skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was really skeptical of lemmy [1] when I first heard about it during the blackout. I joined yesterday and it completely changed my mind. Yes, it is going to face some growing pains (see the total user growth in the past few days) [2] in the coming weeks and months but it really has the potential to replace Reddit with a federated system of communities. One that won't be damaged by investors or executives attempting to pivot over to the latest social media trend.

As many people have recently noted, Reddit quietly became an extremely important repository of text-based knowledge. Distinct from Wikipedia and Archive.org, but no less important, Reddit is full of valuable procedural (how-to) and consumer (product-related) knowledge. Reddit has countless small communities built around hobbies and other niche interests, which places it in the same role once fulfilled by Usenet and later independent web-based forums.

While those technologies still exist, they face enormous challenges with discovery (try to find a new forum on Google recently?), single-sign-on, and moderation. These were all solved by Reddit and I believe lemmy solves them too. The fediverse [3] truly has the potential to liberate small internet communities from the vagaries of Big Social Media, of which Reddit is only the latest example.

[1] https://join-lemmy.org

[2] https://the-federation.info/platform/73

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse
> What’s so comical about this is that common-standard digital-first micropayments is THE use case pitch for cryptocurrencies

I had been following BTC since ~2009 (when a CS PhD friend of mine at uni introduced me to it, as his research project was on distributed ledgers) - but from the very start it was made clear to me that projects like Bitcoin would never be suitable for microtransactions due to the reasons that became clear to everyone since then: at the values of microtransactions (i.e. under $3 USD) the cost of committing that transaction within reasonable time-frame for a microtransaction (say, less than a minute for a mobile-game IAP purchase) is simply prohibitive and makes the legacy incumbent card networks (Visa, Mastercard, etc) seem like nimble, customer-pleasing startups.
No, I never understood the point either. But then I learned to code on a ZX Spectrum where everything was light mode so maybe that’s it.
Either keep looking for explanations until it clicks, or try to break it down into more fundamental elements.

Classes and blueprints have a simple analogy that I'm sure you are familiar with.

Blueprints are instructions for how to build something, like a house. Once built, the house is a physical thing you can interact with. It has attributes, such as a height or color. It has things it can do or that can be done to it, like open a door or turn on some lights.

Classes are blueprints - they tell a computer how to build something. An object is what is built by the class - it has attributes and methods.
One day ALL websites will go down worldwide and stay down. Could be today, could be 50 years in the future. Make sure you have a LOT of books you look forward to reading. "The Road" is not just a parable.
Yeah that's the whole reason why subs are shutting down. Because the mods care, even if their users don't.
That's what I was thinking.

I was assuming that e.g. the lighting controller would only have 3 modes of access enabled:

(1) USB commections

(2) wired ethernet during admin

(3) ZWave via a USB adapter
They already have, people who don't care about the API issue were creating their own "unlocked" subreddits of popular Reddit's that have gone dark
Not in Rust. You can use debug_assert if you don’t want to assert in prod tho
Why would a connection to internet need security updates?
I once wrote a tampermonkey script to page through discord search results, scrape the contents, and post them to a local http server. I managed to scrape the most of the contents of an entire server this way without any API access. That would have basically been impossible to do without a userscript.

There's also the script I use to send me a desktop notification (again, by pinging a local http server) whenever I've been spending too much time on Twitter. That's saved me hours in a different sense.
A lot of these "cost" reports include money that couldn't be shifted around. E.g. they often include the salaries of people who worked on the project, and you can't just not pay them and re-allocate those funds elsewhere.

I'm also cynically skeptical that the money would go to road safety or healthcare or some other noble cause if it wasn't spent here. It seems more likely that the money would have stayed with whatever branch of government spent it, and instead it would've been used to buy a new tank or patrol cars or some such. Or in true Catch-22 fashion, they'd spend $3.5 million on a report on how to spend the remaining $500k but the report runs over budget and costs the full $4 million.
I made a Stylus theme for https://news.ycombinator.com and https://hckrnews.com

https://i.imgur.com/b08pZev.png

* https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/styl-us/ Stylus Button > Manage > Write New Style > Import

* https://gist.github.com/Zren/d025e06754bb2e0a7de0036fb2eee3f...

I personally disable all extensions except uBlockOrigin from auto-updating. If they break, then that prompts me to re-check if they're legit or if they've been bought out (like Stylish) before updating.
That's a good point, UK Government page on "Guidance: Hidden ads: Being clear with your audience":

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/social-media-endo...
And oral history I'm sure. We will probably never know how advanced and widespread some of these ancient technologies are but the existence of artifacts that are far, far ahead of anything we would expect historically (e.g. Antikythera Mechanism, Gobekli Tepe) suggests there are some big, big holes in our records of the past.
Reddit has become pretty popular in India and this new population is okay with new site and policy changes because they simply are not aware of what Reddit use to be. Reddit blackout has almost 0 effect on Indian subreddits. Reddit still has numbers to show even if most subreddit are down.

