skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the same hemming and hawwing about Twitter several months ago. Everyone vocally says they'll leave for Mastodon, but most simply don't. Listening to the vocal minority as a company executive is simply a recipe for disaster.
> You have to assume that the leadership team is not completely inept.

On the contrary, I really resonated with the top response to one of his replies:

https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/145bram/comment/jnk...
Joined 2020. 4m+ subscribers. Seriously impressive.
As a counterpoint, the users that don't care about the changes simply...don't care. There is no impetus to come out in force and massively upvote or downvote anything about the protests, they're simply getting on with their days and will be back to business as usual when the subs come back, filling the time during the protest with other subs that aren't going dark. How efficacious this all proves to be will be interesting to discover.
One solution to the profitability problem might be to remove all the non-profitable users.

When I browse the home page all I see is anti-work, anti-capitalism, nuance-less politics, etc.

As people have mentioned, the free money decade is over - users are going to have to start becoming Customers if they want their voices to be listened to.
Right. Unfortunately their right to request increases was removed. The exact wording: “Based on your service usage history you are not eligible for quota increase at this time” and then dead ends trying to reach someone.

They had billing accounts set up for all their projects. They were happy to hand over money but had no ability to.
I can’t find anyone who says how many users, but 110-120 thousand newsgroups.
> If that wasn't so immensely difficult and expensive, everyone would be doing it.

While not a message board, the Wikimedia Foundation does well financially, hosts lots of content, receives massive traffic, and has an open API.

> So the really difficult part, the one where the value ultimately comes from, does seem to lie in hosting and running such a community, and in attracting users.

Federated authentication and open protocols are a thing. Imagine the internet of old with countless message boards, but under a single sign on.

As far as content moderation, folks talk a lot about AI and the spam it will bring, however, there is also the opportunity for AI moderation.
Yes, you nailed it properly. If results of experiments cannot be reproduced and confirmed by two independent researchers at least, then it's not a scientific process. History of science is full of fakes.
Basically the end of an era where tech companies will finally have to make a profit. Obviously from the development of Reddit over the years they never really care about any of it until interest rate punch you in the face.

Finally, it is nice. Back to the good old days where things have to at least pass the common sense test.
I agree with your last point. I disagree though that just icons can suffice, only in the sense that productivity is lost because without text, there is not a way to easily distinguish between multiple instances of a program.

The thing is, the text has to be maintained anyway, it's still there, for example in tooltips, so not giving users an option to show it has no real defense that I can see.
I love how people who don’t read the article ask “did you read the article”. Agree there’s nothing new here, and most things presented as new are mostly conjecture or hear say
Not correct? Ad hominem? Moralist knee-jerk reaction? Absurd? Extreme? There is probably a more reasonable version of this disagreement, to put it lightly.

Unlike Hitler's opinions on snow, Ted Kaczynski's murders are inextricably linked to his ideology.
> As the costs of providing education have become increasingly socialized, the spending efficiency has decreased as rent-seeking institutions like teachers unions have taken over:

I have nothing else to say but to point at this comment and say that calling a teacher's union a 'rent-seeking institution' is nonsense. As a libertarian you should be cheering for unions because they are the natural consequence of workers using their power in a free market to come together and negotiate as a block.
> This seems crazy to me, leaning heavily on the proof that you yourself obviously are not choosing that life when you easily could.

Can someone do this? Find a place you can live and hunt for free that isn't incredibly difficult to survive in because of its inhospitable climate or lack of resources.
Exactly. It's not about the absolute percentage of people using third-party services, it's about the users that matter: power users, moderators, and especially content posters/creators.
The Unintended Consequences of Censoring Digital Technolog – Italy’s ChatGPT Ban
My prediction is it’ll be like the slow death of Facebook. Did Facebook users quit en masse after the Cambridge analytica scandal, or after The Social Dilemma? No, Facebook was still going strong. But it just doesn’t seem culturally relevant any more. People don’t seem to ask to be Facebook friends now. They ask for my insta or WhatsApp. (And meta buying both of those sites seems like an utterly genius move in retrospect.)

I predict the same will happen with reddit. It’ll take awhile for new platforms to mature, and for the good content to leave. But I’d put money on it losing its cultural relevance over the next 5-10 years.
People end up leaving or not participating subreddits with low-quality moderation. They also tend to get overrun with spam and abuse, and have to be shut down. Finding a bunch of crappy replacement moderators isn't going to work long-term.
Let me speak as someone who has published quite a bit of research using information derived from EHR data, most of which was ICD codes.

EHR data is fucking terrible. The quality is laughably bad. Despite there being standards for when specific codes should and should not be used, there is no way to actually enforce correct usage. This means coding practices may vary dramatically depending on exactly who is inputting the code. ICD codes get used incorrectly a fairly alarming proportion of the time. The most common deficiency is just missing codes. For whatever reason a lot of conditions just don't get recorded as ICD codes. You can look at the actual written doctors notes and see that they clearly noted that a patient had a specific condition but the ICD code associated with that often just never gets entered.

