skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dividing Asian countries is standard US foreign policy MO.

There's a reason why there is a North vs South Korea, same reason why there was a North and South Vietnam, why there is still currently two Chinas, the Republic of China on Taiwan and the People's Republic on the Mainland - US antagonism to national liberation movements dominated by the Communists. Millions of people have died due to this policy; perhaps millions more to come
Argh thanks
> The idea that you'd willingly use an app with baked-in ads is insane to me

Do you have any friends outside tech circles?

Any time I see friends from non-tech industry browse web on their computers I wince so hard. I can't understand how they stand it but it's normal for them. It's also normal for them to wait few secons until pages/apps load because all the crap. Those people make up 99,9% of users everywhere except select sites like HN.
If one of the most visited website/app in the world with highly cacheable and free content can't be profitable the internet is doomed.

But did they try to be?
Should you do a PhD? A personal story from a current principal investigator
Just wondering. If you were Reddit CEO and you were being pressured to turn it into a profitable company, how would you do it?
Typically there should be a maximum size in bytes for performance reasons (e.g. how many rows fit in a page) and/or a minimum size in "characters" (very ill defined but usually approximated as code points, with some slack to allow a reasonable amount of combining marks in addition to the desired number of letters), with no guarantee that the two sizes are compatible.

I've often found in practice short UTF-8 columns with a bytes length, that "accidentally" truncated text with ctastrophic effects after the application checked value lengths in characters.
2023 is an exceptional year for multiple climate related issues which is in line with predictions regarding the increasing probabilities of such events.

We probably should readjust what we consider normal to something veering further from the past years average and prepare for more extreme scenarios.

Also we probably should keep working on managing our emission of greenhouse gas to avoid things getting even worse.

As an aside, I don’t get all the people loudly expressing being depressed about the graphs and whatever. This is in line with predictions. People knew that was going to happen. It’s pretty useless to bemoan things which are unavoidable.
In my experience, documentation becomes outdated and fragmented very fast. If I had a say, I would make a rule that every employee should maintain only up to 10 wiki single-pages for their most important products, components or processes. At the top I would require a system overview diagram. And no details, only high-level concepts, keywords, pointers, links and contacts.
Where can I buy a Reddit r/Phone? How is that even a comparison?
They are going to charge high fees for usage of the APIs so that 3rd party clients and bots are priced out of working.
Checks and balances are a perpetual game of cat and mouse. While yes, they do raise the barrier of entry, it doesn't account for nepotism or favouritism, which would be the equivalent of lifting the ribbon to let someone through. It can go so far as to make legitimate attempts at entry unreasonably difficult or downright impossible, making the paper publish only papers pushed through a rigged system that appears on the surface to be of value. It is only through time or by investigation that it is found that a paper reputation is increasingly fraudulent.
That ship sailed long before Unicode. ISO/IEC 8859-1 Included several accents which combine with a preceding character, and that was standardised in 1987. If you only deal in English then remove all accents and map everything down to 7 bit ASCII, if you don’t just deal with English then accept that and deal with it. :-)

Having had to do some internationalisation of code written by Americans that couldn’t even handle 8 bit characters I am fine with spreading this bit of pain a little more evenly round the world.
Perhaps it matters so that we can hold those responsible to account to reduce the chances of it happening again? Wouldn't you want to know if a rogue group had a gain-of-function project rejected by DARPA and then secretly moved it to China to avoid oversight and then that project caused a pandemic?

And perhaps the people that did that shouldn't be in charge of how to handle the pandemic and shouldn't be in charge of determining how the pandemic started?
This writer has an impossible combination of very high expectations and a pathetically low budget.
Conversely, most of the active subreddits I am subscribed to have gone dark. My front page is down to a handful of different news/politics subreddits that decided not to take part.
There has been lots of instances of bad quality mods and mod abuse, which I assume will only become a bigger problem in the future. Having embedded community talent leave is never a good thing.
Jpegli was introduced after this comparison and makes the old jpeg standard perform quite a bit better and to have HDR support (10+ bits), too.
Good question. Depends if regular means institutional non-algorithmic traders or retail. Most traders even in hedge funds are not trading using a machine as per se.

I think at the moment a lot of old-er financial people are quite sceptical of complicated black-box models.

AI could be a huge win in the sense that you could say "When has this bond future been in [conditions] like now and what happened". The potential for organising information is fantastic.
I think the comparisons are often misplaced. Imagine if Facebook groups were the core experience of Facebook. Groups (subs) on reddit for most people _are reddit_. Plus, reddit is a nerdier crowd which likely cares more about this kind of stuff.
I would say the problem is that the user base are low value users. They're the sort of people who will do a mass protest because one for-profit company wants to charge another for-profit company money. Advertisers don't want to advertise to them, seriously. Any other company with a different user base with that amount of users and traffic would be making a billion a year easily. Probably multiple billions. But Reddit users are low value. There the sort of people if a company tries to engage with them with just be hostile. This means the amount of money Reddit can charge for ads isn't that high. Which means the companies advertising on Reddit are generally on the lower end of the scale or it's just a tiny part of a bigger ad campaign.

