skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Attitudes like yours are why it kept spreading instead of petering out.

Defining “why” can be a complex exercise, but let’s take a very simple approach: if there were not attitudes like the GP and everyone who could got vaccinated, would COVID have petered out? I don’t think so.

It’s plausible that, if enough production capacity had existed to rapidly vaccinate, say, 85% of the world population, evenly distributed, that it would have worked. But getting a uniform 85% was never in the cards, and, starting some time in 2021, the vaccine was nowhere near effective enough for a two-dose series to suppress transmission even with 100% coverage.

Sorry, but the idea of eliminating Covid with the vaccines we have was a nice fantasy, but it was not going to happen.

(If the vaccine were much better and had good worldwide coverage, then maybe. The smallpox vaccine was good enough. The measles and chickenpox vaccines are plausibly good enough. The oral polio vaccine might be good enough, but I have serious doubts that the strategy with which it’s used is actually appropriate. Somehow there does not appear to be community transmission of polio in New York right now, and I’m a bit surprised.

(People under about 23 years old in the US have generally received the injectable polio vaccine, not the oral vaccine. The injectable vaccine seems to be generally considered inadequate to prevent transmission. Maybe the under 23 year old NY population coupled with modern hygiene is not actually able to sustain an outbreak?)
I agree with you, and I bike often. I just dont want to use my health and my life as an argument in figuring out who is right, when on the other side is just some dumb drunk dude on a pickup texting his buddy or reading twitter while driving
When I get those I open open the store and rate them the lowest possible with the comment "begging for stars".

You have to do it in the app/play store directly as they usually highjack non 5-star ratings in-app.
Is it fruitless to try reporting a delivery app to apple? I used to get literally 10 marketing push notifications per day from an app so I disabled notifications and now wait for them to call me to get my order (paying COD)
In the 15 years between the iPhone and Vision, all major Apple innovation has been limited to scaling their cash cow iPhone to tablet and desktop form factors.

The Apple business model is near impossible to replicate, but it is proof that it is possible to ride a cash cow indefinitely.
I've worked at companies that paid for reviews, and they usually don't look like this (I do not condone buying reviews personally).

If you're paying usually you won't be satisfied with 1 word reviews and they won't contain slang like "gud"... they'll be more like:

"This is good app that solved my problems"

Usually at least a sentence, vague, with a minor grammar error here and there.

I've also seen people try to sabotage an app by paying for reviews and trying to frame the app owner.

There are also cases where a review bomb will start to generate counter-protestors. These people often don't support the app or really case about the protest, but are simple contrarians who will go against the grain of any popular opinion.

I suspect this is annoyed users doing the minimum because they were prompted with a review request in-app and wanted it to go away.
Thousands of Rollbar customers receiving email alerts from one user
The tweets about it keep rolling in this morning.

Apparently the alerts were supposed to be sending to https://twitter.com/lifeofkaashe.

Tough morning for the Rollbar team I would imagine.
Considering the importance of the negotiations for Apollo’s developer he could have considered hiring a middleman for the call, that would probably have prevented some misunderstandings
i dont think thats what people are saying, they're just saying that 3rd party apps shouldnt be destroyed. people have built companies and they're livelihoods around them.
I wipe my comments about every 6 months. Not just delete, I overwrite them and then purge them with one of those browser scripts. Looking back, it appears my history has been completely restored going back 5 years. Beyond 5 years, they are still deleted.
Congratulations marginalia ! :D
It's probably 80% of profits, given those other things don't have as good margins. The number you site says $42.3 B was spent on the app store. Of that Google usually takes like a 30% cut. And it has overhead etc.
An Anomalous Wire Made of Manganese and Platinum
No tabs.

But take a step back. We shouldn't _need_ to use an app to browse a sodding WEB SITE!

