skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly.

And, furthermore, the finding is akin to a form of survivorship bias. 'We found they stopped talking to each other and promoting hate online.' Okay, and what did they do next? Did they just stop hating people? Did they figure out a way to start meeting in person without Facebook to mediate the conversation? Did some of them become increasingly isolated that they decided to act out? Did some people who weren't members of the hate group happen to see this form of censorship and start to change their own minds? I'm not saying any of these outcomes are what happened or are inevitable, I'm wondering how they can call this real science when they don't even bother looking at the other effects outside of their water-is-wet conclusion.
I mostly agree with these points from a European perspective, but to contrast this: income decreased on average, the gap between rich and poor increased, many markets are not as competitive anymore, owning housing got unrealistic for most working people, ...
Do we know if it is just like, one tall MySQL instance and a few RubyOnRails API instances?

Two servers, one active and one standby. Both running Arc on BSD. No MySQL or Ruby.

Why not auto-turn it on at like 500 comments or so?

Best to ask dang directly on that one hn@ycombinator.com as I have never seen the code and responsible adults don't let me near their code.
Does anyone have a more detailed explanation as to what this company was doing, and how much they actually spent?
I see outages browsing Reddit almost daily - either the “can’t reach cdn” error or the generic “you broke it” error.

I always just assume the uptimes absolute dogshit.
Show HN: Stable Diffusion powered level editor for a 2D game
Hey folks, I’ve been working on using control-net to take in a video game level (input as a depth image) and output a beautiful illustration of that level. Play with it here: dimensionhopper.com or read the blog post about what it took to get it to work. Been a super fun project.
I mean it's also worth noting that spez was CEO of Reddit and subreddits like that were allowed to exist for many, many more years.
In the world of Ready Player One, it was a terrible idea because most of the economic activity of that world passes through their servers. Stopping most economic transactions one day a week is maybe a little bit much.

Here, it's a much better idea.
Same problems, different approaches!

I found that I can't keep two workstations in sync. It's such a hassle that I made my tiny Macbook 12" my main machine. My bigger, faster Macbook is collecting dust.

For notes I use Notability on an iPad Mini. I bought Notability before they went with a monthly subscription model.
Could be the government. Telecom is impacted as well.
Female speakers with vocal fry rated as less intelligent
"Many studies have investigated listener perceptions of speakers who use vocal fry, but results remain mixed. This study aimed to investigate how vocal fry and speaker gender impact listener perceptions of a speaker's likeability, intelligence, attractiveness, and salary-attainment, described as "attributes." We hypothesized speakers with vocal fry would be evaluated more negatively on all attributes than speakers without vocal fry, with female speakers rated more negatively than male speakers."
Nov'22 study
> I do find myself wondering what a system that connected my rss feed reader with global comments about webpages might look like.

Newsblur has this. It would probably be fine with more people. Occasionally there's something interesting, but usually there's no much of anything.
My first comment on this site was about Bombardier.

Bombardier went into high-risk, high-reward territory, and failed:

1) project they'd never done before

2) technology they'd never used to build and model

3) highly integrated supply-chain with large number of partners delivering large sub-components that had to integrate with other large sub-components

4) pre-planned delivery dates to customers, and still had at least two delivery slips

5) "bet the farm"

Additionally, the C-suite was comprised of nepotistic family connections--who may have been fully qualified, or may have only achieved their role due to the family ownership.

Political conjecture aside, this is a engineering and business failure.
seeing "You broke reddit" and all the other shit annoys the hell out of me.

Could be getting older indeed, but his one, and "guru meditation error", almost make me act like younger me again feeling a sudden urge to smash my monitor into pieces
iTerm2 on the Mac has this. It's a "minimum contrast" slider from 0 to 100% which does what you'd expect. It's nice that it's adjustable.

