skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That unspoken contract is interesting. As I understand it, from Reddit's point of view, the contract was "We give you a place to a thing that you want to do, and will provide you storage space and bandwidth. In return, you give us the content you produce."

I imagine that this was, in fact, spoken -- in the terms of service. Not that anybody reads the terms of service (and I'm doubtful that any of them are really legally airtight).

It sounds as if users expected more, though I'm not sure what. Even as an unspoken contract, "free access forever" is a lot to ask. Those users can ditch Reddit, but I don't know if they'll find a (spoken) deal that's any better.

(Though I'm not sure why. Servers and bandwidth cost money, but not that much money.)
Abysmal title. Glencore is a massive company with a quarter of a trillion dollars in revenue.
The amount of companies buying from them is enormous. Putting tesla up there is just disingenious.

Book recommendation: "The world for sale", it goes over the major players in that industry, including their history controversies (unsurprisingly, there are quite few) and what they actually do.
That depends on whether you consider a community that's missing all non-technical voices to be "better." By contrast, operating systems are an individual choice with individual impact.
My bet is that quality will go up. I'm not really interested in reading what the small number of people who spend 8+ hours per day on Reddit think, about any topic. Hopefully they'll take their silly Reddit mannerisms and inside jokes with themselves on the way out.
Because (A) it allows similarity search between auxiliary objects, not just equidimensional vectors, and (B) can be implemented in a similarly short fashion, while providing great performance.
JPMorgan Says Ex-First Lady of U.S. Virgin Islands Helped Epstein Traffic Women
Is there a way to get a git diagram out of D2? It does have nicely streamlined syntax.

One thing that worries me is that the profusion of text-based graph description languages will result in a family of software that's unparseable due to its success. We have Graphviz, GNUplot, PlantUML, BlockDiag, Mermaid, Kroki, Vega, and too many others to count - but we don't have a Pandoc.
https://archive.is/ihYhQ
What is "reliable" though? All digital systems will undergo some rate of correctable/uncorrectable errors, it just depends on what you consider to be an acceptable rate of failure for your device.
The 6-1 ratio means that democrats are also getting a lot of money from dealership owners. Then, given that both the house and senate there are 60+% republican and all the republicans will vote for it, anyone voted against it is just symbolic and then is that symbol worth upsetting their own backers?

I think a better way of understanding how the two parties feel about regulation of specific industries is to look into how different states regulate those different industries. This doesn't work well for very regional industries (think coal or I guess logging, for example), but car dealerships are everywhere.
The same could be said for typical search engines, although I must admit the amount of data a typical user submits (and/or that the input form accepts) is lower for those. Not to mention URL en/decoders, base64 en/decoders, prettifiers, format converters, ...

All of those should be included when training users not to divulge secrets, with chatbots just being one more added to the list.

So I think this recent buzz must be more about the model getting trained, than about discrete leaks.
> I would posit that it did actually die.

This is an interesting question. Wikipedia claims 230,000 users at peak times which is still quite a bit more than say, gopher. A 98% drop is real but you'll still see IRC occasionally for software purposes (like say, Debian)

Maybe it was a coalition of people there for different purposes and some of those groups have fallen away for different places.

For instance, people were doing dating and sextalk on irc back in the day along with file-sharing. Those applications have been superseded by many other places. I don't expect to see anyone sincerely asking "a/s/l?" in modern IRC chatrooms.
True. But it's guaranteed that anyone who's giving millions is paying someone to act as "scientific advisor."

So those people are supposed to assess the science. We never hear their names.
Why wouldn't you, other than the obvious?
I don't understand the second point. Wouldn't the legal market quickly kill the illegal market? We don't have an illegal market for chocolate or beer because the legal market fills the need. What am I missing?
I’m a mod for a 1.5mill sub community and I’d gladly drop it! The only thing I care about is the community being able to move somewhere where we can continue to have interesting discussions about the thing our sub is dedicated to. I could not care less about continuing to be a mod. I only do it at this point because the community is awesome and I still learn a ton there.
It works for what?

Take a step back. What is social media achieving in its current state. If you only look at the shiny cat videos and dances and memes, that's not the purpose. The purpose is the mass collection of data.

If your only standard of "is working" is "it's what the majority uses", then yes, "it works". But do you really want that to be your standard? Just number of users, at any cost?

If you're competing against algorithms fine tuned to make people pretty much addicted, do you really want to play the same game? And is this mindset not fueled by ideology as well?
Maybe that's how they got edges on their tools?
Goddamn! I thought I was anal about efficiency...
The background with static noise really bothers me. Will have to skip reading till they provide a disable button.
I'm confused by your proposals and by your questions.

People who commit violent or lewd acts are arrested and jailed. But that obviously doesn't prevent the actions.

