skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
14 year club here as well.

I'd argue that the following are fundamental changes that have impacted the community in a big way:

- Selling 10% of the business to Tencent/Chinese investors

- Firing their community managers in 2015 and not replacing them

- When I first joined Reddit it was more technology focused, now it's all pop culture and memes. Although Tech subs are still plentiful so it can still be that site. (With some effort)

- Banning any Sub-Reddit's that go against whatever the admins mood is on a particular day, or content that no longer fits with their "We have shareholders and need to keep them happy" mantra. Reddit is absolutely not a place for free speech/uncensored discussions these days. Because of both toxic mods and horrible admins.

- Huge increase of censorship across the site in Sub-Reddit's, Posts and Comments

- Users care about the video stuff because Reddit's video hosting is fundamentally broken and hardly works, but they would rather keep it broken because it makes it harder to download videos (DASH)

- The whole new design is anti-user, the site is just masses of white space, super slow, JS heavy and pretty much unusable outside a third party mobile client. The day old.reddit.com gets shut down will be a sad day.

None of this stuff was a problem 14 years ago

Although some of the above comes with the toxicity that tends to come with huge community growth.

You can argue the above isn't significant, but as someone who's been on the site for 14 years, it sure ain't the same place I signed up for all those years ago.
You can't really compare two sparsely populated islands at the "end" of the Earth to the US or Europe.
> and (having read the FAQ) even the "decentralized" claim is dubious.

You can’t just say something like this without backing it up. Let’s hear it!

> Of course.

Handshake improves security while also giving the added benefit of real ownership of one’s namespace.

People are buying names because they want the names, speculation or not.
"make tinyconfig" while building kernel https://01.org/linuxgraphics/gfx-docs/drm/admin-guide/README...
Ive found that good interviewers / potential colleagues recognize this and I've found success in calling that sort of thing out and having a short conversation about it.
Well they are winning with iPhones aren’t they?
Yeah, that's how I imagine it will play out. Eventually there will be so many of those things that don't work on the old site that they will "have to" kill it for our sake :)
I'll believe it is simple when you specify how much money is needed and where it comes from to do that.
You are right it doesn't really matter, actually, in Canada Vitamin D fortifications are legislated in a milk and most other dairy products. Which makes for an effective way to supplement the majority of the populations' diet.

The only way it really matters is if incorrect assumptions are made yet again regarding this pandemic, furthering the distrust and amplifying the conspiracy theorists messaging.

I honestly think the health authorities in most western countries have dropped the ball in nutritional messaging for decades, possibly due to lobbyists or other more pressing issues but the looming health crisis was there even before the pandemic.

The proverbial chickens are now comming home to roost, unfortunately.
What's your point? Passwords can change and sessions can get invalidated, which all has the same effect.
The only reason chrome isn’t mandatory is that there are still a few hold out browsers they can’t force out of the market.

Also, the requirement that the browser not lie about its identity in the UA means that the existing UA tests that google properties deploy everywhere means that those “acceptable” browsers may still be “accidentally” blocked.

It would be nice if people would start to acknowledge that chrome is the new IE and Google is the new MS.

Actually arguably worse: in addition to using free services subsidized by their primary advertising business. Once that business is gone they start charging.

All the while they grossly destroy user privacy, and come up with new specs that just happen to accidentally make tracking users easier. Generally poorly thought out ones to help single teams at google without any thought of what the general problem is.
Yep it sounds like a workaround that could work, but that is a lot of moving parts to keep oiled.
Indeed, they are but much more slowly and not in the same way. Without innate engagement the response is much mellower and uses different mechanisms than you would expect in an infection. Also half the immune system won't be involved!
I click on the top alternative, Parler, and the root page redirects to some advertising page about the site.

Whereas if I go to the root page of reddit, I get content.

I think that's a huge turn off for alot of people.

Show interesting content, and let the product speak for itself.

If you go to Hacker News, you see content, you don't see a page explaining why Hacker News is great.

I just closed the Parler website rather than figure out what hoops I have to jump through to see content and what it's like.
Australia's borders are oceans. It's a different thing altogether.
> entire country for an indefinite period

it's not indefinite - it's just long enough to cut down unknown transmission to a managable number for contact tracing to kick in. Then public health measures like masking up and distancing is effective enough afterwards.

