skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn't asked for payment yet. I wonder when that will kick in.
r/science is now r/poorStudiesThatJustifyMyBeliefs
This is intentionally misleading. Running any unsigned package requires the end user to open the program through system preferences for the first time, as a “did you really mean to run this potentially pwning software”. It’s a good security practice, and less intrusive than windows UAC by far.
I think the reason they don't explain much is because a site like space.com would have covered all that many times over by now. Some answers:

1. The copter isn't able to communicate with satellites or earth directly, so it needs to communicate with the rover itself. This is harder without line of site.

2. The copter is all autonomous. Routes are planned and sent for the copter to autonomously fly, because direct control would be infeasible with the latency on Mars.

3. The copter is charged with solar power, and needs time to charge between flights.

4. The main rover has other missions that are independent of the status of the copter. The copter is well well well past the original mission goals, so if it gets left behind that's a shame, but the main rover's missions are way more important.
Reddit never intended for anyone to pay for API access, that's why the costs were so high. The intent all along was to kill all third party apps through unreasonable pricing of API access so they could funnel users to the official app and inundate them with extremely intrusive ads.

If they had presented the ridiculously high cost of API access to users it would have been more overtly user hostile. By targeting the app developers the surface area of who they were directly screwing was smaller (though they are of course actually screwing all the users of those apps anyway).

This also explains why reddit made all sorts of illogical arguments to make the app developers seem like the bad guys, to try to deflect blame away from them and to the app developers.

They were just super incompetent at doing that effectively, so it was incredibly transparent.
Let’s say you only design wedding websites and you don’t believe in same-sex marriage. How do you square that circle?
I'm still really in disagreement that a web designer making a wedding site is creating _designs_ that in and of themselves are any kind of speech regarding anyone's rights. The client gives some pics they like, some copy for a short bio, a link to their registry, some copy with the date, venue, requested attire. I think the client does _not_ generally also request, "oh, by the way, we're not going to provide you specific wording but we'd like you to add some sort of statement about how important our equal right to marriage is". And if the website designer _did_ insert some political expression, the client has every right to be upset.

In real life, to the degree there is creative design work, it's in creating a useful site which reflects some aesthetic preferences indicated by the client, _not_ in expressing any opinion about rights. I think the 10th court was wrong in saying her services could be called "pure speech"; they should fall into the same bin as the wedding singer that has to sing but not write lyrics, the florist, the caterer, the photographer, etc. You're hired to provide a service, not to provide an opinion.
> It’s the latest front in a labor battle between algorithms and the humans who feed them.

I don't think that's true, I think that is uncritically repeating the excuse given by Reddit executives.

Good AI-training actors could have been deterred by a simple terms of service change. Bad actors will simply scrape HTML.

Instead, Reddit basically killed off all external apps using the API for any purpose, and with no real warning.

A much simpler explanation fits better: They're trying to pump certain numbers up before an IPO.
Too quickly? I can’t tell if you are joking.
Being a business owner does not mean government or others can compel speech from you

> Why is the obligation to serve a gay person who sits down at your restaurant table any different?

Serving a cheeseburger is not speech. Writing "I support gay marriage" on a cheeseburger is
The FBI Has Formed a National Database to Track and Prevent “Swatting”
Is that true? Surveys show the top drugs as marijuana, cocaine(no crack), lsd, and ecstasy which are more party/social drugs. It’s not the “bad” drugs like crack, meth, heroin, or pcp.

And there are plenty of victims in drug dealing. People get killed all the time and lots of children will never see their parents outside of visiting them in jail due to mandatory min sentencing. In terms of race for federal convictions for trafficking and dealing it’s mostly blacks and Hispanics that do all the time to feed America’s drug addiction. There’s the whole drug mule thing where cartels prey on people to be drug mules.
HN UI change after a major death in tech.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5990015
Tech companies ARE doing that.

I have met "Customer Success Engineers" and other managerial or marketing related roles with the moniker Engineer. People want to call themselves engineers.
It doesn't correspond to any physical size and hasn't for a while. The idea is that a sqrt(2) reduction in the marketing number is supposed to correspond to a significant increase in density and transistor performance.
Sad day indeed. Swiping to refresh and just seeing blank views everywhere was such an abrupt and matter of fact ending.

I’m wondering a few things:

1. Will the app ever be made open source

2. Could an endeavor be undertaken to give everyone their own ability to auth to the api themselves? Then instead of relying on the Apollo oauth keys you plug your own in and/or run your own self-hosted auth infra. These days it’s so easy to spin up an app on Fly or similar. Could see small communities a-La mastodon where one person operates an auth/api server for themselves and a few others (distribute the api load to many tiny api instances) versus the Apollo situation where one dev is footing the bill for every user.

