skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
<rant> Not responding directly, just piggy-backing for lack of a better place to put this comment.

The problem with Lemmy is that one gets sent to some place like https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances, is immediately confronted with a ton of weird links like "butts.international" and "badblocks.rocks", what even is this? And about 100000 other servers just named "lemmy", "notlemmy", and "lemmy1". So you click a few at random optimistically, then get hit with login page, or a server error, or an apparently empty test-server. You begin to think you're being pranked, like am I supposed to brute-force click like 50 things to find something that's not a joke? Maybe you go to https://join-lemmy.org/ and it says "After you create an account, you can find communities", so great, it's inaccessible anonymously, the same as twitter. You go to https://lemmymap.feddit.de/ and after 15m of page-loading get a hilariously useless cyberpunk-looking word-soup where you can't click any links, much less search for topics/communities (btw there are 2068431 running instances and somehow butts.international is still front and center in my cyberpunk view)

Finally, by ignoring recommended tooling and just using google-search I found a community relevant to my interests, but it has pretty bad content and a whopping 1 user/day. Another google search trying to find a certain topic, I find one, but it has only 3 total comments, and I could not tell what month/year the posts were added.

So, clearly I don't really know what I'm doing here, but this stuff is ridiculous. As long as we're crawling 2068431 instances why don't we look at the communities it hosts and the volume/recency of traffic? At least filter totally empty stuff and/or make it easier to get all the test instances in a sandbox! Discoverability is so bad that I can barely get to the point where I'm considering usability / content.
I think, it wasn't so much for speed as for then expensive extra circuitry. (On the few vintage instruction sets using ones' complement, I know, addition and subtraction still executes in the same time as any other internal ALU instruction. Then, cycle times were still mostly owed to slow core memory cycles and the fasted you'd ever get was a single memory cycle.)
There wasn't an actual case of injury brought before the court they ignored centuries of precedent to allow someone to bring a fake case about a hypothetical injury that they might have sustained in the future.

Under this theory I ought to be able to sue a woman I'm dating in case we in the future we have sex and she may in the future choose to abort my imaginary baby.
I for one would love to see the contents of that folder. I miss the old web
Any quick start guide to setting this up (e.g for newbies)?
I’m guessing what is implied is tencent who owns TikTok also having a significant ownership in Reddit.

The disregard for moderators and community could reflect on an upcoming app based strategy that “doesn’t really rely on moderators” aka tiktok style.
We are quickly headed toward the dystopia exhibited in the movie minority report. Actually we're already there for the most part.
Lol, who talks like this?

Like I said, you are right about everything. I'm an uncultured imbecile. I'll start reading more, going to museums. I'll travel the world. Europe is paramount when considering US charging infrastructure. The shape of a connector is the most important part. Can we move on and have you tell me your point? What do you actually have to say about Volvo adopting NACS?
Consenting adults should be free to do as they please
But Google and Facebook both said the same would happen in France and Australia, where they are now complying with both: Spain caved too quickly.
The utterly debased logic probably involves something like "empowering" the sex workers to report only their least favorite customers.
It doesn't solve it at all, I am talking about real money you can spend in a store, not tokens that need to be converted through an exchange into cash each time.
Musk did that to finance his purchase.
I wrote a jQuery (30kb) alternative called Umbrella JS (2.6kb) and based on my experience and if I had to guess, probably most of the rest of React's size is in compatibility stuff. Like making sure events work uniformly across browsers, I remember that making everything work with SVGs was also a big milestone, normalizing events (e.g. we have synthetic events which are basically React's events on top of the normal DOM events), etc. An astute/old fashion dev will realize that React's onChange actually behaves like `addEventListener('input')` and not really like `addEventListener('change')`, since the latter only triggers on blur and not on each keystroke.

I strongly believe React team is shooting themselves on the foot by not making Error Boundaries into Hooks. If they did, someone could create a Preact 2.0 so to speak that is like React but purely functional (no classes). But since we don't have that, and error handling IS an important part of React, any react alternative would have to implement classes fully as well, which might retract many from even trying to create a React alternative (I don't think myself smart enough to do a React alternative properly, but I'd certainly tried if they did this).
When your writing is childish it makes me assume your data is garbage.
> A full chain is a difficult attack to create, and probably worth a lot more than $2.5 million - beyond the reach of one person. You need at least two novel, serious exploits. That's why they are so valuable.

Depends if you're publicly selling via Zerodium as much, but if you sell privately it might be worth more.

> beyond the reach of one person

It's going to be difficult but I don't think its beyond one person, but even if it was you could easily just go for a less difficult tier to make less money more often.

