skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can select "All" (instead of "Local") on any Lemmy instance. You will then get a list of accumulated posts from some federated instances as well. The list is sortable by the usual properties. The details on how this works in detail and which posts are shown elude my right now, but the functionality is there.
> There are Reddit users waiting in the wings, wringing their hands ready to jump at the 'oppurtunity' to moderate established subreddits and will happily devote their time to custodial duties.

You mean "4 chan users salivating at the idea of trolling reddit" ?
(dang would have moved your comment as title-change comments get pinned to the bottom of the list when resolved, so this gives your useful comment better visibility)
They will probably do it only in Europe though! According to the latest rumours.
The data is at risk in both scenarios for different reasons. Yes, Lemmy instances can and will shutter. In time, I hope, there will be tools which keep data synchronised between instances for redundancy. Now consider the risks on Reddit. Reddit doesn't want a sustainable platform. They want a profitable platform. Those are very different goals.

1. Reddit has banned and deleted countless users, comments, and subreddits over the years. All of that data is gone forever. The decisions were arbitrary and opaque. The subreddit owners and users weren't even given notice so they could back up the subreddit data and migrate elsewhere.

2. Reddit has and will increasingly demand users access the remaining data using increasingly user hostile channels. The mobile site Reddit experience is all but ruined. They're currently trialing blocking it entirely. The standard desktop website is atrocious. They track everything, and aggressively monetise, meaning ads everywhere. If the data on the site is gated behind intrusive tracking practises, a hostile UX, a plethora of ads, and perhaps in the future even a subscription, do we really have access to that data?

3. Reddit has an incentive to promote advertiser friendly content, and hide other content. This means the main feed is full of content I don't care about. Their search is one of the worst in the industry, and it has been blocking undesirable content for years. The most effective way to find content on Reddit is Google, but Reddit is working hard to break that. About a year or so ago Google could no longer accurately record the submission date, meaning their date searching tools were rendered useless. Shortly after that, Google stopped caching Reddit content. We should expect that Reddit has been working hard to ensure no one can find the "bad" content, and only ever lands on the "good" content. If you can't ever find the relevant data, do we really have access to it?

I just don't see how you could argue that our data is safer with an evil corporation than an army of dedicated users. You claim that mods and/or users are vandalising the site on the way out. We're really just deleting the content we uploaded.
You don’t know history if you really believe that “never before in history have so many people been so openly evil”.

This is so off as to be beyond laughable.
I would love to use Google's cloud, but I just can't risk my email, map, and browser services being cut off because some AI determined that my application looks suspicious, with no human customer support to contact, as has been reported multiple times.
Purchased with what money? People who migrated did so because ads are evil and 2$ per month is extortionate.
Having any sort of code on python 2.7, means you don't give a rat's ass about security. It also immediately means your code should be assumed to have back doors, vulnerabilities, because python 2.7 almost certainly does!

This is what happens, when no one is maintaining software.

Security is more important that anything, certainly than having time or not to update your code.

You're 100% in the wrong here, and Google is 100% in the right, and I hate Google more than spammers, more than pretty much any other company there is.

They're not wrong here, and it hurts me to support their stance.

Fix your stuff. Stop blaming others. I doesn't matter why you're in the situation you're in, you're wrong to be there. No matter what.
And that's where the email analogy fails (again).
hn the new reddit?
> I used UIKit (iOS) for a couple of years back in 2015/2016. It was an interesting experience, I did enjoy laying out the architecture of my app visually, then dipping into code for the behavior and business logic.

I think you can expand your view on what is technically possible by simply downloading Lazarus and creating a simply application with it. Follow a tutorial.

Then compare that experience with mangling react or similar to get what you want using purely an IDE to build everything.
Gonna suggest this at my company, see y'all on the stake they'll burn me on
On the subject of paying twice, it’s always irked me that we have
income tax and then sales tax on the taxed income.
We do it like this:

- configure the project with pyproject.toml,

- use pip-compile (from the pip-tools package) to create a lockfile,

- commit the lockfile into git,

- whenever we want to update the dependencies, do it through pip-compile again (if you give it an existing lockfile as output, it will keep what's in there and change only what's required).

Since all our requirements are cross-platform and on PyPI, we can install the same env everywhere.
In comparison, the Inflation Reduction Act, an one-off act, is 750 pages long.
It was a good reminder.

> People don’t walk around with anti-résumés telling you what they have not studied or experienced (it’s the job of their competitors to do that), but it would be nice if they did.

I can resonate with this one. Over the years I have learned that things a person NOT do, is more important compared to what they do.

Thanks for sharing.
If you have time, please hit me up on my email via my profile. I'd just like to ask a couple of questions.

