skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everything is racist in today's world. You cannot hold a decent discussion of anything even remotely dealing with race. I have been kicked off 8 different subs for 'hate speech'.

Moderation on many sites starts with the question "Is this person conservative" If the answer is yes, literally anything he posts is 'hate speech' and he is banned. Some mods look up the poster's past posts I believe and ban people based on that. There seems to be an effort on Reddit not to ban 'hate speech' but to stomp conservative minded people into the ground.

Have rules, certainly. But who will honestly apply those rules without bias? That is Reddit's problem in many cases. There are lots of good reddits with intelligent discussions going on. Just have to look for them and not post anything, even if it adds to the discussion.
I’m aware, but thank for your sharing the info for anyone who might not be :)

I just meant that I wish that /I/ could downvote people. I don’t comment much, but racebaiting like that should just be greyed out
I'm torn about this. On one hand I love finding old comments with solutions to my problems, on the other hand it's easy enough to identify an author based on simple word statistics, so deleted your account isn't enough to prevent an old comment to come and bite you in the future.
The funny thing is that fax is completely unencrypted, allegedly HIPAA requirement. Security through obscurity.
Too late, I think?
>There's some degree of social engineering to being a good journalist. You have to try and convince people to talk to you even when it would be against their best interests.

And it's very easy to lulled into we're just having a friendly chit-chat. You'd think these guys would be more media savvy than that. But it's extremely easy in the course of an extended conversation to drop some nuggets you may not have intended to. More than once, I've dropped something that, as soon as it was out of my mouth, I was internally "Crap. That's going to end up in the story, isn't it?"

There are very few journalists--and I know a lot--who I'll be completely transparent with even if we're supposedly on background or even just casually chatting.
As far as I understand, that's 100 shared queries across all users.
My thoughts as well. At least during the twitter drama we had Mastodon, and while instances did struggle with the traffic Mastodon was in a decent position to handle that. I'm not sure if any alternative exists for this scenario, though.
> Supporters of the plan included presidential candidates Barack Obama, ...
"Lambos are for closers."
>Alignment with current social issues happens based on calculations of profit, not based on sincere ideological commitment.

I guess they need to do a better job with their market research. Because destroying Luke Skywalker and redefining the Mary Sue trope doesn't seem like what the public wanted.
Yes, or hiring appeal, or marketing (another factor to A/B test for paper mails, which we did use in some of our B2B and enterprise approaches).

IMHO, dinos (including a team break to brainstorm a suitable next codename) are better for morale than many packaged corporate team-building activities.
They have said the main app will still have access to NSFW content. He just claimed in a comment that it's being removed from the API due to regulatory concerns. Which seems like total BS to me.
> Those apps are basically browsers.

Nope, not even close.
If the CA is compromised, can’t they just bypass ACME verification and generate a cert for your domain anyway?
I don’t think that the problem some posters are alluding to is the kind where we should be placing blame.

The problem is:

- Humans invent something useful and cool.

- Humans discover that the cool and useful thing is toxic as fuck, but only after years go by. It takes years for the awareness of the toxicity to become widespread enough for everyone to concur it’s a problem. Often, we only find out about the toxicity as a result of the cool chemical becoming hella widespread.

- Humans invent alternatives that are different enough to obviously not have the same exact problem.

But: what toxic nonsense or buttcancer risks will we discover about the alternatives? No way to know immediately since it takes years to find out. And it’s only when the alternatives become widespread that we can even do the science to figure out what’s up. And by the time they become widespread, some folks got buttcancer.

That’s the problem: just because there’s an alternative that is different from the thing we found out to be toxic doesn’t meant that the alternative isn’t toxic. And we find out it’s toxic because people get hurt.

It’s not that the press is bad… it’s just a fundamental problem in science and engineering. You need scale to discover the really bad issues.
How is the complexity of parsing html related to how much visits the website has?
Background reading you may be interested in:

https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_ca...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36256167
That sounds like they skipped a resistor: https://hackaday.com/2023/01/04/all-about-usb-c-resistors-an...

Someone made a fix, but it requires soldering: https://github.com/ide/usb-c-to-c-power-mod
I agree. The quality got MUCH more worse. I'm very disappointed and probably will cancel my subscription. For my use case it got nearly useless...
The rule that you shouldn’t build your business on someone else’s API obviously applies here and in the end Reddit is of course justified in choosing to shut out third party apps. But I must say it is simply hilarious that their exorbitant new price was so absurd that when devs quoted it back to them as a buyout rate, Reddit felt like they were being blackmailed. I mean that’s literally getting offended at your own number.
For what it's worth, ZeroGPT thinks the first paragraph of your comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35559453 was "Most Likely GPT generated" (25% written by a human, 100% generated by an AI/GPT).

The entire comment was 75% human, 46% AI/GPT.

