skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope it humbles whoever builds the next platform. Nothing lasts forever no matter how entrenched it is in the zeitgeist.

Once something gets big enough, it becomes impossible to moderate and eventually it will fall out of fashion and lose its original intent. Look at Etsy and Amazon.

I'm finding people are rearely loyal customers to a brand long-term. Rather, they want whatever platform gets them what they want. People jump from sites like Aliexpress to Wish to Shein to whichever webiste has the most latest and marketing team.
dgVoodoo 2 is also a nice tool for this - I've found compatibility can be better, and it also handles 3dfx Glide. http://dege.freeweb.hu/dgVoodoo2/dgVoodoo2/
BLM had to actively fight against Black Bloc and prevent them from joining up with BLM protesters.

Welcome to group dynamics. Yeah, it sucks. Hateful people try to join righteous causes. You have to absolutely censor them and cut them out of the group.

--------

Why do you think Martin Luther King Jr. is so revered? Because there were Black Panthers marching with AK rifles using bombs to blow up their political rivals.

They had to march in a way that proved that they were pro-peace and anti-violence, even if it meant forming an political rivalry (possibly political enemy) with the Black Panthers.
I have to say it because a lot of HN users try to convince me that GPT has understanding. We actually have 0 ML models that demonstrate understanding. Frankly, we don't know if this is even possible yet. Sure, in the future I believe we'll have AGI, but an AGI would likely recognize that my statement is contextualized around the current environment and fitting common human speech patters rather than making an absolute immutable statement.
Really hope it succeeds!

Maybe there could be an low-effort area where you don't get paid.

I get the site is targeting creators, but I also get the impression that it is about general discussions etc? As a user it feels weird to give equal money to a discussion as someones awesome multi-month project, especially since there will probably be more discussions than awesome multi-month projects.

I really like the lurk for free but pay to participate approach. Getting paid however feels like a possible distraction that might just overcomplicate things, both technical and moderation+incentives. I don't think most people would be doing it for the money (and for most people it would at best be pocket change anyway). Getting rid of ads is the killer-feature that hopefully builds a good community, I guess/hope.

Getting people to enter their credit cards is probably harder than the actual amount, so the appeal of getting the money back is still red in the balance-sheet for pocket-change amounts.

My biggest gripe is that payments kills anonymity (which some might see as a big thing).
> The more complex the languages for building web pages become, the more complex browsers become, the harder it is for someone to build or continue to build a Chrome alternative

I think the way forwards here is to make everything modular. Then people can fork a browser and easily replace a single component. The Servo project has made a very good start on this.
That’s just not true. While some chargers are out at EA stations I’ve never had to wait in line when I went and always have been able to charge at max (relative to curve). Are they as good as Tesla? No. Should Hyundai/Kia owners be left out in the cold due to their charge port choice? No.
> greatest actor

Surely you don't mean Nicholas Cage! That title clearly belongs to John Cena.
That's a very impressive story! I was hoping this post would get a bit more attention so I could read of more tales like this, but I guess this will have to do.

I assume that a robot capable of handling 400lb must have a pretty beefy power supply. You can probably get an intuitive sense of how much damage a robot can do to you by imagining what would happen if all of the power output was directed directly at your body (in the form of heat/electrical/kinetic). A tiny 5v motor might on a breadboard might be enough warm your hand up or fling a small pebble toward you, but a motor that requires one of those bigger 400v 3-phase 60A supplies can probably pull enough energy to melt iron or generate the same kinetic energy as some military ordnances.
Is there any written guarantee that all of the user created content is public domain in perpetuity and can be exported by anyone? Because if not than this is just another Reddit wannabe clone that will flip on a dime once it gets a sniff of user traction a potential exit.
Don't care. I can appreciate that the admin wants to spend 0% of the time arguing with people. The software is open source and if you want one with a different moderation policy you can go moderate it.

For a large platform like Facebook getting kicked out could be a social death sentence but if you get kicked out of a little platform you can get kicked in to another one.
Your impression is correct. Reddit does not use Cloudflare and an employee explicitly said so in a post this morning about the cloudflare issues because people were blaming the reddit outage on it.
> As someone who prefers working in fast paced environments and have responded to calls like this in the past, I have found that people who say "I want someone who moves fast" often are really bad at managing and have unrealistic views of how long things take. People who write that phrase might think they have Steve Jobs reality distortion fields, but are mostly deluded. The fact that this particular posting was made by someone who actually walks the walk is not obvious - I don't judge people by what they say but what they do.

There is a very fine line between walking the walk and delusional. Amazon employee number 1 was not super fond of Bezos when he left (Shel Kaphan). Amazon employee number 2 lasted less than 2 years. As you point out it is clear after the fact that Bezos walked the walk, but he might also have been delusional depending on your point of view. Any success tends to contain a non-trivial amount of luck. Whether someone is ends up a lunatic or visionary often depends on factors that person doesn't control.

