skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had maybe half a dozen friends do the part time AirBNB host thing and I've helped a few of them in managing their business.

You have a lot of leverage when booking month long stays, especially in off or shoulder seasons in highly seasonal towns. It's more work but there's a lot you can do to mitigate risk by doing appropriate due diligence.

I'd recommend at least hopping on a video call with the hosts and ask them basic things like how far away they live from the unit, who you should contact if there are issues, etc. It's pretty easy to tell from a 10m phone call who has a hospitality mindset or not. It's also possible to ask them for a video walkthrough of the apartment as it currently exists where you can inspect how close it is to the listed photos.

Especially for new hosts who desperately need credible reviews to increase their rankings, there's a lot they are willing to do for a reasonable guest, including substantial discounts on the list price. They're also desperate for feedback so tend to be fairly responsive to requests for missing things in the kitchen or upgrades to certain appliances as it's a fairly small investment that will payback over a long period of time.

Overall, people have forgotten how to bargain and negotiate as the platforms ostensibly provide a neutral layer that obviates all that but it's a very leaky abstraction and there's still just humans on both sides of the transaction.
ChatGTP text/AI image Content Blocker
I want browser extension that works like an ad-blocker but hides every AI generated text or image instead of ads.

Does it already exist? Would this be hard or easy to build?
Reddit won't die for the same reason Facebook won't... there's no real viable alternative for the majority of the users.

It might become a bit shitter, it might lose a few users who are a bit more tech savvy or from the "old days of the internet" who'll find themselves fedi or forum based alternatives but the majority will keep getting what they want out of it without a reason to move - most users probably use the official app which is rubbish compared to Apollo etc but is sufficient for them.

I'd love to see this protest actually work but the cynic in me says it won't, or if it does it'll be a slow death as the 1% leave and the content dries up which then pushes away the majority, and it'll be too slow to save it... only then might we see a viable alternative pop up, but I'm sure it won't be any of the Fedi solutions as they just fragment the communities too much even with the instances opening to each other, but we're already seeing Lemmy instances "defederate" from each other
Death is unavoidable. Death still makes me sad.
Once you found the comments it was but the comment link was/is marginalised in favour of the link itself, making it easy to miss that they're 'the point'. Even before new.reddit it was a common complaint that it's confusing to new users.

Obviously this is relative, it's a huge site! And there may even be value to gatekeeping users who can't figure it out.
As long as Reddit's powerusers are still hoping for a retraction it won't, but if Reddit keep at it, I can see the move happening, especially for the big (over 500K) subreddits.
I deleted my reddit account, 12+ years are no more. It was hard, but that way I will not go back to it. Comparing it with twitter, which I never left because I was never there to start will be hard.

*yeah, I have a twitter account. It's the only point of contact with some companies. I may use it a couple of times a year max.
I can't decide how to feel about this. It's unrelated to the reddit access issue and very hard to believe (the "I got banned for saying it's bad to wish for covid to kill random citizens and multiple subreddits conspire against me" part, not the hiding accents part). At the same time, it sounds bad and I somehow don't expect malice from your side, just misunderstanding somewhere. So idk, I understand that it's hard to prove that this happened and that your version is the full story. I decided to just not vote on this post, but if you're wondering why people are voting this down (at least that's my expectation), I really don't think any one of them are of the opinion that random russians must die or something. Rather, I expect people find it either off topic or implausible or both.
One aspect the article is omitting is that UTF-16 and UTF-32 aren’t strictly speaking encodings, but UTF-16LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-32LE, UTF-32BE are. Furthermore, with a 21-bit packed encoding like UTF-21, not only byte-level endianness is relevant, but inner-byte bit-level endianness becomes relevant as well. While the encoding examples given imply a particular endianness, this is something that would have to be specified more explicitly.
> Then, 30 years from now, people will still talk about how Reddit self-destructed when they decided they needed to control the user experience and forced everyone to use their app.

No. What they'll be talking about is how Reddit had too many holes in its fence, and all its cows escaped. They'll then discuss all the advancement in cattle fencing and barn construction that happened in the 30 years since.

Why do people assume Reddit C-suite and investors are being stupid or narcissistic here? That would make sense if the relationship between them and the users was a friendly one. It isn't. It's adversarial. For Reddit (as well as Meta and other social media platforms), the users are cattle. Even worse than that - they're stochastic cattle. Nobody at the top cares if you or me are having a nice experience with the site/app. They care about the value extracted from us in aggregate. To them, it's an optimization problem, and it's been apparent for a long time now that the optimum point is usually "the most shitty and abusive possible version that still clears the 'fit for purpose' bar" (the end point is more obvious when you look at goods and services that have been around for a couple decades or more, and thus subject to decades of "value engineering").

