skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is how I feel as well. People always say that Mastodon will never replace Twitter because it’s either a) too hard to sign up for, b) no enough people on using it. However, since it’s federated, I feel the easier to find people and posts that are more akin to my interests on there. I just joined a midsized software dev focused instance and followed a few tags for my hobbies and my experience is great. It almost feels like Reddit in that way.
I am on reddit quite a bit.

I see many announcements that other subreddits are going dark to protest.

The api changes seem to be the biggest thing.

I am wondering if anyone in the c-suite has taken notice or if they just have blinders on for the IPO.

Honestly it is a tough spot to be in. But if you think about it, without the users and moderators, reddit has nothing.
Like Arcade tokens?
Building a good case where that sites should only have so so a hand in picking security/privacy levels for folks. These should be user tailorable with our agents or via preferences we can expose to sites.

For now I'd often opt to DO_NOT_REFERER=0. Most sites from here are welcome to my referrer, may have that inboard thing.
People keep repeating that but I can't find any official announcements about it. I think it's fake PR lip service. Even the Verge article about it says nothing concrete and just speculates about apps that may qualify. The r/blind mod has no idea which apps reddit has claimed to contact.
Depends what you define as progress.
On a purely philosophical view point the answer is most certainly no.
From a speed/operational/deployment perspective probably yes.
How and what you consider and measure progress is the problem.

Consider what happens when you use output from LLM as training data for LMMs. If there is any "falsehoods" or "incorrections" then the very processes of LMM training will provide "bias" in it's output. That will then become exponential. That is the disinformation issue you mention. I would submit that this is/will/should be the paramount area for research and hence progress. In that regard there doesn't seem to be much progress at all, except to deny or cover it up.

Just like the self perpetuating myths on Wikipedia, where entries are corrected and then those corrections are repeatedly replaced because people read it in articles quoting previous (bad) information from Wikipedia.

I guess we can have an army of moderators (probably need several hundred thousand) correcting data or "preselecting" only truthful real data for training. That means for the most part its not Artificial Intelligence, its human.

oh wait we have that :D
And yet, Clojure, the most used Lisp today, decided to use brackets instead of parentheses for parameter lists, breaking with 50 years of Lisp tradition. How dare they??

But I'm sure you know better than them.
Sorry for the slow reply. Physical retail is definitely a hard business, albeit one less prone to winner-take-all than online retail.
I guess I don't understand why people are shocked to learn that recreational drugs can be ingested rectally, but don't bat an eye about the existence of medicinal suppositories. (Or maybe people are shocked to find out about suppositories?)
https://archive.ph/wJelE

"A separate internal document showed that already-approved remote workers may be subject to reevaluation if the company determines “material changes in business need, role, team, structure or location.”"
did they run some poll, or moderators self authorized to act on behalf of community?
It's also pretty much functionally equivalent to this site.
You can buy a year of Apollo Ultra in advance and 50,000 people have done just that.

I bet he was making enough that he didn't need another job but not significantly more than that.
Suggesting that slashdot has a similar level of conversation to Reddit is deeply depressing regardless of how accurate it might be.

My slashdot ID is six digits. I check in about thrice a year and leave sad.

For me it's like going to a podcast festival. Everybody's a bearded white 40 year old man. They're mostly saying things that make sense but there's an uneasy sense that I've walked into an echo-chamber.
How about:

> 845.9K Likes

> 237.6K Retweets

In a day and a half for a ten minute video of a guy in his basement talking. It isn't even a video platform.
The government wasn't picking winners and losers, anymore than VCs or banks pick winners and losers. It was loans for well proven tech development, and has a fantastic track record for financial success.
https://old.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/1401qw5/incomplet...

There's the list so far. Definitely some heavy hitters in there.

Note that if you want to see the full list you'll have to click through to the second thread, since they hit the character limit :)
After training, tokens are vectors, but the number of unique vectors is limited by your vocabulary size (i.e. Should 'The' get a vector or should 'Th' and 'e' each get their own vector?).

