skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of those mods held polls in their communities and among their peers before going dark. I don't think the large subreddits are getting unilaterally shut down.
It’s Not a Good Sign When People Who Don’t Pay for News Have So Little to Choose
As I understand it, fixing inflation has never had much priority for the Erdogan government. They don't raise interest rates because raising them would slow down their internal economy.

Downside is the devaluation of the Lira, but this also has an upside; Turkish exports become more competitive.
Its definately a loosing battle. sigh
It would make sense if 1800 of those were paid moderators.
I'd expect any non trivial (like changing color/size) interaction involves custom coding of a wholly new, invisible item as in "if player has item 300 and item 278, make them inactive and give him secret item 1200".
Tumblr went from selling for $1B in 2013 to $3M in 2019. The brand persists but as a business it's a dismal failure. If Reddit follows that arc it will be a dismal failure as well.
Perhaps, but lawyers can ruin your life. If you ask me, it's a travesty that the law is so complex nobody in this thread can agree if this is good advice or paranoia run out of control. That's the world lawyers have created for us, and like it or not, we live in their world.
Maybe Solidworks Maker edition?

https://www.solidworks.com/solution/3dexperience-solidworks-...
Brian Lunduke back in 2019 when Reddit took $150 million from Tencent basically said that Reddit would be a company in trouble with in 5 years. His argument was that it shouldn't cost that much to run the place and as such they would have to start pleasing investors and not users.

The argument was that you can buy an obscene amount of storage and bandwidth for only a fraction of the money they were raising. It is even more true today. Look at the amount of storage and bandwidth archive.org uses and how little money they bring in. This is not a money issue in terms of running the site.
Lol. I associate C++ with that. Turns out the first big C++ project I was involved with had a lot of research types. To their credit, when they did something it was almost always the best thing to do. But there was A LOT of thought and discussion put into each line of code.

For a decade I thought about C++ as being "the language for people who are forced to think long and hard about every line of code."

And then I saw "normal" C++ code everyone else was writing...

I now sort of like it (C++), especially after recent language additions.
I hope nobody adds the archive.is for this
He's playing a longer game, trade union negotiation style.
Redditors aren't as valuable to sell to because they are more likely to use ad blockers.

That and instagram ads are said to be better.
As with anything like this (especially anecdotal), how much did you take each day, and did you change anything else over the same period ?
I wish I was a coding god such that the limiting factor was how quickly I could send commands via hotkeys or the interface or whatever. Hell, there are moments that I have to sit there carefully planning out in my mind the sequence of actions I'll need to take to accomplish some task.

The rest of you out there, you're trying to shave 1400ms off your score by being able to use the homerow as if they were arrow keys? Fuck me.
A Three.js component library for Svelte
Book suggestions are always so difficult to recommend. I've been asked this question many times, but honestly, it's hard for me, because I'm really not much of a (text)book learner. I know Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs is supposed to be excellent, but honestly books like that just put me to sleep. It's part of the reason why I've put so much effort into my slides.

I'll say that if you want to learn functional programming in particular (in OCaml), the recently released second edition of "Real World OCaml" is an excellent reference. That one might lean more into specific OCaml language constructs than general programming know-how, though.

Otherwise, along with my notes and slides, I think the most important thing to do is just to pick a task and do it. It doesn't need to be something standalone, but I think everyone learning to program should program an expression evaluator, a priority queue, binary search, BFS, tree traversal, what-have-you. I know that the OCaml website also has a list of exercises: https://ocaml.org/problems

Robert Harper also has a book, "Programming in Standard ML", though that one doesn't have exercises, so my slides are meant to cover the same kind of material. It's here anyways, though: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/isml/book.pdf

I hope this helps!

P.S. That Brown schedule looks absolutely intimidating. I'm not sure I could have handled Racket as a first-time programmer. I think it's so important to have a solid conceptual model of what the program is doing before you go into more advanced stuff -- our class only learned higher-order functions today, after 5 weeks of SML!
server costs money and reddit is not charity either. If they provide a good product that you use everyday, then why cant they charge for the api?
Instagram broke a bunch of apps in 2018 with no notice or comment and it turned out fine for them. (https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/02/instagram-api-limit/)
No forewarning, no post on the website, no justification, and the nasty news buried in the middle of unrelated text. It appears designed to deceive.