Windows Terminal has something like this, but finds a way to screw it up. I use Windows Terminal for development over SSH in my current job. It has a checkbox "Automatically adjust lightness of indistinguishable text" (non-adjustable), but it doesn't seem to change the cursor. Whatever colour I set the cursor to, whatever shape, and even with blinking, the cursor is nearly invisible in some of the terminal tools I use, when it is close to the background colour. Even ancient terminal emulators pick a contrasting colour for the cursor. It is an obvious requirement, and Windows Terminal does the opposite, so you can see text but not the cursor.
I think it would have sufficed to say that not everyone agrees. I don't think that's news.

>I have done my best to try and see things from this perspective—yet, try as I might, my own logical faculties remain steadfastly incompatible with this openly asymmetric worldview.

Not sure what that has to do with this? Yes, some people disagree with you.
I think what ruins communities is large sustained growth and not size.

Back in ye olden forum days, you'd often see cozy communities with thousands of members, most of which weren't active and a lot of them came and went. You'd see like one maybe two new members every few days.

What kills most mainstream social media is needing to show growth to investors. This turns them from a village with familiar faces into a train station where everyone is always passing through and there are no shared values or experiences.
Because Reddit is more popular than office.

More people panic from missing memes, than missing excel-sheets.
Reddit seems fine to me as of right now. (8:30AM PST)
This site however, is having issues loading for me.
I'm not European but I find it incredibly bizarre that you would prefer such a thing. The worst Elon Musk can do to you is kick you off his platform. As soon as a government gets involved you're looking at being potentially locked in a cage like an animal for expressing your opinion.

They say the people get the government they deserve though.
Damn, just looked at this account signup date and mine is older than it. Feeling ancient on a Monday morning :)
Bit of nitpicking: This is, because `my` doesn't declare a local variable (you do this with `local`), but a lexically private variable, which is something different. Expressing that something "belongs" to a private scope by `my` isn't much weirder than, say, referring to an object in its own context as `me`, as seen in HyperTalk.
Good things:

- up to 64 GB RAM

- both M2 NVME SSD and a SATA slot, so I could add my current SATA SSD.

- 2 kg

- 10/100/1000 Ethernet

- 5 USB ports, mixed types

- VGA (maybe much needed anymore but OK)

- HDMI

- headphone/mic jack

- mic only jack (but why another one?)

- webcam on top of the screen

- card reader

- pretty inexpensive

Bad things:

- Intel i5 only

- only 2 mouse buttons but this is a Linux laptop: it must have 3. Maybe they can't find any company building 3 mouse buttons touchpads.

- it has a numberpad, which is standard on 15" laptops, but the keyboard is offcenter with the screen.

- US keyboard only, but I could live with that if it was the only bad thing. My fingers remember where keys are.

Neutral

- 1080p 16:9 is OKish for me. 16:10 or 16:12 (that is 4:3 [1]) would be better.

Unknowns:

- how easy is it to open and replace parts?

- is RAM soldered or replaceable? Apparently it's replaceable because they write that you can "upgrade later".

- what's up with "Most USB data transfer cables on the market include a proprietary flash component that interferes with their usability. With our USB data transfer cable no such component exists" at $59.99?

Weirdness:

- an optical drive? Well, maybe that could turn into an extra slot for a SSD, with a caddy.

- bluetooth No Thanks? Compared to "No SATA Drive" or the several "Select" menus, is that a statement against bluetooth?

- the two "censored" European AC Adapters.

- the VPN service, almost suspicious.

[1] Remember that 16:9 is 4:2.25. We used to have 4:3 screens even wider than the horizontal 36 cm of most current 15" laptops. They shortened our screens.
What "weather balloon incident"? China intentionally sent a spy balloon into US airspace to gather intelligence and test our response. You can't seriously expect us to believe that it was for weather observations.
HN is written in Arc, an experimental lisp dialect created by Paul Graham. I believe it runs on a single instance? Not sure though.

I believe pagination does turn on automatically at 500 comments.
> I want to emphasize that the coding journal is not a todo file or code comment. It contains things I have to think about not things I have to do.

