skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That 96% of the mass is 238U. It's usable in breeder reactors. It's not useful for today's burner reactors. We have far too much 238U for those already; enrichment is the process of stripping out 238U from natural uranium. It would be utterly pointless to recover more 238U for them. We already have great stockpiles of depleted U sitting around. The stuff is not worth very much right now.

Reprocessing can recover some plutonium, which can be reused (once more) in MOX fuel. Spent MOX fuel cannot be reprocessed further for use in today's thermal reactors, though.
You’re right, the claim of an equivalent to LiveView is a bit far fetched.

https://github.com/liveviews/liveviews
Police departments in the US basically don’t require legislation to add new functionality to their policing mechanisms, they require laws to tell them what they cannot do. So more the former than the latter. But it doesn’t really matter with this for the average citizen, most likely. They’ll only ever use the drones for big busts. Most cops just sit in traffic until they get bored and chase down random beater cars that were going 5 over the speed limit, or pulled slightly too far forward at a stop sign that had shrubs blocking the left and right view.
User-generated content belongs to the author. You need their permission if you want to use it. I don't know what the limit of a TOS is, I imagine misrepresentation for example is not allowed even if you write it inthere.

I've always thought it fascinating that people claim authorship or release things under a license without disclosing who they are. I imagine something licensed by Donald Duck is not actually usable under that license.

If it worked like that anyone could re-release anyone else's things under a different license. I mean, which Donald is the real author? How are you going to hunt the duck for violations? How do I prove I'm the real duck?
It seems like he often takes on a passive role but has no problem being more active when necessary. The story of how he pursued Johnny Cash and introduced him to Nine Inch Nails’ Hurt is one example.

I’m reading Rubin’s book now and I really like it. It’s full of his observations and advice which includes not listening to advice. Very short chapters that are easy to read but I try not to read more than one or two a week because I find myself thinking about what I read for days.
But he sold is original shares in 2006. All of them, and for cheap. Any shares he has now are part of his CEO compensation package which is minuscule compared to the investors

Even though he’s a cofounder, his current position is like the one of a non founder ceo in a post-exit company
The problem runs deep. Prison "slavery" is codified in the US Constitution's 13th Amendment:

> Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Is it any wonder that "enterprising" organizations take advantage...?
> Zuckerberg tanked the stock price with VR/Metaverse and then juked it by firing a chunk of the company.

meta stock today is at $280.
Play the long game. Everyone needs to start poisoning comments.

Add random text as a signature in all messages (nobody does signatures anymore...), to build false associations between words and concepts. Exactly what was suggested for PRISM in the 90s/00s, and Googlebombing, only this time for real.

Then you can still participate online while diluting the value of your posts to AI spiders.

Everybody knows that in 2025, Jeff Bezos proved to be the statutory ape all along, when it was discovered he only changes his diaper on weekends so he can manipulate the price of tea in China the rest of the week uninterrupted-- all in pursuing his goal of selling pizza to robots in space.
With respect to Android, I was under the impression that (in part because key members of the Linux community are allergic to the notion of a stable device driver ABI) the specific release of linux used on a particular model of phone was typically frozen at some point before the time the phone shipped, and subsequently only patched as needed.

The mere fact that the source is available doesn't mean that someone will take the (potentially unbounded) time to port it to a future release and test it sufficiently.
Huh? All subreddits that have ran votes, the community has been in majority favor of closing.
Can confirm, I ran an edit-delete purge a couple of years ago and now have comments from ~10 years ago visible again, with the original content.
Yeah I agree. It's frustrating to see HN become less of a tech echo chamber. Can't we just get back to blog posts about how technical debt is bad and why managers with MBAs are clueless?
Yeah that's why I didn't mention developers. I know they're just doing what they are supposed to and I've been there spitting out shitty code for management.

This app monstrosity reeks of nepotism driven management or friend driven management. No UI team in their right mind would create something like this
I actually recommend myBB [0] over phpBB for anyone looking to set up a LAMP forum. It's cleaner, better written, and possibly better maintained and with a much less scary vulnerability history. I believe it started off as an attempt to create an OSS version of IPB (or was it vB?).

[0]: https://github.com/mybb/mybb or https://mybb.com/
Not exactly related, but this concept map looks amazingly similar to a semantic ontology. RDF/OWL may not be the easiest encoding, but is quite capable in organizing very large concept schemes.
Just calling out that inevitably, you'll hear from another side of this debate that will claim the West is trying to suppress rising countries like China from becoming globally competitive because the west is trying to get them "force green policies" on other countries and skip the parts we had the luxury to go through.

Never mind the fact that you can modernize in a way that isn't environmentally destructive, mind you. I've seen this happen on HN multiple times w/r/ to mentioning China's environmental policies
Spez doesn't want comments that say "this comment was removed"; it hurts the IPO.
We're walking into nothing. Our user agents are making a request to their HTTP server. It's not our faults if it replies with a free web page. All they have to do is return 402 Payment Required.