The real problem would be how lumpy the payments would be, you'd effectively get nothing until you found something and most people cannot afford to that.
... fabricated one for her case, according to the Colorado Attorney General who was just stung with losing this case.
Is the right of freedom of association stronger than someone else's "right" to your labor?
> It bothers me a little bit that having a strong stance against intolerance is seen as being “politicized.” That should just be normal and expected behavior.

It did not seem to me a politicized discussion but a technical issue with filtering using hardcoded blacklists that are just too prone to the Scunthorpe Problem. Perhaps because too many people in the USA despise the mere existence of other languages :)
The overthinking, speculation, and wasted thoughts in the comments due to misinformed people attempting to spread unsubstantiated claims is quite shocking.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1674887204580073474?s=20
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@elonmusk

"Several hundred organizations (maybe more) were scraping Twitter data extremely aggressively, to the point where it was affecting the real user experience.

What should we do to stop that? I’m open to ideas.
5:06 PM · Jun 30, 2023"

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1674942336583757825?s=20
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@nearcyan

"so @elonmusk
now that twitter blocks all requests that are not logged in, tweets can no longer be embedded in most chat apps

I'd strongly suggest reconsidering the UX+growth tradeoffs made here (take note how tiktok, youtube, etc, do not need this despite much higher b/w req!)"

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@elonmusk

"This will be unlocked shortly. Per my earlier post, drastic & immediate action was necessary due to EXTREME levels of data scraping.

Almost every company doing AI, from startups to some of the biggest corporations on Earth, was scraping vast amounts of data.

It is rather galling to have to bring large numbers of servers online on an emergency basis just to facilitate some AI startup’s outrageous valuation."
Won't they go bad eventually? How dos that work?
I really believe I have a good idea for this question[1]. There is no reason advertising couldn't be nagging me to do things I want to be nagged into doing anyway. But damn, the actual work to disrupt such an entrenched snakepit of self-justification is daunting. I don't think it's at all impossible to build something much better, just really hard to get the necessary mindshare from an industry built on taking mindshare.

[1] https://eucyclos.wixsite.com/eucyclos/post/making-advertisin...
Or migrate to Fastmail. It's painful but doable if you have a gmail address (redirect all mail to your new address with an out-of-office automatic reply about the change). While you're at it, get your own domain (through Fastmail or others) so this never happens again (https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/360058753394-Cus...). I was lucky enough to start out on Gmail with my own domain back when that was free, and it meant that I could migrate to Fastmail without anyone even noticing.

No affiliation with them, just very happy I made the switch.
My guess would be that the 'gap' in the rings is just not getting any sunlight due to being behind Saturn. Remember that the sun will be at a different angle to Saturn than the JWST.
It's corporate speak of "we want to have our data public for all of the benefits and carry no costs"
Who owns MDN? I thought it was disbanded by Mozilla few years ago.
Using JavaScript is also “basically free”.

There’s no problem with either listed approach, GP just seems to consider a method without page reloads as adhering to a harder constraint.
Sun and LinkedIn weren't in SF, and Nadella wasn't in leadership at Sun or GitHub, so GP's coy slip is bizarre and nonsensical.
I wonder how I ever got by with my thermometer and CO2 meter not connected to the intertoobs.
OK, hold up, I’ve been hearing this line forever and I’m here to hold it to account:

> the API-compatible Preact is something like 7KB

Something is up here. Either Preact is not in fact API-compatible (in which case people should stop saying this), or the React devs are dummies who have never thought of Preact’s architecture or looked at its open source code (I rank this unlikely) or there’s somehow some other catch that no one talks about.

Which is it? Why doesn’t React just use Preact’s architecture if it’s so lightweight? What is Preact actually giving up?
That's kind of a misrepresentation. She said that state law unconstitutionally restricted her actions.

If say, Alabama made a law that Black Americans couldn't vote, affected citizens wouldn't have to wait to be fined for attempting to vote, they could sue about the unconstitutionality of the law as soon as it was passed.
I never really got into twitter but mastodon is quite nice.

Lemmy/kbin still have some rough edges in their UI but given enough time I think they'll get there. If any of the big ex-reddit apps turn to the fediverse I think it'll give these communities a big boost.
> Twitter is still $20B away from being (profitable)

Can you explain how Twitter manages to spend $20B per year?

Say they have 1000 employees @ $200k/year, that's $200m/year (1/5th of 1B). Where are the remaining $19.8B being spent? That figure doesn't pass the sniff test.
They banned your personal account?!

Do you have the ability to edit or access your old comments? Is it a shadowban, read-only, or a full block?
Leveraged buyout. Twitter is now forced to carry the debt that incurred from its own acquisition
As much as we wish or kid ourselves we can not be productive for more than a few hours a day. It's best to pick the time and be consistent and treat it seriously.

I like the schedule many professional writers keep.

