skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The community is reddit users, which didn't get to democratically pick him at all.

This cuts both ways though, mods are not the reddit users either, and users do not get to democratically pick mods either. The guy who squatted the domain name in 2005 is the permanent authority for that keyword, unless there is a specific ToS violation to unseat them.

If you don't want to post, or you don't want to mod, that's fine, log off. There are procedures for abandoned communities/moderation that will be followed and everyone moves on. But you can't shut everything down for everyone else either, and you certainly shouldn't be surprised when the board operator then removes your mod privileges and bans you for disruption of service.

There is no "the community voted to ignore the ToS and allow disruption of service". That's not a thing. Yes, the service is still disrupted even if the server is returning 500, or an empty page, or your protest page. Just like when Greenpeace hacks someone's site, that's still disruptive and illegal.

Be happy you're not being prosecuted under CFAA for denial of service. If logging into the system when the operator wouldn't want you there is so clearly illegal that it regularly results in jailtime for bona-fide security researchers, what do you think CFAA would say about knowingly utilizing mod tools to cause disruption of service and then continuing after being told to knock it off?

And yes, computer crimes are prosecuted quite globally.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Elcom_Ltd.
And if I want to use WhatsApp, I have to use WhatsApp.
That's not how it works. If you want to claim some poll as evidence of user sentiment, you have to prove that it is representative.
You might learn something

You might too, if you'd stop lashing out strangers like this.

It might surprise you that Russia and especially the USSR did none of those things.

Please -- don't bother. We all know exactly what went down in both the Tsarist and Soviet empires, and when.
Some of us ran the experiment.
Ask HN: Email provider that doesn't lock you out and has good support?
Do not want to get locked out of my account. Heard too many scary stories recently.

There must be quick support available, in case of locked account.

Outlook, Gmail, Protonmail, Fastmail..?
Experience shifts your beliefs in a Bayesian information thoeretic way. It's the same thing of extra information entering the system but with more diffused probability distributions compared to hard knowledge like "the prize is not in that door". But the overall effect that the fuzzy information improves your outcomes holds
It's too good, as long as you don't need 4k, it still runs the newest games at full quality with more than acceptable performance. It has 11GB VRAM. And it's a 6 year old GPU.
I am interested. Do you have any material to share where I could "look at IBM"? Thanks.
I've yet to see servers with anything other than VGA. PS/2 keyboard connectors are going away (this one doesn't have one), but there'e too many crash carts built around vga to change for the moment.
See the Slashdot moderation model.

Users could rate things as Funny, Informative etc. And users could choose what comments they got to see.

https://slashdot.org/moderation.shtml
Super thin phones are impossible to hold without the hefty case.
I'll go with incredibly obtuse, thanks.
Nobody uses the Dewey Decimal system for cataloguing resources. Unless you're an elementary school librarian, possibly, and even then... no.

You really want the Library of Congress's classification outline.
I think it’s something different than a strike and should thus not have any legal protections. Strikes are fair in some sense because workers aren’t being paid during that time (or at the very most by the union coffers) which goes up against the company’s ability to weather the lost revenue during the strike.

In this case, mods can keep subreddits dark without any cost to themselves because they aren’t being paid by Reddit. It’d be like if library volunteers protested by closing the library and stopping any new volunteers from entering by installing a lock on the door. OFC the library is within their rights to break the lock to let other volunteers in.
I can see why neanderthals went extinct
Yes, if you are remote and need banter you can chat with an AI now. They eventually shut up.
that show is hilarious without the laugh track

just not in the way the creators intended
Wickard v. Fillburn (1942) says that's not how the Interstate Commerce power works.
> many of them may not even exist any longer making it near impossible to get any sort of permission to do something like this

So plan ahead. For the 2024 model of each iPhone, get all the permissions to release all of the firmware in year 2032.
Please edit out swipes and name-calling from your comments here, as the site guidelines ask. Your post doesn't need that first bit.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If the magnitude of the quake can be estimated from it, it can be somewhat useful for response agencies in earthquake and tsunami prone areas to make sure their ducks are in a row. Kind of like how storm season tends to make people make sure their emergency supplies are in order, even if their area doesn't tend to get hit by big storms.
- Pressing notifications brings up the wrong pages.

- Back navigation is very messed up and unreliable.

- Images, videos and posts often take a long time to load, and often just don't.

- No ability to copy/paste text from posts.

- Collapsing threads is unreliable.

- Barrages of spam notifications that are difficult to turn off.

just offhand.
Where did I mention Slack? I say "messages" and you assume Slack? Seriously? Also WTF does that article have to do with non-Apple smartwatches being unable to reply to message notifications on iOS?