I picked that comment because it had the longest text.
Censoring My Software (1996)
This went over my Guinness riddled head.
> There are quite a few people who can't afford to work full time on their bootstrap idea for 3-6 months without an income.

3-6 months?

In my ventures, the quickest I've seen meaningful personal income from them has been 2 years!

Typically, I have either saved up a "warchest" to get me through that time, or I've had a second job, or (most typically) both.
The difference is, HN is a separate website, with reddit the different communities start to bleed into each other

Imo: there's too much stupidity in the popular subreddits, sharing a space with that is too much to ask
Thank you for taking the time to explain. I think my initial confusion comes from conflating the "commons" and "new market without ownership." I don't think they are necessarily the same in terms of the "tragedy of the commmons."

I don't see why the "commons" has to have anything "new". Take the example of air pollution. The air is a common resource that people have access to without cost, but it's nothing new. So the predicate that "information in new markets is sparse" doesn't apply.

>"Almost no organizations have the incentive to do the above"

I would argue that collectives, like the government, have this incentive. Hence the need for regulation.
Just a shot in the dark, but maybe reddit is only counting logged in users whereas you don't need to be logged in to use apollo?
What do you call someone who graduated at the bottom of their class in law school?

A lawyer.
> Moreover, Apollo claims that Reddit itself makes only $0.12/month per user. [2]

MAU are very different users compared to users making 200 reqs per day, and bring very different revenue.
Can you imagine how badly he wants to edit posts right now? It must be killing him.
There is certainly a trend in processors as well as GPUs to push the hardware further by pumping more power into it. This (almost) always plays into the various workstation-grade laptops out there, which I suspect many won't unlock their full potential without a beefy power source.

Beyond gaming, the most interesting use cases I have seen and heard are CAD work/displays of highly complex models, creating heavy duty multimedia presentations, game development, and just about anyone in a country that either needs to do a lot of travel or does not have ready access to a high bandwidth connection. I don't know how prevalent those cases are, but they did surprise me a little.
The Force left Lucasfilm with RotJ. It all sucked decades before Kennedy came in. The only decent movie was Rogue One, and she produced that.
The game mod yes, the video not.
The 10,000g would be approximately uniform through the entire volume of the ship, so no damage. In a regular rocket, the acceleration would have to be transmitted to passengers and cargo through the normal force, and that would crush you.
It's not even real semantic drift. It's basically the astroturfing version of it. The people trying to change the meaning are doing so because they want to capitalize on its good name without meeting the true definition.
Reddit was worth looking at because the creators were literally starting up fake accounts to ask/answer questions. This could probably be automated with GPT in today's age to make Lemmy or whatever a possible migration path.
If you can't directly copy the existing content, build a parser to import user exports of their own content extracted from the Archive.org sets, and tombstone their old Karma counts as a badge.

Of course, you wouldn't be importing the info, the users would be doing it themselves.
I would get frequent colonoscopies...
Be aware that the website(s) tied to this event has been down for quite a while and there are no concrete evidence that any of them have really worked. There were a few leaks back in the 2010s but nothing recently has come up (lots of claims, no real proof).
Their mobile web app public feed lets you view NSFW content without logging in, but if you want to view the comments, suddenly you need to verify your age.
Little ol Iowa has 12GW wind capacity! Around here thats > half our needs.
Given the blatant lies by the CEO towards the Apollo developer I don't believe a single word that they can't prove.
There is Lemmy and Tildes
> “Starcraft having the Zerg based on Tyranniads”

Oh, I always assumed they were based on the arachnids from Starship Troopers? And likewise, the Terran marines in StarCraft are clearly very similar to the Mobile Infantry in Starship Troopers…
I still walk into high end restaurants that put water resistant cardboard straws covered in PFAs into my drink.

Sometimes I send them back and ask for another; always I remove the straw quickly.
Shoddy Data Becomes Sensational Research
Which just shows -- having kids leads to a massive productivity drop / personal advancement opportunity failure.

Consider wisely...
It isn’t okay, but there’s enough nonverbal cues you can use to determine whether someone is busy at their desk.
I was just thinking the other day I’d also really like that for my terminal history, especially since I’ve often worked at “bring your own device” sized companies.
Only 3% of moderation actions come from from third-party apps [1]. What was that again about taking away the tools the moderators are using?

This whole thing about third-party apps has been ridiculously mismanaged by the communities.

The only 2 reasons people want to keep third-party apps are 1) they prefer them to the official one, 2) they don't want ads. Both of those reasons are valid, but neither are even remotely close to justifying the actions that those Reddit nerds are taking.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/145bram/addressing_...
Generative AI Takes Stereotypes and Bias from Bad to Worse
> Which is an entirely different metric

Of course not. If you disagree, at least try to present a coherent argument instead of just talking about squirrels. What entities do you think are missing from the list: exchanges or exchange-like entities such as on-line wallets, OTC desks, and large institutional traders

That might be overcounting even, since online wallets have nothing to do with speculation. So I'll correct myself: speculation is at most 75%, definitely a bit less.

