skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Slashdot, one of the oldest big tech/nerdy news and comment web forums (like HN) on the net. In many ways it pioneered voting and moderation systems we see today. https://slashdot.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot
>Lots of people on reddit (and on here) brag about using ad-blockers. They also complain about paying for services. I mean: something's go to give. VC's won't continue to fund these free services forever.

These people will claim that their contributions are so valuable that they drive the engagement of other plebs who do generate revenue for the site.

No, really. They do. It's the tech nerd equivalent of the "we'll pay you in clout" Instagram grifter.
The end is (nigh++)!
Wild guess: visiting a private sub requires an extra call to a service/db to check if the user can view it. Normally there are only a small number of these checks because private subs were usually small communities. Now, many large subs having switched private is causing some poor mircoservice somewhere to get hammered.
I find that very hard to believe unless these people are making their own vape juice with hundreds of times the recommended amount of pure nicotine. For example, a standard Juul pod contains about 40 mg of nicotine, each puff gives you a max of 160 µg, which is significantly less than a 2000th of the commonly believed lethal dose (500 mg orally for a 80KG person).

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33762429/

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

Btw, there's in interesting story attached to mistaken view about what constitutes a lethal dose of nicotine.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3880486/
Maybe you can derive the encryption key from a password. Most users should be able to handle that.
>I think the 'wokeness' mention actually added credibility, most normal people have observed the woke phenomenon in their everyday life.

"wokeness" is a defintion-less abstract tool that exists to be applied to ideas that conservatives don't like. "woke culture" doesn't actually exist.

>But aside from that he makes a valid point. If you actually live in a very liberal area, like San Francisco, for a while you will meet a disproportionate number of people who believe that having kids is bad for the planet or have any number of other anti-natalist ideas.

Which is a great anecdote! Is it supported by literally any data? Do college-educated women in San Francisco have a significantly different birth rate than college-educated women in Chicago? Atlanta?

The idea that a women who otherwise would have had three kids will have zero because they were exposed 'anti-natalist' ideas is on its face stupid. The characteristics of someone who chooses to live in a place where it's expensive to raise a family like San Francisco are almost assuredly going to lean toward one/no children.

Birth rates are falling everywhere women have access to birth control. The whole article is crap, the 'woke' comment was just the icing on the drivel cake.
Sorry, I must have misunderstood your definition of hilarity. There was a lot of discussion elsewhere about a specific type of humor. The trolling/random kind of humor.
The SC actually decided something else. They decided that you can't defend your product's only branding as parody, whatever form it takes. If something is your trademark, you have to defend it from being an infringement of someone else's trademark solely on the basis of customer confusion (i.e. prove that the accuser is wrong in saying that their customers would buy your products in confusion).

You can use someone else's trademarks in your parody, but only if that parody is branded differently (e.g. the Barbie Girl song was not branded using Barbie logos, it was using AQUA's logos).
You're the winner of today's "least useful information I'll remember from time to time for the rest of my life" award.

Previous German word that received the same award : kotzen
I can’t tell if you’re trolling, in denial, or just very naive.

Climate change is already causing economic damage and the loss of lives. This isn’t some theoretical future problem.
I didn't know that Windows is now free.
>Does he just say the world is ending all the time, or is what he's saying true?

These two things aren't necessarily mutually exclusive.
Well, this is when the military budget of many countries will be put to a test, for real this time. After all, the reason to keep investing into military force is to be able to defend sovereignty. It is a harsh thought, no question, but we have to admit that we always prepared for this case. Sure, the left is trying to make it a humanitarian thing, but in the end, available space and resources will determine how much the people of a country are willing to accept foreigners. Right now, this "game" is very much leaning in favour of the left, however, one day, it will pivot, and then there will be only tears. The real question is, will you be able to migrate before the borders are closed with military force?
Completely agree. I also went through this exercise, having switched from a Chromebook (RIP pixelbook, probably my favourite computer until it died) to Linux on Framework, where I set this up from scratch.

Anyone can say what they want about chromeOS not being a real OS (I disagree, that's off-topic), but it was built to be secure-by-default -- at least with regard to basically everything in this article.

Even with a stock, up-to-date linux kernel (I use arch BTW), there are a ton of gotchas, such as the fact that lockdown mode disables hibernate (!)-- I needed to patch the kernel to tell it I know better (there are some good LWN articles on why they did it, it's cause there are far too many gotchas):

https://gist.github.com/kelvie/917d456cb572325aae8e3bd94a9c1...

