skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Care to take bets on how well this will turn out?

I'm betting many communities are going to turn very shitty, but ultimately it won't hurt Reddit's bottom line one iota. In fact, Reddit will probably be more profitable than before.

Just look at TikTok: you don't need communities with intelligent discussion to have a highly profitable company. Instead, it's better to chase vapid morons who want to watch shitty 1-minute videos.
This is a transcribed version of the original, then saved as A4 PDF. The original was, for me, more readable, being formatted for the smaller pages but using them effectively.

The original can also be found on the internet, but it's a "classic" pdf of scanned images.

Does anybody know if transcribed version, but either as a source document or as saved for the original, smaller format, exists? Or if somebody merged the transcribed text with the original images and made an ultimate pdf of the book?
> Histortically, the main value of GIL removal proposals and implementations has been to spur the core team to speed up single core codes.

While I'm all for increasing single threaded performance[side rant] is this really a good argument? My understanding is that Moore's Law only currently exists because of the existence of more cores. Clock frequency has stagnated since 2004[0]. I mean feature size (Moore's Law) still exists[1] but IPS/core seems significantly flatter than IPS[2]. Aren't most of our performance gains from mutlicore? And as we push more in this direction (e.g. GPU taking over compute) doesn't this make this even worse for python? (Yes I understand that you can make C/CUDA calls but doesn't the GIL make problems here as well as prevent a native python solution?)

[side rant] Still frustrated by things like that difference in speeds between math.sqrt(2.) (~0.002s/10k), np.sqrt(2.) (~0.010/10k), torch.sqrt(torch.tensor([2.])) (~0.039/10k). I know there's more going on in capabilities, but it is of course frustrating by the large differences.

[0] http://cpudb.stanford.edu/visualize/clock_frequency

[1] http://cpudb.stanford.edu/visualize/technology_scaling

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructions_per_second#Millio...
The issue is this instance seems to be the largest, with many established subreddit on it.
Now people will have to split between multiple clones on other instances.

At least wait for people to settle in first!
> firmware, hardware, drivers
You can get all of those as a paying customer.
AI Startups Have Tons of Cash, but Not Enough Data
Nah. We'll defeat their monitoring and have fun on our terms. It's offensive that they even think they can dictate what can or can't happen on our machines. The audacity of these corporations.
I will refer you to my Fortnite example for a third time. Good day.
Forget side-loading, the fact that I can't develop and run my own applications on iOS without having to ask apple for permission every week is infuriating.
The 0->1 problem is the irreducible problem. Network effects amplify like a "differential equation" or virtuous circle: proportional to the "amount" (quality) of people already present.

One modern problem is that there are too many what I call "overpaid useless people": office workers with one and only one ability who are complacent and fail to enrich themselves in hobbies or professional development, and generally lack curiosity and don't read books. They also tend to be consumers not creators, and avoid volunteering for anything beyond themselves by feigning or actual incapability.

Then there are the people who play video games, do drugs, immaturity, lack life experience, or generally seek to escape their lives rather than use their time constructively. People with their priorities out of order. This is part of the general bucket of liability if they need and take more than they offer.

A third problem is most people these days keep others at a distance and avoid making friends for whatever reason: they either don't know how to start, maintain, or they avoid relationships with others. It's also a waste to be pro-social if the other party refuses to carry their side of the relationship: again, consumer mentality waiting around for others to put in the work for them.
You can do USBC to an external display on Android and then do mouse and keyboard over Bluetooth. I've done it.

It's fine? Never stuck with it
when i post on reddit, i can't see it from digg. reddit will fail
Where did I call for centralization?
The only reason I maintain an Instagram is to have images to show on dating apps, and the only reason I use Twitter is to stay up to date with the tech community (and scream into the void).
I think this depends on region, and the type of phone.

I am in Canada and have never seen ads or bloatware on Samsung phones. I currently use a Galaxy Z Fold 3 connected to a lapdock via USB-C video out. DeX is a very nice desktop environment for the phone.
It's a shame, I wonder when we'll get the comparable version of AVP as Android or Windows is to their respective Apple devices. I definitely don't want to mirror a Mac to play games, lol.
Having read his "Almost Human" book... these are not caves you casually enter. The passages to get to the Naledi burial chambers are impassable to adult males and most women, and are very deep and far in the cave system. He specifically recruited petite women with caving experience to work on his projects.

