skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are tired of patching the APKs yourself, you can just use pre-built APKs for less work: https://github.com/revanced-apks/build-apps/releases
I don't forget anything. As I can't forget all the times that I had to explain, since the beginning, that the only statistics available where about reducing to 0 the risk of serious illness. Don't try to change history, please.

And don't link me some random idiot's tweet as proof, we are better than this.

Just stop now and accept reality, it's a good thing that they got rid of your mother in law, I wonder in how much more pseudo science she believes in.

Where I live, people that refused the vaccine were treated as utter idiots but still welcome in hospitals, most of the famous local covid denier died there too.
"Censoring people reduces their ability to communicate" is a "water is wet" finding, though. Of course the discussion turns to "when is this actually ok" because we've seen it abused over and over and over again (and only questionably ever used legitimately).
Another anecdote: top posts of all time load for me, even top posts this week. But front page and r/popular don't.
One thing that could be happening is many clients/bots/crawlers pinging pages that gone private now and that is overwhelming servers.
And most games will use an engine like Unity or Unreal so they don't have to re-invent the wheel. HTML and CSS may not be perfect, but they've been battle tested for a good 30 years and have had improvements added. No need to re-invent that wheel.
Its hard to make assets that would work with every curve. When you see screenshots of nice cities like this, people are using mods to hand place assets with them clipping into each other to make a unified wall of buildings along the curve or corner.
I 100% concur, I comb through my log/journal every week looking for ideas/issues I have not properly documented. Really helpful for recall and organization.
I wouldn't be surprised if so many big subreddits being dark is causing issues around denied API calls.

As for the forced reopening, beside the conspiracy this is something that could happen. It's a private company, moderator on strike are a loss of business, they would be 100% in their right to remove all the "traitors" (I'm not saying this would be a smart move, simply that if they really plan to go down this self destructive path it's the best time to do this and prove potential investor they still have control).
I hate Instagram. But I feel I can't leave
Looks like both AWS and Azure. Reddit is on AWS (as is Apple, which is showing interruptions per downdetector).
Do you believe that using an external hardware key is actually more secure than using an internal TPM whose short-period unlock is triggered by direct hardware signals (from e.g. a fingerprint reader) that software can't simulate, for your use-case?

Personally, I could only see the security benefit if the hardware key and the laptop are stored separately — if e.g. a three-letter agency robbed my house, they'd get both anyway. But that's entirely impractical if the HSK is used for every PAM auth, rather than just to do "special" actions (in the way that e.g. hardware crypto wallets are used.)
I'm having issues on every website I've tried. Spotify songs not downloading, Twitter images not loading, Google and CNN taking a few minutes to load.
> I don't think there's a solution to this problem until people start living on boats.

Less people, globally or nationally. the japanese may be on to something here.

Less corporate ownership of housing

Higher taxes on houses after your first

Constructing more housing

Banning dubious actors from the market, e.g. Chinese or Saudi wealth funds
Would be cool to have a directory with alternative communities for every subreddit
> all the other so-called experts were loudly and vocally demanding lockdowns as a strategy

This is not true. Denmark, Finland, Netherlands and UK [1] had their own versions of "Tegnell". That is, epidemiologists who recommended the let-it-rip, "herd immunity" strategy. In these countries, politicians finally decided to follow the majority consensus among countries, and ignore those epidemiologists who were among the "herd immunity" school of thought.

Even in New Zealand it was a somewhat close call, would the government listen to Michael Baker [2] as they eventually did, or Simon Thornley [3].

> Great Barrington meanwhile was viciously attacked, described as fringe, non-consensus, would kill millions etc.

Maybe because it was somewhat fringe, definitely non-consensus, and would kill millions?

[1] "For a time, he advocated a herd immunity approach."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Vallance#COVID-19_pand...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Baker_(epidemiologist)...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Thornley#Covid_Plan_B_gr...
To add to this, the app downloads a significant chunk of data because of its inefficiencies. Not ideal for tight budget data plans.
You can't be using Reddit very often if you think these are a relic from 10+ years ago. I would say I experience a Reddit outage at least weekly. My friends and I have a running joke about how often it's down.

The official Reddit Status Twitter account proves that it happens very, very regularly: https://twitter.com/redditstatus
Probably not, at least not directly. HN is hosted on M5 Computer Security at the moment and it's DNS is AWS. The load issues usually happen when a few popular threads have a really high comment count and dang usually has to enable pagination or other things to compensate.
Perhaps leaving aside today's problems in US West Coast cities, Western cities (certainly in the East Coast of the US but more broadly) 40 years or so ago were a lot grittier, more dangerous, less desirable, and yes cheaper than they are today. If I look at my cohort from grad school in the Boston area, I don't think anyone lived in--or even especially near--the city. And it wasn't because of cost. The city was still losing population well into the 90s.
God what a mess.

