skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m deeply suspicious of anywhere trying to cross-sell me VPNs.

The commentary around “traditional” efficiency with trackpads - after using the latest Apple trackpads everything else is awful. I have no good memories of trackpads of day of yore either. The MacBook trackpad is better without physical buttons. The haptics are so good I can’t tell it’s not physical, and it’s one fewer physical thing to break.

“SSD is a new tech”? Really? Coupled with actual spinning drives as options, which are awful in laptops given they’re moving parts.

I wish I could opt out of the power adaptor. I have a 150W GAN power brick on my desk and in my bag that can charge my iPad Pro, MacBook Pro, Carbon X1, etc all without fuss. Apple Watch, iPhone too with the right cables. Everything USB-C all the time, please. Not some power brick from the 90s with a barrel.

No Bluetooth just seems like a weird choice.

Awful screen.

A webcam cover gets a bullet? Those are 5 for $10 on Amazon. Seems a weird thing to call out and focus on.

I can’t remember the last time I used or burnt a CD or DVD. USB drives are so much more flexible with vastly higher capacities and speeds.

This whole laptop reads as “the laptop you wanted in the 90s, here today in 2023”.
> For advertising to remain a viable way to support portions of the web

I'd rather advertising NOT remain a viable way to support portions of the web
Not anymore with the new increased API costs soon! /s
A related gap that I felt when playing the base game a few years ago was around ability to reclaim land and evolve a city over time [1]. CS (like SimCity) gave great tools for greenfield development, but I never felt like I could do things like what happens in a real city, where:

- A street is widened to accommodate new transit or bike lanes, but by buying back people's yards rather than by demolishing and rebuilding a whole neighbourhood.

- Zoning changes permit former-bungalows to have second stories built on them, or similar small-scale densifications like encouraging duplexing of existing structures.

- Old factory buildings are converted into trendy lofts.

- A house that burns down is converted into a pocket park.

And I guess worst of all, I never felt rewarded for planning this kind of thing ahead, though maybe I just wasn't doing it right.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_House
Engineered is a very careful word choice. None of the properties they call out are things you would not expect from research involving gain of function by evolutionary means.
Allowing Apollo to operate would cost $20M in opportunity cost for Reddit. But not allowing Apollo to operate has an opportunity cost in website downtime. I am amused!
How can the new 2.0 version be widely used? It's obvious from the text what is widely used...
That's right, because it always comes into conflict with other priorities, which is natural. It always did. It's just that women couldn't control how many kids they had.

I mean, it's not cultural: it happens across all cultures and religions. Atheists aren't even in the forefront: Czechia and Denmark have relatively decent fertility rates. It's not political: happens both in authoritarian and liberal countries, even worse in authoritarian, both pro-Western (Singapore) and anti-Western (China). Only thing it seems to depend upon, is level of development, the richer the country is/becomes, the lower birthrate is. It's simply that people get the actual ability to choose, nothing else.
CS1 was not, and none of the other Paradox games are either, so I guess not.
this being intentional? doesn't seem to far fetched at this point...
> Additionally, the closest relative to SARSCov2 that has been identified (RaTG13)

A closer relative was found like a year or so later, can't remember the name though.
I think it's even worse than that. What happens when India makes some more rainfall and China enters a drought? That's the stuff that starts wars.
What's the problem with Unity?
Bitcoin mining is globally distributed and doesn’t come to a halt when a particular facility or even a whole region has to shutdown because excess energy is not available.
Robinhood’s May Crypto Trading Volume Falls 68% to $2.1B
A Critical Look at AI-Generated Software
Did the customer not use encryption?

I guess I would have trust issues with the services the customer offered.
Me too on the HN issues. East Coast US here
Part of spez's job is to be the lightning rod for controversial decisions. The board I'm sure is pushing for the same things (increases in pricing, driving users to the official app) in order to boost metrics before the IPO. Aside from the somewhat pointless AMA where his frustrations came out a bit too much, if you assume that the effective removal of API access had to happen, what do you think he's done wrong during this?
I've seen Lemmy paraded around, it ha promise but you gotta diy your community. My biggest concern with the fediverse is trust. Trust takes a while to establish.

Looking back, man usenet's format was kinda similar to reddit wasn't it? Usenet with voting.

Idk about y'all but this is actually kinda super fun. I'd love to reintroduce some modernized takes on old school platforms. The internet was more fun before everything got consolidated anyway.
I agree with you that JavaScript's async abstractions are nice, but I think a lot of people will misunderstand the example you've given, as ensuring that the asynchronous value for `b` and `c` will be resolved prior to the asynchronous value of `a`.