This step is deciding which clusters of letters (or whatever) get a vector and then giving them a scalar unique ID for conveniences' sake.

The training then determines what that vector actually is.
Adding onto my own experience as well. It's a huge pain in the neck that I've been working on for 4 months. Nearly all of this has been back and forths with various state government agencies on how I have not filed paperwork correctly. I too wish there was an option to pay a few hundred dollars and have this done for me.
"Do we have a federated Mastodon-esque system to replace Reddit yet?"
Yes. It's called Lemmy. https://join-lemmy.org Just found out about it today.
Unless you want half your C logic to be error propagation, it’ll have to be <setjmp.h>, all its flaws notwithstanding. Manual unwinding can be done tastefully (see Tcl), but in the single-digit-KLOC weight class it’s not really a choice.
Hypergrep: A Fast Recursive Grep
Also, the culture of civility (and contributing something meaningful) is strictly enforced.

The mods are hard at work making sure HN stays a place worth visiting.
Building the backend is the easy part. Moderating (as in real moderation - horrific content) it is the actual hard part.
Is it hard? Yes.

Is it harder than trying to influence Reddit by these "protests"? No, because the later has 0 chance of success.
In those cases its multiple people consistently disliking your posts. This doesn't necessarily make their downvotes any more valid or intelligent, or the post not worth seeing.
LMI Lambda, which is essentially Explorer's direct ancestor, used NuBus as well, including the possibility of putting a 68k Unix system as a board into the card cage.

The biggest theoretical setup AFAIK was a 2X2 Lambda + Unix card - essentially two LMI Lambda CPUs, the Unix CPU, plus memory cards.

The I/O subsystem ran from yet another CPU that implemented access to multibus cards and served as front end processor for management purposes.

The NuBus interface itself AFAIK predates 32bit VMEbus, being designed in late 1970s as part of NuMachine project.
Not true. It all depends on the circuit that backs the plug in adapter or “proper” wall box. A proper slow wall connector or box as you call it can be slower than a high amperage plug. Just slapping a box around the plug won’t make it faster. And if you are going to do upgrades for installing a box, you can just as easily do the same upgrades to the same power for the same
charging speed at less cost by simply upgrading the circuit and the plug (not that even that is needed usually). Adding the box after this does not make it faster. Just aesthetically more impressive looking.
Express was awesome. Now it's fastify or GTFO.

Seriously, express in 2023 smh.
> […] with relevant standards bodies to codify Tesla’s charging connector as a public standard. Enjoy."

And who is/are the "relevant standards bodies"? SAE? IEC? Other?
The one thing I don’t understand about this perspective is if you’re a person who feels comfortable running Arch, wouldn’t you be comfortable working through a bad package upgrade scenario?
It's "testing", not unstable. "Unstable" is actually unstable, and seems to be where people are actually testing things. I find the names needlessly misleading, although accurate, because "testing" is being tested to be the next "stable." "Unstable" is where people are figuring out things; they go into "testing" when they're pretty much figured out.

I've had an order of magnitude more breakage on regular Ubuntu updates than on Debian testing. That being said, I ditched Ubuntu probably a decade ago and it might go out better now.
Not the poster you're responding to, but I am finding it very hard to use Firefox on my Ubuntu 22.04 laptop consistently ever since it started prompting me to install the snap version.

The snap wouldn't install, I couldn't figure out how to make it work, it seemed to get stuck trying to mount something from some unspecified device. I needed Firefox to keep working, but was forced to stop work to figure out what was broken. Decided to go around it.

Went to some unofficial mozilla PPA with "apt" incantations to force the apt version to take precedence. This version also mysteriously stops upgrading when the snap version becomes newer, or something. I am forced to reinstall it periodically. Possibly a Firefox packaging bug, or maybe I'm not clever enough to understand the interdependencies between apt and snap.

