skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can reddit sustain a conversation over days? Except on the most inactive subreddits, nothing stays on the front page for more than about a day. The result is that the only people continuing the conversation are people responding from their inboxes, getting into back-and-forth arguments sometimes 50-100 replies deep.

That's actually one of the things that I dislike most about the site, and the reason I've stopped using it: there's no institutional memory. Subreddits can have two stickied posts. One of them is usually some sort of daily discussion thread and the other is some sort of announcement. Anything that isn't stickied will fall off eventually even if it would stay active otherwise. On traditional forums, replying to a post bumped it to the top. Most posts would be recent, but not all. Posts died when people stopped replying to them. And you could have as many stickies as you liked. Most forums had threads that were dozens or hundreds of pages long. For example, MTG the Source has a 399 page thread about the Merfolk legacy deck which was started in 2008. The most recent reply was on the 26th of March this year - it's still active. You just don't get that sort of thing on Reddit. So you get people asking really basic questions forever.

I think Reddit can be great for beginners to a hobby or a topic. It tends to cater to them relatively well. You can get lots of upvotes on your "Hey I made my first [X]" post, and the culture encourages people to hold the hands of people with basic questions. On traditional forums, the culture was usually "RTFM noob, read the sticky". Less kind? Yes. More productive? Yes. People get burnt out answering basic questions repeatedly pretty quickly. Subreddits have to invent all these new ways of maintaining information (subreddit wikis, sticky threads with links to other threads and external links, off-site information linked from the sidebar, etc).

I think Reddit has the same problem just over a longer timescale. Discord can't maintain a conversation for much more than an hour. Reddit can't maintain a conversation for much more than a day. On both, people try to work around it by having special channels or posts that have links to external resources, etc. But what those communities should actually use is phpBB.
Can Someone Explain the Fediverse?
What legacy product do you support that depends on WebObjects...?
That's a great insight. I hadn't considered how the bull run led to the current structure, as we switch from "keep this ship together while we grow" to driving operational efficiency.
No it’s because Redditors love being drama queens about things. Remember “net neutrality” and how every Redditor was acting like the sky was falling down? This is the same thing. In 2 weeks people will forget about it and move on.
She's pretty close to teenage years. I wasn't much older than her when I started using IRC.

She can search YouTube for cats and not get that stuff.

But I frequently think of my kids even for situations they don't directly risk. Call it an empathy gauge.
Unexpected communism
>Home Assistant

Man I can't wait until someone come with a more user friendly alternative to Home ASSistant.

It's YAML hell. I work with YAML at work and then when I come home I have to fiddle with YAML again.
If they want ME, I'm cooked no matter how you look at it.

If they are just running a generalized dragnet, I just need for scanning my information to be just slightly too expensive.
You are right and everyone else is wrong.
The us had credible satellite evidence of soviets building housings for nuclear warheads in Cuba during and before the crisis.
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/photos.htm
(perhaps I misunderstand your argument; 1992 was when our knowledge was formally confirmed, IIUC)
Honestly being anywhere on the competitive spectrum is pretty impressive. GPUs aren’t just some commodity product.

They’ve required decades of iteration to lead to the flagship products we have today. To achieve at least a fraction of that is an achievement of itself.

But yeah I am going to hold on to my NVDA for now.
I have a direct family member that was very ill, thought maybe they were transgender, tried that out, their mental state was not improving, got professional help from a doctor that listened instead of supporting every thought, got a lot better, and spent this year de-transitioning.

I talked a little about their experience and, instantly banned from a handful of Reddit including a ban on my account that I appealed.
> Satellites do pick up the signal, but the detection area is pretty wide, so sometimes it's just too many signals coming in all at once

Even with something like Aireon (that piggybacks on top of many Iridium sats)?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aireon
I'd have it the other way around. Intel's doing OK with cpus but man their P-core is way too big & hot. They've been adding and adding to the same core design for a decade & it's a monster. Also their process is still flagging. They've managed well for such limitations but real change has to come, soon.

Meanwhile Arc is kicking ass. It's launch was a dud, but the team has really kept pushing on making the chip run better and better & it's such a great value now. People need to reassess the preconceptions they formed at launch. https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/intel-arc-graphics-c...
Yes but then they have no control over the platform i.e you can escape viewing ads. Their problem is they aren't making money so they are being very difficult about correcting it
Businesses that can't survive in California usually just die elsewhere, but slower and more painfully.
Couldn’t verify?

https://twitter.com/search?q=%20Cats&src=typed_query
> If Reddit thinks it's theirs, they will soon notice that nothing is left of their business when those communities have moved elsewhere.

