skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I know moderators are not responsible for most of the spam that comes through. As you said it can be plentiful. I have been caught in spam (other) filters many times just for using tor browser (thanks HN!). We already have spam filters available with spam trends that are pretty discernable that can do the bulk of the work.

There are other ways to make this work through some heuristic that auto identifies a comment and starts it below a visible threshold. What spammers are not good at, is spending time to go edit comments and content to evade these filters.

My point is that moderation is extremely limited. Review illegal content flagged comments, check appeals for false positives of a spam filter. All other content should it make it in the thread can be moderated by the community.
Were Soviet war plans any different?
It is historically not great at number computing. This is being addressed by a relatively new project called Nx. https://github.com/elixir-nx/nx

It is not the right choice for CPU intensive tasks like graphics, HFT, etc. Some companies have used Rust to write native extensions for those kinds of problems. https://discord.com/blog/using-rust-to-scale-elixir-for-11-m...
You're welcome! Spread the word if you like it ;-)

My hope is to build a nice and friendly community around it in time. Testing results, translations, contributions, PRs, more floppies are always appreciated!
The north-south split is the most striking, but yes south can be further divided into the GTA, SW (farm country and a small part of the rust belt, similar to the Midwest) and eastern (Ottawa and the townships: government and farms)

Michigan and Ohio are most similar to SW but upstate NY also bleeds culturally into the region, both around Niagara and the thousand islands.
We do not know if this is made with malice by Microsoft, if it is some sort of mistake, or if some of their cloud customer is running the attack.

It surely doesn't take much thought to realise that the first option is obviously ridiculous. It's almost certainly the third, and possibly the second.
I admire your attempt to reason with the unreasonable!
Discord is a walled garden without any search indexing.

All knowledge is rotting in there unfortunately.
I refuse to take any despite wanting to.

I have thoughts on how it works, at a not physical realm.

What makes you flip bit to joyous? What chemical or physical or physiological change happens? Does it wear off?

I'm not depressed. I was at one point and found the solution. I have extensive joy. Yet I want to try because I think it does something that isn't the same bit flip you're experiencing.
I was 12ish? I found one of my comments in the guestbook there from 2000 (yeah, under the name "Rob", I'm great at picking names as you can see.) Has to be the earliest "history" of me on the internet, I think.
> A gift also feels like a burden has been handed to me

Many people selfishly give obligations as gifts - often small things where the purpose is to be a placeholder for remembering them. also see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tchotchke

Personally I try to give consumable items or give experiences (that are high quality or rare or have other specialness) I recently bought 27kg of good bush honey, and have been giving it to friends - but aiming for zero social obligation: so far everyone has been very happy to get some - but it is really good honey and there are colds going around at the moment (winter in New Zealand)
On this theme, I recently read a persuasive essay (via HN IIRC) arguing that Vision Pro development has spun off all manner of software advances that can be seen across the product line.

Sort of like a NASA for Apple software. (So like where's the Tang ?)
Check out the other thread. It looks like they just globally zeroed their is_post_deleted column.
It's less 'save' and 'not destroy' although that's maybe a fine distinction.

In Genesis God is drawn to do something about Sodom as the din of shrieks from that city has spurred him to action, shrieks either from people of the city oppressed in it or visitors to the city oppressed by it. Considering the Lot story later and God's intention to destroy Sodom presumably shrieks by visitors. Anyhow. Yes, Abraham haggles. Just prior to this we hear God's internal monologue where he decides, for the first time, to include a human -- post Adam, depending on how you read the naming of things -- in the decision making process that governs the world. Abraham is presumably horrified -- the narrator of Genesis does not say -- and haggles God down from destroying the city outright, to 50 etc etc daring to go as low as 10, a number that, just so happens, to be a later minimum administrative unit size in Jewish society. In the narrative structure of Genesis we have already seen an attempt to eradicate evil through destruction -- the Flood -- and that does not work, to the point where God promises not to do outright, global destruction like that again. So it's clear in the narrative -- though perhaps not to Abraham who may or may not have known about the post-Flood promise -- that God has a maximum upper bound on the amount of people that can be destroyed in response to evil: all. Abraham brings this maximum upper bound down to 50 as an opening gambit, then etc etc. It is worth noting that Abraham, at this point in the story, is elderly and rich, so he's presumably used to negotiation as a way of life.

Why would Sodom not be destroyed if there were less honest people? God's intention before consulting Abraham is to destroy the whole city but it is Abraham that bargains the number down to a minimum. If ten can be found, the threshold for destruction isn't reached. An entirely reasonable read here is that Abraham couldn't bear to see an entire city's worth of people destroyed and God was willing to be convinced otherwise. In itself that's a remarkable thing for a Near Eastern deity and is one sign that Genesis as a piece of literature is in conversation with and opposed to other contemporary Near Eastern literature.

