skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is definitely a paid advertising piece sponsored by the commercial real estate industry.

Like, regardless of the merits of WFH or in-office, this reeks of propaganda and marketing.
> Most of these closed subreddits polled their userbase and only participated in the blackout if users heavily favored doing so.

The vast minority polled the users, from what I can see. None of the subs I visited that went dark had a poll. I just decided to check some others - /r/funny and /r/gaming because they're listed as some of the biggest subs that went private, /r/askhistorians because people often use it as "the best of Reddit," /r/outoftheloop because I used to visit it. None of them had polls, either.

People keep trying to push the narrative that this was a democratic decision, but every piece of evidence I can find is that most mods did this without consulting the people that use the subs.
Reddit claiming removing mods is for the community, yet the community is against these API changes, and seems to support the blackouts from all the polling i've seen.
Miraheze (a wiki hosting platform) is shutting down
> An elegant solution to this problem would likely involve some product tweaks to incentivize users to tell reddit more about themselves, and a refocus on ad sales.

How much more information do they need? They already take all that info [1]. I'm pretty sure 99% of the official app users did not turn these settings off.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/VpWlCnO.png
If Reddit wants to return to "business as usual" the moderators of the considerable numbers of blacked-out subreddits need to be replaced with a fresh crop of moderators as good or better than the current crop, but who also swear fealty to the administration and are willing to overlook the dire state of the moderation suite.

I don't know about you, but I think the odds of that happening without significant bumps in the road are pretty slim, and are likely going to alienate even more users in the process.
Your API key is only stored client-side, on the server-side only a hash of it is stored. Your entire chat history is encrypted/decrypted on the client-side so there is no way someone else can read your history.

It's an Open Source project, if you want you can host it yourself. https://github.com/aminmarashi/gpt-api-companion/tree/main/c... I'll add a Github badge to build some trust.

Edit: you can read more in this page https://chat.lit.codes/privacy-and-security

It already mentions the GitHub repo, so I'm not adding the badge.
Our team recently adopted the Diataxis framework, I guess. We followed this guide:

https://documentation.divio.com/

We've been referring to it as the Divio system though, which appears to be the same thing.
The Fall of Civilizations podcast episode on the Assyrians starts with Xenophon's experience.
GDPR Article 6:

> 1. Processing shall be lawful only if and to the extent that at least one of the following applies:

> (d) processing is necessary in order to protect the vital interests of the data subject or of another natural person;

GDPR might not apply in this case, but if it does, I think you're alright.
Yeah, I shouldn't have been so flippant. But seriously, M$ spent 15 years and 100 or so engineers 'breaking with the past' to create (whatever its virtues) a closed source system that at the end of the day they said 'meh' to and mothballed. So an OSS attempt probably should probably temper its expectations.
Also the program was secret, but the science never was really.
Where did you see that? I’ve been trying to figure out whether Google Cloud Domains is impacted by this change myself.
Phantom Islands – “Discovered” Islands That Don't Exist
Concept, Sound and Text by Andrew Pekler
Design and Development by Flavio Gortana
Research and Text by Kiwi Menrath

---

Found this to be fascinating, beautiful, and soothing all in one. The perfect Thursday 3pm distraction. Happy hour for the mind.
I fully understand your argument. It’s the same argument I originally replied to at the top of this discussion. I simply shared my opinion about my conscious choice to stay within the walled garden.
> If I could, it wouldn't really matter because it's a piece of shit.

Yes Macbook was a steaming pile of shit between 2016 - 2020.

But my Dell Precision laptop (same price) was an even worse piece of shit.

Can't beat the display quality on Macbook.
I think we need to start referring to Lemmy, Kbin, and presumably the dozen or so other 'ActivityPub with a Reddit-like interface' projects which will inevitably pop up collectively because while they compete the dynamics of that competition are in theory quite different to what you'd expect with centralised platforms as I can interact with communities on Kbin just as well from my 'home' Lemmy instance.

