skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perl was lucky that the Perl 6 diversion happened. If it had stayed the course and popularity it would no longer be perl like python is no longer python (such bad version dependency hell there's actually a layer of package manager hell). Now well after the perl 6 diversion Perl 5 activity has come back and there are new features. But most perl devs and the culture still has the habit of writing for portability and stability instead of using incompatible features a month after the compiler/interpreter/etc adds them.
Difficult to have "real connections" in a small, intimate group if you know you're being watched. Putting a 1984 telescreen in the room has a chilling effect. Without E2EE that's what you are building.

Small, encrypted groups with people you know makes sense (like Signal). Large, unencrypted, open groups make sense (like reddit, facebook groups). I don't understand how you're trying to make something with parts of each, it doesnt make sense to me
Apollo has recreated the easiest 5% of what reddit is.

Hosting at scale, content moderation (just the bare minimum to remain legal in various jurisdictions), plus all the internal bureaucracy that is involved in employing more than just yourself or a handful of people (complying with government regulations and paperwork for employee training, salaries, benefits) are all things that Apolloapp is not.

Getting a bunch of people to agree to not use reddit for two days (or longer) is a hell of a lot easier than getting that same number of people to agree to support Apolloapp as the New Reddit.
> It's a private company, moderator on strike are a loss of business, they would be 100% in their right to

Legally, of course. Morally, it is completely unacceptable. This isn't "oh they're jerks"; this is "the system is broken".

A meatspace analogy:

You host a weekly gathering at a restaurant. You decide to temporarily boycott the restaurant to protest some behavior of theirs -- your actions are a loss of business, _so the restaurant decides to host your weekly gathering without you_.

We'd never accept that in the real world, but for some reason we do online -- we fall back to the legal argument that It's A Private Business (which is true) and completely ignore that Reddit doesn't own the community, that the community doesn't _belong_ to Reddit. They own the platform (the restaurant); they don't own the community.
IF the correlation between sulphuric oxide contents in shipping fuel and these measures changes are true then we have the solution in the article right there. The best day to start solar radiation management was yesterday, the second-best is now.
This is essentially Tim Sweeney's plan to evolve Fortnite into the metaverse.
90% of the time there's a forum for the subject that's a better option anyway. For example, the College Football /r/cfb area is periodically entertaining but the Rivals.com network is significantly better for the same thing anyway.

I found that blocking Reddit as part of the parental controls on my home network was beneficial anyway, considering just how much stuff falls under the umbrella of availability on that site.

As a news aggregator it always felt untrustworthy and slanted anyway.

There's nothing I miss about having it blocked.
Yes, 2005 [0].

But the point remains, that regardless of it's thin veneer of being the funding source of disrupters what VC really seeks is to use the stock market chicanery that major banks who underwrite FB do in order to rig the game in the favour for an obscene profitable exit: hence why they were allowed to buy pre-market in the case of FB.

Or my favorite from the pandemic: Doordash. wherein Softbank incurred so much loss after several years to consuldate market share in this stupid race to the bottom and had to cash in on the market being flooded with cheap money during COVID and getting that IPO to get maximum ROI from an otherwise terrible business model whose understanding of last mile logistics was incredibly poor to say the least, and had no problem exploiting its contractor model labour force or taking a large sum from it's restaurant owner partners.

Seriously can we just admit VC is mainly just banksters trying to do what they always done in New York or in London in the Valley, and other tech cities?

0: https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/reddit-series-unkno...
https://alternativeto.net/software/reddit/?license=opensourc...
> It's so user-unfriendly and confusing

This viewpoint is confusing to me. Conceptually, it's no different than email, and we all get by just fine on it
Enjoy working 12 hour days every day and eating potatoes 365 days of the year?
Well, if you eat an actual ripe strawberry they're incredibly sweet. The ones at the grocery store with the bitter white center are not ripe. But I get your point.
It could be but the version I remembered was trying to tell someone the website over the phone.

Perhaps someone on HN has a more reliable source than my brain?
Smol webs, smol creatures, smol frens (often also creatures). Can't have too many.
> it’s becoming frustrating to watch people get six-figure jobs right out college doing remote coding work from the comfort of their homes with ample mentoring, only to complain because Reddit and Blind led them to believe they’d be earning $300K at FAANG jobs while working 20 hours per week

How many people are actually doing this? These people are a vocal minority. Do not fall into the "millennials are entitled" trap because a few spoiled knuckleheads posted some stupid stuff on Reddit.

