skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does happen in practice, but unfortunately because it doesn't happen in practice on average, the WHO has opted away from educating people on the nuances and instead continue this maddening war about which is worse.

The other issue is that there's so much variance. Are you making an effort at improving the quality of your food and made up that 200 calories with nutrient rich items? Too bad, you still aren't losing weight, so WHO declares that diet soda is ineffective for weight loss, articles summarize and declare that artificial sweeteners are bad for you, and you still get people thinking that diet soda is worse for you than regular soda.
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If I'm reading the article by the WHO correctly; its not saying stop using Artificial Sweeteners because they are poisonous - they're saying that Artificial-Sweeteners aren't part of a long term weight management strategy.

If your protein powders have them - no factor. I feel like the headline is 10x more inflammatory than it needs to be.
The wastage is shocking. Given the huge demand for (and sometimes shortage of) materials (as well as the time, money, and resources involved in creating them) there should be an established and secure process that is security/compliance approved and would allow for acceptable recycling of these hard drives.
The economy is already devastated if it relies on a separate class of owners and workers. With the workers never protesting too much.

Labor disputes and working with those things is a net positive for the economy and most people. Most people are not filthy rich.
There is a subreddit about Reddit alternatives:

https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/
Refutation contains what I also noted: "For the ENaC hypothesis to be true, UNC or WIV researchers would have had to possess the direct SARS-CoV-2 progenitor isolated from another animal—not a bat."

COVID-19 is not "some previously known coronavirus strain with furin cleavage site".
reddit, hn, cloudflare down. This is a bad day for the internet
I agree with your overall point, but if your business is spending a bunch of money on stupid junk your customers don't want, such as a jaw-droppingly terrible web UI and stupid Tik-tok clone features, it's not unreasonable for your customers to tell you they don't want to pay the price you're asking and take their business elsewhere.
Reference to research?
Thanks for the question!

No user data is automatically sent to gpt4. It’s strictly opt-in. Chat is sent to gpt4 only when the user specifically requests it.
> I see reddit less as a website and more as a collection of communities.

I’d say that Reddit used to be like that, but that they’ve been actively undermining that, because that’s not what they want to be any more. New Reddit (2018, I think) showed that they really don’t care about that aspect.

New Reddit forces post lists to be massive space-wasting and thumbnailed stuff. On my laptop’s screen, it tends to fit about one and a half items per screen, and is clearly oriented around doom scrolling: consuming content. When you view a post, you can see about six comments at once, mostly only top-level ones with occasional second-level ones. Actually, it seems they might have improved it recently: last time I tried it, I think you couldn’t get it to display beyond third-level, and it would only expand one level at a time, whereas now it seems to expand more at once (though it’s still way too aggressive in its collapsing) and go up to fourth-level before going deeper takes you to a single comment thread view with hopelessly bad history management that makes anything but always opening in new tabs just about completely broken. Anyway, they’ve severely hobbled the threaded comments system, because they’re optimising for massive subreddits where comments average vapid. Basically, anti-community.

By contrast, Old Reddit fit about a dozen items per screen, and required action to see an item at anything but a tiny size (70×70 or so), because it cared more about the comments thread. And it tends to fit about a dozen comments on my screen, and you can actually view nested comment threads meaningfully, and it all just works way better. Because it cared more about community.

Communities depend on a much better commenting system than New Reddit wants to let you have. HN and Old Reddit are both way better.

I’m fairly involved in r/rust. If Old Reddit ever disappears, so does my remaining use of Reddit, because I don’t think you can maintain a decent community without it.

Reddit are forsaking their link discovery and community discussion roots, and becoming just mass social media and memes, and they’re making major technical decisions which enforce this, even for the subreddits that want things the way they used to be.
Whoa there cowboy - next you're gonna say something crazy, like we should hold the CEO accountable for his own incompetence. Obviously it's the users who are wrong!
The actual recommendation:

> WHO suggests that non-sugar sweeteners not be used as a means of achieving weight control or reducing the risk of noncommunicable diseases (conditional recommendation)

> Conditional recommendations are those recommendations for which the WHO guideline development group is less certain that the desirable consequences of implementing the recommendation outweigh
the undesirable consequences or when the anticipated net benefits are very small. Therefore, substantive discussion amongst policy-makers may be required before a conditional recommendation
can be adopted as policy.