Anyway, that's not the only read here -- there are millennia of commentary on this very text -- but it is worth pointing out that the Genesis text comes from the Mesopotamian culture, one that is both distinct from our Greek-derived way of thinking/being and has also gone extinct outside of literature, so norms that may have appeared self-evident to the original audience might not come through to modern readers so easily, or at all.
This may be the most spectacular dumpster fire I have ever seen.

Personally I am devastated that such a great community has been bisected so absolutely. If the investors were astute, Huffman would be fired immediately. Unfortunately, most investors are the opposite of astute.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36362042.
Just let us pay for it directly then.

Instead of this roundabout thing with the "Mozilla Foundation".

I donate monthly to KDE and yearly to FreeBSD and I would pay for Firefox too if I could, but I want to pay for Firefox and not for all the other stuff they do.

Amd when I pay I want none of that ad stuff in it of course. Time for a Firefox Premium paid version.
This is the hilarious part. The king complaining about an 'aristocracy'... who are actually his own peasants?

What's happening lol

Bye Reddit. Sorry Aaron, we'll keep the idea burning.
The mods are reopening because they don't want to lose their powers.

They know that if Reddit found new mods, the users probably wouldn't notice or care.
I don't think this "burn it all down" mentality is helpful.

Presumably the mods are protesting because they want a good Reddit/subreddit experience, and the new policies are hurting that. How is handing power over to someone who is supportive of Reddit's new policies helping that?
Isn't that showing wanting to switch browser, not search engine?
I used to think that Lot knew the townspeople well, knew what would happen, and successfully proved the point: "You see? They don't care, they need you."

One of my Christian friends offered a different perspective: the city was so vile that even a man of slightly dubious moral character like Lot was a man of virtue, compared to the crowd outside his house.

In any case, that was not enough to save the city.
I tried flarum before but iirc it was just a single “board” and not a forum of boards like I was used to. It has a feed of threads etc and IMO these are not the “modern” things that we should use to try and actually improve forum software. Just my opinion though
You are really determined to make the point that caution is warranted, but shouldn't all adults know that?
"I will probably be in charge, or at least not a slave, when push comes to shove." -- Steve Huffman, Reddit CEO
The reason the global percentage matters is that if you are truly trying to address environmental impacts, you wouldn't talk about DL, it's currently too small (and will be for some time) to make a difference.

Just like not optimizing the 1% bottleneck in your code when there's a 50% bottleneck- focus on the big players where the cheap, easy wins are first.
Wow, thank you for the write-up! For me this is an endorsement of Marginalia, it seems to work exactly like it should... Like Google before it got "smart", or like AltaVista. Love it!
And the lesson we should all take from this story is of course…
How A Supernova Explodes (1985) [pdf]
Orange over black? I learned basic i one of them.

Anyway, this thing is amazing ... a company whose product is based on community contributions attacking the community. I dont see how it can end well .

Shit, I dont know why the board hasn't replaced the incompetent CEO... what are they thinking? He is driving their investment to the ground, like, in real time.
Why the fuck would they call it a “hobby”? How does that help sell units or motivate the employees or the third party developers or anything? Sure, you can have the opinion that it’s not a major product (debatable), but why would they call it that, even if it was true?
In case you want to explore additional ways to extend your runway, there is the STF (Sovereign Tech Fund) https://sovereigntechfund.de/en/challenges/ where they claim to offer €65,000 up to a maximum of €300,000 in funding to FOSS projects.

I have no affiliation but recently came across them from a weekly newsletter (via https://changelog.com/news/48/email).
Good. It's an open secret that mods for the big subs are on the take with moneyed third party interests. Reddit wants in on the action. They should just ban mods in big subs outright. It would improve the discourse significantly across the board.
Mod team will be gone by tomorrow morning if they try that.

Sounds like Reddit has ran out of patience.
Same here, but without these weird utils it doesn't get any better.

I have 7 YoE with Django. Its great at so many things. You see some code, like middlewares, and immediately understand what's going on.

Now, we also have Starlette. The base of all new, fancy asgi libraries. Here's the base middleware class.

https://github.com/encode/starlette/blob/8d7a1cacfb3e1a30cbb...

In the last couple of years I heard 'we're running fastapi on production. Wanna join us?' so many times... but the reality is that it's still not suitable for prod. Who wants to work with a code like that if you have a readable, stable Django? I'm clueless.
Information Always Carries Intent (Whether Intended or Not)
Some people don't like that its electron. And its fairly crappy on Linux if you use Wayland.
Just to add: By the time you see the numbers _really_ declining, you're already dead, you just don't know it yet. Because at that point you need a massive lead time to fix any issues, and since the community is that force, getting community back after they left is much harder than the first go around.