Kaphan also says he loved the first 3 years and then it gradually fell off from there. I have had a similar experience at a previous employment. Point is; startups change dramatically quite often. The same person might transition from bat shit crazy to the opposite (and back) in a rather short timeframe. You certainly can find someone who is just a through and through asshole who have learned to say the right things, but I honestly haven't met very many of them.

Most of them are just trying really hard without knowing what they are doing so they make a lot of mistakes. Managing that sort of person is a skill. Since most founders are in this category its a rather essential one. Not trying to bash the founders, the very definition of a successful startup means that most of the employees are way out of their league. When a start up doubles every year (or faster) then half the company has been there less than a year. They are just getting started and they now have double the reports they had a hear ago. Everything is on fire in both the good and the bad sense. Its just the nature of the game.

> All I'm saying is that this would have been mildly intriguing because of the ecommerce angle, which was a new problem at the time, but would require sussing out of the Bezos fellow to see if he's the real deal or deluded

Totally, you need to do your due diligence :)

> Weird that this read of it is so controversial...

Lately HN has turned into a place that is best personified as 50+ year olds looking for a stable and relaxing gig where they get paid a ton of money to play with technology. Unfortunately I see that this kind of attitude is getting quite mainstream (even among significantly younger engineers). There is nothing wrong with wanting that. I see the appeal. Its just annoying deal with. It is weird that HN which has startup roots are starting to adopt such a posture. After re-reading your post I can see that it wasn't actually the angle you came from it just read very closely to that kind of narrative. You got caught in the crossfire :P
Ukraine dam collapse: what scientists are watching
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvCZFsyFTV4

Seems like reasonable solution. And even there I hate the dough prep step... But I think in one other video that was automated. So I suppose you could throw in boxing robot at the end and get pretty decent full solution already.
> It's just that noone has been able to replicate that kind of success in the web-based frontend space.

TypeScript and WASM have both been developed in the last decade.

The former is amazingly successfully, and the later is seeing increasing adoption.
All the additions to CSS, JS, HTML, and even the continued growth of frameworks and abstractions, are a choice. You have a choice to limit yourself and your team to a subset of the available tools, and it's a good idea to do so. The web as a platform is a lot of different things to a lot of different people, it needs to expand and grow in order to cater to all. Restricting the tools for your project makes it easier to maintain, and easier to onboard new contributors.

I do this with TypeScript on my current contract, I limit its use to almost "JavaScript with Types", only using features (other than types) that have made it into core JS.

I understand the anxiety over the ever increasing pressure to have knowledge of all these APIs and features, but you don't need to. Being a good developer is having a wide but shallow (even only knowing the existence of something) understanding of the platforms. Enough to start. No "real" developers code without constantly referring to docs, or Googling (or using chatGPT) to help.

Personally there are a few new things coming I am super excited about. To call out one, the new "popup" element will apparently have its own stacking context, elevated to the top compositing layer, no mater how nested within other stacking contexts the node is. That's going to be the best things since sliced bread, lots of code I can simplify, bugs that will be easier to close. Other people won't have a need, and so don't need to even touch it.
Great comment, thanks for taking the time to write that out. I think for a lot of people they look to books or other things to tell them what to think. Other people (like you it sounds like) look to books to share a story or a perspective or an idea and that engaging with the idea doesn't imply endorsing it.

Also, everyone wants to think that they would be the brave resistance fighter when in fact most of us don't "choose" sides in any meaningful sense and just go along with the status quo. I think seeing these really smart and progressive (for their time) people and what their blind spots were despite their brilliance can help me look inwards and see where I might be a "man of my time" and missing something later generations will judge me for
Furthermore, it's probably redundant to put "scandal-ridden" before "italian prime minister" ;)
Not as distasteful as Bunga Bunga parties though am I right?
Reasonably fine for large scale/municipal composting. Last time I checked there was a lack of strong consensus on whether animal fat always composts well in someone's backyard composter, so YMMV. But the reply was really poking fun at the idea that pizza fat (outside of strict vegan pizza I guess) is exclusively plant based.
> The security model alone is an unfixable disaster (and many have tried over the years)

Surely you are talking about Windows... :-)
The best ones it feels like an insult to call clones, but Tunic is a very good one that comes to mind.
Because while the winter maximum used to increase (5y average) in the last 40 years, the summer maximum decreased (5y average) over the same period.

> How is it misleading when they're talking about "exposing more open ocean to incoming solar radiation and heating" specifically?

So, if you don't know, during winter there is almost no sun in antartica (and even in the areas you can see it 3 hours a day like in the Kerguelen, it isnt absorbed that much to to a low angle of incidence). So we clearly don't care about random averages of the sea ice over a year, but its state when the sun hit the water, in summer (because the angle of incidence is higher, and also, the sun almost never sets there).

