skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if this could be implemented in https://github.com/gyroflow/gyroflow to further enhance the result from gyro based stabilization.
After rent and food the average person gets a lot less than 20%.
He meant it literally, Reddit had quite a bit of downtime/issues when the boycott started.
This has been an easily understood problem for years now. He tried to gaslight us about this problem for years, and now he's reaping what he sowed.
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36356957
> how does that benefit the platform

Why would you care about Apple's profit margins?
Life is what gets in the way of living.
Congrats! I find I'm using Marginalia more and more, it's especially great for researching for novel writing, and can’t wait to see what the future holds! Good luck!
There will be plenty of people willing to be moderators, don't worry.
Americans really should be eating more grass fed beef.
I hate to say it, but in my (many years) of doing unskilled jobs, I have found that the management is very often just as, uh, "skilless" as the employees.
I searched and found one instance of the word humility, and he's quoting an article by someone else. Where are you getting that?
We are effectively shitting in our only home and pretending it won't make things really unpleasant, but instead we'll adapt.

I don't want to adapt to plastic strewn all over the planet, air pollution that chokes us, or warming ocean waters that is having deleterious effects on ecosystems and our food chain.
/u/mrgrimm founder of IMGUR should be charging Reddit for their API/'infra' (as spez was on NPR saying they pay "10s of millions per year for infra" to support third party apps - but they are "still talking to several apps"...

IMGUR should pull a protest and charge reddit (although I assume they are already deep in bed together... you can type in any /r/ into IMGR.com/r/pics for example and get all the pics posted to /r/pics -- or any other sub....

The point being that IMGUR should be charging reddit for all the "infra" costs their traffic has on their "infra"

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EDIT :

Can I sell my reddit accounts to some EU citizen for $1 (eu) such that you then own my account and can use GDPR laws to demand reddit delete my account/comments/history? (I have 17 years worth of comments on there) GDP-[REDDIT-COMMENT-DELETION-AS-A-SERVICE] GPT-GDPRCDAAS

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EDIT2 :

/u/spez was again on NPR, where NPR stated that still "50% of the largest subs are still in protest" -- and then Spez stated that the business hasn't been impacted.

So riddle me thus ;;

If you can shutter 50% of your top subreddits without "significant impact to the business" , then how can you claim that you're paying "10s of millions" to "support" 3rd party API call apps, in 'infra' -- and this is 'unsustainable' yet killing '50% of top subs' has no impact on the business?

/u/spez might want to consider subscribing to /r/theyDidTheMath

EDIT3 :

"https://gizmodo.com/subreddits-retreat-api-war-as-ceo-steve-...

Has Reddit paid mods for un-blocking? Has Reddit paid ANY MODS EVER? Shouldnt this be in an SEC filing, if they are hedging for an IPO payout so /u/spez can go off into the tech sunset?

Shouldnt Reddit be required to report which mods they paid off in the past? Should reddit be required to announce which MOD accounts are held as alts by actual employees (admins) of reddit?
Social media is great for groups to form, but there is a ceiling to the success.

You need a dedicated website/forum with people that understand the subject, to get though the ceiling. You get very specific advertisers, organize your own in person meetings.
While Google does seem to use engagement metrics to help with ranks I don't think it's as simple as you laid it out (which is fair you were likely oversimplifying for brevity). Google themselves have said just because you bounce quickly doesn't mean it's a bad result, could mean you found your answer and now you have another question based off of that.

My understanding from case studies I've read and tests I've seen done is 1) engagement metrics seem to be most useful at the top 5 rank positions in the search results 2) it's really hard to measure when improved engagement metrics actually improve ranks.

On the flipside adding content to a page usually results in fairly quick change in ranks and is relatively easy to track. And it makes sense. A normal recipe is a list of ingredients and an order/method to cook them. 100-300 words tops in most cases. Not a lot of info for a bot to understand what the context of the recipe is around.

Now if you spend another 750 words writing about how to do it Google gets a lot more context and reinforcement that what you're talking about is actually relevant. Keyword stuffing isn't a thing in that you can literally say the same word over and over and get higher ranks, but if you can stuff a post with relevant keywords sprinkled all over the place that's good enough for Google to say 'oh now I get what this page is about'.

So there may be some slight impact on engagement metrics (which is debatable since a lot of people find all that long text super annoying and will bounce because of it), it's the extra text/keywords that Google understands and values.
People often don’t determine sample sizes at all! And doing power calculations without an idea of effect size isn’t just hard but impossible. It’s one of the inputs to the formula. But at least it’s fast so you can sort of guess and check.

Anytime valid inference helps with this situation, but it doesn’t solve it. If you’re trying to detect a small effect, it would be nicer to figure out you need a million samples up front versus learning that because your test with 1,000 samples a day took three years.