Just check r/India r/Mumbai r/Banglore r/Delhi r/Pune and other India subreddits and you will see.
I could knock it out in a single day. The people running this site are simply dedicated to the Craiglist style of thought, which is antagonistic to change for "culture" reasons whilst purporting to be for "practical" reasons.
this is the guy who closes my pull requests and stackoverflow answers and reverts my wikipedia edits
Just don't tell them that this place exists or we could have an eternal september situation on HN.
My concerns aren’t purely first amendment related. Some of this is just product decisions and business progresses.

1. What does this labeling get you? Taking YouTube as an example, it is basically some combination of what other people watch, what channels I Subscribe to, what’s picked out and even in those exceptional circumstances where I’m like 1 of maybe 40 views ever on a video, someone uploaded something similar to something I watched before. That’s the point of the algorithm: it takes multiple inputs, and spits them out in an automated fashion.

I think most people also understand that these are machine generated recommendations, even if they might phrase it differently. So again, what does it get you?

2. Why opt-in? That’s a product decision. If you’re using the service, you’re opting into how the service functions as is, and the service provider may provide additional options for how it works beyond that, but why does the government get to make that kind of product decision? Then, if YouTube isn’t providing a list of recommendations when you load it, what are you seeing instead? Is that going to be decided by the government as well?

3. Why are users entitled to see an audit of what’s basically proprietary product information about how the website works, effectively making that information available to competitors as well?

> None of these infringe on anyone's speech. They just make it harder for massive, irresponsible companies to do psychological experiments on billions of people without transparency or culpability.

This experimentation is a genuine ethics concern, and also from a practical standpoint I can’t walk up to SaaS that I paid for and expect it to work the same way as I had been using it every time. I would not support your proposed remedies though, but there may be a productive route in governing psychological experimentation.
I initially thought that maybe they were concerned about license violations, copyright infringement, etc. because you can't always be sure where the llms are sourcing their information from.

But rather it seems like they're warning against information leaking out?

> The Google parent has advised employees not to enter its confidential materials into AI chatbots, the people said and the company confirmed, citing long-standing policy on safeguarding information.

Is there any example of this happening in the real world? I've never heard of one.

Even if you were to give me access to some google source code free and clear I'm not sure what I could do with it. It's often only useful with the build systems, other services, external documentation, and tribal knowledge contained within the company.

Sure if I had unfettered access to all of the Google source for a product for long enough I might be able to find a security vulnerability or something but random chunks of code pieced together from the inputs to some chat bot?

Just seems like an impractical attack vector.
Facebook?

I'm all in favour of bringing back G+
All reddit has to do is remove the ability for subreddits to be private. Or put the ability to make subreddits private behind a paywall. Much like how Github treated private repos.

End of the day, reddit is going to have to figure out how many users are willing to boycott. Moderators are one thing. They are a minority. But if they remove the ability for /r/funny to be private, would users honor the protest?

The subs that have ended their blackouts are going on like nothing happened.
I was under the impression that bronze swords' lifespans were limited by the metal; they can't be sharpened, but would need to be re-cast. A replaceable handle probably wouldn't help much.
major subreddits keeping reddit alive basically:

r/politics

r/worldnews

r/movies

r/tech

r/television

r/news

r/technology

r/gadgets

r/sports

minor ones i've noticed:

r/indieheads

r/boxing

It's a pretty serious blackout, but it'd be even more serious if those went dark too (and stayed dark).
Agreed. It would have pushed the 2->3 migration from "very painful for the ecosystem" to a full on perl5->6 break between the two versions. Not sure it would have survived that.
Agree. My first house was a wood-frame bungalow built near the prior turn of the century. As long as you don't get termites, and maintain the roof and siding so you don't have water leaking in, wood houses will last basically forever, or at least on the order of 100 years.
All software have many dependencies (IMO for very wrong reason), if you can find a way to build a static system where nothing need to be updated good for you, but I doubt that this is the majority of use-case.

Will this device be able to load any web page in one or two decades? It would likely be slow, but the impossibility would be a pure software limitation.
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In the end, google reimplemented Java, and the supreme court ruled on a very narrow piece of the reimplementation. I think it came down to a former sun/oracle employee at google actually copy pasting code from the original java code base.

I'm reasonably sure they could reimplement CUDA from a copyright / trademark perspective. It's possible that they could be blocked with patents though.
Intel to Launch New Core Processor Branding for Meteor Lake
Ask HN: Company wants to try out switching from Native dev to React Native dev
Throw away account, because my account contains my full name.

