skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My parents used the search to find documents on the local system. Now it defaults to searching the interent. Event more insane is now the 'close' button location has a button that opens your search in the Edge browser, where my parents still try searching for local documents. Getting lost ... so many levels deep.
You had 50 cars til now? What are you doing to those cars? Driving not longer than a year?
Are you talking about the difference between proximal and ultimate causes? As in the proximal cause of these people dying was an explosion from a bomb set by Kaczynski, while the ultimate cause was that the things that caused Kaczynski's poor mental health that led him to those actions.

Separately I like the phrase "a reason is not an excuse" quite a lot. I can empathise with people who make terrible decisions and understand their reasoning, but that doesn't make me excuse the choices that they made.
> In the nineteen-twenties, dowry payments occurred in about a third of marriages. By 2008, they were near-universal in rural areas, and many regions had seen alarming rates of dowry inflation.

> The expansion of dowry coincides with other worrying changes. Rates of sex-selective abortion appear to have increased in almost all states between 1981 and 2016, especially among wealthy and educated women.

> The payment of dowry, which was expected to die out with modernization, provides a telling example. In Europe, marriage payments mostly disappeared with industrialization

Abortion/family planning for the wealthy and sophisticated, dowry for the poor. National and international. Highly industrialized countries no longer need as many children to work the farm, since they can exploit their colonies and machines. Poorer countries have an extra incentive to create male dominated jobs as human farm/factory equipment foisted on their economy that traditional structures become ugly as they bear. Exploited men exploit women. Being exploited may be lucrative way to make USD, but it's not good for your culture.

There definitely are better and worse among traditional system of inheritance/dowry/brideprice, but I don't feel like dowry is the main thing at play here.
CMU Team Develops Autonomous Robot to Stave Off Spotted Lanternflies
One piece of feedback: I’d prefer to have typing just overwrite spaces that are already filled.

Not sure how others feel, but I like to just type the word normally, instead of having to skip characters. I also don’t like having to manually erase letters when entering overlapping words.
The alpha dev post claims 1.7% improvement on large sequences (250k+)
Jack Dorsey on RFK Jr. Elon Musk, AI Regulation
I am very excited for the front display to be jailbroken (assuming that’s needed) to display other more creative imagery, a la snap chat.
What does that really accomplish? Reddit mods are often bad enough as is, imagine what Reddit scab mods would be like.

It would also be a huge invitation for the displaced the rest to make life unbearable for those new mods and the handful of admins overseeing them. Reddit as a community would make for one hell of an intellectual DDOS.
C and C++ projects of any notably complexity & size often suffer from those exact same kind of "library or build tool or compiler updated—now the project won't build" problems. Absent some pretty heroic & unusual levels of discipline from all involved, anyway (which is also a way to avoid those issues in most other languages that have them).

[EDIT] Check out issue trackers for such projects, some time. "Build broke due to [thing] being too new" is a routine issue to encounter.
>UK outside of London is poorer than a random Eastern European country

Yeah that's true, I think a lot of people in the US don't understand this at all. Everything British seems fancy and expensive, and we assume they all live like Londoners.

But you are right that wages are not going to be great in Scotland or northern England. But a great strategy that works well in the US, and I suspect would work well in the UK, is to just spend a few years living as cheaply as possible in a big city like London. Hoard as much money as possible, then take that and buy a house in a cheaper area.

In the US it is possible to live in a place like San Francisco for a few years, and if you live with roommates and don't fall for all the trappings that Californians go for (like ordering DoorDash every day or buying Teslas), you can easily save enough to buy a house for cash in a cheaper area. This strategy even works for tradespeople like plumbers/carpenters.

Once you own a house outright, most other things are relatively cheap living on local wages and you can live any kind of life you want.
“Clearly predatory”: Western Digital sparks panic, anger for age-shaming HDDs
I was about to laugh this away—only to realize that my brother-in-law is one of those people.
It can be a mix of all sorts of cases. Sometimes the expectation is for it to be paid by marriage, but, especially for daughters of wealthier families it has also been a common thing to marry and then use the marriage as leverage because divorces are also often blamed on the woman.
Aren't there copyright concerns involved?

When I'm publishing an image, I invest some time into presenting it just as I intend it to be seen, including the orchestration of sharpness. My intent that this is exactly what I want to arrive at the user and is to be seen is expressed and enforced by HTTPS encryption. And now MS circumvents this in order to apply whatever filtering they think may suit best, thus exchanging the content behind the scenes? Moreover, doesn't this involve breaking protective encryption? (Maybe not in a strict technical sense, but still.)
I personally believe they will wait to see which ones remain shuttered. 48 hours is not very long to wait to maintain your free civilian labor.

