skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's obvious that companies have found that working from home negatively affects productivity. Companies are all about saving money and maximizing productivity. If working from home had been at an even level, or even a bit less, to working from the office then they would had chosen it over having people go into the office since maintaining an office, and all that goes with it, is very expensive.

Or middle management forces this on everyone so they can keep pretending they're useful, while most of middle management is absolutely useless. Most managers are there to ask something one person and forward the answer to another person, or gather multiple ones to sum them up in a single sentence. That's literally the job. People who have actual business influence sit at 'the top', people who have technical influence sit near 'the bottom', most people in between are just... there. I know, I worked with middle management heavily in my last corporate gig, those people usually barely even know what we do, they are incapable of making any decision without 'running it through upper management', most of them are not even trained properly to resolve interpersonal issues or work with people in general. Going to the office just so you can sit in your cubicle or on a random desk in the open space and spend whole day on calls with other people is just... pointless.

> It's not what we want or wish for but, if we are lucky, it's what we can get.

This sentence reads like corporate management is your overlord and you're happy if they let you do something. Working in IT you're privileged enough to be able to actually choose who you work for, thinking you're 'lucky' because you can work 2 days from home, is kind of... sad really.
Some of the people who try to beat the market do actually lose their money. You can go play games with options trading or short selling or high volatility stocks and not just get 1% instead of 7%, you can lose the majority of your principle. Or all of it. Or even end up in debt.

The average of 37, 8, 8, 8, 8, -27 is also 7.
If anyone from reddit corporate is reading this, understand that its over. This week is critical to save your personal narrative.

No matter what really happened; always tell people you are the person who invented the like button at facebook, not the one who decided to band porn on tumblr.
Yep. 100%. Before good questions would be upvoted. Bad questions would be down voted. Get to zero and the question remained. The dev could revive it with a few up votes.

The problem is the gate keepers, seem to hover over the questions queue. I shudder to think how someone who has english as a second language would fair.

Noobs don't know how to form questions. That's what we're supposed to be here for. To help them learn answers, and how to ask better questions.
Twitter is not that comparable to be fair.

It is not so anonymous and real people actually depend on it.
Politicans, official organisatons for communication and so on. It is harder to leave it.

Not to mention moderators.
That vocal minority also skews heavily towards those who contribute via moderation, posting and commenting.

Twitter has a payrolled moderation team and while 3rd party apps had benefits an house app without major feature gaps.

Twitter also hasn't grown since making the change - usage has dropped (depending on measurement / estimate) 8-15% and is still dropping.
> Somehow, at some point in the past that I haven't been able to precisely identify, everyone decided that corporations were legitimate "things", and started acting as if they should be. And I'm not sure why. We see practically nothing either in common law or in various national constitutions that authorize governments to create the damned things. It's quite bizarre, and more than a little dangerous.

Corporate personhood happened because of one law reporter.[1] It's a very strange story.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Clara_County_v._Southern....
A someone who followed courses in num op, I can say that yes, indeed, the math concepts are rather basic and not that hard to learn. BUT you have to be at ease with mathematical reasoning because many of the proofs are not that easy to understand, they involve quite a lot of small insights here and there. Nothing really hard, but your brain will definitely have to work to understand these.

So yeah, the necessary concepts to study that course are not much but you have to have a strong habit of thinking in maths to apply them. And that habit comes with a lot of practice...
> both can be trivially cloned. Alternatives exist

Trivially? No. As can be seen by lack of alternatives of comparable quality.
> 2. I open Reddit today and it’s different but not inferior. I’d argue the real value of Reddit nowadays is in all the nice subreddits one subscribes to, and most of them are still alive and active. My friends who just started redditting last year have not even noticed the whole shebang.

Most of these subreddits are driven by content creators and moderators who are fully dependent on third-party apps and moderation frameworks. The consumers might not personally care about those features, but if the core members of these small communities give up, all the content will dry up.
I thought most Python web frameworks were heavily annotation driven?
Yelp started doing this years ago. They slowly cut access to their mobile site that used to work perfectly well. Sure I could install the app, but the obvious disrespect to the user pretending that the mobile site didn’t work perfectly well and that you have to install the app was so frustrating that I just stopped using Yelp altogether. And that’s saying something, seeing as I own a local theater venue and refusing to engage with Yelp hurts be more than it hurts them. But screw it, I hate being bullied by these platforms.
Techy/young people think that they are the intended audience of Reddit.

You're not anymore. The intended audience is _bigger_. It's like how Facebook shifted from young college folks to kids, moms, grandpas, and mainly companies.

The original users of Facebook left, but Facebook still grew.