Where are they gonna move to?

I'm not being facetious, I'd really rather like to know - where on earth are all these moderators going to start up their new groups on?

If there was a viable alternative they would've found it by now and there wouldn't be a strike, there'd be a desertion. The fact is that even if the moderators want to move, the userbase isn't necessarily going to follow them.
Ironic that their research aimed at giving them a head start on vaccine development, and yet China’s covid vaccine ended up being garbage compared to the American and European ones.
Part of what makes this example interesting to me is that it didn't just change the minds of random people, who did their best with uncertain information. It changed some of the expert views on disease transmission, where the paradigm was around droplets, not aerosols.
A general definition of an equisingular family of singular varieties?
I run on roads fairly often, but I almost never can actually see drivers inside their cars. Increasingly, I’m quite sure they can’t even see me (more and more truck’s hoods are above my level of vision). The researcher seems surprised that people still give a curtesy “thanks for not killing me” wave, but my impression is that it’s always been a cultural formality. Maybe even one born out of a pretty extreme power imbalance. Not being able to actually interact with drivers and not having anything to earnestly thank them for, it comes with very little surprise that a habitual formality continues to play out despite the researchers feeling that he is hidden.
Ok, but flip side… Reddit “Science” is the one of the most ridiculously biased and censoring of dissent subs I’ve ever seen.

Absolute junk science that confirms a political bias? Straight to the top!! Any reasonable voice? [Removed].
Reimburse the yearly subscription their prorated amount and offer the new subscription amount, or even offer to apply the remainder as credit towards the new subscription. Seems pretty easy and obvious.
Probably not. It is outdated, and sometimes it gets the name of the libraries wrong, too.
Ukranian War: Detailed Analysis of Latest Operations - Austrian Military Academy
Unlikely. The trades that caused KCG to collapse [1] were not reversed (~$400m in losses).

Any firm worth their salt has risk systems in place to prevent runaway trading too, and those aren’t black boxes like AI/ML. They’re limits set for specific strategies or teams etc, and typically require approval from firm partners to increase past certain levels.

Collapses of firms are far more often caused by lapses in proper risk management than bugs in code. The KCG collapse looks like a bug on the surface but was ultimately a misuse of accounts that sidestepped these risk systems, so they couldn’t stop the runaway caused by the bug.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Capital_Group
However much the HVDC lines costs, it will be cheaper per energy at the destination than going electricity -> fuel -> electricity.

I agree about hydrogen having plenty of uses. In fact it has so many uses that it currently represents a decarbonization problem. We have 90 million tones of hydrogen used every year, which the vast majority coming straight from fossil fuels.

Replacing that with green hydrogen should be top priority before we consider new use cases.
Funny, because I thought so too at first, but then I actually enjoyed clicking through almost all of the bubbles to explore what’s behind them. Not sure if a text list would have done the same to me. The categories gave me just enough information to make me curious without spoiling the fun of exploration.
I really hate the term "hallucinations". By which definition of hallucination is it a hallucination, really?
I thought the Anandtech coverage did a bit better job filling in both background & details. https://www.anandtech.com/show/18894/intel-details-powervia-...
And Mark Cuban said he'd rather be an entrepeneur earning 50K a year than an employee earning 500K. Pretty easy to say when the developer of Apollo already made many millions off of it.
Unfortunately, team size doesn’t mean anything directly. Don’t forget what happened when one searched for “black girls“ on google in 2009:

https://time.com/5209144/google-search-engine-algorithm-bias...
I think it's important to distinguish Tesla's autopilot from other manufacturers' because, to my knowledge, Tesla is the only manufacturer attempting to build this kind of advanced driver assistance exclusively using camera technology and computer vision. All other manufacturers use various sensors such as radar, lidar and sonar as well as cameras.
As I understand it, parking buildings are actually more expensive to construct due to the engineering requirements
Well even in this case OpenAI hasn't scammed anyone. On the other hand Binance/FTX scammed a lot of people. I wasn't referring to the technology but the major players that use it.

And let's say I was - crypto promises utter anonymity in theory but is actually traceable in practice. So a bit of an academic scam on that front.
Twitter used to be my key source of technology research and almost all the folks I used to see in my timeline are either dormant or gone now. On top of that I see two tabs with mostly irrelevant stuff from someone far far afar in the network.

Earlier I used to see irrelevant ads. Now I see suspicious ones, like one promising an AI girlfriend and another one promoting some dubious bitcoin token and random people promoting themselves.
when my my mom went to the same high school I did, 30 years earlier (70s), kids would leave hunting rifles and shotguns in racks in their unlocked pickup trucks in the school parking lot and nobody gave a shit or felt threatened at all whatsoever. nobody stole these guns and used them to commit crimes, at the school or elsewhere.
> Their access is restricted ONLY for those who have not yet subscribed to the subreddit.