They start writing at 8 am or so and finish at 2 pm or so with a lunch break and a couple of small breaks. They absolutely make sure that they write for those hours so they only focus on writing. After that they do as they please.

It's smart , no burnout, any thing else can keep until 2 and they are productive.
Tellico [Collection Management Software]
Section 230 - yes. That's federal law.

State law with a private citizen action (see also Texas SB 8) for civil liabilities is a different thing.

The way the law is crafted, it's not the state filing the lawsuits but rather private citizens and thus it complicates the ability for a company to sue the state (the normal way to invalidate a law).

This is one of the laws that is coming into action that is designed to challenge section 230 in the courts. This is an attempt to get the 1997 supreme court that struck down parts of section 230 that criminalized transmission of obscene or indecent material to minors to be re-examined and undone.

The fallout for this is social media companies that have porn as part of their service. It's easier for porn companies to comply with the law - but general social media companies that have "material considered harmful to minors" are squarely in the sights of the law and enables parents to sue those companies.

Porn companies can just do wholesale IP range blocking and geolocation and make serious effort to comply with the law and block all of their content.

Social media companies that contain content that is NSFW or NSFL will have much more of a challenge to comply with the law as they now also have to properly classify their content.
America’s Most Popular Drug Has a Puzzling Side Effect. We Finally Know Why
I must have missed something (unsurprising) but I could have sworn I remember reading about Fanzor1 and Fanzor2 like a decade ago. I would say this must be a different Fanzor, but my brain had them cataloged as transposases, and lo and behold, a quick PubMed search:

https://mobilednajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/...
So you think a Muslim baker could be forced to make a cake with the text "Allah is a False God"?
Redb: Rust embedded key-value database reaches 1.0
can you tell me how to view posts as a gallery? can you also tell me how to create a link with username and subreddit below a post and when you click it, it takes you to the sub or the users profile? Such a simple thing...
> Europe is paramount when considering US charging infrastructure.

It is when you want an example of how to do it right. Europe is a long way ahead of North America in EV infrastructure because of sensible standardization.

Learn from Europe. Europe does EV infrastructure better.
I can't help but think this is a clunkier than necessary. With function composition and the try/finally approach described we can get the same thing:

const doSomeWork = () => {
// some computation here.
}

const withCleanup = (fn, cleanupFn) => {
let x;
try { x = fn() }
finally { cleanupFn() }
return x;
};

const someCleanupFn = () => {
// remove that file or whatever...
};

const doSomeWorkAndCleanup = withCleanup(doSomeWork, someCleanupFn);

This also provides lots of nice ways to understand what that cleanup behavior was to the caller. We could return an array of the original function return value and the result of the cleanup function. Maybe this reveals a potential new monadic structure that would be useful...

I agree doing this in OO, like what's shown in the page's examples, without the execution environment's support is tricky... I'd rather see though a new class to handle this rather than adding this behavior by adding a special method - it seems to put us back in the direction of having lifecycle methods like what React supports in class components that the community has totally moved away from.

I think I don't like that triggering the `dispose` method only takes place when the keyword `using` is present. It'd be much cleaner that it is always invoked on any object whose extends `Disposable`. Unless I have that behavior wrong...
This is how you do it. The johns are the ones who create the market for prostitution. Prostitutes, many of whom were forced into it, should not be criminalized.

Jurisdictions where voluntary prostitution is legal to provide or procure, have increased rates of illegal sex trafficking compared to jurisdictions where it is illegal. Criminalizing it from the demand side has much the same effect as a total ban, while also protecting vulnerable sex workers.
Ask HN: Are the Reddit / Twitter changes on the same day a coincidence?
Was just reflecting on Twitter closing access without login is happening on the same day that reddit is shutting down it's API. Seems a little odd they're happening at nearly the exact same time.

I know there are some external factors around scraping for AI training content but within one day of each other seems a little odd to me.

Probably just a coincidence but wondered if anyone else had guesses as to why. Some kind of regulatory reason? Twitter doing it at a time where there might be less attention because of the reddit changes?

Maybe I'm reading into it too much.
https://www.nontoxu.com/plastics-silicone/silicone-toxicity
And if you profile code, then you see assembly level profiling information too!
Correlation does not equal causation. Although unprofitable companies might be inclined layoff employees, it's not implied that layoffs are a sign of unprofitability (in fact, the opposite could be true: laying off employees whose marginal value is low could cause a company to be more profitable).
I'm surprised I'm the first to say something about the waste they produce. They seem to be relic of the 80s or 90s where no one cared.
Buying a meat pie in Australia used to mean you could get a squeeze from the tomato sauce bottle, but now the little packet is litter producing and a chargeable extra.
Remember this next time you're driving above the speed limit on the highway. Especially if you live in the US and are white.
It's interesting that you could use the first amendment to argue the exact opposite in this ruling. For example, by this logic social media is perfectly in their right to block posts from political positions they disagree with, which many folks might find impinges on their right to free speech.

