skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> * The ability to use a 3rd party app that does not track, advertise, or monetize you in any way

I disagree on this point - I'm pretty sure all the big 3rd party apps at least have ads. The problem is fundamentally just that the 3rd party apps are a lot better than the official app, and have been for some time. If Reddit had made the official app better (which they've had _years_ to do) then significantly less people would care about any of this.

They also could have gone the Spotify route, which I think would have gone over significantly better - Keep the API as-is, but require a paid premium account login to use it. Functionally it's not even really a difference, but it means Reddit deals with all the details rather than the 3rd party apps. However, functionally the goal was to simply price the 3rd party apps out of existence, so that's probably why they didn't do this.

It's also pretty clear from the response that they never thought this through, which is hard to believe. They had to have it pointed out to them that tons of stuff currently uses the API which has no replacement, you'd think they'd have reviewed what currently uses the API before drastically changing it. Reddit has gotten significant value for free by having people write code against their API, that's code they didn't need to write themselves.
I heard it was because the species of rat they used tend to get cancers anyway when they got older, and shouldn't be used in any long-term study.

I love scientists, loved working with them, best clients i ever had (if you're a devops or automate dev/scientists tools, and have to regularly explain stuff to scientists and to other devs, we don't compare advantageously at all), but sometimes there is too much noise.
Once third-party tools are gone those huge subreddits will degrade quickly. Moderating a busy subreddit becomes very cumbersome using the native tools, so even if they don't go dark we will see a dramatic decrease in browsing quality as spam fills up the queue.
That is the sad truth, the minds of most people disintegrate completely from all kind of logic or soundness when "free" is in the equation. People line up for long times to get free food that would've cost them a couple of bucks, people who are highly paid spend hours and weeks of their life arguing on the internet about why they can't and won't pay $5 for some software or online service.

As patience of creators and curators begin to run more thin, today's information society will split into tiers of those who pay and get good information vs those who demand free and will splash around in the filth of the free information sewers. The filth being ads, spyware, malware, low quality content, spiritually harmful content, government propaganda and worse.
Which makes attacks like these even worse: Serbian law, for instance, has a clause how you are not allowed to dispute an electronic signature signed using an officially issued eID certificate.

While I am sure that clause can be nulled and voided if it came to that, the fact that the responsibility is on the signee is terrible.
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Also known as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
I wonder how long it takes until a shipwreck leaves absolutely nothing remaining. Unless the ship was entirely wood, and everything on it biodegradable AND it didn't sink in deep water, it might last nearly forever.
Yes, unfortunately there's the potential exception you see. The European interpretation of rights is that they're balanced against each other, as opposed to absolute.

The good news is that “necessary in a democratic society” is a high bar. Thankfully there have been several successful challenges to government mass surveillance in the past, under this Article.

Unfortunately, proposals like this keep coming back, and you never know what way a court will rule.
I find it kind of fascinating that this article is fine with the changes made to Ursula K. LeGuin's work, but is up in arms over Dahl and Fleming and Christie

It's a case of changing the meaning of the statement vs translating the vocabulary to more accurately reflect the original meaning. Editing Lord of the Rings so Frodo tosses another bundle of sticks onto the fire doesn't alter the meaning. His example from Death on the Nile is straight-up altering the personality of a character to make her a better person.
Some caveats for others who don't want to read the study.

1. This is a study done on rats and is only a single study, so caveat emptor.

2. They administer 250mg/kg/d Aspartame (human recommended max dose is 50mg/kg/d) based on the claim that "Species correction required a five to six times higher dose in rats than humans, as rats metabolize aspartame faster than humans"

3. Even if you assume effects correlate perfectly to humans, a dosage of 50mg/kg/d in the average American 90kg male corresponds to 22.5 12-oz cans of Diet Coke (200 mg Aspartame) per day for 30 days straight (length of the study).

4. There was a group of rats fed Aspartame at those levels for 1 month, then left to recover for 1 month. The sciatic nerve in these rats recovered significantly, and although it appears the recovery was incomplete, they also state that this difference is not statistically significant. There is also no discussion about whether recovery over a time period > 1 month would have resulted in complete recovery.
I tried Blackbird (similar idea) a couple times on my Surface and it hosed the install twice. I'd still make it to desktop but it was a barely usable mess, and the "restore" functionality didn't fix it.

I've been pretty leery of them ever since - definitely don't try it on a critical machine, and you're really at the mercy of Microsoft changing something every update. Definitely "use at your own risk" territory.

https://www.getblackbird.net/
Being able to bypass paywalls does not justify AMP. AMP is a threat to decentralization of the web.
>objectively terrible content off the platform? I won't name it but we all know what I'm talking about.