Let's say I am a senior Android developer, 8 years experience, good at my craft, know Android and its frameworks inside out. I see myself being a developer for the next 10 years, maybe pivoting to being a tech architect.

Our company (country in western Europe, 30 employees) is going through a though phase, it cannot sell Native App projects. It is easy to sell hybrid projects (react native and flutter). This phase started around a year ago, in that year the sales team successfully sold 2-3 native projects.

Our native dev team is ± 10 people. We have running projects that fill in ±60% of our time. We have some side projects like making a component and flow (login, signup, account management etc.) library that we can reuse in projects. Some of us do design work and backend work.

A few weeks ago management asked us (individually) if we would be interested in learning React Native or Flutter. We all said no.

Last week there was a strategy meeting. Where management announced that they want to try switching from Native development to React Native development. First as a pilot. And if successful continue with it.

Their main selling point that react native projects are more cost efficient. The MVP phase is cheaper for the client and after that phase we can do more work and possible native work.

I really tried to be open minded about it and I understand why management wants this. But I really do not agree with it, I tried react native before and hate it with all the bones in my body.

Also I think it will not be more cost efficient. All the react native projects the company ran before, went over budget, contained more bugs, were harder to maintain, and more escalations with clients.

I also think there are other solutions to get the MVP smaller and cheaper for an initial phase with a client.

What do you guys think about this?

Did you experience something like this?

Should I be more open minded about it?

Should I leave?

If you have an experience like this, please share...
also if you have ideas on how to get the MVP phase cheaper..

Thanks for reading!
If you want, I have a dark-ish theme for HN that I've made with Stylus, it mimicks the Synthwave84 theme for VSCode

https://github.com/oxodao/synthwave-themed-sites
You may want to dig into the documentation a bit more.

First, ask yourself a simple question: How can a Yubikey store an unlimited number of FIDO2/U2F credentials. The official Yubikey documentation literally claims that Yubikeys can do that. Not “a lot”. Not “more than you’ll ever need”. Not 10k. Not 10M. Not 10G. Unlimited.

Gosh, maybe I should use a Yubikey for mass storage on the cheap! I wonder why nobody has done this?

Second, you’ll want to dig into what is the contents of the “key handle” that is passed from the server, through the user agent, to the key. Hint: Despite the HN hive mind, I’m not wrong.
Fly.io Is Having Issues
Their status page is all green, but logs for multiple apps have this in the logs:

rror.message="could not find a good candidate within 90 attempts at load balancing. last error: unreachable worker host. the host may be unhealthy. this is a Fly issue." 2023-06-15T15:22:19Z proxy[***] hkg [error]request.method="OPTIONS"
Motorcycle:

- long distance trips through N America led me close to a ton of wildlife I would not have seen or dared come close to on bicycle. Mama bears with curious cubs, moose drinking water by the roadside, wolves in one case

- allowed me to tackle trails in a day I would not be able to do on a mountain bike (eg. the trails around Moab)

- ability to go on roads Bikes are not legal (crossing the confederation bridge to get to PEI; don’t think bikes are allowed)

- ability to traverse distances equivalent to a car, but while feeling much more connected to your surroundings. Helps when you only have so much vacation time you can take.

Bicycle:

- much more enjoyable trips through Toronto via routes not possible on motorcycle (parks, ravines, etc.)

- many trails do not allow motorcycles but allow mountain bikes

- allowed a limited freedom at a young age to explore the city around me

- the wonderful post exercise feeling
To be fair, most of the replies to you would be the same old "have you tried leveling your bed?".
I don't think many moderators will actually quit as long as the users are there, especially since reddit gave back some moderator API call access. Moderating is already a terrible, thankless job. The people who do it enjoy moderating because (I assume) they're 'in charge' of something big and important. I don't think reddit closing off third party access will be enough to convince most of these people to stop giving labor for free.
Funny that I've been on this site for years yet I don't actually know if it's open source. Does anyone know whether it is and if it's open to pull requests? This sounds like it would be a fun project I could knock out in a weekend or so.
Fair point, but machine learning has also been creating value thru all of that time. There were products that used machine learning in the late 90s for many things. DeepBlue!

I think you’re thinking of LLMs which only became possible with the shear amount of conversational data we have today. They obviously share a linage with ML, but it’s a form of training that was impossible several years prior. You can’t say that IBM DeepBlue was an early LLM and measure the timelines like that.

If you know of any watershed moment for crypto that needs to happen, I would love to hear it! I just don’t see anything happening on the horizon.
Maybe bicycle racers / crazy downhill mountain bikers will disagree, but half-assed YOLO cowboy maintenance, and deferring of maintenance, feels much less risky on a bicycle than on a motorcycle.