So if ad revenue isn't going to do it. Then it needs to be a freemium model with subscriptions. They probably get 25% of their revenue from reddit premium. That also means, charging for the API.

The problem for many of the third party apps is they've also been running a freemium model with very low overheads due to the fact Reddit has been largely funding their freemium model. They've been charging next to nothing for their premium options ($1.50 a month) and they have massive amount of very active users. They're so big that paying a reasonable per API request fee results in a massive bill. A bill they can't pay due to a freemium model and super low fees that don't pay for the freemium users. Third party apps directly compete with Reddit, therefore it's fair they pay Reddit for the resources they use as well as the lost potential of the users they did take. Those paying for premium on an app would probably pay premium on Reddit.

Then comes in the low value users, who are outraged the free toy they have wants to make a profit. "It's too much money" - funny enough Reddit users think they're worthless - was one of the main cries. "This third party app IS REDDIT" - well if they're Reddit they shouldn't need Reddit access. A userbase who resists being monetised. Either they're monetisable or they're not. If they're not the company can't survive. What the Reddit users need/want is a non-profit.
>the Oxford comma isn’t grammatically correct

Sure it is, it just does not agree with some style guides, but that is prescription for you. Outside of academia and journalism the Oxford comma is best used as needed, it can often clear up ambiguity, make things more clear/easier to read, and maintain structure.

>this, that, and one and two

>this, that, and, one and two

The argument can be made that sentence structure should be altered to avoid such situations and that would be wise if the style guide you are required to follow says to avoid the Oxford comma, but if you are writing for more literary purposes or just are not required to follow a style guide than using as needed opens up some possibilities.
I can't stand to scroll down the comment section of any Tweet. It's littered with trolls, spam, memes, crypto bots promoting some shit coin.

I can't believe any high value brand, such as Apple or Disney, would want to advertise there - except for crypto/shady companies.
Try not to embolden yourself by claiming you're on some sort of virtual picket line after a weak-ass post like this :S.
I stayed at a place in Switzerland where we had a backed up drainage system due to the apartment upstairs flushing makeup wipes. The host accused us of flushing baby wipes (we use reusable cotton ones), left us with a bath full of sewer water hoping we'd pay to fix it.

Then, when the lady in the apartment upstairs had her shower in the evening, the toilet overflowed, spilling out into the living area, into the toddler's room, out the door, dripping down the stairs.

Not an ounce of help from AirBnB. Got a couple of callbacks from a call centre that sounded like it was in India, but there was no action of any kind. Got a negative review from the host (amongst many other things, she was upset that we weren't grateful enough that someone came around to clean up the mess her negligence at the first report of backed up drainage had caused), and I closed my account. I will never use AirBnB again and I will tell this story to everyone who mentions them for as long as I live.
User redesigns are the main killers of websites. Consider the following examples: Digg, MySpace, Reddit, Slashdot, Facebook, Dropbox, and Typeform. These projects, among others, ultimately failed due to a misconception that they had a design problem or a desire to keep their design department occupied. Instead of following a clear vision, these projects were sacrificed in an attempt to please all users.

HN should refrain from undergoing any major redesigns and instead focus on making minor adjustments. It is worth noting that some HN users frequently suggest redesigns, believing that it would improve the forum. However, I must emphasize that if HN were to heed all user suggestions, it would risk becoming a desolate space within a few months.

In support of this notion, one could say that a Volvo is akin to a Porsche designed by a committee.
OSNews was launched in 1997
spez even infamously abused his admin access to edit another posters comment a while back.

Calling it a dorm room shitshow is an insult to dorm rooms everywhere.
Optical isolators exist exactly for this purpose. They're common, cheap, only work in one direction and result in no electrical connections between both sides.
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Faust: Batch and Stream Processing in Python from the Folks at Robinhood
The problem with the Airbnb review system is that very few people are willing to leave a candid review because (1) it seems like bad manners when renting from an individual (as opposed to a large corporation like Hilton), (2) future Airbnb hosts can see your reviews and they might decide that you're a troublemaker and not want to rent to you, (3) the host might leave a response to your review that makes you look petty, or demanding, or exaggerating, or just silly.

So what you get is a hundred 5-star reviews where "everything was lovely" and one 5-star review that sheepishly says that "everything was lovely though it was a little noisy at night but I brought my earplugs so it was no problem after all".

