skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The frameworks aren't the problem, it's their authors. There's a virus in the JavaScript world that makes people think ever-more complex solutions make tools better. After years asking "why is it like this" (I'm a JS dev/framework author), I realized this is likely due to an inferiority complex because hearing "real programmers don't use JavaScript" makes people feel bad so they try to compensate with complexity and end up creating messes. That and complexity pays well.
You could probably replace the word memory in that paper with maguffin and not change the meaning. It's totally unconnected to the common definition or the use in neurology. I guess what I'm getting at is that this kind of reporting obscures what's going on intentionally for the political aims of the guardian. Which I think is lousy.
Not at all. Once you start permitting large amounts of fiction in Wikipedia then what’s to stop any sort of fiction being included? Why not just have articles full of lies? Fundamentally fiction is lies. Just because a large group of people enjoy indulging the lies doesn’t mean it should be included in an encyclopaedia. I say this as a lover of fiction and video games.

Notability criterion is important.
Vacuum Fluorescent Displays (2023) [video]
You could cut costs and let the money roll in. But unfortunately even if that's the smart move for the company, it's unlikely to be the smart move for the individual decisionmakers.
Whether I use it or not, it's the first 50 search results: until that changes, fandom is going to keep getting used. It's basically the w3schools for game info: a takeover by people who actually care and then uplifting it to something that's actually good (like what happened with w3schools) is a far better road to victory than getting people to stop using fandom - there are too many people, and too few search engines.
> it should be a relatively cheap solution, no?

I really doubt it would be cheap. As soon as you bring motors and the electronics to control them into the mix, you're going to have an increased rate of of failure. Even if the initial install is inexpensive (which I doubt), the maintenance costs would increase a lot.
ASCII art porn vs CSAM pictures and videos: what do you think has a higher chance to involve e.g. child abuse?

Preventing the spreading of CSAM is one of the key ideas behind the regulation.

I wonder what happens with pictures sent as base64 text blobs though.
This is an ongoing debate between inclusionists and deletionists and it is far from settled even though the deletionists would have you believe the war is over.

See also
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Inclusionism
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deletionism
Using QSPI RAM with RP2040's SSI in read-write mode
http://dmitry.gr/?r=06.%20Thoughts&proj=10.%20RomRam
It is probably worth noting that libraries are traditionally State-supported, because the development of internal knowledge is considered crucial for the development of everything else.

The business model is that society wants them and finances them for the improvement of society.
Sure. This is a good practice for multiple reasons. However, the code that glues my interface to the underlying I/O is still there and needs testing, right?

I agree with you in general. But it always feels like there are spots where a mock of some kind is the only way to cover certain things.
Err, while it takes a little more technical know-how and some electronics experience, this already exists and is still extremely easy to do..

https://betaflight.com/

or

https://github.com/iNavFlight/inav

or

https://ardupilot.org/

among others
> but critically not yet Google).

My takeaway from the recent Google search engine ranking documentation leak was that they very heavily uprank big brand names. A page on reddit with various short comments (many of them useful I'm sure) is going to always outrank a random individual's blog with a well-researched article about the same topic. Same for Quora, Facebook, and the other websites with big moderation teams and where we all know what to expect.

There is something to be said for it as well: the quality of a reddit discussion or quora answers will probably be more consistent than if you serve up random other pages (those may be content farms, ad farms, unresearched opinions...). Other pages on the web may be better, or may be worse. I'm guessing that Google figures/found they look better if they don't serve up (m)any bad results but rather pretend that big brands are the internet now, sticking to an average (mediocre-ish) quality

Perhaps that's why Google likes big brand Wikia better than this new domain
People keep saying that, but not even one case is documented.

These chains are created by startups with VC money, they are not going to hire hitmans.
Question: Should I combine threads and label them by origin instead of separating them like I have currently?
(ETA: See response, my hypothesis was incorrect.)

Judging by this map:

https://www.fiberatlantic.com/

Three cables are connected to the city of Vūng Tàu, and the other two are further north. So there's probably a central point of failure in Vūng Tàu that gave out.
> There isn’t much incentive for them to compete

Sure but privacy is still a selling point (e.g. Apple has different incentives than ad companies like Google and (regardless of how abusive their policies regarding app publishing are) was pushing the industry towards a positive direct on their own).

> achieve such a goal the EU cannot be going forward with these changes that put more power into the hands of megacorps who will have no problem complying, as they do in China.

