skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Temperance was an outgrowth of religious movements that occurred within American Protestantism in the late 1700s and through the 1800s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperance_movement. The seeds of this were sown back in Europe (John Wellesley for example) but those groups like Baptists, Methodists, and Quakers who opposed alcohol (and still do) had a lot more influence in America than they did back in Europe. And since the country was new they had a greater ability to reshape the culture.

So the relevant cultural difference is between these American Protestants, who had been diverging from Europe for 100+ years, and immigrants from continental Europe, who hadn’t experienced that cultural change.
You're either endorsing literal battery/assault or perhaps overlooking some context.

Challenge studies involve consenting individuals and the actual events in the article don't.

I presume GP's example of splashing water would be on unsuspecting, non-consenting people going about their daily business, as was the case with the Subway in the article.
With the top questions being well-formulated, respectful and most importantly, unanswered... Yes. It is embarrassing.

Question is... Does it matter? Will it drive the users that create content away?

If the answer is no, it the embarrassment is meaningless.
I spend every day on here, and somehow it got bumped to #2 right as it was blowing past 2k ups and 1k comments about... Now it is not even on the front page? @dang and gang could you please explain how a top 25 post EVER is somehow done... almost seems like blatant censorship.

EDIT: just to add I used a different VPN, then for good measure when on a tor box and did it too. Where is that thread??
> Even through the 90s, long after many system calls became formalized, floating point math was much more expensive than integer math.

IIRC the main reason floating point numbers weren’t used in system calls back in the 90-ties was that kernel code couldn’t use the CPUs floating point registers, or they would have to be saved at the entry point of each system call and restored before returning to user space. This was deemed too expensive.
Shingles vaccination may reduce dementia risk
I’ve seen ads for Apple Vision all over YouTube so they are trying that too.
You live in a bubble where everyone around you can afford expensive smartphones
HN has a lot more powerful and strict moderation than Usenet ever had.
See the key is to get into thousands and not care about 0.1% changes either way. Bollock enough and someone will upvote it.
Except Reddit moderators deal with these spam issues all the time.

Hacker News is run by herculean efforts by the moderation team here, and I appreciate it. I'm ignorant of what their tools are, but I don't think that scales either. Its good for our community, but Hacker News will never be Reddit or Twitter scale.

Reddit's model is that moderators basically complain to the Admins that tools are insufficient, then admins mostly ignore those complaints. Moderators write bots that automatically surf traffic and try to automate... then the Admins come back and increase the price of API-access by 1000%, and then change the API and overall become hostile to this behavior. This cannot work either.

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At least in Usenet days, we could run our own programs in an open source model for these moderation issues.

I don't think Usenet would work. We need a way to rewind time (Usenet: once you post or once something passes moderation, it is forever more sent to everyone else's inbox). USENET was POP model, to put into email terms... while Reddit is IMAP/JMAP model, where the true state of the information is centralized to the server.

So yes, I agree with you that USENET will fail today. But the nuances of why it will fail are important to understand.

In particular: Reddit was never very good about these moderation issues. But with enough work and grit, the community came together anyway. That's good enough. I expect that USENET's moderation model is sufficient, albeit decades old. Its all the other USENET crap that won't work today (being a "POP"-like message distribution platform without any "takebacks", so no editing posts, no deleting porn that got past the spam filter, etc. etc.)

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Or maybe... USENET works with regards to API access. The *ARCHIVE* (ie: Google Groups, or Deja News if you're old enough to remember that) is where takebacks / edits can live instead.

So maybe Usenet can work, but with changes to our workflow to be more akin to 2023-level of features. By separating concerns over USENET (ie: how messages are distributed among a decentralized list of servers), and "The Archive" (which needs to be run by a trusted set of administrators), and a system where moderators will have access to "The Archive" for their own moderation purposes, we can rebuild Reddit through USENET??

Hmmm... it could work. Though I'm curious if it has much benefits over Mastodon or other solutions available today.
The first time I heard Eric Weinstein call for periodic above ground nuclear weapons demonstrations[1], I thought it was nuts. That's because I grew up with the threat of the H-Bomb[2] and the impending nightmares that I've had ever since (though thankfully they are infrequent these days).

Seeing how casually people dismiss the possible effects of a war involving 10,000 of these weapons has caused me to re-evaluate things.

We should have am internationally sanctioned thermonuclear weapons demo every few years, at least once per decade, but less than annually. To remind everyone what's at stake.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/G23s5TX1QRM

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermonuclear_weapon
If this setup could be combined with an easy way to customize things, like ublue (https://ublue.it/) lets you customzie fedora silverblue using Dockerfile configs, I'd adopt it in a heartbeat.
Check out the Human Plutonium Injection Experiments
I think they are implying that storing time as a float is riddled with problems (like arithmetic needs to think about hardware bugs and implementations)

The problem being that OP kinda glosses over them.
The cycle of ripe innovation to ossified industry is complete
Also looking like they are trying to sell a product to investors, developers, and other stakeholders.
At the end of the day you are liable for what you do, if you don’t read what a tool outputs that’s on you.
>I'm sure they made a risk analysis - and if you look at other transgender influencers paid by other companies who were spared this moral outcry, you'll see that it's more bad luck than anything else that the conserviative media machine focused so much on them.