Homelessness itself isn't currently illegal. But if it were made illegal, and all of the homeless were rounded up and permanently jailed, that would actually prevent any homeless people from harassing other people in libraries (assuming that the police could find all of the homeless, which we can't assume in reality, but let's assume it for the sake of argument). However, this mass jailing of the homeless would be obscenely cruel and also obscenely expensive.

Jailing a person prevents that one person from committing crimes outside of jail (but not crimes inside of jail) for as long as that person is jailed. Otherwise, though, there's very little empirical evidence to show that jailing people in general reduces crime in general, as proved by the statistics I gave earlier.
Re: the mortgage, this will be a problem only if you cannot maintain your salary and the housing market collapses.

Otherwise, if you buy a house, and later you decide you don't want to (or cannot) pay for mortgage, you can just sell your house and buy a smaller one (or move back to renting).

Sure, the risk isn't zero, but if you keep renting and the housing bubble keeps going on you may also burn a lot of money in the end. Nothing is risk free, and you're in a better situation than most.
Well, pretty much most people know that interviews aren't a great way to assess signal--certainly at the margins. So as long as someone seems qualified, a team member who has actually worked with them in some capacity who vouches for them tilts the scales quite a bit.
In that case why not just SSR lit on the backend and send that? It sounds like an unfair criticism otherwise
A lot of people desperately want a magic bullet for addiction, but I think it takes a healthy dose of humility to admit that there is no one perfect answer that will just solve it. Human nature is tricky, biology is tricky, and economics is tricky. Even someone eminently brilliant in all three subjects would have a difficult time coming up with a “solution.“
Perhaps one of the wilder things I learned in this article is how many laws make it illegal for an automaker to set transparent prices. State mandated Three-Card Monte.
If you leave too many people behind you aren't building a better world, you're building a walled garden.
I think you have described a new definition of hell.
> Firstly, no “addict” wants to die from their addiction

addicts destroy their own lives and the lives of people around them and even anonymous members of the community because of their addiction. No test is going to overcome an addiction.

As for recreational users, I went to plenty of raves in the 90s and if a test result said I should not take the hit of X or acid i'd been looking forward to all week i'm not sure what i'd do.
Since when? Every website on every server going back to the very first one at CERN has been owned by someone.
Super simple EIL5:

Rates are low: I can borrow money at 1% interest and my bank pays me 0.1% interest on any money I leave in my account. I'm getting basically no return on my money in the bank, so it makes sense to start a project that might make me money. If I have to borrow money, I only need to make a 1% return for it to be worth it.

Rates are high: It now costs 7% to borrow money and my bank pays me 4% on any money I leave in my account. 4% is a decent return and if I borrow money I need need a project that returns >7% for it to be worth it. Leaving my money in the bank seems like a much better option now.

How this applies to Reddit: VCs and investors are trying to figure out which projects are worth putting more money into, but the bar to make an investment worth it is much higher. Reddit (and many other companies) now need to show that giving them money is more profitable than leaving money in the bank (or other "safe" investments).
> www.ssa.gov

Interesting you cite Social Security, the mandatory pyramid scheme that every American pays into and many/most retirees rely on for income. If you die before you retire, you get nothing from Social Security. If you have a 401k and die before using all the money in it, your beneficiaries (the people who inherit your stuff when you die) keep it; nothing like that happens to your Social Security benefits.
I'm a lead mod of a 1.5M+ sub and we maybe remove 1-2 bits of spam per week. Usually the very few that do get through our filters are quickly reported by the users and are removed long before it gains traction

I realize giving reddit mod advice on HN is a bit weird, but here is what we've done that has significantly helped

1. Operate off a white list for links instead of a blacklist -- allow posts from domains like twitter, github or whatever is a normal for your community. Set up auto mod to filter any domains outside of the whitelist so mods can review and approve the appropriate ones

2. No URL shorteners at all. There are very good anti-url-shortener scripts for automod. Adding this cut out 90% of the spam we got

Those are two suggestions that i would give to any subreddit. Here are some that you should carefully weigh before you implement

1. Set up automod to filter a post / comment if it gets to a certain threshold of reports.
2. Enforce a minimum karma amount & age to post w/ automod
3. Enforce a minimum karma amount to comment with a link w/ automod