“No bullshit” is no more. https://www.gandi.net/en/no-bullshit

That promise is what justified their slightly higher prices. With it broken, I have no reason not to transfer to a less expensive registrar. So that I’ve now done, and Gandi can try to win me back next year.
This is my read as well. Claiming that high rates cause inflation, or that high rates are not Islamic, is just BS that sells his actual policy. Though I think the neo-ottoman himself was surprised how bad it actually turned out.
it's always like that -- reddit users always like drama so i did not expect they would vote otherwise. i think the whole idea is bad though

Reddit has much bigger problems to solve. First and foremost, that users have no recourse from moderation abuses, and this is killing the community more than the API changes.
Also some of the issues that cause it to be badly formed/hinted/kerned in print and on decent resolution devices, are because it was specifically optimised to be readable on the low-res screens that were ubiquitous at the time (also a time when sub-pixel-rendering support wasn't a thing either, at least not on Windows, to increase the effective resolution).
>Eventually mods will feel powerless because the execs won’t budge

I am sure they'll be terribly disappointed to be deprived of their... opportunity to work for free...
This is fun and all but I draw the line at loading kernel extensions to get this sort of functionality.
Just everybody working at the company.
Believe or not, going to school is not common in all countries. Sometimes kids do not have ability to go to school so they stay with parents (if they have any) and work with them. Or just do anything to survive. Taking it away from them without alternative how survive would make it even worse.

I'm not supporting child labor, just trying to see it from their perspective.
Great read. I’ve never written a single line of code in Ruby but I love reading stuff related to compilers.
With magnesium it's more the specific salts that are laxative. Like the oxide which is both a laxative and has a low bioavailability. Citrate in huge doses is used as a laxative too. On the other hand, I have good experience with the orotate. Lactate and gluconate should be good too.
Not bad, ... but I was secretly hoping for a chip tunes cover of Pair-a-Buns by Mac Sabbath :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7kFfLRcHjU
They are also banning people who disagree with the protest in that thread
Is there a name for this? I notice myself have the same thought process often ("what's the catch?"). It seems to be some psychological force that complicates simple supply and demand economics.
New Twitter CEO’s first email to employees
They certainly can (and probably should) charge for the api. The problems we see now are the communications surrounding it, the price and the timeline.
From the linked Wired article[0]

> Microsoft is 48 years old. I don't know of many companies that age that are relevant not because they did something in the '80s or the '90s or the 2000s but because they did something in the last couple of years.

[0]: https://www.wired.com/story/microsofts-satya-nadella-is-bett...
I can't agree with this enough. The internet today is a cesspit, it needs a git reset hard back to the days when communities were based around forums. I made a lot of real life friends from the forums I frequented.

Oh the good old days :(
Hmm who told him that was a good idea? I get talking proudly about it but unless there's a good reason it feels like a bad feedback loop.

I am a little obsessed with songs at times and even I can't stand listen to the same song more than 10 times in a day unless I was trying to memorize it or something.
Google’s return-to-office crackdown gets backlash from some employees
I think you meant "you can't decouple". The only logical thing in MMT was the promise to cut spending when inflation goes up. To which a rational response is that almost never you are able to cut back on social spending once you increase it.
Somewhat tangimential, are there any open source attempts to compete with OpenAI's embeddings?

I know Word2Vec is a thing but I believe that is on a word by word basis, and doesn't capture the semantic meaning of whole sentences and paragraphs.

They charge so little for embeddings I secretly hope they do open source it. Because if for some reason it is stopped, any search functionality or the like that relies upon the API would cease to function
AMD reveals new A.I. chip to challenge Nvidia’s dominance
Reddit will forcefully re-open the site at some point.
As featured in the movie 2010 (released in 1984).
Cables/bad connections are the number one source of errors reported in my experience, and encountering these is to be expected when hooking enough things up for a project. These are _usually_ found in the "Read" or "Write" columns, meaning the hardware involved caught the errors when the data over whatever serial protocol failed it's checksum (CRC32 for SATA I believe), the transmission was then resent and the error reported to the OS/ZFS. These errors only show up for a specific disk. Reseating the connections, making sure there are no harsh bends, and finally replacing the cable is the fix. Rarely, reported checksum errors are stopped because of replacing a cable. I don't have the depth of technical knowledge to understand why this happens.

Then you have Controllers/HBA's/Backplanes either going bad, or more often overheating. Put a fan on your HBA. These errors can show up across multiple disks

Bad/weak/noisy power supplies, and system overclocking that effects the PCIe bus and attached (like messing with BCLK) can cause havoc as well. Sometimes a CPU/system might have an undocumented bug specific to that system that can cause sanity loss trying to figure out WTF is going on.

I've also noticed (and have come across a few others as well) that if you have enough Samsung SATA 860 EVOs, a particular one may end up persistently generating just a few errors every so often. I don't recall if these were read/write errors or a checksum error, but a clear and scrub will resolve these without incident.

