skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But I'd just add there is a pretty major difference between "temporarily" and "permanently". Major kudos to r/ProgrammerHumor and other subs that are doing it right - saying they will be shutting down indefinitely unless Reddit changes their stance.

A permanent closure of a popular sub is 100% going to lead to Reddit declaring the sub abandoned, replacing the mod team, and reopening. Has happened many times before. Not sure if programminghumor in particular meets that popularity threshold though.
There most likely won't be. Reddit is Usenet 2.0. With Usenet, it was a diaspora. Sure, we had some sites like Slashdot that started in 1997 but even that was still targeting link aggregation focused discussions on tech related topics and there might only be a handful a day at times. The exodus from Usenet was to internet forums.

The exodus from Reddit seems to be to disperse among a combination of other forums, some Reddit-like sites like Tildes and Lemmy, and Discord.

Once we go through that for a while, we'll maybe have another consolidation again once a new round of companies give it a go. At least that's my hypothesis.
Seems clear enough to me, yes.
As others have said, lemmy is a viable alternative. Just beware that their flagship instance is pretty terrible in terms of political content.

Maybe check out beehaw.org
You can on old.reddit.com. Their redesign was so unpopular with users they agreed to keep supporting the old design which doesn't nag you into downloading the app.
Proprietary and public are not mutually exclusive.

CSIRO (Australia's science and technology research agency) developed WiFi and made the design "public". However, they also held a patent for that technology.

After other companies adopted WiFi as the standard, CSIRO went to the biggest users (BroadCom, AT&T, Lenovo, etc) and sued them for patent infringement. [1]

There are a few things that Tesla could do here. If they are building all of the charging infrastructure, and other manufacturers use the Tesla proprietary plug, does that mean other chargers can automatically use it as well? If not, that removes those players from the market - but as I understand it, Tesla chargers are way better anyway.

I'm sure Ford and GM lawyers are all over the potential implications of this in the future, but I think it's best not to consider public and proprietary as completely orthogonal.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/04/how-the-aussie-g...
Well, I'll be deleting my account and am texting / uploading stories on my other social media accounts to ask my friends and connections to do the same. Reddit has taken the content and hard work of 1000s of users, monetized it, and now wants to shut the gates.
Be aware that there’s are definitely NSFW subs in that list
Seems more like a tantrum than anything. Not making money fast enough? Better break it.
Also, Reddit is currently a multi-million dollar profitable company despite providing free API access to the developers who have made their site more usable for mobile users.

They just decided that they should have more money and they don't care about what they have to do to get it.
Who will they put in charge?

Admins? There aren't enough.
You can hear the frustration in his voice, I recognize that tone very well :)
Submitted on Show HN 8h ago https://www.getsiva.co/

just saw after reading your comment, pretty funny
Well given the policy of the US the last 70 years we’re boned if karma is coming for us.

Back to shrugging off the idea poor people on the other side of oceans are going to pick a fight with me specifically. I live in the middle; after rowing over the Pacific they’ll have to get through a lot of other people first.

Hey you should probably stop buying toxic technology and flying; would hate for the kids to karma your elder form.

Shit n hellfire; anyone making use of modern technology has little wiggle room to pontificate about why and how others are oblivious to reality of their choices.
This is also their partner's comments regarding attraction to children[0]

I'll save you the awfulness and just leave you with the damning "I fantasize about children having sex, sometimes with adults, sometimes with other children, sometimes kidnapped and forced into bad situations"

What's that saying again? "if there’s a Nazi at the table and 10 other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with 11 Nazis."

