skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, if we feel better because we own it for the simple "fact" that we own it, that is the utility we have from it.

That said, we rarely get such a thing in anything we can acquire with only money as a price. For example it’s well known and documented that taking time into meditation sessions will give us many benefits, but no amount of book or titles like "special contributor of the temple" that we can acquire by throwing money at it will give us these same benefits.

Money can buy us the prestige and some kind of social obedience, but it won’t auto-magically cultivate our mental flow into sane dynamics.

Also let’s remember that there is no ownership outside of a society that recognizes us some form of prioritised policy implementation over some limited matter. So we can’t own anything without paying some price to remain included in this society. That’s the 0th price of any ownership, could we say.
> but lame minions memes

I feel like there's irony to be found in Facebook holdovers posting minions memes amongst themselves, but I'm going to hold off on explicitly trying to find it in fear that I don't actually know what irony means.
I work for Fermyon, but have been at a major cloud provider in the past, working with cloud for a decade now.

Spin and Fermyon Cloud is a really nice and easy way to get started: https://developer.fermyon.com/cloud/quickstart. It doesn't introduce a whole lot of the inner workings of a cloud. With a lot of other services you'll fairly quickly get to the point, where you'll have to dive in to concepts of distributed systems and infra.

If you want to work with containers and servers in the cloud, fly.io is really easy to get started with as well.
The article doesn't address the obvious question: why skip the Model II?
This deserves its own thread HN. I don't have minimal knowledge on Kernel yet I understood many things about io_uring
Revolut investor cuts book value by 40%
... a "clear alternative" that has downsides too, that someone might very well consider to be equally bad or worse. Which they somehow only could point out as long as they didn't choose it?
What I found out, is that it takes a painter team two days, and it takes an untrained single person two weeks.

I once wasted my whole holiday on painting the house. And it wasn't well done, because it was my first time. I'll probably not do it again, unless I don't have other work.
Yeah sure. But that's not Monty hall. "Life" is something you experience, not something that you know like "no car behind that door". You know after the fact.
Of all the services I expected them to keep, Google Domains was in the top 3.

Now I genuinely think they could sell search soon.
Hackernews and kbin.social have mobile websites that actually work well. Much better than Reddit.

I‘m more afraid about the backend side of things, apparently those decentralized services are not at all ready to scale to a lot of users.
> having to conform to the center of the venn diagram or else you get shut off

There's no shutting off. The instances that are blocked still work.

It's like email. If cheapviagrapillz.com is identified as sending a substantial amount of spam, they will be blacklisted. Their server still works, they can still send emails, but many servers will not accept those emails.
> If your motorcycle only supported leaded gas could you use it?

Yes! It was the case with the previous one (the one that got stolen); all I had to do was add a few drops of a special liquid every time I filled her up. No problem at all.
Isn't that just outing themselves? If they were able to release scores of emails where former partners use vile language, are we really expected to believe these were two isolated bad apples rather than the norm for this organization.

The pettiness of it seems to suggest the whole batch is rotten.
Editor Extraordinaire? Perhaps, but Remnick does a shit job of making the case. He retells stories too often told, and without doing the work of the writer: to make us see something we could not have otherwise imagined.

The N Yorker suffers from chronic digititis: the loss of quality in the pursuit of senseless quantity
1. You are right that it probably won't happen if Apple is only required to make side-loading technically possible but not seamless. But somehow I doubt that if Governments force Apple to permit side-loading by law, entities like Epic won't repeatedly abuse the courts to ensure Apple makes side-loading as seamless as possible. This is OS design by legislation and court order. Therefore the analogy to Android is obviously absurd and irrelevant.

2. Your lack of empathy is noted. But thanks for acknowledging that what I described is a real problem.

3. There are government regulations, therefore there should be more government regulations. Is that an argument?
It's not $2 per month to the end user. Reddit wants to charge the wholesaler $2.50 per month. The developer needs to keep the lights on, so they need to charge more than that. There are server costs for Apollo, tech support, accounting, refunds, etc. Apple and Android take their 15-30% cut. The developer indicated a break-even price of between $5-$7. I'd be perfectly happy to pay $2/m for Reddit, and I'm happily donating to kbin.social to keep them running. The interface is much better than Reddit. Despite the lack of funding, their incentive is to create a great user experience.

It's important to remember that that $2.50 Reddit is charging isn't their cost. They're a business and they're baking in a health profit margin on that. The actual cost to them is a fraction of that, though of course they will never disclose the actual amount.