What's worse, its also common to have codes which are just flat out wrong. This can take many different forms but is usually the result of lazy medical history questionnaires.

"Do you have diabetes?" asks the questionnaire. Patient checks yes. Patient gets ICD-10 code E11. But E11 is the code for Type 2 diabetes. The patient has Type 1 diabetes, which is much less common. If I run a query to select all patients with Type 1 diabetes from my large EHR database I will miraculously find that more than 90% also show up in queries which select all Type 2 diabetes patients. Very interesting considering that the medically reported frequency of double diabetes in T1D patients is around 4%.

This is just one of many many many issues you see when working with EHR data. Findings derived from large scale EHR data can never be considered more than preliminary. Never.

I have personally had discussions with people who, even when getting their data from a single institution, have had to physically go around to different hospital departments and tell them to stop collecting certain types of data because they were so bad at it that they are making the rest of the data unusable.

Unless you have a carefully curated data collection process you will always be dealing with this issue. EHR has a lot of theoretical potential but the data quality issues negate almost all of it. It's really unfortunate.
Which is just absolutely full of spam now, plus you need to pay for access (largely).
How is science not involved in a major way here? Of course science will continue to play a huge role in the matter.
IPMI firmware can be patched, as can the BIOS which contains the microcode that is loaded. Once the OS boots, updating the running microcode included is trivial (in Linux and I believe also FreeBSD?) and can be done before the system's network interfaces come up.
Considering Facebook pays about $500m a year for content moderation, it’s probably not in Reddit’s best interests to alienate its free modbase
We're talking about someone who suffered from very serious mental illness. And we're talking about stochastic processes.

We can agree that killing people or trying to kill people is terrible, but I'd stress the mental illness part so perhaps society will get serious about treating mental illness with seriousness. Our cities are full of mentally ill people living on the streets. Are they a ticking time bomb? was Kaczynski?
I think when they say Science they actually mean: the scientific community.
I mean... There are references to names, institutions carrying out certain investigations, references to experiments done prior to the pandemic. Yeah, some of it can be congecture. Which is why I really want the direct links to data, not just mentions to the events.

I'm not sure it's a conspiracy theory. I think it's a legitimate thing to investigate by an international entity like the UN (not the US), and the outcome (if it turns out to be true) should likely be some proportional sanction/payments by China.
Not really. Let's say you were doing 8+2 before (times five) with 8TB drives, and switch to 8+3 with 40TB drives. You go from 400TB of raw space to 440TB of raw space, but you also go from 50 drive slots down to 11. Even if both drive models are the same cost per terabyte, the latter setup should have a lower total cost.

But I would also expect these drives to be cheaper per TB, at least by the time HAMR is 2-3 generations old.
We usually use our ears, too.
A global analysis of real wages, human height, and mortality since 16th century [pdf]
I love my LTO-5 tape drive. 1.5TB on a tape, encryption, they have a write protect notch, and I add parity files to each tape to combat bitrot. The price per TB is pretty low. I keep a backup of important stuff off-site. As datacenters upgrade, I'll gladly take their hand-me-downs, when the price is right.
As the sibling commenter says, maybe it’s worth reconsidering the approach somewhat?

As in, I do get the reasoning, but there are valid situations where one might need to do this for their own reasons. So maybe there’s some way to make it clear that you shouldn’t be doing this, yet still narrowly allow it. A non-default CLI flag, a scary compilation warning, maybe needs to use some special keyword to use code like that. Like how you need to use ‘unsafe’ in Rust to interact with C code directly.

Otherwise, thank you for working on this! An Elm inspired language that’s open to community development is something the world needed :-D
Yeah, meanwhile reddit apparently has 2000 employees and can’t make a simple enough site written in react work well. It lags my $3000 computer that can run cyberpunk in ultra.
The way you put it sounds like a part of the foundational thesis of Buddhism.
Because FBI profiles are only good for crimes that happen often enough to have perpetrators willing and available for psychological study.
https://archive.is/HKxlX
I don't think it is comparable, the invasion of Iraq was way worse.
I meant to say that leadership still likes to avoid bad press for the sake of self preservation. Bad press focused on individualals has consequences even when consumers aren't the primary audience. Think stockholders, potential business partners, boards, etc.

Large subreddit protests are bad press.
and why would IPMI port ranges and IP addresses be accessible outside of the DMZ, if you're an even half competent sysadmin?
Sure, but the article is implying there something new that actually would have some kind of bearing or meaning.
In my opinion, moderate your expectations of non-libwebrtc implementations like the one used in this feature.