https://archive.ph/20191111012953/https://threader.app/threa...
Three things. (1) User identity. (2) Moderation. (3) Storage and bandwidth. If you don't mind using different identities across subreddits, or are fine using some OIDC provider, you can replace a subreddit with something like a phpbb installation, a classical forum. Its moderation tools, while somehow different, should be adequate to thwart spam and whip rule-breakers into shape. Running somethig picture-heavy, even 1/10 of r/pic, would cost considerable money though.
As a Debian user who would never buy an Apple product, the amount of time I've spent troubleshooting Macs for coworkers who thought they were a ticket to not understanding how their computers worked is absurd. And the proportion of those failures that lead to an Apple support thread where dozens of people were being ignored or gaslit by Apple support is probably a third.
If you think that’s bad, wait until you hear how they measure broadcast and cable television viewership.
I really don’t understand asking remote workers to switch to hybrid other than creating an us vs. them culture. Why would anyone who chose to work remote want to do that? They had to put in the effort to apply seeing it as a benefit. A single email talking about corporate “community” is all it takes for someone to give that up?
There's actually two variants, confusingly differentiated via capitalization.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrex

> The pyrex (all lowercase) trademark is now used for kitchenware sold in the United States, South America, and Asia. In Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, a variation of the PYREX (all uppercase) trademark is licensed by International Cookware for bakeware that has been made of numerous materials including borosilicate and soda-lime glass, stoneware, metal, plus vitroceramic cookware.
What you can run over a few feet of twinax and what you can run over hundreds or thousands of feet of coax with multiple tiers of splitters like the DOCSIS specs are designed for are two entirely different things.
It also decreased ozone in the stratosphere at many latitudes, not just the Philippines’.
it's not a one time scrape, but a continual tuning
If you'd be willing to part with them, I'd be interested in taking them off your hands!
I've been more and more disheartened with Ubuntu, but don't want to go away from the `.deb` ecosystem, as it's pretty good for work, dockerfiles, etc.

What are you guys using these days? Is Linux Mint any good?
Up until not long ago there would be plenty of post here saying how Google is useless and how appending `site:reddit.com` to any query was the only way to get decent results.

This thread is all about how bad reddit is, as if their content has disappeared. They don't need defense but I'm amazed at how volatile people's opinions are.
So to be clear, you assert, entirely without evidence, that Snowden leaked the documents to someone other than The Guardian / WaPo? And you further assert without evidence that these leaks included IP addresses? And your source is "everyone in the know knows", despite being "shrouded in secrecy"? We are to take the statements of NSA officials, the very ones humiliated by his leaks, at face value? Forgive my skepticism!

Also your Slate.com link contradicts your explanation for his ostensible disgruntlement - Ctl-F "TAO offered him a job". Not that it ever made the slightest bit of sense in the first place - who would banish themselves from their homeland over that? Snowden's character study is as crystal-clear as it is inconvenient to the NSA: the man was an idealist.
>I suspect we're going to discover at some point, or maybe OpenAI already did, that training on code isn't just a neat trick to get an LLM that can knock out scripts.

This is a thing that's already fairly well known

https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.07128
Getting vaccinated wasn’t an option during the halcyon days of Covid and like 95%+ of people I saw at public businesses in my red state were wearing masks (or at least attempting to) during that time period. But unfortunately people still needed to eat, work, purchase necessities, learn, get treated, etc.
This all to say that I don’t really think your analogy really holds up in this context.
This gives me Mixer vibes.
you wont believe #7!

on a more serious note, everyone should have a little utility belt of lists, hand curated and intimately known. they are an extension of me at this point.
It’s still there. It’s just at patriots.win now. Although upvotes vary between 100 and 1,000 so, much smaller than it was on Reddit where you’d easily get 10,000+ upvotes.
The All-Knowing Father
This was situation 10+ years ago. PRC's been phasing out low value add light industry for years. US export controls tried to limit PRC modernization even pre-Trump (see 5axis CNC bans, trying to cripple PRC compute under Obama). US didn't help - they were outplayed despite efforts to contain PRC progress. Yet PRC inidgenous heavy industries now basically competitive in nearly every sector hence trade wars since PRC indigenous efforts are increasingly displacing western products. Exception being aerospace and semi both of which are closable gaps. Everywhere else PRC has more or less caught up. By most metrics, PRC's already pulled through and still rapidly climbing up value chain, innovation indexes etc. The "effects" is PRC increasingly entrenched in supply chains everywhere, including friendshore destinations that's basically reassembling PRC components - see PRC trade with said destinations increasing proportional to US imports from said countries. It's how PRC went from capturing $8 in assembling fees from each iphone 3G to 25% of value add since iPhoneX. Or how PRC become largest car exporter.

