skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Letting users create a database of knowledge with the premise that it will be available and then massively deleting (or hiding) that knowledge is abusive. The admins of reddit haven't done so (yet). The day they do it I will call them out for it, but by now, it's the mods.
That's a claim, but only time will tell to what degree it is accurate. Some people certainly want to continue continue creating content and we will see the degree to which they figure out alternative subreddits if the blackout continues
It's better suggestion to just not visit JWZ site :P

Went there a few days ago. Got a colonoscopy picture. Even without deferrer/referrer.
3 month T-Bills are 5.2% (was .04%). 2 years are 4.7% (was .15%). Hypothetical future profit for companies that have been around for 10+ years is no longer good enough.
It doesn't affect them directly, but the moderation tools a lot of subreddits need are built into third-party apps because Reddit refuses to build mod tools itself, and when those stop working then the job of moderating large and active subreddits will become vastly more cumbersome and frustrating, and far less efficient.

Maybe this issue only affects 0.1% of users, but those 0.1% of users do a lot for the site that depends on functionality that Reddit is unable or unwilling to provide.

It also seems as though a lot of moderators of larger subreddits are starting to see how little their users understand and appreciate the amount of work that goes into moderating a subreddit. When those mod tools are gone and their jobs get harder, they're going to get shat on even more than they already do by those users, because of the issue that those users said was just "a bunch of dorks with no lives getting worked up over nothing".

Curious to see how this all shakes out.
it can be done in pure CSS these days:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref...
if China invades taiwan, they have 5 good years left, and then they wont be able to buy new ASML machines anymore and are doomed.
This may be an unresolvable problem. Or rather, more specifically: a problem solvable via load-shedding, which is what Reddit is now (tacitly) encouraging.

Reading between the lines: Reddit is charging money for 3rd-party integration. The Reddit community has interpreted this as greedy (or, more specifically: the mods community has interpreted this as "We will have to start paying money to use services that are necessary for us to mod our subreddits"). But Reddit has not backed down. What if they can't? What if the problem is that the cost to provide the bulk-data API accesses is starting to add up for Reddit itself?

If so, then the problem is hosting Reddit has become too expensive and one solution is, indeed, to make it cheaper by having fewer high-traffic subreddits.
> I think the majority of users don’t really care about the API or subreddits going private as they primarily just lurk.

I agree. These protests have missed the point. There is a (very) loud minority raising hell right now, but spez is right, it's just noise. The silent majority is still hanging around.
Because I fundamentally disagree with your statements, that have no basis in fact. The studies on this topic are completely inconsistent and show conflicting information, with no clear correlation of harm.

This is isn't exactly news: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/26/technology/kids-screen-ti...

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/27/parents-of-successful-kids-d...

ultimately it depends on the child's psychology and the content that they consume. some kids should be parented to be steered away from social media. others have no problems.

Lots of things are addicting. I'm addicted to coffee. So what? Life is about managing your emotions towards moderation. Offline pledges are about as effective as abstinence pledges.
The more useful thing to users would be a list of alternatives for each closed subreddit. No reddit alternative is going to grow to anything useful from this.
but lots of valuable information created by community from old subs gone.
But gunplay and movement is the essence of Doom, unless you're saying that the best part of the original Doom games were the labyrinthine level design
It's been very interesting, and part of that is my fault - been posting a lot here instead of reddit (when I should probably just post nowhere). The vote counts seem crazy high this week, even for typical stories.

I will say that I haven't noticed a decline in quality of posts; not sure if that's due to a strong culture or strict moderation. I suppose most of the Reddit refugees only browse the HN homepage, so HN veterans still have an out sized impact on the New page, which in turn dictates what can reach the top.
Well said. It’s a fine line right? I’m not cheering on Visa and Mastercard. But they really do have the most customer pleasing product. If I’m betting with my own money and projects on the future of something, hard to drift towards the “universal crypto adoption”.
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> old.reddit.com and Adblock works perfectly fine on the phone

old.reddit.com may not be long for this world. i.reddit.com and reddit.com/.compact were both removed earlier this year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35283379

(The irony now of that top comment, "99.5% of my usage is through the iOS client Apollo"...)
The “documentation” page is a joke. I cannot eve find if the touch screen is resistive or capacitive. I see no schematics, making bring up if your own OS in it unlikely. I see no data sheets either. Just another piece of e-trash waiting to end up on a landfill..
Because they respect your privacy and don't feel the need to plaster your comment in every search engine?
Motorcycles these days need little maintenance, except washing it. I know I know you need to look after the chain and do the pre-ride checks, but that is it. I own 2 motorcycles, one new and the other old. The old one needs some stuff done but I cannot do that myself because of a couple of issues: do not have a garage, do not have all the tools. The new one needs nothing, it just rides and I need to bring it for servicing once in a year.

