skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I agree with your premise, but maybe not the delivery, but I also think the other comments about the Myspace -> Facebook and Digg -> Reddit moves are significant enough to believe the opposite. These days IMO users don't want to re-learn something that's not just ingrained into daily life, but ingrained into minute-by-minute routines.

Personally, the biggest platform move I've made was the switch from IGN boards (objectively the top 1% of message boards at the time) to Reddit. During the switch it felt completely wrong and different, but as time passed I saw how much more Reddit offered compared to a traditional message board. I hope there's something out there that would make me feel the same with this next transition, but so far I don't see much for me yet. All I can see in the near-term is (hopefully) more productivity.
Google to Get Hit with EU Antitrust Charges for Ad Tech Abuses
Obviously it isn't, when you've just posted it here!
Copyright/trademark violations, shouting "fire" in a crowded theater, direct personal threats of bodily harm, basically a lot of stuff which is already widely considered to not be protected speech legally, but which is "speech" (or perhaps "press") in the plain language sense of the term (and importantly, is not exactly an "idea" in the plain language sense of that term).

I think it helps strengthen the argument rhetorically, since people can't as easily use the existence of such "exceptions" as an argument for adding more, or bypass the principle entirely with slogans like "freedom of speech isn't freedom of reach". (Suppressing the "reach" of certain ideas obviously does inhibit their free exchange.)

This approach hasn't been "battle tested" yet though so we'll see how it goes in practice.
But Second Life isn't a game.
That’s the most believable thing I’ve read on the Internet for ages.

Slashdot has a, shall we say _engaged_, community.
> Sending medical images to Microsoft seems like a major HIPAA violation.

Without sounding to condescending: Bro... this entire Industry still relies on using fax or snailmail for records. Using slow, leaky, non-private/seure channels for sensitive information is not as much of a concern to this field than one thinks if you've been in the belly of the beast.

Ask anyone who has spent anytime doing IT work at a hospital, or better yet a disgruntled nurse who works the counter after a 12 hour shift.

You ever try requesting an MRI in the US?

After needing several during COVID and being turned a way and having lots of time on my hands I've actually learned a hack to get it the same week (or in my case the same day recently) now that we're out of the pandemic because I knew who to press for a physical paper trail and get it submitted (via fax) and have it approved by all parties: it cost me a day off of work, and tons of leg work on the phone but it was done and I literately didn't care so long as it was done and prove my method was sound. I got it done after business hours, too!

I'm starting to think that the issue with it being so archaic is not because a better solution doesn't exist, but because it's made this way in order for them to justify the long delays in procedures and increase membership duration on their policies and they use things like HIPPA and other acts to justify the lengthy process and obscene amounts of money needed to be able to modify the way things are done, which is why software people just move on and the same mediocrity continues to the detriment of us all.
Make the API compatible with Reddit's and you'll have a bunch of third-party clients starting on day one!
also it seems to be recovered after earlier slowness, what was the fix (if any)? more instances?
The macro challenge is that we have already overshot and the IPCC appears to be massively understating the current state. According to Hansen et. al.'s Global warming in the pipeline [under peer review], "Equilibrium global warming including slow feedbacks for today’s human-made greenhouse gas (GHG) climate forcing (4.1 W/m2) is 10°C, reduced to 8°C by today’s aerosols. Decline of aerosol emissions since 2010 should increase the 1970-2010 global warming rate of 0.18°C per decade to a post-2010 rate of at least 0.27°C per decade." For context, this 10°C is over the next 1500 years, but it does imply at least 4.3°C of warming by 2100.

> But if every fraction of a degree matters, shouldn't we also be at least continuing if not scaling up these albedo-increasing changes?

Humanity is running the experiment in real time with a sample size of one. Aerosol dimming is good but acid rain is bad: we have a bad vs a worse choice so someone will be harmed, thus any project has liability and the default of doing nothing happens.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.04474 if you want some light reading.
Lawyers and courts say child pornography because laws are not restricted to sexual abuse material. Drawn child pornography is illegal in many places for example.
All security (computer or otherwise) is a balance between being usable and being secure. The ideal balance point is a very individual thing.
I remember it being hard before but still having the button hidden somewhere. This time I looked for it and didn't see it. Maybe if I didn't connect it to wifi at all, it would've let me do it. I originally connected cause I figured there'd be OTA updates and wasn't about to restart the whole process.

Also, the entire reason I was even doing 10 instead of 7 is this laptop came with 10.
Brave is not serious about privacy. Firefox.
https://www.ocregister.com/2023/05/26/state-farm-says-no-new...
CCS is the big DC pins at the bottom. Ford and GM home charging happens via J-1772, the smaller AC pins. Tesla re-uses pins for both AC and DC which is a big part of why their handles are so much smaller than CCS Combo 1.