You're throwing around ridiculous speculation.
It probably depends on the niche. I've found reddit occasionally useful for this, but the community on reddit tends to be a bit monolithic, so I've not found reddit useful as a sole, or primary, source of this sort of thing.
Think he's saying the advice in the blog post is bad.
S3 stores 3 separate copies across 3 AZs so for that redundancy (at 400TiB), wouldn't you need more like 6x 14x16TB servers if you're making a direct comparison?
1) usenet was a kind of opt-in syndication that ran through uucp jobs that often went through whitelists at the local level, often over low bandwidth modems. pirate and other binary channels were frequently not rebroadcast.

2) A decentralized usenet like you're describing is an email list with an archive.

3) Absolutely not. you're describing realID and Facebook.

4) Absolutely not you're describing the powermod problem that ruins all of these larger forums.

and since you seem a little unfamiliar with it's history, you should look up ARMM

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARMM_(Usenet)

http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/A/ARMM.html
The average person has no idea what 90% of the headlines on HN are even referring to, giving it a degree of self-moderation.
Not had any such problems with the 13, that's why I said 13 not 15.
I don't get this comparison BTW. Apple needs an external battery, doesn't have controllers, doesn't seem fit for gaming. There's nothing interesting with their device. IMO the Quest 3 is objectively the superior device here.
One big difference is that if you decide that art isn't your thing, you can move on and try something else.

But Children are a big commitment. For many people it's well worth it, for others maybe not. And that's fine - so long as it is considered.

Not for any weird anti-child reason, just that it's something that probably should be thought through and considered more than trying out a hobby.
HN has shadowbanning, sockpuppets, etc... all the goodies that have been privately demonstrated to work, and work well; and most of those work even better when combined with a pretense of 'not having that here'
This looks cool! I always wanted something similar for pandas, because I found it very elegant in dplyr in R. AFAIK they do have a `.pipe` method now but it could definitely be better in the future.
> you're actually saying that any war is OK as long as the USA starts it.

Bush Jr. has been convicted of war crimes in at least one country because of his actions with respect to the Iraq war: https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a35397/b...

Very few countries are opposed to the US invasion of Afghanistan, as those plotting the previous attack on the US were doing so from a position of sanctuary in Afghanistan at the time.

Wars of genuine self defense are basically automatically approved by standard international law: https://legal.un.org/repertory/art51.shtml
Also user of the regular plain vanilla site. Shocked that people get so passionate about this thing.

Queue the, “I’m leaving the community!” posts I guess.
A 6MB blob is identical to 2MB, 1MB and 3MB blobs.
Climate change from carbon emissions increases probability of wildfires.
I'm not sure what exactly it contains but all those leaks contain Name, Address and your national identity number(something like social security number). It must also contain the birthplace and date because the last elections there was question over how many refugees got citizenship and the opposition said they checked the birthplaces and the number is not too high.

BTW, this data is available for the citizens too during the election cycle so you can check who lives in the same building with you and correct any mistakes. The list of the electorate is also attached at the polls so anyone can check for something fishy.

Then in Turkey there's this obsession with companies about collecting as much as info possible about you, so when the food delivery service is hacked the hackers now can easily add your phone number, update your current address by matching your national identity number because for some reason they need to have that info to deliver some kebab.

Also, this national identity number is generated through some algorithm which gives away your relatives and thanks to this, the hackers can also build your social graph from the leaks. Here is a repo about that algo: https://github.com/kerematam/akrabatcno

AFAIK it’s used in “your grandson had an accident and needs emergency surgery, send this much money ASAP” scams.
The private key I mean, it's really supposed to be secret on your computer and not even the certificate authority is supposed to have access to it.
Not sure if parasitic is the correct term, but there's little to do with market prices when it comes to food delivery apps. They're all basically dumping with VC money, burning billions, driving out legitimate competitors.
I believe we are already in that state. This is why we see such a high occurrence of psychopath and sociopath in CEOs.
The primary change to HMMWVs is the shape of the hull: they’re now designed in a V shape to deflect the force from explosives away to the sides of the vehicle.
I love KDE and for years used it as my main DE!

This is kind of silly though…a DE for activism?!
> Well-funded startups that raised recently and are actively growing. Any runway issues they have are far enough out that you don't need to worry much today.

