skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do you care if your email provider happens to give accounts to Nazis or communists or religious nuts

Email providers very explicitly do care. You can be banned from gmail for especially egregious things for example. If an email account was serving me nazi propaganda I would inform the platform, and if it was coming from a specific email provider they would likely be blacklisted. Keep in mind this already happens when it comes to spam; the difference is that nazis are not blasting random emails with nazi stuff so it becomes much harder to track.

> Do you care if your web host happens to host their websites?

Generally speaking, yes. We went over this before with Cloudflare and sites that were full of people harassing and harming other users. Responsibility eventually falls on someone and that someone was the host provider.

> Why should a "federated Reddit replacement" have to be any different? If you subscribe to subs X and Y and Z, and none of that stuff is in those subs, does it matter to you if the instance (or other instances it federates with) contains other subs–which you never visit–that do have it?

Because you have a fundamental misunderstanding of how federated instances and content works, which is why I recommend you actually interact with those services before trying to make arguments. A user isn't subscribing to sub XYZ, they're a user of an instance which has subs XYZ and which federates to instance ABC. This is important because the instance is serving you that info, so if I like XY but hate AB, the instance can serve me content, users etc which are a part of AB. In fact, this is why Reddit does exactly what you seem to think they don't do. Many subreddits have bots, automod etc that will ban people that are from certain subreddits due to the content of their posts or how likely they are to troll. Defederation is a more explicit form of that.
>in general I'd also place higher weight on a paper in a major journal than on a random Twitter thread.

The Alina Chan archetype would beg to differ. The journal gatekeeping on tbis topic has been off the charts.
One of the main, negative, reliability drivers in modern cars is electronics anyway, mechanically new cars hardly ever fail outside of normal wear (e.g. brakes, suspession, gaskets) that is simply unavoidable.

Now, the thing with EVs is, they have tons of electronics...

Regardless, as soon as EVs hit a price range, accounting for size and so, that is within budget we are going to switch.
Wall Street felt they had lightning in a bottle with Silicon Valley in the 1970s.
This turned business plans from making money at scale to IPO machines. The fundamentals of financial exchange have been distorted to take the form a rent seeking sine that is what VCs want to buy.
asian students who matriculate into western unis or all asian students? significant filter skew happening in the former case.

Perhaps related observation, though npt directly addressing the OP topic: STEM programs, as well as medicine - and from personal experience I would argue especially medicine (vs. STEM proper) - rely on curricula that tend to favor humans who are better than most at mimicking computers. Rote memorization (relatively necessary for ideogram-centric writing systems) is rewarded, excursive analysis is not.
I'm from the west coast and have lived in SF and Seattle, and now live in Germany. I still disagree with your assessment having worked in a lot of night clubs, bars, etc.
I think the aim of the Vision Pro is to make people use them all the time as well.

The product is not designed for gamers for instance but provides a VR interface for pretty much your everyday iPhone/Mac/Watching movies use.

Personally the thought of people putting that on as soon as they get home/in office or even in the street is somehwat nightmarish but I think they're hoping for something like that...
>> How many professional journalists rely on reddit to find and research news stories?

That would be very unprofessional journalists. At least with the issues of the current war the flow of information is as follows: small telegram channels -> large telegram channels -> translation -> twitter -> reddit.
Good point, so really it should have full marks across the board ;)
My guess is customer support.

Domain registrars end up with a long tail of customers holding small numbers of domains. If Google sells a .com for $12, most of that goes to Verisign, and they're stuck with a customer who will get agitated when "their domain doesn't work." Many registrars use domains as a way to upsell hosting or premium domains (e.g. GoDaddy, Namecheap, Gandi) but the median Google Domains user is unlikely to be attracted to GCP.

Google dislikes having to deal with customers at scale (free users are fine as you can ignore them) and domain registration is high on the list of businesses where you end up with large amounts of customers expecting a certain level of service coupled and almost no margin to provide it.
>it also took several hours of my time, which probably cost me more than a new generator.

Not necessarily. It depends on the job and other factors. How much time does it take to find a competent person to hire? And what if you fail, and they do a bad job; how much time does it take you to deal with the situation and fix it (or do you end up paying twice, once for the bad job and again for someone else to redo it)? Do you need to be on-site to supervise them (so they don't steal stuff)? That's more of your time. If it's something portable or that needs to be transported to the professional, how much time and money does that cost?
People love a good bandwagon too, this will live or die by the PR it gets. People will leave if their favourite community gets messed with and the messaging falls flat, given how tone deaf they have been so far the odds of that are high.

I don't think everyone leaves en masse but I do expect a pretty big impact already, and considering they're attempting to IPO I doubt any of this is a good look.
I didn't say it doesn't happen, ffs. I just implied it's not a common thing that I've even heard of happening.
Spotify's moat is the byzantine legal maze of negotiating music rights with the record labels which needs to happen in a by-country basis.