I quite like the term 'Threadiverse' that's been going around lately.
I don't think there's any inherent reason that Mobile Debian couldn't be as popular as a proportion of phones as Debian is as a proportion of desktops. Debian itself is niche. Linux use represents what, like 1% of all desktops? Yet even with the effort spread thinly over dozens of distros it's still excellent.

And it is, remember, an absolutely tiny group of people that actually contribute to something like Debian. What percentage of users has even filed a bug report, let alone contributed a fix? It must be well under 1%. You don't actually need that many people. All it takes is a dedicated few.

The fact that even then a 'foss phone' doesn't seem to be viable speaks volumes. It would probably only take half a dozen skilled people to get pissed off and channel their pissed-off energy into it, and that doesn't seem to have happened. Either it's way harder than it has any right to be, or it actually isn't that desirable. Revealed preferences and all that...
The current paradigm will be a learning experience, and more of an ethereal result than archival. It’ll itch some Snapchat rub. Lots of experimentation and destruction.

Until identity transcends instances (shared identity databases between all the fediverse), communities are portable, and data peered across mirrors/nodes, it won’t work in a way that promotes longevity.

The fediverse in its current incarnation benefits those that use social media more like a chat room than a wiki. But losing your account to the entire fediverse when an instance goes down seems way worse than an unused community disappearing. It’s like taking an email address from an email host that spun up yesterday for fun, and hoping you’ll keep access to it.
This is a great top-level list. You should add it to the JD site via a pull request!
Azure is getting comically bad with all these issues.

Their support is useless, features are whacky, with all sorts of weird edge cases, they’ve had more significant issues than I care to count.
Would not be hosting my stuff with them.
Maybe they shouldn't have extended that much trust to Reddit as the company grew and changed, but that doesn't change the fact that Reddit admins are now lying. I don't really like this carte blanche idea that everyone is going to do bad things, so when you trusted them in the past it was your fault ideology.
Actually now that I read more into the article his post makes me regret donating my old PocketPC to the Goodwill some years back. If I had known this capability and appreciated it back then I could have used it for some kitchen inventory roles I've been contemplating getting a junk tablet for.
The problem is reddit hasn't had competent developers in a decade and the market for third party tools exists because in a decade reddit hasn't been capable of providing a useful first party experience.

If old.reddit.com and apps went away I'd leave reddit instantly.

Offering the only competent developers they have a reasonable price isn't unreasonable.
You're making up a position that I haven't taken. Maybe you did it on purpose, maybe on accident. Either way, you're arguing against something different than what I said. Nobody is obligated on either side. It's selfish to assert obligation.
> GDP was never really an accurate calculation and interest rates greatly affect whatever the natural baseline is at any time.

GDP (GNP back then) was just a simple, interim suggestion of Simon Kuznets' while walking with FDR and talking about the depression back in the early 1930s. It wasn't meant to be an authoritative or be-all-and-end-all for the state of the economy.

Like the Charles Dow's indexes, GNP was something that could relatively easily be calculated (Dow could do it with a pencil and paper; GNP needed the simple statistical bureaucracy of the time to collect the raw data). Also like the Dow, once reported you didn't want to stop because it was the longest time series data available. Also like the Dow it was readjusted via judgement from time to time.
Connect the phone to a larger display and a keyboard and mouse.

Pretty good setup for people who’s only computer is their phone.
An underrated choice of the original diablo is that it would only show you a subset of story quests and boss monsters in a single play-through. A few (like the butcher) would always show up, but for most others there'd be multiple options for which story quest would be in the game.

