skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Certainly, there is blame and responsibility to go around. A culture of materialistic excess and consumerist superficiality opens the door to predatory snakes, and the snakes then reinforce that same culture by encouraging debt. Adults should not inhabit a fantasy world, and live beyond their means, as if they were temporarily disgraced millionaires. At the same time, the ignorance, naivete, or foolishness of others does not excuse or legitimize the exploitative greed and deceptive practices of lenders. To accept that as licit is to accept as licit a psychopathic notion of business, society, and the human person. You need there to be rational assent to an objective good, and a rational consent. Risk is okay as long as it is reasonable and understood. On the other hand, a casino owner who actively encourages people to piss away their life savings with the unrealistic promise of winning big should have more than a little trouble sleeping at night.
cp/m still ticking... Time flies! Had somewhat checked it once on my Apple 2 :-)
>imo some sort of safe harbor mechanism is a reasonable compromise. we can't expect the host to prevent every single instance of abusive content, but we should require them to make some kind of reasonable effort.

I'd say Kiwifarms has failed to make that kind of reasonable effort.

There is a good faith moderation clause in part of section 230, but I'm not sure how it has been enforced in the past or if it is similar to what you are thinking of.
We can’t. The point is 2 years ago between ai and a human, we 100 percent could tell.

Now we can’t. In the future it will be even harder.
Discussed here:

It's not always DNS, unless it is - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38719126 - Dec 2023 (73 comments)
Ha!

https://9gag.com/gag/avOj8WE
My God, it's a psycho-social catastrophe waiting to happen, not unlike the mid-century cigarette health catastrophe. I go out in the world and see not just adults sitting around a table staring at screens and not interacting, but parents and children. Particularly small children put in front of an iPad and then summarily ignored. It's cruel and inhumane and I admit that I judge these parents harshly for their neglect.

I have two kids, 5 and 7, and they use screens but sparingly. Mostly they use them to Facetime relatives and create art and animation with KidPix. They mostly color and play in the real world. They are well socialized, smart and I daresay they are and will remain ahead of any other kids who are addicted to screens by their parents. The problem is if screens rot an entire population of minds, the remaining few will be powerless to help the decline. Like the old saw, "Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it. Those who do know history are doomed to watch others repeat it."

Screens need to be regulated like cigarettes, sooner rather than later.
That's the point, but often in many network issues, the name resolution is the root cause of the problem. Not necessarily the DNS itself. Sometimes the /etc/hosts is more than enough to cause headaches!
I used to love finding these webcams, and writing a script to regularly grab images so I could make time-lapses - especially of long-term construction sites.
Happens. My team was starting to get weird and found the sociopath malcontent by digging through the Mattermost database. Mattermost does make it hard, in their favor.
https://archive.is/lT7lF
Also you can mix a tiny bit of xanthan gum in on your initial stir and then it stays mixed. I've never noticed a textural difference.
By say he means think. It’s a figure of speech.
Isn't that kindof a "god of the gaps" explanation? We don't understand it, therefore <something unprovable>
I agree, but people with money, like to argue otherwise.

For some reason, folks like listening to people shuffling a handful of benjamins, more than the poor schlubs getting the spam.
Meh. If we want immorality we'll probably end up converting a brain scan to an LLM.

Medically this could be great for preventing brain damage.
I was setting up my own mail server the other day and re-realized how long global DNS propagation really takes.

I’m in the US so it was almost instantaneous between updating the dns records in domain register any being able to verify the changes with my own rDNS server.

But using a UK or NL dns server didn’t immediately pick up those recent changes.

Had to wait an additional 48 hrs for global dns propagation.
> If COVID-19 didn’t move the needle on how dependent we are on foreign countries to do our scut work.

I believe the search-term you are looking for is "Friendshoring".

"Some companies and governments pursue friendshoring as a way to continue accessing international markets and supply chains while reducing certain geopolitical risks... Bonnie Glick first used the term "allied shoring" at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, while serving as the deputy administrator of the United States Agency for International Development... The new U.S. Trade Policy, including USMCA and IPEF, complies with the Friendshoring arrangement." [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendshoring
This would pair up well with my favorite t-shirt ;)
Yup - nothing to compute!
That's a really human-centered view of what we have in forums.

I think many of us (wrongly) have a tech-centered view of online communities -- witness the multitude of "Show HN" posts that are "look! I made an online place for humans to congregate and discuss X".

The tech stack matters little (if at all), but bootstrapping the community's trust and culture (and maintaining both) are most of the heavy lifting, and the differentiator for success.

