skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Already pointed out,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36294216

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36294244
> Oppositions to lockdowns were always about tradeoffs and whether they were worth it. Its just such a boring critique.

Fully agreed; saving lives / community responsibility is the noble choice. Unfortunately, many folks in states with poor education (e.g., Texas), would make remarks questioning the actual existence of the virus - even after Trump contracted it and was treated at Walter Reed.

But, work on a vaccine began almost immediately, no? I trusted that shifting the focused lens of US policy toward medical research would produce some incredible results, especially with the private sector pharmaceutical behemoths battling it out, so to speak.
As poorly received as the SimCity remake was—it has really left a lasting mark on the look and feel of city builders (it's nice to see that continue!)
Just getting a "You broke reddit" message - wonder if they've taken this time to do some maintenance or something?
My main gripe with the original game was that it wasn't possible to create walkable or cyclable cities. The only way to build anything is to have a road (as in, a road with lots of cars). So mechanically your cities are car centric, which isn't qui the cities I'd like to build.

As far as I can tell, there are no bicycles in that trailer which leaves me little hope.

I'm sure someone will reply about whatever mod that might help, but no I'd like the main game to include the possibility of building other types of cities. Anyhow, I still lost 100s of hours on the original game, it's just lovely.
Lots of speculation on Twitter about this—a failed attempt to re-open all closed subreddits and instate their own moderators. I can't imagine it'd be that, although I do enjoy the conspiracy, and more likely they were using the window of reduced traffic to make some larger changes and they went awry
'smol' is just a way of saying small that caught on in certain demographics which is starting to spread further, much like any other slang.
Disease, weather, conflicts with other warring tribes. Fitting into the hierarchy, the ever present threat of banishment.
Pedantry doesn't get you anywhere, you should know this by now you're a grown man.
a ringed sketchbook works great for a journal like this, no lines on pages so you can draw diagrams. Dollorama in Canada has a great one for $4 or is it $5 now.
Israel is being slowly overtaken by ultra-orthodox. I really hope other countries don't repeat this, as country becomes less and less democratic as a result.
> Organizations that proclaim a violent mission, engage in violence, and represent ideologies that promote hate
I'm an 'elder millennial' and I'm so used to seeing articles about how my generation has been screwed that I have to remind myself I'm not 'young' anymore and we're now talking about a whole new generation that's starting behind the 8 ball.
>The rest of your points make sense but I don't understand fully how this is an argument for monoliths? Isn't recovery from an unknown state an equally hard problem in both cases?

He's not saying that monolithic kernels make recovery easier in this case. He's saying that microkernels don't make these failures easier to recover from in practice, so you may as well take the performance gains that you will get from the monolithic kernel instead of giving up those gains for theoretical recoverability advantages that you won't actually usually see in practice.
Yet the killer app was Visicalc

That’s the question: what is the killer app for VR? Seems like it could be gaming but I didn’t see a lot of gaming examples during the keynote.
HN is acting slow in responsiveness too, DDoS?
Quarantining people who may have been exposed is a whole universe away from the lockdowns being discussed here, where whole cities, states and countries proactively prevented the free movement of their people who they had no reason to suspect had been exposed. Don't conflate these two.
Is this going to be an always-online game?
news.ycombinator is also very slow
Thanks so much for the IJDb Colin E!
Relevant Matt Levine article:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-09-20/morgan...

Last year Morgan Stanley got rid of old computers without wiping them, they were auctioned by the moving company, and it ended up costing Morgan Stanley $35 million in fines.
They didn't actually receive $445m in cash money though, surely? It must have been contingent on them having a working product, IT MUST????
> and PMR (memory resource) support.

note that this sadly will require your users to use a macOS version that isn't even released yet (or rebuild your own libc++) as Apple ties libc++ to the OS releases. when I see the amount of people around me still on 10.x...
You're too old to be a language elitist.
AVX-512 on atom is cool, KNL was a good idea.

I get that they aren’t making these chips for me, but Alder lake with AVX-512 would have been so cool, it would be like having a Phi in the same package as your main cores.

I’m not sure what exactly killed the Phi, but not having to talk through PCIe might have given them a chance to keep up with the inevitable march of NVIDIA Tesla bandwidth improvements.
So it's private and invite only by default. There is no element of "public" and the focus is on real connections with people you know rather than people you've never met in person. There's also no notifications or "is typing". The goal is really not to try emulate existing chat or bombard you with the need for immediate replies. It's a lot more focused on how most of our lives and mine personally operates now which is with less reaction and more laid back. Group sizes are also capped at 20.
How did you get that impression? This is simply not true. If this change had not occurred I would not have cancelled my account.

