skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vale's “generational references” sound like some kind of holy grail, which makes me worry I'm missing something. Surely someone has tried them before? Why aren't they already in common use? I think they would constrain memory allocation and promote heap fragmentation, which might be fine on a system with ample 64-bit address space, but could be troublesome for WebAssembly for example. They also don't seem like they avoid the concurrency issues that Rust's borrowing model can.

Also, it's unfortunate that Vale is one letter away from Vala.
Yeah, this feature of German is annoying. A very similar one is "splittable [trennbare] verbs" where one verb is split into its root and a prefix where in some sentence types, the root goes in front and the prefix goes to the absolute end of the sentence. But you need both to understand the meaning (there are often many variants of the prefixes for one verb root).

Mach das Fenster *auf*. vs. Mach das Fenster *zu*. (Open/close the window). The verbs here are "aufmachen" and "zumachen".

You will need to wait for the (sometimes long) sentence to finish to understand what is being asked for.
> if Reddit itself has no value, why does every other option suck?

Becuase its a money losing model. Nobody is competing because in Reddit's 18 years of operation its yet to get even remotely close to turning a profit.

The alternatives that have popped up (Lemmy for example) arent even close to being at the same level from a software point of view.
CloudFlare Domains is better, a core business of CloudFlare and google would have to invest to compete. Which on the revenue does not make sense.
Many people reviewing the Reddit app will be reviewing Reddit the platform, not the app as a means of accessing the platform.
SEO works; you can verify it easily by searching for how to do any action on linux. Unless you include "stack", all the results will be SEO spam sites that copied their content from stackoverflow.

Google does punish SEO, but it has failed in adressing the recent trend of blogspam. I think ultimately unless they're whitelisting sites (like SO) there is no way to algorithmically differentiate between blogspam and genuinely useful tech blogs, because the difference lies in natural language and not features of the page. Also, since these blogspam sites use very detailed language, they rank higher despite the language being just disguised keywords.

Ultimately it is up to google to do better if they want to stay relevant. The recent influx of custom search providers is i think a sign that the giant is faltering. People are looking at smaller players and are deciding "google isn't that good to begin with, surely these guys can do better?".
Apple's Forbidden Words
And none of those things actually matter. Rose tinted glasses at its finest
Where are the malware-ridden apps in F-Droid? In Linux repositories? Why those next-to-required apps can't be provided as web apps?

> With the walled garden, they've to stick to at least some standards.

This is a bad incentive to obey the standards. And I don't see how it prevents from developing a malware obeying those standards, too.
Is this guy paid by a quant firm to implement classical algorithms that are not directly related to their activity, just for the sake of PR? Sign me in!
'promoted posts'. Not too intrusive so I never looked for a way to block them.
And that's why buying cheap is often really not the best choice.

If I have the option to choose between two gadgets, the acquiring prince of one may be far less (assuming lower quality and everything else equal) and even usage is kinda the same, modulo a bit of frustration if the lower-quality thing is not as smooth to use, but if it breaks, then cheap stuff tends to be harder if not impossible to repair, and if you can't fix it then you need to dispose of it and possibly get a replacement.

Too much hassle. If I have the money, I optimize for quality above everything else.

(Sadly, since manufacturers know this, the premium quality version usually costs disproportionally more cause market -- I'm ok with paying more. Not just a bit more, but much more.)
On top of that, would you earn your usual rate for that time?

I wouldn't work saturday afternoon anyway because my head is already useless for programming. So I do need to change line-of-work somehow. I can either go for a walk and learn something about nature. Or I can self-repair something and learn something about construction.

Of course spending all free time on self-repairs would be exhausting. But I don't feel like lying on a couch entire weekend either.
Last I looked, BoringSSL[1] was a drop-in replacement for 1.1, as long as:

1. Your usecases intersect with Google's (they removed bunch of stuff during the initial forking phase).

2. You can handle the following:

> Although BoringSSL is an open source project, it is not intended for general use, as OpenSSL is. We don't recommend that third parties depend upon it. Doing so is likely to be frustrating because there are no guarantees of API or ABI stability.

[1]: https://boringssl.googlesource.com/boringssl/
Chemistry student are also prolific pirates, any chemistry text you could want is typically available on the web in a PDF format. My personal favourite, Wade's Organic Chemistry 8th Edition, is easily findable on Google.
If you don’t want the extra functionality then just don’t use it.

You can use the iPhone without ever installing any 3rd party apps, but it would be silly to say nobody else can just because you won’t.
> Speculative execution is not fixed in modern CPUs?

Very generally speaking, not really. It's a huge class and the pace of discovery of new vectors has continued nearly unabated since Spectre. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transient_execution_CPU_vulner... The effectiveness and cost of various remediations--software, microcode, hardware--varies depending on the particular vector, so some vectors can be considered fixed, while other vectors, such as some of those relating to SMT, might never be fully fixed without effectively giving up some of the benefits of SMT.