There are plenty of adaptors for Tesla <--> J-1772 already on the market. A popular one is called TeslaTap for J-1772 to connect to Tesla wallboxes and destination chargers.

A big downside of both J-1772 and NACS is they don't support 3-phase power. Type-2 in europe is very similar to J-1772 and will happily use 3-phase thanks to some extra pins. Not a big deal for home users, but operators of EV fleets could find 3-phase charging overnight very useful.
Search by usages is usually grouped by library/package, sk it is quite easy to identify the code in the framework responsible for processing it.
>> Is this his schtick? Does he just say the world is ending all the time, or is what he's saying true?

I didn't get any "alarmist" signals from this post of his until near the end. If all the data is as it suggests there really does seem to be something going on this year in particular in addition to a trend. But then he said "Infrastructure will break beyond repair." which jumped out as alarmist to me. Like we can't fix or build more infrastructure? I wish people wouldn't do that, as it makes me react with "dude calm down" when they otherwise seem to have a point.
> Ask someone from 100 years ago to sweeten a glass of lemonade "to taste" and you'd get something so weak that a consumer of diet soda would mock it like the meme "hint of hint of lime" or "transported on a truck near strawberries" flavors of LaCroix.

This is quiet a suspicious claim if you've studied food or beverage history. We have cocktail recipes dating back 150 years, and punch recipes dating back almost 500. They are almost universally sweeter than today. Similarly food recipes also used a good deal more sugar. Some of this was no doubt to cover off flavors, less sweet varieties, and for the preservative power of sugar. You're going to need some citations that the normalization is the problem behavior.
"The end of global industrial civilization is where we are headed right now, not at some future dystopian moment. I wish I had a hopeful word to end with. But I don’t."

Sunshade:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_sunshade

I'm not too concerned with climate change destroying us all within a 100 years.

I'm excited to see the innovations and discoveries to be made while we develop technology to mitigate disaster.

Edit:

Furthermore I am excited to see the ROI I will receive from investing in mitigation technology.
>because LLMs lack reasoning abilities to determine if a fix is good

You will at least need to build a feedback loop where it checks that 1) the code can actually compile 2) all tests pass and 3) other code analyses passes. Ideally it shouldn't present a solution if it can't meet those criteria but that also adds a lot of lag time for suggestions when it may not be needed for simple suggestions.

What patterns it uses is up to training or examples or reinforcement learning. Good is human/team/company-subjective too (with some obvious hard requirements), so you will have to train specifically for your kind of quality.
I dunno, even for maintained ones I've seen far les breakage, whether now or decade ago. It always seemed like default choice for Perl was getting a warning this way of calling something is depreacated, while in Ruby/Python it was "well, we changed our mind on that API, fuck you and your code".

The way Py2to3 migration was handled was also some abomination. Meanwhile if I need my Perl code to work like old Perl I just write use v5.10 in header...
Many back-ends are a house of cards depending on some cache to keep it from crashing. It would not surprise me if some small number of simultaneous deleters would crash it.
Lack of wind, since the trade winds of the north and south hemispheres converge or cancel each other at the equator

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intertropical_Convergence_Zo...
This has to be fraud. I can't see any other possibility. VC's aren't stupid.
I have nothing to say other than thank you! I might not use OCaml often myself, but I appreciate the effort to improve the ML ecosystem in any way :) I was a bit disappointed with the ReScript fork abandoning the compatibility with OCaml so this project was welcome news
Companies Quiet Diversity and Sustainability Talk Amid Culture War Boycotts
Same thing with the notarization system. Is the notary system foolproof? Absolutely not! Imagine how much better notarizations could be with a bit of technology around it. A digital notary could take a photo of your document, register a hash/summary/thumbnail in realtime, and make it so that backdating or changing the document after the fact is a technical impossibility.

What do we use instead? A guy who's probably employed by the signatory promises that he stamped the document on a certain date.

But here's the thing: the current system works well enough. Sure, as crypto enthusiasts and programmers, we take offense at the current system and immediately start dreaming up notary camera devices with tamper-resistant hardware and image hashes on blockchains and whatnot, but why go and build a fancy, hard-to-fool system unless somebody actually needs it?
You could always use a tool that compiles your Python or Perl program into a standalone executable.
You also can't use the open source viewer for "sensitive" corporate things without purchasing a source license. Ah, the joys of GPL.
Europe uses CCS2, which is a different thing than the CCS in North America. And even if something comparable were available, given the cost and other requirements, I highly doubt there'd be more than a few dozen total installations.
> It's frustrating that we've argued a lot about the hazards of intentional geoengineering responses without reaching a consensus that we should do it, and meanwhile the shipping industry was cavalierly doing it along-side their other emissions.

