skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Off topic: Cloudflare, like Google, is bad for the internet- not just for the way they centralize the internet but for the way they begin to conflate themselves with The Internet. Very few sites need Cloudflare, and of those with it equipped, an even fewer number configure it or use it correctly for their application.
Why 'burning bridges' may not be a career killer
> I’d also note that this is how it works in the US as well for loans provided by the federal government.

Only if you switch to the income-based repayment plan, which has to be reverified every year.

Prior to December 2020 taxes were owed on forgiven debt the year it was finally forgiven. Which could be very harsh if the debt was large.
https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/loans/student-loans/how-t...

I'm not sure how it works in the UK, but in the US at least this extra debt is negatively factored into things like credit scores.

And regardless of the payment, it takes a bite out of income. I couldn't afford a PPACA medical plan for a few reasons, but partly because I was paying for loans. None of these repayment plans factor in affordability for the payee, they are a straight percentage of income basis or treat the payee as some sort of national average in terms of expected affordability.
... and hope that the manufacturer has not managed to let that key leak to some other part of the drive...

Since there is no commercial advantage to doing things right in this case, there is no reason to assume that they are actually done right.
VC start-ups where never about the start-up or the product. They are designed to shut down after few years of rising capital to pay the execs ridiculous amount of money. Is about funnelling those funds to salary and bonuses before it runs dry. Rinse and repeat.
It's much older than Reddit but used to be as popular early/mid 2000s. There are topics and the front page automatically tailors to you location (or at least I think that's why I keep seeing UK news).
The community has a number of in-jokes that have been running decades, it also has FP comment spam, usually a racist or similar ASCII art comment. That was my takeaway from it...
$445 million for a pizza truck
The National Library of Thailand Thought Experiment
Wildfires in Portugal have been out of control for almost a decade. The country has been in a technical drought situation for the past 6-8 years I think. This year there wasn’t enough water so a lot of small gourmet olive oil producers were not able to sell any stock.

The fantasy of not being worried only exists in cities I think and it’s totally divorced from what’s happening in food production. Ask any farmer in southern Europe if they’re worried they’ll tell you they were worried 10 years ago.
I discovered a related problem before, while integrating with an enterprise customer/partner. Some critical software they used was erroneously signing&validating the wrong part/extent of a very security-sensitive message.

I raised the issue on my company's end, and we had to explain to the customer/partner their big problem.

> On macOS, we could reveal a surprising result: although Microsoft Office indicates that the document is protected by a signature, the signature is not validated.

I wonder whether someone discovered the incorrect digital signatures approach while working with the code on the occasion of a MacOS port/implementation, slammed the brakes on that while escalating the issue internally, a decision was made to keep it quiet, and the MacOS implementation was shipped just stubbing out the signature validation behavior (or otherwise made to always claim validation OK)?

I wonder whether these broken digital signatures were exploited in the wild. Were forged invoices paid, or banking details changed, while trusting the signature? Was a digital signature held up as evidence in legal proceedings? Are there any automated systems that rely upon the digital signatures in these documents?

> acknowledged and awarded our research with a bug bounty.

Rather than just uncomfortable conversations everyone wishes they weren't a part of... there's cake? :)
The distinctive bottle design is part of the JD trade livery. It gets used on licensed products officially endorsed by them. It does create an implied approval when others copy the design.
this is Reddit, they only hire junior devs.
Love this. I've been exploring (literally in the first few days) writing my own ActivityPub aggregator/client. I'm using similar motivations as this. Ie i want it to be stupidly easy to self host and allow for features that may not scale well to hundreds of thousands or millions of users.

To me that's one area where some ActivityPub implementations fail. They take not-insignificant startup costs and that friction makes it less fun to self host.

I feel like in a "fun" implementation you could spin it up on a $5/m VPS, plus a domain so if you're lean maybe $15 startup (domain + vps) with ~$6 monthly costs. That's filesystem storage with no persistent backup but rsync could get you a long way if you're trying to remain cheap. Plus the app could help you backup, offer encrypted backups to let the community help, etc.

