skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In politics it's helpful to have an antagonist to point at and blame for everything bad. There's a villain in every story, and I best point him out to you in case you think it's me.

Cuba is somewhat unique in that there are lot of ex-Cubans clustered in Florida, a swing state, who are there by virtue of being anti-Cuban-government. They are in favor of any policy that hurts the govt, even if it hurts the people left in Cuba more.

Ultimately all this animosity boils down to the nationalisation of private (US) property in the 60s. An unforgivable crime As Amerixan William Wallace might have said "you can take our freedom, but you can't take our money."

Politically though being anti-Cuban has little downside, and wins important votes.
There's so many places you could take your community that aren't another VC-backed SV startup well on its way to trying to be the next TikTok or whatever (see the Discord username change fiasco).

Try Discourse, or Zulip (disclaimer: I used to work there), or Mastodon, or spin up your own forum using any number of self-hostable solutions. Try anything but Discord. Future you will thank you when Discord is the one in the news some future day.
There are exactly two viable, open alternatives: Mastodon and Matrix. Neither are complete equivalents of Reddit, but both have more than 10 million users, which is what makes them viable for building communities.

If you intend to try Lemmy (an actual Reddit clone), you should be aware that Lemmy has around 9,000 users across all instances, some of which are probably duplicates, or test accounts created by developers. If you expect vibrant niche communities like on Reddit, you will likely be disappointed. This isn't a stab at Lemmy, which I believe has potential, but as of today that potential clearly hasn't been realized quite yet.
While it would be ideal if all the software devs writing say a General Ledger application were accountants, the reality is that will not be the case.

I call domains where expertise lies outside of the software development team - “external domains”.

For these, programmers, testers and managers need additional skills in requirements elicitation and capture, and more importantly skills in modeling a system (real or imagined) based on those requirements.

In a software world dominated by technical requirements, how to determine and model functional requirements in an external domain can be what makes a programmer a great one.
“Automated” != “Fully Automated”/“Autonomous” IMO. I took one class on this years ago and didn’t pay a lot of attention so disregard me if I’m super off base, but Silicon does rely heavily on computer aided design, no? I think a more charitable reading of the parent in that light makes it an actually quite insightful comment
> if you do chain of thought prompting

The fact that you have to prompt it along the way means you are doing some of the reasoning for it.

BTW have you tried giving it bad prompts along the way to try to confuse it instead of helping it? Being able to spot a bad argument is also an important part of using predicate logic.

> Do you have an example where it fails?

Frankly, I'm too lazy to come up with a novel problem that definitely isn't in its training data.

On a side note, did you read the thread a few days ago about "glitch tokens" in ChatGPT? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36242914

It really doesn't inspire confidence in its abilities. A regular human visiting r/counting would just go "WTF", figure it's people being weird, and walk away. Exposing ChatGPT to r/counting during training on the other hand, "breaks it".

It really shows the limitations of its "reasoning".
Nice try. We’re not visiting Reddit from the 12th-14th.
It may be less sticky from a social perspective, but its comprehensiveness is (was?) its strength to me. I often search Reddit for very specific questions about a range of subjects. That's what I come back to it for.

(Although it's been a while now; the user hostility is just too much).
i'm of the belief that we only have speculation.
Other criticisms aside, fees are <10 cents for many transactions on Eth rollups right now, and will drop another 10x in the next six months if not more. (Only true since around the last month.) USDC is nice for international money transfers, though still niche. I don’t think anyone cares if you trade crypto on the streets, just don’t get rubber hosed.

The space has suffered a lot from adverse selection towards grifters. UST alone captured many of the earnest attempts towards payments and took them down with it.
> Especially if the compression uses bytes

Arithmetic compression can use whatever, even fractional bits, and it's been around since the seventies.
> But most major countries are working on biological weapons. If you think the US, Russia, China, UK, France, Germany, Japan, Israel, etc aren't running bio-weapons labs, then you are being too trusting at best or too naive at worst. Or maybe I'm just being too cynical.

https://acoup.blog/2020/03/20/collections-why-dont-we-use-ch... covers this in some detail (it's geared towards chemical weapons, but biological weapons are the same boat). In short, chemical and biological weapons just aren't useful. For any platform you put it on, conventional explosives will do more damage. For major militaries, there's no point in using them, which is why the "big" military powers have all signed up to the anti-chemical weapons and anti-biological weapons treaties, but not the anti-nuclear or anti-cluster munitions or anti-landmines, etc.
Like many or most of us, I've long been annoyed by Reddit's nagspam to install the app or just use a browser (on mobile). It's annoying, particularly because the app is shitty. As others have said, the browser experience is just significantly better (eg tabs, pinch-to-zoom).

Forcing you into the app is next level.

