skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A single power. And I don't think it's a power all mods have. If it is, it would only take one rogue mod to re-public the subreddit.

And really, whether or not the mods continue to moderate is the thing being tested with such a move. Reddit did the API thing, the mods responded by escalating to this. Reddit can either blink and walk back some of their choices, wait for the mods to blink and reopen (of which, some have already), or reddit can escalate further and see if that makes the mods blink.

I believe a non-zero number of mods will continue to moderate. I also believe there are more than enough people willing to moderate to replace any of those who refuse to return.

Then you have weird situations. Because I'm willing to believe that some people believe it is extraordinarily difficult to moderate a subreddit and that they are uniquely gifted at it. Some of these people will believe that they have to moderate the subreddit because they believe the community will go to shit without them. Others will believe that their replacements will cause the community go to shit and Tim Reddit himself will come begging them to rejoin the moderation team.

And neither of these things are true. Moderating a forum is mostly drudgery and the only real skill it takes is having the time to do so. This is a battle I don't think the current mods can ultimately win.
And Meta/"Facebook 1.0" can do the same with all your data that they have right now. That's an issue of what the terms of service allow and, potentially, of developer malfeasance. In fact, do you know if there's anything in the bill that would set rules or guidelines for use of the API? Because I think it would be pretty reasonable to require that third parties using the API adhere to certain restrictions, and "don't sell the data you get that way without the user's express, clearly-informed, consent" would be a pretty important one.

Furthermore, I think we need regulations limiting what social media services themselves can do with data like that as well. And it may be that it would be more ideal if we didn't open up social media services to third-party clients with mandatory APIs until we do have that.

But given the choice between the status quo, and only one of those improvements? I know which one I'd choose.
How does this compare with Fermyon's WebAssembly platform?
i wonder if font sizes will continue getting bigger for ever
This is not in any way a victory for feminism, or for anyone else. The men are basically slaves, and the women are considered to be too inferior to be slaves so they do black market work.
What platforms? No, seriously, what platforms, I'm looking for a reddit alternative.
I've been quite happy with lemmy so far.

I decided to go for the beehaw.org instance, because I like their moderation model. The only problem I had was the registration, because there currently is a bug, where you aren't notified if your application was rejected (I only wrote a short sentence per question in my first application)

There is already work on improving the sign-up process, so hopefully this will be a smooth process in the future.
If China decided they would no longer back North Korea, the regime could be replaced in hours. Most of the time, when toppling regimes, you have to be worried about someone even worse taking over. In this case, I don't see how it could get any worse.
Also see https://matplotlib.org/cmocean/
mastodon had a twitter moment and now lemmy seems to have a reddit moment?

I can't see the two other "replica" fediverse platforms (pixelfed, peertube) getting such a break (instagram / youtube respectively) though. These being run by big tech and having an army of content creators that try to make a living there have a different dynamic which doesn't fit the non-commercial ideology.

On the other hand some type of "commercial" fediverse might allow creators to keep a much bigger share of what consumers may pay. So you never know...
I found it interesting that they appear to interact with these fossils that look a little like parasites on the rocks.

Obviously this is pure imagination but I wonder if that was why they felt the need to scratch the rock or create lines to block it from spreading.
> Not sure where I read it, but someone writing about the history of DOOM basically said John was a machine and the machine ran on Diet Coke and pizza.

I'm pretty sure I've read it in "Masters of Doom".
Check out the Luxonis Oak products. I use an Oak-1 Lite to do real time 2 stage object detection and recognition (~23FPS at 1080P inference on device with two custom yolov5n models). With a bit of python and a Pi (or a Rock64 or similar) you can get it up and running in a day. They also have a decent community and are actively developing the API/SDK and hardware.
> It's unprofessional to do this in conflict with your company's interests.

Great work happens at the intersection of employee's and company's interests!

Why not simply align the two? Compare the Xerox Alto with the Macintosh...
"Your problem with vim is that you do not grok vi".

Yes, that StackOverflow answer (which starts with the above line) is one of the best I have ever read, on any subject, not just vim.

(However, I should mention that I have not read, say, thousands of stack overflow answers, only in the range of hundreds, because I was never a heavy StackOverflow or StackExchange user.)

Anyway, FWIW, I think that answer could described as partly explaining the "Zen" of vi(m).

And for people who are intrigued by the benefits of vi(m) mentioned by various commenters in this thread, and would like to start using it, I have a small vi tutorial, which is applicable to vim too.

Those new to vi(m), check this vi quickstart tutorial that I created.

https://gumroad.com/l/vi_quick

From the start of a Twitter subthread I wrote about the tutorial (thread unfortunately deleted later by accident - Twitter should have an undo feature like vim, heh):

[ Those new to vi / vim, hit the ground running with my short vi quickstart tutorial here:

https://gumroad.com/l/vi_quick

I first wrote that tutorial at the request of a couple of Windows system admin friends of mine (at a company where I worked earlier), who were tasked with managing a few Unix boxes, without knowing Unix. They used the tutorial and later told me that it helped them to quickly start using vi to do their work on those boxes, including editing config files, simple shell scripts, etc.

