skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With groups like Otosaigon [1], you'd think that would be enough education to stop doing stupid shit [2], but I think the problem runs deeper than that.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/groups/otosaigon.news

[2] https://www.facebook.com/groups/otosaigon.news/posts/1965346...
Public corruption is illegal and blowing the whistle on it is protected speech.
If it can make your day a little happier: I change car/gsm/whatever when they die and can't be repaired anymore (my PC is 13 years old for example, it's alittle too weak for rust-analyze, but well :-))). I haven't taken a plane in 20 years; use the train when possible. I buy online less than once a year. I don't have a swimming pool.

But I'm not involved in politics, so I don't spend much time on helping others to change. And my house's insulation is not good (old house).
On one hand I simpatise with the problem, on another Stackoverflow is one of those platforms where the close random hammer for seemingly random reasons was always used.
In this case it certainly matters that ChatGPT is free. There are just many more people using that than paying for GPT-4 access.
Makes me sad none of this stuff really exists anymore. The South Bay Area is soulless and mostly closes at 9pm.

If you need electronics you order from Amazon or Digikey like anywhere else in the US.
What happens when the server op decides they don't want to run it anymore and pulls the plug? Or alternatively, when they decide they want to get involved with this or that.. server ops are dictators.. just because it is on the fediverse (what mastodon uses) doesn't mean they are mature people with contingency plans and codes of conduct.
Sprinkle git on top of it and you also get your config versioned and distributed centrally in lock step with your software releases
As with any of these concepts, they will ultimately live and die by their userbase and thus value of the content presented. Having the software itself is only a small part of the battle ahead.

https://join-lemmy.org/instances says there's only 2.6k monthly active users in the entire "lemmyverse". That's not even getting off the starting blocks for even a single niche sub-Reddit.

Getting people to even humour the idea of going elsewhere when there's genuine value in pre-existing content is difficult, especially when it comes to troubleshooting, guides, advice et al, which unfortunately, Reddit is brimming with.

Windows Phone was a pretty good example of the "no users" problem: a solid alternative to iOS and Android, but not much in the way of big apps because of a lack of users, but the lack of users primarily stemmed from a lack of big apps. Chicken-and-egg scenario ad infinitum.
The Future of the Automotive Industry
Is there something inherent about how parental controls have to function that means that they can't be made reliable enough, or is it that Apple and Google have dropped the ball and could do better?
Costs can be more than money. Mods are exercising their power. Reddit is responding with their own power. Both sides are just demonstrating they have power.

Both will ultimately recognise the limitations of their power, which may ultimately be a lot more, or possibly a lot less, than they believe.
It's so sad to see how a project that once set out to NOT be like the other popular QA sites of that time could still end up so horribly similar. How a group of good people, with best intentions could still end up with a site in a state like this. The way to hell is paved with good intentions,
I guess.
but you can still moderate it for all the normal quality issues, it has to be on-topic and truthful and properly sourced. it's only if it's a good answer, but you think it might have been ai generated that you can't moderate it?

i'm really not seeing the problem here.
Will this count for any method outside the class scope, but in the same file?

What about constants?
Super cool idea but sadly seems to have been slowly dying over the last few years :( (unless something has changed recently?)
There's about zero value for most people in Reddit itself, as a software. The value of it is in established communities and serving as a Schelling point for locating those communities. That still exists, and saying "let's just all decide it isn't" doesn't change it. Communities and cultural focal points take time and effort to create, and hard to move.
That is a lovely page. I liked all the interactive toys to play with.
A participant in a two-sided market isn't the same thing as a product.
Seems kind of like giving up in a dramatic way. I hope you find a more impactful forum for this important discussion.

The key danger of high ocean surface temperatures is more and stronger hurricanes. If temperatures continue climbing, the specter of needing more hurricane categories and the risk of a future hypercane is on the horizon.
Ask HN: Which topics are hard to self-study?
Which topics (especially within CS) are hard to study on your own?
Power standards aren't changing that much. Yes, there's 12VHPWR now, but that's only on the top end gpus, and adapters exist. ATX 12VO might become a thing, but feels like OEM standardization.

Before that, the last big change was Haswell low power states ten years ago. If your old PSU didn't meet that standard, you would probably be ok if you just disable the lower power sleep states.
Cloud based smart home offerings must be avoided at all cost. A home shouldn't be dependent on the Internet working, or a subscription fee being paid to whoever provides the service. There's zero reason for introducing that dependency, except as a business strategy to extract as much money as possible.

