skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is the larger issue here? Why is this significant?

It seems like a fine point within trademark law. It maybe sorta kinda has implications for parody speech? But even there, it doesn't seem like a major threat to parody speech unless I'm missing something.
They serve different purposes. You might not be able to find even one person in your local area who shares your specific niche interests, but on the internet you can find hundreds or thousands of the most engaged and knowledgeable people on any given topic. Online forums also serve as a repository of knowledge that you can search through and learn from.
I have encountered this video and it is worth to take a look. The conditions for living are never going to be the same as they were, but not due to "boomers" or whatever the favorite scapegoat is but... well watch it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXP8gH0wddE
It isn't even data sensitivity.

Laptop stolen?
What was on it? "zOMG, We Don't KNOW!?!!!1"
Was it encrypted? Yes
Was the lid closed? Yes
Order another laptop and move along.
What was the Sears debacle?
I've been experiencing occasional slow-downs and issues on HN since last week. I would presume that it's due to more load (with WWDC last week and now Reddit black-out) but I don't really see this fully-reflected in the comment or up-vote count on the main page (except the recent Vision Pro thread).
The U.S. dollar conquered the world. Is it at risk of losing its top spot?
From a risk management perspective, most storage devices have a "table stakes" requirement to "not lose data". Performance, storage duration, reliability, etc, etc, etc, etc, are all secondary to "do not lose data". You're dead in the water if you lose data. Everything beyond "don't lose data" can and is proprietary implementations of read/write; often with tricks being used to increase speed.

While it's challenging (if not impossible) to recover data from most "blanked out" drives, there is often no guarantee that a blanking process actually renders the underlying data unusable. For example, I believe many SSDs will simply mark a block as "unused" rather than physically rewriting the data in that block. When the block gets used again, you simply set it to the new values.

Whether it's practical, right now, to recover data really doesn't matter. These drives are leaving an organization forever. You will have absolutely no control over them. If a technique comes out to recover data from them, you cannot risk having drives floating around that are now recoverable.
More speculation but seems logical: traffic is a) much different in size and patterns than usual and b) being driven to areas that usually have much lower traffic, meaning caching and scaling are both being forced up against patterns of site usage that have never been tested or planned for.
> around 20% of users have a disability that makes real-world interaction difficult.

Oh no that's really sad :-(
True, but those teams have the same problem. How do they know it's really fixed, for every scenario, for everyone, everywhere?

They have a pretty good idea if something internal is broken, but it's very hard to know that everything is fixed.

That said, I agree that manually updated pages are generally more useful and accurate than automated ones. It's just an extra tax on the incident team.
While not unique, the Bay Area is also something of an outlier in that it's hard to drive out of extremely high housing prices from not only SF but the South Bay generally.

I live 60-90 minutes outside of the Boston metro and, while were I am isn't many areas of the Midwest cheap, it's pretty affordable. Except for one short stint, I've never had to commute into the city, so living in the city would be a lifestyle choice which has historically not been one that a lot of middle class families made--even when a lot of urban CoL was lower.
>> - Lockdowns did little to prevent the spread of COVID...

> <citation needed>

https://iea.org.uk/publications/did-lockdowns-work-the-verdi...

>> - Cloth masks were pointless security theatre

> <citation needed>

https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD...

> I was happy to accept changes to my lifestyle to diminish risk of harm to individuals.

We now have a massive unexplained excess deaths crisis, but suddenly it's "see no evil, hear no evil".

>> - The vaccines never prevented transmission

> That's a straw-man argument - that's not the primary purpose of a vaccine.

That is not public officials and talking heads were saying at the start. See this montage:

https://twitter.com/XvirtueSignaler/status/16657702694186147...

> With widespread vaccination, the world was able to 'get on top of' the pandemic

The world never "got on top of" COVID. It never had any significant control over it. Omicron came along, and spread through the population with mild symptoms, leading to widespread natural immunity.

> its effects of healthcare over-utilisation.

That never happened anywhere in the world.

>> - The rate of side effects (including serious side effects up to and including death) is a lot higher than anyone wants to admit.

> <citation needed>

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36055877/

In randomized control trials of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines here in the UK, we now know that the risk of serious adverse effects from the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines was 12.5 per 10,000 vaccinated i.e. a ~1 in 800 chance of serious adverse effects.

>> - To most segments of the population, the danger of death by vaccine side effects is greater than the danger of death by COVID-19

> <citation needed>

The UK government has now published its estimate of the number of people needed to vaccinate to prevent a COVID-19 hospitalisation:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

In Table 3, notice how in every age group except 70+, the number-needed-to-vaccinate to prevent a hospital visit figure is higher than 1 in 800.