Chromebook on Framework actually seems like a great value prop in this regard, but of course you have to sell your metadata to big G.
Works good for blocking fake news and sites you don’t want your elderly parents getting tangled with.
I like the monetisation model, it'll hopefully incentivise and reward creators, while being cheap enough that a lot of people won't mind paying. Best of luck!
Whoever recorded those messages seemed a bit aroused about the right door being open.
I’m not giving up my Coke Zero. It’s an indulgence that I can live with long term. Unlike alcohol, donuts, pizza, and all the other shit that I enjoy but have to severely restrict.
Edge is cross platform.
> every normal weather event

San Francisco and the PNW being covered by smoke every summer is not a normal weather event, and now it is starting on the East coast. The east and southeast is also being hit harder by hurricanes, and they are not stopping at the Gulf of Mexico any more. These are just the events people have been able to see in the US in past years and they're not normal and with ever-increasing carbon output it is undoubtedly going to get worse.

I'll take the entire northeast being covered in smoke as an "over the top" claim that just came true.
Because there is no
inherent goodness in working for others and fuck you money is by far the easiest way to secure your childrens' ability to live the lives they want.

If you don't want your billions of dollars I'll happily take them of your hands.
The maple leaf is a convenient and evocative symbol, but I don't think many people care about the flag itself. The symbol and the flag are distinct entities, at least in my mind. And it's definitely not present in every company's logos.

Displaying the flag anywhere other than at the end of a real flag pole has sort of become co-opted by the alt-right "freedumb" movement as of late.
Why are they even adding PFAS to pizza boxes?
I shared it with my dad. He's basically a socialist boomer.

His response? "I don't read articles starting with 'WTF'".

I wish people were in general more intentional in writing for a broad audience.
American economy has become too concentrated to a handful of companies. That makes America a fragile economy.

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.

This would have put pressure on the company execs to negotiate fast, give in to worker demands (which are reasonable) just to not lose out on future earnings. If the execs succeeded, UPS would continue to live. If execs failed, the competitor would replace them.

That would have been capitalism but America is far too protective of large corporations.
> They also cause all sorts of other health issues (cancer, digestive problems, neurological problems), but those are mostly product specific. The above applies to all non-nutritional sweeteners that have been studied.

I would love to see some support of this. Artificial sweeteners are some of the most studied food additives. If there were a definitive association at practical consumption levels, that would be huge news.
It's free if you're willing to break the EULA. I haven't paid for it. Just used some Win 7 CD key I found online and it activated.
It reads as rhetorical. But it was also a bit of a strawman. Sometimes dismantling a rhetorical question makes sense to do. The answer to your rhetorical question was an obvious no, but it also wasn't relevant to my argument because you used such a high probability.

Deterministic program execution is an assumption we make even though it's not 100% true.

Soundness, when it comes to computer programs, isn't real.
HN will always retain some of the new comers. I was first reddit user then HN.

HN instantly brought me "old" internet nostalgia. Geeks just talking about things in a mostly open minded way. Lack of memes, politics and "boring" design will be all positives for some.
I actually thought sweet stuff was sweet long before doing low-carb. I think a big difference is that here (Germany) we don’t put a ton of sugar and/or sweetener in pretty much everything. From what I’ve heard, that’s a thing in the US, and I know that it’s a thing in South Africa.
Modernity in the US is definitely a case of extreme outcomes. There are many people who are struggling to get pay to afford a lifestyle of their parents, with high housing prices. Yet, there are also people who grew up in the same conditions, that were able to dork around in high school, graduate university cheaply through community college and state schools, earn $150k out of college, $300k in a few years, and build $1m equity by their 28th birthday, hustling when and where it counts.
In 2023 what does biggest mean? Biggest in terms of programmer headcount? In terms of market share (which markets)? In terms of revenue? In terms of # of products? In terms of total users? Just curious what the qualifiers are.
Basically. There's some evidence that artificial sweeteners spike insulin as well, so a net gain of nothing in some cases.
You can find houses for 30K in Liverpool, because the UK outside of London is poorer than a random Eastern European country (which is one of the many reasons why Eastern Europeans are running away from the UK). How much do you think you are going to make in a place such as Scotland or northern England?
Not really! Why do you need that to be true?
...and the timeline. Apollo could've maybe adjusted with a 12-18mo warning/phase-in. The 30-day no-compromise plan that happened instead makes it impossible to do anything but shut down.
Uncontrolled fires in the arctic circle along with every continent aside from Antarctica? Yeah, that doesn't sound apocalyptic at all!
It’s probably more than ten things and the price is number 1. $20mil/yr or something for Apollo?

Time: only a few weeks notice. They have to notify users of a change, make a plan, program it, apple approval for updates, and Apollo is just one guy with a part time designer.