The only reason I installed the app is because Reddit deliberately made their mobile web site so appallingly annoying to use!
A long, long time ago, when the only computer I had access to was an Apple IIe in my high school's computer lab, I decided to write a basketball game. Using ASCII characters to draw a basketball court, and literal Xs and Os to represent the players. Then typing in player stats from the newspaper to determine odds of making a shot, etc. I would write BASIC code on my school notebook at night, so I could type it in at school the next day.

Not sure how this idea clicked for me, as no teachers suggested it to me. But this basketball game idea was what drove me to learn how to program. I've been programming one thing or another for decades since.
All you need to know and care for is that cert is signed by CA that your app has in cert store, and have the right fields that your app wants/uses (usually for web use just CN and Subject Alternate Names[SAN]).

Everything else is basically smoke and mirrors
Pants 2.16.0 Released
It’s just OPs superiority complex for being on hacker news instead of “low-grade” Reddit.
It doesn’t matter what someone said or not. It makes no sense to do stupid one-word reviews that can trigger an app review if people report that an app is generating fake reviews, which is likely the intention by the bad actor.
While I personally agree that defensive in depth does have it's real world uses, I'd be really surprised if having an Apple dev account is a real world barrier for anyone doing iOS exploit development.

Maybe script kiddies wouldn't, but they're not the kind of thing to be worried about anyway.
Web Browser use cases without native ipfs:// and ipns:// should use subdomain HTTP gateways like localhost in Kubo, or public dweb.link, cf-ipfs.com, which provide Origin per root CID, sandboxing web apps from each other.

See:
- https://docs.ipfs.tech/how-to/address-ipfs-on-web/#subdomain...
- https://specs.ipfs.tech/http-gateways/subdomain-gateway/
That's pretty much how Latin is taught in the US (where it is offered at all) as well. There is a movement called "living Latin" that aims to teach Latin as a spoken language, but only a very few institutions offer it.
Definitely not a reddit employee, though if I was right now, I wouldn't be for much longer. I'm moving to lemmy and building some tools to help others do so too.
The answer is that they're from ~2013: before React etc. taught us how to make SPAs. It was an early attempt, so it sucks. JS is best when it "paves the cowpath" and takes something we could already do slowly in browser and gives us a better native API for same thing, like querySelector or IntersectionObserver or how there was no built in way to parse a query string before URLSearchParams. Anytime JS goes first, the API is crap, like the DOM Node APIs themselves.
Why don't we all just chuck a post in a gist and use the comments to chat?
Dunno what I'd want to change though. If worse comes to worst, I'll fork it and keep the dependencies up to date.
Common Lisp and then I think the current site is mostly Python.
they were going to force him to pay 2million a month starting in a month. what else could he do other than "take his toys and go home" which is a very reductive statement.

they could have served ads to the api. they could have had some profit sharing agreement. any routes it could have gone but they chose the most antagonistic one.
If I'm interviewing person A and person B, all things being equal, I'll go for the one that has a degree on CompSci (or equivalent). That's it. It's not that difficult. Obviously if person A doesn't have a degree but knows much more (based on the tech interview) than person B who has one, I'll go for person A.
I don't use consoles, partly because I can't use them however I like. So, yes.
Same. Used to moderate the official vbulletin.org with some good people. This got me started in my career and I would not be where I am today without all that time spent learning the internals of vBulletin. Of course, it's a shitshow nowadays after the company took it over and the majority of good people (including developers) created XenForo. I have not been involved for over a decade :)
Makes sense, although I've never considered that--the communities I modded via forums were so small / close-nit that we never had to worry about someone misbehaving. It was always "a friend of a friend" at most in terms of degrees of separation, so social pressures still applied.
The key claim in the paper (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2204.12310.pdf) is that there are detectable changes in cosmic ray activity around 15 days before major seismic events. One posited mechanism is that stuff happens deep in the earth that affects the magnetic field first, and then kicks off some big earthquake. But they don't rule out loopier ideas (like sunspot activity driving changes in the Earth's dynamo that then kick off earthquakes).

