skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It seems that the same people that complain that China is building too many coal plants are the same people that complain that China builds 80% of the world's batteries and 80% of the world's solar panels.

Usually these are two different sets of people. But people tend to assign an homogenous identity to all China critics. In fact, I don't think anyone is really complaining about Chinese solar panels beyond dumping allegations (that they are selling them undercost to force out international competitors), battery is just another variation of pollution concerns and hoarding of rare earth minerals (which really aren't that rare). Coal plants, well, it really only affects China. My complaints about them came from living in Beijing during bad AQI days.

> But those in glass houses shouldn't be throwing stones.

I believe this phrase was coined by Kruschev when he invented the what aboutism.
Tech vendors have been hiking prices by up to 24% amid inflation
> you could comply with both at once by not selling cars in Massachusetts

Massachussetts would be banning the registration of new cars. Manufacturers wouldn't have a choice because they can't comply with the Massachussetts law. Maybe consumers who don't want to register their cars will still buy, I don't know.

It's a high-stakes gamble at pressuring the NHTSA. There are likely better ways to do that than shutting down the state's car business.
onclick and other in-HTML handlers have some unsafe eval-like behavior for old compatibility reasons (with ES1 and the old web/old DOM) and I feel like the CSP designers were overly-cautious of XSS exploits via DOM manipulation that are hard to do in practice, but still in theory a major security concern.

I wonder if there were a better way to opt-in to "use strict" (and maybe even ESM friendliness) in onclick handlers if that would have fewer CSP concerns. I doubt there are any current proposals to build such tools for HTML, though.
As for the question of implementing a user-mode filesystem by implementing a SMB server, you can't really do it. Windows takes up all the ports on your own host. You'd need to do a lot of trickery to stop Windows itself from eating up the SMB ports, and install a "Loopback Adapter".
Pretty much all modern Open World RPGs have real time combat and are therefore called action RPGs, e.g. by Wikipedia. But a game like Elden Ring doesn't seem to me particularly Diablo-like.
> ...the interests of corporations are often at odds with the interests of every day people.

The same can be said for governments themselves, and vocal self-righteous minorities on the internet...
It certainly feels that way. Scams and fraud grow more common and brazen by the day.
If I were to dumb this down (so I can understand it), is this a fair analogy to the adage "give 1 million monkeys 1 million typewriters and they'll eventually type the entire works of William Shakespeare"?

Somewhere in pi (at some insane offset) is the entire work of William Shakespeare.

Is that the basic idea here?
>As if the current mods are any different?

People haven't liked this much when I've said it in the past, but I think there's more to this than just API pricing. I think there's a lot of general discontent about how reddit works that saw people more likely to support this strike. Some because it was the last straw, some to watch it burn.

While I do think reddit is blundering and taking their free labor and content for granted, I think the power mods and more generally the karma system create a lot of anger that has piggybacked on this.

I think you're right, but I think the new ones will be even worse and may actually cause the user exodus that will hurt them. It's these second order effects that Reddit doesn't seem to be taking into account because they're so confident this is mostly inside baseball to the average user.

Yes, as far as API pricing. No as far as the enshittification with "new" styling, NFTs, and all the other dumb shit. And the power mods.
What Spez is wrong about is the "opportunity cost" of third party apps that he keeps citing as reason for his "business decision." He has no basis to assume that the same people who use third party apps will use the official reddit app, or ever spend any money on reddit.
This is not at all a dupe, and feels like HN is censoring this post.
lobste.rs maybe?

https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters
I still use Reddit and I get that beloved people get fired for any number of reasons, but AMAs have been noticeably worse since Victoria’s time running them.

I actually can’t think of more than a handful of examples of great AMAs the last few years. At one point it was a press stop for almost anyone famous doing a tour, and that doesn’t seem to be true anymore.
Seems a bit pricey.
One moderator (who has since been removed) would regularly remove anything critical of gnome or systemd, and would hand out bans to anyone they considered to be "bullying" either of those groups. I think their standard for bullying were pretty low, it was more that they wouldn't tolerate any criticism at all, but your mileage may vary.
This is must be a parody, right?

No, they chose to have a site funded by ads. If you don't want to be advertised to, get off Reddit.
A JVM based framework named "Spark", when https://spark.apache.org exists?
If they're undeleting anything they're going to get fucked by EU privacy regulations. I hope they are.
I mean I would actually agree with a little diplomacy, but I get the feeling as soon as this is implemented there'll suddenly be a bunch of brand new accounts spawned to vote out the moderators of those communities who are protesting right now...
I don't have to abstain from using reddit. They're the ones who need to stop sending me free web pages. If they care so much about getting paid, all they need to do is have their web servers return 402 Payment Required and only resume service after payment is confirmed.

