skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why typed PL Pascal is better than typeless PL Lisp for absolutely beginners? I am a beginner mentor to some students but I can not even think about setting up the DOS.
BTW I am also from post-Soviet country and my first PL I ever wrote a program was Pascal but all I can remember about it is Pascal-strings, := operator and segregation between functions and procedures.
I wouldn’t mind it.

I moderate some smallish subs (5-10k users) and don’t really make many mod actions. Maybe 5 in the past 15 years. The subs are still pretty good as measured by increasing subscriber counts and my own enjoyment.

I think the huge subs probably get a bunch of spam, but then I ignore them even with moderation.
It's happening now with AI.

Ai, ai, ai, generative ai!
Some of them go waaaay too far. Mass purges of disagreement/dissent have become normal on there, but they're now going after 'prethoughtcrime' - banning anybody who's ever posted to any of a growing list of subreddits deemed 'bad'.
funny how "lack of reading comprehension" seems to be the favorite synonym for "doesn't agree with me."

Because if I did comprehend, obviously I'd agree with you.
A lot of well run subs would never exist in the first place without good mods. A very good example of that is /r/askhistorians, without a heavy enforcement of their guidelines the quality of that sub would be absolute trash.

There are definitely a lot of bad mods, even more in popular subs, and even more in popular subs that are not centered around a community of hobbyist and/or fans. The value of reddit is not this trash though, it's the subs that are well moderated and curated to avoid the spamming, low effort/low quality content and so on. Because the torrent of low quality meme-like content can be found in any number of platforms: 9gag, imgur, etc. but very few places have a /r/askhistorians or a 30k active users community for a niche hobby.
Do they really do that on Android that much though?

Of course the App Store seems to have significantly more stringent reviews and requirements than Google's store there might be more incentives.

OTH Apple can bundle some inherent limitations to side-loaded apps (just like Google did) to limit this.
An ironic sentiment considering Reddit is entirely reliant upon free labor of both moderators and users who upload content to provide any experience whatsoever.

Reddit is, at the moment, purposely expensive to run. They could have chosen to be a much smaller operation and act as stewards, but they want to turn a Craigslist into a Facebook.

OpenAI will get the data one way or another. Frankly they’ve probably got about as much data from Reddit as they need. The user base isn’t against Reddit moving to monetize and they aren’t sympathetic with OpenAI getting a free ride, these are weak strawmen. There were ways to accomplish both of these goals that wouldn’t involve this change, but their real goal here is to kill off 3PA and it’s very transparent.
I used CDRS while at Caterpillar in 1997 and purchased it in the same year not knowing it was slated for the graveyard. I made it my mission to be the expert ... luckily STYLE became the cool new thing in 2001 and I was able to be expert in that right away.

Bart Brejcha
Design Engine
Modding phpBB and starting new forums using phpBB (and later Invision Community) got me into php dev and basically the job and career I now have.

Such a great product for building communities. It would be so good having this feeling again browsing forums on this software. The Subsilver theme was iconic and legendary.
Easy - go the google, make a deal with open ai for a mod bot that's just good enough.
I read his book "UNSONG" awhile back and found it equally enjoyable to his blog writing, with the added advantage that it lasted for days.
Let's just migrate to lemmy, reddit is EOL
I mean, Wikipedia is certainly better, but Reddit covers some niches of language that Wikipedia will never cover. Wikipedia, Reddit, and Twitter are the three predominant sources of data for large language models, and Twitter has been such a pain for researchers to access for a while already.
They can easily use shit like ChatGPT to astroturf tbh.
Loads of Excel users aren't really doing "spreadsheets" except in the sense that it's Excel and that's a spreadsheet software, so arguably this is a spreadsheet. The same way arguably if I type this novel into Visio now that's a diagram. Like, is "An Oak Tree" a sculpture?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Oak_Tree

For many Excel users it's like computerised graph paper, they can write stuff in boxes, maybe use it to make a calendar, they can colour the boxes in - yes, they can do arithmetic on the boxes, but many of them are surprised to find out that's what it is actually for.
> The software engineer is one example of a high paying bullshit jobs.