Edit: Since vi is mostly a subset of vim, the tutorial works for vim too. ]
SWC uses Wasmer for its plugin system to execute WASM plugins.
surprisingly, for average crowds, who usually describe stuff in fluffy text, UML-like diagrams suddenly feel like going from VB5 to python3
Ask HN: How do you auto-moderate FUD?
I've seen an increase in bad argumentation styles, with faulty/poor rhetoric and persistent what-about-ism here lately. Stuff like a purely cynical, hyperbolically dystopic, or selfish and nihilistic perception which fails to align with the moral community I previously witnessed on this site.
I.e., in a conversation about the US or western democracies in general, there inevitably will be a new account asking simple, distracting questions for which the most appropriate gr retor is often something like "but, in this context, we actually don't want authoritarian governance..."

Engaging with these accounts shows that they are unwilling (or else not employed to) engage in good-faith dialogue. Although this guideline applies to all, there's only one "dang" and he can only do so much.

My question: are there tools/plugins/front-ends which you use to, i.e., share lists of known "shill" accounts to filter stuff like foreign state actors out of an otherwise valuable HN thread?
The statement "Large variances in human populations come from different hybrid compositions" seems a particularly provocative statement. Is there a source where this comes from?
https://rdrama.net/
There was a shift in how the word 'hominid' was used around the 1990s, largely due to the introduction of genetic classification if I understand correctly. Hominids (humans and close ancestors) used to be considered distinct from Pongoids, which were basically all other great apes including chimpanzees and bonobos. That taxonomy was retired, and all great apes are now considered hominids.
I remember years ago reading about someone from the north who had defected to South Korea after they were shown an episode of a SK TV show about two women fighting over a car parking space. Seeing a normal person in the country next door being able to argue over something so inconsequential because they already had every basic need met cut through.

I'm sure SK tries to send propaganda information to the north. Maybe they should saturate them with bullshit first world problem complaints instead.
Besides the obvious recommendation not to input sensitive or private data into someone else's computers, I think the following is quite interesting:

> Alphabet also alerted its engineers to avoid direct use of computer code that chatbots can generate, some of the people said.

It's telling, and says imho a lot about the "quality" of AI generated code.
Wow, this link is something else - you can track what problems he tackled and what he worked on DAILY.
He wanted nuclear bombs in NK and China.
Given the right market and regulatory timing, I think an acquisition by one of the largest US techs could pass and be for a bit more than the stock price, though it would probably at least partially be in the merged stock that he would still have to unwind.
Owner of SF's Largest Hotel Is Walking Away Surrendering It to Lender
Apple Battersea Opens in London’s Historic Battersea Power Station
In light of recent news, this is an extremely misleading choice of title, given that the orginal was "241,000 to 335,000 Years Old Rock Engravings Made by Homo naledi in the Rising Star Cave system, South Africa".

It's not news that non- homo sapien sapiens had things like art, music, an mortuary practices.
/tinfoil

you're thinking internationally, you should be thinking supra-nationally. Some elements within China and USA wanted economic warfare (sanctions, dependence-decoupling) to prove they can come out on top

Every war inflicts damage to both sides, as soon as you lob one bomb you should expect more lobbed back at you

what war really is is applying enormous economic strain (both offense and defense) until one side collapses

From that view, the decision to release a virus that plausibly emerged from a Chinese lab performing research tied with US scientists creates a solid fog of who's responsible, both sides deny an attack happened at all, and the war mongers get to have their economic game that ideally (for them) leads to such jingoism on both sides that hot war becomes a likely outcome

/tinfoil
I think as your backend grows larger you will likely begin to run into the issues that I experienced with Python through my years of writing it.

The dynamic typing eventually makes certain kinds of bugs creep into your code and it can be difficult to realise.

Code written in dynamic languages are also more difficult and time consuming to refactor than code written in a statically typed language.
> Well sure, but a lot of non-engineers do that too. Where's the real distinction at?

A lot of non-lawyers can discuss law principles and explain laws pretty well; but someone who passed the bar I know for a fact are familiar with certain concepts.

Same for engineers.
Google Groups was never at the level that Reddit currently is, at least in terms of search results.
Actually though, is SEO/spam so out of control that allegedly the best software engineers in the world are unable to counter it?

Are bad results actually good for google in some perverse ad-based way?

Do people at google actually use their products at all?
> how do you maintain a conversation in the comments?