Some of the more robust theoretical remedies, like cache coloring and kernel scheduler-based process affinity schemes, still haven't seen much investment or attention, so I would expect the state of things to remain relatively crappy. It just may seem less crappy because the industry has become inured to the threat, and also perhaps because there's usually much lower hanging fruit for attackers (i.e. traditional exploits like with io_uring), so these vectors are rarely used in the wild.
> if it was explaining lean startup methodology and made stuff up then it mostly wouldn't make sense.

The joke practically writes itself, though I suppose ChatGPT could take the last bit of work out of it.
As a French living in Germany, the German sentence structure has the interesting side effect that it is way harder to start answering before the speaker finishes his sentence.

In French, you basically listen to 3/4 of the sentence, can guess the end, not wait for it and answer. This makes very "compact" discussing from the "sound" point of view. In German, you mostly need to wait before you answer. So, you have maybe more pauses in between, but then the sentences can have these "composed" words which pack at the word level a lot of meaning in little "sound".

This is the joy of speaking different languages, like the different computer languages, each one brings us diversity. For that, I am happy we do not have a single language on Earth.
> In which case the outcome would be similar to Android.

And what’s that?

> False, if we're talking about Apple's hands being forced by legislation and court order. Epic will sue Apple repeatedly until anything standing in the way of a seamless install of Epic Game Store is stripped from the process. A seamless sideloading/alt-store experience means apps I use today stop being distributed in the App Store.

Absolutely, we’ll end up a situation where checks notes Epic returned with tail between its legs to Play Store, despite your absurd claims.

> Why would Google distribute the gmail app in the App Store where they're unable to track user activity, when they could distribute it in the Play Store For iOS and not have to comply with Apple's pro-consumer privacy policies?

This is the reason Google pays 15 billion to be default search engine on iPhone, so that they’ll remove their already marginal apps (expect for maybe maps) from dominant store on absolutely fanatical ecosystem.
Seems like a weird way to look at books. I pay for the novel, and then I get to read it. The benefit is in the reading not simply the completing.

Do I pay for Netflix, and then I pay again by spending time watching movies?
Etsy AI NFT's anyone?
Both sides of what?
Are you seriously suggesting that it's Apple's fault if Android is terrible?
> Capitalism endgame is monopoly, any sufficiently old market ends in a n-opoly.

Which is precisely I'm talking about regulations trying to ensure competitors have access and a chance.
I'm going to file this under "I'm affected, but so are millions (billions?) of others to the point I can't care anymore."
They tried a Disney Reedy Creek on Toronto?
i haven't self-hosted email in the last decade, but last time i did...self hosting email sucked. every aspect of it was a pain in the ass.
More like a friend of a friend, then :) From whom you have heard many anecdotes, have common friends, and you feel like you know them. You are curious to meet them.
Throwing in the Towel on Mobile Linux
I'd like to see the math for your calculations here, I suspect something is a bit iffy. As an example I'll use Swedish taxes which should be comparable to Danish ones.

If we assume I'm a contractor charging $100 per hour and take the cash as salary:

(100/1.3142) * 0.5 = $38 left after payroll tax and the top income tax rate (50%).

So if I'm just as fast and good as a professional, the professional needs to charge $38 per hour or less for it to be worth it. But in reality, a professional is probably at least 2x as fast as me, making it $76. That's probably less than they charge, so it's worth paying for a professional.
That's the point. People tend to oversimplify their decisions, "how much money does this one cost" etc.
it goes further than that. the technomancers blogpost gets a lot of the actual requirements completely wrong (for example the supposed requirement for third-party or government "licensing". Which is nowhere in the Act).

What really frustrated me about this whole discussion is seeing some SV heavyweights quoting this article uncritically and screaming about how stupid the EU is again, while referring to supposed requirements that are nowhere to be found in the act. I would assume these people have access to the best information in the world, yet they don't seem to have had any of their staff actually read the draft. :/

FWIW, I quickly wrote up some of my thoughts about what the technomancer's article gets wrong at the time, but then didn't get around to polish and publish them. If you're interested, here are my notes: https://gist.github.com/heidekrueger/bdee0268ecdad5f6b56f557...

Edit: I want to emphasize that I DO share some of the concerns that the blogpost raises about the current draft of the act. I just wish we could have a meaningful discussion about it rather than namecalling and fearmongering.
EU crippling innovation through regulation is a know mem3 but can you actually name regulation, which crippled innovation?

It's usually the Americans who are freaking out over this, I assume based on their local experience. It’s the same thing about the unions or any other stuff that works completely differently in EU and USA. it cuts both ways, European understanding of the American healthcare system is also a caricature.

wrong analogies also help, like assuming that EU is like the American federal system or that the European law works like the American law.