Their profit cap is mostly the result of actual competition. That's a healthy market, which is fundamentally a good thing for the consumers since it means they need to innovate and provide a good service.
The selling off of communities _dedicated_ to IP (Disney is an excellent example you give) is a genius move imho, and perhaps was part of the strategy for going IPO. Not only does Reddit slurp up more user data via official Apps, they have revenue from the IP owners.

They have the deep pockets to employ mods to keep the place clean, especially now 3rd party Mod tools are permitted - it's just the direct user-experience tools/apps which are kicked out.

I would bet the _vast_ majority of consumers don't really care about the blackouts/API changes. They just want to catch up on the latest F1 news, recent movie trailers or whatever their hobby.
Very childish and rude. Still quite funny :-p
Interesting. So basically the index storage is a way to create a reference to an object that is not compiler checked?
Forgot the link: https://github.com/WebAssembly/wasi-filesystem#introduction
What Kind of Asynchronous Is Right for You?
Maybe Netim? https://www.netim.com/en
Seems to EU is determined to cripple their AI industry at all costs, we already have so little technology companies...

Foundation models are labelled as 'high risk'!

In my opinion this is way too premature... this would cripple open source AI as well...

> While the act includes open source exceptions for traditional machine learning models, it expressly forbids safe-harbor provisions for open source generative systems.

>Any model made available in the EU, without first passing extensive, and expensive, licensing, would subject companies to massive fines of the greater of €20,000,000 or 4% of worldwide revenue. Opensource developers, and hosting services such as GitHub – as importers – would be liable for making unlicensed models available.

>Open Source LLMs Not Exempt: Open source foundational models are not exempt from the act. The programmers and distributors of the software have legal liability. For other forms of open source AI software, liability shifts to the group employing the software or bringing it to market. (pg 70).

Source: https://technomancers.ai/eu-ai-act-to-target-us-open-source-...

While i'm usually pro-EU they are really overreacting here and the consequences for our economy of crippling a technology with so much potential will be enormous in the long run.
I think this is likely to be on par with or even eclipse SolarWinds. Can anyone more experienced chime in?
> especially regarding German philosophers who cannot easily be translated in other languages because of the "analytical" properties of that language.

I wonder if the reverse is just as true in other contexts. How do you say "Let's think this through step by step" in German?
Spyridon Louis
What do you think the major politics and news subs are on Reddit? Or is it only bot-ridden, ideological fake-outrage when it's right wing?
The five types of people who produce inaccessible code
Careful with that - a somewhat earlier version of ChatGPT, when asked who George Wickham was, confidently asserted that he was the hero of Pride and Prejudice.
I present to you, Smallest Federated Wiki:
http://fed.wiki.org/view/welcome-visitors
He was given a huge megaphone because of his expertise in a certain field and now he thinks he has important insights about everything in the world. A story as old as time itself.
I keep seeing this ubercynical take that "mods are all on a power trip" from people who are clearly planning to invest in the IPO. Normally this forum has a lot of nuanced thought but on this one I'm seeing a lot of VC groupthink happening.

No matter how you try to fashion your logic, Reddit was a community effort, done in good faith by many volunteers, and it really was the last of the platforms with any sort of legitimacy because of that, and that is now gone for good.

Do people learn the lesson about trusting capital? We'll see.
More like there are actual legal consequences to do so. Remember that they've only sold the registrar part, not the registry part (aka the one operating .dev and .zip among others). ICANN binds Google (and others) to maintain all validly-purchased domains, whether by a slow shutdown (no renewals, only obligation of current period) or by acquiring it by some other registrar: Squarespace (or more specifically its subsidiary) is already an accredited registrar (https://www.icann.org/en/accredited-registrars?page=1&iana-n...). The "carrot" is even stronger for Google because if ICANN sees them as naughty, ICANN can pull the registry part (which also holds their .goog and .google TLDs) and make Google's life miserable.
tildes.net, lobste.rs, ycombinator and lemmy.world are some of them to the best of my knowledge. Of course, a big number is still battling it out on reddit itself, some are pushing the mods to open up the dark subs while others are joining alternative subs and having those discussions anyway.

Don't try lemmy just yet though, I think it is excruciating under too many uers, the platform isn't entirely bug free. Writing decentralized social network is complicated and takes time.
According to this admin they will use rules 4 (inactive moderation) and 2 (vandalism) to drive out the mods. https://np.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/14a5lz5/mod_code...

Therefore, if mods want to retain their position, they need to poll their users for support, and then reopen the sub in a very limited capacity that continues the spirit of the protest while obeying the rules. I.e. mods are free to run the subs as they like, so they could limit posting to users with > X karma, or > Y account age. As long as the community agrees, it can't be considered vandalism.
That article is pure FUD.

