skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is actually a pretty good summary of the current state of moderation across the entire internet.

The ideal number of Nazis in any space is zero, but just like achieving exactly zero mouse poop in your cereal, it's totally unachievably impractical.

Which is fine, honestly. That these people exist at all is not the main issue (though it is a problem). The real issue is when certain people allow and encourage them to gather in large groups and legitimize them when they attack others.

The problem is companies declaring that there is no mouse poop in their Mouse Poop Puffs cereal while the FDA is pulling it from shelves. As with most decisions driven by short term profit incentives, it will sooner or later result in massive damage to the company.

As a social media platform, what happens to you and your profits when everyone who isn't a Nazi leaves for a network that isn't populated entirely by Nazis? What happens when your lack of moderation and insistence that there is no problem drives away everyone who just wants to keep up with their entirely normal friends?

I think we'll find out pretty soon. We've seen a steady migration of twitter users to other platforms, and twitter is clearly getting increasingly desperate as the migration continues.
Dating :upside_down_face:

Also, some of my friends and family aren't on those apps and exclusively use SMS/iMessage.
I assume you are using an iPhone now?

You could try e.g.: https://github.com/arichorn/uYouEnhanced + https://github.com/powenn/AltServer-Linux-PyScript (or alternatives)

I dislike that I have to sideload the app every week again or it stops working but better than nothing I guess.
I’d like governments to continue to regulate how corporations can use and productize addictive and damaging substances. Heroin in big macs would, i’m sure, sell well.
It's a third implementation in WebKit:

https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/tree/main/Source/WebGPU
Funny, considering they said removing CarPlay and Android Auto was for safety because they aren't 100% stable.

I've had my phone using CarPlay reboot before. It wasn't big deal, the car still worked, I just didn't have my map or music for a minute. I'd much rather have CarPlay crash than lose connection to the "Drive Motor Control Module" or the "Brake System Control Module". I don't know exactly what those are, but they sure sound important.

Something about stones and glass houses...
As usual no love for Canada from Google. Apparently we can't even have music: Unfortunately instrument playground is not available in your country. Click close to return to the homepage.
Before I start, I hate every algorithm designed to pair me with content. It feels either overly simple (YouTube/Amazon), or invasive and weird (Google).

But.

How can I possibly sift through the MOUNTAINS of garbage on the internet to find good stuff? Who has that time?
As someone who's first job out of college included a large knockout.js codebase (two way observables).

All I can say is any developer reaching for Signals today beware.

This pattern is great is very small apps, but if you grow any larger the debugging story becomes a complete mess as it can be come nearly impossible to know which component modified the state of the observable and when.

Also this may be my first Old Timey Developer opinion Ive written where I warn developers about reinventing our mistakes of the past.
He's told us how in a previous post.

"On the other hand, I know people who want to get good at writing, and make a mighty resolution to write two hundred words a day every day, and then after the first week they find it’s too annoying and give up. These people think I’m amazing, and why shouldn’t they? I’ve written a few hundred to a few thousand words pretty much every day for the past ten years.

But as I’ve said before, this has taken exactly zero willpower. It’s more that I can’t stop even if I want to. Part of that is probably that when I write, I feel really good about having expressed exactly what it was I meant to say. Lots of people read it, they comment, they praise me, I feel good, I’m encouraged to keep writing, and it’s exactly the same virtuous cycle as my brother got from his piano practice."

https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/01/31/the-parable-of-the-tal...
Thanks. Back when I last wrote an z80 asm I didn't have access to an environment with anything like an os.

> Notably you didn't tend to create new tasks. They were hard coded in at assembly time!

Reminiscent of the "executive" in the Apollo lunar module computer.
It's 6 words long no punctuation

It's 6 words long? No, Punctuation!
> Nobody should ever fix anything unless they can fix everything!

Oh please. "Fix everything" in this context would be legalizing all drugs federally.

