skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I already knew where this was going. Reddit has been unusable for me as a contributor for a long time, I'd say 9/10 when I post something on an arbitrary subreddit my post tends to get deleted.

It really is infuriating, either you didn't comply to one of their many rules (and every subreddit has different rules), or you used a keyword that triggered moderation, or you posted in the "wrong" subreddit (I wish they would just repost for you in that subreddit then), etc.

At this point I've pretty much stopped posting, because I already know it'll be a nightmare to get a post approved (and even more so if you're on the app, which makes it really hard to retry posting if you get your post deleted due to forgetting about one of the subreddit rule).

Another bad thing is that, if you find that a subreddit community is toxicaly moderated (hurr r/sanfrancisco) then you don't have much choice but to leave completely. It's often way too hard to compete with an established subreddit, or to have your voice heard if you want to complain about the moderation or promote an alternative. Subreddit takeovers are truly a thing of the past due to the dilution of them all.

If I had to guess why there's such a problem, I would say: when you're moderating a subreddit you get tons of people who are here just because your subreddit was crossposted somewhere else, or suggested in their feeds. Very few people are on your subreddit because they visited the direct URL. So nobody cares about your rules, or your culture, etc. A subreddit really became like a normal category to sort posts on Reddit.
Looking at the graphs on the article, what sticks out immediately is two things. Why did the data only start in 2004, that's not a very long range, and where are the error bars. We are reporting statistics here, so we should see some sort of measure of the statistical accuracy shouldn't we?
Related: the Transmission Remote GUI that allows to control the client from elsewhere. I use it with the Transmission client contained in the XigmaNAS NAS software which I run headless.

https://github.com/transmission-remote-gui/transgui
Why destroy NS1 then and not NS2 (NS1 and NS2 both have two pipes and only one of the two NS2 pipes were destroyed)?
And why destroy it at this exact time when Russia was already coming up with less and less plausible excuses to halt deliveries via NS1 (both NS1 pipes were destroyed)?
Why not wait with the nuclear option until there were even signs that NS2 would come online (Germany had already halted the certification process for NS2 shortly before the invasion).. NS2 was already dead.
It takes a high level of obsession for me to read an article about Musk on HN and say "lol"
For someone that says they're not a Musk apologist or to ignore Musk, you seem to have a rather long history of coming out specifically to defend Musk. You realize your immediate comment history is apparent, right?

For reference [1] [2] [3] and so forth.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33999369

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33986234

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33986409
It actually is because I can utilize my machine better by having less processes running and lighter ones at that. I can run ZFS easily. I can have a minimal kernel, reducing my attack surface.

I can customize installed packages, such as what I did above.

Also, it taught me system administration.

Totally worth the effort.

As for getting rid of Go, I'm surprised that I had so few Go programs, and like I said, I was already planning on replacing two with my own stuff.
> Would appreciate hearing from an expert about why this is a thing. Also, if the addresses are virtualized, why not take the memory savings that'd come with efficiently packing the addresses into only 48-bytes?

Not an expert at all, but the the place where I've really used this sort of method is when writing a GC and trying to figure out where to store a "pointer has been visited" marker in the pointer instead of in a different data structure.

This was also on ARM, but quite a long time ago on a Sharp Zaurus. The word aligned pointer model gave 2 bits at the end of the pointer to mark cycles in GC pathway.

This was much simpler than a separate data structure to keep the mark phase of the traversal in memory & was an extension of the "1 bit reference counter" paper[1] with white, gray and black for the bits in there.

Of course, you need to go back and rewrite them out to 00, but with virtual memory in the mix you can play bigger tricks. This does save a lot of memory, hash lookups and is very low-overhead way of keeping a 1:1 metadata storage for every pointer you have.

You'll see the same trick in the JVM ZGC where higher bits are used to keep track of the metadata about the items being collected [2].

