skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the creators of reddit had a philosophical and political commitment to free speech that drove their light-touch approach to moderation

The notion that reddit ever was a bastion of free speech is absurd. They didn't "light touch" on upskirt, revenge, and kiddy porn because of "philosophical and political commitment to free speech", they did it because they didn't want to accept any more responsibility for content than they absolutely had to, and that's because it is not financially viable to moderate large communities using paid labor. That is why you see so many social media companies pushing against rules for online content; not because they're champions of free speech.

If it were about "a commitment to free speech", they wouldn't allow completely unaccountable and anonymous members to delete content, silently mute users, and ban users....including employing automatic tools that would ban people preemptively based on subreddits they posted in, or automated tools for powermods to ban someone across all the subreddits they moderated.

If you pissed off a powermod, your account could end up getting banned from nearly all the major, common subreddits - not just from theirs, but they'd communicate in private channels to other powermods that they wanted someone to be banned elsewhere.

Oh, and they were happy to moderate, severely, anyone who revealed any personal details about a reddit user. Which conveniently helps protect people doing stuff like upskirting and posting revenge porn.

"philosophical and political commitment to free speech", my ass.
Well, you do need, jitter, exponential backoff, caching, black and white listing, a stat base decision tree, etc. That's why it's a complicated and costly problem.

But if you are consuming a lot of API content, if you have crawlers or if you provide features like "get article title/summary/image/thumbs", at some scale it's an important decision to make.
After a long period of stalled weight loss, I switched to a low carb diet (to reduce my feelings of hunger and aid in eating less), and with that came a plethora of keto-friendly protein bars. For a while I thought that 4/5 BMs being straight liquid was just my body acclimating to the diet, but after reading about how erythritol can cause diarrhea, I decided to hit the breaks on those bars and everything has gone back to normal overnight.

I may have one occasionally but definitely not going back to eating them every other day.
Let's see, you don't want people to be alarmist on events that could remap the world as we know it? Okay, if we aren't alarmist then governments won't take action. It sounds like there is no way to win with people like you, and evidently there are enough people like you that we've done nothing.

Regarding your specific complaint, let's look at the AP article. The article is based off an interview with a director, not a scientist. I'm not sure if it's poorly written or the director poorly communicated the issue. The article implies that by 2000 we'd see all of these extreme outcomes, that wasn't what was intended to be communicated. Instead it was that we had until 2000 to stop these events from happening in the future. Which is a very different message. Regardless here we are in 2023 and we are getting ever closer to those events occurring, with some leading indicators already taking place.
Redditors, in defense of Reddit, destroy Reddit
The trends section in that graph shows all sections of ice in decreasing trends, what the hell are you on about
I'm mostly just amused that someone would say Apple selling a product for a high price means anything.

Although I do think that facebook has sold a lot of their devices at a loss?
It will absolutely rule for wargames (i.e. board-based simulations). High resolution, zooming into "counter" stacks, limited intelligence (yes!), calling up rules, procedure checklists, odds calculation & combat resolution, the list goes on and on methinks.

Grognards with sufficient disposable income - rejoice! At last you can (for example) play Operation Barbarossa at regiment level - and retain your sanity!
Tunic is nothing like Zelda, except that both characters wear green and swing a sword. It's really good in its own way, though.
People are awful to each other everywhere - there is nothing exceptional about America there. I agree with you that dignity requires fundamental (not judgemental) respect, and that is sorely lacking in the world (even in your response).
I have a late model samsung and browsing a news site like NYTimes works better with Vivaldi than with FF. FF seems to stutter if I scroll quickly, as if getting "snagged". Maybe Vivaldi is preloading resource vs. FF trying to load stuff realtime while scrolling? I'm taking a wild guess.

It was annoying enough for me to make the switch.
Acid rain _was_ bad, and I'm not trying to ignore it. However, my understanding is that we've already brought down sulfur emissions by an enormous amount over the past 30 years, and the 2020 value was a very small fraction of our peak sulfur emissions [1]. The IMO change took place in 2020, and it's my understanding that the IPCC statement about 0.5C of cooling coming from sulfur emissions is relatively recent. I think our current level of sulfur emissions is closer to being acceptable than our current warming trend.

I'm not pretending that cooling via sulfur emissions is without costs -- but e.g. if living at 2018 levels of sulfur emissions (which were already 90% down from peak) can give us 0.5C of cooling, that's a deal I'm willing to take, especially in light of how hard it is proving to reduce carbon emissions. It especially seems like we're hitting a number of tipping points with warming, and if sulfur emissions (or any other albedo-increasing intervention) can keep us from crossing those lines, we should, in my view. Would we be better off with 2014-level sulfur emissions? 2008? At _some_ point, trading sulfur emissions for cooling becomes a bad deal, and we shouldn't scale up without limit. But is it a good direction to move from where we are now? I think so.

