skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The value of having the option to read Moby Dick is essentially zero: you can look it up online whenever you want.

When someone chooses to spend a buck buying Moby Dick at a garage sale, the value they get is based on calculating that they will also read it. If they spend the cash but not the time, they've basically just thrown a dollar away.
The UI team who designed this atrocity of a web app needs to be made public and shamed and the executives who signed off on it need to be fired and never allowed to work in the industry again.
Oh, they probably do .. but then there's not much to discuss.
I used federated services like Mastadon before its own "Eternal September" and it feels to me, subjectively obviously, as someone who was on the Internet when Gopher, Telnet, MUDs, and USENET were basically it (except email) that there's this new obsession with moderation and walling off networks.

Whatever happened to self-moderating? I have higher standards for my speech and on-line conduct than any TOS. Many others do too. Plus, I know how to use software that allows "kill-files" and won't use any that doesn't give me the ability to "moderate" others if I want by just filtering it.

Vetting? It's a global network. If you want vetting spin up a Linux on Linode or something and invite only,ssh only, and create a forum.
The hospitals themselves operate on relatively thin margins usually. Insurance companies, labor costs, pharmaceuticals, blood products, single use sterile items, housekeeping, taking care of uninsured patients that can’t pay the bills, and other regulatory requirements are extremely costly and eat up most of the budget. Reinvesting in IT infrastructure isn’t something that is a priority.
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The link had extra periods at the end. Edited, the page loads fine:

http://www.jdawiseman.com/books/pricing-money/Pricing_Money_...
Hopefully Reddit will exercise the prerogative to hit the undelete key. The idea that forum posts belong to the author in perpetuity is a weird mental hangup; forum posts are a conversation and after a certain grace period, contributors should not have the right to memory-hole the past.
You can’t blame the tool for your mistakes
Twitter recently and Facebook before that. I think Digg as well some time ago.

Twitter and Facebook still seem to be doing okay.

The cycle continues.
Writing a chat application in Django 4.2 using async StreamingHttpResponse
Completely restored to the overwritten value you set before deleting, or completely restored to the actual original content as people have speculated could happen?
AOL-Files.com (2000)
Found this backup the other day and had fun going back in time. The AIM days were fun.
I get "at-will employment" and all, but there really should be penalties for companies and executives who assure staff in writing that they will be permanently remote – leading them to make major life decisions like moving and buying houses – then turn around a few months later and go "just kidding come back to the office".
Even if you are smart enough to move somewhere safer (or lucky enough to have generational wealth there), you can't avoid the effects of things like refugee crises when the worst happens. If people have to leave NYC or Florida in large mass waves, that's going to destabilize in its own ways anywhere there are escaping to in large groups. There's a perspective that "nowhere" will be safe from the effects of climate change because if you aren't the ones getting flooded out (or drought destroyed or wildfire devastated or tornado wrecked; flooding isn't the only thing that gets extra energy in global climate change) and are lucky enough to be in whatever "the nice places" will turn out to be, you get to possibly deal with everyone else. (Some will make some money on that as slum landlords, perhaps, so there's a "silver lining" for disaster capitalists, but those are the same people that will be just fine turning any "nice place to live" into a terrible place for all in its own ways by preferring money to human happiness and kindness.)

America has some lovely sometimes self-delusional myths of being a shining beacon for refugees in a crisis, but anti-immigrant rhetoric is already in a bad place this decade and overall America's worst internal refugee crisis was the dust bowl of the Great Depression and it took a lot of effort and today a lot of politicians don't believe the drastic changes made to save the country from the Great Depression were good changes and have spent the last few decades rolling them back and/or destroying them and/or trying to run a Great Depression speedrun like it is a GDQ category that should have been banned pre-emptively. That probably doesn't bode well for the next crises.
Receive a page. Look at the monitor: the AWS service appears down. Check the status page: all green. Double check the logs, check the configs. They seem correct. It's been 20 minutes, refresh the status page. Green. A suspicious shade, too. File a support ticket. Wait. "Request ID, or it didn't happen." Find the relevant code paths. Log the request ID. Redeploy to production. Trigger another instance of the issue. Check the logs. Fish out the now-logged Request ID. Response to support. Wait. Check the status page for giggles: ever green. "Okay, we've escalated this to an engineer." Excellent. "Can you upgrade to the latest version of the service?"

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To be fair, I find I have to contact AWS support far less often, and honestly, if you do have a request ID in hand … they're far more receptive. But boy if you don't have that ID, it doesn't matter if you're seeing 2+ minute latency from S3 within AWS just to fetch a 1 KiB blob, it isn't happening.

And the status page is lies, but lying on the status page appears to have become industry SOP.
> So you agree that needing to do something doesn't automatically make it unenjoyable then?

