skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Slash dot, an older tech site news that was popular pre digg/reddit
Why do we keep using private residences to host these parties, when we could be having them out in the streets where no one can take ownership of them?

Reinvent usenet with modern web technology. All posts replicate, with verifiable authenticity, and the website presentation remains up to the instance host on what it should look like.

Run a node, host an API for 3 bucks a year so that mobile clients can pull data. Run a website, host it with free accounts and spam it. Let people decide how they want to pay - wallets or eyes - but just stop hoarding the damned conversations.
> But he fears that most of the companies working on such a project have missed one essential component of lasting success: the fact that people are as much creators as they are consumers. “There isn’t as yet any evidence that people want to have a purely consumptive entertainment experience in social virtual worlds,” he says. “I don’t think there’s any evidence in human history that you can get a billion people to just kind of sit there and veg out, watch stuff. You can’t get to the kind of usage levels that metaverse brands want to get to with a consumer non-participatory experience.”

I think this is the money quote. Meta seemed to be under the impression that people want to invent digital versions of themselves just to consume content and engage with brands.
I went to school as an EE and learned in college to keep written, dated lab notes in a notebook without removable pages (to be more credible as evidence).

I did this for years in my earlier career... there's something really nice about using a pen and paper to write down ideas and sketches. I've always felt it was the "linearization" of moving your pen through making a series of marks, one at a time, that helps clarify the thinking process.

Then I actually did get tangled up in a lawsuit, by shareholders against the execs of a startup I worked for, and had all my journals subpoena'ed. It was a harsh reminder that lab notes aren't really your own private sticky notes; if they are ever going to be used as evidence, they are better thought of as a continuous performance of Engineering Best Practices.

I basically stopped writing paper notes then.

I've started journaling my coding again, but electronically (mostly using plain text notes in files, with Johnny Decimal to keep them organized). It's just so helpful during the design and early implementation phase, or when working through a tricky bug hunt. But I usually delete them when I'm done with them.
https://sqwok.im

- All posts fully public and google indexed.

- Built-in realtime chat rooms instead of threaded comments on all posts, complete with presence, @mentions, markdown support (check faq)(mobile & desktop web supported currently).

- Trending based on chat activity and time decay.

- Search, notifications, follows, themes, other settings like block a user.

- Focus on simplicity, accessibility, usability.

Previous Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31160302

I'd taken some time off the project over the past several months to focus on regular work/life but still planning to release new features and push the project forward, with an upgrade to chat/presence to be released imminently and long-form posts to follow.

Have been blessed to see people from all over the globe use this silly site I built because I wanted to use it myself.

If you find it interesting please let me know how we can improve it etc.

Also if you think you could bring something to this project and have interest feel free to reach out by email.
I've played around with having images being intentionally low-res or full of artifacts, for artistic reasons. This is a bit like "hey Vincent, your paintings are really low-res, let me make them more realistic for you like Rembrandt did!"

The feature as such seems okay, and I can even see myself using this on occasion. But it really should be a button in the image or something, for usability and privacy concerns.
If a gender-fluid pansexual wants to identify their sex as "Yes please", who are you to say they can't? Hmmm.
Reddit alternatives:

Beehaw https://beehaw.org/

Kbin Social https://kbin.social/
It's a concise quip for when one party in a relationship values the relationship a lot more than the other party.

https://www.google.com/search?q=She's+not+that+into+you%2C+b...

"Reddit doesn't care about hobbyists as long as they get eyeballs scrolling their tiktok content" just isn't as catchy.

Anyway, that's the case here. There are a lot of people who are very emotionally attached to their posting, and it's a personal disaster for them to lose that. It is not, however, a disaster to Reddit - you can clearly see from the Q+A that Spez gets how upset people are and just doesn't care, they still will not change course and are even doubling down on killing the mobile website etc to further drive traffic to the native app. Very clearly they are making the decision that it's better to retain 75% or even 50% of their users and get them all on the app than to maintain the existing experience and not monetize the users effectively.

In this vein I 100% expect them to crack open any subreddits still closed after 48 hours and get the money moving again. Most people will come back. Or at least Reddit thinks most people will come back.

But generally, people value the content of their posting quite highly, because of the emotional connection. It's like a pawnshop, to you they're priceless heirlooms, to the guy behind the counter it's junk. It doesn't matter to Spez if you keep posting or not, and in the aggregate the odds are that you will.

