skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I am also not very bullish on any fedi-xyz that requires special extra effort from users, I think there's another problem with the current popular schemes that makes your (2&3) solution problematic: money incentives, over time.

Even if a company today were to offer "subscribe for no ads", I don't have especially great confidence that it will stay that way, or that the quality of the product will be maintained over time. Fundamentally, if you have a situation where making money is the goal (whether via ads or subscriptions, etc), then that is the goal that will be pursued. But a healthy community is not about money.

One way to "keep the money-grubbing company honest", as it were, is to have genuine competition. Maybe there are other good ways, but that's at least one. There needs to be an existential threat to that company, at all times, that its users (and thus revenue) could leave and go somewhere else. A federated approach at least somewhat pushes things in that direction. I'm curious to see how much traction it gains.

Maybe there could be a non-profit approach. Or maybe "online community as a public utility" approach; I really don't know. But the money-driven incentive tends to be a slow poison, I think.
wait... he put "assigned by god" but then states that "god created man is his image and assigned them male and female" so why not just male? There is something else to this...
I don’t think Python “just works” in this regard. It blows up in your face if you mistake a scalar for a dictionary. In Perl, the sigils are there to help you the programmer distinguish your $scalars from your @arrays and your %hashes. It still blows up in your face if you get it wrong but there’s a visual indicator to help you get it right.
You can't download it even if you fill the form out. It does make sense to wait until it's open source before betting the farm on it; the intention is that it will be open source.
> there are enough popular subreddits who didn't go in on the outage

Yeah, this morning I noticed only one sub that I follow was actually private. I was going to mention it here, but I forgot which one it was - and now I can't find the one that was blacked out.
I remember that game.

It had a bug that required a patch to be able to complete, but that information wasn't really available to us so we hit a wall about 95% into the game and we couldn't complete it.

Even re-played the game from scratch in case we had missed something and hit the exact same wall again.

Years later I found the game on a ROM site and the patch disk was included there, but I had lost my save files and did not want to put the effort in to complete the game over from scratch.
On-call management on the go: Introducing the Grafana OnCall mobile app
People get angry about it because they subconsciously hate that they didn't get in on the gravy train. Their points for hate aren't wrong, but the degree is irrational and due to that regret.
I wish we could somehow get the US government to make an alternative replacement.

I know that is a minefield of issues regarding access and moderation and it would make it a frequent election day financial harassment target but it would be nice to have something that is publicly funded, ad free, and not vulnerable to deep pockets stealing the entire system from the people.
What's "the industry"? The relatively new industry in moderating Internet communication? I've certainly only seen the term "CSAM" coming from cops and prosecutors very recently, and they're rarely shy about using their jargon in public communication.

[EDIT] I believe you that it's the term in vogue now, to be clear, but I'm skeptical it was as dominant, even if present, until relatively recently. If it was, then that entire world only recently started using it consistently in public communication, certainly. But, again, it's also fine, I don't mind the new term.
> 777-200LR could do it easily, but United doesn’t operate any, and few others do

Well, of course the Air India plane where this discussion started was one of those 777s
And Dream is being actively developed again: https://aantron.github.io/dream/
His modern take, advocating prototypes, has been around since 2006 (https://crockford.com/javascript/prototypal.html).
> In my family, dowry for the current generation has been passed off as "gifts intended for the couple's married life",

I married twice[1] and neither times was the issue of dowry even considered[2]. Nor for anyone I know (close family, extended family, just about every indian person in South Africa).

[1] Serially, not in parallel :-)

[2] Nor "expensive gifts" as a euphemism for dowry.
> Today it’s obvious Microsoft can’t be trusted.

> This “feature” is insane and it makes me concerned about what Windows might be doing in the background.