A lot of games since include every quest in every playthrough (or change it based on what choices you make), and games like the Witcher 3 nailed having really well written side quests that weren't just filler. But enough players are completionists that it can feel exhausting to play those, and if you're a completionist the game often becomes less challenging because you're earning extra experience/gold.
It's all-around, but the ones I can name... Apple has some very particular rules about how you can direct users to external places to purchase things, which I don't think are present on Play Store. Also more strict about apps requesting permissions they don't make a strong case for needing. And rules about offensive content, and restrictions against apps they believe there are too many of. No game emulators allowed either. The ban on third-party iaps was pretty recent on Android, like 2022.

For instance:

- I made a simple news-sharing app. App Store pushed back against me a few times about the offensive content policy and reporting mechanism not being up to their standards. I never heard back from the Play Store, they just OK'd it the first time.

- I made a college-only dating app. App Store said they won't allow any more dating apps that aren't different enough (mine wasn't), Play Store said ok.

- A startup I knew was making an NFT app with a beginner-friendly way to purchase using USD. Apple objected to purchases not going through IAPs. They escalated a bunch of times and eventually got it through. Play Store didn't care at all.
You could invalidate all existing keys that have access to your queue and see if it continues?

Not downplaying the possibility of a problem on Azure's end, but the most likely scenario is your credentials have leaked, possibly (as another commenter suggests) though a stack overflow post, GitHub issue, or similar. If someone has a valid key and queue name they can post to it. That's the most likely cause.
OpenAI's latest update to its API has introduced a groundbreaking feature: Functions. In essence, these functions ensure that responses to API calls follow a specific JSON structure, a capability that opens up numerous possibilities, such as interacting with other APIs, converting natural language into API calls, and extracting structured data from text. Such advancements in technology often mean other tools become less relevant or even obsolete. This time, it seems LangChain and Llama Index are the ones being left behind. However, it's not all roses. The introduction of functions comes with its own set of costs and challenges that users should be aware of.
Is this an argument against what I have described (which is just a basic rule of secured lending)? What you say is true, but that doesn't mean it's not the law. As I understand it there is generally some basic principle that you need to make some effort to obtain a fair price (it will depend on the jurisdiction). But yeah, if you walk away from your loans you don't generally expect your lender to bend over backwards to maximise value for you. Fire sales do happen.
> That’s why iPhones cost so much. I don’t see why they can’t just sell phones and let people decide on software if they want.

Three things come to mind:

1. Supporting a diverse ecosystem is hard and expensive.
2. It's easier to build a seamless platform when you have control over hardware and software. Look at Mac trackpad as an example; it's pretty much beats any PC trackpads.
3. Software sales is where the money is at. I used to work for a dell subsidiary and it was a common knowledge that Dell (and other vendors too) sold servers at a loss and made it up on software and support contracts. Apple has like ~80% profit margins on app store sales which is insane.
"However, this doesn't tell a developer how to connect his spring boot thingy to it, and how to connect and manage his service well" indicates that it does not
Have you read this? It's one of the few I've come across that has the appropriate degree of empathy for the confused newcomer + actionable advice:

https://death.andgravity.com/same-arguments

And it doesn't fall into the "Dog inherits from Animal" taxonomic crap.
There's decades worth of software out there and I have to jump through hoops like this to even get a fraction of it working. A15 is probably the best mobile chip in the world, and I can run barely anything on it. The future is sad.
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Ah yes, "instead of getting a feature added for free that I won't need, and the presence of which would not impact me or anyone like me in any way, shape, or form, how about everyone just buys another $1500 phone?"

Maybe because getting a feature added for free that you won't need, and the presence of which would not impact you or anyone like you in any way, shape, or form, won't impact you or anyone like you in any way, shape, or form.

Just go "I'd never need that, but power to you if Apple ever adds it. Which we can be pretty sure of they won't". Don't hate on folks for wanting things that you don't want, but also won't affect your life in any way if they got it.
So by 2011

- Apple was the most valuable company (founded in 1977)

- Microsoft had been in the top 5 most valuable companies since 2000 (founded in the 70s)

- Facebook was already dominant

- Amazon was dominant in online retail (founded in the 90s)

- Google was the dominant search engine. (Founded in 1998)

Which startup or “side project” has had a meaningful impact since 2010? And been successful and profitable?

