skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No one said “exclusive” to capitalism.

It’s simple. The profit motive ruins everything as things get big. Usually because shareholders demand to extract rents from the ecosystem. Even while externalizing the cost to society and the environment

Open source gift economies are a far better alternative for society and don’t have that problem. But they require the productive participants to enjoy financial independence or some disposable free time, and universal basic income isn’t coming from daddy government anytime soon.

If you want to attract infrastructure providers and fund development for your project in an economically sustainable way, don’t sell shares in your corporation - release a utility token for your platform, and make it available worldwide. Heck, peg it to a USDC if you’re worried about speculators or complying with securities laws (although there are tons of exemptions from registration, like Reg D and Reg S and Reg CF etc). Issuing and managing them with smart contracts is super easy, and permissionless. You can do it in a minute. People have their own choice of how to store them. And micropayments for infrastructure can be implemented via trustlines in a free market pretty easily.

The utility token holders — even the people who hoard them — have a far better set of incentives than corporate shareholders do. Ether or Filecoin HODLers aren’t trying to ruin it for everyone using the network, nor are they even trying to assert central control over what people can do with IPFS or Ethereum!

Sadly, many people on HN have it completely backwards with what’s good for society. They hate Web3 with a passion and claim it has no use cases even though utility tokens would lead to a far superior set of incentives, wifh no parasitic shareholder class insisting on centralized control and rent extraction — essentially forever. They see what happens at Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, with a few people at the top making decisions, but they don’t put two-and-two together because the cargo-cult of anti-Web3 is strong in 2023. (But not next year, when the halving event happens and lots of innovation gets released again.)

Meanwhile they are in love with generative AI, the new kid on the block, despite most of its own most prominent inventors screaming about a large chance of catastrophe and running to the governmebf.
Traditional "linux repositories" are kind of walled gardens though. I mean, the software is vetted and controlled by the bistro's maintainer, is it not? Isn't it also true that sensible advice is to not add repo's from unknown sources?
Loneliness, Insomnia, Drinking: The Costs of Working with AI Systems
Firstly, I'm sorry you've developed heart problems. That sucks. I can't imagine how that feels in real life, but I can fully understand how it changes your perspective on a lot of stuff.

I should further clarify. My original comment was referring to a person who was saying, essentially, that if a person had been vaccinated, then any subsequent illness was a direct cause of the vaccine. His take was that any pre-existing condition was made worse, and the root cause of any kind of ailment was the Covid vaccine. Black & white, no room for discussion.

I can see how my comment could be misinterpreted in a number of ways. I don't subscribe to his stance, but I'm absolutely open to the increasing body of evidence of post-vaccine and post-Covid medical issues that have and continue to arise. I have a friend who was a whip-smart and highly capable gastric surgeon. She was fully vaccinated, then got Covid (positive tests), now has many symptoms of long Covid, and she's medically retired at 34. She has to have 10 minute snoozes every 30 minutes during the day. No diagnosed pre-existing conditions, she was in tip-top health.

I have absolutely no pro- or anti- agenda here, I was merely sharing some anecdotal evidence.

Most importantly, I hope you can find your way with your health stuff.
>It's actually problematic when instances get too large to fail (like the two biggest mastodon ones), because when their mods cannot cope anymore

Or like Twitter, and every other large social media network. So much straight up criminal stuff flies under the radar simply because it's impossible for a handful of people to police that many people.
Also that we actually pay for public utilities and like.

Water, Sewage, Electricity, District Heating, Waste management, Internet etc. All have real monthly payments. But we have gotten too used to be subsidised on online... Bills have to be paid somehow and time of free content is coming to pause.
Threaded conversations is the killer feature of Reddit/HN for me. Second is that I don't need to shift between 20 different forum interfaces/color schemes. Old Reddit always looks the same, so long as you disable the ability of subreddits to mess with styling.
Ah, thanks for the explanation! I’ve seen another instance recently that I suspect was the same thing; I wonder if the flamewar detector has false positives when a story happens to be one that a lot of people want to talk about.
One of the most dislikable CEOs I can think of. He's clearly tilted from one guy making a better product than 2000 people under his leadership. How embarrassing it must be for everyone.
Apple has no incentive to listen to anything at all at this point. The only reasonable action is to give money to those who do, i.e., support good alternatives.
Because Google kicked Fortnite out of play store, not because they’re paragons of sideloading.
I think it’s more about attitudes to specialization and credentialism. People with tech degrees are supposed to do tech. People with business degrees are supposed to do business. A common scenario when a self-taught executive-level manager moves from an anglo country to a germanic one is that employers ask “where is your business degree?”. And this works both ways. Germanic tech employees tend to not value sales/business, and view the money people as a necessary evil that have no idea what they’re doing. This is of course a self-reinforcing cycle. And there’s nothing bad about specialization, really, but interdisciplinary people have their place as well. As for credentialism, I think it’s slightly better than its reputation on this site, but it shouldn’t be applied too strictly.
No, but you pay an average of 40% income tax, 25% VAT, 150% on cars (+ 25% VAT) and the European gasoline tax. The result is that the tax system disincentivizes these types of transactions when you can not deduct the costs in your personal tax bill.

