skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. If porn gets to be too big of a use-case too early it'll drive away other use cases. OnlyFans was not originally for porn, but if you hear someone has an OF, you assume it's to consume or publish porn. That's mainly because an early investment came from the owner of a porn site.

Porn definitely helps a platform's adoption and growth, but it needs to be an "oh by the way", and not the feature.
Are you using a password manager? If so which? If you add the letter "a" at the end, and then delete it, does it work then?

I'm using webcomponent form elements, the spec for which is relatively new. I suspect it isn't working well with auto-filled passwords from them.
"Meta seemed to be under the impression that people want to invent digital versions of themselves"
There's a concern that a malicious list could point domain names to a malicious IP address. I don't think its a big concern with https:// since the cert will be invalid, but it's still a concern.
I loved the idea of Oculus Vim

But the practicality of not being able to see the people around me gave me the screaming heeby-jeebies. I just wasn't comfortable not knowing who was near me.

I will happily have 3 monitors in realspace just so I can turn my head to see who's near me.
> Muslims

Muslims isn't a specific enough group.

I'm 100% perfectly cool with calling Al Qaeda or ISIS a hate group.

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I'm 100% cool with calling the Westboro Baptist Church a Hate Group.

Just making them religious doesn't change them from being a hate group, or immune from criticism.
I'm extremely sorry for your loss. I do hope that you are able to pick up the pieces and somehow create a meaningful life with them.
This would be good in principle, but it could easily lead to practical problems like accidentally encouraging becoming underweight and things like anorexia. A better solution would be a flat rate for everyone who's not overweight, and then a per-pound surcharge for every pound that you're overweight by.
I think “anger” can be a helpful motivating emotional response to an offense. I imagine it is a precursor to hate, but I’m not really sure.

Anger has been beneficial. Workers had anger to get us the 40 hour work week. Women had anger to get them the right to vote. Black people had anger to get the right to vote.

I agree there is a problem with the hateful festering and spreading. I think the solution is societal safety nets: universal basic income, universal healthcare, free college or trade school.
Waaaaait! In the US also the FAX is still a thing?! Seriously?!
I have heard terrible stories from Germany and Japan, but did not know that also the US…
What would be really powerful is an API compatible alternative to Reddit. There's a ton of already developed apps just itching for a new platform to use them with.
>It's not like the existence of that subreddit is evidence of an endorsement on their part.

It is though. 230 be damned. These were not small or hidden communities. They were frequently on the front page. Generally, and especially in this case silence is violence. The optics of that sub and the frequenters thereof are terrible. Do you want to try and justify their inaction further or concede this point? It should have never been allowed in the first place. Spez/Reddit at al should continue to be shamed for their long-standing tacit approval of these communities. Earning respectability requires public contrition for bad decisions that affect the public and non participants. As is typical, the communities were only shuttered when the victims cries grew loud enough to affect their brand image. Cf fph, wpd, fappening, t_d, Boston bomber fiasco, all the racist subs, and countless other controversies that spez/Reddit fumbled. Reddit deserves to close. The management team is evidently not competent or mature enough for the task and has repeatedly proven that their inability to learn from their mistakes and failure to become the proactive stewards needed will result in preventable harm to people who do not even use the platform.
While I agree, I certainly don't go on reddit expecting political change. It's at best good for awareness, but you can't be stuck on that first step.

To talk about media, hobbies, and maybe even to foster professional skills. I feel those were the most valuable communities.
For a billion years of Earth's history our days were only 19 hours long
Chrome for Testing
Mostly agree. The screenshot in the top right looks good, like professional app I might actually use. But I want to actually browse the site and check it out without first slogging through a registration process. If it’s free to view/browse anyway, then enable doing that without registering. Register and pay if you want to post.