To give you a starting point -- even our large subreddit, our requirement to post is an account older than 6 hours and >0 Karma. For comments with a link, we do >25 karma
You can't even buy the steel to build these for $127. That figure is trash just like this whole scare article.
Unfortunately the gnuplot palettes are broken (but easy to fix).
Interesting enough Tumblr has had a big surge in users the last few days, they’re pretty convinced it’s mostly redditors. I don’t know how big of a surge it is, and of course Tumblr is not Reddit to say the least, but people are definitely poking around. It’s interesting!
Tell HN: Google search sucks even more during Reddit blackout
It's crazy that so much content is now unaccessible due to subs going private. I don't know what to blame more: centralization of forums into one giant company like Reddit, or Google's algorithm that still shows those private Reddit pages.
Yep, Stripe partnered with W3C on this. Built into Stripe Checkout (and now Link).
The Way Back VR
If the philosophy is the point, it's a dead platform. Utopian ideals are fine, if that's your thing. Shaming people who don't share them is just rude. I don't see how you can compare the platform to the democratic process and not expect the same warts you see in democracies. A few people care a lot, some people care a bit, most people barely care at all. Grandstanding will never change that.
So interesting, and refreshing, to see the tide gently turning in this direction :-)
1000 messages in a work day sounds like a lot even for a decently popular game discord. That sounds like it goes beyond "active participants" and more like "eternally online" people.

You already made your choice, but there is something worth considering on if you even want to be a part of a group (even if you had all that free time). I find it interesting that this post came up later after I came back to this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36323888
As a general rule I've come to believe that anything with "unified" (or the like) in its title is destined for doom of there's a sales/marketting/monetization agenda behind it. And if it's a bunch of hackers who agreed to clean up a mess, then it is often successful.
- Why Reddit alternatives specifically?

- What do you browse Reddit for now?

- What is your goal when browsing/interacting with a different platform?

I think it would probably go a long way to have answers to all these questions before any recommendations can be made.

As far as "broad Reddit alternatives" go, there was a discussion on this already a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36293789 (372 comments)
Also used a lot in automotive software development processes for example. Basically, the more safety critical a system is the more formal diagramming / modelling there will be part of the design and development process. It’s important to be able to reason about complexities of such systems across a team / teams.
> To think about it, perhaps US should have started metrification back in 1980

The US started that in either 1875 or 1893, though, and somewhat more aggressively in 1975.

It reversed course in the 1980s, it didn't fail to start before that.
Oh, ok. Still doesn't feel right blaming the merchant for utilizing #4 in exactly the intended manner.

The existence of #4 seems odd though. If someone just wanted different card perks they could do a "product change" which I believe retains the same number anyway, so a new number should only occur if the old number was reported stolen, in which case why provide the new number to the potential thief?
You don't have an identity on a torrent unless you join a server.

Similarly, you need to join a Lemmy server to have an identity there, or anywhere on Lemmy. Unlike private torrent trackers, you only need 1 Lemmy identity, and you can subscribe to other servers' communities from your original server.
People are really going to miss attitudes like yours on Reddit, because that is the critical part of what makes the community great...

Edit:

from https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html:

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

This isn't Reddit, we can both do better. I'm sorry.
So what will happen to junior developers and those developers whose code is mostly just plumbing?
Most of my "network" is like, I had a job, we went to the pub after work, we got chatting, now we are friends.

It feels weird to even call it a network, that's like LinkedIn speak. People I know through work, university, the gym, etc, all exist on the same level in my mind.
Same here. With something that old I was expecting "well preserved" to mean that I could probably make out that it has the shape of a sword.
Reddit is a website not an app. Reddit works great on desktop. I've never found the need for a Reddit App, not even the official one.

But I understand the Moderators before third party tools to be able to do there job, so this seems like a great idea. Problem solved?
#3 and #4 say there exists a K for which the interior statement is true.

K=2 doesn't make the interior true for either, so choosing it doesn't tell us whether #3 and #4 are true or false.

However, if we choose K=1 then we prove #3 and #4 are true.
> the old playbook is obsolete

I'm going to disagree. The old playbook is to empower users in unique ways that at the time feel almost forbidden and magical and to competently execute that.

You could claim all those avenues have been explored but I disagree there as well. The surrounding context and possibilities are always on the move so the underlying potential is always changing.

That's why say, YouTube, the 40th or so on-demand video company, which happened to launch when digital cameras and broadband internet were becoming widely used, was the first successful execution or why smartphones didn't take off until the rollout of 3G or, looking into the future, VR might finally take off at attempt 50 after some related thing changes.
If the federated system can't handle the trolls and bad actors that Reddit is currently equipped to deal with then the whole idea is dead in the water.
How does this work with applications that need databases or other stateful things?
That Tweet didn't age well: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1518623997054918657

> I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means
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Beehaw disallows the creation of new subs by users. It's run by total control freaks. Hard pass on them.
If someone gets weirdly hostile and condescending towards you on HN (sadly not uncommon), I recommend that you try to just ignore them and keep contributing. I’d like to hear what you have to say.
I found about this from an amazing escalator long advert at the Elizabeth line in Liverpool Street station.

