skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't take VC money if you don't wanna be forced to find a 10x exit for those investors.

The investors want an exit, so they have to IPO. To IPO at a reasonable valuation, they need to demonstrate significant revenue potential. And to get significant revenue, they need to monetize the hell out of the userbase.

You can do that through:

1. Ads--monetize your user's attention.

2. Subscriptions--monetize your user's attachment to your service.

3. Surveillance capitalism--monetize your user's data.

Very few services have shown the ability to hit that 10x target with #2, and thus Reddit chose paths #1 and #3.

The lesson: Once again, for those in the back row 1) if you're not paying for the product, you are the product, and 2) don't build communities on closed platforms unless you're comfortable with the potential of a rug-pull.
Thanks for posting the Kelley talk. It was interesting but I think also incomplete. Change occurs because nothing is forever. The foundation approach seems better than many, but I think that Kelley has an overly rosy view of foundations and excessively negative view of for-profits. There doesn't seem to be a documented method of voting for new board members, etc. It looks to me like a limited partnership set up as a nonprofit to enable donations. Not a problem, except it still has the same problems that Kelley describes SQLite as having.
I was looking at cleaning up some of my old drive, and I was basing my decisions on outdated information. At some point in the past it used to be necessary to do many overwrites to truly erase the data, and I was just stuck on that. Took me a bunch of research on modern drives and latest best practices before I was able to convince myself what I "knew" was no longer valid, and things have changed.

I imagine that is where a lot of folks are at on this. Basically: It used to be possible, so maybe it still is. Not worth the risk, lets just go with the old best practices to be safe.
Also spent 10s of millions on a highly suspect acquisition that has something like a .01% customer retention/conversion rate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubsmash
The real boycott is to stop moderating and let the place become a junkyard of spam and disinformation.
Your DNA literally changes based on your virtues especially as a kid, there is a reason in the Republic the Greeks called it absolutely important to order the soul as a child with these three practices: Gymnastics, Music, and Philosophy(living the life in question). I mean all the above and eating healthy food.
It's just peanuts that could be captured this way, isn't it?

It seems to me that better way would be stopping adding to the greenhouse effect and store some of those gases in the ground (by large scale (a|re)forestation).
Here's a start - feel free to go off on your own and learn.

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-preventi...

"What’s worse, says Blaha, many e-cigarette users get even more nicotine than they would from a combustible tobacco product: Users can buy extra-strength cartridges, which have a higher concentration of nicotine, or increase the e-cigarette’s voltage to get a greater hit of the substance."
I’ve been mulling this over this morning and in the end, I think you’re right. I keep making the Discord comparison everywhere because from a structural comparison (on Twitter you follow people, on Reddit and Discord you follow communities) it seems the obvious analogue, but honestly it might just be that Reddit can actually die and it would leave no void to be filled by anything in particular.
Can you please expand how this is under antitrust in 2011?

I dont see it - at least in 2011 market share iOS was I think second after Android.
they still might.
> this is a feature, not a bug...it keeps these people out of the real world and glued to their keyboards where their blast radius is limited to their own echo chamber

This is not preferable. Extremist bullshit is the only product of echo chambers. Eventually it breaches containment and becomes a real world problem.
Which one is the browser that i can pay for and keep my privacy, then? Safari?
For me in the EU it fails once a year or so and only on the few occasions I use reddit's own webpage instead of a third party app or web like libreddit.
I'm super dubious about their conclusions here. Fat people drink diet soda because they are trying to avoid sugar. Diet soda actually tastes damn good these days, there isn't really a reason to drink regular soda.
But that's not a generalizable like for like comparisons. Yes, cities are more expensive today but they're also not crack induced hellscapes. Crack induced hellscape is obviously an exaggeration but cities were legitimately much worse. Violet crime was 2-3 times higher, pollution was terrible, and they were generally not very nice. It's not a surprise they were cheaper to live in back then.

The houses I grew up in are more affordable today then they were when my parents bought them. Inflation adjusted price is about the same but interest rates were far higher.
When we compare the opportunity that space tech provides to that of both Avro and Blackberry, the question to me is how have the incentives changed? Culturally, we have an attachment to K-selection over r-selection of companies, meaning that instead of creating the conditions for an ecosystem of competitors to thrive, the CDN governments pick winners and turn them into state codependents who are surprised to lose to more agile companies who came up through competition. We're the talent, but not the money.

It's a mix of a cultural naivety about economics and a business establishment who do just fine with a few banks and the natural resource sector - as why risk investing in early stage anything when that money is safer in bank stocks and extractive industries? Canada doesn't really benefit from space tech either, as the economics of space exploration are about mineral exploitation, which is Canada's stock in trade, and asteroid mining is a direct competition to our strip mining the north.

