skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The biggest eye roll for me is the underlying assumption that these behaviors are new with the internet, new with even ticktock. We have a blindness towards how we used to receive our propaganda. No one probably noticed it was the prince paying off the town cryer to speak their praise. Or that it was the chief telling the shaman what to utter in prophecy to control their position. It has always been useful to control the mindshare of a people and emotional half or less than truths can always be dressed up in ways that innately satisfy us like music notes completing a chord progression. Rationality, fact, and logic often has no such advocate crafting the message towards maximal monkey brain compatibility. It just exists.
Is this a spinoff of DynamicLand?
The more time I spend studying the underlying structure of these things, the more I think that what they’re going to do isn’t so much rot brains as drive those brains towards accepting / preferring / privileging the statistical mean of boring. They can only ever regurgitate what past humans in past work were most likely to say, modulo a small stochastic simulation of surprise… over time they’ll add more of their own output to their training material, driving the output of humanity inexorably further and further towards uninteresting.
The oil firms aren't half as at fault as the politicians they bought.
Why is it 4chan and not WhatsApp groups?

The internet was wild before social media but somehow the weird stuff remained fringe before recommendation algorithms and the perverse incentives that emerged from recommendation algorithms and content creation meant that feeds became an on ramp to all kinds of nasty things

I'm not exactly a greybeard but I remember when happy slapping was a viral phenomenon but that seems pretty tame by comparison these days
I don't think that's the solution.
Sex desire is effectively a human need as much as hunger. You can wank it off once or twice, but for some people they might have this need 3+ times per day, every day. That's not sustainable for them too.

I don't know what the solution is, but saying "wank it off" seems an unsatisfying response
Probably https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42266903 provides some useful clues about where the inflection point will be. 2 terawatts is about 1/64000 of the 128000 terawatts of ground-level insolation. Probably people will not cover literally every square meter of the planet with solar panels, but why would they stop much short of that goal?

In Shandong they're already building a 1-gigawatt solar farm offshore, 20 years earlier than I expected people to start doing that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_MlFOizMBo

The expected capacity factor for the Shandong project is 20.3%.
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And we can takeaway our data. Everyone at Bluesky seems quite aligned on building systems with user sovereignty:

> one of bluesky’s mottos is “the company is a future adversary,” so we have to design this service in a way that preserves user choice & freedom

> users should own their data, identity, and relationships on the social internet, and devs should never get locked out of the ecosystems that they build

https://bsky.app/profile/emilyliu.me/post/3jzkm4kezos2d

For all the shrill man-child cries of 'censorship!', there's protocols underlying already for you to host yourself! People do! Heavens spare us from these X-grade losers.
Fending off the wind on the steppe (2017)
funnelling all the kids to 4chan is maybe not the best idea …
> But most people just prefer spending their time on infortainment and being presumptious on Twitter, than actually learning stuff.

Or writing useful software? Open source is a thing, as are independent commercial software projects.

The tragedy of Leetcode is means the best financial ROI for programmers in aggregate is essentially play programmer Soduko instead of spending their time creating novel and useful software.
I can’t tell what their business model is - it seems creepily like the original twitter in that it’s not about making money but about making connections etc etc. Which is great until you need money.
The forgotten technology that made YouTube possible
Something I've wondered for a while: if the whole continent is on a synchronized grid, how can countries tell to or from whom they're exporting and importing electricity. I can see how they can measure their total imports or exports by comparing generation to consumption, but how do they figure out which neighbour they're getting electricity from / sending it to?
You’re saying something different from what I said. While they sound similar, “a passion for your work” is not the same as “your passion is your work”. It’s similar to the difference between “I like that hobby and put effort into it” and “this hobby is the love of my life”.
UEFI itself is way too complex, has way too much surface (I'm surprised this didn't abuse some poorly written SMI handler), and provides too little value to exist. Secure boot then goes on to treat that place as a root of trust, which is security architecture mistake, but works ok in this case. This all could be a lot better.
No, the Google Photos integration is uni-directional. We only get access to images users pick in the import phase. Removing images from MyPhotos is done from the platform itself.
Regarding retention - we'll delete all your data if you wish to cancel your account.
I also pretty much don't touch my phone in front of my kid. It just sets a bad example unless it's urgent or you need to do some quick admin.

I've seen parents sit and watch their kids while browsing Instagram or TikTok the whole time.
Appreciate the clarification!
So is the right not to hear someone. Say anything you want in your own house, but if you spout vileness in my living room, I’m tossing you out the front door.
I used to like Musk pre-Twitter, but he's turned into such an immature person -- or maybe he always was and now can just flaunt it without consequences.

