skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree about your assessment of the early internet. It was extremely white and nerdy when looked at on average. Certainly diversity was out there but it wasn’t easily found, much like the fediverse today.

Even Wikipedia (not that it counts as early internet):

> I knew that early Wikipedia editors were (and kinda still are) academically-inclined hacker dudes, but it's crazy when you realize the article about mole day, created January 2002, is an entire year older than the article "hip hop music" and five years older than "fashion show"

https://twitter.com/depthsofwiki/status/1716655903695425695
Different strokes for different folks. I’m a very happy single family home dweller. Living in a dense city feels claustrophobic.
I suspect the bastards are already well known and accepted bastards.

What is going on here is the EU doesn't want to look like it consulted bastards and is coming up with arbitrary reasons to hide that.
If clippy was actually useful people
probably wouldn’t have hated it as much
> It’s marketing vomit.

An understatement. Do these people actually believe in it ? Or are they just faking it because one has to adhere to company's value ?
Not for HoneKit unfortunately. They did sell a separate -$100 box that would bridge it officially but have discontinued it.
My idea: Align ads to the viewer's self-actualization. I had chatgpt write me a full business plan for it a while back, shameless plug: https://eucyclos.wixsite.com/eucyclos/post/making-advertisin...
If you think a telescope has 10 or less moving parts, you don’t know what your talking about.
The way I understand it, is you (for some inexplicable reason, probably being overwhelmed by marketing lies) bought a device that doesn’t do much, but that the company gives you an option to use sometimes in some way, maybe.
This is what makes co-op programs so great! They solve problem 1, allowing you to encounter these truths over time in the real world before you graduate.
So no one is disappointed gleam dropped function overloading, that was one of my favorite parts of elixir
Disclaimer: I'm one of the founders of Ferrous Systems.

Ferrocene as a compiler is not inherently more suitable for safety critical applications than stock rustc as distributed by the rust project. It is for all intents and purposes the rust projects compiler, with all the certification paperwork - that's quite a stack of paper if you include all of it, but it doesn't change any of the functionality.

However, on a support/organizational level, there are quite a few differences. We run our own CI for all of our supported targets which allows us to provide different QA levels than the rust project does or even could support.

We do provide higher levels of assurance on some targets compared to upstream. For example, the aarch64-unknown-none target is treated as "tier 2" by the Rust project, meaning they don't run any tests for it. Instead, Ferrocene treats it as fully supported, and we ensure all tests pass on it when we merge any change (contributing back fixes when something breaks).

We can also provide support for targets that are not in the rust projects tree, or even require legal paperwork for access to test hardware etc., to the point that we can provide binary only targets that cannot be made available via the rust project.

On a support level, we also provide support for existing rust version, to the point of long term support for certified versions (2 years by default, more or less infinite with a separate support contract).

There's also minor things that are interesting to organizations: Notification of known issues, signed installers, ...

All of these things do not change the compilers behavior, but can be quite essential for organizations with long term, safety critical projects.
As much as I want this to be true I kinda doubt it. People who install and configure home assistant are far and away niche users. Almost everyone with one of their products will just use a physical clicker or pair it with their car directly.
Rubber hose cryptoanalysis doesn't scale all that well. Sure, you can build a traditional surveillance apparatus to find and squash and dissidence, but unencrypted internet makes this a lot cheaper and more effective. At the very least you can force your opposition to give up the advantages of digital communication, and catch those that don't (and change public online discourse through chilling effects)
Mastodon will never make it (e.g my parents, non tech siblings at least know what it is).

My experience, too, wasn't positive, the only time there was meaningful activity there was when everyone said they hate Elon and Twitter, it's an echo chamber, no interesting voices, and that whole fediverse stuff is confusing even as a software developer, imagine how nontech people would feel (they _would_ if they ever heard about Mastodon).

It might just be me, but I also hate the name. "Follow me on Mastodon" sounds like something that will get the cops called on me.

It had its chance when Elon took over, but then people realized that federation will not make a good user experience and will not make a community. I see anyone who offers Mastodon as a solution to anything in 2023 as "too deep in their bubble".

Stop trying to make Mastodon happen, it's not going to happen.
Spot on! After 16 years, I'm looking to get back to academia and do a PhD. I felt like I don't enjoy what I'm doing for far too long, even though I changed jobs about 8 times.
Yeah as much as 'blogs' used to have a bad reputation, they are basically the only place worth visiting that isnt a social media site.
The ice cores appears somewhat reliable for certain questions, e.g. how high were the CO2 values in the winter on the poles 1000 years ago.