> trying to shut down any actual data-driven discussion

I responded with exactly the data you asked for, just read it again :) If you need me to do the math for you:

75% speculation (at most) + 3% crime = 78%. 100% - 78% = 22%. 0.78:0.22 = 3.55:1 (at most)

> And then you have the audacity to ask for a source

Yes I do, since all data presented so far disagrees with your unsourced (though very strongly held) opinion.

Here's one example of how reality may be counterintuitive: High-frequency traders can make thousands of trades per second. How many people do you know who receive thousands of paychecks per second? From that alone it's plausible, obvious even, that forex speculation volume is substantially higher.

What's obvious to you isn't obvious to everyone else. That's why, in order to build a larger society, we need to set aside our biases and look at objective data in order to make informed decisions.

> Now compare that to crypto, where the entire marketing apparatus is built not upon its current value proposition but instead the idea that value will go up.

That doesn't sound too different from all modern investing. The stock market is also fueled by the illusion of the possibility infinite exponential growth. Bogleheads don't care about index funds' current value proposition. The grocery store won't accept your VTSAX as payment for a gallon of milk. You're just hoping that later you can sell your VTSAX to a greater fool.

Maybe the problem is you take everything the "marketing apparatus" says at face value? If one day you saw a TV advert for a pill that didn't work, would you also decide the entire medical industry is a scam?

> Why would I spend my time digging up data to quantify things are incredibly obvious from observation

Reality can be counterintuitive. It was once incredibly obvious that the earth was the center of the universe. Why should I spend my time digging up data when it's incredibly obvious from observation that the sun revolves around the earth?

HN is a place to engage with our curiosity, rise above anecdata, get out of our limited personal bubbles, and maybe even learn a thing or two along the way! Your immediate personal experience is not the objective reality for everyone on the planet. If you're just here to think with your emotions, ignore data, and rant about how much you hate change, you might feel more at home on Facebook or Twitter.

> when you're willing to lie and make up facts to support your narrative?

Source?
With physical hardware being operated outside its design limits, ‘robust’ can mean ‘has safety mechanisms to prevent it happening’, but it can also just mean ‘fails in a way that is serviceable without causing collateral damage’. Or ‘fails catastrophically but at least without causing loss of life’.

Which scenarios you engineer the system to tolerate with what level of survivability and serviceability is going to be a matter of engineering to budget, right?
Both?

Just track everyone who has ever owned a share and confiscate their whole property.
I think the idea is suggesting a problem at the corporate culture level.
re: your edit:

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36261736
KDE has "activities"
Reddit says "typical app user" but Apollo claims that its users make more API requests than is typical for other apps, in part due to higher usage, and in part due to inefficiencies in how Apollo structures its queries.
Silly ol AI, telling people the truth too bluntly. So many health issues go right back to overeating and too little exercise. Most of them for most of us?
MyPlate Calorie App Is Shutting Down
I basically don't believe non-degenerate (psued)anonymization is possible, although that complicated af homomorphic encryption stuff makes me a little uncertain.
but he is right: secretly recording and publishing business communication is dick move from the point of view of business ethics.
I can launch a reddit competitor for $500 or so for the first few months.

There's a lot more to it than just launching a competitor platform.
Join the party...

"Every Netherlands resident affected by data leak: watchdog" - https://nltimes.nl/2023/06/06/every-netherlands-resident-aff...

"Medical Data of 500,000 French Residents Leaked Online (2021)" - https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/500k-french-medic...
> Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube

Wow. I didn't know such project even existed. I guess it's time to clone! Thanks Youtube! Also, you can pry our adblocks from our cold dead disks!
There is nothing legally stopping healthcare organizations from asking patients for informed consent to share their anonymized data with researchers. The government even provides clear guidelines for de-identification.

https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/special-...
Five comments so far, and literally none of you bothered to watch MO's actual video.

He is mocking the phrase, not agreeing with it.
I didn't say it removed the liability of the company. It just means that the company that is left after selling off its profitable assets has the burden of the liability but with nothing but literal toxic assets. They can use the proceeds of the sales to start paying down the debts.

The assets sold would obviously not be the toxic assets.
Well, .NET is running on Ubuntu, if you consider .NET 5 upwards (previously .NET Standard/Core). In recent distributions it is even in the default package sources from Ubuntu. WinForms will never happen (although Mono's WinForms support was pretty good) as it targets the deprecated 4.6.x Framework.
In a climate controlled office or cold climate? Probably not. In an area that has hotter climates or high humidity? It doesn't sound like a fun time.
I wrote a tampermonkey script(1) so you don't have to navigate away and it shows you summary and takeaways right inside hacker news (2) div boxes, but i was using kagi.com/v1/summarization for the api which is now dead.