Said in another way: you don't pay income tax when you paint your own house.
So the protests are working. Hmmmmm
I deleted my account.

Was looking for an excuse to remove myself from that time-sink website anyway, but can't lie, the changes they made in the last decade have progressively ruined my experience.
After watching e01s06 of Black Mirror, this might be actually useful.

I wouldn't want to sign away my likeness to shit in a church just 'cause I accepted some terms.
Would you mind sharing those you think would be the most promising?
Want nothing changing? Buy feature phone.
I've always found it really hard to fire a developer, so I put together this guide to help communicate that tough decision. Feel free to give it a read if you think it could come in handy.
And how will this AI (that doesn't exist but sure) interact with reddit?
I had never heard of this service but indeed, it seems to be a registrar builtin to GCP. I suppose this is not going to be killed, and presumably the reason they aren't migrating domains users to it is awkward mapping to GCP projects? It would be great to at least have a button to copy it over for people that do have a GCP project for it...

Edit: it looks like there may indeed be such a button / command. Really strange they wouldn't communicate the option to keep customers on their services!

https://cloud.google.com/domains/docs/import-domains
Yeah, to clarify, the part I wasn't sure about is if it was required to somehow integrate your local Winamp installation with the streaming service, or if it could be exploited simply by playing a downloaded music file. It sounds like it could indeed be exploited without being connected to the service.
> Also Fact: The original 1984 Mac did come not pre-installed with Perl, Python, nor Ruby.

It would have been quite extraordinary, considering that none of these languages existed. Also fact: it did not come with Go or Rust built in, and did not have a CUDA-compatible GPU.
> That's how it is on Reddit too no? You visit and post a comment on subreddit A, somehow mods in subreddit B will find out and pre-emptively ban you.

Almost no one runs a personal instance. Most people have accounts on multi user instances. This is unlike reddit, where accounts are global and independent of subreddits. On reddit, mods from subreddit B can preemptively ban you after they learn that subreddit A doesn't like you. But they can't ban entire subreddit, say C, so that every user that's subscribing to C can no longer interact with anyone subscribed to B. This is the scenario that plagues Mastodon - not individual blocks, but defederating whole instances.
That's essentially what Librewolf is.

https://librewolf.net/
> The brain being a muscle, it is only natural that this would translate in more developed cognitive abilities for those language speakers.

Not necessarily: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797620903113

Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35681824
In a duopoly, it's the fault of both sides, isn't it? They both misbehave, even though in different ways. I would be happy to break up Google and also (at user's choice) remove the Apple's walled garden.
I add an additional component: the embedded energy that was saved by not purchasing a new generator. To me it better reflects the real effort put into making something.

Labour in the west is much more expensive than energy, so it's only natural that your time was worth more than a new unit.

But that's an accident of geography and politics. Someone in a poor country, in the same line of work that you're in, might actually break even on this.

I believe there's value in this sort of self-sufficiency. Especially considering that, as recent years have shown, we're one global supply chain breakdown or war away from plain unavailability of some goods.
You are wrong in that they DO host videos and images and quite a lot at that. Originally they only allowed text posts but that changed a while ago and now a lot content is hosted on reddit itself. I personally think that was a huge mistake. If where is one thing you have to know on the internet is that you should stay away from being a hosting site, it almost never works out.
Contract managers come from all walks of life. Others have substantial expertise and training in areas such as procurement and administration. Whatever the function or experience, a solid foundation in legal language and basic legal ideas encountered throughout contract lifecycle management is essential.
> Maybe we can get back to that by building a search engine out of Reddit style discussions, kinda like micro "search engines".

dude what rock have you been under? you just described chatGPT
The person you contract also pays income tax on the amount. So you need to doubly add the tax.

Then you also need to add some cost of doing business.

Said in another way: The 100SEK you earn becomes 25SEK the contract can use (assuming 50% tax rate) – that's the first factor of 4. The last factor can be found in the details.
I’ve always viewed developers as modern day tool and die craftsman.

