skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But is that chaos predictable? Current weather predictions are based on statistical models. Storm trackers, for example, typically have bands that expand as time gets further out. Without knowing every molecule that affects a hurricane, for example, they can predict within some confidence interval where the storm will head. The data meteorologists have is relatively coarse, and yet they can make predictions within some level of probability. That level of probability allows municipalities to issue evacuation orders early as opposed to throwing hands up and saying there is no certainty in anything, so let's just see what happens.

Their discussion of die rolling doesn't say they can predict the outcome, rather that they can predict the probability of the outcome. In trading, life, and gaming that probability is one component of many that go into decision making. Knowing how much that randomness effects the outcome at what probability can be a successful strategy (but of course not guaranteed) in all of those domains.
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2204/2204.12310.pdf

https://unpaywall.org/
Same here! Originally phpBB, then IPB 1.3, then vBulletin. Good times. :)

I was entirely obsessed with this space when I was a teenager/young adult. I would search out and try every forum software I could get my hands on, and of course (because who didn't) made my own.
Just this weekend, I ran into a different situation. I've owned battery powered equipment for 5 or 6 years now using the original batteries. They are interchangeable, and have served me well...until this weekend. The battery will no longer hold a charge and the charger light blinking pattern indicates there are problems with the battery. How do you self-repair that?

Funny thing, the replacement batteries are much larger in capacity now, but the price of a single replacement battery is the same cost of a new powered tool. So, I wound up getting a new tool that I didn't have with a new battery. I have a few LiPo batteries for my cinema camera gear that have died as well. I'm going to try to find someone that can just replace the batteries packs inside the custom housing.
One thing that’s different today is authentication options. Modern APIs (eg WebAuthn), Oauth, passkeys, WebID… Also password managers were not as ubiquitous as they are today.

I think there’s the potential to make using many different sites a lot more frictionless nowadays.

Maybe the only missing part would be an aggregator to keep track of the different communities.
> Could say the same thing about a former President publicly admitting to committing crimes, and half of the country not caring.

Bill Clinton, who admitted to giving misleading testimony under oath?

> Never before in history have so many people been so openly evil.

"History merely repeats itself. It has all been done before. Nothing under the sun is truly new. Sometimes people say, “Here is something new!” But actually it is old; nothing is ever truly new." - Ecclesiastes 1:9-10 (New Living Translation)

Some people always think they're living through the worst times ever -- it may be the worst times for them _individually_, but it's certainly been worse for others in history.
A substantial portion of my destructive edits (that were followed by deletion) appear to have now been rolled back, so it appears they do have the ability. These were recently deleted, however; there may be a time limit based on edit time.
Well, I was attempting to reply to questions in the second half of the post.

That being said, I don't think communities of that size should really be the goal in the fediverse.
It’s not a conspiracy if it’s just one person doing it. All indications point to spez being in an increasingly tenuous situation. He created a firestorm and now he’s desperate to get out of it.

His real problem is that he cast his lot with the “strongmen” (such as Elon). Now he can’t walk that back without appearing weak and (even more) incompetent to his investors. It really sucks to be him right now!
I'd say that Discourse is an alternative, some people consider it good, but I personally don't like it.

What I like in PhpBB forums I joined is the organization of topics, usually hierarchical; balance of information density, not too high, not to low; good pagination that is fast to load; ctrl-f does what you expect: search in current page; theming that usually makes each forum look unique; profile and signature customization; no gamification of usage; and probably many other stuff I forgot.

Many of these things are personal and YMMV of course.
What business value would it provide?
It was not a lamp stack for sure. Linux maybe but prototype reddit was in lisp
He means mid as in mid-tier people. Average folk. Salt of the earth. You know, morons.

I think his attitude biases his thinking, though. But I guess I can't truly understand how an alpha like him thinks :)
Some SoCs will let you directly/explicitly use the cache as (ostensibly secondary) RAM, remapping your configuration from

[cpu] -- [cache] -- ram

to

[ cpu ]
| |
[cache] [ram]

Here's TI's documentation on doing just that CC13x2/CC26x2 family of MCUs: [0]. In this case, it's a seemingly paltry 8K of "RAM" but that's a lot for microcontroller developers! In this configuration and for this particular MCU, the CPU will actually run at a reduced speed (60% of its norm), probably because it needs to synchronize directly against the RAM. If you were to use it in CaR-only mode (which I don't think TI exposes), i.e. with the cache being used instead of rather than in addition to any RAM, you probably wouldn't need to run at those reduced speeds (and might even be able to run at higher clock speeds!).

