skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A "usenet 2.0" that only does (short) text and links/embeddings for media (to youtube etc) would already be a very useful thing, notwithstanding the risk of take-down of controversial media (freeloading on Big Tech infra for the 99.9% that isn't).
This is made perfectly obvious by "running on 100% renewables".

You can see more details on https://sustainability.aboutamazon.com/environment/renewable...

It's when there are mentions of "net zero" that carbon credits are purchased (which Amazon does too, but not for what we're talking about).
I have a somewhat different concern, exposed by the map and how far some places are from being well served. The map itself is great.

Will the NYC subway system ever evolve further? My mind is on Tokyo a lot lately, because of some recent visits, and also probably related I get served up a bunch of Youtube videos about how the Tokyo metro has evolved over time.

The subway system in Tokyo improved over decades by forcing interoperation of rail systems, improving control systems, building new track, unified fare systems, etc. etc.

So today you have a system where (for example), every 5 minutes, you can take a commuter train from an outer suburb that enters the city center, becomes a subway train, lines up with automated platform gates, hits every stop within seconds of expected, emerges from the subway system and continues to the airport as an airport express train.

They did this not out of some desire for some luxury level train system, but because it was necessary to support the number of people who had to rely on it as a system. Of course, they had the benefit of being a system that could change post-war, and bulldoze land that was not yet staked out and developed.

But still, is NYC's subway forever frozen in the current state of shittiness? What needs to happen / how will it happen that it ever improves from here? How is the demand for the NYC subway not turning into improvements? We're just out of money and political will I guess?
One take from that historical episode that might be applicable to those on HN: the real value came from building the organizational muscle around metaproblems. How do we adopt the organization to a changing environment? How do we introduce feedback loops? How do we get good data and test assumptions? How do we continuously improve? Building that mindset and capability was potentially as important as any specific lesson on logistics or whatever.
"To be fair" (not that he needs it) the question (he answered, out of 10 in the comment) was poor

> How do you address the concerns of users who feel that Reddit has become increasingly profit-driven and less focused on community engagement?

Reddit is a company. It's profit driven. I don't think that's surprising or shameful.
The whole AMA felt like a really ill-advised idea when it was announced given spez's track record of interacting with the community.

Somehow, it managed to be worse than I was expecting. I figured there'd be non-answers; I wasn't expecting some of the incredibly tone-deaf ones.
It's an accelerated way, kind of grapnel hooking over the castle walls and ninja-ing your way down to the castle treasury. However, it's still difficult to make such attempts stick long-term, and the impact is unpredictable on an individual level. If not for that, advertising would've zombified us all long ago.
Reddit's valuation has been tanking even before this drama.

https://www.businessinsider.com/fidelity-marks-down-stripe-r...

They're so eager to screw over their users, they couldn't even wait until after the IPO payday to torpedo their own business
Both of us have been satisfied
They also try to monetize the whole thing with Reddit Gold or whatever where you can pay like five bucks to put a badge on someone else's post or comment.

Although I wouldn't know a whole lot about it because after a decade-plus on Reddit I've still never bought any.
They can give out stock? Being taken for a ride is being taken for a ride.
Not me, but someone was: https://old.reddit.com/r/Save3rdPartyApps/comments/145bxmi/c...
Aaron Swartz must be spinning in his grave.
Neither are even remotely close to competing with AWS, GCP or Azure in terms of features though, they are more server providers than anything else.

And OVH is a dumpster fire.
ChatGPT isn’t just an LLM. It’s literally not. There’s a web server, interfaces, plugins, etc.

LLMs are this super powerful thing (like a motor) and people are getting to play around with it before it’s fully harnessed. There’s this strange phenomenon where because it’s not totally harnessed, people just rip on it. I don’t know if they think it makes them sound smart, but it sure doesn’t to me. It’s like seeing a motor on an engine stand and being like “But the crankshaft rotates. I want to go in a straight line! This isn’t a transportation solution and anyone who thinks so is just naive. And horsepower? Stop zoomorphizing it!”

Sure, there are lots of problems. But don’t mix up the limitations of this component of the system, the current limitations of the system overall, and the possible capabilities of the system. Someone builds a car that stalls when it drives through a river and people point out that an ICE engine needs air and how could you even think about driving through a river? Then someone else is off making a snorkel.
At this point, I think he should back up his claim that Selig has acted disingenuously by saying one thing in public and another in private. I'm not sure it's legally defamatory, but it's definitely a bad look for a nominal leader. The only example I'm aware of him providing (the 'threat') was pretty soundly debunked by the audio recording. Ignoring the merits of their individual cases, Selig has been transparent, and so is capturing the public sympathy, while Huffman looks like a sweaty Joseph McCarthy, claiming to have a briefcase full of evidence he won't show anybody.
> Glass breaks faster than plastic containers (usually)

The plastic lids always break way more quickly than the glass containers IME. Can't remember the last time I broke a glass one, actually. Plus, they actually stay in good condition. An abused plastic container will cloud, warp, gouge, and release god knows what into your food the whole time.
My country publishes everyones data which then is offered by a number of services: https://mrkoll.se as an example.

