skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have to see if it plays well with SvelteKit.
I somewhat disagree.

These tools are going to be used more and more and will be further seamlessly integrated into other products.

There's AI tools getting small factual things incorrect, then there's AI tools calling you a criminal.

If anything, it is irresponsible to release a tool to the general public who may be ill-informed, where said tool can call people criminals and describe their involvement in said crime.

If a major news website accessed globally wrongly accused you of being a criminal and confidently described your involvement, you would absolutely be mad.
I think GM and Ford are paying a licensing fee to use the supercharger network, not to use the connector type.
It's like Twitter.

The next Reddit CEO will turn up and their grand plan will be to invert whether or not the company loves/hates developers using their API.

Then they'll try to convince developers to come back, because "this time I've really changed".
> Hard to take much meaning away from that without understanding the risk posed by not vaccinating.

What's the benefit from vaccinating otherwise healthy young men against Covid? Not people in risk groups, but healthy young men.

It should be obvious that if your clinical trials cannot rule out major adverse events in 1 in N, you shouldn't vaccinate populations in which the benefit occurs in less than 1 in N.

> If vaccines can prevent long COVID or "post viral syndrome, that's another potential cost benefit analysis.

That's a big "If".
Introvert and extrovert are pretty blunt terms, there are people who find it easy to talk to others and those who find it difficult even when necessary, these might but do not need to correspond to wanting to talk to others (among other nuances). Introvert usually groups those who have difficulty and those who dislike talking to others, but with work from home that grouping doesn’t necessarily make sense.

If it’s harder for you to initiate conversations, bumping into people and common office occurrences can make it easier to start talking. But if you don’t like talking to others than bumping into people can feel intrusive.
This. As it stands, third party clients are default dead due to Reddit’s decision. You can either accept the need to adapt or accept death. Is it easy? No! Is it necessary? Absolutely.
The google trends graph is the worst I've ever seen

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=digg&hl=...

EDIT: Note that it's a common slang word in Norwegian, hence why it still appears as a search term there
> Your rhetoric doesn't change the facts.

Once you understand someone is delusional, there is no point.

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

7 countries voted that it is, and prominent historians at ivy league institutions (you know those one's people badly want to get into so they can learn from the worlds top experts) have said it definitely is.

As far as I'm concerned the matter is pretty settled.

The person you're talking to doesn't have any desire at all in understanding you, nor do they have any desire to create the best argument against themselves and respond to that.
I clicked join a server and it just let me browse no problem.
That's a big hill to climb to beat EA... but sounds like they can do it!
I think the issue is that Russia cannot have another go at invading Ukraine if this one fails if they are in NATO.

So Russia stamps its feet to try and meet its imperial goals by dissuading the west from allowing Ukraine into NATO then it can reconstitute its army and have another go.

That’s not possible if Ukraine is in NATO. Which is why Russia screams about NATO expansion and non existent promises for NATO not to expand.

Because it’s very bad for their future ambitions of conquering a bunch of post soviet states in Eastern Europe.
Guessing Reddit will give mod status to someone else and then boom! Resurrected.

I don't know how much work the mods do but I do know a lot of people are willing to do it.
Talk about it, sure, but we've had multiple threads already about the site's new API policy, and at least one thread about subreddits boycotting. I think OPs point (which I generally agree with) is that we don't really need multiple threads discussing specific subreddits doing the same thing.
Why does everyone forget Discourse?

It's quietly enabling all of the best topic/product/niche-specific commmunities out there. https://discourse.mcneel.com as an example is a thriving treasure trove for CAD/Nurbs/product modelers/architects/etc.
Not really.

The rule is: if government is subsidizing the chargers, it must be available to all cars.

Which is more than fair.

The current Tesla superchargers were fully funded by Tesla, so that requirement doesn't apply.

