skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You left out this one:

- They want their vendor to arbitrarily deny access to customers and prospects

Maybe they have a 100% success rate at blocking actual threats but they sure do have a lot of false positives. I get blocked or forced into captchas at least three times per week.

I used to report it to the site admins, but among the few that responded, almost none knew how to fix it. I no longer bother, so I suspect that the less clueless admins have no idea how many visitors Cloudflare has driven away.
I read the Congo Reform Association link a bit too fast. Morel was actually an Englishman who worked in a multinational corporation.
I have a similar situation with the archive.* sites recently as well, on multiple devices on the same network (and various browsers).

On a hunch I tried using a VPN (I'm in the US, and tried just another regional VPN endpoint) and everything works fine. I believe my ISP (AT&T) or its gateway configuration is blocking the site for "security" reasons, which is showing up as an SSL problem. Going to poke at it further, but thought I'd mention it.
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This is just bananas to me that a browser would perform "super resolution" at all, much less by default.

Couldn't this wreak havoc on doing things like viewing medical images, inserting false detail that isn't there?

As well as on text in images, e.g. inventing a cleanly readable but hallucinated license plate number on a car, or financial figure, where the original is blurry?

Not only does this seem like a terribly dangerous idea, but I'm shocked that a legal review at Microsoft would ever have approved this in the first place.
Sweet! Yeah my partner and I have made a shift to keep our lives in our personal calendars which has been a huge QoL upgrade for us, but it's still so hard to keep track of who in the friend group is available when, as well as keep everyone remembering what's coming up in the next week or so. I feel like this was the biggest value+add of Facebook, but that particular product is now all but unusable :(. Adding shared, event-level to-do lists to a calendar tool would be absolutely KILLER, we just planned a big group camping trip and it was an enormous headache to track who was riding with who, who was bringing food, wood, etc. Having even just one or two simple tools to coordinate all that would have been a lifesaver. Definitely looking forward to seeing what you come up with!
That's nothing. This is on by default:

"Allow Microsoft to save your browsing activity including history, usage, favorites, web content, and other browsing data to personalize Microsoft Edge and Microsoft services like ads, search, shopping and news."
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Ask HN: Is there any application that would benefit from remote RAM mirroring?
I am thinking of a HW that would produce a copy of a local RAM directly in the RAM of a remote computer.

The transmission method would ensure ultra low latency, low power consumption and high spectral efficiency.

Would that scheme be suitable for any application?
What exactly is "broken" about the foundation of JS? I hear this all the time and people can never back it up.

It is extremely performant for a scripting language, it is easy to debug, and it works in many scenarios.

People try too hard to be contrarian. Same thing happened with PHP and many other languages.
This was posted when it was published in May.

To use an analogy their argument is: Vaping is bad for you, don't do it. While ignoring that a ton of people quit smoking using vapes and that they're letting the perfect be the enemy of good.

Same thing with NSS. While NSS are a useful tool for sugar reduction, studies have shown that over the medium-long term, you'll want to reduce artificially sweat foods and even sweat food substitutes, to create a "new normal" or new baseline where an e.g. strawberry is sweat again. Which has been shown to be more sustainable.

The WHO aren't wrong, but everyone jumps on this with their own agenda. They are claiming that switching to NSS isn't a sustainable way to reduce BMI (and associated negative health outcomes) over the long term, hard to find data that disagrees with that. That's all they're claiming.
It just depends on WHERE you try to buy property. Yes of course it's going to be hard to buy a house in a popular area because you are competing with lots of rich people who also want to live there.

But there are still tons of places with extremely cheap land in the developed world.

Judging by your use of the word "mum" I'd guess you're in the UK. And yes, things are way harder in the UK since people get paid way less than America, the government takes way more from you in taxes, and the cost of basic things like food are higher. But I think you could still do what your mom is suggesting in some places in the UK. I can find plenty of starter homes in Scotland for 80k pounds for example.

I just think it's silly to expect houses to be cheap exactly where you want to live, because odds are tons of people also want to live there too and you have to compete with them. But if you are willing to be flexible, there is still plenty of space for the next generation to own property.
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>this is my point: "hate" and "violence" used to be pretty universally agreed-upon terms, yet, as of late, their definitions have been expanded, and only a subset of people agree with said newly-expanded definitions.

Okay? I don't think the article asserted that there was universal agreement on the term...

>if we can't agree on (new) (re)definitions of terms like "violence" and "hate", then what practical use do they have in contexts such as this?