I recently (re)discovered an HN post by one of the core community moderators of deviantArt, and its success was made possible by its culture:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13719127
afaik they're basically the same thing. The need to stir comes from peanut butter that is literally nothing other than minced peanuts. Brands like Jif and the such add a bit of palm oil, salt, and whatever else which I guess helps to stabilize the mixture and make oil separation less likely. "pure" peanut butter like the kind the author likes here is available just the same in the UK with exactly the same problem!
I think it’s implied that it’s been zero days since the underlying cause of some such problem turned out to be DNS related. The number zero being hard coded implies that the root of the problem is always DNS. But, let’s give MTU its due.
That's a great idea, I need this!
In godot (compile main daily) I am running 120 tick rate but have found some interesting optimizations happen there and above (240) and am seriously temped to just make 240 my default (but I need to do more server load tests as I’m planning to scale)
That's fair, but to keep going with the analogy: we are currently the Native Americans in the 1500's, and the Conquistadors are coming ashore with their flintlocks (ML). Should we be more worried about them, or the future B-2 bombers, each armed with sixteen B83 nukes (AGI)?

I understand that the timeline may be exponentially more compressed in our modern case, but should we ignore the immediate problem?

In this analogy, the flintlocks could be actual ML-powered murder bots, or just ML-powered economic kill bots, both fully controlled by humans.

The flintlocks enable the already powerful to further consolidate their power, to the great detriment of the less powerful. No super AGI is necessary, it just takes a large handful of human Conquistador sociopaths with >1,000x "productivity" gains, to erase our culture.

I don't understand how we could ever get to the point of handling the future B-2 nuke problem, as a civilization, without first figuring out how to properly share the benefits of the flintlock.
Here ya go: /s
At this point it feels like we’d required the resources of an entire planet to run a single full-fidelity virtual brain. Which leads to interesting science fiction premises.
"Jane Street Group LLC v. Millennium Management LLC, 24-cv-02783, US District Court, Southern District of New York" - https://www.sewkis.com/wp-content/uploads/Jane-Street_amende...
Why can’t it be reinstalled?
I use a metal chopstick to stir my PB (after pouring off a bit of the oil). It's a bit smaller than a butter knife, which means it can glide through the PB without risking spilling. But honestly what makes the most difference for me is that when I'm serving PB I use the knife to reach all the way down to the bottom. Otherwise it ends up getting pretty hard down there, even if it was initially very well mixed.

Also, I'll there's a lid-based mixer [1, scroll down a bit] that apparently works well, but kind of looks like a mess to clean up. I believe that it is very effective though — much better at getting down to the bottom than any non-invasive solution.

1: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-creamy-peanu...
This has nothing to do with this problem though - phones are pervasive among kids today, absent policy allowing teachers to take them away, there isn't anything you can do.
Ask HN: What's an old software that you would like to have again?
We're on HN there're many people that start to look for some ideas to start programming or building better skills. In my life I had many newbies that just wanted to "copy" software characteristics and then open source it.

Do you have any old software that you would like to have again? Let's fill some comments for those people that want to start a weekend project or just want to revive some nostalgia
We’re going to look back and see smartphones as kids smoking cigarettes.
You can get both kinds here, but the emulsified kind is more common. This has been slowly changing with additive-free food popularity and therefor 100% peanut-butter.
I see you've been on HN more than long enough to know all of what was wrong with your response to GP's comment.
That was before everything became a snap package in a docker image.
Or it could introduce new ones . It is not without side effects.
There’s also the whole range from “it might be kinda bad but it’s not a top priority” to “it’s gonna be fine, someone will figure it out”, and so on.

There are many ways to downplay or avoid taking action.
This is surprising. What was the TLD for your name? And can you share your SOA config for your zone? (don't need the names, I'm curious about the TTLs in all the SOA fields)
Nice, alas not a live feed.
What cases has he lost then? Can you cite specific examples?
super glue and araldite
This seems likely. I wonder if explaining it through the packaging, e.g. coloured stripe marked "stir space" and an explanation on the back saying don't worry you are only paying per gram of peanut butter...
Feels like adware. Some 10 second loop video and full ads.
If anything, I think the junior generation is going to ramp past where they are at today. I'm personally doing this now and my engineering mentor has been reporting me having a lot of things figured out better than they expected for my experience.

It helps so much to be able to rubber ducky a new term, problem or even to just double check my own code against another opinion. All of that helps, even if it's half correct in its advice. The design patterns I have started to use (and understand!) with its suggestions helped me have "consistency and readability that's years beyond my experience".

Now I'm 20 years into a related role doing a switch to Eng, and that definitely helps. But if the first thing AI does is speeds up our overall ability to move the tech workforce around, that's a huge win.
Too late. But that wasn't the first assault: the abandonment of phonics, forced busing, property tax cuts, creationism, culture wars, and arbitrary, unproven experiments are also doing all they can to dismantle what was once a shining accomplishment of commonwealth and excellence. Also, America has always been deeply anti-intellectual, but W said "hold my beer" and went about destroying it with good intentions without a shred of understanding. Hell is paved...
I've become familiar with it playing with the Kaypro 1 (the last CP/M model, not the first Kaypro - their model numbers are confusing). I picked it up years ago and just got around to getting disks etc recently.

