skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is the Brave shitcoin really worse than all the stupid-ass stunts and services Mozilla has pulled over the years?
lol is this a real comment?

I'd rather give them the option if possible.
Let's hope this place doesn't get overrun...
Completely agreed - that's definitely where Discord falls down.
I saw your other comment after I posted that. I didn't realize the content was so easily copied. Makes sense that creators would be reluctant to adopt it. The less commercially motivated creators were likely affected by the chicken-and-egg problem.

I have much respect for Rosedale for working to create a virtual world based on free software principles. He has said he was expecting the VR headset market to grow sooner. Perhaps he was waiting for that before putting effort into offering commercial services. (Poor timing... if I recall correctly, Quest 2 launched and/or got popular soon after HF closed?)
You're putting a lot of faith in uBlock Origin though. You have to grant it full permissions when you install it. Not at all saying that uBlock Origin is doing anything nefarious, but it certainly could.
Meta has the same problem Nintendo has, only they really know how to develop for their platform properly. But UNLIKE Nintendo they don't have a massive hoard of IP and seasoned game design experience to draw from.

Also just in general game developers have yet to fully exploit VR. Most VR games are either one off experiences or 2D games projected to a headset.

Don't get me wrong some creative stuff has been done. Stuff like beat saber, superhot and even VR Chat make use of the VR space, but most VR games just feel very clunky and don't have much replay value.

It's a very once and a while it's fun arcade experience packed into a console price tag.
Built one of these as a ruby gem in case it's useful for others. I use as a dev log and mini issue tracker for projects where a project mgmt tool feels like overkill. It can sync to your local knowledge base (for me obsidian) if you want too. https://github.com/aquaflamingo/devlogs
> it's even easier than that as all apps (except native ones) will be using the java TrustManager interface

Is this required? i.e. do all apps have to use the TrustManager interface to accomplish cert pinning, or is that merely the official way?
Certain chemicals in the atmosphere can increase the planet's albedo, meaning that less of the sun's energy is absorbed. When people speak of geoengineering, they are referring to intentionally spraying these elements (sulfur) into the atmosphere to reflect more of the sun's energy and temporarily cooling the earth.

However, the problem with this system is that the second you stop, you get a huge bump in temperature. Like a whip, you get a quick increase.

Turns out, the shipping industry may have been inadvertently geoengineering and now that there are regulations on the amount of sulfur expelled, we may be experiencing that snap to warmer temperatures.

You may think "Let's just spray some sulfur of our own," but there are unintended consequences associated with it. In my mind though, the biggest issue is that without a reduction in emissions, you'll need more and more sulfur sprayed into the atmosphere and eventually it will not be effective. Supposing you've continued to emit all that time and are still emitting, then the snap would be even greater.
Subreddits related to development and programming tried to create programming.dev, which is a federated alternative, but the registering is failing for some reason, possibly because of too many accounts being generated. Anyways aside from that it has good content.
Which data points are you referencing from your source? There is a spike YOY between 2019 to 2020.

Annual for 2019: 1 out of 420

Annual for 2020: 27 out of 265

Is that not enough of a percentage increase for you? Edit: Apologies for not seeing the other users' replies who have already made this point.
I loved your idea. We have to be experts in our own field. The person who tries to learn everything actually learns nothing.
No one is protesting ads, and most redditors support the idea of a reasonable monetization approach for third party apps. But u/spez is pretty open about the fact that he views third party apps as competitors and/or leeches, and he's killing them off with a fee that no one can pay. The end goal is clearly to make the platform less open so that Reddit itself can control (monetize) all aspects.
Many take exception to his handling of Reddit’s relationship with Apollo and Christian Selig specifically.

Steve Huffman has reportedly told employees that Selig threatened Reddit. Selig posted a (perfectly legally recorded and disclosed) call recording showing the alleged “threat” was a misunderstanding over which the Reddit employee on the call apologized immediately.

Huffman serves in an official capacity at the Anti-Defamation League. People are (rightly, I think) critical of his handling partly in light of that.
I am firmly on the opinion that every bit of public interface should get a documentation string.

You say "gets the height" is trivial, but that text tells not only what the function does, but also that the author couldn't think of anything else important to say. This is very different from no text at all, where you can't be certain if the author even thought about it.

IMO, enforcing an internal structure (AKA "you must document each parameter and the return value") is counter-productive, but enforcing the existence of the comment is very productive.

> Also it clutters the code with many highly trivial remarks.

I'd say that it "clutters" the code with markers for public elements and hard to understand ones. Those are actually valuable, and not clutter at all.

Anyway, if those markers are a large share of your lines, you may need to rethink your architecture. It's usually not valuable to have a lot of interface for trivial things.
If Blaze Pizza couldn’t beat Dominos in flavor and texture when I’m right there picking all the ingredients and eating the pizza fresh out the oven, then Zume had no chance.

