skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Media in large groups was always toxic.

BBSes were, once they exceeded a certain size threshold. Usenet had its toxic corners. Large IRC channels without strong moderators were a hellscape.

There are two ingredients to toxicity, as far as I can tell. One is sheer size of a group - you get a million people in a room, you have 1000 assholes of a 1-in-a-1000 caliber in there. It's a pure numbers game.

The second is strong moderation. Moderation that actively intercedes at the first sign of toxicity keeps group conversations less toxic. (For the free speech argument here: I believe we're better off with moderated groups as long as everybody is free to run their own moderated group. Everybody is free to speak, but the rest of the world must be free to choose to not listen - this is where big social media really fails)

Ask Metafilter made the point that possibly "cost of entry" might help as well, but I strongly believe that's ultimately the size argument combined with selection bias reducing the need for moderation.

So what you remember as "less toxic" might well just be "social media was smaller back then". Or more selective groups.
Mine died after printing three pages so your mileage may vary.
100% agree all these points!
I get >50% of my spam from legitimate hosts such as gmail and yahoo, which tick all the spf/dkim/dmark boxes.

spf/dkim/dmark helps with phishing/forgery, it does little to nothing for spam, even though this policy change makes it look like it's connected.

If I send spam through gmail, the spam is "authenticated".

spammers were among the first to implement these in an attempt to get higher score in spam filters. For quite a while dkim was positively correlated with spammyness for me.

Meanwhile.. does google even respond postmaster@ or abuse@ requests?
I understand the UK vaccination IT system (not track and trace!) was created by a small team and worked very well.
Wow, I haven't heard of Linkdup in a really long time! I used to read that every day!

sits back and scratches grey beard

https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/gallery/linkdup-2004
In middle age, I (a computer science grad and working programmer) went to graduate school for molecular biology. In the early days of studying biological systems, I was struck by how much they were like computer code, or at least logic constructs. I remember to this day the moment I realized that my orderly world of 0s and 1s was being saturated and methylated and energized in ways that were utterly unpredictable by (the current state of) simple logic constructs. And that's the day I learned why we still have "wet" labs, to actually test things empirically, rather than vainly try to predict them computationally. :-)
I'm specifically talking about developer utilities. Even developers are accustomed to paying for GUI apps but not command line stuff. To be fair I've never seen anyone selling a local (non-SaaS) command line only tool either.
If I have to pay then I might as well wait for the vod
I've been lifting weights for 20 years and this is what I have discovered too. You can keep your sleep/nutrition/work schedule very consistent and some days things will just be harder in the gym. On those days, I will do a little less extra exercises and just stick with the basic compound movements that I was going to do.

On the flip side, there are great days too. Take advantage of those and get a little more done in the gym. Overall it's about consistency of the practice, not about an individual session being great.
Proof of work - yes - this is fundamental to any fair money, including gold, Rai stones, even beads and shells etc. Would you consider gold mining a waste of energy?

If you don't need to perform work of equivalent value to the money you are creating, what do you think will happen?

(here's a clue: https://ibb.co/pWZfMQc)
https://wiki.mutable.ai/wasm3/wasm3
I experimented with changing the Kagi redirect to use Bing but I was still having issues. I changed it back to Google because I figured if the redirect was going to fail I'd rather it fail back to Google haha.

Edit: Looks like they did a rollback

>We have rolled back Kagi Search for Safari extension because of issues reported by users. The URL to download the rolled back version is the same apps.apple.com/us/app/kagi-search-for-safari/id1622835804. We are continuing the development of the 2.0 branch which is open source and you can follow the discussion here.

https://kagi.com/changelog#2856
Vlad from Kagi here.

We are in the process of rewriting our Safari extension for Kagi search, which proved to be very challanging (Apple seems to really not want people doint this). It is open-source and you can check the discussion here [1]

Our current extension should mostly work though (maybe needs full reinstall) [2]

We also launched Orion browser on both macOS and iOS which is made as a Safari replacement and comes with Kagi integrated. [3]

Finally, there are third party extensions that you can use like xSearch [4] and HyperWeb [5].

Do not forget to move Apple in the right direction to allow use of custom search engines by sending feedback [6]

[1] https://github.com/kagisearch/browser_extensions/pull/59

[2] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kagi-search-for-safari/id16228...

[3] https://kagi.com/orion

[4] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/xsearch-for-safari/id157990206...

[5] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hyperweb/id1581824571

[6] https://developer.apple.com/bug-reporting/
Your comment literally contains the string "this is an advertisement" but I can't tell what you are advertising?
It doesn't make sense to me either. Universities barely even fund the lifecycles of their own research based software projects.
Are you saying that capitalism and technology are inhuman forces? That humans were in some idyllic state before 1800?
Observe situation as it is, Orient yourself and resources in this new situation, Decide on next action, Act.

