skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting... I might still be getting the concept clear in my own head but that can definitely work. It does seem to me that it will shake out with larger communities still under the control of a specific instance, like, I'm sure there will end up being one big canonical Rust community, cause nobody wants to check multiple forums about the same topic.

There have definitely been cases where I did attend multiple forums of the same format and same topic, but generally because I was in transition from one to the other, such as when alt.music.ween was dying and I started trying out the popular Web Forum of the time. In the end I gave up the community of Internet Ween fans, because coming from Usenet, which was absolutely beautiful if viewed using a good client program, web forums were like trying to write a business letter in crayon.

For me, it was actually the first round of enshittification, and we did it without any VC help at all; fact of the matter is that the web forums were easier to use, and so more people came to them, and up to a point, that does result in better community, particularly with non-technical subjects like obscure bands with cult followings.

But, it really did boggle my mind that anyone could use those things without going completely insane at the terrible bad and no good interfaces with no filtering or thread view etc etc (especially early on), but it was an important lesson in psychology for me: they did not have the context of the only-a-tiny-bit-harder, but galaxies-better thing that already existed, they only saw "here is a thing I can use to talk to people about a thing I like, which never existed in my world before," and from there they can tolerate any shortcoming, because it's all novelty. People thought Pong was mindblowing.

Eventually, as the ever-growing blob of spam goo make the Usenet landscape radioactive and impassable, and there was clearly a huge party going on in the forums, everyone just left, other than the diehards that always stay out of some misplaced stubborn urge. A lot of those forums hadn't even figured out how to pay for themselves, and in many cases never did, they just did it so that something would be there where before there was nothing.

All in all, things are really starting to look like the old internet, and it warms the cockles of my heart, truly it do.
Yes, I know of friends and coworkers who have had to change career because they couldn't do their old job anymore. This after a year long recovery.
They aren't happy about it, they really want to do their old job, if only they could.
Then there are a few more who where home sick for 1 or 2 months. They all seem to have recovered.
> This crippled GMO research in Europe.

Did it?

But yes, if something is banned then its probably bad for business and innovation around it. Europe is probably missing out on carcinogenic food additive innovations too. Okay, GMO's are not banned by EU but they are banned by some of the largest EU countries and if those countries fell behind in GMO tech, maybe it's due to the local bans and not the EU regulations?

EU isn't into banning AI though. Regulating doesn't mean banning, consider EU's digital markets act - EU didn't ban AppStore but put a requirement on device manufacturers to allow other AppStores. When EU regulated the EV charging ports, it did not ban EVs, but put a requirement to have unified plug.
> Instance == Community

A whole instance is not necessarily a single community.

People keep on defending Mastodon by comparing it to email – an email provider is not necessarily a community.

If we are talking about a federated Reddit-clone (Mastodon is more a federated Twitter-clone) – the communities are the subreddits (or whatever the clone chooses to call them) not the instances.
I think there's a lot of people who like the idea of being a mod but don't actually like it once they actually have to do it. It takes quite some mental fortitude to do effectively.
>The Python developers thought people could do a one-off syntactic code translation (2to3), perhaps even at install time

Perhaps they overstimated how much of the change 2to3 would handle, but they surely didn't think that, because they already knew that they put in all kinds of not automatable via "syntactic code translation" changes - where context is needed (e.g. the str changes).

>What are the "more substantial changes" you propose? The walrus operator? Matching? Other things that Python 3 eventually gained, and which took years in some cases to develop?

No GIL, more optimization - a wasted opportunity for a big speed bump, dropping legacy stuff, typing support, an improved C extension model, JIT, specialization, green threads, and so on. Things like the walrus operator would be at the very bottom...

They could have gone for "compatibility" to ease the migration (or make it a non-issue, just run backwards compatibly) sure.

But since they decided to go ahead and break things, and bump the version name, a change the community has been discussing since the mid-90s as some grand vision of big changes, they could have done more substantial stuff at least.