If government gives Tesla money to build a supercharger then this (and ONLY this) supercharger needs to be available to every car. Which Tesla would do by adding CCS connector to those superchargers and provide an app where you, an owner of Ford or GM car, can create an account and charge using that CCS connector.

That doesn't require Tesla to open the design of the connector.

What GM and Ford is (probably) paying here is access to 12 thousand of superchargers that Tesla build and paid for and things like API access etc. so that they can implement seamless billing for charging in their apps (as Tesla does in Tesla app) or get real-time information about availability of chargers so that they can do route planning that takes into account location of superchargers.
If we're really being fair, the vast majority of people buy cheap laptops with poor battery life and even poorer everything else.
Theorycrafting models is one of the most raw genuine sparks people have.

Most people I think have some unmessianic tendencies that keep them from verging into belief that theirs is the hardset model of it all.

> GNS theory is an informal field of study

Last, if anyone should be building weird little modal systems of activity it's also probably gamers.
The hard part of making a social network is the userbase accumulation. Apollo already has the userbase, if they switch all the api calls over to their own backend it truly wouldn’t be that hard. Especially considering the money involved.

The only sticking point is in all the people who want things to be “federated” for whatever (generally bogus) reason.

Better yet: cloudflare/etc’s preexisting backend.
I don't have much hope regarding this issue.

Researchers work a lot on their own time, so the millions mentionned in the article don't directly impact the institutions employing them. They are alone in this fight.

The petition (https://www.change.org/p/simplify-manuscript-submissions-in-...) linked in the article barely received 100 signatures in a month.
I couldn't tell you, but since Debian 12 is moving into Stable you can see for yourself with a apt-get full-upgrade. For a little while, you'll be as close to cutting edge as Stable gets.
Whippersnappers and their dubya-dubya-dubya's. Reddit is nothing but a glorified Usenet!
But what is the argument here? 237k retweets is a lot, sure. This tweet from 2020 has 883k retweets and is just four photos:

https://twitter.com/BTS_twt/status/1296701109340237824

So does 237k retweets in 2023 mean the network is as vital as it was in 2020? I have no idea what basis this argument is being made on.
Computerphile has an interesting video about Glitch Tokens, but as it goes with Computerphile videos it's also a good introduction to the topic.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WO2X3oZEJOA
I'd have to question what "near-zero" actually means. I don't doubt that outside the humidity is super low, but inside I have my doubts.

Super low humidity increases the risk of ESD which wouldn't be fantastic for any electronics.

You'd need to walk around with a grounding strap all day otherwise you'll be zapping every bit of metal you encounter. I worked in a newly built data centre where the air conditioning (not the chillers) wasn't tuned quite right and the humidity dropped so low that we were being zapped left right and centre. So I'd love to see the actual figure they're using as "near-zero".
It's hard if you want it to be a social network, and hard if you want it to be under one domain. If it's a forum to talk about hats for cats at hatsforcats.lol that's not hard, and that's pretty much what the web was pre-Facebook.

Is Reddit/Twitter "better" because everything is in one place? Maybe. But then it's a hard problem that requires money, and we end up where Reddit/Twitter are today.
It's pretty clear the person in question has spent time with children. I did the demo. I have children. I thought the same thing, ie "good luck getting more than 5% of kids to follow this".
Well I'll take the severance pay then.
It will be the best for the sanity of the users. Their online activity doesn't look very healthy.
Yes they famously did a fake-it-until-you-make-it strategy early on to present a false picture to early adopters of a more vibrant user base.
>You must’ve been subscribed to some news/current events related subreddits.

Not necessarily. If you really want to lose hope in humanity go to the advice subreddits.
Early this year, I added a blocklist for Reddit on my PC and deleted the app. I did it upon the realization that for me:

1. It was a time waste. It was entertaining, but more often than not, it wasn't useful or helpful at all. Classic short-term gratification.