The most annoying thing for me is that I can leave the motorcycle outside with a lock but I need to bring in my bicycle into the garden shed (it is just too light).

Bicycle on the other hand is different, it is much easier to get a puncture, the bolts get lose, it wears off much more quickly. You can also fix it in your home, e.g. change tubes and tires easily.
Trucking deregulation began several months before Reagan was elected.
Users like a good riot though
Disclaimer: I know next to nothing about ActivityPub. I'm in the process of learning it now for some software i'm writing, but take everything i say with a lethal dose of salt.

I'm venturing into ActivityPub myself, though focused on UX of link Aggs, mostly. One issue i've seen so far with Mastodon/etc, is that AP works decently for cheap stuff, but expensive stuff like Images and Video still have significant cost. I believe with Mastodon it's all hosted from the source location. Ie you run `tinymastoinstance.com` and one of your "Toots" with videos/images goes viral in federated instances, i think pretty much everyone is pulling the image from your instance. Not sure how much they try to federate the heavy stuff.

Hypothetically they can of course.. but i'm just not sure what the AP spec says about that. It's of significant concern to me, though, since i'm wanting to build software for micro-AP instances and hotlinking files on a micro instance will almost assuredly burn the instance down.

Facebook on the otherhand though, seems totally viable. Identity duplication is probably the biggest issue AP has with a more identify focused application like Facebook. Notably as i learned the other day there's nothing in the AP spec for persisting identities across instances. No private key you can reuse on new instances to identify yourself as the same user, etc.
I only use Reddit logged out. Are there any apps that give me the same logged out experience with Lemmy?
It turns out you can do a lot of work with non-normalized normal vectors as long as you don't trip over the math that actually cares whether they're normalized.
It's the max amount that the landlord can claim. It's typically a negotiated dollar amount between Twitter and landlord. Usually put in place at beginning of lease. Pretty much same as a rental deposit, but instead of giving cash, Twitter provide an letter of credit.
HN adjusts to a mobile viewport. old.reddit.com is literally reading a desktop site on a phone screen.

It works, but it's not a good experience, nor is it on par with HN.
> The litmus test for panic! vs. Result<T,E> is not rarity of occurrence, it's whether the condition represents a programming bug or a recoverable error.

Because that exact same conceptual separation worked so well for Java with checked vs unchecked exceptions...

Everyone just started using unchecked exceptions because they provide an easier coding experience.

Also, there's legitimate situations where the library cannot make that decision, but rather the user. As someone else says in another example, who are you to say that my request to allocate too much memory is a panicable offense? What if my program can, in fact, recover from that situation?

At least in Java, catching checked vs unchecked exceptions is the same if you do choose to handle them.
Yea no, you misunderstood what was being described driving at normal highway speeds is a low load in his examples.

It’s more accurate to say these engines are more efficient under normal driving conditions, but have the option to be driven at high acceleration or extreme speed. Anyone can get poor gas mileage in a Prius if they drive like a race car driver, nobody has the option to drive a big V6 efficiently.

Aka Nobody publishes cannonball run fuel efficiency because that’s abnormal conditions.
AMD has made several attempts, their most recent effort apparently is the ROCm [0] software platform. There is an official PyTorch distro for Linux that supports ROCm [1] for acceleration. There's also frameworks like tinygrad [2] that (claim) support for all sorts of accelerators. Thats as far as the claims go, I don't know how it handles the real world. If the occasional George Hotz livestream (creator of TinyGrad) is anything to go by, AMD has to rule out a lot of driver issues to be any actual competition for team green.

I really hope AMD manages a comeback like they showed a few years ago with their CPUs. Intel joining the market is certainly helping, but having three big players competing would certainly be desirable for all sorts of applications that require GPUs. AMD cars like the 7900 XTX are already fairly promising on paper with fairly big VRAMs, they'd probably be much more cost effective than NVIDIA cards if software support was anywhere near comparable.

[0]: https://www.amd.com/en/graphics/servers-solutions-rocm

[1]: https://pytorch.org/

[2]: https://github.com/geohot/tinygrad
Not if the public view on the data doesn't change. Just the storage. That's sorta the point. To not have to version if you just change the underlying storage model.

For example let's say for whatever reason we were storing a duration as an int. But instead we decided to migrate it to start time and end time.

Do we need to force that change on everyone downstream and add a new major version API? Or can we just compute the old duration from the new attributes in the transformation.

