skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No idea if it is common, but for two or three communities the community threads became rather more interesting than the rest of the sub, so there I actually know some of the mods.
The Expressiveness of LARA: A Unified Language for Linear and Relational Algebra
The article mentions "Steven Hornyak" sells bundles of ChatGPT prompts on Etsy.

Does anyone have a link to his Etsy store?

(I spent 2 mins searching but didn't find it.)
I'd say this is a company red flag if they are still having these people around. About four years ago I was at a company that still had someone like that. Useless and highfalutin, he obstructed many projects thanks to an archaic director who thought he was still necessary.

I got out after butting heads with him constantly, and I don't think said company ever shipped anything meaningful in his entire tenure here.
Brandon Jackson, a Microsoft site reliability engineer, says an errant report of racist abuse led to the suspension of his Amazon account... Most of his smart home gear, he said, is self-hosted locally, via Apple HomeKit.

All we're missing is some Facebook/Google stuff and we've hit a FAANG bingo :)
I feel like those "libertarian minded..." types are ultimately just another brand of utopian fantasist. It sure would be lovely if we could have nice things, but we already know why we can't: human nature.

Maybe that'll change some day, but not today.
The existence of a company-sanctioned jailbreak process doesn't prevent your own non-jailbroken phone from "just working".
If you're still talking about North Korea, well the current Supreme Leader was born into it. I suppose he likes the lifestyle, and the ability to order people around and generally do what he pleases. It's better than being an underlying, or a starving person. Plus it's all he knows.

He's demonstrated his willingness to execute people (including his half-brother) to maintain his grip on power. So this isn't a guy who is worried about ethics and morals. He understands the politics of power, and is clearly capable of doing what it takes to hold on to power. These are men not to be trifled with. It's probably kill or be killed at this point. He's smart enough to have recognized that early on, which is why he's still around and his brother isn't.

Sometimes power and prestige, getting your way, winning and being right all the time are the ends in and of themselves. Having worked with many C-level people, I can say that their one common motivation seems to be "winning at any cost". If people are helped along the way, great. If people are hurt, well... tough decisions had to be made.

It definitely takes charisma, and the ability to convince people that you have their best interests in mind. Steve Jobs' reality distortion field comes to mind. The essence of a politician is they always seem to agree with you and be on your side, but you never know what they're really thinking, and don't be surprised if they blindside you at some point.

Evolutionary biologists suggest that there's a reason our species tolerates sociopaths (it's seemingly in our gene pool) -- they have the ability to get things done and build empires, skills that are needed to navigate/survive at the very top of large power structures.
> I mod a couple of large subs but I exclusively use desktop so I'm not affected.

You might be a desktop user (I am too) but Reddit is more than just you and me - it's the communities of people who choose to socialize there. And I have a hunch that Reddit chasing away the kinds of people who tend to use third-party apps is going to have a ripple effect on the quality of the communities contained on the site, not to mention bots that aren't covered under the various exemptions.

> I just don't think mods should be ending the communities

Those communities will only end when Reddit does. The only question is how long it will take to reopen and if there is a new moderation team or not.
I worry about what it means for the future of Signal in terms of their privacy features. I wouldn’t be surprised to see some compromises even despite good intentions. It’s good that effective alternatives exist for such use but it might frustrate people who bet on Signal in some way.
Nuclear has the large advantage of being available at those cold quiet winter nights when the temperature drops below what is considered pleasant and you'd like to warm your home. Solar does not work come wintertime here in the north, wind sometimes works but often does not. If your country has the geography to allow for hydroelectric plants those are a good option which can even be used to store excess power from solar and wind, otherwise nuclear is one of the few dependable sources which do not rely on fossil fuels. Geothermal is another but that is even more geographically limited than hydroelectric.
Most people are using computing devices to do the specific things the device is designed for, quite often in a low-trust high-security work environment (even when this isn't explicitly how people think of it, it's usually the case - i.e. bad things happen when unauthorized access takes place). For the vast majority of people creating barriers or guard-rails around what their device can do is actually a win. People and organisations often put a lot of effort and expense into creating even further guardrails and restrictions a lot of the time.

There are hobbyists and professionals who take apart, repair and/or modify cars but it's also generally a very good thing that you can't just make (or easily authorise someone else or their product to make) significant modifications to how your car works. The walled gardens are really just computing growing up.
As soon as users discover prompt injection those investments go up in flames.
Right. If the users of the sub want to continue the boycott, they certainly can. If the removed mods are beloved by the community, it's easy for them to open a new subreddit.

