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[Tildes](https://tildes.net) is open source and does something like that. Not a direct 1:1 to phpBB but more like a cross between old school forums and reddit.
I'm OK with it being difficult because that weeds out people who lack the technical capacity to do it, and thus also almost certainly lack the understanding to critically evaluate the safety of it.

A below-average software developer is probably still a standard deviation above the mean when it comes to competence with computers, and we're not optimizing for developers here.
I felt the opposite once I stopped writing backends in Python and moved to Scala, then Go.

The compiler is like an extra set of eyes attached to a brain that doesn't make mistakes. The type system in Scala especially freed up so much time and concentration allowing me to focus on implementing business logic at such a rapid pace. I couldn't go back to Python now for anything moderately complex.
Jane Street is a market maker.

WSB is a gambling forum where people are addicted to chasing huge rewards by taking huge risks.

This would be about as interesting as going to a casino and recruting people who have a big win streak at the slot machine.
> I also disagree that technology has made anyone more self-centered

Really? Well I might be biased but all I see these days is people trying very, very hard to curate the perfect internet image of themselves.
Well, in this case it'll be interesting to see the power-hungry betray the higher ups on the mod team to get a better position.
Cloudflare's Speed Week teaser, exam-related shutdowns and WarGames 40 years-in
Sounds about right for a government 'thought' experiment.
Is there a reason why stackoverflow isn't in there at all?

EDIT: Also cool project!
I know, but it's not always under my control.
Maybe ad impressions are dropping while ad clicks remain steady? Assuming ads are PPC.
Yo, Larry needs a new yacht.
I think this is a delusional take. The fact of the matter is you do not have any leverage at all and your only option, like everyone else's, is to be a political entity operating in the confines of the system to effect change. This author is acting like some kind of primadona who is above it all and such a sneaky snake because he totally knows HRs game and is going to tattle to them to get his boss fired.
People want to participate in their communities and have access to historical posts and comments. Mods are not letting them do that.
I mod a top-1000-by-subs subreddit with about 800-900K subs. It has tight rules and aggressive automods. And people like that subreddit.

Not gonna lie, if reddit strips our moderation, once the automod rules get figured out by the spammers, the value that particular subreddit will collapse into trash and spam.

so, sure, aim that footgun and start pulling the trigger... go on then.
They are capable of empowering other bodies. The UK has the concept of "secondary legislation".

> You can make micro votes on every product you buy to get what suites you best.

Iff you are wealthy enough, and the market hasn't race-to-the-bottom'd that option away. No amount of "vote with you wallet" can get rid of leaded petrol, for example.
That is what taxes on trade do, they make trade more expensive. This is why income taxes are counterproductive but they are easy to calculate and enforce so governments rely on them.
MS Teams is a big pain in general. No matter where you use it from. I thought Cisco WebEx was terrible and there is nothing worse until some of our customers started using Teams. Couldn't believe there could e something even worse. Now I try very hard to avoid using in meeting with customers and such. Just not worth the time and nerves and loss of privacy.
It is the same story everywhere. Price hikes are extracting more from the customers, while the additional profits are not making it to the employees. There is a parasitic middle man that is leveraging the narrative of inflation to profiteer.
The wikipedia article was actually pretty interesting on this point. They suggest that 10 is commonly used, but other bases may be contextually relevant.

> An order of magnitude is an approximation of the logarithm of a value relative to some contextually understood reference value, usually 10

I guess you could think of it like a _really_ low precision float or something.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_magnitude
After law enforcement successfully jury-rigged a bomb defusal robot with explosives to kill a cornered suspect in Dallas in 2016 [0][1] (with little to no pushback at the time) vendors and departments around the country have been pushing to formally adopt the tactic ever since. The first article noted (according to national head of their union) that SWAT teams around the country considered it prior to that incident. SFPD initially getting approval to do it brought national attention [2] to the practice, but unfortunately we're going to need a federal bill to stop its spread.

[0] https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/07/08/485262777...
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/08/police-bo...
[2] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/12/san-francisco-decide...
Note though that the marginal value of an employee is typically < the average value, and that managers may value control more than profits.
Yep

Edit: To be clear, it specifically made it difficult to support 2 and 3 at the same time, which was a problem for libraries. And without the libraries supporting 3, app code wouldn't be able to migrate either.
Will take a look, thanks for the heads up!
I think the more nuanced argument here is that while there are often federal agencies regulating various things, states have long been able to add additional requirements more stringent than the federal ones, so long as they do not conflict with the federal ones.

CA has stricter environmental regulations. Numerous states have stricter minimum wage laws. Labor laws. Etc.

(And yes, these can get challenged in court. In fact, the MA right to repair bill is being challenged presently.)