[1] https://www.acsh.org/news/2021/07/09/whatever-happened-acid-...
This reads exactly like most pieces on why C# & Microsoft bad.

Step 1: Establish an implicit narrative that additional language features are mandatory.

Step 2: Identify a gigantic, corporate boogeyman who somehow seeks to use these additional features to control your life.
Assuming you only maintain a single API, why is domain logic in http controllers so bad?

- you have twice as many signatures to maintain, which will become inconsistent with each other

- introducing a new layer when you eventually need it, isn't more work than maintaining it now

- Unlike other IO, REST frameworks are easy to test in memory
Discounting death because they’re drama queens.

This is awful.

Awful.

I see that the nazis have won, in this world. Really, check out your soul.

And it’s exactly why they’re committing suicide: No-one cares about their lives. They’re stock to you.

They commit suicide because they’re not “priority education zones” (ZEP) which are reserved for racially chosen neighborhoods. So farmers remained bogans in France (like in UK), had low level of education, couldn’t progress to the levels that Arabs could progress to, and their supports disappeared from society. No future.

No country for old men.
I doesn't matter how much you pay for something, they'll still collect all the data on you that they can because you can never pay more than they'd make taking your money and also collecting your data.
> switched to the web version of outlook

I don't understand what you believe this gained you.
I liked someone's idea in non.io #feedback of subscribing to multiple moderators, whose filters are applied to your view. Makes the moderator's job easier too, if its more distributed.

I could subscribe to a couple moderator's idea of "low effort", a few more for "spam" moderation, etc . Could even have "#racist" and "#woke" mods, whatever bubble you choose to subscribe to.
"Margaret Wertheim, reviewing that book in The Los Angeles Times, called it “lucid and poetic.

In this time of sectarian wars, when theists and atheists are engaged in increasingly hostile incivilities,” she wrote'

Does that mean there's groups of atheist and theists actively trying to slaughter one another?
What sentence did he get last time they tried that?
I'd draw people's attention to https://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/13wsiks/comment/...

> On March 14th, Apollo made nearly 1 billion requests against our API in a single day, triggered in part by our system outage. After the outage, Apollo started making 53% fewer calls per day. If the app can operate with half the daily request volume, can it operate with fewer?

That's a backend server making a request that doesn't count against its rate limit as soon as it can again.

The push notification backend is described as making a request every 6 seconds for each user. If it isn't backing off correctly and delaying a requeueing of the next job, that can drastically increase the request rate.
Religion, culture, social pressure, groupthink etc. all routinely trump basic economics in every society in the world.
"Subjective" is kind of the wrong word. "Relative" is a bit clearer. Identity is relative to the situations in which you need it. Two situations with the same requirements will have the same identity criteria.

It's not a matter of opinion (or rather, it could be, if that were relevant to the ontology). It's an objective fact. It's just that a macro-object is many different objective facts, and those facts interact with other facts in different ways.
Once again, your understanding of this is based on single anecdotal experiences.

In a thriving economy, there will be multiple underdogs, all competing for different segments of the market. Each one of them will eat market share - which will lead to UPS losing some customers at first. Then, if they can keep nibbling at the market share until they keep acquiring more customers.
> if you are a web developer, you ought to be grateful for.

As a web user, I'm definitely not grateful for this.
I'd argue that any alteration to the prose is counter to authorial intent. Some people might be fine with that, but I don't want to read a book not knowing whether words were substituted for others because some editor thought that they were too antiquated or difficult for lowly readers. Footnotes exist for a reason (and dictionaries for that matter). Lately I often feel that publishers don't respect consumers' intelligence.
It was like that in India too. Some social critics and authors back in late 19th and early 20th century changed that practice. Dowry started as a pocket-money for the girl, when she leaves her parent's house to go with her husband, because woman is "their" property now. Parents worried about her daughter's well-being there, would do that in consolation that it might help her, should things go south. That generousness was "expected" as time rolled on.
I'd second that. I haven't had to deal with educational ish kids' games in a while, but I remember one of my daughter's favorites (something about crayola and castle creator?) already stopped working when I upgraded her from xp to win 7.

Wine may work for popular games (maybe try something like playonmac/playonlinux that can pull older wine versions for you if it has a recipe) but kids' games won't get a lot of attention. Not like Fallout 3.
By this logic, the Imperial System is the best measurement system for the US (pick whatever entrenched system you want). Whether you agree or disagree with it, it's the most widely used in US so its superiority there is self-evident.
They definitely have 3 button trackpads. I have a cheap Windows laptop from work and it has 6 buttons!
Reddit crashed because of the growing subreddit blackout
I disagree, learned helpless is an easy attack on realists who tell it as it is.

