skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Elephant in the room -- with all the "cost of living" crisis striking across the lower, middle and even sometimes higher ranks of incomes, the MSM are starting to wake up to one stone-hard reality: house prices are f*ing bonkers.
Irony -- after praising the "feel rich" wave that has been plaguing Western countries since the dotdom bubble burst.

We know the income multipliers from the article, and the article hints at the pain of those households who are going to get caught when remortgaging (the act of having to re-negotiate your borrowing conditions after a period of time has expired, basically).

2020 from the daily mail, BBC, guardian (aka grauniad), telegraph (aka torygraph) and others:
. "House prices are rising and god that's wonderful"
. "Buy now before it's too late! Don't miss out!"
. "How to borrow sensibly over 35 years" (lol)
. "Rates are low, now is a good time to get on the housing ladder!"
. in a word, property porn, sprinkled with a generous amount of "Fear Of Missing Out".

Despicable.

Successive governments, big fans of the "free market":
. Help to buy
. Various loan garantees
. Lobbying and land hoarding from a cartel of (very large, very connected) building companies/groups.

This is a fucking mess. Prices as high as this haven't been seen in the UK since Victorian times. And we all know Victorian times were great from all perspectives, don't we?) and the only entities benefiting from them are:
. Governments (stamp duty, etc)
. Banks (longer mortgages)
. Some law firms/professions
. Estate agents.

Despicable.

The rest suffer from:
. being tied to inordinate amounts of debt for what is most people's __entire__ professional life
. tied -> less mobility
. tied -> more fear, more docility
. etc, etc.

Not to mention that with interest rates rises, those monthly payment aren't exactly coming down (Anytime soon? pivot one day?). On top of food prices. On top of energy prices. On top of tax banding. etc, etc.

And now the MSM has the galling audacity to vomit such articles. Makes you wonder:
. They are probably crying for help to the government (in "gimme gibs" mode)
. Writers may or may not be up to the hilt in a very very long mortgagy relationships with a bank
. Whether they should be confronted with the appalling content they exposed to a (unfortunately and too-often-ly) financially illiterate readership. And make them pay. Somehow.

Everyone's blood should start boiling when reading such hypocrisy coming from a publication like the Guardian (see list above).
I always thought when people mentions lab leak theory they meant an accident. Never heard the bio weapon thing before honestly.
Do we need a citation that oil is a valuable commodity? Or that the internet has been useful for commerce?

I think it's self-evident that hip hop is at least a trillion dollar phenomenon and that it started with black folks in the United States.
I hacked together a just intonation thing for a friend using midi notes for a friend using midi and puredata a while back. It didn’t take long - less than an hour. Obviously took advantage of pd’s implementation detail.

The MPE presets I’ve messed with with some Roli kit have been fun.
They claimed that "The people who do the real contributing—posting, modding, defining the culture and building the communities that Reddit benefits" were driven off ("these people have been purged already over the past 2-3 years.")

Only some small groups were actually driven off.
On other hand their ancestors did not adopt the values and living style of the people already present. So why should anyone coming after them be either stopped or adopt their values?
Couldn't you just move to a city that isn't London or one of the more popular cities?

Yes there is a housing problem, but one of the reasons is because people want to live in the cities or popular places. If you are willing to own a car and add a commute, there is plenty of housing available.
Creating a decent Reddit clone is a weekend project. I've done similar stuff as a demo teaching an hour long 'Intro to Rails' class at the local code school.
i can't control solar rays

i can control what my application uses as IDs
I was confused by these things as well and here’s what I came up with:

RE objects, I guess they are referring to Smalltalk-style objects. Objective-C has them while Swift has a somewhat different flavor of objects. This author seems to consider that a regression of sorts.