The application is identical. TFA just renames it to Aim Fire Scan with an even more conflict-oriented sequence name.

The main "get inside the loop" takeaway from OODA is just "Be agile and respond quickly to outcomes" rather than "March forward on your original plan", when applied in a non-competitive environment.

Same schtick, different pile.
They have credit card numbers and transaction ids in mongo?
> double down on event-sourcing and not having mutable-state anymore.

Event sourcing doesn't get rid of mutable state. The event store gets mutated every time a new event comes in.
Social media didn't cause the problem, but it very much accelerated it. I think the media aspect of it is related to the uptick in 24-hour news that began with Ted Turner and CNN, and got its own acceleration with 9/11. Social media sort of piggybacked onto that and blew it wide open.
When I did Objective-C applications with C++ business logic, I recall our company's rule was to keep Objective-C code totally separate from the C++ code, in separate files, different headers, even different static libraries if possible--really quarantine them from each other. Then have a single, standalone, hideous Objective-C++ file that served as the smallest possible interface between the two. It's the only way we could keep sane. This was a trauma response from a previous project where no such discipline was maintained, and people just causally intermixed C++, Objective-C, C, and Objective-C++ willy-nilly all over the code, with now predictable results.
> If something gets 10% faster twice it actually got 19% faster

21%, not 19%.

It is 1.1 * 1.1 = 1.21

You are right in the opposite direction. If it got 10% slower, then it is 0.9 * 0.9 = 0.81 = 19% slower
I'll note that the storage engine is open-source as well as any Postgres modifications, but our control plane is closed-source. I work at Neon.
I have a loved one with CPTSD and the best therapy she's had was IFS based.
Insert any other group and you realize how stupid that statement is.

> Indeed, because an oligarchy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the billionaires realize that they can bribe themselves largesse from the public treasury

There is always an equilibrium point. The oligarchs won’t suck the state’s teat to the point where the state collapses.
> There will be people convicted who really did have their hands in the till.

Maybe, but if any of the evidence used to convict them came from the Horizon system, which has been proven to be flawed and unreliable, then IMO the verdict is still unsupportable. If there is any reason to suspect someone of actually having their hands in the till over the Horizon period, I would still be entirely in favour of requiring that they be immediately set free, and for prosecutors to have to bring an entirely new trial, from scratch. And any jail time resulting from new guilty verdicts to be reduced by time served from the original conviction.
Touring is where the money has always been made, and that is now harder to do as well, in some part due to consolidation. Once you're playing real venues you enter the world of LiveNation/Ticketmaster, profit-killing merch cuts, excessive service fees pricing out your fans at no benefit to yourself, etc.

And then there are the non-music related real world implications. Decades of growth in health care costs exceeding wage growth means that if you want to be a full-time musician today you either have to have a day job and all of the limitations that places on your music career, or you have a massive annual expense for individual health insurance.

Unless you can become a star, a career as a musician is a hell of a lot more expensive than it used to be, and simply unsustainable for a great deal more people
Social media not designed to be addictive includes hacker news and PHP bulletin boards. Early Facebook might qualify as a relatively unaddictive UX as well, though they quickly started with the "optimizations".
I'm not sure what to make of your comment, what is this in reference to? The last commit on the uboot tree you've posted was 4 years ago...

I realize that 23.05 is supported on the device, but my point is that it was entirely done by individual contributors from outside of GL.iNet, not contributed by the company itself. It sucks because GL.iNet sort of built a reputation off of being the openwrt router brand, and used to be in relatively good standing, but have shifted their approach since. Now they benefit off the reputation they built previously, because of people like me who assume they're still doing that before making purchases.
I promise, these changes won't fix that.
Then the deluxe versions.

Then the 24-bit remasters.

Then the flattened remixes (which are actually pretty nice).

Etc.
You missed the whole fiasco. Boeing intentionally deceived everyone involved, from the FAA engineers certifying the MAX to the pilots that were told that they were equipped to fly them.

Boeing noticed that the thing didn't fly like a 737, so they made some software to change its flight characteristics to be more like a 737. They failed to disclose this, and when it "activated" in 2018, a plane crashed. This is when FAA learned about it. Then another one crashed because of the same thing only a few months later.

The DOJ made a criminal complaint against Boeing, resulting in a deferred prosecution agreement and a $2.5 billion penalty. MAX was grounded for years.

> They feel they were fully prepped for the differences in the airframe

Your pilot friends are either wrong or they had inside information and probably should have blown the whistle. Realistically, they probably actually did feel prepared. This is the crux of the criminal fraud action.
> People call it a toy database.