The fundamental issue is that these pizzas are made expediently. There are compromises made in pursuit of automation and speed that make the pizza worse than Dominos/Pizza Hut/Papa John’s. Those aren’t paragons of pizza-making by any stretch, but they’re the competition.

Theoretically you can create a machine that puts out a pizza that rivals the best pies in Brooklyn or New Haven, every single time, but I guess investors thought that the plebs will eat fancy DiGiorno’s at Domino’s prices and not notice the difference.

Maybe one of the major pizza chains will buy Zume’s IP and iterate from there. I don’t think they’d deploy the technology until it reaches human-equivalence for at least some of their pizzas or part of the pizza-making process. Pizza chains can play the long game. A pizza robot startup valued at $500M can’t.
M2 Ultra Mac Studio Review: Who Needs a Mac Pro, Anyway?
Read what I posted earlier [1]. tl;dr - everyone knows 2 days isn't enough time for a protest to work unless decision makers are really on the fence.

What it does is to set the terms of the argument. Think 2 days is manageable? How about 30? Or 180. I wonder how good that would feel as you try to close your IPO? That is the threat - that it doesn't ever come back unless it's on better terms and it risks the real golden egg of management - the IPO.

I theorized the best way for management to fight back is to engineer a way for them to claim the threat isn't real (ie, the outages today). We'll see how it impacts the metrics and whether engagement falls off a cliff.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36288240
What cause of action?
A bit ironic that the last post is a UI thread question. I would welcome green threads or a virtual threading system, but considering the UI work that C# handles, its no wonder async/await was implemented. If Java virtual threads are a success, I expect C# to follow suit.
See Swank used in Slime

https://github.com/slime/slime/blob/master/swank.lisp
I feel that inteligence is even more under-discussed. I work in the academia, and here there is a generalized bitterness against people seen as "less inteligent" but more successful (bussiness man with more money, pretty people with better partners...) as it was completely undeserved.

Obviously, for the self perceived as inteligent and hard working people any privilege that is not inteligence is intolerable and should be fixed somehow. But if you have your PhD you somehow deserve all the privileges.
Why sell the house? Don’t you still need a place to live?
The edge is... have mentors. And continuously learn.
Well, I'm not saying that modification of behavior is impossible, just that "don't have kids" is practically a non-starter. Stiff tax penalties for more than 3 kids is probably something which might become possible if things get pretty bad, for example (I'm sure conservatives would object strongly, however).

Carbon taxes/credits are probably possible. Huge public works (build enough solar panels and energy storage station to meet most of our power needs). Big taxes on carmakers for making high emission vehicles, etc. There are lots of policies which can work, and I think the market will, eventually, also probably get there eventually. But just telling people not to have kids is silly.
The discussion there looks very good
Them "anticipating" "expected" issues with... people visiting reddit less sounds a bit weird...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method

"The purpose of an experiment is to determine whether observations agree with or conflict with the expectations deduced from a hypothesis"
Isn’t Roblox the modern Second Life?
Expectations of a bailout might mess up this analysis.
To be clear, few people in SL are building worlds because its too expensive. Most people spend on avatar clothing and such, and that's what they do most of the time
Getting a dumbphones is also way more cost effective. I just tried to look up the cost. For the first year, getting a landline would cost me $575. Use the landline at work... They give us cellphones, no landline and there are no payphone anymore.

Just get a dumbphone and leave it at home.
> In a REAL capitalistic economy, a small shipping provider would have raised the capital immediately to capitalize on the strikes, advertised their services to UPSs customers and eaten the company away.

In a REAL capitalistic economy, a large shipping provider would intimidate their own employees by means of having their own army.
If your goal is to lose weight, it seems like diet coke is the better choice short-term (because it has much less calories) and normal coke the better choice long-term (because according to studies, NSS don't help long term and to reduce their other long-term effects).

So I guess if you drink a coke once in a while, diet coke is better and if you drink coke very often, you should stop drinking coke.
You're right, I didn't consider that! Although most users allow you to plug in your laptop before plugging in any upstream. So you can reconfigure that before actually installing the router.
The point is forgery of signatures and contracts is not typically an issue.

In contract disputes, there's usually no dispute of if a contract was signed. Sometimes there's a dispute over which contract was signed, but then each party may have a signature on a contract or not. Much more often there's no disagreement on the contract or that it was signed, but on the terms.

It's nice that electronic signing can solve the issue of validity of signatures, but it's not that big of a deal, because it wasn't that much of an issue; and that's why e-signing has devolved into 'click a button to enter a signature' without any sort of cryptography.
Damn, I thought erythritol was downside-free. Looks like it is associated with a nontrivial risk of heart attack and stroke

https://www.realsimple.com/study-links-stevia-and-monk-fruit...
Climate change is many things:

- Real.