Edit: You can browse without registering after all, here’s the link: https://non.io/#all (didn’t see it on the landing page or OP post).
That is breaking the EULA:

"You are authorized to use this software only if you are properly licensed and the software has been properly activated with a genuine product key or by other authorized method."
Fair enough, that is one misaligned incentive, but also if bad reviews don't pressure hosts to do better, people will just book a hotel instead where the quality is more consistent. It does seems like many businesses don't/can't optimize for anything other than the first-order effects.
I agree that it's interesting that a handful of ultra rich are bucking the trend and not passing all their wealth to their children. But this is only interesting because it's so rare. It's also not very accurate.

Gates has stated publicly he plans to leave each child $10 million.

Buffet has stated publicly that his kids will only get $2 billion each.

Articles like the ones you've posted are just fuel for a false narrative.
They might be able to teach you the proper way to can!
>I suspect that most networks today,

I guess that comes with the type of end point in that network. A typical website, absolutely, yes, I'd agree. An API end point allowing requests of large data pools that might take a few seconds to generate but yet not a total time out would be acceptable.
I never said it was a lollipop guild. I was pushing back against the implication that "in the military = killing people", as if it is a rite of passage or something. And no, the military actually isn't about killing people, it is merely about the threat of being able to kill people. Probably the best military in the world would be one so powerful that no one would even try to battle it.
There's also a newer protocol called "Wayland" which aims to avoid some issues with X11 (and is also a general architecture overhaul). GNOME and KDE support it out of the box and iirc at least GNOME also enables it by default.

There are some tradeoffs though. Some things like screen sharing might be worse on Wayland (e.g. I can't share a single window, only whole screens) and some apps don't support Wayland at all (including for example all of the IntelliJ IDEs). The latter can be circumvented by enabling XWayland (basically an X server running side by side with the Wayland compositor to handle X11-only apps). In that case you're left with the X11 security model for apps not running natively on Wayland.
Cool project! For something like this to succeed at Reddit's scale, it should stay snappy under load (which admittedly Reddit doesn't). So clicked through to Github to see what it's written in:

> Languages

> Shell 100.0%

I admired the absolute chadliness of this decision - until i realised this was just a top-level super-repo.
Aren't non-binary flags even worse from the point of view of deleting them?

There is a very good reason feature flags are binary: they start in one state and end in the other.
> Once you get used to sweet salads

Ewww. I’m normally a regionalist, my state (SH) over the others. But sweet salad is a traditional thing here. I always make myself forget about that fact. It’s disgusting.
If I have time this weekend, I want to build a tool that allows users to edit all their historic posts to display a message saying they've temporarily removed all posts from reddit until they institute reasonable API terms.

Ideally it'll save all the content from all the posts into a sqlite database or something, and then can be run again to restore all the content.

I don't like the idea of removing so much valuable content from the internet, but I also think Reddit is acting irresponsibly as a steward, and needs to be reminded that the content creators (aka users) are the reason their platform has the value it does in the first place.
That's not vaping nicotine.

These kids are vaping THC adulterated with vitamin E[1]. Vitamin E is added because it makes a cut product thicker, and thickness is thought of as an indicator of quality. My guess here is that marijuana still has a stigma/is illegal, so these kids are finding it easier to just blame nicotine vapes to try and get themselves out of trouble.

There's no reason to cut nicotine vape liquid since the base ingredients (vegetable glycerin + propylene glycol) are absurdly cheap.

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/basic_information/e-cigarettes/s...
It's not about me. This is exactly what Tesla is doing and for some reason no one seems to care and continues to hand Tesla money for subpar quality cars with fake FSD. I don't get it.
https://newsblur.com/

I think this might be pretty close to what you're looking for. It's an RSS feed reader with a platform for discussions.
I guess it depends on what you mean by “beyond repair”, I.e. how many pieces of a bridge can you replace before you’re replacing the bridge rather than repairing it?

