skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm directly stating that maybe it's time for Facebook to consider a different governance model than autocracy because their resources and integration within humanity-at-large has scaled beyond that which a single person can reasonably govern. The examples of such failures to govern are so numerous I don't have time to cite them all.

And no, I'm not advocating for Facebook to be nationalized or broken up. I'm specifically pointing out the thought that Facebook could innovate here; they have an opportunity to establish the first truly global self-governing internet-based company in history.

> a website dedicated to light communication and entertainment

This statement is deliberately obtuse. Facebook is a communal space used by 3B people every day to mediate conversations, transactions, news consumption, business, events, etc. I'd hardly say people building their livelihood off of Facebook is "light communication" or "entertainment". Again, look no farther than HN to find examples of Facebook's governance policies harming their users with no explanation or due process: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29614629.
This is again a defense in depth thing. In the age of WFH, cracking a corporate VPN is really not that difficult. If you can make an attacker's life harder for low cost you should do it just in case.
Readers should remember that for every one of these travesties that leak, there are probably more that don't.
If you like this style of puzzle, I highly recommend Simon Tatham's Puzzles on android (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=name.boyle.chr...). It has implementations of a dozen or so puzzles including a domino puzzle not unlike this one. And it has no ads or microtransactions to boot.
It should be noted the Netmaker benchmarks were ran in a shared cloud environment, so the throughput related metrics must be thrown out. You have no visibility into what other workloads are running on the same physical host or how your test hosts are physically connected. As a result you could be measuring software X with two instances on the same bare metal and software Y across two instances in different buildings (yes instances can move buildings without you knowing).

A proper test would be done with bare metal machines with 10/40/100G NICs and a controlled network plane free of other traffic.
DScan Extension: Own Your Identity, Own Your Data
A decentralized storage and file-sharing tool that uploads content to IPFS and generates decentralized QR codes.

DScan enables you to quickly upload files and folders to IPFS using web3.storage, and provides a "decentralized QR code" containing the IPFS CID. This QR code can later be customized and shared with anyone for easy and decentralized file sharing. Users can visit console.web3.storage and log in to manage their accounts.

DScan, leveraging the w3up-client, incorporates DIDs and UCAN to establish a robust framework for decentralized authentication and authorization. The use of DIDs enhances security and promotes digital self-sovereignty, while UCAN facilitates permissioned access and the delegation of capabilities, enabling users to manage access to their content securely.

Thanks to web3.storage, the content can be accessed over IPFS without the user installing and setting up a local instance of Kubo.

Chrome web store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/dscan-own-your-identity-o/idpfgkgogjjgklefnkjdpghkifbjenap

Github: https://github.com/p2plabsxyz/dscan
Taxis sucked outside of parts of major cities and airports. Even in NYC, the taxi system only worked well in Manhattan.
Neil Clake (editor of the well known magazine Clarkesworld) publishes Chinese voices all the time.
Neat, the historical browser will actually let you download GeoTIFFs (precisely registered TIFF files) and isn't just ArcGIS-specific.
I also quite liked the trilogy but do kinda think that Yoon Ha Lee got robbed back to back to back and should have won at least one of those three years.
What novels would you suggest instead published in each of the last 10 years?
Helicity-dependent optical control of the magnetization state
Not sure if parody or not.

The examples in "Example of slides almost entirely carried by fonts" look very bad to me. I honestly thought there is a catch or something but the author seems to genuinely like them...
> (BTW, if this is gonna be done, we should also block all AI bots and search engines at the IP address level.)

That's not possible or necessary.

Not possible, because it simply isn't possible in the general case to differentiate real papers from scrapers, without using device attestation. For an extreme example of this, see the Recap the Law project[1], which gives real human users an extension which scrapes as they browse.

Not necessary, because scrapers for AI training data an entirely separate problem completely unrelated to marketing, and because robots.txt will serve to stop the majority of search engine indexing, which is all that we need. Actual blocking of engines isn't necessary, because all the big ones are well-behaved, and after they stop indexing HN, marketers won't care about HN for the purposes of SEO-related influence campaigns any more.
Luckily Forgejo has a blog with a days-old blog post that spells this out. The winds are clearly blowing in Forgejo's direction despite some doubt from me, early on.
This sounds interesting, but I’m not sure I understand your proposal fully… what do you mean by ‘interpolating’ formatting?
Judging by most of the comments over the submissions today, people are really not comfortable with someone pointing out how consistent with past behavior this is. We just happened to get proof leaked this time.
I think it’s important to note that _most_ of the ratfucking appears to have been Dave McCarty just out on his own making crazy decisions, and it seems than the Chinese fans and Chinese authors were some of the worst treated in the whole scenario.

