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Ask HN: Where have your technical subs moved to?
As some one with ADHD-like maladies, I have been unable to use reddit since about 2017. Their aggressive attention stealing techniques hurt me greatly. I stopped using it except as tech support of last resort.

I'll be relieved if most of the tech subs move to a less user-hostile platform.

So, can we start making a list of where the best subs are moving to? I'm out of the loop, but I know KDE, for example, have moved to https://discuss.kde.org/
It appears to be the opposite to me. They appear to be selling the public facing registrar. Their wholesale registry, which appears to hold the TLDs, is Google Registry: https://www.registry.google/

I suspect Google finds it a lot easier to run a registry with a few enterprise clients than to deal with flesh and blood customers owning domains.
You are absolutely correct, but there are groups within companies that don't work like that. Finding them is the hard part :|
> Even the cold start and memory benefits could largely be replicated for native code if you write a custom kernel ... people act as if lightweight isolation is fundamentally impossible without a JITted platform

I think when most people refer to this as being "impossible", they mean practically impossible, not dis-allowed by the laws of physics. "First write your custom kernel" is a step only a miniscule proportion of projects can justify.

As to unique capabilities - none of its capabilities are really earth-shattering in and of themselves. But together and combined with the fact the barrier to entry is so much lower than alternatives like custom kernels, it's quite understandable why people see it as bringing something new and exciting to the table.
Unless we'll find a way to have neutral sites that can run a discussion forum such as Reddit and others, this problem will be recurring.

Say Reddit goes under, there will be another company looking to fill the vacuum. It will play nice for a year or two until they have the majority of the market and then become an asshole company looking to censor whatever they don't like and become hated just like the company they displaced.

Somehow I think people lose their minds when they feel like they have any sorts of power over others...
> Does this mean you have a cron job just pinging the serverless function every 3 minutes? I'm curious how much this adds on to your costs. It means that the whole "don't pay for non-usage" thing is not quite true, but maybe it's still significantly cheaper than running an EC2 instance or whatnot. I'm curious about the cost calculation here.

Yes, specifically it kicks off a Lambda function that does a parallel GET to our website at a special endpoint that has a 100ms "wait" and basic DB call. This keeps the lambda process alive/in-memory.

To keep a function alive costs ~125ms (100ms wait + 25ms full func roundtrip). every 3 minutes. ~0.041% of 1x CPU time. Our website server costs are tiny and lower for Staging and UAT. Benefit - can scale to 1000x (AWS Limit) servers at the speed of your cold start time.

But if you have a heavily used website, Lambda is not cost effective at all.

> Another thing I'm curious about, since you have a container-based deployment, did you compare with Fargate?

Yes we use Fargate for our core product which is built in Rails before containers could be deployed in Lambda. Rails works fine on Lambda[0] but the transition cost wasn't worth it for us. Fargate is great, but as you point out it is expensive if your application isn't a user heavy one like ours. To be highly available, we always have a minimum of 2 online but we're a b2b application so our night usage, 10pm-6am is zero. But I have 2 machines just sitting there. This is why i love Lambda >> Fargate.

Also, scalaing Fargate machines is slow if you get a traffic spike.

[0] https://github.com/rails-lambda/lamby
Just content-addressability isn’t enough, there should be also canonical forms, I.e.

h = hash(to_canonical_form(AST))

Preferably, there should be one-and-only-one way to perform or compute things, but modern PLs plagued by flexibility syndrome.

Also, the same should be done for the binaries, since the same AST may produce different binaries, unless you take into account all the compiler options, and runtime differences.
> A social network doesn't require millions of users to be useful.

Well unless you want to cover some only some very specific niches, yes it very much does.
That's class! Would you object if I typed up a quick review and listed it on my Well Made Web gallery? I'd slot it in under Artistic https://wmw.thran.uk/artistic/index.html
The worst part for me is all the flashes and redraws as it gradually loads more and more separate resources.

"Hey look, here's a paragraph to read... nope, I just realised there's an image near the top that I think is going to be huge so I pushed that paragraph below the fold... no, wait, that image is actually tiny so here's that paragraph again... ooooh, but now there's a sidebar, so I've just resized and reflowed the paragraph that you had kind of started to read - good luck finding your place again!"

As for how broken the "back" button is, fuuuuu.....
Indeed, C++20 already, although some stuff is still missing like modules.
Are you thinking about Firecracker (https://firecracker-microvm.github.io/). If so, one of our colleagues (I work for Fermyon) did touch upon this in a talk at Cloud Native WasmDay recently: https://youtu.be/-cJ_Cn_mgqI?list=PLj6h78yzYM2Pdj8vnO0wfFyKc...