Here's some speculation: Most users will experience non-libwebrtc WebRTC bugs (like OBS users). 1% of users who experience bugs in OBS WebRTC will report enough telemetry to fix the bug. But 99% of all of OBS's userbase uses Chrome, Edge or Safari, and maybe 50% of those (more than enough) report telemetry. So if their WebRTC bug was hardware / network specific - the bugs that matter - libwebrtc will have observed it and by now, probably fixed it.

Despite telemetry from hundreds of millions of users every day, it still took years for libwebrtc to reach truly robust, flawless stability on all the platforms it deploys on.

It's a complex technology.
> No idea - but it's a common exploit used to DL a torrent then run a post DL script .bat file to DL and run a crypto miner.

Who or what triggers the execution of that script? If it is QBT, it almost sounds like malicious intent from the side of its developers.
I also have friends like that, that are just too far invested in the "America is always evil" narrative. Yes, the US does plenty dubious things. It doesn't contradict Putin being even worse.
> But science does not ask this kind of question!

I disagree, it is a scientific question. Whether we can answer it in isolation of politics and prejudice is the question for me.

But if you observe some gravitational waves in a single event, you can correlate it to optical or radio observations, you can try to analyse the signals to match them to existing hypotheses of gravitational waves origination etc. The singularity of the event doesn't make it not science. Same as the emergence of a novel virus.

It is just a shame that most of the evidence is subjective and non-scientific. But the question itself is well posed scientific endeavour.
This is a great example of how, even when one buys the idea of giving rights to individual states over the federal government, the US state borders are rather unnatural. Someone living in Jersey City and someone living in Manhattan have an incredible amount of shared economic interests. However, the Manhattan resident shares a state government with people living in Buffalo instead. This happens in plenty if places in the US: We have more than one multi-state megalopolis, and along with it, metro areas over a million residents that are split in such a way that they count little in their respective state governments.

In most of Europe, borders have had a whole lot of time to align economic development and political organization. But the US, unlike its corporations, is against reorgs. The fact that we even get to discuss state rights for something that could be a municipal matter is, in itself, a problem.
The audio is from the Youtuber playing the game, not the game itself.
A small number of mods moderate the overwhelming amount of subreddits and posts on the platform (some moderate hundreds of subs), and those are doing just fine. At least for the most popular subreddits, nothing will materially change.
Wow, man... that sucks!
Azure's support has also been fantastic. Depending on priority of ticket, with an enterprise account things get picked up sometimes minutes after raising them.

Their AKS offering was a crap show during the first year of general release and I opened countless tickets and they were snappy at the response times which is interesting seeing at the scale they operate.

Judging by all the comments GCP seems like one to avoid? Which is a shame because I had a desire to train multi cloud. If they treat their support like the rest of their products then I'll advocate a different IaaS where I'm able to.
I wonder if this would be useful for storing my master (KeePassXC) password. I would probably need to learn how to transliterate back from Cuneiform.
The part of the article discussing problems with generative AI seems to lay emphasis on "attribution". The problem with generative AI is not that they want raw and unedited images, but that they are unable to properly attribute generated images to their sources. That's what makes the distinction between a generative AI and regular image editing tools like cropping, scaling, filtering, etc. So something like "AI detail enhancement engine" should not be problematic under such a definition as the tool can simply be attributed to Samsung.
This is the same dude: https://lemmygrad.ml/
He's got a massive communist drum to beat if you're into that thing.
> The intent here was to troll

How do you know? There are plenty of pronouns out there (basically all of them except the two genders and "they") that I still can't see anyone actually using seriously and not as a troll to make a statement - no different from what this guy is doing. The validity of a pronoun is a subjective concept at the end of the day.

However, even in the absolute obvious case where he himself would've admitted that he is trolling, the right thing to do would still be to accept his troll pronouns and not give it a second thought, otherwise you're not only "feeding" the troll (by giving him a reaction) but kinda validating his point that the whole thing is BS and that in reality only certain pronouns that fit the current groupthink are allowed despite the claimed "inclusivity".
That rule doesn't work in the modern age. The modern malicious clearly try to cloud there BS in incompetence.
Thank you for the imagery. I will be using the glossy white reference in conversations with friends.
If foo is a function in this example, then yes I agree for most PLs. If foo is a class, namespace, or some other declaration context however, its contents are definitely relevant when editing a different context due to possible usage of scope operators.
I don't think it's capitalism that's the issue. After all, that's existed for hundreds of years and across so many countries.

