skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see any "empirical" evidence for your claim. I think it also betrays a fundamental misunderstanding, of the policies that are implemented by most countries.

While "legalization" is the popular term for what is happening, professionals tend to talk of "harm reduction," because that is what is what is intended and also better describes what is actually happening in most cases. Most drugs are still illegal in Portugal and will remain so in Germany. I don't think there is a single country where Heroin is legal, Cocaine is legal only in a small number of South/Central American countries and even Cannabis is only legal in about 6 countries (and de facto parts of the US) worldwide. There is no broad movement that advocates a low-regulation distribution of all/most drugs in any country that I'm aware of.

What is happening is that more and more countries treat drug use not as a criminal matter, but a public health issue. With the possible exception of Cannabis (where the risks seem so comparable to alcohol that it makes intuitive sense to many people to treat it at least broadly similar), the debate is not about legalization per se, but about how to effectively reduce consumption and the risks associated with it. This is where needle exchange programs, "drug checks," injection spaces, come from: They drastically reduce the harms associated with the use of certain drugs by improving the health outcomes of drug users. Combined with de-criminilization policies, they also provide the basis for health professionals to engage with drug users and start interventions.

I really don't see anything "selfish" or "late empire" in that approach, maybe except that it will reduce my payments to the public health system long term.
> How do you know that allowing sideloading does’t effectively mean opening a bunch of backdoors on the device?

Because this is a technical forum, and we all know that this isn't how any of this works.
I just would like to thank the CEOs of Twitter and Reddit for helping to kill my doom scrolling addiction.
Would it make sense to renew now for multiple years before squarespace takes over?
January is probably among the 3 weakest months in NYC tourism though, if not the weakest.
This is a false dichotomy; both things can be true at the same time. Just because some groups increase their time massively on media, particularly children, doesn't mean that the privacy movement is not growing. Take into account the addiction factor, people doing things they know are bad for them because the _need_ that dopamine hit.

Just take a look at the iPhone advertising slogan: "Privacy. That's iPhone" It's not, but people like to pretend to actually care about data collection, and that's why they use it in their promos.

Other than that, laws are currently being passed in several states[0] that are attempting to limit this extreme data collection. These laws are limited compared to their European counterparts and are obviously not enough, but clearly people do care.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/us-data-privacy-...
I'd tend to agree that Baltimore initially overstated the significance of the FCS, though his updated position seems close to my own. I'd certainly agree that whatever Kary Mullis saw wasn't a physical glowing raccoon, that megadoses of vitamin C won't cure cancer, etc. That's basically my point, though. Prestige--personal, institutional, or otherwise--is no guarantee of quality.

It's not meaningless either, and in general I'd also place higher weight on a paper in a major journal than on a random Twitter thread. As to COVID origins in particular, I believe major journals have published unusually poor-quality work. This continues an unfortunate pattern set in past biosafety incidents (1977 flu, Sverdlovsk, etc.), of dismissing the possibility of an unnatural cause until the evidence was incontrovertible.

The math in the Worobey papers isn't really that inaccessible, and I'd consider some of it as good work if it weren't so grossly oversold. I agree there's no definite evidence for any origin of SARS-CoV-2, and I don't think the article linked here adds much. I do think revelation of the DEFUSE proposal did, and that UNC's and the EHA's prior silence on that is inexcusable.

Definite proof may never come, but for now the American government continues to fund high-risk virological research. That seems terrifying to me. Reckless agricultural practices also continue to risk novel pandemics (in the West too; our use of antibiotics on healthy animals may get remembered as a crime against humanity). The risk of reckless virological practices is additive to that though, and much more easily controlled, simply by defunding. I therefore believe it deserves attention now.
You didn’t need a gimped hand to name hell super challenging! =)

Diablo 4 is unbelievable imo. Easily the pickup where Diablo 2 left off. It’s super complex while being simple. Really good game!
They may not like it but I have seen magic happening when someone reach out their door. Although, startups have to be little unique about their proposition so that it doesn't look spammy.

Also, it's all about building relationships based on mutual interest and fit rather than spamming.

Moreover, we will be going to start a match making service soon where we will have interest from Startup as well as from Investors.
Adding thousands of employees and pissing away profitability to force these kinds of no-win choices ain't exactly "payin' da bills."
The kicker here is, if this is all for an IPO, as an investor, would these moves give you more confidence in the leadership or less?

I can kinda see arguments for both directions, but I can think of more that would cause me to have less confidence.

The biggest IMO is that what's happening here is a gamble by leadership that people are so drawn to Reddit that they'll give up their far superior mobile apps or desktop experiences for it.