We consistently fall in the worst case scenario of most climate models so much so that "faster than expected" is now a meme.

It is indeed too late to avoid famine and water wars but it is not too late to keep large parts of the world still livable. I would very much like my children and my children's children to have a fighting chance.
That's assuming it's your platform. But then you don't have to worry about the moderators banning you for their words, because you're the moderators.
I still don't understand the threat model here. Is there an example of how this could be used as part of an attack?
Hold on to your villages. Support them with your wallet if you care about them.
That's right. They use a fully differentiable renderer, which allows them to optimize the properties of this set of 3D gaussians using back propagation / gradient descent.

But ultimately what they end up with is an explicit representation of the scene, so unlike NeRF there's no "inference" during rendering. In that sense it's somewhere between a traditional mesh representation and an implicit representation like NeRF or signed distance fields. That's what makes it fast too; they get to make use of the rasterization acceleration capabilities of GPUs , unlike NeRFs which need to be sampled many times along a ray to render a scene.
Yes to all of this, plus the fact that it is easier to attend to children when working a hoe, compared to when working a plow (and possibly animal)
I'd want to downvote this, but in absence of that option I'll comment here instead to show I disagree.
First, although he's indeed also reading the article, it's not like that is the only thing he is doing. He is adding a broader perspective to it.
Secondly, the tabloid fodder accusation here is really not any value here, please don't make HN commentary second into something where they just sling random accusations around.
Third, I agree that it's not just some podcaster as stated by the other commenters.

Also, the first line of the video description of the video is a link to the medium article.
Show HN: GPTFlix – Find your next favorite movie powered by GPT
What about remastered movies?
Consuming food wasn't deeply integrated into all our actions and economies? Oil?

> extrapolate that "humanity will always find solutions"

Good thing I didn't do that! Doomers, however, do extrapolate failure. They walk far out on a branch and forget they are carrying the burden of proof. That's my entire point.
I was referring to the original comment about continuing to try even in the face of a terminal diagnosis. So no, it hasn’t stopped us.
First multicore, now this? This makes me really happy.

OCaml is the most fun I've ever had writing code; seeing this after the whole Re* rebranding death spiral makes me hopeful that fullstack OCaml is still a possibility.

Thank you!
I often am looking at another element before interacting with it with my mouse. With eye tracking enabled menus hovering over an element immediately because I'm looking at it becomes an annoyance.
I set up a Lemmy account yesterday. It has promise.
No world leader is going to stick their neck out and spend billions to rain acid (even if thats exactly what the country needs), especially if their country is in a climate crisis. They mind as well hand in their resignation.
Oh, definitely. Anyone in the medical field who says they've never gossiped about people's health issues is either a saint or bending the truth a bit.

But that's vastly different (though perhaps more invasive) than massive breaches like these: https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/cybersecurity-hacking-he...
In my experience middle sized communities/forums operate on trust, but due to being bigger than small communities, it is hard to do. So people often don't know everyone else in the same forum/subforum, or at least don't know for long. And seeing open ban list with reasons and dates, reputation counters with open results who voted +/- for this person or post or comment keeps reputation of semi-anonimous users in check. You see a subforum which banned a lot of good users? It's a dumpster and you can go away and don't waste time there (or remain and troll a bit). You see a user with close to zero reputation counter but it actually a lot of + and a lot of - votes negating each other. That's interesting, possibly he was mass downvoted by some sub. Etc.

In short - public reputation and ban info is fun, interesting and somewhat a social limiter if the reputation still exist on a particular forum. And there are no negative factors for this really. I'm speaking from experience on other older forums I've participated.
Interesting that topping placement was their barrier to full automation. You’d think dropping stuff on a bounded circle is a solved problem for robots.
Pro tip: never give Windows internet access during setup.

Windows 11 will not let you continue without an online account unless you use a tool like Ventoy which automatically bypasses it
Ask HN: What is your recommended speech to text/audio transcription tool?
Currently, I use a GUI for Whisper AI (https://github.com/Const-me/Whisper) to upload MP3s of interviews to get text transcripts. However, I'm hoping to find another tool that would recognize and split out the text per speaker.

Does such a thing exist?
I get that, I felt petty too, but I'm much more productive, and much happier without windows. So you gotta frame it like that. "The cloud runs on linux, I'm most productive when developing natively on something close to where we deploy, can I not use windows?", or, "I have years of bash muscle memory and automate a
great deal of mundane tasks, is it okay if I use linux?"

Or otherwise make it a gentle enquiry, "I see you provide laptops, can I get a linux/Mac machine to work on?"