This talk is actually a really nice compendium to the blog post.
It's a legitimacy issue. If you get the data through the API, you don't have to hide that you used it. Which might be a big advantage if you want to publish/sell what you've been doing.
This supposes that the sandbox (ie the State) is somehow neutral and independent, which it isn't: in all democracies, the State has always been made by the bourgeoisie, for the bourgeoisie. Only the fact that it needs people to consume made it so that it appears to be a democracy, where people think they are in control when actually they must relinquish their power in the hands of someone else who hopefully will do the right thing.

To think, in 2023, that Capitalism doesn't lead to oligarchy is being voluntarily blind to history
Not sure how you think I "made this political" if you read the first post. I was just balancing the perspective. I'd rather have a president get sucked off than openly commit acts of treason, if that's the equivalency you would like to draw. If by "OP's argument" you mean the incorrect idea that the topless trans person was "celebrated": (1) the white house literally denounced their actions, (2) I already acknowledged that I believe it to be disrespectful and not particularly immoral, and (3) I consider those to be two different things.
Pretty sure a google search is order/s of magnitude cheaper than a chat gpt one. Training costs may not be comparable. I’m not sure.
The details are all right there: It's a vulnerability with the in_mp3.dll plugin (it's the decoder for playing MP3s), specifically with insufficient checks against malformed name and artist tags (probably ID3 tags?).

It's fixed in Winamp v5.52 and above, and the version I use is v5.531 so I'm not affected as it turns out.

I'm sure there are other bugs that I'm affected by, but again: Not really concerned about it.
Ask HN: Why Haven't Tech Giants Integrated LLMs in Their Voice Assistants, Yet?
Voice assistants could become much more useful and capable of handling complex tasks, which could revolutionize the way we interact with smart devices like the HomePod. It seems like a logical step for them to integrate LLMs into their voice assistants. It would make voice assistants an even more integral part of our daily lives.

Do you think we'll see LLMs integrated into voice assistants in the near future? Are there technical limitations or concerns around privacy and security that need to be addressed? What's preventing them from doing it now? What might be holding them back?
Yes you can play couch coop in console. It will ask for a separate PSN + Battle.net account for the 2nd player tho
Is WebAssembly even fundamentally different from Java/JVM or C#/CLR? I like WebAssembly but I don't think it brings anything new except that it can kind of run in a browser, but so could Java and C# for a brief period of time.
If the customers can shut down the company arbitrarily, then what's the point of investing in it? Of course they should make it a rule that mods are not allowed to shut down their main channels.

Otherwise, Reddit should IPO and then demand that all users buy a share. Users who don't are deleted. Then let the shareholders-users figure out how to make good on their investment
I wish I could spend karma to upvote this more.
If Android is terrible take it up with Google, not Apple.
they also very likely changed over the years. the constant tension and stress of having power and what to do with it.

we see how Musk and spez basically got into this egoistic (illusion of grandeur, psychotic) state over their own respective fiefdoms.

one more interesting data point about irrational decisions and power: Putin. he clawed his way into the dictatorship from a middling KGB officership. it seems his most competent skill is exactly that, scheming his way into bigger and bigger things/jobs, and of course he absolutely sucks as a leader.

all in all what I'm trying to say is that yes, even if some "basic competence" is needed initially, it's irrelevant in the long term
I could be wrong but key value is so simple there is nothing to lock-in
I'm sure you can make friendships in any environment like, say, a prison. I personally find IRC servers and in-game chats to be some of the best places for discussion.
Deleted my account.
Android phone usually come with a walled garden, too.
I'd say they're well above the median tech company if there were such a measure. The NYT might be a media company, but it's one that ships constantly, at scale, and over long time periods.
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iPhone is a not a pig and doing what you want with your device is not putting a saddle on a pig.
I think about it too, sometimes. You know all the jokes/anecdotes about Microsoft and Bill Gates specifically calling Linux users and open source devs "communists" and accusing them of destroying the software industry? To the extent they actually said this, they were absolutely right - open source culture is very much responsible for destroying the viability of a simple and honest "pay money in exchange for value" business model in software. This of course didn't make software free - the market switched to monetizing it with worse, end-user-abusing models, like SaaS subscriptions and "free, but with ads".

FWIW, I'm still enjoying, using and supplying open source, especially that as a power user, I can get a better deal on the whole thing. However, I think we need to recognize the unintended consequences this has, and that in a sense, we're ourselves responsible for the shitty and abusive industry we work in and live with.
I don't understand why we need a 'custom kernel'. Have your serverless server give you the specs for whatever the heck they want to run and compile against that. Why do we need a new kernel?
> Who do you think the existing mods are?