Of course, because software has never been useful to anyone.
Okay, I suddenly want a Wes Anderson movie about vintage computers.
Basic reading and comprehension is not covered in his last year of high school it seems.
Interested in the first professor mentioned, but can't narrow it down and find who they are. Can you provide any more information?
Why don't the users go and do that somewhere else? genuine question, I don't use Reddit.
Seems like the right time for someone to start a new site with similar capabilities, and maybe based on lessons learned, different legal and monetary arrangements with the stakeholders. More like a co-op structure?
Related work from Google: https://ai.googleblog.com/2023/06/reconstructing-indoor-spac...
PTC made the purchse in 1994 ... it's a great story if you want to hear it....

Bart Brejcha
Design Engine
Reddit is a mithril mine and r/counting is the Balrog.
Haven't gone down that rabbit hole for a while, thanks for the update!
Noah Smith[0]. I appreciate his level-headed analysis and how he usually backs up all his claims with sources and statistics. I was never much into economics before I found his Substack, but now I read it regularly and I feel like I've learned a lot from him.

[0] https://www.noahpinion.blog
> preventing it from degenerating into an echo chamber like truth-social

I can’t compare to truth-social as Ive never used it. But big subs like /r/politics are definitely echo chambers and I think they are that way because the mods like it that way.
> type of thinking thats required to do well in those interviews

They have a whole page dedicated to that: https://www.janestreet.com/join-jane-street/interviewing/

Attention to detail and clear communication, including good grammar and spelling, are probably important.
ah yes unpayed people which don't just invest a ton of time and have to use a ton of 3rd party tooling to even make it viable and much more often have to coop with the social backslash of "moderation mistakes" have too much power by .... privating a subredit which likely wouldn't exit without them during a time when they can't moderate(1) it ... except that that and making it read only is pretty much the only responsible thing they can do

(1): due to protesting, also somewhat due to the API changes but that is more complex
I have been wondering lately if this is the fate of all content that can be created or expressed digitally. Music, art, movies, books, software could all be created by AI. The only thing “safe” are tangible goods.

I also wonder if this will lead to a dumbing down of certain fields. Why write a book of it never gets published (apart from the enjoyment of it) which leads to fewer writers and a dying art form.

It’s a bleak outlook and likely wrong, but just thinking.
It's also important to remember they didn't just 'build an app for phones'

They bought AlienBlue - a 3rd party app, that they now claim shouldn't now exist, and should never have existed.
It's only fun if you know there is a light at the end of the tunnel as it were. If you're no yet convinced that programming is fun or even has any value then this "side adventure" will instantly kill any enthusiasm. Once they 'get' programming and see it as something they want to do, then learning how to deal with these "side quests" has value.
Huh, I rejected the cookie popup and it just said

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in my culture this is said often; however, I'd be very careful with using this in modern day. The right tool for the job can make tremendous difference on your result. Also, some tools can abstract away some of the unnecessary detail/undifferentiated heavy lifting and help you reach your outcome faster.

Up to a certain point... the bad dancer may be wearing terrible shoes that impedes from learning and becoming great, instead focusing attention on improving unnecessary skill.
This is adding considerable effort and weight to the process.

The alternative is just running the experiment, which would take 10 minutes to set up, and see the results. The A/B test will help measure the qualitative finding in quantitative terms. It's not perfect but it is practical.
> Who wants to work on software that has been deemed "end of life"?

People who are pragmatic about their work and don't let their ego tell them that they should only be working on bleeding-edge software that "matters."