With a little bit of pointer arithmetic, you can also turn a pointer read-only to prevent some process from modifying shared data outside of a lock too, to avoid copying data before unlocking. I had a double mmap mode in PHP APC which segv'd when the core engine mutated a cached data structure outside of a lock[3].

[1] - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01932156

[2] - http://hg.openjdk.java.net/zgc/zgc/file/59c07aef65ac/src/hot...

[3] - https://notmysock.org/blog/2009/Jan/08/
I'm sure loading spinners will be used to some aesthetic purpose in the future
Yeah, i agree that linux gaming has become pretty painless, although VR gaming is still a big sore spot. If you want to see if a game runs smoothly with no tinkering, check https://www.protondb.com/. Any game listed platinum will run without tweaks on linux.
[1] linked above is an absolute powerhouse of a lecture by Michael Levin. Wow.
Please take Staph seriously, it will kill you if you let it. Keep a track of where your skin is red and if it spreads a lot you should go to a hospital and get IV antibiotics. Your doctor can help with all of this but the short of it is, take it seriously.
I trust Linus to keep the shitty contributions out (and lambast contributors if necessary).
A car (ICE/HEV/PHEV/BEV/FCEV) could be a backup heater
The de facto policy that men and white people as a group aren't covered by their anti-harassment policy also comes directly from the employees, not the mods.
ChatGPT and the Analytic-Synthetic Distinction
Definitely is past its best since it has finished and is no more...
And how quickly their theories are debunked. Seymour Hirsch must have it in for them.
$1 per tweet doesn't sound so silly any more :D
"virgin materials", in this case, would mean epoxy monomers, which would be very interesting chemically - polyepoxide bonds are really strong, which is the source of their utility, so reversing that bond without pyrolizing or otherwise damaging the polyepoxide structure would be a very interesting feat of chemistry and chemical engineering.

I wonder if they're testing it on pure cured blocks of epoxy, or actual samples of turbine rotors - often these kinds of processes end up having a loss fraction in real world usage, which would be understandable. I'm just an armchair chemist, but I do see a lot of epoxy resin used all over the place, so breaking it down completely would be pretty extremely useful, and certainly make me a lot less reticent to use it.
The best description I've heard of why more diagnosis is better is that as a society we're moving up Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs from level 2 "Safety Needs"
to level 3 "Love and Belonging".

For the first time in history there is psychological space to care about mental health and social issues en mass. So, of course, there's going to be an explosion of diagnosis.
It seems China is the only place that shows a different IP for joinpeertube.org [1] Are you seeing the same IP?

[1] - https://www.whatsmydns.net/#A/joinpeertube.org
I know nothing of him, but given that there's an entire paragraph about Jens Stoltenberg where almost every sentence is just completely factually wrong in a way that could be verified to be wrong with a look at the first paragraph on his Wikipedia page, I'm not inclined to take what he says seriously.

I mean, par for the course for modern journalism, I suppose.
> And in 45 years of using computers this has always been the case

Yes, because you presumably do your computing mostly behind some kind of NAT most of the time, and without any un-patched devices hanging out on the same LAN segment, and so there's no path for worms to have ever reached you by.

That's not necessary true for the average computer user, though, who connects to shared wired or wireless networks at an office/coworking space/internet cafe/university campus/etc. Those that do this may end up with either/both of 1. a public-routable (usually IPv6) address for bots and worms to talk to, and 2. a link on a multicast-routable subnet with other already-infected devices.

Also, a few years after you stopped using Windows, cryptocurrency was invented, which "changed the game" for cybercriminals in a lot of ways. Fun, meaningless, low-penetration cyberthreats don't exist any more; as "hacking groups" are now motivated by "real money" to get root on every PC they can so they can deploy crypto-miner background services, encrypt files and hold them for (cryptocurrency) ransom, exfiltrate the user's own crypto-wallet private keys, etc.
Looks like a bowl of snot. I so have to make this for my kids!
It has. Everyone’s kid now is a future pro millionaire. Our family has a decent few pro football (american) and baseball players and we have always played high level sports. My deal with the kids was always you play what you want at the level you want. If its not fun pick something else. I think sports are important. 2 of my kids did very well with soccer (college scholarship level) my youngest said nah. She danced and worked at the pet shelter :)
Title should probably be changed to: "Twitter has a rate limiting bug"
I tried with my favorite song and uuuh... https://maroofy.com/songs/1099847184 Most songs don't sound like Minerva at all. :(
I think some of us aren't having as bad a time as others. The trick is to carefully select technologies and pay attention to what you actually need to operate. Blindly diving 100% into the Microsoft offering hellscape is definitely going to be a bad time.