Being immature is fine if you're alone in your basement hacking away, not when you have the power to single-handedly control the (formerly) most useful digital public square in the world, and use it to your own political ends.
That was 20 years ago, things changed.
Most modern game engines are less than 10 yrs old.
Your assumptions are wrong and out of date.
I'm not misunderstanding. Again:

>Sure, but it does parse them and it does rightly understand that one is an newer version.
>
>That’s… compatibility.

Again, it isn't compatibility if the new scheme breaks every assumption that the old one had. You can't just say "The package manager wants 3 numbers so I'll stick 3 numbers in there. So it's compatible, see!" as the numbers you're putting in have no meaningful connection to the affordances of the other scheme.

I've spelled out some more concrete objections (including the fact that the date is arbitrary and that the hashes are not ordered according to authorship) here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42267051
Thanks for sharing this! But I have some doubts about hidden installation procedures. It imports all functions from one_click (from one_click import *), which points to a compiled file. It then runs functions like install_webui and install_extra_packages. At least suspicious.
I really fail to understand why "writing HTML mixed with JS" is okay for React, and mixing regex with what-not is okay for...like...everyone, but it would not be okay for so many ORM people to actually have properly bound SQL in-place. Really boggles me down.

Besides - I've seen one of the best possible schema-on-the-fly-on-top-of-RDBMS systems that can ever exist, is in production, and even there it is much better every so often to fallback to either the Virtual SQL layer or to hardcore SQL when performance is needed. In all other occasions - well okay, but unless you actually have a proper MOP (meta-object-protocol or entity/relationship schema, name it what you like) in-place/available, the DB schema becomes the MOP and you are back to square one...
Using GSC's 20% estimated capacity factor, you'd need 100TW of PV installed capacity to satisfy even current world marketed energy consumption of around 20TW, which would be 90 years at 1.1TW per year. But atmospheric carbon capture, not to mention other advancements, will probably require a significant amount of energy on top of that.

Exponential growth, by contrast, would raise these 2TW to the required 100TW in 20 years if we assume a 22% annual growth rate, 10 years if we assume 48%.
>If we assume 670 GW of solar generation capacity was installed in June

Was installed /as of/ June. (sorry I was double checking your workings and got confused)

Assuming the figures aren't typos.

1) What is counted as generation capacity? a 'finished' solar farm that is waiting for paper work / connection to the grid could be included in the figures.

2) What about solar that doesn't see the grid? the panels on my roof might be included as installed capacity, but not show in generation figures.

edit:
3) another commenter mentioned solar with pumped hydro. Is that classed as pumped hydro in the generation figures?
So does what I said. Someone taking pay for someone else’s work is pretty unambiguously shitty. But when you call taking anything that isn’t a physical item theft, a large percentage of people— especially in the ‘data wants to be free’ crowd— will roll their eyes, think “that’s ridiculous... they aren’t stealing anything. That voice actor still has their voice” and just stop listening. The only people that feel the impact of statements like that are people that already agree. It turns it from an intellectual discussion to a reinforcement of existing tribes. Divisive language works for rallying those who already agree around a specific cause but it’s not even useless— it’s counterproductive— for changing people’s minds. When’s the last time someone you disagreed with changed your mind by being more aggressive towards your stance, and more terse in their portrayal of the dichotomy? If you can even think of one time that it has, you’re in the extreme minority.
> I'm more than open to reading anything about that! Literally anything!

Great! Start paying attention to real estate and rental prices in areas near "mixed use" development projects and urban multi-story housing construction, literally the projects that are billed by politicians as addressing housing shortages and you'll find my point bore out pretty plainly.

> I don't think "more things available makes price goes down" is a platitude or textbook or academic thing!

It isn't in the context of bulk commodities and raw inputs where producers compete solely on volume. Housing is not a volume market and no incentives exist for developers or property owners to make it one. See also: RealPage sued for enabling market collusion in residential rental rates: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/23/feds-sue-software-c...
So what if this application has library dependencies developed by the same people? Don't you think that they would be tempted to use the same scheme to version those too, thus breaking any package manager?
> Easy to say now that you’ve found a reason to justify not doing that.

WTF? I pay for my primary monitoring solution, among many other vendors I pay. You have no idea what you're talking about and are repeatedly coming across like a complete asshole for no discernible reason or provocation, so I'm not going to continue replying to you.
By measuring current flows across the wires.
Facebook's internal documents showed that on 11 of 12 body image issues, Facebook was helpful to more teens than it was harmful to [1]:

> For example, lots of people rely on the reporting around the Frances Haugen leaks from inside Facebook to argue that “Facebook knew” that Instagram causes “body image issues” for children (and then most people leapt to the belief that the company then ignored and downplayed that finding). But, as we noted, the actual study told a very, very different story. As we pointed out at the time, the study was an attempt to do the right thing and understand if social media like Facebook was actually causing negative self-images among teenagers, and the study found that for the most part, the answer was absolutely not.

