skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pure speculation on my part, but I bet they're getting hugged. Just a good ol' fashion "traffic pattern has changed and now you're being hugged to death," at a scale not even Reddit can rapidly address.

My guess is it's caused by (but indirectly) the Reddit Strike. Here's the thing: because Reddit doesn't require you to be logged in to see posts in most subreddits (especially the most popular ones), having those subs go private has caused a bunch of poorly-maintained automated infrastructure to hit its barely-tested retry/fallback code. How many repeater / archiver bots for subreddits are out there? Who knows. So now a bunch of bespoke, heterogeneous bots are saying "Oh, I got a nonstandard response from that page... Probably a transient issue, I'll try again in 30 seconds with no backoff. And of course, I'm faking my thumbprint to just look like a regular Chrome instance so I don't trip the bog-standard bot detection that'd stop me from doing what my creator wants me to do."

So I bet Reddit admins woke up today to a firestorm of continuously-failed-retried queries and they're having to figure out how to separate wheat from chaff in realtime.

A related, but different, potential explanation: Reddit never had to test at scale the performance of bouncing users from private subreddits and it turns out that query is itself expensive for some reason that didn't come up in small-scale testing, so now Reddit's own infrastructure is setting itself aflame as the world is waking up, pinging the most popular subreddits, and triggering a near-query-of-death every time they do it.
Cloudflare is having issues and I noticed HN is going down for me (takes multiple reloads to work) so might not just be them.
You don't need FBI style forensics, you just plug in a drive and there are the files, if the drive hasn't been erased.

Are you really OK with things like your bank account information or health records information or your e-mail history showing up on some rando's hard drive they bought from eBay, because it originally came from a cloud provider?
'Reddit finally finds a way to become profitable' is not what's going on. Reddit's own claims are conflicting, they simultaneously argue that other apps are causing them massive losses in terms of opportunity cost while arguing that they represent an insignificant portion of users. They've argued that the apps are too inefficient in their API usage while their own app is no better, and despite their claims, they demonstrably haven't tried to actually work with app devs to resolve this.

On top of that they're making these changes without having addressed the issues the 3rd party tools exist for despite having promised to do so for many years now. Them later backpedaling and attempting to carve out special exemptions for those only makes them look worse.

It'd be a lot less egregious if they were like Twitter and just said the obvious about how they didn't want to allow 3rd party apps anymore. Instead they're engaged in this scummy game of lies about how they really want to work with the community, so it makes perfect sense that the community is opposing them.
> There isn't a biological proclivity to liberalism!

Yes, but aren't there biological proclivities to certain personality traits, and then proclivities of people to certain personality traits to political ideology?

So if liberals don't reproduce, it could start selection against the "openness to experience" personality trait.
The spikes for others sites aren't nearly as large - 100 reports vs 50,000 for reddit
Population growth with our current technology has kinda proven that it's not sustainable, even less if each generation has social mobility to increase their wealth since wealth is directly correlated to environmental impact.

When our societies are not reliant on fossil fuels, environmental destruction (farmlands, etc.), and other forms of mass pollution we might want to reconsider population growth, as we're right now and for the foreseeable future that's one of the worst things we can do for future generations.
Archive.is periodically breaks Firefox like that. You can usually still read it in Chromium.
Investors must be pretty cheesed off that they couldn't deliver. Everyone wanted a slice of the low-rate environment pie, but now it's cooled down and doesn't taste so good anymore. But maybe some hungry folks will buy the dip. Pepperoni.
I propose shutting down all social media on Wednesdays, indefinitely.

(Sure, this idea is taken from Ready Player One, but that doesn't mean it's a bad idea!)
For now using Native Instruments without any configuration i don't have a good enough latency for performance. However i didn't follow yet Archlinux's pro-audio tutorial to use realtime capabilities and improve latency (i didn't have time yet). Before i used a Yamaha p-125 with its internal sounds directly redirected through the usb connection to Ardour which was amazing for practicing and live performance (it was still under Jack I think, i switched to Pipewire this year). (Although need to be careful the p125-a removed all those nice features). With fewer, linux based virtual instrument/plugin, latency would be less of an issue, but honestly i didn't take enough time yet on it to give you a viable answer. I am also more of a pianist than a producer, i still prefer a real piano when i can over any virtual appliances for performance, although as I said a Yamaha p-125 is quite alright for that purpose too (i don't know well Roland's equivalents). I know Pianoteq has some Linux native virtual instruments which are very good i heard. If you only play piano i would look into that, before paying they must have some demo version.
> I don't even mind the classes - just because it makes Crockford and the other enterprise java folks shut up

This is the second time I've seen in this thread that people lump Crockford in with Java enterprise folks, but Crockford routinely says `class` was the worst addition to JS.

