skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You'd think they would do everything within their power to enable them so why kick them in the nuts?

They're probably tracking revenue and engagement metrics. This happens in a lot of places. Everyone knows there's important infrastructure that keeps things working, but new user-facing projects are always more exciting. Even with physical infrastructure, it's more exciting to build new roads than fix potholes.
Try out these Cory Schafer videos, I remember watching them 6 years ago and them being quite helpful. https://youtu.be/ZDa-Z5JzLYM
No it's reddits most engaged users don't use the reddit app with all the ads like reddit wants you to.

If it was ChatGPT they could just manually approve api use for the few popular clients
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Why doesn't docker use it for linux guest on linux host instead of kvm?
Good point, touchscreen is even faster. Eye tracking may be hard to make work properly (false positives, false negatives, invalid actions...), but would indeed be the fastest.
Lemmy has the same discoverability and usability problems as Mastodon. Especially for non-technical users, there's too much friction required to find their communities and aggregate them into a single usable feed with a nice client. And that's assuming they can even conceptualize what the fediverse is.

I'm a technical user, and I closed join-lemmy.org after ten seconds because it was too many clicks to get to an interface that looked like Reddit. I did manage to find a community by clicking "join," and arbitrarily picking one of the communities on the page (which were presented in random order on every page load). I was disoriented and didn't know what this community was - did I land on the equivalent of a subreddit? Or is this a federated instance that includes all "subreddits" the server is connected to? Then I saw an intimidating user interface with sparse activity and low numbers of comments. So I concluded that if that's how I felt as a technically sophisticated user, then Lemmy doesn't stand a chance of gaining traction with the average redditor. I went back to Reddit and noticed most of the subs I like are done with their blackout.

Lemmy can succeed, but it needs a usable client that abstracts away the complexity of federation and choosing which servers to join. It seems like a perfect opportunity for Apollo, RIF, and the other award winning Reddit clients that are about to shut down. Why not port their apps to point to Lemmy backend(s) instead of Reddit? They could bring their loyal userbase to Lemmy, solving the chicken-and-egg problem and helping to bootstrap activity. And they can keep their UI, solving the problem of the intimidating user interface that would otherwise inhibit adoption of Lemmy.

It seems like there is a relatively straight-forward path to integration, but the opportunity window is probably closing soon. They'd need to act fast. The first step would probably be for Lemmy contributors to build an open source interopability layer that implements the Reddit API (maybe this already exists?), and for the client apps to figure out how to add one more layer of indirection to their interface ("servers").
Loved Empire of the Summer Moon. Totally different kind of book, far more accessible than The Comanche Empire with more narrative and a fascinating storyline.

The Comanche Empire is more of a history textbook.

IIRC, I found The Comanche Empire by looking at the bibliography of Empire of the Summer Moon.
This isn't new by any means. It was one reason I swerved away from the profession after getting my MLIS degree almost twenty years ago. I like books, I don't want to be a babysitter or a first responder. Of course the other reason, very much related, is that the pay isn't great. I had a graduate degree and didn't make a living wage, and looking at the salary ladder I wasn't going to be making what a first-year developer made for like... 20 years to ever.

But I still go to the library almost every weekend.
Fair! I know there’s lots of wallet activity on any of the big chains right now. I’m a little suspicious of that representing real economic activity (filling the role of a currency, used as units of exchange) and maybe a bit more convinced it’s a casino poker chip ledger. It seems like the simple majority of people trade and transact out of their exchange, to my knowledge.

If that simile of ML is like crypto is true, you stand to be quite rich! So best of luck! Best comments have net 0 right, so hopefully you’ll think of me and this thread when you’re a trillionaire eh? ;)
Most of what you wrote was true for the most of the Mediterranean after the Bronze Age collapse too. That is why the Greeks and Romans also had such myths, remember Atlantis is something that seemingly originated with Plato.
I disagree that the later levels are filler. Episode 4 is my favorite, because it's the episode that best shows off Quake's excellent movement. It's less cramped than the others, and has better "flow", letting you bunny hop all over the maps with minimal waiting. I agree with the common consensus that it's the ugliest of the episodes, but I think this suits the weird otherworldly theme that Sandy Petersen was going for (influenced by the works of H. P. Lovecraft).

The only real complaint I have is the use of the Spawn enemy, which is generally considered the worst designed enemy in the game. But the enemy placement in episode 4 has the advantage that it makes relatively little use of the Ogre, which I consider the second worst enemy, because it has too much HP for something so common, and is too predictable on Nightmare difficulty (to the point that some people say Hard difficulty is actually more difficult than Nightmare).
They commented on that and said:

> The downtime we just experienced wasn't related to this maintenance. We'll be posting the details shortly.
Don't send business data to random websites.