Obviously, the level of censorship from the PRC is hugely problematic, and something to seriously consider when deciding where to hold the award ceremony, but the fact that this one was a disaster should reflect mostly on McCarty and the other administrators. This shouldn’t be evidence that Chengdu was a problem.
I would argue it has been (and still is) a credible award because it is generally quite open about its policies. The choice to host the awards in Chengdu was not the act of some shadowy cabal, but a simple result of easily exploited policy. Charles Stross writes about it at length[0], but the simple gist is that it only costs $50 to vote on where the next year's awards are hosted, and there was a successful campaign to get SF fans in Chengdu to vote for their city.

Hopefully, as it has done in the past, the Hugos will update policy in a way that mitigates this sort of thing in the future. I don't see an easy solution, but I wish them the best.

[0]: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2024/01/worldcon...
One builds systems out of humans, ML, and other computation. Ideally integrating the strengths of each, and doing fine-grained mutual compensation for the weaknesses of each. For instance, automated task management which delegates easy cases to ML, and orchestrates humans for harder cases.

When a post is rated, a system ideally learns about the post, the poster, the rater, and the rating question. The candy machine which bribed undergrads to redundantly grade CS exams, the responses giving insight into the grader, the gradee, the exam, and the instruction.

People are multifaceted. I'm interested in someone's apps, but not their cat. In <wizzy biology researcher> when they are writing about their research focus, not on their gone-full-nutter <other biology topic>. It would be nice to be able to stream one's own diverse interests, without burdening people who wish to follow only one of them.

Sites, group moderation, and thumb ratings, are units of very very very course grain selection. Imagine tiktoc or netflix with everyone sees the same thing, one size fits all, and if you want something else, go somewhere else. I don't even want the same thing from hn comments at different times of day. Our capabilities are oddly impoverished - even last-century usenet had "I don't want to see any more comments from this person". Skimming hn comments for ones which match my preferences of the moment, when feasible to delegate to personalized automation, the system design could facilitate that.

User customization could be open, transparent, and collaborative. Not "you looked at this once weeks ago, so here's more, and you can't stop me". Composably collaborative - not a swamp of manually-viewed isolated playlists, but accessibly searchable/queryable - intersect playlists which include this video. Beyond "this person does good videos", to "this person does good video ratings", to "these people are good raters", to "these people do good ratings of raters"... for your personalized interests of the moment.

It's late, but hopefully those are clarified highlights.
Where is the freedom in China.

Could you imagine if the US Congress called the heads of its most prominent universities in, and lambasted them for not cracking down on student groups critical of US imperialism, and then those university heads were fired? Things like that don't happen in the land of the free.

China, please look to the American example of freedom.
Mmm I’ve been on this site for over a decade and it is definitely inconsistent. Hang around and you will see it too. Like I said I don’t mind.
The problem with internet fraud is that no one is really trying to make the fraudsters accountable for their actions, instead what they’re doing is essentially “shoo’ing them away”, and fraudsters after being shoo’ed away simply try again until they, almost invariably, eventually do succeed.

Subsequently, the industry of fraud is generally lucrative and is thus constantly growing.

When I worked at Blizzard, there were many mechanisms in place to spot fraudulent credit card transactions and cancel them before they actually billed the card holder, but there was no process for reporting the fraudsters to prevent them doing the same thing again tomorrow.

This is probably the same strategy that every company does, because there is no practical action any company can do to try make fraudsters accountable and thus discourage them from simply trying again.

So the problem of fraud is getting ever bigger and increasingly unmanageable and out of control.

The problem is a non-trivial political one, governments need to create task forces to work to reduce the size of the fraud industry, perhaps by catching fraudsters and making them accountable.

The problem is even harder than simple political will though, because it’s cross jurisdictional, meaning governments of different countries all need to work together on this.

This may seem impossible at the moment, but I believe until it is achieved fraud is only going to get increasingly worse.
I disagree. The Chinese are just able to leverage a lot of what would have been disposable income for normal working people. In fact, this why their demographic decline is going to be especially painful.
Yeah I've never even heard of this author before, but this response is so nicely written and well considered that I'll be checking out their books now!
Is this a phishing attempt? If I knew I'd be executing not answering.

BTW $10m wouldn't even cover the first 2 year's (if being frugal) costs.

Are talking about 20% share of the non-paying users? or 20% of the premium paying customers?

I think M$ are running LinkedIn based on advertising revenue, not subscriptions.
Awesome resource; however both J and K are evolving, so we either have multitude of various versions of the languages or a comparison which is outdated - referring to the latest versions of the languages.
Build what people are asking for, not what you think they need. There are few people who can get away with that.

I don't hear anyone asking for another LinkedIn.