> What I do find particularly impressive is how flexible JS is, and how much support can be added without actually changing the runtime

Funny enough, this sounds a lot like something Crockford would say.

I think Crockford's main gripe with JS these days is that TC39 is more concerned with adding superfluous features than cleaning up footguns. There is a video from 2018 where he goes through some of the more popular ES6 features and mentioned which ones he likes/dislikes. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFTOG895C7c
Are there any real-world crypto ATMs in Russia?
Depends on the server, and the channel on the server. Depending on the channel, you might get a handful of posts a week while the #general channel might be a non-stop firehose (at least on the more social Discords).

As to how it’s the closest alternative, mainly in that the atomic unit around which Discord is organized like Reddit is the community. On Reddit it’s subreddits and on Discord it is servers and it has gotten complex enough that for server owners Discord is slowly becoming a build your own social network toolbox.

Instead of the sidebar, each channel has pins. You can have an arbitrary number of channels for different topics, and you can even have forum channels where at the root level of the channel are forum topics. Once you’re in a server, searching it is trivial to see what people have said in Subject X in community Y, although this isn’t as good as say, searching all of Reddit is and you have to find a decent community to be able to search it.

Also a lot of subreddits are already running a Discord server on the side with the same or a similar mod team and have been for years. Doesn’t quite resolve Discord’s server discoverability issue, but Reddit doesn’t make the worst springboard for figuring out Discord either. If you support any Patreons or have similar memberships elsewhere, there’s a decent shot you already have access to a number of private members-only Discords which has kind of been my springboard into actually using my Discord account this past year.

But you know, it is very different. I don’t think it’s nearly as perfect an analogue to Reddit as Reddit was to Digg for Digg users, but it’s probably the closest to what Reddit already is.
Donald Trump indictment: what are the classified documents?
So does HN for me.
Probably a massive shift of traffic to still open subs. That'd probably take it down due to caches suddenly having all the wrong data. No inside info, though.

HN seems to be groaning under the load too and might go down with Reddit.
>Not once did any company accept the challenge let alone complete it.

Do remember that winning award is significantly less profitable than selling your secrets to the military.

NSO Group makes more money hacking iphones, than they make on bug bounties.

(but also I agree with you on the formatting our drives)
kbin.social, reddit and hackernews all down or slow. It’s a virus affecting reddit-likes!
Thiel seems to conflate a valid criticism (he has many) with an invalidation of an idea.

His objections and anecdotes are all very instructive. There is nothing wrong with shedding light on the motivations of people and the incentives in play when it comes to any social construct. Some (many) of those things should be changed.

It's hard to see where his criticisms sum to any singular great point about something bad that is going on. If you want to be (economically) reductionist, there is nothing wrong with someone else being social maximalist. Is the total social good not better than all the reductionist arguments in sum? Some say yes, some say no.

He's smart. Here he's being smart about specific little things. However, I did not finish reading the article with the feeling that Peter Thiel had some greater holistic and informed point of view than any of the people and institutions he is railing against.
Their brilliant strategy just forces me to wait until dlc is like a buck on sale. Seems like exactly what you don’t want from customer behavior but what do I know.
Back when Obama hosted an AMA on Reddit, a bunch of users added his account as a moderator to a bunch of subreddits, including some pretty objectionable ones. This prompted a change that moderators would be invited instead.
Same for me on Reddit (page not found)-
Also hn is throwing occasional “can’t serve your request” errors
I kinda want to know the lines we are drawing here. Is a group advocating straight marriage a hate group? Is a group espousing all white people are racist a hate group?

Also, I don't this paper is talking about the KKK or ISIS since I don't think they have a had presence on a social platform for quite a while.
I have to imagine that many people are deleting all of their comments / submissions.
I never even thought about that because I was too busy trying to solve the endless road puzzles for my cities. You can add mass transit and bike lanes but it’s very much car centric as a vital piece to any of its challenges.
“So how did one of the most influential 20th-century economists get it all so profoundly wrong?”

Well gee maybe economists should’ve shared a grindstone with psychologists instead of operating in a vacuum. And now it’s 2023 and every article about this talks about how wrong Keynes was. Who cares how wrong he was, let’s just fix the issues already.
There is also a DDPA (Distributed Digital Preservation "Attack") ongoing that maybe make things worse too.
LOL, FPL looks like an EKG.
June – How to grow a B2B SaaS startup
Is this the reason for access issues to Hacker News at the moment?
Not to mention the collateral damage to society by concentrating the most active users in these communities into off-site echo chambers.
Daily reminder that no one has any idea what they're doing. Twitter failing, Reddit being murdered. Improvisational Business Comedy.
Is reddit being down causing hackernews to get hammered?