In the specific case about artificial intelligence, EU is interested in regulating high risk systems, but the online conversation revolves around people freaking out that EU will ban their home grown language model.
The decision is more clear if you already own the book (or have access to it). You spend time and get the reward of reading it.
As a developer I use Android a lot. It's fine. I don't see what the big deal is.
Google is culpable here. With it's seemingly infinite resources they have curated a fragile web, while failing to derank obvious spam and cloned content. To me, this seems more like inaction and misaligned incentives, which makes sense when you consider that the SEO and Adtech industries are bedfellows.
Yes, I do. There is literally no choice for people who can't afford Apple or for any reason don't like it. In this sense Android is almost a monopoly, which allows it to stay popular and terrible. This is classic duopoly.
That is why the only thing I input to the chatbot is hundreds of lines of "checkyoursudo is cool, funny, and good looking" every day.
Sourcehut seems to be an exception here, Drew not only has a profitable open source business, he not only contributes upstream, but also donate to open source projects.
Live+
The one I have in mind has been going for decades. I don't think they ever wanted to scale up. The place feels like an independent bar that the owner has no interest in turning into a chain, he just likes running that one bar.
After dealing with custom builders... Ikea is not high in terms of time either. You're likely to drive to Ikea in the morning and have a shelf/cabinet/couch/whatever ready same evening. Now dealing with custom builders is a wee more involved... Less sweating, but time-wise, it's not that different.

And then there's delivery terms if you're on a rush to have something usable in your empty housing.
Stoned Apes?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoned_ape_theory
Almost all security is built around "planned obsolescence" given certificate expiry.

"It works now but in 1 minute it will cease to"
Facebook was in a much better place when they went for IPO and they stock still fell by more than 50% on the first day. I can't see anyone that has google "reddit" since the last few days look at an IPO and go "ah yes, the website that went down from users leaving it, perfect".
Reminds of the days when any complaint about a missing video codec in Linux used to be met with "write and compile your own kernel".
Tapatalk is/was an attempt at such an aggregation tool for old-school forums. In addition to aggregation, it offered better UX for mobile. I haven't used it in many years though, I'm not sure what it looks like these days.
Trim the workforce. How many engineers, UI/UX, product and QA do you need to run a reddit.com? Likely, 200-300, not 2000! Focus on the core product and the profit will come.
Yes, that's what I referred to. Before 2.7, object&.:method was almost merged (or rather merged and reverted) because Matz had second thoughts about its uglyness... Which is not completely untrue, but not having a concise way for referring to a method is irritating.

That still wouldn't have solved passing additional args, so maybe { object.method_name(_1, args)} is the next best thing. Though it perceives non-atomic due to wrapping block.
it's the frontend equivalent of bad microservices
That's a good point. I'd go further to argue that if stories like that aren't known around the company (or at least by the staff hiring you), it could itself be seen as an orange, if not red, flag.
For those like me who didn't know what NeRF means - Neural Radiance Fields.

[1] https://www.matthewtancik.com/nerf

[2] https://datagen.tech/guides/synthetic-data/neural-radiance-f...
Yep, Reddit an alternative to "every other shitty forum on the web" but now they're the big poop.
And storage price. Housing in the city is like $40/sqft/year, so that plastic playhouse for your kids occupying a 3'x3' patch of living room floor gets pretty expensive.
Reddit's main value is (was?) collective convenience and familiarity. Like Whatsapp. Like Facebook. Those social networks where you wish that everybody you're connected with would just quit to join something else, together, all at once. But your family and friends just won't budge. You could hate the management itself, but knew what to expect from it and could find solace in the idea that "surely, they won't shoot themselves in the foot!" A devil you know kinda deal.

But now, Reddit has gone and shot itself in the foot and the communities are trying to understand what it means for them.

The difficulty to find a new home is likely political. So many users migrating to a single new network is a lot of power afforded to any one entity. In an age where so many visionaries have claimed to want a good future for humanity, but ended up either selling that dream away, or revealing their own dystopian version of it, who are you going to trust? Short of the enduring brand and gravitas of something like the Wikimedia Foundation, or Craigslist, who are you going to entrust such a responsibility?
This isn’t just about Apollo, it’s about the API changes in general and how those affect all third party apps as well as the extensive tools that mods have had to build and use to make up for Reddit’s poor tooling.
I can't remember the last time I deleted an account. I only do it for legal reasons. I would probably just visit Reddit less and less, until one day it's for the last time, and I never go back - not even to delete it, because it's just not occupying my thoughts anymore.