Certainly, it could be done better/faster/cheaper/whatever... but as others have noted, it has critical mass network effect. You're not going to get a bunch of CEO's to switch to something, just because you made something. It is the classic chicken/egg problem and unless you're the first to market and the biggest, you won't win.

We know that Facebook beat Friendster, MySpace and Tribe... but that is because all of those companies made grave mistakes at just the right time for Facebook to take hold. Effectively the social network critical mass hadn't been achieved yet.

It is a bit too late for LinkedIn and the audience is different there. They don't move to the hot new thing because you raised $10m and want to overthrow the king.
It’s crazy how much people adore that novel though, despite the OBVIOUS flaws.
I'm away from my FreeBSD machines at the moment so can't provide much real help, but I will say, for a packet test like this, hyperthreads don't usually help and often hurt. But I thought most of the FreeBSD intel drivers will set up at least as many NIC queues as threads by default, assuming the NIC can manage that many. The quad 1G nics might only do 4 queues (I'm not super familiar with all the limits there), but ix and ixl should do 8 if that's what you want to do.

Might have to tweak the driver options, which would probably be set in /boot/loader.conf and need a reboot.

I'd imagine freebsd-net should be pretty helpful too, of course.
I think this is important to note, and a good call-out.

I think Kevin’s statements were dangerous and problematic (from a maintaining the Hugo trademark perspective) but were more of an administrative/legal concern, regarding the organization’s ability to effectively police the trademark.

His statements also probably weren’t wrong about what was possible, but just not something that an entity that represents the Trademark holder should say in public.

But, he wasn’t associated with the disaster that was the awards presentation. McCarty and other administrators of the award committee should be banned from being near this process for life. Standlee hasn’t done _anything_ so problematic, and seems to have good intentions about the whole thing.
Pydantic operates on Python dictionaries, so questions about duplicate keys will come down to whatever the Python behaviour is. (I.e. if you have a dictionary literal with duplicate keys, Python will select which key "wins" before Pydantic gets a chance to intervene.) When loading directly from JSON, it's possible to hook into Python's JSON-parsing mechanism and throw on duplicate keys, which probably ought to be the default given the number of security risks that come from this case.
Model 3 is a compact car by American standards. What Tesla lacks is a sub-compact (think Accord vs Civic).
Well to be fair, it looks like the non-Chinese organizers screwed it up.
> "it's not dumb if it works"

It's not dumb if you know what you are doing. I and others have pointed out how to properly handle binary data in shell scripts.

This might be a good start if you'd like to learn more: https://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html
We’re actually talking about two different features.
I’ll have one, thanks
What's an "interrupt mount"?
stop fighting for the scraps large companies leave you and celebrate labour making gains dude!!!!
I think Black Panther came closest to being good, as a non-colonial/post-colonial vision of Africa. But the last hour is just the same as every other MCU movie, eminently skippable.

Neil Gaiman does decently well in the adaptations that involve him, I must say.
I can implement a basic Fuse filesystem in a handful of lines of code in several languages. I'm not aware of any libraries that makes it equally simple to write an NFS server.
who watches advertisements? its the present year you know...
Well I use a local app which summons both taxis and ride sharing, I can choose which one. I also have the option to choose the payment method upfront, cash or card and I must have accidentally pressed cash although I meant card. Accidents happen, right, that's the way of life.

Anyhow upon arriving at the destination, the driver had no card reader whatsoever and I had no cash whatsoever (although I usually do precisely because money in the bank and money in the hand do make a difference here). The ATM machine was like 50 meters away and I didn't request the driver to drive me there, although I would have paid for that too. Just walk there, he can wait for me and I'll compensate his time anyway. He started yelling, threatened to beat me, wouldn't let me go get money so I started evaluating my options of smacking him. Fortunately it was HIM who said he'll call the police, which gave me relief and wholeheartedly said "please do!". Which police, upon arrival did nothing but get my ID card and wait until I walked to the ATM, withdraw money, pay the nutbag, tip him even (!!!!) and then return my ID. Which is precisely how the whole thing should have went were not for the weirdo.

Bonus, next day I discovered I was banned from the taxi application. Getting in touch with a human operator was a pain in the ass, found the asshole driver reported me as "not having paid". Which was a gross lie, unfortunately it didn't occur to me to get the police car number or officer's IDs so I have a witness. And apparently that was all it took, one driver reporting me, doesn't matter the long history of using the app (and paying), suspended without any investigation, confirmation or at least notifying me why the fuck I suddenly I can't log in. Fucking pieces of shit corporations!

Anyhow, there was some procedure apparently that if the "guilty by default without proof or warning" made a recourse, they would contact the driver. Which driver never replied so they re-instated my login credentials. I hate them deeply to this day, fortunately the corporation behind the app went bust and I've replaced it with another one.