Still, anytime is way better than fixed IMO. Fixed almost never really exists. Every A/B testing platform I’ve seen allows peeking.

I work with the author of the second paper you listed. The math looks advanced, but it’s very easy to implement.
congrats! you should put the patreon link in more places IMHO
(e.g. the main page and the various page footers)
That is not how the GDPR works. They have to delete all information upon request or termination of the service.
As others have pointed out, there are parts of the world where increased mortality is actually a problem. Places that will either experience famine & drought, or where the outside temperatures may exceed habitable / safe ranges. (Thinking of parts of e.g. the Indian subcontinent).

So not only does it suck for those people, but in that context, Political and economic instability is a huge concern. Mass migration is already happening, but it will become more intense. People will try to gravitate to areas perceived as more stable. Border wars have the potential to become more frequent. Concerns about control over fresh water and arable land will be heightened. Demands to exploit currently protected regions (e.g. great lakes watershed) will be made.

We have an entire politico-economic system built on cheap fossil fuel energy. There are whole regimes whose power and control and prosperity is founded on petro-chemical extraction. If/as that collapses, there will be major crisis. We already seeing this.

In the context of raising my children, my wife and I are coming around to the perspective that our number one priority is to build resiliency. Not survival-prepper stuff (though we do have a modest 6 acres of arable land, that's not really the focus), but family resiliency: trying to keep kids local to us, concentrating family assets and committing to taking care of each other, making sure we're in a position where we can pass on a stable living situation (house, property), etc.

That, and emotional/ideological/intellectual resilience: understanding what climate change is, understanding what we can or cannot do about it as individuals and a family, understanding the role of collective action... and trying to avoid fear and anxiety by emphasizing knowledge over the unknown and distress.
Lurkers should also realize that their experience is shaped by mods decisions. For the better or for the worst, that's a good question, I guess we will soon find out. But given what FB groups look like, I have my own opinion.
I'm French and I have yet to meet someone who consciensiously distinguish between a thing and the word designing it. It's just that we are used to things having randomly assigned gender. That's how it is. A bit like how native English speakers are used to English pronunciation being divorced from how words are written.
The previous "highly-curating" management at least fought politically motivated government takedown request from questionably democratic countries. The current management just rolls over and claims nothing can be done.

I wouldn't call this state of affairs "free". More like spineless.
Under a few specific conditions minority shareholders can oust an owner CEO. Beyond board seats and voting rights, there is a duty to protect the interests of all shareholders not just the owner. So for example if the owner sells off assets to themselves below market rate it’s not ok.

Similarly, if the owner CEO is in a coma, mental institution, etc they can be ousted.
I personally think Statecharts are a more useful construct than sequence diagrams. It encodes complex behaviour that a developer can use as a guide to develop.

More importantly it gives a good inkling of what behaviour is allowed and what is not allowed.

For example a statechart can encode that a traffic light can only turn green from amber and not from red.

It also has "H" history state which remembers which substate it was last in, when the system entered this composite state, the previous time. This allows to model behaviour that relies upon "memory" or past behaviour which is very common in real systems.
It did indeed!

Also, Voyage of the Valkyrie... That was a hell of a game, and wasted many, many hours of my life.
My personal guess whats going on: Spez got a fixed target of mobile users he needs to reach to cash out and killing 3rd party apps to force users to migrate might just get him there. This is not substantiated in any way but is my guess why this is happening.
Network & lock-in effects.

It's pretty difficult to coordinate moving even dozens of people in a community to a new place; subreddits can have hundreds, thousands, even hundreds of thousands.

There's not a particularly great way to move, for example, r/askhistorians elsewhere and ask people to follow. There will be a tremendous drop-off, as well as loss of historical (hah) posts, community knowledge, etc., etc.

But also: yeah, users will probably end up going somewhere else. It'll be a diaspora; Reddit arguably prospered because Digg's users migrated there en mass after the redesign fiasco. Tumblr and Twitter have been seeing migration waves back and forth. Other communities will come, and grow - but it won't just be a "move".
The way you fight is by buying a Tesla and switching your power to clean energy providers. Climate change activists never seem to talk about either of those things tho, it’s always amorphous nonsense like “dismantling capitalism”
> You can't take a whole art warehouse and dump it on a museum and say "display this" there simply isn't space. Museums are limited by space (and funds) shortages, not art shortages.

