skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Every voice I've heard is, "we do all the work", "we produce all the value".

Is it wrong to claim that, though?

Social media sites are a dime a dozen. Countless social media sites came and went. In each and every single example, moderation and community curating was key to success and the root cause of failure. Take for example Voat, which was a better Reddit than Reddit itself but made it it's point to have questionable moderation practices. How did that panned out?

> Right now the mods seem to be flexing their muscle, showing that Reddit has allowed them too much power, rather than showing the actual need for an api.

I'm sorry, what? No. Do you actually have any idea what's going on, at all?

All subreddits have been having polls to drive their decisions and make them at a community level. We are seeing mods enact community decisions to close the communication channel they created and maintain as a community. They are taking these stances in protest of a draconian measure made in bad faith by people who were reportedly caught lying their asses off repeatedly. Is this not outright hostile to communities?

There has been speculation that some of the popular subreddits such as /r/programming has been resorting to dumping AI-generated content to artificially generate Traffic to counter the protest. Suddenly Reddit admins have the right to intervene in subreddits when I'm the past they refused to do anything to counter hate speech and abuse.

This has everything to do with API policies, but Reddit's CEO has been repeatedly shooting himself in the foot in a really stupid and avoidable way, and in the process is being outright hostile to the community that generates the traffic he hopes to monetize.
I think your sarcasm detector has developed a fault.
I really disagree with the community building part, but I do agree with the defaults on Discord being horrible.

With the community building aspect, forums were not great for it. Due to how fragmented it was, and how subforums were often dramatically different sections, this meant that unless you were genuinely deeply into [topic] and were spending numerous hours per day regularly you would not build a community at all there. This is why on most forums, it's only the trolls who became known, they had that cross-contamination aspect. Forums also had a lot of UX that discouraged caring about the user. Names were tucked away, profile images were tiny, people hid signatures due to how obnoxious they got. They became the equivalent of reading a mailing list you were randomly added into.

This doesn't really excuse Discord. By default it encourages too many indicators. Tutorials for new accounts, rule modules, every channel has an indicator on it, there's buttons left right and center making you afraid to click anything, then the whispers for joining servers, the list goes on. This is one aspect that I hope Discord spends severe amount of resources looking at in 2024. Which I think they absolutely are capable of doing, but I'm not sure if their investors care about the new user experience sadly.
> Why would you bring along your 19-year-old son if you thought the chance of death was 1/100 or even 1/1000.

Optimist.
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It's a shame they openly did not hire SMEs.
I am a software engineer at a commercial HVAC company (system controls and building automation systems), and the product engineers here are the smartest people in the building, in my opinion. Very customer - focused people that know the tech inside and out and how it's applied in the field.
I would bet there's also some accounting or tax voodoo around it that's cutting into some of their profits and back-room deals.
Discord does have that, via Forum channels.
Funny knowing the stupidity nvidia is pulling with the 4xxx series regarding ram amount.
> I think of how MS ... turned a blind eye toward piracy until

1976: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists
No, I largely agree with you actually. I just disagree with the way vendors harness those needs: in the headphone jack example, Apple gave themselves exclusive rights to convenience functions WRT wireless headphones. In the iPhone's case, they invented a new class of software that (somehow) deserved an unprecedented service fee to sustain.

So, I agree. It's very courageous, not for Apple but for the user who so absent-mindedly gives up on platforms they control.

Who can blame them, though? Most people's idea of "open computing" these days boils down to their web browser and Xbox. Maybe people are ready to jump from frying pan to fire.
If you compared svelte to vue to react, vue is much more like svelte than it is react.
An autonomous robot is just a NPC in the real world.
I don't believe that explains it, where I live if you have the need to carry a large load you just go to a nearby gas station and rent out a small box truck to transport it. I did that with all my non flat-packed boxes furniture, my appliances, all the construction material I ever needed. It costs me 80-90€ for a 4-6h rental period, or around 120€ for a full day with the truck.

How many families that own a truck in the USA have the need to transport ATVs, boats, and so on? It really doesn't add up in my head that the vast majority of these beastly trucks I see on highways when I go to the US have this need.

Where I live houses are also made of wood, I really need some data instead of just an opinion on why there are so many trucks in the USA, it really doesn't make sense without hard data.
I switched away from sublime text because it only had a fraction of the features and extensions. Perhaps I'm just not using files large enough, most of our source modules top out at a few thousand lines of code.

And VSCode could be much, much worse. I tried AstroNvim on neovim for a while after it got some attention here. It consistently started up slower for me than VSCode does.
This is very defensive. Of course they are effective, but there are very few studies on the long term effects. Common sense says that dosing your body with neurotoxic amphetamines over a long period is not good for your central nervous system. Take it everyday if you want, but don't pretend to know about the safety of long term use.