It's as slow as the Apple news day
>It's easy to ban a bunch of people and come up with an estimate of a large amount of hate reduced. "These hate-mongers posted X times per day to an audience of Y people, therefore we stopped Z hatred-incidents per month. Big progress in stopping hate.". That's the stupid man's interpretation of the available data.

Starting with H1, it's quite clear these are not their definitions, but they're your misinterpretations of their definitions. Is there a reason you're misrepresenting the conclusions of the study, and doing so as uncharitably as possible? Is it possible it's "the stupid man's interpretation" because it's not at all their interpretation of their results?

> It's a lot harder to measure things like the feeling that people who already feel disenfranchised about life feel when they can't even vent about stuff on the Internet and what that leads to. The people with the ban-hammers are doing nothing but creating further and further resentment and confirming whatever biases and conspiracy theories that many people already feel.

It seems weird to note that it's hard to measure while simultaneously expressing complete confidence in the data-less conclusion you seem to want to be true.
Sure, feel free to read anything you want into anything at all. It doesn't seem like a good faith effort in taking them at face value, when you are willing to impart other's thoughts into their statement, without any regard for the author's perspective. No less here when there is a perfectly workable definition provided by the dictionary. In fact, it seems like you are making an effort to insist that this is vague, when really it isn't.
So is it a systems language?
No? Making some subs private doesn't have anything to do with the site blackout.
If anyone is interested I made an extension you can use to batch delete your Reddit posts and comments: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bulk-delete-reddit...

Let me know how it works for you if you try it! Still fixing bugs.
On all still available. I don't expect (recently) privated subs to have a ton of activity anyway.
Are there more sites that show incidents/outages in sites/networks like this? Aside from maybe looking up individual statuspages...
It’s a lot easier to be a decent human being with a big bank account, no sick family members and housing that you own, not rent.
If you have a good plan to recover from failures and you regularly monitor for pre-failure indicators, that the warranty expired shouldn't be a reason to drop the drives.

A hard drive being in warranty or not doesn't indicate much about its likelyhood of working. There's a market for 5 year old hard drives that seem to be working, and at the same time, if you have budget, replacing your hard drives every 5 years will likely get you decent incremental capacity increases.
An alternative conspiracy theory: put Reddit down for two days to hide the existence of the protests from major users.

E.g. many Google searches lead into private communities now. Word is spreading.
cool, I have the pro, haven't tried it myself.
Given that neither Reddit nor Hacker News use Cloudflare...
It's hilarious to me that Reddit is only relevant at all today because Digg 2.0's redesign was so hated that everyone from it flocked to Reddit. Then they buy a moderately successful app, completely destroy it and yet their execs are sitting there rapidly killing the ways people like to use their site and trying to force them into an objectively awful app and yet are seemingly completely oblivious to their history and why they're here in the first place.

Reddit, you are replaceable. The moment you turn off old.reddit, I'm gone. I'd definitely admit I am addicted to reddit in it's current form but new reddit and the app are just too insufferable I'll happily give it all up and find somewhere else.
Exactly. This is why I made a browser extension to batch delete all your Reddit history. It's easier than running a python script: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bulk-delete-reddit...
No real surprises here; once you remove the source, the moths stop flying towards it.

I reckon for most; their hate is based on emotional manipulation over an internal drive. This is what separates their "leaders" who are doing it for a specific end result, and their "followers" who are reacting to whatever comes across their feeds. Which is how they leverage this, it's easy to emotionally manipulate those who have no idea what's going on, they don't even recognize the ads/recommendations they're getting have served a specific purpose.
Other users apart from u/andrewsmith1986 also confirmed this, in that thread. Sounds plausible.
UTF-32 is a fixed-width encoding. To quote directly from the Unicode standard, chapter 3.9, definition 90:

> UTF-32 encoding form: The Unicode encoding form that assigns each Unicode scalar value to a single unsigned 32-bit code unit with the same numeric value as the Unicode scalar value.

UCS-4 is defined in ISO 10646. Before the 2011 revision of the standard UCS-4 had a 31-bit codespace, since then the definitions of the ISO and Unicode standards have converged and UCS-4 and UTF-32 are now synonymous.

> while UCS-4 currently encodes all of Unicode, there's no guarantee it will "forever".

There is. Unicode has a codespace of U+0000..U+10FFFF. There are 2^16 + 2^20 − 2^11 assignable codepoints, in Unicode 15 a total of 149,186 (13.4%) have been assigned.

