skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“looked like he belonged in a Heritage Minute”

Context for those wondering wtf a heritage minute is https://www.historicacanada.ca/productions/minutes
There are some truly terrifying hypercapitalists on hn
If you are a young person in the USA you are leading an extremely priviledged and lavish life compared to the vast majority of people in all of human history. The fact that people still find time to complain and somehow play victim is crazy to me.
Wow.. I'm glad I'm not using Edge... Unfortunately I still need Windows on one computer though
other subreddits. however reddit's search is so bad that nobody is going to find them
No, they couldn't.

Second Life is a bizarre, organic creation that nobody wants to repeat in the shape it exists. It has lots of porn. It has furries. It has goreans. It's almost entirely built by a dedicated and very fickle community. It has a marketplace on which you can buy hundreds of varieties of a penis.

Pretty much nobody besides Philip Rosedale wants to repeat that (and he tried with High Fidelity, which now still lives on as open source forks, including the one I'm part of). That's because no sane company wants that tricky mess on their hands. They want something nice and fluffy that won't scandalize grandma, not SL, where people made a special client that restrains the user, for BDSM applications.

Pretty much every sanitized clone of SL flopped because all that weirdness is what gives it its charm.
This isn’t the exact same, but there’s a similarity in order-of-magnitude differences and flow rates: Most professional pilots work for the airlines. When you remove military, it’s a huge majority. Most pilot jobs flow into the airlines. It’s a pretty cohesive labor market.

So, whatever market forces are going on for pilot labor in your little niche job are completely dominated by the airlines. Like you’d think banner towing jobs would be mostly affected by advertising trends, but they’re not. Passenger travel trends are way more important. (This is for the job market, not the business market)

Similarly, the flow from a way bigger site can overwhelm whatever you have going on.
Thank you so much! I sent you an email.

As an aside, do you get a bunch of spam from having your email semi-public?
I believe it can run chrome natively now and has a fairly robust POSIX layer, no idea on performance though
That was my guess, not knowing anything about Reddit's architecture. The "this subreddit is private" message probably used to be really rare, so it probably does the auth check for every request. Now every Google result links to "this subreddit is private", and so traffic to that endpoint went up by orders of magnitude. The result is an outage.

If I were an SRE at Reddit, the day I got wind of the "we're making all subreddits private" thing, I'd double check that code-path to see what we were in for on Day 0. However, I am not.
I was a USENET addict- long ago I had a shell account on "world.std.com" (The Software Tool & Die)- they were the first dial-up ISP, located in Brookline, MA. Anyway at some point they stopped- by which I mean they stopped billing me and people moved on to the web. But for at least a decade they left the machine running, and I could use it no charge.

So anyway, on a shell ISP, you read and post news with the "trn" command- "trn" is a text-only newsreader client.

For discovery- well USENET was in the filesystem. So "comp.arch" is located in /usr/spool/news/comp/arch. So you could just "find" and "grep" to discover new groups. Also there was a newsgroups file that had the full list- I forgot the name of this.

For the web today? I know there are for-pay sites, don't know any free ones. Maybe others do. Google groups was kind of good enough if you only frequented a few groups.

You can use https://www.eternal-september.org/
with a newsreader client. See: https://www.maketecheasier.com/best-usenet-newsgroups/

I just tried it with claws-mail. Here is a quick start for Ubuntu (this feels like 1999):

apt-get install claws-mail
claws-mail
it forces you to create a mailbox, don't worry about this (you can delete it later). Once you have the main screen:
Configuration->Create Account
Name of account: USENET
Protocol NEWS (NNTP)
News server: news.eternal-september.org
Check This server requires authentication
Fill in USER ID and Password you got from email after signing up with Eternal September and close.
Now right click on mailbox USENET, select subscribe to newsgroup.
Perl 5 has been usable and improved on continuously over the last 20+ years.

Raku / Perl 6 has been the R&D project it set out to be with interesting new features and smoothed out syntax.

You can use either freely as meets your needs. If there's a "debacle" here it's the misunderstanding.
Today I realized how much of a habit I was in checking certain subreddits like r/boardgames and r/woodworking. Probably three times today I have gone to Reddit out of habit, only to remember that I no longer have access to my customary subreddits. I’m hoping this time of blackout will break me of the Reddit habit.
Most lambda functions and such that I see people write could just be a CGI script on an 5$/month box. And it would be way cheaper.
If that's what best practices are for these languages, I now better understand my collegues who will not move away from C/C++. Having to identify a specific compiler version for each bit of code sounds like a nightmare.
Isn’t this a regular occurrence?
Because they were clearly unsuitable and this avoids drama. It's not a binary on/off thing.
When "flatten the curve" came out as a slogan they told us 2 weeks. Absolutely no one in public health believed that would be true. It doesnt make sense on any level whatsoever. i mean it just beggars belief that they told the public that with a straight face. the only person i recall in early days of 2020 saying this was going to be many months if not years was Mike Osterholm which i respect for not gaslighting the public.