ALL the regulatory activity mentioned in the article is related to "high-risk" AI systems, which are specifically:

- where the AI is part of a safety system, and where that safety system already needs to undergo conformity assessment.

OR

- where the AI system poses a significant risk of harm to the health, safety or fundamental rights of natural persons - for very specific use-cases

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/resources/library/media/20230... (p122-125)
Why on earth would you want to commoditize your platform?
> The team working on domains must be small

I wonder if this is true. Technology-wise, maybe, but I wonder if domains just requires a lot of negotiation and contact with registrars. I suspect it might be quite labour intensive in that way.

Additionally, to sell to consumers you need to provide services like helping people port domains for renewal, helping with DNS setup, and other consumer-level customer support, and that's expensive. If you've ever heard a Hover advert on a podcast, it sounds like an expensive business to run.

That sort of business doesn't fit with the cloud business. For cloud, sure customers will want a domain, but any business using cloud will have the ability to buy a domain, it's unlikely to be a deal breaker for using GCP, and the only up-side is $10-$100 a year on the account, that's less than a single VM for a month in many cases.

Disclaimer: I work at Google but haven't looked into this at all, this is all personal speculation as an outsider and previous customer of GCP.
They looked at the numbers and forgot about being critical to developers as a brand point.
> In the 15 or so years that I've been using credit cards, I have never once failed to pay off the bill in full before the due date

Yeah, but that's you. People living paycheck to paycheck don't have a realistic chance of achieving the same.

> I am really curious to know where in the world that is. Even if that is the general perception, it is unlikely to be actually true.

Poland. Out of 44mln payment cards issued, less than 5mln are credit cards. This is reflected in statistics:

https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/people_with_credit...

> So, having such a card is an indicator of strong financial stability and responsibility.

Yeah, such a card, not any card. Over here the most popular type of debt is one taken to purchase consumer goods like appliances and electronics in installments, mortgages are second.

Upper-middle class people and higher just buy things cash. There's no benefit in stretching this out if you can afford not to and any, even accidental, delay might hurt one's credit score - not worth it.
I'm sure with enough community-support someone will write a plugin or tool to expose Lemmy content to http pages that can be indexed? I haven't used Lemmy before, but if I was making a Reddit-like clone, that sort of thing would have been baked in from the start.
Five accessibility bugs GitHub Copilot offers to create
How about both? And with the regulators, too.
I forgot where I read this, but there was some advice an older journalist told a rookie, finding out about all the sh*t that's been going down: "Don't worry, the world's always been falling apart."
> Why shouldn't you be able to install a linux distro and turn your old iPhone or iPad into a really power-efficient home server-type appliance, if you want to?

Why didn't you buy a phone that allowed you to do this?

This sort of argument seems to me to be fundamentally inconsistent. The only reason to pass a law which will force Apple to do something is if there is a "Moloch trap" [1], in which Apple can take advantage of crowd dynamics to do force the crowd into doing something which most people in the crowd don't actually want to do.

But the argument for a walled garden on phones is precisely the same: The argument is that without a walled garden, you get a "Moloch trap": because they can't collect the Apple Tax, the only way for them to make money is to spy on you and sell your data -- something you as the consumer don't want, and that maybe Apple doesn't want either.

(And before you say, that Apple can simply treat the phones like they treat their computers, where they simply sell the hardware and don't make extra money either from the Apple Tax or from spying on you -- there's another "Moloch Trap" with shares and capitalism: If Apple's phones are significantly less profitable than Google's, then shareholder will rebel and replace the CEO with someone who will be as profitable as Google. If you forbid Apple from collecting the Apple Tax, then Moloch will force them to spy on you -- unless you manage to forbid anyone from spying.)

If Moloch Traps don't exist, then there's no reason to force Apple to open up their phones, because the Market will provide you with a good alternative. If Moloch Traps do exist, then there's a reason not to force Apple to open up their phones, as the walled garden helps them prevent a different kind of trap.

[1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
Not really a surprise there was no Python (1991), Perl (1987), Ruby (1993), or C++ (public-ish in 1985) on a computer released in 1984.

Apple had a basic Pascal compiler on the Apple II/III, but it would have been an unbelievable feat to stretch that into a product with solid links to the System 1 OS, including the new GUI API, on the first few Macs.

Sample applies to BASIC. It would have been possible to squeeze the old MS Basic into the Mac but it would have had to run in some kind of Apple II emulation mode - not the point of the exercise. If you wanted BASIC you could buy an Apple II and carry right on.

Your point is clearly wrong. It took a few years to develop good tools for the original Mac because it was - you know - actually quite hard.