RE the connection and component languages — your “white collar” and “blue collar” languages (BTW, I like your terminology, so I’ll use it), I think they are making the point that Objective-C started with a blue collar language, C, and extended it with while collar language features (derived from smalltalk), while Mojo started with a white collar language, Python, and are extending it with blue collar features. The author likes the Mojo approach, though doesn’t really explain that. I think they are claiming Swift is somehow more aligned with the blue collar side than Objective-C and feel that’s bad, but it’s too vague to really mean anything.

(I think the idea with Swift and some other newer languages is that you can have a single language that is good at both white collar and blue collar things and “native” to both. I don’t think Swift has quite pulled it off, but it’s still evolving, so we’ll see.)
Sounds interesting!

Will you compare with qryn? Self-hosted sentry?

https://qryn.metrico.in/

https://develop.sentry.dev/self-hosted/
...and to those who agree that AI has major risks, it glorifies a mentally-disturbed murderer.
I feel everyone complaining about Stack Overflow should become a Stack Overflow moderator for a month. I am 100% convinced almost all of them will severely nuance their opinions after that, if not radically change them.
Totally bollocks answer to the point that either the commenter is trolling or is deep into the Qanon nutjob circles
"enshittification", per Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys

an instance of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall
He was a beloved farmer. But for Reddit, his work ethic meant something else
On mobile?

Apart from a few geeks using firefox on android, mobile browsers generally dont hinder ads
Hey if you write your name out as LAST First (which I see many French people do) then you might not even have to ask people to call you by your first name.
And yet maybe it was right?
Ya turn the country into one massive council estate. Brilliant. I'd rather live on a boat
Why wouldn’t you use colab for nsfw? Do you really not trust Google Cloud that much? Or do they have some kind of policy I’m not aware of (can’t imagine how they would enforce this)?
Don’t know where the flag button is but this deserves it.

To end on:

> a fuel made from water

Except it’s currently not. And will not be made from water at anything close to the current price without major subsidies.

I don’t know where to get the idea that anything I say is denying climate change. Quite the opposite. We already have proven solution that work. We don’t have time and money to waste on trying out ridiculous ideas like “hydrogen as an energy carrier”.
Uh, he was never a lawyer ... At the start he was a real estate developer.

His TV empire did start as small local TV channel for Milano 2, a residential neighbourhood he built in the "70.
This sounds like a bug to me. For the past month I've been randomly logged out of new.reddit during busy times.

(old.reddit is noticeably less buggy and MASSIVELY faster...)
I tried to official app recently, and while I did figure out how to remove ads using ReVanced, I don't think I managed to get the notifications I wanted (replies) without notifications I didn't want.
Of all the examples of 'possibly mafia connected' politicians, you chose Sturgeon?!

Literally lol.
OSS Podcast: Episode 379 – Will open source save the world, again? [audio]
I had the exact same reaction!
I'm still surprised that the Comedian-bootstrapped Internet-driven populist party idea hasn't taken a foothold in other countries.
Right, but why do you think this is useful for a modern car.
Age doesn't play a role in security excuses.

If it did, C authors shouldn't have ignored systems languages 10 years older than C.
I understood the previous remarks as suggesting problem isn’t strictly defederating the-underscore-Donald. It’s that defederation is an incredibly blunt tool, but one of the few tools available, and so you end up with some pretty obnoxious schisms.
There was never a consensus for or against lockdowns. Cant speak for the US and it's utterly broken media landscape but in Europe experts were asking for this from day one. It is also a known tool of any epidemic/pandemic management, it just has rarely been necessary at such scale given the intensity and wide distribution of COVID.
I don't understand any of this at all.

Do most Americans really believe they're entitled to free access to Reddit?

I've spent years of my life on reddit, and enjoyed most of it. For that, I'm truly grateful to spez and all the others that make it work. I 100% support them charging for the service over injecting ever more ads.

It's bizarre to me that folk are getting upset and abusive because reddit wants to charge parasitic apps for the privilege.

I don't get it.
With Linux it makes sense to go with the one file approach because it's a monolith.