After that, they'll definitely reclaim the shuttered subreddits with new moderators.
How about doing this _instead_ of paying out to the creators? When you sign up, you choose which charity should get the payouts for your created content?
Maybe start with a searchable list of well-known charities, let users propose new as the site grows.

I think that might stem a lot of the potential abuse of the system to earn money, and it gives users a good feeling.
A lot of the ecosystem is written in TypeScript (heavy on structural typing). Last I've checked OCaml still doesn't have substructural row polymorphism or set theoretic types, so this seems to be a futile endeavor until underlying fundamentals in its type system are addressed.

Elm & PureScript I believe solved this problem.
You assume that complying with social norms attracts the most brilliant/informed people.
It's perfectly clear to me. Little scope for confusion IMO.
Chrysler did it better:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjUvBxvVQNk
US has friends, so it wouldn't happen.
But it's complaining about one language's SDK, not the core functionality, which is the data insertion and search API.

Elastics core functionality is good. This is just complaining about how it's not well abstracted.

I can't even count how many clients I've used over the years that are annoying to use. Hardly seems very notable.

The funny thing is I've always found elastics API really easy to use.
Children don't need "historical honesty". They need simple tales that help them understand the world around them and spark their imagination. No one is saying to burn all 20th century prints of Dahl books, but I don't really understand why the stories can't be tweaked a little to more aligned with the world we live in now.

I can't find much reason to alter Agatha Christie or Ian Fleming though, since those books are intended for adults.
> PGA TOUR (18%)

so they are still selling out to Saudi Arabia
It's interesting to think about how quickly it becomes hard to verify or disprove things.

The evidence appears to be on the side of "no, he did not" but in a generation or two, if there's a published book claiming he did and just some articles and ephemera of a small group of scholars that don't believe it... it's doubtful that the contradictory evidence will be as easy to find in archives as the book itself.

Makes me wonder about internet preservation attempts. In this case, the "he didn't" evidence seems to be less available to any future researchers than the "he did" claim in the published book. But is that the general trend, or will generally preserving online discussions dis-proportionally preserve erroneous, non-verified information compared to preserving published books? I'm generally in the camp of "let the internet be forgotten, like how most conversations have always been forgotten" but this is a curious counter-case. Perhaps if all the people he claimed to talk with had more online footprints, it would be easier to disprove the claims. Or perhaps it would in the future enable someone to make an even more convincing fraud - GPT to generate fake conversations in their actual voice; publicy-available date- and geo-stamped information about travels, all details that could be used to slide yourself into their story.
I may be misremembering my ancient history here but didn’t Homo Sapiens arguably almost go extinct during the last ice age?

As a related digression I think what people just keep forgetting about here isn’t like, we’ll survive. It’s we have all this nice stuff like avocados, grapes, heart surgery, and MacBook Pros, elephants, winter sports, houses, etc. and it sure would be nice to not lose that stuff for no good reason only to say “we’ll see we didn’t go extinct it wasn’t that bad”.

The apparently abrupt changes the unnecessary lives lost, and what could be damaged or lost forever are what’s of concern. Less so just survivability.
the cynic in me says, they're being DDOSd (I mean, they pissed off millions of internet nerds who have their own definition of justice), and instead of admitting it they're using the opportunity to blame the subreddit mods.

then again, not sure why that messaging would be any better for them than admitting to a DDOS...
Doesn't sound promising to me. Pretty sure that the "real" path to success involves putting 100% in, to the point of artificially seeding the posts and comments for weeks/months. "Social" means already having an enticing place for people, whether you make it or fake it. You sound like you've already given up and are done with the project. Referencing wikimedia is putting the cart before the horse, that's fine when you already have millions of views and sweet sweet non-profit cash, but getting there is the hard part.

TL:DR site is ok, will to win is not there
I'll be plunking down 3,500 if it lets me sleep through meetings.
Option b would work so well this month. Hundreds of thousands of motivated users and moderators just waiting for that better option.
>walled gardens

This is marketing speak. Do not call it walled gardens. Called it curated, fixed, whatever.

Gardens have delicious fruits, vegetables, and beautiful flowers. It creates a positive emotional spin on what is otherwise something bad for consumers.
It's absolutely not for everyone, but I think the anonymous nature makes it so low stakes it's trivially easy for me to just not care, not engage. You can just ignore things you don't like!
Look at the vitriol that YouTube premium gets. I get it there are a lot of people that know how to have an ad free YouTube without paying. I don't like that some basic app features like background video playing are locked behind premium.