I am definitely not an expert on infrastructure or civil engineering in general, but I’ve heard lots of stories about heat being bad for our infra, e.g. warped rail lines in the UK. “Beyond repair” seems within the bound of reason

EDIT: also, obligatory dont-look-up-ication:

"I didn't sense any 'alarmist' undertones from this post of his until almost the end. If all the data is as it suggests, there genuinely seems to be an extraordinary astronomical event headed our way this year on top of other celestial trends. But then he said, 'Civilization will crumble beyond repair,' which struck me as alarmist. Like we can't rebuild or adapt our society? I wish people wouldn't resort to such extreme statements, as it prompts me to respond with 'dude, calm down,' even when they otherwise seem to have a valid concern."
In the midst of the social media meltdown and exodus to nowhere,
just want to take a moment to thank dang and the entire HN community for maintaining such a high signal to noise ratio. As a moderator (who failed miserably) of nickb's NewMogul, I have the tiniest inkling of how hard dang's job must be. While I don't always agree with him or the moderation on HN, I have the utmost respect for what he's trying to accomplish and the success with which his efforts have been attended. Any new platform will have a very tough mod act to follow.
Let us not forget DuckDuckGo, also a successful fully remote company (and it was that way before COVID-19). MatterMost as well.

I am sure there are plenty of others
In Belgium, if you buy an appartment at the coastline using a business, the fiscal authorities dispute the tax deductability and depreciation (33y by default) if it is not at least on the second floor.
When it comes to "making phone calls," good luck trying to get anyone to pick up the call. With the rampant prevalence of scams and telemarketing, unless you are in a circle of like-minded individuals, these mysterious calls are likely to be ignored.
Don’t know if this is still the case but back when Reddit was open source they would keep the comment in the database on deletion, but using the edit feature you could actually remove the content from the db.
Confidence, Competence, & Gravity
> only 2 mouse buttons but this is a Linux laptop: it must have 3. Maybe they can't find any company building 3 mouse buttons touchpads.

Isn't pushing 2 buttons at the same time on a 2-button mouse the same as pushing the third button on a 3 button mouse?
The reason why we cant fight climate change is because the AI wont let us (joke)
For Wechat specifically, I think that the group size limit of 500 may be related to Chinese law. They want group sizes to remain somewhat small to prevent news from spreading too quickly.
On the landing page: "$2/mo min." is confusing, is it talking about minutes? consider "just $2/mo" or "from just $2/mo"
I’m confused about what you’re saying here. GP doesn’t imply no one could possibly enjoy metaverse; when they are talking about “what people want,” I think this should be taken as “what [the vast majority of] people want.” This is in line with your .01% business.
Big mistake, I open non.io and I don't see content. I see you trying to sell me something. I haven't read a single word of it.

If this wants to be a "reddit like" platform, it needs to be like reddit and actually present content on its homepage.
A few quick suggestions about the landing page:
- less text
- more spacing in your text
- try not to let your text span the entire width of the window
Do you have a single example where it is possible?
Minimal Linux VM Cross Compiled with Clang and Zig
Thank you! This is an extremely good hardening guide. Next weekend is set on this
Freedom of the press does often get lumped in with speech in these sort of discussions, for good reason. That's another reason I prefer "ideas"; it's agnostic to the medium through which the ideas are conveyed (though again, in this specific case the images in question weren't intended to convey an "idea").
I think normalization is the problem but not because people didn't drink sweet things; my suspicion is that previously they were drunk rarely and in smaller quantities (due to cost, if nothing else).

We've gone from "Twelve full ounces, that's a lot" to a 12oz can being the smallest commonly available size, and a 20oz bottle being common in vending machines.

Over my lifetime, the "medium" size soda at a fast-food restaurant has roughly doubled.
Try talking to healthcare workers too. They think there is some magic about faxes.

>They are so fast(no they arent, something can be ahead of them)

>They are safe compared to email(literally anyone can walk by the fax and take it)

>They are faster than a phone call, because doctors don't pick up the phone. (What...)

