skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
as a selfish, passive consumer of reddit content without partaking in even voting, i just want to enjoy the threads already out there.

i see the arguments and i wonder why the way to protest is not to just stop participating, rather than taking down the subreddit. if moderation is hard without the third-party apps, stop doing it?

to my understanding, the mods want to preserve their powers and the subreddits' integrity. so prolonging the blackout does not seem much more effective to me than the initial publicity in tech media. especially if people running the site understand the above point.
If the iPhone emitted toxic poisons on a daily basis, yeah, we'd want to ban it too. But it doesn't.

Also the original iPhone from 2006 had bluetooth and wifi -- so there's that.
> If you don't like it, don't choose it. Surely Android isn't so terrible that you're having difficulty deciding between it and Apple's walled garden? Surely it's not THAT bad.

Let’s make deal, shall we? You’ll use Android for a year and at end of 2024 you’ll let me know?
Why? With SSG there's no chance of a state change happening without you knowing, so they may be able to do some QC (see automated scans) before release and be confident it won't change afterwards.
Yeah, this.

A few years ago we bought a generator. A few months after the warranty expired, it broke. There are no small-engine repair shops in my area, and it's too big to fit in my car anyway. Having someone come to our house to repair it would cost more than buying a new one. But... how do you get rid of a broken generator? It weighs 45 kg and it has four gallons of gasoline in the tank. You can't just chuck it in the trash.

(FYI, I decided to take it apart and was actually able to get it running again. It turned out to be an easy fix -- broken fuel valve. But success was far from guaranteed, and it also took several hours of my time, which probably cost me more than a new generator. On the other hand, I also learned a lot so maybe it was a net win. How do you reckon time vs money vs knowledge?)
> Can you imagine what will a property developer think if he is informed that his project is going to take at least twice as long to complete?

Property developers aren't doing R&D jobs. Most of software development is a multiplayer life sciences R&D, because even if you're not developing new technology, the combination of your chosen stack, target market, stakeholder personalities and management policies, makes your project a one-off job in an unexplored environment.
> There was, for a little while, the idea that a mobile device could seamlessly plug into an external display, with external input devices, and swap between a "desktop" and mobile mode. <...> But it went nowhere.

It didn't go nowhere. This is exactly how my Librem 5 works, running a full desktop GNU/Linux.
"Back in the day" is stretching it since MS did this 2 months ago. With the same strategy they used to kill Be decades ago, which obviously works.

It's irrelevant what you think about Linux UX. It is just fact that MS is worried enough that _to this day_ they are using their monopoly position to stifle non-Windows OSes ( desktop AND server) every frigging time they can. Same way they have doing continuously for decades.

And also despite the fact their marketing dept says that "MS loves Linux" and the armchair analysts say that MS makes money from Linux servers.
> Would you rather handle 1000 request per second or 1?

Would you rather like to approach this problem by optimizing memory layout which, let's be honest, tends to give you more in the region of 1-10% improvements rather than 10-100x, or would you rather like to try to go from O(n^3) to O(n^2) or O(n log n) or similar?

The real meat is in the complexity class. Cache effects are where you go when there is nothing else to optimize and it actually matters. Preemptively making all your data structures 2-3 as big because of not-actually-necessary padding does not sound right to me, but YMMV.
I find this all very odd.

This Grusch guy has presented evidence to congress, and the inspector general etc, about his own whistleblower complaint. Everyone is assuming there is no evidence, but there is. We just can't legally see it.

I think writing endless articles claiming this guy is full of shit because we aren't seeing his evidence is premature, because the people involved do seem to agree that this evidence is present. It all seems to be jumping to conclusions on all sides. Maybe it's aliens, maybe it's not, maybe it's just government disinfo, maybe it's not.

But to confidently say it's all made up is just as misinformed as saying it's aliens if you can't legally see the documents he presented, in the same way calling someone a murderer is premature if you aren't privy to the evidence in court. And saying that he's wrong because you aren't allowed to see his evidence is missing the forest for the trees.
The same echo chamber some of those very mods operate in. Pot, kettle, black. Suck it up. You think the hot air from those servers comes by magic? Plenty of them need replacing. The king is dead. Long live the king!
It's an age of account | depth of engagement thing.

Stay a while longer, get a few more upvotes on your comments (the general key is to add substance), and one day you'll get the option to downvote comments | flag topics / comments, etc.
> A new novel, for example, might require twenty dollars for its first price—and ten hours of dedicated reading time for its second. Only once the second price is being paid do you see any return on the first one. Paying only the first price is about the same as throwing money in the garbage.