The whole experience left a bad taste in my mouth. I don't want to debug this snap thing that I never asked for. I feel like I am dealing with some corporation, not open source software. As soon as I get some down time, I'll say bye-bye to Ubuntu.
This reads like they're maybe just not ready to be an entrepreneur, unrelated to open source or not.

Single, small, niche product with no investors to pay back and no employees pulling in $78k/year after only a few years is a pretty good result and the reaction should be to try to grow it (second contract, more sponsors, second product, etc) not write it off as a failure.
I plan to avoid the platform as I can, but I worry the admin response will be to revoke the communities from their current moderators and install more cooperative scabs, which will have a profound effect on these communities. I'm not sure what the future holds, but reddit can't walk it back now, so I think it will end badly.
There are a lot of interventions to avoid plastic and chemical exposure that greatly decrease your exposure with little effort (avoiding drinking from plastic water bottles) though there are others which seem productive but have marginal impact. Is there a website anywhere that gives a list of easy changes you can make in your life to avoid plastic exposure and with alternatives? I feel that the impact of environmental pollution in the world and tactics to avoid it is a big mirage of anxiety half-baked solutions.
There's a delicate balance between adhering to empirical data and paranoia of something.

On the one hand, you can point at mountains of data that show for the most part, to our knowledge, many plastics are safe when used appropriately. Specific cases have shown otherwise (e.g. BPA use and hazards in certain plastic manufacturering is a well studied example). Then there's all the cases where we have little evidence it's harmful. Our ignorance of harm doesn't mean there isn't harm though.

Transition to paranoia. Everything we don't empirically know is a non-hazard and non-dangerous and should be avoided or leveraged very cautiously. We use materials that have been around for ages like wood and ceramics because we know most the hazards at this point and rely on the maturity to mitigate risk of the unknowns.

Somewhere in between we can try to reason about things, but frankly we don't know either way, so either extreme argument (avoid at all costs, use it because it's safe as far as we know) is rational.

The Roman's has no reason to think lead was hazardous until it was a bit too late. Marie Curie had no idea she was slowly killing herself. In some places where time isn't critical, we should probably lean towards the paranoia and tread cautiously. In times where time is important and progress should be made we should tread more toward risk taking and accept the unknowns while trying to manage risk as we go. No matter what risk exists. Lead propelled the Roman's in some aspects, then in some perspectives may have been one of their ultimate downfalls.
Dude, don’t kill my velocity. My `create-next-app` command just finished and I’m going to wrap up this side project by Sunday evening. I’ll be starting with the Frontend first. /s
Pop is generally great. Surprised it is not being discussed here more. It is Ubuntu + Flatpak + Nice UX improvement improvements
If I recall correctly, the first version of reddit had an extra "username" field when admins submitted a post, to make it look as though the site had users.
It’s probably moving to a button on the steering wheel. Or they’ll add more sensors for auto mode in cars without stalks, or both.
It might be useful to "all be in the room" when brainstorming. Once the coding starts, this is just a set of distractions I don't need. I suspect many/most of the developers reading HN want peace and quiet far more than the chance of magical hallway conversations.

And it's only an anecdote, but we debugged a problem today where people were in two provinces of Canada and the UK. Were perfectly able to share screens, run test calculations and "interact" using existing technology. Companies either trust their staff or they don't and the staff should act accordingly.
This is less interesting IMO when going over the SEC filings of the company. These loans were coming due in Nov 2023, at what would be higher interest rates, and average bookings and occupancy for their portfolio are only 79% of what they were in 2019. It makes for a good story about how shitty San Francisco has become but likely would have any other hotel in this REIT. They operate on rolling over mortgages continually and after more than a decade of low interest rates this roll over greatly effects free cash flow - after hotels got crushed during covid for 2 years and still haven't fully recovered. Also, it appears the hotel is still operating, so how they are just walking away I don't know. Don't worry about the company, while they can't roll over their mortgages they have enough cash flow at the moment for their dividend and buying back $100 million of shares in the last year but do still have billions in debt to roll over in the next few years so if interest rates remain high expect more.
You must’ve been subscribed to some news/current events related subreddits. My subscriptions are all hobbies and specific games that I’m interested in. Reddit is my escape from all the stuff you mentioned. I use Apollo to browse and comment on my phone. I’m really upset about the API changes. I really want to see people come together with a solution to migrate away from Reddit.

