skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The total death toll in the post-9/11 war zones of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria,
and Yemen could be at least 4.5-4.6 million and counting, though the precise mortality
figure remains unknown.
Also featured on NASAs APOD: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200701.html

Its a classic effect, there are many examples, for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8OK7M2_hUg ... I wonder where this idea got started

Once you start looking there are all sorts of interesting ones, like this one showing different perspectives/projections https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmCNNHQ86NE
Not even that egregious. I often see remasters on top of remasters in 4k HDR for very old films. If these are really a better experience does that mean the original audience had a lesser experience?
Arguably, the addition of showing links to all the replies to a comment could have contributed towards 4chan's drift further into engagement-baiting content. It's the closest analogue to the visual, numeric feedback mechanism you describe.

Interesting because from a functional user experience perspective, it's an objectively useful feature for navigating discussions. An obvious addition in terms of web design, yet with unforeseen repercussions. The medium is the message, after all.
Heres a song I suggest a listen to when contemplating the universe https://youtu.be/9mvZ-FjdgLw
Editing is supposed to be a collaborative process - and these people are dead - there is no author to collaborate with - it just makes a worse product in the end (in ever example cited in the article) - a good editor can make a good work great, a bad one can make a great work bad.
so, current facts are:

- imgur officially charges way more than reddit for API on the scale

- your point is based solely on speculations and words of apollo dev, which I absolutely don't trust
They seem to honestly believe that increasing monetization is an equally existential question for the platform. IPO or no IPO, they can't run off of VC funding forever, and they say they aren't currently profitable.
The government couldn't do it this easily if it wasn't for sale.

It being for sale means anyone can be doing it which might be a framing that would be more alarming to the law-and-order types.

But really you need a two prong solution:

1) restrict this from being collected and compiled in the first place, eliminate the ability to default to this tracking unless someone opts out

2) restrict the government's ability to use or acquire through non-market-based means. The claim here is that there's already restrictions on this vs directly surveiling, but I haven't seen directly which specific restrictions those are for buying off-the-shelf info and the article doesn't specify.

There are very really no companies that I trust to keep my data safe for 10, 20, 50 years. Leadership changes, ownership changes, etc. We have to cut it off at the source.
Deniability is a powerful tool, and considering their track record this year, this decision wouldn't rank among their worst.
The more realistic explanation is that the toolbar takes up space and every pixel has value on smaller screens. Moving the toolbar out of the way when the user is not likely to be using tools makes sense when understanding the web from the perspective of someone reading articles.

This behaviour is hostile to developers, not users. A more cynical commenter might suggest that you're the one engaging in user-hostile behaviour with hovering elements and overlays.
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I have the same experience but only takes 2 days of no sugar. After that a lot of food is way to sweet.
> "Starting on Day One"

> "I have been a “day one” developer for three of Apple’s platforms"

> "I’m going to be a “day one” developer for the Vision Pro."

> "The Economics of “Day One”"

> "Look for Widgetsmith for visionOS from “day one”."

it looks like a guy who is flexing his "day one" access and using it to advertise some vaporware, and the rest of the words in the blogpost are some fluff maybe gpt could make it
> You can explain one of the many reasons why gain of function research is necessary: anticipating next year’s version of the flu, designing drugs and vaccines such that resistance mutations reduce evolutionary fitness

A few problems with this. First modifying wild animal viruses to be infectious towards humans is different than modifying human viruses to model potential mutations. Modifying animal viruses to be infectious towards humans has done nothing but cause risks. Despite this research being conducted for almost a decade it has yet to predict or prevent any pandemic and probably started this one.

Additionally the idea that modifying animal viruses to easily transmit towards humans will allow us to develop vaccines is absurd. You can't test a vaccine that is not circulating in humans, so trails can not start until the pandemic has already started.

So yes, there should be moratorium on research that modifies infectious diseases! The public has a right to consent on whether such research is worth the risks.
Twitter has a massive existing user base and still isn't there yet.
Such a critical moment for the future of the company (mass boycott after controversial changes, presumably on the path to IPO; they really don't need any more bad publicity) should be an all hands on deck situation. Again, they've had advanced notice, and knew the full list of subreddits. They should have prepared better.
Tildes looks great but sadly I do not have an invite to take part yet!
this blogpost is the platonic ideal of hype
Great suggestions on ways to use GPT4!
Remember to some people "there are no bad tactics, only bad targets", lots of people are blinded when their perceived political enemies are getting "what they deserve" and fail to understand the powers and tactics used on their political enemies will soon be used on them....

They will then go all shocked pikachu face then the government assault team in their door step taking them way... how can this bee they were the good ones.. they were on the "right side of history"...