I think this is a bit too much of an absolutist take. One that turns too many people off from reading, and can add an unnecessary air of elitism around it. If you pay $14.99 for a book, you aren't seeing returns only after ten hours of dedicated reading. Even reading one chapter can yield returns that are equivalent to $14.99, if it's a good book. With non-fiction, you can also pick chapters that strike you as the most interesting and start directly from those, getting faster 'returns on investment'. Then going back and reading the whole thing if you're sucked in.

It's very common for sites to publish curated segments of books, whether were talking science related things or not. And even getting double the amount of that text by purchasing the book (compared to the short excerpt) can be worth the price of admission.
Well, they said it's a rough estimate.
There is also the fourth price - regret price. When buying something you don't need, you pay the cost with emotional regret.
The workers already replaced by artificial intelligence
"Oh no we had our service out of beta for 3 weeks and it didn't become a multi billion dollar business, guess we better shut it down immediately"
Wow, thank you! Happy to hear it was helpful.
Also a fact: Steve Jobs spent the first half of the 90's trying to sell NeXT machines specifically on their dev tools for quickly making custom applications. From the late 1980's on, whenever he spoke of his visits to Xerox PARC he would mention the GUI, networking, and object-oriented programming as the three equally world-changing technologies shown to him.
NV has a huge advantage over AMD: they only do one thing. And that has helped them to relentlessly focus on optimizing that one thing. AMD is fighting on three different fronts at once.
yeah, or perish the thought, think of how poor the citizens are, knowing their politicians are partaking, we couldnt possibly embarras the people like that
Sure... but maybe the GPU is sitting idle 40% of the time while still consuming 200W. Should I have to break this idle energy consumption down onto actual use (assuming the server/gpu is only used for this one model)? I guess it would make sense, but... WHO should do this and then continually update the model documentation when idle rates or the hardware changes?
I don't know the answer to this, but does iOS support Voice over Wifi?
Could say the same thing about a former president admitting to having oral sex in the oval office, or pardoning a corrupt multi millionaire on his last days in office. Making this political does not take away from OPs argument.
now everything that would have been discussed on reddit is being posted here it seems
It's not a question of laziness. People just need to use better tools to generate docs and fail CI if the implementation and docs diverge.

I used to hear people say the same thing about laziness about code style before reformatting/linting tools became standard.
Congress Considers Bipartisan Bill Curbing Asset Forfeiture
Electric is the way to gobif you care about longevity
Diablo 4 makes you go back and forth across zones, GTA-style. Not only for sidequests, but also the main storyline. D2 solved this by artificially constraining you to one region per act in a linear fashion.

In D4 when you pass through or go back to a zone you've been in, and the monsters are tougher, it feels awful.
There's a search function in the catalog that can fulltext search all threads.

/g/ has "an audiophile general" for example that comes with recommended places to buy, tierlists and reviews.
Aren't they on the internet archive?
Was it $230M cash? Or $230M worth of GOOG with stipulations on when he can sell it?

Edit: it does not look like there are stipulations on when he can sell it, but he was compensated GOOG, not USD, and it was specifically formulated to be based on GOOG’s stock price performance compared to SP100:

~Page 49

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1652044/000130817923...

It was also a triennial bonus, spanning some period of 2019 to 2022. Does anyone think they can come up with a better compensation formula? If so, what would it be?
There's a problem with the fundamental underlying argument here, which rests on the notion that all the value of Reddit actually comes from the moderators and the users posting content. The problem is, if Reddit itself has no value, why does every other option suck?

During the blackout I made an honest to god attempt to use other things. I tried Lemmy. I tried Discord. I tried Mastodon. I hated them all. It's definitely partly just critical mass - the communities just aren't there - but it's not only that. Nobody has managed to replicate the classic / old Reddit UI/UX either. I hate all the new UIs. I don't know what's so hard about it. It's a list of links with some upvote / downvote buttons.