That linked comment is also cherry picked stupid. PRC exports to US/west near record levels, WHILE exports to global south has officially surpassed western bloc, i.e. PRC is MORE factory of the world than at any point in the past. The drop in exports is due recent to global economic downturn that saps demand everywhere, but it's sapping from hilariously record high exports during covid. Meanwhile PRC export:GDP is like 20% down from 35% high in 00s, i.e. it's one of the less export dependant major economies in the world responsible for substantial global exports (including heavy industry) but it's not even an export driven economy anymore.

On demographic front, the reality is PRC is minting OECD combined in skilled talent every year and last 5 years of PRC topping citation (controlled for quality), innovation index is just lag affect of PRC growing with fraction of that talent. The PRC miracle is basically doing all that with ~20% skilled workforce, because at PRC scale that's enough to be globally competitive. Now it's in process to grow that competitive workforce to 50-70% skilled in next 30 years, which is adding anohter couple US worth of talent into the mix.
Are you confusing the charging network with the plug standard?
Also rather scenic if it takes the 'left side' between Cologne and Koblenz. Escpecially in the upper floor of the 'Dostos' (Double decked coaches). The Rhine, all the old castles, the wine grows on the steep hillsides, maybe some ships...
Lemmy is the federated version.

https://lemmy.ml/
sure! surprised i havent come across jt before. PR welcome
I am not sure this is true in all strains of mice. Remember these are data generated from a single fully inbred strain of mouse. I am checking now fir s set of 40 strains we have studied to get a better sense of the decline.
Works in Firefox on Android without logging in or using old. for me.
I'm dumb :)
> But I wouldn't say the hash you linked is nondeterministic just because it has a seed. You can seed MD5, SHA-2, and BLAKE2 by tossing bytes in as a prefix.

Yes, but the point is that hash functions used for hash tables are much, much faster than these cryptographic ones.
Craig federighi can play guitar
Reddit has its moments but I still enjoy it. It's a fun time sink between sets at the gym or if I'm stuck on a bike pedaling and have tired yet again of Duolingo.

That said, I have a tendency to filter a fair bit to avoid the major problems but there's going to be some news that I should hear but is not good news either.

I had a chat the other day with a friend. He's deleted the app as he's been on it quite heavily and needed a break. It's certainly something I've heard out of some people. Meanwhile, there's others looking for where the migration is going, assuming a Digg to Reddit type migration.
I'm not sure how to reply to your comment.

Are you not aware of all the things apple showed this device will be able to do on release?

Are you aware and just being sarcastic?

Are you aware and unwilling to admit that it would have more uses than just watching movies?

Are you not aware that a business VR space already exists with similarly priced products?

What's your angle?
Any anecdotes on how wrong incorporation can go and why?
I use Tablet on one of my projects. It’s good but a lot more involved compared to what Tremor seems to be.
From what I've seen, only for niche programming or highly technical circles.

My "normie" friends don't even want to try something polished like Signal. Mastodon would have to be heavily simplified, polished, and maybe sponsor some exclusive influencers to actually take the spot of Twitter.
Does Janet have something like Clojure's threading (->, ->>)?
Indeed the WHO advised against sweeteners just a couple weeks back: https://www.who.int/news/item/15-05-2023-who-advises-not-to-...
> wouldn't actually make a difference to the final performance

Doesn't that assume that the embeddings learned are in some sense "perfect"? Is that actually the case in practice?

I would expect the learned embeddings to have some errors, especially for the rarer ones that have few examples available for the model to learn from.

