skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, this higher abstractions tendency is clearly away from "Flat is better than nested". Creating good abstractions is so difficult (and important) that it should not be done lightly by everyone.

The recent proliferation of type annotations is also trending towards the static typing mindset, which is also cargo culting on a massive scale.
reddit tends to moderated by folks who've been wearing a mask around the clock for 1.5 years & rarely leave their comfort-zone.

the comments are slowly reflecting the result of this^ sjw-ish, anti-capitalism, anti personal growth etc.
But you see the whole point that Onlyfans Management says about dropping the plan is to "protect the creators". But this seems far from reality. This article from wired sums it up: https://www.wired.com/story/onlyfans-reverse-porn-ban-creato...
London Tech Firms Struggle to Hire
Simulator of digging a tunnel through the earth
Yeah, not doing that when using typescript is leading to so many bugs. Yes the compiler is happy, but you will get a runtime error as the json decoding converted it to a string, not the expected number type being passed around. So add in a second step that verifies that the decoded json actually matches the type and fail fast. One thing I liked about Elm was the decoders, a bit hassle to write but made it so easy catching bugs when backend and frontend people weren't on the same page.
(So this turned into a log rant... sorry)

Nope, sadly not! People are complacent and unwilling to make a change due to the convience of it. Most people are unwilling to leave the online friends behind that refuse to join you on more ethical platforms. People become tied to communities, of which most are on Discord, and are unwilling to leave them out of fear of feeling alone, or because they require whatever feelings of happiness/dopamine they get from those communities.

I used discord primarily for a large friend group, on one guild/server, but of course was in a bunch of other servers for things that were ultimately useless. Leaving Discord made me feel less controlled by the dopamine effect of interacting with 'communities'. My friends barely use discord for anything other than our friend group, but are unwilling to move off of it because 'pretty UI', or 'emojis', or 'bots', etc. Some of them "don't care about privacy" because "no one at discord cares about your messages/data", " I have nothing to hide", the usual fallacies regarding privacy. The last reason is "laze"/"don't care".

My friends are all in the tech/software space, have careers or are aiming for careers in the space. Some of them even share posts from Hacker News on the regular. Some use Linux, one of them even uses it partly out of privacy concerns. Point is, they're not oblivious to this stuff. If anyone begins to start trying out other services with me like Matrix, they're immediately disuaded because someone else in the group doesn't want to and says they're never going to leave Discord.

I've since just been using a Matrix bridge to continue being part of the group. I've decided though that I will have no part in Discord's increasing monopoly in the chat message space, with their walled garden practices. Once Matrix native voice and video chat rolls out, I'm done with the Matrix-Discord bridge. If my friends don't want to make ethical decisions and put themselves back in control of their online lives and data, then I lose my online group chat. So be it. I'll still see them out in the real world. Friends (for better or worse) come and go every decade. Sucks but I'm so done with no one caring and having to jump through hoops for people who don't care.
Practically nobody in any job has upward mobility without jumping ship. You have to job hop to move up in pretty much every industry. That's how it is these days. Selling a ton of brakes for Firestone or Jiffy Lube or whatever certainly puts your resume among the ones that get seriously considered for a service writer job.
Same. The dutch subreddit mods will ban anyone that doesn't align with them on tiny things. So if you want to keep contributing to that community you must swim with the majority or they will ban you.
I personally enjoy r/cpp a lot. Even if I myself rarely use C++.
Capitalism has done an exceptional job though for instant messaging. Discord is an incredible bit of software and through just being better, it has won the market.

It’s basically a picture perfect example of the market working.
Why does this country still have the best alternative to big tech mail providers (Fastmail)? Maybe it doesn’t matter that much since email is open to the world anyway. I would like to vote with my wallet, but in the end I also want my mail to arrive without to much hassle. That means avoiding self-hosting and obscure providers..
"Like, Apple does not sell user data to third parties and Apple is sending all search traffic to Google by default for $15B a year."

Or like, Mozilla is working to protect user privacy^1 and Mozilla is sending all search traffic to Google by default for [much less than $15B] a year.

In each case, we can see two conflicting interests/objectives. Data collection versus privacy protection. Being honest, which is the one we can say is making the most progress at the expense of the other. How much data is being collected. How much data is off-limits. How much money is being "lost" by "tech" companies to privacy protection (user self-determination). Be honest.

1 And other noble causes, including maintaining a "healhty" web. Read: Ensuring online advertising does not die out.
If you were introduced to Discord in a non-gaming-related context, it is very common to be unfamiliar with the tendency of gamers to share what game they are currently playing. There is no such habit in other, more "serious" contexts - for example MS Teams does not set "currently using Microsoft Powerpoint" or "currently coding in VS Code" as my publicly visible status at work. I can thus fully understand that a lot of people are (negatively) surprised by this - even gamers, because there's a huge number of people preferring singleplayer games out there that don't have the need to do any group coordination for which a tool like Discord (or built-in community features of games or game launchers) would be needed.

