skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The threshold is being increased from 60 to 100 for bots which didn't delegate auth, but not for any tools that used specific user-ids. It's misleading.

To quote from reddit's docs: https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/16160319875...

> Important note: Historically, our rate limit response headers indicated counts by client id/user id combination. These headers will update to reflect this new policy based on client id only on July 1, 2023.

Historically, reddit rate limited by user-id, so if for example, both of us logged in using a reddit app, each of us had a rate limit of 60/min free queries. Each app only gets one client-id, regardless of the number of users it has.

Now, the rate limit of 100 is per app, not per user-id, which obviously doesn't work for any tooling that acts on behalf of the user.

Reddit can only make those claims by ignoring "moderator tool" which used user-ids. In a very real sense, reddit apps like "reddit is fun" and "apollo" were moderator tools, and those are the biggest losers in this change.

You can see someone on reddit complaining about this too: https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/145bram/addressing_...

I'm not saying that what they're saying is necessarily wrong, but their communication around these changes makes it hard to take them in good faith.
Well, I'm not sure about the EU AI Act, but I'm pretty sure they're still struggling with the 'Don't Turn Skynet On' Act.
A bad estimate gives you a handle on how easy or hard your engineers think that something is. Experience shows that this has little correlation with how easy or hard something really is.
This can work, but it can also backfire. Sometimes I've ended a conversation that was going well because I wanted to meet/talk with other people, and then later regretted it. This is partly because the other conversations didn't pan out, and partly because sometimes the value of an extended conversation can be 20x the value of a bunch of brief interactions. I don't need another person to add on LinkedIn and then rarely actually talk to — sometimes I need a strong advocate or someone who is really into the project I'm working on.

Or perhaps I'm just not as good at the hyper-optimized-networking game as your boss.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/15/moveit-clop-mass-hacks-ban...
There is still a reason to optimise for size in some cases - CPU cache is small (compare to RAM) and small code has less cache misses (for instruction cache).
Time spent is on the x-axis and confidence on the y axis. To reach 100% confidence, you have to supply an infinite estiamate.
Ah, that java plugin.... I might give it a go this time. Last time I saw the word java and I decided against it.I believe I did test this plugin years ago when it came out first, back then it really was quite useless. As you said, it required fiddling with a ton of settings that meant just doing the damn thing by hand was quicker.

I would love to be able to do pcb design on my main Linux desktop rather than having to fish an old windows 7 work laptop with a copy of altium.

However, let me tell you my altium work flow with autoroute and small boards. Recently For example I was designing a Qfn44(7*7mm) to dip 44 adapter board. As simple as it gets really.

After drawing my rectangle board setting the only chip in the middle and two rows of pins.I just let the autoroute do it's job on default settings(it already has my minimum trace distance and thickness set) , I rip it all down, tweak few settings(trace neckdowns near pads), run it again. Repeat once more and the board is done all in under 5 minutes.
What's chat? Not gchat surely? Didn't hangouts migrate to meet?
Definitely. This complexity creep is very visible with certain franchises which churned out a new game steadily every 3-4 years but not a peep for 10+ years now. (Elder Scrolls, Grand Theft Auto etc)
Does anyone know why they wouldn't just merge this into the GCP offering? It makes perfect sense for domains.google to be a GCP product
Without knowing the operating costs your sentence really makes no sense, this single number doesn't matter, what matters is its relation to the operating costs.
Moveit hacks include banks and universities
Logically this would increase ownership rates (since the landlords exiting the market will over-supply houses, lowering the price), which will remove pressure from the renting market, lowering the price.
not enough to cover the costs of running reddit, or not enough to pay back the VC funding?
With Mastodon and other microblogging software it makes sense, since the primary focus on those media is identity. You create a persona, you create and distribute content.

With Lemmy that's not the case. It's about sharing information and discussing it. So federation is less crucial, but it does add one powerful benefit: the network itself can have network effects and grow to critical mass, leveraging the same benefit Reddit had over disparate forums and the like. It's not a necessity from a user perspective, but it makes it feel like all the information is in one place and so users prefer it anyway.
Thank you for writing these interesting insights. However, I wonder what was your motivation to do moderation and what made you stop?
Badly moderated subreddits get replaced all the time by better moderated ones. The system is inherently meritocratic: if you abuse your modding power then your community is going leave and go somewhere else.
Some improvement, but not much. Still, this is progress and provides a line of attack to develop better drugs.
I feel like AWS (and Lambda in this article) doesn't get enough credit for a bunch of revolutionary things they did.