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

"A portion of the cave, used by the excavation team en route to the Dinaledi Chamber, is called "Superman's Crawl" because most people can fit through only by holding one arm tightly against the body and extending the other above the head, in the manner of Superman in flight"

Or take a look at this map: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/human-evolution/sites/human_evolution/...
"Apple" is also an issue, you often hand everything over to them as part of their "privacy, but not moral privacy" positioning.
Reddit also bans subreddits, the difference here is that you have more than one option if you don't like the communities that your instance is banning.
I often see the police at my local library here in SF. They now have a large security guard there full time. More often than not the library is reasonably calm, but I would say once a week we have someone screaming and freaking out. Overall though, I love the library and go a few days a week when I need to get out of my apartment to get some work done.

If libraries did not exist already, I couldn't even imagine them being funded now a days. A free place!? Where people can read books for free!?!?!?
I think this is rather common for open source, community-driven projects, and not specific to distributed computing.
And how long have you been experiencing these paranoid episodes? Who is “they” ?
Why not? As long as people stick on topic, they should be able to post from other servers, that's the whole point of federation.
I've always looked at charging for open source as a support service. What is the developer's time worth? If one wants new features pay a fee/salary/bounty for the development.
Since I love playing Devil’s Advocate...

I can recall specifically two kinds of crime with cryptocurrency: “pump and dump” pyramid schemes and money laundering, which is hiding particularly nasty crimes like human trafficking. I won’t deny these are terribly victimizing things (that would be truly advocating for the devil).

On the other hand, there are people who don’t enjoy the banking infrastructure that Americans have; people in nations without nearly the wealth of America. Now they have these open-source networks they can implement on their own terms. The people doing this research and making these offerings might be serving such customers, whether by practice or intention.

Crime is not “the perfectly sensible default assumption for cryptocurrency apps in 2023” unless the one making the assumption is naive to these perspectives. This is an (unconscious) anti-cryptocurrency bias by definition: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic.
>identifying a situation where your purpose is aligned with your intention, and the socialization is a bonus.

you know, I thought conventions would be the answer to this for me back in college. But the half dozen or so I went to seemed to have had the same results: cool for some slightly more intimate small talk, but not necessarily for making friends. People already come with friends and have established groups, so they aren't necessarily there for that either (Or you know, there are professional conferences and we end up back at this topic: have a bunch of business cards we maybe follow up on with once).

But yeah, I have another plan once the dust settles on my current situation: There's a few OS repos out there that would knock out 3 birds with one stone if I could start contributing, so I'll see how "internet networking" goes.

>You could try being the kind of person people want favor/approval from by providing some kind of service instead?

Possible, but I don't have any services that come to mind. Just your typical geek into tech, games, and anime.
At least in the US, because of lobbying and potential constitutional issues (Privacy laws that exist in Europe may collide negatively with the First Amendment if passed in America)
> For the uninitiated: Schiff has 2 f. Fahrt has an f. But there a rule that if you combine words to make a new one you can't have a letter repeat more than twice.

This is a rule of the old spelling; it does not hold with respect to the new spelling rules.

Of particular importance is because of this rule change, for some words many native speakers actually became aware that they pronounced some words wrongly.

Old spelling: Stilleben [still life]

Many native speaker pronounced wrongly this word as Stil-Leben [long i; style life], but actually correct is Still-Leben [short i; still life]. The new spelling removes this potential source of confusion.
The results are also vastly different as the expectations, the number of platforms to support, the quality of the cut-scenes, ... and the revenue.

But there are still indie games developed with such small teams. So, that is still a viable possibility.
> AFAIK there is no native GCC compiler for Windows

might want to check your facts before spouting nonsense. there is, and has been for many, many years. more than one in fact:

https://github.com/mstorsjo/llvm-mingw

https://packages.msys2.org/base/mingw-w64-gcc

https://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/x86_64/release/...
I came here for the Jornadas and all I get are walled garden debates. Sigh.

Back to HPC:Factor...
Well, if your mom asks you why she can't view a banned subreddit you can only tell her "tough" or "that community went to that other website", so you can say the same here.

But you also have the option of using an instance that didn't ban the community you're interested in, which you don't with reddit.
The reasons for defederating:

(...) our reason for defederating, by and large, boils down to:

these two instances’ open registration policy, which is extremely problematic for us given how federation works and how trivial it makes trolling, harassment, and other undesirable behavior;
the disproportionate number of moderator actions we take against users of these two instances, and the general amount of time we have to dedicate to bad actors on those two instances;
our need to preserve not only a moderated community but a vibe and general feeling this is actually a safe space for our users to participate in;
and the reality that fulfilling our ethos is simply not possible when we not only have to account for our own users but have to account for literally tens of thousands of new, completely unvetted users, some of whom explicitly see spaces like this as desirable to troll and disrupt and others of whom simply don’t care about what our instance stands for
Feds arrest, charge Russian national in Arizona for LockBit attacks
Apparently the eye-tracking is 'like telepathy', according to MKBHD. I feel like if Apple fleshes out GameKit and integrates Vision Pro as a more general input device then that alone could be a killer feature. Imagine having telepathy in League or Minecraft.
A trivial aside, and for which I apologise in advance - not least because it may have been merely a typo - but the correct phrase is "averse [to Google]", not adverse. "Averse to Google" == "disinclined to Google"; "Adverse to Google" == "has negative effects upon Google". I am assuming you meant the former.

