skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just curious really, but sources on China being particularly uncooperative with this kind of stuff? Totally take your word for it, of course. I'm mainly just surprised I hadn't heard this particular point before in the various and constant Bad-China discourse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...

Brittle systems were built because they enriched and benefited certain folks (paperclip maximizer but for profits). To build better systems, existing systems will have to be "refactored." With structural demographics constraining labor supply for the next decade, this is an opportune time for Labor to use the power that it has to reverse its 40 year power decline.

https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2018/08/07/for-most-...

https://www.barrons.com/articles/the-labor-market-bends-towa...
It's assimilation speed and has been seen time and time again in various contexts.

If I take my American family and move to Australia, we will become Australian over time.

If I take my family and the entire city I live in to Australia, there will be an American city in Australia.

Eternal September is just when the influx overwhelmed the "carrying capacity" of Usenet, and anyone who has been on any forum for a length of time can refer to a similar influx (often complaining that everything has gone to crap since then).
I didn't miss that. I'm saying it's concerning that Germany's energy availability is so impoverished. To quote myself:

> I wonder what it would take to get German energy consumption up to a better level.
Following the trend, trend setting, been like that since for ever, or something else: name it what you will. Whatever it is, I'd certainly call out the presence of a (less than welcome, imo) trend.
Given the innaccurate and clickbaity title "Cloudflare is having Issues" (when in reality it's just a few services, not the main stuff Cloudflare is largely known for), I suspect a lot of people are upvoting and not actually following the link. A comprehensive Cloudflare issue would be huge news. The truth here is not huge news IMHO.
Is widespread solar panels on homes and buildings and such a solution to this?
E.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditEng/comments/11xx5o0/you_brok...
If anyone here wants to send me an invite, my email is my first name at gmail.com.

My first name is 'lelanthran'.
The second you remove threading and SIMD from those examples, they get rather close to JS. At most, you are making the argument that killing JS-SIMD for WASM and not adding native threading support was a mistake.
Both work fine on my computer, but won't load on my phone. Same network, too.

The front page is almost all posts from 22 hours ago though, not even more recent blackout announcements/etc.
Did the 1997 UPS strike devastate the economy?
Because DOM access would have bloated the MVP, and you _can_ access the DOM through JS.
Since almost all life on earth derives from photosynthesis, reducing insolation is very risky. Anyone that confidently asserts how it works suffers from not being informed enough to be worried. If humanity start doing releasing SO2 to reduce insolation, but not reducing atmospheric greenhouse gas levels, then the climate would be a coiled spring. CO2 sequestration operates on decade or century timeframes and SO2 released into the upper atmosphere is removed from the atmosphere in weeks to years. If humanity kept releasing CO2 and other greenhouse gases at current rates, but couldn't continue releasing SO2 for some reason, speaking plainly, we would be all be truly fucked in a very short period of time.

It is immoral and and a bad idea. We can get to carbon targets to solve this issue instead like scientists dedicated to this problem have been consistently saying for decades, but the USA's wealth derives from oil and excessive driving. So we are lied to and told that it isn't feasible.
That's a completely unrelated question.
> bigoted

Reddit permanently banned my account for _upvoting_ covid vaccine hesitancy (which is turning out to be accurate).
Keep calm, carry on, adapt.

Slow-moving crises are not crises, they're problems, not emergencies.

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Here, have some literature, down-voters!
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[1] Nine long and nearly continuous sea level records were chosen from around the world to explore rates of change in sea level for 1904–2003. These records were found to capture the variability found in a larger number of stations over the last half century studied previously. Extending the sea level record back over the entire century suggests that the high variability in the rates of sea level change observed over the past 20 years were not particularly unusual. The rate of sea level change was found to be larger in the early part of last century (2.03 ± 0.35 mm/yr 1904–1953), in comparison with the latter part (1.45 ± 0.34 mm/yr 1954–2003). The highest decadal rate of rise occurred in the decade centred on 1980 (5.31 mm/yr) with the lowest rate of rise occurring in the decade centred on 1964 (−1.49 mm/yr). Over the entire century the mean rate of change was 1.74 ± 0.16 mm/yr. [0]

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We compare estimates of coastal and global averaged sea level for 1950 to 2000. During the 1990s and around 1970, we find coastal sea level is rising faster than the global average but that it rises slower than the global average during the late 1970s and late 1980s. The differences are largely a result of sampling the time-varying geographical distribution of sea level rise along a coastline which is more convoluted in some regions than others. More rapid coastal rise corresponds to La Niña–like conditions in the tropical Pacific Ocean and a slower rate corresponds to El Niño–like conditions. Over the 51 year period, there is no significant difference in the rates of coastal and global averaged sea level rise, as found in climate model simulations of the 20th century. The best estimate of both global average and coastal sea level rise remains 1.8 ± 0.3 mm yr−1, as found in earlier studies. [1]