I’m not GP, but I’d say the things we need to do not being enjoyable is a deficiency and problem of the technological system, and not necessarily a solvable one. In a pre-tech world (e.g. 15th century), our needs were directly tied to our happiness due to biological reward circuits.

Ted Kaczynski argues about this point extensively in his books, I recommend esp. Technological Slavery, available free online.
Probably wont happen unless people start threatening to cancel their wired/etc. subscriptions
That is only for new topics/posts. They don’t display in the comments in the vanilla user experience.
It’s not like this is particularly new, just recently you had people complaining about the swath of AI posts, cryptocurrency before that and other shit in the past.
That proves nothing, you could just be any of the uncensored LLama or Falcon models.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/06/15/business/subaru-buyer...

“ Subaru and another automaker, Kia, have been especially aggressive in resisting the law. While other companies are counting on a long-running federal lawsuit to overturn the statute, Kia and Subaru opted to shut off the features in their vehicles that are covered by the law.”
It's capitalism, baby!

Also Conde Nast hasn't owned reddit for a while, they became an independent subsidiary of Conde Nast's parent company Advance Publications.
> It is effectively not possible to be a mod of a subreddit without third party apps.

Nonsense. I mod large subs just fine using toolbox and old reddit. toolbox doesn't counter at as third party app.

It seems most mods want to mod from their phones and will no longer be able to do so.
> At leas on x86, acq/rel load/stores vs relaxed is basically free.

The corollary to this is that using them doesn't buy you any performance (under x86).

(Also it makes it difficult to test that your code itself synchronizes correctly if you're developing on x86, since bugs may only show up under ARM or RISC or whatever, and even there, only some of the time... and that's why project loom, tsan, and miri exist.)
We can introduce healthy cows into the downer cow population. Even if say, 95% of the herd is exposed to BSE, it will still capture the healthy parts of cow carcasses we feed the downer cows.

(Which is to say... I think there are more than homeopathic concentrations of questionable training data. Or at least I believe that was the assertion of the OP.)
By this definition Rust is also not memory safe since you can use unsafe to free a pointer. You normally don't have access to the generation so you can't forge it without unsafe code.
Anarchism is the absence of power structure. A comittee vote is a power structure.
I had seen marginalia mentioned here in HN a couple of times but never got around to use it.

I'm very impressed. Using it I get this old Internet vibe (which someone else also mentioned). Just used it to get some information on a random topic I recently tried to research with Google but failed due to all the SEO crap. It produced several hits of old pages (with the tiny font and the early 2000's graphics and design), but _full_ of information.

Not all the results are good though, it was mostly hit and miss, but the hits were _good_. Will use it from now on.
I remember going through that Pdf when I was interviewing with them. Very helpful stuff. I feel like I learned more about statistics while going through hundreds of Jane Street interview questions than I did during my university studies.
Lemmy also isn't blocked as a social networking site at my work. I assume its the same elsewhere
The point that gets overlooked in a lot of these conversations is that while my kids (and grandkids, and their kids…) may not die from climate change, their lives could (and I think will) be altered by it. So for example if you are in an area that is going to be under water (or at least all those underground sewer systems will be…) then what’s it going to cost your coastal city in property taxes to fix the problem? Can’t get your home insured in CA or FL any longer? What’s the cost to you then when a fire or hurricane wipes out your house? Massive investment needed in water systems? - more property tax. I suspect we will reach a point where the kinds of food available in our grocery stores is altered by all of this too. So maybe nobody in rich nations actually “dies” but that doesn’t mean they aren’t impacted in very serious, life-altering ways.

I was reminded of this watching my garden this spring… things didn’t germinate until we had a freak day cool enough so the seeds could pop. Think food is expensive now, see what it’s like when temps rise and we’ve got to develop even more new varieties and growing techniques to accommodate.
> It's been shown that people are able to rip headlights out of vehicles, plug into diagnostic ports behind them, unlock the doors and start the car. [1]

Question about the U.S. legal system:

If that's true, and if NHTSA's position is based on rule rather than law, then can NHTSA be (successfully) sued because the rule is capricious?

IIRC courts have set a really low bar for the rationality of administrative rule-making, but I may not know what I'm talking about.
If you have Node apps running in Lambda and are happy with the architecture, cost, and operating model: great! You've done good work and/or are very lucky and there's no need for you to rip everything out and start over.

Heck, even if you're curious about WASM and want to try some experiments with (say) fast Rust crypto libraries or embedded database engines w/o the risk of flaky native code crashing your V8 runtime: again, you can just run WASM from a Node worker thread and keep cruisin'.

For those of us who _don't_ have a huge investment in Node, have hard requirements around e.g. memory usage, cold start times, or even just plain old _cost_ (which can become a major factor when you consider the AWS lock-in) that Lambda doesn't meet really benefit from another option.