Has anyone had success with this with a relative with dementia?
> Everyone just started using unchecked exceptions because they provide an easier coding experience.

I think that's true, but I think there's some ambiguity about what sort of "easier coding experience" mattered. I feel like it's often portrayed as "too lazy to write the annotations", but in practice the language to describe exceptions is often too limited to express what we'd want. As a trivial example, we'd like to be able to say "map() can throw anything its argument can throw". That we can't say that means a programmer working with checked exceptions needs to either catch and suppress things they shouldn't be suppressing in that function passed to map(), or build clever (and possibly inefficient) workarounds to extract the exception(s?!?) anyway. All of that has drawbacks enough that the downsides of unchecked exceptions may be the correct choice, not merely the lazy choice.
> The only reason the other diagram types fell out of favor is because of the development methodology change starting in the early 2000s. The industry started rejecting Waterfall, early design and system architects, in favor of Agile, just-in-time design and empowering developers.

I dunno, whenever I heard people say they're doing Agile all I see is them doing Waterfall without documentation.
Lemmy could end in a worse situation: some hobby guy hosts his lemmy instance with w/e unique subs, one day he decides it’s too much work and take it offline. Boom it’s all gone and there’s no recourse.

Here at least there’s a chance Reddit will unblock the subs if this goes on too long.
I like sequence diagrams for understanding unfamiliar or complex code that I need to work with.

Go in, head spins, make a sequence diagram, grok, then make your change.

They're awesome for that, and they make decent notes later, but realistically they'll be out of date by the next time you look at them. I recommend plantuml for this: very friendly syntax, git friendly, and easy to regenerate over time as the code changes
I've tried using these before and it always progresses as follows:

> Why are you using such ugly colors? This is weird, just use a rainbow plot, everyone knows what a rainbow plot is. We're not approving these reports until you change it to a rainbow plot.

About 90% of the time rainbow plots just encode "blue=no problem; red=problem; everything else=kinda interesting" so it works out fine anyway.

Sometimes I can sneak a red/blue gradient through, but its rare.
> If you die before you retire, you get nothing from Social Security. If you have a 401k and die before using all the money in it, your beneficiaries (the people who inherit your stuff when you die) keep it; nothing like that happens to your Social Security benefits.

Social security has both death and survivors benefits, actually.
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> It likely uses lower-level system calls that might not even be possible in most cross-platform frameworks.

So? I made a Qt-based low-level flashing utility at a previous job. Or do you consider C++ callign C functions not low-level enough?
To give one example, Raspberry Pi are often used to control 3D printers and attached webcams, and there are ML systems that supervise the webcam feed for evidence of a print failure. Being able to run these systems on the SBC would be an advantage, but that's typically not realistic today.
Ask HN: How do you control anger?
They never will and popular tools will never expect them to. Some people will, but never most.
Wondering how much details you have considered on using Johnson-Lindenstrauss transform for dimensionality reduction on ANN search?

e.g. https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~chazelle/pubs/FJLT-sicomp09.pd...
I have this book.
> Are you going to make a pile of gold and sit on it like a dragon?

If you want to buy a house, yes. A pile of gold is also handy to start a business.
> Did you read the whole article?

I did. You are cherry picking the accidents where it's quite clear the victim did nothing wrong. There are other accidents described where I find it hard to draw that conclusion. There are only about 4-5 accidents described out of about 400 in 2021 (an undercount per the article).

Have you been on the road? It's very dangerous due to most drivers around you being absolutely awful and inattentive. At least in the USA which is the concern in this article. I swear, not a day goes by where someone either in front or behind me pulls off onto the shoulder to do a heavy braking, surprised that traffic in front is slowing. Whereas truck drivers IME tend to be the most attentive and good drivers. (Of course there are exceptions and the trucks are massive so they have an outsized result.) At least in california. So I'm hard pressed to believe that most of those 400+ annual accidents are the fault of the truck driver.

> we also shouldn’t allow known hazards on the road.

Agreed, and I said as much. Why the NHTSA is not acting on this is beyond my understanding. As well, I noted that I endorse AEB, even though it's a negative for me personally due to 100% false positive events in my own usage. AEB will fix far more hazards than trailer underride guards. Again, that doesn't mean we shouldn't do both.

This is why non-level crossings, armcos, botts dots, LED traffic signals, and so on are all great things. Sure an excellent, courteous and attentive driver doesn't need any of those. It doesn't mean we shouldn't have them, and I said as much re underride guards.

I think you are misreading my comment as victim blaming and reacting to that. That's not what I said.
You're making a LOT of logical leaps here - did you even bother to read the article? How in the world do you go from "Don't use confidential information in public chat bot instances" to "Google Docs is used in training AI models and therefore is untrustworthy"?