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Kemp et al. (1) note that recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports emphasize sub-2 °C scenarios. Simultaneously, IPCC reports also overemphasize catastrophic scenarios, as does broader discourse. For example, the cataclysmic Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5 (RCP8.5) and Shared Socioeconomic Pathway 5-8.5 (SSP5-8.5) scenarios—now widely considered implausible (2)—account for roughly half of the scenario mentions in recent IPCC Assessment Reports’ impacts (Working Group II) sections (Fig. 1A), similar to underlying scientific literature (3). The SSP3-7.0 emissions pathway, which Kemp et al. (1) use in their analyses, assumes a world in 2100 heavily reliant on coal and with no climate policy—an implausible future (3, 4). It projects vastly higher emissions than the International Energy Agency (IEA) stated policies scenario, which has continually been revised downward in recent years (4) (Fig. 1B). [2]

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[0]: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/200...
[1]: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/200...
[2]: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2214347119

Cherry-picked because hey, why not?
This is using something called Sitewap notation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siteswap Each throw is represented by a number. Roughly speaking, a number X in the pattern implies that the throw is the "normal" throw when juggling X balls. So a normal pattern for 5 balls is just "5". One necessary but insufficient property is that the numbers in the pattern have to average to the number of balls you're juggling.
This could work in combination with emission of Iron Salt Aerosols (ISAs). These would have two beneficial effects: increase of phytoplankton growth in iron-poor regions of the oceans, and increased photogeneration of OH and Cl radicals in the troposphere to increase the rate of removal of methane.
If we go to yet another corporate/tech bros entity, we're stupid.

Let's build our communities right this time and select something open-source, and federated so we don't end up in the same place in another 10 years.
Equating "first class" with bare minimum ports sounds like a recipe for mediocrity. Let's hope that does not happen and people actually make apps specifically for VR.
Maybe those guys advocating a sulfur dioxide pipe to the stratosphere had the right idea. We clearly aren't conserving our way out of this mess.
Lord of the Rings Online, Archeage, Tera, Wildstar, Kingdoms of Analur, City of Heroes, The Matrix Online are all from that era of every MMO trying to be the WoW killer and needing to supplant WoW for their business model to work.

What's funny is WoW has declined so much but is still clearly a viable business, but I'm sure things like LOTRO, City of Heroes and Tera peaked at higher levels than current WoW. But the WoW of their time was on like 10-12million subs so that was a failure.
> It seems no company is happy with being the virally adored single product little niche 50 employee powerhouse.

Imagine you had such a company, someone offered you $700 million for 10% of the company valuing it at $7 billion.

You don't understand why they'd value it that highly. But if you're willing to pretend you do for a few years, you can siphon off enough of that money that even your great-great-great-grandkids won't have to work a day in their lives.

Would you turn down that deal? Because I doubt I could resist it.
I use a non-synced Zotero instance. It saves everything about the pages, has snapshots for offline access and I reflect on the content in the notes. It's nice.
You have it backwards. Plenty of millennials want kids and marriage and a home, but the shitty situation we find ourselves in means we cannot responsibly have kids.
As a site owner, but not as a site visitor. And without cloudflare, the site owner wouldn't even have the ability to do this.

It also seems to be something they've moved to flipping on by default.
Lecture? More a statement of fact, you'd be surprised how many people are looking for less invasive, more performant services.

Yes, there are plenty of potential users to be found. Were you around when Google first came to the market? If so you may remember the sparse just-give-me-what-I-want layout of their search engine. People flocked to Google. Remember the first Google ads, just a few text lines? Take Craigslist as an example and notice how its sparse layout makes it work.

BTW you should update your 'about' text which states that 'This account is no longer active in protest of Hacker News censorship' given that the account seems to be active.
They skipped right over getting a dumbphone or a crippled Android device.

I drive a 30 year old car through the southwest US. I'm resourceful, but I'm not careless. I'll continue to carry a phone in case of breakdowns.

A few years ago my checking account was drained while I was on vacation. It was pretty nice having a phone with a cell number that matched what was registered with my bank.

...

Delete social media off your phone. A smartphone without social media is a tool. A smartphone with social media is a prison.
"Eliot Jacobson, Ph.D.
Retired professor of mathematics and computer science, retired casino consultant, now a full time volunteer, husband and grandfather. Know-it-all doomer. Born in the year 316 ppm CO2."
Something like Genode has the correct security foundation, though I'm not sure how practical it is to use as day-to-day OS yet: https://genode.org/
I have highly reduced my sugar intake in the latest years going for the "light", with NSS, version of products like Coca Cola, etc.