Today? We've had almost forty years of being taught that Microsoft can't be trusted about what they're doing in the background.
> Midi 1.0 is still in active, since they didn't change the protocol until 2.0

This is not correct at all. There are tons of active extensions on top of the midi 1.0 protocol, even outside of sysex. It's not like they just wrote it all at once and then left it alone. These are the accretions I am referring to. Examples:

MIDI Time Code (MTC) (MMA-001 / RP-004 / RP-008)
General MIDI System Level 1 (GM1) (MMA-007 / RP-003)
General MIDI 2 1.2 (GM2) (RP-024/RP-036/RP-037/RP-045)
File Reference System Exclusive Message (CA-018)
Sample Dump Size, Rate and Name Extensions (CA-019)
MIDI Tuning Updated Specification (CA-020/CA-021/RP-020)
Controller Destination Setting (CA-022)
Key-Based Instrument Controllers (CA-023)
Global Parameter Control (CA-024)
Master Fine/Coarse Tuning (CA-025)
Modulation Depth Range RPN (CA-026)
Extension 00-01 to File Reference Sysex Message (CA-028)
CC #88 High Resolution Velocity Prefix (CA-031)
Response to Data Inc/Dec Controllers (RP-018)
Sound Controller Defaults (RP-021)
Redefinition of RPN 01/02 (RP-022)
Renaming of CC91 and CC93 (RP-023)
Three Dimensional Sound Controllers (RP-049)
MIDI Polyphonic Expression 1.0 (RP-053)
The US has a zillion healthcare providers. Some are so huge and well resourced that they literally have $100 million+ digital record systems. Some are so tiny that it's one doctor operating out of an old house with pen and paper. A fax machine is the least common denominator.
The bots didnt disappear. They just got better and harder to spot.
Unfortunately, the alternative is to let Reddit continue to profit off content contributed by users who Reddit has now decided to spurn.

A lot of people are using Reddit's data request form to get a copy of their own content before deleting it.

Maybe somebody could set up a site where users can send in their personal backups, and they can be combined into a sort of 'shadow Reddit'.
Wasn't PHP a CGI script at first?

The earliest use of the term "Web 2.0" was in 1999. This was way before what we associate today with "Web 2.0". Web 1.0 was retronymed in order to hype up how much better 2.0 was.

And yes, web forms existed earlier but they define the difference between a web of hyperlinked documents and a web of services.

On Web 1.0 if you wanted to create content you would create a website with any content you wanted on say GeoCities or just installed Apache on a computer and kept it running. The key word is "hyperlinked".

On Web 2.0 if you wanted to create content you posted on a forum, commented on a comment section on someones blog, posted a video on YouTube, customized your page on MySpace later Facebook. Later this became far more centralized but even the early services that hosted user content were still 2.0. The key word is "interactive"

All interactivity, even today, depends on form controls: buttons, text inputs, check-boxes, etc. .

Web 3.0 was supposed to be the Semantic Web and allow all of the information on the web to be understandable by computers not just displayed. If this became a reality then there would be no need for APIs (the web would be the API), or for scraping. The key word is "machine-readable".

Later Web3 was redefined to be about decentralization of some kind (even if many crypto-adjacent things rely on very centralized resources). Obviously, the key word is "decentralized".

These are all very fuzzy marketing terms, buzzwords, and they don't really mean that much, but at least there is a vague theme that defines each one of them. All of these "versions" coexist so it isn't surprising that Web 2.0 services existed before the term was coined. Similarly, even if they are ignored, torrents are a Web3 like thing that predates Web3.
specifically the person working on a possible vaccine at the same time as these GoF experiments, very interesting indeed.
All the bad things of Edge we're discussing here are not in the rendering engine, so who cares about that?
Except the point is that it can't. I hope they stick by their decision. I'd love to see the whiners leave for Truth Social or whatever else is on offer.
What about for dental health? I haven't had sugary drinks regularly for a long time, but when I do, my teeth almost instantly get covered in plaque. It feels so icky. The artificial sweetners must at least be helpful for that
Could you point out some that appear to have had a hostile takeover? I'd love to check it out.
Shouldn’t you be wearing khakis and marching in a protest somewhere?
This is literally what the Seattle populace is now doing after years of screaming "Defund the police". They have come full circle demanding more police presence due to raising crime rates. You get what you protest for or something like it.
Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty release date announced with new trailer
This doesn't make *any* sense. Even in the example you gave, Mozilla really wanted to block you from using extensions, they will just remove the entire store.
Another Linux Firefox user chiming in to say I can't use the site. Permanent loading animation, developer menu reveals a hidden "You need to enable JavaScript to run this app." message that isn't appearing, even though JavaScript is enabled.
That is in no way accurate. It says 7806 subreddits, but there are actually over 3 million subreddits, so the figure is actually only 0.24% rather than 90%. It's wonderful what you can do by just faking statistics!

