skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will start this post saying i'm not a techno-solutionist guy, nor a denier. My last post on the subect was basically:

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This is why Co2 do not have any effect until it reaches the high troposphere. That takes 20 years. The average climate we have right now is caused by emissions from 2003.
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However: we never had this meteorology scenario before. We cannot predict what will happen this summer. Yes, if you're a public servant or work with them or whatever, prepare for the worst please. But ultimately, we cannot know. we started an experiment that will bring us fast changes, lead us to discover retroaction loops and a lot of different things. Some will help, some wont, we can't know. If it wasn't this dangerous and violent, the uncertainty would be fascinating (it still is, somehow).
Fire half their employees. Seriously, what do their 2000(!) employees even do? Mod tools are a joke, moderators do it for free, and the official app pales in comparison to hobbyist ones. NFT side-projects I suppose.
> Did anyone try it out already? I'd love to hear more about how it worked it practice.

Just tried it but it's not a direct import - it's "dump your data from Instagram as JSON[1] and we'll import that JSON". i.e. a one-off backup restore.

(If ActivityPub allowed backdated posts, I'd do the sync myself from my instaloader downloads but alas, most servers do not.)

[1] "It may take up to 14 days to collect this information and send it to you."
Remains of an extinct world of organisms discovered
We tried Coroot recently in our production AWS cluster.

I must say it's handy. Cost analysis helped us shave ~20% of our EKS bill
Your theory hinges on the idea that by remaining on the platform, they will not dive into these darker thoughts. Which is quite absurd, don't you think? This idea that one banning is going to be the catalyst, rather than they already feel a certain way and are regularly encouraged by the platform to feel that sort of way.
Sometimes I wonder what the world would be like, if we banned the practice of white-labelling products or running a division as a DBA. I think customers (and frankly, legislators asleep at the wheel) would be stunned to discover, for example, that we only have 3-4 major beer companies; or that Pepsi owns everything from Gatorade to Lay's to Doritos to Quaker Oatmeal. There's far less competition than there appears.
Seems like WinXP in Qemu is the way... I would prefer a ready to use image, but I could also run this. Got an old licence here :-)
I just went to http://non.io and see something that is/looks like an ad "a platform for supporting creators", and some documentation/sales pitch, rather than content. This is not remotely like reddit.com, or hacker news. Why don't I see content?

This is a very bad user experience, for a main page to go directly to, what should be, http://non.io/about. Don't give me a long pamphlet explaining mundane details that I can't comprehend who would care about, let me see what it actually is, and test drive it, without having to know/type some magic url.

I suggest sitting someone new down, who isn't excited to be there, and have them type http://non.io, and carefully observe what happens.
Edge would be my everyday browser if they would just stop with all this crap they keep adding that both causes bloat and also diminishes user privacy.
Honestly Google should just acquire Reddit, re-instate 3rd party client apps' API access, boot off all the model training API users, and farm Reddit's content for its own model training. Companies like Google and Microsoft can uniquely profit from this.

Microsoft can even spin it as adjacent to Xbox/Minecraft.

I'd wager the single reason why this hasn't already happened is all the porn.
Searching for "dosbox-x windows 98" on YouTube returns multiple videos that show how to install Windows 98 in DOSBox-X, and even Windows 95.
Maybe so if you missed the author and his experience in the hurry to summarize his concepts?
Great feedback. I added it to the start of the article. Thanks!
10x Price/Sales ratio for a company like Reddit (i.e. with limited growth potentially) seems a bit too optimistic barring a 2020/21 style bubble.
This already happened for a long time with translations, I assume because it's easier to get away with mistranslation of originals. It's common to translate a phrase into the most current version of the phrase in the target language and to update the translation regularly. To me this always felt very noticeable, doing this requires an impressive level of entitlement to take a great work of literature and add your own artistry on top of it. I vaguely imagine you should get hard prison time for violating great works of literature like that, but that's just me. It's akin to defacing paintings or statues to hide genitalia which happened in the past.
Hi! I've done a bunch of trust and safety work and I see this trope a fair bit. Please help me understand what the difference is between, say, platforming racist harassment because of a "political commitment to free speech" and platforming racist harassment because you just kinda like racist harassment?