I press "threads" and look through sometimes.
Thanks for your recommendation.
If the world can get through the Cold War and Germany reuniting, I feel there is a chance for NK at some point in the future (however slim)
People run more queries which leads to more ad inpressions?..
I would also add Flow Diagram.
Couple questions as I try to understand:

> I can log into Mastodon and search and find the user I created on lemmy. I can also search, follow and look at the posts @technology@beehaw.org. All from my Mastodon app/account.

So is your user registered at lemmy? Or at lemmy.world? Is there a difference?

And you can view the posts at @technology@beehaw.org - but do you have to have a separate beehaw account to post?
What you are referring to is allowing MacArthur to have nuked China when they entered the Korean war, aka killing millions of civilians and leaving the eastern seaboard of China irradiated for generations. We should be glad he was kept on his leash.
Makes me think of that comic from ten or fifteen years back, "what if it's a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing?"
> * If you mean a thing that's meant to be deployed with a bunch of Python dependencies, then `requirements.txt` is probably still your best bet.

This is exactly how we got in this mess. Using ``setup.cfg`` or ``pyproject.toml`` for all projects makes this easy as now your deployable project can be installed via pip like every other one.

1. ``python -m virtualenv .``

2. ``source ./bin/activate.fish``

3. ``pip install -U https://my.program.com/path/to/tarball.tar.xz``
> The column layout is basically impossible for me to meaningfully navigate

Same. Somebody said it was done this way because of mobile. I'm not sure.

It's just weird to see "items" horizontally and properties vertically. I'm usually familiar with:

prop | prop | prop

item | value| value

item2| value| value
people are shooting up and shitting in front of schools, houses libraries leaving their empty needles and feces for the rest of us. Good grief, it's way beyond inconvenience. It's deeply damaging the safety and quality of life for a large number of poor and rich people to keep allowing people to freely chase their addictions without constraint (and I have a lot of empathy for the pain those people are carrying that is pushing them towards drugs). I have no idea if you actually live here or are just another out of touch out of towner looking down our noses at us.

I do believe that the homeless are getting an unfair share of a blame for the actual crime happening in San Francisco, but they are deeply contributing to the overall levels of lack of safety and the knock on effects of shootings related to turf wars related to supplying them with illegal drugs.
I never worked in search, curious what are the technical difficulties of implementing a YouTube-style "Don't Recommend This Channel" are? From the outset, the YouTube recommendation can be an offline process, and much easier to scale.

Google pretty much has "F-you" level developer man-power to throw at this problem, so I'm somewhat surprised they haven't implemented it yet (the "bad result is good for Google" reasoning never quite made sense to me). I'm curious if the functionality is not worth it or if the technical challenge is insurmountable at Google's scale.
Can you give more context? What industry/department are you in and what kinds of reports?

My general experience has been the opposite -- is that anytime you can produce something that feels more elegant or "design"-y, with well-chosen tasteful colors instead of ugly primary colors, that it's extremely well received, and the problem is that coworkers ask me to improve their own charts/presentations which I'm not going to do (but I will send them links to a site like this). But this is in the context of presentations at tech companies.
I just tried this out because it sounds believable. I watch _a lot_ of youtube. and it's content is pretty focused. I searched, "ikea review" and it showed me exclusively ikea reviews.

what I have noticed now and in the past is that if you search something that does not have high matches, it just throws at you unrelated garbage that you normally watch.
>I guess a caveat to that is that some people have to- and should- work to be generally likable. I have known some very smart people I would really prefer to never have to work with again.

I think you hit on something here. When someone is viewed as generally unlikable, excluding them is contagious. No matter how hard they work at it, it will always be socially easy and acceptable by the in-group to exclude them. There is relatively no pressure on the in-group to work at being more accepting towards "unlikable" people, like there is for those people to "work to be likable." People are extremely unforgiving in social interactions.
Most mods (who oversee the generation of new content) use the API because third-party apps offer superior mod tools. Instead of thinking about "shutting down third party apps" think about it as "asking your volunteer labor to do the job on hard mode". You can see why those people might get pissed off.
I actually don't think IRC is doing that well. I used to have a bouncer but I shut it down a few months ago because most of my communities had moved over to Discord. But I think the reason why Discord and Slack took over was not because IRC was decentralized, but because the protocol was never designed for mobile devices where you might not always be connected to a server.

It didn't help that the protocol evolved at an absolutely glacial pace with very uneven support across various networks, and doing anything but the most trivial sorts of channel management had to be done through a bot. Matrix seems like the obvious IRC successor due to its seamless two-way interoperability with IRC networks, but I suspect that it won't hit critical mass until Discord starts causing problems for its userbase.
Are you familiar with rbs (https://github.com/ruby/rbs)? If so, what issues do you see with using that over TypeScript?
Honest question: for the user, how does the federation work if your "subreddits" (sublemmies?) are scattered between 10 different instances? On Mastodon it's quite a pain sometimes, if you open a link to someone else's instance, and then have to copy their link and paste on your instance to be able to follow

I think this is probably way harder/more annoying on lemmy, since if I have 1 user on abc.xyz, and I also browse and want to comment/upvote on qwerty.cxz and asdf.rocks
I think there's a good chance Beehaw.org refederates with lemmy.world assuming new moderation tools are created magically.

