skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like there's an issue with the crystallization of popular destinations that means that regardless of policy, in 2020 we have a different benchmark than 1960.

For example, when London was cheaper, it was a very different place to today. Pollution, lots of areas that regular people wouldn't want to go to, generally just a less global city and less developed.

Moving there or living there now is different to how it was. There's a ton more competition. There's more people in the entire country, "everyone" wants to go to University, etc.

I feel like we need to go back to basics, like the social housing boom, and say - what do we need for people to settle down, feel ownership over their communities, raise families and get married, etc.

I don't think that "people can afford to rent in huge cities" is sustainable as a goal.
Where else do you think the wave of reddit users will crash? Slashdot? Some federated assemblage like Mastodon or Lemmy? An indie clone trying to be to reddit what reddit was to digg? I'm guessing all of the above.
who would want to claim that their data isn't "highly sensitive"? How embarrassing that would be!

This isn't a sarcastic remark: I think a lot of human activity can be explained this way.
There's a spike on Downdetector's chart: https://downdetector.com/status/reddit/

Nothing on redditstatus.com (yet?): https://www.redditstatus.com/

UPD Currently on redditstatus.com:

>Reddit Failing to Load

>Identified - We're aware of problems loading content and are working to resolve the issues as quickly as possible.
Jun 12, 2023 - 07:58 PDT
You know there are websites made for that purpose like speedtest.net, right?
They don't have people to be moderators of all those subs. That's why subs have volunteer mods.
Wild guess, but I suspect their feed algorithms as well as caching and sharding strategies made a number of assumptions about the availability of various different kinds of data and now that it's (mostly) no longer in the state they assumed it's wreaking havoc on their internal systems.
We have distinct words to define those distinct groups. There are certainly communities that are "only" offensive, not terrorist nor criminal, but should be lumped in with those groups nevertheless?

Perhaps the author of the post you responded to was referring to this sort of absurdity.
Hurd is never going to be more than at best a research project, more likely a hobby project. All semi-modern hardware requires proprietary blobs to function properly.

It would be great if all firmware and drivers was open source, but that's not going to happen anytime soon.

FSF is largely a joke in the way they certify RYF hardware. Proprietary blobs are all good as long as they're loaded from a separate flash that can't be updated by the main CPU, but if you load exactly the same firmware from the filesystem it's not okay.
I feel the same way about digital signatures, companies want people to trust their signatures, but are they going to share the signing keys and let others in on the fun? No. Everyone just goes around saying its their keys, their identities, you can't let other people use them, what if someone abused them.

As if there was more value in having a trusted identity than in the value of the money I could make from the rootkit I would sneak into Debian.
A meme pointing out that u/spez was a mod of r/jailbait in 2008 was the top post on r/all a few hours ago
Happens every day.

Either "You broke reddit" or "Our CDN failed to reach our servers."

You would think that a company trying to have an IPO sometime in the near future would have a better control over basic shit breaking. There's nothing complex about their software and it's been breaking in the same way for years now.
Sounds more like - we don't want anyone to know it's a ghost town here (metrics will prove protestors correct) - so let's say it was a system down issue - and then claim there was no meaningful protest.
>Between 2022-2023, £4.8 billion was added to UK student debt in interest alone. Students incur debt in order to pursue an education which will further their career prospects, then find themselves trapped by the interest – often necessitating more loans just to keep afloat.

A very strange lie to encounter. In the UK, student debt repayment is linked to income (something like, 9% of all your income above £21k). If you don't earn, you don't pay. The interest accrues yes, but again, if you lose your job, you pay nothing. If you earn less than £21k, you pay nothing. It's nothing at all like a loan, and is more accurately, a income tax for graduate. Although, regressively, those who earn the most will pay the least. Those on modest salaries post university might pay it for their whole working lives. (one more thing, it's automatically written off after 40 years or so).
AR vs VR, spatial vs social, etc are just marketing gimmicks. Both Meta and Apple are putting out the same basic products, but they are available at different price points and different levels of quality. Why are they the same? It's a screen mounted inside a goggle that you put in front of your eyes. It shows you 3D things, they have cameras that allow you view a video stream from the outside and overlay things on top of that. Extra screen? More precise eye tracking? Higher res? Way better on Apple's headset, but also way more expensive what else would you expect?