2. Various issues with how it was run started to frustrate me. Advertising appearing as genuine posts, poor moderation / mod abuse. Also seemed to be a conflict algorithm, outrage and irrational ideas were disproportionately popular compared to real life.

The smaller communities on the site were good, I'd like to see them find another place to exist.
But yeah, I used to think that self-control and discipline was all that was needed, but creating actual barriers like blocklists etc is actually pretty good.
Some of those old phpBB and vBulletin forums never went away. They tend to be ones covering niche subjects, though.

We might start seeing more of these with the enshittification of all of today's social media landscape.
I think this may be referring to this study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29206091/

"Effects of caffeine administration on sedation and respiratory parameters in patients recovering from anesthesia"

> Caffeine has been shown to enhance the speed of recovery from general anesthesia in murine models, though data in human patients is lacking. This is a retrospective review of intravenous caffeine administration (median dose 150 [125, 250] mg) to 151 heavily sedated patients in the post-anesthesia recovery area, to determine the association between caffeine administration and changes in sedation score, respiratory rate, and oxyhemoglobin saturation.
I don’t think it’s a bad idea, and I’m sure there are people who want to do it and also understand the challenges they’ll face. But a lot of people in the comments seem to express a frustration that it should be so easy for people who have created a good client to draw the rest of the fucking owl, if you will.
Can this have standing, as people under 18 don't have the rights and powers of decision of adults. Isn't this more a law that is directed at parents for the actions of their kids? What are the legal restrictions, if any, of the state monitoring internet use of both minors and adults? Or are you supposed to narc on your neighbour's kids?
Face filters in video were considered extremely creepy 3 years ago.
Users in a browser, with no ad blocking - the five remaining ones...
Solid study, but the core results are based on a single genotype of mouse — C57BL/6J.

Imagine a clinical study of longevity using 120 clones of you or me. Taurine may be effective at extending lifespan and healthspan of C57BL/6J mice but will it work as well using genetically diverse mice such as the UM-HET3 mice?

Like humans, the UM-HET3 mice are genetically diverse (they segregate for about 11.5 million sequence variants). My hope is that taurine supplementation would work just as well using 120 UM-HET3 mice. A robust finding like that would impress me so much more.

I wish high profile journals—Science and Nature and Cell—would demand that submissions include at least several genotypes of mice. N = 1 studies are just barely worth discussing in HN with respect to humans.

In this case the authors did extend to other models to support their claims but these supplementary components do not test longevity directly.

Having pointed out the downside of this work, I am glad to see this study and will treat it as a promising pilot. Given much previous work my guess, and tacitly, those of the authors, is that taurine supplementation will be beneficial for many genotypes of mice and even humans.

However, there will not be one optimal treatment regimen for all mice or for all humans.

By the way: A 16 oz can of Monster contains 2 grams of taurine.
And among the worst sorts of people imaginable. Maybe they should be paid positions that are interviewed for and regularly undergo performance reviews.
> How do you deal with grossly outdated software on Debian Desktop?

Use the Source, Luke.

If there's something too shiny that I really need on my Debian, I compile it from source.

For example Emacs 29, with tree-sitter and whatnots, is just too shiny. So I compile it from source.
I guess my expectations from popsci.com have been met.

Yes, the 70s and into the 80s, things were pretty gross in the US. I grew up in LA, and I remember when I moved to Canada thinking it was strange how the sky didn't go from blue to brown. The smog was incredibly thick in LA. This was back in the days when gasoline still had lead in it.

Unfortunately, photos don't really tell the story, as a smoggy day today still looks like an average day back then, and the colour of older photos makes everything look bad.

You could go out today and find cars half buried if you went looking.
Seems like it's not really a drop-in replacement for Reddit - looks more like a Deviant Art or a YouTube replacement to me?

A lot of Reddit (like HN) is linking to 3rd party content, and not much of it is actually user-generated OC.

Nice site though - it looks really nice.
I mean, it's 2023. Web-based simple threaded conversation platforms should be absolutely trivial to develop/clone/deploy.

