skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And if they are doing it to citizens, they are almost certainly doing it for non-citizens (most of the existing "protections" specifically state they don't apply to non-residents which always caused me to raise an eyebrow). :/
Rules or guidance just serves to legitimize it. Hey, it's OK as long as we follow the rules... oops sorry we didn't follow the recommended practice there... quite different than getting caught breaking a law.
> if you need more than this call for pricing" is a trope and i've never seen a thing go up in price per unit when you guarantee a certain amount of revenue per year

it is all over the board: you give free doze at the beginning, and squeeze business when they rooted into your product

> he's been nothing but forthcoming and transparent from what i've seen whereas spuz has a history of doing shady shit.

in my view guy is total scam:

- recorded business call without other party consent

- on that call openly proposed to get $10m to go to sunset

- when got rejected started wave in the internet with heavy manipulated numbers:

* imgur API pricing

* comparing Ads revenue from reddit MAU (majority do few visits per month) to his hyper active users with 250 reqs/d
He once asked Jim Keller 'What is Love?'.
His interview with Grant Sanderson is cathartic in that Grant has very little patience for that kind of questioning, when Lex goes on about 'isn't e^iπ so pretty', Grant responds to the effect 'not if you actually understand it, it's math'.
I saw a quote on reddit that does a great job helping me understand my distaste for these kinds of questions: 'The man who loves everything and everyone, loves only himself.'
There are regional parcel carriers. Two of the largest just merged (OnTrac and LaserShip).

Neither of them, nor the combined, has the assets (physical vehicles/aircraft, drivers, pilots, package handlers, terminals/hubs) to take over a substantial fraction of UPS volume on a few days’ notice. And they won’t scale up ahead of obvious opportunity because if UPS settles, they’ve got a ton of previous capital stranded and employees to fire with no associated business to pay for them.
Maybe actually meeting the Paris climate commitments to start...
Climate Change is a real threat, but listing individual weather perturbations as data points is like giving personal anecdotes as evidence of societal changes.

The strongest and most accurate evidence for global climate change are GLOBAL indicators, such as sea level rise, global average temperatures, etc...

Every weather event you list, can probably be countered with a mild weather event somewhere else. It's mock science, and it's the most obvious sign of hyperbole.
> There is a potential, latent within language models and hybrid systems – indeed, within almost the entire menagerie of machine learning methods – to create a unified computational model for a universally useful platform. This potential is being wasted, indeed, suppressed as oceans of capital, talent and hardware is poured into privately owned things such as ChatGPT.

If that is the core point of the article, then it is incredibly vague. All large projects are built by organized groups of humans, and profit-seeking companies are just one form. The article feels like gesticulating at the problem without outlining an actual solution. Building a product requires people (and the capital to support them), coordinated towards a common goal and it can’t be designed by everyone in the world.
Direct link to the video:

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/110/53...
This is about stratospheric SO2, the stratosphere by definition doesn't mix (on short timescales) with the air we park our cars in.
Basically, don't submit photos that aren't yours. That's what links are for.
I checked into the history:

1. A reddit request was made in 2018 when you were banned. This was manually approved by the admins: https://www.reddit.com/r/redditrequest/comments/8m8cdm/reque...

2. The new mod heavily restricted posts, seemingly for three years. They declined to reply to messages for nine months, until a new Reddit request happened on Jan 3 2021. A comment in that thread said "there hasn't been a new post in ages!", confirming your replacement had locked the place down: https://www.reddit.com/r/redditrequest/comments/kpf083/reque...

3. Sometime between Jan 3 and Jan 19th, the request was approved. Likely closer to the 19th, the day the new mod posted: https://www.reddit.com/r/radioastronomy/comments/l0j6qj/new_...

Sub seems alright now, but after a three year long false start with an inactive mod who locked the place down.

Further, it took up to 16 days to handle the request. For a very small sub. And I've seen reddit requests take much longer.

Now reddit would have to, at a stroke, replace at least 8,000 of their most active subs, all at once, and make sure they don't appoint people who are insane, or draconian, or power hungry, or in it for their own profit, etc.

I don't see this working. You may have some knowledge of /r/radioastronomy in those periods which contradicts what I wrote, but the public record suggests the transition wouldn't bode well for mass replacing every single moderator at once.

92% of reddit is down right now.
I think if anything is clear from all this is that freedom of speech and a free press is of vital importance for accurate and useful information that concerns the welfare of our entire species.
True but economics can change culture.

In the Netherlands women are no longer entitled to their husbands money after a divorce. This forces women to maintain an effective career or be left behind in poverty. No more "stay at home" mom's.
Sometimes you have to nudge people into freedom.
I posted the source in another comment but I'll put it here as well: https://www.businessinsider.com/doj-is-mapping-cell-phone-lo...