And in Table 4 notice not even 70+ are more in danger of severe hospitalisation than 1 in 800.
I would argue if you "have to parse a very deeply nested" data format you should have subroutines or objects with methods for that specific task, and not rely on generic language container types.

What you're running into is insufficient modeling of the problem, not a deficiency unique to any language.
Isn't that the fault of human nature, and not Google or Cloudflare?

Centralization is a problem if the Internet breaks without the "too big to fail" piece. I'd think as long as you can move your content and aim DNS at the new location, you can use those services without being enslaved to them.
Sold to Airbus? It was practically given to Airbus with the initial controlling stake sold for 1$ because it was bleeding money.

But yes, that 300% tariff was bullshit and I'm sure its effect didn't pan out the way it was expected.
You probably have to do this country by country, unless an aggregate site like Statista compares countries. For the UK you'd probably want ons.gov.uk for the US you'd want bls.gov
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>A typical example is /r/india which is totally under the control of radical anti-Modi mods

Most geographical subs are extremely liberal leaning. I'm from Hungary and in /r/hungary pretty much 99% of the posts are anti-Orban. Same with /r/europe pushing the general federalist EU agenda [0]. Or just /r/politics for the US, good luck going
against the MSNBC meta.

0, which ends up funny when the topic is food and suddenly everyone becomes hyper-nationalist
/r/rust just initiated a soft fork of Lemmy so it should be getting some traction and development.
Timing is a big deal; the economic system favored those of earlier generations (also when fewer people lived), and now I think we basically have to wait for Boomer generation to cede influence -- they were dealt a nice economic hand and capitalism thrived to where we are now, maybe a variant of "peak capitalism", which younger generations are rebelling against because they can't participate as much and the negative externalities of such a system are apparent (e.g. oligarchic control, regulatory capture, weakening of federal governments, and just plain classic corruption allowed within legal bounds...).
The lack of paragraph breaks makes it hard to read but: https://youtubetranscript.com/?v=NfiIXooD77s
Upstream article: https://medium.com/@bjax_/a-tale-of-unwanted-disruption-my-w...
Were you paying attention to WHO guidelines in the first place?
I feel every privacy & security measure taken be it on your system or just your browser config needs to be understood properly before applying.

So I think there is value in recommending such articles to everyone interested, as it would open them to understanding attack/leak vectors and be aware of those. The fallacy that anything that isn't Windows is safe needs to come with a caveat that blind trust with the basic security policies can lead to disaster.
At the time reddit was not some unknown back corner of the internet and had already begun working with law enforcement to enforce anti-CSAM laws due to material being treaded in private messages and private subreddits. That it took a media exposure take down the specific subreddit indicated that it was likely on the legal side of the line, through it was going close enough to the line to make others uncomfortable. If the material was actually illegal, wouldn't it have made reddit the largest clear-net site containing CSAM? In such a case, I find it hard to conceive that media exposure and not legal actions is why led to it shutting down, and with no admins being arrested it seems the most reasonable assumption left is that it was on the technically legal side.

This would likely be like the use of underage subjects in nudist art, painted, drawn, or photographed. Such art is generally not considered pornographic and are legally protected, and some even displayed in museums and the like, yet websites will still ban the material to not have any relationship to it and to not have users trying to push the boundary. I'm speaking to the extent that rules are enforced, many websites have issues with enforcing rules in general due to the amount of user generated content being much larger than the amount of moderation available, so there will be something slipping through moderation from time to time.
With 6-8 drives in RAID 6, that's a vanishingly small probability which you should have an offline/remote backup to make sure would not be a disaster anyway. If there were a super-cheap source of five year-old drives, I'd never use anything newer.
I simply already dislike it because this means when creating a website you can't even rely anymore on the browser showing the image you as website designer intended.

What if I'm deliberately showing a comparison of compression artifacts, or a screenshot of bad vs good game textures, or comparing photos of different cameras? Now the browser will alter the intended good vs bad quality comparison.
To be honest, Ukraine wasn’t ever exactly “normal and friendly”. I’ve been there multiple times. The last time I was in Kiev I witnessed a drunk man urinating in public - at noon - on a center street. Everyone treated this like it was a perfectly normal occurrence.

It wasn’t a bad place to spend a few weeks but you would definitely get the occasional reminder that hey, this isn’t Europe anymore, Dorothy.
An ex admin of Reddit thinks the protest broke the internal cache layer performance: https://tildes.net/~tech/163e/reddit_appears_to_be_down_duri...
Overheard: "Does our Degausser work on SSDs?"
Yeah, that's totally reasonable. I guess it comes down to personal choice. Do people want to leave their content / writing with a company that doesn't have their interests in mind?

