skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I call this the Twitter effect.

Artificial limitations encourage the use of short and snappy communications.

Also, who can be bothered to read through a paragraph today?

I live my life one sentence at a time.
I would second that, and add Suttree towards the end. I personally found The Road a little awkward, it felt unfortunately like an experiment in the SF / post-apocalyptic genre that was less successful than his surreal westerns.
For the Atari 2600, Game Boy, etc., the first cartridges were nothing more than a ROM chip on a printed circuit board. Later games sometimes included a lot more functionality on the cartridge (battery-backed save RAM, bank switching hardware, etc.) which does make things complicated very quickly. Today, programmable logic is sometimes used to replace old custom IC designs used in cartridges, or to design something new.

For games more complicated than a simple ROM chip, the Game Boy presents an interesting challenge: the cartridge is both very small and it needs to be able to run off battery power. That excludes using both a high-power-consumption modern SoC or FPGA, or using lots of discrete logic.

But if it'll fit in 32 KB, it's 3D print a case, order a PCB, and program a standard Flash chip.
The subreddit in question is still private: https://old.reddit.com/r/tumblr
The GBC was closer to a NES in capability than the SNES.
> don't base their practices on anything remotely resembling bad or good

Exactly - they base it on profit and people who think this is good react accordingly
lol, again it's the dailymail article that's trembling with terror at imagined grievances, while the non-violent language advocates are like, "hey, kind of weird these phrases are about shooting people, here's some alternatives if you want them."

> The guide is for those who would like to replace mostly violently framed idioms with more positive and inclusive language

Clearly this is a dog whistle and they're coming for me and my guns(-related words)
The deeper issue is the C-suite being unresponsive to users wants and needs. Reddits comments are a goldmine for LLMs, hiking the price on the API is to cash in on data greedy AI. 3rd party apps are just a pawn. Yes it is reddit's site, but the product is the community, and the community knows it.

People are mad because instead of being open and honest about their play, reddit tried sneak it it in. They are trying to give Reddit shareholders their win while everyone else loses.
That is my point though: the notion of one plant refuting another is absurd if they both still thrive. Likewise the underpinnings of how LLMs work does not refute the conceptual framework of universal grammar. Especially as refutation means to disprove (not improve, increment, evolve or augment). One more analogy: jiu jitsu does not refute aikido even if it is better in an MMA context. When reaching for refutation prefer synthesis.
Right. My experience in this realm is often the store employee either charging me or acting like I'm stealing from their personal savings account by asking for extra sauce.

e: Wow, I got sniped big time.
This is the nail in the coffin for me. I can't support Reddit as a platform until there is a clear change of heart (and leadership).
I sound confrontational because it seems like the upvoted poster didn't understand the laws of supply and demand and neither do the people who upvoted it to the top, or was just karma farming by asking redundant/self explanatory questions hoping to get votes from the mobs with their pitchforks out.

Maybe I'm wrong and OP really didn't understand the curent supply/demand issues which is why I gave a lengthy explanation of how it looks.
Well that's evil. Thank you.
I am also, along with gkoberger happy to say that we didn't die after our Show HN (Show HN: A Covid-19 testing location site that a group of us are building)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22650725

In fact we were so successful that we were able to shut it down less than a year after we started (It's on the list as a very reasonable Type II error ;))

Thanks to the HN community for helping us get an amazing Temporary product out and shut down successfully
Ew, this smells like a standard manufacturing-consent piece. It begs the question of "AI" regulation being necessary in the first place, then argues for the creation of a new bureaucracy to govern machine learning. While desired outcomes are absent, the whole thing is written in reference to "emergency" government regulation in the face of terrorism, by the former leader of a nation that has an official censorship function.

One, um, advancement in the art that this one makes is it doesn't even cite real or plausible examples of copyright infringement / child porn / terrorism; it just alludes to anonymous experts warning of something unmentionably bad. Maybe Roko's Basilisk
Is it just me or YT also has this curious habit of pushing and promoting electoral politics video content more and more despite knowing full well that you don't watch such content?
Hmm I wonder if one could just run comments through an LLM and have it classify for things they want to block, then moderate automatically based on that. Probably more accurate and less expensive than hiring people for it.
> Beyond that, the minute the mods are official employees of Reddit, Reddit is fully responsible for all the content on all those subs. Social media companies are already under a lot of scrutiny for the kinds of content they allow on their platform. I doubt they'd want to go there.

I don't think this is true at all. Twitter employs (employed? https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/outsourced-content-mode... ) paid moderators. Facebook does ( https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18229714/cognizant-facebo... ). Plenty of other forum sites have owner-operator mods.

"No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider." (47 U.S.C. § 230(c)(1)).

That explicitly applies to providers and doesn't say they aren't allowed to moderate at all.
I’m also a happy Postmark customer and also bristled a bit when I read the allegation that they don’t have a good developer experience. Their developer experience is pretty good, actually.