Of course the powertrain and packing of components is orders of magnitide more complicated too, it's more similar to car maintenance that doesn't require a lift
A Beowulf cluster running screen
Just to add to other things people have mentioned, reports of ghosts could very easily be the result of false memories, as well. Finding a dead body in a creepy location, then sitting on it for two years is plenty of time and fuel for false memories. (Which are notoriously easy to form.)

Another thing I think is the most likely is [pareidolia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia). Our minds evolved to be sensitive to seeing faces/hearing voices, and so we tend to see these things where they don't actually exist. (Think faces in toast, or listening for satanic messages when playing music backwards.)
No, maybe it's your eyes that are okay with non-darkmode. I am not using darkmode by reducing by using nightmode all the time but darkmode is totally a fine way to spend time in front of the computer if that makes you comfortable.
Seems odd that you mention an 'unstable/untrustworthy crew' in the same breath as 'high concentration of LGBT people' as reasons you don't like it. I suspect that might be related to your ban, not the fact that you didn't like it in the first place.
If the blade breaks, that handle is fancy enough that somebody might want it fitted with a new blade.
> if you don't have GIL, you'll need to manage explicit locks

You need to do that with multithreaded Python code with the GIL. The GIL only guarantees that operations that take a single bytecode are thread-safe. But many common operations (including built-in operators, functions, and methods on built-in types) take more than one bytecode.
It's dead on arrival; currently runs Debian 10 with custom patches and binary blobs. It's an RK3308 so not entirely impossible to run on a normal distro, but you'd have to bring your own firmware and device tree etc.
I'm not sure why those folks would bother leaving, Saidit is basically identical to what an unmoderated Reddit would look like.
Brave has the built-in dark mode
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If you are working on a large project with multiple teams and you change something like that you better version it or make sure it's backwards compatible anyways.

Otherwise you're going to break something downstream and you're still going wade through all of those layers, and now it's less obvious what broke because everyone is re-bundling your data into their own formats.

And I am not advocating for dumping your DB rows directly onto the wire for the frontend to fumble.

I am just saying it's silly to write a frontend and backend in a super modular, decoupled way when they are actually just a single service.
A standard "lab" would not be suitable. Too cold, too unfeeling. It must be a space specifically designed to comfort and soothe. Familiarity also plays a big part of it, if one is in a strange place that they're not used to.
The original data-race-free models are based on acquire/release semantics that underlie the C++ memory model (https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~markhill/papers/topds93_drf1.pdf), so the use of acquire/release atomics should provide the same guarantees as mutex lock/unlock.

However, the sequential consistency guarantee doesn't necessarily apply to atomics themselves, and I think the difference between the data-race-free-0 and data-race-free-1 models is whether not they would extend the guarantee to the release-acquire atomic operations.
To me bicycle maintenance is tedious. It’s something I do too on keep my bike running smoothly but not something I look forward to.

Motorcycle maintenance is more rewarding. I have a 70s bike so it requires a lot of work to keep it running smoothly. Motorcycle maintenance more complex and I find far more enjoyment in it. It can be tedious, but it’s not as bad as adjusting a derailleur or lubricating a chain.

I think this article could be summarized as “problem solving offers many learning opportunities”
> It's because the Reddit users that are actually bothered by this are unmonetizable and everyone knows it.

Yes, this is exactly the same as the Netflix account sharing controversy. People who aren’t generating the company any profit are shouting the loudest. I don’t think there’s much of a loss here.

The era of free money was always going to end and now it’s over.
Open-source camera devkit to test AI models
It has 16GB of flash. Can't you put your database there?
I think it's more likely they will go down because we have replaced them with something as far beyond websites, as websites are beyond books.
> What's the bigger trend that's causing all these platforms to go so user-hostile?

The economy has changed and now they actually have to try to make money.
i didn't know ublock can be used as a poor man's violent monkey :)

i can't read dark mode as well as light mode, but thanks for the advice!
It might get reopened at some point, probably under some arbitrary rule that demotes the current mods and choses a new team, but reddit corporate itself won't moderate any subs too soon because that would expose them to a whole new set of regulations and liability. They are currently just providing the technical platform and not being responsible for content.
Hey, I've spent considerable amount of time in those subreddits! Maybe I can help? You can reach me on artogahr@gmail.com
They have already started removing mods of popular subs and giving the mod powers to less disruptive users.
It's strange how easy it's becoming to spot, isn't it?
This needs more thinking but how about a hybrid approach, where you have Thread objects, and GILFreeThread objects?

The Thread objects work with old code, but run more slowly.

The GILFreeThread objects are fast.

If an object is passed from a Thread to a GILFreeThread or the other way around, then special safety code is attached to the object so that manipulating the object from the other side doesn't cause issues.

The advantage is that now the module implementers have time to migrate from the old system to the new system. And users can work with both the old modules and "converted" modules in the same system, with minor changes.