skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bill Gates has been buying up water reserves, has investments in polluting industries, and he's got an interest in keeping the public thinking it's "not so bad". It is. Bill Gates is also behind the "our world in data" series on youtube, that consistently misrepresents climate science to make it seem like we can solve it with enough "green industry", when the only real solution is degrowth, we can't afford to keep siphoning the carbon out of the earth. GDP growth is correlated with --- and the main driver of --- the warming.

This message doesn't serve the interests of billionaires, and Gates is no exception.
You're choosing the wrong thing to start this crusade over. Trademark law is by far the most defensible form of intellectual property, since it is very clearly necessary for a decent economy. There is no world in which it would be better for anyone to be able to claim they are selling an iPhone with iPhone branding and everything over it while selling an old Alcatel feature phone.

Also, all this case establishes is that there is no exception for comedy/sarcasm when it comes to a trademark copying someone else's trademark.

It is actually very likely that the case will be won by Bad Spaniels on simpler grounds - that their trademark will not confuse anyone into thinking they are buying a Jack Daniels bottle. And that is the right thing that the courts should decide - but it was something that Bad Spaniels was trying to avoid.
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I don't think most smol nets or even people just spinning up a node server behind nginx worry much about caching proxies.
@dang this should be merged with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36294748 which was flagged for being vlog spam to this article. Or maybe just change the link on that one.
It has some nice things going for it, but it has a few issues that can be off-putting.

1. People are discouraged from being too negative about posts, but posting negative articles is fine. This led to people occasionally linking articles containing invectives about some subject they didn't like, but you're not supposed to respond to the article with invectives. It produced a natural asymmetry in the conversation and felt really passive aggressive.

2. The long post format is a noble goal, but personally I couldn't see the incentive in putting in a ton of work to craft a thoughtful, researched, and thorough post only to have it read by maybe 20 people then buried after a day. If I'm going to put that much work into a piece of writing, I'll create a blog where it will at least have some more permamence. I think in the end the long post format attracts people who enjoy the process of writing itself--which is fine--but it simply doesn't equate to higher content. A lot of the opinions in those long posts are still underbaked, and the length doesn't improve them. Tildes threads can be a grind to read while producing little information.
The unprecedented Pacific Northwest heatwave of June 2021
Do you have a source for them losing money? I don't trust them; advertising aside, I think they've been covering most expenses just from users paying for Reddit awards.

Sure, maybe it makes sense from a business perspective to make their API paid-access only.

Maybe it even makes sense to make the prices so outrageously high it results in the subreddit mods striking. Perhaps this gives them the ability to remove the moderation teams and sell the spots to the highest corporate bidders.

That doesn't mean that we as users have to like it, or them, after these changes.

I'm just hoping something better comes along out of all this.
People tried, including both Linden Lab (Second Life company), and Philip Rosedale on his own.

The official follow-up to SL from Linden Lab was Sansar. Built from the ground up to be much prettier and faster than SL. But it kinda sucked all the charm from it. Sansar is a very static environment where you build the world in an editor, then people walk around in it. Meanwhile, SL has a full blown in-world content creation and script editor.

Sansar flopped, got sold, and these days still exists: https://www.sansar.com/

Philip Rosedale left LL, and made a new company which got very confusingly named "High Fidelity". This was a SL 2.0 of sorts, much more in the spiritual vein of Second Life. Also better engine than SL, better performance, and better scripting. Unlike SL it's a distributed architecture. High Fidelity was... weird. The architecture was like the most hardcore people from some deeply political place like the GNU project (it's Apache licensed, I mean more in terms of ethos) got together to make the least monetizable architecture they could. Content is hosted on any HTTP server, servers are run by anybody who wants, and there's no lock-in whatsoever. It horrified content creators. And so it didn't make any money.

High Fidelity still survives as Open Source projects, I'm part of one: https://overte.org/
The merkle tree is persisted, and updating it is only log(n). You only have to "hash 2n elements" once, and then incrementally maintain it. It's negligible overhead for free log(n) diffing.
>The laptop includes a properly supported wifi card that isn’t hampered by a dysfunctional antenna solution that has become standard in most laptops for a while now. The antennas remain in the traditional and optimal location just behind the screen so your wifi performance isn’t impeded by the base of the laptop.

Is this actually solving a problem anyone has ever had?
I pay a lot of attention to the laptop market and I've never heard of internal "antenna placement" being an issue before.
I think async-by-default was an interesting idea and well worth trying, but I don't really think it was a good idea. Turns out that most things you want to do are synchronous, and "sync-by-default unless mentioned otherwise" makes a lot more sense. This includes I/O by the way, because most of the time you want to wait until an operation has finished.

