skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People aren't random agents of evil, that may or may not trigger. That's simply not a description of reality

That is not what stochastic terrorism means.

Stochastic terrorism is the observation that while you can not express specifically, where and how terror will occur, you know that with prob 1, it will occur and is a consequence of people rallying and exploiting crazy people.

Of course, anyone can deny that they explicitly told people to commit acts of terror, because they didn’t, and therefore they can not be held responsible for what the mentally ill did; that doesn’t mean there isn’t a cause and effect.

A constant barrage of people expressing “think of the children”, or blaming minorities for the perils of society is going to slowly but surely deteriorate and rally people into supporting murder and other heinous acts by distorting their reality and allowing them to justify atrocities.

Expressing that some [hero] needs to do something, nudge nudge wink wink doesn’t mean you did not cause an event, people don’t exist in vacuums, and all of our interactions provably matter.
Ask HN: Why cursor speed calculation is wrong?
The quality of the AI generated voice acting really impressed me. I wasn't expecting it to be anywhere near so good.
I haven't tried Fluent yet, but—in theory—could you not have both the message identifier and the original string in your code?

Their React example kind of points towards this: https://github.com/projectfluent/fluent.js/wiki/React-Bindin...

They provide a <Localized> component, which has an identifier and wraps a piece of markup containing the original:

<Localized id="hello">
<h1>Hello, world!</h1>
</Localized>

Seems like the best of both worlds.
We are playing with words. Accusation vs possibility vs open to options vs etc. The problem is that it was called which hunting anything that was not natural origin.
I have taken them since, but I get something completely new and different each time.

The “lessons” are ephemeral and effortless. The work that follows the trip is very effortful: trying to repeatably (i.e. without drugs) attain what the mushroom showed was possible. That’s the hard part, but it’s also the real reason to do mushrooms — they are a kind of aspirational drug that leaves you searching — only you’re not searching for a new high, you’re searching for ways to apply what the mushroom taught you. It’s a very beautiful process.

At least, that’s how I see it!
I've seen it used with either positive or negative connotations depending on the context.
And individual people driving themselves is not a waste of human potential?
Is there a good reason why Firefox should not ship with uBlock Origin by default (with the option to disable it)?
Most motorbikes I’ve been near have had significantly more smelly exhaust than a modern car. I don’t think their catalytic converters are as efficient, or maybe they’ve been broken?

Anyway, I don’t think the fees aim to improve pollution, just congestion.
What does this appliance do? Is it just a SMTP proxy with a virus scanner and spam filter? How is it better than software filters on the mail server?
> Google Cloud isn’t worried that Twitter is broke

Twitter is broke. "The company" spends more than it collects in revenue, and it has massive debts - the interest on which alone is greater than the revenue it collects. Sure it can borrow more money, from its shareholders if it has to, but even that tap can dry up.
You are spamming this thread. Looks like you are working for the CCP. Don't make it too obvious.
> What could he do differently?

Give the image of a decent company.

That feels dumb, but people's willingness to pay is affected a lot by their perception of what they're paying for. I payed for 3 reddit apps, and never felt like paying for reddit itself as they went downhill. It always felts like they're accepting users like me despite their personal convictions, and I'm half abusing their platform by looking at decent content instead of the flaming hell of subs they had as default and then as prominent subs.

Their handling of many of the most public issues has been botched to no end, and their relationship with the mods has always been adversarial.

As a counterpoint, people donate to Wikipedia, pay for patreons, push money on Youtube. None of these corporations are perfect, and they have their controversies, but not spitting on the community at every turn helps a lot, to the point where the calculation on what you pay for what you get can be more skewed, or even negative, and it still works out.

PS: I see the same dynamic for Twitter, there's no way I'd pay for anything on Twitter at this point, when paying for better instances of Mastodon looks like a long term positive action.
It’s too easy to modify the exhaust on a motorcycle, so I don’t think this would be practical. Local laws here are very strict about noise levels, and vehicles are inspected regularly, yet still there are a lot of drivers with modified machines that can wake up the dead when revved.
What's "moderator tools" in this context?? Mods use apps like Apollo and RIF to moderate their subreddits, and both of these apps are shutting down at the end of the month.
After living there and coming back I'm still trying to figure out how they get my money when I'm there.

In the US it is an obvious choice to not waste your money at 7-11. The gas is more expensive than Sheetz usually, their hotdog like products and terrible pizza have been sitting under a heat lamp for more than a day. And every product there is cheaper elsewhere. But 7 and I holding still is much better.

But it's not actually good and just seems like an extremely easy opportunity for the parent company in the US.

