skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone have an invite to share for Tildes?
No need for apologies. I had read the article and remembered something from a book I read years earlier. I am not even sure that it comes from that book since it could also have come from Ernie Pyle's WWII book "Brave Men".

The story itself is interesting when you consider that the author sees something completely ordinary and later finds out when they decide to return to the scene or when they mention it to locals that it couldn't have happened like that because the scene where they made their observation was destroyed before their visit.

I think supernatural events are reported because they do not fit into a normal framework of natural experiences that ordinary people have every day. Whether they are memory malfunctions in the individual who reports them is obviously debatable since for some events there are multiple participants and observers. A case where everyone present has a brain fart at the same time and experiences the same unusual event as a result is definitely worth studying.

I like the two universes breakdown that you have since it offers clear opportunities to explain what could've happened. None of us will know in the end and the only thing we have to go on, like so much of the historical record, is the author's account.
LPT: centurion/priority pass lounge. Comes free with many higher-end credit cards and often pays for itself.
KDE already had per-virtual-desktop backgrounds before that feature was removed in favor of activities. There is no reason different widgets (both desktop and panel) couldn't have been added to virtual desktops instead.
Yeah, there's a telling degree of overlap between the "The American Dream is dead crowd" and the "I refuse to live anywhere but an expensive coastal city" crowd. Not to say that the latter can't be caused by the former, but it indicates a frustration with a particular experience that isn't really fully representative of what the "American Dream" is supposed to offer. Notably, for all of their complaining the actual emigration rate of this population seems to be very low.
It's on the back of the $5 note (the arm that is, not Air Farce). I've only ever heard it discussed in positive terms. I have no idea how a single sketch was extrapolated to "not all Canadians are proud of it". Not a very well thought out take.
>To replace the link aggregation features, I've gone back to using RSS over the past year and I'm pleased with it.

That does replace the literal aggregation feature, but how do you go about finding good sources for your RSS feed?

I'm genuinely asking. I mucked with RSS lightly a decade ago and dropped it largely because of reddit.
Reddit error pages are not following any kind of trend. They’ve been like that since for ever. No reason to get upset.
Slash dot
Is HN slow because everyone who was normally posting on reddit is now commenting on HN instead?
This isn't always the case, but I found that if I'm looking for a serious discussion, I gotta find the sub within the subreddit. For movies, there are a few that communicate they are about serious film discussion. But between the 2 or 3 subs on serious film talk, I found truefilm to be more in-depth than not.

Even for cycling, there are about 8 subs that I'm on, and one out of the bunch is strictly focused on serious fitness & performance discussions, whereas the rest are sort of free-for-alls loosely based on the subreddit's sub-genre.

If there are no subs within the subs, might just gotta suck it up and scroll past the memes. Or start a discussion and find like-minded folks to branch off.
Optimal Digestive Health: Comprehensive Strategies to Combat Constipation Restoring Digestive Balance: Acid, Bile, Enzymes, Microbes, and Nutritional Deficiencies
I see stuff like that all the time. It feels pretty common to me.
Plant-based food is actually cheaper, at least the ordinary stuff like bread, pasta, legumes, oat flakes, and even the hated sugar.

And so is public transportation where available.
HN is a well honed functional equivalent to a subreddit... Could it become the centerpiece for a free software self-hosted self-standing subreddit ?
> swap on zram

If I'm going to use memory that I don't have as swap, I might as well just use no swap and take the OOM if I use too much memory.
In theory perhaps. In practice, if you're stuck using the likes Jira or ADO, the friction of getting something into the ticketing system is excessive. If you're using a ticketing system designed for programmers and not project managers, then maybe it could be organized for a flow like that.
Before it was just like on windows with a graphics card that holds the compute relevant data.
Now they have two cards with different memory bandwidths and ideally you would want to combine them of some sorts instead of wasting the whole m2 ultra gpu
Yes, okay, I am on board with leaving the big city for lower cost of living. Where are the tech sector jobs outside of coastal cities? You might find some in Austin or Arizona, but those places are already two feet in the door for a cost of living crisis.
This is literally what Digg did to self-destruct, in that they basically eliminated user powers and created some automatic feed. And, it died literally overnight.
Your choice of language is interesting. Regarding the WHO, if they banned artificial sweeteners from the start would you have suppored this unilateral process? "They let" indicates that you beleive the WHO does or should include a degree of power over every-day life.