Or to put it in another way: JavaScript makes the uncommon case easy and the common case hard(er).
One thing I've never understood is the FSF opposition to microcode and loadable firmware blobs. You're running proprietary hardware that clearly uses some firmware, what do you get out of insisting that the firmware is burned in at the factory and completely unmodifiable/updatable?
> Artificial sweeteners have been shown to cause weight gain

That does not seem to be the scientific consensus:

"The majority of clinical studies performed thus far report no significant effects or beneficial effects of artificial sweeteners on body weight and glycemic control" [1]

"Thus, evidence from controlled studies suggests that artificial sweeteners don’t cause weight gain and may even be mildly effective for weight loss." [2]

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7817779/

[2] https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/artificial-sweeteners-a...
Just a few weeks ago I went through the exercise of closing my FB account because I was getting all of my local NYC discussion from subreddits, instead. Poor timing I guess.

If reddit bungles this whole thing, the loss of /r/asknyc will be truly tragic. Such a great way to crowdsource local recommendations without the extra veneer of tourist feedback on top.
NLtimes.NL can serve as a European contemporary for this stress test. Absolutely unusable without an adblocker.
You mean iPod.
Don't forget about Nortel! They got all their IP stolen by Huawei! Your welcome Huawei!
Anecdotally, seems there's a lot of Canadians expats here in the Valley and they don't seem too keen on returning. We've been getting a lot of international applicants (but work from home was supposed to mean Canadians could avoid moving to the "dangerous" US but work for American companies?).

Post 2016 the messaging from most commonwealth countries (UK, Canada, Australia) seemed to be that they were going to be the ones benefiting from a brain drain of Americans leaving the country. Canada was supposed to become an "AI Superpower" and its Universities were supposed to be where innovation was going to happen next due to the perceived hostility of the United States to foreign talent.

Canada sure had a lot of "talent" immigrate in the meantime, but from my observations it's mostly people who can't -and likely won't ever be able to- secure a US visa, mostly due to skills (there's a reason they immigrated to Canada, it's way easier and the quotas are close to 10x per capita compared to the US). Some companies leverage this and have floors of international devs they park in Canada for a fraction of their US counterpart through a subsidiary.

It's interesting, in retrospective, to see how wrong these predictions were. Top destination for Canadian nationals in Academia was, and still is... the US.
Not all the early cases could be traced back to the wet market, so there is no reason to suspect it started there if you don't already suspect a zoonotic spillover origin. And exponential curves ramp up slowly at first.
The record fire season in 2020 is why I decided to hedge my bets on living a long life and smoke 1 cigarette per day.
You seem very convinced that iPhones are Veblen goods. Do you have any evidence to support that claim?
I don't mean the usage of Apollo in particular, but my understanding from what I've read is that according to some metrics, almost 50% of Reddit have gone dark, partly in support of Apollo. It's already the unofficial alternative to Reddit, except also kind of being Reddit at the same time.

Correction: I did a quick check, and around 40% went dark according to this source, so not quite the 'almost 50%' that I proclaimed: https://twitter.com/aakashg0/status/1668107416490192897
Thank you for so concisely explaining Second Life's most positive and important impact that is, due to its nature, also one of the hardest to demonstrate.

I worked for Linden Lab for over five years and yet I didn't fully appreciate this until after I left.

The things that make Second Life interesting to me - such its programmability, economy, wildness, diversity along more axes than you can easily imagine, and sheer unpredictability - make it, in my eyes, the most interesting thing on the internet. But those attributes only discuss its value by talking in technical or monetary terms.

The most important question is: why does Second Life matter to people? The most important answer comes via the massive number of people who can enjoy a Second Life in ways that their First Life, for whatever reason, doesn't allow.
> they just continue vaping with often higher levels of nicotine

Source?
same, tried to search about a specific topic and couldn't access the subreddit
Where else can I set up a DNS proxy and block all but the countries I want within about 15 minutes for free?
Looks like the archive issue is ISP related, yikes. I had the same error but with VPN it loads fine.

In fact, I can't access archive.* without a VPN. WTF?!
Whenever a site does something "bad" (Twitter and musk's BS, Reddit with their API nonsense, etc) people's initial reaction is to look for a site JUST like it but without the bad thing. That feels like stage 1 of grief: denial. Denial that the thing you loved is no longer the same. Maybe it's dead, or maybe its changed in such a drastic way thats its no longer the same thing. Regardless, I have never seen a successful website or service start from the premise of "we will be just like thing X, but without the bad thing". You need more than that. You need a vision. And I'd argue your initial motivation needs to be something positive, not negative. If you're initial motivation is "this website is doing something bad, so we need to make a similar site that doesn't do that" then you are motivated by a negative emotion, which will only drive you so far. You'll be driven by anger which might get a bunch of new users, but that emotion will fade, and after a while what will you have left? That isn't to say that situations like this aren't a great opportunity. Far from it. It's just that the opportunity requires people to think creatively. For sure learn from the mistakes of these companies, but also don't just create a clone that positions itself as a direct competitor or a home for refugees. That's just depressing and a recipe for failure.
Do people from Darmstadt get teased a lot?
I know Reddit search isn't great, but the ability to search at all is useful. Compared to e.g. Discord where threading is weak at best and searching is borderline useless because it's a chatroom, not a forum.