heres an article in the NYT about managing vaccine expectations.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/30/opinion/coron...

also you argument falls apart when lockdowns (restrictions, npis, whatever you want to call them) continued way beyond vaccine rollout. I was first in line to get vaccinated and im very glad i did, because they promised us that would be a return to normal, but it wasnt for at least a year afterwards and i still havent been given an explanation why.
Many people have said this better than me, but there are plenty of people who have thought they can do better than the current status-quo regarding user-generated content on the internet.

They end up conforming or losing money. There’s no one reason for this. You try to run a website visible to the world, you’re gonna be subject to a world full of reasons.
Would love one too…
You can't (assuming you want to keep Windows), or if you can it makes the OS unusable. There are plenty of custom 'builds' on the net of Windows 10, 11, etc.

Microsoft will continue down this path until it becomes unprofitable.
It looks like this is all of CS1 rolled into one base game with an engine upgrade plus QoL improvements, for only $50 I might add. I saw numerous features added by DLC in this trailer. Examples include: day/night cycle (After dark), industrial zoning (Industries), mixed transit hubs (Mass Transit), dynamic seasons (building on Snowfall), college campuses (Campus). I’m sure I missed some other details as well.
Sorry, not you, I meant GP.
I personally have run into breaking changes in Python's regex module, which is pretty fundamental to such uses as mentioned above.

If I recall correctly, they changed how `re.escape` worked between Python 3.6 and 3.8 (I'm not sure which minor change exactly) in terms of which symbols received a backslash before them, thereby breaking my code.
May I ask how you installed Kontakt and such? If I try to install some sound libraries using Native Access 1, it complains (something about ISOs can't be mounted and the data itself is stored within the ISO, but without file access). If I try to use Native Access 2 (the shitty electron app) it won't even install correctly.
Here's a controversial idea I had with some friends today while talking about it: VR/AR headsets will never succeed, and that is for the same reason 3D movies aren't worth it for most studios these days. Somewhere in people's brains there's a calculation of cool factor/utility vs convenience - and for the film industry, the cool factor carried it for quite a while. That is, until it "normalised" and people realised that 3D is irrelevant when you're immersed in the medium, and then all that remains is the inconvenience of having to put on an extra pair of glasses. and that tiny inconvenience is already too much for most people. So our conclusion was: AR/VR cannot succeed, even if it solves the performance, battery and fov problems down to the form factor of passive 3D glasses. Because a screen is less effort. And yes, that only leaves the niche of places where you can't get a good monitor, on the train or a plane maybe, where the convience of having a big screen in the form factor of a small pair of glasses outweighs the inconvenience of having to put them on.
Have fun with that.

I much prefer having modern medicine, grocery stores, modern entertainment etc.

Just yesterday I picked up a bunch of tacos and sat down to watch the movie Renfield with the family and I had a brief moment of awe about all the resources that are at our fingertips. I am not rich by any means but can watch one of the greatest actors in history performing on a 72inch 4k screen in my living room whenever I want. It is amazing.

If you were a Native American in the 1400s you were pretty much guaranteed to die young and in a painful fashion after a very hard life.
You're almost there. Yes, there's a narrower definition. Yes, that means that crashes are outwith the kernel. But no that only means that the circle around what bit is named "the kernel" is smaller. Importantly, it does not mean that it is impossible to "crash the whole operating system".

Microkernels aren't a magic bullet against crashing an entire operating system, because a crash in a non-kernel component that the entire operating system relies upon, such as a central shared rendezvous server, or a server that handles "magic" values, or a central local security subsystem server, or a shared fundamental "personality subsystem" server, still crashes the entire operating system, no matter that the crash isn't in the part of the operating system that's labelled "the kernel".

* https://jdebp.uk/FGA/microkernel-conceptual-problems.html
I had the same experience trying to search some medical-ish* questions last night. It would be a shame if adding "reddit" to searches stops being an effective method to find non-SEO human content.

* Medical-ish as in trying to find out if people with the same condition as me have had good/bad experiences with a particular OTC supplement. Certainly not looking for treatment or diagnosis via Reddit (or any online avenue) :P
It's been a little better lately, but their video player kinda sucks ass. Scrubbing usually causes total lock for me, requiring a reload of the entire page. Sometimes the video and the controls will get stuck but the audio keeps playing, even if you fold shut the player on old.