But I think most people realize that most of the users, who actually create the content, don't want the boycott to continue, and don't have any particular love for the current mods.
The queue technologies I know are: Azure Storage queues, Service Bus, Event Hub, Event Grid. It would be nice to know which one they are talking about.
Can I ask which translation of Journey to the West you read? I've been planning to read it, but there are a lot of options.
Squarespace Enters Definitive Agreement to Acquire Google Domains Assets
it's a status marker. Only people who can afford the iphone get a blue bubble.
What kind of language did they have?
The signs could be just signpost for a location "look for the rocks with the straight incisions"...but they would need some way to comunicate that to each others.
Nice! So, not only no loss involved, but there's a bonus added? Guess Porkbun's gettin' another happy customer soon. Saw that they also offer a few other services I'd likely use as well, so win/win for them (and me) I suppose.
Or you could consider the possibility that all available options on the market have downsides worthy of critique, and you're not helping anything (except maybe corporate interests) by painting people in a bad light for choosing one of them and still voicing that criticism. It's the same logic that says "why don't you leave the country and move somewhere else" if someone criticizes a government, or goes "curious, but you still buy food" when people criticize food companies.
A community is an organic thing it's not just the people who like to hang out at a place. A substantial chunk wouldn't participate in a community run by someone like yourself manifestly at odds with the community.

You would end up spending the majority of your moderation shutting down dissent not merely against reddit but against yourself. You would end up presiding over a shell with the original name where even the people who stay don't like or respect you.

Have we forgotten freenode?
Hash-pinning with requirements.txt will get you the closest to this, but it's not possible in the general case to have a cross-environment reproducible build with Python. The closest you can hope for is a build that reproduces in the same environment.

This problem is shared by the majority of language packaging ecosystems; the only one I'm aware of that might avoid it is Java.
Its not like the way ads are presented changes a lot. But I acknowledge the point.

I think I wouldn't mind so much if their official app was anywhere near as good as Apollo.
It's not like CPython is depriving anyone of GIL-free Python. IronPython and Jython are GIL-free. You can have it yesterday.

CPython maintains Python's original purpose as a glue language. You know how much worse CPython would be for that use-case without the GIL.

GVR has said he'll support removing the GIL as long as there's no performance hit. Otherwise, it's simply asking for a fundamental change of direction and too much sacrifice from everyone who needs CPython specifically, just to improve the productivity of people who could use a different Python.
The endgame is an IPO and payout, then who fucking cares about reddit.
I had a bunch of queue messages go missing in the past 36 hours without any explanation from my application traces. The thing has been working fine for months. I wonder if Azure Storage Queues had a boo boo.
> Yeah, I guess I would in retrospect refine my opinion to “software architecture is iterable and not completely separable from implementation” or that “architecture (as imagined by distinct architects who are shielded from implementation concerns) is not important”.

This, I'd agree with. You have to be at the coalface to know what the hell is going on. At the same time, you have to be cognizant of business needs and why things are the way they are, which is to me a fair approximation of "the job of a principal engineer."

(My other hat here is "head of API governance" and that's largely a business-flavored analysis of APIs being brought onto our company-spanning platform. I couldn't escape having both in my head if I tried.)

> It sounds like you’re doing the better thing of running up and down the layers of abstraction so your contributions empower people rather than disempower them

Ideally, yes. In reality, I work for The Phone Company, and The Phone Company hires a lot, and I mean a lot, of vendor devs. I am doing their thinking for them a lot of the time; the swerve is that I can and do write code (have released moderately popular open-source libraries on their framework of choice, for example) and so the usual development practices of "sure let's make a dozen packages for marginal functionality" don't fly.

I am disempowering them, because ultimately, we will eventually be cycling out our vendors and I will be the one who has to own their output. So that output has to be something I can live with. But this place is Processes Georg and should absolutely not be counted.

(I like the job. I will enjoy when I eventually go back to a shop where the developers have a reason to feel ownership over the work.)
Here's an even better version: all servers exchange everything, it's all text, properly managed the synchronization is efficient. Clients list topics and get full threaas with the assurance they have everything. Mods decide whether your story/comment respects the rules before allowing the post.

Boom, you have just reinvented usenet.
As a software engineer, I wonder how accurate they stuck to their said schedule at the last page.
> I agree, the fed connections aren't a great sign... it reminds me of when Condy Rice joined the Dropbox board.

Let's be fair: there's a big difference between "this person has worked in or near the federal government" and "this person has literally committed war crimes".

If there are specific concerns about the people on Signal's board, I'd be interested in hearing it, but having Fed connections doesn't inherently mean a whole lot.
>Microsoft and Google and ChatGPT are making billions from programs that were built using data gleamed from reddit's API's
Source?
Recreating Apple’s “Magical” VR UI on a Quest Pro [video]
It sounds like you'd be better off with a Bootstrap-based visual site builder. I can recommend Bootstrap Studio. The visual nature of it helped me work with flexbox much better than online tutorials did. It exports nicely structured HTML that can be edited and modified outside of BSS easily.

