skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting to consider how the tension in the design choices for HN's discussion board have affected the perceived & actual tenor of the platform:

1. Votes are not shown, but they affect the rank of posts.
2. Every post regardless of rank is shown beneath its parent, as in a tree.
3. Only highly downvoted posts are grayed out or hidden.
4. The community considers simple agreement to be low value noise.

It doesn't seem like a stretch to guess HN's flavor from a handful of these facts...
I had this problem too so I added auto-finding video clips so I know how it sounds irl.

auto-finding clips: https://imgur.com/a/now-with-added-usage-irl-examples-Molry0...
Cory, I love the direction you took with site design. Handsome and timeless. Good work!
This has been a definite problem with the rhetoric starting at an intensity of 10/10 and having nowhere to go. The other problem is that everything that's happened has had people actively diminishing it, to make the reaction seem more outrageous, so we're all numb to so much of it. I've thought of it as The Boy Who Cried Wolf, but that's incorrect, because there's always been a wolf.
I wrote my own; Lyricist, to integrate rhymes, synonyms and antonyms without having to switch applications or browser tabs. It's a small, not very fancy, web page you can run anywhere, even from your own hard drive. You have to sign up to a third party to use the rhymes, synonyms etc, but it's easy and free.

https://www.else.co.nz/code/creating-lyricist
In my mind POSSE is about loose instead of close integration.

If I understand what's going on with WhiteWind it's taking advantage of another dimension of federation which the "fediverse" doesn't address, which is identity. It seems it's a blog service that is linked to my ATProto account that anyone can use so long as they have one.

I'll make the case that the fediverse style of federation has a low level of trust for this sort of things. If I log on to a service that uses Facebook or Bluesky or whatever for identity, there's always the risk that the people who run the service can let somebody else log in. I've got some trust in mastodon.social but plenty of small server administrators in the fediverse have demonstrated that they can't be trusted.
i feel the need, the need for need
Guile Hoot 0.6.0 Released
I'm not defending GP's colleagues, nor am I suggesting that the undeserved treatment he received was imaginary. However, the idea that this must be caused by racism is a cheap and comfortable narrative GP is telling himself and anyone who believes him. Should his colleagues read his post anonymously, they would probably agree with him.

As for me, my story isn't unlike the rants often shared by open-source project maintainers. One never gives of oneself without keeping a secret ledger in their mind, known only to them: that can only lead to frustration and anger. The "solution" is to never give away your work without retribution—an ideal that, of course, isn't feasible within a company. Meritocracy exists only at the periphery, driven by market forces, however flawed they may be. I don't know how to "fix" this.

To rise within a company (or academia), you also need charisma, connections, likability, and sometimes even resorting to flattery, ass-kissing, or bullying a pharmakos—all of which I took pride in refusing to partake in. These are the traits GP and I lacked. I can tell from the pathetic tone he used throughout his post—a tone that reminds me of myself.
Yup! Lean is based on a variant of the Calculus of Constructions, which is in turn based on strong connections between (intuitionistic) natural deduction and type theory. The connection is incredibly beautiful:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus_of_constructions
Bun 1.2 Released
Most zoos nowadays are important research centers.

Besides that, they have an important educational component that surely contributes politically for conservation efforts.
The OP URL has been flagged as grayware by Palo Alto and is thus inaccessible to a large number of people, possibly indicating typosquatting, or being miscategorized?

https://wiki.wireshark.org/Stratoshark is a good link for those who can't reach the stratoshark URL directly. The OP link may get recategorized and become accessible in the meantime.
As much as I really benefited from being able to internalize system architectures like these many times over… I do wish now, as someone who ended up in software, that there were similar hand-holdy third guides to implementing the “core” of out-of-order superscalar execution engines, too. They’re crucial to understanding how modern processors _kinda actually work to a zeroth order approximation_, even though it’s impossible to convey the engineering scope of modern CPUs to those who need hand-holding, but I
You keep posting articles from WSJ as if we should take Bezo's literal mouthpiece as a reliable source.

edit: Bezos doesn't own the WSJ. I'm wrong.
I guess I should have made that say "important to English."