At it stands, they broke compatibility and cost the community 5-6 years for nothing much. Everything big came later in 3.x. And not because it couldn't just as well be added piecemeal to some 2.8 and onwards...
Something that can sadly still been seen widely in ex-yu countries is illegal dumping of old furniture and appliances. It's common to leave smaller appliances next to garbage containers. There are recycling centers being built in cities, but a lot of people are unaware and don't know it's their duty to properly dispose of items. I believe it's the consumerist culture, people are being sold shiny products on shelves, but the whole dirty lifecycle is hidden from them. In addition, companies producing electronics and appliances should somehow participate in disposal, even just by making things easier to disassemble and recycle.
Valid response but I feel like that is 20 years too late. The squatting has already happened, there is no prevention now
To be fair, 100 globally scaled products is quite a lot. They try to churn out a lot stuff, and if they don’t achieve enough adoption, they cancel it. It’s a reasonable business decision.
It's yet another facet of the constant infantilization of young people. They're not really given a chance to grow up. All of the TV shows, films, etc are a constant rehash of things from their childhood, the bands they listened to as kids never really stop, they're not paid enough to take on adult responsibilities like mortgages or having kids, and, it seems, they're still expected to drink sweet, sugary crap instead growing into adulthood with a good Rioja like they ought to.
Alphalist: Stephen Wolfram
Level scaling isn't necessary for a nonlinear game. Plenty of games have nonlinear areas and no level scaling because they have relatively flat progression curves. D4 only 'needs' level scaling because it also 'needs' to be Cookie Clicker and Lootbox Simulator with an ARPG wrapped around it, and neither of those systems work with flat progression curves.
> The pandemic is ongoing, we've just started calling the disease "endemic" but that doesn't make it less dangerous

It's just as dangerous (well, it's probably not, due to less lethal variants winning over more lethal ones), but that measure is not what makes it no longer a pandemic.
> who are you going to entrust such a responsibility?

Nobody aka ourselves, which is why we need to get the fediverse working instead of standing on the side bitching about how it's not good enough yet.
Not really my style but I’m sure some will try
Oh interesting. Got that number from the LLaMA paper, but thanks for the insider info clarification
There is a very simple way out that reddit could take, similar to what spotify does: Third Party Apps continue being allowed, but API access requires the user's account to have reddit gold. People would be unhappy and complain, but the protest would end, Reddit would increase their revenue, third party app developers wouldn't have to pay, and people would accept it in the end.
I have this problem also with Windows, it's one of the two purposes for which I made https://dro.pm. If it's too large for email or there's no email client installed, I wouldn't know for the life of me how to copy things on Windows without spending >5 minutes setting up shared folders, firewalling, and then undoing the changes when done. Uploading to a website and typing over a very short link is done in ten seconds

Not as convenient if you want to copy a large number of files and don't want to zip them all, but in most cases I just want to transfer one file or link or command (text) and this is still my go-to solution more than a decade after I made it, works on all OSes with either a command line or a visual browser. Beat that, airdrop / nearby share / Huawei share.
The downvotes could be because your comment doesn’t add to the discussion but rather seems to be needlessly stoking some flames…
Some quotes from "sorted by controversial"[1], an amazing feature that I wish HN had as well:

> This is great news. Can Spez replace the r/NBA mods. Those losers need to be taught a lesson. Shutting down a huge sub with 8K votes on a hidden poll during the NBA FINALS. PATHETIC.

###

> Mods are free to run their communities the way they see fit within the boundaries of the rules that apply Reddit Wide.

> So no, this does not contradict standing policies. Free to run their communities means you as a user can either agree with the rules they state in their communities or not join.

> If you want to talk policies, don't forget about this one... Reddit Content Policy: Rule 8

> Don't break the site or do anything that interferes with normal use of the site. Do not interrupt the serving of reddit, introduce malicious code onto reddit, (or) make it difficult for anyone else to use reddit due to your actions,......

> https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/36004351293...

> Reddit admins would be fully within their rights to remove moderators who don't even want to stop, just for the fact they are blocking users from freely accessing their own content in the communities they participate in.

###

> If I can be voted out of my community that I created, and built for almost 10 years I will delete every fucking thing and quit this site for good. I will not stand to be overthrown because reddit administration decided to have a pissing match with mods and give all our control to the community. If I let the community run my sub from the beginning I wouldn’t have a sub. I kept it to a standard and that is largely why it has succeeded. I’m not saying I’m the only one that can moderate that sub, but I am the only one with the original vision. If it comes to this I will delete everything and let the next person create it’s replacement.

I found it particularly fascinating that this one got downvoted, when I thought that it was in line with the group think. I guess redditors actually like the idea of voting out mods, but are in too much of an anti-management mood right now?

[1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/14aeq5j/new_admin...
Large Language Models and Search
Or of an actual sensible legislation that requires accountability from AI development and deployment: https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/the-truth-about-the-eu-ac...
It's not illegal to stop paying bills (apart from tax bills) though obviously a pretty brutal strategy.
It would have been incredibly easy to get rid of this by listing it on any online marketplace "free for pickup". There are hundreds of guys who know that many of these will have a simple fix and they get a free generator for a few hours' time. And many other guys who might pull parts or get various other uses out of it.

I still think it was the right call to give it a shot. Save my uncle and myself, nobody I know will try to repair anything themselves.
Facebook — a sinking ship with more people getting on then off: https://www.statista.com/statistics/346167/facebook-global-d...
Have a look at e.g. this presentation: https://web.archive.org/web/20060622072014if_/http://www.tcr...