Terrible communications. Say pricing would be fair and not like twitter. Say no api changes this year. Pretend to be fair. Deception .

They could have given Apollo and the many other apps that are shutting down a little more notice and time to adjust.

I think Reddit has its back against a wall and a VC gave an ultimatum/margin call that Reddit needs to make more money with a business plan in 30 days or no more funding re-up.
> Hence why 3pa like Apollo are great, it’s video/gif player is (was :’( ) the best.

Why did they only charge $10 a year for this gem of a tool?

It boggles my mind.
If someone tells you that cigarettes are going to give you cancer the fact that you aren't dead yet isn't a good indication that they are wrong. Furthermore the climate is incredibly complex. Waiting until we are absolutely certain of the exact trajectory of our fuckery will surely result in us being too fucked to take much corrective action. Basically you are asking to much and you're wrong.
Asus Zenfone, tried both barcode scanner app and regular camera. Barcode scanner picked up the template, none of the generated ones. Camera app picked up two (both japanese girl ones) - fast enough for it to be useful, and the first robot one after like 10-12 seconds trying various distances, which I think should be considered a failure.
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Debugging Bash: A Scripter’s Delight in an AI-Obsessed World
You know, while everyone is losing their minds over AI and its supposed game-changing impact, I'm just sitting here in my little corner, absolutely stoked that I can finally use a debugger with good ol' BASH. I've been scripting since the days of UNIX (the granddaddy of Linux), and there's always been one thing I've yearned for - a debugger.
I know that this is HN but this isn’t an IQ-guarded secret. People not “getting it” is based on denial and/or a misguided Culture War politics (those people say it is so, and therefore it is not so), not lack of smarts.
I thiiink your comments from subreddits having gone private are hidden from your profile as well.
Idk once you experience enough world, it is quite hard not be cynical. I guess I fit right in.
In the past I ended up in a place where I self-hosted virtually everything I consumed within my network that could be self-hosted. Right down to major OS software update caching.

It’s definitely exhausting and I hit upon a point where it felt like I couldn’t distinguish between home and business infrastructure. I expanded to include family stuff, and that became a massive headache. When you do that, it’s not always easy to extricate yourself either. It took several years to downsize so my services were only consumed by me again. Then a few more to fully move to non-self-hosted almost-everything.

I used to host my mail but that eventually becomes a headache. It didn’t become an admin headache, but overtime it became either/or (depending on the time) a technical liability or a security concern.

These days I try to buy/pay for the services I consume instead of self-hosting. However I’ve been moving back to assuming a “self hosting first” mindset because it seems like so many tech companies are actively trying to alienate their user base lately.

Tailscale does make sharing services amongst groups of technically minded friends _crazy_ simple.
Sending medical images to Microsoft seems like a major HIPAA violation.
Yes, but I think statistically then you'd be considered an extreme outlier who knows what they are getting into, vs a mass market Apple product buyer.
I can’t speak to OP’s claim about former smokers. However as a younger person who knows many younger never-smoker vape users, I can attest that they all consume vastly more nicotine than would ever be practical with cigarettes.

Vape pods are highly concentrated and you can use them anywhere, any time. No more need to bother with sneaking out of the house or taking smoke breaks.
It probably boils down to mathematics. If your average interaction is with someone you've never met before, it's very difficult for persistent relations to form.
I'm very interested in Kiban compat, what channel is the best for people like me to follow the progress towards this feature?
> Buying a home? Give me a break. I love to share the Zillow home price index graph to visually show people how Covid has screwed the housing market [1]. And at least before we had the option to move far from the city to a cheaper location and work remotely, but now employers are forcing us to go back to the office, so the choice is between unaffordable rent or multi-hour daily commutes (I’m in the second camp).

Remote work also screwed a lot of low cost cities as tech workers moved there, outbid everyone, and priced out local residents from housing market.

However, remote work is here to stay. Live where you want and look for remote jobs while working your current job. Recently, two of my friends switched their jobs to fully-remote positions.

(I know in the news it is layoffs all the time but there are still many companies hiring fully remote workers.)
Would also like to add in this resource which is pretty in-depth.

https://theprivacyguide1.github.io/linux_hardening_guide
Ireland is going to have a warm and lovely summer, which is not it's usual climate pattern, leading to water shortages and peat bog /wild fires.
> You had just got done critiquing the article in a clear and cogent way, then you go off and assert something for which you have no evidence.

You don't necessarily need, nor does one necessarily exist, a scientific study or formal citation for something fairly subjective/opinionated that you can give a justifiable explanation for.