Hate to see what is hands down the best iOS app of all time just poof disappear.
What is “bodily autonomy.”
This submission is about Ed Fredkin not Al Franken (who is still alive).
Yeah, I find that’s something I do too (though mainly when cringing). Pausing these things kills their impact.

That would be the one piece of Netflix data I would love to see: when do people pause feature films.
There are definitely differences here and there. One I can remember from a year or so ago is that Preact deprecated support for string refs while React still supports them (though the docs point out they intend to deprecate IIRC).

Honestly to my mind the biggest thing is that bundle size just isn’t a priority for the React team. A sibling comment pointed out that React does a lot to correctly handle SVGs. Good to have, obviously, but what percentage of React users are making interactive SVGs? Probably not a whole lot. If they wanted to the React folks could break that out into a react-svg module or something and save some KB. But they don’t want to.

To my mind React these days is the enterprise software of the frontend. It’s big, it’s bulky, but it does absolutely everything with a minimum of fuss. They have a one size fits all approach and they’re not willing to deviate from it.
Yeah you’re drunk. Apollo was a cash grab and selig admitted as such. That being said no one can give any points to Reddit for how they handled things either.
There's value in curation and scheduling. Let someone else wade through the ocean and make decisions for you. When it comes to passive entertainment, I prefer broadcast TV over streaming, because left to my own devices I just hit choice paralysis and put Futurama on.
Apparently you have never heard the Cinemax nickname "Skinemax". Both HBO and Cinemax were known for premium adult entertainment.
>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.

Social media has been doing just that for a long time and and people have been defending it saying it is perfectly in their right to do so as a private entity speech cannot be compelled.

>I don't really see how it clarifies anything really, since we still compel businesses to not restrict services based on protected classes.

The entire case was about whether the law forcing the designer to provide services was "compelled speech" which would violate the first amendment
> it will become clear to the world that only nuclear weapons can defend a country from having their land grabbed by Russia and other countries

That cat's out of the bag, it has been common wisdom for decades that countries with nukes don't get invaded and other deterrents aren't nearly as effective or economical. Mutually assured destruction is one of the biggest reasons the world's been so peaceful recently. No major wars, just various nuclear powers occasionally invading various non-nuclear powers. MAD is mad effective.
I'm enjoying Octal on iOS.
Linux doesn't have one specific national origin if you were to add up all the developers of the kernel and the base packages in a CLI only Debian install.
That’s a self imposed goal, and has zero relevance to buying anything. It’s literally random.
> For me the main barrier is that I want to have portable/roaming control over my IDENTITY, even if the content hosting is (for now) entirely through a system administered by someone else. If I control the identity, I can at least keep local copies and rehost/repost content later.

This is why I want domains as identities to succeed. I want to own my handle on every platform, but I don’t want to self host.
It may have only been 1% of users, but what percent of active contributing users was it? What percent of active mods?

The people who paid for a third-party app to make using and working with Reddit easier and more convenient are the power users.

I don't know if you're a regular Reddit user, but if you are have you looked through /r/popular in the past? Recently? What's bubbling to the 'top' of Reddit right now is significantly lower quality content than what used to be there. A lot of that is likely due to so many mods effectively going on strike, but do you think that's going to improve when Reddit's employees remove all those mods, reopen subs and appoint whoever wants to request moderator status as the new mods? Hint: it's not going to be all sunshine and flowers.

I like what one of the mods of IIRC /r/canning posted within the last week or so when Reddit started getting serious with threatening messages - he noted that the mods of that subreddit are there because they have specific subject matter knowledge and canning things wrong kills people. If that subreddit is forced open with mods appointed by Reddit employees and dangerous advice becomes a regular thing, does Reddit have any liability? Can an attorney make enough of a case that they do to drag them into court?
What's your point linking to this Wikipedia page, OP?

In my teens I read Atlas shrugged completely blind, with no prior knowledge of the book or author.

I only finished the last third of the book out of spite, so that I could confidently denounce it. Crappy propaganda snuck into a half baked novel to insult the intelligence of the reader.

It's hypocritical too, as it engages in the same emotional appeals that it internally ascribes to villains or their hapless dupes—twisting the formula of "think of the children" into "think of the fictional character I spent pages trying to make you care about."
Centralization of internet forums was always going to end like this. I hope this accelerates the decline of Reddit dot com. The moderation and the censorship is pretty much universal across the large boards. You will find tons of deleted comments on anything which challenges the common view remotely. Can't say I'm not glad the site is going down, or enough alternatives pop up.
http://archive.today/wgSM6
It means web scraping.
> But keeping buying sex illegal means they will choose to buy sex in areas where they feel safe from the law. This will make people who have no choice but to sell sex operate in a less safe environment.