> Because the WHO Nutrition Guidance Expert Advisory Group (NUGAG) Subgroup on Diet and Health focuses on providing guidance on the prevention of unhealthy weight gain and diet-related NCDs, providing guidance on the management of diabetes in individuals with pre-existing diabetes is beyond the scope of this guideline. Therefore, the guidance in the guideline may not be relevant for individuals with existing diabetes.

https://apps.who.int/iris/rest/bitstreams/1501485/retrieve

I don't understand the expectations some people have of the WHO. Anything more complicated than a headline is going to get oversimplified by the media.
Most of these 'issues' are not with phones themselves, but just personal discipline and habits. Not to say they're not real problems, though.

However, having world-brains in our pocket isn't just quality of life and convenience any more - it's become foundational and isn't going away soon. Reliance on them is only going to increase as time goes on. (Until they are replaced by something even more powerful and useful)

I admit fully that the erosion of privacy is a problem, but it's one that we're just going to have to deal with IMO. It's the cost of being a part of modern civilization. If you want to live in the middle of some woods on your own water and power, fine. Otherwise, I'd say you just need to deal with it.
I wonder when we'll start seeing internal drama leaking out. Engineers are rarely happy to be woken up on Monday morning because of decisions by leadership.
Yeah I've only seen a few clips of him but the questions he asks are so boring, and asking good questions is THE essential skill for a good interviewer.

He had John Carmack on his show which piqued my interest, but he was asking questions like "what's the best programming language" and "what's the best IDE." Such a blown opportunity to be asking useless first year CS student questions like that when interviewing a great mind like Carmack.
Despite being flagged, I can still see the link and we can still comment on it. It's not memory-holed.
slashdot. it was (i think) the first news aggregator everyone used, then digg, then reddit.
It's actually pretty impressive that they are running this from one server in their own programming language
Twenty million *Soviets*, no shortage of Ukranians, Kazakhs, Tatars, Kipchaks, Lithuanians, et al, who fell to German guns.
> but those failure modes are not expressed by the source code of the running program, they're triggered at a layer of abstraction well below the compiled and running software

Does that make a difference? There's no way to use source code without applying the real world to it.

> is this acceptable? can i assume that calling x will never panic, in practice?

If the probability is that high, then even if x was just { return 123 } you shouldn't assume it will work.

If you replace that code with if (secure_rand_u128() == 0) { panic("boom") }, then it would be safe to assume it won't panic.
I guess I don't know what would be considered expensive here, but when I reached out, they said that their base plans starting at < $1000 / month and gets you about 1 million verifications a year. Again, not being familiar with this fraud space I am not sure if that is expensive or not.

I'll look into those other platforms, but they look exclusively like email only checks though, ya? I have email, but also phone / name for my platform.
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If you are not paying for your browser with your wallet, somebody else is paying for you. It has all sorts of implications.
This is something that boggles my mind. Why would not lead with compensation range so we don't waste each others time? Moreover, it some state it is law to reveal the comp range in the job post.
> Especially when there's dependency injection

If it were just dependency injection it would be one thing but when you have all the opaque behavior that comes with a framework like Spring you get a bunch of spooky action at a distance code that can't be followed simply by traversing the call stack.
On mobile, Apollo for iOS and rif(reddit is fun) on android are waaay better than the official app
In your example Flask would be a single point of failure and could indeed be called decentralized. For example websites can individually patch their Flask installation and come back up one by one, without depending on anyone else (at least once Flask is fixed).

Here with Cloudflare, a single entity is responsible for the fix and will more or less fix the failure for every sites that uses it at the same time, by fixing it on their side. And website individually cannot do anything on their own.

So I would argue it makes sense to call that centralized, at least from a structural/operational perspective.

It is at the very least a form of contraction of the network.
Reddit 100% has stated that it was because of the sub blackout.

> According to Reddit, the blackout is responsible for the problems. “A significant number of subreddits shifting to private caused some expected stability issues, and we’ve been working on resolving the anticipated issue,” spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt tells The Verge.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/12/23758002/reddit-crashing-...
Literally nobody is saying that reddit can't charge for their API. What everyone is saying is that the proposed API usage fee structure is not designed to keep reddit's lights on. It's clearly designed to remove third party interoperability.
A man has a right to be offended by somebody asking him if he is a man. (Woman too, for that matter.)

Asking everybody their pronouns by default is an overtly political act, meant to re-engineer society to be more accommodating to people who's preferred pronouns do not match their visual appearance. The idea is that if everybody lists their pronouns, those people who's pronoun doesn't match their appearance will seem less conspicuous when they specify their preference. Since this listing of pronounces is a fundamentally a political act, you shouldn't be surprised when you encounter people who don't wish to participate in this sort of political action. Furthermore it is clearly inappropriate for employers to coerce workers to participating in such activism.
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We now know that the intestines have 'taste buds' that can detect sweetness.