Even if the Unicode codespace were to ever be extended again (it won't), the only encoding that would become incompatible is UTF-16. In fact, both UTF-8 and UTF-32 are trivially extensible and used to be wider encodings, but were restricted to 0x10FFFF arbitrarily to match UTF-16 limitations.

EDIT: My wording is very ambiguous. There are actually 286,719 (25.8%) assigned codepoints in Unicode 15: https://www.unicode.org/versions/stats/charcountv15_0.html. Still, the point stands.
It's often not working for me in the UK e.g. "You've broken reddit" and "Can't reach CDN".

Maybe it is a regional thing?
This is something I’ve seen repeated on Reddit often. Virtually any meta thread on Reddit about Reddit will have several comments containing these allegations. I can’t imagine how much time someone might need to spend to dig through all the noise to get to the truth, but it rings of something that might have a kernel of truth, given the prevalence and uniformity of such accusations.

In either case, it’s easily as speculative as the parent comment above, maybe slightly more so, since the parent came from Twitter.
Well, its very simple - millenials and GenZs have no political power, so the hangry wolves are just eating the food from their plates.

Drugged and blinded by social network, mobile apps, insane conspiracy theories and radical agendas, they keep missing the most obvious of things - there are no free meals, and all the sharks and wolves of the world will eat away on your hard work if you will not fight for it. What's right is not important - what's actually happening is.
Honest question: how do along “strong privacy policy” with “we use GPT-4”?

My understanding is that anything you hit an OpenAI API with can and will be used as training material for future public models. Thus it’s not safe to use their APIs with any proprietary data.

Your service seems pretty cool, but I’m nervous about connecting a pipe from my corporate chat solution to OpenAI like that.
Hmm. Taking just the UK, if "white native British" dropped from 99% to 82%, that would imply a lot of immigration between 1950 and 2023. How much of that was between 2000 and 2023? Does it account for all of the population growth? Some of it?

Looking at https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn06..., I would eyeball net immigration at around 200K/year from 2020 to 2023. That would amount to 4.6 million people. That's over half of the 7.5 million change in population, but not all of it.

Anyone with better numbers, step right up...
It totally holds up today. The difference is that modern security measures make it much more expensive to do.

The "natural law of security" -- If you can access it legally, you can access it illegally -- remains true.
Babylon Bee received a 12 hour suspension for calling a woman a man. There wasn't even really a joke attached, they were just being mean.

It's not relevant to this paper.
This is known to be false.
We do this where I work, and we HEAVILY verify all information that comes in from the unsigned/unauthenticated parts of the code. Not only types checks, but regex checks, and other validations. And if there's something there that shouldn't be there our program will kill itself. We don't even show any error prompts or anything just incase.
The protest has also ignited because of the "dry tinder" left by Reddit's previous shortcomings. If third-party apps were just a niche product rather than something used by subreddit moderators for moderation, then those selfsame moderators would be less likely to join the cause.
Ironically these features make Perl feel very far from natural language, much moreso than other programming languages, even some symbol-heavy ones like Java. It feels more like IPA pronunciation notation than anything naturally derived. Raku I can't speak for because I haven't used it beyond "hello world", but it has a huge pile of symbolic infix operators in the standard library and that makes me squirm, because it's probably my most-disliked Haskell feature and IMO a substantial design mistake.
It seems pleasant at first, then you realize that 90% of comments on every post are cynical negativity and I'm not entirely sure if spending much time around here is a good thing because it'm starting to absorb it.
When the automation breaks, and it always breaks: gimme that 100 page doc please
By all means use glass for the lenses and metal for the heatsinks, but building the entire thing out of metal is harder to justify IMO. I doubt they're heatsinking directly into the case, that would cause it to radiate heat into and around your face rather than being directed away by fans, and make the unit uncomfortable to handle after its been used heavily.

The front glass is more scratch resistant than plastic but in exchange it's going to be instantly obliterated if you drop it the wrong way, so pick your poison.
Thanks!

If your goal is learning yourself, I guess you should really implement your stuff down on the system API level (using sockets and so on) ;)

If, OTOH, you want to get up some simple/small service quickly, I hope "poser" can help. I'm not sure the docs are already "good enough" (it's still a very young project ...) -- there's also a real example using it here: https://github.com/Zirias/tlsc/blob/master/src/bin/tlsc/tlsc...
If str is utf-8, as it likely is nowadays outside certain OS APIs, then that code is fine. You can't grab an arbitrary character from the str and move it around and have it retain its meaning. But you couldn't necessarily do that before either, as you would be potentially breaking up a word, eg. To do unicode while pretending it's ascii in C, you look for ascii characters you recognize, like punctuation and the like, which you split the string on. You then treat every other substring as a black box of characters that can only be moved around as a unit.