Welcome to the system, everyone's a victim
Doesn't matter if you're red or blue it hates you all
The AI stuff is a style though. I'm seeing it happening now in the art world, where the quirks of the model become part of the appeal of the work. Won't be long until a game with good enough mechanics comes along and blows up I think.
I really want scripting in Elixir to be better - and the addition of Mix.install() is a great step forward - but there are still a lot of awkward elements. Elixir will require you to be in a module to define a function and then respect module namespaces when calling them - which makes sense in a normal context but I find it to be annoying while scripting. Likewise I don't think dialyzer, the Elixir / Erlang static type analyzer, will run on script files.

That said I think the underlying lack of data mutability really increases the potential for code reuse and scripting.
With remote work it always fascinates me to see how many people leave the weather (& news) bar displayed next to the tray on the taskbar, this is something that came with a Windows 10 update. People really don't change defaults...

I was wondering if I could make a fake one, just add an appropriate icon and change its label to say something like 6000°C Nuclear Holocaust
This is just a drive-by comment from an outsider, but in case it helps you:

When you say "We know Amazon will make up anything.", it comes across (to me, at least) as an over-broad statement. The sort of statement someone with strong priors against Amazon would make. We _don't_ know that. You cite some valid examples of Amazon being sleazy, but even if you listed 100 examples, we still don't know that. Examples just mean they have made up some things, at some times — not everything, all the time.

I imagine you were just using hyperbolic language for effect, but that's just my 2¢ POV, in case it helps you avoid being misinterpreted in the future (:
This would be chaos. Most of the big subreddits have a combination of bespoke bots and complex automod configs that even the current mods struggle groking. Reddit would lose a ton of quality through poor moderation quickly if you put everything up for grabs.

I think this would be a poor move.
If you put an image in a Google doc it will be accessible by the URL regardless of if you are logged in or not. Perhaps not in every case, but in the basic case I have tested this has been true.

Sharing the URL is equivalent to sharing the image in these cases.
A better protest would have been for the moderators to all stop moderating. Turn off their automod filters, allow all posts. Show reddit what happens when their volunteer moderators just stop.
I don't use mobile, so I can't comment on that, but I can compare to old.reddit (the classic good version).

Overall it is decent, but there is still plenty of work,

Here are my comments, ignore if you don't agree.

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Content loading: Initial Page

old.reddit.com loads fast all content, without javascript. flingup.com instead is stuck on 5 blue bars bouncing because no actual content is loaded on first page. It is all loaded on some delay for some reason. Here is a thing: render content on backend, and if it is expensive, render it and cache it.

The only good thing is that flingup uses own subdomains, unlike reddit that uses other domains like redditmedia.com / redd.it / reditstatic.com . I hate companies that use alternative TLD because it is hard to discern if domain is real, or used by scammers.

Additionally, only 2 javascripts are needed to load flingup, and they are hosted from realm.flingup ... the other 4 seem to be some form of bloat. Basicaly, there is an iframe that loads something from realm.flingup on port 8443 and this iframe loads two javascripts. If these are so critical, why are they loaded through an iframe? why port 8443? why realm.flingup ? Sigh.

the good part, despite flingup being js based, it supports middle click / control click on links correctly, unlike plenty SPA. But not all items, can't middle click to see user profile, instead user has to normal click, which does some odd useless popup with an actual button to see user profile.

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Content look: information density at 30%

old.reddit.com gives me 29 items I can see concurrently on my screen. Flingup only shows 9.

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Content look: almost no comments loaded (25% of 40)

I will ignore the fact that most items are just links, not discussions. But lets use the top link "migrating from reddit" as example. It has some odd 40 comments, but only like 10 are loaded, because the remaining are hidden behind a series of 'there are 3 replies'.

Contrast this with old.reddit that will load 500 comments, up to ?8? levels deep (I counted up to 8, maybe more?) with a button to 'load more comments' either in a thread, or at bottom.

Paradoxically, my other complaint is no option to collapse uninterested thread, or to link to specific reply (aka permalink)

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Content: tooltips missing

I dislike the '2 days ago' as it doesn't say when. old.reddit provides actual time of a comment / post when user hovers over '2 days ago'. Flingup doesn't.

ps: fling sounds like a dating app.