I also don't see some subreddits listed there that are part of the strike.
Hey, thanks so much!

This is an interesting question, given our unique situation, as DevCycle is effectively a startup within a startup.

As I mentioned in the post, we created DevCycle because of a need we saw among our customers at Taplytics. So in terms of finding first customers, our primary goal was to make DevCycle better than Taplytics for this specific use case as quickly as possible. Once we got to a minimum viable product that was sufficiently good, the conversation with relevant customers at Taplytics was easy, because we were able to point to a product that better fit critical use cases for them.

Beyond those customers, because our focus is on Developer Experience we are taking a Developer-Led approach to customer acquisition. So this means trying as best as we can to write and create quality content, sponsoring developer-focused podcasts/twitch streams, etc. It also means meeting developers where they already are, and supporting others that are building amazing communities. So we are trying to be very active participants in communities like OpenFeature.

We for sure have a long way to go, but from a product and engineering perspective, it's nice for the team to be able to feel like they can participate in the customer acquisition journey by just talking about the interesting challenges they are facing day-to-day.
I think that something that should have made lawmakers, and others in public office, sit up and take notice, is a couple of years ago when a prominent and highly-placed Catholic priest was found to be hanging out on Grindr and with other users of the app, shall we say. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/248431/usccb-general...

The entity that orchestrated that outing, with the accompanying simple purchase of location data, etc. was a Roman Catholic newspaper known for high-quality investigative pieces. https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/pillar-investigates-usccb-g...

If such incriminating data is so easily procured against just one guy using a gay hookup app, imagine the treasure troves of data that could be wielded against Members of Congress and other people in power. Even in the absence of wrongdoing, I still don't think that public figures would enjoy having the public know their every move, every minute of every day, but the reality is that all the apps they run are phoning home and uploading that data constantly, unceasingly, and it's all for sale.
How was your experience working with the Farm-ng base? Did they also provide software or just the hardware? Does it run ROS?
Every headset I have seen looks really unfashionable. Even the Vision Pro looks kind of bad. It is too bulky for the relaxing atmosphere Apple was going for in its adverts. And too rounded to appear more edgy. It is not commiting to anything, kind of like the new Macbook Pro design. This stands in contrast to Airpods (small but bold shape) and the Apple Watch (practical and elegant).
He was also part of the team that gave the owner of the sub awards. It's not really credible to claim that spez wasn't somehow very enthusiastic about it.
Here's a guess from a former reddit dev.

> (I used to work as a backend developer at Reddit - I left 6 years ago but I doubt the way things work has changed much)

> I think it's extremely unlikely that this is deliberate. The way that Reddit builds "mixed" subreddit listings (where you see posts from multiple subreddits, like users' front pages) is inefficient and strange, and relies heavily on multiple layers of caches. Having so many subreddits private with their posts inaccessible has never happened before, and is probably causing a bunch of issues with this process

https://tildes.net/~tech/163e/reddit_appears_to_be_down_duri...
I'd rather grown a small but sincerely interested community around my work, than a large, mostly indifferent one.