This seems like a more narrow problem, where the goal of new companies is no longer "Build good product, acquire users, slowly and steadily grow", it's "Build a product, give it away for free at a loss for years, get millions in VC funding, sell your users out, destroy product while laughing to the bank to repeat the process". Seems to really have picked up in the past 20 years or so, and largely specific to the United States.
Is it reddit by itself that does the "attracting users" part or is it the community activity, aka the users?
But where will they go? If there was a good alternative, it would make sense, but there isn't. You don't "just quit" heroin, people who like reddit and use it a lot will continue using it.
"You can host your own community then"; Sorry but I'm not really a fan of this "make your own (...)" attitude, especially when excusing corporate behavior against volunteers

I mean that there is a spectrum ranging from paying the bills and making profit to blatantly exploiting everyone involved. Based on the Apollo logistics, reddit API pricing seems to fall on the greedy end of the spectrum. At the same time we have examples with high-traffic websites (e.g. Wikipedia) which manage to build upon volunteer effort and be sustainable without pissing everyone off within a few days.
> It's not perfect, there are no good links to sources which suggests a lot of it is made up.

Existing evidence points to another lab: BSL4 lab "Vector" in Novosibirsk, Russia. They worked on their "Sputnik" vaccine when blast in laboratory on September 16 2019[2] caused chain of incidents: broken windows, unprotected soldiers break in, which checked rooms for signs of fire, equipment stolen from BSL4 lab by those soldiers[0][1], epidemic of unknown virus in Siberia, Military World Games in Wuhan[3].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w7SAeNcXA8

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20200407175030/https://www.youtu...

[2]: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/17/health/russia-lab-explosi...

[3]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7813667/
Don't list "hosting text" as if it costs more then a paper bill per month for the entire website.
It is kind of a bummer that the votes themselves aren't federated yet, even if the content is. The whole point of federation is that you should self host your own so that you have ownership over the computing that powers your social media experience, which is the only way are going to move forward with it really. Otherwise, you are just depending on the good will of someone else, usually a corporation that needs to make money at somepoint. It's not like investment or venture capital is actually delivering any value for the users of these services.

Ideally, there will be more of a P2P structure for social media if everything moves forward. It doesn't solve for the problem where large companies can solve for doing the really large aggregation and drive engagement algorithmically. But even if 3-4 aggregators that are independent from each other emerge plus there being a relatively low barrier of entry to create your own, I think it could be sustainable and a major win. Privately funded social spaces are dying a quick death in the age of high interest rates.
> Federated authentication and open protocols are a thing.

In theory, yes. In practice, they are a niche endeavor used by a bunch of hackers and computer science nerds.

Lemmy is constantly mentioned in these discussions as an open source, federated Reddit alternative, yet the largest Lemmy instance has 1500 monthly active users. That's... nothing. There are tens of thousands of individual subreddits bigger than that. The "Fediverse" isn't going anywhere.
It actually is a lot worse than 4chan or /r/thedonald because it is insidious. I used to follow Scott Siskind's (Astral Codex Ten, then Slate Star Codex) blog and participate on some discussions in The Motte. One day, Scott had a mask-off moment and I realised that what he was advocating for was a form of eugenics based on intelligence.

The whole goal of this "Rationalist" movement is to lure in people with well-reasoned but controversial takes (which are often plain wrong), decorated in excellent prose. It is for all intents and purposes, insight-porn that hides the fact that it is actually an alt-right pipeline with a focus on eugenics.

Buyer beware. Get involved in the rationalist movement at your own risk.
What could he do differently?

I think it is very clear that a paid subscription couldn't compete with ads. Discord ARPU less than <$3, while Facebook ARPU is something like $30 for US. And I think if discord penetrates to more general circle, it's ARPU would decrease further.
> It still has potential to be misunderstood ofc

> It can't just be the struggle of a Pollak getting people to pronounce his name correctly

I just happened to research this recently, rabbit hole a propos nothing: (1) in English, "Polack" is an ethnic slur for a Polish person; (2) in a handful of unrelated European languages, Polak is just the word for a Pole; just so y'all know.
MoonPay gave Hollywood celebs Bored Apes to promote itself: sources
Not sure about that, "any press is good press" isn't a saying for nothing. In this case, investors can clearly see why the protests are happening and would in fact side with the company, not the individuals, because their protests are getting in the way of becoming profitable.
Wow, he posted only 14 comments, and all but one were <100 words. Whose are shockingly low numbers given the stakes.
The blog title omits it, and you suggested using "HTML+CSS", so I think my response was warranted.

But I'm not going to argue about semantics. If you think I phrased things badly, then I apologize and concede the phrasing.

The more important part, in my view, is that the user will never get through enough iterations to run decryption logic.
If you disagree with those politics so much just host your own instance. I know there was some concern about politics affecting the technical decisions behind Lemmy (content filter related) but it looks like cooler heads prevailed. Also, you can always create a fork of it anyway.
Interesting - I don't observe such behavior with snap/lxd on my Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04 boxes.

Not a heavy user though - maximum 15-20 VEs (virtual enforcements) per server.
You just said those power moderators will be removed and need to be replaced, right? Isn't that contradictory?