skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are also the reason I think people stick around on Reddit.

Users show up for popular stuff like memes and videos. But they can get that anywhere. Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest, etc. are all finely tuned infinite scrolling content machines. They stick around on Reddit because they find out that their "niche" interests have whole communitues of 20,000 other people there to talk about them.

Sadly this is also something I don't think many of the competitors can accurately reproduce in any kind of short timescale. It took over a decade for Reddit to build these organically, and they are really only sustainable because of the sheer size of Reddit's userbase. 20,000 users on a niche subreddit represents a microscopic fraction of Reddit's 430 million active users, so when you scale that down to an alternative with 2 million users (almost 20x Kbin's population) you end up with only a handful of users.

Some of these communities are going back to forums, but that isn't a real replacement either. A user subscribed to 5 niche subreddits no longer gets one place to see all their stuff, they have 5 separate forums they need to follow, and all the usability problems that come with them.
Clutter Is Unmade Decisions
I'm sorry, but what should just. be a _progressive enhancement_ in this case completely ruins the user experience for me. However, I'm probably not your target audience, I'm just commenting on this trend in general.
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Welcome to the discussion lol. People have already provided examples of copilot producing niche code verbatim thereby proving their intuition incorrect. It’s a whole mess that will take years to be cleaned up by new legal conventions.
I totally agree on part of that, thanks for clearing it up - I definitely don't think it will replace all laptops, or all other computing in general. We very often want to interact with computers casually or with a group.

But for extended sessions of computer work (a healthily sized market, to say the least), I would be very surprised if I didn't love having 9 monitors instead of 3. And that's to say nothing of the 3D/spatial computing modalities that will develop as the platform evolves away from its 2D roots.

If you're not convinced and haven't watched the awesome video/scrolling ads the marketing wizards at Apple worked up, I highly recommend it. Brings a tear to my eye ;)

https://www.apple.com/apple-vision-pro/
> keyword moderation is terrible and only affects the language(s) you know about.

It doesn't seem that hard for npm to review lists of the most common keyword searches and identify the ones strongly associated with piracy (or other things negative for their business).

I agree, though, that keyword moderation is pretty terrible. It might work from npm's perspective, in that it might be annoying enough to pirates that they'll find some more convenient place to upload/download. I don't think it will have any overall impact on privacy though.
Indeed. Their API changes make very little sense if the goal is to capture the value that content they host has for training LLMs, especially because I don't think there's much value that they can capture there (AI researchers argue that using the content is fair use, and they can simply scrape it if they don't have API access: something which the courts have allowed in similar cases)
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I get anxious just to think that restoring from sleep/hibernation may fail and I lose all my workspace state...

If there was no boot failure, nor the need to reboot after some upgrade, I'd never, ever reboot my system.
Still, why would they need to reboot 292,612 times?

Is that supposed to be the log of the commit messages space?
Indeed. With all the costs we need to deal with here in Europe when running a company, there's zero chance anyone can afford to roll their own hardware for this without cash from the USA and that's not going to happen.

This company is dead before it got started. With the AI Act looming over it in the future even more so.

But maybe they will survive, by going to the USA.
Tell that to OpenAI...
Idt tying upvotes to money is a good community model at all.

Many of the richest people in the world are also the worst kind of people.

You will not see diverse content being upvoted with this model and you will encourage rampant corruption (ie Trump campaign being upvoted using right wing corporate funds/"donations" to promote it).
25 seems a bit high. I would be surprised if it reached 1%.
No, because I am less capable. It’s sometimes simple like that.

He wasn’t “rich people” like some Russian oligarch. He had shit to do and deep moral obligations. Millions of lives depended on it. Things of vast strategic importance stretching both thousands of miles and many decades.

Slaves don’t manage your long term ambitions and juggle your various mental and moral anguishes. They keep your house clean and provide you with food, sure. But to be honest, as a rich Westerner, I’m not too far off that.

He didn’t dream about standing knees deep in foreign horse shit managing the nitty gritty of brutal wars for the continued existence of an empire that looked solely at you.

All this could be handled with great nonchalance and incompetency which would have made his life relatively easy. But he decided to try and do a good job, now that’s something to take serious.

I get that “rich people” have some leverage, but this is another thing altogether.
Let’s say, tentatively, that the AMD on MLPerf plan is back on, as I trust they will release this fixed driver.

Well, that's encouraging!
I'm pretty naive about investing, but IIUC there are ways to bet against the stock price of a publicly traded company.

Is there a mechanism for betting against a pre-IPO company?
Reddit is using the same approach as Apollo: basing their business on a free resource.

For Apollo it was the api (for which they were willing to pay if the price was fair)

For Reddit is free labour and content, which they still want for free
> we are so close to replacing laptops with something that's 1000x more convenient and powerful.

