skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aside: I notice HN has been really slow today, possibly due to people not being on reddit coming here instead.
They received an indefinite suspension until and unless they agreed to remove their post.

There was a joke attached, not that this is at all relevant — they were using humor to highlight the absurd.
Have they always been vegan though? A glance at [0] shows they all decided to go vegan at some point in their adult life. Growing big and strong on a regular diet and then turning vegan does not exactly support the vegan lifestyle. Even this vegan powerlifter [1] turned vegan only at 32 (vegetarian at 26).

[0] https://www.livekindly.com/vegan-nfl-players/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrik_Baboumian
Some of us (I'm 33, so old-ish millennial here) are doing well, yes, but some of us have been doing terrible. The economy has, overall, not been kind to us.

Boomers need to retire already, because they've held onto the top rung of the ladder for far too long, which has caused severe ripple effects in our economy. Their mentality, while not inherently bad, has not kept up with reality.

I personally have struggled and am extremely fortunate that I've had great parents who were wealthy enough to partially support me. I wasn't able to get into a good company after college and that has absolutely wrecked my career - taking odd jobs and short-term employment to put food on the table and pay rent. As I'm not an engineer, my career prospects are quite dim.

Now that there's an entire new generation entering the workforce, I'm afraid that there's millions of people in my position who simply won't be able to afford anything, much less a home or a family. That's not good for the economy, but the folks at the top don't really care as long as they get paid.
Ten years of UK IPOs in nine ugly charts
https://archive.is/deadS
I agree, I really long for the days of simple "there was an error" messages. This trend of "you bwoke us" or "OOPSIE WOOPSIE!! Uwu We made a fucky wucky!! A wittle fucko boingo! The code monkeys at our headquarters are working VEWY HAWD to fix this!" messages is infuriating to me even more than a simple error.
Agreed on a lot of this, but I'd be cautious about saying that any kind of documentation is "simple". Especially when it comes to technical products - be they internal or external.

Technical writers train specifically to communicate complex technical topics to readers, and it's not an easy job. It requires understanding your readers, what kind of backgrounds they have, and what are they trying to achieve. This becomes especially important for documentation that is meant for your customers, where very real revenue depends on the quality of your docs.

I'm a bit biased since I'm the founder of a documentation startup [0], but tools also do play a big part. Devs often tend to enjoy writing something Markdown next to their code than going to an old wiki like Confluence that's disconnected from the engineering cycle. Choosing the right tool lowers the barrier to keeping the docs up to date.

[0]: https://www.doctave.com
V claims to take care of most objects (~90-100%) and uses GC for the stuff it can't figure out during compilation.

This is very clearly explained on the website:

https://vlang.io/#memory
> I have no personal interest in promoting any of these models.

Could you please add direct links to the home page or repo of each of the projects in the article? Readers expect to be able to click on the name of a project to see the project first-hand. The lack of these links combined with the "contact us" sales pitch at the bottom is part of what makes this article look spammy and seems to contradict your claim of "no personal interest".
Check out an app called Artifact, if you're looking for that infinite scroll on published articles relevant to you.

It's made by the original founders of Instagram, and they're using AI in some interesting ways, e.g. rewriting clickbait headlines. Their Reader View is nice too, though I wish I could set it as default on each page open.
HN is also very slow. Looks like it can't handle all the traffic when Reddit is down. After all, it looks like these's significant overlap between Reddit and HN users, as much as HN folks see itself as a kind of elite when comparing to Reddit.
We have something like this already on mobile phones. NFC chips and the radio are pretty much independent systems and the host system has to use message passing to talk to them. The OS as a micro kernel doesn't really yield benefits in this case.

Graphics cards and other accelerators are trickier since they can also access main memory. Therefore, restarting its driver might not resolve the problem, and the whole system has to be rebooted anyways.

Anyways, the system might not be that usable anymore if a critical driver keeps crashing and restarting...
>Emails don’t provide that legal value.

In Italy there is an officially legislated signed email service that has legal value
HN's slowness is probably knock-on result of Reddit's outage. It's where a lot of people to go to discuss the Reddit shit-tornado.
USAC doesn't meet the "ubiquitous" requirement for this use case.

Regarding your claim that Opus is better than HE-AAC, here's a "Quality vs Bitrate" chart from opus-codec.org, the home of Opus: https://opus-codec.org/static/comparison/quality.svg

Note that AAC (presumably they mean "Main Profile" rather than AAC-LC) has effectively the same efficiency as Opus. HE-AAC and HE-AACv2 have a higher efficiency than both Opus and AAC, and works great at lower bitrates in comparison to AAC.
If any VC firms want to hire me to vet investment ideas I'm available. "No, do not give the pizza startup $445 million." Simple.
I thought the Fediverse is a non-starter because a critical mass of the admin base and userbase are openly hostile to searchability, which punts "discovery" right out the window.