You can not reply to SMS or iMessage notifications on non-Apple smartwatches. It's not allowed.
Tell HN: Facebook/Instagram/etc. appears to be down
‘Black Mirror’ Gets the Software Update It Sorely Needed in Season 6
not really, it results in people being forced to hijack the top comment if they want any chance of their post being seen. And upvoting mechanism typically make things worse as well
Indeed.

What the UAE did with Falcon was inspiring, well done! This is something that more governments could do.
Hexyl is what I love to use for quickly looking at a file. For slightly more serious introspection I use Emacs' hexl-mode, which also has basic editing capabilities.
For a crash cart, you can pick up a vga capable display at your local thrift store for $20. The specs barely matter, it just needs to work enough to get the network management back online.
Who are you willing to pay to keep your phone updated forever?
Game hacking for sure, and it's still a blast. Playing around with variables in cheat engine or messing with save files is a fantastic way to get started as long as you stick to single player games (multiplayer cheating is way harder and usually unethical).

https://cheatengine.org/
Given the choice between equal models from Meta and the group that released Falcon, initially with a super shady royalty license that they then open sourced, and that nobody had ever heard of before, I'd personally go for meta.

Of course, variety is good and I hope the UAE group continues to establish themselves as a credible model provider.
Same with guitars. During Covid demand was high and supply couldn’t keep up. Prices went up on the new and used market.

Now that Covid is over, prices haven’t gone down. They probably won’t.
Submitted URL doesn't load because of Javascript. Content appears to be available at [0] (previously (non-archive.org) submitted as [1]). Is that actually the same article?

0: http://web.archive.org/web/20221130215710/https://www.grapls...

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30605356
Isn’t this because people notice the categories that have increased more? And that a lot of the categories that increased the most, like fast food, are proportionately small categories of consumption spending and thus weighted less?

Also, a lot of companies have introduced more complicated price discrimination tactics in the past years which can make inflation seem higher than it actually is. Fast food for example, has essentially three tiers of pricing: instore with app coupon pricing, in store sticker price, and delivery/doordash price. Similarly many services use anchoring with high priced for short term contracts to push you towards longer term contracts with more reasonable pricing - they market it as locking in a discount, but they don’t expect you to take the short term contract because it’s a bad value, it’s a way to enhance the perceived value of the expected SKU.

At least for me, my personal spending has grown just about in tandem with official inflation, maybe even less. Where is your evidence that increase in the sticker price of the cheapest things on Taco Bell’s menu reflects a much higher actual rate of inflation?
It's illegal for employers to hire fixed-term employees in this case: https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F34

However, they can have volunteers fill the position: https://www.editions-tissot.fr/droit-travail/jurisprudence-s...
This may not be directly related the Register piece, however it seems appropriate for the broader discussion.

Asset prices need to come down. Waaaaay down. Sink like a stone.

Will it hurt? you bet. It'd probably even affect me, most likely, but we'd eventually survive, and the recovery would be roaring comparatively.

This is the only way to reset the economic imbalance at this point I feel. Companies aren't going to just lower prices out of the goodness of their hearts, they're going to capture all these price increases as much as possible even when the cost of raw materials starts coming down, wages decrease etc.

Everyone needs to feel it, top to bottom, on some level, for this to get better.

I'd like to see higher taxes too, mostly via closing of loopholes and treating capital gains as normal income vs actually raising the tax rates.
directly or indirectly, labor is always 100% of expenses.
So the mods will stay the same. Got it!
Is your friend's python library open source by any chance? I was thinking about doing the same.
> Reddit owns the subreddits, not redditors.

I view a subreddit as a composite of three parts: The authors, the curators, and the host.

Reddit, Inc. owns only one of those three, and it's arguably the one that's most easily replaced.
That 's only if you can make multiple cuts (or slits), and it's actually 8x less because we're talking about bits, not bytes.

With only one cut as the parent comment describes, you can only store the log base 2 of 100 billion, which is 36, so about 4 bytes of info, or one long integer.
Software based stabilisation morphs and creates artifacts in the video because it's tough to track motion in space from erratic camera movements - using a gyro gives your software a neat little guide on camera position during the shot, making stabilisation much more precise.

Depends on applications! Doesn't matter if you're filming your child play baseball, but if you're shooting movies you want the best you can get!
Good at making laws. Not good at making tech.
No one has proved that pi is normal, true. But pi is normal. I mean come on! Like just between us, two friends talking, we both know that pi is normal. It'll be a nightmare to prove but I'd put extremely good odds on it. Probably better odds than RSA being secure, which is also not strictly proven but pretty likely.
I don't really care what license it was originally released on nor do I care if they have been heard of before.
A major danger is that there's money to be made pretending that everything that looks professional is professional and there are no risks nor bad actors. There's a generation or two that got taught (either actual teaching or just experience) that the internet is a dangerous place. When I was a child I was told not to share any personal details on the internet for example and that people could be lying/misrepresenting themselves.