But at the end of the day the I am sure that for a large portion of people complaining they spent the majority of their video watching time watching YouTube. If it's not worth it to you to pay the equivalent of a big mac meal month to get rid of ads that's fine but don't act all morally superior to those that do.
> You have a “blue collar” layer where bytes and bits get shuffled around and hands get dirty and a “white collar” layer where programmers pretend the world is made of legos and there’s no need to get your hands dirty to write programs.

Nope.

The analogy you came up with is interesting, but although there is some overlap, it doesn't really capture the distinction and is the reason why you're not understanding the bit I wrote about connection languages and component languages.

You can have a component language that is just as "white collar" as the connection language. And you can (probably) have a connection language that is quite blue collar, although that might be a bit harder.

The reason I find your analogy interesting is that despite actually not capturing what is there, it does seem to capture how many people (erroneously) view and use the distinction between connection and component languages.

Objective-C added Smalltalk as a connection language, a language for plugging together the Software ICs you would write in C. See, for example https://blog.metaobject.com/2019/01/swifter-sieving-of-prime... It did not add Smalltalk as a "white collar" language that didn't need to get its hands dirty, and it didn't have the facilities to do that. Over time, people discovered that the connection language was in many ways more convenient to use, and so did what you describe, use it as a "higher level", more "white collar" language. But once again, that was an abuse of the language, it wasn't made for that and, due to not being made for it, it wasn't very good at it. Even after they added some facilities to make that use-case more possible.
I urge you to focus both on reading comprehension, where "an example" is not the same as "a view", and on effective communication, where words don't just mean anything, they have well-known meanings distinct from their opposites.
Being a source for LLM's gives the platform relevance. Reddit are happier for openAi to make trillions off their data than for a 3rd party reader to make 0.99c
Interesting. Do you know why? I've only ever tried launching nested instances of Sway (the compositor I use) which each use their own sockets and render as a client to the parent compositor and that worked fine. Does it have something to do with rendering to a real display?
> If he can get 50k paying users, he's a millionaire.

How did you reach that conclusion?
I misunderstood. Yes, that's not ok
That makes sense to me. It would be one variant of a larger theory of "a subreddit going private is an expensive process that is poorly optimized because it's normally so rare". Another variant would be that clicking the "go private" button might do something like start a huge cascade of queries/calls to mutate the status of individual posts and comments (and possibly hence also trigger the massive cache invalidation you mentioned). Possibly also "going private" infra, whatever it is, is some bespoke snowflake that doesn't autoscale (since it's never needed to and there was always something better to be doing with engineering time, or people just forgot).

One theory I have seen floated but which seems unlikely to me is that this was some kind of internal sabotage. I could maybe buy this if the protest was about a war or human rights issue or something, but I really don't think any IT pros would be willing to risk jail time for this one.
One thing that steuck me as odd, and out right bizarre, was reading some English language newspaper in Delhi like a decade ago. My assumption, as a liberal European, was a) an English language paper most likely was read by more educated people and b) youth problems, I come to that, are more or less the same. The odd thing so was a whole bunch of readers letters, in a kind of advice collum of sorts, around the question of what to do if your parents haven't found a marriage partner for you yet! I, maybe naively, expected the problem to be the opposite. My impression was, that the younger generation seemed to more conservative regarding arranged marriages then their parents. I might be mistaken so. Back then I made a comment about how us Europeans have a probpem with arranged marriages in the Muslim world, but upheld, at the time, India as this huge, free democracy. And I made a mental note about cultural differences.

I do wonder so, what this does with the people involved. Marriage is hard enough sometimes, and yes feelings don't make it easier, but spending your whole life with a person you don't love or care about sounds horrible. As does being kind of forced to spend your live alone, if that is not your choosing.
>The disclosure by MOFCOM on April 8, 2014 is a direct result of Microsoft’s acquisition of Nokia’s mobile handset unit as that deal required approval by the Anti-Monopoly Bureau of MOFCOM. The disclosed lists were part of the antitrust review.

>Of the two lists of Microsoft patents disclosed by MOFCOM2, one was a list of 310 patents which included 73 "standard-essential” patents (SEPs) for smartphones; 127 patents which are “implemented in Android”; and 110 “nonstandard-essential” patents and applications (non-SEPs). This list is referred to as Annex “B” by Microsoft.3 The second list is identical to the non-SEP set minus one issued patent, U.S. Patent No.7,111,039. This list is referred to as Annex “A”.

https://www.m-cam.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/patently_ob...
Great comment, Reddit can't resume fast enough.
Well, the analogy is incorrect, so yes, it doesn't fit. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
In my experience it's ethics, environment and health reasons, people don't turn vegan for lack of money.

https://thevou.com/lifestyle/how-many-vegans-are-in-the-worl...
Obviously an young journalist does.
>what it would take to get German energy consumption up to a better level

That's a good question. Prices are a good start. Consumer prices seem to be twice in G as in the US. Don't know where you get the "wholesale price is 4x in G". Most of what I can find is that wholesale is usually pretty close.