There was more discussion about this exact issue in the thread about Shreddit from the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36257981
>I also noticed that in recent years many subreddits have increasingly been taken over by memes and other low quality posts and so users looking for more substantial content have already moved elsewhere.

It's incredibly frustrating to discover a potential new hobby, check out the subreddit, and go to the top posts all time, only to find pages on pages of low-effort crossposted memes that are often barely relatable.

It's also super frustrating being in one of those hyperfocused niche hobby subreddits and getting memes, and people treat you like some sort of wet blanket if you voice any opposition to low-effort content.
What? The man who created JSON was writing enterprise patterns? When, how?

This the same man who wrote this?

> JavaScript has a syntactic similarity to Java, much as Java has to C. But it is no more a subset of Java than Java is a subset of C. It is better than Java in the applications that Java (fka Oak) was originally intended for.
...

> This is misleading because JavaScript has more in common with functional languages like Lisp or Scheme than with C or Java.

https://www.crockford.com/javascript/javascript.html

> We would be making a tragic mistake if we didn’t retain the language’s simplicity. Most of the modifications I would like to make in the language would be to make it even simpler. There’s some cruft on it, and there are some attractive nuisances in it, which we don’t need but which people become dependent on. We’d be better off without that.
https://www.sitepoint.com/interview-doug-crockford/

> A lot of JavaScript’s critics want to go back in the other direction, and make it more Java-like, but I think that would be a bad thing because it would alienate most web developers. So, I’d rather go in the other direction and train our web developers how to be programmers, how to be computer scientists, because you can in this language.

This the one? Writes Java in Javascript you say.
Much as I would have preferred Swift to have been "Objective-C the good parts", my reasons for wanting that are totally unrelated to the idea pushed in the blog post.

Python isn't any more expressive than a language like C# once you remove the Java-inspired cruft. C# lets you go all the way down to the metal with pointers and what not if need be and supports fully dynamic types with "dynamic" and the underlying "Dynamic Language Runtime", but at no point does it feel like two separate languages glued together the same way Objective-C did, or now Mojo. People have written a Nintendo Switch emulator in C# ffs.

Python's higher productivity is entirely thanks to its libraries (including the standard library). The dynamism isn't really key to it, heck, @dataclasses expect you to annotate the field types even though they aren't used because of a syntax quirk!

Mojo is based around Python to piggyback on Python's ecosystem the same way Objective-C and C++ piggybacked on C. It has nothing to do with a "scripting" language vs a "component" language.

Lua has a much nicer interface for scripting C than Python does, not requiring manual reference counting for one, to the point the original Torch (before it became PyTorch) used it. It didn't matter in the face of Python's ecosystem.
I’m using Power Delete Suite to overwrite then nuke all my old content. peace out reddit.
A customer who has Amazon's smart devices in his home got locked out of his account. The reason given was that amazon's delivery driver misheard the automated answer of the doorbell for a racist comment. He was locked out of using all his 'smart home' features for days until Amazon gave him access back to his account without an apology or anything of that sort. Basically, if he didn't have proof of the interaction he would've lost access indefinitely.
What do you want, exactly?

I've been running a forum for 15 years. It's now horrible, outdated software, full of bugs and probably security holes. However, it works. It has an active community. It requires almost zero maintenance on my end. A cheap VPS will do the trick.

Before Reddit, people would just type in "forum" when doing a Google search. That should still do the trick. For example a Google search for, how to tie a knot "forum" brings up many forum discussions.
> …given all the success we've had with LLMs, it's weird that we can't use the exact same tricks with time-series data.

Forecasting works quite well when the series is forecastable. The fact that it often doesn't work — e.g. there really is no effective predictor of where the S&P 500 will be 3 months from now — might just be because the series really is effectively unpredictable (combinatorial explosion, chaotic complex systems, and all that).

One thing to note with LLMs is that they do things (e.g. generate text) that we know are possible. We know this because we consistently see humans successfully doing it, this comment being one such example (hopefully?).

We _don't_ see humans consistently predicting the stock market nor other notoriously difficult to predict time series. That's not to say that just because humans can't do it, it's not possible for an AI, but I'd consider it another clue that it may not be.
Maybe it's expensive to generate the 403 for a private subreddit.

A place I once worked had a 404 handler that was extremely expensive, but nobody noticed for a while because 404s are relatively rare. One time a vulnerability scanner took down the site because it was just hitting known vulnerability paths which all 404'd. The code that executed during a 404 was n^2.
So ~50k then? They must have been saving a lot to afford a place in London.
How bizarre. Great link, as it also goes into the lack of centres to actually carry out composting in the UK (at scale).