Nowadays, social media and all Big Tech platforms rely on people forgetting such advice and pretending like everything is trusted and there are no bad actors anywhere, because they themselves are a bad actor. They wouldn't want a wary user that never provides personal details nor makes any payments, because this also means they won't provide any personal details to Facebook nor spend any money on a Facebook-advertised product.

I'm especially worried about the newer generations, those that never experienced the early days of the internet and started off in "walled gardens" and phones/tablets. Those are prime targets for scammers.
in my experience, it's the charge port that goes. My last two devices, each of which I had for 3 years, the charge port failed before the battery did. I just finished fixing my current one. Although I did decide to do a battery replacement anyways while I had the device open. But that was just because of how hard it is to open them at all. My battery health monitoring app said it was at ~80% health still. And while the charge port hasn't always failed on me in the past, I'm not sure the battery has ever been the reason for me personally, although I'm probably just lucky in that regard.

Basically, I'm not sure that any one "thing" is the thing that always fails. There are multiple common points of failure and generally speaking, phones are hard to service in any manner these days. I personally would gladly give up water and dust protection, as well as thinness in exchange for ease of serviceability. Unfortunately, that seems to be a relatively uncommon set of preferences (although obviously it's probably much more common in places like Hacker News).
I'm actually talking about having virtually the same setup we have now, just with a moderator B-team (and C, D, etc.), whose view you can subscribe to instead of the main one. Really the question is not "should we have moderators?" but rather "what does the 1:1 moderator-team-to-community ratio do for us?"

From the perspective of an average user, subscribing to a big sub and using the default moderation view, nothing is changing. The only difference is that there are other moderator views created by different teams using the same content source.
Canada's population reaches 40M
I've been living in Canada for 8 years and I generally heard people referring to "35M people", which I believe will soon change to "40M" people.

Interesting that there is apparently a population clock that model's Canada's population: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/71-607-x/71-607-x2018005...

See also the Century Initiative: https://www.centuryinitiative.ca/ to reach 100M by 2100.
Voting could either mean you spent 10 hours researching or you picked the name that you recognize the most.

And the people who care are working to make sure you recognize the right names.
> there will be no good cross-platform mobile UI story

Generally (IMHO) there are no good cross-platform stories, mobile or otherwise with the notable exception of some game engines. The closest you can get is choosing the web browser as your platform and writing a web app (Electron).

If you want to make the best app you can, use the native toolkit directly or via a framework for your UI.
It looks like it was in beta for 7+ years, and GA for 14 months...?
It seems that they are too good at it, to the point of outlawing new competitors and even hobbyists who simply can’t afford to deal with the paperwork; eg see the shit-show that security regulation around OSS.

https://hackaday.com/2023/04/21/the-cyber-resilience-act-thr...
Not exactly atomic bombs, but we do have evidence of naturally occurring, self sustaining nuclear reactors having operated for potentially hundreds of thousands of years in Earth's past (https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Natural_nuclear_fission_reactor)
If the owners/companies no longer exist, then I would think the IP should be free by default. Perhaps that's another law to work on...
Related:

Johnny.Decimal – A System to Organize Projects - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36300472 - June 2023 (1 comment)

Johnny.Decimal - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25398027 - Dec 2020 (187 comments)

Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise projects - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13770827 - March 2017 (2 comments)
“I own a couple of motorcycles. I have a bunch of guns and ammo. Food. I figure that, with that, I can hole up in my house for some amount of time.”

I guess we know what Steve will be doing if Reddit moderators hold out longer than expected.
solved see galaxy s5
It's that it exists. People feel safer downloading iPhone apps even if they're never heard of them.
This is recent and (I think?) related:

Johnny Decimal - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36308366 - June 2023 (192 comments)
People are very good at knowing what their rent is.
I just self-published a sci-fi novel based on the idea of brain chips. It really feel like it’s out of the zeitgeist.
I think that was heavy handed, dang, but I changed it.
Not to mention thermal expansion which doesn’t happen evenly and trying to cut or measure would have an effect
> You can’t say something is like a standard, it either is compliant or not,

Ok, deep mATX isn't mATX compliant. It's been said. But still, it is like mATX, but longer. I tend to prefer bigger cases, but mATX boards fit in them, and deep mATX would too.
Sure, but I'm thinking about stuff like just going to Nordic countries or even the UK. A lot of Europe isn't that far away from a country that doesn't follow EU rules. I was under the impression that you could, for the most part, buy a phone in the US and use it in the EU anyway these days?
Seem to work for me.
This is strategic, right?