I wrote a blog article about it:
https://commit.pizza/2022/10/16/the-only-way-of-being-anonym...
and the heat death of the universe will eventually extinguish all life
kopia.io to onedrive family plan. Nothing beats the price and lack of restrictions, plus it's encrypted, compressed and deduped before being sent off.
> Reddit has always struck me as a company with no creativity

I thought reddit was really clever for the first ~7 years of operations. They replaced forums, fostered communities, gained a reputation as a place to get real people's takes, and attracted people willing to have interesting conversations. The upvote/downvote system that is now so common was made popular from reddit. They brought awareness to important political topics surrounding net neutrality. They were leaders in early Web2.0, where each user saw content that appealed to them, because everyone could choose which subreddits were in their homepage. It was highly social and highly engaging.

After a certain point in 201X the dark patterns began to appear. I was almost fully disengaged by the start of 2013. I can't remember the details, but I remember being increasing disappointed with reddit every time I returned for a brief visit.
Honestly we don't need downvoting at all. Just upvoting to allow good stuff to rise, and flagging for hate speech and illegal stuff.
The Roberts explanation is subsumed by the Diamond explanation.

More fragmentation meant more competition. This helped ensure that states which, like China, might have sub-optimal belief systems (like "it's not worth trying to explain things") were outcompeted and conquered by states that did. Similarly, states with markets that were more free outcompeted those that were less free, and so the innovation spread. The Dutch invented the modern stock market and the public company, and ruled the world for 100 years with that, but soon enough that spread to the UK, and then rest of the western world, and gave them all a huge competitive advantage compared to countries that didn't have that.

And all that comes from the fragmentation. No need to postulate cultural differences - the cultural advantages come out of the fragmentation.
Does this confirm they don’t keep data on prior versions of comments that have been edited?
ChatGPT can do it. Really.
I was recently introduced to Kill Team, which is a complete game with two "teams", terrain, rules and so on. A team is 6-14 models, sold in one box, so if your friend has the main game the cost to join is just those models; £40 or so.

That's comparable to a high quality board game, computer game, Lego set etc.
Copying only cookies, nothing else when launching webapps.

I love web & apps there. But this we app idea stinks like shit to me. I want a url bar, I want tabs, I I want my browser. I want extensions. Apps are worse in every way than the web.
I wonder if we could implement renderers of the X Window System core protocol or Wayland protocol in the browser. Is there any particular reason not to?
That may be true, but is there ANY indication that China is planning to attack the US mainland? Ever?

They don't have the nuclear arsenal or the submarine capacity for a plausible first strike, and attacking the US mainland seems like a really short shortcut to being utterly destroyed.

I don't see this as a particularly realistic threat, but honestly I also understand why keeping any adversary out of Cuba is desirable... there's just no need to conjure the specter of WWIII in the process.
Where your rack is is basically not relevant. For most startups, AWS is great, even if it's more cost of colo, it's the opportunity cost and dynamism it offers. Use AWS until the savings of not doing so will not affect your ability to grow, or costs are not dreadful. Moving away from AWS is a cost optimization, it depends on the kind of business you have.

But more broadly, the value is IP, essentially know-how and lock-in with customers, relationships etc..
Who’s requiring them? Nobody in the US if that’s where they’re operating. The issue is that that content is so off-putting to the average person that it kills the platform. Nobody is hanging around a site full of hate speech unless that’s specifically what they’re looking for.
You are getting smarter.
Something similar also happened to me with my previous employer. After I quit, the founders tried to make it look like I was blackmailing them. Shortly after, they were forced to change their story (at least the one told to my ex-colleagues) because my colleagues knew why I had wanted to quit since months and they knew it didn't make any sense... Cringe. Anyway in my case, they told one story to employees and a different story to investors. Unfortunately, it's very easy for certain founders to tell 3 different stories to 3 different sets of people these days and the lies exist in parallel and never reconcile for years due to divergent incentives and class divides (and media filter bubbles).
We kind of do - that's what poetry is, for example. One could do even better - but it quickly becomes obvious just how much shared context you need.
A committee of MPs has determined that while he was PM Johnson knowingly misinformed parliament, and they have recommended a suspension which, if implemented, would almost certainly result in a by-election and the likely loss of Johnson's seat.

However, the committee's recommendation has no force until it is voted through in the House of Commons, where Johnson's party has a working majority of over 60, though the current PM, sometime Johnson antagonist Rishi Sunak, has indicated this would be a free vote.