If people are using it, it matters. More people are using and depending on OpenSSL than 90% of the code any VC startup is cranking out today.
Well, I, for one, don't fucking care about third party apps (which make money mind you)

Reddit is/was my first source of real human information for a lot of stuff (since google is unusable now). And this blackout was really a pain in the ass
What do you need that isn't in OTP though? Integrating with SaaS APIs is basically the only thing I've wanted that isn't buried in there somewhere.
I just can't agree. There is clear progression from first reaching the level cap and clearing T6 and eventually getting good enough gear to finally clear T16. Then continuing to improve your build and gear until you do GR70, 100, 130. Like, I'm never wondering if I'm actually getting stronger, because I know that if I try T6 on a fresh capped character, I'm going to get demolished. If I clear T6 successfully, I know that I've gotten stronger and the stronger I get, the easier T6 will continue to become and the easier it'll be to clear higher difficulties.

Nothing ever automatically matches your power level. You choose what difficulty to challenge yourself with. You choose whether you just want something easy (for your power level) to farm, or something difficult to see if you can clear it or how long it takes you. You always know the challenge you're going to get and how strong you are compared to it over time. That's something that level scaling fundamentally breaks and there's no way to avoid that.

I don't know how you can equate D3 with D4 in any way and say that D3's system had no progression or was in any way worse than what's in D4. It's just false, a complete misrepresentation of what the game is like.
I was reading a news article where embryos can be generated by mutating stem cells from any body part. Now plug AI to that technology and who knows what kind of monsters we may end up with. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2023/04/23/future...
He doesn't seem to have a great way with words. If you are the owner (implying >50% ownership), you can't be fired by the shareholders. If you hold less than 50%, you are not the business owner.
>preventing it from degenerating into an echo chamber

Reddit mods are notorious for creating echo chambers through 3rd party mod tools. You know, those tools autobanning about any account who happens to post on a sub they consider no-no, often regardless the context. If those tools weren't on the line, they wouldn't care to join the blackout.
Mods do whatever they like: "things are fine"

Mods hurt potential profits: "mods too powerful, need to act"

If the community doesn't like the mods, they can... create a new subreddit with new mods.
Sorry I didn't phrase my point well enough.

Every sorting on a computer existing in reality is within a limited domain.

The general sorting problem is an artificial problem for theoretical computers with infinite memory.

It's a philosophical problem not an engineer one
Surprised no one said this yet, so I'll bite the bullet.

I don't think A/B testing is a good idea at all for the long term.

Seems like a recipe for having your software slowly evolved into a giant heap of dark patterns. When a metric becomes a target, it ceases to be a good metric.
Kurzgesagt: "Why Don't We Shoot Nuclear Waste Into Space?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us2Z-WC9rao

Bad idea, it boils down to 1) too much of it (yes really, in an almost definitive sense) 2) exploding rockets + nuclear fuel is bad
It's a US constitution problem. Slavery of prisoners is still legal.

There's a film on it https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_(film)
I think the May thing was a glitch - I’ve continued to receive mine, but I’ve heard from at least a couple friends who stopped receiving it around then. If you want to re-subscribe, it’s still free and don’t have to deal with the Bloomberg paywall.
Brilliant metaphor!
Buying prospectors' pyrite for the little it’s worth is different from driving aspiring miners to mountains without food or water.
This guy is so tone deaf it's astonishing
What was this "billion dollar revenue division at google"? Are you going to tell us?
It's a pretty common sentiment that opinions that differ from our own must be corrupt, bought, sock-puppets, etc. People on virtually every side of any issue feel this way because it's comforting to imagine that our own opinion is the only authentic one.

Loads of reddit users are annoyed by the blackout thing and find the arguments for it unconvincing. I mean personally I think all of the blackout people should just leave Reddit. Delete your accounts, delete your comments, resign as mods. Let the rest of reddit just move on.
Could you elaborate on the details? It seems like a pretty silly thing, to engage in duplicitous business practices to sell more… free code.
Attitudes like yours are why it kept spreading instead of petering out. I'm not saying that people need to get vaccinated, but I'm god damn sick of people not caring about spreading disease, whether vaccinated, or not. Humanity, as a whole, is in a war with disease. We don't need collaborators. All it takes for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00319-9

> Healthy, young people who were intentionally exposed to the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 developed mild symptoms — if any — in a first-of-its-kind COVID-19 human-challenge study.