[0]: https://software-dl.ti.com/simplelink/esd/simplelink_cc13x2_...
Mid is slang for average. Same connotation as calling someone basic
My opinion doesn't lead to harm to other people, so you'll understand why I don't respect yours. Your right to swing your infected spittle ends where other people's mouths and noses begin.
android is driving search, they have google as the default search engine - so there is some synergy here.
This is how reddit was started. If they had tools for mass posting with auto-generated accounts then why would they stop?

Remember - the top subs were being modded by epstein’s gang. If that kind of absurdity is happening then imagine when a political party offers them 10m to rig an election.
Whether a modern game turns out to be fun or not is besides the point, the answer is fidelity, fidelity, fidelity.

I think it's fair enough that modern games take much more effort; we have much higher expectations as gamers/consumers than we used to.
I understand your point, but I think an assumption that a lot of internet users have, and a fundamental pitch of the internet, is that the internet is the tool you use to _find_ people to bowl with in the first place.
> its army of unpaid moderators

This meme has been a bit overdone. I think this protest shows another angle: Reddit has been providing moderators a place to feel special and superior for free, and they are now addicted to it. Look, reddit is opening the door and tells them to leave but the vast majority DONT and won't leave. This is revealing who is dependent on whom.
The problem is that I want “unpleasant and controversial [legal] content”. Even if it isn’t something that I personally want to see, it prevents the creation of the echo chamber that Reddit and most other social media platforms have become.

I significantly improved my Reddit experience simply by filtering out the word “Trump”. This also had the effect of hiding a good 20% of Reddit, as there were dozens of stories every day about orange man bad. It’s been 3 years into a different guy’s presidency and Trump still gets more attention on Reddit than Biden does.

So when you avoid filtering as much, you end up with something closer to the chans, where you could see a post contemplating bestiality, and the next post proclaiming that pedophiles belong in woodchippers. Not a fan of the former, but you just ignore it and move on. There’s always something fresh and interesting.
they seem to be cooking the books wrt the reviews. there are a ton of one word app reviews that are 5 star
That was only the very first model. Most NeXT machines shipped with floppy and HD.
My guess is that the manufacturers have a ton of incentive to use the same leds on everything to cut down on component costs via scale.

So that basically leads to them purchasing leds that are powerful enough for all uses and using them for everything, ie, they're way too bright.

Usage is entirely secondary
Let's be honest: you're hurting both but the latter will find other ways to hold the information in a way which may not be bound to a corporation led by a lying weasel.

u/spez needs to be removed as CEO.
That is an absurd and frankly insulting comparison to make.

Rape is an act of physical violence, and you're arguing about a small price to use a free service.
I doubt it. Mid is extremely commonly used slang that means "Mid-Tier", "middle-of-the-road", "middling" etc.
Actual Reddit data from pushshift (compressed *.zst).
If you’ve never worked at a company that referred to R&D as a “cost center” then you have lived a blessed life.

Yes, making things people want to buy costs money. Most successful companies spend a certain fraction of their money on making what they sell. Making it cheaper just makes it cheaper. Which is definitely a choice one can make but few people respect the bargain brand.

Oddly the people who understand this the least also seem to care a lot about prestige, so I don’t understand how their brains work.
> Having a raw pointer and having an index into an array are essentially equivalent

You can split the handle (index) into an upper "magic" and lower "index" part, with the handle being an opaque type, only being able to be accessed and modified by the container giving out handles. In C++, you'd likely see operator* and operator-> overloaded for usage. This technique is described in the original "Game Programming Gems" book.

Not 100%, but on usage, the handle checks the magic against what's currently in the data-structure to let you know if the handle has been freed and/or reused. Since handles are opaque, you can muck with the underlying objects as you want, e.g relocate them in memory, having multiple internal arrays, etc.
Is it that you are old, or that you are young enough that the transition from the slang of your peers to a newer one as the fashion of the day is recent and acutely felt?
No, this proves pi can not be written as a fraction. But not being a fraction does not imply that a number contains all sequences of digits.
> Just go to the subs that locked down, look at their sticky thread explaining whats going on and why, and find a mountain of support.

What sticky thread? I get a note saying the subreddit is private, and a link to a news article. They certainly aren't asking for my opinion.
A point against the 'narrative': Mods are very hard to deal with as a business owner.

Look, we all know that going to war with your volunteers is a bad idea.

