skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's probably a great thing for Canada that the Avro project was shut down. The real tragedy was the CSeries/Airbus A220.

The Avro was a cool paper project (it is ultimately unknown if it could even achieve the projected performance since no flights were performed anywhere close to the claimed speeds or with real hardware). The Avro didn't serve any purpose, it was rendered obsolete by ICBMs and 50's soviet technology. The plane was made to intercept a nuclear supersonic soviet bomber that... never materialized! The soviets and Americans went all-in with ICBMs, rendering bombers pretty much obsolete (by Sputnik launch it became obvious nuclear payloads would be delivered with ballistic missiles). Would have been a costly, useless plane.

The A220 was a complete airliner project with a production line and $52 billion dollars worth of firm orders as of 2020. When the Trump administration slapped tariffs on it Trudeau immediately bowed down, despite the tariffs later being thrown out in courts. All he did was to basically threaten to not buy Boeing fighter jets and instead get f35 from Lockheed (which he was contractually obligated to anyways). No support for the industry, nothing. And that was for a flagship prestige technological project.

All he had to do was to be a little bit more assertive and make a capital injection at the right time. Bombardier was swimming in orders, it was guaranteed that the project was going to make money at this point (plane was even certified by the FAA by then).

I still don't understand why he reacted so submissively to Trump. Having the CSeries sold to Airbus at a huge discount was foolish: The plane already had a profitable amount of orders. Canadians paid for the R&D, Europeans and Americans are now reaping the benefits.

While there was very little the Canadian government could do to save the Arrow, other than maybe building it as a training aircraft, it was 100% possible for the Government to save Bombardier and the A220 program. I wonder if the fact that the company is headquartered in Quebec made it politically impossible...
The cell phone market at the time did not fit the iPhone. There was no attempt at internet connectivity. The biggest seller at the time was the razor, a flip phone. Not comparable. There was the palm pilot, but the market was minuscule compare to the iPhone market today

There is an argument to be made for iPhone vs. media players. The Irivers and the like were comparable functionally. The iPhone just had a killer app… the iTunes Store.
Wouldn't that be easier on the server load? You're ust displaying the error page instead of actually grabbing the feed of the subreddit
We had this argument in 2012-13 when Google Dart came out. I advocated for a Dart VM in the browser but the Blink team killed that idea. Brenden Eich explained here on HN what the problems were and made good sense. Now there would seem to be even less reason by using JS as a target language and by using WASM. JS devs have other options, but they still choose JS or TypeScript. Crockford sounds like an old man yelling at clouds (I'm older than him, so not ageism)
HN just got two bad requests. Must be all the fallout from xReddit. Good for all the websites whos traffic they stole. Long live HN. <Endrant>
It still doesn't bother Amazon, apple had to pay them to care
in the past few weeks alone I have seen multiple people—including people I used to be close friends with—express the idea that burning one's country's flag, or any kind of religious text or symbolism, is Free Speech and should be Protected, yet burning or otherwise desecrating a Pride Flag or any other associated symbolism is simultaneously Violence and Hate, toward all groups portrayed in/"represented by" said flag/symbolism (which is to say, everyone but straight white males), and therefore is not Free Speech, should not be Protected, and in fact should be Prosecuted.

I have done my best to try and see things from this perspective—yet, try as I might, my own logical faculties remain steadfastly incompatible with this openly asymmetric worldview.
That was something he openly admitted to doing.

Not true! He did not openly admit to doing this. Instead:

* he did it, and told no one at all

* was caught doing it, after people figured it out

* then, admitted he did it

This is absolutely not the same as "openly admitting it".

He did secretly edit comments.
Is an organization that advocates for sex-based segregation of sports a hate group?

According to some people, they’re advocating for actively harming people.