That's why your data is correct, but misleading. What's important isn't the ice sheet surface this winter, during june-july-august-september (sorry to over-explain, but i get that this is a complex issue and this bear repeating) but how much ice was present last summer (this winter if you're in the north hemisphere). And this was the lowest we ever had.

Do you want more clarifications on specific points? I'm not an expert, and this is a complex subject
Machine Learning Basics.
You can plug a J1772 plug into a CCS car without an adapter, and you can't plug it into a Tesla/"NACS" car without one. I think it's meaningfully true to treat J1772 as CCS for this purpose.
Ah, you're right. Wow, that EULA is very different from the reality of how people use it, and MSFT makes no attempt to enforce it.
There's nothing past tense about it, but sometimes you change jobs, you know.
I’m a “hybrid digital nomad”. My wife and I travel six months out of the year and we stay in our “Condotel”[1] that we own the other six months. We can’t buy anything that we can’t carry in our four suitcases since we can’t keep anything in our unit when it’s rented out.

I might buy it just for the multi monitor setup and to get rid of my extra USB-C video/usb-c portable monitor and my iPad for a 3 monitor setup in smaller spaces.

[1] a Condotel is where you own the entire condo unit. But it gets rented out as a hotel room when you aren’t there and you get the income minus the property management fees
How the Russian language is gaining ground in Warsaw
People will always want free things; that's nothing new! Especially on an Internet that was born free (aside from the cost to connect).

The average "Reddit" business is pretty odd; they want:

* Paying subscribers _and_ advertising revenue

* Free content: posts & comments

* Free moderation: voting & ToS enforcement

* The ability to monopolize said content

* Contributors to continue to pour millions of man-hours to make content for the site and never ask for anything like ad-free viewing, an enjoyable user-experience, tooling, etc.

Social platforms present a difficult balance between the users, contributors, moderators, and business - all within a very hostile internet (in terms of security, spam, etc).

For payment to happen, users do demand significant value to be parted from their $. In Reddit's case, the 3rd party apps are strongly desired because the 1st party app does not meet their needs (users _pay_ for these apps!). Reddit doesn't want to compete on UX, as they're demonstrably bad at it; partially due to lack of skill and due to mismatched incentives.

It seems like they incorrectly assume that they own the community, rather than the other way around. Reddit's primary value is in the content they are _given_ in exchange for hosting & tools - both of which are have significant downward cost pressure (which _should_ trend towards free, given a large enough community).

Reddit is trying to switch their customers from users to advertisers in order to make a profit, which is difficult after years of _generally_ serving users. It is bait and switch at it's finest and most egregious.
Much better to do so at router level via pihole or Adguard Home. That way it catches the calling home from all the various electronics too
Theoretical Solution: Bus Taxis as an Alternative to City Buses
Ladies and Gentlemen, I'm a mathematician who has developed a theoretical model for transforming public bus transportation in large cities into a fully direct-route service. Essentially, this would create a kind of shared-ride mini bus taxi. According to my calculations, such a system could be fast enough to compete with private cars, while being efficient enough to maintain a low cost per trip.

I'd greatly appreciate your opinion, advice, and constructive criticism. If my ideas resonate with you, I hope to connect and find like-minded individuals in this community. Thank you for your time and thoughts.
Mexico is a huge country, Grenada is a tiny island so no, probably not “for sure”.

Also it’s hypothetical and and entirely absurd scenario barely worth discussing.
I think the point here is the metaphore. When you say "infrastructure" you think of bridges, roads etc. And for those you have a notion of possibility and difficulty of repairing them.

When he says "infrastructure" he means the nature that we draw on (to build our infrastructure) i.e. the weather, the trophic chains etc.

I would doubt that everything from one type of infra can be translated to the other.
E.g. when it comes to nature some things are simply almost irreversible, whereas there is no such thing for man-made infra.
Well some people are putting a lot of faith in Chrome, which is owned by Google. I don't know which choice is more risky...
My goal is to suggest that so-worded, a lot of organizations that aren't akin to the KKK an ISIS can be lumped into the same category, and often are.

Here's a question for you: do you consider so-called "TERFs" to be a hate-group?

And here's another: what do you do with the fact that the very notion of violence is being redefined to include such things as misgendering people?

So I ask you this: are you really suggesting it's unreasonable to view this kind of research with caution and circumspection?
Build / buy an old enough computer.
> 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.

The tech focused can move elsewhere, but smaller communities with not so many tech savvy users will probably stick to where it’s more convenient.
I routinely built slums in CS.