Strapping a heavy laptop tightly to your face is the farthest thing away from "convenient" I can think of, especially when compared to a laptop.

Then, the huge waste of compute power needed to run two separate displays showing 99.9% the same information, and to do it at huge resolutions to avoid seeing pixels up close, and then even more wasted cycles on filming, interpreting, compositing, and rendering your surroundings won't leave much room for a "powerful" device either.
Yeah, I used freecad to fix up a screwy stp model for one of the parts, it was confusing but sufficient for that for sure. Weird how hard it was to move a solid body to the origin though.

If you meant in the other direction (and bidirectional) that looks good enough that I'd use it instead of Fusion in the I guess two situations it would come up -- creating a PCB outline from a larger model, or moving parts on the PCB to avoid interferences and have it show up in the layout software. Fusion 360 does do both of those.

Easy is to just export stp from KiCAD which works great for most situations but I hope this tool gets added to the kicad startup window soon.

We're already up to a schematic editor, layout editor, library editors, the best gerber viewer I know of (I have my coworkers install kicad just for the gerber viewer that I know is just gerbview but they use windows so this is way easier), and the calculator tool is amazing for calculating stripline impedances and RF attenuation and so on. A 3D tool that interfaces with the layout tool makes perfect sense to add.

edit: As an option and a standalone program with an interface rather than a unitary blob like Fusion ;-)
It's hilarious that you think that
Oh wow really!! I never even considered this!

So are you hinting that the English license may not be enforceable in non English courts?
I did not read it yet, but to me the only affect would be a nice bright start for a bit of time. Maybe even visible during daytime. Me, hopping it already happened 640 years ago or so, but that is rather doubtful.

Off to read it now :)
Thank you! I haven't considered that, but I'm curious to hear more.

Are you thinking a user's Apricot feed could have its own RSS feed so people could follow it, or generating RSS feeds for Apricot users' original content hosted elsewhere?
Separately from AOP being an incredibly bad idea, implementations of it contain another bad idea: using pattern-matching on symbol names to select a point cut.

As a Lisp person, Kiczales should have know better than to go around splitting atoms.

You're really planting a bomb when you capture not only every currently available method that begins with "Get", but any future one someone may add.

Computer programs should ideally have the property, that any identifier occurring in the system can be replaced by one having a different name (other than that of some existing identifier), such that the program's behavior doesn't change. The only thing significant about identifiers is whether two identifiers are the same one or not. An identifier's name is just for debugging, and for linkage across subsystem boundaries that do not admit the passage of object identity.
I had a quick play around with the Mcdonald's chatbot, in the hope that they might have hooked it up to GPT and it could be tricked into saying something funny.

No dice, the thing is as dumb as a Beavis and Butthead Christmas special, and incredibly poorly built.

I was being progressed to next questions after giving nonsense responses, there were also typos and zero context.

I know giving it an LLM would have been a very bad idea, but it was striking a) how my expectations of a chat bot have shifted, b) how bad an interface chat is, and c) how a company that big could roll out such a transparently bad system for such an important function.
Google Maps, YouTube, and gmail (forwarded to my fastmail) are all that I really have, but they're _really_ hard to replace.

Apple Maps sucks, there's nothing near as good as YouTube, and I don't want to move hundreds of email accounts off of gmail.
So there are plenty of alternatives and competitors. Problem solved.
I mean sure... but they now each have ~$30mm in (nominal) equity having done 0 work. That's not a bad deal.
Ah yes, simply be famous enough to get the closed internal build that actually works.

You know, it doesn't surprise me that's what they're doing, because the HPC people aren't paying megabucks and then tolerating something that crashes the kernel... but people's problems/experiences aren't invalid either, and the delta is they're not running the same software. I don't like it but it makes sense.
Leaving addicts and the mentally ill to rot on the streets is cruel and insane.
It was the whole "compute while you walk" thing that's not a great idea :)
> One time I heard someone praised as a good teacher. Not knowledgeable, but a good teacher. I objected that if someone is ignorant but a good teacher, does that mean they’re effective in conveying their ignorance? Wouldn’t that be a bad thing? No, all that mattered was that he was a good teacher.

I need more context. An elementary school teacher that is really great with students but doesn't know much beyond the books and other materials is probably a good part of the 6 or more teachers a student will have.

It doesn't say professor but even then it seems like an odd demand to me.
I moved all but one of my domains from Gandi to Porkbun, it's been a joy since. I'm in the UK, and the US pricing is favourable even with the credit card currency fee.

The only domain I have left at Gandi is a .ag (since Porkbun don't do .ag) and an orphaned .eu (because Brexit took that from me). There's nothing I can do with the .eu, so that's gonna languish until 2027.