That doesn't mean they weren't contagious.

> The first participants received a very low dose — roughly equivalent to the amount of virus in a single droplet of nasal fluid — of a virus strain that circulated in the United Kingdom in early 2020. Researchers anticipated that a higher dose would be needed to infect a majority of participants, says Andrew Catchpole, chief scientific officer of hVIVO. But the starting dose successfully infected more than half of the participants.

> The virus replicated incredibly rapidly in those who became infected. On average, people developed their first symptoms and tested positive, using sensitive PCR tests, less than two days after exposure, on average. That contrasts with the roughly five-day ‘incubation period’ that real-world epidemiological studies have documented between a probable exposure and symptoms. High viral levels persisted for an average of 9 days, and up to 12 days.
Kubernetes will provide work for years (decades) to come. People will try to unwind the mess we are creating now for a long long time.
I’ve always considered DevOps to be Developer/Operator - as in - you run the stuff you build. This perfectly aligns incentives for creating stable, scalable systems. If it goes down or breaks, the ones who wrote it are the ones who feel the pain.

My last job was the first place I saw DevOps as developers working along side operators as DevOps, which was a slight improvement over when they didn’t work together, but seems unnecessarily disjoint. Unfortunately, they had compliance requirements that forced developers and operators to be separate humans with separate access. Not wanting to get back into that world, I’ve not looked at how strict those requirements are or if there are ways around it (HIPPA, FIPS, etc.), but it was an annoying distinction.
4chan has been running since 2003
One isn't improved by a wave of redditors calling you cucks/commies/soy bois/touch grass. I think beehaw has a stated purpose and if they want to defederate, they should. No system is going to be perfect.
Wow wow, Isn't this the violation of the Europen GDPR privacy laws. If you deletd it then they should actually be deleted, otherwise you are violating the laws.
I don’t think “why live” is a valid refutal.

Just because life is bad in absolute terms (?) doesn’t mean that it would not be better without having to work in the modern sense of the word.
Every day that passes I’m getting more convinced that the best move to improve the likelihood of a successful IPO (which IMHO this whole API clusterfuck is all about) is to fire spez and install a sane CEO.

How can it be that he is still in charge and hasn’t been fired years ago?
Honestly, I think they're intentionally undeleting comments and un-editing them right now. Why wouldn't they? I'm pretty sure they legally can, and they clearly do not care that people hate them. I mean personally, I wouldn't feel safe if I worked for Reddit right now, but I am guessing the executives could absolutely not care less if anyone gets hurt over their amazing plan to get absolutely filthy rich.
Bad teachers are not like good ones but with kind of less juice. Bad teachers are opposite to good ones, their "juice" is strictly worse than useless.
And just like a good old protest, it got it's point across with legal disruption.

At least you're aware of the issues now, no?
> Now plug AI to that

What do you mean?
Running SXM2/SXM3/SXM4 Nvidia Data Center GPUs in Consumer PCs
The API pricing was by request. $2.50/user/month was the estimate that the developer of Apollo made based on how many API requests each user of his app made.
Schwarznegger recently said it very simple. Think of climate change as just another form of pollution. Pollution is unhealthy.

“I’m on a mission to go and reduce greenhouse gases worldwide,” Schwarzenegger told CBS, “because I’m into having a healthy body and a healthy Earth. That’s what I’m fighting for. And that’s my crusade.”

Unhealthy is a bad thing in plain terms and it is a categorical imperative in complex terms. Therefore pollution is morally bad. [Schwarzenegger the philosopher]

[Schwarzenegger the philosopher] https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/30/schwarzenegger-no-one-gives-...
Some people work around this by front-loading some hobbyism in their day, starting in the morning and getting up early.

