skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
at best it's an example of "Commoditize your complements" by cutting OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google at the knees in their attempt to make much profit off AI - https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/

Facebook isn't doing this out of the kindness of their hearts, it just makes business sense for them to do it. AI seems to be in a smiling curve situation right now, where only Nvidia on the hardware side and the consumer facing products using AI as a feature are making money. The companies training the models and trying to sell the API seem like they'll have a hard time not being replaceable commodities

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smiling_curve
Just like everything they publish.
It was "leaked."

They wanted to distribute it. But they couldn't, politically. So it "leaked."
r/freemagic users who were banned from r/magicTCG talked about voting in the r/magicTCG poll. Apparently, mods of r/tennis posted in a Discord asking people to come help and vote to support the blackout as well. A lot of polls were mentioned in r/ModCoord which biases strongly in favor of the blackout. There’s much more incentive to brigade on the blackout side since users who don’t care about the subs in question lose nothing by those subs going private.
Can I ask what you drive?

There's a 3rd cost that you're sorta glossing over. The work you're doing (and the speed you're capable of doing it in) means you've had a non-negligible amount of experience. Depending on how fickle we're going to get, there's 4th costs of the tools you own allowing you to do that work. Perhaps other costs for your living situation allowing you to have a place to do such tasks.

I do my own maintenance work too. But I think it's foolish to gloss over those aspects of the work. They don't come for free.
'Fair to assume' Russia is mapping cables and pipelines off Irish coast
The problem is that developer experience (and often user experience) aren’t always the highest priority. For many businesses that want to ship a mobile app, cost is by far the biggest constraint. And “writing once, shipping everywhere” pushes out native development.

We at Khan Academy have moved much of our app to React Native and overall it’s a great experience and much easier to maintain than two native apps.

Of course, the constraints and requirements vary by business and so what’s right for us may not be right for you.
Congratulations! I identify with this post a lot. Good luck! Your actions are certainly an inspiration
I asked you several times to show your math how you came to 5x. Please show if you really interested in meaningful discussion.
> A lot the post above boils down to "Trust me bro." As early users of a new website, what assurances can be put in place to help us believe the motives here? As the site grows, and costs exponentially more, your mindset and desires are sure to change.

Looking at this from your perspective, you have a really good point here. And I don't know exactly what to say to you except that, at the end of the day, with anything with network effects, you have to trust someone. This even applies to the fediverse; you have to trust the admins.

Perhaps the most that someone can do here is to proclaim their values loudly, so that they are, at the very least, putting their reputation on the line.

If you have any ideas what I could do here, I'd love to hear. Seriously.
I don't think there is any other technology that compares with social networks on the rate of bad to good consequences and is still widely adopted. Maybe mass manufactured military-spread drugs like they used in WWII. But it's quite hard to quantify those.

But, of course it created a bunch of good thing. Nothing that spreads that widely has only bad consequences. And yes, I like the good consequences quite a lot too. It's too bad most of the companies keeping those networks are adamant in destroying all the good value and keeping only the bad.
I get this concept on the level of "we don't like when our army is stabbed with pointy swords even though our army is itself equipped with the very same pointy swords" but the word 'shady' is funny to me in this context. I mean if that's the analogy then it's like if you are in a melee and you look at your comrade in arms next to you getting stabbed by the enemy and you describe it as 'kind of sus'.
Yep. Mine is up 1200 (to 2700) in past 3 years. Other friends up a 1000 this year alone.
When battery life is a concern, I carry around a small flashlight and a (very) short USB cable. The flashlight can both receive charge (from the wall) and send charge (to the phone) through its USB port.

Lots of high-end flashlights do this. Mine isn't much larger than the 21700 cell it contains. If you want to go smaller you can get a 1850-based flashlight and still almost double the capacity of your phone.

Plus, it's a flashlight.
As long as we are sharing random opinions - my Samsung s2 and s5 were smaller thinner lighter than modern phones, with 3.5mm and replaceable battery and microsd card. And also had gps and wifi and phone. And were ip67 rated.

Modern phones are going for sexy, that's all. They are large in every dimension but Impractically thin even though everybody adds another 3mm - 6mm of case anyway because they're sleek to the point of unusable. I particularly love when we buy a sexy sleek thin phone and then put an otterbox on it :-)
> what if a Reddit admin abused their power by like, I don't know, editing a user's comment. How would you address that?

You (user) can most readily address it by not using reddit. That is the ultimate answer to all of this. If you don't use reddit, then problems with reddit aren't your problems anymore.
I'm confused.

You basically used/aped Facebook's feed layout (which is super outdated and not optimal for this) while replicating Reddit without solving any of Reddit's inherent problems.
So, mathematics, for instance.....you'd start with differential equations and work your way down to......addition/subtraction?
Yes, exactly. It's a rare thing and for people that have wealth and are involved in wealthy circles.