Promises begin to resolve as soon as they are created. Therefore, assuming that the three executions of `promise()` in that code take 3 seconds, 10 seconds and 2 seconds respectively, we should expect `aPromise` to be resolved during `Promise.all([promise(), promise()])` immediately prior to `b` and `c`. The only thing is that we do not unwrap `aPromise` with `await` and point `a` towards it until 10 seconds after `await Promise.all([promise(), promise()])` was called.
gonna have to switch back to RSS, you're right. know of any good basic RSS readers on Windows 10/iPhone that you'd suggest?
twitch is completely unusable btw because of the insane policy changes that make no sense, the unusable copyright rules (literally some streamers have had cars go by that played music slightly too loud for 2 seconds and had their accounts terminated over that), and the ads, oh my god the ads. even with uBlock Origin and pi-hole on Firefox, they still get through and there's upwards of 5-10 (and sometimes even on bigger streams 15!!!) 30 second adverts about every 15-30 minutes and everytime you switch streams. only way to block them is to use a VPN/proxy into a smaller country which doesn't yet have ads, and even then, you'll get the infamous "purple screen of death" where it'll close out the stream and tell you to disable your adblocker and proxy
Aren't pizza boxes already compostable? What was going on? I would have loved to seen the investor pitches and board meetings.
And yet, here you are, posting about it.
Back in the day you could create a subreddit and invite anyone to mod it. The invite would be automatically approved. I suspect this is what happened here.
> Well. Eversign holds the key and promises to only use it when you authenticated by clicking the link in the email that was sent to you personally.

This method would most likely be eIDAS confidence level low. They (like many other providers) most likely offer multiple LoA variant but only advertise the lowest one online so you think you are "ok" with an easy to use variant but when push comes to shove you need to upgrade to substantial or high, do the full validation scheme and get a QSCD to do you signatures with.
I'm writing this on the cheapest laptop they had at the store, and Linux runs fine on it without any problems, using a standard installation without any tinkering needed. Everything "just works". In my experience that's more often true than not these days (or maybe I've just been very lucky).

Your mileage may vary with other models of course, but you certainly don't need a "Linux tax" to be a happy Linux user.
> When you're "webscale" you're inevitably at a level where you have to pay a lot of money just to keep the site up

This is true when thinking in centralised big-site terms but there are other ways to achieve a large reach, some of them already close to main-stream. Peertube [1] is an example of such, using a combination of Activitypub and peer to peer (here: bittorrent) to create a "web scale" platform without needing a lot of money. Does it work? A good question, Peertube itself certainly works fine but it would be an interesting test to see how far it actually scales.

[1] https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube
I think the 'wokeness' mention actually added credibility, most normal people have observed the woke phenomenon in their everyday life.

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.
If you're insulted you should relax. That discussion isn't aimed at you at all.

Casual game revenue (mostly mobile) >> console game revenue >> revenue from AAA games on gamer rigs and those rigs themselves. Perhaps those greater thans should all be ">>>>". If you look at the entire (huge) gaming ecosystem, Apple is already a major player. If you look the segment I can tell you care about, it's tiny.

IIRC gaming got Nvidia off the ground but for a long time hasn't been their revenue pump.

Apple's gaming boost can really only get them one thing: if you're going to buy a PC anyway, perhaps you'll pay a little more and not buy a console. Maybe that already happens a bit in the PC world, I don't know, but for Apple anyway it makes sense since unlike almost all PCs, Apple have a differentiated product. And if they talked about AAA gaming (if they did -- I didn't bother to listen) I imagine it's like Honda fielding an F-1 team: staking out a presence in a high end, that makes the intermediate product look like a better deal. Like the Mac Pro: no faster than a product they sell for less than half the price, with a couple of extra features very few need. It drives real sales elsewhere.

Finally: Apple has a "problem" that a Bungie or Alienware (new Dell) don't: Apple's revenue is so huge that they simply can't enter into certain markets unless it's for marketing reasons (like the Mac Pro). Look at the ipad: it basically is the tablet market, and if it were a standalone product it would be one of the great business success stories of all time. But because it's in Apple's product mix it's ignored by financial analysis which is just one step above "failed product": "at least it doesn't lose money."

BTW I suspect NVidia had some gamers in its early team and has some in its culture. Apple carea a lot about Music because Steve Jobs cared a lot about music, but hasn't had gaming DNA for decades, really since the Apple II IMHO.
Obviously not. Definition "any organization" includes KKK and ISIS, but not acceptable. Same for definition "any organization which includes men". Now, if you defined as "only KKK and ISIS"... still not clear. Which KKK? There were many of them. What if some organization is named KKK but isn't related to US racist one? What about racists that aren't holding a formal membership of KKK - are they fine (if they steer clear of ISIS too)? Giving two examples which seem obvious to you (even those aren't as simple as yoh think) is not the same as giving workable definition.