I'll be more ready to believe there's no value in Reddit when I see that somebody has actually successfully cloned it and made a place for these communities to go to that's anything like as good as what Reddit offers.
Yes, and I'll do you one better: everybody should have their own company and there should be no "employee" option. Everything should be contracts. Makes it clearer it's not a family relationship, it's business.
didn't check lately but r/india used to be all about doing a "walkout" on india by nri or those who wanted to become one. i hope that now the discourse is more represented by the people in the country than out of it.
I would say the turning point was either the iPod or the rainbow Macs.
I use this along with https://github.com/winfsp/sshfs-win, which allows me to mount ssh filesystems as windows network shares, and it's awfully slow. So slow that when doing operations that involve opening several files (like using git) or even listing files (like Ctrl+P in vscode) you want to punch your screen. Anybody knows of an alternative?
Allo entered the chat.
The training data argument is a red herring. It's not difficult to scrape all of that via web for training purposes.
The article sets up two options, either morality has been in genuine decline for 2000 years or more and we're still somehow standing, or the perceived local decline is an illusion. Isn't there a third option where the decline is real, proceeds at a faster pace than over several millennia, and leads to the collapse of the civilization of the historical observer? The Bronze Age kingdoms collapsed, the Roman Empire collapsed, and people who dig up these funny examples of people bemoaning imminent decline from thousands of years ago don't usually bring up this part or the dark ages that followed.
Depending on the situation, can make it actively harder as well. Do I spend the time to verbally fluff up the relative of a patient or go and tend to 5+ other patients that need critical care right now (the example in this article)? If the first one is expected of me, care suffers and the job is harder. I am not dismissing the needs the relative of patient has, don't get me wrong. But in an ER setting it rarely is the priority. If some tech makes it easier to more effectively give that need some additional bandwidth, that is a good thing.
Not blocked for me in Kuala Lumpur.
You’re either trolling or incredibly obtuse.

Mac App Store launched 2 years after iOS/iPad version and that’s ignoring that Mac is much, much older platform than iPhone.
The Prophet of the Revolt – Martin Gurri and the ungovernable public (2020)
That's the strategy. They offer "at-cost pricing", but force you to use their own name server.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ywZjnjeAO4 after 19 minutes
Using Git-annex for Data Archiving
You might learn something if you read a bit about slavery, racism, civil rights, dispossesion and genocide of native people, stolen generations, zoos containing native African people, colonialism, even equal rights for women. It might surprise you that Russia and especially the USSR did none of those things. If you want to equate Russia to USSR then it is also worth pointing out that no country did more to promote national liberation movements of people oppressed by Western imperialism than the former USSR. Funny that without USSR and Leninist ideology about rights of nations to self determination there wouldn't even be countries like Ukraine
You could probably profitably resell that kind of access to people who lost everything and have no other way to reach them.
Conjugations are just compound words with improved efficiency. If anything, maybe they're too German.
I don't know what you're trying to prove. Your original point, which you laughably attempted to prove with a clip from a movie, was that Jobs "despised" programable computers. This is demonstrably false.
Elder Scrolls kinda falls under that umbrella, given that Elder Scrolls Online is a subscription-based MMO that I believe is still receiving content updates. Unfortunately that's probably a lot more profitable and safe than developing a new single-player game that has to surpass the bar set by previous games.
I guess that's yet another problem of the web platform - data locked to individual operators and not available to others even when the user wants it to be.
> You can still have a 3rd party app, and it can still use the API. You just pay for it.

Yes, but can is not will.

The practical effect of this pricing will mean that almost all 3rd party apps for reddit will die, and Reddit won't get significant revenue from this change. Management knows all this, which means they are in fact trying to kill 3rd party apps, not salvage API operating costs.
Don't editorialise the title. It's a flagging offence.
I'm regularly downvoted and I know exactly why: because I'm mocking Rust's curl | sh or Python's appalling packaging or whatever, no-one is going to "correct" that behaviour and it doesn't matter anyway; it's just HN karma.
I think they just learned something from the history of crypto currencies, and this time they want hard data from the beginning. I know it's really apples to oranges, but having this 10 years ago for crypto might have pushed the tech from proof-of-work to e.g. proof-of-stake from the beginning.

And in the end there's no limits in this act. It's not like they're saying "No models above 10 GWh inside the EU!".
I wish haha, they are just following the guidelines :))
https://www.openculture.com/2022/01/read-the-cias-simple-sab...
That’s horrendous and seems like bad form in any language. I was taught to write English as I speak it. If you need to pause, use a comma. If you need to breathe, use a period. But don’t run on sentences if you wouldn’t speak it out loud the same way.
The best estimate for how long it will take to build X, is to build X many times -- under randomised control conditions -- and take an average.

Anything short of this isn't amenable to the scientific method.
I'm in complete agreement here. All phone makers should make their devices last for a minimum of 10 years after purchase. Not just Apple. But Google too.

I too would like to know those stats for both Apple and Android. I suspect it's rather low though. I'm pretty sure e-waste just gets sent to China these days.