Don't get me wrong, I bitch about them every day, but credit where credit is due :p
In real life, people who harass or assault get sued or otherwise. We have built spaces for XYZ set of people for thousands of years. If you can't behave with some civility, go live in the forest and away from society.

There's a lot of irony in expressing what you did in one of the most heavily moderated forums.
Funny i was part of not one of these. B/c every one of these were full of social media zombie sheeple along with gamers, dorks, geeks and techies. Decent, fun people you find IRL. Not arguing / chatting online.
It's kind of funny that you think you would be able to produce wine 100,000 years ago. Do you know what grapes used to look like back then? Well, they were absolutely not the giant balls of sweetness we see today :D. They became that after thousands of years of selection by humans. Which first had to "invent" agriculture, which was not easy and it's still quite unclear whether the earliest civilizations that adopted it were better off until they actually became capable of creating large city-states which could then go on to dominate all their neighbours and started accumulating power.

So, 100,000 years ago you would need to convince people to join you in this crazy agriculture thing without any metal tools.... without domesticated animals either, by the way... as that would still be thousands of years in the future...

Finally, just taking a large amount of food and leaving it for a long time to ferment somewhere well protected, while everyone around is hungry, would be a huge challenge already. You might need to protect it both from people and from very large wild animals that had not gone extinct yet and would love to take that food from you (and likely use you as food also).
Great but only so long as you want to use their nameservers. I had a domain with them that I wanted to use with AWS Route 53 nameservers which I was unable to - then I had to wait the standard ~60 days before I could transfer it out which caused a headache in the meantime.
> Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitaen

Eminently parsable for me. But then, I'm Danish and used to this kind of bolt-on word construction, or wordconstruction as I should far prefer it.
this phrase caught my eye, "minimally viable level of detail", to which I immediately thought "minimal detail for a coherent thought". That's a cool concept actually I might hold on to and develop.
> we've been creating safe spaces for the last 5,000 years

Seriously? If you look into history books or even recent news articles, you'll quickly find out that safety is a rare privilege.

> You might want to look up this thing called "civilization"

How about this thing called "inequality and oppression?"
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I'm not convinced on their solution. They say you should run Web assembly in containers? How is that next-gen serverless?
> Guess what, most people can't make money from their hobbies

Essentially this. As talking heads said,

Never for money
Always for love
I was about to say the same thing. It’s not that it was ignored. They are doing their awful things because they have guns pointing at South Korea while being backed by China. And now some quite capable cruse missiles.
The evaporation of lots of .ga domains
Those are precious.

There's a really nice IBM 1401 emulator.[1] It's written in Unreal Engine. You can walk around the virtual computer room, mount tapes, punch cards, operate the controls, and it all works.

[1] https://rolffson.de/
Now he just needs to look into parrot (the old perl6 vm) or pony, which do expand on single ownership and compiler-checked move semantics.

Not just memory safe, but also concurrency safe.

Concurrent Pascal was also similar.
Im not Russian and I have no Russian herritage. Never even been to Russia (or US). Im from Europe (from a country with a consistently higher life expectancy than that in the US) and like a LOT of other Europeans I find the very many Americans with this kind of obnoxious attitude (which you might call cultural exchange) pretty revolting. Maybe your walled garden information sources wont tell you this but your allies are getting pretty tiered of your Anglo "superiority" attitude. Touch ground
> and if you're gonna use a messenger, it probably should be from your phone

It’s my least favorite place to use a messenger from, I even completely refused WhatsApp until they had a stable desktop client.
I disagree with your doomsday scenario.

There are Reddit users waiting in the wings, wringing their hands ready to jump at the 'oppurtunity' to moderate established subreddits and will happily devote their time to custodial duties.

No doubt some have already contacted Reddit management saying that if they de-mod x subreddit they will jump in and guarantee the subreddit's operation.

I don't understand the argument about the lack of free labour drying up. It won't. There are people who thrive on having power over others even though in this case, subreddit moderation, it is perceived power. And Reddit management knows this. For years they have seen how moderators relish and also abuse power. That's why there are moderator guidelines.

In fact, I think it can be argued that Reddit is leveraging this moment to flush out long standing and troublesome moderators which I think is clearly being what the end game is. And Huffman's goal.

It may be silly of me to say, however, I don't think people are giving Huffman enough credit. He knew that there would be significant blowback. He has been involved with Reddit longer and probably far more in depth than any other employee or user. I wouldn't put it past him that he knows Reddit moderation is due for a shake up and is probably keen on getting rid of a subset. And by doing so he can not only pick and choose which users he wants in on what subreddits but more importantly can dictate the culture he wants.