Integration with GoogleHome/Alexa/etc doesn't require cloud, they're running inside your home and can easily hit the device directly (wifi devices) or via the controller (which can "forward" the commands to the devices on the local network or the zigbee/zwave net).
Isn’t embrittlement still an open problem for high pressure hydrogen pipelines?
Discussion from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18389080 (80 comments)
Use old.reddit
An escape from reality is far from a good solution. Although I also think that computer access is much better than a cellphone, I strongly believe that parental control is not the correct way, and need several layers of protections.

First one being, is your kid feeling safe enough with you to discuss any topics? I know I couldn't.
I have seen way too many kids having already social media pressure, including my own kid with a fairly low level of screen time across the board (I'd say 4h-8h a week maximum including a movie on Sunday morning, depending if she wants to play around with python or some GT7) this allows also some interesting discussions.
Your feeling about what direction you think anything is going is irrelevant and again limited, it's a personal insecurity it has no place here in a thread discussing an article describing what you claim to know is wrong while sewing some doubt that it's wrong because of anecdotal anxiety
I don't think that's an internally consistent way of looking at the situation.
As an aside, the paid Reddit mods are likely to be on the side of reddit being profitable and able to pay their salaries, and thus support price hikes.

Especially in an era of layoffs.

I'm speculating here, I have no insight myself.
Aside: Has anyone managed to rent or lease a VPS or colo box in Iceland? I found the larger vendors of the island completely unresponsive.
I'm perplexed as to what to support here. For someone like me who brazenly hates Instagram, FB, Snapchat kinds of social media, Reddit is a gold mine of wisdom, advice, and content, if used appropriately. And the best way to use it was through third-party apps like Relay, Apollo etc.

The eventual loss of better user experience is saddening, but I'm not sure I fall into the category of not using it at all, because it's where I learn about a lot of useful stuff on life, personal finance, frugalism, unfiltered review of a product I haven't used yet etc. I hope this decision doesn't break the site.
I find Apple's performance with LLM's pretty exciting. At the very least, it promises that we don't be stuck on the vram pricing and capacities offered by AMD and Nvidia to run local LLMs. We should see some big improvements in the near future as lpddr6 is around the corner and Apple has a big focus on GPU.
They think "they may be whining now, but in a year they'll forget anything ever happened and we'll get the promotions for implementing our brilliant plan". It may also be true. Or it may ruin the viability of Reddit as a business, in which case the persons who decided it will fail sideways and move on to receive the same salary somewhere else.
I think sama said this week they might release GPT3.0 DaVinci. That's a pre-alignment model.
This looks exciting and definitely something to look out for as an option fkr self-hosting.

Similiar and a little bit more mature is also YunoHost, https://yunohost.org/, or for professional environments, UCS https://www.univention.com/.
I said something akin to this on a 4chan post a little while ago and people hated me for it, but I stand by it. People need to 1) get more in touch with the technology they're using and 2) take back control of their content.

If you are into tech and what it provides for us but don't have your own website where you can post and design however and whatever you want, then what are you even doing? It's 2023, a .com domain costs $5 and HTML and CSS can be learned in less than a week.

We need to leave these massively-populated corporate data farms and go back to specialized media like content-specific forums and personal web pages. We've oversimplified and under-stylized our potential web presence as individuals for the sake of companies who farm our data. At least with forums the hateful comments are coming from people within your niche and the posted ads (if any) pertain to your interests.

Bring back web rings.
fun, trivial trick, the magnet link is not necessary. all you need is the infohash. it is however very slow without the tracker hints.

echo "magnet:?xt=urn:btih:${info_hash}"

ipfs basically feels like "this is it guys, our entire access pattern is going to be this"
do all employees have shares with voting rights? how do you prevent hostile takeover where 51% decide its time to fire everyone else, sell the company and run with the bag?

how do you balance rewards for initial risk takers vs new hires who joined an already well oiled machine?
The article specifies the ban continues until a certain school year/grade; it's not based on actual age.
What do you mean? Tumblr definitely reached a point where it was objectively past its best—they even banned NSFW content.
$X is the fallout from the new Reddit policies w.r.t. third-party apps, and the power struggle with moderators.

$Y is the additional amount of money that Reddit gets from improving their advertising metrics before an IPO.

Reddit is betting that $Y > $X. And they can stop counting $X when the IPO happens.

As far as I can tell, there's just not enough community presence elsewhere, for most communities, except a few places like Discord. And Discord sucks even worse than Reddit, in a lot of ways.
What was the cash grab here exactly? Who would have benefited? Wearing helmets is good for safety. That was the right thing to do.

What they should have done was at least made a requirement for the quality level of helmets. Those plastic crap helmets everyone wears to comply with the 'law' (and I've been guilty of wearing them), don't do anything to protect you.

What is more insane is how a single quack doctor was able to convince an entire country to not put helmets on young kids because it might hurt their necks. That's the real absurd thing here.