This fixes nothing except perhaps shifting some public perception in the minds of voters that don't look past the headlines.
I can also recommend the Digital Design and Computer Architecture lectures from ETH Zürich if you're trying to understand computers at a lower level:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5Q2soXY2Zi-EImKxYYY1...
WebGPU doesn't have much in common with Apple's original proposal (which was more or less a Javascript API around Metal). I suspect the new implementation is a complete rewrite from the original proposal, since earlier versions of Safari contained an implementation of the Apple proposal, which was then removed for a very long time while work happened on WebGPU.
I do have a bit of experience with LLM locally, to test the limits of what it can do consistently. 16000 token context windows don't seem like enough to me to tackle this task. I don't know that it's possible to distill my musical tastes into a small enough number of tokens, for instance. Nevermind that you need humans to review the music, currently; unless there's magical song tagging models out there i haven't heard of.

there are minimally invasive mechanisms, like kongregate and that .io game site use, "people also played ..."; most aggregators suck, though. Netflix has always recommended stuff ("For you" or whatever) that i have no interest in, amazon recommends things that i would never buy - or have already bought, including from amazon. Pandora was awesome before everyone uploaded every song to youtube, now it's just a collection of playlists that play the same 20 songs over and over each time you start it.

I don't use and haven't used spotify or any other "music" service, because of pandora experiences and youtube. Also in my car i prefer to listen to old time radio which is easily discoverable* enough for at least a few years of content. Just copy to a USB stick and plug into the car. And my big issue with podcasts is i don't enjoy listening to most (nearly all) people just "talking", especially if they're chewing the scenery to make it more of a "captivating" experience.

I do miss mp3 streaming sites, though. My favorite one went dark during the pandemic, is still dark, and shoutcast dot com has sucked for discovery for at least half a decade if not longer. I think it's mostly popular in non-english speaking countries these days, at a glance.

* OTRR - old time radio researchers, there's otrrpedia and an online player available, the content itself lives on archive.org - i have about a TB of radioplays/content from there that i rotate through (only) in the car.
I am also a fake lawyer.

Even in legal states, you can get a simple possession charge on federal land [0].

[0] https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/olympic/news-events/?cid=STEL...
hell yeah. thanks :)
There's no way. I snorted a bump of approximately 50mg, at the most, off of my hand and was completely jacked for 48 hours. It was the most uncomfortable speedy high I've ever experienced. I drank an entire case of beer trying to come down and it did almost nothing. I've gone through a gram of coke in a night, snorted and/or smoked, and it was nothing compared to meth. I'm on 30mg Adderall daily and I can sleep just fine.

I remember thinking "Why would anyone want to feel like this?" Will never touch the stuff again.
Agreed, was going to reply to parent's comment but yours is spot on. Wine can run some of my old games great. Steam Proton runs all the newer stuff I've purchased (oops, sorry Gabe I meant to say "licensed"!). I don't do a lot of MP except for stuff that has a native Linux client like TF2 and CS2. Well, I do play a lot of NMS and sometimes play it in MP no issues on Steam Proton though their MP can get a bit funky sometimes. I play 7DTD Windows version, usually SP but it seems like I've played it in MP, maybe I'm recalling incorrectly.
> no love for Canada from Google

Does canada (or any other GDPR adjacent country) love google?
I have a Synology DS918+. Not exactly the best bang for your buck, but the form factor is tiny and fairly good fit for a small apartment. For access, I have a PiVPN setup on a Dell Wyse 3040 because Raspberry Pis were extremely hard to obtain. Eaton 5S 550i for keeping both powered.

Need to get a new router though. I have a Mikrotik hAP ac and it seems like it's hanging onto dear life.
TIL: The limit of 255 characters in any distinct part of an URL seems to be purely fictional. I've always assumed it was a very clear cut standard, but now I can't find it neither in the RFC [0,1] nor the standard [2]

So, as we're down to opinion here, my personal pet peeve is: keep 'em short.