But this is the perfect fit for it as I see you have created services for extraction and summarisation which can be easily self hosted and turned into apis.

(1) https://gist.github.com/san-kumar/b3604ca40905556b4135fee64e...
(2) https://imgur.com/a/kRUkn6g
Ask HN: How do I get back into software development after two years of break?
Two years ago, after going a big change in my life, I went through of long spell of depression and burnout.

Now I have been slowly recovering and now looking forward to get back into tech and software again. Is there any good healthy routines that I can follow to slowly get back into the groove of write code? I have been mostly writing python and golang code before and then moved into a more SRE /DevOps role.

Here is what I’m thinking so far:

1. Start building my own home lab. This helps me revisit the concepts of distributed computing and networking and learning to deploy containers with focus on observability.

2. Start working on some side projects like building a static website.

3. Read some books on Linux and play around with some distros. Maybe go through the LFS[1] book through and through.

4. Watch some really good tech talks and relearn some fundamental concepts in software? DNS? Threads? Async?

Any suggestions?
Among other issues at Lucasfilm before the acquisition was they just didn’t make much anymore. Star Wars, one of the biggest series ever created, sat from 1984 to 1999 without any features (outside of Ewoks made for TV entries). The universe was left to novelists and game creators. Indiana Jones was similar.

Both of these were created in the spirit of serials, but then the series stopped unceremoniously.

Other entries like Willow weren’t main stream hits and Lucasfilm just stopped making movies for about 10 years. By the time George Lucas directed again it had been 22 years since he had directed a movie.

A lot of wonderful things have come out of Lucasfilm, but it was pretty much abandoned by the 90s.

Both the Star Wars and Indy universes are great, but let new creators make new things. I’d much rather see a mediocre original concept than yet another mediocre franchise movie.
All this debate regarding Reddit makes me wonder do we even need these communities. HN sure has value to offer but something like Reddit and YouTube are huge waste of time. Before 2000s people lived their life without these communities. They lived without the constant influx of info and opinions from others. And it seems they were way more happy than us. Probably because they were more focused on solving their own problems than global problems. Who knows if that's exactly the thing we need to solve global problems.

None of the online communities are necessary to live a happy life, not even HN.
Apple Music Special Event 2005-The iPod Nano Introduction
100% this.

Early on, I learned that there were broadly two types of people. "Inside people" and "outside people". Inside people are the ones who are at their best developing the product, outside people are at their best marketing the product, getting investor interest, etc.

It's very rare that a single person can perform well in both roles.

For this reason, I would never start a business by myself. At a minimum, I need a partner who can be the outside person. Another significant thing founders need to do is to be really honest about the limits of their abilities and to find other ways of doing the things they're bad at.
It's crazy how much cheaper stuff is in the US compared to Europe.
If Reddit doesn't want third party apps, just how long do you think the HTML will stay consistent?
Sounds more like they're trying to appease Apple's app store policy as they push further into app-first territory.
Yep, I was able to find my family's records in that leak...
They are saying that the bacteria discussed in the article probably shouldn't be called a "bio weapon" and/or that the the situation described in the article is meaningfully different from the other situations brought up.

The wikipedia link talks about how this bacteria was known to be safe, even in the 50s (years before the test in the article) when it was understood to be found in large quantities in natto (the Japanese food).
1. I think they don't want to get caught eating their own words when they're about to go public with an IPO. Backtracking because of third-party apps isn't going to go over well with potential investors.

2. I think it'll go down regardless. Mod tools is one thing, but I would really like to know the percentage of mods who use third-party Reddit apps like Apollo, RIF, etc. I wonder how many will leave the platform. If so we can expect more power-hungry mods, or Reddit having to pay for their own moderation.

3. Reddit says NSFW content is staying within the main app, but I can see it going away soon. A popular Reddit image hoster banned and deleted all NSFW content which already broke a lot of the posts in NSFW subreddits. And with Reddit now having investors and needing to attract more expensive advertisers, I can see them scrubbing NSFW content in full to become a more attractive ad platform. Especially since that's really going to be the way they make the bulk of their money.
Only tangentially related: when I was a kid we let a couple stray female dogs sleep in our garage during the winter. One of them was pregnant and ended up delivering like 11 puppies in our garage. Both the mother and the other stray dog began lactating and both dogs would breast-feed the puppies.

We gave away all the puppies around the neighborhood. We took one, so did our aunt and a family friend. It was an interesting experience to get to see how different dogs from the same litter and different environments grew up. When they would get together you could tell they remembered/knew each other. I still miss that dog - literally experienced his entire life :(