Before you mention OpenAI, it’s only surviving because of the deep discount it gets on compute from Microsoft.

As far as phones the current market is littered with race to the bottom barely profitable Android phones. Samsung, the only successful Android manufacture, has been around since 1938.

The entire VC market has been a Ponzi scheme since 2010 where all of the value was captured before the company went public.
Rome fell for a million reasons, but 'the average Roman got decadent and lazy and unproductive' or 'Romans stopped calling it how it is' weren't among them.
porkbun.com does what you want.

I noted several in the recent Gandi thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36321783 I was noting principally European-based registrars:

inwx.de (DE)

BookMyName.com (FR - LOL modern interface, but part of Scaleway)

netim.com (FR)

freethought.uk (UK)

https://www.nic.ch/registrars (CH, a list of Swiss registrars)
If creating an echo chamber is what your mean by "gel well" then they are doing a great job.
Google restricting Facebook tracking and ads would be a good setup for a lawsuit that Google would likely lose. Unlike Apple (who does still have an ad business), Google and Facebook are direct competitors in that space. For Google to block their competitor on their OS would turn into a major boon for Facebook.
Have you tried replacing it with something else?

I dramatically reduced my social media time a couple years ago by getting some casual games on my phone. Current favorites are NYT crosswords and solitaire.

Some innocuous mental stimulation to pass time that doesn’t come with the toxicity that social media can.
My gf uses her phone for half (OK, maybe 40% of) her work, and grumbles about the laptop that she uses for the rest. I don't know how she manages it.
How exactly would allowing a third party operating system on the device negatively impact your user experience?

Can you explain why you believe that allowing access to the hardware, only after explicitly and deliberately enabling access via some sort of hardware switch or whatnot, in a way that does not alter the default experience in any measurable way, conflicts with your preferences?

I can understand liking the software that it comes with by default, I just don't understand how allowing a different OS to be installed, if you choose to install it, conflicts with anything.
Lots of "childhood" American things i only found in my third world country as an adult many years later so yeah regional differences are also at play here. Also some "child" games i encounter are hard af i dont even know how a child is supposed to be able to finish it.
You log in to your home instance (kbin or Lemmy, doesn't matter which) and you can follow and participate in communities hosted on other servers, which can be kbin or Lemmy, doesn't matter which, because they support a common protocol (ActivityPub).

In fact, you can even interact with communities hosted on a Lemmy instance from a Mastodon instance, or Misskey. Heck, probably Pixelfed, though I haven't checked. Such is the beauty of the fediverse and protocols over platforms.
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The DC Maryland & Virginia (DMV) has seen a lot of intersections add car-standoffs, flimsy barriers that keep cars far away from the curb.

Drivers used to cut so hard to the right, which reduced buffer zone versus pedestrians so much. Almost all the road was for cars. It's been such a huge improvement putting up some flimsy barriers to say: stop cutting right corners!
You can't ignore domestic migration trends. Tokyo has been steadily increasing in population (except during the pandemic), as have other major cities. People are leaving the small towns and countryside. In any other place, this would result in hugely increasing prices.
Problem is an average consumer uses reddit for memes and buying recommendations.

The magic however is indeed as you pointed out discussing various topics:
- Gear in baldurs gate
- How to create a hardware clone of R2D2
- Books that you couldn't put down
- What is the best present I can give to my friend
- Summary of Hubermans protocols
- Etc.

thats the beauty of it and I would miss it.
>Even 150 years ago, if you wanted to communicate with anyone outside your town, you had to pay a horse based courier what was most likely a very expensive fee.