Businesses cannot stand uncertainty - a on-off lockdown that they cannot predict is the worst, because they cannot make investment decisions with this sort of huge uncertainty.
I'm a DD. His points left me scratching my head. Yes, Debian's infrastructure is old, but so is Big Ben and just a Big Ben still does an admirable job of broadcasting the time to the locals, Debian Bug Tracker does an admirable job of tracking bugs. I get it that he personally might prefer to interact with it via a more modern web page, but that wouldn't alter how well it tracks bugs or facilitates discussions. And besides, I find email easier to interact with automatically than a web page. Oddly he goes on to list not being able to automate things as a complaint.

The same goes for the rest of the things he lists. Yes, he might prefer to do them some other way, but the way they are done now has obviously been working very well for a long time.

As for Debian being incapable of making big changes - that's just rubbish. He's been there for 10 years for pete's sake, systemd was a big change requiring many packages to updated spanning several years and several releases, while still delivering a working system as it happened. That's not big? How about altering the source package format, or moving away from sha1 for signing, or making everything build reproducibly, or moving all developers using its collaborative development platform from FusionForge to GitLab? Sorry, he's just plain wrong on the "can't make big changes point". Debian regularly makes big changes every major release. In Bullseye they will have made big strides in migrating away from Python2. Changes of this scale are things other projects regularly struggle with, but not Debian.

His posts lists a whole pile of things about Debian he's discovered he no longer likes, which is fair enough. But as he says in his introduction it's him whose that's changed, he gone from a student with lots of time on his hands who was happy to be part of loosely collaborating group to being a member of a very focused and highly directed team at work, and he's discovered he prefers the latter. Great, I get it, happens to all of us. But that doesn't mean the Debian no longer works. It clearly works very well. It just means he's no longer a great fit for that way of doing things.
On second read, I think we pretty much agree
Have no patience for these fantasies.

This like saying- if pigs flew, we could have national broadband just by outfitting the piggies with this neato lightweight low power wireless transmitter thingee I invented.

The COVID pandemic would be over if a sufficient number of people adopted the well-documented and publicized behaviors to do so. Many who want to cannot for economic and related logistical reasons. And very many do not want to.

Making pronouncements that disregard the shameful rejection of science and public health on the national and local level by so many leaders and assume a national consensus to the contrary exists and is merely lacking a technical means of delivery...this specifically is what I have no patience for.

Stay safe if you are able. My ashamed apologies if through no fault of your own you are not. Your country has failed you and all of us.
> Nobody in the industry wants anything locally-hosted by end users to work well. Locally-hosted means not "cloud"-hosted. That means no sweet, sweet recurring subscription revenue stream or centrally-stored user data to "monetize".

This doesn't work for things like routers and modems that need to be configured before you can even access the cloud.
That's interesting about the progressive taxation. My quick look at income tax rates in the US is that there is a lot of progressiveness in the income ranges of the top 5% rather than through the income levels that the bell curve of Americans live in. I am not an expert or spent anytime I must say so I'm not arguing just my first look.

What income range do you define as middle class? And
What's lower class in the US income wise?

Also for a bit of context what government services do people receive welfare for in the US? What are the big sercices that are driving those net negative tax payments?
This feels like it would have potential for a Sci Fi thriller.
Seconded. The Koln Concert can't be oversold.

https://youtu.be/Pd_Kti6jvy8
You can keep it standalone or use it across multiple EC2 instances per my understanding.
That's a good idea. The two analog sticks on the GC controller would be an improvement over the single stick on the N64 controller for movement in 3D. I think that the main benefit of the N64 controller (besides a nostalgia factor, though that may just be me ;)) is how easy it is to connect. I actually just got some wire from the local hardware store, plugged pieces of it into the controller connector, and then attached some IC clips. For the GC controller, things are a bit trickier due to its connector layout, though I just found [1] which might be a nice solution; alternatively, buying a GC controller extension cord and wire stripping could be an option. I'll consider it!

[1] https://www.raphnet-tech.com/products/gc_controller_connecto...
> and yet no major western govt save the Brits have attempted to even try this strategy.

The per-capita death rate in the UK is one of the worst in the world for this pandemic, and it's higher than the USA's. And they are now into a second lockdown. Whatever their strategy is, it's not working well at all.
UK has a population of 60 million. Australia is 25 million. Both are a set of islands.

Not exactly an order of magnitude difference in population but yet there is a massive difference in the strategies and polices they've deployed. And now UK is a complete mess heading into winter and Australia has effective elimination.
Roblox Corporation S-1
How many car miles per large truck mile is driven?
Thankfully, it's not en either/or situation.