One thing that troubles me in the paper is that the researchers appear to have gone looking for precursor patterns in an ad hoc way, with no physical theory in mind, just trying different binning techniques and delays until they got a signal. I'd love to hear the opinion of someone who knows this field on the soundness of this research.
Probably that’s it. So apple heavily rate limits this pop up(IIRC, an app can ask for a review 3 times in 365 days), it’s possible that they are spending their allowance to counter for the negative reviews that they are likely receiving right now.

The developer can't know if a dialog is displayed, so it's a standard practice to time these strategically but if you like you can spend it in a row.
I'm a PhD student in one of the mentioned labs. This week has been a little crazy since Magda gave a talk at the annual ISSCR conference announcing her progress on what she called a "synthetic embryo" a term that the field has specifically made efforts to shy away from...She also began speaking to the press even though her publication is not out yet.

For context, Hanna kind of scooped Zernicka-Goetz on the mouse post-implantation embryoid model last year which is probably why she gave the talk and began speaking to the press even though her actual publication is in reviewer limbo (it is unclear what stage of acceptance is in). Hanna responded by immediately publishing his pre-print to biorxiv and Zernicka-Goetz followed soon after. So they're in a race to see who gets first, which I think will be Hanna's. Zernicka-Goetz has been scooped before on a big story so this is probably playing a role here. This is the stem cell field's version of the "who invented CRISPR" race, although the impact will probably(?) be smaller.

Great article!
It really was, have shared it with many colleagues who also appreciated it!
kqueue is most comparable to epoll.

In a way, async sendfile is like iouring in that a web / file server does not have to supply a blocking thread context to wait for io -- once data arrives from the storage driver, its pushed through the TCP stack in the storage driver's ithread context. But its just that single sequence.
Ha! The common clay of the new West.

That was such a hilarious, irreverent movie. Can anyone even get away with making movies like that these days?
I had long covid back in early 2022. It was not fun, despite being fully vaccinated and being extremely fit(run 20+ miles a week etc). It took me 3 months to shake the symptoms and I tried everything. Vitamin B IV injection(helped a little with splitting headaches I constantly had a month after covid). Vitamin D 5000iu daily, Fish Oil supplements, Zinc(had to stop from stomach issues), even tried MSM with Tumeric. I felt like alot of them did not make that much of a difference, taking NUUN(a electrolyte supplement seemed to work in fighting the fatigue and headaches). Glad there is something out there that finally works well.
Wow wtf. You have some serious issues. First, I agree that your attention belongs to you, and you are 100% in your right to go elsewhere. Reddit is not forcing you to view their ads.

But second, you are unhinged if you think this is a reasonable comment:

> I deserve not to be advertised to for the same reasons women deserve not to be raped

Wow
Good. That community should die because reddit is leeching on it. We don't negotiate with terrorists.
Take that one step further - what about learning on generated data from a model that used copyrighted data? It is exactly what MS "Orca" does. Does this step launder copyright?
If it makes you feel better, I checked with the people I knew who told me about the CsatAR kickstarter saga. They also never got the gift, or heard of it at all.

But they also said they wouldn't hesitate to kickstart with Jeri again (because of the refunds) and none of them had heard about TiltFive.
never underestimate the ability of redditors to find something to get angry about
Notification channels is legitimately top 3 features I missed going from Android to iOS as my daily driver. Rideshare apps (Lyft, Uber) are by far the worst offenders, with Amazon coming in a close third. I want notifications when I need to go downstairs and when I can expect service to be delivered, I do not need a notification for 10% off some aspect of the app I’ve never used and will now never use as a result.

It’s wild that I cannot opt out of these forced ads without fundamentally crippling the app itself.
look at the source :(
If you've devised a system for running a self-moderating forum at scale, then I might be interested in shares in your business.
Definitely. I think communities are more effective when the “elders” volunteer out of love to run. I don’t think you can pay people enough to make up for passion.