It doesn't feel as bad when they're optimizing for future value extraction, but that time is past, and Reddit is currently squeezing value out of its cattle-base.

Is it sustainable? Since when did that question mattered to the captains of the industry? "Reddit" as a brand and company matters to the users; for its leaders and investors, it's just a money making instrument that takes time to mature, but exists to be squeezed, discarded and replaced by something else.
Oh, my sweet summer child. Rich people never have enough money and power.
Adopting Epic seems to mean inviting a disaster. In Helsinki doctors are resigning to avoid using the system, it's so bad. You'll easily find similar stories elsewhere, for example

https://www.healthcareittoday.com/2017/02/21/denmarks-health...

https://ehrintelligence.com/news/uk-epic-ehr-implementation-...
I suppose the people talking about deleting all their posts/comments may be on to something then. Saw someone delete an 11yo account and another with over 10m karma.

Search engines will still link to reddit, but if most relevant content is scrubbed that'll be interesting.
I’ve left Twitter. I used to spend hours on it. Last week iOS unloaded the app for me since it had been so long since I used it.
> What is deinfluencing? Deinfluencing is an emerging social media trend that discourages consumers from buying certain products that the deinfluencer has found to be indulgent, ineffective or not worth the money.

Here I was thinking nothing could be worse than influencer culture ...
> there is a "private review" portion

What can a host do about low ceilings for example? It's something that matters greatly to tall people or people that feel claustrophobic. But this is the kind of thing that practically no one will mention in a public review and it might not be discerned from the photos. It's not about humilating anybody. It's candidly stating the positives and negatives so you can make better choices.
I'm surprised this doesn't violate anti-trust laws. Massive behemoths buying competitors to shut them down goes against the spirit of capitalism.
The mathematical entities are straightforward, and the important things to remember in this definitions package are conventions and names: x is the variable vector and its cardinality is n, minimization of a function called f0 is the objective, fi<=bi are the m constraints, and they are numbered starting from 1 to exclude "f0" and avoid the use of a different letter for the objective function.
LF Celine's Journey. He writes about WW1 and gives a first person experience of the propaganda

It's something I think about often: what does it take to convince millions of people to walk into a graveyard? It just completely flies in the face of self preservation, kind of like the Aztec sacrifices

It's hard to think about this and not turn into a cynic
"UTF-16 native" doesn't mean your "UTF-16 unit" (i.e. what would `charCodeAt` return) should not exceed 16 bits. JS implementations already do not use UTF-16 as a sole native representation anyway, so the migration should be relatively easy.
So the TikTok part of Reddit is still open for business?
The beds are all terrible. Airbnb needs a bed system.

Everything else is just building a system around your needs.
Reddit's founder in a recent AmA (ask-me-anything) said they're not profitable yet.
Yep, it did this to me and helped itself to the data from my Firefox profile, and presumably uploaded this to MS servers. Great way to obtain data on a person I suppose.
How about we go back to being a web?

What I really wish people learned from all these issues with Twitter and Reddit is that the best way to avoid abuse of power is to not let power concentrate so much in any single centralized entity.

We don't need everyone with technical skills to make something completely decentralized. How about we take the (I don't know) 3-4% of the population who does have enough sills to buy a domain, manage a server (even if only through basic click-ops) and to offer these services for their closest friends and family?
The problem with this approach (not just for Reddit, but for all internet content sites) is that $9.99 is a significant investment when there are other sites providing content for free. The choice the user has to make isn't "Is Reddit worth $9.99?" but more like "Is Reddit better value at $9.99 than some other website at $0.00?", and Reddit is probably never going to win in that process for the majority of people.

It's the same reason why so few people sign up to pay for YouTube or Twitter. Video content is available elsewhere. Whatever the hell Twitter content is can be found just by talking to people.

On the other side so many do pay for Spotify and Netflix because that content is locked down pretty well. You can pirate some things, but it's a pain. Paying is easier.

Reddit seems to think it has a product that has value. Like so many web content hosts before it, it's probably wrong. It probably can't work as a business unless it's showing people adverts. And the problem with that model is that people hate adverts.

Honestly, until users realise that they can't have a content host unless they pay, no sites like Reddit will survive long term.
If subreddits that went dark come back in few days no-one will remember this. If they go dark for a long time that is another story.
If you want to have this discussion you're going to have to provide a concrete example.
Same aesthetics as A-ha's "Take on me". Even with the flaws, I can see how this can simply be used with that exact aesthetic in mind, without the need for any improvement.
I think the big problem is that they are trying to turn something which is more akin to a utility into a product that can be IPO’d.