Cheers
I'm fine with such edits as long as the buyers know what they're getting. Otherwise I'm going to end up in a situation where I'm defending some author whose book wasn't racist at all, not knowing that I read an edited version of the racist original.
4chan is the perfect example of what society looks like when nobody plays control nazi with a zen stick! The people that can't stand it are more fucked up than the ones on it. They just don't know it yet or bothered to look.
Niche groups, high quality content, users who don't upvote everything I think is the goal. Not up voting 100 cat videos or memes and then wishing you could upvote a post that really helps you out on something or leads to good discussion. I think it tries to place weight on your upvote to mean more than just ticking something up but remind you that you are putting your money into someone's else's pocket and has what they provided you with worth it? It'd small enough that you don't feel like you're out too much monthly, but probably big enough for posts with upvotes in the thousands to give back to quality content creators (haven't done any math but yeah)
Design is artistic and artists don't collaborate well due to art being a personal endeavor? Unless it has a 'decision maker' at the helm like a film or it is intensely personal like a band.

Just a idea to get some ideas from others -- this does not necessarily represent how art or artists feel or operate since I am not one and don't actually know.
For anyone interested on why a VC would fund a PL, modular attempts to build the new shovels for the AI revolution; meaning their own platform to develop models.
You're projecting, and presenting a false choice. As a child I never needed or wanted such simple tales. Nor did they help me understand the world: rather the opposite.

But perhaps your childhood was different.
Who cares where you draw the line. Do you care about outcomes?

Blaming obesity on individual responsibility has not worked to lower occurrence and morbidity.

If this is an area you're actually working on, you can ride a high horse about how it's individual responsibility, but you'll have to work on systems if you want the numbers to come down.

If you're a disinterested party that just wants to judge people, think whatever you want.
There's definitely smart people on 4chan, but accessibility only exists insofar as there's enough of a culture to punch through the noise floor. Mentally filtering posts only gets you so far, if there's any sort of counterculture then discussion becomes impossible as people actively attempt to derail the thread, see any thread about Rust in the past couple of years for an example.

If you're lucky there won't be a counterculture, but the culture of the board won't always be conductive to discussion. I stopped browsing /g/ years ago but I remember a distinct decline in the quality of discussion around Linux and FOSS topics as the board shifted to more towards more general consumer technology, FOSS threads naturally became lower effort and more memetic* as a result to compete with the influx of new users who didn't care about this subculture. When Linus Torvalds announced that he would try to be more polite it gave some ammo to the anti-Linux culture and things deteriorated more. There was a particularly pertinent post around the attitude of NixOS users on /g/ that reflects this period pretty well I think.

* This sort of trend isn't unique to 4chan of course, the quality of discussion on hobby subreddits tends to decline when mods start allowing memes and low effort posts. Even if discussion continues it's never the primary focus and becomes harder to find.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36274681
Apple has an app developer story for ipad with swift playgrounds. It would not surprise me that their long term strategy is to grow that into the default app dev experience and have it be on all platforms, including visionOS.

As for developing from day one, web development should be ok, as things like vs code online have really opened ip options.
they have to also make introductions to the people that can help new employees and invest in creating useful on boarding material.
It should be the law, 2 days without social media.
> everything left gets split evenly between everything you upvote that month

Does that include comments that are upvoted? I mean, in some cases the submission itself is just a question and all the value is in the contribution from the users in the comments.
Roald Dahl books have sold over 300 million copies worldwide. The stories have been digitized, archived, transcribed, and photocopied an uncountable number of times.

I think we will have no problem finding the 20th century versions.
Blame the user makes sense because they don't want to show how fragile Reddit is while they're trying to attract investors for the IPO.
Depends on the generation, but it's "not cool" to post photos like we used to do it every week or so in my generation (younger millennials / older gen-z). I've seen some people doing once every month, quarter, or life altering events to give a big "fan out" news to their friends, but that's it.
None of those things prevent you from using the site or limit any of its features (accessibility), and your voice is exactly as loud as everyone else's and their judgment of you is only a judgment of what you've just said (egalitarian.)

Just listing a bunch of unrelated shit that upsets you isn't responsive to the comment you're replying to.
Yeah, earning money for posting on a service like this sounds good at first, but it's often a magnet for folks that don't really care about contributing to the platform beyond that. These usually fall into 2 categories:

1. Hustlers and schemers, who want to get rich quick (usually the folks that like spam, blackhat SEO and 'hustle culture').

2. Folks in 3rd world countries who see this as a ticket out of poverty.

The former are a disaster for any good community site or service, and the latter have the potential to become the former, since 'spam the crap out of a service for the chance to make more money' becomes an enticing proposition. A big digital marketing forum shut down its revenue sharing because these folks flooded it with low quality crap, the likes of Medium and Quora have become hellholes due to the same incentives, and crypto based 'pay to earn' games have literally led to people starting up sweatshops to make money in them.