I also thought that explicitly accounting for symmetries always improved model performance, because then it doesn't waste parameters learning things that aren't unique and interesting pieces of information.
Most people do have those tendencies, indeed! Also, great last line.
Yes. But id depends on where. Currently China, US, Europe are all going in different directions. Lots of things undesided in lots of smaller markets.
What changes do you anticipate?
So when people talk about napping like this, do they ever actually "fall asleep"? I cannot possibly imagine falling asleep in 15m in the middle of my work day or whatever.
Well, if US regulators can destroy any company in crypto space in a couple of days, and are willing to do so, then it's hard for it to "work out in a real world". If the regulations are "just don't do anything bad, and we'll tell you what's bad after you do it and invest billions in it" then it's hard for it to "work out". If the users are asked to invest into assets that can be wiped out of existence by regulators at any minute, then it's hard for it to "work out".
old.reddit.com is primarily kept around because the majority of moderators use it.
Putting aside the dubious methodology behind that metric, I’d like to point out that’s precisely the wrong metric to be paying attention to. You need to look at the traffic and retention numbers of the power users, and better yet the critical users in the social graph. Power user traffic has declined 25% since Elon.

The reason why this number is more important than overall user growth, is because social networks don’t decline, they chug along, until the collapse all at once, like a bridge with a key support knocked out. By studying the collapse look of Friendster, MySpace, Snap (which technically still exists), this predictor of collapse has been identified.

So yeah Twitter is dead. The rest of the network just doesn’t know it yet.

See:

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/17/twitters-top-users-are-posti...
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29196654/

https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.6109
I pop endeavouros cassini nova on most machine now (xfce), never gets in the way.. I used to roll with mint xfce but I needed an arch base.
There are multiple system running on silicon that have been made to not go dark in normal mode of operation. Some examples could be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety-critical_system
Just wait until you've been banned on sub's you've never visited before - because you made a comment somewhere else on reddit.

Mods can be great, and many of them are. But... there's plenty of bad ones out there that make participating in some communities stifling at best.
Do you really trust those numbers?

Twitter has all the inventive in the world to artificially inflate view counts and have done similar, sketchy things recently[0].

[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/02/report-musk-had-...
Interesting - it seems that TI bought a 25 percent equity in LMI in 1983. This was even mentioned in the New York Times back then...

https://www.nytimes.com/1983/09/02/business/lisp-stake-bough...
Sadly, there's plenty of them. Probably using MS Edge because that's what their computer came with. No adblocker installed.
If you put it in someone else's basement and combine it with rsnapshot or rsync then you're pretty much 100% of the way there. My setup is:

1) Server runs rsnapshot to keep a local version history of all important files

2) Nightly snapshot of the server VM is saved to an offsite Proxmox backup server onto a ZFS volume which is mirrored between two physical drives.

So lost files due to user error can be pulled back off hourly, daily or monthly snapshots, total loss of the server for any reason just means restoring from the backup server (which I have tested, in an emergency with a little fiddling the backup server can take over as main server for a while), and no single drive failure on the backup server will lose old backups. If we get hit by ransomware and all our files get encrypted then our nightly backups would start timing out. :P

I also sync the whole tree to my local drive since I regularly need to work offline on remote sites, so I have totally separate fairly recent snapshots on two different laptops, only one of which is generally used at any given time.

If anything takes out both premises and both laptops simultaneously, I'm probably in no condition to care about our project folders anyway.

Did I miss anything?
> chatbot known to hallucinate

This is known to maybe half the people in the tech world.

> programmed purely for predictive text

Way fewer people know this.

Most people think of it as some magical AI or whatever. Even with huge disclaimers about it hallucinating, there are so many APIs into ChatGPT...I can only imagine this getting worse in terms of lawsuits.
Looking at the White House Through Wildfire Smoke
That was because they got sued by some patent troll: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-20236114
How it is any different from a streamlined BB forum?