I am. I moderate my local city subreddit. All I do is remove surveys and point people seeking housing to the megathread.

(We're a university town, so lots of students seek people willing to fill in badly designed questionaires.)

Yes, the biggest subreddits will always have a number of power tripping mods. But the vast majority of subreddits have a stable mod team putting in a little daily effort to keep their online community organised. These are the people who will walk away if the removal of their preferred tools makes moderating harder. At least I know I will.
Here's my thoughts for some different options that would've maybe ruffled some feathers but not to the same extent

1. Same thing, but with 80% lower API pricing, keeping "NSFW" content, and 3 months notice

2. Start serving ads via the API and don't charge for API calls, revoke keys for apps that strip out ads

3. Limit API usage to premium accounts (beyond some nominal threshold of calls per day to let people play with the API)
I don't think that Russia invading Ukraine was in the air, Russian people were requiring it, it made any geopolitical sense etc. I think it happened because of Putin. But this is just an uneducated guess, I am not really involved in the topic.
Not to mention he has another business which can support him. So why would he take on a massive liability risk to try to keep it going when he can afford to just walk away?
This works on the retail level too, where sufficient customers opt to choose a lower quality product (sometimes unknowingly) for a lower price, and causing the higher quality, higher price product/service to not be viable anymore.
It does 15-16 it/s with euler a and 2.16 it/s at 8 batchsize (the max in automatic1111), and that's only using 15GiB of vram.
I, and several others have done precisely that in this thread.

Next time, don't use a Hollywood dramatisation to back up your stories. They aren't real! Woz is on record as saying that the conversation never happened. Fundamentally, you're making things up to reflect your own biases and doubling down on them. It's clear that Apple, the business, doesn't see iPhone and iPad a general computing devices. That, though, is a very different point to the one you have failed to make.
This spec describes how to work with the filesystem in WASI (WebAssembly System Interface). That's the spec adopted by Wasmtime, which is the runtime being used by Spin. (Fermyon employee here)
Design the network physically distributed on the users computers.
Much as I am a *nix man through and through, I'm always impressed to see how Windows can be hacked through clever exploitation of its modularity.
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I meant mozman's reply to your comment, not your comment.

And I'm absolutely in agreement with yours - I've seen this playing out on Mastodon first-hand. The federated model, as implemented by Fediverse, turns out to be extremely vulnerable to bullies.

(Kind of like a bunch of independent, friendly villages end up being vulnerable to a smart warlord. It's arguably a big part of what historically drove creation of countries and empires.)
I would argue that having people ignore you is a lot different from having people no longer trust you.

You can come back from being ignored, you can't really come back from losing people's trust.
20 - 30 development teams deploying 100 - 150 services in usually multiple stages. About half or a little more are rather new.

And we have different angles of approach here. For example, we from infra-ops have setup a bunch of reusable and versioned template modules. These modules encapsulate all of the gritty consul/nomad/certificate handling and someone actually using our databases mostly needs to supply the module with the necessary environment variables their application needs. This in turn has been extended by a bunch of these teams to provide preset templates for spring boot, .Net, python, libpq so most applications just need to configure "I'm springdev and need to go to this database".

And currently another team is looking at building our own spring boot seeds, and/or using tools like cookiecutter or backstage to provide skeleton templates including most necessary boilerplate. We've started to maintain a template nomad job for simple applications as well.

With these things maturing, getting a simple service stood up can be done fairly rapidly if you know what you're doing. Setup the skeleton, throw out a couple of things you don't need, be done in an hour or so.

This however doesn't solve the initial problem. It's still tricky to know how to approach this stack and it takes time to either teach people how to approach this stack, or to condense all of this into simple how-to documents and/or workflows to get systems going.
This. I liked the idea from HP with there X3 phone and the Lapdock so much. All the CPU power and memory was i the phone. You could connect it to the Lapdock wireless or with a cable. The Lapdock was just a monitor, a keyboard and a battery. The idea was so cool. Sadly when it came out, Windows Mobile was already death.
Thats my bad. I misread that first part. Interestingly, reddit just released some numbers about bots using the API.[1]

> fewer than 100 bots total (including both moderation and non-moderation bots) currently exceed our updated free API Rate ..... out of the thousands of moderation bots that exist, less than 20 exceed the updated rate limits

Thats really interesting and shows that automated/bot moderation tools are almost completely unaffected by the API changes. I have a little bit less sympathy for the "free volunteers" of reddit.

[1] https://mods.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/16693988535309
These studies seem to confirm intuitions that many people have expressed in many ways, especially regarding German philosophers who cannot easily be translated in other languages because of the "analytical" properties of that language.

