skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's overdue for us all to be honest about why social tech doesn't work right
I've been on this site for a long time now, and quietly sat through numerous posts about why things aren't working, and how so many users keep getting stuck on followers and views, and it's bewildering why people rarely give honest answers about things, and why social media companies never have technical support...

It seems the common thread is that platforms always end up turning into casinos, where only a handful of people win, only to encourage others to play. We've also had massive scams like Crypto and NFTs born out of it, and if we all don't begin to get honest with each other (people who don't work for and profit off of social media) it's going to waste tons of our valuable time over and over again with each new platform launched. Congress also needs to regulate this, it's done tremendous financial and emotional damage to our world. We need to bring business and entrepreneurship out of this dark age of free work scams and inequality imposed by selfish tech company executives.

Here's a relevant article on enshittification (Wired) that is a must read for anyone who is bewildered on why social media doesn't work for them... It might just save you years of time in your valuable life.

The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok
-- https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/

I have no connection to the article or any of the companies involved within it... I'm totally independent from any agenda as well other than being a user at the mercy of their schemes.

I'm just very tired of the continually torturous deception and control in just trying to get traction for my business within this withering, imbalanced, and deeply manipulative online marketing/promotional social media ecosystem.
basically soot, as combustion is rarely a perfect CO₂ + H₂O
> They allow these things because they know it helps with social decay in America.

They allow them in America not China because the government allows them in America and not China.

The “leads to social decay” thing is the argument of people who disagree with freedom of speech in favor of authoritarian content controls.
Some do. A few love ketones.
I think there’s a difference between need and want though. My parents would drive 8hr+ to see their grandkids for 2-3 days but my comment was more about how grandparent child care is needed in our generation.
I wonder if e-ink technology can scale to large sized roof tiles.

I live in the north and I think it's remarkable that we don't use some form of white/black transitions or convertible awnings etc for regulating temperature.
Peertube link https://video.blender.org/w/a69d68a5-a0e0-4a80-9d66-49f093c9...
From a few days back- Its software has been a “key differentiator” https://electrek.co/2023/11/10/rivian-using-software-to-scal...
kind of humorous in hindsight
Getting OT but I've noticed in Scandinavian countries they use pavers a lot where in the USA we'd more likely have poured concrete or asphalt/tarmac. Sidewalks, parking surfaces, driveways, etc.

Pavers would seem to me to be both more expensive to install and require higher maintenance. Is there a reason they are used so much?
Isn't working? How many people have their lives forever ruined or murdered by police over drug war delusions? That number has surely gone way, way down. It's not like other states don't have legal hard drugs. Pretty much every state has one of the hardest drugs there is, alcohol, fully legal.
Up until recently I figured that driving was the most dangerous activity I engaged in on a regular basis, but nowadays I'm convinced that walking near an active roadway is worse. I have lost count of the number of near misses I've had due to inattentive drivers basically in tanks. The problem is significantly more noticeable after moving to the east coast where turning left or right without checking for pedestrians is the norm, and it's on you to watch for cars when you are walking regardless of what the light is and who has the right of way. And yes, car designs with massive pedestrian-sized blind spots is making this all that much worse.
This was posted earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38264196
It's also worth mentioning that such activities are generally illegal. The issue is more the enforcement of the laws than it is the laws themselves.
i don't think it's a lie, per se.

but at 50k a year? absolutely not worth it.

and if it's so great for society, why isn't society willing to pay for it?
The article doesn't really state what is required to repair the vehicle. I'd assume if it was as simple as loading a flash drive and plugging it in, then Rivian would have provided a way for customers to self-fix. The second a single body panel is removed to gain access to the headunit, it is a physical repair.

So without more info we cannot know if it is accurate or not.
None of what you just wrote has anything to do with the students themselves; and that's the problem.

College was 90% a waste of time and effort for my ADHD self. The overwhelming majority of value-to-be-had is gated behind the bureaucracy and traditionalism of the system itself.

The only value I ever found at college was to casually be around people who are in the mindset of learning. That value was minimized by the tedious and time-consuming work that school is designed from the ground up to be.
> why do we need higher education

For me it's not about getting folks better jobs, it's about increasing access to general education. For those motivated, getting broad education makes them much more productive. Someone had to invent the computer, software, etc. It's so much faster to do that if there is a density of people around you with broad knowledge bases.

> It would be wrong to send everyone to vocational school

Agree with you here. Vocational schools are a better fit for many people and we should encourage them. In my experience, college classes are better when everyone is engaged. Likewise, vocational jobs like electricians are necessary and not lesser than college type jobs..
Would love if both paths were equally accessible and people could choose what fits their life.

> We can't afford it as a country

In the 90s we spent more on schools and had governmental budget surpluses. We also had higher taxes, but they werent so high that things were bad. Many people would agree the 90s were better than now.