* Topics are sorted the exact same way as a BB, by default.
* Posts have all the usual multimedia features.
* The search actually works.
* It's super fast and minimal.

I'm generally curious what your UX frustrations are here...
reddit the company doesn't produce any content. they rely on people creating communities, cultivating them, and actively moderating them (for free!). i'd say that gives those creators more of a claim to ownership than the platform hosting that content. reddit doesn't exist without them - what value does the site have if they kick out everyone who "occupies" reddit.com?

would you participate in an online forum only populated with chatbots?
It's worth noting that Reddit's own app uses their official API. The whole thing is OAuth2. They could have easily just said "Only Reddit Gold users can use external apps" and have avoided all this fracas.

Now, it would take very little for someone to dig around and find the official Reddit API keys (OpenID/OAuth2 client key/secret) and just impersonate the official Reddit apps. I would never suggest that someone do some googling and discover threads like https://github.com/TwidereProject/Twidere-Android/issues/147... where such things are discussed.
Why do you want to stay within the .deb ecosystem?

The difference between .deb and other common packages (rpm, pacman) are minimal. Almost all desktop distros will handle dockerfiles just as well as Ubuntu.
Kurt Cobain's favorite novel
My experience is somewhat dated so I can’t say if this is still the truth, but Apple used to refuse to tell the very large company I worked at whether or not their new game would be featured before the featuring page was updated. Getting onto the featured page was critical for initial success. And you just didn’t know what to plan for.
Those developers will always, ALWAYS cater it iOS - where the money is.
What does that have to do with Twitter’s popularity, though?
Turns out a large majority of Americans are uneducated white men that tend to right side political ideals.... and for good or bad Reddit decided not to deal with them.
Yes tell us more about the notably clean bays of Rio de Janeiro
OPEC Has a Russia Problem
There is no stability it corporate and there are no meaningful regulations to reign-in strip-mining capitalism seeking short-term profit maximization.

If you want economic security, you either have to build your own business or findothers who want to form a worker-owned co-op that resists the unfettered greed of corporate hegemony.
Okay, "each person" does indeed sound like "multiple at the same time", but it could also mean "any single person". Then the lenticular lens display would only need to produce two images, for the left and the right eye.
I didn't say a damn thing about the state of chemistry in the 1940s. My point was that it's silly to claim the absence of PFAS or plastics would cause societal collapse when we have a ready image of our civilization without plastics.

Metal, wood, resins, etc were just far more ubiquitous, doing many of the jobs plastics do now. Lots of things were a bit more expensive because of this. But none the less, people lived pretty decent lives.
try to google any TV show or video game, it's the completely worthless spam blog that pollutes most of the results
Yes, but shipping new cars with a different charging plug than new government funded chargers doesn't seem like a great idea. The industry should start converging to a common standard by now, and as far as I know not even Tesla is using their plug in the EU.
I think this conflict has been long brewing and has little to do with Apollo, and more to do with powermods running many subreddits not liking that the bots they use will get charged for API usage.

I think powermods don't want to draw the slightest attention to themselves (because users and press would start looking at them a bit too closely) or how/why they use bots.

The overwhelming majority of popular or even "popular niche" subreddits are moderated by a small handful of people, some of whom have moderation powers in hundreds of subreddits. A lot of mods have gone to the trouble of trying to hide it by using alts, but a lot of them just don't care / are proud of how many subs they mod. I'd be shocked if a number of them aren't getting paid or otherwise compensated by groups like PR firms.

Speaking of which, you know who else doesn't want to pay for API calls? Said PR firms, who are known to scan reddit posts for mention of client names so they can do damage control and manipulation.

These people run their subreddits like fiefdoms and they'll do petty nonsense like shadowban you from every subreddit they moderate because you accidentally piss them off in one.

At one point it was common to post in any of a number of subreddits powermods didn't like and discover you'd been preemptively shadowbanned because their bot was scanning for posts in those subreddits.