skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I do not see how an ecosystem where the groups you can join depends on the instance you join is much better than just having every group hosting a phpBB forum somewhere.

Because those phpBB forums can merge together and form federations. phpBB forum#1 may only have 4-moderators (aka: Beehaw.org) and cannot handle high-traffic major.site.com. But maybe phpBB forum#2 (with very high traffic) can welcome forum#1 as visitors and posters.

> The value in reddit was that it provided a 'single pane of glass' for all your interests.

Yeah but its bullshit. It clearly doesn't work. Not necessarily because of the API-changes, but Reddit has troll-factories, subreddit invasions, and other such messes that require constant administrator support to keep things smooth.

Federation grants new tools to solve these problems. If you've never come across these problems, don't worry, I'm sure you'll see it eventually if you ever become a moderator somewhere.

I recognize that #RedditBlackout is about the API changes. But there's plenty else wrong with Reddit that I'm curious about these new tools being discussed. I'm not doing this because of the Blackout, I'm doing this cause I'm curious.
Chrome also decides what CAs they will accept in Chrome in the first place, so CT doesn’t give them any extra monopoly levers.
Twitch streamer's stalker travels 700 miles to burn her car
I think what's going to happen with Reddit is people won't drop it for Lemmy but people will use both in parallel and eventually the more engaged / interesting users will leave reddit, and it will be over.
Related:

List of Tox clients:

https://tox.chat/clients.html

What is Tox?

https://tox.chat/about.html

Tox library source code:

https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore

(Note that I am not interested in the security/cryptography aspects of Tox (if it is indeed secure -- which is questionable/unproven to me at this point in time) -- I am interested in the ability to write Chat/Voice/Video apps around the library (basically apps like Skype, Signal, etc.) To that purpose, Tox (and the tox clients) provide an interesting and potentially very useful source code base...)
The most interesting thing I saw in that article was the rotating air heater. Induce turbulence and shock waves in air and heat to very high temperature, without having a resistive heating element that has to be at least that hot.

If you are going with electrical energy -> heat, you can get energy storage for free. It's much cheaper to store a kWh of high grade heat as sensible heat than it is to store a kWh of electrical energy in a battery. So electrification of cement production will be able to act as a large amount of dispatchable demand, simply by tacking on a heat store.
Twitter evicted from office amid lawsuits over unpaid rent and cleaning bills
Some years ago there was the option to remove a domain from search results (I don’t remember if it was a default or an option).
Google removed it without giving a reason. I assume that it was not working as expected.

But the web has changed in these years. It would be interesting to have it again.
Ok, I've done that, but it involved switching away from my tab on lemmyverse.net, going to lemmy.world in a different tab, and manually searching for what I found on lemmyverse. Is there an intended workflow that involves clicking something on a result I see on lemmyverse.net?

edit: i've just now noticed that I can click the label under the title to copy the text that I can then paste into lemmy.world search.

There should be something like a chrome extension that captures lemmy links and redirects them to the lemmy instance that i have an account on.
"Scientists have finally decoded the meaning of the homo naledi engravings... they say the best translation is: 'This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here.'"

(IE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuclear_waste_warnin... version of your 300K BC biohazard sigil)
I still think $6B falls into "insane", but that's my unqualified opinion, so it may not be correct.

That said, I also don't think they're willing to accept the idea that even $6B might be high, so I don't think anyone would be successful with a meaningfully lower offer.
been getting the same obvious CVS spam email message like crazy
Ask HN: Best search engine alternatives to Google?
I find Google amazing for some kinds of queries, such as directly answering simple factual questions or finding content within a defined domain.

However, for a lot of things it's quite bad. If I want to find a good website for some use-case (as opposed to directly finding information inside a page), or if I want anything where there might be a commercial interest in ~~lying~~ advertising to me, Google is truly awful.

It's also, obviously, very bad for privacy.

Surely there are a bunch of interesting new search engines popping up given the recent deep learning explosion? What interesting alternatives have you discovered?
Best shaving cream reddit
Tehran was great, I guess I should give the other series you mention a watch.
The Homoninid family tree has gotten fairly confusing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ape#Changes_in_taxonomy_and_te...

You will often see mention of Hominin (Homo and Pan (chimpanzees), I think) as well, where you would have once heard Hominid.
...aaaand it's down already

I love the idea of a fediverse but I am not sure how it can possibly scale up to large communities. As long as people have to spin up their own node to host one, it seems forever limited to small groups of not more than perhaps a few hundreds users.
I became a fan of American politics by reading reddit...

Then, I stopped watching the walking dead
Most important, the US federal poverty level of $14.5k is 2.5x the Russian median income.

Also, the Russian poverty rate is 12%. The poverty level is $2200.
> Are bad results actually good for google in some perverse ad-based way?