Stands to reason. It is something you want to play with, not a figurine to leave on the shelf to forget about like some of those other database solutions.
Big government has increased by leaps and bounds since Reagan's era ended. Just take a look at the federal budget.
Humane announces 10 layoffs as CTO 'transitions' into advisor role
I need to use Java exactly zero times when interacting with those, they have dedicated clients for everything, something this stuff apparently is proud of not having.
Google accounts compromised by hackers without the need for passwords
Having worked for a few of those lazy vendors, the aot usually just ends up being bitcode which is fully jitted later.
My website builder has AI content generation for any text.
I can make better headlines or short content blurbs with better SEO results.

I used this to create 10 blog articles to promote better traffic to my site.
These articles took me 15 minutes to make. I intend to make blog articles every day to try and drive more traffic to my site.

Apparently this works according to SEO results.
> s there any evidence that advice to “just stop X” is as or more effective than causally aligned methods?

There is clear evidence that taking longer to stop beating your kids is more harmful to them so less effective than just stop beating them.
Zed File Z-4902: Spanner Spikes
> Most states don't have 70 mph speed limits

39 out of 50 (or 51, if you count DC as state-like) states have maximum posted speed limits of 70mph or higher, which is a very clear majority.
Thank you for all your recommendations. I appreciate it.
In many cases the subpostmasters paid the 'missing' amount to the Post Office, rather than lose their franchise or even go to prison. That then went towards Post Office profits and management bonuses. Ka-ching - Trebles all round!
Show HN: No-frills photo gallery site
In theory yes, has anyone built this tool yet? I’d love an LLM<->browser agent that can do something useful besides summarize Yelp reviews. I’m thinking something that, for example, accesses the company intranet and finds me information from my paystub without me doing anything.
Fantastic preservation, thank you for this!!

I imagine being a developer on a project like this -- dreaming about the impact that my work might have on helping diabetic kids, working late, pouring that extra ounce of effort into the quality of my work to try and make the absolute best gameplay experience possible...

...and then to have it all wiped out in a corporate power move. I'm guessing that none of the actual gameplay or tooling was recycled out of the Glucoboy into the Bayer Digit?

I tend to get more attached to my work than I probably should, and it's always heartbreaking to read about these things.
Ming (Clam)
Neon is serverless Postgres and does scale to 0. I work at Neon.

https://neon.tech
Why is this so chunky and cumbersome then? It looks like it's not going to fit in my pocket
Here you are comparing oil to oil + heat pump, but the original comparison was just between oil and heat pump.
Better in the sense that you didn’t learn to just passively consume from a screen and learned to be independent. I’m not convinced that parents becoming involved to the extent they are is actually a net positive. Kids don’t learn to be on their own, to think without a computer or their parents, and have every minute of their day mapped out.
Not this level of capitalism. The post-war consensus economy of the west had heavy state intervention and economic involvement.

Things started to change towards "free market" neoliberalism (AKA voodoo economics) in around the 1970's, and the rate of the change exploded after the fall of Soviet Union.
Seems a huge pain relative to freestanding C++ to LLVM IR but more options in this space are welcome.
Maybe this doesn't apply to all situations. It's just that in my case, especially in music technology, I often see funding being allocated to things that I think are somewhat disappointing, and of course, that's just my subjective opinion. More often than not, it is an overall lack of funds. Many open source projects are actually of great academic value and worthy of study. In fact, many contributors to open source projects love blogging. I often feel more rewarded reading these blogs than dozens of pages of academic papers. I can clearly feel that I will have more time to make pure open source contributions during my funded Ph.D., or even when I am lecturing at the university. But now I have to balance it with some practical considerations.
Not sure what you mean. I use Python for Windows all the time at work, and on Linux at home. I've not noticed any meaningful difference in my workflow.
Well, the databases are indeed mutable global state but even if you get rid of them, we would still continue to live in a single (i.e. global), mutable world of physical reality. So you have to bite that bullet somewhere, and DBMSs seem to be suited rather well for that.
Maybe not accurate, but on the plus side I can confidently say the refrigerator probably came before the egg.
> Remote work doesn't change where I want to live

I dont care where you want to live. Those who want to live where land is affordable should be given the option.

Given that land is expensive where you want to live this type of house build wont solve your issue - might make it worse since people have said it’s more expensive to build.

If more people would be allowed to work where they can afford property then demand in your area may drop.

Meaning you could afford buying where you enjoy. But most human farm advocates demand others to work from farms, and there is the issue. It drives land prices up in such places.
"The problem with capitalism is not that it creates problems for humans but that it exploits the problems that we would have regardless, drastically exacerbating the consequences."

–Chris Cutrone
https://wiki.mutable.ai/microsoft/debugpy
This is an easy and obvious exploit so an attacker would need to extract the data from all sources ASAP. High risk of getting caught and ending in jail to be honest for measly 2BTC. Not worth it for anyone in the US or even Europe.
I do think a similar thing to the GP, on my case it's because universities have the problem of "how to fund potentially society-changing projects that mostly go nowhere and depend on really qualified people" closest to solved than any other institution.