Their advertising bullshit though? They're knowingly sending me stuff for free. They chose to do it. I won't be guilted into accepting abuse based on that. They did so hoping I was gonna look at the ads but the truth is I'm under exactly zero obligation to actually do that. So I won't.
I would start with the roadmap:

https://roadmap.sh/devops
Forced to not sell cars. Unless Massachusetts tries to play a game of "cars do not need to be certified under the FMVSS to be registered".
More of an analogy. If you kidnap US citizens then (officially) the US won't negotiate with terrorists to set the hostages free. People shouldn't try negotiating with reddit admins.
Illinois also just banned the practice of banning books :)
With respect, your argument is poorly informed and seems extrapolated from media stories. I don't know if you live in Chicagoland or not --- the belief you're expounding on is prevalent in suburban Chicago as well. It's false.

Once again: one of the wealthiest suburbs in Chicago is directly adjacent to Austin. I live in that suburb, across a street (that street would be Austin) from the neighborhood. People in Oak Park commute, on bicycles, through Austin. Notably, in the ~20 years I've lived here, I haven't heard a single story about any of those people being shot. Austin residents patronize our businesses. Much of Austin is middle class.

Austin is a troubled neighborhood (it is literally ground zero for US housing segregation), but it is absolutely not a "no-go zone". Words mean things. Ironically, people who "go" to Austin are probably much safer (essentially they _are_ safe there) than young male Black residents, who are the exclusive targets of the gang violence that occurs there.

You get the same weird arguments about the neighborhoods immediately surrounding Hyde Park on the south side, and the same rebuttals apply.
It all depends on us now. If we just leave our content there and don't delete our users, it will continue like nothing happened.
And this is why I always say that "but but but the mods aren't getting paid" argument makes no sense. Clearly the mods are getting _something_ out of modding, and that's their reward.
> mods are already power hungry lunatics and your most obsessed power hungry mod

I mean, here you are just describing the mods that are holding these subreddits hostage. It seems appropriate for reddit to return these to the community in the case where the obsessed power hungry mod's behavior goes against what the community wants.
Yeah whether he’s ‘right’ is kind of immaterial - he’s shown himself to be untrustworthy, and that’s enough for me. I don’t deal with liars, they’re not worth my time.
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does that scale to high-dimensions? IIUC the photon mapping procedure typically uses a kd-tree to find closer/farther candidates, and if you consider something like ada embeddings (1536 dim), that would be very computationally intense. photon mapping feels like a 3D problem
Morally sure. When we all start dying anyways, then all bets are off.
I posit that this means there is (c)

Mods are out, making a tempest in a teapot, but consumers are fine -for now. Medium/longerm, no one really knows if mods will permanently quit, and whether anyone replacing them (or not) will have an effect in traffic.

It appears like a bet. Not sure if its one i'd take though if i were the CEO.
Sort by date <https://hn.algolia.com/?query=low%20background%20steel&sort=...> and skim through and you’ll see it’s way lower. The considerable majority of those matches are about actual low-background steel for its own sake, not for analogy with pre-LLM data (or once, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32097752, pre-microtransaction games!). Nuclear-related topics come up pretty regularly on HN.

Five pages of results; past the first page, there are only five relevant matches. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23895706 three years ago (when it wasn’t yet a problem, but it was obvious it could become a problem), then the rest all within the last year (mostly this year) (when it is obviously becoming a problem), about thirty in total, half of which are multiple related comments. So the true number of times the prediction or analogy has been made is under twenty so far, and they’re mostly saying “like someone recently said” rather than coming up with the analogy by themselves.

The number seemed unrealistically high and I was curious. Now I have an answer! :-)
And the constitution has a mechanism for determining what falls within the scope of the constitution and that mechanism says this falls within the scope of the constitution.
> Also worth noting: according to the ToS Reddit can actually do whatever they want with existing content, apparently we agreed to this when signing up.

not sure if this meant as sarcasm or not
True, although given there's no real competition to Reddit, I personally find it difficult to believe this particular scenario

> something more obvious right now given how bad the astroturfing campaign is. one word reviews?

I imagine one doesn't have a good way of making sure they'll get good, quality fake reviews from farms in 3rd world countries. But also, it's about as bad (in terms of PR) as spez's communications and interview so
Not option on exchange, but option on use.
But we were told "You can access all content in the lemmyverse from any server/instance" (1). If lemmyworld is a "problematic" instance, why is it one of the recommended sites to join? Seems like the messaging is confusing for new users.

(1) https://join-lemmy.org/instances
You can't do anything about that.
Most of them will will be in it for themselves but when they start getting ideas that they own the place (like the current ones think) you cull them
The response from the NHTSA highlights an interesting mismatch...