I get that it might be different in the heads of the people who have worked very hard to create those platforms. I'm just not seeing any different in its effects on the world or on the targets of the racial harassment.
> Yet when aspects of frontend development not involving JavaScript are seen as ignorable by employers, few will get this opportunity.

That strikes me as fallacious. Let's change some words around:

"Aspects of embedded programming not involving C coding, such as maintaining complex make files or boot scripts, are seen as ignorable by employers, so few will get the opportunity."
You think Facebook would let a large percentage of users use a 3rd party app that blocks all advertisements, tracking, and other monetization? Look at how Meta treated the whole Apple tracking ordeal

If a lone dev would have made an app like Apollo for FB, they would be under 10,000 pages of litigation the next day

People don't use the FB app because its great. They would love a non-tracking version of the same service. It's just not allowed
Lol what? TikTok, Facebook, Google, YouTube, AWS seem to be doing just fine.
Cool, thats something I could try.
Thank you for the detailed answer. You're right. It is interesting.
That's interesting, thanks, but I am specifically interested in the US (like the thread I was responding to).
I think flag burning and provocative art are unquestionably intended to convey "ideas". In fact, they fit into that category far more cleanly than they do into "speech" in my opinion.

Nudity... depends on the purpose but probably not. I agree that's unfortunate if your stance is that there should be no restrictions on porn, but I'm not sure the arguments for why freedom of speech is a good idea really apply to porn in the first place. I think it'd be better to make that argument on its own merits rather than try to conflate the two.
Thanks! It has been a ton of fun too.
Reddit faked their initial users to make the site seem used. Pulling the plug during protests surely is in the realm of possibility for what they could do.
Musk stiffing Google could unleash yet more abuse on Twitter, report says
You're comparing apples to oranges. Flask is software of which all instances run independent of each other while Cloudflare is SaaS where all its sites depend on the same service.

If Cloudflare goes down, so does a significant portion of the web. Flask cannot have an outage like Cloudflare. All they can do is push a faulty update, but even then you can rollback or stay on the old version.
Loving the ui.

A bit more rich text features for the comments might be nice.
Python 3.7: 30% of PyPI downloads, end of life in 3 weeks
I primarily use i3wm with 4-40 terminal windows + firefox open. I'd LOVE it if the terminal that I'm looking at was the `active` one. I can't count the number of times I'd lookup some error code, type in more commands, hit enter; only to discover that I had been typing away in the wrong window.
I don't understand these attacks on Google and Chrome. Yes, Blink in general and Chrome in particular are dominant. Yes, Google has a shitload of money. But at least it invests its money in the web platform, which, if you are a web developer, you ought to be grateful for. Apple, in comparison, also has a shitload of money; but until a couple of years ago, didn't seem overeager to invest in web. As for shrunken browser xhoice, isn't it easier for developers to target a few platforms than a host of diverging ones? When you are not in control of the client platform isn't it a relief to have as little variability - and hence as much predictability - as possible? Isn't this the closest thing to being in control?
Wow what an incredibly smug and presumptuous comment. You are so sure your assumption is right that you dismiss information directly from the person himself. This is some Reddit-tier shit right here.
I don't get how brave even among non techie friends have gotten such a "progressive" reputation.

It's a freaking shitcoin browser, but that probably means enormous PR budgets.

Sad that a mozilla has apparently sunk itself in the meantime.