The state transition graphs of Objectory (Jacobson's method) on the other hand originated in SDL process and procedure diagrams, which were issued in 1976 by CCITT as the Z101 to Z104 recommendations.
I tried moving off Gmail, I really did. But all the EU-based alternatives just suck so much. So now I'm back to Gmail, but I pay for it (Google Workspace). This way I at least have a commercial relationship with Google which gives me various contractual rights, and access to phone support. I also have a contingency plan: I have my email address on my own domain, and I backup my mailbox once in a while, so that I can migrate off Gmail should I need to do that at some point.
I mean, if you are going to be culturally impactful, I think the most important prerequisite is that you are allowed to talk about what you create...
Hardly, with almost 70 forms per verb, many irregular verbs and almost 20 different tenses/modes in Portuguese - German is really a kid's game.
I hope Keep, Scholar, and Google Lens don't go away! I use them extensively, especially, the Google scholar page.
Having things like verbs, and negation at the end also allows to say the total opposite of what the listener might be expecting from the beginning of the sentence.
This is the big difference.

At the time I left Digg for Reddit, Reddit already had a strong community that offered me better content and discussion than Digg.

As far as I can tell, with the exception of perhaps Discord, the alternatives being proposed to
Reddit are asking users to _build_ their community on an alternative platform, not join an existing strong community.

That seems like a bar too high at the moment, though I hope I’m wrong.

That said, I expect it’ll take time. Reddit’s C-Suite have lost the plot, and lost sight of the value of their service and their relationship with their community. I don’t expect them to be supplanted in the next week or two, but I’d be shocked if they were still around at anything like Reddit’s current size and active userbase in a year or two.
An instance is a community, period. This is like trying to argue that subforums on a forum is not a single community. They may be smaller blocks within a larger community, but they still form a larger community as a whole and adhere to a generalized ruleset.

You're the one that keeps comparing it to email, so I recommend you stop. Simple as that. Ctrl-F this thread and every response that has to do with email starts with you. I've explicitly compared it to IRC and forums.

Your last point is incorrect. Beehaw is a reddit alternative. They defederated from other instances because other instances had free registeration, which was resulting in users from that instance trolling and doing low quality posts in their community (according to them). They can do this because the instance is the community.
Is AI solving this already?
Phone support is tied to an account. It doesn't work on random accounts.
I agree, they are clearly eying data access as a revenue source and company moat, and position themselves for the AI boom. But even a much smaller fee would have killed 3rd party clients, and they needed to do that anyway.
eh, I disagree.

Reddit doesn't really have network effects the same as Whatsapp and Facebook.

When I say "network effects" I mean two things:

1, A self-fulfulling draw

2, An increase in the utility the more people exist

So, having everyone on whatsapp means you can have group chats.

Having everyone on facebook means you can plan events.

Reddit kinda doesn't do that, in fact it optimises for a loose coupling of many independent and semi-isolated communities.

It doesn't really take advantage of any network effects; and like Lois Rossman mentions: there is next to no benefit being on reddit than using private forums except having a single login. Which is essentially a solved problem these days because SSO is easy and ubiquitous (thanks google/github!).
I too enjoyed the parent comment. It's right up there with "as soon as we have sufficiently smart enough compilers, that won't be an issue anymore".

I needed to Google SMOP, which tells me: "small matter of programming". Correct?
>My guess is customer support.

I'm inclined to agree. A one-off $12 purchase with a thin margin doesn't pay for much at the Google side. Squarespace are pretty good at support, and they have a lot of upsell potential with their core stuff.

Consider also that Google Workspace with its (presumably?) fatter monthly / annual margins also comes with pretty basic and sometimes semi-opaque support…and that's with Google controlling most or all the moving parts, with no tithe paid to the upstream domain folks.

Google Domains might have been a shortlist for tech-savvy people, but in my experience the Squarespace (and Shopify, and Wix etc) SaaS site builder crowd largely want stuff in the same place as their hosting. Pay one place for domain, DNS, platform, etc. Done.

(PS: I am not /user?id=petercooper replying to himself…)
Do you have any protections against ransomware overwiting your backups too? That's the only thing keeping me from using a solution like this.
> "It's still an useful metric, why not measure and report it?"

What is it actually useful for?
> So until now no quantum processing was reliable. Fool me once...

At a fundamental level, pretty much yes. The trick is to build virtual reliable qubits out of a bunch of fundamentally temperamental ones. At some point we'll be able to trust the virtual qubits keep their state indefinitely, like memory.
> no merge conflicts

In what sense?

I mean, in the following code

# version 0
name = "bob"

I branch and change to

# version 1
name = "alice"

And you update the main branch to

# version 2
name = "clair"

Then I'll still have a merge conflict right?

