skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given that there is no easy transition to be made from the debt of dystopian infrastructure, it is clear that zero-emission per trip is the best way to address pollution in the local community.

How we get there will be a combination of public transit, elecctric transportation, shared vehicles, and bicycles.

But the US has more than 278 million vehicles on the road and trucks are the most popular type of vehicle.[1]

The change to a zero-emission strategy will take more than one generational cycle.[2]

[1] _ https://www.forbes.com/advisor/car-insurance/car-ownership-s...

[2] _ https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/tailpipe-greenhouse-gas-em...
I don’t think Reddit has the strong position it thinks it has. Ultimately, Reddit is a waste of time for many people. Sure, there are helpful aspects of the product, but ultimately engagement is mainly driven by smartphone addiction and peoples’ impulsive nature to consume content. The helpful aspects of Reddit are being increasingly served by Discord communities. If Reddit is going to be so user-hostile, why not switch to a more user-friendly platform? Is that not how Reddit gained popularity over Digg?

As a side note from someone who has developed nascent products: a user is a precious thing. Having even a single individual spend their time using your product should be considered an honor. Nothing good comes from disrespecting that.
When will Mojo be open so that we can verify its claims?
One thing that stands out to me right now is that Reddit might actually be better without the big subreddits.

With all of the big subreddits going "dark" my feed is dominated by all those small community subreddits that I actively subscribed to.

Honestly it's somewhat refreshing to open reddit and nothing has changed on my frontpage.
Yet the article cites a concrete example of similar sanctions causing exactly that problem.

> For instance, when a Norwegian 737-8 MAX diverted to Shiraz, Iran in December 2018, the aircraft sat on the ground in Iran for 70 days. Much of that time was spent arranging an export license for a CFM LEAP1-B engine for the stricken aircraft.

“It’s gonna be stuck there for some time” doesn’t appear to be a comical understanding of the situation.
> The bigger reddit subs have a mob mentality that use to annoy me, and now scares me.

It has gotten way worse right? Or is it me getting older? Many subs are like sects with a razor thin point of view allowed that is shifting constantly. It feels like insane people are pushing every BS problem as a do or die proposition and that those are dominating.
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Definitely let them know. Then they can make their store successful enough so that the android developers stop trying to make iOS android.
So all that's happening is people are getting increasingly good at hiding violations of spatiotemporal invariants?

This is treating the symptom and ignoring the disease.
Housing affordability and supply is a massive issue in Ireland too.

I'm not sure there's NOT an EU major city that isn't having this problem.
Lisbon citizens are being priced out of their own city by people with the same plan as you. So you can solve your problem by leaving the UK but then you just create a problem for someone else.

I don't think there's a solution to this problem until people start living on boats.
It’s simple economics. Immigrants want to rent houses, which increases rents, which increases rental yields, which in turn increases properties values.
This probably still isn't a great idea. To simplify let's assume that the secret data is completely random. Let's also assume that "non-matching parts" is bit-by-bit. This would mean that you accidentally reveal 1/2 of your private details because the random values match. With redundancy in the keys as mentioned in the article it seems like solving for the missing data shouldn't be too hard.

Of course the bit-by-bit assumption makes you reveal much more data than buye-by-byte or base64 characters but the point still stands.
> People would try to use the "structureless" group and the informal conference for purposes for which they were unsuitable out of a blind belief that no other means could possibly be anything but oppressive.

Negations are really hard. I'm sure the above sentence has one too few or one too many.
The problem in the UK is under-occupation of houses, rather than a shortage of houses. In other words, there are more than enough houses for the population to fit into, the problem is that a lot of home owners have a lot of unused bedrooms.

The culprits here are the owner-occupiers rather than the landlords. IIRC, 50% of owner-occupied houses have two or more spare bedrooms, but only 25% of rental houses have two or more spare bedrooms.

The solution is to have a spare bedroom tax rather than a property tax.
Humanity is lost with social media. The internet is in want of a hard delete.
I believe documentation can be highly beneficial, but only when it's done well. The article makes some good points on this, but, just based on experience and common sense, documentation should be centralized, clean and descriptive enough, while not being too wordy or plain gibberish.

That's not easy to achieve and takes time and resources to get right. That's primarly why so many fail or give up on it.

The results can very much be worth the effort, however, the ones who should be responsible for the documenting process likely don't see its importance. From their perspective, what they've worked on is easy to understand and requires little to no explanation. Taking time to change this mindset and create proper documentation is an effort many are unwilling to take.
Why yes, I am an average human being!
If you want to buy as close as possible to London, need at least 2-bedrooms and have a median household income without too much saving, then you're literally commuting in from Wales.
This is also why in-country remote work is so dangerous to property owners. The one thing that could allow equitable access to housing cannot be allowed to happen.
I remember thinking the same thing 30 years ago talking with my friends’ parents. And they said the same about the previous generation.
Trying not to make this an ad-hominim attack, but Crockford has been a net negative to JS for 20 years now.