Hence if Discord aims at expanding its user base beyond the (multiplayer) gaming community, it should definitely think twice whether to keep this sharing setting enabled by default. At a minimum I would expect them to try to deduce somehow whether you are using Discord as a gamer or in a non-gaming-related setting, and use the suitable default. Or maybe just disable it by default, so gamers who want this feature enabled need to turn it on.
By the way, how does this work over the radio? Does that mean that adding an antenna that captures the signal in the middle would affect the statistics of the received signal? What does it mean to have a “receiving antenna” in this case if any antenna can receive signals of any frequency?
This is inherently broken, and its brokenness is not obvious or clearly attributable to the hacky glibc.

Imagine debugging an app on this (and possibly not even knowing it's based on an unofficial base image) not knowing this very specific behavior for hours with no results, you'd probably have a very bad impression of alpine.
Is there any actual evidence of this? Sharing a similar name is, of course, not proof of anything.
Whatever, Racist
I just saw this video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvLFEh7V18A ) on why vintage video games cost so much money now. It's almost an hour long piece of effectively investigative journalism by someone in the speed running (and thus vintage gaming) community.

The evidence presented does seem like a bubble, with scam/fraud properties.
It is another example how Web apps are apparently more secure than native ones.
I actually care a lot about calendar integration. For about two years I've been saying that our best hope for calendar software that doesn't suck is if Discord gets into it, and it's a natural fit - most of the discords I'm in have some sort of regular scheduled activity, gamers want to schedule when they can game together.
Holy shit.

Genuinely curious: if one is listening to their authentic inner voice, would they ever do this to themself?
Google vs Epic Games – Unredacted Documents Expose Google Monopoly Again
I was under the impression that shadowbanning was a moderation technique reserved for the admins, and unavailable to subreddit moderators; IIRC, it also applied to the entire website.
I'd imagine with $15B Apple could bootstrap its own search engine.
You might want to check Guilded (https://guilded.gg)
Well, in that hypothetical reality, I'd submit a dossier about myself to the ad platform. It would simplify so many things for everyone. If I could trust the advertisers, they wouldn't have to spy on me to learn about my habits - I would just volunteer them. My likes and dislikes, my dreams and my deep problems.

Alas, this is not how the real world works. Everyone on the advertising side has an incentive to exploit my weak sides, so I can't trust advertisers in general. And so they spy on me, and I'm desperately trying to protect myself.

Your hypothetical reality is an unstable equilibrium. Our actual reality is a stable one. So even if, by some miracle, the stars aligned and the hypothetical suddenly became real, it would very quickly degenerate into our current reality. "In paradise, the first one to pick up a stone becomes Genghis Khan", and all that.

So, in conclusion, adtech industry needs to be burned out by regulatory means like the cancer it is, until what remains can be reshaped into a construct that provides value to the society.
Federal government to expand use of facial recognition despite growing concerns
Some things that could help:

- Worker representation on company boards. Meaning that those who work on the product at an everyday level gain influence over the overall direction of the company.

- Progressive taxation of corporations to bias our economy towards small companies that are more likely to care about their users, and to encourage more competitive markets.

- Regulation to enforce interoperability and/or the ability to export data.

None of these things are about abandoning capitalist ideas entirely. There's a lot of merit to them. But they are about tweaking them to that power doesn't solely lie with money and is diluted with power from other sources.
Yes! It's entirely too easy to karma farm by either posting me-too or deeply controversial comments because if people disagree you might get downvoted slightly past zero for a given comment, but if you hit a winner you'll get hundreds or even thousands of upvotes. Detecting and blocking every one of those high noise low signal people would really help. At least until they adapt.
Just avoid the main subreddits, and use an alternative client like teddit.net (no ads, fast to load, no tracking). Reddit still has lot of niche communities that are interesting to follow.
The same is true for swedish subreddits. /r/sweden for example is also heavily pushed by Reddit as all new users from swedish ips automatically is subbed to that subreddit.

I stopped using Reddit because of the increased amount of censorship and bans for thinking the incorrect stuff and as someone else said my life is better for it.

Reddit was once a beacon of freedom of speech and today it is a tool to supress freedom of speech and thoughts that go against the mainstream.
https://archive.is/aaBjD
Um, what? I don't think either of those things have ever happened to me (unless you're talking about join/leave noises on the rooms?). Are you sure you're talking about Discord?
Haha thank you! Unfortunately I think a lot of people are suffering under the status quo.
Again, you'll be happier with real ones rather than images. Also the more I look into it the more some of the WSB stuff looks fake. Some was certainly real but there was a lot of manipulation going on there.
I wouldn't be entirely sure. Discord communities are much more isolated than on other social media sites. Outside discoverability, which is pretty poor you don't end up seeing what is going on even on other public servers. So if they continue to deliver good enough product to gamers and then entice other communities to join it could work very well.
> At the core it's a matter of convenience.