Not when you frame it like that.

But I always google when I need to buy something.

And when I search for anything non-commercial, I use a private search engine.

Google is good for search results which generate money, e.g. when you intend to buy things.
Deploy Livebook Notebooks as Apps to Hugging Face Spaces
I'm trying to write a book and researching some niche old stuff and trying to extract info from 90s websites (some of the websites are dead and I don't know how to search Internet Archives), and Google Search is becoming hopeless, so I've been switching to yandex.com to find stuff.

Even Google Image Search is terrible now and I use TinEye.com and yandex.com for that. I should probably try Bing more as well.
It seemed to make every point that had ever been injured hurt for like, an hour, starting within within minutes. I also heard plenty of stories of a lot worse injuries....

Almost everyone I know who plays the "heavier" sports, or lifts weights more than just very casually, seems to have plenty of injury stories and they don't immediately seem to have any fewer health concerns(Although most of that is stuff that takes 20 years to see the results) compared to people who do dance or walking or swimming (Not that I can do that one, I just sink!).

They're often stronger, but it doesn't seem to actually be that helpful since they have more pain in daily life than their slightly less strong peers, and it's not like strength or endurance is ever the limiting factor in daily life for most(Flexibility sometimes is, but it doesn't seem like the most enthusiastic sports/fitness people are any more likely to have that than the more casual people).

I do know a few people who do martial arts, and those seem pretty fun and not inordinately dangerous, at least not compared to football and things like that.
> if it had more features people want

What people wanted was features to help with the migration.

Yes, that of course having those features would have helped.

But doing that required experience the Python developers didn't have when they were doing 3.0!

The Python developers thought people could do a one-off syntactic code translation (2to3), perhaps even at install time, rather than what most people did - write to the common subset of 2 and 3, with helpers like the 'six' package.

What are the "more substantial changes" you propose? The walrus operator? Matching? Other things that Python 3 eventually gained, and which took years in some cases to develop?

Or are you proposing something that would have it more difficult to write to the common subset?

That subset compatibility necessity extends to the Python/C API. Get rid of global state and you'll need to replace things like:

PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError, "embedded null character");

with something that passes in the current execution state. Make that too hard, and you inhibit migration of existing extension modules, which further inhibits the migration.
It's funny, I've seen spam sites in my web crawls that append have 'reddit' appended to the page title. I've never seen such search results appear in any search results, but points for effort.
rows and columns should be switched
If you're interested in alternate history and have a login for alternatehistory.com, there's an incomplete but moderately good write-up of exactly this.

https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/age-of-near-e...
I dunno. I have a blog with niche info, but it doesn't even show up before page 10 or whatever. But technically, it's still indexed...

Search engines lost. With ChatGPT it's about to get 10x worse.

We could switch back to manual human-curated web directories, or website link lists.
> when we decided decades of widely ccepted and intuitive access to those same functions is a "mediocre middle ground".

Nah, the software world is moving away from providing options and configurability and has been for years. I have nothing against the standard scrollbar. I have everything against people like you who think it's the optimal solution for everybody, that a single solution could ever cover all needs, and we should never have any choice in it.

> If overloading scrollbars with bloat

No, adding useful features that can be enabled/disabled by preference. Apparently that's a bad thing to you. But thanks for pushing your short-sightedness as if it's the better solution.
What's an example of a large, complex, unbattle tested view?
Don't blame the archiver who is only doing what is allowed of them by Github. If you don't want to be public don't be public. Other archivers aren't making themselves publicly known but have the data all the same.
An important matter to understand is that a power vaccum fills very quickly, and often a power vacuum is filled by the most sociopathic, brutual and ruthless people around because they are willing to do anything necessary to secure and retain power.

Many good and normal and moral people would want to self organize and self govern and build something better from the ashes of a fallen country, the problem is that those good and honest people will be manipulated, tricked, and murdered by those who are more brutal and cunning than them.
> startrek.website is a partnership between /r/StarTrek and /r/DaystromInstitute from Reddit, they’ve both locked their subs over there for good. Follow @startrek

"For good", interesting. I wonder how things will be in three months for reddit communities. I wonder what parallels can be drawn between this reddit situation, twitter/mastodon and whatsapp/signal.
I switched over to https://kagi.com a while ago and never use Google search anymore.
I wonder if GitHub repository Discussions can serve the need, since people can star individual repositories, each repository acts as its own subreddit which you subscribe to, and granular access permissions can be given to moderators etc.

You could even make the repo host a GitHub Pages dummy that just loads Giscus/retrieves the list of threads in the repository Discussions and render it with a more Reddit-like UI. Any deficiencies with the interface you can fix yourself or make a pull request to recommend changes.