What they used to be (simple, free, centralised forum software) doesn’t interest the market; so they’re having to try and package it as a social network.

Rightly or wrongly, the market has an understanding of how to value that and things like data collection and deployment, DAUs, mobile vs non-mobile usage (again, more about data collection), and the oh so relevant deployment of AI/ML.

It’s why, we all know, there is hate speech and such on the platform which could be handled more actively but isn’t: they need the DAUs.

It’s the big issue with “build it and they will come” type endeavours like this: you have to know you’ll do when they get there.
If you know exactly what text you're going to render, you can create your own font, relocate all the characters, and fit everything very compactly into UTF-8. You'll need to convert external input to your encoding scheme, but it can save a lot of bytes for some corpuses.

If you try to standardise against "what things look like", you'll inevitable run into trouble like the famous Turkic I (I (Iı) vs İ (İi) vs I (Ii) where "İ".toLower().toUpper() != "İ").

Sure, this means characters like é can theoretically be stored as either 0xE9 or 0xC3A9, but if you can pick what encoding you use, you can also optimise for the smallest length.
It makes it less intuitive for the user if you have input fields limited to n bytes instead of to n characters (complications caused by combining characters notwithstanding).
Nextcloud bookmarks and the floccus browser extension to sync the bookmarks.
> (removing extreme TOS stuff - racism, hate speech etc)

Why would you edit these? Deletion seems far superior, do you want people to go around editing out the racism of peoples posts? Seems absurd.
> ban porn on onlyfans

Only those in posession of the sigma hussle grindset can see the true genius behind that plan.
Yes, everyone has TikTok envy since Musk started to augment Twitter to a video publishing platform.

This model does not fit for Reddit with its poor execution (old.reddit.com is still the best) and its user base.

More sites will split off and use the old.reddit.com code base.
> I never met anyone who didn't equate "lab leak" with an intentional act by china

The likes of Alina Chan and Richard Ebright are "easy mode" counterexamples for your statement.

I'll swing for the fences: Even Tom Cotton was -- at least once, I am exceedingly uninterested in combing through all his tweets and media appearances -- careful to distinguish between "lab leak" and "intentional act", despite being brazenly political and probably inspired by anti-China animus.

From the thread beginning at https://twitter.com/SenTomCotton/status/1229202134048133126:

"Let me debunk the debunkers. @paulina_milla and her “experts” wrongly jump straight to the claim that the coronavirus is an engineered bioweapon. That’s not what I’ve said. There’s at least four hypotheses about the origin of the virus:

1. Natural (still the most likely, but almost certainly not from the Wuhan food market)

2. Good science, bad safety (eg, they were researching things like diagnostic testing and vaccines, but an accidental breach occurred)

3. Bad science, bad safety (this is the engineered-bioweapon hypothesis, with an accidental breach)

4. Deliberate release (very unlikely, but shouldn’t rule out till the evidence is in)

Again, none of these are “theories” and certainly not “conspiracy theories.” They are hypotheses that ought to be studied in light of the evidence, if the Chinese Communist Party would provide it.

We ought to be transparent with the American people about all this. Maybe some of these so-called experts think they know better. I don’t. And they really don’t either."
I guess the people having to deal with the externalities could consider them their loss.
"640K ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill Gates
Wind and solar overtake fossil generation in the EU
> Ride sharing services are amenable to network affects

Are they? Currently it's a low margin business with no real moat. It's hard to maintain high market share without continues subsidies.

> make it easier and cheaper to switch between different sevices

What barriers and/or costs are there for consumers which would make it difficult for them to switch between different services?
The Unabomber Was an AI Doomer
Is there any good reads wrt the blowback on cost of the API? I've only read that it costs $0.25 per 1000 calls which seems relatively cheap, but I haven't looked into how it affects use cases.
You can't let the OP decide if their question is good. Every OP thinks their question is good and most of them are idiots. I guarantee you most of the people complaining about SO do so because they suck at asking questions.
20 dollars a month for Reddit, oh man that's a good one
Delusional people with big egos fancy themselves as visionaries
I have found that the post meeting notes written by at least two persons then consolidated and improved by others really do help. Recordings while better than nothing would have to have transcripts in order to be usable. Hard to watch hour long recording searching for the relevant 5mins.
Some people are and will always be assholes, dishonest, crooks, borderline criminals. We shouldn't all be imprisoned in the office because management is incapable of at least dealing with these offenders.

After COVID we switched to almost 100% work from home. Office became mandatory 3 days a week but only on paper. In practice workers applied "passive aggressive" method, just didn't show up. And management didn't do squat since most of them were also working from home.