[0] https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3986

[2] https://url.spec.whatwg.org/
Yup, they're not comparable. The Shuttle values are cost, the Falcon9 values are price. Which makes the comparison even worse, because we know that Falcon9 flies with a very healthy profit, meaning their costs are significantly below the price that NASA pays.
Very interesting! A few years ago I imagined something similar, with the added ability to move blocks between adjacent windows: https://twitter.com/jgthms/status/1225513837379641350
> the District of Columbia's local laws are technically federal laws.

Cannabis has been legal in DC for 8 years. See Initiative 71.
Maybe something like this?

https://computationbook.com/
See my comment below on games, as for Excel, I use the online version, works great on Chrome, Firefox and Edge on Kubuntu.
The problem with killing bacteria isn't that we are lacking ways to do so. Steeping them in a strong acid should make sure they are killed and they should not find a way to develop resistance to a strong acid.

The problem is we want to kill them, while in human body, without causing too much detriment to the host.

To do this, we essentially need to develop something that will cause serious harm to the bacteria and yet not harm human cells. This means exploiting various differences between bacteria and humans.

A polymer that kills cell walls indiscriminately is hardly an acceptable solution for a human. Yes, bacteria may not be able to gain resistance to it but also it can't ever be used on a real human because mass cell death will cause too much damage to the human.

And "solving the problem of selectivity" will cause bacteria to be able to find their resistance eventually. Because if it is possible to escape your cell wall getting disrupted because you have specific DNA -- a bacteria can gain resistance.

I am firmly of the opinion it is not possible to develop an antibiotic guaranteeing the bacteria will not be able to gain resistance to it.

Simply -- the resistance can be had as evidenced by human cells. And the genetic material is abundantly available to the bacteria -- they are pretty much surrounded by it while in our bodies. There is always going to be non-zero chance for resistance to be acquired by a cell and then spread to the offspring.
I saw the unit conversions and it immediately reminded me of Fend (https://github.com/printfn/fend). If you're looking to expand on your maths / unit conversion feature, it could be a good option.
It also supports forum-style since rolling (e.g. 3d6+4), which some people could find pretty useful
I'd love to see this also and was hoping to see it in this page. I think it would need to be industry-specific, though, and the stats are hard to come by.

For example, I fly a lot for work and have noticed delays and cancellations are a lot higher than they used to be. The data seems to support this in aggregate [1], but I'd like to see it by carrier.

Service enshitification is a lot harder to quantify, but is definitely another thing I've noticed at checkouts, restaurants, etc.

[1] https://www.transtats.bts.gov/homedrillchart.asp
It's pretty clear what certain people wanted in response to the 70s stemming from the rise of minority groups like the Black Panthers or the American Indian Movement trying to use their newly-enacted rights to fight oppression. Even the NRA was pro gun control when the Black Panthers were using the 2A for open-carrying to protect black Americans.

If it was truly about marijuana use, then when usage rates for white and black Americans are effectively the same, black people would not be 3.5 times more likely to be arrested for possession than white people.
I was fortunate enough to become friends with a Japanese person in my community this past year, and I had the joy of experiencing the everyday quality of Japanese aesthetics. It was inspiring. It goes well beyond choice of décor or clothing. It's a profound commitment to aesthetics, one I struggle to express using English vocabulary. It's like, if something isn't thought out - why even bother?
Measured by annual average alcohol consumption in the US before and after prohibition, the 21st amendment was a huge success.

I think temporary society-scale prohibition when drug use becomes a widespread societal ill is good policy. Afterward, individual mandatory punishment/rehab for those who abuse drugs/alcohol and harm themselves and others should be the norm.
I see your point, but I have to believe there is a commercial path that can be mindfully pursued. You can build hosted tools, or add commercial value with an "app" model where there is a clear division between the platform, which is free, and the apps, which can be paid or not.
With most vehicles being 'fly by wire' nowadays, do regulators like the NHTSA and FMCSA have their own software engineers / technology experts reviewing what's going into these vehicles?