This is based on experiences with community centers, game meetups, marathon planners, and dev communities. You usually have to have someone on the payroll, but having a high ratio of volunteers usually means higher quality community.

My most clear example is the difference between hiking meetups that are just some people planning stuff vs the ones planned by REI. The REI ones are pretty fun, but the meetups are more thought out and better, I think.
https://github.com/MarginaliaSearch/submit-site-to-marginali...
Tiny bit of feedback, your encyclopedia favicon seems to 404:

https://encyclopedia.marginalia.nu/favicon.ico

Otherwise - Great job on the peppy site and breath of fresh air to open the network tab and see 1 html get, and another for the CSS. And the 404 favicon that I guess the browser insists on ;)
So we should be fine with an increasing proportion of the populated environment that never experienced these conditions beginning to?
how so? I just slide by them and move on with my life.

It's absolutely mind-blowing to me the entitlement people have thinking they should get things for free.
> Except every large player in the space is then incentivised to drag their audience out of the walled garden.

That's an interesting point. I wonder what other levers Apple would then adjust to keep them in? Maybe lower the Apple tax a bit, maybe something else. Probably a few possibilities that we haven't thought of too. :)
Jim Keller on How RISC-V Will Change the World
The note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if they don’t reopen
They might mean leaving as a user
Actual title: Federal judge blocks Seattle police from enforcing graffiti ban

Actual content: "A U.S. district court has ruled that Seattle must temporarily cease enforcement of property crimes with regard to graffiti.

Judge Marsha Pechman of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington issued a preliminary injunction, saying the city's ordinance that punishes graffiti "targets speech" and "poses a real and substantial threat of censorship."
They are not " still actively moderating, just doing so in a private community", they are shutting down their community for everyone.

If you want to equate legal with morally good, the changes they are making to their API is technically not "breaking any rules" and banning all the mods that are shutting down subs would also not break any rules. Doesn't mean it was a good idea or that we should encourage it
Why is Aaron Swartz not given co-founder status in this article? I'm not saying he was part of this review faking allegedly going on, just odd he's memory holed.
>yet it cannot be written as a fraction.

Is that trivial?
The moment you log into someone else website, your attention no longer belongs to you, FYI. Not sure who told you it should work differently.
BMI is fine as an indicator of "are you fat or not", UNLESS you are a very fit athlete. However being fat and being unhealthy aren't 1 to 1, contrary to popular bias and stereotypes. I've known plenty chubby and healthy people. They might not run marathons but get on with their lives just fine. Certainly it can raise your chances of being unhealthy but it's certainly not 1:1 as many online "experts" seem to claim.
I've seen no evidence ChatGPT has decision making or planning capabilities.
Inadvertently, this guy also perfectly described the problem with large-scale immigration.
I think we can reduce our differences as to those of values. My definition of "monster" is not someone who "knowingly and purposefully spreads suffering, either for their own benefit for for fun." That is just a selfish person with no care for how their malicious acts affect others.

"Monsters," in my view, are those that are not and cannot ever be part of any cohesive human unit -- rather than those who cannot conform to a "global" moral or value system. The WASPs, mafiosos, inbred and insane aristocrats, mob-men, etc. are not what I consider monsters. They live and operate within a community. They almost always spread suffering, pain, violence, and other acts of villainy -- but that is an inescapable part of humanity. Locking them up away from the rest will not solve any long-term problems, aside from the career outlooks of politicians, district attorneys, and their ilk.

American Indians and other "primitive" tribes of people are another example (related to groups of people without strong government). All the war, bloodshed, acts of heinous despicably they commit against one another, is not something that can be whisked away by more subjugation. Brutality and suffering is a part of us. To think ourselves as civilized because we repress those urges into complete subjugation is foolhardy. Without active sublimation of these parts into socially-affirming activities, they will spill-over into other parts. We will not become "monsters," but we will do monstrous deeds unknowingly, within the comfort of our delusion of domestication.