Therefore this seems like the result of a calculation on Johnson's part that he does not have the parliamentary support required to avoid a damaging by-election and has chosen instead to ostentatiously flounce in an effort to control the narrative.

As for Johnson's Trumpian "kangaroo court" claims and so on, IMO it has long been obvious to any serious observer that evidence already in the public domain left little alternative for the committee other than to conclude he knowingly lied, and recommend the appropriate penalty.
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What's the point of doing an AMA if you're not going to answer the most upvoted questions.
It’s a lot of renewables:

> The top 25 corporate solar users in 2022 include:

> Meta

> Amazon

> Apple

> Walmart

> Microsoft

https://www.seia.org/news/solarmeansbusiness2022

Just as one data point
> The poster (CEO of Reddit) has replied to a few comments so far

Fourteen. He replied to fourteen comments. In the space of four hours.

It's not often that you see a platform implode in real time.
I read Diamond a long time ago but what he was contrasting was that the Chinese Empire was centralised and so when they decided not to expand, that applied to the whole empire, while the Europeans were fragmented so even if Germany and France and England didn't want to send any ships, Portugal and Spain could be convinced to take a risk.
Basal capitalistic view. What's the most beautiful city you've ever visited and why?
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I mean yeah that's basically what high compression solutions like paq have done, depending on the compression level desired apply increasingly speculative and computationally intensive models to the block and pick whichever one worked the best.
> It was expensive, but not 10x more expensive.

In 2007 carriers were giving away phones for free to those signing up for a plan, and the initial $500 price tag was mocked and lambasted as being way too expensive. There were all kinds of phones that it was far more than 10x pricier than.

> VR headsets are a gimmick, a novelty, they bought one, tried it, put it on a shelf.

Most shelf ridden cast off Quest 2s are there because they were found to be grainy and nausea inducing. A leap in latency and resolution could very well prompt revaluation in the space.
Meanwhile the AMA has multiple 3rd party app developers claiming they've reached out via official channels for months and have been ignored.

https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/145bram/addressing_...
I mean they've definitely shown indications of planning attacks on US territory, so this could be an extension of that. I don't see how attacking US territory is any different than mainland, both are WWIII starters.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-usa-security/china-...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/24/us/politics/china-guam-ma...
Yeah, I think the bounds of physics and engineering will be a serious challenge.
My alternative is taking a break from Reddit for awhile in support of the protest and to remember what life was like before it took all my attention.
He wasn't actually a co-founder though, his startup got merged into Reddit and he was given the "co-founder" title, but my understanding is that Reddit was created/co-founded by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian.
I never bought into the claims that Jared Diamond is some sort of racist; he book is plainly anti-racist and anybody who says otherwise probably never read it. Honestly.

That said, some of Jared Diamond's arguments are really lame.. just poorly thought out. For instance, is claim that the use of wheels for transportation is in some way gated by the availability of pack animals. This guy has never used a wheel barrow I guess... of course he has and mentions them much later in his book, but dismissing the point as a "puzzling non-invention". This realization doesn't seem to have him question his earlier assertion that wheels for transportation would only be invented where pack animals are available.

I think it's got nothing to do with pack animals, and the truth is that wheelbarrows, and wheels for transportation generally, are one of those inventions that are obvious only in retrospect. Even after you've invented wheels on toys, it isn't necessarily immediately obvious that wheels could have practical applications as well. A very small handful of people in the history of humanity had this idea and most people never did (and just copied it from other people). It's not because of geography or ecology, just shear dumb luck.
I don't know why you're getting downvoted, the efficacy of carbon offsets is debatable:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/18/greenwas...

https://earth.org/is-carbon-offset-a-form-of-greenwashing/

And there are plenty of dodgy players out there that large organizations use:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/18/revealed...

And there are plenty of government programs that just don't work:

https://e360.yale.edu/features/phantom-forests-tree-planting...

I'm sitting here asking myself how much Amazon cares about that, but also wondering how the "unknown Swedish startup" will approach being green.
I agree that the Vision is half baked right now, but the point is they aren't seeking to compete with the VR headsets or market today. Unlike other VR headsets, Apple seeks to augment, eg your home office by replacing your TV, laptop, etc. I haven't used the headset yet as it will be released next year, but first impressions uniformly attest that the headset is concretely able to perform those functions. If the execution is there over the next years, I would expect this to greatly improve every experience that is screen-related, such as having a 3D IMAX screen in your house instead of a TV
I think he was downvoted so hard that his answers are marked hidden, you ll have to check his profile to see his replies
Oh my god, cognito hazard warning on those two links.