They build the machines that sit in the factory and churn out the product/service
> calls them “landed gentry”

Might not be be the best metaphor for him to be using. Historically, when the king gets in conflict with the landed gentry, well, very often the king suddenly finds himself a bit lacking in the head department.
Why not? Would that be legal though?
As someone who learned both German and Arabic, I don’t find the results that surprising. You can definitely feel that each forces you to think slightly differently. It’s also a known fact that speakers of different languages process the world around them differently, because of the language.

In fact these are the main reasons why I start learning different languages without needing them - they make you think differently and give you new perspectives. I’d assume it’s the same with programming languages actually.
The whole point of an ideology is to give you a way to view the world. If you didn't believe it was better than other ideologies there would be no point in that ideology. It's not self-blindness to believe in what you claim to (although that's not to say I believe what they believe).
This is a strange dichotomy to posit, full of stereotypes. I suspect that the reality is that contribution to society and open/closed mindedness is not very strongly correlated, and that the correlation that does exist could well run in the opposite to what you suppose.
It's not supposed to be a particularly valuable model, it's just to show how it could exist.

> the cost is that your release barriers, instead of being cheap purely core-local effect, now have to cross the coherence fabric. This can move the cost from a dozen of cycles to hundreds.

That's not the intent.

The barrier pushes the lines in this new state to I, but under MESI they already would have been I.

There is no need to have any performance loss compared to MESI. If no lines are in this state then there is no extra work. And if it would be helpful, you can preemptively work on converting those lines to S in the background.

Edit: Oh wait you said release barrier. No, if you're doing the simplest plan based on MESI then there is no need for anything extra when releasing. Those considerations were only if you wanted to look at MOSI where it's already doing write broadcasts.
Pereiaslav Agreement
"Learnings" - should be lessons. We don't go on 'drivings' or 'travellings' we go on journeys.

Which lead me down this rabbit hole - https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/546959/why-is-le...

Observation bias, but I first noticed this word popping up in tech talks from Microsoft first.
Compilers and interpreters have been allowed for a while now (with some caveats). Pythonista is an iOS Python IDE that lets you write apps on your iPhone.
The EU is terrified at this news.
Hello! Author of that little blog post there. Happy to be hit up with thoughts/feedback when you give it a shot!
The GP's point was that counting someone using credit cards as living paycheck to paycheck is flawed. Especially moreso in a country that had high credit card penetration.

Your contention might be true in Poland. But that most definitely is not universal.
I chose my words to include this "regular software".

Do you plan to integrate ChatGPT or Stable Diffusion to a high-risk system? I would advise against it at this time.
Actually, starting with MS-DOS 5, QBasic - a feature reduced version of the commercial QuickBasic - was included.
- this isn't employment income, that's a separate category with higher taxes

- you want the payment sent to your LLC or similar, not directly to you. See above

- the requirement to file a 1099 is on the payer, not the worker

- many transactions don't require filing a 1099, most notably all payments made using a credit card. If you're an independent contractor in the US and accept credit cards, you'll get paid 5 minutes after sending an email instead of 30 days later after it goes through layers of approval
> But then, in order to make use of the thing, you must also pay a second price. This is the effort and initiative required to gain its benefits, and it can be much higher than the first price.

I think this is the thing people miss when saying open source software is given free and people shouldn't complain. Yes, but it requires effort to adopt and it's a liability. So when a free piece of code is published, even marketed and touted, it can create some expectation of commitment, even though the author is not obligated to provide it.
If all that comes off this entire HN post is that you get a good set of JIS screwdrivers, it's all worth it. It'll save you trouble down the line. Don't try to open the brake reservoir [0] screws with a Phillips. Ask me how I know.

[0] You might have a plastic reservoir with a screw-off cap, in which case... you'll use the JIS for something else.

P.S. Congrats on the new bike! Take an advanced riding course, read Keith Code, and buy good gear and you'll have a ton of fun with it.
Doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. While I wouldn’t have shifted my domains to google, because of exactly what has just transpired, I am considering moving everything to cloudflare for the same reason I should have moved them to google.

My domains are the starting point for my other infra/sites/web apps. And cloudflare has become that product that already sits there, dns, cdn and workers.

If google can’t sort that out, they seem dysfunctional. Cloudflare seems to understand the value and execute accordingly.

And their positioning as “at cost domains” makes it a no brainer. Only a matter of time before I move them all over.
I assume they can’t have employees as mods without risking legal responsibility (S230, etc)?
> developers are like "machines working in a factory"

After I worked a few years in the industry, I came to the following conclusion: The main difference between a factory and a knowledge business is that in a factory, the smartest, most knowledgable people are at the top (not completely the case, but mostly). In knowledge work, the smartest (=experts) are at the bottom. If you move up as a smart person, you will for sure lose up-to-date knowledge.

This has a few consequences of course. In knowledge work, managers should not say "First do this, then do that". Managers should be at the service of their team, making sure they get the focus and freedom to work on their stuff.