When the politicians arrive you will have a runaway success. Unfortunately politicians tend to be followed by more 'objectively terrible content'.
Funny how that works.
While ultimately, adopting this lifestyle is a personal choice, it is inevitable that it inconveniences the people around them and complicates things.

I indirectly know someone like this, who can only be reached via landline, has no email or mobile phone, and asks others to print photos for them, among other things.

Some individuals may be understanding and accommodating, but I can see how others may engage with you less, especially if you make this transition suddenly.

I believe that unless you are willing to make significant sacrifices within your circle of contacts, this may not be a viable option. Unless you know someone who is already living this lifestyle or is willing to join you in this change, it could be challenging.
Oh man that's a username I have seen in a log time. Wasn't there a theory that they were multiple people using a single account?
The major argument I've seen for that cost being "outrageous" is that if it needs to cost $2.50/month, there should have been a greater-than-30-days warning so that the existing clients could shift business models to support it (shut down free access, migrate existing subscribers to plans that cover the cost, etc). It's the failure to provide a grace period that gives the impression they're just trying to shut down the third-party clients.

For reference here, the Apollo dev posted numbers indicating that they'd expect a $20 million / year API access bill, and separately mentioned that if everyone with a current annual subscription gets their balance refunded now they're shutting down it'll cost them ~$250,000. (It's hard to guess how much of their traffic comes from free users, of course, so they'd presumably need to raise prices less than the 40x this implies...)
They have two older versions up but nothing recent.
Dowries are a plague on humanity. They’re rooted in the idea that women are property.

I lived in India in the 1970s as a child. At that time the shorthand was “cooking accident” when new brides were killed. As in, “The bride’s father couldn’t pay the dowry. Too bad she had that unfortunate cooking accident.”

The local man who did our laundry had four daughters, and it was considered a curse. He killed himself because he couldn’t pay their dowries, and he knew he’s spend the rest of his life in shame with daughters who were spinsters, or dead.
I went this rabbit hole roughly 2 years ago and I just quit at the very end, because my focus went from using the OS for something productive to maintaining it, securing it and becoming home sys admin.

Since then, I’m simply “ignorant” and sane - use it, update it regularly, use official software sources (so official distros repos and Flatpaks), FDE, SecureBoot, do not run random net stuff (like scripts, “Git” etc.), try to stay as default as possible and use a VM to experiment if I really need to.

I am curious - how many of you regular desktop Linux users actually had security issues (or at least suspected something shady)?
LLM's, at least in the architectures we know today, will not be sufficient for robust self-healing code. But eventually some machine learning will be. I agree with a generalized thesis of the posted article.
> I have an earnest and legitimate question for you and everyone else of this mindset: Do you believe that these social networks, the media, and the government will always be on the right side of history?

Yes, I believe the local conditions where I am (Northern Europe and by extension the major powers in the EU) will stay stable enough for the foreseeable future that this will not turn into a 1984 scenario. I also understand why people of the United States may have a different view on this considering the unstable political situation you guys are in. I also want to make it clear that this instability is another argument on why relying on American tech platforms to moderate speech in the EU isn't a great option either.

> Do you guys who advocate for this really believe that the risk of, for example, a Christian revival is precisely zero? That control of this apparatus would literally never shift, and the speech of your LGBTQ friends would never be brutally repressed by it?

Yes, I do believe that it is exceedingly unlikely in Norway and the EU generally for the foreseeable future. Far less likely than the US at least.

I think a major point that you need to understand to empathize with this perspective is that capitalism and technological advance is viewed with considerably less optimism and trust in the EU.

Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, Google (Search). All of these companies have a massive impact on the European public sphere. And none of these companies give a shit about the content they are promoting. How many Norwegian speaking moderators does Facebook have? How many Swiss? How many Lithuanian? How many Romanian? I bet way too few, and I bet their policies are more hands-off than hands-on. The more hands-on the more unpopular a platform becomes. I also bet that most moderation decisions are made by algorithms and not humans, which definitively affects speech.

While these companies make billions unleashing software that stokes racial and ethnic tensions, polarises, legitimately makes people less informed. Algorithms that structurally amplify the simple, and deprioritise the complex. All in the name of engagement, retention and monetization.

The effect these platforms have on Europe is massive, and I have more faith in democratic governments taking some of the reigns on this than the current state of American tech billionaires and board meetings behind closed doors. Americans have essentially accepted that corporations can use the populace as cattle to monetise. The EU has a different view on this.

The current state of affairs is worse than the chances of misuse in the future is essentially the argument for moving power to the government or enforcing more controls on the platforms in this case.
'Common sense' says that the thing which has occurred periodically throughout human history (plagues and epidemics) completely naturally and is occurring around the same period after the last one ('Spanish' flu of 1918-20) would have the same causes as those before it, but with accelerated time frames due to ease of travel and population density.
It really depends on the game (particulary old DirectX <5 and are PITA).