Over time Apple will put out cheaper less featureful products, and Meta will make their hand and eye tracking better etc. Meta will include better integration with Windows/Mac for work, Apple will get beat saber, etc. In the very early days of iOS v Android, the two OSs were very distinct and choosing one or the other was a significant choice. By about version 5, the OSs were at feature parity, all phone makers had different phones at different price points, etc. The excitement was gone and we had mature capable phones all around. The VR headsets will play out the same way.
Whats the point in reading thousands of pages of documenation for an ephemeral and constantly changing project? In order to justify deep dives, the software itself has to be stable enough. I plan to read the entirety of the ANSI C specification for instance; it is a justified endeavour because ansi C is a stable standard with compilers implementing it for a long while. For a constantly changing project of course documenation is still important but it should be more geared toward quickly cluing you in on the specific part you are interested in, and hopefully make diffs easily presented and available.
If you want to go beyond those 10 pages, the (also very short!) "official" book by Aho, Weinberger, and Kernighan ("The AWK Programming Language") is an absolute gem of technical writing. It is a joy to read.
There a now a DLC that lets you have pedestrian only zones with no cars beyond some service vehicles.
I'm going to make a bold prediction, it's over 9,000!
I have used the Quest Pro. I'm the ideal user, writing code on my MacBook most of the day from multiple locations, but the resolution is just too low to be comfortable for long periods. It is perfectly legible, just not sharp enough at comfortable sizes so I gave up on it. Really hoping Vision Pro fits the bill.
A half a billion dollars...for a pizza place, robots or not. I should have some profound comment to make here, but this has reached a scale where my meager human mind cannot keep up, similar to a journey to Pluto or summat. It's almost as if SoftBank is just here for our entertainment, and the end game is...hell if I know, but I am entertained.
Just tried to go to the site, got the "You broke reddit!" page. They don't know how right they are.
FWIW, I've been using a Quest 2 for 7-8 hours per week for the past year and some change and I'm considering a Vision Pro.
I understand the content did not meet your needs and you have all rights to verbalize your disappointment but I don't agree to calling it "low effort SEO". I have no personal interest in promoting any of these models. I shared the article with a belief that it may be helpful for people who are exploring the alternatives to GPT (like I was a week ago).
I worked for a DoD contractor, and we were guilty of sending boxes of SSD's to the shredders. These were in old desktops/laptops.

If we had to replace a drive in a computer (or upgrade it from a HDD to SSD), we had to purchase a new drive. We were not allowed to re-use a drive. However, we could re-issue an entire computer to another user.

Makes zero sense, but that's what the compliance industry came up with. It's a money-making deal for everyone involved, except the companies that need to comply with it.
I am not interested in "eliminating Don as a fix" as you put it. I am interested in the equal rule of law. Donald Trump broke a number of laws, and he should receive the same sentence that other people would receive.

Your reply doesn't address this in any way. Care to try again?
Reddit is up for me, and the homepage content actually seems, if anything, a little improved.

There is lots of stuff from AskReddit and some tech subreddits I'm subscribed to. Gone is all the junk from /r/pics and memes etc.

If my experience is common, this "48 hour blackout" won't have the intended effect.
Why do they include an optical drive? It's not even optional.
I write automation constantly as my full time job. Documentation of how to do processes manually is definitely ripe to be automated.

But what parameters are available for the automation? Where does the automation live? How do you diagnose and improve when the automation breaks? Why did we even make this automation in the first place?

These sorts of questions are ripe for documentation. Most How style questions can be automated in one form or another. But the business process behind the automation, the context and domain knowledge around the autmation, for the humans who did not personally code it, documentation has major benefits that I think we as an industry don't value enough.
Well they're definitely making it easier for me to avoid Reddit going forward. I really do not like using the mobile reddit app and the whole 3rd party api debacle has me looking at alternative communities and I've found a couple of good stand-ins for the two most frequented ones for me on Reddit.

I can probably replace the video game related ones with some RSS feeds for some popular gaming news sites. No big deal there.

I replaced r/financialindependence with bogleheads and r/guitar with thegearpage.

I'll definitely miss some of the random subs, but whatever. Reddit has been a time sink for me for awhile this is a great excuse to move on.
I read anti fragile. My big take away was that optionality is really useful. It lets you pivot if needed, stay in the game so you can play another day, and capitalize on opportunity if one presents itself.
The struggle to kill King Coal
> There is one Sonicare clone that really impressed though, and it's not expensive.

Come on. Don't do that without naming it.
Defined here as linked from a study footnote, for things like advocating for violence against civilians: https://transparency.fb.com/policies/community-standards/dan...
The Crop That’s Sucking the Colorado River Dry
We were hitch-hiking from Vancouver to Whitehorse in 2001 and ended up being stranded somewhere in redneck territory - imagine a bunch of guys in a pickup truck driving past while hollering "hey buddy grow some tits and we'll give you a ride" - when we finally got a ride on a big rig. The driver was 72 years old, name of Ken, callsign "Big D" on CB. He took us all the way to Whitehorse since he was running a load of condensate to the north of Alaska anyway and it was on the route (which is understandable given that there is only one Alaska Highway). Being in the truck with him for 1½ days we got to talk - which is why he took hitch-hikers along in the first place - and touched the subject of him driving that truck while he could have been enjoying his pension. 'I tried it, being pensioned, but did not like it' he said so he just took right off where he left. As long as his body and mind held out he wanted to keep on doing this work 'cause sitting at home was boring.