But when Jobs returned good, or at least adequate, free dev tools for MacOS were included almost immediately. And have been included ever since.
Yup. I mod with RIF very frequently and will likely be done when it's gone.
How hard is it to bring whole Apple ecosystem to Android while keeping the same quality of mobile product?
Yes to both of you. Silicon Valley became Silly Con Valley after the dot-com bubble.
Your analogy isn't complete.

The analogy is more like: 12 year olds playing a soccer tournament that draws a crowd and the people owning the yard are selling drinks and showing ads.
While we're here, does anyone know if a sole proprietorship donating to OS projects for "sponsorship" (aka listing the donor company's name in the project's github) is deductible as Advertising expenses? Specifically wondering about Canada personally, but I'm sure people in the U.S. would benefit from this knowledge as well.

Our tax law (in Canada) is so opaque, and I feel like finding ways for these monetary contributions to be deductible as business expenses would make it so much easier for businesses to justify the expense.

If donations can't be written off, OS projects would then do well to add a paid tier with some useless exclusive functionality, just so donors can make it a software expense.
My guess is because it just doesn't bring in enough profits. Most domain registrars make money through volume by either having a relatively small team (porkbun etc.), having most of the team located in a low CoL jurisdiction (Namecheap and eastern Europe/formerly Ukraine), or from value added services/the registrar acting as a loss leader (pretty much every service do this to an extent, CloudFlare, GoDaddy etc.)

For a company like Google that pays top tier salary, there is no way that selling domains (especially not in bulk, their targets are mostly consumers and businesses, domain traders use other services) make enough money. If you take a look at the commiters on
https://github.com/google/nomulus

That's at least 10 engineers maintaining one component. Add in SRE and product executives, you are looking at expenses in the two digit millions minimum.

The decision is definitely short sighted but somebody high up no longer wants it as a loss leader.
> CTO I've worked with said that developers are like "machines working in a factory" that they shouldn't think above their level

Yes, I'm currently working for such a client (not as a dev though) and it's amazing how absolutely convinced even so-called "technical" people think developers are like interchangeable factory workers (which are themselves also probably a myth).

Apparently, the inability to code is some badge of honor, and proof that one is a "thinker"(?!?).

This view seems to be more pervasive in Europe than in the US... Maybe it's an artifact of social classes / hierarchical societies, and more egalitarian societies have an edge to overcome those prejudices.

I'm not sure. I don't really know.

What I know is that it's terrible.
The text (don't really know what it's called) when clicking somewhere on the total posts line in the graph also says "Total Users" instead of posts
It is quite interesting to calculate the true cost of doing things itself.

In Denmark the tax system is such that if you subcontract out of personal money they need to be 5 times fast than you.

If we say that you can make your deck in half the time a professional would have don it, the factor is still 2.5x.

Ig. assuming a contractor would do it for 50 USD/h, this would translate to "making" 125 USD on hour by doing it yourself, 250 USD/h if you know what you are doing.

Obviously these things change with tax regimes.
> Management already has a deadline fixed

The real problem is saying "yes we can do it all in that timeline" instead of saying "That's fine, but we won't get to everything. We will work with you to prioritise the most important things to get done in that time."

I know it's painful, but just hold that line. It's not lying or negotiating or padding; in fact it may be the only true statement you can say.

If a civil engineer were building a bridge, and couldn't do it safely in the budget and timeline, they'd say so, and the project manager would nod and diligently write that down. We have a more subservient relationship with project managers in software because we choose to.
Absolutely, I pretty much always start with design sessions on a whiteboard (or if remote a call using draw.io).

That discussion is almost never going down the the level of an individual class and NEVER adheres to the UML standard.

Very occasionally I've had discussions about class structure by drawing class name + methods on a whiteboard but having the same discussion using Visual Studio's UML projection was just as effective.
> I don't care what Citizens United ruling said, corporations are not the same as people and we should distinguish them as such.

Every law system in the world distinguishes natural personhood from legal personhood. If you've heard somewhere that Citizens Unite ruling said that corporations and people are the same, you've been lied to and disinformed.
It probably was done for security, the r- utilities being the security pitfalls that they are. It's not defending against attacks. It is, in fact, defending against exactly you, a person who comes along and wants to use the r- utilities. It's a compromise between (most likely) "We mustn't use r- utilities on our LAN any more, and must remove them everywhere." and "This is SCO Unix; it's not even OpenServer.".
This actually makes sense, as ICANN requires registrars to provide a decent-enough support for registrants (https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/registrar-accred...).
Ah to clarify these are all self-help / methodology books, so if it was explaining lean startup methodology and made stuff up then it mostly wouldn't make sense.
So Android is not an alternative to iOS, why do you keep suggesting that it is?