I have the feeling that you want me to confirm your preconceptions, but you're trying to apply logical leaps that just don't make sense.
It's subjective, but to me the picture of the dog toy in the article looks about as distinct from a real bottle of Jack Daniels as that Google logo example.
You might say they're experiencing an outrage.
A big monitor everywhere you go isn’t a solution to any real problem. It comes from the same line of thinking that describes work as people sitting at a computer typing for 8 hours straight. It’s just not realistic.

Multi monitor setups are overrated anyway. I work entirely off a laptop screen and only a portion of that screen is where my focus is most of the time. Having multiple monitors at my desk is mostly for decoration and looking like you’re a big deal. Switching a virtual desktop isn’t hard.

Some creative types could legitimately use multiple monitors to lay out a lot of content, but I also don’t think those creatives will necessarily prefer an Apple Vision Pro over their existing tools, unless they’re doing something truly spatial like sculpting out a life size car or something. But that’s definitely not the norm. Most people are just going to browse web sites and stare at spreadsheets.
> I'd like for someone to throughly research and write about how it became taboo to discuss the virus leak theory.

I think the story is pretty much documented in Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EcoHealth_Alliance#COVID-19_pa...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Daszak#COVID-19_pandemic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancet_letter_(COVID-19)#Criti...

Unless you mean to ask, why was their PR stunt so very successful? For that I don't have an answer.
I can't see fullcontact.com's pricing, that means it's expensive, isn't it?

We've built our own inhouse but look for 'disposable', 'temporary', 'burner' email matcher APIs like https://verifymail.io/ or https://www.block-disposable-email.com/
Not common at all. Because most software comes from distributions, not from warez.exe.

Sandbox comes with a heavy usability price, so they are lax by default.

For example you protect your files, but then you can't load your photos to facebook because your browser doesn't have access.
Malware detection and remediation by XProtect Remediator
HN is also really slow, this could be a wider-spread backend issue like when that one CDN took down half of the internet with it.
Of course not. But without a cap to emissions, we're looking at continuing increasing temperatures. We have to stop somewhere, and stoping before Miami is underwater seems as good a place as any.
Masayoshi Son is like Marissa Mayer on a speedball
On the day of the blackout? Yeah total coincidence
It is likely related to the blackout due to the reddit CEO being dishonest about the upcoming API pricing changes. You can read more here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/1476fkn/reddit_bl...

Er, you will be able to read more at that link whenever reddit comes back online :-/
So one computer is out and the other 2 are giving different answers to the same question?
Discussed previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36177048
Scaled down a few instances to save a few bucks while traffic will be down due to protests, calculated wrong.
Can someone explain the use of "modulo" here?

> I can be confident that a Perl script I write today will run unaltered 10 years from now, modulo external collaborators.

ChatGPT says "modulo" means "except for, not accounting for" in this context.

I always thought modulo was explicitly a math term to mean the remainder after dividing one number by another.

Where did this other "not accounting for" definition / usage come from...?
A small, anecdotal example of this... there is a family in my community that is part of the conservative christian organization called "Quiverfull" that believes in having very large families. The one in our community has 12 children. They see it as creating members for their religion but I would be surprised if more than a couple of these kids end up following along (based on who the kids are turning out to be).
I'm currently unemployed and getting a job is turning out to be really tough.

So I was wondering if it's a viable strategy to build a complete product, end-to-end and put it out on the market for someone else to purchase and operationalize.

I think "side-project" is misleading. What I really meant was "quickly buildable" projects. Some examples of such projects would include a unique LLM-powered content generator, or an AI-based Google Forms, etc

remove.bg is a good example of a project in the lines of what I have in mind.
It could be a coincidence, but I can reach new reddit not old.reddit
I could go another round as a bear. Bears are awesome.
This is just the usual message you get when they are overloaded. Goes to show how successful this "boycott" is.
Why do you think it doesn't work as well as you'd think?
Yes, it’s an technicality and this is a frequent outcome in Supreme Court cases. They often rule as narrowly as possible, regularly on technicalities. It fits the separation of powers to create as little legal reality that relies on precedent. Lower courts almost always have enough to go on and Congress ultimately makes the laws.

Things like the Rogers test are inexact and need rulings themselves, but once that’s sorted out then a lower court knows how to rule.
Thousands of subs are down to protest Reddit's upcoming API charges.
Nice try. We’re not visiting Reddit on 12th-14th.
"That fact gives the young unprecedented leverage, which has so far gone unrealised."

No, it doesn't. It doesn't matter if the population is aging. If the youth are still a minority, then the status quo won't change. They don't really have any additional leverage in a democratic system.

Edit: why disagree?
I suspect there is a more fundamental truth here that’s practically reliable.

Apple wants you to upgrade your hardware by purchasing new devices, not components, because that sells more units.