Conveninece also means different things for different people. For me is includes being able to re-watch my favorite content whenever I want and on whatever device I want - no exeptions - even if the the internet is down, even if the creator no longer wants to make it available. The only thing that can guarantee that is something that gives me DRM-free files that I can manage however I want. Unfortunately for movies and shows noone provides this - best non-piracy option are physical discs but even those are so filled with anti-piracy measures (and other questionable technical decisions) which only serve to make the experience worse than piracy.
> I don't know why you're going through all that effort instead of just creating a new account.

I think there is some kind of IP or cookie based identification going on.

One of my accounts was permabanned on the German /r/de subreddit for publically questioning a mod decision. At the next login I found that ALL of my accounts that I used for serious and professional subreddits (netsec, python, learnmachinelearning) and never once used on /r/de had also been permabanned.

I wrote to the helpdesk but they only told me to contact the mods of /r/de which is impossible if you're permabanned.
If you create a tax that disproportionately hits poor drivers, you can balance that out with redistributive taxes - and incentives for buying electric cars that mainly benefit poor people.

Currently most incentives for buying electric cars benefit the wealthy. For example in the UK, I can get 45% of my tax back through salary sacrifice on an electric car, whereas a person on basic rate only gets 20%. It should arguably be the other way around i.e. a "super deduction" for the poor, capped at basic rate relief for the rich.
> Panic sold 20k units in 20 minutes

The sales-power of injection mold plastics.
Nigeria economy grows 5% in second quarter, its third consecutive growth
>What alternatives are there?

Just spitballing, but an independent auditor that puts a dollar value on the expected long term gains/losses to a company's brand portfolio based on recent management decisions could help reduce certain types of short-term "cashing in" behaviour.

>The most profitable public companies seem to invest quite heavily in long term investments and have long term planning. This does not seem to square with your statement.

Maybe not the largest companies, but he's basically described the default behaviour of private equity firms.
> Anything that requires combining a click with the shift and ctrl/cmd keys is not going to go down well with the average user

This is how computers have worked since pretty much day 1, not just the web. I remember getting computing classes in school, but it seems the current generation is completely ignoring all of that and instead just plays on their phone.

More built-in widgets would be great though.
The solution would be to convert it to fuel, burn it again, then capture it again. Thereby creating carbon neutral fuel for air, shipping and road transport (as long as the energy going into the system is itself carbon neutral).
China's Microsoft Hack May Have Had a Bigger Purpose Than Just Spying
Full-Size Lego Toyota GR Supra Revealed
GOG is great and reasonably priced. I never pirate what I can find on GOG.
That may works with the client, but not as a tab which sorrily is the only privacy sensible option
Apple Donates $10 of Apple Pay Purchases at Apple to National Parks
Some moderators do a soft shadowban where they simply delete every post you make in their sub with no notification. The is functionally like a shadowban - you can see the post in your history and have no way of knowing it was deleted without signing out or using a different account, other than a suspicious lack of votes or replies.
Lisa Shaw: Presenter's death due to complications of Covid vaccine
I assumed it did.
Sorry, but this is just sad.
Just by accessing an Web site for the first time, it has access to all HTTP headers used to build all requests required for the page, your IP address and a couple of other metadata.

That can be combined with other sources that the Web site vendors have contract with, including so called knowledge databases, that can correlate such information.

People that keep arguing for native being less secure than Web, just because they can use telemetry, have no idea to what extent marketing engines are able to extract information from each HTTP request.
You can’t autocomplete "shit" via the iOS keyboard and several other swear or politically incorrect words.
> and title descriptions

To my mind, it's the title descriptions that are the most clickbaity. I get the sense that Netflix are beding over backwards to ensure that you can't form an impression of the flic from that description.

I cancelled my Netflix subscription. Less and less of the titles are well-known 3rd-party productions; more and more are Netflix productions that I have found to be rather dull. Their ability to "divine my preferences" was never much good, but it's got worse.

Of course, they don't really care about my preferences; what matters for Netflix is what they would prefer me to watch, apparently.

Youtube's ability to discern my preferences also seems to have nosedived over the last year. I watched one programme about a certain WWII aircraft; YT then started pushing at me an unending diet of aircraft restoration docs and amateur historian channels.
Probably wouldn’t be a great fit for touch or screen reader interfaces, though.
not really, but the account did become inactive right around the time she was imprisoned
/r/portland is like this too. You have to adhere to their politics precisely or they might just start deleting everything you post with no warning.
It's a good thing we don't all have guns like folks in the States. Not too many mass murders here. And if you think you're protected from your government, you're talking about guys with small arms vs other guys with tanks.
> Quality people.