I use .NET/VS/Windows/etc throughout. I recognize products like Azure and SQL Server are a potential trap. So, I use .NET6+ but with SQLite and minimal AspNetCore projects instead of SQL Server and IIS. I could deploy our product to Linux with a few tweaks (i.e. drop System.Drawing image conversion laziness).

At work, we are a Windows-only shop for the most part. My daily driver is still a Windows PC. I have an M1 mbp I use around the house, but I generally dont get emotionally invested in exactly who vended my OS/machine. I chase the UX. I have zero loyalties to trademarks either way. Other factors are give or take depending on moon phases. If the machine feels good and fast, I use it. I don't fight it anymore. There are bigger problems in my mind.
But no man is an island, the minimum reproductive unit of homo sapiens is a village, etc.

You may not use those things directly, but you're dependent on those who do.
I looked and didn't bother .. I think it was at about ~$900. I'm not into crypto at all so don't have the infrastructure to sell it or whatever. Now it's worth... 127.47!
Ask HN: How do you add novelty to your days?
Not sure it's related to my ADD or not but it's been a while the whole cycle of [wake up, work, {gym/hobby}, cook, youtube, sleep, repeat] gives me a sense of mundaneness (except when I socialize). I feel like a prisoner in the repetition of life. How do you add surprise/novelty to your everyday life? (if you do)
The Animated Guide to Symex (2021)
Many social media sites experienced a brief outage today
Refuting Eric Weinstein's and Stephen Wolfram's Theories of Everything
Not really, no. All three cases (US Gov, Turkish Gov, Elon) are censorship of the public square in the end. I'm against all of them. As far as I'm concerned the US constitutional standard for free speech should apply to any platform above a certain size in terms of daily active users that facilitates communication between those users.
> Was it established that it was caused by explosives?

Yes.
There are Court cases that have established that the very fact that a connection is being established constitutes a potential collection of IP adresses and needs to be declares under GDPR. (this was specifically about sites using links to Google Fonts on their websites, this was enough to warrant a GDPR declaration that IP are being collected or the sites needed to remove their Font CDNs and supply them locally). Under the same Rule, Companies will need to ddeclare this usage of Go Compiler in their employee GDPR declaritions.
As someone who works in the energy field, I have been stoked to see these types of advancements in the past few years. When I first got into this field and would research green energy products, there was a limited field of players. Now there are so many start ups coming up with brilliant products that I can't even keep track! What a wonderful problem to have.

One of my favorite books is "The Wizard and the Prophet", and it's great to see more and more companies following in Norman Borlaug's footsteps and finding new ways the science/tech fields can serve humanity.

If anyone out there is feeling a bit down about the general state of the tech industry, I highly encourage you to look into jobs in the green energy field. It's an exciting space filled with lots of passionate, mission-driven folks. (And, in case you're wondering, most of us aren't the neurotic, perpetually angry types that dominate the activist space. We're pretty chill people who just want a healthy and affordable planet.)
I mentioned the official Dotnet SDK. You're out of date; it's not called Dotnet Core anymore; just Dotnet.

Mono is not dead. It's used in a bunch of commercial software for one thing, including Unity and Godot.

> If it's not it's an extremely niche thing of people who want to write desktop apps for linux in C#, a tiny slice of the market.