There's a theory, and I don't know how tested it is at present, that the body uses these detectors to control the digestion process. Within this theory, the presence of the artificial sweeteners may encourage the body to work harder to scavenge calories from your digestive tract.

The upshot of this model is that if you eat a burger with a glass of water, you absorb X calories. If you eat the burger with a diet Sprite, you might be absorbing X + Y calories instead.

Remember, calorie counts for food are based on measures of caloric value of a unit of food minus the caloric value of what the average person excretes. If we were furnaces instead of meat we would get more calories from our food. And if you have odd digestive microbes you may be absorbing more or less calories from your food.
They trot out that shite anytime they can, it doesn't change the economics of "we have a small market mindset and can't value tech from a global perspective". Also eco-classism means tech is surpressed by finance anywhere it can be.
The article says that young people are poor, old people are rich.

Parent comment claims that young people are not having kids because poor.

Your graph says that richer people had fewer kids (in the last 12 months).

Your graph would only refute the parent comment if you could show that people have fewer kids because they're richer, not because they're older (confounding factor) and/or people with more kids don't have to sacrifice an income to look after said kids (reverse causation)
Aha, it's still a perfectly cromulent point. _every_ device starts off fast, phones laptops, whatever.

I've had quite a few MBs and they all slow down after a while, needing an overhaul/refresh in the same way that windows machines, phones etc do.

Get that red memory pressure and kernel desperately swapping pages in & out, woooo. Perhaps things are different with >16GB machines with the SSD mostly empty.
"The end of global industrial civilization is where we are headed right now, not at some future dystopian moment. I wish I had a hopeful word to end with. But I don’t."

That's a pretty terrifying ending. Many of these trends (reducing sea ice causing increased ocean warming, burning of forests and permafrost) may be irreversible once things pass a certain point. At very least we may need to engage in some sort of large-scale solar radiation management project to stop them, and worryingly we may need to start that project very soon before it's too late.
If you want to have a phone available anytime, you are better off having a cellphone that you can turn ON then having to look for a pay phone (those are mostly gone).
13 minutes, 20 seconds. I've felt like you but I was glad I clicked.

TL;DW: wealthy people own most things and their incomes are from what they own/control. They earn more than they spend and buy more control with the excess leading to ever more consolidation of wealth.
Actually I was not sure which kind of masks you meant so I pointed out that real masks worked, but yes, obviously cotton/silk/lines/whatever masks without any kind of filter are useless.

Don't post random "he said this, he said that" links please, there has been 0 doubt in my mind that since the release of the vaccines the only effect they had was to reduce the probability of serious illness, as repeated multiple times above.

> or are just gaslighting me as covidians have a tendency to do.

What? Cmon.
I haven't seen any notable number of people arguing that the API should remain free no matter what. I have seen a lot of people arguing that reddit is being disingenuous with the API pricing (and also making up stuff about the Apollo dev), in a way that makes it seem like what they really want is to kill all third-party clients rather than monetize them -- when a lot of users really don't like the first-party client for design / accessibility reasons.

It's worth bearing in mind that reddit's business is built on user-provided content and moderation. It doesn't have some sort of right to have the users provide these things if they're unhappy with the direction of the service.
What do you use Reddit for? The answer is going to be subject-matter dependent.

For me, Discord has already replaced 95% of my Reddit use -- and not because I'm anti-Reddit, but just because community activity has migrated to Discord naturally. The remainder of my Reddit use is mostly "a search engine sent me there."
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Could you make it edit them to an AES256 encryption of itself? That way it's reversible

Much better way to protest I feel like
Sorry, but this mentality is counter-productive and plays right into the hands of oligarchs. Instead of recognizing that wealth and power is increasingly accruing to a smaller and smaller set of uber-wealthy (who pass that wealth on and otherwise rig the game for their offspring), we allow ourselves to be distracted by culture wars and generation wars rather than recognizing it as a smokescreen from the concentration of wealth and power that is driving the bad outcomes.
Hm interesting. That's kind of you. Would love to hear from other people as well.

I just made a Chrome extension that lets you delete all your posts and comments: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bulk-delete-reddit...