This whole episode if far from over. He has clearly said that the new API changes are going nowhere and I'm willing to bet that he gets what he wants (which includes a mod clean out) with the outcome being a few people quitting the site and people talking about him from now until eternity.

EDIT: Spelling
Yup, I've talked about this a lot to some of the people building some of these things, and I am also convinced that HN like link aggregator type sites that are single community servers are better. There's one federating (Soon™) one called Brutalinks that looks pretty cool. I think the need to have multiple communities on one site is a unique need for centralized services like reddit, and something like categories and tags for different servers in a federation is the proper way to go.
Funny, but empirically false.
AR/VR Ideas
I wanted to see if any of you have any good ideas to develop in the AR/VR space. I own a company that creates AR and VR experiences.
At least for print0 I can answer. It delimits the output with zero chars instead of spaces. That is useful if you process the output with xargs (add '-0' there, see help text or man page). If your file or directory names contain spaces, they will stay together with the zero delimiter, whereas without they would be split into pieces abd xargs does not see valid file names. In a directory containing files with spaces, try both

find . -type f | xargs ls -1

find . -type f -print0| xargs -0 ls -1
Easy to say from the outside, isn't it? You think they just never thought of that...
Exactly. I canceled my monthly subscription and logged out. I mostly loved Reddit for long for pieces anyway, so I'm going to pay more attention to Substack and see how that emerges.
The whole reason to Google Reddit results is for independent enthusiast opinions positive and especially negative. Corporatised subs are going to kill that dead for many things. Another nail in the coffin of Reddit. Love of money truly is the root of all evil.
San Francisco also experienced a number of events that could have significantly impacted drug deaths, i.e. pandemic, recession, housing crisis, fentanyl, etc. etc. You'd have to carefully control for the impact of these events to make an empirical claim that harm reduction efforts lead to more drug deaths, especially because it makes on the face of it no sense that i.e. needle exchange programs would lead to more drug overdoses.
I've been increasingly using Ecosia for a while. They use Bing under the hood.
Estimation, especially story points are just a tool to help you communicate and talk about the size of work.

Most of the time it’s likely to average just under a 5, so you round up, as most work will fit within a week, which is the underlying “effort” you’re getting from velocity.

For a team of seasoned developers you might as well make everything a one and go kanban.
Timelapse of Terraforming Mars
Of course, Microsoft would never be caught doing such a thing!
Your basic premise here is that the encryption is good because it provides the privacy to do, essentially, ethical crime. That's all well and good, when indeed, we have governments passing bad laws, but the problem is that it both doesn't actually protect your ethical crime effectively, because Google's only doing it so that they can be the sole arbiter of your data, which they happily distribute to governments en masse on request, and enables a massive swath of unethical crime, aka, the large volume of scams and malware that Google directly profits off the distribution of, while being shielded from any liability for.

The whole evil ISPs tampering with your data thing is just "reading too many Jon Brodkin articles on Ars". I used to have an ISP that tampered with web delivery to deliver a piracy notice, and it nearly didn't get noticed at all, because it neither went to the account owner (me), nor the person who did the crime (not me), but went to a different guest at the house (also not me), who thankfully told me about it, leading me to inquire with their office to get an actual copy of their complaint so I could respond with "wasn't me, told that dude not to do stuff on my Wi-Fi". Which is to say, the effect of an ISP doing this is... generally less harmful than Google using protocols to deliver malicious content, and hilariously ineffective even when they employ it.

What scares me a lot more is not just the actively malicious work shipped through Google's various platforms to target society's most vulnerable (usually seniors), but the sheer amount of money that has been dumped around every journalism outlet, activist org, and lobbyist to sell the narrative you just posted, all to protect a trillionaire corporation that watches your every move, and happily provides that information to all of the organizations you're worried about for free while convincing you it's doing you a favor.

In short, screw governments, but screw Google making it hard for me to filter out the traffic that lets them figure out whose visiting abortion clinics, which they are absolutely handing over to the authorities who ask about it.
It happens to be common among these Lemmy sites, we are in early days with this software and it was built and run primarily by communists. Expect the ideological monoculture to slowly erode as weeds, to continue the analogy, begin to take root.
> Any instance that doesn't engage in some blocking will probably be blocked for what it doesn't block

Yikes.. damn. I haven't really jumped in to the fediverse yet, but I've been excited about its potential. But this sounds incredibly toxic. Basically it sounds like we've gone from having to conform to the corporation's rules, to having to conform to the center of the venn diagram or else you get shut off. Am I misunderstanding?
For instance, if you have a task that you cannot imagine taking less than 50 days, the actual time can follow the following distribution:

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=gamma+distribution+with...