You can mention the US government has ultra high security communication that uses the internet, you can mention the value of finance information, you can talk about the secrets your billion dollar company sends over email/web. But noooo, patient information is too sensitive and urgent to be sent over email/web....
Doing Good or Feeling Good? Justice Concerns Predict Online Shaming
I agree. I think the only successful alternative has to be a non-profit.

Decentralized solutions don't scale.
This feature is not public, right? Not on my Edge installation. It's only on canary.
Contrariwise, I diagnose platform-management misalignment.
I think a lot of this is exactly the kind of constructive critique the OP is looking for, and I upvoted your comment for being high-value.

But I’m currently working on being a little more diplomatic, and too often I regret throwing in low-signal “this is a tech demo” type summaries next to my substantial remarks.

I hope this comes off as “fellow user working on this” and not a person in a glass house with rocks.
100% -- I'm not creating an account if I can't use the app, demo the app, or otherwise get a proper idea of what I'm signing up for, in order to see if it'll be worth my time to begin with.
> while the world attempts to recover from a pandemic that is still ongoing but ignored by global media.

I wonder what parts of world are still going through the pandemic. Without citations, some of the facts in article come up as alarmists.
It might be feasible for a community centered on content creators as the site appears to showcase, though for much of Reddit there are all manner of posts including just OPs asking a random question which doesn't need to be monetized but which still would benefit from more eyeballs (via upvotes).
As an early developer (Day 1 of App Store launch in 2008 - iRetroPhone) there is some excitement of being the first on a new platform. Back in 2008, there was very little documentation on UIKit but it was fun to develop. The difference I see this time is we had access to the iPhone(released 2007) and this time[1] it looks like you need to either ask Apple to test the app for you, or go to one of the labs (not in NYC strangely) or be one of the lucky ones to be selected for developer kit.

One more thing I found strange was the current Xcode 15 beta does not even come with Vision OS SDK (coming later this month) and we cant even play with the WWDC session videos in the simulator

[1]https://developer.apple.com/visionos/work-with-apple/
Our current hardware doesn't support microkernels because there is no demand, and nobody is creating general purpose microkernels because all the important hardware doesn't support it. So, I'm not sure we will ever see that change.

A proper microkernel isn't like Linux with a bunch of modules. It's something that can your game direct access to the GPU, while restricting access to a pseudo-root on your disk, and to an edited raw RAM that pretends the spyware from the game's DRM is running on the main system while it's actually sandboxed.

You can do something like that in a microkernel because you can replace it piecewise for a single application. You can technically do something like that on Linux, but you will never manage to.
I witnessed a middle-aged mum walking a pram talking to her son or husband about GPT. Haven't had that kind of moment since 1995 and the rapid uptake of email.

Having seen this before, I don't think the numbers are incredible. Everyone I know has signed up for an OpenAI account, and probably 25% are paying for one. Granted I'm in the HN bubble, but this is so 1995.
On the positive side, while researching my comment, apparently that old boogieman of artificial sweeteners, saccharine, may be fine for humans (as the cancer-causing in rats is because of a unique rat feature that humans don't share).
To make it more confusing for you, sam Altman was an early angel investor in reddit, and has been the CEO twice, for very short transition periods between CEOs.
Do you perhaps know why they aren't contributing to the upstream?
I'm also pleased to see this, as somebody who likes functional programming and ML dialects. I don't need braces just because C has them.

BuckleScript, when it was called that, was incredibly compelling for me. This was in part thanks to being blazing fast, unlike TypeScript. So I am pleased to see a spiritual successor.
Isnt this a dark pattern.