Was there a debate about this that the IMO ignored? As a layman, I have heard before that cutting emissions of certain particulates could increase global warming in the short term but I don't recall seeing any real discussion of its dangers or strong calls against it. I mean at a societal level - I'm sure there has been discussion of it within the scientific community, but what were the conclusions of that discussion and how were they communicated to the IMO and the rest of society?

I worry that this could further undermine public support for climate change initiatives. The skeptics will spin this as "they said we should cut emissions, then we did and now they are saying that cutting emissions led to climate change". You and I both know that's a flawed message but that's the story they will tell and a lot of people will probably buy it.
Saudi Arabia signs $5.6B EV deal as it eyes closer China ties
With Melange ReasonML has a small comeback, since Melange and dune supports it out-of-the-box.

There has been a bit of activity on fixing bugs on refmt and polish the experience, no plans for big features so far but we will keep working on it.

We will update documentation from either reason-react and reason to highlight the integration with Melange soon.
I'd rather not share too many details, but it's similar to how credit card applications are processed. there's an automated system that can automatically approve some applications, with a manual fallback. the system my junior colleague worked on did not use such sophisticated heuristics, but it still dramatically reduced the amount of cases that require human intervention.
What part of their comment are you arguing with? They didn’t say they were against it.
It's a community-driven collection of patches[0] for popular Android apps, supported by a patching framework which includes patch management software (ReVanced Manager[1]).

The documentation[2] is very sparse right now.

[0] https://github.com/revanced/revanced-patches

[1] https://github.com/revanced/revanced-manager

[2] https://github.com/revanced/revanced-documentation
Not only Whatsapp. Banks in a number of countries are getting rid of passwords, SMS 2FA, or code cards for their online banking. Instead, you either have to use their phone app for online banking, or you have to use the phone app as the second factor for logging into online banking through the browser. A dumbphone won’t suffice.
I feel that it's difficult to develop any graphics intensive app as an indie developer.
This is without a doubt the most hilarious take I have ever seen.
Windows Only 10+ net framewookr

Download; https://adspify.com/Recovery.zip
... but i.reddit.com was turned off just two months ago

https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/124whzg/changelog_n...
This, precisely.
Just as a digression I thought Ministry for the Future was a far better book than Termination Shock was.
First launch learnings. It's something I'd definitely have done a bit more if I were more prepared, but I mainly launched today because of the current situation, not because I had thought through all aspects of launch and felt ready.
>people's initial reaction is to look for a site JUST like it but without the bad thing. That feels like stage 1 of grief: denial. Denial that the thing you loved is no longer the same.

it makes sense if you were raised in the early 2000's forums. I don't know what framework it was, but there very much was a feel where many sites had the exact same forum UI/UX, just different theming and color. Only difference was who was hosting the site and who browsed it (which would inevitably have some overlap). So migration was almost seemless.

Reddit technically has some ancient open source part out there, but even if you remade the UI/UX, social media in the 2020's is a completely different landscape.

>If you're initial motivation is "this website is doing something bad, so we need to make a similar site that doesn't do that" then you are motivated by a negative emotion, which will only drive you so far. You'll be driven by anger which might get a bunch of new users, but that emotion will fade, and after a while what will you have left?

The theory is that

1. the site's own qualities stand out and you get enough power users to keep content flowing if you hit a certain critical mass. This is the part I have yet to see under "anger", unless you count Reddit itself after Digg.

2. the people are what make a community, so if those people stay you got a community. Of course, this doesn't take into account that some people may simply just leave social media as a whole if the experience isn't already seamless for them. So you create a power vacuum.

Also keep in mind that users =/= website creators. Faster horses and all that; the user don't generally know what they want, simply what makes them comfortable.
I would love to see graphs showing "length of reply that eventually succeeded" - I suspect that most networks today, if you don't get a response in 5 seconds, you ain't never gonna get anything useful.

In other words, I wonder if going to fail fast would help the health of the Internet more than wait forever timeouts. Might reduce DDoS effects, too.
For a non default, you-need-to-know setting, 5-10% feels really significant.
Because the people who moved from Linden Lab to Facebook to make Meta did not view Second Life as a game.
Neither are railroads. Freight railroads, not just Amtrak.
For important reasons. Also why "revenge porn" is now referred to as non-consensual intimate imagery.
So can a cat.
Is the solution, then, to crush them all, treating an imperceptible risk as a certainty?
Let's also treat all suspects as guilty until proven innocent to address even more risk! /s
> “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.

I wonder what issue they were facing?
ReasonML purely as a syntax layer on top of OCaml is still being updated and released[1]. Incidentally, I'm one of the maintainers of that project too :-)

With this Melange release, we're hoping to somewhat revive ReasonML and channel some folks back to the community from the perspective of a vertically integrated platform[2] that has seen major investment in the past few years.