Out of 30+ personal HDDs, I've only ever had one that had started generating checksum errors because it was going to shit. Not counting the laptop HDD that started clicking 20 years ago and taught me a very important early lesson on backups.
Or they could just continue having their current premium model that doesn't involve the third-party apps they so despise. Reddit premium is a thing already, too bad both the official app and website sucks.
I have never connected with any artist as much as I have with Cormac McCarthy. His writing brings forth feelings and ideas that seem to have always existed inside me but were waiting for his words to take shape.

Throughout his work runs a line of thought that is never explicitly explained or can be easily summarized but some of his sentences and paragraphs nod at it. Here's one of my favorites:

"He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the world’s heart beat at some terrible cost and that the world’s pain and its beauty moved in a relationship of diverging equity and that in this headlong deficit the blood of multitudes might ultimately be exacted for the vision of a single flower."
IIRC, they also limit the base scores from - 1 to +5, while only giving people a limited number of points to distribute. It helped avoid what you see on reddit sometimes where a comment gets piled on for no reason.
Man, when Reddit goes dark it really means it!
Sounds like backups do not include the archives of the pages, is that correct?
Open Source is not only about access and knowledge, but about right to reuse and modify
Its older than that: I ran into this finetuning ESRGAN on itself. Distortion is rapidly amplified in sucessive generations, even when you pixel peep and can barely see it in the esrgan generated source.
Sometimes I put on a TV show I’ve already seen playing in the background to help me focus. Something easy like Scrubs or How I Met Your Mother, where you really don’t need effort to keep track. It can play in the background for the whole day and it somehow helps me get in the zone, but not always.
They don't have the resources to take on that much moderation at scale. Maybe given two years and a big tech budget or six months and a big moderator budget.
It is a cesspit but for broadening perspectives it is much much better than reddit, even with less structure of discussions and worse discoverability.

"free speech absolutism" wasn't ever a huge problem, on the contrary, the suggested alternatives always seem to end up worse.

You have to suffer through idiotic opinions if you expose yourself to new ideas. There is never any alternative to that and there is no magic moderator that can make this decision in your stead. It isn't any more complicated than that really.
Why should we care if it’s financial failure for its owners as long as it brings the same value to its users?
Seriously, it's no longer even funny to us Europeans how bad your infrastructure is. I always thought it's because the population density is much lower in the US, but I don't believe any more that it is the primary reason.
As We May Think – Dr. Vannevar Bush (1945)
Pro-Russian hackers step up attacks against Swiss targets, authorities say
They certainly can and its their right, but it's clear that they are working in bad faith and want to just close all 3rd party access. Their API costs are orders of magnitude more than any business out there.
They would probably suht it down after few years.
Only instability introduced so far was by the subs going private. For some communities that are already notoriously unstable, this is not a particularly good look and makes me reconsider things.
Remove the mods, and replace them with who, exactly? They've pissed off everyone that was offering free labour.
I love this bit:

> While the two biggest third-party apps, Apollo and RIF, along with a couple others, have said they plan to shut down at the end of the month, we are still in conversation with some of the others. And as I mentioned in my post last week, we will exempt accessibility-focused apps and so far have agreements with RedReader and Dystopia.

What is the term for when there's a worker strike and instead of engaging with organizers/union representatives, the company approaches some individual workers and teams, trying to convince them to get back to work (or at least make it seem like those workers are likely to break rank), in order to start an inner conflict between the workers and have the strike collapse on itself?

Because that is what they're doing here. Explicitly ignoring the "union reps", and driving a wedge between rank-and-file "workers", under a guise of caring for accessibility.

--

EDIT: and it's pretty clear to me this memo was meant to be leaked, and it was carefully written to address the subreddit moderators and users. It says, "meh, this is just a regular Tuesday nothingburger drama, it's pointless and will blow over - but hey, someone has a good point about accessibility, and we care and listen, so we're now actively working on it; we ain't talking with Apollo and RiF devs because they're being unreasonable drama queens, and for the love of $deity, don't be unreasonable like them; we're actually afraid some of you may rough up our employees - is that really who you want to be?".
I'd love to post the lectures recordings online -- that remains to be seen, though, whether that's something the university might permit. Thank you for the kind words, though.
I know you're not saying this, but just to point out how absurd this price point is:

> Reddit generated $350 million in 2021, primarily from its advertising business

> Reddit has 52 million daily active users and approximately 430 million users who use it once a month

Are we really supposed to believe that Reddit is losing $500 * 400 million per year? Their total cost per user is probably something like $1/year. Twitch.tv which streams 1080p video prolly has costs of like $50/user/year. Insane pricing decision by Reddit.
> BTW. if you are into functional programming, this should feel really wrong. Basically you are deliberately adding side effects to your code by saying around or before/after a call to this, also do that.