You could even program moderation bots that runs via GitHub Actions etc, whatever moderation tool were lacking you can just take it into your own hands.
Hard to say, the developers of Lemmy are clearly swamped and I don't think any new moderation features like this are under development.

But lets say that Beehaw.org had the ability to only invite high-karma users (say, 500 karma) from Lemmy.world over. This would have one main effect: Bans gain teeth.

The problem that occurred last night is that brand new accounts instantly-spammed Beehaw.org. When Beehaw admins banned that account, they could instantly make a new account and continue spamming. By having a ~500 karma (or other such system) to delay the creation of new accounts into Beehaw, the admins at Beehaw.org will even the odds between the porn-spammers and their relatively instance
Thanks for posting it:)
am i the only one who finds weird the table distribution? like having the libs on the horizontal axis
How to start a smart home using Home Assistant
This is the right answer. A panic is a bug. It's always a bug.
> I don't think people are cattle and I think that is a deliberate attempt to misrepresent my position.

I'm not attempting to misrepresent you, that's just how you're coming across. You're effectively saying that people are either too lazy or not competent enough to use services that aren't packaged up and served directly to them. Hence the analogy.

> something like Reddit will always exist, regardless of the centralized corporate ownership.

Maybe, but that's not the point. You're claiming that decentralised services won't see wide spread adoption because it doesn't conform to how things work on Reddit. My point is it's narrow minded to have that mindset.
The actual arXiv link for the curious: https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.08321
> This sounds like something taken straight from https://elan.school/. Or is it the other way around?

Totalitarianism kind of tends to take the same shape no matter the initial ideology. It's kind of like how crabs keep spontaneously re-evolving across genera.

To me it sounded like the "struggle sessions" of communist China, or "sec checks" in Scientology. St. Augustine showed us that it's much easier to keep control of a population if you can infuse them with guilt and get them to police themselves (and each other). Other cults and states just applied that principle in different ways.

> I have to ask - what does the NK leadership hope to achieve here? Control? Over who - the dead?

For the Workers' Party of Korea, if the country gets run into the ground doing the right thing that beats a thriving country living outside the rules of Juche.
I maintain that the second greatest mistake the US ever made was not giving McArthur the bombs he wanted.
So ahead of the curve: effectively shut down the subreddit years ago to protest the Reddit admins, then in this recent drama temporarily reopened it to protest the Reddit mods
> a function of what builders consider profitable and what legislation allows

Change legislation (qua zoning, qua regs) and you increase the rate of builds, which should adequately meet current demand. Of course, the laws of physics are in play - if the immigration rate is high, thereby perpetually increasing demand, you still won't build fast enough.

This is what YIMBYs have to remember about Japan, which they frequently cite. The population doesn't grow much. Can't have it both ways: build, or reduce immigration.
Progress is not linear. Young communities should and do alienate low effort and disinterested parties from participating while allowing anyone sufficiently interested to participate. We will find out if federated communities work because people will try to make them work in good faith, and if the core idea is good, it will be made universally applicable. The digital soldiers that thanklessly represent the technological status quo will always concern troll anything that isn't made by one of four companies for being insufficiently popular. Their input, like all the clamors of old-guard clingers-on will wash away, and they will be left with the basement full of floppy drives they thought would last forever. And the world will continue to turn and normal people will en-masse use technology that was once dismissed as having "too much sign-up flow friction" or "cognitive load" by patagonia wearing matcha sippers: people that will fall out from the world's grace just as quickly as they entered it.
It's mandatory in the EU since PSD2 to have an extra validation step like authorising in the bank's app or via SMS.
I'd call $0.18 for a Covid-19 vaccine dose a "near zero cost".
> Podcasts are the pinnacle of decentralization yet I haven't heard once the word "federation" or had to choose an "instance".

This is due to the difference between one way vs 2 way communication. Blogs and podcasts chose the word "syndication" and you use an RSS client to subscribe instead of an instance that can talk back.

What your story doesn't deal with is accounts (not just logins). If you add that you pretty much land in the fediverse model (except in your story every subreddit would run their own userless instance).
I get the impression that most people downvote a bad (or bad-faith) comment, flag a nasty one. I find that one time in 4-5, my flag seems to kill the comment, so I guess it takes around that many.
I've just started listening to the Fall of Civilizations podcast (https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/), and their second episode is on the Late Bronze Age collapse. The theory they put forward as to one of the reasons the big successful Bronze age civilizations got out-competed is that bronze is very expensive / hard to acquire, primarily because of the need for tin. (Copper is very common but unsuitable for weaponry without turning it into bronze.)