And the confidence distribution would be:

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=cumulative+gamma+distri...
At least until Clippy dies, at which point some people will miss loving him, and probably a few more will miss hating him. Either way, he will be missed.
>we've passed a point where further access to what's left require greater cost, greater effort, greater energy

This is exactly what was said before, and was premature, that was my point.

It's technically correct that no new resources were created, but practically speaking, the new technology revealed resources we didn't know existed (or couldn't retrieve). The point is that we don't know how far this extends in the future. Reality has a way of making fools of anyone who naively extends trend lines.
Again, it's quite difficult to get access to proprietary source code, so that is a false equivalence. I'm not confusing the benefits for penalties... I'm observing the emergent behavior that the GPL license produces by its viral and infectious rules. The strength of the legal threat has not been tested in court, to my knowledge, but why risk a lawsuit? And there is still the patent issue.

In terms of marketing, GPL sets itself up to be the paragon of the open source spirit and the model that all open source licenses should follow, but it has a HUGE gotcha based on its political persuasion. It proclaims freedom, but it is most decidedly not completely free, and requires parsing of sophisticated legalese to understand the nuances. Good luck if you are a beginner, non-native speaker, or have otherwise spent substantial brainpower trying to understand the do's and don'ts. It will bite you.

You may absolutely love GPL and everything that it stands for. That's fine with me. But I don't, and I advise everyone that I know of the dangers and repercussions of using GPL dependencies. You can say that those are features and virtues, and I can say that they are dangers and liabilities, but the bare facts are the same.

But, getting back to the reason for this post, when I want to compare software packages, the license is the first thing I look at, and if it's GPL, I bail on it immediately.
Facebook doesn't use sideloading on the android platform, neither does any of the other big companies.

It seems that companies don't want to risk users not install their apps because the installation is complicated.

If there is really a fear of this, make it so you can only sideload apps if the development mode is enabled, which requires a few steps.

This alone would it make it so most users won't use it for e.g. facebook, instagramm.
> But was despised by Steve Jobs.

And then he went on to establish Next. Jobs is the reason OS X Is UNIX and is as open as it is.
So in other words, Twitter was in fact paying rent until the LOC ran out. Twitter now owes money to both the bank and the landlord?
If you can play UN chief like a fiddle to tell you outright lies, then he should rather resign than be out there pushing more people to skepticism about climate.
That’s not a bad idea. Especially given that estimation datasets are extremely small, this could quickly give some better data.
More examples:

- Steam for games

- Google Play Store for Android
> That's not an issue, that's the intent of federation

People keep on comparing Mastodon to email.

But, have you ever tried to send someone an email and had the email rejected with an error from your email provider saying "You can't talk to that domain because it insufficiently polices hate speech" or even "You can't talk to that domain because it lets its users talk to domains that insufficiently police hate speech"? Yet my impression of Mastodon is it is just like that.

Which makes Mastodon in practice a very different type of federation from email.
OpenSSL 1.1.1 End of Life Approaching
I used UIKit (iOS) for a couple of years back in 2015/2016. It was an interesting experience, I did enjoy laying out the architecture of my app visually, then dipping into code for the behavior and business logic.
I'm a native German speaker as well. While I understand this sentence, I think it is bad style in many cases. It's fine for artsy things where the reader is focused but if you have sentences like this in e.g. a report for a project you did or in an email to a colleague at work, it will most likely not be read at all or not understood correctly. What I mean with this: In everyday situations where people are stressed and/or in a hurry they don't take the time to read anything long properly. Also the the longer the sentences become, the harder it is to get the grammar right.

Very often I heard (and applied) the rule for "everyday" communication to keep the sentences short and to split longer ones if possible.
No, I said the first point was unrelated to my decision to move my domain.
Whatever the outcome of this si, an I never used Reddit, it seems to have been an incredibly dumb idea to do all of that before the IPO...
I think Cloudflare Workers belong pretty high up the list on this one.
> One somewhat-related bit on the topic of moderators: does it bother anyone else that the stewards of some of these communities are effectively 100% anonymous? Are we actually okay with these spaces that shape significant discussion/sentiment being guided by people who lack accountability?

That doesn't follow; just because people aren't going by their real-world names doesn't mean that they're not accountable. For that matter, what would their real name even tell you? Okay, user someusername1 is actually John Doe and lives at 123 Main St. What exactly do you know now that makes you more comfortable with them being a mod, that you couldn't tell by their history of moderation and interaction in the forum where they're a mod?