> The NHTSA said a malicious actor "could utilize such open access to remotely command vehicles to operate dangerously, including attacking multiple vehicles concurrently."

Yet, the Mass law is looking for...

> allow independent repair shops to access diagnostic data that newer cars can send directly to dealers and manufacturers to allow consumers to seek repairs outside dealerships.

It sounds like the same access to get data on the vehicles also allows control. For auto companies to comply with both laws could be possible but that it would require more fine grained access controls.

Or, am I missing something?
Now do private companies providing the phone call service. Now do commissary. Now the computers where you pay per minute to write and read emails. Now do UNICOR (like forced labor for McDonalds Corporation who has UNICOR do the CAD work for their franchise store remodels all the way to CAD work being done on the new World Trade Center).
I wonder what dang thinks about that for HN?

I'm not sure how you would properly prompted LLM change moderating standards based on community feedback? Sticky threads for popular topics? Have the understanding of things like local politics or a newly released game in 2023 to be able to separate out bad faith discussion from real? Reddit isn't twitter where the main thing the mods do is remove abusive replies. They're community crafters and maintainers.
Near the very top of the page, Paul says that there is a newer version[1] and that if you're not sure, you should go with the newer version instead of this.

I think with the target audience for this, you should just go immediately to the newer version[1].

1. https://www.hackingwithswift.com/100/swiftui
No, classic forums never really offered threaded discussions alike to HN or Reddit.

IPB and vBulletin had "threaded" mode where you would see a tree of replies, but it would only display a single reply, requiring you to manually select next reply to see in the UI.

In future I plan to track which post the poster clicked "reply" for and have UI to let you see direct replies to given posts, or see that post was made as a direct reply to other post, but I am not planning a "proper" tree view like how reddit does it.

Also some good opinion pieces from Discourse's creator on the subject:

https://blog.codinghorror.com/web-discussions-flat-by-design...
https://blog.codinghorror.com/discussions-flat-or-threaded/
Oh yes! Same for Wordpress. And then you try to combine two mods but the patches don't merge cleanly.

I remember when Drupal introduced actual plugin hooks how revolutionary that felt :D
Lemmy's user base doubled since Monday and heading towards 200,000 plus right now. I definitely think there's a migration, even if it isn't all of Reddit.
Porkbun has better prices and better UI. Namecheap ruined their UI a few years ago. I also have issues with their autorenew.
"weapons" should be missing the "s" to reduce ambiguity in that case. Right now it reads like (weapons) and (facial recognition). "weapons recognition" doesn't quite sound right to me.
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My favorite solution requires a bit of tech work but is very viable. Users can subscribe to a subreddit, but also to specific moderators. If you don't like how someone moderates, unsubscribe to their moderation, and their changes and actions get removed from your feed. Simple.

This ties back into how "freedom to listen" is way more important than "freedom of speech" Though freedom of speech is a prerequisite for freedom to listen. If person X wants to say something and person Y wants to read it, moderator Z shouldnt be allowed to interfere. But you still need moderation or the webpage gets filled with spam and crap. So the solution is simple, if you don't like a moderator, unsubscribe from them and it's done.

Or if you see something you don't want to see, click a button to block it, then you get a popup with a list of moderators who have already moderated it, and the user gets an option to subscribe to them after looking at their mod history.
Nope, all DIY, which is quite likely foolish!

https://github.com/DamonHD/statsHouse
What right of yours was violated if you were flagged by facial recognition?
Everyone saw this coming. Still, it's disappointing to see. I will be taking my valuable 0.12$ elsewhere thank you very much.
the site isn't free, the cost of using it is the ads.
OK, so you do post them for the benefit of replies from other people. Other people who are contributing back to you. Makes sense.

I still don't understand why you delete them afterwards when that takes effort. That has a cost, and it negatively impacts others.
It depends. There are two options of generational references we've been experimenting with:

* Table-based generational references where the generations are stored in a separate table, and we retire overflowed slots. This is guaranteed memory-safe.

* Random generational references which are stochastic and enable storing objects on the stack, and inline in arrays and objects.

The latter's memory safety depends on definitions and baseline:

* It's not as safe as completely memory-safe languages like Typescript/Javascript.

* It's safer than C or C++.

* It could be more safe or less safe than Rust, where most programs use unsafe directly or in (non-stdlib) dependencies [0]. For mutable aliasing, instead of trying to properly use unsafe in Rust, a Vale program would use generational references which are checked (leaving aside the RC capabilities of both languages).

It's a very strong stochastic measure. Whereas simple memory tagging uses 4 bits and has a false positive rate of 6%, these are using 64 bits for a rate close to zero. Combined with how they fail very loudly, invalid-dereference bugs don't lie in stealth for years as they can in unsafe and C programs.