There exists an International Sweeters Association, that has been against these efforts since it's inception 35 years ago: https://www.sweeteners.org/latest-science-post/the-who-recom...

https://www.sweeteners.org/about-isa/

Which shouldn't be a surprise given the Sugar Association is 80 years old: https://www.sugar.org/about/history/

So sure, consume "whatever the f*: you feel like knowing that either way you will be receiving "sciene based" communications from interested parties supporting that behavior.
I read the whole article. I looked at all the graphs and charts. I still don't understand the near term significance, even with the detailed explanations.

Assuming I'm exactly average, that means 50% of the population won't understand it either. Of that 50%, how many will actually care? Nothing will happen until it is too late.

His final words weren't encouraging and I can't say I feel any better either.
> Then there are the tales that old programmers can tell about how they couldn't actually deal in English because ASCII didn't have a pound symbol

What's #, then? Chopped liver?

/s
I totally agree on the general superiority of tags vs. subreddits, and did the same for my Reddit/HN alternative https://zsync.xyz . I can see the case for private communities/forums, but I think tags make more sense for most use cases.

My main complaint with Reddit since the early ~2010s has been the crap post/comment quality. In 2008/9 when I first joined, the comment quality was very high. Then memes, puns, one-liners, and hivemind took over and ruined the site.

An ideal Reddit would be able to show you posts/comments that you're most likely to enjoy, such as via a "sort by" option tailored to you, or other sort by options like an "insightful" that actually works and doesn't just give you low effort one-liners that add nothing to your life.

High quality content in general needs to be better incentivized, and right now it's not. Anyways I have a lot of ideas around that I wrote elsewhere so will refrain from dumping then all here [1]

The challenge with developing a Reddit alternative however unfortunately is not technical, it's overcoming the chicken and egg problem where nobody cares about your site if no one else is on there.

[1] https://jsavage.xyz/2022/03/13/the-downfall-of-reddit-why-re...
A group intent on committing crimes commits conspiracy, and that is already a crime in most of the U.S.
spammy reddit apps?
Oh, and I forgot: on Android, app patching is also a possibility. For example, the ReVanced project offers patches for the official Reddit app: https://revanced.app/patches?pkg=com.reddit.frontpage&s=redd...
Today, you can say that people who think themselves kittens aren't sane and most people won't disagree with you. 20 years ago you could say that men who think themselves women aren't sane, and most people wouldn't disagree with you. Who can say what the future will hold in store for our culture. I know it seems unlikely now, even farcical like an argument being made in bad faith, but that's how it always is.
Agree. The lede "Don't consume artificial sweeteners" reads like "they're poison". They're not. The better title should have been "Artificial Sweetener Use Is Not A Long Term Weight Management Strategy".

Not that anybody actually reads or pays attention to these things when they're wolfing down a bag of fritos; but still to the person at What-a-burger getting an 1100 calorie meal - they're probably better off opting for 400 fewer calories with a diet Coke than a fully loaded one.
Intuitively because if you're just writing zero bytes everywhere, and there's a lab that can detect the difference between a zero that used to be a one and a zero that was always a zero, they can get the entire drive.

When I get a drive, I LUKS encrypt it and fill it with zeros before throwing a filesystem on it, which results in the drive looking entirely like random nothing. The privacy test that it definitely fails is that disks don't ever look like that unless they're encrypted, but I'm not worried about anybody finding old drives.
> I can be confident that a Perl script I write today will run unaltered 10 years from now, modulo external collaborators.