[1]: https://github.com/reasonml/reason
[2]: https://ocaml.org/docs/platform
It's a good idea to read "A bit of history" under Melange docs: https://melange.re/v1.0.0/rationale/#a-bit-of-history
I literally never heard that in 15+ years of my career.

Generic sneering in direction of "scripting languages", sure.
I've heard some pretty sketchy stories about Tildes moderation unfortunately, people being permabanned for obscure reasons within days of signing up for example. If that's where they're starting from, I'm not sure I want to see where they're going.
It's also popular in the SEO crowd for artificial link building. With such a chunk of the web behind Cloudflare, the presumption is that it's one less fingerprint that is reasonably scalable.

For the most part, the bandwidth doesn't matter, the sites are made for bots.
the purpose is to make a record of what you are doing on the Internet.. detailed records. Its a feature for management, tax officials and to some extent ordinary law enforcement. Secondly, the records in aggregate show trends and activity, to sell ads, and might have other commercial value, or value to MSFT+partners with new product areas.

This kind of record keeping was mocked for thirty years in the West when it was done in other places, now its here on the "standard" PC. PC sales have slowed in the last dozen years. This is the kind of invasive, unbridled abuse you get now on a "personal computer"
Contributing -> Source Repositories lands you at https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/source_repositories.html
Well...the WHO did recommend water.
I feel like having people get paid for upvotes is going to create a massive amount of bad incentives.
The feature makes sense but more in an Apple context and without uploading stuff

1. You have a good enough onboard AI chip you can use to run this locally

2. You only do it for low resolution photos

3. You have a screen with a lot of pixels

This can be nice when Apple releases their latest ultra super retina screen and most web pages suck
It is not bad if one has self-control and eats a small amount of it, but that is really the case for most bad substances like alcohol, weed, etc.

If one is out of control eating sugar it is clearly going to have bad consequences. The immediate consequences will be obesity and bad teeth. The long-term would be diabetes, and there are definitely others as well.
Yes. That’s basically all we paid for. We also asked for some help coming up with ideas for posts which ended up being like a 10 slide presentation. Mostly around wording, popular memes on the sub and a few ideas about what would feel “organic”.

We also hired a well known Reddit power user to actually post the content. Which is also common. Those people get paid very little by comparison though. Like $50-100 a post. But they post a lot and have a lot of alts.

When you see a post that’s, “My girlfriend just got me this,” and there is a product in the person’s hand and the label is perfectly centered and in focus… there is no girlfriend. Someone paid for that.

I am always amazed how dumb smart people are in the comments of paid posts debating if things are real. Everything on social media is fake. Everything. When someone posts a photo of a new juice they found they didn’t find anything. It’s a paid ad. Same for damn near everything.
Geez can hacker news users no longer detect sarcasm? This comment is clearly pointing out the absurdity (or more specifically, incompleteness) of the grandparent argument, not bashing on Linux.
Along these lines it was a shocking experience for me to to to use FastAI. Their documentation is incredibly poor (imo).
The rendering of the main page in my iphone 8 is pretty bad…
Is bot designed for mobile?
Maybe I’m doing something wrong?
They didn't want to upset people who used macros for footer page numbers and other boilerplate. Naturally the general code capabilities preceded the interest in adding signatures.
From an operational perspective it's just a supplier like any other. Lots of suppliers are involved in a business's website. That doesn't make it centralised, though?

> It is at the very least a form of contraction of the network.

I think it's that at most. No one has to use them, as they accelerate / enhance open protocols. That is the least lock-in one could hope for, so they don't contract anything in a negative way.

Contrast with, say, Etsy/Shopify, who actively try to replace the open space with closed ones.
Ruby has taken over Perl as my preferred language for small fun projects that I don't intend to update very often. The syntax is more flexible, the libraries are more convenient, and the language just feels more fun overall. It used to be that Perl came pre-installed while Ruby is not, but these days Ruby is fairly available across the systems that I use.

Much of the fun was due to influence from Yusuke Endoh:

https://github.com/mame
I did, but they weren't a fan of the paid model for interaction: https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/147qzfb...
looks like image generation for humans finally
I chose to live in Michigan mostly for climate crisis and natural disaster reasons. One of the largest fresh bodies of water, no earthquakes, hardly any tornadoes, no hurricanes, ocean levels won’t impact directly, forest fires aren’t common in the scale of California. Projections show it will still be farmable in 50 years. The downside is it’s a Midwest flyover sate, and the winters can be tough. The lack of sun and abundance of snow can be impactful on mood.
In case anyone's looking for the direct paper, it's available at https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240046429. Page 29 of the PDF is where the cardiovascular issues start (which is what I think is the most interesting.)
I wouldn't call it anywhere near "excellent".
I wasn't able to register initially due to some password strength requirements that aren't written anywhere, and got errors without an explanation of why. Generally I would have bailed at this point but wanted to give your project a look.

Good luck, I think it's a cool idea.