As someone who speaks several languages it is also very apparent that somehow the infrastructure in the brain must be slightly different for different languages. For instance, to pick German again, when "caching" certain parts of sentences for later processing, which does not exist in other languages.

The brain being a muscle, it is only natural that this would translate in more developed cognitive abilities for those language speakers.

I've heard several takes on Asian students being better than others in maths: one of those argued that both the languages themselves, plus the way they are taught to young kids, could, on the long term, make brains better suited to maths. Would be curious to see such studies on that.
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We currently manage 50,000+ proxies in this configuration.

The downsides over having a peer network are that fixed costs are much more expensive and locations are limited - we have London, Berlin, Ashburn and New York while peer networks have basically every city on the planet but one of the largest benefits is the ethical nature of our product and the compliance that brings.

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So he mentions CHERI, but fails to look into SPARC ADI, ARM PAC and MTE, all already in production, with SPARC ADI for at least a decade.
Why should there be models above 10GWh inside the EU?
You forgot to factor in the Pointless Meeting Frequency Coefficient F(U) = (#MBAs in company)^(# of middle management levels)
> There are many cases where you might need initial investment to reach escape velocity, and you probably won't be very profitable in the first few years.

>Something like Spotify is a good example of this working as intended.

Spotify is a 26 year old business with zero moat. It’s most valuable to the 3 major record labels as a negotiating tool against Apple, Alphabet, and Amazon. That means the 3 record labels need to price their music just low enough to keep Spotify limping along, resulting in a cap on the profit margin Spotify can earn.

Spotify’s only move is to try to become a record label themselves, but due to excessively long copyright terms and cultural longevity of music, they basically have to keep buying from the 3 major record labels.
> On the other hand, I also learned a lot so maybe it was a net win. How do you reckon time vs money vs knowledge?

You need to decide for yourself what is more valuable to you.
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Nice analogy. I see "prices" as money and time. To save time, pay more money, to save money, pay in time. Ikea is maybe low on money, but definitely high in terms of time. Any software with good UX should be high on money, because they are low cost in time.

There is also a feel good factor, which the time component is 0. e.g. I have a bad habit of buying books not to be read, but to put on bookshelf because it looks good. Sorry Knuth, I am at maybe page 10 of the your 4 volumes of TAOCP. It looks good on my shelf.
What makes you think he isn't exposing things anymore? He just mostly moved from electronics-level videos to showing what corporations and their PR do in general, which makes sense given he's now much more active in the Right to Repair-initiative, which is still the exact same range of topics he covered earlier. Edit: and I guess not having a motherboard in view all the time helps with reaching a larger audience.
> This is what happens when you give a user the ability to install whatever he wants. This is what still happens for a lot of android phones.

"Some people are bad drivers so all humans must be banned from driving"

What is the psychological cause of such subservience to a corporate entity?
Why would the "normal" way of thinking/saying things, involve putting the verb, then the object, and not the other way around ? Pretty much like arguing that the normal way of writing is from left to right. Good demonstration of how brains are wired differently.
Use framer, that's the tool your boss is looking for. It has good mix of PowerPoint/figma's absolute positioning approach with relative layouts.
The problem is that many people have come to think of reddit as a public utility.

People expect a public utility to, perhaps, not be that innovative and maybe a little poorly run at times. What they do expect from a public utility is long-term reliability. They expect it to be there, doing what it does now, five or ten years from now. For some people (e.g. the blind), all of reddit is going dark on July 1st.

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.

Reddit is many beneficial things. Just for one example, it's a new foundation of journalism. How many professional journalists rely on reddit to find and research news stories? If you read your local city's sub and then read your local newspaper the following day, there will be a surprising amount of repeated material.

Governments in many countries run public broadcasting corporations, public news programs, and even subsidize privately owned news companies, although in many cases that's mere corporate welfare. They do this because they realize that journalism is a cornerstone of free society.

The functions that reddit now performs are too important to leave in the hands of short-sighted corporate executives who have absolutely zero interest in anything beyond their next quarterly report and the bonuses tied to it. We must not jump from reddit into the hands of yet another corporation or this will simply happen again.

Public funding has produced things like lemmy.ml, but such projects aren't ready to scale nor, arguably, interested in doing so. This is something the UN should tackle to prove they still have relevance in the modern world. Instead of simply issuing non-binding warning after warning, perhaps it's time for international organizations to build the kind of public infrastructure that provides a benefit to all of humanity.
Want sideloading? Buy a phone that supports it.
> The same is true of the time investment.

One person once told me "urgency has no price." i.e. time is priceless, as cliche as it looks like. For me in the long run, the cost of time I invest in the "consequence" of my decisions dwarfs all other costs.
Elon, is that you? :)

What, electric don't ever break?