Thanks
The constant of reddit is that user protests come in waves again and again. If this wave will be over soon, the "geeks and techies" will be focused on polishing the alternatives. Even if this wave doesn't break reddits back, the next wave of user protests will have polished alternatives (due to the current influx of users and their demands) with way less friction ready.
This generation of serverless ushered in the next generation of monoliths.
"Influencer"
What Does “Scientific Progress” Mean, Anyway?
What People Are Getting Wrong This Week: UFOs and the Government
Their goal is probably just to get rid of European competitors and get an advantage. To make sure big enterprises will have time, money and resources to get trough the whole process of compliance.
I historically have not been a major fan of ARPGs and share with you the list of games that haven’t moved the needle for me.

Path of Exile fundamentally changed my view on the genre and enabled me to retrospectively re-evaluate many of the ARPGs I had played to this point.

The granular level of control you have over your playstyle and strategy is incredible; it is insane how rewarding it is to be the first person to create a new approach to playing a character and have this build succeed in combat.

I highly recommend giving it a shot if you at all enjoy the cerebral, long term planning aspects of gaming.
Binary wheels are just archives, I don't see differences in the way they install between different systems.

Source wheels that contain C/C++ code are so annoying to install on Windows that we don't use them. But most packages provide binary wheels anyway.
> I have not been on reddit on the past few days, and perhaps this is my chance to put my time into better use, including more HN again.

This is the way.
I agree with a lot that Louis says and what strikes me on this one is when he said the guy doesn't care about you and that he thinks the value is in the servers and the api.

I've worked in tech with a lot of people like this. They will tell you straight up they don't care about users or employees. CTO I've worked with said that developers are like "machines working in a factory" that they shouldn't think above their level and should just do the same thing over and over.

I'll tell you one thing you'll never change the reddit managements minds, never ever ever. Same as I was never able to change any of these other peoples minds.
Why does paying for it making it better? Companies can screw paying customers over too. The issue is depending on a third party like this. And the solution is not some free tech utopia either. Taking risks is part of life, and so when screwed over like this, the parties involved just need to re-assess the situation and move on. And count on being screwed over next time too.
...and telling them they cannot put real cocaine into it.
"the 1st party mobile app sits at #2 (2.6M reviews -- 4.8[1]) vs #10 (up from ~30 in May) for apollo (170.5k reviews -- 4.7[2])."

Lots of people probably install the official app, just to try it out, but that doesn't mean they actually use it.

I installed it myself a long time ago, but I never use it because it's garbage compared to Boost (my preferred 3rd party app).
That's because beehaw is essentially a giant safe zone and they don't suffer trolls. They got too many trolls from outside so they decided to cut bait.
I dont think they are going to run the web-assembly in docker. That would not change the status-quo at all. Already now aws lambda, which executes container has a longer cold start then the zipped code.
Sorta a bonus, as I get that extra year at Porkbun's cheaper price while losing nothing I've already paid for. ;)
> What kind of communities are you a part of that you pay for?

Committee-run churches are this. Obviously not all churches fit the bill, but many do. Also other many other sort of traditional 'IRL' clubs that collect dues to pay expenses but are run by volunteers elected by the members.
I know it will be as popluar as rabies around here ... but that is litterally the entire business model of Silicon Valley, including YC (https://www.ycombinator.com/companies?batch=S05).
As a general principle, people in that line self-identify as unsuitable for the role and should not be given it, unless your goal is to destroy the community.

Which I guess is fine for Reddit - people will escape bad mods by forking subreddits off, and things will eventually settle down. Just don't expect your favorite subreddits to be there once the dust settles.
I would use that. Please go for it! It's so obvious to me. There's a giant discoverability gap in the whole fediverse thing that can be easily addressed. This is by design in mastodon, but I don't think these reddit alternatives are so against virality. The only risk is that the whole thing fizzles out so hard that even an aggregated view of the entire ecosystem doesn't produce enough content to keep people engaged.

If you do it, please keep in mind merging submissions and their comments, 6 separate entries for the same thing each with a couple of comments is a much worse experience than a single entry with a dozen comments. You can start by simply using the URL as a grouping key and try more sophisticated things later.
No, but I presumed you object to drugs due the negative social utility their usage leads to.

Why is it any of your or mine business what substances people consume if they don’t hurt anyone by doing that?
They are still more democratic than the power CEO.
We all know the drill: pick up the shambles of your community. Move to a federated service (lemmy in this case) and try to get as many of your peers to join you there.

Actually, subreddits being mapped as lemmy instances makes more sense to me than the "single identity" of reddit.
This reminds me of Digg's death throes and the massive exodus to reddit. It's as if Spez wants the same to happen to reddit and for everyone to migrate to discord.
This is fair, if WASM can do 1-2 ms cold start then that's incredible!