It got to the point where I don't bother unfolding the video unless it's embedded.
It is standard procedure in many large pharma companies
Net News Wire is absolutely great on Mac and Iphone.
Not that you're wrong, but I think thats a misperception or misset expectation. Government lies and obscures, sure. So does everybody else. All the people who have come out and said the government(s) are hiding evidence of UFOs are also all lying. Everybody who says the government cooked the election, put tracking chips in COVID vaccines, are exaggerating climate change are all also lying. A lot of those same liars have used their platform to get themselves into the same government they claim is lying to everyone. It's an emergent property of human society and not a thing invented in Washington DC.
For example, the Halifax Explosion: https://www.historicacanada.ca/productions/minutes/halifax-e...

Superman: https://www.historicacanada.ca/productions/minutes/superman
I suspect some might be able to rise up by injecting themselves at framework level, since it's very likely that the programs will still keep some sort of in-memory representation. Though I don't think that injecting code into other WebAssembly blobs is possible with the security models we have today.

The surefire way would be an external application that uses OS APIs to fiddle with memory directly (bye bye mobile content blockers).

But whatever form it takes, it would have to be programmed to operate on every framework available, so it's way less universal than writing a CSS selector or URL regex.
Now that we are here, calling exiles anti-Cuban is also a good way to piss them off. That's the government stance: if you are against us, you are anti-Cuban.

This is not only a stance towards exilees, btw. If you oppose them, you get labelled the same no matter where you are.

Stop buying into the official position. It is demeaning
> I do find myself wondering what a system that connected my rss feed reader with global comments about webpages might look like.

Love this.
I would say that can not be answered by just looking at the agenda both groups want to push.

It depends on how they do it. Advocating for something is not hate
SoftBank is starting to seem like the Jim Cramer of SV funds
That's a lot of dough. Takes a special type of sociopath to use a national (and global) catastrophe to line one's pockets at the expense of others.
Normal coke it is, then!
Deimos, former Reddit admin and creator of tildes.net currently thinks they're related: https://tildes.net/~tech/163e/reddit_appears_to_be_down_duri...

EDIT: Reddit themselves confirmed that the outage was related to subs going private.

> “A significant number of subreddits shifting to private caused some expected stability issues, and we’ve been working on resolving the anticipated issue,” said Reddit spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/12/reddit-goes-down-just-as-a...
Of course, for example, if you're in need of an automated theorem prover, your only options are Coq, Agda, Isabelle/HOL etc for now all of which come with very serious trade-offs which leads to the development of newer languages such as Lean etc.
> She's not that into you, bro.

Where the hell did this come from?
There's also the perception issue that if the host fails, it most likely isn't cloudflare although cloudflare gives a warning.

Note: experienced it from the first row, cloud had an issue in a region with SSL...
And here's some links from a few months earlier showing we knew it was never tested for preventing infection/transmission:

https://www.washington.edu/news/2020/12/02/covid-19-vaccines...

https://www.businessinsider.com/who-says-no-evidence-coronav...

https://www.fredhutch.org/en/news/center-news/2020/12/covid-...

Here's Pfizer's press release: https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta...

Notice how it switches between SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19? That's because they're very specifically saying it prevents sickness, and not making any claims about infection/transmission. That came months later, per your links, from media and politicians who either didn't understand or were just straight lying. The 95% they're claiming came straight from the press release which was only about sickness, not infection.

It's pretty amazing just how hard this got memory-holed.
> I have for example uninstalled the FB app and only user their website.

Well, that is why Facebook and others are pushing to "allow alternative app stores" on iphone. Getting past the app-review process means the dark patterns and data mining can get way more noxious, and at that point they just do like reddit and kill the mobile experience. No, no phones allowed on the website, we have a native app for that.
> Social boundaries trumped my compassionate instinct.

I think he should have at least asked if she needed a hug.

Feels like that would have been a nice way to honor his instinct and her boundaries at the same time.

She may have at least appreciated the sentiment. Or she would have take him up on that offer and embraced his embrace. Either way, it seems like a positive.
>In my anecdotal evidence, I'd estimate that ~1/3 of my Canadian engineering graduating class are now in the US, either working or researching at US institutions, with most of these folks representing the top 1/3 of the class.

Similarly, in a IEEE survey of scientists from 16 countries <http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/tech-careers/the-global-bra...>, the US is the top destination from 13 of the 15 others and the #2 choice from the other two. If you are a Canadian scientist, there is a 16% chance <https://np.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/37lgxg/the_...> that you will move to the US. That's not "16% of all Canadian scientists that move out of the country move to the US". Let me repeat: 16% of *all* Canadian scientists move to the US. As you noted, they're also likely to be among the top Canadian scientists, too.