The stupidity literally has studies done on it...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2678774/

https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/22/4/233
Speed isn't an existing factor in copyright law.
> This seems like a great idea. If all the kids are offline, there is much less peer pressure to be online.

As I read it it's not about transforming kids into luddite. I don't see where it's explained that, say, a 10 years old cannot play Fortnite at home or that a 8 y/o cannot play Animal Crossing on the Nintendo Switch.

It's specifically about preventing kids from wasting their lives on that inferior piece of mediocre turd that a smartphone is.
The 10x Engineer is BS
> How a group of good people, with best intentions could still end up with a site in a state like this.

Almost any for-profit platform is doomed to become a dumpster, in the end. After Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood, the original founders, sold it to Prosus 2 years ago it has been free falling.
String templates are coming, there is IntStream.range(1, 10), there is `final var`, I don’t see much point to having coroutines with Loom, == would be ecosystem fracturing breaking change so please no, that nullability might actually come with the recent direction Valhalla’s value types took, readonly collections would be cool, but that ship has sailed, array sigils are such a small thing I don’t see the benefit, I don’t get the lambda one, variable: Type is again a breaking change for not good enough reason, records are immutable but once withers complete they will be imo better, you do have static blocks but with records you also get a canonical one with very similar syntax than what you want, if expressions were actually great, nested ternaries are the only syntax I really have a hard time with even after many years.

Kotlin is not the panacea of language design either.
CIO of Bay Capital, Siddharth Mehta gave some investment tips
Siddharth Mehta, Founder & CIO of Bay Capital said "While business sectors might well go down further, contributing when frightened is one of the hardest activities. It is through this dread that one should think reasonably and hope to purchase extraordinary organizations which are unleveraged, which are heavenly capital allocators with the most elevated administration principles and which won't simply get by however come out more grounded over the course of the following 5-10 years and subsequently possibly give outsized re-visitations of the fearless financial backer,"
> Why does any of it operate on remote cloud API calls when it could operate locally?

How else your thermostat manufacturer going to implement vendor lock-in? /s
I'm glad you mentioned this. There is always an exception to the rule and this is one of those.

While this is a case of were there should be a dedicated machine, until that appears, the phone is a decent middle man machine.
closely related but experimental physics tend to have some pretty high integrity with the sigma system.
Thanks for the link. The project looks really interesting. If it's successful - it will basically kill all the arguments about ethics.
Don't click the upvote or downvote buttons.
There's plenty of FOSS fediverse stuff that's very interesting, but until monetization is figured out, creators have little reason to push content there. Without content, selfies and photos of lunch aren't going to interest many people.

Take PeerTube—great on paper. Can you run ads on your instance to cover bandwidth and storage? No. Can you run ads on the videos you create? No.

The alternative decentralized solutions themselves aren't the problem, it's the economics of it.
The terahertz gap (between radio and infrared)
I don't think this is correct - even under the GDPR. If the company has good reason to look inside someone's mailbox (I don't think the bar for that is particularly high for a company email account) then any personal data they encounter would be being processed under "legitimate interest" as long as they don't do anything unnecessary with it in order to achieve whatever it was they were doing.
A boycott implies customers taking their business elsewhere. If this was simply people boycotting reddit there's nothing they can do.

However these are "more than customers" who are foing more than boycott. They are actively "locking the store" so others can't use it. It's not a strike (they're not withholding work) but it's also not a boycott since they are taking actual actions that lock out other customers.
> So reduce can be obviated by just letting the function take variable args too.

In Common Lisp the max number of arguments can be small.

$ abcl
Armed Bear Common Lisp 1.8.0
Java 11.0.19 Ubuntu
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM
Low-level initialization completed in 0.304 seconds.
Startup completed in 1.501 seconds.
Type ":help" for a list of available commands.

CL-USER(1): CALL-ARGUMENTS-LIMIT
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I used this for a few years at a previous job and really liked it — it didn't get a ton of adoption by other people there, though, unfortunately. It had a bunch of cool ideas and seemed well implemented. I'm sad that it didn't work out as a commercial endeavor.
There's a ton of really good ideas here. Defined lifecycles? Fun! That when keyword? I like it more than the += and -= syntax for event handling in C#!
> I too balked at the absurd complexity in the HomeAssistant stack

You can ditch their whole OS, management and orchestration/containerization stack, and just run it as a Python application in a virtualenv (they call it "Home Assistant Core"). I recommend it, it's much better than trying to keep up with their (mediocre, imo) distribution. Even if you don't want to manually setup a virtualenv, you can run it as a single container.
Sandstorm was (is?) way ahead of its time. Fortunately a lot of its ideas live on (a la capnproto). My understanding is the achilles heel is the amount of effort required to integrate and update apps, since each app needs to be rather invasively modified to work with the centralized authorization framework. Also the general difficulty of managing a VPS or port forwarding. But once integrated it's really slick and secure.