But these are the same bad-faith arguments (FUD around remote vehicle takeover, which is not required by the MA bill) the voters of MA heard during the election season that this bill was (overwhelmingly) passed during. MA voters do not expect auto-makers to not uphold their federal obligations: MA voters expect them to uphold both.
If this is cartel-like behavior, either planned or unplanned, would there be space for newer venders to come in and undercut ppl on price?
I can't say that spinning without a barrier is doing things wrong?

I guess if I need an emergency fix I can make those lines invalidate themselves every thousand cycles.

> But also because CPU2 and CPU3 can see different values depending on the state of their caches. If one had no such line and the other had a valid-stale line, then they will end up seeing different values.

But only if there's no memory barriers, so it shouldn't be a big deal. And the valid-stale lines can't be used as the basis for new writes.

> And the writeback out of CPU1's cache needs to write back and invalidate all possible older such written-to lines.

The only such lines are in this new state that's halfway between S and I. They don't need to be marked any more invalid. Zero bus traffic there.
> so the "upper bound" of "bad behavior" has decreased for most. (A little caveat: as your "average human", because we're still definitely raping, killing, torturing , etc. but with a smaller # of humans)

To nitpick: How are we so sure that the average numbers have actually declined? Our mental stats for such occurrences tend to come from hollywood instead of actual historical data

For example, in most historical wars a surprisingly small number of people tended to actually be killed. The conqueror wanted to conquer a land with most people intact, because those people would be the ones who would actually produce value on the land which they would then pay to the conqueror as a tax! Land without a labor pool to work it had very little value
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Federation works for Twitter, it doesn't work for Reddit. If my Mastodon instance federates with yours, I can see your posts, you can see mine, we're fully merged. If my lemmy instance federates with yours, we can browse each other's communities, but those communities themselves don't merge. The userbase merges but the communities do not, and the community is the base unit that gives Reddit value. Federated Reddits will never take off for this reason. You either have a bunch of fractured communities that are all worse because there is no network effect, or you have one instance (or one community) absorb all the traffic and become its own centralized fiefdom.
I tried to use this with my Sony camera about two years ago and just could not get consistent results. Currently using Sony's Catalyst Browse which does a great job stabilizing the footage but the workflow is poor.

Looks like Gyroflow has a plugin for DaVinci Resolve[1]. If the stabilization has been improved and could be done right in Resolve I will definitely us this.

[1] https://docs.gyroflow.xyz/app/getting-started/installation/d...
Thanks for that. It was very easy to delete all my reddit history https://www.reddit.com/r/PowerDeleteSuite/
there's even a video tutorial, less than a minute long.
I've seen employee feedback software that does this.
It makes much more sense to ban facial recognition instead of addressing corruption and incompetence in a state like Illinois.

1.) Progressive voters get good feelings as they think they are helping 'minorities' and advancing social justice.

2.) Politicians please a large segment of voters.

3.) People who benefit from corruption are not threatened as the status quo is maintained.

4.) Politicians's in power is not threatened by the system as the status quo is maintained.

The corrupt system only negatively impacts people who can't afford a good private lawyer.
I’m gonna ban everyone who complains about Ted Lasso.

Barbecue sauce.
You're assuming Mass is important enough to be worth it. I'd guess it's more likely that Mass is the one that is forced to blink first.
.(0123456789) is rational, though. I think the implication is that if pi is normal in addition to its other properties — specifically irrationality — that it has to contain all possible digit sequences.

Edit: oops, I forgot about n-length sequences of digits, .(0123456789) is definitely not normal, this is why I’m not a mathematician.
> but there's a quieter, larger group that is fine with the official app and just wants a place to post.

That'd be me, although slightly different. I've been on that site a long time. I have an account is amongst the first thousand to join it. 17 years.

The official app is fine for me when I decide to use it, which is rare. I just don't use my phone for "apps" that often unless I really need to. Otherwise I'm still on the site daily, on a computer.

I don't get the hatred. It shows ads, unlike what you can get on the computer. Other than that? I guess I'm not the target market. It works.
I don't know if the walls are what you desire. I'm in it for the garden being more beautiful and better curated. Does that mean I have less choice? Yes, but it's a sacrifice I choose to have a better total experience. Apple's walled garden allows higher quality apps and features that wouldn't be shipped as quickly in an "open" model (whatever that may mean).

I agree that running arbitrary shell commands/apps/etc is "cool", but it's rarely useful to me on a mobile computing device. If the use-case exists and is legitimate, there's usually an app for it. In fact the few times I've felt the pinch of "I'd like to run such-and-such from my phone" is limited by the fact that my employer wouldn't allow me to - not that my phone disallows it. I still could do it since there are SSH apps that will connect to my home computer if need be.