Even in your example do we really need to change the frontend in this case? For small projects the extra boiler plate probably doesn't out weigh the benefits but for large projects it absolutely does.
No. /r/startrek/ passed a critical mass of users necessitating a certain heavy handedness to the moderation. While I might not like it, I do understand the need.
And has been supported by Apple for 5 years.
nice, if I'm reading this right, you do random projection as a first stage filter, then exact search over the filtered subset? that's clever, did you test precision/recall at all?
> old.reddit.com and Adblock works perfectly fine on the phone. Better than Reddit’s mobile site.

What if I told you that Reddit is going to do away with 'old.reddit.com' next?
I've too often found that weird is an indirect way of casting aspersions on something. For example, most people are unlikely to say...

> "That idea is unfamiliar to me, therefore I reject it."

... but many would be comfortable saying ...

> That idea is weird.

Shifting the language in that way isn't genuine; it obscures the core reasoning behind a rather vague word ("weird").

Of course, lots of other things can be happening when people use the word "weird"; they might select it carefully for some particular meaning. That's fine.

I sometimes suggest that people be more aware of how their writing comes across. If that is "weird" (definition below), then maybe we need more weird.

A comment gets read by many people, but it is only written by one. So if an author wants to communicate well, the author should be aware of the audience.

weird

suggesting something supernatural; uncanny:
the weird crying of a seal.

(informal) very strange; bizarre:
a weird coincidence |
all sorts of weird and wonderful characters.
I think that depends on how big and smart the AIs grow going forward. All the stuff you type into a chatbot today could be used to train the chatbot from tomorrow. And that chatbot might than be able to make connections between all the different bits of information it has available that could reveal information that weren't directly obvious from just a single snippet posted into the chatbot. Furthermore that information might then become available to the public, so everybody that asks the right questions could snoop around Google's private data.

Keep in mind, this isn't one employee asking one question to a chatbot, this will be tens of thousands of employees typing in multiple prompts each day.
> why be a moderator for a for-profit company if you aren't being paid?

They like the power of being a moderator and smacking down people who break the rules. Usually they also like to bend the rules themselves to push a personal agenda, promoting what they like and squashing what they don’t like.

It’s the same motivation people have to serve on HOA boards or elected government positions.
If anybody cares enough to pick over your code 30 years later, that probably means you were very successful at what you did; at the very least you had a hand in creating something people care about, which is more than most programmers can say.
> Why does it need continuous, perpetual support?

Because there are no schematics or data sheets posted on that page. Good luck bring up anything else on it…
> But we don't we live in a heavily regulated society, and what seems to work fairly well is having a dealership system.

This is a simple just world fallacy. Most of the times the reason something exists is that it's the best available alternative, but there are definitely times when a systems exists because it is entrenched regulatory capture and rent-seeking, e.g. dealerships and healthcare insurance.

You have to critically evaluate complex systems on a case-by-case basis and see where the money flows to make a determination whether it's good for society as a whole.
Hell no. As skilled as Carmack is as a coder, he falls well below the pioneers for early operating systems and programming language compilers and development in terms of industry and societal impact. Even Bricklin's VisiCalc and its descendants resulting in boring old modern spreadsheet software has a better claim to lasting societal impact than Carmack's 3D engines.
> Is it because reddit isn't profitable so relies on constant money supply from investors?

A lot of replies to say "yes" lol
“On average, more than 50% of the increase in exposure projected for a species will occur in a single decade.”

In other words, expect extinction events to happen very abruptly and cascade across food chains.

Today people are generally not noticing the current global extinction event because of the way that your perception of “normal” diversity in species is set psychologically. If warming really causes rapid die offs on the order of decades however, the current mass extinction will suddenly feel very apocalyptic, by which time it will be too late to save any species that isn’t capable of radically shifting its own habitat range and food sources (i.e. raccoons will probably be okay, polar bears are toast).
but users are main contributors of content. Should they be asked at least?
Once enough of those get created, it would probably be more harmful to Reddit if the mods then opened up their original subreddits. Now users have to pick between /r/foo and /r/foo_unlocked. Communities are fragmented.
Ahh, thank you. That helps a lot. I suppose it's interesting that the return from companies is even remotely comparable to the return from bonds. That's probably a dumb realization but I don't know much about this stuff.
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How do these independent servers cover the costs of "success", if more users join it's more cost, more moderation hassle. Who pays for it?
I've made several "Bob's Restaurant" websites for clients. Early on I thought just that. "This can be statically implemented using the core web technologies HTML and CSS" - It wowed the client visually at first and they signed off on the product agreeing that the simple site was enough for them. Then the client wanted their Facebook, Google Maps, and Instagram integrated throughout the site over time. Now the site has JavaScript in its stack and external code running on it via APIs.