When 346 people died on the 737 Max 8s there was headline news speculating on the role of new software. The FAA had a lengthy investigation of Boeing and we saw pieces put out by experts like IEEE opining about what went wrong and how software played a role. Boeing paid $2.5bn to avoid being put on trial.

45,000 people in the USA die in motor vehicle incidents every year. How many hundreds if not thousands of those were caused by software faults? Is the software in sensor-based safety packages working as flawlessly as flight control systems?

I bet more than 346 pedestrians have been killed by drivers of Subarus that have EyeSight packages, drivers who think EyeSight might make a difference in them not hitting someone if they aren't paying full attention to the road.
But lithium mining tech sounds way more appealing as an investment than passenger rail
> info pages are hierarchical

Hierarchies aren't All That. The case for hierarchies only makes sense when the
ontology is familiar to the user[1]. Without knowing the info hierarchy it's impossible to navigate. Why, for example, are the gnupg info pages under 'GNU Utilities', wget under 'Network applications', and things like rm and mkdir under 'Individual utilities' (a long with dozens of other things)?

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20070119210402/http://www.shirky...
Eh, shrinkflation is a number of small things like 90% pork to 89% pork. Do that 5-10 times, 1-2% at a time - and now you're at 75% pork.

26% marinated chicken to 14% cooked marinated chicken - what makes you think the lost fat made it into the meal, and wasn't skimmed off and sold off to (for example) a broth company, or a rendering plant?

Maybe it was. If they could figure out how to make money off it though, chances are it wasn't.

Also, how would you know it wasn’t really 20% chicken cooked down to 14%?

It's a good way to lose actual calories and nutrients while thinking you're not losing anything. Which is also either shitflation or shrinkflation, depending on how you count it.

Totally agree on deflation, etc. though. That could also be from switching to reasonable quality ingredients to total crap ingredients that technically can be listed as the same thing on the label.

The challenge in general is it's the economy wide equivalent of shaving silver dollars - lots of small, invisible losses done by potentially many individuals that eventually add up to real visible differences and economy wide losses. In a way it's really hard to figure out who actually stole things.
You can already use https://github.com/arichorn/uYouEnhanced today on iOS.
Sure, though if you had selected Web Components as the base implementation, you could have achieved that goal while also being compatible with almost every other framework. See Ionic for a great example of this.

There are several lightweight wrapper libraries to "reactify" web components.

Going the other direction is not as easy. While it's possible, it involves loading all of react into another framework.
Shadcn/UI
I’m not sure kids, especially recently born ones will ‘see’ computers. In the same way that most people don’t ‘see’ the abundant ressources around us. Air, water taps, power, cars, internet etc. These things will always have been there. Most children’s have a rectangle with multiple circles on it pointing at them from their first hour on earth.
> Then tomato sauce (a preserved product) moving from raw tomato to preserved tomato getting called out when by all accounts, I can't imagine why that would matter. The product is after all, a preserved tomato product. Benefit of the doubt I'd just call it a recipe change.

Compare the nutrition information per 100g. Less carbs, sugars, fat, protein, fibre, but more salt.
as you say, the chomsky hierarchy is surely an influence, but i don't think that's the main thing

i think it's probably because a turing machine can do universal computation and can be described completely in a couple of paragraphs, while you need at least several hundred logic gates to describe something that can do universal computation (if you give it infinite memory), and then you still don't have a convincing argument that what it does is universal in any interesting sense

until you bring in turing machines, anyway

you can write a turing machine in about one line of c; the description of a computer in terms of nands doesn't give you that
Course they have. But to them they see it as sharing the state of the app rather than saving and loading data.
A soccer tracking app for who is playing and who isn't and what positions.[^1] A weight tracking application.[^2] A time tracker for how many hours my daughter was driving.[^3] An app to help my wife randomly pick meals for the upcoming week.[^4] Logic (CLI) to organize finances with hledger. A back end to work with all my offline-first web apps (the first 3 apps).[^5]