Now I read this still poses risks for me to develop diabetes and cardiovascular factors, how so?
Certainly if someone is single/doesn't have kids, there's almost certainly less urgency to buy a place given that, money aside, it may be a fairly significant time commitment and it certainly increases the friction of moving somewhere different for a job or other reason.
I agree with you 100%. The average person now lives better than the richest kings a few hundred years ago.

But I think it's funny that you use Nick Cage as an example. Not to be mean - I like him too. But it's still funny.
You can only burn through cash for so long.
Slashdot was rocking in the late 90s when Digg didn't even exist. I started reading it when it was published by Rob Malda as his personal blog on his own server in his own dorm room.
Along with Usenet, webrings, blogs, the original BoingBoing and the Illiad strips at userfriendly.org (dead, search for archived pages on archive.org) it is among the places of yesterday's Internet that I miss the most.
Fuck Edge
VC funding is primary reason that reddit reached the current situation. Another VC funded alternative will follow the same death spiral.

Link aggregators/social networks cannot generate VC expected returns without dying in the process.

This death cycle of social networks has repeated itself in silicon valley for decades.

At this point doing VC investment into social networks is like a game of hot potato. Who gets to exit first before the social network self destructs
Also, H2O is a stronger greenhouse gas than CO2, so this is prolly not really a great idea
It depends on the type of user, even among the non-tech savvy.

A message as simple as "Sorry, reddit is receiving too much traffic right now and can't handle your request. Try loading this page later.", 99% of people will understand.

But there's that 1% of people that aren't just non-savvy, they're willfully non-savvy to the point where words stop having meaning to them just because they're referring to something related to a computer. The type where if you ask them something as simple as "Is the computer turned on?", they say they don't know. Meanwhile, the screen is showing their desktop.
https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/9clji/where_did_...

reddit used to be owned by Conde Nast. Sears got upset about a post and complained to Conde Nast, who then told spez to take it down. If you have a political commitment to 'free speech' that folds if you might have to face some consequences for defending it, you don't have that strong of a commitment in my opinion. Certainly not strong enough to justify hosting a community of child predators
It's important, but so is community building. Most communities function best when there's some degree of moderation. For example, people would prefer that the speech in their bird watching community is limited and trolls are kept out. Putting up with abrasive behavior in your community isn't brave, it's just masochistic.

It is true that some communities on Reddit weren't possible because they were not permitted to allow some of the content they were allowing.
Sorry, I didn't mean to sound dismissive (much less shallow!) about php. In fact I have great admiration for projects from wikipedia, to wordpress, moodle, matomo, you name it, before even talking about the modern php landscape you mention. In my book what you achieve is far more important than how you achieve it.

Crockford is arguing about "clean starts" and that is fine but the thrust of my comment that this will be driven by business models, not so much by tools. Sometimes tools are enablers of new things, so there is a chicken-and-egg aspect to it.

So we have all these ecosystems that were once flourishing but are now in a stationary state because the business models are in stationary state. There is a variety of tools that are good enough to get the current "job" done, but its not clear what will bring us to the next phase...
If we ever replace JS, it should be with some kind of StandardML that looks more like JS.

TS is unsound, unperformant, and overly-complicated in comparison.
I hope Microsoft is okay with looking at a lot of porn
Deep learning-guided discovery of an antibiotic targeting A. baumannii
There's a bit of an exaggeration here... somehow his "peers" are also choosing to order enormous quantities of their meals from DoorDash (doubling the cost), getting bottle service at nightclubs, and taking Instagram-worthy vacations to exotic locales.
I would think so. Bots are already rate-limited when accessing the API so it's hard to see how this has increased server load, unless there's something funky in the backend involving private/dark subreddits.
> probably almost 50% of the Reddit community

This is the loud minority fallacy. I foresee less than 1% of the community actually willing to leave reddit. Spaz knows this. They are just really noisy, but not so many people care about the third party apps.
7245 out of 7806 subreddits that pledged to go private have gone private. Title makes it sound like Reddit only has 7806 total subreddits
I think that's spot on.

The other thing I noticed that in let's say "stable" communities (slow growth, many long term members) there is much more of self-policing going. If someone acts outside of the implicit or explicit rules there is bigger chance someone would respond to that in "hey, behave, we don't do that here" comment and 9/10 that's enough, no mod involvement is needed, no bans or other punishment needs to be applied.

When community is a lot of "random people off the street" (no effort to create account or join, just start writing) that happens much more rarely
> I'd argue that anyone should be free to talk with others about their opinion, but that doesn't mean I agree with that opinion.