When a sub is set to private "Only approved members can view and take part in its discussions."
I agree. I'd expect something like this after reaching out to both Sven and Hilton Hotels with no cooperation from either of them.
How do you recover a deleted unencrypted email?
> Tesla is the only manufacturer attempting to build this kind of advanced driver assistance exclusively using camera technology and computer vision

Tesla is also far less cautious in its marketing. Most reasonable complaints about Tesla's self-driving kit aren't about the kit per se, but the false expectations that encourage drivers to confidently send it where it shouldn't go.
It had data that is new to me. Especially:

>They said the Wuhan scientists had inserted furin cleavage sites into viruses in 2019 in exactly the way proposed in Daszak’s failed funding application to Darpa.

That procedure is pretty much exactly what you'd have to do to make covid in a lab. Assuming that's true, it's pretty much a smoking gun.
No, and it can be worked around by copying emails to folders, it's just annoying.
I love scala, much better than java, tho java does steal features from scala.

You can express yourself in much less code and safer.

I do use it profesionaly for past maybe 8 years, mostly backend services.

Anyway kotlin is probably also better than java.
Makes sense, we're not even beginning to see the productivity gains across the board from the last year's advances
The internet is built on communism!
Guess not closed for crypto business lol
I'm not much of a r/latestagecapitalism fan myself, but there is something to important to explore in the history and concept of the corporation, and I'm disappointed every time someone brings it up and fails to make any of the important points.

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.

Stross likens them to gigantic, slow-as-dirt artificial intelligences designed explicitly with psychopathic motives. And most of the time it feels wrong to try to dispute that.
I've seen the "answer these questions in a video response" for several professional positions. I just opted out of applying there and was happier for it.
It is indeed fast, but the logos aren’t exactly good. Or even mediocre. They’re just assorted mono-coloured blobs.

A logo isn’t merely a random shape you tack next to some letters, it should represent the brand in some way. These don’t even try to resemble the typed words, it feels as if every prompt is picking from a pre-made set of random vector drawings.

Congratulations on building and shipping something, but in its current state it doesn’t seem terribly useful. The presentation is OK, the content is what’s lacking.
The difference is that crypto as a sector is a dead end, while there will absolutely be multiple trillion+ dollar "AI" companies at some point in the future. It may not happen anytime soon, and it may not be any of the companies in existence today, but the overall bet (and its associated hype) is a valid - even necessary - one.

In that sense the current state of AI is less like crypto and more like the dotcom bubble of the early 00s. No one really understands the underlying tech well enough, but everyone wants to be involved. There are companies surging in valuation just by adding AI to their name. While all of this will correct itself, the underlying tech (the web in 2000, AI today) will eventually prove to be world changing.
The articles linked by each of those posts contain numerous references to "native modules" and "kernel code". In this context, those things mean the ability to call back into JavaScript from Elm. The ability to do this exists in Elm, but it's locked down so you can't use it.
That would explain it. But then again, why not use Signal or something similar for sensitive topics.
Apparently chip-making uses (or used?) Chlorine trifluoride - the stuff that can set asbestos or sand on fire - to clean chemical vapour deposition chambers.
I can think of two reasons on the top of my head:

1. Renting a car will become much more convenient. I can summon a car instead of having to search one 3 blocks away.

2. Selling a car with an L5-autopilot will have to include a manufacturer warranty/insurance in cases of crashes resulting from a fault of the autopilot. Tesla is already charging 10k (or 15k?) for their shitty self-driving-gimmick without a warranty. I expect L5-autopilots to cost much more and even come at a yearly subscription (which basically offsets the insurance and the required continued development). I don't expect the average person will (be able to) pay that subscription, when the far more reasonable solution is to rent a car.
If the webapp is attached to an associated business, it'd be a more useful exercise to consider the carbon footprint of the whole business, especially in terms of scope 1,2,3 emissions.

E.g. suppose you have a business like a large bank that lends a lot of money to finance residential and commercial property development, as well as expansionary fossil fuel projects. This business may have extremely large scope 3 emissions after attributing some of the greenhouse cases generated by these real estate & energy projects back the bank's financing. The carbon footprint of the bank's website / webapps will be completely insignificant compared to the scope 3 emissions associated with the real world impact of how the business actually makes money.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_accounting
> The vast majority of people with a life are not going to want to do this.

