skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the outside, this seems very much like a classic labor dispute. Management (reddit) and labor (mods) are at odds over what they see as the future of the corporation. As such, some form of mediation needs to occur between both sides for work to continue.

Again, as an outsider, I see a few problems here:

1) You're not being paid at all, so you're not really 'labor' per se.

2) You're not unionized, so you don't have a spokesperson and can't coordinate your desires.

3) Reddit can't pay you to begin with, as they have basically no money for each mod, and isn't willing to negotiate before the IPO

4) Reddit seems perfectly fine and able to just get new mods and turn the subreddits back on, spam be damned.

5) Reddit also seems like they will just let the wildfire of outrage pass (really spitballing here) and most users will likely not even remember this by the 4th of July.

I think someone with actual union experience could really help you all. If you managed to get something of a 'standard' going, with payment in stocks or some other token monetary amount, then I'd say that would be a huge boon to the internet in general and a great roadmap for other companies. A real big opportunity is hiding in this and I wish you all the best in grabbing it.
> Generalising this to GNU and the FSF is daft

I disagree - this isn't some isolated example, this pattern is seen across many other GUN, FSF and other free as in freedom projects.

A lot of free as in freedom projects are completely out of touch with the modern world and waste their (already thin) resources on irrelevant, half-baked projects furthering some ideology rather than practical projects that would bring freedom (even if incomplete) to more people.

Software (or hardware) should be considered a means to an end, with freedom being a bonus. But for a lot of free as in freedom projects, the "freedom" is the key with the actual utility of the artifact being an afterthought (as a result it doesn't catch on, because nobody cares how free the thing is if it's useless or unusable in practice).
is there a way to achieve this on Android Chrome? that's my prime gateway

i found myself unconsciously opening reddit.com and starting to scroll and consume content mindlessly ... only to realize after a few seconds that it happened... and then closing the browser

I suspected i had a habit ...but only realizing now the autopilot effect of it
I agree we need more VRAM. I wish someone would combine a GTX 960 level processor made on modern lithography (to cut power draw) with 32GB of low power GDDR VRAM and try to fit it in a single slot. 1x DP connector would be fine.

I agree about small computers. The rich folks in NY City and Silicon Valley set the trends, and real estate is expensive there. Also, graphic arts people make advertisements, and they want PCs to look cool regardless of their power. If you want a good, big system, take a look at used Xeon-based workstations. Sometimes a used HP z840 will sell for as little as $400 with an 1125 watt power supply.
You can absolutely use a different compiler as an apple dev. Just might be a touch tougher to set up a non-standard build
Sounds like you're advocating for Matt Levine's "Certificate of Dumb Investment" proposal. The fact that so many retail investors have been scammed by crypto gives support to the current regime, but I think there's something to Levine's idea.

https://archive.is/ggCjN
It doesn’t exist. There are no records of surface sea temperature going back 100 years because there were no satellites to measure it. They could have been substantially higher in the 1930s (A decade when many, still standing temperature records were set), but we wouldn’t know
Digital tool spots academic text spawned by ChatGPT with 99% accuracy
> What the problem with Lex Fridman?

It's pretty clear he's playing up some kind of "rainman autistic AI savant" persona, and also, he exaggerates his credentials. On his website he describes himself as:

>AI researcher working on autonomous vehicles, human-robot interaction, and machine learning at MIT and beyond

Which could lead one to erroneously assume that he attended MIT, or even has a degree from MIT, when neither of which are true.
Definitely now, because I'm in my late 20s and I'm seeing software engineering friends buying places in zone 2 and 3. Usually apartments and often with something like shared ownership or a lower-earning partner, but buying all the same. None work in FAANG or high-paying places, think in the £60-70k range.

(just realised I said "the city" in my original comment and realised that could mean the City of London - I meant London itself, sorry if any misunderstanding!)
Again, more baseless speculation from you, in a way that is totally irrelevant. As you point out, even at 3.3k that's nearly a quarter of what Reddit wants to charge.

But more importantly, it's patently obvious that Reddit's sole goal was to shutoff every 3rd party app, because that is exactly what happened. This isn't just about Christian, literally every other 3rd party app developer found the new API terms untenable as well. If it was just Christian being unreasonable, as you are suggesting, but some other app developer ran the numbers and thought "well, that's OK, I could still make a business off that", they would be thrilled to come in and fill the void with Apollo leaving.

None of them are doing that. Your point is totally moot.
If they make opting out difficult (ie. You go to a page in settings that you have to directly link to because you’re “signed out” in the main app) then that wouldn’t skew the results that significantly, while still providing an escape hatch that isn’t “wait for this to be finished”.
ISO 27001 may have started with good intentions, but it has become a joke. Exposing the medical files of thousands of people is not a joke. This should have been caught.
You realize that twitter is a corporation and not a government right? They don't enforce laws they enforce rules, which they also set.
These applications indeed have special requirements which general-purpose components almost certainly won't be able to fulfill. Not should they - the tradeoffs in complexity and cost are rarely worth it for the hyperscaling or embedded world where Linux is most commonly used these days.
There are multiple reddit clones, I think the biggest one is Lemmy.