Interesting to see the influence on DOS, and how people used to deal with ED to write assembly etc.

Really nice machine to play Zork and such on. The monochrome green is so clear and nice, and a really good size. Keyboard feels great.

I've been trying to get serial working with the odd pinout without success yet.
Seriously.

“I would walk up to people and say ‘give me your money’ and they would clutch it, and I would say that’s what an alcoholic would do if you tried to take away their bottle.”

Does that sound stupid? Because it is. Their phone has the distinct quality of being theirs. Demanding someone turn over their possessions to you is not going to be met with acquiescence.
How many jobs have you applied so far to? Have you done everything you could when it comes to applying to those jobs? (eg virtual coffees with potential colleagues, contacting the hiring manager, etc)
Of course intelligent people have taken over society.
Jif, ftw!
"It’s always DNS" is basically tongue-in-cheek expression, because DNS issues are so frequently the cause of weird outages.

Almost anything you do on the internet (or local network) depends on DNS functioning correctly. DNS can get complex quickly - multiple servers (caching/authoritative/recursive) and protocols = lots of opportunities for something to be misconfigured. Cached entries in particular can be a nightmare if something gets outdated - it takes time for an update to a DNS record to propagate to all the other DNS servers on the Internet. All kinds of other random services etc depend on DNS records being correct and DNS working. When there’s an issue it’s not always immediately apparent that a DNS problem is the root cause, leading to lots of time chasing your tail/tearing your hair out trying to figure out what the heck broke.
He sure deserves it all, judging by how he has managed to trash the reputation of what was once one of America’s greatest companies.
I wonder as well whether it wouldn't just be easier to snoop I/O and somehow exfiltrate the data. (This would be completely impractical for dragnet surveillance, of course – but I'm sure if a state actor knew that some organization was using this technique to avoid surveillance, _and_ was using a predictable software setup...)
The main difference in peanut butter isn’t about being European or American actually—it’s about the recipe. Some brands add extra oil, like palm oil, to keep it from separating (Skippy (US) and Calvé (EU), for instance). Without it, peanut butter can separate, leaving oil on top.
Two days ago one (!) User reported they got \\contso.com\dfsroot\profiles\user inaccessible (with errors loading the desktop etc).

For me the path was accessible, logging on the same server proved the path was accessible, 3 hours of the proper troubleshooting confirmed everything should work. But yet.

Skipping short the circumstances, one of (the 6 total) DCs decided what... DNS server isn't worth running. And for this one user DFS (last changed at least two years ago) decided to fall back to the file server from 2018, which, of course, pointed the DFS target to a no longer existant share.

Of course it wasn't DNS in this case. It was the DNS in this one.
The idea for me comes less from AI than the slowdown, I think, of really ground breaking science. We're still proving Einstein's ideas, we haven't really moved much beyond Einstein.
My understanding is as soon as you exercise your options you own them, and the company can’t take them from you.

Can anyone confirm this?
Pretty sure we can do that right now.
Service providers have already been policing websites. It didn't start with kiwifarms.

If you go on twitter and look at the profiles of registrars like namecheap, you'll often see them stating they will drop service to websites which are accused of being scams, spam or otherwise malicious.
> No, the other clients apart from UWPX and Kaidan (which for obvious reasons very few people use)

A funny thing to say for the 2nd and 3rd most downloaded XMPP-specific clients (from the MS Store and Flathub respectively). Certainly this does not include distro data, but Kaidan is also #1 result on Google when I search "KDE XMPP".

> which is why you'll see the transition to newer versions happen across all clients at roughly the same time.

That's precisely what I'm not seeing. Whenever I try to update my Jabber ecosystem, there's always some incompatibility, and OMEMO has (in recent days) been always at the center of it. Example a couple years ago: Conversations deciding to remove libotr quite early in the OMEMO story, and later other clients chasing suite.

Now I try to update things again and see there's yet another breaking protocol change. It doesn't help that you point that the new protocol is not ready yet but it is already published (as draft) as a XEP and implemented by multiple popular clients.

I'm sure they had "good" security reasons to move forward, even if most users couldn't care less about it (same as what was argued when OTR was dropped).
Now that’s what I call optimization.
> This is a misunderstanding of the term

No, there is more than one valid definition, the one you have used is the one used e.g. by the Unicode standard (but their definition is narrowed to Unicode, so anything not Unicode isn't plain text). But it doesn't matter which definition of "text" somebody uses, encoding is always a problem if not explicitly set like it is possible when using XML and HTML.

> "pain text"

Love that typo :D
Tbf their infra holds up because their infrastructure workers put their lives on the line every single day repairing it under horrible conditions of shelling, etc.