You don't need a vast majority to do it. Lots of people would love to be a mod, just for the power-tripping aspect.
So there are now three ways of contacting someone? Private messages (have been around forever), legacy chat and chat?
I used to work out at this place that had an indoor pool where you could do laps. The room was pretty basic, but people used to sit around the pool and read the newspaper. I always wondered why but then I figured there must be something about being near water.
According to who? The lab?
The quotes you mentioned say nothing about the two issues I raised.
> Do you know how much control the investors have to change the board composition if they are ignored?

Most of Reddit's shares were issued in the era of founder-friendly voting rights agreements. The fact that those investors don't have anyone on the Board means they don't have the right to elect one to it. Private-company Board rules are Byzantine. But they're not thoughtless.
That SEM cross section image is downright beautiful, IMO.
I stopped visiting reddit after too many mods censored me and others that don't conform to the left's ideology. Twitter is where I get content now. And I'm a liberal.
This framework looks wonderful.

Some people have an aversion to "goto" statements, and Java annotations are even worse, they're a "comefrom" statement, where you end up executing code before or after your function based on this annotation, so it makes the code really annoying to follow.

Java examples which show trivial code annotated with @POST or @Path are not representative of production systems, where you may have a lot more annotations for your DOM, documentation, and in some cases, you actually have more annotation boilerplate than you have code in the handler/controller.

Having annotations interleaved within your logic makes it difficult to provide good API documentation, and it's hard to automatically refactor, because your boilerplate is interleaved with real code. With an approach like this grumpyrest, you can put all your machine generated code into a package, and simply connect it to your hand written code with a little bit of glue. It makes spec-driven development much easier.

OpenAPI is very popular, and annotation based frameworks make it more difficult to integrate with it. If you generate API docs automatically from code, as with JAX-RS, it's easy to break things by accident because nobody audits machine generated docs. If you reverse the approach, and do spec-driven development, you code review the API behavior, and the code follows, which is a better model, in my opinion. Grumpyrest looks like it makes integration with spec-driven workflows quite easy.

A word of caution to the author; if this takes off, you will be inundated with issues and PR's, since people will use this in ways you never dreamed of. I'm experiencing that kind of onslaught in something I open-sourced for Go for REST API's.
Sounds like it doesn’t model building types at, just tagged materials, colors, etc.

https://github.com/StrandedKitty/streets-gl/issues/40

https://github.com/StrandedKitty/streets-gl/blob/dev/src/lib...
Apple seems to have made a lot of good choices, of when and how to build on something good, and when to try something more new.
Bank of Canada now eyeing 'corporate pricing behaviour' in its inflation (cont)
I don't expect CEO's mean anything they say. But I do think this infraction is minor compared to everything else that goes on. Overall, I agree with you.
Fun that it gets this somewhat correct: https://streets.gl/#47.61580,-122.33956,33.25,4.75,335.19
Ask HN: Is testing problem solving morally wrong since it is not algorithmic?
By definition, problem solving has no process that one can follow. So it seems morally wrong to test students on it.
I wonder who the heck makes money in these food delivery app schemes?

- Doordash/Uber Eats/Postmates all operate at a loss on the investors tab.

- The delivery drivers aren't paid a decent wage. It's why these municipalities that care are trying to mandate wages.

- The restaurants (which is already a low margin business ex-drinks... which people typically don't buy on these apps) don't make money.

- The customer is gouged with fees and the (mandatory) tip.

Where the heck is the money going?
Very ironic response given the tone of this thread.

How many opinions (err, books) will you need before you just try it yourself?
AI hype is driving investment, not making the investments (according to the article)
How is there not one mock-up of what it looks when you’re looking into it…
Could say the same for architects. It’s why many people hate modern towers.
Reddit before about 2018?
The general public want the truth. It seems to be gradually leaking out.
Wait but why do you need that? Are you planning to make your router web interface publicly accessible? I don't really understand. I just created the cert myself and since I control the router I also control the LAN from which it is accessible. And I can install the cert on machines in that LAN.
I understand, but in a sense, those unlevel the playing field. I get it isn’t a perfect argument since many people have slower internet latencies, but it everyone has to do it, you get rid of a ton of variables.
Quite an interesting guide - and it’s literally a guide with searchable locations listings etc.

I’ve done a lot of camping “in the rough” and sleeping outside and honestly airports are incredibly easy to crash at. First of all most people have a reason to be there in the first place so you’re unlikely to be roused, theyre pretty safe/secure, clean-ish, there are bathrooms(!), and food/entertainment facilities.
In my experience the biggest difficulties of sleeping in airports are the noise from overnight cleaning along with lights never turning off.

My biggest concern would usually be making sure to not miss the flight.

Edit: specificity