Yeah, because the ecosystem is dead. The flipside is that the bulk of Perl modules available are stale and don't receive any security updates or bug fixes. If I had a pound for every time I've seen a 10+ year old bug with no comments in the CPAN issue tracker...

> Perl has a small set of core syntax and is very extensible and flexible in adopting new paradigms.

Depends what you call "core syntax". The syntax available to you with a stock Perl install is certainly not small compared to other languages.

> With a great amount of discipline, Perl scripts can be successfully scaled up into large, complex systems.

If you're disciplined, you can write complex systems pretty much as well as you could in Python or any other dynamically-typed language.

However, it requires a lot of discipline and experience, and with other languages you at least have good formatters and LSPs to help with that. Perl sorely lacks this kind of infrastructure.

I also think the lack of static types makes writing complex systems massively harder, but that's not a criticism of Perl in particular.
7245/7806 subreddits that pledged to go private are currently dark
WHO Guideline[0] for those interested.

[0]: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240073616
They're also testing blocking mobile logins and telling users to install their app. [1][2]

[1] https://www.ghacks.net/2023/06/12/reddit-is-blocking-logins-...

[2] it happened to me
Well yeah, sure.

The world still doesn't really exist. At least not in any where we can comprehend it. Since it is almost certainly incomprehensible and probably not even possible to capture the world as it is, then isn't the second best to build something that is nice?
I would push back on this, because left ideology hasn't really changed since the term was invented, and they weren't talking about transition surgery in the 1700s. It's always about removing current power structures and institutions that harm the weak to enrich and empower the few. It started with the monarchy, and today it's about corporations and the rich buying politicians, academics, reporters, artists, and religious leaders to allow and promote the subjugation of workers and the destruction of the environment for profit.

The reason the trans people are an issue is that conservatives lost big on trying to suppress homosexuals, which in turn is just a distraction from the economic inequality and general disempowerment that regular Americans face. There is a vast right-wing conspiracy that wants to keep the conversation around culture war issues instead of, you know, making sure all people have food, clean water, shelter, healthcare, and education regardless of their economic value to the market.

Claiming authoritarian censorship displays a kind of persecution complex, especially considering you're able to claim censorship and I, a rando, am able to read it. The top articles shared on Facebook feature mostly conservative voices. Reddit is different in that it has a downvote option, available to users without HN's karma threshold. You're not getting censored, you're just espousing unpopular views.

Just like with abortion, for trans kids, the doctor's office is not big enough for the kid, the doctor, and the government. People know themselves better than we think. Kara Swisher, the tech reporter, has said she knew she was a lesbian when she was 4 (or 5). Guess what, she's still a lesbian. No kid is going to choose the difficult, scary prospect of surgery or invasive meds without a strong motivation. And kids are not getting surgery that often - it's mostly puberty blockers which are not permanent. And to be clear, I couldn't find any story about a person younger than 17 getting a surgery done. These are folks just about to leave minority age.

Also, no child is getting this without parental or guardian's consent. The idea that some liberal parent is twiddling their fingers, Mr. Burn's style, to get their child to believe they are trans is ludicrous. You have to believe there's a large group of parents who are cartoon villains attacking their own kids for clout.

But deeper than that, I know that conservatives don't actually care about children because so many of them won't have a conversation around guns which actually kill children, often mutilating their bodies so much an open casket funeral is out of the question unless it's for shock value. It is the leading cause of death for kids in the US. The Utah law against trans athletes applied to 4 people. Malnutrition deaths in Utah were 1,044 for 2022. WTF.
YUI 2 was very bad and java-like.

But YUI 3 was ahead of its time. The dependency management and lazy loading in YUI 3 would not make it to the mainstream for another 10 years.
> Hey, I wanted to reply to this, but just didn't find the time.

Story of my life, glad you found things clear if not persuasive! Hope you're having a nice start to your week
Tildes is great but it's a lot more analagous to HN than reddit.