BUT their JS library has been a shitshow for years now. Like, it works. But the readme links to outdated documentation and 404s. And in the library documentation you can get into an infinite loop of “click here for more info” taking you to back to the page you’re on.

It’s still usable. I can just find the page I need with a bit of googling, and actually I stopped using the JS library and just interact with their API directly with HTTP these days. But it’s definitely a sign that they’re not paying attention to that side of the business and developer experience anymore.

Which is, like, fine. Postmark is a great product. It does what it needs to and it does it well. But it’s fair to say they’re not hungry anymore and haven’t been for a while. And although I don’t totally understand Resend’s value prop, the market’s definitely big enough to support someone new and hungry so good luck to them.

PS: Zeno, I saw in a sibling comment that you guys had a upstream outage during your Launch HN. Damn, such bad timing haha!! At least it’s back up now :)
Reddit is perfectly usable on the browser with old.reddit.com
Intuitively, most people seem to think that bodily harm is worse that psychological harm. In practice, extreme isolation has shown to be exceptional potent form of torture, and it not uncommon for prisoners to self starve and trade bodily harm in exchange of ending psychological harm. People in general undervalue the threat of psychological harm. We all know how physical pain feel like from cutting a finger or scraping a knee. Most of us don't know however how it feels to be social isolated unless we experience it first hand.

We can also seen in the animal kingdom how physiological harm often lead to bodily harm. A common tactic in female to female aggression is to induce miscarriage through stress. It is similar outcome as physical harm. It just that researcher until fairly recent (~50 years) attributed those thing to nature rather than to violence. A dead female baboon must be dead because the jungle is a dangerous place, while a dead male baboon is obviously dead because he got beaten to death.
I tried their air fryer. Could not get rid of the toxic smell despite numerous, extended burn-in sessions, cooking in it, re-cleaning it, spraying oil in it, etc. Eventually gave up and got rid of it. It had great features but the smell was terrible.
> Claiming it's not is not the hill I'd choose to die on.

Me either, also I'm for banning all flags in the workplace.

But people who vastly generalize large swaths of the population in a negative light in an inaccurate manner is as bad.

> Modern display of what most call the "confederate flag" (it isn't) rose to prominence in response to the civil rights movement.

Growing up in the south the flag is used as an regional identification and lifestyle pride. (Mostly that you're a redneck, rebelious, you're going to own a pickup truck, like the idea of hardwork/farming, country music, etc). Making a claim that a race hate group has taken over the flag is pretty laughable. (About as much as the ok hand symbol being a "white nationalist flagging signal")

My concern with your statement is that you're making claims here and I'm not seeing a lot of evidence from a sociological point of view to back them up.

> many in the modern day display it out of ignorance,

Ask them why they choose to display it, and what it means to them. You made a judgement call to say what it is and that they're ignorant for doing so.
Kinsta launches first ever sale
This seemed like the obvious next step for Reddit. Not sure why anyone would be surprised. Though the obvious result of this is not Reddit will have to actually pay people to moderate these subs (unless there suddenly becomes an abundance of mod volunteers who do not care about the third party app debacle)
Kinsta's premium WordPress hosting launches first ever sale with 4 months off annual plans for new customers.
Every time I click a Mastodon link I am shocked at how slow it loads.
Kevin Rose himself saw this coming.
Information and knowledge are emergent, meaning they have to be repeated over and over again before spreading to a majority of the populace. Most of which are not particularly interested.
If this were Reddit, spez would have already edited your comment.
/r/therewasanattempt is still rattling its sword of racism against whites. They can't afford to take time off.
I suspect if Reddit starts replacing those mods outright you could see other mods leaving, it might work out for Reddit but it's a dangerous game. Also, which mods get removed, and would they be banned completely? The big subreddits have lots of mods, many who just help with small stuff and from my understanding do so over a lot of the large subreddits, so the actual details here of who stays, who's leaving what subreddits, etc. probably get murky pretty fast. (And that's besides the fact that the new mods would have little idea how things were currently run, unless some of the existing mods help them).
Many in the community, such as the long-running Retronauts podcast, use 10 years as the line when something becomes "retro". By that definition, the PS4 becomes retro later this year.
Add it to the pile of "if you don't own the content, it can be taken from you at any point, for any reason, and you have no recourse"

I hope this gives a rise to a whole set of new decentralized communities (or just smaller niche sites). I'm done using or contributing to reddit.
I went to the Preakness once while passing through Baltimore many years ago. That race also has the center of the track full of people. There was talk you could just haul your own cooler to the infield. (And the famous video of people running across port-a-pottys). I was general admission on the grandstand side. Its an fun mix of people.