It kicks Google, a competitor for advertising dollars. Some people feel Google is under existential threat from AI (trawling through search results full of spam and ads sucks when an AI can just tell you the answer), by allowing people to build various forms of Google competitor without doing the hard lifting of creating the LLM.

It kicks OpenAI, too, though Microsoft is perhaps less obviously a competitor to Meta right now. But Microsoft has OpenAI, loads of money, loads of engineers, and lots of product lines, so they might leverage OpenAI's tech lead to _become_ more of a competitor to Meta. It's less of a risk to Meta if OpenAI doesn't have a tech lead anymore.
Hum, I guess that I should have a redirection to the dashboard to make it obvious... Thanks for the feedback!
I'm sure slashdot showed the messages in threads (at least in some modes) at least 5 years before reddit was a thing.

In fact here's a screenshot from 2005

https://www.flickr.com/photos/third/18260796
No, the rule can not be enacted since it has not been fully adopted - the final (multilingual) text has to be added to the European Council Rules via the plenary voting procedure. This rule will come into effect following that vote.
A strong tolerance for bullshit and working alongside egos. Usually the egos get booted as you’re likely not the only one suffering and management do pick up on these things.

Humility, mistake ownership, respect and giving credit where due just makes work life so much more pleasant. People like to work with other nice people, even if they’re not the strongest in a technical sense.
Trapped Under Trucks - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36332086 - June 2023 (227 comments)
A zero, I think.
Having cookies message popup on every website you visit is a good thing?
as someone with an interest in the subject but not a domain expert, I have an imprecise understanding of what you both are referring to when you say "a stochastic measure."

do you have any resources that you could point me to for reading up on stochastic memory management?

(apologies if this is a stupid question)
But most phones arent super thin. Imagine adding a replaceable battery and thickness to those.
That's amazing. I spent a fair bit of time on vbulletin.org (I think) back in the day. Wasn't a huge poster, but lurked a lot and remember reading Kier's posts.
> You are choosing to use an ad based service. No one is forcing you to view reddit. Your attention belongs to you and you can choose to direct it where you want.

True.

> You knew reddit included ads, you consented to use reddit which includes ads.

It's not really an all or nothing, take it or leave it proposition. Just because they sent me ads, doesn't obligate me to view them. I get to view just the parts that I want to view.

We're not some captive passive consumer audience that reddit can jerk around at will. We are in control. We own the machine and we decide what it's going to display. If we decide we don't want to see ads, we're not gonna see ads and that's pretty much the end of it. What reddit wants or needs has pretty much zero bearing on the matter.

If you send me a page with some annoying element and I decide I want to get rid of it, it's within my power. All I have to do is inspect the element and delete it. Alternatively, I can download an annoyance filter extension with a huge database of those annoying elements to do it for me. It's called uBlock Origin.

This is called adversarial interoperability and it's an essential freedom.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interopera...

If I'm handed a magazine and it has annoying ads on it, I can rip out the pages and throw them in the trash. Same thing.

> Just because you don’t like ads doesn’t make it “mind rape”.

I think it does. I don't consent to having information I didn't ask for forcibly inserted into my mind for someone else's profit. When I opened this post, I wanted to see the comments, not irrelevant brands of products I don't care about. If I wanted to see products I'd have visited Amazon or gone to the market.

It's really simple. If you add noise to your signal, I'll filter it. I don't care if you make money by adding that noise. Find some other way to make money or go bankrupt.

> It isn’t the world’s responsibility

I'm having difficulty understanding what you're saying. I think you mean "it's not reddit's responsibility to cater to your needs". Well it doesn't have to. I'll look after my own needs -- by blocking its ads unconditionally and with no exceptions.
It would require doing things slightly differently, such as hardware vendors having to buy the rights to redistribute firmware blobs / source code... just because it's hard it doesn't matter it can't happen. After all, if physical components can be brought together to make a product, why can't software licenses move with them?

One could also imagine radically different IP laws concerning firmware or even software.
Of all the incredible technology in a modern smartphone, it’s too hard to make replaceable batteries?
But really waterproofing the phone doesn't require gluing everything together to within an inch of its life, just a gasket and a few screws. Yes it will add $5 or something to the cost of a phone, totally worth it, and will improve repairability in general to boot.
> It's a very thin layer of rock, floating on top of a pool of magma

it's not a pool of magma, the mantle is basically solid

(except on very large timescales)
Would love to be able to buy a printed copy.
This is a bit of a unnecessarily provocative title, since the question of whether or not to promote the 'experimental' flakes system and replace the channels mechanism is still an active and controversial one in the Nix community. There hasn't been any significant news on this front recently; this article simply explains why flakes were introduced as an experimental feature.