Perhaps I lack the ability to "narrow in" on a certain issue. I miss the "trees for the forest," which makes it impossible for me to see a way to untangle this "ball of yarn" without methodically understanding the tangle of all the collective "strings". And for that, I do think your views are much more practical and applicable in the present.
Because federal conflicts with and therefore preempts the state law, "NHTSA expects vehicle manufacturers to fully comply with their Federal safety obligations."

Isn't that the exact opposite of how things actually work?
That's a hell of a way to treat the volunteers who make the existence of that site possible.
Metformin also helps keep you under that threshold. Without Metformin my A1C is typically around 10 but with it I'm usually around 5. This complicates classification.
They make money on it by forcing Android phone manufacturers to include the Chrome and the Google Play Store. The Play Store is the dominant Android App Store and it makes Google a nice chunk of money. It's not nearly as good as search, but way better than say Twitter.
Hmm, I see a market for an app that can turn on and off notifications, e.g. "Allow Evil Delivery App to send me notifications for the next hour". It'll probably be impossible to pass through the app store overlords.

Or a notification "firewall". I know Pushbullet has permission to see all my notifications and to forward them to my desktop PC, I can also dismiss them from the PC, so I guess it'd be possible to make a similar app that filters notifications and dismiss the spammy ones.
> A gift also feels like a burden has been handed to me

Donate it immediately, unopened. It can be resold.

With any luck, it will be obtained by someone who wants it, or be passed around as a currency totem forever, and never become waste.
From personal experience I can tell you that pushshift being cut off has impacted my ability to mod. I often looked up suspicious users and seeing what they wrote in other subreddits helped me decide if they were worth the risk of a second chance or if it was less of a hassle to ban them. Especially their deleted or removed comments were often quite enlightening. That's not something Reddit enabled me to do.

I could have worked around it. I started archiving thematically similar subreddits myself but it is something that I gladly outsourced and have paid money for instead of doing it myself in an half assed way. And I am a programmer, so I can do such things. Lots of other mods aren't and can't do similar things.

Expect lower quality modding (some people will LOL and ask 'even lower?') because of this changes.

That I had to pay a 3rd party instead of Reddit is not the fault of the 3rd party. They provided a service that Reddit never did.
It's not going to matter imo.

Once they accepted $1.3B in vc the die was cast. If it's not spez, it will be someone else.

That said, ballooning reddit from 300 employees to 2k while simultaneously (somehow?) being largely incapable of delivering the mod tools promised for a decade, making the site or the app accessible, or improving their app past what a 1.5 person dev team can deliver certainly merits firing.
> unless you first delete the specific content.

That specifically states that content you deleted will NOT be visible.
The one reality Apple must face is that if they were hostile enough to large companies in curtailing their bad behavior there would be more incentive for them to make noise about issues with the App store, either via the legal system, legislation, or supporting alternative platforms in earnest.

There's alot of people who, for instance, if Meta, Microsoft, Netflix, and Google all supported a different platform, they could migrate with little effort.

Right now you're usually missing some or all of them which is why alt operating systems often have support for Android apps (APK compat) so users can have a lower switching cost.

iMessage is only so good in terms of lock in
Reddit's down my man. Hopefully it doesn't trigger Hackernews' eternal September.
Please go read about the problem before commenting a stramwan. Rarely anyone objects about the API having a price.
Language is a virus.
This is relatively easy to do with recursive components in Vue
panic is also a linux specific term.

When rust panics, it shuts the program down.

When linux panics, it halts the machine - for fundamental things like data corruption detected, and we can't continue to operate and risk corrupting the disk. Just like Windows has the BSOD.
> time is not like money, you can't save it... that time spent reading the book was going to go away whether you read the book or not. You can't save up that time to spend it on something better later.

Time is not money, but it is opportunity cost.

Time allocated to X is time you have lost the ability to allocate to Y.
Working on some ideas for a visual novel and the companion technology to easily create branching narrative structures.