skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All EU institutions are in a bad position to even identify discrimination correctly because it is detached from reality and only very indirectly accountable.

With its ambitions for age verification to "protect the kids" it might make the net far less accessible for a lot of people.

No minority ever seriously asked for speech restrictions, no minority ever asked for unique IDs. The actions are in contradiction to the message.

An EU-lobotomized AI would always reiterate the current zeitgeist as we already see with ChatGPT. If you don't use workarounds, because it actually does correct itself in the face of too blatant hypocrisy.
If there's a concern, it's your concern
https://archive.is/ECLWk
This is insane:

> We demonstrate the application of video-based cryptanalysis by performing two side-channel cryptanalytic timing attacks and recover: (1) a 256- bit ECDSA key from a smart card by analyzing video footage of the power LED of a smart card reader via a hijacked Internet-connected security camera located 16 meters away from the smart card reader, and (2) a 378-bit SIKE key from a Samsung Galaxy S8 by analyzing video footage of the power LED of Logitech Z120 USB speakers that were connected to the same USB hub (that was used to charge the Galaxy S8) via an iPhone 13 Pro Max.

Had this been in a movie, you'd say it's unrealistic and the filmmakers have no clue how technology works.
> Also, I don't tend to trust it as much, because it isn't actually what the program executes.

Maybe you don't know Rust, but it is a strongly typed language. If you go to a rust project and run `cargo doc --open` you will see exactly what the type system lays out. Sure if someone writes "changes the windows height and returns a new Window" on a change_window_height(height: Pixels) -> Window and it changes the windows width instead that is still wrong. But (A) you can click on "source" and see the actual code and (B) you are guaranteed that the function takes Pixels and spits out a Window

That being said I hate that kind of documentation in most other languages, not in Rust. In Rust it is basically an alternative view onto the same code with a (needed) emphasis on the realtions of the entities the type system describes. If there is prose that can be a nice extra, but cargo doc is even useful without a single comment.
What is the advantage of a open bed?
In Europe the role of a small commercial vehicle like this would be taken by something like a Mercedes Vito or a Ford transit connect. I really can't think of a reason why you would choose a TELO over a Nissan NV200.
Because they read some stuff about economics and really really want to believe it.
If the runbooks are this clear (and the monitoring this accurate), you don't really need an on call engineer at all tbh. Just have an automated system look at the error graph and roll back to the previous release if the errors go up too much. There's a bunch of blog posts out there of companies that already do this.
It's not the Redditors or the 3rd party app devs' fault that Reddit is perhaps the only "big" corp whose main app is so shi*y that people resort to other alternatives.
They had a lot of time to facilitate the mods and admins of subs, but they continued to deliver builds that didn't solve users' problems.

However, I feel for the people who have used the official apps for catching up to news, and they are missing out big-time. For example, where do I go now for unbiased football/soccer news?
I do something similar and using the ring + middle finger is actually super comfortable (at least for me). I have it as a one-shot Ctrl (I can either hold or tap it to modify the next keypress).

And yes, it's more comfortable than remapping caps-lock, although I don't use a standard keybord layout and using the weak pinky for such a common action is far from optimal (I use the 34 key Ferris).
I suspect reddit is more reliant on third party apps and tools than Instagram was.
The latter, meaning none of those three parties have a majority

Obviously doesn’t work for the President, you need tanked choice, runoff, etc

but it does for Congress and senate.
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Does human-machine symbiosis raise human rights issues?
The product is the stock price, not "revenue" or "users". If this increase their stock valuation at IPO and destroy the company in a month time, they'll go for it. This is the free market at play, you are welcome.

Couldn't be more relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZFTaEenaHM
I disagree with you, but especially the second part. Users advertise their interests by the subs they subscribe to, it would be very easy to target them. You could even go so far and let users up and downvote ads they think are relevant to them. The problem is more with the whole way reddit inc goes about how they interact with their users and power users. You shouldn't be openly hostile against your own users (except if you are the mods of askmen).
You can always check Qt TextEdit source code ;)
Many people have had experiences that fall into categories that make them difficult to speak about. Because they may not be universally shared experiences, there's not much of a common vocabulary that feels adequate.

To me, a large part religion seems to be to provide such a vocabulary, and therefore, purposefully or not, monopolize the description of such experiences. By doing so, they inevitably funnel the rationalization of these experiences into certain paths.

The reductive alternatives offered by skeptics are not usually a satisfying substitute, since they are usually not talking about the same thing. Skeptics like to shift the conversation to what they consider the objective which, while not necessarily wrong, is a different conversation, and beside the point. To make an inadequate comparison: it's like discussing the objective nature and accuracy of poetry rather than the experience of it, and the impact on the reader.