But I did have bad apples as colleagues. One guy in my team would be idle for long swathes of time although it would appear "green" on Teams - first sign someone's an asshole: they put a mouse move program but don't reply for hours. At least be honest and let your status be idle when you're not at your desk - we're all humans and I get that. Anyhow problem wasn't as much that he wasn't at his desk, when sometime I did manage to contact him in dire need of some crosscheck on the project we had to deliver, guy exceeded himself in being a passive aggressive jerk: he'd reply one or two questions then just disappear again IN MIDDLE OF A SENTENCE. For hours on end. Like I'm talking with him, ask him something, replies so I know he's there, immediately I ask him something else and he's gone. Sometimes until next day.

At some point I blew a gasket on him, called him on Teams when he was accidentally available and unloaded dicks and Christs and Gods and what else involves swearing in my native language. He was much more responsive for about two days then reverted to default behavior.

I thought of reporting him to my manager but I knew it would be useless. I tried naming things before in daily scrum with the management and upper management and didn't go well, reckoned what I need to do to keep my job. Eventually the company tanked and fired everyone (me included), so at least there's some divine justice. I found a new job in less than a week nevertheless, being around since the 1970s these guys might be more sensible than my previous employer.

I guess the moral of the story is: when bottom layer workers are dishonest, management pulls the strings and gets them in line. But what do you do when management itself is corrupted to the core? ... which I think is by far the rule rather than the exception. Who is policing "the police"?
I read this and I can't help but think the CIA is involved.
No I hadn’t. I don’t think you understood how infrequently you would come across photos of things like rare wildlife and remote wilderness locations in the 80s.

You’re missing the forest for the trees here. The point is that a photographer doesn’t learn how to produce pictures of a screwdriver by looking at pictures of a screwdriver. A photographer learns how to take pictures generally and then can instantly be capable of producing pictures of far more objects than he/she has ever observed.

Generative AI is not capable of that because it’s not operating a camera in reality.
You could add Turkey to the list. In the end, only one country is in Syria at the invitation of the internationally recognized government of Syria, while the other is not.
What happens if you fall asleep without the device?

Are you able to go camping?
"- You can turn on the electric kettle while pouring water into it."

Is this optimizing for length? lol.
> What matters is how quickly you can get code to do what you want...

This is the falsest statement I have read in a long time.

Maybe, if you write once and then throw it away (like a use-once shell script).

Otherwise you will have to maintain your code, and then readability and safety trump everything else. If not, it is about performance, but then a lot of time is spent on fine-tuning.
Conway's Game of Life in Tensors
86% is dark
If they really wanted to protest they would nuke the content and delete their accounts. This is just child throwing temper tantrum. They will be back.
Isn't "reddit isn't a real company, it's a dorm room shitshow" supposed to be the appeal of reddit? A 'real company' wouldn't have a free-for-all API to allow third parties to leach their ad revenue.
Personally, I have team members from 3 countries, and we collaborate just fine from home, and a lot of people have decided to move hundreds of kilometers away from our office.

Forcing everyone to move back into the office would probably be impossible for like 2/3rds of our team-members anyway and would probably require either letting those people go, or more likely, reorganize the teams and replacing them with local workers.

I can't stress how much economic damage it would cause, and how difficult it would be to hire and train people on the specialist skillsets we need.
If anyone thinks Musk is doing a good job against bots, they should take a look at the 't-shirt bots' https://twitter.com/penfoldsfiv/status/1667672731570036736
There were times I thought "I know someone like that", there were times I thought "I know that person", and there were times I literally knew people on it... It was disturbing to watch.
I agree in general, but network effect companies are highly vulnerable to being out-grown. A bigger rival with a bigger network is inherently more attractive to users, and it's competitive advantage increases exponentially with size.

The only way to avoid that I know is to address a specific target audience and scale up to dominate that. Tumblr has achieved this. A rival then can't dislodge you because you already own the relevant network. It's still risky though, because if a rival builds a product that covers the general audience and also servers that subset well, then the subset might decamp. Hence Tumblr trying to break out of it's niche. G+ addressed a lot of niches very well, but Google just wasn't interested in that kind of network.
You can bring a knife sharpener through airports.
And the community really hates it. It is just that there isn't good alternatives to protest. Apart stopping paying for Nitro.
I suppose it's a matter of definition for the word "involuntary" at this point. What I mean is that everyone who is willing and able will have enough food stamps to get enough nutrition for the month - no matter your living situation.

Like the parent said, you seem to be disputing my original claim out of spite and in bad faith.