I don't see how this policy specifically is putting more power into the hands of megacorps, it's hardly something they ever really wanted (even if it's certainly not a hill they are willing to die on). Don't get me wrong, their power needs to be curtailed but I just don't see how can we get just the DMA but no Chat Control (it's not like the EU bureaucrats are driven by anything besides self interest, they might get some things right now and then but IMHO consumers generally have more real direct influence on what the megacorps are doing than them).
Limited page count?
It's a revealed preference and there's a ton of economic studies about that vs stated preferences. You can say you don't care about tabs vs spaces all you want, but if you spend hours online talking about it, people are going to think you care, no matter what you say. Bringing economics into this, how do you metricize caring? Can you simplify it to be the time and money you put into a thing?

"All models are wrong, but some are useful."
-G. Box
Can I ask what your stack is? I used to volunteer at another nonprofit wiki (not a host, just a single wiki). I had a lot of trouble trying to manage the MediaWiki LAMP stack, especially when you have to add things like Varnish with proper integration or Parsoid (I think back in the day it was a separate, standalone server that needed root). MediaWiki Updates weren't easy either. Is it still that difficult these days, or is there some readily-available containerized version now?

Cloudways for a while had a managed MediaWiki VM offering, but they discontinued that I think. Are there standard best practices for hosting MediaWiki these days, or is that part of your secret sauce...?
I'm talking about being extremely drunk. I have a friend that "woke up" walking in a park after a night of drinking. If he was already walking exactly who woke up? My friend the human-animal was walking already. My friend the human-consciousness woke up. It was his consciousness coming back online as the ethanol was metabolized in the parts of his brain that afforded his consciousness.
In disambiguation issues alone, it would be a nightmare if wikipedia hosted niche-topic content within the same namespacing as everything else. What would be good is not wikipedia being more lax, it's WMF providing the same service that Miraheze does; and here, I think, is where the conflict of interest really gets in the way
You don't need to copy/paste the exact same comment three times in one topic. We read it the first time.
> I think that Zuckerberg is one of the few big tech CEOs that still has principles

"Still"? I'm not aware of a time when he's publicly shown any sort of principles.
Consciousness and intelligence are orthogonal concepts.

It's not the case that the more "intelligent" human is, the more "conscious" they are.

Intelligence is the ability to abstractly reason and adapt to novel stimulus.

Consciousness is the individual experience of the "interiority" of a world model constructed in the brain.

Given we're all in the same evolutionary line, there nothing to make me believe that a Dog doesn't have the same sharpness of interior experience vs. a human. Dogs have wildly different sensory modalities, species specific social behavior, and aren't as intelligent, but that wouldn't "dull" their conscious experience.
I had the same reaction, but it looks like they might not be independent [1]. There's also this remark in the article:

> Undersea internet cable problems are not rare in Vietnam, which early last year saw all of its five cables disrupted for weeks.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40711934
The corporations want to grow and eat each other's lunch. They'll cooperate for short periods of time when there's only a handful of them and it's feasible to pull it off. But long-term, in any pair of megacorps, one will always grow at the expense of the other.
See: forest hills stadium aggressively enforcing curfew this year
Suppose a dog is unconscious. For what purpose does it sleep and what is the difference between its sleeping and waking state? And between those and human sleeping and waking states?
The last paragraph hits close because I've experienced a similar issue recently. It turns out some component library was responsible for excessive rerenders even when idle (eating up the daily quota of read operations on some database for a small project).

As a stopgap, I just made a completely unstyled alternative to that internal admin dashboard that uses Handlebars HTML templating (no Javascript) on the server. Inclined me towards dependency rejection (which is an approach I was already taking for some side projects).
Neither does any country if you look closely enough, all for apparently good reasons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_Uni...
It is still possible that it is just mimicry. But same for Homo sapiens.
That 2008 study has never been reproduced and the piece in Quanta points towards it being impossible. Our current understanding of memory is that it has a physical basis, so that 2008 study is likely wrong.
Agree. Humans, unlike other animals, film themselves mating.
Ironically mass surveillance is the only thing I might eventually kill myself over
The largest organisations are the trillion dollar ones we interact with every day, not the eu or even the German or us governments .
There's plenty of fiction on Wikipedia already; fictionality is orthogonal to notability; and it's possible to describe what occurs within a work of fiction without asserting that it occurs in the real world.
This is what I don't really understand when people are airing their grievances. What exactly is the problem? You can absolutely write webpages and software the same way you could 5, 10, 20, etc. years ago. There's absolutely nothing stopping you from making a VanillaJS website or JQuery or whatever. Nothing went away. There's just more choices.
Charlotte is specifically called out as one of the worst offenders in this article mate.
For those for whom Archive.Today fails (hint: use a non-Cloudflare DNS resolver): <https://pastebin.com/NW2pSTzK>
Projecting human traits, feelings and behaviors onto other people has no scientific basis, because there is no way of testing what's going on in their minds (assuming they even have minds).