Our R&D tax breaks skew the incentives to achieve the opposite of their intent, where some of the work on the research does get done here, but the resulting IP, revenue, and market cap gets owned by US parent entities. They use Canada as an engineering maquiladora for cheap and directly subsidized labour. An actual competitive policy would reward investment and growth of an ecosystem and not merely subsidize the piecework toil that investment pays for. We could collect from a greater number of M&A windfalls instead of just skimming income tax revenue off software developers as well.

However our politics are too hobbit-like to create a serious venture ecosystem, so sure, some people will use the relative comfort of the country to produce some space tech, but I don't see the case for investing in space tech here when you can invest in more favourable markets and just use our cheap engineering talent to get you to your exit. Canada is mainly services firms that don't produce any IP or durable or acquirable value. A lot of people say it's broken, but the other thing about this place is that it's almost never broken, it just works for someone you can't see.
JRNL – A Commandline Journal
Forum sliding and bots may be driving these things. Forums are historically pretty easy to manipulate and Reddit isn't so different from other BBs that have been around for decades now.
I don't disagree with the difficulty of the task. I'm just saying that IF there would be an alternative, Apollo would probably be the best starting point, at least if one were going for fast scaling.
This is at the top of HN because Cloudflare is not delivering a product people pay them for.
Interestingly, one of the largest started as https://patriots.win/ which was created in the wake of the notorious the_donald subreddit's quarantine and ban. Top posts still get 50-200 comments and 1000+ upvotes, and it seems to have fairly high volume with hundreds of new posts per day.

They branched out to become a general reddit-like alternative with other supposedly neutral and separately moderated subs, but the other ones have far lower activity levels - see their version of /all: https://communities.win/
Yeah there definitely was no public pivot - it was never available as a device for the general public or even advertised that way.
Most popular languages have a version of this, including Java. This is only one level of documentation, and one must know a bit about what they don't know to use it effectively. In other words, if you already know that you need to use the foo function, then the foo function's documentation is great. If you don't even know which function or class/module to use, it isn't a great starting point.
There may be alternatives to specific subreddits, but there is no Reddit alternative. There is only one macro network like Reddit, and that is Reddit. Maybe that network effect breaks, but I doubt that happens because of this.
Or some of the people who would use reddit right now came here. I usually read hacker news when I try to reach reddit and it is down.
Depends...

If a multitude of bots are written immediately retry upon receiving an error without backing off, and are now stuck in loops of flooding the servers with requests, could the number of requests become a greater factor than the simplicity of the responses?
>I get blocked or forced into captchas at least three times per week.

Same.

I get blocked on websites I have accounts on if I use a VPN. I'm not just a visitor, I'm a member, and still get blocked by cloudflare. Other times it's a small or local business and to me the website just looks down. Then, if I bother to think about and willing to drop my VPN, suddenly the website works fine.

Treating VPN users as hostile is getting really fuckin old.
Yet another alarmist article. These predictions are so easy to make and nobody cares if you are wrong. From the past (you can google more yourself):

https://apnews.com/article/bd45c372caf118ec99964ea547880cd0
https://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/18/world/scientists-say-eart...
https://nypost.com/2021/11/12/50-years-of-predictions-that-t...
Qspie – Bxbx OU
If (all of) your users are worried about it, or can be convinced to, it's not difficult to put great measures in place today.
It’s published by Paradox Interactive, of course they are. We’ll be lucky if we even have that day/night cycle on release.
Well they could, but who is going to moderate then?
I miss when BBS were all the rage.
Just imagine if Google was doing something like this; I bet the HN servers would melt down from the outrage! MS often gets a pass in these areas because people think of it as the "underdog", when in reality, MSFT is the biggest software company out there.
>The architecture was like the most hardcore people from some deeply political place like the GNU project (it's Apache licensed, I mean more in terms of ethos) got together to make the least monetizable architecture they could. Content is hosted on any HTTP server, servers are run by anybody who wants, and there's no lock-in whatsoever. It horrified content creators.

Sounds awesome.
Wrote 1,300 words on how to best use system messages for prompts
Was curious on how system messages affect outputs and decided to run some experiments to test prompts side by side (across different models, variants in context placement). Found some interesting results, including how system messages can help prevent prompt injections + avoid unwanted responses.
> And no you could publicly question everything back then.

You're remembering things through rose-colored glasses. Ellen DeGeneres and Laura Dern, Bill Maher and the Dixie Chicks can tell stories of what happened in the 90s and 2000s when you went against the mainstream. In fact, people were cancelled over the silliest things (remember nipplegate?). Government censorship was also alive and well: Under the Bush junior administration, NASA and EPA scientists were not allowed to use the phrase 'global warming'.
Revolt Chat – Open Source Discord-like Chat App
Prisoner's Dilemma is a good example but probably has a lot of bias due to its naming convention. I think I prefer the Stag's Game for this situation. And honestly, the Stag's game is probably more applicable to this situation.