If anyone else is interested I made a browser extension you can use to batch delete your Reddit posts and comments: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bulk-delete-reddit...

Let me know how it works for you if you try it! Still fixing bugs.
Reddit does two things really:

1. Link Discovery
2. Discussion

There are a few options for Link Discovery. I have a bunch of fora and sites hooked up to an rss reader (the old reader, since google shutdown reader) which does pretty well (although I'd like it to do a bit more). The link discovery thing is like the equivalent of having channels on your TV. You can stream any program (website) of a huge number but a channel gives you a reason to think about a specific one right now. I've been looking at https://pinboard.in/popular/, but it doesn't support rss which is a shame.

There's really nothing to compare with reddit for discussion of the links though (and that includes scoring and karma and responses etc). And a big part of that is because of network effects. Reddit is where the discussion is happening, because it's where the people are because it's where the discussion is happening. What's really awkward here is that some of the alternatives have ended up as seeding around communities that were too toxic for mainstream reddit. That toxicity will make it harder for them to grow.

I do find myself wondering what a system that connected my rss feed reader with global comments about webpages might look like.
A read/write head does not follow precisely the same path every time. It has a positioning error that makes subsequent reads/writes take place slightly offset from earlier ones.

With the proper equipment and expertise (and helped out by the error correction mechanisms), you can recover a substantial amount of data that has been "overwritten" on an existing track.

This is why "data shredding" applications erase the old data by overwriting it with random data multiple times. That increases the chances that one of those writes will also write over any older data that was shifted slightly to the side.

But that's no guarantee. This problem is why organizations that need an extreme level of security require the complete physical destruction of the platters when decommissioning.
I remember the change to requiring people to accept an invite. Adding people as moderators of distasteful subreddits without their consent was a common form of abuse just prior.
Although millennials were dealt a hard hand, I got to say there’s probably nothing better you could be right now than a millennial that has actually made it. A millennial with house, spouse, cars, family, six figure salaries, and still young enough to have a lot of years ahead of you, but not so young that you fall prey to the insidious life ruining traps Gen Z easily does. And you got to grow up with memories of a wholesome low-tech childhood, where tech was still friendly and not out to package you into some kind of product to be sold.

To be a young well off millennial is basically like being part of a Boomer v2.0.0 generation.
> Even if the Unicode codespace were to ever be extended again (it won't), the only encoding that would become incompatible is UTF-16. In fact, both UTF-8 and UTF-32 are trivially extensible and used to be wider encodings, but were restricted to 0x10FFFF arbitrarily to match UTF-16 limitations.

Mind you, it wouldn’t be this easy, because things should perform Unicode validation, and many do, so every piece of software would need to be updated for the new, enlarged version of Unicode, UTF-8 and UTF-32, and old software that validated would baulk or convert anything from the new ranges into REPLACEMENT CHARACTER.

But yeah, UTF-16 would be toast.
He is obviously right about the stagnation but he does not seem to be connecting the dots (at least in this video) about why this is so - which in turn might inform us as to when to except some change.

Languages and their tooling ecosystems express how computing is concretely embedded and used by society. People adopt the tools to get jobs and to get the job done, whatever the "job" is. In turn the available remunerative jobs fit certain business models and markets.

The ecological landscape that prevails today is largely monocultures centered around the distortion fields of a few oligopoly entities. But not exlcusively so. You still have all sort of remnants of previous era landscape, the enterprise world stuck in its java coffin, the quirky projects of the Web 1.0 era still trusting php etc.

Massive adoption of a fresh and "clean" new thing will only happen with the emergence of a new economic reality, expressed for example through new actors. New tools that make desirable new things possible may enable such an evolution and eventually may be synomymous with it but these things don't happen made to order.
Oh, i took that comment to suggest that the downtime could (mostly jokingly, i assume) have something to do with Spez dealing with a post he didn't like.
Exactly. Many cases before the Supreme Court are about whether a type of case should be in court at all or should get to be heard by a jury. The decisions do not dictate the outcome, but have to do with whether the lower court made a mistake in dismissing a case early.

Here, the court is saying that Jack Daniels gets to make its case to a jury.
Whatever the cause is, not really good timing :)
Gaming is at best an onramp or else the product is a failure. Apple's watch revenue alone exceeds the console manufacturers' revenue and last year was almost as large as the revenue of consoles and console games.