Aren’t there any angels out there who would be interested in funding Christian (and/or the developers of other 3rd party Reddit apps) to develop a new back end using the same APIs? Then it would be pretty smooth to move over.
Why don't niche subreddits just start web forums up again? It's simple enough to pay the hosting bills with some sideroll ads (that clever admins could even sell at a premium, thanks to their highly niche audience). Of course, today's Reddit mods would have to reskill a bit to run a forum, pick up some admin tasks, etc. But if they're already donating tons of free time to moderate that might not be a huge deal.

I use maybe 2-5 subreddits at this point because Reddit has rotted out so much. At least half of those are shutting down permanently as a result of the API changes, and the other half are participating in the blackout. I don't need a shared account across all of those services. In fact, I tend to visit subreddits individually anyway so I don't have to guess about the context of every post.

None of my favorite subreddits rely heavily on photo posts, which keeps hosting costs low. In fact, I notice a strong association between quality and text-only subs, likely because it keeps the lowest quality memes away.

It might not work for every subreddit -- I don't anticipate the denizens of /r/funny would embrace a web forum -- but for hobby, book, and series-related communities, web forums have been around a whole lot longer than Reddit. Reddit only took over because it was marginally cheaper and easier to host; if mods lose their useful mod tools and power users lose bearable and efficient methods of browsing, forums start to look mighty attractive again.
>r/The_Donald was a massive, advertisable bloc of users.

Bit soon to whitewash history.
In the regular, non-demo lessons the speech can be toggled on/off and the speed can be adjusted.
it's a fair criticism when you limit it to the users being affected, when you start talking about the owners(the current shareholders!) willingly eschewing fiduciary duty and damaging shareholders as if the owners were trying to hurt themselves it loses all meaning.
This is a really strange take on how product development works.

If Apple came out with something that users did not want, and other manufacturers were still shipping what users wanted, why would anyone have ever bought Apple products?

And even in the Windows PC market, if users really want modular batteries, wouldn't you have been the last manufacturer to move away from them? If you're Acer, and Dell / HP / Lenovo are shipping products users don't want, wouldn't you clean up by continuing to ship what users want?

I think you should be more upset that users want the wrong thing (from your perspective). Product design, especially in competitive markets, is all about differentiating by better meeting user needs. This tinfoil idea that users are sheep who are tricked into buying what they don't want is not realistic.
> here in Canada it can last a month.

This seems to depend on the container as well as the brand / market segment.

"low end" Nielson / Sealtest / Beatrice in bags seems to last < 2 weeks, whereas stuff like Natrel / Lactantia / Nielson Truetaste in cartons seems to last around a month.
I'd be curious to know why taurine in blood declines with age? Though supplementation is fine, if the diet stays the same, what is happening in the body that makes it unable use the taurine which is naturally in food.

Also, apparently only animal products contain taurine, and vegans have lower levels of taurine.

https://veganhealth.org/protein/taurine-and-carnitine/
Actually US and China is disengaging, and we can already see what would happen if trade were to stop tomorrow, by what's happening now.

China June 2023: Massive reverse migration by laborers back to countryside, Shanghai population down 135k compared to 2021 https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3215126/s.... Physical retail closures up to 80%. Entirely empty malls in Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen. Real estate prices dropping 30-50% in tier 1 cities. Shanghai, Shenzhen and Beijing having 50k+ used homes for sale in span of 2 months. Shipping containers pile up 7 stories in every port https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3210870/c....