I know i know, ActivityPub suffers for small instances. It's an area i want to explore, and explore ways to augment the spec or go around it for efficiency.

Regardless, i think we need to get more into these micro worlds. Yea, you could argue ActivityPub is not micro if it still connects everyone. I'm speaking micro in the sense of the "old web" though, where lots of independent websites formed a network of content, backlinking, etc. Tooling to embrace that, propagate, etc seems useful to me - but keeping micro also seems essential, to me.
It boggles my mind that anyone stages a conference in San Francisco given that every other city in the U.S. is much more welcoming and wants their business.

They are free to pack the convention district with homeless people until it is standing room only (do they treat them as harshly in residential districts as they treat anyone who builds housing?) but the rest of us will vote with our feet.
I use https://raddle.me/ but it's small for now. They seem to have a much better approach to moderation at least but the API is lackluster, but it's open source so hopefully it should improve
This didn't get enough exposure
EU deal paves way for gig economy workers to receive greater protection
Yeah, I had a 4 digit user id. Getting old is weird.
Not a pro but I'd like to point how that privsec is part of the PrivacyGuides/GrapheneOS mob. I don't want to put them down in any way but that group causes a lot of drama. They are
Tommy_Tran/B0risGrishenko and moderator of r/PrivacyGuides.

Accusations have been made about them and by them regarding other privacy advocates. None of that has anything to do with the quality of the post, but all sides of that drama seem to be very stubborn and immature when it comes to criticism which is a red flag in my book and takes all credibility away from them and suggestion they would make.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zume

I think they didn't really know what they were doing but must have been very good at pitching VCs.
The conceit being that people approach some games "like work", but not others. I don't think that's true. No matter "the mindset" some games will feel more like work than others, in the eye of the beholder.
Scratchapixel 3.0 – Introduction to the world of computer graphics
> We could be working 15-hour weeks, enjoying our free time, and living like people of the future. Matt Gallagher asks: Why aren’t we?

Simple, two reasons: 1) world wide living standards are the highest they've been despite what click-bait negativity would want you to believe. 2) people want MORE and are willing to compete for it.

If we go back to living standards from 100 years ago (life expectancy, poverty levels, human rights, etc) and nobody wants to compete for more than that, sure, we can have 15 hours work weeks and all the leisure in the world.
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> >With a great amount of discipline, Perl scripts can be successfully scaled up into large, complex systems.

> History shows different. Perl was never designed for this.

I beg to differ - after all, what was Perl 5 about? Adding objects and modules were features only needed for large programs. Just looking at CPAN shows numerous modules of significant size and complexity.
Connect to Matrix from your favorite IRC client
> People still have access to analogue amplifiers but digital simulations of them are still developed.

That's because analog stuff requires hardware. There's "something to simulate". You don't simulate digital computers, perhaps you "emulate" them.

More generally, analog stuff is really different from digital stuff. Some "audiophiles" argue about which lossless compression algorithm applied to .wav files gives the best sound, but we know it's just bits. Bits are fungible. By contrast, you can never make a perfect copy of something analog (you can often make a copy that's indistinguishable for all purposes that matter, but there's still a difference). People still make and buy LPs, the sales are increasing. I don't expect that to ever happen for CDs, unless perhaps combined with scratching or otherwise damaging them on purpose.

Of course, nostalgia goes beyond such mundane distinctions, which gives rise to thingsike pixel art. But there's still nothing to simulate there.
Largely agreed. A total regression view is inaccurate and foolish. Plenty of people had shit lives before industrialization and plenty of good lives were cut short.

