skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only way to browse Reddit nowadays is either through old.reddit.com or through a third-party application like Apollo. It's amazing how much content is _not_ displayed on the screen in their new clunky UI. Makes you wonder why they went in that direction.
Good to know that a major social media platform is built on the same shit and bailing wire that most of us have to deal with every day. Sort of makes me feel like the SV companies really aren't any different than anyone else, they just (typically) have a lot more money.
There you go, an idea for business :)
- an "mutual" account that will crawl pages on those sites
- then share them without login

I am to sleepy and this idea is stupid as hell ...
> The best trolls are the ones who are playing true believers.

I think the best trolls are true believers who know how to not take their own views seriously. This gives them the ability to not only screw with you but also at various points make actual real points about things. The mixing and matching of reality, perceived or real, with content designed to anger and upset makes for a recipe for anger and annoyance.
Where were you? the 30% who aren't overweight are concentrated near the areas where a traveler would be most likely to visit (e.g. New York City, major California urban areas, ski resorts). In most small/medium towns/cities you will see most people are overweight.
https://theoffice.fandom.com/wiki/Pyramid
Book Review: How Asia Works
Article on FlightGear Wiki.[0]

[0] https://wiki.flightgear.org/UTIAS_Ornithopter_No.1
That’s not even vaguely the same thing.

Still if in your opinion YouTube was a “Personal Social Networking Service” then why do you think Google have made G+?
Reminds me of MySQL's BLACKHOLE storage engine: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/blackhole-storage-en...
> this post is tackling other problems.

I know we are off-topic, I was replying to your comment to clarify some misconceptions.

No, memory-safe languages do not let programs read the entire address space. Memory-safe languages include static (and dynamic) type safety measures so that a datum of type A cannot be treated as a datum of type B (if they are incompatible types). That means if different subroutines work on different types, they cannot read each others' data. That also implies that the heap has separable structure; your routine cannot get to my objects unless it has a type-safe access path to them. It cannot hunt through memory to find my crypto keys, e.g.

Therefore, security measures can be designed into programs that use the type system. The OP is an example of one.

> You're just saying what I just said back to me

Well, no.

> with the confusing assertion about memory safe languages being the basis for language VMs isolation. I'm clearly missing something.

Sorry if that confused you, it might have been cryptic. If you read what I've written in this comment it will be more clear now. Language VMs separate programs from each other because they can enforce a type system. Separate types in separate programs means they cannot interfere.
Those econmies of scale are simply driving up profits for an oligopoly that uses IP laws and acquisitions to extract maximum value from sick people.

We could revoke the
IP and thus force these companies to compete on price... but that hasn't happened. Thus the only solution that is making any progress is circumventing the IP and developing an open process.
Nah, if you sort by date here you can see how quickly IANA was doling out /8's to the RIRs up until they ran out: https://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-add...

Even if we hadn't wasted /8s on huge allocations to single companies, and things like 240.0.0.0/4, we'd still be basically where we are today, with v4 address space being scarce and traded as a commodity.
I wouldn't mind video conferencing with computer generated avatars. I don't video conference to know what the other person looks like, and in fact knowing what they look like just creates lots of unnecessary bias. I do it for the cues from their gestures, facial expressions, the direction they are looking, etc. With a good tracking setup that works perfectly well today with digital avatars.
I've evaluated Axon body cameras for compliance to various standards and and the police grade is less vomit resistance (they are in fact durable cameras, but there are many consumer brands that offer similar durability) and more provable digital chain of custody for when you are going to use the resulting video in court. Also, very simple start/stop operation and extremely clear indication that it's on/off.
old.reddit isn't deliberately broken, but not really suitable for small screens like phones.

i.reddit is better for that, but it doesn't support many content types inline and has issues showing comments in some cases.

teddit.net doesn't support loading more comments inline and the icon to unfold post content is tiny.
It's not my opinion, it's what the court said in plaintext. YouTube undeniably: "enables users to virtually connect with others in their network and to digitally share their views and experiences by posting about them in a shared, virtual social space."

Competing on features != competing in a different market. Feature sets and markets are two very different things.

What definition would you use to define Facebook's market?
> It was a unique condition that one person was both the greatest tech marketer and greatest tech product manager of all time.

Also one of the greatest assholes of all time. You can't do him justice if you leave that achievement out.
what dumb fuck visits instagram in the first place? serious question.
I don't know about that. A lot of people don't know how awful they are yet. Personally I've been a very enthusiastic Amazon shopper until I started seeing the recent surge of Amazon job reviews.
> you have a huge lack of faith in the intelligence of others (that, or a big ego)

Column A, Column B.