So by the time they see the bleed, they would have already bled out a terminal amount of users.
How much longer is single possible redundant atomic scrap from the 24/7 news cycle involving Reddit going to be posted to HN?
As a former user of Relay Pro and Reddit I paid DBrady for how his app used the free API for ME.

Me. The user. If Reddit wants to change my behavior... API away but don't go after these people who are just facilitating API access. What's next Dang? HTML browsers?
> Cross Platform UI is a myth

How can you say this when many of the worlds most used apps are written in React Native? Same with Electron and desktop apps. I find it hard to believe you can be more productive writing native code when you need two entirely different codebases, compared to a single one, no matter how good of an iOS and Android developer you are.
True, but there are advantages to leaving a little work for the reader.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
It's actually a bit disconcerting to me because it feels like it didn't do anything. :)
AI is just a polished Dali, a nicer played Beatles song, a more grammatically correct text on the style of Victor Hugo or Balzac. But its a variation and a copy. What we call AI creations are variations of styles.

Humans what something new, a new style of Playing Guitar, a new way of telling a Movie story, a unique mode of writing a Romance. You won't get that from the current AI technology.

I predict a stronger enforcement of copyrights laws, a stronger enforcement of the use of what is the essence of an artist, a drawing style, a playing mode, a demeanor of an actor. So as to avoid AI copies these personas and makes millions of digital copies of Agent Smiths. It will have to be tested in court but it will be made precedent quite quickly I believe. Or at least the creators will want financial compensation.

You will also see stronger gates around knowledge. Enforcement of personal licensed DRM, with AI entities explicitly forbidden from accessing that content...Open Source Code with updated licenses, that forbids it's use for AI training.
I think that well before we get to those kinds of runaway scenarios, we will have AI that is multiple orders of magnitude faster than humans at thinking/output. At that point it doesn't need to become "infinitely powerful", it's already more than powerful enough.

It's a matter of making more efficient hardware and more efficient paradigms for the specific LLM application. The history of computing is engineers doing this over and over again. AMD just released an AI chip that can handle an application which normally requires multiple accelerator boards from Nvidia. And this sort of thing is just scratching the surface with relative minor architectural differences. Radical new approaches with memristors or other compute-in-memory departures are coming in less than a decade.

There is no possible way you can prevent people from connecting AI to the internet or tools.

So we are very close to the point where the people cannot compete with a cluster of agents working on a task. People lose control because in order to compete, they have to give the AI broader and broader goals. Since the AI will be working dozens or hundreds of times faster than humans, pausing for human input means the competition will race ahead.

The real issue impending issue is hyperspeed AI that is above average human intelligence. In some measurements this is already here. Within a few years the models or collections of specialized agents will be so good and so fast that no one will be able to deny it. And anywhere a human is in the loop routinely will fall behind due to the limitations of the human.

This does not require runaway AI or AI that is alive. Its just the consequence of deploying faster and faster hardware and gradually improving the model training. It will be quite obvious within 2-3 years that we need to consider _not_ making the AI hardware any more efficient than what we have at that time.
I am divided on this.

I definitely side with the users and mods who have given their time and effort on making the site what it is. I like the protest and think it's bringing attention to really just the tip of the iceberg of a big issue in society today around information asymmetry.

But I also sort of like the "aristocracy" term for mods. I've found roughly 50% of time I hit the front-page my posts are taken down by a mod for ulterior reasons. It can be infuriating. So I think some pushback might be warranted. Unfortunately not every mod is dang, patron saint of moderation, who in all my run-ins with him has been strict but fair, instructive, and non-anon (which I wish all mods were).
I think he knows but assumes that people will forget about it over time. It's worked for him in the past.
As I've noted previously on HN:

- Spez and Reddit created that so-called "landed gentry" through their own rules and policies, and were more than happy with it until about two weeks ago. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36352719> Irony of actual power-elite labeling volunteering serfs as a power elite also noted.

- A "small number of users" discounts the activity, value, role, and influence of those people, and ignores the pervasive power-law relationships in virtually all of media, online or off. Compare against HN where a small fraction of profiles contribute the overwhelming majority of both comments and front-page stories. More deets: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36348493>.

Whatever else his CEO skills, crisis communications and adroit use of metaphor are not spez's strong suit.

As for the effectiveness of the strike and protests: Reddit has now been front-page news in national and international media, leading up to a planned IPO, and Not In A Good Way, even if the coverage of interviews is ham-fisted and one-sided. Which reads as a win for those protesting to me.