> It looked at 12 different potential issues, and surveyed teenaged boys and girls, and found that in 23 out of 24 categories, social media had little to no negative impact, and quite frequently a mostly positive impact. The only issue where the “negative impact” outweighed the “positive impact” was on “body image issues” for teenaged girls, and even then it was less than one-third of the teen girls who said that it made it worse for them. And the whole point of the study was to find out what areas were problematic, and which areas could be improved upon. But, again, in every other area, “made it better” far outranked “made it worse.”

[1] https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/28/contrary-to-popular-opin...
The session is active for couple of hours IIRC. Once the user is done with the selection we upload the images to our servers (Supabase storage) and delete the GPhotos session.
Isn't that every service in the US? It takes pride on pushing the under people to the brink of death.
I also rode an aluminium frame my granddad owned that was from the 1950's, with weird 700A wheels by today's standards.
kysely is an excellent successor to Knex, strongly recommended. Pair it with something like https://github.com/kristiandupont/kanel to generate types from your schema.
The U.S. is (justifiably) proud of sending astronauts to the moon, despite it being far from ubiquitous.
Think in systems. Yes, it is going to take some time to continue to deploy clean energy globally to meet total human energy consumption. But, as we hit economic inflection points, that will rapidly force coal and fossil gas out of the mix (unless someone with deep pockets is willing to light fiat on fire to keep uneconomic generation online). Once that fossil generation is demolished, it will be unlikely it comes back, locking in a clean path forward.

Pakistan comes to mind, where so much solar is coming online from individuals and businesses, utility demand is rapidly being destroyed (potentially stranding those utility fossil generation assets and their capital investment).

The sun is almost free, and batteries are getting cheap fast. Enough sunlight falls on the Earth in a few hours to power humanity for a year.

https://www.dw.com/en/pakistan-solar-power-renewable-energy-...

https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Solar-Energy/The-Uni...
After many interviews last few months, I would prefer all interviews be leetcode.

Tired of getting rejected, because you don't have experience with their particular tech stack.
FYI, the German military tended to promote “individual initiative” of the soliders more than the allied militaries did.
While I prefer Mastodon to Bluesky, it’s for the same reason. Anyone can spin up a Mastodon server. Anyone else is free to say, nah, I don’t want to talk to them. That doesn’t prevent that server from existing and peering with like-minded instances.
France has 12% of Europe's population, and its primary energy is 45% from fossil fuels and 40% from nuclear power. The effect on Europe as a whole is therefore pretty small.
- Read books.

- Read articles saved to a "read it later" service, like Instapaper or Readwise.

- Write thoughts and other stuff down.

- Play chess or other mindful games.

- If you have an iPhone, download the free GarageBand and mess around with making music.

- Don't use your phone.
I logged back in today for the first time in years, and the only real difference for me was in-line ads everywhere (I see you, VW, and I won't forget), and it was quieter.

I suspect there's a difference between an already-curated account and a new account.
Part of it is a sort of pascals wager being done, where it becomes rational and logical to play this game as it is for yourself however unsavory, because the incentives for playing it as such are high enough where people will always do it. Altruism towards the collective species fundamentally takes a backseat for individual and kin survival. There are plenty of species where the
mother will even eat any offspring who don’t flee them after birth soon enough because the incentives for the mother even out way that small affordance of altruism to kin. Biology is about entropy not emotions at the end of the day.
Why are these companies forced to carry your speeches?

I feel like the XKCD perfectly reflects the free speech arguments I see online.
Just use it everyday and you'll be good.
You don't. You guess based on generation, consumption and where the power lines are hooked up.
To be fair, given how cheap a lot of Hetzners products (especially Server Auction, my beloved) are compared to the competition, not wanting to have loss leaders seems reasonable to me
Game Theory and Agent Reasoning?
That would make too much sense and cost profits, sir.

This is a capitalism.
I'm interested in what people think about this. Maybe offer some constructive criticism instead of restating what I said and adding lol at the end?
Whoever you think gave you the right to feee speech, it cannot extend to forcing others to relay your speech or THEY don't have the right to free speech.
Ah, at first I wondered if this had something to do with Trump getting elected and his claims that he will implement massive (import) tariffs.
Do you mean, for example, that the UK is importing energy from France, but where are they importing it from?
xfs, ext4 and btrfs all have delayed allocation. so they should only synchronously allocate the blocks if there is memory pressure or if they're triggering those well-meant (but in this case counterproductive) auto_da_alloc heuristics.
aside from limitations like, you can only setup 1 app, or things like 2f authentication. Usually things like this are stopped by laws and enforcement causing consequences. I'm pretty sure that sort of thing would be considered identity theft. same thing as stealing their father's drivers license and opening bank accounts in their name.