But as an upside, I think it's much harder to game or manipulate Airbnb reviews than Amazon reviews. It's just that hardly anyone will list all the negatives; every property has some negatives even if you loved your stay. Many negatives won't even matter to other renters: some might care about low ceilings, cluttered cabinets, low water pressure, or too few electrical outlets. Others couldn't care less. But at least you could make selections based on things that would matter to you.

I don't know what solution to propose. Maybe if Airbnb had unannounced professional reviewers stay a night at every property and do very comprehensive critiques? (I know, this would be costly.)
+1 for Portainer especially when a GUI is needed. It should also be mentioned that Proxmox[0] has container support.

[0]: https://www.proxmox.com/en/
I've been living in Airbnbs in Latin America and Europe while working remotely. One of the major challenges is making sure the Airbnb has good wifi.

A lot of hosts won't know what mbps means or will say something like "I'm sure the wifi is good. We did a video call a couple of months ago with Aunt Sally in London ..." It's easy to eliminate these options, but you have to message them, etc.

The worst is when the host is living in another unit on another floor or next to you. They'll do a speedtest for their place and the speed will look great, but in reality, the Airbnb will have much worse internet (in one case it was about 100x difference than advertised). Sometimes, they won't even buy a separate router for the Airbnb and claim the speed in their apartment as the speed for the Airbnb.
Lemmy is evil because the devs host lemmy.ml and it links to the lemmygrad.ml instance which is evil? Too indirect an argument for me.
pg would tell him to push through this, get the IPO, cash out, and then leave Reddit to become an angel investor.

Plus, pg would make money off the IPO. It’s a YC company after all.
That is true of any business, as long as the business model does not align incentives.
It’s also without REST. I see no hypermedia controls.
Huh? This is quite straightforward and is simply establishing what terms are used for describing the problem. The problem formulation itself seems to be the same as in any lower level course on optimization that is taught to regular masters students, so it is expected that anyone reading the paper will already know it.
Yeah, I have a direct competitor to lemmy, and I feel like it's even less ready for an influx of users of the magnitude the reddit exodus will be.
I guess you brought it right to the point: Reddit has never grown to a company it’s „dorm room shitshow“
Pet peeve: similar thing goes for QR-code redaction. People nearly always block out the middle part of the QR-code.

However, actual information, the zigzag pattern, starts from the bottom-right. For many QR-code versions, the middle part encode _mostly_ ECC blocks, which are by definition redundant.

The fact that a QR-code doesn't decode in the regular scanning apps does not mean you cannot read any information from it.
I thought the same when I read this article on Planet Debian. Pretty weird for an organisation that has spent the last 5 to 8 years alienating contributors with CoCs and outreachy projects. Looks like as if the fight isn't over yet.
Don't speak ill of spez, they'll edit the DB directly to censor you!
At IKEA, we have something called "Front Days" that non-retail co-workers can sign up and work in the store for a few days. I did my first one three weeks ago, and it was a great way to get out from a desk and see the reality of what we're all working towards.
Documentation is where I go to find out the mental model behind the software.

“Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won’t usually need your flowcharts; they’ll be obvious.”

— Fred Brooks

With the mental model of the software, I know where to go, where to look, how to change to fulfil my new requirements.

I am thinking of writing a fictional documentation for a fictional operating system or library or web framework and then see where that design takes me.
Really?

I'd rather contribute to something that is actually going to be successful.

If you say you need £1000000 to go to space, and ask for £10 sponsorship, if you tell me you've so far raised nothing, what chance is there of my money going to use as intended? If on the other hand you've raised £999000 I can be more confident you are actually going to reach your goal.
There's always one. Yes, REST the theory is far different to REST the reality, but we all know what they meant.
SA just never got new users to replace the ones that left or grew out of the site. Younger millennials went to Reddit and other social media. The weirder ones went on 4chan.
>I've worked in multiple* companies where the problem was too much documentation, and of course everyone was afraid to update or ghasps*

That must be nice. I've yet to work on a company where half my time wasn't trying to prod for some resource (be it internal code, a public 3rd party tool, or even the resource itself), sometimes playing a game of goose just to figure out who knows the author. I'd love too much documentation.

But I understand your point. The only thing worse than no documentation is wrong documentation, and outdated docs half the time can become outright wrong half the time, if it isn't simply encouraging outdated but functional practices. Tech writers are highly undervalued for that purpose.

I should also mention that the ability to properly search for docs is almost more important than the doc itself. Some companies had wikis but good luck searching for the right keywords if you didn't know the exact title. A properly categorized top level page could have helped a lot (and is probably easier/cheaper than integrating google like searchabilty into an internal database).
China to launch lunar telescope in 2026
I was ignorant of nearly all the terms you used, so bear with me, but seems like you're saying it's antisemitic because it seems to be an extension of a previously idea which was used as part of an antisemitic campaign.

You say "The parts involving Jews have been filed off ...". To be me, this doesn't necessarily suggest it's "to make it more palatable to a mainstream audience".