https://grammarist.com/usage/adverse-averse/

https://www.dictionary.com/e/adverse-vs-averse/
Lemmy, as both a project and community, could start by addressing the problems that make blocking the best option: https://discuss.online/post/12787
> this is rather common for open source, community-driven projects

Fair enough. It might be that a community back end and commercial front end are the uptime solution. In the back, people with principles. In the front, someone who actually cares about the people on the other side of the screen.
This is what their stated mission has been - to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport. They’ve been selling cars for a long time already.
SoCs face alert fatigue, false positives, decreased visibility, burnout
Because governments are completely incapable of regulating minute details like how tracking IDs on phones should work. The best part of the current system is your choice of phone isn't tied to how education is funded or what the immigration rate should be. You can make micro votes on every product you buy to get what suites you best.
> It cannot even do video out from a Macbook

Huh? They demo it doing exactly this in the WWDC keynote video. The user looks at their MacBook, the MacBook screen goes blank and is replaced by a virtual, floating, larger screen, which can be moved in space and resized.
Um, hey, sorry but please expect a letter from my lawyer. That's my startup idea.
I can understand de-federating until people have settled in, earnestly!
My instinct is that if you can put numbers and predictions based on real world estimations, then you are estimating simple things.

For example, you can estimate how long it will drive from A to B. Google maps does a brilliant job of this, showing the busy sections. Often I get there +/- a minute from what is estimated over a 60 minute journey.

But estimating how long someone will take to do a project, where the project by definition is something new in the context of the people doing it. If it wasn't then the code would already exist, and the estimate will be "how long to deploy that thing you already have using CI".

So in software you are always doing something new. We are building Sydney Opera Houses, not prefab housing estates.
Russian hackers have been lurking in Ukrainian systems for months
How many people do you think actually bother rephrasing LLM outputs? Do you personally ever copy paste a full chunk of a response?
do mods on reddit have the ability to wholesale delete posts? I wonder if any are considering reducing the subs to a [removed] wasteland.

I suppose reddit would just restore to some prior state.
Found my business idea already out there
I had an idea for what I thought (and still think) would be a great monetizeable service. It was different enough from anything I had ever seen I this space that I was excited to work on it.

After I developed the idea a bit, while doing some research, I found the service already. It's exactly my idea down to the finest detail that I can see. It looks like it's been around for a few years without crazy success (I hadn't heard of it and didn't find it that easily).

The question is, do I take this as an indication that it's a waste of time, or should I take it as vindication of my idea and go for it?

If I had anything about my idea that was better I would be happy. But they appear to have thought of all the clever details that I thought would make it work. Id make it look different and would market it more aggressively, but I'd be building substantially a clone of what they have.

Technologically it's pretty straightforward and wouldn't be a massive investment of time.

Whats your advice?
Or type "reddit xyz" in the google search box -- a trick that I learned only recently. Completely eliminated my dependence on StackExchange, which has evolved into a rotting cesspit of obsolete information.
It’s very cool, here’s an example of a tool made using chat gpt.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9_MbW9FK1fA&pp=ygUVc2hvcnRjdXR...
That doesn't make any sense technically and sounds a lot like victim blaming.

It is far from certain that any application has such a "steady state", most of the ones I've worked on sure don't. There are obviously ways to analyze things and correlate enqueued and dequeues, but it is far from as simple and black and white as you suggest, especially with truly distributed systems and unknown cause of the reported behavior.

Heck, we don't even know if the messages are being "dropped" or just duplicated.
It isn't, though.

The point of federation is to have the technical ability to post and follow across compatible servers.

The point is not to require every instance to accept posts and followers from every compatible server. If anything, that's the opposite of the point.
What a fantastic use of taxpayer money, for the US Chamber of Commerce to sue to prevent a law which would allow the government to pay less for expensive medications.
The long history of home media suggests that people just don't care all that much about "a better experience".

When I visit people's houses, I'm often appalled by the audio quality. It's usually nothing compared with good theater sound, which people have experienced frequently. The same often applies to image quality. Does it matter to people? Evidently not. They are entertained just the same, and go to theaters less and less.

And if we look back, people were absolutely entranced by TV in the black-and-white era, and it was the same going forward. The movie theater's advantage was generally more about exclusive, heavily promoted content. Once home video became common, despite its poor quality, second-run in-theater showings mostly died out.