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Both players have the choice of picking "Rabbit" or "Stag". "Rabbit" is the independent choice, you score 1 point for picking the Rabbit.

"Stag" is the cooperation choice. You get 10 points if both players pick stag, but 0 points if the opponent picks Rabbit.

Its not so much that the current situation is a betrayal (ie: Prisoner's Dilemma), as much as the current Reddit situation is picking a short-sighted, still profitable, choice. (Rabbit). But by picking Rabbit, they're screwing the community (who has gotten used to picking Stag / scoring 10 points instead).

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Unlike the Prisoner's Dilemma, the Stag's game is bimodal. If both players are picking "Stag", the Nash Equalibrium is to continue picking stag forever more.

But if for some reason, a player ever makes a mistake and picks "Rabbit", the game switches to Rabbit-meta and neither player ever has a reason to go back to pick "Stag".
And I never said otherwise.
WHO provides no value whatsoever at this point. It's clearly halfway between a joke and a self serving bureaucracy with a parallel structure of anti west social purpose thrown in for good measure.
As this post hints at in the discussion of sulfur emissions at sea, all it takes to significantly slow global warming is one country or sufficiently motivated non-state actor deciding to go all-in on geoengineering (like seeding the stratosphere with sulfur dioxides).

Compare this to the collective action problem of everyone, including rapidly industrializing poorer countries, spending trillions to decarbonize their economy and it's pretty clear which outcome is more likely. The only question is which country (or countries) will be first to attempt it, and what will trigger them to act.
> his father is
This is not slow-moving.
You can start by switching to Firefox (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browsers/). It's a perfectly fine browser, good extensions.
I can relate to your concern regarding fake sign-ups. As a small business owner, it's been frustrating to deal with fraudulent activities -- I've wasted so much time pruning my CRM and marketing to bots... While I haven't personally used FullContact's Verify products, I took a look at their website and API docs, and it seemed worthy of checking out -- I just signed up for a free trial and will post results. Their Match offering sounds promising. Thanks for sharing!
In this article is the first time I've seen a graph with units "Hiroshimas per Seconds". https://climatecasino.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Ocean_H...
I don't think it's so much a matter of getting them to IPO than in getting the maximum price at the IPO. Effectively, a pump and dump scheme except it's not considered such by the SEC.

The third party clients hurt ad revenue, kill them. Once the stock is out the door the problems that result aren't going to hurt them, just the suckers who fell for it.
How many fat people have you seen lose weight and keep it off forever? Not very damn many that's for sure.
Sounds like I’m going the Irssi route then, at least as a fallback if my assessment of Colloquy is correct. I would have preferred something a bit more Mac than Unix, but beggars can’t be choosers. Thanks!
That's why the venture capital industry exists, though -- to get reasonably-quick returns on their investment, at a higher rate than just putting their money into an index fund. If you're not going to potentially give them back 10x their investment in one big lump sum, you're not worth it to them. It's also why VC deals are generally structured as stock purchases, rather than loans that expect repayment. They're genuinely not in it for slowly raking in small returns over the next 50 years.

(And then, of course, they spread their investments out so that the one big success that gives them 1000x their money back pays for all the companies that flamed out chasing inadvisable growth.)
They were shown to be exploitable by JS (though I think V8 had a mitigation, WASM probably not?)

Anyway, modern chips have hardware fixes, these microcode updates and kernel retpolines etc. should be less impactful if your CPU was made post-meltdown.
Now there's a name I haven't heard in a while. Seems to be still going strong. Clickable Link: https://www.metafilter.com/
But if I do the math compared to my normal desktop monitor in pixels per FOV, the headset comes nowhere near close to a normal desktop setup.

You would have to make your virtual monitors pretty big in order to have a lot of comfortably readable content and that sounds like an ergonomics nightmare to be moving your neck around all day looking all around your virtual screens.
I am very familiar with how a wet-bulb thermometer works and some of the ways it's useful (like at altitude for weather forecasts, and as one of the ways to build a hygrometer) but I'm struggling to make the connection that you've made as to why it'll be a household term. Mind explaining?
Will definitely give this a try. I'm sick of fighting with Loki on upgrades and a recent migration that refuses to save to S3 properly. Exactly to your point of having to dive deep in so many components.
And who will moderate them?
Honestly, I can't believe it that here it is 2023(!!), and there still exist sites that can't figure out reliable cross-browser video playback.

These sites should just give up, provide the URL to the raw video file, and let users play them back in whatever way works for them.
>. But most Android apps were built exclusively for smartphones, with small vertical displays. Only apps which have been developed to account for large displays actually provide a good user experience on those devices.