We can't just assume "the past is better." That's wrong in many ways. However, when we look at our lives today, we can see things that are not good, and we can find ways that those things could be good. Many solutions can come from the past. Connection to our communities and investment in our environment seem to have real benefits for us an individuals, besides the systemic benefits.
I use reddit daily, am constantly refreshing certain subreddits. Fwiw I use new reddit but I have all fancy settings disabled so it looks and works like old.reddit. I also use the iOS app daily. I’m also on the US West coast fwiw. And no reddit premium or anything like that. I literally never have outages or “You broke reddit” or stuff like that.

Edit: I wonder if it’s because all the subreddits I’m on are low or medium traffic. I’ve unsubscribed from the front page and /r/all and tend to only read niche subs.
As others have said, it's Slashdot - which got it's name from trying to spell out the web address over the phone. Silly and confusing...

h..t..t..p..colon..slash..slash..slashdot..dot..org

When you see "Hacker News Hug" on here (recently due to Cloudflare's issues) or Reddit's "Hug of Death", the original was "Slashdotted", when tech people hosted personal sites on their _own_ home DSL (even Dial-up via Dynamic DNS!) connections. These asynchronous connections had terrible upload speed by design.

If their webpage hit the front news of Slashdot, their upload bandwidth very quickly ran out due to the torrent of traffic!
It always surprises me that a VC that has backed multiple tech unicorns can't run a scalable web site.
I assembled one your kits last week. Working great! I used to discover a flapper on the stove exhaust vent was stuck closed. It only took 5min to fix and the PM2.5 improved 10x.
Poster has a good point. There are all sorts of corporate cultures, but the previous poster is right too, there are many big corps where upper management is hyper competent to an extent most muggles, me included, find it hard to fathom. That doesn't make them infallible at all, but just being able to operate at that level even slightly is shockingly demanding.
maybe try using phind.com, not exactly the same but LLM infused search can have similar results, since it was trained on a lot of Reddit data.
> By comparison a cryptographic erase takes just a couple of seconds.

Wasn't there an in-depth analysis a while back of (drive) vendor provided encryption, with the end result being that they were pretty shitty implementation that shouldn't be trusted?
If a foreign power wanted to amplify chaos online, this seems like an easy pre-scheduled time to do it?

But more likely just kids with endless hacked IoT available to DDoS whatever they feel like.

Before IPv6 there were "internet weather" services, are they still around?
Two lines in Paris, soon to be six.
I'd like to make it perfectly clear that I'm 100% fine with people not wanting to have kids. I also think people who aren't fine with it suck. Let people do whatever if it doesn't hurt anyone, obviously.

What I object to is the suggestion "just don't have kids" is a viable political path forward on the question of the environment. It isn't a viable path of any kind, political or otherwise.
In particular, if the data doesn't belong to the hosting organization, but their clients, they probably have to consider it highly sensitive.
Not 3 years ago.
The page has changed over the years, there used to be a much more apologetic version "Reddit broke (sorry)" https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit/commit/4778b17e939e...

So they actually made the intentional decision to change it back to the much more accusatory "you broke it", I'm not sure exactly when that occurred but I suspect it was roughly the time spez took over.
Same. Although having a 4-digit ID even 20+ years ago was something of an oddity based on my interactions with local Slashdot meetups at the time.
Is there any tech-oriented forum that isn't largely cynical and negative?

Is there any social media that isn't largely cynical and negative?

I also notice how my mindset changes when I don't visit, which really just makes me think I should stop engaging in 90% of online discourse and discussion.
Usually people mean by rewireing changes in nerve connectivity, things related to hepian learning or changes to the actual brain matter that could relate to connectivity. Some of those things you see when putting the brain into a slicer and build up a z stacked volume.

I have never heard short term memory related things mentioned in the same context.

Transition to more permanent forms of memory is most likely related to changes in connectivity, but I am not an expert on memory.

Few substances are so drastic, that a single dose causes visible changes on that level,
meaning changes you can see in brain matter.

Cocaine is one, at least for rats.

In humans crack allegedly is worse. I recommend reading "Freeway" Rick Ross retelling of what convinced him to get into the trade ( his test subject came back looking for more after a single dose …).