All convenience stores in the US are basically terrible except for a few who specialize in super clean bathrooms on road trips and a few north east places that capitalize on the fact that the region produces the best subs in the world. Really feels like 7 will have a Nintendo moment at some point and actually care about profits outside of their home country one day and just clean up.
Lol. If the treatment of their own people wasn't bad enough and it took a pandemic conspiracy theory to hate them, then I feel like you need to read more.
Sound as if bike-roads are missing, a bike would reduce it to 5 minutes.
The purpose of that article is not to bring down china. It's not ideologically opposed to china. It was not some conservative agenda article. It's a group of people who want to understand what happened. The article comes from a stance of curiosity. What I linked is very compatible with the HN mindset and not particularly ideological.

You clearly have not read it because your comment makes no sense in the context of that article.

If you don't want to be curious then don't be.
Price per square foot in Manhattan, a parking spot is a steal.
It is hard to distinguish indeed, since there is no noticeable difference.

Jokes aside, as a data scientist of a long career, I don’t share your skepticism. It would be a hilariously easy task to extract this information from the data with the variables involved and the records insurance companies are able to keep.
Exactly, thanks for highlighting this, it always really irked me about the gettext design that they were tightly coupled to the source translations.
This is really mostly possible with well enunciated speech, which is only really possible if you slow down a reasonable bit.
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It's not analogous. The bread company is lowering the price by providing competition. That's value that I get from their existence, that I wouldn't get if they disappeared. But I do agree with the proposition that companies in perfectly competitive markets without a differentiated product, aren't adding that much value.
Anecdotally, my experience is different. In my case this usually means that I am unaware of some other factors at play, usually business constraints that haven’t been made public.
Why would you use LVM with ZFS? ZFS should handle all of the features LVM has (as far as I can think of, at least).
>Additionally, the closest relative to SARSCov2 that has been identified (RaTG13)

As of 2022, this is no longer true.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RaTG13
I wonder, besides classical antitrust stuff (which doesn't seem to work at all), is there some sort of measures that would make the process inverse, making giant corporations want to disperse into smaller autonomous companies?
Big Gulps huh? It's always interesting to see just how awesome 7-11s are in other countries and why those improvements aren't brought back to the U.S. ones.
That article says the first thing you said but not the second.
If I'm reading between the lines correctly...

After a device is compromised, patching it won't help. Their software team (quite reasonably) says that after anyone else has got root on the system, their software patch system probably can't reliably be sure to get rid of the malware.

So, they are offering to replace any device in this position. The replacement is probably a refurbished one from another customer, but has gone back to the factory to be flashed by some debug port - and using that you can wipe all the flash memory and be pretty sure there is nothing evil left.
The Reddit App War Is Getting Messy
I read this with great interest. Sometimes technologies come around that make me seriously wonder if I should embrace them or continue on the path I’ve already designed.

They include: CRDTs, PouchDB, hypercore, etc.

What I currently have is my own, PHP-based implementation of essentially a history of “collaborative documents that evolve through time” — with each document having one machine as a source of truth:

https://qbix.com/platform/guide/streamsConcepts

So basically, I think that syncing and CRDTs (y.js and automerge) can be excellent for collaborating on documents, but not so great for chatrooms and smart contracts / crypto where order of operations matters. For those, you can implement optimistic interface updates but when conflicts (rarely) arise, your interface may roll back changes it displayed. This is especially true after a netsplit.

I thought about using PouchDB but the thing is that CouchDB is an extra process people have to run and we want our stuff to run anywhere Wordpress does. Ditto for hypercore. These are great technologies, but it seems what we have is great for fhe very reason tht it’s in PHP - still the most widely supported commodity hosting environment in the world by far. What are the stats these days for PHP vs Node, Go etc.?
I admit I wasn't particularly careful calculating this, but something like a quadrillion petabytes per year. I guess the datacenter would also need to be quite large, depending how vertical it could go. Say, a continent per year?

Your move, NSA.
“But when it came to remembering details that did not relate to her personally, Price proved no better than average. […] School, she says, was “torture” for her – she couldn’t remember facts and figures – but she’s unbelievably good at trivia about television of the 60s and 70s, her nostalgia years. Other details, if they didn’t relate to her or her interests, were forgotten: once, she was asked to close her eyes and recall what her two interviewers, who she’d spent several hours with that day, were wearing – she couldn’t.”

This is very interesting. This seems like a learnable ability of sorts? The text states that while she had good memory she actively tried to build memories of her world before the family moved. After that episode she was like this.
(Not the original commenter) I don't know of any death metal examples, but chill-lofi-beats+djent music already exists and it's pretty good. This isn't the only example but it's my personal favorite one:

https://youtu.be/-Yeqp2-dF5M
Respectfully, I think YCombinator is well aware that the benefit to them is greater than the cost of running Hacker News.