Sure, when “talking” is done via sound waves or someone else’s medium it’s different

But if you have free-speech parties at your place and people spray paint messages on your house then you are now “hosting”

You decide which words you leave or paint over
What generational label are the oligarchs? Wealth compounds, does it not take timing and opportunity to achieve elite/oligarchic power?
>You're advocating for governments to make more speech illegal

Yes, and I'm arguing for stricter enforcement of current laws around these topics. I'm not saying that people can't discuss immigration policy. I'm saying that people shouldn't discuss immigration policy through inciting to violence and racism. And I'm saying that Elon Musk is absolutely the last person I'd want to be the arbiter of what speech is legal or not.

Yes, the Norwegian government has some not so great history of discriminating against the native population hundreds of years ago, the Roma people last century, LGB people ~30 years ago and most recently drug users. But thinking that "Because there's always a slim chance my government can go rogue we should minimise its power" is a strange and uniquely American way of thinking by the way. My views are not uncommon in Europe. But they are at odds with the US/Libertarian slant you find here.
Source for executing files with cat? That certainly defies my understand of how cat works.
He forgot the 4th event - Social Contagion Resulting in Climate Sensationalism.

Can we please have a realistic discussion on climate change? I'm so sick of these "scientists" acting like we're in "Day After Tomorrow" and every normal weather event is suddenly a precursor to the Armageddon that'll take us all out in the next decade or less. You scientifically cannot look at individual weather events and determine they're climate change, that's pseudoscience.

People like this author only manage to turn rational individuals into deniers due to their over the top claims that never come true.
The UI of many games break if you scale the text though, if it offers such a feature (e.g. text won't fit in boxes). This is also the case on the web at times, but much less often.
There's a catch with that strategy - need a Canadian operation or they have a big administrative overhead to keeping you on board. Remote pay question marks too.
Skeptics will stay skeptics whatever we say. Last time the timeframe was too long, this time the timeframe is too short.

"we had ice age in the past", "we had warming in the past", 1990 is too close, -2m years is too far, the sun is closer (it's not), "numbers can say anything", "oooooh spooky graphs ;)" &c.
It sounds like you may not have used SL in a while. The current graphics are at least as good as a triple-A game, if you visit locations that are up-to-date and choose quality avatar components. Of course, rendering it may crush your computer (although I am satisfied with the performance of my 1080). All assets are user-created and most are not professionals who understand game asset optimization.

To your other points though, SL is quirky and has an incredibly steep learning curve. It has a lot of technical debt, as it remains compatible with content created 20 years ago.

Rosedale has a startup called High Fidelity, and they were creating basically what you suggest, a new SL without the technical debt. It was also distributed instead of centralized. Unfortunately that world has shut down because it wasn't commercially successful. (I expect largely because the people who would have been their early adopters were in SL, and didn't want to move until there was enough content available, and not enough users meant nobody was creating content.) I wish they had been successful, the platform architecture was really good.
In my experience, the only people who benefit from good documentation are the highly competent. The corporate slugs who need Stack Overflow and GitHub Copilot to accomplish anything are still going to bother others every single day. At best you can point them to the documentation when this happens, but if their problem differs even slightly from what is documented, they will need additional hand holding. They also love to use the lack of documentation as an excuse for why they can't get things done, but then expect others to figure things out without documentation for them. If you write documentation, they still won't read it and will remain helpless.
Freedom of speech is a legal concept that clearly doesn't cover CSAM. Free speech is a principle but it also doesn't cover CSAM. Fire in a crowded theater doesn't actually work as a legal defense but obscenity does
Not really interested in arguing with you (you seem to be very set in your ways), so just some link spam for you ;)

> 'single biggest way' to become unhealthy, weak, and scrawny

https://old.reddit.com/r/veganfitness/

It is the position of the American Dietetic Association that appropriately planned vegetarian diets, including total vegetarian or vegan diets, are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and may provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases. Well-planned vegetarian diets are appropriate for individuals during all stages of the life cycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, and adolescence, and for athletes.

- American Dietetic Association

A vegetarian or vegan diet can be suitable for everyone, regardless of their age.

- NHS UK

A plant-based diet is based on foods derived from plants, […] with few or no animal products. […]
Well-planned plant-based diets can support healthy living at every age and life-stage.

- British Dietetic Association

> they are methodologically very dishonest (tricks like falsely equating protein quality)

For adults, protein from two or more plant groups daily is like to be adequate.

- WHO

> anti-meat activism tends to be either quasi- or literally religious

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vWbV9FPo_Q - Melanie Joy, The psychology of eating meat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7JE8j5Ncmw - James Wildman, Think

> every problem is actually caused by that thing I don't like

Plethora of studies has confirmed that (animal) agriculture is one of the biggest destroyers of our environment. It's mostly animal products consumers who reject latest science and choose to be ignorant of those problems.
why wouldn't reddit remove all the mods and open the subs?
And "we're not happy with earning just some money, we need to earn ALL the money"