The link does not at all answer the main question for beginning to evaluate a temperature reconstruction of 125.000 years, that is: how well are the global annual temperature estimated from ice cores, for the years where we do have instrumental data?
If I recall correctly, Chamberlin had an optional accessory that added HomeKit support to garage door openers, and that was discontinued last year. Home Assistant is capable of acting as a HomeKit hub, allowing it to control HomeKit compatible devices locally that otherwise would've required a cloud connection.
Dragons Across Cultures and Mythologies: Here Be Dragons
Ahhhh yes. A fun case study in how democracy can devolve into byzantine bureaucracy.
Don't think it's necessarily wrong though. I can't think of many professions where a large amount of professionals are pretty bad at their jobs.
Well said. I think misanthropy and pessimism are endemic with people who spend 14 hours a day talking to computers and don't have healthy social lives or many reasons to touch grass.
Great way to tell a story and bring data closer to the reader. Educational pages could learn a thing or two from this one.
I agree as well, though I don't think we need to figure out all edge cases before the legislation is viable. All we need to do is allow any person who purchased said software a private cause of action in which they can petition a court to release the code. Then a judge could decide based on the merits of the person's need whether the code should be released or not.
They mostly outsource to a large variety of very unreliable sources and then exclude others based purely on politics, to the extent that people can't even get false statements about themselves corrected, let alone false statements about other people or topics.
I see human behavior a more problematic issue to overcome than the toolchains, hence why I mentioned the toolings being more modern than what many are willing to adopt.

Looking forward to regulatory pressure to help improving the situation, not only regarding the adoption of modern safer languages, but also to "just" adopt modern practices and tools while coding in C and C++.

Already changing the mentality from unsafe at any speed, to quality matters, would be a big improvement.

A plus from safer languages that aren't copy-paste compatible with C, is that C style programming is already taken out, so we don't need to spend time creating SonarQube rules and forcing them into teams.

Good luck with the Ferrocene effort.
Spaniard here, I expected to see an infographic basically based around Madrid and Barcelona but it seems that special care has been taken to cover the whole country, kudos to El Diario team.
Doesn't that mean that the binary is platform dependant? i.e. you need a different binary to run on Intel vs Arm?
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There is no such thing as neutrality or unbiased views, we are humans, everything we do or say is filled with bias. Claiming for Wikipedia to "stay neutral" is a bias itself.

They do as good of a job as any of us in trying to stay neutral.
A transition from "resource cursed" to "resource blessed" that will be interesting to follow.
> Wikipedia is one of the few places on the Internet where there isn't an a absolutely desperate end goal to keep people staring at it all day and all night

And yet so successful at it :)
Yanis Varoufakis had some interesting talks about techno-feudalism. He argues that if the big cloud and platform companies control the platform, it's not really a free market capitalism anymore.

I used to be skeptical, because I believe for such transformation to take hold completely, a supporting ideology has to be developed, but maybe it's just too early for that yet and some ideology will appear.

Varoufakis is also talking about this geopolitical context, where only US and China control these companies, and EU for instance has total dependency on them.

Anyway, one way to counteract it would be to start conceptualizing cyberspace as a public space. Many countries developed public radio and TV broadcasts as a way to counteract private mass media. Maybe we should have cloud (and communication, payment, digital goods) platforms that are operated as a public service.
You seem to act like you're the only one here who has been following this for a long time... But that's far from the case on this particular forum.

I didn't say anything about Bitcoin. But yes, all those yield farming schemes that are paying double digit "risk-free interest" will eventually crash out and leave some set of people in the red. It has happened over and over again, it's just that new tokens get set up and re-start the cycle.
If I may ask, how did you 'vandalize' it? It sounds like the definition of this word has some additional connotation within Wikipedia.
Ask HN: ChatGPT Plus a lot worse since update?
Are you also experiencing this? It's like the latest update is a shadow of its former self. I get random errors much more often, I haven't been able to continue a conversation I had just a few days ago. And it also seems like I am stuck with the text GPT-4, meaning when I want to generate an image I merely get the description of an image in text! I was so happy before this update, I get that it can't be perfect from the start but at least not worse than before?
I mean maybe. I read that one before, and just read it again to make sure I didn't miss anything.

From the article:

> We’ve spent the past three and a half years working to build a better experience for humans that’s just as effective at stopping bots. As of this month, we’ve finished replacing every CAPTCHA issued by Cloudflare with Turnstile

So who is to say that the people complaining in the original post were using Turnstile or not?

If this was supposed to be the promised post, then fine, I retract my statement, but it was not at all clear that this is what the blog post was about. I didn't really see anywhere in the post where it discussed why they were getting so many false positives, and blocking real humans. Whether that is by Turnstile or the old CAPTCHA or whatever was blocking people 3 months ago.
> is your company free of control by shareholders

A company is by definition controlled by its shareholders.
It’s not “plain wrong”. Sure, most chapter 11 companies don’t make it - but by filing chapter 11 instead of chapter 7, it means they’re still operating and trying to make it. Chapter 7 is “turn out the lights and liquidate”.
Note: OpenAI is currently down (https://status.openai.com/) you might need to wait for them to be back online before you can try it.
Is OpenAI Down?
I'm having trouble accessing OpenAI API or ChatGPT.
Thanks for the suggestions, really appreciate it.