While there are apps that do this on IOS (Snapchat , Instagram) I believe the introduction of Stage Manager on iPad has prepared IOS app makers for dynamic windowing better than Android Tablets and folding phones have.
The 20 limit was really based on personal experience in the sense that those are 20 really high fidelity connections with people you know and interact with in a way that's more powerful than the network of 100 interrelated people. So if I have a close friend group of less than 20, in fact more like 12-15, I know that's going to be a tight knit group. Whereas if I open that up to 100, it might be more generically based around some interest like "tech dads" with passive conversation but mostly dominated by the vocal minority. Maybe there's a place for that but I'd be interested to learn and see the limits myself before opening it up. Or just charge for that 100 member group.

I know in a community setting you have more passive members than not. I just don't know if I want to start out enabling that before having really solid admin and moderation tools.
Signing a PDF via "/s/ Name E. Name" and sending it via e-mail solves the "lost pages" issue, and doesn't require the parties to use cryptographic techniques.
Exactly this. In fact I first thought of https://ucsx.org/ then realized that JS strings do allow lone surrogates, and then further realized that none of this don't matter at all because the external storage format is entirely disconnected to the JS semantics. So as long as we can agree on which storage format to standardize and upgrade everything accordingly (which would be really a drama), JS wouldn't make an additional dent.
There was some discussion and links about it in the “Building a Better Rust Community” post yesterday. The post is inaccessible today due the protest against reddit, but will be back tmw.

https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/146qxzn/building_a_be...
They're the same thing and used interchangeably. The sexual abuse is from the sharing lascivious pictures of someone taken without their consent, with the additional context that children are not understood to be capable of consent for sharing lascivious pictures. It is not physical abuse.
This is correct. While it's true that running your own instance is far from simple if you don't have server experience, in my opinion it's the ideal way to interact with the fediverse. I run my own instance, so I know my content is regularly backed up and I have access to the entire fediverse (many larger instances will block other instances at the server level for moderation reasons, so users on those servers are unable to see any content from the blocked instance).

As for community, you have to seek out users on other servers to follow in order to bootstrap yourself, but once you've done that, their posts will federate to your instance and vice versa. You can also go directly to other sites and copy the thread link into your instance to interact with it, or if the site supports it, you can log in via OAuth with your own account and interact natively with the content on the other instance.
>>> But it’s not as if someone is getting up in the morning and making a decision that they’re going to be a large person

This fallacy is a big problem with people claiming that various negative things in life are "not choices". The idea is that if you can't bring it about by "waking up one morning and deciding to be xxx" then it's not a choice.

This is plainly untrue. Many situations take a series of bad choices to bring about, and a corresponding series of good choices to fix. The fact that you can't simply decide get into a given situation instantly or decide to get out of it instantly doesn't mean that it's not a choice.
Opinion is here: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/22-148_3e04.pdf

Shorter read than most opinions. Contains some great quotes, considering the two products...

Kagan opens the opinion with the line: "This case is about dog toys and whiskey, two items seldom appearing in the same sentence.", which I found amusing.
Let's be fair, WebP lossless is pretty good, it has a couple advantages:

1. Almost always produces smaller files than PNG, even after PNG optimizers

2. Supported by all web browsers.

WebP lossless' disadvantage comes in that the maximum dimensions of the file are limited to 16383×16383. I find images larger than that on a frequent basis, it's not a very high limit. It also only supports 8-bit per color images. Good enough for screenshots, not good enough for some editors.

Lossless is a category of codecs where file size is almost the only factor anyone cares about. Pretty much all of them are fast enough to not bother measuring with encode or decode speeds.

JPEG XL will perform even better in lossless mode than WebP lossless does, but it's not currently supported by any browser (it's in Safari beta and behind a config flag in Firefox Nightly).
It’s moving super slowly, and if nothing is done by the end of the century, we’ll be slightly worse off than we are now.
Therefore... panic?
Perl 5 had a change there, too, in between the versions shipped in RHEL 7 and 8, iirc something about {} changed.
Reminds me of the issue where Xerox machines would replace some 9’s on your scanned documents with 0’s due to over enthusiastic compression.

https://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres...
Interesting. Alberta had plenty of wildfires even before the 'regular' wildfire season even began. Before any other place in NA. Now they are starting to have crop failures and are en route to 'zero production': https://globalnews.ca/news/9761043/dry-spring-southern-alber... . Of course they also reelected their conservative pro-culture war government while in the middle of all of this, Texas of Canada indeed.
I’ve found the per-country overview of general legality of digital signatures on DocuSign [0] quite informative.

As an example, in DK an email constitutes a valid contract for most purposes.

[0] https://www.docusign.com/products/electronic-signature/legal...