The author mentions that a lot of these will eventually end up in comments or elsewhere, but it’s nice to capture random thoughts without adding the friction of deciding where it should land, what priority the ticket should be, etc, etc is quite nice.
Did you just reply with random OS names? Android isn't iOS, the first release version looked and was nothing like Blackberry devices.

(If you're making sense, clarity might help for me/others?)
Trust is very important e. g. Facebook or even Twitter alternatives. For reddit alternative, not so much. I don't care about my reddit profile, I rotate them frequently anyway.
The advice in such cases: "logout". Hacker News has a lot easier time when service 'static' content.

...and I had to login just to say this...
Those are the usual standard Reddit down error pages, though. Nothing unique to this outage or today. They've had those for years.
Here's an example: The LGB Alliance in U.K. are routinely smeared as a 'hate' group for taking a dim view of male rapists in female prisons, males competing in female sports, and so on. Resisting that trend and arguing for sex-based rights is considered 'hate' by some.

It's a lazy, imprecise term that is only ever used in political spats, never to address actual intergroup violence. Personally I suspect the demand for hate groups to exist - thereby justifying the many orgs and careers built on countering it - far exceeds the genuine supply.
Would this also affect macro signatures so that this can be used to make malware documents, or do macro signatures use a different signing mechanism?
Yes, but the third party apps don't allow Reddit to take in heaps of tracking data or run ads every 3 posts, so for the company's purpose they're useless
I suppose this is at the top of HN because of Reddit having an outage and Hacker News being slow. But neither Reddit nor HN use Cloudflare. And if you look at the status page there this isn't our core CDN offering, it's certain products that are affected.
Rna is still encoding for protein though and dna is still encoding for rna which then gets processed. Plenty of rna is spliced after transcription in many species.
There's also tildes.net (like early Reddit set up as non profit, invite only, but not hard to get an invite) and also open source distributed https://join-lemmy.org/
I'm personally not confident if the signal to noise ratio took a turn for the worse (re: spam and porn posts), the site would be as a profitable/popular anymore

What I'm curious about is why didn't (and maybe they did as I'm not particularly well read in this situation) reddit just buy the apollo app for like $1M/$5M/etc. and then just modify it so it injects whatever tracking they want instead of creating this giant far more costly shitstorm?

Further, maybe the 50k paid users but perhaps there were many unpaid users using it less intensely?
... and that's still a better deal than the UK, where the norm is no equity and an capped salaries for "IT personnel" (their words, not mine).

Anecdotally, seems there's a lot of British and European expats here in the Valley and they don't seem too keen on returning. We've been getting a lot of international applicants (but work from home was supposed to mean Europeans could avoid moving to the "dangerous" US but work for American companies?).

Post 2016 the messaging from most commonwealth countries (UK, Canada, Australia) seemed to be that they were going to be the ones benefiting from a brain drain of Americans leaving the country. Canada was supposed to become an "AI Superpower" and Universities in the UK were supposed to be where innovation was going to happen next due to the perceived hostility of the United States to foreign talent. I recall someone pitching the "Silicon Roundabout" and that Cambridge and Oxford were going to be the new Stanford and MIT.

It's interesting, in retrospective, to see how wrong these predictions were. Top destination for UK nationals in Academia was, and still is... the US [0].

[0] http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/tech-careers/the-global-bra...
There hasn't been a single public demonstration of this on a hard drive made after the 90s, nor any credible reports of private ones. So I wonder what your assertion is based on.
This smells a lot like the XML Signature Wrapping Attacks known to affect SAML. In essence, the attack fools the signature check into thinking that it's checking the signature of a different document than the one it's given.
What about location?
A flat in an attractive area can be much more expensive than a house somewhere else.
I’m going to assume you live near the coast, probably in the Bay Area or NYC or Seattle?

I think as I’ve gotten older I’ve realized the American Dream has changed. The coastal cities are no longer available even for relatively middle class families, you’ll have to move inland if you want land and property consistently and for relatively cheap.
Does it overwrite the content of each comment before deleting it? Otherwise it's still publicly visible and would have less of an effect
One case where UTF-8 identifiers are needed is (Danish) tax calculation and legal concepts which do not have an equivalent version in English.