Obviously also there are plenty of organizations that are labeled as hate by some people and other people disagree with it. Look up this week's controversy about SPLC for some examples, but they are in no way unique. You think of it as splitting hairs because you can't imagine how people can disagree with what you imagine to be obvious. But it's not as obvious as you think.
It is sluggish and throwing some errors. I have a 1Gbps internet connection via fibre in Sweden, so definitely it's not an issue with your connection.
Did you ever hear of groups.google.com? About 30Y older than reddit, the original Usenet groups system started in the late 70s ...
The future product roadmap of OpenAI according to Sam Altman
This readability requirement is a bit overrated. It's best to rely on comments and documentation so that you can rewrite something if you have to.

I see lots of Java that's written in a simple and direct manner, but that has no documentation/comments and where it's a pain to find the execution flow in between so many classes and layers (especially when there's dependency injection).
Saw a surge on https://bitecode.dev as well and it's just a small blog so people must really get bored.

Twitter doesn't seem affected though.
HN is also slow from my end, I thought my ISP connection is just slow today.
But those don't come with complimentary dopamine upon success.
Maybe the protest was so successful at driving traffic away from Reddit it looked like something was broken to their monitoring which tried to failover unsuccessfully? If that happened it might be the first case of a site being brought down by the polar opposite of a DDoS.
I came to see what was going on with reddit. If it was an outage or something.
I'm experiencing the same. /r/games is not private and it works.
Do I detect a reference to Terminator 2?
Ok, perhaps not strictly a protocol, but a data format. I'm using the word a little more loosely than some dictionaries suggest, though it appears to comport with this definition published on Cloudflare.

> In networking, a protocol is a set of rules for formatting and processing data. Network protocols are like a common language for computers. The computers within a network may use vastly different software and hardware; however, the use of protocols enables them to communicate with each other regardless.

https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/network-layer/what-is-a-...
It is constitutional?

I don't know about Dutch constitution, but there usually is something about privacy, and presumption of innocence, and even if it isn't in the constitution (constitution is mostly about the technicalities of governance), there are things like the Declaration of Human Rights and other treaties that mention it that are above the law.
ASCII is a multi-byte encoding system. Yes, really, it is. The character set was designed specifically so that overstrike can be used to express a variety of characters from Latin scripts: lower-case ones with cedille or accents. E.g., to encode 'á' (&aacute;) you'd output "a<BS>'", where BS is the ASCII backspace control character. This comes from the days of typewriters, where this is how people would print accented characters and cedilles. The lower-case restriction is why Spanish makes accents optional on upper-case letters.

Most of this overstrike functionality was lost long ago except for underline and bold, which remain in use in terminals (and `nroff`, and...).
I deleted Apollo and the official Reddit app (which I used to post posts) and I'm done. I had been a user for ~12 years and had 150K+ comment karma.

They fucked up and now I'll spend more time on here and /., is my guess. Unless there are other strong dork communities I should be looking into.

Edit: Ask HN thread showed up on my last question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36293789
Look, we’ve currently got about a million code points, and a trajectory and principles that should leave that easily enough for at least five thousand years, by my simplistic estimate <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32286193>. There’s no point in forecasting that far in advance.

And you’re concerning yourself with filling a space of two billion code points? A Unicode that would be in any danger of doing that would not be in the slightest bit recognisable as the Unicode of today.

(Yeah, I know they once thought they could squeeze Unicode into 65,536 code points. I honestly don’t understand how they ever thought that would be sufficient even with Han unification, and I wish they hadn’t made that misstep that gave us the abomination that is UTF-16. But they knew running out was a hazard from the start, they just miscalculated the risk. No one that examines the matter is concerned about even the slightest risk of the current million code points being insufficient in the usefully-predictable future.)
The Fediverse/ActivityPub world has a few options: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/delightful-fediverse-apps#use...

Lemmy is the best-known in that list, but Kbin and lotide both look pretty promising, too - making my decision of which to spin up as a personal instance much more challenging :)
Those error pages are actually infuriating. Maybe I'm just getting older but seeing "You broke reddit" and all the other shit annoys the hell out of me. It's their website, the error should be "we fucked sometning up, sorry" and be done with it.
Whether there is structure or no structure, you must always be on guard against the power seekers. They are the universal problem. You must question them, challenge them, and never take your eyes off of them.
The annoyances of sideloading combined with the Quest 2's middling SoC (which can make it drop frames or chug in some cases) were enough for me to not even bother. I mostly use my Quest 2 as a dumb headset cabled to my tower with PC link and play the Windows/Steam version of Beat Saber, which is way more mod friendly and never stutters.
The Silicon Valley TV show had a pizza startup that met a similar demise [0], bringing the show closer to documentary than fiction!

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYu-d6y5HRo
Many websites are having performance issues - https://downdetector.com

It's as if Reddit had been taking the pressure off the rest of the internet all this time, and now that there's a blackout people actually starts working and visiting other websites
I wish! I wish!! I so wish this would happen. And the ‘type’ attribute to the script tag would finally mean something!