On the other side of things, I could never hire someone to help me. I have to spend my time worrying about trivial things like optimizing my food budget so I don't starve. I don't have the ability to pull away the distractions.

And yes, I am a tech worker in the USA. I still have to do this kind of thing.
I would love to see an equivalent to cpdp.co for every city. The notion of publicly humiliating authoritarian thugs masquerading as civil servants offers a glimmer of hope for the atrocious state of policing in the US.
> We should absolutely be finding business models that work for open source but not compromising the ethic of it

I don't think anyone is arguing this. We're only arguing that "Source Available" is an extremely reasonable interpretation of the words "Open Source."

And I'll be honest, I don't see much of a difference between a Common Clause License and MIT. For the average person, they are functionally equivalent. I don't see this as a big deviation from the original ethics and goals but rather than it is an update because bad actors abused the openness.
i’m less certain than i was. the two people in my life who actively use reddit have both told me “it’s over”. one of them joined lemmy.blahaj.zone after r/196 reformed over there: he told me that it’s the community he was most active in and i got the impression that unless the Lemmy one folds he’s more or less done with Reddit — even though it means he’s interacting with the other communities via different mediums than he was before (chat instead of forums).

as someone who stopped using Reddit a year ago, i get it. topical communities no longer exist in just one place. if you’re interested in 3d printing, say, you can join a reddit, join a chat group (in Discord, Telegram, Matrix — whatever app of choice), join a FB group or explore the topic on TikTok, find a 3d-printing themed Mastodon instance, …: and each one of these hosts adjacent communities. Reddit is no longer the only “community of communities” on the internet. if you zoom out, it’s been losing that moat for a while. users can get by decently well these days by choosing from 5+ apps they might already have installed when exploring a topical community. reddit killing their share of that app space doesn’t really help them.
I'm still running a pixel 2 which is almost 6 years old now. I had to have the battery replaced 5 years in. Although it's not the most practical you don't have to replace the full device. Manufacturers would prefer you do.
Pretty clear they will open source as much as they can to kill off would be competitors.
That and the fact that with phone trade-in programs from manufacturers, batteries are much less likely to be disposed of inappropriately.
> I'm worried cause I broke a previous phone doing the same repair.

Just let them ban glue in phones and they're done.
Perhaps yes, would be worthwhile to benchmark an internal (to your runtime) conn pooler versus external only.

I'm using internal pools + pgbouncer but as I write this out I am beginning to wonder if that is even necessary.
> in my experience, it's the charge port that goes.

I have had this problem on a regular basis with all of the iPhones I have owned, and the problem has never been that the charge port is dead, but that dust and/or lint has gathered in it.

The solution is very simple: use a tootbrush or similar, preferably something plastic that won't break, BUT NOT ANYTHING METALLIC, to dig out the dirty stuff. Problem solved.
If you're looking for "proof" that any one thing is the "cause" of a complex social issue, I'm afraid you're going to be disappointed. There isn't a great deal of academic literature on the topic, but perhaps two key illustrations:

1. The 1954 "Toward an Understanding of Juvenile Delinquency" by Lander, which showed that the rate of "delinquency" rose for both whites and blacks as the ratio between the two reached 50%, and proportionally fell in areas where either whites or blacks held the majority.

2. The 1982 "Population Heterogeneity and the Sociogenesis of Homicide" by Hansmann and Quigley, which recognizes that though the issue is complex, their findings support the the idea that population heterogeneity is a "significant causal factor in homicide".

And of course, unacademically off the top of your head, it's likely that the lowest-crime places you can think of are generally ethnically homogeneous.

> If you don't, please take a second to reflect why you're pointing at this specific difference.

Hey, I'm not the one who held up Scandinavia (>90% white) as a model. I myself am neither white nor black and immigrated to the US, where I would much rather prefer to live, warts and all, than in Scandinavia.
No, we don't do that - it wouldn't feel right.
They already sell Android phones like this. They're cheaper than iPhones and have more features, like FLIR cameras. Why not just buy this instead of forcing your preferences, which, clearly the majority of people don't agree with, or they'd buy these phones. https://www.catphones.com/en-us/cat-s62-pro-smartphone/
I had a Nexus one with wireless charging 10 years ago.
Print trillions of dollars and then you can't figure out where inflation is coming from?
A landlord leaving the market doesn't take the house with him.
> it was dead on arrival

I understand holding out hope for year of the Linux desktop, but ignoring Linux has never really hurt anybody, has it?
>You'd think with all those abstract logic skills we'd have them running companies, universities, and being secretary of state. Instead all seem to be stuck as chess players.

Sounds like you're not familiar with what Kasparov (undisputed #1 player in the 80s-early 2000s) does outside of Chess.