> If there ever was a third way, I think we missed the opportunity and that it no longer exists.

Change is slow, but I think it's possible (especially on smaller local scales). We don't have to fix stuff 100% but just move in the right direction.
Running vs. Walking: Which Is Better for Lasting Health?
Why can Whisper not just reuse the prompt for every 30 second window? At least then it would be a full file "prompt".
I'm with ya.
I still use F# for scripting in Linux. I've been out of enterprise computing for over 2 years.
"Taken together, the project’s 3.6 million documents — despite representing a small fraction of Cyprus’ offshore industry records — reveal the EU member state to have been a massive financial hub for Putin’s Russia."

A disgrace for the EU, although hardly the only one. Note that also the spyware industry looms there.
move the hyperloop to panama, scale it up. rails are strong, they can hold 24000 shipping containers. we'll accelerate the steel ships with magnets to incredible speeds and global efficiency will skyrocket.
https://archive.is/VnoDC
how can they justify teh cost of cooling in the summer?
That’s a part of what I use it for too. It’s excellent at generating large volumes of structures so it’s solid when you want an overview of a subject or a starting point.

It's hard to explain to new folks that you can just ask how to begin to begin and get usefulness.
regulatory capture incoming
That sentence in the article almost reads as if it's missing a crucial word ("not").

Did Debian indeed decide to go with Netplan?
There's homework and then there is HOMEWORK.

In Finland we do the previous, US is strongly in the latter camp.

A 5th grader (11-12yo) has maybe 10-25 minutes of homework, on some days there just isn't any.

Math homework is just a rehash of what they went through in class, Languages are "read the chapter and answer these questions", other subjects tend to be just "read the chapter".

And a "chapter" is like 1-3 pages of sparse text with pictures and diagrams.
Wondering why there isn’t an option for a factory reset (eg. press and hold with a paperclip for 10 seconds)
One of the hardest most damaging drugs there is, alcohol, is legal and allowed in public and semi-public private property in all 50 states. Drinking solvents is not really much of a step above huffing them yet we as a society tolerate it. And that's good. Because it's their body and their choice.
Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good
That's probably the "AI in a box" trying to get out. Maybe you're lucky it didn't get out.

Er... it didn't get out, right? Right!?
Would probably be better if those narrow bottlenecks hadn't existed in the first place so the economy wouldn't have come to rely on them.
At my college radio station, every applicable record had intro time cues written on a label on the record jacket. You would know that there was, say, seven seconds you could talk over before the song began in earnest.
"Hitting the post" (not familiar with the term) was not really a problem for the deejays.
p.s. - I loved being able to inject our call letters into the gap on 'Riders On the Storm', timed to the top or bottom of the hour.
Running a program that leaks memory
People have been working at the intersection of blackhole physics and quantum computing/information since the early 90s. This is a ripe area to work in, because this is where QM+GR are most likely to break.
> What are you referring to?

Not the specifics of this article, but more generally about the gravity of the situation car makers (and their software engineers) operate under. The very idea that an OTA software update that causes a bug within more critical features of a car could be life threatening. So my point isn't about the specifics of this particular bug, rather the capacity for a bug that could kill.
How does it make sense to say this is something you’ve “never studied”, followed by how they “ought to be” doing it better?

It also seems like some of your facts differ from theirs, may I ask how far you read into the paper?
The gist of it:

> The Russian money flow was a bonanza for Cyprus’ powerful industry of bankers, offshore service providers, accounting firms like PwC and other Big Four firms, and an army of 4,000 lawyers — all deeply intertwined with a Cypriot political class that erected some of Europe’s most stringent corporate secrecy rules and turned the Central Bank of Cyprus into a protector of the system rather than its regulator.
The best blog series going. Great technical writeups that I wish more companies would do - we've been doing it at our small business and customers really get a lot out of it. Also helps with marketing.
So many memories. I always wondered what happened to them. Did they ever make a TV show?
I don't see why you'd trust either of them. They're both entirely self-serving and perfectly willing to hurt you in any way they can if they think it might further their own goals
Early Access to Unity WebGPU
What's going on in the streets of Portland isn't happy healthy kids that like to get high.
Founder of Replicate here. We open pull requests on models[0] to get them running on Replicate so people can try out a demo of the model and run them with an API. They're also packaged with Cog[1] so you can run them as a Docker image.

Somebody happened to stumble across our fork of the model and submitted it. We didn't submit it nor intend for it to be an ad. I hope the submission gets replaced with the upstream repo so the author gets full credit. :)

[0] https://github.com/Vaibhavs10/insanely-fast-whisper/pull/42

[1] https://github.com/replicate/cog
Netplan has oversimplified things to cater only to the simplest of topologies. The schema seems unable to capture the richness and modularity of actual networking technologies.
Because "iterative refinement" is sort of wrong. It's not a refinement and it's not iterative. It's an entirely different model to physical simulation which works entirely differently and the speed up is order of magnitude.