I'm not convinced building a Reddit is hard, at all.

But getting a mass adoption of users to make it worth using is.

Which is why I'm continually surprised some startup+VC combo doesn't just build it and then pay the top 1000 broad-to-niche influencers out there to sign up and start relentlessly hawking it on their various social medias.
Why not Debian?
Ah having issues signing into LemmyWorld. Would like to start building content but the sign-in / registration is a little slow...
People always say that Reddit depends on these mods for free labor, which is true, but there's a reason that the mods do this free labor. They enjoy the power/responsibility/community/whatever they get from it.
Exterminators cost money. TNR runs on volunteers and a lot of donated services. (Nobody volunteers to kill cats, and if they do, you don’t want them.)

And the overall effort isn’t that different.

With TNR you trap, neuter, release.

With extermination you trap, kill, dispose. (I don’t think you can leave a bunch of dead cats and poison traps laying around).

Neutering is a lot more effort than killing, but disposing is more effort than releasing (you can’t just throw piles and piles of dead cats in a dumpster).
Makes more sense and thanks for clarifying.
I've often wondered why grocery stores are infested with flavored yogurts, especially when they are often out of the plain variants that I'm seeking. I've thankfully never felt the need to 'flavor' yogurt and prefer its taste unadulterated - sourer the better.
Considering the amount of processing, rendering, sensors, eye tracking and 10x higher resolution displays all happening inside the headset, it's unlikely that the external display consumes enough power to affect battery life significantly. It would probably only save a few minutes at most.
I'm sure they will have plenty of volunteers to be head mod for the day but how many of those people have so little to do that they are willing to continue after that?
Ha! If people are forgetting it, is it really a competitor?

Truth is, for me, I just don't use it - it's as bad as Slack IMO, but I'm sure that a lot of people are finding it worthwhile
Not only that but who (and how) is all of this hardware getting paid for? Running a large web service is not cheap and nobody wants to front those costs for practically no gain.
There's no sophistry here. I simply find the FDA's GRAS finding, and the EU SCF's findings, to be much more convincing than a handful of restricted studies.

You, clearly, do not feel the same, but given that you feel that my position on this is "sophistry" and "bullshit", it is obvious that we are incapable of having an actual discussion on it.
> Debian is really solid as a server OS. I wouldn't use it for desktop unless you're using ancient hardware

I'm running Debian 12 (since the soft freeze I think) on my newly built AMD 7700X. I wouldn't exactly call that "ancient hardware".

Zero issue. No headaches for me. FWIW I'm running Debian since Debian 1.1 (1.1, not 11).
We've worked with Larry in the past, and still do to this day, at kraken.io. He helped us to create, what I believe to be the fastest way on planet Earth to detect the various image formats. We'll be open-sourcing it later this year (it's not nearly as presentable as it needs to be, to the outside world). Indeed, it does have some pretty spectacular SIMD going on and I can't wait to get it out there in the proper way.
I like it! But I imagine we'll see Facebook etc using unique links for everything, without redirects.

e.g. Your Facebook page url appears to be facebookdotcom/1234 for me when I click it from the home page, facebookdotcom/5678 when I click it from a thumbnail and facebookdotcom/0987 when someone else clicks it
Did you try going there? Inexplicably it's worse than I could have imagined.

I found one thread with 9 comments. In the popular section. And it devolved into someone calling another an 'asshole'.
My own tech employer, who shall remain nameless, just switched (literally!) overnight from being extremely remote friendly to lecturing about the miracles of in-person togetherness. I've gotten a message that WS analysts are pestering upper management about that nearly as much as about our AI posture.
Good. Something had to be done. You (marketing) guys have gone too far.

My genuine opinion:

All advertising is evil, with one singular exception: Shoe ads for shoes inside your own shoe store.