Languages definitely impose "models" for various things and those are certainly different amongst each language.
The truth is no one knows why they didn't bring those charges, or the real details behind the evidence or what happened in those interactions. It's pretty much shrouded beneath things like:
-DOJ released some details and screenshots, but
-the FBI agents who were involved in investigating this topic were like arrested for stealing bitcoin from silk road or something, so their work is hard to find credible
-general lack of clarity as to the identity of the person running silk road at the time this happened
Suspect you may be thinking of this…

> Disulfiram (Antabuse) changes the way your body breaks down alcohol. If you drink while taking it, you get sick.

https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/addiction/features/fight...
I sometimes feel this way even about Google maps. On some level when I make a small contribution I'm aware that everyone doing so profits Google quite nicely.

But then again, I think that I've profited quite a bit from having Google maps as a resource, far more than the contribution I've made.

It feels much better to look at the fact that it's a place that people help share information useful to each other, which happens to profit a large company, than to only focus jealously on the fact that said large company has hit upon a way to monetize the sharing of this information.

Both things are true, and whether you think it's great or horrid really is a matter of perspective.
I think they are most of the time. Most apps don't deserve to be installed on my computer for them to work. And there's no browser network bar nor browser plugins like uBlock Origin to control what they can do.

So native apps need to offer something more than "not a web app" to pay their rent on my system where they have often things like full filesystem access.
Indeed they are...
As is the case with any anonymous currency (like USD bills) any transaction that 2 parties find agreeable would be performed. This might be swapping cash for tomatoes from the farm, paying your doctor, a blowjob from a prostitute, a gun from a criminal or drugs from Medelin cartel.
When there is a system of transact after approval of the counterparty (like in the banks) you'd find less criminals using it, because of the risk of losing the money and tipping the law enforcement.

However, when the rules/law enforcement are bad permissionless transactions are a godsend as cryto usage in Venizuela shows:
https://www.americaeconomia.com/en/node/288189

Also, when the governments print money and debase the purchasing power crypto is indeed a better store of value than something like argentinian peso.

Freedom is messy, because the bad guys are also free to do bad stuff. But when the game is crooked, permissionless transactions are very important.
there is (now) a sample recording, for anyone interested.
There's no reason to bring race into this. Trump has pardoned PoC convicted of drug offenses, e.g. Weldon Angelos.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weldon_Angelos_case
I'm not trying to be cruel, but rather point out perhaps these community meals weren't that valuable if locals just turned their noses up at the free food. When folks are really hungry, it wouldn't matter if lentils isn't their normal cuisine, they'd eat it anyway and be grateful. It would be a different story if the meals violated some religious taboo, but the way you wrote it really makes the survivors sound ungrateful.
Great name, with two accurate meanings. TabBoo -> taboo, tab boo
Regardless of how you might feel, it's the furthest thing from a straw-man. We are still a nation of laws. The Constitution defines our fundamental processes and the separation of powers. Labeling the Citizens United v. FEC decision as a mistake might feel good but that accomplishes nothing. Instead of complaining online, the only possible solution is for voters to elect legislators who actually do their jobs and write clear laws instead of leaving it up to judges and bureaucrats to interpret vague statements. I do appreciate that Citizens United makes this more difficult but the Supreme Court is unlikely to reverse it so complaining about it is about as effective as complaining about gravity.
Back in the stone age, you just needed someone that would let you connect to their server. The whole point is that it's distributed, not a central, closed system. That server might have limits on the groups they wanted to host through them (e.g. the binaries groups), but you could do a lot with that. UUCP was the protocol used for batching and unbatching file transfers, which served both Usenet messages and email. (I had both on my Amiga, through dialup, for some years.)
C++26: Pack Indexing
"someone besides Harris" means Trump too, not just 3rd party candidates.
Learnings when building and scaling a service-based tech company
>The difference in out-of-pocket costs is easily accounted for within significantly higher salaries.

