skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, the top 0.001% of genetic freak athletes with the world's best nutritionists and fitness consultants can get away with a highly constrained diet (for a while, at least).

BTW, famous vegan athletes almost never start vegan, and tend to quickly retire due to increased injury rates and slowed recovery.
Slashdot, I assume
> not doesn't indicate much about its likelyhood of working. T

Statistically I would say it does very much.

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

Also drives can start building up bad sectors that you cannot write to, but may be able to read data from.
Most of this is about automated status pages, but it doesn't apply to status pages where the incident response team manually says "yes there is a problem" and "ok all problems are fixed".
You never know. Maybe their code throws an Exception (expensive in some languages) or logs something extra/differently if you access a private sub.
What RSS reader would you recommend?
I suppose a significant aspect of this to upper management is their need to face-to-face in person interaction to for some of their sociopathic non-verbal control behaviors to work. You know the sort, where some senior manager says something banal about goals or performance but his body language is clearly threatening or intimidating. Stuff that doesn't work over video.
Your reddit status link is showing outages about twice monthly fwiw.

But yeah clearly others have a different experience with this. I wonder why.
"AOL is The Internet"

sorry, just had a flashback...
There are some subs I frequent where the mods have created bots that have completed transformed the sub for the better. Examples are the several marketplace subs, where bots are heavily used.
Slashdot is really more like HN's predecessor. Mostly tech news focused. It faded in popularity after Digg became a thing and allowed all sorts of topics.
Looking at Lemmy instance sizes was a kick in the gut. I thought for sure there would be tens of thousands out there on various forums, but it's more like hundreds. The monoculture is worse than I thought.
> JS implementations already do not use UTF-16 as a sole native representation anyway

But they still expose UTF-16 code unit semantics: U+10000–U+10FFFF come through as two UTF-16 code units, a surrogate pair.

> "UTF-16 native" doesn't mean your "UTF-16 unit" (i.e. what would `charCodeAt` return) should not exceed 16 bits.

True enough. You could redefine it to have UTF-16 code unit semantics until U+10FFFF, then code point semantics beyond, maybe call this “UTF-16+ code unit semantics”. It’d definitely break a few things here and there, but then, anything would break a few things here and there, regardless of encoding type, since the range U+0000–U+10FFFF is hard-coded in so may places. Well, anything except doing surrogates again. And I’m pretty sure that’s what would be done.
If anyone else is interested in leaving Reddit I made a browser extension you can use to batch delete your Reddit posts and comments: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bulk-delete-reddit...

Let me know how it works for you if you try it! Still fixing bugs.
I see reddit less as a website and more as a collection of communities. Each community has its own set of reasons for hosting itself on reddit vs other locations. Therefore I would predict that in the absence of reddit, not every community would move to the same place.

I also noticed that in recent years many subreddits have increasingly been taken over by memes and other low quality posts and so users looking for more substantial content have already moved elsewhere.

But some others have still been the best places to get early information on certain topics. For example /r/stablediffusion had a lot of people posting their novel uses and techniques for image generation. The QR code topic which is now blowing up here was already being talked about on reddit a week ago.
I only use relay for Reddit, and only ever will. I never use desktop Reddit, well rarely and only with the enhancement suite.
Kind of like in real life. Shitty people have more resources.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic, make of that what you will.
This proposal is more concerned with each connection being its own process. I think the current thoughts are to keep utility processes around.
If management cannot tell the difference between the output of one person doing the job, that's the fault of remote work? I disagree with that assertion.

If the outputs are all that are asked of the job are being met, why do they care? If it's about committed energy and time spent working, why waste the time and energy of of all workers with a required commute to prevent a vanishingly small number of cases of double-booking. It just seems like banning remote work with a bizarre justification for bad management.
shh that's a personal favorite.
I would be cautious how much of your frustration is because of the US changing or not meeting your expectations vs you happening to make major life decision right when there happened to be major world changing events. (Covid, Russia/Ukraine primarily.)

Since you aren’t in your old life anymore, you don’t know exactly how good or bad it would have been had you stayed.

Moving on beyond that, some places are definitely worse off than others within the US. Housing where I live is getting more expensive, but incomes are also going up substantially. And they are building thousands of new housing.

You mention being a top 5% earner. Unless that is top 5% locally, you are probably using up a lot of that top 5% income to live in a top 1% location.
Slack and Discord work fine in desktop browsers and do not regularly hassle users about installing a desktop app. I think Discord users often install the app for actual user-centric features that are not possible to provide from a browser (push-to-talk voice chat while playing games for Discord, as I recall).
I don't know about Reddit, but I'm fairly sure HN isn't hosted at Amazon.
Well, BaconReader is likely dead at the end of the month with their API changes (along with Apollo, Sync, Reddit Is Fun, etc.)
Users can't read error messages anyway.
Eastern US here. I will get those errors a few times a week but I'd say 80% of the time it works on a refresh and most of the rest of the time it's back within 30s.
> nor am I happy that Apollo dev took his ball and went home

That’s a very unfair characterization. It’s more like he was happy to allow everyone to keep playing with his ball, but suddenly the owner of the field wanted $20 million to allow it.