Your good fortune in finding a stack that works well doesn't mean that folks who have different needs or constraints are dumb, ignorant, or lazy.

As an aside, I think you also might be underestimating the depth of experience and knowledge of the Fermyon crew when it comes to containers, cloud runtimes, and serverless development. This is substantially the same team that built Helm, and a lot of other Kubernetes and cloud-native ecosystem projects along the way.
This link is right. Don't think I can edit the submission's URL (@dang ?)
http://www.jdawiseman.com/books/pricing-money/Pricing_Money_...
I don't see much of an issue with them astroturfing the site when it first launched in 2005. Content begets content so something needs to get the ball rolling.
I see the opposite, older traditional forums are pain to use.
https://archive.ph/HI8dn
Yes, my phone's clipboard has betrayed me. I've emailed dang
Yeah but the worst thing about it was the timescale. Most of the 3rd party apps would have choked down the cost if they had the time to transition. Reddit's true intention was made plain by giving them just 30 days to do so, while also removing NSFW content.
I don't know how much sway Conde Nast has. Reddit spun out in 2011, and since then has raised about $1.25bn (!!) dollars.

So I doubt Conde Nast has much say, if any, at this point.... and while I dislike everything spez is doing, I imagine he has the full backing of investors looking to IPO soon.
Glad I am not the only one who noticed this, thought I was reading the wrong thread. Software engineering research is something I was interested in a long time ago, so hoped for a better, more on-topic discussion.
I know Mathematics is respected for introducing notions of context-free grammar for recursive definitions, so everything could always be defined rigorously, but even that requires the Axiom of Choice for it to make sense in set-theoretical terms, and many, many people in math and theoretical physics simply like the ZFC because of its so-called "aesthetic beauty," and not because we might produce better or more interesting results by holding onto notions of context-free grammars. Every time you start doing a ZF-C, you get some very cool formulas and proofs even if they are "messy." Quantum Field Theory is messy, still gives us workable results (I'm not an expert on physics or anything btw, so don't dig into that statement to much). The entire point of what you are arguing against (which I will not even claim is some unified postmodernism), is that even inventing a core of logical principles stipulates a certain logic of power that both enforces and obscures itself at the same time as natural and/or necessary. It can't be natural...most of our highly-educated know that already, so instead its a political necessity: like you said, if we abandon these standards "Pure anarchy reigns."

But while "people can't decide if 2+2 is 4 or 4" seems like something totally ridiculous, I'm sure you're aware that if we were to treat it as a cyclic group of 4, with the order of the set of positive integers, and we set 1,2,3, as equivalent to our base-10 1,2,3, but "5" to represent in our new group (which would not normally be a member of Mod(4), btw) what we represent as "0," then 2+2 can easily equal 5. That is something that completely conforms to group theory, and I'm sure one can just as easily prove it in set theory or ring theory. And yet it would've been entirely impossible to write intelligibly without the context it is sitting in. We must let go of this drive for some higher laws or some political necessity of logical structures: as I said, this amounts to Nihlism! Let us create ugly proofs, messy theorems, things that push the boundaries of intelligibility! Your aesthetic beauty and political necessity will turn into my excremental shit!
Looks like they strip out the query strings.
The mastodon for reddit.
Oldie but goldie
Cost Benefit Comments
https://archive.ph/9Y9OW
I think this article is a brilliant insight into so much unsconscious consumption patterns I see in my own and everyone else's lives these days.

Because of plummeting manufacturing costs, we're essentially cash rich and time poor. But our habits around purchasing haven't caught up with that fact and it's very easy to find yourself only calculating the money cost of something when determining if you can afford it, without incorporating the time cost too.

I make music and this problem is endemic there where you see people with walls of guitars they can barely play and racks of synthesizers whose functions they don't know.

It's really hard to fight against this because marketing is constantly trying to downplay the time commitment for stuff to get you to buy it.
Especially people HERE on this site.
Fwiw all my edits still held (or at least, i see them lol). We'll see if that persists though, heh.
It would be interesting if there was an equivalent of reddit where the mods are "democratically elected" by their own communities.
So I guess what I'm wondering is, how do we know we are treating lingering covid rather than pre-diabetes symptoms? Pre-diabetes is not symptomless and metformin is prescribed off-label to manage those symptoms. How many pre-diabetes symptoms overlap with long-covid classification?
Sounds like you believe in a conspiracy to fool people out of their money with fake AI. But have you looked at what AI could do 5 years ago vs present day? You can't deny there is progress. It is useful in many ways without being able to replace anyone, I agree with you on that point. I rather like this outcome.
I am a regular user on Reddit and not a mod. But I have managed a very low traffic mailing list before. I cannot imagine doing it for free no matter how much ego boost I get.