However it doesn't go into _why_ there are PFAS in 'compostable' materials. At a wild guess, they are too fragile without them?
My reading of the film was that the aliens did not pose an existential threat to humanity, UCF propaganda just made it seem that way. Verhoeven draws clear parallels between Earth's military government and Nazi Germany throughout the movie.
The state flower of California is the California Poppy Eschscholzia californica.

The poppy that produces opium is the Breadseed Poppy Papaver somniferum.

You can buy ten thousand California Poppy seeds at any Home Depot for $3.97.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Stover-California-Poppy-Seed-790...
So people shouldn't use it not because its poisonous (like lead); but because people think it's part of an effect weight management strategy - which for most people it is not?
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Initially? What is it that you think that "I initially said" ?
I feel there are some fundamental misconceptions about signatures that are baked into many of these older standards. There have been similar attacks on XML signatures, email signatures and PDF files (with some overlapping authors).

It usually comes down to creating some complex formats where signatures are allowed to sign sub-parts of the information. This is an extremely fragile design, and should probably be considered broken unless proven otherwise.

Signatures should really just be applied to whole files or data structures, everything else should be considered dangerous.
So you're making excuses for Nazis now? As I've already posted, it's not like this was some isolated incident.

No, the persecution I'd be worried about comes at the hands of a governor more worried about waging a culture war than actually running the state. You may agree with the governor, and that's great for you. For the people being targeted, avoiding Florida is a matter of survival, it's not being hoodwinked by some silly meme.

I wouldn't be comfortable having a female partner knowing that the state is waging war on reproductive rights. I wouldn't be comfortable raising kids in Florida given that it's leading the nation in book bans. I'd worry about a state that's so desperate to find teachers that they will accept military service instead of actual vocational training.

As a human being I don't want to live in a state where the government is engaging in a high profile ideological fight against a gigantic corporation in an effort to silence non-heterosexuals. I hear South Florida is nice, except for the whole anti-Cuba thing.

Hell, if I lived in Florida I'd worry about using radioactive waste to pave roads.

No, thank you. I prefer living in a state governed by someone who at least pretends to act like an adult. It's not a matter of missing some hidden gem, it's a matter of looking at the reality and deciding that's simply not for you.

Me? I've spent enough time in Florida. The infestation of jesus and gun billboards, the weather, and the infrastructure were enough to put me off. The more recent ascension of the culture-warrior-in-chief is just icing on the cake.

https://wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu/education/2023-04-21/new-repor...
Yeah, I think we're actually proud of stuff that was lampooned on Air Farce. That's the whole point of it. Remember the Chicken Cannon?
There are so many different web developer audiences...

For example, developers who are really focused on up-to-date skills will likely recognize that cgi-bin has had a "scent" to it since the early 2000s.

Developers who are of a systems mindset will automatically think about contingencies. How will this scale as a system, what if I need to hire developers, what if cgi-bin goes away or gets expensive for various reasons, what about security, who is watching it, etc.

This sounds like enterprise level thinking but a lot of people think this way for a hobby, even.

Just like you said, it's really the strict-specification- and use-case-focused people who will still benefit from cgi-bin still being really cool in its own way.

I'd guess that it's a good idea to have at least some plan to move along, or keep one's finger to the cgi-bin wind, so to speak, if the project will be used by an audience that's taking it seriously. But this perspective can also suck a lot of fun out of things... :-)
They didn't have image or video hosting at the time, just links and comments. Their legal exposure was pretty limited.
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Can you give us one example of a jurisdiction where a photo of a teenager in bikini would count as CSAM?
THIS!

most of the political/activist/policy-driven discussions on reddit have no impact on the real world and lots of energy is just dissipated into typing that goes in to a db and no further

case in point...most local subs are mobilized against NIMBYs...but NIMBYs tend to voice their concerns at City Council meetings (where it matters), not on the internet...guess who wins?

reddit just takes the energy out of activism and dissipates it
I am someone who loves learning new languages (written advent of code in lisp, Haskell, APL, Erlang, zig...).

I have thought for a long time to try out Raku as Ive never tried Perl and it feels like the modern version might be easier to get into as it maybe avoids some of the baggage.

Is this true, or do I miss something by skipping the original?
Can confirm. Just graduated, and a significant chunk of my cohort is going or is planning to go south.

Mind, I don't get the impression that they want to stay in the states. I include myself in that camp, the plan eventually being to work remote for an American company from Canada.
This could end up being like the Post-PC paradigm that the iPad was supposed to herald in. My last experience with the iPad a couple years ago was mostly interacting with iPhone apps with few iPad apps fully taking advantage of the platform. Vision Pro could end up in a similar boat with respect to the spatial computing paradigm.
Interesting. Im extremely hard on shoes so maybe its just me but I quit buying vans because I just would utterly destroy them in a year.

My anecdata and your anecdata disagree.

They need shoe reliability studies like they have with cars.