I've reached a point now I feel drained after a work day, whether I concentrated a lot or found it boring. And controlling for sleep. For this reason, if something I'm interested requires more overhead, I try to do some early or at least plan and set it up, so that once work is done I can just go through the motions without thinking about it too much.
Yeah, web view is paywalled unfortunately. I wish I could read it via RSS, but it’s pretty much the one newsletter/blog type thing that I don’t mind getting in my inbox.
> Just ...

I mean how hard can it be?
A lot of people on the left basically can't imagine a social media platform being good unless it heavily restricts right-wing speech/expression.
Manufactured Outrage
Imagine making a pitch on 8 pages contains 5 out of 7 pictures with random daemons/monsters and being overly successful with it. Damn!
is there anything else that happened to them in roughly that period, that they also share and have in common?
big fan of the below:

-Bookbear Express: https://ava.substack.com/

-Cedric Chin (not a Substack): https://commoncog.com/

-Henrik Karlsson: https://escapingflatland.substack.com/

-Rob Henderson: https://www.robkhenderson.com/

-Robin Hanson: https://www.overcomingbias.com/
What about like, blogs, for instance, as a source of training data? Is the differentiating factor here something like, it's lots of people interacting with other people?
I do care about the third party apps because they assist moderators in doing their job (which has been done for free as a service to Reddit). And more personally, they provide accessibility support lacking both in the Reddit website and app. I am not a mod, and will literally no longer be able to use Reddit as well as I have had over the last years. The third-party developers have provided Reddit with tremendous value which is now lost.
A Modest Proposal

Sometimes investigators know the actual actors involved with such attacks. 15 years ago I worked for Microsoft and went to a security presentation where the team had done some brilliant work and collaborated with law enforcement over months and had specifically identified an individual associated with a cyber attack. The individual was out of reach because of weak computer crime laws in the attacker’s country and poor diplomatic relations.

The FBI was co-presenting and touting the staggering amounts of manpower and funds dedicated to this investigation.

I leaned over to a friend of mine and said something to the effect of “with the state of organized crime in that country we could spend a few tens of thousands of dollars for a permanent solution”.

I always think back to that comment. Attribution in computer crime is hard, but attackers get away with impunity because they either hide behind anonymity or behind jurisdictional issues. Should we just let that go or use more pragmatic solutions?
In general, LiveView applications are built so they can be safely reloaded without significant data loss, according to the Erlang/Elixir “Let it crash”-philosophy.

Besides scheduled maintenance, there’s all sorts of reasons why this might be needed: The user’s log-in expires, network issues, browser crashes, server hardware issues, deployment of a new version of your app…

“Hot upgrades” can be implemented if you wish to, but often this is just handled by asking the client to reload the page, establishing a new connection, because any data or preferences have been persisted.
The Generalist: https://www.generalist.com/briefings
I hope that it will work. I loved the forum days---there was a real sense of community there that does not exist on Reddit except for some very small subs.
Title: My 24 year old HP Jornada can do things your modern iPhone still can't do!

Then in the article: can do one thing your modern iPhone can't.

It turns out that one thing is root access. But they're gaining root access by installing an entirely new operating system. There are a few hardware-secured parts of an iPhone (I Am Not A Hardware Expert, but at least the Secure Enclave and maybe the Touch ID/Face ID hardware), but beyond that, there's nothing stopping people from creating/installing a new OS on iPhone hardware, is there? So it's not "The HP Jornada can do things an iPhone can't do" as much as it is "people have done things for the HP Jornada that no one has for the iPhone"

And that is (I think) mostly because the iPhone is ridiculously more complicated hardware than the HP Jornada is. I'm making these numbers up, but: it seems likely the team creating iOS numbers in the thousands, while the Jlime team has 5: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jlime
especially not without moderation

without the ton of unpayed moderators they wouldn't be able to comply with hate speech laws (or comply by having moderation systems which are "out of context of the conversation" enough to drive a lot of users away)

without it all the good content would be drowned by spam and other bad stuff

in turn without moderators the most users would leave sooner or later