I'm surprised some have put them in the same boat as Tiktok. Compare the logged out mobile Web experience of clicking on a Tiktok link to, say, Instagram and then get back to me. Tiktok just works and plays the video. IG nags you to login. And the page is slow to load. Like how IG Reels expects to be aserious Tiktok competitor is completely beyond me.

But we're doomed to repeat this pattern with Reddit and whatever eventually succeeds it:

1. Company creates app/website for users to create content;

2. Users create content. The company does everything it can to create hypergrowth;

3. At some point the owners decide to extract value from the user-generated content through ads, selling information, etc. It's easier to monetize an app than a website so you'll get nagged (and eventually forced) into installing the app;

4. There will be cries of protest. Comapny will mollify its users by partially backpedalling;

5. It'll quietly just roll forward with the changes months later after users have accepted the partial changes from (4);

6. Go to (3).

At some point the site turns into Myspace, Geocities, Experts Exchange, etc and users eventually leave and the cycle repeats itself.

This model is broken.
Same here, chrome on Android. Luckily the diagrams were still visible and that's all I really needed.
Does he show evidence that gay people are afraid to move other places, if so is the value high end to affects relative to the total population of either city
Policy-as-Code: Enhancing Security and Compliance in a New Trend
Look into Shreddit [1] which does that for you. It needs API access though, so make sure to do it before June 30th...

[1]: https://github.com/andrewbanchich/shreddit
The easiest method is don’t have a free version at all and only people with a paid (ad free) subscription could use third party clients.
My phone didn't recognized as well, until I zoomed out the screen to 50% and I was able to scan all the generated QRs from the article.
Hopefully Musk will buy NewsCorp or Sinclair next.
https://histre.com/

It has a strong privacy policy, full API access to all your data, and the ability download your data as a zip file. When you delete something / delete your account, it is truly gone, not soft-deleted.

It is really fast (no bloated SPAs) too.

It can automatically import your bookmarks, and will make ongoing knowledge management, sharing etc seamless.

The extensions are open source: https://histre.com/install/

As a demo of how histre automatically organizes your knowledge, check this out: https://histre.com/hn/ (Filter HN by automatic tags)

(Disclaimer: Founder)
From my personal experience, the first example doesn't really happen: thankfully I rarely see people randomly throwing annotations at methods/classes hoping one of them will stick. For most of the time annotations are self-explanatory.

However, there are some real issues with annotations in Spring/Java:
- Application will sometimes run just fine without annotation processor/interceptor. Think of `@EnableScheduling` in Spring: you won't know that `@Scheduled` is not working (because of missing `@EnableScheduling`) until you observe that method is not executed. In this case static code is a clear win.
- Annotation order: not all annotation processors/interceptors in Spring support specifying order. Annotation order in the code doesn't matter: it is lost during compilation. Good luck figuring out what is applied first in a method with `@Retry`, `@Transactional` and `@Cached` - will retry be executed within transaction or each retry will have its own transaction? This also is easily solved with static code instead of annotations.

As for compile-time error vs runtime-error: personally I don't really care as long as there is any error (which is not always the case in the first example) during the build/test/init/assembly phase. When I'm writing SQL queries in the code, I'm getting SQL parsing/compilation errors during application runtime - but that's fine, because I've written SQL-s against DB execution engine. When I'm writing Spark SQL job, I'm getting errors during query planning phase - and that's also fine, because I'm writing code against Spark's execution engine. Writing annotations against "annotation execution engine" (annotation processor/interceptors) doesn't seem any different or wrong in principle. Although, there are things that could be improved.

Stacktraces: there are a few additional interceptor method calls in the stacktrace when annotations are in use, however, most of the complexity comes from library/framework structure and developer's familiarity with it. Spring covers a lot of use cases thus it has its share of complexity. I'm not sure if "Spring without annotations" would be noticeably easier to work with, although I assume that feature-parity with Spring (MVC) is not a goal of this project so it probably will be easier to understand.
There is on their web page
> In OPs case particularly, we are talking about local businesses, not big corps.

The local grocery store and fast food places are very likely to be big corps.

> We seem to live in different worlds.

Different eras maybe?
Initially Bluesky only had mutes but people were demanding a block functionality as well.
Do High Interest Rates Fix High Inflation?
They seem pretty cozy at the moment, would be more impactful for them than the west.
I'm not aware of any comprehensive social media/UGC platform/forum toplists but there's probably one somewhere as the format seems like a very easy way to make some ad revenue.