A bit trigger happy with the ad hominem there considering you probably think of yourself as the rational side.

> ivermectin

From the first link:

> The use of ivermectin, among others repurposed drugs for prophylaxis or treatment for COVID-19, should be done based on trustable evidence, without conflicts of interest, with proven safety and efficacy in patient-consented, ethically approved, randomised clinical trials.

But there are over 30 RCTs with positive results.

Second link is about one particular study. Again there are over 30 RCTs.
Rip off of Cloud to Butt.

https://github.com/panicsteve/cloud-to-butt
Show HN: AlphaChat – NLU chatbots that can authenticate users
Some users don't know what key "shift" refers to.
Nah. This is people who are being harrassed making fun of the idiots. It won't solve any problem, but it helps with a mindset to deal with it.
Glad I never donated to Mozilla.
> At what cost? Hasn’t NSW been under a severe lockdown for months now?

It's a meaningless question without any numbers. Show me the economic impact for, for example, the UK versus Australia. Who comes out better in growth and GDP?
> we have a pervasive norm that you can't be in my house without my permission. With or without cameras, you've violated the norm

Well, I also do my Internet browsing from home. What are you doing in my house with your ads and trackers?

Adtech industry is stepping on quite a lot of norms indeed. Not surveilling people in their homes is one that's commonly violated. That a HTTP user agent is free to interpret and present the response from a HTTP server in any way it (and the user) sees fit is another, this one frequently fretted about, and users are being bullied over it.

(Another one would be consent - this one got enshrined into law in the EU. It annoys adtech people so much that they deploy every possible psychological manipulation trick to deprive users of their agency without crossing the legal line - and quite often with blatantly illegal practices. When confronted, they try to shift the blame for their techniques to regulators who are "forcing" them.)
P != NP

... but answering your questions would make a great techno-thriller story.
Mods can set up automoderator with a shitlist of users whose messages are deleted the very moment they're posted, as the moderation system is built into reddit now.

So it's not a true shadowban, but any posts you make on subreddits who have shitlisted you will get deleted instantly.

And of course when a post of yours is deleted on reddit by a mod, reddit does not tell you this or indicate it to you in any way.
Windows is still relevant too. Average people don't care about UX it seems.
No one uses voice chat in public servers. You use voice chat in private friends servers. You get home turn on your desktop and see 3 friends on a chat and join in.
A more pychonesque* idea would be that the political subs of whatever colour are run by only one US government agency to give the illusion of freedom and dissention. "The party is over".

*E.g. Inherent Vice.

A more believable idea as it's based on fact is that Reddit is the playground of paid PR and marketing firms. Makes sense for a PR firm to have moderation powers too. (I suppose this might also be later Pychonesque or more like William Gibson?)
Negotiation skills. Let’s start off with this: Why do you hate it?
> European doctors will never prescribe this officially) as I reach 50-60.

In Austria you can get HGH from several normal doctors easily (even against "stress" or sleeplessness).

E.g. https://antiaging-wien.at/wachstumshormon-hgh/

Try to stay away from the black market...

> growth hormone even rejuvenates the thymus, the immune system (and may prevent cancer this way, if not over-used)

I believe it's generally thought that HGH will always speed up tumor growth, so you should not assume there are safe amounts to take. The safe way is to get regular screening.
Dr Olsterholm’s CIDRAP Covid Podcast
A diet consisting mainly of fruit is bad for you
How many people actually want to switch from Google?
I agree! For years I frequented Reddit many times a day. No I don't go there at all.

What worked for me was slowly unsubing until it was so boring, it just kind of lost the dopamine hitting effect.

Eventually, I never returned.
I don’t think anybody is arguing that shoving glibc into an Alpine image is a great idea.

But if I decided to make an “alpine-goofy” image where I started with “FROM alpine” and then renamed all the binaries so cp was rm and rm was ls and so on, it would be a stupid idea but not trademark infringement.

Could this project do everybody a favor by adding a banner saying “Hey y’all just FYSA we are not affiliated w/ Alpine upstream, please don’t send them glibc support requests”? Totally. But I’m shocked that Alpine’s approach here is to start by trying to implement a technical blocker for what I can install on my Alpine image, with an offhand remark that maybe they could try talking to the image owner first.
This is pretty cringe, it sounds like an add-on 4chan would make ironically not the actual developer of the browser who should, you know, be actually developing the browser.
Touch screen OSes usually have their own implementations.
Is it any efficient compared to aerially seeding? https://youtu.be/7U7oGXycJGM?t=70
before they get banned again...
Slack learned us to join and leave channels on purpose. This is something I totally miss with discord. There is always EVERYTHING at once hammering at me. For me a definitely not work friendly environment because it builds on distractions.