Reddit has been building utility as a storehouse of decently-curated answers to questions that Google can crawl. Fediverse content can't fit that use-case if admins kick out crawlers and users are terrified of having things they post be found in the future.
Honestly I think your best bet for this is to have a predictable failure or degenerate input (empty body for post etc) and then write a test that hits all your endpoints in a docker container.
No, I only ever use old.reddit and BaconReader. I've never used the new UI or the official app.

The official Reddit Status Twitter confirms this is a pretty common occurrence: https://twitter.com/redditstatus

The "elevated error rates" always presents as an "oops, you broke reddit!" landing even on old.reddit. I imagine since it is an "elevated error rate" rather than a total outage that it might be localized to geo or some other kind of shard. I'm on the US West Coast, though, so I can't imagine I'm in a minority.

(Which is confirmed by the number of people responding to GP.)
True, or even a centralized place for Reddit alternatives that's not on Reddit...
Yes, both based on the CSR8510.
I don't agree that one should ignore text-only feedback.

"Perhaps for this very reason, you’ll sometimes encounter people who insist on trying to make the discussion asynchronous and text-only. The simplest way to foil this tactic is not to join in. If they send you comments on your code via GitHub or email, just reach out to them in person and ask to have a chat about it."
Not for me actually.
> A typical office laptop is pretty useless after about five years.

That's funny, because I rarely buy a computer that is newer than that, and they work great.
So HN users, who disagree about research into the effectiveness of deplatforming, resort to HN's version of 'deplatforming'?
That article says nothing about how they achieved those numbers. Meanwhile, in the mojo docs, the matmul results are 20-50x slower for some reason:

https://docs.modular.com/mojo/notebooks/Matmul.html
It depends what you're looking for. To replace the link aggregation features, I've gone back to using RSS over the past year and I'm pleased with it. I get the same news that is spread across the various subreddits, and often times news sites will report on stuff directly from reddit.

For the actually discussions or more niche content, there isn't much. There are some Reddit-specific alternatives popping up, but unless Reddit itself really dies I doubt they'll get much traction. Your other options are the other social media platforms, which have their own issues and aren't quite the same.
Nah, floods of new users have come before. The lack of images, politics, and drama, combined with the "boring" design drives the undesirables away, leaving behind people who like talking about tech and other interests.
Does it have the concepts slums, shantytowns and such organic urban sprawl or is it all perfectly maintained blocks?
It's working for me somehow.
HN always struggles whenever Reddit or another major service goes down.
Don’t both your points boil down to: “for my use cases, I don’t care” but then you’re applying them to the general use case that the OP is talking about.

You’re also oddly fixated on games, which is clearly not what the product is focused on delivering.

That’s just incongruent and reductive to the argument at hand.

But to your last point, that’s exactly what the progressive APIs let you do. You can integrate 3D elements on top of your windowed iPad. You’re thinking in “either 3D or 2D”, whereas this is allowing developers to progressively adopt the entire gamut within the singular app which can target iOS and visionOS.

The quest just can’t do that.
There's ways you can make it less extraordinary.

0) What if interdimensional travel is easier than we think, we just haven't figured out the hack yet. Ergo: they're not actually that advanced.

0.5) What if they're hyper-specialized? They're really good at crossing dimensions but not so good at conventional flight.

0.618) What if they're hyper-efficient, and sending these craft for them is like us manufacturing widgets in a manual factory? As in they've reduced the cost so much that a few trips having "defects" is normal and within an acceptable QA tolerance for them?

1) What if unreliability is a fundamental property of interstellar/interdimensional (or whatever we think this is) travel. In a physical-law type of way analogous to the uncertainty principle specifying an inviolable tradeoff between precision of position and momentum.

2) What if they're very promiscuous? What if there's 200 craft in Earth's atmosphere right now, and basically constantly for 1000 years. Assume they arrive and depart at basically constant rate of 40 per second (20 in / 20 out). For 90 years of cover up that's 110,730,240,000: or 110 billion. Assume they only crash on entry or exit. Assume that 20 craft have crashed in that time. That means they have a 1 in 5.5 billion chance of crashing. Googling estimates of airline crashes gives 1 in 1 million to 1 in 11 million. Making them 500 to 5000 times more reliable. Checks out.

I think the extraordinary thing is taking a default anthropocentric point of view, and extrapolating it to the whole universe, and having a high expectation that's highly likely to be valid.
> And don't link me some random idiot's tweet as proof, we are better than this.

Watch the video clip in the tweet. It shows a montage of officials and talking heads claiming that the COVID vaccines would prevent you from getting COVID and transmitting it.

Here's another one if you prefer:

https://twitter.com/alliemarie777/status/1667561378398318592

> 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.