I don't think the fact that some people disagree with you supports the proposition that people cannot generally agree on the term hate, and frankly, the only person here doing effort towards that is you, as you keep trying to do back flips to point out that some people don't agree about what hate means.
kbon.social is the only one I've seen that looks and quacks like a reddit-esque duck, albeit a "store's own brand" version
In addition to all of the control issues that other commenters have mentioned like blocking adblock and including tracking, an app also puts the user in the mindset of using your service by default and exclusively. If you view Reddit on the web, you might copy and link and repost it to Twitter. You're less likely to do that in an app. Additionally, it leads people to use Reddit by default, for all purposes. On the web, I might think "Oh, I should search for this on Reddit", but then if Reddit doesn't have the results that I need I'll check another website. Humans are creatures of habit. Once I get used to opening the Reddit app by default, I'll subconsciously invent ways to use the Reddit app for everything, as my one-stop-shop. Which is why I don't use any proprietary apps, ever, if I can do the same thing on the website. And also why I don't use mobile internet very much, to be honest.
Some of that was recovered in T3. :D
Hahaha, please, son ...

Remember when Phrack was added to the LOC ... and was over 7 years old already (http://phrack.org/issues/42/1.html)?

More seriously, you really start to feel "ancient" when your body goes from "new year, pretty much the same as old year" ... to ... "new year, who removed vital organs and bodily fluids while I slept last night?! The bastards!!!"

Of course, it is a classic trope nevertheless ... and I did start to feel ancient even 15+ years ago ... but once you start noticing real changes, then you REALLY get that feel (and you know more is coming, lol): https://youtu.be/MqBNSMbEzI0
Google initially was working on Android as more of a Blackberry clone, and then when Apple announced iOS they realized that a full screen touch system was the future. So they scrapped the Blackberry clone OS and scrambled to get something more like iOS, which is what you’re now familiar with as the Android OS.

This story has been floating around in various tech areas. Here’s a podcast about it:
https://corecursive.com/android-with-chet-haase/
Not particularly. I spun up accounts on quite a few different lemmy instances yesterday when certain instances were getting hammered by traffic spikes. Things seem to have settled down now, but it seems like jumping to a new account is very easy. I worry that it will make it harder to deal with trolls and spammers though if they can just create a new account on another instance at will.
I experienced exactly this a couple of years ago in /r/espresso. Fortunately the low-quality memespam pushed me to look for alternatives, and I found Home Barista forums, one of the best quality web forums I've ever participated in.

Something similar happened to me in the bicycle space, which turns out to have a lot of forum activity as well. Seems some of the oldguard never switched to Reddit in the first place in both communities.
> I'm from Hungary and in /r/hungary pretty much 99% of the posts are anti-Orban.

Younger demographic that is somewhat tech savy, is not happy with Orban? I am shocked! How could that be?
>US is a terrorist state, run by war criminals that has engaged in genocide, horrific human rights abuses, where rule of law doesn't matter. Yes, them kidnapping civilians isn't out of the question

Oh dear.

Anyone remember Guantánamo? Tuskegee? The Rwandan genocide?
Sounds like you live in a privileged environment. Vast majority of people have never owned any property, nor anything else of real value actually. It's perfectly ok to not own.
If you mean it's sad that their real world interactions are difficult, then yes. But it's great that these people have a virtual world they can go to where they can have social contact and express themselves without as many of those limits.
I don't think the customer would be able to stand against Amazon's legal machinery on their own. But EFF could be interested to take this case.
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Not fully (ie: 100%); since folk were at least getting the skeleton of the pages and other parts did still work -- at least a little. It feels like a core-service outage but not 100% dead.
> Nobody wants to ban your cotton bag.

Really? Well that's good to hear. Because earlier it seemed like you were agitating against cotton bags with remarks about their 10000x CO2 emissions and remarks like "god forbid reusable cotton bags". So you see, I get a little defense of my bags.

I know your anti-cotton remarks are not themselves proposals for legislative bans, but online agitation about an idea is how many such bans start. E.g. the plastic straw bans started as people making a big deal online about turtles getting straws stuck in them. So please understand, when you start using such strong rhetoric against cotton bags, I see fit to defend them.
the article linked on the WHO's site is titled "WHO advises not to use non-sugar sweeteners for weight control in newly released guideline", I mean why drop the "for weight control" part
I remember being shocked to see someone using Ruby for all their systems scripting back in the 2010s. But it made a lot of sense.

Rails definitely sucked up a lot of the use case attention.