The drugs own warnings are pretty bad: https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/drugInfo.cfm?setid=f22...
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If WASM can overcome the current extremely sluggish development speed, I can definitely see some applications of containerization move to WASM, but I really think like containers and WASM are two very different solutions.
Are you saying actually contemporary LLMs would benefit from more data?
For some context, this is from an “unpopular opinions” section of the podcast where they specifically ask for a controversial opinion. In the ensuing discussion, the prediction is further qualified:

> I’m not gonna say it’s gonna replace every use case; it’s clearly not. But for certain high-performance latency-sensitive use cases like trying to deliver feature flags globally to mobile apps, or web apps around the world (that is our use case)… it’s definitely very applicable to this problem.

I do think that if WASI gets sockets and threading soon as planned, it suddenly becomes compelling for a bunch of interesting workloads that containers are used for now.
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The hands look better but there’s still hints of a sixth finger in each of them.
Since it is now split into two models to do the generation, you could load one and do the first stage of a bunch of images, then load the second and complete them, with half the vram usage.
“If you can make something 10k x faster you didn’t so much fix it as just switch it to working correctly as it should have in the first place.”

There’s a word for what you are trying to explain. The word is “fix”.
This just isn't true. The content is legally yours, Reddit only has a license to it so they can display it on their site. Just like a record label though, Reddit has economies of scale and can do more with your content than you can, creating a power imbalance.
Reddit's revenue per user is utterly trash compared to every other social media site. I don't think it's unreasonable for them to want to close the gap.
Perhaps not coincidentally, #1 and #5 seem like the most significant features from this list.
Looks neat.

Better call the puzzle training something else than Puzzle Rush though.
AML prevents people from profiting from ransomware, thus decreasing incentive to produce it.

This may not matter much if you are talking about small amounts of money, but ransomware is not small.

"I made a $10 million from ransomware and safely spent it on new house and luxury car, with little fear of anyone" is has a very different risk/benefit value from "I made $10 million from ransomware and had to deal with a various illegal dealers to cache it out (who now know my name and the fact I have millions of dollars). And I cannot spend it on new house or luxury car because IRS might get interested".

(Granted, it is not perfect, I am sure there people with lots of illegal connections, as well as whole countries without AML laws. But nothing is perfect, and I am sure the AML laws do a great job at discouraging people from becoming cybercriminals)
You used to be able to do this, but e-mail has been required for some time.

Over on Lemmy, it is the instance operator's choice whether or not to require e-mail, but most instances currently do as a measure to mitigate bot signups.
Another often-overlooked advantage of Docker is the fact that its checksummed tarball of your base container image can be shared with other container images. This can cut down on data transfer and data size if you use the same base image for everything because it's only transferring delta images.
Unicode in code might be what pushes people to consider variable-width font. Just look at the simple arrow in a text editor (hopefully the text filter on this website thinks this symbol is OK): → (U+2192 RIGHTWARDS ARROW). It’s tiny. And I notice that the author uses plain `->`. You do need at least an “em” width for that kind of symbol.

But I wouldn’t want a normal variable-width font where colons are tiny and at-signs are gigantic. I read a programming email list in my regular webclient and it can be quite tiring. :)
LinkedIn initially was very much a place where the ethos was something like this:

LinkedIn is a place for professionals to interact with other like minded professionals about the trials, tribulations and successes of work

Unfortunately, it morphed into what is basically a job hunting platform with social media behaviors as your gateway to getting a job, rather than just applying for a job.

This change is what leads to all the self promotion, the "always positive always on" hype posts, the corporate media campaigns etc. Not to mention every friend request got loaded with "is this random person trying to get me to recommend them for a job?" type thing.

The organic lets talk about work authentically with others in the profession type stuff is minimized and in some cases I think its gone completely.

To be honest, if it wasn't for the fact that it really is the only place to reach recruiters and hiring managers directly, I wouldn't be on LinkedIn anymore at all. It has otherwise lost all career value to me
As the gag goes, once we get the AI to act human enough it can click on ads and the whole thing can run itself without any work by humans anymore.
> Knowing the wrong people doesn’t make you a loser. You should rethink your wording or qualify loser with “losing the chance to get hired at a certain place”.

You are misreading ozim.

The claim is not that people without connections are losers. The claim is that people who often make the accusation of nepotism generally are losers.

In other words, untalented people will make the accusation of nepotism as ego defense to avoid confronting their own lack of skill.
Now imagine that you are doing a development on embedded platform - To the compilation time you will add time to load the application and time to boot it up.
Justice and prevention are not mutually exclusive priorities. Punishing bad people deters others from thinking they can get away with it. But the punishment needs to include elitists.
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When I look for reddit alternatives... the ironic thing is that I can't find any that seem to me comparable and offer even as much API as reddit does currently! (If you know of some, happy to hear suggestions).