We're not something people use day-to-day, I think we're mostly just relevant in the 4-8 weeks someone's preparing for a job interview - so I can imagine people forgetting they used something called "PREPFULLY". After talking to these customers I got the sense they couldn't relate their card transaction to the service itself -- but once I sent an email they immediately remembered what it was. In this context smca's suggestion (4) and (5) could be quite useful - if people either Google Prepfully or if I can remind them of what it was within the transaction description - this could pre-empt a chargeback from those who read it.

Re: those who promised to withdraw - indeed, I don't have any way to know if they did do so. There's one chargeback which I "won" without even submitting evidence, so I think this is probably a clear case of it being withdrawn. There's one which I lost just a few hours ago, which triggered this post.

Re: blacklist - yeah I guess this is one way. Interestingly though, 2 of the customers actually immediately offered to pay again, to compensate for the lost revenue - which was both nice of them, and not aligned with the behavior of a someone dishonest. But it might well be worth it to prevent the risk of hitting the Visa/Mastercard threshold for chargebacks. I have a feeling it would be easy to get around though, if someone has the wrong intent they would probably just use a different email or card. Either way - I'll be pretty regretful about having to do this -- repeat bookers are basically our bread and butter - I discount all candidates' first bookings to super low margins as a conversion tactic (i.e. try out a mock interview to a low price) and even lose money on these sometimes. Which gets compensated by the 60-70% of all these users who end up booking additional sessions at the standard price - which is where Prepfully makes money. But probably not worth the risk of letting someone who has done one chargeback do additional ones.

Re: losses - unfortunately I don't get much information re: why we lost the dispute. Indeed the two things to probably work on are (a) more T&Cs and (b) more logs.
> if it had asked for $0.25

The economics of credit-card transactions, unfortunately, make this fundamentally impossible.
They were always there, but the impetus for frictionless experiences to drive revenue also removed all the barriers and effort to congregating and often exploiting those people.

It was there on Usenet, it's been there since people were scratching messages on bathroom stalls and subway walls.

But yes, now we have effectively created cult generators and not only does no one want to turn them off, really smart people (even many with good intentions) keep making them more efficient.
They routinely run absolutely massive banner ads for themselves at the top of every page begging for donations they don't need. And these ads are the worst: extremely deceptive, unnecessary, and huge.
I have since distanced myself from Wikipedia as I feel I was increasingly pushed out of the "Cabal" (a term used to describe editors with aligned interest who usually worked together to set standards others must follow) who vigorously enforced the policy without considering the experience of, and willingness to engage with, new editors. I would rather have them create their own world while I move on to contribute to other communities more willing to welcome me.
Is Perfect Dark up on https://decomp.me/? It'd be fun (even as an academic exercise) to actually get to 100% on the decompilation.
> Individual action takes place in a context of social cues and incentives. Those who understand this try to work together to change those things, which in turn changes the “easy defaults” for everyone.

I think this discounts the fact that people are not mindless automatons following the path of least resistance. Individuals are capable of difficult things that fly in the face of collective theory, and time and time again such individual actions have changed history.

> This is a million times more effective than limiting your approach to nagging people to do better for ideological reasons.

This is ultimately a false dichotomy, blind to a third option, which is to act as an indiviual, act according to what you think is good, in spite of what anyone else is doing or thinking.

If you try to do something yourself in such a way, people will flock to tell you to stop trying to change the world, because it is not pointless and cannot be done. If it is indeed pointless, I ask, why must the attempt be aborted?

I haven't had anyone rushing to tell me I must stop watching a 4 hour video essay on youtube, which is surely even more pointless.
It's down https://status.openai.com/incidents/00fpy0yxrx1q
A helpful addition to this list would be links to good resource or two, each, where the reader can learn more.
I can't edit my comment but happy to include Republicans too. The Democrats have been more vocal about Bitcoin lately but agreed they're all part of the lobby machine. I have no love for either party :)
Yes I think that's exactly right. In the ideal case you would want to moderate with a personal touch at the start and the use automation to scale that personality as needed.

I was thinking of AI in moderation mainly as signals. Like looking for synchronized activity or standard canned tactics and just surface them as signals or alerts to be looked at by humans. Basically make it easier to combat coordination and scale that is hard for any one moderater to see.

There is also the client side scanning stuff that Apple and others have experimented with. Basically try to warn users before they do something so that they're at least aware of the guidelines and leave it up to them whether they think they should proceed.
I feel the non-profit/co-operative model has been really under-explored, other than the huge successes of Open Source and Wikipedia itself.