US June 2023: not much.
The VisionFive2 has been available for a while. (first mass produced SBC)
I love comments like these, it keeps reminding me how misinformed the dogmatic folks are in the nutrition community. I'll let you reconsider your question, and also link to you (one of) the double blind, randomized, controlled studies that shows replacing saturated fat with vegetable oil significantly reduced CVD outcomes https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/01.CIR.40.1S2.II-1 .
It seems these laws are passed in the knowledge that they'd be ruled unconstitutional, but that fighting them would be too expensive for most companies (dollars + secure storage of ID information + being attacked for being anti-child safety).

Then you can just selectively enforce the law - and companies know it - to then unconstitutionally suppress speech.

That said the title of the article is annoying - when I first saw it my immediate thought was "surely the parents paying for an internet connection their child[ren] use is parental consent?"
There was already a paper on Transformer models and their inability to redefine variables. They had real problems with swapping variables and would forget that it had happened.
No discussion of Reddit history is complete without mention of violentacrez and co.

https://www.dailydot.com/society/reddit-r-jailbait-teen-pics...
Companies have lobbyists. During covid, the only voices that got heard were those of companies who pushed hard to make sure they benefited. People don't have strong and coordinated advocacy groups. So all we ever talked about was making sure companies still profited, who gives a shit if people are locked inside, the economy is what's important.

Unfortunately, people are too ignorant to organize for their own good. We can't even agree on what that means, and in fact the majority would rather fight against their own interests in exchange for silly platitudes.
Is there no way to browse without signing in?
Yeah, the whole thing really doesn't make a lot of sense at face value which is why the logical conclusion is "Reddit lied to try to justify their API decision by making him look bad."
Seems like a tokenization problem? It could understand it if it is in it's output.
https://imgur.com/a/ngdotkQ
The subreddit system makes this incrementally more doable for aggrieved subreddits: they have a better shot of uprooting enough of just their little community and convincing them to move. There's a decent number of users in those smaller subs that don't really have a wide membership in others so moving is more reasonable for them.

But this: a) is only a little easier, it's still really hard to move even a tight-knit and smaller community like that, and b) really doesn't apply at all for third-party client developers, whose users surely use and belong to a wide spread of the subreddits, so the task for them is more like "replicate Reddit overnight."
Mysterious species buried their dead and carved symbols 100k years before humans
Surprisingly uptight for a guy with a z at the end of the username.
Yup. Oppressing workers might be fun and it doesn't cost in severance as long as you don't set up a lawsuit. Might not even cost unemployment based on state/province rules.
Oh, I was hoping that Mozilla was dumping Sync.
> ... do you understand how out of touch this is? Every single recent "public standard" will absolutely require paying license fees to some company, or often a whole pool of companies.

If the fee is to one company, it is usually an industry non-profit (HDMI, Bluetooth) that doesn't itself have a stake in the outcome. If it's a pool of companies they also have to hash things out amongst themselves and no one company will have control over another.

Neither of these situations apply to Tesla and 'NACS'.

If Tesla wants to give up control of 'NACS' to SAE or IEC, then we can talk.
> I willingly use Stable, although if you want something that includes more recent versions, you want Unstable.

You want Testing. I don't think people really use Unstable unless they work on Debian itself.
Between this, the Twitter changes and the Reddit API changes, I think we can officially declare the APIpocalypse has begun.
Here (Ontario Canada) 5% is sold as light cream.
Reddit isn't fun anymore.

It's recycled stuff, heavily curated, things stay up a lot longer than they should, you can't even use vote counts to gauge popularity of something, everything even remotely contentious gets manipulated to hell, substantiative discussion gets drowned out by low grade witticisms that aren't even witty, or dumb answers all to get a vote or two, that's if you ever even get a good answer to anything. And that's not even including the corporate problems such as this API thing and deliberate destruction of UX. The site sucks, the only reason anyone uses it is because you need critical mass to move communities. It will happen, and it can't come soon enough.
Given how easy it is to have bot farms promote tweets I don't think this is a valid metric to use