Reddit's current API is pretty kludgey and weird, honestly. But it's there.

Of course, it's the threat to remove/limit it that spurred the protest.

But if it's so vital and important and only a cruel walled garden dictator would take it away... why do none of the potential replacements/competitors offer comparable API either? Even after this controversy, none seem to have rolled it out?

It's true that few are providing concrete examples of why the API is important. I honestly think it's more a basic _feeling_ about taking what users and mods consider "their" content hosted by reddit -- and which reddit has historically acted as if it agreed and not tried to "walled garden" the content -- being turned into "walled garden" instead. Just an intuition about one of the last places that didn't try to prevent integrations and monopolize the content moving in that direction. And I'm totally sympathetic to that actually, and feel similarly. Reddit was one of the last places that was happy to let users write their own integrations, for whatever reasons, without gatekeeping. (Even if the API could be a mess to work with!)
Whoever releases the first truly compelling AVP app is going to make a lot of money. They could even charge $50 one-time or $50/yr. If it’s compelling enough the “I just spent $4k” demographic is going to see the price as a mere triviality.
The unfortunate thing with procrastination is that the anxiety is bimodal. You avoid doing things because there’s anxiety about fucking it up.

Then as the deadline approaches, not finishing at all is a kind of “fucking it up” that is not at all abstract or hypothetical. So now the anxiety of the deadline is focusing you on the task. It’s exhausting for one, and for another when you get a good review on your work you feel like a fraud, because everyone else took weeks to do this and you slammed it out in 6-10 hours.
Facebook took off with social games, like FarmVille, but Discord was going after something like Steam. These party games are good for a lot of friend groups, and third-party activities are coming online soon enough.
Even though I work here, the lack of communications isn’t the fault of the customers that are hearing about this.

It’s not like Google didn’t know filing these notices were gonna go unnoticed.
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But people don’t care. Homelab subreddit created a forum and after 5 days, the number of registered users on that forum is 18. Selfhosted subreddit did the same thing and activity on their forum is similarly low. If people on “selfhosted” subreddit don’t want to move to a selfhosted alternative, I don’t know if there is any hope for other communities.
> There's the famous Problem of Evil in religion.

It's unecessarily overintelectualized and abstracted problem.

It's way better to truly consider way simpler and viscerally real one "Why do babies get terminal cancer?"

If you honestly approach it with undamaged humanist morality and won't abandon it before reaching the conclusion you'll leave any notion of benevolent, omniscient, omnipotent God behind.
Memory is feeble, but I remember it being a scare. People were genuinely worried about it; mostly because it was a real thing that potentially threatened them.

This doesn't seem like a scare. If GPT and the like start outputting increasingly nonsensical outputs (which, a lot of the time, that is the case already) due to tainted inputs, oh well?
"I get what you’re saying, but I think people underestimate the novelty of Apple’s design decisions on things like the iPhone, declaring them obvious in hindsight."

I'm not saying the iPhone was obvious. I'm saying it wasn't coming after years of failure in the product space. They did a good job and leaped very quickly to a good solution. Absent Apple, the rest of the market would have gotten there, though. They weren't swimming upstream, they just got where the stream was going faster than anyone else by quite a lot.

iPad was swimming upstream. So is a VR headset.
The last image has big toes for thumbs.
I think of it as a computer with moderately fast registers but horribly slow main memory. In this case, more registers would clearly show a win. BUT a more organized person would eventually win as the number of variables grow.

Hence why systems and habits beat out raw intelligence on general life success, but why an intelligent person lives a simple life on easy mode and why those at the (uninherited) top are often scary smart AND hard core driven and organized.
Twitter is used as a one-to-many platform though, and I as a user (one of the 'many') can derive value from subscribing to what are essentially blog posts or announcements. I can ignore the chatter if I want to.

Reddit is all about the forum chat. Having trolls fill that up is more problematic to me as a user looking for value in the chatter.
I've been really enjoying this project!

It's worth noting that this project is installed in his museum of old technology called THIS MUSEUM IS NOT OBSOLETE [1]. Tickets are £5, and under 13’s are £3.

I've never been to Britain, so I can't attest to it, but it seems like a cool place if you like retro technology.

[1] https://this-museum-is-not-obsolete.com/
If Emad tweeted this image [1] made with SDXL, then text in image could possibly better!

1:https://twitter.com/emostaque/status/1671885525639380992
Can't wait for the .exe domain.
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> On the contrary, I see Reddit as being extremely difficult to replace, precisely because of those 17 years of investment by users.

I said its "never been easier to replace", which is different than "easy to replace".

If Reddit continues to drive its most invested users and moderators off the platfrom, it becomes significantly easier. But even with continued bad choices by leadership, Reddit will likely follow the Flickr path: Gently coasting into irrelevance, selling itself once or twice along the way.