But the Mods, as individual people, are not easy to deal with. To me, modding any sub on reddit sounds like an insane thing to do. Why would you subject yourself to such a task? Especially for free?

Anyone remember this interview?: https://www.foxnews.com/video/6294058584001

Those are the real human people that reddit's ownership has to deal with. Only a thousand-fold and self-interacting. Herding cats seems like a very simple job now.

Look, reddit is fundamentally changed. We all know it's going down. But Mods aren't the easiest people either. Reddit got fat off of the labor of, to me, people that are just built different.

That check is now coming due.
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God that is peak mid-00s design. Wonderful job, you hit me right in the nostalgia.
The rise is a mean. That means that high tides, water surges due to storms, etc. will also be amplified.

If you consider the current risk of flooding as a stochastic process, moving the mean may result in an exponential risk increase.
Yes really. The fact that you can "often just return an object straight from the database" and have it fulfill the functional requirements of your client is just a coincidence, or more likely it's an invarient that you have decided to enforce. What people have discovered (usually very painfully) is that unavoidable breaking changes to either your client representation or storage representation are bound to happen, and when they do if you haven't separated these concerns this will have a ripple effect through the entire application. This may be fine. If your applications are tiny or downtime is okay, then you likely won't care about this. But to casually dismiss this advice as simply always being overcomplicated and overengineered is a grave oversimplification that you may regret someday. Many of the topics in this post fall into this category - people do it for a good reason, and you might not need it, but everything is a tradeoff and "I'm just going to do the stupid simple thing" is not the silver bullet.
Right? What's wrong with "bad", "meh", "basic", "uninteresting", or "mediocre"?
> PHP was never multi-tenant safe

You're running on the same host, so there might be exploits that allow you to break free, but that goes for most other "serverless" solutions too.
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23846284/nhtsa-letter...
Yeah, a huge % (I have no way of getting a real number but I’d bet everything on >25% of content on Reddit is marked as NSFW. It would make any client unusable.

The only way these API change make sense if the rumor that Steven Huffman is actually delusional enough to think that companies building LLMs will pay to use Reddit for training data is true.
> You can't change human nature but you can get mods that don't care about this particular issue

Okay, and how will that help you to not get "capricious mods"?

> and when the next ones cause problems you get rid of them too

And when those ones make problems you get rid of them again? And then again? And again? And again? And again? And again? And again? And again? And again? And again?

Are you starting to see the problem?
Try moderating any medium-sized sub (or even some small ones) and get back to me. This is not as black and white as you want to make it out to be. Will some people get caught up in the filters? Absolutely but once you've seen 90% of people causing you headaches having the a single (or couple) subs in common it's not a difficult choice to "lose" that 10% to maintain your sanity.

I've had people walk right up to the line of the subs rules (breaking the spirit if not the letter) time and time again and it's exhausting to deal with. I've had about as close as you can come to death threats (without directly saying it) for temp-banning someone after repeatedly telling them to stop doing something. I've heard the cries of "censorship" for removing what is clearly spam. And all that was on a tiny sub. If I had identified a common source/overlapping interest with those people and it was easy to ban/block them I would have done it. Moderating is thankless work that I fell into (and thankfully got out of) and felt obligated to continue/see through to the end. I had no interest in "power", there was no "payday" or similar, it was just me trying to give back to my community and I got a ton of shit for it.
That's why it's called the "Justice" System and not "Rehabilitation" System. Your uncle committed fraud, the public does not care about the surrounding circumstances.

The trust that VICTIM will get justice keeps the society intact. Nobody cares what happens to the bad guy.

If someone took out all your money through fraud and gambled it away, what would you choose:

A) Justice: Put them in Jail for long time.

B) Rehabilitation: Put them in medical care for an year till their gambling addiction is cured. Then they are free to integrate back into society.

In both cases, you get no money back. What would you prefer?
>WordPress

Isn't that mostly funded through the proprietary jetpack SaaS?
Wildly misleading headline
Also relevant news that Google has disabled io_uring for apps on Android and disabled it entirely on Chrome OS and production Google servers since 60% of the exploits (~$1M worth) submitted to the Google Vulnerability Rewards Program have been for io_uring: https://security.googleblog.com/2023/06/learnings-from-kctf-...
https://link.horse

I don’t have a privacy policy because I haven’t gotten around to creating one yet but yeah, like the other guys say:

- full api access
- get all your data out as a zip or json or csv
- when you delete something it’s truly deleted, not soft deleted.
You seem to be confusing AppEngine with Google Cloud. Former is a tiny part of the latter.
Forums are still around. Less popular, sure, and definitely a much smaller fraction of the entire online footprint. But if it's the experience you want, you can still get it. I've been on the Something Awful forums for almost 2 decades at this point, and there are definitely others.
> plenty of people want the power

Is this really true? I'm not a redditor, but I used to co-moderate a certain open-posting newswire. It takes time and thought to moderate; there's no rush from the "power". Nobody thanks you for doing it; you know you're doing it OK if the users don't flee, and nobody's complaining (much).