(Personally for simple admin scripting work, I tend to use ABS-lang.org and turn on Ruby syntax highlighting...)
I don't think showing "you broke reddit" for a 5xx request counts as an error message. If it was a 4xx, maybe.
I think the more trustworthy reviews of products through sentiment is what I will miss the most. I really never read reviews anywhere else. I was even excited about https://www.looria.com/reddit doing review aggregation.
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I would think the want/need for owning a home to be enhanced by marriage/children. Since younger generations are less likely to do those things -- and more likely to do them later -- than earlier generations, that must count for some of the difference(?)
> In ye olden days the whole world didn’t exist

This! Why is it everything we build is to communicate with the world? The reality is we live in a certain physical space, we can only see, hear and speak at a certain distance and while technology has enabled a way to overcome that, it does feel like we're overwhelmed by the scale of humans we can communicate with. I want to go back to real, small, private connection. Hence micro.
My sci-fi theory is that the boycott freed up so much unused RAM and CPU at their datacenter that it went into meltdown.
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> What if you want to have some sweetness from time to time but you are watching your sugar levels?

Partly it seems the issue is that in many cases the reason for avoiding sugar and using a substitute does not actually avoid the negative consequences of sugar. I say this as someone who avoids sugar and has very little.

I agree though i'm a bit confused by this WHO post. I have difficulty determining the severity of the issue. Based on what they're saying it sounds like you should avoid both sugar and substitutes. This post makes them sound basically the same, so why hyper focus on one?
> In a MK architecture, your system survives video card driver dying by restarting it and taking over serving its clients (in this case, the compositor).

If your video card driver died, something is deeply wrong with your system, hardware or software, and blindly (literally) continuing is dangerous to the integrity of the data on that system. Things don't crash for no reason, this isn't a canned test where we're sure that only the one component is being fuzzed, this is reality.
The Gazette (the publication of legal record in the UK) does sign things cryptographically: Eg, for example: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/4301705 (see the signatures at the bottom right). Not sure what actual legal function this serves though.
I've written a bit about this before, but fundamentally Reddit has a misalignment between the needs of the user and the needs of the platform[1].

There's a great list of alternatives here, https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/yttdlc/... though if you are choosing one, I'd highly encourage you to find / try one that relies on a federated or a paid model. A free model will eventually end up in the same situation we're in today.

[1] https://non.io/reddit-has-platform-user-misalignment
But what can you do beyond draconian moderation?

One niche hobby sub I’m part of grew over 120x due to the pandemic. The mods cracked down hard but it had the side effect of suppressing quality conversations as well.

I think they found a good balance but you forget how big the sub is now until some meme slips through the cracks, and has 10x the number of upvotes compared to usual posts.
Possibly third parties that Reddit/HN rely on are using Cloudflare?
> However, I question why my entire smart home system had to be rendered unusable during their internal investigation. It seems more sensible to impose a temporary delivery restriction or purchasing ban on my account.

Ah, Amazon: the paragon of social justice. Racist dollars are still green.

This is up there with the FLDS hating the federal government sooooo much, they signed everybody they could up for food stamps. To "bleed the beast," of course.
People have started testing network failures but so often fail to test slow network failures. All of a sudden your code has 500x more pending open sockets, both in and out, and the memory spikes and it all goes to hell. Even if the fast fail code path is indeed best effort.
The trouble with that country is that everything is central to London which is almost a city-state unto itself. Until you break the cycle of centralizing industry in that location then you can't crash property prices. What you need is for central government to be moved out of London to reduce the dependency on this single region. As it is, London is susceptible to severe flooding as global warming continues to increase temperatures. That alone should move industry elsewhere.
I wouldn't touch any of that Amazon smart home stuff after how many employees had access to Ring and Alexa data.
>Migrations are not possible when original server is offline, so I lost many months of content.

>Running an instance by myself is no fun, community is the point.

I might be missing something (in which case pardon me), but isn't one of the strengths of a federated system that you could "roll your own" just to host your account and then engage on other servers with that account?

I'm imagining it as email, and your email provider accidentally wiped your account. My perception of the federated reddit clone might be off, though.
> can i assume that calling x will never panic, in practice?

If you used the actual probability, which is several orders of magnitude lower, then yes.
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It's very likely that a deletion at reddit is just setting "is_deleted" to true in a row, not actually a proper DB removal.
You can turn this behaviour off, it's called "Browser integrity check".
You can build very walkable, cyclable and in fact completely car-free cities in C:S; I do only that because cars irk me. This only requires some DLCs and a mod or two. All mods are possible to install with a mere click via Steam Workshop.

DLCs: just get all of them, they are probably on sale, but public transit and likely after dark are a must.

The main mod you need is TM:PE, its key features in this case are allowing to turn on realistic parking (cars do not vanish so you actually feel how horrible they are and need to plan accordingly) and to enable road restrictions (e.g., ban all vehicles except public transport, services and emergency). You may also want to install more road assets with bike lanes.

Note that you can disconnect from the highway and rely just on intercity trains/ships/airplanes (another DLC) to avoid having to accommodate cars incoming via the highway, though this does not spare you from the need to put restrictions on roads because cims can spawn cars while in city.

Read more: https://steamcommunity.com/app/255710/discussions/0/47315979...

