Both kids in Europe and Africa will actually end up with a more correct idea of how large both their continents are.

I dont think it replies to what the user asks though. It seems reasonable expecting widely used open source software to be studied by many people. If thats true it would be good to question why this wasnt caught by anyone. Ignoring all ssl errors is not something you need to be an expert to know is bad...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37610266

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One of the valuable aspects of freedom of speech is ideas can gain traction because of their virtue and not e.g because of force. Musk has no expertise in most of what he talks about. Yet he uses reach he has purely because of his wealth to spread misinformation. The marketplace of ideas is a complete joke if ideas spread just because of money.

The largest instances have a little duplication so there are something like 3 large gaming-related communities, 3 large world news communities, etc. This is not generally the case, for many topics communities on particular instances either "win out" so to speak in terms of subscribers or duplication doesn't exist.

It's because of attempts at excluding spam accounts: https://fedidb.org/site/news The author's mastodon has some posts on this: https://mastodon.social/@dansup

I'm on lemmy.world and personally not seen any spam though.

> Most of Reddit’s current data has been scraped anyway, so the game is to protect Reddit’s data going forward.

But yes, Pushshift archives of all posts and comments until the recent ban [1] are freely available for download [2]

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/pushshift/comments/135tdl2/a_respon... The ban was followed by allowing the parent non-profit of Pushshift (Network Contagion Research Institute) to use the API provided access is restricted to a use-case Reddit has care for: mod tools. Reddit hasnt replaced those with its own just yet. The rest of us are shut out.

[2] https://academictorrents.com/userdetails.php?id=9863

Ctrl-f for 'PR_SET_DUMPABLE' in the manpages:

- https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/prctl.2.html

- https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/ptrace.2.html

Further, moral relativism is a dangerous and absurd position to hold. It might be convenient in excusing something you hold that's controversial but it also means a group of people can use it to defend any position at all they have. Any familiarity with what we humans have done and do should tell you this won't be about excusing disagreements over irrelevant things like ice-cream flavors.

On stackoverflow and the like you will know that the question does not apply to you.

I meant cases like asking how to X and ChatGPT suggesting something similar (and valid) but not what I wanted. Or imagine silent failures like an additional switch that happens to exclude what you wanted.

Not an issue if youre just automating grunt work you know to do yourself of course. But I'm interested in when you arent familiar with a tool.

What keeps me away is that unless youre already familiar with a topic you wont catch errors. The command it suggests might not do exactly what you wanted.

Breaking the walled garden would cost them. E.g wouldnt it mean allowing people to interact with twitter without using the official apps, meaning losing ad revenue? (Obviously why third-party apps were banned)

And I'm quite sure people criticizing this won't be using it :)