skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
how do you think the board (any board) feels about a mod clique that is willing to turn a 2-day blackout into an indefinite closure, possibly followed by indefinite "touch grass tuesdays" or other disruptions to business operations?

you're imagining that the board just sees this disruption and wants it over as quickly as possible, but why do you think they would take that view and not want to solve the disruptions in the long-term by removing specific agitators and generally adding additional checks and oversight to the tools they used for their disruption so that it doesn't happen again in the future?

no business is going to let the union sit on the factory floor and disrupt operations - you can strike at the gate all you want, but private property is private property. And when mods end up talking about permanent ongoing intermittent disruption of operations ("touch grass tuesdays") there's not a single board member who is even going to negotiate with that as a potential possibility hanging over their heads. No, you're gone, this is their site and you're being a nuisance.

And this is the point where people start babbling about how mods are irreplaceable and they'd all walk away and leave reddit in the lurch, but it turns out a lot of mods actually just want to get back to it and are being overruled. Let alone if the mod clique was opened up for new membership within their communities - there is inevitably a flood of new applications whenever it's opened. People love being able to push buttons at people, it's a tiny bit of power and that's all it takes.

https://old.reddit.com/r/redditrequest/comments/149z2nd/requ...

Without the blackouts, reddit will be back to normal in 6 months. And that's what terrifies a large portion of the blackout userbase - they know they don't actually have broad enough public support to make it work without forcing other people into it.

It's not the first or the last time a public forum has had a large group of users upset enough to step into disruptive behavior to try and get their way. We could easily see people start launching DDOS attacks or similar as well, it's happened before. Redditors think they're special but from a high-level perspective you're no different from some jilted wikipedian deleting articles or a 4chan user flooding a thread with gore, or DDOS'ing a forum. You're a nuisance, not a freedom fighter, and you're on private property.

The real fun one is going to be if some users escalate things enough that CFAA gets involved. Disruption of service, enjoy your lawsuit/jail time. And causing all requests to go 500 or not return the proper data is still disruption even if the service is still notionally up and responding to pings. Remember, this is a law that makes it illegal to log into a service if the operator wouldn't have wanted you there - using mod tools to disrupt service is still disrupting service!
Battery in my last device became too weak long before device was useless. Device was perfectly fine, just that battery did not hold long anymore.
The project page is here: https://www.willdowd.net/dreamfall. (I've also nicked its title to replace the OP's less informative one.)
Security Expert Defeats Lenovo Laptop Bios PasswordWith a Screwdriver
you're missing the analogy. the surface area of the sail is the entire volume of eg piezoelectrically responsive rocks - so it's a gigantic sail
That just doesn't happen because you lose economy of scale. The EU actually has a ton of soft power through this, enough for it to be a term in geopolitics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels_effect
If you're salaried and you too often work more than nine to five, then you are necessarily devaluing your work. I don't see how devaluing yourself aligns your incentives with the company's incentives, whose incentives are to clearly get as much work done for as little money as possible.
As an example of why I lurk the majority of the time, the mods in /r/seattle have been perma-banning anyone who posts to /r/seattlewa - the mods have created a situation where each comment has a risk of tripping some unknown drama landmine. I don't want to have to make a new account and re-subscribe to all the subs I'm in if I ever trip one of these mines.
battery life is the driver of phone waste.

i buy used sub-flagship phones two or three cycles behind. they're much cheaper, they do what i need, they're not too slow for modern software.

but the battery is the worst part. i get a day's life at best. a year in i'm camping by outlets all day if i need to use my phone more than incidentally.

all of these phones would be perfectly good on the secondary market if a battery replacement service didn't cost as much as replacing the phone itself.

i used to swap batteries myself. but it's increasingly difficult to do without damaging the screen as you peel it apart, and at that point the phone is totaled.
Scams, and scammers, evolve. There will always be members of society that are lonely, desperate for money, or have some other situation that causes them to ignore red flags in a Nigerian 419 scam.

Technology also enables new scams as time goes on. You can now use automation and AI-esque tools to research potential marks, simulate the voice of a loved one in a plausible distressing situation, and call to ask for money. That sort of thing was much harder 20+ years ago and is today as plausible as setting up a cold call list for selling home insurance was back in the day.
Yes but replaceable batteries are a good start and a more pressing issue. A phone with a 4+ year old battery is useless even if you have all the software for it.
Also, if you need privileged access to get things done and the IT team can’t install nanny software on your computer, you have created a big security threat.

Yeah I know you Mr Hacker are responsible and would never fall victim to malware, because you personally audit all packages and their dependencies you download (eye roll).

But imagine you are in charge of security for a company and some argumentative contrarian insists on running the sole Linux machine in your corp network. Potentially your entire business or reputation is at risk because of this guy’s unilateral decision. Wouldn’t it be reasonable to tell them to stop?
Engineers have become experts in selecting components so that they fail right after the warranty period.