Maybe I should condense what I actually mean:
WITH CRACK IT’S NOT THE CAGE.
I suppose this is at the top of HN as CloudFlare is quickly become a centralized point of failure for big parts of the internet, even without counting the CDN, so large swaths are affected regardless if it's just a "minor" outage or not. Hence it's interesting enough to land at the top.
It's easy to prove, this is the code change that added the moderator invitation system: https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit/commit/db7b531a7180...
Pretty cool. If thats all they offer though, there will at least be mods that will let you dial in usage by the percent one day I bet.
This is annoying, how can they know we aren't using it when it's down.
That's my plan. Most of the subs I visit on Reddit still have large and active forum alternatives that I'll just return to.

There's only a few niche subs that will be hard to replace for me, but they're talking about moving.
The same city actually (by chance more than anything).
SimCity Creator DS was this exactly! You’d even progress from pre-historic times to the post-global warming era.

Highly suggest playing the game on an emulator sometime.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=41itb8Sg_IE&pp=ygUSU2luY2l0eSB...
Looks like it is AWS. Given the fact that both Reddit and HN (and Apple, which is also experiencing issues) are on AWS, it looks suspicious.

Also, new account creation in HN is broken at the moment.
Yeah, I'm also US West Coast and I only ever use old.reddit or BaconReader. The Reddit Status Twitter and number of people responding to you confirm this isn't an isolated incident, though.
> Check out an app called Artifact, if you're looking for that infinite scroll on published articles relevant to you.

Artifact is interesting, but it's an alternative to something like Google News or Apple News vs. a Reddit substitute.
Until recently, most mobile workstations had three button touchpads.

The HP ZBook Fury 16 is the only model left from a major vendor that has a three button touchpad.
Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
Yeah, the handling was not great but sadly I'm not really sure if the population was ready for detailed debate, considering that a good chunk of it ended up misunderstanding most of the official notices and falling for the most stupid conspiracy theories.

We need to improve education, by A LOT. And it's everyone responsibility.
I keep a devlog file. It's where most of my development related things go.

I use it as a scratchpad as I do pretty much anything. If it gets too large, I move it into my "log" directory and start anew.

I also keep a more synthesized "notes" folder.
You're making quite a leap to go from "This company should be sustainable" -> "Every terrible decision they make to that end should be endorsed".

There are good and bad ways to make money and Reddit is making a lot of terrible decisions lately.
I learned Perl without any math or computer science background. My highest math class was intro to trig. I think I remember the gist of the Pythagorean Theorem. I put myself through school making money writing free software (I can't sell water in the desert, either). But Perl made enough sense to get some work done, after reading a few O'Reilly books. Strings in, strings out - made sense.

That was a good, "Why Perl?" for me. YMMV.
Democratically voted mods will never work for any moderately sized forum. The problem is the forums would be brigaded by terminally online “interest groups.”

See how the alt right infiltrates gaming groups. The reasonable voices are outnumbered and taken over.
I guess it is what the other comment mentioned:

> what they've actually got at the moment is two languages glued together, where one of the languages will "unlock performance" and the other language is literally the CPython interpreter.
Yep - was barely scraping by it felt like, while in a coastal city. After we had kids, it was way worse. We moved inland, bought a house, and can afford an in-home nanny. It feels closer to what the cumulative household income we have is supposed to feel like.

I think it was always supposed to be "work hard, adapt, and you'll have a good life." This is out of reach for many, certainly, but it's not so far out of reach that a BLS.gov average tech salary can't live comfortably.

I'm always reminded of my sister in law who, with her husband, has a 5 bedroom house, two kids, brand new cars, hunting land, and a family lake cabin ... off a teacher and electrician salary. Her father has even more and sold cattle feed. The secret sauce was location. They live in southern Minnesota and never bothered to chase the coastal dream.
Lots of comments about Avro Arrow here lool. As a Canadian, I'm both proud and saddened by the fact that although we have elite engineering talent, that talent tends to be drained to the US.