It's a paid tool, but there's no vendor lock-in. Buy once and it's yours forever.
I take your point, but to a large extent the value of the subreddit is in the name since it makes it easy for people to organically find the right space for the content they want. Domain names are the same. For example, for content local to New York City, going to /r/nyc was my first guess.

/r/UncleBens can claim to have developed their own thing, but not the obvious ones like /r/Apple, etc.
Most of these closed subreddits polled their userbase and only participated in the blackout if users heavily favored doing so.

If by "majority of users" you mean users that do not contribute any content and only view the site, sure, you may be right. But a content aggregator that is devoid of content doesn't exactly make a great website.
> Reddit's response is the only reasonable one they could have made.

You're saying Reddit was backed into a corner and had no other option but to knowingly defame the author of Apollo with false public accusations? And that this was a reasonable action?
Yes, because any decision regarding community management tools need to also apply to business models, these two things being so similar and probably have the same impact for the long term viability of the company.

Next time any company does a poll on Facebook for the name of their next product, we should impose that they also decide the amount of employees they should hire / fire through the same channel.
I know, I lurk in many subreddits where I rarely post anything, but I enjoy reading them.

But still, a flash poll that lasted less than a day and that most people didn't even have the chance to participate in is not very representative...
Maybe the creator thinks it's a bad idea to base their livelihood on LoL for the next four years and would rather have capital to do something else with their time.
Moderators keep the site going, and they work for free. It's a cheap way of handling a task thing.
And other architects make buildings/software that gets done on time because unlike babies adding people can make things go faster (it is always sub linear, but good architecture can get close to linear, while bad can go negative slope)
I'm pretty sure that's not how it works. The lender will come in and try to sell the collateral to satisfy the debt, and any surplus left over after paying off the debt (plus costs of enforcement) will be to be returned to the borrower.

At least, that's how secured lending generally works. I don't know anything about this particular case.
The caveat to that is that the more time I spent typing about my hobbies, the more I collaborated with differing ideas within my discipline, and the more I ultimately learned about the hobby. Doing the hobby is one thing, but the social aspect is certainly more valuable than you seem to be giving it credit.
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...

Telegram on the other hand keeps growing
XEmacs 21.5.35 “kohlrabi” is released
$725M, not $275M
No it hasn't. Play store is still utterly dominant, and very very very few apps are only available through other channels (I couldn't name any, but there probably are some open-source ones on F-Droid that didn't want to bother with the Google processes, and maybe some vendor has some exclusive apps on their store?). Side-loading is very much a niche thing.
Would this not change the relationship of moderators to unpaid workforce? Would this not conflict directly with either US or EU labor laws?
https://www.techdirt.com/2020/06/23/hello-youve-been-referre...

That comment is misinformation. Moderating your website, whether through volunteers or paid moderators, does not change your liability under Section 230.

Pro tip: if you ever see a comment about Section 230 using the terms "publisher"/"platform", there's a 99.9% chance it is wrong and repeating one of several common misconceptions.
Agreed.

My business depends on my phone. If I can’t call clients or pull google maps up, I’m screwed. I have both an iPhone and an Android. I’ve never had an iPhone die for no good reason. Every single android phone I’ve owned prior to my OP 8T has died in under a year. I got hit with the LG bootloop bug on my first android phone and it just went from there.

And that’s just hardware. The other day I realized my 8T had bricked itself. I hadn’t used it in a few days, and an OTA update broke something. Wouldn’t flash back the normal way either, I had to go and dig up specialized software and a copy of the ROM from XDA. I’ve never had an iPhone have a bug that a simple reboot wouldn’t fix.

The same thing extends to computers too. I think macOS is an abomination, but the hardware they put out it leaps and bounds ahead of pretty much every other manufacturer. In comparison, my surface book 2 has been a steaming pile of shit from day 1. I built my desktop, but my laptop is a MBP. I’d get 3-4 hours of battery on the SB2 with brightness all the way down. The MBP will literally last all day unless I’m running Thinkorswim. Whoever thought that its performance was acceptable should be shot. Even on my desktop it will routinely use 5gb+ RAM alone.
I wonder how many of these articles are paid for or somehow influenced by those with commercial real estate holdings.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36346454
It’s besides the point, but Windows has come a long long way to improve Windows client configuration (Intune, Winget, winget config files are in preview). MacOS is still reliant on third party tools like Brew or consumer oriented stuff like the App Store.
Here you go: https://woob.tech/
Bad account isolation seems to be a habit at Azure. I'd guess any customer of theirs is fine with this. Maybe they would not express this sentiment out loud while any lawyers could be listening, but it's implied.
There is enough malware for stock Android. Here’s an example, a couple of months old:

Android malware infiltrates 60 Google Play apps with 100M installs: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/android-malwa...
The funny thing is that Usenet is already a highly censorship-resistant platform, and tools like NoCeM would let you subscribe to third party moderation streams!
I adore how well this article cites sources at the top. Gold links to let others build the case.