You might recall that back in 2000 we didn't have Reddit. It was lots of little forums hosted on machines in basements and with relatively cheap online hosts. Lemmy and Mastodon allows us to do that again, but this time, they're all connected together. This distributes costs across hundreds of thousands of people, instead of trying to make one giant platform the only choice.
> I’m simply sharing my experiences and an opinion based on those experiences. Nothing more, nothing less.

Repeating that doesn’t make you immune from criticism.
This is neither inherent nor exclusive to capitalism.
> I know how to sound empathetic for those that need it.

But that isn't actually empathy, and people can tell the difference.

> Some people need words of affirmations and validation to be lifted.

Not the words. The understanding and sharing that underpins the words.

My point is this: if you think empathy can be faked successfully, you simply aren't the right sort of person to decide whether the results of automated faking with an LLM are valuable to the listener.

Because people can very often tell when empathy is being faked. And when they do discover that empathy is being faked, you are not going to be easily forgiven.

Empathy implicitly involves exposing someone's feelings to the air, as it were, in order to identify that you understand and share them. So faked empathy is variously experienced as insulting, patronising, hurtful, derisive etc.

Using an LLM to create verbose fluffy fake empathy is going to stick out like a sore thumb.

If this isn't something you find easy to understand at a level of feeling, don't fake empathy, especially at volume. Stick to something very simple and an offer of contextually useful help.

> My empathy generally drives me to action and solving problems.

I think this is noble and valuable, and I would in your shoes stick to this. Offers of assistance are a kindness.

But you should never pretend to share someone's feelings if you don't share their feelings. Especially not in volume.
Usenet, IRC, and Gopher have always been better alternatives to Reddit, Slack, and the bloated web.
Mostly agree, though one thing I strongly disagree with (especially for books :)).

Paying 1$ at a yard sale for Moby Dick would be it for me. No need to read, I will simply enjoy having the book around me, just like having a new friend at home
probably reasonably well, except for some poetry. There are some significant dialect shifts in (apologies, no greek IME installed on my phone ATM) katharevousa vs standard dimotiki vs ancient koine (i.e. there is no tha' ), but I think quite a lot of the vocabulary has remained stable, in contrast to the tectonic shifts that taken place between Old English, middle english, early modern and Modern English. Greeks who go to church (assuming it's Greek Orthodox), are thereby exposed to a narrow corpus of Hellenistic Greek, which is a middle stage between the greek of homer and the modern version.
„Lass uns das Schritt für Schritt durchdenken.“

Let us this step by step through think.
> they don't cut off a complete server for what happens in one of the newsgroups

Back in the dark ages when I was running a Usenet site, we would definitely drop servers if they were more hassle (spamming, providing blocked material, etc.) than we wanted to deal with.
Since you agree with it, what about it doesn't make you feel like he is being a mouthpiece for you? Someone needs to say what he's saying, might as well be him.

Mind you, I don't disagree with you, I feel the same way, I'm exploring why the format is just off somehow.
Is "accessible code" a weird shorthand for "code that produces accessible software"?
To clarify : The US is more egalitarian and hierarchical ?
But isn't it the case that all that could be scrapped from Reddit before ChatGPT came on-line already has been scrapped, and is publicly available? Anything post-ChatGPT is going to be increasingly worthless, as there's an unknown amount of LLM-generated content mixed in it, which is going to be wasteful, and potentially poisonous when used in training next-gen LLMs (some early studies already indicate that training LLMs on LLM output leads to visible degradation very quickly).
You can get RTF or Word versions from the project home page: http://freestuff.grok.co.uk/rom-dis/ and a complete ROM disassembly in assembler format (with most of the same info as the book) here: https://github.com/ZXSpectrumVault/rom-disassemblies/blob/ma...
Kinda feels like restrictions on what you can submit to the registry (NS and glue records) should be something ICANN forbids.
There are VR headsets not tied to those ecosystems. VR is a fair bit more useful and general than this device is. It's also very well supported by the open source community and is becoming a more general computing tool.