But they want that mass media appeal that comes with giving things out for free, don't they? Guess they'll have to deal with it. If they send ads along with their free pages, we'll delete them. I used to rip out the ads from the magazines too. Same thing.
It's fine to form a hypothesis from old data ... but it's not a theory yet until that hypothesis is challenged by (and isn't falsified by) future data :-)
It’s all in the book promoted here. I guess he gives artists space and permission to be their best selves. Most of the time he seems to like removing things rather than adding. But most of all he talks about being the ”first listener” who is trying to figure out what is the essence of the piece and how to bring it out.
A while ago I wrote a simple script (including cli) to convert your exported bookmarks to markdown [1]. Hope it helps.

[1] https://github.com/yannickperrenet/bookmarkdown
Fair enough. The built-in search is terrible, it doesn't respect any of the regex filters you set up to exclude files and folders. I fought with it for almost an hour trying to get it to exclude png images, and anything in a 'media' or 'attachment' folder, and it never worked completely. Then I installed OmniSearch it just worked, instantly.
I found the story of how Rick Rubin convinced Johnny Cash to cover Hurt by Nine Inch Nails quite interesting.
https://www.musicradar.com/news/rick-rubin-johnny-cash-hurt-...
I don't know why Android and iOS allow apps to nag people to rate them. Even worse is, they have also shipped SDKs to allow to directly rate the app without leaving it at all. One recent pattern I've also noticed is apps asking you to "enable" notifications after you've blocked them.
Yes Sam Altman paid Condé Nast millions for shares of Reddit. And he totally is against all this. But the all mighty spez is ignoring him and doing everything he wants

Sure
Does anyone else remember Beast? It was a pretty small time piece of forum software back in the day. The Yoyogames Forums used to run on it, even way after it had stopped being maintained until some guy with an axe to grind ('patrick') brought the site to its knees thanks to a number of security exploits that had been out in the wild for a while.
500 million monthly users isn't a community. I certainly don't have any subreddits that are this large nor do I give a shit about how many users are on a particular website. My reddit communities are niche and skill-based. We'll go wherever we go. Oh no! The giant horde of September stays behind on Reddit! Quelle horreur.
You talk to the governing body / regulator so that they talk to reddit and deal with the ignoring and stonewalling.
> The walled garden also relies enormously on Apple - a publicly traded for profit enterprise - being a benign benefactor, which to date has been (relatively) true.

Only outside China. In China, you'll find protest apps banned [1], websites blocked at the system level [2], VPN apps banned, and more [3]. One could say they're just complying with Chinese law, like any other company doing business in China would be forced to. But that's misleading - other companies have not put themselves in the position of jailers of their users, so when they are forced to follow the law, their users are much less harmed.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50009971

[2] https://theintercept.com/2023/01/26/apple-china-censorship-h...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_Apple#China
I was confused at first by the federated nature of Lemmy, but making an account was easy and I'm thoroughly enjoying it now.

The important thing to note – even though you join a particular Lemmy "instance", it doesn't particularly matter which one, because you can subscribe to communities (subreddits) from any instance.

The instance I joined – vlemmy.net

An aggregator of communities to join – https://lemmyverse.net/communities
I still don't get what alternative everyone is going to.

There isn't one. At least not similar or consensus.

Weird to burn bridges without a plan.
Thank you. The footnote 6 for why acting "in accordance with that law... would conflict with your obligations under the Safety Act" cites NHTSA recall notices.

It looks like this is at the NHTSA's discretion.
Hopefully that's in the Library of Congress category entry or somewhere machine readable.
I would have happily paid a few bucks a month for Reddit premium if they had decided to tie api access to that.
Just like twitter.
>People who did make money off apps like this, should call it a good run for a few years and move on to the next thing.

That seems to be what is happening, but Reddit shouldn't be given a free pass. They could have handled this much better. They announced drastically higher API fees with no warning or grace period. It was extremely sudden and extremely steep.
Improved syntax for generic type parameters in Python 3.12
100 Days of SwiftUI
Yeahhhh I don’t think it’s engineers fault. Reddit used to be gorgeous. It’s about showing more ads, measuring engagements, fitting different (more casual) usecases as validated by A/B tests, etc. “the engineers and designers are just dumb” is intellectually lazy IMO, with no offense intended :)
As a former systems engineer who was still in that role when DevOps became a thing, I think there's a a more fundamental difference.

The team I was on was made up of ops/engineering[1] people who knew how to code. We built tools to fill gaps or let us do things we couldn't do otherwise, but would typically use out-of-the-box functionality in third-party products by default because it was cheaper in the long term than building and supporting custom code. Maybe there's a better term for this, but I think of it as "OpsDev", and AFAIK it's more or less extinct.