If you think about all their insulting decisions from that lens, everything else makes more sense than any other basic assumption.
I don’t fully follow this, but this seems to be the crux of the ruling:

> The Rogers test is "not appropriate when the accused infringer has used a trademark to designate the source of its own goods - in other words, has used a trademark as a trademark," Justice Elena Kagan wrote.

…

> VIP had conceded that it used "Bad Spaniels" as a trademark.

They then make a comparison to the song Barbie Girl (apparently also resulted in a lawsuit but with the opposite outcome), since that uses a trademark not as a trademark.

This all seems to be about specifically whether the Rogers Test[0] applies, with brand confusion questions still requiring proof later (probably by a lower court):

> The whiskey maker will still have to prove VIP's toys are likely to confuse potential customers into thinking it was affiliated with them in order to win its infringement case.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers_v._Grimaldi
1. Scale like hell
2. ???
3. Profit
On "serious" contracts, it's common to put your initials on each page, or to fan out the stack of papers and sign the margin so that each page contains part of that signature. Both are in addition to the "real" signature at the end, and provide some protection against exactly these kinds of problems.

I guess a cryptographer would add a hash of all preceding pages on the last page.
coldtea’s point is that MPE is backwards-compatible with MIDI, but MIDI 2.0 is not.

Linn’s list appears to include MPE devices but I can’t find any mention of MIDI 2.0. I’m not sure why you’re calling this a list of “MPE/MIDI2 compatible” devices.

It sounds like you’re saying that MIDI 2.0 is widely supported; do you have a list of MIDI2 devices on the market?
Ask HN: Dang, what do HN's traffic numbers look like today?
HN certainly feels a little sluggish today. As a result of the reddit blackout, I imagine traffic has spiked.

Can you provide any insights?
You can just click "continue reading" to dismiss the prompt.
My gut tells me that the number of fatal incidents that would be prevented by complete "takeoff to landing" automation vastly exceeds the number of incidents prevented by a human correcting a computer or recovering from a failed instrument or system.

I'm willing to bet that for every "miracle on the Hudson" there are ten or more "the pilots should have just let go of the controls and let the computer handle things, or trusted their artificial horizon after getting disoriented".

The number of FAA accident investigations that mention spatial disorientation is too great to be otherwise.
As an interesting edge case, in an auction contract can be formed without words either: it is formed on the "fall of the hammer" https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1979/54
On a good laptop, I would at most need it for audio (cable connectors break too easily when I'm working in a bus/train/airplane, no thanks). But since the devs can't count to three, I'll need an external mouse, and I don't trust that keyboard either. So that's three devices that are best solved with bluetooth, if you don't want connectors to break off inside the laptop at some point.
Pointless speculation. Reddit has constant outages of this exact nature almost weekly. There's nothing special about this one.
Or all the ppl missing Reddit are on HN to fill the need.
> Yes, there is an energy cost in building the car, but there’s also an energy cost in building the refrigerator and dryer and washing machine etc in the house.

I don't think you can really hand wave away that cost. My instinct is that battery, aluminum, and steel production should be very energy intensive.

The 3500+ pounds of "stuff" in your car is over an order of magnitude more "stuff" than a household appliance just by weight alone.

(Maybe we should forego the other luxuries as well, of course).

All that said I imagine the biggest direct end user energy usage would be the cost of HVAC systems running nearly continuously in inhospitable climates.
Glad it's not just me. I usually use this site as a test to see if my connection is good.
I just wonder what the internal reaction to apex’s comments have been?

Or investor relations?

Or YCs input tosses, mayhaps? Does PG stay in touch?
Highly recommend Decoder, the podcast of which this is a transcript of. Matt Mullenweg was on it earlier in 2022 also https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/15/22977857/wordpress-tumblr...
Tip of the bullshit pile
Comprehensive? No. Nothing even comes close to the scale that reddit has for the niche that Reddit has.

For local things, consider instead Facebook groups and nextdoor... not that I think that those are good alternatives. There may be a slack channel or discord group too - though those fill different (but often similar) roles.

One of the issues that you'll see with this is that you'll need multiple accounts to handle the disparate sites (well, many of them have a sign on with Google or Facebook) - there's no "one stop spot for everything".

And despite claims of power hungry mods on reddit, it becomes clear why something is needed if you spend any time looking at Nextdoor and Facebook.
I'm not being hit with a paywall. I was hit with a popup to get me to subscribe was all.
This is an essential concept that is lost on most people starting a new business. I have tutored and mentored using this concept for years.

The “value proposition” is a win-win for both customer and proprietor/employees: it can be thought of as a pie.

Divide the pie in a fair way, and you will have a successful business.

Not enough pie for everyone to share? The value isn’t big enough.