Yes, a family of four could spend $12k on Vision headsets and then find high-tech solution to keep their media in sync. Or they could spend $250 on an adequate 50" TV and then be able to see each other's expressions. That sounds like the real no-brainer to me.
I agree with the parent commenter. You simply cannot make a claim that one of the largest cloud vendors is leaking customer data and refuse any meaningful clarification. And posting under a dummy account "AzureQueueMixup"? Why?

My sense is that OP is outright lying, probably works for a competitor, and is just trying to stir the pot.
More email attacks using generative AI
IMO mastodon failed to replace Twitter because high profiles didn't migrate.

but in Reddits case, you follow an interest instead of a specific person, meaning if enough people are active in the tech community on Lemmy it can replace reddit much faster than mastodon can replace twitter, as it doesn't matter which users migrated.
Ok, that's still an option. At any moment governments could step in, but they haven't. So rather than waiting forever while being abused by companies, I'm going to buy an iphone and have a nice experience now.
I wanted to add more info but couldn't edit. We bought that server for $12,000 with 5 year warranty, and got our Windows Server licenses out of an MS bundle which cost about $400.

I think that brings the ROI after 5 years compared with AWS to something like 3200%, less energy, if nothing goes wrong.

(I know that there are better options than running Windows Server on this box, but it seems to perform the same, it's far easier to administer by inexperienced devops, and in the long term it's actually around $1500/yr cheaper than running supported RHEL. Our other box is running supported RHEL but after testing Windows Server and having no issues we'll probably switch it for the cost savings).
It’s really not that crazy. People are already putting RFID chips in their skin. If it were safe and effective, there are people would jump at that chance. And once it gets early adopters, normalization starts occurring, until eventually at some point, maybe after anyone alive now is already dead, it’s more abnormal not to have that connection, and they’re putting it in infants to “hide” the memory of the pain like a circumcision.
Well, this kills the idea of Lemmy before it even got the chance to be born.

Beehaw is the second largest instance by number of users - and LemmyWorld is the third.

Them defederating from each other effectively shards the network into two halves, making the whole thing useless.

Oh well. It was nice while it lasted.
I once took 3 Ubers to 3 different auto parts stores; I've biked to a stores. I've borrowed neighbor's cars.

It's also rare to order too many parts or tools. Rental tools are very useful, but many times as a car ages, you may need to order other parts.

Though I don't get this complaint; because there is often lead time at a mechanic's for the parts too; you still need a backup transportation plan for that situation. (And it's even more likely to effect you during a 9-5 if you your wrenching on weekends or weeknights)
Right, because people don't use credit cards for the additional protection, points or miles. It's because they are all borrowing money they don't have.

And billionares who borrow money because it's tax efficient must all be secretly broke too. /s
The "are already" wording smells like reddit PR team trying to cool usage of lemmy
He was saying that the CEO of Reddit is acting like a child, not that one of the authors is the son of a CEO.
>But it's not a thing that would impact my life enough to bother hacking to accomplish it.

Well then you have a limit to how much you actually care about your privacy. So really whats the ultimate point then?
I suspect that experience is a major factor as well. You somehow knew to double those estimates. At the agencies I've worked at over the years, less experienced individuals seemed to consistently underestimate the time it would take to do things and then complete those tasks haphazardly/late/bugged. I went freelance and haven't had any trouble providing accurate estimations.
Who's Jacobson? Google doesn't turn anything up.

Neither does "Ericsson Approach" for that matter..
When you say "community", do you mean you want everyone to be in there? Or do you mean certain people who make up an actual community? Because moderation is an important part of growing a community.
> you still have the problem of finding them

That's basically the major paint point for me at the moment. Reddit made finding subcultures related to my hobbies and interests very easy. I don't know where to find communities about things that interest me now. I thought maybe Mastodon but finding hashtags has also been difficult.
UN chief says fossil fuels 'incompatible with human survival,'
This doesn't sound like a problem to me? Moderators are random volunteers from the public, not Reddit employees. Feels like it should be trivial and easy to dismiss and replace them. Not like they can file a labor dispute with the company...
I built a Slack app that does AI copy editing of your messages. Very similar to Grammarly Go if you're familiar but built directly as a Slack app. Felix is setup as a slash command, so you just "/felix" then write your message. It returns back a preview of it's edits.

After receiving negative feedback on my communication at work I did what any SWE would do: completely ignore the problem and build a tool that solves it for me. I know it's not good but I just can't get myself to sound peppy and cheerful over Slack. So now I have the app take in my messages and re-write them to sound happier and more collaborative.

You can customize Felix at the user level with pre-set tones, spelling and grammar fixes, or a custom prompt. We're using OpenAI chat completion so you can basically ask anything you would normally of ChatGPT.