The data came from Google and included GPS data.

Either way, I don't think that matters. My point is that tech companies store data that can be used to identify everyone present at a specific location and timeframe, and that data is easily available to the government. There's no "may" about it.
You are right, it probably generalizes to other industries as well.

Say you have a shop and brand that sells chocolate cake; but a competitor appears that sells ice cream, and their market turns out to be 10 times bigger than yours.
You could try to make a new shop, selling ice cream, but the lack of brand awareness might make it never take off.
So instead you turn your chocolate cake shop into an ice cream shop, and use your existing customer awareness to catapult you into taking half that market.
Good for you, since you now have half of a 10 times bigger market.
Bad for the customers, since they now lose the choice between cake and ice cream.

Ok, maybe the part about "using your existing brand" is where social networks are a bit different from other industries.
There are hundreds of companies that could create a good social network, but the hard part is getting a big enough user base going.
Probably this is less of an issue in the cake industry.
Rain clouds don't form in the stratosphere, and there's very little water there.
Plus, where else is all the geeky discussion about the ongoing issues at reddit going to be?

Seriously, someone tell me, where else. I need another website to visit.
Please don't make me read another one of his books. I'm still recovering from the Seveneves fiasco.
All of those have been non issues and I have been daily driving linux for several years now.

The only few things I do from terminal is updates, because I do not want to load application icons from the update manager. My bandwidth is metered most of the time due to travel. Doing it from terminal is text based.

I cannot remember the last time I had to compile anything that wasn't related to something I was tinkering with out of curiosity. I wanted to compile those things.

Package and dependencies are issues on windows as well. The builtin application manager takes care of those? So I am not understanding that complaint.

Aside from a handful of multiplayer games that do run, you just cant play due to anticheat software not working. Every game in my steam library, and GOG has worked without issue through wine/proton. Native games also work great.

The problems I have with windows 10/11 even after running those is all the data it is constantly sending. Again I am on a metered network so MBs count. You cannot disable telemetry, you can only reduce how much is sent.
18 U.S.C. §§ 1030(a)(5)(B)

> intentionally accesses a protected computer without authorization, and as a result of such conduct, recklessly causes damage;

I would think it's reasonably easy to establish mens rea when someone switches their sub from public to private and back every few hours, even if manually done because what else would they want to do but take down Reddit? Not to mention the punishes much harshly "conspiring" to commit such a crime. Careful there.

IANAL, of course.
"Careful, sir. I think you've had too much to think. Any more comments like that and the thought police may be alerted. We wouldn't want that, would we?"
Nature bans AI-generated art from its 153-year-old science journal
> Effectively unless they're down for more than a day, you're better off taking the hit and waiting for them to resolve everything.

lol. There's me worrying about a 2 minute downtime once every 10 years
> with one person speculating that Bezos planned to give the physical certificate as a gift

To me that one actually sounds likely. There are probably a lot of processes around interacting with his 10% stake in Amazon so touching it costs several thousands in broker/lawyer fees. If he wanted to give a share certificate to someone he could just buy it with a completely different account and do so.
I have a fairly negative/pessimistic take on this model, but it’s my truth: Wikipedia, in my experience, is littered with some of the most aggressive, psychologically manipulative, and persistent ads of any major site. They just happen to be ads imploring me to donate to Wikipedia.
We don't use that kind of reasoning in other fields though.

I.e. preserving historical architecture is not about restoring the building to how we believe it was supposed to be shown - otherwise, the Egyptian pyramids would have gotten back their white finish and gold tip long ago.

Instead, we recognise that those buildings are from a different time and try to highlight the feats of that time that make them remarkable still today.
> population growth […] that's one of the worst things we can do for future generations.

How is "being born" a bad thing for future generations? I would think that most would prefer existence to nonexistence
I actually typed out an addendum about children and elderly being burdens but adults not being, but deleted it because I thought it was extraneous since I was specifying "permanent burden regardless of what they do".

Children/elderly are not permanent burdens because they grow up/die and they can sometimes do useful things.

The difference here is that women are classified as burdens regardless of what they do. Cook, clean, take care of the house, your family, your husband, etc. Doesn't matter, you're still a burden. That's fucked up.
Is that what it is? I get so many issues with Cloudflare yet I didn't consider the conflict to be between Cloudflare and Firefox.
Obsidian + Sync (for $8/mo)

If you don't want to pay, use git sync. Personally I think it's decent, have to deal a lot with merge conflicts (I have 3 devices), and using git on iOS is cumbersome.

Or, you can use the LiveSync add-on (need to setup your own CouchDB instance for it).