The principle that site designers need to start abiding by is to not reinvent the browser--there's no need to use JS for routing or single page apps. The browser does that fantastically already. All that's needed of JS is to add asynchronicity to pages that need to update state without interrupting a running service.
Learnt to code and went back to school to do a dual MS in math and statistics in my 40's. I think I was interested in each of those things for their own sakes, so working on them was a hobby which meant I didn't mind putting in a lot of time learning them
Definitely an exception. Here are some good sources:

CBS News: https://www.cbsnews.com/

NY Times: https://nytimes.com/

Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/

Wall Street Journal: https://wsj.com/

PBS News Hour: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/

Boston Globe: https://www.bostonglobe.com/

Philadelphia Inquirer: https://www.inquirer.com/

Finantial Times: https://www.ft.com/
This is one of the things that really, really make me mad internally. Phones are exactly like you describe locked down proprietary pieces of hardware. The computing world could be so much better if it everything was open.

I fear everyday that the arm "revolution" will make open computing a thing of the past. Look at the arm laptops that are released. Not a single one can run Linux.
To be even more explicit (or pedantic if you wish) - it's the bare metal xorg server that is 'deprecated' and not getting further development. The various nested xorg servers (xwayland, xephyr) are still very much alive.
Go back 100 years and the way we have increased our resources would have been completely unimaginable. It would break any possible definition of boundedness that you could have thought of at the time. For all intents and purposes, trying to establish potential limits on economic growth is silly and destructive.
The density of cities in australia and NZ are somewhat similar to european cities. The sparseness of Aus and NS are because their population is concentrated in cities, and there are large land masses.

If the US or UK wants to, they can certainly make the same sort of lockdown. There are costs to it, but the leadership being incompetent at actually leading, is a bigger roadblock over the cost.
So you're saying the 1% of people driving electric cars should pay for the climate change caused by the 99% that are not?
I've been using HN without JS ever since I found this site, and it works perfectly fine.
Nope. Android has more market share despite apple having the head start.
I forgot to mention an interesting point here.

When using a physically based, photorealistic renderer and you model an indoor or studio scene as realistically as possible, you often find that it looks flat, dull or just bad.

And to fix it, you have to employ the similar tricks that professional photographers and cinematographers do, adding extra light sources to reduce harsh shadows, add highlights etc.

So by making the renderer more realistic you've got to fake it like a photographer.
Is that a real version number or just a week+sex number joke?
It won't turn the tide, because there is a huge population in the US which, as an expression of political identity, will refuse to get tested — or wear masks or take any other precautions for that matter.

This group will keep the virus alive no matter what, endangering not only themselves, but the rest of us.

ETA: Many downvotes, many upvotes. Downvoters: I would love to hear from you what you find objectionable.
But Linux can run on arm just fine? I used to run my website and a bunch of other stuff on an arm64 VPS.
In the US you just need to look at the COVID-19 bills that are tied up in Congress for an idea of the money needed i.e. ~ 2-5 trillion.

And you can fund it exactly the same way you did for the GFC (print money) or WW2 (war bonds).

But compare it to the cost of the US bouncing in/out of lockdowns for the next 9-12 months.
> or from it running its course to be done with this.

A nitpick, but it deals with a pervasive idea that should be updated.

The virus will most likely never "run its course" to give us collective immunity without technological intervention.

That's because herd immunity is only known to have ever occurred as a result of deliberate vaccination, and even then it disappears in areas where vaccination stops. It has never been observed to occur naturally as a result of infection.

In other words, the "natural herd immunity solution" is simply not something most of the scientific community believes to be an option right now. Instead the prevailing theory is that if we let it "run its course" it would in fact continue circulating endlessly, gradually mutating.

Epidemiologists do perform calculations to estimate how natural herd immunity might arise, but it has never yet been observed to actually happen, and the calculations are intrinsically rather unreliable.

From "The false promise of herd immunity for COVID-19" (21st October 2020, https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02948-4):

> never before have we reached herd immunity via natural infection

Also maybe relevant, if herd immunity could occur naturally, then the calculations done around it lead to:

> proposals to largely let the virus run its course [...] could bring “untold death and suffering”
I agree. They revolutionized it in a way nobody else was prepared to do. I think there should be regulations to make sure labor is treated fairly, rather than any kind of specific measure to reduce inequality, which seems like a vanity metric to me.
Same, with a similar trajectory but not similar investments for the future. This Old Tony, Applied Science, and Abomb were all strong motivators.

Great luck with the business venture.
They do intimidate people abroad

Canada:
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-china-ramps...

same in Australia
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-19/fake-chinese-police-c...

kidnapping abroad (Thailand):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gui_Minhai

killing abroad (Indonesia):
https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-45976946

(Australia)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-25/asio-says-its-taking-...
Apple's going to keep this platform closed, so you should write in a cross-platform framework. Don't adopt their tools or dance to their beat.