But nope. It won’t be. Just as var remains to support old webpages. Use strict to support newer features without affecting old ones. Imports. Etc.

But the post is factually off.
In fact there is now an ordered map in JS. I think whoever is responsible for the spec and the implementations need to be complimented. Its actually shocking that it works so well. I have written painting software (much more computationally expensive than CAD software) using Canvas and WebGL apis and it’s pretty darn performant. Never native. But still very very good.

Although I don’t know about the vitriol in the comments toward old crocky. And his good parts book was good and useful to me in parts.
I don't know anything about the law, but this should be the basis. This company is not taking anything away from JD or confusing anyone, so it should be allowed. If it was an actual bottle of liquor you'd have an argument. If it was a dog toy called Jack Daniels you'd have an argument. It's a dog toy called "Bad Spaniels". I don't understand why Jack Daniels even cares.
A specific flavor of censorship, where you identify and ban the most important members, leaving the community to slowly die. A well known technique, probably adapted from methods used in intelligence circles, that's much more successful than banning the community outright.
Millenials and GenZs have all the political power if they just stand up and take it. The younger generations can change the entire demographic of the elected leadership if they so choose.

Why else do you think the older powers are trying to control who votes? Why else is there so much false rhetoric trying to convince people that their vote doesn't matter?
Attempting this to be more of a discussion prompt than speculation, but as an advertiser or other consumer analytics customer of reddit, would this sort of protest and the potential fallout be concerning? I'm not sure if all this is a drop in the bucket for those customers or if it's significant. If it was significant, would reddit be scrambling to save face for these advertising customers? An outage like this would certainly skew the difference in their analytics for today's relative traffic.
How do you know? Someone else posited the theory that the frontpage service has to search for posts for too long due to the blackout. How do you prove this is not the case?
There's a big difference between apps that "work on" a platform and apps that are "built for" a platform.

Consider Android tablets, folding phones, or basically any Android device with a large format display. Basically all modern Android apps work on those devices, with practically no effort required of the devs. But most Android apps were built exclusively for smartphones, with small vertical displays. Only apps which have been developed to account for large displays actually provide a good user experience on those devices. Sure, there's still value in having a big library of apps that technically work on the new platform. But if the AVP experience for an app is worse than the platform it was built for, most people will probably try it out and quickly switch back to the platform they used before.

The AVP really needs a killer app to convince people to invest in it. If it can capture that investment, there will be an incentive for devs to start building their apps for it and it can grow from there. I'm concerned that I haven't seen anything that looks like a "killer app" for the AVP yet.
If it is because of that it sure isn't just me because Downdetector and RedditStatus also show blips in outage during those time.
> FAAD2 is in non-free repositories; for open source, it presents a problem with distribution outside of freeworld.

I may be misspeaking about FAAD2, but I've never run into an open-source player (like VLC) or library (like ffmpeg) which hasn't supported at least HE-AAC decode for a decade or more. If that's wrong, I'd love to be corrected in the most detailed way possible.
Not true at all in regards to 10+ years ago. Once at week, if not more, Reddit fails to load for me. I refresh the page and it appears I've been logged out. Continue refreshing the page until my session is revived and things are back to normal. I'll often open a post and the header will load but Reddit will fail to load the comments with a click to retry loading comments.
As a fellow millennial I don't know what people are talking about. The world is way better today than when I was a kid:

All sorts of racism and prejudice are at much lower levels than when I was a kid.

I went through two economic crises by the time I was 21.

The US fought two wars in my prime war fighting years. (Though fortunately not me but friends died).

Technology has continued it's steady march.

If you gave me a choice between being born today and being born when I was I'd take today without hesitation. Things haven't become Utopian yet but they are steadily getting better.
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Perhaps the ideas are repeated many times so that if the book encounters a shock (i.e. pages are ripped out, a fire), the book can still carry its message, and thus increase its value when compared to other books that are more... fragile?
I have a gigabit internet, am in Eastern Europe, most US services have 40ms or so latency -- pretty strong link.

I had to reload this page 5 page until I was allowed to post a reply. Something is definitely going on.
is the co-founder/-ceo actually buying the shit, that she regurgitates?
how is this a real person?
If deleting my comments makes reddit painful to use then it hurts reddit in the end... But it seems to be affecting you on a personal level so I'll start doing it more now
Whenever reddit is down, HN gets smashed.
Reddit is still a vast archive of valuable advice on many topics. I developed a habit of adding "reddit" to my search requests whenever I want to get unbiased user opinions or product recommendations.

For me, today is not only the day when the most of reddit is down but also web search experience is significantly degraded.
Seems HN is also having outages. I'm getting server errors trying to access posts.