Reddit is a low-effort replacement for traditional forums, solving several problems of traditional forums:

1. One account for all communities. Nobody wants to make 100 accounts, whereas it's really easy to just click "join" and start participating in a new subreddit.

2. Consistent, uniform, familiar interface with Markdown for text. The old PHPBB etc. forums all had different layouts and slightly incompatible markup. And Discourse is just weird.

3. Easy to stay "casually engaged" with the community because of the customized per-user front page and the ability to group communities together with multireddits. Whereas with individual forums, you need to get email notifications or manually check several different sites to stay connected, which is much higher-effort. Also, it's easy to passively follow a low-population subreddit in the hope that it gains more users, while you're much less likely to make a new account on a forum that seems quiet. This helps keep the appearance of a high active population in niche communities, because people are less likely to forget about the community and can easily drop in and out.

4. Easy discovery of new communities and being a name brand makes it easy to attract users: people just assume a subreddit for X exists. The alternative is that they'd have to hunt around for a forum that will probably be low-population anyway.

5. Upvoting and downvoting helps the community moderate spam and bad actors. It also creates incentives to post content, in the hope that you get upvotes. Yes, there are problems with the system, but I think "the market has spoken" to some extent on this: the individual enjoyment of voting outweighs the systemic incentive problems associated with it.

It's easy to say that Reddit is "just" the two things that you mentioned, but that to me is reductionist to the point where it obfuscates why people prefer Reddit for discussion compared to other options.

Note that Discord has many of the same advantages over its alternatives, and I think similar points are relevant for both platforms.
>If a person or organization calls for violence or the destruction of property

Are Martin Luther King or Malcolm X terrorists?
Kbin is very close to the Reddit UI and Lemmy is nice as well. I've used both since last week and user engagement on both is through the roof.

I'd encourage anyone to at least check them out.
I'm talking about MIDI 2.

MPE has better support, MIDI 2 not much atm.
It was secret/nontransparent until he admitted to it.

Still misleading, I agree.
Those are standard climatological periods. You need that for data to be comparable and make sense. I would expect the skeptics to put in at least minor surface level effort in trying to understand the thing that they’re skeptical about, but yeah, maybe that’s too much to ask.
Something without a second GPU. Linux never did quite get those working properly.
How do you count breaks in both countries? In Germany and Switzerland for example breaks don't count as working so if you have 42.5h you are at least 47.5h per week in the office. Hours per worker might be lower since there are tax-favourable incentives like "mini job" that push it down artificially.
Regulation of CFCs was successful at helping to recover the ozone layer. Likewise the Clean Air Act.

Regulation works remarkably well in many spaces. Skepticism is warranted as usual but the cynics that claim it almost never works usually have a hidden agenda.
Source on pizza oil making cardboard uncompostable?
There's a few bits of thought to consider

- I (and/or my community) wants/doesn't mind psuedo-anonymity.

- I want a community that can quickly grow, not bound by region

- It should be easy to share links

- It should be easy to setup a longer form discussion

Discord for example would probably only satisfy 2/4 conditions.

But yes, there is no one glove fit all replacement as of now. If only because most new alternatives can't satisfy item #2 without some major money being put into advertisement.
Any specific boards you would recommend on 4chan? Are there any other image boards worth using with reasonable discussions?
> The IPCC suggests that current sulfur aerosol levels are contributing in the neighborhood of 0.5° C to total global cooling, offsetting warming that would otherwise rapidly occur.

> By cleaning up shipping fuels, massive regions of the world’s oceans that were protected from heating by shipping sulfate aerosols are now experiencing rapid warming. This includes the main shipping routes between Asia and the Western US as well as the major routes from the Easter US to Europe and the Middle East. And that’s where the warming is happening. This rapid heating is known as “termination shock,” and it appears to be what’s happening right now.

It's frustrating that we've argued a lot about the hazards of intentional geoengineering responses without reaching a consensus that we should do it, and meanwhile the shipping industry was cavalierly doing it along-side their other emissions. Yes, we need to rapidly cut emissions. Yes, we need to in parallel invest in carbon capture. But if every fraction of a degree matters, shouldn't we also be at least continuing if not scaling up these these albedo-increasing changes?

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I think a diffusion of communities to better forum software would be the best replacement for Reddit.

Why should your posts on r/knitting and r/samurai be linked together in the same account? How often are people seeing the same person across Reddit communities and it ends up being helpful?