Was there some brief moment in time where there was any quality content on voat? why else would anyone volunteer to say they tried that platform and found it compelling :|

That is insane, it is like a screenshot of the old notorious white supremacist boards from the 00s. Yeah no wonder that reddit alternative didn't have a meteoric rise to popularity.

TBH, it seems like Discord is a natural alternative for many reddit communities, many of which already have one. And it tends to be more strictly moderated in my experience.
Just backed up my data, ~60 posts and ~1000 comments. Thank you! Worked flawlessly (except for pythons incredibly convoluted package system for dabblers like me, but that’s not your fault)

Feature request: delete all comments and posts (can only be done 1 by 1 afaik). There used to be a nuke Reddit chrome extension but it appears removed and/or out of date.
You're the one mentioning aliens. The topic are UFOs and those are very much a reality. Governments spying on citizens is far from novelty.

On the other side, it is novelty to force western governments admitting that some flying object is surpassing our own technology capacities. That is a window opportunity into open science, into discovering what is powering them.

It is OK that your interests are more aligned into holding someone accountable, many other people on this globe are more interested in other topics. That's basically it.
Real killer is they already settled similar case in Minnesota.
If anything, this shows the VALUE in recording conversations - especially for weaker party.

Would like to have one-party consent recording all over USA.
I bet I can take anyone's favorite history books and paint them as reductivist.

The charge of reductivism can be made against anyone who attempts to explain big patterns in comprehensible ways.

In fact, isn't it reductionist to claim that a historian's entire view on a topic can be reduced to theories they developed in a single book?
This review suggests that the game is now called "Tribes": https://amzn.com/dp/1556343558, but the author is not Jared Diamond. Is this the game you remember?
So, this spez CEO is worse than a politician.

Obfuscate, redirect, and blame.

We all know that he is caustic, and so should the future shareholders.
> And, it's arguably a rather large amount of hand-wavey bullshit trying to paint certain nation states in a particular light and narrowly define 'war', 'peace', and 'violence'

tl;dr lefty academics disagree?
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> I think that "quality" will be really, really hard to objectively measure in the near future as the whole world of digital information becomes tainted with applied statistical models which can do a reasonably good job of predicting what people perceive to be high-quality reasoning, answers, content.

That's the scariest thing I've heard today. Lol.

Even now, I think the proper use of grammar and spelling alongside assertive language has a lot of people fooled into thinking LLMs are actually intelligent. It's hard to explain to people how the LLMs know everything and understand nothing.

I've been bullish on the idea of using domains as identity for a long time. I think by using them as a universal ID you could build reputation and trust across the internet and that helps everyone a lot when trying to assess the reliability of information. If you add in attestations for factual info it gets even more interesting. Ex: GitHub attests user @john.example.com has 1000 commits to the XYZ project. Suddenly you have a more reliable way of ranking John's comments about XYZ as a topic, regardless of where they show up (as long as those identities are validated somehow).

If you look at that as "ranking people" and judge it in the context of being a valuable piece of input for LLMs/AIs, the big push for "better" identity systems like "Passwordless" start to look like a hell of a coincidence. My cynical side wonders if we'll see a push for validated (via government ID) identity systems. Something as simple as a "real human from Canada" tag would provide immense value for AI training (and marketing).

No matter what, I think AI is going to cause changes in the way online identity and reputation work. I think if it evolves into some kind of system with domains as identity it'll be decentralized and provide long term benefit. I think if we see something with verified IDs controlled by the current big tech companies it could devolve into something disappointing or even detrimental for the average user.
I checked some comp.* groups recently and it's all spam
I'm currently building something for a client that does this.

1. Searches for relevant documents.

2. Generate a response based on the found documents, using temperature=0 and a prompt that instructs the response to include a citation reference in a specific format.

3. Display the result, linking directly to the sources of the citations, and a warning on any that don't actually exist (which hasn't happened yet).
> Over the next two years, it plans to raise €3bn — that averages out as €125m a month for everyone keeping score at home

The EU pledged €2bn so it's mostly government funding. Imagine burning €125m in public money every month.
His responses are getting downvoted - you should be able to see them if you go to /u/spez
I have a different view on that.
> The iPhone came out in 2007, and that year over a billion cell phones were sold.

Most of which were dumbphones — in 2007, 122 million smartphones were sold worldwide, which represented only about 10.6% of cell phones. In other words, the iPhone entered a product segment in its infancy, then helped define and grow it just as Apple Vision will.

> What exactly is the Apple Vision replacing in an obviously better way?

This sounds like Dvorak in 2007, who clearly looked at the iPhone as a "faster horse". Like the iPhone in 2007, Apple Vision will never have greater unrealized potential than it has today. This first Apple Vision Pro will sell fewer units than any subsequent generations, and that's fine — it's a line in the sand, a call to arms, and a place for innovators to play.