DevOps has always struck me as being developers[2] getting fed up with having to deal with a separate ops team, and building tools and platforms to automate away that ops team entirely.

The two things can look superficially similar, because they achieve similar goals (automate away repetitive work, let people do more work), but the approaches are almost totally different. Kubernetes and Terraform do amazing things, but they are very obviously tools written by and for developers. I think it would be difficult and unwise to hand off first-tier support for issues involving them to a help desk, for example. It's pretty safe to write instructions for first-tier support to use a GUI or run a command but substitute the name of a server farm and a software package in the arguments, especially if the command is a script written by the engineering team to verify that the work makes sense before executing it. It's a lot less safe to try to have non-developers hand-edit source code, a script or even a YAML file and push the result to production.

Both approaches work. They just require different kinds of people, and each has their own benefits and drawbacks, and IMO it's a mistake to put them both under one label.

[1] "Engineers as in Geordi LaForge or Montgomery Scott": the people whose primary job is to keep the engine(s) running, respond to emergencies, make improvements where possible, and generally be a smart-person-of-all-trades.

[2] "Engineers as in Burt Rutan": the people whose primary job is to design and build new products (for lack of a better word) from the ground up.
I don't think rendering is the problem.
> Zuckerberg tanked the stock price with VR/Metaverse

Is that what happened? ISTR there was something else tanking the stock (Cambridge analytica? TikTok? Headlines become forgotten so quickly these days) and the metaverse thing was a saving throw.

Even if my explanation is correct, it was an overreaction (didn't need to rename the company) and didn't work.
Makes sense, but at least Reddit are doing everything in their power to help drive users to alternative platforms right now!
Obviously they can do whatever they want, no one is saying they are doing something illegal, the pertinent question isn't can they be doing this but should they be doing this. I disagree that this is a sound business decision, and that is taking into account their goals of going public and becoming profitable. Internet popularity is fickle and that is the only moat they have.
One word: LLM-optimized
> I don't know which US agency outsources the job to them

I think we'd probably all be shocked at the list if such a list could be produced.

But I think we wouldn't be shocked at which agency is at the top of the list.
If spez is going against the will of the board/shareholders he’ll be fired any day now…
I'm pretty sure that every RTO I've seen was limited to people who have an office within a certain distance. That said, being remote while everyone else is in an office together is a lot worse than being remote when everyone is remote.
We're linking to The Blaze now, eh?
Mods for very large subs often work as PR consultants that specifically push content on/off the front page for money - so they do get paid.

The ones that continue to operate are presumably in this bucket.

I also wonder if some large sub mods specifically use the API in order to carefully run their voting bot farms - but I'm not accusing anyone here.
Seems like a covert layoff to me...
The death of digg was pretty anti climactic compared to this standoff. I’ve been going to Reddit less and less over the years to the point where I try to avoid it now. It’s a huge echo chamber and the voting system caters to the lowest common denominator.

I do wonder if Reddit will pass the torch to a third platform or will this type of site die off. I don’t see the community surviving a very profit driven site which the IPO will force on them. I’m not sure what their moat is exactly other than the large userbase
You'd end up with unmoderated subs if the mods just went on strike.
My mind immediately went to strike-breaking too. This isn't quite the same as they are targeting a volunteer group that has shown no interest to form a union, but this is so obviously a play out of the union busting handbook. Divide the group, make it seem like only a few select leaders want whatever they are negotiating over, and offering to elevate cooperative people into positions of power if they are willing to participate in a coup.
Just as a side note:
> It was once barred by Australian officials from entering the country as "vegetation".[13][14] Craig-Martin was forced to inform them that it was really a glass of water. He said, "It was of course a wonderfully funny incident, particularly because it extended into 'real life' the discussion about belief and doubt, and fact and fiction I was addressing in the work."

I'm somehow really let down by the guy's failure to commit to the bit. It's not an artwork unless he commits to the bit… far as I can tell, he should have gone along with it as the customs officials were doing. What a killjoy :)
At least with Discord there's an obvious and robust alternative that's always been around... IRC.
the algorithm simply elevated other open communities to the front page

users that disabled the algorithm and only use niche subreddits never see the protest at all

I definitely think Reddit company’s view of the outcome is accurate, and that them choosing to not unilaterally open subreddits is favorable for them because it doesn’t matter too much, aside from useful information in old posts being locked away (for now)
>It's not that there aren't solutions to that too, and yes I'd hope a big organization would cover it, but afaik it's not as easy as I wish it was. I don't think the challenge of malicious for-profit actors should be trivialized in the way you seem to have been doing.

Yes, it's difficult. Such is the world we live in. It doesn't make sense to blame cryptocurrencies for that, and not the people who didn't do their job. The existence of cryptocurrencies and of ransomware is something that was outside of their control. Their backup policy wasn't.