The orangered inbox and tracking of karma on Reddit provide some encouragement to use a single site for this all, but can we solve that in diffuse communities? Is karma actually a benefit to users, or should it be hidden anyways?
> No, I'm not going to watch some random youtube video, of unknown length, to try to find out what your point is. If you want to say something, say it.

Exactly! It's also by an unknown individual.

I'm not going to waste my time on a Youtube video without a tl;dr summary (and on many topics, an explanation of why the maker has credibility and where he's coming from ideologically).
So, feminism?
You do know that state sponsored actors are already archiving encrypted traffic that they were able to tap into, between nodes of interest for them, with the same purpose, of trying to decrypt it later?

"Easily" means very different thing if you talk about script kiddies vs state sponsored actors.
Much of that “disinfo” you’re referring to turned out to be legit info.
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But the Taurine in the energy drinks prolongs your life

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36271868
he said about 1-2 years ago that avg daily traffic was about 6m/day.

factoring in growth, my guess is about 7-8m average.

i'm extremely skeptical that the reddit blackout caused any spike in HN. they're quite different audiences. if i'm going to /r/animecatgirls i'm not coming to HN. if i'm going to /r/MachineLearning i don't get nearly the same thing.

most people would be going to discord/lemmy.
It's honestly incredible how meta didn't pick this route.

With all the money poured in they could have just copied SL with a fresh coat of paint. They could have poached all their devs or even just buy the whole company.

At least we got some good laughs watching it fall apart. The eifell tower selfie still cracks me up.
I don't have a cell phone, because I consider that the costs outweigh the benefits. Recently I started experiencing more often the effects of people assuming that everybody has a cell phone.

* I couldn't scan QR codes at restaurants to see the menu, after the pandemic. The server was able to find an old paper menu but warned me that prices had changed, and I had to order without seeing the new prices. This is less of a problem now as most restaurants went back to paper menus.

* My place of work recently installed 2FA that assumes we are always near a phone, and they don't want to provide an alternative such as a yubikey, so I cannot log on to the network unless I'm at my office or at home (where I have a landline).

* I use a car-sharing service and they want to switch to an "app-only" system for booking cars, which I guess will require me to install some kind of Android virtual machine on my computer.

Truth be told, those are minor annoyances in the grand scheme of things.
Sounds like RMS, which is to say not going nophone but borrowed or land line only.

https://stallman.org/rms-lifestyle.html
FTC to file injunction seeking to block Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision
> India’s elite have blindly imported Oxford/Cambridge culture…

It’s changing rapidly and BBC accent isn’t cool anymore with the rise of a new class of self made elites.

https://youtu.be/RNJ7yxJgcXo
We've got 40 years of data on Antarctic sea ice, and over the last 4 decades it's been growing, not retreating. [1]

[1]https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index
> A lot of your peers otoh are living with their parents still, have a mountain of debt, have put off having kids, aren’t in a career path to change much of this and don’t have the skills or the money or time to switch into a more lucrative field and be competitive relative to new grads.

Yes I know. This happened because they graduated into the face of one of the recessions. Or maybe they went to war and lost their 20s battling PTSD. These effects persist for a long time which is why a lot of my generation was left behind.

Obviously can't predict the future, but for those that came of age post 2008 the economy has been remarkably resilient. They haven't experienced something like a chunk of engineering graduates that can't get jobs. I was lucky and made it out, but the average starting salary of my degree from my school went down significantly because of 2008.

A graduate today has no living memory of what an economic recession in the US looks like. And if anyone is wondering it's a lot worse than today or what happened during Covid.
I faced this same problem. My company policy required destruction of data before drives can leave the colo. I even had a hydraulic drive crusher in the cage to crush failed drives.

However. The Linux utility shred can do a multi-pass random rewrite followed by zeros. (That last is critical for the next step)
Then to verify, grab a random block and sum the data. If it’s not zero you crush the disk.

Bake that script into a NetBoot image, wipe the boot drive’s boot blocks and reboot.

I decommissioned about $5M worth of servers while preserving the disks. This preserved the hardware for reuse.

If you want to be sure send a random selection of the wiped drives to your data recovery team. They won’t be able to get anything back.
My 2 cents: it'd be really good if it lets you save all the posts to an archive before deleting them. Maybe also save some context about those posts

No way I'd personally pay for increased deletions though, that seems a bit silly. Good luck though
What's the next play for Reddit leadership? I feel like it's just a "wait and hope it all blows over?". If they don't change, are all of these subreddits going to stay dark? If the subreddits do stay dark, how long will it take before someone creates a replacement that gains enough traction?

I'm participating in the Reddit blackout (as a 15y user), and I love to see the collective action, but not sure if it's really going to bring about long term change. Egos are clearly involved here, so I think Reddit's future hinges on spez's personal ability for change and growth. I'm not optimistic.