Look at what's actually happening in the economy and you'll see that the expectations are not any higher than they were for older generations going back at least a few decades, but that there's a growing divide between the millennials who are doing well and those who are not. As one of those who is doing pretty well, I am incensed on behalf of my friends and peers who are doing less well through no fault of their own.
If you think an unscheduled outage is a good opportunity to deploy new features, I can see why you're not an admin...
Unfortunately, lack of a website I can use on my desktop browser makes this unusable for me. Also I am not sure any of the user generated content on this app would be discoverable by search engines. I fear it will be locked in forever.
One of my major beefs with IT conversations is the stubborn adherence to the manufacturing notion of 'economies of scale'.

That's not how algorithms work. Most of the things we do are nlogn complexity. There are lots of breakpoints where 10x as many users cost you 11x as much in hardware, and we pretend it's going to cost us 8x. Any time your estimates are off by 40% should trigger your root cause analysis protocol.

In particular we are lousy at statistics. We have to be right in the middle of the consequences of misreading them before we act. When you have 10 servers you might have to deal with a deployment race condition once a month. When you have 30 servers you might have to deal with one every week. That starts to materially affect your estimates when you have five of those sorts of things going on.
Tanky is a far left authoritarian, or apologist for far-left authoritarianism. Roughly the leftist counterpart to fascist.
Why do you think these things are in tension? If the world has been on a decades-long trajectory careening towards disaster with little indication that we can coordinate to respond appropriately, someone _should_ be saying it all the time _because_ it's true.
There is no need for them to be in the same place, if the different places where they can talk with each other. So like you, I am also expecting people start looking into the the fediverse, disperse around a bit and reconnect. Instead of one global village, we need a globe of diverse villages.

With that said, I opened up https://communick.news on the weekend to try out Lemmy and I wouldn't mind having a few hundred of you there to help me bootstrap it.
On mobile, yeah, it's awful. They have absolutely destroyed the mobile experience, especially if you're not logged in. And why would I be logged into reddit on my phone's browser, when I use BaconReader to read reddit?

On desktop though, it's an entirely different experience. I'm always redirected to the old layout, so I don't have the stupid anti-user shenanigans.
tipping point - some line crossed
NAC Collapse? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Atlantic_Current

- https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/12/14/1041321/climate-...

- https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/huge-atlantic...
https://github.com/ICESAT-2HackWeek/sea-ice-tutorials
What's your citation for suspecting that more than 1 in 8 living people will be a migrant? That seems pretty alarmist, and well over any number I've seen suggested elsewhere.
Basically the old "I Love Lucy" chocolate factory sketch: https://youtu.be/AnHiAWlrYQc
>In 2001, British author and physician Theodore Dalrymple argued that corruption is actually the "one saving grace" of Italian public administration. Dalrymple explained his view that Italy's government was overburdened with an inefficient bureaucracy that slows down any progress but that corruption and bribery to bypass roadblocks allows for some progress to be made.[31]

I have a friend who grew up in Italy, he emigrated for university and worked abroad. He came back in his late 30s, bought house. The usual deal when 'coming back'.

He hates the corruption. Its happening at every level of public interaction, starting from local communities, all the way up. He made a decision that after 3 years he is sick and tiered of it and will be moving out of Italy for good.

Corruption is always bad as it propagates and rewards the people who are most of the time most ill-suited for the position of trust they are holding.

Saying corruption is a blessing for over-bureaucratic and inefficient systems is like saying that cutting of a hand that is broken is a good solutions because hospitals overcrowded and underfunded.
I don't see why they can't serve ads and track usage via the API?

Make it an API policy violation to hide ads, which is reasonable.
> Even if you're using them to store data redundantly, you're running the risk that when one drive fails, the backup will also encounter failure due to the stress of reading its entire contents at once in the attempt to create a new backup.

There are RAID levels with N+2 redundancy, or more with some of the fancy stuff.

You're also getting stats from Backblaze, which have the hard drives in a server, constantly powered on, under significant load. A drive that was sitting on a shelf isn't going to be less reliable just because the manufacture date is three years ago and the warranty has expired. A ten year old drive can have the same number of power on hours as a one year old drive.

Moreover, sometimes the data isn't unique. If you need a drive to host a mirror for some Linux distro it's not like you're hosting the only copy in the world.

And if the data is critical, you need better than RAID regardless. What's your plan if a voltage spike takes out multiple drives in the same machine at once? Lightning doesn't care how old your drives are.
I definitely enjoyed Cities: Skylines when it first released, but seeing it devolve into a stream of half-baked DLC really dampened my enthusiasm for the franchise. Hard to imagine this version isn't just a platform to support going down the same road again.
The phenomenon of fertility falling as societies get more advanced is called "demographic transition".

But societies don't keep getting more advanced! Once a society has become a modern post-industrial, "liberal" society, the demographic transition effect stops. After that, other factors continue to act on fertility.