No it isn't. The NHS now has chronic shortage of nurses.

If there were a problem with pseudoscience, then they should have fired her for that, not some vague proxy.

You're rather proving my point. So many people are just not ready to have a rational conversation about these narratives. It's all just tribalism and dogma, and we will have to wait years for people like you to calm down to the point where you are able to have reasonably conversations on these topics again.
If you're wanting the links it could be an idea to check the sub on archive.org and add the different sites that appeal to you into an RSS feed. No option for the discussions though.
> Although, given the prevailing winds of the modern left, in a few years he'll probably be trying to claim that he was.

I’m genuinely curious what the fuck you mean by this.
> if members of a group have already committed crimes

> then that should be enough to legally impose restrictions on the group and its members

This is called "keeping a public nuisance" and it's illegal in many jurisdictions. It's not limited to hate crimes.

These conversations about online hate groups would be more productive if people knew what the law was to begin with.
Shouldn't future work like this just go into the backlog of your ticketing system?
What if Reddit took their site down as a counter protest?
I do DD for a living. It's rarely that simple. But SoftBank is a special case.
Looks like this is from 2008, so they just never updated it. https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit/commit/4778b17e939e...
I've done that and still do.

It helps a bit, but only if your code reviewers are actually going to enforce the rule. It seems like most programmers simply don't like reading or writing documentation even though they can save large amounts of time for everyone by doing so. Certainly it's frustrating to be told e.g. "this thing we use can't do X" when how to do X is discussed in the thing's user guide, simply because someone didn't want to read it. I've had that experience before.

Code reviews let you force the issue for a while but it's hard to scale. Getting other people to enforce the same rules via review is difficult. Many devs will be really strict about things like unit testing and make it a point of pride, but not at all strict at all about updating docs. Other devs will learn which reviewers let them avoid writing things in English and send reviews there preferentially, or find other ways to dodge it. Fixing this via training or policy turned out to be nigh-on impossible: many people simply will not change regardless of how many times you send a code review back for missing docs. Nor will they change even when their questions are constantly being answered by a link to the docs, which they don't take as "you should be embarrassed that I had to google that for you" but rather "hey here's a helpful link, you're welcome".

Fundamentally there's a lack of shame about not reading things. It's not unique to the software world either. People ask questions answered by docs, or even by emails they just received, or they make bold assertions contradicted by things they claim they read that morning, and when this is pointed out they just shrug it off in a way they wouldn't do if an obvious bug snuck through that should have been caught by testing. It's a cultural issue and needs to change, really.

It's possible AI can help here. Some people just don't want to sit down and read, but they'll ask questions, so an AI that reads the docs regularly could motivate people to write it. Or you could use them for code review enforcement by giving them changes and asking, "given policy X, should this change have updated the documentation?" and if the LLM says yes then that gets flagged centrally for followup, for example.
I would love to see an alternative that really focuses on moderation. Perhaps something that has three flavours of subs.

1. Public: these would be democratically run forums. The users would actually be able to vote for moderators, and perhaps even rules around them. This would be ideal for things like r/[country] or r/[city].

2. Private: these would be traditional forums run by the people who found them. It should also be possible for the "person" who runs it to be a corporation or similar group.

3. Personal: This would be a users own "twitter" like feed.

Other things I think would be needed are:

1. The owning company be a foundation like wikipedia, run as a non-profit.

2. The data and code should be open, so that if anything happens a clone could be setup.

3. Site wide minimal content rules set by the owning foundation. There are some things that should not be allowed at all.

4. Built in trainable AI agents. Moderation is a huge task and I believe it's on the site to supply appropriate tools. By trainable agents, I mean efficiently integrated machine learning models that moderations can personally update and train per sub to help them enforce the rules.
This counter-narrative is also misleading

Consider: spez was the voluntary "mod" of the entire platform as CEO, and he maintained that subreddit.

Excusing him for the unsolicited mod invite is just optics management. It would be like saying lowtax had no responsibility as co-signer for the existence of subforums that his paid or unpaid staff maintained.
Protocol typically implies a conversation. Expectations and messaging.

That said, synonyms all over the place. So, I can see it. I think I would avoid it here, as this would also make "mp3" a protocol. Data format already covers that, though. Whereas something like WebRTC seems more in the protocol vein.
Octal: Reddit-like Hacker News client for iOS
I would like to participate there, but it is invite only, last I checked.
Just goes to show that Reddit is more popular than ever. They can't even serve the increased traffic. Clearly the protestors are wrong and their going black is inefficient.
I HN-submitted the parent article originally. By way of demonstrating topic familiarity, I have a track record of submitting origns content to HN. (It usually founders or gets user-flagged). I didn't guess that this one would garner quite so much attention.