And that's the emotional disconnect, users see a community they built and don't want to change or go away, and Spez sees a big 'ol cash pinata if he can turn it into Reddit-Shaped Tiktok. People feel they built something and contributed something value, and Spez feels that there are more cat-picture-uploaders and movie-quote-comment-chain posters where you came from. Your posts aren't an heirloom to him, they're junk.

Redditors think Spez can’t live without them - and he’s just not that into you. Making a big dramatic ultimatum is not gonna work.

This is Ycombinator we're posting on, and Spez/Reddit are the very first, the model YC alum. They're chasing money, not building a community, they don't care about you the way you care about them.

It sucks to get dumped but it’s over, and people are just making a scene because they can. At some point Reddit will get tired of it and call the cops (insert mods/reopen subreddits) and move on with their life.
> It's a cat/dog/animal thing

And a pipi thing too.
The Hurd website is a mess. Where is the code?
Common sense would say there must be an internal battery, but Marco Arment was at WWDC and was specifically told there's no internal reserve.

https://atp.fm/538 at 3 hours 16 minutes

I haven't been able to find a first-hand source stating otherwise.
Nope, I don't plan to watch anything, feel free to indulge in your beliefs.
Perhaps some friction is a good thing. Registering an account isn't exactly a huge burden, especially in the era where your browser will pre-fill and store the credentials for you forever. Maybe if it wasn't so easy to pop in and karma farm / spam / meme we would have some more thoughtful discourse online again.
I provided a link to the index if you don’t believe me. Retail prices are stubborn to reduce (because retailers are obviously reluctant to sell inventory at a loss which they had bought when prices were high), but a large consumer can access these reduced prices, as you probably can if you bargain aggressively. Here, I’ll paste it again: https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/lumber
As long as n=1 it‘s no problem :-)
It's just raw capitalism and enshitification [1] which is why I'm going to be the annoying, stubborn guy and stop using proprietary platforms, especially ones where I'm inadvertently contributing to building some company's dataset or usage state that is just waiting to be later milked once the platform decides their users are too entrenched.

I was on digg. I was on reddit. I was on Twitter. I was on Facebook. Every platform has its day, and I like investing in things for the long term. It's a much harder battle, but even my code is now used by MS/GitHub to train ML. It's so hostile and folks are so used to it that I feel like I have to tip-toe around saying "No, this isn't okay for me."

[1] https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys (credit to mostlysimilar! thank you! I despise Medium but hadn't found this link)
Guilty until proven innocent. This is a major failing of modern society's knee jerk reactions to any perceived offense, especially around social issues.
Paint by numbers is a unique artistic approach that allows you to produce stunning paintings in a systematic and pleasant manner. A paint-by-number includes a pre-printed canvas or board divided into sections, each labeled with a number. Corresponding numbered paints are given, so all you have to do is match the numbers and fill in the colors. This method removes the guesswork from painting, making it accessible to people of all ability levels.

As a printer when you see a dragon picture you find that it captivates your attention and imagination because this unique kit of dragon paint by numbers allows you to embark on a mythical adventure. Capture the strength and mystery of these legendary creatures as you paint intricate dragon designs. From majestic firebreathers to graceful and elusive beings, these kits offer a unique opportunity to immerse yourself in a world of fantasy and folklore.

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Overall, painting by numbers has various advantages aside from the pure fun of making art. For starters, it offers a pleasant and peaceful experience that allows you to unwind and concentrate on the creative process. Paint by numbers’ regimented nature also improves concentration and attention to detail. Painting by numbers is also an excellent approach to building and enhancing your painting talents since you will learn about color mixing, shading, and brush techniques along the way.
To be frank I do not know what to do. I have been trying to reduce my insulin resistance but most of the low carb protein powder seem to use some sort of artificial sweetener.

Also this https://www.prevention.com/food-nutrition/a44156389/sucralos...

So which one is less bad ?
Artificial sweeteners have been shown to cause weight gain, since they make you hungrier, and also lower your metabolism. This was shown in follow up studies with humans, but with mice, they had three groups that each got a fixed amount of calorie counted food and a hamster wheel. They then added sugar to one group's water and artificial sweetener to another group's. The artificial sweetener groups gained the most weight and was the least physically active.

If you're trying to watch your sugar levels (and are not diabetic) then artificial sweeteners are strictly harming your progress toward whatever goal you're trying to achieve.

They also cause all sorts of other health issues (cancer, digestive problems, neurological problems), but those are mostly product specific. The above applies to all non-nutritional sweeteners that have been studied.

I hope the WHO ruling includes "organic" artificial sweeteners too.
> A lot of friction before you are able to join and participate in a new community.

Arguably, that is one of the things that keeps the quality of content higher.