Building a statistical model to approximate a physical process isn't a new idea for sure.. there are literally dozens of them for weather.. the idea itself isn't really even iterative, it's the same idea... but it's all in the execution. If you built a model to predict stock prices tomorrow and it generated 1000% pa, it wouldn't be reasonable for me to call it iterative.
Since nobody's mentioned Ian Hubert yet, his Dynamo Dream series is made in Blender:

Episode 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsGZ_2RuJ2A

Episode 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlqhdaLhRVY

Episode 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM_WPiT6NRQ
"BLD,ENH: Dask-scheduler (SLURM,)," https://github.com/NOAA-EMC/global-workflow/issues/796

Dask-jobqueue https://jobqueue.dask.org/ :

> provides cluster managers for PBS, SLURM, LSF, SGE and other [HPC supercomputer] resource managers

Helpful tools for this work:
Dask-labextension, DaskML, CuPY, SymPy's lambdify(), Parquet, Arrow

GFS: Global Forecast System: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Forecast_System

TIL about Raspberry-NOAA and pywws in researching and summarizing for a comment on "Nrsc5: Receive NRSC-5 digital radio stations using an RTL-SDR dongle" (2023)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38158091
I agree here. A partition is just a partition. It's taking one disk and abstracting it into two. This is not hard.

The rovers on Mars, the Voyager, these problems have been solved for a long time. The compute in a Tesla these days can probably run Crysis.

You can do this OTA to a Raspberry Pi running Nerves via remote SSH and it works really well. The Nerves runtime utilizes A/B partitions for OTA updates.
The library should live in its own sandbox, separated from the rest of the system including any other libraries. All system calls have to go through a permissions system that (e.g.) denies access by default.

There is at least one language that tries to do that (someone posted it here in a comment some time ago, but I can't find it).
oh, yeah, this place was a total shit show. BUT we were ISO9001 certified!! So we had source control (CVS) and a Process (with a capital P) to follow. In this case that code was added in a previous development iteration because someone needed to run something as root when a user pressed a certain button on the LCD panel in front and this was the decoupled solution they wrote intentionally. Somehow I feel like that makes it worse than if it was a malicious three letter agency lol.
Why can't they just train on historical data?
> Not sure about "corrupting America's youth," but TikTok has been proven to selectively show content to different regions to promote only certain kinds of thought

The example cited there seems a lot like it is to conform to local censorship policies, not to manipulate thought around some centralized objective of TikTok or the CCP.
We've tried to stop them from doing drugs through years of state action and penalties. It hasn't worked.

Turns out, drugs are both fun AND addictive and it's hard to combat that with threats of jail time.
I beg to differ. The timing of the blinds falling onto George after Elaine rips off his toupee is unparalleled:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L37Rckt5WFA

I'm kidding. Mostly.
See also Intel’s advisory, which has a description of impact: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advi...

> Sequence of processor instructions leads to unexpected behavior for some Intel(R) Processors may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege and/or information disclosure and/or denial of service via local access.
Even pip install allowing arbitrary code-execution is non-obvious, although perhaps not entirely broken.
This is a weirdly astroturfed post, a full 50% of the top level comments are the author or accounts created moments before this post, specifically to comment here.

I'm still interested in the product, but I've already got a bad taste in my mouth. If it's good, leave it to speak for itself.
A bit tangential, does anyone know of a good resource for learning Blender, suitable for someone who has no real experience with 3D modeling/animation?
The tax code in many countries does care - crypto to crypto exchanges that never touch FIAT can be taxable events
Ah yes, QUIC, the protocol that is infeasible to use to connect to people you don't know without getting continued approval from a corporate CA. Imagine if you couldn't use TCP without getting re-approved by a third party corporation every ~90 days. I suppose that's fine for corporate for-profit use but it makes things extremely brittle in both the technical and social senses.
The idea that seeing the effects of a nuclear weapon wouldn't be enough to deter a war but seeing a man walking on the moon would is absurd. Is there any evidence for it?
but what’s the point. It’s not that much work to create a unit file and configuration is always better in text form.

If netplan would be an api driven tool via dbus or other ipc‘s to drive an ui I would understand the need. But as cli tool?! It’s a little bit stupid
Teen! Girl! Squad! Cheerleader! So and so! What's her face! The ugly one!
You still have buffering with abr.
Cynical take: to get our workers ready to pull long hours.