Having it also cost money to use the site will help a bit, but it'll also filter out many good users due to not wanting to spend money on a subscription, and create a mental calculus of "can I make more from my content than it'll cost me to sign up", which isn't ideal in itself.
Too harsh. That's normal if it's only now seeing light of day.
I remember this being brought up early in Wayland development. The stance was taken that it wasn't a popular enough use case to be worth putting work into. I don't think there's any real technical reason why it couldn't be done, but I don't know. I'm not familiar with the architecture of Wayland.
your upvote is worth 0.4 cents but the other upvotes are worth different amounts. if i upvoted once each month that's a dollar there.
Hm . Facebook started with college networks and pokes but they got removed as it grew

Youtube started with piracy and pranks but it got contentID over time
Unless there is some serious damage control happening from corporate which makes them unable, I think a team of engineers would talk themselves into doing this 99% of the time.
DeepMind achieves giant leap in sorting speed
Yes, covid was in the US months before we bothered to check and count cases. There were rumors of a virus spreading months before it was officially acknowledged
Sounds like a video game title
More likely that people will simply forget in 3-4 weeks, like literally every other issue that can sort of blow over.
What about ricin?
US Patent Office proposes rule to make it much harder to kill bad patents
An equatorial mount keeps the camera pointing in a fixed celestial direction by rotating at the same rate as the Earth in the plane of the equator. It's essential for any long exposure of the sky where you don't want star trails, the unusual thing here is having the horizon in frame.
It is nice to see all of the toxic subreddits delete themseles.
But it is absolutely not the case that the abuse is the same magnitude at everyone.
Corrected:

> Zelda clones so I don’t need to play games that are graded on the Nintendo Curve.

hospitalJail is saying there are similar games out there, and that they don't need to play games from Nintendo that are unfairly rated well just because they're from Nintendo, despite a former obsession with Nintendo.
Only if you're looking at the Arctic, not the Antarctic.
You posted 10 copies of your link in the last several hours. That's excessive, and users are complaining to us that you're spamming. I realize there have been a zillion reddit threads, but please stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36296299

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36295536

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36295399

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36295347

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36295092

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36295065

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36295056

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36294985

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36294908

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36294898
A bunch more examples here, which show how your latitude changes how the rotation looks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72hBReBQRAg

and a few more:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zJ9FnQXmJI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRTJ5ISmVXE
Plenty of people on 4chan don't hate anyone.
1. You can drink stuff but have to be careful. Hand-eye coordination gets a bit wonky the closer you are to your face. I've done it and it works though!

2. Never tried sleeping with it... I don't see why it would be any worse than other headsets though.

3. I've never used it outside, but that was for secrecy and not technical reasons.

4. Honestly not sure, maybe an hour without taking it off at all but I've definitely been in it for the majority of a few hour spans many times. At the time the main blocker was the beta OS and not comfort or battery (I would keep the battery pack plugged into the charger most of the time).

5. Nope! We were all super careful with them because prototypes are expensive, much more so than the consumer product. It's not something you could just casually drop while using like your phone though.
his family had lots to do with a lot of stuff he did
Yeah but if the point is to get US salary not sure you get the trade off benefits.
One could argue it's important to play it if virtually all of your friends are playing it too (as is my case.) "Cultural moments" and what have you: it won't reach OOT levels, but boy is it close!
> and knew exactly which subreddits will go private and when

As someone who is close to a reddit mod, they did not know which subs would go private
The premise is wrong. New York City is hardly a "village" and any given person knows a tiny, tiny fraction of anyone else there - but to the extent it's adhered to a capitalist model (ever decreasingly), it's been extremely successful. That's because strangers trading value for value (i.e. the essence of capitalism) without the use of force, is peaceful and productive. This extends to the entire planet. You're reading this on a computer using at least some components made halfway around the world, sourced from materials acquired all around the world, from people who don't have any idea about the people who make stuff from them or ultimately use them.

It's the system and people able to act peacefully within it - not their personal relationships.

The problem with Reddit is that it's run by a guy who doesn't respect the people who make it possible. He isn't a trader of value for value - he's a parasite.
> On W10 you only get the option to create a local account if your network is disconnected, and only after multiple screens of insistence.

This isn't correct. Even with network connected, it's 2 "no thanks" clicks to continue with a local account. If you don't have network connected, you go straight to local account as the only option.

At least this is the case with the last 3 versions of W10, and a normal single-user product key, or if you skip the product key. I guess if you use an enterprise or volume key it might be different.
The difference in population in the United States between 1970 and 2020 was 200 million to 330 million. A 65% increase.

Were (net) 40 million new units of housing created in that time? Were (net) 100 million new jobs created?

This is why when we hear about the poor zoomers and millennials complaining about their bad jobs and wanting to unionize, it's always fast food or coffee shops and similarly marginal employment.
Enhancing Food Safety with Estimand's AI
I'd say no, at some point maybe it was, and some niche subreddits may still be, but for the most part it's not.