I don't know how important it could have been, but the threads here don't talk a lot about UML being more than just a design tool. We think of it as a way to draw pretty diagrams for documents. And we think of architect astronauts who alas all too often weren't great peers, weren't wise experienced seasoned sages. But there was a subtle current of an idea, that coding might evolve beyond source files of text that were hand authored. Computer aided code.

UML still seems like a potential good/great intermediary target for machine learning to me, or for refactoring. If we could better get UML snapshots of the code & transmogify them into new shapes/states. UML got damned as much as anything because it existed in a pre-predominantly-open-source world, where it was interlinked with wild & complex vendor tools & methodologies, ans these kinds of flexible abstract representation malleable code systems existed in limited/weak forms, deeply tied to ultra expensive 100% proprietary tools, that only a scant % of people who'd touched uml had any knowledge of, and few of them ever really witnessed any tapping the power of these possibilities.

What we think of uml is just a shadow of a bigger idea.
I know paying money for goods and services is passé in this economy, but yes some things need you to invest money into them.
When I use a real operating system instead of an entertainment kiosk I use dmenu to open programs. But most people find using the mouse more intuitive than the keyboard.

I think it's actually quite good that you get back to the desktop by clicking the 'minimise everything' button. It reduces cognitive load to switch tasks by making everything currently open "go away" and then starting a new task, rather than just loading up every new task on top of the old one. It's like opening a new window for a new task vs just opening 500 tabs in one window. Better yet are systems with multiple desktops where you start a new activity ("Okay checking my emails is done, time to do some budgeting") by going to a new desktop and then clicking Excel or GnuCash or whatever.

The desktop is for most people just a generic collection of random stuff. That seems chaotic and bad and messy, but I think it's actually really powerful. It's like the filesystem. Probably for every type of document there is a better way to browse it. Photos are best browsed in a photo browser. Videos in a video browser. Documents in a document browser. But a traditional file browser is the best generic browser of things. Similarly, an overlay application launcher is probably better for quickly starting a program, and a 'recent files' launcher might be better for that, and a 'favourite folders' thing might be better for that, etc. etc. But in practice people tend towards a kind of 'managed chaos' that intentionally-designed systems don't handle very well. It's the backup, the default, the catchall. Every system needs something like that. That's what your desktop ends up being.

Go to an office. Is everything filed perfectly? No, most stuff is and then there's always, inevitably, a 'miscellaneous' section. Everyone has that little jar with random screws and twist-ties and rubber bands and those little tags things that go around bread bags when they're twisted and a couple of coins. Everyone has that drawer which has USB cables and old phones and permanent markers and foreign coins from that time you went overseas. You need a 'random miscellaneous shit' category.
Reddit: Mod Code of Conduct Rule 4 and 2 and Subs Taken Private Indefinitely
Just because you can perve on people at a nudest beach doesn't mean you should.

Society frequently has norms and unwritten rules that we usually follow. Not every rule needs to be written down as law.
More permissive in which ways that matter to a legitimate publisher?

I'm pretty sure both of them ban third-party in-app-purchases, for example.
In a dictatorship, sure. But what about countries where companies buy their representation fair and square?
> It takes something the size of a corporation to fend off other corporations.

Wouldn't it be great if we had one of those? An organisation powerful enough to boss companies around, making it so companies didn't have to race-to-the-bottom to compete with each other, and we'd get to tell it what to do?

The logistics might be a bit hard, though. We'd have to have some kind of large-scale organised vote, probably on a schedule of some kind. That might take a lot of resources to arrange, so either a lot of people would have to volunteer to work on it, or it would have to acquire money through some mechanism… We could vote on that, too.

Hmm. There are actually quite a lot of things we'd have to vote for, thinking about it. Including which things to vote for! Most people wouldn't have time for all that, leaving the people who would as the ones calling the shots. So we'd need some mechanism for people to delegate their vote to somebody else: a representative of some kind. And those representatives could form groups – councils, perhaps? – to discuss and vote on matters relevant to the people they represent.

Once we've got all that set up, though, it should be easy enough to get uninstallable bloatware banned from computation devices. Right?
Struggling to think of any B2B apps whose design could be considered even remotely cool.