So my question is, if Reddit kicks off all the mods from a sub you frequent often, and ask you to be the new mod, would you do it?
And, if it is a busy enough subreddit, would you spend the time those people have been spending, to moderation?

For me, that would be no.
Just clicked on a post. Now they are pushing users on phone browsers to either login or download native app. I don’t know when they changed it. I have been able to access posts without logging in.
And how should that work? Unpaid mods have to do even more subreddit politics than they do already?

How are the users supposed to gauge the work of mods? Most users don't even know the difference between a comment that was removed by the mods or by the user itself and blame it always on the mods, even though Reddit shows it with message (of course not in a clearly understandable way, this is Reddit after all with horrific UI and UX even though users have been complaining for years).

As a mod I often pointed the users to pushshift to see what has been removed so they could see for themselves. Thank you Reddit for taking this clarification from us.
German here. Yes, it's pretty much how you described it.
In my previous company they hired a new CTO.
He doesn't like anyone who is smarter than him and/or who doesn't just follow orders. He quickly started hiring people who he could control, like devs from Iran who were dependent on their work visa, or just "friends" of whom he knew that they always agree with him.

Less than a year after this guy started, a lot of the best people in the company have left the company.
I still have several good contacts there and it is really bad. The company had good revenues and a lot of potential, but they are really struggling right now and they already had to let a lot of people go that they actually needed.
There is one very good developer left who basically built most of the company's software and who is still performing like crazy because he really identifies with the company and he tries to keep it alive, even though it is literally destroying his health and family.
Guess what, the CTO wants to get rid of him because he "doesn't like his attitude".
He tried to force the previous Head Of Software Development to get rid of this guy until he quit himself, now he is trying to get the new Head of (one of the Iranian guys) to find a way to get rid of him.
It is not easy to fire someone in Germany btw. You either need a good reason (like validated documentation that they violated the terms of their contract) or get the person to quit themselves.
The Head Of knows that this guy leaving would be the worst thing to happen to this company, so he is basically just stalling.

Of course the CTO gets more than triple the money of the best paid developer, plus bonuses like a car that's worth ~140k.
It's posted on academictorrents.
> “store an index (or ID) into some central data structure”

Sounds like OpenGL object management. Shudder. This is not a step forward.
> Reddit has 1.7 billion visits per month
> […]
> 4chan has 51 million visits per month[4],

This has an impact on their costs, but in an ad-driven business, it increases their revenues by as much.

> with an astronomical amount of persistent storage, with the content never being deleted

I'd like to know the actual amount of storage, but I really doubt it is actually “astronomical” (unlike Youtube).

Moreover, I suspect that the biggest part of that storage is actually video, which isn't really where the value (for the users at least) is.

Overall, if their costs are to high compare to other players their revenues, it's first and foremost a management and cost effectiveness issue, not a lack of revenues.
Is this a new restriction on existing practices, or legislation that enables more functionality with police drones as long as it doesn't include weapons or facial recognition? I get an entirely different vibe from every other discussion on this legislation than from the headline of this post.
Kanye is suffering from mental illness and was off his medication while simultaneously having millions of dollars, adoring fans, and cameras in his face 24/7/365. I think most of us would do something stupid in that situation. I don't really get why you would "despise" someone for being ill.
as others in this thread have found.

People are going back to revisit things they think they deleted a long time ago to find it not deleted.

It's possible that those items were deleted, and then suddenly undeleted over the past few days as Reddit plies its nefarious plans. Far more likely, they were never deleted in the first place, or had the same temporal issue and reappeared a short while after deletion, but long long ago. The person thought it was deleted, but it wasn't for the same reason people are finding deletes not to stick now in some cases.
It truly is fascinating that you continue to insist that I don't know what a docstring is. Notebooks are good for certain things and not good for others.
This conversation is going nowhere.
So many advertisements in the app. I use the browser on my phone and have tried, on a few occasions, the app and giving it a go, but am quickly deleting it after being bombarded with all the ads. They’re less pervasive and in your face on mobile web and I think I see fewer of them.
Reddit has a lack of machine learning and infra investment to justify any sort of high IPO price, so their management hired ex Meta and Twitter employees and trying to figure out how to make more of what they have so they can go back to Wall Street with a stronger message during these stricter economic times where money is not raining from the sky like a few years ago. If Wall Street was smart they would wonder why invest in a platform that has barely evolved the format of discussion from threads and message board posts even though they had 18 years to do it. They should also consider the fact that conditions are ripe for disruption. Overall investing in Reddit right now as both an investor and a user seems very dangerous.
Aye. Enshitification and Data Pollution appear to be thermodynamic processes. Easy to go one way, hard to go the other.
Well this discussion isn't helpful at all.

Why reply at all if you're just gonna waste my time?