Replaceable batteries just means they will make something else weaker instead, preferably something that fries the device once it fails (see https://youtu.be/7cNg_ifibCQ?t=238).

It's too dangerous not to, as nowadays phones (or computers in general) don't really need to be upgraded that often to remain useful. No manufacturer wants a repeat of the 1080Ti.
Pretty fascinating article as someone who regularly enjoys sparkling water. I have an infuser and buy cans of sparkling water, though I admit it'd be better at some point to invest in a large Co2 system. I just don't have the space today.

My takeaway from the article is that sparkling water is mostly fine, with some minor pros and some minor cons. To me, the biggest one is that you're ingesting slightly acidic water which can erode your enamel over time, so you should be sure to monitor your teeth and get preventative checkups. I doubt, though, that over a lifetime anyone is likely to experience any serious side effect from consuming carbonated water.

To me the pros outweigh the cons. I feel more full (so I eat less), the taste is great, I enjoy burping up the excess Co2, and I'm getting a bunch of water into my system that I might not otherwise.
Millions of Americans’ personal DMV data exposed in MOVEit hack
Myths about the cause of inflation:

1. wage/price spiral

2. cost push

3. demand pull

4. speculators

5. profiteers

6. Vladimir Putin

7. Arab oil cartels

8. unions

The actual cause of inflation is the government helicoptering money all over the economy that has just been printed.

I.e. the Law of Supply & Demand applies to money just as it applies to everything else.
Bob Ludwig
Have we forgotten about the Motorola RAZR? Thinness obsession was a thing long before Apple entered the game.
I too have no idea what it's attempting to portray
My tiny startup just hit $1k MRR (solo-founder)
Hi all, this may seem tiny compared to what some of you make with your side-projects, but I just hit the $1k MRR milestone for www.startups.fyi and I'm over the moon.

The website usually makes around $3-$5k/mo on average,
but this is $1k in recurring revenue and that's what makes it so special.

I'm a solo-founder in the UK and though this doesn't go very far, it's a step in the right direction.
Alternatively, it'll be another excuse for them to claim to revolutionize computing to cheers by bringing back the old replaceable battery with some more proprietary stuff and carefully hidden statements about the water resistance not working afterwards.
Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked Pentagon Papers, dies at 92
Those technologies may be frictionless for users to sign on, but they're not frictionless for administrators to deploy. Creating a new subreddit is as simple as clicking a button and filling in half a dozen fields or so, plus toggling some checkboxes, and you're done! Plus it's really easy for users to find your new subreddit via the site search.

Just think of what it takes to get a new forum going: purchasing a domain name, setting up hosting, installing the forum software, setting up the aforementioned authentication APIs, dealing with SEO so people can actually find your site on Google (that one seems almost impossible now). It's absolutely dizzying. At least something like Lemmy solves all of this for you, bringing you back to a Reddit-like level of effort.
There is no way this would ever even pass initial consideration at the Federal level, in that there is no incentive for the Federal government to limit the weaponry available to it's law enforcement apparatus. They would see such a law as containing no upside for the government itself, and therefore it will be, at best, laughed out of committee and more likely any Congressman or Senator who proposes it will mysteriously find that a lot of his or her donors are suddenly turning on him.
The Disaster Prediction App will show you the current state of the sun, it’s effects on Earth’s space weather, earthquake events, and areas of the Earth likely to have large earthquakes in the coming days. There is a space weather portion of the App and an Earthquake portion of the App.

https://9rese.com/disaster-prediction-app/
I see that but they have to consider all the consequences. Harm reduction on its own is nice but a big problem with drugs is organized crime.

Plus, I don't believe that harm reduction without rehab efforts is good because it simply encourages addicts to keep using. I think it needs to be combined with another effort to help get addicts clean.
> Many people go to Reddit 20 times a day by typing “Reddit” (or some variation like “redit”) into Google 20 times a day and clicking the first search result.

This describes my father getting to Google. It was painful to witness. I tried to explain for about ten seconds, then opted that what he was doing worked for him and chose to pick my battles.

It would be impossible for him to use a tool like a bookmarklet unless someone set it up on his behalf. The barrier to use such a tool as PDS is nothing to a bunch of people who understand tech topics. It's unrealistic for a lot of others. I was going to say that I thought young people who grew up online could figure it out, but I've seen comments about teaching mobile-first CS students about filesystems, so…
Best of luck. Easily my favorite project. Emailed Viktor last year about using the marginalia API for my side project[1] and he responded almost immediately. I use the API to get marginalia's arcane search results for a given query and choose a random link from those results to redirect. Endless fun.

Hope to see it continue to grow until the internet goes dark.