> In your world talking about any religion would be banned, and what a sad world that’d be.

I promise I wouldn't ban talking about religion.

> Their exact beliefs may look wrong, but the way it makes them act is more right than atheism or anything else.

Secular humanists would strongly disagree.
I honestly think that the idea that social networking is monopolizable is absurd.

There are billions of online person to person interactions that happen outside of Facebook.
There are hundreds of thousands of websites and communities that allow communication, discussion and sharing of user generated content. There are hundreds of thousands of online spaces that provide an outlet to augment a message.

So if anything, regulators should start by redefining what's a monopoly because the current definition clearly doesn't fit the classic narrative around monopolies.
The intent of antitrust law is to prevent anti competitive behaviour. This may include, but is absolutely not limited to, monopolistic behaviour.
Your version: Lab grown meat -> everyone agrees eating animals is immoral -> various extreme examples of society completely changing

It's also entirely possible that lab grown meat becomes prevalent and simply coexists with raising animals for food for the foreseeable future.
That’s not true, upgradable contracts using proxies is a common pattern.
First off, I have nothing but respect for Near/Byuu. I have followed his work for years and enjoyed his blog posts. Their death came as a complete surprise to me and impacted me more than I ever thought something like this would.

With that being said, I think there was more going on here than simple bullying-- the weeks/months leading up to their death, Near did a number of things that (in retrospect) make it seem he knew very well he was going to take his life.

The KF thread was only 13 pages long and quite "tame". He replied to the thread himself and wasn't really bullied. A lot of the posters on KF seemed to actually respect him. The thread wasn't updated in over two years prior to his death. Although the thread may have impacted him greatly, it doesn't seem like it was the main factor.

Shortly before his death he re-licensed all of his software with quite open licenses. The year or two leading up to his death he separated himself from his work quite a bit (made separate standalone domains for each project, abandoned his old online name(s)).

This really looks like he knew he was going to take his life over a year ago. We will obviously never know, but it seems like he wanted to take his life and as a bonus, maybe take KF down with him.

Obviously some finger pointing at KF is justified, but at the end of the day I think there was more going on here. Near was an incredibly talented and troubled person that didn't (or couldn't) get the help they needed. I think that should be focused on a bit more, especially if we want to prevent things like this from happening again.
Ah oops for some reason in my mind I read that as singular millennium. My bad!
If you want to see very clear examples of ridiculous Amazon pricing, just look up boxes of nitrile gloves. Found some in stock at Target last week for about 2x what I’d expect them to cost normally, yet on Amazon they’re all about 10x normal prices. I really like the longer gloves in larger thicknesses for working on mechanical stuff, but I’m not paying $1/pair for disposable nitrile gloves.
> If "psychic" powers go away on medication, but come back if it is reduced, is that evidence to you that they are a type of symptom?

If physical abilities go away when you take medication, does that mean the ability was a “symptom” or that the loss was a “side effect” ofbthe drugs? Usually, the latter.

Why would it be any different for psychic abilities, except from the perspective of one who takes as given that the ability doesn't exist and that discussion of it is merely discussion of the delusion of having the ability?
Why? When you sell you make a profit or loss, same as any other asset.
Microsoft and Nintendo are in competition, that doesn’t mean Nintendo in in the office productivity market.
Port forwarding + static IP. And don't be so sure that it's trivial; despite having taken a course on the network stack I'd have to do some research to figure out port-forwarding and get it set up correctly. Normal people's response would be, "What's a port? Like the holes on the back of the computer?"

In an IPv6 world you could have a free program you download that gives you an interface like Squarespace except you can host it for free on the very computer you're using to make your site. Could be totally accessible to nontechnical people. Same goes (much more powerfully) for distributed protocols like Matrix. You could have encrypted messaging platforms like Signal that don't even need a handshake server; devices talk exclusively to each other. Etc. It would be a radically different internet.
Ted Nelson envisaged micro-payments as part of the underlying platform (he invented … waves vaguely … all of this)
> It's not okay to just say that only the old, fat, and vulnerable are at risk of dying so why should everyone else have to take all these precautions? The lack of empathy is staggering.

You're not representing the article fairly. For example, here is the passage where the author mentions obesity:

Vitamin D and exercise have both been linked to better outcomes for COVID-19 patients. In the U.S. 78% of people hospitalized for COVID-19 were overweight or obese. Lockdowns caused Americans to gain an average of two pounds per month and reduce their daily steps by 27%, thereby increasing the likelihood of adverse COVID-19 outcomes.