This is not news.
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Automatic time zone translation is moronic if you don’t indicate that automatic translation has happened before displaying it to the user.

Also, assuming that the time zone set on the client machine is the same that the reader expects is usually true, but not always.

There’s a reason most technical or “professional” communication of time zones happens in UTC, and the conversion is left up to the reader.
Teams channels are often much better than meetings. They might get their answers faster and for complex ones they can study it better.

Also, nobody has to be put on the spot. Leaving them waiting a couple of hours max for an answer is usually the same wait time anyway. In the meantime you can also ask refining questions before producing the final answer.
I think it’s fine that used cars (for now) are ICE. We’re still supply constrained on making and selling electric cars, so taking a bunch of ICE off the road would only raise prices.

Part of environmentalism is knowing when not to buy new. What we should do is a cash-for-clunkers exclusively for trucks and SUVs that get replaced with electric sedans. They’re lower fuel efficiency, and way more dangerous.
I think C code is full of branches and CPUs are designed to guess and parallelise those (possible) decisions. Graphics cards are designed for running tiny programs against millions of pixels per second. I’m not sure it possible to make these two different concepts the same.
Looks like the sub is public again, so this may not have the impact they wanted.
My understanding of the history of this system is that auto manufacturers wanted a way to dump their inventory reliably and so independent dealerships came into being. Then the dealership owners got rich and influential enough to essentially get themselves enshrined in state law in multiple states. But someone else can fill me in if that’s incomplete or not quite correct.
Ahhh, do you know what's funny is after I wrote that comment I went to the bathroom and while peeing I basically had the intuition they were 2 halves of the same thing, but I couldn't even articulate it. I was going to come back and try to ask again and I saw this comment. Thanks!

All this stuff I've tried to learn a few times and it's just so open ended, my mind is very more technically oriented and vague hand-waving statements on investopedia drives me crazy. Other people seem to understand it so easily but after the multiple attempts that I have made, I just have given up.
I said I think it's absolutely wrong, not that people don't make up excuses for why it's right when they do it.
I mean that's a possible motivation for some folks, but not everyone.

I know that when I've taken on unpaid positions of responsibility (not as a reddit mod but within my hobbyist community), it's because I cared about the organization and the people in it, and getting things right.
Investors do not care about just DAUs (daily active users) anymore, they care just as much about ARPU (avg revenue per user)

At Facebook, users from Asia Pacific region monetize at around ~1/15th of US&CA users. The costs to serve those users remains relatively fixed on a per-user basis, so expect those costs to inflate by 10-15x to earn the same revenue. Will Reddit drastically change their business model to appeal to Asia Pacific users and advertisers? It's possible but extremely unlikely and pivoting your business model months from IPO isn't a good plan.

A flood of India users to a western-centric platform is how you kill that platform (see Quora).
I was surprised to see how many of my searches were landing on SO this morning. It stood out because the site was not responding. Apparently, it was a stupid thing to say...
Rarely do optimal conditions exist unfortunately.
This is a good explanation, but the real, inflation-adjusted bond yield is still negative.
ML was not marginal for decades. It's been in regular use in a number of fields for decades. The current hype is an artifact of someone putting fun interface in front of an ML system. Hype around generative imagery and LLMs is new, not the technologies themselves.

Crypto has been around for nearly a decade and a half and has been really useful for malware and scammers and not much else. It's fundamentally broken as a currency because most coins are designed to be deflationary so they behave like securities. It's fundamentally broken for micro transactions because transactions are ridiculously expensive and slow by design.
I don't even think it's behind the scenes. It seems plain as day that they're trying to recoup the cost of their shitty website redesign and even shittier app. Since everybody is using third-party apps (which use the API), they pulled the most tonedeaf, corporatist approach and targeted those third-party apps. Instead, they should have dome some soul-searching to realize that they burned a money pile to make garbage because they decided their primary users were advertisers.
> Are they perhaps meaning something different than usual by the term "open source"?

It seems that way to me. From what I can gather after reading the article, it seems they are:

1. Developing Zed in the open
2. Allowing anyone to watch and give feedback on the development from within Zed itself (it looks sort of like IRC channels in the screenshots)
3. Eventually allowing people in those channels to actively participate in the development live (sounds like Google Docs meets GitHub pull requests)
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Realtors provide a valuable service, I’ll agree, but I don’t think one in line with the price you’re paying, which is propped up by their cartel system.
So what do you call white supremacists who adorn themselves with swastikas?
I love that I live in a city with a robust library system. I can borrow books online, and check out books from distant branches by having them moved to my local one. The last time I actually went into my local branch to do some focused reading every chair and table was filled with other folks doing the same thing. That is, except for one whole table that a homeless guy had commandeered to lay out his belongings, and was circling and grunting. The guy clearly needed the kind of help you’re not going to find in a library. My city shelters everyone, and has a generous safety net. I don’t know what else to do, but realized the library isn’t the place to go for a library-like atmosphere.