I have no delusions anymore on the viciousness of the system, I'm only good as long as I pay and they'd fuck me without warning on the first imagined whim. But there's no alternative so I hafta use these apps.

Oh, and thank you fellow HNers for screwing (downvoting) me a second time for sharing a story on how getting screwed by Kafkian corporations made me reconsider my options of using their services. You see, the software and systems that apply the "presumption of guiltiness" is precisely a reflection of people like you, hell is other people!
Aboard a U.S. Aircraft Carrier, a Front-Row Seat to China Tensions
https://archive.ph/Up7RR
> But these people above often ask for slides because they don't plan on listening but do still plan on judging you based on your talk that they didn't listen to, so you're forced to slap every piece of information on them.

Or they may be unable to. For many people who have English as a second or third language, reading text is much easier than listening. Without having slides, they may be unable to follow, just like they'd need captions to follow TV shows.
Gonzalo Lira was an American citizen in Ukranian prison, where he died due to untreated complications from pneumonia. How does that make Zelensky any different?
What sort of problems would you say they have?
Right, the first thing the professor should be doing to prepare Chinese students to modern American college is to teach them that categorising people into men and women is disallowed.
If "i" wasn't called "imaginary" I don't know if anyone would find it weird when it appeared in physics.

In many ways i is as weird as negative numbers, irrational numbers, and transcendental numbers. But we're somehow ok with all of those.

(By the way, I don't mean to imply Scott Aaronson finds complex numbers weird. He's just wondering why not other systems, and even mentions quaternions as an alternative — which could be called weird in their own right... So in a sense I'm attacking a straw man.)
> I wonder if intent matters. I think it's pretty obvious from the $1 car case that the guy was intentionally trying to break the bot.

IANAL either, but I thought it was that obvious errors are not usually upheld in these scenarios. (Where "obvious" is something like "a reasonable person would think…".) So a $1 car would probably be an obvious error, unless there was some reason for you to think the car was worth nothing. (A $1 car where you purposefully manipulated the bot into making that offer… well.)

But here, there seems to be nothing obviously wrong with the chatbot's offer. Bereavement flights/discounts are a thing, and permitting someone to file the necessary paperwork after the fact for 90d also sounds reasonable, since deaths can be sudden and unexpected, that would be a kind thing to offer.

The court's ruling seems sound here. "Our chatbot is a separate legal entity", OTOH…
> It's fairly common to use git repositories as a vehicle for serving websites. The webdev pushes their changes to some branch of a publicly available git repository

This doesn't require the git repo to be public. My go-to "day one" static website deploy strategy is to set up a git remote on some VPS, point nginx at its public html folder, then "deploy" to that with a git push, authed by ssh key.

You'd be surprised how far you can get with simple tricks like this. I served about the first 6 months of what would become a multi-hundred-million company with this hilariously simple setup running on a $20/m DO VPS.
> Splines can easily take care of that.

within set boundaries.
If we are writing about writing can we please write? “Unwin”?
The "how" was news to me. I had not heard of Unified ID 2.0 before.
isn't every non linear model fundamentally linear if it is run on a von neumann computer?
> As far as the actual scandal, there’s also discussion about whether there was any actual government intervention or if this was mainly the result of self-sensorship.

China’s whole censorship legal framework is based on self censorship, so there would not be much difference.
It's cute that you think this wasn't a sign of the smaller West being integrated into the larger Communist Chinese world.
Yeah, the more talks I attend, the more I differ with 'powerpoint minimalism orthodoxy'. I would much rather your presentation be a subset of the slides than a superset. Then I can relax and appreciate it rather than worry about transcribing you or something. If its actually important to me than I will spend much more time reviewing the material than listening to it this once, so focus on providing a comprehensive reference. And we both know you're not going to write up a whole separate document that's the exact same material in more detail, kept up to date, so just make it the slides. The preference for minimalism I think comes from a thought process that conflates entertaining with effective. (all else equal, obviously more entertaining will make you more engaged which is more effective, but the equal is carrying some heavy weight there)
I think the value of metrics like this is limited, since code base size only very roughly corresponds to implementation complexity.

Here are some examples where you would increase the compressed code size while not making the project more complex:

1. Adding unit tests to code that was previously untested. Unit tests add little complexity because they don't introduce new interfaces.

2. Splitting a God class up into multiple independent classes. Usually this improves readability thanks to separation of concerns, but it often increases raw code size because each new class adds some boiler plate.

etc.
"To get her to stop I said 'Sure, sounds good, buy it.

..anyway that's how I ended up with a Great Dane."
No, a fee is an upfront amount to do a task.

The fact that is it nebulous, and if you don't put a number that's considered big enough (by someone elses judgement) then you won't get your food delivered puts it beyond a "fee".