When I was still active on DeviantArt regularly, but before I got Gallery Director status (2004-2008 ish) I sold little prints, but consistently. After GD, I overall sold about double, but the interaction was like an EKG, and full of noise and stupid complaints and random stats-whoring from commenters. It felt like too much of a rollercoaster managing whatever turdstorm may or may not arise.

I'm still trying to bootstrap a regular pace with PF, as I'm still a very active IG user, but I may just test out if the Import function can handle JSON file with over 10K posts...
It can be done for fixed-length lists. Optimal sorting networks [1] are an active research topic with many interesting connections to differentiable sorting and ranking [2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorting_network#Optimal_sortin...

[2]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.04019
I don't know, the rural poor in America used to all get malaria and intestinal parasites, and now they don't anymore. And it's rare now to lose a child to disease, where it used to be normal. Our current rosy view of nature is skewed by the fact that so many generations of people worked to rid ourselves of its worst shortcomings, and largely succeeded.
Overwatch 2 gets new trailer showing off story missions and new game modes
I love trying new sites! I'll reserve judgement until it has more content, but it looks pretty so far. :)
People always hype up 4chan nowadays like it's LiveLeak on steroids, but generally speaking any time I browse 4chan it's felt much more mundane. The only major culture shock that most people are in for is the degree of hatefulness and shamelessness that you encounter on 4chan, especially in the memes and vernacular. It's the one place left on the internet where truly Nothing is sacred, and the userbase is happy to make that clear whenever possible.

That said, it's absolutely not worth the time, unless you are bored and feel like most of the internet is too sanitized for your tastes. It's just, unquestionably a big waste of time at best.

I don't think it'll ruin your brain, but it probably won't expand it either.
JWTs are the poster child of fragile signature design. If something is like JWTs, you should reconsider. Many implementations allowed JWTs with a null signature scheme, completely bypassing any security!
Nutritionist shares why carbs are ‘so addictive’
But it's an absurd claim to make that this multi-billion dollar operation that carries millions of people isn't doing well because trains have one extra person on each train.
Don't HDD's come with encryption per default nowadays? I.e. the 1's and 0's on the platter go through a layer of decryption that happens on the logic board of disk, before it travels through the SATA cable. And vice-versa when writing.

There's an ATA command to protect the encryption key with a password (and you'll be asked on boot for the password), but if the password isn't set, there's still an encryption key. Just make that irretrievable and the information is theoretically irretrievable.

But yeah, funny how superstitions still control the world and people still say "The HDD needs to be shredded so we're absolutely sure!"
I wonder how they handle private subs.

If it’s certain users, they can’t simply cache the private page.

With everyone checking, this would add a lot of overhead. With apps like reddark, and other bots running this would create a lot of load.

There’s also an archive team project running so that’s a LOT of nodes hitting the site.
> Because obviously, the only thing a household needs for success… is linens

I think you take for granted just how difficult and time-consuming it is to produce cloth and material for clothing.

If a woman got married and had one child, there'd be little to no time to make clothing for the second child that followed almost immediately after[1].

[1] Contraceptive, while being an ancient invention, was never widely used until recently (past 50 years, maybe?)
doubtful. they were issuing subpoenas to the cell companies for their records of the tower registrations for a certain time frame when crimes were being committed. It doesn't take much to identify the owner of a smartphone via that and then correlate that with driver's license photo ids and correlate that with surveillance camera footage to bring a case. that had nothing to do with peaceful protester tracking but bog standard criminal investigation.
IG has to allow an export function, if nothing else to help with compliance (e.g. CCPA) and in a digestible format. All PF has done is built a parser for said JSON formatting.
That is effectively "the full token". It is pretty difficult to sign the signature.
Might be testing out a new broker account.
This assumes it’s possible to fully understand an author’s intent. Story and plot is part of it, sure, perhaps the most easily interpretable part. But there are myriad other concerns, the rhythm and musicality of the language, alliteration, presenting something as known or unknown to the POV characters, and cultural specificity.