Did you really think there was nothing else? Services like reddit are big because of their network effects, not because they have so special sauce that no one has been able to replicate.
This type of human-centric view is exactly why we're in this mess to begin with.

There are other species on this planet too, you know. What about them?
And the US is making a huge effort in stopping that.
Years of litigation. Some people think they're hoping for Congress to intervene and moot the case.
The corollary is also important. If you are writing code you should want it to solve a problem, and for it to be the chosen solution regularly. Make sure people with the problem you are solving know that your solution solves their problem, and how it solves their problem. That's the point of documentation.
There is significant delay between lab leak in mid-September-mid-October 2019 and start of epidemic in December in Wuhan.

Can such contagious virus as SARS-CoV-2 cross the distance between lab in Wuhan and wet market in Wuhan in few days? Of course. In few months? No way.
Dell T7810 or 7820 are also good candidates
I don't know enough about the internal architecture of threads to know if they are necessary for this, but one of the very few things about postgres that always struck me as nuts is that any one query (you could easily write one yourself) can grab as much memory or CPU as it wants, the point of stalling out thousands of other queries (serving thousands of other users in the context of a webapp).

There is a statement_max_duration which is a great start, but if I want anything from postgres it's an ability to say "allocate X cpu/memory per thread and let it do as much as it can within those limits"
I notices that all the cities were quite small in the trailer. Except that very last one in the last few seconds with the zoom out from car-level which looked very box-arty. I hope the engine scales well.
Do they even still have these programs? RPAN is dead, despite actually being somewhat different and refreshing.
The simplest thing I can think of is by generating keys that follow the exact right structure but some invariant like n = p * q is broken. Of course that relies on the assumption that implementations do some basic sanity checks like that. I don't know if that's a fair assumption to make.
Is it naive to assume that we could have bots actually read the code and come up with an "understanding" of what the code does instead of the metadata written by a human for humans on the side ?
Coal and gas are used massively by countries such as Germany that actively try to sabotage carbon-free nuclear energy.
>An average US household uses 886 kWh per month

Oh wow. The average German household of three uses 2500kwh in a multi-tenant and 3500kwh in a single family home PER YEAR.
You don't say which country is "this country" - but from the context I'm assuming China? And sure if it was created in a lab then that opens the door to lots of political questions.

But the source of the virus remains less important to the folk that died from it. They're no less dead because it escaped from a lab than if it came from a wet market.

Responses in every country were different. Which ones were the right ones are valuable lessons moving forward, and anthropologists will be studying that data for decades.
Spotify, YouTube Music is a must.

MidJorney, Figma & acreom for notes.

Also dropbox is a magic-must when having 2 workstations.

Every year or so I try to go through and evaluate value.
> I'm confident every team or department should have a full-time documentation owner whose job it is to ensure documentation is up to date, maintained, and verified.

I'm not convinced this would work. Such a person wouldn't have time to be a subject matter expert at anything other than the documentation tools. They wouldn't understand what they were writing about.
> barely said anything at all.

This is pretty typical of AMA's from widely known people. It's nothing more than marketing. AMA do not translate to quality or quantity of answers, only questions.
Some the consumer can freely choose. Others are imposed. eg. Adobe's student discount. You can word it or structure it however you want, but you're perfectly capable of imposing stipulations on specific groups. They're licensing the product to students at a discount.

For example:

If you plan on billing a client for this software or claiming it as an expense for your business, this software is provided with source for a one time fee of $50 with future upgrades provided at $25, after which will be under the MIT license. Otherwise this software is provided free of charge under the MIT license.
I wonder what is the long term impact of wearing a device like this for several hours a day on one's eyesight.
Because HN is overwhelming software engineers, and more than half the developers I've worked with have been immigrants. So I figured telling people what the housing situation is like for software engineers is probably relevant.
Everything you describe sounds like a positive outcome for me.

Let reddit turn into a wasteland of pun threads, office references, fake ragebait and wholesome content run by AI repost bots, as long as there's a viable alternative for the 1%.
All three of those are great things to do. The fact that you know to mention them makes me think you don't need to worry much. When Linux people say they're into security, it usually means research level computer science, not "I don't want my laptop to get malware".
> 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.

In a tabloid, recycling claims that have already quite questionable without any additional evidence (ie. the Mojiang mine stuff is not nearly as cut-and-dry as this article makes it out to be).
An onboard optical drive in 2023?
I just read on info guix that they have a setting to use GNU/Hurd as kernel, maybe that could be fun virtualized.
a biased recommendation but I'm a maker of https://acreom.com.