OP's take on this IMO is one of wanting full control over their devices and while it's a great ideal, it doesn't translate into real usable improvements for me.
Well, Apollo and Boost will stop working...
Presumably there is a peak, but Java can be really, really fast.

I recently rewrote a heavy algorithm from Java to Rust, thinking that I'd get faster performance pretty much automatically. It turned out to be significantly slower than my optimized Java algorithm, and I didn't have the experience to tune the Rust version, so I ended up sticking to Java for now.

I'm sure someone who knows how could have tuned the Rust version to get better performance, but native code is not my specialty and the Java version was doing fine.

A warmed up JVM is a lot faster than most people think, especially for a long-running app like a search engine.
You are required to take and pass paid courses to get a license in most states these days. It was a huge barrier to a lot of the guys in the halfway house. Just coordinating getting to these classes via the bus was a pain. Also, if you return 15 minutes late to the halfway house the US Marshals come pick you up and back to jail you go, so missing a bus has pretty steep consequences that make people avoid any additional bus trips such as getting to drivers training class (you are required to work so you have to risk the bus at least twice a day no matter what).
> Obviously, the State gov can't compel that, but if the right-to-repair rule is sufficiently popular with the state electorate, it should be easy to convince the State's representatives in Congress to push on the matter.

Something can be popular (in the sense that a significant majority are in favor) without having enough interest or organization behind it to cause federal representatives to care. Moreover, Massachusetts is about 2% of the federal legislature. Even if their citizens and representatives care about it a lot, they may not have the votes to do anything at the federal level.

Whereas if they refuse to be cowed, it costs the automakers something. Maybe they'd like to be able to sell cars more than they'd like to be able to lock third party mechanics out of them, and stop pressuring federal regulators to keep doing what causes them to be prohibited from it.
Tangent but I'm holding out from learning Swift until I see how the "Cross platform UI" wars shake out. We've got at least Kotlin, Dart, and JavaScript all battling it out (via Kotlin Multiplatform, Flutter, React Native) to be the king of UI languages across all platforms. I really like Swift though (from the little I've learned), so it's too bad it doesn't really have a cross platform UI story yet.

(I could learn all four but I have kids, so it'll probably just be React Native for me.)
Java's main limitation is probably in access to lower level I/O APIs, as well as vectorization support that is somewhat lackluster. There's almost definitely performance left on the table.

It's relying quite heavily on memory mapped I/O and doing some clever things to work around language limitations in how much you can memory map at a time. This permits surprisingly good but not optimal performance.

A bigger drawback is that this type of low level programming in Java is a serious pain in the ass.
I didn't write "vaccinate". I wrote: "I'm god damn sick of people not caring about spreading disease, whether vaccinated, or not."

Since you aren't discussing the topic I wrote about, I won't reply further.
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I can say after years of negotiating with enterprise software vendors, the reason I feel prices are being hiked, is that they finally have to show revenue growth to Wall Street. I don’t believe they’re inflating prices “just because”. I’m seeing companies (looking at you, Datadog), that are raising rates while their stock gets pummeled. I may be drawing a false correlation here, but I suspect prices are up because the era of cheap money and frothy stock valuations is ending and now it’s time to show revenue growth.
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Why would we equate suspicious packages with humans?
But wouldn't that be trivially solved by only allowing such inputs via a physical interface (like say the physical OBD-II port) instead of Bluetooth or whatever they are using? Or if a physical socket is undesirable, at least a physical switch you have to use to allow such access?
That could be outright dangerous to people involved. For example, something innocent posted 2 years ago, could get you many years of jail now in certain countries.
> So many people want to moderate a local subreddit for Seattle that we have at least three different ones. The mod teams for each all have strong (and different) political views. But the threat of their community splitting keeps the mods acting fairly reasonable when in the public eye, because each seems to desperately want to be the Seattle subreddit.

Yeah, this is something I’ve seen multiple times on Reddit. Mods on larger subs start putting into place capricious rules, and told the users that if they don’t like it, start their own subs. Then if someone does this and the sub actually start gaining traction, the original sub gets nervous and suddenly starts relenting because they don’t actually want users to go elsewhere, they just want to exert as much control as they can before they trigger an actual exodus.

It shows the importance of competition if we want users to be treated fairly. Unfortunately, there’s strong network effects working against it (both inside Reddit, and among the web in general), and mods have made things worse by working to shut down rivals.

Either way, though, the supply of mods greatly outstrips the demand.
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That's unfortunate, and you've managed to present one of the few good counterexamples there. Unfortunately, "<city name>" isn't really a great topic for a singular community, since cities, by nature, host multitudes, and are inherently political entities. The best alternative is probably to create your own sub, or try to talk to one of the mods about it in private so as not to create drama.
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its not "argument" though, i don't see what 'wealthiest suburbs' have to do with shootings in austin. Yes suburbs including the one you live in are safer. Not sure what that has to do with anything. CabriniGreen used to be next to rivernorth.