The best way to protest Apple's iPhone dominance is to write cross-platform, non-native code.

iOS should be a second class citizen.
> americans start throwing hissy fits

well there's your problem. People are unwilling to make the least bit of self-sacrifice for a common cause.

And it's not even that big of a sacrifice - it's just staying in a hotel for 2 weeks, and not leaving! I'm like WTF why is it such a big deal?
Well, while i think that it's a valid point to raise the question of public transport in a pandemic, judging by the number of people on the tram I just caught to the market, I'd be inclined to say that public transport might quip "rumours of my death have been greatly exaggerated".

Regardless, the government, both state and federal, is investing major dollars over the next 10 years on infrastructure which assumes the opposite, and given the current infrastructure is already there, i think its a bit premature to talk of the future with such certainty.
I thought playing videos in a browser was a solved problem ever since <video> was introduced, many years ago.
It reimplements system calls at the moment; you can consider it to be similar to Wine or WSL1.
> And now UK is a complete mess heading into winter and Australia has effective elimination.

Of course it might help that Australia is actually heading into summer.
No.

You just keep testing people, and do isolation and contact tracing on the ones that get sick.

In the meantime, vaccines will start to roll out.

Curbing this pandemic is perfectly practical and within reach, given the will to do it.
It’s a highly nice number.
Not overconfiguring your tools eh. Got any strong opinions on K8's and yaml?
Apollo for Reddit is a great app made by a solo dev!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/apollo-for-reddit/id979274575

That is until they become even more greedy and ban third party apps. Probably by the end of next year. The reasons will be 'privacy of users' and 'letting users access reddit via a unified interface'. Or some bs like that
You could have said exactly the same thing with USB itself was first introduced, though. And lots of people did: there were endless, massive complaints about the first iMac.
As soon as the vaccine is distributed on a mass scale, things will start to become normal.

Stability is directly proportional to the strength of economy. When people struggle, they take up on the streets. Not to take away anything from the BLM movement (I support it obviously), but my guess for its stronghold and how it became mainstream is because of the pandemic. 2 months into the pandemic in May 2020, a lot of anger was pent up. It was all released in the unrests we saw in pretty much all major cities. Same goes for far-right extremists, Boogaloo boys, QAnon, etc.

There hasn't been as many protests in the world in pretty much every country as much as we had in 2020.
I prefer the old version too, but have you tried using the classic or compact layout option on the new version? I personally use the classic layout and have been much less frustrated with it.

https://imgur.com/a/SBifQIB
what are the chances this "shock" is peaceful? Anyone have ideas? Unfortunately, it may be not very high (though I am optimistically hoping we can figure something out!) A very cool atlantic article I read following a similar line of thought, highly recommended read:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/12/can-his...
Everyone who votes republican doesn't believe that.

Maybe some republicans simply think realistic solutions are not those you believe will work.
Are they? Last time I've heard Android still runs in the vast majority of phones, worldwide.
Australia and NZ are not America. This is the same mistake Elon made when he suggested the US would have 0 new cases by this past April; the US is not China. The differences are actually so big that comparisons are dangerously misleading.

The problem in the US is that you cant pay people enough to change their minds about the politics. They would be, and many in fact are, millionaires and they would still refuse the test. Even if it meant jail time.

These solutions simply don't work in America.
The UK is also next to Europe and a travel and business hub for the world. Australia is next to nothing important and has far less travel to and from the rest of the world.
I didn't see the turn around time in the article. Just something about "less sensitive test with results today".

I think it's optimistic to assume this could be used as an entry check for a restaurant.
But it's good for google, isn't it? I mean, if ddg can't get me there, but google can, then it makes google better than their competitors (in the one regard).
What code? SwiftUI is closed source.
Come on, are we really going to get this hyperbolic? The amount of people complaining about the interface is a vocal minority.
This is my goto. It's just so much faster!
Another email server like this one that I have used extensively is WildDuck[1] It's written in NodeJS, and is excellent and remarkably simple.

[1] https://github.com/nodemailer/wildduck
The old web placed HTML and CSS as primary, and used JS for incidental tasks like form validation, or fixing up the back button. The big idea was "graceful degradation": sites were expected to work without JS, at the cost of (say) a server-side error instead of immediate feedback.

Modern reddit does not gracefully degrade: it requires JS to click buttons, to load images, to scroll, etc. Old reddit still works well without JS. So does Google for that matter.
i've been using it less and less, in fact i only ever go there if some breaking news is about, and today, that is the last thing you can find on reddit! kinda sad considering...
You mean make every platform a second-class citizen?