skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Is the continued existence of Mega the equivalent of such a case study?

The infrastructure might be similar, but the packaged product is different.

"Pay us and you can upload your files and access them anywhere / share them" vs. "Upload files that other strangers will be interested in so much that they will pay for access".

Also, unless I'm wrong Megaupload was indexed and searchable. While to access a Mega file one needs a direct link and these are usually not posted around on the public web. At least I don't see them that much.

Although I believe you that a record of communication proving intent is the most damning part in the eye of the law.
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That's the website of the Frankfurter Algemeine, which (as far as I know) is a reputable German newspaper.
It can be done without a time machine or pretty close to it. Get a TV antenna, channel scan and delete all channels except MeTV stations and a couple other classic stations. Cancel all social media, streaming services and no cell phone. Only a landline and always drive with a road atlas in the glove box. If you want to learn about something go to a library and check out books. Do all those things and well on your way.
I guess I’m horribly out of date, but why not go to the actual Reddit website or just use the official Reddit app? I don’t know why you’d be forced into a third party tool for something that doesn’t require it. I’d never even heard of Apollo until a few days ago.
I certainly believe that's your experience, but it's not a universal one. I take Adderall for ADHD and I don't really notice any difference at all in how I feel. The main difference is that when there's something I should do, I just do it rather than procrastinating and dreading it. It's not some stimulant fueled mania or anything, more like "oh, there's some trash on the table. Oh, the trash can is full, I'll remove the bag and take it to the bin. Now I'll continue on with my day" instead of "oh, there's some trash there. Better spend the next 12 hours doing anything else while feeling guilty and ruminating on the fact that I'm a failure of a human because I can't even do something as simple as throw some trash away, before promptly forgetting that the trash exists and ignoring it for the next 2 weeks"
This looks really interesting but also early days. "this is a very incomplete proof of concept. It's probably not going to work with your application." I hope it develops into something broadly usable!
My point of view is that anyone who wants to write multithreaded code, shouldn't be trusted to. Making it easier for people to justify this kind of footgun is a problem.

Also, no matter how much you wish it otherwise, retrofitting concurrency on an existing project guarantees that you'll wind up with subtle concurrency bugs. You might not encounter them often, and they're hard to spot, but they'll be there.

Furthermore existing libraries that expect to be single-threaded are now a potential source of concurrency bugs. And there is no particular reason to expect the authors of said libraries to have either the skills or interest to track those bugs down and fix them. Nor do I expect that multi-threaded enthusiasts who use those libraries in unwise ways will recognize the potential problems. Particularly not in a dynamic language like Python that doesn't have great tool support for tracking down such bugs in an automated way.

As a result if "no GIL" ever gets merged, I expect that the whole Python ecosystem will get much worse as well. But that's no skin off of my back - I've learned plenty of languages. I can simply learn one that hasn't (yet) made this category of mistake.
Ehh no. One is just unrelated to the other.

European countries where I live don't have a crook pharma industry and still have a good status quo with drugs.
Addressed in the following paragraph of that post. Certainly possible, but likely the result will be a ton of new startups than larger tech companies ballooning their ranks - as this gets better, those will either stay the same or be reduced. IOW, the fat big tech comp the OP is stressing over won't really be a thing at scale anymore. Time will tell, but that's my prediction.
There was an article I read on here years ago that outlined a plan to the legalization of all drugs, but I've sadly never been able to find it again. It was such an old article that it thoroughly addressed the legalization of marijuana.

It basically put all the drugs into a tiered system. Weed would be grouped with alcohol, regulated but basically available everywhere. Non addictive but more powerful drugs like MDMA and shrooms would be available at pharmacies with a consultation from the pharmacist, basically just making sure users planned ahead and knew the risks. It went all the way up to to intravenous heroin use at specific facilities with on site nurses, where users had to consult a doctor every so often.

If anyone knows the article or something similar, I would like to reread it just to see what the author got right and to review their ideas going forward.
He should try reversing the polarity on the magnetic drive, normally takes 10 hours but he can do it in 5.
It's my buddy Klauss! I haven't seen him in ages!
Is there a tool that can assert a library doesnt/cant panic?
Given the context, it is clear "drugs" here refers to psychoactive substances.
I just tell it how to write a good story before asking for a story (show, don't tell. Don't list descriptions each time a new thing appears, instead let it become apparent. Withhold information from the reader to build tension, hint and further lore and be creative with your world building) etc, maybe I'll come back and publish some of my prompts in full but I'm getting great results
But it's not lying, even a little.
I understand it is federated, apologies. What I meant was, to engage with the new StarTrek Lemmy you need to know their address. On Reddit everything is at https://reddit.com/. It is frictionless.
Sometimes the world can be improved. Most times it's just fine and any suggested external change should probably start from within. There are those who like letters, words, and the sound of keyboard keys. Then there are others who like pretty pictures in big buttons and the click of the mouse.