Last month was the 150th anniversary of the introduction of the first government "postal card", in New York City. They cost a penny each and sold 200,000 in two and a half hours.

https://postalmuseum.si.edu/exhibition/america%E2%80%99s-mai...
You can choose whatever words you want for it, but there's a difference between the targeted polished UX of "there's an app for that", and a morass of software that may or may not serve your needs that kind of sort of works together if you hold it right.
So far, resigning ourselves to failure has created capitalist horrors on all sides of the aisle. Everyone but Big Tech hates Big Tech.

Utilizing our government to effectively curb abusive market practices is overall a good idea. It's how we scare predatory markets like cryptocurrency into submission. It's been harder to do with domestic inventions like the NYSE or the iPhone, but its increasingly relevant as the rest of the world cries foul. Whatever the case is, masturbating shareholders for infinite profit is not how you progress common interests.
There is a lot of focus on the smart home features in this story but I believe it is a red herring.

I’m much more concerned how easy it is for amazon to stop trading with someone. A single driver misheard a few words and that is enough to ban you?

I live in a flat and whenever I hear the post flap make the characteristic noise of something dropped through it I shout “thank you” to whoever just delivered something to me. What if a delivery driver mishears that one day? I don’t have recording devices on my door, how would I clear my name? What if a delivery driver has a genuienly bad experience somewhere and as they report it they misclick or misremember where it happened and associate my adress with it? What if someone on the street or in the building hassles the delivery driver and they mistakenly associate their trouble with me? (Because for any reason they think they were interacting with me.)

Now of course i would survive without Amazon, but it would suck greatly.

It is just crazy how easily the whole story could have ended as “amazon banned me. I called them. They told me I am a racist, I don’t think I am. They demanded evidence but there was nothing I could send them. My account remains banned. I don’t understand how it happened.” And how many times might have the above already happened before they did it with someone who had enough online clout to report the situation widely?
As also organised well-being.
Instead of being dead on the side of the road from commuting. Sounds like an improvement.
> If such a switch exists, EVERYTHING will use it.

The switch exists on macOS already, and this is not true. Software is available from the app store. People can and do choose it. Signed software is available outside the app store. People can and do choose that. And those who want to ignore warnings or flip the switch can install unsigned software and it doesn't take any option away from those who prefer not to.

These options exist alongside one another on macOS. There's no reason to believe that iOS wouldn't remain the same, and good reason to believe that via force of habit the dominant "culture"/practice around iOS apps would remain much like it is today.
This was also my takeaway from trying it at AWE2022. 3D works great on me, and I’ve always loved stereo 3D stuff even just for the gimmick value. But Tilt5 didn’t feel close enough to the experience of viewing through a hololens or looking at a real 3D display. I think that was especially obvious at the show, where vendors like Looking Glass and Sony had 3D displays with much more impressive depth and rendering capabilities.

I get that Tilt5 is taking a different approach and has a reason for it - I’m just not sure that approach is actually good enough in practice. I’ve only used it for the simple demos at the show, but I remember thinking the resolution looked like it might be a limitation for doing more complex games too. Most of the board games I enjoy the most but which are complex enough I’d want a digital alternative involve lots of cards with small text on them.
>I find it ironic this website is written in Python. It's a single HTML page. Make it a static site and host it for free/low-cost on S3 or something. Why do you need to host this website on a server, use Docker, etc?

Originally it _was_ just HTML + CSS, but I wanted each library's repository metadata (latest version, last commit, etc) to be dynamically retrieved and doing that client-side was brittle and way too slow. So, I used it as an excuse to see how far I could push my own personal static-site framework (https://coltrane.readthedocs.io/en/latest/).
And my past experience with Samsung devices doesn't support your argument either. I had to use an iPhone for a few weeks once when my phone broke and the experience was abysmal. It's much easier for me to remain on Android.
For tech people, you're looking at the viable replacement. For other people, if they're deliberately going out of their way to avoid the redesign after all these years, they may replace it with nothing (and be happier, as most people find they are when they quit social media).