Additionally, one can code in a way that doesn't use any generational references at all. Ada has SPARK, Rust has Ferrocene, and Vale has linear style + regions [1].

Still, if one doesn't want to think about any of this, then safer languages like TS/JS are great options.

You're correct that if a generation leaks then it could be a problem for this C-like's approach. Vale largely solves this by making it so the user code can't read a generation (though like in any language, unsandboxed untrusted code can get around that of course).

[0] https://2020.icse-conferences.org/details/icse-2020-papers/6...

[1] https://verdagon.dev/blog/first-regions-prototype
I'm not scared, I live in a country with some sanity. But jetliners around the world also have flight deck doors. You are being a bit silly, airflight was new, a few pretty serious incidents occured, we put in some doors and the potential for it to happen again goes away.

It's less like an imaginary tiger and more like patching a really obvious risk with a cheap solution. Rather than relying on some wild dramatic movie hero scenario to play out, just close a little door. No big deal.
Better off without.
What a ridiculous statement.

Why did I read the comments section...
Axon has openly floated the idea.
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Maybe it is good lesson to teach them early that on average no body truly cares. And those who present they do lie. Or they would make very drastic different choices.
Drone means flying drones here. What about land based robots? Can they still put a shotgun on one of those to blow away a suspicious package? Can they still use a robot to breach a door? Can they use facial recognition software on footage recovered from a land based drone?
agree. the technology is exceptionally useful and banning it doesn't stop already corrupt LEO from fudging evidence. they should be removed entirely. individually, many forms of evidence in forensic science are complete BS but as part of a whole they add value. its the same with facial recognition. this is just a kneejerk reaction that sounds good on headlines and for politics but doesn't actually help anyone.
same, but for r/music for praising songs that have fade out endings
The old PhpBB/VBulletin format has a certain familiar charm to it, but I find it hard to go back after using modern forum systems like Discourse that fix a lot of the old paradigm's UX shortcomings.

Anyone have experience with Flarum (https://flarum.org)? I've been peripherally aware of it for years (it it looks like it's still quite active on GitHub) and it looks like a nice lighter-weight alternative to Discourse which I know gets some flak for being resource-heavy.
Pi is a number. You can approximate it to an arbitrary degree of precision by computing a function, but the map is not the territory.
> I have no idea why someone would put the time required into moderating a large sub for no money just for Reddit’s benefit

feeling of power and purpose?
>Reddit isn't a community service.

Who do you think creates all the content? The community is all there is, and Reddit the company adds zero value other than paying for servers to host the data. They managed to create one of the worst performing and buggy websites on the internet by burning through millions of investment money. It's more pathetic than anything.
He won't end up a billionaire, but I'd be shocked if he won't come out this with a multiple of his current net worth. This is, if he's there for a successful IPO, which is growing more doubtful by the day.
Lot's of people would love to take over as the new mods. The current mods aren't quiting for a reason, they enjoy it.
Right, the potential energy due to stress in the crust could be released to kinetic energy by a falling feather or some cosmic rays, would be the idea. There doesn't need to be the same energy in cosmic rays as released by the earthquake.
Calling it now. Reddit will supply the firehose of data to OpenAI in return for AI moderators. Boom. Human problems solved.
That is (1) not true and (2) meaningless given most of those polls were brigaded by a small set of vocal whiny users voting in subreddits they aren't even involved in (3) even given both if those, I doubt you can find a poll for a large subreddit that shows even 10% of users supporting a blackout.
> I never claimed either were acceptable or unacceptable

and

> Love how you're trying to justify degrees of acceptable misogynist terms

So you are not saying either are unacceptable, and you endorse 'acceptable' misogyny. So you are a misogynist, but an ok one.

Very well.
Related : Earthquakes here on earth DO emit light !!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_lights
This seems like a sub-optimal way of finding top talent, even though the results still speak for themselves. Obviously Jane Street has had a lot of success using brain teasers to screen for talent.

If i were a hedge fund recruiter, here is what I would do:

Go on /r/ wallstreetbets and find guys who consistently are pulling huge $ like this guy:

https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/14a9xyi/11m...

Send a DM job offer to all of them, 7 figures plus performance comp , or at least an interview that will be paid anyway, so as to not waste the recipient's time.

Why ask brain teasers to try to find skills that correlate with trading when you can just pick out the best traders who already have demonstrable skill? that is how sports recruiting works. they find the people who can play the sport at best level.
I think /u/spez needs to take a look at /r/maliciouscompliance.
I cant see how actions like this wont lead to malicious modding to destroy the communities they helped foster.
Can you elaborate the rights I would sign away when I would enroll in the Global Entry program?