Luckily the library cordons off the children’s section on a separate floor where adults aren’t generally permitted.
I understand why you feel demotivated by all of this negative discourse and constant speculation on better technology. That said,

> electric cars? No!

The Model Y was the best selling car[0] in the world in Q1! Isn't that a positive fact :)

Six Flags in California now has solar installed at 2 of its theme parks, offsetting 3000 homes worth of electricity! Isn't that a positive fact :)

There are many other stories like this, you just have to look :)

> So we will never have to actually do any of them.

I agree we can do more, but focus on these positive outcomes! Stuff IS happening and it is for the better!

[0] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-model-y-was-the-best-se...

[1] https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2023/04/25/six-flags-announces-s...
At this point I believe that documentation is the most important marketing artifact that a project has.
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Hey HN!

This a video demo of an idea I'm working on. Basically, I'm using a few different AI models to create a conversation simulator.

The user gets to simulate any scenario with the ai. The goal is to help people practice their communication skills or important conversations in a "safe" environment.

Think flight simulators for pilots, but instead of flights, it's conversations.
What happened to your hands while playing volleyball? Never had any problems but know they can happen (broken fingers, tendon injuries, eye injuries, sliding on a Portugese Man O' War, hitting a rock and dying, etc. - life as usual!8-)).

Unless you stress your muscles and joints you will not gain strength, flexibility and coordination. You'll have the body of E.T., but none of his psychokinetic abilities.

FWIW lots of games and sports are derivatives of warfare and what you call "masochism" is part of the game. Some games (martial arts, fencing, etc.) are a part of warfare.

Limiting sports to walking would be a "bridge too far" for most people. OTOH you're free to exercise as you wish and walking is by far the best solo exercise.
because they'd also need to remove the mods who made the subs private in the first place lest they just make them private again immediately

and removing those mods would/could/should be perceived as an escalation in this fight that could make the problem worse not better
For what it's worth, I have a 200 year old cottage that probably has a few centuries left in it, and the plumbing and wiring is all in conduits that are easily accessed. Maybe we should make it easier to replace this stuff without ripping the house apart?
> why be a moderator for a for-profit company if you aren't being paid?

The same reason you'd be a moderator for a non-profit, which is power.
Look, someone was told there was a corpse in an abandoned building; but when they tried to put in a ticket for public safety there wasn’t a category for “body found”; so it got kicked back to the supervisor’s intern. It has been resubmitted as a space request for an employee who does not currently have an office, and the body will be moved as soon as its cubicle is setup in a different building && and a laptop is provisioned.
How does anyone on the stack above handle this error? i.e. what can be done programmatically to deal with it?

I claim this is far worse than panic in this case... you've now introduced a code path variant that folks above think is "legitimate" or caused by some input or something in the environment that could be changed to make it go away... but that's not the case here... the only thing that can be fixed is the code in question to not be in this region if the array length is 2 or less. It's a plain old "bug" and the only cure (other than more cowbell) is to modify source and recompile.
> The other option is that people would pay to use Reddit or Twitter. But they would lose 90% of their users if they took that route, because what they do does not provide enough value that a typical user would pay for it.

I see this repeated all the time but I've never seen any evidence cited to support it.

Also, 90% of the users leaving when the site switches to a paid model doesn't necessarily mean the quality of the site or their profitability will go down. I'd pay a pretty hefty monthly fee for most of the social media sites that I've now stopped using as a result of their heavy handed strategies to maximize ad revenue.

Also, since when did we start deciding how much value a thing could potentially provide to an individual? Isn't that what "the free market" is supposed to sort out?
I'm pretty sure that was a game/gimmick and part of the conference badge challenge. But maybe not. Regardless it is a security conference after all and I'd totally expect people to be playing around like that. I don't think it would have been seen as malicious.
This made me think—what if we postulated that companies cannot be victims of a crime. Only physical persons can. So if all you do is harm to a company, it cannot be a crime by definition, the act can only be treated as a company doing harm to another company, and as a company you cannot go to prison
I agree with all of that, but honestly the more important factor is this is just not a very good cause to get all worked up about. Reddit is trying to grow into a profitable company, their business model is showing ads to users, they obviously can't just let millions of people use 3rd party apps for free.

I think even casual users understand this perfectly well. They don't use 3rd party apps for browsing Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or Tiktok (because those services also don't offer APIs). Why should Reddit be different?
>Large communities can't meaningfully migrate off it.