Its sometimes kind of remarkable with a general admission ticket it can be hard to find a vantage point to watch the race.
It's propaganda.
Ah I missed the “this place” piece. We’ll call that even on misreading each others comments considering your last reply to me.

Well then it’s clear you understand the value of good moderation, even in a place like Hacker News which is not nearly as strict IMO as the subs you mentioned.

I get your examples of over moderation and of course there are plenty of examples of this. I just think you may be in danger of conflating good moderation, which is often invisible and doesn’t involve a lot of moderator posting and onerous rules, with the lack of need for moderation at all.
Until they disable the licensing server so the next time it needs to renew the license it fails and becomes unusable. So glad I bought that smart home pyrex set of dishes
You can burn it to a ROM.
That is actually hilarious if true.

And by hilarious I mean, sad but not surprising.

Hey does anyone want to come hang out on my instance instead?

https://zapad.nstr.no/ :D :D :D
There's a third option...
The only reason I was talking about "building a bird" in the first place is because that is what the person I was responding to was talking about. At this point I don't even understand what this analogy is supposed to be. Is the bird supposed to be "language"? Or "humans"? Or "human language"? What's the point of this study, just to chit-chat about things? What proof do we have the Chomsky's theories of language are true? Neuroscience has actual research that backs the claims of predictive coding and language acquisition and comprehension! Some names in case you're curious: Gina Kuperberg, Ellen Lau, Florian Jaeger and Roger Levy, just to name a few of the more influential researchers.
It appears to have been fixed and resolved for us.
I just tried the rom out on my flashcart, and it boots and plays on a real gameboy.
It already happened
If you're having problems accessing the console, the workaround is just to use a different region, eg:

https://ca-central-1.console.aws.amazon.com/console/home

This assumes you don't actually need anything from us-east-1, though :)
I’ve had a lot of fun with Ruby’s support for functional paradigms but that stuff is unlikely to get through code review when the status quo tends towards ‘Clean Code’ style OOP over-abstraction.

Ruby being a type 2 lisp is a fun one - creating a class and and a factory function with the same name, with argument forwarding:

class Animal; …; end
def Animal(…); Animal.new(…); end
You might like Cog. It solves these problems for ML projects in specific.
I built the initial version in late 2019 and have been maintaining it since. It's used by GB Studio which is what this game was made with.

https://nickfa.ro/index.php/HUGETracker
There are Gen Z that played PS3/Xbox 360 when they were children, and are now adults out of college with their own children. I think that's a good measure of "retro", and it would mean PS4 will enter retro status in ~2031.
It’s one thing say “we will tough it out until the storm passes” and another “we will impose our will over the ownership of subreddits”.

Every time you think Reddit management can’t do worse, they manage to exceed that expectation.

So long reddit, it’s been real.
Well they’ve already started doing it
I browse new posts on HN instead
Look one comment higher to the original comment that question was in reply to:

>In the brain, serotonin seems to be deeply related to social status. This is Jordan Peterson's bit about lobsters - it's so ubiquitous that even lobsters share the same mechanism.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41386-022-01378-2
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.94.11.5939

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36310589
Aws azs are also distributed geographically within a region w separate power and network lines. From the docs “ Availability Zones are distinct locations within an AWS Region that are engineered to be isolated from failures in other Availability Zones.”
> One major difference is a venv doesn't allow nested dependencies. With npm, you might install version 2.3 of a package, only to find that some other package has installed version 1.4 under itself.

a feature not a bug. Anyone who ahs built a sufficiently large project and had to abandon some dependencies know this pain
Strongly recommend AH. I've got a lot of their products in varying sizes. Integrated measuring feature makes them easily the most practical pieces of glassware in my kitchen.
The “other people don’t speak how I prefer” regardless of the context is such a lame complaint.

Corporate blandness has infected us all; from my reference frame you’re just some bland text on a corporate website that silences spicy discourse.

Are others lame or is that all you feel given hypernormalized routines?

Look at the rebels willing to risk going against this thread by eating McDonalds; highway to the danger zone.

How bold
Mods of anarchychess basically let people have free reign during the first day, no moderation. It went exactly as one would expect.
It's a Canadian thing

https://www.mcdonalds.com/ca/en-ca/product/mcchicken-sauce-p...
Like Marx or the Unabomber
Still looking for a nice setup with JS. Tried some notebook promises with danfoJS but couldn't find something ergonomic
If you want to treat your moderators as employees then pay them.

Otherwise sooner or later there will always be a price to pay, as these people who have been doing your work for free for years will feel entitled to some ownership and how the site is run and they may not always agree with your agenda.
While the article offers nothing of value outside of its provocative title (but I clicked so I guess it works), I’m genuinely fascinated by why every article about dating here leads to such a slew of poor comments. I mean the discussion is full of entitlement, misogyny, cynicism or a mix of the three.