If you have a 100 function chain w/ 100ms cold start times in between, then that's a nightmare, but for us, we're monolothic so all our cold starts are bundled together. In the end I can't truly benefit from the 1-2ms. I suspect so many teams are in the same boat. But I do lose a lot w/o the debugging and ease of testing that come with monolithic applications.
> From a steering council perspective we effectively view a 703 threading enabled interpreter at a high level as a fork of the CPython VM.

"Fork" and "effort" are different problems. It's reductive to say that effort alone is the tldr.

If the 2007 article and the linked current FAQ seem too old to be relevant, you're not really understanding what the steering committee is saying today.
reddit had ads?
1. That hasn't happened on Android. It won't happen on iOS.

2. That's a you problem. Learn to say no.

3. You already have to adhere to lots of government regulations.
You can’t just categorize people into being low-effort. Motivation is continuously changing, it is absolutely possible that someone will post an absolutely fascinating comment once they find that great unique context.

Also, reddit’s value is exactly that you have very different demographics on each subreddit, and “hearing the voice” of people is the whole point.
Not EVERY company. Just the ones that don't understand how estimation works... and unfortunately in software, that's still a very very common case. In more established kinds of engineering it works differently... which gives me hope that eventually our industry will understand too.
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Works for me. Probably gonna move my domain over real soon.
I believe we tuned the interpupillary distance (IPD) down a bit for the demos at PAX. The IPD is a software setting that changes how far apart the two stereo images are drawn from. If it's set to a distance larger than the actual distance between your eyes then you'll perceive it as very strange (each eye seeing a different thing that your brain can't unify), and it will be very uncomfortable. If the IPD setting is set to a distance less than the actual distance between your eyes then you won't perceive as much depth when looking at it, but it's still fairly comfortable. The extreme version of this is just looking at normal monoscopic images (e.g. watching a movie) - perfectly comfortable, but no depth perceived from it.

Rather than adjusting it for each person we gave the demo to, we set the IPD a bit low so that it'd be comfortable for everyone, but people with a larger physical IPD wouldn't perceive as much depth.

Sorry you felt let down by it.
Or a slider to choose the probability. Add p to my score if I am correct, otherwise subtract it.
He found a video format that gets him views and attention.

I love him for the right to repair and his troubleshooting lives are interesting, but I've stopped watching most of his videos because the format of "dude films himself while reading an article " is really boring and a waste of time.
Your argument boils down to being selfish.
Seems @shishirpatil ran out of steam answering questions. Too bad.
Likely the only thing management care about is getting the IPO over the line so they can cash out and retire.
All true. SystemShock also have 3-D models for some objects too.

I guess a better way of putting it would’ve been the SystemShock would have run a lot faster if it had BSP.
Thanks for the life advice, stranger.
Ask yourself the following 4 questions:

1. Is it valuable? (How/why?)

2. Is it rare?

3. Is it easy for others to imitate it?

4. How are you going to exploit your idea in such a way that you can have a competitive advantage over your competition?

Also though, fifth bonus question, if you spend time working on this idea, is that an opportunity wasted for you to spend that time pursuing a better idea? Just because it is going to be technologically straightforward and not too time consuming doesn’t mean it’s a good way to spend your time if you could spend your time doing something better.
If Putin is taken out by his own people, it could happen sooner ..
>Now that we're in 2023, and pretty much everyone is either multiply-vaccinated ~or~ and has had COVID multiple times

Isn't this the most common demographic?
More of a “if it ain’t broken, don’t fix it”.

P.S. My pet theory why Apple is so controlling about what kind of apps are allowed is to prevent “embrace, extend, extinguish” tactics. Imagine if MS created dev tools for iOS that produce apps that use a specific runtime and it gets super popular. Now MS has a say in iOS’s ecosystem, Apple has to maintain compatibility with that runtime (and will need MS’s cooperation) and if MS decides to cripple support for those dev tools it will impact iOS app creation.
You misunderstood. People historically viewed themselves to be good, and justified their actions that way. People are now giving up the ability to justify their actions as good, and openly admitting to doing bad things on purpose. Go ahead and check your history books for that ever happening before. You can laugh, but normal people aren't particularly enthused by this turn of events.
He has had an Apple repair store for many years and is a prominent right to repair activist.
Does this know my local law?
This wouldn't solve the problem of their API being used to scrape Reddit to train LLMs.
Yeah exactly, the potential for charlatans is huge. But the reports of a certain type of experience are common enough across time and space to be taken seriously.

I was reading a story the other day that Kesha (singer of Timber etc) had a major experience and her therapists recognised it as a spiritual awakening. I was pleased to see she wasn't just given anti-psychotics.

