society? Democracy?) that it should not be allowed to control its speech product. This would go a long way toward making every website 4chan, which is not an optimal outcome.

However I’m curious if I’m missing something. Is the goal here to deny, for example, LinkedIn the ability to constrain you from posting pornography? Or to constrain stack overflow from allowing you to post poor quality answers?
Was looking for this comment. This guide is too simplistic. It went in some detail on variation of Indian names and I was expecting the same for Pakistan.
Mine was TITLE Muhammad NAME. Some in family also have TITLE at the end of name.

First name, last name OR given name, family name on forms never make sense to me.
Because computer programs do what we said, not what we meant. If you accidentally write an infinite loop somewhere, your program will get stuck there. If you ask for "some" paperclips, you'll possibly be fine; on the other hand if you carelessly asked it to maximize something, such as paperclips-per-month or paperclips-per-dollar, then it might go far beyond where human common sense would stop.
How did that bike get to you? How did the food get to your grocery store before you rode there? (Hint: it's not trains and boats. Go watch the traffic on a highway some time and you'll be disabused of that notion.) How did all of the transport involved in your furniture's manufacture and final delivery occur? Even if we completely got rid of passenger cars, there would still be plenty of tires on the road and there would still be a need to make them more environmentally friendly. Your response is a non sequitur. I already said we need to reduce the need for vehicular travel to accomplish daily needs. What more do you want, that doesn't fall into the useless "get rid of them" bucket? And yes, I realize your comment might have been satire, but - as another commenter amply demonstrates - some people here say that kind of thing with no irony whatsoever.

P.S. for the aforementioned un-ironic picador: As I already said, we should address this problem in many ways. "Reduce trips" is one part of the equation, but doesn't eliminate the need to make the trips that remain more ecologically benign. Suggesting that this is "don't address the last 1%" is a total strawman, more insulting to people's intelligence than anything I've said and more injurious to the curious conversation that the guidelines recommend.
Try Songs of Conquest. It captures the original feel 100% for me, and is a game I really enjoy.
Assuming the allegations are true, which I'm doubtful of:

Youtube is fine with hosting the videos of a "rapey/manipulative" creep as long as they get to keep the money.
You do realise he has a large team of journalist behind him?
The difference is that MariaDB is over ten years old and has pursued revenue growth for years, so hopes and dreams can’t obscure the track record of accumulating losses.

MariaDB has $50M annual recurring revenue but is spending almost $100M in the same time. There’s only a few millions of cash left, and liabilities outweigh assets. It’s on the brink of bankruptcy.

If you bought this company for $30M now, you’d have to pay at least another $30M just to make it through the next few quarters. The investors acquiring the company must be planning big cuts.
This is pretty funny, given that it's published by AppLovin, a mobile ads company that tried to buy Unity for more than 17 billion dollars.

Instead, Unity merged with IronSource, another mobile ads company.

Unity is no longer focused on selling their engine. It's a vehicle to help sell more ads.

John Riccitiello, the guy who ran EA into the ground before he joined Unity as the CEO, is pretty open about this. [1]

[1] https://www.pocketgamer.biz/interview/79190/unity-ironsource...
Rubber crumbles are a base layer under astroturf.

Thus a very large number of hig h school fields have astroturf and rubber crumbles.

On pro-football broadcasts, you can occasionally see clouds of rubber dust during a tackle.
This has nothing to do with kessler syndrome; these satellites will all necessarily deorbit a relatively short period after their fuel supplies are exhausted and they're no longer able to correct for the orbital degradation caused by the atmosphere.
The Tesla Model 3 "Standard Range Plus" weighs less than the lightest Ford F150 trim. (3,600 pounds vs 4,000)