It's really a sad dystopian future we live in compared to the cypherpunk optimism of the 90's.
Yeah I renovated my home to SFGate code
Right, it sends the message that the developer is better served by using a Mac, or that the Vision Pro is not capable. Maybe that was honest/intentional?
I'm also curious if anyone has made a level that worked particularly well/poorly or has a great custom theme (that maybe I should add to the dropdown) :)
> Now let's just remove the way people get about to doing all those things because that would save the government money from spending money on transportation.
Likely because the issue isn't third party apps, but people scraping for LLMs

grain of salt and everything, as it's a conspiracy theory off twitter...
The third parties are incentivized to deliver a good user experience. Reddit has incentives that inevitably lead to the opposite. Any good app under Reddit's control would cease to be a good app.

It's not an accident that Twitter just went through this too. We're in a new era of too-big-to-be-disrupted enshittening.
In what way did they claim to be criticizing the Chinese government but actually criticized Chinese culture? Because it is possible and valid to criticize the Chinese government and not the people. And it is also a possibility that your own personal biases could make it difficult to differentiate between the two. We have a surplus of Americans who take any criticism of America, the nation-state, as a personal insult, so I'm sure the same thing happens elsewhere.
All that other stuff's easy to cache. Authorization's cacheable, too, kinda, with some trade-offs, but they may not have bothered if it'd never been a problem before. Or this particular check my have been bypassing that caching, and it'd never cause a problem before because there weren't that many of those checks happening.

You start getting a lot more DB queries than usual, bypassing cache, the DB's remote, it's clustered or whatever, now you've got a ton more internal network traffic and open sockets, latency goes up, resources start to get exhausted...
Ditto. I hate this idea. We all know the type of content that revenue drives: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc. I want a site that rewards quality, not view counts.
I have no problems with FF mobile on iPhone.
Is that because the ‘warping’/offset used to try to hide the cameras not being right where your eyes actually are starts to lose its effectiveness?

I wondered about that.

Great to hear about heat. That was always an issue for me in other headsets.
At the quality of the current output, I think players still easily differentiate between AI generated art and hand-created art. Maybe in future versions this will be less noticeable.

As a game dev, I think at this stage AI can be a helpful utility, but it does not replace a designer's touch for professionally looking games.
It's a sign of significant inexperience to be locked into a singular way of doing things and to have such hard rules.

The goal is to achieve the end, not enforce a particular style. If long descriptive variable names work for your project, use them. If they don't work, don't use them.

If you have to live by such fixed rules, you won't be a very useful developer.
It is really really wild for other comments to try to pretend the comment above is about something other than the admin (spez) using his powers to edit reddit comments of people he didn't like or political opponents.
Oh wow. At what point do we just switch back to XML?
This thread is wholesome AF.
Listen to this guy. Sync is a fantastically well-designed app.
There are Windows contenders that do offer comparable battery life to Macbooks, if that's your criteria. The $549 Acer Swift 3 (i7-1165G7, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD) gets up to 16 hours, and the $799 Asus ZenBook 13 (i7-8565U, 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD) gets up to 15 hours.

Performance is close enough to Apple silicon that both laptops would be acceptable competitors for a general consumer's uses, RAM and storage are equal to if not better than Apple's base model Air's, and the price is unquestionably better.

Apple does strike a good balance, but it most definitely isn't leagues ahead of any other company no matter which way you look at it.
So posts need to have a unique/custom path directly under the main domain?

https://non.io/avo-jump

Sounds like a recipe for disaster. At least it should be in a sub-path (/post/?), and probably include some sort of unique id.
Thank you :-)

You also make a good point. I didn't go into too much detail about ReasonML in another comment, but I know Jordan (@jordwalke) has plans for a ReasonML v4 [1] with slight syntax improvements. I don't currently know the status of that work, however, but I think we'll want to make progress soon.

So the TL;DR is more that ReasonML is not going anywhere, especially since Ahrefs have a huge ReasonML frontend codebase [2].

[1]: https://github.com/reasonml/reason/pull/2605
[2]: https://tech.ahrefs.com/ahrefs-is-now-built-with-melange-b14...
What's wrong with the long names.