My guess of what G could do to increase consumption and thus moneys:

- Lower prices (duh). End user power is taxed heavily to subsidize industry power

- Remove mandatory energy labels on all electronics. Who really needs to know how much a TV or fridge is going to consume in power?

- Mandate "power-included" in rents. If you pay a fixed sum, you might as well leave the fridge open to cool the kitchen

- Mandate central heating and cooling. If you only pay a share of what you consume, might as well go full blast on everything

- stop subsidizing energy efficiency for new single and multi-tenant homes.

- stop building solid houses. Plywood walls are fine

Nice comparison on power prices:
https://www.iea.org/reports/electricity-market-report-decemb...
While I do agree that Reddit probably doesn't care, the ad endpoint approach is harder to implement than one would imagine.

Normally ads have strict requirements for the placement (show one ad every x amount of posts), which would be hard to enforce across all 3rd party clients. Not to mention that they might be targeted towards the user, measure exposure time, and record interactions. I think the only way to do this is having some sort of SDK, but they probably determined that the cost would be too high.
I still prefer good old fashioned plain HTML. If you want an app, write an app. Keep the web HTML and accessible to author by anyone rather than require one become a programmer of someone's proprietary scripting language.
Engineers are famously over-represented amongst terrorists, so probably.

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/12/magazine/12FOB-IdeaLab-t....
So tired of these 'expert says'. Peer reviewed double blind studies is what we need
You really need to reevaluate where a lot of the tooling and focus is on by the community. It's a ton of porn and 4chan is really big in the space and absolutely creates some of the best content.
Hey ssss11! The data is sent to the server and stored there too (for backup and syncing). The key difference between most journaling apps and the reason why Journe is truly private is the Client-side Encryption with AES-256.

Your journal entries are encrypted in the browser before anything is sent to the server. Because of this, the server or myself physically cannot access or decrypt your data. It's a similar approach used by a lot of Password Managers (1Password, Remembear, etc.).

Hope that helps explain!
There's this paradox where, on the one hand humanity is convinced it can overcome any problem nature throws at us, and can completely subjugate nature; and on the other hand, human beings are tragically grossly understimating the impact of their actions on their environment.

This is really what stands out to me when people on HN suggest that global warming is totally solvable with just enough technological innovation. The sad truth, and what this article is really driving home, is that while we're waiting for a deus ex machina, we continue to trash our planet, as if we can just move to Mars or something when earth is done.

I'm quite skeptical about the whole "collapse of industrial civilisation" schtick, but I am worried, most of all for my children and their generation.
>Apple didn't invest in web because their ecosystem is already their walled garden.

Can see why they didn't invest in web when they didn't want linking to work in apps on the iPad, except in specific cases:

https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1667990407085711360
Good question! And few people get to work at this scale, so it's not an unreasonable guess. I'll join you in speculating wildly about this, since, hey, it's kind of fun.

IMHO sharding traffic by subreddit doesn't pass the smell-test, though. Different subreddits have very different traffic patterns, so the system would likely end up with hotspots continuously popping up, and it'd probably be toilsome to constantly babysit hot shards and rebalance. (Consider some of the more academic subreddits vs. some of the more meme-driven subreddits — and then consider what happens when e.g. a particular subreddit takes off, or goes cold.)

Sharding on a dimension that has a more random/uniform distribution is usually the way to go. Off the top of my head (still speculating wildly and basically doing a 5-minute version of the system-design question just for fun), I'd be curious to shard by a hash of the post ID, or something like that. The trick is always to have a hashing algorithm that's stable when it's time to grow the number of shards (otherwise you're kicking off a whole re-balancing every time), and of course I'm too lazy to sort that out in this comment. I vaguely remember the Instagram team had a really cool sharding approach that they blogged about in this vein. (This would've been pre-acquisition, so ancient history by Silicon Valley standards.)

As for subreddit metadata (public, private, whatever), I'd really expect all of that to be in a global cache at this point. It's read-often/write-rarely data, and close-to-realtime cache-invalidation when it does change is a straightforward and solved problem.
What happens if the mods were to coordinate cycling subs from private to public?