There are physical barriers and there are barriers that are enforced manually. Same with speeding. you are not allowed to drive faster than 60. even though your car can drive faster, laws in combination with police, traffic cams and speed traps will make sure it's enforced.
I get irrationally angry when a map is skewed in this way and there is no way to change it. The more you zoom in, the worse the distortion is made to be. Even zooming all the way out does not eliminate the angular distortion. This took actual effort on some programmer's part! Who ever thought that this is a good idea?!?

It's like those navigational mini maps (car or computer game) that won't keep north pointing up... only worse.
The NYT has a much more detailed article on this. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/28/world/europe/london-smith... or https://archive.ph/dz5zY

Including that William (Braveheart) Wallace was hung, drawn and quartered there in 1305.
How about my third link?
From my limited research, most new Bluesky users are ecstatic they have regained the ability to gang-report and tattle on people they don't like again.
French court blocks popular porn site… subdomain
I was browsing this page on my smartphone in an airport with the ublock origin extension blocking the ads...not sure what you are talking about with that weak phone excuse.
Ask HN: What Open Source Code Are You Most Thankful For?
> Conversations are much more privileged than potentially seeing me in my underwear.

Depends on how you look in underwear.
I bet that costs more than 20€ to do
For simply sharing specific photos - GPhotos' native share feature is great.

Our product is for people who are looking for a more advanced publishing option. Something like a website or portfolio, but super quick and easy to create.

Does that make sense?
I am too and no one says it more than silicon valley or other urban dwelling politically active leftists. All my life I never heard it much at all until it became some cultural linguistic trend in early 2000's once Obama said it.

edit: Seems like relatively recent trend, probably has peaked [0].

I'm not the only one that noticed [1][2]

[0] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=folks&year_sta...

[1] https://newrepublic.com/article/156807/politicians-always-ta...

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=rise+in+popularity+of+the+wo...
Wind your neck in.

I simply asked "is there anything new in this?" because, i was interested to know if, you know, there was anything new in this.
This seems like a different and fraudulent category of problem.

The point is that it's possible to create third-party authentication systems that require proving your age and the only extra thing the third-party learns is a verifiable age and the government does not get any information at all.

All this being said, I took a look at the article in question and saw this:

> Social media companies also won't be able to force users to provide government identification, including the Digital ID, to assess their age.

So what could have been achieved with no invasion or privacy now seems like it must be achieved with an invasion of privacy.
You'd give the racist and the brain surgeon the same level of respect? Or would there be a hierarchy of respect?
Billingsgate Market, subject of this article, is on Canary Wharf.
Sounds like one of those polar vortex things: https://www.severe-weather.eu/long-range-2/early-data-weak-p...

(Air current around the poles contains the coldest air at the poles, this is destabilised by warmer overall temperatures leading to that cold air escaping and bringing cold snaps to random areas further from the poles.)
Congrats on launching! Sounds useful.

I just don't understand what the actual product is? Is it a web app? Also, how do you solve the empty state to build the community? Seems like a big part of the value proposition.
Also got annoyed by this, but worked out pretty quickly that if you hold down right click and drag then you can change the angle
The cost of feeding your entire years speech to an LLM will be $0.5/person. I'm sure summarized and searchable your conversation will be very very valuable.
> we can delete most of the emissions of the developed world today by switching heating & car and truck transport to electrical

Don't forget the fact that we need batteries to store the power, which is a much more annoying problem.
Related:

Spotify has shut down several API endpoints

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42260481
So you think that legacy media is behind this because if they could just get that pesky social media banned, those kids would shell out their allowance money to The Economist or The Washington Post? Do you know what Overwatch is? Minecraft? League of Legends?

Or maybe, just maybe, social media sites will be all too happy to gobble up the sweet sweet DATA available from an ID requirement. In the US, this would give social media access to your full name, DOB, address, height/weight/any medical restrictions, and organ donor status, which social media giants will package with all the other stuff they know about you and sell insights to any advertiser or government that flashes cash.
Oh that’s interesting, thanks.
Is the plan to make a new app every 5-10 years when the old one crashes and burns for the same reasons? Surely the VC money will run out at some point.
Only works if there's labeled data for your prior keystrokes as training data. Unless, there's some uniform manufacturing defect per key in a widely available keyboard like Macbook Air
4chan is a synecdoche representing all those fringe ~'social media' substitute sites; they'll soon be common knowledge in Aus, at least among the U16s..
"Everyone" isn't denying there are privacy friendly options. The government does not want to implement privacy friendly options.
I’ve never seen a claim like this levelled at London, famously a place increasingly losing social housing stock for luxury housing. The only thing I can think of is this is a new twist of the complaint that a lot of London’s housing is left unoccupied because it’s Russian/Saudi vacation homes or whatever.