Seems like a weird case for the Supreme to have taken in the first place, I don't really see how it clarifies anything really, since we still compel businesses to not restrict services based on protected classes.

EDIT:

Feel like I'm being clumsy in my writing above. What I'm trying to argue is--to me--it seems the crux of the case is whether (a) "won't make sites for gay marriage" == (b) "won't serve gay people in my restaurant". The latter is pretty clearly illegal, even the ruling upholds that. So if you think (a) == (b), then the ruling seems contradictory. If you think (a) != (b), then the ruling makes sense, akin to saying "a heavy-metal focused website maker has every right to refuse to make country music websites".

I can see both sides of the argument (a) == (b) and (a) != (b). What I can't see is how the First Amendment can be used to justify whether (a) == (b) or not. If you _already assume_ (a) != (b), then you can say a business shouldn't be compelled to say anything. However, you must first justify that (a) != (b). I don't think this ruling does that, so I don't think it's a very useful ruling for anything in the future, even if I see the merits of preventing overreach in government censorship.
I’m all for bluesky.

Elon has crashed a lot of my faith in him as anything more than another insane industrialist. Fuck Elon, fuck Twitter
A good day to have "disrupt to bullshit" available

"""
OK, people, let's bullshit in some bullshit bullshit and synergize cross-functionally to bullshit our bullshits and bullshit bullshits. Let's think outside the box and optimize our bullshit while aligning our bullshit bullshits. Remember to bullshit and provide bullshit on the bullshit, ensuring we stay on track with our bullshit bullshits. It's essential to bullshit our scalable bullshits and adopt a bullshit approach to bullshit bullshit shifts and achieve our stretch bullshits. Let's dive deep, bullshit into the bullshit details, and bullshit if necessary, all while fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

"""
Apollo is not competing with Reddit when it started out but Reddit today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaratory_judgment

> A declaratory judgment, also called a declaration, is the legal determination of a court that resolves legal uncertainty for the litigants. It is a form of legally binding preventive by which a party involved in an actual or possible legal matter can ask a court to conclusively rule on and affirm the rights, duties, or obligations of one or more parties in a civil dispute (subject to any appeal).

> ...

> A declaratory judgment is typically requested when a party is threatened with a lawsuit but the lawsuit has not yet been filed; or when a party or parties believe that their rights under law and/or contract might conflict; or as part of a counterclaim to prevent further lawsuits from the same plaintiff (for example, when only a contract claim is filed, but a copyright claim might also be applicable).
I wish they’d get rid of the affordability clauses.

I have lived in upgraded low income places priced for high wage earners, and aging high income construction with much lower rents.

Older luxury buildings uniformly provide a much higher quality of living than more expensive, new low income construction.

The push to force people to build uneconomical low income garbage just means there will be generations of kids with health impacts due to being raised in poorly constructed, but still overpriced housing.

That just perpetuates the cycle of poverty, and I’ve lived in California long enough to suspect that this is the intended outcome.

On the other hand, glutting the high and mid end of the market with more inventory will increase the supply of high quality affordable housing. This is basic supply and demand and it has been shown again and again.

Also, doing it that way avoids a bunch of wasted taxpayer money that’s currently spent on bureaucracy and subsidies.

There are even a bunch of suckers in the real estate development world willing to build the glut of houses, and then eat the demand risk.
Not the parent but I’m 99% sure there is no other way.
They certainly could, but I assume there’s an understanding among officials that to do so would cripple certain sectors of the economy. Certain kinds of work would grind to a halt. I’d wager that a majority of non-Chinese residents would leave the country.
New York Times Election Day Crossword (2009)
I've observed the same. And the last few results might as well be random - no clear relationship to my search.
Sometimes it's more fun to just be wrong about it
Why are the apps being charged for api access and not the people using them?
I think the admin was also hosting an invidious instance (YouTube) and a Nitter instance, so my guess would be copyright takedown or illegal content due to Nitter.
Ask HN: What's the best web back end functional stack in 2023
I'm enjoying the SAFE stack in F#. But, as this is my first functional first language I'm not sure what other languages have to offer. What else is out there in 2023?

I'm a huge fan of strongly typed functional programming as it seems to help me produce more robust applications.
if you want to see code you can try kaggle.
i think François Chollet talks about this in lex podcast.

https://www.kaggle.com/c/abstraction-and-reasoning-challenge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo8MY4JpiXE
In a lot of major cities, prostitution is largely ignored. One just have to look at the plethora of sketchy massage parlors. It is rare that someone is arrested for prostitution. It seems as though law-enforcement and society have tacitly agreed that so long as it is behind closed doors and doesn't get out of control, people are free to do what they want.