[1] https://moonjump.app/
The same Apple that is prepping to open up to sideloading right now?
From the first sentence in the article:

> Inflationary pressures mean businesses have faced price increases of up to 24 percent from tech vendors attempting to claw back margins.

> the additional profits are not making it to the employees

It's the businesses being squeezed here. What additional profits?

If that business then hikes their prices, are they evil too?
I think you know the answer.
> Open for a couple days in advance and only for members of that sub.

How do you do that? Specifically, how would you limit the poll?
>> Can we get a federal bill with the same prohibitions? It would be absurd if the right to be free from fear of automated death from the skies is left to a patchwork of state and local restrictions.

>> - Sometimes law enforcement must be able to use deadly force. Isn't it better if in those situations, officers aren't also putting their lives at risk?

What about drones that can be used to deploy non-lethal weapons?

For example, if police need to employ riot control gas (https://emergency.cdc.gov/agent/riotcontrol/factsheet.asp) to disperse a violent mob, a drone could fly over the mob and drop the gas.

Should that be permitted?
(Render CEO) What can Render do better?
This is not true.

You can reply to messages from Slack on your watch and it use to be better when they had a Watch app 5 years ago.

https://www.techradar.com/news/slack-is-dropping-its-apple-w...
Modern phones include glued in gaskets to enable water proofing. This is incompatible with any kind of easy removability.
From the planet's perspective, climate change doesn't matter. Mass extinction events are rounding errors on geologic / deep time scales. We can launch all the nukes tomorrow and it won't matter in a few thousand years.

Climate change "matters" in relation to it being an anthropocene problem, and the only way to make it matter to humans requires using metrics that can be coordinated around.
Is waterproof even a real needed feature?

Like, I've been owning mobile phones for 22 years at this point and it's literally something I've never cared or benefitted from.

On the other hand, having replaceable batteries is definitely something that's been useful in the past.
Tbh the three main things that suck about desktop computers for me are:

- lots of cables everywhere

- when you bring it with you on travels it feels like it’s gonna fall apart internally

- external monitor is difficult to safely bring as well. (This one is a problem with the laptop as well because I still use an external monitor there.)
One thought and certainly just my opinion: you should allow users to block scripts from googletagmanager.com. I allowed scripts from your domain, but was still unable to use the page.

When you embark on the more compact website, do you intend to support static HTML?
OpenID does exactly that and has been a thing for something like 15 years now.

Quite a few big sites like Yahoo, Google, AOL Verisign would provide a URL you could login with (they were identity providers) and there were lots of independent providers too. You could easily host your own with as simple PHP script.

Sadly, fewer large sites would actually accept OpenID as a way of logging in, but you could used OpenID for authenticating Blogger comments. Stackexchange supported OpenID logins for 8 years [until July 2018](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/307647/support-for-...).

The BBC wrote quite a good summary of how things stood in 2008: https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/10/openid_found...

It's another one of those sad parts of the web we lost.
Which could make for a really interesting experiment - how many people would buy the EU replaceable battery edition of the phone vs. importing/traveling to a non-EU country nearby to buy the other version.

It seems clear that there will be some downside to the replaceable battery version, whether it's size, cost, weight, ergonomics, water resistance, etc. Will the convenience of having replaceable batteries and not importing be worth those downsides? We'll have to see.
The article points out that the researchers have a premise grounded in science for their correlation. That's the difference between shouting "correlation doesn't equal causation" and actually understanding how correlation is applied.
Why not use green tech from the outset?

Really no good reason not to at this point. Its demonstrably beneficial from less pollution to lower overall emissions, and builds up a "next gen" of expertise that will be extremely valuable over the next century, whoever gets these investments done will be in a great place over the next century relative to those who are later to the game, and that expertise will be very valuable (and a huge engine for economic growth).

Go where the puck is moving, not where it is.
> The Wikipedia model works quite well for small-scale and bandwidth light projects, but I don't think a large social media platform can ever be funded that way.

I wouldn't call Wikipedia a "small-scale and bandwidth light project".
That sounds fun ;)

Was there a first project you did that got you hooked?
Not to mention a thicker phone could have a bigger battery in the first place.
If a battery lasts a couple of days, I would much rather my phone were waterproof than be able to swap the battery. Having a power bank solves the problem of discharged phone for me, and anyway I almost never have to use it. Being able to drop your phone in the water and pick it up still working is far more valuable to me.
I can replace my watch battery and it's waterproof
I can understand the appeal of a "dumb" car like some people like "dumb" phones instead of smartphones. However a screen can sometimes be useful, to display the video output of a backup camera for example, which is a great safety equipment.
The article is blatantly false. The legislation only applies to batteries above 2kWh
I suppose some earthquakes could be kicked off by changes in fluid flow, but also, 2 weeks of data is enough degrees of freedom to find any relationship you'd like.
How are any of them bad so far?
From your lips to God's ears...
> Many people who never could afford to call international family now speak and see each other daily.