The second biggest is the speed with which they pushed this decision. By forcing it to happen so quickly and not offering an actually sufficient grace period, it's pretty clear this is just about trying to fatten up for the IPO and doesn't represent solid medium to long-term thinking and direction.

Maybe investors won't care. Maybe users are truly too hooked to Reddit specifically to leave, as we've seen mostly play out with Twitter.
Bummer no one responded to this. I’d be interested in reading that too!
At some point it felt like FAANG companies were just drowning competition by hiring everyone decent enough instead of keeping up with their high bars, but you could say that at the time everyone wanted people who could code. So much that Bootcamps started being a popular way of getting people up to speed without going through the 4yr+ education that was deemed not entirely required and relevant anymore by more and more practicing engineers in the startup world.

The not-so-evil view is that some MBAs figured each engineer was worth on average 3-5x their salary, so why not hire everyone until that almost evens out?
Sure, the government should have done a lot of things.

But we weren't talking about government, we were talking about Tesla. I don't think Tesla releasing a plugin hybrid instead of the Model S would have led to everyone having a hybrid today, much in the same way everyone doesn't have a BEV today.

I think ironically PHEVs (or more realistically, range extended BEVs) will actually gain popularity as the proportion of people with BEVs begins to cross the 50% threshold. For them to really make sense to sell there needs to be a big enough market that making the low power engines required becomes dirt cheap per unit. As it stands the difference in cost between a pure BEV and a PHEV is so low that paying that little bit more for the BEV makes sense basically every time.
Definitions are not static. If the majority of people who say "open source" mean "I can view the source, it is out in the open" vs the OSI definition, then the definition of the word is the former.

Just like how the word "hacker" meant one (generally positive) thing, then it meant computer criminal, and now it has come back to be somewhere in the middle.

Of course it is your right to fight for whichever definition you prefer, but the idea that anyone has a monopoly on the definition and can claim a term "doesn't mean that" is a bit silly.
> You can't just post these things on eBay and hope for the best.

Of course not. You start a "security consulting company" and then apply to be a contractor. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of companies like that. And as an individual researcher, you can either join such a company, or freelance for one.

It's indeed not trivial, but I imagine that anyone with enough experience in the business would know how to pull it off.
Not that I've used this extensively, but months would likely increase to quarters.

And if you're estimating something to the lengths of months, you're already into project management territory size, rather than broken down to development/delivery sizes... The amount of unknown unknowns and other uncertainty certainly warrant happily estimating years length, surely.

Also #NoEstimates (=
AAAs are paying for consistency. The marketing budget is fixed. This makes the goal something that's certainly good enough and hopefully great.
Build a platform

Recruit free labor

Replace them when they stop working
Definitely Goffman. Bourdieu wrote way too hard, except for some separate articles.
this is too complicated and requires a lot of effort.

i could dig a system where you have a pool of moderators and they somewhat randomly get assigned to moderate subs on fixed time periods assignments.
>The fact that Reddit chose to take this course of action tells me that they don’t actually know that much about their own website. That might also explain why they never built out the tooling to begin with.

It's seemed like that for years. They've had strong reasons to develop the site for years. The two main things they've done are build an app for phones and spend a relatively long time creating a "new" UI that changes the look of the site and provides more advertising space but has no major changes to the way the site works.

It's like they don't have any idea how to actually develop the site, and they're limited to doing window dressing.
Start Doing meditation.
>> I talk to businesses, individuals, and enterprises every single day and they all refer to my SAS as open source software.

I know it gets tedious, but its useful to politely correct this terminology when it's used incorrectly.

I get that managers are not techies, but allowing them to use this term is harmful to them.

A) they heard the term from one of their programmers, which means the programmer doesn't understand the difference, which can lead to legal troubles or

B) they know the term, but use it incorrectly here, which they could then say to an actual programmer, which he then treats as open source, and can cause legal troubles.
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Kagi's great, when it did not get good result, neither did google.

Only that you have to keep a mental counter on the usage.
I disagree. 3rd spaces are often profit generating businesses.

The problem is that these companies are VC backed enterprises mean to give many multiple return on investment. It's not merely enough to be profitable.

Reddit certain could have been profitable already but they've continued to grow in headcount and stupid ideas (nft.reddit.com) basically chasing an unachieveable goal. It will eat itself to pursue that goal.
My sense is these rules are focused on biometric based tools, specifically those in "high risk" systems as classified by the law.

I think this has less intersection with sentiment detection tools that generate telemetry to help with support escalation use cases, etc.

Other opinions?
Who is the WordPress of forum hosting on your own domain and customizability? Someone that can make turnkey forums for nontechnical people to create their own communities.
The downside of this is of course that there are so many high quality games to compete with now
It’s a reference to [1].