In addition to Hacker News making them the most well known startup accelerator in the world, who people will apply to from all over the world, it also provides benefits for their incubees, as they get free advertising on Hacker News, and presumably this makes their investments more likely to succeed (although I'd love to see a comparison of the historic portfolios of various startup accelerators)
> Mastodon's issues are:

Fediverse isn't just Mastodon. There are other implementations of ActivityPub compatible with each other. For example I can use Friendica and comment or retrweet posts from Mastodon and vise versa.

> if I am on one mastodon site, I can not just retweet that post, I have to go to my server and then cut-and-paste a link to that other site.

It was simpler in past versions of Mastodon but they removed that feature for some reason. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/19306 Previously it was "remote interaction" dialog. Other implementations like Pleroma may have kept it.

> no quote tweeting, important for vitality.

Twitter can not do like this https://telegra.ph/file/9ea3a6f4f0e3a5c5fa06e.png
Account suspended? Any other way to read this?
Genuinely curious, why does the page make 20+ requests for ~1.5Mb of non-content for a site that quite literally exists to showcase small websites? Oversight?
Which lemmy?? The GitHub repository?? Can you substantiate this?
There you go making generalizations about 50 separate sovereign entities with 50 different legislatures, constitutions and court systems independent of each other.

But yes, legislatures can change laws on a whim, which is quite a bit more of a process than when I do something on a whim. Given the half-a-hundred entities that are the subject of your comment, some variability in the laws and political processes creating different outcomes depending on their jurisdiction is an expected result.
the author stole all
my thoughts that I thought today while trying to write some asyncio!

asyncio is fun to play with, but it is a menace to any production level project
Thanks, my spell checker won't help with that :^).
7-11 in other countries are often owned by franchisee partner chains and groups. It's just that other countries seem to have better standards than the US.

7-11s in Japan, the UAE and in South East Asia are just much better maintained in general than the ones in the US. Often coupled is the fact that these countries often have strict enforcement, and if that's lacking, then a personal sense of responsibility from the owners to not stuff their customers.
I wonder why that is. In Japan it feels like they actually provide great value for what you're paying.

Japan's population is declining so at some point (very soon), Japanese companies in general will have to start paying more attention to their revenues outside Japan.
Here in Hillsborough. Your stream seemed to be a lot more than 5ms ahead.

I think I was in a 4 or 5k stream. Whatever apples page delivers when on a 5k monitor I guess.
Ah, so when people disagree with you, it's because they're conspiracy theorists and you're ready to make wild assumptions about their motives. How perfectly reasonable of you.
> without Reddit they all wouldn’t be on the same site.

Without a Reddit-like company, they wouldn't all be on the same site. That's the key distinction. If a clone won't arise if Reddit shuts down, then yes, you are correct, Reddit is adding a lot of value. As is, given they have a monopoly on this vertical of social media due to network effects, whether or not a clone would arise is a hypothesis that we can't test, but my money would be on a clone arising in their absence.
Pretty good. I wouldn’t buy clothes from there by choice regularly but it’s definitely not disposable level quality. Maybe about on par with Uniqlo for basics?
Japan has an unhealthy workaholic culture similar to America.

It's worth noting that in Japan, there are also vending machines that sell used women's underwear.
$430 million?
What is low-rank adaptation – LoRA?
Amazing site. The fate of the South Bank studios makes me sad though.

> The entire building including the 24-storey Kent House and all the studios were to be demolished, to be replaced with a 31-storey tower containing mostly luxury apartments and a token amount of ‘affordable’ housing.
The pricing is actually reasonable, thats the annoying part. The free tier is good enough for tweaks and MVPs, this is the opposite of what Twitter did which effectively ended experimentation on their API.

The paid tier is reasonable, $12k for 50 million requests (1/4th of twitter api) means Opollo will be paying $1.68 million a month. Thats entirely reasonable for such a popular Reddit app.

This gets us back to the original point, users got used to subsidised pricing (free) so Reddit was inevitably gonna get blowback no matter how they spliced this. To put it in perspective, $1.68m is 168k users paying $10/m a month. They have 1.5m active monthly users. Thats means they only need 10% of their active users to be paying customers.

P.S.
Its not just a need to generate revenue, if they don't become profitable soon its game over for the current investors and management team. The IPO markets have dried up and nobody is touching anything series A and above.

SV's darling Stripe had to cut their valuation by 50% to get some money, Reddit wont be able to get anything near that. The best they'll get is some private equity type deal (FATAL).
I think about the same question all the time. Instead of can't change, I think human mind is more of a slippery slope of ideas, an overton window. If you try to transmit an idea that is on the far end of that slope, it would appear no exchange has taken place. But that slope is different among a population. If you managed to transmit the same idea to a bunch of people, some will get what you are trying to convey. I believe ideas are better broadcasted and people do change, albeit slowly.
I'm not sure I agree with it either. I'd personally much rather take a realistic estimate (in cases we have one anyway) than a simplified half-truth. But I think I can see a rationale for why some people doing the communicating may opt for the latter.