By comparison, 5% of all American scientists move to another country, of which 32% go to Canada, so about 1.6-1.7% total. Since the US has nine times more people, that means that in absolute numbers the 1.7% of American scientists is about equal to the 16% of Canadian scientists, but there is no reason to think that the 1.7% makes up the top tier of American scientists; why would the best move north of the border? In other words, the US is receiving the best of Canadian scientists in exchange for an equal number of its non-best.
Agree. It's already democratic in Reddit's current form in the sense that anybody can just start a community to replace one with moderation they don't like. The subreddit with the moderation that works the best often wins out.
Yeah. Seems like it could really benefit from a larger user base, but obviously they understand that and are taking it slowly.

I'm also open to an invite if anyone is feeling charitable.
I'm not sure how/if you're inferring that from this incident. The ban was caused by a delivery driver reporting a racist doorbell interaction.

It would have been better for Amazon if they reviewed that footage before acting, but it seems like they weren't able (especially because they asked to be sent it by the accused).
WHO also advises against steaks cooked rare. The kind of people who make pronouncements in
big health orgs are the most cautious, neurotic people on the planet. You can safely ignore them.
Exactly, this is a huge blow for fair use and for parodies altogether.

I wonder what Weird Al Yankovic has anything to say about this ruling?
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There are so many websites using it that it is basically the same as being centralized.
You use "icu::BreakIterator::createCharacterInstance" from the ICU library to get a character-walker. In .NET, you have "StringInfo.GetTextElementEnumerator". You must use a Unicode library to walk "grapheme clusters" (what users recognize as individual characters). There's no other way to do it correctly.
That's if the bot is coded well. I've cut off bots from sites and services before, only to have them start to DOS because their response to an error was to just try again, immediately and forever
Not the OP you replied to, but I've worked in about a dozen languages in 15+ years and I also think Javascript is fine. It will never be #1, but it does a good job for the things it is good at.

The fact that you mentioned Elm is funny to me as it is so low ranked in terms of usage or desire that it doesn't even show on StackOverflow's survey results.
Disclaimer: I was an employee at chumby

I agree that chumby eventually didn't really have much reason to exist, but it's important to look at the timeline.

chumby devices first started rolling out in 2007. Raspberry Pis didn't exist until 2012 and from what I understand projects like the chumby hacker board (2010) played a big part in influencing the creation of the Raspberry Pi and other similar "maker"-centric SoC boards. Prior to the chumby hacker board similar devices were generally only sold as super expensive devkit devices not really meant for semi-mass-market maker use.

But it's really the introduction of the iPhone that kind of doomed the device within its intended market, IMO. The iPhone came out the same year as the chumby started rolling out so in a way it was doomed from the start, but while the chumby was in development it was very unclear that rapid mass adoption of capacitive screen mobile devices would be such a sure thing. I mean it seems super obvious now, but even post iPhone release there was a ton of skepticism. And while the chumby and iPhone (and subsequent Android phones) weren't exactly apple to apple devices, mobile devices did the subset of things that chumby did better than the chumby itself did for the most part, why bother having a separate device acting as an Internet-connected radio and alarm clock when your mobile device can do that (plus a lot of other stuff) while its sitting on your desk charging.
Silvio Berlusconi, scandal-ridden former Italian prime minister, dies aged 86
yes "started." there was literally no guarantee we would even have a vaccine at all. There was absolutely no historical precedent for development and deployment of a vaccine with a year of virus discovery. it was incredible achievement and government official literally bet the entire world economy on it for some reason i still cant understand.
> Assuming I'm exactly average, that means 50% of the population won't understand it either. Of that 50%, how many will actually care? Nothing will happen until it is too late.

That’s the crux of the dilemma. It’s too hard. Nothing in our daily experience gives us an intuition for it.

For instance, the media often says “solving climate change requires lowering emissions”. Which gives the impression that if we lower emissions we solve it.

But lowering admissions merely slows the speed at which the problem worsens. To solve the problem we would need to go to zero and then actually suck extra co2 from the atmosphere.

And total global emissions, the only number which matters, are at a record high.
I don't think either of those apps are ad-supported, so there are completely different incentives.
Is it just me, or are users trying to solve the wrong problem here?

According to the CEO, Reddit is losing money. It won't survive long-term if that doesn't change. If people care about reddit and its community, it seems like that's what they should be thinking about.

If an alternate client uses the API, but doesn't return any advertising (or other) revenue, that is a good reason for reddit (as a company) to change that relationship.

To be clear, I'm not making a comment about how they are going about it. But destroying reddit's business is no help to anyone.

Lots of people on reddit (and on here) brag about using ad-blockers. They also complain about paying for services. I mean: something's go to give. VC's won't continue to fund these free services forever.

I'd rather live in a world where you view advertisements or pay a fee to use services. But I seem to be outside the norm on these things.
whoever is using the ocean as a giant heat sink needs to stop (joke)