According to others, they’re advocating for preventing harm.
for clarity, change title to "Cities: Skylines II Gameplay Trailer"
Your attempts at "gotchas" here are unpersuasive. If the point of treaties is to be broken, why bother signing up to them in the first place? Perhaps more interestingly, why would a country sign up to some treaties banning weapons but not others, if its intent were to use all those weapons?

Yes, countries can break treaties. But there is a real cost to doing so. The point of treaties (especially the anti-war treaties) is essentially to break a prisoner's dilemma: all parties can agree to do something that is mutually beneficial for everybody, but only when no one defects. The first arms control treaty was the Washington Naval Treaty, which was signed when most countries were literally unable to find the resources to keep up with the naval arms race and proposed by the one country that could.

If you read the post I linked (I suspect you did not, as you are only reacting to my comments and not other material within the post), you'll see that there are many other lines of evidence we can use to ascertain the inutility of chemical weapons, not least of which is the lack of its use in conflicts after WWI, even in existential state conflicts like WWII or the Arab-Israel wars.

> If chemical and biological weapons aren't useful, why does one need a treaty to ban them?

The same reason why we have laws against murder. The existence of the treaty isn't to keep people from doing something useful (indeed, if you look at which treaties are acceded to, it's the treaties that keep people from doing something useful that don't get the signatories). Instead, it's to signal the unwillingness to use it and to pressure others not to consider its use. And if you know sufficiently few people are willing to use it, then you can avoid spending the money on countermeasures to chemical weapons.
I can't imagine the DB load of hundreds of thousands of people deleting all their comments. https://shreddit.com/
Old Reddit is working lol. If that's not a sign I don't know what is.
So you’d be ok with someone using AI to generate an image of your self/spouse/child doing something unspeakably awful and putting it up on billboards around town with a suggestion that people take matters into their own hands?

That’s “expression”. What I’m trying to do is come up with a hypothetical where you really would like there to be a test for what is and is not protected.

The Supreme Court called spending money on political campaigns “expression” in the Citizens United decision, do you support that?

You can call literally any act expression, the extreme of which is literally anarchy.
TIL about P2327R1 (De-deprecating volatile compound operations) [0] and the earlier (P1152) deprecation of volatile compound expressions due to those giving the incorrect appearance of atomicity. I'm shaking my head. The `volatile` keyword has a very specific and useful meaning, and P1152 should never have happened.

[0] https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2021/p23...
I’d also note that this is how it works in the US as well for loans provided by the federal government. In addition, as long as you make payments, excess interest will not accrue and your principal won’t increase. They’re also written off in 20 years.

It’s mostly with private student loans that people go completely underwater in the US
aye. that's what's growing the population of Israel; otherwise the birth rate is fairly unimpressive.

the problem is the Haredi don't work or serve in the Army (with some exceptions), so they represent a population boom that's only really providing more bodies, not more citizens.
Taurine supplement makes animals live longer
Reddit goes down fully as thousands of subreddits protest API changes
Tell HN: HN is having trouble serving your request
Anyone else facing this issue right now?
Update to myself, not only it hasn't had a release since July 2022, we are suppose to track down which LLVM 14 release, the hash clang-r450784d actually maps to, like always.

https://developer.android.com/ndk/downloads
I can't imagine the DB load of hundreds of thousands of people deleting all their comments. https://github.com/andrewbanchich/shreddit
> I don't know what people are talking about.

Easy: as an engineer, my father in his late 30's could support my mother being a SAHM, three kids, buy a 120m² (IIRC?) small house with a garden, and all the modern commodities (well, safe for electronics that didn't exist at the time).

Nowadays, I'm also an engineer in my mid 30's, and I can just buy a 40m² flat. Never talk about kids.
Imagine being a non-tech savvy user or someone who understands the world more literally than figuratively. That sort of message could be pretty confusing for them.
Autopilots disconnect all the time. They can have a pretty low threshold for the conditions they’ll tolerate. Autoland can handle moderate surface winds, but pilots can handle much more. Turbulence and autopilot function is more variable. Some autopilots disconnect prematurely, others need intervention. Pilots train for these idiosyncrasies.