Any sources for this?
I cannot help but think of Clint Eastwood in Unforgiven... "Deserve ain't got nothin' to do with it".
Because I don't think he has a honestly held belief about anything. I think he's happy to do whatever is most expedient for his interests.

He wants to be known as a guy who trades favors, so here, he ignored all the previous fear mongering about [scary thing], and is repaying the favor to the "libertarian party" who wanted this, and voted for him.

Almost everything he says is just for show, fits his pattern of behavior better than, "he believes [thing he said]" does.

I just read another article about how the person who says we need to follow "law and order" and "respect police" just pardoned everybody convicted of violence against police... again, trading favors instead of consistently following something he said.
>pretty far behind Cali/NY/Wash/Ill on things like food safety and health guidelines.

I know that state and local governments are responsible for inspecting restaurants. Also I know that NYC banned transfats in restaurant food. Is that what you mean by "food safety and health guidelines"?
Acckk...Booch is back... noooo...
I don't wanna buy more books or learn more 'revolutionary' new paradigms... did that all thru the 80s-90s :-P
The way LLMs get it right by counting the letters then change their answer at the last second makes me feel like there might be a large amount of text somewhere (eg. a reddit thread) in the dataset that repeats over and over that there is the wrong number of Rs. We've seen may weird glitches like this before (eg. a specific reddit username that would crash chatgpt)
Universe Studio: A Simulation Software for Astronomy and Astrophysics
Hello everyone
This is the link to my blog post which contains the link to an article explaining about the software project that I built with the help of my teachers Cleonir Coelho Simões and João Paulo Vieira Cordeiro with the purpose of making simulations of celestial bodies such as planets and stars using the laws of Newtonian mechanics.
The American dream is not at risk, nor is it fading out.
In fact is has been entirely dead for sometime.
Society is solidly rigged by long time rich and established
players.

It would take a revolution to revive it.

The amazing part is that the constitution does cover
how to go about this, with little actual combat.

The only thing that is needed is for a good majority of
voter to tell the duopoly of Democrats and Republicans
that their services are no longer wanted then clean house
by voting in a new set of players from a new set of political parties.

It is totally legal, and it is even not that hard,
IF you could pierce the indoctrinated dogma that Rs or Ds are the only
choices or you are throwing your vote away.

Just getting the citizens who do not vote (141 million??) to become active
would bring it closer.

You dont need a BILLION dollars to run for election.
It is needed when you have to make someone utterly corrupt
and removed from reality palatable to voters.

But even after a revolution brought about by an election the fight
would be tremendous against the entrenched / swamp / deep-state /
oligarchs / 1% / enterprises / lobby organisations etc etc .

But it is there for us to do.
As someone who has smelled burning hair, it at least sounds plausible. On the other hand, cigarette smoke already doesn't smell good.
The mistake was confusing money and speech. Money is not speech. Stretching the boundaries of the first amendment to be so broad that all human activity is covered by it renders it meaningless.
> there's seemingly no political will to fix them

It's not no will, it's no incentive, and usually incentivized to not fix them. The same people keep getting voted in. What other message should they hear than their constituents are happy with the job they're doing? Over half of the American people just voted for someone who lied to our faces and promised they'd make things better when they posses a track record that proved otherwise the last time (and also now a felony record, but I digress). If I decided my career was going to be politics, and I kept getting elected, why on Earth would I ever change what was working?
Another story: I was abroad, and someone got my card details and made purchases for thousands of $ in a different part of the country that I don't usually visit and certainly doesn't purchase there stuff for that amount of money.

Nobody even cared, but a payment I made for 2 euros wasn't accepted becuase reasons, and every online purchase needed some authorization.