But I don't think there's much of a chance that they refederate with sh.itjust.works.

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So choice of server, as a user, absolutely matters in the Lemmy world. The more curated communities will be treated with a bit more welcoming than the fully 100% open instances like Lemmy.world or sh.itjust.works.
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Sounds like it's Payment Request API + the biometric verification, so no more "open your bank app to approve this transaction"
They should update Apollo to work as a Lemmy client.
How could we explain the decisions behind current web design to an alien race?
I did shift the goalposts once because I was wrong. In my second post I expressed that Firefox's built-in update manger still did something much better than the distro package manager.

You asserted that was not the case, so I asked you to prove it. If you don't want to you don't have to, but I'll assume you admit that the distro package manager is in fact inferior.
Indeed. I would love to get an invite if anyone has one to share.
Won't cement slowly reabsorb half of the CO2 it released when making it (excluding the heating part)? What is the big advantage to making it reabsorb it early in its lifetime?
The CEO of Kroger mentioned 'AI' 8 times on the company’s earnings call
Google is less worried about internal code leaks, they train bard on part of their internal code.

The point is likely more... biz people, don't put in confidential financial & usage numbers when using the writing assistant, don't use code produced by them because it is not trustworthy, and might contain GPL stuff which would infect our code.
There's still a W3C?!

I'm kidding on the square, but I thought they'd been effectively displaced by WHATWG (and TC39).
I feel like we use reddit in entirely different ways. I don't use the front page. I'm not subscribed to any main subreddit. I use subreddits to find information about my interests: Individual game subreddits, Financial information, Product reviews.

Does everyone who has strong dislike of reddit stay subscribed to /r/news and /r/worldnews (and others)? I know those subs ruin my feeds and my mood. Otherwise, I don't see how reading something like /r/factorio can decline one's mental wellbeing.
Absolutely. The classic social success for an introvert is to be adopted by a well-meaning extrovert.

This is a mutually beneficial relationship because introverts are often just as interesting and valuable friends as extroverts are, but have less time competition from other friends. So the introvert gets someone who will help maintain their network, and the extrovert gets a good friend with relatively greater time availability.
> It has even deployment instructions that don't tell you when your code will run

You're referring to this? https://docs.wasmer.io/edge/quickstart/http-server Personally, I found it pretty instructive.

The current regions are us-east, us-west, and eu-central: https://docs.wasmer.io/edge/architecture

> but there's no mention of database or filesystem.

The docs do point out that stateful workloads are in their plans.
> I'm confused by your proposals and by your questions.

Not questions plural, question singular.

> What would you do with a naked guy who hasn't showered in 3 weeks walking around the library with a piece of glass in his hand threatening to potentially cut someone? I don't like jail either, but I'm at a loss as to what you do with them. What do you have in mind?

I think we have already agreed on helping homeless people that aren't taking a shit in the foyer.
Someone said of programming languages that Algol 60 was so great that it improved not only on its predecessors, but also on its successors. I would say the same of Usenet when it comes to Reddit-like systems. In this day and age it could use a few updates but whenever I think of implementing forums, I always come back to Usenet and NNTP as the basic mechanism.
> good use of the abstractions of this "simple" diagram, and inspecting it, will tend to avert problems that even an unusually conscientious programmer might miss in just code

Very good point. If you have expertly written UML and an expert viewer, they will get quite a lot out of it. One of the biggest issues I have seen with UML documentation is that it is extremely difficult to keep it in sync with what the actual implementation does. In one of my past jobs we actually had started an effort to quelch this by generating plantml from code but it never really came to fruition.
Appreciate the feedback. So within each community, the admin can create an unlimited amount of different discussion boards related to the niche of the community. Each post within a board has threaded comment trees similar to reddit where it lends well to long form.

We felt that in order to fully capture each aspect of the community space, we needed to include each different type of communication tool. What I mean by that is we have a twitch style IM chatroom, Discord style voice rooms, and Reddit style discussion boards for longer form communication.

I'm not familiar with LaTeX rendering, but will definitely check it out to see if it's something that we could integrate into our platform.
I played around with this kind of thing a while back - it can be very weird to see what looks like inner dialog from a bot: https://youtu.be/4oQUsiPsbOQ
Jose Delgado and the forgotten era of brain chips (2005) [pdf]
I really liked that hotel and conference center too.
I've found https://kbin.social to be quite ok.
The ability to ignore moderation is an interesting idea.
Have you seen https://search.brave.com/help/goggles ?