All this to suggest that perhaps you are the wrong target for text-base interfaces.
I've always regretted that I didn't keep one magazine from each month of my life --- unfortunately, most of the older ones got pitched a couple of moves ago. Articles which I'd like to revisit:

- Popular Mechanics and the first mention of a CNC which I read of --- the U.S. Navy putting one on an aircraft carrier at the cost of half-a-million dollars

- the computer magazine which had a review of the GRiD Compass (I later bought a GRiDCase III spending way more than I should have)

- the issue of Newsweek which had the 16 page insert ad for the original Apple Macintosh

- the issue of Time which had an article on gun control where the photo of weapons from a gun buyback prominently featured an inexpensive air pistol

- the news magazine which had a tiny sidebar article covering an international incident which I actually had direct knowledge of
Yes that is one of the cool side benefits i see too. It's like lossy compression for knowledge.

Although, I mean that more in the sense we can have an entire (text) internet search engine on a phone, rather than it being a full backup.
No, because it's irrelevant. Talking about "electric motor efficiency" is as pointless as talking about the efficiency of the ring and pinion in the axle of vehicle. It isn't where energy is lost.

The total system efficiency is what matters. As other posters mentioned, even diesels beat the efficiency of an EV when you measure well to wheel:

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020SJRUE..24..669A/abstra...
This is a Reddit-level comment. Cynical and teenage-anger-esuque
I've always wondered why not to use request interceptors, get the html/json/xml/whatever url and then just call them.

If you need cookies/headers, you can always open the browser, log in and then make the same requests in the console, instead of waiting for the browser to load and scrape the UI (by xpath, etc.)

sounds weird going in circles:
- SPA call some URL
- SPA use the response data to populate the UI
- You scrape the UI

instead of just calling the url inside the browser?
am i missing something?
A: Have all your contacts disappeared? (Android)
yes I was a little disappointed, ngl

a post-apocalyptic recipe book would be really interesting (canned cultivated meat, mycotissues, texturised hydroponic soya and boiled grains, yummm)
I think this is a culture/News problem. There have been plenty of coal accidents. A coal dust explosion in the 1940s killed over 1000 people. Mining accidents and deaths are somehow unconnected in the popular imagination.
"${HOME}ies", please
thats a bit of a stretch
Allowing drug users to legally and safely test their drugs results in more safety for individuals and less costs for society. In the Netherlands, private organizations have been testing drugs for users and helping the government track dangerous trends in the distribution of illegal drugs.

There’s a lot of recreational drugs like alchohol and (more recently in the US) weed that are legal to consume. The current system where drugs are only available through illegal means results in violence and huge amounts of organized crime, and a mixture of upper and underworld endangering citizens and politicians. We have huge issues with this in the Netherlands.

Personally, I find drug use abhorrent and I condemn everyone buying drugs illegally and propping up and enriching monstrous people, but I fully support legal drug testing.

More info: https://www.jellinek.nl/vraag-antwoord/why-do-they-test-drug...
Not me. I’m an Xer and the kind of person who is searching for a HoloLens 1 on Ebay.

My son, born in 2002, is really a throwback. He refuses to use a cell phone of any kind, including a prepaid. (In an emergency you can almost always ask to use somebody else’s)

He plays an N64 attached to a CRT television that has a built-in VHS VCR.

He just got a job off the farm and needed a car, he couldn’t stand any car with a touchscreen or the roofline of a Toyota Prius, he wanted to drive down to North Carolina and get a Chrysler Fifth Avenue. I know quite a few rednecks who do that all the time and think nothing of it but it seemed like too much of an adventure. Instead I found a 1996 Buick Park Avenue an hour away and that’s what he drives now…. It’s a big car that gets 29 mpg on the highway and cost less than I could have spent on a Chevy Sonic with 180,000 miles.
The article is on a collaborative online platform, so you can add comments or suggestions for corrections on the website :) https://books.worksinprogress.co/book/maintenance-of-everyth...
There is also brutalinks https://sr.ht/~mariusor/brutalinks/
>>Nowadays everything is ready for you to play and even if you are a beginner you can play with the most experienced. In Quake you can spend 1 year playing and not win a single match.

I mean......saying this as a game developer - this is a good thing. You want people to come in and enjoy the game, and not be frustrated by it. Obviously there should still be a mode somewhere where you can truly test your skills and where the top players hang out(in multiplayer shooters that's usually what the ranked mode is for), but new players should be able to just jump in and have a good time. I believe this is a huge part of why games like Fortnite are so successful - because no matter what is your skill level, you will always have a good time, but it also offers an incredibly high skill level ceiling for people who really want to put in the hours.