LiveSync is pretty good, real time sync is nice, but I rarely had a conflict since switching to it.
How some common material imbalances affect your win-rate
AsmJS coercion hints still work, so not really. Monomorphic code and some optimization can take you a surprisingly long way toward good performance. You certainly won’t find that in most untyped languages.
I'm of two minds on this. The protection of religious liberties in the workplace is from federal and state laws. Corporations have been ruled "people" with respect to the first amendment's speech protections. A state or federal law compelling corporate speech (by allowing an executive of a corporation to contradict the corporations chosen speech, within the corporation, not pertaining to protected speech outside of the corporation) seems to be preempted by the constitution here (as interpreted by the Supreme court).
IMO, we should trust that audiences are capable of understanding the context of the time. If anything must be done, it is teaching the concept of the euphemism treadmill, and that events, conflicts, or works of literature can change the connotation of words. It's also important to understand that innocent words today could become taboo tomorrow, and not through any insensitivity or unawareness on the author's part.
There is legal importance in the brand symbol specifically - moreso than the product shape. The correct comparison is brand symbol/mark to brand symbol/mark.
Why? Reddit treats its users like garbage. We need to stop giving them our content for free.
Note that encryption handling on ChromeOS is not that great at all. The wrapped encryption key is protected with the hardware id and user passphrase, and the passphrase gets sent to Google's server without client side hashing.

Essentially, anyone with access to Google's web servers and physical access to your hardware can just unlock and decrypt your device.
You're right. I took an overly naive view of how a complex system would respond to such an unusual event.
Except they would make that illegal for politicians and let us all twist in the wind.
Show HN: Zsync, a Reddit Alternative with the Goal to Reward Quality Comments
I built this last year but never posted it anywhere, but now with Reddit hiatus it seems like the right time to give it a shot.

The main goal of zsync is to foster high quality content and discussion. That's it. If it can't accomplish that, then to me it is a failure. I watched Reddit go from having high quality discussion in 2008-9 to devolving into the PC meme dumpster it is today [1]. HN still has the highest discussion quality of any "forum" I know of, but (1) it can sometimes randomly be very hostile/toxic to new tech, the most glaring example being crypto. (2) HN is basically a single subreddit mostly geared towards tech and startups. It'd be nice to have an equivalent of "subreddits"

Zsync's version of subreddits are tags. You can tag your posts. Instead of viewing a subreddit for, let's say neuroscience, you view the tag for neuroscience. This eliminates the need to submit the same post multiple times to many different subreddits.

The core challenge is incentivizing/rewarding high quality content (I don't believe in censorship). Users can have custom avatars and links to their personal website and Twitter next to their username, which I believe provides a little more incentive to write a more thoughtful comment vs. your post merely showing up next to an anonymous handle with some autogenerated alien avatar (which you're free to still do if you prefer).

Anyone who connects an ethereum wallet to their account will also have a (non-invasive) "Tip" option at the bottom of their comment, allowing anyone to directly tip commenters cryptocurrency (no middleman taking a cut here), offering a financial incentive. I was thinking of some other ideas to use crypto to reward quality, but I wouldn't want to implement anything that could be gamed or exploited ultimately defeating its purpose. Open to ideas though.

In the future, we could use ML to offer options to sort comments in more useful ways, such as by sorting by "most insightful". We could determine based on your upvote history the type of content you'd be most likely to enjoy. Anyways I admittedly didn't implement this ML stuff yet, those are just ideas for future improvement.

Anyways would love to hear your thoughts. What do you think of this idea, and what would it take to accomplish its mission? Regardless of whether my little project amounts to anything or not, I hope something like this will be made to exist. And thank you HN for not deteriorating in quality even remotely to the extent that Reddit has. It was really sad watching Reddit devolve into what it is today (way before all this recent stuff). We can do better, and now is a better time than ever to shake up the status quo and start envisioning what better platforms for online communities can look like.

[1] https://jsavage.xyz/2022/03/13/the-downfall-of-reddit-why-re...
Show HN: Mission Critical Notifications that bypass DnD
I created a push notification app (Alertifii) that can bypass do not disturb on your phone (Android + iPhone).

Alertifii easily integrates to any monitoring system through webhooks or email. You can easily configure the mapping between webhook data and alert fields.

Additionally Alertifii supports multiple users per account, teams and punch in/out on-call.

I do realize there are other competitors out there like pushover, ntfy.sh, and others. I built Alertifii out of frustration and a need for a tool:
- Having an app on both iPhone and Android
- Having the ability to bypass DnD
- Having high availability
- Having an easy to use UI and clear and concise documentation.
- Begin cloud hosted (didn't want to self host an open source solution)

I look forward to hearing your feedback :)
> The idea that only a special class of users can be motivated to take whatever Twitter screenshots or political ragebait articles and crosspost them to Reddit is laughable.