There are many other ways to look at the development of western occultism, but from the perspective of language, it seems to me that it had a lot to do with establishing a framework that tries to side-step the effective monopoly of religious conversation, as well as the only alternative offered: plain denial of the experience.

You could, of course, lump the history of occultism in with religion and say "it's not significantly different"/"it's a mish-mash of borrowed ideas from traditional religion"/etc., if painting with broad brushstrokes, but I think it was a conscious effort to break out of the frameworks set by convention and religion.

It's an attempt to take command of the internal and external conversation regarding something deeply personal.

I believe this is important, because putting language to something (whether it's words or symbols) is a hugely important way to internalize, process, and develop the results of an experience, whatever it is.
Thank you! Indeed, more than once over the course of introducing this new PMM I felt a sense of desperation as bugs surfaced due to an “I don’t know what I changed” change.

Often, the answer is “nothing special”, and extremely minor pieces of happenstance (such as the exact layout of address space requested by the kernel ELF) lead to something breaking way down the ladder.

It's really nice to hear that you enjoyed it!
Since this is only B&W i had to feed it to tineye [0] to get to the original [1].

[0] https://tineye.com/

[1] https://cdn.ebaumsworld.com/mediaFiles/picture/2192630/84327...
> once the functionality missing gets apparent enough on a constant basis as it happened for me when switching from fish to zsh.

As someone that went the other way ~5 years ago, I’m curious what made you switch :). Are you btw on a hand-rolled config or one of the distributions?

(For me, it was that I was maintaining a ~400 line zsh config, and then learned that fish did most of the things I had configured “out of the box”. I considered switching back for increased POSIX compatibility since I often write bash scripts at work, but since Fish 3 added POSIX-compatible syntax for most pain points, I haven’t kept up with zsh.)
Given that MMT rejects the natural rate hypothesis and replaces it with the price anchor hypothesis, that suggests you haven't got your understanding of MMT from the source materials.

MMT moves the stabilisation policy from the market for money to the market for labour. They are not doing that in Argentina and Zimbabwe. They are following IMF dogma.

Therefore they demonstrate the problems with neoliberalism.
That would probably kill third party clients because their userbase would be too small.
Hmmm. Can you short an IPO?

(/s, but only halfway.)
just slap $200 on your $100 watch budget and get a proper mechanical seiko. beats a rolex any time. why? because rolex is just an eta movement slapped in a rolex casing. a seiko is a seiko movement in a seiko casing. and such a seiko watch can be serviced in seiko stores which you'll find in many larger towns all around the world. even if you want to spend four digits on a watch - never a rolex. so many better options.
Unsubscribe from all the big subs (or at least hide them away into multireddits). It makes your life ten times more enjoyable.
> You don't negotiate with blackmailers, because this is what this is now, blackmail.

You don’t negotiate with exporters either, yet here we are.
> In many cases, the greatly increased cost of imported inputs meets or exceeds the export gains.

Can you explain how it can exceed the export gain?

Say there is some Turkish export product, to keep it simple let's say it's a car which needs some metal as an input, that has to be imported.
If the Lira goes down, this means the metal becomes more expensive in terms of Lira's. So this has to be accounted for in the price of the exported cars. However, that accounted price increase is the same as the rise in import price. What is left is the added value within Turkey, which has become cheaper because of the Lira drop.

So even though export price drops are slower than the drop of the Lira, they still drop.
+1. However, I hope the reddits and twitters of the world continue to exist, perhaps in diminished form, if for no other reason than to provide a place for users who prefer the "outrage porn," shallow memes, flame wars, etc, so that they're less likely to intrude on the smaller, healthier communities that are forming elsewhere.
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> Realistically, assume you were going to upgrade anyway.

Realistically, you don't need to replace the entire thing. Replace mobo+CPU, GPU, PSU, RAM, case as necessary.

Laptop is a different story. Replacing a desktop with a laptop and then comparing them is not a fair comparison.
I'm guessing the las one should link here https://rise.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ and not to voila two times?
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I still struggle with this, but I’ve become better at it.

What I learned is that “the last 10%” really is about half of the work. The solution is to reduce the scope. A lot.