If you disagree, fine, but at least disagree with what she's actually saying.
Publicly-traded companies are owned by a subset of society. Sure we can tell them to stop being bad guys. Ever hear of activist shareholders?
Is it legal to provide unofficial API?
I'm the founder of [redacted], an unofficial TikTok API.
It started as a small side project, but now it has been growing quickly and we even have clients from Fortune-500 companies.

The next step is registration as a corporate, fund-raising, hiring, and some other stuff that are necessary for a company to grow.

But I'm not sure if that's legal or what kind of troubles we will have from TikTok.

So far, we have only been contacted by TikTok representatives for a trademark issue, though they were helpful and we fixed the issue quickly.
Yes. Anything that required me to pay would mean I'd have to charge a subscription from users, which I didn't want to do.
How is "communication" not potentially as broad as "Social media platform"? Basically every form of digital communication falls under the banner of social media platform these days. (The GP comment cites Reddit, YouTube and SMS—as diverse a set of websites from Facebook (while still being communication-focused) as I could imagine)
The concern about leaks isn't about the general population knowing what's in the works. It's about the competition.
Hey there, good luck with the venture and look forward to an EU/UK option.

Just wanted to say IANAL but with putting your details out there as a founder and being in the US, unless you've had a lawyer check over your statements I would be very cautious about naming companies specifically. Would recommend anonymising it or deleting that comment if you can't edit it, unless you've already had it checked out.

Ethics isn't part of their business model so any statement without hard facts backing it can get you into trouble.
Bluntly, the enemy of my enemy was my friend. McConnell and Graham were minimized the harm Trump caused.
It's been reported[0] that Firefox Nightly has a Debug menu through which one can bless a custom collection of allowed extensions to get around the new Mozilla Nanny State™ but I haven't personally expended the energy to try it

0 = https://www.ghacks.net/2020/10/01/you-can-now-install-any-ad...
No Japanese creator is going to reply "well, I would rather that the company that pays my salary not censor me", unless they have such star power that they know they can say this with no repercussions, so I'm skeptical of such claims.

Not to mention that Japanese creators often don't know much about a problem other than what the company tells them. If Nintendo tells them "we need to do this or people in the West won't buy it," the creator will believe them, and say that they don't mind the censorship because it's necessary, even if Nintendo is lying through their teeth when they say that.
Hopefully if we call it what it is and keep the name "Fuck You" pattern, any boss that wants to implement it will realize how user hostile it is. More likely, the MBAs figure out a more colorful name for it and every single app on the planet starts to have it.
Unfortunately, using Google Voice in that manner is USA-only, and much (most?) of the rest of the world has no comparable alternative.
"Overweight" is not a terribly high bar to reach. The CDC defines it as "BMI is 25.0 to <30", which for an individual like myself at 6'1" is just 179 lbs, a weight at which I was rail thin and low-muscle mass.
Lol smart contracts and blockchain are for tinfoil hat wearing people who need to get a girlfriend
Lessons Learned from Programming at Google – Part I
Here's a near-decade old talk from me on this exact topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfKAScYkGlk

I haven't watched this in like... a long time, so maybe I'd think it's bad now.
Whatever makes you happy.
How to Survive the Worst Tornado in US History
>>> when there is clear-cut policies around showing something different to the crawler than the user.

yes ....
I'm getting connection refused errors on the request to
http://54.186.34.220:443/face_vid2vid_rotate
port 443 on http? Hm.
Which is why I asked what they meant by failure specifically.

You have to borrow it to short it, so there's a 1-3% APY cost associated with shorting it. You have to calculate the tradeoff of the likelihood of it going to 0 within the next couple of years vs the cost of borrowing USDT to short it.

Say you short 1M$ worth of Tether, it goes belly up within 4 years, it cost you like ~40k$ to short it, but your upside is 1M$. If it never actually fails because the market is irrational or by some miracle Tether was doing the right thing, then your cost depends on when you close your position. It's a relatively cheap way of making lots of money depending on your conviction on Tether's likelihood to fail.
90% of the time when people say South America they're referring to the poor Spanish speaking countries.

Let me ask you this... do you include Greenland in your definition of North America.
What I don’t understand about most sites that do this is how QUICKLY they reach the “fuck you” state. It’s like a few clicks, or a few seconds, or whatever — nowhere near long enough to get any idea what the site is about, what it offers, whether it is valuable, etc. Therefore, what exactly is gained here? I just get annoyed and immediately leave.