[1] https://amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/ralph-in-danger
At least for my workstation, it doesn't seem so? The kernel is only 2 month ago, and I tend to postpone my OS update to the very last moment unless it's forced. I'm pretty sure that the production even got much more frequent updates.
Spez is the guy who wipes the street on the block where ppl happen to gather and play music, tell stories.

One day he decides to take fees from the ice-cream vendor. The ice-cream is gone.

Is there another relatively clean street where nobody would try to setup a shake down the crowd?

Reddit execs and such are rent-seekers except in place of land we have human content.

The website thingy they have running has become a commodity years ago.
Funnily enough, yes, it is very easy to mass remove posts on Reddit with both the api and third party extensions. However, removed is not deleted. Another mod can reapprove a removed post and it would be restored.

Reddit already has the tools to undo this kind of sabotaging
Very interesting perspective, thanks for sharing. What are your thoughts on a mechanism to oust existing mods? Is there any path you'd be willing to see? Or a lesser of two evils? E.g. mods being able to kick each other out with some plurality vs community members holding that power at some high voting threshold
No it doesn't. r/rpgmaker voted to keep it open for example.
I'm glad to see this and it will be interesting to see the trends in a week or two when presumably some of the "Reddit fire" dies down a bit.

Personally I've been pretty happy using Kbin as a substitute, and I contribute a little more than I usually would in the hopes of attracting more mass to the Fediverse, like some kind of Federated gravity.
It was a satire. My go to formula is actually

(A * B) / C + 2^D + (rand(4, -4) * E) / (0.5 * F)

[A] Time if I did it all by myself

[B] I have no idea what I'm doing ratio

[C] I totally have done this before

[D] Amount of weekly WTF per code review

[E] That stakeholder couldn't hold a stake

[F] Likely hood of it changing by next week
Some of them are trying to figure something out.

https://www.reddit.com/r/RelayForReddit/comments/147152b/upd...

> There's no possibility to continue the free version of Relay; a monthly subscription price of $3 (or less) might be achievable.

And of that $3 the Developer says in that thread:

> Yes there should be a good amount in there for myself.

If 3rd party apps are so beloved, then $3/month to support a developer doing good work should not be a issue.
Smelled this one coming miles away.

Next, they'll hand over fan-built communities to the entities that own the IPs they're dedicated to. Eg. r/starwars to Disney, r/startrek to Viacom/Paramount, etc.

Then, old.reddit.com will stop working spontaneously, just like how they toyed with killing mobile browser access to force users to download the app, which they probably will eventually. That's going to be the final push for a lot more users. The academics, for certain.

Give it a few months, it'll be like FaceBook, Twitter, Tumblr. Ad and bot ridden ghost town, devoid of all creativity - nay, devoid of actual information at all. Just a sinking ship with people still getting off.

Aaron Swartz is rolling in his grave.
It is troubling that, in the US at least, one of the two major political constituencies has a lot more guns than the other....
Aren't all protests essentially extortion? We will sit here until you give into demands. We won't work until you give into our demands. We will crowd the streets until you give into our demands.

All that matters is who the community supports.
Protest 2.0: click here for rphotos.io the new home of r/photos.

Then teach users about RSS.

Reddit via RSS reader is already 10x the better experience. Mixing in other feeds is no deal.
Reddit might be able to force mods to keep their subs open, but there's no way to stop volunteers from volunteering somewhere else.

Anyone who has ever dreamt of making a reddit competitor, but didn't because reddit is an unstoppable behemoth, should take notice of what's going on. There's a huge opportunity here.
You can check this article. This will help you to explore other alternatives.
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Making a subreddit private is a built in, native reddit feature. If the mods are still actively moderating, just doing so in a private community, how is it breaking any rules? Sounds like they are just making use of a reddit feature.
It's very confusing when someone said it's open source when it isn't actually open source.

I quite literally grew up with the specific definition. If people decided to redefine open source software, then I'll need a new specific definition, because it's no longer useful or fit for the purpose.
Is this supposed to be some kind of takedown? Why would I care that one of the moderators of a subreddit has a normal, common occupation?

That article is so petty it deserves no one’s time.
They only have to beat the prevailing rate on zerodium to get it first. It's not like every exploit is some magically usable thing that can exfil all the googs. People really overrate a bunch of things.

There was a crypto company running with all spectre:meltdown mitigation off. And no one took the money until the company went bust and an insider tried to run with it.