Without the game name and it's requirements I only can advise to seek advice on Vogons or Old-games.ru
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I work on part of a pretty CSS heavy team as part of a large application.

CSS has gotten a lot more powerful and more complex with that added power.

What has struck me most really learning BEM, CSS pre/post-processing, and Web Components is that writing well maintainable and reusable styles is really difficult and different from stock OOP. Not to mention you can make something that looks great and is completely inaccessible.

I tend to lean toward a more simple and brutalist web design, but I am happy that I have the option to do something more complex with CSS if needed.
> All of this has made the language worse. Just accreting features doesn't make the foundation less broken.

Nope, most of these have made the language better. Optional chaining is better than a litany of `&&`, `...` is generally better than `Object.assign` or `concat`, `async/await` are generally better than callbacks... The list goes on. Rejecting these new features wouldn't have magically improved the foundation.
> Because while the winter maximum used to increase (5y average) in the last 40 years, the summer maximum decreased (5y average) over the same period.

March extent has neither decreased, nor increased. It hasn't been decreasing at all. The largest extent in march has occurred in the years 2008, 2013, 2014 and 2015.
I would love to read the revised non racist version of 'Mein Kampf' to my children...
Coke Zero has been reformulated multiple times. I think "diet coke" is still the same crap and still tastes bad.
WFH mandates bad for staff morale and stunt innovation
Reddit wants all that sweet sweet privacy invasion that's possible with apps. Take a look at the data usage claims on the App Store/Play Store for the official Reddit app. They sign up for basically every iota of data available. The official app also "suggests" (forces) subreddit content on you no matter your settings.

Reddit wants to be an AdTech data source and delivery platform. Simply tracking usage on the web (where tracking can be limited or blocked) or the API is not sufficient to do Facebook/Twitter levels of user tracking.
Also, the opportunity cost of student loan interest is absolutely enormous. Imagine if you graduated college in 2014 with no loans and started investing your excess earnings in the stock market instead of paying off student loans.
Windows isn't free, you are paying a licensing fee when you buy a PC, it's just baked into the price and you don't realize it. If you tried shipping out PCs without a license, you'd be promptly found out and sued (at least in Western countries).
Depending on how fast you can execute it may be too late, but right now you have a brief window of opportunity to get a seedbed of users.

Reproduce the Reddit API exactly such that these soon-to-be-defunct client apps can work with minimal changes (ideally, just a configurable root domain). Reach out to the client authors and see if they will enable your site. Maybe you'll capture some of those user communities.
Ask HN: How much does it cost to run Reddit these days?
I mean, it is indeed labeled as not experimental, but even the documentation does not show the up-to-date usage of the ECS APIs.
Did you look at the wine appdb for your games? There might be some things you can do to get it running.
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Some people are large. Certainly there is variation. You still have to decide what width to set as reasonable.
Yeah thank you... I already thought of buying an used old WinXP Notebook for 45 Bucks or so, but then I thought: If this thing breaks after a while I must invest another 45 bucks and so on... And I have so much stuff laying around, I would prefer a virtualized solution :-)
Swiss have been complying with a lot of the open banking stuff. It's really the US that's helping out a lot of laundering by refusing to cooperate with international bodies.
The font on the root domains is also really small, at least on a desktop FF. You also can't really interact with anything except for the (very small) "log in" and "register" buttons at the top right corner, which is really frustrating if you are looking for some actual content. In fact, there seems to be no way of getting to the content at all via link. Lastly, the image in the top right is distracting, because it drags the user's focus there and away from the left side where the text starts; your eyes aren't really sure where they should be looking.
> Even you don't give a simple account of what needs to be done.

Fair enough - though I did mention a few basic things like A/B testing and survival bias (trying to being aware of one's own cognitive biases is the first step in making better decisions; to be aware means you first have to know them).
And yes, it is not trivial at all and dependent on the context.

The best and simplest starting point would be to make a list of potential confounding variables (I mentioned a few of them) and then just looking at the R^2 statistic.
That already should point him in the right direction.

I was less bothered that his methodology wasn't 100% correct, but rather by casually making a statistically unsound decision which has a big effect on people's lives, so getting it right is important - and then when called out dismissing it.
I have a lot of sympathy for people honestly trying to make decisions rigorously and getting it wrong; but you have to try.
I'm glad to hear that! I had thought ReasonML was dead, because the blog hasn't been updated since 2018: https://reasonml.github.io/blog/

If you want to revitalize the project, please start updating the blog again :-)
Who writes “An UPS?”