Now it's Reddit's turn to swap its original user base with a bigger target audience.
Did they finally fix the annoying flickering?
It may only be <1%, but many, many subreddits are barren, unmoderated, entirely inactive wastelands. I would assume that if you only consider subreddits with actual content being regularly posted, the percentage is significantly higher.
Talk to People
Anecdotal feeling alert: I think some people won't need an alternate. I am just letting reddit go. I don't get enough value from it to care of it exists anymore. I let Twitter go after the free speech absolutists super sensitive filter flagged me for saying I hope Microsoft burns for what a nightmare they've made their os (trying to help a non savvy user use a local account), I did the automated appeal assuming context would clear the time honored practice of telling businesses to go to hell, when it didn't I just let it go. I'm not deleting that tweet just to participate in that trash hole.

Reddit was a convenient insomniac doom scroll. It can go.
Mark my words. In a few years people will be writing filters and trying to figure out how to recreate the look of early AI animation.
They probably used all that nice volunteering work to train a moderation model by now.
Isn't runway vid2vid superior in the aspect of coherency? This flickering is horrible.
He's about to graduate college and join SpaceX as an engineer. He's 14
big scary graphs without context
VictoriaMetrics core developer here.

OpenObserve looks very promising from the first sight! It prioritizes the same properties as VictoriaMetrics products:

- Easy setup and operation

- Low resource usage (CPU, RAM, storage)

- Fast performance

It would be interesting to compare the operation complexity, the performance and resource usage of OpenObserve for metrics vs VictoriaMetrics.

P.S. VictoriaMetrics is going to present its own log storage and log analytics solution - VictoriaLogs - at the upcoming Monitorama conference in Portland [1]. It will provide much smoother experience for ELK and Grafana Loki users, while requiring lower amounts of RAM, disk space and CPU [2].

[1] https://monitorama.com/2023/pdx.html

[2] https://youtu.be/Gu96Fj2l7ls
That's more a product of our tolerance for GMOed-to-hell bullshit. Fruit isn't what it used to be in the US-- it seems optimized for water retention these days. The standard watermelon here now tastes like a wet sponge. It didn't used to.

You can come close to Japanese fruit quality just buying organic in the US.
Current ads at Reddit are not that bad, it is nothing like youtube which is borderline unwatchable at the moment. But for Reddit general there is like lot of astroturfing currently and if Reddit could start capturing some value from that and same time show for regular user that this is commercial/pr account would be win-win for Reddit and regular users.
No, they didn't. There is official reddit app, I don't understand what the whole fuss is about.
automatic1111 isn't what immediately springs to mind when I hear the phrase "UI simplicity"
I don't know if what's happening at Reddit is enough to kill it to be honest.

A few subreddits I subscribe to (San Francisco, videos, etc) all went dark, claiming to be doing so "indefinitely". Effectively you cannot access those subreddits even to look at archived things.

The Reddit staff/leadership can just decide to un-darken those subs and I'll "cross the picket lines". I suspect most are like me. That's the honest truth.

I'm already annoyed by the darkening of these subs and would like Reddit staff to just make the executive decision to un-darken them. If the mods want to resign from moderating in protest then do so, if that leaves AI moderators or harsher requirements to qualify for posting then so be it.

But don't darken the sub and make it blocked to everyone.
> roads being further clogged with… empty cars

Presumably the car is going to pick someone up. That means it isn't parked being useless. If this starts working at scale, supply and demand will pull ridesharing costs down in a way that reduces ownership.
Reading these news, you can tell execs and board members of what companies are invested in commercial real estate. And we can understand them: they are so invested in tech stocks that they must diversify their portfolio.
> refrain from reasonable optimizations of their API calls

[citation needed]

(and not from someone known for lying and editing comments made by other people using their root access)
> there's no one place i can go to that i trust on the web anymore besides… wikipedia maybe.

There is Google scholar - where if you’re being pedantic, you can check impact factors of journals, the credentials of the author’s etc.

I wouldn’t have ever thought of any social media (Facebook, twitter, reddit, Quora etc) as ever being a one place you could trust for reliable information. Social media, and acquiring actual knowledge are quite fundamentally different.
The internet makes knowledge more accessible sure, but that has never meant it was trustworthy. I don’t think the Internet has ever replaced the need to educate oneself properly.
Even the news throughout history has been plagued with propaganda and therefore hasn’t always been necessarily reliable, it was just communicated differently back then.
Scripting with Elixir
So what’s the next Reddit. 9gag? Imgur? HN?
Surely if that's happening regularly then it's up to the manager to sit down individually with such employees and make it clear that it's no more acceptable to be regularly unavailable during the work day when remote than it is when at the office.
FWIW, it's not a problem I ever noticed particularly. There are always occasions when the exact person you might need help from or to collaborate with at some particular moment isn't available, and undoubtedly some things are better done working together in person, but I've never experienced the situation of "damn-near impossible to work with" with any work colleague, even during extended periods of working remotely (which I've been doing on & off since about 2005, sometimes in entirely different time zones to my coworkers!).
And the source code!
It comes with the job description. People will be intelligent enough to recognise that they need to be in the office, and they'll be rewarded more for it. I think it was the boss of Goldman that told remote workers don't expect a New York salary if your not working in New York.
People who're already used to a website will prefer a dense layout, but new users can be intimidated by the information overload.