There's a lot of problems that I do think universities could be working on. Creating free software is one of them.
Of course you can run half a CPU at home. With Ubuntu LXD, you can easily run actual, hardware 50% cpu time, or .5 priority container. Why wouldn't you be able to have complete control over what "microscale" tasks you run on your own hardware, and own OS, that you control?

On the contrary, vCPU a completely cloud-centric product oriented concept, intended to abstract away what CPU you're actually running on, and how fast. These abstracts make orchestration and availability easier, but I think the key is a stable, public internet access. If you get a static IP, I don't see what wonders this does for "microscale". In fact, you probably have 90% unused "microcapacity" on all the personal hardware that's often idling, that is a lot less micro than any cloud provider will give you for free.
For-profit actors make their products as “palatable” as possible. Amazing.
In the US, local gov'ts often play this game by closing fire stations.
I’m surprised it’s not due to settling in magma. Does this mean on, say, the moon we would see a uniform scattering of elemental atoms ?
> To me, it seems like the technology wasn't available back then.

Banks had been doing this sort of stuff (distributed transactional integrity) for years by the time the Horizon system was conceived. SAP and Oracle were in widespread use, and Oracle (the database underlying Horizon) was explicitly exonerated as a source of the bugs.
I think as a golfer becomes more intelligent of how to play golf and of their own abilities they end up using the driver less and less, unless they're a very good golfer. But generally I never use them on par-5's unless I think I can reach in 2. If that isn't possible then why bother hitting the driver? I'll take a 3-wood or a 5-wood and then play my second shot with a similar club or long iron. Yeah, a perfect drive could put my second shot closer and be the difference between a gap wedge and a pitching wedge approach, but overall I'd say I probably am more likely to get in trouble with the driver.

On long par-4's I find it mandatory to hit and on shorter par-4's with larger landing zones or no real hazard in play I'll take it out. But otherwise I'm happy to hit 3-wood off the tee or a long iron.

Of course, becoming excellent with a driver gives a lot of advantages. And although the= old adage is "drive for show putt for dough" is true - getting off the tee and in play is still the most important part of the game, especially for mid/high handicap amateurs.
Have you even used the up arrow key to go back to your last command? This is like that, but does a lot more.
+1 for delicious,… wait… too soon?
Yet people readily pay $99/year for apps all the time. I think the reason this isn’t an app is because the gate keepers don’t want competition. Looking at you Siri.
Thanks for the feedback! I've moved it below the original comment now. I made some small adjustments to the original comment display as well.
If you see the bible and other religious texts as comparable theory to science, then I'll have to increase my estimate to 4 halving epochs
Came here to post this. Great book and it's got so much heart. Brian is obviously a great writer and has a lot of great stories about the Bell Labs days. Early UNIX just seems like a dream to have been around.

It's a very human focused book, and the humans it focuses on are just incredible.
> Since 1965 companies pay a much lower corporation tax

Since it's not straightforward to get figures for before 1965:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_corporation_tax...

> Until 1965, companies were subject to income tax on their profits[11] at the same rates as was levied on individual taxpayers

> In addition to income tax, companies were also subject to a profits tax, which was deducted from company profits when determining the income tax liability

> At the time of Hugh Gaitskell's 1951 budget, the profits tax was 50% for distributed profits and 10% for undistributed profits.

> The tax rates fell to 22.5% on distributed profits and 2.5% on undistributed profits by 1957

This means that in 1951, if a company had a profit of 100, the taxes were *at least* (I'm using undistributed profits, not taking into account higher rates, etc.etc.) 52.75

(10% of 100, plus 47.5% of the remaining 90% of 100)

The 47.5% is the standard rate of "nine shillings and sixpence in the pound", per https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1951/apr/...

In 1959, a company with a profit of 100, would've instead paid in taxes *at least* 40.28

(2.5% of 100, plus 38.75% of the remaining 97.5% of 100)

The 38.75 is the standard rate per https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/1989-03-03/debates/3cc...

see also: "seven shillings and ninepence in the pound" per https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1959/apr/...

The current corporation tax main rate is 25% (the small profits rate is even less: 19%)
Stephen Wolfram's theory is that everything is a massively parallel computation. Pretty fascinating stuff

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/04/finally-we-may-h...
Worth every penny for their investigative journalism. Even if you never read it. And the cartoons are very good!
> the most commonly detected plastic was polyamide, a material commonly used in water filtration systems and "the most popular membrane material used in reverse osmosis … a common water purification method shared by all three brands [of water tested]

Is this inevitable with a polyamide membrane RO system or is this wear and tear with insuficient maintenance/ part replacement?
I miss the chaos of Obj-C. Swift makes way too much sense.
I think it is very unfair that your reply was flagged while the same level theory of OP comment is top ranked.