That phrase is mostly used when someone is being petty, which is absolutely not the case in this situation.
True.

But if they fetch a lot of URLs from cloudflare and it takes 30 seconds to answer with a timeout instead of a http/200 under 20ms, then some architectural decisions that were sound under the latter case may make the whole system slow in the former one.
The bulk of the work done for such free as in freedom projects is by unpaid volunteers. The only resources being expended are their own time and effort. Even if the work doesn't cater to the tastes of the general populace, there is nothing wasted. Unless you think someone making art for themselves or baking cookies for their friends is also wasting resources.
My ideal reddit alternative is spending less time on my computer and more time on in-person interactions.

We can look for and/or build Reddit substitutes, but just my 2c, this is a fine prompt to question not just the instantiation but the concept itself.
Ah, that makes sense, thanks for letting me know. But in saying that, I'm in the Netherlands and 100% of the stories on my frontpage were about things happening in the US.
We don't know anything about reddit's backend architecture. It might mess up their load handling, or raise other errors.
So the plan is code a global try/catch, maybe write an e2e test and hope for the best? Sounds foolproof.

I'll continue not doing decorators.
Seems like pizza making robots would be a success. Just the right amount of sauce. Just the right amount of cheese. Toppings spread evenly out. Oven sensors to get a consistent cooking time.
There is no 'non-commercial' requirement for protection of parody, thank god.
It's hard for the public to understand most court rulings, especially when the headlines are always so alarmist and yet the rulings, especially SCOTUS rulings, are usually so incredibly narrow and on some tiny statutory interpretation.

This case is a classic "nothing to see here" moment being paraded as if the sky is falling.

I get it though, I sometimes have to read a ruling five times just to figure out what the hell has been decided.
WHO advises against use of artificial sweeteners
Proper fully automated pizza making solution might sell. But to me at least one video I saw the whole thing was half-baked(in multiple ways)...

Maybe a container sized unit or something that would take ingredients from one end and push out warm pizza in a box from other... I could see those going to self-service or dark kitchens.
Would be really curious to see a breakdown of the traffic increase on HN today.
Personally it’s been a long time since I launch anything besides ~4 apps (phone, messages, browser, mail) from the homescreen. There are wayyy too many apps for that (because of BS like reddit is doing) - I always drag down and start typing the app name into search to launch.
It's still weekly, the outages just don't last as long.

Source: I'm finally breaking a 13 year Reddit addiction.
That show is a documentary
AI generated hairstyle website sold for 5 figure private deal
It’s a post from a month ago.
Guilty! I mean, I visit both everyday, but I have been here more often than usual today, trying to get my fix.
Why is i5-only a con? I heard that for ThinkPads at least, the i7 would have lower battery life for no significant gain. Not sure if that's true
That would be funny
The link to jrnl provided in the article is broken. It seems to now be at <https://jrnl.sh>
> as having a 95% effectiveness against transmission for the original strain.

95% reduction of serious illness. The objective of the mass vaccination was having as much people as possible survive the pandemic. Herd immunity was just noise. There were a lot of noise and nonsense.

> Cloth masks are objectively useless for personal protection.

Proper masks are effective as measured multiple times, tons of statistics on it.
I see those every now and again but it's usually a one-off, it'll load properly after a refresh. This time it was down or extremely slow for 10-15 minutes which is definitely uncommon.
I run several services without cloudflare, but it's so tempting.

Their product is excellent, and so easy to use. You push a button, and suddenly a whole class of difficult problems disappears.

It's very hard to fight against the urge to use it.
It was around long after Digg became a thing. It's downfall was being bought by Dice media.
New generation here, I don't see why I would ever code in actual C99 when (at worst) I could just code in C-style C++ but have some of the nice things.
It was for a really short time last year when there was a bad hardware failure.
Apple’s success is not about their features

Apple’s success is about their appeal

The iPhone was not a success because of the iTunes Store

The iPhone was a success because it was a status symbol

And having the latest one still is

Having a Vision Pro is not
I do the opposite. Finding reddit links in a search result page just lets me know I'm in for a world of disappointment in modal pop-ups (on mobile), modal blockers to see the full comment thread, and then unhelpful/missing/flippant and generally unhelpful comments at the end of all that anyway.