I.e. you have a name/concept which cannot be translated into English. If you enforce "all names must be English" then you end up with a made up word.

If you are an English only speaker, try imagine that you were not allowed to use "w" in any variable name as it would be considered a "too weird" letter.
It’s relevant now. We don’t have ways to store days or weeks worth of the excess energy many renewable sources produce. When you have somewhere for that energy to go when it can’t otherwise be used, and you’re getting paid for it, you can subsidize the cost of producing a more robust infrastructure that eliminates or greatly reduces the need for traditional power plants that cause environmental harm.
Pro-Russia edits at RNZ may have been happening for years
> Sure we can. How?

By not making ammonia.

> we won't be able to utilise all of installed PV when it's producing max power.

I don't see that as a problem. Underutilised it will extend it's payback period, but they are already so cheap by comparison to any other option. There isn't a startup/shutdown cost, and there isn't an operating/fuel cost (the sun shines and the wind blows for free).

We should be focusing on adding storage for cases when we may not have it in the future, and not because we have more than we need now. If we have more than we need now, that's not really a problem that needs solving. Take the money we'd spend on that and build more renewables; there's still plenty of places in the world (US included) that are still burning coal. Taking those plants offline is a bigger win than storing excess energy that we get for free (minus a longer payback period on the equipment).

So before we talk about storage, I'd argue for 2 changes:

1. Simply overbuild the hell out of solar and wind. Build it out so that they handle the winter demands, the price is already so low, and in the summer when we have all that excess energy we won't have to worry about storing it for later.

2. Change usage pattern. This is both a supply and demand problem. People already are used to not running their dishwasher/laundry during peak times, "peak times" will simply change. So if you have a lot of solar and wind, you'll want to do those at noon rather than at night. Same for other high energy draw activities.

Storage will depend on how long you need it in the future, and what you will use it for.

- Heating and cooling short term: Use thermal storage to store "heat" or "cold" then pull from that during the rest of the day as you need it. Think water heaters, bricks for heat storage, or phase change materials for "cold" storage.

- For short term there's batteries (for a great payback period see Hornsdale Power Reserve).

- If you have hydro, or are connected to neighbours which do, change how that's operated (it's only at ~40% capacity) so that you store the excess green energy in them, and run them when solar and wind go offline.

- Build pumped storage between two artificial basins (cover them with solar panels to help with evaporation).

- And worst case, you end up in a situation where you have to turn on some natural gas peaking plants to cover a shortfall. But if we get to the point where potentially running a fossil fuel peaking plant is the biggest of our concerns, we have won 99% of the battle.
Seems there are complaints about both dev teams - Kbin devs are apparently fascists or something in that vicinity, and Lemmy devs are apparently tankies or something in that vicinity.
Yeah, there's one less than 5 minutes from my flat, and I live a little outside of the centre. I've used crypto very little in recent years, so not a lot of personal experience to share, but I know some people who use them (or just the P2P market places of sites like Binance).

I suspect the ATMs will give you a worse exchange rate than what you'd get on a P2P exchange online.
> Reddit is where know nothings pontificate as if they were experts on anything and everything
> …
> that meme is propaganda and defamation

> …
> given the prevailing winds of the modern left

Are you making up facts and mixing them in a soup to mimic your favorite bigoted influencer?
poking around lemmy the other day:

I don't like the UI, to much white space, one of my main issues with reddit

Going through the code and issues, i have suspicions its a bit over engineered in the wrong ways and will have trouble continuing to scale, like they are already seeing. it doesnt matter your using hip rust frameworks or w/e if you cant write sql queries or architect the app to run fast...

I dont get the fediverse thing or its importance. If you think back to old forum communities, they were ad supported or corporate backed and usually attached to some kind of greater site as a feature(even this is just a ycombinator feature to begin with) If anything, connecting everyone is a bad idea.