I also reckon that having a reliable read-only platform toplist available (with an RSS for site updates, of course) would let users better adapt to a changing internet landscape. But if there's no such thing, I guess there's always Dreamwidth to fall back on. The owners have no intention of selling or enshittifying that place.
McDonald's 2043: "We still employ humans! Yes, we do. Apply here." A small asterisk at the bottom adds in a microscopic font: "Applicants must bring a recent copy of the baseline test with a score of at least 740."
Are / were they really 'friends' though if doing so obliterated your connections? Most people tend to misclassify being friends with being open & friendly with another.
Except that PS VR is VR, not AR.

My bet is that vision will launch with very few VR or even 3D apps. You probably won’t even be able to view 3D photos in the browser. It’ll be existing native 2D apps projected into a 3D cylinder.
at scale, all endevours between people invite this kind of risk. Shops routinely have to deal with 1-5% lossage of stock for reasons that might be customers or staff, or both. Some employers wind up doing a-social things like videoing staff and intrusive body searches (Amazon, South African gold mines) and others reward their staff so the motivation to petty fraud is less than the benefits of being well paid.

You write as if this "elephant" is "it" for all time, for all remote workers. It's not, because there has been (and will continue to be) a cohort of remote workers from before Covid, who realise there is a cost/benefit here, and who do not commit fraud, they just work from home at the intensity they work and their employer is just fine with that

Sure, sending everyone home, and then wanting them to come back highlighted that people who aren't self selected up front to WFH include a cohort who cheat. So what? They probably cheat in other ways at their desk.

SOME remote work works worse and worse over time because SOME people realise they can scam their employers. But, what % it is, against overall work-life rebalancing, value for money, increased work time because of not spending time commuting, reduction in other costs (ok, dealing with sunk cost in the office is an issue) .. It's nothing like as elephant-in-the-room as you think it is.

No, one of the elephants in the room is that a fucktonne of Management KPI are built around offices, and the people who demand return to office want to return to achieving those KPI. And, a fucktonne of corporate future profit and tax offset is predicated on property retaining its value and those office blocks are dropping like stones in a deep pond: Thats why Google and Salesforce both unloaded huge property investments (rental or lease) recently.

Managers and CEOs and Boards want return to office because they have "REI-ified" beliefs around the nature of work and the value of office work, and they have set deliverables which will make them personally wealthy by achieving this.

Its not dissimmilar to the mass firings: there was no across the board need to shed 10% of staff. It was a KPI which benefited a cohort of managers and CEOs. Thats all (in my opinion)

Workers and Bosses are always in tension. The factory model was designed to increase production at the expense of craft work done in the home by weavers and spinners. Was the "product" better? For some things yes, but for others no: it was about profit extraction, Taylorism, and hourly rates.
Is it possible that reddit tried to pull of the same monetization trick as twitter, however they forgot to check with the target audience. And that public is really stretched financially, it does not consist of establishment figures who have an extra five dollars to spare for their hobby.

But how is it possible that the reddit bosses don't know who their users are?
I don't think you can have death metal without double bass hammering. I don't think you can have lofi with double bass hammering.
Have you considered also joining Kbin (kbin.social) and/or Lemmy (lemmy.ml)?
A list of salted hashes can be "decrypted" by trying every username with each salt. It probably doesn't take much computing power to do that.
Uh. Is that language legally binding?
Thanks for your feedback. I'll take that into account.

You are totally right about having to mock RequestCycle, which isn't good. Furthermore, RequestCycle isn't really mockable in its current state. I'm planning to solve both problems in a future version by making it mockable, providing standard mock implementations, and removing the dependency on other web objects (such as the servlet API) from code which is just using RequestCycle.

The main point behind grumpyrest is that a lot is _not_ "just Java": While the handler method you presented is, the way it is mounted isn't, nor how dependencies are located and injected, nor how the JSON is validated and mapped to objects and back.
There’s an iPhone shortcut to open Reddit links in narwhal (a Reddit reader): https://www.reddit.com/r/getnarwhal/comments/ase81y/ios_shor...

Reddits mobile site became unusable for me a few years ago.
They do – there is a beta option in preferences that is unticked by default that lets you opt into experiments. However it seems to me they just kinda forgot about it?

https://www.reddit.com/r/beta/wiki/index

https://www.reddit.com/live/x3ckzbsj6myw/
There might he a tool to export your bookmarks to a good standard - I'll look around. I doubt you're the first to look for this!

Edit: chrome offers to export to html - might be a better start! You can then turn that into txt or copy paste what you're interested in!
I blame Reddit's leadership for bad decision making. They have basically decided to apply every known dark and anti pattern.