Likewise, it is too easy to post on Reddit allowing for the easy low content/quality material to make its way there more frequently.

Quoting from A Group is its Own Worst Enemy - https://gwern.net/doc/technology/2005-shirky-agroupisitsownw... ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35855988 ) - from four things to design for:

> Three, you need some barriers to participation, however small. This is one of the things that killed Usenet, because there was almost no barrier to posting, leading to both generic system failures like spam, and also specific failures, like constant misogynist attacks in any group related to feminism, or racist attacks in any group related to African- Americans. You have to have some cost to either join or participate, if not at the lowest level, then at higher levels. There needs to be some kind of segmentation of capabilities.

> Now, the segmentation can be total—you’re in or you’re out, as with the music group I just listed. Or it can be partial—anyone can read Slashdot, anonymous cowards can post, non-anonymous cowards can post with a higher rating. But to moderate, you really have to have been around for a while. It has to be hard to do at least some things on the system for some users, or the core group will not have the tools that they need to defend themselves.

> Now, this pulls against the cardinal programming virtue of ease of use, but ease of use is the wrong goal for social software. Ease of use is the wrong way to look at the situation, because you’ve got the Necker cube flipped in the wrong direction, toward the individual, when in fact, the user of a piece of social software is the group.
I'm just saying it is better to make no assumptions here than to make the same mistakes that led to UTF-16's accidental brokenness.

There are certainly jokes that emoji's current rate of expansion could be in the billions by the end of the decade.

Every time we think we have a handle on "all" of human languages we make new interesting discoveries of past languages or hidden present languages or an indigenous populace declares a need for a script they can truly call their own rather than whatever ugly mix of Latin letters some missionaries thought appropriate in the cultural insensitive past or a populace has an uprising and declares a revolutionary new start or…

That's just human languages. I'm sure we'd have a ton of problems if we ever started trying to encode non-human languages. I don't think we're in danger yet of discovering that dolphins have a written script for whale languages (or wilder some sort of first contact event with non-terrestial aliens), but our science fiction loves to posit such events happening at any time and as a huge surprise. It would be great if we were at least somewhat prepared for such wild hypotheticals.

Yeah, that's outside the "usefully-predictable future", but also I think Unicode has always existed in a place where the future isn't "usefully-predictable". (How many 90s Unicode architects would have predicted emoji? As only one example.)
Reading the article I see some very short timeframes being used (e.g. 1991-2020, 1979-2000) as statistically relevant. Might be enough when preaching to the choir, but irrelevant to the skeptics.
They are all over the country.

No, they don't pay as much as the Bay Area. You wouldn't expect them to.
This exact situation is why federation is valuable. It allows us to separate the "shape" of tool that we want from the people who run it.

Reddit is a useful concept: a series of communities with voting and hierarchical discussion. It also provides aggregation (ability to see a feed of all your communities) and discoverability. Individual forums get you some way, but don't solve the aggregation thing (which is a primary way I use Reddit: scroll through my "Popular" feed). How about we just design some form of system that allowed people to build their own aggregated feed of a group of individually hosted forums? That would be (a) cool, and (b) we've just done federation.
Isn't reddit on venture capital since pretty much the start?
Interesting that removing sulphur emissions may have resulted in more solar radiation being absorbed by the oceans. Wonder if cargo ships could purposely emit some benign material that would reflect away sunlight. Although I suspect there could be unintended consequences.
This piece is begging for a followup that covers the rise in aesthetic elective procedures. The people who didn’t win the genetic lottery are paying to catch up.

It starts with the rise in dental braces (yes even among adults https://www.zocdoc.com/blog/the-adult-braces-boom-of-2021/) then goes to Botox or lip fillers and ends with the BBL.

The only recent year in which there was a decline in plastic surgery is when COVID cancelled elective surgeries, and then it shot right back up. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9886203/
"Signed documents" are a joke and everybody knows it. As the XKCD goes:

How to use PGP to verify that an email is authentic:
Look for this text at the top
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
If it's there, the email is probably fine

The abstract only mentions it offhandedly, but I think the least emphasized bug in their paper is actually the most important, because it really drives this point home:

"We discovered that on macOS, it is sufficient to include a sig1.xml without any content to force the application to show a security banner stating that the document is protected by a signature"

BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE indeed.
Spent all of 2021 using only an Alcatel “dumb phone”. It had an 8gb memory card for music, picked up FM radio, and had alarms and (very) basic internet access good enough to skim Wikipedia.