My prediction: Reddit will ultimately be bought for its corpse^H^H^H^H^H corpus of text content, and so will live forever through LLMs. People of 2073 will wonder why their bots occasionally reply, "Thanks for the gold, kind stranger!"
There's nothing stopping them from using CentOS still? The latest rolling releases are so close to RHEL you'd never notice. Use an older more reliable version locked release that works to your needs and update periodically. these problems are solved for small shops quite easily.
I believe the HF pipeline can do this already and I assume each stage uses more than 4 GB vram. There are other tricks they open source community will come up with though.
So, to mitigate, avoid changing Github organization names if possible, and if not, preserve / re-register the former organization name to prevent impersonation?
I'm all in favor of big subreddits protesting. What I don't like is that very small, slow subreddits are also protesting when doing so is likely to be fatal. Each of these small communities barely came about in the first place, and subs that get ten posts and fifty comments a day aren't going to recover after being shut down for a month.
System requirements

Despite its powerful output and advanced model architecture, SDXL 0.9 is able to be run on a modern consumer GPU, needing only a Windows 10 or 11, or Linux operating system, with 16GB RAM, an Nvidia GeForce RTX 20 graphics card (equivalent or higher standard) equipped with a minimum of 8GB of VRAM. Linux users are also able to use a compatible AMD card with 16GB VRAM.

I’m guessing that it will work eventually, though I’m not sure who will make that happen.
I’ve had good results with SD1.4/2 with MPS acceleration on similar hardware (M1 Max, though with 64gb). No stability issues with MPS, either. I’d say don’t rule it out just yet.
But would make the inside sort of uncomfortable, what with PV=nRT
I have an M2 MBP with 64 GB RAM. Performance with the older models is very good in my opinion. It feels to run faster locally than DreamStudio. I don't have benchmarks, but in any case the performance is not bad.
I started poking around the gcc mailing list wondering why they're doing it now, and it looks like they've got at least a couple active jerks.
I love reading about aircraft crashes when they're written like they are in that Wikipedia article. Very interesting reading, to me, for some reason.
What's its ELO score?

Edit: Really? Downvotes? Certainly it must have one. You could play someone on chess.com and find out?
If you read the article that the term you're using actually originates from, it states that a necessary part of enshittification is that it makes the application less useful for users. This change does the opposite and doesn't qualify at all.
Prohibiting drugs is one way of trying to do that.

Has it succeeded? No.

Criminalizing it often makes it even more difficult to deal with the societal damage of addiction. Dealing with an addict is difficult, but dealing with an addict who is now a criminal is that much harder.

Society has all sorts of tools to help people who are struggling. Our criminal justice system is one of the least effective.

An addict is harming their family whether drugs are legal or not, and it's obvious from our current situation that their legal status doesn't prevent people from using drugs.
> rss-bridge: Can generate feeds for a ton of different sites. I use it for Twitch feeds.

A bit of a shameless self-promotion plug: rss-bridge is great but I wanted to do the same from a command line program sending the output to stdout and without running a dedicated local web server, so I wrote newslinkrss ( https://github.com/ittner/newslinkrss/ )

It allowed me to replace a bunch of dedicated scripts at the cost of some complex command lines. It works pretty well for people who prefer desktop news readers to web-based ones.

Feedback is welcome.
Hopefully, although there are challenges to overcome. CT is a fast-moving ecosystem, with logs coming and going, and policies changing regularly. This requires CT-enforcing clients to be very on-the-ball with updates, both in the sense that the developers need to pay attention and update their code in time, and any users of the apps need to upgrade frequently. Browser makers can handle this because they are competently-staffed and well-resourced. The authors of non-browser apps need to know what they're getting into.

A cautionary tale: there is a library for adding CT enforcement to Android apps. Earlier this year, every app using this library was suddenly unable to establish any TLS connections because Google stopped publishing a JSON file which the library should never have been consuming in the first place. There was plenty of warning that this would happen, but the author of the library was not on-the-ball. https://groups.google.com/g/certificate-transparency/c/38Lr9...
Coincidence, not irony.
That is true but how come certbot had no awareness of revoked/withdrawn certificates before now? It seems like one of the things a CA is supposed to solve for you, and the fact that it doesn't is bit alarming in itself.

Though, as the following sentence points out, they were already working on it before the outage, so clearly they knew it was needed.

1. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-acme-ari/
Oh I dunno maybe because it’s courteous and not selfish, or maybe it could be because posted signage often informs drivers that it’s Mandatory for slower vehicles to pull over if x number of cars are following.

Yeah why would people expect anyone to do that?
As always, masterful!
The post says it only needs 8GB, and my 1080 has 11GB.