It’s still better for the world that culturally significant art be owned by museums, than by private collectors, even if most of the art is not on display all the time.
Continue working on new version of my GNU sed ebook. I started this year with the goal of revising all my ebooks - this is the third one. I'm also adding TUI apps for interactive exercises, already done for this book.
i like how well the integration between shell commands and the racket language seems to work. in my impression this feels better than what i remember seeing from other programming language commandline shells like xonsh. this is probably due to racket syntax more naturally mapping to shell commands with the function/command name being in first place. xonsh has to parse a command both ways to figure out whether `ls -l` is a shell command or python code, whereas rash doesn't because plain racket code is always in ()
Thank you cars for killing 1.35 million people every year!
Those guarantees do not protect against illegal and pervasive wiretapping. What are you talking about

Your position is that room 641A operated according to contractual agreements? lmao
Obviously, anyone who disagrees with me must be an astroturfer bot.
This. Ron Kohavi 1) has some excellent resources on this 2). There is a lot of noise in data, that is very often misattributed to 'findings' in the context of A/B testing.
Replication of A/B tests should be much more common in the CRO industry, it can lead to surprising yet sobering insights into real effects.

1) https://experimentguide.com/
2) https://bit.ly/ABTestingIntuitionBusters
Yeah, Office 2003's live collaboration tooling is just fantastic.

I'll take having a single document shared with my team that we're all able to edit live than having _v2_draft_v3_FINAL_v2.doc getting shared around in a massive email chain or getting mangled on a shared drive, thank you.
Allowing sideloading means allowing third party developers and large corporations to make their app force sideloading. If large companies like Uber, Facebook, et al require sideloading it will make it more acceptable for smaller companies and developers to do so. Pretty soon everyone would just say "sideload", including unscrupulous smaller developers. At that point since everyone is sideloading, no one would bat an eye to yet another sideloaded app. Not to mention why would anyone not choose to sideload to avoid the Apple tax?
r/nba and r/hockey are particularly interesting examples because the threads before the shutdown were overwhelmingly in favor of keeping the subs open and all the upvoted posts were openly trashing the mods over their decision. The poll was also posted in the ModCoord discord servers so was almost certainly not representative of the average r/nba or r/hockey user.
How is it a straw man? Are you saying no one's telling kids that climate change will doom us all? It includes specific examples.
They were charging by request. IIRC the $2.50 figure was arrived at by taking the total number of requests and dividing it by the total number of users.
No, outside or a few specific places everyone in the world has been getting richer for the last half century and the trend is continuing[1]. That isn't to by pollyannaish, there are certainly going to be some places that really struggle with aridification and increased flooding. However flooding is mostly a solvable technical problem, and plenty of people already live in deserts. The biggest problem for adaptation might turn out to be heat waves.

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/WLD/world/gdp-per-capi...
>He is the President-Designate of the upcoming COP28 climate talks

Which is an UN body.

It's funny that instead of admitting that the UN chief made a troubling statement, you're blaming a third party (who was appointed by the UN to lead a climate summit) and then invoking conspiratorial thinking when anyone points out this out.

Dissenting opinions online aren't all fake. The idea that fossil fuels are a problem, period, is stupid, and it's troubling that someone with political power believes it, and espouses it.
Instead of deleting your posts/comments, edit as many of them as you can to make a statement.
Mostly to Lemmy instances
I mean it's actively used in countries with high inflation and bad currency management. Just because it's not used in your Wal-Mart doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Already done. I know three less accounts is a drop in the bucket, but whatever.

I’m sure reddit will be a really fun place to suck up to big corporations now all the other content has left.
Even if you're testing 1% of 5 million visitors, you still need to handle the load for 5 million visitors. Most of the heavy experiments came from AI-driven assignments (vs. behavioral). In this case the AI would generate very fine-grained buckets and assign users into them as needed.
It's even less likely that paid mods would change that though, they'd only make it worse because they'd only want to stick to a very narrow set of "safe" advertiser friendly opinions, just like most other social media.
There's an endless supply of people who want to moderate forums and are happy to do so for free even if they don't get to set the rules or operate as a dictator.

The moderators who consider the lack of "a sense of ownership" a deal breaker are precisely the people you don't want as moderators. They're the ones who are likely interested in that power for the sake of abusing it to serve their own personal agenda rather than the good of the community. It's no different from why we don't want cops to be able to make their own laws (and why laws that are vague enough to give them discretion to act capriciously are bad laws).
Yes and the irony is I was in Oslo today, showing to people within the EU our PoC demo for IKEA.com - on how we can provide recommendations with no third party data - and with the idea of consumers controlling exactly what is used to provide it - including the right to delete it all.

This is the way we're going - totally the opposite way.
Pi-hole – Network-wide Ad Blocking
I appreciate your optimism, but I think such pursuits would be the exception. There are too many cheap dopamine consumption options available.
The ideological enforcement is unbearable. I can't believe people still use it.
They did before, they are now, and they will after. Reddit contends with Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, blogs, etc. We're doing it right here ourselves.
A Neo-reactionary and monarchist iirc
Also, lurkers would have nothing to lurk around if it weren't for heavier posters, many of whom use third party apps to paper over the various papercuts of posting with the official site/client.
> but it is very blind to the real impact global warming is already having.