While people like John Resig were innovating (jquery) working with the language and around all kinds of language quirks 15 years ago, Crockford wrote his book "The good parts" that tried to write java in javascript. And probably did more to make people write bad JS code than anything else.

Then he made the mess that was YUI at yahoo with the same enterprise patterns. When that failed he went right back to these types of doomsday messages in the media every few years calling for the end of Javascript.

Meanwhile we have seen ES6/typescript/react and countless other innovation take place.

He might be right on some fronts, but at some point its a case of put up or shut up imo. There are far better experts to talk to about the state of JS and its future.
Right wing commentators, which is basically the whole media, like to blame immigration for all the problems in the country. It’s much simpler and less awkward for them than trying to explain what is really going on.
Yes, that's the whole point. I did not claim you can control every single module in the QR. I just said that you can get different QR codes for the same semantic content.
In history classes in the US, Mussolini is often cast as a minor sidekick of Hitler, but Hitler was following in Mussolini's footsteps but had much greater military capabilities. If history is an indicator then it is hard to exaggerate how bad a new populist strategy originating from Italy may end up being once it infects other nations.
They increase demand at the lower end which reduces the supply on the lower end. More-so for renting than owning, but that trends towards owning as they get established in the country.

Theres no way around it. More people means less supply of housing. Canada has this same problem.
> These conspiracy theories lead to a marked rise in violent attacks on anyone of Asian descent in the US

Where? Can you back this up with clear evidence? And assuming this claim isn't simply made up, in what universe would it be a good strategy to address a USA specific problem by systematically and globally destroying the credibility of the entire scientific, media and public health establishment? The solution to violence is police; no one in their right mind would decide the best solution to this would be to establish a global conspiracy.

No, the above is all retroactive justification. We have the emails from the virologists as they planned the letter that claimed it was all a conspiracy theory. They weren't motivated by violent attacks. They were worried about being blamed for it, and that maybe it'd be harder to fund work in China in future. They say that, in writing.
Yes, an empty bedroom license, why not. I'm eagerly awaiting the spicy "oi m8! U got a loicence for dat bedroom?" memes.
Wow, I basically came here to say this.

Heck, me and my Dad can't even talk politics because of how toxic it is. The worst part is that, if you live here, you need to pay attention for economic reasons.

As much as fund managers tell you to 'not time the market'. It seems obvious to pay attention to things like interest rates, stock market prices, etc... before making major purchasing decisions. If I ignored the news, I'd be buying a lake front property at 8% interest rate, instead I'll wait for a collapse. (Did it with COVID in April 2020 and got ~30% off on my indexes)
How indiscreet. The same thing today would get you fired on the spot.
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OP didn't claim that. You're giving a very uncharitable reading of the argument.

Fact is, the best people on Reddit have been leaving for many years. There have been many purges, of many scales. The fact you didn't hear about them helps demonstrate OPs point (their actual point, not the one you put in their mouth).

And those purges are just one thread in a long tapestry of disrespect towards moderators and users of the site. Spez in particular has been caught lying, editing people's comments, making false accusations, etc on many occasions.
I once had a project with a "bin-name" in the gitignore, to exclude the "/bin-name" that "go build" will produce. Then I added a "dir/bin-name/file.go" which of course got excluded. The CI/CD builds failed, but it worked locally, and great confusion ensued. Since then, I've always added that leading "/" and generally try to be as specific as possible in gitignore files.

This is a great example where many people providing different answers and comments based on their different knowledge and experience provide value, opposed to just ChatGPT telling you stuff. Simply "correct" is nice, but "correct, complete, and with experience and context" is better.
Already exists. https://disboard.org
I did think about this actually. I wanted to message few HNers since last few months but they didn't have contact info in their profile. Might be they didn't want to be bothered.
Thinking that passengers will get taken hostage is a comical understanding of the situation.

It's also pretty funny that you're referring to a self-imposed problem by the West as an example for an issue with the non-West.
This episode of the Lex Fridman podcast, where Chris Lattner talks to Fridman about Mojo and other things, might be of interest to readers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdJQ8iVTwj8
Australia is below the UK on both of those tables!

Which doesn’t surprise me, I recently moved from the UK to Aus and AFAICT you get more for your money here. There is still the same problem of young people being able to access the market, but it’s not quite as bad and what you get for your money here tends to have much more space.
SwiftyEdit 1.1.0
Not unless you go through a kind of esoteric “install to Home Screen” process, which most users aren’t likely to do.
This solves the "fast, cheap, or good; pick two" question.
I think people are usually over-inclined to assume that these companies know what they're doing; that there is, somewhere, some well-thought-out master plan. Often, there isn't.