- Influenced by human activity, both positively and negatively.

- Difficult to study, because we only have decades of hard data for what is a phenomenon spanning eons.

- A narrative pushed by Western economies to discourage economic development of the Global South and maintain hegemony. If the former were actually serious about mitigating it, it would harshly regulate planned obsolescence which causes astronomical amounts of waste and pollution. Instead, they browbeat poor countries for building durable infrastructure.

- Classic fear-mongering as a means of maintaining control ("follow me or everyone will die").

- An expression of aging "hippy" eschatology; we have one of the most individualistic generations in human history reaching old age and projecting its death onto the world as a coping mechanism.

- A polarizing topic that lures engagement.

I think blogs like this are a manifestation of the latter two or three.
"Openly admitting" has a very different connotation than "fessing up after you get caught".
You also will change your tastes as you get older. So, could be a change in the sodas, could be a change in you.
I was skeptical, but when the author introduced "Hiroshimas per second" as a scale to measure temperature I understood that this was a truly scientific article.
> just personal discipline and habits

Obesity can universally be resolved by eating less, a matter of discipline and habits. And yet it has increased everywhere! Have people become less disciplined or has the world become better at undermining our discipline?

Does it really make sense to assign individual blame to a universal phenomenon? We didn't blame the weakness of individuals for the public health issues surrounding cigarettes. We banned children from using them and put warning labels on every pack.
"Javascript the good parts" is explicitly about avoid Java like programming in JS. It is about writing Javascript like its a bad implementation of Scheme (which is closer to reality than a version of Java).
heavy handed forced moat tactic
Fair. I removed login requirements for browsing. You should be able to see all posts here: https://non.io/#all

As a disclaimer, this is truly me just launching today, there's only 4 posts currently.
Interesting to see oh this will affect (or not) the Rescript project.
It's probably the caffeine in Coke that keeps you going back. By the way: the newly reformulated Pepsi Zero has a lot more of it.
It's not the same thing, browser extensions can block at a much more granular level than entire hostnames.
It seems you may be looking to only discredit an argument instead of arguing the merits.

FTA:

> However, the use of quarantine and other measures for controlling epidemic diseases has always been controversial because such strategies raise political, ethical, and socioeconomic issues and require a careful balance between public interest and individual rights.

Here’s a list of about 30 examples since the 15th century where various governments have prevented the free movement of their people (because even then, they recognized that public health is more important than individual travel).

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/short-history-of-quara...

In the face of a never-before-seen rapidly spreading and mutating virus, what the hell do you think medical professionals and governments ought to do? Stand by idly and let people die?
> 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".

Reddit itself received a massive influx of users from Digg after the unpopular Digg v4 change. For me and many others, it was just like Digg but without the bad thing. Admittedly that’s not how Reddit started - in fact, Reddit had been around for 5 years already at that point - but you could say the same thing about Mastodon, which was started in 2016(!), or Lemmy, which was started in 2019.
> With some empathy you can often tell.

This doesn't sound like empathy - it sounds like stereotyping. Instead of getting to know someone and finding out about them, or accepting that you just don't know details about their life, you develop a story of their life in head based on nothing but your gut feeling.

> Also don't need to know anything to know that 70+ year olds don't work at some menial service industry job in countries where they can afford to retire.

Is Sweden one of those countries where people can afford to retire? Because they have about the same rate of 75+ year olds working as the US.

https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/02/22/the-rise-of-elderly...

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/slideshows/states-wi...
Also:

> The recommendation is based on evidence of low certainty overall
If by self-correcting you mean 'killing enough humans until a new equilibrium is reached' sure
We're talking about nicotine, not smoking. There is no evidence that nicotine is carcinogenic.

https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/causes-of-canc...

> Nicotine is the chemical that makes cigarettes addictive. But it is not responsible for the harmful effects of smoking, and nicotine does not cause cancer. People have safely used nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) to stop smoking for many years. Nicotine replacement therapy is prescribed by doctors or is available from pharmacies.

The risks for hypertension, etc is true for nicotine, because it's a stimulant, so same risks exist for coffee. There is very little conclusive evidence that nicotine (not talking about smoking or vaping) has any health effects that aren't also caused by coffee/stimulants.

The best thing you can say about vaping is that it's very understudied and long term effects are unknown, and likely has some long term effects that are bad for you.

Smokeless nicotine (swedish snus-variety) is considered very safe.