So I think there's more open-mindedness and awareness in some circles, which is the first step in dispassionately investigating anything.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/may/06/kesha-gag-orde...
Did you actually try using Excel on your phone? (The Microsoft 365 app is free, you don't need a subscription to use many features of the mobile Excel app.)

The cells are displayed at a size that is comfortable to read on a phone (which means you need to scroll). When you click on a cell, you get two handles (top left and bottom right) to grow/shrink the selection. On double-tap, a small popup toolbar appears, where you can select Fill, which makes the handles control the usual Excel filling feature. The cell headings have handles to make the cells wider. It just works, and while there are no macros, and some other advanced things might be missing, it's pretty good for most typical editing.
You seem to be a bitter person. I hope you find a more effective solution to your unsatisfactory circumstances than insulting strangers on web forums.
Man is getting bills voted on, how influential does one have to be to be an influencer?
I don't know how HN ranking works..but this link just moved to 2nd page.
How to mine cryptocurrencies and altcoins using only your CPU
Oh, and /r/DaystromInstitute moved there too. I guess I'll have to check this Lemmy thing out - that subreddit was more than 50% of what kept me logged in to Reddit in the first place.
I had the chance to talk to a staffer of one of the MEPs leading the political negotiations in EU parlament committee a few weeks ago. His take was that the pro-tech/pro-business parties conceded the 'AI users must track their energy use'-point to the Greens in the latest draft (which is the parliament's counterproposal to earlier drafts by the commission --think EU executive-- and council --think governments of the member states--) because it's so unrealistic in practice that it's likely to be stricken out of the law again during the final negotiation round between parliament and council negotiators.

I really hope that'll be the case. FWIW, I believe companies _should_ be required to keep tabs on their (and their supply chain's) emissions, but demanding that this be done at model/system level by data scientists is just ridiculous.

edit: grammar
German is just saving some whitespace
Vault1317 FAQ: deniability for decentralized approach via XMPP and Nostr
vault1317 FAQ: cryptographic deniability for decentralized approach via federation (XMPP) and relay (Nostr)
You may be right, but keep in mind that the comparison with Apollo isn't a fair one. There are many third party Reddit clients. Red Reader (which I use), Reddit Is Fun, Stealth, Infinity, Dawn, and many more. You'd have to combine all of those. You may still not reach Reddit's official app's numbers, but it is probably not a negligible percentage of Reddit's userbase.
I had the occasion to try it at Revision 2023 (a demoparty).
The demo was a missile game (for those interested you can watch it here : https://files.scene.org/view/parties/2023/revision23/game/re... )
It was indeed fun to try but I have played similar games on my Oculus Quest and the experience on Quest (or any other similar headsets ) is much more immersive.
Now I just discover the price : 359USD without shipping cost. I must say I find it quite expensive. At this price I rather buy a Quest 2 or wait for the Quest 3 wich will offer full Mixed Reality capability.
Overview of new features in Apache HTTP Server 2.4
To be fair I've seen some people interpret the manifesto to mean "never document anything or take time to introspect", which leads to its own set of problems.

As with everything, a purposeful balance is best imo.
> This one takes the cake. They're dangling a carrot: hey, any low-ranked mod interested in taking over the subreddit for yourself? And they're still insulting everyone's intelligence

It's transparent, sure, but it doesn't mean it won't be effective. They're counting on a few people's greed plus most people's apathy.

reddit seems happy to go all in on the low-effort content mill market, and those users are the kind to get more upset over the protest than losing nice third-party apps or tools.
They are majority. Why punish them because a few people can't handle not having full access to the device? I like open ecosystems but I don't think your argument holds. Nobody can be an expert in everything.
But but but... your posts are about you! They're just presented as though it's a problem with the tools. I'm simply holding up a mirror, using a similar language, and suggesting that perhaps you are not the target of the tools you only dabbled with and presumed to then criticize.
If you really want serverless, there’s this thing you can write called a “native application” that, once deployed, a user can interact with entirely without a network connection!
Because it's similar. He advocates against locked down hard- and software. Reddit is locking down the API.
That makes sense now, as a scheme to increase valuation before the IPO[1]. But I wouldn't say that that has been their strategy all along. They're still not profitable after all these years, and the relationship with the community has been amicable, for the most part. The API has been free since the beginning, after all, which has allowed the site to prosper.

Though it does feel like they're ready to sacrifice the community for short-term revenue, and that their mid-term plan might just be to cash out once the ship starts sinking.

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/technology/reddit-aims-ipo-second-ha...
They could simply discriminate against LLMs via their APIs terms of service. That wouldn’t get bad actors, those would simply scrape. But that would be the case with the very expensive API.
> I’ve paid 1,5k for this thing and have every right to complain

I agree that removing freedoms from the users is unethical and counterproductive. But at this point the only reasonable action is to give money to companies intentionally respecting your freedom.

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