Especially when I search for vehicle/mechanic advice the old school forums just can't be beat for their value, even though many are ghost ships with no active users anymore.
Sites don't need cloudflare, unless:

- They want to save on bandwidth costs

- They have to deal with some level of DDOS or site scrapers hitting every page at once

- They want to block IPs, geographies, ASNs, etc. without editing a server config

- They want speed & server-sided visitor analytics, email routing, security settings, redirect configuration, and DNS all in one dashboard
> Microkernels aren't written like that. In a MK architecture, your system survives video card driver dying by restarting it and taking over serving its clients (in this case, the compositor). Of course, Linux doesn't work like that, but we've already established Linux is not a microkernel.

That does require the compositor (and its applications) to help the new driver instance to re-establish its full state (which will typically consist of GBs of VRAM, among other things).
groups.google is not usenet...

Google EEE'ed
Chat is a very bad flow for this, because chat is a stream, not a garden. It's made for quick feedback. What you want is closer to a wiki, but I understand you need to share it with other people and discuss about it.

I don't know of any software that does that, but the good thing is that maybe you don't need a new platform. Creating new platforms just splits the communities and is against the Unix philosophy we hold dear. Maybe a good first step is to be in the Fediverse, and create an actor per entry. That actor would contain all facts, potentially linking other entries. Anyone could @ movies, so you'd see the discussion about them. You can create lists, like "watched/listened/played/read" and add actors to those lists. Those actors don't post anything, they're just a "rallying point" for conversation. They're more encompassing than hashtags.

Sounds like a weekend project for someone adventurous enough
I use https://raddle.me/ but it's small for now. They seem to have a much better approach to moderation; the moderation logs are open and admins don't let them go full authoritarian. But the API is lackluster. It's open source however so hopefully it should improve

I always envisioned some kind of reddit where you could simply appeal moderation actions through a dedicated report system and if some mod goes above and beyond a certain threshold of reports, the community gets to vote on booting them out
I personally think it'll come a lot closer to replacing my laptop than my iPad did. I used my iPad on a daily basis in college for taking notes and doing homework but largely haven't touched it in the few years since.

My work setup is basically just ssh + VSCode Remote + browser (on multiple screens) so it could easily be ported over to Vision Pro in a way that the iPad with its single screen couldn't support.
Got your point. We think that there are 3 really good agents out there that can be leveraged by anyone to capture and send telemetry data. These are Vector, fluentbit and Otel-collector. Between these 3 they can handle pretty much anything. If there is something that needs to be handled that these cannot handle then its easy enough to build plugins for fluentbit and otel-collector.

We did not want to reinvent the wheel and recommend that you use one of these.

quickstart tutorial does not reflect what you will do in real life scenario.

You will want to learn how to use log forwarders like fluentbit and vector. These are the ones that you will generally use in real life. These log forwarders read the log files and send them to OpenObserve. Here is a blog on how to use fluentbit to capture kubernetes logs using fluentbit and send them to OpenObserve - https://openobserve.ai/blog/how-to-send-kubernetes-logs-usin...

We will add more tutorials and examples soon.

Hope this helps.
Lascivious pictures of clothed children count as CSAM in many jurisdictions. Free speech is fine but did they not have lawyers until 2015?
Do you have an extension to bulk-report identical hn comments? Asking for a friend…
I’ve found no megacorp makes a good UI for their products that speaks to my infra. Frankly I usually use something like Grafana and write my own TUI for the rest ;-) but there are tons and tons of infrastructure management and visualization software products out there. Generally I look at cloud providers for their api, capabilities, etc. Their UI ability is so far down the list that Id rather buy someone else’s for purpose single product strategy than the “oh yeah the console” version the providers must be providing given the economics of things.
Oh jumping from one corporate ship to another sucks, but like really I’m only talking about porn so it’s not a huge deal for me.
> However, software can be built by one guy in a garage. I'm not sure why Canada just let its dominance in AI "slip away".

Could be that Canadian software engineers prefer to move to the US to make much better money.
where the hell are they going to fine thousands of willing users to become mods of thousands of communities, overnight?
Launch HN: DevCycle (YC W14) – a feature flag platform built for developers
Hi HN, Cobi here, Co-Founder of DevCycle (https://devcycle.com). DevCycle is a feature flag platform focused on developer experience, speed of delivery and long-term maintainability.

To give the platform a shot, anyone can sign up and use DevCycle for free here: https://devcycle.com

Here’s a general platform demo video if you’re interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZD-pyKGwR4

Feature flagging is a technique that lets developers switch features on or off in a software application without redeploying it, enhancing testing and rollback capabilities. At their core, feature flagging platforms solve the problem of separating production code deploys from feature releases to users. While DevCycle solves that same general pain, we also aim to solve core problems in developer experience and code maintainability that hold developers back from fully adopting feature flagging into their workflow.

In traditional feature flagging platforms, extended flag usage increases code complexity over time. Most engineers with feature flagging experience are worried about the build-up of stale flags and their code being filled with unnecessary conditionals. Dealing with this problem is important because if an engineer is worried about this increasing complexity, they are likely to avoid using feature flags.