Try this out on your own business ideas. It’s a good thinking tool.
is there a rationale for doing the signatures like they do? do they need to support multiple parts of the document signed by different people? I think a model where you just sign a blob of data seems much more straight forward and doesn't have any of these problems. the blob signing model does have some problems. for example lets say in the blob signing model for OOXML you would just sign a zip file that has all the xml files. the problem is the person doing the signature could try and craft the zip or the files in such a way that the document renders differently for different people. this is a problem but it is not as bad as the problem where someone who is not the author can create a new document based on an existing signed document because the signature scheme is very difficult to implement correctly.
I can't imagine it either, though it wouldn't be outside the realm of some of the stupidity that has gone on. But it would almost certainly be the death knell for the site - those subreddits who didn't "go dark" now would.
The front page is full of posts and most of them link to the "page not found" error page, and most of the rest link to "you don't have access" (I forget the exact wording).
I'm getting errors about 50% of the time right now.

I wonder if they have more users trying to access the same data than usual. A large portion of the popular subreddits are dark but I bet their userbase hasn't dropped that much, so you have more users loading the same posts and comments. It probably drastically changes the dynamics of their load.
Maybe we just don't have the required tech to give these a non-goofy form factor yet. I owned Google Glass and I didn't love being made into a spectacle, and that was more low profile than these things.

I think some people do like that type of attention, but whether or not it reaches a critical mass where it doesn't make you stick out is what I'm waiting for.
Only on a high quality touchpad, if they're poorly calibrated it's not reliable enough. I don't trust these guys.
That's because China finances a lot of western institutions and research labs which where afraid that speaking publicly would harm their grants.
Screw reddit. Hope they choke
Could also make a guess that the blackout has changed how their normal traffic patterns operate, causing some issues with autoscaling/hot partitions.
Oh wow. This is the guy who did YUI? That was the most abjectly horrifying thing I've ever been forced to deal with (on one random client project) in the history of web development. Just the utter peak of esoteric artificially complex inelegant developer slop.
spez to the investors:

> No, you see, it was not a protest, it was simply a small outage, nothing to worry about.

Joking aside, I have a few bots monitoring content and I saw ~10% drops in comment activity before the outage (vs. the baseline from last week).
I'm sure you're already aware of this, but for other HN users on Android, ads on YouTube are blocked when using Firefox Android + uBlock Origin + m.youtube.com -- the experience isn't as nice as the app but still totally worth it IMHO.
It seems many services are experiencing an uptick in outages at the moment: https://downdetector.com/
Monitors can be a security risk
>PS: Unfortunately there is no way to say which gray line is which year.

There is. If you want to see reality, click on the "hide all" button, then pick a few years. 1984, 1990, 2022 and 2023 are good. Then try to get the people whose job depends on pretending everything is fine to explain how this is normal.
Pure walkable city is the feature of Plaza and Promenade DLC. It allow you to create a pedestrian-only district.
Wow, that's terrible. Do Germans not have as good of climate control or something? I wonder what it would take to get German energy consumption up to a better level. It looks like wholesale electricity costs in Germany are around 4x higher than in the US.
Pretty big blip for a lot of services
https://downdetector.com/
Over 90% of subreddits are currently dark. Impossible they had an excess of traffic
At least on my side the pop-up isn’t a paywall, but just a nag. Clicking the (small, greyed out) “continue reading” option allowed me to read the rest of the article.
Glad to see more attention being paid to attractiveness privilege. Probably the most under-discussed privilege in our society, relative to its impact.
The solution to social media companies behaving badly once they have users locked in may not be to lock yourself into another unprofitable company's closed ecosystem that's temporarily free.
Unless HN is equally slow while logged out that's just HN being "really slow"
I'm not _entirely_ sure which RAII you mean, but if you mean something like C#'s `using` or Java's `try-with-resources` or Python's `with`, then https://github.com/tc39/proposal-explicit-resource-managemen... and https://github.com/tc39/proposal-async-explicit-resource-man... are in stage 3 (of 4 stages) in ECMAScript's language proposal lifecycle and will be coming to a JS engine near you behind a flag soon-ish.
From what I remember, most of the stigma was always having a camera pointed directly at the person you were talking to at all times. That was just needlessly "socially aggressive" on Google's part.

The tech was definitely a cool proof-of-concept and the route I wish VR/AR would have taken. AR has so many more impactful use cases - think a navigation HUD or hands-free control of music while driving/biking or doing other things with your hands.
yes I too noticed HN has become really slow in last 10-15 minutes
Whether it's appropriate to "force someone to take it" depends on the degree of pain being caused.

There's some threshold of pain over which it's reasonable to consider major restructuring of society, and it could be useful to have a discussion on where that threshold is, but the fact that you're comparing your current state to being in a Nazi labor camp doesn't make me think that's a good use of my time.

The disillusionment & accompanied emotional pain described by Kacynski simply doesn't pass the bar for me, especially when a bit of meditation and dedication to your mental health will bring happiness.
The site doesn't have global outages every day, come on now.