When I say onramp: Visicalc made the Apple II but I do think gaming got it into the home.
It's clearly a DDoS and that's not cool.

100% okay with the other protests but you don't DDoS websites

Not to mention it's illegal in many countries.
As does the Libreboot developer https://minifree.org/ .
To me Reddit is FB groups with voting. So does that make Usenet similar to FB groups?
That's a plus for me. I'm nostalgic as hell for the era of the internet where the barrier to entry meant your peers needed half a clue to be there.

If the collapse of sites like reddit and twitter are what is needed for a return to smaller user-operated and user-owned sites to flourish, then so be it. I won't miss the memes.
I think web browsers need to get back to basics and do their original job as "The User's Agent" rather than what they are today: Instead of being a tool to fetch and display hyperlinked text, they've morphed into this API platform built for web companies to control down to the pixel what users see in their browser window.

Today browsers barely give you a few blunt tools to control your own browsing experience: Javascript on/off, Styles on/off, and so on. I want a browser that 1. fetches YouTube's HTML, 2. understands it to be essentially a bunch of links to video URLs, and 3. present me a simple list of those video URLs that I can click to watch or download. I don't want my browser to act against me by being a platform where YouTube executes god-knows-what on my system to render everything the way YouTube wants and to show me things that YouTube wants and push content that YouTube wants to push. Put the user back in control.

Same for Reddit. Browser should fetch Reddit's HTML, realize it's essentially a list of links, and simply display those links, ignoring all the other shit that comes down in the site's HTML, CSS, and JS.

I realize that step #2 above is hard and probably magic at this point. But that's the direction I'd like to see browsers go. Stop adding even more APIs that companies can use to control my browser.
Yes, it's a great language for this application.

Make sure you read Damian Conway's book "Perl Best Practices" as a guideline for crafting consistent and readable code. People's biggest gripes about this language generally revolve around poorly written code that is hard to read. Also, when writing regexes it helps to paste one or more example lines or matches above the regex so there is no question about what you are trying to do. 9/10 times I've found debugging SA perl scripts comes down to an unhandled pattern in a regex and this is what helps the most when re-writing it to ensure it doesn't break anything else.
Yes, HN is a very cynical and negative place, and it's interesting how quickly I stop noticing that if I visit a few days in a row. But if I don't visit for a week and then come back, it's starkly obvious.

It's also not exclusively negative and cynical, of course, and there are some great insights to be found here. I think you're being unfair with 90%. Maybe more like 70%?
Totally agree.

And it didn't even have to complete in the Show/Portal/HomePod space. There are dozens of half-baked projects where people glue LCDs to RPIs to make a simple Linux-enabled display and Chumby had all of this in a nice package, ready to go.

There's a total need for this type of device again but nobody takes these kinds of risks anymore. My Chumby was a Best Buy Insignia model and I'm amazed BB even greenlit this thing. It was on clearance like six months after it launched.
What is /. ?
On their own they are compostable, but after usage they are drenched in oil and other stuff, which makes it impossible to recycle them, and harder to compost in a regular unprepared setting. So maybe their aim was to make them compostable for any private customer or unprepared garbage companies?
> The thesis that liberal societies are not replacing themselves seems incorrect. UK population was 60 million in 2000, and is 67.5 million today. The demographics are somewhat interesting in that 'white native British' has dropped from 99% or so of the population in the 1950s to about 82% today.

That's not a society that's replacing itself. It's one that isn't but has managed to kick the can down the road because it's in a position to exploit external sources of population. Those ex

> Now if the concern is that the relative ratios of different race-ethnic-religious groups is changing, why is that an issue? Children tend to adopt the societal norms they're surrounded by, even if this upsets their traditional-minded parents. That's certainly been the case in the USA, it's an assimilative process.

Assimilation is rarely that complete. And, as the OP notes, the birth rate problem reproduces itself in those who assimilate into contemporary liberalism, and doesn't in those who do not assimilate.

It's worth noting that, over the course of history, many cultures have been destroyed while leaving small cultural echos in the new replacing population. The OP stated: "On the current trajectory, there will at some point in the coming centuries be no Italians..." It would be cold-comfort to an Italian that cared about Italian culture to have it "live" on in a form akin to an Olive Garden restaurant franchise.

> As far as birth rate data, as women acquire more rights and wealth they tend to choose to have fewer children later in life, and as medical care and knowledge improves, those children tend to survive to adulthood at rates unheard of a few centuries ago. Thus, while birth rates may indeed be falling, the population is stable or even growing due to the other factor the author seems to ignore, i.e. lower childhood death rates.