Comparing to something else that people might have a more realistic intuition of sounds like a good idea.
It feels to me like all the described problems should be something we will encounter in space. If we want to grow beyond this planet, isn't that a good motivation to solve them down here?
I don't think Japanese companies keep workers around anymore than American ones, so the "hero" masochism signaling is misplaced.
> Did you not prepare any real answers ahead of time to obvious questions? You could just be copy/pasting detailed statements with actionable items in them right now instead of typing non-answers every 5-15 minutes. That would be a level of preparation appropriate for a potential billion-dollar company.

Elsewhere I've seen people complaining that one of his responses started with "A:" so he was "obviously just copy-pasting rather than actually answering".

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/146h9d6/reddits...

(E to put the last part in quotes)
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>> How does a person go from being at Harvard to concluding the only way to make it better is to first make it worse

> Harvard is where TK racked up hundreds of hours across several years as a participant/victim of an MKULTRA experiment investigating how to break down someone's belief system.

"Because Mkultra" is not a valid mitigation or explanation of TK's mental health or lack of it. After all, the other participants didn't turn into serial murders, now did they?

Sometimes a sausage is just a sausage, and sometimes an evil murderer is just an evil murderer.

There's often no point in attempting to find reasons for why someone is evil.
I’ve never worked on localization either, but I do spend a lot of time reading other people’s source code, and I always find it mildly annoying when a project uses identifiers because it means I have to grep twice: once for the message (to find the identifier) and once for the identifier (to find the code that uses it). In projects that embed messages directly, I only have to grep once.

I’ve wondered about the possibility of having the best of both worlds: have the source code contain the full English message (and no other identifier), but use a tool that automatically assigns identifiers to source code locations that contain messages. Different locations would get different identifiers even if they use the same string. The tool would have to be history-aware, in order to keep the identifier the same if the code is moved or if the message is edited. It would have to use heuristics to differentiate between “message was edited” and “message was deleted, and an unrelated message was added in roughly the same place”. But in practice this would usually be easy to do.

…Or you could simplify things drastically by having the source code contain both the English message and a unique identifier (perhaps just a number rather than anything descriptive). That’s less fun though.
And thousands new ones will arise . I think it's about time. And reddit might even want this. One of the worst things about current reddit is the same moderators moderating multiple subreddits for more than decade , it has gotten really old while its audience is always young.
yeah.. a friend lent me his pico4, and while it is fine for games or other applications like googlemaps/streetview, I really do mind the optics. Blurry text disqualifies it for many usecases.
Even combined they'd still be smaller than Walmart (according to the article). They're also competing against Amazon/whole foods and Costco, etc...

Grocery shoppers are also extremely fickle and price sensitive. As far as mergers in the US go, I'd be surprised if this was blocked.
Because if we're relying on the people who are funding bioweapons research in hostile countries to tell us how to treat said viruses, under the delusion that they'd learn something useful, it's the kind of thing we need to know about before waking up three years later and finding out (per the Northwestern study) that we could have avoided a lot of deaths by simply following the sort of treatment regimen we used for more common flu varieties and given the patients azithromycin.
Then I guess it's their loss. Unless they're unable to use public transport, I shouldn't have to have the externalities of them using cars, such as carbon emissions, parking space that would otherwise be used, noise and light pollution, etc.
Currently rendering as an entirely blank page for me in Safari. Largely because it seems to be scaled to some ungodly size and all I'm seeing is the left margin - but horizontal scrolling is disabled. A+ superb. 10/10. No notes.
>> In practice, they are a niche endeavor used by a bunch of hackers and computer science nerds.

I don't know anything about federation, but what you said basically describes the Internet when it started, so I don't see how you can imagine it is not going anywhere based on that. Most tech starts as a "niche endeavor of a bunch of hackers and computer science nerds" (I'm also thinking of Apple starting at a computer club).
Its not ridiculous though. Its 75% cheaper than the Twitter API pricing and the free tier is good enough for MVPs & experimentation.
“Tiny Awards is a small prize awarded by an equally-small selection committee of online makers to the website which we feel best embodies the idea of a small, playful and heartfelt web.”
https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/145bram/addressing_...
It is interesting that the native word (because in the Polish language, "Polak" is a neutral standard word for a male Pole; a female would be Polka, just like the dance) mutated to a slur an ocean away.
Those links you provided seem to have nothing to do with "whitelist of projects allowed to use native code". Can you be more specific about what you're referring to?