Guy has told off Putin to his face, and has been a champion of human rights and democracy - getting arrested in his native Russia several times while protesting the one-party state Putin has built to enrich himself. He's also written books on geopolitics.

Magnus Carlson has done alright for himself too. He's won a few poker tournaments, and last season was the best fantasy soccer player on the planet.
It happens at multiple levels in this case, in order to keep the area's super-low crime stats.

I heard from a relative who's on a neighboring town's police force that the DA busts down first time felony offenders to misdemeanors nearly every time (this is at the county level). Except for the really bad stuff like murder, or selling drugs on a playground.

I've heard anecdotally from friends that police just refuse to take reports of assault. This is domestic assault, or more "stranger danger" types of assaults (like late at night on the riverwalk). Both physical and sexual types of assault. This apparently doesn't count as "the really bad stuff" I described before.

My sister knew a gal who got hit by a van while crossing the street, where there's a crosswalk and a yellow flashing light and a sign. Her leg was broken in a few places. When the police arrived, she received a ticket for jaywalking because she wasn't in the crosswalk. (A funny thing happens when you get hit by a van - you tend to move far away from where you were standing) That jaywalking ticket did not raise the crime stats like ticketing the driver would have. Bonus: It was potentially racially motivated, because the victim was black, and the cops have a reputation for harassing black people in town.

Naperville is a fine place to raise your children if you're wealthy and white and your husband is not abusive.
Unbelievably based. Now demand sd card slot. Phones could last for decades.
You make this claim but have you ever worked in product design for something trying to achieve an IP water and dust ingress rating?

It is far more than "just a gasket and a few screws". The rating can't just be good on unboxing day. You want it to hold even after a few years, several drops on the floor, in cold weather, etc.
On a related note: does anyone have good recommendations for printing services that can print and bind an online PDF, etc? I've looked into lulu.com and printme1.com but haven't used either for this purpose.

I've wanted to do something similar for some of Beej's guides that are not in regular print, and would definitely consider for this too.
Most pitches for Everett branches (which are a specific enough concept that it's silly to get all technical, but whatever) hold that there is an amplitude distribution over the entire configuration space of the universe. While the proposed mechanism of decoherence implies a sort of discreteness, every single possible configuration would have non-zero amplitude. Of course there's no specific evidence for this over, say, collapse theories (or something stranger, like Bohmian mechanics), but there's certainly no philosophical issue.
Not sure what you think ZFC has to do with physics, but an empty set with members is a tad nonexistent.
Wikipedia says that the resistance of water is 0.2 Ω·m for sea water, 2 to 200 Ω·m for drinking water. This is very low and can drain your battery almost immediately.
> It's an ongoing situation but I love how you're trying to force everyone's hand to get to "how things were" for you.

> Go create the sub you want. The community will follow you, right?

I stopped using reddit 10 years ago, it can burn for all I care. Stop trying to psychoanalyze people (badly.)

If admins lift the blackouts and people go back to using the subreddits, then obviously those people were not committed to not using reddit. This is simply common sense. The answer to this problem is for you to stop using reddit, then reddit's problems won't be your problems.
Never before have I so often been convinced by the last thing I read about this topic on either side. Usually the smartest people in the room agree and eventually convince other people who are genuinely trying to seek the truth. In this case, I’ll see a HN comment laying out how it’s obvious it’s lab leak for xyz convincing reason and then a twitter thread from a virologist debunking everything with a thread about how the lab leak theory is ridiculous. At the end of it all I probably lean toward lab leak simply because it just feels like it makes sense (which is not great reasoning I know!). I don’t know if more evidence coming out will move the trenches that are already dug deep. People like me can be swayed still possibly…
It's a matter of incentive. Sure, the Alphabet Agencies aren't intrinsically good, but they have little motive to protect the misconduct within local police precincts.
In 2010 you start a company, wholly owned by you.

In 2011 you obtain a patent wholly owned by the company.

In 2012 you fail to pay the franchise tax and filing paperwork for your company so the state dissolves it. You don't care because you aren't making money.

In 2013 another company starts making a product that infringes on your patent.

You are the defacto owner of the patent. This is because you were the owner of the company when it was terminated. All of its assets and liabilities devolved to you. No action was required of you for this to happen, it just happens.

Now imagine this business was actually a joint venture between two wholly owned subsidiaries of two different holding companies, one of which was public but has gone bankrupt and the other was private but subsequently merged with a public conglomerate that spun off a child company, keeping only 40% of its stock after IPO.

The patent is still owned by people, but good luck finding them all.
Hard disagree on point 1. I mean, yeh, you'll maybe win a hardcore niche of nerds with federated services, but the usability / understandability of federation is absolutely awful, per my AskHN recently [0]. That's not to say it couldn't be improved with some good UI and maybe some thoughts about how to communicate it, but right now your average Reddit / Insta / Facebook user is gunna be running a mile. It's absolutely baffling.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36330155
> a specific political party fan

Why don't you just be direct and name it?