This is an affront to sub-vocalization!
essentially just a very robust deployment of a chroot jail.

which can totally happen on a VM, but not a VM in-and-of-itself
> This already happened for a long time with translations, I assume because it's easier to get away with mistranslation of originals. It's common to translate a phrase into the most current version of the phrase in the target language and to update the translation regularly. To me this always felt very noticeable, doing this requires an impressive level of entitlement to take a great work of literature and add your own artistry on top of it.

Isn't that "impressive level of entitlement" a basic requirement for translation? It does take artistry to make a translation. Even if you're not going for a literary result, there are always going to be meanings that exist (or can be expressed efficiently) on one language but not the other. Then there are idioms and cultural references.
Here's a site which tracks how many subs have been made private. It's actually crazy that it's up to 93% of them now: https://reddark.untone.uk/
Hmm, some states do. I didn't know that. The majority don't. California doesn't.

For the ones that do, I would guess they have more leniency than 5%, but I don't know.
The back button doesn't remember scroll position, it always takes me to the top. Can't really use this as is.
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Yes. pihole coupled with a router that can intercept outbound traffic on port 53 and force it to the pihole is how my home network is configured. That way it catches all those sneaky devices that have hard coded dns servers.
Yes this is how I view it. Just because it's in code doesn't mean it's the same codebase, same deployment process, same servers, or anything else. Code is the source of truth and log of how that truth changed over time.
The proliferation of units strongly suggests that programmers should instead be able to define the ones they need.
How and to what extent compared to the leaders of other Western countries?
Take the United States, for example. Clinton? George W.? Trump? Biden? And I leave out Obama because he has a cleaner (but not immaculate) profile than the others just mentioned.

Are Italian prime ministers more scandalous than French (take Sarkozy, to cite a recent example) or British (Boris Johnson anyone?) prime ministers?
More recent Italian prime ministers include Mario Monti, Mario Draghi, Romano Prodi, Giuseppe Conte, all politicians and bureaucrats who may or may not be liked, but with a much higher personal and public profile than many of their counterparts in the Western world.

Please let's stop with silly, and frankly annoying, stereotypes.
When more than half of the words could be removed without losing much meaning, that's too long. And believe me, people actually write those. It's horrible. It's like those science guys who name every single variable x, but in reverse.
I haven't been on Android for a few years now, but the years I was, your client was my favorite. Thanks for making it!
I thought it was clear, but perhaps my English is not at that level yet. All the bullet points except the last one were more or less tongue in cheek. Sure, long names are required some times, just like super short names have their place as well.
We use it but with a burning sense of hate.

When you go to college, the only anonymous forum you can use is your college's subreddit, when you apply for internships the only forum for somewhat actionable career advice is cscareerquestions, and when applying to Law School or BSchool all the relevant information/tips/guidelines/strategies are all hosted on LawSchoolAdmissions and MBA.

We all know Reddit is a toxic piece of garbage but where else can you find actionable advice at scale?

I haven't seen as much hate for Discord, but Discord has a discovery problem and is still kind of niche.
I did not downvote you.
When I was finally forced to ditch Win7 due to lack of drivers, I installed (alongside Linux, that I've been using for years), a modified Win10 with all the telemetry crap and other stuff removed.

My parents have unmodified Win10 and that thing just annoys me to no end, ads, resetting settings after update, etc... Including some behaviour that caused revenue loss in my parents company.
I saw that pop up on one of my parent's computers. The hardware is old enough that it didn't want to install Windows 11, but Microsoft still managed to push that shit. Within an hour I wiped the drive of Windows.
> If the worst part of the experience was breaking even, you're ahead

I don't agree.

> You bought at a peak.

I guess it depends on how you look at it. I doubt I'll ever get an interest rate this low ever again.

> Refinance every few years and ride it out.

No interest in "riding it out".

> Rent never gets cheaper over time,

Old homes don't get cheaper over time.

> you get no privacy

Don't know what this means.

> and own nothing.

The bank owns this house. I own nothing.

> If shit hits the fan, you're homeless in 60-90 days.

If I'm optimizing against mythical "shit hitting the fan", this house buys me basically nothing.

edit Very interested in these downvotes I'm receiving for giving my own opinions on my own house...
For a site to work it either needs to

a) seed itself with tons of j referring links. At the end of the day people come for the content not the platform.

b) target moderation groups and convince individual smaller communities to transport themselves wholesale. Go down the dark list and start marketing to each mod team one by one.
How do you "nuke" the key? It may still be on the drive (or other drives, or magnetic tape backups).
It's the only term I'd ever seen for it, in any context, until the last couple years. And I'm not a 4channer. Pretty sure it's just another euphemism-treadmill thing. (not that I mind in this case, I think the new term's fine, and certainly not worth fighting over)