>>I think games say a lot about generations.

I'm not sure if that is about generations, more about the market - when Q3 came out the only other major game in that space was Unreal Tournament. Nowadays you have so much choice that if a game frustrates you you can always pick a different one. And the market has been completely "ruined" by gamepass and endless promotions, so people don't have attachment to games like they used to. Sure some of them do if they spent £50 on a game, but for an increasing number of games and people, that just isn't true anymore. There is no cost associated with trying a game on Gamepass for 20 minutes and abandoning it.
No one's forced into the third-party tools. Reddit is trying to get rid of the third-party tools that people voluntarily prefer.

They've also been neutering/breaking the mobile version of the site for years trying to force people to use the Reddit mobile app.
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There was a brief period where the internet was shockingly stable. However, 'creative destruction' and churn is inevitable as the whole world continues to desire a better internet. If reddit cannot productively use this to come out with a better product and commitment to its community, hence destroy the bad within itself, it should fall apart in favor of new services.

I spent a decade+ actively on reddit, and I truly loved its hobby & local communities during that time. I deleted my account last week; I don't believe they'll change. Life is too short to spend it on things you don't love anymore.
Nailing the Quarterly Plan
This is only marginally more stupid than the actual book.
> C or Go where the set of features can all be held in your head and the actual code is explicitly stated rather than generated by macros and generics and such.

The C preprocessor is a Turing-complete, and a lot of C code abuses it to implements things a lot more complex that just "macros and generics and such".

Because of that C with a preprocessor literally has a infinite "set of features", a pretty big set of features almost garanteed to not fit anyone's head. I don't think you can call something with - both by it's own code and it's libraries code - arbitrary turing-complete preprocessing "understandable".
Hey thanks I've been here since 2011 and the thing I have to add is that excuses for atrocities are and always remain shitty and you are shitty for not thinking so!
There's an archive available going all the way till March: https://archive.org/details/pushshift-reddit-2023-03

They could probably import the data to lemmy.
The lack of quality control is exactly what is killing people in the opioid epidemic.
Not fake but rather breaking news. Bavarian State Office for the Care of Monuments official press release was yesterday, the 14th: https://www.blfd.bayern.de/mam/blfd/presse/pi_bronzezeitlich...

But what a beautiful sword!
Easy to predict the future when you write about it after the fact.
> will have an engagement decrease

That's great! A community should have interesting discussion, not engagement!
> Is ZLUDA a drop-in replacement for CUDA?
Yes, but certain applications use CUDA in ways which make it incompatible with ZLUDA

I think this might get better if and when people redesign their dev workflows, CI/CD pipelines, builds, etc, to deploy code to both hardware platforms to ensure matching functionality and stability. I'm not going to hold my breath just yet. But it would be really great to have two viable platforms/players in this space where code can be run and behave equally.
>There is also the argument that it could "divide the community" as some C extensions may not be ported to the new ABI that the no GIL project will result in

I think the arguments are a red herring. It's more rationalizations for not wanting to do it.
This outage seems to only affect users who are logged in. Try a private browser window if you need access.
https://docs.rs/no-panic/latest/no_panic/ might be what you're looking for
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Boy, I feel this.

I am also a 0.5x programmer. I write dead-simple C; I don't even touch web development, which I consider more complex than C development with Valgrind.

In fact, I've spent nearly 3 years writing a build system. That's how slow I am, and it's made some acquaintances laugh at how long I've worked without result.

But in reality, I'm not just building a build system. I'm also building my own stack, a la [1], including replacing as much of libc as I can and changing the OS API's I use.

I think that soon enough, this stack and this simplicity will become my superpowers and make me a 10x programmer.

Being a stupid programmer means you won't be clever. And if you're not clever, you will be able to debug it, even though it is twice as hard to debug than to write. [2] Good debugging is a superpower in itself.

[1]: https://youtube.com/watch?v=443UNeGrFoM

[2]: https://www.defprogramming.com/quotes-by/brian-w-kernighan/
It's funny to think that the fantasy/speculative fiction trope of "precursor civilization that has advanced tech" was probably grounded in the historical memory of people happening upon ruins, weapons and artifacts of extraordinary craftsmanship.
Hadn't heard of Lemmy. This seems pretty good. Reddit might actually be in trouble if other subreddits follow suit. Someone should make a dedicated lemmy site (or other site) that acts as a directory for "subreddits" to each lemmy site so it's easier to browse. An equivalent "frontpage" would be cool too if that was possible to setup somehow (seems like it should be with fediverse)
based on the reactions in r/gaming when they opened back up they either have to to do this or admit they are giving up and the entire protest was meaningless:

https://old.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/149cq9f/reddit_were...
Crowley's "followers" are almost indistinguishable from new age types, except for the ether of long worn out hippie nonsense.