I also told the world that it was the case so it wasn't secret:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32077583

That was a lot of money untraceable if so many of these were exploitable. They're generally not. Google is often the best buyer.
It's the Reddit blackout.
> Can you link me to where I can submit bounties to a spy agency

No. I have no idea. But it would clearly be in the interest of such institutions to have such programs, so common sense says they do. I'm sure that people who are active in this business would know more about it.
Thanks! Changed now. Submitted title was "io_uring disabled across Google platforms".
The mods in /r/anarchism are selected by voting.
Luckily, there’s a solution…

https://librewolf.net/
That will apparently still be the case.

> Upon closing, Squarespace, a long- time reseller of Google Workspace, will become the exclusive domains provider for any customer purchasing a domain along with their Workspace subscription from Google directly for a minimum of three years.
This is going to trigger the collecting instinct of so many nerds.

Must resist…. must resist!
It's not clear it's acting as an antiviral, in the classic sense of directly interfering with the virus, by directly bonding with and neutralizing viral proteins, or supplying lookalike proteins for the cells to make defective viral particles with.

Metformin affects glucose metabolism. It may be similar to how metformin seems to help with HIV infection; an immune cell infected with HIV goes into metabolic overdrive as it starts producing virus. Metformin seems to block that boosting mechanism through its effect on glucose, preferentially on the most over-driven cells. A similar story with certain glucose-fed cancers, which metformin is also used in treating.
That weird "conspiracy theory" doesn't make any sense. LLMs are trained off a static dump of example data, and it's trivially easy to build a webscraper of Reddit's historical content.
From a resource industry perspective fossil fuels are a problem as they have a finite supply through which we've churned through essentially all the relatively easy to get to stuff.

The Saudi's have already reached peak oil for their region (by the estimate of their own engineers) which means they have essentially hit peak monthly production and the next 50 odd years will see less and less production at higher and higher cost.

This is the reality of fossil fuels, the world will see them about for the next century but (failing other energy sources) the demand will increase as populations increase both in number and in per capita consumption as the supply dwindles and the costs increase .. not to mention every barrel pulled up from deep underground is a nother barrel going toward the climate problem.

With no move to replace fossil fuels as the principal energy source we're heading into increased conflict over access.

ie, - They're an ongoing problem and we're best off moving to other means while we are able to do so.

As for antibiotics, yes, they are a problem, especially their current excessive use in the livestock industry where casual overuse is only accelerating the timeline to them becoming useless.
>that is not democratic

Lol like he cares about democracy.
Interesting thought. If they can be fired, they were employed.
No your life experiences narrow the choices. You don't randomly emigrate. While the reasoning is wonky, there is , in reality, only a small pool of choices under consideration. Life is the 3rd party that reveals duds.
Charles

(You choose which one!)
Active Directory is actually pretty good I think. Having worked with both Azure and AWS, AzureAD makes AWS IAM permissions feel half baked.

Granted my experience was inside Azure so we had the benefit of vertical integration.
I don't think that's true. r/nba, a top 10 active subreddit at the time of going private, put it to a public vote where the overwhelming majority of the community voted to suspend indefinitely.

This was during the NBA finals, mind you. Hard to put that sort of result on a small group of mods.
That’s what great I think. Levels give you skill and paragon points which eventually makes you stronger so you can go to higher tiers where better gear drops. They give you many ways to customize your gear (affix modifications, aspects, gems) with your build and paragon board. That’s what it’s all about.
In my extended network of 1000+ people, I've heard of 2 that may have "long covid". Are people's experiences different?
lets start by voting who will be the CEO of reddit.
Yes but only in waterfall do you need to accept that issue. In small “a” agile you can now go back to the business and suggest alternatives. (The Opera House was not built exactly to the original plans, for example). Of course that doesn’t work if you need to follow OKR
dogma etc. and stick to the original plan.
Reddit has been losing its cache and core producers since mid 2010’s. I miss the days when their was a barrier to entry of moderate intelligence to participate.
I use "shipped as source". My code is not "open" and I'm very careful never to label it as such in verbal or written communications.

I think the word "open" belongs to OSS, not proprietary code, and I would politely suggest and recommend, you never use that word to describe your offering. (Ditto "free" :)
There is a subtle but important difference here though:

If you publish a piece of software under two licenses, one open source and one commercial, why would anybody pick the commercial one?

You cannot say "corporations have to pick the commercial one". The only way to do that would be to include a term in the open source license so it cannot be used by corporations. But then it would no longer meet the open source definition. "Free for private use but payed for commercial use" is not open source!

But if the open source license is copyleft (e.g. GPL), any software that uses it would also have to be open source. So dual licensing allows corporations to pay to keep their own code a secret.

This implies that dual licensing is pointless for non-copyleft licenses like MIT, and also for developer tooling that is not directly used in the final product.
The lack of search indexing is a major downside though.