And there is evidence that fertility is heritable, and positively selected for (almost by definition, i think). So we might expect to see fertility slowly rise after demographic transitions are complete. If that is the case, the current situation of declining and ageing populations is only a transient state.

I read some stuff on this a while ago, didn't save the links, and now can't find it. But digging around now, i think these papers are relevant:

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2013.256...

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2015.015...
The killer feature imo would be a forum with moderation that only moderates and doesn't censor. Right now Reddit is unusable if you have an opinion contrary to the hivemind. Go on any r/country or r/city and you would be astonished at how far the politics of that sub deviate from the politics of the people who live there.

I'd like to have moderated comments be opt-in. The moderators can exercise their power and label something spam, hateful, or wrong or whatever, and if they do that job well most people will consent to having their perspective limited. But it should always be a choice, and people should be able to choose no censorship at all, or censorship of only the worst content.
AFAIK in the maritime space the lever is usually seaworthiness and it's connection to insurability[1]

Your _really_ don't want your vessels to go uninsured so you better comply and the big insurers are in europe/usa (not that I don't think that there are some black sheep). That's also the mechanism by which sanctions work in regards to maritime traffic (like against russia last year [2])

[1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s43546-022-00334-y

[2] https://www.reedsmith.com/en/perspectives/2022/06/eu-sanctio...
This isn’t moving that slowly any more.
Study of an impact mill-based method for NdFeB magnet recycling
Fiber doesn't do that. I think it's a cable issue tbh
i do the opposite. legitimately, "site:reddit.com <search query>" is like step 2 or 3 for me when looking for leads on information or product suggestions, product reviews, travel ideas, hidden gems, places to fish, etc. if you know how to cut through all the noise then it's a gold mine — you can find information just about anything. even just finding basic terminology about a thing then you can research the word.

as for the modals, just visit the reddit thread by prepending `old.` to the url. like `old.reddit.com` and then you can see everything without all that annoying stuff. also sign up for a reddit account but based on your comment doesn't sound like you'd be open to that.
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Honestly I see this as an opportunity. I'm just waiting to request a few since I have no issue with the API changes.

Not that u/spez isn't handling things poorly, but those who rely on third party apps have no right to shut down the site for those of us that don't and don't care.
Nope. Reddit admitted that it was due to the protest.

> “A significant number of subreddits shifting to private caused some expected stability issues, and we’ve been working on resolving the anticipated issue,”

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/12/23758002/reddit-crashing-...
Does Reddit use Cloudflare? I was under the impression that they don't.
It's about 'synergy', 'culture', and similar and not about data and productivity. It's all fluff.
I always think about Fortnite, witch besides the game has concerts and film festivals. Fortnite creative I think is about building things on your island. You can make and share your own games and Now they have "unreal engine light" (Unreal Engine for Fortnite) so making custom games/experiences is becoming a thing.

Tim Sweeny talked about building the Metaverse from a game at the last Game Development Conference.
He talked about it not being linked to one company, but I'm not sure where it was going.[1] (8 minutes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqQ84b-v1DE

https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/23/23652928/tim-sweeney-inte...

My partner plays, and there is a lot of voice chat that makes it social...
It's not about non-commercial purposes. "Barbie Girl", the song that actually created the Rogers Test to begin with, is definitely a commercial product.

The new decision says that the Rogers Test should only be applied to things that are not in and of themselves trademarks. So, if someone is referencing the Pepsi logo in their movie, or in an advert, or in a painting they are selling, you should apply the Rogers Test to see if that is a violation of the trademark or not.

But if the Pepsi logo (or something that Pepsi claims is too similar to it) is the only one showing up on their beverage packaging, or on the shoes they're selling, or on a T-shirt and all of its labeling, even if that T-shirt is being given away at a charity event and is thus non-commercial - well, then they are using a trademark as a trademark, and now they can't rely on the Rogers test. Instead, they have to be judged on the buyer confusion standard (would a regular person believe they are getting an official Pepsi product when seeing this item, or not?).
It's really up to your interests, but I'll say /news/ because that's what I used Reddit for mostly. Here's a handy list: https://wiki.bibanon.org/4chan_Boards
Climate change is terrifying, but I also have a hard time taking self titled Doomers totally seriously. It makes sense to consider all of the worst case scenarios for any event, and to prepare for them. But Doomers seem to have an obsession with it, and a need to convince others that the worst will happen.

I noticed this a lot in 2020. COVID was (and is) awful, but there was so much shit that Doomers claimed would happen that year that just didn't. They seem to have a bias towards always considering the worst case scenario the most likely.
It's not flammable. Check the white part (OX ~W~). It's an oxidizer (that reacts with water).