Having left Whitehorse in a canoe on our way to the Bering strait we met another 72 years old man, this one named Tom. Tom was also paddling the Yukon, or maybe I should say he was enjoying the current taking him downstream. His plan was to paddle the whole river like we were doing but he was doing it in stages where he would take to the river for a few days, then find his way back to his truck somehow to get his canoe. Tom was a pensioned school teacher, he lived on his own in a cabin and quite liked being pensioned but not hanging around in his cabin all the time so he sometimes took to the river.

When I reach that age I suspect I'll do something similar seeing how as I think I'd be bored by the "normal" life of a pensioner.
The observed items are right. Also as I was reading that article I was feeling that we're starting to call success to a dystopian future.

Like we're trying to succeed at entering in The Matrix.
One thing I've worried about with self-hosting small (or smol) services is that I'm responsible for securing them against attackers. Even if my circle is 15 people using a particular service, potentially thousands of malicious actors will be poking at it over the months and years I'm running it.

I'm a big fan of self-hosting, especially things that I can run inside my home with no internet-facing ports. But anything that will be outward facing has to be sandboxed from everything else, kept up to date, and monitored for intrusions. It can be daunting unless you definitely have time to stay on top of it. I'm curious if any self-hosters have thoughts about this.
> Considering the timing and the fact they should be under significantly _reduced_ load today

It's obviously harder to scale down than to scale up!
You've got that exactly backwards buddy. Tesla could easily offer the same thing, but why would they waste time with that BS? Mercedes 100% cannot offer full self driving on any street. What world are you living in?
I'll be pissed if outlook goes down again
I'd love to read a tutorial or watch a video going over the patch process -- can you share any links?
I can’t reach either. HN is also slow as well.
Every day might be hyperbole but every week not so much
AOL and Yahoo had advertising revenues Reddit could only dream of.

As it stands, a huge chunk of Reddit's content is Twitter and Tiktok reposts. Older users like me enjoyed that because I didn't want to sign up for Twitter and TT. The younger app centric users that Reddit is pivoting to probably have Twitter and TT accounts. So what value is Reddit providing?
> for PC enthusiasts accustomed to transistors at the top of their chip, this is going to be a significant change.

Seriously? The chip is inside a carrier but enthusiasts care which side the transistors are on? Absurd.
I just got a message from /u/reddit warning about "harrassment" because I respectfully disagreed with someone's woke politics. Hopefully it can stay out forever.
I wonder if they forcibly tried to reopen the closed subreddits and due to cold caches the entire thing fell over as traffic started hitting the reopened ones?
80% of requests to Reddit via their web UI are basically 500s or CDN errors.

Hyperbolic I know, but that’s what it feels like.
I had a look, clicked on a post in WritingPrompts and got a page that said that 'I broke Reddit'. After hitting that, I wasn't interested in clicking on any more posts and left. So I guess the protesting is having a chilling effect.
No, there isn't.

The data is *gone*.

There is no way to recover it. If you know anything about how hard disks work, you'll see why.

There's this theoretical idea that you can get a kind of "latent image" of a mark or a space on the platter even if it's been overwritten, but hard disks haven't written things as literal north-to-south or south-to-north flips for 30 years or so. The data is written as changes of level and phase in a signal, and it's thoroughly scrambled to reduce the chances of a long run of patterns of all zeroes or all ones making the signal hard to recover.

Essentially, you'd be taking a list of floating point numbers, multiplying them all by another much smaller floating point number, adding on another floating point number, and trying to imagine what the original was.

It's not possible.

No, the NSA does not have a big magic machine that does it.
Group sex and the math of political correctness
I have been a consumer of Hacker News for some time. It really helped me finding very high quality content from different topics that interest me. The blog posts I have found through HN would be very difficult to find via current Google Search. Thank you, HN and HN contributors for this :-)

I recently started a new blog with the idea of giving something back. This is my first submission. I will deep dive in other topics as time goes by.
The linux btrtl driver lists a whole slew of binary firmware blobs, but maybe they also produce a few modules which do not require them. Can you give me an example of a realtek module which does not require any?