The difference would be if there was a seperate "kernel" that handled disk devices. Imagine being able to upgrade it without swapping out anything to do with process control.

I mean; we already do this with userland programs of course.. but I think we're not used to this in kernel land conceptually.

The closest we have is kernel modules which are simply not in the same arena.. like comparing function calls to RESTFul RPC; they just operate too differently to compare mentally.
And if there are millions of users vs one company? The lifestyle choice of individuals won't matter without coordination
Rustdoc supports conceptual documentation quite well, including testing the example code. A specialized page is better, but the pareto principle applies.

See the Clap documentation:

https://docs.rs/clap/latest/clap/
China Helps Iran Supply Drones to Russia Quickly, Investigators Say
Audiences are fickle and audiences captured during a websites golden period of explosive growth steadily move away over time.

I am daily fark user for 20+ years. The site certainly is past its prime but this is just the natural lifecycle of many online communities I suspect. I wouldn't characterize it as dead. I wouldn't characterize its decline from peak popularity as caused by user-hostile actions of its owners.

I don't think fark is a useful cautionary tale in context of reddit. Probably a more useful example might be slashdot.

Fark has made changes: with its ux and its moderation policies and implementation of those policies at times, users grumbled.

It's perilous to actively antagonize your audience, to take away things from them that have genuine utility for them. A site dies when you drive away your key content creators and contributors. None of these things happened at Fark I believe.

Another useful example of a site that stepped back from the brink of mass audience exodus is onlyfans and their rolled back attempt to ban adult content.
Except the tiny detail that a big part of that value proposition is written in Java.

If people want to ignoring the foundations of their toolbox, that says a lot about the skillset.
https://archive.ph/s0bUe
What to expect from Debian/bookworm #newinbookworm
Build up not out.

London could use more multistory apartments.
Right, but the data goes worse [0] (uk-1980/2013). Some selected headlines :

> Declining number of first time buyers

> Decreasing numbers of younger homeowners

Edit: data until 2021 [1] follow this trend.

[0] https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populati...

[1] https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/housing/...
> Meanwhile we have seen ES6/typescript/react and countless other innovation take place.

I don't see these as innovations but workarounds to, or built upon, the poor foundations that the author mentions. They wouldn't need to exist if the foundations were solid, or at least not in the states they are in today
>Warhammer Online, Guild Wars 2, etc. were all great games from the business perspective.

OP said:

>all these mmos were popping up saying they were the "WoW killer"

Guild Wars and WHO weren't positioned as WoW killers. They were positioned as WoW alternatives that prioritized or PvP or had an endgame that revolved around PvP. Which is probably why they did well - they offered something that WoW wasn't good at instead of trying to eat WoW's lunch.
> "we do whatever USA tells us to do, against our own interest"

This statement sounds like criticism, not an endorsement of such state of affairs. But I was unable to find a source for it, so context or a citation would be welcome.
In that it tries and fails to preview links in the app's crap internal web engine? Surely people don't actually use that?
GB is geographical while UK is political.

I knew a pedant would visit you so I figured it might as well be me.
My previous rig is approaching 6 years, and the only dead component is a cheap external USB drive. The rig was mining 24/7 when it wasn't used for development or gaming. You must be doing something very wrong.
It depends. It may be easier to corral high value users into a green field, rather than have them share the field with low value users.
This, this and exactly this.

Their finance team probably made a projection that if they can get X% of current mobile web users onto the app, they’ll be able to extract Y% more total revenue. They have no idea that they should split users into contributors and lurkers and even if they had, they have absolutely no idea how to model their value, so they don’t, the board sees the numbers and tells them ‘ASAP’ and that’s how you kill social networks, because the financial model is based on false assumptions.
Did you sign up for the playground?
I heard about Mojo a few weeks ago and got access the same day.
> There is no "law" for this

Of course there is. The Trading With The Enemy Act of 1917, together with a series of E. O.s, namely, 14024 and 14068, as implemented last June [1]. Everyone knew the rules they were playing by going into this.