A casual reading lends me to think that this is because this place skews rather young.
The corollary of which is "It's not just good, it's good enough" (which I think is a Simpsons reference).

I actually have a project on the shelf that's ][ far from being releasable.

It's waiting on two things.

One, is since it's a Java GUI, getting it built into a form for the MacOS/Window/Linux platforms, rather than just "here's a jar file". There's ways around this, but it's not quite drag and drop, and I haven't got a Windows box to test anything on, so its stalled. (I tried installing one of MS's VM images that they offered, but that's didn't work, so...back to the shelf).

Two, is documentation. I could probably just let it go, and explain it to the 3 people who might actually download it and use because simply launching it, "Neat!", and letting it bit rot forever more. But, I think it needs some documentation, so...it sits.

If I could satisfactorily drag and drop the installers, I'd probably press on with it, but it could still use some docs.

Meanwhile, I continue on my meta project which this project would inevitably be folded into, so it's not all lost.
Apple gives stolen devices as AppleCare replacements
>The outside company ended up with a failed project, missing deadlines and going over budget multiple times. The prototype became the product.

Getting paid to fail is a decent second place prize
Hopefully the whole thing implodes and we go back to specific message boards.

HN would hardly be better if random people mostly interested in cooking or martial arts were putting in their two cents here.

I really can't think of any subject that is better on Reddit than it was on an old message forum that was killed off by these giant platforms.

Compare any subreddit about psytrance or trance music to the corpse of forum.isratrance.com.

It isn't even close. The forum owner is also self interested to not be labeled oppressive. I can't think of any old forum I was ever on that had problems of oppressive moderation.

That isratrance forum of course though doesn't scale to a few hundred million people and early investors getting rich.
The same thing that was stopping them before, that's a lot of work. Plus, it was free before, so they'd need to spend some money doing it themselves.
I don't think that's the only losers.

As a mod I am getting messages from regular users who are desperate to see posts that have likely troubleshooting answers to problems they are having at work.

Reddit is kind of a critical technical resource for some people and this is really hurting them at least right now.
It works without a hitch on my rx6900xt. Only pain was getting the amdpro drivers
Reddit privileges to de-mod moderators operates on a first in, last out seniority queue. I'm guessing that a more senior mod took action here, not global admins.
Indeed. There's no evidence supporting this claim. So why are people upvoting this thread?
PE continues to exist by gaming the system: As others on this thread have speculated, driving a company into bankruptcy can shed pension obligations and enable breaking other contracts, leases, etc. Hence the paradox of everyone having these seemingly very popular products while the company is "bankrupt." Bankruptcy is not a loss for PE, yet, anyway. Which is why there is a perverse incentive to "go bankrupt" in large measure due to LBO loans, while there is plenty of brand equity and other assets to propel future sales.
Yes very funny. The sentence triplet is an intentional play at the articles style, including LLMs over-bright disposition. Thanks for playing though!
Same, I read the article twice in case I missed it, but no, nothing about the ones that did survive, even on the "more data" section.
Reddit makes it extremely hard for people to find alternative/small subreddits.
Hm, sure, yes "labels" is better. But labels are just a way to group birthdates which then can be mapped backed to generational labels. So, oligarchs made in 1989-1994, when were they born? They seem to be older than the generations discussed in the article: how can one not use timing as a variable for this? Yes, indeed elite vs. non-elite, but still, who are the elite and when did they become the elite -- probably before the generations singled out in the article. And what environment allowed for their growth? One you've provided is economic period that allowed for oligarchs in Russia, therefore elite, to be forged. Elites will persist as a group because of the inertia of their wealth, which, agreed, means they transcend generational labels, but they have to start somewhere/sometime.
Why not give money to support retro game creators, instead indirectly via a fast food chain?
Yep, I'm out as well. I'm honestly looking forward to having more free time with Reddit no longer on my phone.
The precedent in the Delaware Court of Chancery (where pretty much all of the litigation would take place) explicitly does not endorse the idea that corporate fiduciaries must focus on short-term profit making (i.e., maximizing shareholder value) above all other obligations.

That's why we don't really have the type of lawsuits that you're talking about. What we do have is the type of suit that is "everything is securities fraud" where the allegation is that corporate fiduciaries committed securities fraud by omitting or concealing information that would have tended to dent their stock price.
> - I get an analysis that I like, but there isn't a good way to share it with others, so I end up just taking screenshots.

Jupyter supports printing out as a PDF, an all-in-one-webpage and all sorts of other formats. I've used this and the support for Markdown to create a number of documents that I've presented up the leadership chain, or to other engineers across the org "Here's the data, here's the narrative, and here's the code that shows you how I got to it so you can reproduce". Can even share the Jupyter notebook itself.
What about those invisible people who gave it a try and decided there were just too many gaps and bugs? They are not customers anymore and probably never will be.