Framing is key ;)

Edit: personally I outright asked "can I choose my own OS, I can't deal with windows, it makes my head hurt" or something like that. If you have the confidence just tell em how it is.
Under HIPAA, any scrap of "individually identifiable health information" that can be used to connect online data with a patient cannot be sent to a third party without consent.
I can already see people justifying gaming the system with multiple paid accounts if they know that farming those upvotes back to themselves will recoup costs. Especially if the farmed votes get more attention from other paid votes.
Looks like there was at least 2 or 3 empty lanes right besides it.
Are signups working? I tried to sign up, but the login form shook at me and said "X", which is not among the most informative error messages I've seen.
I see what you are talking about, but I don’t think it makes Reddit interesting. It’s kind of like having a bunch of different HOA boards, all fighting over how to mow the lawns or what colors to paint the houses in their respective communities.

The people who make Reddit interesting are, IMO, the content creators and the people who answer questions. The content creators are spending most of their time off-Reddit, working on projects. The people answering questions are browsing /new on a few subreddits, killing time, and watching a mostly unmoderated stream of posts.

The moderation rules for individual subreddits are usually annoying—things like karma minimums, minimum ages, and sometimes a bunch of weird rules about what you can post and how you can post it. Rules against self-promotion.
From what I read in another comment, it takes advantage of the data export function Instagram themselves offer
> Not sure how dowries are rooted in the idea that women are property

> in a sense were literally selling their daughters

> pay the bride's family enough money to replace the "lost labor" of having one of their workers moving away

You answered your own question.
Subreddit Simulator using GPT-2
There is a little more to the series at this point than the 30 years old Link to the Past.
In the uk we applaud them. Some are serving peers of the realm others active politicians.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Mone,_Baroness_Mone

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/coronavirus-t...
This is a bizarre perspective. I don't know anyone who thinks of Microsoft as the underdog. I don't know anyone who would support Microsoft viewing their browsing, but condemn Google for the same thing. Your brand loyalty is fooling you into thinking that criticism of your favorite product is the same as promotion of your favorite product's competitors.
I personally wouldn’t touch an updated classic with a 10 foot pole - but there’s a market for sanitized classics. If the publishers think it will help them sell more books, it’s hard to fault them for it.
Maybe, but not in terms of needing code.

You see, the rules of formal languages that encode formal rules of system constraints pre-date computers by centuries. Think of math proofs, for example. Sure, we can encode symbols as emojis, or geometric figures or whatever. But in the end, it's sequences of symbols, that's the nature of it. And tapping symbols one by one with a headset will suck, no matter how programming looks.

The rules of formal languages that encode formal rules of system constraints pre-date in fact our species too. Think about what DNA is. Oh yeah, spooky, isn't it. A sequence of symbols (GTCA) encoding a sequence of more complex symbols (proteins). Spooky! But yes, DNA is our code. And it works the same as our programming code.

Now I know where you're going. LLMs. Let's assume an LLM writes the code for you. You still have to read it, which you can do fine with a headset (if it's not as encapsulating and heavy, and with short battery life as Vision Pro v1). But if you spot something's off, you need to adjust it. Go directly for the kill, and make that surgical series of edits. You know? Or... maybe you can spend the rest of the day hopelessly trying to explain to Siri 2030 year edition what you want to do, instead of going in and doing it, for that "last mile".

Because if AI can do the last mile itself, to the point you don't need to even verify it... first, that's the fast way to AI shipping code we don't understand and basically giving up our entire civilization to it. And second... we don't need to code, but we also won't need to exist, and therefore not need headsets.

So in the worldlines where we DO exist... Vision Pro sucks for coding, because it's a shitty human interface to editing code.

And in the worldlines where we DO NOT exist... Vision Pro sucks for coding, because AI doesn't need headsets.
at this income level, it's not worth losing my job in this economy, not even in a booming economy.
Downdown/context menus that are attached to a node inside an "overflow: scroll" element. The common solution is to use a React "portal" or Vue "teleport" to move the element to the root of the body, but this has its own problems around accessibility and can often result in bugs during page transitions.
Another practical reason was to keep the level of complexity manageable for us humans implementing and optimizing it.
It’s hard to prove a security issue but “shady” describes my experience with most all modern OS’s. I trust Linux the least but it’s my daily driver. I just assume it’s comp’d because at some level (NSA at least) it is. I also try to reinstall a fresh distro at least quarterly, but even on a fresh install don’t trust it. If I can’t trust all of the devices on my network (I don't) then I also don’t trust my network. If that’s true then no device on the network can be trusted. Until I own and administer every device on my network, there’s no way around that. Even if I did trust all the devices I also have to trust the isp and the router manufacturer (which I certainly don’t).
this is a much better experience then Lemmy for sure. Congrats!