But measuring and improving user retention is hard, and might need expensive measures like improving content quality, it's much easier to optimize onboarding new users by shuffling some stylesheets around. KPIs fulfilled, who cares about the rest.
Isn't that also something Google delists pages for?
> But positioning crypto as the antithesis of wasteful, useless tech (esp. Ethereum) is truly laughable, as no one uses it for anything either.

You're telling me right here that absolutely 'no-one' is using Ethereum? Surely you are not at all serious about what you said. There are many companies like Moneygram, Stripe, Ticketmaster, Checkout.com, etc that are using crypto currencies like Ethereum which are on greener consensus models.

Ethereum made it possible to switch from a wasteful consensus model like proof-of-work to proof-of-stake and it significantly reduced its emissions by 99.992% [0]. Even if your ludicrous claim of absolutely 'no one uses it for anything either', it is not incinerating the planet or wasting as much resources and energy unlike AI (deep learning) that is currently doing today.

After a decade of deep learning there have been no efficient alternatives to their existing operations and it brings in more resource waste and continues incinerates the planet. Being 'useful' is not a great excuse to justify burning the planet.

[0] https://consensys.net/blog/press-release/ethereum-blockchain...
With no viable alternative platform to migrate to, this strike doesn't really help users, moderators, or the platform.
Other sources:

https://dnda.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/project_muse_528...

https://thecheapestuniversity.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01...
> My best guess is that somebody will write a clone. It's not rocket science.

Maybe they will, but there's nothing to move to today.

With nothing to move to, the users aren't going to move. Having a viable place next week might be pointless.
The problem is you don't have the mindset of Joe Average. It's something most of us lose as we become nerds, enthusiasts, professionals, etc. We become disconnected with the commons.

As a Joe Average, computers are an appliance and the internet is merely a service like broadcast television. Reddit is merely a channel on broadcast television like CNN or BBC, and it's natural to use Reddit to use Reddit. Do you watch something other than BBC to watch BBC?

I agree with the crowd saying that this subreddit privatisation strike will have limited effect at most. Most people don't care and aren't affected, and that's the cold reality. Reddit itself is far beyond the point of critical mass, if there are even whispers that this strike is insufficient that means it is insufficient in the grander scale.

As another bit of anecdote, I remember when Digg died. It died overnight. Literally. One day everyone was talking about and on Digg, the next day everyone wasn't. When something on the internet dies, it dies. There are no rumors or murmurs of impending death, it just dies.
Yes but people want to run stuff on their own hardware or at least have a deep ability to configure and mix and match tools.
In my experience, people understand federation quite easily if you just use the e-mail analogue. Even completely non-technical folks understand that regardless of whether they are on Gmail or Outlook or iCloud mail, they can send e-mail to users of other platforms.
> fisherman in the same seas as thousands of british fisherman loaded with their soldiers?

Logistically it was impossible to launch an invasion at the same time as the Dunkirk evacuations were happening. Even if they manage to get to England on a few fishing boats what would they do there?

> Would the royal navy lay waste to thousands of french fisherman

The British didn’t have that many qualms about blowing up a significant part of the French navy as a mere precaution. So yes. That not how successful naval invasion work though anyway.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Mers-el-Kébir
I can just imagine some piece of automation de-allocating spare capacity or something similarly obtuse.

The anticipation of traffic coming back would have me on edge.

Maybe everything expires from caches and new traffic comes in on cold caches and slams databases with requests causing the databases to slow down making them unable to handle any traffic...
Nothing will come out of this, in the same way that nothing came out of the “walkouts” on Facebook’s wall redesign and Instagram’s feed redesign from chronological to algorithmically-curated. And as a matter of fact user engagement increased with those changes.
TIL. I thought reddit had already cracked down on unmoderated subreddits; that if a subreddit didn't have active mods whom the admins could command that they would shut it down.
I was recently in Vietnam for work and the crypto usecase there appeared to be used as a way to bypass traditional gold+dollar based money laundering after the Viet A corruption crackdown began (roughly around the time I was there for work).

For daily commerce, people still used Dong or Venmo-esque services like ZaloPay, Momo, or Mocha.