>I'd like for someone to throughly research and write about how it became taboo to discuss the virus leak theory

IMO part of it was a lot of self-preservation instinct of biomedical research scientists, operating in the context of a calcified monopsony of a national funding organization. In other words, any biomedical scientist's legitimizing LLH too stridently would not necesssrily have healthy to one's grant fundng prospects.

Caveating that 'none of the content of this comment necessarily reflects the opinion of BiosafetyNow', I also serve on BiosafetyNow's leadership team. BN was formed in the wake of the wagon-circling & gaslighting of the lab leak hyp.
https://biosafetynow.org/
(Richard Ebright, mentioned elsewhere in the comments, is also on the leadership team. More familiar names are Colin Butler, & Milton Leitenberg).

We recently released a petition to ban ePPP research (i.e. 'GoF')

https://www.change.org/prohibit-ePPP.

It just passed 1000 signatures yesterday. I would love for concerned visitors to these comments to add their name.
Despite that we advocate a simple ban today, our org has in its mission statement to see a moratorium on ePPP research until sufficent biosafety measures are put in place whereupon it becomes (highly) regulated ePPP researxh instead of out-and-out banned. The definition of 'sufficient' is not left to scientists alone to determine, and I contribute toward representing the non-scientist public to advocate for what should be considered sufficient biosafety measures.(Pro-tip: More representation of the non-scientist public remains needed here :) )

The nonprofit still operates on a shoestring budget, so if readers were inclined to help with that, it would be most appreciated. (Can also find origins censorship-themed merchandise which some folks might find fun :) )

If you'd like to volunteer your talents - software and otherwise - to BiosafetyNow's advocacy effort, it would be similarly most welcome.
Wondering if there is something that can allow programs to access files in certain directory lists, and require explicit permission from the user to access anything elsewhere.
Does the homepod mini do anything differently when you're in an airbnb vs how you would normally use it at home? Like does it become a WAP or something?
The reality is hard, but the expectation half of this balance is getting exaggerated:

> We could be working 15-hour weeks, enjoying our free time, and living like people of the future.

Keynes’ 15-hour workweek essay wasn’t meant to be a rigorous study of how the future was going to look, nor was it representative of a widespread belief. Yet to this day it’s a favorite of journalists looking to anchor economic expectations so far away from reality that no living conditions could sound good by comparison.

More practically, I still see a lot of exaggerated expectations in the juniors coming through my employer. Maybe I’m getting old, but it’s becoming frustrating to watch people get six-figure jobs right out college doing remote coding work from the comfort of their homes with ample mentoring, only to complain because Reddit and Blind led them to believe they’d be earning $300K at FAANG jobs while working 20 hours per week. I know that’s not the focus of this article, but I do think it’s representative of how the gap between expectation and reality is being stretched wider and wider as people fall deeper into the internet/social media reality distortion field.
Computers that live two seconds in the future
As a statistician, I greatly appreciate this.
I think this must be a reaction to his generally conservative, “avoid using these features and write wordier code” views.
It seems like a funny distinction to make in the first place. Was he an admin of the site when it was hosting that sort of stuff? Anyone who was an admin at the time is responsible for the policies that allowed it to exist on the site…
It's listed as a summer deadline accepted paper for USENIX Security 2023: https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity23/summer-ac...

Per the call for papers [https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity23/call-for-...], that means the paper would have been submitted for review by June 7, 2022, accepted for publication as of September 2, 2022, and had the final ("camera-ready") version uploaded by October 4, 2022.

The conference itself won't take place until August of this year.
AskScience’s concerns regarding Reddit’s API changes: askscience
You’re assuming the key is 256 random bits, which is almost certainly untrue for a human-rememberable password. The 16 bytes of salt are public, and AES is designed to be _fast_, so this scheme is horribly insecure for password-based security.
> While the T4 is thin and light at just .97 inches thick and 4.63 lbs it still boasts a DVD-RW drive (w/ opt. for Blu-ray)

It's an inch thick and weighs over two kilos. That's not really thin or light...
The one being promoted the most on migrations subreddits is Kbin (particularly kbin.social for sign-up). It federates with Lemmy as well - apparently some folks think the Lemmy devs have questionable moral character so decided not to promote Lemmy as a primary option (hell if I know, didn't look into it).

That Kbin instance is getting slammed and trying to scale up right now - many identical /r/{subreddit} are now available at /m/{subreddit} (m for magazine) thanks to some of the prior subreddit mods I guess?
My problem with Drop Wizard is the manual wiring you have to do for everything. I would much prefer dropwizard-guicy being the default DI resolution mechanism.
> I don't recall reading the claim about running arbitrary Python code

The term superset of Python kind of implies this I think. Beyond the runtime reflection, Python also has eval.... :D