The .ag domain is going up from 79EUR to 95EUR soon. Time to find a new registrar for that straggler. Even though I can renew at 79EUR now I'm inclined to take the renewal somewhere else.

Edit: could be a coincidence, could be a ccTLD thing, but the auth code that used to be viewable on the Transfer tab at Gandi is no longer there. Strange.
It doesn't scale, but most communities are not 100,000+ users. Most communities are relatively small.
Statement of Objections to Google over abusive practices hinting at breakup
I think they mean on a treadmill :)
been noticing that exact typo very frequently around here
I've recently been looking into getting a UTV, and reddit discussions are great for subjective decisions like this. A few threads that I found helpful are below:

https://old.reddit.com/r/UTV/comments/q9mqyo/looking_to_buy_...

https://old.reddit.com/r/UTV/comments/13li1iq/is_3500_lb_eno...

Frankly, I'm stunned you haven't had a single time where something useful came from a reddit discussion; sure, topical forums are usually better for very specific knowledge but for many cases it's great. And obviously you need to be able to sift through the bullshit but we deal with that already daily with Google results.
Also really depends on what kind of experts you're looking for. 99.99% of the world's experts are not writing in trade publications or scientific journals.
Like, the time to develop it? Or the time to compute it?

Because I did basically that with a parallelogram yesterday on a nvidia 3060 laptop(45*16=720 shapes) on a curve. It took like 5 minutes to compute it.

No joke, I am afraid of this model and I was happy to export it as a .stl and move on.
This looks awesome. Congrats on the launch!
>However, an O(n^3) algorithm will always loose out to an O(n^2*log(n)) algorithm, when the input gets big enough.

Sure, this might be the case from a theoretical point of view (as per definition) but this completely disregards the hidden constants that come to light when actually implementing an algorithm. There's a reason why for instance a state-of-the-art matrix multiplication algorithm [0] can be completely useless in practice: The input data will never become large enough in order to amortize the introduced overhead.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.10173
I used to use micromamba, recently moved to mach-nix with nix. It's also really fast, but with the reproducibility of nix.
I have indeed encountered numerous individuals proclaiming the mantra of "any action is better than inaction," leading inevitably to the notion that "more actions equate to greater efficacy."

In reality, countless establishments still uphold the belief that the measure of "lines of code" serves as a suitable yardstick for gauging "productivity," even in unexpected contexts.

The key lesson to be gleaned from this is the need to convey this concept in a manner comprehensible to executives, who often grasp the intricacies of warfare terminology and analogies.
>Then you have those types who put their machine into hibernate/sleep with 100+ Chrome tabs open and never do a full boot ritual. Boggles my mind that people do that.

If the OS and hardware drivers properly support sleep, you almost never need to do otherwise (except to install a new kernel driver or similar).

In macOS for example it hasn't been the case that you need reboot in your regular OS use for over 10+ years.

The "100+ Chrome tabs" or whatever mean nothing. They're paged out when not directly viewed anyway, and if you close just Chrome (not reboot the OS) the memory will be freed in any case...
Because it's distracting and fills your field of view. Even when i write something on my mobile I'd stop walking. I tripped too many times trying to do that.

But the video explains it pretty well :)
Yeah same, either "ne" or "news" in address bar depending on how many "ne" things I've visited recently
Absolutely not. The noise of a Discord server of that size would be immense. The substance would quickly be lost to the non-stop noise.
You can always replace mods, especially if Reddit pays the new mods.
Adding to this, I realized a part I missed -- I use workspaces like folks would use scratch pads

With the tabbed layout each display becomes a sort of permanent workspace. I then toss things I don't really care about into new workspaces as needed, sort of like a scratch pad

Things that only start on certain days (mostly work tasks) go into these other workspaces by default
KeyJen.
There are value adds included in the price, such as DNS hosting and maybe email stuff, although some of that is going away along with the price increase.
embrace search. command+space is dmenu and command+f is dmenu for a specific context
That sounds like a much healthier/less exploitative scene to be honest!
One thing that I often repeat is that stupidity is worse than malice. And by "stupidity" I don't mean lack of knowledge; I mean lack of reasoning. The people who are malicious but smart will only cause you damage when it benefits them, but the stupid will cause you damage all the time - even when it harms them.

I feel like this text has a similar reasoning. The "dumb and gets things done", or the "dumb and energetic", they're so eager to help, and yet they're doing the opposite. For example they'll write that piece of spaghetti that breaks often, has more holes than a sieve, but it's still used by everyone else around them - because the lazy didn't do it, and the smart are probably worried about other stuff.
If any subreddit mods read this, thank you for doing this. I understand that taking down something that you poured so much energy and effort into is a tough decision. But it's for the best.