I would have agreed with you 6 months ago but this describes both companies I was laid off from this year. Both closed 100+ million dollar rounds last May and June. Both valued at 1 billion+. Both bragged about their multi year runway days or weeks before layoffs began. Both had plans to grow significantly this year. My take is that the investors told them to do layoffs so they did. Which makes me want to work for a bootstrapped company that is growing slowly and will not take investor money
I modeled buying a few Tesla Powerwalls to do time of use shifting, and it didn't make any sense from an investment standpoint. It's a great incentive if you were buying the battery backup anyway, but not as an investment.
In your analogy I'd still buy a Civic lol. Also, it's more like, Tesla has the advantage in EV land, but you'd rather buy the first EV car from BMW?
Honest question: Why do you try to replace Tupperware?

Plastic has a bad reputation because of its longevity, but that also makes it a good material for containers. That - in turn - makes it bad for throwaway packaging of course. I might have missed something, that's why I ask.
Yes, for redundancy it could be useful, but doesn’t change the affordability materially.
> but instead, they're purposefully making reddit worse for everyone.

Yes, specifically because of Reddit's actions. Specifically because Reddit made decisions that made them no longer want to contribute to the site's success and (incidentally) also because Reddit offers no way at all for people to opt-out of furthering the company's commercial interests and no way at all for people to refuse to reinforce the network effect keeping the site afloat without also damaging the community.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36245435 <- that post?

It was near the top for close to 24 hours. It was yesterday's top post (hit "past" at the top of HN and you'll see the top post for yesterday and can navigate to earlier dates). Posts slide off the front page after a while. Their ranking is determined by a combination of activity, upvotes, and age. At over 24 hours, what else is there to say anyways? We all know what's happening.
I wonder how it would work if we had different kinds of upvote/downvote.

Then again if given a choice between "I disagree" and "you're a moron for saying that", people would just pick second if it is a disagreement about something they feel strongly about
> And there's nothing inherently wrong with that I guess, but look a the big picture as well: you've used the services of a private company for years, paying zero cents.

While that's not false, look at it the other way: I've provided content for a private company for years, taking zero payment. Millions of us have. Reddit lives and dies by user submissions and comments, and taking what seems to be a stance that's wildly hostile to users feels very foolish to me.
x@EmailGPT.app – fwd long emails and attachments to summarize
I'm not positive but this might be the most out of touch comment I've ever seen. You can literally learn anything on YouTube. Coding, drywalling, fine carpentry, fix your own car, build an EV from the ground up, how to grow certain types of plants, discover more about the universe.
They did explain that:

https://old.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/143rk5p/reddit_he...

> NSFW

> Regulatory environment around NSFW is changing rapidly and aggressively.

> The challenge is regulators and lawmakers (those who fine and sue), who don’t care about 3rd party apps and don’t understand them. They’ll come after us, not the 3rd party apps. Lawmakers don’t look at NSFW with nuance.

> We have work to do on our platform around age-gating and related stuff to be able to keep that content – we will fight for it. Sex is universal.
I only looked at the main page and FAQ and only saw references to Linux. I'll have to dig into this later. Very curious how it works on Windows.
The problem is that this shows you how long it takes to get to a single place, rather than showing a map visualization like this site. I've often really wanted this on StreetEasy especially. I don't want to know how long it takes just to get to work, I want to know how long it takes to every neighborhood I regularly travel to.
Impressing the ladies!
Wasn't the test done on US citizens? If the test was done on Canadians, we would be talking about Canadian citizens and not US citizens.
Standard ML? I’m getting confused
The logistics of delivering support for one race car as opposed to three doesn't change too much.

There's a certain set of specialty tools and equipment (also staff) that's required to support one car. Supporting two/three doesn't take too much more.

For quite a few years, my business provided race support for 8-10 kart racers. Space and logistics for transporting things was probably the biggest concern.
Sounds like: We want to invest on AI and this is our exclusive training dataset.
>Destroying things and intentionally killing.

Neither of those things is necessarily morally questionable.
For lots of use cases you want to record precise events in a universal sense, and be able to add and subtract them or compare whether one timestamp is the same exact time as another timestamp regardless of timezones.

UNIX timestamps have no timezones. They are just the number of actual seconds that have elapsed since a certain commonly-agreed time. You measure the number of seconds between two events just by subtracting their timestamps arithmetically, and don't need to do any parsing or interpreting of timezones. You can just say "this hacker in Russia breached the firewall 35 seconds after this dev committed code in the US" just by subtracting two numbers.

The time an airplane takes off, the time your firewall detected a security event, the time a cross-timezone meeting starts, these are all good to store as UNIX timestamps.