I get why electronic communication is a boon but I am sometimes confused by folks who prefer a public communication medium for their private comms.
Nope wasn't leaked...somehow media latched on to that wording.

Initially it was behind a consent form for research purposes. i.e. Just give some basic deets and you get access to the weights under a non-commercial license. FB shut that down after it got lots of attention.

That obvious got copy pasted onto a torrent & grew legs from there. And FB hassled some people DCMA takedowns too but seemed pretty half hearted & was too late at that stage.

[Sidequest: I believe the repo they used to distribute access also had a magnetic link in it too at one point which further confused the narrative but not 100% sure on the precise details on this]

Point is at no stage was this 100% behind closed doors and someone leaked it as you & I would understand the word in the "stolen" sense.
Are your questions meant to be a brainstorming on how an ideal site compensates Moderators or something else?
A site like Reddit is depended on users visiting and generating content (discussions). Moderators are just middlemen that facilitate those discussions. a site like Reddit probably doesn't value the idea of moderators very much because anyone can become a moderator. Moderators aren't influencers, so they don't move communities. The value of a community are of the people that participate in that space and the biggest draw of reddit is that its easy to participate in multiple communities at the same time.
> Please, EU: bring a law that forces manufacturers to release their drivers / firmware whenever they stop updating a digital device.

I wish I could upvote this more.

It's a crime how I had to throw away in the past perfectly usable devices because they were forced into obsolescence.
> No porn.

What is porn?

> No politics.

What is political?

> No racism or any form of bigotry.

What is bigoted?

> A soft rule of: Don't be an asshole.

What is an asshole?
> So... when the marginalized groups start getting cancelled,

After all the things that have happened to marginalized groups throughout history, mean tweets are worse?

We're all living by the sword and dying by the sword called free speech. Conservatives are boycotting Bud Light. That's their right.

The backwardness of all of this is that people keep going on cable news and writing op-eds about various subjects and when they get criticized, they call up their friends at the NYT and get their opinion blasted to millions of subscribers complaining about a nobody in the middle of Ohio who called them a jerk on Twitter and got 10k likes.

Is nobody else seeing how this is lopsided?
Thank you, I'm going to give that a try!
Not so long ago some people claimed apple would rather leave the EU market than implement USB-C or open up the app store.

They complied (or are in the process of complying) with these regulations.

Afaik the proposed battery act allows either swappable batteries or a minimum "lifetime".
There's nothing to reseal, it's just a simple rubber gasket. Waterproofing is not some rocket science complicated thing that requires magic.

Usually when they write these laws they say something like "replaceable using commonly available and inexpensive tools".
Presumably all the gullible people will lose their money to AI scams and then there won't be any AI scams.
I think batteries can technically be submerged in water and discharged safely but it's an engineering challenge. As long as the rest of the phone is waterproof I think we are okay.
It is dangerous, their vendors could suffer a supply chain attack and have malware injected into their scripts.

This can be mostly prevented by using CSP Hash, then having strong auditing that produces a 'trusted' version. This of course would make the IRS stay on a single version for a much longer time frame.

However, my experience is that all vendors want to update their software at anytime, and would likely not approve of using the same version for years at a time.

https://content-security-policy.com/hash/

https://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_script_integrity.asp
Yes that mean old Apple is only supporting iPhones 10 years old and the first one that works with LTE…
None of these articles admit to a basic truth: deep learning is only a small slice of total computation, and even if it grew 2 orders of magnitude, would not be the largest consumer by area.

If DL costs are unsustainable, it means those other things (SAP, web hosting, and all the ridiculous stuff people waste cycles on) are even more unsustainable, and should be addressed first.
That is curious. Could you elaborate or point me to some sources, I would like to investigate that relationship further. I remember Jim Simmons saying that the Renaissance fund employs many physicist PhDs and other kinds of scientists. I thought they were there because of their specialisation but perhaps the reason is what you explained above or both
Constructing things for N digit subsets can be misleadingly easy.

It's easy to construct a sequence of digits that is larger than any N digit number. But it's obviously impossible for any such number to be the largest number.
First paragraph in the article: "Among the many changes, the new rules would require batteries in consumer devices like smartphones to be easily removable and replaceable."
The tradeoff for sealed batteries was significantly improved ingress protection, larger charge capacity, and lighter weight.

The market spoke and nobody seems to really care that much about user replaceable batteries except a vocal minority.
>Cameras have been weatherproof

They usually can resist some splashes. Not in any way comparable with modern phones.
I mean it still doubled in 12 years from 1995-2007 while workers increased by ~10% based off that graphic. The stock holders are the only ones coming out on top with a more than quadruple in value since 1995.
At this point, doing the opposite of whatever OpenAI want's to do seems to be a good strategy...at least in terms of PR