If somebody is blaming some group, say the French, for controlling everything from the media, taxis, the money supply, politics, pharmaceuticals, real-estate, Hollywood, the Fast Food Industry, and Silicon Valley and suddenly get removed from all of polite society, it doesn't take a peer-reviewed scientific study to suspect that they're likely going to be having even darker thoughts about the French and feeling that this confirms their theories that the Frenchies are out to get them.

> The existence of these online groups, they get people, they turn good people into bad people. We have friends and family we have seen it happen to. So perhaps they are not ONLY causing resentment among those already converted, but perhaps also preventing further conversion.

1) You just got done critiquing me for trying to assert something with no evidence, but then did quite a bit of that here. Should I demand a citation and scientific study for every opinion here?

2) You use the phrase "bad people", and maybe many of them are, but there's a wide range of views out there that are labelled hate that might not be so.
While you are certainly right, question is though, how far may it grow? It might be that the growth will still be insufficient for replacement.

I believe key factor here is nation size. A sufficiently big corporation in a sufficiently small (but not necessarily tiny) nation may find it profitable to solve demography directly, i.e. by hiring women to have babies and paying them salaries. Simply to have more consumers for its products in the next generation. Maybe corporations can even pool their resources towards this goal.
Not really what the parent was talking about
Ask HN: Seamless sync of notes between Linux, macOS, iOS
Are there any services that provide syncing of notes between phones and computers (multiple os'es)? I use Notes app on my phone but cannot access it easily on my linux machine (I can via a web browser, but would like to edit natively).
The site:reddit.com search modifier is very useful. You are just missing the minus ;)
this is such superficial analysis.

People use to hate Microsoft because it was a monopoly. Apple was the underdog. Ultimately the MS hate was the perfect case of watch what you wish for.

Because both companies back then were actually selling stuff to users.

Then came the culture of "do not evil" and "move fast and break things". Users became product, the only clients are the advertisers. Technology was not sold, it was simply provided for "free".

This undercut the old MS monopoly which survived because of its corporate stranglehold. Apple flourished through devices and could afford to take the moral high ground on privacy.

But the political and regulatory normalization and extreme profitability of surveillance capitalism means that there is no technology company today that can afford not to be an adtech company.
Wake me up when the banks stop giving 30 year loans for coastline property.

Who do you trust? Bankers or the "experts".
Do we have any real world examples of this happening? That would help understanding.
> terminally online “interest groups.”

In my view, terminally online interest groups are responsible for the current protests against Reddit. Several of the smaller low traffic area-specific subs that I frequent have been taken offline (some threatening permanently).
The threshold at which humans can no longer cool themselves naturally varies based on factors like health, activity, clothing and humidity.

Typically, a wet-bulb temperature above 95F (35C) poses a severe risk to health, especially with high humidity.

It's important to note that such extreme wet-bulb temperatures are relatively rare in most parts of the world
Market cap. They’ve the most money and enjoy highest PE ratio
I share the same mindset. I think that even though you'll eliminate distarctions from your phone there's no way you can eliminate every other form of distraction, no matter if it's comming from the digital world or somewhere else. You just have to adapt your brain to it. It's like the system, as some wise person once said - stupid people hate it, the smart use it for their advantage.
Maybe you could do mainframe-style lockstep computing with regular computers. Perhaps not true lockstep, but you could compare ram state at various checkpoints.
The big bubbly space-inefficient chatroom UI you're using seems so irrelevant/obsolete here. It already makes me stressed out, thinking of dealing with an SMS group on my iPhone of 20 people. It'd be the worst possible user experience to engage with a meaningful community in a meaningful way over time.
From elsewhere in the thread:

> 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/2023/6/8/23754780/reddit-api-update...
Reddit used to show how much users donated vs the server cost (and running costs). It was always maxed out. Reddit grew and simply got greedy. Typical enterprise company woes where a much smaller company could cover most if not all what your typical user actually wants without losing money.

Reddit didn't need to be a video and image host as you allude to. They didn't need to bloat their stack with 'hot' technology. They didn't need to even make an app, the third parties were basically doing that for free.

They want to be an ad and data platform because they know that this will in the long run net them more money. To get there though they will have to alienate their entire user base.
Sure. Let's make sure we account for all the negative follow-on effects from personal car ownership including wasted space from parking, pollution, etc etc. Also account all the positive effects from transit - less wasted space for parking, less pollution, etc etc.
Without cryptographic techniques that is all easily forged.
I feel like no, trying it out (though on my Mac using zsh and not a 25 year old Linux box) the slash being first makes it reference the root directory.