The computer needs reliable data. When the data is faulty, the logic fails. This happened with AF 447. One annoying aspect of that event for me is the obtuse ways the system communicated what alternate law was in effect. Two of three pilots became confused by the computers’ confusion. The computer itself had given up. The plane stalled all the way into the ocean, one of the more simple conditions to recognize and recover from. The captain quicky recognized the condition and solution, but he had arrived in the cockpit too late to compel corrective action.
To be clear: You mean you have timeouts and failures using Reddit's own "new and improved" web UI and mobile client? Because using RedReader, old.reddit.com, and other third-party apps, I don't actually recall the last time Reddit didn't load for me.
Put yourself in the position of your own child, born today. Can you offer them a better start than your parents did you? Without knowing anything about you it's more likely you have more debt, worse housing, and more expensive childcare to deal with.
I'm a new immigrant millennial to the US (from the UK of all places) and for me the American dream is dead.

I know I'm playing the world's smallest violin and I will gather little sympathy since I am one of those tech workers with a big fat paycheck, but the fact that someone like me isn't thriving might be another symptom of how fucked up things are.

It seems that my timing has played a big role. We moved here last year when the tech market was on fire and people were jumping companies getting obscene amounts of money. Things turned south very quickly. Companies stopped hiring and started laying off people instead. My company virtually froze my salary at the same time that inflation was soaring. Combined with a tumbling stock price, I’ll be taking home less money this year than last. Also my wife has been unable to find a stable job, which has further affected our household income.

Buying a home? Give me a break. I love to share the Zillow home price index graph to visually show people how Covid has screwed the housing market [1]. And at least before we had the option to move far from the city to a cheaper location and work remotely, but now employers are forcing us to go back to the office, so the choice is between unaffordable rent or multi-hour daily commutes (I’m in the second camp).

I know this comment sounds whiny but I can’t help to feel that we are just getting dealt a shit sandwich after another. We might be in a world of extravagant productivity but I’m sure as hell not reaping the benefits. I’m supposed to be a top 5% earner and yet I don’t feel my standard of living is much better than my working class upbringing - at least back then we owned our apartment and weren’t told how privileged we were.

[1] https://www.zillow.com/home-values/102001/united-states/
> Does anybody actually want hard drives this old?

Sure, I would! I frequently use hard drives much older than this, and while I know there's an increased risk of failure, it has never happened to me -- so that risk appears to be quite tiny.
I'm pretty sure they know. It's likely due to Reddit's outage.
For the Russian speakers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9IqT6O_qvE
Then why bother with elections? Be transparent and just appoint them.
> Reddit has been terrible and dishonest in their communication

Partly true. They have been awful at communicating with the devs and with Reddit at large. The "dishonest" claim is debatable.

> Reddit is dropping Twitter-like pricing out of the blue.

False. That was a piece of dishonesty spread by the Apollo developer. Twitter's price is 3.5x Reddit's price, which is 3.6x Imgur's price. Reddit is midway between the two.

> These prices seem to have the goal of killing 3rd party apps instead of merely being ‘realistic’ or ‘fair’, like Reddit is claiming

False. Relay for Reedit just announced plans to continue their app by offering a $3 paid version. This moderate price wouldn't be possible if Reddit's price was aimed at killing off the apps.

> Reddit is dragging well respected devs through the mud and trying to make them look like the bad guys

Maybe the devs ARE the bad guys. I've not been impressed by them.
I'm experiencing the same here on HN right now: general slowness plus timeouts.
It seems fair to discuss because we all know that research like this will be used to justify censoring "hate" groups that are not actually hate groups.
Brutalinks doesn't? It's right there at the top. :P
Perl 6 took longer than expected but „Raku“ is alive and well. It even moved into the Tiobe-Index at rank #48 recently:

https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

This whole Python/Perl competition was always a bit silly. Both languages had and have their place. I would say Python is so much more popular because it found a niche in ML because of how much more easy it is in Python to interface fast C modules. So you get to write simple Python programs leveraging blazingly fast math libraries. That was always a bit more tricky to do in Perl.