Warning: you may find and end up installing more mods, the rabbit hole is compelling and time consuming, I have dozens by now. Caution: mods are not thoroughly reviewed and contain arbitrary code. (That said, there are many mods seemingly maintained and contributed to by CO devs.) Beware inter-mod compatibility issues and outdated mods; although the community seems to really have gotten the hang of it recently.

Mature mods is also why I am cautious about the new version. It is reasonably likely that it will miss all these features and there will be no mods to fill the gaps. The community will also become fragmented as a result.
It's funny because I also sing the praises of old.reddit.com but would describe it/my preferences in a totally different manner. My preference would be for reddit to be as close to HN in UI format as possible, perhaps with some minor thumbnails for visual content.

What I like about the old UI is that I find it emphasizes the post titles instead of content. I *don't* feel inundated with images & videos, besides the little thumbnail. I usually just want to skim titles, not look at visual content, and I find that impossible in the new UI. And I find that it's easier to get at/see the comments than in the new UI.
Anytime anyone starts talking about left or right in a scientific discussion I instantly discount the rest of their view, because we aren't talking about science anymore. Nothing is gained from making this discussion part of that asinine tribal tug of war.
I agree with everything you say, except this being the right prompt to talk about that. It's not really answering the question OP is asking.
I thought part of the reason the US is so blessed with a thriving startup community is the light-touch the law has towards its startups. For example; didn't the billion dollar acquisition YouTube gain a lot of its initial growth through copyright infringement?
It is quite sad that even in Hacker News are people lacking basic knowledge on how science works.
Browsing Stack Overflow and even blindly copy and pasting is an intentional action done by research by the user, and the source of the material pasted is known or discoverable.

Using Copilot is an automated process, and the source of the material used in learning is deeply obfuscated in the learning model.

That's why I make the analogy back to cryptocurrency mixers.
Having a SAHP is always a difficult thing to compare to todays world. A lot of people can’t have a SAHP because their peers don’t have a SAHP. When your peers are willing and able to spend more on housing and cars… then you have to get the second income to keep up with them or accept a lifestyle more in line with lower income people (except with a SAHP).
If you do much mobile dev, you'll see companies burn so very much money making their app harder to use, possibly less accessible, and slower to develop, in the name of chasing some "on-brand" look, rather than just using built-in excellent UI elements that users are already familiar with, with minimal customization.

It's so frustrating. The Web, of course, has a similar but much worse problem with that, in no small part because there aren't—for no good reason—excellent built-in UI elements. They could be good, and there could be a lot more very helpful more-complex and smarter elements (think: mobile listviews, native hands-off payment prompts, that kind of thing), but they're not and there aren't :-/

Damn near every app on my phone would be better if the designers and brand-obsessed product managers hadn't gotten their way.
> just buying up drives and waiting few years for when they can easily break the encryption.

"Few years" ... "easily" ... yeah, nope.

I'm pretty sure that even 15 year old luks/truecrypt/bitlocker setups are not "easy" to break today, and have very little reason to suspect that current day cryptosystems would be any more likely to get broken in "few years"
This kind of shrill nonsense is exactly what I was talking about. Rather than posting about risks you invented, learn a little about the subject you’re discussing. There is no barrier other than paperwork to Air India flying their own engineers (which they in fact did) along with parts to fix their own aircraft, which will not remain in Russia.
> People are saying that since January, but here we are in July and GPT-4 is still the best model.

Six months is... not a long time. Nobody knows where this is going to be in a year, or two, or five.
Containers are not virtual machines.
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No this will have no effect on OmegaMart. Also it has far stronger protection since it’s an artwork and not purely commercial.
Cloudflare is having issues, could be that
What specific harm is this?
There is something to be said about a site that gets 100% of it's content from it's users without payment, 99% of it's moderation from it's users without payment. Turning around and trying to charge those same users for a different view of that data.
If your opinion consists of propagating hate, encouraging hate crimes and sharing death threats online I believe it's in order with a fine and potentially a light prison sentence for repeat offenders, yes.

I don't believe that my government will turn to tyranny suddenly when it's generally had a pretty good history of not going off the rails. I don't buy the slippery slope argument/fallacy.

>They say the people get the government they deserve though.

Touche. I'd be more concerned about this in the US with your highly polarized yo-yo politics.
Reddit is the perfect example of "why we can't have nice things because every company aspires to be Facebook"

It seems no company is happy with being the virally adored single product little niche 50 employee powerhouse.

It's so much sexier to bloat the org and then try to justify the economics afterward.
Huh?

It’s not quite an alternative. It’s good though and I’d recommend joining once there’s another invite wave.
https://archive.is/0JXOP if you don't want to give reddit any extra pageviews