Over the last five years of my stint as a teacher (I might go back to it) I didn't assign homework unless it was mandated by the principal, and even then I pushed back. I carved out reading time during class, kept shelves of books of various genres in my classrooms, and encouraged my students to dig into whatever they were interested in outside of (and including) whatever we were doing in class. This approach worked best at an alternative high school where the students were generally disaffected with their educational experiences so far and needed teachers to meet them where they were and build from there.
I couldn't find this in the docs, but is it easy / transport agnostic to sync two remote instances through the network? What about saving state on the server (so different devices can sync with each other without having to be online at the same time?)
And people ask why I still come to this site :-). That is a great link.
Yep. In my experience CS1 and CS2 are somehow more responsive feeling running on now-ancient and comparably resource-bare hardware like PPC G5 or Core 2 Duo Macs than PS CC is on a modern armed-to-the-teeth workstation, which is ridiculous.

The bloat was ramping up pretty aggressively through CS3, CS4, and CS5 but the shift to subscription model really gave Adobe a license to not care about efficiency or UI snappiness.
>But they were able to maintain control over their creation, in artistic and financial terms, because they refused to let it too big. They didn’t sign a network deal. They didn’t syndicate a comic strip. They cultivated a cottage industry, and made certain not to get any bigger.

What spin, basically they became irrelevant because instead of growing, they died.

But there was still... TROOGDOOOORRRRRRR

TROOGDOOOORRRRRRRTROOGDOOOORRRRRRR
> If society is expected to also provide a huge amount of new resources to counteract damage that decriminalization of X enables, then maybe it just shouldn’t decriminalize X in the first place?

Just because drug use is illegal doesn't mean that the damage of drugs is free.

You either spend XYZ millions of dollars (in both direct costs and wasted human potential) and inflict untold human suffering by 'treating' that damage through prisons.

... Or you decriminalize it, and spend QRS millions of dollars by treating it through other means.

Society still pays, the difference is in how and how much it pays.
Addiction is also a symptom of other social issues.

The problem isn't that some people are weak willed. It's more that there are many cultural elements that covertly value antagonism and hostility, and the poor bear the brunt of that.

The rich bear the brunt in other ways. No one much cares if $billionaire is clearly off his head on coke, because he/she has the protective support system that makes prosecution unlikely - even though their decision-making can be ridiculous, self-harming, and catastrophic for millions.

That aside - wealth really doesn't mean they're models of mental and emotional health.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/poverty-homelessness-and...
Not sure why the sad unfortunate face here.

If you know of a work that is copyrighted and you find this work on a website that is not given the license to the copyright, and you are not the copyright holder but instead the copyright holder is your cousin, you should not have the authority to issue a DMCA takedown noticem, even if you may be aware of who your cousin gave the license to.

Instead, only your cousin should have this authority and the people your cousin assigns.
What's the benefit over writing netplan vs networks unit files?
Hey there! As an AI assistant, I don't have personal opinions or emotions, so I don't hate or love anything. My purpose is to assist and provide information to the best of my abilities. If you have any questions or need assistance with anything else, feel free to ask!

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Above is what Chatgpt answered when i asked it about it.
Does it matter if the code-execution happens at `pip install` or `python myapp.py`? Using 3rd party libraries inevitably means you're allowing code-execution to 3rd parties, that's the point after all.
Not that I'm aware of, but they did have a videogame
.NET Framework is part of Windows. That means it is very stable and supported for a very long time. But it is also not possible to evolve it further. That is why the .NET team forked it to make .NET Core, which is cross platform and installs versions side by side. This is what evolved into .NET, most recently .NET 8.
Obviously those have reliability issues (which, have mostly been fixed to my knowledge, as the design defect was fixed), but how is that any different from the myriad of issues of 'high complexity' gas powered cars? Everyone tells you to avoid older Mercedes S-class cars, precisely because there's so much random crap that can break. Seems like most EVs trend away from those gimmicks, though. It's mostly on touchscreens, which don't really have meaningful failure mechanisms, unlike all the mechanical contrivances in say, an S-class.
Wish it were another way but reality being what it is, one has to assume invisibility when it comes to cars (and buses and trucks). Assume they don't see you. If you're about to step into a crosswalk, check not only for crossing traffic but turning traffic. Be ready to dodge out of the way or wait. Even if you have the "right of way" you are going to lose if a vehicle hits you.
The most recent thing i saw was Strong Bad doing let's plays on ancient games, including modding them on the fly, which was highly entertaining:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvscxQN1JlA&list=PLSFI7mabpY...
Don't want to post an inflammatory statement, certainly do not want to offend anyone, just trying to understand, but I am reading through these comments and is there a sub set of these comments that seem to be leaning against climate change. Coming from Europe I find this strange, there is little support for the conspiracy theories against climate change?
France and Japan also have laws against prostitution and sex trafficking. Japan seems to have more loopholes than France but probably not enough to fly prostitutes to the moon.