This statement has the same fallacy that the following statement does: "Keeping child labor illegal means children will choose to work in places where they feel less safe from the law. This will make young children who feel they have no choice but to work in a factory operate in a less safe environment."

The very fact that a certain choice is legal increases the economic incentives to pressure people into making that choice; in contrast, removing a choice by making it illegal incentivizes employers to offer alternate choices that are potentially less exploitative. When child labor is illegal, employers are incentivized to pay their workers a high enough wage to support the whole family without children having to work. When the option of child labor is taken off the table, workers end up in a better negotiating position.

The same is true of prostitution. When people can make money legally off of prostitution, they will be incentivized to go into the prostitution business and hire prostitutes. When they can't do that, they will be incentivized to go into a different line of work, and create employment opportunities for women that are less inherently exploitative.
Or they'll wish they didn't when they encounter a basic repair part that costs $3300
Trafficking women for sex trade is essentially orthogonal to the degree of legality of a commercial sex trade; regardless of legality bad actors will seek to traffic sex workers for profit.

The experience in, say, Australia, is that bright lights cause cockroaches (sex trafficers) to scurry:

A 2020 research on migration, sex work and trafficking showed that, due to the decriminalisation of sex work in some of its states and to a recent increase in work visa opportunities for sections of migrant sex workers, the numbers of human trafficking victims into the sex industry in Australia had dramatically decreased.

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_Australia

See also:

https://aifs.gov.au/resources/practice-guides/trafficking-wo...

Criminalising activities doesn't magically make problems go away, it merely buries them and makes them easier to ignore.

"Non-trafficked women in the sex industry have a real role to play in supporting trafficked women. Often they will be the only people trafficked women are in contact with who do not have a vested interest in maintaining their exploitation" (Maltzahn 2002a: 65). Yet all women in the sex industry suffer increased levels of rape and violence and are in need of support services. Research by the Prostitutes Collective of Victoria showed that respondents felt "out of touch with reality" and "different from other people, especially other women", with 64.2 per cent of women wanting to leave the industry (Noske and Deacon 1996: 11). According to Maltzahn, this means that, regardless of differing positions on prostitution, there is a need for greater outreach by services to women in the sex industry (Maltzahn 2002a).

https://aifs.gov.au/resources/practice-guides/trafficking-wo...
This is the consequences of having a privatized electronic money system.
https://letterboxd.com/lists/

Just one example out of thousands of how the Internet can do this a lot better than cable.
A 16 year old with recently divorced parents probably has some reasonable insight there.
Decriminalizing selling sex is something social libertarians and sex-negative feminists can agree on. But the latter, unlike the former, don’t regard it as a half measure, or think about it in terms of “bodily autonomy.” They view the female prostitute as the victim of male aggression. It doesn’t make sense to punish the victim, but it does make sense to punish the perpetrator.
Some rough calculations on a fully loaded data center that I have worked on designing shows that you only have about a minute before the air gets to an overheating condition due to the low heat capacity. The HVAC doesn't keep running through a total power failure even if the computers have a lot of reserve power.
Getting a credit card usually is pretty easy though unless you have a recent bankruptcy, in which case you need a secured card to work your way back up the credit ladder. An 18 year old with no credit history can generally get a very low limit card (my first as such, in the 90’s, was $500 limit)

Makes me think their screening process for Apple cards was awful from the start. Either that or all the banks are seeing higher defaults right now (inflation etc) but GS doesn’t have a deep enough consumer base for profitable customers to cover things.

Or GS got into an area of finance they didn’t understand well enough to do it right.
I loved his TTL Cookbook. As a kid in the '70s a small breadboard, 9V battery + 7805 regulator, and assortment of chips, wires, and LEDs kept me amused for hours. Little did I know that I'd put a lot of that to use in a career that wound up in the physical sciences as opposed to electrical engineering.

I would take my kit with me on family trips. Back in those days I could put them on an airplane tray table and pass the long hours taking ideas from the Cookbook and expressing them in hardware. I visited his tinaja.com site regularly and even posted about it to HN although to almost no response.