Ik they were investigating a Blockchain based Virtual Dong back in 2021, but idk if the people affiliated with that are still relevant or not in prison due to the graft crackdown.
My favourite quote from this site when researching Jeddah airport in the past:

"I have personally had one immigration officer FALL ASLEEP while checking my documents. He actually left his post to go splash water on his face, but then fell back asleep immediately upon return." – a traveller
Reddit is especially obnoxious because the sorting algorithms are extremely volatile, and if you do scroll too far, you'll never find that particular piece of content again.

Infinite scrolling in Twitter etc. is much less obnoxious.
The revolution WILL be televised, as it turns out.
Farks discussion of today’s Reddit Blackout:

https://www.fark.com/comments/12887520/Reddit-to-get-drunk-o...
Once the temporal fixes are applied, the residual morphing and flickering actually quite appeals to me. Reminds me of the animation style in A Scanner Darkly.
Regarding api docs, my experiences have steered me to generate-docs-from-code. The problem with writing api docs first and generate code after, is that writing api docs is a 'business' collaboration, which eventually is not done by developers. The code is a 'technical' model of that api contract. The developers are limited by the api-to-code generator and even more importantly, the limitations of the coding language.

As a result, the 'business' comes up with the api contract, discussed and approved by multiple departments and committees, before the 'technical' developers have to show it is impossible to implement with current technology.
Found it. It actually doesn’t work at all: https://imgur.com/a/xuUfT4Q The first image is the button, which switches the cursor to one pretending to be a link, but only the second outline is actually clickable.
> There was a very well coordinated and intentional conflation of the term "lab leak" with the conspiracy theories around China and the WHO intentionally developing and deploying bio-weapons as a means of global population control.

I don’t recall a single instance of this. A year ago, people were saying on this site and elsewhere was that the issue was conflating “lab leak” with “intentionally engineered”. A year before that, people argued that the issue was conflating “lab leak” with “leaked from WIV”, when WIV was established in that location due to the prevalence of novel coronaviruses in the region.

The goalposts keep moving.
That's some mental gymnastics here, comrade. Yes, punishment of countries that support Russian terrorism IS better.
Maybe forums and digital commons shouldn't be.
If true I don't know how that happened but two of my friends + me got their account suspended and were asked to provide identifying information to get it reinstated - at the same time.
https://archive.is/UJAyn
Along the redesign matter - I do not know Frak - I realized that since UX design became a strongly self aware and proud so called profession with axioms and rulebooks the usability of the UI gone s*t, in general. Probably those are pretty s*t, but functionality wise just pure s*t. Compared to ugly but pratcical older things before made by UX unaware product developers without aesthetical sense but focusing on the function. UX is important, that is what make something usable for the purpose but somehow the more they work on it the worse it becomes. At least this is my generic observation throughout the years and decades, with little exceptions. Probably it is just a coincidence that the emergence of the UX brought useless products, I do not know. But I could annoy people around me with specifics and examples for hours, how something born useless or made useless with hard hard work with lots of efforts from a marginally or pretty usable state. When it was or could have been better. Probably the one worth to mention now is the Windows 11 that drives me away slowly but surely from the Windows Universe, despite the difficulty of the transition which becomes the less difficulty compared to using it on. Its reputation was never that good in this regard, it always been hip to criticise, I know people complained intensely about previous version that I could live with, but this one, this is a new league of ignorantly forced through renovation of ruined functionality with the only benefit that it occupies the UX folks there, keeping them in payroll.
How is Discord even a closest alternative? Everything is on its own "server" and conversations happen in real-time, not async like Reddit.
I can't think of a single aspect of chipmaking that is not automated to some degree. Manufacturing of semiconductors is probably the most automated thing that humans have ever managed to do in the physical world.
> I'm not sure I want to install the official reddit app.

You probably don't as most requests that app makes, are tracking requests.
And they clutter the app so much, it's basically unusable with all the ads and broken video players.
West is all about PR and jeopardizing 100s of billions of dollars of trade for few equipments that Air India shifted from India to Russia to help a stranded airplane is the worst possible thing any politician could do. And what has it to do with GE? The equipment belongs to Air India in India.

And just if you don't know, India is not part of US Russia sanctions and trades with both.
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How to build a scalable web app with serverless technologies
Well..

If a janitor were to come by my desk mid day and say. "That's not how you use a trash can. You must follow a prescribed format for putting things in the trash. I have decided that you are not allowed to use the trash can for 10 days. If I see that you have a co-worker, and they attempt to put trash in like you, I will also restrict their trash privileges for 10 days."

Then yes I would call the entitled.

No matter how drudgy a job is. If you squash people learning, because they can't live up to your standards, you're entitled.
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