I can't discount the Tilt entirely, I have never tried it, but to me it looks like one is a novelty for a niche purpose, and the other is becoming a general computing interface.
I generate them: initially with my own generator (which is copyright an employer from > 15 years ago), on a later project I found that Doxygen can do do that for you out of the box :-)

For interactive discussion I just use Visual Studio's projection, for databases I use the SQL Server Management Tool ERD projector or pgAdmin if I'm using Postgres.
I find myself acquiring lots of books lately, books I won’t read for at least 6 months. It feels like you can’t investigate topics online anymore without some machine somewhere watching you. If I look something up about my house plants in a reference book, sure it might take longer, but there’s something quite liberating about knowing I’m not being watched by some Ferengi-esque bot that wants my money. Same applies to fiction, maybe I want to be able to read or reference Moby Dick in peace.
What I did when I used firefox was using the ESR version. It also comes with ads but you can disable them and you know they won't reenable them. And at least you get security patches.
It's not troubling to me - seeing as I think that specific group of people are the saner of the two and less likely to punish me for my beliefs. I honestly don't know how people can think that things are "peachy" on the "left", they look positively Orwellian.
Thanks for the recommendation, I hadn’t heard of them. Do you use them?
Ok fine go. Just tell me where to go next. I'm ready.
I don't really care where. I'm just waiting for a viable option to hit critical mass.

Honestly. Does Reddit even cost that much to run? If you ran it like wikipedia what would that look like?
I know WinFsp has been around for quite some time, but I wonder how it compares against Microsoft's own ProjFS:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/projfs/proje...
There’s no technological reason you have to wait, it’s all business rules.
tldr; agile etimation is stupid, don't do it.

this was an enjoyable read/skim. it had at least one funny.

my boss once asked me to track velocity with a small dev team -- we tried half-heartedly, and i had senior folks, who i knew also didn't want to be micromanaged, so i knew we'd get rid of it, and we did after a little while.

"OK, i say we skip the estimates/points nonsense this week, and maybe do some work instead, yeah?"

"Yeah."

and that was that.

got rid of most of 'agile', in fact, and got a lot faster. at least, by my estimation.

zing.
You will have to spend time with someone , understand each other well to be called a friend. Till then, just stranger.
I’m far more addicted to scrolling on reddit than instagram. As good as modern social media algorithms are, my curated feed of niche interests and communities I’m a part of, is just a lot more addictive to me.

The format of mostly text based content (even if it’s an image on reddit, I’m mostly there for the discussion below) is a lot easier to open and look at for a few seconds than the mostly-video instagram/TikTok feed.
Both require side loading. Ironic, isn’t it?

> One where it is comparatively very difficult to drain your full store of data and your wallet by installing shitware.

God forbid we treat other people with respect and not consider your average person is a complete idiot that’s being protected by dystopian big brother knowing better than you.
Art and Craft
https://youtubetranscript.com/?v=ZOm_UKGyrZg
Can’t you extract the aspect and put it in a better item?
How H&M helped my daughter who has Down syndrome gain paid experience of work
Considering Meta presumably wouldn't be able to advertise alternative sources for downloading their app inside the app store (which is also the case on the play store) I simply can't imagine them or any of the other big developers doing so. Removing their app from the app store would completely annihilate discoverability and would likely lead to either some third party app taking their spot.

Also I can already imagine Apple throwing a bunch of scary warning popups at the user, requiring them to enable this and that in the settings and likely also not allowing to update an app originally installed through the app store using an app file downloaded from another source to make it even more tedious - requiring a reinstall of the app in that case. Can't imagine many users would be willing to go through that chore.

I may be wrong but considering we haven't seen any similar behavior on a significant scale on the play store I just don't see that as an eventual issue - especially considering Android makes installing apps from other sources very easy, necessiting only clicking on a button in a popup and toggling a switch to allow sideloading from within a specific app and even allowing you to update an existing app installed through the play store that way given that the signatures of both match.

I think developers will still be heavily incentivized to either change the behavior of their app or worst case attempt to sue Apple to force them to allow that specific behavior on the app store before moving their app outside the app store will even cross their mind.
Yes, sorry, thanks for the correction.
If this wouldn't apply to these foundation models then why would they write an article on how they currently comply or not?

> We assess the compliance of 10 foundation model providers—and their flagship foundation models—with 12 of the Act’s requirements for foundation models

The whole point of this article is to see what would apply to theses models!
What makes me really sad was there was a way around this. Even if we accept the CEO’s lie that running the API is costly , Reddits monthly revenue per user is $0.12 at best. They were demanding $2.50 per user per month from third party apps. A simpler solution - “users who want to use third party apps need to pay Reddit $6/month directly by subscribing to Reddit premium”. That would have raised way more revenue! And people would have understood as well. They can pay for the premium experience of using a third party client or they can use the free official client. Win Win!

Except, this isn’t about the cost of running the API for private users (the aforementioned lie). Reddit the company feels aggrieved that they aren’t being paid by OpenAI and others when they’re training models on some of the most high quality, up to date, moderated, on topic training data generated by Reddit users.