>And the value function of computers vs crypto is astronomical, I don't think it's reasonable to equate the two as you originally did either.

You misunderstood my point. That, in balance, computers are much more valuable than cryptocurrencies is a matter of opinion (which I agree with). A Luddite could argue that if the hospital hadn't been using computers for billing, the attack would have been impossible, and could have a point that using computers instead of paper ultimately created more problems than it solved. All that changes is that the technology being criticized was computers rather than cryptocurrencies. But both arguments miss the point that neither computers nor cryptocurrencies are the problem, but rather how they're used.
Agreed. I am one of the oldest active Reddit users and I 100% agree. I have voted in many subreddits' polls for this. I mod a handful of small subs myself and have done the same. My needs are not the same as some of those large subs, so I am not continuing the blackout, but I fully support those that are. I intend to keep using old.reddit.com and never installing their mobile app instead of my 3rd party client.
Good enough just to verify your intent. I mean. It seemed obvious to me, but this subject matter seems to encourage people to wax poetic (and sometimes religious.)
> In summary, it's completely different than Haskell and most other languages, all you needed to do was visit the website and read a little bit to know that.

I did visit the website, observed an almost identical syntax to Haskell and left. Your comment is in bad faith.
the librewolf maintainers are trustworthy - i know user fxbrit, the librewolf macos maintainer, is also, if i'm not mistaken, the macos maintainer of mullvad browser, the browser collaboration between mullvad vpn and tor

further reading, for anyone looking for an alt browser/config: arkenfox (af) v librewolf (lw) v mullvad browser (mb) from the af owner, mb maintainer, and lw, ff, & tor contributor: https://github.com/mullvad/mullvad-browser/issues/1#issuecom...
I've met Steve, and I have to disagree. In my view he is ego-driven and is not really thoughtful nor considerate.

Is it possible that parent is right? That the damage done to reddit by these boycotts or the reaction to them is as bad if not worse as the media hype make it seems ?

(just pointing out how your message using a personnal connection appeal and chosen adjective to indicate good and bad sides essentially brings nothing factual nor argumentative besides trying to orient the conversation)
Discourse is the single worst forum software I've ever had the displeasure of using. Everything is difficult to navigate and hard to discern. It's as if someone actively sought out to create the worst user experience.
That's made my afternoon!
I had good fun making the original subsilver and prosilver themes all those years ago :)
I worked for a guy who loved these get rich quick schemes.

Once, for $50 he bought a zip file off some random website that was supposed to contain everything he'd need to get rich online.

The zip file contained the HTML file and assets for the page that he'd bought the zip file from, with instructions on how to integrate his own PayPal checkout info, of course.
IANAL, but in my understanding the right to correction and deletion applies to publicly posted data as well.
What? You mean we don't need a bunch of people dying because cops misinterpreted what they saw on crappy, jittery 1080p night time footage?

Instant downvote. I guess someone wants to see that on YouTube.
The discourse UI is horrible. Adding insult to injury, it checks browser versions and breaks for anything it deems unworthy. Why would a text forum care about which browser is used?
There are loads of reddit alternatives. The only thing reddit has going for it is network effect.
I've seen this argument a lot on here and I don't really get it. I go to specific hobby subreddits to talk about specific hobby subreddit things, not to see other people make irrelevant comments or something that might mildly offend someone else. As far as I am concerned mods are well in their rights to shut that kind of stuff down.
Arguably better source: https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/smart-home-lock-out-amazo...
Mods don't work for Reddit. They volunteer for Reddit moderation. Much like you can volunteer to be the leader of the DND club at a local hobby shop. They are not an employee. People who don't like what Reddit is doing should stop showing up. Mods who don't like it should stop moderating. It's as simple as that, if enough people agree, Reddit will be no more.

I will bet Reddit will be just fine.
It's great the team was able to clear him of wrongdoing so quickly!\s
Assuming A. Federal law takes precedent and B. Federal law indeed requires car manufacturers to keep some things secret, then it seems like they would have to stop selling cars in Massachusetts.
lmao :)
Love it!!!!
"experiment shows people building power tools are using power tools"
Turns out trading doesn't require that much advanced math
No; the Supremacy Clause [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supremacy_Clause
The title confused me a bit, Illinois isn't prohibiting weapon recognition on drones, it's prohibiting putting weapons on drones.

Also, the act doesn't appear to have any legal consequences, so I wonder if it actually holds any teeth.
Pretty sad assessment if it truly was useless as you say. I've found structured approaches to solution planning and design (UML, and others) to be very useful in most projects.
> Most cops just sit in traffic until they get bored and chase down random beater cars that were going 5 over the speed limit, or pulled slightly too far forward at a stop sign that had shrubs blocking the left and right view.

That's also problematic!
DRob is one of the best in the biz! Great post.