The thing that made me go back to a “smart” phone was that it was completely useless for group texts. If there was a dumb phone with better MMS support (and maybe a few other chat apps) I would go back instantly.
4chan? It doesn't touch the scale and breadth of Reddit and I was always a little uncomfortable the handful of times I visited. Maybe because of no-rules /b/ but there are definitely some wholesome boards out there.
This is awful, I'm glad that the victim wasn't actually saying something racist, because it would be too risky to defend them.

But companies should not be allowed to arbitrarily cut off access to purchased products like this. Especially when they are designed to be integral to day to day life. I think this practice should be illegal, even if they did say horrible things, attacked the driver, and set fire to amazons headquarters. It is simply unacceptable under any circumstance.
I had a similar experience. /r/turning had no memespam and good wood turning content, but I found the actual American Association of Woodturners forum to have very wide breadth and high quality information.
Fwiw, Weird Al obtains permission from the original artist for his parodies.
Perhaps. I never know what to believe. I've heard smart, knowledgeable people like Bill Gates state that he thinks we won't experience a scorched Earth ending, but that we will solve this crisis. I'd like to believe him, but then I see an article like this and I don't know who to believe, the graphs are pretty damning if only to say "that line is way above the other lines, and that is bad."
Melange 1.0: Compile OCaml / ReasonML to JavaScript
>you’ll have to move inland if you want land and property consistently and for relatively cheap.

Except that I live inland and apart from people coming from the coasts, it's gotten too expensive for "local" people. That $500K house is cheap if you've made your money elsewhere (or work remotely), but for anyone working in the limited local industry, it's out of reach.

Also hard to attract doctors / lawyers / professors / other white collar professionals who aren't on the brink of retirement age because they realize that while the cost of living is better here, they are giving up career opportunities and money not being in coastal cities.
I just glanced at it, but Tildes feels like reddit did 14 years ago.
I have been wondering for a long time why someone hasn't made a better Second Life.

I think Second Life is awesome, and I would love to play a game like it. My problem with SL is just that the game and its interface feel so janky.

It has horrible graphics and the interface is weird. It's just not fun to actually do anything in the game.

If someone made a better version, with good graphics and a decent user interface, I think it would be way more successful.
The developer of Apollo was clear that the problem wasn’t that Reddit wanted to charge for API usage, it was the price.

Reddit could have just made third party client use a feature of Reddit premium and avoid all of the current issues. Yes, some would still complain that Reddit costs anything to use but big clients have paying customers and are less price sensitive.
My brother writes xkcd. In 2006 I was living at home while attending community college. At the time, his site was still hosted on the old HP desktop that used to sit in our family room and now sat in his old bedroom. One day I was playing in an unofficial Counter-Strike tournament when one of his comics (possibly "Pi Equals"[1]) got posted to either Slashdot or Boing Boing. My ping immediately went from probably ~25 ms to over 300, and then I timed out completely. I think it took us a couple hours to get our connection back, which I assume involved getting a new IP address.

Sadly, I didn't win the tournament.

[1] https://xkcd.com/10/
There are very few efficient options outside of cloudflare to effectively protect against bots.

It's a lot of work to detect bots, i use a bunch of tricks on a certain website that return an XML bomb ( to discourage bots)

Note: Google's Recaptcha wasn't sufficient
if I'm understanding correctly, the general thrust of your position (between the unnecessary ad-hominem fluff such as "you keep trying to do back flips", and abject non sequiturs like "sure, feel free to read anything you want into anything at all" (thanks?)) is:

- yes, "hate" (and "violence") have been recently redefined

- but, most everyone agrees with the new redefinitions

- therefore, my inability to logically integrate said new redefinitions into my worldview makes me an outlier

- therefore, it is not unexpected that the linked paper does not elaborate on its definitions of the terms "hate" and "hate group", as, again, nearly everyone—excepting outliers like myself—is fully on board with the redefinitions of these terms, having already fully integrated them into their worldview

is this an accurate summary?
Disrespectful Design – Reddit Edition (2022)
This is "according to Amazon," akin to "trust me bro." We know Amazon will make up anything. Hence, lawsuit to discover the facts beyond Amazon's random email.

Edit: not sure why this is downvoted as there is much evidence to confirm this position of Amazon willful omission of truth, and downright lying (e.g., "our employees don't pee in bottles" for warehouse and delivery employees, "this account registered too many returns" for accounts that show under 10 returns over multiple years).
> gets to choose

One of my favourite TV episodes is the Curb Your Enthusiasm episode where Larry thinks the weatherman is calling for rain so he can have an empty golf course. The thought definitely crosses my mind every time there's a big outdoor event happening and it's calling for rain.