Which is fair enough, that’s worth waaay more than $6/month. But surely that could be resolved through rate limits and a licensing contract signed by the LLM companies.
Nothing ever came close. I simply stopped using RSS altogether.
Oh man. I remember playing the paladin/knight character and I was 6 years old, didn’t know English. Spent maybe 100 hours trying to kill a monster. Bugger just wouldn’t die. Couldn’t complete the game and had to play on other characters. A few years later I returned, now knowing some English, and turns out the monster was immune to swords. I think I bought a rinkydink bow or staff and killed the monster in a few seconds.

I do remember slight confusion as some things were the same and others weren’t.
As mentioned elsewhere, this is because it relies upon a kernel mechanism that Linux simply does not have, and fixing this involves fixing Linux.

To which I add that it is important not to conflate Jesse Smith's doas, the portable doas that has code for different operating systems including OpenBSD, with Duncan Overbruck's OpenDoas, the "open" doas that is tied to Linux has has had the code for other operating systems removed and mechanisms copied in from sudo for things like timeout flag files.

* https://github.com/slicer69/doas

* https://github.com/Duncaen/OpenDoas
I remember when people left Digg for Reddit.

You need two things for an exodus: a push <Tick Emoji here> AND a viable alternative <Question mark Emoji here>

Where is everyone to go?
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I said "at one point".
E.g. from August 2020:

In England, a new weekly set of figures will also be published, showing the number of deaths that occur within 60 days of a positive test. Deaths that occur after 60 days will also be added to this figure if COVID-19 appears on the death certificate. This will provide an additional measure of the impact of the disease over time.

This follows concerns raised by academics from the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine about the original measure, which counted anyone who had ever tested positive as a COVID-associated death. They called for the introduction of a 21-day measure in order to accurately assess the impact of the virus on mortality rates

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-uk-wide-methodology-a...
HR said a religion “didn’t count”, employer wants to lie about why I’m leaving
I'm curious why you shifted to them in the first place. What did they offer you that PorkBun of NameCheap did not?
Interestingely there is this split of the action again so you need to stash away the "let's" in your brain until you know what to "let's" which comes only at the end of the sentence.

In the english version the verb "think through" comes directly after the "let's", so there's no need to cache anything; it seems that is clearer and more direct.
And "channels" or "pages" are really just email groups?

There was a time a while back where that sort of thing was thriving, and I believe it was mediated by Google Groups at the time (I can't recall the specifics). I remember seeing such amazing visual content back then, shared as plain old emails.
I buy a lot of things and provide even more feedback on customer channels. That’s how products improve goddamnit, by listening to customers.
To my knowledge, Lemmy instances can all be crawled by Google already. Using "site:lemmy.world" for example, returns indexed results. It's just that Google's algorithm has received billions of reddit searches for years, so they're biasing Reddit results. This will change organically.
The revenue doesn't matter though if their expenses exceed it. Reddit is not a profitable company. So the parent poster's question remains valid: was there ever going to be a way to "make money" (i.e. profit) without alienating the user base?
Yeah, it’s pretty wild. Apple is the basically the last Unix company. All the others are gone or are winding down.
Its not capitalism per se, when you are small you have to focus on your customers whether you like it or not but when you become big you can afford not to treat your customers properly.
There are data you cant scrap.
e.g. you dont know what posts they feed to each individual user(assuming they use personalized recommendation like other social platforms),
you dont know which post is shown to a user and is not clicked on,
you dont know the subreddits a user subscribes to,
you dont know which user upvotes/downvotes which comments,
you dont know the users' browsing pattern(which subs they check first, when does a user open reddit during the day)

These
The commits should describe your current mood diary-style.

git commit -m "procaffeinating."

git commit -m "fixed the bug that made me question my life"

git commit -m "Felt cute, might delete later"

git commit -m "embracing insomnia ..."
> The problem is that many people have come to think of reddit as a public utility. (...) Reddit is not a public utility. It's owners have decided that short-term profits are more important than serving as a long-term non-profit public utility. I can't fault any business person for making this decision, but it's the key reason why we need publicly controlled infrastructure to do what reddit does now.

Exactly this. And the same applies to Twitter and Facebook as well. And probably increasingly Discord.

In the end, both sides lose because of this misunderstanding (well, except the investors on the business side win). There is demand for both, and there is space for both, and I think the society at large is going to slowly realize that the two things - utility-like social media and regular private business - are different, and learn to differentiate between them - and maybe then, finally, the utility-like social media will be created.