On the other hand, even that's vulnerable. The UK used to have customer-owned banks until shareholder banks offered to buy them out. https://www.thenews.coop/85589/sector/big-bang-demutualisati...
You're commenting on a discovery engine right now. HN surfaces stuff you never searched for but find interesting all the time. Still, you can't expect for there to be the kind of traffic we see on the big sites today for all the little blogs and whatnot, but that means there would be different motivations behind these more personal spaces. It wouldn't be about driving more clicks, but about expressing oneself to, sharing with, or informing people. Not sure what the economic model for sharing your passion is, but maybe it doesn't always need one.

The constant drive to draw up all of human attention so that those people can be sold something or the other is probably still going to win out in terms of volume, but maybe there can be some more nice things in the world.
One band-aid that would help (but not fix) the internet is a revolt or at least a separation between web2.0 and web1.0. There should be organized, easy ways to consume and switch between 2.0 and 1.0, and while I know this already exists to some extent, I am referring to a social movement on top of the technical differences. Publishers should be pressured to offer web 1.0 (or at least know that a sizeable subset of viewers only consumes 1.0).

Next, there should be a market for re-publishing web2.0 into 1.0. For instance, if a news article is posted on a major outlet, services (people, bots, whatever) should crawl it and strip the content and pictures and re-serve it as web 1.0 content. Then, a browser add-on or internet service should allow you to enter the URL to the main article, but then switch to the 1.0 version (thanks to someone who already translated it).

This is NOT the same as "disable javascript in your browser". If you do that, many sites will turn you away. I'm proposing a translation layer of a rendered webpage back to 1999 style, then sharing that document in p2p network.

This would take the edge off one major form of enshittification of the web, make your mobile page load faster, eliminate tracking, and so forth. Although it wouldn't solve the deeper issues of click-bait infotainment and misinformation.
There's no reason you can't run things like spreadsheets, databases, file managers, IDEs, drawing apps, web browsers etc on extremely low-powered hardware. As long as software is designed to work within the limitations.

What's lacking from discussions about projects like Collapse OS, Dusk OS, Uxn & similar, is discussion about peripherals. In particular: screens.

Nice you can run a small OS on a uC if needed. Bring it down to 1W, 0.1W or even less power consumption. Keyboards can be hand-wired switches if necessary.

But then what? Make do with a 16x2 character LCD? Attach 15+y old VGA monitor that consumes 30W? Attach (expensive) epaper screen that will also be thin on the ground in a collapse scenario, and can't be fabricated if technology falls away? Go back to switch frontpanels & lightbulbs?

It's easy to toss a heap of IC's & flash media into safe storage. Wiring, circuit boards, soldering iron, documentation printouts, some way to produce electricity: done. But produce OLED screens in post-collapse low tech society? Good luck with that.

Would be nice if there were at least some discussion about viable pathways there. No point having compute if you can't see what it's doing.
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Think about with you mother in mind. The issue with thinking we can fix it is that you think about another HN reader in mind.

Humanity's biggest issues are coming from concentration or centralisation. You can apply this pretty much to anything: wealth, population, corporations, etc. We create bubbles based on these.

The solution is decentralisation.

The question is how to get there?
Upgraded to "major" now. How am I supposed to get any work done!
I have their myQ smart garage system, and they wanted something like $600 for a "lifetime subscription" to be able to open my garage door from my tesla.

What a joke.
I like the AskHistorians subreddit, but I haven't found much else. I think AskHistorians and Stack Exchange have a somewhat high "barrier to entry" for actually answering questions, which might be part of it. (I mean this in the sense that you're going to get down-voted to hell if you don't really know what you're doing on Stack Exchange, and I think you actually have to be a historian to answer on AskHistorians.)

HN is more of a bad habit for me than anything else, unfortunately. I end up lurking comment sections just to disagree with everyone and turn it off.
There is a medium between "easy" and "hardest job in the world".

People really live in a bubble. Try being a nurse working in cancer kid unit for a few years like my wife. Try being a trucker who sees their kids every other week. Don't you think these people would love seating in their chair from 9 to 5 and make 6 figures?

Maybe I misunderstood what the OP meant by "hardest". I sincerely hope so.
When the internet was young, i thought the comments sections were going to leave us confronted with our own shadow selves. I pictured a utopia where we saw that raw honesty and all became a bit more accepting of our own inner critics, shadows, golden shadows and the like.

In retrospect, I was naive. Just because we see something our shadow wrote next to our handle doesn't mean we recognize that as ourselves. If anything, we're shadow projecting much harder than ever.
Doesn't this just assume that ad domains are some scarce resource? Ada can be served from a GUID domain just as effectively.
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