[1] https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0838
We used that logic in several other countries. This might work for your generation, but you will royally screw over the next without a plan. When there's no system in place to help push down housing prices / build according to the demand / population growth, or push companies to spread across the country, the problem will continue to grow.
> If discussion of hypothesis needs to be suppressed during a 3-year-long "emergency" then we have an issue.

Unfortunately, we do have an issue. Ignoring that it is one will not solve it, nor will brushing it under the rug by the lame attempts at disinformation removal. We need to face the fact that a decent amount of our population is acting out of anger and fear, often irrationally and without evidence, and that they were used and manipulated for political and monetary gain and it has gotten passed the point where it can be walked back.

Social media is a vector but not the cause. I don't know what the answer is, but we certainly do have an issue.
I believe the complexity often stems from historical development as well. There are often multiple ways to achieve the same thing or workarounds for specific browser. Either you have HTML tags to format something or you can do it with CSS. CSS is difficult, because there are obtuse rules. The order of CSS-rules is relevant as well as the specificity (which is hell in my opinion).

You can write an extremely clean and awesome HTML/CSS document. But you very rarely find that kind on the web.

I think we neglected being more careful here because browsers became more and more forgiving. So they often render as intended, but not really like it is stated in the often invalid document. That made browser insanely complex as well. No new browser will ever be successful if it would be parsing strictly. More than half of all websites would probably stop working correctly.

I believe you could replace both HTML/CSS with something much more clear and as capable. But on the other hand we should be glad that we have standards like this and perhaps we shouldn't let perfect be the enemy of good.

Perhaps JS doesn't qualify as good, but on the other hand I think its success speaks for itself. It even grew beyond the browser and some electron apps are extremely well received (apart perhaps by your system memory). Despite that, it is a scripting language and it should mostly be used as that. Since every browser comes with a parser, it is a quite mighty tool to have.

Python is a similar contender. It is the ultimate choice for certain domains and I don't see that changing any time soon, even if python isn't perfect itself.
> I'll probably be downvoted (again)

This is a self-fulfilling prophesy.

"Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
AI-generated essays – yay or nay?
https://quotefancy.com/media/wallpaper/3840x2160/1508-Albert...
Show HN: Daily Collaborative Crosswords – Crossnoodle
Crossnoodle is a randomly generated daily crossword puzzle. The grid gets bigger (and therefore harder) Monday through Sunday. I'm a big crossword fan and wanted to have something to enjoy besides the NYT. You can also send an invite link to a friend and have them join your game. Have fun! Any feedback is welcomed.
> couldn't safely operate their fleet for very long without western companies

Nor legally. Overfly regulations generally require minimum standards be met. This is why Iranian and Russian jets are largely confined to domestic service.
It’s not a bad article. Only feedback I would have is about this passage:

“””
If you routinely pass in a dataset to AI, it can identify anomalies and watch to see if it settles or even reason why the anomaly occurred in the first place.
“””

This is not a great use for LLM’s. AI? Sure. But not this type of it.
Because you usually loose a large part of the community on the way?
> spare bedroom tax

This idea is ridiculous
> Whereas IDK where Germany came from.

Von den Germanen.

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

I'm not a fan of this modern idea that you should get to dictate how others refer to you. E.g. I don't think it makes sense to refer to China as Middle Country for anyone not from China.
> I think that's why you get Australians who seem to care more about the US election than our own, and every second conversation seems to have an American controversy slipped into it here.

The US for better or the worse is the 'world leader', the current big 'empire', every country in the world reports on US news.

Of course in Australia it doesn't help that you have Sky News (Fox News for Australia) riling people up over stuff that doesn't concern them at all.
>If the user follows a link to an article or video, there's a high chance it'll be the end of their reddit session, due to distraction or back button capture.