Not only will it make it easier to finish the project. It also allows you to get real-world feedback a lot earlier. Which is both rewarding and informing. Two things that will help you push your project forward if you choose to do so.
It's what most of these conversations are missing. This isn't 'poor volunteers doing good for the community', it's 'powerhungry idealists with the time to waste shaping conversation.'
This is interesting and I agree with it. I think the problem is that it's not necessarily irrational insecurity. In computer science especially people can be very pedantic and quick to call out an individual or shut down the work of someone who is learning but is not yet on the same level of skill. Now if nothing is being hidden and all code is made public there is a big window for such criticism.
The thing is that, often, a developer already knows how to make their code better, solve their problem or get rid of some unnecessary abstraction. But they just don't have the time to do that. They don't have time for perfection. So when their work then gets criticized pedantically even though they already are aware of all those things it must be a very frustrating.
I certainly know what it's like to have the urge to rewrite something and I may on paper already know exactly what needs to be changed. Having something you know is imperfect out there feels stressful.
I kind of moved the other direction and worked with people like you moving from "high level" development to embedded.

The first thing to note is that "Embedded" is a very wide area, a lot of it is not too special and you might continue doing web development as you are used to, maybe with small adjustment of how you load, debug and communicate with your device.

It's the lower layers, mainly device drivers and BSP (Board Support Package) but even some algorithms close to the hardware or special optimizations, where things becomes interesting and requires specialization.

I worked on those lower layers and have found myself more than once debugging "real software" using a logic analyzer or other Electrical Engineering tools to catch a software problem.

How did it go for those transitioning "down" into embedded? usually quite well, you will need to catch up with the technology, learn some new concepts and make a change in the way you think of things, for example memory or multi processing, but it is definitely doable and enjoyable.
If the people voted for it, how are the mods holding them hostage? Both the mods and the people want it.
I can expect reddit will "re-open" some of those subredit without a modulator.

Looking at how twitter doing without mods, their CEO may not even care.
Typing on a ZX family machine was different. The keys look busy because you didn’t type out the keywords like you did on most other machines. Instead, a variety of keyboard modes inserted them - along with the required spaces - for you. To load a program from tape on a ZX Spectrum you simply pressed J, which would insert the keyword LOAD along with a trailing space, and then hold Symbol Shift and press P twice to get “”.

The space button was only needed when writing regular text, which was much less common on these machines.
As the creator of GB Studio, thanks, really appreciate that! And thanks to binjgb for the excellent emulator.

Really cool to see GB Studio being used for this.
> So it's a dangerous game

Of course the managers/executives making/approving decisions like this know it's a dangerous game, but it's not dangerous for them because they know IBGYBG[0]

They have no "skin in the game"[1] meaning the incentives are all wrong, how do we expect them to behave any better?

[0] "I'll be gone, you'll be gone"
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_in_the_Game_(book)
>But this ignores that these solutions need centralized capacity.

No, I know there has to be a server somewhere, but you have to have your own secure computing system, in order to be able to just try out new things freely.... we used to have this back in the 1980s.... we need to get it back, otherwise we're not free to experiment with new stuff, and as a result, end up stuck to "safe" web sites, etc.

Which is how we got here in the first place.
It’s how types have been specified in erlang for 20+ years: https://www.erlang.org/doc/reference_manual/typespec.html

If you look at any erlang api doc, you’ll see predicate-like type specs. Conveniently, it naturally supports generics by just adding “parameters” to the predicates, so a dict would have type.

It works fine, and makes things less ambiguous, as erlang “types” can contain enumerations of values, in the original spec it’s clear that `integer()` is a type and `false` is a value, in your version not so much.
I only have a 5 digit Slashdot ID, but I remember the early days. I really, really liked /. back in the day. I don't remember what happened to drive me away but going back now the content seems to be very similar to what's on the HN front page now. However, there's something about the look and feel that is off-putting to me. Maybe its the fonts or the stuck in the 00's design.
Your description makes me think it's a little gross. Is there something I'm missing as to why such poetry is worth reading?
>No one wants to hear GPT's opinion because it doesn't have one.

google doesn't have an opinion either when taking any search result at large. And that's all ChatGPT is doing here.
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I have also been there. I remember it vividly when using the ZEND framework in PHP. It is a fad, in my opinion.

Also architects doing their stuff: they for sure know best how to couple boxes in a PowerPoint presentation. ;)
Maybe the timing is taken from thin air, but +1s is actually very noticeable (it will feel super laggy if an interface has this delay).

And if you do this 1000 times a day (but probably more) you'll remove so much annoyance and it just feels better, more comfortable and at least for me it's easier to enter and stay in the flow state if annoyances like these are kept to the minimum.
Forums do not need to be centralised but they need to be interoperable if they wish to compete with reddit.

Centralization is an easy way to do content aggregation, you can't compete if you lack good aggregation.
I have been thinking about this too over the last couple of days. What would it take to replace Reddit?