When I called them, they said they'll look into the purchases. Well, they cancelled the purchases quite fast, but the surrealism of it all...
Yeah, I've encountered maybe a handful of .int domain names ever.

Remember tpc.int?
"Facebook is a communication tool for friends and family that is sometimes used for illegal activity" is categorically different than "Silk Road is a tool created to facilitate illegal activity."
> The court held 5–4 that the freedom of speech clause of the First Amendment prohibits the government from restricting independent expenditures for political campaigns by corporations including for-profits, nonprofit organizations, labor unions, and other kinds of associations.

Wow. Just one vote away from a drastically different political landscape and future for the country.
A traditional hierarchy is a tree, whereas a flat governance aims to be as close as possible to a connected graph. It's significantly easier to maintain a tree than a connected graph, especially with a sufficient group size. You're unlikely to find many people willing to invest so much effort into maintaining a flat organization, and even if you do, often times it's a better investment for those people to be actively making progress on that shared goal rather than governance.

IMO, a regular representative democracy is "good enough." It may be biased towards the elite, but it's still by far the most successful form of governance when it comes to creating large systemic change. The perceived ineffectiveness of it comes from people's unwillingness to put actual work, which applies to any other form of organization as well.
> Also how exactly are jury trials superior to e.g. Magistrates Courts in the UK?

The purpose of the trial is to separate the innocent from the guilty, and there is intended to be a presumption of innocence. But because the prosecution has to prove their case beyond a reasonable doubt, they'll tend to only bring cases when there is a high probability of guilt -- a good thing -- so then let's say 90% of the defendants are probably guilty and 60% are guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

A judge is going to become intimately familiar with that. ~90% of the defendants are actually guilty, so the judge develops the intuition that a new defendant is very likely guilty. That's a presumption of guilt. Soon even the innocent ones are getting convicted, when the whole point of the process was to prevent that.

A jury is a fresh set of eyes who look at the defendant as the only case they're going to be deciding for the foreseeable future and haven't been prejudiced by a parade of evildoers sitting in the same chair. It's also twelve separate people who each individually have to be convinced.
Ask HN: Why do people love older game so much?
Games didn't have a lot of sustenance back in the day. I'm talking Atari-early NES era. People online will tell me they would play all day and night. However how would you even play a game like asteroids ALL day?

When I ask someone in person they always tell me they would play for like 30 minutes with friends then go outside. I feel the exact same way as someone who loves old games. I cannot pick up an atari game for more than like 20 minutes tops.

Is this just nostalgia? I know these games were all you had at the time but they really just kinda.. Boring? I completely understand that that is really all they could fit on a cartridge at the time but that doesn't change the facts that the games get boring very fast. This is from someone who grew up around n64 era and even then i find myself struggling to play a lot of n64 era games.
I was thinking more that they have a custom lexicon, so you could create and view WhiteWind records without using their app at all. That your content lives on the ATProto network, and more specifically in your own database which you can migrate and/or run yourself. This would seem to align with your loose coupling line of thinking

https://github.com/whtwnd/whitewind-blog/tree/main/lexicons/...
It's Kaiser in northern California. This is an extremely common healthcare option. Yeah, we're rich. That's the whole point: even out of pocket prices for that plan are dwarfed by the gap in salary to the UK professionals.
Would it be good for language translation?
I mean, I think as sold to laypeople, 'cloud' was _very_ fuzzy; it was sold as a magic thing of rather vague nature which would fix everything.
>> In fact, if the 2008 bank bail-out, auto industry bail-out, the Silicon Valley bank prop-up, and other such actions by the US government are considered [2], if this turns out to be a bubble it will be taxpayers who end up fronting the bill.