Admittedly we were all grown-ups, not 12-year-olds; but surely a sub that's moderated by an opinionated tyrant would quickly lose users?
And how do you determine that? I'm not trying to be coy here, I genuinely don't understand.

Because you're not testing for patterns, what you test is some measurable metric(s) you want to maximise(or minimise), right? So how can you determine which metrics lead to dark patterns, without just using them and seeing if dark pattern emerge? And how do you spot these dark patterns if by their very nature they're undetectable by the metrics you chose to test first?
Why is HN suddenly full of latimes/new yorker/nytime/bbc/gizmodo/etc articles? I had an internal bet that i'd find an iflscience.com post before the end of the week.
For any large company I think you overestimate the amount of control that CEO’s and HR heads have. I mean they make broad policy decisions based on some cost & growth numbers.

I think the whole project killing long precedes Sundar or Ruth. In fact chrome (which Sundar handled product for I believe) is something that has endured.
Most people don't want to admit it, but running a subreddit is much more fun than running your own forum. Even if you magically had the users, you also have the FULL responsibility , up to the legal consequnces for the stuff that your users do, plus you have all the technical trouble.

Reddit gives that for free to moderators. They can make any community for shits n giggles, break it, fix it, abandon it etc. and none of the real-life consequences.
They don't create many new ones anymore.

They're just to big (and expensive) to be doing mass incubation.

It's much more cost effective for them to simply buy-up and buy-out others.
Both of these are correct, if you use the native API. A lot of apps hide behind their own “are you enjoying” pop up and then only give you the apple API prompt to leave a review if you say yes lol. I also dislike it, and have mine set to not allow in the system settings.

However I also have the native API prompt appear after ~2 weeks of use in my own app, at the end of the day good reviews and actual money to devs is the only way the business works, App Store is super competitive. I’d love to bypass the App Store and not deal with reviews and be able to cleanly offer upgrade pricing!
We maneuvered ourselves out of the bare epistemology of the jungle to something much grander. We did this. We formed intensions and relied on and developed new and better epistemologies. We didn't wait around for nature to push us apes into our modern environment.

"AI" however, are neutered, lack phenomenology, lack senses, and are being force fed.

We happily admit we have no insight into the innermost workings of AI. Too bad, because self knowledge tailors epistemolgy, and epistemology is the fastest way forward. And perhaps the only proven way forward.

Oh and computers are fundamentally bad self-knowers. It's never been a tenet of computation. It's even the antithesis of hash functions, say.
> He emphasizes that the Earth’s magnetic field, a result of eddy currents in our planet’s liquid core, alters the trajectory of primary cosmic radiation’s charged particles.

> Therefore, any substantial earthquakes linked to disturbances in the Earth’s dynamo flows would alter the magnetic field, thus impacting the path of primary cosmic radiation. The fallout of these alterations would be apparent in the changes in the counts of secondary cosmic ray particles recorded by ground-based detectors.

Wouldn't there be a more direct way of measuring changes in the magnetic field generated in Earth's core? Or is this method preferable because it's cheap and sufficiently accurate?
> is it that big of a stretch to assume

Absent evidence, for the HN front page, yes.
By that definition, almost every user on every social media platform would be an "employee". What reddit mods are doing is really not that different from creating a facebook group to organise a party with your friend or a twitter page to share curated content that you love.

Mods don't work for reddit, they work for their community/subreddit. Creating a group on a social media platform doesn't make you an employee that can be fired. It makes you a power user that can get banned if you mess with other users/communities or with the platform too much.
How many had pre-diabetes? Type-2 is a pretty serious diagnosis above a pretty significant threshold. Long-covid as defined can be somewhat marginal in characteristic.
same article says they're rolling back destructive edits
Thanks! LLM testing is a specific challenge, we’re interested in your feedback on our alpha version.

Here’s a notebook to try it: https://docs.giskard.ai/en/latest/reference/notebooks/llm_co...