In my opinion, the UI of social media has been deliberately designed to be a dopamine waterfall that discourages people to think or invest themselves in any one community. If you analyzed the top 1000 links on Reddit r/all at any given time, without checking it myself, I think you'd find that 950 of those links are memes, funny pictures, lousy opinions or some kind of a drama going on.

And back-end is a non-issue either. A phpBB forum hosted on a DigitalOcean $6 VPS can comfortably handle 100,000 community members. But perhaps the bigger issue is that people don't even want to participate in an actual community/forum, because for example - there are no downvote/upvote buttons in phpBB. There's also no instant image preview (gratification), and you actually have to click on a new thread to read it.

So, yes, cesspit is a good word for it. But more than that its people having become so comfortable with meaningless browsing, for many of them - Reddit being gone for a few days means they will browse more TikTok or whatever else people mindlessly scroll through.
The users that provide the content are pissed too. A significant portion of them will see the third party app they use die. I don't want to use their official app, and would be willing to pay a fair rate to do so, but their API prices are way beyond a fair rate.

Social media, especially a platform like reddit, has a special relationship with users. They aren't customers. You need the people who post, comment, and moderate or the platform dies.
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Exactly, make it smart, and call it a day.
I mean, watch this ad, before you can cook rice, brilliant.
If they wanted to inflate their user numbers before the IPO, why didn't they just buy Apollo or the other apps?
There's going to be some inertia. You can recycle old content to mix with the "native advertising" spam that will fill the vacuum left by the people who used to "produce the majority of the content" - it's not a long-term solution, but if it keeps the user bleed in check until IPO, then the C-suite and the investors win; afterwards, the site can go to hell, it's not their problem anymore.
Have you tried creating an API key? In the AMA multiple developers stated that Reddit didn't react to multiple and repeated requests.
"To which a rational response is that almost never you are able to cut back on social spending once you increase it."

You can once you have actually understood MMT. How is the price anchor managed under MMT theory? How does that work during a boom and thereby solves the problem you posit? What are the three system stabilisation mechanisms in MMT theory?

MMT suggests moving the stabilisation policy from the market for money to the market for labour and leaving the market to determine interest rates. That stops the current problems - price gouging, SME decimation, boom/bust in construction and increased mortgage rates.
This is modus operandi of many PE firms so you'll find hundreds upon hundreds of people with the same story.

It's like wondering why every farmer has a similar story when a locust swarm comes.
> CP and gore for shock value

No, that stuff is gross and you block/avoid it. The integral part is that the forum uncensored - even if a large quantity of that uncensored content is unwanted.

And fwiw, 4chan is only one example of a (nearly) uncensored board, it's far from the best or nicest.

> I don't understand why it's important to be flamed at all

That's not the important part, but that you can have the conversation at all. The idiots running around screaming are like ghosts in Harry Potter, distractions if you let them be but almost invisible if you ignore them.

> racial slurs ... are an integral part of the culture?

Well sometimes yes, actually. Like the now banned subreddit, 2balkan4u, sometimes "hate subs" actually aren't. I'm familiar only via gaming friends, but it's basically people who've come together around "hating" each other for ethnic reasons. It doesn't look friendly but is, with people bonding over their shared history - often dark - and collectively watching the world go by from a cynical pov. It's like therapy and the hanging out with the only people who understand you, something many veterans feel even when meeting ex-"enemy" combatants. A sanitized version of this wouldn't work.
I know what you mean. Although Discord is, in my opinion, WAY better than IRC, I do miss the interactions and friends I made there. I miss forums as well, which is kind of funny because they still exist - not sure why I don't use them more?
I don't really think that "every community can interact with each other" is a pure benefit. This is exactly the sort of stuff that leads to "everything being about everything", along with general loud people occupying every space.

I still am very happy about "fediverse" stuff because it enables a simple-ish protocol and working mechanisms for various communities to interact. But I really think that, for example, mastodon.social is a net negative to fediverse stuff except for pure "get people to adopt" reasons.
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I think what threw me is this bit "De-normalize returns the true data to a format that is efficient for the system" as it seemed unqualified i.e. there was no 'it depends' that I could see. Your longer answer makes clearer what you were intending.

So yes we can definitely agree on measuring and de-normalising where appropriate. Thanks for a nice reply!
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We haven’t managed to align capitalism with the continued survival of the human race or even basic equity. And that’s running on a minimal distributed system of rules and meat bags as CPU

It’s preposterous to even hint we could solve AI alignment.
I apply that mentality to my job. If I’m just goofing around at home I don’t “have to” do anything.
You're correct, but there are enough in this audience that upvote and share this stuff to get me wondering why.

I'm not making a judgement on the topic, but it seems to me to be a little different to most everything else on here.