> just because a Taco Bell burrito went from $1 to $1.69 in 3 years

I don't track my currency's value in Taco Bell's burrito prices.

> Meanwhile real humans are pricing their products and services at this 30-60% higher rate

> However there is this religious approach to those CPI numbers

What actual sources and data are you using?
I'm not sure that "it's possible for your program to do this thing and if it does the program will panic" really qualifies as memory-safe. Maybe it's better than what you'd get in C, but in some kinds of programs it could still be a DoS vector. In a garbage-collected language or unsafe-free Rust it would not be possible to crash because of a deleted city, and that would be strictly better.
> You shouldn't conclude the world is overpopulated by looking at footage from a football cup match.

You shouldn't deny India is overpopulated when riding a train there resembles a footclub cup match.
exactly - Google is acting like a VC, not a company. A VC isn't too worried if a large percentage of their investments go under, so long a few make it big.

It's like Google has the worst of both worlds: the upper management has the detachment of a VC firm, and the product teams have the detachment of being incentivized to start something new. At least in an actual startup, the team is committed to success.
Wikipedia, although a non-profit, is not federated; it's a centralized platform. It doesn't seem to me that it's centralization that's necessarily the problem, although, I agree with you, it often is.
I think the real world application angle is a common framing but misses the mark just a little - most people really just want to understand what would motivate someone to develop or need the concept.

I only mention it because I felt similarly very frequently and learned to start diffing for that context to learn better, but I have noticed that the 'real world application' framing comes with a lot of baggage.
Oh, it isn't intended to be provocative.

The title is simply literally the question that I was thinking about a few months ago when working on Devbox, and wrote a version of this post internally to answer the question for myself!
> For existing buildings, landlords who lose money on them will stop doing maintenance and repairs, and they'll eventually become slums or will be abandoned.

Ah, so because expenses temporarily exceed revenue on your million-dollar investment, you'll just let it rot down to zero?

What happened in Detroit was a collapse in demand of housing, caused by a collapse in employment. That collapse and reduction in the tax base lead to a death spiral, as a city's infrastructure costs are fixed - which pushed further marginal demand out.

You know what didn't happen in Detroit? A housing collapse because of a 20-cent-per-thousand-dollar property tax levy.

No town can survive a collapse in employment. The coastal cities with 11 job openings for 10 people who are fighting over 9 apartments aren't suffering from that problem, and it's ridiculous to point at Detroit as a comparison.

And if you think a 3% tax increase for landlords is 'massive', how would you describe the 20-40% increase in rents? If the poor landlords shouldn't be subjected to such a horrific thing, shouldn't the tenants be protected from ballooning rents?
Potentially ActivityPub fixes this. I can comment and like on any Lemmy/kbin server from my own account on a totally different server.

If we wanted a forum, it would just need a new UI layer fit for purpose, reminiscent of phpbb, and be super easy to spin up.
I'm a casual nixpkgs contributor. Flakes are like the embassies Nix sends out into the OSS world. Discussion about building the application are kept with the application, nuances and patches can be discussed with the actual authors.

Remember the debian SSH packaging snafu? The application authors weren't involved. (edit: see below)

Nixpkgs is like the state department, a central unifying hub, great to bootstrap the package ecosystem (ten years old now), but it needs to spread its wings.
Ok, that all sounds much better. Thanks for the reply! It’s been a hot minute since I’ve used LV—so much good stuff happening.

I think it’s a testament to the power of the platform that the obvious dumb solution worked so well for me. Lol
Johannes Kopf, the main author behind the original Hyperlapse paper, is one of the researchers behind Localrf discussed here yesterday [0].

I think Hyperlapse Pro [1], which stitched patches from multiple frames together to create new frames after doing some 3D reconstruction and then recreating a smoother camera path was mostly replaced with Hyperlapse mobile [2]. The Pro version was really slow, but the mobile version, which used the original frames from the video, could run in a reasonable time on a phone with almost as good result. Hyperlapse Pro is still available to download [3], Hyperlapse mobile you have to find the APK elsewhere [4].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36348483

[1] http://johanneskopf.de/publications/hyperlapse/first_person_...

[2] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...

[3] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=523...

[4] https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/microsoft-corporation/hyperlap...
Of course Google is currently the opposite of things like customer service and ad accountability so opposite of Google doesn't sound like a bad thing either.
It might be difficult to release it with an open source license like GPL or MIT but the company already has rights to copy and distribute it.
It’s actually not that hard since they have processes in place for this sort of thing. They have u/ModCodeOfConduct make a post in the affected community (I assume they reopen the sub and restrict it except for that post). https://www.reddit.com/r/oldbabies/comments/143cszv/new_mode...