It's not open-sourced yet (on our roadmap), but free in a large part, local-first (running on plain text .md files) and designed for quickly capturing stuff as well as accessing. Would love to get your feedback.
I don't suppose X62 can still be sourced, so… I'd guess another X220? I've yet to see a laptop with a better keyboard.
It is hard to nail down exactly when things started going poorly for Intel, but they definitely weren’t going well under Krzanich (engineering background) and I have trouble blaming Swan given the dysfunctional company he inherited. If Gelsinger pulls it all together, IMO Swam deserves some credit for laying a good foundation.

Intel has put out some interesting chips in the last couple years. Anyway, their dominant years set a pretty high bar, I don’t think we’ll see that again (I guess the aliens decided to start spreading around the technology they send).
We’re web surfers; surfers move from wave to wave, they don’t expect to find the perfect wave frozen in time unmoving and never ending.
I expect not, Office last century previously had a very simple password scheme (broken essentially instantly with modern tools) and then a poor one (take a couple seconds to break typical passwords) before I think settling on a more modern design where brute force isn't practical for a decent password.

It's possible they threw that away to use this approach but seems unlikely
"But what was really notable about this grant proposal was that they proposed to insert cleavage sites, similar to the mystifying furin cleavage site in the SARS-CoV-2 genetic sequence, and to insert those into their coronavirus sequences to see if it would make them more infectious. And to many people, when that was exposed, that DARPA grant — and it only got exposed, I believe, last year — that really looked like a kind of smoking gun, which was that the research that was being proposed in the DARPA grant looked like a kind of directional arrow to a SARS-CoV-2-like virus. So that was quite significant."
- https://theintercept.com/2022/05/06/deconstructed-lab-leak-c...

"Farzan was “bothered by the furin site and has a hard time explaining that as an event outside the lab (though, there are possible ways in nature, but highly unlikely).” On the question of whether the virus had a natural origin or came from some sort of accidental lab release, Farrar reported that Farzan was “70:30” or “60:40” in favor of an “accidental-release” explanation and that “Bob” — an apparent reference to Robert Garry — was also surprised by the presence of a furin cleavage site in this virus. Farrar quoted Bob saying: “I just can’t figure out how this gets accomplished in nature. … it’s stunning.”
- https://theintercept.com/2023/01/19/covid-origin-nih-emails/
Your kids are going to be alive in the year 2100. That seems like an awful thing to force onto someone.
> So what am I missing?

AdBlock
One way or another there are a bunch of Google-app icons that all look the same to me. Third party apps on iOS or Android generally have nondistinct icons: I have many icons that are basically a letter like "H" with no indication that one of those icons controls my stereo and another one does something else. I use Microsoft' RDP on my iPad all the time and I struggle to find the icon not least because the colors blend into the background but it is just some arrows without stems like the logo of some british railway from the 1970s.

I find myself deleting apps aggressively because the junk apps make it hard to find the few apps I really use, most of all I use the web as much as I can because it is so easy to find anything on the web.
> if this wasnt a dog toy, but rather liquor [...] it would make it hard to find the Jack Daniels.

Sure, but that wouldn't be a parody - it would be a completely different area of trademark law.

99% of trademark disputes are bourbon makers squabbling over who gets to put an eagle on their bottles, and oat milk makers squabbling over whether it's confusing that both products say 'oat' on them.

Questions of parody are a different area of law - no reasonable consumer could possibly confuse a dog toy with a bottle of whiskey.
Requiring a video cover letter probably isn't even legal. It certainly opens you way up to allegations of discrimination and is therefore unwise.

I would assume that the employee acquisition middleware provider added "video cover letter" as a feature to distinguish their software suite, the procurement guy fell for it, and the hiring director said "hey, we paid for this feature, we should probably use it."

Asked about legality, the middleware provider would claim that "you see people in an interview, many jobs are remote now and a video cover letter is an extension of that."

That's not true, of course. Having images of the candidates ahead of interviewing allows you to discriminate without the candidate noticing your reaction to their appearance.

Law suits incoming.
The ice age transitions were over a much longer period of time. And of course had very transformative effects on the landscape.
Just over a year, as the comments below guessed (congratulations! Prizes coming your way!).

Not many people got fired though, only a few managers (who to be fair, were a bit useless). Most others left "voluntarily" after the corp changes were made (you know, the ones that definitely weren't going to be made). It wasn't so bad though, we all got a good deal.
I'm not too worried... We want to protect parodies because they are humorous or make a point. That is, we want to protect freedom of expression and free speech.