Would love to get any feedback — I'm still working on it.
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Sure, I really think I will do a video about this (should I post on Youtube or other platform, any advice?).
Yes you should use Native Access 1.
Basically what I do:
- Edit `/etc/udisks2/mount_options.conf`
- uncomment `[default]`
- search the lines starting with `udf`
- uncomment the one starting with `udf_defaults`, append `,unhide` at the end.
- uncomment the one starting with `udf_allow`
- save&exit

Then, when you download any library which contains ISO files, it will fails but no worries, the ISO is downloaded in you `~/Downloads` folder!
The issue is related to Wine that can't show hidden files or something like this when mounting disks.
So the solution, now that you reconfigured your default mounting options (I need this under Archlinux because udisks2 auto mount after creating a loop, if you dont have this issue you could just ignore the previous steps and manually mount the loop with the `unhide` parameter).
So, you go find you ISO in your `~/Downloads`, then you open a terminal and you do:
- `udisksctl loop-setup -f ~/Downloads/LIBRARY.iso`
- Now you will have a newly mounted (if there is auto-mount) disk in your `/run/media/$USER` directory.
- You go there, you will see inside there is an `LIBRARY_NAME.exe`
- You do `wine LIBRARY_NAME.exe`. It will prompt some windows UI, you do next, install, etc..
- After if finished, you go in your Native Access and you click the refresh button and TADA its installed!

tips: unmount the disk afterwards. also you can restart native access between installs if you install a lot of them. I dont know why but sometimes it told me that I had not enough disk space for install but after restarting it it didnt complain anymore.
Isn't this more likely related to the CloudFlare outage, or some other technical issue? I'm not sure how subreddits going dark would bring down Reddit.

The article mentions this possibility as an aside, but still ran with a headline that seems like a post hoc fallacy.
This is guaranteed money. I'm sure you've heard of appearance and performance fees in sports
Avoid the whole OS entirely.
I wish we could divide forums into 101 and 202 (as in college levels) streams. Newbies need a place, but I don't want to be their guide (in most cases). Newbie/101 energy kills a lot of places.
Honeydew! Well, that’s actually worse than sweat…
Hm. How bad are PFAS? Were those problems known to people in the PFAS-Industry?
Jack Daniels' counsel cares because they can bill an enormous amount of hours bringing a case to the supreme court.
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Sorry, no. The guy has a multi-million background behind him and I am just a nick here. If you dont want to watch, dont.
For what it’s worth, the average interpretation I’ve seen from climate scientists is:

- No, we won’t hit scorched earth Venus-like runaway warming.

- If we don’t reduce emissions drastically, greenhouse gas warming plus various feedbacks will cause extreme weather, render some parts of the world unlivable due to wet bulb temperature, and overwhelm unprepared infrastructure, costing huge amounts of money and creating millions of migrants.

So, not the end times, but definitely dark times.

If you sprinkle a bit of pessimism about current politics it’s not a stretch to assume we probably won’t handle those impacts gracefully, or achieve the drastic emissions cuts required to avoid them.
> "Daily reminder that no one has any idea what they're doing."

Both these quotes apply uncomfortably well to Silicon Valley global tech companies and their owners:

> "…what civilisation is, is 6 billion people, trying to make themselves happy by standing on each-others shoulders and kicking each others teeth in. It’s not a pleasant situation. And yet, you can stand back and look at this planet and see that we have; the money, the power, the medical understanding, the scientific knowhow, the love and the community to produce a kind of human paradise. But we are led by the least among us; the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary and we do not fight back against the dehumanising values that are handed down as control icons. This is something … I mean, I don’t really want to get off on this tare because it’s a lecture in its self but … culture is not your friend. Culture is for other people’s convenience and the convenience of various institutions; churches, companies, tax-collection schemes and what have you. It is not your friend. It insults you. It disempowers you. It uses and abuses you. None of us are well treated by culture, yet we glorify the creative potential of the individual, the rights of the individual, we understand the felt presence of experience is what is most important. But the culture is a perversion; *it fetishises objects, it creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding* in the form of squirrely religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanise themselves by behaving like machines; *processors of memes* passed down from Madison Avenue and Hollywood.”

Separately:

> "Don’t get the idea that it’s this liberal rap about how everybody has a piece of the action. You know, the Jews know something, the Buddhists know something, the Huichol know something. Nonsense! Rubbish! Nobody knows anything. These are different kinds of shell games that have been worked out by priestly castes of people to keep things under control. Institutions seek to maximize control, control, control! That’s what they’re into. Did you think they were in the business of enlightening you? Saving your soul? Forget it! Control is what this is all about. And to the degree that we commit ourselves to ideology, we are poisoned. Any ideology—Marxism, Catholicism, objectivism, you name it. Rubbish. All rubbish."

- Terence McKenna
and then users realize they don't need reddit
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