We came upon this problem when we were building Taplytics, the startup we joined YC with. We experienced it not only from our own struggles with feature flagging and transitioning to continuous deployment but also from our time spent with Taplytics customers who were often on the same journey.

Given this experience, we developed DevCycle with a few core differences in how we solve these problems.

Features, Not Just Flags: Many in-house and competitive feature flag systems operate on the simple idea that features exist in a binary state - they are either ‘ON’ or ‘OFF.’ In reality, software is never this simple. DevCycle treats features the same way you do in every other context, by attaching highly-extensible remote configuration to every feature in your product, allowing multiple flags to be combined under the context of a single feature and configured together.

Developer Experience: To get the benefits of feature flagging you need broad adoption by all developers touching a codebase. Our primary goal is to provide the best developer experience possible. Providing tools and integrations so we can get out of developers’ way. For example, to address the problem of long-running feature flags that build up over time, we offer developer-facing features to easily track, detect (deploy pipeline actions), and eventually remove unnecessary technical debt (CLI code cleanup commands).

Given that we are building this as a developer-first product, we’d love your feedback on whether our approach better fits your workflow and any other thoughts on our solution. Thanks so much!
I always felt like scalability and growth aren't goals here, which is something I like to be honest.
>“Yep. I messed with the “fuck u/spez” comments, replacing “spez” with r/the_donald mods for about an hour,” Huffman, who co-founded Reddit with Alexis Ohanian in 2005, wrote.

He did not admit to it until evidence was compiled and hit the front page, and let it appear for part of the week to participants and onlookers as if there was massive internal strife.

https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/23/reddit-huffman-trump/
Not weird at all. This is the problem of the modern internet.

There has always been a controversy over the relationship between success and competence.

Two-sided markets are so powerful that you can run one very poorly (e.g. craiglist…) or even actively try to run one into the ground (Musk and Twitter) and they will persist anyway, so the good luck of being in the right place at the right time can mask incompetence, particularly when that incompetence develops over time (see the Peter Principle)

If there wasn’t a powerful force keeping people into bad platforms there wouldn’t be an “enshittification” problem, because people would vote with their feet and bad platforms would immediately feel the consequences of their actions.
I posted this before things got too bad. Crazy how much traffic the site is getting today.
Aw, man, you just tricked me into giving them a hit on blackout day! I thought they were really offline. (they aren't)
This is a cool idea and a nice looking implementation. I have a Signal group chat that I've been trying to find a slightly better home for, one feature I think we desperately need is a community calendar; some way that we can create and coordinate big group events beyond just spinning off an invitee chat or something. I see that you call out event-focused groups here, is there any tooling that would support actually planning the events and seeing what's happening over a short time period?
There is a lot of NVRAMs in devices these days that could store potential secrets. Even things like wireless cars and internal USB devices. Another good example of this is laptops, such as Apple laptops with the SSD soldered on board.

You can either make hundreds of policies that discover where all this data is, or you make one policy that destroys everything.

I know which one has the least risk.
Is there proof that we have "elite engineering talent" and that's why it gets drained? Or is it the fact that we have engineering talent on par with the USA but the USA is willing to pay them more because they have a larger need for engineers?
A meme? So was he or was he not?
For technical discussion groups: USENET. Either moderated newsgroups or even unmoderated ones for obscure enough topics. Spam is the issue, but not much spam on USENET these days.

Also, the ham radio guys like groups.io, which is where yahoo groups migrated to. There are a lot of groups there on specific things, like Yeasu FT-857D transceiver. Groups.io has per-group file storage, which is handy for this.

Anyway on USENET, you can access it via google groups, but it's a bit non-obvious. Here is an example group:

https://groups.google.com/g/sci.math

But how can you find groups? You click on "all groups and messages" on the top, then enter a search term and hit enter. Then click "outside my org". When I do this for the term "france" it shows "4635 groups outside your organization". Open the list and look for the groups that have "." separators, for example "alt.france".

https://groups.google.com/g/alt.france

The ones without the dot separators are google groups- if you post, the message does not go outside of google. I don't know if you can create a USENET newsgroup through google groups- probably not.

It's kind of crap for discovery, but OK once you have a set of groups you use often.

Edit: actually a better way for discovery is a website like this: http://www.harley.com/usenet/master-list/index.html
Once you have the name of the newsgroup, just append it to the groups.google.com/g/ (also the site provides a link).
Well, we don't know the circumstances of your life, where you live, what resources you have. That all determines what possibilities exist for you to engage yourself.
He probably alludes to the common conservative trope that jews/blacks/environmentalists/gays/trans people are 'pedophiles' (depending on which era you look at)
Thanks, I didn't know about it, will give it a shot.