Imagine if this happened elsewhere in life. You go into a grocery store, you grab a cart, you get 5 feet inside, grab one item, and then you are immediately blocked by 8 security guards and interrogated for your name before you can continue. Would you stay in the store?
I suspect it's for neither. It's to fulfil some metric. They either want investor money or IPO money and either way, they want people in their app because their app is way over-valued compared to monthly impressions.
If this mechanic is getting video from inside the cylinders with a borescope, doing compression tests on all cylinders, pulling diagnostics from the OBD interface, checking seals and joints, checking that emissions would pass in my state at least via OBD and signing their name on a form then I certainly would. ... especially on cars that pulling the plugs requires removing the fuel rails. I would also expect them to take it for a rough ride and see how it handles. Avoiding traveling cross country just to find that the vehicle is a pile of junk is worth much more than $125 in my opinion, assuming this system can't be gamed and assuming they are doing the above checks.
Personally I solve this problem by just doing everything in UTC. All my clocks, calendars, phones, everything read UTC.

"Always use UTC" works if you really, really always use UTC.
they've lately been trying to get me to make a cloud account to login. i remember when i installed it i made an "offline account", but now after a few updates im occationally getting a nag to "finish setting up your computer" before i can start using it which leads to a place wanting me to make an account which I now have to cancel out of rather than have a permanent method of removing it.

it's just a matter of time at this point
>Tearing down capitalism without a clear plan could kill almost as many as climate change itself

I am an entity that has an understanding of capitalism that is 3 planes above the average homo sapiens.

Ok, let's be serious. Capitalism requires endless nominal growth (not real growth) because of the way our currency and debt system works. When there is a shortage of money, people start hoarding it, therefore the money supply must keep growing to meet hoarding demand otherwise people stop using money as a medium of exchange. Fiat is issued via debt. To maintain money supply growth the amount of debt in the system must grow. Thus we get endless debt growth. The easiest solution to deal with this is to just let the population grow forever as young people take on debt voluntarily or they purchase products and the companies take debt instead. If you have a nominally shrinking economy either because of a lack of population growth or a recession then the process has been interrupted. Private money creation via debt cannot keep up with the necessary increase in the money supply. It follows that the government has to take the debt on instead. The government must borrow money and do fiscal stimulus until 2% inflation has been reached at which point the economy is growing nominally again. This does not require real growth. We can go one step further and allow public money creation tied to inflation. 0% debt forever with no monthly payments. At this point debt doesn't matter anymore and we can kick the can down forever without real growth. Technically it isn't even debt at this point, it is just an account with a negative balance that tracks how much public money has been issued.
Ok, your comment is shocking to me: I've been having annoying muscle twitches lately (probably from drinking lots of coffee), and one thing I found online was that magnesium supplements could help. I eventually ended up trying it, but the twitches just keep getting worse and worse; I didn't realize until now the magnesium is probably what is worsening things. Could anyone ELI5 what' the relationship between calcium, magnesium and muscle twitches?
What if paragraph 144 (a) (iii) subsection b of the contract explicitly states that the employee ahem contractor has a 0-day notice period?
I would like to agree with this, but given the state of corporate media in the United States its difficult to determine whether even bottom-up movements are organic.

I got a mask early and asked to stop travel as well, but that was from listening to media. Which would invert the pyramid back to top-down.
i don't do social media anymore, but I used to use instagram to browse favorite artists. I found chrome developer tools would let you change to mobile view and then you could browse instagram/upload photos/etc like normal.

Haven't tried it in a long time so maybe doesn't work anymore.
Ironically enough the iPhone 4 was also the first iPhone to leak prior to launch.
Yeah, perfect. If the standard had said IPs could have any bit length they would have designed accordingly.
Maybe it filters for the people who reeeally want to disagree with the author.
The author is a teacher in the SF Bay Area. I also live there and went on plenty of walks, runs, hikes, and drives all through the early pandemic. I voluntarily restricted my interactions, but there were plenty of people around here acting as if nothing was going on with absolutely no interference from law enforcement or anyone else.
> After many years working at data brokers

So you worked for years at (immoral) data harvesters but now you're a changed man who pinky swears to not use people's data they submit to you in a bad way? Sorry, I don't trust this product yet.
Do pay walls count as a “fuck you” pattern?

How about free trials with credit card submissions and having difficult “cancel subscription” work flows?
Ahhh, I remember the good old days of forums where people would "hotlink" an image into a thread, and after enough people started viewing/forwarding that link around it would break because the image hoster's account would get suspended by their host for going over their bandwidth limit, or the original hoster would panic at their bandwidth costs and delete it and/or try to block hotlinking going forward. Maybe something like IPFS could solve this problem soon, but right now freely available image hosting on these centralized providers is the most reliable it's ever been.
The solution is cameras on the streets paired with phone usage detection then if you get caught, your license is instantly terminated and you have to reapply for it.
I definitely removed ads on some pages, but because they were monetized differently. I think even small publishers are going to be more aware and granular at the page-level.