All tracking is evil, with one exception: a simple integer counter that counts how many people enter your store. And, no, I don’t mean an integer for every possible metric, justifying it by claiming each particular metric is like a unique store counter.

Everything else, and I do mean everything, is your responsibility to count on the back end. “I put out 7 shoes and only sold 1. Try something else.”

Anything more than this is simply greed and laziness.
> The theory focuses on player interaction rather than statistics, encompassing game design beyond role-playing games. Analysis centers on how player behavior fits the above parameters of engagement and how these preferences shape the content and direction of a game.

Let's do pong. I think it's 0.7 (out of 1) game, 0.4 simulation, 0.2 narrative.
It would be more accurate to say that calculating with very large integers or integer fractions with millions of digits can be slow on current computers - but it's still far beyond what humans can typically do without assistance.

Million-digit numbers are absurdly large in terms of physical quantities, but can easily arise when one is enumerating possibilities, such as the number of ways that one could give out randomized phone numbers to everyone in a city.

(That's the sort of explanation that my mathematically-inclined friends and I would have understood in grades 3-5, when we learned about integers, rational and irrational numbers, and basic probability/combinatorics, as well as simple algorithms for multi-digit arithmetic and conversion between integer and decimal fractions.)

Factorial and exponential functions were (and are) fun to play with on calculators because of the large numbers you can generate; python and mathematica are even more fun of course. I think recent TI and Casio graphing calculators support python, though I don't know about their bignum support or memory limits.
I truly don't understand the narrative from the past few days.

These third parties lived by serving their own ads instead of reddit's. They paid $0 to reddit yet made a very good living themselves (at least for the top ones like apollo and sync).

And yet the narrative is now that they provided tremendous value to reddit by providing them with exposure (lol!) and that their users were creating most of reddit's content (which is most certainly false) and that reddit are monsters who duped them.

Let's be real here. Those developers had a good run, they made a living of of reddit's content for a decade. Bravo. That was nice. But they all knew it was going to end one day ("Is it fair for Apollo to not pay reddit?" was a common question on the apollo sub, so even the USERS knew it wasn't a fully bidirectional relationship).
Really insightful, Ty (love the point re: thermal budget / numerous hardcore constraints)
A subreddit is neither a sub nor reddit?
They already had the tools to do that, and extensively tweaked the platform to have two completely separate interface and user base for reddit:

- the homepage, /r/all, the default subs, served on the new reddit page and app

- the obscure and basement level subs that won't ever see more that a few thousand users (shout out to /r/donteatjimmy), probably viewed by people stuck on old.reddit or a third party client

Heavily pushing the former, and further pushing the latter into a dark corner would have sufficed. They'd had little to no backlash, and could have still boasted huge user engagement etc.

They already had the invite only and private sub mechanism, that could have worked to push the old users into communities that don't get advertised, and potentially have them pay for access.

All of that just to say, there was probably many realistic and not so complicated ways to deal with renewing the user base, all of them looking like better business decisions to me. With the current approach, I'm not sure where they'll get new users from, I don't see the TikTokers moving to Reddit whatever they do, and my grandma isn't coming either just because the furry subs have gone away.
Genius CEOs thought Fed money printer and covid were forever too.

You’re not a genius CEO. If the experts get it wrong all the time (and spend a ton of effort promoting what they “do right” to shape perception) why believe you saying 2 successful vids is a lasting trend?

Social media has exposed there is a depressing number of easily titillated by big numbers rubes in the world.

Lindy effect, Goodharts Law; the last 60-70 years are an outdated af zeitgeist to perpetuate.
Really? IME most devs are incredibly bad to underestimate the complexity of apps and problem domains where they don't have any experience.

I'd say an app like Reddit is especially prone to this because most decent devs probably could recreate the core UX (subreddits, posts, comments) in a couple of weeks. The really hard part is all the features people don't usually think about (mod and admin tools, for example) plus scaling up to millions of concurrent users.