Haven’t all three examples you note (2008 crash, auto bailout, and SV prop up) resulted in a net return/gain for the taxpayer?
I replied with more details in a sister thread but calling it a schtick is more accurate that I think you meant. It's exclusively a shtick; he doesn't actually believe it, or care about it.
Because in absence of this there was zero benefit to anyone with any power to make it happen. Getting clear $5bln without any legal objections is a clear benefit to many parties involved. I'm sure many people close to it have many ideas how to skim some off the top for themselves.
You're misunderstanding how the ACA subsidies work.
Feeling deceived when receiving (non-labeled) LLM-generated messages
> I would assume they could've licensed it from HashiCorp but for a huge sum.

Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe hashicorp would have agreed to sell a license to them with terms that allowed their usage of terraform in their products. But it is also quite likely that they would have refused to grant such a license to their competitors.
'twas surely a joke.
Interesting… I had looked here:
https://www.thebalancemoney.com/us-deficit-by-year-3306306

(quick google search, first result)

Which seems to show a different story. But looks like there is a lot of analysis on the numbers which can be done? (Eg I saw something in your article about ‘Biden will contribute 1.9T to the debt by 2031’.. even if he hadn’t gotten reelected, he wouldn’t be in office in 2031, so this includes the long-term effects of policies?)
They are clearly building GW from MGS2
Olav's Licence Plate Pictures
This is so goofy, I assume the clever name was the genesis of the idea. Old school, off-the-wall.
for example:

imo it's easier to spot the authn/authz issue here

export default function handler(
req: NextApiRequest,
res: NextApiResponse<ResponseData>
) {
// updating user details without authn/authz
}

than here

"use server"

export async function updateUser(email: string, age: number) {
// updating user details without authn/authz
}

without having read any next docs. engineers got trained to consider authn/authz the moment they see "http route/endpoint", maybe being more explicit about what happens in the api would help?

or next could provide an authn api for server actions that authn providers would implement?
Something anyone with an addict in their life needs to know:

While substances can efficiently help someone destroy their life, keeping them away from drugs won’t stop them from destroying their lives. There’s something already broken in these people that they need to fix before it’s too late.

There are perfectly legal alternatives that can be just as effective with a little more effort. Putting heroin in your arm is just quicker than downing a fifth of vodka, or chasing dopamine at the dog track.
How's the performance and features compared to pinokio?
A smart watch means you can still take calls with the phone hidden away or turned off. It's my preferred compromise.
The Configuration Crisis and Developer Dependency on AI
It's not exactly Doom Scrolling, but something I do on my work laptop while at work: I seem to have adopted some kind of tic nerveux during my work as developer that manifests when I get sidetracked for just a couple of seconds. I automatically will start to open my non-work browser/mail or other non-work apps and get completely distracted again. Other in-browser blockers have never seemed to work, but since a couple of days the Focus feature has been released for Raycast on Mac. I find that the system wide animations and the 3 second button delay to pause the session actually work really well. Hope this helps someone.
Rupert Murdoch (Bezos owns the Washington Post)
> ... I have almost zero motivation for responsible disclosure schemes anymore. It's a bunch of paperwork only to be told it's "expected behaviour" or "not a bug", or at best receive a measly reward that barely justifies the time investment.

I agree, it is thankless work.

Microsoft recently updated their bug bounty program to disqualify ANY reports that tangentially involve open source repositories. Even if you compromise their private source code or internal cloud resources, your report will now be closed with a measly $0.
I've been saying for years, companies can have freedom of speech when we can put them in jail for wrongdoing. I'd even take metaphorical jail - not allowed to employ anyone, operate, transact, or anything else for the duration of their sentence. I bet we'd see a complete stop of illegal activity we see every day if this was the risk.
even just building logic gates out of transistors is half the battle. for that, the referenced site also has https://www.megaprocessor.com/stepping-stones.html
It's absolutely unsound to generalise over a billion people like that.
I’m thinking as well more “mundane” things as well, like red states with “charitable feeding” laws that in effect make it illegal to feed the homeless without large amounts of red tape.

But, truly, I think you’re right to highlight wars.

https://www.salon.com/2023/08/07/criminalizing-the-samaritan...