This is a shame because there are a lot of old tablets and phones that would be useful as general computing devices.
The lesson here is to never put something in an email that you wouldn't put on the front page of the Los Angeles times. Conversely, don't put anything in email that you wouldn't want your employer to release to the media to get revenge.
I think what you're getting a demo of there is the bit of our depth perception apparatus that doesn't need stereo pairs to work. Out past a certain distance our brains reconstruct geometry from visual depth cues, and I suspect that the smoothed camera path means that, in contrast to the shaky original video, your eyes are seeing something your inner ears aren't contradicting too much.
Any idea if this is related to the cnn article about the cyber attacks on the gov ?
99% of us are intervieved by HR and a dev. This sounds like a question for a CEO or head of product.
having no skin in the game, I feel this is a very interesting view, especially when you are offering a managed service building on top of another.

go through enough levels of dependencies, and someone who could do a few layers of the onion in-house can sweep in with competitive pricing/offerings a la sherlocking.
In a more scheduled hospital / care setting, yes. In ER care setting (the example in the article), it is a lot more chaotic. Disseminating care information to people further down / up the hierarchy takes time that they might not have.
> But, have you ever tried to send someone an email and had the email rejected with an error from your email provider saying "You can't talk to that domain because it insufficiently polices hate speech" or even "You can't talk to that domain because it lets its users talk to domains that insufficiently police hate speech"? Yet my impression of Mastodon is it is just like that.

That's how it is on Reddit too no? You visit and post a comment on subreddit A, somehow mods in subreddit B will find out and pre-emptively ban you.

On this Lemmy thing I guess the solution is to just maintain multiple accounts - each on a server connected to a particular cluster of servers.
Uh, no, I did no such thing.
That's a desktop. I mentioned battery life because I was talking about laptops and tablets.

btw price grows exponentially with single threaded performance, which in turn determines responsiveness. Your link shows that the M2 Pro is much more performant even compared to your desktop. 2689 vs 2023 is a huge gap: https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/compare_cpu-amd_ryzen_7_7735hs...
What about following counter-example. There're many tiny apps that are next-to-required. E.g. mass transit tickets, paying for parking, banking apps. With the walled garden, they've to stick to at least some standards. Now if we open up the platform, what stops them from making shitty malware-ridden apps offered on scammy 3rd party stores? I won't move my mortgage to another bank because my bank app now requires me to install a weird-looking altstore... Or would I?
> They're still not profitable after all these years, and the relationship with the community has been amicable, for the most part.

IANAEconomist, but I think the current go-to explanation is that companies can remain unprofitable indefinitely, focusing on increasing growth and stacking more and more loans / investment rounds - as long as interest rates are near-zero, making money cheap. Now that they've gone up, there's enormous pressure to unwind the stack, and such companies need to start making money right frakkin now, hence the sudden squeeze[0] done by Reddit (and other SaaS businesses).

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[0] - The so-called "enshittification". I dislike the term, but it was coined to describe exactly this direction of company evolution.
CWA was using the Exposure Notifications from Apple and Google[0].

Exposure Notifications is not an app, but a framework and a protocol, and CWA was an implementation of it, hooking in the features developed by Apple and Google for iOs and Android

[0]: https://github.com/corona-warn-app/cwa-documentation/blob/ma...
If you want to speak about Reddit's changes in 'Right to Repair' terms, it's like Apple selling a replacement screen, but pricing it at $20,000.
This type of cargo culting for sure exists, but I haven’t encountered this behavior in my career. Even all the ”agile” people I know are focused on delivering value to the end customer and the business. Meaning, they’re really interested in building software and features that people actually use.
UPX compressed files used to get flagged by antivirus software, is that not the case anymore?
You're absolutely right, how could I miss it! Steve Jobs hated the thought of programmable computers so much that he stopped these languages being included a full 3 years before any of them existed! /s

What you think you've "proved", you haven't. I'll repeat myself; that there was no dev environment on release demonstrates precisely nothing, certainly not the fact that programmable personal computers were so vehemently "despised by Steve Jobs."
What do you do when it doesn't work? This seems like a really bad outcome - they approved the design with the glaring flaw, which makes it hard for you to remove it, and they potentially also requested some other 'improvement' which makes the design worse.
This mentality, of the employee as a interchangeable operative box has destroyed so much value. Its what regularly destroys the value of companies bought up by behemoths. The knowledge is just transferable after all, and there can not be any value in constellations, aka teams and pipelines.
Thus it gets all destroyed, people shoved around until they quit.
Its like management has its own toxic ideology, of a world were working people are just a sort of lego brick, and the ideology wins out every time.
https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2023-06-05 see top entry: more comments than points, yet stands solid at #1. Pretty sure I've also seen 2:1 ratios before rather than the 1:1 that this is (but I don't remember around which date that might have occurred or how to easily ctrl+f for it while browsing past days).

I heard the same as you, but I wonder if it has more to do with how many downvotes/flags are being handed out in the comments compared to how many votes the story is getting, rather than the absolute number of comments.
> preventing new players from accessing the data that OpenAI and other ...

Sam Altman is a Reddit investor and was until recently a board member.