No. IIRC, many places are falling below replacement rate reproduction. That means that lower infant mortality isn't fully compensating for the other changes.
Subreddit no, but do you ever check IPs of the websites you visit to see if they are hosted by Azure, AWS or some other CDN? I know I don't.
If you want more information and help, we could stay in contact I would be pleased to help and see if we can find any ways to make it work for your needs. But basically what I would do is: based on the distro you want to use, configure it for real time and pro-audio according to the community recommendations. Then depending on your needs for the virtual instruments, see whether specific plugins increase latency to a level that is sustainable or not for your usage. I could do some testing if i have time. Anyway it was my next step to look into for my new native instruments setup.
A USB 2.0 port? 47 Wh battery? 4.4 lb? What is this, 2010?
An apposite war story from Nokia, just about the time the iPhone entered the market: our Lords and Masters had decided that internal competition would be a good thing, so smartphones were divided into business, entertainment, and mass market divisions with each bidding for exclusive access to the components being delivered by the the R&D and productisation teams. So it was that barcode readers ended up with "business" (use case: scan a business card) and auto focus cameras with "entertainment" (use case: selfie). With of course the result that the business phone needed an A4-sized business card held at arm's length. This absurd "strategy", probably sold in by a gaggle of consultants, was first celebrated then subject to extensive soul-searching and some tedious "lessons learned" enquiries that resulted in long PowerPoints filed carefully in NUL, rather than perhaps simply resolving next time to ask some small child working in the front line just what they thought of the Emperor's splendid new attire...
It doesn't have the hyper-local capabilities that reddit has but metafilter.com deserves a shoutout. It has an established community, has been around for _ages_ and is a good replacement for /r/all and the like.
V is close to C since it literally compiles to C, and it is a simple/readable language like Python and Go, so what's to call out?
This is a terribly ignorant take and disappointing to see coming from a science fiction author.

> AI isn’t “artificial” and it’s not “intelligent.” “Machine learning” doesn’t learn. On this week’s Trashfuture podcast, they made an excellent (and profane and hilarious) case that ChatGPT is best understood as a sophisticated form of autocomplete — not our new robot overlord.

This is just argument by assertion. We have no good definition of intelligence, so I have no clue how he can be so confident. "Machine learning doesn't learn" is a crazy take, since "backprop + gradient descent does learn" is close to the most well-supported thing you can say about the past few years of algorithmic progress.

> sophisticated autocomplete

Aside from this being an incredibly reductive sneer that clearly isn't true if you've honestly tried using ChatGPT, etc., his citation for this is a podcast, which I'm positive Doctorow would not accept as sufficient for basically any other technical topic.

I love Ted Chiang's stories, and some of his takes on AI progress are cited here. However, I also found his extensive conversation with the Financial Times (earlier this month, so published after this) disappointing along similar lines. The thread running through both of these is a complete lack of a positive vision for the future, replaced by an almost smug cynicism that asserts any more technological progress is simply hype, a grift, and bad. Are there any current science fiction authors with a positive vision of the future?
> No idea how people have more than one kid...

Looking at the families I know, the mother (or grandparents if they're local, willing, and able) make child-rearing their top priority. Either that or they live in a country with dirt-cheap childcare due to cheap labor.
As an example, this idea that being awful when you use the favoured epithets instead of the disfavoured ones is somehow acceptable in public is the deeper problem.
God what a mess.

If anyone else is interested in leaving Reddit I made a browser extension you can use to batch delete your Reddit posts and comments: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bulk-delete-reddit...

Let me know how it works for you if you try it! Still fixing bugs.
"The coding journal doesn’t prevent me writing from writing bugs. " meta
Aren't 256 bit AES keys computationally infeasible to crack? Assuming the rng and implementation aren't broken somehow, the best known attack is 2^254.3 operations to brute force a 256 bit key.
What's funny about this to me is that the actual moderators of r/jailbait thought "I know how I can insult u/spez, I'll make him a moderator of my sub, so he'll look like a scumbag, like I am"
They are talking about the economic situation. You are a millenial on hn, you are probably doing fine. A lot of your peers otoh are living with their parents still, have a mountain of debt, have put off having kids, aren’t in a career path to change much of this and don’t have the skills or the money or time to switch into a more lucrative field and be competitive relative to new grads.
> the feeling that people who already feel disenfranchised about life feel when they can't even vent about stuff on the Internet

nobody is preventing people from healthy venting... that's some kind of ridiculous strawman.