But Python as a language is definitely not as flexible as Perl 5. Last time I checked Python didn’t even support multi-line lambdas because its inventor hates those. Python is very much designed in a top-down approach and tries to guide all Python programmers into how there are supposed to solve their problems. Perl 5 was designed with its famous „easy things should be easy, hard problems possible to solve” philosophy. It allows for meta-programming in all the right places which a seasoned Perl developer can reach to when necessary. Perl 5 is a nice middle way between C and Lisp.

That being said modern JavaScript turned into a powerful language that fits well into both the frontend and backend side of a web application nowadays and, hence, kind of replaced Perl as glue language for the web. It will also push Python out of web backends at some point I believe.
Group that hates immigrants because they take our jobs fails your criteria. So does anti-muslim group that does not allege Muslims are about to destroy them via planned action. The police enforcing, say, marijuana prohibition, seeking to destroy marijuana use culture, fits several.
Definitely smells like some sad reddit mod got upset and is enacting "payback".
At first glance it seems extremely US centric.
There's a list here

https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/

Or there would be, if reddit weren't offline
More specifically, does anybody have a suggestion for an alternative to the /r/worldnews subreddit?
Completely out of line to connect admin abuse with pedophilia.
I would expect most of the 'top' categories are cached with a long-ish TTL. If Reddit's DB is down that would explain why those types of sorts are functioning.
Slashdot website, which was once a massive tech discussion site.
The lesson is that subsidies work.

Israel basically subsidizes ultra-orthodox sects that prioritize large families. They also have general policies that subsidize families such as free child care.

I'm not making a value judgement ether way, just saying that it's a simple case of subsidizing something and therefore getting more of that thing.

If we implemented free preschool, a child tax credit, and reforms to reduce the cost of housing we could also raise our birth rate.
The reasoning applies to both, hence the point.
I wouldn't call it a journal, put I keep a lot of notes for myself on tricky issues. More than once it has been really helpful figuring out an issue for myself, or I can just send the note to another person.
one I've been wondering about is user overview pages. People use those a lot (it's actually my bookmark for getting onto reddit) and yesterday I noticed that a post I made wasn't in my overview, and it's because that sub had gone dark early.

What happens when a user has 99% of their posting in subs that are now hidden, and the API is programmed to produce a fixed 30 comments of history on the overview page? The answer is extremely deep database pulls... you might pull a year of comment history to get 30 comments that aren't hidden. And depending on how they do that, it may actually pull the whole comment history for that timespan, since most of the time posts aren't hidden like this.

I worked at a backend team at work with some very overburdened legacy tables in mongo, and this is the kind of thing we'd think about. Yeah you can use an index, but then you have to maintain the index for every record, and change it every time a sub goes private/public (and we literally were hitting practical limits on how many indexes we could keep, we finally instituted a 1-in-1-out rule). And how often does that happen? Even deleted comments are overall probably a minority such that indexes don't matter, but, this is relational data, you have to know which subreddits are closed before you can filter their results, and mongo sucks at joins. And the mongo instance can become a hotspot, so, just filter it in the application instead for those "rare" instances. Even if they are doing it in mongo, the index/collection they're joining may suddenly be 100x the size, which could blow stuff up anyway.

edit: for me, one overview page is now taking me back one month in comment history. And I comment a lot on subs that are currently closed, so it could easily be throwing away 5-10 comments for every comment it displays.
> So that doesn't really answer the question "What is a hate organization?".

It's the organization that censor hate. That's why it's called "hate organization".
Cryptographic encryption is safe for as long as your crypto is secure.