> I don't know if you live in Chicagoland or not

I've lived in pilsen for last 25 years and grew up here. I don't live in the burbs. I know what 'no go zones' mean, the block i grew up on in west pilsen used to be one ( but not anymore) . I now live on the edge of 'no go zone' in pilsen ( east of western ) . My wife works for charter school in englewood where i do weekly drop off and pickup. Englewood is a 'no go' zone for us, meaning we won't go there if we have no business being there, we never make a stop in that neighborhood ( like the cyclists you mention) .

you choose live white majority suburb with double the median income but not in austin. That revealed preference proves that Austin was a 'no go' zone for you? Going to coffeshop once in a while doesn't really count, imo.

> is absolutely not a "no-go zone". Words mean things.

You said austin is not a no go zone, can you give me an example of an area considered no go zone. Perhaps that will clarify.

> Notably, in the ~20 years I've lived here, I haven't heard a single story about any of those people being shot.

I just gave you two examples from last 2 months of ppl getting shot by stray bullets. What does you personally hearing about cyclists have to do with anything? This type of statement is really hard to respond to.
I kind of dislike Discourse. They hijack the ctrl+F search, they lean too heavily on "infinite load", it's just too ajaxy. I used to use old.reddit.com, so that's what I enjoy. Just load the markup and get out of the way.
Licensing doesn't really enter into it. Being "a public good"/general publication does (a public figure can't automatically refuse to have a page on wp).

That said things like the talk pages might fall under the GDPR - though one could argue that talk pages and edit history has a public value and so overrides the GDPR.

As for logging IPs, that is something no one is generally allowed to do indefinitely - you need an overriding reason - like an audit trail for security and spam/abuse prevention - but that will generally only allow for 6 months at a maximum.
Did you reply to the wrong person? I actually said just as much in my comment.

> If we're going by this logic, then nothing but 0 and 1 can ever be stored on any medium, because a hard drive can't possibly store "the concept of an orange" either.
> protect users from themselves

I think that purpose you're ascribing isn't entirely right. It's many things, but not just that.
That's true as long as your instance does block or get blocked by the insurance you want to interact on.
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This isn't about me. I'm not concerned about catching diseases. I'm concerned about acting as a vector for disease spread and mutation.

And no, I'm not a programmer. My job isn't remoteable outside of the occasional paperwork or Zoom meeting. I can't stay home.
Am I the only one that is OK with CCTV + facial recognition? Seems like a great way to tackle crime without having to involve potentially deadly encounters with police. Ya there are ways it could be abused, but I assume I have no privacy (as does the law) when I am in a public space. A lot cheaper than cops too. Put laws and systems in place to keep the data secure and require warrants to access the data.

(No lethal weapons on drones please though, although I could see a case for riot control drones, not sure where you would draw the line on what is a weapon.)
Ironically, discord doesn't support use of third party clients and you risk an account ban if you use one of the many unofficial clients.
I've started browsing https://tildes.net/ recently. For now, since the community is small, it feels like hackernews2, but I hope it gets bigger.
>But that in some form should be terrifying to institutional investors evaluating or underwriting this IPO

Far more terrifying is a site that is perpetually at the mercy of a handful of powerusers. That if the winds change, they collectively could tank the value of the product with no way for investors to intervene. If I were going to invest in Reddit, I would want the CEO to show that ultimately he/reddit is in control. He is a known, predictable quantity. He is also someone that can be replaced if things go too far off the rails. The whims of the pseudo-aristocracy is completely out of my control.
I have had it indexed in the past, but I don't at this point. It needs a special treatment since it's not really feasible to crawl, and you have to load it from their xml dumps instead.
> more than 5x

doubt. the backend was open sourced to dispel this rumor.

> salaries

Salaries are a fixed cost, so not super relevant to API costs given what we already know. ARPU is ARPU.
The amortized cost of a user to reddit is below or around ARPU (including R&D), unless they’re making the decision to still leave profit on the table in exchange for growth. However, given recent moves I doubt that.
>I also disagree that technology has made anyone more self-centered...

Emphasis mine, as a reminder to be careful with absolutes. It's a bit of a stretch to suggest that nobody has become more self-centered due to social media.
Is anything ever really prohibited (for US law enforcement)? Better yet, what are the real consequences for violation? All I ever hear is, "Okay, fine. We won't do this illegal thing anymore - you know, the thing we've been doing for years, knowing it's totally illegal. Sorry, not sorry." Without consequences for violation, there is no prohibition.