Can you think of why, other than marketshare, that I might mention Linux C# desktop apps in a thread about C# on Linux?
As a merchant myself, I would get rid of my credit card processor As Soon As Possible if a viable, inexpensive alternative existed. Obviously they'll fight tooth and nail to survive.
"Academic politics are so vicious precisely because the stakes are so small." and various versions: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/08/18/acad-politics/
When you use an OS that collects massive amounts of your data to use against you it means you'll be paying for it for the rest of your life. Windows 10 and 11 might be the most expensive pieces of software you've ever not really owned.
They probably are and it’s likely a different set of people than those that were laid off.
I’d wager a great deal of SpaceX’s success is down to competent management and a lot of people who believe in the mission and are willing to work very hard to make it happen.

I’d also wager that a not insignificant amount of time and effort is spent insulating Musk from anything important, rather like how an oyster coats an irritant in layers of nacre.

Twitter’s problem is that they no longer have competent management. Plus they’ve never needed the kind of organisational immune system that can deal with something like Musk before and are therefore wide open.
This is what I meant indeed
50000 people per day is ‘large customer’ territory? That’s less than a request per second.
Microsoft, as a private corporation, has no business coercing a user to maintain a standard on a device that does not belong to them. Enforcing public policy through tyranny is a role that should lie exclusively with a government accountable to its citizens. The history of western democracy is littered with wars fought to ensure this is the case.
I didn't mention cash at all, perhaps you meant to reply to a different comment?
> bank would be insolvent when the customer tries to transfer the $20 to another bank because that would deplete its entire reserves

"Transfer" loses its colloquial meaning at this level of banking granularity.

Interbank transfers involve two components: a message and settlement. If our aforementioned bank's customer "transfers" their $20 to another bank, the message would go across SWIFT or CHIPS or whatever, and then the sender's bank would credit the recipient bank's account at the sender's bank. (The intrabank case is trivial.)

If the customer asks for their $20 in cash or to be transferred via Fedwire, on the other hand, the latter being both a messaging and settlement system, run risk emerges. The bank needs to borrow against or sell assets to generate liquidity. (The Fed extends daylight overdraft protection [1], but that's a specific case of its lender-of-last-resort duty.)

But the bank becomes insolvent only when it is forced to fire sell assets or recognize their dubious value. Not when it extends the loan. Nor even when the customer demands their cash. At both those times, the balance sheet balances. It's just exorbitantly levered.

None of this says a bank should do this. Just that it can. In a system where deposits are loaned out, this cannot happen. In our system, where loans create deposits, it can. The former is the toy model we teach in school.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/daylight-overdraft.asp
Half the population wasn’t banned from twitter though.

But I agree it’s not good form to use words like these too often, otherwise they lose their meaning when they are truly appropriate.
Given the state of the Russian Navy, I wouldn't trust them to patrol a pond, let alone the Baltic Sea.
I’m one of the mods of a subreddit with over 50K subscribers and all I could say is that it is very tiring. And, looking to quit being a mod.

People just can’t read or won’t read the rules. One thing I hate most is that YouTubers high jacking or spamming without even engaging the community or in the comments. It’s so frustrating to keep removing it.
The Underdog Coffee Bean That Java Snobs Hate Is Finally Getting Some Respect
Hold an audition allowing all people to try out, and if a woman does get cast because she is best for the role, read the prepared statement before the play indicating the rights holders don't like it.
We already have had this with credit cards, drafts in various forms and crypto.

All this would do is get rid of the middleman and the defacto tax assessed on all commerce, both direct or indirect through sale of data.
For me, it was a performance, a role I played in my professional life. It was frequently tiring, but it led to a successful career. Being an introvert in corporate America is frequently a challenge. However, with effort and practice one can learn to navigate the swamp of corporate politics.
Geopolitical Strategist Peter Zeihan Speaks in Shreveport, LA [video][1h+]
You may be interested in RDF and SPARQL which supports federated queries. Much simpler than reinventing the wheel.