I would not want my work rewritten in any manner after my death, if still associated with my name. Folks are free to write their own materials that properly reflect their vocabulary values. And if they’re any good, the free market will surely do its work.
Those shows are from 30+ years ago. TV isn’t always a semblance of real life. Do you think that everyone could relate to having a very nice home with a live in caretaker for your father, a very nice upscale and large apartment in an expensive metro, and constantly having people come to your home practically unannounced… No? Doesn’t sound like much of a real life situation for most Americans. Yet, Frasier was a huge show…
Knowing the root password for a machine is meant to grant you full control over that machine...

You literally just described an .exe or .msi.
What is Social Status?
> goose stepping along to lead the largest propaganda and brainwashing effort in our lifetimes.

It's crazy really. I wonder how many decades will have to go by before it becomes okay to acknowledge what a major fuckup the response to covid was. Currently, there is way too many people, at least on forums like this, that haven't woken up to how badly mislead they were.

Pure hysteria, politics and poorly interpreted data all bundled into one package. Shit was crazy.
What i don't understand is why if it's illegal and forbidden for the government to directly indiscriminately collect information and data on citizens, they can buy the same information from data brokers without an issue? Surely this violates the intent of the law.
We did restart reddit with cold caches a few times when I was there. It took hours to recover but eventually caught up if it happened near peak. If we did it during low traffic it wasn't too bad.

But that was 13 years ago, no idea how it would do today. :)
PDFs could destroy paper-based books, alas, the publishers of said books took measures to artificially limit supply of ebooks.

It'll happen to other forms of supply decoupling like replicators and infinite energy.

I have no proof, yet I'm absolutely certain.
If that's the way you remember it (I don't remember it that way, but to each their own) then an unfettered medium like 4chan is still a positive break from a handful of stodgy old ideologues controlling the conversation.

(I even disagree with both the left and the right on some things).
> No binaries

There are so many binary packaging formats available, almost to a fault.
Comprehensive? The internet would be my first choice.

The fact is, all community organization online being on one site is an awful idea as we see with this and other things that have happened in the past. Communities should host their own forums.

Searchability... The truth is that Google isn't a search engine, it's a content aggregator now. It doesn't even index the internet! And it blocks valid results, for reasons ranging from "its a pirate site" to "we don't want you knowing these things". This site:reddit.com thing is a workaround, because sites like reddit have taken over enthusiast run information depos on the internet. Looking at it now, it's a bad idea to have all that information in one place, no?
Like reading a list of war dead. Always remember where you were and what you were doing on that fateful day when r/amateurcumsluts went dark, and the heroic sacrifices made on that hill.
To be honest, my hackintosh from the Haswell era was the most stable machine I have had; certainly better than whatever the shitshow my current machine has been with OpenSuse or Manjaro on a 12th gen intel, and slightly ahead of my 5800x machine.
There's an e-mail on the website to request an invite (it's in contacts). This is what I did and got invite next day.

They also regularly open the invite threads here: https://old.reddit.com/r/tildes/

Also people who have been there for a while (not me) can invite their friends.
I guess its good they arent a startup then?
You can get a lot of darkening without perceptible effect on the sky, and as a bonus you get amazing sunsets. This happens naturally every time there's a major volcanic eruption; this would just be hurrying the process along a bit.
That guy who was tracking celebrities's plane traffic and publishing on TWTTR could instead do this. Automatically and repeatedly publish legally obtained data on all politicians fed, state and local.
Now that would constitute a public service.
votes aren't free. why would i upvote the low effort?
Looking at /r/all today, it seems like there's still enough big front-page subs with mods to at least temporarily reallocate responsibilities. Most of the big subs are controlled by "power mods" already who administrate many subs. I think there would absolutely be a significant longer term loss of quality, but my guess is that in the shorter term Reddit could just give the keys to those subs to the 'power mods' who have remained.
Depending on what you want to do, Obsidian with GitHub might do the trick.