The moderators are limited in number and absolute in power, you can't make new subs (I asked for a few and was declined), and the community is more tight and discussion-oriented (which is a good thing IMO, but I never quite felt like I fit in so I don't comment often).
Sask. First Nation man builds Dene keyboard to help others to learn the language
https://archive.is/hwhax
Somatic recombination. Transposons. Barr bodies.

It gets even wilder when you start looking at other animals and kingdoms of life.
Thanks that's super interesting to hear! I think we sort of share this pain and spent 4-5 months basically riffing about it while working on other ideas. It definitely solves a personal pain and feels like everyone is missing this tool to manage life in a community setting.
I don't use reddit directly as a user, but last night I was googling a tech question that had a bunch of
relevant results in Reddit threads... only to find that the relevant subreddit had been put into "private" mode in protest of API changes, leaving the content inaccessible.

So even though I don't necessarily pull up Reddit just to read, it does provide a good archive of questions and answers or other useful explanations in search engine results and losing that old content would be tough.
> It's pretty uncommon for there to be a dispute about the fact of signature

Well, I disagree. It looks quite common to me.

You just won't see it on contract disputes, because that kind of argument is a criminal matter. But false contracts, authorizations, transactions and whatever are really common.
Again, grocery prices are back to pre-COVID levels. Nominal rent is higher, but nominal wages are also higher.
Depends on what you used Reddit for.
> This is a politically-"leftist" site (top current thread is "How did you get into anarchism", along with something about ACAB)

tbh how is this different than most subs?

this is a feature, not a bug...it keeps these people out of the real world and glued to their keyboards where their blast radius is limited to their own echo chamber
Because olive or sunflower oil are the only oils that get onto a pizzabox? Said noone who has ever actually seen a pizza.
tildes.net seems completely unrelated to the ones you are thinking of (the tildeverse)
It's a blog catered to a non-technical audience, so I'd say it's fine as is.

Our definition of "fully" is based on the technical interpretation of the word, while to a random passerby it'd be based on the result: that you can't load any posts, including from communities that aren't blacked out.
This in combination with the above is a huge issue, in which people are too concerned about "don't use Cloudflare" angle that they don't spend any effort into creating alternative solutions for the problems that exist.

We can dismiss the problems all we want by saying "most people don't need it", but if they're using it, clearly they see a need and this has to be addressed not ignored. Which is why it's so hard to fight against the urge, so go ahead and use it if it saves you time and money. Until real alternatives exist, don't hinder yourself.
A helluva lot less safe now than fifteen years ago, because half the drivers have their face stuck to a g.d. phone instead of paying attention to their surroundings. It’s suicidal to ride in traffic now.
So how can we remove this and other Microsoft spyware from our systems?
Sounds like a feature a product manager thought, "Hey this is so cool! look what it did with this narrow set of test cases. We should ship it to everyone and claim impact!"

Second order effects are rarely considered, and bad actors ignored.
Reddit Failing to Load
Of course it is. If a million websites are built with Flask then a bug in Flask affects all of them. If a million websites individually decide to use Cloudflare then Cloudflare affects them all.

But that doesn't mean Cloudflare is built in a centralised way (I assume it isn't), nor that there's something about the internet that is centralised around Cloudflare. Rather, people are choosing to include it as a dependency in their stack.
Are you saying there will never be a Python 4, or are you saying that the 2->3 transition was so badly flubbed nobody will make that mistake again?
For what it's worth, I don't feel it's appropriate to dictate or even advise others on child-rearing decisions, but I don't understand how humanity has a chance if we all throw our hands up in the air and say: there's no way we'll get Americans to give up their cars, meat, or 2.5 babies.

I'm not really advocating anything here, just lamenting the seeming (and somewhat assumed) immutability of it all.

(random but I really appreciated these subthreads, definitely some good stuff for me to chew on)
> I also noticed that in recent years many subreddits have increasingly been taken over by memes and other low quality posts and so users looking for more substantial content have already moved elsewhere.