I think you are apologizing for them if you say it wasnt forced. It sure feels forced.
the US government probably won't make it illegal to possess BTC, but it will never accept e.g. tax payments in BTC

also, the instant there is a non-trivial amount of commerce conducted in US jurisdictions via BTC, you will immediately see aggressive counter-measures (lawsuits, criminal charges, etc.) from the federal government

germany's minister of finance said it succinctly when there was this facebook libra thing going around

> One of the core activities of a sovereign State is to issue a currency. We will not cede this task to private companies.

https://gpil.jura.uni-bonn.de/2019/10/germany-opposes-facebo...
Or maybe, the SREs at Reddit decided this is their contribution to the protest to let it burn
Importantly, reddit allows the creation of microforums. Not everyone has the time, energy or ability to build out a full site with a complete forum to make it worth everyone's while. I see Facebook & Discord taking Reddit's piece of the pie in the short term.
I mean, no offense, but how is this news and why is this being upvoted?

There is an ongoing discussion with 500 comments on the front page,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36294244

The site has been back up since more than hour ago.

**And there is literally 0 connection to be made between this outage and the actual protest.**

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As is pointed out by the article, apparently there is connection.
Making a ton of subs private does a lot more than change view counts.
I don't know about other places; but in the UK, a contract doesn't even have to be written down, let alone signed.

Of course, an unwritten contract is no more valuable than the paper it's (not) written on; and either party can dispute the terms. But you can still make a valid contract with a verbal agreement and a shake of hands. But don't do this unless you trust your co-contractor!
I’m sorry to be blunt, but what on earth are you talking about?

Could you please provide a heap of more context — this reads like conspiracy nonsense upon first glance.
There are many ways of determining profitability (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting)

The CEO absolutely has an incentive to make it seem like this is the case, so they can use it to justify more user-hostile changes in the name of profits
This is why I've been so curious as to exactly what Reddit is really trying to do with this api change. If the point of Reddit is to consume content then the content itself (and the amount of it consumed) is really their business model so all actions should support that vs. getting people to arbitrarily be on their site. If your business is content, it shouldn't matter if it's a third-party app or if it's on your main site. I just cannot figure out the long-term logic behind this move (ofc short-term it's about $$ and their IPO but this'll hurt their model in the long-run)
Perl is the worst language I had the displeasure to work with and I’m glad it’s basically dead.

The thing I hated most about it was that it had several ways to the same thing, which made it extremely hard to read code because you had to understand the nuances and could cause bugs. For example I vaguely remember that Perl had 2 ways to specify “or” but they had different preferences. The fact that scalars and vectors had different namespaces meant that you could get absurd looking code like $a[$a].

I’m glad that Perl is all but dead.
This point is moot, because those people would be out of office on PTO dealing with those contractors anyway. At least they can hop in and out of the meetings when working remotely, which is an upgrade from them not even being there to be honest. If tools like Outlook or Google Calendar are not enough to help someone schedule meetings without a struggle, that is a personal failure.
I just had this issue with lemmy today. caused me to bounce. maybe will try again later.
I think these takes are just silly. Humans being gone would make the world a better place. Getting rid of social media, the internet etc doesn't make all the bad humans suddenly go away.
I have also found Promises very hard to reason about at times: "okay, so I have some code here, and when exactly is this run?" can be a difficult question to answer with Promises. Part of that is inherent in async code, but part of that is also because IMHO Promises make it harder than it needs to be.

I never really used Java, but I have used Ruby and Python (IIRC Python's APIs were modelled on the Java ones) and I agree it can be painful. The thing is, even with an awkward async implementation it's something you have to deal with relatively infrequently when synchronous is the default (as it is in most languages). When you do it can be a pain, but I'd rather have this "occasional pain" vs. "pain every time I want to do any I/O operation".

Personally I like how Go does things.
I agree but I guess we differ in that I wouldn't consider Typescript JavaScript but instead a very closely coupled but different language.
>this is obviously the correct thing to do, and everyone should copy them.

This is either the result of decades of marketing or astroturfing.
It is now, but it was very different at the time. The old guard of the internet supporting absolute freedom of speech didn’t used to be associated with Nazis. Some good examples that still exists today are the Electronic Frontier Foundation and to some extent the American Civil Liberties Union.