A decorator in Python (and I guess other languages) is a nothing but a function of a function. And you’re taking those side effects out of your function. What’s not to like?
Why don’t they just introduce Reddit Premium, for say $5/mo, which is ad-free and allows 3rd party clients.
sadly not unicode
I always hated it. It feels infantilizing.
I give it 5 to 7 days until reddit the company forcefully removes these mods

The impact of this would be to make lots of subreddit unmoderated, leading to a huge amount of spam, adult content in sfw subreddit, cross-posting, etc. The impact would be to let everyone know just how much free work the mods do to keep Reddit tidy and valuable.

I don't think you're wrong (except maybe on the timescale) but I do think the strategy would shoot the CEO in the foot again.
https://www.emergentmind.com

https://www.ideamindai.com

https://news.bensbites.co

https://allainews.com

https://huggingface.co/papers
Why would you take the word of reddit management on this issue? That seems like the least trustworthy source here
FWIW, I've played around with Palm a bit and if you feed it some rules it's pretty good at explaining which rule a "bad" post violates. It could be a good initial triage
Yawn. Call me back when the YT layout is no longer bloated instead of taking things down not within their vision.
Ask HN: Does anyone else struggle with performance and mastery?
This may not be a topic suitable to HN, but maybe it could spark some interesting discussion.

I'm almost in my mid 30s now and I've been a gamer/game-player for probably most of my life. I've noticed at least in the last few years that developing mastery at various games or even just performing well and consistently has become quite a lot more challenging than it was say in my early 20s. I can't say I've ever been in the top 0.1% of anything I've tried, but I have come fairly close in some things after years of effort. In my case, it seems there is a wall where it starts becoming difficult for me (which it seems like that wall is different for everyone based on any number of things), and my motivation quickly starts dropping off. Either that, or I get so frustrated trying to work through it that it ruins my days and then I get less motivated again. I would imagine there is a different breaking point for everyone depending on a number of things, like aptitude, attitude, and motivating factors toward improvement.

I originally thought it was just mostly related to how sharp you are as a person. It seems like that can help, but it isn't the most important factor at all. I know HealthyGamer.GG did some discussion about this kind of thing, and he talked about the strongest factor in research being that of "cognitive flexibility." Is this something that is trainable? Is this something where the crystallization of intelligence that occurs as we age acts as a hindrance? What kinds of strategies to more competent HNers use to combat this?

Do others on HN struggle with mastery as they get older? I'm sure many of you have children now and because of such probably have far less time to dedicate to these kinds of things. I have a lot of free time on my hands nowadays, so all I'm really doing is just trying to get better at things. So measuring short of where I want to be feels a lot more painful.

Something else I find weird about it is that some of these activities I'm actually quite motivated to do, so clearly being more skillful at them is a strong net positive both in the short and long-term. They aren't all games. Knowing that and putting work in but not getting close to where you want to be even with significant effort is troubling.

Is it as simple as the Ronnie Coleman quote but applied to every domain?
"Everybody wanna be a body builder but no one wants to lift these heavy-ass weights" Ronnie Coleman.

I imagine my health issues and life circumstances probably act as a hindrance for focusing and maybe even the whole process, but I don't think it is healthy to place blame on those things, especially when I'm not really able to control them fully.

I mentioned games at the top, but I'd like those reading to think about this with anything they are trying to master--programming, writing, musical instruments, languages, anything like that.

Thanks for reading.
A 5.7 Terapixel Mosaic of the Surface of Mars
Spez assumes he has more power than Reddit users. He is likely right. Sadly. I wish people would just stop using that site and go back to web forums, but that is never happening. The average person enjoys the convenience of consolidation under one corporate overlord.

I assume the ipo will allow him to eventually join the (multi-millionaire?) billionaire class. One would assume he would fight tooth and nail to make this happen. Considering his past unethical behavior, I don’t see him playing nice to get what he wants.
Every computer advancement we take for granted today is due to industrial policy, and a time when the top marginal tax rate was over 70%. The idea that government is not effective and should not participate in industrial developments is all relatively new.

Every year that goes by without a reset in industrial policy, the web gets worse and there are fewer companies doing actual hardware. It turns out when you let the people who focus solely on finance and efficiency run things, it goes well for a while and then your foundational companies become like Boeing.

Government should participate more strongly, not less - including by breaking up big tech.
It reads a lot like Mother Earth Mother Board, in that it's a travelogue long-form article about a device that doesn't actually exist yet.

It's not really a "novel" in the sense of having a "plot". Anyone who has read the wikipedia article on sulfur injection can safely skip it.
No offense to the commentators in this post but do y'all just lay down and take everything that comes at you without a hint of objection? Yeah I get that it's a silly website but it's one that some people have been on for 10+ years.