Side note, just a couple decades after the Arrow, Canadian researchers once again lead the world, but this time in the field of AI, specifically deep learning. However, what happened after that? Google hired Geoffrey Hinton, and the industrial might of the US took over.

Perhaps this is inevitable given that we are much weaker economically compared to the US.

However, one last thought is that, aerospace vs software is not the same. For aerospace, yea I think you need a giant super power of a nation to keep it alive. However, software can be built by one guy in a garage. I'm not sure why Canada just let its dominance in AI "slip away".

Also side side note about Avro Arrow, is it just a weird naming coincidence that the two Apache projects exists: Avro and Arrow? I think Avro is named after the original British Avro company. However, I don't think Arrow has anything to do with aviation.
What happens to us is out of our control, what we have is out of our control, it's pointless for one to concern himself with what he doesn't have. It's self-evident that the most one person can do is all that person can do, and it seems reasonable that the highest ideal a person can aim for is doing all they can do. Our lives are what we do, it's everything we do. Luck doesn't control our lives, we do.
This matches the spirit of Getting Things Done's "Inbox" quite well. The goal is to minimize friction for recording thoughts/ideas/todos that come into your head. You write them down and into the Inbox they go, to be sorted/dealt with at some later time.
Well, you say that a large part of the internet are using Cloudflare then by that measure, they are The Internet, together with all the rest of the services who are also The Internet.
Dunno if you've been to a farm stand before but the prices are generally in line with grocery store prices for regular fruit.
11th gen Intel isn't some ancient PC, it released in 2021, before the M1 that user compared it to. Don't be disingenuous.
I don't know how accurate or up-to-date this list is, but it seems like a reasonable place to start.

It's an attempt at mapping subreddits to places in the fediverse.

https://browse.feddit.de/
https://www.reddit.com/r/dankmemes/comments/1477psa/all_3_ar...

>Back in the day, you used to be able to add anyone as a moderator and it auto accepted.

>People would make shitty subs and add people, take a screenshot, shut down the sun or make private, then use that screenshot to start a witch hunt. Violentacrez could have added you as a mod of the sub and you'd be in the same situation.

>TL:DR I used to mod a sub with Barack Obama and Snoop Dogg.
And it would in turn be worth noting that the creators of reddit had a philosophical and political commitment to free speech that drove their light-touch approach to moderation. It's not like the existence of that subreddit is evidence of an endorsement on their part.
> Eh? Python backward compatibility is excellent.

Sure, so long as one wilfully ignores the 2.x to 3.x transition, that took 10 years. To be clear, to presume Python starts at version 3.3 is slightly weird, but we get it... One good example here is when pip stopped working for old python-2.x.

> Most Python 3.3 scripts still run on 3.11.

I would agree python forward compatibility is pretty good, but not so sure about backwards compatibility.

When the walrus operator first appeared, there was a period of time where scripts began using the new feature, and the version of the python interpreter used in all the places that script needed to run. Same thing for type annotations. And there have been plenty of breaking module changes.

> Packaging is another story, but we're talking about scripting, not distributing software.

That's fair, but avoids a big aspect of the problem statement, of when Python updates.
I'm going to disagree that "the world is way better". Don't get me wrong, there's been progress, but there's also a lot of ways it's objectively worse.

+ Significantly more income inequality than 20+ years ago

+ Stagnated wages relative to inflation for much more than 20+ years

+ Economic mobility is significantly worse

+ The education system is in worse shape than 20+ years ago

+ Higher education is more costly, and no longer improves prospects of gainful employment nor additional earning potential

+ Health insurance costs that significantly outpace inflation

+ Kids today will be living under a surveillance state from day 1

Yes, technology has advanced, and some social issues have made progress, but others have had significant setbacks (rollback of Roe v Wade, uptick in far right ideologies).