I know that I've used a realtek USB <-> Ethernet adapter without firmware. Unfortunately, it did not work reliably unless firmware was loaded.
If it doesn't it sure feel that way. Around 12am to 2am Japan time there will be a period of time where I simply cannot access Reddit.
It breaks my heart to talk to my mum and have her not understand that I'm over 30 and straight up cannot afford to buy property. "Why don't you sell your car for a down payment?" as if that would be anywhere near enough. I think part of what makes her said, is it felt _so easy_ for folks born in the post-war boom to get in on some of that increased productivity, and she's devastated that I have seemingly missed out on that boat.
> Did you not read the article at all?

Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that".

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> ... organizations attempt to use online platforms to spread their ideology, recruit new members, and coordinate existing members

Essentially all organizations do that, don't they? Did the article define what "hate" is?
Yes, and in fact contract and invoices are bad examples because they involve exchange of something from both sides so denying them is very often a futile task. Better examples would be things like wills and deeds but because they are good examples they have careful witnessing and verification requirements :)
By far not 90% of the subs are dark. It's 6000 subs out of 500,000, or 1.2%.

Most people don't care at all about this blackout and are just checking the homepage anyway, which will always pull content no matter what.

Reddit always has issues at this time (NA wakes up, EU gets off of work), nothing unusual.
> Hate-based, terrorist, and criminal organizations attempt to use online platforms to spread their ideology, recruit new members, and coordinate existing members

That can't possibly be a definition since many, if not all types of organizations "use online platforms to spread their ideology, recruit new members, and coordinate existing members". For example political parties. So that doesn't really answer the question "What is a hate organization?".
Yeah HN is taking ~5 seconds to load anything, and weirdly sometimes it shows that it's waiting on Algolia, even when I'm loading regular HN pages (not searching).
I don't have an answer for that, but it's been in The Jargon File as accessed by dict atleast since 2003, so it's not a new idiom.
I find it deeply disturbing that excuses as flimsy as "hate" or "possible hate crime reaction" would be used as justification to suppress the truth, especially with a situation as grave as COVID-19. Who is to say whether the uptick with Asians is causation and not just correlation? Meanwhile, thousands of Americans were dying daily during the peak of the pandemic. Everyone was scared, needed to know what was going on.

The average person was much more worried about the potential harm to millions of citizens than a much smaller uptick in one particular sector. It's of paramount importance that we don't repeat the mistakes that led to the pandemic in the first place. The only way we can do that is getting to the bottom of what happened.

If "possible Asian hate crimes" was the best excuse that the censorship industrial complex could come up with, then it is clear to me that any excuse would have done, and the conclusions I draw is that the suppression was 100% politically motivated. I want to know who was involved in making the decision to suppress, and to what ends they were trying to shape public opinion. At the minimum I want to know who I should be working to vote out of office.

How can I know who to vote for when we're normalizing lying as a justifiable policy up and down the chain of government communication and mass media?
Checking the default list against the private list is usually an O(1) because none of them are on the private list.

Now almost all of them are. It's going from O(1) to basically O(n^2) worst case. For millions of users.

I wonder why Reddit is down?
> But as an upside, I think it's much harder to game or manipulate Airbnb reviews than Amazon reviews

But if what you say is right, nobody has to game them. The reviews are already worthless.
Protip: If you desperately need your fix, load reddit in an incognito window. You'll get the last cached version from the CDN.
If you want more vram, the nvidia pro cards is always an option(if you can afford it). The top spec has 48gb of vram, and you can get more than one.
Or look at the Apple Watch which dominates wearables and sells more than all mechanical watches combined. Series 0 was terrible hardware wise, and their premium marketing strategy was a flop.
This is precisely the "reuse" shredding is designed to prevent.
Sorry you had to go through that. But I have to ask about this:

> A lot of dog whistling with sentiments like, "I'm criticizing the Chinese government, not the Chinese people." (spoiler alert: it was both)

Did you have some extra context there? Or do you just assume that anyone criticizing the ccp is also criticizing chinese people? Because I feel like that's a reasonable stance towards any nation.

It seems like sometimes people aggressively read between the lines (probably because of real past experiences with shitty people), and it makes it so that reasonable people now can't express reasonable ideas and have other people understand what they're actually saying.

I especially notice this in online forums where some topics have been discussed in depth by a subset of the population. Through all that discussion, they've basically invented a whole field of study, and turned everyday phrases into jargon with unintuitive subtext.

Then someone new comes along, says something that seems completely innocuous, and the community jumps on them for the subtext that they're not even aware exists.
Better to break it entirely than to show the blackout, I guess.
Does it? I usually use Reddit on my lunch about this time every day and I can't remember the last time it was down.
The lack of subreddits could be driving users to the same remaining part of the site, interfering with load balancing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_group

Hate Groups are well defined and well understood, and the usage of the term has spanned over a generation of people without much ambiguity.
"Why is our population declining? Why aren't millennials reproducing?" Truly a mystery!