The dismissal of the idea that animals could be conscious is a form of solipsism.
I think the philosophy of the site is to keep it barebones and traditional, to appease the purists. But there's an API and many community-made frontends, either in mobile app form or as alternative web services. On Android I use Harmonic, for example, which has a dark mode and much better usability across the board. The one thing it lacks is good replies management, though.
Hate speech accusations are a bit like being accused of rape. Once it happens you automatically get tainted and it is very hard to defend yourself in the public sphere, even if the accusations are totally unfounded. This is of course abused by evil people.
Moreover, what counts as hate speech can very suddenly alter depending on whoever is in charge, and even if the public don't go along with it, it can still be used to silence people.
Federation doesn't help at all if your host is untrustworthy. This is a question of having strong data privacy rules baked into law and also a good compliance regime. In fact, federation can make things a lot worse since federation makes it a lot harder to reason about who is transmitting and storing your data.
It's not always clear but notability is not temporary[0] under English Wikipedia's guidelines. Standards of what makes something notable have shifted over the years and sometimes the different is hard to tease out.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability#Notabilit...
My backend for a simple web application I'm working on is entirely in Rust. Highlights:

- axum: web application framework - https://github.com/tokio-rs/axum

- axum-htmx: axum extractors, responders, guards for htmx - https://github.com/robertwayne/axum-htmx

- rusqlite: SQLite bindings - https://github.com/rusqlite/rusqlite

- maud: HTML templating as a macro - https://maud.lambda.xyz

The way maud lets you compose markup works very nicely with htmx. The HX-Request header lets you know if the request is coming from htmx or if it is a regular request. You either call the top-level function if it's a regular request to get the entire page rendered, or call a subset of functions to get the appropriate partial rendered if it's an htmx request.

It's also nice to easily have tests for the rendered pages. My unit tests cover verification of the rendered HTML, too.
Some day I hope they will research how it feels to chew 5 gum.
Is it fair to assume the guy who hates ads also doesn't want to pay for access?

Because this road leads back to the AOL days of paid forum access.
Despite what many programmers think, code is not law.

Just like a bug in a smart lock does not allow you to enter a house because "you were allowed in".
Caleesi voice: React wasn’t invented to stop the wheel of MVC, it was invented to break the wheel

And I think life is better without the V-C distinction. Models ofc still exist but the field has gotten more fine grained for the term to still cary meaning
We need a counter showing X days since last battery breakthrough announcement. A single digit counter is enough.
> I built ThreadQuilt because I was tired of wading through endless noise to find meaningful discussions. With ThreadQuilt, you get a cleaner, more focused experience that highlights the best parts of the web's conversations.

I applaud your effort.

I’ll ask the obvious question around the strongly opinionated approach of not leveraging “AI”. Would you like to expand on what that means to you? I would imagine that some form of intelligence could also help with noise reduction but maybe you considered it and decided otherwise.
Why is 2FA not required at Apple store?
About a month ago I set up 2 USB-C security keys as my primary second factor for Apple authentication. On a new device, I would need one of the security keys in order to sign into my account, something which I tested and confirmed at home.

Some time passed, phone broke, and I went to Apple store to get a new one. They needed to adjust some stuff on "Find My" so they had me log into my account on one of their laptops in store. All I needed was my password... no security key.

How could this be? I just confirmed again that it is needed by going through the same journey at home on a personal device - security key needed to log into iCloud.

I must be missing something.
How is VPN supposed to work? How are internet banks supposed to operate? All security will go out the window? Backdoors everywhere?

Will TLS have to be redone with a third snooping party in the mix? Is that what we're going for here?
Not that I'm a fan of ads, but I find it interesting that this post specifically complains that the ads aren't targeted enough ("my ad was for furniture - ah yes, just what i wanted" / "i do not have a dog" / "i don't need sunscreen") when I would expect the post's author also probably objects to being profiled by ad networks.

It would be less curious if the post was saying something around like "I object to fandom monetizing at all", but also that also probably feels like a less sensible thing to say.
> It's not the case that the more "intelligent" human is, the more "conscious" they are.

Why not?

> Consciousness is the individual experience of the "interiority" of a world model constructed in the brain.

The more complex and detailed the model, the more conscious. Why not?
I would argue that quite some "fandom" content gathers more views than many "notable" pages on Wikipedia.

That said, I think there is a distinction between fact and made up.
It's easy to blame Apple for this stuff, but fundamentally Steve Jobs' complaints were fair and I think it was a matter of "when", not "if" Flash was going to die.

I just do not believe it. It was the best available rich presentation/interaction game in town. Trivial to get started and no need for a platform to sign off on your work.