I used shreddit[1] to remove my account's posts/comments. It's infuriating to read this line:

> Back in April, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman told The New York Times that the site wanted to start getting paid for helping to train some of the big AI chatbots.

I hope this protest shows the leadership that users have the power.

[1] https://github.com/x89/Shreddit/issues
I think you can get serotonin from saffron
What a fantastic bug report writeup this is. Both the linked post and the backing LKML and QEMU bug report.
>former Yahoo managers

Specifically the ones that ended up in charge of tumblr, so they can suggest "ban adult content on a platform famous for its adult content"
I need to stress this more obviously in the article, but the goal is to protect Reddit's future data.
Why is "amputee" rude?
Then Reddit the company should charge Apollo a reasonable price, not an extortionate price that will kill the apps altogether. And lay off the majority of the staff, just like Twitter. Sure, the experience may get slightly worse, but it will be fine. The real issue is just trying to take Reddit to IPO.
This would be more convincing a reason if the new builds over the last couple of decades had been fitted with good insulation and heat pumps.

Since they dragged their heels on that low hanging fruit, I'll suggest they've not really even tried to make it work elsewhere.

(There have been some improvements so I don't want to get carried away, but there's also estimates of many Billions wasted by not doing what was obviously a good idea at the time).

Also, recent real world experience suggests more older buildings than you think will work. Britain doesn't get that cold for that long and modern heatpumps and insulation techniques are pretty good.
Counter-intuitive? Perhaps not. But there are some obvious reasons why it is comparatively harder for Reddit to attract ad spend:

1. Instagram encourages business users to use the service for free. This gives a taste for the platform and reduces the friction in spending money later on. Reddit, on the other hand, discourages free business use.

2. Instagram generally gives the impression that it has real users, with real names and real photos attached. Reddit generally gives the impression of being a fantasy world with anonymous characters. While the latter may be attractive to certain niche products that fit into that fantasy, the average business operating in the real world feels more at home when it thinks it is marketing to real people.
"you are you no matter where you are. Banal, I know." -- I agree that it is banal, in the sense that it is a common and popular message, but I also think it is wrong.

The environment, the context, all have a profound effect on people. When I played a certain sport competitively, towards the end of their career they would come and play with us former high-level professionals. Almost invariably, and it was the same for other people on other teams, they would start playing the way they used to play (well), but very soon they were seen approaching the average performance of their team members. The athletic director thought that their presence might "pull up" the attitude, performance and skills of their teammates, but the opposite always happened: the gravitational pull of lazy, unskilled and less professional teammates was too strong to resist.

The same happens in many other contexts. I used to work in a dynamic company full of brilliant innovators (FAANG). Now I work in a legacy technology company full of lazy, semi-incompetent, ball-dropping, half-asleep colleagues, and I am delivering 20 percent of what I could and used to deliver. There is no tide lifting all boats. "But if you really wanted to...," says those who believe in the inevitability of the affirmation of spirit. But this is a myopic view of life; we are largely shaped by the context in which we live, in which we work, by the people we spend time with, at least as much as by our personality.
In one of the WWDC videos, they mention they reimplemented their glyph renderer to be vector-based, so text should at least not depend on first rendering to laptop-screen pixels and then to face-screen pixels. Seems like it should be state of the art at launch.
Definitely worse than the smart and gets things done 10x dev who wraps every method call in a separate service connected by queues.
Coupled with the studies titled "No amount of Alcohol is Safe!" Im starting to get the feeling that alcohol usage, like everything else humans do, is nuanced and cant be measured as a single study. To paraphrase Homer ... Alcohol, the cause and solution to all lifes problems.
That's good to know. The media painted a very different picture. I should've known better :)
Probabilistic feature flags! Love it.
The joke language INTERCAL incorporated AOP. In INTERCAL, the GOTO statement is replaceed by COMEFROM.

If you write a COME FROM 20 anywhere in the program, then when line 20 executes, control will invisibly pass to your COMEFROM statement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTERCAL

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMEFROM
I'm discussing child labor, not child labor laws!
Simple fix: pass a law rendering null and void any invoice or bill that cannot itemize all included fees, taxes, and surcharges.
The Psychology of Clutter (2008)
Ok, so you're basically saying that Google should be regulated because they're like infrastructure - even though they can be replaced given a few months. There are good to great alternatives for every Google product.

Yet, it's ok for Europe to ignore their own monopolies.

This is just moving the goal post. A monopoly is a monopoly.

What about ASML? They're a monopoly for EUV machines, which power our modern tech economy. That should be "infrastructure" enough right? Why isn't Europe looking at them?
Yeah they can be heavy. You'll probably want a third party strap that holds the battery. Those are usually more balanced and comfortable.