Even with Twitter, which has just been a cavalcade of obviously nonsense moves for months and months, there are still believers in The Plan. I'm actually a little curious why this is; despite presumably having had interactions with poorly-run companies in the course of their daily lives, some people _really_ seem to struggle with the idea that a company might be poorly-run, and seek any other explanation.
Ask HN: Is there any alternative to Reddit
Matching the terribly ill-fitting suggested use case!
I own a house in one of the red zones on the map, bought a few years ago.

It's pretty bizarre to see this stuff continually. If I thought it was actually hopeless I would have left the country long ago. Cannot fathom the idea of thinking "I will never own a house". I don't get why people stay.
See Freenode as an example for what comes next.
Do Blueberries Enhance Cognition?
Apple wants a curated experience, why can't reddit?

Devils advocate of course, I love my third party apps.
But people are pining for the "good old days" where Intel sucked, but AMD sucked more. Now these two companies are competitive and innovating. This is how it's supposed to be.
This makes more sense. I didn't know it. This could be the real reason.
In essence, they're a faeces lickin' insect which has evolved to the extreme in efficiency at not being caught dead lickin' faeces.

The sheer speed in which the information from their sensors travels and is then put into action is astonishing, really, and the video is enjoyable.
Or we could just build more homes, rather than cramming everyone into a smaller space.

You know, like when we built a ton of social housing in the 60s.

Enforcing the flatshare life on everyone is about the worst idea I can think of.

edit: build up, build out, build down, do whatever. I'd prefer normal homes with gardens and I think most people would - I see no reason to limit ourselves - but right now we could do with anything. Shuffling the deckchairs solves nothing.

There is nothing in principle preventing us from building rows of town houses again and giving families somewhere to grow and live. We don't need to handicap ourselves with Dickensian/third world notions of one room per person.
Yes, so if your CPU doesnt need to be the size of a box of cards, your GPU doesnt need to be the size of a library book, the manufacturing costs would go down.
it obviously wouldn't, don't play stupid / go away
Pure fantasy.

Look at how people use hydrogen now, all 90 million tones a year. Do they produce it at central facility where economies of scale help them? No. They all produce it in small and expensive plants less than a 1km from where it’s used. Strange. Perhaps they simply haven’t heard the good word.

Negative prices exist because power plants cannot curb their production quickly enough to match falling demand. These are not a thing for solar and wind operations since you can shut them off much faster.

If their electricity is soo incredibly cheap, why in the world would we bother with all this hydrogen problems, then simply overbuilding solar and wind like crazy? It does my matter how cheap you think hydrogen is, it doesn’t produce electricity at the end of the process cheaper than what went in.

Hydrogen can be made from water. But not for anywhere near the prices you discuss. Again, this is predatory detail by the fossil fuel companies. As long as they can make people believe that eventually green hydrogen will be cheap, they can build out their methane- based hydrogen infrastructure.

Go read some sources which do not have a direct conflict of interest in hydrogen: https://h2sciencecoalition.com/
Matthew Yglesias wrote a whole thing on how the idea initially became politicized in the US. The short of it was that when Trump was downplaying the danger of human-to-human transmission early on because his friend Xi told him that wasn't happening Senator Tom Cotton started talking up the idea that the Chinese government might be lying about because it escaped from a government lab. But then there was a game of telephone and it turned into the idea it was a Chinese bioweapon.

https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-medias-lab-leak-fiasco
I must admit, part of me is hoping the latest shenanigans with reddit lead to its demise, I spend way too much time on it.
Yes. Moderating a large sub is a ton of work with no compensation whatsoever.

The biggest sub I mod recently grew to ~10k users, it's German speaking, and covers a pretty niche topic.
That sub alone is already a surprising amount of work, and 10k is absolutely tiny.

Automod alone removes 4-5 posts a day, and there's still quite a lot of bot generated, irrelevant, or spammy posts and comments that manage to bypass the filters. I can't imagine the amount of spam that would flow in at a subreddit hundreds of times larger than that.
Reddit was great for a decade, why can't we just switch website every 10 years?
If the user follows a link to an article or video, there's a high chance it'll be the end of their reddit session, due to distraction or back button capture. There's also a high chance the browser will unload the reddit page causing a flash of no content and potentially losing the user's scroll position. After a few rounds of this the user will leave in frustration.