For any company dealing with sensitive data, relaying on it to resell seems like a horrible idea. It’s not hard to imagine sufficiently motivated attacker (likely state sponsored) just buying up drives and waiting few years for when they can easily break the encryption.
Meta could have save itself a bunch of money by just buying second life and running a separate instance to test all their ideas.
Assuming you're an American, consider the affordability of housing when you were a kid compared to now.

The teen suicide rate has increased 35% since 1999. [0]

Also, baby formula shortages are now a routine thing here; this would have been unthinkable for Americans 30 years ago for a non third-world country.

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

And is now entirely reliant on the use of foreign proxies because its will to fight is exhausted (for better or worse).

[0] https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/08/health/us-suicide-rate-trnd/i...
I am getting 504 errors trying to load hacker news in Germany, I think it's possible it has to do with the cloudflare outage.
The concurrence of three climatic events
Slashdot, if I had to guess
No Mac version, what a shame.
> Second, the only realistic way to prevent some of these deaths is to empower public transport

I'm the one fooling myself?
I do the same. With that said something will come along. As is the case with these things once the "new standard" becomes the "standard" it becomes astroturfed with fake reviews and manipulation. Reddit is a bit less trustworthy on this front than it used to be.. i suspect at least.

I wouldn't mind some fresh blood even for this purpose.
This hurts.
> HN is hosted on M5 Computer Security

Do we know if it is just like, one tall MySQL instance and a few RubyOnRails API instances? Not sure what would be used for "caching" as well.

> The load issues usually happen when a few popular threads have a really high comment count and dang usually has to enable pagination or other things to compensate.

Why not auto-turn it on at like 500 comments or so?
I have just Googled "PFAS compostable" and unfortunately it does not seem uncommon... For instance [1] (from the UK):

"Surprisingly, the highest levels of PFAS (by an order of magnitude!) were consistently reported in moulded fibre compostable, ‘eco-friendly’ takeaway containers; the type we’re told are sustainable alternatives to plastic."

Also, I thought pizza boxes were just cardboard, especially since they are single use and for a short time, only.

[1] https://www.fidra.org.uk/chemicals-pollution/pfas-in-compost...
"Under development" is the operating word here, DOTS is very much still strongly experimental. The development workflow is chaotic and best practices unclear, somehow even more so than the regular workflow. And even more errors now crash the editor.
The houses themselves don't have to be curved - but if the zoning around a curve (or non 90 degree angle) could be filled in completely, that'd be nice. Triangular buildings or similar shapes could help. For detached housing, it still might look OK (although a bit weird), but for buildings that are supposed to connect with each other (which is something you see a lot at least in European cities), placing these on a curve and having empty spaces between them just looks bad. The building itself could still have straight walls - with angles other than 90 degrees and then a little bit of auto-filling plaza this could work.

I know it's a hard problem to solve. Personally, this is what makes C:S 1 unable to create natural looking cities. Cities aren't all grids or detached housing.
Seems like HN is struggling with the load from the spill-over as well!
Sure, I should have been clearer, what I had in mind was more "do potential users of Mojo even know or care about how fast C is?"

In my experience the new generation of devs haven't touched C and treat it like some kind of weird arcane language, a bit like what Fortran and COBOL were when I started coding around 2000.
I have been running an SBC server at home for years with many publicly available services for friends and family. To keep everything secure and easy to maintain, I use Yunohost.org which is a distribution containing most of what you need to easily install, secure, update, backup, and manage the server. It includes fail2ban and other security measures. If you or your server would be target of a persistent attacker, using VLAN's or a VPS would be a good idea. I am sure somebody will comment on some tangents to go down a rabbit hole, but I am like probably 95% of self hosters whose servers contain nothing of any value for a hacker.
Project Highrise is very much a spiritual successor to SimTower.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/423580/Project_Highrise/
> Second, the only realistic way to prevent some of these deaths is to empower public transport

I'm the one fooling myself? That's in no way realistic