I feel like I've seen the opposite, generally- there was always kind of a tension between serious posts and memes, but in the past few years it seems to have become much more common to see subreddits with a counterpart strictly for memes (/r/chess and /r/anarchychess being a recently popular example).
Worth noting that google censor a bunch of usenet groups from google groups.
You might be interested to a look at hawker.social. It combines reddit with features of Patreon (subscriptions) and discord (sub channel). You can also use it as a substack style publication!
I remembering reading about a 90 degree FOV which if true, will limit its use for AR and wearing it all the time.

The Glasshole style remarks probably won't go away with the Vision Pro either. Not to mention the potential of being robbed of the headset in public.
I don’t know how I’d ever get an invite to that.
No. CP is a term used by 4chan and people unfamiliar with the topic. The detection, prevention, and enforcement community uses the term CSAM.
Whisper Web: ML-powered speech recognition in the browser
Whisper Web is a web-app which allows you to run OpenAI's whisper models directly in your browser, with no need for a server. This comes with the release of Transformers.js v2.2.0, which now supports multilingual transcription and translation for over 100 different languages.

Demo URL: https://huggingface.co/spaces/Xenova/whisper-web
Yeah, I've considered slapping something together in Django or what have you—libraries exist to make a lot of this not that hard—but... kids. And the new Zelda, for that matter :-)
> the way it is mounted isn't, nor how dependencies are located and injected, nor how the JSON is validated and mapped to objects and back.

These are problems that every web application has to solve. You can use an existing framework or you can write your own. It might seem like there's a "hand-wire everything" option but in any mature system that turns into "write your own framework" as developers get tired of typing the same boilerplate over and over.

For example, I can tell you right now that the team is going to get tired of typing `requestCycle.parseBody()` at the top of almost every method. Some clever sod will eventually figure out how to use AOP to make it implicit. Just like JAX-RS.
hop on the irc and say hello, you'll get an invite.
>Even though Canada conceived of the arms, branded them with its national flag, and named them after itself

Yet more proof of how Canadians are far more flag-obsessed than Americans. Similarly, the maple leaf appears in the logo/signage of every single company in Canada, including Canadian subsidiaries of US companies.

If Canada had a full space program of its own, we'd see red-and-white Canashuttles (named Anne Murray, Rush, Gordon Lightfoot, and Margaret Atwood) launching from Cape Canadaveral in Labrador.
The perl interpreter is written in C, so that should be a good hint. :)
I've heard about the Lemmy dev's politics, but what's this about the Kbin devs?
Sweat food? Yuck!
This guy's blog is subtitled "Eliot Jacobson's Collapse of Everything Blog".

Is this his schtick? Does he just say the world is ending all the time, or is what he's saying true?
Professional AV rigs can get quite hairy. This video shows how one composer’s computer setup went from a pile of boxes and cables to a single rack mounted machine. I’ve set the playback point to where he shows the difference.

https://youtu.be/xNrG2mwt4Uo?t=1995

And in this 4 minute video you can see all of his cards installed into his Mac Pro with nary a GPU in sight.

https://youtu.be/kIQINCWMd6I

And he is just a single person. Imagine a company with 7-10 or more of those machines for both audio and video production.

Desktop “workstation” computers have become relics of a bygone age. Having one or two external graphics cards is really only relevant to gamers and hobbyist ML tinkerers. Actual model training is done on the cloud. The few people/organizations that actually use PCI cards in a desktop will be well served by the new Mac Pro.
OP is just saying that before iPhone/iOS was announced in 2007, there was an effort to build Android, but it was something that resembled Blackberries. After the iPhone was announced, there was a big project reset, which shifted Android to what eventually got launched in 2008.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/12/the-d...
> just publicly violated sanctions

Please enlighten everyone: in what way is an Indian entity paying their own engineers to use their own parts to fix their own aircraft “violating sanctions”? Please give as much detail as possible.