Ironically this is made worse by apps teaching users not to multitask. You can't open a tab to read later.
Marriage has quit appealing to young people I suppose. The policy changes to recast marriage have probably not helped - upsetting folk's view of a social institution may not help to increase participation.

Perhaps by supporting children and families, making marriage interesting and less expensive, could help? Funny nobody thinks of that.
Does anyone know why the clang that comes with macOS does not support OpenMP, even though upstream clang does? I use OpenMP to teach basic parallel programming, and it is really annoying that the macOS users have to install another compiler to get it working.

(The problem is exacerbated by the ridiculous fact that macOS includes a 'gcc' alias that is not in fact GCC, and which risks shadowing a proper GCC that the students install themselves.)
How long would they need to stay down for associated posts to fall out of Google's index?
Probably a big chunk of Fastmail's customers are in North America, so they probably host there for lower latency.
in a way the confusion proves the point.

in terms of real usage, a sizeable population of users won’t actually benefit from upgradable graphics. for gaming or otherwise. even a lone A100. (how many users not only use an A100 but also installed it? yes, that’s silly.)

knowing an upgrade is possible, knowing an upgrade is sensible, knowing how to upgrade, and actually performing the upgrade (and successfully) are all steps down the upgrade path. would suspect the conversion rate on that is quite low considering the size of the funnel at the start. especially with the last few years of logistics.

as for these unified macs, if the system starts to show weakness, then yes, time to consider that it isn’t the right tool for the job, and maybe it is time to push that workload to a dedicated gaming pc (for now) or the cloud (for scale.)

and, yes, there is still option 3. maybe time for an upgrade… of the entire system. even with the benefit of a curated environment, that is a hefty cost. everything gets replaced or nothing gets upgraded. which, full circle, only matters when an upgrade matters. will it?
The Australian government is hostile towards privacy IMO. I wouldn't trust a privacy focused company based in Australia.
if state actors where your threat model you should not be using email in the first place for communication, and if you do at minimum you should be using encryption inside the communication not relaying on a 3rd party to protect your messages.

Further if you are a US Citizen talking with Other US Citizens, then having your data in the US is the best place for it... Putting it outside the US automatically eliminates any of the paper thin constitutional concerns the state actors would have to pretend to care about... If your email in a 5 eyes nation then it makes their job even easier.
Every single browser except Chrome would be a better way to put it.
Apple people are a weird cult to me. I think Apple is happy to have a subset of customers willing to pay exorbitant prices, and fine with a large chunk of people (like me) who won't buy any of their products.
Spez sold his shares in 2006 before joining back as a CEO in 2015. He probably has equity as the CEO, but not as many as a regular founder and as such he should have much less power and control over the company than Zuck.
Maybe if you're British. :-) Or maybe I'm just one of today's lucky 10,000.
It's also mine ;)
I respect The Guardian but sometimes they beat too much of the leftist/socialist agenda (everything should be free for everyone).
I will see you in a week when I emerge from experiencing all that has to offer.
> instead I'll wait for a collapse

I've been waiting for the housing market in my country to go bust since 2008. Any day now.
> having a population that isn't exponentially growing is a bad thing.

I want social programs, but you got to have a tax base to pay for it
The developer has already clarified that Apollo was not the top user of the API. It was also confirmed by a Reddit employee.
How did remote work turn into such a PR disaster?
Purchasing a device is easily done through monthly instalments so I personally don't perceive expensive smartphones as a status signifier anymore. Mostly I wonder what people are doing that they need high-end powerful hardware like that.

It's not always a positive judgement on my part. Maybe I'm too judgemental.
It gets harder to build big things with small transistors, not easier, due to yield.

Also if you want to use big transistors, power dissipation also means you have to stay small or you will start fires.
It's unbelievable how long the reign of this generation of politicians was and still is today. It will also never be repeated in the future, thankfully.