The vast majority of Reddit users (myself included, if I'm being fair) are just there to lurk. If you actually pay attention to who's posting the majority of those screenshots, it will generally be the same set of dedicated users. You might be deluded into thinking this isn't the case, but I assure you, beyond a small 1% of users, there is very little valuable content being generated.

Beyond that, there is an even smaller and even more special class of users who are understandably pissed off: Moderators, who absolutely do real work that generates value. These people are the most pissed off. Call them activists if you like, but this response honestly sounds like whining to me. If you don't want these people using their power to control the front page, why don't you go start your own subreddit? Then you can enjoy the pleasure of doing hours of unpaid work just so other people can go look at your stupid screenshots (or whatever valueless content you apparently think Reddit is good for.)
Yes. This is definitely one of the weaknesses of JWT. It is prudent to whitelist the allowed headers. And the fact that any implementations accepted `null` as an algorithm is awful.
It's a counter-protest by white male supremacists ("neo-nazis"/Proud Boys) who believe that diversity and equality diminish them. It's a parody of Pride Month.
WeWork CEO Mathrani to step down after joining Sycamore Partners as director
I've been using this list locally and on my PiHole for years. Love it!
As a Christian, I feel pretty gross reading it. If it brings them closer to God then I suppose it is alright. Part of the draw, at least for me, is hearing different preacher's takes on scripture and having my views challenged. I don't think AI can accomplish that.
"subpoenaed cell phone data". It's completely justifiable, legally and morally, and been happening since cell phones existed, way before January 6th 2021. The article's claim that it was somehow new to this event shines a spotlight on their agenda.
In my experience, you have to wade through too many unnecessary posts to find anything useful on 4chan.
No, they still don't care. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/20/opinion/locat...
Does https://opengameart.org/ work?
The intent of the law was to limit government power specifically. Not unlike the law requiring most of the information on firearm sales at the federal level be kept in paper format so that it can't easily be mass-indexed and mass-crawled.
Just to 2nd waht d4nyll said, try https://app.thestorygraph.com/ or https://hardcover.app/

Both are great for book tracking, and I think Story Graph has better "social features" then most (and they are about to work on more).

I run Shepherd.com, I am trying to create a book discovery experience like wandering a bookstore. Something I don't think Goodreads or any websites do well. So far I've interviewed 8,000+ authors to get 5 of their favorite book around a topic, theme, or mood. And then I find fun ways to connect them (still very new) -> https://shepherd.com/

Let me now what you think :)
Stacker News has succesfully use satoshis instead of fake internet points.
Licenses usually come into play after someone has acquired some software; anyone can place any conditions on giving someone else a copy; a license affects what a person holding a copy may do with it.

Also, having contingencies on what someone “plans” to to seems fragile. Suppose I don’t plan to bill a client for this software, nor claiming it as an expense. Therefore, I acquire a copy of this software, licensed only under MIT. Suppose then that I change my mind. I should be completely free to bill clients for the software, since the MIT license freely allows me to do so. Right?

Either I am free to do that, or the software I acquired was not actually licensed under the MIT license at all, but had added conditions. And in the latter case, it was not actually Open Source.
I don't think that's accurate.

>> Over the year, food prices rose 7.4 percent. Prices for food at home increased 6.2 percent since a year ago, with higher prices in all six grocery categories. Prices for food away from home increased 9.5 percent.

https://www.bls.gov/regions/west/news-release/consumerpricei...
> Even Biden said the biggest problem America has is white supremacy.

That was in the context of domestic terrorism: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/14/biden-whi...

The FBI has been warning about the growing threat since at least Trump’s term.
"The copyright holders" may very well be a faceless committee instead of the original author (or estate), i.e. if some megacorp had bought the copyright and us the force behind the republishing.
I get the impression that this shows a sort of 'double-dip' sunset where, just before it goes completely dark, it brightens briefly (and the converse at dawn.) It seems to be there when I step through the frames. Can someone say if this is an illusion (or a personal delusion on my part), a meteorological effect, a camera sensitivity-adjusting effect...?
None, but what does that matter? These are community-created microforums, which probably wouldn't exist at all if it weren't for Reddit.
Maybe they just want to check if it is dangerous for the security of the US? Someone could blackmail the president or a senator with this data
I've been daily driving it for 5 years now on an old Lenovo Thinkpad. No major issues the whole time. I think people solve the GPU issue by using multiple GPUs, that way one can be dedicated to dom0 and the other can be passed through to an HVM OS. People play games in a windows vm, within qubes, so it is do-able. I don't have the hardware to test this out myself, all my machines are single GPU.