The overall UX is very similar to my vision of the future of selfhosting. It should be as easy as installing an app on your phone, then going through a quick OAuth2 flow to set up a tunnel on a domain, and you're up and running.
* UX

* Practical project management and team management

* Anatomy
> Not sound reasoning imo, this is mangable if you know what you're doing.

I dunno; if the author is correct about this bit:

> The recommended way to run it is with a fleet of Docker containers (and they even tell you to install their own Linux distro to make sure all the large amounts of software you’ll need is managed more easily).

then, yeah, it's horribly over-engineered.

I tried finding docs to understand how to create a plugin to support a new protocol and didn't really find anything.

I also got turned off by the outright obstinacy of the support forum (example: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/mosquitto-broker-annou...)

Home assistant is not what I have in mind when I think "perfect for the job". It really is over-engineered, with (apparently) great plugin support, but very little in the way of docs.
95 F and 50% humidity. It's miserable, even by SE Asia standards.
The original founders checked out long before the acquisition, and it's only gotten worse since then. Just the way these things go.
The irony of a monolithic kernel to use containers and VMs inside VMs all over the place.
But that’s the thing, they managed to do it in such a way that it requires barely any language change: just imagine an implicit `public class X {` at the top of the file and a closing } at the end.

And now just change the default class loader to be less restrictive in finding main methods, and that’s it. While it really does help teaching people when you can be more focused on the relevant parts only.
You do understand that by misusing word you’re diluting its meaning to the point where people will just ignore it, right?

Or is that your intention?
I said this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36192957

But what either of us said doesn't negate the sentiment of my original comment.
First they need to learn to distinguish what is ISO C and whateve their compiler accepts, the large majority doesn't.

Hence why so many just try to use GCC everywhere (nowadays clang as well).
Which would have zero benefits, and would require more knowledge on the exact specifics of the language. (Eg. is it a local variable of a field? The two has very different semantics).
What’s involved to get additional open source “apps” into the store?

I was considering Mattermost over Rocket Chat, but it’s not currently supported/listed.
Why should anyone feel that they are unsafe with a heavily regulated payment industry?
It's not a black and white issue. Most domain experts already use AI assistants for their daily work. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that. It can and has demonstrated to greatly enhance productivity.

The SO problem isn't AI, it's people submitting low value answers, regardless of the way they used to produce those.

It is if anything a failiure of their reputation system, both in incentives and in repercussions.
> Technical info: Booleans are stored as one-and-a-half bits.

No you can’t store three choices in one-and-a-half bits. Two booleans would be 9 choices whereas 3 bits can store only 8 choices.
Sounds like a bit from Seinfeld
The World would be a much better place if current-day companies practiced such a culture.

The way our current "Work Culture" is setup, it is destroying people's lives.
esp8266 and esp32 boards from ali plus various parts. Flashed with tasmota or (for the glow electricity meter reader esphome). Temp & humidity sensors, somfy blind controllers, ws2812 strips, relay to infra-red to control hifi receivers.

Athom plugs pre-flashed with tasmota to measure power point usage and switch on and off. Athom bulbs pre-flashed with tasmota.

Homeassistant works great. Toss in wireguard for remote access with smartphones.

It's good fun. It's cheap. It's cloudless. It's better than anything you can buy. Go the DIY! You do tinker a bit, if you hate that aspect of DIY then maybe pass on smarthome stuff. Parts probably paid for themselves in reduced electricity consumption. Once you measure something, behaviour changes etc.

I run Homeassitant on a 12 y.o. laptop that also runs mosquitto, has some usb disks plugged into it, runs samba, pi-hole, owntone, wireguard, timecapsule etc.

Home assistatant works pretty well and easily, imho.

How are you doing it?
Yeah the long range EVs are certainly long enough range for me. My problem with them is that I'm paying for about 3x as much battery as I really want for 99% of my driving, and even though they're getting cheaper they're still a significant cost.
>But in general the output of specific AI tools like ChatGPT produces certain patterns that are quite noticeable

Only if you don't prompt it to do otherwise.
There's also NetDaemon for those who prefer C#: https://netdaemon.xyz/
This Cartoon Does Not Exist
Started with the idea of generating comics with GPT4 and Midjourney, ended up with an animated show!
The results are both surprisingly good and very, very cringe.

In this post I explain the basic concept, thoughts?

Before you say it: The idea is not to put together an automated content farm, I'd like for this to be a tool I can use to develop more consistent stories in the future.