Early on the client wanted to make changes to the menu, and have a feed of events from their Google calendar. I implemented a Google Calendar feed script. Enter the world of dates in JS and learning how to use OAuth to hook into their feed. The client was getting confused as to why all this work had to be done for such simple little features and there was extra cost associated, and at the same time requested that they can CRUD menu items. I told them we need a CMS for that. They didn't like hearing the was more time and cost associated. By this time the statically implemented, elegantly designed Home | Menu | About site delivered the purpose of a visual mockup rather than a website that will help the business retain and add growth.

It could be said that this story is one of not planning and getting the spec right with the client, which in part is true. The part that was wrong is that the site could be this simple CSS HTML static site when in fact, even for a small business lacked the features and flexibility needed. Initially, the client and I decided that we would have me make the changes and updates to the static food and drink menu pages. This turned out to be very inefficient for both parties. Small businesses often don't want to pay hourly rates to have minor updates done on their website, which was the case because I don't work for free.

In the end the HTML/CSS site had a CMS, Database, and multiple external services. I learned from this moving forward and came up with the right stack for the scale of business I work with. However, in the late 2010's I noticed more small businesses opting into products like Squarespace and Wix, and selling clients with certain small businesses (nick nack shops and local bars restaurants) on custom site builds was getting harder.

Back to the original post. I get the point of the blog was to make a statement against unneeded complexity. Sure, however, it's important to remember that the work of producing digital products is inherently technical and complex. Developers should strive to be a smart programmer and spend time picking the right tools for the job.
I don't think it was a questionable deal, at least without 20/20 hindsight. Twitter wasn't looking for a buyer, and Musk really, really wanted to buy it (until he didn't). If you have a highly motivated buyer and a not particularly motivated seller, you would expect the deal to be favorable to the seller. In order to convince Twitter owners to sell the company Musk had to essentially make them an offer so good they couldn't refuse. What other outcome would you expect?

If Musk lost in court, was ordered to go through with the deal, and then sabotaged the financing to try to get out of the deal, potentially a court could have thrown him in jail and said, "You are lying about not being able to go through with the financing, we find you in contempt of court and you are staying in jail until you obtain financing and close the deal." It's not very plausible that the world's richest man can't find financing on the deal.

Potentially a court could have also instead said, "Since you sabotaged the financing, you are in breach of contract. Twitter is worth 22 billion dollars today. You offered 44 billion dollars to buy it. You are hereby ordered to pay Twitter 22 billion dollars to make them whole." Presumably the court could have forced him to sell assets to pay up.

I don't think anyone knows for sure what would have happened in court but it seems he had a very weak case.
Couldn't this same argument be used to warn staff about entering data into Gmail, Google Sheets, Google Cloud...? None of those are end-to-end encrypted and companies using them are "leaking" their info to Google.
They do but in this day and age the information asymmetry is not that huge or isn't there anymore (depending on the customer). They put up a good face to hook you in. My experience is that they become less enthusiastic (to say the least) once they know that their "sales" force powers will not work on you.
Say I'm "single threaded" (more simple). When to use Rc/RefCell then?
Let us know if/when you figure out how to find communities. Discoverability seems to be a real problem with Lemmy.
The book of Genesis specifically - took a really neat class that was a deep dive on that part of the bible specifically.

That implication you mention is not present in the text at all, and if you think about what it says and what that means it paints a very different picture. I mean, the very process of creation is the shaping of a chaotic potential over a period of time that ends in a rest - that doesn't depict an all powerful god.

Specifically I'd suggest that you are uncritically repeating this perspective that lacks a basis in the text, and its justifications replaces persuasion with insistence and repetition . But it does not make sense and its sole reason for existing is to try and harmonize 'god is perfect' with the actual text.

Edit:
To your second paragraph I'm uninterested in how a specific culture views the relationship between men and spirits, I'm referring to how they are human creations that are inherently anthropocentric - they are stories told by humans for humans to explain human things and so their stories are centered around human things.

So the difference between 'people that know other life exists because they believe in spiritual life', and 'people that know other life exists because they recorded a signal that was demonstrably extra terrestrial' is that the former group believes other life is centered on them/us and the latter group does not - I presume we'd ascribe to them similar internal life as to our own, but at the very least we wouldn't assume that their core purpose or sense of place would intersect with us in any way.
> Only 17% reported being in SF for less than a year, what are you talking about?

Oh, looks like you forgot to add the 28% who were already experiencing homelessness when they arrived in SF. I’m sure that’s just an honest mistake.

> ahahaha oh okay you are insane.

So you believe that a homeless person who has lived in SF for 13 months, total, at the time they were surveyed is “from SF”? I’m not the one who created the reporting buckets.

I’m happy to change my mind given new data, but a person who has lived in a city for 1-10 years is not “from” that city. Maybe you should ask SF’s homeless census to report in more gradual buckets.
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