Although this toy is mildly humorous, it looks to me like the main point is to a sell a toy based on its similarity to a well-known brand. I don't think this commercial purpose is really something we need to protect.
There's also a huge disconnect between what power users want and what the ad-viewing cannon fodder will tolerate. Headlines this week say that Netflix cracking down on password sharing has been hugely successful driving new signups.
Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism
India isn't going to impound Russian planes.
> Do they make up a large percentage of users?

About 3%

> What leverage do users have here

None
> Can you explain this? What are the exploits?

Traditional desktop Linux allows different apps to more-or-less freely communicate with each other (called the x11 protocol). This works really well for old apps (and admittedly not too bad for new ones) but is very slow and exposes a lot of bugs. On top of this, you have potential exploits in your filesystem from loosely permissioning important settings and identity files. So, the attack surface for a traditional Linux distro is relatively large.

> Is it the equivalent of running a .exe or .jar on windows, but with an extra layer of protection?

Kinda! Linux software is distributed as packages, which contains a binary (the exe/jar portion), a dependency manifest and whatever static content it needs. A sandbox like Flatpak will take those packages and put it into a sandbox, to prevent hostile interprocess communication and filesystem exploits.

None of these mitigations are perfect per-se (nor are they on Mac/Windows), so use them wisely if you intend to use them at all. I have used a non-sandboxed system to run old 90s Windows games for years though, and haven't picked up any significant issues. YMMV, it is Linux after all :P
I think this article hits on the main point that I think has been missed by the early criticism I've read (and it's totally possible I've missed a lot of useful writing on it) - this device isn't supposed to compete with the Quest or any other current VR platform: it's supposed to be the starting point/MVP of competing with your laptop. Looking at in the frame of a gaming device, or the 'metaverse' is missing the point.

And, as the article notes, I think it is an early-adopter device that isn't worth the price tag, and probably doesn't deliver on even 1/10 of what it needs to for mass adoption - but I don't think that Apple intended it to.
How do they tackle the credit card / wireless payment problem? Such as, how do you buy a train ticket these days as a tourist.
> ”I try to say something kind or friendly to encourage him. Sometimes he perks up momentarily, offering a half smile and faint twinkle in his eye”

I bet that was the old guy disguising the annoyance of having a patronizing customer.
Pushing cases into the future was always the stated goal of lockdowns. That was what "flatten the curve" meant. The idea was to accept some temporary consequences in order to prevent deaths until vaccines could be made.

I also don't think it was any stroke of luck that resulted in vaccines being made quickly. Our scientific establishments correctly devoted their resources to developing vaccines. A lot of us were closely following their development and knew that they were just around the corner. Even without advancements in MRNA technology, other types of vaccines were being made that could prevent the majority of deaths.
So the first crash was in 1933 in Italy, and it's still a secret? Hard to believe.
“We’re in hot water now”
Might as well lock and close the thread, with that reductive made-up assertion. It's not like there's a fixed budget of carbon credits distributed amongst the world's population.

And no, "don't have kids" and "kill yourself" are really not actually the same.
Good luck getting friends/family to use this instead of WhatsApp/iMessage(in the U.S.).

I tried to switch everyone to Signal, but it utterly failed, people took forever to reply, if they even do, and never actually contact me on it.

Matrix works because it has bridges.
Well, you only have to pay $3.5K to find out!
Yes, I see it all the time.

There's no shortage of people who are on the "we're doomed, there's no point to even trying" train. If you try to point out any improvements (e.g., US per capita emissions drop), they won't just say it's not enough—they'll deny it's even possible that it's true.

I want people to believe in climate change, and to be concerned about climate change, but also not be petrified into inaction about climate change. Many, many people are on the wrong side of the fear level.
Couple of reasons:
- Push notifications to reengage the user
- Collect more data - you can spy way more on a user using the app than on the web
- Bypass adblockers

All this makes losing customers who are not willing to make the transition to the app worth it.
They do offer a BT dongle via USB, so clearly there's at least one. Why not have its chip on the mainboard? Using USB for soldered-on BT is fairly common.
The onset of ice ages is relatively slow - the last ice age took about 10,000 years from its onset to reach the peak of of the ice sheets, and another 10,000 years or so for the ice age to end. At the glacial maximum average global temperatures were about 6°C colder than today, and we've managed to raise temperatures by 1°C in only 100 years.

Changes at the speed of man-made global warming (or faster) do happen, but they are uncommon and tend to be associated with catastrophic events and mass extinctions.
As someone with already terrible eyesight from intense gaming, having a screen even closer to my eyes doesn’t sound like something I’d be interested in. Just doesn’t sound healthy at all.
What's an example then of a game that fits the original argument?
I assume that would require such an insane amount of "framework" around it as to be practically impossible, not literally impossible?
An there are no official investigations into Tesla crashes either?

https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/inv/2022/INOA-EA22002-3184.PDF