Occultism is something conveniently both esoteric enough to feel special but also hollow enough that you can wrap it around all your personal narcissism and still have it make sense.
I believe the implication is that the rest of the world will complain about your service's status on Twitter.
Debugging is easier with GET requests, where you can see what is being sent to the server. It's not a huge win, but it's better than POST for everything in my experience.
I'd do it, if I expected to charge $18 billion for information that the thing I just purchased used to offer for free.
I'm recreating several of my old subs, that were stolen from me when Reddit suspended my account and stole all the subs I founded and built up over 10 years.
So many people use the phrase "drugs and alcohol", which makes as much sense as saying "meat and beef".

The thing those people never want to admit is, they LOVE drugs (coffee, sex, TV, alcohol, tobacco, antidepressants, benzos, ...) but they don't want to acknowledge that they are first class drugs too, because they view "drug users" as losers, because they don't like those drugs in particular.
Not sure what point you're trying to make. I think it'd be a great idea to build nuclear in Texas.
It's great to see this kind of infrastructure work to integrate a variety of agents into whatever system you're building. Keep up the good work! I may crib some notes from this for use in non-Python projects.
To have/sell exclusive access to AI companies.
Well first off, that's not correct anyways; type-conformancy is a very valid and important part of data sanitization.

E.g. does the SSN consist of 3 valid integers split on dashes? If not, it ain't a proper SSN. Catching that typeError is much safer than trying to roll regex or character allow/blocklists.

But also, the manifesto never mentions data structures.

It says

> I’m not smart enough to figure out how to transform data between different layers of the system, so I just don’t. I use the same represetnation in the UI layer and the storage layer.

Transforming data means actually changing the data, not the data structure that houses it. The author is explicitly talking about making changes to the data itself.
There’s also the famous Numerical Recipes book. That is more like a set of steps you can follow when writing your code, which seems like what a recipe/cookbook ought to contain.

Since this work is about identities, aka representations that can be swapped in for one another, IMO they should have called it the “matrix ingredient substitution guide.”
I actually came in hoping for the chat protocol >_>
Don’t Mix Law and Ethics
He would have to sell slowly to get liquidity at a stable price. Which means he would have to file some forms that says he is selling before he can finish, which means he would have to come up with a narrative that's convincing the market that the company is still worth market price.

I'd say It's not impossible but quite unlikely that he can sell it all at current market price.
Or at least insist on a centerstand which so many modern bikes unfortunately can't fit because of their complex exhaust configurations.
That community was run by the old mods. Without mods, no subreddit. You're welcome to start your own with your mod preferences, though.
Once you've built a community and a "library" though, as we see, it's hard to up and move it. At least, until the guy who owns the library threatens to burn it all down.
He popularised BSP for FPS which meant doom ran faster than SystemShock, despite having more complex level geometry
There are plenty of reasons why something you think should take a day might take a week. We often (fallaciously) assess a problem as "easy" without considering the context in which it has to be incorporated, i.e. the codebase. The duration is moreoften a function of the complexity of the codebase, rather than the complexity of the isolated problem.
If you write data to a temporary file and then rename that file to its final name, renaming is an atomic operation on a POSIX filesystem, so you will cleanly overwrite the original file. However, you then need to deal with the risk of lost writes if another process or thread is reading/writing at the same time (i.e., sequential writes with in-memory cache, or just architect so that only one writer at a time; of course, if the shape of the data fits SQL and you don't mind compiling C libraries into your app which might remove the ability to static compile, using pure SQLite in WAL mode might be a better approach since it handles multiple writers for you.)

Even with that risk, for certain types of apps, this can be a way to avoid a database which might need a separate process to backup/dump etc, the skills of a DBA-type of person in some environments, adding yet another database to an enterprise "approved" list, etc. This technique presents a nice, clean view of real data and allows backups of just the live data directory itself. On SSD, it's also much more performant than you might expect.

It's quite possible to make the author's approach work very well with nearly zero long-term maintenance and no external database dependencies, as long as you are careful to manage the expectations and requirements.
I'm not sure if you're aware, but only the first remote user needs to know the address. After that the content gets federated to the feeds of other instances automatically, including the new/hot pages where popular upvoted posts from the star trek instance can show up on the front page of other instances, allowing new people to discover, join the "sublemmy", and comment often without realizing it's hosted on a different server.
We had a similar event a couple of months ago. After the layoffs the remaining employees were told to increase the productivity (do more with less) by utilizing GPT. Of course there will be no increase of compensation. The real cause of layoffs were financial, GPT is just an excuse to fend off complaints of (now overworked) employees.