For more context, see https://ontop-vkg.org/guide/
The situation on classic MacOS was a bit different. The issue in that case was the the 68000 with a 32 bit architecture with a micro-architectural limitation of 24 bit addresses. Nobody thought deeply about the implication of that in terms of bincompat and ABI (which is not shocking, very few machines from that era were fully compatible with their predecessors). As such the processor just did not wire up the 8 address lines at all. A number of pieces of software (including the MacOS Toolbox) used those high bits for various things, and would read and write to addresses without masking the bits which worked because the address lines were not hooked up.

That is the reason why almost every future architectures after the 68000 specified the behavior for such unused bits (in general it is to sign extend them, IOW, the top bits must be all 1s or all 0s). If that had been the case on the 68000 then when software attempted to access pointers with data in the high bits it would have caused an exception when the load / store was issued. It is worth noting it would not have prevented people from using the top bits, it would have just forced them to manually mask them in software (a technique that is used all over the place for things like tagged pointers, etc). That still might have been an issue when the memory space was actually expanded to the point where the high bits were needed for real physical or virtual addresses.

TBI is actually about explicitly stating architecturally that these 8 bits are used for data not addresses. That is different from the situation on 68000 because it is an architectural guarantee that future processors will not use those bits for addresses, which means you won't have bincompat issues and you don't have to bother masking them before use dereference them.
My own explanation is that to be good at computer science you need to have had spent a lot of time in front of a computer during your childhood. The LGBT community used to be much less (and still is in most places) accepted IRL, and as such you'd have to find your community online.

So here you have it, that's my theory, a lot of LGBTs spent a lot of time online and then got hooked on computer science stuff.
Digital society sucks, and to a degree modern society in general.

There used to be religion, which you may dislike, but it offered social bonding at scale. You'd get to known an entire community, neighborhood, might make new friends or even find a spouse. Learn about people hobbies and form sub communities.

Or you go to school. Or to work, where before globalization you'd have a stable local team that you'd get to know very deeply. Or you may go to a bar, a hobby club, and attend public places for shopping, entertainment, whichever.

Now you wake up and the first thing you do is check your phone. Next, you may learn or work remotely, sitting alone, watching a screen breathing low quality air. You don't go to a store, you use delivery. You use your little work breaks to watch another screen, the smartphone. After dinner, there's more screen time. Passive entertainment, doomscrolling or interacting with a "community", weird little avatars on a screen.

You don't even have a relation with objects either. In the digital world, you don't really own anything. There's no stability. It's all fleeting, flexible, disrupted, empty. That's increasingly the dominant lifestyle: void.

The world is entirely financialized, hence you don't really live in a society, it's performance culture. You're expected to juggle 10 balls from an early age, which are life's "expectations". It offers no time for discovery, play or recovery. You need to check the damn boxes. The reward of mastering the boxes is that well actually...you still can't afford a basic middle class existence. The financial system constantly rug-pulls you whilst technology constantly disrupts your relevance.

Am I dramatizing? Yes, somewhat. But I sincerely mean it when I say that life used to better. We lost a lot.
https://archive.is/Ijsa0
Nice fanfic, but no one ever said he wasn't able, just that he was not willing. I think this is pretty clear by the fact that he tried to wiggle out of it and had to be forced by the court. No one was ever doubting that he didn't have the money to buy twitter, just that he wasn't stupid enough to go through with something so dumb just because he got triggered.
They've pretty obviously had an increase in service problems since the culling. Most services this size very rarely have outages. You had to go back to 2021 for facebook. Twitter has had several major outages since Musk's purchase.
If someone asked you "hey we want to promote you to permanent CEO. It'll be more work, you'll be forced to make unpopular decisions that will lead to rampant criticism, and we'll cut your salary" would you accept?
> Fortunately, EU managed to store up plenty of gas and the winter was mild, so russian blackmail has failed.

Hooray for global warming?
That's a wild exaggeration. I would experience occasional hiccups once or twice a year. I'm usually pretty active, tweet or reply a few hundred times a month.