It's mostly decorative, but you can add some functional slum elements like nearby pollution, bad/no schools, etc.
I don't see a scroll bar in the feed window?
Yeah, Gates is leaving couch money to his kids, but realistically those kids are set for life unless they have catastrophic lifestyle failure. For all intents and purposes, his kids are and will remain extraordinarily wealthy.
Possibly related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28495204
That assumes third party chargers survive. If Ford and GM all start charging at Superchargers instead that’s less revenue to support EA/etc, regardless of how good they get in the future.
Never underestimate the convenience of just keeping an older computer around...
> What taxes people should pay is politics, allowing excessive threatening of public figures with violence is not politics

On one hand, claiming threats or violence is a typical strategy to ban speech you dislike and it's usually dishonest. On the other, the acceptable mainstream US centric democrat leaning subs are vitriolic, threatening and all that jazz against many political leaders and that's A' OK. Why? Because it's acceptable to want do so against republican's or Putin or "the new designated evil guy" because "it's a response to THEIR violence".

It's the whole "I claim your speech is violence therefore I can actually be violent against you".

> The fact that you won't mention a single one or give an example is telling. In your other comments you are upset about r/The_Donald

Nah. I know the likes of you. You're a dishonest person who will use ad homs and distract from the point. I have no intention of arguing about each sub. TD is a very obvious one but you could just as well talk about other subs, there's plenty, who were slowly muzzled. This includes balcan subs, lefty subs, feminist subs... Just as long as they weren't playing a specific tune. Obviously there's more towards US right leaning but not limited to.

TD was just an impressively obvious example. NNN was another one.

> Companies don't want to host and broadcast threats of violence and hate speech.

They do. Happily. Just have to be against the right targets. Around 2001 it was Muslims. Today it's Christans. I defended both. I can criticize their faith or culture without wanting to deplatform or hide them from view.

> The mistake here is what you think of as 'politics' a lot of other people would think of as stochastic terrorism

Yeah. Yeah. 2001 called and said stop the "terrorism" bullshit. It's not an argument. It's your own bs definition ripe for abuse. To me, you're terrorizing anyone who has a different opinion. Semantic bs.

> There are plenty of places where you can give your opinion backed up by evidence. There are even plenty of places where you can say anything you want (like voat) regardless of how awful and disgusting it is. The problem isn't that you want to be able to say what you want, the problem is that you want your toxicity broadcasted to a wider audience and no one has to do that.

Nah. That's bullshit. You're an authortiarian wanted to shut down others with different ideas than you by virtue of having political or economic power. They did this to people against the war of Iraq, Libya and now Ukraine. They did it if you opposed Israel's apartheid or if you opposed covid policies. They did it calling you extreme left or extreme right but it's always some bs authortiarian pretending to have a moral standing when all they have is a lever to shut you up.

It's not even that the majority agrees. It's literally aggressive deplatforming by political maneuvers. Politicians routinely squash news articles too, with the same absurd reasoning.

You're the problem.
Isn't docx literally a zip file?
Wet bulb is not just a different scale, it's a different model with different inputs.

If it becomes useful for knowing whether or not you're going to die (and it could), I bet it catches on.
Related to this, my best cure against procrastination has been adding some distracing websites to /etc/hosts and pointing them to localhost.
Talk to people. Practice it every day to get good at it. Everything gets a lot easier when you talk to people. You'll be amazed as how easily things get resolved when you call someone and talk issues over (email and messaging don't count as talking).
9000! is more than the number of atoms in the observable universe.
I guess the problem I run into is that "the worst" as proposed by Doomers is usually so bad that there's no way for me to prepare for it except by becoming a full time prepper. And that just becomes exhausting to even consider, so it's easier to fall into the trap of either depression or complete inaction instead.
Backdated to 1981:

http://www.catb.org/jargon/oldversions/jarg1-81-MM-DD.txt
Still not clear how one is supposed to wire this to the servlet container.

You instantiate a RestApi object and then . . . . magic?
Windows is free. MSFT is literally siphoning data from your personal devices.

You’re speaking on an agenda without accounting for reality
What a load of anti-worker propaganda. CNN would like you to think workers are obliged to work at wherever rate UPS offers because it's in the interest of "the economy". If UPS failed to reach a contract with any other key supplier they would be blasted by the press. UPS management has had plenty of time to negotiate. Management is playing a game pushing to the limit of a strike, and maybe into a strike, to get workers scared they'll lose a paycheck and accept a worse deal
It's necessary to rule out mechanical and other system failures, i.e., to provide evidence that it was a disturbed pilot and not some other cause. Aviation incident investigations are quite thorough--orders of magnitude more rigorous than in the software industry in general.
A New Antitrust Doctrine
> Correct: with the latest images, W11 will not under any circumstances allow you to avoid creating an MS account. It will insist you go online and halt the installer until you do.

Huh. Aside from the ethics, this creates a chicken-and-egg problem for anyone who needs a PC to set up their home internet.