Now they could use the tabs feature, but this is again a lost opportunity to have them browse some comments etc. Plus, if they need to browse for another purpose, you'll just be one or ten of a hundred open tabs instead of one of the couple of recent apps.
Good luck in Ireland, you’ll need it: the housing crisis is dire there, especially in Dublin.
Capitalism does not mandate growth, thats just pure investor greed. I hate capitalism as much as the next person but lets not forget its the greed that ruins it for everyone, not the basics of the system. I would acknowledge that it seems like capitalism actually facilitates greed more than other systems as it gives a single KPI to track what you have.
There are a lot of alternatives that replicate Reddit's functionality. I've tested out three or four of them over the years.

The quality differences are 100% due to the differences in the communities. They are social deficits, not technical ones.
Immigration is demand, while supply has been sticky, prices have gone up massively. It's economics 101.

But you think there's a kind of boomer conspiracy instead (ageist and racist undertones).
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Gut reaction to the headline:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Kilda,_Scotland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockall

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Georgia_Island
To be fair, Reddit's mobile app is comically bad, and the prospect of having to use it might be akin to amputating two limbs, for some.
the book provides refs
> speculation about the crew or passengers being taken hostage (!)

Russia 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 because they literally kidnap children en masse from the neighbour they've invaded.

> Russia impounding/stealing the aircraft

It's not like they didn't do that after the beginning of the war, so it wasn't a crazy thing to be fearful of Russia pulling off. What made that unlikely was the fact that it's an Indian airliner; if it was an American one, I wouldn't have been surprised if they did decide to steal it.

https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/russia-m...

> they really present no barrier to getting the aircraft fixed

Except for all those listed in the article, such as a full engine replacement being hard to do at an airport not equipped for it, the engine being very hard to ship because it only fits on 2 plane models, with very few operators available, etc. Just because the repairs turned out to be quick doesn't mean that a full engine replacement wouldn't have been a significant multi-week undertaking.
> the Arab league, Syria's trading partners

Not until quite recently and several years after the US et al. significantly toned down their involvement in Syria. I'm not sure if you remember but Saudi Arabia, the Emirates and Jordan also participated in the intervention.

Saudi Arabia for instance only restored diplomatic relations with Assad's government last month after Syria was readmitted back into the Arab league (from which it was suspended until MAY 2023).

Prior to last month the Arab League still officially considered the 'Syrian National Coalition' to be the legitimate government of Syria.

So really what you're saying was far from accurate for the last 10 years.

List of countries which recognized the 'Syrian National Coalition' as the sole legitimate government of Syria between 2012 and the last year or two (or technically still do):

Qatar,

Saudi Arabia,

Yemen,

France,

Turkey,

Italy,

United Kingdom,

Spain,

Denmark,

Norway,

The Netherlands,

Germany,

Belgium,

Luxembourg,

United States,

Australia,

Malta,

and also the European Union and the Arab League...
What is the horse here?
It seems you missed this part of the quote

"obedient only to the psychological needs of the scientists and of the government officials and corporation executives who provide the funds for research.”

If you are going to defend the ramblings of psychopathic terrorists because they vaguely resemble semi coherent critical theory, at least read all the words.
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Seems to me like TikTok is more of a symptom than a cause, here. The behaviour he describes sounds a lot like depression.
Maybe the QR code examples are ads? I don't know, I didn't scan them
2 decades before what?

We're seeing changes right now, are we not? People's lives are being impacted right now, are they not?

Seems to me like those who said "we'll start seeing significant changes in 1-2 decades" around 2 decades ago were right on the money.
I dropped off facebook and reddit recently, best thing I ever did for my mental health.
It was all dismissed as misinformation and conspiracies.

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/13/us/coronavirus-made-in-la...

The latest poll from the public opinion fact tank shows that misinformation around the virus is still king, even as fact checkers and public health officials work furiously to dispel it and save American lives.

A total of 23% of adults polled said they believe the virus was created intentionally. This is almost certainly not true, according to the genetic detectives studying the virus’s origins.

The theory that the virus originated in a lab was one repeatedly shared on One America News Network, a far-right channel favored by President Donald Trump.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-52224331

From the early stages of the coronavirus outbreak, conspiracy theories about the origin and scale of the disease were spread on online platforms.

Among these were the false claim that the virus was part of a Chinese covert biological weapons programme.

The claim that the virus was man-made has been pushed by numerous conspiracy groups on Facebook, obscure Twitter accounts and even found its way on to primetime Russian state TV."

Now what we read is that the virus was man made and the WIV was doing secret military work for the PLA, with the idea being to create a virus and vaccine simultaneously so the attacker controls who survives i.e. a bioweapon. That's the same as what the BBC called a false claim and conspiracy theory.

The reason this investigation was initially done by anonymous people who found each other via backchannels on Twitter is because suppression of this discussion was near total.