The whole thing seems heavily loaded to me (someone who is coming to these terms fresh-ish). I've heard some murmurings around how modernism is a "lefty" idea, and how criticism of modernism is a "right wing" idea, and that's falling into place a bit more now.
And a portion of the bill should go to an insurance fund that compensates both guests or hosts in case of negligence on the part of either.
The Reddit strike could severely impact Reddit's SEO
Sorry for your losses. I served in Afghanistan and although I came out relatively mentally unscathed I lost a friend and also had soldiers under my command who were completely destroyed by PTSD.

The thing I wrestle with every day is whether it the price was worth it at all.
Atlassian sends its regards.
I'm not a native English speaker but the original sentence was equally clear to me. Can you enlighten me why you had to 'fix' it? Does it now match the rules set by Oxford and Cambridge or something?
Exactly. I have no idea what the other commenters thought I meant.
How do you define conservative ?

By historical standards, current P/E ratios are extremely high - especially for companies of this size.
pg has enough money. It’s not his primary motive.
> Our goal is to rebuild the sacred trust between the medical community and those they serve.

Sure but looking at just one of the GHP people (Molly Rutherford) shows a Twitter timeline promoting conspiracy theories, anti-vaxxers, Epoch Times, anti-LGBTQ, etc. It doesn't engender much confidence in her reliability as a narrator.
The thing is that there's a lot of valuable information that I don't think we should just delete like that.

When you search about a Neovim issue for example, often the solution is in an old Reddit thread. When you delete that, it will be gone forever.
This Reddit strike is the most Reddit thing I’ve seen.

I don’t even understand the issue in the first place, you can either use the official app for free with ads, or use a third party app for something like $2 a month.
I am doing this currently and have been doing this for the past 2 years. It looks like the author is mostly in Europe/North America (judging from the youtube videos), whereas I'm mostly in Africa and parts of Asia.

> When you go with an Airbnb, you’re typically renting from another individual, not a professional business.

I try my absolute best to stay with individuals! They seem to care a lot more than agencies. I try to stay in places where the owner lives nearby, maybe they built another house on their land or split their apartment in 2 etc.

When I was traveling along the garden route in South Africa, the hosts would invite me over for a braai (BBQ) or have a beer together. When it's a real host/guest "relationship" people care more about their properties and the guest experience. When people outsource their management to an agency, it just becomes another investment and people are completely detached from it and the people that stay there.

On the topic of knives, I travel with my own. That's unavoidable in my opinion. I also travel with an electric grill (george foreman ripoff) because I _hate_ cooking meat on electric hobs (that aren't induction based).

> Of course, we’ve definitely learned a lot from our mistakes over the past couple years. As soon as we started traveling full time, we realized that our budget of $1,200 USD a month was way too low.

That's my upper budget, I try to stay closer to 1,000 USD.
I'm not opening the website, but sad to hear that the Kubernetes sub isn't participating. Reddit uses Kubernetes for it's infrastructure management, and it would have sent a message.
I am responding to "UTC being a reasonable standard".
I'm probably the most junior math person here. I got to Advanced Algebra and then Calc 1 and realized I peaked in Advanced Algebra. That being said, judging from just the paragraph one might need an understanding of number theory (sets to be exact), vectors, ...

I always tend to get tripped up in the terminology and the symbols.
That is nonsense. Even highly qualified people like Alina Chan were pushed in the conspiracy camp during the first year - just for saying that the lab leak is one (of many) possible sources of the virus.
A lot of the LLM ML communities have moved to Discord for bleeding edge development, as far as I know.
>However, this theory was circulated and promoted to inspire hatred and distrust of many authority figures.

Don't forget that some people just want to know the truth, and don't like being lied to. I don't think it's a good principle that whenever the truth is used as an excuse for bad things (insofar as "distrust of authority figures" is even a bad thing), it is justified to lie.

>Even today we're still seeing thousands die from what may very well be a conspiracy theory.

And how many past and future deaths can be attributed to the lack of trust caused by trying to cover up the truth? Many more, I'd wager. There's a crucial irony in trying to maintain trust by hiding the truth. Many people just can't or don't want to understand this.
> I wanted TikTok i'd use TikTok

You want some experience, but then you describe how Youtube is forcing you to click through shorts and BS as that.

I think power users should give up on direct interaction with internet. With youtube you can have a scripts that download videosm, and filter out shorts, ads and other garbage. With news you can just print everything on laser printer... Spotify should be exported as bunch of MP3 files...

It is very easy to hire some English speaking assistant in India or Philippines, or have cron jobs that does tedious work for you. I think today, if you see ad on web, or you are directly exposed to some shifty behavior like Reddit does, it is major red flag for your lifestyle. Like when you live in an apartment without proper ventilation or with toxic fumes.