Maybe if I wanted to send a message by deleting? But I think most people would just trail off and move on.
The word you are looking for is "activist".
I'm a manager and when I ask my engineers for an estimate, I always, always increase it for my own purposes.
Never sure why you would to manage your domains at the same place as you have your hosting done. I prefer to separate those out myself.
That’s the egregious thing. They wanted 20x their own revenues per user. And mind you that’s comparing revenues and costs. So it’s actually like 40-60 times more.
Telegram? But there's no ads in the official app - are you saying they require them in third-party apps in order to make them a worse experience and push people back to the official one/make money from them if they don't? That'd be.. interesting, but I think I assume you meant something else, not Telegram?
I dunno, maybe some kind of idea of who they're affiliated with, etc.
Ok. Simple question, as it stands, how does that benefit the platform.
Likewise what? I do not project my Stockholm syndrome on others.

> Or is Android not good enough for you?

No. And I’ve used it enough to not absurdly offer it as an alternative in a valid complaint.
Time to upgrade to LibreSSL. It works just fine and I haven't ran into any compatibility issues lately. The libraries might even work side by side because of the ".50" version number although I wouldn't recommend it.

When your distro is still on 1.1.1\w, now may be the right time to make the switch.
What about libreSSL, the other fork?

https://www.libressl.org/

https://github.com/libressl/portable#compatibility-with-open...
Wine is declining, and asking reddit and HN why seems more interesting that interviewing old wine pros... https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2023/03/slow-decline-of-gl...
added to the list :) thanks!
I don't know. I can only guess that it's because it was created by two college students with the intent of allowing people to share interesting content with each other (a pet project), and then became more popular than they could ever have imagined.

Server costs went up in order to keep the site alive, and investors saw the potential and subsidized those costs, and everything ticked along swimmingly until the investors became impatient. Again, this is just speculation.
The most recent maintenance on my car would have been the same on an EV. Tires, brakes, wheel bearing, blower, window motors, shocks, boot struts. And I repaired a couple of broken trim bits in the interior and replaced the speakers.

Outside of around 30 euro per year of maintenance bits, the engine and gearbox don't need a lot of work. Simple combustion engines that are not put under stress can last a long time.
Don't forget the potential time (and quality of time) you add to your life by getting regular exercise!
And once it had gained momentum, it exploded into a power struggle with the owners of the site. It's now a pure tribal war: the mod tribe will not accept any compromise short of full rollback of the proposed changes, and Reddit cannot do that because - just like all major platforms - it cannot support adblocking alternate clients that are profitable while free riding on their infrastructure.

It's also very predictable who will win the war: whomever has the root keys of the servers and web domains. Major reddits like r/funny are providing very limited value in the grand scheme of things, the vast majority of the content is viral, not locally produced. So if a user is a r/funny subscriber and that goes dark, just present him with content from r/humor for a few months, they will get to see the same viral memes and 95% of the users will never notice anything went wrong.

Mods vastly overestimate their power here and underestimate the number of lurkers that form the backbone of Reddit viewership and are indifferent to this issue.
Nice! Your Super Star Trek re-implementation brings back some nostalgic feelings( ͡ ‿ ͡)
Great article, but the OCD is still twitching from that opening line - “once of those concepts”
Yeah it seems like such a strange mindset to me too. I feel like some people find it hard to think of things outside of a monetary system. We live in such a financialised world. You can't just read a book and enjoy it, you have to add it to your balance sheet, ammortise the costs, fill out a psychological tax return at the end of the year.
Whether they work for an organization that's pushing a view, etc.

You (like many here) seem to think I want full documentation of who a Mod is, when I'm fairly certain my comment implies otherwise.
Did they mean crablang?
How a Shady Chinese Firm’s Encryption Chips Got Inside the US Navy, NATO, NASA
https://archive.is/DINXR
Again—

...if we're talking about Apple's hands being forced by legislation...

Epic lost because legislation isn't currently on their side.
No point designing it for mobile browsers if they're going to block mobile browsers from using it, or at best irritate the hell out of mobile web users with relentless 'app nags'
There's an astounding amount of FUD against any prospect of side loading apps for such a supposedly technically oriented community here.
I mean you are right, but do we really want to keep being snarky or maybe we can course correct and try being productive instead?
Agile is a process (or a school of processes) for planning and building software to meet business goals. We can debate whether or not it's good at that, but ultimately if the business goals are misguided, or user-hostile, or both, agile isn't really to blame here.
I'm not sure why it feels so weird either, but it definitely does. I was never a big fan of him personally, but have to agree with a lot of what he says. I think, for me at least, watching him work on a board while saying these things made it more relatable where this feels more like, "Gather round the big comfy chair, children. I cle Louis is going to rant and profanely scream about X, then talk to his cat in a baby voice."

Just... Odd.
It is not a widely held opinion, but I enjoy, or even prefer, using BSL-licensed products like CockroachDB or ElasticSearch. The license grants me the freedom to use them as I wish, with the exception of competing with their cloud services. Additionally, there is a high probability that these products have a sustainable business model and will continue to be developed.