It's same with pure oxygen. Oxygen is not flammable. It's not a fuel source. For example a pure hydrogen can be kept in bottle indefinitely. But if you put something even a bit reactive - like rusted piece of iron, in pure O2 it will burn like a candle.

ClF3 makes pure O2 look like water. I.e. whatever you put in, chances are it's going to burn and make HF/HCl as byproduct. Good luck.
Stock owners always want to see growth, growth, growth. That's why they buy stock.

With growth enshittification will eventually come and people flee. Then a new cycle begins…
The single sign on / all my comments and posts in one place aspect is definitely valuable too, good point.
This might be of interest. The opinion contributors on the wraltechwire site [0] do a reasonable job at trying to express outcomes in the context of climate change science concepts.

[0] https://wraltechwire.com/tag/climate-change/
The article is less about that but more about the need for clear policies and consistent adherence to said policies regarding plus sized passengers.
I saw a Second Life demonstration at the Sun Microsystems booth at the 2007 ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference in Reno, NV. As I recall, I was in a sort of virtual conference room. I was amazed and blown away and thought to myself, this is obviously going to be the Next Big Thing. I'm glad to see Second Life is still active. Also the Guardian article is a bit long, but really quite good if you have time to read it.
Same. Lots of timeouts and failures to load.
Vaping is wrong for a very different reason, i.e. because the amount and quality of nicotine is unregulated which means the standard vape has an overdose of nicotine which can result in death in a single vape. 6 deaths by vaping in my state of Indiana alone last year, and all of them teenagers.
Nicotine itself is not more harmful than coffee or similar products. It is the smoking that is the main health risk.
Assuming that vaping is less harmful, that would make it a win if one was to choose between smoking and vaping.
Of course, doing neither is the absolute best choice.
Tildes is amazing!
“Be happy with what you have” is typically not a good strategy to suggest to those who wish to work hard and improve their lives.
Windows is not the product anymore: it's now 1) an ad delivery vehicle. 2) user surveillance collector, 3) cloud service loss leader
Yes, in the benchmarks it’s competitive and compiled programs stay tiny unlike Python which packages the interpreter. According to the story being told, it could end up a sort of one-language-to-rule-them-all. Python was chosen by Chris Lattner specifically for his wide spread adoption and Mojo is sometimes called Python++.
to think ? walking and laying outside with a book
Have you ever read JavaScript: The Good Parts? It does a great job of describing lots of broken bits.

More specifically, a few things that I think are pretty bad off the top of my head:

- Implicit type coercion

- Confusing scope binding, i.e., `this`, `bind`, etc.

- Inconsistent Array API — some methods return a new value; some methods mutate the value![0]

- `['1', '7', '11'].map(parseInt)` …lol?!

Maybe you shouldn't be so quick to jump to this conclusion that any criticism of your pet technology comes from a place of ignorance or pretension.

[0]: I've actually spoken with Brendan Eich about this one, and he conceded it wasn't a good idea. IIRC, he was just copying what Perl did.
"For the nation as a whole, the labor force participation rate for women was 56.8 percent in 2022."

From the US Bureau of Labor statistics (https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2023/labor-force-participation-....)
Perhaps you could be more specific with your citation. Nothing jumped out at me.

Is this what you're referring to?

https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/s_plot_hires.png
Honestly don't really care. Use something for as long as it's free and when they start monetising it move on to next free thing.

And I'm not the only one- WhatsApp asking for money was scrapped within weeks after they noticed rising Telegram installations.
The statement “Cloudflare is having issues” is true as soon as count(issues) > 0. So what’s so wrong about the title?

And how do you know how many websites use R2 etc. so that you can jump to the conclusion that it’s not huge news?
You wear sunscreen everytime you go outside yeah? The DNA damage from the sun is a way bigger concern.
It doesn't seem all that good to me.

If we assume about a 100 degree FOV, and you are using the headset to watch a big virtual movie screen at 36 degree FOV (typical THX).

Then if it's 3391 pixels wide, that only gives you a virtual movie screen resolution of around 1220 wide, or approximately 720p.
It was flying a polar route.
The last time my diminutive elderly mother flew to visit me, she had to sit next to a "plus size" woman who was so fat that the armrest between them wouldn't go down, and the woman spilled over into half of my mother's seat. My mom had to spend the 3-hour flight crushed against the opposite arm rest. She tried to get help from the flight attendant, but the plane was completely full so there was nowhere to move either of them.

If the solution is for "people of size" to be allowed to take two seats for the price of one, the cost per seat will go up for everyone; this is especially true if, according to the article, 38% of the world is obese and would presumably be able to take advantage of this situation.