Now back to the factories: I'm no expert, but one of the key elements of Lean Manufacturing is that the people on the floor are able to provide feedback to the upper layers. Why them? Because they have the hands-on knowledge and see things management can't. So even in factories, either you listen to the lowest level employees or you're not optimising your process.

And finally, if users and employees can be replaced, so can companies, products and services. The thing is that having great retention in users saves you a lot of investment on acquiring new ones. And having great retention in employees saves you a lot of investment in hiring and training. The leaders that realise this will outperform anyone that doesn't.
Reddit is effectively just a text-only forum (image and video uploads are fairly recent features, and the latter has never even worked properly) with subthreads and a voting system.

Text forums have effectively been solved ever since NNTP was invented. All HTTP forums are pretty much just centralized recreations of various components of Usenet. With modern databases, load balancing, and infrastructure management, the cost of building, hosting, and maintaining a web forum is effectively negligible.

The only real selling point of Reddit is having all of your forums in one place, with the ability to easily and instantly create your own forum if you want to. Everything else on Reddit is just a random collection of social media features bolted on to appease investors/advertisers/stakeholders, and the vast majority of Reddit users (or at least the ones I interact with) never touch any of them.

The only thing keeping people on Reddit are network effects. Which, admittedly, is a lot, given that’s what’s allowed Facebook to weather its seven quintillion controversies with minimal damage, but a well-designed successor with enough server capacity (this is very important, crashing under the initial migration load has been what sunk a number of previous high-profile “Reddit killers”) could easily take Reddit’s place.
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These people are perfectly able to do it right now, just by buying another device. If you don’t like that something lacks features you think are important, you just don’t buy it. How does it matter to you what other people do with their phone? It’s not like Android is in danger of disappearing or anything
Sacred 1 really stood out for me as a cool open world ARPG with dungeons and lots of side quests. It gets too grindy later on though.
Self inflicted and so, deserved.

They could stayed neutral arbiters of content but they decided to incentivise websites to host ads, then let them fight to drive traffic to the site.

They deserve whatever doo-doo is accruing to them.

Theyre so clueless that they never seriously fought for social and now most useful (aka human generated) content is hidden behind login screens on Discord and Insta and the like.

I’m calling it now - now that most content we want to engage with is behind login walls, Pagerank/Search is anachronism.
best project i've seen in a while
There’s No Uber or Lyft. There Is a Communal Tesla
It could still be a usable computer.
I suppose there are business connections among those 1000+, and I have a policy of never telling a business contact anything about my health (except "I'm on sick leave", if necessary). I suppose I'm not the only on doing that, so you most likely underestimate the occurrences.
That's the official Reddit narrative. Do you still believe the official Reddit narrative?

If it was true that they just wanted to make money from the API, then they would have responded to those developers who agreed to the price hike and asked to join the new API program. Instead of ignoring them for two weeks out of the four weeks notice that they gave.
Nietzsche on German: "Das Verb ist der Herr und die anderen Wörter sind die Sklaven."

("The verb is the master and the other words are the slaves.")

An personal observation I've noticed from living in Berlin: My German friends over a certain age (roughly 40), who are very liberal, tolerant, totally fluent English speakers, completely refuse to adopt "they/them" pronouns for their non-binary friends and insist until they're blue in the face that there's no reason not to mis-gender them. This still stumps me, because they are otherwise completely polite, elegant, and accommodating. A journalist friend of mine, when I asked him, says it's because German is so highly gendered as a language.
To be entirely fair, it was already common on reddit to accuse mods of being on power trips. /U/awkwardtheturtle and other powermods have been a known issue for a while (see also: the /r/GME moderator kerfuffle). I agree that most moderator work was airline quality (few incidents but "televized" heavily for its failures), but most incidents get you going "well why was anyone allowed this kind of unchecked power in the first place?".

I think people blaming moderators for this don't get that this is people losing what is ultimately their hobby and not some kind of powertrip by 2k+ people all at the same time.
It’s less about size and more about moat, though most businesses with no moat tend to stay small. If you have a moat you have less competition so you can and will extract more profit.
Subtle point, possibly, but:

> It’s important to note, though, that the throughput metric applies to teams. An individual does not complete a certain number of points per week. This is an important distinction, because you don’t want your developers to feel judged by the system, or to try to game it by engineering the tickets they take on.

This is true, but it's not the main reason to treat the team as the unit of delivery. It's because total team delivery isn't the sum of individual delivery: to treat it like that would be to miss the incidental sideways contributions all the team members have on each others' tickets. If you're doing it right, your most capable people might have very low individual throughputs because they're lifting everyone else up.
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