[^1]: https://github.com/jon49/Soccer

[^2]: https://github.com/jon49/WeightTracker

[^3]: https://github.com/jon49/drive-time-tracking

[^4]: https://github.com/jon49/MealPlanner

[^5]: https://github.com/jon49/Imagebase
This is very cool. Thanks for sharing!
What does "retire the phone number" mean?
Yeah, I meant the autoplay, aka. "Auto-queue next stream":

https://newpipe.net/FAQ/tutorials/player-enable-autoplay/
On my 2023 Subaru the infotainment system routinely crashes on startup, I think if I plug my phone in too soon after turning it on. I'm sure the engineers at GM (and those at Apple working on Car Play gen 2) have worked through all of these issues that have been plaguing infotainment systems since they were introduced. /s
The base model has 32 layers and there is a single linear layer for language modeling (going from embeddings to the vocabulary) that gets applied at the very end.
Another Google Ads account suspension for no reason plus no reply from support
I know this happens somewhat often here but now I am completely out of options so I will try this.

I have a side business unrelated to tech, and have ran some Google Ads for it in the past. The last one was in March, and the campaign was then paused and everything was paid.

I logged into my Ads account in November to start a new campaign and was met with a pink banner that my account is suspended for "suspicious payments." I followed the directions to start an appeal and I was asked to supply all payments in the past 60 days. Of course there were no payments since March. In fact, the account shows a credit balance right now.

Anyhow, I filed the appeal and since then (Nov. 20th) there has been a notice that Google Ads support should reply in "5 business days" with an addendum that "sometimes it takes longer."

After ten business days, I used "add more details" to reach out again. Now it has been 22 business days by my count. There has never been any response. There is no clue about the suspension. I have completed full advertiser verification and linked my bank account.

Anyone out there from Google who can help support take a look at my issue?
Eggs around here were as low as 29 cents (during an egg price war, to be fair, but normal prices were well below a buck) and during whatever egg crisis there was recently peaked at nearly $4 a dozen. Both were the same "cheapest eggs in the store" though the local farm-raised eggs had a much smaller increase (maybe from $4.29 to $4.79).

Since then the cheapest eggs have come back down somewhat.

The problem is statistics count averages or price on a certain day, etc, people remember the _highest_ price they paid recently.
Great list! It looks exhaustive, you've managed to include all I have tried and a few more.

Myself I have ended up with mostly using Soulver and TextMate. TM is not really the same thing but it has nice built in text manipulation for more advanced things like "diff selection with clipboard", regex and "sorta and remove duplicates". The thing it lacks is on the scratchpad/autosaving... So I just abuse the window restoration feature and never close or save any documents but have 50 textmate windows :-)
There has been significant increase in ingredient prices at grocery stores due to the consolidation of basically every chain under Kroger and Cerberus Capital Management. They've been shutting down stores, eliminating competition and dramatically raising prices. And they're trying to themselves merge.

While those core goods prices are I believe accurate, the prices at point of sale have gone up significantly more - especially in places that went from having a competitive grocery market to, well not.

Note that restaurants have done a significantly better job of controlling ingredient costs specifically because they don't shop at grocery chains.
Nothing on this site explains what exactly is "paperless debate."
Yes but those are examples where it seems it doesn't matter, also GMOs.

Simply using breeding, genetic engineering, and artificial growth to create more efficient and resilient crops isn't a bad thing, it only is if it somehow makes quality worse as a by-product. Even then, if the product is just less nutrient-dense, it's less of an issue than products with additives known to cause immune responses and other health issues (including pesticides which crop engineering can make redundant, so in some cases it's even a good thing).
Looks cool. Vim would be a great addition.
Yup, very true. Something else I thought of is that if you are a landlord paying the capital costs, but your tenant pays the electricity bill, then you're incentivized to pick the cheapest heating system, not the most efficient one. This factor probably makes resistive heating more widespread than it should be.