Farewell Mr. Lancaster, you will be missed.
At most, it is Twitter hoping that Reddit drama takes the attention off its own actions. The Reddit API change was planned long in advance.
Because people's freedoms don't exist in a vacuum with no consequences on other people. I believe in the idea that people should be maximally free to do whatever they want without government interference. But there needs to be limits in certain situations whenever the negative impact of certain freedoms onto other people exceeds an acceptable threshold.
From Elon's twitter (https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1674942336583757825?s=20)

"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."
I believe that people and businesses which offer services _to the public_ can and should be forced to serve everyone. No, you cannot have a whites-only lunch counter, taxi-cab, school, church or store, even if you're a white supremacist who genuinely believes that non-white people are somehow inferior. No, you cannot have a accountancy practice which bars hiring women even if the owner genuinely believes that women should be in the home. Yes, sometimes the military must be sent in to oversee the integration of a high school.

The creation of a society in which a class of people is held as a second class which can be excluded from public accommodations is itself an act of violence.
Talk to industry media like Data Center Knowledge.
Valid conditions include anxiety, depression and insomnia. You don't have to lie. Just point to the state of the world.
They have no power over to disallow it.
No, that is not an act of violence.
And that is why RHEL is so valuable in enterprise.

When you see people still running PHP 5, or Python 2, and not for tiny little nonprofits either... there are large sums of money being thrown over the wall to support that.
Yes, because by being of race X they will continue to be affected by racists.
Yes, the first point release is typically a month or two after the stable release.

Take a look at https://wiki.debian.org/DebianBullseye and other previous release timelines.
There were even a time when they release a model, that were few millimeters off (height, width, thick and camera location) on the same named model for different countries. Have fun to buy a proper case for it.
What the hell. I love this.
The broadcast companies are subject to FCC requirements that they must broadcast government emergency notifications. They do NOT have the power to shut down access the way twitter just did.
> organize the would’s information, and make it universally accessible, so no.

That's similar one of Google's goals, and they do it (mostly) legally.
When Reddit owns the delete button, they control what happens when you press it. There’s no need for them to rebuild their deleted history. It’s still there (even if it’s inaccessible to the world)
Start believing in same-sex marriage?
It's fairly trivial to write your own - if not, many open source solutions exist out there. This is HackerNews, after all.
That was always my mentality on paid services. Effectively speaking, Visa has done the CAPTCHA for you. In general, people don't care that you're a robot, they care if you're a non-paying customer.

OTOH, I wonder if they don't want bots because automation is a risk for them. If they make a terrible dark-patterns checkout process, you want real customers hitting it, not a bot that's already been programmed to avoid every upsell and gimmick. Or maybe their systems are simply not designed for even the modest load you'd get if customers started automating their legitimate workflows, and they can use the "bot protection" excuse to buy another year of life out of those Prescott cores.
Fair point. It is a fabulous means for the pursuit of both profit and power.
No, not having a right to my service is not force, and in fact arresting people for not servicing you is force. I’m glad we agree that you don’t believe that force is only justified in response to force.
Efficient Jagged Arrays
What's fabbed by Samsung? Almost nothing these days. Companies won't use Samsung even when there's a TSMC shortage.
Good. Maybe this will finally put an end to Twitter links being posted on HN.
Remember Alien Blue before Reddit bought it? That app still appears to work:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AlienBlue/comments/14nimob/alien_bl...
For those who are wondering just like I did…

Lemmy is free and open-source software for running self-hosted social news aggregation and discussion forums

https://join-lemmy.org/

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmy_(software)
However, BirdsiteLive instances come with their own information for the public.

* https://jdebp.uk/FGA/fediverse-third-party-mirrors.html
I don't even normally scrape it enough to significantly wear down the seasoning. When am I going to scrape it so much I'm going to scrape off a significant amount of the actual pan?

How hard do you scrape your pans when you cook?! Does your pan end up half a gram lighter every time you cook or something?

And even then, if I am scraping it enough to actually abraide some of it, it's not being aerosolized. It's gonna get worked into the fats and oils I've got in the pan. Which, sure, some small amount eventually flings out, but by that point it's such a tiny minute amount.

Maybe if I was a chef it might be enough to actually care a tiny slight bit. But like, cooking with it a few times a week, I can't imagine I'm getting much of any bits of the pan in my lungs. I'd be more worried about the stuff burning in the pan over the bits of the pan being a problem.
> The Reddit API change was planned long in advance.

I don't think 1 month of notice is a "long" time in this context.
I have friends who have used Twitter for years to get status updates and read the occasional thread without following, so no, it is not "fundamental".
https://archive.ph/JDxSn
My guess is that they don't need users to generate content anymore because Reddit's generative bots can seed engaging posts and drive the related conversation.
People don't know how to type accents though.
Im not sure. Are those moderator functions? I was curious about the OPs statement regarding missing mod functions.