Yes they can, Digg migrated to reddit, Facebook migrated to Instagram. If Reddit becomes insufferable for most of their users to use they will migrate. Never forget the internet 1% rule [1], just the right set of users have to migrate to kill the site.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule
Agree with the sentiment, disagree with the assignment of blame. Blame legal, marketing, design, or PM. No web dev decided this was how they wanted to spend a day.
Probably they have trained 'GPT-5' from scratch for the government and military and these new API models are distillations and quantizations of the larger models for relatively faster and cheaper inference at the cost of capabilities.
Sorry, I thought your comment was in support of alberth's upthread assertion that they bear some of the fault in this.
I feel like this is somewhat of an indictment of Mastodon. Maybe its not a 1:1 replacements but I feel like they could be capitalizing on this moment and it feels like they're not in the conversation.
This is something that fundamentally can't work, unfortunately. One showstopper (and there may be others) is subgroup size. Nvidia hardware has a subgroup (warp) size of 32, while Intel's subgroup size story is far more complicated, and depends on a compiler heuristic to tune. The short version of the story is that it's usually 16 but can be 8 if there's a lot of register pressure, or 32 for a big workgroup and not much register pressure (and for those who might reasonably question whether forcing subgroup size to 32 can solve the compatibility issue, the answer is that it will frequently cause registers to spill and performance to tank). CUDA code is not written to be agile in subgroup size, so there is no automated translation that works efficiently on Intel GPU hardware.

Longer term, I think we can write GPU code that is portable, but it will require building out the infrastructure for it. Vulkan compute shaders are one good starting point, and as of Vulkan 1.3 the "subgroup size control" feature is mandatory. WebGPU is another possible path to get there, but it's currently lacking a lot of important features, including subgroups at all. There's more discussion of subgroups as a potential WebGPU feature in [1], including how to handle subgroup size.

[1]: https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/issues/3950
I thought they meant "persecute" at first, but this phrase makes no sense in that case:

"persecutor priority"

so hopefully a typo
> The admins of reddit haven't done so (yet).

Haven't they? Isn't making the API economically unfeasible to use limiting access?

My personal plan is to delete all my posts and my account once Apollo goes down. I made most of that content using Apollo, so it seems fitting.
From the original article linked:

"[The counterfeit drug issue is] happening in tourist hot spots across the country... In most of those locations, the pills that tested positive came from independent pharmacies, where workers sold them over the counter, one tablet at a time. But in Puerto Vallarta, counterfeits were available even at one regional pharmacy chain..."

Single-pill purchases are extraordinarily sketchy, but the article notes that some of the issue is fake bottles that look like sealed on-brand products.

Pretty sure the fentanyl pills are aimed almost entirely at tourists (recreational tourists, but also medical tourists hoping to get their prescriptions cheaper than in the US).

Seems like some pharmacies are totally willing to risk deaths (enough for a US Embassy warning) for extra profit.
I mean a dealership is often the biggest business in town. They’re big cheeses locally. And provincial elites often have a lot of resentment for national ones, which explains a lot about recurrent political conflicts.
I also love old.reddit.com with RES, but I have no illusion that Reddit likes it too.

It seems likely to me that the same factors that motivate Reddit to do away with high-quality, user-oriented third party frontends will also motivate it to do away with old.reddit.com and RSS.
Or those users could go start a competing subreddit.
ok but in my understanding isnt DNS also cached on the nearest wifi/ISP routers? the whole DNS system is just layer after layer of caches right? i.e. does caching on local machine actually matter? (real question, i dont know)
To defend against an attacker with physical access to an offline machine you need to verify anything that the attacker can overwrite without the encryption key. Aren't bootloader and kernel on the writable unencrypted partition?
Assuming that 'IL' means US-Illinois, not sure if Israel has legalized.

On the case of US-IL, the problem is that there's no competition (after 3 YEARS), because of the obvious corruption in the process from the beginning. But I wholly expected this considering how Illinois politics works. I live in a central Illinois college town (2 full Universities) and we have 2 dispensaries, both owned by the same company. A comparable city in Colorado, Boulder has 8.
More immediately though, if that data is stored for future use in training, or even recorded in logs, it can leak. Not just randomly - OpenAI in particular is sitting on a treasure trove of corporate secrets, medical data, PII, possibly even government secrets - all submitted by people unaware or dismissive of data security concerns. It's only a matter of time before someone deems it worth it to invest substantial resources into an attack, and if they succeed, lots of people and organizations will have a bad day.
I block ads, nuke cookies, and use old.reddit.com exclusively, but somehow I still manage to spend a lot of money on shit I don't need. Most of it was found on reddit. All of it got a google search that included "site:reddit.com" before buying. This anecdote is not unique. The fact that reddit gets $0 despite being part of my typical buyers journey is a failure of Steve Huffman, not the users.
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