Or more importantl, at what point a name is too long?
I'm not a fan of Hyper-V... in the past I killed a whole system just by installing it as windows component.

But maybe as a last resort :-) Thanks.
Unless you write a browser engine. You can choose what to implement, but you are highly encouraged to implement what people use in the wild.

(this does not concern many people though - this is still somewhat important, a complex spec reduces potential implementations)
Also by default suggesting stuff you’re not subscribed to.
I'm sure you can find many like... Liiiiiike... Hey De Gasperi helped found the Council of Europe!
Does anyone know if the IKEA sensor detects cigarette smoke? Or, if not, is there any cheap sensor available to detect smoking (and vaping, if feasible)?
Yeah I know this, but this is mainly for Lucas Arts stuff and the games I would like to use don't run there.

Anyway thank you.
Exactly, it's always the loaded questions they start with to control the narrative.
Simple: we don't replicate the lives of past peoples. We take ideas from [our ideas of] the past and find out if they work for us. And... it doesn't need to be from indigenous New World people.
Cool, that sounds interesting. I'll give it a try.
If you'd like to spend your time thumping your chest, go right ahead. I'd rather code.
I don't share your values, and I don't want you or people like you to have any control over what I read it or how I read it.

There are many people who agree with me. It's "sacred" to the Post because the people writing for the Post believe these works have a place in the literary canon. People in society possess systems of morals that directly contradict each other.
Show HN: Sociables, A Reddit alternative that lets community owners monetize
Hey HN, A buddy and I have been working on a side project in the online community space in our free time over the past few years. Our platform is a sort of Discord/Reddit/Patreon hybrid. Decided to do a soft launch today in light of all the recent Reddit news.

Community features:

1. Customizable discussion boards. Community owners can setup threaded discussion boards for different topics related to their niche. Say a user creates a community for a niche like "Cars", under that community they could create different discussion boards for sub categories like "Car-mods", "Car-photos", "Car-sales", etc. This is different from Reddit where typically you only have a singular discussion board per community.

2. Voice chatrooms. Community owners can setup Discord style voice chat rooms where users can communicate via voice.

3. Real-time text chatrooms. Currently we only have a singular chatroom for the whole community however we are looking at adding the ability to create multiple rooms per community.

3. Synchronized YouTube/Vimeo player. Community owners can create a playlist of YouTube/Vimeo videos. Their community's player cycles through the playlist and synchronizes the playback so people within the community can watch the same video at the same time.

4. Baked in monetization. Community owners can offer tiered monthly membership subscriptions that allows the members to support the admins and mods. Owners can also link their PayPal to receive donations. Also adding paid post bumps and comment awards that users can purchase where the revenue is shared with the community owner.

5. Moderation tooling. Looking at leveraging AI to help flag posts for the mod teams to review.

Here's a link to our landing page: https://sociables.com/creators/
We don’t know anything about the Quest 3, other than “better than 2”.

I seriously doubt it comes close to what Apple is doing. The price just isn’t anywhere near high enough.
its $3k/50m requests not $150/50m reqs, not far from reddit prices: https://rapidapi.com/imgur/api/imgur-9/pricing
One of these features memorably in the Kinky Friedman book "Armadillos and Old Lace".
>But, in general, the best way to respond to language that some or most readers would find inappropriate is not with unexplained revisions but to surround original works with context, in the form of critical introductions as well as annotations in new editions, wherever possible.

I agree with this, however at a certain point we have to be pragmatic and avoid the perfect being the enemy of the good. These works are often never put into context. Sometimes that is because a child is reading the work themselves. Sometimes it is because the government is actively trying to make it illegal to provide that context.

Therefore I wonder if it is just easier to remove a word here and there when it is mostly irrelevant to the story. Changing "natives" to "locals" or "fat" to "enormous" doesn't change anything material about those works. If anything it makes the original more accessible because it removes a potential distraction for a modern reader.