On my most recent trip there - I was amazed at how despite being routinely hit by missiles, their train systems “on time” status is better than British or even German trains.

This is only possible because their railway workers have balls of steel and go out to repair damage fast, and sometimes get hit in follow up strikes.

Same with energy workers - they go out and repair stuff during air alarms, in the immediate aftermath of strikes they perform damage control and mitigations.
Thats the distinction I think between an LLM and a real AGI. One is a stochastic parrot, the other can come up with new ideas.
> You don’t have to literally have only one translation unit.

Having 2 units per cpu core in your machine is a much better idea.
I don’t consider this “condescending”, necessarily. The problem of smartphone addiction really is as bad as alcoholism. Students are absolutely doomed without extreme action to prevent or punish their use within schools.

Though I’d also say they’re doomed without better teacher compensation. Probably both.
Except that

1. Cold peanut butter is a misery.

2. Removing the lid after it's been upside down is an oily mess.
I would assume most people want to keep the possibility of someone previously unknown contacting them.
So you say Jan Leike is scaremongering?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40391412
Agreed. In traditional terms, they're using a .org domain as a .com. The old rules aren't enforced, but they still hold some meaning.

It sounds like they want to do a "community edition", so they could just do it from a .com, and set expectations appropriately.

If they instead wanted to have a community-developed open source project, but also sell derived/layered products, they might set up a community governance structure and home it on the .org, at arm's length from their .com where they do sales and other company-specific stuff.

(BTW, sympathy on the challenges of building a sustainable business on open source, especially given some of the poor taste we sometimes see from freeloading commercial competitors.)
> he could have banned doxxing

> He doesn't allow doxxing

Which is it? Not sure what you are getting at here.
WordStar (non-document mode).

I stil remember way too many of the key sequences from ~1985!
Pythagorean cups force their users to fill them in moderation
Stay away from my sandwich!
There's some shenanigans going on here, of course. The section I was looking at says...

To opt out, please have your org, workspace owners or primary owner contact our Customer Experience team at feedback@slack.com with your workspace/org URL and the subject line ‘Slack global model opt-out request’.
Introduce new what's? Are you referring to the title or something else?
Hard disagree. It's not hard to do well. The draw back is less than 1 frame of input latency. If your game uses a physics engine or is networked you are forced to use a constant update rate, ie: 30 or 60hz. The draw backs to linking the physics update rate to the monitor refresh rate are enormous and untenable in a networked game.
a very old iPhone...

Not OP, but I'm guessing the latest version of the app requires iOS version X, and the phone will only run iOS X-1.
if u owe the bank its ur problem...if thousand people owe the bank its the banks problem
Lately, MTU has gotten up my list of things to check when stuff goes down.

It seems carriers can't get their MTUs straight as of late, especially on MPLS links...

I really thought we had this figured out 20 years ago...
Or one entire actual brain - if it can be done once by natural selection, it can be done more efficiently again by a designer.

Time exists because the universe doesn't do calculations - the only way to see the outcome is to do the thing. See: The Three Body Problem
Extra phone lines cost almost nothing and free smartphones are a thing again. They practically throw low end iPhones and pixels at you to try for a new contract. I can understand spending $10/mo for peace of mind from the bus stop to school. I have a home phone again (cell phone) because it cost nothing extra. YMMV by country and region.
Yes, but I believe kids doing drugs is a more apt comparison.
> Screens need to be regulated like cigarettes, sooner rather than later.

I also would prefer to see the average kid spend a lot less time on screens. Interestingly I have a totally different take on the "how" though.

I don't thing regulation will do a damn thing in the long run, nor do I think we should accept the few people in charge making such a fundamental decision for us.

We didn't need cigarette regulation, we needed informed consent. People choosing to smoke needed to know what the known risks were. Regulation of cigarettes themselves were a cop out when those in charge failed to hold cigarette companies liable for lying to the public. Had it not taken decades for the truth about what was known, and covered up, by cigarette companies we would have been in a much better spot in my opinion.

What's that mean for screens? For starters, I'd say anyone in a leadership position at major tech companies that leverage their wealth and power to shield their own children from the very tech they sell to everyone else's kids should be held criminally liable. If, for example, major tech leaders happen to send their kids to private schools designed specifically to minimize screens and technology in the classroom, they damn well know its a problem and are keeping that from the public.
My oldest is at a pubic STEM school that requires an aptitude test for admission, so maybe a self-selecting bunch, but teachers give kids in-class and at-home assignments that require phones or laptops. Assignments are mostly turned in via Google Classroom. A lot will assign youtube videos to watch. One has his own channel with a substantial number of subscribers. They let kids use a graphing calculator app instead of spending $100 on a ti-82. Kids being distracted on their phones probably would have been doodling or passing notes 30 years ago. I think just leaning in at this point is the only plausible option.