(Late edit: noting of irony.)
Nope, and this fact amplifies the evil of the system, it doesn’t mitigate it.
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Free systems always excited and and continue to do so. Commit to them. Correct the mistake. If committing to them doesn't fix the mistake, then the choice was to have the social connections you wanted or not to. And given those choices, and what you want, choosing social media isn't a mistake.
You probably didn't mean that double-negative there. But still, scope may be set in stone from someone's perspective, but unless the circumstances are very exceptional, things tend to get uncovered as you move through the project that will upset the detailed plan. I just think that big projects have to assume a certain amount of uncertainty. Stakeholders will often accept some of that uncertainty if you have a proven track record of steady (feature) output. One of YOUR stakeholders may take it upon them to turn their confidence into an external commitment, but they should then also have the sway to deal with their error in judgement, and so on.
Abraham drew near and said, “Will you indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked? 24 Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city. Will you then sweep away the place and not spare it for the fifty righteous who are in it? 25 Far be it from you to do such a thing, to put the righteous to death with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?” 26 And the Lord said, “If I find at Sodom fifty righteous in the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”

27 Abraham answered and said, “Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes. 28 Suppose five of the fifty righteous are lacking. Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five?” And he said, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.” 29 Again he spoke to him and said, “Suppose forty are found there.” He answered, “For the sake of forty I will not do it.” 30 Then he said, “Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak. Suppose thirty are found there.” He answered, “I will not do it, if I find thirty there.” 31 He said, “Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord. Suppose twenty are found there.” He answered, “For the sake of twenty I will not destroy it.” 32 Then he said, “Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak again but this once. Suppose ten are found there.” He answered, “For the sake of ten I will not destroy it.” 33 And the Lord went his way, when he had finished speaking to Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.
Average user: "I just wanted to talk about Apple products."
You're right. Mistake.
Totally false. It happened just last weekend in Oak Park, and a few months earlier at a gas station in Oak Park (that resulted in us, idiotically, banning 24/7 gas stations).

If you'd just said "places like Austin have high crime" or something, we wouldn't be on this thread. But you said it was a "no-go zone", doubled down, then walked the definition back to "places I'd be comfortable hanging out with my kid in the park".

We can be done with the thread now; I'm happy with what it says about our respective arguments. My suggestion is maybe strike the term "no-go zone" from your vocabulary. It's mostly politically charged bullshit. But in any of its reasonable definitions, it doesn't apply to Austin, and didn't apply to Cabrini.
> And our housing minister of housing in Canada just bought his second rental property.

I'm not saying this isn't true but I'm having difficulties finding a reliable source for this.
I don't understand how he was not pushed out after he was caught abusing his admin privileges to edit user comments a few years back. Any employee caught doing that would have been let go immediately, yet this guy was allowed to remain as CEO.
Good god that's nice. I don't even completely hate the layout. Very fast, would love to see the ability to add new categories.
Aside from saving more money on my hosting with a "managed server"... DreamHost was the one who taught me about the importance of that. DreamHost was my very first shared hosting and I loved it. But I outgrew it very quickly. Then I went and upgraded to one of their new services, DreamPress, at the time... which was great until it wasn't.

I left them simply because if my website went down... at first, they gave you control over at least restarting your server but that disappeared and I needed that. If I had to start, I had to contact their support team who might take a few hours to respond. I couldn't have my website being down for more than a few minutes. So I got on a server that allowed me to restart as I deemed fit. Being able to SSH into your own server for additional things you need to do also is a bonus. And I prefer having that control over something I am running then having to reach out to support any time I needed it.
When I heard about the reddit boycott I was not hopeful. Boycotts like this rarely work, particularly when they have a specific end gate. Management can simply wait you out.

But actions like the CEO is taking now shows you that this one is biting. A lot of subreddits have stayed dark. That's personally inconvenient to me and many others but I, for one, am in 100% support of it.

This pattern will constantly repeat while the owners are incentivized to extract as much value as possible from those who create it. UGC sites need to be collectively owned. Think: Wikipedia.
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This was my thought as well since it seems rather obvious I wonder why it wasn't the approach taken.
Simply because I speak truths about billionaire assets, does not mean I idolize them. I also do not idolize politicians, thought leaders, or really anyone.

But billionaires, as I said, are a focal point in a capitalistic society. They direct the wealth they control.

There are indeed good and bad billionaires, just as there are good and bad dentists, janitors, and violinists. I wonder, in your world, how readily you realise this, in categories you villianize?

It seems more to me, that once you realised billionaires are human, you became angry with the the wealth they manage.

Did you become mad with other levers in our society, when you realised the same?