It seems a little weird to me to be so dogmatic about the importance of preserving the exact original text as in many instances those were in flux too. The fact that the article uses Oompa Loompas as an example is especially strange considering the version the article wants to preserve is already a politically correct update of the original in which they were more clearly African slaves.
Ooh, that's good.

It also makes it clearer what's going on when people are waving the "free speech" banner over things like harassment and abuse. Allowing abuse not only doesn't increase the free exchange of ideas. It also often directly decreases it because it drives off people who get targeted by racism, sexism, et cetera, ad nauseam.
Comparison of both according to ChatGPT (GPT4) (I haven't used either):

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Mastodon is a decentralized, open-source social networking service. It's often seen as an alternative to Twitter, more than Reddit. Here are some key points about Mastodon:

Decentralized Platform: Unlike traditional social media platforms, Mastodon is decentralized, meaning that it is split into numerous independent communities or servers (called "instances"), each hosted by different people or organizations. This decentralization allows more control for users over their online presence.

Open Source: Mastodon is open-source, which means its source code is available to everyone, and anyone can contribute to its development or adapt it to create their own version.

Content and Community: On Mastodon, you follow other users and can post "toots," which are like tweets on Twitter. There is a 500-character limit per toot. The content is generally more conversation-focused.

Privacy and Control: Mastodon provides a higher level of control over your posts and privacy settings. You can choose who sees your posts and can also content warnings to your posts.

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Matrix, on the other hand, is an open-source project that provides an open standard for decentralized real-time communication, including instant messaging, VoIP (Voice over IP), and IoT (Internet of Things) communication. It's often seen as an alternative to Slack or Discord, more than Reddit. Key points about Matrix include:

Decentralized Communication: Matrix allows users to run their own communication servers, providing a greater degree of control and privacy. This is similar to Mastodon’s decentralization.

Interoperability: One of the defining features of Matrix is its ability to bridge, or interoperate, with other communication platforms, including IRC, Slack, Telegram, and Discord. This means that you can use Matrix to chat with people on these other platforms.

End-to-End Encryption: Matrix offers end-to-end encryption for communication, which ensures that only the people communicating can read the messages. This is not turned on by default but can be enabled for any conversation.

Versatility: Matrix can be used for a wide variety of communication needs, including instant messaging, voice and video calls, and even large scale chat rooms. It can support group communication better than Mastodon.
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Not sure that's a fair value. In this case the opportunity cost would be the amount Apollo would have actually paid (maybe $1M max) rather than $20M.
Maybe at least worth a one-time bonus, or a fast-track to promotion, or even extra vacation time.

Our generation gets none of that. You have to change jobs to get a nontrivial raise, no matter how valuable you are.
I probably upvote more like 1-2 things a day (on Hackernews, I don’t have a Reddit account). I’m pretty curious what effect it would have, that my opinion would be “worth” (in this sort of system of course—in reality, my opinion is worth very little!) around 10x as much as yours.
These are just gen1 issues. I expect it will become lighter and lighter until it will probably be like some heavier/bulkier glasses.

For the common user it will be amazing for cooking (tells you what to take next and from where and mix in what order, all that fully with arrows on the screen). Or let's say you want to leave your home and it knows that you forgot your keys and it tells you where they are with directions on the screen like the objective marker in a game.

It will know where things are in your home even if you don't pay attention to them it will have object recognition in place and you will be able to say "Hey Siri where did I leave my glasses?" and it will point you to them.
Resolution aside most headsets kinda feel like wearing a scuba mask because of a narrow field of view. How was the vision pro? I assume this should be public info since it was shown to the press and devs.
> - bluetooth No Thanks? Compared to "No SATA Drive" or the several "Select" menus, is that a statement against bluetooth?

And if you do want Bluetooth, the only option is an ancient USB dongle. (Only supporting Bluetooth 4.0 suggests that this hardware is ~10 years old.)

https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-usb-bluetooth...
Ah yes, Webkit on mobile continues to be the bane of every web dev's existence.