No doubt there was a never ending litany of security problems, but if Flash had been available at the birth of smartphones, I suspect it would have flourished. Or even led to a competitor targeting the same space with better characteristics.
Moderna stock is lone omen of bird flu pandemic
The proposal leaked a few weeks ago[1] is extremely vague on this matter and does not clarify how providers should detect CSAM "prior to transmission". Is anyone aware of any sort of scanning technology that can be implemented purely on the client side? Note that the leaked text says that it should be able to detect known and new abuse material.

[1] https://cdn.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/2024/05/2024-05-28_Cou...
These things happen. A couple of months ago there were major problems. East Africa to Europe comms because of multiple failures. Not everything is a conspiracy or enemy actio. Sometimes it’s just bad luck.
No. Before the internet the encyclopedia didn't have over 10,000 articles about The Simpsons and it's reasonable that that would be outside the scope of Wikipedia as well. Just because someone profits from a situation doesn't make it improper.
But now you have peanut butter hair!
The nerve of me, to expand on my views as a discussion develops. Of course you have lots of great points to make, but you can't share them with the likes of me.
The US government is one of WinRar's biggest customers.
> Start-stop systems help, but a lot of people disable them.

I haven’t seen a modern car that let’s you actually disable this versus turn it off for the current ride only, fwiw.
Right, the duping comes from getting them to install adtech instead of just regular old cameras.
Long ago I bought a DJI mavic. I generally don't use apps for any stuff.

I couldn't fly it with the joystick controller that came with it. It said "see app" or something on the controller. It was really annoying but I sent it back.
A cursory web search said it was sending all kinds of location/flight information/etc back to dji continuously.

I thought there would be outrage, but not much.

I think it is sort of annoying that they are going after DJI specifically.

I think congress should be going after device/app privacy itself for all devices/apps in a more fundamental way.
I don't play OSRS, but my partner does, and on more than one occasion they've shown me a page from the wiki and I've felt the exact emotion you're describing. Even a lot of enterprise software tools struggle to produce docs as good as the OSRS wiki's.
Why would that be weird? Personally I would find it convenient.

There would be some issues, e.g. I wouldn't want to see Minecraft recipes when I'm searching for "obsidian". But these seem solvable; niche articles could be flagged and downranked, or they could live in a satellite wiki project, or something else.

I remember seeing niche articles like this and enjoying it.
Nothing that can't be solved by banning the competition!
Microsoft: Replay

Apple: Their CSAM detection system that was lambasted not too long ago[0]

[0] https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/Expanded_Protections_...
You realise Wikipedia is not for Monster Hunter character builds right? A video game Wiki is different than Wikipedia.
I use bigInt and bigDec when I wrote a pokemonGo bot way back when the cracked api released in like… 2016?

I didn’t bump into the particular issue, but not being much of a Java person, they were very helpful. My bot was pretty consistent at getting lvl30 in a night and usually something fun like a snorlax or charizard.

When they broke the api I stopped playing, writing the code for a bit was more fun (for me) than playing as intended.

As an aside, are there games like that, which require writing code? I imagine the market isn’t big for those, but I sure had a blast for a month or two.
Unless you're not building graphics from scratch and competing with Nvidia, you're building just another wrapper that will soon be obsoleted by another company with billions of dollars.

In a gold rush, instead of selling large language models (LLMs), which are easily surpassed, sell the shovels, which are the graphic cards. Those are what give you the ultimate competitive advantage.

In the age of cars, rather than horses, you want to own the oil wells, not be the guy building the coffee cup holder.

The lower you sit in the technological stack, the more money, power, and leverage you will have in the age of AI.
Yep, but it’s not in old analog hifis. A good reason is that tapes and CDs can’t instantly seek. By the time we got mp3 players, it was all about miniaturization, and eventually flat devices and screens. Slide pots for seeking never happened
North Korea might. Silk Road went under due to attempting to hire one.

The more likely concern is that someone will sell you out to any of the numerous governments who feel you wronged them. Leading to decades of life in prison.
This is a list of notable chess moves though, not an exhaustive list of all possible chess moves
It’s funny you say that, considering VC funding tends to elicit a “very specific” kind of business model—a kind of “consumer goodwill pump-and-dump.”
We don't actually know if it is SOTA, the previous SOTA solution also got around the same on the evaluation set.
> Unfortunately outside the US and a handful of other places free speech doesn't seem to be valued that much, often it's even viewed as a threat

Can you convince me of this? Because it's not my impression.
> Now, while admitting that I am no way claiming the US is perfect, does anyone actually think something even remotely similar would ever happen between a Chinese company and the Chinese government?

Yes. We've seen the back and forth with e.g. Jack Ma. It doesn't happen as publicly because it's not such good marketing in China, but of course it happens.