Birthdays are different because they are inherently imprecise; humans tend to celebrate their birthdays when it's a certain day of the month in their local time zone, with little to no regard for the time zone they were born in. Someone born in Singapore (UTC+8) and lives in Alaska (UTC-8) might still celebrate their 30th birthday on the month and day of their birthday in Alaska time even though their body might need another 16 hours before it has technically experienced 30 years of life.
the key wasnt the pornography, but the kinds of people who post what tubmlr CATGORIZED as pornography. everything from queer communities, sex education, and people who post a variety of things only SOME of which was nsfw. by alienating those people who were the core of the community that existed there, they drove out the community forming elements that existed on the site in the first place.
If you can post that meta-analysis that would be helpful, thanks. My goal is to find the evidence. It seems you have it, so it would be useful if you could post it. Generally if there is a meta-analysis or robust evidence it will be in the wikipedia article. If not, I'd love for you to add it (or I can). Evidence shouldn't be hard to find...
> A startup should do nothing except build something people love.

Even if you build something people love, that doesn't necessarily mean you can monetize it.
In the old days of the early web, we called these "mirrors"
> All of that is a herculean task for a small dev team to accomplish in 30 days.

Why 30 days? I mean, I know that Reddit announced that that's when they'll kill the API... but that's a completely arbitrary deadline.
I think in a sense compression is worse - because not only you want to correctly predict the next token, you also want to do it fast, with a minimal but efficient algorithm that also doesn't require much space / a big dictionary.

You could think of it as taking a "snapshot" if an AI and then optimizing the hell out of it for a specific case and you end up with a good compression algorithm.
I disagree, it's extremely easy on both. Like, sure, it is slower on HN but community is also smaller
I’d think configuration.nix would be enough?
For impossible colors go here:

https://www.thoughtco.com/impossible-colors-introduction-415...

For art, just compare any of these images to the pictures in the article:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=psychadelic+art&iax=images&ia=imag...
Lovely viz! I'd like to see the # of minutes as a parameter (maybe in steps of 5), and also include ferries (Staten Island is, well, an island).
Interesting. I would definitely agree that it is not optimal behavior from the consumer’s perspective. I would hesitate to call it anti-capitalistic - do you think all acquisitions are anti-capitalistic? I have never heard this argued.
> None of the contributors (apart from the employee ones, I suppose) ever got paid any currency other than high-fives in the form of rep, medals, the gamified stuff, moderation rights, and at certain rep levels some swag in the form of t-shirts and the usual.

I would love to see some kind of identity and reputation system where the "high-fives in the form of rep" could follow people across communities. It may not feel like much compensation if you've contributed over 2500 answers, but having reputation gained in your area of expertise grant you a high level of trust to interact in other communities could be valuable, at least in my opinion.

Assuming they're making this move to protect against AI / LLMs, I think SO is in an impossible situation here. When all the ChatGPT hype started, one of my first questions was "what happens to the incentive for contributors and creators?" Why would I want to contribute on a platform if I know an AI model is going to come in, take my contribution, and regurgitate it back to the masses in a way that I can't control?

Even if I get some attribution from the AI/LLM, do I even want it? If the LLM is blending content from multiple sources, which changes the context and presentation I put effort into, is the quality going to be high enough to match what I strive to achieve for myself when I'm trying to build a reputation as a high quality contributor? What if the AI is hallucinating objectively poor quality content and giving me partial attribution?

So, for me, part of the social contract with SO is that I provide answers, but I get to control the entire interaction; the context, the presentation (mark up), defending criticism in the comments, etc.. In addition to that, since the entire conversation happens inline, I can be corrected by someone even more knowledgeable than me and use that feedback for self improvement.

I think AI is going to be disruptive and the whole idea, for me anyway, behind disruption is that you break an existing system and then everyone is free to take a shot at claiming part of the new gold rush that occurs while trying to build the replacement. The problem with AI is that it's going to break a lot of services that do a good job of serving the community and shouldn't be broken. SO is a great example of a healthy community that doesn't need disruption, but the massive amount of high quality, curated content is going to make them a prime target for LLM training.

Personally I think the only solution is for "noai" variants of popular open source licenses so contributors have the ability to make it clear they don't want to contribute to AI/LLM companies. If SO had an option to flag contributions as CC-BY-SA-NOAI, I'd enable it on my stuff going forward.
+1. Also according to some swedish friends, aftonbladet is not a very high quality news service.
I believe I used 3-4 times an occulus headset. Not a quest, and that was years ago, I don’t remember the model. I haven’t really been interested by VR products, the only reason I find the quest kind of interesting is for beat saber, seems like a fun game to play. I cannot see myself using a headset more than 1h, and outside of gaming.
... are nursing on mom, she often looks totally blissed out like a raver in an ecstasy puddle ...

I KNEW IT! Females are nothing but addicts, looking to get their next fix of baby giggles, cuddles, kneading, ... and babies are nothing but the other part in this codependence travesty!

Oh wait...

...that's literally everyone (/ everything).

Paging Dr. Maslow...