Really we just need message boards, with modern features like tree comments, effective uis, that can be monetarily supported. they need to be part of an existing place on the internet, not just a place for the whole internet to be together. There can't be vc funding involved. Reddit being a company with internal corporate culture and profit motivations is what ruined it. without vc, their goal could be just to exist and slowly and sustainably grow, this all wouldn't have happened.
Began with covid :)
Data-Centric FinGPT: Open-Source for Open Finance
that would be funny, the traffic normally contain on Reddit will be redirect to other websites causing a chain of traffic issues to both Reddit and other websites
> But it's not as obvious as you think.

If a person or organization calls for violence or the destruction of property, they are a terrorist organization. If the reasons they give for this are based on identity they are additionally a hate-group.

Seems pretty clear to me. A world with less moral clarity here is one with more (necessarily?) violence and destruction. Why do you think this line of argumentation is either morally permissable, or even virtuous? What argument convinced you?
I don't know what is the situation today but there was a time where American citizens visiting Cuba were very careful not to get a Cuban passport stamp. It was problematic if the US border police discovered such a stamp. So the Cuban authorities helped out by supplying a stamped card to said American tourists.
You can also look at it as discussion forums for pretty much any topic with single sign-on. Think of anything and you'll probably find it plus porn of it on Reddit with a quick search.
Grubhub to Lay Off About 15% of Staff
>I am not a lawyer. That said, I'm not sure this counts as news.

It's a supreme court case that happened last week - that's news.
I think it's just too many Reddit refugees at once.

PSA: if you browse HN in logged-out mode (e.g. a private tab), you can receive cached versions of HN threads that load much faster. The logged-in experience is currently worse than the logged-out: dynamic content generation for user-account stuff seems to be hitting a slow path on the server.
16 year club here.. same. I came to reddit from the digg DVD exodus. Time to drop this habit.
UPS strike could devastate the economy, and could be eight weeks away
I believe he means Slashdot (https://slashdot.org).
I think that is pretty unlikely. HN doesn't use Cloudflare at all as far as I know, and not to downplay the scope of the outage, but
Cloudflare's core CDN Offering is fine. Other core services such as Cloudflare Pages/Workers/KV are also fine. This is mostly addon/developer products, the biggest of which (imo) being R2.
If you log out, it loads a lot faster (at least the main/cached pages)
Don't forget RFC4042, which defines UTF-9 and UTF-18.
Why do you think that? Because of increased load from people visiting HN to discuss it?
Sex determination is temperature dependent in certain species
Even if you don't min/max, I can see it feeling too much like work. There's also more overhead to get into the game, a fair amount of information to absorb at the outset to get the most out of it.

After which there's the sandbox potential, but I never understood sandbox games. The closest thing that appeals is the simulated chaos of dwarf fortress.
Must be that damned internet!
I too hate “smart quotes”, meaning anything that automatically converts from ASCII, but only for myself. That’s because I’m a weirdo that types exactly what I mean, things like em dashes and en dashes and curly quotes and such, using my Compose key.

Opening and closing quotation marks are different from one another (simple fact, true from the very early days of quotation marks), so they should be represented differently in Unicode (simple fact). Anything along the lines of “smart quotes” is just a pragmatic approach to let normal people get the correct quotation marks, and I’m mostly glad they can have it (I just wish it’d handle things like “’cos” and “’90s” properly, which use an apostrophe which is equivalent to a right single quotation mark; but other than that, I’m glad when people use curly quotes rather than straight quotes), so long as I don’t have to have it (and I’m glad to say I don’t).
What info can i get from this?
Obesity impairs brain responses to nutrients(even after weight loss)
definitely not the case, reddit has stated that they would not be doing that, at least for the two-day protest. would be incredibly bad PR at this scale, especially after repeatedly and directly making this statement.

however, they have stated that may do this if the protest extends beyond the 48h mark.
HN has been timing out, oof. Too much redirected traffic I guess