Iron is extremely common and cheap, but requires much much higher temperatures to work with than bronze. Once the furnace technology was out there to make smelting iron and creation of steel feasible, poorer / less complicated civilizations were able to make iron weaponry and go up against their richer neighbors.
Disagree - by all accounts the relationship between Tesla and Glencore is quite significant. As are the concerns about human rights in connection with the extraction of so-called green metals. If anything it would seem to obfuscate the issue to not mention the connection with one of Glencore's most prominent customers -- whose brand is strongly associated with its supposedly "green" image.

Everyone knows about Tesla; far fewer people recognize the name Glencore, after all. Which is precisely how Glencore wants it.

See also: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-04/glencore-...

I do agree that singling Tesla out is a bit unfair -- it would have been more helpful to mention all the other major household names that are apparently benefiting from child slave labor at scale:

Tesla was sued in December 2019 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia along with Alphabet Inc., Apple Inc., Dell Technologies Inc. and Microsoft Corp. for "knowingly benefiting" from children mining at sites owned by Glencore and other mining companies, a claim Glencore has vehemently denied.
Reddit has tons of spam that I run into whenever I try to search for any kind of prior product information or advice through the API. As of June 30th, maybe that will no longer be my problem, but I don’t think the spam links will cease.
> the golden goose offing itself

they'd give it some icon indistinguishable from the rest of the google apps, forget about it, and then turn it off in a few years.
So you think that US had to invade Russia to remove Eltsin?! He was elected in 1991 (even before USSR collapsed) and had very strong support in Moscow and major cities.

And elections in 1993 (after the dissolution of parliament) were won by Zhirinovsky's party, communists were only 3rd. US never supported Zhirinovsky and he wasn't a communist.

I don't see how US could be blamed for anything that happened in 1993 because they were really trying to stop the crisis, but far-right nationalists (like Barkashov and Makashov) started military actions, like mayor's office assault and TV building attack.

This is not a "returning to power ... through elections" for sure.
Well, from the article, some people there seem to hope for something like this.

> “Only with a war, and by getting rid of the entire leadership, can we survive,” he says. “Let’s end this one way or another.”

> Myong Suk agrees. “If there was a war, people would turn their backs on our government,” she says. “That’s the reality.”

I don't have any opinion myself. I would hope the world could do something about it and put an end on this, but nobody has figured out how so far apparently. I would naively hope we could avoid war and convince the Kim family to stop the disaster…
idk dude, sounds cringe, maybe even cope.

Just use HN for what it is: a stage for performative erudition, and erudite shitposting. Just have fun and don't take it so seriously.
According to an archeologist I know the preferred terminology for non-sapiens sapiens members of Homo is "Archaic Humans".
Currently we aren't federated however we are looking into protocols such as ActivityPub. It's certainly interesting. It's possible we could federate our posts however one component of our platform is that communities can optionally gate access behind a membership fee. We are actively targeting content creators to get them to host their communities on our platform and some creators like having the option to have private communities. I'm not entirely sure how that model would fit with federation if we go the route of federating our posts, but it's something I'm certainly looking into.
> Even if they IPO, wouldn’t the stock immediately crash if it’s overvalued?

Yes, this is effectively guaranteed at this point. The hope of the investors is presumably that they will be able to sell fast and early.
From just scrubbing through the video it seems like there’s none of the usual evidence they were done by humans in the cave, I guess like random other trinkets or items? The cave is super super small, and if I understood correctly it was also a burial ground for Homo naledi.
It would be neat to auto block sponsored content. Setup honey pots and just start blocking sites that are notorious for it.
This is mentioned in the article, even when foreign aid is brought in the state ensures no one gets it or knows that it exists, holding it back for the powerful, so that their people don't start to understand how good the life outside of NK is.
I don't know how to best prioritize invites, because I may want to invite friends, got 3 invites available, and it takes several days for any invites to generate on an account. Yesterday I posted an rot13-encoded invite, for today let me try a random other tactic: if you have a blog, portfolio, projects on codeberg/gitlab/whatever, just some kind of creations online, send your website or profile page to [REMOVED] (literally just send a link as email body, don't need to add more text) and if you're the first, I'll send back an invite, and if you're not, I'll also reply. I will edit this post when it's gone.

Note that I can't email back to Microsoft domains because they block the IP range I'm part of because of previous ownership and they don't give a fuck. Google should work, but treats/misclassifies most low-volume senders as spam by default so be aware to check that. (Haven't had problems with other email hosters.)

My thinking is that someone with online creations is more likely to have something to post, to be a contributor, compared to when I post the invite here for any lurker/voter to grab. Voting is good, but so far I'm kinda missing the broad offering of content on tildes that you'd see on reddit, things like amateur astrophotography in r/space or the OC in r/dataisbeautiful.

Edit: the invite is used, so I removed the email address. One person with a gmail address emailed me, let me know if you didn't receive the invite within a few minutes!
> The new home of r/StarTrek, r/DaystromInstitute and sigh ...r/Risa

Hey, hey, hey :).