The problem is smoking and nicotine have been so intertwined for so long that when they say "Nicotine causes x" most of the time what they mean is "Smoking causes x" and maybe also "Vaping could potentially cause x"
I'm generally not cynical about human motivations, but after seeing many of these things and how thoroughly the "internal propaganda" at tech companies works, I think those are just the reasons they tell themselves. The real reason is the control and the deep analytics that you can get from mobile apps. Plus having an app icon which really does boost engagement, but nowhere enough to justify on its own.
"resolving the anticipated issue"

I'm amazed that they can call it "expected" and "anticipated" after it took their site down, the very definition of something unanticipated and unintended happening.
The issue is that "hate group" is a motte and bailey. If you ask people what it is, they say it's the KKK. But the KKK has like four living members who were all born before the discovery of penicillin.

And then no one can give you any definition they're actually willing to see consistently applied. You can come up with things like "the group advocates violence" but you can find a member of any sufficiently large group who does that, so a consistent application would have you classifying environmentalists and feminists and so on as hate groups.

What people really want is to ban any group where they can find any member advocating violence and that group has a disfavored ideology. But it's the latter which is doing all the work, and nobody is willing to admit that because "we want an excuse to ban anyone who disagrees with our ideology" is saying the quiet part out loud.
Yes - this is my point.

So many of you people have become so emotionally invested in the false narratives that you have believed, that you can't cope with any evidence that threatens your narrative even slightly.

At least we can talk about the "lab leak theory" now. This was the original point I made: it will take years for people to climb down these positions they have taken, but at least we are making small steps in the right direction.
At the core of the First Amendment is, I think, the idea that there is no speech objectivity and if someone in particular is allowed to police speech, it will be policed in a very biased way (ie. by those with the power). That's why "a behaviour society would be better off without" is fundamentally problematic.

It is likely obvious to any individual how to enumerate those behaviours, but good luck getting everyone to agree. And super good luck avoiding the endless growth of that list. I think that's partly why parody is so well-established as 1A protected and why why there's nothing legally problematic with a "Shithead Steve" shirt, as ugly as you and I would both find that to be.

If people find the First Amendment to be a nuisance when they're trying to silence speech that they feel society would be better off without, then the amendment is doing its intended job.
> speed-comparison

a tiny tiny ten-line snippet of code

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
Holy cow, the implications of that story were terrifying! I can't believe it took 8yrs for someone to notice!
Interesting rhetorical move. What other kinds of communications are you in favour of censoring?
I imagined just a password field that the user needs to remember

AES is symmetrical
'dang didn't flag it: he posted related past articles, which he often does (such as here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36278663). If he had intended to call it out as a [dupe] he would have explicitly done so.
A gamepad is a terrible way to control a VR game.

You need individual hand motion controllers at a minimum.

Look at all the other VR headsets out there. Look at the Valve Index controllers for example.
Seems he was born in 1959.

Hmph. I want to scoff at how easy he has had it on this subject. And I guess I am.
Nope. Both Coke Zero and Pepsi Max(I guess that's what you mean by Black) are just awful, different to Diet but still bad - but I feel the same about literally any drink sweetened with aspartame/acesulfam/sucralose though. I can't imagine drinking a can of any of these - but I'll happily have a regular coke.
I have a few memories of picking blueberries with my mom as a kid - sweat dripped off my eyebrows, down the back of my neck and onto the strap that held the tray. She tried to get us out early, but there was a period around 10:00 just after the dew burned off when the humidity was still 100% and the sun was high enough to bake you. As a 7yo wishing I could stay home on my "hard-earned" summer vacation, most of the hardship was purely imagined. And maybe the flavor of those sweaty blueberries was imagined: I've not been able to replicate the taste for some time, even if I drag dragging my own boy to the U-Pick field. I wonder what they taste like to him.
Assimilation speed versus rate of joining versus rate of people leaving all need to be kept in balance to have a long running, tight-knit community. An interesting example is university clubs: they have the intrinsic property that people's tenure in the club is very finite, typically a maximum of 4 years. Despite this constant turnover of membership, clubs tend to maintain a relatively constant culture. I posit that the main driver behind this is deliberate accelerated assimilation.

Right out of the gates, you have selection bias in who wants to be in your club: probably people who share many of the same interests as the club. Then you have further selection pressure with inviting new membership: existing members are more likely to accept into the organization prospective members who are similar to themselves, or at least, an idealized version. Then, you have rituals, ranging from hazing to positive Big/Little type interactions, which proactively push new members to assimilate into the club.
I hope they make canned meat then.
I love dumbphones and I used to carry one until ~2 years ago, but it's increasingly untenable due to whatsapp. Couldn't care less about anything else. (perhaps an alarm clock? but even the dumbest of dumbphones has that)
/sample/ code for a nuclear device? no. not sample code.
I think/hope the Archive Team managed to backup all or almost all of reddit.