I remember when they started using those annoying pop ups to ask people if they want to rather use the official app or continue. Then suddenly for some links only the Reddit app would work. Nowadays I try to avoid clicking on Reddit links when I am on mobile.
Good. This case actually seems like it could stick, there’s demonstrable consumer harm if prices rose due to the agreement.
I tried the new Reddit and it’s compact options near the rollout and a couple of times after; it wasn’t satisfactory. One was one of many reasons to keep using old Reddit and third party clients.
Why does it need to scale? Does my laptop need to scale when I open a 100 megabyte file? No, it just does it in a few milliseconds then goes back idle. What I mean is, 1500 users sounds like a load you handle with a Raspberry Pi in a forgotten corner. I just don't understand what is happening to overload even the weakest of cloud instances?
> the developer is an extreme authoritarian who is aggressive to non-authoritarian users, going so far as to ban users who speak against Stalin and friends. They've been banned from other social media, including Reddit, for hate speech and other things.

Ahahaha what? I had no idea. Do you have a link where I can read more about this?

If even half of that is true, Lemmy is dead on arrival. No way a platform with that kind of origin will ever become mainstream.
All of the above. But as someone who writes documentation let me add, most programmers are bad writers.

To write good documentation you need to mix technical reference (the easy part) with user reference. The latter requires you to imagine where the user is at, and take them to where they understand. This is hard to do, and requires well, skills.

So a culture of documentation is great, but quality matters as much as quantity. Clarity, completeness and coherence are all legs of the stool.
Would be faster to just shut down the corporation and give the money back to the shareholders, whatever they have anyway, but your approach is not without merit, mostly in that I think it would be funny at this point.
> You're also proposing that someone periodically audits the different reddit clients to see if they are displaying enough / all the ads

No, just the big ones. Which they will know, because they'll know the API usage. Below some level, it doesn't matter if somebody's doing it wrong.

> It is just easier to charge for an API.

Easier in the sense of less labor for a few people at Reddit? Sure. But who cares? The goal isn't making it easier for a few low-level employees. The first goal is to create maximum value. The second goal is to extract enough cash to cover the costs of the value generation, plus a bit extra. If something is not easy but is profitable, that's a-ok in business-land.
Related:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/12/radio-new-zeal...
What you seem to be saying is "nothing's changed" because this "problem with myspace" has been happening since before USENET was a thing. A bunch of CeeFax and Minitel users want this internet rubbish dealt with. Gopher is ballistically angry with CERN over the web. don't get me started on WAIS.

I have no doubt Socrates was royally pissed off with the drop in the levels of discourse in the symposium once people decided hookers and blow (booze and sex) was just as interesting as talk.

Charles Dickens shut down as many monthly journals as he opened, rolling each one's publisher as hard as he could. You think there were no subscribers rolling their eyes when their year-long membership in that series died?
those can be faked always that's why I personally don't like those kinda metrics.
That is amazing and heartwarming.
I work on urbit which gives you actual control over your cloud computer and has a discord like chat as its current main application.

https://tlon.io/

It’s a lot more than just a discord alternative since it’s an entire computing environment with built in networking and p2p IDs, but the chat is a good current use case.

The goal is to escape the kind of problem you’re describing by fixing the upstream problems that cause them.

https://urbit.org/getting-started
I still don't have Reddit account yet. One of reason is broken gmail authentication.
The difference is that social media as a sector is a dead end, while there will absolutely be multiple trillion+ dollar "crypto" 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 crypto is less like social media 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 "crypto" to their name. While all of this will correct itself, the underlying tech (the web in 2000, crypto today) will eventually prove to be world changing.

It's important to note that this is a hypothetical scenario where we're replacing terms to compare different industries. The statements above are not a reflection of actual market conditions or predictions about the future success of specific sectors.

No sed/shitcoin required.
That only makes sense when there’s competition. Why maintain two apps when it’s cheaper to maintain one? Now, in this case it seems like an awful strategic choice, given what happened with TikTok. But I think the reason is nevertheless the same.

Modern tech capitalism doesn’t want to compete in the “let the best product win”-space. It’s just not enough money and making stuff is hit or miss. They want to own access and rent-seek. At least that’s my interpretation.
This is Silicon Valley (the real life) level comical.
Will PostgreSQL switch from multi-process to multi-threaded architecture?
The Art of Leadership: Lessons from Art Blakey
What do you mean? Pinboard is working fine for me.

Mind you I only signed up a few weeks ago so can't speak to reliability over time.
old.reddit.com is the only reason I haven't given the place up. When it goes, so will I.
Then try to make sure that both you and your pants are well fit before buying them, as a shopping hack.

Then keep your waist size the same over the long term as a life hack.
"Decriminalization is the thing you're looking for "

That is not even remotely close to what I am looking for. No substance that is widely consumed by people should be produced or sold without comprehensive - if not excessive - formal processes to ensure purity.

Black markets only exists because states enable them. We have unlimited evidence that, when you allow people to produce and sell products and make a profit, even with significant regulations and enforcement, they will do so and usually not break the rules.