Can you be specific?

Like, I get that every time there is a natural disaster, the media blares about climate change. But, for example, there's been no trend in hurricanes. Political leaders love to blame climate change for their poor policies (water management, forrest management, etc). And certainly some of the small sea-level rise we have seen is definitely from climate change.

But we've also seen "global greening". Productivity of crops keep going up: maybe in spite of climate change -- but maybe partially due to CO2 increases.
Yea I should have used excalidraw instead of mermaid, thats on me. I am trying to focus on writing good content and I try to not get stuck on the stuff I'm bad at which is making nicer charts.
> The blog is just hugo

Yeah the static stuff being fast is less surprising - it was mainly the search results page that astounded me.

> via served via spark[2]

Had not heard of this Spark (only the other Apache one). Will definitely take a look.

> Although the search engine is a bit on the slow side since it's routed through cloudflare and I think I'm relatively far away from the closest datacenter so it adds like 100ms to the load times.

I've hit the CF loading screen which introduces a big delay, but when I don't see that the loading is really instantaneous.
the point of estimation is the estimating activity that allows you to prioritize the task over others, not to end up with a useful document
You can use an RSS reader for substacks instead of email.
Author here o/

In general I've had like infrequent but large influx of money from the project, so it's hard to answer. Although I have relatively long runway, no small thanks to nlnet for their generous grant.

On some level it's all a gamble. Either I try to make this work somehow, or I close up shop and keep working as an office drone, because I really can't keep doing both.

My hope is that I'm able to make it work on a wikipedia-like model donation model, maybe supplemented with selling commercial API access (access is free CC-BY-NC-SA). My burn rate is literally my living expenses plus a hundred dollars per month of service costs to I don't have to be spectacularly profitable to sustain flight. ... all that is contingent on making it work quite a lot better than it does now, so I guess I have my work cut out for me.

It's also a weird project, since it's had an almost absurdly positive reaction. For example, many people develop a search engine and get almost lynched on HN for not working exactly like Google or not dealing with some query as expected. Someone found a link to my barely working search engine that didn't properly support multiple-keyword queries and this happens: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28550764
The way my CS teacher in high school handled this (we had the benefit of 2-hour class periods twice a week and a normal 1-hour class period on Mondays) was to let the students go to their own level. Essentially running 2-3 classes at once.

The first part of the first semester was the same for everyone more or less: An introduction to the language (BASIC, this was in the 90s) and some basics of computing. Then for the very motivated/advanced (had already learned some programming or were just more interested0 students he provided instruction on deeper topics in CS and programming and it became increasingly self-directed. For the less motivated (pretty much everyone else) it was a series of projects that kept most of them engaged enough to learn the material. So students who came in knowing some programming or who were particularly motivated got an "honors" introductory course (in university course description terms) and the rest got the typical introductory course.

That did take him being particularly motivated as a teacher and knowing the material well enough to pull it off, though). Evaluations can be challenging if students obsess over "fairness". The advanced students are getting As almost as a given, and some of them might resent that the other students can also get As for doing less work. But that's just kids being kids. The advanced students opted to go in for extra work, it wasn't forced on us and technically we could have fallen back to the regular coursework at any point.
I think you know full well that I'm not advocating pEoPLE BeIng lESS iNTErESTEd in THiNGS. My idea would be to assign karma based on a logarithmic scale so that people with "just" an interest in the topic aren't immediately shoved to the bottom of the barrel by people with nothing but time to make the site their personality.
Benefits of fossil fuels for developing countries greatly outweigh risks of climate change. Preventing climate change is a luxury good for wealthy countries so that they can get the psychological benefits from stability and nature worship.
> the disdain comes from the fact that in my time in the classroom, I was constantly given advice on how to do my job from people who either had never done my job themselves

I’ve been in tech for ~20 years, and if there’s one thing that never changes, it’s that newcomers are eager to tell me how to do my job.

Fresh grads come in convinced it’s their time to shake things up.

Management brings in consultants to tell me how to do my job.

The new SVP comes in and tells me how to do my job despite not understanding the environment, etc.

Over the years I’ve found it far more useful to frame this kind of feedback as just another signal among a myriad of signals, which collectively can be quite valuable.

It seems common to any human organization, especially those that rely on specialized skills, and I’d argue that the outcome is similar: just as experience and deep understanding can be important for stability, questioning the status quo can be just as critical for navigating societal change and long term success.

I’m here to argue against the binary position, not to claim that newcomers should be running the show.