How does a content addressed AST solve the problem of having a different intent?
Annoying A/B testing mistakes
Im curious about your source on that one, but let's suppose that that statement is true. Couldn't you say the same for Apollo?

So, the large amount of positive reviews for the mobile clients also speak positively for the platform. Is that what you are theorizing?
I agree and share this concern in principle.

But... have you seen the state of GDPR enforcement? Anyone who made an honest effort is fine. I don't know of any GDPR enforcement action where the indicted company wasn't blatantly and willfully violating or ignoring the law.

FWIW, everything I've seen from regulators and the legislators involved in the nitty-gritty of the act seems to suggest that most of them are really smart people who know what they don't know. They know that AI is quickly evolving and the draft of the law goes out of its way to _not_ be too specific about _how_ to comply. E.g., I would not expect the EU (or national regulators) to bring down 'one right way' to report energy consumption.

The fact that they COULD still bothers me.
That's fair, I can see that. That was not my intention.
This is not a fight over access fees, it's a fight for data. The fees are prohibitive deliberately, to guarantee nobody makes more money than Reddit out of user generated data.
There's so much software written against openssl 1.1.1, when you upgrade to version 3.x it's a horror show of deprecations (though things seem to mostly work)... they removed some FIPS functions which broke some code I've tried to compile and I haven't been able to find a solution that works properly without actually changing the source code. Does anyone know about this and what's the appropriate thing to do in such cases where you have thousands of lines of code you have no interest in upgrading, but which no longer compiles on openssl 3?
I think you may be misinterpreting the comment. Parent is simply pointing out that most of the relevant skill in programming comes from on the job training. That's hard to disagree with.
> Every time I fought the double daily standups, the pointless plannings (where we plan when we know nothing, and by the time we get to work on the tasks, everybody forgets what they agreed on), I failed.

That's because indirectly you're suggesting to get rid of people as well. You see, for any pointless ceremony, there's someone (or more) behind it who get paid for that. If you suddendly suggest that perhaps ceremony A and ceremony B don't actually add value (which is probably true), then what you're suggesting is that the people who brought and who offer those ceremonies (typically scrum masters, sometimes PMs) are doing something pointless. You may expect that they won't hear you at all because who likes to hold the "I'm doing pointless stuff and get paid for it" label?

Upper management may know about this, but upper management is too concerned with other topics that they barely listen to the people at the bottom of the ladder.
Texas will require parental consent for kids to use social media
How do they even plan on enforcing this?
Surprisingly no one has mentioned Tildes.net yet. It's something in between reddit and hackernews. Requires an invite to register, though they are quite easy to find.
Because Google is an Ad Company.

Everything else is a hobby. Holding this removes from the focus of bringing up ad revenue. We will see them get rid of a lot of these things.
Yes of course. And that tiny minority of course shares your preferences about UI design.
Would they send me a bill after a night out at the pub?
I think agile estimation is a good pretext to have a discussion about work where things come to attention and things get split up if they begin looking too large. Disciplined and insightful developers can have this discussions spontaneously but those are not the people those rituals are for.

Points and velocity are orthogonal to this. They might give overseers the added benefit of having some estimate. But they bring along the risk that they'll be used for performance assessment which makes them useless for any estimations and horrible for assessment and bring inefficiencies inyo the discussion during estimation and planning.

If points were averaged or forgotten after planning for some teams it might work better.
Is there a tool for moderatorsof private subreddits to scrape the sub's content and upload it elsewhere?
There is a lot of regulation around this sort of thing already, for example some power companies sell AC servicing (motivated by-wanting to prevent under maintained units from causing demand spikes, which would in turn require new plant construction) and this requires the creation of a new independent subsidiary that is not allowed to share data or other resources with the parent company.
Still using my 30 inch Apple Cinema HD everyday, the design is timeless, despite of its size, it blends with the interior like no other monitor
Unfortunately these days Android as pretty close to the iPhone as a walled garden.

There are some open source phone OS based on a more traditional Linux approach (with the usual userspace you find on a Linux Desktop) but so many important apps are only available on the iOS/Play Store duopoly.
The writing thread I had in mind was not being reordered.

Consider instead a loop that walks through an array looking for a value of 8, then writes the address of that value to memory location X.

Another thread can read X, then read the location, and see a number that is not 8 but used to be there before the 8.

That's allowed by the memory model, but is it wrong to say "stale"?

Is it wrong to say that the 8 was set before X was set?
lemmy is looking like it has potential. they certainly have some critical issues to solve before it's familiar enough for plebs.
They may pay for consistency, but they're not really getting it. There hasn't been a year since 'AAA games' were a concept that hasn't had multiple high-profile titles that failed to deliver.
Am I really being subjected to web3 crypto bullshit? No thank you